Archive for category Graphic arts

How to tile a print using Adobe’s Creative Suite (CS5)

Posted by admin in Graphic arts on August 2nd, 2010

Do you need to print an oversized graphic document onto multiple sheets of paper (that your printer can handle) so you can then assemble/[Sello]tape/mount an accurate large format version?

This is a very simple task but strangely difficult to find an answer for. It’s not readily possible with any of the main Adobe CS5 (design premium) apps but Adobe Acrobat Pro can do it without breaking a sweat. Just print the document: if it’s too big for your printer then you’ll be able to select “Tile all Pages” in the Page Scaling pop-up menu. The options are quite limted but at least you can have crop marks and page information printed on each sheet (a definite plus).

To get decent trim/bleed settings I’d go to Illustrator and set up multiple accurately aligned artboards (multiple artboards a feature of Illustrator since CS4) and print them.

Anyway now I can get on with printing large format [proofs and "art" prints] without having to go to the next town…

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DIY Canon macro lens: howto video…

Posted by admin in Photography on June 28th, 2010

Lovely eight minute video – very likely shot on a Canon 5D mkII. How to convert a stock kit lens into a macro. This is a stellar bit of cottage industry engineering:

via Gadget Lab

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Neurologist

Posted by admin in Drawings, Graphic arts on April 13th, 2010

“MND research is not so different from the Apollo Program and our ‘one small step’ will be taken too.”

Dr Martin Turner, Neurologist. By Patrick Joyce.

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Flickr fool

Posted by admin in Photography on May 9th, 2009

P[hotographic w]ork flow

Flickr. Been using it for years – with periodic hiatus[es] – always worried about losing pictures to sneaky internet thievery – and at the same time wondering how to keep a proper archive of my photos.

Restricted access to Flickr

Well – I can use Flickr without worrying about the first point. Just found out that I can select who from my contacts or the whole universe has access to the see all sizes/download this picture option.

I’d looked for this feature before – last time must have been at least year ago – without finding it. I guess it may be a “new” feature – or just a very well hidden one – as there were so many photographers’ photostreams that I had download rights too.

Time to backup

So now – slowly does it I can backup my entire photographic history to Flickr and get decent off-site cloud based backups. Delicious.

All that’s missing now is to find a plug-in for Bridge/Lightroom/Aperture that will sync changes in my master archive with the Flickr one…

p*orkflow anyone?

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**Kirk Shelton, skate_freak_superstar

Posted by admin in Existence, Graphic arts on February 24th, 2009

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I love dafont.com. Looking for a missing font and finding that on the home page. For some things there’s Mastercard.

If that’s not enough to whet your wotsit – have a look at these classy artefacts:

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Go on…

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A digital compact to get excited about?

Posted by admin in Photography on February 22nd, 2009

The best [and only!] wide-angle photographer’s compact to come to market in ten years.

Or so it seems. There have been many quality compacts produced since digital imaging came of age. You know those arrogant/insecure youths stutting about showing off their CCDs, talking the talk and trying to walk the walk. Er, I digress. Of these wonders the Canon G series (currently the G10) has been the most notable in terms of being photographer friendly. Until now because because to this photographer light should not be squeezed: nothing has come near the gorgeously wide-angle and fabulously bright optics of the new(-ish) Panasonic Lumix LX3. And those optics are wrapped in a small and functional form. Am I gushing? Oh dear…

f2.0-2.8, 24-60mm

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How much?

Somewhere around 450 euros. Not bad.

Who needs an SLR? With this kind of glass – I could lose about two kilos from my camera bag. Let me rephrase: I could lose my two kilo travelling camera bag.

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Twitter…

Posted by admin in Amusement, Drawings on October 27th, 2008

…or xkcd is inspired today

I guess a link to explain Burma Shave is necessary. Tom Waits made me wonder with his song.

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