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How can you make vector halftones from raster images?
March 27,
2008
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It just so happens that if you hold down the '€œtilde' key on your keyboard, you can get a neat effect using any of Illustrator's drawing tools.
March 19,
2008
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Making a custom brush in Illustrator can be easy and frustrating at the same time. No matter which type of brush you create, one of the most important settings to pay attention to is the 'colorization method.'
December 24,
2007
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An opacity mask is essentially like a mixture of a clipping mask and a layer mask at the same time. in other words, you can use an opacity mask to control the appearance (transparency of a shape) using, in most cases, a ...
December 17,
2007
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We all know that alignment is a huge part of any design. The more control we have over alignment, the better. After a certain point, 100% alignment control gives way to new opportunities to make Illustrator even more useful, like making seamless patterns for example.
December 12,
2007
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It's really not very hard to do. If you’ve ever used a clipping mask to hide all of the extra artwork that hangs off the edges of your Illustrator artboard, and wished you could just get rid of the excess, here's how...
December 5,
2007
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This may seem trivial to a good many of you, but when I first started using Illustrator, it seemed to present itself as a serious challenge.
November 30,
2007
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Again, this is a rather trivial Illy skill, but with a program as robust and sometimes mystical as Illustrator, you can often get something to work and never know why.
November 23,
2007
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Every once in a while we might find ourselves needing to get that "inset" or "beveled" look for text, probably more often for buttons and web design, than anything else.
November 9,
2007
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I don't know if this would be as useful to you as it is for me, but I leaped for joy when I discovered this little Illy CS3 feature.
October 31,
2007
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