#Design Dojo

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pastel rain
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In today's Photoshop tutorial I'm going to take you through the process of creating this melting liquid RGB text effect with somewhat of a retro 80s aesthetic with its vibrant colours and grainy texturing. This effect is ideal for creating poster art or an album cover design with a retro-futuristic style. We'll use a couple of simple tools withi...

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this one similar as well, but it liquifies and does funky colors

soft sun
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It's so annyoing that I can't tell what's AI generated or not anymore buit I'm willing to bet that that m4 is ai generated

soft sun
pastel rain
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idk how good AI is at specific car models

soft sun
pastel rain
soft sun
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I got something

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Not too bad but I don't like it very much I feel like it's kinda in the same style as the other ones

soft sun
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What do you think?

pastel rain
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looking good

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the orange smoke i guess you kind a put there as a burnout

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it looks off angle and does not fit too well

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other then that

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bit too tight with the logo around the edges

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gotta give it some breathing room

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i would shrink the logo down to equal the width of the "570S" text

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other than that good deal

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maybe add a black > transparent gradient on the bottom

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fade some of that road out

soft sun
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I agree with all you said lol but I already moved on to another design

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Which I find pretty cool

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This is getting addicting

slow badger
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Middle bottom image is a bit low contrast and sticks out weirdly from the other images

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kinda blends into the background

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Odd one

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Are the photos all yours?

soft sun
pastel rain
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ouu @cedar rapids

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i like this new indesign cover

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looks like 2025 versions are rolling out for CC

cedar rapids
# pastel rain

I think this has been rolling out for a week or so now…?

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Had it happen for Media Encoder.

pastel rain
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yeee

chrome socket
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oh crap I need to read the developers posts for this update for my tools 😅

obsidian echo
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ok, does this look decent besides missing the "v"? be gentle

pastel rain
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how did you make this?

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and how will it be shared

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printed? digital? etc

pastel rain
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one thing i can reccomend is design is to keep the text to a minimum if possible and give it some breathing room

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bot the key things pop out well

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weekend job

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17 an hour

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first come first server

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honestly you could drop the rest other then the contact info

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and put a call to action > like visit our website, or call to learn more

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something along those lines

chrome socket
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one massive thing is that I dont even know what to read first

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theres no flow

pastel rain
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i just really want to know what was used to make it

chrome socket
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theres a design principle called K.I.S.S
stands for Keep It Simple Stupid

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most cases a poster like this benifits from being simple rather then layout all of the details. you can keep all the main points, but include additional info as fine print at the bottom

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another thing is flow, this starts from the top and then goes to the right, but then theres text on the left which I feel should be at the very end

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aswell as cutting off an image

pastel rain
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well, hopefully adam is back to respond Bliss

chrome socket
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Yee

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also another point is that a call to action should be highlighted, or pointed out a little more prominantly

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which you also pointed out 😅

pastel rain
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pepenodders , i'd replace the "first come first server" with the CTA

chrome socket
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Should go:
Flexible Weekend Job
$17/Hour
<<Short Detail>>
First Come, First Serve
CTA
<<Fine Print Details>>

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I wouldn't put "Easy Money" that attracts the wrong kind of people

pastel rain
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mm true, did not think of that

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you'll get a lot of lazys

chrome socket
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oh and another small thing, keep it to 2 fonts

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have a heading font, and a sub text font
that sub text font can use different weights whilst the heading font is your bold text

pastel rain
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will adam respond? will adam read this? find out next on dragon ball Z

chrome socket
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Will Tom ever shut up about design?
find that out on the next episode of "How I met your Graphic Designer"

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I soo, need to fix my indesign script for ID 2025 😢

pastel rain
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we're on the same page tho

pastel rain
soft sun
pastel rain
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yes they do

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thats why i wanna know what he used

soft sun
pastel rain
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mmm

soft sun
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I finally did another photoshoot

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With a ferrari 488 spyder this time

pastel rain
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prty cool

soft sun
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I had this type of idea

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But I don't know how to execute it

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I tried stuff

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But nothing seems to match

pastel rain
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that yellow is a lot

soft sun
pastel rain
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and i'd drop the graphic on the bottom

soft sun
pastel rain
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straighten your pic as well, leaning to the right rn

soft sun
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I tried putting it on like a donut shape on the graphic on the bottom it looked awful

pastel rain
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thats good tho

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you get more practice that way

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umm

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well at this point it goes back to doing some research

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one thing you can do, if you have exausted car advertising / design

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is go look at shoes

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and what they do

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lot of running/basketball/nike/adidas will have cool ads

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other brands as well

soft sun
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That's a good idea thanks

pastel rain
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so thats worth checking out

