This tip will show you how to use the unknown Average function in illustrator to converge points. In this diagram, I have a 3d extrude star drawn using path tool. However, the points doesn’t converge at the end. To solve this problem, select all the points you want to converge using Direct Selection Tools. In …
Illustrator Tip #15: Converging Points Together Using Average Function Read More »
This step by step tutorial demonstrates drawing a keyboard illustration using rectangles, grids, move and transform effects.
Using both Photoshop and Illustrator is a common work flow process in many projects. In this small tip, I will show you how you can use Illustrator’s objects, shapes or text as Smart Object in Photoshop and still keep them editable in Illustrator. In this example, I have created a shape using Star Tool, Pucker …
Illustrator Tip #14: Pasting Smart Objects in Photoshop Read More »
Building a stunning flash website never get easier with Wix. Anyone can now quickly create a Flash website online in minutes. The Wix offers an online editing interface where users can simply drag and drop audio, images, video, text and animation to their site.
Cut&Paste is hosting an online web design contest with a grand prize of $5,000. You will be designing a website for J. (temismarketing.com) U.i.C.E., a nonprofit after-school program that allows the underprivileged youth of Los Angeles to express themselves through dance, music, visual arts, and MC skills workshops.
In this tutorial, we will see how we can warp the text around a shape or a object. This technique will show you how to combine the text wrap and heart shape together to achieve the text wrap effect. This tutorial will concentrate on how to use Envelope Distort feature in Illustrator to achieve this …
Illustrator Tutorial: Warp Text Inside A Heart Shape Read More »
This is what happens when you try to export your vector art from illustrator. You realise the image exported out isn’t the same as the artboard or there are ugly white spacing around the image. So why does this happen? When you export an image, illustrator will calculate the bounding box of the whole area …
This step by step tutorial demonstrates creating and coloring the above quilt blocks. The same drawing is used for both blocks, the coloring is inverted. This quilting pattern is made up of symmetrical blocks which begins with a basic square.
I’ll be teaching you how to create this eye catching bling bling effect in illustrator. You will learn how to create the texture and apply it to any text. So let’s get started…
In this simple but very time saving and useful tip, we will see how we can transform pattern fill in Illustrator without transforming the object on which the pattern fill is applied. For example, if you have a pattern fill applied on a square or rectangle shape like this:
