If you need to make selections that require straight lines and curves, then the Pen Tool is the one to use. Using the pen tool for the first time is a little bit frustrating or daunting. By far, the Pen Tool is the most accurate for making selections either in Illustrator or Photoshop. The tutorial […]
One of the features in Photoshop CC is the ability to create multiple artboards in Photoshop. An incredibly useful tool, especially in web design projects helpful. Why? Because it allows the ability to develop a website for various views. For example, you can have the design for a website for desktop, tablet and mobile all […]
Did you find a great pattern, texture or a swatch of a fabric and you want to create a pattern in Illustrator? In today’s tutorial, we will create a pattern swatch from an image in Illustrator. I have taken a gold foil pattern from the internet as my example in this video. We will need […]
Did you buy a swatch from a third-party website, but no instructions included? Or maybe there were instructions, but it didn’t make any sense? In today’s video tutorial, you will learn how to load swatches in Illustrator. First of all, download the files to your computer. Once downloaded, make sure you unzip or extract the […]
Creating a mock-up for the first time can be hairy. For our class project, we are creating a movie database. Why we are creating a database? In 2 or three months from now, you will be creating a React movie database site. Chances are you won’t have time to create a new one unless you […]
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 […]
Should you distort your text? Horizontal or vertical scale? Should we bold everything and use ALL CAPS throughout the website to get my point across? Should we small type for all our body copy so that we can get as much information on the page? Which word is distorted? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any […]