Vector Tutorial

[RetroBorg]

I thought I would put a link up here to the vector tutorial done by Frostillicus from the BYOAC forum.

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/files/Miscellaneous/VectorTutorial_v1_3.zip

I hope to learn how to do vector graphics and I'm sure others here may want to learn to.

Ideally though I would love to see someone from here do a video tutorial like the Photoshop tutorials that Billpa has done on this forum.

Anyone wanting to check out Frosty's work, especially his cool 3 sided rotating control panel cabinet his site is here: http://arcade.tomvanhorn.com/

[EvilDindon]

Thanx for the link RB.

I just read it behind the lines in 1 min, and it seems that the only tool used in illustrator is the pen tool.

So, why can't we do the same with Photoshop or Corel Paint shop pro (the one I use) ?

What do illustrator do more than those programs ?

[RetroBorg]

Thanx for the link RB.

I just read it behind the lines in 1 min, and it seems that the only tool used in illustrator is the pen tool.

So, why can't we do the same with Photoshop or Corel Paint shop pro (the one I use) ?

What do illustrator do more than those programs ?

Well I stand to be corrected but I guess in Illustrator you save it as a vector graphic that way you can enlarge it any size you like without losing any quality, you can't do that in Photoshop and I doubt you can do it Corel.

[EvilDindon]

Yeah I think you're right. I doubt you can save a "vector" drawing directly from Photoshop or paint shop.

[bodydump]

Corel Draw is Corel's version of Illustrator. I am sure there are some other vector drawing programs out there. Vector drawing is not like hand drawing, its all based on points and lines. Creating smooth curves is done with brezier curves and took me a while to grasp. I still struggle with gradients in Illustrator. Most of my problem is efficiency...it takes me a long time to trace because I'm constantly undoing mistakes and experimenting to get it right. I've had some good results but I feel that I could do it faster and better if I knew a little more. In other words, I agree that a video tutorial would be great. The pdf helped for sure, but I like to see it in action. Lynda.com has a month subscription for $25 with a ton of Illustrator tutorials. Too bad the wife would kill me if I spent any more money on the arcade habit.