Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
I was racking my 2-D brain trying to figure out how to make a 3-D basketball, lines and all. I just couldn't get it right, so I turned to the Adobe Illustrator (Macintosh) forum. Just a few hours after I posted my my query, a couple of the regulars chimed ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
My friend and kickass illustrator Dave Turton and I were talking about how anybody can draw certain shapes in Illustrator. We were looking at a beveled star, but then realized it's not as easy as it looks. So he challenged me to do it in 7 steps or less. This ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
What the heck is a Lens Flare tool doing in Illustrator? I always wondered that. The few times I'd selected the tool and actually drawn a flare, I couldn't think of any reason I'd want to use it. I mean, it looks kind of cool, but I didn't see a ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Live Trace may be great for making realistic vector images from photos, but I like to push it beyond its intened use. In this case, I've taken a Photo of a sunflower and turned into a little piece of pop art.First, go to the Swatches panel, and from the flyout ...
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