Tutorial A Day

After my tutorial with Lorraine, she suggested that I try a new tutorial everyday to improve my software knowledge, as this was one of the main problems I have experienced this year so far. Here I can record what I learn to help me keep up with it, and I can look back on the tutorial when need be if there is a link.

Links

Lynda Tutorials

Illustrator Courses

InDesign

Photoshop

Other Websites

Illustrator

ndesign

tutsplus

smashingmagazine

spoongraphics

vectips

abduzeedo

bittbox

illustrationinfo

learnai

InDesign

adobe

layersmagazine

designm

Photoshop

photoshoptutorials

psd.tutsplus

photoshopstar

good-tutorials

photoshoplady

pslover

What I have learnt - Week One

Starting date


Friday 4/11/11

Free Transform

Experimenting creating shapes with the transform effect, and dragging it into the graphic styles palette to apply to other shapes

Saturday 5/11/11

Christmas Hat

Santa hat made my using gradients to colour paths, and fur with the roughen effect

Sunday 6/11/11

Vector Flower

Vector flower made with altering blending options.

Hint - alt + drag quicker than ctrl + paste

Monday 7/11/11

Swirl Effect Tutorial

Hint: Blend tool (w)

Creating swirls with shapes, change anchor point corners, twirl tool on circles, swirl paths 

Object, path, offset path for creating borders

Editing swirls with mesh tool

Week One Evaluation

I've learnt a lot already from these few tutorials, but I've had to put them on hold until after the module hand in, as I just don't have enough time to concentrate on them. I've learnt a lot about InDesign just through using it to create my publication for this module, so I think I will continue to do Illustrator tutorials, as I think this could be the most useful tool for the type of design I am interested in.