Corey experiments with Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh tool to create a bevel and emboss look.
Author: Corey Barker
Corey is the newest education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fl, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since Version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version, which makes Corey an invaluable addition to the NAPP team.
I just had a question of what is the best way to learn photoshop and illustrator? Would it be to self learn through these tutorials, or should I take classes? I have been playing around and doing lots of different pieces of work, but I would really like to know the nuts and bolts of both programs. I would like your advice. You really have a great web site and I enjoy all these tutorials however, sometimes it becomes overwhelming.
Thanks,
Greg
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Always useful and simply explained. Thank you!
An excellent tutorial showing the use of gradient mesh tool and blending mode. I guess I have to say that I always wondered how it was done. Thanks!
Great as always. As a Layers mag subscriber, I sure wish I could subscribe to these via RSS and thus watch them on my TiVo HD from the sofa.
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awesome thank you!!!
Very helpful tutorial.
When I switch to “overlay” or “hardlight”. Nothing Happens!!
OK. The answer to my question is: File>Document Color Mode>RGB
Great Tutorial. Thanks
thanks…I was having that problem too. I thought it had something to do with the CS5 or something. I was getting real frustrated. ha! thanks!!!
The light bulb lights, using a blending mode is my answer to being able to change the color of things. Wow so logical yet totally escaped me. Thanks for sharing this.
In response to Greg’s question about learning Ps & Ai…
Kelby training offers some great tutorials, Corey is an instructor on Kelby. Great instructors offering tutorials on all Adobe products at a very reasonable rate.
You can check out some of their stuff for free.
http://www.kelbytraining.com
This is very interesting, more to come i hope
Thank you!
how to download..????
great tutorial! thank you so much
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Is there something like Photoshop’s Blending options exist in Illustrator? Like Shadow, Bevel, Stroke and Gradients all in one box.