Graphic Communications -- Unit 2 Quiz Vocabulary

What is Graphic Design?

Graphic design is the creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas.

What are the 3 parts of a design?

Subject, Content, and Composition

What is subject?

the person, place, thing, or focal point that is easily identifiable in the design.

What is content?

the message of the design.

What is composition?

the arrangement or layout of the design

What is the difference between Faster (Bitmap) and Vector?

Bitmap: made up of a multitude of pixels, each one containing information about one specific color.

Vector: made up of perfectly straight lines and curves based on mathematical equations.

Does Adobe Illustrator use Raster (Bitmap) or Vector?

Vector

What do these stand for? CMY(K), RBY, and RGB

When/why do we use each?

CMY: cyan-magenta-yellow; best color wheel for mixing paints

RBY: red-blue-yellow; best color wheel for color harmony (and for beginners)

RGB: red-green-blue; best color wheel for mixing lights

What does Ctrl Z do?

undo

What does Ctrl shift z do?

Redo

What does Ctrl + do?

Zoom in

What does Ctrl - do?

zoom out

What does Ctrl O do?

Zoom to full page

What does spacebar do?

hand tool

What does shift do?

Make perfect circle, square, straight line, select multiple items, resize proportionally

What does Ctrl G do?

group

What does Ctrl shift G do?

ungroup

What does Ctrl C do?

Copy

What does Ctrl x do?

Cut

What does Ctrl V do?

Paste

What does Ctrl Shift ] do?

sent object to front

What does Ctrl Shift [ do?

send object to back

What does ] do?

increase brush/eraser size

What does [ do?

Decrease brush/eraser size