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I’m trying to create this shape in illustrator using the pen to, but I’m a little out of shape in illustrator. Is there a way to replicate my drawing?

New to illustrator, how can I get only the outline of the text to show on this svg?

Hey, I cannot do a basic pathfinder substract without illustrator messing the shapes ... what the hell is going on??? this used to work properly FOR YEARS?? Has anyone else experience that? I'm on Illustrator 30.2.1 on windows 64bit

I'm doing this design as a portfolio. going to use it onto products like bags, water bottles or somethings else. did this in illustrator. any critiques??

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6pnavkmIbWU

Learn to make this Non-Destructive Sliced Text Effect with this Adobe Illustrator Tutorial.

With your Text created, and selected, go to the Pathfinder Panel and click the fly out and click "Make Compound Shape".

Then using the Rectangle Tool create a block that overlaps a portion of your text. You need to make sure this block is behind your Text. You can do this by using the "Send To Back" command.

Now select both the Block and Text shapes, and set to None. If this step is not followed, the following steps won't work properly.
With everything still selected go to Object - Group.

Next, go to the Appearance Panel and click on the Add New Fill button. Set the fill color to anything you like, this can always be updated in the future.
Then go to FX - Pathfinder - Minus Back
This will create the bottom half of the slice effect.

Click Add New Fill, again in the Appearance Panel, then choose FX - Pathfinder - Intersect
This will create the top half of the slice effect.

With the Intersect layer selected click FX - Distort & Transform - Transform
Adjust the Move Horizontal to 10px and Move Vertical to -10px
This will create the offset of our sliced text effect.

Then using the Direct Select Tool, adjust the nodes of the placed block to create slanted shape.

Now you have a Fully Editable Non-Destructive Sliced Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator.

Does anyone know how to run text in the perspective tool to look like the attached image? I'm having trouble figuring out how to run text left to right on the horizontal grid without it going the wrong direction. I can move the right grid to fit the bottom text ("this"), but it also has an extremely warped perspective. I've gotten that close to what I'm looking for, but the top text is going to kill me. Any help is appreciated!

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

Quick demo here highlighting the difference between Relative and Absolute scale inside Transform Each.

With Relative mode you could only scale objects in relation to the selected object, but now with Absolute mode you can scale everything to the defined amount, even if they are all at different sizes.

Is this one of those features you could see yourself making use of?

Hey, I’m having a brain fart moment and can’t figure out how to get this bottom banner to have the rectangle curve into the negative space between it and the knot. I’m using the top one as a reference. I’ve tried going the pathfinder way, I’ve tried the pen and direct select method, and I’ve tried the merging. Is there a way to do it? Am I just making this overly complicated?

Just got to show this in a real show too!

How to make a stroke/borderline of an object with transparent background (I mean I just need a stroke/borderline but I need to hide/transparent inside of object as I don't need the object). Please see the attached photo (as in the photo, the stroke of hen has a transparent background)

I'm trying to recreate (in different colors) this really cool background of these two radial gradient circles that also have this transition from the light side to the dark side in the middle. I know how to make the radial gradients but can't for the life of me figure out how to make the middle transition / as cohesive as it does in the inspo. Any advice?

Hi all. I’m a fairly experienced Photoshop user that’s currently learning illustrator, mostly for fun. I’m working my way through what can and cannot be done in the Appearance panel and have not been able to work out how to have the drop shadow appear only on the red circle using just the Appearance panel itself. I’m aware that I could use transparency masks, layers and clipping masks to do this, so no need for anyone to spend any time answering that.

I mostly want to make sure I’m not missing something, as it seems like just clipping to a lower effect within the Appearance panel isn’t a feature or function outside the realm of possibility. If it’s not possible, I’d love to know that for sure.

Thanks in advance for any answers or clarification and apologies if this is something simple I’ve missed.