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About emil_emil
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emil_emil
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‎Dec 11, 2012
08:16 AM
That's really unfortunate, I use this a lot and can't believe they removed it. Does it still have Screen Resolution option in the preferences? The whole point of this option was to provide for the Print Size calculations.
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‎Dec 11, 2012
08:04 AM
I don't have CS6 but in CS5 the same option is also available from the View menu. Is that one still there?
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‎Nov 28, 2012
08:54 AM
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jonesu wrote: ... I avoid rich black like the plague. I like my blacks to look and output exactly as they are intended. People who print rich black do this fully intentionally For example I use this all the time to get dipper and most intensive black possible on a printed media which is not possible with K only black, in comparison, it will give pale grayish color. this is just an image grabbed from Google that illustrates the appearance of printed result
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‎Nov 25, 2012
08:04 AM
When I need to use the most intensive black possible on a certain paper (medium) without exceeding the specified ink coverage, I create an RGB black = 0 and convert it to the CMYK color space of the paper. This ensures that I will not exceed the ink coverage. If your question is not specifically limited to the most intensive black possible on a certain medium without exceeding the ink coverage, but dark colors in general, then your question is like asking "what is your favorite color in general (not just blacks).
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‎Nov 24, 2012
11:07 AM
Wade_Zimmerman wrote: A lot of work to adjust two or three drop shadow effects you should come on one of my photoshoots if ou want to see what a lot of work really is all about! Amusing! I sure know what a lot of work is and I can also imagine it and I'm sure you can imagine it too. That's why I gave you an example with two or three different shadows and not twenty, thirty, or more @mikef928, Wade is not suggesting change in the preferences, but to redo the shadows after you rotate instead of using Transform Effect. I agree with this and it is the obvious thing to do if you really have only one or a few different shadows rotated at angles like 90 degrees where you can simply swap the X with Y values, otherwise for something more involving I would use the Transform Effect.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
10:57 PM
Yes, with this simple example it is just as easy to swap the X and Y, but it was a simple example to show the problem. Try to imagine more complex example like the image below. Then the Transform effect on the bottom right side will make more sense than redoing each shadow of the different objects on the group at the bottom left side. Notice that the different objects have different size shadows because the same size shadow doesn't fit well different size objects and different size shadows can be also used to suggest different distance between the stacking objects. So, on practice that's a lot of work to redo the shadows again after each rotation and simple swap between X and Y won't work. The center of rotation of the transform effect takes into account the combined space of object and its shadow and the choice for its position is limited to the 9 reference points in the transform dialog box but on practice I don't see this as a big problem because drop shadows unlike the simple example I gave, are usually not that far from the object producing them and all objects can be rotated at once and reposition at once if needed.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
07:51 PM
Wade, create a box with 100 pt per side. Apply a drop shadow effect with its X offset set to 0 and its Y offset set to 100 pt. Rotate the box 90 degrees, does the shadow extends from the right side of the box or remains at the bottom side? Now rotate with the Transform Effect instead and check the difference.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
11:58 AM
mikef928 wrote: Yes, I see what you are saying. I guess that I just don't like the effects tool because when you view in outline mode you can't see the object correctly, unless you "expand" the object first. I don't like that either but that's a separate (program design) problem because Illustrator doesn't have intelligent objects with transformation history and the effects are external influences. If they address that we will not suffer from this. Even adding a static rotation attribute in addition to x, y, width and height to the object's description will be able to solve this kind of problems. Sigh edit: be careful with expanding - it creates a raster image of the shadow which is with a certain fixed resolution that may give you problem if you scale up the object.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
11:17 AM
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mikef928 wrote: Yes. Thanks for the tip... although that is not ideal. It seems like there should be a "rotate effects with object" feature, when you option/click with the rotate tool. Kinda' like when you are scaling and you want the effects to scale along with an object. Does that make sense? The feature is the one I already suggested - the Transform Effect. If they make what you want possible without an additional effect it will cause a confusion when you edit the drop shadow effect after rotating the object. You know that you can double click the Drop Shadow item in the Appearance panel to change the parameters later. The parameters there are always X and Y using the directions of the artboard. If your object is rotated 90 degrees, the parameters in the Drop Shadow effect are not going to swap X with Y or to be renamed to degrees if for example your object is rotated 15 degrees. With adding a Transform effect however the user knows that this is the combined result of two separate transformations and there will be no confusion.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
10:50 AM
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Oh, you mean the direction of the shadow stays the same, for example if the X and Y offset of the shadow are different they will always produce a shadow in the same X and Y directions of the arbroard and not the object. This is how it is supposed to work and I believe most users will expect. To do what you want use Effects > Distort and Transform > Transform.
