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Those who have conquered their fear of vector to become proficient in Illustrator often praise it–even above Photoshop–as the single most expressive creative pro application ever built.

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  • Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know

    These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren’t copyrighted, explore color, and more.

  • Nominate GU for Open Web Awards ‘08

    http://tinyurl.com/5cca84 Show GurusUnleashed.com a little love. Please nominate us in the How-To category of OWA 2008.

  • The Top Character and Creature Illustration Tutorials and Articles on VECTORTUTS

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  • POOLGA - Vector wallpapers for your iPhone

    Rogue Vectorvault operative Kevin Gonsalves loves his iPhone. He’s up on all the latest plug-ins and accessories to make sure that his mobile device is tricked out with best of the best.
    Recently, Kevin pointed us in the direction of Poolga. It’s a site dedicated to iPhone wallpapers. If you’re nuts about your iPhone you’ll want [...]

  • Hawaii Floral Wallpaper Vector- Free

    Hawaiian art has always had a unique style of its own- we couldn’t resist putting out this fun design. The cultural traditional colors, patterns, and designs have always been vibrant with color and movement. Today we have this cool hawaii style wallpaper vector, it’s great for designing big hawaiian shirts or hawaiian page designs or [...]

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  • CHINATOWN

    Designed By: vectorjungle
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    File Type: EPS
    License: Terms of Use.
    Description: Car chase through the streets of Chinatown San Francisco.

  • Flowers & Leaves

    Designed By: Dragonartz
    Downloaded: 7 times
    File Type: EPS/SVG/PDF
    License: Attribution Creative Commons.
    Description: Simple background with daisy flowers and leaves in several colors.

  • FREE VECTOR DOWNLOAD - Bombs Away!

    The United States Air Force has a lethal arsenal of weaponry at it’s disposal. However, they also have a database of vector art that’s pretty great as well.
    In addition to these missiles, this link is also armed with several vector based graphics that just might come in handy. Check it out.

    Looking for military hardware? Look [...]

  • The Top 12 Environmental, Organic, and Natural Resources on VECTORTUTS

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  • Mordy @ Adobe MAX 2008: San Francisco

    Anyone going to be attending Adobe’s upcoming MAX conference in San Francisco (11/16/08 - 11/20/08)? If so, I hope to see you there! I will be at the show the entire week and will be giving the following sessions:

    - Russell Brown is doing his awesome hands-on ADIM class at MAX this year, and I’ll be doing several special presentations on Thermo.

    - On Monday, from 11:30 - 12:30, I’m giving a special presentation sponsored by Lynda.com. The title of the presentation is “A Hidden Gem in Illustrator: Live Paint”. It’s a life-changing session.

    - On Wednesday, from 9:30 - 10:30, I”m giving a session called “Designing for Mobile with Creative Suite 4 and Adobe Device Central CS4″. That’s a long title, don’t you think? It will be a fun session focused on designing for mobile.

    I’ll also be hanging out at the Partner Lounge, as MOGO Media will have a presence there. If you’re around, try to stop by! I always love meeting up with my readers!

  • FREE VECTOR DOWNLOAD - Sneakers

    Spoon Graphics is an incredible resource for graphic designers. Here is a free download that we really like. Hope you also find it useful. Give thanks. Bookmark their site and visit often.

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  • Jungle Wallpaper Pattern Vector- Free.

    Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games, we got everything you want, honey we know the names.  I love that song. Today we have this cool jungle wallpaper vector, it’s great for website designs or page designs. This jungle vector wallpaper pattern is an original, copyright free artwork that can be used on [...]

  • Winners of the Designious.com 5 Free Vector Packs Giveaway

    Last week I posted the Designious 5 Free Vector Pack Giveaway and today I’m happy to announce the winners! There was tons of great comments, but only five were chosen. Look below to see if you are one of the winners! If you are, I will be contacting you shortly. Even if you did not [...]

    • By: Rype
    • From: Vectips
    • 5 Nov 2008, 09:04 PST (6 days ago)

  • New PLUS Tutorial - Producing an Informative Map In Perspective with Illustrator

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  • FREE VECTOR DOWNLOAD - Duotone patterns

    123 FREE VECTORS is a great resource. Bookmark it.
    Here is a generous download on their behalf. Give thanks.

  • CS4: Be Smart - Give Smart Guides a Chance

    If you have Illustrator CS4, you have undoubtedly noticed something different since you started using it. As you mouse around your screen, objects “light up” and words like “path” and “anchor” pop up everywhere. These are all part of the Smart Guides feature found in Illustrator — and in CS4, Adobe has decided to ship the product with the feature turned on.

    The immediate reaction from most people is to yell out in frustration and quickly find a way to turn the feature off. After all, nothing is more annoying than paths and anchors highlighting all over the screen as you move your mouse around. And in all honesty, I agree — Smart Guides in this way is totally annoying — I too would turn it off. While I could probably find some benefit to having the boundaries of paths light up, I can find even less reasons for having Illustrator identify objects as “paths” or “anchors” — first of all, I like to think I’m smart enough to figure that out on my own, and second, what can I DO with that info? When would there EVER be a reason for why I’d need to have something identified as a path or an anchor?

