Jacob Bugge
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Jacob Bugge
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Aug 10, 2025
1 Upvote
Lesley, I am more worried about the wall than the paper, or is it a wallpaper paperwall?
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Aug 10, 2025
1 Upvote
No more awaydays, Trevor?
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Aug 08, 2025
11:45 PM
You are welcome, Falco.
To ease the pain next time, I have added a few Image Trace options in the opriginal answer.
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Aug 08, 2025
11:31 PM
Falco,
You can Expand the Live Trace, then with the Direct Selection Tool select one of the white paths, then in the Select dropdown click Select>Same>Fill Color, then pres Delete.
Or you can start over and use either of the following Image Trace options, see HelpX page below where you use Search to find the terms:
Outline : Simplifies the image to black outlines.
Transparency: Prevents the transparent background in the image from being traced as white.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html
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Aug 08, 2025
03:00 PM
Indeed, scatterbrain. There are really unforeseeable and needless causes of getting stuck in what ought to be straightforward tasks.
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Aug 08, 2025
08:10 AM
For my part you are welcome, scatterbrain. Some (variable or just sloppily finished) fonts are like that.
In many cases there are different ways to do things, in some cases such as this they lead to different appearances, and then a design choice is required.
You have the stroke on top of the fill of the letters, and half the stroke covers the outermost part of the fill whereas the other half is outside, which means that the centre of the stroke follows the original letter shape; this corresponds to draw along the outer bounds with a pen.
The tutorial has the stroke behind, so only the outer half is visible outside the original letter shape (you can obtain the same width by doubling the stroke weight), which means that the visible stroke is outside the original letter shape; this corresponds to draw outside the outer bounds with a pen.
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Aug 08, 2025
07:30 AM
Vanjazz,
How about an Opacity Mask, where you change the overlapping rectangle from cyan to black, then select the red one as well and click Make (Opacity) Mask in the Transparency palette flyout?
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Aug 08, 2025
01:27 AM
1 Upvote
scatterbrain,
How about Effect>Pathfinder>Add?
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Aug 07, 2025
12:49 PM
Jane,
I believe you may regret it if you really succeed in smoothing the transitions.
As I see the images, the way the ribbons/curves meet/end at distinct angles/points gives depth to the graphic, the ribbons appearing as faces/facets.
This is more apparent in the coloured version, but versions based on the original black can be as subtle or obvious as you wish with different sets of shades from black to(wards) white.
You can also work on a number of copies at the same time and try out colour/shade combinations, including different contrasts between adjacent ribbons, and see where it brings you.
So why a shadow?
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Aug 06, 2025
02:57 PM
1 Upvote
H Gu,
You can also set the Stroke as desired, then Align Stroke to Inside, and then tick Dashed Line and use the right combination of Dashes and Gaps based on the exact side lengths.
Click to get (a wee bit) closer
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Aug 04, 2025
07:42 AM
1 Upvote
With your cunning way the colours of the streaks are surprisingly pure, James, so very different to a mere smear.
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Aug 04, 2025
04:13 AM
Didier, you really have a tough burd in a tough place there.
She is taller in the original image, the ratio being a wee bit over 5/4. It was about 5/3 in 245,
so something happens in the uploads.
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Aug 02, 2025
01:54 PM
Thank you for sharing, west.
Whenever possible I just draw and leave all calculations to Illy (job description Adobe Illustrator) who is much better at it, and she is always eager to help.
When heavier calculations are really needed, we have our scripting friends such as Carlos, who can come up with the most amazing solutions.
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Aug 02, 2025
09:43 AM
For my part you are welcome, west.
From your description I guess your object may have something like a straight path segment that crosses or ends/starts on the axis so you can set the intersection/Anchor Point as the rotation centre and rotate (part of) it to coincide with (part) of the axis.
The Line Segment Tool can be used to transfer the direction/angle If they are apart.
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Aug 02, 2025
08:14 AM
Thank you very much, Dave.
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Aug 02, 2025
03:50 AM
west,
I agree with Carlos that the Polar Grid Tool is the template to use.
But "The objective is to use to determine the degree of ofsetting an object on a tilted axis." makes me suggest your considering another approach which will give the accurate angle rather than the (hopefully) nearest whole number of degrees.
Depending on the shape of the object, and its (desired) poistioning relative to the tilted axis, you can use the tilted axis itself and possibly the Line Segment Tool (see the Advanced Toolbar and instructions in the links below) in different ways with the help of Smart Guides being your friends telling when you are within snapping distance.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-simple-lines-shapes.html
If you can describe or preferably show (something representing) the object and the tilted axis in a screenshot here, specific suggestions can be made.
