Category: Scanner Color Modes

Written by on July 13, 2024

Project: Saving Your Illustrator File– Working with Artboards and Saving Files

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At this point, if you are working on a project, if you have added a path or object to your new file, you can File ➤ Save the document as an .ai file somewhere on your computer so that you can continue to work with the various tools in Illustrator. An Illustrator file will allow

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Written by on June 24, 2024

Linking Your Digital Mock-Up Image to the Illustrator File – Working with Artboards and Saving Files

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Whether working with single or multiple artboards, it is important to know if you have digitized your sketch, in this case as a JPG file, how to link it with your Illustrator file to the document. Later in Chapter 8, we’ll use various tools such as the shape and pen tools to trace over the

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Written by on March 6, 2024

Working withArtboards – Working with Artboards and Saving Files

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In this chapter, I will now describe how to link your digital mock-up to the artboard so that it will display for tracing over should you need to and then conclude with how to save your Illustrator file and other design considerations. Note  This chapter does contain project files that can be found in the

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Written by on January 30, 2024

Artboards – Setting Up Your Workspace

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While working with your Artboard tool, you can use the Artboard panel to create and easily find other artboards to store your graphics on. In this book, we will be mainly using a single artboard, but you can create multiple artboards as well, which we will look at later in Chapter 5. Refer to Figure

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Written by on November 8, 2023

Symbols – Setting Up Your Workspace

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The Symbols panel can be used to store graphics or parts of your infographics as symbols that can act like a template graphic that you can use many times in your artwork. We will be looking at how it can be used in Chapter 8 and later in Volumes 2 and 3. The menu and

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Written by on August 29, 2023

Control – Setting Up Your Workspace

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The Control panel does have some similarities to the Options panel in Photoshop and does work with some of the tools in the Toolbars panel. However, this is usually when the object has been selected first with, for example, the Selection tool; many of its options are found in the Properties panel as well which

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Written by on July 14, 2023

Toolbars – Setting Up Your Workspace

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The Toolbars panel contains all the tools that you need to work on your Illustrator projects. As you can see in Figure 4-14, there are many. Figure 4-14.  Toolbars panel and its many tools Some of these tools, if you have worked in Photoshop, will already be familiar to you, and some are very unusual.

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Written by on April 19, 2023

Creating a New Document in Illustrator – Setting Up Your Workspace

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Return now to Illustrator to begin your project. Make sure that your Adobe Illustrator program is open. To get started and set up your workspace, from the main menu, Choose File ➤ New or the New file button. Refer to Figure 4-1. © Jennifer Harder 2023 J. Harder, Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator: Volume 1,

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Written by on December 26, 2022

Adjusting Scanned Image – Scanner Basics

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If your scan is sideways, you can always choose in Photoshop Image ➤ Image Rotation and rotate the image in Photoshop 90° clockwise or 90° counter clockwise. Refer to Figure 3-15. Figure 3-15.  Location in Image drop-down menu of Image rotation options Or you can double-click the Background layer in your Layers panel to make

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Written by on September 8, 2022

Scanning aSketch – Scanner Basics

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Scanning aSketch \ 1.\ Once open in Photoshop, go to File ➤ Import ➤ WIA Support Refer to Figure 3-6. Figure 3-6.  WIA Support dialog box You will be presented with a dialog box where you will use the Wizard assists or Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) to help you decide where you will place your

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