[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,
hold down the Shift key when you drag the layer into the new document.
That’ll put it in the exact same location.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,
I would stay away from cmyk, if the image is intended for the web, since it never will be viewed in cmyk.
Also, make sure the color settings in Photoshop are set up correctly for your workflow.
What preset or settings are you using ( your color profile in Photoshop)?
Are you using a profile suitable for the web?
Assuming you are using a rgb color profile (try the preset: North America Web/Internet with a Gamma of 2.2)
saving it out of Photoshop as a jpeg, open it up from within your web browser, the image should display with the correct colors.
I wouldn’t trust the windows viewer as a preview tool for color sensitive images.
Hope that helps.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,
You could do it in Illustrator ( I used CS2), using the Polar Grid Tool.
The Polar Grid tool is in the same location where the Line tool is.

Double click the Polar Grid to get into the setup.
You can set how many linesor beams or “radial dividers” you want.
Leave the concentric dividers at 0.
Once you ok this it will give you a star-like shape, consisting of stroked lines.
(Apply a stroke to the lines of, maybe 8 pt or so…)

Next, convert these strokes to outlines ( with no stroke)- this is to make one end of the stroke wider then the center, to give it a 3d appearance…
With the Direct Selection tool Shift select ONLY the points on the outside of each “segment”.
Doubleclick the scale tool and make these edges wider by scaling 200% or whatever you like.
Next, with the Direct Selection tool Shift select all the points on each segment on the inside (or center).
Double click the scale tool and scale these to 25% (or whatever you like).

That should give you the desired shape.

Merge all the elements into one shape with the Pathfinder tool, so you can apply a gradient to the whole “star burst”.

Hope that helps.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,

Since you are working on such a large size, I would definitely stick with vector art.

I would get a (chips) bag, photograph it and do the touch-up in Photoshop until you are happy with the image, and then Live Trace in Illustrator (CS2).

You can set up the document at a proprtional scale, i.e. 10% of original size,, and the upsample to final output size.
Since you were working with vector art, you can enlarge to any size, without choking the computer down or degrading the image quality….
In my opinion this can definitely be done without a 3D app.
Hope that helps,
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Here are some helpful hints for capturing to disk inFCP, as suggested in Larry Jordan’s Newsletter, which I can highly recommend.

Make sure you are not using a hard disk connected using USB.
Make sure your drive spins at least 7200 RPM, many inexpensive drives are slower.
Don’t capture media to your internal boot drive.
If you are using FireWire drives, make sure your total cable length is less than 15 feet total among all devices.
Run Utilities > Disk Utility, make sure your capture disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended (see this in the Erase tab). Fat 32 is a Windows format and will always cause dropped frames.
Run Utilities > Disk Utility to repair the disk containing your scratch disks.
Do a Safe Boot on your boot disk.
If you own Disk Warrior X, rebuild the disk directories on the disk containing your scratch disks.
If all the prior steps don’t work, then trash your FCP Preferences.

[Adolf Witzeling]

the font you are looking for is “Tango” or “Tango BT”.

[Adolf Witzeling]

I’m sure there are more than one way to get the desired result, but here’s how I would approach it in Photoshop.

1: Record an ACTION: In the Action Window click the little triangle in the upper right hand corner and choose NEW ACTION.
Name the Action, so you recognize it later (i.e “open sequence”) and click RECORD ACTION.

2: With the action recording, just open any picture, then once open, in the action window
click STOP RECORDING/PLAYING (the little black square at the bottom of the action window.

Done!

Now in PS choose FILE..AUTOMATE..BATCH and choose your action that you just recorded
(i.e. “open sequence”). It’ll ask you to specify a picture source folder and a destination folder.
If you just want to open the pictures set Destination to NONE…that’ll just open them.
Click OK and your images will open in whatever order they were sorted in the VIEW menue. (name, creation date etc.)

In Adobe Bridge it’s even easier:

In Bridge in the browser window, you can sort pictures just by dragging them to a new spot. You can select a whole range of pictures (by eithershift-clicking, or command-clicking and they will open in their respective order.

Bridge is a great program to manage your assets, and it keeps getting better and better.

But than again, that’s just my opinion.

Hope that helps!

Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

If you have Photoshop CS2, I’m assuming that you have the Creative Suite, use Adobe Bridge (part of the Creative Suite) to open ( and mange ) your images and files.

You can organize, label, rate, rename etc. your images there. I use Adobe Bridge to manage all my media files( image, video, sound) and other documents like pdf.

So, if you have a bunch of pictures that you need to open in a specific order, Bridge will do that for you. Bridge is very easy to use and Adobe is improving the Aplication with every new release.

Hope that helps.
Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi Larry,
In Photoshop you have to create the action first, that you want to “batch apply” (unless of course you want to use a preset).

1: Make sure the action window (or action tab) is visible . In the action window on the upper right hand corner, click on the small black triangle and choose NEW ACTION.
It’ll prompt you to name the new action. Give it a name that you later will remember.

2: OPEN one picture from the folder that you want to batch process, and apply whatever you need to ( rotate, filters… etc).

3: SAVE the picture.

4: CLOSE the window.

5: STOP RECORDING the action by clicking the black square at the bottom of the Action window.

6: Go to FILE….AUTOMATE….BATCH. In the window that’ll come up choose your action,
specify source and destination folder and click OK.

Hope that helps.
-Adi

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi,
It’s impossible to diagnose a printing problem, if you don’t give more details about the file and your printing environment. That would help determine if its a system problem or an application problem or a file problem.

How is it connected to your computer? Directly or networked (wireless)?
Is it just this one file or can you print at all to the hp?

First thing that comes to my mind would be drivers. Do you have the correct drivers (OSX) for your printer installed? I know from experience that hp is one of the worst in regard of supplying updated printer drivers for Mac OSX.

Next would be the contents of the file. Fonts for example. If there is live type in the file. convert to outlines and try again.

Make sure your Illustrator document is in CMYK mode.

Can you print the file when placed in a layout program?

hope that helps.
Adi