March 6th, 2010

Illustrations in Web Design: 50 Wonderful Examples

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Illustrations can add a nice friendly touch to your website. Used correctly, they can enhance your site’s look and feel as well as set you apart. In this article, we look at illustrations in web design, as well as 50 excellent examples of sites which incorporate illustrations into their design.

February 24th, 2010

Quick Tip: Rapid Vector Portrait Process

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This Quick Tip tutorial will guide you through the process of making a vector portrait rapidly. A picture will be used as a guide for black and gray paths. We’ll review some shortcuts that will allow you to achieve good quality results with few steps and minimum fuss.

Open the photo in Photoshop, unlock the layer. Using the Pen Tool, create a path around yourself. After the path is completed, with the Pen Tool still active, right-click it within the image and select Make Selection. A new menu will pop up, set the Feather Radius to 0 px and press OK. Now you have the selection, and while it is still active, press the Add Layer Mask button, which is under the layers panel. Now the background of your photo should be white.

February 12th, 2010

50 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful application for vector design. Designers are working on it and making beautiful artwork and beginner are learning to improve their skills. There are a lot of tutorials on Illustrator are online which are very useful for beginner and advance users.
Create a glowing neon effect in your illustration that can grab an audience’s attention with its beauty and uniqueness.

February 11th, 2010

30 Wonderful Websites With Illustrations

Wonderful Websites With Illustrations

Illustration usage in web design is probably one of the easiest way to add uniqueness for your website. Illustrations also can be used as a brand’s mascot. If you want to see some beautiful designs with mascots check previous post 25 Websites With Awesome Mascots.

In this showcase you’ll find 30 beautiful examples of effective illustrations usage in web design. Hope you’ll find this collection inspirational and useful.

February 11th, 2010

40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know

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Learning a new software application can be a difficult task, especially when there is an application that is as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Fortunately, Teresa illustrator colection veterans who are generous enough time to take the basic document, so that new users of the first activities to capture and gain knowledge of tools and basic techniques. This collection of tutorials covering various dialer tools and provides many useful tips and advice. Together, they constitute a very useful tool for all beginners who work with their heads, put up in Adobe Illustrator.

February 11th, 2010

How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

We’re going to put those vector eyes you learned how to make not long ago to some good use! This tutorial will show you how to combine basic shapes with some clever coloring and blending to make a fantastic looking koala character.

We’ll use some opacity masks, brushes, gradients and effects, in addition to an easy shading technique you’ll find yourself using in plenty of other projects. Get ready to tuck into this Aussie-flavored tut!

February 7th, 2010

33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

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Learning is, of course, a continuous process and it is important that we don’t let our skills be stagnant. Hence, we need change and improvement… To stand by this proclamation, we give you another post on illustrator tutorials but with different techniques and outcome. This post differs from the numerous tutorials in Illustrator that we have posted in this site, because not only does they provide useful information, but they are entertaining as well.

February 6th, 2010

70 Most wanted Illustrator tutorials of all time

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When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, just like most other graphic design tools, it is easy to learn but extremely hard to master. Illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out your design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details.

If you have some experience with Illustrator then it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. With the help of Illustrator, we can create any type of stunning effects, especially related to typography.

February 6th, 2010

30 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

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Adding illustrative elements to a web design can take it to a whole new level. Illustrations add a uniqueness and character to a design, giving it the ability to make it truly stand out from the crowd. Designers and artists use them in various parts of a design: as backgrounds, as part of a captivating header, or as an accent within the content area.

In this article, you’ll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as part of the design.

February 5th, 2010

How to Create an Elegant, Vector Pen in Illustrator

Create an Elegant, Vector Pen in Illustrator

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a vector pen, in an elegant box using Illustrator. We’ll pull out the Pen Tool, Rectangle Tool, and gradients in this one. Let’s see the final result which is our goal