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VideoTutorial Adobe Illustrator CS5 | Pinceles de Cerdas

2011-01-26T20:10:00.000-08:00

Understanding Gradient Meshes in Illustrator CS5

2011-01-17T00:41:00.000-08:00

Colorisation avec Illustrator CS5

2011-01-09T19:45:00.000-08:00

Drawing a Ford Focus in Adobe Illustrator

2010-12-20T19:45:00.000-08:00

Bristle Brush

2010-12-15T19:15:00.000-08:00

Understanding paths in Illustrator

2010-12-13T18:24:00.000-08:00

Concept of vector art

2010-11-28T20:59:00.000-08:00

Complexity Brushes How to use

2010-11-25T20:49:00.000-08:00

Illustrator Pattern Brush and 3D Extrude & Bevel

2010-11-22T18:47:00.000-08:00

Addendum

2010-11-12T00:28:00.000-08:00

Art Brush and Pattern Brush Tricks

2010-11-04T01:01:00.000-07:00

Creating simple logo design

2010-10-31T20:55:00.000-07:00

Sticker Design

2010-10-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

Product logo and packaging graphic design in Illustrator and photoshop

2010-10-20T21:27:00.000-07:00

Speed 3D logo in Illustrator

2010-10-14T21:30:00.000-07:00

How to Create 3D Logo in Adobe Illustrator

2010-10-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

How to design T-shirts and get them ready for print

2010-09-28T00:30:00.000-07:00

Create a Vector Folder Icon

2010-09-21T18:57:00.000-07:00

How to make a Adobe Illustrator 3D text effect

2010-09-12T20:36:00.000-07:00

PDF File Editing

2010-08-31T09:00:00.000-07:00

Adobe Illustrator(TM) plugin

2010-08-23T21:33:00.000-07:00

Adobe Illustrator(TM) plugin: Effects and styles

2010-08-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

Illustrator to Photoshop

2010-08-12T22:12:00.000-07:00

Robot Illustration

2010-08-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

Create Gear In Adobe Illustrator

2010-07-26T19:51:00.000-07:00

Beautiful strokes

2010-07-19T21:41:00.000-07:00

Fractions & Numerals

2010-07-12T20:52:00.001-07:00

Brush updates

2010-07-08T21:55:00.000-07:00

Learn Version Cue CS4 - Setting up a workflow

2010-07-01T21:03:00.000-07:00

Great symmetry pattern work with on time

2010-06-27T20:15:00.000-07:00

Quick and Easy Swooshes, and Swirls

2010-06-17T19:55:00.000-07:00

Using seamless patterns in Adobe Illustrator

2010-06-13T21:00:00.000-07:00

Mesh Reshape

2010-06-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

Bristle brush in CS5

2010-06-03T00:26:00.000-07:00

Drawing enhancement

2010-05-27T20:03:00.000-07:00

Top 5 Favorite Features

2010-05-24T01:23:00.000-07:00

Illustrator CS3 tutorial - Experimenting with Artistic Brush

2010-05-16T21:00:00.000-07:00

Understanding to Open Type

2010-05-10T21:04:00.000-07:00

3D Design

2010-05-02T21:48:00.000-07:00

Drawing a girl in five minutes

2010-04-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

Vector Girl Drawing

2010-04-12T19:44:00.000-07:00

How to put a "Shine" onto your objects

2010-03-18T08:03:00.000-07:00

3D in Adobe Illustrator CS4

2010-03-08T20:01:00.000-08:00

Create a glossy button

2010-03-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

Illustrator CS4 Lineart Tutorial

2010-02-12T18:29:00.000-08:00

Color Painting in Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Woman on A Chair