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also very crude but

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something like this

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perhaps

soft sun
# pastel rain

I agree that the yellow is a bit too much but Not a fan of the idea of removing it as a whole, although Ireally like the idea of removing the excess green on top

pastel rain
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you could do similar with the yellow

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just a strip

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as thick as the red/green

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or increasing in thickness to the logo

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something like this, more of an arc

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ehh

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thin strip might just be better

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fun to try stuff tho

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do your thing

soft sun
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Looks pretty nice imo

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except the text I'm gonna change the font

pastel rain
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idk how i feel like aboutt the point your making with the red/white/green

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i'd say follow the curve of the logo

soft sun
pastel rain
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i mean this right here

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if thats what you're also talking about

soft sun
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It's not what I was talking about

pastel rain
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i do like your edges

pastel rain
soft sun
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I don't quite get it then 😅

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I should probably remove the white line though

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between the two greens

pastel rain
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yes that

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the top of the logo is curved

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but your line art is pointed

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so i'm saying to curve your lines

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instead of have them come to a point

soft sun
pastel rain
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i think i'm mkaing it more confusing with that graphic KEKL

pastel rain
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ok

soft sun
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I see what you mean though

pastel rain
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i'm not cracy about how that sits there

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really fights with the edge of the green up arrow

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also goes against the oposite curve that the lines create

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2 things you can try

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  • one is bring the logo down to sit above the black and mask out the logo so we see the sky behind id - kinda like a cutout basically. this might be too tight
  • option two is curve the letters the oposite way to follow the contour of the green line
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idk if any of these will look better but wroth a try perhaps

obsidian echo
obsidian echo
obsidian echo
pastel rain
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ahh interesting

pastel rain
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if not GIMP will do the job as well

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a YT tutorial or two

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Canva actually

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will be the best free tool

obsidian echo
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I kinda wanted to submit this yesterday though

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I was debating just screenshoting the text only directly off ms word

obsidian echo
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No. I don't think the high school prints anything

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Maybe they do

pastel rain
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well, if you take our advice and lighten it up that will be good

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and you can do it for free on canva

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otherwise it sounds like you're ready to hand this in

obsidian echo
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I paid $50 for that :)

pastel rain
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tiny text is too tiny

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but looking good

obsidian echo
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I mentioned the text was small in various parts

chrome socket
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This is better but text like the “no experience required” being tilted is just not a good design decision

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Should be under the flexible weekend job

pastel rain
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general advice to working with a designer

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its best to give them the copy of what you want your design to say

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the resolution

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and any key elements you'd like present

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and leave them up to it

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this should take no more then 5 minutes

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micromanaging a designer does not end with good results

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this is how it is PepeLaugh

soft sun
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Curving the other way would make it look weird though imo

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For the text I really had no original ideas so I just stuck with what usually works pepekek

soft sun
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Hmm now there is a big empty space under the logo til the text but I can't add anything there

soft sun
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meh

upbeat leaf
pastel rain
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also dont like the feathered brush on the bottom

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looks very amaturish

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so i'd go for clean bold lines

pastel rain
soft sun
soft sun
soft sun
pastel rain
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only thing i

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i'd say is to done down the red on the main pic a bit

soft sun
soft sun
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Heyy

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I don't know if this is the correct channel for this question

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But how would you go about replacing the sky/ground on a car image?

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On photoshop ofc

pastel rain
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Otherwise, good ol generative fill for the ground

soft sun
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I tried that and...

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Yeahhhhhhh 😅

pastel rain
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just gotta fix the masking on the car

soft sun
pastel rain
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just fix masking here

soft sun
pastel rain
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take screenshot of your workspace

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including layers panel

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and i'll lyk

soft sun
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Also the thing is the sky doesn't look realistic at all

pastel rain
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mmmm ye

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but does it have to?

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it is a real sky

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perspective is just off

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you're gonna click on that mask

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pastel rain
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make sure its selected

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pastel rain
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then using your brush tool, make sure the colors are set to black and white

soft sun
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with a smooth brush

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or paint black mb

pastel rain
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not all the way

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a tiny bit of smoothness

soft sun
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Alright

pastel rain
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like 85 ish hardness

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and just brush over the window

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that should fix it

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if it does not!

