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Creating with a template

Creating with a template - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with a template

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(electronic whooshing) (gears clicking) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. Someone recently emailed me and wondered why I never use the template feature in Adobe Illustrator. So in this movie, I want to show you this feature and how you might choose to use this template to assist you in your vector creation efforts. So, normally, when I approach any design, be it a logo, or an illustration, any kind of graphic, I'm always working out my design in analog, so you can see a sketch here of a Holstein cow and this was for some dairy logo explorations for a client that I worked with, oh this goes back about eight years or so now. But, I take my refined sketch and I scan it in, and I place a bitmap TIFF into Illustrator as shown here. Now normally, I'll select a sketch like this, I'll go to the transparency palette, and I'll adjust the opacity to like 20% and then I'll lock a layer, and then on the layer above it, I'll create my vector art as shown here. And I use…

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