Written by Lourance | 18 July 2010

Friends, are you tired of your navigation never staying up? Post-it note navigations lose their adhesiveness and fall flat, scotch tape navigation can tear up your background color and leave a sticky mess, and push pin navigations leave awful holes on your website! Now, you can have a tidy clip-on navigation that will stay up as long as you like with no messy glue or ugly holes left behind! All you will need is a copy of Adobe Illustrator, a block of wood, a doughnut, a ball of twine, three nails, a club sandwich, a bucket of ice, and a hatchet as sharp as the devil himself.

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Written by Lourance | 11 July 2010

we are going to work through ways of creating digital portrait illustrations that have a unique and somewhat tactile feel of marker and watercolor.

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Written by Lourance | 27 June 2010

Hi there. In the next tutorial you can learn to create a grumpy bear face. For the basic shapes you’ll only need the Ellipse Tool and some Warp effects. Later, for some discrete details, you’ll need the Inner Glow, the Gaussian Blur or the Drop Shadow.

This is what you’ll be creating:

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Written by Lourance | 25 June 2010

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Written by Lourance | 20 June 2010

A friend of mine would design a special font, like water pipes as their website LOGO, i think that is a interest job.i take it,and design it in liiustrator.here i will show you how i make it step by step .

Step 1

create a new document in illustrator. open the toole option View>Show Grid then go to View>Snap to Grid.

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Written by Lourance | 19 June 2010

open a new document with square of 1000px . Using the Pencil tool draw a rough outline like the picture show.

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Written by Lourance | 19 June 2010

In this photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to Create A Shapes strong geometric central design poster. using basic photoshop tools and shapes.we will demonstrate step by step. ok ,lets go.

First, open photoshop ,create a new document at the US letter size ,RGB mode.

Now make a icon shaped 4xU . choose the Ellipse Tool and draw a circle ( in 3.8 inch size ). put a stroke of 96 pt to the circle, and apply the bright green swatch as a stroke color. make no fill to the circle .

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Written by Lourance | 18 June 2010

When using Photoshop or Illustrator on a regular basis, whether you are a beginner, intermediate or pro user, you often bump into small problems that you would associate with illogical behavior and where you wonder “Why does this happen? Why doesn’t it just do what I want it to do”. They become little annoyances if you don’t know the immediate answer to.

As soon as you know how to solve them, you see things clearer and differently. Today I though I share a solution to a few problems I encountered myself recently or in the past :

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Written by Lourance | 18 June 2010

As usually there are probably other ways of doing this. I'm only showing one way. It basically comes down to these simple steps:

1. Draw 2 squares: 1 black and 1 white
2. Turn them into a Symbol
3. Apply Transform effect to repeat them horizontally
4. Apply Transform effect to repeat the line of squares vertically
5. Expand everything and move squares to make 1 perfect rectangle
6. Skew and resize the checkerboard (to match the Bavarian flag)

• Download the video tutorial from Vimeo (1130 x 860 pixels, link bottom right)
• Download the video tutorial from MobileMe (1130 x 860 pixels)

How to create a skewed checkerboard pattern in Illustrator from Veerle Pieters on Vimeo.

Maybe turning the squares into a Symbol (step 2) might not be needed if you're expanding the squares again, but I thought I show this anyway. If you don't expand the the Symbols and you only expand the Transform effect you can change the color of the squares in one instance by changing the color of the symbol. However, if you decide to expand all the Symbol's instances, all squares become editable and so you can give each one of them a different color.

Written by Lourance | 18 June 2010

One of the requests I received lately was how you can flow text into a compound shape. To flow text into a shape you use the Area Type tool, but this doesn’t work for compound shapes. In this screencast I show you a workaround to this problem.

What we will create

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