Some BMW DTM Love

"philipilihp" (philiphilip) 08/30/2013 at 13:01 • Filed to: BMW, DTM, Background

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BG I made during lunch time at work. Great way to learn photoshop!

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > philipilihp 08/30/2013 at 13:21

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Have you played around with Illustrator at all? Photoshop is great for raster images and basic graphics, but Illustrator provides far better/easier results when drawing up something like that background. I did a lot of drawing of "vector" images in Photoshop for a long time simply because I was far more familiar with it, but Illustrator was a revelation.

philipilihp > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 08/30/2013 at 13:23

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Yeah I need to learn Illustrator. Like you said, my familiarity lies with photoshop but the pen tool is a bit of a pain in the ass and people have told me before that Illustrator is the way to go.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > philipilihp 08/30/2013 at 13:26

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That's pretty much my experience as well. I was just so comfortable with photoshop that I was unwilling to change; there's a slight learning curve (or un-learning of photoshop curve), but it's similar in many respects and I think the quality of what I was doing quickly suprassed what I could accomplish in photoshop. It's been a while since I've used either program, now, but I've been thinking recently about snagging a copy of Illustrator to start dabbling again.

Dig the BG, btw.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > philipilihp 08/30/2013 at 15:24

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In Photoshop, you're pushing pixels. In Illustrator, it's all lines, curves and fancy maths, which means you can blow it up building-size and everything will stay crisp. For the style above, Illustrator is definitely what you want. Much more versatile end product. Vector graphics to pixels, easy. Pixels to vector, not so much...

philipilihp > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/30/2013 at 15:32

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Thanks for the advice! Maybe I'll redo it in Illustrator and see how it goes!