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video is long overdue what's the difference between Photoshop and
illustrator for t-shirt design the answer is coming right up what's up guys
Gary Ajene here t-shirt helpdesk and I have received so many comments over the years
about number one like what program am I using
and I'm like obvious illustrator Photoshop but I realized that a lot of
you guys you know you don't quite know you're new and there are a lot of
options out here now me I rock with Photoshop and illustrator I've been
doing it for years and if it ain't broke don't fix it okay
Photoshop and illustrator are the industry standard all right and I'm not
messing with it you're going to rock rock with the best that's my personal
opinion so that's the only people that I endorse and the only people that I
really designed and I use when I do my videos so that any further ado I am
going to show you the difference in case you're confused you don't know which one
you use depends on your design style on what you're trying to do the difference
between Photoshop and illustrator and which one may be best for you alright
wanna hear it go alright guys the difference between Photoshop and
illustrator we're going to start with Photoshop this is Photoshop okay and I'm
a really great tutorial in which I teach Photoshop the link is in the description
and I go over this in detail in the tutorial but I'm just going to go over
this briefly here if you go in and you pull in close alright let's go and it's
already starting to change and you go any pulling close to this guy
right in a photoshop or a raster or pixel based program you're gonna see all
these little dots you see how we went from something that looks like a
person's face all the way into these little dots all right these are gone
these are called pixels okay Photoshop is based upon pixels all right
they're little squares of color that come together so you darkest darks right
here dark and a little bit lighter and light for a highlight and all these
little boxes come together to actually make up photographs okay all right it's
a digital representation of real-life things and and made by little dots which
are called pixels let's go into this guy okay
you see the same thing here right it's just little guy so all these little
subtle nuances of shade okay when you go into his beard it's like really dark
right here and then highlight it right here all right in order to get that and
make it look realistic you need the little pixels okay and the thing about
it is that the smaller or the amount of pixels that you have the more detail you
can have for instance every square inch right here has a number of pixels and
depending on how many of these dots are in a square inch okay
gives you the better detail that's why you always hear something about dpi dots
per inch that's what that means okay so Photoshop is based upon little dots and
those little dots help you make photographs okay hope that makes sense
let's go over to illustrator okay now this right here is a logo may in
Illustrator okay this just to let you guys know plug this is my new channel
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breaking t-shirt helpdesk up but we're going to go in close all right what's
going closed right over here you're gonna see that there are no dots
okay there's no dots here baby what this what
this is this is vector the other one of pixels and this are vectors okay so in
order to make these shapes okay you have these dots and these anchor points okay
and you can play and manipulate them it's really a mathematical equation okay
and this gives you the ability to play and manipulate shapes almost like you're
drawing okay and as a matter of fact with certain tools you can actually draw
in Illustrator all right now I go over that in detail in my illustrator course
I'm a Photoshop course as well okay so this my friends gives you the ability to
go in and just work your magic all right and play with any and all of these
shapes change them around make them bigger smaller go up you can do all this
stuff and how you actually do this I go over in detail in the tutorial but you
can also play with and change each individual color
alright so illustrator is really very much like drawing you can play with
these shapes okay math Mele mathematical equation known as
a vector okay so that pretty much is the basic difference alright and if you do a
lot of drawing if you do a lot of spot prints and things of that nature and
text definitely text then illustrator is for you because you can take any type
of text let's just say you type this out
okay that's basic text okay but then let's just say we change this to that
right there okay you can take this and create outlines on it and make it a
shape okay and now you can just like before you can have all types of fun
let's go in closer and play okay you can change the shapes to make them exactly
how you want and of course change the color and all this stuff now this is
nothing I want to show you no matter how close you get in okay this will always
maintain its sharpness okay always because this vector you can take
this and you can blow up on the size of the Empire State Building and it will be
just as sharp so whereas in Photoshop okay with something like this you really
have to go in and make a really high DPI in order to make to blow it up like
something like this let's say say you had like 100 dots per inch that would
look good or fifty dots per inch 50 hundred that would look good or like a
cell phone or something like that but if you wanted to put it in like a movie
screen or put it up on a billboard it's going to look terrible it's gonna look
just like this alright so that's one of the advantages to illustrator but it's
still you can still get to be sharp you just have to use more dots per inch
there are totally different technologies guys so I want wanted you to see that
now just to let you guys know depending on what type of t-shirts you're going to
use it really can make the difference in which program you should get so I'm
going to go through and show you some different types of t-shirts and
different styles and show you which one and which program lends itself to so it
can help you depending on what type of t-shirts you want to do it could help
you make your decision all right so I'm gonna go in and show that right about
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okay guys so now let's get into some styles okay some simple styles alright
