texts: Colors appear differently on webpage when saving in sRGB

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I've made a webpage with an image next to text, set as the same color I thought I had used for the image. However when I looked at the webpage on Safari (on Mac) I noticed that the actual color of the text and image were different (this was not the case in Chrome or Firefox).

I have since read about how you should save web images using the sRGB color scheme.

However I need the text color (set to a HEX value by CSS) to be exactly the same as the actual image color displayed. However when choosing the color for the image I seem only to see the full range - i.e. not just the sRGB colors that are actually available to me.

It then converts the color to the equivalent/available sRGB color.

Is there anyway in Photoshop (or Pixelmator) to only use sRGB safe colors in the color palette?


texts: Fixed line thickness for scanned, traced drawings in Illustrator

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Context: So I drew some logos in black pen on paper and scanned them in order to make vector images. I traced the outlines (b&w) which worked great. My original, hand drawn lines look a bit shaky though, so I decided to smooth all the lines.

Problem: Now, my issue is that Illustrator does not seem know that all the fat black lines are meant to have the same thickness, so basically the surrounding paths are not "correlated" when I make changes.

Example: If I have, say, a circle, it has an inner path and an outer path, enclosing the fat black line I drew. When I smooth both the inside and outside path of the circle, the two lines are no longer completely parallel, i.e. the fat black line gets fatter and thinner.

In the case of a circle there are easy ways around that, but my logos have complex images of animals etc. The paths are all nice and smooth now but it just takes me ages to make sure that the fat outline that the two paths enclose has a consistent thickness everywhere.

Question: Is there a way to trace not the outline of the fat, drawn lines, but rather, the line itself? Or is there some other method I can use? I tried line art tracing, but half my lines went missing, so that was no good for me... Thanks!


texts: Can somebody identify this pixel font? Reminds me of Space Invaders, but can't find it

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The closest fonts I've found are Redensek and Kroeger, but they are not the one in the image.

I'm looking for the font for "WINNER" and "OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT".

I tried several font-identification services. Nothing came up.


texts: Rounded, transparent corners in Flash CS5

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I am using Flash CS5 to make a slideshow of images: 4-5 images that fade, transitioning into the other.  I would like to make it so that the corners of the entire slideshow are rounded and transparent. I want to do this on the slideshow level as opposed to just editing the images themselves so that this slideshow can serve as a template where any images can be dropped into it.

The person that worked at this position before me made some templates with rounded corners, but I cannot figure out how to duplicate how he did it. As far as I can tell, he merely made a layer on top of all of the other layers and filled in the area he wanted to be transparent with white. When I do the same it doesn't work, so there must be a step I am missing.


texts: Change color frame selected image Indesign CC 2019

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Anyone who knows how to change the color of the frame from a selected image in Indesign?
Seems some files have a yellow frame when I try to select the image inside a box. The yellow frame is to hard to see on a blank background.
In some other files it's a cyan frame instead of yellow.

I wanted to change it to a color I can see better than yellow.
Seems no option to change it inside Indesign preferences. Also has nothing to do with the layers I'm working with.

Can I change it? How does it happen to be yellow or cyan?


texts: How to create a responsive sprite sheet animation in css?

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i've been trying to do this for hours but so far i haven't made any progress.

I have a site with a few animations in it, some will be activated on click and some on hover. something similar to the animation found in this site : http://www.pixelwrapped.com/ the cat tail is reponsive as in when you scale the broswer it scales along with it as well.

this is the code that i am using to create the animation

.monster {
            position: absolute;
            width: 100px;
            height: 100px;
            margin: 2% auto;
            background: url('img/le-cloud.png') left center;
            overflow: auto;
            display: block;
            left: 20%;
            top: 40%;

        }
        .monster:hover {
            position: absolute;
            width: 100px;
            height: 100px;
            margin: 2% auto;
            background: url('img/le-cloud.png') left center;
            animation: play .9s steps(18);
            overflow: auto;
            display: block;
            left: 20%;
            top: 40%;

        }

i found this tutorial which uses percentages, that works for changing 1 frame not playing the entire 18 frames in this example , i have other animations composed of more than 30 sprites, i looked into spritely.js but it wasn't responsive.

Any ideas how can i solve this ?


texts: Photoshop CS6: Pen/Custom Shape Fill & Stroke Color Options are Locked?

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I'm new to Photoshop, and am teaching myself. In playing with the pen and custom shape tool I've noticed that the Fill and Stroke settings for "Shape" appear to be locked. I cannot click to change them and don't get any kind of drop down like in other tools. I've tried making sure I'm on the right layer, but that's about all I can find.

I know I should be able to click on the color boxes next to each option to change them, but it's not letting me. Any ideas?


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I made a hand sketch on paper (just pencil sketch no colors), took picture, used a web based converter to convert JPEG to AI.
   I want to add color to different parts in adobe illustrator but ungroup option is grayed out.
Can anyone tell how to ungroup an image converted to vector through a web based converter?


texts: How to change the colour of part of an object in Inkscape?

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I'm attempting to change the colour of an SVG image. Here is a screenshot of the image set I'm working with.

Take for example the partly cloudy image (2nd line, 2nd from left). How can I change the colour of the sun only so that it is different to the colour of the cloud?

My attempt so far has been to open the image in Inkscape, press Shift+Ctrl+F to open Fill and Stroke. Then select the object and change the hex color. The problem is, both the sun and the cloud change colour.

Ref: http://www.alessioatzeni.com/meteocons/


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Is there viable way to swap colors in a InDesign template and export them using a batch process or script? Ideally, I would like to be able to make a CSV file with a list of hexadecimal color values, and apply them to the template in some automated way.

To give you some background on the problem, I'm creating some marketing materials for a big list (1000+) of clients. Each client has specific brand colors that need to be applied to various layers in the template. I know there is a way to batch replace text in a document, but I don't know a way to do the same for swapping colors.

If there are any solutions for either Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign, that will help greatly.


texts: Is there a way to add some padding to an artboard an action?

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I am doing the following action to automate Object->Artboards-> Fit to artwork bounds.
The problem is the designs look kind of ugly with the artboard so close to the edges. Is there another action I can automate that can add like a 30px padding to any size artboard that is encountered?  I want to resize the artboard to fit but then add some padding so its not to tight.


texts: I created a pattern in Inkscape but its name is not really meaningful. And when there are more patterns in one document, it will be hard to remember which one is which, since there is not visual representation in the dock. Is there a way to rename the pattern easily, without having to dive into the XML editor and manually replace the id and references?


texts: Can I use a font licensed under the SIL OFL in a logo, and should I add a copyright notice then?


texts: How to warp in Photoshop using anchor handle as is done with paths

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This is really close to what Photoshop edit > transform > warp does but in there you have four lines diving whole thing in section which messes up the whole thing...

I want to be able to do transform like below, very much needed! But not able to do it in Photoshop.

What i want to do is this ->  When i click lets say a photo, a box with 4 corners appears and each corner has handles coming out of it at its right and left as i move those it curves the section between the two points. As you can see this is exactly how vector/shape box would act: four corners with handles you can adjust to shape the line adjacent to it on either side.

I would be able to do this with warp option if there was a way to not have 9 sub sections, is there a way to adjust grids in warp tool. So i can have only one section that way changing handles would have effect on whole picture and not on just sections near to it.


texts: How to generate palettes that display a range of saturation/color in Photoshop

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In Photoshop, I took one color (the pixel in the top left corner) and drew the rest of this palette by changing hue/saturation.

I want to recreate this same palette but with other colors, but I do not want to fiddle with hue/saturation values for every color.

How can I use this palette to create another palette with identical hue/saturation differences with a different color in Photoshop?


texts: Any tips or principles for applying gradient to thin shapes and fonts?

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I'm trying to use linear gradients on a set of thin and small shapes (and fonts). But I can't figure out how to do it so it could be seen clearly as much as possible.

Should there by any limits for the number of colors? Does the angle matter?

I found this arrow used on a website:

It looks very thin but you can definitely see the gradient. I hope my eyes are not getting this wrong but to me it looks like a combination of blue and purple. or at least some parts are brighter. I tried to zoom in all the way to see the pixel but I all see is blue

I'm also interested applying gradients to some very thin fonts like Signale

Note that there will be only few characters used, and at small size (below 80pixels)


texts: Combine 2 Unicode letters into 1 in Fontlab Studio

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Being new to Fontlab Studio 5, I'm creating a Tifinagh font using its Unicode block...

I created all the letters for my font, now I need to add a ligature (if this is the right word?) to certain characters like as shown below;

So when user types the sequence of the two letters; the output should be a combined letter as shown in the image.

I tryed the Glyph menu and Generate Glyphs but doesn't seem to work :)

Is that possible at all or I'm missing something?

Thanks!


texts: Writing Words with Special Characters for Notepad Use


texts: Inkscape and Flowcharts: Opacity, color mixing and bounding box

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I do want to create a flowchart similar to this one. Colors have an alpha value of 255 and I set the opacity lower for decreasing color saturation. The arrow is drawn on a second layer. I do face two problems. First, I would like to hide the arrow behind the boxes (no color mixing). Second, the arrow (intersection of a rectangle with a triangle) has a bounding box which is much larger than the object itself. How can I fix this ?

EDIT: Thanks to the comments I realized that I mixed up the alpha and saturation values. I do no know what happened with the box. I did redraw the arrow and now it is normal again. I guess it happend while scaling it (using the mouse)


texts: What is the rationale and market value for designing a new font face?

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There are countless fonts at this point. Free ones and commercial ones. Serif and San-serif and everything in between or beyond.

A vast majority of the questions we get asked on this site is looking for a free alternative to a specific font that has a licensing fee associated with it.

So at this point is the font market so saturated and differences so minute that there is very little value in creating a font? Searching online can find countless resources and new tools for the act of creating a font but very little about why someone would want to.