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make a mask layer on the folder "sky replacement group"

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and use the same method on that mask

soft sun
slow badger
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hello

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need some helps

restive flint
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hi

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i can perhaps help some

slow badger
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what r ur thoughts

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I'm struggling mostly with like everything idk what the hell im doing I like making lil posters sometimes

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it's the rain

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and everything idk

restive flint
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do you have something youre like trying to make/inspo things?

slow badger
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like an 80s teen flick

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I didn't look at anything to inspire it

pastel rain
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But too much noise I think

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But otherwise you’re on the right track

chrome socket
slow badger
slow badger
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and there is grain as well but not the cool grain

pastel rain
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i need some layout inspo

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testing out a two column layout rn

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perhaps that title for the section is too big Thonk

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but idk. testing out best way to lay out this text heavy doc

restive flint
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the margin between boxes seems small Thonk

pastel rain
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i'll try extending them

chrome socket
pastel rain
chrome socket
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If you have any questions feel free to ask me, I am literally qualified to teach this software 😂

cedar rapids
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Do you not see the guides?

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They’re InDesign colors.

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Who else uses colors like that?

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🤨

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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nah Affinity is great, but I once tried to teach someone indesign, just to find out they were using Affinity Publisher

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which is great and all, and the knowledge is kinda transferable, but its the small things that matter

pastel rain
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i am happy with these pages in particular

chrome socket
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why you viewing this in view seperations mode?

pastel rain
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cuz you can tell where the bleed starts ||i did not know that was a feature PepeLaugh ||

chrome socket
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this looks awesome, though my main concern is what kinda book is this?

pastel rain
chrome socket
pastel rain
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50+

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stapled

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this is the second one i'm making

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i've done one before

chrome socket
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landscape saddle stitched

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is this a left hand page or right hand?

pastel rain
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not sur wym

chrome socket
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when the book is open what side is this page on

pastel rain
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big data will be on the right

chrome socket
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Oh you got facing pages on

pastel rain
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previous one

chrome socket
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ok awesome

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I would highly recommend adding more gutter inbetween the pages for the text

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if that makes sense

pastel rain
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it does

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you think its too tight?

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this is about 85% of the pages

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give or take the graphic

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will also be adding numbers on the button for each page

chrome socket
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sorry, I am being too vocal in the way I am explaining this as It makes sense to a printer but not much to a designer in the way I said it

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so you have an inside margin and an outside margin right?

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inside should be more than the outside

pastel rain
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yes, my printing knowledge stops right after hitting the print button PepeLaugh

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the white here is all inside, and gray is all outside/bleed

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the top is a bit tight perhaps

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i can move it all down

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if thats what you mean

chrome socket
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so when you do CMD + Option + P a window will pop up showing your page size, and margins

pastel rain
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mhm

chrome socket
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oh you're using different shortcut keys

pastel rain
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i'm on windows

chrome socket
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go to edit > page settings

pastel rain
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either way i dont need to worry about printing this

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i will be sending it to a shop and they will take care of it

chrome socket
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no this is not about printing it

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its about the ability to read it without it being sucked into the spine

pastel rain
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mm ok

chrome socket
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sorry, if you do CTRL + Alt + P

pastel rain
chrome socket
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you should get document setup

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Unlink the margins and add more to the inside margin

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I dont know dumb units, I only know proper units

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so if the outside was like 10mm, I would make the inside 13-15mm

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rememeber a book bends

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and when it does, it can make it harder to read

pastel rain
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does not look like its affecting my document

chrome socket
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because it wont

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you have preview unchecked

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and it only moves the guide

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which is a purple outline around your page border

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*and it would only move shape the text boxes to match if you have liquid layout rules applied to it. but thats a clusterfuck to deal with sometimes

pastel rain
pastel rain
chrome socket
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yeah fair. also I would refrain from changing document settings within the properties panel, ever since they added that for some stupid reason it does not let everything else in the file know a setting has changed

pastel rain
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good to know

chrome socket
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so always change page size, bleed and all that from the document settings window

pastel rain
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i understand the issue youre describing with how the inside of the page will bend

chrome socket
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yee

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not a huge issue, but it does show skill 😄

pastel rain
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i'm using a similar ammount of a gutter sice as the picture i sent of the last one

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and it was not an issue in that one

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so no problem here

chrome socket
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yee

pastel rain
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i will leave that setting as is for now

chrome socket
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its more of a problem for perfect bounds really

pastel rain
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if the printer thells me thers a problem and things are obscures i'll do something about it

chrome socket
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I just make it a practice as I work with many books

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I've had people go from saddle stitch to perfect bound in an instant

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like 120+ pages in

pastel rain
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yee, i have to use InDesign once every two years, otherwise i avoid it like the plague PepeLaugh

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hence the meme i made

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been using PS for about 15+ years so i can fly though anything in that

chrome socket
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yeee

pastel rain
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i dont think i'll ever go deeper into print tho, if i do, i'll make sure i have a proper mentor

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so i'm not stumbling through the dark with YT tutorials lighting the way

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apreciate your help tho

pastel rain
pastel rain
cedar rapids
pastel rain
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would you like a .c4d or a .stl perhaps?

