Illustrator Tutorials — Effects

I've always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!

How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect

How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background

How to Create a Spray Grunge Splatter

How to Create a Mosaic Portrait from a Photograph

In this tutorial i show you how to make an halftone dot effect with the pixelate filter > Color Halftone... in Illustrator CS4

Hello and welcome in making a corporate style tutorial. In this tutorial we will use Adobe Illustrator Instead of Photoshop because as a Graphic Designer you should now that almost every print Add is made in vector based application, and Illustrator is just one of such applications. I'm using lately released Illustrator CS4 and I really think that this is one of the best versions ever built. It is very flexible and you can tweak your interface just like in Photoshop.

Using very common tools you'll learn a new way to add an abstract dimension to your artwork.

A tutorial for making wood textured planks in Adobe Illustrator.

Vector tutorial on how to create a colorful lighting effect in Illustrator.