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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.
Mutliple Strokes – Appearances
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Digitip 049 – Adobe Illustrator CS2
In today’s eSeminar “Discover Illustrator CS2″, I ran through the usage of the appearance palette as a powertool in Illustrator CS2. As promised I would post at least one eTutorial at the end of the seminar based on the End Poll question “which feature covered today would you like to [...]
eSeminar Follow-ups
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Thank you to everyone who attended today’s Discover Adobe Illustrator CS2 eSeminar, that forms part of the Adobe Graphic Design eSeminar Series hosted during the months of September through to December by a number of Adobe Ambassadors around the country.
Brushing a mask
Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Digitip 041 – Adobe Illustrator CS2
The following tip was based on an a recent Photoshop TV podcast tip by Matt Kloskowski, where a photographic image was nicely masked in Photoshop.
3D Animation to Shockwave
Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Digitip 038 – Adobe Illustrator CS2
Ok, this one ‘bleeped’ at the CS Conference, Quick Tips session in Sydney for some mysterious reason (gremlins, probably…) but here are the notes on how to create 3D blending shockwave movie from Illustrator CS, using the new CS2 Isolate Selected Group feature.
Isolating Groups
Sunday, September 25th, 2005
Digitip 036 – Adobe Illustrator CS2
(Revision 1.1)
You might have wondered about this grey box that appears around your artwork occassionally in Illustrator CS2. Well, it is a new feature included with Illustrator CS2: The “isolate selected group mode”. It works on any group, clipping masks, blends, pathfinder (unextracted) and much more.