Comments on: Fun Film Design Using Illustrator

By: Jayski

Jayski — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:23:31 +0000

Great tuto but Laurie saved the day for sure, couldn’t get it to work before picking the right surface.
Anyone else have trouble with the power used for this, I have a pretty big new computer, but she does not like this.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:45:15 +0000

Awesome. I just looked this up to fix an error.

By: Joseph Gardner

Joseph Gardner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:46:55 +0000

i loved it and it worked perfectly. As far as greg above, he may need to learn to read a tutorial too. Look at link check and surface area and it will work exactly as shown. Fantastic job!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:41:15 +0000

Would be nice if it worked, but it’s nowhere’s near useable. I used to teach Illustrator back in the day, and you have to learn how to WRITE a tutorial, there’s obviously about 50 missing pieces of info, otherwise it’d work perfectly.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:00:16 +0000

Hi everyone,
I am hoping you can help me.. I tend to make things more difficult then what it actually is and don’t see the simpliar things sometimes. I am new to illustrator and was wondering about what the size of document should be when you first open it up? I know how to set the size of the rectangle for the filmstrip but unsure of what the right size is for the new document should be all together.. Should I just set it the same size as the filmstrip? Like I said I am making it more difficult I am sure but would like to know what you guys have set yours too. I obviously can’t use the tool unless I have a new document open. Thanks again

By: tasost_greece

tasost_greece — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:00:26 +0000

thank you soooooooooooooooooo much!!!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:01:26 +0000

Attention!!!

all the people having problems with the film strip not filling up the path as a whole image, make sure your path has a “BLACK STROKE” NOT a “BLACK FILL” actually it dosent make any difference what color you use. And with the linking error, you cant have the clipping masks in your layer when you try and make it a symbol, what i did is export the illustrator layer to photoshop and used the clipping mask as a selection and did a reverse seletion and deleted the area around my pictures then took the pictures back into illustrator and layed them over my “clipping masked” pictures and once my photoshop edited pictures were alignded i delelted the clipping mask and my old pictures. Hope all that makes sense

By: r

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:47:43 +0000

you should have the source files.. it is a good tutorial, but what would help if we have the files so we dont have to do the work.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:11:26 +0000

After Step 7 not able to create a Symbol as mentioned in Step 8, it shows an error as “A Symbol definition cannot contain a linked image”

By: ismail rv dubai

ismail rv dubai — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:10:50 +0000

thanks boss very very super…….

By: Dinhi

Dinhi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:47:11 +0000

Another hint I discovered that may help the newbee (like myself) with this tutorial:

double click on the pen or pencil tool, which ever you are using, set the Fidelity to 20
and smoothness to 100%

What I have discovered is the least amount of anchor points contributes to the best image, and you can draw your shape with much more curves and no distortion to the symbol image you apply.

ah…learning…love it!

By: Dinhi

Dinhi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:52:58 +0000

Ok—Having tried to replicate the film strip after a successful go of it, I began using the paint tool vs. the pencil took which worked the first time. I have since repeated the task with the pencil tool and there are no torn film strips in the finished product.
Not that familiar with this program, can anyone explain why that may have happened with the paint tool?
Thanks!