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Creating Circular Designs in Illustrator

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Circles are an endless source of fun in design. You can use them to make simple patterns, you can use them in your logo designs or on your business cards as well as so much more. All it takes is a little experimentation and you will see that the possibilities are endless. Today, I am going to show you just how easy it is to create these interesting circular...

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Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create Custom Gradient Brushes

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Have you ever tried to create a gradient brush out of an object with a gradient? Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that Illustrator doesn't allow you to do this? Today, I will teach you a work-around to this problem. I am going to teach you how to create a custom gradient brush that can be used in all of your designs. This is a beginners tutorial however, this technique is...

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Photoshop Tutorial: Background Design

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Today, I am going to show you how to create a beautiful background design in Photoshop. This is an intermediate Photoshop tutorial that will teach you how to make a custom brush. You can use this type of background design on your website as well as on your business cards.

Below is the flower design that we are going to create:

Beautiful background design

Step 1: The setup

Open Photoshop and...

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Stylish Flower Tutorial: Blend Tool, Transparency in Illustrator

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Today, I want to show you how to create a beautiful flower that you can use in your logo design, business cards or stationery. This tutorial will also introduce you to three very valuable Illustrator tools: the Blend Tool, the Rotate Tool  and Transparency.

Below is the flower design that we are going to create:

Final flower design

Step 1: Create the flower petal outline

Using the pen tool, create a...

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How to add a metallic look to your design in Photoshop

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Today, I am going to teach you how to add a metallic look to your designs. This is a beginners Photoshop tutorial and it will cover some basic Photoshop techniques. After completing this tutorial, you will be comfortable using the custom symbols tool as well as adding layer styles to a symbol or even text.  You can use this technique to add metallic elements to your logo design,...

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