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Barack Obama pop art design

London time: This is now the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America. Here is a couple of interesting quotes, first from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 talking to the BBC: Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two [...]

January 20, 2009 18 Comments Filed Under: Design, Illustrator
Tagged With: Add new tag, art design, art illustration, barack obama, inauguration, live trace, martin luther king, pop art, tupac shakur

American flag inside country map outline

A while ago I did an article explaining how to create a country’s flag inside its map outline and I used as an example the Australian map and flag. I’ve since had a lot of interest from Australians who wanted to use the image so I thought I’d do one for Americans as I get [...]

May 23, 2008 21 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator, Photoshop
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, american flag, australians, clippingflag, country map, country outline, drop shadow, Google, Illustrator, image search, inside, live trace, map, mask, Photoshop, photoshop document, shadow layer, stars and stripes, vector

Creating a country’s flag inside its map outline

Quite often I’m looking for a simple iconic device to represent a country without having to just reproduce the flag alone. So, as you can see above, why not put the flag inside the country’s shape. Also, it’s free! It’s relatively easy to find a country’s flag and shape on the internet and tracing the [...]

October 15, 2007 31 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, australia, australian flag, cmd, diagonals, flag, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inside, Internet, live trace, map, mask, object clipping, objective, opacities, opacity, outlines, overlay, palette, rectangle, reflection, shape, shiny, shiny surface, simple, trace, transparencies, transparency

How to turn a photo into an illustration

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 [...]