Recent content by Lyell

I have a fairly large number of swatches created in CS3 and CS4 and saved as .ASE files. In the older Bridge (v3.0.0.464), I could display my user library file and see the colors in each swatch. However, when I display my user library in the Bridge that installed with CS5 (v4.0.3.9), I can...

Thanks, Andrew, I do know those ways of moving an object, and have used them in CS4. But you've solved my problem: I had Paste remembered layers turned on, as I usually do. When I turned it off, I could duplicate the results of the tutorial. So I thank you very much. Problem solved, and I...

I’m following a tutorial on CS5 and can’t get something to work. I want to make a guide out of a curved path – a heart. I have two layers: one contains the drawing with the sublayer containing the heart; the other layer contains all my guides as sublayers. I select the drawing sublayer that...

I think you can get the effect you want with a displacement map. Here's a tutorial: http://www.photoshopsupport.com/elements/tutorials/displace-filter/displacement-map.html

You could use Live Paint to solve part of the problem. Select the object, Object>Live Paint>Make, then use the Live Paint Bucket tool to fill the eagle and the book. But for the stripe, you may have to create another object on the same layer which is the precise shape of the stripe. Then you...

Hmm -- don't know why you would see nothing. You do need to add the largest stroke first --i.e., if you want the appearance of having each oval 20 pixels wider than the previous, first add a stroke of width 40 of whatever color. Click on the word "Stroke" and make sure you have "Align stroke...

What about using the appearance panel to add a stroke of the desired width and color, then add a second stroke and color. Does that give you the effect you want?

You can use the regular star tool, then pucker it (Effects > Distort & Transform > Pucker & Bloat). You can use the same technique on any polygon, not just stars.

The lost is found -- in case anyone else needs to know, the AI CS4 presets are at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Presets. And Photoshop presets are also under C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe PhotoshopCS4\Presets.

I'm used to installing presets by copying them directly to the appropriate folder of CS4 which, in Windows XP, I found at C:\Documents and Settings\my folder\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings\en_US. I'm in the process of installing a new computer running Windows 7, and I'm...

Thank you, carlow -- that did the trick. You are my hero!

CORRECTION to the above. I can't PRINT the damned thing! Can't live with that!

I think I've done something wrong in the beginning, but I don't know how to get out of it. I placed a .jpg object with the template option checked-- unfortunately, I can't remember whether I checked the link option or not. I then traced the file and expanded the result. That layer now has the...

I'll vote for that, with a big golden "A" on the back!

You said: "like points not actually joined" -- that was it! I isolated one object, zoomed down to 6400% magnification and found that two points weren't really joined, but just had overlapping paths. And since my design was created primarily though repeating and rescaling of a couple of...