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 Symbols - 60 Glass Effects

POSTED BY admin on Dec 12 under Graphic Design, Symbols, Tutorial, adobe, freebies, illustrator

Illustrator Freebie 60 Glass Effects

Symbol Library & Tutorial gratification in two minutes!

Download this free symbol library and check out the gradient mesh tutorial and learn how to do it yourself.

Free Illustrator Symbols - Glass Library

Get all 60 glass vector illustrator in one symbol library. These icons can be used in Adobe Flash or Illustrator, for your website, as icons or buttons. Shapes: glass heart, wineglass, flame, user, man icon, woman icon, stars, raindrops birds, bubbles and more.

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Swirly Curls - Sick Brush Kit

POSTED BY admin on Nov 1 under Graphic Design, Newbie Lessons, Tutorial, adobe, freebies, illustrator

Free Vector BrushKit for Adobe Illustrator CS

(Click the image, scroll down to the download button.)

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Awesome Freebies & Tutorials

POSTED BY admin on Oct 12 under Newbie Lessons, Tutorial, freebies

This list is an on-going effort to bring the providers of great graphic resource a little more of the appreciation they deserve. These links are to the designer’s pages not the actual resource displayed.

Vector Freebies & Tutorials

Bittbox - I love this guy. He’s brilliant. He offers many tutorials on a variety of graphic design subjects, and extremely useful free downloads. If you like the swirly curls sets then I suggest you check out his free brushes.

nDesign-studio - Also a brilliant fantastic site with resources for wordpress, web design, graphic design and development with easy to follow tutorials, free downloads and a very impressive portfolio.

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