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Method one - works with any shape.
Create a no-fill, no-stroke rectangle and place a $ sign in the middle of it. $ sign must be on top of the rectangle. The amount of space between the $ sign and the rectangle edges will determine the spacing between the repeated $ signs.
Drag all that to the Brush panel and choose Pattern Brush when asked. Then click OK ...
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Photoshop interpolates pixels. This means when you scale in Photoshop, Photoshop uses mathematical algorithms to determine either the best pixels to remove (if reducing) or the best color pixels to add (if enlarging). When you scale a raster image in Photoshop you alter the pixels of the image itself.
Illustrator does not interpolate pixels. Illustrator ...
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Just a few simple rotate and duplicate steps. Working from the center point and rotating around it, starting with a line segment on either the left or right.
The longest line would be drawn as a horizontal then rotated and duplicated at 45° four times. For precision, make the two dots on the first line, then delete the extra for the two diagonals.
The ...
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There's also a paid one here. It says it's available for Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure, Keynote and PowerPoint, and the Illlustrator single license is apparently something like $24.
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In the restricted case where a rectangular array would suffice, you might speed things up using Effects > Distort and Transform > Transform. If you use Copies and adjust only the Horizontal move, you can quickly create a row that fits the sheet. Repeat the effect on the vertical to fill the grid, then Expand Appearance to create discreet objects. The ...
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Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds
This will resize the artboard to match the size of the art.
Be aware, this command does not "see" effects items which may alter the boundaries of artwork. For example, a fill which has an effect applied to it that makes it move outside its containing path or a stroke aligned to the outside of a path, or a drop ...
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This is easily accomplished by simply adding an additional stroke to the path via the Appearance Panel.
Group the two lines, then add a new stroke in the Appearance Panel and ensure the new stroke is above the Contents item in the panel.
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In Illustrator,
File > Export... >
Format: Photoshop (psd), Use Artboards, All
The Color Mode must match the color mode used for the document (my guess is this is what you are doing differently)
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It's not difficult, there must be a few ways to do it, but this is how I'd do it:
Create a new layer and draw the rectangles first using the Rectangle Tool. You can start with a single shape and then duplicate it. Elements with the same opacity can be merged, but if you need some with some opacity, keep those separated.
Once you are happy with your '2D' ...
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Simply put, you can't.
Illustrator offers no ability to connect objects beyond grouping them or compound shapes. Neither groups nor compound shapes will offer the dynamic ability to move objects similar to Visio.
I am not even aware of any plug-ins for Illustrator which will allow this. It simply can not be done in Illustrator.
Anchors need to be ...
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Also, for the curved lines:
Make a path with the desired curvature using the pen tool
Right click > stroke path (make sure you're using an appropriate brush, and don't stimulate pressure)
Use the same perspective distort Yisela used for the grid until you have the desired image. You could also do some light burning/dodging (or any other contrast tool) to ...
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Well, there's not rule saying you can't use a png image as a background. The problem is that, for a business card, you will probably be working in 300 ppi. This means the image you see on your screen is around 4 times the size of what will actually be printed.
If you use the png patter as it is, yes, you will loose the details. I'd suggest you choose a ...
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I'm answering my own question, since I found a solution.
Based on Scott's suggestion (in a comment to the question) to use scripting, I found a script that helps export each layer as a raster image. The script, called "Batch Export Unlocked Layers" is written by John Wundes. The script is hundreds of lines and too long to post here but I'll link to the ...
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The actual fanning looks like layered transparency. Meaning, you maybe start with a rectangle, cut it down to size, and make more on top until you are fully opaque.
I'd look into the Draw Inside feature in Illustrator. That way, you create your fanned look and then cut and paste the shape(s) into whatever shape.
I'll try and expand this answer later, but I ...
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If you merely want independent, unconnected lines, use the Line Segment Tool in Illustrator.
If you are trying to create a complete shape with the pen tool, you do not want each segment to be an independent line. You want the lines connected. Simply click to start, click again when you wish to change direction, click-drag when you wish to create a curve.
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Here's my take..... and a little mini-tutorial.
(If you right click on the image above and choose "Open image in new Tab/Window" you can see it a bit larger)
Save for web reduction does some odd appearance things to the diagonals, but they are all spaced evenly and dont' change color mid-stream like they appear to.
