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Spiral plug-in pack for Adobe ® Illustrator ®

 

 

Price: US $10 - PAYPAL - Secure purchase, download link (Buy in dollars, Yen ¥, Euros €, GBP £ etc - Visa, Mastercard etc)

Works with: Windows 7 + Vista + XP + MAC OS X 10.2 .3 .4 .5 .6 (Intel/PPC) G4 G5 Adobe ® Illustrator® CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 10

 

PC Demo 

Mac Demo 

Manual 

Note: the demos only for CS3 and before, the release versions work in CS4 and CS5 as well

 

Many different spiral designs can be created with spiral plug-in, many basic examples below. The spiral can also be used as a source for many different designs. Effects can be applied such as 3D live effects.

 

Tutorial: Installation and basic use of spiral plug-in in Illustrator CS4 (as well as CS5)

Tutorial: Video showing the installation and basic use of the spiral plugin (plugin tool from graphicxtras) in Illustrator CS4 (equally applicable to CS3 CS2 etc PC and MAC OS X). Video shows the use of the spiral plugin to create spiral vector paths in Illustrator, the use of presets, manipulate of the paths, some explanation of the spiral settings. © 2010 Andrew Buckle Screenshots shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Watch the video on youtube.

 

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Spiral designs - examples of the spirals

You can create in seconds the following type of spirals

 

 

 

Spiral plug-in basics

Creates a basic spiral design as an initial start point but the decay of the spiral, gap between arms, number of arms, curvature can be changed via the main panel. And that is only the start

 

Spiral presets

Comes with over 50 superb presets to help you get started with the plugin as well as inspire

 

 

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Spiral experimentation

The plugin comes with a large range of spiral experimentation features for randomization of curvature, points, angle, scaling, color of spiral and more. Simply click the TUMBLE button to generate 1000s and 1000s of different spiral designs ranging from the basic to the truly extreme and abstract

 

Sketch features

The spiral plugin comes with a number of sketch features adding in sketch weight, sketch randomness and jitter as well as a whole range of sketchy colorful spiral designs

 

Shadow features

The spiral plugin comes with a large selection of shadow features to add a drop shadows, randomized opacity shadows, colored shadows and more

 

Pattern features

The plugin can work in a 'tile' pattern mode where multiple spirals are generated taking into account the sketch / shadow etc and creating 100s and 100s of different spiral design patterns. The patterns can then be saved and used as a standard pattern in Illustrator ®

 

Spirals as paths

The spiral is a path and the generated spiral can be used as a path as any path, used to add text, used in warps, used as a design element, exported to Photoshop and much more

 

Spiral backgrounds

The spiral plugin can generate a background of different spiral designs quickly and easy, each with a random color, design or uniform spiral designs and more

 

Abstract spirals

The spiral plugin can be used to create a basic spiral but the spiral features can be used to create paint designs, abstract art and much more. Truly wow art designs, totally unique and wow.

 

Different spirals

Using different spiral structures as well as star features and spiral curvature settings, many 1000s of different spiral designs can be created.

 

Spiral Offset features

The spirals can be created as an offset of the original, creating a spiral calligraphic design

 

Spirals and effects

The spirals can also have styles applied to them, creating 3D spiral designs or scribbled spirals or gradient filled spirals and much more. The plugin can also randomize the spiral style as well

 

Easy to use

The plugin's functions are split over multiple panels. The key panel is the front panel but the other panels include the offset, color features, curvature, randomness and much more and can be explored (via the presets) quickly. The spiral plugin set comes with a PDF showing how to install the plugin set, how to use the pugin set and much more

 

Spiral Gap structures

The plugin can be set to create spirals without a decay. The spiral is modified by the gap setting creating even ringed spirals as well as even / alternating spirals + random gap spirals and more (via spiral structures dropdown)

 

On purchase

Purchase via secure paypal. You will be sent a link to download the software. Please download the software / presets and make a backup to CD DVD etc. Any questions, issues with installation, please contact us for help

 

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What can I do with the product?

Commercial use OK (as well as non-commercial and hobby). Use to create items for sale, use for books, leaflets, website designs, fashions, scrapbooking, in videos, on buttons, shoes, illustrations, parts of logos (some modification is required to create exclusivity), records, CDs, packaging, advertising and much more. You can use them to create millions of different graphics designs.