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‎Nov 23, 2012
10:28 AM
Can you please describe the exact steps that will reproduce your problem. When I try to rotate an object with drop shadow here the shadow rotates with the object as expected. So either, you are doing something differently than I or there is something broken in your Illustrator.
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‎Nov 22, 2012
10:27 AM
the reference image was apparently created using dither pattern. I haven't checked the plug in Conroy suggested but I made a quick try using the dither pattern of the Index Color mode. I painted with the round soft brush one big blue blob over dark background then converted to index color with a smal number of colors to get more interesting pattern. Then converted back to RGB and used the clone tool to distribute the variations of the pattern randomly on the canvas. The 90% is just a text layer with outer glow on top of the pattern. click the image to see it larger
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‎Nov 09, 2012
05:46 AM
RMarchand wrote: Hi, I have the same problem with Illustrator CS5. It seem's that if you only enter "0 pt." for the first dash and let's say 18 pt. for the first gap in the "Dash and Gap Fields", Illustrator does not copy tthose values automatically to the other fields ... Why does it have to copy those values automatically to the other fields? If they are the same you don't need them in the other fields. and does not make a dotted line as expected.... Can you please show, how it looks for you with only 0 and 18 in the first two fields and the others empty? It works fine for me, as expected.
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‎Nov 08, 2012
10:30 AM
OK, a few more thought on this. Here's what I did and everyone can check for themselves. I made a screen capture of the Color picker and paste it in a RGB and also a CMYK document as shown on the images below. In the CMYK document this converts the RGB color values of the screen capture into the CMYK color space of the document and the colors in the palette are displayed within the document's gamut. If you take the eyedropper and click on any color of the palette on the image you will never get out of gamut colors and this is how they should be displayed in the real Color Picker. The Color picker can still display in a little box out of gamut color if they are selected numerically using the RGB or HSB models but the point is that the display of the palette should be converted to a CMYK color space. In the RGB document on the second image, like in the real picker, clicking on the palette with the eyedropper will give a lot of out of gamut colors. Now thinking about out of gamut colors. Illustrator decides what is out of gamut colors by comparing the color space of a CMYK document to the working RGB color space set in the Color Settings and for an RGB document to the working CMYK space in the Color Settings. But this is not practical all the time because it is one way only from RGB to CMYK and can not be set from CMYK to RGB, RGB to RGB, and CMYK to CMYK. CMYK to RGB example: you may have a document with U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 color space and one of its destinations is an sRGB color space. Because you can't set CMYK to RGB for out of gamut consideration, Illustrator will consider out of gamut all sRGB colors that are outside the U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 color space. But in this case your destination is sRGB and all colors from the sRGB color space should be presented in gamut and there is actually a small part of the U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 colors that are outside of the sRGB color space and only these colors should be shown as out of gamut. RGB to RGB example: your document is set in Adobe RGB color space because it will be eventually printed to several RGB printers some of which may have narrower gamut than the document. Then you want to set Illustrator to display out of gamut only the colors in the Adobe RGB color space that the RGB printer can't print, but unfortunately this is not possible even if you have the color profile of the printer. CMYK to CMYK example: you may have a document with U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 color space but one of its destinations is U.S Web Uncoated v2, or US Newsprint, again not possible. So, in all these examples, the out of gamut colors Illustrator gives in the Color picker and panel are completely useless. Of course the major tool for these tasks remains the soft proofing which is working properly but why not make the out of gamut colors in the Color picker and panel work better and make more sense.
