Coloring Artwork in Illustrator Using Live Paint The introduction of Live Paint in Adobe Illustrator CS2 revolutionized the way we color and even draw our artwork. How you ask? In every version of Illustrator prior to CS2, it was extremely difficult (or impossible) to add color to
Read more →Live Trace was introduced to Adobe Illustrator users in CS2. I remember the release of CS2 and how revolutionary Live Trace was—you mean to tell me I can take any pixel-based image and “Trace” it into vector art? This worked great for scanned sketches but didn’t always
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I’m an avid user of Adobe Illustrator, but in all honesty I did not create patterns very often…before CS6. A lot of the work I do does not involve patterns, but since the release of Illustrator CS6 I’m finding ways to include them in my work and
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Adobe Illustrator CS6 is the newest in Adobe’s line of high-performance vector image editing programs. This newest member of the Illustrator family provides increased speed, precision and stability when working with complicated or large files. It also makes use of a range of new tools and features
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It’s official…CS6 is here! Now let’s discuss what’s new and we’ll start with Adobe Illustrator: The first change you will notice right away when you open the program—the interface. Controls in the Preferences let you control the brightness of your workspace. The default is a much darker
Read more →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 →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 →A graphics tablet can increase your efficiency and productivity if you are working in a creative application such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop. But how? I will explain the different features and advantage of working with a drawing tablet. What is a drawing tablet? You might
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
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