creating presentations in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are powerful when used together. ID concept presentations can’t be easily assembled using only a modest range of features in these applications. Similar techniques are possible on other software such as CorelDraw. This is the third and final screencast on using Adobe software to create presentation boards. This one walks through the creation of a set of four A3 presentation boards consisting of white paper and Canson sketches. It isn’t exactly the what we’re asking you to do for Assignment 2 Camera Vis because it features three pages of concepts instead of two and it lacks the Rhino 3D renders but I hope you get the idea. The technique of switching back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop is useful and powerful. You might not need to do this in CorelDraw because of its integrated masking/deep etching tool. In fact the only reason I didn’t use CorelDraw for this tutorial is because all of my hardware and screen recording software is Macintosh-based. You can do all of this stuff in CorelDraw and Photoshop. Incidentally this is shorter than “Quick concept layouts in Adobe Illustrator” (23 ½ mins) so I hope that helps. It’s speeded up 300% for the most part and covers in 13 ½ mins what took me about two hours to produce. The two screencasts are intended to show two different approaches to assembling presentation boards—the first using simple masking and the second using more involved raster image work. Use the techniques that suit the needs of your current work.