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Christopher Gutiérrez
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2018
Hi! I'm Christopher Gutiérrez, a scientist & artist straight outta South Central Los Angeles. I'm an assistant professor in the UCLA Dept of Physics & Astronomy where I use various low-temperature quantum microscopes to study the interesting behavior of electrons at the atomic scale. Here, I post tutorial videos on how to use various software programs to make scientific figures and scientific artwork.
Creating Cartoon 3D Atoms on Adobe Illustrator
A very brief video on how to quickly create nice cartoon-like 3D atoms using Adobe Illustrator and how to easily edit and re-use them in the future.
The inspiration for this video came from this Nature Materials News & Views article by Miao, H. & Halász, G.B. "Structural tweaking of 2D quantum magnetism," Nat. Mater. (2022). (Link: rdcu.be/c1LGi)
Based on original research from folks from the Wake Forest Univ, Univ of Michigan, and Univ of Waterloo: Yang, B., Goh, Y.M., Sung, S.H. et al. "Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3," Nat. Mater. (2022).(Link: rdcu.be/c1LGw)
The inspiration for this video came from this Nature Materials News & Views article by Miao, H. & Halász, G.B. "Structural tweaking of 2D quantum magnetism," Nat. Mater. (2022). (Link: rdcu.be/c1LGi)
Based on original research from folks from the Wake Forest Univ, Univ of Michigan, and Univ of Waterloo: Yang, B., Goh, Y.M., Sung, S.H. et al. "Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3," Nat. Mater. (2022).(Link: rdcu.be/c1LGw)
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Making Scientific Figures w/ Illustrator - Part 1: Introduction & Basic Tools
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*Edit 19 July 2021: To help me improve the series, please take this survey! forms.gle/ga6BVJwssJ94NNSm9 Intended for absolute beginners, in this video I give an introduction Adobe Illustrator for making scientific figures. I cover: -Setting up & customizing your workspace 0:00 -Using the pen (p) tool for 1D lines, anchor point tool (shift c) for curves 2:45 -How to use the selection tool (v) fo...
Making Scientific Figures w/ Illustrator - Part 2: Creating & Editing Shapes
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Intended for beginners & casual users, in this video I show how to create & edit various shapes. I cover: -The rectangle tool (m) and ellipse tool (L) 0:00 -How to align & equally distribute multiple objects 5:40 -The polygon tool and making complex shapes & paths with pathfinder 7:20 -Grouping (Cmd g) and isolating objects 10:30 -Blend tool (w) for making linearly interpolated shapes 11:50 -Ex...
Making Scientific Figures w/ Illustrator - Part 3: Fills, Patterns, Atomic Lattices
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Intended for casual & moderate users, in this video I show how to create & edit various shapes. I cover: -Setting the opacity & behavior of fills/strokes in Appearance panel 0:00 -The gradient tool (g) & saving gradients 3:26 -Creating patterns, rectangular atomic lattice 6:10 -Scaling & rotating pattern fills 8:48 -Creating patterns, graphene lattice 10:45 -Using outline mode (cmd y) for preci...
Making Scientific Figures w/ Illustrator - Part 4: Creating special effects
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Intended for casual & moderate users, in this video I show how to create several special effects from the Effects panel and how AI treats appearances. I cover: -Zigzag distort for sine waveforms & turn effects on/off in Appearance panel 0:00 -Transform effect for multiple transformations (move, scale) 3:45 -Transform (rotate) to duplicate an object about a fixed radius 6:06 -3D effects, extrude...
Making Scientific Figures w/ Illustrator - Part 5: Workflow, Journal Templates
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Intended for all users, in this video I go through my workflow for creating a figure for publication using a journal template. I cover: -Using and saving journal templates (example: Nature family of journals) 0:00 -Document Settings & document color mode 3:45 -Using layers for organizing a figure 4:22 -Using artboards (shift o), duplicating artboards 5:14 -Live demo of 1-column figure, 7:39 -Im...
