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Creating with raster effects

Creating with raster effects

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Illustrator is a Vector based program, but that said, it can pull off some really nice raster effects as well. In this movie, I want to show you how you can use both Illustrator and Photoshop together to achieve some pretty intriguing results. So let's jump into this. Now we're going to start in Photoshop, as you see here. And I have a photo graph of author, H.P. Lovecraft. Now this photograph was taken back in the early to mid 1930s. He died in the late '30s, I believe. But the reason why I picked this photograph is I wanted a very kind of mysterious, moody, and most importantly, high contrast photo. And that's definitely what this is. No I didn't even realize this was H.P. Lovecraft until I actually did a Google reverse image search and realized it's that author. Now, my subject matter isn't based on him. Actually, my subject matter is creating two comps for a audiobook graphic novel. So it's a audiobook cover design, if…

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