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No. But, you can make a hotkey for it.
From top menu: Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.. ( Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K )
Just select Palette menus from the drop down list and then Animations. Once you've given a hotkey press Accept.
( Make sure to listen to photoshop when it warns you if the inserted hotkey combination would override any existing ones. You can try to use ...
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Illustrator has horizontal and vertical scale options just like Photoshop. But because Adobe are... special... they thought it would be fun to hide a lot of their settings and leave no clue that they are there.
Open up the flyout menu with the button at the top right of the character settings window. Choose "Show options", which is Adobe speak for "Stop ...
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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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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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Assuming there isn't a reason why it has to be the Google-copyrighted maps you use, I'd use OpenStreetMap for this (the open source wikipedia-style Google Maps alternative).
They're virtually identical but with three clear benefits in this case:
They have a step-by-step guide on exporting to Illustrator. There isn't a simple process (more below), but it ...
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The simple answer is: No.
I have asked Adobe to add the feature. If you'd like to see it, please vote here:
Photoshop: It would be good if the roundrect vector tool corner radius was editable during and after drawing
And now some good news. David Jensen has written a nice little script to help. It's not perfect (doesn't handle multiple shapes on the ...
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So it's just two adjustment layers you need to add? I'd create an action to add them, then use a batch (File → Automate → Batch) to process all the original files. You can include a Save For Web command in the Action to save them to a known location, as well.
Should be a fairly quick job to set up, and it also shouldn't take long to stomp through 138 or ...
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Blends won't work for what you are after. The reason is you're looking to get artwork to align to basically one side of a path. Blends align to the center of paths in all cases. And, as you've discovered, blends don't rotate artwork based on their spine. Blends only rotate artwork if the artwork creating the blend is rotated.
First: Use this basic technique ...
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As for fitting text boxes to text.. see the script in your first question link. That's the only method I'm aware of.
The fill issue is MUCH easier to solve.
select the area text with the Selection Tool (black arrow)
Add a new fill via the Appearance Panel
set fill color and drag the fill below the Characters item in the Appearance Panel
With the fill ...
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Have you tried using compound paths? Select all of your paths that you'd like to combine, and select object > compound path > make. Alternatively, the keyboard shortcut is command+8 (ctl+8 for windows) This will definitely allow you to apply the gradient across the entire set of paths.
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I believe this is what you're after. I've always thought it a strange practice but, Adobe has provided it's own fonts directory going back a long way.
Windows Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts
Mac OS Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts
I believe some font managers also allow you to activate a set of fonts based on application.
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This behavior has been around for ages.
Only solution that I know of, is to change the image layer into a Background layer before resizing.
From the top menu: Layer > New > Layer from background
Flattening also merges everything into one Background layer. It might be better for some situations.
From the top menu: Layer > Flatten image
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Undefined: If you are talking about converting a Bitmap Layer to a 3D Preset (Mesh From Preset > Cylinder), I believe you'll need to start with an image that is 3:2 (width:height) so that it will wrap around the cylinder with minimal distortion.
This means that you'll need to adjust your artwork to fit by either adjusting your master or by padding out the ...
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The guides option is not selectable because you have no guides created.
To create guides:
Your rulers are already activated, but if they weren't you'd press Ctrl + R to show them.
Click on the ruler and drag it out to wherever you want the guide to go.
Now go back to your dialog. Guides is no longer grayed out.
This is a pretty basic topic...In the ...
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According to what I understand from your question, the Illustrator file has the letters in curves or outlines, and not in text. This means all information about the font has been lost, and you only have a "drawing" of the letters. So it won't let you edit them.
If this is the case, you will need to re-add a text layer in Illustrator, with the russian ...
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Go to brush panel, Select Shape Dynamics, Select Fade as the Control type of Size Jitter.By increasing the length of the Fade you can control the how quickly it transitions from thickest to thinnest point. Having this approximate the length of the line you are stroking will likely yield best results. Additionally the Minimum Diameter can be set to ensure ...
