Illustrator & Typography Tips Worth Knowing

February 20th, 2010 by payam

Improve your skills and workflow by exploring these five oft-overlooked aspects of Illustrator and typography; the differences between optical and metric

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How to get rid of Hand Tool in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop

February 20th, 2010 by payam

Did this happen to you, in special when you are working in same time with more heavy softwares and is need to switch between them, and your Photoshop or Illustrator are stuck on Hand Tool?

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Scripting Illustrator – How to Convert a Flat Process Color into its Matching Gradient

February 20th, 2010 by payam

We all are quite familiar with Adobe Illustrator and its User Interface. In our daily creative tasks we use a lot of features, such as: menu, pallets, colors, plug-ins and tools. We use these features in the form of a UI. These UI features are brought forward to us through various scripts and plug-ins.

In a simpler way, we can code scripts to automate tasks or to obtain some effect in Illustrator. Follow along to learn how to do that. In this tutorial, we will code in Javascript a script that will convert a flat process filled object into its matching gradient.

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How to Create a Silver Text Effect with Photoshop

February 6th, 2010 by payam

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a New Year 2010 silver text effect completely from scratch using several Photoshop tools, different Blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!

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Design a folder web icon

February 6th, 2010 by payam

In this tutorial I’ll show you how I design a simple but professional looking Folder web icon in Photoshop.
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Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutorial

February 3rd, 2010 by payam

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to change hair color using Photoshop CS4. This is an easy and fun tutorial and result should give you something similar to this:

Open the image that you want to use. For best results you should try to get high resolution picture. This tutorial depends greatly on the selection you make, so be careful and accurate.

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Design a wordpress theme from scratch – Theme available

February 3rd, 2010 by payam

design-wordpres-themeIf you want to create wordpress themes , Photoshop is the best way to design a theme for your blog. In this tutorial I will show you how to design a wordpress theme from scratch.  Register for a VIP account and you can download the Wordpress theme + PSD layout.

Feel free to use this wordpress them for your website if you want..

Preview live wordpress theme

If you want to see the full size layout please click on the following image:

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I will use the grid system from 960.gs
I will download the psd files for Photoshop an I will open the 12 column grid PSD file.
Once I have the psd file opened, I will make sure my Guides are visible:

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The Best Illustrator Tutorials For Creating 3d Effects

December 3rd, 2009 by payam

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A collection of the best illustrator tutorials for creating 3d effects and some of my own personal favourites. Illustrator is an amazing software which allows you to create some superb 3d graphic using simple tools.
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How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator

December 3rd, 2009 by payam

How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator
This tutorial shows how to create a stained glass effect in Adobe Illustrator. The method is rather quick and simple, but the outcome looks very nice – especially when you use a beautiful image for reference. Let’s get started!

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Create Flash Animations Entirely in Illustrator

December 2nd, 2009 by payam

Create Flash Animations Entirely in Illustrator The world of animation can seem really intimidating – between AfterEffects, Flash and everything else, there’s so much to learn. And who has time? Never fear – you can create simple Flash animations without ever leaving the familiar confines of Illustrator, and without any knowledge of Flash. Here are two easy ways to get things moving.

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