This tutorial shows you how to draw a simple gear shape using transformations and the pathfinder panel in Illustrator. Continue reading
Drawing a Gear in Illustrator
Raggedy Edges in Photoshop
In traditional darkroom photography the photographer had the choice of cropping the shot to just the image or preserving the ragged edges of the negative. This is also something found in more intentionally primitive modes of photo image making like pinhole photos or cyanotypes. This tutorial will outline one method of achieving this effect.
Photoshop does Instagram
As much as photographers strive to make great images with tremendous clarity, amazing tonal range and rich vibrant colors there’s a sometimes curious preference among the public for photos that are exactly the opposite. Faded photos present a notion of recent history, a yearning for another time and nostalgia for events that may or may not have happened in the way they have been portrayed. Regardless of where you fall within this spectrum, having an understanding of why old photos look the way they do and how we can use Photoshop to mimic it are invaluable tools. Continue reading
Scanning a Line Drawing
These instructions are intended for scanning black line drawings. Continue reading
the Illustrator Art Brushes 4 ways
Here are some tutorials on making your own custom art brush in illustrator. These are just the beginning, the possibilities are truly endless.
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A perfect heart
Finding a tutorial for drawing a perfect heart was proving quite a challenge until I found this one. The steps below are based on Deke’s tutorial.
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Sexy Pull Quotes pt.1
I think pull quotes are great because they typically use pure typography to draw interest into magazine articles. If the typefaces we have chosen stir us emotionally, these discrete instances of pure type should send shivers down our readers spine.
This tutorial will introduce the technical steps and considerations needed to set up compelling pull quotes in InDesign. Although set up for one specific layout approach, the steps and considerations can be tailored to meet many design needs.
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Sexy Pull Quotes pt.2
In the first part of this tutorial we set up a document and placed a text frame that held a pull quote. In this second part we’ll add the sexiest part of pull quotes – the actual quote marks – and customize how they look.
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Don’t Break the Grid redux
There is an unfortunate dearth of InDesign tutorials online – good ones at least – and when you find one that addresses the software as well as design it is always worth sharing. I found this one a while back and liked it quite a bit, but I thought it needed a bit of a rewrite for my students.
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Imposing a document with InDesign
There is no imposition function within InDesign, but with a little creativity using the FILE > PRINT BOOKLET we can create a document that can made into a PDF and then printed and assembled into a saddle-stitched book.
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