Re: Any Illustrator experts?
by Honeywebster(at)aol.com
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cgriswold(at)home.com, hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org |
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There are good Illustrator resources at adobe.com (tips, tutorials, faqs).
As for color, I often have seen the color change going from one program to
the next. That could have to do with how or if that program can be set up
with the same color settings or profiles. Color profiles need to be set up
for everything to match (programs, scanner, printer, monitor). This process
is complicated at best and impossible at worst.
When going from Illustrator to Photoshop (or vice versa) and using CMYK, it
is often not possible to match the percentages. I have used percentages in
Illustrator that I was unable to enter in Photoshop because it won't let me
do the numbers as exactly (such as 37.14% in Illustrator may be 37.2% in PS).
Also, your printer interprets its own set of color variables, depending on
what printer you have, if you can override its own interpretation and what
the temperature is. This is a huge subject and if you want to really have
that kind of control, you need to do research on it.
One color resource is:
<A HREF="http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html">Welcome to Color
Matters - Table of Contents</A>
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
As for making something transparent in Illustrator, you could use the mask
feature (Object>Mask>Make Mask) and mask off the area you don't want. Start
with the tif or eps. I can't explain all the steps but perhaps the adobe site
can instruct you. Or you can create a path in Photoshop and turn it into a
clipping path to take it back to Quark with the area you don't want made
transparent.
Janet
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In a message dated 8/3/2000 8:39:27 AM, cgriswold(at)home.com writes:
<< I've got a logo graphic that someone else designed that I'm trying to
use and need to modify for a print advertisement. I have the original
graphic in eps format as well as numerous copies in tif and jpg. I'm
trying to delete the background so that it has a transparent background,
or to match the background in the layout. For some reason, even when
creating the color in Quark using percentages obtained from Illustrator
or Photoshop, the color still appears different in Quark and upon
printing the document. And I've had no success creating a transparent
background. I'm using Illustrator
8.0 and Photoshop 5.0 for image manipulation and QuarkExpress 4.0 for
the layout.
If there are any Illustrator experts that can give me some pointers I
will appreciate it. Or if anyone knows of some good on-line Illustrator
tutorials to direct me to, that would help as well.
TIA,
Carolyn
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