Making Scientific Figures with Illustrator & Blender: Motivation & Intro for the workshops
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*Edit 19 July 2021: To help me improve the series, please take this survey! forms.gle/ga6BVJwssJ94NNSm9 I've been an artist since I could hold a pencil, long before I studied Mathematics & Physics. As a scientist, those art skills have benefitted me greatly in being able to present & promote my scientific work to the masses. The goal of these workshops is to teach scientists some basic skills i...
Okay subtle flex with your publications
You are a lifesaver!!!! I'm writing up my dissertation right now and the figures in my intro were *terrible*. Thank you!!!
@@laurelregibeau6285 That’s great to hear! Please share when you’re finished. And future congrats, Doctor!
Hi! Can you please tell me, how to put a 3D design on the top of another 3D block on illustrator?
Thank you for your video. Very helpful!!
I love your videos on how to use illustrator ❤
love your video!please keep posting!
Excellent explanation of new nature style design 😎😎👌👌
This video was absolutely sublime, thank you so much for the tutorials/tips! This is going to help my PhD publishing immensely!
Thank you
The Blender part ?????????
Really helpful demonstration, I've watched the full series, and these days I'm planning to write my 1st manuscript for Nature..to understand the terms and tricks your videos are really helpful, but I'm wondering you have only 7 videos..please Prof. do you have any other channel? If convenient, please upload more videos like this....looking forward to more from you...Thank you for your nice work.
These videos are just so useful. Thank you!
Chris, we need the Blender part
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎨 *Introduction to Adobe Illustrator Basics* - Overview of Adobe Illustrator CC for creating scientific figures. - Setting up a new document, customization of workspace, and viewing tools. - Exploring the artboard, default workspace, custom workspace setup, and accessing panels. 02:52 ✏️ *Using the Pen Tool and Object Attributes* - Using the Pen tool to create shapes and objects. - Manipulating object attributes like fills, strokes, and object closure. - Understanding open and closed objects, changing stroke and fill colors. 05:14 🖱️ *Selection Tools & Object Manipulation* - Introduction to selection tools: Selection Tool (V) and Direct Select Tool (A). - Exploring object manipulation: moving, rotating, scaling, and duplicating objects. - Understanding proportional scaling, duplicating objects using shortcuts, and aligning duplicates. 09:22 📐 *Transforming Objects & Working with One-Dimensional Shapes* - Using the Direct Select Tool to adjust anchor points and curves in objects. - Utilizing the Transform panel for mathematical scaling and proportionate adjustments. - Creating and modifying one-dimensional objects, changing stroke properties, and using arrowheads. 14:09 🎨 *Using Eyedropper Tool & Manipulating Strokes* - Employing the Eyedropper tool for quick property changes in objects. - Manipulating stroke properties: dashed lines, arrowheads, and adjusting stroke properties. - Switching between stroke options for seamless lines and working with curved lines using the Anchor Point Tool. 15:20 🔄 *Converting One-Dimensional Objects into Two-Dimensional Features* - Understanding the Anchor Point Tool's usage for curving lines. - Outlining strokes to transform one-dimensional objects into two-dimensional shapes. - Differentiating between one-dimensional and two-dimensional objects, and the importance of object types in editing and filling. Made with HARPA AI
This is wonderful! If you ever get around to the Blender tutorials, I know we'd all be much obliged!
You may be interested in the Blender tutorials over at CG Figures and Ryo Mizuta graphics!
hey where do mathematics and chemistey textbook publishers make their diagrams and formulas ? including math graphs ?
The Blender part?
When I embed a graphic plot and double click on the fonts, I cannot change the font size as you could. Using Illustrator 27.4 on a MacBook Pro 2023
It depends a lot on the program used to create & export the figure. (1) The figure should be vectorized and [most important] (2) it should embed the fonts! For example, vector figures prepared with Matlab allow to change fonts post-export. If you're using Python/Matplotlib you can use settings to embed the fonts in the figure.
Video should be called "How to go from hating Illustrator to refusing to use anything but Illustrator in 17 minutes and 46 seconds." Thank you so much for this context, its incredibly helpful!
