Thread: Tutorial: Illustrator, the Radium Way
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Jun 20, 2007, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by MoonBlazE View Post
How are the layer panel in comparison to photoshop? I often use tons of layer effects (e.g. dropshadow, outer glow, textures, and so on).
From what I know of Photoshop layers, Illustrator is completely different. In Illustrator, layers are more or less just used for keeping things in order, sometimes for masking. Any effects, like textures, shadows, outer glows, etc. are added to the individual objects. Or faked; for a dropshadow you can easily just put a blurry black copy of an object under something. Of course, if you need to put a photoshop effect on something, sometimes it's easier to just copy and paste into Photoshop. Illustrator and Photoshop integrate like peanutbutter and jelly, really.

Something else that takes getting used to is that everything is object based. Like, every line I drew and every shape I put down can be modified, moved, and has no effect on things under it.

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The vector shading looks soo tempting but unless I can find a *cough* cheap way of getting it, it'll have to wait a few months.
I got CS2 for about 100 USD off one of those sites that sells with an educational discount. If you look around, you can find stuff for cheap.

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I've been meaning to get into Illustrator for awhile now since the paintbrush tool in Flash just sucks.
YES D:
One of the nice things about Illustrator is that you can copy and paste into Flash. The stuff for Illustrator CS3 says this is a new feature, but you can actually do it in every version.
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