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 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 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.

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.

Sorry, not familiar with your problem.Meaning never encountered it. How big are the files you want to place? And what exactly do you want to rasterize, a combination of pics and ve…

Quote: Originally posted by l'ignorante: <STRONG>Sorry, not familiar with your problem.Meaning never encountered it. How big are the files you want to place? And w…

Hi; The box around the image is Illustrator showing you the entire image size of the pict file, not just the colored part. For example, if you drew a "smiley face" like the smil…

Quote: Originally posted by mollicat: <STRONG>Hi; The box around the image is Illustrator showing you the entire image size of the pict file, not just the color…

The other option is to run your files you want to place through Streamline (a very handy and pretty cheap program), and turn them in to vector art, then just copy and paste that in…

That's a really subjective question. What I tend to do is convert to CMYK, then save that as a copy, and open the original & compare them side by side. If photoshop has dulled…

Thanks a lot Chris, I'd never thought to compare them side by side as such. As regards the ink prefs - I've never touched it. There has always been a large element of chance in my …

Here's a couple-- I've got a better more color mgmt.-specific tutorial bookmarked at home. I'll post it later. I think these folks are mainly trying to sell books and seminars by …

Here's a curious site which I only discovered recently, sounds a bit too good to be true, I haven't tried them out yet but.. http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1028 …

This is the the best tutorial on color management I've seen. The guy's website goes on for days. This one tutorial is ten pages long, and he's got several more on other subjects.…