Will Illustrator allow me to use my artwork?

[debrab48887214]

Hi, I wish to create artwork for fabric printing to be used for different printing mediums e.g Screen printing and digital printing. Will Illustrator allow me to use my own artwork/ images I will create from block/Lino printing or drawings etc? thank you for any advise. Deb

[Simmer1]

Hi,

Am  I correct in assuming when you say "will Illustrator allow me to use my own artwork" you mean in terms of copyright?

[debrab48887214]

Hi Simmer1,  sorry my question is not clear enough, I do understand copyright of my finished work (images), but I need a computer program that I can create files of designs for fabric prints,

Will illustrator allow me to also use images that I create and copy to my computer or can I only use images that are saved in the Illustrators files.?

[Simmer1 · Accepted solution]

Hey,

Can you send me any screenshots?

I am still finding it a little difficult to understand what you want to achieve.

If you would like to open up a scanned sketch in Illustrator for example, and use it as reference  to create vector print designs then sure.

[jane-e]

debrab48887214  wrote

Will Illustrator allow me to use my own artwork/ images I will create from block/Lino printing or drawings etc?

Hi Deb,

Are you asking: if you create artwork in other applications or hand drawing, will you be able to open and use it in Illustrator?

[debrab48887214]

Hi Jane, sorry for delay. Yes that is correct. Another chap has said I can. Iwish to be able to use my own artwork/ drawings etc at times so I need to have a program that supports me with this. I could give my art work to someone and pay them to do what I need but I want to be able to have the ability to use a program and develope my surface designs myself. My biggest weakness at the moment is my lack of computer skills in this area of expertise. I am going to start this week with a free week trial on Illustrator.

[Margaret32933789ioft]

Hello All,  This question was asked several times and finally someone came up and understood what the original post was about. And still the question has gone unanswered. Can I/we use our own artwork in Illustrator?  I am a mixed media artist and would love to find a foundation to use to let my artwork come to fruition. My question is the same as the original source of the content asked.  Can I/we use our own artwork in ILLUSTRATOR? Please and thank you so very much.  

A customer.

[Monika Gause]

You can use your own artwork. But depending on what you may want to do with the type of artwork, it may technically be impossible. 

So maybe you want to explain what you want to do with your artwork and why you even think that Illustrator does not allow you to use your artwork.

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@Margaret32933789ioft  schrieb:

A customer.

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Basically 95% of people answering here are customers. You are not talking to Adobe.

[Bobby Henderson]

Are you intending to use Adobe Illustrator to create new artwork or merely be a "container" to hold scans or photo images of physical artwork that was created by hand? If the latter is the case then Photoshop (or Lightroom) would be the best tool to use for manipulating scanned images or photos.

If you're creating artwork from scratch it's important to know the differences between vector-based artwork and pixel-based artwork. Illustrator is primarily a tool for creating vector-based artwork. Vectors are great for defining objects with clean, precise edges -like letters, geometric shapes, etc. A grid of pixels is better at defining complex, organic textures. Digital photographs are all defined by a grid of pixels. It's common for people to combine elements that are pixel-based and vector-based into the same composition. That can be done in Illustrator, within InDesign or even in Photoshop. There is more than one way to get to the same end result.