This question, Why would a designer want to purchase a typeface instead of using free ones?, adequately addresses why someone would want to buy a font.

But it doesn't address, why would someone create a new font? What is the market value?


texts: What font is used for the title on the cover of Cryptonomicon?

texts: I'd like to find the font that was used on the cover of this edition of the book. Any ideas? I know other editions use other fonts.


texts: How to recreate this gradient in Illustrator?

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Need to recreate this gradient in Illustrator. I tried the various gold/metallic gradients, but nothing close to this, and not as random.
Is it achiveable in any other software? Any ideas?
Thank you.


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I was looking at 3D printers and I wanted to know the maximum achievable resolution in 3D printers that use the extrusion method (NOT the 3D laser printers).

Some manufacturers claim a 20 Micron resolution, with a 0.4 mm extrusion nozzle. I wonder if there are commercially available printers that can do better than that. 1 micron or maybe something in the nano scale?


texts: How can I accurately draw a mockup for an iPhone 5 app in GIMP?

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In the Appstore you can show screenshots of what the app looks like to the user so they know what to expect. I am looking into creating an image from scratch of a screenshot of an app.

Here's my question: From what I understand, apps measure width and height in "points" instead of "pixels". In GIMP I have the option of using "points" instead of "pixels" too. Should I use "points" as the unit of measurement for my canvas or should I stick to using "pixels"?

Also, are the colors on my computer screen the same as the colors on the iPhone screen? How do I make sure the colors I use in GIMP look the same when viewed on an iPhone?

GIMP mentions using different color profiles which I understand help display colors on my screen exactly the same way they would be handled and shown on the iPhone. Where I could find a color profile for the iPhone?


texts: How to convey the specifics of animation mockups to developers

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The developer at my studio is pushing me to create more compelling/interactive mockups of websites. We are at a total loss as to how I can communicate the specifics of the animations in these mockups to our developers.

Here are a few example sites that sort of do the animations that I am envisioning:
https://www.culturallyconnected.ca/
https://everytown.org/momentsthatsurvive/
http://www.oxymoronagency.com/works/ravekjaviks
https://www.joinroot.com/year-in-review-2018/

I could, of course, animate in After Effects or use SVGator to make these mockups. But how are designers communicating the timing, curves, etc to developers!!!??? There is so many people doing animations like this right now so I KNOW there has to be a way!

For a little more context we use Sketch + Craft + InVision currently to present website concepts to our clients.


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Can I make a HTTPS hyperlink in Indesign exportable in PDF?
I tried to add the link through the hyperlink option page, but once I export it in PDF it doesn't recognize the link.


texts: How to recreate a Photoshop sketch in Illustrator

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I have attached a quick unfinished sketch made in Photoshop that will be developed for digital and screen printing on fabric and paper. It's basically a mix of hatching and erasing in different opacities using the brush tool in white and the eraser tool.

Illustration http://f.cl.ly/items/2u181m1T30040u2z1l1s/Jacket.png

Now given that I'd like to be able to easily change the color of the illustration (to different spot colors) while retaining the shading I thought it'd be best if I tried to recreate it as a vector drawing. Is there an easy way to recreate this or does anyone know of any techniques I could use to achieve this effect in Illustrator?


texts: How to find pantone shades of a particular color?

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A client came to me with their logo for a campaign and wanted me to do the collaterals. I did a few thing for her. Now she wants me to give her the names of pantone colors matching the exact two colors in her logo. How do I find the pantone shades for them?
Please help!
Thanks


texts: Trying to find the "rare" font used in this logo

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I was asked to post one question per logo....so here we are :

We can't get the information from our designer, so we are trying to find out what fonts were used in these different logos. I have tried using 10 different font identifiers and can't seem to get to a "close match".
For the purpose, I have removed the "emblem" part of the logo.

Thanks in advance for your help !


texts: How to join multiple paths of the same object?

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I have traced an icon from a png in illustrator; I had to fix the rough edges and ended up with this shape:

I'm using Fill set to black and Stroke set to nothing. Everytime I try joing the four lower points, all of my shape turns into black. Even if both end points are joined properly.


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I am working on an android app but I cannot find any UI elements for the high pixel density resolutions, such as the following:

480x800
480x852

Anybody know where I can get this? Thanks!


texts: How to select a layer in Photoshop by clicking on layer content?

texts: I know I can ctrl-click on content, but this will select parent / the top of all layers which is really frustrating. If I click on layer's content I want my layer to be selected even though it is nested in multiple layers... I hope I make sense?


texts: What font is this? Trying to find a similar, free Western Style Slab Serif font

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I'm curious what font is used for the word "TYPE" in the poster below. Any Ideas?

I already tried such services as WhatTheFont and What Font is, but I still couldn't identify the exact font.

Any free alternative would also suffice. I also like this font, but it's not cheep. :(

I'm going for a "Western Style" Slab Serif font. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

    http://friendsoftype.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/monstersoftype_06.jpg


texts: How do I create a cast shadow when the light source is lower than the object?

texts: Below is a sample of what I mean. The light source is behind the object and lower than the sign. How would I draw a cast shadow for the sign?


texts: Inkscape: how to reuse part of a circular path (inner boundary) and connect it to another path inside of that

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I use Inkscape: Imagine I have a shape like an O which is a path. Or better said: Two paths, one for the outer boundary and another for the inner boundary. But it is one object (one path??). If I change the fill color, then the color of the O changes, e.g. to orange.

Now what I want to do is to get the inner boundary path and connect it to another circular path that is inside the O. I want to connect it in a way to be able to fill it with a color, e.g. pink.

The result would be an O, which is orange and inside of that, but connected to the O’s inner boundary, a pink thingy (e.g. another O).

How can I achive that? I mean, how can I reuse the inner path of the O?

Is it possible without manually selecting all the nodes?


texts: Illustrator: How to create a circular arc with rounded edges

texts: I am trying to draw a circular arc with rounded edges like in the picture below, but I failed miserably. Could anyone please help with step by step explanation ?!


texts: Why is text on microsoft site not smooth in non-IE browser?

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The following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx and possibly all other links in MS site does not render text smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. Why so?

IE7:

Firefox 16.0.1:

Chrome 22.0.1229.94 m:


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I am very new to Illustrator and I need to fill a shape which is enclosed by two half circles with white. However, the circles are not connected, which means that trying to fill the inside fills the whole artwork.

In the image, you can see where I want to connect the two half circles, to be able to fill only the inside (everything left to that).

How can I connect the two end points with a round path? Using the Pen tool, I am only able to create straight paths, and I haven't managed to simply continue the circles round path. If you have an idea on how I can fill the inside in a different way, I am also very open.


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I have a series of INDD documents compiled into a book. When I opened the book today (for the first time since 2015), all of the icons embedded in the various documents are missing. This was expected since I have since reorganized the folder where all icons live. However, I am unable to relink the files. The “relink” button is greyed out, as well as any other menu option relating to relinking the folders, updating links, etc.
All missing links are all AI files, however, there are some other AI files which do link properly.


texts: Logo design - image beneath text - can it work?

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I am hacking together a temporary logo for my software startup company.  I have a good single-word communicative name and geometrically shaped logo.  To me, the two look best when text is positioned above logo but it seems this is a little unconventional.

Here is a mockup of my idea.

Loremip
+-+ +-+
| +-+ |
+-----+

Can this work?  Why are text-above logos so rare?  The only one I'm aware of is Bank of America.


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How and where - (in what application Photoshop, Corel or something else) can I make a 3D design that looks like the illustrations, for example?

Images from Logopond.com

Thanks in advance.
Best regards


texts: Cannot locate the panel for adjust the 'jitter'

texts: I seem to have lost the ability to adjust the size jitter - I keep getting just the size/hardness view.


texts: How to fill in an area with a gradient in Photoshop?

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With the Paint Bucket Tool I can fill an area with a solid color. How can I fill an area with a gradient? When I try to use the Gradient Tool, it fills the entire layer with a gradient. I know I can fill vector shapes with gradients but the area I'm trying to fill is not a vector shape; it's an area created by brush strokes. I'm using Photoshop CC.

EDIT:
What I meant is an area surrounded or made by multiple brush strokes. After reading Vicki's answer I realized I need to select the area first. I was able to do what I wanted by first using the Magic Want Tool to select the area and then using the Gradient Tool to apply the gradient.


texts: Color profiles on Photoshop CS6 for photography

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latley I started using Nikon D3300.
Color space set to sRGB. My PC screen is simple Philips LED 24", also sRGB.
When importing NEF file to Photoshop, color space is "ProPhoto RGB".
My photos are for Web (PC, Smartphones..) and maybe some of them in the future for printing on canvas and photo paper (So I want to keep this possibility available)
I set my screen to "sRGB" color profile.

How should I import my NEF files? "ProPhoto RGB" or "sRGB 2.1"?
When importing, is "Camera Calibration" tab is related to the color space?
In the "View" tab, should I choose something in the Proof settings?
When saving my JPEG file, should I do "Save as" or "Export to web"?


texts: How can I change icon colors on different background colors?

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I'm using two solid icons on a card which has different background colors ( sometimes colorful images). I wanted to see if there's a way that I could make my icons visible and readable on all color tones.

Thanks.


texts: How do I add a custom button with arbitrary function to GIMP?

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I'd like to know how to add a custom button somewhere in the gimp interface that could do some arbitrary function.  Examples:

click button and it creates a rectangular selection 10% smaller than current image dimensions
click button and a horizontal guide is added to image at 20%.

I'm willing to some programming in python or Script-fu.  Is this possible in GIMP? And if so how?


texts: create envelope from mesh in Illustrator

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I would like to add a picture containing a square to my project in Illustrator. The square in the picture is slightly warped, and I would like to align it to my artboard.

