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| sheep2001:
I would like to use illustrator, but I just don't find it intuitive. I have tried following online guides for doing things like tracing logos, etc. but I just don't get it. I never feel the same pain with photoshop (apart from when trying to draw a simple curve, grrrrrr) |
| wingzrow:
My main issue is the final cover I try and make always seems way less detailed than the original scan. Even with a shapening filter, scaling down leaves me really unsatisfied. |
| wiggy:
--- Quote from: sheep2001 on November 10, 2013, 03:59:19 AM ---I would like to use illustrator, but I just don't find it intuitive. I have tried following online guides for doing things like tracing logos, etc. but I just don't get it. I never feel the same pain with photoshop (apart from when trying to draw a simple curve, grrrrrr) --- End quote --- Unfortunately you're right, isn't at all. Maybe I should do a quick how-to. With some of the basics out of the way, people could easily explore some of the other, more complex tools. Knowing how to draw and manipulate the vector lines is about 90% of what one would need to use it fairly effectively. |
| larryinc64:
I do all my vector work in Flash CS3, I used Illustrator once or twice, and did not like it. Flash is just as easy as Photoshop, butt he annoying thing is some things are moved around. Ctrl T is not transform, Ctrl Alt Z, is not undo past 1, Rotate 90 is in a different spot, and there is no 180. etc. |
| segamer:
--- Quote from: wiggy on November 10, 2013, 07:47:46 PM --- --- Quote from: sheep2001 on November 10, 2013, 03:59:19 AM ---I would like to use illustrator, but I just don't find it intuitive. I have tried following online guides for doing things like tracing logos, etc. but I just don't get it. I never feel the same pain with photoshop (apart from when trying to draw a simple curve, grrrrrr) --- End quote --- Unfortunately you're right, isn't at all. Maybe I should do a quick how-to. With some of the basics out of the way, people could easily explore some of the other, more complex tools. Knowing how to draw and manipulate the vector lines is about 90% of what one would need to use it fairly effectively. --- End quote --- I often craft logos in illustrator for covers I work on but ultimately I finish my work in Photoshop. What is submitted to the cover project is a jpeg at 300 dpi, so however you look at it, everything gets rasterized in the end. |
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