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How to make CDs and DVDs in Illustrator

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This took me a while to figure out! The object is to get the gradient mesh to radiate out of the centre of a circle and that’s not as straightforward as you might expect. Anyway, this is a good one. To start with something easy – draw a circle. Select the circle tool and drag [...]

January 12, 2008 5 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator
Tagged With: circle tool, circumference of the circle, color palette, colours, concentric circles, curves, eyedropper tool, gradient, Illustrator, mesh points, rainbow effect, selection tool, shift key, straight lines, straightforward affair, streaks, stroke, swatches, transparencies

Creating a country’s flag inside its map outline

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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
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How to design shiny interface buttons in Illustrator

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 [...]

August 27, 2007 21 Comments Filed Under: Design, Illustrator, Internet
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, artboard, beautiful, blur, box, boxes, cmd, colours, curve, curves, design, dialog box, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inset, interactive environment, interactivity, interface buttons, linear gradient, modes, objective, palette, polygon tool, radial gradient, shape, shiny, simple, tool tip, transparencies, transparency, triangle

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