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How to Make Clipping Masks in Adobe Illustrator

How to Make Clipping Masks in Adobe Illustrator

If you’re an Illustrator user, then one day you might come to a point where, while creating vectors, you would like to use the raster image too. In Illustrator, creating graphics and art using vector and raster simultaneously really is a fun thing. The Clipping Mask in Adobe Illustrator is a ‘must-know’ tool for any…

How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Line Pattern in Illustrator

How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Line Pattern in Illustrator

Over the years, I’ve gotten plenty of emails about how to create a seamless diagonal pattern in Adobe Illustrator, so here we go! Illustrator comes with some default pattern brushes, but no diagonal love. Diagonal line patterns are a bit more tricky to make than a simple horizontal, or vertical pattern, but with some rock-solid alignment,…

Convert Text to Vector in Photoshop in 1 Click (Vectorize Text)

Convert Text to Vector in Photoshop in 1 Click (Vectorize Text)

I love this Photoshop feature so much that I want to ensure you all know about it. Convert Text to Vector in Adobe Photoshop First, open a new Photoshop file, and use the text tool to type anything you want on the artboard. Then Control + Click (right click) on that text layer in the…

How to Take Vector Paths from Photoshop into Illustrator

How to Take Vector Paths from Photoshop into Illustrator

Many times in the past, I found that I wanted to take a vector path from Adobe Photoshop and somehow get it to Illustrator for further use. There are many great and free Photoshop custom shapes out there, many of which might be more useful to you in Adobe Illustrator if that’s what you prefer….

How to Make a Custom Illustrator Brush Stroke from Shapes

How to Make a Custom Illustrator Brush Stroke from Shapes

Making a custom brush for Illustrator is much easier than you might expect. This tutorial was requested by many of my readers after I posted this free set of 35 Abstract Illustrator Brushes. The possibilities are endless as far as Illustrator brush-making goes, but I wanted to get you started in the right direction and…

How to Draw Smooth Lines in Illustrator with the Smooth Tool

How to Draw Smooth Lines in Illustrator with the Smooth Tool

This may seem trivial to a good many of you, but when I first started using Adobe Illustrator, it seemed to present itself as a serious challenge. I want to show you a couple different ways to make your line work a little smoother in Illustrator. With a couple easy tool settings, you’ll be making…

How to Make Swirls, Swooshes, and Curls in Adobe Illustrator

How to Make Swirls, Swooshes, and Curls in Adobe Illustrator

Swirls and swooshes, or whatever you want to call them, are pretty hard to come by as a freebie (except here on BittBox), and they’re even rarer in vector format. Part of the reason is that most people, even avid Illustrator users, don’t realize how easy it is to create these shapes with a few…