Archive for August, 2008
Vector Banners Pack Out Now!
Vectordiary is releasing 2 new packs of vector banners for your projects. It comes in different colors and designs perfect to use for your commercial projects. Enjoy a discounted rate of only $5 when you buy the banners vector pack now! See more vector packs here.
Top 10 Masters of Gradient Mesh
Gradient Mesh Tool in Illustrator allows artist to to create photorealism drawings. Below are some examples of the top notch artist showing their works online. All of the illustrations below are made using Illustrator. No photoshop!
Takashi Morisak (Japan)
Changing Domain Name to Vectordiary.com
Due to the infringes of using ‘IStock’ that poses some rights with iStockphoto, I will be changing my domain name from iStockdiary.com to vectordiary.com. Remember to bookmark the new domain name and subscribe to my new feed at http://www.vectordiary.com/feed Thanks!
Kids Party Vector Pack Launched!
I have just launched my first vector pack. Enjoy great illustrations of kids party when you download the vector pack. It comes with 15 amazing party illustrations in EPS 8.0 format and is fully editable with Illustrator. You can use it to print invitation cards, cover designs or use it as a design element for your projects. Buy now and use the discount code below to get additional 10% discount!
Discount code: 9WK3QP (Valid till 31 August 2008)
Day 30: Designing a Logo
Designing a logo is a common task in Adobe Illustrator. In this final project, we will sum up what we have learnt so far in Illustrator to create your own custom logo. I will show you the process in drawing a logo and hopefully you have more confidence after this tutorial.
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Day 29: Saving & Printing
In this lesson, we will learn how to crop your artwork for exporting to JPG for website or printing. We will also cover about EPS file which is the universal format for saving vector graphics.
Savings Files Using Crop Area
When you try to export your file to a JPG, sometimes you may notice white areas around the image. This is due to the hidden images under the mask (see example below). Illustrator exports the bounding box of all the objects in the artboard regardless of whether it is masked away. To solve this problem, you will need to define a crop area to tell Illustrator this is the area to export rather than exporting the whole graphic.
Day 26: Masking using Clipping Path/ Opacity Mask
With Clipping Mask and Opacity Mask, you can quickly mask away any unwanted areas you wish to hide. Let’s take a look how it works…
Clipping Mask
In this illustration I have 3 layers. The background, sunburst effect and the sun. I will need to mask the sunburst to a square.
