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Which are they: photo or illustration?

Which are they: photo or illustration?
A practical application of Adobe Illustrator to create photo-realistic images
Go ahead look closely, you’ve got a 50/50 chance. OK, sure it’s easy to copy a photo and illustrate it in Photoshop, but what’s the point? Wouldn’t you use a photo if you had a choice?

Here’s the problem: After the photos were taken it was decided that the client wanted large posters of these Johnson’s Baby Product bottles. Solution: These illustrations weren’t created in Photoshop—they were done in Illustrator! The results: They look photographic, but you can enlarge them to fit on the side of a barn if you want to. It’s care for detail and using gradients, masks, feathered edges, and internal glow effects that make this work.

Go ahead, look at the close-up of the shampoo bottle. Yes, it’s done in Illustrator!
Which are they: photo or illustration?
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Which are they: photo or illustration?

Using Adobe Illustrator, photo-realistic illustrations were made to copy photos so that image could be used in very large format reproduction.

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