texts: Problem: Color change when pasting from Photoshop to Illustrator

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What I want to achieve:

I want to copy an image in Illustrator and paste it into Photoshop. The image is just a grey circle with a #d1d1d1 fill and no stroke.

The problem:

Bottom line, the color of what I'm pasting changes.The pasted image is a different shade of grey: #d5d6d8.

What I've tried:

I've checked my color settings in both Photoshop and Illustrator (Edit > Color Settings). The settings are identical.

Any ideas on what's causing the color difference?


texts: What are some typefaces to pair with Bauhaus?

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I have been given a small web project for an ecommerce store.  The logo uses Bauhaus 93 and I am struggling to find good fonts to pair with this.

Image borrowed from Identifont

Particularly I would prefer to only use Bauhaus for the logo and another 1-2 fonts for headings and body text.

Can anyone recommend some nice fonts to match Bauhau 93?


texts: How do I delete individual cells of a table in Indesign CC?

texts: I created a table. After filling in the data I had a couple of empty cells at end. I would like to delete those without affecting the other columns or rows. How do I do this? I looked online but they tell you how to delete the entire column or row not an individual cell.


texts: What is difference between overprint, pass, resolution, PPI and DPI in design printing?

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I have read through many resources but I still don't understand what are the difference between them. Can anyone give good examples that is able for me to imagine the different and explain what is difference between them?

Thank You


texts: Is there any font where white-space or non-printing characters are visible, for proofing?

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Many software packages have features where non-printing characters such as whitespace, paragraph markers, etc are made visible, for example (from Word and Sublime Text):

Is there any font that shows these characters as visible in a way similar to this?

Obviously a font couldn't have the blue colour of the paragraph symbol or the grey of the dashes - it's visibility of the characters I'm most interested in. I've tried searches on font sites, but no luck (I might be using the wrong terms).

Ideally monospace, but that's not essential. The more non-printing characters that are visible, the better, but just spaces and tabs would be enough.

I would imagine if such a font exists, it's main market would be for proofreading, so people can check the correct spacing and formatting of a book or long document using a printed copy.

My particular reason for wanting such a font is to make errors such as trailing spaces more visible in applications that don't have such a feature.


texts: This is an identity designed by Pentagram. The blue used here is not a CMYK color. How do use such colors in your branding when there is print involved ?


texts: Is there a way to save the current GIMP edit history as a script?

texts: Is there a way to export the edit history so I can use it in a script-fu?


texts: How do I find the original color version of b&w artwork?

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I'm collecting late medieval and early renaissance artwork for a personal online project.

In doing that, I've accumulated a number of early-internet black and white images which I know originally come from full-color paintings -- because I've seen some of those paintings in the past.

Neither Google Images nor Tineye seem to be able to find color versions of b&w images, nor are text-based searches including the artist's name or work's name (in those few cases I know either) working.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to how to use the b&w versions I have to find the color originals!

An example? Here's one. I've seen this online in the form of a subtly-textured but wildly colorful painting dozens of times in the past, but can't use this sketch version to find that again. Same with the others.

The sketch itself is attributed to Heinrich Aldegrever, and titled 'Bildnis eines Jungen Mannes':


texts: What is the easiest way (ideally automated) to perfectly align two almost identical images?

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The challenge: I have two images that I wish to perfectly align over the top of each another.  The images are largely identical (save for fine details and noise), but are not of perfectly equal proportion; so simply rotating one to match the other is not sufficient - further subtle manipulation/warping would be required to have them perfectly overlay.

With high resolution images, I can accomplish this goal using a traditional image editor (such as, but not limited to, Photoshop) - but achieving near-perfect alignment is a very time consuming and manual process.

Does anyone know of a way in which I could accomplish this very easily (ideally, in a largely automated fashion)?  My concept of a perfect solution would be to tell an application which image was the 'template', and then to have it distort the second image to match the template as closely as possible.

Although I'm comfortable with Photoshop, I'm very happy to consider any other applications that might help me to accomplish this.

