Thanks so much, I was trying to redesign the logo for The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers and I didn't know that there was actually a spiral tool. This video has saved me so much time and stress. Keep up the great vids!
Your tutorials are very nice and helpful. i was wondering if you can create the art work of the leaves that is on your cloth that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.👍
Hey Seenu, you can try connecting all the ‘end anchor points’ with the Direct Selection Tool, and go to Object -> Path -> Join. Then click and hold over the Type Tool and select the Type on a Path Tool and click on the spiral. There’s also a tutorial for typing on a path on my Illustrator playlist 👍
@@ForeverDansky hey! Yeah I found the way to solve it. actually when I tried to type the text it went outside from inside but I wanted it to start from outside then spiral inward. Fortunately I fixed it by clicking "flip" in the "type on path" box
Hey Dansky, thanks for the great tutorial, much appreciated. I'm getting some weird anchor point stuff happening across the horizontal line but I can tell it's because I'm applying a brushstroke to my spiral. Any thoughts about that?
Hey! I was having the same issue! Not sure if you found a solution yet but: I found that deleting the invisible anchor points between my visible lines fixed the issue. (they will be marked if you select all, there should be some points with vertical lines showing. delete those points until you can select all and it just looks like a spiral)
Select it all and press Ctrl+J. This will make the whole spiral a singular path by joining those anchor points. I do this right after the ungroup step, so that I can delete the extra spiral in one click.
Yep, the solution is to divide in 4 quadrants in stead of only 2, make de first step like he does in the video (take upper half one line to the right), then take the right bottom 4th 1 line down, then take the right upper 4th also 1 line down.. but u have to break in theses steps cause the right half will be misaligned after the first move... Then just delete the extra cause there will be multiple spirals together... its easier if u join everything then break apart the aberration paths.. once u break it u will end up with continuous spirals that will be faster to delete or move away!... Read carefully and you are golden!
It's amazing they still haven't added linear spiral tool. The snail tool is basically useless as it is. They add all this crap, and yet we need to look for help for the very basics of 1999.
Everyone create tutorials but there's just something about yours that're just out of the box. Top-Notch quality Dan! Learned so much from your channel. 🖤
To those with issues where the first line snaps perfectly but every other line is skewed: Go back in the polar grid tools' settings by left clicking on the canvas, and make certain the skew on both dividers is **0%**, if it's even 1% it'll all be messed up. This fix worked for me, I think illustrator might set it to 1% by default or something
Actually I ended up getting a bit fixated on how to get a nearly-perfect spiral, and I realized that this approach is visibly imperfect since it's made out of true half-circles and a true spiral is not made out of half-circles, and this flaw in the approach is more visible the fewer number of rings you have, and I wanted a good-looking linear spiral with a low number of rings. The approach I ended up using (per a different guide) was to create a line segment and then Twist it with the Twist effect, and then convert that effected line back into lines (with Expand Appearance), although the big trick I figured out that the other guide didn't mention was to make sure you do all this at a very large size, because the Effect's render quality gets worse and worse the smaller the size of the thing you're working on (to an extreme and super ugly degree at very small sizes), so you should create your spiral at a very large size and then once you have it converted back to line segments then you can shrink it. If anyone does end up seeing this comment and needs better explanation of how to create a really good spiral, leave a comment.
I wanted to say that too about the nearly perfect spiral, and I am seeking a way to do it but I want it more precise and constant than with a twist tool, not sure yet how.... also with the twist tool it turns it into a segmented mess, is there a way to fix that ? Thank you!
@@isblaka I THINK I know what problem you're describing, and I think the problem is avoided by literally just scaling the line way up to a much larger size before Twisting (and then shrinking it back down once you've turned it into vectors), although I'm not completely sure WHY this works. Kind of amusingly, if you do the opposite (shrink it down to a really small size and then twist), the distortion gets really extremely and bizarre. I may be skimming over something important here so please ask additional questions as needed. Edit: Testing a little in Illustrator, twisting a line segment by 1800 degrees... if the line segment is 500px long then it's super segmented, 250px is bizarre, and below is increasingly bizarre. If the line segment is 3000px long though, then it renders a spiral very well when twisted. And if you then do "Object > Expand Appearance" then that converts it back to vectors so you can shrink it to your actual needed size. then there's a little additional vector surgery (kind of up to you what exactly to do at this step) to close up the spiral so you can fill it with a color. The most straightforward thing is to delete the furthest-out bunch of line segments until one end of the whole line is near the other end of the whole line, and then join those two points. I'm not sure how to say that more clearly though...
