Your are one of the best teachers in the Illustration and Design world to me. Thank you for all your great work. I nearly inhale all of your videos, starting out Inkscape and Gimp and now kind of professional as I study graphic design, Adobe lessons of you. Wow. Really. You are great and your explanations are perfect for studying.
Some extra tips: To drag the canvas around, use the *_SCROLL WHEEL BUTTON_* For Pen, press *_P_* For Ellipse, press *_L_* For a quick, manual selection Pathfinder, press *_SHIFT+M_* (you must already have your shapes pre-selected with Shift+click) For the Curve tool, to manually create curves from straight lines, press *_SHIFT+C_* To mirror+rotate+changing the center point of shapes, press *_O_*
I’ve struggled to get my head around imaging tracing correctly or how I want it to trace in my head, and within 5mins watching your video I’ve finally cracked it! Thanks for straight forward easily explained video!
A 2nd shortcut for this logo is to notice the symmetry in the left & right hemispheres. This would cut the tracing time in half. Copy. Transform/Reflect. Position/Join. Also, this would insure consistancy.
thanks for this! I've written down my notes for easy reference image trace feature window > img trace select logo check preview in dialog box mode > black and white or color(takes longer) uncheck preview when done click trace button when happy object > expand > ok object > ungroup - do this twice delete the white stuff
Thank you so much this video was SUPER helpful! I had asked a coworker to send a logo for merchandise and they sent a super low resolution jpg. This makes my life 1000 times easier
Thank you, you have no idea how unintuitive it is to be able to get an auto trace to not be a filled polygon because of the expand button. I really appreciate this video!
Thank you for your help, this days it's difficult to come by people like you, i want you to know that my heart will never stop appreciating your generosity..
normally i dont give reviews but maam youre amazing like i tried 2 videos on 2020 and one on 2022 but it wont work but i saw yr video today and it worked as being both content creators i respect your hard work and keep it up
Thank you so much for this video! I was able to learn something new within 4 mins of this video! Ive been making "vector" files the wrong way for so long till I landed on this video! Thanks Nick!
uhm, how do I express my gratefulness... uh... maybe this will put it on point: I LOVE YOU!? ♥ Your voice is super nice and soothing, the way you explain things is absolutely easy to understand and what can I say? I AM IN LOVE!! Big THANK YOU to you, Sir.
This was absolutely brilliant, but it got to the end and I know nothing about illustrator, so now I need to figure out how to resize the canvas to be the same size as the image was originally, and how to save it and alls sorts 😅
Nice video...with symmetrical logos, seemingly like this one, it might save time to split the circle, trace one half, copy, flip horizontal and align. Just another way 🤘
For graphic design - I've learned technical things from school, more creative things from videos, quality from work, and efficiency from myself. A little of everything from everything too. Kinda cool now that you make me think about it.
Sir, Great job there indeed. Since your logo is totally symmetrical, would like to mention a much faster way to accomplish this task. under the object menu select REPEAT and MIRROR. The advantage here is, the end result seamless and accurate. Forgive me if I am wrong.
How do I save a copy of my vectorized PNG after using the image tracer (which worked great), and in what format so I can use it without having to open a SVG copy in Firefox, or Illustrator ESP file?
Im here for the same qouestion - can I open this vecot file only in Ai? Or this is like a "basic'' (tamplate) and I can resize the vecor file in Ai and save as pgn file in any kind of size I want and the file dont lose the quality? Is it works like that?
How to design in larger sizes save it in a smaller size so it won’t take up hard drive space and store it without lose the resolution and printed it or send it to a printer to be printed in a larger size without compromising to resolution. What size to create in as a standard format with the ability to increase it to a large size such as 50x50 or 96x70.
25 years in the design business and I still suck with the pen tool (However long ago with Freehand was better, I think) Now I use the trace tool and other Ai apps to trace pixel stuff