Exam 4: Transforming and Distorting Objects

In the above figure, number 1 identifies which pathfinder or shape mode?

Which command "uncompounds" a path, returning it to its component objects?

The Free Transform tool is best for performing quick transformations.

To help you remember the shortcut key for the Transform Again command, think which of the following?

With a transform tool selected, pressing [Alt] (Win) or [option] (Mac) and clicking the artboard defines the point of origin and opens the tool's dialog box.

The ____ button on the Pathfinder panel creates a single, merged object from the area where two or more objects overlap.

The Shear tool skews an object on an axis that the user can specify.

-In the above figure, number 2 identifies which pathfinder or shape mode?

There are four basic methods for making transformations with the transform tools.

Shape modes and pathfinders can be applied to overlapping objects using the Effect menu or the Pathfinder panel.

Which of the following letters would be an example of a compound path?

The only transformation you cannot make using tools on the Transform panel is a reflection.

Case Based Critical Thinking Now that his team has been using Illustrator regularly and getting comfortable with the software, Mark is excited to work with them on some of the more interesting features and to share with them some of his special techniques. -Mark asks his designers to picture two circles set apart from one another, then to picture a third circle added between them, positioned so that each of the outside circles overlaps the middle circle.He then asks them to picture a line - drawn with the Pen tool - that crosses horizontally through all three circles.If you were to select all three circles and the line, and then apply the Divide pathfinder, how many objects would be created?