Adobe Premiere Elements is Adobe’s first attempt at a consumer video-editing application. The idea is to strip down the feature set in Adobe Premiere Pro and allow the average home user to edit videos quickly and easily.

In this review, we’ll take a look at some features of Adobe Premiere Elements.

In my opinion the programmers at Adobe simply placed a nice user interface on top of Adobe Premiere Pro to create Premiere Elements. There’s a taskbar that guides you through the workflow, from capture to exporting. To help beginners, Adobe added a number of customizable presets for common operations, such as PiP effects and still-image pans and zooms.

The main screen in Adobe Premiere Elements

Capturing Your Video

Using Adobe Premiere Elements to capture video is a fairly straight forward process. Elements will capture via Firewire, using either a camcorder or analogue capture via a analog-to-digital conversion device.

Once you’ve captured the raw video, there are a few things you can choose to do. A nice tool is to use Scene Detect, which automatically detects various scenes in the entire footage and exports it to the timeline. If you’ve used Pinnacle Studio Plus, you’ll realize that Premiere Elements does not allows you to control brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and audio levels before or during capture.

Editing Your Video

Editing your video with Premiere Elements is very simple if you stick to the presets, operation remains fairly simple. However, if you venture beyond into the Effects Control palette, you’ll immediately see the intimidating screens found in Premiere Pro – which may scare off novices. This is not a bad thing though – some Premiere Pro’s most powerful functions like the titling tool and chroma key capabilities are at your disposal.

The timeline in Elements opens with 4 tracks showing: 2 video and 2 audio. Audio or video tracks may be added, and the link between captured audio and video can be broken so that clips can move independently. You can place transitions between 2 adjacent clips on the timeline – and there is a wide variety to choose from.

Integration with Photoshop Elements

If you edit photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements, you’ll be pleased to know that Photoshop Elements can be used to edit any image on the Premiere Elements timeline. Once edited, the image on the timeline is updated automatically. This tight integration with an image editor is not found in competing products like Pinnacle Studio Plus and Ulead VideoStudio.

Audio Capabilities

A note about audio capabilities to highlight here. In Elements, like in most other video editing programs, you need to record voice overs separately and then import it to the project. This is where Pinnacle Studio outshines over virtually every other editing program – you can record directly to the timeline.

DVD Authoring

Burning the edited video onto a DVD is always a problem for many consumers who are just starting out in digital video production. Fortunately, in Adobe Premiere Elements, the process is extremely simple.

The program provides 33 DVD menu templates, most of which are stunning. The program will automatically generate DVD menu markers, or you can set them manually in the timeline quite easily. However, there are restrictions – you can customize only text, neither can you modify the backgrounds that come from the templates.

Shortcomings

Although it has many great features, Adobe Premiere Elements is not without its quirks. In my test run, I found that Premiere Elements didn’t like my MSI DVD burner during the DVD burn process. I had to render the files to a folder and then use a separate DVD burning application (Nero Burning ROM) to burn my video.

Most DVD burners appear to work fine with Adobe Premiere Elements, many of my friends have no problems at all with this issue. So possibly this issue may be limited to MSI.

Conclusion

On the whole, Adobe Premiere Elements is a nice consumer video editing program that will please many. By incorporating high-quality effects and precise controls, along with a chroma key tool and picture-in-picture options, Premiere Elements is will allow you to make amazingly good movies. Definitely worth a look for the budding videographer.

Incidentally, if you’re also looking for a image photo editing application, you should know that you can buy Adobe’s bundle (combining Premiere Elements with Photoshop Elements) for $149.99 – a real bargain for video editing software.

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By: Shawn Culver

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to achieve a neat little text effect with an image overlay while learning the basics of using displacement masks. You’ll find out exactly how I made my makecashnow.biz money text header in 2009, so lets get started.

Step 1

I found a photoshop tutorial on Patriotic Text Using Displacement Masks, so I used that as a starting point. Go to pshero.com and do steps 1 – 5. I used the font Cooper Heavy and I set the font size to 40 pt in photoshop and I used the text makecashnow.biz to achieve the look you see above.

