Adobe Illustrator

LikeAnOcean

doin'the-evolution wrote:

it frustrates me.
i always cheat, and use Photoshop for my projects.

i've just been using Photoshop so long, i don't know where to begin with Illustrator... I haven't used it since high school and even that was very limited.

Can anyone recommend me good books or tutorials on Illustrator?

Essentially both programs are used for completely different things..

Photoshop is for editing photographs and non-vector files like raster images.

Illustrator is for vector files and layouts and such.

I guess you can do some things with both, but as a graphic design major, you shouldn't be.



Most of my graphic design projects were in Illustrator. If I had images to edit and import I would use photoshop to edit them and import them into my Illustrator layout.

The next step would be Quark or InDesign if you have a multiple page layout.. I believe the industry standard has moved from Quark to InDesign now..

The best way to learn the programs is to sit down and spend a few hours experimenting. There was never any formal training on any of the programs in my schooling. My teachers were all about design and said Adobe was just a tool we had to learn on our own.

haffajappa

woohoo i'm working in illustrator and have already used a tutorial on that site that PBM showed me...
look at me gooooo!

nuffingman

I've been using Illustrator for about 14 years and still think it's shit!

Too many pallets, too many hidden menus, nothing's obvious.