Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Illustrator

Playing with the fill and stroke
A beginners guide to illustrator, from the workshop 24/2/15.
Using the shape tool to make standard shapes
Changing the fill and stroke colours on the tool bar fills the shape, and you can change this for both the fill and the stroke
Using snap to grid you can do technical stuff makes it presice.

  • Smart Guilds- help line things up (lods better the photoshop (little green things)
  • Pahfinder tool -each step of the shape s shown and can be edited
  • Allien tool to get shapes in order\
  • Saving, export to change  the formats to the normal formats to open in other programs
  • Make sure artboards is ticked on
  • PNG in reccomended keeps transparent clear. 
Using my new found skills i made a mill with a draw bridge

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