40 Awesome Illustrator Tutorials. In this roundup we have showcased some of the creative illustrator tutorials from 2011. These include typography, character design, poster design, logo design, portrait design and many more. Enjoy!! Artistic Printing Inspiration in Illustrator and Photoshop Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator Vintage Badge in Illustrator and Photoshop Create a Hellboy Poster in Illustrator Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect Create an Adorable Puppy with Negative Space and the Paintbrush Tool How To Create a Grumpy Troll Character in Illustrator Create a Sparkly Female Portrait in Illustrator Create a Vibrant Abstract Vector Design Illustrator How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo How To Create a Colorful Abstract Poster in Illustrator How To Create an Intricate Vector Heart Illustration Create a Chalkboard Type Treatment Create a Vector Chopper with Illustrator CS5 and VectorScribe How to Create a Retro Style Textured Logo Creating an Illustrative Monogram Vintage vector textures.
30 Very Useful Illustrator CS5 Tutorials. Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up an amazing collection of high quality Adobe Illustrator cs5 Tutorials from around the web. You’ll find everything from How To Create a Grainy Abstract Lines Poster Design to Creating a Mobile Phone Music Player Interface. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? Want more articles on useful Illustrator tutorials?
Check out some of my previous posts: 40 High Quality Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorials Illustrator Tutorials: 70+ Awesome Hot New Tips 70 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Illustrator CS5 Tutorials: 70 Wicked Tips Amazing Collection Of Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials Quick Tip: How to Easily Outline Curly Letters How to Create a Liquid Logo Using Adobe Illustrator and DrawScribe Plugin Create a 3D Newspaper, Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator Illustrative Lettering 3 – Fa La La La Illustrative Pattern Illustrative Pattern 2. 75 Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2012. There’s a lot of great vector programs out there such as illustrator, inkscape, and indesign.
Illustrator by far is the best vector program, for creating high quality illustration designs. If You’re looking to learn illustrator, or simple trying to polish up your design skills. This is the perfect resource, which contains a lot of in depth design tutorial perfect to match your skill level. The compilation is a great resource, which is worth checking out if you’re passionate about design. The tutorial round-up features all of the best illustrator tutorials from 2012. The compilation features in depth illustration techniques as well as short but insightful tutorials. 1.
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cool ribbon style logo graphic with gradients and effects in Adobe Illustrator. 2. We use icons every day, but usually they are made by others. 4. In the following Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a simple search bar in Adobe Illustrator. 5. 6. 7. Photoshop 3D Tutorial and Illustrator 3D Tutorial: Wrapping patterns around objects | Jennifer Smith. Recently I was teaching a team of designers about wrapping textures and patterns around objects in Photoshop.
I thought that it was useful enough to create a tutorial to help others. I teach these techniques in the Illustrator Classes and Photoshop Classes that I teach. For this tutorial, you will need a copy of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. This technique can be used with any version of Photoshop back to version CS, it does not use the 3D tool, or the displace feature. It is rather simple, but you will be taken through a series of steps using masks to complete the project. Open the image of the object that you want to wrap a pattern or texture around. My selection was made with the Pen tool. I could keep this vector path and convert it directly into a mask, but to make sure you can follow along, I will go to the Paths panel and convert this path into a regular pixel selection. Hold down the Control or Command key and click on the path thumbnail to activate a selection from it. 3. 4. 5.
5 Quick and Easy Photoshop Textures You Can Make From Scratch. The web is full of free texture resources. Unfortunately, we’ve all used them before and hate all the inherent restrictions that come as a result of using borrowed art. For your next project, why not just use textures that you make yourself from scratch? You skip the restrictions and the end product is much more unique because you’re not using the same resources used by everyone else. Today we’re going to get you started by teaching you how to use a couple of basic Photoshop filters to create five completely different textures. Each texture should only take you anywhere from one to three minutes to bust out and can therefore be quickly applied without eating up your crucial design time. Let’s get started! Wood Texture The problem with realistic wooden textures is that the they’re so organic.
