Tips on wrapping my brain around using compression and expansion

I have audio of an event where unfortunately some people were standing too far form the mic at points so their audio is low. What i am trying to do is wrap my brain around the Dynamics Processor to raise the low bits up to peak at -3db and then if anything peaks, I'd like to lower it to about -3db also. I'd like to keep the dynamic range between only about -8 and -3. Can anyone give me a play by on how to go about using any of the plugins to accomplish this?

You could try the Speech Volume Leveler effect under the Amplitude and Compression menu. Some experimentation may be needed to find the best parameters.

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Help me wrap my brain around two-color printing.

I am doing my first layout for a two-color print job. It's a double-sided promo piece for a local non-profit.
Armed with my Pantone solid uncoated swatch book (rest assured, we are actually using uncoated paper) I am trying to piece together how to get all my ducks in a row.
The solid color blocks/text colors are pretty easy to work out - my swatch is the darkest color I can go, and I am able to lighten that Pantone color by tinting with white.
Where I'm running into issues is with my graphics. I am using two images (raster graphics) that have been converted in Photoshop to a single Pantone color. I did this by converting the image to grayscale > changing the mode to duotone > choosing "monotone" from the dropdown menu, and picking my Pantone color from the list.
Where I get confused is in reading online about other folks doing two-color printing, they are importing the grayscale image and a separate Pantone spot layer on top of it into InDesign. I don't even begin to understand this. Is it necessary?
By reading my process above, does it raise any red flags for you more knowledgeable folks out there?
Thanks so much,
Sara

Thank you - I actually was able to accomplish the task by using .psd's instead of .gif's. They were not in spot color originally, they were all over the board actually (of course!).
I am baffled by one last thing, however. I did the separations preview and took out all CMYK colors. However, when I exported the "package" the process color "black" was showing up. Yet, whenI did the separations preview and ONLY viewed black, both pages were completely blank. Luckily, I'm on good terms with the printer, so I explained this mystery to him when submitting the package of files. If he has any issues, I trust him enough to let me know what needs to be done. This printing firm does design as well, so I feel confident they will red flag any really serious things.
Thank you all again for your help! I've attached the final file in PDF, in case you'd like to see what you helped me do! The fades around the top text have some weird lines in PDF, but I assured they don't exist in the actual print file...
Sara

I can't seem to wrap my head around resizing/resampling and what is the correct way of doing it (CS5)

i know this is probably fairly basic but it's escaping my grasp at the moment. for whatever reason my teacher never really went over this other than to say 300dpi was what you want for the best quality prints, so i've always just sort of worked with that in mind and never gave much consideration to "re-sampling" or what it was necessarily, the box was just always checked. im not sure how much, or if, i've been screwing myself all this time, and i know this isn't THAT difficult so any advice would be appreciated. and i apologize if this has been gone over to death, but i wanted to use an example to help (hopefully) understand this better.
oh, and most of my work i display on the internet with the idea that it will in the future be printed, or with the notion that it can at least be printed. i've heard for web all you need is 72dpi, but since i expect it to be printed i just do 300dpi and save it normally. is this a bad move on my part and am i missing something by not saving it "for web and devices"?
example:
so i have an image i downloaded from the internet. as you can see it's at 72DPI and around 12.7x17.7in.
let's say i want to enlarge it to an even 13in and increase the resolution to 300DPI.
i'm confused as to when i want to uncheck resample. since it locks the pixels, if i increase the resolution the image gets smaller, and vice versa. i'm not sure i grasp when it's beneficial to have resample unchecked.
i feel really stupid, because i know all of this is pretty noobish but we hardly touched on this and the option of saving for web & devices (not at all) in my design class. thanks for any help.

just to clarify the point of the example i'm using...
let's say i'm going to use part of the knight as a composite on a larger canvas. i'm basically wanting the image to be as "optimal" as it can be, and large enough so that it can be further resized larger (if need be) without seriously compromising the quality. i know that it's easier make a larger image bigger than it is a smaller image.
i guess this way of working helps me keep the number of variables down. like if i take the helmet and put it on the image of a woman in bikini. even if the images are different sizes i should be able to scale them until they are proportional, and then if there are any issues i know that it probably has something to do with the original source and not me.
does any of that make sense?
honestly, i'm not sure if my way of thinking is ill thought or not. i'm assuming if i have an image made up of several other images, all at varying resolutions, the final product will be a mess.

CS 4 Wrapping a logo around a bottle

I am trying to remember how to wrap a logo around a bottle and can't remember how to do it. It isn't working with warp in photoshop. I have the text rasterized since it was created on a PC and don't have the matching fonts on the Mac. Help please? Thank you.