@@Lessen0 Sir, thank you for your detailed reply ! I have tried now :) made it about 4000px long, the line and the result is sweet :) , meanwhile, i happen to also have Autocad :D and there is a spiral tool that makes it clean from the start so I can import it etc.. but your method is the one I will use as it keeps things clean.
awesome awesome guide that very clearly walked through what to do and why/how, tho as lichterloh said in another comment 3 months ago, the deletion process can be done more quickly by Joining all the paths once you're at the step where you have two spirals nested in each other, then deleting one of the spirals. (tho having actually done this now, after writing that comment, i realize there's an added step of separating the two middle points from each other after the Join, and I don't actually know the fastest way to do that since I'm only somewhat familiar with Illustrator. But I guess if your intent is to 100% get rid of the extra spiral, then you just need to delete the first point in the spiral to separate it from the other spiral, and then select the rest of the offending spiral with the V selector and delete it.)
In one of your videos you gave a download link to an aisc scripts, and there is a script called "Archimedean Spiral". It is the same that you're doing in this tutorial but it takes only 2 secs to do it, you just select it in the "file" and there is your spiral :)
Hey Arina! It's a similar end result, this video is more focused on how to do it without relying on scripts and in a way that gives you more control. The script version is a great time-saver though 👍
Dansky yeah, I understand, just in case for other people, who needs it to be done faster:) LOVE your videos! That would be cool to have a little bit more on InDesign though :) Keep it up!
I needed a linear spiral and saw this tutorial. At first glance, the resulting image looks OK, but if you look at the center of the curve, it’s noticeably distorted. After spending way too much time on it, I discovered that your solution isn’t really a linear spiral. It looks sort of like one, but if you overlay a real linear spiral on yours, the difference is pretty significant. Particularly in the center. I don’t know why Adobe engineers have such a problem adding a linear spiral tool, but they’ve condemned designers to these types of hacks for decades. It’s borderline arrogant of them.
Had to google something and this video helped me out today! Look at baby Danksy from 4 years ago! haha. Still fantastic even back then! Thanks for sharing your wisdom as usual!!!
second part is actually even easier to accomplish - you do not need to ungroup, neither to delete every other line - just: cut, paste, shift, select all and join once, delete connection in the center - then you have two complete spirals, delete one - done!
ooh yeah that makes a ton of sense: since you have two spirals nested in each other, if you Join them first then you can very quickly delete one of them.
At some points, AI is so damn overcomplicated and HARD. Surely, others also have their their pros and cons. The truth's, i prefer to use various vector based softwares. :/ I mean, maybe it's not bad at all, but i am really struggling with some stuffs. This is a great example. Why the much effort to create a simple spiral? :/ Seriously?
Great tutorial (as always) but after I cut, paste in place & then shift-drag over, the first line snaps into place perfectly but then every other line is just a pixel off from the other half. Did anyone else run into that!?!? Super weird right!? They are perfect circles so I don't know how this could happen! lol
I got a problem When I paste in place that half of circle and try to put it where it goes it doesn't fit perfectly like in video; I can see some gaps and I don't like them I followed the exact same steps I am on Windows 10 - Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Holy heck! Thank you!!! I don’t comment often but I really gotta give you props for your delivery, explication, editing, etc., etc., etc. TOP NOTCH!!!
Wow thank you Laurel! Honestly that really means a lot 😊
thanks a lot! just one question for adobe: why?
So helpful! Clear and concise, thank you! Looks so much better than the spiral tool, especially when adding text.
Brilliant. Can't believe how simple that was.
this is fantastic. needed to make a spiral for a branding project, this made it so so much easier. thanks!
i love when i find a tool hiding somewhere that i didnt know that i needed. Thanks man.
