When your just starting out in photoshop just selecting things in photoshop can be very hard to figure out. But thats what here for so lets just start off small and introduce you to one tool at a time. This time we are going to look at the Quick Selection Tool.
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Utilizing Gradients: Making a Pencil
February 19th, 2010
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To make a simple pencil in illustrator one may think to just use different shapes with different colors. While this is effective, without proper use of gradients you may get this “blah” kind of pencil with no real depth. To start off we’re goin to use some simple shapes but if you don’t want to [...]
Making “googly” eyes
February 9th, 2010
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When creating that crazy looking vector image of a dog, cat, or even a person you will always need a pair of eyes to make the animal look good. I mean that is where we look first anyways right? So in this tutorial I am going to show you how to make a googly looking [...]
Making a shooting star using the blend tool
February 8th, 2010
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The blend tool can be used to make some great little effects, you can use it to create shooting stars or just make some abstract line designs with it. Today we are going to keep it simple and make a shooting star, start off by creating a new web document. Make sure the document is in pixels. Now [...]
Making a guitar pick
February 6th, 2010
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Sometimes in illustrator you cant always use the pen tool to create things easily. Like for instance a guitar pick, it can be made with the pen tool but it also can be made by using one of the warp tools. So lets start, create a new document name it what ever you would like [...]
Creating A Vector Artwork
February 3rd, 2010
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Start off with a drawing or rough sketch of your artwork and drag or import it into illustrator. At this point some people like to just live trace it then delete the parts they don’t want, but that doesn’t give you many options. So first set the opacity to something low like 45; lock the [...]
Creating clipping masks
February 3rd, 2010
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Learning how to create a clipping mask can lead to many really awesome design elements. In this tutorial we are only going to create some text clipping masks but this can go much further. You could clip images onto shapes if you would like to. So lets get started, create a new document and make [...]
Introduction to the pathfinder tool
February 2nd, 2010
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Illustrator has a lot of cool features, tools, and little tweaks that you can apply to almost any object. One of the coolest and most useful tools that illustrator offers is the Pathfinder tool. The pathfinder tool allows you to combine objects in interesting ways. Its almost impossible to explain what else you can do [...]
