Basics of Illustrator
As its name implies, Adobe Illustrator is an illustrative tool much used by graphic designers. If you want to create some original art work, ready for incorporation into a document such as those produced by software such as PageMaker, InDesign or Microsoft Word or Project which will subsequently be printed at high-quality output, Illustrator is the tool for you.
Many users, new to computers, try to use pixel based paint programs to produce illustrations for their documents, mainly because programs like Paintbrush and Paint come free with Windows and no additional software needs to be purchased. Although pixel-based drawing programs can indeed be used to create graphics, images produced by these types of programs cannot be scaled up and still retain high quality (resolution). A magnified Paint image (a bitmap) will consist of individual 'blobs'.
Artwork produced in Illustrator does not suffer this limitation because it is a vector based drawing program and the images produced in Illustrator can be easily scaled up or down according to need.
Look through several of the basic projects for illustrator
www.graphic-design.com%252fPhotoshop%252ftutorials%252f0410_illus_strokes.html
Hearts On Fire
*Smoke Effect
*http://mrsrosephotography.weebly.com/hearts-on-fire.html
Extra Effects
*http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/text-on-fire-effect/
*http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/fire-flame-photo-manipulation/
*http://www.psdvault.com/text-effects/design-magical-fire-energy-text-effect-in-photoshop/
*http://www.psdvault.com/text-effects/create-3d-text-surrounded-flame-photoshop
*http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/dramatic-text-on-fire-effect-in-photoshop--psd-199
*Fire brushes
Clover
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