Category: Premium tutorials
How to Create The American Flag in Illustrator
In this interesting tutorial we will be learning how to create an American flag in Adobe Illustrator. Basically, you can create any kind of flag using this technique.
The creation process consists of a part where we create a symbol of the flag (in our case famous red and white stripes and 50 white stars on the blue rectangle) and a part where we create the waving flag by using the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel. To enhance the 3D effect we will make sure that both sides of the flag are visible. But let’s move from the words to deeds.
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Happy Valentine’s Day Vector Pack
At this time each year, people around the world celebrate Valentine’s Day as a display of love and care. Many people including designers and clients want to add a red Valentine’s theme to their websites and social profiles. These themes come in different Valentine’s Day icons, backgrounds and elements, etc.
So in today’s pack, I would like to present to you a new Valentine’s Day vector pack that includes a Valentine’s background, icons and cartoon characters. The Valentine’s elements in this pack are all in vector format, which makes it easy for you to modify them. To download the vector pack, members can click the download link at the end of this post.
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Premium Apple Product Vector Pack
Apple products are renowned for their unique and simple design that attracts many designers to use them in their studios as part of workshops or design projects. Designers can use Apple product designs and layouts in their website designs, banners, printing projects and interactive designs.
In today’s vector pack, we would like to present a premium Apple design and layout vector pack.
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New Office Objects Vector Pack
Vector resources or vectors packs are essential part of any designer’s library. During the time of any project, using these resources can save you a lot of time and effort instead of creating vector objects again and again. Vector objects can be used in different projects and sizes because you can easily edit it in vector applications such as Illustrator.
In Graphic Mania, we would like to introduce to our members this new and exclusive Office Vector Objects pack that includes 10 objects that are inspired from the office objects around us. These objects are in vector format and you can easily edit by opening it in any vector-based applications. Members can click the download link at the bottom of this post to download this vector pack. And do not forget to check these other packs:
Vector Logo Templates Pack Giveaway for Members
Logo design is a important task in any corporate identity or branding project. It seems to be an easy job to do a logo, but this is not true. The logo design is a very challenging task because it builds the company main identity and the other designs such as the business cards, stationaries and fliers follow the main logo design direction, colors, lines and style.
In many cases, the client requires a fast logo design that just reflects the company or the website interest or just for project layout draft. Therefore, the logo templates are helpful in creating a fast logo design. Also, it can be used as a base for the logo design by customizing it based on your own customized ideas.
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15 Unique Seamless Vector Patterns for Your Design
Vector patterns are artworks that include seamless design elements and are used in creating repeated artwork in backgrounds and fills for your website, print designs and more. The most important rule that designer should keep in mind while creating the pattern is to make sure that it looks continuous and flows well when the pattern is applied to the design.
The seamless pattern should have the right side completed with the left side. Also, the top side of the pattern is completed with the bottom side. The patterns can be vector based or bitmap based patterns. The vector patterns are created in Adobe Illustrator or any other vector program. In my personal opinion, the vector patterns are much more usable than the bitmap patterns because it can be scaled and edited easily without affecting its quality.
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Graphic Mania Premium 2012 Wallpapers
Happy new year to all Graphic Mania readers! I would like to take the chance to thank you for following us in 2011 and hope to bring you content beyond your expectations in 2012. Let us start the new year with our new 2012 wallpaper collection.
In this post, I would like to present to you five exclusive 2012 wallpapers with different sizes for iPhone, iPad and desktop screens. Also, Graphic Mania members can download the Adobe Illustrator vector source for these 2012 wallpapers.
How to Create HTML5 Video for Your Website
HTML5 marks the beginning of a new era in web development. The benefits of HTML5 are numerous, but one of its major highlights is its advanced multimedia support. With HTML5, video and audio files can be played in the highest quality, with faster load time and without any need for additional browser plugins, such as Flash, RealPlayer, Silverlight, etc. Plus, this web content will be viewed on any platform or device, as most of the widely used web browsers from all the top OS’s have support for HTML5.
If you are working on HTML5 based websites or just planning to upgrade your web-hosted multimedia to the latest standard, you may need a special tool to convert videos/animations into HTML5 supported formats – H.264, OGG Theora, WebM. With Freemake Video Converter, it is possible to create all those video variations in a bunch without having to follow any complex procedure. The main asset of this tool is that it generates the HTML5 code together with the resulted video and may show how this video will be streamed in different browsers. Follow the steps below to cope with the task of HTML5 video creation.
2012 Exclusive Vector Calendars
2012 is at the gates and we would like to take this chance and wish a happy new year for all Graphic Mania friends. Today, we would like to introduce to you Graphic Mania’s exclusive 2012 vector calendars which we hope you enjoy.
The new vector 2012 calendars are provided in different resolutions to allow you to choose the one that fits with you mobile, iPad and desktop screens. You can click on the resolution link under each 2012 calendar to open it and save in your computer.
If you are a Graphic Mania premium member, you can click the download button at the end of the post to get these 2012 calendars in Adobe Illustrator vector format. Finally, I hope you enjoy this collection and share it with your friends and do not forget to comment which one do you like the most.
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Understanding the The Document Class in Flash
When you start thinking that you need more coding than you can do in flash’s timeline and in your FLA, you will then need to use the document class. This class means you don’t need any code on the timeline, and all your codes go into using external classes.
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Divine PSD to WordPress Giveaway for Graphic Mania Premium Members
WordPress has become one of the most used CMSs not only in blogging, but also in building websites. This is due to many factors that characterize WordPress, such as the simple interface, easy to use CMS and its wide range of resources, such as themes and plugins. Plugins can help you add many functions and extras that do not come with the original CMS. Also, WordPress themes enable you to change the whole look and feel of your website or blog with a simple click of the mouse.
As an open source CMS, WordPress does not require a lot of coding or programming knowledge, which makes it a preferred tool for creative designers who would like to create websites or blogs. However, as a creative person, you may prefer to create your own WordPress-based site or blog design instead of getting a ready-made theme. Customizing your theme will make your WordPress blog unique that can reflect your skills. Here is the main problem, since at this stage you are required to acquire some programming skills, such as PHP, CSS and HTML in order to convert your design into a WordPress theme. This is where the Divine Project comes in.
