April 2010 - Graphics Feeds - English

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Behind the Shot: The Frog Prints

You have to say the title out-loud to get it~ Some of you may remember a previous entry when I was feeling froggy. I wrote about using field lights at night for finding and photographing frogs in Costa Rica and then applying correct white balancing. Though...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 8:55 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Behind the Shot, Travel, lighting, Costa Rica, frog, poison-dart frog, strawberry frog, blue-jeans frog, rainforest
Wet Pet

After two months of grunge fonts, today will be the last one for now. Wet Pet is going to make you think this font has something to do with animals. That certainly doesn't look to be the case. Like some of the other grunge fonts, the outlines of the...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: font-friday
Working With Scanned Text

I find that many users are thoroughly confused by the graphics they scan. I was reminded of this yesterday when a user posted a question about working with a page of scanned text. The user wanted to manipulate the individual characters of text and even...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: thursday-tip
Tools You Can Be Leaf In

One user asked about leaves in CorelDRAW. She wanted to use the PostScript Leaf fill, but find a way to fill those leaves with custom colors. While there are tedious ways to do it, IMO the fill itself isn't that great. One of the skills I have is...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:02 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: PHOTO-PAINT sprayer leaf
Cutting Press Sheets with Crop Marks

Once a user prints out their sheets with crop marks, they realize at some point that they've also cut off the marks that go in the other direction . Here's an idea I came up many years ago when cutting business cards on a commercial machine. This...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 14:58 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: crop marks cutting
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema

These days it is so easy to communicate with people on the other side of the world using software like Skype . Where Skype really gets fun is when you use it with a Webcam so the call has video of each of the callers. I have frequently done this when...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: hump-day-hardware
The Crop Dictionary is Online at Holy Crop!

Back from Costa Rica! I just posted an update on the Holy Crop! Blog announcing the inclusion of Rikk’s Holy Crop! Cropping Dictionary. Click here to read the post. Rikk Flohr © 2010

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 15:42 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Image Editing, Pretty Pictures, cropping
Installing Plug-Ins in Corel PHOTO-PAINT

The last two weekends I've provided links to some cool Photoshop plug-ins that work in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Today I wanted to write a short tutorial to explain how to install plug-ins. Plug-Ins With Installer: Some plug-in packages include an installer...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: tutorial-tuesday
Registration for Vinyl Pieces

Lining up vinyl pieces relative to the edge of a sign, or to other pieces is possible by simply creating some registration pieces. I use triangles. In this example, I'd lay the black artwork down first so that it's square with the sign piece....

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 2:09 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: registration vinyl
Transparency Option for Custom Icons

When assigning or customizing an icon, you may have overlooked an option to set a transparent area. I'll admit I didn't notice this until about a year ago. One of our VBA developers at macromonster.com had icons with bright blue backgrounds as...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 1:30 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: Transparency Icons
NumberGen 1.5

One of the most powerful tools in CorelDRAW is the ability to impose multiple pages onto a single printed sheet. When combined with the Print Merge facility, you can do amazing projects in a very limited timeframe. Probably the toughest part of such a...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: macro-monday
Noisia Applications Color Spectrum Pro has had a major update!

In the sign and printing industries, artists are often called upon to match specific colors. This color can be anything from a Pantone color, to a hardcopy proof. Due in part to the color shift between pigment based colors such as Pantones and the CMYK...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 2:03 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: Color Spectrum Pro swatch generator
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 - How to neatly pack a computer software

I read an article in Swedish Graphics Magazine Cap & Design (use google translate), Adobe Creative CS5 new packaging. Okay, it looks pretty traditional. Neither good nor bad. Nothing negative. It looks completely okay. Since Cap & Design is Cap...

Published Sun, Apr 25 2010 11:47 by Stefan Lindblad - Art and Illustration

Filed under: illustration, Miscellaneous, CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Text Line Spacing from Imported PDF Files

When opening a PDF, you may know how to reassemble text strings into blocks of text. If not, Shift+Select the text in the order you want it combined, then press CTRL+L to combine it. However, many tremble with fear when they proceed to see a blob of text...

Published Sun, Apr 25 2010 7:59 by Jeff Harrison's Daily Diversion

Filed under: text on one line pdf blob line spacing
Moon Vector Clip Art

A couple of nights ago we held the BBQ for the latest CorelDRAW Unleashed Training Boot Camp . As always we had a great meal and a great time socializing. The only bummer was that it was extremely overcast so we couldn't see the stars and moon. Afterwards...

Published Sun, Apr 25 2010 4:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: sunday-stock

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Behind the Shot: The Frog Prints

Wet Pet

Working With Scanned Text

Tools You Can Be Leaf In

Cutting Press Sheets with Crop Marks

Microsoft LifeCam Cinema

The Crop Dictionary is Online at Holy Crop!

Installing Plug-Ins in Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Registration for Vinyl Pieces

Transparency Option for Custom Icons

NumberGen 1.5

Noisia Applications Color Spectrum Pro has had a major update!

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 - How to neatly pack a computer software

Text Line Spacing from Imported PDF Files

Moon Vector Clip Art