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    Creating really good/professional looking graphics.

    This is something that id like to be able to do, but i have no idea how people can create such good looking graphics. For example take a look at the quality of some of these icons:Pack 1,Pack 2,Pack 3. How do people make such quality looking graphics using PS and Illustrator? What’s the correct way to setup your "canvas" when making such items.

    Don't get me wrong i know these people have years of experience and probably a degree of somesort, but I myself would like to up my skill level in PS and id like to be able to use illustrator properly. Are there any good tutorial sites out there that teach you how to create such high or good quality graphics. What sort of books could i get that could teach me these skills?

    I’ve been looking at getting This book when it comes out. If the front cover is any indication as to the types of things the book will cover then this is the kind of book I’m after. Has any one read the previous edition (for Illustrator CS). If so what did u think of it? An other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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    For really good graphics you need a Wacom (if you don't know what one of these is find out, and quick).

    PS CS2 has an add which shows the steps someone did using a tablet purely, no mouse, no scanning or anything like that.

    Produced an image worthy of an Art Gallery.

    The main one is to remember that in real life nothing is a perfectly clean line like in PS, using smudge and blur for the edges to get it more "realistic"
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    Sure, a tablet with pressure sensitive pen will help if you are doing a significant amount of sketching/painting in PS but you can do a lot simply with gradients and splines which seems to be the technique used in the examples that you linked to.

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    Ive already got a graphics tablet, its not a wacom and its not as high quality but it was far far cheaper. I havent used it that much really. I was hoping that i could just use my mouse to do these things since they don't look like they've been drawn in the traditional way a drawing is done. Dredd; what is a spline? Never heard of that before. I pressume they would have used vectors to create them and not bitmaps. Since vectors scale keep their quality when you re-size them. Would that be right?

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    Yeah, basically I was referring to vector illustration techniques. A spline is just a curve with controls that allows you to edit its shape after it has been created. So it's not just a collection of pixels like a brush stroke but rather allows you to move and edit it as you like.

    A quick introduction to vector illustration can be found here

    http://www.sketchpad.net/illustrator.htm

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