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Can someone help me with Adobe Illustrator?
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Kesaja:
The files you sent are both raster images, not Illustrator files. The pdf contains a placed jpeg, and the jpeg is, obviously, a jpeg.
I'll be super kind hearted and recreate the whole thing as vector (otherwise the t-shirt printer will be very upset with you and charge an arm and a leg to do the same thing). I don't have the exact font (It's not ad-lib, not even close) but I'll use something similar.
I'll email it back to you as soon as I finish it.
Bert
The files you sent are both raster images, not Illustrator files. The pdf contains a placed jpeg, and the jpeg is, obviously, a jpeg.
I'll be super kind hearted and recreate the whole thing as vector (otherwise the t-shirt printer will be very upset with you and charge an arm and a leg to do the same thing). I don't have the exact font (It's not ad-lib, not even close) but I'll use something similar.
I'll email it back to you as soon as I finish it.
Bert
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While itchybug was infinitely helpful, keep in mind that this forum is for eliciting tips, not unpaid work. If you do not have Illustrator, you can download a fully functional 30-day demo from
Jim:
I agree with your statement in principle, but in the real world you can't expect a non-designer to download Illustrator and learn how to re-create an entire piece of art with bevels, blurs, dropshadows and transparency effects... The demo would expire before the art was done. It took me a billable hour, but I made somebody's life a whole lot easier.
Bert
I agree with your statement in principle, but in the real world you can't expect a non-designer to download Illustrator and learn how to re-create an entire piece of art with bevels, blurs, dropshadows and transparency effects... The demo would expire before the art was done. It took me a billable hour, but I made somebody's life a whole lot easier.
Bert
While I cannot criticize your helping hand, I was just noting that this forum is for offering tips to fellow professionals and should not be considered a place to seek free labor.
Instead of learning a tip, future readers of this thread with a similar issue will only learn that you are willing to work for free.
We're not here to hand out free fish.![[bigsmile]](/data/assets/smilies/bigsmile.gif "[bigsmile] [bigsmile]")
Instead of learning a tip, future readers of this thread with a similar issue will only learn that you are willing to work for free.
We're not here to hand out free fish.
Jim:
Again, I agree in principle, and I always suggest to users who contact me off the board to take it here, unless (as was the case here) there's nothing to learn from the issue at hand. There were no tips and tricks to share here, just some jpeg art that needed re-drawing.
I think there's nothing wrong with giving a farmer a free fish.
Let's not waste anymore time beating a dead horse.
Bert
Again, I agree in principle, and I always suggest to users who contact me off the board to take it here, unless (as was the case here) there's nothing to learn from the issue at hand. There were no tips and tricks to share here, just some jpeg art that needed re-drawing.
I think there's nothing wrong with giving a farmer a free fish.
Let's not waste anymore time beating a dead horse.
Bert
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Hi,
I'm very sorry if I came across as someone seeking free labor. That is definitely not the case. Here's the situation:
I run a nonprofit organization that helps sick people called DINET, Everyone who helps with this nonprofit is a volunteer (including me). No one gets paid. We have no membership fees and rely on the kindness of others to stay afloat. This is a labor of love for me...I was once completely bedridden and I am one of the lucky souls who got a lot better. I have now dedicated my life to helping other people who are sick as I once was.
DINET recently ran a t-shirt contest. Our members loved it...some of them are bedridden/housebound and this gave them a way to use their imaginations, compete in something, and to vote on the winner. When there was a winner, I sent it off to a doctor at Mayo clinic who helps us to get her opinion on the wording. She suggested changes, which the person who made the design happily implemented. However, before sending the design to the printer to have t-shirts printed, I realized there was still one word that needed to be changed.
I sent an email to the person who had made the design, requesting she change this one word, but I did not hear back from her (she may be very sick right now...I do not know). I attempted to contact her numerous times for six weeks without luck. I asked everyone I knew who was design-literate if they could help, but no one had Illustrator. I thought I would just buy the program...but then I saw the price. I could not justify spending hundreds of dollars donated to help sick people on this program to change one word, which is why I turned here...to the kindness of strangers.
Thanks to Bert's help, we'll be able to get our t-shirts printed and use the funds raised to help all of those bedridden/housebound people who have had their quality of life stolen by dysautonomia. Bert did a wonderful thing for me and his kindness will literally help thousands of people who are in wheelchairs, bedridden and housebound.
The kindness of strangers astonishes me at times. I have been blessed by Bert's kindness and will forever be appreciative of his efforts.
Michelle
I'm very sorry if I came across as someone seeking free labor. That is definitely not the case. Here's the situation:
I run a nonprofit organization that helps sick people called DINET, Everyone who helps with this nonprofit is a volunteer (including me). No one gets paid. We have no membership fees and rely on the kindness of others to stay afloat. This is a labor of love for me...I was once completely bedridden and I am one of the lucky souls who got a lot better. I have now dedicated my life to helping other people who are sick as I once was.
DINET recently ran a t-shirt contest. Our members loved it...some of them are bedridden/housebound and this gave them a way to use their imaginations, compete in something, and to vote on the winner. When there was a winner, I sent it off to a doctor at Mayo clinic who helps us to get her opinion on the wording. She suggested changes, which the person who made the design happily implemented. However, before sending the design to the printer to have t-shirts printed, I realized there was still one word that needed to be changed.
I sent an email to the person who had made the design, requesting she change this one word, but I did not hear back from her (she may be very sick right now...I do not know). I attempted to contact her numerous times for six weeks without luck. I asked everyone I knew who was design-literate if they could help, but no one had Illustrator. I thought I would just buy the program...but then I saw the price. I could not justify spending hundreds of dollars donated to help sick people on this program to change one word, which is why I turned here...to the kindness of strangers.
Thanks to Bert's help, we'll be able to get our t-shirts printed and use the funds raised to help all of those bedridden/housebound people who have had their quality of life stolen by dysautonomia. Bert did a wonderful thing for me and his kindness will literally help thousands of people who are in wheelchairs, bedridden and housebound.
The kindness of strangers astonishes me at times. I have been blessed by Bert's kindness and will forever be appreciative of his efforts.
Michelle
I am by no means being critical of lending a helping hand and I am glad things worked out. No one has to defend their request for assistance and no one has to defend offering assistance.
The purpose of this public archive of discussion is to share knowledge. No knowledge is shared if no one pointed out options to using Illustrator for free. That makes this thread kind of pointless.
I am no stranger to working for non-profits and dealing with expensive software licensing. Not knowing or caring what the financial situation was, I suggested the tip of using the free 30-day demo. If you are looking for more long term graphic editing capability, consider free apps like Scribus, Gimp, Sodipodi and Inkscape.
You can of course also ask the T-Shirt printer to alter artwork. They do that kind of stuff all the time.
The purpose of this public archive of discussion is to share knowledge. No knowledge is shared if no one pointed out options to using Illustrator for free. That makes this thread kind of pointless.
I am no stranger to working for non-profits and dealing with expensive software licensing. Not knowing or caring what the financial situation was, I suggested the tip of using the free 30-day demo. If you are looking for more long term graphic editing capability, consider free apps like Scribus, Gimp, Sodipodi and Inkscape.
You can of course also ask the T-Shirt printer to alter artwork. They do that kind of stuff all the time.
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