Week of 12/19/11 to 12/22/11

The following is the study guide for the 2011 mid-term:

Graphic Design Study Guide

1.     Printing

2.     Typography

3.     Quick Printing

4.     Lithography

5.     Commercial Printing

6.     Adobe InDesign

7.     Adobe Photoshop

8.     Adobe Illustrator

9.     Packaging / Package Design

10.  Senefelder

11.  Platen for Screen printing

12. Screen Press (6-color)

13.  Safety

14.  OSHA

15.  Ink Mists

16.  MSDS

17.  Flash point

18. Decibels

19.  Personal Protective Gear

20.  Classes of fires

21. Yellow “fire” Cabinet

22.  Color codes

23.  Photoshop zoom  (how much?)

24. Direct Selection

25.  Group Selection

26.  Live Trace (Illustrator)

27.  Eyedropper tool

28.  Default colors

29.  Basic elements of design

30. Complimentary color scheme

31.  Colors -warm, cool and neither

32.  CMYK / RGB

33.  Movement

34. Shape

35. Unity

36. Color has three properties

37. HSB

38.  Serifs

39.  Script

40.  Typography

41. Typeface

42.  Lower-case letters

43.  Kerning / Leading

44.  Readability

45.  Display text / Copy

46. Typography principles (4)

47.  Font Family

48.  X-height

49.  Waistline

50.  Ascender

 

 

 

Graphic Design Shortcuts

Shortcuts for the Following:

Copy = Command & C

Paste = Command & V

Zoom in = Command & +

Zoom Out = Command &-

Open = Command & O

Cut = Command & X

Fit to Screen= Command & 0 (zero)

Close Window= Command & W

Save = Command & S

Print = Command & P

Paste into = Shift & Command & V