Buying a tablet was only the start of the headache I honestly thought that if I just bought a decent drawing tablet, the rest would fall into place. I spent about 450,000 won on a mid-range Wacom tablet because everyone online seemed to agree it was the standard. For a couple of weeks, I just…
For anyone working in creative fields or even just trying to manage small business visuals, the question of which software to use always leads back to the same expensive dilemma. I remember when I first started taking my own product photos for a small project; I felt an immense pressure to get a subscription to…
디자인 작업을 하다 보면 해상도가 낮은 로고나 오래된 이미지를 고해상도 벡터 파일로 바꿔야 할 때가 있습니다. 흔히 ‘벡터 트레이싱’이라고 부르는 이 작업은 비트맵(JPG, PNG 등) 기반의 픽셀 정보를 수학적인 경로(Path) 데이터로 변환하는 과정입니다. 어도비 일러스트레이터의 ‘이미지 추적(Image Trace)’ 기능이 가장 대중적으로 쓰이는데, 단순히 클릭 한 번으로 끝나는 것 같아도 결과물 품질은 설정에 따라 크게 달라집니다….
When I look at wedding photos from my friends’ ceremonies, there’s a persistent feeling that something is off. We’ve all seen those ‘before-and-after’ shots where a person looks like a completely different human being—the jawline is sharper, the skin is poreless, and the background looks like it belongs in a different continent. After actually going…
Getting stuck on hardware specs I remember sitting in front of my desk for three hours last Tuesday, just staring at the task manager on my monitor. I was trying to run Capture One for a batch of high-resolution RAW files, and the whole system just crawled to a halt. I had read so many…
Getting stuck on the shape of a symbol When I first started looking into what it takes to actually launch a brand, I thought the logo or the symbol part would be the fun, creative break in the middle of all the tedious paperwork. I spent hours scrolling through different reference sites for hospital CI…
When I was preparing for my wedding, the amount of photos provided by the studio was honestly overwhelming. I initially thought I could handle the retouching myself, but between the lighting adjustments and the delicate process of body slimming—which is where many people get it wrong by overdoing it—I hit a wall. After actually going…
Getting lost in the menus again I sat down at my desk around 9 PM last Tuesday, convinced I was finally going to finish that digital illustration I’ve been putting off for weeks. You know how it is. You open Adobe Illustrator, look at the blank white canvas, and suddenly the actual drawing part feels…
The messy transition from paper to screen I really thought the process of digitizing my sketchbook would be straightforward. You draw something, you scan it, and then you just fix it up in Adobe Illustrator. But the reality is that nothing looks the same once it leaves the texture of cold-press paper. I spent way…
Approaching Adobe Illustrator for Beginners Starting with Adobe Illustrator often feels intimidating because of the sheer number of panels and tools visible on the screen. Unlike Photoshop, which is raster-based and pixel-oriented, Illustrator is vector-based. This means that every shape, line, and path you create is calculated by mathematical equations. For someone learning the basics,…