First, it takes away the spontaneity from the drawing process - you need to create dull, rigid lines and fix them later. The Width Tool, though very useful, has some disadvantages. In fact, it's even more precise than drawing with a tablet pen! With it, you can change thickness of any point of the line. Luckily, Illustrator lets you simulate this effect too! There's a tool called the Width Tool. Pen pressure is something you may really miss when you use a mouse. That's something that can help simulate natural movements of the hand, fixing all the mistakes coming from an unprecise mouse (of course, the level of precision can be adjusted). There's an even better thing! Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the feature that attracted me to Illustrator in my "tabletless" times: Line Fidelity. You just click the points it's made of and fix the shape. Does this ring a bell? That's right! When your clumsy mouse will lead the line somewhere else that you wanted, you don't need to undo or erase it. You can use the Pen Tool to draw paths, but the most interesting thing is that every line drawn with a brush is a path too. Seriously, every shape, every line is based on anchor points. So, are you ready to learn what advantages Adobe Illustrator can give a mouse user? Keep on reading!ĭo you remember paths from Photoshop? The ones created with the Pen Tool, that let you create curves and can be modified without problems? Well, in Illustrator everything is a path. The reason for this is simple - vector files are full of mathematical rules instead of huge arrays of pixel coordinates. Even the biggest of them are really small in comparison to big raster files. There's another advantage of vector files. That's the reason why vector drawings are usually very clean and refined - they're not based on fast, pressure-variable strokes, but on precise clicks. While raster editors are based on a natural, free movement of your hand (that can't be imitated too well by a mouse), vector ones don't need it - all they're interested in is you give them points to base on. Vector drawing is more like building - every object is a block that can be removed and modified at any time without affecting the rest of the picture. You can draw a line, then cover it with a square, and put a cat on the top without creating any new layer, and what happens? The line is still there, unharmed, and so is the square. Here pixels aren't constant, they're re-rendered whenever you change something. It's totally different with vector editors. What does it mean for us? To draw digitally in an editor like this, we need a tool created for traditional drawing - with its digital equivalent being a tablet pen. Take the layers and undo's, and you've got a method identical with traditional drawing. Later these pixels can only be removed one by one (with an eraser) or covered with another splash, being lost forever (if it's the same layer). ![]() With every stroke you're creating a splash of pixels. In raster editors you draw with dots - no matter if it's a line, a square or a hyper realistic portrait of your cat, it's all dotted. The different methods of saving the content lead to different ways of drawing too. Newer versions of Photoshop have some vector options too, but you can't hide it wasn't really designed for this. When you move one of the points, the line is rendered once again without any loss. We can say a line is saved as start point, end point and its width. Vector programs (like Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW) save their files as a set of rules. After resizing it's not a pixel anymore - it's a square with visible, hard edges. This set can't be changed without any loss in quality - when you resize a raster picture, every dot becomes bigger too. It means the picture is saved as a constant set of pixels. ![]() Photoshop (and Gimp, Paint.NET, PaintTool SAI, Microsoft Paint) are raster editors. Let's start with most obvious difference. And while Photoshop (and every other raster drawing software) favors tablet users, Illustrator doesn't mind creating with a mouse. On the other hand, there exists another product of the same company - Illustrator. Drawing with a mouse is possible, but it's hard, time consuming and very frustrating. This software, although so popular and powerful, is designed to work with a graphic tablet. All these advantages are the reason why so many artists try their hands at Adobe Photoshop. You get so many colors, so many materials, every mistake can be fixed easily and it's all in a friendly, clean environment - you just need to turn off your computer afterwards. Creating digitally gives amazing possibilities.
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