jackamus

Thanks reglico. The dark grey background is one of my beefs about AD's workspace. I and several others have sked for it to be more user friendly. The same applies to the 'Cog' icon. I can see that it will work for just about any kind of style exceppt a simple line. Maybe there is a case for having something similar as the 'Brush' styles. I use all manner of varying line thicknesses and types and it is not always possible to give them a name that describes it. A menu like the 'Brushes' would be useful. I'm still finding that the developers do not seem to be giving the people who simply draw lines much of a creative choice.choice

Is it possible to create a 'Style' of a dashed line? The cog icon is not a good way to show a dashed line especially if it is a 'Centre line' used in engineering type drawings. It may be OK for fills etc but not for lines.

Hi All, Sorry if I have been giving you the run-around chaps but I just sussed out how to add more opacity/transparency nodes to a conical transparency fill. All is OK now.

Hi All, I think it would be easier if I described what I was trying achieve then you can tell me how to do it. The file is attached which I faked using a Gaussian blur. Flipping & Transparency.afdesign

I don't understand wht you are suggesting. Sorry but your file make no sense to me.

That's because I didn't use the 'Fill' tool - I used the 'Transparency' tool which is underneath it.

How do you set a 'Zero' opacity?

Am example file of what you describe would be very helpful!

More of the same problem. B had a conical transparency applied. A is a horizontally flipped copy of B yet the transparency has changed. Flipping and Transparency.afdesign

A further question on transparency: How do you go from opaque to completely transparent in a Conical effect?

Object A has been copied and flipped vertically to create object B. As you can see I have lost the transparency effect. Why? PS I had done successfully several times before it stopped working. I suspect there may be a problem with just this object. Vertical flipping.afdesign

Should I be able to apply a transparency to a bitmap or should I use AP?

How do I unsubscribe from receiving 'Introduce Yourself' and 'AF Roadmap Feature' emails?

Vector Eraser Tools A tool that erases vector objects and obtains its quality What exactly is this?

That's basically what I always do but it would be nice to have a gradient that followed contours.

Is ever likely to be possible to create a gradient or transparency that will follow an irregular shape like my attached file? Gradients.afdesign

Much food for thought.

I have read through most of what you suggested and as I thought it was a bit too detailed for my simple use of AD. I tread the part about printing and assumed it was referring to 'commercial printing' where I was talking about my own inkjet printer. What I was trying to achieve was getting my printer to print colours as close as possible to what I see on the monitor. I do realise that the 'white' of the screen is different to the 'white' of the paper. Since my printer uses CMYK inks I figured that changing colour profile (just for this file) to CMYK would make it easier to try and match monitor and printer. With previous printers I invested in a custom printer profile but not with my current printer and keeping the AD default sRGB profile. I do not have a custom profile for my current printer but it does have 'Advanced' printer features that I can use to tweek an AD CMYK profiled printed image and the final result seemed to be OK. However in doing this I was worried that I would be affecting all other image files. Is my concern unfounded?

Thanks MB. I'm taking RC's advice however knowing me I may still come back with a question!

Thanks RC - a sensible solution. I should have tried that in the first place and save wasting people's time.

I'm sorry MBd but you are not making yourself very clear. In AD Preferences there are 4 profiles that can be edited. How do I know which profile is the 'Default' profile for each one? You will need to spell this out for me!

Here's where I show my real ignorance! I can set RGB in AD Preferences but where do I select sRGB colour space?

I do understand all that you say. My concern is that I never had a problem with email colours until after I changed the colour profiles in AD. I'll have to put that down to coincidence. Thanks for your explanation. That's probably what I was using previously and had no problem with email image colours. The reason I changed to CMYK was to get the printed image to look more like the screen image. If I go back and reload an older file from my back-up drive would that change back to how AD was set-up?

My question is that there are 4 colour profiles- RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and Lab colour. How do I or AD know which one is used when I open a file? The reason I mentioned a change of colour in an email was because I regularly opened an image file in AD, transformed the size down to fit in the body of the email, copy and pasted it into the email. I have only had the colour problem since changing the colour profiles in AD. Previously colour was never an email issue.

I'm trying to understand how colour profiles work. How do I know which colour profile would be used when I open a file? Could this affect the way the colours appear when I insert one of my images into an email. At the moment the colours appear very garish! in an email