illustrator
3D Pie Graphs in Illustrator
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Digitip 073 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
Illustrator has had a graph tool for as long as I can remember. The following trick shows how you can use Illustrator graphs to create a 3D pie graph for which the graph data can still be edited.
Let’s get started by entering some basic numbers
Simple continuous pattern
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Digitip 072 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
Modified 20-Apr-2008 (added Scott C. tip)
The following tip shows how you can create a relatively simple continuous pattern using Illustrator. It’s been sitting on the back-burner for well over a month, but is finally here
Temporary Access to Selection Tools
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Digitip 068 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Ok, not really an extensive tip… more an observation and question - at the end - with some tip elements in it that I thought I’d share.
Pressing the Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) key whilst you are working with another tool in InDesign will give you temporary access to either […]
Masked Text
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 065 - Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability.
Tracing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 064 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result.
Preparing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 063 - Adobe Photoshop CS3
A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting the […]
Art Files for Illustrator
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Code Line Communications has produced a stand-alone application for Mac OS (PPC and Universal Binary) that makes packaging Illustrator files for delivery of original .ai file including graphics and fonts to service providers an easier task.
Web Reference: ArtFiles (2007, Code Line Communications)
Benday Dots Screen Fill technique
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Digitip 053 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
The following tip looks at using screen patterns as a fill for selected objects in Illustrator. I must thank Sylvia for asking about benday (or Ben Day) dots on the CTP-Q, Page Layout: Adobe, Quark, MS, PDF forum, as it triggered the creation of this tip. Part 2 of this […]
Benjamin Day
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
History is interesting, and when someone on one of the many email lists to which I subscribe recently asked how to create Benday Dots. My first thought was “what the heck are Benday Dots”? So I ended up doing what most of us do today, when we want to know something: I did an internet […]
Faded dotted pattern
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Digitip 054 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
This tip succeeds the previous tip, and show cases how the dotted patterns created earlier can be faded, whilst retaining their vector and spot colours.