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OSX-based computers have other problems relating directly to the sign industry. Just about all of the industry-specific software for the sign industry runs only on Windows. There are no Mac versions of Flexi, Gerber Omega, etc. RIP software geared for large format printers (Onyx, RasterLink Pro...

Technically the artwork is their intellectual property. However you have zero obligation to turn over any vectorized art files you created from their IP until they pay you for it. If we work on a sign bid and have to vectorize someone's logo as part of that bid we absolutely do bill them for...

Adobe Illustrator has had the capability to move documents (as well as palettes and toolbars) outside the program window and even onto additional monitors for a long time. I think this goes back as far as the 1990's. IIRC, even the last couple or so Windows versions of Macromedia Freehand...

Yes Keith, I know you don't need multiple instances of CorelDRAW open to have multiple documents displayed on multiple monitors (I said that on the previous page). CanuckSigns was the original poster who asked the question if more than one instance was needed (regarding CorelDRAW 2018).

I wasn't even talking about the OP. I was responding to something Andy D wrote, which was more about the ethics of sign companies using designs and/or info from sketches made by other sign companies. It's one thing if the client actually paid for the work. It's another thing entirely if you're...

Their concept? We're talking about clients taking a concept created by one sign company over to another sign company to get produced for less money. First they visit the reputable sign company to figure out what they need, often requiring a bunch of leg work, multiple sketch revisions, etc. Then...

Well, plagiarism is plagiarism. Usually when a client comes to us with sketches from someone else I really don't copy what the other sign company did verbatim. Not unless it's something from a major corporation where my hands are tied by their sign and branding guidelines. I try hard to first...

How many sign companies or even freelance graphic designers claim an ongoing copyright ownership of a logo they designed for another company? If I design a logo for someone, either thru my day job or freelance after hours for non-sign-related work I'm going to charge them one time and then be...

There's lots of tutorial pages and videos at Adobe's web site and on YouTube. Beginners need to familiarize themselves with the user interface and then dive into working with layers, paths and alpha channels. That's where much of the power in Photoshop resides. It's too bad they didn't send you...

We had all shapes, sizes, colors of people (and of all adult ages) posing nude in my life drawing and painting classes. I arrived at one class about 20 minutes late thanks to the subway being stuck in the tunnel for awhile due to a track fire ahead. The model was already posed on the stand when...

As I stated earlier I've kept up with things at my alma mater. I've not had my head stuck in the sand since the early 1990's. I'm on the graphics dept advisory panel for one of our local institutions. I'm up to speed on current events. Any school teaching course work in computer-based graphic...

I like the Align to Glyph Bounds option the user can turn on in the Align palette. That makes the alignment functions disregard the box surrounding the text. You can type a dummy letter like "E", align it to another object and then type out the desired text. It's similar to an approach I've used...

Tomorrow Corel isn't doing anything. It's just the sound of crickets over there. They still can't clean up all the bugs introduced in CDR 2019 and there are new bugs in CDR 2020 that are going unnoticed by their development team. Or maybe they know about them but the bosses at KKR have the...

Adobe released the latest point release update to Illustrator CC 2020 today. The ".3" update adds some pretty useful new features for manipulating type. This builds on other features from the .1 and .2 releases in March and June. The AI 24.3 update may be the last substantial update for CC 2020...

PDFs with embedded fonts aren't so bad, particularly if you only have to print it. It can be a bigger pain if you have to import the artwork for further editing. That really depends on the app used to create the PDF and the choices the user made when creating the PDF. Embedded fonts are a minor...

Employers in various fields of the graphics/advertising industry have always been pretty snobby over what they expect to see on a candidate's resume. This goes back 30 years. Adobe's applications have often been included in the must-have apps on the list, specifically Photoshop. In the 1990's...

I was in college 30 years ago; computer-based design was still in its infancy then. Many of the analog methods of illustration and graphic design were still very much in use. I've watched what the art school I attended has offered over the years. None of the course load revolved around learning...

That's not what I see taking place in the college I attended or even locally at the in-town university and vo-tech. The classes are more project-oriented rather than centered around pointing and clicking a certain recipe of steps to complete a mundane task. There is no need in wasting valuable...

You can make that claim with any piece of graphics software. The fact remains Adobe's software is far more common across the entire graphic design industry. Any universities, art schools or even trade schools teaching courses in graphic design are going to use the tools most commonly used in the...

A computer hardware or software company can get its ego pumped up by fanboys. Obviously there are hazards to feeding fanboy bluster in an echo chamber. It's far better for the company to have a sane, realistic idea of how they actually stand on their own and in relation to rivals, such as...