I'm composing an ad for our retail side of our business, and want to emulate a comic strip balloon. But I want to fill it with a dot pattern typical of comic strips. Problem is, I created it in Freehand 10 by filling the 'balloon' with lt. gray, then in the half-tone dialogue box, assigning a frequency of 28. I also had made it a gradiated fill of lt. gray to white, with the 'center' of the gradient put on the word I wanted to emphasize.
For the newspaper to use it, it needed to be exported as an .eps, or a .pdf. To see how these look, I'd send myself an e-mail and open them up. Well, that dot pattern I wanted reverted back to a solid lt. gray. Finally decided to just use a dot pattern fill. I'd still like to figure out how to have those dots and the gradiated fill together, AND show up in a .pdf or .eps.
Your help is appreciated!
Posted by Ron Helliar (Member # 398) on August 29, 2006 02:52 AM:
Hey Mick, There are plenty of Photoshop tricks to get what your after but I think this may do for Freehand:
Thanks for the info - I saved that link to look at in depth after work. I check in on Freehand Source once and awhile...don't know it's future given Freehand over at Adobe now.
At the bottom of that tutorial it finishes by saying: 'save it and re-import back into Freehand'.
First, create it in Freehand and bring it into Photoshop as what file format? Work on it and save to re-mport back to Freehand as what file format usable by Freehand?
I have Photoshop 7 and Freehand 10. Into PS as an .eps, then back to F10 as an .eps?
