Every aspect of type in Adobe Illustrator can be treated as a vector-drawing object with a fill and a stroke, or even a gradient fill, while preserving the ability to edit the text later. Text with a ...

Grunge gives images a fun and artistic look that attracts attention. While Adobe Photoshop has many built-in tools for this effect, creating a grunge look in Illustrator takes more work. To create ...

Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique in Illustrator that enables advanced coloring of vector objects with smooth and malleable color transitions. If you’re reasonably familiar with ...

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient mesh, I ...

Creating the spiral text will teach you how to create text, transform, rotate, use the transform effects, and use angles. These are skills that can be used to create other effects. Let’s now so how ...