Step 2

When your ready for step 6 on pshero’s tutorial, I used a picture of a five thousand dollar bill instead of the flag. You will still need to follow the steps on the pshero tutorial, but use the image below. Note: I shrunk the image size to match the size of the text header and I cut the top section with 5000 Federal Reserve Note and copy and pasted it over the text header.

Step 3

Now complete steps 6 – 10 on pshero’s tutorial, and you will be almost done (I didn’t do steps 11-16, but you can do those as well if you want that effect).

Step 4

The last part. I made the following changes to the text layer in layer style: I added stroke, and set size to 2 px and the fill type color I changed to black (#000000). Next in Bevel and Emboss I set Highlight Mode: Screen to color #045504 (dark green).

Conclusion

Now you should have an image that looks like mine, and you can do this with any image. Try using even larger text, I think the image text look looks great on text over 100 pt. I hope you enjoyed my photoshop tutorial on how to create a money text look for your header.

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Photoshop Greenery Brushes

Green Lotus Brushes

Suddenly Spring Brushes

Vintage Garden Brush

Fresh Foliage Brushes

Grass Brushes

Photoshop Art Brushes

Valhalla Vania Brush

Christmas Eve Brushes

Finger Print Brushes

Moons Stars Sparkles Brushes

Glow Brushes by Hawksmont

Smashing Grunge Brushes

Nightmare Christmas Brushes

Scrapping Cop Funky Retro Circle

Brush Pack

Super Stars

Creative Photoshop Brushes

Astral Brushes

Fractal IV by Shady Medusa Stock

Grunge Brushes

Knot Holes

Life Brushes by Axeraider

Night Lights Brush

Vapor Trail Brushes

Photoshop Brushes Effects

Solace Brushes

Curly Hair Brushes

Crack Effect Brushes

Smoke and Clouds Brush

Smoke Brushes

Blood Brushes

Eyelash Brushes

Fractal Brush

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1. Christmas Night

1.1 Christmas Fairy Magic

1.2 Christmas Night

1.3 Decorate with Colored Lights

1.4 Night Before Christmas : Photoshop Tutorial And WallPaper

2. Christmas Balls

2.1 Christmas Balls

2.2 Christmas Ornaments Lights Balls

2.3 Christmas Ornament Balls

3. Christmas Cards

3.1 3D Snow Globe

3.2 Create a Christmas Card – Awesome Snowman in Night Scene

3.3 Christmas Candle Bridge

3.4 Christmas Tree Ornament

3.5 Curtain Background

4. Christmas Text

4.1 Christmas Wrapped Text Effect

4.2 Snow on Text

5. Christmas Accessories

5.1 Christmas Hat

5.2 Christmas Holly Tutorial

5.3 Christmas Holly Wreath

6. Christmas Snow

6.1 Beautiful Christmas Vision Tutorial And Wallpaper

6.2 Snow Landscape

6.3 Merry Christmas Greeting Card

6.4 Create Your Own Snowflakes

6.5 A Very Snowy Tutorial

7. Christmas Tree

7.1 Christmas RSS Icon

7.2 Merry Christmas Greeting

7.3 Photoshop Christmas Tree

7.4 Swirly Christmas Tree

8. Christmas Wallpaper

8.1 Christmas or New Year Wallpaper

8.2 How to Create Christmas Wallpapers or Backgrounds

8.3 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

8.4 Christmas Wallpaper

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Dreamy Photo | Download

Sinedots | Download

Mosaic | Download

Sketch Master | Download

Lattice Composer | Download

Redfield Plugins | Download

Emblazer | Download

Water Ripples | Download

B/W Conversion | Download

Selective Saturation | Download

Local Contrast Enhancement | Download

Lens Correction | Download

Gradient Blur | Download

3D Shadow | Download

Xpose | Download

Chalkaholic Plugin | Download

Luce (Light Effects) | Download

EZ Mask | Download

Power Mask | Download

Power Stroke | Download

Sites Where You Can Find More Photoshop Plugins:

1. Good list of Free Photoshop Plugins at TutorialBlog.
2. 15 Fantastic and Absolutely Free Photoshop Plugins.
3. 1000s of Free Photoshop Plugins & Filters MegaList.
4. 10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop.
5. 720 Free Photoshop Plugins And Filters.
6. 25 of the Best FREE Photoshop Plugins and Filters Resource Sites.
7. High 5: Photoshop Plug-ins.
8. 111 free Photoshop plugins.
9. Photoshop Plugin Roundup from Digital-Web.
10. 50 Powerful Plugins and Filters to Supercharge Your Photoshop.

