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I first learned graphics production the analog way back in the 1980's. That made it a bit easier diving into very early (and very primitive) versions of CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator over 30 years ago. Lots of terms in the applications were already familiar. So many years and version releases...

One reason Illustrator files tend to be larger is they embed a bunch of PDF data by default. Most Illustrator-generated AI files can be opened and viewed in Adobe Reader (unless defaults are changed). Depending on the document's raster effects resolution settings certain "live" effects like drop...

I've seen the syndrome a few times where a long time customer is suddenly getting signs from elsewhere. The other day a young lady called up asking for their hardware store logo. I've sent these folks copies of their logo before, but it's pretty common for customers to lose art files. Anyway, I...

The geometric sans font used in the attached image looks familiar, but I can't seem to ID it. I'm pretty sure it's a free font, probably somewhere in the giant pile of sans fonts at DaFont or something like that. Thanks in advance for any help.

Overprints have their place in actual process printing, where multiple ink plates are being produced. The basics of overprinting is you'll print one ink color over the top of another ink color without the overprinted object knocking a hole through the objects underneath it. Overprinting is in a...

OpenGL is totally irrelevant to what I was talking about. I was talking about how various tools behave in either application and the keyboard shortcuts associated with them. OpenGL doesn't have anything to do with that. The things I said about CorelDRAW having better object aligning &...

"Faster" is a relative term. It really depends on what tasks you're doing within CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator. Neither application is "perfect" and both have their own unique strengths. I prefer doing a lot of technical drawing tasks within CorelDRAW. One reason is its object...

New car dealerships do have permission to use brand artwork related to the make of vehicles they sell. But they have to follow brand guidelines on anything produced, even if it's just a throw-away banner for some fund-raising event. Really it's best to have the brand guidelines of a vehicle make...

I hadn't gone quite that far, but the word "Brittish" in the text caught my eye. I could immediately tell the main block of copy was Snell and not hand written.

We received one of those today. It seems pretty nice. I'm not sure where in the shop we'll install it. The top and bottom portions of the image look pretty authentic, but the central block of text was re-written in what looks like the Snell Roundhand typeface.

There is a new music video for the song Carnavoyeur by Queens of the Stone Age. The video has all the lyrics spelled out in it (which seems oddly literal, but okay). I can't figure out what typeface was used for the lettering. It does seem similar to the the lettering on their album Songs for...

The typeface used in the "Magic" letters looks familiar, but I'm not having any luck finding a match for it. I suspect the script letters have also been thickened up a bit with a rounded contour/path offset effect. The same goes for the red letters to the right. Those look like they started out...

At my workplace we never guarantee exact matches of Pantone spot colors. Reasonably close, but not exact is about as good as it gets with any stock vinyl colors and intermix paint formulas. Digital printing is even more limited. You might be able to hit the same hue, but not the same color...

I'm having trouble identifying the two typefaces used in the attached sample. The "Iglesia" letters look like some odd Trajan-inspired thing. The typeface in the second line of lettering looks familiar, but I'm having no luck feeding it into filters like What the Font. That's very likely due to...

Ike Turner was nothing without Tina. She sure as hell proved it too. Tina Turner was brave enough to leave that cheating, drug-addled wife beater with nothing more than a little pocket change. A couple or so years later she was a far bigger deal than Ike ever was. Tina Turner was a pretty good...

Given the casino is operated by MGM Resorts, I'd bet the cursive lettering in the Beau Rivage brand is custom drawn/inked. As I said earlier there's bound to be some corporate PDFs online containing vector copies of the logo. But there's probably also a corporate branding guide too. If I was...

It definitely looks hand drawn. A lot of these casinos do a lot of advertising put a fair amount of PDFs online. You might be able to luck out and find a PDF containing a vector logo that can be extracted.

Whenever I have to take a color image and "convert" it to black and white I prefer using other approaches rather than simply throwing away 2 or 3 of the color channels to end up with an 8-bit grayscale image. Blacks will not print deep black from a simple grayscale image. A visually black and...

The other day I was working on a sponsor banner for a fund-raising event. I had to re-create a couple of "logos" from poor quality JPEG sources. One of them was for a local construction company. I had their low-res logo locked down on one layer and was building clean vector shapes on top of it...

We use Hanley LED products a good bit. I think the Kestrel units work pretty well. We buy a lot of their Wingspan modules too.