Photoshop-Illustrator Video

Five things I learned from the video:

1) It’s really important to have an established design foundation. Know the project purpose and know about the clients and what they want.

2) You need to make sure you know what the final size of your document will be so you can create a design appropriate to that size.

3) You can download various Plugins into Illustrator that allows you to easily manipulate paths.

4) Gradient blend tools allow you to go from one color into another and blend various colors together to create effects and make pictures look a bit more realistic. You also do not have to make different objects to fill with other colors so blend modes make a smoother picture.

5) With smart objects you can paste an image into a no fill, no stroke bounding box and it will be pasted in the position you want instead of going directly to the middle of the page.