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Presets and plug-ins for Adobe ® Illustrator ®

 

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Plug-ins for Illustrator ®

26 plug-in sets for Illustrator ® including perspective, contours, hearts, paint tools plug-ins, lattice plug-ins, line tool, duplication plug-ins, circular plug-ins, toolkit plugins, zigzag plugin, paint on effects plug-in, symbols plug-ins and more for Illustrator® PC + MAC OS X. The plugins all come with 100s of wonderful useful features + a lot of wonderful creative solutions settings. The plugins are all for CS4 and CS3 and CS2 and other versions of Illustrator (except the line tool which is only for CS4). Easy to use and install, simply add to the plugins folder of Illustrator. Also available, a complete bundle set of all the plugins.

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Brushes for Illustrator ®

Colorful artistic and scatter brushes, many different stunning brush designs including ink blot brushes, wavy brushes, x brushes, hexagon designs and many more. There is also a brushes collection that includes 7900 stunning artistic brushes. A bundle set is also available that includes all the brushes packs and collection. For PC and MAC OS X. All the Illustrator brushes are vector designs for any size of work. For commercial and personal use.

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Graphic styles for Illustrator ®

Colorful styles effects to apply to paths and text, many different and unique effects inc. super colorful gradient styles, scribble and scratch styles, elliptic gradient styles, stroke styles, 3D styles, pattern abstract styles, colorful gradient styles and many more. All easy to use and apply. Modify the graphic styles via the appearance palette. Install in the Illustrator graphic styles palette. All the graphic styles are vectors for any size of work (though some might require re-sizing as required). Graphic styles for commercial as well as personal use, all royalty-free

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Gradient / pattern swatches for Illustrator ®

Stunning swatches packs to apply to paths and text inc. checkerboard swatches, heart swatches, gradient swatches, jazzy swatches and many more. All the swatches are vectors and can be used with any size of document. The gradient and pattern swatches are for commercial and personal use. The swatches are easy to use and apply. The swatches can be re-colored, combined and much more to create millions of stunning designs in Illustrator ®

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Symbols / shapes for Illustrator ®

1000s of stunning symbol designs for infinite uses throughout Illustrator. Sets include radial designs, checkerboard designs, St Patrick's Day designs, embellish symbols, unusual symbols, hearts symbols, flourish symbols, frame symbols, background symbols and more. All the Illustrator symbols are easy to use and apply. All vector designs for any size of document. Re-color, tweak, combine to create millions of great designs. For commercial and personal use, all royalty-free, all require no credit for use. All the symbols designs are accessed via the Illustrator symbols palette, they are all by graphicxtras.com

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PDF Vector designs for Illustrator ®

The PDF vectors can be opened (to a degree) and used in Illustrator. Many different vector designs inc. dots, hearts, embellishment designs, hearts vector designs etc. Open and use in Illustrator. The designs are easy to import, they are also easy to export or use in other applications such as Photoshop and other Adobe products. All the designs are for commercial and personal use

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Fonts for Illustrator ®

Fonts for Illustrator ®: 1000s and 1000s of stunning vector designs including Christmas designs, trees, baubles, hearts, grids, lines, zoom, gears, halloween, St Patrick's Day and more - all stored in TTF font format. Easy to use and apply in Illustrator. The design sets also include eps format files for use in other ways. All the designs are for commercial as well as personal use, all royalty-free, all require no credit for their use. All the font designs are by graphicxtras.com

 

 

 

Illustrator ® keynotes

 

 

Illustrator Tutorials


Tutorial Installation of Perspective grid plugin and use of secondary plugin path in Illustrator

Tutorial: Installation of PerspectiveGrid plug-in and use of secondary plug-in paths in Illustrator CS4 (the same approach basically for Illustrator CS3 CS2 CS1 etc as well as on PC or MAC OS X). Tutorial shows the setting up of secondary paths for plugins to avoid issues with admin accounts, so a plugin set can be installed to a user account folder instead. Shows the use of the plugin to create a grid for use with perspective. Illustrator and Adobe are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Screenshots are shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. © 2010 Andrew Buckle. Perspectivegrid plug-in is from graphicxtras. Watch the video on youtube

 

 

Tutorial: Installation and basic use of spiral plug-in in Illustrator CS4

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.

