Recent content by steve011

hello all, im trying desperately to make a "dot effect" fill. im not very good at explaining this i know, but what i mean is the type of rastered fill you would see if you zoomed into an area of color in a comic. i guess its kind of like this: http://www.pl32.com/tutorial/sraster/img3.gif...

hi all. seeing as i know bugger all about flash, i thought i`d run this one by the pro`s. here we go.. i have a flash space invaders game that i have decompiled to swf. what i want to do is to replace the space invader image with another image - if you see what i mean, so instead of shooting...

again it seems to me as if ive made some basic errors... i will fix the typos (im not german, im english) as far as the 18.8 vs. the 19.8 is concerned, that is yet another typo.... DOH!! i think the problem is the printer, i just got my girlfriend to print it out at work seeing as we`re bone...

hello all. Firstly, thanx for all the help on the "dull colours" post :-), it seems to be ok now!! NOW i have another odd problem with a trifold flyer i have designed. the format is A4 and the folds occur at 9.9cm and 18.8cm. this has been double checked with the rulers (also set to cm) in...

great, thanx for the tip!! steve0

well thats the problem, for some reason i cant apply the filter. i go to "drop shadow", make sure everything is set properly, and hit apply - nothing happens. i cant even see anything with the preview box checked. the images are .gifs and a .jpg worked on in photoshop. ive tried applying the...

okeedokey, i had it set as cmyk of course.. ahem.. another potentially embarrassing question - how do i apply a drop shadow to a placed JPEG?? again...ahem its been a while sorry :-( steve

hi all, i have a perfectly good looking flyer ive designer in illy 10. problem is though, when i save it as a PDF and open it, the colours are really dull. any ideas? thanx steve0

ok, thanx for the detailed reply eggles, i honestly didnt think about paper thickness.:-( i`ll have a go at it a bit later on tonight. thanx again m8 steve0

hi all, i have to make a trifold flyer, A4 size with illustrator 10. i have no idea how to do this and wondered if there were any free templates lying around the web. i found a couple but they were in "letter" format and im not sure if thats the same thing - even though the size difference is...