2010-01-31T09:02:00.001-08:00

Working with multiple artboards

2010-01-18T23:58:00.000-08:00

Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery

2010-01-12T21:38:00.001-08:00

Beyond the Basics

2009-12-30T01:03:00.000-08:00

Enhanced Clipping Masks

2009-12-26T02:32:00.000-08:00

Photoshop CS4 & Illustrator CS4 New Features

2009-12-19T01:39:00.000-08:00

Create christmas bauble

2009-12-01T08:29:00.001-08:00

Render car with Illustrator Mesh tool

2009-11-22T19:38:00.000-08:00

Drawing egg with Gradient Mesh tool

2009-11-15T08:41:00.000-08:00

Simple shapes

2009-11-09T08:49:00.000-08:00

Illustrator Mesh Tool quick tutorial

2009-11-01T22:42:00.000-08:00

Creating vector metal icon button

2009-10-28T01:41:00.000-07:00

Figure vector drawing

2009-10-23T02:11:00.000-07:00

Vector Fire and Flames

2009-10-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

Create a Windows Vista icon

2009-10-13T09:38:00.000-07:00

iPod Gel Song Bar

2009-10-05T09:35:00.000-07:00

SymmetryWorks - Great patterns in no time

2009-09-28T09:49:00.000-07:00

How to Create Florishes in illustrator

2009-09-21T04:15:00.000-07:00

Creating background effect in Illustrator

2009-09-16T22:47:00.000-07:00

Wavy Lines Tutorial

2009-09-10T21:44:00.000-07:00

Creating 3D Brochure in Adobe Illustrator

2009-09-08T02:07:00.000-07:00

Time to change - Wal Mart

2009-09-03T01:40:00.000-07:00

Creative vector art for TVC.

Adobe Illustrator 3D Pushing Out Clip Drawing

2009-08-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

Creating Coil Spring using Blend tool

2009-08-26T03:23:00.000-07:00

Amazing Blend tool

2009-08-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

How to Recreate the Animal Planet Logo in Adobe Illustrator

2009-08-18T00:16:00.000-07:00

SpongeBob Adobe Illustrator Inking Tutorial #3 Brushes

2009-08-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

Creating Pixel Art in Illustrator

2009-08-09T20:56:00.000-07:00

Creating Business Stationery Files In Adobe Illustrator 12 by: Jacob Gourd

2009-08-05T01:27:00.001-07:00

Designing a identity for your small business can be a daunting task when your budget doesn’t stretch to hiring a professional to help you do the job. Digital artwork files need to be created to a correct size, resolution and color mode. Providing poor artwork files to printers will result in a unprofessional looking final product which wont leave a positive mark on your customers.

This tutorial goes over the basics of creating digital artwork files for business cards and marketing postcards. The following tutorial can be used to create business stationery including letterheads, compliments slips and label artwork files by adjusting the sizes.

The dimensions mentioned are for landscape items and should be transposed for portrait cards.

To create a new document in Adobe Illustrator select File > New (Ctrl+N). Set the Color Mode to CMYK and enter the Artboard size. For business cards set the size to 95mm x 57mm and for A6 post card to 151.5mm x 108mm. These dimensions include the bleed of 3mm (8.5pt) for and business cards and 1.5mm (4.2pt) for post cards.

Ensure you have the page rulers showing (View > Show Rulers) and that they are displaying in millimeters (Edit > Preferences > Units).

Set the co-ordinates of your artboard to be 0,0 at the top left-hand corner by clicking and dragging the cross from where the two page rulers meet at the top left of your screen.

Now drag a guide from the top ruler down to the center of your document to 28.5mm for business cards and 54mm for postcards. Add a second one from the lefthand ruler to the centre of your document to 47.5mm for business cards and 75.75mm for postcards.

Adding a bounding box

The bounding box does not show in your design when printed but dictates the size of your eps file.

Select the rectangle tool and click once on your document, this will open a window into which you can enter the size of the box. Set the size for business cards to 95mm x 57mm and for A6 post card to 151.5mm x 108mm. Ensure the box has a transparent stroke and fill. (Window > Show Colors).

Using one of the arrow tools, click on the dot in the centre of the box and drag it to the centre of your document, as marked by your guides. Now lock it by selecting Object > Lock.

