savecraig.com » Illustrator http://savecraig.com/blog Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Grapevine Logo Design http://savecraig.com/blog/illustrator/grapevine-logo-design/ http://savecraig.com/blog/illustrator/grapevine-logo-design/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:48:53 +0000 craig http://savecraig.com/blog/?p=103 grapevine-png

Uploaded a new logo to favwork.

It’s for a professional networking site, I used the grapes to illustrate the networking aspect of the site.

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I decided to make my wife’s Valentine’s Day card. The idea isn’t new but I created all the images in Illustrator.

]]> http://savecraig.com/blog/illustrator/a-super-mario-valentines-day/feed/ 0 Get a good looking backup gif from a flash banner ad http://savecraig.com/blog/flash/get-a-good-looking-backup-gif-from-a-flash-banner-ad/ http://savecraig.com/blog/flash/get-a-good-looking-backup-gif-from-a-flash-banner-ad/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:56:49 +0000 craig http://savecraig.com/blog/?p=53 I used to have a problem when creating banner ads in Flash. The backup gifs that Flash generates look horrible so instead of fighting with Flash I change my process.

I design banners in Illustrator. Illustrator has better tools than Flash and now Illustrator and Flash are so integrated that you can turn objects into symbols in Illustrator and they will stay as symbols in Flash.

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You can also convert text into Flash text that can be edited later on in Flash if needed by selecting the text, then choosing Flash text in the menu above.

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And embed the text characters which translates seamlessly into Flash by choosing Dynamic Text –> Character Embed link.

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Now that you have your banner designed in Illustrator you can save it as a gif and get a crisp and clean gif backup of your banner ad then export the banner into Flash to animate.

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