texts: How do I trim the overlapping elements in Adobe Illustrator?

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Whenever I am working with Adobe Illustrator, I can't figure this out for the life of me so I end up doing all kinds of knifing to get it sort of the way I want it. I am posting this here so I can find out the actual way to do it once and for all.

Basically, in the below image (left), I want to trim the overlapping elements so nothing gets past the inside of the black border like the image on the right.

Do I select all three elements (the border and the two shades of ground) and use a tool in the pathfinder? How do I go about this?


texts: Pantone Colourbridge Uncoated viewing in illustrator

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I have a hard copy swatch of pantone Colour bridge uncoated colours.

I am setting up some packaging items in illustrator and have shown the client visuals in CMYK. I have now selected the Pantones 4596 U and also 468 U. I am aware that the colours will be off, I am viewing on an Imac and 99% of my artwork I produce is in CMYK so I suppose I need reasurance that the colours I am viewing in illustrator will not print that way!! Am I right to ignore Illustrator and only really view my handheld swatch for colour accuracy?

The colours just look so very different on screen, help I feel nervous to send to print!.

As you have gathered I am a beginner when it comes to spot colours... Any help much appreciated.


texts: Illustrator variables / data-driven documents: how to batch-export one file for each data set?

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With the Variables window in Illustrator you can make something a bit like a data-merge document with lots of variants for different records (InDesign’s data merge is usually better, but I have to use Illustrator for this, for other features that are in Illustrator and not in InDesign).

After setting these up, you get an Illustrator document with a drop-down menu in the Variables window that lets you switch between different many variants on a template.

How do I turn this into lots of static files (or a static file with lots of artboards), similar to the Create merged document option in InDesign?

Some handy links on Illustrator variables / dynamic documents:

Adobe help page
Video tutorial (someone asks my question in the comments, but there's no answer)
Tutorial by Creative Mac

Example. Say, you’ve done the following steps in Illustrator, creating a dynamic document with variants:

Create a chart with the graph tool, put some data in it.
Open Variables window, select the chart, click Make Graph Dynamic and create a new graph variable.
Capture data set from the variables flyout menu.
Save variable library as XML.
Put data in the XML – e.g. for testing you could just open the XML in a plain text editor, find the chunk from <v:sampleDataSet to </v:sampleDataSet>, and copy and paste it a few times, varying the data values and dataSetName.
Reload the new XML variable library from the variables flyout menu.

You now have a drop-down menu that lets you switch the chart between each data set you created.

Let’s say there were 1,000 variants. How would you turn this into a directory of 1,000 separate files (any format: PDF or AI are both fine) with filenames based on the data set name, without manually switching and doing Save as each time?

I'd have thought there would be an option, like InDesign Data-Merge’s Create merged document, but I can’t find one anywhere. Failing that, I'm sure that Actions should be able to do this, but I can't figure out how. If not Actions, maybe a script can do it.

Or if that’s not possible directly, is there a way to make one mega-file with an artboard for each data set (which can then be split into separate files)?


texts: Join mid points of two adjacent paths in Inkscape

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I have two adjacent paths in Inkscape with a tiny empty space between them. I'd like to combine them into a single continuous path such that each two adjacent nodes (in the below image) become one node, and the empty space gone.

For now I'm simply moving the nodes to the same point and combining the paths. But this feels like a hack and limits what I can do with the path (moving this particular node for example).

I found two questions asking about joining end points, but my question is about mid points, and the "Join selected nodes" button doesn't work with mid points:

How to join end nodes of different paths in Inkscape?
How to Connect Bezier Curves in Inkscape?

I also found this question, which looked promising, but it's about Illustrator, not Inkscape:

How to join two overlapping non-end points that belong to two paths?


texts: Solid bordered ellipse with transparent background in Photoshop?

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This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill over a picture. I often find myself doing this to highlight an area of a screenshot when posting an image to StackOverflow or sending an email to IT support.

In Adobe Fireworks it is pretty easy:

Select the ellipse tool
Set the fill to transparent
Set the pen to red
Draw the ellipse

It is straightforward following the same steps in Microsoft Paint.

But in Adobe Photoshop the ellipse tool seems to only have one colour

I could draw the solid red ellipse and then draw another slightly smaller ellipse to mask out the central region but that seems too long-winded for what must be a commonplace simple task.

What is the speedy lightweight way to call out an area of a picture by plonking a solid bordered ellipse with a transparent fill on it in Photoshop?


texts: How do I prepare a scanned pencil sketch for coloring in Photoshop?

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I want to color sketches in Photoshop, but when I prepared the sketch (using Levels, Hue, and other modifications) to turn it into workable line art, some details were missing. I think it depends on how you draw your sketch.

What are important steps for drawing a sketch (with pen or pencil) that is to be colored in Photoshop? A step-by-step instruction would be appreciated.

For instance, here it is the sketch

This is after my preparations in Photoshop


texts: Checking through different fonts quickly

texts: There's a trick I've seen other graphic designers do wehre they'll highlight a block of text, and then seemingly down-arrow through their whole list of fonts, seeing how it looks on that text block, 'til they find one that looks right. Yet when I try to emulate, it doesn't work for me: I have to manually click the Font box, pick one, see how it looks, and repeat. It goes from being an effortless tap-tap-tap on the keyboard to a click-drag-click-drag chore. What's the trick?


texts: What are common fonts for TV sports score banners?

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I'm working on a project that needs a font very similar to the types used in television broadcasts of sports games to display the score and other info.  I would love to know if there are any industry standard or common fonts, particularly in NBA broadcasts.

Example:


texts: Is this a rip off of the " General Electric " logo?

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Velo company is a company that deals with vapors and they come to me and ask to design a logo that contain drops of water and a sense of movement.

First I create a " V " letter and in the negative space I integrate a drop of water.

Second I integrate a sense of movement with those drops of water combined with that circle.

So tell me, is this a rip off of the " General Electric " logo ?

And if you have suggestions to improve the design will be very much welcomed.


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I sometimes skew a square to make a sort of 3D layer. (as in the picture below).
I do this by converting the object to path and then dragging the 2 left nodes up.
The same technique does not work with a circle, now I am wondering if I can do a similar effect with circles.
Thank you in advance.


texts: How can you create a "sticky footer" in inDesign?

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Sticky footers in web development are basically footers that will always either stick to the bottom if the content isn't tall enough to vertically fill the browser or they stick after the bottom of the content after scrolling.  I don't much need the first one, but I'd like the ability to have a footer on my master page always end up at the bottom of the content.  I'm coding a website responsively using alternate and liquid layouts.

Is this possible in InDesign?

Sticky Footers Reference


texts: How does path alignment tool work in Photoshop CS6?

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In the tutorial I'm watching the instructor has just created a new rectangle. With that layer selected, he goes up to the "Path Alignment" dropdown in the tool bar - having already selected "Align to Canvas" from it - then selects "Vertical Centers." Here:

When I try to do the same, all of the options above "Align to Selection/Canvas" are greyed out, so I'm unable. I definitely have the layer selected as well as "Align to Canvas," but they are still greyed out. Can anyone guess why?

Thank you.


texts: How to achieve this type of darkened watercolor border

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I am using illustrator to make watercolor shapes. I am able to make the shapes with watercolor background.. but they look too flat on the edges.
I actually want them to look like these 2 sample sources:

As you can see the ring and star have a nice watercolor esque borders even with roughness. I can create the roughness but I want to actually darken the border for which I'm confused how.
I am comfortable with photoshop and illustrator both.


texts: Options/suggestions for emphasizing or making parts of a document stand out?

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I'm trying to come up with a scheme for emphasizing parts of a document. I want something more then just using an italic font as it could be a couple of paragraphs.

Other parts of my document have strong emphasis as shown in the example below for a Requirement. I need another way to emphasize text; it needs to stand out, but not as strongly as this. Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this happen?

While I will eventually implement this in LaTeX, I'm not looking for LaTeX implementation—that I can do on my own. I am looking for different examples of how this may be done.


texts: Cross Platform Fonts and specifically cross platform Weights

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I was hoping someone could help me with some research I'm doing.  I'm looking into what fonts are available cross-platform.  Not only Mac/Windows, but iOS and Android as well.  I'm interested in the most current versions of these platforms (so OS X Mavericks, Windows 8, iOS 7,etc…)

And specifically, of these cross platform fonts, what weights are actually available on all modern platforms?

Can anyone answer my question or provide some resources?  The best I've been able to find online with regards to the weight question is this article from 2009: http://www.macworld.com/article/1144660/xplatype.html.  Unfortunately there is no mention of mobile platforms.

I really appreciate any help that can be provided.  Thank you in advance!


texts: Responsibilities and requirements for graphic designer position

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I plan to recruit a graphic designer for my organization, but I'm not sure how to put/assign the responsibility to him/her. I have read this post: How can I write requirements for a graphic designer?, but I'm still having a hard time defining this clearly.

What specific, general responsibilities would be expected for a graphic designer position?


texts: InDesign: how to insert TOC before content

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I'm creating a book with over 150 pages. I have written these pages in Ms Word, and imported them into an InDesign project. Everything is looking perfect.
Generating a TOC from the content seems to work perfectly aswell. However, if I want to place it before the content on an ampty page, it flows over the rest of the contentpages (like an overlay), instead of pushing the contentpages back.
In the image below you can see what happens, the TOC flows over the content on the right page.


texts: Illustrator saving as SVG causes transparent offset between objects

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I have the issue that when saving to SVG from Illustrator 2015 CC, there is a small offset between some objects, as seen below:

The blue area should be directly attached to the white area, but there is a transparent space between them. In Illustrator, when I put a black background behind everything, there is no transparent area, it looks as I want it to:

If I use a conversion tool like cloudconvert, to convert from ai to svg, this does not happen, it looks like it should.

