Design with Swirls and Flourishes
This tutorial will cover some of the techniques you can use to create your own beautiful swirls and flourishes.
Scatter Brushes
Creating brushes is really simple: just drag a shape to the brush panels and that’s it! You got yourself a brand new brush.
Retro Geometric Vectors in Space
Learn how to create an abstract image for a poster using Illustrator and Photoshop. All the vectors and shades will be done in Illustrator.
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Here’s the design process and a walkthrough of how to create this breathtaking logo in Adobe Illustrator.
Create 3-D Text with Extreme Lighting
Create 3-D Text with Extreme LightingIn this tutorial you are going to take an object/text and change it from 2-D to 3-D and then give it some realistic effects. You will be using Illustrator to create the object, then bring it into Photoshop to add highlights and shadows.
Working with Type in Illustrator
Working with Type in Illustrator
This tut focuses on using type in Illustrator to create a bold, eye-catching message, useing a ‘type as image’ style of typography. This style is both popular and effective for communicating strong messages visually.
This tutorial is not so much a text effect, it is more of an indepth look at typography within Illustartor.
Creating Swirly Type
Creating Swirly TypeIn this tutorial you will explore the "Average" command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it to create abstract swirls using relatively simple methods and apply it to type.
Rocky 3D Text
Rocky 3D TextIn this tutorial you will learn how to distress your own type, turn it into a 3-dimensional shape and then apply some hand drawn styling to it.
Textured Grungy 3D Type Design
Textured Grungy 3D Type DesignIn this tutorial you’ll look at creating a cool grungy design based around some abstract 3D type, then apply a few finishing touches to really bring the design to life.
Vibrant 3D Pixel Type
Vibrant 3D Pixel TypeIn this tutorial,using a free font, gradients, and Illustrator 3D filter, you will easily create this type treatment that you can apply to many other fonts.
Distress Text
Distress TextTraditionally, if you wanted distressed-looking text in your designs, you either had to have a typeface that was designed to look that way or you had to apply filters to the text in Adobe Photoshop. With Adobe Illustrator, you can use the Live Trace feature to achieve a similar effect.
Tug and Twirl Text
Tug and Twirl TextIn this tut you will learn a technique for converting Illustrator text to outlines.
Type Tecnique Using Shapes
Type Tecnique Using ShapesIn this tutorial you will learn a technique for using shapes as type, and using this to create a very impressive text effect.
Stylish Colorful Text Effect
Stylish Colorful Text EffectIn this tutorial you will be shown how to make this cool colorful text effect using a vector image, and learn how to use the appearance palette and how to use the blending mode effectively.
Dynamic Burberry Text
Dynamic Burberry TextYou will learn how to create dynamic art, vector art that isn’t destructive to the vector paths and give the text a burberry style.
Grunge Effect
Grunge EffectThis is a simple tutorial which will show you how to give grunge effect to your text , the beauty of using this technique is that you get text that can be scaled to any size without loosing its clarity.
Cartoon Style
Cartoon StyleIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create the cartoon style of text often seen on cereal boxes.
Stunning and Bold 3D Text
Stunning and Bold 3D TextLearn a method for creating attractive 3D text that features some beautiful lighting and textured effects, using Adobe Illustrator for the text and Photoshop to help finish the effect.
3D Text and Paint Effects
3D Text and Paint EffectsIn this tut, you’ll learn how to employ 3D extrusion techniques by creating elements in Illustrator for import into Photoshop; you’ll also hone your brush and drawing skills, and learn how to achieve this wonderfully subtle, cloudy background and the bold but not too in-yourface highlights.
Letterpress Styled Text
Letterpress Styled TextUtilizing the Appearance panel and Graphic Styles, you can quickly and consistently apply this style to any editable text and other vector objects and create, the popular, the letterpress effect.
Sticker Text and Graphic Effect
Sticker Text and Graphic EffectIn this tutorial, you will be shown how to create, the popular, sticker style effect in Adobe Illustrator.
Dream Design with 3D Typography
Dream Design with 3D TypographyIn this tutorial, you’re going to create a 3D Typography based design, with all the elements revolving around the centerpiece and theme: dreaming.
Old School Type – Line Gradients
Old School Type – Line GradientsYou can use this effect with any typeface or font by following the principles outilined in this tutorial, and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual lettersn giveing the text an old-school or vintage feel to it.
Warp Text Inside A Heart
Warp Text Inside A HeartIn this tutorial, you will learn how to combine the text wrap and heart shape together to achieve the text effect.
Fun Eye Catching Text
Fun Eye Catching TextIn this tutorial you’ll explore the many ways you can manipulate text in Illustrator. By combining color and effects, you can create really fun and eye-catching text in no time at all.
Cool Water Effect
Cool Water EffectYou will learn how to use the mesh tool to create the water droplets and use the symbol sprayer tool to disperse the water droplets.
Gradient Strokes
Gradient StrokesThis technique uses the Appearance panel and effects to create editable gradient strokes in Illustrator, and create a simple yet effective text effect.
BluePrint Type
BluePrint TypeLearn how to recreate this impressive, but simple, blueprint text effect, using a blend of live effects, filters, and a little gradient mesh.
Environmentally Friendly Green Type
Environmentally Friendly Green TypeIn this Illustrator tutorial, you will be shown how to create a Green type treatment, that works great for logos and other design elements.
Trendy Retro Type
Trendy Retro TypeRecreate this trendy retro type treatment , using a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes.
Swirly Type
Swirly TypeUsing free fonts, some brushes, and gradients you will learn how to create this swirly type treatment.
Tackle Twill
Tackle TwillTackle twill is a widely used embroidery technique that involves sewing down nylon twill to a garment with zig zag stitching. This tutorial will show you how to recreate the tackle twill look with Illustrator’s Appearance palette.
Bling Bling Text Effect
Bling Bling Text EffectIn this tut you will learn how to create the 'Bling-Bling' texture and how to apply it to any text within Illustartor.
Giving Your Flat Text Some Depth
Giving Your Flat Text Some DepthThis tutorial shows you a technique to adding shadow to your text and giving your boring and flat text an extra dimension and bringing it to life.
Stunning and Detailed Typography
Stunning and Detailed TypographyIn this tutorial you will create a text effect inspired by graphic designer Sumeco, whose typographic style is very detailed, organic, and often uses 3d renders to assist the visual appearance of the type.
Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font
Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script FontRather than choosing a fancy font from some of the free font sites, this tutorial shows you how to be creative and give some extra sparkle to your ordinary font, creating a typographic design which can stand by itself.
Ornate Lettering
Ornate LetteringIn this tutorial you will learn how to create ornate lettering from sketches and vectors in Illustrator, make it three-dimensional in 3ds Max and fine-tune the final result in Photoshop.
3D typography
3D Typography
In this in-depth tutorial you will undoubtedly learn new techniques, as well as finely tune some old. Upon completeing this intense walk though, you will be able to explore even new ways of creating fresh and unique typefaces.