What are tracking and kerning?
Tracking creates an even spacing between multiple characters in a line of text, widening it out, or tightening it up. Kerning adjusts the width of the space between two characters in a line of text. Generally, you first track your text, and then make kerning adjustments...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Creating An Animation Using Brushes And Layers In Illustrator And Exporting To Image Ready
1. Select a brush from one of the various brush libraries available from Illustrator 9 or make your own. I chose the star pattern and changed the color.
2. Make sure the stars are selected then open up Edit>Expand Appearance...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Blend layers with opacity mask
Do you ever need to combine areas of different layers to construct a composite image? Use an opacity mask in Adobe® Illustrator® to mask an area of a layer to transparency and reveal the layer right below it. You can even apply feathering to the mask to smoothen its edges...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Create Artistic Brushes
There are many ways to create artistic brushes for use in the Adobe® Illustrator® 9.0 Brushes palette. The easiest, of course, is to load the Artistic Brushes Libraries found on the application CD. There you will find quite a selection of artistic brushes...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Experienced
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Fine Line Design
1. In the demonstration let's begin by clicking on the Line Segment tool. Set the stroke weight to 1 pixel. Create a line any length you choose.
2. Click on the Rotate tool. Begin to rotate the line slightly but before letting go of the mouse button, press the Alt key.
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Tansition between two objects
If you're looking for a way to create a smooth transition between objects, try blending the objects in Adobe® Illustrator®. You select starting and ending objects, and Illustrator adds a series of intermediate shapes and colors between them, distributed evenly along a path...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Use Distortion to transform an object
Adobe® Illustrator® provides a vast array of filters and tools that can twirl, tweak, roughen, and otherwise transform an object into something completely different. Start with the simplest of objects — you might be amazed at what you can end up with...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Soft proof your colors
In a traditional desktop-publishing scenario, you create your artwork using a software program, print a hard proof of the results, and then use the proof as a reference to adjust for color shifts in the artwork. The color management features in Adobe® Illustrator® simplify this process...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Knotworking
Making intricate knotwork isn't too hard in a vector drawing package like Adobe Illustrator 7. On the other hand, it isn't the easiest thing to discover on one's own. Here's my method...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Experienced
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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Creating Views
Welcome to the Creating Views tutorial . This tutorial was designed to teach you how to make your navigation more convenient by creating views. If you need help with it, or find it confusing, don't hesitate to e-mail me, the information is at the bottom of the page...
Type : Illustrator Tutorial
Level : Beginner
Added : Jan 21, 2005
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