Illustrator

How to Place an Image from Photoshop into Illustrator

This tutorial shows the two methods to place your photoshop artwork (or any type of image file) directly into your Illustrator layout. Specifically, this tutiorial will demonstrate the benefits of linking your images rather than embedding them in most cases. If you have any questions or comments please use the box below to add them.

Create Bulleted lists in Illustrator Using the tabs bar

As you start out as a graphics professional often your first roll will be as a production designer. This means taking a design concept from another designer and laying in the final copy from the copywriter. In design school its not as important how you build a file. Because you have have the benefit of time and being the only one to see the working file you can get a way with sloppy techniques. So as long as it looks good when you hit print you are golden. The profession world is different. It is very important that you build files with pixel precision and that are easily updated with new content. This tutorial will teach you how the tabs bar can help you do just that.

3D Bubble text in Illustrator

Finished Product:

Step 1: Type it up

Select the Text Tool from the tool bar (or hit the letter T) and click on your canvas. I am using the font “Apple Casual”  but the very common font ” Comic Sans” will also work just fine. Type the word Bubble or whatever you would like. Your canvas should look like this:

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