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TutorialHow To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5

From Eoin McGrath
October 19th, 2012
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Care to make a cross-platform mobile game with HTML5? No need to dabble in Java or Objective-C? Bypass the app stores? Sounds like an instant win! A handful of game developers are pushing the envelope of mobile HTML5 games at the moment. Check out the likes of Nutmeg and Lunch ...

Video TutorialReviewing Adobe Illustrator’s Extensive Gradients Toolset

From Adrian Taylor
October 3rd, 2012
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While vector based artwork lets designers take advantage of small file sizes and lossless scaling it can also be limiting when trying to add depth and richness to a design. Adobe Illustrator offers a plethora of gradient tools that can help artist produce more organic and vivid pieces. This extended video ...

Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

From Christian Heilmann
December 27th, 2011
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A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic ...

Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques

From David Mottram
December 7th, 2011
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People often ask how I arrived at a finished illustration. Honestly, it’s different every time, but it always starts with a hand-drawn sketch. Sometimes, I paint it completely by hand; sometimes I’ll scan in a pencil drawing. Many of my pieces are 100% analog that I’ll show only at shops ...

Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles

From Tom Giannattasio
August 12th, 2011
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Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu. Its beauty lies in our ability to create an effect and then copy, modify, export, hide ...

Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools

From Tara Hornor
July 28th, 2011
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Adobe Illustrator is one very useful program for creating vector artwork. The tools and features available in Illustrator make it easy to create digital illustrations, whether from scratch or by tracing a photograph. But this is not all Illustrator can do. Businesses can create impressive graphs using Illustrator’s Graph tools. ...

Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

From Tara Hornor
February 15th, 2011
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Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important factor as to whether a project fails or succeeds. Although Illustrator is not really used ...

Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator

From John Rainsford
December 7th, 2010
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Getting t-shirts printed is an ideal way to promote your business, organization or event. They are a promotional item that people can actually use, and they have the added bonus of being an advertisement for you. In this post, Adobe Illustrator will be used to create a three-color screen print ...

Illustrator’s Live Trace: Sketch to Vector

From Sharon Hart
November 15th, 2010
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In this post we will take a drawn design, scan it and clean it up in Photoshop, then trace it using the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator. Live Trace was introduced in Adobe Illustrator CS2 but is still a powerful tool available in Illustrator CS5. This process really gives ...

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