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Adobe Illustrator is one of the great tools that can help you extend your creative boundaries with its amazing new and existing features and tools. In the following tutorial we will learn how to create a folded text effect in Illustrator CS6. In this Illustrator tutorial we will create a text and fold parts from it to create our final[…]
A short time ago Adobe has released the new version of Adobe Illustrator CS6, which comes with new, useful features, and one of these features is the new Pattern tool. Creating patterns in Illustrator was one of the painful tasks, because it needs tricks and accuracy to create seamless patterns that flow easily when they are repeated in the design.The[…]
When it comes to Adobe Illustrator, how-to tutorials are one of the best learning resources for practicing new effects and tricks using Illustrator’s tools. While learning courses are also useful, learning through the steps of Illustrator tutorials helps you to twist the tools and learn how to compile them and create creative and complex vector artwork, icons, and more.
Today we will be learning how to create a neat email illustration with Adobe Illustrator. A combination of a white envelope and the @ (at) symbol can be a perfect combination for the website icon. All we have to do is use the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel, aPen Tool and some nice color gradients.
In today Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to create a nice floral design that can be used in many different ways. We will use the Pen Tool and some additional tools, such as the Direct Selection Tool, Convert Anchor Point Tool, Blend Tool and some Pathfinder features. For skilled Pen Tool users creating floral elements is quite easy, but in[…]
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create Japanese style vector floral design in Adobe Illustrator. The tutorials will go step-by-step to show how to graduatly build the floral stem and add the background with the ability to change the background colors.
In this tutorial, we will see how to convert a drawing sketch or draft for cartoon character to vector cartoon in Adobe Illustrator. You can use any version of Illustrator as this tutorial is using the general drawing techniques in the program. The level for this tutorial is intermediate and requires to have a scanner to be able to scan the[…]
While Adobe Photoshop is considered the most famous and important application in the bitmap graphics and photo editing. Illustrator is the pioneer in the vector graphic and illustrations. Not only because it is one of the most powerful tools in this field, but also it integrate with other Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Flash, After Effects…etc.
This tutorial is the the second part where we will learn how to create an Illustrator background with abstract lines. In this part, we will go through creating the abstract lines and apply different colors to it.
