Introduction to Infographics with Adobe Illustrator

Overview

“In this unit, we will look at one of the common uses of Illustrator: tracing bitmap images. Either photographs to make a silhouette or a sketch or, as we are going to do in this course, maps to redraw them in vector. We will start by learning how to import them and how to use skins to combine different languages.”

In this video lesson Paadín addresses the topic: Import Images and Skins, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: The Map Grid. Draw the guides for the framework of your project.

Partial transcription of the video

“INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR INFOGRAPHIC / COURSE 3 LESSON 2 Import images and masks A common use of Adobe Illustrator is to trace images from the bitmap. In this unit, we will see how to import them and use masks to combine the different languages. Let's get started. Under the File menu, we are going to Place. We can search for the image that we have previously chosen and we see that the cursor turns into this icon, which tells us that we are importing one of an image. We could select multiple images in the dialog and import them successively and preview them. There are two ways t...”

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Course summary for: Course 3: The Map Grid

• Level: Beginner
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