r/AdobeIllustrator

Made this in Illustrator yesterday

These are the icons I'm working with, they are in the compound path and I couldn't turn them into a single stroke line to animate as trimpaths in after effects. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

hello. I had to make the second one using brushes in Photoshop, so it isn’t vector-based.

HELP

I just made an errant key stroke and now this line shows up in EVERY document. Qualities:

- cannot move, adjust, or select

- doesn't appear to be on a layer

- is visible in color in outline mode

- appears thick when zoomed out and thin when zoomed in

- changes color depending on what layer I'm in

The last bit feels important. It makes me feel like its a layer menu issue.

In the image above the text is 12pt Myriad Pro Regular - just for size reference.

Any ideas?

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

🚫 No AI

I can't show what I'm doing here, so I did this drawing to y'all understand, I want to have freedom to move the line too afterwards, can somebody help me? Sorry I'm a total beginner :(

Hiya. I recently stumbled upon a designer (@eliasjprado) on Instagram who makes amazing letters, with perfect shading - and it's all done in Illustrator. I've worked with Illustrator for a long time now, but never really got the hang of using shading and grain in it. What would be a good way to recreate this?

Im kinda new to Illustrator so I dont know much about how to replicate such textures. I want to make a logo with something like that.

I really love this image that pops up when you open illustrator. Anybody have a collection of every image adobe has used for this?

I'm trying to add a white background/stroke around this illustration but path/offset isn't working.

A little bit of my work creating festival maps in Illustrator. Also my love of putting puns and little details into them.

Good day! I am trying to replicate what is being instructed in this video:

https://youtu.be/txSkCvl8c14?si=Ge5kSK_ymbm8Us74

Here are my issues that I tried for two hours trying to figure out since I am on AI 2026 and I am unsure of controls have changed a lot since 6 years ago?

- He states to right click the text and select "create outlines" (Time in Video: 7:35). When I do, it doesn't give the dotted formation seen in this video. It just shows a box around the text.

-He selects the text>object>path>offsetpath and changes the offset px. I didn't do exactly to his thickness in the video, because on my screen, it looked like there was barely in black as the outline so I went thicker (4 px).

-He proceeds to ungroup them, which I also did to my text, and then he states to select all the fonts. (Time in video 8:12) When I try to select using either control, shift, etc. it doesn't allow me to click more than one letter. How do I accomplish this? I tried single letter selection and manually changing the next steps, but it didn't work.

-He selects white color, but doesn't click on the color palette to be able to change it to white quickly. Is there a shortcut key for this?

-Next in video time, 8:23, he states to go to pathfinder, and "combine them". I did this, and the black completely dissapeared for several tries. Eventually, I tried one letter at a time to keep the white inside the black, but when I would try the "combining" it would disappear.

-In 8:35 he discusses strobe color. I have attempted this as well, and the only was I was able to do it was doing each letter individually, BUT when I go to the next step, it clearly doesn't work that way.

(Doing this in Windows)

I have been away from Adobe software for many years, and recently wanted to create a logo on my own without having to pay someone. I thought this would have been very clear and to the point, but in the video he talks relatively fast and I can't see what controls he is doing, also the software I have looks quite different from the video since it's almost 6 years ago. If someone can give me a break down, I would greatly appreciate your help! :)