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1. I
can get a clean circle fill easily enough... but when I just want a stroke
it has the ugly non-aliased edges... is there anyway to prevent this?
2. How
do I crop text, losing all the white space around it?
Q.
I can get a clean circle fill easily enough... but when I just want
a stroke it has the ugly non-aliased edges... is there anyway to prevent
this?
A.With the
circle selected, go to the stroke palette and change the stroke from Penci-Hard
to Pencil-Soft. The Hard Pencil does not allow anti-aliasing. The Soft
Pencil does.
Sandee Cohen
Q. I'm trying to figure
out how to do the most basic thing. I'm used to being able to open a new
file, add some text, draw a selection box around just the text, go to
the menu bar and click on "Crop" (the location of the menu item varies
among the major imaging tools) and lo and behold I have eliminated all
of the white space around the text. I'd really like to find out why this
isn't so simple in FW2--I don't think I should have to first somehow devine
the size of my menu items (for example) before I enter the text!!! Can
some of you FW2 devotees who came from something like Photoshop help me
out here?
A. It's really VERY easy and similar
to what you're doing in PS. First, create the document, add the text,
and then:
#1 If you want to keep a little white space around the text, press on
the black selection tool, and choose the Crop Tool. (Looks just like PS's
Crop tool) This is like PS, except the only difference is that you're
using a cropping tool not a marquee. Adjust the size of the crop area
to your liking. But you don't have to choose a menu command, you can just
double click inside the crop handles.
#2 If you want to crop EXACTLY to the size of the text you've just drawn,
you can just choose Modify> Document> Trim Canvas. What's really cool
about this is that FW doesn't look at the size of the text block; it looks
at the visual represenation of the text inside the block. So the size
crops only to that which should be exported. No white space around. No
slices. No nothing.
#3 If you want to crop with a little white space but don't want to use
the Crop tool, you can "fake" something that's like what you do in PS.
Grab the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle the way you wood the Marquee
in PS. Then choose Modify> Document> Trim Canvas. The only this that's
different here is that the rectangle should be fill: none/ stroke: none
or you have to delete it afterward.
Best, Sandee Cohen author of the FW 2 VQS