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Normally I would use Adobe Illustrator to create any vector artwork but Adobe Photoshop can do so quite well and you can also create shapes automatically and then send them over to Illustrator to further refine them. As you see here by using this guy right here which is our custom shaped tool and then choosing this menu I would say well just like a light bulb and draw it out in my document window by simply clicking my mouse and moving it and letting go and that would create my shape for me automatically. Let me just go ahead and demonstrate that for you. See you that? Let me undo that and when I click on it with the direct selection tool you'll see that it's made of points and we have our paths which are connected to the points. What I can also do is send this right into Adobe Illustrator. But before we do that I want to make sure that before you draw one of these shapes make sure that when you have this tool selected you are in this mode right here which is paths mode so we can actually create vector artwork. Now what I want to do is send this over to illustrator and of course like on a cooking show I already saved this to my desktop earlier so let me just show you how to do that, you would go to file, you would choose export and then you would choose paths to illustrator. As you see on my desktop its bulb.ai and ai stands for Adobe Illustrator and I kept it at the default which is a work path. Once I saved that to my desktop I jump over to illustrator and now I can go to file, open and I can open up this bulb.ai file right into Adobe Illustrator and I know right now you're perplexed, you're like alright that's nice, but where's the bulb? It's there you just can't see it unless you do one of two things, first of all you can go to the view menu and choose to look at your document in outline mode and there it is hiding. The other thing you can do is go back to preview mode, grab your mouse and your selection tool and just draw or press command or control A to select everything and then give your path a stroke color. So I'm gonna click on this swatch here, click on black and now my path is colored and what I can do as well is grab my direct selection tool and click on a path and then reshape this bulb to my liking. So I can do whatever I want with bulb, change it around make it all kinds of crazy looking and bent up and whatever I want to do to this. And then when I'm finished with it and I decide I want to go back to Photoshop what I could do is go to file and I could choose export and then from the dialog I can choose Photoshop psd which is the Photoshop document, which is what the psd stands for. And then I can go back to Photoshop, take this warped bulb and then add special effects or do whatever I like to. So once again you can go back and forth with paths from illustrator to Photoshop and vice versa very easily.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |