How To Convert Stroke To Outline In Illustrator CC

Learn how to convert a stroke to an outline in Adobe Illustrator CC using this super simple technique.

Strokes and outlines both play integral roles in designing artwork in Illustrator. It's super easy to convert a stroke into an outline, if you need to work with flat outwork you can apply swatches, gradients, fill and stroke, and so on to.

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[designwithdale]

Hope you found this tutorial helpful. It's always important to understand the difference between stroke and outline. Let me know your thoughts in the comments

[jondowlervideos]

Thank you so much for this! It was one of the rare times I typed in search terms and found EXACTLY what I was looking for! Cheers Dale!

[pedrofilipeespanhollopes]

Very useful on "transforming" strokes without messing the proportion. Thank you!!

[yamo]

dude this just helped me get around a super frustrating obstacle, thank you so much!

[Fiddlerreal]

You are a legend bro, i didn't wait too long to hear the solution.

[empoweredwithpurpose]

How do I fill the inside empty white space with a color?

[strangeapprentice]

How can you bring it back? Outline to stroke?

[pandeyradha]

Hi, drew a shape with the pen tool, followed steps Path>Outline Stroke, but the Fill & Stroke in the toolbar show up as questions marks (?) as soon as I convert, instead of showing me a colour value. Any thoughts on why this is happening?

[Spectron]

Hello! Is there a way to convert an outline to a single stroke, ie finding the centre path of a letter, or object?

[manuelmessner]

Have you any idea why "Outline Stroke" doesn’t do anything when you choose it in the "Effect" Panel ?

[Pokawax]

Hey !!! i absoluty search to do the opposite ! Would like to convert outline to stroke ! Any suggestions ? 😰

[DieTabbi]

Nice, as you not responding at questions I ask anyway. I draw circles, squares any form. set a stroke, the line is in the middle of the stroke. Then I use outline stroke, I got one line at the outside of the stroke the second is always in the middle and the third to the inner. So in total 3 lines not 2 😞 Not as you shown. can´t find whats wrong.

[dsgdhanitha]

thanks very very helpful, keep it up :)