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Bob 67 has just become our latest Contributing Member. Thank you.

It is with great pleasure (drumroll please) that I announce our newest Merchant Member ... The Vector Doctor For those of you who aren't familiar with Eric's fine vectorizing service, visit his website and try him out. It's fast. The quality is excellent. And the prices are very reasonable.

A new, independently operated website, GerberEdge-Ucation.com is opening shortly. It is operated by Art Schilling and is sponsored by a number of industry suppliers including Gerber Scientific Products. The site features articles and step-by-step tutorials, tips and tricks, a photo gallery...

Let's all welcome Colin to Merchant Membership here at Signs 101. For those among you interested in a capable resource to whom to farm out logo design ... give him a try. Your clients will benefit and so may your checkbook. To learn more about his services, check out his website. Good luck...

Deaton Designs is our latest merchant member. John has a newly released collection of his original and wonderful cartoon clipart available on CD-ROM at The Toon Factory. Welcome John.

Recently a video tutorial was produced and made available at Signs 101 and an offer made to produce more if members submitted their own video recordings. While video tutorial movies certainly are appealing, tutorials can also be produced from digital pictures and from free authoring software...

In earlier versions of Photoshop, I always found the ability to select all pixels on a layer by control + clicking on the layer in the layer palette to be very straightforward and easy. That feature seems to have been replaced or dropped in the current version 9. As it is now, it appears that I...

In Illustrator it is easy enough convert a node from a smooth point to a cusp. Holding down the Alt key and dragging a handle does it. But is there any way to convert a cusp to a smooth point without, at the same time, collapsing the node handles and having to reextend them?

What was your primary training in entering the sign or graphics business?

I bought my first digitizing tablet in 1984 and loved it's accuracy. It had a 20" x 20" working area and you taped your artwork on top of it then entered your vector control points. Then, like most of us from that era, I drifted into scanning, hand tracing with a mouse and/or autotracing. Last...

HP OFFERS LOW-SOLVENT OUTDOOR PRINTERS Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, Calif., introduces the Designjet 9000s large-format digital printer. Developed through a partnership with Seiko I Infotech, the 64"-wide printer uses a six-color (CMYK, Lc,Lm) low-solvent ink system...

Let's hear it for Poppy who is our 3,000th member.

Let's hear it for Steve C of Signfonts.com who is our newest Merchant Member. Steve has been a strong supporter and a regular member here since May 2003 and decided to take the marketing plunge today. His fonts are terrific and, as a licensed user, I personally recommend them very highly.

Signs 101 has now completed its move from a shared hosting site to a dedicated server. In addition, the latest release of the forum software provides for moving image attachments out of the database. This has been done and the actual database is about 20% of the size it was. As a final step, all...

Any computer whizs out there? Here's my situation: I have a small LAN populated with an NT server, 3 Windows 98SE P2 workstations, an iMac, and a new AMD 2.4 with 1.5GB ram and Windows XP Pro SP2. The LAN has been in existence for some time now and uses a DLink switch and a DSL router. The new...

For those members who have never noticed, the forums at Signs 101 are categorized. When you begin a new thread it will reside in whichever forum you are in when you click the New Thread button. The value of the classifications is for browsing archives on a given subject. If you don't classify...

We are entering into a piecemeal upgrading of our local area network (LAN) which currently consists of 3 P2 Win 98SE workstations, a server running Windows NT 4 which has fallen into use as only a file server, and an iMac running system 9.1, all connected by an eight station router hub. We are...

We're finally doing some upgrading at my place and I am getting ready to order the CS2 upgrade (from Photoshop 6). The difference price between the Standard and the Premium versions is $250. I'm a bit confused reading about it at Adobe's website and would like some opinions from members here...

This has been a rough summer for storms in the U.S. The price of fuel has hit all time highs and 100's of billions of dollars will be spent for rebuilding. What, if anything, do you see happening in your area ... in your business to the economy?

The best format is JPG. You can also use BMP, TIF, GIF and others, but JPG takes advantage of the auto-thumbnailing built into the forum software. The size should be no greater than 800 x 800 pixels. The color mode should be RGB! CMYK files will generate errors. This is how to have a photo or...