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[mountain_laurel]

I've been asked to replicate the style of some existing graphics, and I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how they were done. My Illustrator skills are pretty rudimentary, so I'm wondering if anyone out there can tell me how it works.




What I need to know is how to get that 3-D effect. I i think "extrude and bevel" is the trick I'm looking for, but no matter what I do, I can't get it to look exactly like this. Worse yet, when I use the extrude/bevel effect, I lose my fill, and if I try to add fill, I lose the extrude/bevel effect.

Can anyone out there give me a simple tutorial on how to do this?

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[(Anonymous)]

Just tell them that their diagram's style sucks, because it draws your eye to the huge heavy borders so much that you can't actually focus on the actual content, and change it to something with nice pale borderless backgrounds.