texts: Inkscape: realistic lighting and shading

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Graphics have never been my force, so i decided to close this gap.
After learning the basics of Inkscape and SVG, i'm trying to give more "reality" to my drawings.
I have a circle which i want to make appear as a realistic sphere.
After following this tutorial and playing with gradients and blurs, this was the result:

What i want is mainly a polished surface, or even if the matter has the same consistency as it is, at least an improved border. How to do it? Thank you.


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I'm trying to use a PNG but when I open it in Photoshop it looks wrong.

This is the original image

This is how it looks in Photoshop

Any idea of how to make it look right?


texts: Exporting from InDesign for print: PDF, JPEG or PNG?

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I have a poster I designed with Adobe InDesign (69in x 36in) and I want to go to a print place and have it printed, but I don't know which format I should give the printing guys my file. InDesign allows me to export in:

PDF
JPG
PNG
EPS

and others I don't think are meant to be printed from. What format is more convenient for the print personnel and what format will give the best results?


texts: Creating a schematic diagram of an experiment

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I am looking to create a experimental schematic similar to this image, and am wondering what graphic design program I should use.

Here are my criteria:

Easy to use for a beginner
Easy to modify particular components when the experimental setup changes
Saveable in a variety of formats, perhaps including svg

I am curious as to both free and paid options.  Thanks all!


texts: Recommended friendly mouse for graphic design work

texts: I've used a variety of mice and recently getting a lot of cramp from long hours editing in Photoshop. Please could someone recommend a mouse that will help.


texts: Photoshop Actions: Export with exact pixel size, not percentage

texts: When I record actions, I put in the pixel size I want it to save as (1000x1000) for web export. For some reason, it will only replay this action and resize based on a scaling percentage. Is there a way to fix this without having to edit scripts? I tried changing preferences for units to pixels, but that didn't work. Please help!


texts: Illustrator: Is it possible to move Guidelines while rearranging artboards?

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as the title says I would like to know if its possible in Illustrator to make the guidlines move with the commmand "Object -> Artboards -> Rearrange..."

Thanks for your help!


texts: An apparent glitch in illustrator when outlining strokes

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What causes outlines like this to change when the stroke is outlined or expanded? Surely when the stroke is outlined it shouldn't change the appearance of the artwork. Is there something I can do to mitigate this issue?

The original artwork with paths with fills and outlines underneath.

Then after expanding or outlining the stroke, the result seems to be the same and spikes out.


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Possible Duplicate:
  Scale drawings in Illustrator, maintain proportions of line weights and effects

When you minimize large vectors that contain outlines & text to a small vector the stroke & size does adapt to the new size.

Is there a way to overcome this, or fix the final result? Also when I make the vector smaller and try to manually fix stroke I am giving 1 pt, is it optimal to go under 1 pt.?

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I just started using photoshop today, and this is my first question in Graphic Design, so pardon me if this is a simple question. I have bee researching for about two hours now, on how to crop out the background of an image, and just have the image. I then want to use this image in my android app, which accepts png format.
So, I tried using the magic wand and I succesfully got rid of the background. At this point, it was just a picture ontop of a white canvas:

Now, I wanted to save only the blue balloon part as a png. I have looked all around the web for this answer, and one of the answers was to go to file->Scripts This is an issue because I don't have the scripts button in the file tab:

I am completely lost. I have been stuck on this for a few hours now, but i'm sure you professionals will know what to do in a few minutes.
Thanks so much,
Rich


texts: How do I use the paint brush with a fill in illustrator?

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I'm watching the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cljS0rL5-Ko .  The video's author uses the paint brush tool with a fill and a stroke to draw the character.

Every time I try to draw with a brush that contains a fill, the fill gets removed as soon as I start painting and only the stroke is left.

Why does the fill get removed and how do I include the fill while drawing?

I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC on a mac.


texts: How to create simple 3D table out of square and rectangle?

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I have these two shapes with which I want to create a very simple 3D table using Illustrator or Photoshop?

First I tried to rotate the leg in Z axe to attach it to table top in Illustrator but I failed.

Now Im thinking to first change these both shapes into 3D and later connect them together somehow.

Anyway, how to create a simple 3D table using only a square and rectangle?

So far I've achieved this:

https://imgur.com/a/szoDn

But the more I wanna see from the bottom view the more flatter it gets:

https://imgur.com/a/jurRa

If it can't be done properly in Illustrator then how to do it in Photoshop?


texts: What is this futuristic typeface in the mAlert logo?

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Tried FontSquirrel, MyFonts, FontSpring, no exact match.

The "e" is particular.

Toxigenesis Regular is closest so far, but the A and e are different.


texts: How do I make the UI of this app look less "amateur" while maintaining the brand's style?

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I'm redesigning an app and I used the company's brand/website colours and fonts. However, a user tester said my design looked "amateur." How do I make this look more professional while keeping company colours and fonts?
Technically, I am an amateur since I'm a student, but I want to better than that. :p


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I have created a document template in indesign. I want to use it as background in Word. I've been trying to set it as a background image in Word but it keeps tiling the image or over stretching it. Both the InDesign file and Word Document are set up as a4.

Anyone got any ideas on how I could work round this?

Thanks


texts: How to stitch images vertically in Photoshop?

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For fun I want to stich together the starwars saga. I have the images downloaded and I am stiching them in chunks.
The problem is when a graphic element is duplicated and also rotated in separate files Photoshop stacks them together in the panorama function. No matter what feature I use in the panorama. See here.

I just want to load 10 images a time or however my RAM can handle and have the images stacked one against the other in sequence. Preferably in vertical as seen in the first link.


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I have added bleed area on an existing image in Illustrator. As usually it is out of my document in red line, but I need to get that red line on my document background.

(My document is A5 size (148*210), bleed size 5mm and it is a PSD file that I opened in Illustrator).

Could anyone help me get the bleed area with the background colour?


texts: Converting a gray gradient to grayscale in InDesign

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I have a InDesign document and my printer needs my "grays" in grayscales. My document has some reds and also some CYMK grays. Is there a easy way to convert the grays to grayscales but keep the other colors correct?

Thank you very much


texts: I don't want to make a PNG sequence, I just want to make a GIF directly from After Effects. Once I checked out an online tutorial there I could see the GIF option while Rendering composition. But I am not able to see the GIF option anymore, so what I did I made lots of PNG sequence for the same then export it to Photoshop but that is to much time-consuming process and my system just hangs.


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I am a developer and I have been given a couple of psd files to make a couple of screens for an app.

Is there any free way to convert these psd files to something usable in Xcode for iOS Development?


texts: How do I change the background color of an animated gif?

texts: I want to change the background color of an animated gif from blue to red


texts: How can I remove anti-aliasing color artifacts using Gimp?

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I have been working on vectorizing a series of 604 photos for a very long time. After all that, I figured that the best way to vectorize such a photo is to:

Turn it to solid colors (i.e. remove the anti-aliasing color artifacts around the text.)
Enlarge it
Remove Anti-aliasing artifacts again?
Vectorize.

This is put in general, of course there are things I have to do between these steps (I was told that by someone who was helping me on this project, if you want to see the discussion, I have it here) which I still don't understand.

Anyways, here's one of the images:

If you zoom in, you'll see that the colors have many shades, I want to turn them to one (In the bottom of the page, you can see all the colors that I want to stay, which are: blue, dark blue, green, grey, orange, yellow, pink, dark pink, and also with the addition of black and white, green and dark green, and the shape of yellow that can be seen at those circles, they represent the end of a verse and they have an Arabic number in them, and there are seven of them.). I heard from someone that GIMP has many new layer blending modes which can help me remove these anti-aliasing artifacts, how can I use those?


texts: What is the best Pantone swatch to use for on-screen designs?

texts: If my work is going to only be used to create image files that will be used online, or in email messages, what is the best Pantone swatch for me to use?


texts: Replace many keys by values from list in PDF

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I have a lot of very large PDF files where I need to replace some strings in text. These strings are listed in a mapping table where every string has its corresponding string-value to be replaced with. Every PDF document has its own mapping table. For every PDF document, I need to replace all these keys using that document's mapping table.

I started to write Javascript in Acrobat Pro DC to do this for one document, but soon realised the API lacks functions to save changes to the document.

Is there another way or perhaps another program that would allow me to search and replace these codes en masse? At least for one document at a time. I could use the replace feature of Acrobat DC but the sheer amount of manual work makes this infeasible. This is not my field of expertise so any feedback is appreciated.


texts: Adobe Indesign CS6 - Make Text Frame fit text contents automatically

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Is it possible to have a text frame auto-expand to fit the text in Indesign CS6?

So when I continue to add text the frame containing it automatically grows in size and doesn't cut the text and show the overflow indicator.


texts: Remove substracted paths from shape layers and combine into one shape layer

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I'm creating a wi-fi icon in Photoshop, using three circles and subtracted paths.

Now I need to remove the subtracted area and combine the three shape layers into one shape layer without rasterizing.

This is what I want to do:

How can I do it?


texts: Illustrator CC Minus front not doing what I expect

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This hair artwork is composed of dozens of paths.

A path (which has been Brought to Front) represents the hair parting.  I'd like to delete this path, so there is a transparent area there.  (This is so the hair can be overlaid on artwork of bodies of differing skin tones.)

When I select all the paths and click Minus Front in the Pathfinder panel, I get this:

I must be misusing the tool, but I don't understand how.  I have tried both grouping and ungrouping all the paths beneath the parting layer, and moving the parting onto a higher layer than all the hair paths, but it still has the same result.


texts: How to know what are the Unicode ranges are covered in webfont?

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How can I find out what Unicode ranges a webfont file (may be WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or EOT) covers?

For example I am analysing a latin font, is it possible to know what are the Unicode ranges of latin covered by it? Is there any tool available to analyze it?


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I have a 3d STL file that i would like to open and edit in Photoshop.
Is that possible ?

