http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/subject/psp The Funky Knowledge Base at songhaysystem.com. The subject of this channel is Graphic Design Issues. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:19:42 GMT http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072342/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Many, but not all, fonts that start with C and come installed with Windows Vista (Cambria, Calibri, Corbel, Candara, Consolas, etc...) have been designed to work well with WPF. In addition to these, fonts with robust outlines like Verdana, Georgia, etc…… Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:19:42 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072336/subject/psp Article Excerpt: There isn’t a way to crop a picture in Design (not in the traditional sense, anyway), but you can get the effect by using a clipping path. In Design, version 2, you can use a slice to select only the portion of the image you want, save the slice and the… Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:05:31 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072326/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Avoid using the DataGrid because it's customization story is not that compelling. The preference here is to use the Grid before resorting to the DataGrid (or the ListView with a DataGridView). The Grid allows the greatest degrees of freedom for customizat… Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:31:13 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072305/subject/psp Article Excerpt: You could just use "Alpha to Selection" under a layer (right click) and it will give you the same results. Unless your messing with the Alpha layer part of your layer then your plugin would be needed. [http://registry.gimp.org/node/14663] Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:44:01 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072199/subject/psp Article Excerpt: If this is what appears on the console when you start Blender: Compiled with Python version 2.5. 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found. This means Blender could not find Python on your box… Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:16:08 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071949/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Impressionism Among the books on color theory, Chevreul’s classic stood virtually alone until the age of Neo-Impressionism when writers like Helmhotz, Blanc, Rood, Sutter, and Henry undertook complex and elaborate dissertations. These newer theorists, … Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:28:42 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071948/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Chevreul’s Terminology Accidental Colors—this term refers to afterimages and to color sensations experienced subjectively. Binary Colors—colors compounded or made up of two primaries, or groups of two colors. Broken Colors—pure colors mixed wit… Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:12:28 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071656/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Using Command Lines with Acrobat and Acrobat Reader under Windows These are unsupported command lines, but have worked for some developers. There is no documentation for these commands other than what is listed below. You can display and print a PDF file… Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:11:23 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071643/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Evidently, Pose, Material, Light and Camera presets (saved in DSB files) can be merged with a scene with the File > Merge... command. DSB files can be loaded in the Content pane (under Edit > Preferences... > Directories > DAZ|Studio Content Directories … Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:20:02 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071627/subject/psp Article Excerpt: DAZ Studio runs on a smaller memory footprint than Poser 4.x. It feels faster and smoother and it addresses a more "professional" amateur market, while Poser is locked in a strange world where a "friendly" pictographic interface is superior to a literate … Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:08:32 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071517/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Chapter 4: Utilities Group * This chapter makes it clear that a completely visual interface makes it difficult to locate tools described with words in the manual. I had a very difficult time locating the Add Regular Polygon tool and the Convert NURBS Pat… Wed, 19 May 2004 04:38:57 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071428/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Chapter 1: This is a satisfactory tutorial. No complaints. Chapter 2: User Interface * Make sure that the UI matches that in the manual by loading "ts5 configuration" from the Configuration Library. * Right-click on the New Perspective View Tool to ch… Wed, 19 May 2004 04:38:57 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071512/subject/psp Article Excerpt: From Macromedia TechNote 16389: "The Macromedia Flash Player does not have a decompressor for progressive JPEG images, therefore files of this type cannot be loaded dynamically and will not display when using the loadMovie action." Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:40:53 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071429/subject/psp Article Excerpt: General: A Flash Movie is a hierarchy of one or more Movie Clips controlled (hopefully) by ActionScript. An example of not upholding the design principle behind the previous sentence is to make a Movie with two Key Frames separated by empty frames instead… Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:47:05 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071500/subject/psp Article Excerpt: This is a quick and dirty search for a list of articles at CreativePro.com written by Element K Journals: http://search.creativepro.com/SpecificSearchResults ?query=Element+K+Journals&index=feature&querytype=phrase For the truly adventurous … Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:55:14 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071499/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Here is a list of web sites with useful visual representations of layer blending modes: "Blending Modes" http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/photoshop/blendingmodes/ "Advanced Layer Blending in Photoshop 6" http://www.creativepro.com/story… Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:14:45 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071408/subject/psp Article Excerpt: These fundamental "design points" must be addressed when building Flash 4 movies: Preloading. Macromedia addresses with this point with TechNote 14673 ("How to preload movies in Flash 4 and earlier"). Simultaneously, I have my own design. The Tell Targe… Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:39:26 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071483/subject/psp Article Excerpt: My most annoying incorrect assumption about digital cameras is that they are devices for people who do not want to deal with a DV Camera. Then I learned that most DV Cameras produce still images no larger than the NTSC dimensions (e.g. 720 x 576). The ent… Wed, 29 May 2002 20:11:36 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071464/subject/psp Article Excerpt: It appears that the Text Media Plug-in for Vegas 3.x does not support extended characters like typographic (or smart) quotes and dashes. This must be a bug as the characters display in the FX window but do not appear in Preview or render properly However… Tue, 09 Apr 2002 01:05:33 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071462/subject/psp Article Excerpt: From http://www.workz.com/content/1027.asp Dimension Guidelines Currently, size standards for banner ads are really just recommendations. Two professional associations, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Coalition for Advertising-Supported In… Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:30:42 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071454/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Besides Alpha effects on Symbols, there are two top-level transparency issues in Flash. The first is the possibility of making Flash Movies transparent with respect to the hosting web browser. The second is recognizing transparency in imported raster imag… Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:12:25 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/588096113/subject/psp Article Excerpt: With the Num Lock key off we have: 1 To the end of the current line 2 One line down 3 One screen down 4 One character to the left 6 One character to the right 7 To the beginning of the current line 8 One line up 9 One screen up Ctrl/Comman… Wed, 26 Dec 2001 07:08:48 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/1738661947/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Fonts are not embedded in PDF files when they are exported via the File > Export... Command. One way to get the fonts embedded in the PDF is to print to Adobe Distiller Assistant. Using this method requires understanding the consequences of printing to wh… Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:46:13 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999982/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Hesitate to use ray traced shadows as this may slow down rendering and produce shadows that are too "perfect looking." Try mapped shadows and do not make shadow casting objects too large with respect to the grid extents as mapped shadows tend to break int… Wed, 25 Aug 1999 02:27:43 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999983/subject/psp Article Excerpt: To make the most seamless boolean union possible, the objects should be aligned and of equal longitude such that vertices "touch." In the simple case of an aligned sphere and cylinder of the same longitude, the vertical lines of the cylinder will appear t… Wed, 25 Aug 1999 02:27:30 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-596330534/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Selected features introduced: (i) the Color Range command; (ii) linking layers for use with the Move tool; (iii) the Preserve Transparency option in the Fill command; (iv) the ability to Apply a Layer Mask before deleting it to save memory. Procedures: … Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:10:51 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/687009757/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Selected features introduced: (i) the Quick Mask mode and Standard Mode buttons; (ii) saving/retrieving selections from a channel with the Channels Palette; (iii) the Paste Into command; (iv) the Color Balance command; (v) the Defringe command. Procedure… Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:10:50 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/608179404/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Selected features introduced: (i) the Unsharp Mask command; (ii) the Dust & Scratches command; (iii) the From Saved option in the Rubber Stamp tool; (iv) the Dodge/Burn/Sponge tool. Procedures: (i) when an image is reduced in size, scanned or rotated it … Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:10:49 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/594672087/subject/psp Article Excerpt: Selected features introduced: (i) monitor calibration; (ii) features of the status bar; (iii) zooming in/out on an image with an active selection; (iv) the Erased to Saved option; (v) treating an active selection like a static layer. Procedures: (i) per… Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:10:44 GMT Bryan Wilhite