The Royal Bakery of Campbell, California creates custom cakes for any occasion in delicious gourmet and traditional flavors. Lesley Wright of The Royal Bakery recently began using Artboard to help communicate her cake designs with her customers. Read more »

Tracing over photographs and scanned pictures is a time-tested technique to create vector art work, such as logos and icons. In this tutorial we show you step-by-step how to add a photo to your drawing canvas and trace over it with the Bezier Path tool. Read more »

A scrapbook style is characterized by a wide outline around your graphic in the color of paper – as if the graphic were cut out by scissors. The key to this style is adding a wide stroke to show underneath the shape’s silhouette. Artboard’s advanced Style Inspector makes easy work of these fun scrapbook styles. Read more »

Styles define the look of your shapes and paths – and Artboard goes way beyond simple fill and stroke. The built-in collection includes special line styles that use arrowed strokes, path decorators, tagged strokes, offset strokes, and more. Select a style in the Styles & Clip Art palette and begin drawing, or drag styles from the palette onto existing path objects. Even use the collection as inspiration to create your own unique styles in Artboard’s expert Style Inspector. Read more »

Artboard gives you the power to create advanced styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke. Here we show a simple way to create paths of bubbles for using under water or to float through the air. Read more »

Artboard 1.4 is now available as an update on the Mac App Store. This is mostly a bug-fix release, with only a few user-visible changes. We’ve removed some unimportant preferences and changed a couple of the defaults as well. There are some new commands for collapsing and expanding handles on a path, Read more »

This geometric pattern looks like mosaic tiles blooming into an intricate flower pattern. Inspired by the hip textiles of Verner Panton, this awesome design is made up of squares, increasing in size as they move outwards and creating an abstract, kaleidoscope-like form. One of the cool things about it is it’s deceptively simple to create using Artboard’s Polar Duplicate function. Find out how. Read more »

Choose from 47 great speech and thought bubbles to use with your drawings and photos. Drag from the Styles & Clip Art palette onto your drawing, then double-click with the Select [s] tool and type your text. Since they are fully editable vector graphics, you can change not only the text but also edit the shape, size and style. Read more »

Need to make buttons for your website, iOS app, or presentation icons? Thanks to Artboard’s powerful stacked styles, you can make perfect vector buttons every time. Read more »

These Holiday and Occasions clip art are fully editable vector graphics provided royalty-free with your purchase of Artboard. They include graphics for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Hanukkah, Christmas, and more. Read more »