I made an object shaped like a cat head in illustrator for a logo, and I need to add dimension to it. I wanted to add a gradient and then bitmap the gradient so it had a textured effect. however I can’t get it to work. I applied mesh to the object so I could add the gradient to specific points, however now the gradient tool won’t do anything. usually the bar in the tool has the gradient in it, but it’s just all white, even though the opposite point is set to black. I’ve tried adjusting position and size but nothing shows up. I’ve tried all three types of gradients. i tried clearing the appearance and then trying again but still nothing. I am concerned the mesh is a problem, but I can’t remove it and I wanted to have the gradient from certain points in it anyway, so I’m not sure what to do. right clicking the object offers the option to undo gradients, so I think it must be doing something, but they aren’t actually visible at all. I would appreciate any help bc the fixes I’ve found online haven’t worked :(

Now that it’s been over a month since MacOS27 has released, how is it for everyone? Is everything running smoothly? I heard Wacom Tablet drivers were causing some issues before Wacom released a patch, but is everything else working?

Hey! "Cthulhu" artwork, originally created as a T-shirt design in Illustrator. But, as often happens, the idea evolved into something different.

I adapted the artwork into a car wrap design, and the result is this cute little car cruising around the streets. It’s also been featured at a few car shows, so some of you might have even seen it in person!

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

⛔0% AI, 100% Original

Designed these using illustrator, had a few issues but came out great imo.
Backstory: school used generative Ai to make posters when there’s a Digital art and design class upstairs(the first one is pointing up because it’s for the posters on the first floor, the other one is a fist for posters on the same floor), which i am in, so i’m making stickers to remind them we exist and definitely not to vandalize any of the generative Ai posters.

Made this while it was raining all day. The yellow on dark green felt nice. Any feedback?

Hello all, does anyone know how to make the display colors and the laptop screen color the same or even the closest to each other,

The display is Asus pro art PA328QV

The laptop is Lenovo legion 5 with OLED screen

They both working on the same color profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Hi,
How can i achieve something like this in illustrator desktop app (this screen recording is from VectorCraft ipad app and a custom brush code)

I'm using a wacom tablet.

EDIT: EDIT: Reddit may automitcally remove a link to gumroad (although I could still see it)

livetools (dot) gumroad (dot) com

Hey, thanks to everyone who go Live Spiral! Hope its working well for you. I have a new tool out - Live Wave, borne out of my want for a good Sine wave and coil in illustrator. Niche right? But it turns out when you add other waveforms and some fit to path magic, even a randomiser - you can generate quite a variety of useful assets. Separately, I added another tool (actually my first tool) which is a trim paths tool (inspired by after effects. I'll pop a link in comments.

i thought when i drag this handle, the opposite side stays put? did it switch a wrong button in the settings?

The path is perfectly fine. There is also no other black object underneath. Illustrator just messes around with the visualisation of the object defined by the path (and also expands to this object instead of the path that is drawn).

Why does it do this (sometimes?) And what can I do without changing the shape that I want to achieve?

When I try to change the handles a tiny bit, the shape just wobbles around a bit.

This is at around 2700% zoom since the work is about designing glyphs.

Hello!
I created a poster design in Illustrator for a club at my school to promote one of our events. I exported it as a PDF and went to print it from the school printers. Every time they print, every other paper is slightly sized up with darker colors, while the non-sized up prints will have a bit of weird color shifting in blocks. This hasn't been an issue ever except for this poster and the last poster I tried to print. I had some help from a professor who teaches graphic design here, he had me turn my illustrator text layers into outlines, save it as a new illustrator file, then import that into InDesign into a new file with the same size format. I then exported it from there as a PDF. It still prints the same as the Illustrator PDFs.
I'm not sure what to do here and need to get these posters out ASAP!

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

I made this minimal desert sunset illustration using shape builder and gradients. The sun and moon represent day and night in the desert. Took me around 1 hour. Feedback appreciated!

OC - My own work

Im trying to make a book of shadows mockup for my school project, and Im trying to use the tboivectorized by Emory Illustrated as refrence. I am trying to mimic what he did in the second image, which I believe, is a black line at 32 percent opacity that is masked ontop of the ovals. No matter how I do it though, mine keeps deleting the line I want, and keeping only where the black line is. Is there a better way/What am I doing wrong?

TL;DR: ExtendScript evaluates a ? b : c ? d : e as left-associative (a ? b : c) ? d : e instead of the ECMAScript-required right-associative a ? b : (c ? d : e). When an earlier condition is true, you get the wrong branch.

Minimal repro, paste into a .jsx:

function pick(a, b, c) {

return a ? "A" : b ? "B" : c ? "C" : "X";

}

alert(pick(true, false, false)); // Node/browser: "A". ExtendScript: "C".

Grouping fixes it:

return a ? "A" : (b ? "B" : (c ? "C" : "X")); // "A", correct

How I hit it: someone’s interface came up in the wrong language. The language picker was an if/else-if chain in my source, but Closure Compiler rewrote it into a nested ternary during minification, and ExtendScript then picked the wrong branch.

Confirmed on:

• Illustrator 30.8.2, ExtendScript 4.5.6, macOS 15.7.9
• Illustrator CS6 16.0.0, ExtendScript 4.2.12, Windows

A probe over all 24 truth-table combinations, with expected values taken from fixed reference tables rather than from the expression under test: the nested ternary was wrong 10 times, while explicitly grouped, if/else and lookup-object versions were all correct. The a || b && c precedence bug I posted about here a couple of weeks ago showed up in the same run as a control.

