Quickly create a pie chart for your designs in under 2 minutes. Do you love working in Microsoft Excel? Excel has some great features, but to import it into Illustrator, one needs to download a variable script. Instead, I am going to show you how you can use Illustrator to create a simple pie chart. […]
If you watched some of my videos, you may have noticed my Place image keyboard shortcut isn’t the default setting of Command/Control Shift P. In my video tutorial, I will be showing you how to change a keyboard shortcut setting in Illustrator in about 60 seconds! Because I use InDesign, InDesign uses Command D. Trying […]
Re-Creating the Android Logo Practice with the tools of Illustrator by playing with the Adobe Illustrator tools. For our next tutorial demonstration, we will be re-creating the Android logo. In a previous video, you learned how to create the Microsoft logo using geometric shapes, and the eyedropper to sample colours from the image. We will […]
An excellent way to see how geometric shapes come into play while creating a logo is by doing a logo as an exercise. If you look at various logos such as Microsoft (uses squares), Toyota (ovals) and YouTube (rounded rectangle and a triangle), geometric shapes are essential to know. Watch our YouTube video now! Re-Create […]
While working with a client, the client may need a logo, business cards, letterhead, envelopes to website design, forms, and favicons. What is the purpose of having artboards? Think of it as pages to a file. Artboards can be different sizes and orientations and can be arranged depending on your workflow. Although, the more artboards […]
Coloured Backgrounds vs Transparent Backgrounds Recently, I was reading up on my city’s sports teams’ websites for recent changes to the team. Curiously, I look to see who the corporate sponsors are and to see if they have an example I could show. Well, I won’t spill the beans on which site I was looking […]
Why would you want to mask an image? If you are creating a product catalogue such as an Ikea product catalogue is a prime example of many mask objects. Or maybe you are creating an automobile advertisement such as the Honda vehicle in the ad. Another example is to mask a specific image for a […]
This tutorial is very similar to ‘Extracting a logo from a PDF,’ but in this case, we are eliminating text but keeping the other elements within a PDF. Sometimes, one may need to remove some art elements from a PDF. Why doesn’t the company go back to the original drawing? Great question. It could be […]
I like my logos and drawings to be clean and tidy. This is an excellent tool for that. If you have overlapping objects, you can use the Shape Mode buttons on the Pathfinder panel to create compound shapes, which are editable and re-leasable (restoring original attributes). The Shape Mode buttons (Add to Shape Area, Subtract […]