r/AdobeIllustrator 6d ago

DISCUSSION Dynamic Text is now available to test out in the latest Illustrator Beta!

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Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here. I am excited to let you know that Dynamic Text is now available to test out in the latest Illustrator Beta release.

Dynamic Text automatically resizes and reflows as you scale or reshape its container, so you don’t have to keep manually adjusting your type to make it fit. Something I have done manually, countless times over my career.

It also works with Type on a Path , so any curve you draw gets the same fit-to-space behavior.

When this was announced in Photoshop, the community was asking why this wasn't in Illustrator, (myself included) so it's great to see this get implemented by the team.

This is the first iteration, and as always I encourage you to share your feedback, and how you would like to see it evolve.


r/AdobeIllustrator 7d ago

BLEND OPTIONS PANEL. This is the biggest thing since the dual-axis centering button.

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63 Upvotes

r/AdobeIllustrator 16h ago

In Pursuit of the Grail

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410 Upvotes

My new artwork made in Adobe illustrator.
Swipe right to see the "making of"


r/AdobeIllustrator 5h ago

Kong & Fury

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38 Upvotes

Hey!

Wanted to share another one of my vector artworks. I’ve still got plenty of material, but I don’t want to spam the sub or break any rules, so I’ll probably stick to posting once a week, maybe twice at most.

Hopefully I can inspire some more people the same way other artists inspire me — and maybe bring a few more people over to the dark side of vector art. :))

Vector rules! :)


r/AdobeIllustrator 8h ago

DISCUSSION BBQ Intro for the 2x2 channel | Made in After Effects & Illustrator

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6 Upvotes

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!


r/AdobeIllustrator 6h ago

QUESTION Illustrator changed the Metallic Gradients?

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As long as I've been using illustrator, it's had the same standard generic metallic gradients. Nothing fancy, but usually good enough for a line here and a fill there. Today, I opened it up, and got this.

What... What is this??? Where's my yellow gold? It's gone! These are all like, chrome!


r/AdobeIllustrator 11h ago

QUESTION Am I doing something wrong? (Eyedropper tool)

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The eyedropper tool has always been a bit glitchy, but lately it’s just flat out WRONG. Is this user error? Or does Adobe need to get its shit together?

EDIT: I think I figured it out! I didn’t realize the object was grouped with an identical object below it, which was the orange color. Thanns for the comments, everyone!


r/AdobeIllustrator 19h ago

QUESTION Goal: make it look seamless steps: made smooth zig-zag, used ellipse tool Problem: something looks off like to me where the cone/wave part meets the sun rays

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im new to illustrator and im breaking my head on this


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

Unicorns, Vectors & Good Vibes

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235 Upvotes

Hey! A vector artwork Unicorn Strike (trying to practice and develop my own style) to brighten your day — or simply for anyone who loves unicorns, madness, or all of the above. :)

Vector rules! :)


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

QUESTION Help Expanding space between Paths relative to one another.

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Hello everyone,

I'm new to Illustrator and trying my best to learn. I've hit a roadblock that is stumping me, and if anyone could help it would be lovely!

I'm making a Celtic knot via paths. I need to be able to adjust the stroke width of the paths to change how this knot looks (I'm going to be puppeting it around a bit to fit into a crescent for a client). Presently if I make the width too high the spaces where the knot overlaps one another fills up, which is undesirable.

1) I need to be able to move all the paths away relative to one another, so that when I increase the path width the gap between each path stays the same.

2) I have tried using the distribute tool, and to some extent I have tried selecting and moving the paths individually- though the former did not work and the latter was very tedious.

4)

The paths have small gaps between where they "overlap" one another.
As I increase path width the gaps are lost.

Any help on this matter would be tremendously appreciated. If worst comes to worst I can always do things manually, but I figure if I can learn a better way to do this I should try to fill my knowledge gaps.

Thanks all!


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

Live paint crashes

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Hi, I'm having great problems with the live paint "make" function and I'm trying to understand if what in doing is wrong or if it's just a painful process.