I can see that he won't let me open it.


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I'm trying to setup a list in InDesign and am wondering if there is a way to make multi-line points line up accordingly without forcing a break and inserting a tab character?

In the screenshot you can see the right side required a line-break and a tab to line up accordingly.

Following the InDesign help:

  Increase the First Line Indent value if you want the punctuation in
  long lists to be aligned. For example, if you want “9.” and “10.” to
  be aligned on the period, change the Alignment to Right and gradually
  increase the first line indent until the numbers align (make sure
  Preview is turned on).

  To create the hanging indent effect, specify a positive Left Indent
  value (such as 2p0), and then specify an equal negative value (such as
  -2p0) for First Line Indent.

Following this it still isn't well aligned as in the example:


texts: How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?

texts: How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know how they colored the arrows and how to add a rough gradient like the one on the blue box.


texts: Illustrator: Pixel perfect designs for video work

texts: What are your tips and guidelines when designing stuff in Illustrator for video work? I currently do not use the pixel grid and I think that may be part of my problem. I mostly design stuff in Illustrator for use in After Effects. One thing I noticed is that when I import illustrator files there is a slight gap between the objects. Before importing, I made sure that every edge and anchor point is aligned properly in Illustrator. How do you use the pixel grid feature to design pixel-perfect designs so that there is no "in-between pixel" artifacts?


texts: Flash CS6 How to create 3D extruded text?

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Anyone know of some tutorials or walk-throughs on how to animate 3D rotated/transformed text in Flash Professional CS6?

I cant seem to find any. (Googled)

I am trying to make an animation of some extruded rotating text.


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In Illustrator CS5, i don't get some fundemental thing.
When I download from the internet some icon in psd, then I open it with illustrator, I try to make the path more thin.

Was trying everything with every file, some works some just won't change.

Whats really going on here ? how do you finally change this line to be thin ??


texts: GIMP - How copy/paste shape- in my case, a rectangle?

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I know I can using the rectangle selector then using edit=>stroke selection to make my selection's shape a solid rectangle's shape. Now I would copy the exact same selection's rectangle to variate the same rectangle's shape with other stroke type.
Currently I have to redo a selection and approximate the original's shape, I can alo use the guides lines, that said there is still approximation and it demand a
 questionning amount of time.

I am sure it exists other means to achieve a more programmatic shape's duplication.

thanks for any hint


texts: Make simple icons larger without losing quality in Photoshop?

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I couldn't find an answer to my question, probably because this is so basic.

How could I make a simple 2 colored flat icon 2 times larger in Photoshop (CC) without making it blurry?


texts: How can I select a specific anchor point that intersects with many others from the same object?

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I'm working with a gradient mesh in Illustrator CS6 that's arranged in a tightly closed 'C' shape, as illustrated here;

As you can see from the control handles, the central-most anchor points overlap exactly (ensuring that the 'C' shape looks like a filled circle).

How can I select a specific, single, anchor point where such overlapping is occurring?  Is there a way to cycle through them on a click, or perhaps to select the anchor points specific to a horizontal/vertical segment?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.


texts: Illustrator file regains erased content when exported to PDF

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I'm going out of my mind. I've erased part of a patterned shape, and when I export to PDF and look at the PDF in anything other than AI, some of the erased pattern appears again. I've tried flattening the image, I've removed a ton of layers, I've looked at the outline (ctrl-y) view and nothing fixes this problem, nor shows why it is happening.

I've included screenshots of what I'm seeing in both AI and Chrome, when opening the same exact file. Help!


texts: I am currently designing notebook covers and I am looking to print them by myself at home. I just would like to know if anyone has any experience with printing notebook covers and if there is a particular printer ink or paper that is more durable than a regular one. Or if it's better to take the job to a printing company.


texts: Is it possible to import a PDF in Photoshop then detect and change elements?

texts: I want to import a PDF with multiple pages into Photoshop. The PDF contains tables which have a shading behind the row names and column names in the first column and row. Is there some way to use Photoshop to modify this filling? Maybe to somehow detect this rectangular a object and then adjust the colour of something?


texts: Resizing groups of objects with fixed height of element in Illustrator

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I've got a group of objects which shall serve as a template. I need to be able to resize the group but keep some sub-elements fixed to constrain the template.

Lets say I want to resize the object on the image below. The green area and "window title" should never change in size. Resizing should only affect the grey area.

How do I do this in Illustrator?


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It's a completely new area for me to generate 3D structures out of 2D image. I'd like to generate spherical hemispheres on top of every white blops. How could this be possible and with what tool? I mostly use Python and matlab. The idea is that from the diameter, it shouldn't be too hard to calculate an hemisphere that could fit at that spot...

With ImageJ and python you can easily get the surface/radius of every island. I'd like to find the best way to generate hemisphere on top of every white areas.


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I am going to make a design for a smartphone game, now I have seen that there are MANY resolutions around. Luckily iPhone has only a few, but Android contains already more, not to speak about upcoming tablets..

Is it just a matter of designing for the right resolution or do I have to look at the DPI aswell?

If you had to make 2 designs for low and high resolution, which ones would they be?

Thanks.


texts: How to package fonts in Illustrator CS6?

texts: Is it possible to export an Illustrator file off our MAC (CS6) and send to PC (Adobe CC) and package all the fonts to go with the artwork to avoid installing missing fonts one by one?


texts: How to represent "all"/"all options"/"show all" as an icon

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This to go in a tab. The other tabs show quite separate groups the user might find interesting. This tabs contains all of them.

I've thought about writing "ALL" (capitals seemed more recognisable in this case), but there are icons for all other things, and it makes it harder to translate the application.

Another thought was three checked checkboxes on top of each other, but that seems more like a form to fill in.


texts: Photoshop inner shadow affecting another layer's drop shadow

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I applied drop shadow to a layer. Then I created a new layer and tried to apply an inner shadow to it. Turns out, that changing the angle on the new layer also effects the angle of the other layer' drop shadow!

The two layers are not linked in any way. Here is a screenshot:

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: InDesign Data Automation for Books, not Catalogs

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I have a use case where I’d like to use a bunch of small pieces of data from a database, in random places inside a large book. My book has hundreds of photos (with captions and credits) and over a thousand references (this kind of thing: Atkinson, J. W., & Rayner, J. O. (Eds.). (1974). Motivation and achievement. V. H. Winston.) All of the data for both the photos and references are currently being stored in a database. In a perfect world, I’d have a panel in InDesign with a list of all the image IDs and with a click, the image and caption would be inserted to the document, I’d have another panel with a list of reference IDs that would have the same functionality.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

After reading about how to import XML data and maintain the link to the data file, I fantasized that I could just drag the data I wanted from the structure panel, to the spot in the text where it belonged. This obviously moved it under the story’s node and broke it’s connection to the XML file.
I've downloaded and worked with the trial version of: DataLinker, EasyCatalog, InCatalog and InData. These all seem to be centered on variable data printing (catalogs, personalized mailing, etc.) and not on placing bits of information, randomly throughout a text document.
Given my background in web development, I studied a bit on ExtendScript, and pulling from several scripts that are around, I made a script that will import text variables from a text file. I can easily export my references and image data from the database, I planned to use GREP styles to format the reference data. The issues with text variables are described very well over here (unfortunately I didn’t see this article till I’d finished my variable import script.)
I also tried using a script that utilized Bridge to load data from a locally hosted webpage that serves the formatted info for a given image or reference, based on a URL parameter. The script to over 30 seconds for each call to the webpage. Also, I didn't have a way to keep track of where this was done, so it could be updated if the database changed.

Any examples on how to accomplish this, or articles around the web that I might've missed where someone discuses this usage of data in InDesign?


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Possible Duplicate:
  What does the size of the font translate to exactly?

I'm trying to figure out why my fonts in a PSD are not telling me the accurate pixel height.

I set up a new document at 72pixels/inch, I have rulers and type set to pixels, RGB and 8bit. When I type some text in my font/character panels tell me it's 22px, but when I take the selection tool and select the same height of the font the info. panel is telling me it's only 10pixels tall.

I know the font setting is inaccurate because when I set that pixel height in CSS code for the web it looks enormous in comparison to how it should look from the PSD at 100%.

Can anyone explain what's wrong or what setting's in photoshop I should change so that the font panels accurately represent the true pixel height?

I've searched all over the web but just keep finding stuff on how to switch font point measurements to pixels - that's not my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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Possible Duplicate:
  Tips and sources for beginning designers

For some time now I have been strugling with my inability to create my own web designs.  I am a pretty decent coder but I always have trouble when I have to create the interface designs.
I would like to try and learn to design my own websites

Can someone with no design skills learn to create some decent designs?  If so, where should they start?

I should mention I know my way around both Photoshop and Fireworks but I don't feel capable of creating any designs - even when I have a reference design to use.

Can you direct me to some books, resources , tutorials that teach from a web designer's point of view?


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In photoshop, I have a layer with a mask.

I want to duplicate this mask to then apply it to another layer.

How can I do that?


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So, I was tasked with job where I will write a C# application that will go through an image and list out the color of each pixel.  Problem is, I'm not really sure what standard the color needs to be.  The spec says:

  'px (a value in the result set)' shall be the pixel color at a
  specific spot of the image. The pixel color shall be between 0-255,
  inclusive.

Later in the spec, it gives an "example of a 3x5 image," then proceeds to display 3 rows of 5 single numbers between 0 and 255.

Obviously it isn't asking for the Hex or CMYK values.  It seems like it could be asking for the RGB, but it really seems like it's asking for a SINGLE integer value between 0-255 that fully identifies the color of a particular pixel.

Does such a standard exist?

This is an excerpt FROM the spec:

  Here is an example of a 3x5 image file, “babydrawing.img”.

