You know… it’s prob­a­bly a silly real­iza­tion… but I’ve always copy & pasted vec­tor shape from Illus­tra­tor to Pho­to­shop, never the other way around. Today, I had to con­vert a shape that I wanted to use from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor (CS4 by the way), I was so sick of trac­ing it. I mean what’s the worst thing could hap­pened if I pasted some­thing a vec­tor shape from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor, right? Get an error some­thing, but to my sur­prise, it gives me a dia­logue ask­ing me whether I want to con­vert it to an Com­pound Shape or Path…

…son of a… learn some­thing new every­day, don’t we now…? A lit­tle less deprived

Quick object dupli­ca­tions in Illustrator:

This allow you to dupli­cate the same object with pre­cise dis­tance, fast and easy.

I ran into an inter­est­ing error this morn­ing when I tried to open an Illus­tra­tor file from home to work.  When I opened it up, I got this error:

If that hap­pens, use Task Man­ager to “End Task” for Illus­tra­tor – then hit the “Can­cel” but­ton on the error popup.  Did 2 min­utes of google, this arti­cle came up.  Even though it was for Flex, it seems to apply here.  (more…)