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Quick Tip: Control the number of colors in Illustrator

Quick Tip: Control the number of colors in Illustrator

Many times you had to clean up your work, get it ready for print. Here’s how you can clean up those loose colors, quick and easy.

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Tutorial: How to create a Bokeh vector background in Illustrator

Tutorial: How to create a Bokeh vector background in Illustrator

In this tutorial we will create some cool Bokeh, quick and easy using simple gradients and blending modes.

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Freebies: 20 Awesome FREE vector backgrounds

I’m sure you’re always in need of a cool vector background for your illustrations and sometimes it can become a little tricky to find the right one.

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Tutorial: Illusion of transparency – Vector rays

Tutorial: Illusion of transparency – Vector rays

In this tutorial we will create cool rays with gradients without using ANY transparency settings, ideal for .eps files, which do not have a support for gradient-on-gradient transparency. Here’s a preview of our final image.

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How to create a paisley seamless vector pattern

Inspired from Indian culture and brought back in the 1960s, the paisley prints still give a glamorous feel to textile prints. The crooked tear drop or half of a yin-yang seamless pattern is present on women skirts and handbags, men silk neckties, bandannas and not only. As a tribute to the 1960′s we’ve recently introduced [...]

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Creating an Amazing Layout Using Texture

Today we will create this amazing layout and along the way we will learn some simple but exciting effects. First we are going to put our texture to great use , go through  halftone effect and  we will end up with  creating  some easy but spectacular elements in Illustrator. This tutorial requires an intermediate level [...]

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A simple way to wrap an object in Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to wrap  an object around another object using Adobe Illustrator(I’m using AI CS3 on a PC). It is very simple and it looks really cool. This technique I used can be seen in the image bellow: What I did is I wrapped a scroll between the vines of the [...]

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Photoshop versus…

This is a list of articles with pros and cons of using Photoshop in different situations. Photoshop vs. Painter People always ask me, “Should I use Photoshop or Painter?” This is never an easy answer, and the one that comes to mind is usually, “get both!” – more here Photoshop vs. Gimp If you’ve pirated [...]

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