Adobe Illustrator help?

anyone familliar with illustrator? im pretty sure most of you are...

well i just got illustrator and ive been playing with it for about 35 min and ive given up...

basically all i want to do with illus. is i want to make some very CLEAN looking silloets.

ok i know you use the pen tool but how? i never touch the pen tool in ps either.

and how do you save it as a clean gif...when i try exporting it to gif the lines are way too jaggy

any tutorials? i kinda need to know how asap..

thanks alot

(I also have macromedia freehand)

Is all about Using the Pen tool.. why wouldnt u use the pen tool in PS either?. are u a hobbyist?

if so i suggest learning the pen tool if you want to able to market your skills at all...

also theres Adobe Streamline which will do it for you.. and Illustrator has an auto trace tool as well. is not that good. but will do its best.

While moving this thread I accidentally hit "open/close" and it closed the thread.... thing is.... NOW it wont open it back UP!

I hit Open/Close thread and it says "successfully closed"......... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That's because you have been DRINKING again!

i can reply into it

How'd you guess?