Pen Tool

Geometric/ Straight lines

This is an example of the pen tool. If you click the screen a point will be made and as you drag the mouse a line will follow. When you click next it will leave point that the previous point leads to creating a line.If you continue to do this and connect the points you will get a geometric shape. You use the pen tool.

Organic/ Curved lines

This is an curved line picture. To make the curve in the line you hold down the bottom after you have clicked down an as you move a curve you can control will be formed. You can end your curve by letting up on the clicker. It is possible to connect the curved lines. You use the pen tool.

Special Lines

This is made the same as a regular line. The difference is once you have your line you start to use the stroke palette. This allows you to customize your line. For this line I change thinned of my line into an arrow head.

Special Curves

This is the same as a curved line but you use the stroke palette. You are able to customize your line how you want.

Stroke Palette

This is an example of some of the things you can do with stroke palette. You can make dashes in your lines,choose if you want something on the front or the back. You uneven make your lines thiner or thicker.

Pen Tools

Pen Tool

This includes the regular pen tool which can draw straight or curved lines. 

Add Anchor Point Tool

This is the pen tool with a plus next to it. it lets add a point on the line you already have to make it more secure.

Delete Anchor Point Tool

Gets rid of an anchor you have already on your line. Can change the shape of you objects.

Anchor Point Tool

Lets you move the anchor points you have and change the shape of the line or curve of your shape.

Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

Shapes

This is an image with some of the shapes possible in adobe illustrator. 

Rectangle 

The first one I'll point out is the green rectangle I made. To make it you click on the rectangle tool and click-and-drag the size and shape you want to get your rectangle. 

Square

Next is the yellow square you can get from holding the shift button while you click-and-drag to get perfect square.

Rounded Rectangle

For the red, rounded rectangle you just need to go to the rounded rectangle tool and click-and-drag for your shape. 

Elliptical

For my pink elliptical you go to the elliptical tool and click-and-drag. 

Circle

The light blue circle you get from holding the shift button when using the elliptical tool. 

Pentagon

The black pentagon you get from using the polygon tools click-and-drag. 

Triangle

The black triangle you get from clicking the screen once to bring up the options an then proceed to change the number of sides. When you use the polygon tool next it will have the number of sides you set it to.

Star

My blue star you'd get from the star tools click-and-drag. 

6-point star

My 6-point white star was made from clicking the screen to have the options coming up. You change the number of points the star will have to get a new star.

Flare 

The flare tool is the odd looking shape at the bottom of my image. To get this you go to the flare tool and choose the center yo want and then direction the flare is going into complete it

Clone Tool

I have eyes on you 

Cloned Image

This is a cloned image. You can make them selecting the clone tool. You have to hold options then click to select were you want to start cloning from Then next click will let you clone for there and the selected area changes the longer you hold the click while moving. It is also possible to clone a cloned part of the picture If you reselect them options click.

Liquify Filter

Liquify Picture

This is the liquify image I made. The image has a lot of weird spot but that is on purpose. The liquify option allows you to twist an image. To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Liquify", once there you choose the tool you want and make the change to the image till you like it and click "ok". It will bring you back to photoshop with your changed image.

Forward Warp Tool

 Forward Warp Tool

 The forward tool allows you to select an area and smug it. It stretches it out and the things surrounding it.

Reconstruct Tool

Pucker Tool

Bloat Tool

Reconstruct Tool 

The reconstruct tool fixes the selected parts of the image back to the original. Helps if you make any mistakes.

Pucker Tool

The pucker tool sucks the selected space into one point. It can make things seem smaller.

Bloat Tool

The bloat tool blows up the image and makes it bigger. Good for changing the size of things.

Hand Tool

Hand Tool

The hand tool lets you grab and drag across the image. It helps get around easier.

GIF Colors and Quality

C6

C6

This is a 6-color image. It may be to tell but there are part of the image that are to in the best of quality. To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Filter Gallery", once there you choose the filter you want and make the proper adjustments till you like it and click "ok". Once back in photoshop go to file and find "save for web". It will then bring up a screen that shows a lot of options and the file you try to save it as determined what you are able to change. Gif allows you to choose the number of colors that will remain in the image.

C200

C200

This is a 200-color image. It may be to tell but there is not all the colors there could be in the image. To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Filter Gallery", once there you choose the filter you want and make the proper adjustments till you like it and click "ok". Once back in photoshop go to file and find "save for web". It will then bring up a screen that shows a lot of options and the file you try to save it as determined what you are able to change. Gif allows you to choose the number of colors that will remain in the image. This one isn't missing many colors so it may not have any notable difference for the original.

JPG Compression and File Size

Q0 Picture 

Q0

This is the quality zero picture. You can tell by looking at it that the picture is blurry and distorted. The file size is very small but the quality is to poor for it to have many uses. To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Filter Gallery", once there you choose the filter you want and make the proper adjustments till you like it and click "ok". Once back in photoshop go to file and find "save for web". It will then bring up a screen that shows a lot of options and the file you try to save it as determined what you are able to change. J-peg allows for quality control and this is it at 0-quality.

Q60 Picture

Q60

This is the quality 60 picture. This picture is the default setting for the file format. If you were to save it normally it would end up like this. To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Filter Gallery", once there you choose the filter you want and make the proper adjustments till you like it and click "ok". Once back in photoshop go to file and find "save for web". It will then bring up a screen that shows a lot of options and the file you try to save it as determined what you are able to change. J-peg allows for quality control and this is it at 60-quality. It is the recommended choice of quality control.

Q100

Q0 Picture

This is the quality 100 picture. There are no apparent change between this and Q60. The main difference would be the file size being much greater To do this you open your file and select filter at the top. In the list click on "Filter Gallery", once there you choose the filter you want and make the proper adjustments till you like it and click "ok". Once back in photoshop go to file and find "save for web". It will then bring up a screen that shows a lot of options and the file you try to save it as determined what you are able to change. J-peg allows for quality control and this is it at 100-quality. It should only be used for large pictures and ones you want with the greatest quality.

Composite Picture

Description

This is the image I created by mixing 6 different images together. I have the picture frame on it's side and blown up to fit. I got rid of the sheep but left the gas and put it on the left side of my picture. The goldfish lose it's white background and eye and is placed inside the sheep picture. The pyramids lost the sky and gained the stars above. The thumbtack was put on top of the pyramids to hold it in place.

Story Time

This is the story of a goldfish that disguised itself as a sheep. It was then abducted by aliens in star-shaped ships and brought to Egypt. There he learned of the super weapon that there building and that the aliens were actual super wolves. Using his goldfish abilities he fought the wolves to stop their weapon. He was victorious. No one knew that he was a goldfish and this is why wolves hate sheep.