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How to familiarize yourself with the type tool in Adobe Illustrator

There are wide varieties of the Adobe Illustrator type tool. The type, or in other words, the Illustrator text tool has a total of four options. Here, in this tutorial you will learn how to familiarize yourself with type tool in Adobe Illustrator. This software is one of the best when it comes to designing with text as Illustrator tools provide a range of options to choose from for your text and its design.


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How to work with compound paths and shapes in Adobe Illustrator

In Illustrator it is always beneficial to have an understanding of how to work with compound paths and shapes in Adobe Illustrator. In this software you have the option of making compound paths rather than just single ones. Different Illustrator paths can be combined and joined together to form a single one. Therefore, make shapes in Illustrator and then after doing so you can combine them together.


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How to use the lasso tool in Adobe Illustrator

In Illustrator cs 5 you can use the selection tool to choose and work on a few images from your drawing. However, this selects only in a rectangular shape. This is where the lasso tool comes in handy. Using it allows you to select objects in an irregular marquee selection area. Understanding how to use the lasso tool in Adobe Illustrator is explained below.


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How to use smart guides in Adobe Illustrator

A good feature of cs5 Illustrator, software by Adobe is that it provides you with the option to align your drawings. This is an inbuilt feature that can be turned on and off according to your requirement of the Illustrator objects present on your page. Different Adobe Illustrator lines appear on your page when you move your artwork around showing you where the drawing is aligning and who it is aligning with. Therefore learning how to use smart guides in Adobe Illustrator can prove to be very helpful.


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How to use magic wand in Adobe Illustrator

In learning how to use Illustrator it is always better to know of tools that can benefit you while working with complex artwork. Once such is the magic wand tool. Through this, in Illustrator cs5 you can select those objects together, that fall under a certain range or tolerance level. To know more of how to use the magic wand in Adobe Illustrator follow the steps given below.


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Shifting from Photoshop CS5 to CS6 – The Searchable Layers

In this tutorial on Photoshop, you will be learning about Photoshop CS6 and will be covering the changes when you are shifting from CS5 to CS6.
The tutorial specifically will teach you how to work with the search filter that allows you to easily look for your Photoshop layers, especially when your document consists of a lot of them.


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How to install an E-commerce website on WordPress

Through WordPress you can easily install any website as it’s a free and open source blogging tool which comes with a plug in feature and some built-in themes. You can install a website on WordPress through different plugins. Plugins will allow you to add different features to your Word Press dashboard. If you install an E-Commerce plugin, then most of the basic options related to E-Commerce website will be installed. We will show you how to install a website related to E-Commerce on WordPress using a plugin.


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3 ways to start an e-commerce website

The platforms used in this tutorial are www.shopify.com, www.bigcommerce.com and www.volusion.com. These E-commerce websites provide you with an e-commerce solution which allows you to set and run your own online store. They don’t even require any software downloading or maintenance. You can get free templates from there, add products, get orders, accept payment through credit cards and finally ship your goods.


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Shifting from Photoshop CS5 to CS6 – The Crop Tool

In this tutorial we are going to learnhow to use one of the tools you may be familiar with, when shifting from Photoshop CS5 to CS6The Crop Tool.
A perfectly cropped picture can make an image look so much better than what it was before. Photoshop CS6 comes with some major modifications to the ‘ crop tool ’.


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Shifting from Photoshop CS5 to CS6 – Background & Auto Save

In this tutorial, you will be learning about Photoshop CS6 and its new feature of background and auto save in this software. These features are different and upgraded from those present in CS5. Photoshop has come up with two new saving features that make saving your work very simple and efficient. This process of saving runs in the background in Photoshop while you work on a different document.


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