texts: How do i design for a printer with more than 4 primaries

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Some of the new digital printers work on more than 4 primary colors. For example the HP indigo series of digital printers boast with being able to produce ~98% of all pantone colors. This means that the gamut achieved by these printers are much larger than that of a standard process color device.

But how does one actually prepare a print to use this gamut fully? On desktop printers one is supposed to send a RGB file which is then converted to whatever the printer is using. But then I dont need to preview everything if I can just localy make proofs.

Since the color conversion isn't a one to one kind of business how do i know what will  happen, and should i care. Should i send cmyk or rgb and should i just trust my color engine to do a adequate job?

I supose i could just add spot color channels on the images and do a manual separation (been a while). I suppose I could just limit myself to a wide cmyk space. Or should I work in Lab space?


texts: Evenly distribute text diagonally along the whole image in Gimp

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How can I use the alignment and distribute tool in Gimp 2.10 to achieve something like this:

|-----------|
|  A        |
|     B     |
|        C  |
|-----------|

Where "B" is text that is the exact centre of the image, and A and C are the same distance from the edges of the image as well as the same distance from the letter B along the Y axis.


texts: Illustrator: Nudging precision when zoomed in

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I'm having some trouble on Illustrator CS4.

I'm creating a metro map and am having trouble with items taking too much of a jump when I nudge them with the arrow keys. I've been through other threads and couldn't find a specific answer to my problem. I've deselected all the obvious grid options etc.

As you can see from the screen shots I'm zoomed pretty close in, and when I am trying to position the black dot (the first of many stations) precisely in between the edges of the brown line, one press of the arrow key is taking it too far to the left or right.

I'm also having this problem when trying to position the lines (for example where the green, brown and yellow lines run parallel) next to each other. I want them to sit completely flush with one another, with one not obscuring another, but when I am nudging them back and forth there will either be some overlap or a white gap in between.

Links to screen shots can be found below:

http://s10.postimg.org/4dzj09tc5/Screen_shot_2013_03_23_at_22_11_02.png

http://s10.postimg.org/frm2bh3ut/Screen_shot_2013_03_23_at_22_11_40.png


texts: How to fill a hollow object in Illustrator?

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I'm working with a complex shape, but for the sake of getting a solution, let's say I draw a circle with the circle tool, and then I do a smaller circle inside of it. I select both objects and use pathfinder to erase the smaller circle on the top. Now you should get a "donut" shape.

How can I fill the inside of the donut? Is there any tool to create a selectable shape out of a hollow shape?


texts: Does anyone know how to make these grunge/teared type borders in photoshop?

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Example:

Or this one:

Notice the "torn" effect on the borders.


texts: How to show the coordinates of a point in Adobe Illustrator?

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I'm trying to find the coordinates of a vertex (aka corner) of a shape (aka polygon) in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017.  I tried using the Window -> Info view but that showed me the same coordinates for every vertex of the shape (source: How to show the coordinates of point handles in Adobe Illustrator?).

How do I find the coordinates of a point in Adobe Illustrator?


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novice here.

So I'm confused about baseline grids. It's the first time I'm using them and here's the scenario. I will be typsetting about 30 odd volumes of pure text, no graphics, a reference work basically, with no columns, just the one major text frame on each page, each volume about 4-500 pages long. I understand that I should use a basline grid, or that has been the feeling I'm getting from reading around about them. So I watched a few videos on Lynda.com and set one up, my question is that when I snap to grid it obviously snaps the lines to the grid but then the 'space after' for each paragraph which I had set seems to be overridden and as a result the gap between each paragraph is too big for my liking. It doesn't look good. I preferred a space after of about 4 mm, but this is bigger than that.

So my first question is: is there any way around this? How can you use a baseline grid while maintaining a space after setting that you have in place?

Do I actually have to use a baseline grid? I can understand it would make things look more consistent and do feel like using it, if it is best practice but not at the cost of communication. Do I have to use it for every paragraph? Or do you think it would be an idea to maybe just use it for the first paragraph on each page?

Anyway, any feedback would be greatly appreciated and if you do respond please do so as though you are talking to a total novice.

Thank you.

Edit: adding screen shots to explain my confusion further.

I've filled it with Arabic placeholder text, in this pic, the snap to baseline is off and I've set it the way I want it with 4 mm space after, I like this much space between each paragraph, I don't see anything wrong with it? The paragraphs on each page are starting at the same height, so what's the problem here?

In this pic, snap to baseline is on and I don't like the large space between each paragraph which it is doing since it is snapping to the grid:

And here are both pages this time showing the baseline off and on respectively for the above two pages:

Off

and on:


texts: icons - How does one create your own icon set?

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I tried looking over StackExchange a lot, but couldn't find anything related to my question :(
I have seen many (MANY) icon sets evolve from being nothing to everything. A few days ago I have seen BootStrap Icons, and they looked nice!
So, how do people create their own icon sets?

Is there a very popular tool they use?
Do they hand-code the icons?

P.S. I am VERY new to Stack Exchange, so please do point out any mistakes I have made in my question...
EDIT:
I would also like the software to be freely downloadable, or at-least a free version with features enough for an average human to understand and use. A web platform is preferred, but not completely necessary if it is open-source. I would like to license the icons I make, under my own license of choice too!


texts: I have a logo which is using the same typeface as the Panda Vape logo. I found it while searching the Logo on Google. Can you please help me identify it, so I can use it in my logo design? I have tried searching on WhatTheFont, What Font Is, and Find my Font, but I couldn’t find the exact font.


texts: How can I curve a design I made to make it perfectly match the curve of a circle?

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I would like to make a logo that has two simplified branches of barley that mirror each other and curve to a perfectly circular shape, like the following from http://culination.co:

I have tried to do it in Illustrator, Sketch and Pixelmator, but I can't seem to figure it out and can't find a tutorial. I tried making the pattern straight and curving it and when that didn't work, I tried making it curved, which was a total mess.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this elegantly?


texts: Get the average color of a raster image for a mosaic effect

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I've been searching for a way to get the average color of a raster image, to use in a vector grid in front of it to create a mosaic effect - the "Object > Create Object Mosaic..." menu option does not provide enough flexibility to get the effect I want.
Basically, I'd like to do this:

(source: http://vectorboom.com/load/tutorials/effects/polygonal_vector_mosaic/3-1-0-305)
It seems like Scriptographer would have been PERFECT for what I'm trying to do, but it is only supported up to CS5, and I'm on CC. I've looked into Paper.js (the sort of...evolution of Scriptographer), but cannot figure out how to implement it into Illustrator.
Does anyone know how to use Paper.js with Illustrator? And, more specifically, has anyone had any success with Paper.js in creating an effect similar to the one I posted above?


texts: Transform tool does not rotate according to centroid

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I am using Adobe Illustrator to rotate a triangular object.

I found that using the Effect -> Distort and Transform -> Transform rotation works different than a standard rotation made possible during scaling.

To 'illustrate' this problem, I attached a picture below to show how the standard rotation transforms my triangle.

Notice how all sides of the triangle touch the circle, since it is a perfect triangle. Now when I standard rotate it, it still does this.

This makes perfect sense. Now when I use the Effect -> Distort and Transform -> Transform tool, the rotation does something (to me) unexpected.

How come that the latter transform tool does not rotate according to the centroid? How to solve this?


texts: Real non-destructive way of clonestamp tool in Photoshop

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I am importing my raw-images from a dslr in photoshop as a SmartObject. The first step I do in my workflow is removing the "dust & scratches" with the clone-stamp-tool and the spot-healing-brush.

To do so I am creating a new layer and sample from the current and layer below. This works perfectly and is kind of non-destructive.

But sometimes I do some changes in the raw-converter afterwards with the smart-object to adjust the color-temperature or the exposure of the image. Like one can imagine the sampled corrections of the clone-stamp-tool refers to the old smartobject and therefore I have a couple of spots.

Is there a possibility to use the clone-stamp-tool in a real non-destructive way? I know there is a similiar tool in the raw-converter itself but it is not as comfortable as the tool in photoshop.

Can anybody help?


texts: Fine Art Printing: Inkjet Printing vs Screen Printing

texts: I print fine art on coated-canvas using a professional inkjet printer. The images are very clear and detailed. I have very little experience screen printing, but I have read there are ~300 dpi screens. Is it possible to get the same level of clarity and detail using screen printing? Would screen printing using a high resolution screen produce similar results to printing a 300 ppi image using an inkjet printer?


texts: Exporting to High Quality Print InDesign - preserving all fonts/text - Create Outlines?

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I'm just about to export a brochure for printing in InDesign (CS4)

What is the correct way to export the document so that the fonts used throughout will display properly at the printers.

I have used create outlines in the past, but just read that using create outlines is unsuitable particularly for  body text.

Thanks.


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I've got an image 4,200 x 4,200 pixels. I want to have it printed off as the biggest poster size I can get. How do I calculate what the largest size would be before I get pixelation or fuzziness. It's a very detailed image so it needs to retain the quality. Below is a link if that provides any details I've excluded.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Observable_universe_logarithmic_illustration.png


texts: Is there a way to "lock" the proportions of an photoshop file so the end user cannot change them?

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I am creating ad files for concert events and the end users (think church bulletin - no offense intended) are always stretching the files to meet a space, creating a horizontal or vertical squash that renders it almost unreadable.
It would be great to lock the proportion so they can change it.


texts: How to convert 2d product packaging net to 3D mockup

texts: I've been asked to design some product packaging and have been supplied the 2D net file. Is there some software that can convert the net into a 2D mockup of the 3D box, so my customers can see what the design looks like as if the flat-pack net had been bent into shape.


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I created a path by combining two different paths and this has apparently resulted in the nodes being out of order. Therefore, when I fill the path, the fill is not correct:

How can I fix this problem?


texts: How to Stop PS6 Vanishing Point Tool Pixelating Images

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I've always run into this issue, and diving into it a bit more today, I can't seem to figure out 'HOW' to stop the PS6 vanishing tool from pixelating my website mock-ups!

