Illustrations: Effective Workflows

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Cecil Maxwell
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2 Contents Why use Illustrator or Inkscape 01 Setting up the software, preferences and customizing the interface 02 Plan ahead, perhaps sketch your design 03 Then trace, know your tracing tools, image trace 04 Working with previously created vectors 05 Copy and paste, or use layers to achieve the same thing 06 Actions 07 Swatches 08 Alignment, smart guides and guides 09 Pathfinder and boolean operations 10 Artboards and output

3 Why use Illustrator or Inkscape Scalability Illustrator - Vectors vs. Rasters, What is Illustrator?, What is Adobe Illustrator? Inkscape - Vectors vs. Rasters, What is Inkscape? Crab files and/or Brighton Pavillion illustrations to demonstrate

4 01 Setting up the software, preferences and customizing the interface For Illustrator use Edit/Illustrator>Preferences For Inkscape use Edit>Preferences or File>Document Properties Illustrator - Touring the interface, Exploring the panels, Working with the Control panel, Setting preferences Inkscape - Touring the Inkscape interface, Exploring the Inkscape toolbox, Working with Inkscape dialogs, Editing document properties, Editing global Inkscape preferences

5 02 Plan ahead, perhaps sketch your design Illustrator - Inkscape - ncc logo idea images Use ncc logo idea images

6 03 Then trace, know your tracing tools, image trace For Illustrator use the Pencil Tool and Image Trace For Inkscape use the Pencil Tool and Path>Trace Bitmap Illustrator - Working with Pencil tool fidelity, Using the Pencil tool for freehand drawing, Tracing Artwork with Illustrator Inkscape - Drawing with the Pencil tool, Tracing bitmap images crocodile sign 01.tif, DSCN1273.jpg Use ncc logo idea images and the crocodile sign 01.tif, DSCN1273.jpg

7 04 Working with previously created vectors Illustrator - Inkscape - atom.eps use atom.eps

8 05 Copy and paste, or use layers to achieve the same thing For Illustrator use the Layers panel For Inkscape use Layer>Layers Illustrator - Exploring the Layers panel, Creating and editing layers, Targeting objects inside the Layers panel, Hiding, locking, and deleting layers Inkscape - Working with layers Chemical Galaxy.ai use Chemical Galaxy.ai to demonstrate, copy Li to new document (200mm x 200mm) then create a new element such as Na (11)

9 06 Actions For Illustrator use the Actions panel Illustrator - Creating and using actions in Illustrator Inkscape - Use LL01436_MIDI_2A_FM_1.ai, National Gallery ai, W Hotel ai Born Digital.aia

10 07 Swatches For Illustrator use the Swatches panel For Inkscape use View>Swatches Illustrator - Lifting a color and creating a swatch, Creating and using global swatches Inkscape - Working with swatches Create a series of simple shapes and text that can also be used for the next task

11 08 Alignment, smart guides and guides For Illustrator use the Align panel, View>Smart Guides and View>Rulers For Inkscape use Object>Align and Distribute, View>Page Grid and View>Guides Illustrator - Aligning objects with ease, Adding guides, Using Smart Guides Inkscape - Using guides, Using grids, Working with Snap controls, Aligning, distributing, and arranging objects Continue with shapes and text from previous task

12 09 Pathfinder and boolean operations For Illustrator use the Pathfinder panel For Inkscape use the Path menu for the various boolean operations Illustrator - Using the Pathfinder panel, Understanding all ten Pathfinder options Inkscape - running person 01.jpg Recreate the running person 01.jpg

13 10 Artboards and output For Illustrator use the Artboard Tool and the Artboards panel For both use Save As and Export Illustrator - Pages of any size, at any angle, Moving and modifying artboards, Changing the size and shape of artboards, Creating and copying artboards, Introducing the Artboard panel, Autoarranging artboards, Artboards and rulers, Export and save files, Saving your artwork, Creating PDF files Inkscape - Saving files for printing, Saving files for the web Create missing artboards from Bournemouth Map - 16 Westbourne The Arcade, 22 Boscombe Royal Arcade Set up new document with four artboards

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