How to add a downloaded brush 21Mar08 | 1
How to add and use a downloaded brush?
PHOTOSHOP: Select the Brush Tool (B), open the Brushes Window (F5) and open the dropdown menu (click che little arrow on top right of the palette) and pick “Load Brushes”. Choose the file and the new brushes will come into the list.
ILLUSTRATOR: Open the Brushes Window (F5) and into the dropdown menu choose “Open Brush Library”, then “Other Library”. Pick your file and it will come into the list.
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Illustrator Tutorial: come unire i tracciati 13Feb08 | 0
Questo è un piccolo tutorial, talmente semplice da poter sembrare scontato una volta capito il meccanismo. E’ utile come passaggio successivo all’ideazione di una forma complessa creata da più forme semplici. Una volta fatta risulta scomodo gestire tutti i pezzi e tutte le maschere che si è aggiunto per i vuoti e i pieni.
Si procede unendo pochi pezzi per volta. Nell’esempio si veda come io abbia creato un vuoto attraverso il rettangolo grigio sopra il rettangolo azzurro.
Basta selezionare i nostri pezzi e nella finestra Pathfinder (Shift+Ctl+F9) cliccare su Merge (Unisci).
I nostri tracciati sono uniti e con il puntatore bianco selezioniamo il grigio e lo cancelliamo (tasto Canc). Voilà, il tracciato è intero e segue la forma da noi voluta!
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Illustrator Tutorial: How to merge paths 13Feb08 | 0
This is a small tutorial, so simple it can seem obvious once you understand the process. it’s useful as a next step after the design of a sum of shapes. Once done is uncomfortable manage all the pieces and all the masks added.
In this example you can see I created a fake space with the gray rectangle over the blue rectangle.
Select the three shape and open the Pathfinder Window (Shift+Ctl+F9). Click Merge.
The path is now all joint; with the white pointer (Direct Selection Tool) select the gray shape and delete it (Canc).
Voilà! the path is a one piece and follows the shape you want! 
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From bitmap to Vector 23Jan08 | 3
Transforming bitmap into vector has always been a problem: softwares produced abomination filled with millions of points into paths. Never again!
Create a vector file from a picture draw has become easy thanks to two programs:
* Adobe Illustrator CS3 has a brand new LiveTrace with fully editable functions.
* Vector Magic s an online program created by J. Diebel and J.Norda from University of Stanfort that allows you to do everything via browser (supports Mozilla) and download the files in EPS, SVG and PNG.
Neither creates perfect files: both need to be corrected with Illustrator but are a valuable aid to the designer that has not much free time at work.
How it works? […]
