Learn how to create vector swirls and swooshes which can be easily re-used by using these fairly well known techniques!

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An inspirational technique to add to your personal bag of tricks. This can be used to add some energetic imagery without going to a stock photo site. This can be used to add some spice to your design.

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Adobe Illustrator CS 4 - Art Boards

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Learn how to work with Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator. Workspaces allow you to arrange the Panels and other interface elements in Illustrator. Learn to work with the built-in default Workspaces Illustrator CS4 comes with, as well as how to customize your own workspaces to suit the type of job you’re working on.

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Art Files is a stand-alone application that takes the tedious task of collecting Illustrator documents, linked images and fonts for graphics files and turns it into a simple point & click operation. Art Files focuses on gathering just the information you need to get your files packaged up or ready for archiving.

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Use Adobe Illustrator's Live Trace feature to turn photos into pop art! In this screencast, we review tracing options, using various color palettes, and other Live Trace settings to create groovy art rapidly.

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In this quick video tutorial we will show you how to open a pattern swatch in Illustrator by importing it into your working document.

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In this 5 minute video tutorial we will demonstrate how to customize your default Illustrator brush palette to only display the brushes that you actually use. In addition, we will show you how to make custom Illustrator brush sets, like the ones available on this site persistent; to display at startup every time you open Illustrator.

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You've probably used the Pathfinder panel to combine shapes and make new ones. But do you often find yourself clicking (and undoing) each icon in the panel until you get the look you want? Wouldn't it be easier to take some time and learn exactly what each function does? Here's a look at the über-useful Pathfinder panel. The Pathfinder Effects, which are found under the Effects menu, are covered in video format in this tutorial.

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How to open Illustrator brush sets without a blank screen tutorial.

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