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One of the many things you can do with Adobe Illustrator is create sticker designs from logos and various other vector objects. Doing so is merely an exercise in offsetting and drop shadows — both of which we’ve gone over in the past. In this tutorial we’ll be going over all of the steps for…

In previous tutorials we’ve gone over various ways to design your own pattern tiles in Illustrator. These pattern tiles allow you to create infinite seamless patterns when duplicated and stacked on top of each other. In this tutorial though I’ll be demonstrating how to add a pattern to a shape in Illustrator by using swatches…

In past tutorials we’ve gone over ways to create unique patterns using various shapes, such as circles and polygons. However, today we’ll be going over how to create a geometric-style line pattern. This Illustrator line pattern tutorial will walk you through the entire process of creating your own line patterns. Not only that, but the…

As an Illustrator user you may find yourself perplexed at how to change the size of the canvas you’re working with, otherwise known as the artboard. Thankfully, Illustrator comes with a dedicated tool for this purpose, known as the Artboard Tool. The Artboard Tool allows you to change the canvas size in Adobe Illustrator, either…

Despite the vector environment in which Illustrator operates, it’s still possible to make some common edits to photos and other raster imagery. One example of such would be image resizing. You can resize an image in Illustrator manually by scaling it, or by inputting a numerical value of your choosing. In this tutorial we’ll be…

In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to offset a path in Illustrator, which will allow you to add (or remove) an equal amount of space around an object’s edges. What Is Path Offsetting? In short, path offsetting is a way of changing an object’s size by adding or removing space around its edges,…

Despite the vector environment in which Illustrator operates, there’s various ways that you can edit photos and rasterized images. One of those ways would be making an image black and white — or more accurately, grayscale. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to make an image black and white with Illustrator so that…