Dave Cross shows how to combine Illustrator and Photoshop to create a border effect.

You’re working on a 16 page brochure layout in which all the photos have drop shadows applied. On one particular spread, the drop shadow from ...

In a complex design containing multiple layers and sub-layers, sometimes it can be difficult to find an individual object in the Layers palette. To quickly ...

The Glyphs palette (Window > Type & Tables > Glyphs) is great way to find any particular character in a type face. You just scroll ...

Some of my freelance is for a large international corporation with offices around the world. So it’s quite common that my work in Illustrator may ...

Let’s face it-graphs can be boring. When you think of pie charts and bar graphs, exciting is not the word that comes to mind. If ...

Highlights and shadows can be added to art in a number of ways. The method you choose will be determined by the needs of the ...

If you want to have an offset box change with text when you change the point size or add to the text, try this technique. ...