Several ways but next time you should have them outline the text and not rasterize it.
But since it is done then you can place the logo image under a closed path shaped like a can and Use Object>Envelope Distort>Make with Top Object
But before doing so copy the can shape and you might want to fill the copy which you send to the back and fill it wih a gradient and the set the top object with the distorted log to multiply in the transparency panel
Or use Use Effect>3D>Revolve and then use the Map art Feature
You have to turn your logo into a symbol but
if it has an opaque background you have to
Copy it it and paste in front or paste in back
then select both and make the top one an opacity mask by going to the Transparency and from the flyout choose Opacity Mask Make
and the choose clip and invert to make the background transparent then make the art a symbol
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How to wrap an image around a mug in Photoshop CS5?

I have tried many things like transform -> warp or tried to play with 3D but nothing gave me an effect like this image. Does anyone know a good tutorial or would like to explain to me how to wrap an image around a mug and make it look realistic like this?

For Photoshop Elements
Step A
Select the Type Tool, type in your text
.. then look at the top of the
page
You will see an arc with a T over it
Click on that and you will be
able to curve the text
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A. The picture of the coffee mug needs to be properly
sized, and enhanced
B. Directions for the text above
C. The picture for application to the mug needs to be
configured so that its curvature conforms. I shall give you directions, but the
values may require adjustment for your particular picture:
Duplicate background layer, and shut off visibility by clicking on its eye
icon
Increase canvas size Image>resize>canvas
size. Uncheck relative. Enter new values for width & height. Try 120% (+/-).
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transparency, which you want all around.
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degrees right
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handle, and pull just a little to left
Rotate picture back. Image>rotate>layer>90 degrees left
Copy to clipboard, paste on picture of mug. Position and adjust size with
move tool.
Edit: Resolution of picture of mug and of picture to be applied should be about
the same number. You can check this in Image>resize>picture size before you embark on
above.

Using Scanner and String together

What i am tryign to do:
Set up a menu, and the user has 3 options
a, b, c.
what i would like to happen:
is to set up a scanner that user the charAt methd form String class to only accpet the 1 letter entered into the scanner.
Is this the rigth was to do it? or is there an easier way?
//code above
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// STATEMENTS ARE HERE
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// STATEMENTS ARE HERE
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// WANT TO END PROGRAM
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what i would like to happen:
is to set up a scanner that user the charAt methd
form String class to only accpet the 1 letter entered
into the scanner.How about you simply doing charAt on the String yourself?
Though I would simply wrap some Reader around System.in and simply read the first char, flushing the stream afterwards.

TS2771 my ipod used to only charge when it was completely off but now i have to wrap the usb charger around my ipod and it shows the charging but it still doesnt charge

My ipod touch 4th gen used to only charge when it was completely off, but now a week or 2 later i am having to wrap my charger around my ipod to make it start charging but soon enough that still isnt charging.
Any help?
Thank you

Reset the device:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If that doesn't help, tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
If nothiing above helped, restore the iPhone to factory settings > Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings

Using compressed air to clean inside mac pro

hello. i wanted to clean the dust inside my mac (especially around the RAM and graphics card) and wanted to know if you guys think its ok to use a can of compressed air to do this with. i've blown around inside before but i cant get all the dust that way.
thx

I have a humidifier in the office. That seems fine.
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Wrapping vector label around a photographed bottle

I've designed a label for a soda bottle and now want to wrap it around a photograph of a bottle. I actually mocked up the label and conducted a photoshoot, but now that I'm looking at it, the colors just don't match (see examples below) - which is why I want to utilize the vector label and slap it over the photograph.
Since I've gone ahead and mocked up the bottle with the printed wrapper adhered to it, I want the positioning of the vector label to match up to the photographed label as closely as possible - because you can't get any better perspective than reality. The bottle was shot as dead on to center as possible, there is only an inkling of a vertical bulge.
This is the screenshot of the entire vector label that was printed and used on the photograph above. The label overlaps itself by only a several militers for gluing.
So how do I go about wrapping this vector around the photographed bottle in order for it to match?
I've already tried freestyling with Transform > Warp in PS - but its painstakingly hit or miss. I thought about mapping the vector label around a 3D cylinder of the same diamter of the photographed bottle and placing it over the bottle in PS. Any other suggestions?
In the future, would taping a grid onto my bottle then photographing and aligning a digital version of the same grid & label be the best workflow? Such as shown in this tutorial
Thanks!

