by Sherry London | Aug 21, 2013 | Illustrator Tutorial, Tech Talk
Textures play such a huge role in surface pattern design that I thought I’d start a series of posts on how to generate or create them. This first post shows you how to use one of your photos to create an Illustrator texture that you can put into multiple images,...
by Sherry London | Jun 10, 2013 | Illustrator Tutorial
Traditional fabric printing uses a series of passes by a single color ink at one time to produce the design. Just like spot colors in printing, each ink adds to the printing costs. For that reason, if fabric is to be screen printed (you’ll also hear the term...
by Sherry London | May 9, 2013 | Illustrator Tutorial
In the first two posts, you used the Image Trace command to take a scanned image and change it to a vector image in Illustrator. You then altered the color mode of the document and added swatches to the file. Now, you’re ready to color your traced motif. But...
by Sherry London | May 9, 2013 | Illustrator Tutorial
In the next video–and cheers!–it actually contains audio, I’ll show you how to alter the Document Color Setting for an image to create a CMYK file from the original RGB document. I’ll also explain how you can add additional colors to your...
by Sherry London | May 9, 2013 | Illustrator Tutorial
I have a love/hate affair with Adobe Illustrator’s Image Trace command. When it works, I love it. When it balks at me, I am very unhappy. The tool actually works well if you only have modest expectations for its tracings. It does well, for example, on a clean...
