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	Lon Clark view bio 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. Tutorial 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. Tutorial back to top

	Rick Gerard view bio 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. Tutorial Adobe Illustrator Making a Real Aperture: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Illustrator Rick Gerard explores some methods of simulating a camera lens. In this tutorial, Rick uses Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects to create the aperture. Tutorial back to top

	Mike Gondek view bio Adobe Illustrator Mike Gondek reviews: Illustrator CS Killer Tips by Dave Cross CreativeCOW leader, Mike Gondek examines Illustrator CS Killer Tips by Dave Cross and published by New Riders, (2004, 288 pages). Read on to find out why Mike says, ''This is a great book to read for any illustrator user.'' Review 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. Review back to top

	Jim Harvey view bio Adobe Photoshop 123Di Training Course for Digital Photography Reviewed In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews 123Di Training Course for Digital Photography and discovers ''a delightful course that covered the Basics, the Intermediate and the Advanced aspects of Digital image acquisition, but had done so in a very interesting and well laid out program that is like nothing that I've ever seen before!'' ... A five COW recommendation for a powerful Photoshop training tool. Review Adobe Illustrator Jim Harvey reviews Illustrator Illuminated Jim Harvey takes a look at Illustrator Illuminated by Obermeier & Padova. ~ This book is published by Peachpit Press. Read on to find out if this book should be on your book shelf... Review 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. Review back to top

	Kevin Kantorski view bio 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. Tutorial back to top

	Franklin McMahon view bio Adobe Illustrator Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - Live Paint Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon demonstrates the new Live Paint feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 which makes coloring vector images a snap. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe Illustrator Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - New Features 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. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe Illustrator Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - LIVE TRACE Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon goes over the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2.0 that helps create bitmap images to vector illustrations. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Aharon Rabinowitz view bio 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. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Aanarav Sareen view bio Adobe After Effects Adobe Production Studio Total Training has long been known for their excellent and in-depth training for Adobe After Effects. With the release of the Adobe Production Studio, they too have released training bundles, aimed at the production studio user. In this article, Creative Cow Leader Aanarav Sareen takes a look at the new Total Training Premium Bundle for the Adobe Production Studio. Review back to top

	Mark Simpson view bio 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. Tutorial 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. Tutorial back to top

	Eran Stern view bio Adobe After Effects 3D Watch Animation: Part 1 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow member Eran Stern shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 Extended to create different images of a 3D watch. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Seth Taylor view bio Adobe Illustrator Creating Customizable Dashed Lines with Adobe Illustrator This mini-tutorial is for those who've often worked in Illustrator and have needed to turn a dashed line into individually selectable shapes. This may also be useful for pasting dotted path shapes into After Effects or other applications. Tutorial