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This week I wanted to talk about the different effects that can be used on websites. Most of these effects believe it or not are created in Illustrator, and are very easily accomplished. I’m currently working on redesigning our site right now and wanted to share a few of the techniques that I came across while I was coming up with a new design. You can view the new design at
http://www.webdesignmaster.net/layout.jpg
To learn a few of the basics of Illustrator, take a look at this site. If you have a basic knowledge of Photoshop, you should be fine with these tutorials. They can get a little tricky if you’ve never used some of the effects in Photoshop, but once you get the hang of things its all pretty simplistic. http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/
Of course there are several effects that cannot be reached without using both Photoshop and Illustrator, but here are a few of my favorite tutorials that give some of the neat effects seen on various ads today. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/05/illustrator-tutorials-best-of/
And for those of you who already know the basics, here’s some advanced tutorials to learn more of the difficult techniques. http://www.khulsey.com/student.html
Personally, I prefer to use both Photoshop and Illustrator when designing a site. Illustrator allows for a much closer color match as well as several techniques that you just can’t quite get with Photoshop alone. For logos, character creation and vector art, Illustrator is definitely the way to go.
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