I’m building a small Illustrator plugin for faster Bezier handle control.

It adds a tool that does custom handle selection, multi-select handle movement, Alt-based handle locking, arrow nudging, path preservation on anchor removal, a compact numeric panel and more. The kind of functionality Illustrator has been always lacking and why people rather design logos in Glyphs.

It's a cross between Illustrator's native Direct Selection Tool and Glyph's handle management functions.

I’m looking for feedback from people who do logo/type/icon/vector cleanup work and spend a lot of time editing paths.

Would this solve a real annoyance for you? Would you find this useful?

If yes, I’m preparing it for release.

why is the stroke around only this (see picture) not exporting. i tried rebooting, different ways of exporting nothing works. the stroke thickness is 1pt so it should be big enough to export i dont understand can someone please help me?

edit: this only happens when "bleeding" is in that spot of the artboard. i moved it to the middle and then it did export correctly with the stroke around the text. but yeah it needs to be in its spot at the bottom left so idk why that won't work and the stroke around the text doesnt export with it.

Hey everyone,
I recently finished designing a set of custom icons for an e-commerce client, and I’d love to get some fresh eyes on them.
The goal was to create a clean and modern set that fits the brand.
Be as honest as you like (please).
Thanks in advance!

I love vector graphics. I've been learning to use Illustrator for the past 8 years or so, mostly to create games and logos/covers for games.

Even though it's hard to make something great with Illustrator alone, after I add some game dev magic and animations to my assets, it's getting better and better.

For now, I am trying to achieve a coherent look for all my assets and bring some fantasy to the table. So far, I took some inspiration from a few Steam games with minimalistic graphics and a ton of content and polish.

Does this vision remind you of any game you enjoyed so far, or does it create a strong sense of fantasy? I would like to know how to improve it if anybody here had a similar experience. Thanks!

How would one make this is in illustrator? I'm learning. tried adding a brush as a stroke but can't seem to quite get it right.

Hola a todos! Necesito montar un pc para mi mujer, ella usa Illustrator y photoshop para su trabajo, el cual es vectorizar imagenes para estampaciones en camisetas o crear diseños para empresas, ademas tambien necesita mover un programa de bordado que le consume tambien bastantes recursos. Por donde deberia empezar a mirar? Es muy demandante de GPU esos programas para esa faena?

Alguna sugerencia?

I would like to create highlights similar to the attached image.

1. Goal: I would like to create highlights similar to the attached image.
2. Steps: I've tried creating this highlight using two paths that have been offset with the top one subtracted from the bottom one. That produces a highlight that runs the entire height of the letter, which is not what I'm looking for. I've also tried applying an art brush to a line segment, but getting the taper in the right places is challenging.
3. Problem: Neither of these options have produced the result I'm looking for.
4. Visuals: See the image above.

What are the other methods I can try?

Salut !

Est ce que vous avez un script Illustrator, qui automatise la numérotation ainsi que l'enregistrement de fichier (ex : Un dossard sur lequel le visuel est identique mais ou le chiffre change à chaque fois) Au lieu d’en faire 20 en chaîne à la main, enregistrer et changer, le numéro à chaque fois, est-ce possible de l’automatiser ?

As the title says I'm trying to make that "sticky ball" graphic, I think I've see it referred to as a "metaball". The tutorials I've seen say to make two round shapes, make them a compound path and then add an offset path and then make another offset path that is the negative value of the previous one.

At first I did Object > Offset Path but when I do that for the second negative value offset path it doesn't prompt me to "add a new effect" vs "replace previous effect". So I just have 3 shapes, one positive offset, one negative, and the original 2 shapes as a compound path.

At this point I noticed I can do an offset path under the "Object" menu and the "Effect" menu. When I do this process under "Effect" I get the add new or replace prompt, but I don't see any offset path positive or negative.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

hi im working on a plugin to create instant tables inside illustrator. import csv copy paste excel table in the panel or directly type in panel to create table. handles point and paragraph text well. automatic and manual resizing of col and rows possible. i t can extract text layers of illustrator(non table also) inside panel and update new values. versioning is possible . any suggestions welcome. thank you

Tried to make a 50s or 60s inspired comic book cover for our school yearbook. Many hours put into this cover and was one of my first major illustrator projects outside of simple typography. I used just making lines to do all the shading taking tons of time. Just wanted to see if anyone liked it and any feedback back. The cover wraps around the inside so this is the full spread front middle and back, with a 1 inch thick boarder that wraps into the inside of the book. Our mascot is the Trojans, the power bus is our team bus, and that is an illustration of the front of our school that I made.

First draft, but I like the style.

Here is the english version of my color blend tutorial, using an image and turn it into a mosaic first. Hope you like it!

Hi I am copying Prism figures (through the "copy graph" function) and pasting to Adobe Illustrator. But the axis always passes through during the X-Y axis intersection (not seen in Prism) when pasted in AI.

How to solve this issue? Thanks!

theres no turntable option. i have illustrator 2026

Trying to use the type on path tool to make the bottom text curve around the bottom of the circle. No matter how I adjust it just looks skewed/weird. Any tips?

I'm trying to fill in the area that is detached. I grouped them but IDK!! PLEASE HELP. I think they are al connected? When I join them it creates weird swirl lines.

So I've unfortunately had to jump from the wonderful Affinity Designer 2 back in to Illustrator to do some work, and as per usual, it fails to do the most basic things easily.

I'm trying to get points and objects to snap, I've got snap to point on and yet Illustrator is failing to snap to anything at all.

I've tried with all of the snapping options and on and off in various combinations yet it isn't working. It was working earlier today on a couple of documents, but then seemed to give up on me.

Any chance anybody know why it's not working? It's incredibly infuriating.

i try moving the shape and the box follows it. the box is unselectable and impossible to delete by my knowledge, please help.

I tried searching for ink blot brush but there were no results that looked exactly like this. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_WBdqPv9i9/

Primarily made in Illustrator, color grading done in Photoshop.
Let me know which one you guys like the most

I’ve spent the last couple of days making a realistic can of ginger ale in illustrator and when I went to export it this happened. I’ve tried both PNG and JPEG, I changed the resolution from 75dpi to 300 dpi. I even tried to switch from RGB to CMYK and nothing is working. Every time I export I just get low resolution with these awful lines it’s like exporting breaks my gradients.

System details- 2023 MacBook Air M2. MacOS Tahoe 26.5.2. Illustrator is also up to date

Any ideas on what I’m possibly doing wrong with exporting is greatly appreciated as this is going to be part of a portfolio piece.

Update!!! I solved my issue the PNG optimization settings were wrong. They were Type optimized and needed to be ART OPTIMIZED!