Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Illustrator - Glossary
Artboard: Canvas in illustrator; workspace
Area Graph Tool: A helpful tool in making a graph conform to a certain area size. In rectangular form, users can specify the area's height and width as well as the graph data.
Arc Tool: Allows the user to make open or closed arcs with the ease of drawing a line segment or polygon. Options including the arc's size and slope are customizable.
Arc Upper: A warp effect that curves the top edge of an object and allows for horizontal or vertical distortion throughout.
Pen Tool: A tool that creates paths made up of points, lines, gradients, and solid shapes.
Blob Brush Tool: A drawing tool that acts like a brush but creates closed filled paths instead of strokes.
Direct Selection Tool: Selects, paths, shapes points, lines, and gradients.
Hand tool: A tool to help navigate around artboard.
Line tool: A tool to simply create a line
Rectangle tool: A tool to simply create a rectangle
Rounded rectangle tool: another tool to create rectangles yet, this one has curved corners.
Brushes Panel: A commonly used panel to add various styles to stroked paths. You can create new brushes in assorted styles (calligraphic, artistic, etc), edit existing brushes, go through downloaded libraries of brushes, and set up your preset brush gallery so it's on hand whenever you need it.
Join Tool
The join tool allows you to take two paths and join them together to create one single path. With the join tool selected, just click and drag a circle around the two end points of the path you want to be connected, and Illustrator will join them together for you.
ReShape Tool
Allows to select more than one point on existing path and move them in the same direction
Shear Tool
Allows you to skew proportions on existing path
Twirl Tool
Allows you to create twirls on existing path
Rotate Tool
Allows you to rotate path
Reflect Tool
Allow you to reflect path
Ellipse Tool
Creating elipses and circles. For perfect circles, shift is held down.
Flare Tool - creates lens flares. i.e. gradients that create tahe look of one.
Polygon Tool - any size shape a polygon
SOURCE:
https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-a-to-z-of-adobe-illustrator--vector-20799
Area Graph Tool: A helpful tool in making a graph conform to a certain area size. In rectangular form, users can specify the area's height and width as well as the graph data.
Arc Tool: Allows the user to make open or closed arcs with the ease of drawing a line segment or polygon. Options including the arc's size and slope are customizable.
Arc Upper: A warp effect that curves the top edge of an object and allows for horizontal or vertical distortion throughout.
Pen Tool: A tool that creates paths made up of points, lines, gradients, and solid shapes.
Blob Brush Tool: A drawing tool that acts like a brush but creates closed filled paths instead of strokes.
Direct Selection Tool: Selects, paths, shapes points, lines, and gradients.
Hand tool: A tool to help navigate around artboard.
Line tool: A tool to simply create a line
Rectangle tool: A tool to simply create a rectangle
Rounded rectangle tool: another tool to create rectangles yet, this one has curved corners.
Brushes Panel: A commonly used panel to add various styles to stroked paths. You can create new brushes in assorted styles (calligraphic, artistic, etc), edit existing brushes, go through downloaded libraries of brushes, and set up your preset brush gallery so it's on hand whenever you need it.
Join Tool
The join tool allows you to take two paths and join them together to create one single path. With the join tool selected, just click and drag a circle around the two end points of the path you want to be connected, and Illustrator will join them together for you.
ReShape Tool
Allows to select more than one point on existing path and move them in the same direction
Shear Tool
Allows you to skew proportions on existing path
Twirl Tool
Allows you to create twirls on existing path
Rotate Tool
Allows you to rotate path
Reflect Tool
Allow you to reflect path
Ellipse Tool
Creating elipses and circles. For perfect circles, shift is held down.
Flare Tool - creates lens flares. i.e. gradients that create tahe look of one.
Polygon Tool - any size shape a polygon
SOURCE:
https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-a-to-z-of-adobe-illustrator--vector-20799
Monday, October 21, 2019
Illustrator - Essential Hotkeys
Essential Hotkeys
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
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 -
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 -
Knife Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZMHTf8N4eY
-direct selection tool > select shape
-knife tool > cut through shape
objects separated
-knife tool - alt+click+drag
straight cut
-direct selection tool > select shape
-knife tool > cut through shape
objects separated
-knife tool - alt+click+drag
straight cut
Illustrator - Resolution-Independent Images
-Illustrator allows you to create resolution-independent images
-Vector Images
what is a vector image?
a vector image is a type of image that is based upon mathematical equations to create high quality resolution for whatever size you may want
monitor - rgb
printer - cmyk
-Vector Images
what is a vector image?
a vector image is a type of image that is based upon mathematical equations to create high quality resolution for whatever size you may want
monitor - rgb
printer - cmyk
Live Paint - Illustrator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oSAdMxxWzc
-Allows you to fill specific areas different colors
-Live Gap options - fills in gaps that should be filled. Automates filling in lines.
select shape > live paint
live gap tool - window > live paint > live gap
options:
small
medium
large
-Allows you to fill specific areas different colors
-Live Gap options - fills in gaps that should be filled. Automates filling in lines.
select shape > live paint
live gap tool - window > live paint > live gap
options:
small
medium
large
Direct Selection Tool - Illustrator
-Allows the selection of individual points.
-The Direct-Selection tool and Lasso tool let you select a single path or object that is part of one group or several groups.
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