Goodbye Photoshop Hello Adobe Illustrator!

Last week in my DDA class, we headed into a new software called Adobe Illustrator. I noticed there were some new tools inAdobe Illustrator: such as the Artboard Tool- Which is used to create other canvases within the same image and its also used to resize. The Shape Tools- which you use if you want to make existing basic shapes. if you right click on this tool you will see options that drop down such as the rectangle tool, the polygon shape tool, rounded rectangle, eclipse, star tool, and Line tool.

Selection Tool - Lets you select objects and drag them. Direct Selection Tool - Lets you select individual anchor points. Something that's also different is the colors and where you can put them. When you make shapes you can choose the Fill color and the outline color, or the Stroke. With the outline color you can either choose a color, make it a gradient, or just take it out completely. There is also a tool where you can merge existing shapes into each other to create new ones. These are called Shape Modes. Such as Union - which is the connection the selected shapes, Intersect - when a new shape is created using the overlapping areas of the selected shapes, Exclude - Creates a new shape deleting only the overlapping areas of the selected shapes, and Minus Front - Deletes the shape that is on top from the selected shape. We used these tools in creating a pizza (in image below) where we made a triangle shape, and cropped a rectangle in the image so that it looks more like a pizza. To do this you select the selection tool and select the shape you want to work on and use the Exclude Shape Mode which is the process of removing only the overlapping areas.

Summary

• Into Adobe Illustrator!

• New tools