  255, 6, 65, 78, 99

  100, 25, 0, 45, 66

  88, 190, 88, 76, 50


texts: Indesign: Frame on masterpage always on the front,

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Background:
Our PIM system allows us to create a generated catalogue for our clients. For this client we are placing images on top of each other to create the illusion of items being displayed with a border due to the spread buildup of the image (it's being displayed over 2 pages, so we have to cut up the picture and put left side on the left page, and right side on the right page. (we can only generate page left or right, not both at the same time).
Problem
By overlaying these images, a certain text is dissapearing (placed below the image) which should be there. We been attempting to set in the master page the frame forward, but this is not taken in account by the software sadly, since in the master page, the image isnt placed yet. Is there a way we can "force" a frame to be always the first displayed from top, maybe via script label?


texts: Is it possible to turn this van der graaff grid into a guide? They are just line paths. I have it on my masters page and I want to make it disappear when I hit the W key like my other guides. I have tried searching how to to this but from all I can see it is the Layout>create guides that is being suggested which is not what I'm after. I have also seen suggestions for right clicking on a path to give option for creating guides but that option doesn't come up for me.


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Is it possible to add a custom stroke size (weight) into basic palette which starts with 0,25pt - 0,5pt - etc?


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I'm designing a logo and my customer already had a transparent PNG with some white letters on it.

Now I need it to be a vector, but I can't shape the text like thate, so I thought that it would be easier to select the white letters and convert them to SVG (vector).

I've seen some posts in many forums but none of them seems to have these requirements.

Do you know any way to do this in Inkscape, Illustrator...?


texts: Is there an easy way to see whether an image needs "amount" or "radius" values adjusted, in Photoshop's "Unsharpen Mask"?

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I'm touching up photos for analysis, so they need to be as true to the original as possible (including when zoomed), but sharpened (anything from slightly to greatly) to bring out whatever textures, features and edges are possible. The originals might be faded, in poor lighting, soft focused, or lower-resolution so there's any number of causes.

If I use the unsharpen tools in a heavy-handed manner and sharpen them too much, the tool will create the appearance of textures and features that weren't actually present in the original subject matter of the photo. So there's a delicate balance.

My problem is that as I'm using the tool, I'm constantly trying to figure whether a photo would benefit from more of (or has too much of) "amount" and/or "radius". I can easily see if sharpening is overdone or not done enough, but when it comes to adjusting it, I'm spending ages experimenting with each slider in turn, trying to adjust one, then see if adjusting the other improves it, and so on.

I think that a big part of the problem is that I don't have much of a sense what the specific symptoms/differences would be, to distinguish over/underdoing "amount" vs. over/underdoing "radius". So I can't look at the photo and immediately work out which of the two settings it is, that's likely to be more mis-set, to get the sharpness closer to how I would like it.

Does anyone have any hints about the difference between how the two settings affect photos, and how I can approach this more methodically, or what to look for as guidance/symptoms, to figure out quicker which of the two settings for the tool is more relevant to an under/over sharpened picture, so I can cut down my trial and error attempts, or approach sharpening a poor photo in a more effective way?

Thanks for any help on this, it comes up a lot!


texts: Does After Effects have an outline mode like Illustrator?

texts: I am applying several effects on my layers in After Effects, which make the layers look like one shape. I need to get the outline of this shape, similar to the outline mode in Illustrator. Can this be done in After Effects or is there any workaround?


texts: How can I stop overlapping textboxes when I add new line to the current textbox on Adobe Acrobat?

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I am trying to edit a PDF book on Adobe Acrobat. When I add the new line to the textbox, my current textbox is overlapping with next textbox instead of making the next textbox shifting down. Here is an example that explains my situation:

How can I fix that?

Currently, I am using method 3 to edit PDF but I am open to new advice.

Method 1 : Converting PDF to the other text-based formats

Converting it other formats causes a lot of data and font loss. I need a trick to shift all textboxes down on adobe acrobat.

Method 2 : Shifting all elements of the PDF down

I need to shift the textboxes of the book little bit down so I can add something new to the textbox but I don't know how can I achieve that?

Method 3 : Increasing the sizes of pages

Increasing the sizes of pages from Tools>Set Page Boxes seems useful workaround for me. This allows me to shift the text boxes of the page down. So I can add my text easily.


texts: Where do I start giving a shape neon glows and lines?

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I know that stackexchange isn't a place with tutorials and I don't need a guide, I just need a point to start :)

I have followed this tutorial here:
thearthunters.com/tutorial-create-3d-logo-with-polygonal-lasso-tool/

And created a logo like this:

Now what I'm trying to achieve is this:

The problem is here that I have no idea where to start, which tools were used to create this. I did some cool graphics, lines, shapes, experiments with gradients/shades.

If there's someone who can point me the way, how the author achieved that result, I would be grateful :)


texts: How to edit palette in an indexed image in GIMP 2.8?

texts: I remember in GIMP 2.4 editing palette in an indexed image was as easy as changing the foreground color but I'm a little lost in GIMP 2.8 as there is no Dialog menu. So, I played around a little and found out it was in the colors > Map > Set color map > hit Default > scroll to the top > right click the image palette and bring up the palette editor and I figured out I can't do anything after that. Neither can the palette be edited on click nor can we edit the HTML notations that refer to respective palettes. How can we edit palettes in an indexed image(for this I'm using an indexed image with eight colors).


texts: What are the best pen and ink or woodblock print photoshop actions / effects out there?

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I have searched for a while but the results seem slim, I have only found this:

https://elements.envato.com/pen-sketch-photoshop-action-UGCFS3

However, I would like to take any photograph or illustration (JPG) and convert it into a pen and ink or woodblock style image that look along the lines of these:

Are there any effects or actions out there that could do that to a regular photograph? Or something close enough?


texts: Whats the best (easiest) way to make an animation like this?

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This is the animation

I know absolutely nothing about video editing and animation, so whats the easiest way to make something like that, and how long would it take?

Thanks a lot!


texts: Is the PANOSE Classification Metrics system for fonts still relevant?

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I am just starting out in type design and I am trying to learn as much as I can. I am trying to learn best practices so I do not develop bad habits. I have seen the PANOSE system mentioned in a few places and have looked through the reference documents that I could readily find here and here. But given the age of the documents I do not know if the system is still in use, or if it even was ever "best practices".

Should I classify my typeface using the PANOSE system or ignore it?

What are the benefits of using the system?

Is PANOSE 2.0 the most current version?


texts: What kind of design style is this website?

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What kind of style design is this website? https://ko-fi.com/.

I'm a pretty newbie frontend developer, I know that Material Design and Antdesign are pretty popular, but ko-fi.com doesn't look like those. I want to make a website for a school project with the design the same as ko-fi.com, but don't know what kind of design that is, it would be easier for me to know the name of the style, I then could find UI libraries to help me write code easier.

Another website that looks like that is https://lotus.vn/w. Btw it would be more helpful if you can guide me the way (or tools) to find out the kind of design instead of just giving me the name.


texts: Options corresponding to Smart Fix 100% in Photoshop Elements

texts: I'd like to know which options I should change manually to get the same result of Smart Fix 100% in Photoshop Elements. I tried to search a correspondence, but without any success.


texts: Seeking alternative digital printing methods

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I am looking for alternative methods of digital printing.
My project is to print my art at home, but I am not satisfied with the (lack of) artistic quality of commercial laser printers, or inkjet printers. They are not good with colors, usually, don't allow you to print on art paper, the process always uses the same CMYK colors, prints age badly, etc.
I would like the printing process to give additional texture, or specific identity, or to allow a wider range of paper types to the printed works, quite like the Risograph machines do (see here for example). (Some of the Risograph "quirks" include separator marks, smudging, uneven coverage, registration errors, etc.)
But these machines are not really for home workshops: they are meant for large runs of thousands of prints, cost an arm and take up half a room.
And if I went to a local printshop that uses Riso machines and asked them to print 20 different images, they would probably either reject the order or charge me hundreds.
I would like to seek similar results, but to print different images each time, and in a way that doesn't take up too much room in my house.
Maybe such a machine exists, where the user can refill ink themselves (maybe a 1-ink printer that accepts a wide range of inks?), to achieve unique and interesting results?
Wikipedia lists a wide range of printing techniques, but it's very difficult to know which ones are best to print art to display or sell. And I am having a hard time thinking that every single one of these technologies has been replaced by the home printer.
What are alternative methods of digital printing that can produce aesthetic or artistic results?


texts: How to add a background image to an email?

texts: Is there a way to add a background image to an email and ensure it will display in all email clients?


texts: Placed objects in Illustrator document changing size

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I have an Illustrator file that has multiple PSDs placed into it. After I get everything sized correctly, I save and close. When I go back to open it later, the PSDs that were correctly sized before are now really small within the file.

I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if there is a solution.


texts: Sketchup is not recognizing extensions in 'plugins' directory

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I recently had to reinstall the OS on one of my systems, along with all of it's software; I have installed my copy of Sketchup Pro 2018, and it works without issue.

Since I no longer have many of the plugins I frequently use in their original .rbz format, I've copied the contents of my old installation's ...\appdata\roaming\sketchup\plugins folder into that of the current installation. While this should work in theory, none of the plugins are present when I start up the software.

What might I be missing, and how can this be resolved? I have tried compressing the individual plugins into .rbz archives and installing them through Sketchup but nothing happens upon completion of this action. Extension loading policy is set to 'unrestricted.' I have configured exceptions in Windows 10's 'protected folder access' for the software. These are just about the only routes of troubleshooting I have considered, and since I have no way to re-download the plugins I require, I am out of options.

Thank you all for any suggestions or answers!


texts: convert to paragraph text in Photoshop CS6

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I looked at this previous answer but when I select the text layer and find Convert to Paragraph text, it is grayed out. I am sure it is not already in paragraph text because it's just one long long string.

