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Download free Vector car design for Adobe Illustrator

Ali Chorov — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:01:09 +0000

This is the post with free AI file from the vector car tutorial. It is free for use in any way you like.

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Tutorial: Make vector car from photo in Illustrator

Ali Chorov — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:33:00 +0000

In today post I will present you a new tutorial from me. It’s a detailed tutorial of how to make a vector car from photo in Adobe Illustrator.

In this tutorial I will show you the basic techniques and some tips for making vector objects using pen tool in Illustrator. For this tutorial we’ll not draw directly, but we’ll draw with pen tool over a photo. Before we start let’s choose a good photo, I will use a stock photo from sxc.hu which you can find here: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/953130

Photo we’ll use:

Step 1:

Open the car photo in Illustrator and take pen tool. Select yellow color and start drawing with pen tool on a new layer. Look my work on the image:

Step 2:

Continue the work with pen tool and look carefully about the details.

Step 3:

Continue the work with pen tool and look carefully about the details.

Step 4:

Continue the work with pen tool and look carefully about the details. Here I use lower opacity, so I can see better what’s going on around.

Step 5:

If you’re following the tutorial step by step, look carefully at the points I make.

Step 6:

If you’re following the tutorial step by step, look carefully at the points I make.

Step 7:

And here we’re almost at the final. After we close the path of this shape we’ll have the basic shape for the car, but we’ll need to make some changes for it.

Step 8:

We will need the Pathfinder panel so if it’s not open go to Window menu and choose Pathfinder

Step 9:

We need to cut out the windows and the lights and also some other parts of our car. Let’s start with this light below. Begin to draw with the pen tool and make the exact same shape.

Step 10:

When you’re ready with the shape, select on both shapes, the both and the one for the light then click on Subtract from Shape Area button in Pathfinder panel

Step 11:

Using the same technique you can cut out the other parts. Below is the result you should have if everything is done right.

Step 12:

The next thing is to draw some of parts which are black and behind the body of the car. Do this on a new layer and move it below the 1st one.

Step 13:

Again on a new layer draw the windows shapes.

Step 14:

Next let’s continue with the wheels. Begin to draw the threads of the tire.

Step 15:

When you’re done with them draw the tire. It should be behind them so make on new layer again and move it below.

Step 16:

Use the oval tool and draw a shape. Then you can adjust it using free transform and direct select tool.

Step 17:

Copy and paste this exact shape and make it smaller. Then select both shapes and click on Subtract from shape area button in Pathfinder panel.

Step 18:

Using the same techniques let’s make the other wheel.

Step 19:

Also making of the rims can be done using same methods. This is the car until now.

Step 20:

Now make the sign for the car number using pen tool.

Step 21:

Lower the opacity of the car body start to draw the lines of the car, but use only border color here.

Step 22:

Continue that for all the lines of the car.

Step 23:

Make the light shade for the windows. Draw them choose white color and lower the opacity.

Step 24:

You can also use a gradient color for them. Here is how they look now.

Step 25:

Make the lights of the car using the same techniques and methods we have used until now.

Step 26:

Here’s a whole car preview again: Here I have add the handle for the door.

Step 27:

In that way you can add all the details you like for the car, it takes some time but at the end the results are better if you spent more time on it. Here I also played a bit with some colors and so on.

Step 28:

Now let’s make some shades of light for the car. There is very different methods for making this, you can use mesh tool or gradient colors. It depends on you, here I will show you simple way. Just draw the shape where you see most of the lights reflection are and choose white color for them.

Step 29:

When you’re done, lower the opacity a bit, as much as you like.

Step 30:

And here I also add a shadow beyond the car. Black color with lower opacity.

Final:

Here is the final vector car we have. I hope you like it.

Thank you for reading this. I hope you like it and you’ve learned something here. Or at least you find it a bit fun. In a separate post later I will give you the free Ai file of this vector car so don’t miss it.

Feel free to share this tutorial with your friends and you’re welcome to comment and ask any questions or to say you critique.

Photo we’ll use:

Best food for designers and web developers

Ali Chorov — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:41:31 +0000

Designers and web developers can be called the heroes of world wide web. They’re the people who make everything on Internet working, they are the people who make web sites beautiful, functional and if a person got a good idea for web site the designers and web developers can make the idea come true.

As such, the new heroes of our time and Internet need the best food. Don’t ever ever think that being a designer or developer is an easy job. We stay too much on the chare, on our desks, in our offices or in home in front of the computer and we put a lot of effort for a single web site to work well.

In this post I want to show you some of the best food a web designer or developer can have, so his day can be full of energy and he can work with pleasure and not feel hungry all the time.

Many people use to eat some fast foods because they think like that: ” I have a lot of work and I can’t take the extra to eat a real food. 1 fast food and I will be ok”. Yes but not, because after eating it hour or two and you’ll be hungry again.Also this foods don’t give you the enough energy and vitamins your body needs. Go get some real food and you’ll have energy to work much more and most important you’ll be happy…

The good food give you the good mood. Here’s my suggestions:

Foods:

Fish

Fish is one of the best food you can have in your day and in your week. The best is to include fish 2 –3 times in a week if that’s possible. Fish gives high quality protein and a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A and D, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium. It’s very good for the brain and also very delicious

Nuts of almonds and hazelnuts

Nuts of all kinds are useful for the body, but some of the best are nuts of almonds and hazelnuts.

