40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials 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. 1. Many things can be in Illustrator need not be the tool Pen, as evidenced by the recent Hourglass tutorial. 2. A great looking abstract designs can be created from the simplest form. 3. This tutorial will show you how a Western-style primary treatment with Illustrator to achieve results. 4. Follow these steps to create in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create a range of body shapes and graphics that are combined into one large collage have body image. 5.Illustrator Tutorial: Surprise Gift 6. 7. 8.Create a cool water effect 10. 11. 12. 13.
Seamless Textures "The Power of the High Pass Filter" Introduction: Common Problems If you're a graphic artist working in the game industry, it is almost certain that at least at some point of your career you have had to deal with tiling textures in Photoshop. Textures, that must not only tile seamlessly, but also look good even when tiled tens of times over. Ever too often, your brick wall may tile seamlessly at the edges, but something, just something there doesn't work: when the texture repeats many times over, you see annoying repetition, covering the distant hills with an unnatural raster-like pattern. You may realize that there's a cloudy, darker area that needs to be removed, try to Dodge it a little, and try again. More recently, using digital photo material for textures has also been an issue. The third area that has traditionally been somewhat tricky, is making detail textures for today's 3D accelerators. For all these problems, there is an incredibly handy little filter that most people seem to ignore. Underrated, Yet Powerful
Air Clicker - Camera Concept by Yeon Su Kim Two Finger Camera! Doing it the Apple way, Air Camera strips away all the unnecessary aspects to a digital camera design. It leaves us with a Bluetooth enabled camera lens and a motion-sensor shutter button mounted on two rubber bands. Precious moments are captured with a simple click gesture and the images get transferred to your synced smartphone immediately. This is how it works: if you want to click pictures, wear the camera band on your thumb and the shutter button on your forefinger and gesture to click a pic. I think it’s a clever and fun concept! Designer: Yeon Su Kim
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Designers love freebies that make life easier and help them create higher-quality work. Free vectors are useful, free vector packs even more so. Fortunately, there are plenty of talented graphic designers who are willing to give away their work (or samples of it) to benefit the rest of us. In this post, we feature 60 of the best and most useful free vector packs. Many of the vectors featured here would be useful for particular styles of design and specific types of websites. Abstract Blobs and Bursts1 A pack of 10 vectors for creating abstract effects. Wavy Vector Ribbons3 A pack of 7 trendy vectors of wavy lines. Trendy Circles5 Another trendy collection, this one containing six variations. Circles7 Different types and combinations of circles are in this pack. Weird Bubbles9 If other circles don’t meet your needs, ten vectors are included in this pack. Modern Arrows11 An easy way to add a trendy style to your designs. Birds in Flight31 A pack of 12 bird vectors from Bittbox. (al)
Wynona's Actions Error 404 - Not found The document you requested is not found. Image Analyzer The installer download contains: Image Analyzer 3D modeling plugin 1.07 (also available from the plugin page) Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites. Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc. Version history Examples There is currently no complete documentation for Image Analyzer, and there probably never will be. For more help, go to our support forum. Plugins Here you can find short descriptions of the plugins currently available for Image Analyzer and references to developer information for the plugin system. In addition to those available here, we can offer developing custom plugins for Image Analyzer for specific purposes. Support Image Analyzer Click here to see how
Vector Splats: 21 Amazing Splats for Illustrator Several months ago I created this set of 21 Vector Splats for my friends at Vectortuts+. Typically, I like to let several weeks go by before I post one of these sets on this site but for whatever reason I forgot to mention this set until now. There are a lot of splats out there but this set is really nice and includes quite a bit of detail. File type: .ai Compatibility: Illustrator CS+ Size: 29 MB About Grant Friedman Grant Friedman is a graphic design, blogger, and author. 5 Great Background Masking Techniques This article was written in 2011 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about Photoshop, you may find this recent article on getting started with Photoshop of great interest. Masking is an essential part of Photoshop. Mastering masks and how to create them to fit different situations is what sets a novice apart from an expert. The reason we mask out a background or delete it in the first place is so that we can smoothly and convincingly composite images together. When removing the background from images, you can either delete the unwanted background, or you can remove it using a mask. The Eraser Tool You can download the sample file here. The Background Eraser Tool This can be very handy for erasing simple background such as those with solid colors, but anything complicated becomes a hassle. The Magic Eraser Tool This tool is very handy, as it can remove a background with one click. The Magic Wand Tool The Quick Selection Tool Make A Layer Mask From It
National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - In Focus National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from. Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Beluga whales in the arctic having fun. This is a streetcar in New Orleans traveling back towards The Quarter on St. This image captures almost 6 hours of climbing parties on Rainier going for the summit under starry skies. Russia, polar region of West Siberia, Tazovsky Peninsula. An adult male gelada rests in the early morning light after ascending the steep sleeping cliffs of the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. This place is very special to me.
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