One of the best tutorial I've ever seen. Thanks guy. I'm still puzzled how you figured it out. :-)
Thanks Markus, another tutorial from somewhere on UA-cam most likely 😋
I'm so grateful to you. ! I was really curious about linear spiral. It was very informative. Thank you so much!
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This 5 year old video just saved my project! LOL Thanks Mate!!!
Fast and clear, my thumbs up
Thanks so much, I was trying to redesign the logo for The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers and I didn't know that there was actually a spiral tool. This video has saved me so much time and stress. Keep up the great vids!
I AM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU. HAVE A GOOD DAY! THANK YOU
Great job as always.Million thanks
Thank you too!
Thank you! Very helpful.
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Awesome! Happy to help :)
Thank you!
Thank you very much for this tutorial!
i just stuck on a job and searched. This was useful and job was completed. Nice.
Great to hear!
Thanks a million! Dansky this was really helpful. I love it
That’s great to hear! Thanks so much Mohammed 😃
Great! Been trying to draw a red and white Christmas peppermint candy. I think this will help!!!!
I have just subscribed this channel. I love it! sooo clear and simple to understand. Thank you so much
Your tutorials are very nice and helpful. i was wondering if you can create the art work of the leaves that is on your cloth that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.👍
AMAZING! thank you!
Thank you too!
Thanks a lot, great way of doing it.
Awesome, thanks Peter!
Thanks for your help. It was very useful.
Great Tutorial, thank you! So much work for an easy spiral when they could implement the Spiral Tool with some more parameters. I miss FreeHand LOL
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Hi there! Thanks for this tutorial if there's any way that I can type the text from the outside to inside if I'm typing on the path?
Hey Seenu, you can try connecting all the ‘end anchor points’ with the Direct Selection Tool, and go to Object -> Path -> Join. Then click and hold over the Type Tool and select the Type on a Path Tool and click on the spiral. There’s also a tutorial for typing on a path on my Illustrator playlist 👍
@@ForeverDansky hey! Yeah I found the way to solve it. actually when I tried to type the text it went outside from inside but I wanted it to start from outside then spiral inward. Fortunately I fixed it by clicking "flip" in the "type on path" box
i cant figure this out... the other video is for elipses not spirals, anybody with the same issue?
Hey Dansky, thanks for the great tutorial, much appreciated. I'm getting some weird anchor point stuff happening across the horizontal line but I can tell it's because I'm applying a brushstroke to my spiral. Any thoughts about that?
Hey! I was having the same issue! Not sure if you found a solution yet but: I found that deleting the invisible anchor points between my visible lines fixed the issue. (they will be marked if you select all, there should be some points with vertical lines showing. delete those points until you can select all and it just looks like a spiral)
Select it all and press Ctrl+J. This will make the whole spiral a singular path by joining those anchor points. I do this right after the ungroup step, so that I can delete the extra spiral in one click.
Thanks.
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good techniques
new version does not have the spiral tool :(
Click and hold on the Line/Arc tool, it’s under there in the sub menu :)
Hello!
I cannot get it to snap to each other, they are slightly unsnaped, and it doesnt look good.
Thank You
Make sure you've deselected 'snap to pixel' and select 'snap to point'
@@kirstyplz Thank You very much!
@@kirstyplz Legend. I swear I looked at that menu a hundred times, LOL.
Or you just have to take the spiral tool and hold CTRL and drag the mouse to change the space between each circles.
This spiral looks skewed... is there a way to make one that isn't skewed?
Yep, same. Can't solve it too.
Yep, the solution is to divide in 4 quadrants in stead of only 2, make de first step like he does in the video (take upper half one line to the right), then take the right bottom 4th 1 line down, then take the right upper 4th also 1 line down.. but u have to break in theses steps cause the right half will be misaligned after the first move...
Then just delete the extra cause there will be multiple spirals together... its easier if u join everything then break apart the aberration paths.. once u break it u will end up with continuous spirals that will be faster to delete or move away!... Read carefully and you are golden!
I still have a 20 year old version of Freehand. Works much faster with it ;-).
goes and explains .. what does 'CUT' do. Lol! I'm a one-year old! :D
It's amazing they still haven't added linear spiral tool. The snail tool is basically useless as it is.
