Troy E. parker
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Hi Richard,
Have you tried exporting as a Quicktime File? As Walter mentioned, Compressor may be really struggling with the format. Maybe try exporitng a short test file to ensure all is working properly.
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Generally this is correct, but you will see some swirling when passing through Thermoclines (cold/warm water mixing), Haloclines (salt/fresh water mixing) and in very clear water can get a shadow from the surface (clouds, wave action etc) onto a sandy bottom or similar surface.
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Richard,
I waited a few days to repsond to this post as I totally disagree with the tone of your response to both the original poster and my assistance to him. It is not my intent to start a flame war here, but since you did bring this to the forum and you are a ‘leader’ I assume your response and a reasonable reply from me is within bounds.
While I agree with some of the substance of your reply, I feel that the original poster (a fairly new member) was doing his best to move forward in his knowledge and while the Creative Calf may be a better location for the post (for those that acutally know that it exists), it was within bounds to help this guy out, and not discourage him with negative replies.
Remembering back to when I was a total newbie, I to have asked some pretty basic questions that may have seemed ‘Stupid’ to the Real Pros… but the fact that I was able to study under some very helpful and patient ‘Pros’ was of great benefit.
As to the Don’t Encourage Them’ remark, any discussion with my past employees and interns will show I am not one to encourage laziness in any form, but I do believe in ‘Positive Encouragement’ where possible and the development of cognitive reasoning skills that promote inquiry and multiple levels of thought….no cookie cutter recipes here.
If you read my reply carefully, not only did I provide a solution that works for me, but encouraged him to search the Help files, search the web and in general improve his knowledge…
While not an author of widely published works, I am a trained educator who has worked with thousands of students (sometimes under extreme conditions) and as a Professional, I feel it is our responsibility in replying to the Posts to do so in a ‘Professional’ and ‘Encouraging’ manner that promotes growth.
As an open (but moderated) forum we will get many here that are of varying levels of experience, and it is not for me to judge if one is a professional or not. In short, if I do not like a post, I ignore it or if I believe I can help then I respond, and leave the judgement of Professional or not to others. What is the true definition of professional anyway… Especially here where we assume the dual role of media pro and educators.
Regards,
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Good question!
If I understand this correctly, you want to export an image that is formatted to be round… due to the reality of square pixels (rectangular for video) this is not possible, but we can work around this.
We will need to know what you end use is for the best answer (try to help us with a bit more info on output etc), but in general for a screen displayed image (web/video etc) you will want to export the image with a transparent background using a round clipping path, mask or similar tech to hold back any color outside the round shape. (searcnh this forum or google for more info)
If you are going to print and the area outside the round shape is to be white, (with no other elements on the final work), you can simply use a white background outside the round shape.
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Hi Mike,
You are okay here… When you add the shape to your project, it is being added as a ‘Path’. This Path can now be further manipulated, have a stroke or fill color added and the many other things one can do to a path.
To fill the path,
> Click on the Path tab (in the same palette as the layers tab)
> Select the desired path
> Click on the ‘Fill with Foreground Color’ button at lower left.To learn more about the Paths Palette checkout the help file, and maybe search for a tutorial on the same.
Hope this helps,
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Hi Jimmy,
To get rid of the white background you need to save the file in a format that supports a transparent background. This is a very simple process, and the following is a brief description of the same.
The first step is to ensure your artwork has a transparent background and then export to preserve the same (you can also add an alpha channel or map the outputr file to display a given color as transparent, but that is for another day…).
In photoshop you will usually need to have artwork that shows the default checkerboard background (simplest method) prior to saving. This is most easily accomplished by opening the new file with a transparent backgrouund (select this under contents in ‘New file’ window) and not placing any artwork in that layer.
From there you will need to ‘Save for Web’ and select either GIF or PNG as the output format under settings. Both of these support a ‘Transparent background, with GIF the most popular.
From there, select ‘Transparency’ if not selected and you should see your checkerboard background surrounding the artwork. Continue with Optimizing the number of colors etc and output.
As there is more to preparing an image for use on a website, I would suggest checking the Adobe Help file with PS7 and do a COW or Google search for more complete tutorials on the subject. The above will hopefully get you headed in the correct direction…
Regards,
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Hey Capt…
Very easy to do in Illustrator and the standard method of providing text to third parties and importing into other programs. The method you are looking for is the ‘Create Outlines’ operation. This process preserves the exact layout of the text and allow syou to sned text to others that may not have the same font or import into a program that may modify the text upon import, (or not recognize the imported text/ substitute fonts etc)
To convert text to outlines (they are already a form of vector object when created as a ‘text’)
Select text Object
Go to ‘TYPE’ menu at top of page
Go to ‘Create Outlines’ and select with mouse (mac or pc shortcut
is shown to the right)
Text will now be pure vector objects that are completely editable.**** CAUTION: This action will destroy any ‘TEXT’ based editing capability for the converted text. To preserve the ability to edit the text (copy edit, change the typesetting etc) simply make a copy of the layer with the soon to be converted object and lock layer to prevent undesiable modifications….
Hope this helps!
On a related subject, I support you delving into Illustrator as it is the often overlooked tool that can do many thing PS cannot and can really improve both the quality of our work and workflow (why am I beginning to dread using that word? Time for some new vernacular I guess!).
For more info, checkout of the Adobe website (lots of good resources there), and maybe grap a copy of an Illustrator book ( The Quickstart series by Peachpit is pretty good).
Regards,
Troyps: what is the root of ‘Capt’ moniker?
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Hi ,
This very cool feature is new to CS2. To try it out, you can download a trail version of CS2 ( good for 30 days) and play with all the neat feature that are in Illustrator CS2 ( & CS) over version 10. Chances are you will never want to return to the old ways…
Have fun!
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Hi Peter,
Assuming you are looking for prints on Traditional Paper from digital files, I would recommend Mpix ( https://www.mpix.com ) for a very good online service.
Regards,
Troytroy@crossmediacorp.com
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