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Create a new image, 300x300px, then create a new layer ('Layer > New > Layer'). Fill the new layer with any color using the paint bucket.
Double click the new layer in the Layers window and add a Gradient Overlay. Click the gradient to modify it (circled in red below):
Starting with a simple black-and-white picture of smoke, you will be making colorful abstract images.
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A homepage design for a fictional office supply company. Builds on my earlier header tutorial: Business Header. If you don't want to bother making the header, you can just copy the jpeg in step 1. This tutorial uses layer styles, basic shapes, clipping paths, and masks.
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Editor's Pick of October, 2009
Combine Illustrator and Photoshop features to come up with a 3d look composition. The visual effect is indeed worth learning and can be used in creative web design.
Remember Magic Eye images? At first glance they appear to be a random pattern, but when you look at them a certain way, a 3d effect occurs and a separate image pops out and appears to float on top of the pattern...
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Learn about the pen tool, pathfinders, and transforming objects while making a fairly basic but cool looking skull tattoo.
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An often overlooked feature of Illustrator is the ability to create Flash animations (without needing Flash). We are going to make a fireworks display to celebrate the 4th of July. Basic Illustrator knowledge is assumed for this tutorial.
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Make a 3D chess board and 2 chess pieces: the pawn, and the king. Learn Illustrator's 3D tools, pathfinders, how to make a grid, basic perspective, and the Live Paint Bucket tool.
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I have been getting a lot of questions about how to create a sunburst in Illustrator. Here is the easiest method I know of to create a perfectly proportioned Illustrator sunburst.
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A 3D neon blue digital lcd clock created in Illustrator with a final step in Photoshop. This tutorial covers the Illustrator portion. Some skills to learn here are how to create perspective, blending, and adding gloss.
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