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How to Create Funky 3D Springs in Illustrator
Apr 6th
Many of us have done this before in Auto CAD, 3D Max or Maya. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create 3D springs in Illustrator. We’ll be using the 3D Revolve Tool and some manual effort to obtain this quality vector result. Hope you find it interesting! May of 2009 Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Step 1 Create a new document. With the Ellipse Tool (L), make a circle 25px by 25px. Fill it with red and no Stroke. Step 2 Select the circle and go to Effect > 3D > Revolve. Enter the values as shown in the figure below. A Revolve angle of 180 degree is to make a semi-ring. An offset of 100pt from the right edge adds a distance between the revolve axis and the path on which the object will revolve. Step 3 Now we’ll duplicate and Send to Back. Alt-drag the ring to make a duplicate copy as shown. Use Command + Shift + Left Bracket to send it back. Step 4 With the duplicate copy still selected, open the Appearance palette (Shift + F6). Double-click the 3D Revolve effect, as shown below. Step 5 In the 3D Revolve …
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Create a 3D Newspaper, Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
Apr 2nd
Follow this tutorial and learn how to create a 3D newspaper text effect using the Extrude & Bevel effect and the Map Art option. We will create all the pieces of newspaper with the help of the Area Type Tool and save them as symbols. We’ll then give this effect a discreet old look by using the Note Paper effect. We will also work with graphic styles to speed up the workflow, so let’s begin! Final Image Preview You can find the source files in the directory labeled ‘source’ that came in the files that you downloaded. You may wish to look through them briefly before we begin. A preview of the final image is below. Step 1 First, open a new web document. Take the Type Tool (T) and type “NEWS” using the font Gill Sans Ultra Bold, with the size of 150 pt. Step 2 With the text selected, go to the Object menu and choose Expand, then Ungroup to obtain the four letters. Fill them with light gray or any other color. Step 3 Now let’s make them 3D. Select the letter “N”, go to the Effect menu > 3D and apply the Extrude & Bevel effect. Set the values as shown below. Step 4 You can apply the same settings to the other letters or …
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Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2
Mar 26th
This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named “Violet Coffee.” In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn to create a ready to print booklet on InDesign, work with master pages, text, tabs, paragraph and character styles, import external files and actually print the booklet. Let’s move on! August of 2010 The workflow in this tutorial series is excellent preparation for creating this kind of work for clients. You can also consider putting your graphic talents to work by adding your own uniquely designed food menu template to GraphicRiver. It’s a popular and growing category to contribute to. And if you’re client project has a tight deadline or narrow budget, there are many food menu …
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Web Layout Tags Vector Pack – Graphic Mania
Mar 21st
Many designers prefer to use vector pack resources in their artwork because they are easy to edit and modify as vector based graphics . Layout … If you are already a Premium Member then just sign in and you can download this full pack that includes web layout tags vector format with the source Illustrator files and large preview. … Graphic Mania editorial team likes to share with you useful resources, tutorials and articles related to the graphic design and technology …
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Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam, Round 3 | Vectortuts+
Mar 20th
Antonio Grant “Hi I'm Antonio, graphic art and motion graphics are a hobby for me, I don't have a website as but I sure had some fun making this design, hope you like the simplicity of it” … Most commonly known for her seductive drawings of women LoungeKat has recently ventured into pattern design and collaborative work with fellow vector illustrator Sean Kelly (Bucket'o'Thought). … Source Files, Bonus Tutorials & More for all relevant Tuts+ sites in one subscription.
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Design a Grungy Western Movie Poster in Photoshop
Feb 27th
I recently watched the movie Tombstone (1993) on TV, which gave me the inspiration to try my hand at designing a wild west themed movie poster. Follow this step by step tutorial to create a grungy western poster design, see the whole design process from start to finish as the various stock resources are manipulated to complete the composition. Our poster sets the theme of our fictional movie, the overall grungy appearance and creepy skull give the design a dark atmosphere while the cowboy hat, twin revolvers and vintage playing cards all fit into that wild west theme. The whole design is basically a composition of stock photos, with some basic image manipulation techniques and colour correction finishing off the poster. View the grungy western movie poster design Open up a dirty old paper…
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How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font
Jan 6th
Sometimes you need to go a little bit wild with your typography. In these cases, you can either take the easy way and choose a fancy font from some of the free font site like Dafont or Urban Fonts, or get creative and give some extra sparkle to your ordinary font, creating a typographic design which can stand by itself. This tutorial, discusses this later option. Beware of the following boolean operations galore! July of 2009 Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards, as well as a few color variations. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial…
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How To Intensify Your Landscape Photos in Photoshop
Dec 19th
The post-processing stage of photography is definitely the most fun and creative. It’s where you can really transform your otherwise bland and boring photos into really intense images that draw in the viewer. In this tutorial we’ll cover the process of editing your landscape photos in Photoshop to give an epic, almost fantasy style appearance with bright colours, high contrast and lots of fine detail. The theme of this tutorial will be converting this quite beautiful landscape shot into a dreamy scene of epicness. Just comparing the two you can see how much impact the post processing effects give the photograph, transforming it from an everyday snapshot into an unbelievable fantasy scene. I’m neither much of a photographer or a global explorer so I don’t have many landscape photographs to hand, but thankfully some of the more adventurous photographers out there share their work online for others to download and use. This particular image is a free image named Tranquility from SXC.hu . The sky and clouds in the original look pretty calm and serene, which fits into the name of the image, but we can inject extra intensity into our edited version. Use the Pen tool to carefully trace the outline of the mountains from the scene. Copy the mountains onto a new layer and fill the background with black. Find a stock photo featuring stormy clouds and paste it into the document. Place this new sky layer …
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dwTutorials.com – Working with Orthographic Projections and Basic …
Dec 2nd
Isometric projections are a system of drawing that allows an artist to quickly and accurately draw an object without using perspective. I will go into more depth about isometrics later in this tutorial . … Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial , including this one? Join for just $9/month. … Once you are finished gathering data you can use your notes to create a set of orthographics in Illustrator . And that brings us to the world of …
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