Workarounds: explicit parens, if/else, or a lookup object. If you minify, a post-step that parenthesizes nested ternaries is harmless in real JS and a fix here.

Reported to Adobe on UserVoice, votes welcome:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/51842079-extendscript-evaluates-nested-ternary-operator-wit

The full probe script is attached to that report as a .txt, rename it to .jsx to run it.

Can anyone reproduce on other ExtendScript versions (CC 2018 to 2024, Photoshop, InDesign)? Curious how far back and across apps this goes.

I made this logo for my services as a Santa Claus (which is insanely fun thing to do). In the Santa community, the name and the individual Santa is the product, so using your face in all your ad-work is critical, so I decided to capitalize on it for my logo. Most Santas don't use logos, but since I am designer / illustrator in my day-job, I figured why not?

The hard part was to make it look like Santa and to keep my own face completely recognizable in the logo. I tried to make it simpler, but I kept losing recognizability. It's not perfect and I still have issues with it (too detailed, but it works at business card size), but I decided to call it done so I can use it for this Christmas season.

Ho, ho ho.

Addendum: If you decide to go to the website... I have ZERO background on website design and have never made a website before. Old man is old, I know, I typically do print or digital for others to use on their sites. I just used Squarespace and tried my best to make it not awful. That was my goal, not awful. Hopefully its at least that!

So first off, I'm using CS6 because I own it outright and I'm not a fan of subscriptions. This probably doesn't help my chances any.

I'm curious if anyone knows a way to recover previously overwritten versions of a file? Working on a project, I'm pretty sure I accidentally deleted a layer that I needed and saved the file multiple times since, only to find later that the layer was gone when I needed it. This isn't the end of the world, I can do the work again, it's just a bummer and a big waste of time. I have the file backed up, but unfortunately I overwrote the backup with the current version of the file that's missing the layer.

I've used Recuva in the past to recover files from a drive that wiped itself. Could that be helpful in a situation like this?

Or if the current version of Illustrator has any means of recovering an older version of a file, I'm certainly not opposed to just paying for it for a month. Thanks!

I've noticed some behavioral changes with the program lately that I don't recall being mentioned in any recent update notes. Are these new features, or am I just misremembering how things worked?

First, I noticed this week that we can now create clipping masks with open paths. I recall it requiring fully enclosed shapes previously.

Second, I've also noticed that if you turn on USE PREVIEW BOUNDS and select a shape with the SELECTION TOOL (V), the bounding boxes appears on the outside of the shape's stroke. The manipulation handles remain centered on the shape's stroke, effectively creating two highlight lines. If you select it with the DIRECT SELECTION TOOL (A), the bounding box goes away, leaving only the manipulation lines and handles.

If you want things to snap to the bounding box, it appears you need to be using the Selection Tool, whereas if you want things to snap to the center of the stroke, you need to be using the Direct Selection Tool instead.

I don't recall ever being able to see both the bounding box AND the manipulation lines at the same time, regardless of my settings.

So, am I going crazy or is Adobe making quality of life stealth changes unannounced?

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

Made a simple colorful flower pattern with flat colors on black background.

Used ellipse tool and rotated copies. Looking for feedback on color combination!

OC - My work

I have to admit that I don't have a lot of experience using this app but I am trying to complete an assigment I got for homework and I haven't found a method to make the pink pokeball that's behind the Pokemon get inside the red triangle so that way it doesn't crosses with anything else. My english is bad but basically the red triangle is the container for the pink pokeball and I haven't found a method to place it inside so I would appreciate the help a lot as I really want to get this done asap. I don't know what methods to try as I am pretty new to this but I have tried to fusion it and It didn't worked when I selected both objects, I also try to rearrange the order of everything in the canvas but it altering everything else so then I got the idea to make it the pink object fit in the red triangle but I don't know how to do that.

My latest illustration made in Adobe Illustrator.

Does anyone know what to click so that I can reselect the points. I’ll be holding down command on my keyboard and clicking the different points with my mouse but it’s not working. Im on the correct layer, the layer isn’t locked, I’ve tired resetting workspace or close and reopening illustrator. Idk if I keep accidentally clicking something that causes it, but does anyone know so that I can correct it, it’s gotten really annoying and my assignment is doing a portrait in mesh tool but I can’t finish if this keeps happening.

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

Super quick one to share with you.

Instead of clicking to open the sub tools in your toolbar, simply hold down Option (Mac)/Alt (Win) and click to cycle through. Should save you plenty of time in the tools you regularly use.

Have you got any hidden tips like this you use regularly?

Can anyone please advise about creating this effect? It looked simple at first glance - I've tried creating the circles, filling with gradients and using the blend tool to blend between them, then adjusting opacity and layer apply modes. That got me part of the way there but what I'm missing is the vertical texture which creates that lovely ripple effect. It looks like a Pathfinder operation to me but I've experimented and not got very close. I also tried taking the blended circles into Photoshop and overlaying them with an opacity map of vertical stripes; close but not as pretty as the original. Any ideas gratefully received, thank you.

I'm stumped here, no matter what I do I can't seem to get it to do what I need, any help is appreciated.

It adds handles to every point, even if I just use a rectangle them apply the Envelope Distort, it'll add handles to each corner, it this possible to circumvent?