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Huge List of Adobe Illustrator Plugins and Filters -
If you are an Adobe Illustrator user, then this mega-list of Adobe Illustrator Plug-ins is just what you are looking for.
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Illustrator Tutorials - Create a Hand-Drawn Look With The Scribble Effect - Creating a colored-pencil rendering from a simple shape is a snap with the Scribble effect in Adobe® Illustrator® CS. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add depth and surface interest by assigning multiple scribble fills to a single shape. As you experiment with effect settings, you’ll see that the creative options are endless.
Illustrator Tutorials - Create Rounded 3-D Buttons - This tip will help you to create buttons that can be used as title's, menu's or anything else.
Illustrator Tutorials - Geometric Fun with Transform Each - Learn how to use the Transform Each feature to create complex geometric shapes complete with gradients.
Illustrator Tutorials - Crosshatching with a Mouse (version 8) - The new Photo Crosshatch filter in Adobe® Illustrator® 8.0 makes that time-consuming illustration style easy. In this tip, you'll put each crosshatch effect on its own layer so you can select and color different crosshatch stroke.
Illustrator Tutorials - Keeping Color in Crosshatching (version 8) - Adobe Art Director Lisa Jeans Trail adds color to her photo crosshatch using both Photoshop and Illustrator. Between Adobe®Photoshop® and Adobe® Illustrator®, all the color and crosshatching work will be done for you.
Illustrator Tutorials - Revealing the Clipping Paths (version 8) - By embedding the placed image in Illustrator, the clipping path becomes available to edit. In this tip, we will learn how to use the clipping path to make an image look like it's intertwined with type or vector art.
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