I often mock-up web screenshots on devices for my portfolio and clients.  (Perspective monitors, smartphone devices etc.) and I typically use the vanishing tool to do so.  Problem is, the vanishing tool forces me to rasterize my image before its able to be placed on the grid, rather then allowing me to transform the vector versions of it.  This results in a lot of jagged edges and major quality loss on type.

My question is: is there a way to use the vanishing point tool with vector (or grouped) objects?  If not, is there a better way for me to make these transforms for my mock-ups?  Using the skew / transform tool proves to be time consuming and inconsistent.


texts: Photoshop - adjustment layer to change colors of multiple layers?

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I remember I opened a PSD file which did this.

It had like 4 hidden "adjustment" layers, each for a specific color, and all the elements that used a certain color were being changed depending on which adjustment layer was visible.

Something like this:

Notice the visible "pink" layer. That layer should make a part of the graphic on the left pink.

And when you make the blue layer visible, that part of the graphic graphic should turn blue:

Does anyone know how can I achieve this?


texts: Text Style in InDesign and Adobe Illustrator?

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There is something similar to Microsft Word Text Styles, in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator?

For example I choose: "Style 1", for many paragraphs, and then I can change the font of all of them at once?


texts: How do I insert an image "through" the center of a vector shape in Illustrator?

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I'm wondering what the best way to insert a photo of someone "through" the center of a vector shape would be in Illustrator CC. I've done this in the past through a variety of shape building techniques, but the gradient I'm using this time is throwing me off.

Essentially, I have cropped photos of both people pictured, and I'd like their below-the-waist portion to remain obscured, but I'd like their heads to still carry over the top portion of the shapes (as the man on the left's head is.) I've tried shape building, but then the gradient won't carry fluidly over through each new shape. So essentially, what is the most effective technique for layering elements like this while still keeping the gradient consistent?


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I'm using this custom size 64*64 plus icon svg as zoom icon in my website. As you can see, it's pixelated. Specially the white border. Don't know why. Because it's svg it suppose to looks sharp right?

Here is my the svg file: https://svgshare.com/i/H_C.svg

Here is the real world example. Jsfiddle


texts: Drop shadow in Photoshop based on image size

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I'm dealing with many thousands of psd files containing product images. Most items
have been separated from their original background and placed on white. They have a very slight drop shadow to elevate them a bit from the BG.
Now I'm overhauling them all (squared images originally but 4:3 needed) and want to give them all the exact same shadow (mainly through recorded actions). I have recorded the shadow in an action (spread of X px, distance of X px etc).

The problem now becomes that image dimensions range from around 1000 up to even 5000 px. And if I apply the same shadow it looks quite different in a smaller image compared with a larger one.

What I'm looking for is a way to create shadow not with PIXEL distance, spread etc but with PERCENT distance etc. This way I'm hoping to achieve the same APPARENT shadow in all images.
I have worked with PS for many years and searched online but never came across anything like that.

Is there a way to achieve this? Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Cut the portion of the line segment with knife tool in illustrator?

texts: As shown in the figure the corner of following shape need to be removed to make it dashed line. I am trying to use knife tool to cut the portion of the line. But failed to do so. Is there any possibility to cut the part of the line tool?


texts: Ideal range of brightness and saturation for background color of a website?

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I'm developing a website and I'm thinking about the background color saturation and brightness. I've read that too saturated and bright colors would strain the eye if not immediately after a while.

In this example https://www.dtelepathy.com/ it is clear on first impression that the website is too intense on the eye.

But what about this website https://www.reech.com/fr/ ?Although the brightness is low, saturation at its max. Do you think it would strain the eye after a while?

What would be the maximum combination of brightness and saturation that one could reach before the background color begins to strain the eye?


texts: I drew the inside line of my O before the outside line. Now the O just looks like a circle, the inner part of the O isn't empty. How do I get it empty?


texts: Which format to deliver graphic work for a client that will print himself?

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I am making some illustrations to deliver to a client that is going to print on items like notebooks and cups. I'm working in Illustrator, but don't know which is the best format to deliver the work. He should be able to get:

images with background
images with transparent background


texts: Illustrator CC - Creating an object mosaic but ignore transparent pixels?

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I decided that converting my pixel images to vector through Inkscape was a lot of work and it couldn't convert 16px images without being resized first. So I figured out I could use the "Create Object Mosaic" feature in Illustrator, it does exactly what I want.. The only problem is that it creates a 16x16 grid no matter what, and all the transparent pixels are filled in with white.

Is there any way I can set it to ignore the transparent pixels in the image? Or a better way of doing it?

Here's some visuals, starting with the options I use:

What it outputs:

What I have to delete each time:


texts: How to shore up a portfolio with only one major application for the last five years?

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I have been employed for five years at the same company working on the same internal web-application. It has evolved considerably with major improvements, design changes, UX updates, etc.

I would like to update my personal portfolio as the work that is currently on it is old and not representative of my current skill level or design sensibility. However, I only have this one web application as an example of "current" abilities. Due to family life, workload and various other factors I have not taken on freelance work.

My question is: would this application broken down into a case study covering different aspects (logo design, UX, workflow, etc) be the most effective way to handle this situation?

This would effectively mean I only have "one" project and I'm afraid this will hurt my chances in trying to obtain freelance now, or new employment in the future.


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A path I created by converting a guide to a path will not open. Tried the eraser tool, the cut path option in the anchor menu to no avail. When the path is only 2 nodes long a random non-selectable segment is created to close the path.

AI file

Attached the result of using the eraser tool.


texts: Only Inkscape (and GitHub) render SVG correctly

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I am using Inkscape 0.92.1 (4.20170510bzr15686.fc26) on Fedora 26.

To verify the issue, I also exported the SVG in Inkscape, but both files are rendered incorectly on my system.

Original SVG: https://cdn.rawgit.com/rugk/streetcomplete-quest-svgs/7098e53fbc2d7c4ab737c2d32576b67b771d15f5/inkscape/StreetComplete_quest_crossing.svg
Optimized SVG: https://cdn.rawgit.com/rugk/streetcomplete-quest-svgs/7098e53fbc2d7c4ab737c2d32576b67b771d15f5/optimized/StreetComplete_quest_crossing.svg

(Maybe it works in the browser, try saving the files and opening them in another way, then.)

How it should look

This is how it looks:

on GitHub (even on my system; they use some custom SVG renderer or so)
in Inkscape on my system itself (also the preview in the opening/saving dialog looks correct)

How it looks

Opening the plain SVG file in

in BrowserStack for Windows and MacOS and other systems
nautilus
Eye of GNOME and other picture viewers
Firefox 55
and GIMP (2.8.22)

…they however always look distorted:

I see all zebra icons being affected here, e.g. this one (original) is also distorted:

So what (or where) is the issue, i.e. who is responsible? Is it a bug in Inkscape or in the rendering library used on my system or is it the SVG's fault?

Edit: Now I even see the correct ones in the version without the bug fix when opening the files with Firefox. Still reproducible with other offline software, however.


texts: InDesign CS6 quality difference "Export to PDF" vs "Print Booklet"?

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Using InDesign CS6, I regularly create booklets of anywhere from 8, 12, 16 to 32 pages for offset printing.

For this I typically use the Print Booklet module, set to create a PDF file at Press Resolution.

Occasionally I have a single or double-sided insert for which I generate a separate PDF, using the Export to PDF module, with the same Press Resolution setting.
I noticed that these 'single page' PDFs look markedly different than the PDFs created with the Print Booklet function - which are far superior in terms of contrast.

To make things even stranger, the Print Booklet function generates files that are significantly smaller than the Export function PDF files.

My workaround has been to create a 4-page "booklet" with the same material on each of the pages, and then delete the superfluous pages from this booklet. This does not make any sense.

Any suggestions, anybody?


texts: Apply marquee selection to multiple layers

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I have Photoshop documents with many layers, some over 100.

I need to delete a feathered selection on all layers without having to manually select each layer, reapply the selection, hit Delete key.

Is this possible?


texts: Adobe Photoshop/Visual Research: Wave/Flicker-effect applied to type

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This is cover for Keith Laumer’s A Plague of Demons designed by Alan Aldridge:

(Here is an article about Aldridge's work which got me interested in his work in the first place: A Plague of Demons)

I would like to digitally recreate the effect Aldridge created for the title:

I tried doing this by using the Wave Effect in Photoshop under Filter→Distort→Wave. So far this does not yield satisfying results, the effects I’ve been able to create do not have the same visual impact.

Can someone help me out with creating the effect and possibly point me in the right direction?


texts: Scale Multiple Paths According to Single Part Dimensions

texts: How can one scale both a rectangle and a circle--both being selected--so that the circle is scaled appropriately according to what I want to specify the rectangle's width to be?


texts: Character Panel is stuck off screen after unplugging an external monitor; how to bring it back to my screen?

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Take a look at the following screenshot

The Character panel is stuck off screen on Illustrator on my Mac. This often happens when I unplug my external monitor. I then sit down to work the character pane (command-T) always appears half-offscreen, and I cannot find  way to bring it back to my screen.
The only way that I found to get my Character panel back is to find an external screen and plug it in, then move my character panel back on to my laptop screen, then re-unplug the external screen.
Is there any other way to "factory reset" the location of the Character pane?


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I have a logo file that is a right-angled triangle with some lines radiating out from one corner.  It reminds me of a sail on a boat.  I'd like it to look more like a sail on a boat but still retain recognition to the original logo.  A sail on a boat is bowed outwards but the corners remain in the same place.  The effect should be an implied 3d look due to the distortion of the lines on the sail and the now curved edges of the triangle.  The logo is a flat single color.  I'm thinking I can get the effect I want without changing that.  Making the color a gradient along the path of distortion could however make the effect more pronounced.
I am not a graphical designer but have access to Adobe products.  Is there a specific feature that would help in this regard that I could research?


texts: PDF I open in Photoshop and save and PNG is not consistent

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I have a need to make a bunch of PDF's into high-quality PNG files.  I have done 14 so far, and for some reason there is a variance in a couple instances that is driving me nuts.

