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el tigre · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:19 pm

I posted this a little while ago in random musings, it (hopefully) looks a bit better now. It was done in Illustrator for a mate of mine's record label, this'll be on business cards, letterheads, record bags etc.

I'm still gettin the hang of Illustrator so it's not perfect. Any tips you guys (and girls) may have would be greatly appreciated.

How do you get rid of these white outlines would be a start!
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Couldnae hit a coo in the arse wi a banjo if uh wis huddin it by the tail. :�

[This message has been edited by el tigre (edited February 08, 2001).]

Akolyte · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:37 pm

That's a cool design. I dunno how to fix that white shit, it always shows up on my stuff for web pages.

Dan · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:40 pm

I dunno about that thick line where it curves, it makes it look like it comes to a point there. I think u might wanna taper of that line in the middle so it doesn't actually connect, although I don't know how that would look either, so u don't have to take my advice

Epoch of Entropy · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 8:02 pm

Hi. I like the illustration, well done.

As far as the crap on the side of transparent gifs, the best way to get rid of them is to match the background color of the image with the background color of the web site. The Sinjun forums's cells all have the same blue-grey color. This will enable it to be anti-aliased over the background.

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Spitfire · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 1:32 am

I think it rocks and the dragon is great, but the star looks really unproportioned and weird... try plucking a star out of a dingbat or freeware stock set

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strata · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 1:38 am

and you've tested it in bitmap tigre?

Looks alot better then the last version

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Spitfire · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 5:03 am

Obviously he has, since .gif is a bitmap format.

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el tigre · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 5:38 am

Cheers for the advice guys, I'm glad you like it!

Spit: I did try to use an equilateral(?) star but it never looked quite as good as the sketch I did at my mates house, in the end I just decided to use the hand drawn one.

Now I've just got to make sure the printers can use it *fingers crossed*

(edit) you can see this one a bit better (the blue thing isn't part of the design)
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Couldnae hit a coo in the arse wi a banjo if uh wis huddin it by the tail. :�

[This message has been edited by el tigre (edited February 09, 2001).]

Spitfire · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 6:50 am

Some things...

Make sure your colors are Pantone and matching your monitor�s profile so they wont come out weird when printed.

Make sure all fonts and outlines are converted to vector coordinates so they can�t be changed by another computer�s settings.

Make sure you send out the right file and not your "Sarah Michelle Gellar And Me"-photomanipulations.

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I am but a statue, impervious to love.

el tigre · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 9:38 am

Muahahahahahahah! I need no photomanips for that, she's right here!

SMGellar: Hi spitfire, don't you be slagging my tigre baby here,ok? Damn you're so much nicer than Angel, el tigre!

weeee!

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strata · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 9:52 am

spit, sorry, my bad.

Have you tried it in .bmp format, which is the only thing you print letterhead shits with.

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Spitfire · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2001 2:08 am

We usually printed screen shirts directly from .AI and transfer shirts from .AI to .TIFF output. In vector case that is, when the base material is a bitmap it's allways .TIFF or a flattened .PSD if everything happens locally.

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I am but a statue, impervious to love.

strata · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2001 2:26 am

May be, but the company we do alot of letterhead logo work for, and our own letterhead machine/stamp machine etc etc, only does bmp files... don't ask me why tho

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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?