To style the containers of the sidebar widgets of the Kubrick theme you can either style them all individually, or create a catch all widget CSS class. This styling will take place in the style.css which can be found in Appearance>Editor. 1 – Catch all widget class To access the uppermost widget class style li.widget Below is an example of widget settings. If you don't know CSS then you can…

This is the technique I used on No no I'm cute! and Pink monster. It's reaaaaally simple but people seem to like it. 1 – Background Select a background colour, this will be darker than colour of the fur. I've drawn a blue rectangle with the rectangle tool (M). 2 – Fur shape On a new layer (or the same layer it doesn't really matter) with the pen tool (P)…

This is a super easy way to make a rainbow brush, nothing fancy, just good ol fashioned rainbow. 1 – Make a rainbow segment In an open Illustrator document show the grid (Ctrl+# on UK keyboards, Ctrl+" on US keyboards), and turn on snap to grid (Ctrl+Shift+# on UK keyboards, Ctrl+Shift+" on US keyboards). These can also be activated through View in the top menu. Using the grid as your…

This will only work in CS4 or above I believe, but I'm not completely sure so feel free to correct me. 1 – The image to be cropped Here is the image I'm going to crop: 2 – Cropping the image We're going to change the size of the artboard to crop this image. Select the ArtBoard tool (Shift+O). The screen should change to something like the following: Click and…

Here's a quick tutorial on using the clipping mask, if you're working with vectors I recommend using the pathfinder but for rasters you'll need this lil' trick. 1 – Setting up Open Illustrator and create a new file. Paste in a raster image, I'm using this cat. (From http://catswatchingyouhavesex.tumblr.com/) Above the cat draw a circle (L) or whatever shape you wish to clip the image to. The result should be…

Importing Illustrator (.ai) files into Flash is reasonably simple provided you understand the limitations of Flash compared to Illustrator. In this tutorial I will be working with CS4. 1 – Preparing your .ai file Preparation is extremely important when importing from Illustrator to Flash. Here are a few guidelines: Be wary of blend modes (ie Multiply, Overlay) sometimes it will import them, sometimes it won't. On my old computer which…

Joining lines is pretty simple, but it took me ages to figure out how to actually get it to work when I started using Illustrator. I'd keep hitting Ctrl+J while thinking 'please join, please….nooooooo'. In this tutorial I will be using Illustrator CS4 to join 2 lines, and will also be looking at the 'Average' function. 1 – Draw 2 lines Use the pen tool (P) to draw two lines….

Flash supports blend modes in a different way to Illustrator or Photoshop. To use styles such as mulitply or overlay there are two options which both involve movieclips. In this tutorial I show the simple code to apply blend modes to shapes with Actionscript 3 and with the properties box. If you already know how to set up a movieclip skip to step 4. 1 – Create a Flash file…