Pathfinder/Mesh Issues

[warking@mac.com]

Does anyone have these issues?

1- When using pathfinder filters on a curved or circular object, the program quits if the Appearance pallet is visible?

2- Having two layers. Bottom is a photo in full color preview, top is a mesh grid and on wireframe preview. When eyedrop sampling color it picks up the mesh when it is sopposed to ignore the wireframe previewed layer and sample the photo underneath?

Beuller?

Todd@warking.com
www.warking.com

[The Repro Kid]

Problem #1: No, I, I usually have the appearance palette open and I use the pathfinder a lot and haven't noticed that.

Problem #2: Objects in wireframe view can have their colors sampled, but normally you have click directly on the wire. However, the meshes seem slightly different, I've tested your mesh frame problem just how you described and I'm getting sampled colors from the photo, not the mesh. Im not getting the mesh frame colors, even when I click directly on a wire in the mesh, but if I click directly on a mesh point, I sample a four color black, don't ask me why. In older versions you could only sample colors from photos if you held down the shift key, I think it's too bad that it changed. I'm running CS2, MacOSX (of course).

[warking@mac.com]

My computers all work fine with the mesh/photo just as I did it in the video, but there are those who have experianced this issue and it drives me crazy to see it reacts differently from computer to computer.

Thanks

[The Repro Kid]

Video? Did I miss something?

[warking@mac.com]

http://www.warking.com/Mesh_Tech.mov

[The Repro Kid]

Wow, I really liked that tutorial. I especially liked the comment on House and Boston Legal ;) I used to get to draw the pills at my vitamin job and that would have been great, I used the mesh to draw many of them, but not to trace. How cool. They gave the pre-flight guy official pill duty though, so now I don't get to draw them anymore.

However, you can start the oval with the oval tool, I'm not sure why you started with a square. Place the oval tool in the center of the oval you're tracing, then hold down the option key to force the tool to draw out from from the center instead of from the top left point. First pull straight out to the right for the correct width, then pull straight down to get the height. Holding down the shift key while you are making the oval allows you to move the center of the oval to adjust the position and get the center aligned just right. Do all this in one move at the same time. This way you should be able to get an accurate oval in about two seconds.

BTW, the link is broken on your tutorial #13.