Questions tagged [adobe-illustrator]
Questions about Illustrator, Adobe's vector digital file editing, creation application and tools. Ask anything related to designing graphics with Illustrator.
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How to make a part of a shape to have a specific width, while preserving the overall ratio?
As shown in the image, I have a blue phone icon, and I wish to have the width of the handset (red line) to match the width of the white rectangle (yellow line). How can I do this, while preserving the ...
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Transfer files from illustrator to indesign
I have a big issue. I created a brand book on Illustrator as it was initially easier to work with vectors. It is now 120 pages as it is constantly evolving, and I now need to transfer everything to ...
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How to achieve a controlled swirl pattern that conforms to a sphere?
In Adobe Illustrator, how can one recreate the eyeball in this image? The best method I have is to create a stack of parallel lines (alternating black and white, evenly sized, evenly spaced) and warp ...
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Why do I get strange artifacts in Illustrator? [duplicate]
I am drawing with pen tool, and 1 pt size stroke without fill.
When I draw a palm, for example, I use shape builder + to tell illustrator what is what, I use gradient fill, I remove stroke, and ...
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Is there a drawing app that lets me export single-line vectors to Illustrator? Looking for unexpanded strokes
I'm looking for an app for tablet that will let me draw lines with a stylus that I can later continue to edit in illustrator. All apps that I have seen until now will convert every stroke into an area ...
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How can you extract a vector from a bitmap image?
I am not very good at Photoshop; however, my goal is to "extract" black lines from each forest as you can see here. My supervisor would like me to update them in GIS (Geographic Information ...
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Illustrator: I need an 'Average points by distance' script
I'm currently working on a path that was once a pattern with multiple loose ends. I'm unable to pathfinder>unite it since it's a "lines only" shape.
As you can see, it's a very complex ...
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How to bend object A the way object B is bent?
Few days I am having a problem to understand how one logo is created.
I tried recreating it in Illustrator and Photoshop, but I failed.
This is the logo
What gives me a problem is how to get down ...
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How do I maintain equal distance between the 2 paths in adobe illustrator?
I am trying to keep the distance uniform between these 2 black lines. It is difficult to do manually.
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Exporting a shape and a circle
How can I take an arbitrary shape in Illustrator and move all the points outward until they fit a circle. I was looking at blend shapes, but what I really need to export a version of the shape that ...
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Bevel and emboss / inner shadow: How can I apply that same shading to the whole shape
I have a deadline tonight and am struggling with this task.
I generally followed this YouTube video, but worked on a white background instead. I copied the figure multiple times and scaled it down. ...
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Elementary Question (Graphic Design)
Why do designers separate out letters in Adobe Illustrator? I can't seem to find the answer. I know it's an elementary design question but what is the design function behind separating them out? This ...
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How do i apply a gradient to a bevelled letter S in Illustrator?
I tried to add a gradient to a bevelled S but there are so many gradient line stuff to change it gets irritating. Is there a way I can just change it with one gradient setting line thing?
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How to create invisible border line between two objects that are touching?
So, I have several objects that are touching. I want to create an invisible borderline between them. I know I could just move the object apart but then I lose the the right position of the object. Is ...
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Anchor points were lost while copying and pasting glyphs from one TTF file to another using Font Forge
I am copying the glyph from a ttf file of the same emsize 1024 to another ttf file. I get an Anchor lost popup saying that at least one anchor point is lost while copying the glyph. How do I fix this? ...
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3D-Engraving into Wooden surface
I want to engrave a geometric shape into a wooden surface even deeper and deeper down. It should create an effect of "infinity" and the optical illusion should be created that the form is ...
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How do I create a symmetrical blob?
I am new to illustrator, sorry if this is basic. How do I create those weird blobs from Animal Crossing? I am struggling to make them symmetrical horizontally and vertically.
Also, I would like to ...
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Can anyone describe to me what is happening in this AI file? Jagged edges, non vector?
I'm not exactly sure of how to even describe this, but have attached screenshots from the Illustrator file a friend sent me, so that I could quickly change the colors of a logo for her. This file came ...
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Issues with SVG Export from Adobe Illustrator: Unwanted Artifacts Appearing
I've been experiencing some issues while exporting drawing fields from Adobe Illustrator to SVG format. When I export certain elements, the resulting SVG occasionally displays spots that resemble mold ...
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Are isometric grids vertically matching points at 90deg?
This is a continuation of a question about how some points are not aligning. I am using the same tutorial as them, and I do not have snap-to-pixel on. However, I check the points of each corner to see ...
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How do I un-merge a shape layer in photoshop
How do I un-merge a shape layer in photoshop that was copied from illustrator as a group, but when I paste the grouped shapes in photoshop as a shape layer, It becomes merged, and I cannot un-merge it ...
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How to achieve this style of digital paint?
I would like to know to in which way can I achive this style? Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop/procreate?
As you can see, it is looks like pen markers with Playing with pressure.
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Illustrator: can I change the edge of a stroke to give the shape i wanted to it
So im currently creating a font but i cant figure out how to allign the edge of my stroke with my guidline. As you can see in the image, I'm creating open path so i can change the width later (for ...
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How can I know the number of colors in a design?
So, I want to print packaging for my product. The owner of the printing press picks the colors in the design, and each color costs $80. Does that mean that I will use only 3 or 4 colors in the design? ...
