Illustrator :: How To Create Company Letterhead And Brochure
Jan 30, 2014
I am new to the Adobe Suite of products. I nee do create letterhead and a brochure for my company. I also need to be learning how to Blog as that is going to also be assigned to me. Is there anyplace I can find some direction on how to do this?
What is the best/cleanest way to create letterhead artwork to be used on a Word template?  Right now I'm just creating, copying and pasting, but it seems there must be a more professional way. InDesign, or is Illustrator OK?
I need a simple letterhead without graphics. I was thinking to use Photoshop for it fonts, etc.
But I cannot figure out how to get started. I want to start with a letter size document but when I select letter 8.5 x 11 it gives me a huge document. How do I get it to give me an 8.5 x 11 document to design a letterhead?
I have designed a letterhead in Ai (CS5). I want to make it a templete for Word 2010. Â Currently, I am writing all letters in Ai and making them a PDF. It would be easier in Word.
I have made a new layer in my brochure document and have set the swatch fill to black with 30% opacity and a red stroke, yet as soon as click on the document with my blob brush, the fill menu gets a red line (no fill) and I get a red dot which is the stroke?
I have been trying for hours to create an A5 Brochure in Illustrator (I have version CS5.1) Â lot of them say select 'A5' in the new document option, but there ISN'T an A5 option!
I've been told to create new dimensioning styles for the company to use as standards when making a drawing. One thing mentioned in particular was the inclusion of 0 inches in architectural drawings.
For example: say a part is 14 feet, 1/2 inches long. Inventor shows this: 14' - 1/2" , but they want this: 14' - 0 1/2" . They've had a problem before with the 1/2 being printed strangely, and the machinist thought it said 1 1/2.
They say that including the 0 is standard, and I need to make it happen.?
I'm creating a brochure in Illustrator, and using an image as the background. The image extends beyond the A4 borders of the artboard. Â When I exit the background layer, what setting do I use to only show thecontents within the boundary of the border of the artboard?
I have poster-sized file (32'' x 70'') that I need to send to my printing company. It will be printed at 200%. Will a PDF not be clear enough? There is one image. Do you need to "package" like in Indesign so they have the high res images and fonts?  Whats the best way to send a file for a high quality print?
I am VERY new to Adobe Illustrator and I am trying to recreate my company logo so as to save it in a higher res file type. Â See attached. Â The font is Melanie BT Roman, but I cannot figure out how to create the shadow / outline effect.
I designed a letter head and the top banner is all black, along with the bottom. I am trying to print it so there are no white borders around the edges but instead the top and bottom banner go right to the edge. I tried to option borderless printing but when i do that the color all comes out greyish instead of the usual black. I can print using the full page without loosing color or sharpness?
simple one with great use of colour and tones. If not, could some one advise me to a site, where i could get some good ideas from? This is for my architectural school project, thnx to every one in advance, btw im only sking for help cos im really really bad @ photoshop.
I have my letterhead 8.5 x11 typical letterhead in a PSD file.
But for e mailing I want to get creative.
I want to chop off a 1/2 of the white space and cruch together the top part of the letterhead with the logo with the bottom strip which has my address.
I’ve only used paintshop in the past to manipulate photo’s lol, but now I have a serious use for it.
The only problem I have is getting the borders to print right to the edge of the paper when printing. I mean its way off, is it that I am setting my paper size wrong? When I select ‘new’ I make the document 210x297mm is this right?
I just got a contract to design a brochure. Haven't done that many before. I need to create a pack shell. In essence two A4 sheets with a spine and on the inside two flaps (left and right) in which material can be slid in. Thing is I don't know how to go about representing the flaps so that a printer would be able to work off my designs.
I am creating a brochure for my company using X4. The brochure is 8 1/2 by 11 and the color goes all the way to the edges. When I print I get a 1/4 border all around the brochure. I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it.Â
I have a few brochure files - and I want to make them look like this:What do I mean by "this"... I want to give them this folded look as not to have them on my portoflio so flat and plain... Â Is there a way I can make like a template in Photoshop - including the "warping" so that the paper looks slightly curved? Would an Action be the way to go?
I am trying to setup an 8.5 X11 sheet on landscape to do a brochure but I cannot add any bleed lines on user defined presets.
When I go to layout>page setup>guidelines>presets>user defined presets. It only gives me the options for margins and # of columns and the distance apart.....but no bleed area
The only way I can add bleed to the layout is when I go to layout>page setup>size (bleed .125")>guidelines>presets>corel presets> check three column newsletter and check bleed area. But then I cannot adjust the distance apart during setup.
How to recover a brochure that I created. Now I can view it in the preview but whenever I try and open the file it stops about 30% - 40% through opening and then crashes Corel and shuts the program down. Now I have tried to import the file as well but the same thing happens. I don't want to have to redraw the entire brochure. The file is about 186MB.
I'm trying to come up with a Logo for our small engineering company. The company name is (CHJ Incorporated). We do soils related work in southern california. We are looking for something very simple, professional, and something to focus on the CHJ letters. Perhaps just a great new font, etc. So far, our internal ideas have all been focused on just the CHJ letters with font changes and shading.
To make a long story short, is photoshop what I should use to create it? I'd like it to be scalable, vector I believe it's called, but wouldn't Illustrator be a better choice for this? The logo will probably be some fancy text, with a bit of a effect, and a very simple identification mark.
It's good practice to keep within certain color schemes for a business.. for brand recognition etc. But my problem is i started a company, and my first stop was the logo and website. I found a color scheme which i loved on screen.. its blue (#265E81) and dark grey (#272727) Â I created a website aorund these colors. I then created business cards using these colors. And invoices. And letterheads. Now to my shock, the dark grey is So unreadable when ontop of the blue when printed out. Its clear as day on screen.... any screen. But just not on print. The blue becomes ALOT darker on print. Â I do have slight understanding of setting up a document for print... such as 300dpi, and CMYK etc. But it doesn't make a difference to my final print. Â Is there a method that i can find the color that will look like my blue on screen.. once printed out? Im tempted to just brighten up the blue on all documents intended for print... but that doesnt seem very proffesional or standard. Â how do other companies pick their color schemes. Do they test there schemes on print aswell as screens before going ahead with it? I just see companies having the exact same color whether i see it on my screen or on a printed document.
I'm working on recreating my uncles Marketing Campaign, Vinyl Decals, business cards the lot! So I'm looking for the recreation of the logo itself.
It's attached so how I can recreate the shadow all around "patco". It's really sharp on the edges of the shadow and I'm just not able to recreate it. I tried drop shadows and that didn't work. How to do a wrap without the top bending either.
Been working with Auto Cad for a while, but using the same tittle block that was created by someone else.
The tittle block seems to be made up of some text lines (which is the area I want to modify), but tied to several 'attributes' below the text, project, drawing number etc.
The only way I can access the text is to 'explode' the whole area (block?), I can then modify the text, but in doing so the several attributes function individually, and not as a whole block.