tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037148402327968014.post-33801587078860233912008-06-23T22:31:00.000-07:002008-06-23T22:38:29.341-07:00Today's walltip is really just that, a tip. One of the things I used in making <a href="http://www.desktopanime.com/walls_show.php?wid=272">Thank you for smoking</a> was floral vector patterns. I already had these patterns - I've used them in the past for a number of other projects. They're really nice -- I traced them out of <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=p7wGAAAACAAJ">Chinese Folk Designs</a></i> (Dover Publications) and have found myself going back to them again and again. Because of that, I put all the different floral patterns into a single file. There's one for Illustrator, which I exported to Photoshop so I can just drag any particular floral pattern I want into any file I'm working with.<br />Don't forget to name the different layers in your Photoshop file -- you'll want to be able grab a specific image quickly, and trying to figure out which Layer X you want by the tiny layers palette thumbnail is not a fun prospect. In Illustrator, I just lay all the patterns side by side, but in Photoshop each image is its own shape layer, so I can scale them losslessly in Photoshop.<br />Here are some screenshots of my papercuts files in Photoshop and Illustrator.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_5TdjQF2WISQ/SGCIJfCTCiI/AAAAAAAABt4/qonw0k5DLg0/s1600-h/db_illustrator.gif"><img style="margin:10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_5TdjQF2WISQ/SGCIJfCTCiI/AAAAAAAABt4/qonw0k5DLg0/s200/db_illustrator.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215318065026370082" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_5TdjQF2WISQ/SGCIJvCTCjI/AAAAAAAABuA/PsByh4lJyg4/s1600-h/db_photoshop.gif"><img style="margin:10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_5TdjQF2WISQ/SGCIJvCTCjI/AAAAAAAABuA/PsByh4lJyg4/s200/db_photoshop.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215318069321337394" /></a>Ming-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05485785992097542669noreply@blogger.com