eMedia Design

Chris Ostoich

essa — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:13:34 +0000

I work with people. In today’s environment, I find that listening is a skill that has been lost, particularly from a vendors perspective. Not with eMedia. For the last several months, Essa became a member of our team. He learned our business, listened to our challenges, understood how we wanted to be perceived and put his listening to work in building our new brand. I am thrilled with the work that has been delivered and for all of Essa’s insight along the way. If you would like to hear more about my experience with Essa – call me. I’d be glad to talk with you about it personally. If you want to see it first hand – check it out at www.blackbookemg.com – his work speaks for itself.

Heartland

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:35:15 +0000

Heartland Industrial Solutions approached eMedia to help with a re-design of their brand as well as their website, and we hit it out of the park. Fine lines and perfect colors make for a “Machine” of a website. The client was more than pleased, and we are too.

www.heartlandsolutions.com

AdvancedMaintenance

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:33:19 +0000

Advance Maintenance Technologies was in need of a new logo and online presence. This detailed and intricate, yet modern site is accrued to the same qualities eMedia felt AMT needed to showcase; and we were just the right people to do it.

www.amtvibrationanalysis.com

J8ded

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:29:06 +0000

J8ded has hit Cincinnati with the ultimate challenge, and Emedia Design gladly accepted. However, ‘jaded’ will be the last thing you feel when you see this masterpiece of sound and motion, all wrapped up in one captivating site. This plot, having been centered in our very own hometown, has not only gotten our full attention, but has given us an opportunity to showcase Emedia’s intensity and dedication, in creating a site of such varied media.

www.j8ded.com

MidwestFinancial

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:27:45 +0000

Career initiative, strategy, ambition, many things must be implemented to yield results in any lucrative venture. The simple but definitive feel of this site produces trust that the best solution will always be strived for.

www.midwestfinancialstaffing.com

TylerMacko

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:24:03 +0000

Content forthcoming…

Blackbook

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:13:14 +0000

With a complete brand overhaul, good looks, and groundbreaking functionality this website will be sure to please any prospect. Let us know what you think.

www.blackbookemg.com

PlamiClothing

essa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:01:44 +0000

When challenged to make a statement with clothing, Plami conquered it. Their new website however made it our turn to conquer. Mission accomplished.. we hope you agree.

www.plamiclothing.com

Michael Daemon

essa — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:25:19 +0000

When J8DED Pictures LLC decided to create a website for our production “J8DED”, we envisioned a creative experience that would be fast paced, unique and deliver a statement to the Internet. We decided to work with eMedia Design because of their ability to work closely with our vision and expand the depth of the idea, yet stay true to the overall direction we had set forth. A web site of this magnitude takes a LOT of effort and time to create, and eMedia Design pulled this off to our great satisfaction. J8DED Pictures LLC has created a strong business relationship with eMedia and we will continue to move forward with current and future projects.

Illustrator export to Flash no worky?

essa — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:01:46 +0000

I developed a business presentation using Flash CS4 (because it required some custom charts and animation), of which I created an executable application for the client to run on his local machine. I finished designing all of the slides in Illustrator and had to start transferring assets into Flash so I could get to animating and programming… SO, here’s where it gets interesting, at least for a computer nerd graphic designer, like myself. Normally, in past versions of Illustrator/Flash, when you’d like to transfer content, you would go to File > Export, change the Filetype setting to SWF, and simply press the button. Now, over the last few versions of Illustrator/Flash, more and more new features like transparent gradients, drop-shadows (well this one’s been around for a while but there’s a good reason why I included it, keep reading), and even text effects… So, with this particular project, I start by trying the standard time-engraved method of File > Export, import into Flash and, low and behold… it’s horrible… I mean, unrecognizable font issues and characters going every which way, gradients are actually rasterized images of the original ‘Vector’ gradient with just a mask cutting out the correct shape. I’d say MAYBE 10% of the content that’s imported is even usable. Now, if I do recall, Flash has had vector gradients since it was invented. So what’s the deal? Who knows… But I can say that I’ve figured out a solution and you’re definitely going to laugh at this one. So here’s the new method which I honestly just HAPPENED to stumble across…

get ready for it… reeeeeady…. okay, here goes….

you’re gonna love this…

First, you select whatever you want to transfer in Illustrator and then… wait for it… Copy (Command/Control+C)……. and, you guessed it, go into Flash and Paste (Command/Control+V). How you like dem apples?

There’s no way you say… right? There’s no way it’s that easy… Well it’s true. Try it out for yourself. I don’t understand the logistics of making the import method different between copying/pasting your assets into Flash, or importing an exported SWF file. Actually, I’m guessing there weren’t any logistics involved at all. But there’s more.

Do you remember how I mentioned the drop-shadows that you can apply to any shape or text in Illustrator? Well get this, you can even copy over the drop-shadow effects over to Flash seamlessly. Here’s what I mean by seamlessly… to apply an effect like a drop-shadow to anything in Flash, you have to convert the object into a MovieClip first, then apply a number of effects including changing the opacity, add a glow, even blur to name a few. So when you copy/paste your ‘effected’ item from Illustrator into Flash, it automatically converts the graphic into a Movieclip (I’m assuming this only works for effects that are included in Flash) and automatically applies the according effect for you. Now if you’ve worked with Flash as long as I have, this is as big as the invention of toast.