Graphic artist, print-based. Illustration and page-layout mostly. I love Illustrator and InDesign! Some freelance work too, mostly logo design OR redrafting an existing logo into a usable, versatile digital format...in other words, people contact me to take a piece-of-shit scan of a FAX of a Xerox of a logo done 18 years ago by the boss's nephew - using a broken crayon, no less - and recreate it in Illustrator and give them back something modern, usable and suitable for several functions (signage, web, vinyl lettering, print usage, etc.). Kind of a cool little niche I've stumbled into where I get paid to play in Illustrator.
And I do some side work involving some travel for a company in Langley, VA. But I'm not supposed to talk about it too much.
Graphic artist, print-based. Illustration and page-layout mostly. I love Illustrator and InDesign! Some freelance work too, mostly logo design OR redrafting an existing logo into a usable, versatile digital format...in other words, people contact me to take a piece-of-shit scan of a FAX of a Xerox of a logo done 18 years ago by the boss's nephew - using a broken crayon, no less - and recreate it in Illustrator and give them back something modern, usable and suitable for several functions (signage, web, vinyl lettering, print usage, etc.). Kind of a cool little niche I've stumbled into where I get paid to play in Illustrator.
And I do some side work involving some travel for a company in Langley, VA. But I'm not supposed to talk about it too much.
InDesign?! *shudder*
Actually, I can 't say much. I work on books and everyone wants them done in Word so they can post them on the Web. "Here, you can do this fancy design in Word?"--"Sure, but I'll charge you twice as much as I would if I was working in Quark!"
I used Quark for eight years and I've simply come to embrace InDesign during the past 12-16 months. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I mostly spend my time in Illustrator and Photoshop and InDesign just feels like a nice, comfortable extension of them.
A lot of it has to do with economics. I can afford InDesign and its upgrades.
Still more has to do with the fact that it's a REALLY sweet program and I really, really like it.
Was your "shudder" a fear thing or a outright dislike thing? If it's dislike, don't knock it 'til you try it. I made the switch over the course of a couple of months and, at this point, you couldn't pay me to go back to QuarkXPress.
For all the tea in China, as they say.
For me, InDesign is actually a pleasure to use. Makes my work SO much easier and I've never - knock on wood - had any problems with it, both on the creating end AND the outputting/final piece.
I used Quark for eight years and I've simply come to embrace InDesign during the past 12-16 months. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I mostly spend my time in Illustrator and Photoshop and InDesign just feels like a nice, comfortable extension of them.
A lot of it has to do with economics. I can afford InDesign and its upgrades.
Still more has to do with the fact that it's a REALLY sweet program and I really, really like it.
Was your "shudder" a fear thing or a outright dislike thing? If it's dislike, don't knock it 'til you try it. I made the switch over the course of a couple of months and, at this point, you couldn't pay me to go back to QuarkXPress.
For all the tea in China, as they say.
For me, InDesign is actually a pleasure to use. Makes my work SO much easier and I've never - knock on wood - had any problems with it, both on the creating end AND the outputting/final piece.
Actually, I have used it--on just one project. Part of it, I'm sure, is that I know how things work in Quark and InDesign was unfamiliar. Add to that, I was using 1.0 and it kept locking up/crashing. The whole reason I even worked in it was that I had a client with a project in PageMaker for Windows, which nobody had, and InDesign was the "smoothest" transition. I've heard InDesign has gotten better, but I really am doing way too much work in Word . Quark's customer service . . . well, let's just that's a contradiction in terms. I love the program but "hate" the company.
Okay, but seriously? I do email, porn archiving, MP3 hording, Chess, web browsing, pre-release movie watching, typing, photoshop jollies, quark evils, and the occasional Sims, Diablo 2 or Aliens vs. Predator. I do other stuff but can't remember it now.
EDIT: Okay, I look up phone numbers, show times, translations etc with Watson/Sherlock and also make iMovies of my family. I also Hotline.
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I painted it black with "Flying - Tiger " teeth on its sides looks real mean...
Every bit of my mac is useful...like.... I swing the mouse around my head to knock giant flying cockroaches into a pot.
They make a good garnish for the rats I've stunned with my key-Board..
Man food like that should never be passed up.....!
Oh....& Other than that, I play Bugdom..& do Photo stuff.....
i use my mac for what else, porn.
it gets lonely out here on the range,
and i'm not into sheep all that much.
besides most of them are ugly anyways.
Originally posted by LiquidR
What do you do?
