Is this achievable in Illustrator

Hi All,
The below picture is off the internet, however Im wanting to recreate this sort of effect (not same idea) and wondering if this is achievable in Illustrator or if the artist used another program. Any thoughts?
Much Thanks,

Hello Smart_77
I tried this as an exercise, my example is a little crude, however it is quite easy to reproduce.
Items Used: (Angle based on 45 Degrees)
Rectangle Tool
Shear Tool
Graduation Colours
Gradient Tool
Rounded Corners
Direct Selection Tool
Selection Tool
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TREX

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There is nothing wrong with a 1-bit diffusion dither object being raster, as far as printing results is concerned. Such images date back to the days of MacPaint and Hypercard. They are same-size (historically usually 1-point) pixels, randomly distributed at varying frequencies to suggest tones (as opposed to individual printer spots being combined to build varying size halftone dots).
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A proper logo is the cornerstone identity graphic of a commercial entity or product. It serves as the pristine "master" for all occurrances of the entity's mark. It is therefore built with exacting care, accuracy, and technical efficiency. It is also built to technically accommodate as many repro environments as possible to ensure consistent integrity to the design and reproduction quality. Its use is strictly controlled by its owner.
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I have an idea for a layout, but was wondering if it was
technically
achievable.
Easy part :
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high).
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column.
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extents
off-screen to the left, so that if you pull the browser
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amount of "blank" becomes uncovered to the right of the
text).
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slide into the
centered layout... more than that, and it touches the text
column.
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huge background image with no-repeat, but this doesn't stop
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under the text.
Should I be centering an enormous background with half of it
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transparent information? That's the only other way I can
think of... but to
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be ridiculously
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image itself.

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> Just make the image 2 * X wide, and put the portion you
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center"
> (vertical/horizontal), thus:
>
> body {
> background-image : url(myimage.png) ;
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> background-position : top center ;
> }
I thought of that, but the resulting image would be GIGANTIC.
I was
wondering if there was a way to do it with only the left half
(the one with
actual image data).
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a solid
color). A single GIF with 200 hues making up a gradient, 1px
wide, repeating
on X only, and only 7k in weight. So if I tried it the
obvious way (the one
you suggested) it would have to be a gigantic GIF (so the
colors match --
when one background ends, the other picks up) or a JPG
(compression would
almost ensure the gradient be banding at that size) or,
finally, a PNG (I
could use alpha channels here to make most of the image
invisible, thus
taking care of the gradient vs gradient problem... but can
you imagine a
1600x1200 PNG file? It must easily be over a meg large).
Ideally, I'd place the PNG a bit to the left, with only the
part with actual
data on file (800px instead of 1600). But I'm not sure
there's a way to do
"center image, but make it 400px off-axis to the left" so as
to "feign" the
presence of 800 invisible pixels on the right of the image.
Sorry if I'm not being as clear as I'd like, I'm just not
used to explaining
this type of stuff. It's all very clear in my head, honest.
Mike

What do you think of this vector based illustration that I made?

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Your trace over the image is fairly accurate as regards the trace. Here I removed most of the color and laid it over the photo.
Your treatment of the subject is flat, uninspiring, don't ya think?
One way of rectifying that is to use mesh fills so you can add highlights, darker regions and "easily" modify them as you go. This would give the drawing some dimension. You could also go for making a bazillion polygons to go for a more modernistic interpretation.
But we have no idea of what you are wanting to achieve. It would be easier (and more time effective on our part), if you pointed to similar drawings that you wanted to emulate. Else we could give a hundred ways of drawing it that do not fit your goals, whatever they are.
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How is This Achieved?

Hello there,
On the Apple website (link provided below), on the reseller
part of the page (far right), there's a search field, now field has
rounded corners, and this seems to be recognized as a whole field
on Mac - I currently use CSS to style rounded corners but the one
on the Apple site is much more intuitive.
I would be greatly for any advice and help.
Regards,
Kriss (UK).
Link to the Apple
Page

"Michael Fesser" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> .oO(Coxdabd)
>
>> On the Apple website (link provided below), on the
reseller part of the
>> page
>>(far right), there's a search field, now field has
rounded corners, and
>>this
>>seems to be recognized as a whole field on Mac - I
currently use CSS to
>>style
>>rounded corners but the one on the Apple site is much
more intuitive.
>
> It's a normal input field, some JavaScript, some CSS and
a handful of
> images. The resulting markup looks like this:
>
> <div class="search-wrapper empty">
> <span class="left"/>
> <input type="search" name="q" id="sp-searchtext"
class="g-prettysearch
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> <span class="right"/>
> <div class="reset"/>
> </div>
Their markup is so ugly, it's unbelievable.
The snippet above is wrapped in a label with a for attribute,
the input type
value is "search", the class "empty" is plugged in there
everytime the box
loses focus and they do not use a sprite image to minimize
HTTP request...
Imho, they have more nodes than they need to achieve that
design and
functionality. And we're only looking at a small part of the
document...
I guess it's all about design ;-)
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http://forum.howdesign.com/tm.aspx?m=508794
Thank you,

Hi... I've some experience of 3D apps (Yes, 3DStudioMax and an open source one: Blender.... and years ago a 'light-weight' 3D app I can't rmember the name of just now, it'll come to me). I don't think I'd class any 3D app as 'quick to deploy' as an 'occasional' user. If you're going to use it day-in day-out then sure it'll end up 'quick to deploy'. I think you've made this assessment though.
I've never used Painter so I'm not qualified to comment specifically on how it differs. I would say that I think you'd need to know specifically what it would do.. and I suspect it's a bit like airbrush verses paintbrush... or dare I say: Quark versus InDesign... they essentially do the same thing, they're not 'better' just different... though of course you'll get loads of people will tell you airbrush is better than paintbrush or vice-versa and get pretty evangalistic about their particular experience.. quite often not really very helpful in the end, best will and all that. I use both, regularly, have my preference but on balance... there's really nothing 'killer' I'd say one has over the other. I suspect it's the same for Coral Painter. There is a magazine in newagents for Coral Painter, might give you a feel if you look through it, I have and my feel was as I've just said... nothing 'killer' I'd change for.
If your experience investment is in PhotoShop and Illustrator then consider whether the 'cost' of going back to basics in something else is the thing to do... only you know the answer to that.... you say 'often works'... suggesting you may not have committed considerably yet but perhaps you have?
I suggest researching what others are doing... there are resources on the web with awesome work... both in PhotoShop and Painter... it'll show you what's possible... the surge in material on show opened my eyes to PhotoShops possibilities, an application I thought at the time I knew pretty well. Might help you develop a 'feel' for which way to go.
PhotoShop CS5 has some interesting new '3D' features now which I've not had chance to play with... I don't know if you've got CS5? If not, I'd see if I could sweet talk someone who has it into letting you have a proper look-see.
This is just my viewpoint given in the hope it'll help you out... though... I'm not sure it does. Difficult decision. Best of luck with it.

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