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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Giving a vector shape a rough edge without manipulating anchor points
I’m looking to give my very smooth vector drawing a hand-drawn style.
When I say this, I don’t mean applying a texture over the top of the whole vector (like this).
A technique that would produce ...
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How to sample actual color of an area in illustrator?
When I place a few objects one over another, each with different colors and transparencies, so that they all overlap somewhere, how would I measure the color on this overlapping area? Similar to the ...
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How to draw a precise circular arc in Adobe Illustrator?
Say, an arc with radius r centered at o, from angle a to angle b.
I don't see how to use Arc tool in Adobe Illustrator this way. What's the best way to draw it?
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Illustrator align to object without moving one of them
This is super frustrating feature that I can't overcome. I often want to align one object to another, without moving the one I'm aligning to. I've tried selection, key object but it keeps moving both ...
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Grid is not zeroed in Illustrator
I have a document with several artboards (7), which I resized, but now my grid (cmd–") is not centered or zeroed correctly (please see photo). I need to adjust the elements on the artboards, and I ...
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How can I easily move multiple artboards in Illustrator?
All artboards in my current project are organized according to page and iteration. As I'm adding more and more, I've come to the edge of the workable area in Illustrator.
I'd rather not break my ...
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is there a way to add hyperlinks in a Illustrator document?
I am creating a CV in Illustrator and exporting it to a PDF. I just read an article which stated that it is a good idea that we use hyperlinks in the CV so that the employer can just click and not ...
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Why are there unwanted white lines appearing in a PDF print proof?
I designed a christmas card and I normally print it on vista print.
When I ask for a print proof the outlines show. They don’t show when I print it at home.
Why are there unwanted white lines ...
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How to export Illustrator layers as individual images?
I have an Illustrator file that contains patterns. I'd like to export each pattern as an individual image to use in this new program that I'm trying called Sketch. Is there a batch processing script ...
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Why does Helvetica [Neue] look absolutely horrible in Illustrator?
Helvetica has always looked horrible in Illustrator CS4+ on my Mac, including all OS versions, regardless of size or units. Below are screenshots of Helvetica at 12px, 24px, and 36px.
Is there a way ...
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Create more than one artboard when document is already saved?
I'm already working with an artboard, but i need two more, how can I add additional artboards to my document in Illustrator?
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How to fill in areas surrounded by line segments?
I have a rectangular shape and I added an "extension area" to it with several line segments and closed it back to the rectangle.
Specifically, I clicked on an anchor point off a corner of the ...
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Removing One Part Of A Stroke On A Rectangle In Illustrator CS5
Is it possible to remove on side of a stroke on a rectangle?
Let's say you have a rectangle with a stroke all the way around it and I want one end of the rectangle to be 'open' and take the stroke ...
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Apply a text background color in Adobe Illustrator CS6
I'd like to highlight titles in my text like this:
I'm doing that by adding a blue rectangle behind the text, but every time I change the text which is 16 pages long I have to go and move the ...
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How do I disable or hide the pink background on missing fonts
How do I disable or hide the pink background on missing fonts? I do not care that the fonts are missing. I do not want to install the fonts. I do not want to replace the fonts in the file; I want to ...
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Custom stroke caps in Illustrator?
First post here!
What I'm trying to accomplish looks fairly simple but so far I've had no luck in finding a way to accomplish it. Essentially I want to create custom stroke caps (or strke profiles if ...
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Export Artboards to separate PDFs (Illustrator)
I was wondering if there's a way in Illustrator CC to export artworks containing multiple artboards, to multiple single-paged .pdf files, as Illustrator already does for images like .jpg files.
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copy object as a reference
Is it possible to copy an object in Illustrator so that if you make a change in any of them the changes will apply in both? Actually I have this situation where I have a lot of instances of the same ...
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How do I avoid lines at top and left borders of png files exported from Illustrator
When I export Illustrator artwork as a png file, I get a one pixel grey border at the top and left edges.
There is no background object, but I export (Save for Web and Devices) with matte white ...
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Tools for making infographics
What are the best tools for producing infographics - attractive displays that combine graphs, diagrams and text to convey a lot of information succinctly. I'm interested in both web-viewable content ...
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Illustrator equivalent to Photoshop's skew tool
In Photoshop the skew tool allows you to move each corner of the object being skewed independently. Is there an equivalent in Illustrator? Envelope distort seems overkill and harder to achieve the ...
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How to best convey a rounded corners for pseudo-depth in Illustrator?
I want to create a piece of wood. Think of a 2x4 with some pseudo-depth.
Using Illustrator I create the simple appearance of depth using two objects — a light and dark object. The dark object is ...
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How would you create this geometric logo?
Is it as simple as creating a circle and doing step and repeat at an angle?
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How to align rotated shape back to 0 degrees?
I have a "rotation" issue with Illustrator. I've rotated some shape which has no horizontal component which I could align to guide, so I have no idea how to rotate the shape back to 0 degrees. In the ...
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How can I change hue of a vector image that has many colors?
How can I change color of this vector in Illustrator? Each triangle is different. I want it to be in other color tones like brown, grey etc.
