I'd love your opinions, please let me know your Illustrator experience. Thanks!
New to illustrator - any tips?
I have been using Photoshop for years, but recently I got Illustrator. I was wondering if someone out...
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dlhdesigns
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 03:42 AM
I have been using Photoshop for years, but recently I got Illustrator. I was wondering if someone out there could offer a good resource for getting familiar with the tools in Illustrator, some are different from Photoshop, I'd love to know which ones I should learn to use well, and how.
I'd love your opinions, please let me know your Illustrator experience. Thanks!
I'd love your opinions, please let me know your Illustrator experience. Thanks!
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sharie
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 05:32 AM
Hi there
We have forum threads just on illustrator that can be very helpful. Also check out or do a google search on illustrator tutorials. You will find tutorials for beginners to very advanced.
Practice and practice : ) the pen tool will become your best friend
We have forum threads just on illustrator that can be very helpful. Also check out or do a google search on illustrator tutorials. You will find tutorials for beginners to very advanced.
Practice and practice : ) the pen tool will become your best friend
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DixielandDesign
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 02:27 AM
I totally agree with Sharie, the PEN tool will become your best friend. If I was you I would search for every illustrator pen tutorial until you feel confident that you know it. Another tool box I would learn is the pathfinder tool box. Pathfinder will become your 2nd best friend. Take tutorials and practice practice practice.....
Vince
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Fabien Barral
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Fabien Barral
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Squewheet
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 02:25 AM
Read a lot of tutorials and learn to use the pen tool. Once you master the pen tool you will be able to to a lot of stuff. And also never give up on illustrator. Once you know get to know the layout and how stuff works you will be doing pretty good.
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averrill1980
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 02:28 PM
My hardest tool to learn was the pen tool. hard to explain on here. once you grasp the pen tool you are golden. its your best friend in illustrator. you can create points which you can move and bend them to fit the image you are creating. if you don't have enough, you can add points or you can delete them if you have too many. hope this helps.
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relz2011
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Posted 07 September 2012 - 07:41 PM
Learning Illustrator by yourself is very hard but if someone will guide it is very easy. Tips i can share you is that you know first how to use the function of pathfinder too. You should first identify which it the body color of the object and the stoke it self. This two things will make you start to realized the function of every tools.
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pdezign
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 08:22 PM
here's a nice tutorial:
Convert a drawing into vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator - YouTube
practice, practice and then... practice some more ;]
Convert a drawing into vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator - YouTube
practice, practice and then... practice some more ;]
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pdezign
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Posted 20 September 2012 - 05:17 AM
here's a nice collection for free
100 Best Illustrator Tutorials of All Time (From Newbie to Pro) | CreativeFan
100 Best Illustrator Tutorials of All Time (From Newbie to Pro) | CreativeFan
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