Graphic Styles in Adobe Illustrator

CATEGORIES: Illustrator, Tutorials | Corey Barker | April 17, 2009

Working with Graphic Styles in Illustrator is similar to working with layer styles in Photoshop. Corey explores some of things you can do with Illustrator’s graphic styles.

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yay corey barker luv ur tuts man ;D

Comment by luke | April 17, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

Thank you for a wonderful short cut and more reasons to play with the settings and listen to more of you videos.

Comment by diane58 | April 17, 2009 @ 7:49 pm

Nice. CS3 or CS4?

Comment by Vanderhellen | April 18, 2009 @ 8:03 am

Very very Good

@Vanderhellen

Cs4

Comment by manuelcop | April 18, 2009 @ 10:19 am

Why can’t I watch any of these videos in Safari browser? It’s a brand new Macbook Pro, with the latest updated everything. I wind up having to use Firefox to view your videos (even though I can use Safari to view flash videos on every other site I go to!) There’s gotta be something messed up in your encoding…

Comment by Sean | April 18, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

Very Very Cool

Comment by Anoop | April 19, 2009 @ 5:36 am

Corey, Again very cool stuff. Also nice to make it Extruded (3D) but I am having that grey-box effect around the central word. What tricks are there to render as 3D without that annoying outside box? Otherwise it can be saved as a Graphic style. Please revisit this if there are some ways to extend this to a neat clean 3D graphic style.

Comment by Gary Spedding | April 19, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

One way to avoid the box is to avoid using the drop shadow but the words are still not all perfectly shaded/colored – so some odd things go on with 3D’ing this. If these little annoyances could be allieviated this would be great for creating reproducible 3D logos and flourishes etc., for artwork.

Comment by Gary Spedding | April 19, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

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Pingback by Cool Shoot Blog Posts | Tutorials | Contest Time | Layers Magazine | April 20, 2009 @ 2:21 am

Gud use of appreance and a shadow effect in this section.

Comment by Sudhir Kumar | April 23, 2009 @ 6:59 am

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Comment by Leo Nascimento | May 5, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

i get:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

and not only me
i checked it also in another computer
and not only in this tutorial.
and cant see the flash tutorial.
yesterday i could see
please fix it

Comment by shlomit | May 10, 2009 @ 5:47 am

hey cotey nice tutor1

Comment by JAI | May 14, 2009 @ 3:13 am

hey corey nice tutor

Comment by JAI | May 14, 2009 @ 3:14 am

Great Stuff!

I love it!

Thank you,
Carlos Rosillo

Comment by Carlos Rosillo | June 4, 2009 @ 1:17 am

this was quite simlify version of tutorial for a learner. Thnx , it was useful

Comment by prett | June 21, 2009 @ 2:09 am

That was excellent! So amazing.

Comment by Chavar | June 23, 2009 @ 9:22 am

Why did you outline the text in the first place?

Comment by rcraighead | June 30, 2009 @ 10:24 pm

its very good tutorial

Comment by Mayank Sharma | July 12, 2009 @ 7:26 am

hi ..
ive been around illustrator for a while and ive learned alot form u..
Now, u mentioned and showed a particular styles library called the graphic styles>open graphic styles library> illuminate styles … did u compile this on ur own, or is it downloaded off somewhere.. if so, can i please have the link for it.
Thanks again (smashing tutorial ) ^__^

Comment by saher | September 12, 2009 @ 10:56 pm