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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fucking reduce that. there is no need for that many quads

pastel rain
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Yes I’m aware

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My only goal was realism

soft sun
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Yoo

soft sun
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@pastel rain

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I'm back for more feedback

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I'm pretty sure on the idea but need some feedback on the dimensions of the logos/texts

soft sun
pastel rain
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i will be honest

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this looks like bad screenshots taken from a video and logos put over it PepeLaugh

soft sun
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Well it's gonna be in a carousel with lots of other pictures so

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with stuff like this

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it was supposed to be like for the "speed"

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Any idea how I can make it better?

chrome socket
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That Porsche is having a drink, cute Porsche

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Who’s a good little Porsche!

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You are!!

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<pats porche>

pastel rain
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reviving chat

chrome socket
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no
<takes a gun out and shoots it>

cedar rapids
cedar rapids
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@chrome socket Is there a way to tell Fiery to put a blank separation sheet in the middle of a book somehow?

chrome socket
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This can be weird if you haven’t already imposed, so if you impose it, flatten it, then add pages, it can be easier

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Let me check when I get in today

cedar rapids
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I ended up separating the files and just insert the blank separator sheet manually.

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We're coil binding anyways,

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Thought there'd be an easier way to do it.

chrome socket
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I actually have hot folders setup for a certian client we get exactly for that, we just tell them to add a blank page before each chapter

cedar rapids
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There's like 310 pages and 9 chapters.

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The separation sheets are blank.

chrome socket
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oh you dont have an inline punch?

cedar rapids
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Wait, coil bind -- not hole punch.

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We have an in-line hole puncher.

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Two and Three hole puncher.

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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stupidly robust unit 😂

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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yee

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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but yeah, 2 up a3
punch twice
cut in the middle, saves a stupid amount of time

chrome socket
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and you can kinda trick it to throw more in there aswell 😅

cedar rapids
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I prefer the Canon version of Fiery than Xerox

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Xerox did not give me the g/m2 values. Canon does.

chrome socket
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I've done some sketchy shit with the machine.
I can run the machine with the door open, once I get the last sheet in there, I quickly turn the RCT unit off (unit infront of the plockmatic), and the plockmatic pauses. I print the rest of the sheets off on another printer, cut the Lay edges off, then feed them in whilst its in its error state, turn the gbc back on, and then it just forces the book though, staples it and gets really angry when the book exits the end

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I've managed to force a 75 sheet book though it 😂

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with like all the distance settings set to like -40 at the end

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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yes

pastel rain
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woosh

daring cave
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thoughts? how can i make this look better

pastel rain
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this is prty good already

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one thing is your left edge

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honestly its not too noticible

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but line up the left side of all your text

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i get why youre doing it the way youre doing it

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but i think i'd move in the bottom text & logos a bit to the right

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bacckground image is nice

daring cave
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ah so its even

pastel rain
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yes

daring cave
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i didnt notice that

pastel rain
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second thing, the background image

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just move it down a bit

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so that his head is not so close to the edge of the photo

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/graphic

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otherwise youre cookin

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whats on the top right corner?

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that your logo or something?

daring cave
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ye

pastel rain
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hmmmmm

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it is good

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but its not something i've really seen before

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if you did this design just for fun

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totally fine, keep it there

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but if its for a peyed client, i would def remove it

daring cave
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nah its for my schools account and i just always credit my account with it

pastel rain
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fair enough

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its not too intrusive

daring cave
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i feel like i need to add smthn in the top right tho

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feels like a big blank space

pastel rain
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i know exactly what you mean

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but here's the thing

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empty space is good

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it gives the viewer somewhere to rest their eye

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if all of it is crazy buisy large typeface and crowded, they wont wanna look at it

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this is balanced right now

daring cave
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thats true

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and it kinda shows off the background a bit

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so people acc see it

pastel rain
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i'd say you can simplify it more, but get in the habbit of getting comfortable with empty space

mental gate
pastel rain
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whats your goal

mental gate
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a decent looking poster for her

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she wanted one for her office

pastel rain
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interesting

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is 602 the district or the number?

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to call emergency

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also the 3rd and the largest pic seems the coolest

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question two

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why blue?

mental gate
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Melbourne 602 is her callsign

pastel rain
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ok

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- i'm gethering some referance material

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ok

mental gate
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only other poster ive done lol

pastel rain
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mmmmmmmmmmmmm

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allrite

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ok. #1 thing both about photography and graphic design is composition

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there's not much out there about cop posters, but there is a top of referance material if you look into army marketing, ads and promo stuff

pastel rain
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there we are obviously missing a bike/vehicle

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but take inspiration from the composition

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where is the text placed? does it need to take up a huge part of the screen/poster? does the msg come across? does she look cool?

