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ccaetano
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: www.ccaetano.com picsweep.blogspot.com
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:59 pm
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Hello all,
I use Illustrator CS2 to do my illustrations and then save them as Illustrator 8 EPS.
Then I try to add descriptions and keywords to my EPS vectors but I can't.
With photos I edit keywords in Adobe Bridge. I tried to do the same to my EPS vectors but the file info fields are disabled.
What am I doing wrong?
How do you do it?
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donsawvel
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
Posts: 118
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:53 am
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I've found Illustrator 8 files cannot use keywords. But I use this system:
Create an illustration, add keywords, description using the File Info menu within Illustrator. Save a version as CS3 (or CS2), this is my "master" file. I then save a second Illustrator 8 .eps file.
Use the master CS3 file to open the illustration in Photoshop. I create my .jpegs this way because I like to tweak the colors. I've found the blacks always need darkened up a little. Then, when you save as a .jpeg, that file will keep the keywords from your original file.
So, when you upload to sites that will read your keywords, that info comes from the .jpeg you've made. Use your master file in the Bridge, or in Illustrator, and you can copy and paste keywords for other sites. I only keep my master file and delete the Ill. 8 file after upload.
Typing all this, it seems a bit elaborate, but it works for me. I'd love to hear anyone else's workflow methods, I just kind of came up with this myself over time.
hope this helps,
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donsawvel
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:58 am
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Carlos,
I just looked at your portfolio. Beautiful, inventive, colorful, inspiring. wow.
perhaps I shouldn't offer illustration help - I don't need the competition!
thanks for the wonderful pictures to go with my morning coffee.... |
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varius
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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Location: Bietigheim - Bissingen, Germany
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:05 am
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| ccaetano wrote: | Hello all,
I use Illustrator CS2 to do my illustrations and then save them as Illustrator 8 EPS.
Then I try to add descriptions and keywords to my EPS vectors but I can't.
With photos I edit keywords in Adobe Bridge. I tried to do the same to my EPS vectors but the file info fields are disabled.
What am I doing wrong?
How do you do it?
Thank you |
Never done it, but IIRC you have to submit a jpg preview with your vector? If so, try adding the keywords to the jpg. Might work. |
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jerseyjoker
Joined: 02 Jul 2007
Posts: 60
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:47 am
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I create my illustrator files with a large enough artboard to export a jpeg file acceptable to submit on its own to SS. Then in photoshop I add the keywords to the jpeg file, save, reduce the size to the thumbnail size, add the keyword "vector" to the list and save the thumb as a separate file with the same name as the eps. That way, I always have a jpeg and an eps with thumbnail to upload together. An artboard of 600 pts x 800 pts exports to a jpeg file size of 2500x3333 pixels-plenty big for SS. Hope that's not too confusing. :) |
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ccaetano
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 1504
Location: www.ccaetano.com picsweep.blogspot.com
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:04 pm
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| donsawvel wrote: | Carlos,
I just looked at your portfolio. Beautiful, inventive, colorful, inspiring. wow.
perhaps I shouldn't offer illustration help - I don't need the competition!
thanks for the wonderful pictures to go with my morning coffee.... |
Donald, Thank you very much for your compliments about my portfolio. I'm glad you like it!! :-)
Don't worry, I'm no competitor for no one when it comes to illustration! HE HE HE
Donald and Joan,
So basicaly, by your explanations, I can keyword only the small jpg's that go along with the vectors and the system recognize them as belonging to the EPS files... Is that it? That would be fine for me! |
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jerseyjoker
Joined: 02 Jul 2007
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:47 pm
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| Quote: | | So basicaly, by your explanations, I can keyword only the small jpg's that go along with the vectors and the system recognize them as belonging to the EPS files... Is that it? That would be fine for me! |
That's the way I do it and it seems to work. Good luck. I'll be interested in seeing your illustrations! |
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michaeldb
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
Posts: 1178
Location: Helena, MT
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:35 pm
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| jerseyjoker wrote: | | I create my illustrator files with a large enough artboard to export a jpeg file acceptable to submit on its own to SS. Then in photoshop I add the keywords to the jpeg file, save, reduce the size to the thumbnail size, add the keyword "vector" to the list and save the thumb as a separate file with the same name as the eps. That way, I always have a jpeg and an eps with thumbnail to upload together. An artboard of 600 pts x 800 pts exports to a jpeg file size of 2500x3333 pixels-plenty big for SS... |
This is good advice. If you make the artboard a little bit bigger still, you can export your vectors as 4000+x4000+ and submit them as rasters. I do this and get some extra sales. You could, for example, trace this image of yours in AI, submit it as a vector, and then submit it as a raster too.
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jerseyjoker
Joined: 02 Jul 2007
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:27 pm
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| Quote: | | If you make the artboard a little bit bigger still, you can export your vectors as 4000+x4000+ and submit them as rasters. |
Are rasters the same as jpeg? I've been uploading most of my jpegs made from vectors but none of them have been 4000x4000 pix, although all have been over the required 4MP. I'm fairly new to vectors and am having a lot of fun with them but have a lot to learn! :) |
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ccaetano
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 1504
Location: www.ccaetano.com picsweep.blogspot.com
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:08 pm
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| michaeldb wrote: |
This is good advice. If you make the artboard a little bit bigger still, you can export your vectors as 4000+x4000+ and submit them as rasters. I do this and get some extra sales. You could, for example, trace this image of yours in AI, submit it as a vector, and then submit it as a raster too.
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Thanks, Michael.
I've just done it!
I submited yesterday a few vectors and their hi-res jpg's.
The jpg's have just been approved! In just one day! That was fast!
I suppose that the vectors will take a little longer...
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