Follow this step by step process of creating professional print ready design files for your letterhead and compliment slips stationery designs. We’ll build the design in Adobe Illustrator with the appropriate bleed and margin settings, then use a mix of Adobe Distiller and Adobe Acrobat to export and check over the final design files.
Use a range of vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator to create a detailed black and white emblem badge. We’ll use a mix of basic tools to align the various shapes together, then add some cool detail using the more advanced Pathfinder and Blend tools.
When most people think of working with paths, it’s likely that they are thinking about Adobe Illustrator. What a lot of people don’t realize however is that Adobe Fireworks CS4 comes with some really nice tools to help you manipulate paths and points. In this brief video tutorial I will demonstrate the capabilities of Adobe Fireworks CS4’s Path Palette.
Follow this step by step design process of the making of a vector character. We’ll start with a hand drawn sketch of my dog, Jake the labrador retriever, then add various lines, colour fills gradients and highlights to produce a cute cartoon representation.
There’s nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. Let’s use the good old doodle to represent our design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. We’ll be drawing our doodles directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up our business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document.
If you’re looking to develop your Illustrator skills, here’s a tutorial for you! Follow this walkthrough to see the how adding layer after layer of vector shapes, along with a range of gradients and a spot of texture can quickly create a great looking icon-style clock graphic.
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Here is a list of 34 amazing looking Vector files, free to download and use in your work. The files are geared towards usage in churches, but they are perfect for any project that you may have. The files can also be used for research, by looking at the layers you may be able to learn how these artist created these beautiful graphics. Vector files must be opened and edited with a vector editing program such as, Adobe Illustrator. They can also be opened in Adobe Photoshop but, you will not be able to edit the file in that program.