What is the cause of this? I tried many different SVG settings when saving, none of them changed anything.


texts: How to make a layer of png image without including the transparent part in gimp?

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I want to make a layer in gimp, that is just an image that doesn't cover the whole background, but I don't want the rest of the layer to be a transparent surface. I want the layer to end with the image of, say, a dog or a basketball, without any transparency around it. How do I do this?

Edit: To clarify since many misunderstood what I'm looking for, I want the layer to stop with the outline of the figure, beyond which you cannot draw on that layer.


texts: Can I generate series of one object around a curve line in illustrator cc?

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I drew a golden cup which you can see below by illustrator.
Actually I am looking for speeding up ways for drawing .
I'm familiar with blend tool which we can create series of shapes if we have first shape and last shape , but its happen along straight line.
I want to know if we can blend objects along curve and path .

as you see in image , there are some leaves that are located around the curve line.

I wanted to know can I generate these leaves around a curve line by using some tools (or maybe blend tool ) in illustrator instead of drawing each leaf ?


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Poor original script font for identifying. I’ve tried everything to ID the original is just too poor.

I edited it heavily and was able to get a search. No exact match but some possible substitutes. I would add the redo but don't know how to add an image to existing request.
Thanks again.

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texts: How can I combine animations in InDesign?

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I'm trying to make a navigation bar with a dropdown menu which will contain some links like:

Menu1 | Menu2 | Menu3
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sub1_1 | sub2_1 | sub3_1
sub1_2 | sub2_2 | sub3_1

So when I click Menu1 it opens a rectangle with 2 text boxes which will be links. So far I've managed to add an animation to this rectangle and make it fadeIn when Menu1 is clicked.

The problem is when I try to hide the rectangle and show the one that is under Menu2.

In short what I try to say is that if is a way of attaching multiple animations for an object but each one of them to be triggered at some click event or if there is a workaround for this.

I prefer not using multistate objects.


texts: Remove extra space in front of the text without outlining it? [Illustrator]

texts: Did anyone figure it out on how to remove that little extra space in front of the text?


texts: How can I use the same smart object several times in the same PSD

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I am using a smart object in my PSD file that I duplicated 3 times. But when I update the smart object by saving the others don't change.

The objective is when I update one smart-object the others will be automatically change.


texts: Are there any films about graphic design?

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I'm looking for fiction films that are either about graphic design, or have important elements of its history, and I'm a bit stuck.

I'm not trying to find movies that would be inspiring for designers (that would be quite broad and subjective), but movies that touch the subject of design directly.


texts: Can I resize the texture pattern that applied via Illustrator graphic styles? And if not, is there any workaround to achieve this?


texts: Images with a style applied loses quality immediately even before saving

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I have a number of very good quality photos inserted into PowerPoint 2016. There are over 30 of them and to keep it easy for the client to update them later I simply applied a style (simple white boarder with a drop shadow) to each.

As I applied these I noticed the quality of the photo drops noticeably as soon as the style is applied.

Is there any way around this? I have set the save to keep the quality of the original images (client wants to print so it was designed to A3 and will be compressed a bit more when finalized.)


texts: Should a designer flatten/restrict images when sending to another designer?

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Scenario.....

Client sends Photo A to you for use in a design. The photo is a portrait with a background.

In the course of work you remove the background and color-correct the photo for your use. This can sometimes take considerable work depending upon the photo itself. This is all part of the project billing. So, really the client pays for this editing as well.

Contract states the client is paying for final deliverables (PDF generally) and not any construction, working, or native files.

Some time later the client ask you to send Photo A to another designer so they can use it in some unrelated project. The client doesn't specifically state they'd like the edited version sent. Merely "Can you send that photo to...."

Clarifications:

I don't own the photo. I am aware. The client owns the photo.
I have no problem sending the photo as requested
I did put in several hours of work to refine the client-provided photo for use in my office

I honestly have no issue forwarding client-owned resources when asked. But I wonder......

Should a designer flatten or otherwise restrict the image when sending it elsewhere?

What I mean by that is....

Should the layers be merged resulting in all masks and various correction layers being merged?
Should color corrections be merged removing the easy access to further adjustments?
Should the image merely be flattened and all transparency removed resulting in a white background and no defined outline for the portrait?
Should I merely forward the original image the client sent me? Keeping the edited version to myself for my use?
Should the layered, constructed, corrected, .psd file be sent?

I am aware that any other designer would appreciate having as editable a file as possible. I mean, I certainly wouldn't turn down someone sending me a fully layered, editable, .psd image. I'm more considering the client request. The contract stated they aren't paying for assets, only final deliverables. So by providing a single, edited, asset I am technically breeching the contract, am I not?

I primarily wonder if it is merely good practice to send the original image I was sent.

What's the best practice when asked to send client-owned resources which have considerable work in them to another office?

Current Practice: Traditionally, I don't "hoard" this type of thing and don't really do anything to make life hard on others. I'd merely save the image as a jpg if there's no transparency, or a png if there is, and forward that image. So, things are merged but not necessarily flattened removing transparency. For some images, having the PNG allows for easy access to the defined outline of the photo and then subsequent text wraps or other editing possibilities while saving the new office the time it would take to remove the background the way I did. I've really never seen that as an issue.


texts: What techniques does Jesse Kanda (+++) use?

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I'm in love with the aesthetics Jesse Kanda (among others) use in their works. I've been trying to figure out what techniques these artists are using – it almost looks like photos of sculptures. I don't get how this can be done in Illustrator or similar softwares. Any ideas? Is it even computer-made?

https://www.google.dk/search?q=jesse+kanda&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinsL7vy-HWAhVGMJoKHQheAg0Q_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=627


texts: Can I prevent the screen from scrolling when dragging a vector path in Illustrator?

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Sometimes, when I'm drawing a vector path with the pen tool, I need to drag the line further than I have screen space, and this makes the screen scroll down, which makes me lose focus on what I'm looking at.

Is there a keyboard shortcut or some way to prevent the screen from automatically scrolling downward (or whatever direction) and just allow me to drag it as far as I want?


texts: How to change smart object outlines and colors?

texts: I was wondering if there is a way to alter the color of the Smart object that has been inputted into Photoshop. Basically, I have a series of glyphs that need  to be altered so they  have new hexadecimal's. Is there an easy way to do this? There doesn't seem to be any Photoshop functions available?


texts: How to associate a color with multiple images in Photoshop?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Photoshop - adjustment layer to change colors of multiple layers?
  Is it possible to have global color swatches or color styles in Photoshop?

I have a PSD filled with buttons and other controls. I want to theme those controls based on one color. Is there a way for me to associate one color with all the buttons and other controls in the PSD file such that I can change one color and the theme of all the buttons changes?

Thanks


texts: How to distinguish menu items that link to other sites

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I work for a large university, and we're trying to come up with some ideas for our drop-down menus, which are fairly standard, not too fancy.

The university has their main site, and many sub-sites, each of which has its own set of menu links.  Besides the domain name and theming, these are essentially all separate sites.

These sub-sites often link to each other in their main menus, which can be disorienting.  You click on a link in a menu, go to a page, want to look at the same menu, but you're on a different site entirely, so you have different menu options.

Are there good ways to visually distinguish these cross-site menu links?  I'm wondering if an arrow icon next to the link or something would help let people know they're leaving the site.


texts: Best practice for cap height and x-height for bilingual sign-making inside and outside of a public institution: a hospital

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Whats is the best practice for cap height and x-height for sign-making inside and outside of a hospital?

I have to design some bilingual signs for a hospital. I have some problems because I don't know if there are some industry standards for the size of the text. Everything needs to be very easy to read and accessible. Both for inside and outside signs.

At the moment, for a sign that is inside of the hospital my cap height is 20mm for the main language(Romanian) and 15mm for the secondary language(English).

Screenshot:

Are there standards of best practice models for this kind of work? Where can I read more about it? Where can I find more examples?


texts: I'm creating a logo from text in Adobe Illustrator. I know I have to convert the text to an image before saving it. Which tool would be better for this, image trace or create outlines?


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I'm producing an EPUB with Adobe InDesign.

Most of the fonts I'm using have Italic and Bold versions.  I simply select the correct font in InDesign, and it is set up as a @font-face in the CSS when I export to EPUB.  So that works fine.

However, I have one font that I need to make Italic, but there is no Italic version of that font.  In normal CSS, I could simply say font-style:italic and be done with it.  But there is no way to set that in InDesign, since it operates with fonts normally.  I can apply a skew to the letters, but I don't think that would translate how I'd like into CSS.

Is there a way to set a character style in InDesign so that it will use my font, but set font-style:italic in the resultant CSS?


texts: How to I create Logo mockups using Illustrator

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I am just getting started with adobe illustrator CS5 bulding logos. I often see people presenting it as mockups on walls, business cards or more than one logo which can be navigated through.

How do it do that using Adobe illustrator or I need Photoshop ?

Regards
Vishy


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Thought I'd throw this out there.

At which scale does everyone produce their wireframes/user flows? For mobile, I usually design at 1:1 scale using iPhone 5 dimensions (320x568), but I've found that when creating user flows at 1:1 scale that it can usually lead to a large canvas size (in Illustrator or Sketch or what have you) once you have multiple instances each wireframe and annotations.

Something like this would require a very large canvas if designed at 1:1 scale: https://dribbble.com/shots/2483852-Lifeonit-Mobile-Onboard-Wireframes/attachments/486957

One approach could be to design at half scale, but then you're really not making an honest representation of what can fit within the viewport. Other downsides to this is that you have to always keep 1/2 scale in mind (e.g. 12px type is now 6.5px), text may be hard to read, etc.
Another approach could be to design at full scale, and then reduce the size when placing into the user flow. Downsides to this is that it makes editing after resize more complicated.
A third approach is to design at completely arbitrary dimensions. Everything will still be relative which will help with balance and the general idea, but still it's hard to plan with pixel dimensions in mind. I've seen some UX kits that do this. Their many different UI patterns can't all fit within a single artboard, so I find that the viewport on a mobile phone is like 302px wide instead of 320).

