{"id":198,"date":"2008-02-01T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-02-01T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:52:00","slug":"february-1-illustrator-and-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/february-1-illustrator-and-calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"February 1 &#8212; Illustrator and Calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R6ObEBSy7EI\/AAAAAAAAATY\/SjQBfk9C18U\/s1600-h\/02_01_PhotoshopIllustrator.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R6ObEBSy7EI\/AAAAAAAAATY\/SjQBfk9C18U\/s200\/02_01_PhotoshopIllustrator.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162140091265772610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s creative endeavor involved taking what I learned about Adobe Illustrator at the awesome demo during Wednesday&#8217;s class meeting and applying it to yesterday&#8217;s camera-ready calligraphy for a wedding invitation.  I placed the Photoshop document in Illustrator and then Live Traced it to make a vector image. The first Live Trace was pretty much a bust because I didn&#8217;t change any of the preset settings.<\/p>\n<p>But I kept experimenting with the settings and got something that looks pretty good at 100% even if it looks lousy at, say, 400%. I tried using the Smooth Tool, to transform bumpy lines into smooth curves, but I must have been doing something wrong there, or had a setting wrong somewhere. I succeeded on the entrance stroke to a J, shown above left but not on the straight bit. The right figure is part of a J elsewhere on the camera-ready, untouched. You can see the difference in the smoothness of the curve &#8212; but probably only if you click on the thumbnail and look at the image full size. And, on another note, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if the thickness of that upstroke had a more gradual thinning so that there wasn&#8217;t some much thinness between the upstroke and the stem? A 400% view of lettering is way harsh, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s creative endeavor involved taking what I learned about Adobe Illustrator at the awesome demo during Wednesday&#8217;s class meeting and applying it to yesterday&#8217;s camera-ready calligraphy for a wedding invitation. I placed the Photoshop document in Illustrator and then Live Traced it to make a vector image. The first Live Trace was pretty much a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/february-1-illustrator-and-calligraphy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February 1 &#8212; Illustrator and Calligraphy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}