I am afraid there is no way to get round the different restrictions set up by different providers, Hendy.   All you can do is try to make the least worst of it. In this connexion, the doubling(s) of resolution/pixel x pixel number gives the best possible basis for a corresponding downsampling.   I hope you can get away with the times 4 when uploading.   ... View more

Hendy,   Which file formats are accepted by myportfolio.com?   If SVG is included you can display vector artwork without worrying about resolution and blurriness/graininess/jaggedness, because SVG can keep it vector instead of raster. ... View more

Hendy,   Times 4 is fine. I always prefer doublings of 72PPI.   ... View more

Dean, I keep wondering whether there is a safe distance and what it might be (immediately and in the long run, literal meaning).   ... View more

Hendy,   With Export for screens as suggested by Ton, you ought to be able to see the options in the screenshot.   Otherwise, you can use Save for Web and multiply by 2 in the Image Size window.   But my question was actually about your other question, the thread about Rounded only on the outside, where 4 different answers were given, hence the link in my post.     Edit: And what Monika said 56 seconds before this.   ... View more

Jane, I agree with Dave about the good sleuthing. I thought he had been to Atacama and missed the desierto florido.   Dave, it would have beeen nice to see that bloom, but the barrenness gave other opportunities.   ... View more

firash,   The top image shows that you have a number of open paths, the straight fill of curved paths ending at the end Anchor Points.   How have you tried to join them?   Are the open end Anchor Points of adjacent path coinciding or a bit off?   The best solution depends on the required quality of the artwork.   ... View more

Xander,   As Monika said, there is only the hierarchy that you set up.   The stacking order is crucial to many things.   Normally, we just talk about objects, which can be individual paths or combinations of objects such as Groups and Clipping Masks/Sets and whatnot.   I believe you are heavily influenced by Ps concepts/Ps speak (Layers being a significant part), and it has proved to be a great hindrance to many because it is fundamentally different to Ai, the best approach then being to try to forget everything Ps and really start over and enjoy a completely different world of wonders.   In the Layers palette with the layer(s) expanded, you just have objects, and you can change the stacking order by dragging things up and down in the palette, or on the Artboard/workspace, some cunning ways using a combination of both.   But for simple things like a Clipping Mask, if only you have the Clipping Path on top, you just select all the relevant parts and apply the mask, and then everything finds its way to the place of the Clipping Path in the stacking order.   And for Divide Objects Below, if only you have the path on top, you just select only that, and when you apply the dividing the path disappears and the divided objects are in the same places in the stacking order, and you can just select the unwanted bits on the Artboard/workspace and delete them (and see them disappear in the Layers palette).   ... View more

You are welcome, Xander.   I have improved the description of how to get the desired change, now with 3 steps.     It is easier if you use the all too well hidden Insert Photos button at the top of the Reply box (looks like moon over mountains) to have screenshots shown i the post, rather than the all too conspicuous attachment option which requires opening a new Tab (with things apart). ... View more

Xander,   If you do something that actually cuts stroked paths, the shape/direction of the cut ends will be determined by the chosen Cap, Butt/Round/Projecting, basically perpendicular to the path direction at the end.   If you wish to have the (appearance of the) cuts follow a path that may be form any angle with (each of) the paths, you can: A) If you just wish to hide the ends, use a closed path on top as a Clipping Path, selecting it together with the bunch of lines and creating a Clipping mask/Set; this is reversible; B) If you can live with filled paths, Object>Path>Outline Stroke for the bunch of lines and use a closed path, or just an open one if only for one end, on top and (without selecting the bunch of line path) use Object>Divide Objects Below, then delete the outlying unwanted end parts; this is irreversible.   Remember to always make a backup of artwork before you destroy it.     Edit: Hi Kurt. ... View more

Xander,   As I (mis)understand it, you wish to stretch the right arm and leg (no joke) of the X so their ends go an infinitely long way to the right.   In that case the visible parts of the arm and the leg will just be a horizontal line with a width equalling their combined height at the centre of the X, in other words look like a Y turned +90 degrees.   If you mean that they are to be stretched far to the left but still with the ends visible, which will make them be rather thin at the ends, and presuming you have outlined the X, how about simply doing as follows?   1) Deselect the letter; 2) With the Direct Selection Tool ClickDrag across the outer ends of the right arm and leg (presumably selecting two Anchor Points at the top and two at the bottom); 3) Hold Shift while you ClickDrag this set of Anchor Points left until they are sufficiently far out;   or if you know how far out you wish to move them:   2B) Use Object>Transform>Move and set the Horizontal value to the desired distance.     Shown here with a Helvetica X, the perpetual one continuing past the red boundary,     Click to get closer ... View more

Timmy,   Is there a reason to have the Distress Group larger than the desired Bounding Box, rather than delete the outlying parts?   ... View more

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David,   Back then, at the change of direction from what you wish (+ upwards), there was no open discussion about the matter in the forum, so most of us only found out after its happening.   It turned out that some had asked for the change (to + downwards), whereas everyone satisfied with the old way and no knowledge of a possible change had no reason to ask for anything, which presumably created the impression that there was a general wish for the change.   There were some exchanges of views afterwards.   As I remember it, the one reason given by those expressly supporting the change of direction was that it would then be the same as in Photoshop (for drawing which might as well have been + upwards), and for InDesign (for writing in lines obviously increasing downwards).   As I remember it, those expressing the wish to be able to keep working with the original + upwards direction had no objection to the opposite wish and therefore proposed the solution of an inbuilt optional direction so it was possible to simply choose the desired direction, and switch between the two.   As I remember it, no one expressly in favour of the change of direction supported the proposal of an optional direction.   As it appears from the link that Ton posted, some of us tried to find ways to change the direction, and Carlos @CarlosCanto created exactly the solution of an optional direction so it was possible to simply choose the desired direction, and switch between the two.   Unfortunately, it remains a solution unknown to almost everyone, only to be revealed when someone asks the obvious question as you just did, and someone knowing the solution tells about it as Ton did.   Until that change, all vector drawing applications had the same direction (+ upwards).   ... View more