Assuming the question might be asked, the reason I'm trying to do this, is that I can create incredibly clean (and sharp) scans from matte paper pages by creating two scans of the same page at 90 degree rotations - and then isolating and removing almost all noise picked up from the paper texture using blend modes.  Unfortunately, scanning the image in different orientations creates subtle distinctions in the proportions of each scan - such that the images will not match up through rotation alone.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.


texts: Is there a "monobright" font in which every character uses the exact same number of pixels (not necessary monospaced)?

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I am solving the following problem: I want to display numbers on a huge indoor display (size 32x32 pixel -> "bright light bulbs" / LEDs). Now I want every displayed number to be equally bright, so that a change in a character does not change the illumination  of the room (lumen per character should be constant, thus pixel per character should be constant)

So e.g. the "1" should turn on the same amount of pixels than the "8"

Does such a font exist?


texts: Margins in EPS File in Adobe Illustrator

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I have an .eps file that contains an outline map of the US, which I generated in R.

I want to open it in Adobe Illustrator and add some lines by hand.

My problem is that the original .eps file has a margin of whitespace around the edge of the map, which I want to keep, but after I open the .eps file in AI and then re-save it (regardless of whether or not I add in any lines first), the image has been resized so that it is just large enough to contain the map and the margins are gone so the two images no longer align.

I've posted before and after shots below, which I converted to .png to post. It's hard to see the difference, but you can see it if you compare the left-side margin.

The hack I came up with was to put a white rectangle that is larger than the map in the background to preserve the margins but I'm worried that might have some unintended consequences down the line and I'd like to know how to do it properly.

Many thanks in advance,

JG


texts: Import Word document to InDesign CS4 with Header and Footer?

texts: Is there a way to import a word document into InDesign CS4, including its headers and footers?


texts: Creating a shape from the intersection of two shapes

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I created this leaf shape by drawing two circles on the same layer using the "intersect shape areas" setting.

The leaf "shape" is still treated as two circles - photoshop just shows the portion where the 2 circles are intersecting. Is there a way to turn that intersection into a actual single shape? Like this (drawn quickly but you get the idea):


texts: How do I fix this photo (poor quality, saturation, color) in GIMP?

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I have a photo with poor quality and lighting that needs to go in a print newsletter. There is some lighting issues, and a blue-ish color in part of the image. I'd like to fix the image using GIMP.

My first question is what is this problem called? It looks like everyone is glowing. The blue color on the man in the front's lab coat is not accurate.

My second question is how to I correct it? I've attempted a few things so far that were not successful:

Create a new layer, invert the colors, and desaturate the colors, then set the layer mode to overlay. This is the only technique I have experience with, but the results were not very good.
Use the burn tool on the mask layer in #1. This only marginally improved the situation
Tried the suite of automated tools under the color menu--these didn't make any substantial improvements
Tried to use the clone tool on the blue lab coat on the man in front. The result made it look like his lab coat was enchanted, adding +1 to his magic resistance but not improving the image. I could not figure out how to deal with that area of the image.

This exasperated my current photo editing skills. Is there another approach I can take, or is it simply that the image is too poor?


texts: Is it acceptable to ask a designer for an editable file so I can make variations myself?

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I want to hire a graphic designer to design one cover to be used on a series of books. Each cover in the book will have the same design, but slight modifications to each. For instance, the first book might say "Book 1", and have a red tint, while the second book might say "Book 2" and have an orange tint, while both books have the same pattern across the front and back.

Would it be acceptable to ask the designer to just make a single design and to leave me with an editable file, where I can manually change the text and tint myself each time I am ready with a new book for the series? Or do I need to contact them again each time I have a new book in the series ready and ask them to do this?


texts: How to create proper Heart icon line in Sketch?

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I have been moved from Illustrator to Sketch recently, but I don't understand how pathfinder work in Sketch very much.

I try to create some line heart icon with + in it like this (this was created by illustrator).

I can create just a line in Sketch but after that I got confuse with "subtract" function in Sketch and it got weird result. For example there are some twisted line and can not subtract properly.

