Tag Archive: pen

Illustrator menus

by Design Workshop Sydney

Adobe Illustrator is an ideal program for creating menus, given it’s easy manipulation of graphics, text and multiple pages (known as Art boards). We demonstrate how to go about creating stunning menus in our Adobe Illustrator training courses. To create a menu design like the one illustrated here, first go to the File menu and choose New document, select the... Read more...

Illustrator anchor point tool

by Design Workshop Sydney

Adobe Illustrator’s Anchor Point tool is used to modify and edit existing artwork. We show you how it’s used in our Illustrator training courses. In the example here we use the Anchor point tool to modify a basic rectilinear shape to create the road curving over the hillside. First select the Pen tool and click on four points to create... Read more...

Indesign pen tool

by Design Workshop Sydney

The Pen tool in Indesign is used to create curved or angular shapes either for illustrative purposes or as frames for images. We show you how to use this clever tool in our Adobe Indesign training courses. In the example shown here we used the Pen tool to create a footer feature on the Master Page, which means that that... Read more...

Illustrator landscape

by Design Workshop Sydney

Creating a landscape in Adobe Illustrator involves the use of several basic tools and techniques, which we explore in our Illustrator courses. For the landscape pictured here we first create a new file via the File drop-down menu: width 210 x height 130 mm > Colour Mode: RGB, for example. We will create the scene mainly using the Pen, Ellipse,... Read more...