I can use a envelope with a n x n mesh, but then the mesh does not align to the square. So, I created a mesh of size equal to the image, where 4 sub mesh-points correspond to the corners of the square. The result I get by applying this mesh using "from top layer" is wrong, as can be seen in the images below (original image from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chess_set_4o06.jpg).

Is there a way of anchoring the mesh-points in a non-rectangular way?


texts: Make image larger without losing quality in Paint.NET

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I have an image that is a 3x5 photo.  We need to resize it to 12x15 and still need it to retain most, if not all, of it's image quality.

I do not have access to Photoshop, so I use Paint.NET.  From what I've personally experienced, when re-sizing an image, I always lose quality.  In this case, it's a very specific image and we need to make it larger and retain quality because it's all we have to go on for a project we are working on.


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I have created an 8 page brochure with InDesign and exported a PDF for my print guy. At the moment the pages are exported as:

1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8

But for print he'd like them formatted like this:

8-1, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5

How can I achieve that in InDesign (while keeping automated page numbering) or during the export process?

Edit: Or is that how PDFs should be laid out, and is there something he should be doing to my PDF before sending the print job?


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I've created a Pie Chart Using Illustrator CS6 using Chart tool.

... and the "Group Selection Tool" to pick single pie chart elements and move them around. All pie chart elements are within one layer and grouped together.

Now I want do the movement automatically. In other words, I want to equally "explode" the Pie Chart elements, like shown on the following figure:

How can I achieve this? Doing it manually looks quite messy. Optimally, it is possible using effects, because this would enable an adaption of the pie chart's data afterwards... Thank you!


texts: Is there a way to wrap/offset while drawing to the other side of the image

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I'm wondering if there's a way to live wrap to the other side of the image while drawing, so if I draw over the left edge of the image it shows up on the right side, and if I draw over the bottom it shows up at the top, etc?

And if not, does anyone have any Mac app suggestions that might do this?


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I am trying to paint this self designed thermos bottle glossy red but I am not been able to understand the light and how to give the glossy effect and how to give light effect on the division line in between bottle.

Also after disabling the outline layer it looks weird, I even used pen tool to give proper shape but the outline looks crooked.


texts: How to crop a square at the exact centre of an image in Photoshop?

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Given a square image, how can I crop, at the exact center, of the image?

What if the image is not square itself?

What if I'm using Photoshop CS6 or some older version?
Is the procedure the same?


texts: put shape at intersections on rectangular grid in Illustrator

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I have got my rectangular grid in Adobe Illustrator CS3 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3:
Rectangular grid:

How do I make it so that it puts a shape/dot/object on the intersections, where the lines meet each other?


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In Illustrator, is there a way to use the blend tool but in more of a 'gradual' fashion?

On the left of this image, you can see a graphic I created with the blend tool, which means all of the lines being distributed in more of a uniform fashion. But what I'd like to achieve is one more like the right (which I created manually):


texts: How can I export a PDF from Illustrator with pages named after the artboards?

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I have an Illustrator CS5 file with several artboards.  Each artboard is named.  I can export this document to a multi-page PDF but the pages appear numbered when viewed in Acrobat.

I can renumber and rename the pages in Acrobat, and I can even write a script that can go in and add the proper objects to the PDF file after the fact to facilitate the naming.  However, I'd like to avoid needing a script if possible since I have to pass this process off to another designer who isn't as technical.

Does vanilla Illustrator have any way to export a multi-page PDF with the pages named after the artboards?


texts: What color mode for Print jobs to show them online?

texts: If I made an advertisement for printing in CMYK mode but I need to upload that file as JPEG online for client, should I use RGB?


texts: How do I remove original shape outline created by Clipping Mask

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I tried my best to crop out a part of an svg and I thought I had got it working, but when selecting the outside, I could still see the original shape. I used the rectangle tool and went to Object > Clipping Mask > Create to create this effect. I tried deleting the excess from the layer system and saving the cut off shape as an svg but to no avail. Here is an image of what I am talking about:

How do I remove the outline in blue?


texts: Type on a path starts typing upside down

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I'm having trouble with the type on a path tool. As soon as I click on a path, it places the text upside down. It was working fine earlier today though. How do I restore the normal behaviour?

What I've tried:

going to Type → Type on a Path → Type on a Path Options, but it's disabled until you actually type. And when flipping the text after the fact it's harder to control it's placement
dragging the tiny text orientation handle works, but I have lots of text and it's not effective to do that way
googled a lot, but most answers cover intentionally flipping the text

I'm new to Illustrator so may be missing something obvious. Please help!


texts: Where and/or why is a slanted hyphen used?

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I was reading this version of White Fang and I noticed that the hyphens connecting words are slightly slanted to the left. I have never seen a slanted hyphen before and googling it did not yield any result.

Here's a photo for reference:

The slanted hyphen can be seen in the word "she-wolf".

My question is, what is the relationship between this type of hyphen and the usual one, how did they evolve from one another, etc.? Also, why would one prefer to use a slanted hyphen instead of a normal one?


texts: Is there any way to allow photoshop to download required fonts automatically or Manually?

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While i download some PSD file and open using photoshop so many fonts are not installing my system.
so i check each and every font and google it and download it. it takes so much of time.
So Is there any way  to allow photoshop to download required fonts automatically or Manually at single click?


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I have a JPG image file (3000px x 1000px) which size is about 1 MB. I embedded it into Inkscape, drew vectors above the image and saved all of them into an SVG file. Now the file size is about 12 MB.

How to reduce the SVG file size, or how to save a compressed image in the SVG?


texts: Illustrator CS5: Font Transparency in Shape Layer

texts: I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS5 on a Mac, and I need to make the SK in the circle-shape transparent. I should be able to see the background behind the logo - through the SK. I bet it's super simple, but I haven't been able to find anything on Google, since I didn't know what to search for. Thanks in advance!


texts: Is it possible to show symbol grid in Illustrator?

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If I turn on grid inside symbol, then it has no relation with symbol's coordinates and it's registration point, which is at zero. So I can't use snap-to-grid function correctly.

How to fix/overcome?

UPDATE

Extra sample:

A -- zero coordinate location

B -- grid line location

C -- snap to grid effect doesn't allow to position to zero since it snaps to grid, which is shifted relative to zero


texts: How can I reduce compression artifacts in dark areas with Photoshop?

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Using Photoshop I have converted a photograph into a sketch/line drawing, I achieved this in photoshop by:

Making image greyscale
Duplicating image then inverting it
Applying a color(colour) dodge
Applying a gaussian blur (level 8)

Here is the effect, as you can see there are undesired effects on the cats face, where the fur is dark, I've discovered that because the area is not all pure black, and different variations of black.

How can I fix the image before applying the effects to prevent such artefacts from accruing?

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texts: Is it some kind of bugs that cause Adobe Illustrator to have issue with colors?

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I was trying to change the fill color of my grouped objects.
I tried to input a hex color code I copied from the internet but it didn't work at first try. Instead, I got a grey hue.

Even though, It seemed to be fixed after I chose one of the system default colors, and then retried inputting the hex code again.

I'm curious, is it some kind of bugs? And how do I fix it?


texts: How to align and snap path to path in Illustrator CC?

texts: I'm looking for a solution for this. I need help aligning/snapping a shape to a corner in Illustrator CC. What I really want to do is place a path on top of another, EXACTLY on top. Here's a picture of the scenario:


texts: I downloaded an icon pack and there isn't an icon for a certain category in my project.I want to keep my icons consistent with the look so what should I do in this situation? Do I just look for something that is the closest in looks? Also in terms of sizes of the icons, should they be the same width and height? Or is it ok to have one higher than the other?


texts: Is there a way to style header rows only in InDesign CS6?

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I'm currently making a bunch of tables in InDesign and for most of these I would like to have a header row using a brand colour.

The tables currently look like this:

And I would ideally like them to look something like this:

I can so far only accomplish this using a separate rectangle shape or a separate table, which is obviously a bit limiting.

I've tried adding header rows in the table option panel:

But the options for editing this header row seems extremely limited:

Tell me, am I doomed to manually adding header rows here? Or am I overlooking something?


texts: Illustrator export to .png problem (pixel will get bigger)

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First I create a file with 1000 px x 1000 px 300 dpi.
After this, I create a artboard with 1000x1000 px. Now I filled it with a color.
I click file > export > .png and save it.

Now the problem, I open this exported image to photoshop and see, the pixel size is bigger (4167px x 4167px - 300 dpi) than I create on illustrator.

So, how can I export png files with the correct size, which I set up on illustrator?


texts: How can I maintain outer stroke on overlapping path?

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Apologies if this has already been asked, but I can't seem to find anything about it on stackexchange GD. I think I found a partial answer on Reddit, but I can't seem to locate that either and I'm on the clock...

Here's what I have:

A continuous path that overlaps itself, has a 12px stroke with a 6px stroke over it.

The question is this:
Is there any way to continue the outer stroke through overlapping parts of the path? It's a rough sketch of a Celtic knot, so I really need the overlapping parts to be visible. I can think of a couple of really cumbersome ways to accomplish this, which wouldn't really yield the result I need. One would be: cut the path up into lots of different ones, outline, expand, then combine with pathfinder. This would yield something really messy I imagine (knowing Illustrator).

Attempt #2

Another approach I tried was to use pathfinder to divide the stroke, then outline it, but that produced a messy result, including some weird artifacts (I think....they are indicated in red). (Blue background added for visibility.)

Yet another failed attempt involved expanding the single 6px stroke, but that did the same thing, and treated the overlapping bits as one contiguous shape.

Attempt #3

This is the closest I've gotten. I used pathfinder's outline to break apart the path itself, then added a stroke, expanded the stroke, and stroked the resultant shapes. Closer to what I want visually, but it's not editable as a path at all and I'll have to clean it up with Live Paint. Also, obviously, it doesn't cover all of the overlaps, but that's more to do with the stacking order of the shapes, and the strokes are there (just underneath another shape).

