Free USA Vectors Showing pride in your country is also great way to promote your business. Showing priding a country means using the countries colors and your designs. The traditional red white and blue colors can be used in your design to create a patriotic look....
Mothers Day Vector Pack Mother's day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with free vector files? Freepik has provided some awesome free vector files for us to celebrate Mothers Day. There's a wide array of floral designs available in this...
Unique Vectors The free vector files of the week are a great collection of 5 unique vectors. These are a mix and match of different styles and purposes. You can create a metro style infographic, or create a flyer for a party. You can also create unique cartoon...
Find Free Vector Files Today, designing has truly become one of the most popular fields of work. You can find students and graduates choosing designing as their field of career. Well, all the artistically inclined individuals who want to build their career in...
Fruit and Vegetable Vector Shapes You can never get enough free vector shapes. They're infinitely scalable, and incredibly handy. They're also 100% editable, which is awesome, too. I love vector graphics, and this week's free set of vector graphics are of fruit and...
Vector Infographic Elements Sets Infographics have taken the world by storm. Whether you find them in print magazines or online, data visualization has exploded in popularity lately. I have created my own infographic element sets in the last couple of months, so I...
Blend Shapes in Illustrator Photoshop and Illustrator both have their strengths and weaknesses. I love both of them for different reasons. Photoshop is great for lighting and effects. Illustrator is great for working with shapes. In Photoshop, you can't blend two...
Free Vector 3D Chart Icons If you're in business, especially in the corporate world, every little detail counts. Everything gets noticed when you are pitching to a big business or giving a presentation. Everything is important, right down to the color choices for...
Free Navigation Menu Vectors This free Navigation Menu Vectors comes from zezu.org. Add these navigation menu vectors to your design resource toolbox for free! This is a Free Navigation Menu Vectors in encapsulated postscipt (.eps) format. Use these in your next...
Free Animal Vectors This week's free vector file of the week is a really cool one. If you've ever wanted free vector animals for your designs, this is the freebie for you. Today, I have found 41 free animal vectors for your designs by Lukasiniho. These free vectors...
I really love to work with Adobe Fireworks when making graphics for the web. It is simple, intuitive, and has a few features that give you a little more control than what you find in photoshop. It is almost like Fireworks is a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop...
You can control the opacity of each individual color of a gradient inside of Adobe Illustrator. This is fantastic for flexibility with colors. Simply click on the color swatch of the gradient, and there is an opacity setting on the gradient panel. You can also double...
You can easily control the opacity of colors in Illustrator. You can Control the opacity of the stroke and the fill individually by using the appearance panel. Directly under each stroke and fill layer in the appearance panel, there is an opacity section, where you...
This is a great method to get great masks in Photoshop. You can actually have 2 masks on an image at the same time. You can use a vector mask and use a custom shape to mask out an image, creating a clean mask for sharp edges. The pixel mask is great for creating...
Opacity has a lot of uses for different types of effects. We like to see certain things bleed through in some areas, while in others we want a shape or text to be a certain color. Recently, I was playing around with opacity in the appearance panel in Illustrator, and...
Appearance Panel in Illustrator This is extremely handy when working in Illustrator. This effect can be placed on objects and text, and on clipping paths. You can arrange the stacking order and the size, as well as the colors. One great advantage is that you can add...
I recently posted a tutorial on the blob brush in Illustrator. Using this tool, you can create some nice hand written effects. First, open up Illustrator and grab the blob brush tool. Go into your brushes panel and create a new brush. I will note that this is much...
This tool is one of the best tools if you want to create a sketch within Illustrator. You can really draw and add to an existing shape like you would if you were drawing with an ink pen. the best part about this, is that with a drawing tablet, you can very closely...
This tip is to save time when creating a group of squares or any type of grid in Illustrator. This is a good trick for making easy grids in Illustrator. For our purposes, I am creating a 300px by 300px square and it is filled with purple. You can make yours any color...
I was playing around with Adobe Illustrator yesterday, and I had to use a clipping path on a photo. I need to be able to get it just right and show what is needed and hide what isn't needed, but sometimes you miss your mark. Here, I wanted the brand logo to show, and...