They add all this crap, and yet we need to look for help for the very basics of 1999.
now make a double spiral
Thank you I am so grateful. Marianne
Everyone create tutorials but there's just something about yours that're just out of the box. Top-Notch quality Dan! Learned so much from your channel. 🖤
Thank you!
AWESOME! Thanks so much
To those with issues where the first line snaps perfectly but every other line is skewed: Go back in the polar grid tools' settings by left clicking on the canvas, and make certain the skew on both dividers is **0%**, if it's even 1% it'll all be messed up. This fix worked for me, I think illustrator might set it to 1% by default or something
this was mad helpful, thank you! you're more appreciated than you know
OMG! I've been messing around with those awful controls on the Spiral tool for about an hour! Thanks so much
Really helpful and to the point! You saved my life, thank you very much
You're welcome!
Anyone else experiencing trouble with "Snap to Point"? I've got all other guides turned off, but it still doesn't snap the anchor points.
Actually I ended up getting a bit fixated on how to get a nearly-perfect spiral, and I realized that this approach is visibly imperfect since it's made out of true half-circles and a true spiral is not made out of half-circles, and this flaw in the approach is more visible the fewer number of rings you have, and I wanted a good-looking linear spiral with a low number of rings.
The approach I ended up using (per a different guide) was to create a line segment and then Twist it with the Twist effect, and then convert that effected line back into lines (with Expand Appearance), although the big trick I figured out that the other guide didn't mention was to make sure you do all this at a very large size, because the Effect's render quality gets worse and worse the smaller the size of the thing you're working on (to an extreme and super ugly degree at very small sizes), so you should create your spiral at a very large size and then once you have it converted back to line segments then you can shrink it. If anyone does end up seeing this comment and needs better explanation of how to create a really good spiral, leave a comment.
Ooooh will have to try this method out, thanks for sharing! 🙏
I wanted to say that too about the nearly perfect spiral, and I am seeking a way to do it but I want it more precise and constant than with a twist tool, not sure yet how.... also with the twist tool it turns it into a segmented mess, is there a way to fix that ? Thank you!
@@isblaka I THINK I know what problem you're describing, and I think the problem is avoided by literally just scaling the line way up to a much larger size before Twisting (and then shrinking it back down once you've turned it into vectors), although I'm not completely sure WHY this works.
Kind of amusingly, if you do the opposite (shrink it down to a really small size and then twist), the distortion gets really extremely and bizarre.
I may be skimming over something important here so please ask additional questions as needed.
Edit: Testing a little in Illustrator, twisting a line segment by 1800 degrees... if the line segment is 500px long then it's super segmented, 250px is bizarre, and below is increasingly bizarre. If the line segment is 3000px long though, then it renders a spiral very well when twisted. And if you then do "Object > Expand Appearance" then that converts it back to vectors so you can shrink it to your actual needed size.
then there's a little additional vector surgery (kind of up to you what exactly to do at this step) to close up the spiral so you can fill it with a color. The most straightforward thing is to delete the furthest-out bunch of line segments until one end of the whole line is near the other end of the whole line, and then join those two points. I'm not sure how to say that more clearly though...
@@Lessen0 Sir, thank you for your detailed reply ! I have tried now :) made it about 4000px long, the line and the result is sweet :) , meanwhile, i happen to also have Autocad :D and there is a spiral tool that makes it clean from the start so I can import it etc.. but your method is the one I will use as it keeps things clean.
@@isblaka Awesome awesome, glad it worked out. 👍👍
I cant figure out how to only drag and select half of the shape, it keeps highlighting the whole thing -anyone know how to fix this?
Use the ‘Direct Selection Tool’ to drag over and select only the top anchor points 👍
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awesome awesome guide that very clearly walked through what to do and why/how, tho as lichterloh said in another comment 3 months ago, the deletion process can be done more quickly by Joining all the paths once you're at the step where you have two spirals nested in each other, then deleting one of the spirals.
