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Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator
Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator
Welcome everyone to our unit on graphic design that will focus on VECTOR BASICS, and applying your Creative Suites knowledge in a real world setting.
Why Illustrator?
Adobe Illustrator is used to create a variety of digital and printed images, including cartoons, charts, diagrams, graphs, logos, and illustrations. Illustrator allows a user to import a photograph and use it as a guide to trace an object in the photograph.
This can be used to re-color or create a sketch-like appearance of a photograph. Illustrator also makes it possible to manipulate text in many ways, making Illustrator a useful tool for creating postcards, posters, and other visual designs which use text and images together.
Illustrator’s ability to place text around a curve is especially useful for artists creating logos. Illustrator is also used in designing mock-ups which show what the website will look like when it’s completed, and creating icons used within apps or websites.
Think about billboards...
Think about billboards...
Ever wonder how they can be so big but not pixelated?
BUT if you open any JPG or PNG image and zoom in, you get...
Because it's a different type of image altogether! Vector vs Raster
In Photoshop, we edit pixels, in Illustrator, we change the anchor points.
You can always rasterize a vector image to a raster image, but you CANNOT turn a raster image back into a vector file
Vector graphics are also known as scalable vector graphics (SVG). These graphics consist of anchored dots and connected by lines and curves, similar to the connect-the-dot activities you may have done as a kid. Because these graphics are not based on pixels, they are known as resolution independent, which makes them infinitely scalable. Their lines are sharp, without any loss in quality or detail, no matter what their size. These graphics are also device-independent, which means their quality doesn't depend on the number of dots available on a printer or the number of pixels on a screen. Because they consist of lines and anchor points, the size of the files are relatively small.
Raster images are made of pixels, or tiny dots that use color and tone to produce the image. Pixels appear like little squares on graph paper when the image is zoomed in or enlarged. These images are created by digital cameras, by scanning images into a computer or with raster-based software.
Each image can only contain a fixed number of pixels; the amount of pixels determines the quality of the image. This is known as resolution. More pixels results in better quality at the same or larger sizes of the original, but this also increases the size of the file and the amount of space it takes to store the file.
The lower the number of pixels, the lower the resolution.
Resolution limits the size the image can be scaled up without being able to see pixels. However, a high resolution image printed at a small size will cause the pixels to "cram" together and will make the image look as unprofessional as not having enough pixels in a large image.
Using Shapes, Creating Lines, Combining Shapes
Using Shapes, Creating Lines, Combining Shapes
When drawing by hand or with a computer program there must be a combination of shapes and lines used to create an individuals desired image.
Learning Objective:
Learn the basics of creating and editing shapes in Adobe Illustrator, including how to draw, combine, and trace shapes.
Getting Started:
In Adobe Illustrater two of the most important skills to learn is how to create and use shapes and lines efficiently and effectively!
CLICK THIS: link an complete the tasks for videos 1, 2 and 3.
You will need to download the files presented in the link above. (or Click Here) It should take you approximately an entire class to compete all 3 task, if you are finding that more than 30 minutes of at home time is needed to complete these task, come and speak with your teacher.
Presented course are the mix of several short but useful tutorials where you can learn how to design, edit and manipulate artworks with Adobe Illustrator CC.
Trying to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator? Learning how to create simple shapes is a great place to start and in this video, we'll delve into how you can achieve this as well as add color, edit and transform the shape!
This episode goes over all of the graphic design line art tools in Adobe Illustrator. In this guide, I discuss in detail the line segment tool, arc tool, spiral tool, rectangular grid tool, and polar grid tool.
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