Floating Trees

Vector illustration by LoneWolf

US: Yunique Solutions adds new PLM tools

source: just-style.com

"Yunique_Solutions Inc, the developer of product_lifecycle_management solutions for the fashion industry, has added new image management capabilities to its flagship PLMOn solution.

The tools include an advanced digital storyboard, image sharing, and Adobe integration, and are aimed at addressing the needs of fashion designers, merchandisers, and product developers.

The image cataloging tools enable users to place materials, trims, sketches, technical drawings and pictures into a digital storyboard for use in line planning, line selection, and visual collaboration with suppliers and customers.

Once design and merchandising concepts are added, the digital storyboard serves as a natural starting point for product developers to launch new raw materials and product/style development from this visual workspace.

The browser-based software is said to be fully compatible with both PC and Mac operating systems and allows users to work directly with popular design file formats, including industry-specific CAD systems.

Yunique has also developed Adobe Illustrator tool boxes that provide fashion-specific brushes, symbols and other design tools for PLMOn users.

Product information can be shared and modified by in-house teams, across the supply chain or with customers."

Skateboarding Shapes For Photoshp

Skateboarding custom (vector) shapes for Photoshop by lukeroberts To download, click here.

Vector National Flags Collection

In February I posted a detailed scalable political vector map with most countries, well today I found another large vector flag collection for Adobe Illustrator. The pack contains 274 national flags, all vector, THANKS to raknoob. The archive file is a self extraction application (.exe file) download it from here. I'm not sure that you can run an exe file on a macintosh, so for all mac users I made a zip archive available for download here. Enjoy !

iPod GEL progress bar Illustrator Tutorial

thanks to www.tutvid.com

Vector Camouflage Pattern

This is a pattern tutorial for Adobe Illustrator I came across this morning, browsing computerarts.co.uk

"Have you ever needed to create camouflage patterns in Illustrator, but not known the best way to go about it? Derek Lea demonstrates his own time-saving method" Full tutorial and files

Pathfinders and Shape Modes in Adobe Illustrator

Pathfinders and shape modes in Adobe Illustrator are an important feature. If once you start to feel comfortable with them you’ll find them pretty handy for drawing all kinds of complex objects. Before you start drawing the shape of your object you should first analyze it. Look for geometric shapes within the object’s shape. Which shapes can be used to create your final object? Look for pkaces where you can use the ellipse or the rectangle tool. Most pathfinders delete objects, so have in mind to make additional duplicates. I found a great link (click here) with video explanation of the different pathfinders.I'll post more stuff about pathfinders and shapes pretty soon.

Draw Freely : Inkscape New Release

24th March

The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks. Check it out www.inkscape.org

Adobe Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts That Will Help You Improve Your Pen Tool Skills pt.1

I decided to post a brief keyboard shortcut list for Adobe Illustrator for more efficient work with the pen tool.

MAC OS / Windows

Command / Ctrl = will temporary allow you to access the last selection tool you've used

Command+Space / Ctrl+Space = again a temporary access to the zoom in tool.

Option+Command+Space / Alt+Ctrl+Space = zoom out tool.

Shift / Shift = A really helpful shortcut - constrains proportions, angles, movement. It works for almost all actions in Illustrator

Spacebar = Gives you temporary access to the hand tool.

Note: The benefit of using these keyboard shortcuts is that you don't need to always activate and deactivate your line (path) for similar manipulations.

Loosydings Expert Shape Typeface

Here is an usable free shape true type face by protofonts. If you use this typeface in Illustrator and outline the characters, you may come across many interesting symbols. Download

Photo Tracing in Adobe Illustrator

Check this detailed tutorial on how to draw and trace people from a photo. Learn how to create realistic illustration with just simple gradient fill found in www.ndesign-studio.com

Blood Cells Brush for Adobe Photoshop

This set contains 25 different blood cell shapes by ardcor. As you can see in the preview below, the quality of the brushes is high and you can get a pretty realistic effect without a lot of effort. Download

How 2 Design an event logo ?