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Halftone dotted shape with rotation
I am trying to make a rotated dotted shape like in the picture. I already succeeded creating the dotted pattern using the blend tool or make a halftone pattern. I am stuck now with the rotation in the ...
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Two shapes with the same color code look different
I am creating a simple logo and I find even though the stroke color is identical hex, they both do not look the same in the document as well as when exported to a png are different. Both are set to #...
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Illustrator text fill transparent over image effect
I'm trying to recreate an effect I've seen a few times where some text is placed over a background image, and the fill opacity over the background image is transparent but the fill of the rest of the ...
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Find Illustrator files with missing fonts without opening the files
I have over 2000 adobe illustrator files and some of them have missing fonts (i don't know which). Is it possible to search through the files without opening them in adobe illustrator to determine ...
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Is my logo kerned correctly?
Is my logo kerned correctly? Especially looking for the areas around the "A" and the "S".
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Replicate curved lines in Adobe Illustrator
I am trying to replicate the curved lines in this figure:
Using the curvature tool in Adobe Illustrator, I produced this:
How can I make the curves neat just like the original ones?
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Illustrator - Counters. Need to separate from letter - HOW?
I am working on a project and I need to separate the counters from the actual letter. I don't want to delete the counters - I just need to separate them. Please help me!!! MANY MANY thanks.
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Adobe Illustrator - Export list of positions and dimensions of vector objects with absolute positions
In previous CorelDraw user life, I had part of a 'workflow' where I needed to gather information on the height, width, and position of objects from a scaled diagram (think e.g., a technical drawing ...
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How to centralize an object that contains many shapes according to its mass or area?
In my view, the usual center page alignment of most of objects that contains more that one shape make it look a bit unbalanced and unnatural.
For example, the first image below looks very bad, the ...
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How do I achieve this effect the best way possible, using Illustrator?
I want to make what I did between the letters A and B but between the letters B and C. For the first one I used a tiny rectangle and I'm not sure if this is the correct and easiest way to do it as I'm ...
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Expand color range selections to up or down only
for example i selected some areas like following:
Now i want to expand above selections to following:
If have any trick or script for this, please provide here.
I hope you fully understand what I ...
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How do I cut in half a complex drawing in Adobe Illustrator?
I have drawn two faces for a logo in Adobe Illustrator and I want to cut them in half so I can put text in the middle. This is how I want it to look:
Currently, I have these two faces:
It's not ...
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Illustrator: Object inner irregular shadow question?
I've been trying to do the 'red shadows' in Illustrator for almost 2 days and I'm stuck. Can someone help? I saw a video that has a similar tutorial but they did it by hand, I don't think this is done ...
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Trying to make a solid shape out of this, but can't figure out how! (Adobe Illustrator 27.7)
I'm trying to figure out how to make the red lines (selection, not drawn) into a single form. Does anybody have any idea how to do that in Adobe Illustrator? Because right now, as the tree said to the ...
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Help creating a tie pattern in Illustrator
I'm trying to replicate the pattern of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tie from "Midnight in Paris" in Illustrator.
I thought it would be easy enough, but have tried a lot of things with the white ...
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How to choose the right colors for print in cmyk?
Hello I am creating this business card below:
So the green color I used for the icons is the same as of the logo which has these values below:
My question is, are the CMYK values ok?
I will be ...
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How do I interpolate curves in Illustrator?
Imagine a vectorialized typographic "C" which stroke width varies along the curve, as it often happens in typography.
I'd like to draw a curve between those two boundary curves in such a way ...
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Create a new illustrator document with callback options
I am totally new to javascript and extended script. I made a lot of tutorial to try to learn the right method and syntax but for several weeks I can't create the script I want.
The script is quite ...
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Illustrator changing my CMYK values even in a CMYK document
My illustrator is changing my cmyk colors and even swatches to random numbers, I was changing CMYK red to 98% yellow 97% magenta, and now worse, it changes cmyk black to 70%c, 67%m, 64%y, 74%k. Mind ...
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How to create a sign logo?
I was asked to create a logo like this, in the image below:
I guess it's called a sign logo.
I was only requested to do the design.
I created logos for digital use before, but I didn't create a logo ...
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How can I eliminate distortion of stroked object when numerically scaling in AI?
I have been using AI for 25 years, and this problem only recently presented itself: when numerically scaling an object that has a stroke, the object ends up distorted.
I’ve found that the object’s ...
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Creating a convex hull object that covers disjoint objects in Illustrator
I am trying to freeform gradient fill this implied curved teardrop. However, when I compound path the objects freeform gradient doesn't work (see image below). My next idea was to create an object ...
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How do I make thin lines visible in Illustrator?
For laser cutting, the stroke width of shapes must be very very thin. This makes it hard to see those lines in Illustrator.
I know that in Inkscape there is a setting for "visible hairlines"...
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fill pattern postion not same with pattern position
I created a pattern which is 4in x 1in.
I added it as a pattern.
In another layer, I draw a big rectangle and fill with the pattern.
Unfortunately, the fill in pattern was not the same position with ...
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12 inch jpg needs to be one inch but it is getting blurry and pixelated. Why would that happen?
Is the size difference just too much? I am resizing on Photoshop and it is not working. My client says that makes no sense and I need to just "do it". I know you can lose quality when making ...
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How do you use the blending tool on a curved object?
How would I go about blending straight lines into a curved object like this? I basically want to make a geometric feather with the lines beginning at the bottom vertex growing outwards towards the arc....
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