hello everybody will welcome to: for first adobe illustrator cs6 tutorial
I'm your host body placard and I'll be going over
about a hundred illustrator tutorials with you
on the New Boston channel and were gonna be going over how to use the program
basics about it and give you could cripple
on the program so that you can go into that field and start using it and
it gives you a good basis for you to continue to learn on your own
and then maybe in the meantime are maybe later on we'll at a whole bunch more
tutorials
more fans and stuff like that so in this tutorial right now I'm just gonna go
over
what is ado adobe illustrator cs6
and we use it for you might have been wondering that someone answer your
question now
so Illustrator is a program used by both
artists and graphic designers to create vector image: its
and ok over with actor images are in a little bit more in-depth
but they're basically images there are infinitely scalable so
you're gonna be making I'm images
that would then be used for company logo's
or promotional use and you can even use it
as your own personal work if you need to you'll be creating things like
illustrations charts graphs and diagrams
you can create like I said before logos on
cartoons and F you can think of it if you can pick up some kinda graphic art
illustration are some like that
you can create it in Adobe Illustrator
now adobe illustrator does have a steep initial learning curve but once you
start getting passed in Cinti
know how to use the program then EA pecan
it can become really worthwhile and catapult your graphic design
skills I'm happily and that's where I'm gonna try to teach you in these
tutorials
and we're gonna get over that curve and we're gonna get into it so that we're
all comfortable
you
in it now one other things
and then I mention before was a factor image
and he should you need to know what a vector images because it's very
important and is basically
were Adobe Illustrator deals with the entire time when you're making it
so these are where you can actually create so
thinker this when you have a vector image:
you can scale up as much as they want and the edges are all gonna stay crisp
and clean
same with a few us kill it down you can do the same thing
you can make it as tiny as you want or as large as you want and the edges
against a nice
I have ever tried to take I'm an image
or like like a picture or a clip are some like that in Photoshop
any increase in a start skin are blurry and everything like that
well for russia mainly deals with a
what's known as raster images and those I Jets
jaipan extend its PNG's
and those are made up by a great %uh pixels
CBD on with pixels when you're using Photoshop
but when you deal with Illustrator you gonna be using paths
and if a zoom in on on somebody's here
we look at him and I
click using I'll use this way %uh data is called the Direct Selection Tool
and in fact click on it you can see that there's a path here
and it's made up by points
anchor points here and that's what you create your shape with
years in pat's not pixels and
when you're using knees the program
illustrator uses mathematical formulas
and bat Thomas probably proprietary to Adobe
they use those to allow these images to be scaled up and down indefinitely
so one other things that people
oMG intimidated with illustrator about is
the name kinda makes it sound like you gotta know how to draw to be able to use
Illustrator
well you don't actually have to have any prior knowledge are drying
or painting or anything like that you don't have to be like this great artists
to be able to use it
you can take like an image
if you want or a photograph
and you can use as a guide to trace or
anything else like that just you don't have to be able as a draw to be able to
use Illustrator properly
and mean it does help and it will some
help you to be a better graphic artists if you know how to draw a
but you don't need to have prior I
prior artistic ability mean
myself I'm pretty much terrible a drying
so I user illustrator
on because and I mean I use a backer
tracing pants or use existing
vector images and things like that it's
I'm not that great a drying but I'm still able to use the program
so what happens after using Illustrator
and you're using your factor images buzz
the person they are working for your client decide that they don't want
factor images
%uh you're like i won't. what would you want me use Adobe Illustrator for them
to do it
but sometimes clients Dane don't always make the most sense
a good thing with Illustrator is that has a versatility
in it to be able to change these into restroom ages
see can change the image into which a pic if you really need to
so I am one thing they gotta realize though is that you change it to the
raster image
you're not going to be able to change back to a vector which sucks but you can
always go back in and trace it
so it's not too bad but be you always wanna like save a copy
up we're doing that's why you always save and everything like that
and %uh we all know that Illustrator is
pretty expensive on for the average Joe I guess
comments not the most cheap program but if you go on to Adobe's website you're
able to get a 30-day free trial
I think it's still a thirty days on that's the last time I checked I haven't
checked in a little bit but
it's a a free trial they can use and then you can download their
and follow along with tutorial and get an idea if you actually buy the program
and I'm that's just a to start now
but that's pretty much
I wanted to go over for the intro and we can start getting you some more um
things that deal with using the program a little bit better
in the next couple tutorials so I thank you for watching this one
and hope you guys all have a great day see later