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Below are 50 sets of filters and plug-ins that can be added to Photoshop for absolutely free!

Plugins

Plugins are a great way to extend Photoshop. Plugins allow you to do small things like open different file types or big things like upload pictures from Photoshop to Flickr.

1. PixelNovel – flickr This plugin allows you to open an image, edit it and upload it to your flickr account without ever having to save the image. This plugin is only available for Mac OS X.
   
2. optikVerve Labs – virtualPhotographer Use this professional-grade plugin to help retouch your photos.
   
3. Power Retouche Power Retouche is a brightness tool that allows you to brighten your photos without losing color.
   
4. Deziner Folio» Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles A plugin that features web 2.0 style gradients.
   
5. Panorama Tools Plugin that let’s you stitch together images to make your own panorama.
   
6. P2B Perfect Skies Replace blown out skies with perfect skies!
   
7. AmphiSoft: plug-in filters for Photoshop A nice collection of helpful plugins to edit your photos.
   
8. RetroDots Use this plugin to create grid-aligned dots for that retro look.
   
9. Red Paw Media – Photoshop Plugins Red Paw Media has three free filters for removing rogue pixels, bleaching images and giving images that soft focus look.
   
10. Luce Luce is a plugin for generating light effects in Photoshop.
    
11. Extra Sketch Effects – Sketcher Plugin Retouch your images, create line art and more with these plugins.
    
12. 8bf.net – Free Plugins Photoshop plugins to do a variety of things to your images. Most of these are Vista ready.
    
13. PlugPage – Photoshop Plugins Plugins that range from simple color adjustments all the way to masking out difficult images in Photoshop.
    
14. AlphaPlugins – Adobe Photoshop Plugins Multiple plugins for varied effects from Alpha Plugins.
    
15. Pog’s Notes > Plugins Pog hands out some free plugins that are very useful when editing photos.
    
16. MV’s Plugins Many different kinds of plugins but the most interesting one is the Color Cube, a 3D color analysis plugin.
    
17. B/W Conversion This is a powerful black and white conversion tool. B/W Conversion gives you control over color tones, can simulate grain and can even emulate black and white films.
    
18. Dreamy Photo Dreamy Photo is a plugin to give your photos that soft focus look, giving them a dream-like feel.
    
19. Mehdi – Free Photoshop Plugins Free plugins that are compatible with Vista.
    
20. Top 10 Free Plugin Packs (2006-2007) Download the top ten free Photoshop plugins from 2006 to 2007.
    
21. SuperPNG SuperPNG is a plugin to replace saving PNG files in Photoshop. SuperPNG uses a different compression system and can create PNGs that are smaller than Photoshop’s traditional save feature.
    
22. Pro Canvas Allows you to customize your canvas options. Another enhancement to a stock Photoshop tool.
    
23. Seamless Tile Plug-in This tool is very helpful for creating background images. Seamless Tile allows you to create tiling images from whatever you want.
    
24. Telegraphics – Free Plugins For Photoshop & Illustrator Free plugins that mostly add support for file extensions.
25. The Plugin Site – Free Plugins A ton of free plugins for both Windows and Mac. The author gives a rating to each one based on usefulness.
26. Photoshop Filters / Plugins – VersionTracker This website keeps track of the latest updates for programs on the internet. This section has 278 pages of plugins.
27. PluginsWorld.com – Adobe Photoshop A mixture of freeware, shareware and paid plugins. Mostly free though.
28. Xero Graphics : Freeware Plugins Tons of plugins compiled into neat little zip files.
29. Plugin Pimp – Free Plugins And More Plugin Pimp brings us a wide selection of plugins for everyday use.
30. 10 Free Plugins To Enhance Photoshop – ExtremeTech Like the title says, download these 10 free plugins to alter images in Photoshop.
31. Graphicxtras.com – Demos, Samples and Freebies Various demo, sample and free plugins to use with Photoshop.
32. Paint Engine – Fantastic Machines Paint engine for Photoshop.

