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Adobe Illustrator tips, troubleshooting tutorials and help topics for the original vector drawing program.

Adobe Illustrator help, tips and troubleshooting techniques

 

Illustrator tutorialsIllustrator is the primary vector graphics drawing application for the design industry and beyond. Designers will use the program for everything from illustrations, through to creating logos, banners, adverts and even simple page layout.

This section of the site is for tutorials, tips, tricks and troubleshooting techniques for all versions of the software, from the Creative Suite right down to earlier versions.

Adobe Illustrator has one of the steepest learning curves of all the graphics applications. Its use of vectors is often one of the most confusing features for many new designers, as is the integration with bitmap editors such as Photoshop and the various page layout programs.

As ever, the teach yourself approach has many advantages over wading through the manual or sitting in a classroom, and online help is a useful way to get to grips with many of the common tools, as well as undocumented features.

Along with the other graphics programs, Adobe Illustrator is being increasingly used in web design as well as its traditional base of graphic design for print. We will regularly be adding more tutorials and tips to this section, so please keep checking back to keep up to date with developments.

Applying a gradient to a stroke in Illustrator Is it possible to apply a gradient effect to a stroke?
Changing direction of text on a path in Illustrator Useful tip for using text in circular logos.
How to set crop marks in Illustrator Tips for setting up crop marks within documents.
Illustrator Character Palette missing The dreaded missing Palette issue.
Maintaining stroke width when scaling down Illustrator objects How to control the way that Illustrator treats strokes when resizing objects.
New fonts will not show up in Illustrator 8 OpenType font problems with older versions of the software.

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