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you could go with this kind of a style. use her sitting on a bike as a silhoettee, and then double expose the city she patrols

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that could be cool

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and keep the text small

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602 is not that important, and we can see it, it does not need to take up 1/3 or the entire thing

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even if it is important, still does not need to take up the space its taking up

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composition option 3

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text on the bottom, maybe the street her bike is on

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in the image you have up front

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or like i said, the 3rd image you have in the back, she looks the best in that

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i'd lead with that as the hero image

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and then place copies of her doing other stuff left and right

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are you able to visualise what i'm saying? or does it not make sense - and its ok if it does not

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i just want to know where you stand

pastel rain
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yes, but also stop making everything giant

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having empty space is ok

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empty space gives the viewer somewhere to rest their eyes

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if its all busy, you'll instinctivly want to look away

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nothing for your eyes to go to

mental gate
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I think I've learnt more in the last 5 minutes than 3 hours

pastel rain
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i'm glad

mental gate
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That looks way better, thank you so much bro

pastel rain
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personally i'd also drop the blue/white gradient youre using as your background, and use a background that was part of the city. you can still put a blue gradient hue mask over it

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or whatever youre using

mental gate
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I really like it as is

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Like I've spent three hours trying to get it decent

pastel rain
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make a backup point

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i'd do file > save > poster v2 and fuck around

mental gate
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I think I will do that tomorrow, it's a quarter to 1 in the morning lol

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Thanks for your help tho

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I may potentially pester you again at some point

pastel rain
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yah thats fine, good to look at it with fresh eyes another time

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gn

mental gate
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Gn good sir

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So much better 🥲

pastel rain
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good progress

mental gate
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Ty

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Now to Windows + X

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U U

mental gate
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@pastel rain Does it work?

pastel rain
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good mornin

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i'm still not a fan of the gradient

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and her in the bacground being different sizes/elevations

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send the psd through if you feelin like it

mental gate
pastel rain
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lmao

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if its a look you want thats fine

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alr i'm kinda busy now but i'll give you a version at some point

pastel rain
# mental gate

but yes, just want you to be aware of when where and why gradients were popular

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its also just a easy thing to do as a beginer that seems to look good with little effort

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often times it kinda comes of.... mmmmmmm

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idk if tacky is the right word

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but something like that

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i love gradients too, but now a days you wanna go subtle

chrome socket
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I only use gradients if it serves a purpose

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like here

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2 reasons, for contrast for the text. and the fact that this is printing huge and the background image is at this point low effective dpi

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also, my god what an annoying thing to design to, windmill needs to be that low because of things in the way looking from a distance

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these guys had awesome muffins tho, that office was nice

cedar rapids
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Is that gonna be a problem?

pastel rain
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its just old if you just slap a good ol gradient left to right

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and the two colors you use are like yellow and orange

chrome socket
pastel rain
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by the graphic design court

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you are fired

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bannished to the vaporwave lands

pastel rain
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somthing like this

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if you wanna keep the blue

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not happy about the text on the bottom

mental gate
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Holy moly

pastel rain
mental gate
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Looks dope for like a recruiting poster

pastel rain
mental gate
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🤣

pastel rain
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this is why i was telling you use a background tho

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will look better then a normal bg

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cba PepeLaugh

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layers are a mess and unnameed

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i put your stuff under the "og" folder

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mine is the other folder

mental gate
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Ill keep it in mind

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And shall continue learning

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Arkoun Chraen

pastel rain
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good, feel free to ask questions

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one thing that was odd to me was that i thought you had use the liquid tool here

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it was just a bad mask, you cut off part of the bike windshield

ancient hull
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i call this one:

Lasha and the Georgian Mountains

pastel rain
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true masterpiece

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thank you

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i love it

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i might print this out

ancient hull
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put it on your fridge in high quality print

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and send me photo

pastel rain
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PepeLaugh i just might do that

pastel rain
daring cave
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hi

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thoughts? i feel like somethings off

chrome socket
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so you do photography, videography and graphic?

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oh whats the design for?

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Open Hire For?

