Help.....Ive hit a brick wall!!!!

[XV467]

Good Morning

I am wondering if somebody could shed light on what I am doing wrong. I have recently started down the long and winding road of digital aircraft profiling. I have been looking at various information on the net and I have decided to use Illustrator CS4/Photoshop CS4. This seems to be the most popular way to proceed.

I chose for my first project a DHC Chipmunk as this was the first aircraft I flew in and it has simple lines. I then started playing one evening and ended up doing a full draft of a MD Phantom....kind of got carried away. I have been saving and printing out my progress as I go along...kind of a work diary and have been jotting down notes along the way.

These 2 profiles have saved and printed out from illustrator no problem, they have exported across to PS aswell in pdf format.

The problem I am now encountering, and I can not fathom what I have done, is that when I am starting a new profile (practice, practice & practice), it will not print and does not show as a pdf to transfer to photoshop. The original base image will show but when I deselect that initial layer, nothing actually appears....If I had any hair I would pull it out as I was initially doing it correctly.

Pls..Pls..Pls...Any ideas

Regards

[BLOWHARD]

I have no ideas but I think some more info is needed. Are you or have you tried printing from Illustrator? What format to print from Photoshop, PDF? Have you tried saving the Photoshop image as a Photoshop file? How about flattening the image and saving it as a Tiff or Jpeg and then printing it?
When you open the PDF in Photoshop, how many layers are there?
Are you fully or partially rendering you profile in Illustrator and then switching to Photoshop or do you just import your line drawing to Photoshop and then work on the rendering?

Maybe answers to those questions might give us more to go one.