Hello all
I have been a CorelDraw user for over 10 years now. I recently tried Illustrator CS4 and wonder how I can get the same drawing Capability out of Corel.
To be more precise.
In CorelDraw, I have never truly been able to draw the way I have wanted to. I can never get the Freehand Smoothing, Corner Threshold, or Straight line Threshold setting right. For example, I try to draw flames... and instead of pointy ends, I sometimes get curves which need adjusting, or I get multiple nodes which need deleting, or I get exactly what I want. I have gotten used to this of course... but then I tried Illustrator CS4
First thing I do i n Illustrator is draw some flames... a good task with curves and points. Right off the bat I was able to draw the object with fairly precises corners and curves with considerably less adjustments. Without adjustment, each flame tounge was pointy...
My question would be specifically, what are the best settings for CorelDraw drawing tools? Or... curse my fingers for typing this... does Illustrator have even better features that I might be missing out on??
Thanks for your time
Chris
Honestly, I think this IS the area that Illustrator is superior, at least from people who actually illustrate. I don't know it from personal experience because I am not an original art creator...more of an assembler. But my graphic artist who was as mystified as I was as to why people would settle for the limitiations of Illustrator. But then he took a class and became much more proficient. Then he said that for drawing it was really cool. There are some people on this forum who illustrate with Draw and maybe they have some settings that will help you. Now when it comes to brochures, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, forms etc. give me CGS anyday. But for creating certain elements and logos, Illustrator seems to be superior.
Hey TwoDay tishirts
Thanks for replying!
Is there a specially forum to go to for illustrotors where I can get specifica CorelDraw input?
I draw flames with the bezier tool all the time and one trick that helped me is holding down "c" while dragging a curve which will let you create a corner in mid line...so you can drag nice smooth lines up the side of the flame and click your corner/tip point and hold to drag the curve to where you want it, then press and hold "c" to create a corner and drag the 2nd half of the bezier handle to where you want it and then you can continue without having to come back and adjust...