Re: How to create High Quality Cover photo for Fac...

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jan 17, 2014

Vuong Luu wrote: btw, I don't know what "work" you're talking about, if those above, then they are not my work @@ i mean I'm at my job, where facebook is blocked. 'at work' is unfamiliar vernacular?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jan 16, 2014

as I said I can't check from work. can you not do the same, then? just make PNGs at that res and upload them?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jan 16, 2014

those are pngs, hence the lack of jpeg artefacts. did they come straight from facebook? i can't check from work. most of the time you see 'pixellation' on facebook its because its compressing whatever you upload into a low quality jpeg, not because of resolution.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Dec 18, 2013

that looks pretty much as i'd expect a 960x560 image to look. what do you think is wrong with it?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Dec 06, 2013

to corroborate that, i made a 100 step blend while testing this topic, and then got on with a drawing involving blends with gradients that i was working on, forgot about making the 100 step blend and started thinking "wait a minute... you CAN make smooth blends between gradients!". then i checked my blend settings and remembered what i'd done earlier. but now all my blends are much, much larger than they need to be

Doug A Roberts · ‎Dec 06, 2013

all i did was quote adobe's own document on blends... (and I tried it a few ways too)

Doug A Roberts · ‎Dec 06, 2013

"If the objects contain identical colors, or if they contain gradients or patterns, the number of steps is based on the longest distance between the bounding box edges of the two objects." http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6443a.html#WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6442a this implies to me that if you want the effect of a smooth blend (because after all, 'smooth' blends are just stepped blends with a large number of steps), you'll have to specify a suitable number of steps yourself.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 18, 2013

i knew this reminded me of something. Piss Christ!

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 18, 2013

why do people keep answering with this? the problem for me, coming from CS3, was that i was unexpectedly selecting the menu bar all the time. if i tried to use a shortcut immediately after, it'd activate a menu item rather than doing what i expected. the problem is worse in indesign because you can't just click on your document to have the menu deselect - you have to press alt again.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 18, 2013

that's a beautiful image, steve. is this basically a scandinavian topic?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 13, 2013

wells24 wrote: I guess what I was really after is a way to amend the 'Shift' keyboard shortcut or a plugin, something along those lines... oh, well if you know the angle you're starting from, you could change your constrain angle to match (under Preferences > General).

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 12, 2013

i always find it funny when someone's answer to how to do something in illustrator is 'use another program'

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 08, 2013

oneofthefunmoms wrote: I just typed the words in illustrator. Is that what you mean? My original pictures 1-2-3 (with blue background) are just screen shots using jing when I was in word. yeah that's what I meant. i was concerned that you'd ended up with a pixel image of the word in illustrator somehow. those blue dots around the 'f' are anchor points. with the white arrow, you should be able to select just the ones you want to remove and then just press the backspace key. doing what emil said may be more foolproof.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 07, 2013

one's initial suspicion would be show/hide edges (Ctrl + H)

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 07, 2013

wait... what did you do to get this from Word to Illustrator?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 07, 2013

make the type outlines if it isn't already (Type > Create Outlines), select the anchor points you need to remove with the direct selection tool (white pointer), then Object > Path > Remove Anchor Points. you may want to add some points to the path where you want it to end with the pen tool beforehand. if you wanted to do this on the cheap, and it is indeed just text or vectors, you could probably use Inkscape or something else free.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 01, 2013

if they are just the same but shifted along the x axis, you'd probably be best off applying a transform effect to move a copy of the original line whatever distance horizontally, then put a clipping mask on the result.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Nov 01, 2013

expand appearence?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Oct 07, 2013

MJLeePrimaryApps wrote: I guess it would have been easier to use a light box and just trace the image by hand. or trace it with the pen tool...

Doug A Roberts · ‎Oct 01, 2013

this is a powerpoint question rather than an illustrator one, but if you place your EPS you should be able to right-click it, ungroup, and PP will ask you if you want to make it into a microsoft drawing object (or somethingorother). then you can ungroup that and edit the vectors freely. edit: after playing around with it though, gawd. i wouldn't bother. it doesn't seem to know what illy's curves are and splits them into dozens of tiny straight paths.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Aug 21, 2013

open this file in a text editor (windows): Users\<user name>\AppData/Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings\en_US*\AIPrefs search it for 'maxundodepth' see what's there change it (maybe) save and restart illustrator.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Aug 16, 2013

scott's working under the assumption that someone making a topic on a forum wants to achieve a particular thing. if you're just making a statement ("Illustrator has no Inner Shadow feature") it's just like, oh... who are you talking to?

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jul 19, 2013

actually looking at your image, jacob's method is nice and efficient. mine makes a sort of galaxy thing.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jul 19, 2013

take your gradient, make a rectangular bar (or whatever), fill it top to bottom, expand the fill, then use the Twirl tool with a brush size larger than your shape on the centre of it. this is a bad method, because the expanded gradient produces many hundreds of paths, but it was just the first thing to come to mind.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jun 17, 2013

just for paper size, no other parameters? just specify those artboard dimensions for the new document and save it as your own template.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Jun 17, 2013

i don't seem to have an A5 default either. you shoukd look up paper sizes for your own future reference, but as a starter, A5 is 148 x 210 mm

Doug A Roberts · ‎May 09, 2013

i think i am fortunate to not have an opinion on this. i work for a large company, it's up to them what i use. as for home jobs... i could still use illy 10 and PS 7 really...

Doug A Roberts · ‎Mar 22, 2013

annie8l wrote: A small detail: I took a stupidly long time to figure out that everytime I use a command with the Alt key, other commands become "stuck" and won't work. It just needs another Alt press to go back to normal. i think this happened with CS5. it's not a bug supposedly, just illustrator matching normal Windows behaviour (i.e. tap alt to use the arrow keys to operate menus). but it's definitely the most irritating thing in the universe sometimes. even moreso in indesign...

Doug A Roberts · ‎Mar 21, 2013

doesn't the document swatches window display whatever swatches are used in the doc? coated or uncoated depends on what you're going to be printing onto.

Doug A Roberts · ‎Mar 21, 2013

just white pointer, drag a selection box over the two points, ctrl +j. if it doesn't work, maybe there are some things that need ungrouping? ctrl+alt+j is set to average two points, something i wasn't aware of... no idea what ctrl+alt+shift+J does if anything.

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