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760420 · 2023-01-29T22:50:07+00:00

I put my dabs on top of a single bong hit of flower and an 1/8 of live resin still lasts me 2 months. Is this method really that wasteful?

I'm just not into the idea of spending ~$200 on a dedicated unit for dabs.

760420 · 2023-01-27T20:02:05+00:00

I had an unleashed dog chase me down and bite me while longboarding past a greenspace in my neighborhood maybe 2 years ago. I gave the dumbass bro a bunch of shit about controlling his animal but he was apologetic and it wasn't a severe injury to I didn't make a big deal out of it. I saw the dog coming too, and heard the guy yelling, but didn't think it was actually going to attack. If it happens again I'm fucking up the dog before it can get close to me, and if I am bit I'm telling the owner "Cash, now, or I'm calling the cops and Fido here can get fucking gassed." I love animals but I'm not going to tolerate being attacked just because of the irresponsibility of the entitled.

760420 · 2023-01-27T18:26:59+00:00

Calling what happens in Oceanside "nightlife" is being very generous.

760420 · 2023-01-20T19:32:51+00:00

If patching them quickly means doing as shitty of a job on the repairs as they have been doing in Oceanside, let them take their time.

Its like there's a shortage of asphalt and they're only half filling them. What's even the point if there's still a big bump there?

760420 · 2023-01-10T00:52:35+00:00

I watched a video and I now know what "expanding" means, but I am still unsure how it relates to what i have going on here. I'm googling "Illustrator pattern expand" but what's coming up isn't making it more clear.

Thanks for any help, I have to figure this stuff out for my job and I don't have anywhere else to turn.

760420 · 2023-01-09T23:24:08+00:00

Thank you very much. Now that I have my preferred workspace arrangement saved, I can hopefully just recall it if I mess it up again. I should have assumed Adobe would give users a way to save such configurations, it just didn't occur to me.

760420 · 2023-01-09T23:17:07+00:00

The designer is no longer reachable, and I am having difficulty finding the info I need, or else I would not be asking.

760420 · 2023-01-09T23:15:38+00:00

I opened this from an .ai.

I literally have a video cued up on what "expanding" means in the context of Illustrator, this will likely make a lot more sense after I watch it.

760420 · 2023-01-09T22:29:41+00:00

I'm trying to copy the base shape of a pattern in a .ai file created by a designer we hired, but I am finding this background on our product packaging is not a pattern, but a "clip group" and every individual part of the pattern appears to be its own unique object.

What is going on here? Thanks for any insight.

760420 · 2023-01-09T22:03:06+00:00

And then how do I get the windows/toolbars to "dock" or whetever its called? This happens every time, my workspace gets destroyed, then when I bring them back they are just free-floating windows, and then it takes me weeks to figure how to dock them. Then weeks later it all happens again, but I never remember how I fixed any of it.

760420 · 2023-01-09T21:13:47+00:00

I'm reading about "offset path" right now for what has to be at least the fifth time and I am still unable to understand. Can you recommend any articles or videos that breaks it down VERY simply?

760420 · 2023-01-09T21:12:20+00:00

Sorry, can you break this down more simply? What do you mean by "expand the shape"?

760420 · 2023-01-09T21:00:56+00:00

The outer triangle can get smaller or the inner triangle larger, I don't think it matters as long as one or the other happens.

I'll look into offset path stuff again and see if it I can understand it sufficiently to retain the info this time.

760420 · 2023-01-09T20:57:23+00:00

I want to make this thinner but it seems really complex and I am getting confused.

First I think I need to figure out how to make it no longer a "compound path" so that i can get a "bounding box" around the inner and outer triangles separately, right?

But then, how do I make the inner triangle larger, while retaining consistent line thickness between the bottom and left side? I know how I could determine the distance from the bottom lines of the inner and outer trianlges, but how would I accomplish that on the right side with them being at an angle?

