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Illustrator Tutorial: Disco Ball

I did a quick search to find an illustrator tutorial on creating a vector disco ball but I couldn’t find one. So I’ve decided to write this tutorial to help those interested in creating this awesome disco ball effect. It is actually quite simple, the technique is to create the texture first and map it …

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The First Adobe Illustrator

This is the VHS tape that was shipped with Illustrator 1.0. It’s amazing to see that Illustrator 1.0 is already so powerful.

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Color Theory

Here is a short article on color from iStockphoto. Recommended reading for beginners learning about color. Excerpt: When creating a very dense composition with lots of elements stuffed into a single image, it’s easy to let color overwhelm the viewer. The trick is not to use as many bright colors as possible, but to use …

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Color Emotions in Advertising

Color relates to emotions. Find out what color to use for your design with this reference chart! A action—brown affliction—purple anger—red, orange authority—black autumn—brown award—blue B beauty (divine)—yellow beauty (human)—green belligerence—red, orange C chaos—violet cold—blue confidence—yellow constancy—blue contentment—green D dawn—pink death—black, violet dedication—violet demon—blue dignity—purple distinction—yellow dominance—red, orange E earthiness—brown enchantment—violet enlightenment—yellow envy—green esteem—yellow eternal life—green …

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Start Digging!

I have just added a nice digg button on my blog. If you find my tutorials and posts useful, pls help spread it by digging it. Your every dig means a lot to this website. Thanks.

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Tutorial: 3 methods to make a realistic CD

Here is a collection of 3 cool methods to illustrate a realistic CD. Be sure to read all the 3 different methods to have a better understanding of the different advance tricks to imitate the cone gradient reflection on a CD.

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10 Mistakes in Icon Design

Turbo Milk wrote a nice article on the common 10 mistakes of icons design. GUI lovers be sure to check it out!

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