If you need to crop a photo, Adobe Illustrator really is NOT the best program to do that. You can…
Curving text is one of those things people want to use Adobe Illustrator for, since that is the app specifically…
Tracing is a way convert a raster image into a vector image. Raster images consist of pixels and are good…
Layers in Illustrator can be confusing as they are not as straightforward as say in Photoshop or many other programs.…
By default, Illustrator’s background is shown as white, which doesn’t allow you to see whether some of your objects themselves…
Patterns are special types of fills, alongside with solid colors and gradients, that consist of repeating objects. They can be…
Outlining text can actually mean two different things: creating (or converting to) outlines before sending off for print or making…
There is actually a surprising amount of ways to combine, group or merge objects together in Adobe Illustrator which can…
Gradient is a blend between two or more colors or different levels of transparency and the Gradient Tool is a…
Clipping mask is a vector shape used to hide the visibility of objects in Illustrator. You can use it to…
There are plenty of different ways you can resize a layer in Photoshop, but the most common and by far…
Feathering is an easy way of blending an image into another image or background by softening the edges. Extracting something…
Merging layers is necessary when you want to optimize the structure of your file or make several objects behave as…
Most of us know how to crop an image from its original, rectangular shape into another, usually smaller rectangular shape…
Photoshop provides a variety of tools for blurring images for all kinds of purposes: blurring objects or specific parts of…