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Tutorial: Adobe Illustrator 2023🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s New “Intertwine” Feature

November 27, 2022
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In which I finally make a video tutorial because the amount of screenshots needed to explain this would have been ridiculous. Let me know what you think; there may be more video tutorial content in the future! Pros: Does what it says it will, fairly intuitive to work with. Cons: Messes with y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划layer structure, any normal layout edits after applying Intertwine are trickier. Overall: Tough to see how it provides a benefit over the […]

Tips on Researching and Mapping Historical Rail Lines Using the Internet

May 3, 2020
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In between writing this blog, designing my own maps, and digitally restoring vintage maps, I also like to map out old, forgotten streetcar and electric interurban networks in Google Maps. I mainly do it because I want to compile information from various sources into one place and build my own coherent understanding of the networks that once existed. So far, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve done the streetcars and interurbans of Portland, Oregon in 1920; the interurbans of Spokane, […]

Reader Question: Preparing Print-Ready Raster Files from Adobe Illustrator

April 7, 2016
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Question: Hi Cameron, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m wrapping up a transit map project that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll likely print professionally. I was all set to send the printer a PDF until I happened to catch one of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划tweets that mentioned using a high-resolution JPEG instead. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m wondering if you could share y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划recommended practices for exporting from Illustrator to print-ready JPEG in terms of resolution, color profiles, and the like. The last thing any of us wants is to […]

More Design Notes on the Redrawn Tube Map

February 1, 2016
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Wow! I've been completely blown away by the (mostly positive) response to my redrawn Tube Map. Thanks to everyone who has left me a comment or note – all of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts help to inform future revisions to the map. There's a few more parts of the map that I'm personally really happy with that I'd like to highlight in a little more detail than the already lengthy initial post allowed. Read on for the details!

On Digitally Restoring Vintage Maps

January 23, 2015
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Restoring the vintage 澳洲10开官网开奖 that I'm now selling in my store is a laborious, time-intensive task, but I think that it's definitely worth it in the end. The major task is getting rid of blemishes: age spots, ink smears, tears, creases, dirt, dust, and even hair or other fibres that are between the print and the scanning surface. Here's how I go about things!

Tutorial: Drawing Complex Highway Interchanges in Illustrator

October 18, 2014
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This is kind of a tangent to my normal tutorials, but I had a surprising number of requests for this after I published my McKinney Avenue Trolley map, so here goes! The 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划thing to note is that this is not a 100-percent accurate representation of the interchange: this trolley map is not intended to be a road map or to be used to navigate freeways. I want to communicate the idea of an interchange […]

New Adobe Illustrator “Join Tool” Aids Transit Map Design!

October 17, 2014
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🔸澳洲开奖 Adobe Illustrator finally introduced “Live Corners” in January of this year, I was overjoyed. They’d taken one of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks in transit mapping – generating properly nested sets of rounded corners where route lines changed direction – and turned it into something intuitive, quick and 100-percent accurate every time. However, it didn’t solve every problem. Joining two separate paths into one (so that Live Corners could be applied to the […]

Question: What’s a good way to display one-way routes on a map?

August 4, 2014
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The only correct answer to this is is to use an arrow that points in the direction of travel. However, there’s plenty of different ways to integrate that arrow into y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划artwork, as the examples above show: next to y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划route lines, within y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划route lines, or even as an integral part of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划route line. A lot of it depends on the aesthetic vision of the map, or how much space is available. If […]

Tutorial: Working with a Grid in Adobe Illustrator

June 22, 2014
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Got a message in my inbox from ssjmaz, who says: I’m new to working with Illustrator. While working with 45 degree angles and Snap to Grid on I have a hard time getting my lines (routes) to align properly, there is always a part of them that intersects with the neighbouring line. Back 🔸澳洲开奖 I 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划started making 澳洲10开官网开奖, I had this exact same problem. I’d make my grid, turn on Snap to Grid […]

Tutorial – Limitations of Illustrator CC’s “Live Corners” Function

May 28, 2014
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An anonymous follower sent me this message: I got Illustrator CC and trying to work with new Live Corners feature for my 45 degree angles but I just can’t get the value past a certain point 8.12 (as an example) so I can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t match the location of the 2 corners so the lines actually match. Keep up the great work with this Tumblr it has been a real inspiration for me. This can be a […]