[Adolf Witzeling]

System Requirements from the Adobe Web site:

Windows

Intel

[Adolf Witzeling]

Forgot to mention that you also can close a path by selecting two open end points with
the direct selection tool ( the “hollow arrow” in the tool palette)and the go OBJECT…PATH…JOIN. The points have to be on the same path though…
-Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,
when drawing a path with the pen tool, Illustrator fills it with whatever color was selected in the Fill in the tool palette. Just click “no fill” and the path you are drawing stays just a path, whose ends are not connected-an open path.
You can close the path by clicking on the first point you drew on your path, after setting all the other points.When doing so a little circle will show next to the pen tool, meaning you are closing the path.
Hope that helps.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi there,
I’m not sure if I understand exactly what you are trying to do, could you post a picture?
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi Tonyman,
If you really have to work in such large dimensions (13×19 …2 Gig and more), I don’t think there is much you can do in Photoshop to make life easier. Only thing I can think of is “purge” often, use “scratch disk” ..

Every layer, even a blank layer occupies the same file amount than any other layer with data on it, so if you have layers that you don’t need…get rid of them. Reduce the amount of layers if possible, combine some layers if possible. When saving, save “as” will reduce file size as well, use compression when saving.

I don’t know your computer and ram specs, but if you can, add in as much memory as you can afford and the computer can hold.
Hope that helps.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Quite frankly, the answer is no. Pen and tablet in Illustrator is almost pointless since you work with vectors.

Pen tablets were build for programs like Photoshop and Painter.
I can highly recommend Wacom Intuos tablets, I have been using those for many years.

But of course that doesn’t mean you can’t use it in Illustrator or other vector programs.
If you feel comfortable with the pen use it in any programm you want and that it is compatible with.
Cheers,
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi Chris,
Select the effect (in the layer palette open the layer triangle, then select the “effect”)
and while holding the OPTION key click and drag the little (target) circle to the right
and drag it to the new layer. This will apply the effect to the object on the new layer.

Hope that helps,
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Matt and Jon,

thank you so much for the quick response.
It did resolve my issue.

Keep up the great work!

kind regards,
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Check out Grand Master Aharon Rabinowitz’s 2-part tutorial, titled: “Horror text on a wall”.
It explains precisely how to do it.

Here’s the link: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/horror_text1/index.html

cheers,
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

When you convert from cmyk to rgb and vice versa, you have to “honor color profiles”.
Whatever color settings were used when the image was created, the same profile has to be used to convert to rgb.
But there will always be a slight shift, since rgb misses the “k” black, so you will have to compensate for this by adjusting the color levels in Photoshop, to match as close as possible ( since rgb has a wider color gammut than cmyk).
In your workflow, with color management active, if you use the same color profiles/setup that was used when the image was created, it should not shift in colors, when you print
or move it to another computer.

Take care.
Adi

btw: The creative suite has a nice feature that let’s you sync colors across applications,
so that the creative suite apps. all use the same profiles-check it out.