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Download the psd here click on the blue-button.psd text in top left corner
Its all done with gradients, inner shadow for the highlight at the top and for the shadow round the edge i used a bevel. You can download the psd above ^. Its all a little off just were a picked random colors from the jpeg.
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Make sure guides aren't locked: View → Guides → Lock Guides
Select the guide, right click on it, Release Guides OR you can do Alt + Ctrl + 5 (Windows)
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I'd go about this by working with an ignorable artboard, then create an artboard that fits the artwork when the work is done, like this:
Create a document with an artboard that is either way too big (5779.55mm seems to be the max), or way too small (0.36mm seems to be the minimum), and ignore the artboard when working. If you're working with a tiny ...
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I don't know if you got this problem solved, it was bounced to the top on the front page. But in any case, try to disable JPEG support for Camera Raw
From Adobe forum:
You'll need to disable JPEG support for Camera Raw
Photoshop: Edit(Win)/Photoshop(Mac) > Preferences > File Handling: click [Camera Raw Preferences...]
Camera Raw ...
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Select the paths as you normally would using Shift-click with the black arrow path tool, then Ctl-C to copy and Ctl-V to paste. There's no need to use any other modifier keys.
If you want to copy multiple paths within the shape layer by Alt-dragging, press Alt, start to drag, then add Shift to constrain the movement.
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Good question.
Best answer I can give without seeing the actual files is....... Possibly.
If you work in CS6, then save to CS5 or any previous version (legacy) you can find the files have changed. Appearances can be flattened or expanded when saving to legacy formats.
For example, the Gaussian Blur was updated in Illustrator CS6 (and vastly improved). ...
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When creating the second circle start your click-drag and then hold down the shift; that should constrain the proportions without creating a second shape (if you start with the shift button held down Illustrator thinks you're trying to add to the shape you want to subtract).
To remove one shape from another; select both shapes, make sure the shape you want ...
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Select what you want
Ctrl + G (Group Selection)
Ctrl + C (Copy)
Ctrl + N (New file)
Ctrl + V (Paste)
File > Save for Web & Devices then on the right switch .JPG to .PNG, then you also want to uncheck at the very bottom under the .PNG options where it says "Clip to Artboard"
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Try the following:
Select the layer you want to copy.
CTRL+J to duplicate it.
Right-click the new layer and select Rasterize Layer Style.
CTRL+ click the shape icon in the new layer in the layer palette to select it and press DELETE to keep just the effect.
EDIT: Missed the part about the color overlay, my answer works for the drop shadow and other ...
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Things changed slightly in Photoshop CS6 from CS5.
To move a vector mask from a layer to another, hold command and drag the layer thumbnail from one layer to another.
To copy a vector mask from a layer to another, hold command-option and drag the layer thumbnail from one layer to another.
The same technique also works with groups, so you can move or copy ...
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Snapping has nothing to do with the Ctrl key, at least not in Illustrator. Items either snap or not based on preferences and view menu settings. The Ctrl (or Command for Mac users) does not alter snap behavior in any way, never has in Illustrator. I sorely wish it did.
You may need to turn on Snap to Point, Snap to Grid, or Smart Guides in the View Menu and ...
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I figured it out based on this post: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/758287.
I had Rightzoom running in the background and once I turned it off, all was well. I hope this helps anyone else and thanks for your help @tehMacDawg.
Whew!
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I'm not quite sure what's going on in your document but I have a theory from my previous experience:
This situation can happen if you place an uncropped spread-sized box or file on your first or last page. When InDesign creates a booklet imposition it sometimes may overlay the front cover with the uncropped part of the back cover.
If my theory has anything ...
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Certain objects will not allow the stroke alignment options. Type is one of these objects. While creating outlines of type objects may work in some instances. I, myself, prefer to keep type live whenever possible.
In order to move a stroke applied to a type objects, simply do things how they were done prior to the stroke alignment options being added - with ...
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