Adobe illustrator contact sheet

Switch to Smooth tool while using Blob Brush tool. Switch to Hand tool when not in text-edit mode. Switch to Zoom tool in magnify mode. Switch to Zoom tool in reduce mode. Move Zoom marquee while dragging with the Zoom tool. Convert between horizontal and vertical guide. Paste in place on the active artboard. Create artboard inside another artboard.

Select multiple artboards in the Artboards panel. Navigate to previous document group. Switch between Direct Selection tool and Group Selection tool. Subtract from selection with Magic Wand tool. Subtract from selection with Lasso tool. Change pointer to cross hair for Lasso tool. Select artwork in active artboard. Create crop marks around selected object. Draw from the center of a shape except for polygons, stars, and flares.

Increase or decrease polygon sides, star points, arc angle, spiral winds, or flare rays. Start dragging, then press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow. Keep the inner radius of a star constant. Start dragging, then hold down Ctrl. Start dragging, then hold down Command. Keep the sides of a star straight. Switch between an open and closed arc. Flip an arc, keeping the reference point constant. Start dragging, then hold down SF. Add or subtract winds from a spiral while increasing the length of the spiral.

Change the decay rate of a spiral. Add or remove horizontal lines from a rectangular grid or concentric lines from a polar grid. Add or remove vertical lines from a rectangular grid or radial lines from a polar grid. Start dragging, then press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow.

Constrain Blob Brush path horizontally or vertically. Use the Perspective Selection tool and then press 1 for left grid, 2 for horizontal grid, 3 for right grid, or 4 for no active grid. Switch Pen tool to Convert Anchor Point tool. Switch Scissors tool to Add Anchor Point tool. Switch Pencil tool to Smooth tool. Move current anchor point while drawing with Pen tool.

Cut a straight line with Knife tool. Use shape mode buttons in Pathfinder panel to create compound paths. Erase unwanted closed regions created using Shape Builder tool.

Display rectangular marquee to easily merge multiple paths when using Shape Builder tool. Sample color from an image or intermediate color from gradient. Sample style and append appearance of currently selected item.

Reset gradient to black and white. Ctrl-click gradient button in Tools panel or Gradient panel. Command-click gradient button in Tools panel or Gradient panel.

Make Live Paint when using the Paint Bucket tool. Switch to Eyedropper tool and sample color from an image or intermediate color from a gradient. Fill across unstroked edges into adjacent faces. Fill all faces that have same fill and stroke all edges that have same stroke.

Change the position of multiple width points. Select one paragraph before or after. Align paragraph left, right, or center. Increase or decrease kerning and tracking. Increase or decrease kerning and tracking by five times. Increase or decrease baseline shift. Set options except for Actions, Brushes, Swatches, and Symbols panels.

If you deselect Use Auto-Spacing, you can specify the vertical and horizontal space around the thumbnails.

Select Rotate For Best Fit to rotate the images, regardless of their orientation, so they fit efficiently on a contact sheet. Click OK. Video tutorial: Create a contact sheet. This tutorial shows how to create a contact sheet that is created in Adobe Bridge and imported into Photoshop. Creating a PDF presentation. Set Output and Presentation options. Then click Save.

Video A slideshow tip. Scott Kelby. Sign in to your account. Sign in. Quick links View all your apps Manage your plans. Sorry, something went wrong. I tested this again and it works fine for me. I wrote this on Mac so it could be that it only works on a Mac version of AI. Are you using Illustrator for Windows? Try the code again. That's about all the debugging I'm going to be able to do but hopefully that fixes it.

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Learn more about clone URLs. Download ZIP. Adobe Illustrator JSX plugin to create a contact sheet from a folder or vector icons.