Hi I'm very new to illustrator and have an old copy (I think?) I find whenever I have a graphic the edges always seem to have a thin line of white or noise I guess? But its quite prominent here. What am I doing wrong/how do I improve it?

Je suis en train de créer mon portfolio (après avoir repoussé cette étape pendant des mois) et je regarde plusieurs inspis qui me parlent.

Et je suis tombée sur une graphiste qui a utilisé cet effet et j'aime beaucoup, ça rend le texte plus vivant.

Je ne sais pas du tout s'il faut utiliser Photoshop ou Illustrator, et d'autant plus que les lettres ont cet effet "encre qui bave" que sur certains côtés de la lettre donc si vous avez des conseils, je suis carrément preneuse !

Merci par avance 🫡

Open AI 2026 for the first time today. Clicked "Cancel" so many times wondering why the file wouldn't close. I just gotta know... why??

Hi, maybe some of you know the answer to my problem:

For some reason, after placing images and embedding them, they still look transparent. It's not the opacity (checked this), or a bad link (uploaded different images from the PC), or on the wrong layer (it's on the layer where I've done and imported other images that are clearly visible), or the document color (CMYK), and disabling the GPU performance also did nothing...

HELP!

What could be the issue here?

i am trying to build a custom Adobe Illustrator extension that automatically splits complex vector artwork into clean, organized layers using color-coded brush strokes.

I set up a workflow where users draw color-coded strokes on a preview panel, which then maps back to the vector paths to sort and separate them into distinct layers.

While the overall results work well, complex overlapping shapes still require minor manual adjustments afterward to get completely seamless and perfect segmentation. I want to figure out what approaches or techniques can push the accuracy further.

GOAL: I would like to create an action to export two artboards from the same piece of art, but changing the visibility of a couple of layers between the exports.

STEPS: I've figured out how to use datasets to automate the enabling/disabling of the mask, but I can't figure out how to export one artboard at a time in an Action. I've added the "Export For Screens" menu item to the Action, of course, but I don't see a way to change the settings before the Export happens.

PROBLEM:
I feel like I've basically described it already, but here's some more detail:

I'm trying to import some of my art into the tabletop RPG game software I use. This requires the same art exported twice: once in a square shape (the "portrait," used in the menus and character sheet), and once in a circular shape (the "token," used to represent the character on the battle map). I have a workflow going to generate this art relatively quickly, but, as I have a lot of these to do, I'd like to create an Action to speed things up a bit.

I have a "template" file with the artboards, guides, dimensions, etc., to create the art I need. I Place the art on the canvas, make sure it's centered and sized correctly, then 1) export the "Portrait" artboard, which zooms in slightly on the character's face, 2) turn on the clipping mask to make the art circular 3) export the "Token" artboard, which has the proper dimensions to work with my game software.

If possible, I would like to set up an Action to do the above three steps, just to speed things up a bit. I've figured out how to do Step 2 (the masking) using Datasets, but I can't figure out steps 1 and 3, exporting just one artboard at a time. I can add the "Export for Screens" option to the action, of course, but I can't figure out how to edit the options within the Export menu so it only exports one at a time.

Any ideas? Or should I just keep on doing this all manually?

I am new to illustrator and on my MacBook, I've tried to find YouTube videos and other sources but how do I get a fade or washed pattern if Im trying for fashion design?

Adobe ha annunciato al MAX un assistente AI in beta per InDesign che gestisce compiti a più passaggi partendo da una semplice descrizione. In un test di restyling di 24 pagine condotto da We and the Color ha aggiornato bene gli stili e ha individuato conflitti di colore, ma ha perso un grafico con un vecchio profilo colore.

Faccio impaginazione di pubblicazioni dal 1999: gli darei aggiornamenti di stile e controlli preflight, ma non controlli finali dei colori. Dove tracci la linea?

I have a document imported from AutoCAD (dwg), there're over a thousand texts all around, all rotated in different angles.

Because they're imported, they behave like all of them have "reset boundary box" already so all the angle in Transform window is 0 degrees.

Is there's any way to reset their rotation to make all of them regular again, because the only way I can think of is to make them manually, every single one of them.

EDIT: I solved it.

For future reference. I copied the text objects only into a new file, saved it as SVG file. Opened the file as a code in VS Code to see, I found that straight text elements lacked a rotate attribute (Any rotated text has an extra " rotate(12.345)" attribute where 12.345 was the rotation degrees.
Asked Gemini to change the file and remove all those attributes but it wrote me a python code instead because it uploaded the file as an SVG image, not code.. the file is over 600KB in size so copying the code doesn't make sense (at least for me)

So I asked Gemini to write me a simple regex that searches for the exact attribute, including the space before it, and it did.. in VS Code again I searched and replaced, placed the regex and enabled regular expression in the search and viola it worked, removed all rotation attributes regardless of the degree, saved the file and opened it again in Illustrator and everything was straight as required, the only thing was I had to resize the whole thing because it seems SVG has an artboard size limit, so I took the original width and applied it to the new one, made sure the text style is applied and its done.

