ya know what, I stand corrected. A quick Google search seems to indicate that a lot of people call the edge-glued stuff 'butcher block' as well. So I guess it's an ambiguous term.
I always considered this butcher block:
FYI, I think Ikea sells countertop material like this. So that might be an option as well if you are in Ikea range.
I went to school for Graphic Design but we also had a Graphic Arts program there as well, so I got to understand the printing side of things. Ironically, I mostly ended up doing web work. I do miss print jobs, but they are infrequent.
I also spent some time at a letterpress shop and got my hands dirty with wood type.
Come to think of it, I don't even recall when my last commercial print job was done. Must be going back at least 7 years or so now.
I don't touch it much anymore, but I am doing some interactive work for the Hamilton Type Museum, so that's fun. Kinda of keeps my hands dirty with the history.
When, if ever, is it ok to add more than one answer? I was acrually thinking about how to add clarity to this question by splitting my answer in two parts.
the use EPS part
other methods part
is that ok? Or maybe i just went totally overboard? And should trim the ansver just to the eps part.
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When type *text* it will become oblique (or italicized, tough i think its oblique because it has no compressive quality). However I noticed that the oblique slant is quite heavy. In fact so heavy that if you do this for a acronym like:
some *PDF* file -> some PDF file
Atleast on my browser this...
Technically it is possible to interpolate an existing font.
Image 1: Interpolation of letter K of Arial regular to 2.2 times Arial black.
Quite many fonts lend to simple interpolation Arial was chosen for simplicity, and clarity of explaining the interpolation. In this case the vertex numberi...
I'm still debating between your answer and Will Adams answer on that question
Tried asking Gramps for his opinion. Yours gives a working solution, he was the first to give a term and has the most upvotes. Plus he has less rep so might encourage him to participate more :\
Its sad I'm the only one that upvoted your answer on that. I tried it out and it works
I think its cause people come here for simple "How do I achieve this effect?" "Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Profit" type of stuff for the most part
When I have free time I'm always reading stuff I find on Google Scholar and other sites about topics I like, then try to ask a question about it. But right now the topic I'm reading up on is investing
Well I can kind of get that as I'm not really a graphic designer so my worldview dont mesh with you guys always so well. Like i said its been done it works but graphics designers aren't so eager to see manual work displaced,
yeah ive noticed that you actually invest in your answers and questions.
Not sure if you like nonfiction literature but one of my favorite novels is called A Confederacy of Dunces. Its very much about the conflict between the individual and the masses in trying to figure out if popular opinion is the correct opinion.
I didn't know Python could talk with inkscape. That sounds interesting. Now that I've learned more if I could afford Rhino3D I'd love to do more python scripting in there. Maybe I'll look into Python scripting in inkscape instead
Anyway, if your into economics i suggest reading: Undercover economist and crisis economics. They will explain some pretty good facts. Undercover economist made me look at stores entirely differently.
I'll look into it. Right now I'm reading up on understanding financial reports and balance sheets. Birthday's coming up and all I really want to get myself is investments. Ever since I was little I was interested in investing but never felt secure enough
I'm just debating between investing in more mutual funds or individual stocks. Also want to get Rolling CDs going since even though its very minimal its still better then sitting the bank
the concern i have is more taxes and fees if I go individual since it would mean more, lower value trades then if I just dumped into say 3 mutual funds
Okay here's how I might approach it:
By playing with radial gradients with colors so we can see I got something like this:
Now I'm going back in and changing the blue for transparent, note how I pushed everything to one side:
Which gave this result:
Which isn't bad but not quite there y...
Our IT is going to have a fit they finally got CC installed on general computers after 1 month of work and then 1 week later adobe does this upgrade that will kill their systems again.
Could we get some kind of comment system thet differs form SO in general. So that they dont mix the flow but allow talking in design questions. You know some kind of compromise between no commenting and chatting?
the dont talk in comments is a bit alien to many new users at first
ok just picking your mind on the issue. Anyway something is being done right after a long while seems like we are starting to attract good new questions.
I need a to do following thing in Photoshop:
I have shot series of photos from a tripod, so they all have the same background. I even took a photo of background itself. Then, there were people moving around the scene.
I need to be able to cut only the people from photos (there are shadows, whic...
its called difference matte and i describe it: http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31337/can-image-transparency-be-calculated-automatically-from-multiple-non-transparent/31363#31363
This can be 'perfectly' done. You need to align the two images as Horatio says. However I'm going to attack this mathematically.
So you have 4 channels to fix. Alpha channel is easiest. Place the layers on top of each other and subtract the orange layer for the blue one (this gives better contra...
here
feel free to modify and post as answer cant seem to sign up at the moment
all sorts of weird stuff happening. When I open a new tab its going to AVG search. And URL just resets to "Search or enter address" making it hard to copy/paste urls on here
Okay here's how I might approach it:
By playing with radial gradients with colors so we can see I got something like this:
Now I'm going back in and changing the blue for transparent, note how I pushed everything to one side:
Which gave this result:
Which isn't bad but not quite there y...
I need a to do following thing in Photoshop:
I have shot series of photos from a tripod, so they all have the same background. I even took a photo of background itself. Then, there were people moving around the scene.
I need to be able to cut only the people from photos (there are shadows, whic...
