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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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Why my pen tool paths not divided?
Your path was not filled as you expected so either:
your newly drawn triangle wasn't actually touching the square, easily verifiable if you zoom in close enough. Just use the smart guides (View > Sm …
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Black outlines problem
Dear OP and other people opening Illustrator for the first time: Learn how to combine vector objects. This is a very basic Illustrator shape operation.
select all your shapes
select the Live Paint B …
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How do I create Warped arc text in Adobe Illustrator with better symmetry?
If you want to have better control over the text, use a text on a path. There you can rotate the text to get a better alignment.
Create an arc or ellipse, type your text on it, adjust.
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what is the difference between Group and union (pathfinder)
Hmm... neither?
To create a sunburst you can just use a circle and modify the stroke to be dashed...
Adjust the Dashed Line dash + gap to increase / reduce the number of "rays".
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Gradients - complex shape - Illustrator
The most flexible solution is a Pattern Brush. This is what joojaa meant with "the gradient does not need to be that path" - the gradient is simply a pattern applied to the path.
because Illustrator …
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Importing illustration into photoshop shows pixels
You'll get the best quality when you paste as shape. It looks like you could do it with your object, since it's monochromatic.
Make sure it's a compound object or group of objects without vector effe …
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How can I quickly hide or delete a layer in Illustrator without using the Layer Panel?
You can't find it because it doesn't exist. Your best bet is to record an Action and assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
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Illustrator: how to create a spirograph?
There's this excellent video tutorial that is far too long to explain here, but there are different ways to create continous-line spirographs in Illustrator.
TL/DR; create ellipses, rotate-duplicate …
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How to make animate line with an arrow in Adobe Animate CC
You might have to animate the parts separately. Sometimes shape tween deforms the objects into undesirable shapes.
Do your shape tween with the line, and on a separate layer do a motion tween with th …
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Illustrator: how to recreate a sun-shaped background shape?
One approach could be using a dashed stroke:
create a circle
add a very large stroke and remove the fill
in the stroke options, change the stroke to align outside
select Dashed Line, and add a bigge …
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blend with morphing
There are two elements that you can tweak to improve your blending: Line stroke and steps.
Increasing the line thickness will make the space between the lines smaller with the same amount of elements …
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How to draw a winding on a toroid of a circular cross section?
You're looking at this from the wrong perspective; Illustrator is not a 3D application. It has some (basic) 3D tools to help drawing, but it doesn't deal well with complex models or different material …
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How to make the middle selection point appear sooner?
You can't, there's no option to change that. This is how Illustrator works, and it's the type of feature you should suggest to Adobe themselves.
According to their blog, there are four ways that you …
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How does Illustrator calculate the "Fit to page" print option?
"Fit to page" will resize the output to fit the maximum printable area allowed by the printer on that paper. It simply scales it up or down depending on the image:paper size proportion.
If you want t …
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Why is a part of my font blacked out and how can I fix it?
TTF fonts can't have different color elements; all fills are going to show up as black.
You have to actually cut out that white circle from the object below using boolean operations (intersect for ex …