In this intermediate-advanced illustrator tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a 3D newspaper icon in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial is based on the news icon in my <shameless plug> Formida icon set </shameless plug>, and was made in CS3.
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With Christmas right around the corner, we Illustrator users are sure to get a pile of requests for holiday artwork. This tutorial was inspired by a set of candy cane icons I recently made for an upcoming project.
You’ve probably seen Photoshop prompts that ask you whether or not you’d like to rasterize your text, shapes or layers. Hard to give Photoshop an answer when you don’t know what rasterizing is, exactly. The Wikipedia article on the topic is unusually unhelpful, stating, “Rasterization or Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (pixels or dots) for output on a video display or printer, or for storage in a bitmap file format.”
Riiight… So let’s see if we can clear that up for all you Photoshoppers.
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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make fantastic 3D arrows that work great with logos, presentations, and websites. This tutorial is a bit long, and it’s best to have some previous Illustrator experience, but I think a beginner won’t have too much trouble following along.
This tutorial was created in Adobe Illustrator CS3.
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