How can I convert Point Text to Paragraph and Vice Versa in photoshop


texts: Shortcut keys to switch between path and shape section of pen tool in Photoshop

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I use pen tool a lot to create custom shapes and sometimes add a new path to the existing vector mask, but I only know to choose at the tool bar to switch between the two. Is there any quicker way to switch between the path and shape section with shortcut keys?

Edit:

I would like to create new custom shapes and edit existing paths without leaving the pen tool. Is that possible?


texts: Photoshop: how to produce this shiny bevel/emboss text effect?

texts: I am trying to figure out the best approach to produce this effect.


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I started playing with photoshop in 2007. Back in the days, I used a extra monitor connected to my laptop, and photoshop CS3 (I think) complained about an invalid color profile.

I did some digging, and I found that I was using an invalid profile called You always need to modify this tag

I don't remember/know what caused PS to use this profile in the first place, all I know is that this invalid color profile caused photoshop to add a blue-ish tone to the images opened, an effect that I really liked.

So I kept using this profile, but it made export tasks really hard.

Now, after all these years, I really wonder how to find (or make) a valid color profile that produces this nice color effect.

I tried every possible color setting / profile combination, but I couldn't find the right color profile that produces those nice blueish colors

Is that possible? If so, how?

PS. Im using Photoshop CS6


texts: How can I resize Pixelart so that every pixel mentains its correct width and height

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As example, this example here. Every pixel is taking a 5x5 grid. The selected image in there is 75x75 pixels tall. Now what I did is that I took the 100% and changed it to 80%, 60% and so on, which seemed to work fine.

Each time I change it though in this:
Putting both on 80%

it looks like this, but sometimes when I hit apply it will either be correct or have not the correct width an height for each pixel. Not sure why that is so.

and yeah this is after I hit apply:

As you can see this is a 80%x80% version, so it's 60x60px but for some reason this one did not mentain the correct pixel size, not really sure why though. If you take a look at the preview though, the selection outline is somehow outside, for some reason. So if I move the selection around it somehow fixes itsself and then if I hit apply it will work properly, not sure why though again.

Now my question is, how can you resize pixelart so that every pixel mentains its correct width and height, in both for scaling up and scaling it down. In a way where you can precalculate the amount of "pixels" each resized pixel is going to take.


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I have ran into one of the most aggravating problems. I am working in Illustrator CC on a Surface Pro, mostly using 'Touch' mode. For some reason, all of my brush strokes have rounded edges.

What I have tried..
1. Use a different brush
2. Create a new brush

I then contacted Adobe Customer Care for help and they reccomended...
1. Reseting Illustrator preferences
2. And going to View>Preview on CPU

All of which did nothing.

How do I make the ends of my stroke pointed instead of round?


texts: Gimp wrongly adding alpha to imported png

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Some PNG images are not imported correctly. Is it something in the settings or is it a bug?

Running GIMP 2.10.2 | Windows 10.

Original png with alpha:

GIMP print screen:

GIMP Exported:


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I'm going out of my mind with this one. Actually, I have two problems, but I'll get to the other ones in a different post. Right so I'm using Photoshop Elements 14 and any time I try to use a color brush that's anything but black or white it goes all oily and I can't seem to get a flat color no matter what I do. Here's an example of the effect.

The brush modes I'm using are in Normal mode and there's no scattering or anything applied in the settings. I'm using a Basic Brush. Please help, I don't know what's causing this or how to rectify it.


texts: Element naming conventions / inspiration

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I work in front end markup so I'm constantly templating site. Does anyone know of good resources to learn some good conventions or inspiration for element names? I like names that relate to print layouts so perhaps someone could point me to a resource for naming different sections of a document/layout.

I get a bit sick of using generic names such as block, wrapper, content, header etc over and over. Things like colophon, masthead, hero etc seem to hold more meaning.


texts: Adobe Photoshop - "path" coordinates and "path stroke" behavior

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I have some things I need to verify in using Adobe Photoshop. I am designing a "precise" dimension related image. It was an archimedian spiral. base on a tutorial I found on YouTube.  I have to be familiar with 2 things, the path and the stroke.

Please bear with me if the following numbers is correct:

Suppose I create a canvass with at least 10 pixel width,

then I create a path using ellipse tool with 1:1 from center with with 7px.

Am I right to assume that this is what happens, the path transverse
the x-axis at 7 px mark?

Then I path stroke the path I just created with a brush configured to 2px.

Am I right to assume that from 7px, 5px to 9px are all filled? Like
this?

Are my assumptions and images (2) and (3) correct?

Can somebody please tell me if I'm right?


texts: Neon Light Exports with Black Strokes in Illustrator

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So I was working on a project and I needed a neon light effect asap so I used this asset. (It was in .eps format.)

When I collected it for export it did not look what it looked like in the picture. It has some sort of clipping mask which is used and it makes the black go away but it doesn't go away when being exported.

Still I exported it and this is what I got

I am new to editing and stuff so I don't exactly know what's happening and why it's happening.
Please help to gain some knowledge about the stuff that's going on here. Thank you so much.


texts: How to make circle with bordered boundary using ellipse tool

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I am trying to make a simple "Q" logo in gimp.

Instead of just typing the character "Q" in big font I am trying to make it using "Ellipse tool". However, I don't know how to make the borders of the ellipse circle bold or hollow. Can someone show me how to do this?

This is what I'm trying to accomplish (a circle with only its boundary in color rather than the entire circle colored)

When I try to do this using ellipse tool this is what I get:


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Is there a way to rotate the canvas in illustrator 90 degrees? It's pdf format. I've tried the Artboard tool (Ctrl/Command + O)

I found an answer regarding this: Illustrator opens PDFs rotated 90 degrees. Why, and how do I deal with it?

Is this still the case? Do i have to use adobe acrobat / reader to rotate it? Is it possible to rotate it in illustrator CS6?


texts: What are some of the highly skilled, niche areas in the graphic design industry?

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I am a programmer (hobbyist), and without that specific purpose or need, I ended knowing things in areas which I call "obscure areas" (since I don't know a better term). I mean, areas in which there aren't that many jobs, but there are almost no people working on them, or many having relevant knowledge at all. (E.g. Cobol programmers, people knowing machine language, kernel hackers, etc...)

These areas in some specific conditions, (such as the companies really needing them) result in jobs being paid very well. Much better than the average programmer.

The problem is that I tried to explain this concept to a friend (which has no hope in having a decent job; she wants to go further with design), and while she got my point, she couldn't have a single idea of such area in design.

I am not that wise talking about design, and ended pointing as a "maybe", to hybrid jobs (half of each area), like those at 3D animation/programming. Jobs where there aren't (as far as I know) many people working because of the limitation of most design people being bad at things such as programming, and most programming people being bad at things such as design.

I was hopping for you to give me an idea of hard areas inside design, where there are no big cost barriers to go in, even if there is a huge learning curve and requirements to have knowledge on it.


texts: How to extract the result of a multiply blend from the underlaying layer

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In Photoshop I have a layer A which is placed onto another layer B using a multiple blend. The result looks good.

Now, I wish to hide layer B so that layer A can be saved out as a semi-transparent PNG and used on a web page which has B as a background. The alignment may not be perfect, so I don't wish to include the background in this PNG.

The problem, of course, is that as soon as I hide B layer A returns to it's original colours since there's no longer anything to multiply with. What I need is a way of fixing the result of the blend - the colour shifts that A was subjected to - such that I can remove B.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks,

Tim


texts: How to select HEX values / colors in Inkscape

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How to select web colors in Inkscape? I know that I can select the ">" at the bottom-right of the screen and select WebHex and then select one in the bar. But in that bar there are just a few colors. How to select a color that is not in the bar? is there a way to put the color in numbers?

For instance, if I have a square, I select it and I want to give it the color #666666


texts: How does one generate a palette similar to the ones in Google's material design?

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Google's material design specifications have sets of colour palettes:

Starting with a base primary colour, which they designate as "500", they then have a range of incremental steps of shade, brighter and darker, to create a range of about 10 colours. The lightest is designated "50", and is near white, and the darkest, "900", is near black, but both retain some of the base colour.

I can't quite determine how the increments are calculated. I tried this online swatch generator, but I can't seem to dial in the range.

I think it's just a matter of adjusting luminosity up and down from the base "500" color, and I'm guessing that a value of "0" would be pure white and "1000" would be pure black, but the ranges in Google's palette's seem to have more saturation than a simple luminosity range.

Does anyone know what algorithm or process I can use to take a base colour and generate a palette in line with Google's palettes?


texts: Is it possible to use Select Same commands on a particular artboard in Illustrator?

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I want to select objects on a particular artboard using Select —> Same command (Stroke Weight in my case).
How can I do that?
Adobe Illustrator CC 2021.


texts: how to design for iPad screens using a browser interface

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I am trying to design for an iPad. The design elements are essentially a background image (2048x1536) and some text (based on font size) - which need to be place in a text area that is defined by percent (x,y start + hxw size).

The image and text is delivered to the ipad from a web database. We plan to upload the images and the text to a webserver that will deliver it

We have been "winging" it - and it has worked well. Is there a way to imitate a iPad screen resolution online - and test how the interface will look like ?

I ask this - as we plan to support additional screens like android - and without a way to guide the placement of the text - it is hard to design for a variety of devices.

thanks for any pointers


texts: How to print a pure C , M , Y , K color using a regular inkjet printer?

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How to print a pure CMYK colors in a regular printer? Let's say I would like to print a pure cyan or a pure magenta in a regular printer. first I work in a CMYK document .. but when sending the file to the printer it mix the colors and I didn't get any pure cyan or magenta. That's because of the printer driver which uses an RGB profile -most probably.

What I need is to print from my CMYK document a pure cyan or a pure magenta only.

How to do that in Photoshop or Illustrator? and what color profile is suitable for that?

in another word... "is it possible to print from only one color cartridge whatever it is?


texts: In Illustrator CS5, why are my colors dull when I export to png?

