The fills are showing up for each curve because the shape itself is not closed. If you select two segments that otherwise have a gap between them then draw over them with the Join Tool, it'll connect them. Close all the gaps in the perimeter, and you'll have a closed shape that you can fill. ... View more

Oh, did you expand the result of the Image Trace? That'll turn it into lines that you can connect with the lines you're drawing. Then you can connect line segments you've drawn with the traced shape using the Join Tool which is in the same tool group as the Pencil Tool. When you're ready to fill it in, you'll probably want to close the shape so that it fills completely. You can do that with shape builder or Window > Pathfinder and under Shape Modes select Unite if it isn't already a closed shape. ... View more

Instead of using the pen tool, I'd recommend using the pencil tool--unless you're more familiar and comfortable with the pen tool. The pencil tool was redone about a year or so ago. If you draw a segment with the pencil tool that doesn't fit the curve as you would like, redraw over it, and the curve will update with the new segment you've drawn. Here's more info on the pencil tool. Enhanced Pencil Tool | Illustrator CC. I wouldn't say manually tracing instead of using Illustrator's Image Trace defeats the purpose of the automated trace. It expands your options for choosing a technique that delivers the results you want in the most efficient way. ... View more

Did you hit the F key? Hitting F toggles through various view. If you tap F again, you'll eventually get back to the original view. If you accidentally undocked or closed it, you can go to upper right where the workspace is set to Essentials. Open the drop down menu and go to Reset Essentials. ... View more

Just to clarify, Creative Cloud files are files that you can open as documents. They won't show up in your library. Only Libraries assets will show up in your Libraries. If you got to adobe.com and sign in, you'll see they're stored in different locations. ... View more

Are your Color Settings synchronized across your Creative Cloud applications? You can do that in Bridge by going to Edit > Color Settings... Scroll down to see Synchronize Color Settings across Adobe applications here: Creative Suite * Keeping colors consistent. ... View more

I'm sorry you're having trouble, however Animate can apply a blend mode to a shape tween, classic tween, or motion tween that is inside a movieclip. I'd have to have more information to see where you're having a problem. Playback performance can be affected by what you're trying to publish. Here is some information on frame rate/performance and some ways to optimize your playback Optimize FLA files for Animate CC. ... View more

Let me make sure I understand. You have an animation that is contained in a movieclip. Now that it's a movieclip you can access the Blend Modes, but they're not behaving the way you think they should as it becomes invisible if you set it to anything besides normal. Can you tell me how you want the final result to look? And can you post a screenshot of your stage and the Properties panel when the movieclip is selected? ... View more

The 2017 version is available. Maybe try updating and see if that helps. ... View more

I totally agree. It's a bummer to not have your Libraries show up. The reason I asked if the Library panel showed a message was because there previously had been some issues where folks weren't signed in, and then there were other issues. See if any of the links in this post help In photoshop cc 2015 I cannot access my creative cloud library. I wouldn't think it has to do with a password change. What version of Photoshop are you using? ... View more

Does your Libraries panel show a message like you need to sign in or some other error? ... View more

You can select multiple objects at the same time and through the Scale dialog simultaneously increase/decrease their scale if the percentage change is the same. Maybe that wasn't clear from how I worded it that the multiple objects were selected. ... View more

If you're increasing or decreasing the size of multiple objects by the same amount, double-click on the Scale tool to open the Scale dialog. You can change the size uniformly or non-uniformly by entering the percentage you want to increase or decrease. ... View more

The simplest way would be to do all in the Timeline. First split your circle path up so that your bus has keyframes for where you want the bus to start and stop. After that tween span insert keyframes for the duration of time you want to give your user to have the opportunity to click a sign which you could make a button. Make the button's Over state the message on the sign that is revealed when the user hovers (it doesn't matter if they click if there's no code attached to it, and you don't need a Down state unless you want it to look different from the Over state). Then when the time is up, make keyframes on the remainder of the path for where you want the bus to resume and eventually stop again and make that a Classic Tween. If you want the interaction with the user to be dependent on their actions (the sign shows the message, a certain amount of time after the sign is clicked transpires, and after that time the bus resumes), you could control it with ActionScript. Adobe ActionScript 3.0 * Conditionals ... View more

I can't reproduce the issue you're having. Can you provide some more details like your OS, which objects are showing the bounding boxes, and if you turn them off when do they come back? ... View more

I'm using the 2017 Release on Windows. I've tried applying the Zig Zag effect to a circle with no stroke through the Effect menu and via the Appearance panel, but I can't replicate the issue you're seeing. Can you provide the steps you took? ... View more

Absolutely, the Pencil tool will also let you draw a stroke and give you options to adjust the stroke afterward including tapering with the Width tool. It just won't let you apply a vector art brush until after the stroke is drawn--but it doesn't seem like you needed that. ... View more

The reason your strokes are tapering where they intersect is because your stroke is set to the Width Profile 1 which is supposed to taper at every segment. If you want to control where it tapers, do use the Paintbrush tool, set the width to the Uniform Profile then use the Width tool to make any portion of the stroke thinner or thicker. If you convert the stroke to a fill or use the Brush tool which paints fills, you won't be able to access stroke options (that's why they were grayed out).  Think of a drawn fill as a shape instead a path. ... View more

Is this same layout used for all of your technical drawings? If so, you could set guides for where you want the artwork placed and where the text should be and then Save as Template... The designers would need to open that template to do their layouts. That will get you to a point where the designers could align main parts, but it won't help you with the leading or font. And if you save the text for your color names to your Library, they'll be saved as artwork and not editable text. So then you wouldn't be able to apply Character styles. So what you could do is save the text they're supposed to use as a .txt file which can then be placed into Illustrator. The Character style can be saved into the Library which they can apply to the text they import. ... View more

Oh and if you wanted every new layer to be cyan, you can duplicate your layer that is set to cyan by dragging it down to the Create New Layer icon in the Layers panel. ... View more

I don't see it as an option in the preferences, but you could make a new document, change the layer color to cyan, and then Save as Template which will save a .ait file. Then when you want a new file, go to File > New from Template... and select that template. ... View more

Here are a few options: 1. In Illustrator, you can set the visibility of layers as a view by going to View > New View and you can label that view accordingly. To switch Views you have to go back to the View menu and select which view there. 2. If you wanted to set visibility, move position, and/or change colors (and/or layer style) you could do that in Photoshop with Layer Comps. You'd have to bring the artwork for each Illustrator layer over separately otherwise Photoshop is going to put it all on one layer. To make a layer comp go in Photoshop, go to Window > Layer Comps and create a new layer comp for each view. 3. Import your AI file into Animate CC. It'll put all of your layers on Animate layers (unless you tell it to flatten it). It would be a little more complex of a solution if you're not familiar with Animate, though. Adjust visibility by having or not having keyframes for your various layers. You can make buttons to click and use the Code Snippets to help create Timeline Navigation to go to the various frames where your layers have a keyframe or not. And if you have questions, you can post them to the Animate forum. ... View more