[David Cabestany]

Try the following:

restart holding command S
wait until the black screen appears
after it stops writing stuff you will see a line that reads root# or something like it (can’t remember exactly and would have to reboot to see it)

type fsck -f (the space must be included)

the computer will run a series of tests/operations
it will fix whatever needs to be fixed.
when it’s done it will read the volume [name of your hard drive] appears to be ok.
depending on whether it changed something or not the lien ***FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED*** will be there or not.

type reboot

try to start illustrator after that.

[David Cabestany]

Only a few of them work, drop shadow, inner glow, outer glow, for example. If you want something more complex such as an emboss you will need to create it by hand, but it’s fairly easy, you can get away with it by adding additional fills to your main object and varying the opacity, then add a blur and displace it to one side, the other one should be displaced to the exact opposite direction and filled with the opposite color (i.e. black and white).

In my own experience dragging and dropping works better when it’s done from Illustrator to Photoshop, but not the other way around, it’s always to link photoshop files via the file>place menu.

Also if you google emboss in Illustrator you will find several ways to do it.

[David Cabestany]

Save it as a psd, png or tif format (bitmap).

[David Cabestany]

Try using the assign color profile before saving, and check embed color profile (I believe it says something like icc profiles, not in front of Photoshop right now).

[David Cabestany]

Sorry, I meant Try with a…, this stupid iPod keyboard, again..

[David Cabestany]

Tryvwithvacmotion blur with 90 degrees, it’s the equivalent of After Effects’ directional blur.

[David Cabestany]

In Photoshop use command j to duplicate either the whole layer or a portion of it.

[David Cabestany]

Which version are you using? On the canvas you need shift, on the layers palette you need command, but be sure to click away from the thumbnail, preferably on the gray space right next to the layer’s name.

[David Cabestany]

I meant tab, sorry. Stupid iPod keyboard.

[David Cabestany]

Ctrl + t