Dealing with Text & text effects?

[Zingy]

Hi
I've designed a dvd box cover in Photoshop. I didn't realize at the time that print presses have a problem with the printed outcome of text when done in PS. I now want to open the artwork in Illustrator and retype the text(+ add effects) in AI. I am completely new to AI. Is there a way of adding layer styles with blending options(bevels etc) in AI as with PS?

Isn't there a way to open the text from PS in AI and preserve all formatting and effects without rasterising it, or do I have to redo the text in AI?

Please could someone help me with the steps of doing text in AI(especially beveling)?

Thanks in advance!
Mon

 

[jmgalvin]

Illustrator is quite a bit different from PS. Layer styles like PS don't exist (unless it's been added in CS2). AI and PS are really 2 different animals and AI takes a bit of getting used to.

You can preserve vector and font data in a photoshop file by saving as either pdf or eps. PDF is better for the printing. In the PDF options - second window that comes up in the save as sequence, just check preserve vector data and embed fonts. For more info, search PS help for PDF.

The above works as long as you have not rasterized your text layer.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[apepp]

...text with effects applied in photoshop are rasterized if flattened to a single layer. If you really wish to import this text with effects into illustrator then jmgalvin is correct in mentioning the eps or pdf route, psd is also another possibility...

...when these formats are imported into illustrator the outline of the font is used to create the shape of the letters, preserving vector, the actual effects are still raster elements clipped by the font shape...

...if going out of photoshop to pdf format the font remains a font and is embedded with appropriate pdf settings...

...as jmgalvin suggests, your best bet is to save to pdf to cut out the involvement of illustrator which doesn't (as yet) support layer styles as photoshop does...

Andrew

 

[Zingy]

Thanks you two! You guys seem to be the main peeps responding to my questions! Thanks!

Maybe one of you could help me with another issue I have? It may/may not relate to Illustrator? I posted this question the other day and got absolutely no responses and it's starting to get stuffy!

I need to create a business email letterhead for someone that can be used in any mail app.! I get the feeling that it may actually be very easy. I just need the evidence to convince me. My default mail app. is thunderbird. From within t-bird I know I can create a letterhead by inserting all the goodies and formatting text etc, then save as Template. It then files it in the drafts folder in t-bird. I can then access it from there, type and send! I realize that the source it produced is html.

So what I actually want to do is create an HTML page letterhead layout(with web app.) that can be opened in any mail app.(not as attachment). All I want to you do is simply type message and send!

Do you guys have any suggestions? How do I create mail files?

Hope I'm not boring you with heaps of reading!

Thanks a million!!!!
Mon

 

[jmgalvin]

Basically, that's html mail - acting like a web page. You see it in email ads you get from various outfits.

It actually works like a web page, where there's a call to a server to put the pic - in this case a gif or png letterhead - in a certain place on the page (in this case an email page.

I really would not waste my time with this. An awful lot of email clients, especially in businesses, are set to dosplay text only. That's to avoid the nasties that can be embedded in an html message. In some cases that means that a lot of teh html message cannot be seen by the recipient. I wouldn't even bother with any test formatting other than maybe all caps.

If yu want to see this, set your email client to disply text rather than html and look at some of the ads you get from reputable outfits: big catalogs, etc. It's not pretty.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Zingy]

Thanks, but then what do I give to a client that wants an email letterhead?

 

[jmgalvin]

Probably, explain what I mentioned. If they want to set up a web server with the image for the email,and hope that the thing shows in email of recipients, they can do it.

Then you have to compose an html email template.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4