Trim and Text Area Guides

Create two more boxes as before but this time don’t lock them, instead right click (For Macs, Control click), choose Make Guides.

For the first box set the size for business cards to 89mm x 51mm and for A6 post card to 148.5mm x 105mm.

For the second box set the size for business cards to 83mm x 45mm and for A6 post card to 142.5mm x 99mm.

You can now add your design within this template. The only items that should touch the outer line are those that bleed off the edge of your card. The middle line shows where the cards will be cut, you should try to keep all your text and images within the inner line to avoid the possibility of anything being ‘clipped’.

Use the Document Info pallette (File > Document Info) to ensure any images you use are all at least 300dpi and are CMYK.

When you are happy with your design, save the file as an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file, this is your back up in case you need to make alterations at any time in the future. This file cannot be uploaded.

Save as EPS

*note: Using Illustrator filters and transparencies sometimes produce elements in your design that do not print correctly. If you have used these effects in your Illustrator artwork, we recommend that you export your artwork as a 400 DPI TIFF.

View the document at Actual Size, ensuring you can see all round the outsite of your page, now Edit > Select All. There should be nothing outside the outer box other than your two centre guides. If there is, delete it.

All text within your document should be changed to outlines, Edit > Select All, then, Type > Create Outlines.

You must ensure there are no hidden characters (∞) on your artwork. (Type > Show Hidden Characters). If there are any of these on your document, delete them. All black text should be set to overprint Filter > Colors > Overprint Black. Unselect stroke and select include Blacks with CMY.

Select File > Save As. Choose Illustrator EPS (.eps) and save the file.

Hidden font fields in your artwork will register as fonts that are not outlined. Our system will reject this file as a bad file. Please make sure to to delete hidden characters and outline your fonts.

Creating vector fire and flames

2009-08-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

Modifying Mesh Points

2009-07-27T21:19:00.001-07:00

Using Live Trace and Live Paint

2009-07-23T00:33:00.000-07:00

Illustrator Color Charts

2009-07-19T21:53:00.000-07:00

How to create sparkles

2009-07-16T22:39:00.000-07:00

Simple and easy to draw a 3D Apple

2009-07-13T09:13:00.000-07:00

Amazing patterns creation

2009-07-09T07:01:00.000-07:00

Technology revolution

2009-07-03T10:03:00.000-07:00

Clipping Mask Tutorial for Adobe Illustrator CS4--Is that good?

2009-06-29T09:34:00.000-07:00

Vector art tracing

2009-06-24T01:36:00.000-07:00

Adobe Illustrator can do this, how amazing it is....

2009-06-21T02:32:00.000-07:00

Speed up drawing techniques exposed, drawing girl in Illustrator

2009-06-15T23:45:00.000-07:00

Using Illustrator to create glassy and shiny text

2009-06-12T21:12:00.000-07:00

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Optimize performance (Illustrator CS4 on Windows XP) - Part 3

2009-06-07T22:08:00.000-07:00

Using Illustrator features effectively

The way you work in Illustrator, and especially the way you view artwork, can effect the performance of Illustrator. Modifying view options, linking images rather than embedding them, and optimizing scratch disk and startup options can all affect the speed of Illustrator and its memory usage.

OutlineView

Outline view hides paint attributes, displaying the artwork as unfilled paths. Working in Outline view can speed the display of complex artwork, such as objects containing gradients or patterns. Outline view can also make it easier to edit objects hidden behind other filled objects. In Illustrator, choose View > Outline to display a document in outline mode.

Custom Views

You can create custom views of your document, allowing you to quickly change the view mode, magnification, scroll position, and layer options by choosing a custom view from the View menu. To create a custom view, set the view attributes you want to save, and then choose View > New View and type a name in the New View dialog box. The custom view appears in the View menu.

Display performance

You can specify the quality and speed of the display when you use the Hand tool to move the artboard. To specify the display quality, choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Display Performance. Drag the Hand Tool slider to the left to improve the display quality when you use the Hand tool, or move it to the right to improve speed.

