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• (Illus) Trace and Animate your Signature
  I'm glad to have seen this website. It will certainly benefit myself and everyone else - a tutorial that actually shows how to trace and scan your signature. I'm sure there's more than one way to copy our signatures so if you are ever stuck in the next step, maybe reading this tutorial will help. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Kevin Kantorski. This link was submitted by: Sadiarin, posted on 12/02/2003
• Typography in Illustrator
  This website has the basic information for typography in Illustrator and introduction to the type tool. It deals a lot with character attributes and smart punctuation. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Lycos. This link was submitted by: Sadiarin, posted on 12/02/2003
• Adobe Illustrator Intro (Techzone)
  Illustrator has the ability to work with all type of images. However, it is somewhat limited when it comes to scanned photo editing abilities. Therefore, Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop go hand in hand with scanning pictures. When scanning pictures, it is important to keep in mind the color (CMYK), resolution, and file type. In tracing, after loading a scanned picture file, we can use the bezier tool to trace over curves and lines. If the image is to be color-separated, it is a good idea to pre-separate the image by changing it to CMYK. Illustrator 6.x can also place several other types of bitmapped images, including JPEG, TIFF and Photoshop formats. Photoshop is a program to keep handy when scaning and editting scanned pictures. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Resources Report and -- Site content author: Graeme Bennett. This link was submitted by: Aldrich, posted on 11/17/2003
• Adobe Illustrator tutorials (TechZone)
  This site gives an indepth tutorial of all tools and tricks of adobe illustrator and comes along with illustrations of the lessons. It talks about scanning and tracing images as well as many other important features. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Graeme Bennett. This link was submitted by: mcginley, posted on 11/17/2003
• How to make a scan
  This website offers tips and techniques to tracing objects to manipulate and use. There are many graphics that are fun since they are the company that does the characters for The Simpsons! It is a step by step tutorial on how to do the tracing with pictures the exact icon needed and the "finger dance" options to get the job done faster. Very easy to understand and interesting to see how they did it. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Futurama- FOX. This link was submitted by: Greene, posted on 11/17/2003
• Illustrator various tutorials
  This website has links that are done by different people to help you do some interesting stuff with illustrator. There are examples of how you can release layers to flash, primarily for web design use, there's also a basics tutorial for those who don't know how to use the toolbox etc... This is a good website for some insight on certain techniques. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Computer Technical Tutorials . This link was submitted by: Holly Stout, posted on 11/17/2003
• Scanning and Tracing in Illustrator
  This site is a very long lesson about pretty much anything you would ever want to know about Illustrator. It does give tutorials about scanning and tracing, but they are not extreemly detailed. They get the point across pretty clear though. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Computer Technical Tutorials & More. This link was submitted by: Mohn, posted on 11/17/2003
• Scanning Type Tricks (Illustrator)
  This site has great little tips for scanning in different types choices. It does though lack the visual support in trying to explain how to preform the scanning and distorting of text. The site is a nice site to look at but the visual help is definatly lacking. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Resources Report and -- Site content author: victor gaultney. This link was submitted by: Whitford, posted on 11/17/2003
• Stroking for a "Road Map" Graphic
  This is not exactly pertinant to this weekly report, but it is a page layout of a road map. Start by adding a new stroke to a line vector. label this and save it as a style for a road. Then make two paths perpendicular to the first. You can create railroad tracks with a dashed stroke. Use gradients and shading for the background. Depending on the complexity of the map, you may need to add several layers of stroked paths. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Carl Jansen. This link was submitted by: Ostrom, posted on 11/17/2003
• Tracing tutorial (Illustrator, Clublime)
  This tutorial goes over tracing a scanned image and making it your own. You start by making a color palette, though not using white or black and without using a fill color you begin to trace using simple shapes. I also like how this tutorial incorporates the hide tool when working with the shapes instead of just moving to the back. I also like how at the top of the page it gives all the "finger dance moves" to refresh. Departments/Topics: Illustrator Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: . This link was submitted by: Mann, posted on 11/17/2003
• Type in a circle in Illustrator and photoshop
  This site is just a quick tutorial on how to create type in a circle after you have traced a path. It is very brief but also detailed in explanation. It also shows you how to distort and change the type you've created. Although there is not a whole lot of info I did learn a new technique. Departments/Topics: Pull Down to select . . . and -- Site content author: Inform It. This link was submitted by: rose, posted on 11/17/2003

 

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