Recent content by Andy

Hi all, I've somehow lost my 'Save As' presets for Illustrator, Indesgn and Photoshop. Presets such as 'High Quality Print' etc have vanished. Does anyone know how to reset these? Many thanks in advance. Andy

I'll have a good read through that link you sent and give it a go. Really appreciate the time and advice David. Thanks.

Thanks David. Strangely, when I hover the Output Preview's crosshairs over the area that was printed white, it shows the same CMYK settings as the background colour. So it doesn't indicate any change there. Could one of these pdf settings hold the answer? Preset = Illustrator Default...

Sorry, here's the attachment!

Thank you both for the advice. I thought a TIFF supported transparency too. Does anyone know if this isn't the case? I had a look at the Separations in Output Preview, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I've attached a screengrab of it anyway, in case I'm missing something. Is...

Hello all, This is probably a common issue with you experienced designers, but it's got a relative novice confused. I'm putting together a book cover in Illustrator CS4 and my intention was to place an illustration onto a coloured background. The illustration, saved as a TIFF in...

Well Tappertom, you've simultaneously made me feel very happy and very embarrassed, thank you. I imagine in my anger and frustration I managed to overlook the obvious. Problem solved, thank you. Andy

Thanks for the replies. I don't seem to have 'Window > Workspace > Reset Design' but I'm sure I can reset to the default settings if that's the same thing. Attached is a screengrab of the full screen, so the bottom runs straight into the monitor's frame if you get my drift. Please excuse...

Can somebody help me please. Somehow, the bottom of my Photoshop canvas has fallen off the bottom of my screen, so I'm unable to drag the corner to resize or see my layer shortcut buttons. A temporary fix is to make the canvas full screen, but it's not suitable as I tend to move between...

Thank you. I'm slowly getting my dazed head around it all. Glad to have discovered that this colouring technique is possible and to know it's going to work. I do alot of scanned lino/woodblock and can see that it'll be very useful. Cheers.

Thanks Toppers. Perhaps I'm confused between BMP and TIFF. I really don't know much about these files, but I seem to be able to colour my artwork in Illustrator when I follow these steps: Convert the art to a bitmap (in photoshop) Place the art in Illustrator Embed the image Change its...

Colouring a Tiff in Illustrator/Photoshop Does anyone know if I can colour a Tiff by simply saving it from a Photoshop file and placing it in Indesign or Illustrator and using the colour palette to change the CMYK values? This may have been what Katedesign was alluding to, but then I was only...

Hi, just need some advice on placing TIFFs into Illustrator, and the results when printed. I'm inexperienced with TIFFs and therefore a bit confused as to whether I'm doing the right thing. I'm making a book cover which contains scanned 600dpi artwork, which I've adjusted to Greyscale and...

I understand the issue with unpaid meetings, phonecalls, emails...even 'thinking time' that happens out of work time (eureka moments in the bath of all places!). You need to get as much as you deserve for this time. However, if your partner is an amazing designer, as you say she is, and...

I've just been playing around with saving the the Lino print as a bitmap tiff (diffusion dither at 600dpi) as Katedesign suggested and was able to change it to a nice rich black (C-30, M-30-Y-20-K-100). A nice trick and so far so good, but when printing this on my personal printer (yes, not a...