Raster effect resolution

You can change the resolution of raster effects to optimize the performance of Illustrator. To change the resolution of raster effects, choose Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings, do one of the following, and then click OK:

If you are editing files, click Screen. Illustrator uses a resolution of 72 ppi for raster effects, increasing display speed.
If you are printing files, click High. Illustrator uses a resolution of 300 ppi for raster effects, decreasing printing speed, but increasing print quality.

Layers panel

The Layers panel lets you easily organize and modify artwork. When you hide layers that contain complex artwork or high resolution bitmap images, Illustrator redraws the screen faster. To hide a layer, click the eye icon to the left of the layer name, deselect Show Layer, and then click OK. To hide all but the selected layer, Alt-click the eye icon.

Note: The Layers panel can display thumbnails for top-level layers, nested layers, groups, and objects. You can reduce the number of thumbnails so Illustrator redraws the screen faster:

1. Choose Panel Options from the Layers palette menu.
2. Reduce the number of thumbnails:

To remove all thumbnails from the Layers panel, select Small in the Row Size section, and then click OK.
To remove thumbnails for specific elements in the Layers panel, deselect Layers, Groups, or Objects in the Thumbnails section, and then click OK.

Scratch disk

When you work with an embedded bitmap image and your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Illustrator uses hard disk space as a scratch disk. Because it takes longer to access information on a hard disk than it does to access information in memory, using a portion of the hard disk as virtual memory can decrease performance. If you need more memory to work in Illustrator, Adobe Systems recommends installing more RAM.

By default, Illustrator uses the system drive as its primary scratch disk. You should change the Illustrator primary scratch disk setting to your fastest hard drive.

To change the scratch disk preference:

Choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disk.
Choose a hard disk from the Primary pop-up menu. If you work with large images and have more than one hard disk, choose another disk from the Secondary pop-up menu.
Click OK and restart Illustrator.

Note: Adobe recommends that you use a disk utility, such as Disk Defragmenter, to optimize and defragment your hard disk on a regular basis. For more information, see your Windows documentation.
Illustrator startup files

Document Profiles contain the default patterns, gradients, graph designs, colors, and color libraries that appear in new Illustrator documents. These files also determine zoom level, window size, viewing preferences, and scroll position for new documents. You can minimize the file size of new documents by removing unnecessary swatches and brushes from Illustrator startup files.

For instructions on creating custom startup files in Illustrator CS2, see Illustrator Help.

Templates

Templates let you create new documents that share common settings and design elements. For example, to design a series of business cards with a similar look and feel, create a template with the desired artboard size, view settings (such as guides), and print options. You can minimize the file size of new documents by removing unnecessary swatches, symbols, graphic styles, and brushes from templates.

Templates offer a powerful alternative to creating custom startup files. You can create an unlimited number of templates. In addition, you can store and access templates anywhere, as opposed to startup files, which must have a specific name and location.

Linked files

Embedded bitmap images (for example, TIFF, BMP, or Photoshop EPS) can dramatically increase the size of an Illustrator document, causing slower performance. To improve performance, select Link in the Place dialog box when you place a bitmap image. The Link option references the placed image on the hard disk. (If a service buereu requires embedded images, then save a copy f the file and select Include Linked Files in the Illustrator Native Format Options or EPS Format Options dialog box.)

EPS previews

If a document contains linked EPS images that have high-resolution previews, Illustrator may redraw the screen slowly as you edit artwork. To enable Illustrator to redraw the screen more quickly, use low-resolution EPS previews: Choose Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard, select Use Low Resolution Proxy For Linked EPS, and then click OK.
Show DCS Transparency Interactions option

The Links Panel Options dialog box includes a Show DCS Transparency Interactions option. If this option is selected, the Links palette displays a yellow icon to identify linked DCS EPS graphics that are transparent or overlap transparent objects. Because this option forces Illustrator to regularly determine if linked EPS files interact with transparency, it can reduce performance.

