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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip – A Colorful Solution to a Type Area Problem

Layers Magazine Tip of the Day – Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip – A Colorful Solution to a Type Area Problem

A former student, called with a question about Illustrator’s Area Type that comes up quite often. She started, "I’ve created a Text Area object by clicking and dragging with the Type tool (T). I would like to make this object into a type panel in my design with a color fill and inset text. How do I fill the Area Type object? No matter what I’ve tried, I just keep changing the Fill color of the type, not its background." I answered, "The trick is selecting the Area Type object without selecting the type that it contains.
To do so, click once on the edge of this Type object with either the Direct Selection tool (A) or the Group Selection tool. Now, when you pick a fill color from the Swatches panel, it will fill the inside of the Type Area, leaving the text itself unchanged.

To inset your text from the edge of its container, Go to Type>Area Type Options and in the window that opens, increase the Inset Spacing in the Offset section, and press OK. Viola! You just created a type panel with a filled background and inset text."

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.

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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 1 of 3

I was stumbling through some articles on the net when I came across one written by on of the staff /writers over at GoMedia that caught my attention.

This article really explains on how much time a designer dedicates to a client when doing a special Job.

Whether it be a logo, T-Shirt Design or a Flyer no matter what it is "we designers" have to sketch up is time consuming. They First have to realize that…

1. We know how to design what they need because not only we know the programs that are needed, but we also know how to use the program(s).

2. 75% of the time we can meet deadlines. Just as long as they’re brought to us with a considerate amount of time to work on.

3. The Client also needs to know that when they bring us a job that needs to be done yesterday….they are gonna get charged extra for the job simply because we either need to push other jobs aside and do their job, and we as the designer will need to dedicate countless hours on their jobs with ump-teen (sp?) times of proofing involved.

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Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style, the “scene” suffers from a few fatal flaws that need to be remedied. If you’re a designer and your client base consists mostly of bands and clothing companies (myself included) then you need to read this.

I’ve interviewed eight of the premier designers in the music and apparel industry. Each designer had lots to say about the subject and spoke from their own experiences as well as what they observe in the design community. I’ve compiled a list of 15 mistakes and summarized the key points for each. I decided to split this into 3 posts because there is just so much information to take in. Parts 2 and 3 will be available soon.

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Puerto Rican Day Parade 2008 – Jay Rodriguez Shoot for Record Label Murda 4 Hire Records www.ThisiZMurda.com

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Gomedia / Arsenal Set 11 – Complete Vector Set

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Get your Grundge Out – Photoshop Quick Tut

A popular style that has been around now for a couple of years in graphic design is grunge. A touch of grunge can easily be added to your artwork with a set of custom brushes. Once you create your set of brushes, you can save them and call them up at any time to achieve the grunge style. In this tutorial, we’ll use both Photoshop and Illustrator to create the brushes, and then you’ll learn how to apply the brushes in Photoshop.

Go and check out the tutorial over at Layers Magazine

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Indesign Magazine Tip of the Week: Scaling without Grouping

Tip of the Week: Scaling without Grouping

In previous tips, we’ve told you that you can scale grouped text and images together by holding the Cmd/Ctrl+Shift key and then dragging. But grouping can be awkward, as objects all move to the same layer.
Fortunately, you can resize multiple objects without grouping them. Select all the objects and switch to the Free Transform tool in InDesign’s toolbar. Then simply drag on a corner of the selection and hold the Shift key to constrain the proportions.
Your objects scale together without being grouped.

Source: Sandee Cohen

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