[Jeff Kelley]

I didn’t follow how you were doing this but couldn’t you just create a simple action for cropping without loading a selection and use batch? If not, than I don’t understand.

[Jeff Kelley]

Whenever you copy and paste anything into a document or drop and drag it into the document, it should be on its own layer.

[Jeff Kelley]

There has to be enough white space between each photo for it to work. I’m believe it’s an eight inch of white. And I think there has to be white around the outside of the work area too but I’m not 100% sure of that.

[Jeff Kelley]

It would be helpful to know what program you are doing this in.

[Jeff Kelley]

With the 2 images in front of me it’s really hard to come up with a solution. But, I would try going through the channel of the orange. Find out which channel has the most detail of the orange texture. Select and copy the whole channel. Copy that information into an empty layer above the Earth. Now play with different blending mode to see what looks best.

Hope this help.

[Jeff Kelley]

Thanks Tony,

We are all running G5’s with the original graphic’s card that comes with them. Right now everyone has a old CRT and each one is different. Many have adapters and things to make the monitors work. But the connection is the standard mac connection.

As far as 2 monitors. I don’t think so. I’d love it but I think it’s going to be pulling teeth to get them to buy 1 decent monitor with calibration equipment. I mostly do photoshop work with an old Viewsonic monitor that, as far as I know has never been calibrated. (Although I’m pretty good as using CMYK and RGB values when I have too).

I do know about a monitor never matching printed work but I’d a least like to be close!

I guess me real question should have been if there is any issues, like color calibration if I use a PC monitor on a Mac. I’d just hate for this company to invest $2000 in a monitor and find some little quirk that makes it hard to use or calibrate!

Thanks

[Jeff Kelley]

Also if anyone has any advice for LCD Flat panel monitors for graphic design were color accuracy is a must, it would great!

thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Kelley]

I’d save any Illustrator Doc as a pdf for clients

[Jeff Kelley]

Make it in Illustrator and then bring it into Photoshop!

[Jeff Kelley]

Again you need to determine 4/c or spot. Who is doing the printing and how are they printing it? Are you going to do the seperations yourself? In photoshop you could just run all 4 channels seperatly. I really don’t have enough information to help you.