Week 3 - (19/02/10) - Creating shapes with Illustrator

Firstly we experimented on Photoshop with pixals, and i am now aware that you can not change between expanding and making a picture smaller as the quality does not also change. So we then used Illustrator, where we used the trace options to select block parts of an image and learned how to change colours of certain parts of the image.

Here it shows the original image and below the image altered with trace and colours.

Secondly we learnt on Illustrator how to create shapes, change colour and change the stroke thickness using the shape tools, including creating a tube sign.

After manipulating these existing shapes we created a heart. We used the Oval tool and selected the bottom part and then used convert anchor point to make the bottom point of a heart. next we selected the top sides then individually selected the handle and converted the sides until it made a recognisable heart shape, as shown on the right.

Finally during this seminar we made a butterfly. By using the pen tool we made two points and moved the curser to make a tear shape. Then i went to swatches and then spectrum to make the fill colour of the shape a rainbow pattern. Then we select the shape with "alt" then pushed "Command D" to make copys of the tear shape, then we reshaped them to make the wing. From here we made a mirrored copy of the whole wing for the other side then created the butterflys middle out of an oval shape and added two antennas.