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Being in the screenprinting industry for t-shirts, I like Freehand over Illustrator. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Illustrator hater, I have to keep up and use both programs, I ju…

That's funny, I just switched to Illustrator. I was just frustrated by the layers management in Freehand. I may go back to Freehand for 10 in OS X. But somehow I prefer Adobe all o…

I gotta admit that is is a bit of a pain to keep switching back to that weird little pointer to make the handles appear in Illustrator. Freehand has the upper "hand" there for sure…

I originally learned illustration software with Freehand several years ago. Since that time I have switched to Illustrator. The main reason I switched was that I was having trouble…

I like Illustrator... I think most people will tend to like and use the program they "grew up with." I also use both Freehand and Illustrator and will freely admit that each prog…

Oh well.......I'm not sure what your problem in color seps is, I've been doing spot color seps from Freehand since it was Aldus and have never had a problem printing out my films. …

I currently have Adobe Photodeluxe 2.0. Adobe offers a relatively cheap upgrade to either Photoshop LE or Photoshop Elements (Essentials?). I am wondering what the differences we…

I am also intending to upgrade from PhotoDeluxe. Based solely on what I've read, it's my understanding that LE is based on Photoshop 5, whereas Elements is based on Photoshop 6. It…

Quote: Originally posted by zigzag: It's also my understanding that LE didn't offer any hand-holding and had a steep learning curve, whereas Elements provides more hand-…

The handholding stuff isn't in your face like PhotoDeluxe - it's there if you need it - I think it's just a little on-line manual type of thing that sits up in a window if you want…

Quote: Originally posted by screamingFit: One thing that is bonus is the panoramic stitching abilities. Other than Apple's old (but still usefull) QTVR, there's nothing…

I probably mispoke. Elements doesn't do QTVR, it just does photostitching - but this is what I use QTVR for anyway. Sorry if what I said was misleading. And, this feature is not…

FWIW, I just read two extremely favorable reviews of Elements in Shutterbug and eDigital Photo magazines. Judging from the reviews, the hand-holding features are only there if you …

I thought I would resurrect this thread but the original was getting a bit long. To start us off again, here is/are a curves tip or three. Adjust Contrast with Curves Adjust Brig…

I get my PS tips in the mail, almost daily. Don't know if they're usefull for anybody here, but I can post some. 1 Create high contrast grayscale imagery in Photoshop Open an RGB …

Preview the color of your text Because you have to highlight your text in order to change its color, it's difficult to view your results until after the fact. To get around this, …

I just signed up at www.actionxchange.com ( has over 1000 PS actions to download). Does anybody know it, is it any good? Looks kinda interesting.

Hi I really need a cartoonish looking spider web graphic and I really suck at drawing so does anyone know where I can get one from, seen one anywhere??

Try http://www.artville.com/ and search for "spider web." Robert

Thanks, checked it out and there wasn't really anything good, anybody else know??

Well, a lot of stock photo companies (like PhotoDisc) sell stock illustrations, too ... so they're probably a good place to start. Good luck! Robert

moved to graphics/illustration. click thru to find it.

I think there is a spider symbol in the Webdings font.

I'm trying to import some small images to Illustrator to use, but the problem is it places this huge selection box or something around the pasted-in image and it won't let me raste…