Alan Gilbertson

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An independent graphic designer and instructor in InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver after tiring of working for other people. I'm also a software tester for various companies and "Tier 0" tech support for friends, family, various associates and lots of clients...

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May 18	comment	Do companies/firms usually provide drawing/artist tablets to their designers and artists? @DA01 -- While I agree in principle, that SO depends on the company. In some places where management is hypersensitive about security, plugging in any unauthorized widget can get you fired.
May 18	answered	How do I spec a character with no keyboard shortcut?
May 18	answered	How do I get a clean path inset/offset in Adobe Fireworks CS5?
May 18	answered	Where to ask for free work?
May 18	comment	What's the difference between a graphic designer and an artworker/Mac operator/production artist? Production Artists are also often found in prepress operations, where their job is to groom incoming, ah, "less-than-perfect" files from Graphic Designers, to make them ready for the RIP. I've also heard the term "Quark Jockey" used in that context. Sadly, too few design schools teach prepress, or even that file prep matters. The result is a lot of wasted time and far too much rejected work.
May 18	comment	How to use pathfinder to cut a rounded rectangle? That's the right answer. Better as an answer than a comment, eh?
May 18	answered	Illustrator image viewed at 100% is “tiny”
May 18	comment	How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign Yeah, me too. And I trip myself up on this exact point once in a while! :)
May 17	answered	How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign
May 17	comment	How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign This has to be done with tracking, rather than kerning, to allow it to be saved as a Character Style. Kerning has fixed values in the Character Style dialog that can't be overridden.
May 17	answered	Setting object style in InDesign
May 17	comment	Setting object style in InDesign Au contraire, there is a fairly simple way to accomplish this. See below.
May 17	answered	What is InDesign used for?
May 17	comment	Effective way to cut out clouds in photoshop Ain't dat da trufe! I was horrified once when I discovered a colleague extracting part of an image from its background with the regular eraser tool in Photoshop CS3. With a mouse. I kid you not. He had over 10 years of Photoshop experience and had never thought of doing it any other way... Yikes.
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May 17	comment	What web graphics formats to use? @muntoo: No, GIF doesn't do RGB (any of 256 values per R/G/B channel per pixel). Its limit of 255 indexed colors is for the entire image.
May 17	answered	how to keep printed documents accurate color reproduction
May 17	answered	What resolution should a large format artwork for print be?
May 16	answered	Are logo design contests considered “spec” work and what are the pros and cons of participating as a designer?
May 16	comment	Are logo design contests considered “spec” work and what are the pros and cons of participating as a designer? Wal-Mart? More like the Dollar Store...