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Transparency
Comment by Rob Sexton on October 17, 2007
Another cool effect for stamps in PDFs is to make the stamp somewhat transparent by having it overprint in Illustrator or InDesign. The stamp can then be laid over an image and you can still see some of the image come through.
You Sold Me
Comment by Rob Sexton on March 23, 2007
Thanks for the insightful review.... we need more of these from Brian. We all know that he has too much time on his hands and needs to satisfy our needs more! Get on it, NOW!
You Sold Me
Comment by Rob Sexton on March 23, 2007
Thanks for the insightfull review.... we need more of these from you Brian. We all know that he has too much time on his hands and need to satisfy our needs more! Get on it, NOW!
A love/hate situation
Comment by Rob Sexton on May 25, 2006
I love that InDesign is now doing catchup to Quark. That is the way it is suppose to work... two companies fighting for my attention and leapfrogging each other to please me! I just hate that I have learned from experience (Pagemaker>Quark>InDesign) that my page-description program life will never plateau (or maybe I love that.... I'm confused).
Spin
Comment by Rob Sexton on June 15, 2004
Gee, an article about a conference with NDAs preventing any real info being distributed. Let us know when Quark realizes that one conference in the mountains for 300 coffee starved high-end players, doesn't get the rest of us high.
who is responsible?
Comment by Rob Sexton on March 12, 2004
The article is good, as far as it goes, but doesn't indicate who should be doing what. For instance, is it the designer that should be manipulating the dot in the separation or is that done by the printer when the job is ripped? Who will do the best job?
ALL CAPS
Comment by Rob Sexton on September 8, 2003
I continually run into clients who mandate using ALL CAPS. It doesn't matter how much you instruct them on how it hinders readability. It seems that the designer's knowledge and skills are seen as minor and somewhat inconsequental compared to the clients knowledge of what is real and best for their project. It is very frustrating....
Thanks
Comment by Rob Sexton on October 22, 2002
Thanks for the informative article, Brian. I'm forwarding it on to several of the printers I use.
Keep up the good work
Comment by Rob Sexton on February 13, 2002
As a designer who is contemplating the change (sounds sexual!) I wonder if Adobe has a convert quark document to indesign document scheme and how well does it work?... I dread the idea of having to have both running all the time.
Ugly....
Comment by Rob Sexton on February 21, 2001
I couldn't believe my eyes! The example of business card is so ugly.... the site is called "creativePRO", not "creativeHACK"
I agree with Sandee!
Comment by Rob Sexton on February 13, 2001
I know a lot of graphic designers and there are very few who use Fontographer. I use it alot to open Free TT PC fonts and convert them to Postscript Mac fonts. Simple and easy and there are a heck of a lot more free PC fonts available on the Web than Mac fonts! I too have looked for years for an update from Macromedia!
The future
Comment by Rob Sexton on October 11, 2000
Great article! I've sent it to all my printer friends!
Photo article needed images.
Comment by Rob Sexton on August 15, 2000
Brian is a great wordsmith. While reading his discriptions of photos he has taken with the reviewed camera, I kept scrolling down to find the photo examples. There were none. It was like being told about a new flavor of ice cream and not getting a taste.... how satisfying is that?
