You must be familiar with Guide Tool in Illustrator. But have you consider yourself using this feature optimally to speed up productivity, to help organize and accurate place your illustrations, and be more precise when creating artwork in Illustrator?

Here are some Illustrator Tutorials to better understand the function of Guide Tool, its customization and to learn what kind of things that you can actually make with the help of Guide Tool.

Feel free to post a comment below if you have your own quick tips to work with Guides in Illustrator, or if you want to share other tutorial resources with everyone!

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It was started as experimental small project back then, and the result was a set of Random Gradients vol. 1 as part of Graphic Identity's Free Design Box post series. It's about time I share another set of Photoshop Random Gradients vol. 2.

Even they are randomized in colors, I decided to make simplified gradient set without too much effects since I think it will be more applicable to your design. There are 100 gradients included and they're free to download.

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All of Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files before you decide to download the files.

If you like my Free Design Box post series please give comment before you download them because I will appreciate any feedback from you.


Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 2.rar (3.72 KB)


Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 2.zip (4.62 KB)


Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 2.grd (70.41 KB)



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Graphic Identity Blog has joined deviantART for 4 years, and some of our Free Design Box collections are faved alot in this community.

We've published a post featuring some deviants works which were applying our freebies in: Graphic Identity User Showcase (Part 1) before. You can see some more now in our today's post or visit our latest favorites at Graphic Identity User Showcase on DeviantART

If you're also using one of our freebie collections, feel free to submit your awesome design to Graphic Identity User Showcase and be part of the Flickr group.

Happy New Year 2012 and cheers!



Happy New Year - 2012 by ~timijs on deviantART

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Fly me to the Moon by ~sweetKisschris on deviantART


Eyes by ~Music-Addicted on deviantART


Cotton Candy by ~stillemotion on deviantART


Living my life my way by ~happybg on deviantART

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It's been a while since I published the last Free Design Box post category. I should thank you for your patience to follow Graphic Identity Blog updates and it's time to share you the freebie post series.

I created a set of Subtle Seamless Geometric Pattern for you to download for free in .PNG file format. I reduced the contrast for each of it and scaled into 3 sizes. There are 5 different geometric style with 10 color alternatives, so basically you can have 150 total number of patterns to choose for your design.

I wrote a quick tutorial of: How to Define Pattern as .PAT File in Photoshop if you still do not know how to put digital modern pattern into a design.

You can check the demo page for quick preview of each geometric pattern style in different sizes.

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All of Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files before you decide to download the files.

Don't miss out to download my next Subtle Seamless Pattern set post series by subscribing to Graphic Identity Blog feed!

NOTE :

• I also have created transparent pattern set in .PNG and .PAT file format. With transparent .PAT file, you will have more options to customize the background color of the pattern and scale it to fit your design (into smaller pattern unit dimension). If you're interested to have it, you can tweet this post and mention @GrapicIdentity then leave comment using comment form below. Be sure to follow @GraphicIdentity and don't forget to include your Twitter ID or your tweet permalink in your comment. I will send a download link via DM (Direct Message).
• If you are happy enough with the available pattern colors, you can just download the .PAT file format with colored background instead.
  :D 'sharing is caring' so just tweet tweet to unlock the download button below ;)

Graphic Identity - Subtle Seamless Patterns Part 1 (PNG).zip (2 MB)

.PAT file (colored background) is available!

TWEET NOW by clicking the Twitter Bird icon to unlock the Download button

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Be sure to check this design set also
Nature Element Vectors








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