How to Make a Maze in Illustrator
Make a maze in Illustrator by using the "Rectangle" tool to represent the maze's walls, then using the "Eraser" tool to create the solution path through the walls. To increase the visual appeal of your...
View ArticleHow to Delete Objects Hanging Off the Art Board in Illustrator
You can delete objects hanging off of Illustrator's art board by selecting them and pressing the "Delete" key. But creating a clipping mask instead of investing time in deleting a bunch of lines and...
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How to Make Permanent Round Corner Effects in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator’s Rounded Corner Effect is a common tool to use when you need to adjust rounded rectangles or convert sharp corner into curves because the rounded corner effects remain live meaning...
View ArticleHow to Merge 2 Objects in Illustrator
The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Pathfinder menu contains options that will allow you to merge two objects together. Combining objects with a Pathfinder option is a useful alternative to grouping items. You...
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How to Create Cursive Type in Illustrator
The term "cursive" describes a method of writing where the letters in words are joined. Cursive is also called "handwriting," or simply "writing," as opposed to "block letters" or "printing" where let...
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How to Make Wavelengths in Illustrator
Although it’s not the most obvious tool for creating wavelengths, the "Zig Zag" effect in Adobe Illustrator contains an option that allows you to simulate smooth curves creating a wave effect. In...
View ArticleHow to Center a Pattern From the Swatches in Illustrator
To center any object in Adobe Illustrator CS5, including swatch pattern-filled objects, you will need to align it to the artboard. The artboard is either a rectangle or square and its size varies...
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How to Create Spiral Curls in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a very flexible tool that you can use to create any shape. Tools such as the Pen Tool and the Line Segment tool make free hand and straight-edged designs simple to implement, but...
View ArticleHow to Do a Typographic Portrait in Illustrator
Typographic images are images created with the use of text only. Hair, faces, eyes and smiles, for example, are all formed with words. By manipulating the shape and density of text, you may create a...
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How to Collect Files for Output in Illustrator CS5
When you create Adobe Illustrator (.AI) files, you have the option of embedding images and content directly into the document, or you can link the pieces to the document, creating a much smaller...
View ArticleHow to Fill Text Outlines With Image in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator CS5 can fill large text with an image, which allows you to fill the outlines of letters with patterns, nature scenes or anything you like rather than using the standard font tools to...
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How to Make Things Overlap in Illustrator
Overlapping objects and shapes in Adobe Illustrator allows you to create intricate illustrations without erasing part of an object, thus preserving the overlapped object for later changes. Often,...
View ArticleHow to Grayscale an Image in Illustrator
When you're creating an Adobe Illustrator document for use in print, it's important to make sure that the illustration will look the way you intend when it’s printed. If you're printing in color, Adobe...
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How to Make Sharp Shapes Curved in Illustrator
Because Illustrator is a vector-based program that defines shapes with lines connected by points, creating shapes with sharp corners is obvious and simple; however, creating curved shapes is not as...
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Saving a Picture as a Pattern in Illustrator
Designers sometimes use the vector drawing program, Adobe Illustrator, to create patterns. These consist of loose images that, when repeated next to each other, form a seamless repeating pattern. You...
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How to Make Lines Straight From an Outline in Illustrator
Outlining type converts text to paths so that you can manipulate the characters’ shapes and incorporate them into your design. Many of the characters contain curved shapes that may not be consistent...
View ArticleHow to Cut Off Elements Hanging Off the Workboard in Illustrator
When you're working on graphic designs in Adobe Illustrator, the designs you create exist on the artboard — or workboard — in the view. Elements added to this space may hang beyond the edge of it, but...
View Article9-Slice Scaling in Adobe Illustrator
The 9-slice scaling option in Adobe Illustrator CS5 gives users greater control in how symbols appear in a document when they are scaled. Rather than simply increasing or decreasing the size of the...
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How to Add Foil Stamping in Illustrator
The foil-stamping process accents printed pieces with areas in which a hot metal die presses a thin pigmented foil layer onto the paper. Foils come in many colors, including metallics, and they add a...
View ArticleHow to Code WordPress From Illustrator
Although Illustrator is not a Web editing program, you can design a website draft in Illustrator. Instead of rebuilding a WordPress template based on the design, you can code the template directly from...
View ArticleHow to Copy a Section in Adobe Illustrator
Images created in Adobe's Illustrator graphics software are made up of objects. An object in an Illustrator image could contain a textual element, for example, or a company's logo. If you want to use a...
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How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Make Sewing Patterns
When you look for software in which to create sewing patterns, you may not think of Adobe Illustrator, but it is more than capable of assisting you in crafting your next project, whether it's a garment...
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Adobe Acrobat Pro Doesn't Remember the EULA
Adobe Acrobat Pro allows you to create, edit and convert PDF files into Microsoft Office format. As part of the setup process, you must accept Adobe's end user license agreement. The installer may...
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Making Clothing Tags in Illustrator
Fashion designers use hang tags and other identifiers to provide a mixture of practical and stylistic information about their garments. Some tags describe fabrics, some provide sizing and pricing...
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How to Make a Twill Fabric in Illustrator
Fabric textures in Adobe Illustrator can be used for wallpaper, tiles, lettering and as elements in graphic compositions. While there are many techniques to use for fabric simulation in Illustrator,...
