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Expand your creative options. Learn how to move your artwork between Illustrator and Photoshop and take advantage of the strongest features in each program.
Expand your creative options. Learn how to move your artwork between Photoshop and Illustrator and take advantage of the strongest features in each program. Designer Nigel French explains different ways to transition your artwork back and forth: copying and pasting, linking, exporting, and sharing via Creative Cloud Libraries. He then embarks on a series of mini projects that showcase the power of Photoshop-Illustrator integration. Learn how to create vector-based artwork from pixel-based sources, including photographs, and leverage Illustrator symbols and Photoshop shapes in your designs. Nigel also covers a variety of pattern and texture techniques, before proceeding into four hands-on projectsâan animated pattern, a Mondrian-style composition, a vintage postcard, and a retro posterâ that demonstrate the complete workflow between these two powerful programs.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Combining Photoshop with Illustrator
- The difference between pixels and vectors
- Copy and paste Photoshop artwork into Illustrator
- Copy and paste Illustrator artwork into Photoshop
- Open a Photoshop document in Illustrator
- Open an Illustrator document in Photoshop
- Place a linked Illustrator file into Photoshop
- Place a linked Photoshop file into Illustrator
- Export an Illustrator file to PSD format
- Export Photoshop paths to Illustrator
- Share artwork using Libraries
- Create an abstract vector portrait
- Create a line art vector portrait
- Convert an image to a flat color background
- Create a dramatic park service poster
- Recolor traced artwork
- Convert an Illustrator symbol to a Photoshop shape
- Use Photoshop Shapes in Illustrator
- Use a shape as a clipping mask
- Combine vectors and pixels in a landscape poster
- Create a color palette with Object Mosaic
- Create a seamless pattern
- Create an abstract background
- Create a typographic treatment in Illustrator and apply texture in Photoshop
- Add texture in Illustrator
- Combine vectors and pixels in a composition
- Create the Pattern in Illustrator
- Create an animated GIF in Photoshop
- Color with Live Paint and Shape Builder
- Separate the colors to Layers
- Paint the rectangles using the Photoshop Mixer Brush
- Apply Finishing touches in Photoshop
- Warp the type
- Expand the type and preparing the pictures frames
- Create and batch apply a unifying image style in Photoshop
- Use Clipping Masks to put the images inside the letters
- Apply the finishing touches
- Prep the image in Photoshop
- Trace the image in Illustrator
- Goodbye
