Creating a neon effect with the blend tool



Difficulty: Beginner

Sometimes a glowing neon effect in your design, illustration or website can really grab some attention. This week, we are going to learn how to do it with the use of the blending tool.

Creating a reflection




Difficulty: Beginner

Sometimes we want a modern and clean look to our design. What should we do? The easiest way to achieve that is to add a reflection at the bottom of it as it was placed on a shiny/reflective surface. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a reflection like that in Adobe Illustrator.

Look at a real reflection
Before we begin with the tutorial we should 1st study how a real reflection looks like. We can either do it by placing an object on a shiny surface and study it, or we can just Google for reflection images and study the images we found.

Creating a wood grain texture with the gradient tool


Difficulty: Intermediate

Many people have asked me how to create a wood grain like this before. So this is a guide to show how it is done in Adobe Illustrator (CS3 is the version I'm using).

First, we will need 2 shades of brown to create the effect of a wood grain. Let's add these 2 brown colors into the swatches palette. We can use other shades of brown depending on which type of wood texture we are trying to achieve here