Unknown to most, it is quite easy to directly show images in posts, hence the following general suggestion:
Please show images by using the Insert Photos button (looks like moon over mountains) for each at the top of the reply box which makes everything appear right there in your post together with your text, rather than he more conspicuous Drag&drop attachment which requires helpers to open a new tab for each image and wait for its showing, then go back and forth; and if they just click it and wait for its showing and press the X to get back to the text, the image is gone so they have to open it again and wait to see it again.
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Aug 02, 2025
01:55 AM
Bob, when I saw this after finishing my own, like Dave I had no clue where it was.
I only just realized, and now I believe that the key to the convincing countenance has been the reflexion in the glasses?
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Aug 01, 2025
02:00 PM
6 Upvotes
Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still
Just a wee bit of drawing and moving about, and a few kinds of masking.
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Jul 31, 2025
03:45 PM
For my part you are welcome, Sofi, and thank you for sharing.
Did you save the file as in selecting it in its folder and applying Save a Copy/Save As then reload the font, or did you move the contents as in selecting the artwork and copying it and pasting it into a new (empty) file then reload the font?
In the former case, I believe you ought to have been able to (Save a Copy as a backup and then) simply reload the font in th eoriginal file.
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Jul 31, 2025
01:27 AM
Justine,
A logo ought to (be reworked to) show the actual/original artwork accurately as Barbara mentions, and it can contain clean and simple shapes.
There are quite a few different possible suitable options depending on the actual/original artwork represented by the JPEG.
Whichever you choose, you can lock the JPEG and work on top of it.
You can start you considerations by looking at certain parts under Add and edit content > Drawing here,
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/user-guide.html
including the Draw with the Pen ..., Draw simple paths and shapes, Draw ... grids, and maybe others,
and also taking Drawing basics, Edit paths, and maybe others,
into account.
If you post the JPEG or something like your logo, helpers can make more specific suggestions.
Unknown to most, it is quite easy to directly show images in posts, hence the following general suggestion:
Please show images by using the Insert Photos button (looks like moon over mountains) for each at the top of the reply box which makes everything appear right there in your post together with your text, rather than he more conspicuous Drag&drop attachment which requires helpers to open a new tab for each image and wait for its showing, then go back and forth; and if they just click it and wait for its showing and press the X to get back to the text, the image is gone so they have to open it again and wait to see it again.
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Jul 30, 2025
02:21 PM
You are welcome, Sofi.
I hope you will share your findings.
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Jul 30, 2025
03:49 AM
Sofi,
There are different kinds of corruption, some temporary.
In the hope of temporary ones, you can try to close down and reopen the application, then the application and the computer (on rare occasions in the past it has been several times but hardly now).
One is a corruption of a document; you can see whether the error also occurs in a new document, but presumably you have tried that already since you write Only on one file.
Instead of just starting over in a new file, you can try to copy the artwork from the ailing one, first in one go, and failing that in parts; you can start with one half or so, Undo being your friend, and then you can see how much you can rescue, and how much you have to redo.
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Jul 29, 2025
01:49 AM
Who had deleloped three more literae than hitherto known.
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Jul 28, 2025
11:03 AM
2 Upvotes
But had it been
a smaller kind
and in a larger number
it would have been a murder
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Jul 25, 2025
04:10 AM
djroe,
I wonder whether this may be an Apple issue that affects Illustrator, or may be something that can be addressed between Adobe and Apple.
Have you asked Apple about it?
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Jul 23, 2025
08:35 AM
Nokanoka、
この質問に対する正しい答えはあなたにもあるかもしれませんが、
日本語フォーラムで質問することもできます。
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0/bd-p/illustrator-jp?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all
日本人の友人にメッセージを送りました。
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Jul 23, 2025
02:35 AM
You have really made me wonder too, Kitty. Mayby the basis of a new competition.
It is definately blue raspberry.
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Jul 21, 2025
12:44 PM
1 Upvote
And an enchanting evening glow, James.
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Jul 21, 2025
03:58 AM
1 Upvote
I also wonder how quietly yours can feed.
Over here we have two families of spotted woodpeckers (great and lesser), and a few years ago both became aware of the fat ball feeder sets hanging against two living room windows. At first they really hammered them so it could be heard in the whole house, with a lot of waste eagerly picked up by blackbirds in the grass below, every small bird gone in a twinkle when they started.
By and by they are learning from the smaller birds, now only with a distinct thump for each deep peck, and the smaller ones stay on the other fat balls.
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Jul 20, 2025
02:24 AM
2 Upvotes
E.T. phone home, Dean?
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