Recent content by shorefire

At the publishing company I work for we use seperate layers for text and images. We had a few incidents when some pages didn't print correctly and was solved by using layers. It was before my time so don't know the exact details. I would say it's best to do it as standard practice as it only...

Thanks for all your replies, unfortuntely they need it pretty damn quick and I haven't got time to do it. Some useful info from everyone though. Sounds fairly straight forward anyway and I shall have a bash at it for portfolio purposes when I have the time. Another string to the bow and all that...

Can anyone give me a steer on the easiest way to put together a html email design? Its for a magazine who want to send an email out to their lapsed subscribers looking flashy with images etc. I am primarily a print designer who has only done a small amount of web stuff (only know the basics)...

I would be interested to know what you guys use your tablet for, do you use it all the time for all functions or just specific tasks? I have a tablet but hardly ever use it. If I want something to look hand drawn I tend to draw it on paper, scan it then trace it rather than draw it on the tablet.

Can anyone recommend a company that can print one-off t-shirt designs? Preferably on a t shirt with a "fashionable" fit rather than the basic fruit of the loom baggy number most companies seem to offer. I went shopping at lunchtime for t-shirts for my holiday. I saw nothing I remotely liked...

The transparency will need to be flattened if it is getting printed otherwise it definitely won't come out correctly. We always use the adobe preset PDF/X-1a:2001 which is an industry standard and should preserve any transparencies in the original document. In the Export PDF set up window, under...

I would also say 100% Indesign. It is really worth learning how to use the style sheets, these will save you tons of time if you are doing loads of pages of a similar format or if the magazine is being published on a regular basis.