I open each PDF in Photoshop CS6 64-bit and save it for the web as a PNG.  Every time I use the exact same settings.  This is an example of most of the files outputting correctly:

Incidentally, the blue tinged background is because they are transparent and the system image previewer in windows has this bluish background.

Here is an example of one of the few that does not output correctly.

I have looked at everything I can think of to try to account for some difference, but I cannot figure it out.  Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.  Much thanks in advance!


texts: I'm trying to rotate the spokes of a motorcycle wheel that is also moving across the screen. ... I'm having a hard time keeping the orientation of the spokes aligned within the wheel as it is moving when I rotate it using transform tool in the timeline.  The motorcycle and each wheel are separate smart object layers.  So I selected all layers and set the beginning and ending keyframes to keep the spokes inline with the bike as it moved across.  Then went back and tried to rotate the spokes at measured intervals by moving the play head and setting keyframes but can't get a smooth rotation.  So then I tried to do it by moving and rotating the spokes at the same time as the bike,  but am not able to keep the spokes in line with the bike as it moves.   Any suggestions?


texts: Same font, different size on different platforms

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I received few PSDs from a designer who are using windows. The font is Open Sans, I already have it on my mac.

I opened the PSDs, and clicked in the text layer:

..after that I edited the text, and the font changed, it seems smaller (it's still opensans, but different)
 I downloaded the font from fontsquirrel.com. Do you know guys how to fix the issue?


texts: How do you decide line break and length of sentence in a creative or ad?

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I face this problem most of the time. I don't know what's right what's wrong because I have tried all of them. But I feel some options could be better than others or there's some other solution.

1 and 2 have 4 copy options. Difference is where you press enter. After the comma or comma moves to next line. Also, 1st line can be bigger and 2nd line can be smaller and vice versa. Most of the time I tend to keep them same length. But it doesn't always seem possible.
Same problem is with 3.
4 and 5 can also have same problems but I would like to discuss the alignment. One is aligned with comma and one with ending words. I've highlighted them in yellow. (same doubt arises about other similar characters).
So how do you decide line break, line lengths and alignments?
PS: Kindly don't judge the placements of circles. I just put them in hurry. The question is specifically about copies.


texts: Arranging numbers into a grid using the Split Text extension and the Arrange dialog in Inkscape

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I want to create a grid of numbers for a calendar like layout like this:

Steps to follow:

Writing the numbers 1-9 separated by spaces in a text object.
Extensions > Text > Split Text..., select Split by Words.
Object > Arrange... set 3 rows by 3 columns, left-top aligned, Set spacing.

It works in Inkscape 0.92 but it fails in the latest 1.0.1 inkscape like this:

Workaround
Of course, do this in the older Inkscape and copy paste the arranged grid into the latest version.
Question
How to get this working in 1.0.1?


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How do I make this:

Look like this:

The color picker; how do I make it a giant box rather than a thin rectangle?


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Probably is not a clear title question... But what I want is a one SO (rectangle shape) that is divided on 3 editable pieces. For example: I draw square,circle and triangle in the source container. Then, on my image I want to place those shapes in different places and transform each one independently.

I know it is possible to duplicate smart layer but how to "slice" or crop a part of copied layer?

Thanks.


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I want to rearrange the below text to read  "Split Screen" instead of "Screen Split".

How do I do that in Photoshop?


texts: Rainbow color changing GIF in photoshop?

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I want to make a rainbow color changing gif, where I can adjust the speed of the color changing and what color it changes to and etc.

Basically, as example, I want to turn this:

Into something like this:

How could I do this?

Let's say I want to keep the helmet with the same color too.

And also, how would you attach something to an animation, lets say attach shoes on the animation, thats my second question. So like to make a gif with it.

Basically my frame animations have a transparent background at the psd file, the one that I posted had a white background.

as you see

when I do all the steps you've told me the GIF gets a rainbow color animation, but the background will also have the rainbow color which I don't want, I just want the blue walking thing as a rainbow color changing thing and not the whole background.

Removing the white background, I don't think that will solve my problem then.


texts: How to get consistent vertical spacing between elements in InDesign?

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In InDesign, how can I have the same vertical spacing between certain elements throughout the document?

I have several pages with heading + table beneth. Some pages have several heading + tables and then I want to have X amount of space until the next headline + table. The space should be the same on all pages, so I don't want to just distribute evenly.

I could just use a box that takes up my space, and move that around...but I'm sure there is a smarter solution?


texts: Is it possible to snap a vertex of a shape to a specific point of a nurb curve?

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I almost get the feeling that no matter what I try to use curves for, it's not their intended use, so I can't do the thing.

Onto the question.

How do I snap 1 to 2?

Snapping to curves doesn't snap to the exact point on the curve, and snapping to points doesn't seem to notice them.


texts: Do you need a graphic design degree to work for a agency or company? I've researched many answers towards this question and what I found, it basically comes down to your portfolio. I don't want to do freelance and want to work for a company or agency. What are the steps? How can I be a successful graphic designer without a degree?


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So I have tried using JessyInk for slideshows and found it rather underwhelming, but I love the idea of being able to make slides in inkscape. I am a physicist who is making scientific presentations, so I want something relatively simple and conservative.

Currently my hacked together method involves making a separate inkscape file for each slide, I output to pdfs and then insert the slides into a presentation using LaTex's Beamer . This lets me leverage latex for simple mathy slides, and use Inkscape for more graphic ones.

My only stumbling block is doing transitions between slides. Currently I make a base slide, make a copy, add the next element, make another copy, add another element, and so on.

There must be a better way to do this. Any suggestions?


texts: Why can't laser printers always reproduce small isolated dots?

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I'm studying computer graphics, and it's mentioned that laser printers, differently from inkjet printers, can't reproduce very small isolated dots. But I couldn't find an explanation why.
The only understanding I have of how laser printers work is what is shown in the image below.

This is not an important part of what I'm studying, but I'm just curious. So a simple explanation would be enough.


texts: Exporting Photoshop Smart Object To Illustrator with Effects

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I'm creating a very simple logo with text and just one Smart Object leaf.

I want to create an .eps file so my client can print without any trouble.

The thing is, the Smart Object is a leaf that originated from a Photoshop Website template and it has 5 effects on it.

My question is this: How can I export the Smart Object from Photoshop to Illustrator without losing the vector data?

I know the long way is to basically recreate the Smart Object from scratch in Illustrator and just add in the text (which has nothing fancy on it), but I don't have enough billable time to work with to go that route. Is this even possible? I'm using Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. Thanks!


texts: I'm trying to select a single 1x1 cube to have it emit light (like a lamp), but I'm confused trying to figure out how to select it while in Render mode. I've tried selecting it while in Model, then switching to Render view and editing the material, but it winds up changing the wrong objects.


texts: Normalizing size of multiple paths while maintaining their aspect ratio in Illustrator

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I have quite a few irregular paths (approx. 200), each with a different bounding box. I want scale all of these to a similar size while maintaining their aspect ratio.

Before:

After:

Is it possible?


texts: Good monitors for graphic design / printwork ?

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I am working primarily in book graphic design: edit images, color profiles, do the layout of the book, prepare it for print etc. Sometimes I do logos, corporate identity packages etc. I do not do video editing, nor web design.

I am looking to buy a new monitor and would love to hear your opinions on what to buy. I'm looking at:

diagonal (doesn't need to be too big, ~24 is ok)
view angle, brightness and color acuity
price (I can't afford the more expensive ones, but I might find them refurbished, so respond anyway)


texts: Problem in Painting with selected Objects 3DS Max 2014

texts: Even if I pick objects like two different kind of trees, when I am ready to paint them on the landscape it does not paint them, instead it paints the landscape as long as I press the brush.  I tried picking the objects but still the problem remains.  The final result is painting the landscape with trees.


texts: Using Mask to trace transparent space inside Text

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I have a text which has transparent space in it. I wanted to trace that space in order to use it as a clipping mask for an image.

I selected the space using magic wand. I some how did something and converted the selection into a visible filled space in a new layer.

I'm not able to do it again because 'Apply Layer Mask' is disabled right now; I don't know why.

Could someone help me out how to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to Make my Editing Software Display Images at the Same Size as the Web?

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I bought a new high DPI Microsoft Surface with 216 DPI, and the images are too small on the screen! I need to upload screenshots that are 550 px. But while editing/resizing/cropping them in MSPaint, they look much smaller than they do in the browser. I can't read anything

Here's what a 640px wide image looks when I open it in my browser:

Here's what it looks like when I open it in MSPaint:

I want to see the same size in my image editing software that I see on the web. On my old laptop, this was fine.

And if I crop by inches in MSPaint, then 5.73 inches is no longer 550px as it was in my old laptop. How do I fix this?


texts: How to retrieve an image which is gone yet still present in the document?

texts: In my document I used images which are now gone (files were deleted) but yet they are still in my document. When packaging the document, InDesign says links are missing though. I don't understand this, if they're missing (I know they are) then how come they are displayed in the document? And what can I do if I don't remember where I found them initially?


texts: What kind of graphic employment is (in general) better paid?

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I will try to be as specific as possible.

I am a junior graphic designer (2.5 years of experience). I would like to ask more experienced colleagues - would you recommend working as a freelancer, or getting hired in a company (in terms of potential salary)?

I got a job offer from https://www.netguru.co/ - they pay well, cooperate with big clients - they seem to be a great company in terms of how I could develop my skills.

However, I wonder if I could earn more if I decided to invest more in portfolio, clients outreach and so on.

