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Top 10 Adobe Illustrator Essential shortcuts (No. 82)

If you want to be a pro at using Adobe Illustrator you need to know these essential tips. These are my absolute favourite and most used tips and shortcuts. Pay close attention because there a quite a few. Drawing tips … Continue reading


Extra Bits

Many questions come our way here in the Adobe offices of Australia and New Zealand and rumour has it thequestionroom.com could be somehow connected to us. Personally I have no idea. One question that recently was asked of me was where has the clip art gone in Illustrator? This does open up a number of [...]


Top 5 tips for tracing with Illustrator CS4

Learn how to trace placed images into Illustrator CS4 with a number of different methods. Redraw a logo, and redraw a map as well. Also take a hand drawn image that contains line work and convert it to vectors with … Continue reading


Starting with Actionscript 3 (No. 65)

An amazing matrix style intro. If you are afraid of Actionscript and want to get into it then this is the one for you. Using Adobe Illustrator and Flash CS4 we create a a button that does something with very … Continue reading


A fresh look at Illustrator CS4 (No. 62)

Adobe Illustrator has been around for almost 25 years now. Thats older than many people using it! However for those of us that have been using it for while now, we tend to do things the old way. There are … Continue reading


Blob Brush Bonanza (No. 55)

>The blob brush tool in Illustrator CS4 is a very simple and powerful tool. Learn how to customize it use all the options and create some truly creative illustrations. Make a digital Calligraphic style brush that draws perfect vector curves. Also turn the best vector brush ever into a fantastic airbrush…  so great…  hope you enjoy the new format [...]


CS4 is out the door (No. 51)

 
The very first introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 4. Live from sunny Christchurch in N.Z. Mike is very excited about all 14 new point products and the 6 all new suites. A quick look at his favorite features. Get ready for fun with CS4 its gonna be a really fun time now we [...]