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Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop


Found a cool download on Graphic Junkies. You can download the Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop pack and you get a nice printable cheat sheet and a wallpaper grunge style with the keyboard and shortcuts incorporated into it.

Fun with Illustrator


If you haven’t tried this little trick in Illustrator yet you need to give it a whirl…it can open up a world of lines to you. All these designs can be interesting additions to backgrounds in your artwork and much more!
Open up a blank document in Illustrator and pick a shape from the shape tool […]

Geisha - An Illustration by Gustav Germann


I came across this vector illustration of a Geisha at Steel Dolphin Art & Design Forums. It was submitted by Gustav Germann (aka Guger) and I found it to be a delightful blend of simplistic illustration and gradient mesh work.
I asked him to send me a little info on his process. He had this to […]

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Adobe Illustrator Tip - Using the Appearance Palette


Here is a really nifty little tip and trick to make interesting strokes by using the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. Start off by creating a 4pt stroke with the line tool, and make its color blue or cyan. Once this is done open the Appearance palette by clicking on its tab in the open […]

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Feature Artist - Jim Gunardson


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 […]

Adobe Illustrator Tip - Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts


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 […]

Adobe Illustrator Tip - Selecting similar objects by attributes


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 […]