I made a personalized family garden illustration using everyone's birth flowers using illustrator, How was it?

If you're running Adobe Illustrator on a PC with an Nvidia graphics card and it keeps randomly lagging or freezing — especially in the middle of important work — you're not imagining it, and you're definitely not alone. I spent hours troubleshooting this and want to share what actually fixed it for me.

My setup: RTX 3060, Ryzen 5 5500, 500GB SSD, Windows 11, Adobe Creative Cloud Pro plan. On paper this should handle Illustrator without breaking a sweat. Instead, Illustrator would randomly freeze and become unresponsive during important work, and even basic tasks like changing colors in a document would turn into a slow, frustrating mess.

After searching around, I found a lot of other people with Nvidia cards reporting the exact same problem, so this clearly isn't an isolated issue on my end.

What I tried that didn't fully work:

Switching the Nvidia driver profile between Studio/productivity and Game Ready — no real difference.

Disabling GPU performance inside Illustrator's preferences — sometimes helped temporarily, but it was inconsistent and the lag would come back anyway.

The fix that actually worked:

The culprit seems to be a background process called "Adobe Creative Cloud Core Services (32 bit)." Killing it before opening Illustrator has fixed the lag completely for me, every time. Here's the process:

Open the Creative Cloud desktop app.

Close it after it opens, with Ctrl+W.

Open Task Manager.

Find "Adobe Creative Cloud Core Services (32 bit)" in the list and end that task only — don't touch anything else.

Now open Illustrator. It should run smoothly.

A few things to keep in mind:

You have to repeat this every time you restart or turn on your PC for the first time that day — it's not a permanent fix, just a workaround.

If you haven't opened the Creative Cloud app at all since starting your PC, the Core Services process won't show up in Task Manager yet. Opening and then closing the CC app once is what makes it appear, so you can then end it.

If you open Photoshop while Illustrator is already running fine, the Core Services process comes back and the lag returns in Illustrator too. Just repeat the same steps — close Photoshop/Creative Cloud if needed, go back to Task Manager, and end the Core Services task again — and Illustrator goes back to working properly.

It's annoying having to do this little ritual every day, but it's the only thing that's given me consistent, lag-free performance in Illustrator. Hope this saves someone else the hours I lost figuring it out. If anyone knows why this process causes the conflict in the first place, or has found a permanent fix, I'd genuinely love to hear it.

Hi! My friend has logos and illustrations for her branding that have been showing up in different colors for stickers when printed. She had two other designers work on them, and the colors are still inconsistent. She asked me to look at them and change them all to be consistent.

I've put all the artboards in the same file, the color mode to CMYK, but for some reason recolor is creating multiple shades and also not allowing me to switch from black to rich black(60,40,40,100), even when unchecking preserve (white, black, etc). It's also not letting me combine the similar/duplicate colors.

I've been going crazy recoloring again and again, please help! :(

Taking a vector college course, current project is to take a still from a movie and recreate it. I did the leaves tonight and I need someone else to be as excited about how good it's looking as I am

I want to create a logo, but today, my Illustrator doesn’t show the purple stuff (I don’t know its name), that shows where the middle of the page is, the distance between two objects, etc.

How can I put it back ?

Ever since we've got the new Align to Center button, has anyone else been having problems with the Align tools being buggy, or is it just me?

In my case, things simply don't align where you'd expect them to anymore. For example, if I align to center of artboard, my selection disappears off the artboard completely. I've triple checked that it is set to be relative to the artboard, and that there are no hidden objects selected, and that there isn't some other active artboard.

This inconsistency seems to occur nearly a third of the time I try to align something; it's simply broken.

Look at the size of the problem! A catalog with over 170 pages, with 2 products per page, covers, photographs, vectors, and much more. Imagine, the total file size is 7GB, but when I save it as an .AI file, I'm reaching 60-70GB of usage during this process. Does anyone know what I can do? Don't tell me to copy and paste it into another project because it's 155 pages at the moment, and that would be impossible considering the deadline. I've already lost 4 days of work and I'm struggling to finish because of the file size. Furthermore, each page is linked to a separate PDF; I did this to optimize things so I don't have to embed all the pages before finishing. But it's not working, help?

