From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Vector vs. raster effects - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Vector vs. raster effects
In this exercise, we're going to take a bunch of layers, combine them into a single overarching layer, and then apply a drop shadow to that layer. And this is all in advance to my demonstration of how we're going to make a massive conversion to this piece of artwork using the scribble filter. Now, I've made a series of modifications to this artwork and I've saved it off as Abraham Skeletron.ai. And there is the fair number of additional dynamic effects going on here. If you want to get a sense of how anything works, just go ahead and select it. For example, I'm going to zoom in on this dollar sign down here in the lower left corner and I'll click on it to make it active, like so. And then I'll switch over to the Appearance panel and that's where you can examine how someone else's dynamic effects have been applied. Now, you will see way at the bottom here is a drop shadow and that's responsible for that thick edge right there on the lower right side. And then we've got a base stroke…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
My favorite features in all of Illustrator1m 21s
-
Introducing the Transform effect5m 30s
-
Repeating the last effect you applied4m 51s
-
Applying multiple passes of a single effect5m 21s
-
The wonders of editing dynamic artwork7m 13s
-
Applying effects inside effects5m 11s
-
Assigning an effect to an entire layer5m 42s
-
Building a complex bevel effect5m 44s
-
Placing artwork as a Photoshop Smart Object4m 55s
-
Editing that Smart Object in Illustrator4m 21s
-
Rotating continuously overlapping objects5m 34s
-
Adjusting a dynamic transformation origin6m 21s
-
Vector vs. raster effects5m 46s
-
Introducing the Scribble effect5m 23s
-
Copying effects between layers4m 20s
-
Introducing Graphic Styles6m 50s
-
Controlling the Filter Gallery preview2m 28s
-
Document Raster Effects Settings4m 31s
-
Combining and saving styles4m 32s
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-