Brian Huculak Landscape Architect

And Brian uses PowerCADD for CD covers as well. He uses the Place command to bring in a Photoshop image and then crops and uncrops it in PowerCADD.

Graphics is a bit of a hobby, as is homebrewing beer and wine. Of course, what's a great bottle of homebrew without a great looking label? I'm not sure if it makes a difference to the taste but it sure can't hurt ! It's the flexibility of PowerCADD to handle so many different tasks elegantly that makes it so versatile and pleasure to use for these types of simple tasks. Brian

And his wine labels as well. For the wine label, I use PowerCADD's Place... command to combine graphics and text to generate the fronts and back. In this case the graphics were nothing more than clip art and stock 3d computer renderings. The real pay off comes in how they're printed. I use PowerCADD Sheet Setups in concert with Publish & Subscribe to generate a sheet of 'fronts' and a sheet of 'backs'. P&S let's me setup one 'master front' and one 'master back' with text and graphics. I then subscribe to the image in the same file. A neat trick since it means I only have to do ONE change (text or whatever) and the printing sheet setup is updated automatically. Brian

Brian's own beer labels are done in PowerCADD. These are probably my favorite! Again, just like the wine labels I use PowerCADD's Place command and Publish and Subscribe for setting up printed sheets. In the case of the beer label front graphic I use PhotoShop and PowerCADD in concert to handle the text, graphics and textures, literally working with the two applications in concert. If you look closely you'll see the edge of the beer label has a fade or 'blend' from black to red on the edges... this trick is performed directly in PowerCADD using the Blend Objects tool. Brian This man brews his own beer and uses PowerCADD for drawing. Pull over when you see him in your rear-view mirror!

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