let's get rid of this okay so we have some Photoshop styles and we have some
illustrator styles okay so right here now don't go by the blank just look at
this artwork this is one color it's just a drawing of this tiger lions I think
knives and some words this is perfect for illustrator okay here you have boxes
it's just it's just boxes and some tight okay you have some looks like some Asian
or Japanese tight some letters and some Old English letters okay now this right
here which is like a shape from Japanese letters a circle some more Japanese
letters and some English I mean really simple spot prints this is nothing but
white and red okay and yeah something like this a few more colors but this is
kind of like a comic book looking thing but if you look at it's just red black
yellow blue and white you know very very simple very very simple this could be
done in Illustrator very simply okay look at this one right here okay really
cool t-shirt but if we're gonna we're gonna go in
a little bit and if you look at this you're gonna see that it's just like
it's white gray yellow and that light yellow in the black outline and that's
it for everything and you got red the pink or the light red and this one is
like a tan or brown and a darker tan or a lighter tan rather it's you can see
that it's really simple there's not a lot of grading there's not a lot of
going back and forth of this little pixels that you would need to go from
light to dark it's very spot on spot color these can be done with a screen
printing machine they're very easy okay look at this one
okay with the mouse mouse okay this is pretty much I mean you have pink
white black outline and a little bit of great and I said I mean I mean can you
see that this is really graphic big bold graphic and it's not really clear to
graphic all right so if you look through these you can see as I look at this when
I show you this before this when it is a playoff of Gucci Mane's tattoo
you know it's black red blue pink yellow and that tan and you see there's not any
it's just a flat color these are all flat color no gradation these are all
perfect for illustrator all right this one too you know all just spot flat
colors okay and you see this one these are spot flat colors you see this black
white yellow skin a little bit of gray right here and it's done okay so let's
go over here so some of these photoshop to use this is believe Cassie and you
can see that this is a real live actual photo photo photo shot you get it and
you can see there's a lot of like gradation of going in to get the cash to
the skin tones to make although this is you know black and white with a little
bit of blue there's a lot of gradation going on
okay from darks and lights to get those highlights to make it look realistic you
know I'm saying like that other stuff is that does not look real that looks like
a cartoon this right here is a photograph you got the lion okay this is
perfect and you got the gradation the blue going all the way up
perfect for Photoshop this is another photograph
Estevan Oriol photograph okay this you know perfect for photo shot okay look at
this pink dolphin shirt let's blow this one up okay you can see that if you go
in closer you can see that it's a pink dolphin you can see it's got like light
Pink's dark Pink's there's kind of a light pink to a white highlight all this
color all these little color this is Photoshop this is perfect for Photoshop
photographic grading I hope this is making sense so if you want to do
t-shirts that look like this learn illustrators you want to do t-shirts to
look like this or use Photoshop I'm say or use photos learn Photoshop the best
thing is to is to have them both like me I know them both very well and I teach
them and you can get my courses ghosts go to the link below in the description
box get my illustrator courses I teach you how I mean I teach you from the
Rooter to the tooter but let's go back here look at this one okay you see if we
go in closer man like this one is like it's got like the Super Bowl trophies
got like some women with the little buoys out or whatever it's got money
it's got roses diamonds I mean there's a lot going on right here it all looks
photographic there's a lot of great see the orange for the yellows skin tones
roses this my friends is probably one 99.9% sure was done in Photoshop
anything that looks photorealistic alright or with a lot of even if it's
art if it has a lot of gradation okay gradients going from likes to dark a
whole you know like this is going from dark on
our dark orange to yellow orange lose to this white down here that's Photoshop
guys alright so I hope this is making sense to you guys I hope this is making
look at that this one is black and white again and you can see it's like you know
it's like it's like an astronaut's helmet but this is the ground color but
the girls all the way up and it's a whole lot of grain it looks like a
real-life photograph Photoshop guys Photoshop Illustrator okay now you can
now don't just think that you can just do simple stuff in Illustrator you can
do some really great complicated more complicated stuff too like this with all
the little paint splatters stuff all I could be done in Illustrator okay
something something like hold on something like this with this gradation
okay you can actually grade eight and I should teach you how you can do this
simple radiation in Photoshop okay let's go something like this
alright this spaceman thing okay this can actually be I'm sorry man I'm sorry
this one right here could be done in Illustrator this this gradation can be
done in Illustrator okay this right here okay you can do this in Illustrator okay
it's a little bit is not as much gradations a little bit more it's kind
of spot color you can do more complicated stuff it's just that
Photoshop lends itself to gradation and going from light colors to dark colors
and all that stuff so I hope this makes sense you know stuff like this perfect
for illustrator okay simple you know stuff that looks like it was drawn you
know spot colors and stuff that has a lot of gradients and gradations like
this it lends itself to photoshop okay
man I once again I teach all of this stuff from the river to the to the
Photoshop and illustrator basic and advanced okay so that is it and I will
see you guys on the other side I hope I kind of explain this and I hope it makes
sense all right until next time ladies and
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