Working with Graphic Styles in Illustrator is similar to working with layer styles in Photoshop. Corey explores some of things you can do with Illustrator’s graphic styles.
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.
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yay corey barker luv ur tuts man ;D
Thank you for a wonderful short cut and more reasons to play with the settings and listen to more of you videos.
Nice. CS3 or CS4?
Very very Good
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Cs4
Why can’t I watch any of these videos in Safari browser? It’s a brand new Macbook Pro, with the latest updated everything. I wind up having to use Firefox to view your videos (even though I can use Safari to view flash videos on every other site I go to!) There’s gotta be something messed up in your encoding…
Very Very Cool
Corey, Again very cool stuff. Also nice to make it Extruded (3D) but I am having that grey-box effect around the central word. What tricks are there to render as 3D without that annoying outside box? Otherwise it can be saved as a Graphic style. Please revisit this if there are some ways to extend this to a neat clean 3D graphic style.
One way to avoid the box is to avoid using the drop shadow but the words are still not all perfectly shaded/colored – so some odd things go on with 3D’ing this. If these little annoyances could be allieviated this would be great for creating reproducible 3D logos and flourishes etc., for artwork.
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Gud use of appreance and a shadow effect in this section.
WOW!
you are the man!
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i get:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.
and not only me
i checked it also in another computer
and not only in this tutorial.
and cant see the flash tutorial.
yesterday i could see
please fix it
hey cotey nice tutor1
hey corey nice tutor
Great Stuff!
I love it!
Thank you,
Carlos Rosillo
this was quite simlify version of tutorial for a learner. Thnx , it was useful
That was excellent! So amazing.
Why did you outline the text in the first place?
its very good tutorial
hi ..
ive been around illustrator for a while and ive learned alot form u..
Now, u mentioned and showed a particular styles library called the graphic styles>open graphic styles library> illuminate styles … did u compile this on ur own, or is it downloaded off somewhere.. if so, can i please have the link for it.
Thanks again (smashing tutorial ) ^__^
What can I say? Thank you!!
Thanks friends.
That was so awesome!! Thanks for that!
Wow! I never even knew Illustrator had that. I definetely will be playing around and trying come of these. Thank You!
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thanks for the information about the Illustrator graphic styles, they are a powerful tool.. especially combined with the Illustrator appearance palette.
fantastic!
I like the way you talk. Very relax and to the point. Nice job man!