When I see what people can make with Adobe Illustrator, I wonder how it's possible!
Who knows! maybe it's supereasy...and I started to try it out.
Here, in a first attempt, I restricted myself to the use of the most basic shapes, rectangles, triangles and ellipses, while still trying to put some depth and motion in it.
Already, I couldn't obtain exactly what I wanted because I encountered several problems:
Especially the gradient tool frustrated me. How do you create a gradient of transparency? By clicking on the gradient sliders, you have to choose a color out of that color bar, which is really not precise! Can't you select somehow an exact color, for example that you had already in the illustration? And can't you set also a percentage of transparency to the gradient sliders?
Another problem: how do you export only what is inside the limits of the "artboard" to for example a jpeg file. Or how can you cut out a rectangular selection of the illustration (without bothering about the original shapes)? Finally I just erased what came out of the artboard with the eraser tool. Very unprecise, and moreover, I couldn't change the stroke of the eraser tool.
And finally, how do you export an illustration to a jpeg file without losing resolution?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
I hope that more and better Adobe Illustrator posts will follow soon.
Who knows! maybe it's supereasy...and I started to try it out.
Here, in a first attempt, I restricted myself to the use of the most basic shapes, rectangles, triangles and ellipses, while still trying to put some depth and motion in it.
Already, I couldn't obtain exactly what I wanted because I encountered several problems:
Especially the gradient tool frustrated me. How do you create a gradient of transparency? By clicking on the gradient sliders, you have to choose a color out of that color bar, which is really not precise! Can't you select somehow an exact color, for example that you had already in the illustration? And can't you set also a percentage of transparency to the gradient sliders?
Another problem: how do you export only what is inside the limits of the "artboard" to for example a jpeg file. Or how can you cut out a rectangular selection of the illustration (without bothering about the original shapes)? Finally I just erased what came out of the artboard with the eraser tool. Very unprecise, and moreover, I couldn't change the stroke of the eraser tool.
And finally, how do you export an illustration to a jpeg file without losing resolution?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
I hope that more and better Adobe Illustrator posts will follow soon.
5 comments:
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I use Freehand, which is like Illustrator, and I'm not sure either one supports transparency. For sure Freehand does not. The white to transparent gradient was done in Photoshop.
I usually draw my shapes in Freehand then color and enhance things in Photoshop.
This illustration is quite nice!
Thanks a lot for your answer!
Dag Rebecca!
Die digital scott had het niet beter kunnen zeggen: Photoshop is inderdaad beter om te foefelen met transparante toestanden, verschillende lagen en andere onzin.
En voor de rest, alles oké daar in Vancouver? Is er daar ook crisis? Woehahaha
Hey janneman, ganz toll dein antwortchen! Ich hab das gesehen das du auch was von photoshop abwist, auf dein webzeit. Ich soll mal probieren mit photoshop, viel viel gusting aber noch kein zeit gefunden.
grussgot und gwenny
Its all spirit!
Bravo
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