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I'm having an issue with Illustrator CS5 that I've seen mentioned in many, many forums, but I haven't found an answer that has fixed my problem.

When I use Save for Web & Devices... to create a png, it comes out in nice beautiful colors.
When I use Export... or Save Selected Slices... to create a png, it comes out in very dull colors.

It seems to affect all the colors, but here's an example:

Good red:

(created with Save for Web & Devices)

Bad red:

(created with Save Selected Slices... and identical to those created with Export...)

Also, in the dull versions the black becomes a dark gray.

Here's some info about my setup:

The document is set to RGB, not CMYK.
I have Appearance of Black set to Display All Blacks as Rich Black and Output All Blacks as Rich Black.
In the color settings, my working space RGB is set to sRGB.
In Assign Profile... I have tried all three of the options: Don't color manage, Working RGB, and some of the other profiles. They all produce the same dull results when I export.
I wouldn't think this would matter, but I'm using Windows 7. The difference in color is obvious on both my laptop screen and my nice large external monitor. I've gone through various color calibration tools and instructions, and that has changed nothing.

Finally, here's something interesting that may help with troubleshooting:

While I was exporting this with all the different settings, at one point I decided to paste two of the exported pngs into Illustrator so I could put them right next to each other and compare the colors. To my surprise, the dull exported pngs appear bright and normal when they are pasted into Illustrator.

If you can help shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it. Soon I will need to be exporting some slices, and I need the colors to come out right at that time.

Thanks!

Update: As suspected, the document was created in Adobe RGB (by someone else, not me). Here's an informative article that explains why my colors were coming out dull in detail: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm


texts: Change shape of a bezier after you've completed it

texts: I'm using the bezier tool, but I forgot the 'shape' option was set to an ellipse so my drawing is just a mess. Is there any way to change the shape option AFTER I've completed the curve?


texts: Maximum CMYK sum value for colors when printing?

texts: I have a lot of dark brown in my artwork designed in photoshop, which is C73-M62-Y98-K73. Does it matter that the sum is over 300%? Should I be limiting my colours to a certain percentage?


texts: Apply Character Style to selection in Scribus

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I'm putting together a short rule book and I thought I'd try out Scribus.   The problem I'm running in is trying to apply style to short selections of text within a text frame. Basically, I want to apply a "character style" to a section of text to override the default "paragraph style".

I've created a named style called "Rule Style" and want to apply the style to sections in the text that reference rules.  For example:

... reference Rule 4. Doing Stuff when doing things, but don't forget the clause in Rule 5. Doing More Stuff ...

I'm using Scribus 1.4.4 on a Mac.


texts: How to set adjustment layer to folder layer using Photoshop CS5

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I know how to set adjustment layer to folder in Photoshop CS6 and higher but how to do this using CS5 version?
It's possible to set it to layer only.


texts: How can I go about designing this border?

texts: It's thicker in the middle and gets thinner on the left and right.


texts: I found this really cool text, and would like to use the style but for a different word. How can I do it in GIMP or pixlr.com?


texts: How do I make a gradient of colours with a blocky appearance?

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I want to create a block of colours like this (from top left c:0 m:0 y: k:0 to bottom right c:100 m:0 y:0 k:0)
There are 100 colours there and I am currently doing a line of 10 with a fade with 10 steps and then duplicated that down. I then added a white line grid to make colour difference more apparent.

Is there a way to fade from top left to bottom right and get a blocky effect without having to do it a line at a time? Do note that each square above has no gradient in itself.

I need to make about 100 pages and want a quicker way to do this. I can use either photoshop (preferable) or illustrator.


texts: What's the font used by the England jersey for the World Cup 2014

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I would like to know which font is this:

It's used in the World Cup 2014, in the England jersey. I have searched in http://www.whatfontis.com/ as well as in What The Font but couldn't find a match.


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I have some experience with CAD, inventor and things like that. I would really love if there were a graphics program that can draw with dimensioning so that I can get precise lines/angles etc. Then output to photoshop pen lines or something like that.

Does there exist anything like this?


texts: Is there a way to create a dockable palette for Photoshop with ScriptUI?

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I am using ScriptUI for the first time and would like to create a custom palette with several text boxes and buttons that can be conveniently docked into the Photoshop UI.

Can this be accomplished using a script?


texts: Is there a Photoshop equivalent to Gimp's Bump Map filter?

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I'm following a tutorial on fantasy cartography.  It was written for Gimp, and I've been figuring out how to convert the steps to Photoshop (CS6) as I go along.  The step "Bump Mapping your Height Map" on page 7 uses Gimp's Bump Map filter to simulate relief shading on the terrain height map generated in earlier steps.

Is there a Photoshop equivalent for this filter?  Third party plugins would be acceptable.  I've tried searching for one, but Google keeps giving me tutorials on how to create bump maps in Photoshop for use in 3D rendering programs, which is not what I need.


texts: been trying to find this font desperately M and N and E seem the same, any ideas? (I've isolated the letters and alined them at the end to see better)


texts: How to import a group of layers from a XCF to another XCF in GIMP?

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I have an XCF file that contains a group of layers, full of layers and of others groups of layers.
I have another XCF file in which I would want to put the contents of the first one, keeping it editable (*i.e.: * I want to be able to navigate through the layers of the first XCF, to colorize some of them, etc.: so the tree of layers must be available).
How can I do this?


texts: Can I define the number of nodes in Coreldraw?

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I use Corel to produce hpgl files that feed a CNC wire cutter.
If I want the CNC to cut a different shape at each end it will do it but only if the files for each end have the same number of nodes.  How do I define the number of nodes on one curve and the exact same number of nodes on another curve in order that my CNC will be happy.


texts: Is it possible to "mirror" a part of the contents of one layer onto another layer?

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Intermediately experienced PS user here, but I'm always learning more and a recent project has me wondering if this is possible.

I have a large 3072x2048 texture file that is composed of six smaller 1024x1024 parts that are individually mapped to a 3D model:

I am curious if it is possible to set up a project file so that the 1024x1024 block in the upper right mirrors the content of the highlighted parts of the Left and Right layers above. I am currently doing this task manually but can't help but think there is an easier way to do what I'm doing.


texts: How would I go about creating a shadow similar to this?

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I have about 75 images of watches and I'm looking to create an action to automate creating a shadow similar to this Rolex below.

As you can see the shadow creates a 3D effect, making it look like its actually laying on a surface. It doesn't look like a standard Photoshop drop shadow. You can see on the Rolex website that this shadow exists on all their images, and remains consistent, although their watches consist of multiple shapes and sizes.

Here is another image with a smaller size:

Is there a systematic approach to this?


texts: How can I make an arrow thicker and save it for mobile usage in illustrator?

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I am new to illustrator. Below is a screenshot of an arrow I am trying to make using illustrator. I need help in the following:
How can I make the lower part (curved part) of the arrow thicker/wider?
How can I save the image for mobile usage (within an app) in .png format?


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I have a data which contains the number times users visits a page and the time of day the visit occurs. I would like to display this data visually but I don't know what is the best representation of the data.

I am thinking perhaps a pie chart where each slice represents the amount of times a link is clicked. Another option is to display the data as a bar chart where each bar height is dependent on the number of times a link is clicked.

Are there other options that I am not aware of, possibly including the time the link was clicked?


texts: Can I remove transparent pixels from a layer with a different blending mode in Photoshop cc14?

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If I have a layer with a white background and I want to remove it, I can often just change the blending mode to Screen or Overlay and it ends up exactly the way I want it. However, I often want a different blending mode for the remaining visible pixels. Of course I could just select the area I want, but it takes a long time to achieve the exact same effect, especially when using overlay.

So I was wondering if there's a simple way to keep the layer exactly as it looks with a blend mode, even when converting it back to Normal?
Hope that made sense


texts: Photoshop - moving text simultaneously across multiple timeline frames

texts: I'm making a GIF and am trying to move a text layer from the middle of the image to the bottom corner - is there a way to apply this to multiple frames simultaneously?


texts: What are the best ways to represent different sections of text in one banner?

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I am tasked with creating banners for individual lecture series. I need to display the topic of the talk, the name of the talk as well as the lecturer. Sometimes the date as well. It looks strange when I use one typeface for all of the text, even when I try to resize it. When attempting to use a different font for each item it looks a bit busy.

Whatever I try, it feels like a wash of text that blends into itself. None of the information feels distinct from each other and it feels like the viewer is getting bombarded with info.

Are there any good practices for this?

Here's my attempt

But it doesn't look quite right.

Any ideas?


texts: Inkscape: how to export image for Android with high quality resolution

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I am using Inkscape and want to export an image for an Android resolution with high quality. How can I convert?

When I convert the medium size of icons from Inkscape's 48*48 size that image becomes blurred.


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I've been trying to make a image look like the images imported onto the SNES. How do you do that kind of image where it looks like it is in the SNES Or maybe in the Sega Genesis, if you don't understand.d.
Look at the image. You may understand what I want right now. Mortal Kombat in SNES.


texts: Reduce multiple transparent colored layers into one in Illustrator

texts: I purchased an Adobe stock vector image that is made of multiple layers that are laid over with transparency to get the color darker etc — as seen below. How do I reduce in Illustrator multiple layers that are creating a different color through transparency into one Layer with the color created? If I use Pathfinder it just splits the layers but does not reduced it into one. Is it even possible?


texts: PS CS6 - Removing access colour behind a layer

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I'm trying to recreate the Google chrome logo and I've got to this stage, the issue is that the red colour is overlapping the outer ellipse where I've used the polygon lasso tool. I've managed to hide the overlapping on the inner ellipse by dragging the colour layer underneath the ellipse inner layer but I can't seem to work out how to to the same for the outer ellipse. Essentially I'm trying to make it so the colour stays in the contours of the outer ellipse:

The closest I've got so far is by moving the colour layer underneath both ellipse layers, which produces this:

However I'm not sure how to remove the access colour without also removing the colour underneath the outer ellipse.