Be aware, creating too many tartan ...
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There are a bunch of lines patterns included with Illustrator, but they are a little hidden within the Swatch Libraries menu:
Select one you like. You can then rotate the pattern with the Rotate tool. You can double click on the Rotate tool and uncheck "Objects" so that only the pattern is rotated:
Then use multiple fills with a blending mode to color ...
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No tricks, just basic shapes.
Draw a line grid
Create your square
Clip the lines with the square
Apply a background color to the square
Dupe it and create your pattern.
Here's how I prefer to go about #1
Draw a horizontal line (or shallow rectangle, sometimes easier for pixel alignment)
Apply a Transform effect to create the other lines and their ...
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There's diferent ways to do it, you can:
Create a press ready PDF and import it to corel. (make sure to
convert the text to outsides and unchek the "embed" option)
This 2nd method will depend on what verions you have of both
softwares, but in CorelDraw you can easily go to "Import" and select
"PS Interpreted" and select the AI file. Note that you might ...
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Without seeing the art, it's a bit difficult to give exact direction. However you should be able to do the following:
Select the Mesh.
Choose Object > Path > Offset Path and insert a value of 0.
This will create a new object which matches the outline of the mesh shape exactly.
If you need objects for each internal part of the mesh, John's ...
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Why jump to Photoshop to do the layout? If you're creating the art in Illustrator to begin with, stick with Illy. It's much more fit to the task. You can place your art as links or just maintain your styles all in one doc (presuming your application isn't too large).
A [painful] work-around to make Photoshop do unnatural things is variables. You would only ...
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As someone that had quite a bit of work done with coding up SVGs exported from AI (One example), I can tell that the issue is AI doesn't export SVGs in a format fit for the web. Not fully at least.
When using SVGs generated with AI, I had to always massage positions somewhat to maintain proportions originally seen while drawing on AI. As for anything ...
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Having worked in the print industry for close to 20 years, I usually will import the image, unscaled, into AI, get it to the size I want, then, using the data from the links panel, I open the image in PS, rotate/scale it to the specs from AI, save it with a different name, then replace the link in AI. Hope this helps!
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Copy original shape
paste behind
move pasted shape so it is offset from original shape
fill pasted shape with pattern
adjust edges of pasted shape to align with original path.
TIP
You never need to create a diagonal line pattern in Illustrator. Simply create a vertical or horizontal line pattern, then apply it to a shape and use Object > Transform > ...
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Could surely be done with the pen tool and pathfinder tool in illustrator.
It would be much easier to use a layer mask in photoshop however.
That said, if you're creating a new, important logo, for anything other than a one off website, you're better off not taking short cuts and refining every detail of the logo in illustrator so you have it as a vector ...
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I don't think this is possible. What you're seeking is a sort of "rubber band" preview similar to Photoshop. Illustrator simply doesn't have that or anything similar.
There are third party plug in which do this, but this alone wouldn't be enough reason to purchase third party items. At least not in my opinion. Astutegraphics.com has InkScribe which is part ...
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That kind of effect is sometimes described as 'particles'. Effects like it on a large scale are often created using particle generators in rendering software like those in Adobe After Effects, 3D software or in HTML5.
In a logo, however, it's more likely to be done by hand in regular design software, for fine control - but the term is sometimes still used ...
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To some degree this can be accomplished via scripting and Illustrator. Check THIS THREAD at Adobe.com. NOTE; it seems the link in the thread to version 1.2 of the script is broken. However the link to version 1.1 earlier in the thread still seems to work.
User Jongware has written a script for Illustrator which fills shapes with various sized circles. ...
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Scripting could make this...
Much faster: If you load from the same source files (swatch files or directly from AI docs) repeatedly. The script would load each set of swatches with your involvement simply being to invoke the script.
Marginally faster: If you have to load from different files each time. Targeting the "other" entry in the panel menu is a ...
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Here is what I did in CS3:
Draw a curve with the pen tool.
Go to Effect > 3D > Revolve
X axis(red) = 0, Y axis (green) = -180, rotation (blue) = 0
Click OK
My version isn't pretty, but with a few tweaks you can get it to what you need.
I don't have enough rep to post the screenshots I took for you, but I think this should get you started.
PS -
There is ...
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