[Kim Mackenzie]

See the June 14th entry on this blog (about halfway down the page):

https://photoshophelp.blogs.com/photoshophelp/printingoutput/index.html

[Kim Mackenzie]

You might find something useful on this page (specifically about repairing permissions):

https://www.macosx.com/content/faq.php/q10112/Illustrator-Illegal-Operand.html

But it could also just be corrupted – don’t know a fix for that.

[Kim Mackenzie]

Brands of the World is the best resorce I’ve found online. There’s also a CD you can buy called Lots of Logos:

https://www.lots-o-logos.com/

You can sometimes find things by searching Google by filetype for PDFs. Type filetype:pdf and whatever you’re searching for – you may find a document that has a vector logo that you can extract in Illustrator.

[Kim Mackenzie]

I’ve not done it, but according to Adobe’s new features page, you can do it in CS2.

“Multipage PDF export
Easily present multiple designs by creating multipage PDF files. Tile your Illustrator artboard into as many pages as you want, and simply export to create a multipage PDF file.”

Otherwise, you have to make individual page PDFs and stitch them together with Acrobat Pro.

– Kim

[Kim Mackenzie]

Copy the image into the clipboard.

Make active the layer mask you want to paste into.

Bring up the channels palette.

In addition to your color channels, you should see a channel for the layer mask.

Make that channel active and paste.

[Kim Mackenzie]

You’ll want to record an action resizing one image, then use File > Automate > Batch.

If that’s too complicated, you can also use File > Automate > Web Photo Gallery – set your image size and compression there. Your images will end up in a folder called “images” inside whatever folder you specify for the destination. There will be an index.html file and a thumbmail folder that you can throw away.

How much compression to use really depends on your own needs/storage capabilities/etc. Files saved JPG at 100% are not going to show any appreciable image degradation (at least to my eye) but will save quite a bit of space.

[Kim Mackenzie]

Draw a box or shape on top of your photo at the size you want to crop it (set the fill and stroke to none so you can see what’s going on).

Select both your photo and shape and go to menu Object > Mask > Make.

If you want to adjust the size/location of the mask, you can do so by grabbing and moving points with the white arrow selection tool.

[Kim Mackenzie]

The second mask is actually a clipping mask – you use the pen tool to clip the layer, instead of paint tools to mask it.

You can apply two masks to a layer by first putting a mask on the layer itself, then putting the layer into a set and adding a mask to the set. Actually, now that you can nest layer sets (CS2), you could do that all day long.

One caveat – the layer mask and the layer set mask interact differently with layer styles like bevels and drop shadows (play around with it to see what I mean – difficult to describe), so this option might not suit your needs in all cases.

k

[Kim Mackenzie]

Toggle off “View > Show > Layer Edges”

[Kim Mackenzie]

[LueyLuey] ?I have been told by many designers that I should always get fancy with fotos, brushes, etc in photoshop and do all text and vector type art in illustrator to get the crisp lines. First off, is this true? I only have Photoshop CS and Illustrator 10 to work with but if I have to upgrade or use indesign I will if it improves workflow.”

Since Photoshop 7, Photoshop has had the ability to save files with vector data included, so you don’t have to set type in Illustrator or a page layout program. You can set your type in Photoshop and it will remain crisp and vector, provided you save it either as an EPS with the Include Vector Data option checked, or as a PDF.

Your resolution seems fine, if you follow the instructions above.

As to the “color shift in Illustrator” question – ignore what you see on the screen, which is just a preview.

I’ll leave the rest of your questions for someone else.

-kim