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Create a wine glass from scratch in Illustrator using transparency and translucency settings

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Realistic Glass Orb
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Creating a Quick and Easy Glass Bowl
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Realistic Digital Watch
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Glassy Orbs
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Glassy Orbs
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Creating a Toaster-Popping Illustration
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How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path
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How to Create an Electronic Piano
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make your own realistic, electronic piano in Illustrator. We'll create quite a few shapes and apply various gradients and blends to make this vector instrument. Even though it's a bit of work to put all this together, the techniques used in this tutorial are fairly simple. Set aside a couple hours for this one!

Create 3D Fruit Bowl With Illustrator CS2
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TFT Monitor
Realistic flat monitor created using Adobe Illustrator 10.

Halloween Pumpkin
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TFT Monitor
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3D glossy heart logo
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Three Ways to Create Celtic Knots
In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create magical Celtic knots. Ornaments accompanied Celts in life and in death. Ornaments decorated clothes, books, furniture, ware, weapons, and gravestones. I'll show you three ways to create Celtic knots in vector - from simple to the difficult. The last techniques allows one to create knots of any complexity.

How to Create Stereo Headphone Plugs
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Create an arrow through a heart icon
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Create incredible 3D type-based infographic art
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How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse
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How to Create a Recycling, Paper Bag Icon
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Create a 3D Pill
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Easily Create Sticker Text and Graphic Effect
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Creating Swirly Vectors
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How to create funny swirls
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Create a Vector Tree with Custom Brushes and the Gradient Mesh Tool
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Create a Stylized Avocado
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Learn to Create a Financial Crisis, Vector Illustration
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Create 3D Vase With 3D Revolve + Map Art
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Cartoon clouds
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Create a Set of Shiny Character Eyes
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Create an old TDK cassette
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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator
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Animated Egyptian Eye
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Create realistic glass surfaces

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