Illustrator Tutorials

3D Dice
Are you feeling lucky? See if you can roll a lucky 7 with this tutorial on how to create 3d dice!

3D Flower Pot
Do you have a green thumb? With this tutorial, you may end up with one! Learn how to create a 3D flower pot with this tutorial, including soil and flower!

3D Pill
All those long hours and sleepless nights designing can really get to you. With this tutorial you'll learn how to create a 3D pill to cure your design headaches!

Hershey Kiss
In this simple but tasty tutorial, you'll learn how to create a milk chocolate Hershey Kiss! I will not be responsible for those who hurt themselves trying to take a bite out of their screens!

Soccer Practice Cone
Practice makes perfect as they say. With this tutorial you'll get some practice using the Revolve effect and learn how to make a soccer practice cone!

Abstract Shapes
Abstract shapes can be used on wallpapers, logos, pretty much anything you'd like. Making abstract shapes aren't all that hard either. Here's a few methods for creating some quick and easy abstract shapes!

Checker Board
A quick and easy method for creating a checker board. This technique can also be used to create other things such as a checkered flag and rubix cube.

Furry Pillow
Sometimes all a designer needs is a little bit of rest to get those design juices flowing again. With this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a furry pillow!

Holiday Wreath
Tis the season to be jolly! Start the holiday season off with this tutorial on how to create a holiday wreath!

Yin and Yang Symbol
Learn how to create the very popular yin and yang symbol, which is used to represent the unity of opposites.

Distort Text
Learn how to distort text and have it take on a certain shape, a shape that you can define.

Gradient Text
Learn how to add a gradient to some text but still be able to edit your text later on.

Justify Text Manually
The option to justify text can be found within the Paragraph window. But what if the text you want to justify isn't actually text anymore? What if you created outlines of your text in order to stylize the text a bit more. How can you justify the text now? With this tutorial you'll learn how!

Rotate Individual Characters
Seeing text standing up straight all the time can get boring. Learn how to rotate individual characters and make them have a little fun!

Stylize Text
Don't think you have to be limited to the fonts you have. You can take any font and stylize it to your liking. Here's a method for doing just that.

Crop Area
After creating a design and saving it to the web, have you ever noticed that the image size is smaller than the actual artboard size? With this tutorial, you'll learn how to define your design's final size by using a crop area.

Exchange Swatches
Learn how to save swatches from one CS2 application and then load them in another one! You're able to exchange swatches from one application to another within the CS2 suite of products.

Move To A New Layer
Tired of manually cutting and pasting or copying and pasting objects from one layer to another? With this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly move and copy objects to a new layer with a simple mouse move!