Hmm. *Let me count*
Been working here ( for those who do not know that I've changed my job. Im currently in a new company - Ginvera) for about 2 months plus.?
Before I got in here, my concept of designing is just 'Design lor' - Design le, then hand over to the marketing personnel and Finished! *This is what I think! *
But its totally wrong! Its not just designing and finished and start designing another.
Knowing other stuffs definitely help you to work faster and better and of cos, gaining more knowledge.

Do you know? (Which I don't know) I think only those who used/studied before illustrator and photostop; understands my language. Haha.:

- Its better to save the file in .tiff or . eps instead of .psd, because of its file size. Do you know, EPS has a much much smaller file size as compared to .PSD; and the quality of the images is still the same. - As good?
- For certain artwork that needs to send out for printing, it is better to use Pantone than CMYK color. Pantone color might cost lower? Depending on how many color films the printer use?
- If you want to edit certain area of the photo, eg: just tone down the left size of a woman's face; its better to apply effect: feather first?
- If wanna export a JPEG file from an Illustrator file, its better to export it as EPS file and then, save as JPEG file from Photoshop. *The file size is smaller. Resolution stay*
- A JPEG file with only 2.2mb file size doesn't mean that the resolution is low. It's because, the file is already been compressed but resolution is the same.
- For Banner design, you do not need to have a high-resolution picture. Just need to produce picture that (only have 50 dpi!!!)
- It is not advisable to import a JPEG file to illustrator because some printer can't support JPEG file. Low quality color output. Its better to save in tiff or EPS.
- For Macintosh info - Initially, you did your artwork in a G5 version, and if your colleague (who is using a G5 imac), the font used will be lost!?? It will prompt out; eg: 'Optima - Default font substituted for missing font' and you need to relink it manually! * Can catch what I say? LOL*
- Differences btw an Embedded image to a Link image in Illustrator.

And other stuffs which I believed; I need more time and experience to know more.
Experience did help!

All of the above are taught by my colleague - another designer.
She has 6 years of designing/printing experiences. She is my senior liao (even though I came in earlier.LOL)

Anyway, all thanks to her. If not I'm still a 'mountain turtle' in all these stuffs.
I must SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO HER! Hoho!!

*Sorry if I bore anyone with this post *
And do correct me if the points I stated above are wrong, so I can learn more! LOL.