Illustrator 101: The Annoying Grayscale Color Problem

If you’ve ever run into this annoying little Illustrator problem, it can be very frustrating, but it has a simple fix. Every so often you may find that no matter what color you select, Illustrator converts your selection to grayscale…

Illustrator 101: The Annoying Grayscale Color Problem

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How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

I gotten a few emails recently about how to create a seamless diagonal pattern in Illy, so here we go! Illustrator comes with some default pattern brushes, but no diagonal love. Diagonal patterns are a bit more tricky to make than a simple horizontal, or vertical pattern, but with some rock solid alignment, and some manual input into the Transform palette, you’ll be making diagonal patterns in no time. Let’s get started.

How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

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Illustrator 101: Superfast Spacing with the Blend Tool (Video)

Here’s a quick and dirty way to space objects using Illustartor’s Blend tool. Havent done a video in a while, or an Illy post, so it’s back to the basics this week! Hope you like it :)

Illustrator: Blend Tool Spacing from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

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[Ask BB] Saving Patterns in Illy, Pixelated Fonts, and more

Here’s round 2 of the Ask BB series. Some of these questions came in via email, and others via twitter (@bittbox), so If you have a question, let me know. When I get enough questions that I can answer, you might see your question here next time around :) Thanks to everyone for sending in your questions. Let’s get started.

[Ask BB] Saving Patterns in Illy, Pixelated Fonts, and more

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[Ask BB] Saving Brushes, Object-Expand, Raster Effects Settings and more

This is my first Question/Answer post here at BittBox, and I plan on doing this more often. All of these questions came in from twitter, so if you have a Photoshop or Illy question you need answered, you can leave a comment here, or send me a tweet. I’ll save all the questions that come in and try to answer as many as I can. To kick things off I have some answers below, just remember, I can’t answer every single question that comes in because of 2 fundamental reasons: 1) I may not know the answer, or 2) I may not understand what you were asking. Ok, lets try to de-mystify Illy and PS a little, shall we? Thanks for everyone who send in the tweets :)

[Ask BB] Masking, Object-Expand, Antialiasing and more

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