Graphic and Web Designer London UK

These little buttons take a few seconds to make in Illustrator and give a nice polished, “web 2.0″ feel to a website or interactive environment.
Firstly, when creating this shiny effect in Illustrator remember to make the document RGB. Go File > Document Color Mode > RGB. It won’t work otherwise. Many thanks to Simon Mcferran [...]

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I have just set up a quit smoking blog for my stop smoking website.
The blog is powered by WordPress – who else? – and I chose the ShadedGrey theme which is made by Web Hosting Bluebook.

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An earlier tutorial on how to make a shiny button in Illustrator using the Opacity Mask feature can be improved upon greatly by adding a sexy brushed steel surrounding ring to your amber jelly button!
As previously explained, the shiny “web 2.0″ button look can be made by placing a circle with a linear black-to-white gradient [...]

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Remember Adobe Streamline? Adobe stopped upgrading its vector conversion application some time ago. But with the advent of CS2, Illustrator’s old Trace Tool became the new super Live Trace and opened up a new world of possibilities!
As soon as you place or paste a photo into Illustrator a button on the Control Palette offers a [...]

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This is one way of reproducing a striking image without having to pay for it!
The logical way of doing an image made of dots would be like this: Make sure that your image’s width and height are divisible by 10 pixels (the above is 450 by 300 pixels). Nice round numbers make the following [...]

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Although it’s important to cut out images well when composing a montage in Photoshop, it’s definitely not the most important thing.
Images should be chosen for their ability to fit in with the other graphic elements in the composition. Usually one piece or element should stick out more than others – the “hero”.
It is [...]

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