Adding hard or drop shadows to text can be used to enhance their effect and also make the surroundings more realistic. Shadows can also add perspective and depth to a text. This article will take you ...

Debossing is an effect in which part of a work's image or text is imprinted below the surface, according to ReoCities. One example of debossing is in engravings, where text is cut into something, such ...

Creating the spiral text will teach you how to create text, transform, rotate, use the transform effects, and use angles. These are skills that can be used to create other effects. Let’s now so how ...

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 ...

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 ...