Scott's Catchup Adobe Illustrator

Selection tool - The Illustrator selection tool is for selecting objects in your layouts, such as shapes and blocks of type. Once selected, you can use the tool to move, transform, or apply any number of filters or effects to the selected objects.

Direct selection tool - like the selection tool except that it selects only points of an object or a group.

Pathfinder - combine several shapes in different ways, combining, intersecting and dividing them.

Magic wand - a solid tool that allows you to select objects based on defined criteria and make quick changes to your drawings and illustrations.

Warp tool - allowing the user to nudge a path around in a natural manner. The other six tools: Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle liquify your images and are fairly self-explanatory.

Brushes -

Symbols -

Vector - one of the two major graphic types. Vector graphics are made up of many individual objects. Each of these objects can be defined by mathematical statements and has individual properties assigned to it such as color, fill, and outline. Vector graphics are resolution independent because they can be output to the highest quality at any scale.

Blending - allows you to take two or more objects and blend them together by either steps or as a smooth blend.

Live trace -enables you to change photos into vector-based drawings, allowing you to resize any image without losing quality.

Live paint -can instantly apply color, gradients, and other fills to any enclosed space in your artwork, without having to make sure it's defined as a separate vector object first.

Scott's catchup for photoshop

Mask - It's a function that serves the purpose of "masking" specific elements of a vector, graphic or bitmap in order to diplay or to not display a certain portion of the image.

Smart filters - allows you to apply, edit, adjust opacity and even apply blending modes to single or multiple filters on a single layer.

Adjustment layers - similar to smart filters in that they create effect and alter the image, except that they only apply to one layer specificly without touching the others.

Wrapped Text - allows you to create a text that wraps around an object.

Selection tools - allows you to select one or more objects at a time and move, alter, or delete objects in groups.

Layer styles - Layer styles are special effects that can be applied to an entire layer overall.

Layers - best described as digital transparencies put one on top of the other to create an overall picture. You can turn them on and off to vary the picture.

Variations - lets you adjust the color balance, contrast, and saturation of an image by showing you thumbnails of alternatives.

Save for Web or Device - used to select optimization options and preview optimized artwork.

Blending Modes - controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool.

Bitmap - Bitmap mode uses one of two color values (black or white) to represent the pixels in an image. Images in Bitmap mode are called bitmapped 1-bit images because they have a bit depth of 1.