Make biweekly human sacrifices to The Silent Lord.
Originally posted by BR
Make biweekly human sacrifices to The Silent Lord.
yeah i kill people too
Originally posted by xionja
yeah i kill people too
only if they look at me funny. hey. what are you looking at?
organic gardener
i use my mac to sherp.
I painted it black with "Flying - Tiger " teeth on its sides looks real mean...
Could you post some pictures please? 8)
Originally posted by Stoo
Could you post some pictures please? 8)
Well picture a color classic painted black and looking very much like this emicon
That's really similar.....
And I do some side work involving some travel for a company in Langley, VA. But I'm not supposed to talk about it too much.
Originally posted by pscates
Graphic artist, print-based. Illustration and page-layout mostly. I love Illustrator and InDesign! Some freelance work too, mostly logo design OR redrafting an existing logo into a usable, versatile digital format...in other words, people contact me to take a piece-of-shit scan of a FAX of a Xerox of a logo done 18 years ago by the boss's nephew - using a broken crayon, no less - and recreate it in Illustrator and give them back something modern, usable and suitable for several functions (signage, web, vinyl lettering, print usage, etc.). Kind of a cool little niche I've stumbled into where I get paid to play in Illustrator.
And I do some side work involving some travel for a company in Langley, VA. But I'm not supposed to talk about it too much.
InDesign?! *shudder*
Actually, I can 't say much. I work on books and everyone wants them done in Word so they can post them on the Web. "Here, you can do this fancy design in Word?"--"Sure, but I'll charge you twice as much as I would if I was working in Quark!"
A lot of it has to do with economics. I can afford InDesign and its upgrades.
Still more has to do with the fact that it's a REALLY sweet program and I really, really like it.
Was your "shudder" a fear thing or a outright dislike thing? If it's dislike, don't knock it 'til you try it. I made the switch over the course of a couple of months and, at this point, you couldn't pay me to go back to QuarkXPress.
For all the tea in China, as they say.
For me, InDesign is actually a pleasure to use. Makes my work SO much easier and I've never - knock on wood - had any problems with it, both on the creating end AND the outputting/final piece.
Photoshop Guru guy
Originally posted by pscates
I used Quark for eight years and I've simply come to embrace InDesign during the past 12-16 months. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I mostly spend my time in Illustrator and Photoshop and InDesign just feels like a nice, comfortable extension of them.
A lot of it has to do with economics. I can afford InDesign and its upgrades.
Still more has to do with the fact that it's a REALLY sweet program and I really, really like it.
Was your "shudder" a fear thing or a outright dislike thing? If it's dislike, don't knock it 'til you try it. I made the switch over the course of a couple of months and, at this point, you couldn't pay me to go back to QuarkXPress.
For all the tea in China, as they say.
For me, InDesign is actually a pleasure to use. Makes my work SO much easier and I've never - knock on wood - had any problems with it, both on the creating end AND the outputting/final piece.
Actually, I have used it--on just one project. Part of it, I'm sure, is that I know how things work in Quark and InDesign was unfamiliar. Add to that, I was using 1.0 and it kept locking up/crashing. The whole reason I even worked in it was that I had a client with a project in PageMaker for Windows, which nobody had, and InDesign was the "smoothest" transition. I've heard InDesign has gotten better, but I really am doing way too much work in Word
Originally posted by pscates
And I do some side work involving some travel for a company in Langley, VA. But I'm not supposed to talk about it too much.
Are you one of those graphics whiz-kids making fake passports for the CIA?
Okay, but seriously? I do email, porn archiving, MP3 hording, Chess, web browsing, pre-release movie watching, typing, photoshop jollies, quark evils, and the occasional Sims, Diablo 2 or Aliens vs. Predator. I do other stuff but can't remember it now.
EDIT: Okay, I look up phone numbers, show times, translations etc with Watson/Sherlock and also make iMovies of my family. I also Hotline.
All in photoshop of course.
Forget milfs. I do honsilfs
HELL YEAH!!!
Wow. It's getting late. I blame it all on the people screaming downstairs.
Originally posted by running with scissors
i'm a shepherd
i use my mac for what else, porn.
it gets lonely out here on the range,
and i'm not into sheep all that much.
besides most of them are ugly anyways.
What's your problem?
Sheep can be pretty cute after a few snorts & nights in the sack by yourself.
Even the tough ones can be nice if you give them roses and such!
working as in photoshop stuff... and animating stuff...and television production stuf... and some web stuff...but mostly goofing off.