Adobe Illustrator

I had to create a compelling, eye-catching poster design using the verse “I love deadlines. I like te whooshing sound they make as they fly by”. I drew everything from scratch and made the main focus of the design to be words and expressing the sentence.

There are a few annoying bugs, errors and frustrating UX aspects of Adobe Illustrator that gets carried over from version to version. So instead of clenching my jaw another year, I decided to formulate them here, hoping it may eventually reach the attention of the Adobe developers. If you are…

A lot of people use Adobe Illustrator to create logos, graphics and infographics. But have you ever considered using this software for your blog or business? It’s not just for designers! Here are 10 ways that you can use Illustrator to improve your blog or business: 1. Design your own brand assets.

The app.activeDocument.groupItems collection contains a list of all document groups. If the script duplicates an existing group or creates a new one using the groupItems.add() method, the contents of the GroupItems collection are not updated: the number remains the same as before you ran the script, you cannot access the…

Overview What are textures? Textures are images and vector images used to add visual interest to a project. Why should we use them? It could be you want to mimic a style digitally that’s more time consuming to do physically. Let’s say you want a project to have a rough paper…

By David C. Brock The story of PostScript has many different facets. It is a story about profound changes in human literacy as well as a story of trade secrets within source code. It is a story about the importance of teams, and of geometry. …

This year’s Adobe MAX was full of incredible advancements, from new features that will speed up the workflow to a new breed of artificial intelligence that functions as a creative assistant and a spectacular sneak peek from Adobe Labs. Let’s examine some of the highlights. Apply Illustrator to Intertwine Intertwine, a new Adobe Illustrator…

Ways to quickly run scripts in Illustrator that are not installed in the scripts folder: Menu File → Scripts → Other Script… The drag-and-drop method is to drag a script file from a folder in Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) to an Adobe Illustrator window. For future examples, let’s refresh…