Filters

Filters are great additions when looking for new ways to edit images. Filters allow things like more control over grayscale and better contrast options.

1. Filter Forge – Filter Library Filter Forge is the leader when it comes to quality Photoshop filters. They currently have 3638 (and counting) filters.
   
2. Opanda PhotoFilter Free filter to customize your photos in hundreds of ways.
   
3. Magic Enhancer Magic Enhancer is an image sharpener that allows you to reclaim lost details because of fuzzy images.
   
4. Topaz DeJPEG DeJPEG is an awesome plugin for cleaning up JPEG images with heavy artifacts due to high compression.
   
5. Digital Darkroom @ The Light’s Right Studio Photographic actions for photoshop.
   
6. Filter Factory – Photoshop Filters Filter Factory brings us over 300 filters.
   
7. GREYCstoration Free, open-source noise reduction filter. This is an enhancement to the one that comes with Photoshop.
   
8. Web Atelier: 14 Free Photoshop Filters 14 Photoshop filters that do a variety of things. These are also compatible with Adobe Fireworks.
   
9. Cybia – Plug-In Filters 15 effects for creating grain and mezzo styles.
   
10. Cybia – The Works A complete set of filters that cover things like embossing, color correction and even alpha work.
    
11. ::swisswuff:: – Digital Lomo Filter This filter is great for creating effects to make your images look as if they were taken with a Lomo camera.
    
12. Adobe Photoshop – 3D Shadow 1.2 Get more control over your shadows in Photoshop.
    
13. New Dawn Micro – Free Filters Eliminate Black/Eliminate White, allows you to quickly cut out either the white or black background on an image.
    
14. Richard Rosenman – Filters and Plugins Plugins that you can use to generate different effects.
15. Filters @ Adobe Exchange Adobe approved actions, filters, plugins and more.
16. ATNCentral.com – Downloads This site features a very large list of filters. Most of the filters have example images so you can see what it does before downloading it.
17. Free Photoshop Filters A large list of Photoshop filters to manipulate your images.
18. Reminiscing Visions – Photoshop Filters Filters to help with color, tint and black and white in your photos.

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Using this collection of links you should be able to find the perfect background to fill the void in your design!

Enjoy!!!

1. Squidfingers – Patterns
   158 free patterns from Squidfingers.
   
2. Brusheezy – Patterns
   Lots of patterns available for download. The site even includes a rating system to see what others thought of them.
   
3. Photoshop Patterns @ deviantART
   A TON of free patterns by Deviant Art users.
   
4. BioRUST.com :: Adobe Photoshop Patterns
   Free photoshop patterns from Biorust.
   
5. TipClique Photoshop Patterns – Set 001
   5 high resolution Photoshop patterns. Also check out collections 2 and 3.
   
6. Photoshop Ninja Noise Patterns Vol 1
   Photoshop noise patterns from Photoshop Ninja.
   
7. Photoshop Patterns From Art Photos On Webshots
   Webshots brings us 5 pages worth of Photoshop patterns.
   
8. Photoshop Patterns – DigiScrapDepot.com
   A few Photoshop patterns from DigiScrapDepot.
   
9. Photoshop Patterns by Shelby Kate Schmitz
   Lots of patterns for Photoshop 7 or higher. Supports both Windows and Mac.
   
10. Photoshop Patterns by Athryius Designs
    36 decorative patterns from Athryius Designs.
    
11. Kaliber10000 {The Pixel Patterns Collection}
    Very professional looking patterns from Kaliber10000.
    
12. Photoshop Patterns | Alice Grafixx
    Alice Grafixx brings us 38 pages of patterns.
    
13. Patterns from ::: Screentones :::
    Textures, backgrounds and images for comic-style Photoshops.
    
14. Patterns at -=KLEKART=-
    Very nice Photoshop patterns by an aspiring Illustrator.
    
15. 1001 Tours – Photoshop Pattern Downloads
    Photoshop patterns from 1001 Tours.
    
