Free Vector File of The Week: 41 Free Animal Vectors
Free Animal Vectors This week’s free vector file of the week is a really cool one. If you’ve ever wanted free vector animals for your designs, this is the freebie for you. Today, I have found 41 free animal vectors…
Make Geometric Patterns in Illustrator
Make Geometric Patterns in Illustrator Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator can be difficult to make in most design programs. If you want to make spiral patterns and geometric repeating patterns, it can take hours to align everything by hand. However,…
Create Easy Patterns in Fireworks CS5
I really love to work with Adobe Fireworks when making graphics for the web. It is simple, intuitive, and has a few features that give you a little more control than what you find in photoshop. It is almost like…
Quiktip- Control the Opacity of Gradients In Illustrator
You can control the opacity of each individual color of a gradient inside of Adobe Illustrator. This is fantastic for flexibility with colors. Simply click on the color swatch of the gradient, and there is an opacity setting on the…
Quiktip- Control the Opacity of Individual Colors In Illustrator
You can easily control the opacity of colors in Illustrator. You can Control the opacity of the stroke and the fill individually by using the appearance panel. Directly under each stroke and fill layer in the appearance panel, there is…
Multiple Masks on One Layer in Photoshop
This is a great method to get great masks in Photoshop. You can actually have 2 masks on an image at the same time. You can use a vector mask and use a custom shape to mask out an image,…
Make Really Interesting Organic Shapes in Illustrator
One of my absolute favorite new tools in Illustrator is the new width tool. If you want to make a free-flowing shape, The width tool can really make the creation of organic and rounded shapes much easier. Before, if you…
Playing with Opacity and FX In Illustrator
Opacity has a lot of uses for different types of effects. We like to see certain things bleed through in some areas, while in others we want a shape or text to be a certain color. Recently, I was playing…
Creating multiple strokes using the appearance panel in Illustrator
This is extremely handy when working in Illustrator. This effect can be placed on objects and text, and on clipping paths. You can arrange the stacking order and the size, as well as the colors. One great advantage is that…
Create a Hand Written Neon Effect with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
I recently posted a tutorial on the blob brush in Illustrator. Using this tool, you can create some nice hand written effects. First, open up Illustrator and grab the blob brush tool. Go into your brushes panel and create a…
