Orgcharts, Business Layouts, Scrapbook Family Trees and Process Flow for Illustrator
I’m so excited to announce that Adobe recently posted an article about the work I did for Illustrator CS4. Check it out. There’s free orgcharts, symbols and brush sets now available that will blow your mind.
The Joy of Charting
Contributed by Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator Team Rowing Captain
Last Friday Terry talked about some of the exciting new libraries and How To’s that we shipped with Illustrator CS4. I wanted to take time today to focus on some additional new CS4 Sample Art Files that show how Illustrator can be used to create visually intriguing, creative flow charts. Yes, you heard me right, I did say “Visually Intriguing” and “Flow Charts” in the same sentence!
Jennifer Willis is one of those rare designers who doesn’t cringe when taking on information graphics. Instead she has found a way of infusing her creative style into flow charts, while obviously having a great time doing it. Jennifer uses a variety of symbols and arrowheads that she creates. This adds a personal touch that reflects not only the designer but the client as well.


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Instant award: You get a $5 bonus for signing up Sell your stock images and get 50-80% from each sale you make. 10% from all credits packages bought by a designer that you referred for 6 months 10% from all sales made by a photographer that you referred 20% to 47% for non-exclusive submissions 50% to 64% for exclusive submissions Fotolia has the largest image base although it is young. They are the first in the stock photography industry to implement a ranking system where photographers are rewarded with higher commissions and the ability to set higher sales prices upon the success of their portfolio. Portfolio sales volume determines a photographer’s rank and success. This affiliate program allows you to earn money quickly and easily. We will provide you with ordering URLs that are unique to your store. Then, every time a customer orders from your URL, you will get the fantastic sales commission of 20% of the revenue for each subscription sold! Think about this… if 1 customer each buy one 1 year AbsolutVision subscription through your Web site each day, you will earn approximately $600/month!
* Earn 50% commission on all purchases made by customers you have recruited for the first 6 months of their membership. * You get 10% commission on all image sales made by contributors you recruit, also for 6 months (this does not affect the commission they earn from their sales). * The more money the people you recruit spend – or the more images they sell – the more you earn. * No restrictions on the number of new members you can earn commission from at any one time. * Easy statistics provided to keep track of your your referrals and commission payments. * Affiliate commission earnings are combined with earnings from image sales = faster and more frequent payouts if you’re also a Crestock image contributor. |
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Did you ever ask yourself how do I make money as a freelance graphic design artist? You spend all this time creating and tweaking and you finally get your site up there so.. now what? Offering Illustrator Tutorials or blogging about Free Vector Graphics, Photoshop filters, patterns, etc. are among the easiest ways to drive traffic to your site. Making money from your graphic design portfolio or blog is next crucial step.
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Free Wood Textures - Illustrator Tutorials & High Resolution Textures
Free High Resolution Textures
Free Textures for Illustrator
Everybody needs textures for their work here’s a great list of resources where you can find quality freebies. There are two lists. One is High Resolution images and the other is Illustrator tutorials to create vector textures of your own.
Flickr Color Analysis for Illustrator CS3

A graphic Designers dream come true.
This is an amazing and free upgrade for Illustrator CS3! It is so easy.



AI CS3 + Flickr = In the Mod Mashup
1. From your Illustrator, Search Flickr
2. Find a picture with awesome colors
3. Extract colors to swatch palette
A free panel for Adobe Illustrator CS3 that searches Flickr for photos, In The Mod for (in)famous paintings, and then analyzes and visualizes the colors of the photos and paintings. Once a beautiful palette is found, you can save them directly to Illustrator’s Swatch Panel.
More about this Free Script:
Flickr
This will launch a popup panel and loads the swf file. Thanks to Kelvin Luck’s Flashr, an AS wrapper for the Flickr API, just enter a tag to search and retrieve images from Flickr. Select the thumbnail image you would view the color palettes for by clicking on the thumbnail icon. The scroll pane will slide over to make room for the visualization view. If you like the colors and want to add them to your AI Swatches Panel, click on the AI icon in the lower right corner. That’s it!
In The Mod
To access to all of the (in)famous paintings and color palettes on In The Mod, click on the ITM button on the main screen (that has scrollable thumbnails). The process of seeing the color visualization and saving the palettes is the same as above.
Sorting by Hue, Saturation or Brightness
After saving the colors to your Swatches panel, you can also sort them by Hue, Saturation or Brightness. To do so, there’s a trick: click on the open document window (so the focus is pulled off of the swf Panel) and then select from the menu File: Scripts: SortByHue-Sat-Bri. I prefer sorting by Brightness, so I typically enter ‘B’ in the popup prompt. The rest is magic.
Is it perfect? No, far from it, but it is functional and it is extremely fun to use and something worthy of sharing.
1st Place $2500, 2nd Place $600, and 3rd place $400.
1st Annual FindYourArtSchool.com Young Adult Art Competition http://www.findyourartschool.com/contest/home
The 1st Annual FindYourArtSchool.com Young Adult Art Competition is geared towards helping current and prospective art students gain market exposure through the competition, as well as rewarding their outstanding talents with financial support. There is no constraint regarding topic or media. Artists are given the full stage to show off their talents and we are anticipating that thousands of visitors will be coming daily to see their works.
My Favorite Artist So Far: Artist: jborgschulte Age: 24 Title: StrangerDance

Lightning, Blood Drips, Tattoos, Nautical, Cute Vector Characters, and more
GoMedia does it again with their new release of Set 10 of their Royalty free vector arsenal. Set 10 includes Lightning, Tattoos, Cute Stuff, Anatomy 2, Hooved, Nautical, and Blood Drips. You can also purchase the individual sets.
Send me you Stuff!!
So I’ve started a jlwDesign User Showcase on Flickr.com
Mick & Mu
Meanwhile, checkout Mick and Mu from Moomu in Perth, Australia. They are a power photography and graphic design couple. They used Swirly Curls 4 and sent me their work so I’ve posted it all for you to see. enjoy!
Mu recently started a blog at theroute777.com and you can also catch Mu on Deviant Art and check out some of her other beautiful work.























