Adobe Illustrator CS2 help please!

[xxbrain131]

i want to know how to use Illustrator but I'm just confused on how to use it and what tools do what. Bert, could you (any time) make a video on how to use Illustrator so i know how to use it? i have the whole adobe suite, but i only know how to use Photoshop :rolleyes:. i would like to know how to use Illustrator because it conflicts with Photoshop and i love to use photoshop :D. I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't know how to use Illustrator. thanks :)



and if I'm corrected, you guys did say Bert checks the forum. right?

[thunderhunter]

the same here,
does anybody know a great site with videos to DOWNLOAD like this site, radiantvista.com, photowalkthrough.com or russell browns homepage for illustrator tutorials, PLEASE, post them here.

of course, if you Bert, would make a few videos, that would be totally monroy.
or someone else here at this monroy site revision3.com

thanks!

please Bert, show us your newest work, the table reflection dining one, PLEASE!!!! is it finished?

[silentspyder]

Play. Also check out the help section of the software. Here's some tutorials from Adobe.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Illustrator&term=Illustrator&topic=Drawing+and+painting#target

One thing that took me a while to get is that Illustrator and Photoshop are different (duh). It took me a long time to find out that Photoshop has no storke/fill. Well it kind of does but not in the way Illustrator does. Also when first messing around with ancor points and Bézier Curves, I told myself "This can't be how Illustrator works. It's too cumbersome". Well I eventually accepted that is how Illustrator works and the more you work on it the faster you get at editing paths and points.

[jaredcheeda]

I've written a tutorial myself as sort of an introduction to illustrator for people that aren't quite used to it yet, or have just never used it before.
wilcurt.vir0s.com/tuts/stitching (http://wilcurt.vir0s.com/tuts/stitching/index.html)

you've really got the whole thing backwards, Illustrator doesn't conflict with Photoshop at all, it complements it a great deal. I took some photoshop, flash and illustrator classes in college, and illustrator was my favorite of them. It's really a great program, just don't go to it expecting something. Learn how to use it and get good at it and you'll like it. A lot of people never get the hang of it cuz they're trying to think about it the same as photoshop, but it's completely different. It's like how the sound track helps complement the movie, but you don't think of film cinematography and music scoring as the same thing done the same way. Vector and raster are two very different beasts that can complement each other in the same way music can really make or break certain scenes of movies. If you can't find anything else out there, I can put up some pics of the basic assignments we started off with in class that will get you better at using it by trying to recreate them.