LO5 - Adobe Illustrator (Technical Learning)

Adobe Illustrator is a "vector graphics editor" used to design and edit graphics mainly in the vector format.

Bleed - When graphics go off the edge of the page

Raster - Graphic that loses quality

Vector - Graphic that does not lose quality

PNG - Can be used on the Internet (Portable Network Graphic)

JPEG - Format used for photography (Joint Expert Photographic Group) Sometimes needs compressing as they are large files.

Anchor points - Squares found in a path used to manipulate the path.

Practising with Illustrator: