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Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 6

Adobe Illustrator CatAnna wrote in and asked me to show here different ways to draw in Adobe Illustrator. Here I demonstrate a way to draw that should be easy for anyone to create beautiful illustrations.

I rely on only three tools to create this illustration:

  • The Pencil Tool (Shortcut N)
  • The Eye Dropper Tool (Shortcut I)
  • Send to Back (Shift Command [ on a Mac & Shift Ctrl [ on a PC)

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Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 4

Illustrator CS5 Review TutorialI while back I created my second most popular tutorial of all time on Illustrator CS5s new features. It’s available here by the way Illustrator CS5 Tutorial.

I received a request from Vera to demonstrate how to recreate her wedding invitations. So in the video below I show you how to use the pen tool, how to figure out what font is used in a graphic and a bunch of other things.

The website I use to analyze fonts is called What the Font. The two sites I use most to get free fonts include 1001 Fonts and Da Font.

I also show you how to turn a blurry Jpeg into an EPS file and review everything not covered in the other tutorials in this Illustrator CS5 tutorial.

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