If you’re a designer and work regularly with Adobe Illustrator, then you’re probably aware that the Adobe Illustrator CS5 was released not too long ago. A lot of people that have previous versions of Illustrator are wondering if they really do need to upgrade to the CS5.
Read more →One of the great tools introduced in Adobe Illustrator CS5 was the the Shape Builder tool. This particular tool has the ability to combine and separate shapes. If you are already familiar with Illustrator, you probably already knew there was a way to do this with the
Read more →When Illustrator CS4 was released in October 2008, one of the greatest new features was the addition of multiple artboards and the multiple artboard tool on the toolbar. It’s hard to imagine, but pre-Illustrator CS4 you could not create multi-page documents in Adobe Illustrator. But multiple artboards
Read more →Many people contact us with questions about what Adobe software class is right for them. They know what they want to use the software for, but unsure what software will provide the tools they need to do it. We find that Adobe Illustrator seems to be the
Read more →There are many ways that you can find the inspiration for your graphic design project, and each of them is equally useful as the others. There is no single way that you can find the inspiration for your project, and you should take advantage of each one
Read more →One of the things that slows down graphic design projects, and which makes ‘herd think’ more common, is the time it takes to do iterative explorations of the design challenge. It’s much simpler than it was before, in the days of Xacto Knives and rubber cement and
Read more →One of the places where vector based illustration programs shine is in their complete control over the strokes of lines and the fills of objects; this can be done in raster programs as well through the use of layer masks, but with vector tools, the tools of
Read more →As wonderful a tool as Illustrator is, the entire Creative Suite of products shows that it’s just one in an entire, complete tool kit. We’re going to go through broad integration between Adobe Illustrator, and its suite mates in the Design Package – InDesign, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver
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