Tired of your old icons? Follow this creative recipe to cook up a great looking iOS styled sandwich icon. We will use a few of tasty ingredients, like meshes, gradients and blending modes to spice up your design!
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My name is Maciej Lenartowicz and I am a freelancer designer from Poland. I'm always trying to combine a spark of creativity with my love for design.
How to Create a Cute Valentine’s Day Icon with Adobe Illustrator
Valentine’s Day is almost here and what better way to express your love for design than to send a letter? This Quick Tip explains how to create an envelope icon, you’d love to click!
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Futuristic Scarlet Eclipse Effect
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a dark eclipse design which could be a perfect base for a poster or a flyer. We will use blends, effects, various transformations and spice up the effect by adding texture to the final design.
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Quick Tip: How to Create an Eye Catching Upload Button in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of creating an upload web button. You will learn how to use just a few simple, yet effective, tools and techniques to create this eye-catching design.
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Quick Tip: How to Make a Text Mask in Adobe Illustrator
Let’s imagine your boss gives you a commission to create a simple flyer advertising an event. Nothing fancy – just a plain image, some bubbles and a tiny bit of text. The only reservation is that the text must punch out a section of the bubbles and reveal the image underneath. The only problem is that your boss is not exactly sure what they want. Let’s go ahead and see how the situation develops…
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Quick Tip: Create a Colorful Sliced Sphere to use as a Logo Design
Colorful and vibrant logos are extremely trendy recently. In this Quick Tip we will take a look at how you can easily create an appealing colored sphere which will make a great foundation for a successful logo. Let’s get started!
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Quick Tip: 10 Minute Crystal Explosion
Illustrator, unlike Photoshop, does not have many functions allowing you to randomize elements of your design. However, those that it has, can be just as powerful. We will use just these tools to create a simple, yet appealing, T-shirt or wallpaper design.
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How to Create a Lustrous Electric Guitar
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic looking electric guitar. We will start with basic shapes and build our way up using a couple of simple yet effective techniques. You will learn how to use 3D Effect, Scale and Blend Options, to make a guitar worthy of even the most rockin’ of vector fans!
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Quick Tip – How To Make Grunge Text Using a Digital Tablet
Sometimes you have to break out of the design box and go crazy! In this vector quick tip you will learn how to create a grungy text effect without ending up with a complete mess. Using a digital tablet and the blob brush you can create images that have energy and chaos all held together with a few design tips.
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