Tag Archive for: illustrator

Coloring and Recoloring in Illustrator

Choosing the right colors for your project usually isn’t hard, but applying them properly to maximize efficiency and flexibility can be tricky! Even harder: hearing from your boss or client that the colors need to change.

In this great HOW-TO deep dive, you’ll learn the techniques of the Illustrator power users and never have to worry about color changes again.

Working Happier Not Harder with Photoshop and Illustrator 2021

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are incredibly rich and deep apps, with a 25+ year history behind them. Many people still use them the way they were taught 10 or 20 years ago. Stop it! Get up to speed with the amazing new features that have appeared over the past few years, so that you can become more productive, more efficient, and more creative with this amazing tool.

Wow: Vector Projects

Join us for an educational and inspirational session, as we showcase some of the world’s most amazing vector illustrations. From infographics to diagrams, commercial art to crazy special effects, you’ll not only see the art, but how the art was made.

Designing for Social Media

It’s a fast-paced social media world we’re living in, and “good” is not good enough these days to catch people’s attention. In this fast-paced session, we’ll demonstrate some of our favorite techniques for making the good look great, whether you’re using desktop or mobile apps.

10 Essential Illustrator Productivity Tips

Level-up your illustrator skills by learning how to enhance objects and type in ways that add complexity, flexibility and fun. In this session, we’ll share some of our favorite tricks for letting Illustrator do the heavy-lifting while getting beautiful results. We’ll explore:
  • Appearance Panel and Graphic Styles skills
  • Symbols and Brushes
  • Creative problem-solving tips

Improving Cruddy Vector and Image Graphics

Your client or boss just sent you a bunch of images for your marketing campaign… and they’re terrible! Learn how to use the secret powers of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat to improve your graphics.

Topics include:

  • How to improve grainy low light mobile phone images
  • What to do with low resolution and pixelated images
  • Tips for improving poor quality stock photos
  • How to fix stock vector graphics with blend modes that won’t render in InDesign
  • How to match color tones across all assets
  • Choosing the right ICC profiles for image assets

Gradients and Blends in Illustrator

If you have ever tried to make a great blend (or gradient, or vignette, or whatever you want to call it) in Illustrator, you know you need this session! We’ll go beyond the basics here to explore the many different ways to blend objects and add gradients, and you’ll learn how to use blends to create incredible (and unexpected) shapes and designs.

Making Killer Infographics

If you’ve ever tried to build an infographic, you know that telling a story through visual design is not as straightforward or intuitive as it might seem! This focused session will explore:

  • How to break down your project atomically, step by step
  • Let’s get clear: what is an infographic (and what isn’t!)
  • What works and what definitely doesn’t when it comes to at-a-glance design
  • Examples of amazing and inspirational infographics we can all learn from