Hi,
In the Layers panel of the 3D layer, you can revel the layer effects (which also has 3D texture maps) by clicking on the triangle at the right. From here, double clicking the name of the texture will open it. Alternatively, you can open the various texture maps inside the 3D panel, by first choosing the material to edit then navigating into the pop-up menus of the properties area.
I see that I actually scaled your artwork beyond the bounds of the cylinder edges to quickly get the artwork centrally placed. It would be better to start with your AI artwork placed into a new document and generate a Cylinder from that layer.
Once you get that created, place it into your image document and using the 3D camera, change the zoom level to affect the perspective (I over zoomed to 300 mm) while at the same time walking the camera back to keep it in frame. Once you have the perspective looking close, use the 3D axis widget with the cylindar mesh selcted, to constrain scale the cylinder to fit your image.
Hopefully this helps. It would be much better to see an animated walk thru but I'm not really setup for that at the moment.
regards,
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Photoshop CC / 3D - Wrapping a graphic around a cylinder without repeating.

I'm trying to wrap a label around a 3D bottle by inserting the label as a diffuse texture. I am able to position and scale the label proportionately, however instead of wrapping around the bottle once, it's repeating twice. I've tried fooling with the UV Properties with no success. Can anyone tell me how to successfully wrap a graphic around a model once without repeating?

You know a lot more about 3D then I do. You wrote that you were wrapping you label around a cylinder. So that is what I did. I know nothing about how to use extrusions like you do. I have just played a little with Adobe preset meshes like the wine bottle, cylinder and sphere. Its easy to put label on cylinders or wrap the earth around a sphere or put a collage on a Christmas ball. That is what I did and I also created an opacity map.
View screen captures in new tabs ans scale to actual size.

Wrapping my head around PIVOT - Arggggg

Ok, I am stumped. What I want seems so simple to me....
======= Table Def
CREATE TABLE "TI" (
"SNUM" NUMBER,
"SYMBOL" VARCHAR2(30),
"OPEN" NUMBER(15, 5),
"LOW" NUMBER(15, 5),
"HIGH" NUMBER(15, 5),
"CLOSE" NUMBER(15, 5),
"ADJ_CLOSE" NUMBER(15, 5),
"VOLUME" NUMBER(15, 5),
"CHANGE_PCT" NUMBER(15, 5),
"CHANGE_AMT" NUMBER(15, 5),
"TIMESTAMP" TIMESTAMP(9) DEFAULT systimestamp ,
"TRADE_DATE" DATE,
"DATA_SOURCE" NUMBER)
============ data
insert into TI (6975 ,'VT', 48.2,48.11, 48.41,48.23,48.23,200500,.009,.43,'01-JAN-11','08.32.57.366984000 PM','03-JAN-11',2)
insert into TI (6995,' AGG',105.4,105.3,105.68,105.63,105.63,739700,-.00113,-.12,'31-JAN-11 08.33.18.137327000 PM','03-JAN-11',2)
insert into TI(7015,'SPY',126.71,125.7,127.6,127.05,127.05,138725200,.01034,1.3,'31-JAN-11 08.33.34.708030000 PM','03-JAN-11',2)
So as you can see these are all on the same date. We currently collect three indices every day, but a user with the click of a mouse could add another or take one away.
What I am trying to do is get output gives a date and the indices contained in a given day and their adj_close as a single return value from a query.
I have spent the day trying to wrap my head around PIVOT or LISTAGG but just can't seem to get a grasp of the damn thing. All the examples I have seen incluse sums and such and I need, nor in fact do I want anything summed. This would seem to come down to grouping by the trade_date and that where something is just not making sense.
More then an answer ( although an answer would be very helpful :) ) It would be great if someone could simply lay out how this is supposed to work. Uhm did I say an answer would be helpful <big cheesy smile >
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Hi,
Thanks for posting the CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements. Please test any code before you post it; there seem to be a lot of mistakes in those 4 statements. Don't forget to post the results you want from the sample data, and your version of Oracle.
One thing that is common to all forms of pivoting or string aggregation is that you need to know, for each row of input, to which row and which column(s) (or position(s)) of output it corresponds. Sometimes one or both of these are already in the data, but sometimes they have to be derived from the data. I'll assume you have one of each: that trade_date indicates the output row, and that the column you called timestamp (but which I'll call tmstmp, since timestamp isn't a good column name) can be used to tell the output position: the earliestt tmstmp goes on the left, the 2nd lowest tmstmp goes next, the 3rd lowest tmptmp goes next, and so on. We can use the analytic ROW_NUMBER function to assing consectuive numbers (1 for lowest, 2 for 2nd lowest, 3 for 3rd lowest, and so on) to the different tmstmps for each trade_date. I'll assume you don't know how many of these there will be on any given trade_date, and there may be different numbers of them on different trade_dates in the same output. I'll assume you're using Oracle 10.
If you have an unknown number of items, then string aggregation (concatenating all the values into one big sting column) is a lot easier and more robust than pivoting, so let's do it that way.
Here's one way to do string aggregation:
WITH     got_c_num     AS
     SELECT     adj_close
     ,     trade_date
     ,     ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( PARTITION BY trade_date
                         ORDER BY        tmstmp
                       )     AS c_num
     FROM     ti
--     WHERE     ...     -- if you need any filtering, put it here
SELECT       trade_date
,       REPLACE ( SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH ( TO_CHAR (adj_close, '999990.000')
            )          AS indices
FROM       got_c_num
WHERE       CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF     = 1
START WITH     c_num          = 1
CONNECT BY     c_num          = PRIOR c_num + 1
     AND     trade_date     = PRIOR trade_date
ORDER BY trade_date
;Output from your sample data:
TRADE_DAT INDICES
03-JAN-11       48.230     105.630     127.050CONNECT BY is used for parent-child realtionships of variable length within one table. Here, we have assigned c_num to be 1 for the first input row for each trade_date, 2 for the next, and so on. In the CONNECT BY uery above, we're saying that every parent-child-grandchild-... chain will start with a row numbered c_num=1, and that a row will be considered the child of another row if its c_num is 1 higher, and their trade_dates are the same. (That's what the START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses are doing.)
SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH gives a delimited list of items, starting from the root (the item with no parent, c_num=1) and showing the lineage down to each item in the original table that is descendedd from some root. That means we get 3 rows of output in this case: one showing just c_num=1, another with that same c_num=1 and c_num=2. and finally one with all 3 c_nums. We're only interested in the last one, the onme with no child, so the WHERE clause discards the others.
By using TO_CHAR in SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH, we get items that are padded to the same length. That way, when they are displayed, they will appear to line up in neat columns. SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH reuires that you delimit the output items with some string that cannot possibly occur in the items themselves. I chose '/', but, since we don't want to see those '/'s, I used REPLACE to get rid of them once we were finished doing the SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH.

