Making Illustrator brushes from photographic images can be addictive. In a previous CreativePro WOW! posts we covered basic raster image preparation for Illustrator brushes and a fairly straightforward raster pattern brush with an image that didn’t require many adjustments in Photoshop. But what do you do if your image doesn’t fit together seamlessly when made into […]

Making corners for Pattern brushes, once something so pesky and nearly impossible to figure out, can now be quite fun in Illustrator. You can create a Pattern brush from any vector or raster image, and for this example I chose a portion of a photograph of the golden gate from the palace of Versailles. This […]

Excerpted from The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book by Sharon Steuer. Copyright © 2011. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. To receive a 35% discount on this book plus free shipping in the continental U.S., go to the Peachpit Press Online Store and enter the discount code CS5WOW during the checkout […]