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Grays are bitchy no matter what you do.There's a couple of quick things to try depending on whatever profile you might be using... 1. Set your rendering intents to "No Color Correction" for everything except bitmaps. Set bitmaps to "Perceptual". See what that does for you. Or 2. Convert...

Corel, less than 2 minutes. Create the text. Use the Extrusion tool to create the basic solid color shadow then use the Extrusion Light Source dialog to position a couple of light sources.. You could tune this forever, I was trying for quick and dirty.

He's correct. None of the duplicate letters, 'G', 'i', & 's' remotely resemble each other.

The very same way you'd cut them in wood. Drill a hole and start a jigsaw from there. You don't want to use aluminum unless you want to slice and dice those sticking their heads through, you want to use an aluminum composite like, say, 6mm Nudo board. The stuff is cheap enough, well nigh...

Narrow? I'm all ears if anyone here can come up with a cogent argument. Thus far all that has been presented has been are rationalizations, amusing tortured reasoning, and little else. As far as your wanting to charge separately for each and every little thing including, apparently, taking a...

Perhaps you're conflating the notion of 'uniqueness' with 'special' with 'special' somehow implying value. In the best Aristotelian tradition, everything in the external reality is unique but precious little of it is special. Each and every sign regardless of how good or bad it might be is...

Sport, when I need words put into my mouth I'm perfectly competent to do so all by myself. I never said nor did I ever imply that anything I did was better than what anyone else has done. Nor did I say or imply that no one is better or worse. Some are better than others. Some are a whole hell of...

Stop trying to be clever. You're not particularly good at it. Just state your name: "North State Designs" [or is it just "Signs" ?], 'Signs' is a far better choice by the way. If you want to mess with it you might try "Northstate Signs" or even "NorthState Signs". Maybe even add the arrow to the...

In the sign business, the 'service' you offer is about as substantive as the emperor's new clothes. Just because you specifically [and smugly] charge for it, and manage to get away with it, doesn't make it any more real. Do not think for a moment that the work that comes out of my shop is of...

At the very least 100%. More if the traffic will bear it.

I print and cut metallic all the time and I gave up on the auto registration marks a long time ago. Even with all of the various tricks, it was a crap shoot when it came to reading them. I'm using Flexi and cutting with a Graphtec FC-7000. When dealing with metallic media I always specify using...

If you're doing some sort of sign it requires a ego the size of Montana to rationalize a separate charge for artwork. Back in the day when you lettered something you had to lay it out first. An act as basic as popping the lid off a can of One Shot or palletting your quill. That was the artwork...

Exactly so. In order to remember a phone number and/or an email address the entire thing has to be either memorized or written down. With a web address all you have to remember is that there is one and have a vague notion of a name. Back to the rotated logo. There's nothing wrong with...

Why do you assume 8 ball? There are a variety of other full rack games, mostly unknown to barroom pool shooters. Straight pool and one-pocket where it doesn't matter a whit where any ball is racked, rotation where the 1 ball should be at the front, 8 ball where the 8, a solid, and a stripe...

If your client's success or failure is important to you then you should do whatever you can to ensure that success. I've always considered worrying about my impact on someone else's success to be riding thin odds. 'Thin odds' being a politic way to say 'micro effect'. If someone's is or is...

No, I don't think so. While appealing to the masses might be part of your job, it's most certainly not part of mine. The only people to which appealing is a concern to me are those paying the bill. The rest can be appealed to or not or simply go pound sand, their choice. If I do something...

Use it or not but pay no attention to the constant rabble citing this or that quote of flag etiquette or general whining about 'disrespect'. It just a pattern. Is someone has a problem with it, and of course someone will, it's their problem, not yours. They can deal with it. Don't tiptoe along...

Assuming you mean to cut them into individual squares with no backing showing. In which case butt them up top and bottom, left and right, with no white showing, and then print a hairline tick mark top and bottom of each column and left and right of each row. Then, when you part them only cut...

I've been using Wypet, or however it's spelled, from Fellers for lo these many years. It's reasonably priced, easy to apply, looks good, and lasts a long time. Haven't had any, zero, zip, nada, complaints. Ever.

Try to follow along, as strenuous for you as that might be. It's not a bad design because it's composed of cartoons, it's a bad design because it's a bad design. If this notion proves difficult for you to comprehend, consider engaging the services of a slow-normal elementary school child to...