Let’s play a little bit today! I want to say straight away that such games are not without benefit. By performing simple tasks you can test your eye, your color perception, improve your skills in Bezier’s curves manipulation and test your knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Today we present you works of vector designers, photographers as well as professionals in the 3D. Try to determine where you see a vector, a 3D image or a photo.

For the first time ever Astute Graphics are giving you the opportunity to gain the complete collection of plug-ins with a remarkable 50% OFF. Whether you are an existing customer or new to Astute Graphics this is an unmissable offer!

Today we are introducing an update for free Mesh Tormentor plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. This plug-in allows you to make the manual and tedious work with gradient mesh automatic, extending the standard features of Adobe Illustrator. Now a new version of the Mesh Tormentor plugin is available for Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 for Mac and Windows 32 and 64.

It seems like the modern economy is changing our conventional working habits; a phenomenon which some people are beginning to make into a positive. There are a lot less ‘normal’ 9 to 5 office jobs these days, so more and more of us are becoming self-employed or freelancers.

Freelance writers, builders, designers, decorators IT firms and website developers are all becoming much more commonplace. At first the groundwork may seem more hassle than its worth, and you might miss the diminished responsibility of working in an office where all of your working needs were catered for by big HR departments, but you’ll find that the whole bureaucracy of self-employment isn’t actually very taxing.

Congratulations to all users of Creative Cloud with regular updates of Adobe's applications! Of course, our favorite Illustrator received several new features and enhancements. Now we can use live rectangles, preview the created paths, run the application in safe mode to diagnose crashes and use the graphic processor to speed up editing and displaying of the images. Working with anchor points has become much easier and the Pencil Tool received regular improvements. Let me tell you more about this …

Is there an autosave feature in Adobe Illustrator?, this question has been asked by many users over the past two decades. I always heard the short answer - no. This feature is particularly relevant now that the latest releases of Adobe Illustrator, unfortunately, are not very stable. Now, thanks to Autosaviour we got autosave feature. In addition, the plug-in can create backup of the previous version of the file.

It is with the upgrade of VectorScribe version 2.3 that you can welcome the addition of some great NEW features. You now have even more control over points with the ability to highlight and/or automatically remove redundant points while also being able to add points at set distances to selected segments. The update also includes bug fixes to ensure your creative process runs as smoothly as possible.

To celebrate the launch of their new site Ladbrokes are currently giving away a Jaguar F-Type convertible to one lucky person and to go along with the competition they’ve had this infographic produced.