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Adobe Illustrator | Kerning and Tracking Text in Adobe Illustrator
When you're creating text using Illustrator, it's easy to simply type it out and call it a day. Lon Clark demonstrates by spending a little time fine tuning your letter spacing by making tracking and kerning adjustments, you'll wind up with a slicker and more professional type treatment.
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Lon Clark |
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Adobe Illustrator | Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - New Features
In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon examines some of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 including the control palette, underline links, custom work spaces and exports such as SWF, SVG and PDF.
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Franklin McMahon |
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Adobe Illustrator | Radial Patterns with Adobe Illustrator
In this video tutorial Creative COW leader Vince Rosati presents a simple technique to use an obscure function in the rotate tool to quickly create radial patterns in Adobe Illustrator. Use this technique with gradients or more complex shapes to create incredible radial patterns.
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Vincent Rosati |
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Adobe Illustrator | Creating a Cartoon from Video
In this 3-part tutorial, Creative cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After Effects and Adobe Illustrator CS2. While the tutorial spans 50 minutes and covers a wide range of topics (some in depth and some in general), after you have gone through the process once, you will find that it's easy to adapt the Cartoonification technique to your own needs.
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Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Adobe Illustrator | Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 1
In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI. This series will get you through many challenges including using the free-transform tool in a perspective environment, creating the illusion of wrapping a shape around another and shading using the pathfinder tool.
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Vincent Rosati |
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Adobe Illustrator | Morphing With Adobe Illustrator
Rick Gerard, a frequent visitor and contributor in the Creative COW After Effects Community explores some methods of morphing text using new features in Adobe Illustrator 9.0.
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Rick Gerard |
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Adobe Illustrator | Creating Crop Marks with Adobe Illustrator for use in Adobe After Effects
When you import vector artwork into a pixel-based program such as After Effects or Photoshop, its edges are determined by the outmost edges of the art. Sometimes, you want to extend the image area to allow new possibilities in your designs. In this article, Lon Clark demonstrates that by creating crop marks, you define a new edge/size for the file and that can open up new design opportunities.
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Lon Clark |
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Adobe Illustrator | Animating a Signature
A year ago, Kevin Kantorski needed to create an animated signature. After a lot of research, he came up with the method used in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial. You don't need the production bundle for this one -- in fact, you can use AE 4.1 if you don't have 5.0.
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Kevin Kantorski |
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Adobe Illustrator | Creating mattes in Adobe Illustrator
Mark Simpson shows users how to create mattes in Adobe Illustrator for use in Adobe After Effects. If you're trying to do Mark's tutorial 'Animating Skies and Writing Text With Light!' but don't know how to use Illustrator, then this little 'sub-tutorial' is for you. Even if you're not doing Mark's tutorial, this is a handy tip to know.
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Mark Simpson |
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Adobe Illustrator | Creating Text with Adobe Illustrator for After Effects
This tutorial is in response to the many requests about how to use Adobe Illustrator to make the text files for the 'Animating Skies and Writing Text with Light' tutorial Mark Simpson wrote demonstrating the Foundry 'Tinderbox' set of Plug-ins for After Effects. This simple tutorial focuses on creating text for the aforementioned tutorial, but is useful for creating any text for use in AE.
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Mark Simpson |
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Adobe Illustrator | Mike Gondek reviews Total Training Illustrator CS
Illustrator is the first commercially sold Adobe product and has evolved into version 11 officially known as Illustrator CS. There are many features buried into this excellent program and it is much easier to reveal them in video than a written book.
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Mike Gondek |
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Adobe Illustrator | Jim Harvey reviews Adobe Illustrator 10 CIB
Jim Harvey takes a look at Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroom in a Book ~ One of the new volumes from Adobe Press. If you're just starting out with Illustrator, read why Jim thinks this is a book that you need to buy.
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Jim Harvey |
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