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‎Nov 07, 2012
09:02 PM
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Copy in Front pastes the copied object in front of the selection, and only if there is no selection then in front (top of the stack) in the currently highlighted layer or the top of the stack in the same layer if "Paste Remembers Layers" option is checked from the menu of the Layer's panel. The tutorial fails to tell in that step that you have to first deselect the object you copied or select the object you want to paste in front of, which in your case is the blend. You can not use a blend object as a clipping mask and that's why you are getting the error. When you select as a top object a regular path as the circle you are trying to paste in front of the blend then the clipping will work.
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‎Nov 07, 2012
06:03 PM
Just to be clear, as it was pointed in the other thread, in a RGB document the palette in the color picker is color managed and will display the RGB colors in the color space of the document. For example if you try changing to Adobe RGB, Prophoto, etc, the colors of the palette will change too, it is only the new and old color boxes that are not color managed and always display color in the color space of the monitor. In a CMYK document the color management displays the colors in the palette using the RGB working space set in the Color Settings.
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‎Nov 07, 2012
04:56 PM
DrStrik9 wrote: ... In my experience, when working in CMYK, it is best to not think in terms of RGB at all, since the two gamuts are very different. If I'm doing a CMYK document, I always use the CMYK sliders rather than the RGB picker ... We are talking about the Color Picker, it is not defined as an RGB picker, you can pick colors there by typing numeric values in CMYK, RGB, HSB, and the hexadecimal models, and you can just click on the palette to pick a color. The user goes to the Color Picker when working in a CMYK document to choose a color for the document and not to think in terms of RGB. However the color picker is useless for this purpose because it displays the colors there in the color space of the monitor which is very different from the color space of the document. Perhaps Adobe should make the RGB picker disappear in CMYK documents, to not give the impression to the inexperienced that it is a useful tool when working in CMYK Well, hello with this you are saying in other words what I said about how the color picker should work - make it color managed like the color spectrum in the Color panel so that it displays the colors in the color space of the document. For example in CMYK document the color picker should display CMYK colors (or said in your words the RGB display of the colors disappear) Let's agree to disagree on this. So, where is the disagreement then? Looks like you want the same change like me
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‎Nov 07, 2012
03:37 PM
DrStrik9 wrote: ... The color picker is actually programmed correctly. If the user chooses a CMYK file, then attempts to choose an out-of-CMYK-gamut color via the RGB color space, the color picker rightly only will pick colors compatible with the CMYK color gamut, which is consistent with the document. ... Programmed correctly? You must be kidding me Check how the color spectrum in the Color panel displays colors and compare with the Color Picker. The color spectrum bar in the Color panel is what I can call programmed correctly. No matter what color model you choose for the sliders it will never display colors outside of the color space of the document thus showing always the correct final color. If the color picker was programmed correctly and worked as expected this thread wouldn't exist. Wade is correct in recommending that the user choose an RGB document if desiring to use RGB colors. No, the OP as any other users who wants to try this, is not desiring to use RGB colors or even using numeric values, she is simply picking color from the color picker that she wants in her CMYK document. But no luck, she must use RGB document only. And as I explained this, in RGB document it will work only in a special condition which is not how a professional designer should ever work. Color picker is useless, period.
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‎Nov 07, 2012
03:05 PM
ChristieDesign wrote: Thanks emil emil for the link. I checked the issue and it still did not fix the problem Christie if you mean that you tried my suggestion in the other thread, apparently you didn't do it properly. Monitor profiles are only RGB and in order to assign it as a color space of your document you have to have your document in RGB mode first. Again, as it was the case in the other thread, just switching to RGB mode will not fix the problem from the fact that the color picker is not color managed and will still show a difference even in RGB documents if the monitor profile is different than the profile of the RGB document. If you don't have a custom monitor profile you system assigns by default the sRGB color space as a profile of your monitor and since the default RGB mode in Illustrator is also using the sRGB color space then the Color PIcker will show no difference in a sRGB document. However, if you try assigning another RGB color space for, example Adobe RGB, from Edit > Assign Profile then the color picker will be equally useless as when working in a CMYK document. Wade_Zimmerman wrote: The color you see is expected. Change the color mode properly to RGB and it will solve your problem. Wade, you mean "the color you see is the result of how badly color picker was programmed to work"? If the color picker was color managed it would display only the colors within the limit of the color space of the current document so the user can not choose colors outside of it and then wonder why the colors in the document are not the same. I wouldn't consider the way the color picker shows the colors as expected.