The answer I can't dig out of Reddit right now said something about dashes, but it didn't really make sense to me (I was very tired...new baby) at the time. It seemed a bit of a hack, to be honest, but also seemed to achieve the result for the OP. He wasn't trying to do exactly the same thing, so even if I could find that thread I'm not sure it would solve this conundrum.

The underlying issue is:

Illustrator treats a single continuous stroke as one contiguous shape where it overlaps. Therefore the stroke only traces the outer border of that "shape" (actually a path/stroke though). I feel like I've tried 100 different ways to do this with no success.


texts: going from PaintShop Pro 9 to Adobe Photoshop

texts: PaintShop Pro 9 offered vector layers and raster layers, and it has been a handy tool for web design and drawing objects. While I'm somewhat proficient in it, the program has its limitations, and I'm thinking about moving to Photoshop. Are there any "gotchas" to be aware of, besides what could be a steep learning curve? Does experience in PaintShop Pro mitigate some of the learning curve? I would especially appreciate the perspective of those who have experience in both programs.


texts: How can I wrap text around a 2 sided object in Photoshop or Illustrator?

texts: I want to wrap a word around a 2 sided shape (as shown in the image below). Envelope distort, wrap text, perspective tool etc. all not the correct solution (or at least, I can't get the result I'm looking for). How can I do this in Photoshop or Illustrator?


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I've been looking for a way to invert the saturation of a photo in photoshop.

For example a pixel that is:

hsl(42, 100%, 42%) must become hsl(42,   0%, 42%)
hsl(42,   0%, 42%) must become hsl(42, 100%, 42%)
hsl(42,  20%, 42%) must become hsl(42,  80%, 42%)

hue and lightness must remain unchanged

is there a way to do that automagically?

thank you


texts: I'm about to buy a new laptop because I need photoshop to work faster. I use several hundred layers when I create artwork and my current system is slow and laggy. I am choosing between 16 and 32gb ram. Will this make a significant difference to how photoshop runs, or is 16 gb enough for a good performance?


texts: I have several grayscale templates (for flowers, buttons, etc.) and I want to add a color to them without losing the detail. I saw a tutorial long ago but can't remember how it was done or find the tutorial. The finished product should be a colored flower with the color matching the value of the grayscale image. Does anyone know how to do that in gimp?


texts: Actions in Illustrator not properly recording nor enacting? Envelope Distortion & Feather Stylize

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So I'm adding 3 translations to my images - adding a blur to the middle of the image (working perfectly, this involves mask clipping and adding an ellipse shape), adding an envelope distort (recording perfectly, but getting error message "The object "Move" is currently not available", and I'm making a number of "move" distortions (within the same envelope distort), and none of them work) and also adding a small ellipse stylised via feather (which records and completes the creation of the ellipse but does not record nor adds the feather).

The dimensions of the pictures whilst not the same, are all extremely similar: minHeight:480, maxHeight:500, minWidth:480, maxWidth500.

I plan on using the batch edit tool to apply these translations to multiple hundreds of images.


texts: I have drawn a broom in Illustrator and cant apply any brushes or strokes to it. I just don't get it. What do I have to do? Here is a screenshot:


texts: How can I manually create a pixel perfect image sprite?

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I want to use one of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 programs to create an image sprite of all the small icons and images on my webpages.

I've done it a number of times before in Photoshop but can't quite get every icon to be at the exact coordinates I intend them to be at.

The last method I used was to explicitly define the correct size of each as a shape, and use snap-to and line guides to line them all up where I want each image, and then insert the images and hide the shapes.

This takes a little while and to my dismay, there always seems to be something that's a pixel or two out of place, messing with my beautiful site designs.

What method can I use to set up a grid of images with varying sizes to be at specific coordinates?

Which of the Adobe CS5 Programs has the best functionality for this?

and a loosely relevant side question..

For the purpose of rendering in a browser as fast as possible, should the images be lined up vertically, horizontally or in a roughly equal sided rectangle?


texts: Are these line height calculations legible and pleasing?

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I experimented a bit with calculating line-height of text with respect to rem and em units. What I came up with is this calculation:
line-height: calc((1rem * 6 / 10) + (1em * 8 / 10));

I've made a little demonstration with texts having font-sizes ranging from 0.8rem through 2.5rem and you can select html font-size in a range from 12 to 28 for yourself with the range input at the top.
Also I limited the maximum with of every element to
max-width: calc(55 * 1em);

My question: Do you think, those values work?
For this the calculation leeds to smaller relative line-heights when the font-size is big. The results should be legible and pleasing, while taking up as less vertical space as possible.
The interactive example is seen here: https://s.codepen.io/HerrSerker/debug/e29b642ef84c06b02bdf00c6aa27861c
Edit:
I added a font-chooser in the example. I want this to work on a wide variety of fonts.
Note:
I know, that the smallest text is not very ledigle, if smallest rem of 12px is chosen. But that is due to the fact of the small font-size (9.6px in that case) rather than the line-height. So please don't mock on the font-sizes themselves.


texts: How to join paths into forming a shape to later fill with color

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Hi there, I'm very new to Illustrator and it's been some days (if not weeks) that I'm trying to find a solution for this problem.
I basically had an image in the background and used the pen tool on top to reproduce the different lines. So at the moment it's all paths.
But as you can see, the outer line is all together.
What I want to do is to join the top lip path into one shape, lower lip other shape, tongue another, and so on. The idea is to paint each of those shapes in different colours but I can't find a way to join them or even separate the outer line (I tried scissor, eraser, cut in the anchor, but no luck).
Any help would be much appreciated (or suggestion on the right way of doing something like this).


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I try to draw a square or circle and it just doesn't work. I know it should have a fill and stroke, and even when I select colors, it's not showing. All I see is a square depicting the area where the shape has been placed, as if it was in a different layer or something.

How can I show the shapes again?


texts: Name for the art style with wacky space alien illustrations like on the Area 51 SE site?

texts: What is the name of the art style with wacky space alien characters? I've seen the style in many places over time but a good example which I can provide is the illustrations in the Area 51 StackExchange site. Here are some examples:


texts: Photoshop effect of an element that's jumping out leaving streak behind

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I'm fairly new to Ps and I'd like to create an effect whereby a window looks as though it's jumping out of something, leaving behind a trail or streak with blur, so that it looks in motion.

I've been playing around with various blur effects but don't seem to find a good one. I created the attached image which hopefully will illustrate what I mean. I want something where the motion is continuous as opposed the image here where you can tell that there are three copies.

Any help would be much appreciated.


texts: Does optical correction give a more aesthetic look to the SBI logo?

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The design in question here is an official variation of the SBI logo:

Now, I've always felt that the main circular icon feels a bit smaller, and must be corrected by enlarging it a bit to make it look more aesthetic and balanced from both sides. I've seen many many famous designs that do things like this, just to make it look better, so I guess there must be some reason behind it.

Am I correct and if yes, what is the reason for this?


texts: Illustrator won't remove editing capabilities when I save as a PDF

texts: I want to release an AI file saved as a PDF for email blast.  When I save my file as a PDF and turn off the editing capabilities it does not seem to work when I open the PDF in Illustrator.  I have turned the "create acrobat layers from top-layer levels" off and changed the settings to "PDF/X-4:2008".  The compatibility is Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4). Even with all these settings I am still able to manipulate the image in illustrator when saved as a PDF.  I'll take any suggestions!!


texts: Where's 'Convert All Spots to CMYK' in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?

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I'm trying to complete Step 3 beneath,

  Open Tools → Print Production → Preflight and switch to Fixups.

  Search for Convert All Spots to CMYK and run Fix. Now all colors in your document are CMYK.

but Acrobat's search engine isn't yielding 'Convert All Spots to CMYK'? See beneath.


texts: Image that looks different on black background and on white

texts: If you put this image on a black background you see something different than on a white background. Does anyone have a idea how it works?


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I'm using adobe XD for UX projects on windows, but due to security I can't share it through adobe cloud network. Is there a way to use it confidentionally offline somehow for prototyping designs with customers?

I also googled it and was amazed, because as I got it (from here), it isn't new (it's from March 2016 - 2 years!) and many people have the same security policy in their companies (for a reason), but perhaps there's some workarounds.

I doubt there is an alternative for adobe XD on windows, but if you have anything, please share you thoughts.


texts: Smart Object itself is not resized when resizing an entire image

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I have an image of size 100px x 100px and a bunch of smart objects of size 10px x 10px in it.

When I resize the image using Image > Image Size by 200% - all my vector objects and smart objects are resized just fine. But when I open the smart object for editing, I can see its size is still 10px x 10px. (should be 20px x 20px).

When I resize the smart object while editing it and hit save, it is 40px x 40px in size. So looks like Photoshop is still making it double sized (as I resized an entire image to have 200% in width / height).

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way how to resize an image with smart objects included?


texts: Clipping Mask in Illustrator using Photoshop image

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I have two photoshop pngs, I am trying to simulate a rotating coin 3D effect.  One image will act as heads and the other will act as tails.  How can I get these two images to rotate together to simulate the front and back of a coin spinning on a 0 axis?  Output to be either a gif or mpeg4.  Here is an image of the heads side of the coin.  Both images are 512 x 512 with a radius of 80.

Can this be done in photoshop, illustrator, or something else?
How do I get an image on the back of the image below to look as if the image is double sided?


texts: Is it possible to a use guides in MS Office similar to Photoshop?

texts: Is there a way to use guides in MS Office Word and PowerPoint as you can in Photoshop? I wish to do the same in Office for moving things at a certain distance as we do in Photoshop.


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I am looking for a way to simple shuffle english and cyrillic characters inside the select font. For example "R" should represent "H" and otherwise. Actually I need to shuffle all the letters. I will load this font file as the custom font in my HTML page and will implement copy-paste protection using it.

