Hey, guys. I'm creating poster PDFs for a client in Illustrator.The photos he's providing are very different in style and their source. I've come up with an idea to create a transparent gradient rectangle (like a little filter) with a blending mode (hard light) and put it on all the photos to make them visually more consistent and on-brand. Problem is, I'm not sure what is the best way to get high quality print results. Should I just keep the rectangles on top of the photos in Illustrator and export as PDF as I usually do? Should I put the rectangles/filters on the photos in photoshop and export them as pngs or even cmyk tiffs for use in illustrator?If tiffs - what settings? I'm in EU, tho I should probably ask the print shop at this point?
Forgot to mention, the gradient is made of 4 points of color. I'm not on my computer right now so can't post excact info about the gradient rectangle. But it's colorful, transparent (20-40% transparency) and has a blending/transparency mode - I think hard light, but might be something else too.
That overlay is a common technique to keep images consistant. If you use a filter in photoshop just set the mode to cmyk to get an accurate preview.
when in doubt (and with vectors + transparencies + old print shop tech) flatten and export as 300dpi jpegs or tiffs. and yeah, check it in cmyk (change your illustrator color space to cmyk and it'll dull the colours to try and simulate the change).You can do it all in illustrator with artboards and export the artboards. But personally I also worry about banding in the printing gradients, so I add some noise to it. Usually in photoshop where I have more control.If you're going full autism, best build might be a PSD asset or PNG you've made at 100% physical height + 300dpi in Photoshop. Place that in a layer in illustrator. Put artwork underneath.Once you do it that way you don't even have to use illustrator really. You can automate with Photoshop actions, or do a data merge in inDesign to crank out 100s of those puppies.The big thing I would want to avoid is vector + funky blend mode layer shennanigans.
>>460602Thank you so much for the detailed answer, kind anon.
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who the hell designed the 4chan banners, they are so simple yet so funshare some of your favorites
>>458357>>458356these are kool
Where's the full image for this?https://s.4cdn.org/image/contest_banners/74f99a50c7b3c41c466a0b061f0dea3814bcb22c.gif
>>459442bump
>>452295damn you're right
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I'm looking into going full on with UI/UX road, since this jack of all trades designer bs i've been doing for years is not giving me the opportunities i had hoped, and i kinda love using Figma and shit, what courses, bootcamps, books, or anything would u recommend me to check out? i got the program mostly down, but i need more fundamentals to bs my way around when selling myself as a specialist on the subject, any suggestion is greatly appreciated, we're all gonna make it
>>460488Thanks for the reply!, I'll def check his stuff
>>460510His newsletter is also good, believe it or not.
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>>460515And which one of these have you done anon?
>the first half of that video>>460488
I don't know if this is the right board for it but here goes! I want to make my own die-cut stickers at home, is there any machine that does both printing and cutting or where can i get one of each that won't take a lot of room to install
A Cricut™ diecutter is the easiest starting point probably
>>460337First you (we) need to have a good idea of your use case and production needs/ goals to determine what printing and cutting methods are best...there's different types of die cutting like thermal and steel rule dies that each have pros and cons...but both are highly dependent on volume to make them worth the buy in costs for dies and a press and if you will be doing runs of less than a few thousand pieces the fab costs will be high.A knife plotter like Cricut or a commercial grade unit and some simple software will let you cut small runs of shapes on printed sheets that would be very challenging for steel rule cutting, but won't give you the sticker and release liner cut to the same shape like a steel rule die can, you have to cut and weed each piece....might be perfect if you are making something for application to your own product you only make a few dozen of per year, but for a novelty sticker you will sell retail the costs likely won't pencil out unless you make them by the thousands.t. Screenprinter who has made and cut gorillions of stickers
>>460337I dont think theres a machine that prints and cuts. To print stickers that last outdoors, its gonna cost a lot. But if you dont care about that, you could always just print with an inkjet printer on vinyl, and cut it with a newer cricut or sillhouette cameo
I can get used Eizo ColorEdge CG2420 for like half of the price with 4600 hours of screentime, Official site says its half of guaranteed screentime, so I need somoone with bigdick experience energy to say something
If anybody here seriously knows color calibration, colorspace/model and display gammut shit, please email me, I've been trying to look into monitors, calibration tools, the underlying concepts, workflows for color correction etc for years and I constantly get conflicting info and/or every time I get an answer it creates more questionssaintseiyasource@gmail.com
>>460524I will add I am asking both from an image editing/photography/graphic design perspective, AND a video editor/film grading perspectiveI'd be doing the former but I'm currently erring towards using monitors and workflows intended for the latter to avoid Windows ICC color profile nonsense, if possible
>>460524color calibration/correction is the biggest meme I've ever seensubjective opinions masquerading as objective facts
>>459971i have this monitor but panel is broken i need to contact eizo support for repairbesides that this monitor uses a special polarizer which turns the 'ips glow' to very dark green and purple which improves uniformity and black levels
What's the meaning of the red stripe?