Hendy,   May I ask whether you saw all the 4 answers to this one?   https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/rounded-only-on-the-outside/m-p/15172652 ... View more

Leah,   Maybe far too far out, but I believe that you may somehow confuse/overwhelm the printer(s) with all the differently (coloured and) dashed bottom lines on top of one another, and that maybe tiny differences in the positions of the bottom lines in the PDF cause the issue on certain pages and not on others.   "extra lines appear, coming from one of the corners"   Actually, they come from multiple corners, and at least the misplaced continuation of the fourth dashed line from the right (the bold one with two shorter dashes at the end of each long dash) comes from a position further to the right from that corner.   Therefore I would suggest your making a separate print version of the final pattern set, using Save As and adding Print to the document name, and then modify it as follows:   1) Delete the bottom segment of all the dashed lines except the outermost rosy coloured bold one with the long and short dashes; 2) Leave the rosy colured bottom segment dashed or replace it by a full rosy colured line (you can drag it out with the Line Segment Tool between the end Anchor Points).   You can also just do/try it to eliminate the cause of whatever is (not) happening, and to give a nice and simple appearance in print with/withour Colours.   As I see it, the use of that (rosy) colour would give a consistent boundary to the whole set, continuing the outermost pattern line.   After that, you can go back to the final pattern set for editing or as the basis for a new pattern set, leaving the print version behind.   ... View more

Hendy,   You can:   1) Choose the radius of the inner rounding (which may be the one you have for the spine); 2) Reduce both the Width and the Height of the rounded rectangle by the Stroke Weight so it corresponds to the (original) inner boundary of the Stroke; 3) In the Stroke palette choose Align Stroke to Outside.   That will give you the desired inner rounding and the corresponding outer rounding.   Otherwise, you can Outline the Stroke and then round the inner path in the filled Compound Path, but that will give a quite different look, and the filled Compound Path may be undesirable.   If you wish to have the same look as the 1) - 3) with a filled Compound Path, you can use Object>Expand Appearance and thereby retain the roundings.     ... View more

You have a point, Michael, but I count on their being silly enough to tempt anyone. ... View more

In addition to what Doug rightly said, I believe the first step will be to rotate the image so you have the main lines (roughly, depending on the photo) vertical and horizontal including the bounding ones.   The approach will also depend on whether it is supposed to represent the appearance on the photo, which has been taken from a spot above the lower part of the roof, or represent a reproduction of the original floor plan with (many) right angles.   ... View more

Optimistic,   I agree with Doug, of course. My own first thought was that the best way would be to scale the original logo sizes in comparable use (not one from a poster/billboard and one from a business card) by the same factor (or leave them as they are), with exceptions that can be dealt with individually (and must in any case). ... View more

Dave, mj, I was surprised at its being scary. It was a follow up on this, and I wished to include the props but ran out of time trying to find them again.   https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-37-who-is-in-the-attic/m-p/10099315#M197717   There were some really scary attics back then, though.   ... View more

Nino,   The word flyer seems to imply the use of text (as parts or in full) rather than pure imagery, so the obvious choice of application would be InDesign.   You can get help with that here, https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/ct-p/ct-indesign?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all   It would be quite possible with the help of Illy (job description Adobe Illustrator) too.   ... View more

xiandavis,   Now that is a surprising solution.   Thank you very much for sharing.   ... View more

Rachel,   You need to use the Delete Anchor Point Tool, the one with the -   You already knows what happens if you use the normal Anchor Point Tool while holding Shift, and it can be used for other purposes.   Without the Shift, the normal Anchor Point Tool works as the Delete Anchor Point Tool.   All when applied to an Anchor Point.   ... View more

cbaft,   It is indeed different to the original letters. Are they in the same Layer of the same document?   It looks more or less as if the Rasterize Effect is turned on, or Anti-Aliasing is turned off in the Preferences.   The former will hit only the object (or Layer if applied to that), and can be seen in the Appearance palette when the object (or the Layer) is selected   The latter will hit everything.   Is it also happening if you create a new Document and try the same?   I shall ponder and maybe come up with something even sillier.     ... View more

Fuland,   In this particular case you can simply scale the design by the difference in one template path segment, such as the horizontal one at the bottom or the vertical one between sleeve and bottom, because the different T shirt size templates have the same proportions.   However, I doubt whether the proportionate size templates is a sound approach. The general approach is different changes in size (and shape) of each template part with the corresponding mutual adaptation, this approach obviously applied differently depending on choice of builds to fit.   Have you made the templates or are they existing ones?   Anyroad, with an uncomplicated design as the one shown, I believe you can safely centre it and then simply scale it horizontally by the width (bottom/sides) and horizontally by the height (bottom to neck).   As always, it is good to assess the appearance (size and especially position) in each case.   ... View more

Dave, now we only need 1000 more SFTWeekends to reach the special 1234 mark.       ... View more

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Truly astonishing, Leslie, in this winter weekend where we work with wee ones. ... View more