Autumn - Landscape

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Elf Fairy - Vector

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Items Menu for Game

Created a game menu yesterday in Illustrator. All vectors. Used Illustrator's 3D effects feature to get most of these shapes. Learned a lot about using every panel, organizing selections, and exporting efficient .jpegs when uniting paths with pathfinder.

3D Logo - Practice

Created a 3D logo in Illustrator using 3D effects and gradient fills for the background.

notes:

-Graphic styles aren't talked about too much online with Illustrator. Love the functionality it brings in editing pre-defined strokes. and fills. Dynamic for quick solutions in getting something 3-dimensional.

Crop Marks VS Trim Marks

Crop marks being used as live effects. Effect > Crop Marks

• Marks that are used to apply for marking where document trim marks are
• Crop marks should not be used on bleed corners

Trim Marks used around your artboard. Object > Trim Marks

• Where the document windows cuts off

• Crop marks do not replace trim marks created with the Marks & Bleed options in the Print dialog box. Create crop marks around an object In Illustrator, you can create editable trim/crop marks or create crop marks as live effects.'
• Always use crop marks where the trim is

Adding Crop Marks

SOURCE:
https://tinytutorials.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/adobe-illustrator-cs5-trim-marks-vs-crop-marks/

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.

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.

Adding Crop Marks to an image

-select object, effect, crop marks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVPqLdcWVE

effect > crop marks

shows where you we will make that crop mark

Illustrator - Essential Hotkeys

Essential Hotkeys

P - Pen
Ctrl+S - Save document
A - Direct Selection Tool
V - Selection Tool
M - Rectangle Tool
B - Brush
R - Rotate Tool
Shift-E - Eraser
Shift+C - anchor tool
spacebar - hand tool
F5 - Brushes Panel
ctrl+z - undo
shift+ctrl+z - redo
shift+r - ruler
ctrl+7 - clipping mask
ctrl+alt+7 - find mask
ctrl+shift+b - show/hide bounding box
ctrl+7 - clipping mask
ctrl+g - group objects in layer

ctrl+j - join paths

using knife tool
alt+click+drag -straight cut

placing layer
ctrl+[ - move backward
ctrl+] - move forward

CTRL - shows bounding box and live corner controls


Essential Hotkeys for graph data:

A - Entry text box Enter the data
B - Import data. Import data saved as a text file
C - Transpose row/column
Switch the columns and rows of data
D - Switch x/y
Switch the x and u axes of graphs
E - Cell style
Adjust the column width or decimal precision of cells



Modified Shortcut:
9-slice make -