Posts Tagged ‘how to use adobe illustrator’

Do You Need to Upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS5?

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.

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Creating Shapes Using the Shape Builder Tool

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

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What Is Adobe Illustrator Used For?

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

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The Benefits of Using a Drawing Tablet

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

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Adobe Illustrator Fosters Design Innovation for Business Owners

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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Adobe Illustrator’s Gradient, Mesh and Blend Tools Can Powerfully Enhance Your Designs

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

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How Adobe Illustrator Integrates With Other Adobe Applications

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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The New Features in Adobe Creative Suite CS5

The Adobe Creative Suite CS5 is a complete package of Adobe’s top products from Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, Dreamweaver, and more. The programs you get depend on whether you get the standard, premium, production, or master collection. So with the CS5 line being released, what are

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Why A Quality Logo Is Important For Your Business

Logos are all over the place, and represent many different products and businesses. Some of these are recognized the world over, and others come and go as quickly as the businesses and products the represent. Why is it that some logos just stick in our head, and

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The Case for Adobe Illustrator as Business Software For Projects

Corporate IT departments—whether for large companies, or for small ones, have to justify the purchase of software packages to higher ups. Bean counters, as it were. One of the hardest software justifications to buy is something that isn’t clearly business related. Getting a new version of Excel

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