Introduction to Illustrator

Our next software to look at was Adobe Illustrator. Although I've looked at the software before, I still struggle with some of the tools and getting to grips with the software, which is why this session was quite helpful to me, as it helped me learn the basics. Our task was to create a image traced picture with custom logo type; something that I've already done before with hand-drawn images to turn into vectors for different projects.

Although a lot of the tool's were similar to that of Photoshop, tools such as the pen tool, slice tool, eraser and image trace were a lot different in comparison, so it was quite interesting to see the difference between the two - I'd think Illustrator is more of a companion to In Design than Photoshop is to After Effects, so once compared with that it was easier to see the likeness.

For my image trace project, I wanted something that was similar to my interests, so chose a fox to trace. I selected many different options to get the one I desired, and then added the text to the side to give the tone to the piece - the text used was a font select purposely for the image to give it a more comedic tone to it.

I'm quite happy with my first lesson in Illustrator, I learnt a few things that I never knew before and although I've never really liked illustrator it was nice to get to grips with it and learn a few different tools and overall feel a lot more comfortable in it.