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the layering is cool tho, I do like how the background is done

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everything else, makes me think I dont know how to read

daring cave
pastel rain
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the basketball kid is also underexposed

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idk about that foresty background

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personally i'd go for this style, collage all the sports people in this kind of way

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slap some text one there to do your ads

daring cave
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ok

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so should just restart?

pastel rain
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up to you

cedar rapids
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Just sharing this -- featured this on my new packaging for my prints a few weeks ago:

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School now wants to be printed as a poster and hang a few around the campus.

pastel rain
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hell yah

chrome socket
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😮

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Me and my fancy ass templates
the safe first warning auto removes when unembedding links, which then reveals the green warning underneath

cedar rapids
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Black or white background?

pastel rain
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mmm

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i like the black

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but i reccomend trying off white & dark gray as well

chrome socket
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white would print better

cedar rapids
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@chrome socket finally printing the envelopes in time for next school year.

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
cedar rapids
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My apologies.

pastel rain
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oh fuck me sideways

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this is great

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credit thing is annoying

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but bleed extensions Bliss

chrome socket
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@cedar rapids
took them more than a decade 😂

cedar rapids
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@chrome socket see my question above.

pastel rain
pastel rain
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got a big ol 12 page thing to put together

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working for a company that only wants 1 style sucks

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my boss asked me to do it in a different style anyway

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but shrug

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gonna do a A B test anyway

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one replicating what the main marketing office does

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one unique

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and waste my time

pastel rain
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i'm basically drag and dropping assets

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but once again

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theres too much fucking copy ToadRage

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thank you for coming to my rant ted talk happ

cedar rapids
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@pastel rain @chrome socket Is it just me or does Gmail deliberately remove all password protection for a PDF file that has password encryption on it so that they can't print it?

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I just found this out when I was testing it out.

pastel rain
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sounds odd

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not sure

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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there is a tool, an ancient tool for windows that just removes passwords

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I forget the name

chrome socket
cedar rapids
cedar rapids
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@chrome socket @pastel rain any of you guys experience any weird slowdowns with InDesign lately? Not even with the latest update.

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It's slow on Windows, but not terribly slow on either MacBook or Mac.

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MacOS usually launches instantly.

chrome socket
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I don't use the latest update. they borked the access for network volumes via scripts

cedar rapids
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I downgraded, remember?

chrome socket
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are you using my scripts?

cedar rapids
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Like starting up the program.

chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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It’s InDesign, sometimes it takes a bit to load

pastel rain
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Yah it was being buggy for me this week

chrome socket
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ugh, I just spent like an hour and a half trying to troubleshoot a fiery spot color problem, just to restart the machine and fiery, for it all to work normally again..

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thx fiery

cedar rapids
daring cave
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thoughts?

cedar rapids
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@chrome socket am fucked, it actually is iOS 26

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I know I wont like the Finder's design in MacOS 26

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but apple are pretty good at refining their designs over time

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so I have no sweat

cedar rapids
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Buggy OS, innit?

chrome socket
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not really

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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I mean, theres a reason why I refuse to use Windows as a productivity OS

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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not a me thing

cedar rapids
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Which is why native lighting consoles and audio consoles are solely Windows and not Mac, for the sake of stability and reliability.

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MA Lighting has been real buggy on MacOS.

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ShowKontrol and Resolume are the only two MacOS compatible programs that are stable.

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Other than that, most of it is buggy or just not worth the headache.

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You know?

cedar rapids
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Read my message

chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I dont do that stuff

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

cedar rapids
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Although Premiere is kinda buggy on MacOS.

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But other programs run like butter.

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Could it be an optimization issue?

chrome socket
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yup

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well...

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yes

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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Never really had a problem with AE on MacOS

cedar rapids
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All the graphic, publishing and photography related apps run so well on Mac — but video and audio production.

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Which is so strange.

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Cause PR, AE, and AU run like nothing’s taking a toll on my Windows machine?

chrome socket
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its nice that InDesign has gotten GPU support for windows now.. only took them like 20 years

cedar rapids
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Which doesn’t make sense?

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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all of my scripts run stupidly fast on Windows

cedar rapids
cedar rapids
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It’s annoying when I actually want to mainstream all my workflow within Mac, yet I’m dealing with such issues.

chrome socket
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most of my workflows work perfectly with MacOS, but thats because I build with MacOS. applescript and so on

cedar rapids
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Too slow to understand this detailed statement.

chrome socket
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MacOS comes built in with automation software and its own scripting language.
yes you can do this with windows, but MacOS has it on a deeper level

chrome socket
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Apple thingy make work go brrrr

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me use tool, me make thing

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and thing works

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then it make me happy

cedar rapids
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@chrome socket looking for an inexpensive desktop color laser printer, what would you recommend?

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I just need it for the sake of printing packing slips with previews of the photos printed out.

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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Brothers aint bad

cedar rapids
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Just looking for a color option without having to get into inkjet due to the costly expenses.