Anyway, I'm curious how everyone approaches this and what are some of your best practices.


texts: How to prevent arrowheads from overlapping objects in Inkscape?

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So my question is about how to get rid to the overlap of the arrowheads on my wonderful circles. I got like 10 circles which are stepped by 24 arrows. They don't liked it, I don't like it. Please help.

I'm kind of frustrated. I want to have my arrow not overlap the circle.

I tried to add new Layer/Level and move the arrows tho the one layer and the objects to the other, didn't worked. I tried to do some magic with the "path" options like division. I tried to google it but I only found things for multiple objects overlapping, but since I have a connector those didn't work.

With XOR, I just deleted the arrowhead. With division, I deleted the whole arrow.


texts: In photoshop how can you fill each selection with its own individual gradient automatically?

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Basically, this is an oversimplified illustration that shows exactly what I want. Instead of me selecting each patch individually then apply the gradient I can just use select > color range or magic wand/inverse to make multiple selections and photoshop should automatically fill each selected patch with its own gradient. In this case, the gradient will always be the same. Is there an easy way to do this so I don't have to write a script?

Edited: For those don't know if you select all the patch and apply a gradient you will see the result like the first image.


texts: What are the dots at the ends of letters called?

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Some typefaces with serifs, have on some ends round blobs, to simulate the little blob a pen would leave, if written with one.
For example, in IBM Plex Serif:

The pink dots are the parts I mean. They usually appear instead of a serif, either the upper one, or the one that isn't a slab serif, as is the case with the f, r, and y.
The dot on the ear of the g seems to be slightly different than all others, but that might be just a coincidence.

What are these called, and is there a typographical significance to them, other than just stylistic?
In typefaces like Garamond, the serifs are slightly thicker, but not circular blobs like these.

Here's for reference, the same letters as above, without the pink highlights:


texts: How to stop illustrator from making my stroke bigger when duplicating file or Exporting?

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I have a file I've been working on and I placed in a link file of an Icon I previously made, and in the original illustrator file it looks fine, but when I save the artboard to a separate file or when I duplicate the same file the stroke on the Icon becomes thicker.

Original

Duplicate File


texts: Is there anyway to convert all texts to outlines in Sketch App?

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I was using Sketch to make a cover photo, and there are many words in it. I have to convert every text to online, so I have to open layer folders and select each text in it by myself.

Is there any faster way to convert all texts in one single step?


texts: Duplicate [text with shape] in photoshop

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I want to create numbers in blocks as shown in the image, using Photoshop CS6.

I understood how to duplicate shapes in the same layer (Path Selection tool -> select shape -> with Option key, click and drag shape) and then align them.

Now I want to add numbers to this shape, and then duplicate them. But the text(number) and containing shape are two different elements. Is it possible to merge the text and shape into a single shape (so that I can duplicate them together) ?

Or is there a different, more elegant way to do this ? Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to reproduce this "comics" effect in Photoshop?

texts: I’m looking for a way to reproduce a similar effect in Photoshop. Is there a filter that can produce this?


texts: What typeface do you think was used for this:

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Does anyone know what typeface was use for the 'H', 'R', 'A' and 'E' on Short Waves?

Thanks!


texts: how to create a cylindrical shape consisting of two different circles alternately (see image) / Illustrator

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I came across this work (unfortunately creator unknown, please let me know). It looks like it is done in Adobe Illustrator. Is there any body out there which knows how to create this effect?

This is what I've tried:


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This is really weird and annoying: When I unmerge table cell, all the below rows go away with remain unfit in frame, but Fit to Frame do not work.

I tried to create new column, and removed the column with merged cell - but result is the same - all the below rows go away and I can't access them in any way - also tried to decrease the rows heights

When I remove any other column everything is fine!!:(

Anyone face something like this?


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So I have four splines (not the same object) in 3D Studio Max and I need to weld the vertices to make them one spline.

Is this even possible? How?


texts: Best method to present a fullscreen radial gradient in web to prevent banding

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Is it better to generate a fullscreen radial gradient in CSS3 or with a maximized SVG vector? How would you implement the maximized SVG?
Do you think that it's necessary to apply a raster noise background-repeat?


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I've been trying to compare this font, with an online photo editor called pixlr but no luck.

What is the name of the font on this picture? It's a little bit transparent, it has a metro word.


texts: How do I create fold lines on my dieline?

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I'm working on a dieline for a box and I was wondering how I could make the fold lines.

Do I just make the stroke dashed?

I'm using rectangles to create my dieline. How do I select just one side of the rectangle to make my fold line? Every time I select one side the whole rectangle gets selected.


texts: Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for web design

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Possible Duplicate:
  Designing A Website from Scratch – Illustrator or Photoshop?

Would you recommend Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator for a professional freelance web designer on a somewhat-low budget with a small but growing client base?


texts: Colour maps for visualising sparse points against black background

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I would like to visualise sparse 3D points against a black background. Each point is associated with a brightness value. I would like a colour map to display these points in a visually appealing way, such that:

it is obvious that the colour corresponds to brightness
points with a low brightness value remain visible against a black background
bright points are easily distinguishable from dark points, even for the colourblind
the above remain true even when compressed with JPEG or h264 compression (e.g. when making a YouTube video)

I am well aware of famous colour maps such as Viridis, Parula, Cubehelix, Magma, etc. However, these are not designed for plotting sparse points against a black background, so the darker points are far too dark and cannot be easily seen.
This is the basic black and white raw image:

This is the current colourmap I'm using:

This is the "Plasma" colourmap from matplotlib:

I have developed a tool to assist with picking colours using the HSLuv library
Apparently, for my colourmap, the dark blue points are too hard to see against the black background. Furthermore, with YouTube's video compression, the blue points often disappear altogether.
It looks good for dense point clouds but not for sparse ones.

I would like some ideas to make the dark points more visible against the black background in the sparse point cloud while still satisfying all 4 constraints mentioned earlier.


texts: What is the font used inthe Pocket logo?

texts: What font is used in this logo? I'd love to have this or a similar one.


texts: Why is there a transparent canvas behind my artboards in Photoshop?

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I don't understand why photoshop is doing this. Every time I add another artboard, it adds more to the background canvas instead of being a grey like I've seen for others.

I've messed with background color settings and everything :(


texts: How to obtain similar "orange-mood" in Photoshop?

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I was browsing Instagram and accidently found this account (@utrechtalive), and wondered how to obtain this look in Photoshop? I can't really tell what's going on, but some desaturation and gradient maybe? Hope someone can help :)

Thank you in advance!


texts: Working on Small Resolution Images in Photoshop ( icons )

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?

I want to get a solution for a question that has been in my mind for a long time.

For the past 2 years, several times I was assigned to do some job involving low resolution images. Such as icon making, favicon making etc. These files have very low resolution like 16*16 px, 32*32px or maybe upto 100px.

I used Photoshop and Illustrator for creating such graphics. It looks fine and perfect in high resolution, but when I try to decrease the size to required low resoution, the images have noticeable defects in clarity. I was surprised to see low resolution images in other websites with better clarity and wondering, How is that possible? Hope stack will solve my problem.


texts: "Flip" italics/oblique with character style

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We are exporting content from our CMS into InDesign via RTF. All content has style names applied automatically, including italics which has an italic character style. italic has the Font Style set to "Italic".

This works great, except one of our paragraph styles (intro) sets Font Style to "Italic" as well. In these cases, we would like the italic style to remove "Italic" from the Font Style.

I came across this question which wants to do something similar, but both of the answers require manual intervention, which we're trying to avoid at all costs.

As far as I can tell, it's only possible to specifically set Font Style globally with a character class. That is, it isn't possible to have it apply different styles based on the parent paragraph style.

Ideally, we would like to have the italic style switch between "Italic" and non-italic automatically. In CSS, this would be achieved like this (I know toggle() doesn't work yet, let me dream):

.italic { font-style: toggle(italic, normal); }

Alternatively, we could settle for setting the Font Style different when it appears within a intro paragraph. For example, in CSS:

.italic { font-style: italic; }
p.intro .italic { font-style: normal; }

Is there any way to achieve this behavior in InDesign with styles?

We don't do the import very often (a few times in a short period of time every few months), but each import is rather large, so it's both time-consuming and error-prone to fix these by hand. With that said, if there's a way to do a single search and replace that takes care of this, that could also be acceptable, but anything that needs to be done for each instance is out of the question.

Note: We are looking into changing the RTF export to use a different style name for italics within intro, but are hoping for a better fix.

Setting up InDesign document

To set up a sample InDesign document, follow the instructions below. These instructions will create an InDesign document with italic and intro that are both "Italic".

Copy the following text into an empty file and save as sample.rtf:

{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl{\f0 Times New Roman;}}{\stylesheet{\s1 intro;}{\s2 text;}{\*\cs3 \additive italic;}}\sectd\s1{Intro paragraph with {\*\cs3 italic} text.\par}\s2{Non-intro paragraph with {\*\cs3 italic} text.\par}}

Place sample.rtf into an empty InDesign document
Set Font Style to "Italic" for intro paragraph style
Set Font Style to "Italic" for italic character style


texts: I'd like to expand my use of fonts in my web designs. I know that there are a variety of services available like Google Web Fonts to include fonts onto my site, but I would also like to be able to use those fonts in high-fidelity design mockups made with either Fireworks or Photoshop. Is there an easy way to import web font files so they are available outside the browser?


texts: How to logically organize color palettes for use in Illustrator and Photoshop for a specific project?

