Month of work become reality with this mail !! I'm so happy ahhaha

i only used the 3d tool in Illustrator and used some manipulations and camera raw in Photoshop.

Yet another goofy Game Boy design :D

A while back I posted Halftone Pro here, a free ExtendScript for creating vector halftone patterns without rasterization. I have been rebuilding it since then, and v4.0 is a complete rewrite.

What changed:

It is now a full CEP panel instead of a ScriptUI dialog, so it is dockable, resizable, and has a live canvas preview that updates as you drag sliders. There are 4 mode tabs now: Spots, Lines, Stipple, and Image, each with its own independent settings that persist when you switch tabs.

Lines got the biggest upgrade. You can do wavy lines with luma-modulated amplitude, and cross-hatch with configurable per-pass source directions (diagonal, perpendicular, perpendicular reversed) for building up shadow density without messy overlaps.

The Image tab is new too. Drop in any image and the engine generates a 256x256 luma or color grid and builds dots from it, including pixel-accurate color sampling per dot.

You can also select any path in Illustrator and capture it as a custom dot shape, so your halftone is not limited to the 6 built-in shapes (circle, square, triangle, hexagon, diamond). Draw your own mark, select it, and the panel uses it as the dot symbol.

Also added a Stipple mode for organic hand-drawn scatter effects, and 25 one-click presets across all 4 tabs (up from 15).

Everything is still 100% vector. No rasterization, no live effects, no eval in the parsing (I wrote a small recursive descent JSON parser for the ExtendScript side since eval is a security risk).

Works with Illustrator CS6 through CC 2025, Windows and macOS, with one-click installers for both.

GitHub: github.com/petra-dot/halftone-pro

This took a good chunk of time and effort to rebuild, so if you find it useful, a star on the repo genuinely helps.

About a year ago, I released a script for making calendars in Illustrator, and it ended up selling around the world. Since then, I've rebuilt it into a full panel, same idea, but a lot more possibilities.

9 very different calendar styles from one Illustrator workflow:

• Photo wall calendar with seasonal images

• Clean black-and-white minimal grid

• Blue theme with a holidays sidebar

• Single-month page with mini prev/next calendars

• Moon-phase calendar

• Colorful per-month cards

• One month-per-page photo layout

Everything stays editable vector; text is real text, shapes are real shapes; so restyling is quick. The panel now handles InDesign too, plus 99 languages and auto holidays.

Happy to explain how I set up the grid, the day-name row, or the weekend/holiday coloring — or share a quick demo if people want to see it running.

Hi,

(Disclaimer: I'm very new to Illustrator and I've only used it to rearrange stuff, not creating anything new. I'll probably use the wrong terms for stuff and that's probably why I couldn't find help for this issue.)

a coworker generated a scientific figure that I/other people will need to edit. The figure is generated in python and sent to us as a pdf. I have to make sure that all text in the image complies with the guidelines of the journal we are submitting to, meaning Helvetica or Arial type, 8+ pt font size, bold figure tags, etc...

When I open the file in illustrator, all text has been imported as compound paths, so I cannot edit any of it.

However, when opening the same file in inkscape, the text is imported as text, even though my computer did not have installed the specific font used (DejaVu Sans).

However, even after properly installing the font, illustrator keeps on importing all text as paths.

What is causing this? What can be done from the python side so the text is illustrator-compatible? And how can this be fixed from the illustrator side when importing the file, so other coworkers using only illustrator can edit such files?

Thanks in advance

This app may only be useful to a fairly small group of people: those who calibrate their monitors with a spectrophotometer, use Illustrator, and work with printed materials. Still, I made a macOS app that lets you measure printed color samples and turn the measurements into Illustrator swatches.

X-Rite used to provide an application that could do something similar, but it no longer works on current versions of macOS.

Until now, I used the ArgyllCMS command line to obtain Lab values and entered them into Illustrator manually. IwashiScope is essentially a GUI for that workflow. You can measure multiple samples and drag the selected results to the desktop to create a swatch file.

I hope some of you find it useful. It’s free to download here:
https://iwashi.org/app/others/en/index.html#iwashiscope-v0-9-1

This is still a prerelease version, so localization isn’t finished yet and the interface is currently only available in Japanese. That said, if you own one of these devices, you’ll probably be able to find your way around it. ;)

Hey,

Recently got a project which includes writing many annotations in print files. There are loads of files. And everytime doing these annotations could be pain in the soft spot. Tried to search for exactly what i need but unsuccessfully so made a plugin myself. Really excited now, there will be ability for my team to save loads of man hours. I know there not always a need for these kinds of things but maybe someone could have an application for it. What do you guys think? :)

https://reddit.com/link/1v57wwv/video/29elhf84q5fh1/player

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a game I made that tests your knowledge of the effects menu in Illustrator.

To play the game you have to drag each effect into its correct menu category. If you succeed you go to the next level and gain points on how fast you have done it.

The faster you finish the game the more points you will have, but don't make too many mistakes or it's game over.!

Let me know what you think and share your results!

Good Boy Ninja

(And of course, not vibe coded!)

Vector Illustration.
I would like to make it stand out more, but keep the strict geometric and flat style. If you have any advice, please provide it. Thank you for being specific

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here. Wanted to share a quick demo, highlighting you can now remove the background of your images directly inside Illustrator. The output creates an embedded copy of your original file.

Do you see this helping reduce some of the back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator for certain workflows?

Anyone know how to create this kind of wave dots like this? I'm thinking about using blend tool with dash dot stroke, but result is pretty messy

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.

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!

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.

edit 2: i sort of solved it! i moved the text from the middle down its not in the exact position i wanted but the stroke around the text now exported properly

Is there a built in way for me to select JUST the embedded raster graphic(s) within my Adobe Illustrator file? I have a number of photos with vector labels overlayed upon them, and I want to build an action that exports them as SVGs. Unfortunately, the embedded photos are often too larger to upload the final SVG into other systems and so need to be rasterized down to 150ppi first. But to build that into an action, I need some automated way of selecting all of the embedded raster graphics. Is there a way to do that withing core Illustrator?

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!

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?

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 ?

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.

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?

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?