Posted by: cccmien on: November 14, 2008
Create your own handwriting font : Fontifier
Illustrator art brushes : Veerle’s Blog
Posted by: cccmien on: September 1, 2008
Should keep this in mind for my next design that should be printed…
www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk – designing for print setting up crops and bleed
Posted by: cccmien on: July 23, 2008
A list of very interesting tutorials here.
Posted by: cccmien on: June 12, 2008
These are some tutorials I still have to take a closer look at. Put in a post just as a reminder for myself. It’s not the swirls I’m interested in, but the techniques used.
graphics-illustrations.com – how to draw swirls illustrations in adobe illustrator part one
graphics-illustrations.com – how to draw swirls illustrations in adobe illustrator part [...]
Posted by: cccmien on: June 10, 2008
As simple as it may seem, cropping an image in Illustrator is not that obvious. Illustrator has a vector based workspace, as opposed to Photoshop which uses a canvas.
A simple solution is to first crop the image in Photoshop to its desired dimensions, and then import the image into Illustrator.
If you really want to do [...]
Posted by: cccmien on: June 5, 2008
Nice tutorial on creating a road map in Illustrator : www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk creating road maps in adobe illustrator
My first attempt (see below) is very minimal and not very fancy, but I got the idea.
Posted by: cccmien on: June 5, 2008
If you’re used to working with Photoshop, you’ll probably know the ’skew’ transform option. Illustrator doesn’t have this option directly, but it can be done using the following steps:
select the object you want to skew with the direct selection tool (A)
select the free transform tool (E)
press the shift key and hold it pressed
while holding [...]