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I am doing a knowledge transfer at my work to give the incoming designer all of my design assets and direction in an easily digestible format.

How would I organize my color palettes in a logical format for cross application (adobe swatch exchange) use for an incoming designer?

Should I break it into primary brand colors, then shades and tints? Should I also keep in the requisite black, white and grayscale colors?


texts: How to change the UI color of Photoshop CC

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I recently updated to the 2015 Photoshop CC version. While using it, I realized that I was not particularly pleased with the UI color of the pop-ups/Dialogue boxes that appear(something like the Layer style pop-up).I really liked the color scheme of the previous version.Attaching an image for further reference.

I know that the overall UI color of Photoshop can be changed from preferences, but is there a possibility of changing the dialogue box color also?

Thanks,
Mayank


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I finished my package design in adobe illustrator cc, then saved it as a print ready PDF (Press quality), and delivered to the client for print. But he returned back saying that he has a problem with the transparency of the stars(you can see it on image attached)

I did read that the transparency cause problems in printing process according to this article (https://www.selectgp.com/page/file-transparency) , they say something about flattening, but I don't really know what should I do to overcome this problem!

This image is after flattening the stars as per suggested solution]1


texts: remove structured, 'honey-comb'-like noise from histology picture

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What functionality would I be looking at to remove the noise like below (from a histology image) within photoshop? I had hoped I would get around any complex neural filters to remove noise based on some pre-trained classifiers ...and this doesn't seem readily available in Photoshop (yet?).
Thanks
Things I tried:
Curve adjustment layers, like mentioned here, did not work to any degree of satisfaction for this, unfortunately. I tried the noise-reduction filters and dust-removal filters, but these approaches did not really target this kind of noise.


texts: How is a 'design language' different from a style guide or pattern library?

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Google calls material design their 'design language'. IBM and Airbnb also call what seems like a style guide a design language or design system.

What's exactly the difference? From what I see at a glance, a design language seems to be more broad and also extends to other aspects like animation and interaction.

References:

http://www.ibm.com/design/language/
http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/


texts: Embed colour profile when saving as JPG via script

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I have the following script that saves a copy of my current document as a JPG to the desktop, however I cannot get it to embed the colour profile. Does anyone know how to do that?

var JPGquality = 12;
var docPath = '/Users/cristianmoisei/Desktop/';
var docName = app.activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');;

var saveFile = new File(docPath + '/' + docName + '.jpg');

var fileExists = saveFile.exists;
var tries = 1;
while (fileExists) {
  saveFile = new File(docPath + '/' + docName + ('-' + tries) + '.jpg');
  tries++;
  fileExists = saveFile.exists;
  jpgSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
}

SaveJPEG(saveFile, JPGquality);

function SaveJPEG(saveFile, jpegQuality) {
  jpgSaveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
  jpgSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
  jpgSaveOptions.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;
  jpgSaveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
  jpgSaveOptions.quality = jpegQuality; //1-12
  activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, jpgSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
}


texts: How to erase all assets prior to export?

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I'm with Illustrator 23.1.

Every time I do an export, I see the list of previous assets, such as:

If I export the same image, it messes with the name (because prev assets is already there), such as X_1, X_2, and so on.

Is it possible to erase all Assets in that windows? I don't need prev ones.
Not sure how to to this.


texts: Is there a standard font format that is considered best practice when creating an open source/free font?

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If I want to venture into the world of typeface design, I of course would prefer to use the proper font file format. I'm wondering if there exists an industry standard for this, as well as whether there is a specific format that is particularly popular in the open source world.

My first thought is OpenType (.otf), which, I gather, supersedes TrueType (.ttf), but does it replace PostScript as well? How about Embedded OpenType (.eot)? Not sure the difference there.

Note:
I don't mean for this question to be a subjective discussion of merits and appropriateness. I'm really asking whether there is a standard, and if so, what it is, but if there isn't a standard, that should be the answer.


texts: What's the shortcut for "Deselect Layers" in Photoshop?

texts: What's the shortcut for "Deselect Layers" in Photoshop (in OS X)?


texts: Body text alignment to baseline grid when using paragraph styles

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I am trying to set paragraph styles for headings in IdCS6. My leading is 15pt for body text, 30pt for headings. My baseline grid is also set to increment every 15pt.

After the heading paragraph style is used, why doesn't my body text align? The header leading is an increment of the base text leading, so I don't get it.


texts: How to non-destructively generate filled foreground and background shapes from a single shape?

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For example, I have a basic shape with a fill and stroke (or other kind of appearance effects applied to get this result):

From this, I want two separate shapes, each a simple filled shape with no stroke. One shape is the extracted fill part, and the other is a fill of the outline shape essentially:

Once I have these shapes I would like to further modify the center shape by subtracting other shapes from it, while retaining the original background shape. For example to end up with these two shapes:

The key constraint here is that I do not want to re-create the base shape in several different places to generate these two shapes. The base shape may change frequently, and it would take too much time to replace it in multiple places each time.
I can almost accomplish this by using two fills, one with offset path, but I don't know how to apply effects like pathfinder to one of the fills to merge it with other shapes.


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I'm a freelance designer and I've got a client that needs a product manual. The manual will include many technical drawings of a very precise nature at various angles. The engineering team has cad drawings of this product and various parts and things. I would like to know if there is a workflow that would allow me to take these cad drawings, position them in the many various angles needed for display and then, somehow, bring them over into illustrator as a line drawing. I'd like to avoid, or vastly minimize, having to pen tool trace each and every image.

I managed to find a post here discussing a method but the technical jargon for CAD is well over my head. I've obtained a free copy of AutoCAD and man alive am I out of my depth with trying to use it.

Any suggestions are welcomed, or if you could parse that linked post and explain it laymans terms that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help


texts: How to Photoshop several fabrics and finishes onto several images

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I am creating a website for a furniture manufacturer. On the product detail page they want the image to change based on the fabric and finish choice the customer makes.
They have multiple products all available in about 24 finishes and 20 fabric choices. They have photos of each product but only in one finish or one combination of finish and fabric. As an example the have 12 different styles of upholstered beds available in the 24 finishes and 20 fabrics. This is a lot to photoshop not to mention all the other products they have.
For a few of their upholstered beds I have photoshopped the fabric and finish. This has taken me anywhere from 4 to 16 hours to accomplish. Some of the fabrics have a texture or pattern to them and some of the finishes also have a distressed texture to them. They do have photos of samples of all the fabrics and finishes. They also have zoomed in detail shots and they want those photoshopped as well.  Here is an example of a headboard.

My first thought was I will need to hire some freelance designers to help me photo shop the images but I was wondering is there a better way of doing this? They have given me 3 months to finish the website.


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I'm trying to programatically detect if a color is "gray" or not.
The best measure of "grayness" I could find was the saturation. The problem that I'm running into is that different hues look more or less gray depending on their hue and lightness.
In the picture below one looks distinctly gray and the other one red/brown even though both have the same saturation and lightness.
Is there a color space that more accurately represents "grayness" of a color?
Is there an official term for the concept of "grayness"?


texts: How do I edit photographs to recreate this cutout colour effect?

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I want to try and work out how to edit photographs to create the effect seen in the rowing poster below. I have tried messing about in both Photoshop (colour overlays) and Illustrator (live trace) with the original photo and just can't work out how to replicate the style. Can anyone advise?

Link to original image for reference: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/man-exercising-on-rowing-machine-hands-93299866?src=pXLm09n5nZ6_8S7E0TBvPA-1-39


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I am trying to thin out the google 'G'. Ive tried by hand and ended up with very mediocre results. Is there a way in Inkscape that allows selected a pathway and then having the path thin out.

For example a function that moves nodes tangentially to the curves they lie on toward the next point that would be found along the path in the direction of the tangent.


texts: How to create closed arc shape with slanting sides in Photoshop?

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I.e. an open fan shape:

Thank you so much!


texts: DPI Vs. PPI Vs. Image dimension, what should be taken to consideration?

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I've been really facing this problem and I have found a similar link, that does not really address the problem. First of all, I'd like to mention that I use blender and GIMP for most graphics that I design and please read all the way through.

Blender has export option that are only available in dimensions (e.g. 1920 X 1860), and no matter how big we set this up and check the PPI in GIMP(or photoshop, knowing GIMP does only handle 8 - bit images), the PPI is always 72.009.

On employment site, we are requested to provide information if we are ready to supply to our clients a high resolution image atleast a 300DPI, and the dimension is not mentioned.

Furthermore, I have visited many websites and confirmed that the terms DPI and PPI are used quite interchangeably.

Even though we can set the image PPI in GIMP from 72.009 to 300 as easily as image -> scale -> 72 to 300, there is no realtime feedback in the screen to know that the image PPI has been changed.

So, the problem is around what should the output would be, would it be a higher dimensioned image, a higher PPI image or a higher DPI image that would really mean HIGH RESOLUTION?
How can we really set it to a standard 300DPI image, on the aforementioned link, I don't really know if it is not to be optimized for printing.


texts: How do you create a inner 3D perspective effect in Photoshop CC?

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I have a client who really wants something like this but unable to find a better quality anywhere. Is there a way to recreate this effect in photoshop or illustrator?

Thanks!


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I want to change the color to a shape, I have a serious problem, colors does NOT match with the original color (photoshop makes colors lighter):

Original color:

Photoshop color:

On the other hand, the -3 is not near from original color.

How to make Photoshop display color exactly like original color?
EDIT: I'm working with 32-bit color (the maximum bits for colors).