May you tell me please if there is any good tool for this goal? I don't want to use usual font editors as changing characters there is a lot of work.

Thanks!

Addition: I have a quiz game where I am showing a question for 30 sec. I need to protect this question from Googling on it. So I just need to forbid "copy-paste" and "Search this in Google". No problem if they will try to retype the question, it is senseless for this game. I am also not care about SEO.


texts: Using the shape of an object to cut the object beneath it in Inkscape

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I'm editing an svg in Inkscape and I have an object on top of another object. I'd like to use the shape of the top object to cut the object beneath it.

For those who are familiar with GIMP, I'm trying to do something like the "alpha to selection" tool.


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I'm a programmer doing a client project, and I'm trying to write an app that will do this effect to user-uploaded images. I think it's some combination of Find edges, Blur and some other filters, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any ideas?

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texts: There are some fonts that won't show up in AI, so I type it in PS and save as EPs file and open in AI. The problem Im facing is that when I copy the text to another work, the background will also be copied. How do I delete the background cause when I use selection tool it will select the whole rectangle, not just the text.


texts: Bizarre behaviour of letters resizing automatically as I type in InDesign

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hoping someone can shed some light on my situation.
I am facing something I have never faced before. As I type in a text box, no matter the font, there seems to be some kind of behavioral rule telling the font to shrink ever so slightly. It only does this to characters an x amount of characters behind the character currently being typed.
Here is a gif showing what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/0Oujn9b
This happens with various fonts using this paragraph style, and does not happen using the basic paragraph style or in other documents. So I am pretty sure it is due to something in the paragraph style or character style, but I am not sure what it is. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
This is in a book document, with various paragraph styles and character styles used, some of which include GREP styles for tidying up word widows. I am using InDesign CS6.


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Have a business card file created in AI. Printer is asking for crop marks and we are looking to have 1/4" rounded corners for the cards. How do I create crop marks or setup bleed for this? or is the setup for the 1/4" rounded corners the printers responsibility and I simply supply standard crop marks?

Thanks!


texts: What should I think about before ordering a poster print?

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I have constructed a Mandelbrot image using my own small python script. I am toying with the idea of taking it to a shop to have it printed on a 50x70cm poster to hang on the wall.
I know nothing of printing, and would like to not ruin the result too much in my ignorance.
Below is the picture I've made (it's somewhat low resolution here because of file size limitations; as it is digitally constructed, naturally I can make it in any resolution I want, and I suppose that when I get that far, I'll look at the prices for 150 vs 300 vs 600 ppi to see if I care enough to pay for it).

I like that it is mostly black, and the I like the (almost) monochrome blue. I am somewhat satisfied with the level of banding (always an issue with dark colors). I like the colors as I see them on my screen. I think I like the off-center composition, although I might move the motive a little bit to the left.
However, I am uncertain how much of it translates to a poster. Should the curve be made thicker, or brighter, or both? I am afraid that especially the small details (all the lightning-like branching, and the smaller copies of the bulb) may become nearly invisible, but on the other hand, turning them up will probably give me banding elsewhere.
And what can I expect for the color? Heck, the colors looks different between my image viewer and my internet browser; the browser shows a clear blue, while my image viewer shows a more purple color. I have no idea what a poster printer might do.


texts: Is programming a website for mobile first really necessary?

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I've read through a number of sources which state mobile first design is almost essential, which I can't deny it does have obvious benefits such as faster load times for mobiles which generally have slower download speeds through 3G and 4G.

But what if you're building a smaller website with very few images.

I would like to hear of others opinions in this subject and whether or not people think there are exceptions. Personally I prefer to design/code for desktop first and scale down from there. But is it really that important to design/code for mobile first or are the end results not significant enough to bother in certain situations?


texts: Weird grey line/border in white space in Adobe Illustrator

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While using Adobe Illustrator CC 2017.1 release on a Macbook, I get these strange lines as outlines/connecting around my shapes and they appear even in my png and pdf exports. See image below.

In the image, the white rectangle cutout in the brown part had no stroke and I think I used Shape builder to remove the extra part. As for the black circular shape, I think I used a pen with white fill, no stroke and drew inside the circular shape. And I've seen this error in both RGB and CMYK file mode. And i've even tried unchecking Anti Alias settings in Preferences to no avail.

Is this a bug or some setting mistake ? Very problematic as I need to use Illustrator for work. Please help!

And this is the outline mode below.


texts: How to make half-colored text in affinity?

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I have seen several of this kind of question on this site, but all of them refer to another program, mainly Adobe software. I use Affinity Designer. I want to get a half-colored text like the one in the logo below.

The "D" in this example is split in half. I would like to do something similar except vertical. If someone could please help me with this that would be great. Thanks!


texts: Scroll bars (horizonal / vertical) on the Adobe XD window's viewport

texts: I'm using Adobe XD to design UI but unfortunately, it does not currently provide scrollbars to navigate the view of my content.


texts: How do I fill areas in a image converted from a hand-drawn picture in inkscape?

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I have to edit a pencil drawing. I scanned the drawing, traced the bitmap and obtained an image similar to this:

How can I fill the areas marked in the diagram with a fill or gradient? (The lines shown in red are Objects, not Strokes).


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Does any body know what is the current status of embedding fonts into an svg file that is readable by inkscape. I find the lack of embedded fonts severely impedes portability of svg files, particular if sending the file to a person who doesn't have admin access on their machine and cannot install fonts.

I tried to follow the instructions given at this link:

HOWTO: Embedding a font in a Linux Inkscape SVG document

but have been unable to get it to work, this link also suggests that it is possible:

https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/83618

I, to be fair am trying to get this to work on windows, not linux (I don't have access to a linux machine right now). Does any one know of or have access to an actual svg file where this feature is working?


texts: What is the font used in the Backbone.js Logo?

texts: Trying to identify the font used in the Backbone.js logo:


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Is there a way to make image tabs in GIMP ver 2.10.12 only contain text (e.g. image file name, etc.)?

I couldn`t find anything on the topic in GIMP preferences.


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I have to make a header for this store that sells Alarms, CCTV and others electronics stuff, the thing is that I cant find a design that matches with their logo.

I spent several days trying to make something that matches and this is the best I could come up with. Still, have that bad feeling that something is wrong, or that could be better, the truth is that I'm running out of time and can't figure out something better.

Any Ideas?


texts: What is the best way to export an artwork in Illustrator?

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I have 18 artworks in an .eps file.

I wonder what is the best way to extract/export one of those artwork into a .png/.jpg ?

Example

I'm not sure if this possible, but is there a way to export all of them into individual .png files.

Any helps / suggestions  on this will be much appreciated.


texts: Can I use SVG to replace UI graphics with text on mobile devices?

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I'm new to this...

I have a lot of assets that are exported as jpeg when I digest them. But we often have to translate these assets and it ends up with me the developer composing the asset in code with the raster images (usually backgrounds with text on top). Then in code we apply the translation.

What I would like to develop is a way to design assets in illustrator and export them as SVG files to use in the app. Then in code I can target that SVG asset and change the text to the translated version before I render it.

Does anyone know of any pitfalls with this approach?

Does anyone know how to get a text item to be referenceable in SVG and easily changeable?

I have this code:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 400 657.06">
<title>TestSVG</title>

<image width="400" height="600" xlink:href="iu.png"/>

<text transform="translate(7.38 639.06)" font-size="72" font-family="MyriadPro-Regular, Myriad Pro"><tspan letter-spacing="-0.07em">T</tspan><tspan x="30.67" y="0">est</tspan><tspan x="119.09" y="0" letter-spacing="-0.04em"> </tspan><tspan x="131.4" y="0" letter-spacing="-0.07em">T</tspan><tspan x="162.07" y="0" letter-spacing="0em">e</tspan><tspan x="197.93" y="0" letter-spacing="0.01em">x</tspan><tspan x="232.2" y="0">t</tspan></text>

Notice the text is built with Tspan etc. Is this required in SVG files produced by illustrator? or can I just tell illustrator to simplify this with some sort of text="Test Text" and FontSize=72?

Edit: because it's easier to change Text="Test" then to figure out a way to generate the Tspan stuff.


texts: Why is Photoshop changing my CMYK numbers?

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I have my image mode set to CMYK. But as soon as I enter 0 C, 0 M, 0 Y, 50% K, it changes it 43% C, 35% M, 35% Y, 1% K. Attached is a screenshot.

How do I remedy this?


texts: Merge two anchors from different objects in Adobe Illustrator

texts: Is it possible to merge/lock two anchor points together in Adobe Illustrator? What I'm trying to achieve is to lock a line segment to a circle so that when I drag the circle, the connected endpoint of the segment moves with the circle but the other endpoint stays in place.


texts: Making dark areas lighter on a wood texture

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I'm trying to find a method to make a wood texture more homogeneous in Photoshop. What's the best approach to achieve this? (I only found tutorials that deal with photos, not textures).

I want the dark grey areas to be more closer in color tone and brightness like the lighter brown areas. This seems difficult on such an image but I think it can be done.


texts: Reduce the size of a Powerpoint while keeping image quality

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Are there any additional options for reducing the size of a Powerpoint presentation without losing image quality?

I've got a deck that is approximately 25 slides, 15 of which have images. The deck ends up being over 25 MB. I would like to possibly cut that in half.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: What does it means to "maintain (or not) Transparency" in Photoshop when placing it in another program like InDesign?


texts: completely new to GIMP and I am wondering how to remove a filter I've added to an image. I used one of the light and shadow filters and I can't undo it. Is there a remove filter or delete filter option? To remove it from the image.


texts: Illustrator - Delete everything that's outside Objects

texts: How do I delete all the unnecessary white shapes, only keep the ones on the logo itself.


texts: InDesign: how to disable text frame from snapping to blue grid inside it?

