MCOM 418 - Flash Catalyst CS5 Classroom In A Book Lesson 11 - Drawing & Editing Artwork
exam review questions
(p.198) The shapes you create with the drawing tools are ________ graphics.
(p.198) ________ in Flash Catalyst is also a vector.
(p.198) To select a hidden tool, click and hold down the mouse button to open the ________ and then select a tool.
(p.198 & 205) The Direct Select tool, which lets you select, move, and size objects that are part of a group, is a ________.
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light arrow
(p.198 & 205) The Select tool, which lets you select, move, and size grouped or ungrouped objects, is a ________ .
dark arrow
light arrow
(p.198) ________ with the text tool creates text that is confined within the box you drew.
(p.198) ________ with the text tool to place an insertion point creates text that can grow indefinitely in width as you type.
(p.198, 199, & 206) To draw a perfect square with the Rectangle tool or a perfect circle with the Ellipse tool, hold down ________ to draw .
(p.198 & 199) Hold down Shift to rotate a triangle or line at ________-degree increments as you draw.
(p.199) Flash Catalyst offers four main aids to assist you while drawing: the rulers, the custom guides, a visible ________ for measuring and aligning artwork, and the Properties panel for positioning and sizing objects.
(p.200) Rulers measure the height and width of the artboard in ________.
(p.200) Using the grid is similar to placing a transparent sheet of ________ over the artboard.
(p.200) Because the grid appears in your published application, you must remember to turn it off before you publish your project.
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(p.200) When the same menu command is used to select and deselect options, it is called a ________.
(p.201) The default height and width of the grid scale is ________ pixels.
(p.201) When you place guides on a page in your application, the same guides persist across all pages in the application.
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(p.201) The guides you set for the main pages in the application do not appear when you edit a component in Edit-In-Place mode. When a component is in Edit-In-Place mode, you can place new guides that are unique to that component.
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(p.202) To remove a single guide, ________ it off the artboard.
(p.202) ________ the guides prevents them from being accidentally moved when selecting and positioning objects in the artboard.
(p.203) There are two ways to create a rounded rectangle: you can use the Rounded Rectangle tool, or you can draw a standard rectangle using the Rectangle tool and then adjust the Corners value in the ________ panel.
(p.205) To select the Rectangle tool, press ________.
(p.205) To select the Rounded Rectangle, press ________.
(p.205) To select the Ellipse tool, press ________.
(p.208 & 211) Flash Catalyst lets you choose between no fill (transparent), solid fill, and ________ that fade between one or more colors at various angles.
(p.208) ________ refers to the width or thickness of a stroke.
(p.208) When you first start Flash Catalyst, new shapes are created with a solid ________ fill.
(p.208) As soon as you change the fill color of a shape, any new shape that you draw takes on the most recent fill color that you’ve applied.
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(p.208) In the Color Picker, you can select a color in the palette or enter a ________ color value.
(p.208) In the Color Picker, you can sample a color in the application by using the ________ tool.
(p.208) Shift-click to select multiple objects in the artboard, or ________ rows in the Layers panel.
(p.208) Ctrl/Command-click to select ________ rows in the Layers panel.
(p.210) The colors you see on your computer monitor are produced using various combinations of red, green, and ________.
(p.210) Hexadecimal color codes define the amounts of red, green, and blue used to create a color. The levels of red, green, and blue are measured using a numbering system that runs from 0 to ________.
(p.210) Hexadecimal color values are represented by a hexadecimal numbering system (base ________).
(p.210) Hexadecimal color codes always consist of a ________ followed by a combination of six characters.
(p.210) The middle two digits in a hexadecimal color code determine how much ________ is in the color.
red
green
blue
(p.211) ________ is the line or outline that defines a shape you draw in Flash Catalyst.
(p.212) In the gradient fill property of the Property panel, a gradient ________ displays a preview of the gradient from left to right.
(p.212) In the gradient fill property of the Property panel, beneath the swatch are gradient color ________.
(p.212) In the gradient fill property of the Property panel, by default there are two color stops. The first stop is the current shape’s fill color. The last stop is ________.
(p.213) In the gradient fill property of the Property panel, you can change the color and the ________ of each color stop.
(p.213) To remove a color stop, ________ it away from the gradient swatch .
(p.213) In the gradient fill property of the Property panel, you cannot remove color stops when there are only two stops left.
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(p.214) A ________ pattern in a gradient swatch indicates areas of transparency.
(p.214) You can make your life a little easier by ________ the related parts of an object so that you can work with them as a single unit.
(p.214) Grouped objects have their own set of ________, which makes it easier to size, position, and transform the drawing.
(p.214) You can always select the parts within a group by using the Direct Select tool, or by selecting their individual rows in the ________ panel.
(p.216) You can press the ________ keys to move an object 1 pixel at a time.
(p.216) Holding down Shift when you press the arrow keys moves an object ________ pixels at a time.
(p.216) Flash Catalyst includes a nice collection of graphic ________, such as drop shadows, that you can add to your artwork to give it more depth and style.
(p.216) You can add filters to objects or groups, but not to text.
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(p.217) Which of the following is not a Flash Catalyst filter:
Blur
Drop Shadow
Inner Shadow
Outer Shadow
Bevel
Glow
Inner Glow
(p.217) If an object has different filters applied in two states, you cannot animate the change between filters during transitions. The change occurs immediately during the transition.
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(p.217) A(n) ________ filter creates a raised edge, giving the object the appearance of depth.
(p.218) The most common type of filter is the ________.
(p.219) When you round-trip edit a button (or other components), the component states are shown as separate ________ in Illustrator and Photoshop.
(p.219) When you round-trip edit an object, the surrounding objects in the artboard are visible (but dimmed) for reference. These objects appear as ________ background layers in Illustrator and Photoshop and cannot be edited.
(p.224) Blend modes are used to determine how ________ objects blend together.