Snapshots-tutorials will no longer be updated.
I have moved to my own domain and webspace.
You can find my new website at http://stumbl.be.
Some of the tutorials here will be moved to my new site, and all new tutorials will be posted there as well.
Hope to see you there!
- Matt
Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Moved to stumbl.be
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Vecteezy - Stupid name. Cool Vectors!
Always nice to find a site that has some free stuff to offer.
Free vectors, all scattered around the web are all indexed on Vecteezy for our convenience.
All free to download and to use, but make sure to check the license of the vectors.
And if your feeling creative and want to submit your own vectors - you can!
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Colour Shemes
If you ever find yourself stuck in finding the right colours for your design there are sites out there that can offer you a hand, offering Colour shemes for Photoshop, Illustrator, Color Shemer Studio and as a CSS file.
The First one is Daily Color Sheme which claims to be an every-day color resource. So far there are already 20 different palettes available, but I have to admit that it's been at least 2 weeks since the site added new ones. Not really 'Daily', is it?
Either way - still worth a visit.
The 2nd one is COLOURlovers, which has a more different, more active approach. 
Most of the palettes are user-submitted which results in a wider choice. And as with dailycolorsheme.com you can download the shemes for Photoshop, Illustrator, Color Shemer Studio and a CSS or HTML file.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Create a Speechbubble in illustrator
- Open a new file (any size you want), select the Ellipse Tool and draw out an ellipse with White as the Fill color and No color for the stroke
- Get the Pen Tool out and draw a triangle (Fill: white - Stroke: None) as shown below (make sure that it's proportional to the ellipse you just created)
- Go to Object > Transform > Rotate and rotate it with -20%
- Move the triangle you just created in to the Ellips as shown below:
- Go to 'Window' and check 'Pathfinder'
- Make sure you have both the ellipse and the triangle selected and click the 'Add to Shape Area' icon in the Pathfinder window
Both are now merged together
- Go to Effect > Stylize > Inner glow and change the following settings:
The color used is #CBECF4
This is what you should have so far:
- Select the Ellipse Tool again and draw out an ellipse (Fill: White - Stroke: None) as shown in the screenshot
- Next, go to Effect > Warp and give the newly created ellipse an 'Arc' warp with a bend of 15%
- Move it down a little bit so that it fits back in to the speechbubble
- Make sure the warped ellipse is still selected and give it an opacity of 50%
Now the final touch...
- Select the Speechbubble and change the stroke to #B7DCE2
All Done!
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