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‎Nov 07, 2012
11:01 AM
check this thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/4743901#4743901
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‎Nov 05, 2012
11:48 AM
never happened to me but but I always fear it, it is just a guess, the s and w keys on the keyboard are very close and using the Cmd+w to close a file actually can hit accidentally Cmd + s first.
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‎Nov 05, 2012
10:11 AM
[scott w] wrote: Genius Carlos! +1 I'm sure I'll need this script too
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‎Oct 31, 2012
10:25 AM
BorisMell wrote: ... (tried on mac illustrator CS6 + osx 10.8) I don't have a mac but I know that Adobe introduced this feature on a mac with CS6 so, it is not something that has been there all the time that you just discovered it.
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‎Oct 31, 2012
05:28 AM
Zanjazanja, Also, please explain step by step in full detail what exactly you do that is not working. Tell us the name of the tools, menus, panels, etc you are using and how. Your screenshot doesn't show anything out of ordinary and there is nothing selected so, we can't see the path/s you are trying to change. Also show the Appearance panel when somethihng is selected. As already mentioned, in the Layers panel selected items are displayed with a little square at the end of the last column next to the little circle - you can also click that spot to select an item.
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‎Oct 19, 2012
01:38 PM
It is the square brackets keys on your keyboard It is the same keys used for changing the brush size in Photoshop. Select a path with a calligraphic or bristle brush, make sure the Brush Tool is the current tool and use these keys. If you have nothing selected, it affects the next brush strokes you will make if you don't select a brush preset in the meantime.
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‎Oct 19, 2012
12:29 PM
Kurt Gold wrote:... Assuming we're talking about brush widths in Photoshop, of course, that has been available in Photoshop for many years. ... It is available In Illustrator too. The selected or new calligraphic and bristle brushes are also affected by the [ and ] keys when the brush tool is selected. And like in Photoshop this doesn't affect the diameter of the brush preset or the stroke width which is available only in Illustrator. However unfortunately this doesn't work with the other kind of brushes
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‎Oct 19, 2012
12:16 PM
Unfortunately, I don't think so. I still find it advantageous though as it gives me an interactive preview of the stroke width. You don't have to press the arrow keys multiple times you can just hold them until you like the width. Also holding Shift will increase the change by 10 times. The arrow keys also work for any other numeric field and most of the menus in dialog boxes, so I'm very used to it.
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‎Oct 19, 2012
11:08 AM
Photoshop doesn't have a stroke feature that you can change with a hotkey. But anyway, unfortunately Illustrator doesn't have such hotkey either. As already suggested try the workaround with the up/down arrows on your keyboard when the focus is in the stroke field
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‎Oct 13, 2012
09:06 AM
Oh, I actually forgot about the "Edit Mask" command. But it still can be improved. The Edit Mask is available from Object > Clipping Mask > Edit Mask only if the image is selected with the white pointer. Otherwise, if the group is selected it says "Edit Content" and will function as such. I think this is unnecessarily complicated and both items should have been in the menu so that the user should be able to select the clipping mask or the content in any kind of selection.
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‎Oct 13, 2012
08:24 AM
I think what Sebasiao may be happy with is an easier way to select the clipping mask. Illustrator does this when you apply the mask but as soon as you deselect the object, to select the clipping path again, you have to either dig in the Layer's panel and find it or go to Outline view find it and click it with the white pointer which may be hard in a complex artwork. Smart Guides can also show the path if mouse is over it but the label says only "path" which again can be hard in a complex artwork, - it would have been better if the label say "clipping path". I think they should have made the Mask button on the control bar do this by first applying the mask for images without it but then remains active and serves as a selection tool for the clipping path of the selected image.
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