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Leon aka Kjetil Grimsrud
Leon aka Kjetil Grimsrud
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December 7, 2024
Question

I have made a signature with Wacom drawing tablet in Illustrator.

  • December 7, 2024
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I have created a signature in Illustrator. The signature consists of multiple layers, layers I want to merge down to one layer, but I can't. What do I have to do? In the image, there are two signatures. And also... Before I merge it I want to recolor it and make it more visible. How can I do that after I have made it and before I merge it and save it? The correct thing to do is stretch it back up with black. How do I do that? If it makes any difference, I wrote the signature with a Wacom drawing tablet. The signature consists of 5 layers, while the 5th. is the signature logo. I Hope this makes meaning. I am grateful for answers with solutions.

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 7, 2024

This looks like you did not use a calligraphy brush, right? You used the blob brush for signing? So it's outlined, right? In Outline view there should be a fine line around it. 

 

If that is the case you can use the Pathfinder panel and click on unite. 

 

 

_scott__
_scott__
Legend
December 7, 2024

That is one layer. You have a bunch of paths all on the same layer.

 

Illustrator's Layers Panel is really a "Layers and Objects" panel. It's not like layers panels in other (raster) applications. The panel is showing you all the paths, but if you look at the top of the list, there's Layer 1 (the only layer). Objects are the core of vector applications. You can't "merge" the objects like you can merge Layers in Photoshop/Lightroom/Procreate/etc. 

 

This may help explain further: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/layers.html

 

You can Group the paths so they behave as a single object (select them and then choose Object > Group). Or you can create a Compound Path which will also act like a single object, but may make coloring easier (Select then then choose Object > Compound Path > Make)

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