On Thursday 8/31 the class used the South Park avatar creator website to make a self portrait. When the portraits were done we used a screen capture command to save the image (Shift-Cmd-4) By the end of the period we opened Adobe Illustrator and created a new "web" document in portrait format. Next we used File->Place and navigated to the screenshot to insert the image into the AI document. This document was saved into a folder on your desktop with the title "Lastname.SP.ai"
Today, 9/1, we will open the saved .ai file and begin to learn some basics about AI.
These are some of the first things we will learn today:
Today, 9/1, we will open the saved .ai file and begin to learn some basics about AI.
These are some of the first things we will learn today:
- Layers, locking layers, make layers visible/not visible, arranging layers
- Shape tools, anchor points, closed paths
- Selection Tool (V)
- Direct Selection Tool (A)
- Fill Color, Stroke Color (Swatches Panel)
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