16. Photoshop Patterns @ DinPattern
    4 pages of high quality patterns here.
    
17. Design Spice – Free Photoshop Patterns
    65 simple Photoshop patterns for backgrounds.
    
18. Photoshop Patterns // OptikTutorials
    A simple pattern pack containing 50 patterns.

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Adobe Illustrator

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1. 3D Effects

1.1 3D Rings in Illustrator

Illustrator CS2’s 3D Effect is a powerful tool for creating three-dimensional objects – but it doesn’t give you a true 3D environment that lets your objects interact with each other. So what do you do if you want a vase with rings floating around it or intersecting wedding bands? With some careful grouping and layer arrangements, you can coax Illustrator into simulating a real 3D world.

1.2 Spin the Bottle with 3D Revolve

In this tutorial, you’ll see some of the ins and outs of the 3D Revolve Effect by rendering a three dimensional wine bottle with a label. This Effect allows you to revolve an outline profile of the right side of an object around a center axis to create a 3D object. Considering how simple the feature is to use, the results are really quite remarkable.

1.3 Adobe Illustrator in 3D

Let’s tap into some of the 3D features of Adobe Illustrator. Though Illustrator doesn’t offer a 3D environment like a true 3D application, it does give you the ability to create 3D objects that can be modified within a 3D space. Texture mapping and light sources similar to those found in the high-end 3D applications are also available.

1.4 3D Pill

With this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a 3D pill to cure your design headaches!

2. Basic Tutorials

2.1 Fancy Stars

Fancy stars aren’t just for Christmas! Learn all about blending options in this short but sweet tutorial, and try out some different shapes to get some cool variations on the same theme.

2.2 Folder Icon

You’ll learn how to make a folder icon with this tutorial.

2.3 Glassy Button

You have probably already seen this tutorial somewhere before or know how to make glassy button with Photoshop. But I’m going to show you here is done with Illustrator in 3 simple steps.

2.4 Soccer Practice Cone

With this tutorial you’ll get some practice using the Revolve effect and learn how to make a soccer practice cone!

2.5 Spirograph Effect

Remember the Spirograph? Relive your childhood memories with this simple yet stunning effect. Learn the “Ctrl+d” shortcut to save tons of time with repetitive tasks and try out some different brushes to get some cool variations on the same idea.

2.6 Web 2.0 Badge

Learn how to make a Web 2.0 badge to give away on your website with this tutorial.

3. Drawing Effects

3.1 The Anatomy of a Vector Illustration

The pattern of vector illustrations is best viewed or represented as a hierarchy or “tree”. The illustration itself would be at the top and its various parts would descend below it.

3.2 Creative Arabic Calligraphy in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial will guide you on how to draw creative Arabic fonts in Adobe Illustrator, this type of calligraphy is called “Free Calligraphy” as it is not “restricted” to a strictly set of rules on how the letters should be drawn and connected as with other forms of Arabic Calligraphy.

3.3 Create a Blissful Vector Scene

Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial through the process of creating your own simple vector scene form scratch.

3.4 Make a Stylized Christmas Tree in Illustrator

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can quickly make a stylized Christmas tree in Illustrator, you can decorate it as the way you like & maybe you can use it as a Christmas card to send it to your friends & beloved!

3.5 Halloween Pumpkin

Let’s have some fun. Learn how to draw a realistic Halloween pumpkin in Illustrator so you can attach to your ecard or email.

3.6 Skull Tattoo

In this tutorial you will learn about the Pen Tool, pathfinders, and transforming objects while making a fairly basic but cool looking skull tattoo. Once that’s done, all that’s left to do is add it to a photo of your arm to make sure it looks good, and then go to the tattoo artist to get it done for real. Simple!

4. Logo Design

4.1 Creating Stylish Business Logo with Techie Background

This tutorial will show you how to create a stylish business logo with techie background in Adobe Illustrator.

