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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Kingfisher Beer

Select the ellipse tool in tool pallet or press (L) to activate ellipse tool. Make a circle with the help of this tool like below and fill it any color as you want i have select yellow.

After that go to -> effect->3d->Extrude and Bevel and adjust the setting as below. But make sure your circle has selected.

After apply the above setting you will get the below shape. you can rotate the beer in any angle to change setting in X axis, Y axis and Z axis. you can reduce or increase the height of beer model to change value of Extrude Depth and also reduce or increase width of beer model to       change the value of perspective. 

Now, we need the below picture for map Art option to give beer look of my beer model.

Double click on 3D effect icon to continue your 3D setting, which has laying in Appearance pallate. when you double click on 3D icon. You will get your previous setting of 3D. Click on Map Art Option and arrange symbol like below. Then press OK.
 
After done the above setting you will get this below shape. Now time to make Lock part of the beer.

Make the below graphics with the help of pen tool and ellipse tool and make it symbol.

Again do the below setting in after click on map art option as you done above 5 step.

After done the below setting. you will get the final Image of Beer..

Draw Vaas

First take pen tool in tool pellet or press (P key), the pen tool will be activate. Make a path like a vaas as I have done below.
 
Select the path and go to Effect->3d->Revolve then adjust same setting as given below. You can also see the preview of the settings by click on the preview option.

After that you will get the shape like here, you can add some more lighting effect on the vaas by use same effect again.

Now select any picture to stick on the vaas, I have selected a flower picture in symbol libraries. To take the symbol go to the window->symbols libraries and choose the symbol from the symbol pallate as you want to stick on the vaas. Now double click on 3D effect icon to continue your 3D setting which has laying down on Appearance pallate, when you double click on 3D icon. You will get your previous setting of 3D. Click on Map Art Option and arrange symbol and set in the wanted area.

You will get like below. Now, I want to decorate it more therefore I have chosen the Gaussian Blur for shinning on 3D Vaas . 

Select the ellipse tool  (L key) and  make a circle and fill it with white color but make sure stroke color has none then go to the effect->Blur-> Gaussian Blur and set radius and decorate it where you want. I have copy and paste many place with deferent scale.

See the final VAAS. Have a nice day.

Illustrator Tools

Adobe Illustrator tool pallet has many numerous tools which are used to draw a stunning graphics. You have noticed that there is a tiny arrow situated in the right bottom of the tool that indicates some more tool are also available under the tool. You can see hidden tool by the help of mouse, click and hold down mouse on the button the hidden tool will appear.
See all the illustrator tools and description
Selection Tool: The selection tool used to select a graphic among many graphic to move anywhere and modify the size of the graphic.
Direct Selection tool: There are two tools "Direct selection" and "Group Selection" there works are different. 
The Direct selection tool used to select individual anchor point and select more anchor point with shift key to modify the shape as you want to do.
The group selection tool is used to make selection on the many object with shift key and anchor point also.
Magic Wand: This tool is used to make selection of the same color in the object.
Lasso Tool: This is a freehand selection tool and used to make selection of the object and anchor point of the graphic as you want to make change by the anchor point.
Pen Tool: We use this tool to draw any type of shape and path, It is also used to edit, delete, and modify the anchor point as made by the pen tool.
Text tool: We used text tool to write text on different ways in the document like horizontal text in the figure, text on the path, vertical text, vertical text in the figure and vertical text on the path.
Line Tool: This tool used to different type of line art to make attractive graphics like straight line, Arc line, spiral line, grid line and polar grid line.
Shapes Tool: It has many shapes tool that helps us to draw different type of shape on the document as the shapes tool are in the tool. 
Paint Tool: This is a free hand tool and used to make any type of path and graphic with the selected color, you can change the color and draw a line art also.
Pencil Tool: This tool is used just like a pencil to draw a figure, character and line art on the document, It can also used to make a line path.
Smooth Tool: This tool is used to modify the path selection. If you have drawn a path by pencil tool and that is not as you want, apply this tool on the path to make smoothness.
Eraser Tool: This tool is used to delete that are where you apply on the figure, picture and line. First select line and drag on  that to delete the path and line as you want.
Rotate Tool: First click on the object and choose the rotate tool then specify the center point and drag anywhere of the object. you can rotate your object at specify degree. Right click on the object-> Transform->choose the rotate then a rotation dialog box will appear on the screen then specify the degree to move as you need.
Reflect Tool: This tool is used to make reflection of the object. Double click on the reflect tool, a dialog box will appear on the screen and specify the angle to make reflection.
Scale Tool: This tool is used to make scaling of figure with a specify values. Select the object and choose the scale tool then click around the object to scaling.
Shear Tool: Select the object, click on the object and shear that.
Reshape Tool: Makes point on the object which you want to modify and give the shape as you want.
Warp Tool: Click on the object and pull anywhere to give different look.
Twirl Tool: To make twirls shape of any object and picture just click on the object, it applied automatically. 
Pucker Tool: Click anywhere on the picture and object to make shrike effect close one corner to another corner.
Bloat Tool: We can spread the object in blobs with the help of this tool.
Scallop Tool: To make scalloped shapes.
Crystallize Tool: Just click on the object and see what effect is appearing.
Wrinkle Tool: This tool is used to make wrinkle effect on the object and picture.
Free Transform Tool: We can transform the object of several ways with the help of  free transform tool
Symbol Sprayer Tool: This tool is used to spray any symbol as you selected form the symbol pellet on the document. Take this tool and select symbol from the symbol pellet and move mouse with this tool on the wanted area to appear symbol.
Symbol Shifter Tool: This tool is used to move symbol  anywhere on the place as you drawn on the document.
Symbol Scruncher Tool: This tool used to pulls all the symbol instances together as you drawn on the document..
Symbol Sizer Tool: This tool is used to increase whole symbol size, take this tool and apply on the symbol to increase size as you need. To decrease the size of the symbol hold down the alt key and click over the symbol.
Symbol spinner Tool: This tool help to rotate the symbol to set on the different angle.
Symbol Stainer Tool: This tool is used to change symbol color, select first solid color fill as you need then apply on the symbol to give color effect on as you selected.
Symbol Screener Tool: This tool is used to make transparent effect on the symbol, select tool and apply on the symbol. It is also used to undo transparent effect, hold alt key and click on the symbol.
Symbol Styler Tool: This tool applies the selected style to the symbol.
Graph Tool: Graph tool has some more tool, all the tool used to draw different type of graph and chart.
Mesh Tool: This tool used to make some more point on the object like mesh shape to give different shape of the object. It is also used to make the grid over the object and fill the color on the selected position.
Gradient Tool: This tool mainly used to fill two and more color in the object and selected area, take this tool and change gradient color as you need and apply on. click on the gradient tool and Click over the object to define area where you want to add color. you can create gradient   Objects -> Create Gradient Mesh->specify the row and columns.
Eyedropper Tool: This tool is used to take color on any place, select this tool and click on that place where you want to take color.
Paint Bucket Tool: This tool helps to fill selected color in the object and selected area.
Measure Tool: This tool measure that difference between two object and which angel they stand.
Blend Tool: This tools makes the specify step between two objects. We can define the steps of blend Objects-> blends-> blend options then specify the steps.
Scissors Tool: This tool is used to cut the part of the object, take this tool and apply on the object by the mouse to cut that part as you need.
Knife tool: We can cut the object into pieces, with the help of this tool.
Hand Tool: This tool is used to move page on the right direction to work properly, hold down Ctrl key with space bar and mouse click and on the page to move..
Page Tool: Adjust the printed area.
Zoom Tool: This tool is used to magnify the size object as you required size To see actual size of the object, double click on the zoom tool.

