Posts Tagged with Illustrator
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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.
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")
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")
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…
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.
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 :)
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