Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – illustrator-tutorials.net

This time around, we’ll explore the many ways you can manipulate text in Illustrator. By combining color and effects, you can create really fun and eye-catching text in no time at all.

Create Fun Eye-catching Text – Illustrator tutorial

Let’s tap into some of the 3D features of Adobe Illustrator. Though Illustrator doesn’t offer a 3D environment like a true 3D application, it does give you the ability to create 3D objects that can be modified within a 3D space. Texture mapping and light sources similar to those found in the high-end 3D applications are also available.

3D Shapes and Effects – Illustrator tutorial

The combination of bringing Illustrator artwork into Photoshop and warping it offers some tremendous possibilities—but only if you know the super-secret trick to make it possible to warp a vector smart object. In our example, we’ll start with a basic calendar that we created in Illustrator and use Photoshop to change the angle and make it look more photographic.

Warped Perspective – Illustrator tutorial

Perhaps one of the most underutilized features in Illustrator is Live Trace, which can convert any photograph into vector art in just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we’re going to use Live Trace to vectorize a photo for a logo design. Now, of course, all images are different, so depending on the final effect you want to achieve, you’ll need to experiment with the settings that we’ll be using here.

Quick Logos with Live Trace – Illustrator tutorial

Do you have certain graphic elements(ie. your logos, credit card logos, icons), Color Swatches, Graphic Styles, and Art Brushes that you commonly use in Illustrator? If your answer is yes, this tutorial might be helpful to you.

Template – Illustrator tutorial

Light and fluffy clouds are easy to create in Illustrator and we’ll show you one way to create them. This tutorial introduces you to a few of the Pathfinder filters and will familiarize you with the Drop Shadow stylize effect in Illustrator 9+.

Cartoon Clouds – Illustrator tutorial

Infuse your work with a high-tech, yet organic look by learning how to make this relatively easy shape. By learning how to create the shape in this tutorial, you can go on to create illustrations like this; with the help of some Photoshop filters.

Organic Tech – Illustrator tutorial

You can create three-dimensional effects in Adobe Illustrator using a few simple shapes. Scale a one-dimensional object and then add a bottom, sides, and shading to give it a three-dimensional look. The Illustrator Smart Guides and Pathfinder palette help you draw the object accurately.

Creating a Cylinder – Illustrator tutorial

There are many ways to create artistic brushes for use in the Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Brushes palette. The easiest, of course, is to load the Artistic Brushes Libraries found on the application CD. There you will find quite a selection of artistic brushes. Read no further if you found the brush you need. But, for those of you who might like to customize a brush a bit more, read on. In this tip we will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop brushes and paths to create a more organic-looking brush to use in Illustrator.

Create Artistic Brushes – Illustrator tutorial

In this illustrator tutorial we will show you how to create a fine line design. Let’s start!

Fine Line Design – Illustrator tutorial