Flash Introduction

Menu Bar: Menu bar has many menus to perform with
Tool Box: Tool box has many numerous tool those are helpful to draw graphics, fill colors, modify the object and see zoom view of object. In the flash, every tool has a separate properties to make change the setting to get a different type of effect according to necessary. Some tool has hidden tool those are indicated by the black triangle and situated right bottom of the tool. 
Working Area: In the middle of the flash window that is our working area, when we take a new file that will appear in that area. If we draw any object and put picture out of the taken file that would be not apply on the document. 
Property Bar: The property bar provide us a complete option to make changes to get different type of effect, It has three option to apply on the selected object in document, those work are different.
Properties: In the page properties we can change the size of the document, background color, internal settings by click setting button and frames per second(fps).
Filter: This option helps to apply different type of effect on the object but before applying the effect on the object we have to convert the object into movie Clip by press F8. 
Parameters: Parameters are applicable on components, when we insert component after that parameter will show their properties.
Time Line: As you know the movie is the collection of the frame, the time line window is just like that. In the time line window we have to convert our movie into the frames and give different effect on any particularly frame to make a creative movie.
Layer: The layer specify the object place, the layer are mainly use particular effect on a separate object. We can put the objects on the layers that will help to easily modify of the content without effecting our second object.
Color Pallet: The color pallet is the color section in the flash to fill any color as appropriate in the document and the another option is the gradient color effect in the graphic and object and more. 
Alignment: The alignment provides us to arrange the object, picture and text on the right position as we required in the document to make a unique animation without any disturbance of the object position.
Transform & Rotate: As it is clear by the name "Transform & Rotate", we can rotate any selected picture, graphic and object on any angle in between "0 to 360" degree and transform.

Animated Blast Effect

Start with a new document and set size as you required then inset any object to make this effect, I have taken a time bomb picture.  

Choose Elliptical marquee tool (M key) and draw a circle selection then take a new layer and fill "#f88102" color by the Paint bucket tool (G key) in the  selection.

Now change foreground and background color then apply noise effect two times by following this path "Filter menu > Noise > Add Noise" as given below.


After done noise effect, apply ripple effect to modify the circle shape by following this path "Filter menu > Distort > Ripple" as given below.

Now I am going to make radial blur effect to make like explosion, follow this path "Filter menu > Blur > Radial Blur" and make setting as here. 

This type of picture will come out.

Make duplicate layer of the explosion effect and press Ctrl + F key to apply again ripple effect, use same step again on new layer.

It is time to make animation so you have to go to Window menu and choose Animation, a frame window come on. Adjust all the layer on the frame as given below.

This is the explosion effect.