Illustrator CS6 Essential Training

CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black and these colors are used for all print documents. RGB stands for red, green, and blue and should be used for web projects. The fill and stroke are located in the left tool panel. Once an object is selected the fill and stroke on that particular object will appear and from there can be manipulated. All vector artwork created in Illustrator are made up of paths. Paths are nothing more than line segments. While, anchors are endpoints for these line segments. If an anchor looks full than it is selected, while if the anchor is white inside than it is not selected. The handles on the anchors tell the path how to curve depending on how they are pulled.  When creating a shape utilizing the arrow keys allows one to add and subtract from the shape or open path. To join or average points one would go through the object menu, down to path then select join or average. The scissor tool cuts paths using anchor points while the knife tool is less accurate and tends to create a curvy line, to make the cut more accurate hold down Alt/option to create a straight line.