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InkScribe v 1.7.1 — What’s New

Thanks to customer feedback and interaction, InkScribe has just become an even more convenient tool. We have changed the tool's location, default preferences and added new InkScribe's presets. We are always thankful for your feedback and expert evaluation as it helps us to improve our products. So thank you! We hope you enjoy this new improved product.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
How to Create Festive Fireworks with Stipplism and Illustrator

Today you will learn how to create fireworks using Stipplism. To do this, we will only need two circles and one straight-line segment. The entire working process only takes a few minutes. Let’s stipple fireworks together!

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
How to Create Vintage Labels with the Dynamic Shapes Tool in Adobe Illustrator

Although the Dynamic Shapes Tool in VectorScribe is designed to create basic shapes, the combination of this tool and use of Illustrator’s effects allows you to create a variety of complex shapes. At the same time the objects do not lose their dynamic properties, which allows you to transform them into new shapes in just a few seconds.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
Arc Tool in Adobe Illustrator

Once I saw a sketch that one artist draw in the pencil hatching style. Being impressed by the apparent casualness of path and zigzag strokes, I immediately wanted to try to imitate this technique in Adobe Illustrator. But it turned out that the tablet’s pen with the selected Pencil Tool forms too many unnecessary anchor points while you draw, which are quite difficult to remove. And then I remembered a good old Arc Tool - a tool that I almost never used. Now I understand that it was in vain…

posted by: Eugene S. Chiayinick, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
How to use the Space Fill Feature in ColliderScribe 2

In this tutorial you will learn about all the options and properties of the new Space Fill tool, which allows you to fill the container path with selected objects, distributing them evenly within the shape. Many Adobe Illustrator users have been thinking of such a tool for years. And now you finally have it in your hands thanks to the latest release of Collider Scribe.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
Creating Dynamic Company Business Cards Using a .CSV file with VariableImporter.jsx script in Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a dynamic business card document which uses dynamic text, linked-file and visibility variables to change the appearance of the content on the page with VariableImporter script. The script automates the conversion of tab or comma separated text files into Illustrator compatible .XML files, immediately ready for direct use in the Illustrator Variables panel — without leaving Illustrator!

posted by: Vasily Hall, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
Set Resolution of bitmap Images with Rasterino in Illustrator

With the help of the Rasterino plug-in we can precisely determine and set resolutions for Linked and Embedded bitmap images. I hope that you have already experienced using Rasterino if not, download 14 day free trials now!

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
Diagrams of Primary Symmetry Types and Creating a Geometric Pattern in Illustrator with SymmetryWorks

In this tutorial, you will find diagrams of patterns of all the primary symmetry types. The diagrams will help you to better grasp the nature of symmetry, which is a good starting point for the creation of complex seamless patterns. We also create a simple geometric pattern, in Arabian style, using Artlandia SymmetryWorks. This Illustrator plug-in produces all symmetries and makes the job of constructing geometric patterns much easier. So let's get started!

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
How to Crop Bitmap Images in Illustrator with Rasterino

Today we will take a look at interactive and numeric ways of cropping a bitmap image in Adobe Illustrator using the Crop Image Tool and Crop Image function of the Rasterino panel. You will also learn how to quickly remove extra white and transparent pixels on the edges of the image using the Trim Image function. With the help of the Rasterino plug-in, Adobe Illustrator gets tools that usually only raster graphics editors like Photoshop have.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
Illustrator and Photoshop Workflow with Rasterino

In-line editing of the Embedded images outside Adobe Illustrator in raster graphics editors like Photoshop using native functions is impossible. To do this you first need to unembed an image. Rasterino allows conducting in-line editing of the Embedded images in a much easier and faster way.

posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, in Illustrator Tips / Tool, Read More
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