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Highlight the object you want to change the shadow on. Go to the Appearance palette (Window>Appearance if it isn't open). Double click on the attribute "Drop Shadow" and you will then get a dialog box where you can change your shadow. This is in CS2. Yes, simple [smile] Nikki Fay...

In CS2 you can select objects and then use "Collect in New Layer" from the flyout menu to make a new layer that holds those objects. That seems to be the closest answer if I am reading the question correctly. Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/ Beginning and Intermediate...

Think I answered this on the Adobe board today but in case that is not the case [smile] ... This should help I think: http://faystudios.com/illustrator/croppingdocs.cfm Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/ Beginning and Intermediate Illustrator Tutorials featuring CS2

Most likely it would be using Live Paint. Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/ Beginning and Intermediate Illustrator Tutorials featuring CS2

Well that would have been my first guess [wink]. Lots of info on flattening and other "print warning" messages at http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/faq-print.cfm Two main things. Any layer that is locked (or sub-layer) will not flatten. Flattening using the layers menu has not worked well...

Lots of things could be going wrong unfortunately. If you go to SUMMARY in the Print menu do you get any warning messages? Those are always good hints. I have had the spot color message come up when saving even with a very simple file with NO spot colors so not sure about all of that but maybe...

Glad it is working for you. If you ever have to use someone else's file and it causes a problem you can probably reinstall. Others have and it seems to work. I started with CS and then CS2 so have no real experience with older versions except for the files of others. I do know that when I open...

If you need more of a step by step approach there is a tutorial on customizing symbols and saving symbol libraries at: http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/symbols.cfm Good luck. Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com/illustrator/ Beginning and Intermediate Illustrator Tutorials featuring CS2

There is Effect>3D>Extrude and Bevel but most people consider the 3D effects in Illustrator pretty "lame" [wink] You might also want to explore some of the graphic styles (under Window). You can also make your own 3 D look by using layers and gradients. There are some tutorials on this at the...

Nick - Do you also have 10? There was apparently a very large change in the text engine and files made in 10 and before do not work well with CS2 (THAT I can vouch for). So if you have 10 it is probably OK to get rid of 8 and 9 assuming you don't need to keep them for update reasons (that is...

Give yourself a gold star. Well doubt if you can do that, so maybe an "imaginary" gold star. They all count. Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com

It is under Object>Live Trace>Make Is it grayed out for you? You have to have the object you want to trace (your photo) selected. If that doesn't work, give us more info [smile] . Nikki Fay http://www.faystudios.com

Also - Is your tiff file the size it needs to be printed? Remember a tiff is no longer vector so you can't "blow it up" and expect it to look good. There is more info on printing problems that might be helpful at: http://faystudios.com/illustrator/faq-print.cfm Nikki Fay...

I don't see anywhere in this post that you FLATTENED your document before making it into a 400 dpi tiff. You also need to set your Flattening setting at 400 - 2400 when flattening and sellect everything that needs flattening (I do the whole document as use lots of effects). This was mentioned...

Have you tried getting the files into InDesign in another way? I don't have InDesign so can't speak to that specifically but typically copy and paste is not always effective as the programs don't always "speak" to each other very well by means of the clipboard. Since InDesign was designed to...

Just my two cents worth. I have had a LOT less trouble with CS2 than with CS. The Live Trace feature does work very well and I really like the new Photoshop Effects and Bridge. Flash bitmap tracing may have improved in the newest version but CS2s is much better than Flash MX (IMHO) CS2 does...

Anna - You probably already have this figured out, but if not there is an opacity mask tutorial at: Opacity Tutorial Here And here is some info on Flattening: The document contains artwork that requires flattening. If your document contains a simple red circle and your name in text it will...

Someone on the Adobe board had this same problem. Here was the reply for them: LenHewitt - 1:33am Jul 14, 05 PST (#1 of 7) Rename 'aiicon.dll' to 'aiicon.dll.old'. It will disable Illustrator thumbnails in Windows Explorer but should alleviate the problem. Here is the link to the...

Many thanks signal49!

So did you select all of your document and flatten it and STILL have the error message? If so, do you have any locked layers? You cannot flatten layers you cannot select and of course you can't select them if they are locked. You also need to use Object>Flatten Transparency and not the Flatten...