jackamus

I'm not an artist in the commercial sense. I've been painting for 30 years and during that time I've probably only had about 20 actual commissions. All my other paintings were for fiends or relatives or just for myself. I paint for fun and if someone wants a digital one then I will be happy to do it. 3 of my paintings were made into jigsaws and it wouldn't matter to them how I created it.

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Gotcha! I used the bottom right corner handle and not the other handle near it. Thanks problem solved.

I used the one of the corner handles to drag to a different size but the grouped transforms in different ways. I have attached the file which is current ly on an A2 format - I would prefer an A4 format.
PS Feel free  to comment on the content as it is not private or sensitive information.
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Hi Garry,
Thanks for this very simple explanation. This is the best solution I have from amongst all those who responded to my problem. Thanks again.

Attached is an example of how I used my perspective method.

Thanks but I only paint what I see. I'm not a creative artist i.e. I don't sit in front of a blank canvas and create a painting. I only work from photos. I load the photo into Photoshop change it to black and white and apply a 'Find edges filter'. this creates what looks like a pencil drawing. I then have it printed onto a 20" x 30" blank canvas and then paint on it. Putting it through Photoshop to get the outlines may be cheating but it saves me a lot of time drawing.
Here's another one. I shan't put up any more. I used to have a website where you could view them. If you want to see more let me know and I'll send them in a private message.

Thank you for your kind words.
Yes every object is unique on its own layer, but if you copy an object or group and paste it in another position on the layout, you will notice that when you try to group it with another object or group a bounding box appears and includes the copy and pasted object. The way to stop this is to copy the object or group and cut it then paste it then it will be removed as a daughter and be part of another group. There is a section on it in the AD Help manual.
I hope I have explained it.

That was  along time ago and thank you for the compliment. Actually it was the second time I had a go at the Jaguar. The first time was an acrylic painting then I thought I would try and do it on the computer with DrawPlus. I have attached the painting jpeg.

That was  along time ago and thank you for the compliment. Actually it was the second time I had a go at the Jaguar. The first time was an acrylic painting then I thought I would try and do it on the computer with DrawPlus. I have attached the painting jpeg.

Thanks for the update.
LOL I think this is what I have been dong bur without realising it!
To avoid the problem of daughter layers, I copy the object of group, cut it, then then paste it where I want it. I believe that does the same thing.

Well maybe I exaggerated a bit - more like 80 years ago. We used to have an insurance man call once a week a really nice old gentleman who wore a straw hat. I was always asking him questions and my mother told me-off for doing so. The old man checked my mother and told her not to do that as it showed I had an inquiring mind.

I did try and search regarding changing the colour of guides but found nothing so I asked the Forum.
Often it is much quicker and less time consuming to ask a question on the forum.

I did try and search regarding changing the colour of guides but found nothing so I asked the Forum.
Often it is much quicker and less time consuming to ask a question on the forum.

I've taken your advice Walt and posted it on Feature requests referring to the exchange of views, but this would not be the first time I've done that.
I even got into correspondence with one of the developers and Patrick Conner but got nowhere. If I remember the excuse wast that it reduced 'screen-clutter'. If tat was the case it reduced screen clutter for less than a second. Wow that's what I call real time saving for people is a hurry to get a job done.

The method I used was the way I HAVE to do it because the bounding boxes disappear.
Regarding what you say about bounding boxes is OK but if they didn't disappear that would be a bonus wouldn't it?

Sorry Walt, because I tend to always use the Move tool to move something and then when I want to drag a new QS, I assumed that I was using the Move tool to do the dragging but I can see that as soon as move the Move tool onto the QS menu it changes to whatever a QS tool is called.

Got it! Thanks. I have this idea that if I create enough short-cuts the drawing will do itself LOL!

The problem seems to have gone away! Thanks for your concern.

I have been bellyaching to Serif ever since they first published AD V1 about including a drawing in perspective feature.

For those of you who may also be interested in this I have attached a file showing how I go about setting up 3 point perspective axes and measuring method. It may look complicated but I can assure you it isn't - its pretty basic stuff!
If anyone is interested I would be happy to elaborate further with anyone either on the forum or privately.
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Such an obvious comment was be expected but no offense taken.

No Walt that is not what I said! I'll say it another way. 2pt leading is the same as saying 12pt on 14pt. That's the way we used to state 2pt leading.
As I understood it the font designer designed the font which included the space under the character which determined the minimum line spacing. Its up to the typographer if he wants add more line space. The old style lead fonts did not allow the removal of the minimum space between lines but DTP can let you overlap lines if you so desire! I can understand removing space from between lines of capital letters to make it look less gappy but not when its u/l case.

OK Walt I'll bear that in mind for the future.
With respect I'm the designer and not AD! I want what I want. My typography goes back way before DTP and it's complicated and too much choice way of tdoing things. Character, line and paragraph spacing was all done using leading. If you wanted 2pt line spacing it would have been referred to as 12pt on 14pt. Line lengths were measured using an 'M' rule. In fact this system was still used in the very early days of computer typesetting.
It was only when companies found that they could use the office secretary to type out their printed matter and sat then in front of a DTP computer. Skilled typographers were no longer needed! Once the secretary was able to understand all the different aspects of DTP then if the type didn't fit they just stretch it! If an image didn't fit then they just stretch it. That's graphic design went downhill!
Just sayin'.
I tried to Justify left but that didn't seem to work. When are you supposed to apply such a command, when you create a text box or when you type in it? Do you have to select the txt and apply it?
 

I prefer using numbers to denote height as opposed to Primer and Long Primer and Brevier and Pica and Small Pica and.... All I can recall from years back.

Panic over! Garry you are right I just needed to drag the colour tab to one side.