What most people probably know is that with the pen tool you can make straight lines. Later, we were taught that you can drag after clicking and holding to curve the line. Holding alt will reset the angle of your next line or curve. What most people probably don't know is that not resetting the angle can help you get smooth curves with more than one stroke. The pen tool analyzes the current angle and most of the time it's perfect to finish the curve you're tracing or make a perfect circle. Have you ever tried to start a new path from an existing path or anchor point? It's not possible right? If you click over an anchor point with pen tool, you will delete that anchor point and if you click over a path, it will just add an anchor point. By holding Shift while doing this you can override the default function and act as if there was no path.
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Some of my Puppet warp is a tool that can be found in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Puppet warp is similar to the warp tool that you would use during free transform, but it goes much further than that. It allows you to place anchor points and stretch, move, and twist parts of the image. Imagine a teddy bear. You can move his arms, legs, and head to put him in different positions. Puppet warp is exactly the same thing but on Photoshop and Illustrator. Puppet warp is one of those tools than is right on the line between 2D and 3D art. When you think about Photoshop and Illustrator, you think of a digital "paper" where you can do everything you can do on a real paper on a computer. However, you cannot stretch a paper out while keeping the same layout and orientation, so I think it is interesting that Adobe included this feature in their software. Puppet warp and perspective grid are pushing the boundaries of 2D graphics in a good way.
-John Hempstead Shape builder tool is a tool that has three different modes that are used for different situations. The first mode is called Merge where you can turn overlapping shapes into a single shape. You have to click and hold on the shape to make it merge. The second mode is called Extract and it allows you to extract part of a shape from a larger shape. The third mode is called Erase where you can erase entire parts of a shape by holding down the Alt key and clicking on the shape you want to delete. If you have a stroke around your two images when you merge or extract them, the shape builder tool will fix your stroke for you to outline the complete shape instead of just one. In conclusion, the shape builder tool builds on to the shaper tool and the shape tool in a unique way that enhances your creativity.
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AuthorMy name is John Hempstead and this is my blog that will be showcasing what I have learned throughout my time in Fundamentals of Design and Animation. Archives
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