The Adobe Illustrator interface includes several gradient swatches that you can customize to meet your needs. A gradient includes two or more colors that fade into the next and is useful for ...

Grunge gives images a fun and artistic look that attracts attention. While Adobe Photoshop has many built-in tools for this effect, creating a grunge look in Illustrator takes more work. To create ...

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient mesh, I ...

Creating the spiral text will teach you how to create text, transform, rotate, use the transform effects, and use angles. These are skills that can be used to create other effects. Let’s now so how ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...