Quick and Painless Image Vectoring. Did you know that you could scale a vector graphic to the moon and back, and it wouldn’t lose any of it’s clarity or ultra smooth edges?
Well, they don’t make printers that big… but at least you can create vector graphics from photographs in just a few simple steps! Here’s how! I absolutely love finding graffiti. I try to capture and re-use simple tags or stencils in any way I can. Isolating and vectoring a tag like this, though, can often times be tedious and painful. Or is it? Here’s a quick how-to on vectoring photographs in just a few steps. Step 1 – Getting Started It’s usually easier to demonstrate these sorts of things with a real world example, so in this tutorial, we’re going to convert part of a photo I took with my phone. In this tutorial, we’re going to isolate and vectorize the “Pirate Radio” text from the photograph. First, we have to select the color of the object we want to isolate. Step 2 -Sampling Colors Step 3 – Clean Up! Step 4 – Convert to Work Path Enjoy, folks! 35 Free Abstract Illustrator Brushes.
35 Free Abstract Illustrator Brushes If our freebies have benefited you personally or have helped you earn a profit please consider donating via paypal. Donate Now In my opinion, one of the most underused features of Illustrator is the creation of custom brushes. You can literally make ANY shape into an Illustrator brush to get all kinds of cool effects. I put together a set of 35 abstract brushes for you to play with. No, I wasn’t kidding when I said that all of the detail above was made from brushes, and brushes alone. Download the Brushes: Here is a Screenshot of some of the brushes in this set. Includes: – AI Brush Library(1) Installation: Even though it has an .ai extension, the file you downloaded is an “Illustrator Brush Library,” not an actual Illustrator file. 1. 2. 3. Loading the Brushes: 1. 2. 3. Download the Example Source File: In order for you to view the example file properly in Illustrator, you must have the brushes installed. Includes: – AI (2) EPS (1) SVG (1) PNG (1)
28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls. 28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls If our freebies have benefited you personally or have helped you earn a profit please consider donating via paypal.
Donate Now This is a brush set meant for making your own custom swoosh, swirl and curl designs. I have a tutorial on exactly how that process works that you can read here. This isn’t the only way to make swooshes, but it should help you get started, to say the least. The reason I created this brush set is so that (hopefully) it will make it easier for you to try and understand swoosh making and get inspired to set up your own unique brushes to produce some beautiful swooshes and curls on your own.
The possibilities are endless, but here are a few examples of these brushes when applied to a simple spiral path: Update: Brush Set saved with Tint Colorization Method to solve issues with changing the color of your strokes and fills. Includes: – AI Brush Library (1) Includes: – AI (1) SVG (1) Installation: 1. Photoshop brushes & graphic resources. Free Photoshop Patterns by Brusheezy. Art Crimes: Interviews, Articles, and Research.