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101 Illustrator Tips & Tricks

By Tony Soh Posted on September 26th, 2008

Learn the tricks to create to become a better illustrator by subscribing to my list of 101 Illustrator tips & tricks. I will be coming up with a new tip/trick every week to help you speed up your work and uncover the secrets in Adobe Illustrator.

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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. 7 Exceptionally Useful Text Shortcuts
19. Coming soon…

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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 learning illustrator in 30 days 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!

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• Illustrator Trick #8: Scaling Strokes & Effects
• Illustrator Tips #18: 7 Exceptionally Useful Text Shortcuts
• Illustrator Trick #11: Transparency & Knockout Group
• Illustrator Trick #3: Repeated Patterns
• Illustrator Tip #12: Transform Pattern

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+Add Comment11 Comments

1. 
   analia October 9th, 2008

   beautifull-

2. 
   Prameela November 5th, 2008

   Waiting for more tricks..!

3. 
   ahbchan December 12th, 2008

   man, you’re my saver!!!

4. 
   Jess December 22nd, 2008

   Very nice and clear tricks, thx a lot!

5. 
   nara January 17th, 2009

   usefull tricks,
   waiting more

6. 
   Joe January 29th, 2009

   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?

7. 
   jit April 3rd, 2009

   Hi, I’m a Graphic Designer….been in the profession for 7 years.
   I have to honetsly say I’m really impressed with the tutorials.
   Keep it up!

8. 
   illumal illumal June 10th, 2009

   very nice

9. 
   maria dominguez June 12th, 2009

   very nice, good work!

10. 
    ons creations October 16th, 2009

    Good Tutorials! i learn alot.

11. 
    Vivek Chandrasekhar March 4th, 2010

    Thank you Tony…
    That was a great list of tips that u’ve put on there.
    Was really useful n it makes us realize the real potential of Illustrator…
    Thanx buddy…
    N we’re all waitin 4 more cool stuff from ur side…