4.2 Create a Logo in Illustrator 8.0

This tutorial will show you how to create type on the top and bottom of the same circle and how to slice the circle.

4.3 Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn to illustrate some of the process of logo design using Adobe Illustrator. However, this is not so much a tutorial on the use of Adobe Illustrator as it is a way to show you one method of the “process” of refining an image to a corporate identity (logo) or stylized illustration. The basic process here could be applied to any application.

4.4 Xbox 360 Logo

This tutorial shows you, how to make Xbox logo using Adobe Illustrator.

4.5 Zune Logo

This tutorial shows you, how to make Zune logo using Adobe Illustrator.

5. Photo Effects

5.1 Adobe Bridge Icon

This tutorial will show you how to replicate the Adobe Bridge icon in Illustrator CS2 using the same techniques as the Photoshop Splash Page Tutorial.

5.2 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design

In this tutorial, we’ll be taking those skills up a notch and discussing how Illustrator deals with transparency in 3D objects. In just a few steps you’ll have created a plastic cola bottle, which is ideally suited for those of you involved in product marketing.

5.3 Envelope Distort

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Illustrator CS Envelope Distort tool to make a trendy fashion ad.

6. Text Effects

6.1 Old School Type – Line Gradients

The process for creating the base logo is not included in this tutorial. Instead, we are going to take the base logo and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual letters. This gives the text an old-school or vintage feel to it. This look is prevalent in wood engraving and sign lettering. You can do this effect with any typeface or font because the principle is the same.

6.2 Stylish Wave Text Effect

This tutorial shows you how to make a stylish wave text effect using Adobe Illustrator.

6.3 Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

In the following Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.

6.4 Create a Swirly Type Treatment

In this Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a swirly type treatment. With a free font, some brushes, and gradients you can easily create this type treatment. Moreover, you can apply these techniques to other type treatments, logos, and illustrations as well.

6.5 Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fun 3D pixel font type treatment. Using a free font, gradients, and Illustrator 3D filter, you will easily create a type treatment that you can apply to many other fonts.

7. Creative Graphics Design

7.1 Super Cool Abstract Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to design a Cool Abstract Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop.

7.2 Cool Vector Flower

This tutorial will show you how to design a Cool Vector Flower.

7.3 Fine Line Design

This tutorial will show you how to design a Fine Line Design.

7.4 Flare Tool Fun – Illustrator Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to have fun with the Flare Tool.

7.5 Font Flowers

This is an easy and fun trick you can use in Illustrator to create flowers out of letters. You can use any fonts and any colors. The following examples are made from the letters in my name SYDNEY.

7.6 Create a Glowing Abstract Light Vector Graphic

In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a glowing light abstract vector graphic. The great thing about this tutorial is it doesn’t use any raster effects. The final illustration is all vector! In this tutorial, you’ll utilize blends, different blend modes, and gradient meshes. Moreover, these techniques are real easy to apply to other illustrations.

7.7 Make a Fairy-Tale Inspired Magical Hand Shaped Vine

In this tutorial, you’ll see the intermediate to advanced Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a fairy-tale inspired magical vine that is shaped like a hand. You should have a basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator tools before you begin this tutorial.

7.8 Stylish Vector Flower

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make Stylish Vector Flower using Adobe Illustrator.

7.9 Swirly curls in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial shows you how to make swirly curls in Adobe Illustrator.

7.10 Create A Water Texture

It is starting to warm up oustide, so it is only fitting I start with wading water, like in a pool. It is a relatively quick and easy technique using Illustrator’s Effects, Simplify, Offset Path and some bright colors.

8. Other Tutorials

8.1 Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a 3D Masterpiece

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to plot an accurate bar graph using Adobe Illustrator’s Graph Tool. We’ll also render the graph to give it additional visual appeal. Successful completion of this tutorial requires an intermediate knowledge of Illustrators tools.

8.2 Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a vector film slate icon. The tutorial uses some basic shapes, some gradients, and even a blend. Moreover, you can easily customize this tutorial with your own logo or typography.