It is not a strict "graphic advice" question, but I thought many professionals are here so it is a great place to ask such thing as I am on the crossroads now.


texts: photoshop character panel clears when clicking somewhere else

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Hello when I click some text, the character panel fills with info like this:

But when I click into another window it clears out like this:

Is there a setting where if I click into another window, it keeps the information in the panel?

Thanks!


texts: Print Calendar Booklet Style, so I can staple correctly

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Trying to assemble this calendar:

To be clear, this is an illustration of a screenshot of a zoomed out version of what I see in InDesign. There are 28 pages. I go to "Print Booklet" select "2-up Saddle Stitch" with a range of "1,2,27,28", and when I then go to "Xerox Features" and select "2-Sided Print Flip on Short Edge" the program closes when I try to print... "2-Sided Print" gave me the right order on the front page, but the back page was flipped upside down. To be clear, when I say "flipped up side down" I dont' mean each of the two individual pages on the back, I mean if the two pages on the back were grouped and you rotated 180 degrees. Does that make sense?

Here is what I want in preview:


texts: Maximizing saturation while converting CMYK to RGB

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I have many designs prepared for print (CMYK), but now I need to present them on a projector. As projectors go, I know most of them have weak contrast, and many of my colors wouldn't be as accented as I would like them to be.

Therefore, I want to do some batch process on all the vector graphics (PDF) to increase saturation (into RGB color space). What would be the best way to do so?

The graphics share a color scheme, but not exactly identical.

(I'd prefer imagemagick solutions if there is one.)


texts: Illustrator CS5 converts all the missing fonts of an imported PDF into vectors, how do I substitute the fonts so I can edit the text?

texts: All the missing fonts of an imported PDF are converted into vectors in Illustrator CS5, how do I substitute the fonts so I can edit the text?


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If I have a simple shape like this one in Inkscape

how can I make one segment vertical or horizontal to get to this result?


texts: stretch whole Image to have inner section be a specific dimension

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I have an image. Below is a small representation of the real image's layout. The dimenstions of my image are 600px × 449px, and The dimensions for the inner secion of my image are 541px × 341px.

I want the dimensions for the inner section of my image to be 320px × 240px. I want to know how much I would have to shrink the whole image, both width and height (aspect ratio is not important) in order to make the inner section have the dimensions of 320px × 240px.
I would be grateful if you could tell me how to calculate this and/or calculate it yourself as well as tell me how much to shrink the width, and how much to shrink the height.


texts: Solutions for a comic production workflow?

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I am looking for suggestions on a convenient solution for the following workflow.

Scan a hand-drawn panel

Fix and retouch drawing errors (using a small set of simple brushes)

Separate elements into layers (using the Magic Wand or manual lasso tools)

Colorize elements (I can create the textures outside the app though, this is not a priority)

Add lettering - I currently do the letters by hand, and combine them with a hand-drawn box from a pre-arranged collection.

All this, of course, in very high resolution and with the end goal of printing.
A very nice bonus would be a well designed organizing solution for the isolated elements, like a library. Integrated versioning (with the possibility of creating quick snapshots of various stages) would be sweet, but it's totally not a requirement.
I am currently doing this with a bitmap editing program from the Corel range. It works well, but it wasn't designed for this kind of job and these kinds of bitmap sizes.
Products I'm considering:

An older version of Photoshop, like 6 or CS1 (a new one would break my budget)
Xara Designer which is promising integrated bitmap and vector editing - I'm planning to give this one a test run, it has a free trial

Products I have ruled out (but I'm open to changing my mind):

GIMP because it's  still weak on the print production side of things

Is there  any other professional software around that can help me with this? Does anybody know actual, high-quality applications specialized in comic production?
I'm on a tight budget, but I'm willing to spend some money.
I personally need a  Windows solution, but for the sake of making this a useful question to others, suggestions for all platforms are welcome.


texts: What's the technical term for unintentional image pixelation due to insufficient resolution?

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I'm writing to someone to say something along the lines of: "May I see that image in a higher resolution; there is some important text and/or finer details that are unintentionally pixelated/obscured due to..",    but it has to be eloquent, intelligent and in a formal, technical/academic style.

I think I lack the appropriate lexicon for this specialized field (graphics, imaging, etc).

Particularly the part about how a bitmapped or raster image pixelates or distorts due to insufficient resolution or (relatively) supersufficient digital-zoom ratio. Is there some specific terminology for this condition or occurance?

When dealing with traditional, analog-style optics (i.e. light microscopy), there's a comparable phenomenon, referred to by engineers & physicists as the diffraction limit.


texts: Former client is demanding files they lost

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I provided all intellectual property files to a former client as each project I worked on for them was completed. All files were delivered and payments were made for my work over 16 months ago. This client has now misplaced all of these files and is threatening me with legal action if I do not resend them all of these files. If I need to access these extensive files from my archives and resend them to this former client in their entirety I feel this client should have to pay me for my time to do so. Is this true?

There was no contract, it was piece work after my original retainer that was completed 5 years ago. However, now they want me to spend hours sending them documents they were delivered over a five year period free of charge that they have mistakenly misplaced or deleted. I am based in CA. Client is in Washington DC. I have not worked with this client in a year and a half.


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What programmes do I need to create an email newsletter that can contain hyperlinks, artwork, video or links to video etc . For a long time I've been making our charities' newsletter /posters in PS / AI and sending them either as an attachment or inline in email.

But now we have more activity with social media/youtube I'd like to be able to create eye catching emails with clear links to youtube , without simply pasting an ugly link !

I've seen quite a few websites that offer a template type platform for emails like this but Ideally Id like to learn how to create it from scratch etc ... but if this involves lots of code then perhaps i should try a template

Any suggestions?


texts: Photoshop Actions: How can I add styles (fx) to layer without clearing current styles?

texts: I'm trying to record a Photoshop action that applies a layer style (say drop shadow). When I run this action, all other effects gets removed and only currently applied (drop shadow) remains. How can I achieve this without removing the existing styles?


texts: How do I wrap text around a ball in Gimp?

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I have a picture of a ball which is rounded as usually balls are, and I'd like to create quickly some text and place it on the ball.

The result should create a feeling that there is really a label on the ball which copies a surface of the ball. The ball on the picture is not a good example. The text should create a little 3D effect. Another example is tea pot or glass where you can place a label.

I don't want to create a text from an image because it would be slow process, I would prefer the text tool or similar quick way of creating text, because I need to append text to many similar images.


texts: How to create a button in Adobe Flash CC that reverses to its original state

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I have a button that plays an animation as soon as the mouse goes over it, and I want to know how can I have the animation play in reverse (back to its original state) as soon as the mouse goes off it?

My method for the button is;
I made a movie clip symbol and inside it i have a button symbol with another movie clip (With the animation) as the over state.

Still learning flash and I'm fairly new to it, so my method might be wrong.


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Scribus lets you crop images easily by choosing "properties" > "image" > "free scaling". After cropping, you can even move the image around inside the frame by double clicking on the image and then dragging it. I love this functionality. Very useful. BUT after I've done this, I want to enlarge the image and the frame easily.

The best thing I've come up with is: open transform dialog to enter an exact scaling amount and scale the image frame, then do some math and appropriately scale the image by the same proportion, then re-position the image within the frame.

I'd love to find a quicker way to do this. Very cumbersome at the moment.

Note that I'm not looking for the "Scale image to frame" functionality because that doesn't let me crop the image within Scribus. Also note that I don't want to crop the source image because I want to be able to re-adjust it later if necessary.


texts: Does this poster convey femininity and multiculturalism?

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This poster I made for our multicultural womens evening. It should represent femininity, multi-cultural and be an eye-catcher to get many women to our event.

I know the colors are commonly used for multi-cultural identity, but it does not matter, because the most important that it is seen and recognized!

And please let me know if I have made some bad mistakes on the design.

Edit:

Thanks so much, here a edited version:

I'll answer in the comments!


texts: Weird color distortion when using an effect on top of an image in InDesign

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In Adobe InDesign, I have placed a pink image that I brought in from Photoshop. The below screenshot is how the pink looks like in Mac Preview (I'm on Mountain Lion).

I wanted to add some lines to that background, so I whipped something up in Illustrator. The result was as I expected:

But then I decided to turn down the opacity of the stripes. All of a sudden, the exported PDF has a much darker and subdued pink background:

I then removed the transparency effect, and the bright pink came right back. I later found that if I applied any effect to an element on top of my pink background, the pink changes from "bright pink" to "dark pink". Why is this the case? I don't know if this is related, but in InDesign, the pink is dark as well. When I export it as a PDF, however, the bright pink comes back (and looks the same as in the PSD file).

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!


texts: graphics software recommendation for 3D/2D engineering diagrams

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I am looking for GUI based software that allows me to draw shapes as the following in a book

These are from chapter 2 of book by McGraw Hill Education. Called Heat and mass transfer. ISBN 978-0073398129

I tried contacting McGraw Hill asking what software they use to make such diagrams in their books but did not get answer.

I looking for software to draw such shapes. It needs to be GUI based (no programming).  I saw a tag here for software recommendation so thought to ask, may be someone here can recognize what software could have made these or recommend something similar.


texts: How to create perspective images from one that's flat in Photoshop

texts: I'm looking to create something like the image above. Essentially I want to take a flat image and change the angle and add some DOF. Anyone know how to do this in photoshop?


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I have a single layer, full RGB color image than I am trying to locate and isolate areas of interest in the "Blue" color range as shown below. (In this case, a missing persons search from aerial photos, based on the color range of known clothing when last seen)

I am trying to utilize the "Select color range" menu item, but I am getting a fairly common message about

  no pixels more than 50% selected.....

However, as shown below, when I do the color range selection to blue, the preview window clearly shows that PS sees the blue range. Yet, I am unable to make it a selection. While I understand i may not see the marching ants, even if I try the selection, modify-expand 40 px, invert, delete.... just toying with isolating areas, there is never a selection.

