Illustrator tutorial video's

[Etienne MacGyver]

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

what i did forget in the video, is save as PDF, which gives the option to include "printer marks":

[kroustibat]

thanks for the effort

i tried to do some illustrator, now, this motivate me to get back to it :p

[Etienne MacGyver]

If you want something in a tut, and i know how to, i can make part 2 

[gyruss]

cool!

[bartie]

I want to thank you for your time and work to help other people finding there way in illustrator.

[Etienne MacGyver]

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

[Etienne MacGyver]

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  

[bartie]

Is there somewhere a trick to do a halftone faster?
I can't find my way to make a perfect halftone.
 

[Etienne MacGyver]

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 

[kroustibat]

I wanted to ask for an halft tone tutorial. but as i know it's cumbersome, i never dared to ask ^^

[bartie]

I would like to make this.

 



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.

[Etienne MacGyver]

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

[Blanka]

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.


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.

[Etienne MacGyver]

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

[bartie]

Thanks for the help.
I'll give it a try.