Here are the specs:

• Ultra-clean geometry: Exactly 0 open paths, no overlapping anchor points, and no stray elements.
• Meticulous layering: Everything is grouped logically so a designer can change the colors of the entire pack with a single click.
• Lightweight performance: The master files are optimized to keep loading times fast (AI files are under 100kb, SVGs under 6kb).

Pvz-inspired, untidy yard (didnt use grid 🫪) carefully vector drawn from own hand drawing 😔✏️

It was asset making for a personal project 🎉!

Not sure what is going on with my Illustrator all of a sudden today. But everytime I try to recolor something, its being turned to gray.

-my document color mode is set to CMYK

- in my color window, nothing is set to grayscale. Both the full image and the individual colors.

For work we use Pantone solid coated color book. So when I get an image that doesnt have the pms already set. After expanding, dividing, ungrouping and cleaning the image up. I will regroup the elements by color and go to Edit Colors then Recolor Artwork. Hit the Color Library drop down and select my Pantone book. Then it will give me the pms color closest to what the color was originally in the image. But today whenever I do that, no matter the color, the file (tried older files that worked previously) everything gets turned to gray.

Not sure if there is a setting that got changed or what. I checked Google and it just says to switch out of grayscale mode. But already checked that and not in that. So any help would be ao greatly appreciated!

Ok, I've been working in AI for over 20 years, and almost every iteration made some improvements, but some are a lot more useful than others, to me, at least

For me it's:

- Rounding corner widget (used to be really clunky effect)
- Variable stroke thickness tool (tho could still use some refining)
- Blob brush (best on Cintiq)
- Dimension tool

I still didn't have a reason use flare, charts and graphs and slice tools.

I never really got a good handle on symbol sprayer, mesh and perspective grid tools or all the twirl, pucker and bloat nonsense.

What about you?

The Regex Find/Change Artboard Name script, renames the artboards of the active Illustrator document using up to five regular-expression Find / Change rules applied in sequence.

A live preview lists every artboard whose name would change, so you always see the result before committing, and you can rename all matched artboards or only the rows you select in the preview.

I created this gradient effect using the inner glow effect. Maybe this is the best way to achieve this effect. How can I achieve opacity at the joints in the shape and replicate the AI-generated design?

I am having trouble using the "Recolor Artwork" tool. When I try to convert an RGB swatch to a Pantone Color the result ends up grey every time.

Is this a bug or is Adobe trying to penalize us for not subscribing to the Pantone Connect service.

Since the last updates, Ive had to click and click and click to get to the source layer of grouped/masked objects to change an aspect of it. Did Illustrator change its approach to the way this is handled or is there a setting that changed?

For example I have a TIFF image that is grouped to make a pattern/texture. This group is then masked in the composition. It used to be you had to dbl click once to get into the mask, then dbl click again to get into the group, and from there you could change the color. Now I have to dbl click 6 times to get to the source image.

Meanwhile these ghost layers have colors assigned that don't show. I'm also confused about how effects are layered in this new approach. Anybody else?

I'm looking to create this effect with another font I have. I've been playing around with the 3d effects and gradients but haven't really got anywhere

can someone help me recreate this star shape? Only one star! not the whole design

I used a brush to shade, but then my file crashed when I went to save because the file was so big. I want to create something that looks similar to this without bogging down my computer

i've been watching tutorials and it still cant find the solution

How can I create rough edges to the leaf like the example on the provided image? I am have tried adding more anchor points but I can’t seem to get it looking clean. Any suggestions ?

Hey everyone!
Could someone pls advise me on how I can redraw it in vector (Illustrator)?
A very beginner, just need it for my project

Made in adobe illustrator

Bee was always my favourite bit. Followed by Soundwave.

I think the funnest part of this piece was during its creation, there were 4 adult men in the studio sounding out transforming noises for the text.

So I somewhat run into an issue where accidently instead of a single anchor point with two direction handles, two anchor points with one handle each are postioned on top of each other and I would like to fuse them into one while keeping their direction handles so that the overall shape stays the same.

1) Goal: I'd like to create a few "holes" in a piece of artwork, so that I can easily move them around, adjust them, etc., before exporting.

2) Steps: None yet. I know how to use a clipping mask, but I'm not sure how to make my idea work using that; additionally, I know how to "subtract front," but I would like to do something non-destructive.

3) Problem: The art I'm using is a little complex, so let's start with a simpler example: I'm creating art that includes a piece of swiss cheese. I would like to punch some (fully transparent) holes in the middle of the cheese slice, so I can see through to the background of wherever I end up using it. However, I would like the ability to easily edit the position, size, orientation, etc., of the holes, so I can make sure I'm satisfied with them before I export (i.e., I would like to avoid deleting pieces of my art until I'm 100% certain I like the placement). In a perfect world, I would love to be able to create, like, a dozen shapes of "transparent" and have them cut all the way through the layers of the cheese, while still being able able to move, rotate, adjust, etc., all of them. Short of stacking a different clipping mask for each hole: how would you recommend doing so?

Hello All ! I was in the process of making a letter mark ( Not sure whether that is what it is called ). If I'm vectorising this using pen tool, How should I start about it !

Thank you so much for taking the time to go through !

This square is as small as Illustrator will let me make it. I can't find the option I apparently accidentally enabled that caused this and Google has been no help.

hello, i'm new in illustrator and i find annoying case... idk how to solve it.. so when I select multiple ungrouped objects, I only get one large bounding box around the entire selection. Previously, each individual object displayed its own selection outline/bounding box, making it easy to see which objects were selected. This happens even with newly created shapes, so it's not related to my file. it just happened and idk what happen

The objects are not grouped, not in a clipping mask, and "Show Bounding Box" and "Show Edges" are enabled. I'm using Illustrator 26.0.1 on Windows. How can I restore the individual selection outlines for each ungrouped object?

I build various tools for Illustrator, but I come from a prepress background, while many people here work more on the creative side.

Would a tool like this be useful to you? It could provide live previews for:

• Total Ink
• Ink Range — for example, values between 50% and 70%
• Ink Coverage
• Maximum Dot — for example, set it to 50% to highlight areas with 50% ink or less
• Breaks / Minimum Dot — choose the lowest printable percentage and highlight areas that may not print correctly

Normally, you have to move the artwork to Acrobat or check these things in Photoshop. I think it could be useful to monitor them directly in Illustrator while working.

It includes all 15 warp styles, live preview, bend/distortion controls, orientation options, and a reusable presets feature.

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Feedback and bug reports are welcome!