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I’m back with some more very useful Illustrator workflow tips this week. This video covers how to delete a single handle from an anchor point, and how to make angled guides. Enjoy :)
Illustrator How To: Angled Guides and Deleting a Single Handle from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
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Today I have a quick but useful Illustrator tip for you. In this video, I talk about how to control exactly where you place your guides on the Illustrator artboard.
Illustrator 101: Precise Guide Placement from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
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Last week I gave away some vector grunge and I’m here to show you how I made those shapes. In this video, we will be using Illustrator and a plugin called Scriptographer to achieve organic vector grunge textures, useful in a myriad of applications. Let’s get started.
Illustrator: How to Make Vector Grunge from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
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Today I have a simple but important tip when drawing in Illustrator. Have you ever needed 2 points to be perfectly aligned but nudging simply won’t work? Well, you can align points, just like you can align objects. In this example I’m going to use some outlined text. Let’s get started.
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Eddie, a relatively new Illustrator user had a question about raster images in Illustrator. Eddie asks: “I have imported a raster image into illustrator and I would like to know the properties of it (ie dpi). Is there a way of doing this in Illustrator (ie properties box that exists in Corel)? I’m not sure about a Corel equivalent, but there are options in Illustrator to help you out.
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I recently received a good question via email from Jimmy with an Illustrator question. Although the solution is simple, if you are unaware of the solution, it can be very annoying. Jimmy’s question was “When in brush mode, why is it that when you go to make a second stroke, it erases the first one?” A good question Jimmy, and I’m sure you’re not the first one to become frustrated with this in Illustrator. Here we go…
![[Ask BB] Illustrator 101: Edit Selected Paths](http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/edit_selected_paths_1.jpg "[Ask BB] Illustrator 101: Edit Selected Paths")
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I recently received an email from Zosia asking me an Illustrator question. Zosia had a vector shape of Africa in Illustrator and wanted to fill the shape with a texture. It’s not as difficult as you might think, but for those of you new to Illustrator, this is a very useful thing to know. You can’t actually “clip” or “cut out” the shape from your texture, but it’s very easy to make a mask, and you still get the same effect.
![[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator](http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/clipping_mask_1.jpg "[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator")
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