Les Nemeth
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It does work regardless of what the coloring method is.
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1. Window > Document Info
2. Open the palette menu
3. Check “Selection” and “Objects”
4. Select your path
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I don’t have CD, but you can download a demo and try re-save it.
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Illustration:
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1. Create the silhouette of your shape (no holes, no compound shape). Just the outline of it.
2. Create your compound shape. This will obviously be the same as step 1 except this will have the holes and what not.
3. Copy your compound shape.
4. Select your compound shape on the artboard, assign a light gray color (whatever you want for your shadow color) use Effect > Blur Gaussian Blur. Adjust blur size as you see fit.
5. Paste in Front your compound shape that you’ve copied in step3.
6. Offset your blurred shape (shadow) as you see fit.
7. Take the silhouette of your shape you created in step 1, and use this as a clipping mask for the shadow.Pat yourself on the back. Good job!
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It doesn’t matter how the image looks like on the artboard. The final image at output will be antialiased.
The same is true for working with gradient meshes. On AI’s artboard they will look aliased (more less). That’s how AI will display them on the artboard. But once you export or save them in any image format, they will be antialiased.
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Method 1:
See “Compound Path”.Method 2:
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What do you REALLY calling a bleed area? You won’t be able to reproduce bleed on a normal printer. Most inkjet and/or office printers fall into the “normal” category. It means, that you cannot print bleed on printers unless it’s either a commercial printer or a very expensive printer. You can buy inkjet printers (more expensive ones) that might support so called “borderless” printing, which refers to bleed. But it’s not common.
So what I suspect happening in your case is that you are printing at a non-commercial printer (e.g. at home or at the office). Those printers ALWAYS have a slight margin around the edges of the paper. This is because the printer has to “grab” the paper at the edges in order to pull it through the printer.
Sure you can prepare a PDF document and you will see that it does not have any borders (or bleed if you prefer). But printing it on a non-commercial printer is a different story. The printer will either shrink or crop your design so it will fit onto the specified paper size. And the paper will ALWAYS have margins (white edges or bleed what have you).
Let’s say you have a design of 8.5×11 size (standard US letter). If you want to bleed your print, you design it as 8.75×11.25 (this will add 0.125 inch bleed on each side of the 8.5×11 document). When you hand this to a commercial printer specifying that you have a 0.125 inch bleed, they will print it on a bigger paper and simply trim the edges (in this case 0.125 inches from each side). This way you will end up with an 8.5×11 document that is printed edge to edge. That is, no visible margins around the edges.
If you don’t want to pay for a commercial printing, you can either print your design on a bigger paper (eg, print an 8.5×11 design on a 11×17 paper). And use a cutting board (or scissors) to cut around the edge.
Or, you can take your design to Kinkos or OfficeMax, etc and they can print you a bleeded document for relatively cheap.
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It’s not clear to me based on your explanation what exactly going on. You have a photo with transparency. I got that. You also have a “font” (you prolly mean text). I got that, too.
What I don’t understand is, what does the photo has to do with the text? Is the text part of the PS image as well or the text is created in AI?
If the text is created in AI, does the text overlapping the imported image? Is the text above or below the image? Can you post a screenshot?