View ArticleHow to Cut Outside of Illustrator Canvas
As you create and adjust your designs in Adobe Illustrator, it's inevitable that some objects will end up positioned partly outside your canvas. Although you can crop the artwork to the canvas when...
View ArticleHow to Make a Golden Proportion in Illustrator
The golden proportion is everywhere in nature, and architects, painters and other artists have been using it since time immemorial to create compositions that are pleasing to the eye. No matter what...
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Making Curved Stripes in Illustrator
There's rarely only one way of doing something in Illustrator. Even relatively simple elements such as curved stripes can be created in multiple different ways, with strikingly different results....
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How to Make an ID Badge in Illustrator
Begin creating your own ID badges in Illustrator by downloading ID badge templates. Different templates allow you to create any number of the ID badges that you need, all in one Illustrator file for...
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How to Make Stencils on Adobe Illustrator
Finding an image that would make the perfect stencil is easy – making the stencil is a bit more challenging. Using Adobe Illustrator to create a stencil may sound difficult but it's fairly...
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How to Make Fancy Borders in Illustrator
Borders in graphics projects can be purely decorative, or they can be used to focus the eye on the content of an image. The type of border selected often relates to the nature of the document. If you...
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How to Remove a Password in Adobe Illustrator
If you save an Adobe Illustrator file as a Portable Document Format -- or PDF -- file, you can add security options to it, including password protection. To remove the password from the PDF file, you...
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How to Change the Orientation of a Picture in Illustrator
Illustrator is a graphic design program by Adobe, and is included in most Adobe Creative Suite sets. The program is mainly used to build graphic designs and illustrations, but can also be used to edit...
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How to Make an Isosceles Triangle in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator provides many drafting tools to create shapes and designs. When creating a worksheet or a mathematical design, shapes with specific measurements such as isosceles triangles can be...
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How to Make Radial Shapes in Illustrator
Radial graphics form visually appealing patterns by rotating duplicates of simple elements around a central or offset point of origin. You can use a short sequence of type or the output of any of Adobe...
View ArticleHow to Make a Glowing Sphere in Illustrator
It is a simple fact of advertising that a shiny, glowing object tends to do a better job of drawing a potential customer's attention to an advertisement. If you are working on a document in Illustrator...
View ArticleHow to Convert Shapes to Dots on a Pattern Illustrator
With Adobe Illustrator, you can convert a shape into a pattern of dots using the "Color Halftone" pixelation effect. This effect divides any shape into a grid of rectangles, then converts each...
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How to Make Animations With Illustrator CS5
Although Adobe Illustrator is not an animation program, many animations begin with vector artwork created in Illustrator. To simplify the process of creating animation between Illustrator and Adobe...
View ArticleHow to Make a Seamless Hatching Pattern in Illustrator
Create seamless hatch patterns in Illustrator for use in any number of projects. Once you define a pattern, you can apply it to another document with a brush or with the program's fill tools. Because...
View ArticleHow to Eye Drop Colors in Illustrator
The eyedropper tool in Adobe's Illustrator vector graphics software allows you to copy attributes from one element of an image to another. By default, the eyedropper copies all the object's attributes,...
View ArticleHow to Draw a Glowing Star in Illustrator
Draw a glowing star in Illustrator by applying a radial gradient and an effect from the "Effects" menu to a shape created with the "Star" tool. You can also create a glowing star with Illustrator's...
View ArticleHow to Get Images From Illustrator to Sure Cuts a Lot
Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based application that you can use to generate original artwork for use in Sure Cuts a Lot, which is software that enables you to cut shapes on electric cutting machines....
View ArticleHow to Give the Text Perspective in Adobe Illustrator CS5
There are two ways to add perspective to text with Adobe Illustrator CS5. You can use the 3D effects on the text, which is the same "Bevel & Emboss" effect available in previous versions of...
View ArticleHow to Make a Photograph Into a Vector in Illustrator CS4
Use Illustrator CS4 to turn a photo into a set of vector shapes by using the "Live trace" tool for automated conversion, or the "Pen" and "Eyedropper" tools for manual conversion. Beware of using the...
View ArticleHow to Make a Triangle in Illustrator CS5
Several types of triangles can be drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS5. These types include acute, right or obtuse triangles that you incorporate into a logo or illustration project. Since all triangles have...
View ArticleHow to Make Bullet Points in Illustrator CS5
Make bullet points in Adobe Illustrator with your keyboard and a combination of keys. Type an ALT code to insert bullets at the beginning of each listed item. Adding Alt code bullets to your lists...
View ArticleHow to Add Sliders to a Gradient Bar in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator default gradients feature a fixed number of sliders within a gradient bar but you can add more sliders to this bar. As you modify a gradient by adding sliders, keep in mind that each...
View ArticleHow to Make Diagonal Dashed Lines on Adobe Illustrator
Draw plain diagonal lines in Adobe Illustrator and transform them into dashed lines. These transformed diagonal lines will then feature dashes that you can edit and refine. Consider making your line's...
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How to Delete Illustrator Prefs on a Mac
Corrupted preference files cause Adobe Illustrator misbehavior ranging from minor hiccups in the application interface all the way up to major crashes and freezes. When Illustrator changes from the...
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How to Make Evenly Spaced Polka Dots in Illustrator
Although Adobe's Illustrator graphics program includes several pre-set polka-dot patterns, making your own pattern of polka dots allows you to exert the most control over the finished product. Once...
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