Illustrator may be a vector program, but that doesn't mean you're limited to solid colors and gradients when it comes to shape fills. Using texture to fill objects can add visual interest and a sense ...

Every aspect of type in Adobe Illustrator can be treated as a vector-drawing object with a fill and a stroke, or even a gradient fill, while preserving the ability to edit the text later. Text with a ...

Some of the greatest features in Photoshop are the text, object, and image effects such as Textures, Patterns, Gradients, and Styles. Styles are those amazing special effects that you see rolling ...

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient mesh, I ...