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The following roundup of high-grade and elaborate Illustrator tutorials will not only satisfy the fans of vector-graphics. It is also bound to inspire the Photoshop artist. This is because a lot of the effects shown can be achieved using Photoshop as well, though in slightly different ways. You will definitely have your aha-moments here. The spectrum ranges from infographics over typography to posters and really lovely comic characters. Every designer will find his own favorite here.

In the following Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a set of sleek web ribbons. We’ll start with two simple shapes and some basic masking techniques. Next, using a simple rectangle and some simple vector shape building techniques we’ll create the overall ribbon shape. Once we have the starting shapes we’ll continue with the smaller parts. Using some Pathfinder options, several Warp and Gaussian Blur effects plus some basic blending techniques we’ll add the final touches.

Adobe Illustrator est un logiciel de création vectorielle facile à prendre en main mais extrêmement complet. Au fil du temps, sa palette d’outils et de fonctionnalités n’a cessé de grandir. En maîtriser tous les aspects demande un long apprentissage mais cette longue liste de tutoriels devrait vous aider à couvrir tout ce qu’il faut savoir pour devenir un pro du vectoriel !

Après la dernière sélection de 30 tutoriels de qualité pour Photoshop, voici 40 tutoriels pour Illustrator. A vous les illustrations, personnages, infographies, interface, effets de textes ou encore design d’icônes. La liste est encore longue tant ce logiciel offre de possibilités de création et les thèmes sont variés. Vous trouverez sans nul doute votre bonheur parmi les tutoriels de qualité qui suivent. Il est à noter que certains sont très récents et tirent profit des nouveaux outils d’Illustrator CS6, ce qui est parfait pour se mettre à jour sur le logiciel ! Et pour les débutants, il faut bien commencer par quelque part ! Alors autant débuter avec ce qui se fait de mieux

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Everything you've always wanted to know about gradients in Adobe Illustrator but were afraid to ask.

There are numerous of Browser addons and free softwares to pick colors from a Web page but you can simplify process and pick colors directly from Photoshop and Illustrator and save them as well as swatches or even as new set.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create the information graphics (Infographics) using the standard tools of Adobe Illustrator. We will also show you some ways how to change graph appearance retaining its dynamic functions; i.e. you will be able to edit the data graphs after all transformations. Let’s begin!

Source: http://designmodo.com/create-infographics-illustrator/#ixzz20y4JeKY3

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are tools that every designer and artist use, interact and rely on for completing his design work. These tools cannot be overlooked no matter how smaller or bigger your design work is. Thus, learning to use this most important and crucial designing tools inside out is important for every designer. One of the major uses of Photoshop and Illustrator are in creating dramatic and dazzling text effects for banners and logos.
In this round up, we have put together a collection of 50 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials that will help you learn creating awesome text effects. All these tutorials are very easy to follow. Enjoy!

Read more: http://www.smashingapps.com/2012/05/07/50-photoshop-and-illustrator-tutorials-for-creating-text-effect.html#ixzz1uCQHfcBg