Events need branding as much as anything else. Derek Lea reveals the creative process and technical considerations involved in designing an appropriate and versatile event logo.Effective logo design requires careful consideration of a variety of things. The creative process must include considered technical execution, as well as focus on creating a stunning, effective, and simple visual metaphor. Generally, the process begins with a brief from your client. Even the most basic brief must communicate the core, intrinsic values of the brand. It is with these values in mind that you can begin the process of designing an appropriate visual metaphor. Read full tutorial and download files.

computerarts.co.uk

45 Degrees Stripe Patterns for Adobe Illustrator

A free pack of 28 vector pattern swatches for Adobe Illustrator Nagash.

• Stripes in 7 different sizes, rotated left and right
• Straight line and faux-pixelated line
• Black-transparent, and black-red variations

Illustrator comes with both vertical and horizontal line patterns, but not diagonal lines. it's hard to get them correctly tiled, but I got it tight - when you resize it, sometimes you get messy corners, but there's nothing one can do about it...


Use the black-transparent versions to get a single color stripe, and the black-red if you need two colors. To change the stripe color, simply drag the pattern to your canvas, paint it, and then drag to the swatches pallete again.

To use, load the PDF file in Adobe Illustrator and open the swatches palette (Window>Swatches). Download

25 Grunge Swatches for Adobe Illustrator

A collection of 25 grunge swatches for Adobe Illustrator from createsk8.com. They are all in different colors, you could use them as textures or for designing a grungy background element...

To use the resource first, you need to expand the .zip file, load the AI file with Adobe Illustrator, open the swatches pane (Window>Swatches) and apply them to your fill color. Download

Big City

Another vector style proposal for you desktop from sourcake. Click on image for full size preview.

Speakers Vector Set

This vector pack could probably be in use for those who are working on a night club or some kind of a music event flyer or poster. The file is compatable with Adobe Illustrator CS3 Download Author's profile

Rainy Days

Vectoria

Amazingly cool concept by dfever (made in fireworks pro)that I just saw in deviantart. Balanced copmostition, great use of type and lines as a design elements on a 45 degrees scale.

Tips for smooth and controlled paths in Illustrator

Here is a short list of tips for drawing smooth and controlled lines with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

- Drag your handles around one third of the length of the curved line.
- Drag handles while you're creating the first anchor point for a curved line. Drag away from from the previous line and towards the direction you want to the cirve to be directed.
- Use as few anchor points as possible.
- Position anchor points where lines change their direction.

Hed Kandi wallpaper #2

Here is another great wallpaper based on Jason Brooks Hed Kandi style of illustration done in Adobe Illustrator by Ianwoollam Click on image for full size (1920×1200 pixels)

Corona Wings Vectoral Shape for Photoshop

Free vector shapes for Adobe Photoshop from d2m. Ideal for logo design.To use them, load the csh file in Photoshop, you'll find the different variations of the shape under custom shapes. Download

Illustration Conference ICON 5 NYC 08

ICON5 will be held in New York City at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. This year's theme, The Big Picture, is more than a slogan, it is the perspective through which we see our future – a future of limitless possibilities for illustrators as thinkers, story tellers and providers of creative content. The conference promises to examine and discuss the current creative and economic forces that our industry faces today.

Registration for ICON5 is now open.
The conference will be held July 2-5, 2008 in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel. Conference registration can be done online, by fax, or via mail. Special pricing shown below is for online registration only. More

DFX/DWG plug-in for Adobe Illustrator CS3

This updated plug-in creates layers in Illustrator CS3 that correspond to the layers in the DFX or DWG file and imports the objects in the corresponding layer. However, because of differences in the way layers are treated in Illustrator and AutoCAD, object stacking order may change after importing a DFX or DWG file with this plug-in. More

Butterfly Brush

A vector floral butterfly brush set for Adobe Illustrator from coolwing. Download from here. Note: For mac / apple users you need to have StuffIt or other compression software to open the rar archive. You can download stuffit from www.stuffit.com

Word Illustration

Below you can see the final concept for a typographic word illustration assignment from school...

