Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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You might try duplicating your layer and using some blend (transfer) modes to affect the image.
I’d try duping the layer, really jamming up the contrast and then use the Tinderbox edge plug-in on that one to create your edges. (Don’t have them on the underlying layer.) By using the modes you will probably be able to find settings that get rid of the “edge garbage” that you are getting by having it all happening in a single layer.
Just a thought…
Ron Lindeboom
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We ran an article in Creative COW Magazine’s debut issue that addressed how to optimally succeed when running software…basically, the answer was run the system OS version and QT, etc., for which your software were written. (The article was written by Jerry Hofmann and addressed FCP but the principles are the same.)
Expecting an almost three-year-old version of software to correctly run with new system and QT software is a recipe for disaster.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Tim Wilson] “Kathlyn’s the boss. I’m just her enthusiastic lackey. :-)”
Yeah, and she keeps me tied to this chair, feeding me nothing but caffeine and sugar cookies, only let me relax to watch The Matrix. I finally figured out that I’m a battery. I wondered why she always calls me ‘Duracell.’
:o)
Your article will be in the new issue, Nick. It’s a great piece of writing.
Ron LIndeboom
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[iancorey] “I know I’m still mourning Agent Curtis Manning who lost his life on “24” last night.”
Yeah, unfortunately they didn’t kill off the daughter quick enough for me…
;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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So Mike, if I have an item on the master page that I use the key-combo to unlock so that I can edit it, does that change the master page or does it then create a “localized” variant specific only to the page that I was on when I used the key-combo?
Thanks for the answer, Mike. I knew that you or Kelly or Erica would have a far more elegant solution than my bull-in-a-china-shop method.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Being one of the least savvy of any of the people here and one of the working grunts who slams his way through a problem (and not always the most elegantly), I would probably start at the document level when first creating the document. I’d create a single page, place my recurring header info where I want it. Format the text so that the header and sub-header lines, etc., were formatted as I wish. Then I would duplicate that page a bunch of times for the other pages.
I am sure that others here have much better ideas that would be far more elegant and to them and the ideas I am all ears — well, except for the hands…oh, and feet…and well, all the other body parts.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Tim’s idea reminds me that in our area of California there are many small businesses that alone cannot buy advertising, for the most part. So, through the Chamber and sometimes through creative cable ad salespeople, they will “pool” their commercial around two or three companies in the same block of the street and will feature the town or area as a “wrapper” and then “drop in” to that block and feature the sponsoring businesses. It’s that sort of “How long has it been since you’ve visited Morro Bay?” then they do the “localization” of the sponsors and end with a tag for the “Members of the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce.”
Also, I am not sure how long it’s been since I mentioned this one (and I hope someone here finds this helpful and not just my pre-caffeinated early morning musings) but Kathlyn and I once did a job through the City of Atacadero and the San Luis Obispo Zoological Society. We have a local zoo and it was sort of an out-of-sight-and-out-of-mind place for the most part. Kathlyn and I pitched the city manager and the zoological society board to give us the permission to create a 48 page booklet that could be given to kids at school and also to zoo visitors as a hand-out. We gave each animal there a page filled with great information and facts. We created quizzes made up of the animals found in the zoo. We had crossword puzzles made up of the zoo’s inhabitants. We featured pages on how the zoological societies around the world are helping preserve animals that are near extinct. One example was the Arabian Oryx that was wiped out in Arabia but was bred in zoos around the world and zoos would swap specimens to keep the genepool strong. Eventually, when the Arabian government realized that they had lost a national treasure, they asked for specimens to be given back to the Arabian people and the government placed them on the protected species list to keep them from being wiped out a second time.
We told the city and the zoo that we would create this for them but that due to the costs, the ad sales were ours. We also made it clear that it was our original work and that the right of reprint was also ours. They agreed. We asked both the city and the zoo for official letters declaring that this was a project under the auspices of the city and the zoo society. When we pitched local businesses, it gave us a lot of credibility to have those letters as our starting point.
We created a mock up of the booklet in a three-ring binder and we went around and sold positions in the zoo guide. The local businesses loved it and we sold about $12,000 worth of ads and it took us two months to produce and sell. It cost us about $500 or so, as I recall, to print 20,000 copies with the local newspaper press. It was on a nice white newspaper stock and was only two-color. We got a good rate in return for making the paper one of the sponsors.
Sure the money wasn’t great but we made some money and we also met a lot of people doing it, people who some would later do business in other areas. When we started our video business, some of them worked with us there, as well.
Did we ever reprint? No. The zoological society wanted all the money if we did it again and we told them, no way. We didn’t mind splitting the money with them (as the work was already done) but they wanted it all. We told them they could have it all under one condition: That they sold all the ads and handed them to us as ready-to-go no-changes-needed artwork. They got the point. They did not want to do the work but felt that we had made too much money on the original deal. Considering that we worked 12 to 18 hour days for two months, it wasn’t a lot of money. But, hey, politics is politics…
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom