Here’s a quick tips for designers who use Adobe Illustrator.

Before we send our art work for the printer to print it out, we’ll need to outline all of the text objects, to avoid they see it and print it differently. To quickly select all of the text objects in the art work, just go to Select > Object > Text Objects. Then right click on the selection, choose Create Outlines. One thing to remember, unlock all of the layers and objects before doing this. :)

After some time messing around with Photoshop, we couldn’t recall what is the original setting and we’ll want to reset everything. There is a pretty simple way to reset the Photoshop preference to its factory setting.

1. Hold all three buttons: ctrl + alt + shift
2. With all these three buttons held, open the Photoshop program
3. It will prompt you “delete the Photoshop setting file”, press Yes.

Now you get everything reset to its original setting!

Photoshop brushes is a very convenient tool. It helps to create cool visual effects without taking much of your time.

There’s a great resources of photoshop brushes in deviantART. Follow the link here to enjoy this resource: http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/psbrushes/.

You can also create your own brushes. Here’s one of the way to make it:

You can actually create the brush with almost anything. First of all, create a new file in Photoshop, set a size, say 500px by 500px, Grayscale color mode.

Copy the image over to your new photoshop file.

Adjust the image before it is brush-worthy, use the Level, Curves, Brightness/Contrast.

Make a selection around the area you want to make it a brush.

Next, go to Edit > Define Brush Preset and give a name to the brush, and TADAA! The brush is created.

Now, you can choose the Brush tool, right click on the new photoshop page, choose the newly created brush, select a color (foreground color), and click on any space as many times you like to “re-use” the graphic!

Are you a Photoshop fanatic? http://www.worth1000.com will worth your time visiting! You’ll be amazed with the “artwork” done by the contestants. See some sample below:

Click here to go to the gallery of worth1000.com to view some jaw-dropping images.