How to Make a Circular Name Badge in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial goes over how to make a circular name badge or logo inside Adobe Illustrator. The primary method used for the circular type is by using the type on a path tool within Illustrator.

This tutorial is very in depth and should be quite friendly for both new and more advanced users of Illustrator, and covers some additional tips like using tracking to kern the type, using the new(ish) CC feature of quickly rounding corners, and a variety of shortcuts for manipulating objects to make sure everything keeps looking as it should.

If you are a beginner to Illustrator I think this tutorial covers a wide enough array of different tools to get you set up to create all sorts of cool and unique designs. Feel free to swap out the fonts and general layout styles that I used in this video to make something totally custom and unique to you!

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Some common shortcuts used:
V - Selection Tool (black arrow)
A - Direct Selection Tool (white arrow)
M - Rectangle Shape Tool
T - Type Tool
i - eyedropper tool
Hold Shift - Keep objects on same plane for accurate movement
Hold Alt (Option on Mac) when dragging: Duplicate that object
Shift + X - swap fill and stroke
Ctrl + U (Command + U on Mac) - Smart Guides Toggle On / Off
Ctrl (Command) + or - to zoom in and out
C - Scissors Tool
L - Ellipse Tool
Ctrl (Command) + C = Copy
Ctrl (Command)+ F = Paste in place

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How to Make a Seamlessly Repeating Geometric Pattern in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial goes over how to make a seamlessly repeating geometric pattern inside Adobe Illustrator. The tutorial goes over everything from the basics of setting up your art board and creating the first shape, to how to quickly and accurately repeat the shapes to eventually create the final seamless repeat.

This tutorial uses triangles to achieve the repeat effect, but the same principles could be applied to other shapes like hexagons if you wanted to. At the end of the tutorial I go over some thoughts on how to color and pattern the repeat, as well as how to create a clipping mask to make sure everything works perfectly as intended.

Any questions? Don't hesitate to ask in the comments.

TIP FOR PHOTOSHOP:  If you bring your completed pattern into Photoshop and notice some hairline fracture white lines and want to get rid of them easily, just duplicate the layer that you pasted in until they're gone. Ctrl + J on a PC or Command + J on a Mac will duplicate the selected layer. Once the white lines are fully gone just click the first layer, hold shift, then click the last layer. After you do that right click on all of the selected layers and select merge layers. You should be good to go!

Some common shortcuts used:
V - Selection Tool (black arrow)
A - Direct Selection Tool (white arrow)
M - Rectangle Shape Tool
Hold Shift - Keep objects on same plane for accurate movement
Hold Alt (Option on Mac) when dragging: Duplicate that object
Shift + X - swap fill and stroke
Ctrl + D ( Command on Mac) to duplicate last movement or copy movement
i - eyedropper tool

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How to Use the Eyedropper Tool Outside of Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial goes over how to pick a color outside of Photoshop using the eyedropper tool. The ability to quickly sample a color outside of Photoshop can be quite handy when you're referencing images or designs that use colors you like, or if you're trying to create mockups of websites etc etc and you want to grab a color without saving the image of taking a screenshot.

Handy shortcut: "I" is the keyboard shortcut for the eyedropper tool.

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How to Draw an Icon in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial goes over the basics of how to draw an Icon inside Adobe Illustrator, and is intended for beginners to Adobe Illustrator, or people looking for a bit of a refresher on some various drawing techniques.

The primary method of drawing inside this tutorial is a mixture of the pen tool, selection arrows, and the various shapes inside Illustrator. Using a combination of all of these tools allows for a huge range of potential shapes that you can create quickly and easily.

Some common shortcuts used:
V - Selection Tool (black arrow)
A - Direct Selection Tool (white arrow)
M - Rectangle Shape Tool
Hold Shift - Keep objects on same plane for accurate movement
Hold Alt (Option on Mac) when dragging: Duplicate that object

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Touch Type Tool Tutorial for Adobe Illustrator CC

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This tutorial goes over the basics of how to use the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC or newer.

The touch type tool allows you to easily change the kerning of your type along with changing individual letters size, shape and rotation while still allowing the type to be fully live and editable. This makes this tool extremely useful as you don't have to worry about making stylistic changes to your type that makes it hard to change later on.

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How-to Create a Seamless Repeating Patterns in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial covers how to create seamless repeats inside Adobe Illustrator. I cover a couple different methods, but the primary one involves using the move command to ensure that all of your repeats match up in a pixel perfect manner.

Learning how to create seamlessly repeating patterns inside Adobe Illustrator is especially useful in applications like fabric / textile design as well as web design. They offer a huge amount of flexibility in scaling your designs to look good on almost any sort of small or large scale application that needs the design to cover the entire area.

This tutorial shows the pattern being created on a square document, but feel free to use whatever size and aspect ratio of document you want. The same principles apply.

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Adobe After Effects Tutorial for Beginners

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6:12 Skip setup and go right to creating keyframe animations.

This tutorial is for people who are new to Adobe After Effects and are looking to be able to create simple animations from inside of it. After Effects is an extremely powerful tool for animating and customizing videos, and with it being a part of Creative Cloud, it's a tool that can help every designer add a bit of value to their portfolio.

This tutorial covers how to initially set up your document, and then covers the basics of creating keyframe animations for opacity, scale, position, and rotation. Using a combination of all of these different tools can give you a great amount of flexibility inside After Effects.

