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ByBrant Wilson
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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,…
ByBrant Wilson
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Today I have a simple but important tip when drawing in Illustrator. Have you ever needed two points to be perfectly aligned, but nudging simply won’t work? Well, you can align points just like you can align objects. In this example, I’m going to use some outlined text. Let’s get started. Aligning Objects to a…
ByBrant Wilson
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If you’ve ever downloaded one of my free sets of buttons or web page elements, you might notice that I use a lot of opacity masks in my Illustrator files. I do this for several reasons. The reasons may be obvious, but I would like to clarify how to use these (opacity masks) and why….
ByBrant Wilson
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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…
ByBrant Wilson
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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….
ByBrant Wilson
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Making a dotted line or dashed line in Illustrator is easy—you just change it in the stroke palette. Photoshop, on the other hand, is a bit trickier. There’s more than one way to do it, but I want to show you how to quickly make a dotted line in Photoshop. Although, you can create lines…
ByBrant Wilson
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Are you ready to take your Adobe Illustrator designs to the next level? If you’re looking for a way to add unique, eye-catching detail that will make your work stand out from the crowd, then look no further than Illustrator patterns. Whether you’re an experienced graphic designer or just barely starting out, using patterned elements…
ByBrant Wilson
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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…
ByBrant Wilson
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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…
ByBrant Wilson
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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…