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Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials

These are the voyages of the Photoshop & Illustrator follower and student, as they continue their mission to search out cool new techniques, meaningful training and to go where they've never gone before. (Also: Adobe Illustrator Tutorials below)
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Quark XPress Tips & Tutorials

• Quark XPress for Publishing
  Here are the latest Quark tutorials: all about publishing.November 2004
• Quark XPress Just for Fun
  Here's a brief collection of Quark XPress tutorials submitted... for beginners.November 2004

Latest Illustrator Tutorials

• Adobe Illustrator Scan / Trace / Vector: This week's tutorials look at Adobe Illustrator 10 working with the pen tool drawing and tracing Scans... maps, mapmaking, Logo Design, Drawing Curves, Pencil Tool Basics, Text Warping Tools, Vector Graphics, Turn Bitmap Images into Vector Art, and importing illustrator files
• Adobe Illustrator Strokes & Fills:
  This week we cover the very basics of Illustrator color tools, stroking and filling, as well as some items on color management and drawing October, 2004

Latest Photoshop Tutorials

• Photoshop Pen Tools & Vector Paths:
  This week we cover vector paths, the path palette, and the pen tool. Vector Tutorial (Heathrowe) Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool (USC.edu) Pens, Paths, and the Bird (Stanford.edu) Intro to Photoshop Pen Tools (GFXlab.com) Creating relaistic icons (Pen Tool) among others. October 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Photo Retouching & Restoration 2: This is actually the second in our series of Photoshop Retouching sites, this time concentrating on some specific tools: Patch Tool; Ades Design - Adobe Photoshop Tutorials; Retouching and Repairing; Improving Tone and Removing Dust & Mold; Repairing Color Photos in Photoshop 7 and more... September, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Photo Retouching & Restoration: Healing Brush/ Patch Tool, Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop (Layer Masks), Using Photoshop Strategically, realistic spotlight effect in photoshop, Retouching Images, "Save Time Tweaking" Tutorial and more... September, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Painting & Brushes:
  Another round of Photoshop Brushes and painting -- this time including a few on layers and layer masking techniques - 9 references in all September, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Layers: Once again we return to Photoshop Layers and we'll take some good field trips to other universities where their layer tutorials are in progress. ... Harness the Power of Layers, and Instructions for Layers September 9, 2004
• Beginning Photoshop
  This week: the selection tools; lasso, marquee, magic wand, and others. August 30, 2004
• Photoshop Quick Mask & Masking
  This week: Using Quickmask; Masking Techniques and Tools; Alpha Channels, Basic Color Selections; Lynda on Masks (QuickTime); combine images; Master Photoshop's Masking Tools; Removing Backgrounds; Image Blending; 4-Creating Masks and Channels; and more... 26 references in all!April 12, 2004
• MORE (Illustrator) Typography Links
  This week: Clipping Paths (ilstu.edu); Text in Illustrator (UMICH.edu); OpenType Fonts: Tutorial (Adobe); Type in Illustrator (Wellesley.edu); Popular Arch Style Type Effect; Creating Special Text Effects; Live Type Effects; Vector Effects; Twists and Bends, and an interesting "Lord of the Rings" Tutorial, which is actually a Photoshop tutorial... April 12, 2004
• Photoshop Pen Tools & Vector Paths:
  This week we cover vector paths, the path palette, and the pen tool. One excellent downloadable PDF file along with Basic pen tool and Vector object tutorials, creating Shape Layers, Shortcuts And Pointers For The Pen -- including TTU.edu and USC.edu. There's also a downloadable PDF tutorial and a field trip to Portfolios dot com to view Photoshop works., among others. -- 14 references in all February 23, 2004
• Photoshop Retouching & Restoration:
  This week we cover retouching, restoration and repair of photos -- several good ones here, including two excellent downloadable PDF files ... Basic Photo Retouching; Reparing Discolored and Stained Photos; Fixing a bad photograph; Replacing a Defective Head; Color Correcting; Correcting Underexposure; various retouching Techniques; Repairing Color Photos and Photoshop Tips. Sites include MyJanee, UFL.edu, Informit, Fundy.net and Arraich, among others. -- 20 references in all February 16, 2004
• Photoshop Masks, & Channels:
  This week we are working with Photoshop Masks, & Channels. Tutorials include: Sharpening Fuzzy Photographs by George Imrie, Photoshop 7: Masks and Channels, Tips: Combining Images III, Creating Masks; Masks are Easy; Understanding Channels; Understanding Masking (PDF) and others -- 12 references in all February 9, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Painting & Brushes:
  This week we are working with Photoshop Brushes and painting. Tutorials include: Adobe Photoshop 7 Beginner (FAU.edu) on using the paintbrush tool and paintbrush options bar; Defining the Brush; The Painting Engine; paint Layers (TTU.edu); Understanding the Brushes Palette; Making Clouds with Brushes; customizing brushes; Defining the Brush, Photoshop Brush tutorial by Janee -- 16 references in all February 2, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Layers:
  This week we split the tutorials into two sections, Web-based and Downloadable PDF files. The topic is Photoshop Layers and we'll take some good field trips to other universities where their layer tutorials are in progress. Plus tutorials on Scanned Images; Recreating Polaroid Image Transfers and the Art History Brush. There are several downloadable PDF tutorials including: Intro to Layers PDF (Arizona.edu); A Rainy Day with Bert Monroy (PDF) and others. We round it out with two Photoshop Elements 2.0 tutorials: Harness the Power of Layers, and Instructions for Layers January 26, 2004
• Adobe Photoshop Selection Tools:
  Selection tool tutorials from: Webmonkey * BloomU.EDU: Selection Tools * Photoshop Elements Keyboard Shortcuts * Alan Hettinger Tutorials * Albany.EDU: Photoshop Selection Tools * Arraich.com Tips * Heathrowe.com Magic Wand Tutorials * TTU.edu: Selecting in Photoshop * U of Idaho.edu: Photoshop Selection Tools * * UWEC.edu Photoshop Toolbox, Selecting an Area and several others.. January 19, 2004
• Mixed Bag: Pen Tool, Vectoring and Photo Retouching
  Retouching Images * Pen Tool: Making Hearts * Vector Objects, shapes * Paths * Retouching: Fixing Photographs * Cleaning up Photos * Changing faces and Enhancing an old photo October 13, 2003
• Photoshop Vector Paths & Tools:
  My Jane shows how to retouch a photograph; Retouching Images; Cartoon from real photo; retouching color correction levels palette (PDF); Mac pen tool Tips; Multihead FX how to use the pen tool; Power Tips Vector Graphics; Using Paths; What are Masks October 6, 2003
• Zen of the Pen
  Al Mackey's Photoshop Tutorial * Grasping the Path and Pen Tools * Gfx Lab Tutorials * Victor Vector? * Basic photo retouching * Zen of the Pen * Shape Layers 8 Paint Shop Vectors and Effects * Image Retouching; and Janee's famous "Taters" tutorial - September 29, 2003
• Photoshop Masking & Retouching Masking, Quick Masks, etc. - September 15, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop Selections - September 8, 2003

