[Vincent Rosati]

It looks like the issue might be in achieving the warping of the text glyphs.
I’m guessing that you’ve tried Text on Path.

Try expanding your text, than either…

Object / Envelope Distort / Warp: Arc

or manually with…

Object / Envelope Distort / Warp: Mesh (1 row, 2 columns)

The two words would be created in 2 operations, one for the upper and one for the lower.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

“…scale … without changing size”

Not sure That I understand.

Try unchecking “Scale strokes and effects” in Preferences.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

Not sure what you’re ultimate goal is, but you could…

1) Select everything and Object / Group.
That will move all of the objects into one layer.
Or, you could just drag the paths inside the Layers palette to the appropriate layer.

or maybe…

2) Select all of the like-filled objects and Object / Compound Path / Make.
This way, all of the dark greens will be one object, and the light greens will be a second object.
You would still need to group the dark green and light green, if you want them to be together.

Just some initial thoughts.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

The attached files illustrate two approaches to this:
1 – Gradient Mesh
2 – Blend

Blend options (CS4)
7235_gauscs4.ai.zip

Blend options (v.10)
7236_gausv10.ai.zip

You’ll see two versions of the Blend approach. The lower resolution/stepped version is simply to show how you might reduce your CPU processing needs while testing. It is the same artwork, but with a lower step value in the blend.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

You’re much more likely to get a response if you use a real name. I’m not sure if this is still in the TOS, but the COW policy has been that real names are required, no handles or spam-type names. They changed this maybe about 4 years ago.
I used to be ‘Vintendo’.

[Vincent Rosati]

Welcome Carl, good to see a technical illustrator on the board.
I don’t know if I have an immediate fix, but my first thought is that this is an overall workflow issue.
What changes will you need to make to the Illustrator objects in Photoshop?
Have you tried pasting your AI objects into PS as Smart Objects?
I imagine these as being walls, doors, furniture, etc?

My most extreme process for moving vectors into PS, when I need a shape layer for every vector layer of a complex component, is to create a transparent box around the component in AI as a registration box.
Than I copy the registration box and one of the object layers, and paste into a new PS file, than delete the bounding box.
Than I repeat the process with all of the AI layer objects until the component is recreated, perfectly registered, as individual shape layers in PS.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

I suspect that when you enter the text your turning the squares into text objects.
Would it be possible to select the grid and Copy/Paste in Front. Lock the lower stroked grid, and type on the upper grid?

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

Could you hold Shift + Option as you are clicking the layers?

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

I haven’t used it with a pixel grid, but I usually just select the points with the Direct Select tool, then Object > Path > Average

[Vincent Rosati]

Try dragging your object into the Brushes pallette, and create a Scatter Brush.
The scatter brush has all of controls you describe.
Than you just draw a path and apply the your custom bush.
You can go back into the brush editor of you need to make additional changes.

Vince

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