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Below is a snapshot showing the problematic text frame. When I resize the text frame, it snaps to the blue grid inside it. That means it goes one block at a time, rather than smoothly.
How can I turn this blue grid off, so I can fine tune the text frame size?


texts: Can you lock objects in Illustrator so it doesn't keep being selected and highlighted?

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I was trying to draw behind many shapes but I couldn't tell where I was drawing because of many lines highlighting. But I need those shapes to draw correctly just not their stroke lines highlighting. Usually a problem when adjusting curved or making anchor point using pen tool.

How do I lock objects in Illustrator to keep this from happening?


texts: Illustrator: Scale all strokes in a document without touching object and pattern size?

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I have an illustrator file (actually it's a map) which has lines, polygons and some patterns. I would like to scale the stroke width of all lines (also lines inside patterns) by 80% without altering the patterns or the size of the objects.

When using the Scale tool I must chose one of "transform objects" and "transform patterns" but I don't want to scale any of those, only Strokes.

I could first scale everything by 80%. Then I could scale it by 133.333333% and leave out "strokes & effects". The problem is that lines in patterns stay the same.

When I toggle "transform patterns" the size of the patterns changes including the stroke widths, but I only want the stroke widths to be altered.

So does anyone know how to solve this?

I do not want to have to select individual objects since there are thousands of them.


texts: InDesign GREP everything between two consecutive returns and a digit(or)return

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Say I have some text in the following format:

What I am trying to style, using GREP, is the beginning of every new paragraph (that comes after an empty line), until a digit or return is reached, so that it would look something like this:

I've been using regexr to try and find a solution, but it appears not be 100% compatible with InDesign's GREP utility.


texts: Can't figure out why my opacity overlay isn't showing 100%

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TL:DR
Just look at the image attached (very bottom). :)

More details:
Read it all, because I probably need more help than I realize. :)

I created this and everything is nice and simple the way I wanted (I'm a rookie, so I went for something simple) and I keep playing with it (making it worse probably) trying to get my layer background-color: rgba(28,31,29,0.7) to sit 100% over my background-image. What am I missing? I feel like it's a small fix.

If you have any other tips about unnecessary padding/margin, etc please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

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  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

body {
  background-image: url(http://www.gecarchitecture.com/sites/default/files/WinsportGather2.jpg);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: cover;

}
.container {
  background-color: rgba(28,31,29,0.7);
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 650px;
  height: 100%;
  margin: auto;
}

.box {
  margin: 25px;
  padding: 20;
  border-radius: 10px;
  border: 3px solid #BC3E40;
}

header, section.who_we_are, section.book_us_today  {
  text-align: center;
}

h1 {
  color: #EDEBEA;
  padding: 15px 0;
  font-size: 3em;
  font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}

p {
  color: #EDEBEA;
  line-height: 2;
  font-size: 14px;
  font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;

}

.btn {
  background-color: #EDEBEA;
  padding: 10px;
  margin: 30px;
  max-width: 300px;
  color: black;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-radius: 9px;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 6px #333333;
  box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #333333;
  margin: auto;
}

.btn:hover {
  background-color: #BC3E40;
  color: #EDEBEA;
  text-decoration: none;
}

footer {
  font-size: 10px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 30px;
    font-style: italic;
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texts: How to sample colors outside Photoshop CC, using Color Picker, on Windows 10

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I've always used the Color Picker to sample colors outside of Photoshop, by clicking on the image and then dragging to wherever the desired color was on the screen.

Now, with CC and Windows 10 (as of 6/6/16) that is not possible. Anything outside the Photoshop window is sampled as black.

Any ideas how to fix this?


texts: Poser-like plugin to help with drawing human figure in Illustrator?

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Is there a plugin that gives you a poser (human figure) to play with in Adobe Illustrator, sort of like the perspective grid tool but with an actual human you can rig and move the camera around?

Like Poser or MakeHuman

Complicated POVs on the human body take a long time to master! :( If I could rig a character in the position I want it will look realistic and I can draw on top of it, then remove it.

Like this but with controls to alter the position and POV.


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I know you can create a rounded-corner rectangle; but, how do you create a triangle with rounded corners in Photoshop?

I am actually interested in making it from scratch, not basing it on a custom shape that is available in Photoshop. Thanks.


texts: Drawing a circle made of lines and splitting into sections

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I am looking to draw a circle like below on Illustrator for a graph. I get as far as doing the circular lines, but I just haven't been able to effectively split the circles in to equally sized sections. I've tried drawing lines over them and divide the objects with the Path tool, but it's dividing it weirdly. I think the problem is that the object below is not one object but rather a lot of circles. I've also considered using the scissors tool, but that will be hard to get the parts equal and the negative space divisions in the same size for all.

Is there a better way to do this? I very much appreciate the help and suggestions.


texts: How can an Icon symbolize "Search Relevance"?

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What's a relatively simple image that could be used as an icon to symbolize "Relevance", such as Search Relevance?

I really can't think of anything that would be instantly recognizable, or even that a user might guess was the thing they were looking for. The best I've come up with so far is a magnifying glass with some other symbol inside:

A symbol indicating relevance score, like a percentage (%) sign
A symbol indicating relevance weight, such as balancing scales or a literal weight
A symbol indicating intelligence or learning, such as a graduation cap or light bulb

But I don't like any of these because combining 2+ objects makes icons look clumsy, and more importantly, none of them seem to immediately convey the purpose of the icon.

Anyone have a better idea?

Edit:

I'm looking for a single icon to represent the concept. Users will click the icon to re-sort a list of search results according to search relevance (e.g., instead of alphabetical or by date).
The context is a web-based application serving users in professional service industries (legal, financial, academic, etc.) so it's got to be clean and professional looking.


texts: Remove multi color degradation on jpg image

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I have several pictures that I want to fix. The pictures came to me from a scanner and there is no way that job is going to be done again by the person who did it. I know for a fact that all the pictures should only have 2 colors: #ffffff and #132740. The #132740 is the background color.
But the images have many colors like this: wrong color image http://bedoya.co/wp-content/uploads/198A_85_180_3500.jpg
What I want to accomplish is something like this:
almost right colored image http://bedoya.co/wp-content/uploads/005_200_230_6000.jpg
I am using Gimp 2.8.14 for this task, thank you for any advise


texts: I have 80 small photos of color samples, how can I sort and arrange them by color?

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So I've searched the internet/google up and down for at least 3 hours and still haven't found anything that works:

I have those small .png files that are photographed color samples of products and I need to make a catalogue.

I need to sort/arrange these samples BY COLOR in a harmonious way and so far I've done this by hand but it's a tedious task and it's driving me nuts.

I really want to sort them by algorithm / via software in a layout of my choosing (10 columns by 8 rows).

I thought this would be easy and there actually are 2-3 applications that were written sometime in the 90's and sort of do what I need.. but! they are broken as sh** and basically unusable for my purposes.

Here's the programs that I tried for image sorting purposes:

ImageSorter (all versions I could find): This is the main one that gets recommended all over the net, in dubious and completely forsaken discussion threads from seasons past. It's crap and I can't use it..NO ONE should use it. Please don't use it, it will just crash and disappoint you.

OSForensics: This is the only other software I tried that was actually kind of doing what I needed: Sorting the images by color. But, once again, the results were very bad and all over the place.

I tried 1 or 2 more programs with names like ImageView or something like that, but nothing worked.

I also searched stackoverflow for some homebrew self-coding solution but no one seems to even have this problem (which is rare) so I'm completely stuck now.

Thanks for reading and if anyone out there can point me in the right direction: That would be beyond greatness! :)

Cheers


texts: Desperate to find out the name of this font!


texts: Replace gradient with solid colour on PNG/JPEG with Photoshop CS5

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First  of all thanks for taking the time to read my question and my apologies if this has already been addressed (I did research on the website but couldn't find anything).

I am currently teaching myself the basics of Photoshop and am trying to replace the gradient part of a picture with a solid colour but did not managed to do it yet. (See the image I'm working on here)

I tried the replace colour technique, and also tried to play with the hue/saturation of a layer but nothing works.

Basically, I'd like to have the blue-3D part to be yellow (255-224-63), but when using the layer technique it ends up being green and not yellow. As for the replace colour technique, it gets very much pixellated which is more than annoying.

Does anyone have a better technique to achieve the result I'ma aiming at?

Thanks very much in advance for your time.

Ed


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I'm trying to draw a symmetrical shape in Figma. Usually the way I do this is by drawing a path, then duplicating it and flipping it horizontally. In Illustrator, I would then be able to hit Ctrl+J to join the two paths, creating a closed shape that I could then fill.

But in Figma, when I select two paths, the Vector -> Join Selection (Ctrl+J) menu option is disabled. How do I join these vectors together?


texts: Connector lines with knee (angle, multiple nodes) in Inkscape?

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Let's say I have two rectangles, and I use the Connector Tool to connect their centers (which are the only ones indicated when the tool is used):

The connector line is drawn as a usual line:

If I then move the right rectangle, the connector line is redrawn, as expected:

Now, let's say with the Node tool, I add a third, "knee" node in the straight connector line, so that the connector line now is "with an angle":

If I now move the right box a bit to the left, the connector line is redrawn again - but the additional, "knee" node is lost:

Is it possible to somehow have both connector lines (snapping with their end nodes to their attached shapes), and the ability to remember additional nodes added to that line? If an object moves, I'd imagine only the node attached to that object to move, while the rest forming the connector lines would stay (i could then adjust them manually).


texts: How can I easily swap colors / swap channels in Photoshop?