Adobe Illustrator Tips & Tutorials

• (Illustrator) Typography & Clipping Paths
  This week: Import Art into Illustrator (PDF), Clipping Paths (PDF), Importing & placing graphics, Resize images: Making a Poster, Presentation Friendly Slides, Revealing the Clipping Path, Compositing photos, Bitmap to Vector Art Type Fundamentals, File formats, Saving.. Two good PDF files included... April 5, 2004
• Illustrator Text & Typography
  This week: Text and Logos, text options, drop shadows, outlines,type areas and masks, warping text, text on patterns and shapes, sizes, color choices, wrapping a path around an object for that type, type-on-a-path, OpenType fonts (Adobe), the Type menu, Character/Paragraph, bold, italicized, larger or smaller, direct selection tool, transforming text, and the text pallette.. One good PDF file included... March 29, 2004
• Adobe Illustrator Strokes & Fills:
  This week we cover the very basics of Illustrator color tools, stroking and filling, as well as building swatches and color palettes. There's also several good downloadable PDF tutorials -- 19 references in all March 22, 2004
• Adobe Illustrator for Beginners:
  This week we cover the very basics of Illustrator - the interface and the tools. There's also a downloadable PDF tutorial, and an RTF file. -- 12 references in all March 15, 2004
• Illustrator -- Scanning & Tracing
  Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Several from TechZone, * How to make a scan * various tutorials * Scanning and Tracing in Illustrator * Scanning Type Tricks (Illustrator) * Stroking for a "Road Map" Graphic * Tracing tutorial (Illustrator, Clublime) * Type in a circle in Illustrator and photoshop and more... November 10, 2003
• Illustrator -- Typography & Text Tool
  Adobe Illustrator Tutorial : LARC 440 * Paint attributes * Paths tutorials * Type in Illustrator * hints and tips * Illustrate With an Attitude * Character Palette, Text tools * Customizing Fonts * Fundamentals for Nondesigners * typeography checklist and more... November 10, 2003
• Beginning Illustrator -- Strokes & Fills
  * Creating brushes * filling and Stroking * finger dance * do's and don't's * Vectoring tutorial * Masks: Paths * How-To: Create Surreal Flowers * Anatomy of a Vector Illustration * Transforming Shapes; and assorted tips and tricks November 3, 2003

Quark XPress Tips & Tutorials

• MORE Quark XPress Tips & Tutorials..
  includingQuarkXPress Essentials, Setting up the color palette, Palettes, tips, Training, defining colors, Basics, Adobe InDesign, Quark Documents (sketchpad), Defining color and othersMay 2004
• MORE Quark XPress Tips & Tutorials..
  including Quark Xpress Training Tutorials and very Quark XPress tip you can imagine from RIT, and Mike's Sketch Pad as well as Aztec Quark xpress hints and tips, Quark Digital Printing and Publishing from Frank Romano and even one from About.com December 2, 2003
• Quark XPress Tips & Tutorials..
  from lynda.com to the College of Design, Computer Labs, to Digital Training & Designs: Tips and Techniques and Formatting text in QuarkXpress. Also tutorials from the University of Liverpool November 25, 2003

Photoshop Tips & Tutorials (Spring, 2003)

• Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool, Paths, Vectors (Revisited) - February 24, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool, Paths, Vectors (Revisited) - February 17, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop "Photo Image Retouching" - February 10, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop "Painting, brushes, tools" - February 3, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop Selection tools and Layers tutorials - January 27, 2003
• Adobe Photoshop Introcution to "TOOLS" tutorials - January 20, 2003

 

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