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I never got around to learning the pen tool, and it came back to bite me in the ass now that I want to learn Illustrator. I searched around for a good tutorial, and after lots of really shoddy ones came up with this:

This tutorial covers many of the points I have been struggling to [...]

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This post is originally from September 17, 2007…

Let’s say you’ve got an item that you’d like to be partially visible, fading out to one side. For example, a planet in the sky that is half-lit by a star. You could use a gradient to cover it up, you could color it in, there are a [...]

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This post is originally from September 17, 2007…

To make things like seen in my Photoshop CS3 icon’s background:
http://eyesofaraven.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-CS3-Icon-65126343

Paint the background of wherever you want the effect black. If you want it in a portion of the document, make a selection in that portion.
Filter->Render->Lens Flare - You will do this multiple times, most likely. I like [...]

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This post is originally from September 14, 2007…

This is one of a few techniques, and currently my favorite, for making a three-dimensional grid in Photoshop. It is simple, and quicker than most ways of doing this.
You may see the end result featured in “Core IV Angel”, on my deviantart page:
Core IV Angel on ~EyesOfARaven’s DeviantArt

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