Distressing Text with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator CS2
With Adobe Illustrator CS2, you can use the Live Trace feature to achieve a distressed text and give ...
To Cut, You Need a Knife
Since the introduction of Web features into Illustrator, there’s been some confusion about the Knife tool. Many users ...
Adding Personality to Your Cartoon Lines
Illustrator Todd Ferris shows how to alter paths to create cartoon lines with personality.
Picking the Perfect Color
One of my Illustrator support clients picks all of the colors for his cartoons using the CMYK versions ...
Beginner’s Guide to the Mesh Tool
Illustrator Todd Ferris shows how to create a vector tomato using the Mesh tool.
Name Dropper
Recently, I was developing a new corporate identity for a client, so I was taking a close look ...
Pixel Perfect Tracing in Adobe Illustrator
With the introduction of Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator CS2, the process of converting pixel images into editable ...
Expanding On Live Trace Automatically
You’ve been converting some scans of cartoon drawings from pixel to vector using Live Trace. After several drawings ...