>>458380
>>458380It's 'flair'.pic related.
>>458383Giugiaro invented it originally for the first gen golf.
Whoever made corporate memphis needs to be impaled from the ass through the mouth.
>>458380red is used as it makes things faster.
Hey I hope this board is the right place for this. Can I get this image in a better resolution to make it into a poster? thanks
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>>460493alva noto/raster-noton, they even made a bookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENN9mtpICPQ
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I am working with svg programming for the first time and it is silly. I am working on my visualisation skills anyway, this shit will make me go absolutely mental after a while. Do you guys know any artist who are working with beautiful numbers also? I remember Open AI having this real good guy, I, though, am not sure wether he paid too much attention on proportions for example.
does anyone know of any graphic designers that can expand on my design for my album art?
I'm trying to become an electrician and since every boomer in the job is a computer illiterate and their flyers look like absolute shit I figured I could benefit a lot from good branding.So far I made this simple logo but I'm not totally convinced. I tried many thing with the color palette and this is the best that came out but still I'm not totally convinced, as if something is off or lacking in the design or too much disparity with the verbal part of my brand.Can you enlighten me?
>>460466>I could explain this in detail but I won't... not because I'm incompetent but because... I just won't ok?same bro same
>>460472lol do they owe you or what?>entitled bitch ngl>both of you ngl>yes, me too ngl
>>460472try removing some or preferably all of these already covered details first and post the results> your effort >computer >slapped together elements >lame>most generic >low quality >cheap ass >1980s >royalty free >clip art > the most trite "designs" imaginable.
You're off to a good start. A suggestion I would make is to simplify you logo until it works in black and white. The apple computer logo is a good example of this.Try starting with the black circle, delete the house and reverse the electrical plugs and delete everything outside the circle.And set your text in Eurostile.Remember, there is no other font than Eurostile.
>>460466Clip arts piss me off
WHAT ELSE DO EMPLOYERS WANT??I can't believe that I spend my whole day, reading your terms, answering your questions with long ass paragraphs (which is redundant since the info is already in my resume). spend hours making a short video presentation, which has to be one take, so about an hour to memorize and get it right. Uploading documents and self identification shit, making a couple of graphics to show my abilities, have to kiss ass and be presentable, all for a job that I don't even want in the first place. I HAVE to work for you because I don't want to Die of hunger!! "Why you want to work for us?" I don't. Nobody does.I have a decade of experience, wore many hats, making me overqualified for the position, speak three languages and you still won't hire me. "Not good enough" What the fuck.WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT???I studied for you, I've wasted my life in 9to5's for you, dedicated all for job security and still not good enough!
>>459242I got a job at a local printers. They are often looking for people.
>>456955Would you happen to be white by any chance?
>>456955>WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT???They want to hire a cousin or someone internally or an H1B. The job posting was only for show.
>>456955School gives you the wrong mentality.You're not studying/working/practicing to rank well on some universal rubric to score a job that you deserve because of how well you did on that rubric. That rubric doesn't exists. Companies are just groups of people collaborating to make money somehow. What you're really doing is more like trying out for a team (small environments where you need to bring something to the table and get along well with the group) or pledging for a frat/sorority (corpo environments with lots of bloat where individuals are more finicky and how your presence benefits the decision maker on your job weighs more than what you'd overall bring to the company).Either way, it's about joining a team, or a tribe, or a clique, etc, where you will spend 5/7 days of the week working with one another towards on end goal of making more money for the group which you're a part of.
Sorry bro, just an hour ago I saw an ad for a job as a dancing mascot paying about 1,4x as much as my graphic designer job I got with my bachelors and 3 years experience. It's really hard to get a good job in this field.
I won’t to learn how to make good designs for T-shirts and clothes etc but don’t know where to start
>>459810Get into a pederastic-mentor kind of relationship with an anon on here.
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>>459810Practice will make you better, but to be good, it's an entire different thing, that could take decades and there's no guarantee.
>>459810Learn to draw. Not joking.
>>459810Try doing it like this bro
