Quake3World

I want to try learning illustrator, I know photoshop quite well and I imagine it shouldn't be that hard to learn. Can anyone suggest some good online tutorials? I'm mainly looking for turning photos into smooth vector art.

here you go: http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/a ... lustrator/

But to create vector art, just place the photo in the background as a template (place, template) and fool around with the pen tool a bit to trace, and the gradient mesh tool to fill. Its really simple to understand, but difficult to be good at.

btw, some of those tuts are free, but some they try to charge you for..

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/illust ... ialsbasic/

^^^ much better

Thanks for that bro.

Does anyone else know a specific tutorial for what I'm looking for. I know the basics but I need a bit more to be able to do it well.

there are some drawing tools in Macromedia Flash that i like 10 times more than in Illustrator. but Illustrator's a good program to know inside-out. if you can work with Photoshop without any problems, you should be fine with the learning curve of Illustrator.

well i told ya, use pen tool to trace, gradient mesh to fill.. easiest tutorial ever

http://www.logotypes.ru/ play with some corporate logos

The problem I'm having is making curves the way I want to, often I can't get it good enough.

use guides with snap-to enabled. makes life much easier.

It takes some practice. You can't expect to be a Illustrator master after just fiddling around for an hour or two.

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