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General Chat => Artwork => Topic started by: Etienne MacGyver on November 23, 2012, 01:21:51 PM
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I have received a PM and the person asked me a tip on how to do something in Illustrator.
That gave me the idea to make a tutorial video, because that is 100 times easier than typing the whole procedure down.
Here is part 01 of the tutorial that i did.
Maybe it can help other people also, and feel free to post your tuts here also ;)
how to set the correct sizes of a document (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyNfH49xVPE)
what i did forget in the video, is save as PDF, which gives the option to include "printer marks":
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thanks for the effort
i tried to do some illustrator, now, this motivate me to get back to it :p
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If you want something in a tut, and i know how to, i can make part 2 ;)
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cool!
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I want to thank you for your time and work to help other people finding there way in illustrator.
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I want to thank you for your time and work to help other people finding there way in illustrator.
Thank you for those words ;)
it is my pleasure
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Part two.
A simple task, create a exact 35mm octagon.
I got a mail from someone who wanted to make a octagon, and at first i used the "star trick".
Later and now i am using the second way which is the "polygon way"
I know the polygon way was the ovious choice, but this "star trick" is just a way to prove that logical thinking can help you accomplish the most types of shapes you want to create.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dENbDM0-BeQ
More on logical thinking in the next episode ;)
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Is there somewhere a trick to do a halftone faster?
I can't find my way to make a perfect halftone.
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there is, just tell me the diameter of one dot and the spacing between, then i can instruct you this with the use of copy paste, and then after that using a clipping mask to finish it off ;)
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I wanted to ask for an halft tone tutorial. but as i know it's cumbersome, i never dared to ask ^^
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I would like to make this.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img4/9462/dscn1613z.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img96/8362/rechterbovenkant.png)
I think the dots at the bottom is 0,708 pt widht and the height is the same.
But the dots are changing so i don't anderstand it anymore.
I have nothing just a few photos.
I am already busy few months with this white frame.
The previous drawing that I had created was not so sharp without illustrator.
Illustrator is new for me, but it starts to come.
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I see, its a halftone in combination with a gradient.
that is indeed more dificult, but do-able.
let me experiment with some of my methods and later i will try to record it in a video
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Since it is not a real difficult halftone, I would make a single row with a blend of shapes, and then paste it as tile in the shape.
Off course I used Freehand, less steps, but it would be similar in Illustrator
Make the pattern
- draw 2 circles small and big at the beginning and the end
- create blend and set the right number of steps
- draw transparant rectangle behind it
- group blend and rectangle
- copy to clipboard
Fill the shape
- make bounding shape
- clone it
- select back one
- apply gradient fill
- select front one
- paste tile as fill
1 minute work.
(http://www.picamatic.com/show/2013/01/01/03/45/8925024_600x589.png)
I don't put the gradient in the rectangle of step 1 as that gives a risk of vertical white lines appearing in the gradient.
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yep. thats the technique i also was about to recommend. (the blend part)
i have found some instructions a while ago and they are here in a PDF
vectorhalftoneinillustrator.zip (http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/vectorhalftoneinillustrator.zip)
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Thanks for the help.
I'll give it a try.
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This is now my favorite thread.
Thank you E. MacGyver!
Bookmarked for life.
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And here'r a free older version (2) of the Creative Suite :)
http://www.adobe.com/de/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
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Created a playlist to group all the video's ;)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWyEazSn27IQcnFElVmOopxHfMTaxFb9c
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damm i still have many things to learn :)
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Take the time, practice and google/youtube things you dont know.
Thats the advice i can give ;)
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any more training sensei MacGyver?
Need more education.
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what would you like to accomplish ?
did you already download the tutorial video's i have here on my server ?