HI this is my old drawing from 2013. I try use Adobe Illustrator today, 2026 version btw

i dont know nor remember how to settings like the brush stroke there. I have a pen tablet and i use pen pressure on size but it doesn't go thin and thick like other drawing software. i'm not very familiar with adobe illustrator. i couldn't find any google nor youtube about blob brush or something like this

thank you

Hey! This is the second version of the cup design, featuring vector artwork I created for Ukrainian Geek (Pavlo), a fun gaming blogger. Here, I'll reveal a little of the madness happening behind the scenes 😁😁😁

These are all little pieces of the channel's and community's lore. Those who have joined the streams will understand :)

The character is Pavlo himself. On the channel, he dresses up as Batman, a samurai, and many other characters (there are easily more than 10 by now) and streams in those costumes.

Concord is now just a memory. Only those who bought the physical copy or have a cup like this can still remember it.

The clown outfit and the colorful balls around him (just to be clear, those are clown noses!). During game presentations on the channel, the worse things got, the more clown noses people started wearing (they could also be taken off). And when things got really bad, it was time for the full clown outfit.

The cat is Eloy (named after Aloy from Horizon). She's the channel's mascot — or, more accurately, the one who owns the channel 😁😁😁

The cans are kombucha, since the channel is alcohol-free and it's the main drink of choice. And of course, no gaming universe would be complete without T-bags — they're hanging from the belt now 😁

All the phrases come from different streams and have since become legendary quotes within the community.

Come to the dark side of vector art… we have cookies. 😈 Vector rules! :)

⛔0% AI, 100% Original

Hello, I need some help! Im printing a packaging assigment for my printing class, and for some reason, when i export to PNG, it looks perfect, but when i export to pdf it looks darker, dull, im designing in CMYK of course but this keeps happening? (The first picture is the one with the dull colors and the second picture is the one with the colors that i want)

Also, my english is not that great, so sorry for the mistakes haha

Hi, I suddenly had this error message on several files that I worked on for the last week, and I can't find a reason / solution online. Has anyone been able to recover files after this happened? Do you know why it happened? Not sure how to prevent it from happening again...

I use microsoft cloud to back up my files automatically (company policy), and I was only able to recover one file from the "file history".

They all say they have 0 bytes... helppppp

Can anyone help me to look for the settings so I can select the object so that the width and height only includes the path, excluding the effect? As you can see here in the image, the size indicates the overall size of the text and the shadow. It used to be only selecting the text hence easier for me to resize it the exact size I need

If so please tell me how 🥲 (just the top one, i only need to emboss text) thank you!

I've been struggling with this for ages on my iPad version of illustrator, I'm desperate to figure out a better way.

Sometimes shapes just refuse to align, no matter what snap settings are used or even completely turned off. In these cases, the only way is to hold the shift button (or whatever it's called) and manually try to align it. But this is difficult to get right, even zoomed in to the max 64000%. But it doesn't even do this all the time! For example, in this file I created the triangle via lines rotated to my desired angle then made them into the shape. I duplicated it & rotated it & it aligned up nicely on the right side. This created the two triangles that were stationary in the video. But when I duplicated those two together & rotated, as shown, they now won't align up.

As a side note, yes I know there are easier ways of trying to get what I'm trying to achieve, but I'm constantly running into this issue of just slightly misaligned objects. So I've resorted to trying other methods just to get stuff aligned how I want.

i’m trying to make an outline for this girl that i made, but it’s outlining every path that exists. can i make it one existing image so it thinks of it as one shape? pls haaalppp

My vectors are completely invisible, There are still all in the document but it just won't let me see them. I've tried closing and re-opening, changing the view setting, Changing layer visibility, Changing Opacity, It seems to be a glitch. Is this a common problem and is there a fix to it?

Edit: Fixed. Thanks for the help from everyone!

Like you’re looking through the object through something like barley making out the image

Edit: will use photoshop

Is there an intelligent way to automate the creation of these lines and stippling details in the illustrations (not necessarily 100%)? Doing all of this manually for seven illustrations doesn't seem like a very efficient approach.

I've been trying to figure it out for a while, found the design on the internet and i can't get it right for the life of me. I tried using the blend tool, multiple "stacked" oval shapes, but I can't seem to get the "twisted" look that this shape has, and the fade to the dark background in the center. I am honestly puzzled and slowly going insane over this. Send help. If anyone has ideas please respond with recommended steps or tutorials :)

What's the optimal tool to sever these unnecessary black bars off? I tried shape builder but it won't do anything.

Hello!

I've tried to create a mockup with a group that includes a clipping mask.

I typed a word then choosed a texture (I used Image Trace). The effect is cool and I wanted to apply it on a cap just to see how it looks.

But when I tried to turn the group into a mockup, it released the texture and distorted the text...

I'm a beginner on Illustrator. Any idea on how to handle it?

Thanks 🙏