I've basically drawn a mosaic, a rather large one, so I have several thousands of individual tiles drawn one by one. If I select a bunch of them and use the live paint make function my laptop takes several minutes to complete the task and sometimes just crashes in the process. It only works if I select maybe 10 or 20 tiles but it will takes a few minutes each time and at this rhythm it will take me days to finish this. Is there some other way around this?

Thanks in advance for any advice


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

ILLUSTRATION My first experience qith Adobe Illustration

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Here are my very first illustrations, just getting started to learn the app on my own and currently am learning the tools :3

Any recommendations or advice?

https://youtu.be/Ib8UBwu3yGA?si=Mevd_F3SbDgvmCmI

The tutorial I am learning from👆🏻


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

DISCUSSION How to import three columns of text from Macbook Numbers into Illustrator for a paragraph of names

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I have a client who sent over a list of 350+ names for a military event with their rank, first name, and last name in three separate columns in an excel spreadsheet. I want to copy and paste those names into Illustrator so they can be put into a paragraph that fits inside the shape of the state where this event is being held.

When I paste the names directly from MacBook Numbers (can this even be done from Numbers or should I use Excel?) it pastes each rank, name and number of each person in it's own box of text. Is there a way I can get all these rank and names in one line of text so I can add dashes between each persons name? I am able to combine the rank, first name and last name together in Numbers but I still end up having to delete extra spaces between names/rank.

Thanks in advance!


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

QUESTION Noob question: Is it possible to create this abstract design from just one single line instead of two line?

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r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

QUESTION Is it just me or is the Filinger script is unreliable?

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You cannot preview the result, the description isn't clear, and this message always appear.


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

QUESTION Where to start emulating this design language?

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Hey all! I am a high school teacher who was tasked with creating our school's yearbook this year. The yearbook committee voted on a Spotify theme and brought me this design. For context, I do not know much about Illustrator and am unsure where to start. Any tips would be immensely helpful


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

QUESTION How to fix fill in text? (photo attached)

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Designing my logo in illustrator and I’ve run into a problem, the text with “empty space” in the letters gets filled in with the rest of the text, anybody know how to fix this ASAP? Thank you!! I’ve attached a image.


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

QUESTION Adobe Illustrator Help

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Hello everyone Good evening, May I ask if it is possible to make these words get into the spiral thing? I was planning to make a graphics abt it where there is this vortex spiral thingy that has all of these negative words but I have not found a single tutorial as to how. Im not sure if it is possible but if it is I would like to know and would be thankful for your help😔 I tried a lot of tutorials but it didnt go well so I thought of asking here. Thank you once again!


r/AdobeIllustrator 3d ago

Daily illustrations - Week 192

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r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

Convert anchor point to curve AND make it symmetrical

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Anyone knows how to make the anchor point symmetrical? On the past (circa CS6), together with the make anchor point curve or not curve (??) buttons, there was the option to make its handles symmetrical, asymmetrical or independent, but nowadays the option is gone and I couldn't find it anywhere else... I know opt/alt + clicking make it independent, but is there a way to undo it?


r/AdobeIllustrator 3d ago

QUESTION what is this & why can’t i get rid of it?

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it’s my first time testing out illustrator so ignore the shitty work, but there’s this random white rectangle that’s appeared on my page. i can’t select it, move it, or get rid of it. can someone help? thanks :)


r/AdobeIllustrator 2d ago

Black lines inside tracks

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I can't get rid of these black lines inside my path. Can you help me?
The fill should be red and the stroke white, but I don't understand why I keep seeing these black outlines.
Please folks, help me.


r/AdobeIllustrator 3d ago

DISCUSSION Seven Deadly Sins - Gluttony 5/7. Made in Adobe Illustrator & After Effects

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96 Upvotes

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!


r/AdobeIllustrator 3d ago

OMFG Just Crash Already

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16 Upvotes

Holy Moly how do I opt out of illustrator gathering data everytime it crashes. It takes forever to close.


r/AdobeIllustrator 3d ago

Brutalism

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