Posts Tagged ‘Illustrator’

Resources | Quick Tips for Illustrator
Monday, December 15th, 2008

Many design people like me may use adobe products everyday. You may familiarize with the function of them. But you should enjoy the tips bring to us from Niki ( DeignO’Blog ).
Quick Tip #1 – Dreamweaver
Quick Tip #2 – Illustrator Shortcuts
Quick Tip #3 – Photoshop Auto-select
Quick Tip #4 – Illustrator Patterns
Quick Tip #5 – Converting [...]

This time, i will not feature tutorials. Instead, i will show some inspirational work to give you some ideas for your own work. Usually, the inspiration comes from the cultural, environmental and economical moment you are passing through. The mix between these 3 factors grants a final unique result that even the author will have [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through a typical project workflow from preparing graphic symbols in Illustrator CS3 to importing and animating those symbols inside Flash CS3.
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Tutorial | Create Abstract Backgrounds
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Abstract backgrounds are easy to create in Illustrator with a couple of simple techniques. Using Gradient Meshes, Steps Blends and Opacity Masks you can quickly create an abstract background.
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In this Tutorial you will take a look at how things work across Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash—specifically, some features and techniques for getting rasterized Photoshop content and vector Illustrator content into your Flash movies.
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This great tutorial show you how to make a nice little map, taking advantage of some techniques that can be used in other works.
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Tutorial | Creating Road Maps
Monday, May 12th, 2008

Sooner or later every designer comes across the exciting job of producing a map, whether it’s on a leaflet or website the overall aim is to visually document a particular area of land to allow for people to find their way to a place of business or event.

Creating backgrounds is often part of the process of creating good designs. Here we will create a professional business style background, which could be used in many of your projects. For example, in presentations, advertisements, or website headers.

In this great tutorial by Fabio,  will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.

Using Illustrator’s Gradient Editor and Graphic Styles, you can create a brushed metal effect that you can apply to any shape or text.

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