First 10 Tutorials (read/watched)

Pins!!!
This tutorial shows how to create pins! I've always wanted to create some funny pins and hand them to friends. The great part of having illustrator to create pins is that you can really show depth to designs. This tutorial shows you how to really create that button effect. I am certain that this is going to be a fun one to play around with! And perhaps creating a pin to go along with my portfolio as it flies to various companies would set me apart! A treat for whomever takes the time to look at my portfolio. I'm all about rewards!

10 Features in Illustrator CS4!
This tutorial shows 10 new features in AiCS4. I chose to read this tutorial in order to learn how to maximize my access to CS4 and see what added benefits there are to the newer version. The tutorial runs through the ten features with short detail... yet it is easy to branch into a full tutorial from the links provided with each stated feature.

Vector Eyeball
This video tutorial demonstrates how to create a vectored eyeball. The end product is pretty scary looking and quite frankly is a wonderful appetite suppressant. Maybe this is the beginning of a new dietary solution for people. If you gross out the morbidly obese to such a point...perhaps they will reduce their intake. This would be a non-intrusive solution...Ha!

Professional Business Card
This tutorial was easy and comprehensive. Their final product does not reflect what I would consider an effective business card. Yet the tutorial can easily be applied to any desired characteristics one may have. Thereby making this tutorial worthwhile. Creating business cards using word or whatnot is so passe!

Fairy-Tale Inspired Magical Hand Shaped Vine
This tutorial was attractive to me given its whimsical nature. I don't really like the idea of a hand-shaped vine... but the vine effect could be used for any object either inanimate and animate. The tutorial is fairly long yet it really goes into detail for each step, which is very helpful!

Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
I chose to look through this tutorial as this type of type treatment seems to be quite popular in branding and advertising. The linking of what encompasses the company and its activities/services to the type is interesting to me. Generally these type treatments look fairly corny but a demand is a demand!

Vibrant Digital Collage Mixing Buildings and Vector Shapes on Paper
This tutorial was of interest to me as it uses both fireworks and illustrator together. Since I own the full adobe suite I enjoy discovering how to implement its many components together. This tutorial shows how to use multiple elements within a workspace in order to create an image with many textures and elements. The tutorial is fairly long...yet bearable.

Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment This tutorial shows how to create landscape environments in illustrator. The tutorial is a little more difficult then others to follow as it requires you to have a reasonable understanding and ease of use with the program. This is mainly given its use of the pen tool without giving a full on tutorial of how to use the pen tool.

Watercolor Vector Flower IllustrationThis tutorial shows you how to take a picture of a flower, for instance, and convert it into a watercolor painted flower. Instead of using a sketch you have drawn you can create an illustration off of a picture. The great part about this tutorial is that it teaches how to create texture and depth to illustrations.

Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks
This tutorial shows how to create some effects with fading light linear vectors in Fireworks, an adobe suite program. The tutorial is easy to follow. I chose this tutorial as I think it has the potential to be useful... especially when we begin to use photoshop or the class.