Either I simply don't understand the tool and/or I'm approaching this problem from the wrong aspect. I'm looking for help on how to fix this or a different approach to the problem.


texts: Is it usual for the designer not to hand over the Adobe files used to create projects?

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I am about to hire a Graphic Designer to help my Web-design company. Besides for designing websites, she will be making Logos and Advertisments. Now, she tells me that it is standard practice for her to retian the Adobe files used to create images and photos.  She is happy that I should own the finished jpgs and such but she is reluctant to give me the Adobe files to play with myself.

This bothers me because sometimes for web design I want to change something myself and that wont be possible because I wont have access to the Adobe psd's etc.

Secondly, will my clients not expect to get the Adobe files along with the Logo and Ad?

What is the standard practice with this thing?


texts: InDesign doesn't respect new lines when importing

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I'm using InDesign CC 2015 to design my book to print it but when I import a chapter, from any format(be it .docx or .txt) it doesn't respect new lines.

My problem is this:
I add this file

And it imports it this way

Anyone has experience with a similar problem? I don't know how to fix it.


texts: How can I select a "section" of a path in Photoshop CS5?

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I am creating a series of trees in Photoshop, using paths. My plan is to complete the first tree, and then edit the same path for the other trees. I have already created 2 trees in this manner, but modifying the path is extremely tedious, mainly because there is no undo button for selections.

I am looking for a way to select "an entire branch" of the tree using only one selection. For example, if I have a path like this:

x----x----x----x

then I would like to select the first point and the last point, press some magical button, and have it select all the points in between.

Is this possible?


texts: InDesign: Threaded text with different master pages

texts: I have two master pages, "2-col Master" and "4-col Master". I start out with a 4-col page and insert text. InDesign will insert the remaining pages (each with 4-cols) until the text is complete. How do I apply the "2-col Master" to certain pages?


texts: What kind of files, graphics, and information would be in an "identity starter kit?"

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I am a first year design student, and my uncle informally asked me to create a logo for him. He is working with a woman who helps people grow their business by getting them on social media and building them websites.

So I sent her the logo, but it turns out that she was really looking for me to create an identity for him. She says that she isn't a graphic designer, and asked "What do you suggest as a basic starter kit for him?"

Since I have no experience with this, I have no idea what should be included in an "identity folder," as she called it. Could anyone help me out? What kind of graphics, information, etc. should I be sending her, and what kinds of files? A very detailed answer would be highly appreciated... I don't know what I'm doing!


texts: In Illustrator, how do you branch off from an existing line with the pen tool?

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I am just starting to try graphic design. I created a shape, and want to make a new line branching off from a point on that shape. I noticed the + sign next to the pen icon and it creates a new anchor, but how do you make a line from that new point? It just keeps on making a new point when I try to click away from it.

Thanks


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1. Summary

I couldn't find any free tool, that correctly automatically remove spots from my books.

2. Data

Example page of my real book:

KiraDespeckle.tif

I want to delete these spots:

How I can automatically do it? Irrelevant, for images or PDF.

3. Background

I have bad-quality third-party scanned books in DjVu or PDF formats. Example page:

KiraOriginal.djvu

I processed books in ScanTailor Advanced → I set to the maximum Despeckling setting:

But in the output I however got spots for many books pages.

4. Do not offer

Non-free tools
Yes, I can manually remove these spots use tools as GIMP Bucket Fill. But the manual spots removing takes a lot of time for big books.

5. Not helped

5.1. Scan handlers

ScanTailor Advanced aggressive despeckle
ScanKromsator Despeckle option

5.2. Image editors

5.2.1. Not supported

ImageJ:

  ImageJ cannot open TIFF files compressed in this fashion (4)

5.2.1. No effect

ImageMagick -despeckle option — magick KiraDespeckle.tif -despeckle KiraMagick.tif
GraphicsMagick -despeckle option — gm convert KiraDespeckle.tif -despeckle KiraGraphicsMagick.tif
XnViewMP Filter → Reduce noise

5.3. PDF editors

I couldn't find, how I can get expected behavior, use these tools (free versions):

PDF-XChange Editor
PDFill
LibreOffice Draw
Icecream PDF Editor


texts: Seeking advice when working with SVG filters - more specifically multiply

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I have a reference image of the effect that I am trying to achieve using SVG.

In Photoshop the effect can be achieved by using 100% opacity with the blending mode set to 'multiply'

The colors have hex values of:

red: #EA312F, blue: #3A5BA6 and overlapping area: #35111F

I have tried a number of approaches using SVG filters to achieve a similar effect but am struggling to understand how the blending modes calculate the values.

Original Photoshop bitmap
SVG using only shapes no filters
SVG using multiply filter on vertical bar
SVG using multiply filter and opacity on vertical bar

You can see the SVG code for each of these in this JSBin http://jsbin.com/iPePuvoD/1/edit

I'm really struggling to understand the best approach to match the blue of the vertical bar and the color of the overlapping area.

Each of these shapes i'd also like to animate using a library such as http://snapsvg.io/, so i'm hoping to rely purely on filters, rather than cropping or other operations to achieve the desired results - but am open to suggestions.

Effectively, the SVG for the final attempt (4.) is this:

<svg viewBox="0 0 96 146" version="1.1" id="f-multiply-opacity" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet">
  <defs>
    <filter id="f_multiply" filterUnits="objectBoundingBox" x="0%" y="0%" width="100%" height="100%">
      <feBlend in="SourceGraphic" mode="multiply"/>
      <feBlend in="SourceGraphic" mode="multiply"/>
    </filter>
  </defs>
  <g id="f_shape">
    <rect x="0" y="0" width="96" height="32" fill="#EA312F" />
    <rect x="0" y="50" width="96" height="32" fill="#EA312F" />
    <rect x="0" y="50" width="32" height="96" opacity="0.8" fill="#3A5BA6" filter="url(#f_multiply)" />
  </g>
</svg>

Would much appreciate some advice on this, I have found some good resources on SVG, but this area still seems quite difficult to get good information on.

Thanks!


texts: How to decide what type of paper to use for a flyer to hand out at a tradeshow?

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I'm printing a tradeshow flyer and was wondering what type of paper I should print it on. I don't want anything glossy so I'm trying to decide on the following:

100# text weight matte
80# cover
80# matte

What is the difference between the types above? And how can I make a decision?


texts: Manipulating standard stock photos for ebook cover

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I have decided to self-publish some short stories I wrote years ago.

I understand the importance of a good cover. I have known for years that "Don't judge a book by its cover" does not work in the real world.

I don't have a big budget but I have access to stock photos. I have some skills in manipulating them to look different from the original (including using layers).

I am wondering how good are stock photos as book covers?


texts: Adobe Illustrator 'Align to Pixel Grid' Problems

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I'm using Adobe Illustrator to produce the UI designs for a complex web app and I need pixel accuracy. However, Illustrator seems to be a bit of a pain when it comes to pixel accuracy as its not doing what I want it to do right now, and so I'm looking for some assistance.

To break it down into an example, I have simple rectangular shaped button on my dartboard consisting of a rectangle shape with a fill and 1px stroke, then some text and an icon on top. However, the stroke lines are sometimes appearing too thick perhaps the left or right hand edge; when zoomed in, there seems to be another pixel worth added to one side with a lighter shade of the stroke colour. Please note that the stroke is on the inside and not centered.

Switching on Align To Pixel Grid seems to resolve this SOMETIMES, but its erratic. But what annoys me the most is that when this is switched on, the appearance looks correct, but the shape's transform guides are out of line with the actual pixels, and so when I move the object it around, it's always a pixel off. This is really frustrating when I'm trying to align all my objects and turning my UI into a mess!

Is there any advice anyone can offer to resolve this and make my workflow a little less stressful?

Thanks!


texts: Hi there. I really want to remove the parts of these circles marked by the yellow circles, but I've had a lot of difficulty doing so. Can anyone help.


texts: The description and interpretations of TrueType font points and curves

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A question was asked recently on another forum that made me rethink my understanding of vector formats. TrueType fonts are in a vector format and - I had previously thought - that if a vector editor was to present them for editing, it would present only the points described in the original font shape and, if there are curves, present appropriate handles at only those points.

I don't see how one software package (Glyphs) can interpret a in Arial as 20 points and another (Illustrator) interpret it as 37 points when converted to outlines or expanded. I don't have Glyphs to hand but can confirm that Illustrator did present 37 points when trying myself. The original poster provided illustrations of both outcomes as follows:

The a from Arial in Glyphs:

The word arial in the same font in Illustrator (focus on the points in the letter a vs the same in Glyphs):

I understand the basic concept of vector image files; that the data is a series of coordinates for points and other information mathematically detailing the amount of curve (or lack of) between points. What I don't understand is two things:

Is the data in a TrueType font not described in such a way that it
can be very literally translated into an editable shape in
Illustrator when outlined? Why has Illustrator added additional points? Or is the TrueType format not described using points at all (I don't see how)?
Glyphs appears to demonstrate that it's possible to describe certain curves in a limited amount of points. Why would a highly reputed
piece of software like Illustrator need more points to describe
the same curve? I would see this as a poor translation and I imagine
most users would expect this too. This overlaps with question one a
little so perhaps a single answer covers both.


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I'm looking for the common names of the four basic control states (for desktop interfaces):

Control is in its default state;
Cursor is hovering above the control;
Control is being pressed;
Control is being held down, but the cursor is outside its pressing zone

So far I could come up with the following names:

default;
under cursor;
pressed under cursor;
pressed

But I don't think those are very good. Shorter and more intuitive names would look much better in code. Perhaps there are common names for each of these states?


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It's been a few years since I've visited this topic, one which has been one of Apples biggest issues since OS9.

Font management. I have been using Font Explorer however I've never been very impressed as it crashes a lot and my font database has corrupted a few times which is infuriating.

Can anyone suggest their favourites and why?