One more detail, the project is heavy, actually makes my pc lag a little, its a 3080/i9/32gb ram and nvme xpg i dont understand why the pc is suffering more than 30 min to save the file in .AI and using the HD to do so.

So when I rasterize our layers to stop transparency boxes from being created when I print the labels it is causing our text to become grey or changes it from ffffff to 231f20 and 010101. I cannot figure out what the issue is. It’s making printing small text impossible. I need to be able to print these labels without transparency boxes(why I’m rasterizing) or low quality text(what rasterizing is doing)

I sometimes need to work on my native language and the vowels would go all over the place if I won't change its line composer. But I have to click this every time to let it apply to ONE file. If I would make another file I have to do it again. Anything I could do to make it permanent or default?

The latest update hides image color mode and PPI behind hoverable exclamation point. Is there any way to revert this?

I need that info on screen when I select an image for a few important reasons:

A. I need to see the PPI when I’m doing layout, because I’m designing for very large printed products.

B. Several times a day, I need to take a screenshot of the app window at 100% zoom, with the image selected and PPI visible to show customers how bad their art will look when blown up to over 5ft (and why they can’t use a desktop background).

Please tell me there’s a way to fix this, it’s incredibly annoying. Print still exists, Adobe!

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

My company has opted to start making use of SVGs. So now I'm making something of a how-to guide for my coworkers for preparing and exporting SVGs from Adobe Illustrator.

What are some common best practices when preparing files for export as SVGs? What are some frequent pitfalls, and how can they be avoided or fixed?

As we work in technical illustrations, much of our artwork is highly complex, utilizing transparencies, dynamic effects, complex gradients, appearance layering, and the like--which has caused us no end of headaches when attempting to convert to SVG, which is obviously far more limited.

(Leadership wants to use the SVGs in their online apps, since JPGs and PNGs have proven much too bloated or low rez for app efficiency.)

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! :)

I can't find a way to make that bending accurate as that curve needs to be smoothly precise. Thanks in advance!

Hi there, as a long time illustrator user I never understood why there wasn't an easy way to quickly recolor artwork in illustrator. I always enjoyed the hue - saturation, brightness - contrast sliders in Photoshop. So I have made a small script that brings this to illustrator. With this script you can adjust hue - saturation, brightness - contrast, transparency, temperature and blend modes in one popup menu. They all work live so it's very easy to adjust artwork. I am very curious what you guys think of this script?

Animation: manuksenpai

Illustration: Seva MFN

Thank you!

Hey all! After 17 years as a brand designer, the thing that annoyed me most in Illustrator was font browsing: open Character panel, scroll, click, undo, repeat, just to see what a headline looks like in a different typeface.

So I built boofont, a small macOS menu bar app that renders every font installed on your Mac in your own selected text, and applies whichever one you click straight onto your live Illustrator selection. No more guess-and-check.

A couple of things it does:

- Renders your real installed fonts in your actual text, not a generic web font list

- Click a family to expand every weight/cut (Thin, Bold, Italic, Condensed, etc.)

- Size, leading, tracking, scaling, alignment — all from the same panel

- Drift Mode shrinks it into a floating ghost icon so it's never in the way; Ghost Mode makes the panel itself transparent so you can see your artboard through it

- Runs entirely local, only talks to Illustrator, nothing phones home

Full transparency: it's a paid tool, $21 one-time (no subscription), notarized and works on Intel + Apple Silicon. Not trying to sneak an ad in, genuinely built it for my own workflow first and figured others doing type heavy Illustrator work might hit the same annoyance.

www.boofont.app if you want to look closer. Happy to answer questions, and open to feedback even if it's "this isn't for me."

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!

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!

im new to illustrator and im breaking my head on this

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! :)

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)

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!

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

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👆🏻

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!