EDIT: 8 bit and 16 bit shows color exactly as original, but it's not the same with 32 bit (32 bit has not #Hex in color picker, 32 bit makes colors lighter)


texts: Close an open path with an open shape in Photoshop CS6

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I created a path in CS6, which ends with horizontal lines on both sides. I want to connect them to an (open) semicircle above them, thus the path would be closed.

I created a circle (automatically on a new layer), and deleted its lower anchor point so only the upper half remained.

When I try to merge the shapes from the two layers via the layers menu, CS6 always closes the semicircle with a horizontal line before merging it, and also closes my drawn path with another horizontal line.

Is there any possibility that I could close the path via the existing open semicircle?


texts: Inkscape: fill object without filling inner object

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I have this object (not grouped) :

This is what I want (after selecting a 'fill' color):

But I always get this:

How can this be achieved?


texts: Batch join PDF files, layout for cutting

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I have 20,000 PDF files which is a mail merge of post card files. (Front has unique QR code, back has address.)

Our printer requires artwork on 11x17 with cut marks. So my task is to layout each set of 6 cards onto a sheet.

So far I have created the template file, here is that:

I have tried ImageMagick for this task but this is producing raster images. I think that tool is not suited for this task.

Is Ghostscript capable to perform this merge?


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I'm finalising a logo in illustrator, saving out different file types to deliver to the client. So I want to give an RGB and CMYK version. It was originally designed on an RGB artboard. Is converting it to CMYK just as simple as file> document colormode> CMYK ?

It feels like i'm missing something...


texts: In Photoshop CC 2017, how do I draw outside the image, in the bordering canvas space?

texts: I'm trying to do guiding lines that continue outside the image space, into the canvas space, to guide my perspective drawing but every time I do a pen tool, use anchor points, or the line tool, it hides the outside lines that fall into the canvas, only leaving the line parts that fall into the image portion


texts: Move Parts of a circle out at equal distance

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I'm trying to create something like this using Illustrator CC 2015.  I know that I can just create an circle and use the scissor tool to break the circle apart.

I'm just wondering how I can move all the parts away from each other equally to create that gap.

Any ideas?


texts: See anchor points on objects even when they're not selected - Illustrator

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Title says it all. I wan't to be able to see anchor points on "object 1" when working with "object 2" so I can align better.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: How to prototype an animation of a ring diagram filling in its value using Principle?

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I'd like to know if there are any members here who are Principle app geniuses and know how I could create an animation of a ring diagram filling up its value in a transition?

If I describe it in a frame interval it'd look like this:

So I want the ring to have its blue and red value being filled in at a speed based on its final value, that is the blue growing faster than the red since it's larger than the red value in its final state. I hope this comes across somewhat understandable.

I've tried a couple of times now but I don't understand how I can have the colours hidden from start and then gradually expand/gaining opacity. Maybe this is a too complex animation for Principle? Please, let me know if you have any ideas.


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How are you? I'm wrong because I'm trying to apply an effect in Figma which I don't know if it is possible to do. I leave my question…
Is it possible to apply fixed positioning depending on the point where the scrollY is (on the vertical axis)? Just like you would with CSS with position sticky??
I looked everywhere but I can't find the solution, maybe it's not possible and my effort is in vain.
Thanks!


texts: Why are my shapes being warped when scaled in Illustrator

texts: When my shape is scaled, it gets jagged and warped. I think it is because I have too many anchor points but removing them changes the shape. How do I keep the exact shape without it warping?


texts: Justifying single letters in Illustrator

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I don't know if the title is right, so I'll explain it with an example. I am working on a simple project in Adobe Illustrator and I would like to do a thing similar to justifying a paragraph, but for single words only.

This is my text:

I would like to align it to both margins. Here I just added some spaces between all the letters, but of course it doesn't look great. How can I make letters in each line evenly spaced?


texts: How to set the rotation point and use Transform Each in Illustrator?

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I have a triangle I'm trying to rotate in Illustrator using the Object->Transform->Transform Each command, but I can't figure out how to set the rotation point like I can if I just use Free Transform.

This is important because the rotation point is at the center of the square bounding box, not at the center of the triangle.

Is there a way to set the rotation point? Or do I have to manipulate the bounding box somehow?


texts: Why would I want to a use baseline grid in Illustrator cc?

texts: What are the benefits be of using a baseline grid in Illustrator for a limited amount of text?


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I've done some homework Googling but I'm still confused as to how exactly blend modes work.

So according to Wikipedia, this post and this post, the way blend modes work is to use various formulas on the value or luminance of the pixels of the blend and base layers, to calculate the result value or luminance of the result layers. However, none of these sources elaborates on what value or luminance means.

Does value or luminance correspond to value as in the HSV model or lightness as in the HSL model?
I've tried mixing #ff0000 with #00ff00 (both with 50% lightness / 100% value) with the Multiply mode, but the result color is #000000 (0% lightness / value). So value or luminance as used for blend modes shouldn't be the same as value or lightness in the HSV or HSL model, right? Because whether you do .5*.5 or .01*.01, the result will not be 0.

Then what exactly is value or luminance?

And if blending modes rely solely on how much "white", "black" or "gray" a pixel contains (which sounds a lot like value or lightness in the HSV or HSL models) as suggested by the sources I'm citing here, how is the result hue determined? How does, say, #fa0000 Multiplied by #064d1e result in #060000 but not #010600 with the same HSV value?

Come to think of it, how do a pair of hues when blended together produce another hue, anyway? Is the result hue in the exact center of the segment connecting its component hue "points" on the light spectrum or something? Like when you get yellow from red and green because yellow lies dead centered between red and green?

I'm still pretty clueless about the physics of light and color perception in humans, and I'm hoping someone could enlighten me in layman's terms.


texts: Combining screenshot with Apple product image (including its generic status bar) with GIMP instead of Photoshop?

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I would like to add a proper screenshot to an iPhone product image to create an ad for an iOS 7 app. Apple provides such product images as *.psd files for Photoshop, however I only have Gimp 2.8.10 (for OS X) available. When viewed in GIMP, the product image contains two layers: one for the whole device, the other for its screen.

Adding the raw screenshot to the product image is simple enough: "Open as Layers ..." plus "Scale Layer". However, I am also supposed to hide my actual (screen-captured) status bar in favor of Apple's generic version (it has a full battery icon, etc). Apple's App Store Marketing Guidelines state that "status bar options are provided on different layers within the Smart Object layer" but GIMP apparently does not render these finer details in the *.psd file (and I am also unfamiliar with these concepts).

So my question is this: can I use GIMP to combine my screenshot with the product image template such that a generic status bar in the template becomes visible without "brute" copy/paste, i.e. by following a procedure analog to the one prescribed for Photoshop? What would be the right steps?


texts: Extremely precise geometry in AI (irrational numbers?)

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In the context of making geometric shapes in AI, I'm wondering what are some of the most efficient ways to achieve a certain shape configuration. For the scope of this question consider a square that has a circle inscribed in it, and that circle also has a square inscribed in it. The result is pictured:

As you can see, I have got it fairly close (when eye-balled anyway). I originally thought I could just click drag and use AI's snap feature to create this type of arrangement of shapes, but that actually didn't pan out. Well, inscribing the circle in the big square worked fine with snaps, but making the smaller square in the circle didn't. There were no snap features to detect when the corners of the square were right on the circle. (Let me know if there is a snap setting for this.) So what I did was resort to the math representation: the diagonal of the square circle is equal to the diameter of the circle -- which is equal to the width of the big square. This ratio when expressed exactly is the square root of 2. With this in mind, I did the following:

select big square > right click > transform > scale > scale UI

As far as I know scale UI only accepts percentages. So to get the percentage I just took an estimation of the square root of two: 1.414, and divided that by 1 to get 70.7%. So I'm exact to at least the tenth place.

Question: Does AI have any kind of fraction or irregular number methods built in? If not, what this the best I can hope for?


texts: How to crop other layers to a selection from a different layer? Photoshop

texts: In photoshop, let's say I have 3 layers. Layer A and B have default background images. In layer C, I make the shape of something, let's say a car. I select the outline using the Quick Selection Tool. How do I crop Layers A and B to this selection, so that I can get the portion of those images to this selection?


texts: Reading a CSV file to create 10 x 10 px pngs based on the rgb values in the CSV document

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First time posting after trying to figure out a solution that would save me time with a project I'm doing.
I Have this idea of using a CSV document to generate colour patches needed for another program. being a designer I don't have much experience with scripts or programming except the basic java.

The program I want to make needs to do as follows :
Collum 1 - Filename to save.
Collum 3 - file identifier to save.
Example of this is :

Name | id | Type

|dave | 1  | Default

Output would be
Dave_Default.png

Next id need it to read the values of columns 4,5,6 as rgb values :
Example :

Name | id | Type    | R | G | B |

| dave | 1  | Default |187|112|0  |

then take those values and generate a 10 x 10-pixel block in that colour value. Save the 10x10px square as a .png with the file name as stated before then move on to the next one on the rows.

End result is :
Dave_Default.png - Colour png swatch

I'm sure this is a lot to ask but any help would be amazing as it would save hours and hours of work manually inputting the RGB values into photoshop and exporting a png one at a time.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Script for GIMP to make a certain area transparent for several images

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I would like to have a script to process a set of image files in png format, lets's say inside of one directory. We can also assume the images have the same size. The processing should contain of the following actions: select certain region, make it transparent, repeat for the next file.

Just an example to illustrate what I mean:

should be turned into

And

into

edit: @Paolo Gibbelini and @Scribblemacher, you made good suggestions. However I need now to slightly change my requirements. The width of the input image may be different and with of the crop area should be equal to the image width. The height of the crop area should be constantly 69 pixels. Can I achieve that with ImageMagick as well? Would it be correct to pass geometry like 9999x9999+0+69 for the crop?


