In this session of process and production with Stephen, we first had a look at creative cloud and how it works. As I have creative cloud myself, I already knew most of the things that was pointed out. Things such as the use or creative cloud storage for saving work, and being able to continue this on another computer if signed into creative cloud on that. Also being able to save custom colour swatches for a project. However, I had never familiarised myself with the addition of Adobe Typekit, which is used for downloading new fonts to the creative suite. This is a very easy way to get hold of new typefaces quickly, and they sync to the creative cloud, therefore can be used on any computer once again. I was impressed by this and defiantly think I will be using it in the future.
These images to the left are on adobe capture. This allows you to create brushes, shapes and colour swatches from taking a picture of something and selecting the colours that you like.
There are different varieties of brushes that you can select after taking the picture of choice in order to create the brushes.
After looking at the creative cloud. we then looked at the tool of image trace on Adobe Illustrator, and played around with the different ones that could be used. For example; low fidelity, high fidelity, 3 colour and 6 colour. We experimented with these on an image taken from the internet as shown below.
After adding the image trace of choice, we went about adding some type. I downloaded a typeface from Typekit for this task (Brush Script Std Medium).
This is the final image trace. Looking back, I believe that a different photo may have created a better result, as the sky on my image trace is to simple for my liking. I should have picked an image with a cloudy sky in order to create a more interesting look.
