Les Nemeth
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The knife and scissors tools are hiding behind the eraser tool (in CS4).
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Your description is a little abstract, starting with “placing the text layer into photoshop.” What is this mean? Did you export the AI file to a certain format and opened it in PS? Or you opened the AI file itself in PS? You can’t just “place” an AI text layer directly “into” PS without exporting it one way or the other.
And when you did, chances are it became raster. And now you imported a raster image back into a vector program. So naturally you might see aliased artifacts.
Chances are, whatever you did in PS can be accomplished in AI and that would keep it vector. Or worst case a raster, but setting the raster FX conversion to a high value would keep it antialiased.
Also, AI can’t work with HDR images, so if something is white, you can’t make it whiter, unless you start out with a light gray or gray color.
These are just guesses, since it’s kinda hard to make out what and how you did.
You can verify that your raster fx settings are adequate enough in AI, but if you are dealing with an imported bitmap image, that won’t have any difference.
You can also see if you have the same problem when you save your image for the web. For example, when you’re dealing with gradient meshes, 3D transforms, or other color blending FX, they appear aliased in the viewport itself (that’s latin for window/artboard), but once you export it, or looking at the art in the web output window, then there you can see the final image correctly, that is, antialiased.
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Well, you got 4 choices (2 of which is for AI)
1. Create a huge artboard (which’ll fit all your pages) and layout your pages in it. Add crop marks around the pages and explain your layout to the printer.
2. Make your artboard the size of a page/spread and layout your pages on layers. 1 layer = 1 page/spread.
3. Upgrade to CS4 which supports multiple artboards.
4. Use InDesign.
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To set inches:
1. Show the rulers (View > Show/Hide Rulers)
2. Right click on the rulers and select “Inches”To create 3″ x 3″ squares:
1. Double click the Rectangle tool and input the params
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Use the Backspace key instead of the Delete.
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Well, with the ‘attitude’, what it was is, you asked something so simple that even basic users seem to do this right out of the box – unless I am misunderstanding something. Naturally, I thought it’s a joke of some sort. And of you are in college, they supposed to explain such basic tasks. So my apologies.
Also, how did you put together “preferences” and “command (comma)”. What does this mean? Are we talking about the same program? Adobe Illustrator?
This is what a cube layout means to me.
Selecting each individual square and clicking on the color swatch will color them. Selecting all squares and double clicking on the scale tool will bring up the scale dialog which will scale all squares at the same time.
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1. There’s not much choice. Either File > Open, or File > Place. You can’t miss it.
2. By scaling it.
3. By selecting each square and color it. DUH.
C’mon man, did you even put in ANY effort to read at least one sentence in the help file?
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It is not clear to me what are you trying to accomplish by “setting the delete key”.
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With raster paintings it’s easier just to pick up the brush, set a color, maybe a brush type (eg, airbrush, pencil, watercolor, etc) and just paint away. Before you start painting you MUST define the size of your illustration and need to think about whether you want to print it or not, and if so, then what size. You cannot scale UP your painting afterward without degrading the image quality.
Vector illustrations are much more elaborate (and harder to learn to be proficient) and you cannot just leisurely just paint away, as in PS for example. However, you can scale up or down your illustration to just about any size you want without any degradation to the quality of your work.
You can browse some very fine vector illustrations on this site:
https://www.illustratorworld.com/You can see excellent technical illustrations here with a combination of AI and PS:
https://www.khulsey.com/
For some artwork (like the cutaway cars), he creates the outlines in Illustrator and colors them in PS. -
First, nice portfolio! I like your watercolor paintings!
Photoshop and Illustrator are not the same things. It is VERY different creating a painting using a raster-based or vector-based program.
Some people create the outlines of their illustration in a vector program (such as Illustrator) and color it using a raster based program, such as Photoshop.
Besides Photoshop, there are other nice painting programs (which I’m sure you know of, such as Painter or ArtRage.
As far as training goes, there are a lot. Some sites off the wall are
https://www.lynda.com
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com – this is very good (browse training by subject or software)Good luck!