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Scaling rounded corners in Illustrator [duplicate]
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How can I resize this object without distorting it ?
I've created a rounded-corner triangle in Illustrator by creating a triangle and then doing Effect>Stylize>Round Corners. ...
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How to extract PNGs from Adobe Illustrator file
My graphic/web designer left me with an Adobe Illustrator file of my website. She said it would be easy to extract the images out as PNGs so I can use them in my HTML. But I can't figure this out too ...
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Toggling Bounding Box and Transform Controls in Illustrator
I apologize if this has been covered a thousand times, but I'm new to AI and I don't even know the technical terms of these things to find anything in Google, I've been trying.
When you select an ...
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Why do triangles do this with alignment
I know that a triangle's mathematical center is not it's "visual" center, meaning it doesn't look good when aligned using the align tool, you have to use alternative methods. (Such as creating the ...
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How to use the color picker along the gradient tool in illustrator?
How can I color picker for the gradient tool to sample a color? It seems the color picker does not work like photoshop does where you can pick a color from the existing canvas, but have to know either ...
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Illustrator: copying an artboard to a new document
I have a document with dozens of artboards. I would like to copy a single artboard into a new document, preserving its content and dimensions. What's the easiest way to do this?
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What unique benefits does the EPS format provide?
Reading this excellent question regarding logo export formats, and it made me want to ask a question that was a little bit more narrowly focused than that one.
I know when to use a GIF and when to ...
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How can I open a Corel Draw file in Adobe Creative Suite?
I received some CorelDRAW files, and need to open them, preferably in Illustrator. But anything from the Adobe suit will do.
I do not have CorelDRAW and I have a Mac, is there a way to convert them?
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Distorting a layer to fit shape
I have a rectangular image which I'd like to distort so that it fits into a shape. I can almost do it using "Distort", but I need to move more than just the corners, which is all I can seem to do ...
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How to keep only the visible parts of the every object/path of a SVG image? Like "flatten" all the SVG
I have an SVG image with many objects, stacked. What I need is a final SVG, with the same visual result, but in a way that I could change the opacity of any object without revealing the hidden parts ...
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Designing A Website from Scratch – Illustrator or Photoshop?
If I'm designing a website from scratch and I intend to slice it and code it up in Adobe Dreamweaver later, should I create the design of the website in Illustrator or Photoshop? Why?
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How can I create a tight spiral shape? (Archimedean spiral)
I'm trying to create something similar to this example:
What tool should I use, or is it just squares and circles attached together?
Great if you know a tutorial for this effect.
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How do I create this circle pattern in illustrator?
This is what I want to create.
This is what I've created so far.
Now I don't know how to merge 6 circles like above.
Any ideas, Please?
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Illustrator: how to create a spirograph?
I am trying to create a spirograph in Illustrator, as per attachment. How do I do this? Where do I start?
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How to crop an image in Illustrator?
I've read a few tutorials but I'm still new to Illustrator. Currently, I am trying to work with a sketch that I am trying to position on the artboard. If I were to resize the entire shape the sketch ...
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What file type should I use for a logo when exporting from Adobe Illustrator?
I'm a fine artist, new to Adobe Illustrator. I'm in the process of designing a logo for a company using Illustrator. What type of file should I send them when all is completed, so they can use this ...
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Is this curved text blend possible in Illustrator?
I've started playing around in illustrator and came to a full stop when I tried to find a way to create a side curve to a text blend (cause I don't know the limitations of the blend tool)
Here's ...
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How would I recreate this effect of text that seems to flow over a flight of stairs?
Is there nondestructive way of achieving the wavy type effect, found below?
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SVG export from Illustrator CC distorts paths
I'm trying to create some icons to add to the Glyphicons library.
I've created them using the pen tool (shapes) in Adobe Illustrator CC, they're ultra-basic. As PNG, or EPS they export fine. ...
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how to change the workspace color window from RGB to CMYK mode in Illustrator CS5.1?
I'm using Illustrator CS5.1 and started a new document in RGB mode. When I change the color mode to CMYK under File > Document Color Mode > CMYK Color, the Color window in my workspace doesn't ...
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Adobe Illustrator: Creating an helix
Can someone help me create a spiral (helix) similar to the one shown in the image? How might this be done except from drawing the curves perfectly by hand?
I achieved the desired result, but very ...
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Illustrator CC: Turn off align objects to pixel grid
I have inadvertently created an illustration with the align new objects to pixel grid turned on (not sure why it was on, I did not know or ever turn it on) and want to now scale the image. When I ...
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Why are all my colors dull in Illustrator CS6?
I just installed Creative Suite 6 on my computer. I was working on some artwork for a client in Illustrator and having a hard time getting the right colors. I noticed they were all very dull. So I did ...
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How to repeat a gradient multiple times in Illustrator and Photoshop?
How to repeat a gradient 'n' times, for example, repeating black to white gradient 5 times (along the path of stroke) like I've done manually in below example image.
Is there a way to automate it to ...
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How to set keyboard shortcut to run script in Illustrator
Is there a way to setup a keyboard shortcut to run a custom script in Illustrator? So far I haven't found a way. If this is not possible to do from within Illustrator, is there a 3rd party solution ...
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