Illustrator

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY

    I think Illustrator will be easier to use than Canvas because you can draw directly onto the screen instead of coding coordinates for everything. You can create shapes with different buttons and change how many points they have. The selection tool will be helpful because you can grab however many points on a shape that you want and drag them around with the mouse. I would be able to use these to code shapes more efficiently and change them if I make a mistake. I won't have to go back and analyze my code for a small error I might have made. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4601QiodeJc

    This video showed new tools such as pathfinder. This tool should come in handy because it allows you to merge shapes together and erase any lines between them. I think this will make my final results of each project look better than they did on Canvas, because there won't be hard lines between anything that make their separations obvious. You can also change the colors on parts of a shape without having to create a whole new shape, which I think should be easier to use. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHKwYhkE7U

    The pen tool is used to draw lines directly onto the screen. This is useful if you want wavy lines instead of hard angles that would exist for squares or triangles. You can create any sort of line or shape you want with this tool. This will be helpful because I thought it was really difficult to create Bezier and quadratic curves, because the control points were hard for me to figure out. But with this, I can draw any sort of line and be able to edit it however I want without having to use coordinates. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Somewhere Project

Image
I wanted to put myself into a superhero show, because I love this genre and think it's fun to imagine myself with superpowers. I put myself into a scene from The Defenders, because there was a gap in this elevator scene that I thought I would fit nicely into. This was one of my favorite projects to work on, because I got to put myself into a different world and I think it turned out really well. The hardest part for me was blending the edges of my picture into the background image, because the tools weren't working exactly how I wanted them to. Overall, I had a good time working on the Somewhere project and would definitely try something like this again. 
Read more

The Internet!

      The internet is potentially the most useful piece of technology available today. However, it was not always around for people to be able to learn the answer to any question in a heartbeat. On the first day of 1983, the internet as we know it today was created by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn. It was originally designed as a secret way of communication between scientists during the Cold War, and as time went on, engineers realized how great of a tool it could be if available to everyone in the public. The internet now is used for quick and easy research, communication across the world, and entertainment.       The World Wide Web is the collection of all webpages accessible by the public. Known more commonly as the Web, it was created in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. It was originally used as a system for managing and organizing documents. Over time, people realized it could be used for much more, as there are now websites for things such as public forums, media entertainme
Read more

Portfolio

Image
For my final portfolio, I wanted to do something nature related. I've tried incorporating nature into almost all of my projects, and I wanted this one to do the same. I chose a sky theme, because I could add flying birds, which are my favorite animals. I put the projects in timeline order from this year, because I think going in order shows my progress the best. My first project wasn't the best, but once I got to the end, you can see how much I improved. I had a fun time doing the portfolio because I got to really see all my work together, and think about how much I've done in only one semester. 
Read more