Illustrator: Live Trace, Live Paint, Simplify, Smooth Brushes and Pathfinder

Graphic Symbolism Demos Week 4 and 5
 
Demos for Graphic Symbolism for Line Assignment. Use the Live Trace, Live Paint, Simplify Path and Smooth Tools as well as Pathfinder

Simplify and Smooth http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WSCB13EA3D-2DAE-4a05-BB60-0FCA9907DDA9a.html
Simplify http://www.fanhow.com/knowhow:Simplify_path_in_Illustrator_30836197

Live Trace, be sure to click Ignore White http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/illustrator-tutorial-perfect-silhouette-with-live-trace-tutorial/
http://www.graphic-design-employment.com/live-trace.html
live paint http://www.duoh.com/varia/illustrator_livepaint/page6.html
Live Paint http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Illustrator

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54035973/46/Live-Paint-groups

Using the various Pathfinder options http://school.tatoland.com/illustrator/aipath.html/6227/Color.with.Live.Paint.Illustrator.Tutorial.aspx

Pathfinder Practical Uses and Tutorials http://www.techassistnow.com/2010/05/using-the-illustrator-pathfinder-tool.html
http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/pathfinder-explained

Pathfinder Starshttp://www.illustratortips.com/index.php/Instruction/Intermediate-Tips/how-to-use-the-illustrator-pathfinder-palette.htmlCreating a logohttp://www.muymono.com/tutorials/illustrator/creating-a-logo-in-adobe-illustrator-cs3-part-1-using-the-pathfinder/

Brushes
To add custom brushes that you have downloaded from the internet
  Choose Window > Brushes Libraries > Other Library and select the ai file for the brush you downloaded

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HDR Photography Technique

HDR is a powerful tool for creating an image from several exposures. It is used when you are shooting a subject that makes it impossible to capture shadow and highlight details all in one exposure. It is best used if you shoot on a tripod. It should be used to enhance and illustrate. Be sure your images don't have halos. It can create surrealist effects but be careful...do you want to be a one trick pony?

HDR Tutorial

Comprehensive CS5 HDR Tutorial, includes shooting instructions

For great tutorials about digital photography check out two of my favorite resources:
Photo.net
Digital Photography School

Coding Web Sites and HTML5 Tools

Check out these great online tools and sites for learning or working with code:

Adobe Labs  labs.adobe.com
Aptana, an open open sourse web-development IDE aptana.com/
Jet Brains, tons of tools here www.jetbrains.com
W3 Schools w3schools.com
Codecademy codecademy.com
Google Code University code.google.com/edu
Learn Basic HTML App itunes.apple.com

Cool Tutorial Sites for Adobe Software

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.adobetutorialz.com/