Adobe Illustrator CS2 Workshop

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In contrast, Adobe Illustrator is a charting program. It deals with objects such as …. Collection of specific topic Illustrator tutorials: …

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Adobe Illustrator CS2 Workshop
Photoshop makes images out of dots (pixels). The program recognizes individual
dots each with a color value and a location in space (this is called raster graphics). In
Photoshop, if you wish to work with something that you recognize as an object in an
image, such as box sitting on a table, you have to select the box (show Photoshop the
dots you want to manipulate).
In contrast, Adobe Illustrator is a charting program. It deals with objects such as
squares, circles and irregular shapes. It stores these shapes in files as geometric
equations with an associated size, location and color value. These objects can be
resized, re-colored and moved in relationship to each other (this is called scalable
vector graphics). When you make a selection in Illustrator, you are selecting an object
and you can move that object in front or behind other objects in the image or change the
size of the object relative to the other objects in the image. Illustrator is an ideal program
to use for drawing illustrations and charts or creating posters with…