Omg this is the nicest compliment yet! So glad I could help!
Good. Thank you.
Thank you. Good job.
Outstanding video! Very helpful.
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if anyone is confused used ctrl+u to turn on the snap points
wow thanks
Chris, you are amazing :) Thank you very much :)
we are waiting for next episode
Hey great video, thanks for posting! I was wondering if you knew of a good way to make 3d atomic lattices, e.g. the same graphene sheet but where the atoms are spheres rather than circles?
Yes! What you can do is make your "fake" 3D atoms by placing a small white circle (glare) on a circle with a circular gradient (to approximate depth). I will put this on my list of quick/short videos to post. Thanks for the question!
Thank you so much for very nice tutorials. Everything well explained and easy to follow. Truly helpful. When are the blender videos coming?
Thanks! I use Visualize, an app from the App Store for OSX. An open-source alternative is KeyCastr, github.com/keycastr/keycastr.
Great video, thanks! What did you use to show your keystrokes and mouse clicks please?
Thanks! It’s a Mac OSX app called Visualize. An open-source alternative is Key Castr.
@@GutierrezArtSci Thank you!
Very very helpful and practical...👍
Dear Christopher, Massive thanks for this series of tutorials. It provides me with new ideas for visualising the scientific data. Regarding the current video of the series, I experienced a problem after placing a .eps file and embedding it. For some reason, the AI does not recognise the text and fonts. Instead, it shows the fonts as objects. Thus, I could not unify the fonts of the whole figure. I used Origin to create a .eps file. Do you have an idea what it has to do with?
Hi Andrei, thanks! Yes, this is very annoying and happens with certain exporters: A program (Origin, Matplotlib, etc) may sometimes export the text as an image. There is no fix I know of except to literally create *new* text for those objects. One thing to try is to export in another vector format like *.svg. There may be a back-end fix since what is happening is that the .eps is not embedding the font. Will post here if I find a solution!
@@GutierrezArtSci Hello Chrisotpher, It seems to work when I "copy the graph as a picture in Origin" and paste it into AI. Is it possible to control axes parameters like thickness and line style that one may apply to the whole figure? Best Regards, Andrey.
You saved my life :) Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial. This was exactly what I was looking for :)
Thank you, Christopher! I learned a lot!
Thank you, Dr. Gutierrez! Much needed and far superior to the Adobe Illustrator tutorials to just get started. How you customize your template. Could you send me yours?
very helpful
Thanks!! These tutorials are very helpful. Looking forward to more tutorials on scientific graphics.
good work. Thank you!
Succinct, clear, usable.
Thank you Christopher! Very helpful!
Thanks very much! This course is amazing! I'm very anxious for your tutorial on blender! The figures in my thesis and articles will be more beautiful!
That's the best thing to hear! Best of luck writing your thesis. I hope to have more time for Blender in the summer.
HI at around 18:37, how did you select the individual circles ? since you have grouped them together earlier
Good question! Notice that I double-click the group to change internal grouped elements. You can see in the top left corner "Layer, <Group>" that lets you know you are changing something within a group. Also, sorry about the loud static! Will need to re-record these...
Love this series. Could you share this template?
how do you get that nice focus circle and the bigger tools in Illustrator ? I don't see any choice for this in the UI or General preferences
For the tool sizes, this comes from changing the resolution of the computer screen settings. The focus circle I believe comes from the keycasting software I use to show my mouse clicks & keyboard buttons.
Thanks Christopher for your NICE tutorial! You did a great job explaining everything! One thing is that the mic sometime makes loud noises, which are pretty scary...
Oh no! I had no idea. I will take a second listen & try to fix when I get another chance. Thanks.
Very useful tutorial series. Thanks! Eagerly waiting for your tutorial on Blender.
This is extremely helpful! Looking forward to your tutorial on Blender.
Very useful - thank you for sharing these videos!
Your first paper was in Nature Physics??? 😂😂😂