To disable the Show Transparency Interactions option:

1. Choose Palette Options from the Links palette menu.
2. Deselect Show DCS Transparency Interactions, and then click OK.

Navigator panel

The Navigator panel displays a thumbnail view of your current artwork for easy navigation. Depending on the complexity of your artwork, a substantial amount of processing time may be required to update the thumbnail each time you make a change. To improve screen redraw speed and performance in a complex Illustrator document, hide the Navigator panel by unchecking Navigator under the Window menu.

You can set up custom views to more efficiently zoom to particular areas of your document. See the Custom Viewssection of this document for more information.
Anti-Alias Artwork option

The Anti-Alias Artwork option smooths text and graphics by blending the color of an object's edge pixels with that of adjacent pixels. However, this process can cause slow screen redraw. To disable this option, choose Edit > Preferences > General; then deselect Anti-aliased Artwork and click OK.

Simplify command

The Simplify command reduces the amount of anchor points in paths and path shapes, reducing file size and increasing performance. To apply the Simplify command, select the desired path or object, and then choose Object > Path > Simplify.

Smart Guides

Smart Guides allow you to create, align, edit, and transform Illustrator objects relative to other objects. If you have a large number of objects in your artwork, Illustrator will require more time to display Smart Guides. To disable Smart Guides, uncheck Smart Guides under the View menu.

Windows resources

The following websites provide troubleshooting tips and general information about Windows.

Adobe Customer Support: www.adobe.com/support/

Microsoft Knowledgebase: http://support.microsoft.com

Optimize performance (Illustrator CS4 on Windows XP) - Part 2

2009-06-04T17:10:00.000-07:00

Optimizing your hardware configuration

The hardware you use affects the performance of Illustrator: the faster the processor or hard drive, the faster Illustrator can process information. Other hardware enhancements, such as installing additional RAM, using a multiprocessor system, or optimizing and defragmenting drives, can also improve performance.

Processor speed

The speed of Illustrator is limited by the speed of your computer's Central Processing Unit (CPU). Since Illustrator manipulates large quantities of data and performs many calculations, its speed is greatly dependent on the processor's speed. Using a computer with a faster processor will increase Illustrator's speed.

Installed RAM

If Illustrator has insufficient RAM, it uses hard disk space (that is, virtual memory, scratch disk, or both) to process information. Illustrator is fastest when it can process information in memory, without having to use a hard disk.

Hard disks

As you add, delete, and move files on a hard disk, available space is no longer a single, contiguous block. If the system does not have enough contiguous space, it saves fragments of a file to different locations on the hard disk. An application requires more time to read a fragmented file than one saved to a contiguous location. You can test your hard disk by using ChkDsk. You can defragment files and optimize available hard disk space by using Disk Defragmenter. For more information on these tools, see your Windows documentation.

Since Illustrator reads and writes information while working on a file, the faster the access speed of the disk containing the file or the Illustrator scratch disk, the faster Illustrator can process file information. To improve the performance of Illustrator, work on files saved on drives with fast access speeds, such as an internal hard drive, rather than those with slow access speeds, such as a network server (a network drive) or removable media (for example, Zip drive, or floppy disk). Removable media often have slower access times and are more easily damaged than internal hard drives.

When you want to save an Illustrator file to a network or removable drive, Adobe recommends you first save the file to an internal hard disk, and then close the file and use Windows Explorer to copy the closed file to the external or network drive, or save the file to the network using Adobe Version Cue.

Printer language

For best results when printing from Illustrator, use a PostScript printer. Most non PostScript printers rely on display information, host computer resources, and proprietary printer drivers to relay print information to the printer, so they may take much longer to print than a PostScript printer.

Adobe Customer Support: www.adobe.com/support/

Microsoft Knowledgebase: http://support.microsoft.com

Optimize performance (Illustrator CS4 on Windows XP) - Part 1

2009-05-31T19:55:00.000-07:00

Optimizing Windows
The performance of Adobe Illustrator depends on several factors, including the options you select, your workflow, and the operating system and hardware configuration. The performance improvements listed below are most noticeable when you work with larger files. Optimizing the operating system and hardware configuration improves performance in other applications as well.

