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bashway
bashway aka Beck is a 31.81 year old girl, has been a member since July 17, 2006, has scored 2022 submissions, giving an average score of 2.59.
  Aug 15 '06 by bashway        12 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
clipping paths, boredom, etc
ugh. work. so i finally have some down time at my job. down time meaning that I don't have a MAJOR catalog deadline to meet but i have about 20 product clipping paths to do and probably 40 or so more to come.
talk about the hum drum part of graphic design.
click click click.

instead of doing what i should have been doing i spent most of my time at work designing a submission for the dni contest. doh! i hope no one at my job is on this site. i doubt most of the employees are cool enough to be on here anyways... except "DP".

anywho... i'm bored. i hate clipping paths. thought i would share. blah blah. not that you all give a rats ass. but hey neither do i.

* smooches threadless readers*

rodrigospot
rodrigospot on Aug 16 '06 at 4:53pm
Yes, clipping paths are like the worst thing you can do in any designing job... Thanks for the compliment on the Star Wars Shirt, It`s the first of a few ideas I have!!! And don`t worry about star wars fans. They`re crazy anyhow. They almost killed me just `cause I drew the wrong spacecraft model on the T-Shirt... Damn.

But thanks!!!
bashway
bashway on Aug 18 '06 at 10:32am
yes clipping paths suck. big time. i do photography for a catalog and also design it. so i do some of the clipping paths. god i miss real design! thank god for threadless.
this is the only thing that has motivated me lately to do graphic design outside of my full time job.
staffell
staffell on Aug 18 '06 at 10:35am
click click click click click click click click click click click click
melhel86
melhel86 on Aug 18 '06 at 10:38am
sounds like my job. Especially since before I came here, they didn't know how to DO clipping paths. Can you imagine actually using the background eraser tool for this long....

So I get everything to clip, because, "I do it faster", yeah I do it faster, I worked for a sports publication and had to clip entire football teams out, you get used to it...
bashway
bashway on Aug 18 '06 at 10:50am
ugh! hahah
i had a whole fuckin class on clipping paths. i'm like what the hell am i gonna use this for. little did i know. it came to haunt me.
the clicking haunts me in my sleep
i wonder how many times a day we click the mouse.
i tried counting once... lost track at um 20 yah.
pretty bad, i have the attention span of an ant.

is there anything worse than clipping paths really?

*thinks*
whirzle1
   whirzle1 on Aug 18 '06 at 10:58am
What kind of backgrounds are they on? You can always try and cheat with the Free Selection tool then convert it to a path...sometimes it comes out really raggy though.
bashway
bashway on Aug 18 '06 at 11:13am
yeah. trust me i've done that. doesn't cut it for the stuff i'm doing though. most of the time i get to pawn them off on someone esle.
mezo
   mezo on Aug 18 '06 at 11:18am
Clipping paths are the DEVIL. They are so boring!

....I am forced to do them a shit ton at my job, too.
spacesick
   spacesick on Aug 18 '06 at 11:22am
idclip
bashway
bashway on Aug 18 '06 at 11:23am
hair and feather are the worst. i swear my company is feather/hair obsessed!
Biggie
Biggie on Aug 18 '06 at 11:34am
clipping spirals may be right up there with clipping hair.....O_o *DIES*
bashway
bashway on Aug 18 '06 at 3:01pm
hehehe. yes yes. i agree! springy spirals
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habitat: baltimore, MD
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graphic designer - currently employed @ www.raymondgeddes.com
photographer - do a lot of stuff on the side artisically for myself, also did a few things for www.mosaiclounge.com
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