I have been using Adobe Illustrator for about a couple weeks now and I have made some opinions on some things. One thing I really like using and find very easy to use is the shape tool, along with this is the shape builder tool, these tools are often used together to make certain shapes that are irregular or cannot be made with the regular shapes. This helps me very often for example when I had to make a ring shape for one of graphics which cannot be made with the elipse tool, so what I did was I made two circles, one smaller than the other and colored the bigger one the color I needed and the other one white, then I put the smaller one on top of the bigger one and the using the shape builder tool I removed the center part of the circles leaving me with only the colored ring. While I used this for a basic shape, it can be used at much higher levels. Another tool I think is very helpful is the pen tool. I believe this tool is the most useful tool in Illustrator. Although I think it is extremely useful, I tend to struggle while using it but I believe that with practice I can improve quickly. A good website to practice with the pen tool is "The Bezier Game." This game helped me learn a lot about the pen tool in about thirty minutes, I learned how to use alt, and shift appropriately with the pen tool, and how to curve the line effectively. Summary
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wikiHow. “How to Use Adobe Illustrator Pen Tool.” WikiHow, WikiHow, 21 June 2017, www.wikihow.com/Use-Adobe-Illustrator-Pen-Tool. “How to Use Illustrator's Shape Builder Tool.” Dummies, 10 Dec. 2018, www.dummies.com/software/adobe/illustrator/how-to-use-illustrators-shape-builder-tool/.
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My name is Vinicio Maresca and my family is from Italy, however, I was born in the US. I will be adding to this blog page as time goes by.
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