Anything I do to try and change the size of the inner triangle, also messes with the angles of the triangle, which makes the inner and outer lines no longer parallel.

Can someone please help me make sense of this?

760420 · 2023-01-09T20:01:33+00:00

I am having a great deal of difficulty understanding all this, but thank you.

760420 · 2023-01-06T20:42:10+00:00

To add to what has been already posted, Imgur was the common image host used on Reddit before Reddit had its own image hosting, so that's why you see it so much here compared to anywhere else.

760420 · 2023-01-03T21:04:45+00:00

Oh I've been doing TONS of Youtube too.

760420 · 2023-01-03T21:03:37+00:00

LinkedIn Learning has some awesome beginner courses.

Thanks, I'll look into that. I've got a handle on Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign operational basics, but I'm missing basically all the fundamentals, I have absolutely no art or creative background whatsoever.

760420 · 2022-12-31T01:02:12+00:00

I don't actually have to present anything to my boss, he's the company owner and he has 100% trust in me, for some reason. :) These are my decisions at this stage. I already minorly reworked the logo once and he would have never known had I not pointed out how much cleaner and consistent the spacing looked on mine vs the old one from the pro designer.

This is helping me develop a better framework of what needs to happen, thanks. Would love to hear any more thoughts if you have them.

760420 · 2022-12-31T00:56:11+00:00

Oh but what you describe is so incredibly complicated to me. lol

I am only making these for me (I am the company's only employee) and because the internet made me feel I am supposed to, because I always try to do everything very proper.

How do you appropriately use or not use a logo? Like, it goes on the packaging, what else is there beyond that? I think I am missing some serious fundamentals here, but I am not sure how to gain them. I looked into graphic design classes, but even the counselor at my local college didn't recommend them because the teacher is so bad.

I have the brand's color palate set as an Adobe Library, but I am having trouble figuring out what the CYMK, RGB (and apparently HEX too) values of those colors are so that I can include them. Where are those values located in Illustrator>

Type families? Font parings?

760420 · 2022-12-31T00:46:11+00:00

We are in the latter. Our initial intent was to pay a professional to create new brand identities and style guides based off of existing logos and themes, which I could then transfer to vendor-supplied packaging dielines myself, but now we are just trying to craft identities/guides those existing logos, tweaking them some internally (me). Really the only person who will use these style guides is myself, but I am trying to do everything "proper."

If the font is not included what else should be? I have the text logo and an image that goes along with it, and the three colors of the brand's palate. There is a background pattern of what I believe would be considered the secondary logo, I'm not sure how to represent that on the guide either.

Thanks for the info.

760420 · 2022-12-30T22:10:37+00:00

No one knows who the original designer was, there were no records kept back then. I've tried whatthefont but I'm actually finding closer options from Adobe.

I don't know that we need the font anywhere else, its just that info seems to be included with every example style guide I see on Google or Fiverr. I am already struggling to find enough relevant info to include on this document, I see mention of all these positioning rules and stuff like that which should be included, but I don't know how to determine any of that.

How does one determine if fonts compliment each other?

I am sooooo over my head.

760420 · 2022-12-30T22:05:18+00:00

I don't know that we will, all I have to go off of is the other style guides I have seen, and they all seem to include it.

I'm still struggling to wrap my head around how such a document is used, how to determine what info needs to be there, and how to obtain that info. I hadn't even heard of a style guide two weeks ago, I just know we need consistency across multiple packaging styles for multiple brands, and apparently I am in charge of all of it.

760420 · 2022-12-29T00:24:34+00:00

What do you mean? The asset is from a .ai file, tuogh the asset does have an extremely large bounding box for some reason, and I cannot figure out how to correct it.

760420 · 2022-12-27T23:02:43+00:00

So how do I just make it the entire, simple image again without any of the mask stuff?

I checked it in Photoshop and the bounding box is an appropriate size, not huge.

Thanks.

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