Step 1: Create the Woodgrain To get started, create a document and fill it with a cloud layer. Now go into the Filter Gallery dialog and turn on Accented Edges. Step 2: Colorize Step 3: Create Panels. 30 easy poster tutorials for Adobe Photoshop. 50+ Easy to Follow Photoshop Poster Tutorials. Apply Graphics to Textured Surfaces With Displacement Maps. Do you ever wonder how Photoshop masters create such realistic compositions? Seemingly simple tasks such as throwing some text onto a brick wall can easily lead to lackluster results if you don’t know what you’re doing. So what sets you apart from the pros? Why are their final results so believable while yours reek of Photoshop?
The simple answer is that they know more tricks than you! Let’s fix that. The Problem The situation is typical, you have some graphics and a photograph and you want to put the two together. From here you create some text, then scale and rotate it into place. The text is obviously just placed on top, there’s really no illusion that it’s actually printed onto the shirt, which is what we’re going for. The typical first step is to reduce the opacity of the text layer. The level of realism is still lacking. Notice how the “h” isn’t just letting the wrinkle show through, the shape of the letter is actually distorted to mirror the wrinkle.
Bricks and Smiles Going Further. Super Quick Plaid Patterns in Photoshop or Illustrator | Color On Cloth. In this earlier post I showed how to create a tartan plaid pattern in Photoshop. That method simulates the weave characteristic of a real tartan plaid, with the distinct diagonal twill pattern, like the one shown here. As an alternative, here’s a really quick way to create a seamless plaid in Photoshop Elements.
This technique doesn’t create the effect of the diagonal twill weave, but does create a nice repeating plaid design. The same method works for creating seamless plaids in Adobe Illustrator (details below). Here are the steps for creating the plaid in Photoshop Elements Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. This plaid pattern is now a seamless pattern that you can use to fill objects or layers in any Photoshop project. Here is a comparison of the two different methods for creating plaids, starting with the exact same stripes.
An example of using the plaid pattern as a fill: Here are the steps for creating the plaid in Illustrator Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Getting Started: 01 Starting a new document | Learn InDesign CS4. Community Translation Your transcript request has been submitted. Adobe TV does its best to accommodate transcript requests. It can take a few weeks for the transcript to become available in the Community Translation Project, so keep checking back. Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode! To get started, please join the Community Translation Project. Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode! An error occurred while processing your request. Another translator has already started to translate this episode. Thanks for Participating! This episode has been assigned to you and you can expect an e-mail shortly containing all the information you need to get started.
About This Episode Create a new document in InDesign from the File menu or Welcome screen. Presented by. Some Backgrounds in After Effects. How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics. In this tutorial you will learn that data doesn't have to be boring, it can be beautiful! Learn how to use various graph tools, illustration techniques and typography to make an accurate and inspiring infographic in Adobe Illustrator. Start by using the Rectangle Tool (M) to draw a shape. Give it a subtle radial gradient too. The entire design is based on a grid of four columns. To make the columns first select the rectangle and drag a guide onto the centre of the shape. Drag guides onto the left and right edges of the shape too. Tip: Quickly show the ruler by pressing Command-R. Condense the shape so it fits within the left-most guide and centre guide.
Move the shape over to the right and add another guide to the centre here. Using the Rectangle Tool (M) draw a thin white box on the centre line that will be the width of the gap between the columns. Repeat the process for the other columns with your final result being below. Give the circles a variety of gradients.
That's it! Create heavyweight characters. Design a portfolio magazine using InDesign. Along with a well-presented portfolio, a promotional magazine containing your work can be an invaluable item for any freelance designer or design company. Use it as a way of making a first contact with a prospective employer or client, or as a reminder of your work after a portfolio presentation. It's imperative that this type of item looks great and showcases your work well, because the recipient will regard this as the kind of work you're capable of.
Attention to detail is crucial. Designers are notorious for finding it hard to design these types of items for themselves, so our advice is to treat it as though it were a job for a client, by writing yourself a project brief with objectives, schedules and budgets. This will help you to be more objective about what it is you're producing. We'll be working with an A2 poster-sized format that folds up into an A5 pamphlet, using a clever cut in the middle of the page. Click here to download the support files ( 2MB) Classroom: Basic Compositing and Animation in After Effects. How to Create a Professional Magazine Layout. A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Otto Coster was first published on August 4th 2010. Have you ever wondered how professional designers strike the perfect balance between text and image? Using InDesign's powerful type tools, you will learn techniques to help you set and arrange a magazine layout.
