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Printing to epson 3800 by nel westmaas on Sep 15, 2009 at 8:58:54 pm in the Adobe Illustrator Forum Hallo, I am wondering if someone would be kind enough to help me please. I have a colour managed workflow and calibrated monitor. My husband is the photographer and I am the illustrator. He prints to the 3800 no problem and understands colour mana Re: Live trace - can you limit the trace to parts of a bitmap image? by Amy Fierstein on Sep 14, 2009 at 5:18:29 pm in the Adobe Illustrator Forum Thank you! I duplicated the image, brought it into Illustrator, used live trace, and then brought it back into photoshop as another layer, and masked out the portions I didn't want. I was hoping there was a shortcut, but it looks good, so problem so Re: Matching Backgrounds by Vincent Rosati on Sep 14, 2009 at 4:35:05 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum You would have to recolor the JPG logo, or change the black on the card. Can the components of the logo be pulled into Illustrator so that you would have a vector logo, to work with? Vince *Please remember to Rate our replies and check Solutio Re: Architectural Illustrator position by Russ Cogdell on Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:06 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Hello Reggie, My name is Russ Cogdell, an editor and visual effects artist located in downtown Huntington Beach. I have five years of professional experience in both fields using Photoshop, and Illustrator, and have been using Cinema 4D for about Re: Illustrator file as a text layer by Dave LaRonde on Sep 11, 2009 at 9:20:36 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [iva de vito] "what else can i do?" You can treat this layer just like you would treat any other layer that contains an alpha channel. That is the ONLY thing you can do. It is NOT text, it is just a layer, and so you can devise any number of way Re: Illustrator file as a text layer by iva de vito on Sep 11, 2009 at 8:59:42 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum yes i know..for have the same effects what have i to do? i try to use "light wipe"moving the center from left to right plus opacity from 0 to 100 in the same time...what else can i do? thanks Re: Illustrator file as a text layer by Dave LaRonde on Sep 11, 2009 at 7:40:43 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum You can't use text animators on it because a layer imported from Illustrator isn't a text layer. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA Re: Talented Final Cut Pro Editor Needed by Christopher Gomersall on Sep 11, 2009 at 7:00:23 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Ryan: I'm a South-Florida native living in Texas, willing to relocate for the right opportunity. I am Final Cut/After Effects/Photoshop/Illustrator savvy and can shoot as well with 20 years experience behind the camera. I present my reel... 200 Re: Large South-Florida Church Seeking An Accomplished After Effects/Final Cut Editor by Christopher Gomersall on Sep 11, 2009 at 6:54:38 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Everett: I'm a South-Florida native living in Texas, willing to relocate for the right opportunity. I am Final Cut/After Effects/Photoshop/Illustrator savvy and can shoot as well with 20 years experience behind the camera. I present my reel... 2009 Illustrator file as a text layer by iva de vito on Sep 11, 2009 at 6:48:30 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hello! I animate an Illustrator file, With a font that is not owned by after,As a text layer but do not know how to insert.. I should animate it as a text layer: Working on the 'opacity and expanding the range selector switch to create an anima Architectural Illustrator position by Reggie Lofe on Sep 11, 2009 at 6:35:37 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum We are in need of an architectural Illustrator/3D modeler. Must know: Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Illustrator. We don't necessary need someone with a strong architectural background. It is more important that you know the software mentioned above. Thi Re: Illustrator file for After Effects animation by david bogie on Sep 11, 2009 at 2:40:47 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [jeff openshaw] "I have an illustrator file created by an expert with many layers. " Yeah, my experts are multilayered, too. I hate that. Being an Illustrator expert is meaningless in the world of motion graphics. Being able to create art in A Re: Illustrator file for After Effects animation by jeff openshaw on Sep 10, 2009 at 11:35:28 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thank you Dave!!!! Release layers tutorial did it. Thanks again. Re: Illustrator file for After Effects animation by Dave LaRonde on Sep 10, 2009 at 10:22:42 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Here's a list of things to check: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f54a.html Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA Re: Illustrator file for After Effects animation by Trevor Gent on Sep 10, 2009 at 10:18:17 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum The paths should be moot unless you're editing inside Illustrator. When you import the file into After Effects there should be an option to import as a composition? Is this not the case? Can you post the Illustrator file? Trev Illustrator file for After Effects animation by jeff openshaw on Sep 10, 2009 at 9:32:06 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I have an illustrator file created by an expert with many layers. There is a group within each layer that contains about 50 paths in each group. I have tried everything on the post that I have read and checked some tutorials. The file was created in Re: Help with background layers by Sean Beznicki on Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03:53 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Originally I had the layers individually scaling down starting from out of frame, and then I would lower the opacity of the layers furthest away. I repeated this process with duplicate layers but found it too tedious and wanted to find a way a anoth Re: Help with background layers by Dave LaRonde on Sep 10, 2009 at 4:42:56 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum That's hard to say -- can you answer a few questions? How were you thinking of doing it? Using camera motion on 3D layers? A simple zoom? Does this need to look photorealistic? Can it look stylized? How would you feel about trashing the backgrou Re: Accessing PSD layer on import through AE scripting by Dalton McPhee on Sep 10, 2009 at 1:44:15 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Hi Patrick, did you ever find a way to reference Photoshop/Illustrator layers from an AE script? I can't find any way to replace footage using a script that selects a specific layer in a file. FootageItem/AVItem etc seem to have no methods or prope Randomize the Index... by Barry Brimley on Sep 10, 2009 at 3:52:30 am in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Hello. I was wondering if there is an expression that would allow me to randomize the index sequence. I'm assuming the manual way would be to rearrange the index, but with 200+ layers, that would take awhile, let alone making it look organic. The AE templates by Adrian Wibisono on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:37:45 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum a while ago one of the news headline news was for AE templates and I couldn't remember or find what it was. The templates have the look like stuff they use on comedy central / mtv or vh1 type. On their page it has tutorials for the templates and it c 3.5 hours to render a 5 min. green screen key? by Jim Hines on Sep 9, 2009 at 8:22:48 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Is that right? Just a keyed out talking head with a .png for a bg. make movie quicktime mostly defaults. cs4 pc vista 64 i7 3.07GHz 12 GB ram seperate internal media drive. Not for nuthin' Premier and Illustrator pretty slow and buggy al Motion Graphics/ Special Effects Studio intern position wanted! by Tracy Toscano on Sep 9, 2009 at 5:10:47 pm in the JOBS Wanted Forum I am looking to intern at a motion graphics/special effects studio. I have been working as a print designer for 10 years now and would like to change careers. I took an after effects class this past summer (fell in love with it) and am registered for automatically update placed files by Donal Hanafin on Sep 9, 2009 at 1:30:10 pm in the Adobe Photoshop Forum Hello all, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to import a photoshop file into a new photoshop file and then have the new file update automatically if there are any changes made to the imported file. The file>place function sort of works but Large South-Florida Church Seeking An Accomplished After Effects/Final Cut Editor by Everett Bowes on Sep 8, 2009 at 10:33:49 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum With five campuses in the West Palm Beach area of South Florida, Christ Fellowship Church is expanding its media department. Forget the idea of "church videos" being synonymous with "videos-that-suck". We're looking to hire the person that has th Objects are stacked when imported by Cole Prine on Sep 8, 2009 at 5:52:26 pm in the MAYA Forum Hey, I'm new to Maya, but I'm learning pretty quickly. I searched, but found no answer to this, so if this has been asked before, please forgive me. I'm working with a logo. I'm saving a .ai out or illustrator to be opened in MAYA. The problem is Arial Narrow Bold by Jeff Cochran on Sep 8, 2009 at 2:04:35 pm in the Adobe Illustrator Forum Hello, I'm working in Illustrator CS3 on a PC and I need to use the font Arial Narrow Bold. I have the font loaded in my fonts folder, but it does not show up in my fonts list. I get Arial Narrow as a sub set of Arial and I can use that just fine, Making a print design into a layered eps Illustrator file by louise Robinson on Sep 7, 2009 at 7:53:24 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum Hi...My first post really hope someone can help me please!!! I made a 3 colour print design in Photoshop which I have each colour as seperate documents i(saved as Tiff)...as i always have BUT apparently I need to make it a layered eps file in illu Re: how to easily join or merge 2 masks in after effects by David Rowley on Sep 7, 2009 at 5:10:56 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Forgot to add a possible step in Illustrator that would go between 2 and 3 - and forgive me if this is very basic or obvious: If the masks you pasted from AE were closed, first you have to open them. In Illustrator, use the scissor tool (nested w Re: how to easily join or merge 2 masks in after effects by David Rowley on Sep 7, 2009 at 12:43:42 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Also, if you really want to join 2 or more masks into 1 mask (so that you can use a fill effect, for example), and if you have Illustrator installed, you can do this: 1. highlight and copy all of the masks you want to join 2. paste them in to publish to book - missing pixels by kirk tabalotny on Sep 6, 2009 at 6:12:21 am in the Adobe InDesign Forum when I've published a short document to PDF as a booklet (for printers pairs), the resulting PDF has missing pixels on pages containing one specific Illustrator image. Embedding the image doesn't help. The image in the inDesign doc hasn't been resize Re: Where do I find the web designers? by Chris Blair on Sep 5, 2009 at 1:35:11 am in the Business & Marketing Forum While wordpress is free and has millions of users, I've tried to learn it and found it's NOT as easy as everyone makes it out to be. And I work on mutliple NLE platforms, as well as in Digital Fusion, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Color Link by Eran Stern on Sep 4, 2009 at 12:14:26 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a colorful disco tunnel using shape layers and matching the look to a video footage using the color link effect. Illustrator Printing problem by Kailash Sharma on Sep 4, 2009 at 7:26:26 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum When I open and print these from Acrobat 7.0 the gradients turn to 100% black fills in the flow charts. Is this a setting issue? Please guide me... Kailash Sharma Macmillan India Limited INDIA Re: