Emerald Red wrote:Very well done, Bav. I'm currently doing the same thing you are doing with learning the various programs that all tie in and compliment each other. Dreamweaver is a little bit too tedious for my liking. Very boring stuff for a creative mind. Illustrator is a little bit of a pain in the ar$e, as to create art on it is made somewhat slightly more assiduous for an artist who would just prefer to let the hands flow. I've gotten to grips with it after getting my head round the fact that images must be built out of shapes and from the bottom up, rather than just sketched free hand as I normally do. It's a fantastic program to compliment Photoshop, though, especially for art work done on PS from scratch and transferred to Illustrator for post effects and vice versa. I love that Adobe allowed for that between the two programs. I must start to get into the flash element of things, as it is more suited to Illustrator vector style artwork than PS is. Also, it is essential for use in web design if you were to design an entire site by build, template and look.
bavlondon wrote:Emerald Red wrote:Very well done, Bav. I'm currently doing the same thing you are doing with learning the various programs that all tie in and compliment each other. Dreamweaver is a little bit too tedious for my liking. Very boring stuff for a creative mind. Illustrator is a little bit of a pain in the ar$e, as to create art on it is made somewhat slightly more assiduous for an artist who would just prefer to let the hands flow. I've gotten to grips with it after getting my head round the fact that images must be built out of shapes and from the bottom up, rather than just sketched free hand as I normally do. It's a fantastic program to compliment Photoshop, though, especially for art work done on PS from scratch and transferred to Illustrator for post effects and vice versa. I love that Adobe allowed for that between the two programs. I must start to get into the flash element of things, as it is more suited to Illustrator vector style artwork than PS is. Also, it is essential for use in web design if you were to design an entire site by build, template and look.
Illustrator is a really powerful tool. However I have put that to one side to concentrate on my flash and actionscript. I've not done any programming before so it's a lot to get my head round. Dreamweaver is good for spry wigits but most of web design happens in flag as you say. Btw have you tried PS CS4 yet? It now has the 3d extrude filter from Illustrator which is really nice. Very RAM heavy though, I need a new PC tbh but an thinking about a MAC.
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