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EDIT: Is there a direct shortcut to access the Width field on the Transform Panel in Illustrator?

Original text:

transform panel ( panel select box width ) shortcut key required.
shift +f8 normal. (But not  select width box)
Direct width selected shortcut.?


texts: Illustrator: how to reproduce rotating object effect in array

texts: Could be this effect achieved using a menu command in Illustrator or the only way to produce this it's to rotate each element by hand (which I've tried so far)?


texts: Building hand-written fonts for lettering

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I am looking to build a custom font from my handwriting for lettering a comic.

what professional tools exist to build such a font and export it into one of the mainstream formats (TTF, OpenType, or Type1)?

I am not a typography expert, but I imagine there are two approaches to this - a vector-based and a bitmap-based one. While I'm open for both ways, vectorizing the handwriting would surely be a very attractive option.

WYSIWYG kerning/pairing functions (with previews for each pair) would be much appreciated.

I can use Windows or Linux. Open Source is preferable, but I'd be prepared to cough up for a commercial solution too.

Tutorials on the process are most welcome as well, as I have never done this before.


texts: Is there a way for Photoshop not to force file saves on exit?

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Modern code editors like VSCode or Sublime text allow their users to create new documents edit them and keep them around without forcing users to associate them with file names and saving them. These documents get autogenerated names (Untitled-1, Untitled-2, etc.).

When a user exits the editor it stores the content of these documents somewhere in their app storage area next to user settings, plugins, etc. When a user reopens the editor it preloads these documents, while showing them as not saved. From user's point of view the two processes: starting and stopping the editor and creating and saving documents are unrelated.

Adobe Photoshop on the other hand forces users to either save all new documents or discard them before exiting. The notion of these temporary documents that survive app restarts doesn't exist. I believe Photoshop behavior was the norm for all user applications 30-40 years ago, but today it's frankly annoying.

Is there a way to make Photoshop behave like a modern editor when it comes to document handling on exit?


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Deboss or Engrave Effect

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I'd like to create a realistic debossed (indented), recessed or engraved effect. Often seen on tactile commercial products, particularly for embellishing text and symbols. Here's an example of a gear stick that I'd like to illustrate (birdseye view or whatever is fine); with the gear numbers and shifting pattern debossed on the top:

Another prevalent example is hand-tools, like this open-ended spanner, featuring a combination of both debossed and embossed styling:

It has a bit of a 3D look and feel to it, but can be represented in 2D.


texts: SVG Size Bloated by "adobe_illustrator_pgf" tag

texts: web dev here. I just received a 400 KB SVG of a very simple icon. It didn't make any sense, so I looked in the SVG file and almost the entire size of the SVG is in a  tag with an id of "adobe_illustrator_pgf". I tried to look this up, but Google was convinced I was spelling PDF wrong. What is this? I removed it and the SVG size dropped to 8 KB! Is there something I can ask the design team to do to remove this automatically on export?


texts: Name for letter j with 'tick' on the right hand side

texts: I was reading some articles on jacobinmag.com and I noticed that their letter j has a sort of tick or tail on the right hand side at the base. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what this tick is called or provide some info about where it originates. Thanks! Pictured is a word with the j I'm describing.


texts: Color Intervals For 0to255.com Online Tool

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I'm a developer trying to learn more and practice better graphic design.  One of the tools I love to use is Shaun Chapman's http://0to255.com as it easily let's you pick good variations on a base color for use in highlights, borders, etc.

I've always been interested in how the range of colors that is output is created.  From the about page on 0to255.com:

  Simply pick the color that you want to start with and 0to255 gives you a range of colors from black to white using an interval optimized for web design.

Can anybody give me a clue what this interval would be or some guidelines?  I'd love to know just for personal growth how these are calculated so I can get some practice picking good color variations manually instead of relying on a tool that I don't quite understand the inner workings of.


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I am struggling with a computer science document that makes liberal use of overline characters to indicate negation, i.e. NOT.  Using a hook instead of an overline is not suitable for this material as it accompanies a textbook that uses overline.
I have kinda-sorta made this work with a strikethough character format with a 9pt offset.  It looks somewhat OK, although it won't transfer to ePub format without some manual labor on the CSS.
So, is there a better way to do this, please?  I'm primarily interested in something that looks better; I can deal with the ePub problem by hand if necessary.


texts: How to achieve 'leaves blowing in wind' effect in illustrator?

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I'm trying to do something similar to this:

but i'm not sure how this person manipulated a leaf vector to look (convincingly) like leaves blowing in the wind. I tried using envelope distort but it just didn't quite look as realistic. Can someone help me?


texts: Inkscape in terminal: convert to greyscale

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What is the command for inkscape (called from the terminal) to convert graphics to greyscale? I was not able to find in in the manual. I use the following command:

inkscape -f drawing1.pdf -A grawing2.pdf


texts: Why JPEG files saved in my digital camera are higher size vs JPEG files saved in my computer?

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When I took pictures using my digicam, it saves those on higher size (over 1 MB) JPEG files. What I usually do is that I open them on some image editing application such as Paint (windows) or Preview (Mac) and then save it to another file using a different filename.

I end up having the same quality like the original (although I'm aware its not the same quality anymore) file but only to have it on a smaller size version.

I naturally suck in the graphics field and didn't have any inclination to learn the details back then, until now that I'm interested on starting a blog.

Could anyone enlighten me on this?


texts: If I have a layer that I've duplicated (and will always be the same as the first layer), how can I make it so that if I change the first layer, it would automatically change the duplicated layer as well (basically, linking them so they act as one)?


texts: How to open Illustrator or Photoshop in new Desktop on MacOS?

texts: I am working with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and I prefer to work in fullscreen mode in a separate Desktop as is often used with working on MacOS but when I want to create a new Desktop I cant do this because instead of FullScreen icon I have '+' icon that allows me only to fill main desktop without hiding menu and dock.


texts: Unable to subtract a bordered, not closed path from an oval shape in Sketch

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I've recently learnt how to work with vectors; I have drawn an oval and a line. I want to merge subtract the path from the oval now, but it looks like I can't do it.

It looks like I have to close the path in some way, but then it won't look as I want it to look.


texts: Why is path difference not working despite all requirements being fulfilled?

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According to a lot of searches, this is what most people refer to as the requirements for performing the path difference operation:

Both objects must be a path
There must be no groups of the paths
They both must be closed shapes

And yet even though these requirements are met, the following difference operation doesn't work:

I wanted to create something like this:
(here I've just filled the top layer with white, since the difference operation hasn't worked)

But, I'm stuck with this:

I am not sure why it doesn't work.

The file is attached here.


texts: Objects/elements disappear when online publishing an Adobe InDesign interactive PDF

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When I 'publish online' my Adobe InDesign interactive PDF, some of the elements and objects don't show.
For example, little things such as some of the shadow effects dissapear when exported this way.
Any ideas why/how to rectify?
Cheers,
R


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I am new to Illustrator and need some help.  I am creating a logo that can be used for an outdoor business sign.  This same logo will also be used on FB, Website, letterhead, business card etc...

I have created the logo using two different fonts:

If I understand correctly I need to convert this to a vector to make it sizeable to any size such as going from a big outdoor business sign to a business card to website, etc, am I right?
If this is correct do I need to do my touch up before converting or after converting to a vector?
Once everything is completed, how do I save it to be transparent and what do I save it as: AI, FXG, PDF, EPS, AIT, SVG, OR SVGZ? And can I email it to my client like that? Or does it need to be saved differently?


texts: When I make a box and fill it, it remains unfilled. What should I do?

texts: I don't understand why it remains empty when I'm filling it. What mistake am I making?


texts: Pattern Design Printing on Wall & packaging

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i created a Pattern 5"x5" inches (US Size) / 127x127 mm (International Size) that will be used by the client to print on:

Walls
Cups
Other Packaging (Still to be clarified)
Web

Do i need to send to the client a different pattern file size for each product or can i just send the 5"x5" inches and the Printer will manage the sizes for print on different items?

Attached you can see the pattern design & product mockups.
Thanks


texts: I have a problem in the gradient overlay

texts: When i use the gradient overlay in PS CS6, the gradient only effects one side of the sentence, sometimes doesn't make any change in it (the picture).


texts: Problems with frame interpolation in Poser 9

texts: So I am making an animation in Poser 9. I am have a keyframe at the beginning of the animation and at the end of the animation for the feet. The feet literally have the same values at the end and beginning. For some reason poser decides to make the feet go all over the place and then back to normal between the start and finish even though the feet should not move. Does anyone know why?


texts: Most efficient way to adapt current mockups to different devices and resolutions

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I've completed about 90 screens of mockups in Photoshop for an app.
The mockups are done for iPhone 5 / iOS7 (640px by 1136px). Everything is calculated to pixel-perfection.

Now management wants to see the mockups on iPhone 3GS / iOS6, iPhone 4 and iPhone 6, as well as how it will look like for Android devices.

The normal way is to go back to Photoshop and create a new set of 90 screens and re-adjust/position everything for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 6, and then for Android-based systems, that means I need to do mockups for Samsung Galaxy Note II, Nokia Lumia, Windows Phone, HTC and 750 other types of phones out there.

Now, doing and documenting 90 screens alone took like 3 - 4 full weeks... there is no way (nor is there time) to do it for all phones.

So, with my current iPhone 5 mockups, is there any quick way to re-adjust it to fit most of the devices ASAP? Or is it actually easier for the dev team side to fix this?


texts: Select/distort a single anchor point of a group in Illustrator

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With a normal shape, I can select one corner using the direct selection tool and drag to distort:

to

I want to apply the same type of single-point dragging distortion to the bounding box of a group of shapes, but can't figure out any way to do it.

How could I select the right-bottom corner of this group, and drag to distort the whole group?


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I didn't study arts or design. I just liked using Photoshop as a kid doing those forum signatures back in the day.

