Monday, June 1, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

CD/DVD Guidelines

Safety Margins: Text and important images must fall within the red boxes. Extending important elements beyond these lines can cause problems during cutting, folding and assembly. Parts of images on text can end up being trimmed off or fall directly ona fold.

Cut Lines: This is approximately where your artwork will be trimmed. Keeping all text and important images inside the 1/8 th inch safety margins will prevent their unintended loss during cutting.

Bleeds: This are is going to be completely trimmed away during the cutting process. Only solid colors, background images or foreground images that intentionally run off the page should extend through this area. Having bleeds esures that your artwork will not have a thin white border around it.

Folds: Be very careful when running any text or important images over folds. The (especially the text under 9 pt) can be had to read if it is falling on the fold.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Halftone ''Pop Dots'' Tutorial

Step 1: Open your image. Put a selection around the image. that you would like the pop dots effect behind. (Inverse if you need to).

Step 2: Press Apple+J twice. Put a selection Layer 2.

Step 3: Go under the Select menu, under modify, and choose Expand. Enter 10 pixels and Click Ok.

Step 4: Press "D" to switch your swatches to the default color. Option+Delete.

Step 5: Press he letter "Q" to enter Quick Mask mode. Go under yhe filter menu, under Pixelate and choose Halftone. Click Ok.

Step 6: Keep running your filter until you are satisfied with results. Tap the letter "Q" to leave quick mask mode.

Step 7: Option+Delete Deselect your image.