Thanks very much indeed.


texts: How can I turn partially selected areas into fully selected areas in Gimp?

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In Gimp, I have one large selection that resulted from attaching multiple smaller selections to each other. Unfortunately, some of these selections were mistakenly created with feathering applied, causing slivers of partially selected areas that I want to get rid of now.

I confirmed this by opening the Selection Editor, which shows fully selected areas in white, unselected areas in black, and partially selected areas in a shade of grey. Is there any way I can apply a threshold function of sorts to turn all these greys into white?


texts: What are good small icons for "Distribute objects"?

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I'm working on a graphic editor where objects on a screen can be positioned. The common cases are covered: align left, align center, move forward/backward layers, etc.

One way of positioning them that I haven't got an icon for is distribute, which will be three buttons each with an icon, like this:

 (H, E, and V are placeholders for the icons I don't yet have.)

One for "Distribute Horizontally", which distributes the selected objects so that their x centers are of equal x distance
One for "Distribute Vertically", which distributes the selected objects so that their y centers are of equal y distance
One for "Distribute Evenly", which distributes the selected objects so that their (x, y) centers are of equal x and y distance

Below is my initial idea for the first, "Distribute horizontally", where the objects are given equal horizontal distance:

But this kind of icon (nevermind this specific icon) doesn't look good at the target size of 16px; you lose the implied behavior and it just becomes three rectangles connected by bars at the top:

Additionally, I cannot find any icon at all for "Distribute evenly", where the horizontal and vertical centers are distributed simultaneously. Is there a good/established free set of icons that represent these three actions?


texts: Looking for a font which has a similar A bar height and R counter height

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I am trying to make a sans (perhabs slab) serif version of the upper part of the emblem below, which is a join of letters A and R:

Can anyone recommend a font suitable for this? With a similar height of A-bar and finish of R counter, while also the letter A would need to have a little more rounded (prolonged) stroke instead of a diagonal one.


texts: How do I stroke a circle path with an arrow brush?

texts: I need to draw a cirlce and stroke it with an arrow style brush.  I want to arrows to rotate along with the circle and not all stay the same direction.  Can I do this in photoshop?


texts: iOS UI design - what dimension size Sketch file to give to developer?

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Assuming an iOS app has been designed for iphone 4,5,6,6+ and iPad, what is the ideal dimension Sketch file to give to a developer? This is also assuming there are no major layout changes in the actual design.

I'm basically just wanting to avoid having to create a separate version for each resolution. Is it fair to just give 1 canvas size of the app and have the developer do the rest? I've been told by a previous colleague to just give 640x1136 and let him do the rest, but would like some other opinions.


texts: Is Blinn material from rendering ribbon implemented only in spherical objects and not to objects like prism,cubes etc ?


texts: Inkscape: Divide Closed Path in Arbitraty Fractions / Segments

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I have a closed path that is taken from here (Wikipedia). It's the race track of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race (also known as " Circuit de la Sarthe").

  I am new to Inkscape and co.

The Basic Problem

I want to indicate the "progress of the race" on a percentage basis by coloring a specific fraction of the path like in the following illustrations (the text is there to make it clear, I don't want the text in the final image).

Why do I want this?

The background is, that I want to use this as a kind of progress bar in a PowerPoint presentation (instead of the common"slide 4/23").

What would be the ideal outcome?

Ideally, there is a batch function that exports 0 to 100 percent in a 1 percent step, like 0.pdf | 1.pdf | 2.pdf | ... | 99.pdf | 100.pdf (pdf or PNG).

Related Question(s)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15365473 (may be related)

Update - LaTeX solution

I am more active on the LaTeX version of stackexchange - inspired by the solution here I figured out an alternative approach (using a custom dashed pattern):

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/347336


texts: Not completely horizontal lines in Illustrator

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I made horizontal-supposed lines using line tool and holding Shift key. But it seems like my lines are not completely horizontal. I am attaching the capture of what I see.

This becomes more obvious when I zoom in.


texts: New generation of Add New icon that has no "+" (Plus) sign

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could anyone suggest me a new way to represent the icon "Add New" without using any form of plus symbol.

For example, say Add New Quiz. How could I represent this as an icon without using any form of  "+" (plus) symbol - http://bit.ly/JHSa4X
or
"shopping cart" symbol - http://bit.ly/JLWzTC

Ideas/Mockups/Rough sketches greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance :)


texts: How to create & save a .gif without dithering with MS Paint?

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I tend to use Photoshop, but for my engineering course I do want to use something as simple as MS Paint.

I literally need to do this:

Create a square with whatever color outline
Fill the square with another color
Draw some shapes inside with yet another color
Save the image as a .gif (must be a .gif)

But when I do it, the whole image is dithered. Which completely kills my program. If I filled my shape with a solid color, it turns into a sea of completely different pixels (similar to the color, but I need it to be exact).

I understand that .gif lowers the quality by having to use a much more limited set of colors, which is perfectly good for me - I don't mind having my image's colors slightly changed to match the .gif limits. But I don't want it to dither.

If I truly can't achieve this with MS Paint (which I doubt), what other simple solutions have you got?

I heard something about converting it to a 256-colors bitmap and then transform it to a .gif. I don't think I understood well the instructions: what I did was draw my image, save as a 256-colors .bmp (which converted my colors, which is alright for me), but as soon as I saved it to .gif, the colors dithered.


texts: Photoshop colour picker with only colours within the printable gamut?

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Something bemusing me: I've been using photoshop for ten years now (admittedly much more in RGB than CMYK), and today a brand new never-before-seen problem presented itself to me.

I'm working in CMYK, grabbing colours from the colour picker, but I can't get a bright enough green for my liking. It turns out the document keeps "correcting" my bright, popping greens into these sludge-toned filth-swatches in the name of keeping within the printable gamut.

I have no qualms with respecting the limits of an ink cartridge's capabilities, but is there a way to tell colour picker to only show me the options I have? Frankly, I thought that's what part of working in CMYK was for. Now I'm having to randomly choose shades of green hoping the printable gamut won't have beef with them. So far no luck.

Any help appreciated. I'm using CC 2015.


texts: How to create editable tables in Adobe Illustrator?

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Is there any way to create editable tables using Adobe illustrator ? I would like to populate the table rows and columns with data from an excel sheet.

Things I have done so far :

Created a text document from the excel sheet and imported it in illustrator.
Formated the text in to rows and columns using spaces.
Created a custom table illustration using rectangle tool in the background.

Limitations :

Couldn't achieve required table cell spacing as the tab spacing increment by 8 spaces.
Couldn't edit individual columns.
Too much effort is need for large table datas with too many columns and rows.


texts: What font could I (semi) accurately substitute for L'Oréal's?

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I'm looking for a font that resembles the typical "L'oréal" font:

Some recommendations I've found that seem to resemble the font are:

ITC Blair from ITC, and
Trade Gothic Extended, from Adobe.

Unfortunately ITC Blair is £320 (admittedly for 12 fonts), and Trade Gothic Extended is £30. The first is far out of my budget for the use-case and the latter is more than I'd like to have to pay for the project itself.

The purpose is to take a fun, but unflattering, picture of a group of us and reproduce the "we're worth it" connotations as a Christmas card for those three of us in the group.

This will be put together using Gimp (on Ubuntu 18.04), and the recommended font would, ideally, be available for either low-cost (limited personal use) or free.


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I am following instructions from a class, but the instructions seem to be very outdated. The instructions call to select the top point, and alt-drag that point to create branching "fingers". When I select the top point and alt-drag, the entire shape is copied. What am I doing wrong and how do I do this now?

My problem:

Instructions:


texts: Floating Windows and toolbars on top in Photoshop

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I really like to work with floating windows in Photoshop. Especially with compositions it makes it really easy for me to quickly copy paste from different textures on a visual way (instead of trying to remember if I need to open tab metal_2834fj.jpg or metal_238p_.jpg or Untitled1 etc.

Is there a way though to have the toolbars always on top?

Right now floating documents might be partial hiding essential interface elements. It's workable, but quite annoying still.

I tried to explain myself a bit better in the image below.


texts: Practice Assignment for Clone tool in Photoshop

texts: I have been looking around on Google for practice photos for the clone tool, but haven't found any good so far. The thing is that I am taking a paid course for Photoshop, and I have missed a couple of classes and now my instructor is angry at me for not being fluent with the clone tool. I'm new, so any kind of help is hugely appreciated!


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I have a series of images taken under a microscope. As the field of view isn't big enough I would like to merge all the pictures together.
I've tried with "Photo merge" under Photoshop but the result is ridiculously bad.
Any method to do this?


texts: Should I care about diacritic collisions?

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When designing a typeface, how should I treat diacritics that would collide with adjacent glyphs—including other diacritics?

You can see in this example that there are a lot of collisions:

That is an extreme example that is never going to happen in normal text and I assume accent collisions are the exception rather than the norm, but since I don't speak and am not familiar with most languages that make use of diacritics I'm not sure.

I can see a few options to dealing with these collisions:

Adjust glyph metrics to accommodate diacritical marks. This would solve the problem of collisions but unnecessarily affect the metrics even in (most) cases where it isn't needed.
Manually kern the problem character pairs. Manually kerning all possible collisions is going to be a long process for what—in most cases—are going to be edge cases at best.
Create ligatures for commonly occurring collisions. This sounds like a good idea for the most common occurrences, but I have no idea which pairs even occur in normal text at all, never mind commonly.
Forget about it... If these collisions aren't common in normal text, maybe it's a waste of time trying to accommodate for them.

Should I care about these collisions? If so, how should I deal with them?

Is there a list of commonly occurring collision pairs I can refer to? This would help me kern only pairs that are actually going to occur.


texts: Illustrator gradients along (not following) a shape/curve?

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How could I add gradients along an object/path (not following the path, but using it as a base, like inner glow) ?

Sample:


texts: Xerox solid ink - a good all rounder or has limited use?

