Getting Your Feet Wet |
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Week 6 |
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More type: Leading, Kerning, Tracking, Paragraph alignment and justification; Using symbols, Symbolism tools, saving custom symbols, document cleanup, Using the 3D Filter |
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Symbolism tool was completely new thing for me. The leaves of this tree are drawn with a pen tool. Well, actually I draw one leave which I duplicate and transform. Duplicate it again and made little fixing with convert point and direct selection tool. Then I made symbols of it in different combinations. With symbolism tools I try to make them look unique. The background area do have 10 colors gradient. The foreground flowers and hays are symbols from nature and flowers library. The river is watercolor brush. Document clean up I have learned to clean up unused colors and empty text blocks of my finished work before saving, but haven't knew that I also need to clean some other palettes as well. They do grow the file size if you don't do it. So I made a list which palettes are recommended to clean after you work. First Object>Path>Clean Up |
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3D Effects These 3D effects are amazing, but rather difficult to imagine the final result of the path. This container is made by using 3D revolve effect and for the label I use warp tool. Something strange happened in here when I try to add label by using map art. For doing this font I found Russel Brown's fantastic Open Type video tutorial. The tutorial is 3th from the end of CS2 tutorials.
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This vase is made by using this 3D Revolved Vase tutorial. The notekey is having 3D extrude & bevel effect. |
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18.01.2009 10:16 |
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