Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator


This installment of Photoshop for Designers shows how to combine Adobe
Illustrator and Photoshop, taking advantage of the strongest features
in each program. Learn how to work with symbols, custom brushes, Live
Paint, creative filters, clipping masks, and more, while following
along with veteran graphic designer and teacher Nigel French. Nigel
explains the relationship between Photoshop and Illustrator and walks
through hands-on projects such as a montage, a movie poster, and a
print ad, while demonstrating how to work back and forth between
the two applications.


Topics include:

Combining Photoshop with the Illustrator Image Trace command
Generating "painted" type with Illustrator brush strokes
Creating an abstract background
Adapting a Photoshop custom shape into a symbol
Experimenting with transformations
Creating frames, backgrounds, and type
Duplicating, scaling, and arranging elements
Modifying Illustrator symbols in Photoshop
Adding and styling type with Offset Path

Download File Size:2 GB

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