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Design ToolsRoll of trace

Chipboard

Sketchup

Development Tools

Refinement Tools

Mayline

Basswood

Autocad

Watercolor

Illustrator

Photoshop

Paste-up

IndesignPresentation Tools

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Craft of drawings in the machine age

Don’t forget the beautiful plan

Raster Graphic

Created in

Sketchup

Scanned drawing

Photograph

Manipulated in

Photoshop

File formats

.jpg

.tif

this image: autocad drawing rasterized via .pdf in photoshopadded color with paint bucket, ‘noise’ filter on grass, trees from aerial photo

Raster Graphic <Photoshop>

this image: autocad drawing rasterized via .pdf in photoshopvegetation hand-drawn, scanned, and colored w/ paint bucket and custom paint brushes.lasso tool with ‘feather’ set at about 20 pixels at edge of color.

Vector Graphic <Ilustrator>

Created in

Autocad

Sketchup

Illustrator

Manipulated in

Illustrator

File formats

.ai

.eps

this image: autocad drawing plotted to .epscolor, lineweights refined in illustratorbackground is a ‘placed’ file

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Vector Graphic <Ilustrator>

this image: autocad drawing plotted to .epscolor, lineweights refined in illustratorbackground is a ‘placed’ file

Layout <Indesign>

Layout <Indesign>

File formats

.indd

‘Place’ files

.ai

.eps

.pdf

.tif

.jpg

.psd

Export format

.pdf

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Features

Manipulation

line weights

line style

stroke color

fill color

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Best for multi-page

Universal document settings

Good organisation tool

Packaging feature

Indesign

Start a new file Input document size, units, orientation, number of pages. Can be adjusted at any time with ‘file/document setups’.

Place a graphic ‘file/place...’ browse to find file, or drag and drop through Explorer. Edit in place, updating links, redefine graphic identity while maintaining position.

Drawing functions pen, pencil, rectangle/elipse, line

Color functions stroke, fills

Finishing printing, exporting, packaging

The Essential Tools

viewing tools - pan, zoom, scroll

drawing tools - pen, pencil, rectangle, line

selection tools - group, object, crop

manipulation tools - scale, rotate, copy, paste, paste-in-place, crop

text tools - character, paragraph, styles, properties

organisation tools - masterpages, guides, margins, layers

Illustrator

Start a new file Input artboard size, units, CMYK color mode or open an .eps or .pdf file created from Autocad.Adjust later with ‘file/document setup’. To plot from cad to .eps, follow the directions here to set up a post-script plotter: http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/acad2ki/atop/psplot.html

Color functions stroke, fills, swatch libraries

Selection by layer, stroke, fill...

Place a graphic ‘file/place...’ browse to find file, or drag and drop through Explorer. Edit in place, updating links, redefine graphic identity while maintaining position.

Finishing printing, exporting

The Essential Tools

viewing tools - pan, zoom

drawing tools - pen, rectangle/elipse, line, pencil, paintbrush

selection tools - group, object , anchor, path

manipulation tools - scale, rotate, copy, paste (ctrl+f, ctrl+b)

text tools - character, paragraph, styles, properties

organisation tools - grouping, ordering, layers

Illustrator Excercise