Tag: Illustrator

Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll show you how you can sketch in Illustrator in a natural fluid style, almost as if you’re drawing with pen and paper. The plug-ins DynamicSketch and WidthScribe have various intuitive tools and features to simplify your work flow and offer functionality that is nowhere in Adobe Illustrator… Continue reading Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

In this article we are gathered seventeen new adobe illustrator tutorials which can really helpful to improve your design and illustration knowledge. We hope you’ve learnt a great thing from these tutorials to improve your skills. How to Turn a Sketch into Vector Art In Illustrator In this tutorial, you will learn how to use of Adobe Illustrator is… Continue reading 17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is experiencing a come-back in the world of web design. Not only is SVG becoming commonly used online, but more and more designers are using vectors for wireframing. The following tips will help you make the most of Illustrator as a wireframing tool. Wireframing is about working rapidly and iterating quickly. The aim… Continue reading 10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Adobe illustrator is a most commonly used software for designing great vectors and for other purposes as well. It’s being common doesn’t mean that it is as easy to use or master. There are many similarities in adobe Photoshop and adobe illustrator tools but… Continue reading 28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools

Open source is now a well known concept whereby the developer of the code will release it to the public for typically zero cost. This has greatly benefited the community in a couple of ways including giving us free alternatives to expensive software such as illustrator.  There is of course a trade off in using… Continue reading Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools

Why Mouse Users Should Ditch Photoshop and Draw in Illustrator

Creating digitally gives amazing possibilities. You get so many colors, so many materials, every mistake can be fixed easily and it’s all in a friendly, clean environment – you just need to turn off your computer afterwards. All these advantages are the reason why so many artists try their hands at Adobe Photoshop. This software,… Continue reading Why Mouse Users Should Ditch Photoshop and Draw in Illustrator

How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

In today’s Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a comic book inspired text effect your favourite superhero would be proud of. Learn how to create a basic 3D effect using the Blend tool and produce cool halftone patterns to give the design that retro screen printed appearance. These two techniques alone are crucial additions to… Continue reading How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

Last year I posted a roundup of the best Photoshop alternatives aimed at casual designers or hobbyists who wants to fulfill their creative passion, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive industry standard software. I’m a big Illustrator fan myself and I post loads of Illustrator tutorials here on my blog, but… Continue reading 7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator

I recently shared some tips with a subscriber about how to create a nautical star design in Illustrator, which then prompted me to research traditional nautical star and compass rose layouts and construct an ornate design of my own. The process makes use of lots of simple but really useful techniques in Illustrator to build… Continue reading How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator

Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

An innocent vector portrait based on a stock image from Photodune became a battleground of sparkles and glitter. As requested, people wanted to see a portrait tutorial which used a lot of glitter! Who was I to not take up such a challenge? In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a… Continue reading Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Illustrator is important software in web design. To create beautiful logo designers need to know illustrator to create logo banners additional graphics. This article 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources is useful to all designers.   Vector Tutorials Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Detailed Restaurant… Continue reading 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

How To Make a Letterpress Texture Effect in Photoshop

I’ve received a few questions recently about how I create the letterpress style texturing that appears on pretty much every retro/vintage design I make. Today’s tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to give your logos and typography that ink stamp style effect that originated from the old letterpress style printing technique.  … Continue reading How To Make a Letterpress Texture Effect in Photoshop

Ultimate Collection of Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop is forever paradise in digital designing world and an every designer’s best friend. Since the mark of its introduction in designing field, Photoshop has been in a constant spotlight of excellence, extensively utilized by everyone linked with digital designing no matter how. Whether its retouching or manipulations, matte painting, illustrations, texturing, designing of packages, logos,… Continue reading Ultimate Collection of Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

45 Fresh And Useful Photoshop Tutorials

Here we have come up with another fresh collection of some high quality and very useful Adobe Photoshop tutorials that have been released in last few months. There is no second opinion that Adobe Photoshop is the most powerful and necessary tool for designing and you cannot complete your designing work without using Adobe Photoshop.… Continue reading 45 Fresh And Useful Photoshop Tutorials

Top 30 Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Have you ever used the Illustrator tool by Adobe? If yes, there is some real great news on for you. Adobe Illustrator has come up with some real amazing tutorials that you must go through this year. They are specially meant for the new version of Adobe and, gauging some new Illustrator talent on board.… Continue reading Top 30 Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

With this tutorial I would like to show you a few tricks on creating clean lines and edges when working with the flat design trend, in Adobe Illustrator. Simple layered styles and reusing Graphic Styles to help your workflow are most efficient, so you should be able to create a set of matching icons in… Continue reading Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 10 top tips

Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing tool, meaning you can create artwork that can be scaled infinitely without any loss of quality. It’s a fantastic tool for logo design, creating complex vector artwork and playing with illustrated typography design. But coming from Photoshop you may not be savvy with Illustrator and its unique ways: so we’re here to help.

From using Bézier points and curves to strokes and fills and adding a more natural look to your vector artwork, read on for some Illustrator secrets for those new to the application.