Illustrator 1 and The Creative Cloud - Basics

This session was an Introduction to the Creative Cloud as a whole , We started off by creating an account on the creative cloud , in my case i already had one. This was to show the power of the cloud and how it could link all devices together. We devoted our attention mainly to the Adobe smartphone apps , such as Adobe Capture; Adobe capture is an app that image traces photographs and sends them directly to the cloud for you to use in photoshop or illustrator , this is useful as you can see what images will look like as a vector while on the go. This app proved useful to capture inspiration. Another useful feature of the app was that you could photograph and object and it would allow you to import it as a brush stroke , making different types of patterns when using brush tools in photoshop or illustrator. Another useful tool that adobe capture provides is the ability to photograph a subject and sample a selection of swatches from the photograph. This is very useful when creating colour schemes that need to relate to the subject or giving a piece a specific feel. This application can also help inspire the colour range and channel your mind into looking into different schemes.

We then moved onto illustrator skills , i feel that illustrator definitely isn't one of my strong points in the course therefore i was excited to listen and learn about the softwares potential. I had basic knowledge about some tools such as the pen tool and other vector tools. We began by importing an image of our choice to the dartboard. I chose a photograph of myself as it was easily accessible. We then proceeded to use the image trace tool , this of which i had used before , however i learnt that they're other options when tracing such as 3 colour , 6 colour and low fidelety image trace options. all of these allowed my photo to have a unique outcome with many potential for editing.

after making my photograph become image traced we looked at other creative cloud software like 'Adobe Typeset' , this software was basically a font extension book which provided thousands of developer made typefaces that you can download to your devices via creative cloud. 

I feel that my final image turned out well as i used all the skills that i have been taught in todays session. I found this session extremely helpful as it allowed me to brush up on my illustrator skills , something of which i haven't had time to do yet. I hope to look into illustrator in further sessions and learn some more advanced techniques.