I often go to Google Images, search for something interesting and do right-click/copy-image then in illustrator I paste it. Unfortunately when the image has a transparent background, this background is replaced with an ugly black color. I know one solution would be to go to Photoshop, but it is cumbersome… Is there a way to … Read more
I have a graphic logo which is a series of overlapping shapes, where all are filled white. See below: I want to set the white color transparent everywhere it appears in the graphic without revealing what is behind each shape. If I try with the general method of setting transparency to 0%, I see all … Read more
I have a number of triangles that I have loosely created with the pen tool. They have no fill but a stroke of 0.25pt. Is there anyway the points themselves can have a different stroke size? Like 1pt? Roughly this would look like: o…..o, where the o is a pen tool point and the … … Read more
I’m having some issues with the grain texture. I achieved the effect I wanted (gradient on a shape with grain texture) but the grain goes outside of the shape a bit. The problem is most noticeable in the circle but I tried many shapes and it persists. I did this: Duplicated the shape and placed … Read more
I want to erase a part of a path while maintaining the stroke’s original look. My chosen stroke is the first one BELOW [Uniform]. I’m new and just a week in at illustrator. This is my very first logo design. I haven’t added the missing parts from the sketch though but it can wait. As … Read more
My question is different than this question. I have created a design with blended lines: And now I would like each of the intermediate steps between the two base strokes to become a stroke as well. “Flatten transparency” doesn’t work, because it only converts some lines, and it converts them to outlines so I have … Read more
I have multiple complicated vector images in a document with multiple artboards. Zooming and moving around can sometimes cause Illustrator to stall for a few seconds. I’d like to temporarily hide the high res images to decrease load on memory and make it easier for Illustrator to do things, but I’d like to have the … Read more
I am busy designing illustrations in Adobe Illustrator for a customer, and they have kindly asked me to save my illustrator files so it is compatible with all versions, and they don’t run into any problems. I would just like to know which version I should save it as? The options are: CS6, CS5, CS4, … Read more
I’m attempting in Illustrator to generate a series of images with 6 elements and to maintain their proportions along straight and curved paths. I have a path that represents a segment of an ellipse, and I’ve retrieved the length of the curved path from Document Info and calculated the length of each element in proportion … Read more
simple issue or maybe really complex. another day of alignment issues that I can’t wrap my head around. Here’s the stages (accompanied by images): I have finalized one half of my logo design I create a grid I duplicate the object and flip it 180degrees horizontally, then I duplicate the grid I align the central … Read more
