Visit The League of Moveable Type for a selection of quality, FREE, fonts.
Creating 3D Objects with Extrude & Bevel and with Revolve.
Product mock-up with Extrude & Bevel: Baked Beans.
Quickly make a ring or wrist band.
And even more applications of the 3D Revolve Effect.
Using Illustrator’s Perspective Drawing Tool.
The VectorTuts+ Guide to Illustrator Tools. Especially these guides: The Paint Brush Tool and Brush Panel and the Introduction to Illustrator’s Color Tools.
Creating Light by Controlling Transparency.
Using Brushes to Create Complex Shades.
Creating a Curtain. Includes using the Width Tool, Art Brushes and Gradient Meshes.
Check out Veerle Pieters’ site, great inspiration and some awesome tutorials .
Illustrator’s own overview of the Gradient Tool & Panel.
A comprehensive Guide to the Blend Tool.
Blending Gradients and Creating Gradients with Blends.
Repalcing the Spine in a Blend.
20 Master Class Gradient Mesh Tutorials.
Create a Burning Match with Gradient Mesh.
Sunglass Illustration with Gradient Mesh.
Papercut look, staring with greyscale shapes.
Using Illustrator’s Colour Guide.
Live Trace:
Live Paint:
It’s the first link list of the 2012, and the 12th one ever, must be sort of numerological convergence.
Well, for the new year we are going to change gears and look at Illustrator tutorials. For those of you following along at home, the main focus of these posts reflects the courses I am currently teaching, and this term it’s Illustrator.
So we’ll start with some introductory resources and some skill builders.
Creating your own default document.
25 techniques to make you a more efficient designer.
Getting a handle on the pen tool.
Create seamless geometric patters (straight from Adobe’s help tool). There’s nothing wrong looking in the help files, that’s why they’re there.
Another pattern tutorial, for a looser look.
Using the Transform Panel as a calculator (also works in any numerical input field).
Feeling confident? Check out these Ask a CS Pro tutorials.
And lastly, a Keyboard Shortcuts cheat sheet.
Using the Patch tool (destructive editing, I know!)
Considerations & Methods for picking your colour palette.
The amazing geometric patterns of Andy Gilmore.
Build an isometric cityscape pattern using Illustrator & Photoshop.
Creating an animation with Photoshop.
You should all listen to Colin Smith– this guys knows everything about Adobe’s Creative Suite.
A great round-up of Icon Design Tutorials.
How to create a Film Strip border from scratch.
Mastering exposure problems in Camera Raw.
The best way to convert to Black & White.
Using Black & White adjustments to control an images tonality.
Capture swatches from any image.
Lynda.com is offering some documentaries about creative process, agency insights and other inspirational topics for free.
Advent calendars for the web-inclined.
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is offering selections of its’ collection for free, online.
Exporting design elements from Photoshop for web or applications.
Retro Look and Instagram Style.
100 Actions and How to Make Your Own.
Smashing Magazine’s Ultimate Photoshop Actions Collection.
70 of the best Photoshop Actions.
And yes, there is some repetition in those lists of actions, but still lots of inspiration.
A typographic advent calendar from the good folks at Fontdeck.
Water Drops with Displacement (magnify effect.)
Back to basics, get a firm grasp on Photoshop’s tools, layers, masks and adjustment layers.
Some more detail on Photoshop’s Selection Techniques.
Mastering Photoshop: Actions, Batches, Keyboard Shortcuts and more.
Photoshop 3D models & materials.
Masking Fundamentals a sample tutorial form Lynda.com
Some great composition techniques.
Using Photoshop for Fine Art & Illustration.
Cool technique: Adding sunbeams to an image.
It might be from 2010, but there’s some great tips, tracks & tutorials in this Smashing Magazine roundup.
Still struggling to grasp Refine Edge? Watch this video tutorial from Terry White.
