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Use the Envelope dialog to apply an arc style envelope effect to the "KNIGHTS" letters. When you're happy with the results, go to the arrange menu and hit "convert to curves" to finalize the effect. Use the Add Perspective effect to tilt back the letters. Use Interactive Extrude tool to make...

It's a good thing CorelDRAW has had its auto-save feature for a very long time. Certain versions were a little more crash-prone than others. Even with auto-save working it's only going to give you progress up to that last auto-save. But that's better than having to re-start from scratch. I...

Most printers will take anything a customer provides even if it makes the end result look laughably horrible. I'll even go so far as to say many sign companies will do exactly the very same thing. I've had lots of belly laughs looking at vehicle wraps featuring low res JPEG art with pixels big...

The image in the original post is not something I would even call a "logo." It's graphics wrapped around a painted illustration. That sort of thing does not lend itself to being reproduced in small sizes, like in a little 1 column black and white newspaper ad. I agree with the comments of...

Here's the original Adobe Blog post and Creative Cloud: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/adobe-creative-cloud-and-adobe-creative-suite-new-choices-for-customers.html It says the new pricing will be $49.99 per month for individuals and $69.99 per month per seat for work groups...

Has anyone here gone to Adobe's web site to see what the real prices are for creative suite subscriptions. They're freaking sky high. The $49.99 per month for 1 year subscription price mentioned in the C|Net article about Scott Kelly's open letter applies only to Photoshop Extended. Prices are...

Most Adobe customer service reps are really telemarketers in India. You have to have a particularly advanced problem to get an American on the phone. That's another thing that really gets my temper flaring about these price gouging schemes. Ultimately it's all about making the quarterly report...

I really hope Adobe isn't serious about this crazy subscription pricing scheme. They really are asking for a nasty backlash. I'm pretty angry about this stuff since graphics software upgrade prices have been getting pretty ridiculous in recent years. Back in the 1990s it didn't matter what...

I have no way of knowing if Illustrator "CS6" will feature the scrubby zoom found in the latest version of Photoshop. It would be a cool feature to add. You might want to request it in Adobe's Illustrator forum. I'm not sure if any performance problems could crop up over the different ways...

It looks a little "meh" to me. If I was going after that sort of look I'd rather set some type in Didot and be done with it. The extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes doesn't make it very useful at all for signs and other forms of outdoor advertising. The type would have to be...

It looks like Adobe Garamond Pro Bold, with an outline/path offset effect applied to it to make it more bold. And it is artificially stretched.

All of the technical things that people hate about Flash will not disappear with HTML5. The same fundamental issues remain. In terms of performance, SVG and Canvas elements can bog down a computer every bit as bad as Flash. Designers must be careful about what they do in creating those...

I don't really like the Contour and Convert Outline to Object effects in CorelDRAW. The results can be pretty buggy when the artwork is taken into other programs like Adobe Illustrator or Flexi. Sometimes certain curved points will import as straight lines or other strange stuff. I prefer the...

When sending certain Illustrator files to other companies for outsourced work, such as grand format printed billboard faces, I'll often have some items locked and made invisible on other layers, like the visible opening border. I make sure to clearly label every layer and let them know about the...

I've been using Adobe Photoshop for nearly 20 years. I have quite a collection of software discs. While the application has lots of glitzy bells and whistles I always tell people new to the using the program to first learn the basics. Much of that revolves around really knowing how channels...

Like Apple, Microsoft is cooking up non-standard things to make Internet Explorer look like it properly supports HTML5 when it really does not. http://html5test.com/ is a better indicator of how desktop web browsers and portable devices comply with the HTML5 spec. Internet Explorer 9 gets a...

I'm a graphic designer, not a programmer. I really HATE coding. It sucks. If I had to do a bunch of hand coding to get anything done in Illustrator or Photoshop I literally would go postal, drive out to California and brutalize some software developers. Not everything on the web revolves...

Snore. Yeah, Adobe is going to discontinue further development of Flash. But that doesn't mean Flash is dead -certainly not on desktop computers. There's two basic problems with completely eliminating Flash. 1. HTML 5 is a GIANT MESS right now. Browser support on both desktop computers...

This looks familiar, but I can't quite place where I may have seen it before. Were the "racing" letters extracted from a larger, more complex piece of artwork? I'm thinking the lettering may be custom and not something from a digital typeface.

It's Helvetica Extra Compressed. And then artificially stretched.