1st lllustrator tutorial

Illustrator –

>Vector based image - be able to scale illustration without lose its quality

>To read : Vector Graphic Wikipedia – the use of geometric primitive (everything made out of..)  such as points, lines either the lines are curve or straight and shapes.

>Pixel image – resolution > pixel per inch – general rules >

Dpi – dots per inch

Ppi – pixel per inch

72 dpi for screen

>Billboard – smaller dpi as billboards are big, we need distance to look at it. 

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>There are a lot of different 'profile' e.g. print, web, device. If I choose 'Print' these will be

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>We'll work with millimetre. Colour code: CMYK

>rastle effect - 

>I still can change my size setting, units, bleeds etc.

>New stuff/setting from Illustrator >> 'Number of Artboards'

e.g. double sided of business card or postcards etc.

>K stands for black = key (?)

B = Blue in RBG

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>Zoom out of a document

>That whole grey idea will be save when I save my document. I can do experiments or tests - only on >Illustrator, as in Photoshop I only can work on the document (white space)

>But when I'm printing my work, it will be only print on the white space 

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>In photoshop solid square foreground and background, but in Illustrator - black - colour of the line/stroke colour and the white square above - filled stroke. 

>Square with a red line across get rid of fill and stroke colour

>Block colour at the front > the ones that you want to change its colour (actie colour that you want to change) > shortcut 'X'

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Black arrow - Selection tool - will select all object

White  arrow - Direct selection tool - select individual point

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Lastly we did the pen tool exercise