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Background Designs

This effect has become increasingly popular for use in designing backgrounds. By using the live trace effect, you can take any stock image and transform it into an outline that can be placed behind your main subject.

Corey’s tutorial is about using Illustrator’s blend tool to create some really interesting design effects.

In this tutorial, Matt uses an artistic brush to make a pattern in Illustrator and then takes that pattern into Photoshop to use as a weathered layer effect.

This is a quick demo using a blend of live effects, filters, and even a little gradient mesh to create a seemingly complex logo treatment.

In this tutorial, Corey demonstrates how easy it is to create 3D graphs using Illustrator.

Nothing makes you look and feel more like a pro than mastering keyboard shortcuts.

How do you make a gradient bend to the shape you are creating? The answer is in Illustrator’s under-used Blend tool.

What we’ll show you is how to use the Mesh tool to simulate nature’s way of colorizing things—in this case, a fallen leaf.

People tend to forget that Illustrator contains several Photoshop filters that can be applied directly to vector objects inside Illustrator.

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