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Back before I could afford a Mac I used a PC (when Windows XP ruled the earth). At that time I couldn't afford Photoshop either. So I had a WinXP box with Irfanview installed - and I thought that was pretty cool.
Now I have a Mac and PhotoShop but I can't figure out how to do one of the things Irfanview did so easily - swap colors / channels:

What it Does
Using those menu items you could take an image like this one:

and make it look like this:

or like this:

How can I do something similar in Photoshop? It seems like it might be really complicated.
What if I wanted to make that button another color besides one of the primary channel swaps - like a maroon or aqua - what is the best way to do that in Photoshop?
Shouldn't it be especially easy if the image has a (kind of) grayscale background?

ps: Irfanview does not run on Mac without WineBottler or something like that which I don't really want to run.


texts: Resizing rectangle in Fireworks without losing sharpness

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I resized an icon from 128x128 to 40x40 pixels.  The snap-to-pixel option is turned on, but the icon is still "blurry".

Original (128x128):

Resized (40x40):

How can I resize my image and retain sharpness?


texts: How can I save only one layer as a PNG file in Photoshop

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I wanted save some layers as PNG files and I had opened a new window for every .png file and pasted in there and sometimes crop it.

Is there a way to export just a few or one selected layer and not the whole file much more easily, or maybe only save the visible part as a PNG?


texts: how to create a box which is engraved in photoshop

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Possible Duplicate:
  Sunken look in photoshop?

I saw this effect for input box in ''checkmycolours'' site, it seems really beautiful, but i don't know how to create engraved box.
so if someone know how to create this kind of effect please help me.

http://www.checkmycolours.com/img/input.jpg


texts: Looking to replicate a comic coloring of early 90s(not just using the half tone filter)

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Here is my image with flat colors, colors with the halftone filter, and a comic page I am trying to replicate.
I am missing something. My colors don't have the same look.I am using the same 64 color pallate I think the file is setup correct for if I was going to print the comic. However, I am looking to post single pages to a webcomic.
The halftone effect does not have the same feel. I dont know if its because the news print allows for some bleed/fade, or what. I've tried a newpapers texture. My colors still look very digital. How can I accomplish this without printing and scanning each page. Ideally I would like to create an action to run. Any help would be awesome.


texts: Ideas how to create oldschool gold logo similar to Labyrinth

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I need to create Labyrinth style logo, but with the text "Puzzled Pint" for the small event I'm hosting. It should be similar to this:

Does anyone have any tutorial? Or even some advice?

I extracted the gradient and now I'm looking for the font, but I have no idea what to do with the edges when I finally find the font. Any tutorial or advice?

edit: I'm using GIMP


texts: Mathematical Drawings,sketch like (Geometry)

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I'm a mathematics student doing a thesis project related to geometry and I want to add some pictures, I have no experience in graphic design but I really want my project to look aesthetically pleasing.

I'd like to know which software suits me better. I was using TikZ package in LaTeX but its not worth it.

Some examples:


texts: Generating InDesign TOC and forcing top-to-bottom-only scan of titles

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I'm having that infamous issue of InDesign generating a TOC with a peculiar order and not matching the top to bottom flow of the titles on each page.

I'm aware it scans top-left to bottom-right and some of my titles are further right than ones below it, causing InDesign to regard them as coming first.

Is there a way to force top-to-bottom scanning only and ignore left-to-right? My level 2 headings are further right than my level 3 and are often placed in the TOC in the 'wrong' order. It's due to a graphical style I need to keep and can't think of an elegant workaround?

My TOC is in the style of:

Chapter Title
--> Instruction Number
----> Place Name (Sub Title)

The Place Name/Sub Title is a text frame that runs the width of the page and centres the text. The instruction number is text inside a circular frame where the frame is centred as running it to the page edges distorts the circle. These titles are in separate frames. See below, with frame of instruction number highlighted and Place Name/Sub Title shown below it:


texts: Is there a name for the general style of designers like Vignelli, Müller-Brockmann, Jacqueline Casey, etc...?

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A lot of the great Graphic Designers in history, like Massimo Vignelli, Josef Müller-Brockmann, and Jacqueline Casey seem to have a specific style that I want to emulate for a project, and I'd like to have some sort of reference to use for the history, other designers, and other general information.

I've noticed that some common denominators include simple yet bold colour use (mostly the most basic forms of colours), heavy use of grid systems and geometric shapes, and simple typefaces (Helvetica, Garamond, Futura, etc...) used in unique ways.

A lot of these traits point to two styles in my opinion: Bauhaus and Brutalist.  However, those two styles aren't quite able to accurately describe these styles.  Here are some examples of what I'm looking for:

Full image here

Full image here


texts: LibreOffice: Draw shape (e.g., rectangle) on top of (say) pasted image

texts: I am new to LibreOffice. When I try to scribe out a rectangle shape or a text box, and the location is on top of a pasted image, I end up dragging the image instead.  On the odd occasion, some weird combination of keys allowed me to draw the desired object on top of the image, but I haven't been able to figure out the specific key combination that I typed to get this effect.  Surely this is something that is simple?


texts: Is it possible to add transparancy to a light in After Effects?

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Title says most of it. I want to have a light slowly fade away and make the 3D cube look 2D (it looks 2D when the light is off). In the transform options there doesn't seem to be a opacity effect slider.

Is this possible? Thanks!


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How could I emulate the paths between/around the planets in this illustration?
Inkscape or PS. Thanks!

Edit: I tried using strokes of a circle and unionizing it with a curved line, repeating and then masking the overlapping part to create the overlap effect. I'm trying to achieve the look of the overlapping paths from earth around the various celestial beings such as the moon.

Edit 2: By duplicating multiple spiro swirls and circles, I have gotten thus far: . What is the most efficient to subtract/mask the uneccesary parts of the circles?


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I’m typesetting an index for a book where the index subjects (the names/words/items themselves) should be left-aligned, but the page numbers referenced should be right-aligned – similar to what you’d commonly find in a table of contents.

This is no problem if it’s just one line.
It’s also no problem if the page numbers break on to the next line, as long as the subject is only one line: just right-align the whole paragraph, and the text before the tab automatically gets left-aligned.
It’s also no problem if the subject breaks on to the next line, as long as the page numbers fit on one line: just left-align the text and insert a Right Indent Tab.

The problem arises when the subject and the page numbers are both too long to fit on one line. In such cases, the first two (or however many) lines, contain the subject, should be left-aligned; and the last two (or however many) lines, containing the page numbers, should be right-aligned. The ‘middle’ line (where subject and page numbers coexist) should have the tab to make it appear both left- and right-aligned. An illustration:

I can do it manually, by adding a Right Indent Tab before each line of page numbers, but that’s fairly cumbersome for a long index. And I can’t think of a way to achieve this without having to manually add stuff.
Is there some way to achieve this automatically?
(I don’t have Quark, as mentioned in Scott’s comment, but I do have Affinity Publisher and Designer, just on the off chance it’s easier to accomplish there.)


texts: How can I achieve this stamp / photocopy effect?

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this is my first question, cause usually I find the answer I'm looking for on the forums.

That image was made with Sketcher effect with Pics Art app for Android. How could I mimic it using Photoshop? Looks much like the the refine edge mask, but I'm not able to isolate it.
Thanks

EDIT:

Thanks to everybody contributing to this thread. The following sequence indeed got me very close to desired result: brightness and contrast up, photocopy, invert, smart blur, accented edges or palette knife, gaussian blur. Still, my result shows rather hard edges compared to the washed out effect of the original. Thanks again! I would like to vote you up, but I haven't got the necessary credits (15) to vote, sorry.

EDIT 2:

Original image.


texts: InDesign: Pantone goes darker when placing .psd

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I have a very basic (so far) document with just a background set to Pantone 333 C as you can see here:

However, there is a .psd file that I am trying to place into the doc... and when I do, the whole document goes darker looking like the below:

As a little test, I have also created a random CMYK swatch (in this case, orange)... and when I set the background to that, it makes no difference to its colour whether the psd is there or not.

For some reason, just the Pantone colour just looks darker when I place the psd on top of it?


texts: Does ideal measure change with language?

texts: The ideal measure for single column of text is most widely accepted as around 65 characters, but does this depend on the language of the text? Some languages like French have much longer words than English (on average), and thus can fit less words per line. This can be thought of as less information per single line of text.


texts: Why doesn’t the Illustrator keyboard shortcut Ctrl+3 work?

texts: I seem to be unable to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+3 to hide a selection inside of Adobe Illustrator. Ctrl+2 for lock seems to work fine, but Ctrl+3 doesn’t do anything for me. Object → Hide → Selection does work, though.


texts: Can Photoshop be used for vector purposes?

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Usually vectors are only created in vector-based programs such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, with some limited support for drawing vectors in programs like Adobe Fireworks and Flash.

However, can Photoshop be used for vector purposes? Would it be optimal to do all your vector-based image creation there, for example, considering that it might be later on used in the project in a web design layout?


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I am putting a text heavy book together, 6in x 9in paper size.  (Perhaps related are this and this link.)

Now I look for good font pairings (nice examples are here) and margin settings and line spacing that works well.  My current settings are 0.8in top/bottom margin, and then 0.8in inner and 1in outer margin; line spacing 1.3.

What are recommended approaches here, how can I set up visually pleasing pages?

EDIT: I would like to have a clean and simple feel to the book, while the text is readable comfortably.  Almost leaning towards sans fonts although I'm not too sure if that makes for good reading comfort.

EDIT: After posting this question and receiving heaps of good comments, I started reading the book "Elements of Typographic Style" which gives answers to pretty much any question this thread raised, directly or indirectly. I'll post whatever typefaces and page settings I chose later...


texts: How to smooth out lines of rotated smart object in photoshop?

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I am building some kind of mockup for business card and while i was trying to create the looks like cards are on top of each others i used smart object to easily change look of business card on all the layers but the problem is that on rotation the photoshop really made a hard cut lines of the layers.

Here is an sample image what it looks like

I tried to change few settings that i found online under Preferences > Image Interpolation and it works kinda, different settings gives different smooths, but the smoothest gives a hard blur on the lines.

