You’re working on a project and it’s nearly perfect, but a few of your objects are still a little rough around the edges. What can you do? There are four ways to smooth the edges of an object in Illustrator. To smooth an edge, you can use the Smooth tool, the Sub-selection tool, the Simplify …
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It’s a lot of fun to design in Canva, especially with all the nifty features you can use to edit photos in it. Yet, if you want to take your graphic designing to the next level, you can do so by mirroring your images in Canva. So, if you’re up to learning new Canva tricks, …
Ooh, profile pictures on social media like Facebook and Instagram are now taking on the shape of a circle. Where have all the rectangles and squares gone to? Kidding aside, round profile pictures on social media sites are now fast becoming a fad. Though you can definitely assign a rectangular-shaped photo directly as your profile …
Illustrating the ocean or something close like the beach? Illustrating waves with bold, clean peaks and curves can be difficult, especially eyeballing the curvature with just the pen tool. You’re looking to make every peak and wave look the same because the focus will be on the rest of your content, this is a decorative …
One of the most important things to learn about Adobe Illustrator is that it’s resolution independent, because it’s a vector editor. The document is a collection of individual raster, vector, and text objects, and each raster object has its own number of pixels. So, if you’re used to working on pixel-based applications on a regular …