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My client has an Excel document with these headings
Headline | subheadline | background image

There are roughly 10,000 rows, so they want 10,000 .jpg graphics created.

Question
1. What's the best way to create these as a .jpg?
2. Is there a way to make it so you don't have to open up indesign, illustartor or Photoshop?

I'd like to build the template but then give my client a script that they can just run to regenerate new jpg when the dataset changes in excel


texts: What copyright do I need to worry about in regards to personal photos of sculptures or famous buildings?

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I would like to use my own photos of sculptures or famous buildings that other people made in personal projects (not for real clients) that are poster advertisements and upload them to my Behance account.

Can I use them, quoting the sculpture's artist, without permission? or should I contact the artist?


texts: Why Photoshop changes edges/borders colours when scaling/distorting up/down?

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I'm annoyed with this behaviour since forever, so its time to ask: why Photoshop change edges colours when there's clearly absolutely no reason to do so? Here is an example: I'm dealing with the logo from my firm, plain squares, straight pixels.

Its a colorbar in a sofa shape.
As you can see below, the edges are really hard, no smoothing whatsoever.

Now, I want to turn this into a square like this:

Looks almost fine.
But when I zoom in:

I know it is supposed to help optical viewing and stuff, works great for photos, thats the name of the software, ok. But guess what? I don't want that now.

Is there any way of turning this behaviour off?

PS: I have a vector version of the logo and I know how to do that in Illustrator, but I'm asking for a philosophical reason (and for the glory of Satan).


texts: Is there a good free replacement for the "Foliage" brush in Corel's Bob Ross "Mystic Mountain" toolset?

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I recently acquired a copy of Corel Essentials 6 from the Bob Ross Humble Bundle as well as what was billed as the "Corel Painter Essentials Mystic Mountain Essentials Brush Pack". Much to my chagrin, when I started following their Mystic Mountain tutorial, I found it's apparently actually built for their Corel Painter product and another Mystic Mountain brush set. I've been able to adapt a fair amount of what they've suggested, but I'm slightly stymied where they're calling out for a "Foliage" brush. As best I can tell, as seen at 22:15 of the tutorial, this creates alternating diagonal strokes in the direction of painting in slightly varying shades of the color chosen. It provides a stroke that fades in from a narrow line to a wider one based on pressure, with slightly furry edges. It does certainly seem to do the job of drawing a lot of trees very quickly.

Is there a way to emulate this in Corel Essentials, or perhaps in GIMP?

As it is, I've adapted a few other techniques to draw some of the far-off trees, and I'm attempting to learn how to simply hand draw the trees with a few strokes, but my drawing tablet is in the mail, and it's tricky to quickly swipe the trees in with mouse movements. They look like much less than happy accidents...


texts: Problems in Saving as pdf - image resolution decreases and text resolution remains same

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i have been facing this problem many times. When ever i save any high resolution image in PDF format, the pictures in the image gets pixelated and the text or any shape remains unpixelated. But whan i view the same image as .jpeg it looks perfect with all the details. The image is fitting to screen of PDF only at 500%, but when i am putting it to 100%, it is coming as small image(image attached). I have attached some image to explain my situation. Please let me know if there is any format of saving files as PDF to get the best output. Or if someone can suggest the best settings to save in PDF.

This is the PDF output -

This is the JPEG output -

These are the settings i used to save as PDF -

This is Photoshop setting of the image -

This is how the Image looks in PDF at 100% -


texts: Recommended font size for Titles and subtitles on A4 print outs

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I'm making some printable resources for schools and am wondering what the recommended font size would be for the titles and subtitles of these pages please? These would be printed on A4, and for schools in the UK.
Thanks


texts: what's the legal status of copying an existing OS theme to implement a GUI framework

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I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question for this site, but I tried to find an answer through Google and I found a question here about copying UI themes/paradigms so I hope it's not off-topic.

The answer to that question was that it's not illegal to copy as long as you don't use the exact same graphics.

But what if I want to implement a cross-platform UI framework, like Qt, wxWidgets or Java Swing and want to have a native look and feel on each platform? Would I have to obtain a license from Microsoft/Apple/etc. to create native-looking themes for this hypothetical framework? If so, does that mean that the aforementioned frameworks obtained such a license? What about UI mockup software like this?

I assume it wouldn't make any difference if this hypothetical framework is released under a very permissive license (MIT, BSD, zlib, ...) or as a commercial product?


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I would like to create a rectangle that looks like it's made from a flat piece of shiny, polished black plastic. The kind of glossy surface that attracts fingerprints on modern electronics products - something like this:

I've made a couple of attempts using a solid black background with a white overlay with reduced opacity, but it doesn't look very good, so clearly I'm missing something.

I'm looking for guidance on techniques to achieve this effect convincingly (I will be using the GIMP for what it's worth).


texts: Multiple lassos not visible in Photoshop

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I'm trying to create a canvas that is split into 2 different sections with a small diagonal bar separating them. I tried using the Polygonal Lasso Tool but for some reason both lasso shapes won't appear simultaneously. Is there a different method and/or tool that must be used to achieve this?
Expected result

Current result


texts: Why does it seem Photoshop is the common answer to icon design instead of Illustrator?

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Icons are usually needed in a variety of sizes, so I don't understand why I always hear/see everyone using Photoshop for their icons. Probably I'm exposing my PS ignorance with this question, but aren't Photoshop images of fixed size and you have to redraw them to change it?

As opposed to an Illustrator project where it's vector-based and you can just resize it to whatever. Isn't that preferable? What am I missing?


texts: How to separate Toolbox and Tool Options from the other Docks?

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So, I had accidentally closed the Toolbox Dock and went into Single Window mode.  I then went to Window > Recently Closed Docks and reopened the Toolbox Dock.  This resulted in the Toolbox Dock to appear separately from the single window.  From there I left the Single Window mode and it joined the two Docks together and I can no longer separate them.

As the Toolbox doesn't have a tab associated with it, I can't close all of the the tabs on the right.  I guess could close the each separate tab on the left side recreate the Dock manually, but that is a lot of tabs and is really annoying. I could even reset the UI to defaults through Edit > Preferences > Interface > Window Management > Reset Saved Window Positions to Default Values, but this seems a bit overkill.  Is there a way to separate these two halves from each other in some other way?

Using GIMP 2.10.8.


texts: Combining full page bleed and inner and outer margins

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Is there any way of creating a document with a full page bleed on single pages but retaining inner and outer margins?

I'm creating a wire-o-bound book so need the inner margins to be larger than the outer margins to accommodate the wire.

Is there a way of setting up a master page for rectos and another for versos and manually applying the relevant masters to all odd and even pages?

So I want this:

Not this:


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I'm a software developed posed with a task of rendering a 3D model on the web/mobile app while also being able to allow end-users to change a text embedded in the model.
For example, a web page would contain a simple text input form field and whatever goes in there should be automatically rendered within the model.
We are currently using different tools to create models - Solidworks, Rhino, Keyshot, and Zbrush.
So far I found that KeyShotWeb allows me to render a model and change some aspects of it - but not edit text.
I'm also open to other 3D modeling programs that might allow me to achieve this.
Any direction would be greatly appreciated


texts: How to open a multiple page PDF file as artboards in Illustrator CS6

texts: I'm trying to open a PDF file with 7 pages and need to adjust each page in Illustrator CS6.  How do I open the PDF file in one single AI files with all artboards within it?


texts: Is there a way to use the brush that stays within the borders of a layer? (Photoshop CC 2015)

texts: My layer has a transparent background and has irregular borders and I want to use a brush that stays within the borders of the layer (So when I "color in" parts of the layer, the pre-existing shape is still intact but has color on the inside). I'm still learning how to use everything so any help would be very much appreciated!


texts: how can i print monopoly money on the both pages

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how can I print money of monopoly on one paper in order below (A,B,C,D,E,F... there are images of different monopoly money that I want print on one side and / means Enter key on keyboard)
A   B/C   D/E   F/G   H
on the back of paper (I want to print exactly same image belong to front pages)
A   B/C  D/E   F/G   H
thanks for helping


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Photoshop and other image editing applications possess sophisticated engines and algorithms which allow one to increase the resolution of an image via interpolation.

Are there any hard and fast rules about when you should and shouldn't do this?  Does your ability to upsample sucessfully (as in the image won't look bad) become increasingly more probably after a certain initial pixel threshold is reached?  Is the only way to 'judge' the success or failure of an upsampling attempt by eyesight or are their other metrics one can use to judge the artificially enhanced resolution?  Are TIFF images better suited for upsampling than JPEG? Apologies for the barrage of questions but I am new to graphic design in general and am really curious about this particular feature.

One more question - is there a known application which possesses the strongest algorithm / engine / or whatever when upsampling images?


texts: How to achieve breakpoints in Invision Studio or Figma?

texts: How can I achieve breakpoints in Invision Studio? I would like to have single screen for desktop and mobile, while rearranging elements. While on desktop some elements are next to each other, in mobile version I would like them to lined up vertically. If not possible directly, what is the closest way to simulate it? If not possible even to simulate, what other similar tools are able to handle responsive design prototyping? I have checked Figma and it's also not able to do it.


texts: Best way to convert RGB to Pantone Colours for digital printing on fabric without Pantone Colour Book?

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I have created a number of designs and am having them printed on cotton and bamboo fabric. I've done my designs in illustrator in RGB. I'm wondering how I can convert my RGB to Pantone colours without a physical colour book? I can't afford them!
I have the following questions:

I used the Pantone online converter to convert my rgb colours to pantone colours, but my fabric printer sent me a photo of my swatch and the colours look off! I used the TCX (pantone for cotton) colours. Is this right? Should I be using the Pantone TCX? Can I use the Pantone uncoated bolour book for cotton and bamboo fabric?

