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Actually if you want an automatic pure replication of the raster image, there's an even easier way than both these just in Illustrator... with a selected copied or placed (unlinked) image:
Object > Create Object Mosaic (in older versions of Illustrator, it was Filter > Create > Mosaic)
Input the exact width and height under "Number of tiles". ...
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I'd do this in Illustrator, because it's a lot easier than Photoshop for this particular task, especially if you want to maintain full edibility and easy control over font, leading and be able to paste text in for all labels.
Step 1 — Draw a text box.
Draw a text box, paste your text in, set a vague font, size and leading, and right align your text.
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Not much different from KMSTR's answer, but I'll say it anyways.
Select the same original circle.
Then from the top menu: Object > Path > Offset path. ( In this case you only need to worry about the "offset" box, and you might want to enable preview as well. )
Select the offset path and swap the fill color with the outline color.
If you want to ...
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My example is not a perfect, but you can take it as guideline for your logo-training. I hope this help you.
1) Create a new text layer
2) Take a pen tool and draw two lines so together they are looking like "a"
3) Turn text layer off, we don't need it anymore
4) Take "Ellipse Tool" and draw some ellipses. Now turn brushes window on. Select all the ...
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Pixelapse comes pretty close.
Here's what they offer:
Public gallery
Downloadable source (e.g., PSD, AI, etc.)
Revision history
Commenting and annotations
Dropbox-like saving behavior
Here's what they don't have:
Licensing information for public works
Explicit "fork" behavior and "pull" requests
Here's a sample I added to try it out: ...
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Edit: Thanks to Supamike in this question about this problem in Photoshop there's what looks like a simpler solution that also works in Illustrator: type or copy your text into the top box on http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/, then copy and paste the output text in the bottom box into Illustrator, and it seems to keep the joins correctly ...
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I believe this is as close as you can get.
(To see the Appearance panel better in this image, right-click [Win] or Control-click [Mac] and choose Open Image in New Tab/Window)
Top fill is a red and black gradient. Both color stops are at the 50% location creating a straight line between the two colors.
The two fills below the characters use Effect > ...
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Click and hold the Rectangle tool until the sub tools pop up.
Select the Polygon tool
Click just once on the artboard and an options window will appear.
Enter the number of sides you want and the general size (Radius) and click OK.
Select the Selection Tool (The Black Arrow) and hold down the Shift and Option/Alt Key. Click-drag the triangle downward. ...
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Ok, so I figured out one way to do this effect.
I started with the original photo in Photoshop (I used the Wikimedia photo of Alan Turing)
I then adjusted the contrast and levels to make the photo more dramatic for the halftoning effect later:
I added a Gaussian blur (about 5 pixels) to the photo and saved it to be placed into illustrator. Remember fo ...
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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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Blend modes over transparency will not maintain appearance.
Basically the Multiply blend mode means nothing when you import it into Illustrator. Therefore you get a grey shadow which does not interact with anything behind it in Illustrator.
When you set a layer to a blend mode other than Normal in Photoshop, that layer calculates how the pixels should ...
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Illustrator has no animation set up specifically. There's no structure to interpret existing animation or video within Illustrator.
In fact, the only places Illustrator even remotely addresses any sort of animation is in the ability to build layers in a sequence, and to export to swf format (Flash).
Illustrator can not interpret a video file in any way. ...
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In reality, since the implementation of multiple artboards in Illustrator the reason for using Indesign compared to Illustrator changed a bit. Pre CS4 the immediate reason was a single Indesign document rather than separate documents for each page with Illustrator.
Nowadays, there are still reasons one may prefer Indesign over Illustrator but, similar to ...
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This was probably drawn in Illustrator. My guess with this one is the text FBTO is a clipping mask making everything outside of it transparent. In a layer underneath it looks like they have made a layer with a gradient mesh. They've manipulated the mesh to create a rainbow effect and, as part of this effect, its become distorted a bit to created that ...
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Pattern brush.
Draw 1 light and create a rectangle around it with no fill and no
stroke. Move the rectangle behind the light artwork.
Drag all that to the Symbols Panel to create a symbol of it. (This
step just makes editing the light easier later, and is not
mandatory. To edit the light later, just double-click the Symbol in
the Symbol Panel.).
Now ...
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Simply use Live Color, or as it's listed in the application, Recolor Artwork.
Select the art
Choose Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork (or click the button on the control bar)
Choose 1 under "colors"
Double-click the little color box under "New", the color picker will pop up
select your grey
Click OK
If you want all the items to match the same grey, ...
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Your monitor (or any monitor) uses pixels to display anything. It's not possible for you to see anything on a screen unless pixels are used to display it. This is where you are seeing the pixels. Until some company somewhere invents a monitor which uses vector data to display content, you will need to become accustomed to pixels in every image. I wouldn't ...
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Click the S or B options to the right and then adjust the vertical slider. This will retain the hue but allow you to alter saturation or brightness.
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At that size, for png or gif, I'd strongly suggest a different font. Such as what is known as a "pixel font". These are designed to not use anti-aliasing and appear legible at very small sizes.
One great place to get pixel fonts is FontsForFlash.com
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That happened because you connected the two vertical lines, giving an extreme small angle, resulting in a very pointy tip. You could change the corner appearance in the stroke palette (e.g. round) to adress this. But you really only need to connect them if you want to draw a shape.
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Using File → Save for Web and entering the dimensions will do what you're after. Also, Illustrator uses vector scaling, so the results are better than if you tried the same thing in Photoshop — entering dimensions that don't match the document in Photoshop means the image will be bitmap scaled.
Please note that you have to click Apply after changing the ...
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In Illustrator, there are two ways to control your basic block of text:
Point Type object: Select the Type tool, click on the artboard, then press Paste.
Area Type object: Select the Type tool, click and drag on the artboard to create a text box, and then paste the text into there.
You've been doing number one; number two should get the behavior that ...
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With Area Text, you need to use the bounding box handles to resize the area text box. Any other scale or transform tool will alter text as well.
You can also use the Direct Selection tool (White arrow) to click and drag the side of an area text box.
And Brendan's answer absolutely applies as well.
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A very strange favicon file (atleast for me) where one single file contains 3 different sized images
Regarding how this is possible, according to wikipedia: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_%28file_format%29 )
An ICO or CUR file is made up of an ICONDIR ("Icon directory")
structure, containing an ICONDIRENTRY structure for each image in the
file[...]
(emphasis is mine)
Header
ICONDIR structure
Offset# Size (in bytes) Purpose
0 2 ...
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If I understand what you are asking, this is what you want to do.you have a bunch of paths creating an image and you need to slice the image with a line.
so here is an image and we want to cut it on that black line.
And we want this (two movable parts).
To do this:
You should group all your paths.
Duplicate and move it (you will need to move it ...
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Look around for the Audit space usage ... option (explained here). In newer versions it is oddly hidden under Save as > Optimized PDF. That will tell you exactly where the bloat is coming from. You can also use the Optimized PDF option to crank the size down in very targeted ways.
Given the big before/after shift, the culprit is probably the image you're ...
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Take a picture of some 'grunge' or scan in some 'grunge'. Crank the contrast up in Photoshop to make a black/white image. Bring that into your vector illustration tool and auto-trace it.
Then take your letters, join them into one object. Take your grunge, join that into one object. Then use pathfinder tools to 'punch' the grunge out of your letters.
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Simply use the Direct Selection Tool (the white arrow) to click the two inner anchors and hit delete.
It merely takes an extra step. Not everything is possible with a single click.
You will notice however, with your current method the ends of the open section will be angled on the circle's arc. They will not be square as in your desired example.
If you ...
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