Well here we are, a new version of my blog to incorporate new skills on my journey through marrying Photoshop and Graphic Design skills.

Why do it in the first place? Well professional advice has directed me towards 'upskilling' adding new arts & design software to expand my horizons and offer more in the market place.
The vector based images of Adobe Illustrator are immensely scaleable without loss of quality or definition.

So having signed up to a six week introduction course at a local college I found myself at my starting point. Surely now I could benefit from the ability to transfer the pixelated image of Photoshop to the mathematical based vector system operated in Adobe Illustrator?


Not quite that simple as it transpires, a good quality pixelated Photoshop image contains subtleties of shade & tone that are lost in the block colour that is the Illustrator image. Photographs can be transferred to the artboards of Illustrator via the Image Trace menu, using the Hi Fidelity Photo utility in the drop down menu. It's true to say that faces can become slightly less discernable but is an acceptable loss in my limited experience.

Adobe Photoshop is a great design tool but generally reliant on source material available from an amalgum of sources (Camera files, internet sites etc). Illustrator tends to deal in creation from scratch, shape and form, text & colour and how all these things can be manipulated.

 










 Note the above images indicate gradual change of shape and form, colour & tone.