illustrator.

For our lessons with Charles we moved on from photoshop lessons and have begun to look at how illustrator works, in this lesson we learnt how to make shapes and how to use the different tools to erase further shapes into intial silhouettes and also merge shapes like the 'star' and 'square' together.
I have previously used illustrator as it was one of the key programmes at Leeds University as part of my course, but as it was all taught through 'word documents' and this isnt a way that is really suitable for me to retain information, i think its much better to actively do it and learn it from someone going through the stages and you following them which is why i like the way these lessons are taught. For our lasercutting project we have to convert our patterns into photoshop and then into illustrator to link it up to the lasercutting machine to cut out the pattern from our fabric, something which i need to start this week.