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Premium Vector Pack – 200+ Edge Design Icons!
We have a new set of icons available exclusively for Vector Premium members. Crafted by Jonathan Patterson, you will find over 200 Vector Interface Icons in this pack! These high quality vector icons...
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Quick Tip: How to Create an Isometric Grid in Less than 2 Minutes!
This Quick Tip will show you – in just a few easy steps – how to make an useful isometric grid. You will learn how to use the Rectangular Grid Tool with the "SSR technique", and in less than two...
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How to Illustrate Dynamic Hair Using Adobe Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool
This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic hairstyle from a reference image. You will use the Paintbrush Tool, basic skin shading and transparent gradients. Step 1 I’m going to use a stock...
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How to Create a Fun Circus Tent Icon
Roll up, roll up! In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple circus tent icon. You may discover some interesting things about the magic of Warp effects. Warp effects are often...
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Create a Classic American Diner with Perspective Drawing Tools
With the release of Illustrator CS5, Adobe introduces the new Perspective Drawing tool set, which allows you to create images in accurate 1-, 2- or 3-point perspective. Perspective Drawing alleviates...
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Stylized Wave using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create some stylized waves, using the Pathfinder, Envelope Distort with Mesh and various Gradients. You will also learn how to use Scatter Brushes to create the...
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Vectortuts+ Reader Survey
Our recent Tuts+ Survey showed that many of you have feedback on how we can make Vectortuts+ better for you. Now is your chance to let us know what you want from Vectortuts+. Please take a few minutes...
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Inspiration: 30+ Feisty Felines
Cats are creatures of sheer beauty. They are willful, independent, and proud animals. Come with us and explore the many personalities of cats in this hand picked collection of images. Museum by People...
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Quick Tip: How to Create Transparent Gradients Using Blends
It wasn’t until Illustrator CS4 that you were able to create transparent gradients. However there is a way to create them with any version of CS. By using blends, you can create a variety of radial...
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How to Illustrate a Luminous Vector Sunset
In this tutorial you will learn how to create Vector Sunset, using the RGB color model. Using Art and Scatter Brushes, Gaussian Blur, Gradient Mesh and the Transparency palette, you will create a...
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Quick Tip: How to Create Mixed Ink Swatches with InDesign
Today’s financial situation has led to more clients asking for better value for money when setting budgets for design and print. A common request for a designer is to cut the number of inks from four...
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Make a Two-Screen Gocco Print using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial
We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you’ve ever wanted to plan a vector image for Gocco Printing and create a unique hand-crafted piece of...
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Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette
This tutorial shows the potential the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be building an elaborate neon sign, utilizing the Appearance Palette to speed up the process and remove the need of...
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Interview with Sanjay Patel
Sanjay Patel is a animator and illustrator from Southern California who was born in the UK. Sanjay works as a supervising animator and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked...
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Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign –...
This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn...
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Quick Tip: Make Grunge Type with Live Trace and the Pathfinder
Starting with a photo, learn how to create vector texture with Live Trace, then apply it to text for a grunge type effect. You can find the wood texture used in this tutorial at "More Than 350 Free...
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40 Free Headline Typefaces
Using strong typography will increase the quality and visual appearance of your work, after all strong typographic skills are one of the many keys to great design! This round-up presents 40 beautiful...
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Quick Tip: Make a Seamless Argyle Pattern
The Argyle pattern dates back to 17th-century Scotland. Learn how to make a 21st-century digital version in 10 easy steps! Step 1 Use the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a square. Hold down the Shift key...
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Create a Painterly Apple with Illustrator CS5’s new Bristle Brush
The new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5 gives you the best of both worlds: The painterly effects of real media and the control and flexibility of a vector drawing. We’ll use another new feature in...
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A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members
Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have...
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