Archive for the ‘Illustrator’ Category

Varied icons selection

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

This set has many different icons, you can find construction site, stadistics, and even math icons. They all have the same characteristics, they all have a  Web 2.0  appeal and vectorized. They are in .EPS format, so you won’t have any trouble using them at Adobe Illustrator.

Turn your fonts into curves

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

If you have some time designing, you should turn all fonts into curves already. But if you’re one of the newbies around (specially when we talk about web designing) you could have noticed that fonts change when you try to print them.

This is because it’s not the same font as the one you’ve used in your design. The ideal thing would tell everybody to get your same font so we all could have it, but it’s not always like this. This is why when we open it, it converts itself into a default font from the system.

There’s a solution for everything, with Adobe Illustrator you’ll be able to convert fonts into curves.

And what does this mean?
It’s all about transforming fonts into paths. This way anywhere where your design is opened, it’ll always have the same fonts. Attention, once the fonts are curved, you won’t be able to edit the text anymore.

We have three ways of doing this:

  • With the shortcut shift +ctrl++ O
  • Right Click \ Create Outlines
  • Menu Type\ Type \ Create Outlines

Any of these three forms do the same function as long as you have the text selected.

Vectors and dogs

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

You might wonder: What are dog derivatives? Maybe you’ll be getting the idea from the picture below. Anyways, this 67 piece set in .AI format, has very interesting things to see with very good quality.

 Source: MJG Adrian