Wouldn’t it be useful if you could sample color from anywhere on your screen instead of being forced to use the color selector? You actually can, just not when you actually have the color selector open (when it would be most useful).
The trick is to use the eyedropper tool. Just click and hold down somewhere […]
Here are some things to try when you see the error “There is not enough memory to complete the operation.” or “There is not enough memory to open the Illustration.”:
Quit and Relaunch Adobe Illustrator. Open the file from the internal File > Open menu.
There is a faint possibility it is actually a memory problem. Restart […]
On the far bottom left of any open Adobe Illustrator document there is a percentage. This refers to how “zoomed” you are on the document. 100% means you are looking at exact pixel size. To change your zoom level, you can click on the arrow drop down box and select a new percentage out of […]
Adobe Illustrator is notoriously stupid at interpreting your intended output area. Look at the extra space above this button when attempting to Save For Web.
Instead of relying on Illustrator to guess at your intended output area, you can set your own using Crop Area. Check it out.
Create a box around the part of the design […]
Adobe Illustrator has some build in effects for simple 3-D rendering. We’ll cover them all in good time, but let’s check out Revolve today.
Make a shape like this with your pen tool.
Choose Effect > 3D > Revolve. Make the settings as shown below.
You got yourself a Top Hat!
Here are some other ideas:
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You will see this error in the Summary section when saving out of Illustrator as an Illustrator PDF.
While it can be very annoying if you always see it and don’t know what it’s talking about, it can be a helpful reminder and it a very easy fix.
Some of the Effects that Illustrator offers like […]
Adobe Illustrator is great for creating that smooth, glossy, three-dimensional look for buttons. Here is a quick step-by-step for creating some up and down buttons.
1) Create a circle.
2) Create a small circle on top by selecting the circle and using Object > Transform > Scale.
3) Create a moon-shaped sliver by overlapping two circles and using […]
Adobe Illustrator, being the premier vector art software in the industry, is the defacto standard for creating dielines. We’d like to share an interesting dieline for a pulltab flipbook piece we did recently. First, check out a movie of the finished piece.
There are two custom dielines for this. The first is the cover which folds […]
Since Apple has been on the reflections bandwagon lately, using refections has been hip in all forms of design. Creating them in Photoshop is pretty simple using a layer mask and gradients, but did you know you could do it fairly easily right inside Adobe Illustrator? Check it out.
1) Start with the objects you wish […]
Fonts are are essentially a convenient form of vector shapes. In Adobe Illustrator, text is treated like text. It can scale well like a normal vector object, but you aren’t able to manipulate text in the same ways. That is, until you convert it into a “true” vector object by “converting to outlines”. Before you […]
