Learn photoshop the fun way

Mar 9th

Posted by LoneTechie in graphic design

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Certain people I know have challenges with photoshop.  This guy named Donnie(real name?) has a surprisingly educating and hilarious set of videos on youtube with tutorials on how to use photoshop.  I have watched most of them, they are all funny.  Here is the latest one. 

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Convert those pesky pdf fonts to outlines in illustrator

Feb 28th

Posted by LoneTechie in graphic design

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Almost daily at our workplace we have customers send us files for printing on our large format printers. Nearly once a day we get files that are not completely converted to outlines. Those in the business know what I’m refering to, they will also appreciate this tip I’m going to give.

There is a really great tip I learned about Adobe Illstrator CS 2 that will convert any pdf completely to outlines(curves for you corel draw users).

  1. In Illustrator click File > New
  2. click File > Place and locate the offending pdf file
  3. click OK, you should see a preview of the pdf at this point
  4. keep the pdf selected, select Object > flatten transparency
  5. select “convert text to outlines” and move the slider to 100% vectors
  6. click OK

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That’s It! It works every time and has saved us a lot of headache!