Illustrator

i do hand drawns', scan em in, then clean up on photoshop... flash's a good drawing program, too...



Hand drawn stuff doesn't make threadless very happy, though... you always end up with loads of colors, and soo much detail gets lost.

hand drawn, then photoshop

or just photoshop

never paint XD

and i only use a MAC

ohh yeahhh :)

im not exactly a designer, i only entered one thing for critique. but i just draw it, scan it and fix it on photoshop like they said ^^

I did that too for my first design but I was also looking for help on this topic (since its already been bumped).



I'm attempting to use Ai and am just completely lost, I know how to get the brush and stuff to work (kinda, I dont know how to make the brush really thin which is bothering me).



I dont know if I should do a single color per layer and how I can make sure that all the layers line up and if I outline in one color how I can fill in a diff color... all that jazz. If any skilled person would mind offering advice on how they get detailed vector art to work out.

OR should I just screw Ai and do it with pixels at high DPI?

with lasers and beer, of course!

you don't haave to separate layers for color in AI. photoshop and illustrator are two different beasts but the more you use them, the more you'll use them simultaneously.



take a class at a local community college if possible but also just keep plugging away, trial and error offers many rewards if you stick to it.

but stick with photoshop if u r comfortable with it for right now.



300 dpi is sufficient and just work in RGB



there are some good blogs on different tricks and techniques, just search for them -



http://www.threadies.org/tricks.html

I use beef gravy.

Should I always vectorize an image after I clean it up in photoshop?



And maybe the graphics design class im taking at my highschool next semester will help some...

i use the iChisel..

no, there is no need to vectorize



just make sure it's at 300dpi and a decent size (ie 8" x 11" and not 1.5" x 2")

http://www.threadless.com/profile/580274/Raphe10/blog/371441/Tutorial_every_threadless_sub_er_should_go_through



http://www.threadless.com/profile/387417/valorandvellum/blog/181779/Photoshop_Coloring_Tutorial



I use to know this great little overview on photoshop but can't find the link... will kepp searching for it

bam! found it!



this one is great., really concise and helped me get more comfortable working in psd



http://www.elizafrye.com/tutorials/colorbasics.php



do it step by step with one of your own pieces