Illustrator Tutorial - Easy Glass Effects in Two Minutes

POSTED BY admin on Feb 26 under Tutorial, adobe, illustrator

Tutorial Gratification in Two Minutes

I am reposting this tutorial because it was originally included with the Free Glass Symbol Set and it was too small. Soon to come - Illustrator Quickie - Brushes. Keep an eye out.

Illustrator Tutorial - Easy Glass Effects with Gradient Mesh

More About the Mesh

Change the color of a mesh point

Method 1 - Use Direct Selection Tool (The white arrow), select the mesh point, then choose your swatch

Method 2 – Drag the swatch to the mesh point

Remove unwanted mesh line segments

Method 1 - Using Mesh Tool holding down the Alt/Option key, click on a mesh line to deleteManipulate Mesh Select any point on your mesh with the Mesh tool and you’ll notice that directional lines appear. Grab a directional handle to move a directional line and you’ll alter the contour of the mesh line and, as a result, alter the direction in which the color of the selected point and the colors of the surrounding points blend into each other.Save Symbol LibraryUnzip and Save .ai file to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\SymbolsSave From with Illustrator

Open the file -> go to your symbol’s panel
From the Symbol’s Fly-out Menu-> Choose Save Symbol Library
Save the new library to the default Symbols folder. The library name will automatically appear in the Symbol Libraries submenu and the Open Symbol Library submenu.If you save the library to a different folder, you can open it by choosing Open Symbol Library > Other Library from the Symbols panel menu. Once you open it using this process, it will appear in the Symbol Libraries submenu with the other libraries.

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Free Illustrator Patterns - Japanese Bunnies

POSTED BY admin on Feb 25 under Graphic Design, adobe, freebies, patterns, resources, swatches, vector

Free Japanese Fans and Bunny Patterns for Illustrator

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Free Graphic Design Applications

POSTED BY admin on Feb 19 under Flash, Graphic Design, adobe, applications, illustrator, indesign, photoshop, resources, vector

Free Creative Suite CS3 Alternatives

There are so many free open-source applications out there that can save money for new designers and even allow designers who work in one medium to explore other mediums as well.Here’s a list of everything I could think of.

Free Illustration & Vector Art Applications

Free Photo Image Editing Software

Free Illustration, Animation, and Authoring Tools

Free Desktop Publishing Applications

Free Flash and Animation Free Adobe Acrobat Alternative

Free Office Applications

Free Illustration & Vector Art Applications

Inkscape Product Page - Download Site

A free illustration and vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. Featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more.

InsightPoint Product Page - Download Site

InsightPoint creates sophisticated illustration and layout for Web and print. When it comes to spell out and share your ideas, in text and in graphics as well, InsightPoint is the fastest and easiest way to get you there. Built on top of XML technologies, comprehensive object-oriented vector design tools, trivial learning curve, and smooth drawing experience. Besides popular bitmap outputs, InsightPoint can also create high-quality, Web-deployable multipage slide shows in the compact, sharp SVG format. Version 3.2.5.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Karbon 14 - Product Page

Karbon is a vector-based drawing application for KOffice. It allows artists to create complex drawings without losing image quality when zooming in on, or resizing the drawing. You can use Karbon to add finishing touches to diagrams created using Kivio or charts created using KChart. Graphic design ideas can be quickly and easily transformed into high quality illustrations with Karbon.

SodiPodi - Product Page - Download

Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program, like CorelDraw® or Adobe Illustrator® from the proprietary software world, and Sketch or Karbon14 from the free software world. It is free software, distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License, Version 2.

Skencil - Product Page

Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. A somewhat unique (for a drawing program) feature of Skencil is that it is implemented almost completely in a very high-level, interpreted language, Python. Python is powerful, object-oriented and yet easy to use.

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