To elaborate more on my previous post, I will talk about my personal experience with vector graphics. For the past three months I have been messing around and recreating images inside Adobe Illustrator and Infinite Design on my mobile and computer. I would spend hours recreating images I've taken throughout the years with a custom art brush in Illustrator. I am still trying my best to improve and getting better with my line arts and shading. Here is one of my earliest artwork I've made in Illustrator. This wasn't the best thing to look at, my line art was very rough and disconnected. On top of that, I also used the one of the default brushes presets in Illustrator. I think I could say my line art has definitely gotten quite better in the past three months. Here's one of my recent artwork. My line art is much better now, they are connected and significantly less rough. I learned to give my line art tapering, which in my opinion, makes things one thousand times better. My tapering can definitely be improve more ,but I am doing fine for now.
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There are tools in Adobe Illustrator that was not present in Adobe Photoshop. One of those tools that are only in Illustrator is the mesh tool. The mesh tool allows me too add a gradient to shapes and make it stands out more. The mesh tool would lines that automatically fits the shape, you can make a grid out of those lines and added different colors to where the lines intersected. I think the mesh tool is pretty useful since I could also move those grids. The shape builder is also pretty easy to use. Pretty much it allows you to cut off unwanted area when you combine shapes together. One of the tools that were hard to learn is the pen tool. I needed to spend way more time using this tool. You can make complex shapes, trace shapes, and etc with the pen tool. There's definitely much to learn with the pen tool since you can do a lot with it. I think Adobe Illustrator place in the world of game design is probably making icons ,items and small details for other things. Illustrator would also be useful for storyboarding. Overall, I am still not used to using Adobe Illustrator. It's like playing a First Person Shooter but now I'm aiming with my left hand. I still think that using Illustrator and making things in it is a tedious task. It's still somewhat of a big switch to me since I am so used to Adobe Photoshop.
Over the past few months, I have been using Photoshop to complete many assignments for my Game Design class. I have learned to use many tools and a lot of techniques along the way. My most favorite technique I've learned so far is layer masking. It's a pretty effective tool that allows me to place an image into places where they weren't in a "non-destructive" way. It's like the magic wand except it's much easier to reverse the effect of "deleting" the unwanted part of the image. Here is an example of what I did with layer masks: "Somewhat Questionable" by Thanakorn Phoomsakha (Me) It is very obvious that I was not there but with the power of Photoshop, I can make it "look" like I was there in that place. An extremely useful tool and my personal favorite in Photoshop have to be the spot healing brush. The spot healing brush allows you to make fix small details by blending objects in or get rid of the objects completely. This tool is great for helping cleaning an image that has a visible problem. One issue with this tool is that removing too much from an image can make it look unrealistic. Here's an image I used the spot healing brush on: This is the final result after I fix an image of a woman with many skin issues. In my opinion, the spot healing brush and layer mask is a great tool and technique for creating a high quality "content". There are flaws in the tool and technique and you do have to be careful when you use them sometimes but they are pretty reliable for most of the time. Pretty much:
Sources:
Banks, Adam. “How Photoshop Changed the World.” PC & Tech Authority, 10 July 2015, www.pcauthority.com.au/feature/how-photoshop-changed-the-world-406418. “7 Ways Photoshop Changed the World [Infographic].” Traffika, 23 Feb. 2015, www.traffika.com.au/blog/7-ways-photoshop-changed-world-infographic/. |
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