I prepare chronologies in word, and i am trying to do the same in pages using tables and cells. But somtimes i need a cell to wrap onto the next page but I can't work out how to do it - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I prepare chronologies in word, and I am trying to do the same in pages using tables and cells. But sometimes I need a cell to wrap onto the next page because the contents are bigger than the page or the space left on the page, but I can't work out how to do it - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

brendanfromsydney wrote:
What are the different opinions on why pages should not achieve this?
As far as I know, Apple is free to choose to offer this or that feature.
They never said that they want to clone Word or even compete with it.
Differences between tables in both worlds are numerous.
In Pages (or Numbers)
- we can't sort a single column
- we can't sort by row
- we can't insert or remove a single cell
- a cell can't cross pages boundaries
If I understand well these design choices match :
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
Apply the 80 Percent Solution
During the design process, if you discover problems with your product design, you might consider applying the 80 percent solution‚ that is, designing your software to meet the needs of at least 80 percent of your users. This type of design typically favors simpler, more elegant approaches to problems.
If you try to design for the 20 percent of your target audience who are power users, your design may not be usable by the other 80 percent of users. Even though that smaller group of power users is likely to have good ideas for features, the majority of your user base may not think in the same way. Involving a broad range of users in your design process can help you find the 80 percent solution.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 9 juin 2011 16:03:52
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Hi, I'd like to put a black and white effect on my colour footage which will look really sharp but which also looks bright so the whites look bright and the blacks look very dark . Any tips of which best effects to use to achieve this look in Prem Pro. Th

Hi, I'd like to put a black and white effect on my colour footage which will look really sharp but which also looks bright so the whites look bright and the blacks look very dark . Any tips of which best effects to use to achieve this look in Prem Pro. Thanks

Under the Effects-Lumetri Looks-Desaturation choose a B and W effect. Then add the luma corrector from the Video effects-colour correction section. Adjust the brightness and contrast to get the effect you want.

Is there any way to get around using iTunes.7 with a Nano (secnd gen)?

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I have a iMac (os x 10.2.8) and a iBook G4 (os x 10.3.7)
BUT as I'm sure you're aware, I can't update the iTunes on either to version 7 because it's only compatible with 10.3.9 or higher..
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Here:
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The current retail version is 10.4.6.
You should make sure that your computer meets the minimum requirements for 10.4.6 before you purchase.
They are listed here:
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How do i take and image of a wine glass and wrap another image around it!

InDesign isn't the correct application for such a manipulation.
If the "image of a wine glass" is a 2-dimensional image, you may be able to create the illusion of something wrapped around it in Photoshop, but there won't be any automatic solutions. Fundamentally, what you're proposing is a function of 3-D modeling.

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