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Literally would only use inkjet solely for photos.

chrome socket
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lol, me just adding menus in context menus now 😂

chrome socket
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Also!
on todays episode of Tom finds a silly indesign scripting quirk

pastel rain
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hey @chrome socket

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for digitally displaying it, does this give you a feel of a ||trifold||

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what type of print does it feel like to you

chrome socket
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dont worry about the numbers, those are internal reference

pastel rain
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ye i get ya

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isometric feels a bit clinical

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but does portray the folds more acuratly

chrome socket
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thats the point

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alternatively I mark the folds with a blue spot color called fold for the people who know what their doing

pastel rain
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this is for printing and showing client purpouse i assume?

chrome socket
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yup, its. a quick dirty way. just marking folds with lines

pastel rain
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yee makes sense

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i'm trying to make it presentable for a portfolio

chrome socket
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whereas what I showed before it just for showing the client the idea

chrome socket
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these are also non attribute, so you don't have to credit them

pastel rain
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mmm and its free EvilRondo

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nice

lost summit
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Designs for the prototype of a board game. Includes a poster, instructions manual, promotional trifold, various game cards and also the game tiles

pastel rain
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ouuuuu

lost summit
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Products for a (fake) fashion brand (so no worries about doxxing or sum) (this was a finals project)

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(Fake) magazine

pastel rain
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very nice

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good stuff

lost summit
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And here just a random little magazine about art (the cover was lame so not showing that)

pastel rain
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fun layout

lost summit
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I had to squeeze in 2 art pieces for each genre, so kinda chaotic but fun

pastel rain
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it works

lost summit
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I also made a t-shirt for this project PearlThink

pastel rain
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ya unified visual language is always a plus

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posted and the stationary do look a bit seperate, althought the font unites them

lost summit
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The poster was one of the last things I did and just putting a model in front of a dark blue background didn't feel right

pastel rain
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maybe if she was in white cloaths

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get better color contrast

lost summit
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I should have just made everything like the poster. That would have looked much cooler, and kinda went with the "eco friendly" thematic

pastel rain
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well

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*the background of the poster does remind me of a oil spill PepeLaugh *

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or paint mixing

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either or

lost summit
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The background consists of like multiple images which were like overlayed for texture effects

pastel rain
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nice

lost summit
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If I had the chance I would have used fancier paper as well, but we didn't have much variety at our school

pastel rain
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can always reprint in the future if needed

lost summit
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Yeah

chrome socket
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apart from that, its awesome

lost summit
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Thx.
And yeah ig, it was like my first ever magazine style thing

pastel rain
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new font family AnimeRage

lost summit
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Merriweather do be a good font

pastel rain
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logo in progress

lost summit
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Logo design is such pain 😭
Really hate the process..

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Worst part is when the client doesn't like any of your ideas

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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I find that in most cases, a client wont like any of them because they cannot see it being used

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so show them examples of it being used

pastel rain
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Mmm interesting

lost summit
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I mean yeah.. Generally one would include mockups for projects..
But some clients are still tricky

silver steeple
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hi

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thoughts? i feel like it looks quite off..

pastel rain
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hmmm

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ya lot going on

pastel rain
silver steeple
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thats about it

pastel rain
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valid

silver steeple
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i feel like i had the vision then just threw up ts

pastel rain
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lol

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so imo i think you got 2 different ideas clashing here

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i think the logo on its own with the players in it is its own thing

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sticking it in here

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it gets verrrrrry lost

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i think that should be a standalone poster on its own

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with a simple background

silver steeple
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yeah true, i was just trying to fill in the space yk

pastel rain
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a subtle gradient or faded pattern - like their jersy stripes

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yee thing about design, its kind of a natural instinct to want to fill every empty spot, but you dont have to - empty space is good, gives viewer a place to rest their eye

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but the important thing, just like in photography, is composition

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random empty space isnt always great, but when compose well, it adds quite a lot

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so i'd reccomend settup up a grid to work with

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you could look up "graphic design poster grid template"

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or something along those lines

silver steeple
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this is that slide without the logo

pastel rain
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better already i think

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that line in the middle is distracting a bit but its not too bad

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the safty net is a bit unfortunate

silver steeple
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ik 😭

pastel rain
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watch your edges and masking too

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looks a little fucked up PepeLaugh

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make sure the logo is sharp

silver steeple
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ye ill fix that up

pastel rain
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look around for some inspiration

silver steeple
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always giving the best advice

pastel rain
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CoolFrog you got this

silver steeple
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@pastel rain this better?

pastel rain
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mmm mmhm mhm

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i think the background is still distracting

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but can be use d

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move the seats down a bit/the logo up

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so its resting on the *simpler background

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and slap a gausian blur onto that field

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so it defuses more

silver steeple
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alr

pastel rain
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nice

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looking good

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only other thing you can try to straighten out the chairs

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its curving a bit / skewed one way

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you can add some words if you'd like

silver steeple
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hows this?

pastel rain
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perfect

silver steeple
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thank you!

pastel rain
cedar rapids
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I hate it when I deal with logos not vectored

pastel rain
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nah

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not everything needs to be vector

cedar rapids
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Is that gonna be an issue?

