Jul 16
21 comments 2006 at 09.45 am posted by Veerle
Not sure if this is a cool tip, but this is something I always do when I start on a full bleed design in Photoshop (I mean a design for print, obviously). I thought I share this one with you…
Jun 05
44 comments 2006 at 01.40 am posted by Veerle
Some of you remember part 1 and part 2 and have been eager to view part 3. It took me a while to find some free time to work on part 3. Today I have been able to finish my drawing. This part covers the final touch of the illustration. We’ll be adding highlights and shadows and use the Gradient Tool a lot…
May 15
40 comments 2006 at 02.02 am posted by Veerle
On a regular basis I receive requests on how to create those Mac OS X backgrounds, so this weekend I played around in Illustrator trying to create a nice looking desktop using gradient mesh. This all goes well as long as I stick with 1 simple shape, some organic looking bow. As soon as I try to add other bows by adding gradient mesh points things fall apart. Using separate layers each using transparency seems to be the solution, but still this ain’t no walk in the park if you want to achieve the complexity as those real Mac OS X desktops. I congratulate and bow for the designer who made those. I gave up and resorted to Photoshop CS2 and hoped for a better result…
Feb 06
6 comments 2006 at 09.08 am posted by Veerle
Some tools don’t get enough attention, this tool might be one of them. You could compare it somehow with the Healing Brush, although there is a difference. This tool works like a regular paint brush, it manipulates the color on your image while the underlying texture stays unaffected. Because of this, you can apply a color change in a more precision way.
Jan 23
28 comments 2006 at 06.52 am posted by Veerle
Ok! I know a lot of you have been waiting for this very moment. So here it is, part 2, all wrapped up in a (H.264 AKA MPEG-4 Part 10) movie for you to download and watch (14.9 MB). You have to excuse the fact that I often have to drag things back into the movie. I’m using just a small portion of my (big) screen, so the center is way out of the capture area (for example when I zoom in or name the layers).
Dec 19
39 comments 2005 at 09.07 am posted by Veerle
This time there is nothing much to explain. Well, it’s actually hard to explain how you draw bezier curves in Illustrator. I had the urge to do some sketches and I believe I owe it to myself, it’s been too long since I had this kind of fun.
Oct 17
13 comments 2005 at 06.08 am posted by Veerle
This tutorial was prepared and finished some time ago, but since I am so busy lately, it seems like the perfect moment to release it on my blog.
Inspiration can be found in simple things, like color for instance. This tutorial is about creating a simple header for a website, but it might as well be used for a brochure. Starting from a picture with colors you like, here is an easy technique to achieve some trendy effects:
Enjoy!
UPDATE: the comment function is now restored. They were down for a while due to a MySQL table crash. The first one in 1,5 year, so all in all not bad.
Aug 16
7 comments 2005 at 02.10 am posted by Veerle
Some of you may wonder if an upgrade to CS2 is worthwhile. Well, I can’t decide for you, but I must say that the new Creative Suite has some nice cool features: Live Paint just to pick one. I’m just talking about Illustrator CS2 here, I didn’t even mention Brigde or the new Photoshop features. When time permits we’ll talk about those too, but at this moment I want to show you the power of Live Paint in this step-by-step tutorial.
Jul 19
16 comments 2005 at 03.00 am posted by Veerle
Before I sign off just a few very useful Photoshop tips to get you going when I am away ;-)
Jun 27
17 comments 2005 at 01.36 am posted by Veerle
Up on request here is a small tutorial on how to create a nice Illustrator pie chart. Hope you enjoy this one ;-)
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