Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Pop Dots
Step:1)Open your image. Put a selection around the part on the image image that you would like to put the pop dots around.(Inverse if you need to)
Step:2)Press apple J twice. Put a selection around layer two.
Step:3)Go under th seclet menu, under modify, and choose Expand. Enter 10 pixels and click OK.
Step:4)Press "d" to switch your swatches to the default colors. Option+Delete.
Step:5)Press the letter "Q" to enter Quick Mask mode. Go under the filter menu, under pixelate, and choose color halftone. Click OK.
Step:6)Keep your filter until you are satisfied with the results.(no less than 10). Tap the letter "Q" to leave quick mask mode.
Step:7)Option+Delete. Deselect your image.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
CD/DVD Guidelines
Safety Margins:
Text and important images must fall within the red boxes.
Extending important elements beyond these lines can cause problems during cutting, folding assembly.
Parts of images on text can end up bring trimmed off or fall directly on a fold.
Cut Lines:
This is approximately where your artwork will ve trimmed.
Keeping all text and important images inside the 1/8th inch safety margins will prevent their unintended loss durig cutting.
Bleeds:
This area is giving to be completely trimmed away during the cutting process.
Only solid colors background images on foreground images that intentionally run off the page should extend through this area having bleeds ensures that your artwork will not have a thin white border around it.
Folds:
Be very careful when running any text or important image over folds. Text, especially text under 9pt can be hard to read if it is falling on a fold.
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