What I do now is usually layout magazines, book, etc. Mostly the branding or how everything will look. But I feel like a graphic designer can draw. And I can't draw.

If you ask me to design a tree icon, I can't do that. Maybe I can if its like a stick figure and I can just trace it from an existing image.

I know where to place text and what font looks good. I know how to manipulate photos to make them look good too.


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My first-time client, referred by a very loyal client of mine, does not want to follow my designing route (for what I’m assuming are personal financial reasons). They want something “fresh, new, eye-catching” (all terms we’ve all heard hundreds of times).

I’m an extremely reasonable guy when pricing, but my client is now asking for suggestions on how she could design her business cards, or simply for any tips or ideas for concepts, etc. (because she is “very creative”, in her own words).

I have no idea how to respond to my client asking for suggestions or concept ideas in an attempt to escape the designing fees after my detailed explanations on the value of my professional graphic designing services, designing from scratch, and not just an ordinary “copied, stolen template”.


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I'm new to graphic design coming from a software development background. In this area, I can easily have feedback about my work by open-sourcing my code, participate to existing open-source projects, or simply ask others what they think...

At a moment I envisaged to participate to crowd-sourcing design sites, but changed my mind as it seems finally to be a bad idea...

So, where could I find the best comments and advice about my graphic design work?


texts: How to create the 3D logo like this with Adobe Photoshop

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I need help creating a logo like this.

I have tried Skew option and Perspective option but those didn't work.

This is the image I have tried below.


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I want to create a 2 pt offset of that red object around the shield (and want to cut it from the shield). I have applied 3d- rotate. expanded.

but it is not happening. the offset is getting weird shape not exactly like the red one is appearing.
I can see a slanted outline in outline mode, offset is following that slanted shape.

how can I make a 2pt offset of that red object (exactly like the one am seeing)? thankyou.


texts: Indesign images change size when "Publish online" is used

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I have designed a booklet on InDesign, but when I publish it online, the image size changes on a few of the pages.

Here is the link to the booklet which has been published.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/73c43547-6995-4f60-821c-1cb463899213

On pages 4-10, the image is too small and leaves a white area. This is what the page looks like on InDesign before publishing:

Here's what it looks like when published online:

Can anyone explain why the image changes when published online and how I can fix this?

I've checked the layers and there aren't any other objects obstructing the image.

I'd really appreciate your help.


texts: I'm using Pencil2D animation software (Pencil2D Git nightly build on Arch Linux). I'm trying to import an image sequence in my timeline, but I always get one blank frame in between 2 images (i.e., if I import a sequence of 10 images, I get 20 frames). Why is that? I've tried to change the fps rate in my timeline, but I always get a double number of frames imported.


texts: Illustrator CC 2015 to Word 2016: Vector not displaying correctly

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I have a vector art on Illustrator that I'd like to use as background image for my cover on some projects (display only, not print). I intend to keep the document as a high-quality vector PDF, like those books, magazines, whitepapers PDFs where you can zoom in and never lose the quality, so using PNG or JPG isn't an option.

Original image: http://i.imgur.com/1FehRWG.png — That's what I want displayed on the PDF after I exported it from Word.

METHOD 01: EXPORT AI AS WMF

Illustrator CC: File > Export > WMF
Word 2016: Insert picture > WMF file
Word 2016: File > Export > PDF

RESULT: http://i.imgur.com/lA2or4g.png and http://i.imgur.com/UgmkcmI.png — Vector loses quality.

METHOD 02: EXPORT AI AS EPS

Illustrator CC: File > Save As > EPS
Word 2016: Insert picture > EPS file
Word 2016: File > Export > PDF

RESULT: http://i.imgur.com/DqzX3HD.png and http://i.imgur.com/Q8DowB6.png — Still a vector, but the colors are all messed up and the lines aren't clear like the original.

Word 2016 settings:

Default output 330ppi

Illustrator CC settings:

1200ppi Line Art and Text
300ppi Gradient and Mesh
Raster/Vector Balance: 100
Convert all Text to Outlines: unchecked
Convert all Strokes to Outlines: unchecked
Anti-alias Rasters: unchecked
Artboard size: Letter (8.5in x 11in)
RGB Color Mode


texts: Change the Color Overlay color of multiple layers at once

texts: I have a file with a bunch of layers that I've applied Color Overlay to (Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay). Right now they are all the same color. I'd like to change them all to a different color (but they will still all be the same color as each other). Is there an easy/quick way to do this?


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I have designed a product label in Photoshop CS6 that I will be outputting as a PDF.  The label only includes text and shapes so nothing is rasterized when viewing the PDF, and you can enlarge to any size without a loss in quality (as the print house would want).

I need to add a barcode to the label which I have in PDF and vector formats.  The issue I have is once placed into photoshop and saved as a PDF, the barcode becomes rasterized with a large loss in quality.

Hopefully you can advise me on how to ensure the barcode stays as a vector like the rest of the PDF label!


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I want to have this sort of thing:

There's 6 horizontal lines and 3 vertical lines, to form the sort of bounding box and positioning guides for the character contours. I am new to FontLab and have been unable to successfully "select" the guides, though I can change some of them on an existing font (one glyph at a time).

What I'm wondering is if there is a way to say, select all these glyphs (like 100 glyphs, or all glyphs in the font), and change their guides so they are all the same (this is for monospace font). How can I do this?

I basically want all the glyphs to have the same grid. Ideally, then, too, it would be able to recenter and such automatically, but maybe that's asking for too much.

An example font glyph looks like this in the font.

I don't know how these were originally defined.
I can only change that horizontal one at the bottom by double clicking it.
I don't see anywhere in the menus for specifying the layout of the grid bars.
I don't know how to add new ones, or where to read in the FontLab docs.
I see the locks on some of the grids, but I don't know how to "unlock" them or batch change them all together at once.

So far I got it like this by dragging some sort of grid bar onto the page (but those grayed out ones just won't budge):


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What are some Graphic Design resources online that regularly post content addressing history, trends and changes in- or explaining principles of Graphic Design?

In the best case they offer a feed to follow updates.


texts: I want to run a data merge with text and photos and I want to be able to hyperlink the photo to a website. I have about 400 entries with the data merge that will each be on a separate page but I can't for the life of me figure out how to hyperlink the pictures automatically!


texts: How can I achieve a grungy melting effect on a vector file? [with photo example]

texts: Seen this for a while now on the web, & was wondering how to achieve this effect or something similar. Looking forward for your answers!


texts: .PSD to .PNG for the Web: .png image not visible? Smart Objects

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I got a huge .psd file from a designer. My goal is to save parts of it as transparent .png images and embed them into my web page.

The odd thing is that most people cannot see my PNGs. JPEGs are visible, but I need to keep the image background transparent so I'm not using jpegs.

Here's one example: Do you see one or two images?
http://3dp-site.alexbelinsky.com/img-test.html

Here's what I have in Photoshop:

Are vector objects messing up my pngs? I have tried all possible setting in Photoshop, including the legacy Save for the Web.
The pngs are not showing up in my browser but I see them on my computer through Image Viewer(Windows).
Most people say they can't see my pngs either.

What is going on?
My .psd file is huge. I have no idea what the designer used to create it (AI?).

Part of this file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZdnWoJVu6PcKQJNefU9jCK7iA4ugjAn/view?usp=sharing


texts: Is the Google logo a good example for basic trends in logo design?

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Last year one of the most popular logos changed significantly by introducing a controversial "'new logo and identity family 'designed to work across multiple devices.":

I remember that I was fascinated but outraged at the same time, like in 2013 when Google showed flattened lettering and the removed shadows:

compared to the search engine company logo from 1999:

Now I wonder if the Google logo is a good example for significant changes and new trends in logo design history?


texts: How to create a curved or blended shadow in Adobe Fireworks CS5?

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I would like to create a sexy-trending curved or blended shadow using Adobe Fireworks CS5.

How can I do that? I would like to achieve a shadow like the following sample:


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I frequently use predominately black masks on gradient or fill layers to show a shape with a color that I can choose later. However, when I transform the layer, the extension color is white- i.e. opaque. This leaves filled areas around the image where photoshop had to create more mask.

Anyway I can set this to fill new areas with black i.e. transparent?


texts: Emoji typing support in Illustrator or Photoshop?

texts: Is there any support for emoji in illustrator or photoshop, and if so how do I access it? If not, why and when can we make this happen.


texts: How to apply border radius after drawing a rectangle?

texts: Photoshop doesn't support to apply border radius after drawing of rectangle. I found this link and tried myself but seems to be not working. Is there any step is missed or is there any other idea to apply border radius after drawing a rectangle?


texts: Recommended paper type and thickness for recipe cards

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I'm in the process of designing some recipe cards for a client. There are two components of the cards.

(1) Index Tabs

(2) Recipe Cards

It's important that the end user can write on both sides of the recipe cards.

What thickness and paper type would you recommend for (1) Index Tabs, and (2) Recipe Cards?


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The stroke width tool in Illustrator features some really unpredictable behaviour when used on a compound path. When I change the width on one part of the compound path, Illustrator applies that width change to the other part as well.

Example:

This is a compound path: a circle with a smaller circular hole in it. I need it to be a compound path to have the hole. However, in the right picture I applied the Stroke width tool to the outer path's top anchor only, yet Illustrator goes ahead and applies the change to the inner circle as well.

Is there a way to change the widths of a compound path's strokes independently?


texts: Infographics smoothing and shadows : background or ressources ?

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i'd like to know if there are resources or background knowledge on the new tendency to smooth the lines/outlines and add gradients and shadows to information graphics. For example, on the new version of Microsoft Office for OSX, the default graphs show smooth lines, shadows and gradients everywhere (a pain to manage in illustrator, but otherwise attractive).

Those graphics are no more graphically simple (few colors, sharp contrasts), but perhaps visually simple (visual perception) ?