Before you perform the steps below, make sure to install the latest version of Illustrator or any Illustrator updates to the version you are using. Illustrator updates often include performance-related fixes or enhancements. Current version information and updates are available on the Adobe website at www.adobe.com.

Note:The Windows XP procedures in this document are based on the default interface. If the interface is customized, then some procedures may vary. For example, a commonly encountered difference is the navigation to Control Panel from the Start menu: You may navigate Start > Settings > Control Panel instead of Start > Control Panel.

Optimizing Windows

By configuring your system to run efficiently, you increase the amount of memory available to applications and ensure that they run smoothly. Increase the amount of memory available to Illustrator, quit applications you are not using, or disable nonessential startup applications or fonts to improve the performance of Illustrator.

Virtual memory

Virtual memory allows the system to use hard disk space to store information normally stored in RAM. Because it takes longer to access information on a hard disk than it does to access information in memory, using a portion of the hard disk as virtual memory can decrease performance.

Windows XP manages virtual memory using a paging file; you define the minimum and maximum size of this file. Illustrator performs best when the paging file's maximum size is at least three times the amount of installed RAM.

To create a paging file with a maximum size of three times your amount of installed RAM:

Note: You need Administrator rights to change the size of your computer's paging file.

1. Quit all applications.
2. Choose Start > Control Panel and then double-click System.
3. Access the Performance Options dialog box:
* Click the Advanced tab, click Settings in the Performance section, and then click the Advanced tab.
4. In the Virtual Memory section, click Change.
5. Uncheck the box for "automatically manage paging file size for all drives.
6. From the Drive list, select a hard drive that has at least three times the amount of your computer's installed RAM. For example, if your computer has 64 MB of RAM, select a hard drive that has at least 128 MB of free space. For best performance, choose a hard drive not used for the Illustrator scratch disk.

Note:To determine the amount of space available on a drive, click the drive letter; the amount of space available appears in the Paging File Size for Selected Drive section.

7. In the Initial Size box in the Paging File Size for Selected Drive section, enter a value equal to the amount of your computer's installed RAM plus 300 MB.
8. In the Maximum Size box, enter a value equal to three times the amount of your computer's installed RAM.
9. Close the System Properties dialog box:
1. Click Set, and then click OK.
2. Click OK in the Performance Options dialog box
3. Click OK in the System Properties dialog box.
10. Click Yes in the System Settings Change dialog box to restart Windows.

Display drivers

Some display drivers offer advanced settings for accelerating or modifying graphics display. Sometimes these settings can adversely affect screen redraw performance in Illustrator. Try disabling driver-specific features to determine the best settings for use with Illustrator. For more information, see the documentation for your display card.

Fonts

If you install only the fonts you need, then you will improve system performance and the performance of applications that access fonts. Each installed font increases the amount of RAM used by the system, which decreases the amount of RAM available to open applications, and increases the amount of time applications take to display font menus. Use a font management utility to help you manage many fonts.
Startup applications

Applications that start automatically with Windows compete with Illustrator for available RAM. You can prevent programs from starting automatically with Windows by doing the following:

To remove programs from the StartUp folder in Windows XP:

1. Quit all applications.
2. Start Windows Explorer.
3. Disable startup applications that are specific to the current user by moving all icons and shortcuts from the Documents and Settings\[current user]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder to another folder.
4. Disable startup applications that are common to all users by moving all icons and shortcuts from the Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder to another folder:
5. Restart Windows.

To close applications that are specified to start automatically in the registry:

1. Restart Windows.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
3. Click the Applications tab.
4. Select an application name, and then click End Task.
5. Restart Illustrator. If performance for Illustrator improves, then contact the application's manufacturer for help in permanently disabling it from starting automatically. Repeat steps 2-5 for each remaining startup application.

Adobe Customer Support: www.adobe.com/support/

Microsoft Knowledgebase: http://support.microsoft.com