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Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsillustrator feels so awkward...
Yea so I am mostly a photoshop user and since I have been doing the tutorials on treehouse for illustrator I feel realllllllllly stupid, I fumble with illustrator like a preschooler trying to tie his shoes for the first time. I am still wondering why Adobe didn't make illustrator feel like photoshop, it's like a totally different world to me.
Anyone else having this same problem with integration ?
7 Answers
Mat Helme
Treehouse Guest TeacherStick with it Jake Simon ! I felt the same way going from Ps to Ai. Practice makes perfect.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI'm a bit of the opposite, haha! You'll get it eventually, just keep at it. My only guess why they are different must have to do with PS being raster based and ILL being vector. That's my guess but I don't know the nitty gritty of the coding for the programs to actually know.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsyea one feels like your at home and the other feels like a stranger's house lol i dunno I just can't wrap my brain around it. i was trying to find out how to change colors for like an hour then realized it wasn't PS
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsHaha, yep! They do feel different even though the tools look familiar. I know I only use a tiny portion of PS's actual ability, which I'm trying to learn more about. I'm sure part of it is how you're wired, what you like, and what feels right. But if you're a PS guy, just being familiar with ILL is a huge advantage.
Being a product designer, I used ILL and PS to take a hand sketch, trace it out in ILL with line thickness and curves, and than color, shade and highlight the ILL drawing in PS. Thats about my extent.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsyea see i do that too but with PS i would sketch then scan it in ps and trace it out but in illustrator i don't know how to view through my color like in PS...there is a lower opacity in Ai right? so i can see through the color?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYeah, I just have my workspace on essentials right now, and with a shape selected, there is an opacity dropdown in the app bar at the top. There is also an opacity adjustment in the appearance window on the right side of the screen.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsoo i can make it look like photoshop! this interest me
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 PointsEddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 PointsThanks Mat Helme
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 PointsEddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 PointsMat I have a question, I figured I would say it here since i already have a thread open.
My question is about grouping so I made a basic window with one black square then 4 white squares in the black one but every time i scale them as a group the black one gets distorted and the white squares obey if that makes any sense.
how do i make them scale as one