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@chrome socket vectorized his borb.

chrome socket
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I mean, if done in photoshop it will export as raster anyways

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I was debating of throwing my 5 cents in here about working in Illustrator and linking assets.

cedar rapids
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I swear, Illustrator is on a fritz lately:

chrome socket
cedar rapids
pastel rain
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nah

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does not matter most of the time

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either its a tiny ad or a tiny print

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unless youre zooming you wont see it

chrome socket
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Individual work, yup
Professional work, nope

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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dye lines for stickers

cedar rapids
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I always snap at my co-workers at school (the other teachers) when it comes to vector files.

cedar rapids
chrome socket
cedar rapids
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I'm getting lazy with Flexi and using their Contour Cut feature.

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Fuck off Tom.

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Anyways, yeah. kek_noob

chrome socket
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Flexi, and all those other softwares love the spot color, or line attribution "ContourCut" or "CutContour"

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most cases it seems to be "CutContour"

cedar rapids
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Yeah, it is.

chrome socket
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interchangable really

cedar rapids
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I've been having too much fun with the Mutoh KEKL

chrome socket
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yeah those machiens are fucking fun

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I got to use Epsons option a while ago

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and their system is really great

cedar rapids
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I try to avoid Epson printers

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But their SureColor large formats are too good to pass up on.

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I parted ways with the Xante flatbed in favor of a Mutoh flatbed.

chrome socket
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yee, these machines used their surecolor format

cedar rapids
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Arrival/ETA: 2-4 weeks

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I'm excited

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Can you hurry up and finish typing? KEKL

chrome socket
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But yeah, in terms of using Vectors. if you can use them, just use them. Its better than being told that the customer cannot print their artwork because it is too small. And believe me, I've been on the receiving end of the "what the fuck, I thought I could use this for print aswell as web, what do I pay you for"

Individual work, where you know your target destination is Web or a small ass print, sure

But in a professional area, where Spot Colors like pantones, or CutContour work. or even if the artwork needs to work on multiple scales, just rasters is not good enough

chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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that smartass attitude you have

chrome socket
cedar rapids
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Right.

chrome socket
cedar rapids
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LogoJet and Mutoh use the same software and drivers for much of their machines.

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I debated on this for a while and decided to just go with the Mutoh for the sake of it.

chrome socket
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Mutoh has a bigger R&D dep aswell iirc. could be wrong on that

pastel rain
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i wish photogshop could magically do vectors

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just work in pixels the whole time

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and at the end exoprt vectors

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some kind of smart object shinanigans

chrome socket
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and it sucks that working with strokes, paths, curves. fucking sucks in photoshop

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at the end of the day, if you are working with vectors within photoshop, things scale easier

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but yeah, individual. its fine

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small jobs, perfectly fine

chrome socket
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but full design complements with different destinations, yeaaaa just use Illustrator or InDesign

chrome socket
pastel rain
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not something i use often

chrome socket
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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me loves this context page. lets see them add more pages, leading me to bash my head on a desk

cedar rapids
chrome socket
cedar rapids
chrome socket
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so its supposed to be playful

cedar rapids
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I like mine formal.

chrome socket
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Oh the yearbooks are very formal. but the other things like this is rather playful.
this year they wanted it to be like this

cedar rapids
chrome socket
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last year it was pretty boring and kinda had no character

cedar rapids
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The inside pages will then flow through with the same idea.

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You’ll get the general idea when I start putting everything together.

jagged garnet
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Hey I'm wondering how to make the space between just the bullets less not the other text. any help wit this thanks.

jagged garnet
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nevermind i figured it out

cedar rapids
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@chrome socket @pastel rain throwing together my sponsor banner for the school's football team... last minute thing, as always.
Is this doing too much for the background of a banner?

pastel rain
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this is some grid layout?

pastel rain
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this has been my day

cedar rapids
pastel rain
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mmmm ok

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i'm a fan of isometric

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lil bit of space between them all

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nice drop shadow

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and youre cookin

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leave a gap for your logo

cedar rapids
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My deadline is in 15 minutes. Lol.

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I’m filling in as we speak.

pastel rain
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lol just submit this for now