CLASSIC ARROW MANAGER
An option on the Stroke palette that you
can use to quickly create and edit several new arrowheads.
CLICK
(v.) To position the pointer on something, and then press and
quickly release the mouse (or other pointing device) button. (n.) The
act of clicking.
CLIP ART
Electronic pictures that you can use in documents. The
term comes from using scissors to clip pictures on paper.
CLIPBOARD
A holding place in system memory for the last informa-
tion cut or copied from a document. You can paste information from
the Clipboard into a document. Information remains on the Clipboard
until replaced by another cut or copied selection.
CLIPPING PATH
A vector or text object used to clip (hide) areas of
another object that are outside of the clipping path.
CLOSED PATH
A vector path that does not have separate starting and
ending points.
CMYK COLOR
A color system based on the four colors used in color
printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Also, a color mode used
to define colors in a digital image (see process color, page G.769).
COLOR PALETTE
A collection of colors used in a document, from
which you can select colors to apply.
COLOR SEPARATIONS
Computer files, printed output, or film, in
which the colors in a document are divided into their primary or cus-
tom color components. Color separations are used to produce print-
ing plates for commercial color printing (see process color,
page G.769 and spot color, page G.771).
COLOR WHEEL
A two-dimensional view of color showing hue and
saturation. Hue is the position of a color on the circumference of the
wheel. Moving clockwise and starting at twelve oclock, the colors
are yellow, red, magenta, blue, cyan, and green. Colors toward the
center of the wheel have more gray than those near the edge.
COLUMN GUIDES
Non-printing lines that define text columns and
gutters in a section.
COMBINE
A command used to create new objects from the intersec-
tion of two or more vector objects.
COMMAND KEY
On Mac OS system keyboards, a key (usually with
a propeller symbol and sometimes labeled Command) that modi-
fies an action when pressed.
COMPOSITE CHANNEL
The combination of all color channels in an
image. In the Channels palette, the first channel listed, identified by
RGB, CMYK, LAB, or Black, depending on the image mode.
CONTROL KEY
A keyboard key, usually marked Ctrl (Windows)
or Control (Mac), that modifies an action when pressed.
Text used as a clipping
path on a photo