 |
If you’re a digital artist, it’s probably that you have heard of many of the Adobe Illustrator tools, including the blending mode, but if you’re just starting to work on digital media or if you’ve been working so far in Photoshop, you have been missing all the amazing tools that Illustrator has to offer. On today’s tip we will learn how to use the blend tool on Illustrator, which is a great complement to generate gradients, 3D objects or fractal-like drawings, it requires just a couple of steps to learn how to use it and the things you can achieve with it are really great. |
Archive for September, 2010
September 30th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick Tip: How to use the Blend tool on Illustrator
September 29th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick tip: Using Quick Mask tool in Photoshop
 |
When you’re working with images or photographs, you need to have some specific tools available to help you customize them, such as filters, color editors and of course masks and selection tools. There are many ways to make selections in Photoshop, including the marquee tool, making paths and turn them into selections, using the polygonal lasso and finally the quick mask. This tip will show how to use the quick mask to increase your edition speed while working with pictures. |
September 28th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick tip: Google font previewer for Chrome
 |
Hi friends what’s up?. On today’s tip we want to talk about a nice extension for the Google Chrome browser that will help you preview any website in one of the Google fonts directory. This is certainly an useful tool for web developers and designers, because you can check the functionality of a font inside a website and see if it works before implementing it on the final design, and of course you can use it just for fun if you want to see a website designed with your favorite font. |
September 27th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Stylish text effect tutorial using Illustrator
Typography these days have become more than just a way to express words and build sentences. We can now see a lot of showcases featuring inspirational designs made with typography, which is used in ways to express more than words, turning out into beautiful illustrations.
On this tutorial you’re about to learn how to create a beautiful text effect with a subtle vintage look that’s going to be applied to an specific typeface, just to help you get an idea, we will try to generate an old school text that can be implemented on modern web designs.
September 23rd, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick tip: Using layer comps to easily present your PSD files
 |
Sometimes when we’re designing in Photoshop, our designs end up filled with tons of layers, groups, smart objects and more, making sometimes quite difficult to select what we need and work on it. Certainly a good way to organize your files is by using groups, but even with that the organizing gets complicated sometimes. With this tip we will show you a better way to keep your Photoshop organized, so you can have several objects that can be selected or hidden in a faster way than with the usual layers window. |
September 22nd, 2010 - TS Editorial
Pixel texture with Illustrator
 |
On today’s tip, our theme of study will be how to create pixel textures inside Adobe Illustrator in just a matter of seconds. This is useful when you want to generate textured fillings without having to switch between different graphic programs such as Photoshop or Gimp because the pixel textures can be stored directly inside the swatches window to be implemented later on your designs. This tip is specially helpful for those who are looking to develop pixel designs in Illustrator. |
September 21st, 2010 - TS Editorial
50 icon design tutorials, from apprentice to sensei
Hi dear readers what’s up?, are you doing something special right now?, because if you’re not, we have a very special activity for you. Do you realize that there are many people out there creating new things at every moment?, from illustrators to photographers, to developers to interactive designers, there is a whole community that is working all the time and improving their design skills. (more…)
September 20th, 2010 - TS Editorial
How to get Illustrator anchor points vectorized
Since the era of Illustrator CS, there has been a beautiful plugin to raise the software’s power, we’re talking about Scriptographer, a nice JavaScript based plugin that considerably extends Illustrator’s functionality, providing an extended list of tools to facilitate the drawing and editing process.
On today’s tip, we will show you one of the most useful Scriptographer’s tools, we’re talking about vectorizing the anchor points of any vector object, which is something quite useful for taking screenshots while making tutorials such as this one.
September 17th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick Tip: Thicken your paths on Illustrator
 |
Today we’re going to learn one of Adobe Illustrator CS5 brand new features, the width path tool. This is a nice implementation to work with your paths in a very easy way without having to generate fills or masks. If you’re still working with previous versions of Illustrator, we suggest you to upgrade it because many of our design tips will be written around the new CS5 tools and properties. If you are worried about the performance, you must know that the software does not require a ridiculous amount of resources. |
September 16th, 2010 - TS Editorial
Quick Tip: Snap to pixels on Adobe Illustrator
 |
From now on, we will be posting new design tips every week that will help you improve your skills and get more confident with your designs. On today’s tip, we’re going to show you how to use the snap to pixels property in Adobe Illustrator. Snap to pixels is that it lets you work with crispy objects, which means that they don’t have blurred shadows or pixels around them. |
Comments