Getting Started :Adobe Illustrator Pen Tool Guide

Here’s a quick guide to the Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. Mastering the pen tool is invaluable if you are ever to use Illustrator successfully. Some people seem to have trouble getting to grips with this tool, also known as the Bezier tool, and if you don’t understand how it works it can be quite confusing.

The pen tool is located near the top left of the tool panel (circled …

Introduction: This week I decided to do a retro 80’s style montage incorporating grids, because I love grids – I really do. Grids are awesome for bring out a Tron style 80s effect and also for adding an extra perspective to an image.

Introduction:

Today we’ll go through how to put together a wallpaper with the theme of flying. Finding good stock images and composing an image that has a theme gives the audience a clear message , this of course is what graphic design is all about visual communication. The techniques you will learn range from masking to smart objects.

Create a text reflection in photoshop using a displacement map.

Quick Tip No. 1

Today I thought I would start the quick tip series for Photoshop. This series will be covering  how to do certain effects & smart ways to get more done in Photoshop . 

Introduction:

To start off 2010 I wanted to create a slightly grungy, retro futuristic sci-fi poster. I basically wanted an image that could represent the feeling 2010 seems like the future to some of us. If you know what I mean, good, I’m sure this poster will be plenty of fun.

To create an image like this I like to look through some stock and brainstorm. A really excellent place to help with this is a site called Compfight. It’s …

Last week a tutorial I wrote for My Ink Blog was published.  It is the second time I have written for My Ink Blog and it really makes my day to see work viewed by so many people.

Toward the end of last month I wrote another guest tutorial , this time for My Ink Blog which was a pleasure and will be doing again in the future.