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I want to move over to a Xerox solid Ink printer but have concerns about its suitability for some applications.

For example will the solid ink repel adhesives (e.g. window stickers) or crack with too much handling/movement (e.g. kids stickers)?

Would appreciate any feedback and also recommendations for specialised  adhesives/papers/sticker.


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How do I find out what the high level differences are between two partially different PSDs?

I can diff them as binary/text files, but I would prefer something like

added layer x
moved item y two pixels
changed color from a to b

or some graphic diff showing what is different in the different layers.

Or is there some way that I can export as PNGs or print each layer to PDF or similar? Then I would manage to diff those files.


texts: How to Draw with the pen tool a shape with ended lines inside? [Affinity Designer]

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I want to draw for example a hand of a 50's cartoon. I know how to do a closed shape with the pen (in Affinity Designer):

The problem is when i want to put the lines of the fingers, Is there a way of do it with the same object?

Currently i am doing it putting another curve for every finger, but maybe there is a way to do it in the main shape of the hand.


texts: Trying to figure out how to load the swatch pictured in the below image in Inkscape:


texts: Components of a site that might cause imitation concerns

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I'm new to the web design and web comic fields.

I'm a huge fan of The Oatmeal, and thought his tile layout was a good way to share the most amount of comics for given real estate.

So, following the "Power Grid" pattern from this site (the last option), http://designshack.net/articles/layouts/10-rock-solid-website-layout-examples/, and drawing from elements of my favorite comics, TheOatmeal.com, XKCD, etc... I created my comics site: Hitting Trees with Sticks.com

I recently received a complaint from an avid The Oatmeal fan claiming I've "totally ripped off and imitated The Oatmeal"... I asked the author, Matthew Inman, what he thought... and he said my site design and subject matter were quite similar...

While I'll agree the tile layout I currently have is like his... I think it's also a standard/generic enough template...

That being said, here are my questions:

1) Are the designs too similar?

The Oatmeal.com:

My website:

2) If so, what are some of the guidelines/rules of thumb on designing a website based on templates that are used by other comic artists? Do you think I should change mine? I mean, it seems like so many comics use the same "click-to-get-next-comic style... and I like The Power Grid/The Oatmeal's style... I feel there aren't many other ways for me to display the latest comics and most popular comics for the user to see... is that wrong?

Thanks!


texts: I want to use an image of Misty Copeland from the internet for my small magazine booklet that I've been working on for my class project. My concern is that would it be an issue in the future for applying for a job because I am planning to add this to my portfolio.


texts: Create equirectangular/sphere projection map

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I have what is apparently called an equirectangular projection of the world. I can use the 3D functionality of Photoshop to use this as a texture for a globe, by creating a sphere mesh; or I can use "CC Sphere" in After Effects etc. This is great.

I now want to attach (flat) objects to the surface of that sphere (imagine some sort of sticker, an image frame, or text. Clearly, I cannot just add them to the original 2d-projection of the earth. They need to fit the projection. This is very effectually visualized here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=6954169&postcount=8

I have no idea how to approach this, or what tools to even use. I figure it might be necessary to design this in 3D to begin with, and then export it to a texture. Any ideas?


texts: When designing a latin-based typeface, how are diacritics handled?

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I was looking into designing a font that could include characters with diacritics but outside of knowing any other language besides English I was unsure if there was a reference or method designers use when designing characters that include diacritics.

For those English only members that do not know what a Diacritic is:

  a sign, such as an accent or cedilla, which when written above or
  below a letter indicates a difference in pronunciation from the same
  letter when unmarked or differently marked.

Since the modification of a diacritic can mean another meaning for the character is there a tolerance allowed or does that come down to having to know how to write that language?  Are there some languages that do not allow any alteration to the diacritic?  Do charts exist for some language characters?


texts: GIMP (2.10) - Sections of Scaled Image Invisible

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I'm working on a project in GIMP and am currently attempting to scale up a PNG that I've pasted onto the project. When I scaled up the image using the Scale Tool, it worked, but for some reason nothing that is outside the original bounds of the image is displayed.
For example, scaling up something that was 600x800 pixels to 1200x1600 works but the sections of that 1200x1600 image outside the original 600x800 area are completely invisible and do not display. Help would be appreciated on this issue.
Thank you.


texts: How do you select all members of a group in Inkscape?

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How do you select all members of a group in Inkscape without doing this manually?

I have a large and detailed SVG file where manually selecting each member of a group is not practical...

Shortcuts like select all do not enter the groups. The sub menu that appears upon right click on a group shows no selection options.

Also ungroup is not practical due to the lack of a regroup feature in Inkscape.

Best case scenario - an option like select all including group items is a thing...


texts: Is there a standard size(width) for email newsletter design or something like a christmas e-card?

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I have to design this e-mail newsletters.

Some with just simple holiday cards and some more complex with offers and other stuff(images, text content etc. etc...)
I am wondering if there is a safe standard width to work at ?

Thanks


texts: Replacing multiple objects with other objects in Illustrator

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I am working in Illustrator CS5. I want to select 100 objects (circles) and replace each of them with a 100 other various objects, each circle being replaced by one of the various objects, keeping the size of the originally selected circle. So in steps:

Select 100 objects (ex. circles)
Choose which objects to replace them with
New objects takes place and size of selected circles

Each selected circle becomes one of the newly selected objects.

How to do this in Illustrator?


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I need to "rotate" colors depending on a certain dependency, how do I calculate this?

I'm using no program, just working with a bitmap in C#

For example:

Every pixel, which is R:193,G:0,B:0 has to become R:0,G60,B:90

Now every other color needs to be switched in relation.

193/0/0 has a neighbor pixel with 205/48/48, what I'm searching is the relative neighbor pixel of 0/60/90

Is there a way to calculate this, without getting values above 255 and beneath 0?


texts: How to remove a white polygon that is fading into a complex background in Photoshop?

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In this picture, showing the bottom left part of door (please ignore the black area), I need to remove the white shape. I am attaching the picture before, and the picture after.
The picture after is my attempt at removing the white shape, but the quality is not good at all. The colors aren't right, the door frame fades into a blur, and in general I've added way too much blur to try and hide the problems.

I have used patch and healing tools, various brushes in lighten / darken mode, etc...

What would be the right way to remove this white shape ?


texts: By default when sampling colors in Photoshop with the eyedropper the color selected shows up as the foreground color, currently when i try sampling a color it sets it as the background color -how can i fix this error? (any clues how this change occurred?)


texts: How to make text fit to area text box in Illustrator CC

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I am using variables in Illustrator CC.

As the text comes into my design, I want the font size to change to make the text fit, without the size of the text area box changing.

So, a short word that comes from the variable might have a font size of 14, but a long word that comes in to the same box from the variable would have a font size of 8. Whatever font size lets the word fit in the text box.

Thank you


texts: Adobe Fireworks and iPhone app prototyping

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I had a look at Adobe Fireworks used in combination with "Dreamweaver" to upload a .html prototype on an internal server. It seemed to work pretty well. Plus is well integrated with the Adobe suite that allows to create new images quickly using Photoshop and Illustrator.

There are tons of other rapid prototyping software but the use of the Adobe suite seems predominant in AAA companies.

Which other advantages and features does it have that other (e.g. http://uxpin.com/) software don't have? Is there any other tool that has more features or advantages compared to the Adobe suite?


texts: Sketch - How to "update" multiple text styles at once?

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I am managing a design system and I have multiple text styles that I would like to change at once (let's say I need to change their color and make them all red), how can I "update" all of them in one go?

I would like to make sure I can change the text styles consistently without having to select them one by one and then "update" the base style from the property panel for all of them.


texts: Cutting multiple lines/curves with a closed path in inkscape

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Let's take a bunch of lines, like in (A)
(We could have bezier curves, either. Let's say: open paths)

Let's take then a circle (or another closed path), like (B)

Let's put the each above/below the other(s) like (C)

Is there in Inkscape a (quick) way to get (D) or (E) NOT just as the result of a CLIPPING MASK, but as a set of inscribed(D)/outscribed(E) paths?

I mean: paths beginning/ending where the circle happened to "trim" the rest.

Thank You


texts: Is there a term for 'reference-marker symbols'?

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While this is loosely graphic-design related, when doing design for some kind of annotations, one have to work with symbols used as 'reference markers', such as 1 in foo 1. When you need to discuss the decisions regarding these, you may want to use a distinctive word.

But how are, or should, these be called? These are usually numbers, however, this won't make them different from exponents; and saying 'numbers' is not very distinctive when the content body is dealing with or using numbers, too. They could be referred as numbers in the upper index or superscript, however, they not essentially need to be a superscript (especially if you try to experiment with something new in your design). In some cases 'reference markers' as numbers can also be a bad idea, eg. annotating a math text.

How should these be called? Numbers? Numbers in the superscript? Reference-mark symbols? Annotation symbols? Is there a term for these?


texts: Images not displaying properly in Firefox

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I am having an issue with Firefox rendering a few of the .png's that I have loaded into a Wordpress blog that I am preparing for a client. The images look fine in IE 8 & 9, and chrome, but it looks very off in Mozilla. I was informed by our other UX guy that Firefox complies with embedded color profiles that may warp the tint of your image. You can view the tint shift by going to :

http://blog.hendrickspower.com

If anybody has any idea of how to over ride the color profile, I'd definitely appreciate the heads up!

Thanks


texts: Numbers and Sections Options altering layout upon changing page number

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I am trying to add page numbers to a glossary I am making. While i am getting the page numbers to appear. I now am trying to make it so the page numbering will start on page 2, rather than the cover page, and will start with the number 1. But each time I try to do it, the layout gets rearranged like so-

If I try to move the pages, it only allows me to arrange them like this.

What am I doing wrong? I used this video for help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg7DtSQECOk but still, no luck.


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Is there an easy way in photoshop to draw the white letters in the blue letters like below?

