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Illustrator Tutorial: Background Design

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This is a great tutorial in which I encourage you be as creative as you want to be. It is an intermediate illustrator tutorial. We will be creating a background design that you can use for your websites, business card designs and even stationery designs.

Here is a picture of the background design that we will be creating:

Final background design

At the end of this tutorial, there is a detailed video that will...

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Illustrator Tutorial: Creating A Complex Pattern

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This is an intermediate Adobe Illustrator tutorial that will teach you how transform a simple shape into a complex pattern. You will learn how to use the Transform Effect, how to add that design to your Graphic Styles Palette and how to use the Blend tool.

Here is the final design that we will be creating:

Final Complex Design

Step 1: Using the Transform Effect to create a design

Create a...

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Creating print-ready PDFs

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print ready pdfWhen someone purchases one of our logo templates or business cards from our website Pixellogo.com, we provide them with a print-ready PDF that they can take straight to their local printer. Sometimes this is all that our customers need. Other times, our customers want to make small changes to the original .ai files themselves and then, save this new .ai file as a print-ready PDF but...

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Adding Bleed: Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop Tutorial

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Earlier this week, I wrote about bleed, explaining what it is and why it needs to be added to your files before sending them to print (click here to view that post). Now that you know what bleed is, I want to show you how to add bleed to your files in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

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How to change the colour and text of a logo design in Illustrator

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How to change the colour and text of a logo design in Illustrator

Our clients often ask us how to change the color or text of a logo template that they have purchased from us at Pixellogo.com. Today, I am going to teach you how you can modify your logo design in Adobe Illustrator. Changing the color or text in your logo template is actually quite fun and relatively straightforward. You will be surprised at just how much you can do...

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