Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom In A Book Lesson 11 - Working with Brushes
exam review questions
(p.327) Using ________ you can decorate paths with patterns, figures, textures, or angled strokes.
(p.327 & 330) You can apply brush strokes to ________ paths, or you can use the Paintbrush tool to draw a path and apply a brush stroke simultaneously.
(p.327) You cannot edit paths after brushes are applied.
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(p.327) Which of the following is not a type of brush that appears in the Brushes panel:
Calligraphic
Art
Pattern
Fill
Scatter
Bristle
(p.327) Calligraphic brushes resemble strokes drawn with the ________ point of a calligraphic pen.
(p.327) Calligraphic brushes are defined by a(n) ________ shape whose center follows the path.
(p.327 & 330) A ________ next to the brush type in the Brushes panel menu indicates that the brush type is visible in the panel.
(p.328) Calligraphic brushes use the ________ stroke color when you apply the brushes to artwork.
(p.329) When you use a fill color with a brush, the brush objects appear ________ the fill color in places where the fill and the brush objects overlap.
underneath
on top of
(p.330) ________ brushes stretch a brush shape or object shape evenly along the length of a path.
(p.330) Art brushes include ________ resembling various graphic media.
(p.331) Pressing Ctrl/Command toggles the Selection tool.
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(p.331) You can also edit paths using the Smooth tool and the ________ tool to redraw or remove parts of a path drawn with the Paintbrush tool.
(p.332) When the Keep Selected option is deselected, you can edit a path by selecting it with the Selection tool or by selecting a segment or point on the path with the Direct Selection tool and then redrawing over the path with the ________ tool.
(p.333) A large number of brushes come with Illustrator. To access them, click the Brush ________ Menu button in the lower-left corner of the Brushes panel.
(p.335) You change the ________ of a brush by adjusting its settings in the Brush Options dialog box, either before or after brushes have been applied to artwork.
(p.338) Pattern brushes paint a pattern made up of separate sections, or ________.
(p.340) You create complex Pattern brushes by first creating ________ from the artwork that you are using for the Pattern brush tiles.
(p.341) To create a new ________ brush, you apply swatches from the Swatches panel to tiles in the Brush Options dialog box.
(p.341) Pattern brushes can have up to ________ tiles.
(p.342) When you create a new brush, the brush appears in the Brushes panel of all Illustrator files you open from then on.
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(p.342) To save a brush and reuse it in another file, you can create a brush ________ with the brushes you want to use.
(p.344) The colors that a scatter, art, or pattern brush paints depend on the current stroke color and the ________ method of the brush.
(p.344) If you have not set a colorization method, the________ color for that brush is used.
(p.344) Pressing the ________ key and clicking on the Stroke color in the Control panel opens the Color panel.
(p.345) You must choose a colorization method before you can change the ________ color.
(p.345) When changing brush attributes, both existing and subsequent brush strokes are always changed.
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(p.346) When choosing a colorization method in the Brush Options dialog box, choose ________ for brushes that use multiple colors.
tints & shades
hue shift
tints
(p.346) When using the Hue Shift colorization, everything in the artwork that is the ________ color changes to the new stroke color when the stroke color is changed.
(p.347) You can use the ________ tool to paint filled shapes that intersect and merge with other shapes of the same color.
(p.347) Unlike the Paintbrush tool, which lets you create open paths, the Blob Brush tool lets you create a closed shape with a fill only (no stroke) that you can then edit with the Eraser or Blob Brush tool.
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(p.347) Shapes that have a fill cannot be edited with the Blob Brush tool.
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(p.348) The Blob Brush tool uses the same default brush options as ________ brushes.
(p.348) When you draw with the Blob Brush tool, you create filled, ________ shapes.
(p.348) When you draw with the Blob Brush tool, the shapes you create can contain any type of fill except gradients
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(p.349) Objects merged with the Blob Brush tool need to have the same ________ attributes.
(p.349) Objects merged with the Blob Brush tool need to have no ________.
(p.349) Objects merged with the Blob Brush tool need to be on the same ________ or group.
(p.349) Objects merged with the Blob Brush tool need to be ________ to each other in the stacking order.
(p.349) Use the ________ tool to mold shapes and correct any changes you don’t like.
(p.349) As you draw with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools, it is recommended that you use ________ strokes and release the mouse button often.
(p.350) Press the right ________ key several times to increase the size of the Blob Brush or Eraser.
(p.350) When drawing paths with the Blob Brush tool, new paths merge with the ________ matching path encountered.