(tho having actually done this now, after writing that comment, i realize there's an added step of separating the two middle points from each other after the Join, and I don't actually know the fastest way to do that since I'm only somewhat familiar with Illustrator. But I guess if your intent is to 100% get rid of the extra spiral, then you just need to delete the first point in the spiral to separate it from the other spiral, and then select the rest of the offending spiral with the V selector and delete it.)
How do I get rid of the points so I may type continuously?
Join each of the connecting lines together with Cmd / Ctrl + J to complete the paths 👍
In one of your videos you gave a download link to an aisc scripts, and there is a script called "Archimedean Spiral". It is the same that you're doing in this tutorial but it takes only 2 secs to do it, you just select it in the "file" and there is your spiral :)
Hey Arina! It's a similar end result, this video is more focused on how to do it without relying on scripts and in a way that gives you more control. The script version is a great time-saver though 👍
Dansky yeah, I understand, just in case for other people, who needs it to be done faster:) LOVE your videos! That would be cool to have a little bit more on InDesign though :) Keep it up!
Thanks! How can you make the spiral strokes to be precisely the same thickness as the white space in between?
Very important question. Can anyone tell us please.
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I needed a linear spiral and saw this tutorial. At first glance, the resulting image looks OK, but if you look at the center of the curve, it’s noticeably distorted.
After spending way too much time on it, I discovered that your solution isn’t really a linear spiral. It looks sort of like one, but if you overlay a real linear spiral on yours, the difference is pretty significant. Particularly in the center.
I don’t know why Adobe engineers have such a problem adding a linear spiral tool, but they’ve condemned designers to these types of hacks for decades. It’s borderline arrogant of them.
Herzlichen Dank für dieses Video! Ganz toll erklärt und besonderen Dank für das verständlich gesprochene Englisch!
Great tutorial! Thanks.
Great instructions - I was able to get it to work within just a couple tries. Thank you!
Had to google something and this video helped me out today! Look at baby Danksy from 4 years ago! haha. Still fantastic even back then! Thanks for sharing your wisdom as usual!!!
Haha if I shaved off the beard, I would probably look about 12 😅 Thanks Moosh, appreciate you! 👊
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Hi there, how to add song lyrics on the Spiral? Thanks
I love this tutorial! It helped me out while I was having problems with the spiral tool.
Awesome! Yea they’re different types of spirals 👍
second part is actually even easier to accomplish - you do not need to ungroup, neither to delete every other line - just: cut, paste, shift, select all and join once, delete connection in the center - then you have two complete spirals, delete one - done!
ooh yeah that makes a ton of sense: since you have two spirals nested in each other, if you Join them first then you can very quickly delete one of them.
At some points, AI is so damn overcomplicated and HARD. Surely, others also have their their pros and cons.
The truth's, i prefer to use various vector based softwares. :/
I mean, maybe it's not bad at all, but i am really struggling with some stuffs.
This is a great example. Why the much effort to create a simple spiral? :/ Seriously?
Excellent thanks for that !!!!! Love your tuts style :)
Glad you like them! Thanks so much 😊
Thank you!
Thank you very much. I didnt think about that way of doing a spiral. I took it to after effects and was easier on a animation I have to make. Tks
You're welcome Pedro!
Way faster to join first and delete the line later.
Worked for me.
Thank you!
Thank you for this! Very good teacher!
Hey thanks Melissa, that’s very kind of you 🙂
Supper this is very cool of way doing Spiral ....thanks!
Great tutorial (as always) but after I cut, paste in place & then shift-drag over, the first line snaps into place perfectly but then every other line is just a pixel off from the other half. Did anyone else run into that!?!? Super weird right!? They are perfect circles so I don't know how this could happen! lol
yep same problem
how did you go about fixing this?
@@petern6391 how did you fix this?
Very helpful. Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
This is awesome. Love your teaching style.
Thanks so much!
my shift doesnt do that
I got a problem
When I paste in place that half of circle and try to put it where it goes it doesn't fit perfectly like in video; I can see some gaps and I don't like them
I followed the exact same steps
I am on Windows 10 - Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Thank you for the instructions! How could i now make this into a text path?
you seem to have solution to every other problem i face while designing. Thanks a ton for these amazing videos!
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