Illustrator CS6 Tutorial

Final Product What You'll Be Creating Do a search on “coloring comics,” and you get dozens of Photoshop tutorials. They all seem to involve building up areas of color with transparent brushes. Now you can achieve that same effect with Illustrator CS5, using the Bristle Brush. Unlike Photoshop, however, Illustrator gives you the flexibility to edit individual paths. Since Illustrator’s brush strokes are vector, you can change the shape, width, color and blending mode to achieve exactly the look you want. You can even delete a brush stroke you don’t want. Try that, Photoshop! This tutorial will use another feature introduced in CS5, Draw Inside. Let’s get started! Step 1 You can use this technique with any line art or illustration. I am going to quickly create my line art by tracing a source photo from Wikimedia Commons , photo by Guillaume Piolle . Place the photo in your document and make a Template layer by double-clicking the layer name to bring up its...

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. Final Image Preview Below are two final SWF animations we will be working creating. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 45 minutes Video Tutorial I’ve created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Method I: Blend and Morph For this type of animation, in which one shape transforms into another (and another and another, if you wish), we’ll use the Blend Tool to make the in-between shapes, then ...

Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5 Difficulty: Intermediate Length: 22:58 mins Final Product What You'll Be Creating Learn how to create a high gloss flaming ball using the Warp Settings, Blends and Transparency Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS5. The final image is scalable and can be used as an illustration or icon design. Let’s Begin!

Today we will learn the new features of the tracing engine in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and talk about its new functions. We will trace a photo, a sketch and a texture; then we will compare the results between Adobe Illustrator CS5 and CS6. Let’s get started! In this tutorial I’ll use a photo a strawberry (credit to deviantART user StockProject1 ) ; the sketch was kindly provided by Victoria Vasilyeva and the texture (credit to deviantART user ~kingkool6 ). Step 1 In Adobe Illustrator CS6 the settings of the tracing is in the new Image Trace panel (Window > Image Trace). This allows us to use other panels and tools while tracing. Such features did not exist in Adobe Illustrator CS5 as well as in earlier releases; the setting of the tracing was made in the Tracing Options dialog box, and then it was impossible to access the other objects and interfaces. Step 2 The presets have also changed between Adobe Illustrator CS5 and CS6 The new preset, "Silhouettes...