How else can I ensure that my colours are accurate without a physical Pantone book? What's the next best thing?

I also noticed that there is a Pantone colour book within illustrator that can help convert my colours-is this more accurate than the online RGB converter?

Would appreciate any help. I am by no means a professional graphic designer and haven't really ever had my designs printed on fabric.
Thank you.


texts: Is there a free 'Helvetica Neue' alternative?

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Does anyone know any other fonts similar to Helvetica Neue (free for commercial use)?

I'm working on a big website project where 'Helvetica Neue' is used heavily. I need a font that looks almost the same, is free for personal and commercial use, and looks good even when used with copytext (e.g. fontsize for copytext = 11px, for headlines = 16px).

Also there should be a condensed-font style included (if possible).


texts: Does graphic design have an ethical responsibility?

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Graphic design serves as a filter through which much of our communication is disseminated. Graphic designers find themselves in the unique position of being gatekeepers of information as well as providing a mirror that reflects contemporary culture.
The influence that graphic designers have on how communication is delivered may not always be apparent to them. Often they are embroiled in the details of a project and don’t even realize the impact their work has had or will have until some time has passed and the work is seen in retrospect.
From http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/

Most of the online resources I can find that talk about ethics in graphic design talk about professionalism, responsibilities to client & other designers or legal issues. The AIGA article on Ethics and Social Responsibility mainly discusses these points and barely mentions any responsibility to the audience or society.
I would argue that a designers first responsibility is to the audience, not the client. Your responsibility to the client is often a responsibility to protect their profit, and that can often mean misleading the audience. This isn't only dishonest but can have a much bigger affect on larger society.

So my question is -
Do we have a responsibility, not only our clients but to the audience and society as a whole? Or is our responsibility only to our clients, and they in turn have a responsibility to the audience?
And if so - at what point do the needs of the audience outweigh the needs of the client?
I'm looking for constructive answers backed by research or experience please.


texts: Convert varying opacities of a CMYK colour into a spot colour

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A project I am working on has all raster/bitmap illustrations in black and orange colours. The orange at full power is 0, 50, 100, 0 CMYK. The artist in some places of the illustration has used lighter opacities of that colour, like 0, 29, 59, 0 and so on.

So, the whole artwork is only using magenta and yellow plates/channels for the colourful bits and black for the outlines.

We want to print this in two colour costing. Previous projects had illustrations in cyan and black colours, which made it very simple cost-wise. Now, I suppose the only option left to make this project 2 colour is to somehow merge the information from magenta and yellow plates into a new spot colour.

The illustrations are in TIFF and they will be placed into InDesign before being exported to PDF.

What are my options? A good workflow for converting channels in Photoshop? Or perhaps some kind of ink mixing in Indesign during export? Or some kind of preflight in Acrobat?

Thank you for any help.


texts: Why does my client want her company name confidential, when I post my work on design sites?

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One of the clients I'm working with insists that my work with her stays confidential, she doesn't want her company logo nor their name to be shown on my designs when posted on Behance.

Is it normal or there's something behind that?

I'm new to freelancing and I worked with her on three projects; and I'm not sure If this is normal, but I really want to publish these works in public.


texts: Is it possible to use the same layers in multiple files?

texts: I am using Gimp 2 and I have over 50 pictures to edit. I have already edited one picture and I would like to use the same layers on every pic. Is there a way to automatically layer each pic in one click with those layers?


texts: How to effectively combat or response to the unfounded design-feedbacks?

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"Make the logo bigger",
"This looks like cartoon",
"Bright colours are visual assault",
"This is not centred",
"I also know something about design".

Until recently, I really used to think these typical ignorant client-comments are stereotypes and myths. But I have been (mis)fortunate enough to experience most of these recently, if not all.
Among these all, I really find it hard to come up with a convincing response to "This looks like cartoon".
I was assigned to make some in-trend onboarding illustrations and I used flat expressive illustrations with a vibrant palette. Like Facebook's (See examples.). And I was laughed at when I said these are called expressive illustration and not cartoon.
What am I supposed to say (when the client/employee has no specific brief or vision of what they want or I'm not welcome to explain the difference in styles)?

For examples:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/55507083/Facebook-Community-Standards
https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/giovanna-giuliano-illustrations-wonderfully-imagine-facebook-real-life/

Similar lively contrasting palettes seem to "visually assault" some people's eyes too, as I was told.

All of these boil down to that the client is in a state of delusion that its personal liking is what its targeted customers will like too. That's wrong and that's where graphic designers come in play. They design a solution to the problem that was blocking engagement of the customer. We swallowed the design principles for that. Now what should our response be when an inexperienced person from management comes telling us how to solve a problem which he has no idea about? It's like a patient teaching the doctor how to do his job because the patient is paying money.


texts: Is it possible to modify a rounded rectangle's radius in Photoshop?

texts: As the title implies, I have drawn a rounded rectangle with a larger radius in Photoshop.  Now I want to reduce its radius. Is this possible without deleting it?


texts: How to make all layers seamless in a same way?

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Let's say I have created one photoshop document with 3 layers. (visible in the image I posted).

I am going to use these maps in a 3d-modeling program, so it is very important that I need to have these files to be seamless in the exactly similar way.

I know that I can use the "Offset" filter and then "clone stamp tool" to make one image to be a seamless pattern, but the problem with that is that I need to have all the layers exactly similar way to be seamless. Otherwise, the texture won't work. With manual clone stamping, I cannot find it be possible. So is there someone who knows how this can be achieved?

Here is also an image of how these are being used. You can see the seam in the render quite clearly in the middle of the rendering viewport editor.


texts: Relationship between onscreen/printed CMYK and RGB

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I edited a picture book using scribus, color management enabled, with CMYK TIFF images and corresponding profile as input. In principle my screen has been calibrated, though more than one year ago.

I set the output :

to PDFX-1a, for "printing", with a CMYK print profile ;
to PDF-1.5, for "web", with a "compatible with Adobe RGB (1998)" profile.

Then I sent the first version to a professional printer.

I always assumed the following relationship between versions, expecting onscreen CMYK to be off :

printed CMYK ≃ onscreen RGB ≠ onscreen CMYK

And indeed when color management is enabled in scribus the rendering of CMYK pictures is that of RGB.

However I just received the printer's proofs, and the actual relationship is as follows :

printed CMYK = onscreen CMYK ≠ onscreen RGB

Did I miss something, or is my workflow presumably wrong ?

Update :

My understanding of the CMYK workflow was indubitably wrong, but I was strongly mislead by the "compatible with Adobe RGB (1998)" profile(which is scribus' default).  I figured using the sRGB profile for screen rendering gives colors much more similar to the CMYK rendering.  It seems a known fact : quoting WP entry on Adobe RGB color space, "all of the adjustments made CMYK conversion worse than before"…


texts: Illustrator pattern swatch: graphic appears three times

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I have artwork of a locomotive and a wagon, and I want to create a pattern brush out of it:

First, I create a pattern swatch using "Object > Pattern > Make". Then I get a pattern swatch that contains the artwork three times stacked, e.g. like this:

Although my pattern settings are correct, and my pattern shows the artwork only once:

Therefore, the pattern brush created out of these pattern swatches looks ugly as well:

Any Ideas how to get only a single row of locomotives and wagons?


texts: Illustrator Blend Tool even size differences?

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In Illustrator I am creating a spiral with hands drawing hands drawing hands drawing hands drawing....

The way I am doing this is; I make a BIG and a very small copy of the 'hand' and then I use the 'blend tool' which I set to 'specified steps' and use around 30-50 steps. It would be important that the size difference between the steps should be proportional.

I made measurements and at the end, the small 'hands' are getting smaller in a much bigger rate.
I thought the point of the 'blend tool' (in this case, where both ends are the same exact objects, but different in size) is to make a proportional chain of the objects with equal changes at every single step.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to achieve what I would like; to get ~50 smaller objects so every single step is proportional to the previous one?

(sorry if my english isn't perfect and I hope it is clear, what I am looking for)


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How can one define diagonal lines on Affinity Designer?

I can't find a way to rotate them.


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I am pretty sure I'm not using the right terminology, but I'm trying to create the same effect in this image:

Is there any way to do this in Illustrator? What is the proper terminology for that effect? Any help would greatly be appreciated. I don't even know how to google that effect.


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I would like to read blueprints of my house in Adobe Illustrator. I know, this app is not designed for that purpose, but forget about that for a moment.

I would like to measure distances on the blueprint, but when I import the plans of my house into Illustrator, then the size of the blueprint won't match with the reality. I can't use the Rulers of Illustrator, because there is no nice scaling factor between the imported blueprint and Illustrator's ruler. I need to scale the blueprint to match the distances on the plans.

Is there a way of scaling compound objects by declaring the size of it's sub-objects?
Let's say, there is a window hole on the blueprint, who's width I know, and I would like to scale everything by declaring the size of a line that represents the window hole.


texts: Can I search inside my indesign document for the largest files/objects?

texts: I have an indesign file that's larger than needed. Is there a way for me to "scan" the document to find out exactly what files/objects are taking up most of the file space?


texts: Difference between Cropping, Scaling, Resizing & Changing Aspect Ration of an Image?

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I am too confused in understanding different terms used with sizing of an image. What is the difference between:

Cropping an image
Resizing an image
Scaling an image
Changing Aspect-ratio of an image

Especially Resizing vs Scaling!!!

I am working on a website.


texts: How to add a color to 3D surface in illustrator?

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I'm trying to create something with 3D, never used this feature before. I'm trying to change the grey surface to a gradient. How can it be done?

