Illustrator offers some very powerful tools for doing damage to your designs. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to quickly create a grassy hill using the Crystallize tool.
1) Start with a new document (Cmd/Ctrl + N), and give it a name. In a fit of originality, I called mine ‘Quick Grassy Hill’. Set the dimensions to 600px wide and 400px high.
WordPress is an amazing publishing platform. Part of its greatness is how user friendly it is, with Revisions being a particular case in point. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve had to load up a previous version of a post to reclaim some literary nugget that I accidentally deleted in a fit of writer’s angst.
Unfortunately, in order to save me from myself, it has to use quite a lot of database space. Each revision means one more row in the Posts table, on top of the canonical version that you create every time you hit the Update or Draft versions. If you are like me and painfully obsessive about every single word, or you write epic 5,000 word posts, then that one post could have 20 or 30 revisions saved in addition to your working copy.
Multiply that by the number of posts on your blog, and it could quickly run up to the hundreds or thousands of rows.
We’ll be building the shape in Illustrator using the 3D Revolve tool before going into Photoshop to texture it all up using clipping masks and blend modes and layer styles and all that modern doohickory.
The recent release of the world’s most popular blogging platform has seen some huge additions, including the ability to add custom Post Types and custom Taxonomies, and support for multiple blogs.
Other improvements include support for custom stylesheets to style the post and page editors. What this means is that what you see in the editor more closely resembles the final product.
To take advantage of these amazing new features, you’ll need to upgrade. Upgrading your current version of WordPress to the new version is pretty easy and all of the core functionality should just continue to work as normal and you shouldn’t lose anything.
However, there have been reports of bugs in some plugins and themes after the new version has been installed, so some care should be taken.
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Hi! I'm Simon Fairbairn and I am very fortunate because I love what I do!
I spend my days designing and building websites and teaching people about Search Engine Optimisation, traffic analysis and conversion rates.
In other words, I help people create beautiful websites and then I help make those websites perform.