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I've made a logo in Illustrator 10 (I know...but I'm just learning illustration) using two large letters, turned into outlines and then overlapped so they intertwine. There's a slight gradient on the letters. The client wants a hint of a metallic look applied to it. None of the features in Illustrator seem to work. I imported it as a smart object into Photoshop CS2 and applied a slight emboss effect. I want to keep it as a vector. Is it possible to export to Illustrator as a smart object and keep the emboss effect? Or even better would be to save it in some vector format so I could work with it in InDesign CS2.
I'm getting confused by file formats and switching back and forth between programs. What's the best way to keep it as a vector illustration but keep the emboss effect while using it in InDesign or Illustrator? Is this even possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for cross posting.
Thanks,
Jason
I'm getting confused by file formats and switching back and forth between programs. What's the best way to keep it as a vector illustration but keep the emboss effect while using it in InDesign or Illustrator? Is this even possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for cross posting.
Thanks,
Jason
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Re: transferring effects between Adobe programs
Sun, June 17, 2007 - 8:08 AMI doubt there is a way you can apply an effect in Photoshop to a smart object and export it without Rastering the image (turining it from vectors into pixels). Since this is a logo, I'd say keep it in illustrator. Otherwise you will be locking at image into a size that might not be useful later. Vector images can be outputed to whatever size needed without lost of image quality, raster images can only really be sized down without lost of quality.
Check out the Illustrator 10 WOW book and see if they have anything about achieving an emboss metal effect. Keep in mind, that how ever you build it must be able to translate into various print mediums. They may want to put this logo on t-shirts (screen printing), labels (flexo printing) newspaper ads (B&W newsprint, the worst paper you can print on for dot gain) or whatever. There is a good reason why logo design are best kept simple.
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Re: transferring effects between Adobe programs
Sun, June 17, 2007 - 8:36 PMThanks...It seems that I'll just have to keep it as an illustrator file and then as the last step, in photoshop, rasterize and add the emboss effect at the size I'm going to print it at! I know it will be going on a bus ad, but I think that'll be the largest version. Mostly just magazine ads and flyers otherwise, in which case I could whip up a couple pre-made sizes to use when I needed and scale down, if at all.
I thought that maybe I just couldn't do it because I was using an old version of Illustrator... does Illustrator CS3 have an emboss effect? -
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Re: transferring effects between Adobe programs
Tue, June 19, 2007 - 6:46 AMI really though that 10 had an emboss effect. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'll check it out later tonight. I have it on my home computer.
Anyway, you could try to fake an emboss look by duplicating your logo, enlarging it slightly, adding a gradient to it and sending it behind your logo. I guess I'm not exactly sure what look you're going for, but at least that way, you won't have to worry about rasterizing it every time you want to use it.
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