 

 

Tutorial: Illustrator CS4 symbol sprayer tool

Tutorial: How to use the symbol sprayer tool in Illustrator CS4 (equally applicable for Illustrator CS3 CS2 CS1 on the PC and MAC OS X). Use of the symbol sprayer, re-sizing of symbols, rotation of symbols; how to re-color the symbols; accessing symbols libraries. The symbols shown in this tutorial are star flash symbols from graphicxtras © 2010 Andrew Buckle. Screenshots are shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Watch the video on Youtube

 

 

Tutorial: Changing a path's fill color in Illustrator CS4

Tutorial: How to change a path's fill color in Illustrator CS4 (though most of the tutorial will also be applicable to Illustrator CS3 CS2 etc). Showing modification of color via the color palette (fill and stroke) as well as via the edit menu adjust color dialog and saturation dialog; using isolation mode/ groups; using the color guide / color libraries to adjust selected paths; using the Illustrator appearance palette to modify the fill (graphic styles). Example paths are from the starburst stripes set © 2010 Andrew Buckle (graphicxtras). Screenshots are shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Watch the video on YouTube

 

 

Tutorial: Installation and basic use of Illustrator pattern swatches

Tutorial: Installation and basic use of Illustrator pattern swatches. Shows the selection of Illustrator AI pattern swatches files, accessing the swatches via the Illustrator swatches palette and some basic use of the patterns such as re-scaling the pattern designs. The designs shown in this tutorial are © 2010 Andrew Buckle (graphicxtras.com), in this case hearts patterns swatches but you can use any type of pattern swatches file for this tutorial. The tutorial is for Illustrator CS4 but the same approach can be used in Illustrator CS3 CS2 etc. The tutorial is on a PC but works basically the same on the mac (applications folder instead of program files) The screenshots are shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Watch the video on youtube

 

 

Tutorial: Opening / loading / installation of Illustrator brushes (hearts brushes example) CS4

Tutorial showing the opening / loading / installation of brushes into Adobe ® Illustrator ® CS4 (though the same approach can be used for Illustrator CS3 CS2 etc, also the video shows the PC but the same for the mac OS X). The video shows hearts designs brushes loaded into Illustrator brush libraries. Screenshots are shown with the kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The video is © 2010 Andrew Buckle (graphicxtras.com) Also briefly mentions other features of the brushes such as the brushes options. Brushes are stored in standard Illustrator AI format. Hearts brushes are shown in the tutorial but the same approach can be used to load any brushes file into Illustrator. Watch the video on youtube.

 

 

Tutorial: How to install / load Illustrator brushes and use in Illustrator CS4

Tutorial: Video showing the use of brushes in Illustrator. Examples of Illustrator brushes shown from brushes pack 20 (Hearts designs 1) for use in Illustrator (brushes pack from graphicxtras.com). The video shows many of the examples of the brushes included in the pack along with the loading of the Illustrator brushes, changing of the brushes to symbols, use as paths, changing of the color, exporting to Photoshop and more. No sound. Adobe and Illustrator are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The screenshots are shown with kind permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The Illustrator brushes are vector designs that can be used throughout Illustrator CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 and 10 on the PC and MAC OS X. Easy to use designs, use with brush strokes, paths, frames and more. Watch the video on Youtube.

 

 

Selection of wavy designs symbols created in Illustrator ®

Selection of symbols designs. The video is set of screenshots of the symbols. There is no commentary. The symbols are designs for use in Illustrator ®. The symbols include wavy line designs, harlequin design, mesh designs, unusual designs, 3D designs, divider designs and others. Watch the video on YouTube.

 

 

About graphicxtras.com

Graphicxtras.com is a website for royalty-free content and exciting hi-impact plug-in effects. All the content has been created by graphicxtras.com (Andrew Buckle) for use in commercial as well as hobby designs. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact me. You can also call me on (UK +44) 1622 688 375. Privacy: details are not sent onto any third party. All purchases are via paypal (or shareit.com). This is the official source of all graphicxtras.com material, however, you can also purchase the items on a number of scrapbooking sites as well