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Improve Previews in Adobe Illustrator’s Swatch Panels

December 16, 2013 by admin

Pattern swatches with a lot of detail may appear very dark in the default “Small Thumbnail View” setting.

Small Thumbnail View
Small Thumbnail View

Switching your swatch view to “Large List View” in the swatch library panel menu yields a much more useful preview.

Large List View
Large List View

Filed Under: Tips, Tutorials

What to Do About Tiled Pattern Artifacts in Adobe Illustrator

December 19, 2013 by admin

Sometimes when zooming-into or out-of your artwork in Illustrator, thin lines appear in parts of your design which contain tiled pattern swatches.

They can be straight-across or angled, depending upon whether you’ve rotated the fill. Have a look at the first image below to see what these lines look like (in this case the fill had been rotated 45-degrees).

Most of the time, these lines are artifacts resulting from how illustrator previews your file … meaning they’re not in your prints or exported artwork.

Occasionally these lines appear in exported rasterized artwork. Here’s what to do when that happens.

illustrator_tile_artifacts_export_settings
When exporting (File > Export), set your Anti-Aliasing Option to “Art Optimized” (not “Type Optimized”).
illustrator_tile_artifacts_example
Voila … Perfect rasterized file with no tiling artifacts.

Filed Under: Tips, Tutorials

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