So Carrsonified.com posted “5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers” and in the 1st tip they show you how to make some buttons in Photoshop. Upon seeing the final result I thought I could do it in Illustrator.
So minus the arrow, here is the final result:
Yep, all that text is editable and the box will resize for you so here is the download link: Download.
Ok, sooo after a long wait I’ve found the art and is prepping it to upload, it turns out I didn’t find the final AI i originally posted. But instead I found the files I used to build it. A big plus for you all!
So in this post ill give you a quick tutorial on how to use the pattern.
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Ok.. so after looong months of looking and making phone calls ect… ect… I have found the Vector Paisley Pattern files. If you don’t remember you can see it here.
Ill be posting it in the next day or two. I’ll also update this post and the original.
Update: Ok so i posted a tutorial and the file here.
-Gautch
Today we will learn how to create a simple glossy graphic style using a couple of gradients. All of this magic will happen in the Appearance Pallet.
Oh and then we’ll go on to resize everything Dynamicaly. Hold your horses, ill explain Dynamic Objects shortly.
Here is what we are going to make:
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I worked at an in-house design agency a short while back that would do about 100 to 150 ads a week. They had a practice of outlining text before it went to print, to save them from font issues. While this can help you with a printer, one thing we learned was artists didn’t Un-Do the create outline step, thus saving over the editable version. One of the worst things you can do is click on “Create Outlines”. Now there is something to be said about taking a little time and thinking about what your doing, but 6-8 artist working on that many ads per week can ensure a mishap every so often. This short tutorial, hopefully, will save you in the future. Read More »
While i was trying to update my hosting and URL i didn’t back up the blog. Whoops. So let this be a lessen to all of you, back it up! Now on to your regularly scheduled program.
So I’ve given a few (around 20) free Illustrator files with countless Styles and tips. Now I have a question for you.
Is there a Graphic Style you’ve seen on my site that you would like a tutorial for?
Thats it, simply name one and ill get going on it.
I have to apologies, my hosting provider sucks and is down. Ill let you all know when its up and running.
It should only be a few days.
Sorry.
UPDATE:
Ok so here is an update. Apperantly my URL (gautch.com) expired. Doh! So all my links were down also.
The good news, my web host was good to me and helped me out. Soooo… that means all thoes links should be working.
-Gautch
Thats right, I said 46,532 downloads. What is the Adobe Exchange Downloads? Well Adobe has a section on there site called Exchange. Its basically a place artists can upload Adobe files for others to download. I started offering what I offer here on that service. It allowed me to reach a good amount of artists without having to come up with a web site, such as this.
46,532 is how many time my file have been downloaded (at the time of this post) with 12,695 being the highest for my Illustrator Plastic Style and 1,838 for my Illustrator Plastic Style V 2.0. So my reason for this post? Well I feel 50,000 downloads is some pretty good bragging rights. Yep, I’ll be bragging when it hits the big 50! Its about time I brag a tad.
Thats it, I’m a pretty modest guy so I’ll stop there.
Oh and here is a link to those files in case you want them-> Link
Just a quick FYI, this blog has moved to a new home. You’ll need to update your RSS to this ->Link. If you want to see the blog in all is glory you can see it here. -> Link.
So you ask why the move? Well it was originally because I wanted to use a better theme. I currently have my personal site (here) and wanted to co-brand it with my blog. Its an exercise in branding. I had been wanting to brand me and my work so people will associate it all as one. Currently people say, “Gautch? Whats that?”. Then i have to explain is actually pronounced “Josh”, and then I have to go on about how its my brand and all that goes with that explanation. So this move is basically the first step, of many, to creating that brand.
Head over to the new site and ill be posting new downloads for you shortly.
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