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Hello,I have scanned a document (a musical score), so I have an image.But the background is yellow, and I would like to make the background white.How to do it in Illustrator ?

Windows platform, I haven't had any problems until a few days ago, when I launch Illustrator or Photoshop, they freeze. I can't do anything. Even "control-alt-delete" freezes. I have to force shutdown.  I am still on Windows 10, and have updated as much as I have been allowed considering the change.  ? ? ? Not sure if it's a software/adobe issue, or computer.  Thanks in advance. 

Hi, This issue only happens with files from one particular colleague.I received the file from said colleague. Both of us are using the latest Illustrator software on new computers(Jan 2026). I opened the file in Illustrator and copied a small piece of artwork that only uses one colour. I then created a new document and pasted the artwork. Illustrator paused for a moment before pasting. When it finally appeared, I noticed it had also brought across a large number of swatches from the original file rather than only the swatch linked to the artwork I copied. Please help. It's blowing out our file sizes and giving us multiple errors while working with these files. I have attached one of the files for your reference. If you copy any of the objects in the art to a new document, you will be able to replicate the issue. ThanksDamian

Hi everyone, how to change background colour fill in illustrator?

Since Illustrator 30.1 update when I hold shift to select a colour, or do it manually from the colour picker, the colour will revert to grey or white. Has anyone found a fix for this?colour selectedupon exit, colour reverts to grey?

So when I'm trying to capture the locked text color to recolor another text or shape with the eyedropper tool, it creates outlined layers of the text I'm trying to capture the color from (and keeps the original text there), what is this exactly???* It most likely to happen when the whole layer is locked (not on the object only).

ها هي يا فضاء — نسخة جاهزة تمامًا للإرسال بصيغة بريد إلكتروني رسمي، منسّقة ومتكاملة، وباللغة الإنجليزية كما طلبت. يمكنك نسخها ولصقها مباشرة في بريدك.   --- Subject: Feature Request – Full Dark Mode for Dropdown Menus in Adobe Illustrator and Creative Cloud Apps   Dear Adobe Team,   I hope you are doing well.   My name is Fadaa, and I have been a long‑time user of Adobe Illustrator and the Creative Cloud ecosystem. I am writing to share a feature request that I believe would significantly enhance the user experience for many designers.   Currently, the User Interface settings allow us to choose between several brightness levels, but the dropdown menus and contextual menus remain in a light gray tone even when the dark UI theme is selected. This creates a visual inconsistency and can be distracting—especially for designers who prefer or rely on fully dark interfaces for comfort, focus, or long working sessions.   I would also like to highlight an important p

Hi everybody, I’ve got a problem where the application is stuck on the hand tool. All you can do is move the canvas about. Can anybody advise a solution to this?

Hi thereI'm using Adobe Illustrator v30.0 64-bitI've this problem happened to me throught the years while working on Adobe Illustrator multiple times, and now it happening more often;The problem is, while working on layers like dragging a shape layer then undoing, all of the text layers got selected by itself, and I can't just remove the selection by pressing outside the layers or artboards, I found out I can resize it with the bounding box handels and then undoing my step again and it will got deselected, other than that it's so annoying and takes time espicially when need to redo and undo every once in awhile so I might have the same glitch over and over In the uploaded screen-recording video, an example of it's look like where all the text layer got selected automatically while working and I'm trying to click outside to deselect and it's not working, also I had here a new glitch where I tried to lock the selected text layers and didn't get deselected so i tried to do the resizi

Since the Illustrator 2026 update, it has been impossible to set up one of the two monitors on a dual-screen system to work with a Wacom tablet. This worked perfectly with previous versions, but is no longer the case. When I force my Wacom driver to set Illustrator 2026 to only one of the two screens, the pointer still has access to the second screen when I am using the Illustrator interface. Is Adobe planning to release a fix?

I've got this logo where I want to move each corner of the boundary box independently.Logo is all vector - create outlines/grouped.. ready to go.I hit the E key - I get the Free Distort tool activated. I then hit the CMD key, I see the select tool, I select the corner of the boundary box - Nothing. Nothing budges. Am I missing a step/button? This is Mac AI 3.0

Hola comunidad, quiero descargar la version 2023 de illustrador pero no me aparece en el adobe creative, alguien me podria ayudar ya que intente contactar a soporte pero el bot no me pasa con un agente 

Hello,I would like to import a picture in Illustrator and use a "Levels" function like in Photoshop. Does Illustrator has the same function in it ?

