Over the past week or two, I have really gotten back into designing vectors. What is a vector? In this instance, it is a drawing done on the computer using a graphics program. If you have ever used the old-school Paint program that comes on any computer or even a photo-editing program, if you zoom in, you will notice that the image is made up of clunky boxes. The more you zoom in, the more unrecognizable the image is. A vector is different. Vectors are made of points connected by lines and are completely sizable without looking like blurry. They are kindof awesome.
There are many computer programs you can use to create vectors but the only one I use is Adobe Illustrator. Luckily, I have gotten some deals on the program over the years, because it is very expensive. Illustrator often comes in a package of other Adobe programs collectively called a "Creative Suite". This package usually contains Photoshop (photo editing) and InDesign (page layout) and sometimes Dreamweaver (web design), Flash (animations), Fireworks (web graphics), and others. The first version I got was CS2 and I got a deal because CS3 was just coming out. Now I use CS5. CS6 is the current version, but I have no desire to get that right now.
Making vectors is a lot of fun. You can make anything you want. I like to draw cute animals, flowers, trees, people, and whatever else appeals to me that day. My husband bought me a Wacom graphics tablet (pen tool) for Christmas last year and it has really improved the look of my drawings. Highly recommend, but again, they are hundreds of dollars. I probably not have one if it had not been a gift.
I recently created a vector of a pink sunflower that will be used for my logo. I am pretty happy with it and created a header for this blog with that sunflower. That header will also be used on my Etsy store when I get that up and running.
I plan on creating a few tutorials on how to create flowers in Adobe Illustrator and headers in Photoshop in the near future. Be on the lookout!
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