Need to learn Adobe Illustrator CS4

Sparky · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:10

Any courses available online?

mr.sly · 22 Jan 2009 at 02:17

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=393

$25 a month for access to all the videos but you won't have access to the exercise files.

Sparky · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:52

Next option up includes the exercises so will get work to buy that. Thanks mr.sly

Chaos · 22 Jan 2009 at 23:03

Could have a look at totaltraining to -

http://www.totaltraining.com/

Sparky · 22 Jan 2009 at 23:06

Nice one,thanks will suggest this one to.

gord · 23 Jan 2009 at 09:45

You could learn it yourself depending on your mindset? Depends what you want to do? If you want any assistance you can add me to msn.

Sparky · 23 Jan 2009 at 16:46

gord said:
You could learn it yourself depending on your mindset? Depends what you want to do? If you want any assistance you can add me to msn.

Well i have been promoted at work and im now responsible for all the graphics on the race cars. Will add you to MSN, that will be great Gord.

khushy · 24 Jan 2009 at 14:40

I just bought a Training DVD from eBay - 25 sections - amazing - its for Illustrator CS3 - but I have been teaching myself CS4 with it!

Khushy

Sparky · 24 Jan 2009 at 20:33

khushy said:
I just bought a Training DVD from eBay - 25 sections - amazing - its for Illustrator CS3 - but I have been teaching myself CS4 with it!

Khushy

run me off a copy

Were there many available or just that one?

khushy · 26 Jan 2009 at 13:16

they are now . . .

CS||nuTs said:
run me off a copy

Were there many available or just that one?

no longer an eBay registered seller - I will do you a copy for half the price I paid.

£5 incl postage and its yours!

khushy

Sparky · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:54

khushy, could you email me again please. Replied to your original email but cant find your details. Just completed a intensive course with Symbiosis in Leamington Spa,highly reccomend them but it is expensive.

simisker · 27 Mar 2009 at 01:08

CS||nuTs said:
[...] im now responsible for all the graphics on the race cars [...]

God, I'd love to do that job. What's the CMYK for Jealousy Green again? Belated congrats!

So will it be your handiwork we'll be seeing in an hour or so?

gord · 27 Mar 2009 at 09:41

Ah you're still doing this?! Things went quiet on the MSN front so I feared the worst, didnt want to say anything.

Im still about if you need any help.

fez · 27 Mar 2009 at 12:05

Cant fault the linda tutorials. Very good and east to follow. Learnt a lot of PS stuff using them.

Sparky · 27 Mar 2009 at 17:54

gord said:
Ah you're still doing this?! Things went quiet on the MSN front so I feared the worst, didnt want to say anything.

Im still about if you need any help.

Thanks mate, really appreciate that.

Not been online much owing to the work schedule but things should settle down a bit more now. Spent most of today using CS4 3D capabilities, that was fun!

gord · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:02

They are pretty good arnt they. Its quite impressive what you can draw without a proper 3d environment.. and all of the shading/surfacing is done for you! Win Win!

Dup · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:10

Illustrator isn't too hard. I did a logo for someone this week without much experience of it. I am very much used to Photoshop though.

The Pathfinder menu is the must useful one, gradients and gradients to transparencies can be a bit fiddly.

Sparky · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:24

Pathfinder is good, the Pen Tool is the hardest to master [well in my limited experience anyway]

Dup · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:44

CS||nuTs said:
Pathfinder is good, the Pen Tool is the hardest to master [well in my limited experience anyway]

Yeah, if you're working from scratch on a bank canvas, things can get out of control.

I don't know what kind of work you'll be doing but I always try and have a rough sketch semi-transparent as a background to trace round and take from there.

Also, if you hit CTRL/Command+R you get the rules on the left and top sides. When these are present you can drag out guides from them (just click and drag from the middle of them) to keep things lined up rather than trying to do it by eye. You can delete them afterward by highlighting and hitting delete. Photoshop has the same, but you can drag them off the screen in PHotoshop and the delete.

Sparky · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:57

I was working with the guide rules yesterday, making a 3D Vase!!! Very F1

Like the Mesh tool [i think thats what it is] allows you to place highlights over objects?