When I "Save As", why does the file explorer open in the last folder I saved a file to instead of where the folder was opened from? Is this a Windows issue or an Adobe issue? It seems like a very simple thing that causes additional wasted time.

I have a DNA pattern brush that I use quite a lot but when I try to implement something like perspective, I can't get the look I want. I used a variable with stroke on this pattern brush and I don't like how the width tool seems to scale only in the vertical dimention, squishing the pattern, the look of which is technically scientfically inaccurate. I hope you can see how the DNA in the top "row" is differnet than the DNA where I added the little magenta arrows. It starts to get squished as the width decreases,  and it keeps getting more and more squished.Is it possible for the pattern to be scaled in both the vertical and horizontal using the width tool? Or is there another way I should be thinking about this? See screenshot. I'm using the latest Illustrator on the Mac OS. Thank you!

BNonjour, savez vous s'il est possible d'installer des bibliothèques de styles graphiques et notamments des formes de traits artistiques style crayonnés autres que ceux existant dans illustrator ? Merci.

So all of my designs have been done in RGB in Procreate. But now I have people wanting my designs turned into stickers, tshirts and such. Which I have done some already. The sticker company says it has to be in CMYK. So first I created a CMYK canvas in Procreate and imported the image and the colors look absolutely horrible, not even close. Did some digging and found out Procreate's color conversion isn't good and they're working on it for a future update. So then I decided to export it to Illustrator for iPad, which I'm very unfamiliar with using as of now. So I've exported in in various file formats and they all convert the colors equally, but the CMYK does look much better in Illustrator than in Procreate. I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me the best way to do this and get the color accuracy at least as close as CMYK will allow me to as my original RGB? Any other process that's guaranteed for the best results? Any tips on how to color correct it after it has been imported? Also

Why cant i find/access glyphs in illustrator 10??

i'm sure i used to know what these pop-ups were called but now cannot for the life of me remember and i want them TURNED OFF - illustrator is now just bloatware.... have tried turning off tooltips in prefs  (both kinds) and unchecking all things associated with smart guides in prefs and even smart guides (fully off) - but it persists. it's driving me insane - you can't see areas beneath it - so it's hampering getting work done. here's two images of what i mean - shows angle, etc.  is this now a bug with the latest update??? - aaargh - any help would be so appreciated - thanks!!!!!!!!!

Since my Illustrator updated to v30.1, saved .ai files have been turning invisible in the Finder. The files save normally at first but will later seem to disappear. The file is still where I saved it, just invisible. I can still open the file from Illustrator's "Recent Documents", and doing a "Save As" into the same location prompts a "File already exists, do you want to overwrite?" message. The only way I can see the files is to use "Cmd+Shft+." to Show Hidden Files. I am on a Mac Studio running Tahoe 26.1   

I just updated to Illustrator 26 and there are a ton of things I can no longer access the way I used to. I cant select same color, menu is grayed out. Its not a live paint or anything. I can draw 2 shapes on a new doc and got to select and it will not let me. Also cant use Pathfinder option not avaible. Most of the menu items are all grayed out?????

Tengo un problema al exportar solo en JPG, me crea un archivo de 0kb, en los otros formatos como PNG, SVG Y TIFF se exporta bien, formatie mi pc pensando que era un error de sistema, vuelvo y trato de exportar y tengo el mismo problema, necesito solucionar ese problema. Ya probe con todas las formas de exportar para JPG y nada.¡Ayuda!Gracias 

So:   1. I'm forced to pay 86.55 € every month for Creative Cloud, up like 10 € from last year.   2. The app keeps crashing (on Nov 2024 24GB MacBook Pro). It didn't use to before.   3. The auto-recovery, which's been working fine for the last 10+ years is for some reason taken from us—it takes you to the last-saved version, any untitled files just vanish.   Really? Like wtf, why would you fumble the bag on this caliber? This is ridiculous. Do you recommend going back to earlier version?    And for all the patronizer splainiacs out there seeing this as their opportunity to shine and write "don't rely on auto-recovery save your files" – pls save the rest of us, you're not special, literally everyone gets that. Without you saying. Like literally just don't write it.

Everything works fine until I try to save the file. At that point, Illustrator becomes very slow, and it often takes almost an hour to complete the save process in Adobe Illustrator 30.1. Has anyone experienced this issue or knows how to fix it?

I have vector objects in Illustrator that are reduced to 1/10 of their original size when exported to other vector programs. I was able to fix this by copying and pasting into a new, larger document. However, I had 2 vectors of the same shape, but one was to have an offset of .125 inch. After pasting the vector onto the new document, the offset vector was .0125 inches (1/10th).