Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.

  • Colour Behaviour Study of Japan / True Black on Real Life Physical Paper & on Computer Displays or Screens

    I am now documenting some thoughts about black colour behaviour on Physical Paper & computer displays or screens.

    I was from a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) – Applied Art background, so we had subjects like Illustration, Calligraphy, Typography, Print Media Design, Logo & Symbol Design, Branding & Identity Design.

    We used to design our assignments using Japan Black ink which is very dark in contrast & which creates high contrast reach feeling of black colour tone on white paper.

    So when we print our designs in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, we fill the design with (CMYK) Cyan: 100%, Magenta: 100%, Yellow: 100%, K(Black): 100%, then using only K: 100%. These CMYK values use to create high-contrast Japan Black ink fill on White Paper.

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  • How to outline the round corners effect in Adobe Illustrator.

    Adobe Illustrator is a full-featured, one-stop solution Vector Illustration program from Adobe, whose birth dates back to 1984.

    Adobe has various advanced and useful features, one of which is (Smart) Effects for vector objects, which are highly editable even after being applied to different objects.

    As stated in Adobe Help Documents, Adobe Illustrator Effects are described as follows:

    Illustrator includes a variety of effects that you can apply to an object, group, or layer to change its characteristics.

    Illustrator CS3 and earlier included effects and filters, but now Illustrator includes only effects (except SVG Filters). The primary difference between a filter and an effect is that a filter modifies an object or layer permanently. Still, an effect and its properties can be changed or removed anytime.

    Once you apply an effect to an object, the effect appears in the Appearance panel. From the Appearance panel, you can edit the effect, move it, duplicate it, delete it, or save it as part of a graphic style. When using an impact, you must expand the object before accessing the new points.

    One of those effects is the round corner. You can apply round corners to your current drawn rectangle and square shapes in your document and edit their value at any time.

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  • How to Draw Perfect Triangle in Adobe Illustrator.

    While using Adobe Illustrator myself, I always wonder how to draw a perfect triangle, as no such tool as ‘Triangle’ exists in the Adobe Illustrator Toolbox.

    So, Here is how Adobe Illustrator Toolbar or Toolbox Look in Adobe Illustrator CC:

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    So here is a way how to draw a perfect triangle in Adobe Illustrator.

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  • How to remove dash, hyphen from half word or stop word cutting in illustrator, indesign, photoshop

    Here is small Tutorial about how to remove dash, hyphen from half word or How to stop word cutting in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop & Adobe inDesign.

    Answer is as simple as single step: ( I am using Mac OSX but it shouldn’t be different on Windows)

    You have to navigate to your Text’s “Paragraph Palette” in your respective application.

    In Adobe Photoshop: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe Illustrator: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

    In Adobe inDesign: You have to select desired text first then click on: Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph > Uncheck Hyphenate

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