Drawing silhouette figures using the pen tool is a long and painful process. However, with Illustrator’s Live Trace, you can now create silhouettes with ease. In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to prepare your images in Photoshop for Live Trace. Then, we will experiment with various Live Trace settings to create our silhouette. After reading this, you will be able to create better looking silhouette figures.

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We'll be using Adobe Illustrator to create this tutorial. A water ripple effect can easily be achieved using a radial gradient. Besides this, I will be showing you how to create realistic water droplets using the gradient mesh tool.


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Create a Silhouette Logo for a Steak House Restaurant in Adobe Illustrator.

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The graphic effect is kind of cool so we decided to try to create the look and found out that it’s simple to do. The main tools used for this tutorial will be Pen Tool, Transform Tool and Blend Tool.

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In this tutorial we thought of sharing with you the process of designing an aggressive wolf skull using just white, black, and grey . We previously drew a similar one for a clothing company whose name I cannot disclose. I am using Adobe Illustrator CS3, a Wacom tablet (not compulsory), and a picture of a wolf skull.

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The option to justify text can be found within the Paragraph window. But what if the text you want to justify isn't actually text anymore? What if you created outlines of your text in order to stylize the text a bit more. How can you justify the text now? With this tutorial you'll learn how!

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In this post we will show you how we created a cool logo in Adobe Illustrator.

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Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial through the process of creating your own simple vector scene form scratch.

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Illustrator tutorial, we'll show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It's a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.


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In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a pair of cherries solely with the Gradient Mesh tool. If you're not familiar with the Gradient Mesh tool, then this is a great tutorial to learn how to start using it. You can create artwork with a semi-realistic to very realistic look with that tool. It can take effort to master, but it's worth your time.


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