8.3 How to Create a Vector iMac Graphic in Illustrator

Follow this Adobe Illustrator walk through to create a vector based reproduction of the popular Apple iMac computer. Using simple shapes and tools that can then be put into practice to create further icon style images.

8.4 Keyboard Shortcuts For The Pen

Usually, when first learning the software, the novice will go to the tool palette to switch back and forth between the pen and other tools. This is very time consuming and there are provisions in the software to switch tools without having to select them from the tool palette.

8.5 Tasty Tentacles Brush

The simple brush we are going to make can be used for many basic shapes: tentacles, flames, tribal tattoos, trees… ummm… spooky monster tongues?

8.6 Creating a Quick and Easy Glass Bowl in Illustrator

With just a circle, a few ovals and the Inner Glow effect, you can create a quick and very useful glass bowl image in Illustrator. And once you master this technique, it can be easily adapted for many different uses.

8.7 Complicate Orb Icon

This will be the last tutorial of creating Icon from me. This tutorial will teach you doing more complicate button icon or Orb effect Icon using Illustrator.

8.8 Business Coupon Design – Illustrator Tutorial

Make a basic coupon for an electronics company. An easy task with Illustrator. This tutorial is intended for beginners and teaches a lot of basic skills.

8.9 How to Make Festive Vector Gift Boxes

Get ready for the holiday season with this festive gift box tutorial. Successful completion of this tutorial requires a solid understanding of Adobe Illustrator’s tools as this advanced tutorial moves at a quick pace. We’ll be working with Illustrators 3D tools, Brushes, Gradients, and Blurs to create these holiday presents.

8.10 Fireworks for New Year

Here is a quick tutorial to help you create a 2009 Happy New Year card. You will learn how to create realistic vector fireworks in this tutorial. The final fireworks look simple yet elegant, perfect for sending to your clients.

8.11 How to Design a Media Player with Vector Tools

In this tutorial, we’ll be using basic Illustrator tools to create a Media Player design. This is an excellent tutorial for beginners to Illustrator, as it’s mostly creating and manipulating basic shapes to arrive at a polished final result.

8.12 How to Make Realistic Skate Wheels in Illustrator

Using Illustrator’s 3D Revolve tool, we will create a set of realistic skateboard wheels and map our own artwork on the wheel. We will cover advanced techniques, such as using the revolve tool, preparing the artwork, mapping it to the 3D surfaces, and some cool tricks for adding the finishing touches.

8.13 Create a Pulsing Poster with a Vinyl Record and Grunge Type

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a vinyl record with blends and opacity masks. We’ll also create some funky pulsing elements, grunge typography, and put it together into a unique poster design.

8.14 Realistic Curtain

This lesson assumes that you already have a basic understanding on how the gradient mesh works. Therefore, we will move on to create a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh.

8.15 Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

Quickly make wrapped and unwrapped gift boxes using Illustrator’s built-in 3D Extrude & Bevel effect. Learn how to make a fully editable 3D ribbon and masked 3D typography. Also, we’ll be creating sparkles using Symbol Tools.

8.16 How to Make a Delicious Vector Orange in 9 Decisive Steps

Learn how to create a semi-realistic vector orange with simple shapes, tools, and multiple effects. This tutorial is possible for a beginner to complete, though is aimed at an intermediate Illustrator user.

8.17 How to Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

This awesome tutorial shows you how to easily create your own cartoon character using Adobe Illustrator.

8.18 Monster Character

This awesome tutorial shows you how to easily create your own cartoon monster using Adobe Illustrator.

8.19 Trendy Geometric Lines Design

This awesome tutorial shows you how to easily create trendy geometric line design using Adobe Illustrator.

8.20 Fun Film Design

With a little experimentation and imagination, you can use tools in not-so-obvious ways to create really interesting and seemingly complex effects. In this tutorial, we’ll use a number of basic shapes and a photo to create a simple filmstrip. Then we’ll map that art to a 3D shape that we’ll create and manipulate entirely in Adobe Illustrator.

8.21 Trendy Circles

This awesome tutorial shows you how to easily create trendy geometric circles using Adobe Illustrator.

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