Daily Free Stock Photo

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Daily free stock photos

Crestock is giving away a free, high quality photo every single day! Here is a montage of some of the better photos I have downloaded over the past 2 weeks. They even have an RSS feed so you can get the daily updates directly in your favourite RSS reader.

Illustrator Trick #2: Tilde Fun

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illustrator tilde trick

Many beginners may not have heard of the “tilde” key trick. It’s the ~ key just beside the number 1 keypad. By holding the tilde key, you can drag to create new shapes following your mouse direction. You can only use it with other shape tools in your tool palette. Combine it with Alt/Option, Shift/Command and spacebar to create new effects. Have fun with the tilde key, below are some experiments I have done with it. Read the rest of this entry »

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6 months of iStockdiary

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After 6 months of hard work on working on my website, I’m finally getting a PageRank for my website! And it’s a PageRank of 4 which I think is quite good for a start. My current Alexa Rank is 414,513 and I’m working hard to hit the 100,00 mark by end of year. Thanks for everyone who has been linking to my blog and being supportive for my illustrator tutorials.  If you have been enjoying my blog, do help spread the blog by giving a link or spreading to your friends.  Thanks!

Illustrator Tutorial: Stamp

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Illustrator Stamp Tutorial

We have seen how Nick La create his vector stamp using 3 simple steps. But the edges doesn’t really look like what I see on a real stamp. We have seen how others draw circles and blend to specified steps to create the dotted lines and subtract it from a rectangle. But I find it too much of a hassle and work. So why am I rewriting on this since there’s so many tutorials written on it? Cos I’m showing you my unorthodox way of creating a stamp easily. So let’s get the ball rolling!

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Illustrator Blend Tool Experiments

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illustrator blend tool

Do you share the same woes when the shapes just go crazy after you blend you shapes? Fret not, Uncle Luc will show us some of his experiences on using the Blend Tool in illustrator. Some of his workarounds include:

  • Reversing the start and end points of one of the two images
  • Adding new anchor points
  • Adding a third object in the blend
  • Blending two identical shapes

To see the full article with examples visit Adobe Illustrator’s Blend Tool

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