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Letterform play with Illustrator

By: Green Bee March 21, 2020March 26, 2020

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Today I’m giving you a tutorial, not how to create the same as above but lots of things you can create to fill a letterform. They’re mostly basic mini tutorials but if you’re new to Illustrator you might find them useful.

Create Faux Postage Stamps with Illustrator

By: Green Bee December 1, 2019October 5, 2019

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Today’s tutorial shows you how to make faux postage stamps. They can be printed and made into stickers or used as fun elements on holiday letters and notelets. Make a whole sheet of them 🙂 Download the tutorial here: Don’t Miss the Post! These details are taken from the An Post website (https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Sending/Christmas-2019/christmas-2018-postal-dates)

Create a 3d pop-out photo effect in Photoshop

By: Green Bee October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

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Today’s tutorial details how to create the effect of a photo popping out of its frame. Download here: 🙂

Make an animated gif in PSD

By: Green Bee October 12, 2019October 17, 2019

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Make an animated gif with Photoshop. I’m using CC but earlier versions, from CS5, maybe before, will also work. Download the tutorial by clicking the green hare: I don’t think the owl will have much luck catching a rabbit for dinner 🙂

Make a rainbow with Photoshop

By: Green Bee October 10, 2019November 11, 2019

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Today’s tutorial shows you a quick way to create a rainbow in PSD using Polar Co-ordinates. 🙂

Make 3D Shooting Stars in Illustrator

By: Green Bee September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

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Here’s how to make 3D stars in Illustrator. I’m using CC but it works in much earlier versions.

Apply a gradient to selected graphics in PSD

By: Green Bee September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

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This is a really quick and easy tutorial to apply a gradient onto selected graphics rather than over a layer. It is particularly effective applied to thin strokes or outlined graphics to create an etched effect. 🙂

Make a Chevron Swatch in Illustrator CC

By: Green Bee September 16, 2019September 17, 2019

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Make Chevron (or Ripple) swatches in Illustrator and use them to fill shapes. Download a full tutorial on how to do this here: Save the Swatch palette to your pattern library and have it to hand whenever you need it.