At first thought I thought it was a new layer with the letters made smaller, but it is not the way to do it. It seems like every white pixel is more or less at the same distance of the outer blue pixels.


texts: How to make plot marker sizes for scientific plots seem consistent?

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It is common to use different shapes like circle, square, triangle, diamond, star, pentagon and hexagon for representing different datasets on scientific plots. These shapes can be further complicated to allow distinguishing even more datasets on one plot. Here is a subset of such shapes built-in in industry-standard scientific plotting software Origin:

The shapes on the plots produced by Origin are easy distinguishable and look almost equal in sizes. My question is: how is this effect achieved?

My first thought was that the shapes look equal in sizes if their bounding boxes have identical sizes. But I quickly realized that it is not true. Moreover, the bounding boxes cannot be used as a basis for creation of such shapes because for some shapes the center of the bounding box does not coincide with the center of the shape:

My second thought was that the shapes look equal in sizes if they have equal areas. The areas of the shapes on the above figure are:

{4, π, 2, 1.29904, 1.12257}

Let us scale the shapes so that all the areas become equal to the area of the disk:

It is hard to believe but all these figures have equal areas! Apparently they do not look equal in size.

After first attempts to find the principle by myself I decided to check how the problem is solved in Origin. So I created a scatter plot with basic shapes in Origin, exported it to PDF and then imported in Mathematica 10. Then I calculated areas of the shapes and got the following table (all the areas are given relative to the area of the disk):

shape         area
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square        0.957802
disk          1
diamond       1.03429
triangle      0.782499
star          0.489003
hexagon       1.01036
pentagon      1.03624

First of all we see that the diamond (which is just a square rotated on 45°) has larger area than the square. It is surprising and even feels as incorrect implementation. But visually the difference is just noticeable. As to the other shapes, they look really similar in sizes on the plot but occupy vastly different areas and have different linear sizes. I cannot reveal any simple logical principle behind the scales of the shapes chosen by the developers of Origin. It looks like they have scaled them by eye.

Are there any research works on the perception of the sizes of shapes?

What are the best practices to choose the relative sizes of plot markers for scientific plots?


texts: I am trying to replicate the gold bevel effect used on Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne" album (see pic) in Photoshop. Any ideas?


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I make illustrations in Illustrator using 6 to 8+ colours, masks, compound path and halftone colours and typography. On the current job (Poster Illustration without text only illustration) i needed to use textures so i copied and pasted the vectors from Illustrator directly into a new Photoshop document and applied the textures images using blending effects and masks. I left the vectors as Smart Objects.

I worked in Illustrator using CMYK and in Photoshop RGB colour settings. I converted the colour mode from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop after finishing the work  rasterising all the layers, Smart Objects included.

I'm not dealing with the printer i'm only handling the files to the client. The client is going to print in CMYK colour. No Spot colours used.

I Know i can save the artwork on TIFF format, but i don't know yet if the client will accept it.

Here comes the questions:

1) If the client wants the PDF file and not the TIFF can i save the work from Photoshop in PDF using the option (PDF/X-1a)?

2) Is there any problem to save the PDF from Photoshop?

3) Do i need to know anything specific when saving as PDF format from Photoshop?

I usually save the artworks as Pdf from Illustrator i never do it from Photoshop.
I would appreciate your help as the client is going to contact me soon and ask me to handle the file. I ask you please to keep your answers as simple as possible as i am a beginner regarding printing with a basic knowledge about CMYK and RGB principles.

Thanks

Riccardo


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For a science lab, I am required to draw precise graphs on physical graph paper. The process is tedious as the graphs need to be drawn to precise scale and require using small numbers (such as .05). The graphs must use the full paper which has blocks that are 1mm by 1mm.

Is there any way to make this somewhat less tedious? Are there tools that are made to help create the scale or help outline the plots?

Thank you


texts: How do I properly use or convert a PSD file for large format printing?

texts: I have an image PSD file at 200 dpi at an image size of 11" by 11".   My goal is to submit a final file for large format printing.  The end product will be an 8 foot by 8 foot step and repeat banner/backdrop printed on a heavy knit polyester fabric.  My boss hopes that the image (the 11" by 11") will print at 20" by 20" and repeat on the backdrop, i.e. to make a checker board backdrop such as is used on the RED Carpet.  I am a total novice and am concerned about the final printing ... The image has a photo + text and some of the text is in a thin, light font.  Can anyone assist.  This is the very first time to do this.  The printing company is asking for a vector file preferrably or just an image at the highest resolution.


texts: Copying content between artboards in Photoshop

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I often need to make banner sets that consist of anywhere from 6-14 different sized banners. A lot of these banners have the same text (which I put in smart objects to work faster) and the same or different images. The placement and sizes of these elements differ according to the banner size though.

I find the process of 'copying' the content from one artboard to another to go a bit slower than I'd like it to. I can't simply copy/paste, I have to duplicate the layer and then drag it to the right artboard in the layer panel. Hoping I have closed all my folders or else I have to drag miles upwards ;)

There has to be a better way!
Why can't I simply copy paste a layer anymore? I'm pretty sure this used to be the case in older versions of photoshop.


texts: Create an action in Photoshop using multiple photos and eye dropper tool

texts: In the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, can one create an action where it opens multiple photos and then takes a color sample using the eye dropper tool to select from a specific area of each photo and then saves that color sample as a separate jpg file?


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I am relatively new to Adobe Illustrator, so I am not very familiar with the tools.

I have two paths, with stroke inside selected for the stroke method. I would like to have the two shapes share an edge (the thick one), so the thick edge will be normal thickness rather than twice as thick.

The picture in this post has a picture which shows two shapes sharing an edge, but with different fills. How do I achieve this?


texts: Printing multi-page PDF with different copies of each page in Acrobat

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I have a PDF with 20-30 pages. I want to print them but with different numbers of copies for each page. Right now I'm using Acrobat Reader. I know I can do this manually by selecting the page in the thumbnail list and chose number of copies.

But I want to do it automatically, something like this:

1*12, 2*7, 3*15

Maybe it's possible to script printing?

My first plan was to make 12 pages of page 1 and 7 pages of page 2 etc and then print all, but that didn't work well when printing since each page is heavy with vector graphics and it had to send each page to the printer = slooow.

Oh and I'm using Windows 7 when printing.


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I made a quick illustration to demonstrate my problem. In this first picture I have 5 stacked objects; the upper and lower lip, the surfboard and two sets of teeth.

I want the bottom teeth to overlap the surfboard. But when I move it up the stack, this happens.

Any tips on how I would make the teeth and the lips seamless without giving up the positioning?


texts: photoshop how do I use shape tool without fill

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I'm trying to use the shape tool in photoshop to create a profile picture. I'm using the shape tool but it automatically fills in with a color. How can I turn off "auto fill"?

Thanks - Adolfo


texts: Create a 3D cone in Illustrator with rainbow colors

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Problem:

To create a 3D cone with a rainbow spectrum that consist of 24 colors. Example of the final product should look like this:

Example #1 (what I have done so far):

Create a circle and use the Line Segment Tool to divide it in half.

Divide the circle into 24 parts (Effect -> Distort & Transform -> Transform)
Set angle at 15 degrees and make 25 copies.

I clicked Object -> Expand Appearance.
I grouped all parts together and used Pathfinder -> Divide and then ungrouped all parts.

I copied over some of the colors from the first picture using V and I to shift between select and Eyedropper Tool.
The result became a rainbow circle and this is where I got stuck.

Desired outcome:

How do I proceed to take the circle rainbow and transform it into a 3D cone with gradient effect for the green and blue colors?


texts: How to digitized a sketch and to get soft lines?

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To color in Photoshop my traditional sketches, I start by digitizing my drawing in autotracer.org, and I get a vector graphics as this one:

I like it, but I'd like to know if there's a way I can make the lines “less heavy” and to get a crayon texture.
(I don't have a drawing tablet, then I can't do it by simply lining it with a soft brush).
Edit (30-01-2021): Full picture of my scanned drawing is showed below.


texts: Indesign: links went blurry. Not a Display Performance issue

texts: Everything was fine in my indesign project and i sent it home from my desktop at work so i can work on it at home from my laptop. All my Jpgs went blurry! these are huge images that i downloaded from Unsplash. Sent it back to my Desktop and still the same issue. It's in High Quality Display and still looks pixelated.


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I was wondering if it was possible to create a non-raster inner/outer glow? If so, could you please tell me how to do so.

Thanks.


texts: Export object with positive coordinates?

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I'm attempting to create a path in Inkscape and use those coordinates in another program where only positive (4th Quadrant) coordinates are accepted.

Is there an exportable Inkscape format that will save the coordinates of a path defined by an object, whereas all of the coordinates are positive?


texts: Photoshop: Select item and crop it directly

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I'd like to know if this is possible with Photoshop CS4 :

Select an item with Ctrl+T (on windows).
Crop it directly, without selecting the item manually.

It is possible?


texts: Colours sampling and illustrator- never get the right colour

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Using mac colour sample tool, I sample a colour from a website ,get its RGB, then try to set it to an object inside Illustrator,

-in illustrator I am not on grayscale (cmyk)

-I set the colour sampler tool of the mac to be "RGB Adobe" , or "RGB"

-I get some colour sample from a website, then goes back to Illustrator

What happens, is that when I set the RGB on illustrator to an object, I get a similar colour (when sample it again with the tool I get different result).

Sometimes Illustrator even change automatically the colour I'v set !
It seems to me there is some problem in general with intensive colours.

(CS6, MAC retina display)

Thanks.


texts:
While building paths on Photoshop, to append the next curve/segment, one can either click the canvas or click the canvas while holding Alt. Holding Alt will prevent curve based on the existing path.

Because my laptop's Alt is not working, how can I change the Alt key to some other key? Or yet better, can I disable the auto curve while building my path?

(I found no match for an Alt shortcut at the Keyboard Shortcuts.)