Adobe Illustrator – Creative COW Creating dynamic dots Joel Bellagamba replied 1 year, 2 months ago 3 Members · 1 Reply Illustrator Flare Effect on White Background – is this possible Kelly Sharples replied 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies Edit text on old ai file Brie Clayton replied 1 year, 4 months ago 3 Members · 16 Replies
Lines won’t join - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Lines will not join if the paths are in different groups Make sure they are on the same layer, not grouped and not turned into a compound object “Ungroup” and “release compound object” are two separate commands, which you need to do until the commands grey out, meaning you can’t do them any further In some odd cases you may need to actually select and cut the object out of a group
Loading fonts without restarting? - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Adobe Illustrator Loading fonts without restarting? Posted by Ben Black on November 15, 2010 at 10:47 am Hi, When I’m working in illustrator and install a new font into Font Book I have to restart Illustrator in order to see that font Is there a way of refreshing Illustrators font list without having to quit then restart it?
Converting white areas of image to transparent - Adobe Illustrator . . . Hi I am wondering how to convert all the white areas of the following image to transparent: Essentially I just created a black rectangle and on top of this the white text and star shape I would like all the areas that are white to be transparent (including the black areas beneath the white) so that when I save the artboard as a png file the areas that are white will be transparent Would
Motion blur effect? - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Here’s one way… Using Object Blend, setting the tail object to Opacity zero Possibly adding Blend Replace Spine and Outer Glow Here’s an example file… Adobe Illustrator Motion Blur Vince *Please remember to Rate our replies or check Solution if solved If you get a good idea from the post, consider clicking the Kudos option
Illustrator Object won’t let me change to color – only grayscale. Illustrator Object won’t let me change to color – only grayscale Posted by Timi Boose on May 8, 2013 at 9:23 pm Hi, I created some shapes in Illustrator and cut them apart using pathfinder and now i just want to change the inside of a shape from white to purple but it will only turn to shades of gray
says its 100% but its not - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Illustrator groups the shapes together even though one shape is no longer there All you need to do is select the image and ungroup (Command Shift G) and then the opacity will show up properly as not 100% I hope this helps somebody! I have Illustrator 5 so maybe they’ve fixed it in Illustrator 6 – I hope so!
Saving Illustrator file as PDF washes out colors and loses outer glow So, I’ve just completed a project made in Illustrator When I save it as a PDF and open it in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Preview on my Mac, the colors appear to be washed out The text is no longer a deep black and looks rather gray Also, the outer glow doesn’t seem to be there anymore
Create Outlines Paths? - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Type > Create Outlines only works on type You have 2 options: 1 Use Illustrator’s Live Trace feature with a very tight path fitting tolerance 2 Take it back to Photoshop, make a selection equal to your desired path Use the Paths panel to convert it to a path, then choose Export Paths to Illustrator John M: All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor
Turn off rounded corners - Adobe Illustrator - Creative COW Layer color: double-click on layer, select a new color from Color pop-up Corner thingies: View > Hide corner widget Access to bezier handles of a corner point: If you have corner points with no visible handles, you may need to drag the bezier handles out from the corner point with the anchor point tool (select it from under the pen tool, or shift+C) It will convert the corner point to a