In this video we'll explore Illustrator's Appearance panel. This panel not only lets you make changes to properties like opacity, blending mode, stroke, and fill, it also gives you powerful control over the effects you apply to objects.

Product manager Brenda Sutherland show how Illustrator CS6 lets you apply gradients to your strokes—along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself-with complete control over placement and opacity.

Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

Quickly switch between solid, gradient, and pattern color effects. Apply opacity control separately to Fill and Stroke dialog boxes to achieve better control and precision. Change colors more quickly with the improved color swatch.

Join Illustrator product manager Brenda Sutherland, as she shows how the new gradients on strokes feature in Illustrator CS6 lets you create artwork that looks complex but is easy to edit.

Russell Brown offers two different approaches for creating a magical effect by painting with light on an image in Photoshop Touch.

In this quick tip, Julieanne demonstrates the most flexible way to create a transparent circle around an object.

Learn how you can use the Variable Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator to rapidly trace complex brush strokes and turn a scanned image into fully-fledged vector art.

Video Highlights: See how to make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also, instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.

Fast Track your Cut & Paste artwork by using the Appearance Panel to rapidly apply fills, strokes and effects to any shape you create in Illustrator.

See how to easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.

RC has a viewer-inspired tip on using Illustrator's alignment tools with clipping masks. Corey opens up Photoshop and shows a tip on creating a stroke around text with an empty space between using layer styles.

Interactively blend canvas colors with lifelike painting strokes.

The Blob Brush and Eraser tools perform pathfinder operations behind the scenes as you draw. Draw over existing brush strokes with the Blob Brush to merge the strokes. Select objects before drawing with the Eraser tool to erase only selected areas.

Control various elements of dashed lines in Illustrator CS5, including line length, corners and gaps.

Create variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5. Control the thickness of a stroke at any point along a path by using the Width tool. Apply, save, and re-apply variable widths across multiple paths by using width profiles.

Using the Width tool, create variable-width strokes and use various stroke profiles for consistent style in Illustrator CS5.

Create original art or pattern brushes, and learn how to adjust segments of a brush pattern in Illustrator CS5.

Paint lifelike brush strokes with the new bristle tips in Photoshop CS5. Customize bristle qualities ranging from shape and length to thickness and stiffness.

New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Symmetrically align dashes and infinitely adjust stroke widths, all part of Beautiful Strokes in Illustrator CS5.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.

Achieve beautiful paint effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive Vector-Painting Brushes in Illustrator, or use 3D Extrusion Tools in Photoshop Extended to create artwork that will stand out in print and digital media.

Join Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler as he shows how you can save time when applying and editing fills, strokes, effects and more with the new Appearance panel in Illustrator CS4.

In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates using paint strokes brushes to automatically morph between path shapes.

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a customized, sound-reactive waveform using a stroke, a distortion effect, and an expression.

Become familiar with the Flash drawing tools. Use the Line, Pencil, and Shape tools. Change the color of a shape's stroke and fill.

Fill and stroke objects according to how they overlap and intersect using Live Paint. Use the Live Paint bucket to convert objects into a group.

Get introduced to fill and stroke. Access the Swatches panel to use preset colors or create custom shades. Add strokes from the Appearance panel.

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz revisits his earlier podcast on animating a signature and shows you how to add a pen writing the signature in After Effects 3D

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a customized, sound-reactive waveform using a stroke, a distortion effect, and an expression.

Corey uses an After Effects stroke feature to create a traced outline effect. RC answers some viewer questions about installing and using a Dreamweaver plugin called Lightbox 2 that displays your photos on the web.

Corey uses an After Effects stroke feature to create a traced outline effect. RC answers some viewer questions about installing and using a Dreamweaver plugin called Lightbox 2 that displays your photos on the web.

This classic Russell Brown Photoshop technique returns, but this time with a few new CS3 tricks. Learn how to speed up the process of extracting backgrounds from images.

Learn how to customize the layout templates included with Lightroom. Change image settings such as zoom and brush strokes. Change layout settings like margins and cell size.

What to do about Adobe Ultra strokes that don't change in time. More sites you can use to better elaborate your questions. Somebody wants freebies. Plus a surprise call from the legal team.

Filling and stroking images are a great new way to create lines in Adobe InDesign. This tutorial is part of the InDesign CS3: Simplified & Easy Course at xTrain.