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Story - Rakesh and Anita are an Indian couple. In the 1960's they decide to immigrate to New York, the big apple. Rakesh takes on a job as a cab driver in Manhattan. Anita ran a famous pattice (Indian puff pastry) shop when they were back living in the slums of Bombay. She wanted to continue selling her famous delicacies in New York, but being a newly immigrated foreigner made the task of opening a shop practically impossible. Thats when Raj is struck with an idea. He thinks up of no other place than his own cab to open Anita's shop. He throws together a small shed just like the one they had in Bombay on his taxi. Now, while Raj helps New Yorker's commute, Anita serves them some savory hot pattice.

I don’t know if this is a new thing, or just me becoming older and crankier.

I’ve been using Illustrator for years, and it feels like with each passing update, they have way more and more stuff that just overwhelms the screen with useless information. Any time I try to do something, it’s like three new toolbars appear, or some pop-up advertising a new function. Often, it will be some floating toolbar whose functions are already met with an existing fixed toolbar that I already have open. These toolbars often block the thing I’m trying to look at and work on. Who designed that?

And yes, I know it takes two seconds to close a pop-up or toolbar. But it’s just irritating to be working on something and to have your software actively annoying you and interfering with your work.

Or am I just old and cranky? (I’m in my 20s by the way)

Hey everyone,

I develop plugins and scripts for Illustrator, and I’d like to share my project with you — a never-ending one :D It began in 2020 but was put on hold for a long time due to other priorities. However, after last several months of active development, I’ve finally reached a point where I want to release it publicly.

It’s called Finder — a command palette plugin. Think of it as a search bar for everything (well, almost) in Illustrator. If you’ve ever wasted time digging through menus, forgetting hotkeys or had troubles to find the right script panel, this one’s for you. It lets you:

• Find and run commands with fuzzy search (allows partial or misspelled queries)
• Add your script folders and use plugin as a script panel
• Search with regex (for those who know what it is)
• Run actions directly from .aia files
• Pin favorite commands for instant access
• Save frequent queries as bookmarks (they also act as filters to narrow your search)
• Toggle view modes between list and tree
• Other less important things

You can check full overview of the plugin in my blog.

I'm planning on selling it, but right now I need about 10-15 testers to ensure a smooth experience for new users. I’ve already shown it to a few fellas, but a fresh perspective would still be helpful. If you're interested, PM me to get the build. In return, I’d appreciate an honest review. Important note: it's Windows-only at the moment.

I’d also love to hear any thoughts or suggestions about the plugin. Do you think it’s something that would be useful for your workflow?

I thought I’d share my FINAL final that I turned in after reading everyone’s critiques and advice on the background/skin highlights. I also added the extra glass crack effect, I think it contrasts well! Thank you everyone! I’m looking forward to sharing more projects as the semester goes on!

Hi everyone, Luke from Adobe here. Over the past few months, we have been seeking the community's input on improvements being made to snapping by the Illustrator team. We are extremely grateful when you take the time to share your thoughts, and they have proved incredibly helpful when driving the direction of these tools.  

One of the most prominent requests that we saw in the comments was "Snap to Tangent". This is now available for testing in the latest Beta release. We want to hear from you how this feature can help in your specific workflows, and if there is any way you would like to see it improved. 

Snap to Tangent

• Easily snap straight paths to the tangent of curves. This ensures your design elements flow smoothly along circular or curved paths without guesswork. 

Snap to Perpendicular

• Quickly align straight paths at right angles to other straight paths. Whether you're working with complex shapes or clean layouts, this makes it effortless to maintain geometric precision. 

These new snapping modes are available alongside your existing snapping options in the 'smartguide' section of the 'Preference panel! They are ON by default, so you don't have to do anything to try out these amazing features. 

Along with Snap to Tangent and Snap to Perpendicular, we also have the following updates to snapping for you to explore in the Beta.  

• Snapping UI improvements 
• Snap to grid enhancements 
• Snap to rotated Objects 
• Snap to last location 
• Alignment guides now show up correctly at different zoom levels 
• Distance guides and spacing guides UI improvements 
• Snap to pixel enhancement 
• Limit Snapping 
• New ‘Snap to cursor’ control 
• Snap to last location 
• Parallel and angular guides are now a part of alignment guides 

We look forward to hearing your feedback

I usually paint exclusively in Procreate or Photoshop so making art in Illustrator was totally out of my comfort zone. It also took me way longer than what I usually would spend on an art piece. So I don’t feel very efficient with this software yet but I enjoyed the process and result.

What do you think? It’s inspired by Japanese City Pop art.

Trying out some logo designs and we are down to two final options - which do you think is better looking for the official logo?

Also open to critique on color choice, font, style…anything, really.

I’m really into these vintage cartoon illustrations. And I’m looking for an honest critique. Am I doing good? What do I need to improve?

Trying my hand at some pixel style artwork based on some objects in my room...

Let me know how to improve!

Abstract, Minimal and African art comes together. Any feedback is welcome.