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Quick Tip #36 Making Badges In Illustrator

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In this quick tip I show you how to quickly create badges in illustrator using the distort and transform effect.

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12 Responses to “Quick Tip #36 Making Badges In Illustrator”

  1. kyle steed says:

    SWEET! Great tip Niki. Thanks for sharing that. I honestly didn’t know that’s how easy it could be. Now I have a good idea to make a stamp.

    July 10th, 2009 at 7:29 am

  2. jay says:

    nice!

    July 10th, 2009 at 7:53 am

  3. Daniel says:

    Where did the orange in HTML-Ipsum go? =’(

    July 10th, 2009 at 8:19 am

  4. Kristin says:

    Wow, I was definitely doing that the long and difficult way. Thanks for the tip – that will save me a lot of time!

    July 10th, 2009 at 8:41 am

  5. Beau Smith says:

    Nice tip! How might you make a square-toothed gear?

    July 10th, 2009 at 11:38 am

  6. John says:

    smooth!

    July 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am

  7. Kristin says:

    I KNEW there had to be an easy way to do that. Haha. Thanks :)

    July 10th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

  8. Kenneth says:

    thanks niki, your tips are great!

    July 11th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

  9. Jamie Croft says:

    Thanks, Niki.

    I have never thought of making those like that. I usally make mine by using the star tool. If you double click the star tool on your document and give it a radius for the outside and inside and add the number of points.

    I like the zig zag better because you can view what is going on live where as the other way you can’t preview.

    thanks, niki.

    July 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

  10. Alfie says:

    Wow! I’ve being using Illustrator for quite a long time, and I was definitely doing zig zag lines in the hard way, Awesome Tip, thank you for sharing!

    July 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  11. Xavier Encinas says:

    Cool! thanks for that tip. I used to make them in a really different way, and of course way more complicated :-) Simple is better!

    July 27th, 2009 at 1:44 pm


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