Step 1 Setting up the Document We'll be using a standard A4 size document for this tutorial. Step 2 Creating a Grid To set up the page grid, go to the "A-master spread" and choose Layout > Create Guides. Why? Step 3 Placing a Background When creating a magazine layout, you'll want to keep a good balance between the white space, images and text. Go to page 2–3 and place your photograph in the bleed space so that the entire spread is covered. Step 4 Creating Body Text Step 5 Setting up a Baseline Grid To make our text look good we need to set up a baseline grid.
Step 6 Changing the Basic Paragraph Style. Create a Distressed Vector Typographic Poster Design. Follow this step by step walkthrough of my recent design process for the ‘Spectrum’ poster. Starting with custom made type in Illustrator, we’ll move our vector graphics into Photoshop for some serious distressing with Photoshop brushes, blending modes and more! The Spectrum poster takes inspiration from the old ZX Spectrum computer of the 80′s, the feature of the design is the custom made abstract type, which is mixed with a full spectrum of colours then grunged up to the max with textures and muted background tones.
The overall theme is a cool mix of 80′s retro and modern day grunge. Start work in Adobe Illustrator. Aim to follow each letter from the previous to form one continuous line. The word Spectrum is split in half to help compose the design and to add that extra touch of abstractism. Drag out a few guides to match on key points of the path. Once all the type has been aligned and tweaked, take a step back to review the design as a whole. Continue tracing segments of each letter. Character Formatting | Why Adobe InDesign CS6 Is Now the Best Desktop Typesetting Program. Character formatting controls the appearance of the individual letters in your publication. Font, type size, color, and leading are all aspects of character formatting. (Longtime QuarkXPress users won’t think of leading as a character format, but we’ll cover that next.)
We refer to all formatting that can be applied to a selected range of text as “character” formatting, and refer to formatting that InDesign applies at the paragraph level as “paragraph” formatting. Tab settings, indents, paragraph rules, space above, and space after are examples of paragraph formatting. In addition to these distinctions, InDesign’s paragraph styles can include character formatting, but apply to entire paragraphs. Character Formatting Controls To display the Character panel and shift the focus to the panel’s Font field, press Command-T/Ctrl-T.
To display the Control panel, press Command-Option-6/Ctrl-Alt-6. Font Family and Font InDesign’s user interface for selecting fonts mirrors this approach. Size Leading. 15+ InDesign Tutorials for Magazine and Layout Design. Setting opacity. Gradient rings in Illustrator. Circular graph Here is a very simple example of what I talk about. The gradient in each part of the graph follows the direction of the circle. In other words the gradient isn't linear or radial, which are the only options to choose from in Illustrator. The graph below has 28 segments and is applied in a more illustrative kind of way. It's still not a complex graph, but without a rather smart and simple way to create these gradients it would take a lot of time. Let's have a look on how I got started... Circular gradient Draw a rectangle Start by selecting the Rectangle tool and draw a small rectangle. Duplicate the rectangle Duplicate the rectangle by selecting the Selection tool (black arrow), and start dragging to the right as shown in the image above.
Add color Give the second rectangle the ending color of your gradient. Blend options To prepare our perfect gradient using the blend feature, we first check our blend options. Make Blend Create new Art Brush Give the brush a name. Draw a circle. Creating Seamless Textures In Illustrator. I think you’ll all agree that Illustrator is just plain awesome, and with the continual improvements we see with each new version, it keeps getting better and better.
Previously, I created seamless textures for typography and seamless backgrounds for my web and illustration projects with Photoshop. But we’ve seen large improvements with the Appearance panel in more recent versions of Illustrator, so now I create these textures and backgrounds solely in Illustrator–it’s actually super easy! So in today’s tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps on how to create a variety of seamless textures and backgrounds all in Adobe Illustrator. Tutorial Details: Seamless Textures and Seamless Backgrounds Program : Adobe Illustrator CC (You should be able to create this tutorial in CS4+ but some of the tutorial images might look different.)Difficulty: Beginner/IntermediateTopics Covered: Appearance Panel, Effects, Pattern Fills, Graphic StylesEstimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes each Raster Effects.
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