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Freelance graphic designer with a strong passion for Logo designing.
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Scripting Illustrator Part 2 – How to Meld a Gradient into a Flat Process Color

Saurabh Sharma on Feb 18th 2010 with 8 comments

In Part 1 of this two part tutorial series, we learned how to code a script which converts a flat process color into its matching gradient. In this tutorial, we will learn to code a script that converts a gradient fill into a flat process color. We will melt the available gradient color into a flat process color, which will be a mixture of all the colors available in that gradient.

This entire task will be performed via JavaScript script for Illustrator. The tutorial assumes that you’re familiar with the basics of scripting. For those who’ve directly landed on this tutorial, we have a little know-how covered about Illustrator’s Javascripts in Part 1 of this series. So without further delays, let’s get started!

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Scripting Illustrator Part 1 – How to Convert a Flat Process Color into its Matching Gradient

Saurabh Sharma on Feb 17th 2010 with 26 comments

We all are quite familiar with Adobe Illustrator and its User Interface. In our daily creative tasks we use a lot of features, such as: menu, pallets, colors, plug-ins and tools. We use these features in the form of a UI. These UI features are brought forward to us through various scripts and plug-ins.

In a simpler way, we can code scripts to automate tasks or to obtain some effect in Illustrator. Follow along to learn how to do that. In this tutorial, we will code in Javascript a script that will convert a flat process filled object into its matching gradient.

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Create a Code-Style T-Shirt Design for Website Promotion

Saurabh Sharma on Dec 2nd 2009 with 36 comments

Promotions play a vital role in marketing your product. High quality design gives a noticeable impact to your product awareness among the target audience. In this tutorial, we will design a promotional T-shirt for a website that is exclusively created for PHP enthusiasts.

This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS (Studio or Publisher) Illustrator plugins. Our aim is to show a common programmer who is very enthusiastic about PHP. If so, they shall join the website with no delay. Let’s see how we achieve our goal in designing that strategic, promotional T-shirt!

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Professional Workflow for Creating Photorealistic Portraits in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

Saurabh Sharma on Nov 4th 2009 with 20 comments

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to create professional photorealistic portraits in Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn proper workflow for working with Gradient Meshes on large projects. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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How to Create a Vector Series of Linear Effects

Saurabh Sharma on Sep 25th 2009 with 26 comments

As seen in previous tutorials, a mixed use of distortion filters often yields surprising results. In this tutorial, we will create a bunch of messy hair using distortion filters in quick and easy steps. In the end, we’ll use the same technique to obtain a “Knife Scratches” effect, a “Spider Web” effect and a “Grunge texture.” Let’s get started!

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How to Create a Wide Range of Custom Color Swatches in Illustrator

Saurabh Sharma on Sep 15th 2009 with 29 comments

Swatches are the life line of any artwork. There are a lot of color books available in Illustrator to discover a wide range of swatches. Most popular among them are the Pantone Color Books and default CMYK and RGB swatches.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a wide range of custom swatches using the color blending methods. In the end, we will learn how to organize these swatches into Color groups. Let’s get started!

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This entry is part 8 of 14 in the Design Essentials Session
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20 More Useful Adobe Illustrator Menu Tips

Saurabh Sharma on Sep 8th 2009 with 47 comments

We have seen many useful tips on Illustrator’s menu commands by talented designers before. Here are some more! Some of these were mentioned earlier too, while some are really helpful and less common. Let’s have a look!

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How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect

Saurabh Sharma on Sep 1st 2009 with 49 comments

In this tutorial, we will create a hot chocolate caramel effect using some distort tools and the 3D revolve tool. This is a simple and effective technique to obtain a quality vector ripple effect quickly. Here we go!

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How to Convert a Photograph into Abstract Line Art

Saurabh Sharma on Jul 24th 2009 with 40 comments

Line Art is an ancient and basic form of generating large graphics. This art is often seen on tiled walls, bamboo stick designs and on your blanket embroidery. In this tutorial, we will cover the same technique to convert a photograph into vector line art. Let’s get started!

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How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns

Saurabh Sharma on Jul 20th 2009 with 29 comments

Watermarks play an important role in protecting your artwork. Generally, we do not give much attention towards a watermark’s appearance and use a text or a Logo to get the job done. A well designed and properly executed watermark can really protect the artwork without actually affecting its appearance. The best way to do this is pattern making. In this tutorial, we will cover two different watermark designs using the same pattern making technique. Let’s get started!

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