Hazelnut is the best known source for Vitamin E which is essential for the healthy heart muscles and other muscles of the body as well. It is also necessary for normal functioning of the reproduction system. Another benefit of Vitamin E which is found in hazelnut is to prevent the factors which prepare the basis for cancer disease. If cancer is already formed in the body, then it fights to defuse the harmful cells.

Eating almonds has the same effect as the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. A one and a half ounce handful of almonds is a leading source of vitamin E and magnesium and offers protein, fiber, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron in 246 calories. Also, almonds (and other nuts) contain phytochemicals, which are plant chemicals that may provide powerful protection against heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases.

Fruit salad

All fruits have a benefits for the body, they are giving directly vitamins and good amount of energy for you. And they’re also so delicious. There is almost no a person who don’t like fruits. And why not make a fruit salad from your favourites? You can do this after your meal or for your breakfast. You’ll feel fresh and happy for the whole day if you get your fruits at the start of your day. Don’t forget about them!

Chocolate

Chocolate, who don’t like it ? I am including this in this post, but you should be careful with it. Eating it small amounts can give you a lot of benefits but eating it a lot can be harmful. Yes this is a good food but be careful. Seriously!

nuts

Juice of fruits

Juice of fruits are best drinks you can get for the day. It’s better than just water, it’s fresh and cool. But be careful, most of the juice fruits they’re selling on the markets are not so much real juice fruits. You can be sure of that, the best way for you to be sure what you’re drinking is to do it your self. It’s easy, just go buy some lemons. oranges, grapefruit or other you like and squeeze the fruits, you can add water and sugar. That’s the best, it will give you fresh mood, energy and real vitamins.

Be happy people, hope you like this post, off course everyone have his own favourite foods, but in the field this are some of the best and always better than fast foods.

Feel free to reply to me and add any comments with critique, questions and suggestions.

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Which are the best colors I can choose for the articles in my web site?

Ali Chorov — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:37:55 +0000

If you already have read my post about the worst colors you can choose for the articles in your web pages, you know already my opinion about it. And I hope you agree with me for most of them. But I have mentioned that there have some exceptions about them.

And I said they can be used with measure, yes they can but there have a ways for almost everything somehow in some way we can adjust the things to work and to looks good.

Let me explain. First of all the combination of colors of our template is very important.

If you want your web site to look nice you must use somewhere around 3 colors or maximum 5 for the base of your template. I do not say that you should have only 3–5 color in your web page, lol this will look too simple and non professional. But go and look in some professional web designs out there and you’ll notice that every web site have some color for it’s base.

Example web site for nature maybe will be with mostly green fresh color with some brown around or something like that. So you should have some colors for your base depending of what your site is about. I’ll probably make a post about that in future but let’s continue with our articles..

I have said that lightly background with light text are not good for the reader, and I have give example for incompatible colors. For some of them you really should avoid using them,but for some there have exceptions and we can adjust them. We only need to make them a little bit softer. And off course there have some which looks just good and some which looks just great.

And let’s begin with my list from the best you can choose.

1. Standard white and black is one of the best and you really can use it almost in every web site,without need to change so much things. But if you want something else?

Off course you will want, especially if you like to experiment with colors. Then I hope the next suggestions will help you.

2.Make your background and your text not so white and not so much black. Make it a little bit gray. Black to be a little bit brighter and white to be a little bit gray. And use this combination if you can with your design.

This combination will not make anyone eyes to cry. This is because this are soft colors and they are similar. You know even in programs like Photoshop the combination of colors are similar in the new versions. Grey background and not so black texts.

3. Again gray background and dark soft blue. This looks very nice. You can read from this for long time. The same way you can use another color instead of blue. It can be dark green. I have mentioned the hexadecimal code for them in the image below.

4.Soft light blue and soft dark blue like in the picture. Well this will begin to look not so good after a while, but it’s a exceptions and you can use it.

5. The opposite to number 2 and I have seen that many peoples begin to use it. On a black web site for portfolios and Photography web pages, for tutorial Blogs and web sites and like http://abduzeedo.com/.

Yes this looks good and you can use it a lot if you like it. You see there have some lightly blue links and this is exactly what I mean when i said you can use such colors for links in your posts.

Let’s continue with the 5 exceptions from my article about the worst 5 colors you can choose…

1. You remember the white background and the ugly light blue with number 2 from my articles. If you really want to use such colors. Here is the way how to: You must make the lightly blue soft blue.This way it will be not the most perfect thing. But it will be better and good enough, and you can use it in that way.

I have mentioned the hexadecimal code for the color. It’s the same for the other colors, you can make them more soft and you can use them What I mean with soft is that they are not so bright.

2. You know the orange bg + green text. Here is an example how you can make it to looks better: I do not suggest this but you can use it in some web site if you lie it so much.

3. And the last one I will show in this post. About the lovely pink or purple.If you like this colors here is an example of how to use it. But is again an exception an you should avoid using it.

I hope this post will help you in some way and you will learn something from it. I want to tell one more thing only. You can make your whole web site in pink or blue or very green color and you can still make your articles to be in some of the first 5 best suggested colors here.

So I thing we can always experiment but still we can stay in some rules for good design. So I’ll wait for your replies if any, and I always like new opinions and critique so we can learn from each other.