Typeface: Times New Roman;

Tools: Pen, Paper, Adobe Illustrator;

InPreflight

Zevriz has updated InPreflight, a quality control solution for Adobe InDesign that lets users locate potential problems and produce error-free documents, to version 2.2.5. The software now correctly reports the color mode of Illustrator CS3 EPS files saved with the “Include Thumbnail” option. Full article

Australian Open 2008

i think maria sharapova is realy disopint from this match
maria sharpova smile is realy hot
a great view of maria sharpova from australian open 2008 hot shots
maria sharapova with trophy

realy hot maria sharpova and so hardwork too
maria sharpova and anna with trophy after australian open 2008
maria sharapova not care her during the agme
maria sharapova is realy hard what u say?

sonyerecson modeling 2008

Qatar Open 2008

maria sharapova hot shot
maria sharapova in qatar open
maria sharapova playing during qatar open
maria sharapova playing shot
maria sharapova hardwork

latest news: sharapova has a new boyfriend

Tennis hottie Maria Sharapova has a new boyfriend — Charlie Ebersol, son of NBC Sports chairman Dick. That, however, did not stop her from putting herself up for auction at the All-Star Tennis Smash charity event in New York.
Despite Sharapova’s joke that "My boyfriend will outbid you," one lucky guy won a date with the bombshell — for just $10,000. There was no sign of Charlie riding in on a white charger to take his damsel away from a blind date.
Sharapova is the richest sportswoman in the world with her photogenic face selling myriad products across continents through lucrative sponsorship deals apart from her earnings from the game.

Maria Sharapova biography

Maria Sharapova Profile :

Name: Maria Sharapova
Birth Name: Maria Yuryevna Sharapova
Height: 6' 2''
Sex: Female
Nationality: Russian
Birth Date: April 19, 1987
Birth Place: Nyagan, Russia
Profession: Model, Tennis Player
Education: Keystone High School (home schooling program via correspondence on the internet) Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy, in Brandenton, Florida, USA
Father: Yuri
Mother: Yelena
Claim to fame: Third youngest Wimbledon women's champion in 2004, defeated two-time defending champion Serena Williams 6-1, 6-4.She won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin Hardenne in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the finals at Wimbledon.

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova Biography :

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born 19 April 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and model.She is a former World No. 1 ranked player and, as of January 8, 2007, is the second ranked female tennis player in the world. At of the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete.
Sharapova's parents moved from Gomel, Belarus, to Siberia, Russia, in 1986, after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. She was born in Nyagan, Russia, the following year. At the age of seven, Sharapova was brought to the United States by her father, Yuri Sharapova, to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Her mother, Yelena, who could not come with them because of visa restrictions, followed a few years later. Sharapova has lived in the United States since then but retains her Russian citizenship.Sharapova recently purchased a beachfront home in Manhattan Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, but lives most of the year near the IMG training facility in Bradenton.

Clothing Design Software for Fashion Designers

Harper Arrington Publishing LLC(www.DigitalFashionPro.com) today announced the release of The Creative Pack 1 upgrade for Digital Fashion Pro - Fashion Design System. The DigitalFashion Pro System is an innovative solution that gives fashion designers, students, and even ordinary people the tools they need to design their own cutting edge fashion collection using digital fabrics and garment templates...

Harper Arrington"The Creative Pack 1 upgrade was invented to give clothing and shoe designers a host of new resources to develop their designs with," said Michael Harper, co-developer of Digital Fashion Pro and The Creative Pack 1, and co-founder of Harper-Arrington Publishing LLC. "The Creative Pack 1 features The Shoe Factory, Designer Series Templates Trend 1 Library, Digital Fabric Pack 2 and The Vector Art Gallery. We are really proud of this new product. We set out to make Digital Fashion Pro the best fashion design system in the world, and we strongly believe the Creative Pack 1 has brought us closer to that goal." Full article

DETROIT, Mich., March 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE)

Death by Typography

by gcore

EskoArtwork at Packtech UK

EskoArtwork will showcase its leading, innovative software for the entire packaging supply chain at Packtech UK. The show is to be held at the NEC in Birmingham on 12 and 13 March. On its stands, EskoArtwork will demonstrate how it can turn the entire packaging supply chain - from brand owner to retailer - into a straightforward collaborative process, delivering consistent quality and importantly reducing production costs and time to market.

EskoArtwork has a long and successful track record of developing innovative packaging solutions for brand owners and designers. The company's latest innovative software solutions offer integrated design tools that support the creative process and streamline the handoff to production. Based on Adobe PDF and compatible with Adobe Creative Suite 3 the solutions include a full range of powerful tools for structural design, graphic design, project management and collaboration, colour management and prepress production for packaging as well as the Enfocus suite of PDF tools Neo, PitStop Professional and PitStop Server. FULL STORY