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30 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips - Noupe Design Blog

30 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips - Noupe Design Blog
Apr 01 2009 Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. Gradient Strokes A quick tutorial about how to create gradient strokes. Visit Tutorial How to Create Vector Clouds with the Gradient Mesh Tool Create impressionistic, infinitely-scalable vector clouds with the Gradient Mesh tool. Visit Tutorial Design amazing mosaic effects This tutorial shows how to create a cool look using Illustrator’s Symbols and Global Colors. Visit Tutorial The Making of Abe The Making of Abe, The Are My Sites Up Mascot. Visit Tutorial Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways Here’s the design process and a walkthrough of how to create this breathtaking logo in Adobe Illustrator. Visit Tutorial Bling Bling Text Effect Learn how to create this eye catching bling bling effect in illustrator. Visit Tutorial Visit Tutorial Visit Tutorial

22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Tutorials 351 shares 30 Flat Circular Vector Icons It can be difficult to find exactly the right type of free icons online – but this iconset is sure to fill the gap. Read More 2124 shares Adobe Illustrator CS6 Shortcuts Cheat Sheet Illustrator is a very important tool for designers and creative professionals. 40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Noupe Design Blog Oct 25 2009 By Paul Andrew Which one is better for manipulating text, Photoshop or Illustrator? There is no clear and defined answer. What is clear is that Illustrator, being mainly used used for creating seamless vector images, allows the user a greater degree of accuracy, control, and precision. In this Illustrator tutorial round-up, there are over 40 text effects, or if you prefer typographic effects, to help you learn new techniques and expand your typographic repertoire. Of course, as any good graphic designer knows, being knowledgeable in one graphic editor limits your creativity. Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials Smokin’ Western Type TreatmentIn this easy tutorial, you will create a western type treatment mainly using Illustrator's Effects. 3D TypographyIn this in-depth tutorial you will undoubtedly learn new techniques, as well as finely tune some old. Swirly TypeUsing free fonts, some brushes, and gradients you will learn how to create this swirly type treatment. Neon Text Effect

50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool – the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”. Video tutorials (in general) enable the learner to witness – step-by-step – how a particular technique works. In this article, we present to you 50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials. So fire up Illustrator, watch a few of these videos, and hopefully you will have learned a tip or two by the end of your adventures into these Illustrator video tutorials! General Tips and Techniques Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect. Importing and Manipulating Images in Illustrator Learn the concepts of importing and manipulating external images in Illustrator. Creating Objects Effects

Adobe Illustrator Toolbox - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now If you’re interested in improving your skills with Adobe Illustrator or finding resources that can make you more effective and efficient with your time in Illustrator, this is the collection for you. Articles: For getting started and learning more about Illustrator, here are some helpful articles. 7 Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could Do – Attitude Design Journal Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide – VECTORTUTS Illustrator Pen Tool Exercises – Veerle Maintaining Rhythm and Flow in Vector Character Design – VECTORTUTS Seven Helpful Techniques for Illustrator – VECTORTUTS Best Sites for Illustrator Tutorials: For continual learning of Illustrator, these 9 sites produce excellent tutorials that will help you in your development. Vectips Veerle’s Blog Blog.SpoonGraphics GoMediaZine AiVault Bittbox N. Vectordiary Collections of Tutorials: Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Smashing Magazine Illustrator Tutorials – Designer Today Vectors:

80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources - Noupe Design Blog Jan 18 2009 For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want. So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community. To make your job a little bit easier, we have categorized this post into 6 section, the links below will get you to your desired section. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas - Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion. - Master Painting in Illustrator

26 Most Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials It’s been such a long time since we have posted an article on Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. So, in today’s post, we’d like to share with you these step-by-step tutorials that were released since January of this year to give you a dose of new ideas when trying to design so that you’ll achieve a more beautiful and creative artwork. We’ve handpicked these tutorials because Adobe illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out any design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. Here are the 26 Most Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that we’ve found around the web which are helpful in learning new techniques in brushing up your vector design skills. Check out this collection and feel free to learn from these tutorials. Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a Tiki and Maori culture inspired lava island scenario in Illustrator. Create a Hellboy Poster in Illustrator Create a Stylish Print Ready Flyer

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images. However, to master Adobe Illustrator isn’t easy; and the creating process of professional illustrations requires both time and patience. Therefore tutorials can turn out to be real life- and time-savers as they show exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional illustrations and how masters of illustration actually manage to do their magic. In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced designers. Please notice that Illustrator Tutorials Sources and Resources

Mastering Illustrator Effects Have you been missing out the Illustrator Effects? Did you know it is a powerful tool for creating symmetrical shapes or adding texture to vector paths? For example, with just one simple effect, you can turn a polygon path into a flower shape. You can also make paths look sketchy with the Scribble effect. Read this tutorial to learn how to save time by using Illustrator Effects and work more efficient. Arrowheads Let's start with a basic effect, the Add Arrowheads. Appearance The great thing about using Illustrator Effect is the ease of changing its appearance. Without The Effect? Without the effect, the arrow shape will get distorted when the line is stretched. Round Corners Draw a rectangle shape, go to Effects > Stylize > Round Corners and enter a radius value. Without The Round Corners Effect? Round Corners is one of my favorite effects. Zig Zag Effect Draw a straight line, go to Effects > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag and enter a value for Size and Ridge Per Segment. Wavy Line Badges

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