Winx Vector Colorising Page

Winx black&white vector characters. *.ai and *.eps.
Colorise your own Winx fae!


Winx Vector Colorising Page by ~flashtuchka on deviantART

Dotted Vector Halftones

Vector Halftones by ~flashtuchka on deviantART

Free Illustrator Brushes

Willow Brush by ~flashtuchka on deviantART

Xmas Tree ai Brushes

Xmas Tree ai Brushes
draw your Xmas tree with just a pair slicks of the brush.
and decorate it with the same way = )

Xmas Tree ai Brushes by ~flashtuchka on deviantART

for Adobe Illustrator CS3+
3 'xmas-tree' brushes = 2 ArtBrushes + 1 Scatter Brush
3 Scatter Brushes 'Beads and Orns'.
use Hue Shift Option to change the colours.

1*.ai file 660Kb + 1*.png preview 313Kb = 835Kb compressed

Saving Symbol Sets in Illustrator

/*for advanced users*/

Saving Symbol Sets

Symbols are graphics you might want to use later and not have to recreate.



Even graphics with gradient fills or gradient meshes can be saved as a symbol for use later.

To save a graphic as a symbol, simply grab it and drag it to the symbols palette and drop it.


It's now a symbol and you can use any of the symbol tools on it.



To save the symbol to be loaded later, however, there are a couple rules you have to follow.

• Drag the symbol to the page from the Symbols palette to use it. Like the brush, it has to be used on the page to be saved.
• Delete all unused symbols, graphic styles, brushes, and swatches as you did when you saved the brush.
• Delete the symbol and any other artwork from the page.
• Go to File > Save As and save the file. I recommend using the word 'symbol' (or something like sym that you know means 'symbol' in the file name, so you know at a glance it's a symbol file.
• Save it in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Symbols or anywhere on your hard drive or an external drive to be loaded later.

When you want to use them, symbol files are loaded in the same manner as brushes.

Because symbols are vector, they can be resized as desired with no loss of quality.

Illustrator CS4 Gradients Interactivity

Adobe Illustrator CS4 adds some interactive functionality to the Gradient Tool.
Watch this vid for examples of opacity control and the new gradient annotator ↓


from Go Media on Vimeo.

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Go to Adobe web-site to watch a more detailed 6 min. video-tutorial about using new CS4 Gradient Tool interactivity.
If you are registered user of Adobe, you may download the sample ai-file to complete the tasks demonstrated in that tutorial.

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but Macromedia Flash mastered that a while ago! Congrats, old mom Adobe =)