Les Nemeth
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Why is that important? If you go on amazon, for example, you will find that x% of the commenters don’t like a specific book, while y% of the commenters like the same book.
It matters not who recommends what. Someone might recommend you a book, and you would find out it’s a total garbage either because you have a different way of learning, or you prefer different style of narration/explanation of things.
I’d recommend searching amazon for books and read what people comment on the book(s) and make your own judgements based on that. You’ll find much more people there who actively comment on books and as such, it’s a more valuable resource to judge a book whether it will be working for you or not. As opposed to asking in a forum where you’d get 1 or two replies such as “Yeah, man, get this book, it’s totally awesome.” Would you spend 40-50 bucks on a book, just because someone said it’s awesome? I certainly would not. I’d need more research for that kind of price.
Aside from all my meaningless thoughts above, the WOW books are usually pretty good for intermediate reading. It matters not whether it’s CS1, 2, 3, 4, 5. They all cover the same thing under a different cover.
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True!
Interesting that they didn’t include it in any menu and not even in the help file (which I just searched). Either way, good to know!
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There’s no menu/keyboard shortcut for new layer. But you can create an action for creating a new layer, then assign a shortcut to the action itself.
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That’s just how it is. It’s AI. Many times it produces bad rendering. Just change the rotation of the object a tad and eventually it should correct itself.
For best results use a 3D program or try PathStyler Pro
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I think that file got corrupted. I get the strange scaling issue as well in CS5.
However, if you look at the attached file, I tried to recreate the shape (just quick and dirty very basic) starting from a brand new, fresh document, you can scale it down to a very tiny size without any issue.
I’d recommend starting from scratch using a fresh document (don’t use the corrupted one).
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I think as if someone may have posted something similar sometime in the past. And if memory serves, it was something along the line that the file got corrupted somehow and AI used incorrect/bad data for scaling. And of course the solution was to start it again from scratch.
The design doesn’t seem complex you can try recreating it using a new document.
You can also post the file and I’m happy to see if I get the same result. If I do, you definitely have a corrupted file.
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Trash your prefs file and then try again. Usually when AI or ID starts doing weird things, it’s the prefs file the makes it screw up. Deleting it will usually make the issues go away.
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While it’s possible to create it in AI, you chose the hard way to go about it. Enclosed is a file for idea (CS5 version). I just created the outer circle, but the rest can be similar method.
You basically create a brush (pattern) and use that as the design, scaling it down when it is applied to the circle. Since you cannot have gradients in a brush, you have to fake it by creating a blend and expanding it, before creating the brush. This goes for the transparency mask as well (which is used in the file).
As for the green areas, they are just patterns that when are scaled, will appear small and elaborate.
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Well, that’s even simpler. You do a color trace. That will preserve the transparency. Then you export it to PS and change it to B&W.
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You are surely doing something wrong. As you can see the image below, it was just a simple live trace. The result is a black and white image, where I selected to make the white transparent, thereby placing a red rectangle behind the traced image making it red. But I could’ve colored the rectangle with any color (including white) if I wanted.
Tracing Options dialog settings. Only the “Ignore White” checkbox is important. Other settings don’t affect the background.
