Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thanksgiving Day eCards

Hello everyone, in this post I would like to present you our Thanksgiving Day ecards gallery. We have tried to cover as many client-wishes as possible, so in this gallery you can find both corporate ecards and e-cards for friends and family, animated ecards and static ecards, e-cards with messages written in english and/or spanish (and, occasionally, in various other languages). All these e-cards are available for free on our website, www.seiza.ro

Thanksgiving Day eCards gallery preview
Free Thanksgiving greeting cards and animated ecards for Thanksgiving day. By sending a Thanksgiving ecard you have a chance to show your appreciation to your clients, partners or colleagues, but also to bring a smile on the faces of our loved ones - family and friends and to thank them for their help, love and support. Visit our website for more free Thanksgiving Day greeting e-cards.

Black Friday poster for sale

We are selling on shutterstock.com:

black friday poster  for printing
Black Friday poster for printing. Color model: CMYK. Format 1: EPS 10. Format 2: high-resolution jpeg file. Dimensions of the jpeg file: up to 7146x5052px / 60.5cmx42.8cm. If you want to buy this vector-image follow this link

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Black Friday labels, stickers, stamps and posters for sale

We are selling on shutterstock.com:

Black Friday - Big discounts, black friday label, black friday sticker
Black Friday label for printing. Color model: CMYK. Format 1: EPS 10. Format 2: high-resolution jpeg file. Dimensions of the jpeg file: up to 4000x4000px.

Black Friday label for printing, black friday sticker
Shop'til you drop - Black Friday label for printing. Color model: CMYK. Format 1: EPS 10. Format 2: high-resolution jpeg file. Dimensions of the jpeg file: up to 4000x4000px.

Shop'til you drop - Black Friday label for printing
Shop'til you drop - Black Friday sticker for print. Color model: CMYK. Format 1: EPS 10. Format 2: high-resolution jpeg file. Dimensions of the jpeg file: up to 4800x4800px.

Black Friday poster for print, black friday sticker for printing
Black Friday poster for printing. Color model: CMYK. Format 1: EPS 10. Format 2: high-resolution jpeg file. Dimensions of the jpeg file: up to 5955x4210px.


For more Black Friday labels and posters please visit our page on shutterstock: http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1888550p1.html

Thursday, November 13, 2014

CorelDRAW x5 basics: the viewing modes (4) - the Draft viewing mode

Sometimes, when you are working with huge CorelDraw projects your computer might slow down significantly, even in the Normal viewing mode (which is, anyway, less demanding than the Enhanced mode). If this happens, you can switch to an even less demanding viewing mode - the Draft viewing mode. This viewing mode is also recommended when one wants to evaluate basic colour schemes in a vector drawing.


Characteristics of the Draft viewing mode:
- the anti-aliasing option isn't available in this viewing mode, so the oblique lines and the curved lines will look harsh and jaggy
- bitmaps are displayed on low resolution
- fountain-fills are not displayed correctly (for example, in CorelDraw x5 and in the later versions, if you have a two-colours fountain-fill/gradient-fill, instead of the gradient will be displayed only the colour that is located in the middle point of the gradient. In the previous versions of CorelDraw a checkerboard pattern is displayed instead of a gradient fill.)
- the Pattern Fill, Bitmap Fill, Texture Fill and PostScript Fill are not displayed correctly in this viewing mode (see the images below).



The circle in the foreground is filled with a two-colours gradient (from yellow to red), which is properly displayed in the "Enhanced" viewing-mode (see the image above). When the "Draft" viewing mode is used, the gradient fill is replaced with a single-colour fill - namely, orange, because orange is the intermediate colour between yellow and red.




If we compare the two imeges above we can easily observe that only the uniform-fill is properly displayed. A single colour replace the fountain-fill, a two-headed arrows pattern is displayed instead of the pattern-fill, bitmap-fills are replaced by a hatched-lines pattern, a black-and-white texture is displayed instead of any texture-fill and a pattern of repeated PS is displayed instead of the PostScript fills.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

CorelDRAW x5 basics: the viewing modes (3) - the Normal viewing mode

As I've said in the previous post, Enhanced is the best viewing mode and is the default setting in CorelDRAW. If you have an old computer or a computer with a weak video card, or if you have hundreds of objects and effects on a page, you might have to use a less demanding viewing mode, namely the Normal viewing mode. As you can see in the pictures below, there are not so many differences between these two viewing modes: the anti-aliasing option isn't available in the Normal viewing mode, the PostScript fills aren't displayed and the bitmap-fills are displayed in a lower resolution.


The Anti-aliasing option is not available in the Normal viewing mode, so the curves aren't smooth in this viewing mode.



The Enhanced viewing mode displays the best possible quality for your monitor; this viewing mode displays high-resolution bitmaps, PostScript fills and anti-aliased vector graphics.


The PostScript fills aren't displayed in the Normal viewing mode. You'll notice also that the colours of the bitmap fill are not as vivid as they should be.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

CorelDRAW basics: the viewing modes (2) - the Enhanced viewing mode

Enhanced is the best viewing mode and is the default setting in CorelDRAW (If you want to choose another default viewing mode click Tools Options -> click General in the Document list of categories and choose an option from the View mode list box.)

The Enhanced viewing mode displays the best possible quality for your monitor; this viewing mode displays high-resolution bitmaps, PostScript fills and anti-aliased vector graphics.

Aliasing is the process by which smooth curves and other lines (usually the diagonal lines) become jagged (jaggies are stairlike lines that appear where there should be smooth straight lines or curves) because the output device (display monitor or printer) does not have enough resolution to portray a smooth line. In addition, this process often occur when a bit-mapped image is converted to a different resolution. Anti-aliasing is a software technique that smooths out jagged lines by surrounding the jaggies with transparent pixels to simulate the appearance of fractionally-filled pixels.

Additionally, when the Enhanced mode is activated you can activate two more options: Simulate overprints and Rasterize complex effects. These options are useful (or better said, essential) when you want to use your artwork for commercial printing.

Simulate overprints - when you print your artwork, if two ore more objects are overlapping, only the top objects will be entirely visible (and printed), while the non-visible portions of the rest of the objects are automatically removed. If you want to print the non-visible portions of your artwork you can use the Overprint option. The Simulate overprints option allows you to see the resulting colour of areas where overlapping objects are set to overprint.

Rasterize complex effects Use this option when you want to see how these complex effects (bevels, transparencies, drop shadows, etc.) will be printed.