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xonlyone aka Alicia is a 23.53 year old girl, has been a member since March 25, 2005, has scored 243 submissions, giving an average score of 1.81, helping 4 designs get printed.
How does everyone get their designs to look so smooth and professional looking with Illustrator? Also what is the difference between Photoshop and Illustrator.. like what can I do in Illustrator that I can't do in Photoshop? Oh and does any one have any tips or tutorials sites they know to help me out with Illustrator?

Jaycee
Jaycee on Apr 08 '05 at 9:37pm
illustrator is a vector based program, rather than the rastor based photoshop. that means that anything you design in illustrator can be resized (larger or smaller) without losing any detail, where-as resizing in photoshop means losing quality.



well, that's it in a nutshell anyway.i can go into more detail if you want.
xonlyone
xonlyone on Apr 09 '05 at 12:13am
Oh okay.. I see. But I'm also really curious as to how people make their designs so nice. Like do they take a real image and then do a vector of it? Or do they draw over it with the pen tool or what? Haha, I'm sorry I'm just really curious.
Freeek
Freeek on Apr 09 '05 at 12:17am
well the only way to have full control of an image is to draw it yourself, so obviously the best designs are drawn completely from scratch, or a trace of an image. i'm sure the automatic tracing does a decent job, but they'd definitely be cleaned up manually afterwards.
Jaycee
Jaycee on Apr 09 '05 at 8:10am
if you trace an image then you'll frquently have to touch it up afterwards anyway. drawing exactly what you see doesn't often produce a lifelike picture.



i usually like something to use as a referance, but don't usually trace from it unless i have to (my latest submission has a tree in it, which i can't just make up because i can't get them looking right ever :P)
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xonlyone
xonlyone on Apr 12 '05 at 10:03pm
Oh okay thanks =) I really want to get better at Illustrator because I have some awesome ideas for shirts~
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hellomynameis___.
hellomynameis___. on May 05 '10 at 7:21pm
cheers to bumping the very last blog to the first :]
buffalosmak
buffalosmak on May 05 '10 at 7:37pm
heh
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