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Illustrator’s Amazing Appearance Panel

Do you want to be an Illustrator power user? Of course you do. That’s why it’s so important to become familiar with Illustrator’s Appearance panel. Control every aspect of a vector objects appearance, from multiple fills, transparency and blend modes and even effects, all from this one panel. This video shows how to do all that and more. Download and open the sample illustration and then click on any object and examine it’s various attributes in the appearance panel.

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Advanced Illustrator Techniques – “Ask Me How”

In this six part video tutorial series we’ll examine how to create a complex illustration using Adobe Illustrator. We’ll start with blocking in basic shapes using the pen tool and then adding detail shapes by altering blending modes. Along the way we’ll look at creating modelled  form using some basic effects. Download the exercise files and follow along.

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Photoshop Compositing

Compositing in Photoshop is the process of assembling a variety of images, graphics and typography into one seamless whole. This is Photoshop’s biggest strength and when done well can produce amazing results. In this three part video tutorial we’ll look at how to make basic selections within photographs, how to make adjustments to photos and graphics, how to use blending modes and much more.

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