    OK, so most people run to the View menu and choose Smart Guides — which effectively disables the Smart Guides feature in Illustrator. Here’s where I offer my plea: Don’t turn off Smart Guides. There are just too many important benefits to the feature, and by turning it off, you are doing yourself a disservice, especially so in Illustrator CS4. Let me explain.

    Have you ever tried snapping an object to a guide or another object, thinking those objects were perfectly aligned? Only to zoom in really close and see that there’s actually a gap? Of course you have. A common misconception about Illustrator is that you have to zoom in REALLY really close in order to make sure that object line up correctly, and that this is a cause of Illustrator not being accurate enough. In reality, it’s due to the fact that the snapping behavior in Illustrator is calculated from the position of the CURSOR, not the object you’re moving. That means if you click on a particular anchor point and move your object to snap to a guide, you might THINK that you’re snapping the point to the guide, but you’re really snapping the position of your cursor to the guide. In other words, if you don’t click directly on the anchor point, your anchor point won’t end up being aligned perfectly to the guide.

    That changes in Illustrator CS4 — IF — Smart Guides is turned on. When Smart Guides is on, Illustrator can snap the object bounds of objects to paths and guides (the way InDesign does). In other words, with Smart Guides on, your objects will snap, and you won’t have to worry about exactly where you click to move an object from, and you won’t need to zoom in really really really close to ensure your objects are aligned correctly. That’s a pretty big benefit, don’t you think? Then add the additional benefits of Smart Guides — quickly aligning objects as you move them around. You’ll find yourself using the Align tools a lot less. And you’ll find yourself zipping around your work, and being more productive.

    But what about all the highlighting and stuff? Well, Smart Guides is actually a complex feature that encompasses six different TYPES of guides. In my book (shameless plug — it’s coming out December 18!), I detail each of these six guides. But here, I’ll tell you which guides I use and find to be important.

    Illustrator has a preferences panel specifically for Smart Guides.

    The Smart Guides behind the flashing and the highlighting are Object Highlighting and Anchor/Path Labels. Turn those off for a heaping dose of peace of mind. TURN ON ALIGNMENT GUIDES — this setting allows you to easily align objects as you move them around the screen, and more importantly, it activates the snapping behavior I mentioned above. As an added benefit, Alignment Guides also work on Artboards when you’re in Artboard Edit mode. Finally, as an added suggestion, I personally like the Measurement Labels setting — this displays values as you move, draw, and transform objects.

    So instead of turning off Smart Guides, learn to control them — make them do only what you want them to do. In the end, you get a better Illustrator experience overall.*

    *Go ahead, I know you’ve got a burning question: why did Adobe turn on the Object Highlighting and Anchor/Path Labels setting in Smart Guides? Did they really think people would find it helpful? I don’t have a good answer. Maybe it was so that I would be able to write this blog post :)

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  • Vintage Bike

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  • Snow Landscape

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  • See-Through Car Illustration Tutorial - Kevin Hulsey

     
    Every so often, an illustrator comes to our attention that simply stands apart from the rest. Kevin Hulsey is such an artist. He possess a balance of patience, skill and vision that has helped him to produce some wonderful works of art. Here is one of our favorite examples of his genius:
    Illustration Stats - Size: 26″ [...]

  • Pantone Rubik’s Cube: Color Matching For Nerds

    If pouring over color swatches at Home Depot leaves you overwhelmed, the Rubitone could make the process easier by helping to assess your options in a form that nerds can understand. Unlike a traditional Rubik’s cube, the object here is not to solve it, but to match colors that might look good in a bedroom [...]

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  • Paint Strokes

    Adding to the Premium members download this is a cool collection of paintstroke brushes set , include oil strokes , crayon and thick paint effects. This is a vector pack as well as strokes converted into brushes . You can either get a premium membership to enjoy previous packs and brushes for free OR get this [...]

    • By: admin
    • From: AiVault
    • 31 Oct 2008, 06:53 PDT (2 weeks ago)

  • Vectips Monthly Roundup: October

    There are a number of great tutorials, freebies, and articles related to vectors coming out on the web daily. Each month, I roundup some of the best posts that I have found useful. I can’t include everything I’ve seen throughout the month, but you can follow my Twitter feed to get all the daily [...]

    • By: Rype
    • From: Vectips
    • 31 Oct 2008, 06:48 PDT (2 weeks ago)

  • Summer Floral Wallpaper Vector- free

    I know it’s not summer but, this is actually the time that most designers and merchandisers start working on there summer line up, weather it be brochure designs or website designs or textile designs. This floral vector wallpaper pattern is an original, copyright free artwork that can be used on any commercial or personal project. [...]


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