This is what I'm looking at

Thanks


texts: I've searched for this, but I suppose it's not very common. I am web design enthusiast and I want to make different states for buttons and etc. Personally I don't like to do web design in Photoshop. Is there such an equivalent in illustrator?


texts: How to create template of guides in Illustrator which appears with every document I open?

texts: So, I am working on a multiple page pdf. I need to setup margins on each side of the page using guides. There are 300+ pages and I am working on each page at a time. I don't want to add guides in each page manually. Even coping the guides from one page to another is tedious and frustrating. Is there any way to set up the guides in way that appears every time I open a new page? If not guides is there any way to  get around this problem?


texts: How to change the perspective of an image in Photoshop?

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I have a site screen shot(like this - http://d.pr/i/KxHN), and i want to rotate it to "perspective view" like the below image.

How i can do that? Google hinted nothing about this problem.


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I need to place graphics from Illustrator into word. Every time I save as png or wmf the size is smaller than the actual size in Illustrator. Does anyone know what to do to get the word placement to appear the same size as original?

Thanks!


texts: Photoshop shows outline around mask when exported to PDF

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I have a file in Photoshop CS5 that has a photo on a layer that is cropped with a clipping mask (just a black rectangle). In Photoshop the image appears correctly but when I save as a PDF and open that in Adobe Reader or Apple Preview it shows a thin border around the image.

I've tried saving it as PDF 1.7 and X-4:2008 instead of the default versions but that didn't affect it.  How do I prevent an outline around my image when I export to PDF?


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I'm trying to GREP-match words on a line starting with a specific word:

Contact Person   Walter Einstein
Company   ACME Corp
Website   acme.com

Here, I would want to match the first words before the tab after the line starting with Contact Person.

I need this to automatically apply a character style which applies a greater leading to insert some space between the Company Person line and the next one, which doesn't always read 'Company'.

In the paragraph style, I made a GREP Style to apply my Char. Style but it doesn't work yet.

It's something like this:

(?m)(?<=Contact\sPerson\t)(?:.*~b)(^.*$)`

So this should be a positive lookbehind to match "Contact Person" and the following tab (?<=Contact\sPerson\t), then an ignored group till the end of the line (?:.*~b), and then a match for the whole next line (^.*$).

I also experimented with (?s) Single line mode but couldn't manage to do this.


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Is there any easy way to figure out the width of each character in a font? I'm trying to line up two tables of data with data scraped from a website. The issue is that the text in one section of the table might be more than one line, so then I need to make sure the other side needs to be the same number of lines. I'm trying to do this by just calculating the number of lines by dividing the total text length by the line width. My problem is that each character has a different width. Is there any way I'm able to look up how many pixels wide each character in a font is?

For example, I can fit 7 W's and 27 l's if I have the total width set to 100px.


texts: How do I make InDesign TOC with single item listing multiple page numbers?

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I'm making a TOC for a catalog and must list items that appear on multiple pages.

Right now it displays as:

Widget 123
Other Widget 111
Widget 456
Other Widget 789
Widget 999
etc.

I'm trying to create it to appear:

Widget 123, 456,789
Other Widget 111, 999
etc.

ALL suggestions gratefully appreciated!


texts: How to resize the content of a smart object without affecting the parent document layout?

texts: While working I’ll more than often just place documents as smart objects. Then I’ll end up with a colossal file size. I want to go into the smart objects and reduce its image size but consequently the parent psd will change the layer size of that smart object. I also don’t want to resterize those layers.


texts: What software to use to create 3D cross sections

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I was approached by a prospect client that has a very specific requirement. I would have to create a cross section of certain objects they're producing namely mattresses.

I'm very well versed in vector software as well as Photoshop and aldo SketchUp. I though I could make a 3D model in SketchUp, and then apply realistic retouching in Photoshop with better textures and specific materials (like wire springs above).

But is there a better way to create such images?


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I was just wondering, i have never used After Effects and I have no idea how big the animations actually are in terms of KB/MB size.

I want to create a simple typographic animation, with music behind, that would last 10-15sec. Simple text, Simple animation. What would be the rough weight of such animation ?

Is there a better alternative to create a simple typographic animation for a website that will work in all browsers and wont weight a ton??


texts: Very small file size PDF's from InDesign, am I doing something wrong?

texts: I am creating a 12 page booklet, 120 x 180mm. All pages are text only except for the front cover which includes a PSD background and a Illustrator vector logo. When I export using the press quality preset in InDesign my file size is just over 1mb. Is this normal? Or am I doing something wrong? thanks!


texts: Edit Illustrator text without Illustrator

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I work for an IT company as a copywriter and we do a lot of in-house design (packaging, websites etc) using Illustrator, which is great for the designers but not the copywriters. We use InDesign and Incopy for some design and understand the limitations of those.

Our workflow for editing Illustrator files is for writers to edit a PDF and send it back to the non-native English speaking designers and then check the PDF once that's done and so the process goes back and forth until it's correct.

Has anyone found a better way for writers to edit Illustrator text since Adobe don't want to add that function to Illustrator?

Thanks


texts: What font is used in this banner from a Think With Google Newsletter?

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I have not been able to identify this font using several differnet online services like Identifont, WhatTheFont, What Font Is etc., looking through the fonts I already own, looking through the Google Font Library and using the Photoshop font matching tool.

The font is featured in a banner at the bottom of a newsletter from Think With Google titled "How Fenty shook up the beauty industry by rewriting marketing rules". The text is with the font in question is "creativity: knowing which rules can be".

Image of the font:


texts: Inkscape: swatch color setup missing from swatches list

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I have created a swatch file for Inkscape:

GIMP Palette
Name: My-Ca

50  43  2b  beige foncé
57  4b  2e  beige moyen
a7  96  6b  beige clair
fb  e3  bd  beige pâle
2c  50  3a  vert terne
33  4c  27  vert vif
57  2f  4a  violet sombre
96  52  80  violet clair
e4  90  3e  orange
e5  bc  71  jaune
13  1a  12  noir

I have set it up into the system with the help of a soft link:

ln -s /home/lalebarde/Documents/Flyer/Ressources/inkscape-colors.gpl /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/My-Ca.gpl

But it does not show up into the Inkscape swatches list, though it is the second one I have created, and it is alright for the first one.

ls -l /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/My-Ca.gpl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 91 Jul 22 08:11 /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/My-Ca.gpl -> /home/lalebarde/Documents/Flyer/Ressources/inkscape-colors.gpl
ls -l /home/lalebarde/Documents/Flyer/Ressources/inkscape-colors.gpl
-rw-r--r-- 1 alain alain 286 Jul 22 08:10 /home/lalebarde/Documents/Flyer/Ressources/inkscape-colors.gpl

Restarting Inkscape or rebooting does not help.

Any ideas please?


texts: Changing object/path filling's opacity without changing the stroke's opacity

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I would like to reduce the opacity of the filling colour of an object/path and keep the stroke of such object/path unchanged.

Is there a way of impeding this relationship so I can only reduce the opacity of one?


texts: Is there a term for this "gripper" UI element?

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What is the official name of this image ? It is often found on the side of a panel widget for dragging.

Is it named "gripper"? A Google search doesn't return a lot of results for "gripper icon".


texts: Should I get a graphics tablet for animation?

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I want to buy a graphics tablet so I can animate videos for school and maybe a youtube channel if I am good at it. I don't want to spend over $150 and I just want one that would work.
(Also, if someone could direct me to a good tutorial on using them or recommend a program, that would be great)


texts: Is it possible to remove a selection box around a path?

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I'm trying to wrap my head around how paths and selection boxes work in illustrator.

I created a half-ellipse using the ellipsis tool in a layer on top of another circle. The left part of this half-ellipse is showing the circle underneath it but the circle is hidden on the right side of the half-ellipse. Here is an image of what I am describing.

I want to show the circle on the right side of the half-ellipse but the selection box is preventing that. How can I either remove the selection box or close the path so the circle shows up on the right side of the half-ellipse?

Bonus: How can I hide the circle on the left side of the half-ellipse (opposite of what is in this picture)?

Here is a link to the .ai file: Link to File

Thanks for any help you can offer!


texts: How do I delete the center of the letter A in Adobe Illustrator CS5?

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I need the center of the letter A in Illustrator to be transparent so you can see the background underneath. Same with letter D, B, O, P, R.

I imported a vector version of a word, and I am able to select the letter but if I click delete button it deletes the whole word.


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Grid Diary is a popular diary app on App Store. I love its font but don't what it is. Any ideas?

WhatTheFont cannot give a precise answer because the text is too small.


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This is more of a curiosity, but I was wondering what professional graphics designers/artists are using now that tablet pcs have been much more common and powerful in the passed few years than they were in the past.

So, straight forward: are lots of artists still using tablets, or has there been a switch to tablet pcs?

Whatever the answer is, what model(s) are common/prevalent in your experience?


texts: Why does an image get Larger when I up the DPI?

texts: I am currently working on a print media project that requires a 300 DPI minimum for all images. I thought I had to discard a bunch of photos that were 180 DPI at their default resolution. However, I recently realized that you could set the Pixels/Inch in Adobe PS under Image->Image Size. So I tried seeing if I could set the image too 300 DPI, which it did, but then it got larger, which befuddled me. If there is an upper bound on an image's quality by virtue of the camera with which it was shot, how is it that an image that has a default of 180 DPI at a certain resolution can magically get greater density of visual information AND get bigger?


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I have always wondered: where should the first page number start?  I know the front matter is typically in lower case roman numbers, whereas the mainmatter is with arabic ones.

The mainmatter starts the count ---i.e., page 1--- with Chapter 1; but I have no idea where the frontmatter should begging the counter.

For example, in a PhD thesis typically there is a page with the title, a quote, an abstract, a dedicatory, table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of acronyms.

So, two questions:

1) What should be the order of things for the frontmatter

2) What should be numbered in the front matter, and what shouldn't count as part of it?