Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator | 2 GB

Duration: 3h 6m | Video: MPEG-4 960x540 (16:9) 30fps 1199kbps | Audio: AAC stereo 48kHz 160kbps

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Date : Jun 06, 2013

This installment of Photoshop for Designers shows how to combine Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, taking advantage of the strongest features in each program. Learn how to work with symbols, custom brushes, Live Paint, creative filters, clipping masks, and more, while following along with veteran graphic designer and teacher Nigel French. Nigel explains the relationship between Photoshop and Illustrator and walks through hands-on projects such as a montage, a movie poster, and a print ad, while demonstrating how to work back and forth between the two applications.

Topics include:

Combining Photoshop with the Illustrator Image Trace command

Generating "painted" type with Illustrator brush strokes

Creating an abstract background

Adapting a Photoshop custom shape into a symbol

Experimenting with transformations

Creating frames, backgrounds, and type

Duplicating, scaling, and arranging elements

Modifying Illustrator symbols in Photoshop

Adding and styling type with Offset Path