Android & iPhone browser wars: Intro to the WebKit

Introduction Combined, the iPhone and Android platforms have more than 100,000 application titles available for download across their respective app stores. Native applications are those created with a platform's SDK, then compiled and installed to a device. These native applications provide thorough access to a device's inherent capabilities, including features like wireless networking, Bluetooth, data...

How to Create a Climbing Rope Pattern Brush

A  simple 2-point-path can be transformed into a powerful Pattern Brush. The virtual Climbing Rope may not save your life, but the technique behind this tutorial may help save a lot of time. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3 (MAC...

How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator

This tutorial shows how to create a stained glass effect in Adobe Illustrator. The method is rather quick and simple, but the outcome looks very nice - especially when you use a beautiful image for reference. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe...

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors, While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape

Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We'll work with Phantasm's color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes! Final Image Preview Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of...

Text Formatting

Text formatting consists of of changing individual characters, words, single paragraphs, or pages. This allows you to tremendously change the look of your text by applying different fonts, sizes, and styles such as making the text appear bold or italicized. Furthermore, you can underline portions of text and/or use different colors to emphasize a point. The ability to format text highly depends on the application your are using. Because this is a high detail of applications, ...

Text Selection Techniques

Introduction Text selection consists of isolating part of the text of a document, for any reason that is necessary. Why you select text and what you do with the selected text are two completely different issues. This means that text can be selected for any reason. The effect produced while selecting text is also different depending on the application. Also, as always, some applications may provide a feature that is not available in ...

Text Navigation

Introduction After creating text you can make it fancy or professionally looking by applying the techniques of text formatting. Before exploring some of the formatting attributes available to a word processor, there are two important things you should learn first: techniques of document navigation and text selection. Navigation Navigating through text is the ability to move the caret or the mouse cursor among the...

Introduction to Text

Introduction A computer is primarily thought of as a machine used to perform word processing. Although that almost remains the major application assigned to computers at the home and office levels, it is not the only one. The fact is, the techniques applied in word processing are applied to most other applications. That's why it is imperative that you grab all the intricacies of manipulating text. Thanks to its electronic features, the computer...

Introduction to Text

Introduction A computer is primarily thought of as a machine used to perform word processing. Although that almost remains the major application assigned to computers at the home and office levels, it is not the only one. The fact is, the techniques applied in word processing are applied to most other applications. That's why it is imperative that you grab all the intricacies of manipulating text. Thanks to its electronic features, the computer offers...

The Internet

Introduction   Until recently, getting a computer was mostly equivalent to getting a machine that would be used to perform office-related assignments and other calculations. This type of computer was commonly referred to as standalone. Nowadays, a computer by itself is not sufficient. It needs a way to communicate with other computers. Â Networking   Because a computer can never be complete, it can complement itself...