In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a vector turtle character based on a vinyl toy named “Skuttle” from the “Little Trickers” series.
We’re going to be using Adobe Illustrator CS3 for this tutorial, but the majority of old versions and the newer version will work perfectly fine. If you don’t want to create a turtle, why not take a photo of one of your favorite vinyl toys or collectibles, or sketch your own and scan it in?
Many people overlook making their websites multilingual friendly thinking that the majority of their traffic or visitors understand the English language. One thing to note is that nearly two billion people worldwide now have access to the internet, which is almost one third of the world’s population.
Therefore, the expansion of your website worldwide depends greatly upon multilingual support.
Implementing multilingual support may sound as easy as just translating your pages, however in most cases, it is not. Most designers always design according to left to right languages. Therefore, right to left languages may not appear properly within the design. We discuss tips to that help make your website and design multilingual friendly.
This article/tutorial is the sixth in the series. In this chapter of the Getting To Grips series we will be covering the following topics:
- Differences between Vector and Bitmap images
- Importing Photoshop files
- Importing Illustrator files
- Managing your placed files
- Using and creating libraries
- Importing and Revealing Files in Adobe Bridge
The new canvas tag in HTML5 is known for its illustration power. It’s basically an empty element on which you can write and sketch using Javascript. But there’s a hidden power: image manipulation.
In our opinion, this is the most important element that differs from SVG. With canvas you can perform operations on pixel based artworks. You can write a new image pixel by pixel or import an image in the canvas and modify it as you need.
In this article we’ll show you some fundamentals of pixel manipulation in the canvas, and how to use this knowledge to obtain interesting effects. Let’s start from the beginning.
Most people hate adverts. Intrusive, deceptive and boring are just three adjectives commonly used to describe advertising and its omnipresence in modern society. Say what you like about the 30 hilarious print ads below, however, boring they certainly are not!
They all use humour to great effect in order to connect with an audience. Some are surreal, others gruesome, sexy and bizarre, but each one delivers an ingenious comic hit that you can’t help but take notice of.
There are many different coding styles, some do not like indentation, some like to capitalize certain things, others like to add more than one element on a line, the main train of thought is they are all after one common thing: organization and better code.
Without influencing my coding style, we’ll discuss ten tips for writing better CSS. Let us know what you think in the comment section! See you there ;)
