For the past few months I’ve been trying my hand at some logo contests over at SitePoint Forums and was surprised to see contest holders still requesting the .psd as the desired file format. Likewise, there are still a surprising amount of entrants asking contest holders if it’s O.K. to create a proposal using Photoshop. […]

Jim Gunardson, 32, is a freelance artist who does most of his work for magazines. Jim wears many hats as a creative, as he also works as an interactive web designer, focusing on interface illustration, and icon design. Jim currently lives in New Jersey, right outside Philadelphia. He has lived in Sarasota, Florida and in […]

A very handy feature introduced in version 9 of Adobe Illustrator is the ability to assign custom keyboard shortcuts through the Keyboard Shortcuts Menu (alt+shift+ctrl+k or Edit Menu > Keyboard Shortcuts).

In this menu you can assign new shortcuts to the Tools or Menu Commands. When you click on an item a box appears (as shown […]

Have you ever been working in Adobe Illustrator and had an artboard full of many different objects or a very complex design but wanted to select one type or group of objects, and for example, want to change their color? You could manually try to go in and ungroup objects and ‘Shift + Click’ them […]

Vector Art made a breakthrough with the distinctive cell-filled designs hitting the design community. What was a primitive style in the realm of cartooning became a mainstream, attractive, and desirable trend for pieces of artwork. Now history is repeating itself in the realm of Vector Art, shifting towards realism, through use of the almighty Gradient […]