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