There's some connection with cognitive studies of visual perception, but i'd like to know if some graphical design experience, empirism, books or web resources are talking about this, thanks :)

---- edit

My question is about documentation and resources supporting this tendancy. Explanation and support of this change of style, if you want to use this point of view.

I'm trying to explain the reasons of this change, and looking for scientific or empiristic answers. For example, are those graphics more readable ? More aesthetic ? Or simply there because it's now possible to add those fancy gradients, shadows and smooth outlines (with software and hardware progress) ?


texts: Why have all the colors from the picture disappeared?

texts: Hello, can anyone tell me why are the colors from picture disappeared? How can I bring them back? Thanks!


texts: Get the start and finish of text in a certain character style in Indesign GREP

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I've been fighting with InDesign GREP find/change quite a bit and couldn't find any way to get it to look at the start and the end of a character style. This is necessary if, for example, you want to grab only whole chunks of a character style and only if they don't contain something.

For example, you might have text like...

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit2-4 amet, consectetur5 adipisicing elit, sed do
  eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad
  minim veniam, quis nostrud2,3 exercitation ullamco6 laboris nisi ut
  aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

...and you want to make GREP rules that strictly start only from the start of each snippet or span of the character style applying the superscript, and strictly end only at the end of the character style applying the superscript.

(for example, so you can find whole snippets that don't contain punctuation like "-" or ",", without finding sub-snippets that aren't punctuation such as the 2 in "2,3")

Using ^ and $ (beginning and end of paragraph/line) with a character style specified in Find/Change gives weird results and then crashes. Using word boundaries \b and the mysterious "opposite of a word boundary" \B also gave strange results (jumping the cursor to the right place once, then not selecting anything and not finding any more locations).


texts: Does monitor calibration temperature depend on the season?

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I just bought X-rite calibration kit but one thing makes me curious.
Should I set colder white point (6500K) for summertime and warmer (5000K) for winter? Will global warming affect my settings?


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i am looking for GREP help.
I have an issue where i need to delete every line that contains [DELETELINE].

So that

[DELETELINE]
TestText
Test [DELETELINE] loremipsum
Example
[DELETELINE] loremipsum
loremipsum [DELETELINE]
[DELETELINE]

becomes

TestText
Example

I only can get parts of it to work. Like delete the line if [DELETELINE] is in the middle or in the beginning or at the end. But i need an expression that catches all cases.

Is that possible?

EDIT:

What i got is this:

^.+\[DELETELINE\].+\r

But this selects only the third line.


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They look exactly the same.

I looked around in Google's FAQ, but couldn't find anything about it.

Is there supposed to be a difference?


texts: Scribus: Master Page features lost behind image

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I have a Master Page in my document set as a footer, with document name and page number. This appears on most pages.

When I paste an image or text frame onto a page with the Master Page applied, the footer is lost behind the image.

I have tried: right click > Layer > Lower to Bottom and also lowering the layer with the image to the bottom of the document.

I have a layer entitled Master Pages, with all of the Master Page information on it, which is at the top of the document.

How can I ensure the Master Page information stays on top of everything?


texts: How to create smooth animations (Spine 2D)

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Three months ago, I started to work in Unity 2d game development. I am student in electronic engineering and programming, so I like to work on animations in my free time and create games. I also create game textures in photoshop. All in all I'm hobbyist.

But I find it hard to create animations. I work in Spine 2d and I can't create smooth 2d animation. I try to make a working 2d walking animation for my heroes but it ends to be a big fail.

Is there any book, or video tutorial, something very detail, but easy to understand for basic character 2d animation? (ilde, walk, attack, death, etc)
Here are some of my animations for reference:

http://giphy.com/gifs/transparent-3o85xnRVivCxKQITUQ
http://giphy.com/gifs/3o85xpXaRzaKpMdnji


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I am trying to run a box-type theme for my homepage/FAQ. However right now the boxes just make the page look terrible. Could someone please offer me some example sites that use boxes/blocks for information, or suggest some different color palette's for me to use?

I primarily program so I am not very strong in visual design itself.

Here is a screenshot and as well as a url to the homepage. (this relates to JUST the homepage, no other pages)

Thank you!

URL: aawebapps (Note that the buttons will expand the box due to increased/decreased text per FAQ)


texts: Getting a fixed width border when resizing a box in InDesign

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I've been building a document in InDesign, and want to collect my text into color-coded boxes and sidebars.

My technique so far: Make a text box. Make a colored rectangle. Size them like I want, drag the text box onto the rectangle and group them.

The problem comes when the text grows or shrinks, and I need to resize its box. The grouped objects rescale in proportion. What I want is a fixed width border around the text box of color. Is there a way to link the text box and the color box such that the color box is always X pixels bigger than the text box, rather than X% bigger than the text box when they're resized together?

Or if there's a better way to accomplish having a color coded box around text with fixed with borders, I'm all ears.


texts: Composite of two photos – how can I adjust the colours?

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I'm a Photoshop newbie and I am having trouble achieving a specific effect for a composite. I started with these two photos:

I want to achieve this:

I was able to cut the girls out and kinda blend them with the background but I have no idea how to adjust the colours. This is what I have so far:


texts: Should all icons in the UI have same style?

texts:
So this question has been bothering me for a while now. Some people don't mind this, while others absolutely hate when icons don't have the same style. This is from my experience. What am I am talking about is thin and bold icons.
In Material Icons offered here by Google: https://design.google.com/icons/ you can find various icons, what I was wondering if I should use all the same icons, EG: Only thin line icons or only bold icons? Or is using both icon styles allowed and not frowned upon?


texts: I started reading The Elements of Typographic Style and found the term "letterfit". I'm unsure as to what it means. It doesn't appear in the glossary of terms of the book.  Is it related to kerning?


texts: Free vector design app besides inkscape?

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Does anyone know a good vector drawing application?

I tried Inkscape, but it is not a real vector design app. Technically it's an SVG editor, and as such doesn't support anything that SVG doesn't support.

I'm missing these features in Inkscape/SVG (and I don't care about SVG anyway, I just want to draw on screen/paper, not web):

Support for multiple pages*, so I can design and print booklets / practice sheets / etc.
Center a text in any shape/group that doesn't stray or stretch when the shape size is changed. Word-wrap is required. (Read carefully -- this is impossible to do with Text-flow!)
Can easily create arrows with any size arrowhead* and any color*.
Have 'anchors' on shapes so other shapes (typically lines) move when the shape in question is moved/scaled.

*(known Inkscape bug/shortcoming with very awkward workaround)

Text-in-shape Example:
Anchors Example:


texts: Overlay to make image look dusty with fragmented text

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I might be utilising the wrong terms, for I was unable to find any relevant images on both Pinterest and Google Images.

I am looking for an illustration with transparent background and here and there spots to cover the content and make the picture beneath it look as if at an abandoned place. For the text, I might be able to find a font.

Here's the effect aspired:

Any recommendations/conceptions how can I accomplish this? Appreciations in advance!

EDIT

So far I could only do this:


texts: Font for representing Unicode non‐printable characters

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I need a good font for representing control characters. And it seems one is installed on my system and that my keyboard layout creator software use it as it’s default installed font (I have thousands of fonts installed so it’s difficult to find a particular one)..
The various font services I tried identifies characters inside the symbols. And I couldn’t found one which is able to select the whole symbols.

I tried to look at opened files by the process. I searched for an alternative, but I couln’t found one which is able to represent special spaces as well as ʀʟᴍ characters or the ᴢᴡᴊ (of course I also need to represent all of the characters on the image).
I know for things like the The Unicode Last Resort Font or The Unicode BMP Fallback font but I need a descriptive way to represent them (not simply use numbers) for each of them.
Also it seems they don’t exist in the ɢɴᴜ unifont.

Note that it can be an another font which would allow to display those characters, it doesn't have to be the font of this picture. Also I tried to run the software on a very old windows® version and the chars didn’t appeared, So the font is present on every windows but I don’t know which one is it.


texts: What Font is Grand St? Good practice to reverse-engineer fonts in General?

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https://grandst.com/

I'm really attracted to that kind of vintage look.  Does anyone know any similar type fonts that I can play around with?  Is there a good practice to go about understanding what fonts I see in general?  A firefox plugin? A free program?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.


texts: How can I convert a solid shape to a path in Inkscape?

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I have drawn a silhouette shape, which I have imported into Inkscape. I need to convert the image to a path (not just the outline) so that I can then flow text to frame.

I am trying to acheive something similar to the example in the following YouTube clip, using my own artwork instead of the heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKbFEMp6-A


texts: Shape clipped by invisble object in Inkscape

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I'm drawing in Inkscape a map for a design project I'm working on.
At the bottom of the map I have a legend with all the symbols I use.
I noticed that one of the symbol(the blue arrow) seems to be clipped at the bottom by something invisible.

If I move this arrow up it appears unclipped

If I move it down or try to extend it down, the clipping appears even more.

I tried to close/reopen Inkscape, no luck
I tried to alt+click to select an invisible object, nothing
I tried to hide all other layers but the one the arrow is on, didn't change anything
I tried to duplicate the arrow, same problem
I tried drawing new shape, same stuff

When I move another shape in this area, suddenly the arrow is revealed. ??

Would you guys have any idea if this could be fixed and how?
TIA


texts: When I select an object its path gets highlighted in its respective color, and this made me wonder, if it is possible to highlight/show all objects paths in some way without them being selected.


texts: Section heading font compatible with Times New Roman paragraph text

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I am submitting a document to a public agency that requires Times New Roman, 12 pt.  I am complying, in the main text.  But I would like to bend the rules the tiniest bit, in the section headings, of which there are very few in my document.  Reason: my section headings are in bold, and when I convert my Times New Roman text to boldface, it looks incredibly ugly to me.  Here is a sample:

What commonly available font could I use for the section titles?  I am working in MS Word 2010 on Windows 7.