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In a pinch
Comment by gizgaz on July 15, 2008
Was sent an .xis file and did not even know what that was and tried to open on Leonard with TextEdit and it flagged it as not in right format or as corrupted. However, with Default Folder I was able to use its preview to at least see file. Then realized that Quick Look will do the same. At least one can then see what you are dealing with.
The site design
Comment by gizgaz on March 12, 2008
8 years member and I find better organization but also find the actual articles are getting lost with all the ads. It's too much going on with all the animation, color and shapes. I want just the articles!
eat-me page
Comment by gizgaz on February 23, 2004
Many, many stories but one that really stands out for me about this period of time in my graphics history is about my first real graphics pasteup job. I had experience using press type to do an entire brochure (four friends over a weekend did about 20 pages of type!). I had lots of experience with rapidiographs having gone through architecture and working for an architect.
even more!
Comment by gizgaz on July 17, 2003
There's even more possibilities with multi channels. For years I've used a plug-in from Creo that was formerly called Powertone Inks and it allows for a kind of simulated 4-color by using two inks (hasn't been updated in years though). I use a blue-green and a red-orange that when combined print excellent skin tones and generally look great except for the lack of greens in foliage.
how do you solve
Comment by gizgaz on September 11, 2002
John: I've found that old style figures don't always work in headlines, especially with two or more lines of copy. Headlines naturally want to close up the leading and lowercase numbers like 3, 4, 5, & 9 make this optically awkward. And a string of numbers such as 200 also look awkward. So how do you suggest handling this?
Work at lower resolutions first
Comment by gizgaz on July 9, 2002
I find that it works better to take all the files and open them up and inspect them, put them in the same RGB color space, save them at lower resolution (100-150 dpi) and then import them into a new document that matches the lower resolution. At this point you have much greater flexibility to move, resize, allow for accidents and to just have fun with the possibilities.
even commercials show these errors!
Comment by gizgaz on January 23, 2002
I absolutely cringed when the latest Campbell Soup commercials aired with the famous tag line "M' M' Good!" with straight quotes! This from national ad agencies and running for months. Yikes. I've seen them in car commercials too. 35 years of typesetting and I'm still learning. One other problem I constantly encounter is the comma or period outside the quote mark, whether single or double.
grayscale
Comment by gizgaz on July 13, 2000
I find it much more flexible to scan in grayscale (preferably in 12-bit) or color and then use Photoshops curves, levels and hue/ saturation controls to fix the scans. Clean it up and use unsharp masking and then play with the threshold to see how the line work will convert to bitmap for low-resolution printing. And then if you have a huge file (at 600 dpi and above) convert to
