Stupid Illustrator Question

[nobody]

I know, there's no stupid questions. Just stupid people. One of which I am.

In illustrator I tend to create things about eight trillion sizes bigger than it needs to be, which is all good until I realize I used a brush here and then and when I scale my path down the brush stays the same size, successfully creating a blog, instead of what I want. I realize that I can change the stroke and everything, but sometimes I finish a design and won't need to do that anymore, is there a way I can change the path from a bunch of lines to a shape so it scales easily?

[Ψ]

double click the scale tool and make sure all the boxes are checked. So this keeps the strokes in proportional to the scaling :D

Have fun

actually if you want to keep the fill pattern the same size you might have to uncheck that patterns box

[.soulty]

yeah the scale tools options has the switch, the majority of the time you just have to worry about the general 'scale strokes and effects' tickbox. i dont use patterns much in illustrator and object seems to be selected by default for me.

[nobody]

Ah that's so cool. That's bothered me ever since I started using illustrator long ago. I really need some formal training :P

[Ψ]

Sorry xxviii, imma hijack this thread for an instant since i have a question about ilustrator too

Hey soulty. since we are on the topic read this and try to answer. I posted on a different forum, but no reply came.

Ok i am using the blend tool and i was wondering if it is possible to have different spacing in between the lines when i am using specifeid step or specified distance.I have to do this because, i am doing this tedius job that requires alot of precision.

I have tried expanding the stroke and making the paths into shapes, Once i did that i tried using the align palette to align it properly. However this proves to be a challenege too.

Any ideas about going around this?

I have posted an image of how i want to approach this.

This image is how i want it to look but as it starts going from left to right i want the spacing between the lines to start to decrease.
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/1910/untitled8ul1.jpg


P.S i didnt want to show what i was working on. It would ruin the surprise. so i made a new canvas just to show. Very Happy

[nobody]

I actually have a question about the blend tool as well if someone wants to answer it. I click my two shapes that are differnt colors and blend them, and it makes a lovely little gradient. But I don't want the gradient. Is there a way to pick a color of the blend, so all it's really doing is creating extra shapes and ignoring colors?

Thanks if anyone has the time to take a stab at that one.

[Ψ]

Yea all you do is double click on the blend tool. Then pull down the dropdown menu and choose either specified steps or specifed distance.

In specified steps, you can enter the number of steps and then it will give you that many shapes.

In specified distance, you enter the distance between each shape that you want. So the larger the distance the lesser the shapes.

[nobody]

No no, I know how to do that stuff. What I want to do is not have it create a gradient between two different colored shapes. I want to keep a single color :)

[Ψ]

hmm. ill try it out and explain then. you might have to wait a bit

[Ψ]

How would it be possible if you are using two different cloloured shapes and not wanting a gradient?

I might need better explaination. Or better yet hit me up on AIM or Hotmail.

AIM is mildvisions
Hotmail is therock2508 [at] hotmail [dot] com

[nobody]

It probably isn't possible, just asking if it is. I think it's a bad way of trying to do what I want to do anyway so I'm scrapping it :)

[Ψ]

i am positive it is not possible .

Well there is another way around it. You could do it with spcified steps and then one the blend is done with the gradient, click object>expand. Then one you have all the shapes, Select all of them. and then just deselect the first and the last and then, Once you have the middle ones selected, apply whatever colour you want

Woot 1000 posts.

[.soulty]

ok, back for a bit..

for the blend shapes, you can simply expand the merge which will combine it basically (same as pathfinder tool) so you can select a colour or whatever you want.

for the blend tool question above on the difference spaces inbetween, im not sure exactly what your trying to achieve so its all little hard to answer , is there anyway you can explain it a little more clearer?

do you want the right area to be thinner or thicker or more spaced out? i cant make out the scribble on the screenshot either

[Ψ]

Hah. lol. k imma explain a bitt bettter a little later.

[Ψ]

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/3907/untitled6kj8ry.th.gif (http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled6kj8ry.gif)

Ok see in that pic i have gotten the desired effect, but if i found out exactly how to make the spacing decrease by lets say 0.1 as we keep going right line by line, it wouuld be a great help indeed. I want to make it seem like i am viewing a building (well not actually a build more like a plaza with lots of windows and the plaza streches for a mile or two.) from the side on an angle so as the windows appear to blend in at the end instead of havgin the same spacing like how they were at the beginning.

[.soulty]

there is probably a few ways to do it, but one way i can think of is using the transform tool.

First make one copy or a single line of your graphic.
then go to Effect/distort&tranform/transform you will get a palette.

go to copies and select the amount of copies you require. then select the horizontal move amount and to get the difference in spacing you can then choose scale horizontal amount. hit preview and you will get a example of what your created.

Problem i found with this is that it does indeed scale the shape's width which does decrease the space but squashes your shape as well.

You could try to good old copy and duplicate step. try that and if it doesnt work i will explain the other way.

[Ψ]

No never mind i figured it out how to do it.

Just in case other wanted to know too, First i would do a blend with specified steps. Then create a straight line (horizontally) and put the blend to follow that path. Then i can add anchor points to that path and control the spacing between the lines. sure its not that precise, but thats as precise as its gonna get.

This other guy on another forum helped a bit with it.

[.soulty]

hard to picture what you meant ^ any screenshot? / steps?

[mlk]

you can using the blend tool and only two points make a non linear blend of shapes; just select one extremity of the path of the blend (the line across in the screenshot) and use the Convert Anchor Point tool (Shift+C) on it, then play with the handles to get the best out of it:

http://mlkdesign.online.fr/dump/spacingillus.gif

[Ψ]

hmm yeah thats what i meant. my appraoch was a little longer, I did the same affect by adding an anchor point to a path and making the blend follow that path. Where as you just use the straight path whish is the default. But yeah this way is also possible and much more easier AND what i was what i was looking for. Thanks mlk

[.soulty]

aha.. i get it now, going to try that out now.

[Ψ]

Arrite ididnt want to make another thread so here it is.

In illustrator, my artwork flows over the artboard, is there any way to seperate the art that flows overboard?

I know you can make clippings masks and theen divide it individually, but that takes a lot of time.

[simplistik]

Arrite ididnt want to make another thread so here it is.

In illustrator, my artwork flows over the artboard, is there any way to seperate the art that flows overboard?

I know you can make clippings masks and theen divide it individually, but that takes a lot of time.
:lol: do what? what's the purpose of that? if you don't need the stuff you should get rid of it anyway... it's not efficient to keep it if you're not using it anyway. :lol: you guys should really work on your descriptions of what you need help with :P :lol:


I have this car problem... it's a 'tinking' sound... well more like a 'tanking' sound... it's somwhere in the back of the car... below I think... maybe even above... now that I think of it it may be somewhere under the hood... or maybe the tires.

[Ψ]

Lol. Bast**d. ;P

yea in case you didnt understand the question here it is again.


Arrite ididnt want to make another thread so here it is.

In illustrator, my artwork flows over the artboard, is there any way to seperate the art that flows overboard?

I know you can make clippings masks and theen divide it individually, but that takes a lot of time.

haha j/k

Haha nvm i figured it out just now.

[senocular]

I know, there's no stupid questions. Just stupid people.

:love: (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13646)