Create a basic vector logo - Illustrator tutorial

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How to Design a Logo from Conception to Completion

This tutorial will teach you how to draw your very own ladybug using Adobe Illustrator 9.0, CS, CS2, or CS3. This tutorial is rather simple in terms of drawing, but contains a good number of concepts and ideas you will find useful in future, more complex, drawings. The entire finished tutorial should not take more then one to two hours for most people to complete.

Sometimes you want to show only part of your artwork, not the whole thing. Deleting portions of your work is not recommended in general, especially since illustrator is equipped with a powerful feature called Clipping Masks.

Adobe InDesign CS3 has a nifty little information tool they call preflight. It is however, as this video tutorial shows us, not nearly as complete as other pre-flight applications on the market, such as Markzwares FlightCheck Professional. Hands-on.

* Create artwork for a postcard * Add crop marks * Work in CMYK and PMS colours * Outline text * Save for print