I try to search for how to, but I can not find it anywhere. For now I just created this icon in Illustrator and copied to Sketch. But I want to know how to create in Sketch for future reference.


texts: Crazy values on morph targets in unreal engine 4

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Oy I'm doing some animations in Maya 2019 and I have some issues once exporter in Unreal Engine 4.20.
For exporting I use the File > Game Exporter menu. (Any other export workflow I tried so far resulted in a freezing import in Unreal).
Everything goes well using the Game Exporter, I do have some errors when imported in UE4 but it all looks fine, except for one thing:

My character's face is all messed up. After some digging, I discovered it's all about some of the face's morph targets having insane values:

If I manually put all those insane values to 0, everything looks fine. What could cause this?

If I check the mesh asset, the morph targets are limited from -1 to 1 and they look as they should look when I move the slider.

The errors I have when importing my animation are:

Imported bone transform is different from original. Please check Output Log to see detail of error.
Mesh [Geometry have no name] in the fbx file is not reference by any hierarchy node.

Thanks for any help.


texts: Inkscape SVG file with many photos is over 300 Mbs

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Somehow I've ended up with an Inkscape SVG file of over 300 megabytes which is now impossible to open.

I was doing a caricature using a collage of photos of each aspect of the subject's face subject (eyes, nose etc.) and drawing over the collage. It was a detailed drawing and I was creating individual hairs for the moustache, eyebrows and scalp by grouping and duplicating as appropriate (hundreds of times perhaps). It's a technique I've used successfully before with Corel Draw XIV.

All was going well and I was nearly done when Inkscape suddenly slowed down and eventually crashed. now it's reloaded but won't open the file. I had no idea the file had reached that size. What can I do?


texts: Where is the palette knife located in photoshop cs6?

texts: I'm following a tutorial here and i'm using photoshop cs6 but i can't seem to find the palette knife. Is there an alternative way of achieving thesame result in photoshop cs6.


texts: Adobe Illustrator - Masking using layers with stroke?

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I'm working with Google Maps in making a campus map comprised of a number of tile overlays.  Two of these overlays- accessibility (paths) and parking- are layered under other elements (with strokes) which help define it's shape within sidewalks and parking lots:

However, to create their individual tile overlays, I need to export only what is shown of these two layers as seen in the right side of the below image.

My approach up to now:

Make every element layered below the target layer hidden.
Take every element which exists above the target layer and make their fill and/or stroke black as needed.  (Essentially making a mask which compensates for the strokes of the other layers.  See below image, left.)
Export the file to Photoshop.
Using Magic Wand or Color Selector, remove the black, resulting in the target layer in the desire shape.

This does exactly what I want and fits perfectly in the space, but it is somewhat complex for other users and leaves some evidence behind of the approach- namely, darker pixels at the edges- in the final product (below, right)

*(Note: In the right image, "white" is equivalent to "transparent".)

Thus, my question is "is there a way to include the stroke in 'masking' elements"?  For instance, is there a way to make a mask which also includes the stroke on an element rather than just along the drawn path?

Or, perhaps even more fun, is there a way to color/swatch a shape to be "transparent" rather than simply "none" so that it still hides what is below it, but prints/exports as being transparent?

Alternatively, is there any other more simple approach which does not include the following:

Combining the render and overlay layers. (Results in 6 overlays rather than 3.)
Drawing the overlay layers to perfectly match the sidewalk/lot. (Most higher elements use strokes which are not easily traced, and would be much more work.)

EDIT: Here is an .ai file with a simple arrangement of what I'm working with if anyone would like to play around or get some additional context.


texts: How to demonstrate the efficiency of a dynamic factor in comparison with some constant coefficient with a chart?

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I proposed a measure which estimates the coefficient of each sample dynamically, So the coefficient of two sample s1 and s2 can be different. To show the effectiveness of this measure, I want to compare it with different constant coefficients. The constant coefficients are in the range of 0.1 to 0.6. When the constant coefficient Y is for example 0.2, it is equal for all samples. There are 1000 samples in the dataset.
I want to represent the effectiveness in a chart.
The scores are as follows:

The score of dynamic measure: 0.9

The score of constant coefficients Y:

Y=0.1 ⇒ score=0.5
Y=0.2 ⇒ score=0.6
Y=0.3 ⇒ score=0.65
Y=0.4 ⇒ score=0.55
Y=0.5 ⇒ score=0.45
Y=0.6 ⇒ score=0.40

How can I show the differences between the effectiveness of dynamic measures in a chart that clearer than what I already have?
I used the following chart, but it is not clear for some of the readers. So, I would like to make some changes to make it more readable.

