Illustrator: Posters, Live Trace, and Seven Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could do.

How to Make an Eco Friendly Vector Poster

In this tutorial, they explain how to create an illustrated poster and how to set up your own crop marks in a few easy steps. This tutorial is aimed at the beginning Adobe Illustrator user. Creating this poster is relatively easy, so let’s get started!

Illustrator Quicktips: Live Trace

Here’s a basic explanation of the Live Trace function in Adobe Illustrator. Using Illustrator’s Live Trace function, bitmap and rasterized images can quickly and easily be converted to highly malleable vector objects. Zoom In Online Pro Producer Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the Live Trace workflow, outlining all of the options available for creating traces. This movie doesn’t give a specific tutorial, rather it includes the principles and foundations of the function. Neat!

7 Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could do.

Have you ever just started playing with Adobe Illustrator and wondered just what this program could do? Here’s a good place to start, with 7 interesting features of Illustrator featured on the Attitude Design Blog. Interestingly enough this was posted way back in June 2007 and since then they’ve also added another article like this: 7 More Things You Didn’t Know About Adobe Illustrator. So really, you get two great articles in one. When you get to the bottom of the first article click on the next! Enjoy!