Redesigning Authentic Personality - Colored Lotus

Photoshop

Illustrator
Danimator and I are working on the new look of AP. Danimator is working in Photoshop and I am fooling around with Illustrator trying to learn how to color things. I’m using ‘blend shapes’ to shape the gradient. I’m not sure what the final colors will be. It’s a lot of work doing custom graphics!

Illustrator is a vector prgogram, as opposed to a raster program like photoshop. Photoshop works with pixles, like a grid. Raster images are limited in resolution. If you create a 102 pixel by 102 pixel image, each pixel’s color and brightness is stored. Vector programs like illustrator are for the most part unlimited in resolution. This is because rather than describing each pixel, a vector program tells the computer how to draw the image at any resolution. But the tools used with vector drawing are generally more difficult to use than raster tools and so if you don’t need to resize your image, generally Photoshop is a better choice.

In my case, I like the idea of using illustrator because I can then use it as a piece in other composites at any size - I’ll be able to use this lotus in a huge Thangka just as easily as my little header.