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How to Create Metal Chair Using Gradient on Strokes in Adobe Illustrator CS6

Adobe Illustrator CS6 has a new feature which is called Gradient on Strokes. It is the first time since Adobe Illustrator’s creation we have an opportunity to apply the gradient fills to the strokes. There are two more types of the gradient fills beside the linear and radial gradient fills. I think this feature has lots of creative potential. Let’s examine the gradient on strokes in more detail and figure out how to use it.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Techniques, Read More
SubScribe Designer — (Plugin for Adobe Illustrator) - My Top 5 Favorite Features

I think that SubScribe Designer is an irreplaceable tool for anyone who creates detailed graphics. And it is even free to all DrawScribe, VectorScribe and Phantasm CS v2 customers! With its help, you can create tangents and perpendiculars to the paths, create a circle according to given points, quickly align objects relatively to horizontals or verticals, create circumscribed and inscribed circles, and much, much more.

posted by: Nicholas van der Walle, in Illustrator Tips / Techniques, Read More
How to Create Folded Text in Adobe Illustrator

Today we will learn how to create a text which is located in different planes. One very interesting trick with the Bounding box will let us do it without using 3D modeling. Find out more at the jump!

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Small Tutorials, Read More
How to Rotate the Bounding Box in Adobe Illustrator

More than once you’ve probably experienced a situation when the Bounding Box was located at "inconvenient” angles and you needed to change it to make a correct transformation of one or multiple objects. It is quite natural if you come up with a question: how to rotate the Bounding Box in Adobe Illustrator? If you were looking for an answer, you probably won’t have found it. Until now… where I recently discovered a new trick which I want to share it with you.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Techniques, Read More
Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator (Part 8)
Dear friends, I present you the last article in the series of the "Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator” articles. You will learn some tips and hints while working with the paths, with the transformation of objects; you will learn how to find the true center of the figures and learn some other tricks which allow you to do more work in less time.
posted by: Natalie Ulrich, in Illustrator Tips / Basix, Read More
Monitor technology overview for graphic designers

The internet, in particular e-forums are known to be the most helpful source of the information for selection of any technological device. The more popular the device to be selected, the more information may be obtained about it from current and former owners. But there is lack of comments as concerned professional, rare and expensive equipment. We typically have to rely upon the seller’s opinion. But can be the seller good adviser? Monitors for designers, photographers and printers are considered to be one of these examples. The main requirement for a monitor to be used in a design environment is high quality color reproduction. This article contains the description of main criteria for the monitor selection.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Basix, Read More
Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator (Part 7)
Natalie Ulrich shares some very interesting tricks with us. Today you will find out how to simplify your work with the Gradient Mesh; how to control the Rectangular Grid Tool, the Arc Tool and the Polar Grid with the shortcuts. You will also learn how to create the gradient brushes and chains. Learn at the jump!
posted by: Natalie Ulrich, in Illustrator Tips / Basix, Read More
Monitor Calibration Check-up Wallpaper
 You can check your monitor settings with the Free Monitor Wallpaper. As it turned out, my monitor needed some serious corrections. Download and check it!
posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
How to Considerably Reduce the Source EPS File Size in Illustrator?
Probably you have been searching for the answer to this question many times. Standard proposals as to this problem solving can provide your source file size reduction only by a few hundred kilobytes, and it is doubtful whether this would satisfy you. Today let me tell you how to make the source EPS file much smaller. The solution is very simple and original. Hope you find it interesting!
posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Techniques, Read More
Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator (Part 6)
Natalie Ulrich shares some very interesting tricks with us. Today we learn some peculiarities of Star Tool and Blend Tool (W) application. Learn at the jump!
posted by: Natalie Ulrich, in Illustrator Tips / Basix, Read More
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