A Comprehensive Guide to Illustrator’s Live Trace Tool and More
With designers relying more and more on vectors over the past few years designers have been looking for ways fast and effective methods of converting bitmap graphics into the scalable vector format. Originally Adobe utilized a program known…
Photoshop CS4 Tutorial: Create Vintage Style Photos
Not happy with the stained, drab, dried look of standard vintage photos? Stock photo filters getting boring? Good! Today I’m going to show you how to keep the good qualities of vintage-effects and throw in some beautiful clouds…
Create a Burberry Style Plaid Part II: Applying a Twill Pattern
Last month I discussed how to Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps. Creating a basic plaid in Illustrator is fun and easy but some of you may have noticed (especially those of you who…
Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps
Since I posted my set of 50 Plaid Pattern Illustrator Swatches I’ve had quite a few requests for a tutorial on how I created them. The cool thing about plaid patterns is that they are very easy to create;…
Learn the Basics of Fashion Sketching in Illustrator with These 8 Eye-Opening Video Tutorials
Recently, I’ve become very interested in graphic design for the fashion industry. You may have seen a fashion sketch that I designed in Illustrator a while back. Most typical graphic designers probably don’t think of the fashion industry when…
Working With Pattern Swatches in Illustrator
The Swatches Palette in Illustrator can be a very powerful tool for someone who knows how to use it. Most of us already know that the Swatches Palette stores colors for us to use in our designs, but…
Tutorial: Create an iPhone Style Vector Phone Illustration
Vectortuts.com just published a tutorial that I wrote based on the vector iPhone design that I published last week. Vectortuts.com is a new website devoted to vector graphics tutorials and resources. There are so few websites out there dedicated to…
Part II: Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip
AiBurn posted part II of my two part tutorial explaining how to create an animated three dimensional poker chip today. In part I, you learned how to create the chip itself, in part II, you will learn how to…
My First Tutorial: Part 1: Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip
AiBurn just posted the first of my 2 part tutorial explaining how to create an animated 3 dimensional poker chip. In part 1, you’ll learn how to create a 3 dimensional poker chip. In part 2, we will learn…
