Articles on Adobe Illustrator tutorials, how-tos, common errors and fixes, program reviews, and comparisons.
Illustrator is better than Photoshop for designing Logos. This is because Illustrator is primarily a vector-based software, enabling you to create shapes and lines that scale without losing quality. Photoshop is pixel-based, meaning the image or logo you create loses quality with scaling. To get a better understanding of the differences between the two software,…
9-slice scaling is a 2D image resizing technique that proportionally scales an image by splitting it into nine sections. Each of these sections will be reduced or expanded according to the value given for their corresponding percentage of stretching. One great benefit of 9-slice scaling is that corners are preserved and not stretched. For instance,…
CAD stands for “Computer-Aided Design” and is a computer program used in engineering and manufacturing. The acronym has become a synonym for design software, so therefore yes, Illustrator is a CAD program. However CAD often also refers to drafting programs, and Illustrator is not a drafting program. Designers use Illustrator to create graphics to be…
There are many reasons why you might want to change the format of Adobe Illustrator files. For example, users might want a DWG file to import into an engineering firm’s 3D modeling application or they might be working on their own side project and need a final design in a CAD format. To convert an…
Choosing between Photoshop and Illustrator for drawing cartoons will depend on what style of cartoon you want to draw. If your style is more traditional like a newspaper cartoon or comic and manga, then Photoshop would be your best bet. If you want to draw a more modern-looking cartoon with clean crisp edges and lines,…
I’ve used Adobe Illustrator for well over 5 years now as my staple graphic design program both as a student and in my professional career. It’s a great program like all other adobe software, but it costs a ton, and to be honest, I’ve struggled to afford it at times. When I wasn’t getting regular…
The term “pt” in Adobe Illustrator refers to points. Points are a unit of measurement used to measure letterforms and line spacing. Points represent a measurement of line spacing and letter height (or width) in Adobe Illustrator documents. A point is not the same as a pixel or a centimeter; rather, it’s an absolute unit…
There are 2 reasons why your exported image appears pixelated. Either you’re original artboard size in illustrator does not match your intended export dimensions (artboard was too small) or your export settings result in a lower quality export. To export your Illustrator file into a high-quality PNG or JPG image, make sure your artboard in…
What is the size of Adobe Illustrator? The download sizes shown in the tables in this article are only averages from different download sites available on the internet. Adobe releases multiple updates in a year to fix bugs and issues and therefore the sizes may vary depending on the updates. Official Adobe software will be…
Adobe Illustrator CC2015 and newer versions have auto-recovery feature as default. When Illustrator crashes or is not responding, force close the program and relaunch it and illustrator will ask you to open the auto-recovered documents from the last time it was saved. Once you open the recovered document, save it before you start working again….
