Posts Tagged ‘Tutorials’
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Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?
- December 27th, 2011
- 37 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques
- December 7th, 2011
- 39 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles
- August 12th, 2011
- 49 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools
- July 28th, 2011
- 39 Comments
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. ...
Read more...Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator
- February 15th, 2011
- 64 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator
- December 7th, 2010
- 41 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Illustrator’s Live Trace: Sketch to Vector
- November 15th, 2010
- 85 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Creating Graphs With Adobe Illustrator
- September 29th, 2010
- 28 Comments
Office applications are getting very advanced these days offering all sorts of fancy features for data visualization. Graph generation is a standard feature in desktop applications like Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc, but it can also be achieved in non-spreadsheet applications like Adobe Illustrator. If you’re unfamiliar with the process of ...
Read more...Useful Adobe Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials and Tools
- September 22nd, 2010
- 59 Comments
As web designers, we always have something new to learn. Over the last decade our workflow has changed dramatically — it’s become more sophisticated and highly diversified. Not only do we have a much larger variety of improved tools to use; there’s also an endless stream of new techniques emerging ...
Read more...Design A Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator
- May 14th, 2010
- 115 Comments
Today, we’ll look at what it’s like to develop print material in cooperation with a major marketing company for top-name brands and retailers using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. For anyone in the print industry, we’ll share methods and resources that you’ll hopefully find helpful. For others, this article will shed ...
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