Tiffanib
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The best way to eliminate all of the caveats with saving as a jpg is to use the “save for web” function… this will open up a window, where you can choose the jpg settings and then save it out.
Tiffani B
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There are two ways to do this.
You can either use your Move Tool to grab the layer and just drag it over to the other document (it won’t remove it from the original document, it basically copies it for you) or you can grab the actual layer in your Layers Palette and drag that to the other Layers Palette. This will keep the layer name, any effects you have added, masks, etc. intact.
As Darby mentioned, holding the shift key will position the layer in the exact same location if your documents are the same size.
Tiffani B
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The new image is not in the same format as the old one that the mask is coming from. Usually when I get that kind of message I try it both ways to see what the results are. Usually I see no difference.
Tiffani B
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When converting RGB to CMYK, blue is the one color tone that will change the most, usually for the worse. It loses a lot of its richness.
You have to make changes to your colors after you do the conversion, but you will never be able to match that vibrant blue sky, sad to say. After you convert it, you’ll have to make adjustments (hue/saturation, levels, etc) to try to get it back.
Tiffani B
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When you erase something, you are basically creating a mask. Or in other words, the eraser tool DELETES the portion of the layer you’ve used the eraser tool on. Therefore, whatever is BEHIND it will show up in the spot you’ve erased. This would be another layer or your background layer.
If you don’t want the background to show, you have to either turn off/hide the background, put a layer between the BG and the eraser layer that shows what you WANT to see through the erased hole, or change the background color.
Tiffani B
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Well, the way I would do it probably isn’t the best way, but it’s quick and dirty and would work. Using Photoshop, I’d resize the image to something very large, then use the line tool or the selection tool to draw around the logo on a separate layer and fill it in. I don’t use Illustrator so I can’t help you with that…
Tiffani B
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Good point!
Tiffani B
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Yes, hold down the shift key while you make your second selection. That will add it to your first selection.
Tiffani B
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Put your image on its own layer. Change your canvas size to something taller than what it is, and anchor the image to the top (so you are adding room at the bottom to work in).
On your image layer, using the rectangular marquee, select the bottom part of the image from the point at which you want it to begin fading, down beyond the edge. Then, in the menu, choose Select, Feather… and enter a value (you’ll probably have to play with this a bit). Click ok, and then hit the delete key on your keyboard. This will remove the portion of the image inside the marquee, with a feathered edge leading into your image.
You’ll have to play around with the settings to get the look you want, but I find this to be the easiest way.
Now your image will fade out to transparent (if you make the background layer bright pink or some kind of color, you’ll be able to see the effect).
Tiffani B
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Well, the reflection would be of the BACK of the people sitting in front of it, so unless you photographed the scene from the back side, you can’t really do a reflection.
I would just use the airbrush and brush some faint white streaks and blobs on the glass to represent light bounce.
Tiffani B