BestGFX

The latest update to Illustrator CC is brimming with new features. Watch as Justin Seeley leads you through an exploration of the new artwork packaging workflow, controls for scaling and formatting text on touch-enabled devices, Brush tool enhancements, SVG and CSS export and extraction, and the other improvements that will impact graphic designers and illustrators the most.

In this Illustrator tutorial we will learn how to design illustrations and type using a variety of basic and complex shapes, as well as incorporating elements of line art.

After building a logo for a new client or even refreshing the logo for an old one, it’s a great possibility that the next thing your client will ask for are new business cards, envelops and letterhead utilizing their new logo.

Vector based drawing is a completely different world than pushing pixels, but you probably already knew that. When it comes to text, some assume that it’s the same thing, though, and it’s not. In fact, working with type in Adobe Illustrator requires some special techniques to do correctly. Want to know the secrets that the experts know? Then follow along as we show you how to work with type in Adobe Illustrator.

At least since Amazon Kindle, iPhone and the iPad is primarily the issue of "Electronic Publishing" in the huge advance. If you need a solid overview, which is the way - ePub, Folio, interactive PDF or Flash - for your product and fits your needs, then you are right. Marc Oliver Thoma and Kai Rubsamen explain four ways, each drill by using an example, say what goes and what each is and what workflow for which product is the right one.

Comics are as popular as ever in all areas of pop culture. You will find aspects of them in music, movies, TV, print, and even on clothing. Jason Maranto's Creating Modern Comics course will show you in-depth techniques using modern tools that will enable you to create any aspect of comicbook art in the most common styles. Focused largely on the powerful natural media emulator Corel Painter 11 and loaded with course files to enhance your productivity, this comprehensive course will jump start your growth in this exciting and creative medium. Work files are included.

Understanding the relationship between a logo, an identity and branding is critical for a graphic designer.

While these three are all related, they are in fact very different. In this course we will begin to explore this relationship by walking through the creative process for our client, mantra spa.

In this Toon Boom tutorial, you'll learn a good understanding of the tools needed to create your own character designs and walk through the process of creating a cartoon duck character to be used for cut styled animation.

In this series of tutorials we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator.

We begin by watching a clip that the menus will eventually be composited into and get an idea for what kinds of motions the actor in the clip makes. This gives us an idea for the scale and the types of menus that we need to be creating for this setting.

Art is not restricted to any medium, nor is digital drawing. It is a new trend in today’s technologically brilliant world that won’t go away any time soon. And in this course, Kirk Nelson will use Photoshop and take you through the process of digital portrait drawing where you will learn how to draw hair, facial features, Color illustration and much more!

Advertisements don’t really have a second chance to make a first impression. They should be well thought out and catchy enough to influence the viewer’s opinion. So designing print ads is more challenging than some may think since there is no direct communication with the target audience. In this course, Nicki Hart with guide you through the process of designing effective print ads by designing an event ad, product ad and a service ad.

Join author Claudia McCue on a journey that introduces the printing process and reveals the keys to designing a document that prints as well as it looks onscreen. This course takes you on the floors of two commercial print houses (BurdgeCooper and Lithographix), to better understand the life cycle of a print job and observe printing presses in action. Along the way, discover how to better communicate with your printer, choose the correct paper, inks, colors, and fonts for your project, and how to correctly lay out your documents in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. This course is designed to help you and your printer produce a professionally finished print job, whether it's a business card, brochure, or multipage magazine.

Up and Running with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite shows designers how to create interactive publications for tablet devices using Adobe InDesign and the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Introducing this emerging publishing platform, author James Lockman discusses the DPS workflow, comparing it with existing EPUB and print workflows, and highlights key layout and design considerations when designing for DPS. The course explains how to incorporate hyperlinks, slideshows, panoramas, audio and video, and pan and zoom capabilities as a means of adding value to a publication. Lastly, the course sheds light on compiling interactive folios and testing and publishing finished projects. Exercise files accompany the course.

Layer masks are one of the most powerful features of Photoshop, enabling you to create seamless composite images and apply targeted adjustments and creative effects to any part of your image. In this Learn by Video workshop published in partnership with Peachpit Press, digital imaging expert Tim Grey begins by explaining the basic concepts of layer masking and how to create layer masks using Photoshop’s automated features. Then he teaches you how to use layer masks to create composite images and make targeted adjustments. You’ll also learn advanced techniques like mask cleanup and working with multiple masks. And finally, you’ll apply your newly acquired skills to projects that pull together everything you’ve learned.

Up and Running with Photoshop for Design is a streamlined introduction to Adobe's flagship image-editing application, specifically geared to lovers of graphic art and design. Expert Deke McClelland shows how to make designs and artwork come alive, in the shortest time possible. The course covers the basics of selections, masks, layers, type, effects, painting, and smart objects. Exercise files accompany the course.

For a graphic designer, there is a distinct difference between vector and raster images or artwork. To avoid sticky situations with printers and clients, its extremely important to know how and where each can or should be used.

By gaining a better understanding of how we can translate lines to forms, you'll be able to breath added-life into your own drawings and sketches.

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will talk about the steps we take to create this watercolor painting effect project. We begin by using a simple masking technique to reveal the text and drawings that interact with our watercolor paintings. We talk about some of the more technical and tricky aspects of getting this write-on effect looking perfect and all throughout the course, we implement the technique in new and different ways.