Just signing off for the year. I wanted to tell you that my posts will be less frequent from now on. I will still be posting occasionally when I find a really good topic with great tutorials to tell you about. For now, I highly recommend that you look to the following links for really [...]
Archive for the ‘Illustrator’ Category
Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Bridge tutorials
Posted in Bridge, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials (Illustrator), Tutorials (Lightroom), Tutorials (Photoshop) on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Illustrator CS4 Help is live in several more languages
Posted in Illustrator, Tutorials, Tutorials (Illustrator), Uncategorized on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adobe posted Illustrator CS4 Help on the Web in English a few weeks ago. (Here’s a link to the “What’s New in Illustrator CS4″ section.)
Now, the localized (i.e., translated) versions of online Help are available in German, French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, and Korean.
German: Verwenden von Adobe Illustrator CS4
French: Utilisation d’Adobe Illustrator CS4
Italian: [...]
Illustrator CS4 and InDesign CS4 online Help is live
Posted in CS4, Illustration, Illustrator, InDesign, Tutorials, Tutorials (Illustrator), Tutorials (InDesign), Uncategorized on October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Adobe has just posted Illustrator CS4 Help on the web and InDesign CS4 Help on the web. Take a look!
Illustrator CS4 has some cool new features such as a new Illustrator workspace, multiple artboards, and the Blob Brush tool. Click here to see an overview of the new Illustrator features, with links to detailed topics [...]
Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 announcement
Posted in Illustrator, InDesign, News and Events, Photoshop on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Want to experience Adobe’s big product announcement on September 23rd? At 9:00 AM PDT click this link and enjoy the show! To sign up for the web cast, click here.
Creative Lines with the Pen Tool for Photoshop & Illustrator
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Photoshop, Tutorials, Tutorials (Illustrator), Tutorials (Photoshop), Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Once you’ve mastered the pen tool in Illustrator or Photoshop, you’re going to want a variety of lines to use for different types of illustrations. Here is a good selection of tutorials to get you started. For borders and maps, you may want to learn how to create dashed and layered lines. If so, there’s [...]
Preview options and selecting objects in Illustrator
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Tutorials, Tutorials (Illustrator) on March 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My brother-in-law sent me an Illustrator file the other day with a plea to help him delete an object that he couldn’t figure out how to get rid of. It was visible, but he could not select it because it was stacked beneath other objects in the file. Every time he would click on it, [...]
Three Fantastic illustrators
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Inspiration on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If you haven’t looked at the Gallery on the Adobe Design Center yet, you should check it out. It is full of great work by designers, photographers, illustrators, and animators. The latest entries are quite inspirational. Three talented women, from three different continents, show their stuff. Illustrator Anastasia Gubar, aka LimKis, is a young illustrator [...]
Brushes: a real time-saver in Photoshop and Illustrator
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Photoshop on December 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Have you used brushes yet in either Illustrator or Photoshop? You need to try this! They aren’t especially new, but they are very handy and can save you loads of time. I have collected up some tutorials for you to learn not only how to use brushes, but also where to get some really [...]
Taming the Spiral tool
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Tutorials, Tutorials (Illustrator) on September 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Illustrator users, if you haven’t looked at Veerle’s blog, do it now. Veerle has loads of good instructional content for you to peruse. Her tutorials are quite good, and she includes plenty of excellent illustrations. I looked at one today that might be very handy for you, “Swirly Curls in Adobe Illustrator.”
In step 1, you [...]
A visit by comics artist Scott McCloud
Posted in Illustration, Illustrator, Photoshop, Tutorials, Tutorials (Photoshop) on August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, well-known comics artist and author Scott McCloud, and his family visited Adobe. I had high expectations for his presentation because I read his first book, Understanding Comics, several years ago. I’m not a comics artist but his book was very influential in my thinking as a graphic designer. If you haven’t read it—you should [...]