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How do I Adobe MR. Anon
So I finally broke down and installed/started using Adobe. Am I doing it right?

Image taken from http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/
>> MR. Anon
using adobe illustrator to export .ai files into pngs... it won't let me pick resolution, only ppi... and even then it won't let me export at 1000ppi... what do i do?
>> Anonymous
it's good that youre using shape layers.. but it's very important to zoom out every once in a while to get a subjective view.. determine if you need to tweak the shapes more.. narrow the lines.. that kind of thing.

Personally I keep an old CRT connected to my computer.. I almost never use it, but when I open photoshop I expand the "navigator" thumbnail in the second monitor so the picture i'm working with is as close to the size of a computer monitor as possible.
>> Anonymous
use the pen tool in pshop cs2..

You don't need illustrator.. you can start a new shape layer for each line (and name it accordingly or you'll get lost ; P ) and save it as a PSD..

you can then resize and rasterize it as you please and then save as to preserve the original vector.
>> Anonymous
>>101122

try save for web, no worry about ppi or anything like that

>>101124

that's gonna be a HUEG file.
>> MR. Anon
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>>101124
ok, lets make this a bit more clear... I've never used photoshop in my life, and I only used gimp once or twice to draw stick figures. =P

now how do i take vector graphics and make them 10k pixel wide pngs?
>> MR. Anon
>>101129
tried using "save for web", the program was like "dude, i only do up to 8192 pixels" or something then when i said "sure, i'll settle for that" it was like "dude, wtf, i wasn't built for huge things like that, fuck this shit"
>> Anonymous
>>101130
learn to use photoshop..

it's very important if you want to do this kind of stuff.

understanding layers gets you 80% of the way to understanding photoshop.
>> Anonymous
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>>101129
yep.. the raw PSD vector for this one was about 105 meg.

With today's cost of storage though it's trivial.
>> Anonymous
>>101131

I see what you mean. The thing about vector is that you can rescale everything, as in like photoshop. If you click an object using the selection tool, you'll notice a box surrounding the object, and you can drag it up to whatever size you want. from 10x10pixel to 10000 if you so desire. Just remember to select every object (if you lock any layers, unlock them), turn anything that is not an object (text and lines) and convert them to outlines, and hold the shift key while dragging to keep the proportion. After you blow it up, go to file, and export, choose png.

Same thing in photoshop, except you have to go to edit, transform, scale and go from there.

>>101136

even with 500gb HDD, it'll still more take time to load something that is 105mb against something that is like 2mb.
>> Anonymous
>>101139
seriously.. in the time necessary to make a good vector.. is load time really that significant?

that's like saying the time to walk across the parking lot of a large apartment complex is just too long .. when youre driving from atlanta to detroit.
>> MR. Anon
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>>101134
Wow, that was useless
>>101139
Thanks for the help =D
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hrm, I'm starting to like photoshop 7.0 more than CS2...
>> Anonymous
>>101168
ok fine, ignore honest advice from someone self-taught and don't improve your vectoring style..

become the next xian pu of 4chan
>> Anonymous
>>101192
>learn to use photoshop..
This does not qualify as quality advice in any sense, much less to a person asking how to use one function of a different program.

>it's very important if you want to do this kind of stuff.

Obviously you do not have the capacity to understand why this is not remotely correct.

>understanding layers gets you 80% of the way to understanding photoshop.

Understanding layers is to photoshop as saving the file is to computer use. It does not translate to all-powerful command of a system as you suggest.

This is where you shut up and go away.
>> Anonymous
Scaling vectors, you can also use Photoshop's "Image Size" functionality. It resizes the layers effortlessly, I've used it several times to blow up my finished 3000-pixel wide vectors to the maximum of 10000 pixels allowed here.
>> Anonymous
>>101154

from a real world stand point, yes. Seldom projects are done by one person, and as a group effort, it's a lot easier to send a 2-3mb file over email than to have the rest of the group go d/l a 100mb file from the company's ftp. Besides, smaller the file, less likely it'll take up more RAM and cause slow down on your computer.

>>101192

lol, everyone walks their own path, as long as they don't follow Xian pu's. Use Illustrator, photoshop, whatever you think it's the easiest.
>> Anonymous
seems to be doing it right :3
fond this desperate plee in /r
http://cgi.4chan.org/r/res/682297.html
dont know if hes looking for higher res or a vector...
>> Anonymous
>>101217
I do my projects alone.. and 100 meg doesnt take long to send on a modern broadband connection..

megaupload or gigashare anyone?
>> Anonymous
>>101122
Save it with illustrator as a .eps, open it with photoshop and you can choose the image size and dpi.
>> Anonymous
I wish I had illustrator...
>> Anonymous
>>101354
Spoiler: bittorrent is you friend
>> Anonymous
I need to have good vector tools -.-
>> Anonymous
>>101136
If it's so huge why does it look so _shitty_? Or did you somehow upload the version with all layers but the background turned off? Because it sure looks to me like a bicubic upsize with a few jap characters slapped on.
>> Anonymous
>>101403
Maybe the original was also a backgroundless thing with a few jap characters slapped on?
>> MR. Anon
>>101403
if i remember this person correctly, he ADDED IN THE ARTIFACTS AFTER VECTORING IT!!! ... apparently he was so used to seeing the artifacts that he though vectors look "too crisp"

... think how some people feel that records are "warm" ... it's probably something like that
>> Anonymous
Are there any good tutorials for vectoring images in this manner? I'm pretty comfortable with both Illustrator and Photoshop, but would like an idea of good process when it comes to this kind of work.

Oh, and bump. Nice Negima vectors there. The Sakurako one is impressive.
>> Anonymous
>>101314

If I save mine as an eps out of illustrator and open/resize in photoshop, it will only let me save as a jpg, tiff, or some adobe formats. What am I doing wrong?
>> Anonymous
>>101595

Photoshop can not save .eps (vector) only import and save as .jpg, .tif, .bmp (raster).
>> Anonymous
>>101620

My goal is to save as large png, what is the best way to do that then?
>> Anonymous
>>101865
You're sre it's not in the list anywhere? You should be in 8-bit RGB mode, but even in 16-bit and/or greyscale you can save PNG. You only can't in Lab or CMYK modes, but there's no reason you should be using those for this.

If you just can't get it to work (???) you can try saving as tiff and loading it into xnview or irfanview, saving to png from there.
>> Anonymous
>>101865

Doesn't Illustrator have a "Save for Web" function like Photoshop that will let you rasterize your document to a png of arbitrary size?

Yes?

Well there you have it.
>> Anonymous
You're using CMYK mode in Illustrator, or opening it in CMYK mode in Photoshop. Just convert it to RGB, then you can save PNG.
>> MR. Anon
>>101887
when i used it, the program told me that "save for web" won't allow that resoultion
>> Anonymous
>>101912

I dunno about Illustrator, but Photoshop will bitch if you try to Save for Web a file that's excessively large. However it will, in my experience, function correctly. At least if you have a reasonably powerful computer.