In this mini tutorial you will learn the bare bones basics of the pen tool. This is the hardest tool to get used to in Illustrator and Photoshop, but it’s really worth persevering with it.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a vector silhouette from a photo using Photoshop plus Illustrator's Live Trace tool. Knowledge of Photoshop channels will help you work through the steps, but is not required.

Illustrator allows you to assign varying levels of transparency to vector-based objects. That's great because, as we'll see, it makes for a remarkably versatile drawing environment. The problem is, PostScript doesn't accommodate transparency.

Create a glowing neon effect in your illustration that can grab an audience's attention with its beauty and uniqueness.

There definitely seems to be a resurgence of retro design techniques all over the place. It can be seen everywhere. Perhaps the appeal is the simplicity of the technique. Illustrator has just the tools to achieve this look quickly and easily. Here we're going to create a retro look using custom bru....

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the symbol sprayer to maximum effect, to create a floral border for a birthday invite.

There has been a surge of "grunge" effects lately that have been created using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. So here's one more effect for your arsenal of grunge effects.

Now in this post, I created a really cool design mixing a photo with vector elements using Photoshop (lots of brushes) and Illustrator. Pretty much everything needed was downloaded for free on the internet in sites like magurno and brusheezy.com.

This can be made for Lunar new year occasiom.

The following tutorial comes out of a great question sent to me via email from Daniel Bosic, a Layers Magazine Tips of the Day reader from Canada.