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Quick Overview on Adobe Illustrator’s Reshape Tool

Published on December 26, 2007 in tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, illustrator, technique, tip, vector.

Another quick Adobe Illustrator tip over at design blog BittBox, this time a quick overview on using the Reshape tool. In short, the Reshape tool helps keep the overall ‘feel’ of a vector path without having to manually tweak individual anchor points.

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Adobe Illustrator’s Tilde Key Trick

Published on December 26, 2007 in tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, drawing, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, technique, tip.

Just saw this over at design blog BittBox: when drawing with the Shape tools in Illustrator (rectangle, circle etc.), holding the tilde key (the squiggle key to the left of the 1 key on U.S. keyboards) and then dragging the mouse will result in lots of duplicates of the shape following the trail of your mouse pointer.

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Illustrator CS3 Tip: Create A Color Group From Selected Artwork

Published on September 20, 2007 in productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Creative Suite, CS3, design, graphic design, how-to, illustrator, productivity, resources, technique, tip, vector.

A great quick tip, from the excellent design blog BittBox, to create a color group of all the colors in an Illustrator document: Select all the art in your document, go to the Swatches fly-out menu and choose “New color group” – you now have a color group folder of all the colors in the artwork. Very cool!

Since color groups are a CS3 feature, this tip is Illustrator CS3 only.

via BittBox

Cartoon Art & Halftones Tutorial: From Inkjet Printer to Photocopier

Published on September 19, 2007 in art and productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, bitmap, cartoon, graphics, grayscale, halftone, Illustration, illustrator, inkjet, Mac, photocopy, Photoshop, print, printing, process, resources, technique, tip, tutorials, vector, walkthrough.

A cartoon illustration & design project for a friend’s party required the resulting art to be suitable for reproduction on a photocopy machine. After some trial, error, Google search, trial, error, Google search, trial, error I discovered the magic combo that allows you to create a halftone in Photoshop for an image and print it out on your inkjet printer so the art will be perfect for photocopying.

This technique is perfect for flyers, newsletters or any other short-run printing needs you have where the cheapness of a photocopy is desired, but so are grayscale images.

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Cartoon Character Icon Video Tutorial at FastIcon.com

Published on September 12, 2007 in Illustration, art and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, creature, cute, Illustration, illustrator, monster, software, technique, tutorials, vector.

Cartoon character vector art icon by fasticon.com Icon artist Dirceu Veiga over at FastIcon.com has a nice little video screen capture showcasing his technique of creating cartoon characters as vector art in Illustrator for his icon creations.

The video isn’t really a tutorial or walkthrough, but it’s kind of nice seeing the approach to building the vector objects and adding shading and highlights. You’ll have to reverse-engineer some of the techniques, but sometimes just seeing something done can be helpful in itself.

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