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Screencasts

Illustrator: Fall Leaves Background

In this screecast I will walk you though how to create a fall themed background image in Illustrator CS4. You will use the pen tool to draw icons and then create a scatter brush with them.
Posted Wednesday, Oct 28 2009 09:08 AM by Martha Rettig

Green Buttons & Icons: Illustrator

In this screencast I will walk you through how to draw quick and easy Green buttons and icons (for the eco-friendly crowd) in Illustrator CS4.
Posted Monday, Oct 19 2009 06:13 AM by Martha Rettig | Buttons, Eco-friendly, Green

Beach Scene: Illustrator Invitation

In this screencast I will show you how to draw and beach scene with an umbrella in the sand and add text to make it an invitation in Illustrator CS4.

Enjoy!

Posted Monday, Jun 15 2009 10:56 AM by Martha | Beach, Summer, Sun

Valentine's Heart and Arrow: Part 3 Animate in Flash

In the final installment of our Valentine's Day series we will take our Illustrator Postcard and bring it into Flash CS4 to animate the arrow shooting across the screen and to have the text appear hand written.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted Monday, Feb 09 2009 12:09 PM by Martha

Valentine's Heart and Arrow: Part 2 Create a Card

In this screencast we will take the Heart & Arrow we drew in Part 1 and create a card by making a pattern background and adding text.
I used a free font called Scriptina by Apostrophic Labs.

 

Posted Thursday, Feb 05 2009 12:09 PM by Martha

Valentine's Heart and Arrow: Part 1 Vector Heart

This is my first tutorial, and screencast, so hopefully it is easy to follow!

In this Valentine's Day themed screencast, I will walk you through how to draw a heart with an arrow piercing it in Illustrator CS4. You can use almost any vector editing software (or version of Adobe Illustrator), some of the shortcuts or menu locations may be a little different.

Enjoy!

Posted Monday, Feb 02 2009 12:09 PM by Martha