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  1. Canva purchases Affinity

    I don't think subjective design quality matters all that much to the average person. I've seen customers go through multiple design revisions for a street sign quote from us only for them to turn around and get something cheaper and far more crappy looking. The thing that helps us out over the...
  2. Canva purchases Affinity

    Graphic design is hardly a profession anymore. Anyone with a working pulse and willingness to show up for work on a dependable basis can get hired to do this s#1t (especially if they'll work for cheap). 30 years ago I was proud of having a four year degree from a good NYC art school; now I'm...
  3. Canva purchases Affinity

    Subscription services are not always a bad thing. My bigger concern are these private equity companies and their motives. Computer software such as Canva and Affinity Designer or freaking fonts is just a tiny part of the deal. Private equity companies ruin so much of what they touch. They're...
  4. Canva purchases Affinity

    Smells like more hijinks from the private equity crowd. BTW, much of the developmental funding behind Canva came exactly from private equity firms. It's also interesting that Monotype made a licensing deal with Canva. Monotype is owned by a private equity group and seems to be hell-bent on...
  5. PSD TO PDF TO AI

    I'd be asking for a copy of the original Photoshop PSD file. Adobe Illustrator is really the only application that can generate a truly edit-friendly PDF, but that's only because it can append actual Illustrator AI data to the PDF. Even with the original PSD file it would be a lucky thing if...
  6. Customer has no idea what he wants but wants it now - Rant.

    Around 10 or more years ago one of our customers, a restaurant owner who bought lighted street signs from us, called us. He wanted a vehicle wrap. Just like the scenario Stacey K described, this guy gave us zero direction. His comment was, "come up with some different designs until I see...
  7. Font ID Request - Mystery Sans

    I'm stumped by the typeface used in the attached sample image. At first glance I thought it was Ubuntu. Baloo is somewhat similar. So is Adobe Clean. None are proper matches. Thanks in advance for help.
  8. Sci-Fi Font ID Request

    Funny thing: the "AR" thing in the font name rang a bell. It turned out I had a copy of that font saved in a folder of fonts I had removed from a previous Dell desktop system from over a decade ago. The computer came with a bunch of these junky "AR" fonts pre-installed. I removed those but kept...
  9. Font ID Request - Slab Serif Lettering

    Need a bit of help identifying the slab serif face used in the attached image. I thought I'd seen it at either Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts, but nothing is coming up. TIA.
  10. Sci-Fi Font ID Request

    I'm trying to ID some lettering from an existing building sign, but not having any luck doing so scanning the usual free fonts web sites. The attached image is an close-up extraction of some of the lettering. The lettering is pretty ugly (in my opinion) and looks like it has been artificially...
  11. Fonts

    That video has been out for awhile. I like it that the video has Helvetica as the cool person and Arial is envious. Futura is also pretty cool too. I do like the causal mention of Proxima Nova.
  12. Anyone know Warrior River Font?

    The font is ugly as hell, whatever it is.
  13. Font Help

    It looks like a knock-off of Bodega Sans that has been artificially stretched.
  14. Are there good Illustrator tutorials for beginners

    Old Creative Suite era versions of Adobe Illustrator have serious limitations compared to the current Creative Cloud version. It has been nearly 12 years since the last CS version (CS6) was released. Quite a few features have been added to Illustrator since then. Much of the corporate world has...
  15. Are there good Illustrator tutorials for beginners

    Adobe has lots of tutorials built into Creative Cloud. There is a tutorials button in the Creative Cloud desktop app that points to tutorials for all apps online. You have to be signed into your CC account to access them though. The Illustrator page has a bunch of different tutorials. Many of...
  16. Export from Flexi with live fonts?

    I would not recommend exporting EPS or AI files from Flexi with live fonts intact. Like GaSouthpaw said, you'll probably see at least some (or a lot of) kerning or tracking errors. That might force you to re-build the text objects in Illustrator if the fonts are usable in Illustrator. We have...
  17. the future of graphic design

    I can't stand Canva. It's a new source of trouble on top of all the other usual factors that make for bad customer provided art files. The app is marketed with the implied pitch that it doesn't require any talent or technical know-how to do graphic design work. Just hop in our app and we'll hold...
  18. Logo Design

    No. Honestly, it's a bunch of crap. Even when trying to write text prompts to deliver abstract kinds of imagery. I played with the so-called "AI" things for awhile and got fed up pretty quickly by the garbage I was seeing. Click a button. Wait a bit and get 3 results. Don't like what you see...
  19. Logo Design

    Illustrator's Text to Vector function is, at best, good for only brain storming purposes. None of the results are production quality. One issue is all the results are essentially auto-traced into vector format. It's just like running the Live Trace function on a photo. Next problem: the imagery...
  20. Corel: Embed Spot Colors in Bitmap for PDF ????

    In CorelDRAW it's possible to take a grayscale pixel-based image and apply Pantone spot colors to it by going to the Bitmaps menu>Mode>Duotone. In that dialog box one can choose Monotone, Duotone, Tritone or Quadtone and use Pantone spot colors for the colors. Tone curves can be edited too.
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