New Logos (practice)

Software: Illustrator
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Twitter:
@WolfmanArtist

Problems (11/09/2019)

Increasing and Decreasing Concentric and Radial Dividers on the Polar Grid Tool

-I've been learning how to integrate this in my work flow but, I can seem to figure out how to increase and decrease dividers upon after scaling the polar grid. A tutorial showed me that the arrow keys were suppose to increase and decrease them but, It didn't work on my computer.


Can't Find Swatches in Swatches Panel

-Select all swatches from a folder by clicking the first and shift+clicking the last swatch. On the drop down menu on the right of the panel select "Add to Swatches". The Swatches are now added to your swatches panel.


Transforming (scale, rotate, etc.) the Graph

-Object > Ungroup
-Objects can now be transformed in groups.
-Data no longer editable

-Another option is to use the scale tool to transform the entire graph while still retaining the option to edit it's data.

UI Icons - Study Guide

Location:
C:\Users\Will.000\Desktop\Illustrator - Tutorials\UI Icons - Study



Isolate Selected Object

Draw Normal

Draw Behind

Draw Inside

What are Ligatures?

Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter pairs. Most fonts include ligatures for standard letter pairs such as fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl.


Image Source:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/arabic-hebrew.html




Image Source:
https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates

"Ligatures and contextual alternates basically serve the same purpose: they offer solutions for problematic or unwieldy glyph sequences. Although their name implies that they connect two or more glyphs, some ligatures actually solve problems by shortening letter parts, exactly like some contextual alternates do. So why are they two distinct features? The fundamental difference between them is that ligatures replace two or more glyphs with one combined glyph, while contextual alternates only change the appearance of one glyph at a time. A ligature typically resolves one single awkward glyph combination; a contextual alternate can offer solutions for many different graceless scenarios."


*contextual alternates only change two or more glyphs at a time.

*ligatures replace two or more glyphs with one combined glyph


What is a glyph?

A Glyph is a stylic set that can be applied to a group of characters.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/special-characters.html

Verticle Area Type Tool

SOURCE:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YtYntPbREC8/mqdefault.jpg

Properties Panel

The Properties panel in Illustrator lets you view settings and controls in the context of your current task or workflow. This panel has been designed with ease of use in mind, ensuring that you have access to the right controls when you need them.


SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/properties-panel.html

Flash Catalyst

FXG - document profile
FXG is a graphics file format based on a subset of MXML, the XML-based programming language used by the Flex framework.
You can use FXG files in applications such as Adobe Flash Builder/Adobe Flash Catalyst to develop rich Internet applications and experiences.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/fxg-format-cs5-5-cs6.html

RGB Colors - Additive Colors

RGB colors are called additive colors because you create white by adding R, G, and B together—that is, all light is reflected back to the eye. Additive colors are used for lighting, television, and computer monitors. Your monitor, for example, creates color by emitting light through red, green, and blue phosphors.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/color.html

Use actions to automate tasks in Illustrator

-an action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies an effect to the image, and then saves the file in the desired format.


-you can’t record commands in the Effects and View menus, commands that display or hide panels, and use of the Selection, Pen, Paintbrush, Pencil, Gradient, Mesh, Eyedropper, Live Paint Bucket, and Scissors tools.

Default Resolutions for Each Profile

Print

width: 612 pt
height: 792 pt

Web

width: 960 px
height: 560 px

Devices

i.e. iPad

width: 768 px
height: 1024 px

Video and Film

i.e. NTSC widescreen

width: 873 px
height: 480 px

Basic RGB

width: 960 pt
height: 560 pt

Flash Builder

width: 800 px
height: 600 px

Brush Panel - Illustrator

Illustrator has 5 kinds of brushes: 
calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle.




SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html

Exercise (10/25/2019)

Practicing doing some things that I've learned about fundamentally.

Clipping masks, blending colors, using symbols panel, saved selections. Trying to be more diverse in using as much as I can to make my workflow more fluent and professional.

Isometric Grid

show rules
create guide.
alt > arrow-right. repeat at least 20 times.
transform all guides by rotating at 120 degrees. then, "copy"
transform all guides again. then, "copy"

that is the isometric grid.

Slicing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z8RpG3v3so

-slices segments individually
-saving each in document

9-slice scaling

https://creativepro.com/understanding-illustrator-s-9-slice-scaling/

essential for web graphics
9-slice scaling is useful only when applied to symbols that will be viewed with the Flash Player (as SWF).
Since it’s an effect applied in the Flash Player, you won’t be able to preview the result of a 9-slice scale unless you’re viewing your art in the Flash Player.


1. f8 - define a symbol
2. Enable Guides for 9-slice scaling. The symbol must be defined as a Movie Clip (Figure 1).

 you can preview the proper 9-slice scale result by checking Enable Live Preview from the Control menu.




4 guides create 9 different regions on the screen

middle - both horizontally and vertically

upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right are all areas that do not scale at all.

SOURCE:
https://creativepro.com/understanding-illustrator-s-9-slice-scaling/

Navigating in Panels - Exercise

-you can dock and stack panel windows
-panels are used modifying, viewing, and changing layers on artboards.

Layer

list of layers

Artboard

list of artboards

Swatch

list of swatches

Tools

list of tools

Symbols

list of symbols

Save Selection Feature - Saves Time

Save Selection put the skill on a different level because marquee-selecting in illustrator, and then, shift+clicking object to combine the selection as a whole can take up loads of time. This save selection feature saves the day for your new professional workflow. This is something that I was looking for in Illustrator for a long time but couldn't find it. This will make it easier to prioritize certain tasks when working on freelance projects.

Blend - Color Spectrum

Blend Tool - Color Spectrum

Select two colors distant from each other.

go to "Blend" and then, select Blend Options to customize the distance of squares.

How Offset Paths Work

Miter Limit:
“The miter limit controls when the program switches from a mitered (pointed) join to a beveled (squared-off) join. The default miter limit is 10, which means that when the length of the point reaches ten times the stroke weight, the program switches from a miter join to a bevel join. A miter limit of 1 results in a bevel join.”


SOURCE:
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/comparing-the-two-methods-for-creating-line-icons-offset-paths-vs-strokes--cms-25134

Convert text to Outlines

select text > click type > create outlines