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Getting usable new angles out of Turntable in Adobe Illustrator

Turntable can spin a flat character or object around and hand you dozens of editable views, but it's picky about what you feed it. Pulling together Adobe's docs, hands-on reviews, and early tester reports, here's how to prep art for it and what to do with the results.

Illustration, Brand & Graphic

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When a client hands you an AI-generated logo: turning it into a real, production-ready vector

More clients show up with a logo they made in an image generator and a request to "just clean it up." Drawing on several designers' write-ups and general vector practice, here's how to scope the job, rebuild the mark properly, and have the ownership conversation before you deliver.

Brand & Graphic

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Using Illustrator's Retype to identify the font in a logo, scan, or outlined file

A client sends a flattened JPEG or a file with every word outlined, and nobody knows the typeface. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's how to get good matches out of Retype, what it no longer does, and how to check a match before you commit to it.

Brand & Graphic

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Getting believable product mockups out of Adobe Illustrator's Mockup panel

Illustrator's Mockup feature wraps vector art onto a photo of a real object and keeps it editable. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent write-ups, here's how to set it up, which photos it handles well, and where you'll still need to finish by hand.

Brand & Graphic

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Getting cleaner, more usable art out of Illustrator's Text to Vector Graphic

Text to Vector Graphic gives you real paths, but often far more of them than you'd draw yourself. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent guides, here's a workflow from prompt to a file you'd actually hand off.

Illustration, Brand & Graphic

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Illustrator's Generative Recolor works best as a starting point, not a final palette

Most people try Generative Recolor once, get a random palette, and move on. Pulling together several tutorials, here's a fuller workflow: prep the art so the AI can actually see your colors, explore broadly, save what works, then snap it back to a real brand palette.

Illustration, Brand & Graphic

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