File Mechanics by Michael Hancock on Sep 3, 2009 at 6:26:04 pm in the AVID Editing Forum When you import any file into Avid it converts it to OMF or MXF media (depending on your Media Creation settings). It leaves the original file alone (this does not include Avid's new AMA function, or the Import P2 files if you're not on Media Compos Re: Illustrator Colors Import As Grays and Black Only by Edward Wu on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:58:54 pm in the Zaxwerks Forum Hi Mike, My original thought was that you may have strokes applied onto the objects. However, since you mentioned that there are no strokes applied, I'll have to take a look at what you're running into. Please send the Illustrator files to m Re: No Usable Vector Paths Found by Edward Wu on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:52:10 pm in the Zaxwerks Forum Hi Mike, There are a few possibilities when getting that error message. First off, if you save the file with compression in Illustrator, you will see that error message. In addition, if the file contains pixel effects/images, you will also recei Re: No wipes in Motion? by Arnie Schlissel on Sep 3, 2009 at 1:43:52 pm in the Apple Motion Forum You should be able to easily build wipes using animated mattes or luma mattes. The luma mattes can be found on the web- google "alpha wipes", or build your own in Photoshop or Illustrator. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www. Re: Scroll Wheel Zoom in Photoshop and Illustrator like After Effects by Jairo Bambang Oetomo on Sep 3, 2009 at 10:19:36 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum You can hold alt in Illustrator and zoomscroll will work :) Illustrator Stroke Removal Help! by Jordan Gardiner on Sep 3, 2009 at 9:01:48 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum I'm currently in the process of creating a logo for my alter ego/web nickname, jordsta.. And I noticed on a tutorial I found somewhere on the web that you can make this really sleek cut-out effect by adding a 1pt stroke around your text. I've lost tr Re: Editor / Motion Graphics / Web Design by Faisal Nizami on Sep 3, 2009 at 6:18:37 am in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Muhammad Faisal Nizami Karachi, Pakistan Cell: +92-332-8296770 faisalnizami2003@hotmail.com OBJECTIVE: In search of Challenging position in electronic media, this would offer an opportunity for career escalation. EDUCATION: 20 No Usable Vector Paths Found by Mike Sussman on Sep 2, 2009 at 7:43:33 pm in the Zaxwerks Forum One of the vector files somebody sent me is extremely complicated and will not open up in Zaxwerks ProAnimator 4.5.1. This file (originally an .eps but opened in AI CS2 and saved out again as a .ai file) has hundreds of Groups containing Clipping Pa Illustrator Colors Import As Grays and Black Only by Mike Sussman on Sep 2, 2009 at 7:29:58 pm in the Zaxwerks Forum I can't figure this problem out. I have some .ai files created in Adobe Illustrator CS2 and I was able to import them into Zaxwerk ProAmimator 4.5.1 while maintaining their .ai colors without any problems - even very complicated ones. I also have s AI object is not visible...read the forum, nothing works by Paul Kuroda on Sep 2, 2009 at 3:32:18 am in the Cinema 4D Forum I have a simple logo on a single layer with a text below it and saved as Adobe Illustrator 8. Open in both merge after centering the logo in AI and then zeroing out the xyz and the objects are not visible. Could not find any "hierarchy" check b Apple Motion Write On Effect by Katie Lin on Sep 1, 2009 at 5:48:22 pm in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum I have an outline of a world map that I would like to appear as though it is being drawn on the screen. The "write on" effect in motion would be perfect but in order to use this effect it seems as if I will need to redraw the entire image in motion. Producer Wanted: Indianapolis by Seth Hancock on Sep 1, 2009 at 2:36:19 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Producer of Indy's Market Place program on WTTV and WXIN. Responsible for day-to-day functions of the program including creative direction and facilitating projects from beginning to end. Responsible for shooting, editing & producing show segments, b Re: career choices by Stuart Elith on Sep 1, 2009 at 4:01:18 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum 1. The two main areas that After Effects is used in are Motion Graphics and Compositing/Visual Effects (you can google those terms to learn more). I guess there are other good uses for it but that's mainly what I think of, anyway. Others should jump shrink a jpeg to make a thumbnail by Justin Breen on Aug 31, 2009 at 11:25:12 pm in the Adobe Photoshop Forum hey guys, i am creating my website for my portfolio and i am trying to use the jpegs from my export of my QT movies to make thumbnails... i am creating the site in dreamweaver and have the template already broken up using photoshop, i just need to pl Re: Storyboard Artists by Alberto Saichann on Aug 31, 2009 at 3:28:27 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum To whom it may concern My name is Alberto Saichann, I am an experienced argentine illustrator who has already worked many years for abroad. What I like the most is the comic illustration and storyboards. I would like to make contact with Re: Adobe Illustrator serial number problem by Deborah Paley on Aug 30, 2009 at 12:39:45 pm in the Adobe Illustrator Forum I will do this from now on. Thanks! Adobe Illustrator Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 3 In Part 3 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati shows you how to perform flat shading on the helix created in the previous tutorials. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Vincent Rosati Adobe Illustrator Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 2 In Part 2 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati uses the pen tool to draw the helix structure. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Vincent Rosati Adobe Illustrator Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 1 In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI. 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