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How to Add Lorem Ipsum Text in Adobe InDesign Tutorial

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NOTE: Depending on whether you right click the text box with the type tool or with the selection tool (black arrow) the position of the fill with placeholder button will change. Both placement of the button options are shown inside this video.

This super fast tutorial goes over how to create / generate / add lorem ipsum text inside Adobe InDesign.

Lorem ipsum text is the standard way in the design industry to fill out pages with sample text to demonstrate what a page will look like once fully completed with content. It's VERY easy to do inside InDesign and a very useful thing to do.

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How-to Create Artboards in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Tutorial

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This tutorial goes over how to create artboards in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. This is a BRAND NEW feature in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, so it won't apply to any older versions, but it should apply to anything newer.

Artboards will be an amazing addition in particular to website designers and app designers who are looking for a better way to create a workflow that incorporates many different screens and re-usable assets. I also briefly cover the use of the Creative Cloud libraries built into Photoshop to save time when creating reusable assets for whatever your project might be.

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How-to Edit the Timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial

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This tutorial covers the basics of how to edit the timeline inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This tutorial also includes some additional information such as basic audio editing and exporting the video with Adobe Media Encoder.

This tutorial is specifically made to show to to combine separate sources of audio and video, and then use the timeline to quickly and easily create in and out points from which you can make edits. Adobe Premiere seems like a very daunting program at first glance, but once you get into it a bit further, it's actually quite easy to use.

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Simple Type T-Shirt Design in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial is very beginner friendly and it goes over the basics of how to create a simple type driven design for t-shirts inside Adobe Illustrator.

This tutorial covers many of the basics you'll need to learn in order to create type driven designs inside Adobe Illustrator including kerning, leading, formatting, and various tool tips and tricks to help you work faster! Adobe Illustrator is a preferred format for many t-shirt printers as the quality is always super high, so if you're interested in designing t-shirts, it's a great tool to learn about and become comfortable with. If you have any additional questions feel free to ask in the comments section below. =D

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How to Create Realistic Fire in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Tutorial

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This video covers how to create realistic fire and flames inside Adobe Photoshop CC 2014. This rendering option was added in Photoshop CC 2014, so you'll need either that version or newer in order to do the steps shown in this tutorial

Sorry for the lower video quality on this tutorial - I ran into some rendering issues and effectively had to double render the video portion in order to make this work properly, which reduced the overall quality of the video. This will be fixed in future videos =D

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Kerning Type in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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Do you find videos like this helpful? If so please let me know your thoughts in the comments section, so that in the future I can create content that you care most about! =D

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College Font: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/College

This tutorial goes over different techniques and things to think about when kerning type inside Adobe Illustrator. This techniques include outlining then moving the type around in a standard way, using tracking to adjust individual letters, as well as a tool called distribute spacing using the align tool.

I tried to cover a lot of the ways that I kern type, and a few important things to consider. As always practice makes perfect, and having other people look at what you do and give you their perspective is always helpful.

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How to Create Graphic Styles inside Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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How-To Create 3D Type in Illustrator Tutorial: http://youtu.be/0jnojoBWOdo
Adobe Illustrator Halftone Pattern Tutorial: http://youtu.be/iU--TI5bRAg

Skip Right to Creating / Saving a Graphic Style: http://youtu.be/BactW0m7Amw?t=4m18s

This tutorial covers how you can create Graphic Styles inside Adobe Illustrator. Graphic Styles allow you to quickly apply appearance options (from simple to complex) to your type and other objects with a single click. The end result of creating graphic styles can be a whole lot of time saved, which is pretty cool!

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Adobe Illustrator Halftone Dot Pattern Tutorial

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This Adobe Illustrator tutorial covers how to make a halftone dot pattern using the swatches palette. The swatches palette inside Adobe Illustrator makes it really easy to quickly apply patterns that you've made to all of the objects that you create. Works great as type, object, and background overlays!

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How-To Create 3D Type in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: http://youtu.be/0jnojoBWOdo
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How-To Create 3D Type in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This tutorial goes over how to quickly and easily create 3D Type inside Adobe Illustrator that is still fully live and easy to edit.

This tutorial accomplishes this effect via the appearance panel inside Adobe Illustrator, which is an incredibly powerful and versatile tool to work work.

Questions? Ask in the comments section!

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Create Spirograph Style Images in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This is an Adobe Illustrator Tutorial that goes over how to draw shapes very similar to those created using a Spirograph. This is both easy and fun to do, and the end result can be some wonderfully complex images that make for stunning additions to designs or illustrations.

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Adobe Illustrator Pathfinder Tutorial

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This tutorial covers the basics of using the pathfinder toolbar inside Adobe Illustrator. The pathfinder toolbar is an extremely powerful tool inside Adobe Illustrator, and knowing how to use it can have a huge impact on the speed at which you can create and modify your work.

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How to Use Lens Correction in Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

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This Adobe Photoshop tutorial covers how to use the Lens Correction feature inside Adobe Photoshop when shooting images in RAW. This feature allows you to counter act the distortion that your particular camera lens has on your photos.

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How to Draw a Swoosh in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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This is a tutorial that goes over how to draw a swoosh inside Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial has a focus on the thought process that goes into making a swoosh for a script of your choice, as well as the tools and techniques that go into making your swoosh look great!

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Pen Tool Tutorial: http://youtu.be/0B_IQK7hMo0
Smooth Tool Tutorial: http://youtu.be/JL3d0C9nIPY
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