I also tried to convert it to 3d object as someone suggested and render it, this works as a good solution even when rendering is not done completely, but it really takes a lot of time to render. For my current file it would take 8 hours to render.

So is there any way to smooth out those lines a bit in some way ?


texts: Creating Fill Color in Arrowhead - Illustrator

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I'm trying to create a graphic style that looks like "A", applicable to a stroke.

I can get "B" using the stroke panel, with arrowhead options, but I'm not able to control the stroke weight of the circle or the fill color...

Ideas? Thanks


texts: Illustrator elements showing through each other in group with graphic style applied

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I've been trying to figure this out for a while and can't seem to get it. So, I thought it might be a good idea to ask here. I am having an issue with overlapping objects after applying appearance (stroke/fill).
Overlapping Issue
I am designing a map in Illustrator and have created some Graphic Styles that will be replicated throughout the map. The way I have been working has been to group all paths that will retain a specific graphic style. Then, I apply the style to the entire group.
This has been working great for the most part unless the objects inside the group overlap each other. Here's my workflow:

My expectation was that the object on top would "knock out" the object below if they overlapped. With the style applied to the entire group, this is not the case. Instead, the object below shows through the object above as picture.
I have tried opening the Opacity sub-panel under the Appearance panel and checked the box Knockout Group which says "Prevents the elements of a group showing through each other". But this doesn't seem to do anything and the elements are still showing through.
I know I can apply my style per path/object, but this will be much more time consuming and defeats the purpose of styling everything inside the group as the same. Is there any way to achieve what I am trying to do with groups?


texts: Why guides option is not working in Photoshop CS6?

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I recently installed Adobe Photoshop CS6 and the guides option is not working. I need help. Also, I am new at Photoshop so a step-by-step tutorial will be appreciated.

Here's a screenshot of the problem.


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I am trying to batch increase the contrast of a PDF of 600+ pages. I expected such a function in Acrobat's preflight but haven't found anything.
My online research suggests that the task is impossible within Acrobat and that the pages must be converted to images, treated with Photoshop or the like, and then recombined as a PDF. (A user at Super User SE suggested ImageMagick for a faster workflow.) For a host of reasons, this process is not ideal.
Does anyone know of a way to increase the contrast of multiple PDF pages, preferably within Acrobat? Preflight has a variety of color fixups but, at least to my level of literacy, none seem to do the trick.


texts: apply a custom made graphic to a stroke?

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I've created an arch using pen tool. Now I want to apply custom graphics to the arch. How do I achieve that?

^ here's what I drew.

And I want to apply custom graphics to that shape. For example, a custom graphics like this:  (pls disregard the white bar)


texts: Photoshop: how to clean up edges from overlaid image

texts: How can I clean up the edges of the square photo on top of this t-shirt?


texts: Open source software - create short avi - random words, changing text characters

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Is there an open source software package I can use to create a short video, like the one in this link?

https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/multimedia/videos/unified-security-header-video-v3.mp4

The video has words which change and letters which also change, fading in and out to end with a complete, unfaded sentence.

I am guessing I need multiple text layers and the ability to edit the text, individual characters and change the opacity of individual characters.

I am unsure what this type of animation (changing words and letters) is called.  It's almost like a 'cipher' video, though not exactly.

Is there an open source package I can use?


texts: Is there a way to trim art boards in illustrator like in photoshop?

texts: I will find myself often resizing art boards in illustrator when Im designing websites (if a page needs to be longer or shorter) and wanted to know if there is a way to trim away transparent pixels on an art board just like in photoshop. Right now I just use the art board tool to resize it manually but if theres a quicker way Im all ears. It would be quite a nifty tip to know


texts: How to make a noise/paper background in PS

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to create this grunge texture effect

How can I achieve this kind of background in Photoshop? Seems like a noise/paper pattern.


texts: Is Product Sans (Google new geometric font) being made available for commercial use?

texts: Will Google's brand new typeface called Product Sans be available for commercial use like Android's official typeface Roboto?


texts: How to draw a hollow line with arrows in Inkscape?

texts:
How do you draw an arrow like this in Inkscape? I tried:

draw a line
add an arrow to the end
make the whole thing wider
convert it to a path

and then played around with stroke and fill but nothing happened (using Inkscape on a Mac and it seems rather buggy), or actually - something happened - the same thing happened independently of if I used stroke or fill - the empty space in the arrow was filled.

(In the end I want to make a hollow object with arrows pointing in the same direction in both ends, something like >->)


texts:
I love the font for beanstalkapp logo:

Does someone know the font used to make that logo?  I used whatthefont.com but it could not pick up the font from the image.


texts: What's the best way to remove a white background when the Magic Wand tool doesn't cut it?

texts:
I'm having trouble removing a white background with complex images like these ones. When I use the Magic Wand tool on them I just end up cutting way too much stuff away or not enough and leaving white (background) residue left on the image.
Is there any trick (with layer blend modes?) to get all of the white background away from it and keeping a nice clean image as a result?


texts: How to make a fast loaded PDF file in Photoshop?

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I'm making my resume in Photoshop CC. The design style I've used is totally flat, so no shadows, and no other effect. Before saving it, I put the background in transparent to make less space to the final PDF file.

I'm exporting to PDF using File > Automate > PDF > Multi-Page Document > (...) Now, in the Adobe PDF Preset I've used various options, same with Compression and other options... and what I've achieved so far is to make my PDF file with a considerable low size. However that's not my goal here, what I want is the PDF file properly displayed when you open it.

My problem is that when I open the file, it takes a while to open and when you scroll the document, some elements disappear until you stop scrolling, where they show again. It's really annoying.

How can I avoid that?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Why can I only see a path when it's not white?

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(N.B. This could be a Win8 beta bug)

In Adobe Illustrator CS5 version 15.0.2 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64bit I have several paths. When I set their stroke to almost any colour I can see them. For example here they are in black:

(Note that I have my artboards hidden using the 'View' -> 'Hide Artboards' menu, and I have the document set up simulating (green) coloured paper using the Document Setup Simulate Colored Paper checkbox.)

But if I change the stroke to white, I cannot see the paths:

Nor can I see the one with white fill.

They are still there, you can see the anchor points etc. when the paths are selected, but they are not visible. What's going on? Is this a bug (I'm using a beta OS) or am I missing some setting I need to make white strokes visible? They really are white, exporting to PNG looks fine, why can't I see them in Illustrator?

==== EDIT ====

Over on the Adobe forum someone's suggested that white (in the case of process white) is the color of the paper; and that in my case the paper simulation is green, so the strokes are as well. She suggests that if I want a green background, I should create a green rectangle and that if I want to print with white ink, I should create a spot color white.

But if I add a green rectangle so that the white stroke is visible, I'll need to remember to turn it off before exporting as I need a transparent background on the final PNG. Is there a way to set Illustrator so that I can see a white stroke and white fill on a green background without making the green part of the work itself?


texts: Shape Builder Tool; Don't create extra anchor points

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Is there a way to cut a shape using the Shape Builder Tool without it affecting the shape that is not supposed to be cut:

E.g. when I use an ellipse in order to cut a rectangle, I also get extra vertices on the ellipse, even though its shape essentially has not really changed:


texts: When printing layout page it does not show the actual cards

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I am designing a game cards. I merged the layout of the single master card with csv file,as you can see on the pictures below. After that I made a printing layout page using rectangle frame tool and placed the source of the layout for single cards. How to force to Indesign to print the actual texts on the cards and not the layout of the master card ?
Thank you very much.


texts: cmyk to ral needed help asap for paint choose

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I need to switch those colors for paint code - ral

BLUE（C:80  M:70 Y:50 K:20）

GREEN（C:50  M:0 Y:100 K:0）

can anybody help ?


texts: How can I prevent this optical illusion of a rotated text?

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Recently I have been trying to add tabs to my application. When designing the Zoom tab, I find that when focusing on other elements of the screen it appears to look like eoon to the unfocused eye. This is a really important feature and it is quite distracting to see this optical illusion.

Should I try a different font? Should I use a different size? Different color scheme? I could do images instead but I would rather do text.


texts: Logo design: Suggestions for how to apply proportions of logomark and logotype in horizontal layout

texts: I have been playing around a bit with logo design as of late, and I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions or can recommend approaches for defining the sizing of a logomark when juxtaposed with corresponding logotype in a horizontal layout? (See a diagram below.) This is more of a design theory/principle-type question related to ratios and proportions and I'm curious, for example, how might one apply the golden ratio in this context or perhaps a ratio more intrinsically related to the specific composition of the logo itself? I'm interested in any sort of feedback from folks who spend time with logo design, and what might typically inform these kinds of decisions for you (in no way limited to the golden ratio.) Thanks for any insight here!


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I’m struggling to find a family that has a similar feel to the type on the red label.  Anyone know of anything that gets close?
Somewhat related aside: what terms might you use to describe this typeface? It makes me think of a sort of art deco, like almost rennie mackintosh-y vibe, but I am out of my depth here and certainly don’t know the history.
Thanks!


texts: How to create an overlapping, repeating line pattern where each layer above masks(?) the one below in Illustrator?

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I'm trying to make a series of simple line-based patterns in Illustrator. Most of the patterns will repeat in a way that causes them to overlap each other but I don't want the ones in the background to be visible behind the foreground.

Is there a way to maybe fill in the space between the lines to block stuff behind? Or a way to mask (for lack of a better word - I'm not sure the proper terminology) the stuff behind?


texts: Adding different graphics to a circle path without distortion?

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Is there a way to do this without it changing the shape of the graphics? I just used the method suggested on this post and it worked however it distorted some of the images. I have 5 images which are military emblems in the shape of circles and 5 stars. It distorted all the circle graphics.

Also, the graphics are already vector images if this matters. I am a rookie to Illustrator so all help is appreciated.

This is how they go using the rotate method on this other post:

The images need to be straight up and not distorted.