3 Basic Principles of Adobe Illustrator
I feel like I am speaking for a lot of designers when I say this:
Illustrator is a great tool, but is very daunting to stare at the blank screen with all of your tools in front of you. Especially for those who are still learning.
So here are 3 tips to making your vector illustrations save you money and time.
1. All objects are composed of smaller shapes. Remember this and use it to your advantage.
2. The pen tool isn’t always the answer. When you need to make a shape that you don’t have with a general shape from Illustrator, try using the pathfinder
3. Illustrator is better for vector based images than anything else; so use it for vector images. Photoshop is for manipulating photos.
Feel free to post any comments, questions, or concerns in the comment section below. For those of you who have read through the post, what do you like more? Illustrator or Photoshop?
3 Comments
I’m glad you touched on the fact that Illustrator is, at its core, a software for creating and using vector graphics. I would like to add,however, that it is also a graphic designer’s best friend when it comes to creating logos or other projects that will be output at large sizes. Vector graphics will never become pixelated, regardless of what size they are stretched to, and therefore are ideal for logos or other design elements.
thank you
I have only used Photoshop (I still need a key) and want to try Illustrator. They are both very expensive, but I think Photoshop is a great software.