The pen tool inside of adobe illustrator is no doubt the most powerful tool in the application. Seeing as It can be used to create countless lines, curves, and shapes, and serves as the building block for illustration and design. The tool is used by creating anchor points, and then by connecting those points with lines, which can be connected further to create shapes. Using the pen tool there is no limits to what you can make.
When opening a new document in Illustrator, the pen tool can be found in the toolbar, having the same resemblance of a pen , it can be easily found. Or to make things quicker you can simply press the "P" key. to create anchor points and lines, the fist point you make will be your beginning anchor point, clicking anywhere else will make a line and your third point will start to form a shape. Repeat this process until you have the shape you want your going to have to connect the points to get a closed shape. At this part you can now edit you shape from the anchor points you have made, returning to an anchor point you've made and placing the mouse over it you'll notice the small minus. This means you can delete that anchor and remove that point and connect the renaming ones. Creating curves is just as easy, as you make points, click and hold to keep your point selected, then drag it to make the curve. To add you can also adjust angle and slope, Select an anchor point and you'll see handles, moving them will adjust the lines.
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We recently started a new assignment called HULKASH!. Using the tool Pathfinder we were able to make an image of the superhero Hulk. The Pathfinder tool, probably the most useful tool in illustrator, allows you to cut, divide and trim objects on your art board. This tool making unique shapes ultimately creating things never seen before.
To display the Pathfinder you will have to go to Window > Pathfinder to make it visible.The first Shape Mode is Unite, which will combine all the selected objects into a single larger shape. The second Shape Mode is Minus Front, and it allows you to use any top object to create a cutout from the one underneath.The third option is Intersect, which will create a new shape by using the overlapping sections of the selected objects. Last but not least, we have Exclude, which instead of removing any of the non-overlapping sections does the exact opposite and gets rid of the intersecting surfaces of the objects.
Heading into the third quarter of Scientific Visualization, we now start to learn about new programs used to create images. The application we are now working in is Adobe Illustrator, an app used to create professional digital drawings.
Adobe Illustrator a vector graphics editor, is great for making images that have to be resized constantly without losing its quality.A wide range of artist favor this software because of it's all features that make it easy to make special shapes and create a whole picture out of them. My first experience with Illustrator was easy, seeing as I've already had messed around with the mobile version and had a moderate understanding of Photoshop's tools jumping into Illustrator was simple. The way it was set up is almost the same as Photoshop's interface and some of the tools were similar. There was this one tool that was new that we played around with which allowed you to change the shape completely and another where you could type words around the shape you make. The next day there was an assignment to make a pizza using shapes to get a feel for the software. Though there were few days that we worked on illustrator, I can tell that this editor has a lot more in store for us.
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