101 Illustrator Tips & Tricks

By Tony Soh

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List of 101 Tips & Tricks

1. Dotted Lines in Illustrator
2. Tilde Fun
3. Repeated Patterns
4. 7 Exceptionally Useful Text Shortcuts
5. Art Brush Direction
6. Copying Text Styles with Eyedropper
7. Aligning to objects
8. Scaling Strokes & Effects
9. Colorful Waves
10. Stitched Text Effect
11. Transparency & Knockout Group
12. Transform Pattern
13. Cropping Images
14. Pasting Smart Objects in Photoshop
15. Converging Points Together Using Average Function
16. How to Make a Beveled Star
17. 4 Methods of Drawing Tables in Illustrator
18. Broken Glass Effect
19. Quick Seamless Valentine’s Tiles
20. Funky Cartoon Mascots Design
21. Drawing Symmetrical Shaped Shield
22. Aligning Objects Accurately
23. Glossy Buttons
24. Create a Custom Pattern Brush
25. How to Create a Halftone Effect
26. Gradients in Illustrator
27. Coming soon…

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About The Author: Tony Soh

Hi. I'm the founder of Vector Diary. Illustrator is my passion and I have written numerous tutorials on illustrator helping people learn illustrator. My most popular tutorial on learn illustrator has been a hit. It makes learning illustrator so easy and has benefited more than 20,000 people worldwide. Also, I've revealed some of my secret techniques in the premium tutorials. So don't forget to check it out!

Read more by Tony Soh

• Illustrator Tip #17: 4 Methods of Drawing Tables in Illustrator
• Illustrator Tips #4: 7 Exceptionally Useful Text Shortcuts
• Illustrator Tip #15: Converging Points Together Using Average Function
• Illustrator Tip #22: Aligning Objects Accurately
• Illustrator Trick #7: Aligning to objects

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   Hey, I just tried your alignment tip and it does not work at all for me in CS3. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

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