NSL WEEK 275- Adobe Illustrator “DirectPrefs”

You want free tools to help you out with your vectors in Adobe Illustrator? Astute Graphics gotchu!

AG just release a free tool to help you access the power of the preferences. Check out the video above to see an overview.

NSL WEEK 265- Adobe Illustrator “PathScribe Advanced Smart Remove Point”

This one is for my Vector Nerds aka the Anchor Point Alliance =D

I’m going to be using PathScribe which is a tool inside the VectorScribe plug-in by Astute Graphics to be used in Adobe Illustrator.

NSL WEEK 247- Adobe Illustrator “Embedded Image Trace AG”

This time we’re working with an embedded image and Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator

Along with the help of Astute Graphics.

NSL WEEK 229- Adobe Illustrator “Phantasm Halftone Live Effect”

More halftone stuff! This time we’re looking at Phantasm by Astute Graphics

Check out the video above to see the basics in action. NSL week 227 was on the native halftone live effect that ships with Adobe Illustrator.

NSL WEEK 225- Adobe Illustrator “My Vector Drawing, Stipple Workflow”

I figured I’d switch things up. Instead of just focusing on 1 tool,

I’m going to run though several tools. You’ll see how I created this illustration above.

NSL WEEK 201- Adobe Illustrator CC “Importance of Minimal Anchor Points”

You always hear “Try to use the least amount of anchor points as possible.” but you never hear why.

There’s many advantages to working with minimal anchor points. Check out the video above

NSL WEEK 193- Adobe Illustrator CC “Blend Tool Options”

The Blend Tool in Adobe Illustrator is probably the oldest Live Effect but a very POWERFUL tool.

There’s so many uses and workflows with this tool that I’m going to be returning to it several times in the future. This time I wanted to focus on the basic blend tool options

N.S.L: WEEK 165 – Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 “Appearance Panel Basics”

Back to basics! The Appearance Panel is the backbone of Adobe Illustrator.

Appearance Panel Basics

This is the place you go to find out what is going on with your artwork

N.S.L: WEEK 163 – Adobe Illustrator CC 2014: “Recolor with Kuler”

I’m kinda thinking of this as a continuation from Never Stop Learning week 161.

Now that I started playing around the recolor feature, I wanted to get more color themes by getting some help from Kuler.

N.S.L: WEEK 161 – Adobe Illustrator CC 2014: “Recolor Artwork: Pantone Spot Colors”

The learning don’t stop! This isn’t even a new feature! I ran into this feature while talking to my previous boss from the t-shirt shop.

He was asking for a tool that would look at your existing process color artwork and then assign colors from the Pantone Solid Coated color book. I didn’t know how to do it at the time. I went back and told my current boss about it, he showed me it already exists in Adobe Illustrator, and that it’s been there for a long time.