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Illustrator Tip: How to Remove White Background in Live Trace
Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator is a automated and a quick way to easily convert any bitmap or raster image into vector graphic. A lot of raster images or logos have a white background and most of the time when you live trace, you only need the image...
30 Brilliant Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Photoshop combined with a designer's skill can do awesome stuffs! And, one of those awesome stuffs are Text Effects, one can create some amazing text effects in Photoshop! With this article I tried to look around the web to see some stunning text eff...
Easily Create Sticker Text and Graphic Effect in Illustrator
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create sticker style effect in Adobe Illustrator. Sticker effect is quite common and I am sure, you might have seen it used in various designs. So lets get started and let me tell you, it is quite easy and yo...
Creative Process - Making an Ambigram in Illustrator
Ambigrams can be quite fascinating. I saw some brilliant ambigrams and was inspired enough to try and make one myself. For those who don't know what ambigram means, here is a definition from Wikipedia: "An ambigram is a typographical design or artf...
Create Interlocked Text & Shapes in Illustrator
In this Illustrator tip, I will show you how to create interlocked or interconnected text. So let me tell you how: Step 1: Quickly type down the text with the Type Tool (T) that you want to interlock, I wrote "abcde". Step 2: Select the text with ...
Create a Stylish Colorful Text Effect in Illustrator
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a cool colorful text effect using a vector image. This tutorial will focus on showing you the technique, cause I think, once you know the technique you can explore and experiment it further to suit a typ...
Photoshop Quick-Tip: Use the Togglebar to Access the Palettes & Toolbox Temporarily
I am sure you might already know about how to do away with Palettes, Toolbox and Option Bar, by pressing the Tab Key (for more checkout Tip #10 of my article on 15 Photoshop Tips (I Bet) You Don't Know). What I want to share with you is, after you h...
Creating a Photo-Realistic Line Drawing in Photoshop
Have you wondered how to create photo-realistic line drawing, here was a nice tutorial I found over at dekeOnline, Creating a Photo-Realistic Line Drawing, the tutorial is divided in 2 parts and the end results seems quite attractive. Although the s...
Illustrator Tip: 9-Point Proxy and Transformation
Have you ever wondered what those 9 tiny small squares are all about on your Transform palette?!! Well, those tiny squares are called 9-Point Proxy which corresponds to the 8 points of an object's bounding box and its center. If you click on any on...
15 Photoshop Tips (I Bet) You Don't Know
Photoshop is one of the most preferred and most favorite image editing software for graphic designers, digital painters and photographers alike. Over the period of time we get accustomed to using it and develop our own ways of doing stuffs, also in o...
3d Isometric Vector Icon Tutorial
I recently stumbled upon this nice tutorial via Vectip on making 3D Isometric vector icon. Making 3D in illustrator is quite easy, but I really liked the technique involved, how you can give the glow effect & how the perspective makes all the d...
Illustrator Tutorials & Articles: Best of 2008
Well, well, well I wrote a article for Vectordiary, Best Illustrator Tutorials & Articles of 2008 so please go and check it out, I am sure you will find something that you always wanted to know about Illustrator! :) ...
A couple of Articles...
Before I forget, I want to let the reader's of my blog know that recently I wrote some articles for the vector tutorial website, Vectortuts. The first article that was published a few days back is, 20 Challenging Illustrator Tutorials on DeviantArt...
Make a Stylized Christmas Tree in Illustrator
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can quickly make a stylized Christmas tree in Illustrator, you can decorate it as the way you like & maybe you can use it as a Christmas card to send it to your friends & beloved! So lets begin: S...
Make a Christmas Light Bulb in Illustrator
Christmas is now just a few days away, so in this festival season I will show you how quickly make a Christmas light bulb in Adobe Illustrator. So lets move on to make it & decorate it with snowflakes & seasonal shinyness!! Step 1 Select ...
Create a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop
So as posted in my last post, I wrote a another tutorial for Photoshop Tutorials. Photoshop makes it very easy to create customized galleries from scratch. The Photo Gallery wizard is a automated task & it does not require you to have any prior ...
Convert any colors into Pantone colors in Illustrator & Photoshop
It often happens that after you create your designs, especially a logo or the work that you need to print, the color swatch of which are either in CMYK or RGB & you want to convert it in Pantone colors. Converting the colors from any mode (i.e RG...
3D Textured Text Effect Tutorial
Click Here to see a larger image Well, it is said that if you have Photoshop, create something! *giggles* I had this idea in my mind & had to put it on my artboard. So, if you are a Photoshop enthusiast & want to know how to do this text effect,...
Trendy Outlines in Illustrator
Making trendy outlines,(which is not a stroked path but a outline which encompasses the whole of the illustration)is very easy in Illustrator, look at the following illustration for the example: And nowadays, I see it being used too often, so today...
kuler + Illustrator = Cool
I know, its been long that the CS3 suite is out, but I can't resist mentioning that the best feature of Illustrator CS3 (well, it has many good features) is it's inbuilt kuler functionality!! I have been finding myself using it a lot! So, if you hav...
Vector Musings
Well, after a long time I followed a tutorial, "step by step", I usually just read the tutorials & grasp the things & use them on my creative endeavors on my own ways, but got tempted with this one over at Vectortuts. Though, I think, I over...
