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| KEVIN DUHE 2005-01-10, 7:14 pm |
| I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to do...but here it goes:
I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images I found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through the canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I can download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited success with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
- Kevin
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| steggy 2005-01-10, 11:14 pm |
| > KEVIN DUHE wrote:
>
> I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to
> do...but here it goes:
>
> I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images
> I found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in
> Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through
> the canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I
> can download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited
> success with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
>
> http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
>
> - Kevin
There are templates and there are professionals.
Sorry Kevin.
steg
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| KEVIN DUHE 2005-01-10, 11:14 pm |
| I never said I was a professional. In fact I will come out and say it right
now...."I am not a professional with Illustrator" In fact I have only used
it three or four times in my lifetime. Photoshop is my thing.
That being said I need to come up with the effect quickly (like by tonight)
in Illustrator and I do not have time to recreate the wheel. I just figured
there might be an easier way than to redraw the entire thing in Illustrator.
If there is not, then just say so. Jeez...
Kevin
"steggy" <steggy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> There are templates and there are professionals.
> Sorry Kevin.
>
> steg
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| steggy 2005-01-11, 7:14 am |
| Sorry I guess I was in a bad mood......
But I do think it is too much to ask for, a template for something like
that. Unless you mean a ready to go document with a punching through the
paper....but even then.
steg
KEVIN DUHE wrote:[color=darkred]
>
> I never said I was a professional. In fact I will come out and say it right
> now...."I am not a professional with Illustrator" In fact I have only used
> it three or four times in my lifetime. Photoshop is my thing.
>
> That being said I need to come up with the effect quickly (like by tonight)
> in Illustrator and I do not have time to recreate the wheel. I just figured
> there might be an easier way than to redraw the entire thing in Illustrator.
> If there is not, then just say so. Jeez...
>
> Kevin
>
> "steggy" <steggy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41E3144C.79AC5557@hotmail.com...
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| Interested 2005-01-11, 7:14 am |
| In any of these situations where you want to show part of a bitmap image in
front of, and another part in back of parts of a vector drawing, it is
easiest to first use Photoshop to isolate the parts you want in front of the
vector drawing and layer them on top of it. For parts that you want in front
of your vector drawing, select them from the bitmap, (use pen tool, create a
path, drag the path in the path tab down to the selection button, (to make
it a selection) and delete the rest). What you will be left with is just the
parts the you want in front. Make sure the background of the rest is empty
and save as a gif with transparency. Now import the gif and the original
bitmap and the layer everything m as follows in illustrator: on the bottom
layer, the original bitmap you want, then in the middle layer, your vector
drawing, and then on the top layer, the gif with the parts of the bitmap you
want in front. Works like a charm.
"KEVIN DUHE" <countingcrow@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:10u5q0fi3648rb9@corp.supernews.com...
I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to
do...but here it goes:
I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images I
found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in
Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through the
canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I can
download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited success
with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
- Kevin
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| You will have to do this by hand. Nice work by the way. How did you make those paper curls in photoshop?
Yitz
"KEVIN DUHE" <countingcrow@dslextreme.com> wrote in message news:10u5q0fi3648rb9@corp.supernews.com...
I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to do...but here it goes:
I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images I found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through the canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I can download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited success with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
- Kevin
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| steggy 2005-01-15, 7:14 am |
| > KEVIN DUHE wrote:
>
> I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to
> do...but here it goes:
>
> I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images
> I found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in
> Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through
> the canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I
> can download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited
> success with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
>
> http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
>
> - Kevin
There are templates and there are professionals.
Sorry Kevin.
steg
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| KEVIN DUHE 2005-01-15, 7:14 am |
| I never said I was a professional. In fact I will come out and say it right
now...."I am not a professional with Illustrator" In fact I have only used
it three or four times in my lifetime. Photoshop is my thing.
That being said I need to come up with the effect quickly (like by tonight)
in Illustrator and I do not have time to recreate the wheel. I just figured
there might be an easier way than to redraw the entire thing in Illustrator.
If there is not, then just say so. Jeez...
Kevin
"steggy" <steggy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41E3144C.79AC5557@hotmail.com...
>
> There are templates and there are professionals.
> Sorry Kevin.
>
> steg
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| steggy 2005-01-15, 7:14 am |
| Sorry I guess I was in a bad mood......
But I do think it is too much to ask for, a template for something like
that. Unless you mean a ready to go document with a punching through the
paper....but even then.
steg
KEVIN DUHE wrote:[color=darkred]
>
> I never said I was a professional. In fact I will come out and say it right
> now...."I am not a professional with Illustrator" In fact I have only used
> it three or four times in my lifetime. Photoshop is my thing.
>
> That being said I need to come up with the effect quickly (like by tonight)
> in Illustrator and I do not have time to recreate the wheel. I just figured
> there might be an easier way than to redraw the entire thing in Illustrator.
> If there is not, then just say so. Jeez...
>
> Kevin
>
> "steggy" <steggy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41E3144C.79AC5557@hotmail.com...
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| Interested 2005-01-15, 7:14 am |
| In any of these situations where you want to show part of a bitmap image in
front of, and another part in back of parts of a vector drawing, it is
easiest to first use Photoshop to isolate the parts you want in front of the
vector drawing and layer them on top of it. For parts that you want in front
of your vector drawing, select them from the bitmap, (use pen tool, create a
path, drag the path in the path tab down to the selection button, (to make
it a selection) and delete the rest). What you will be left with is just the
parts the you want in front. Make sure the background of the rest is empty
and save as a gif with transparency. Now import the gif and the original
bitmap and the layer everything m as follows in illustrator: on the bottom
layer, the original bitmap you want, then in the middle layer, your vector
drawing, and then on the top layer, the gif with the parts of the bitmap you
want in front. Works like a charm.
"KEVIN DUHE" <countingcrow@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:10u5q0fi3648rb9@corp.supernews.com...
I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to
do...but here it goes:
I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images I
found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in
Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through the
canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I can
download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited success
with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
- Kevin
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| formerly known as 'cat arranger' 2005-01-18, 7:14 pm |
| It's probably too late, considering your deadline but can you
say why you need this? Because you know that you can place
Photoshop bitmaps in illustrator so if it's the vector format that
you need there is no problem. So that's probably not it. Maybe
you need to ... well I'm trying to think of some reason you would
need bezier curves... to enlarge without pixelization. You can do
a higher resolution tiff or whatever in Photoshop before importing...
I'm not sure about the process Illustrator uses to enlarge, probably
not as good as bicubic... sorry, I wish I could be of more help.
"KEVIN DUHE" <countingcrow@dslextreme.com> wrote in message news:10u5q0fi3648rb9@corp.supernews.com...
I am not sure if the subject correctly identifies what I am trying to do...but here it goes:
I created the image linked below in Photoshop with some random images I found on the web. I now need to create something similar, but in Illustrator. (i.e. I need to create the effect of santa coming through the canvas). How do I do this? Are there templates somewhere that I can download? I'd rather not trace it by hand and I have had limited success with Streamline. Any other suggestions?
http://www.kzla.com/pics/santa.jpg
- Kevin
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