Any help is appreciated.


texts: How to lay out ornate victorian-style graphics?

texts: I'm interested in learning how to create v. decorative vintage-style graphics like this one by J C Desevre. However, I can't figure out how, assuming the original image is drawn by hand, such regularity is achieved. For instance, all of the curly bits are the same shape, size, distance from each other... and the whole thing looks so symmetrical! Does one just have to be a MASTER of illustration or can this kind of scratchboard drawing effect be achieved in illustrator/photoshop? Do you think some elements are drawn and then reflected digitally to create perfect symmetry?


texts: GIMP: Procedure for universally enhancing photographs of any type of landscape?

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Are there any image retouching that can be done with GIMP to improve the picture of any landscape (snowy, sunny, ...)?

If there are photographers and graphic designers among you, I would like you to share here the procedure for these retouching operations (the retouching operations to be done via the GIMP tools/menus, the values to be filled in, and the order in which they should be done) please.

The idea is that you give a precise and numbered procedure to follow, such as "TouchUp #1: Increase the brightness by 50% by going to the X menu; TouchUp #1.1: If the color histogram, accessible in the Y menu, has such and such a value at such and such a time, then decrease the brightness by 10%; TouchUp #2: Apply the Z filter accessible in the U menu, etc.".

So we can see the presence of an order, the retouches, their values, and how to use GIMP to perform these retouches (or their location in GIMP).

I must point out that I am a newbie in the field of photo retouching!

I've heard about the following three points... maybe this can help you answer me? If you could confirm and tell me how to do this with GIMP, or even better: suggest some other things to do even better?

Highly saturated images are supposed to be more pleasant to look at,
DSLR images too
And those in HDR too

Thank you in advance!


texts: InDesign: hard return to move to the next text frame?

texts: Is there a way to set a hard return to move to the next text frame, so if I copied a page of text, every hard return would move to the next text frame that I have threaded?


texts: I would like to practice tracing a variety of images in Adobe Illustrator moving from basic to advanced in complexity. Is there any single place that stores like a pack or list of images like these? My only other option seems to be browsing the net and picking out images as they appeal they to me.


texts: How to replicate this die-cast metallic effect?

texts: I'm trying to reproduce this customer's logo which they made years ago. I supposed to reproduce it in Photoshop but I can't get the effect right. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Is there any way to check resolution of a portion of an image?

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Essentially I am wanting to verify that once I get a final layout from my contractors, that all of the images they have used to create the design are of a high enough resolution.

Just to make sure I am being clear enough, I already know how to check the overall layout's resolution - Image > Image Size - but I don't know how or if there is even a way to check the resolution of the individual images that make up the overall design.  Hope this all makes sense.

Thanks for any help


texts: How to maintain scale aesthetics while maintaining legibility

texts: I have simply advert that I am making for a publication. I have some copy in the bottom right, in 10pt Italic Garamond 3 LT Std in grey. When it was presented to the client, I got the feedback that the text is illegible. Now it could be simply a color issue (grey on white), or the way that it scales to everything else in the composition. However I do not wish to increase the point size as 10 points even for a typeface with small x heights, is already medium sized for printing, and any larger I know that it would not meet my aesthetic requirements of the piece. What should I do?


texts: Creating a time-lapse effect image from multiple exposures

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I am trying to create a single image from multiple photographs taken with the continuous shooting mode on my camera.  The images are of a person jumping over a gap in some rocks.

What I would like to know is how to 'merge' these all together.  The images all have the same background as they were taken from the same place, I just want to have the time-lapse effect, where the image shows all the stages of the person jumping?  Does that make sense?

I know it's not the most advanced stuff, but I'm no designer! I just like playing around with my photies!  :D

Thanks in advance.

PS. I'd like to do it in Photoshop, if poss.

edit : here's the URL to a webpage showing an example of how I want my image to look.

Also, I've managed to 'sort of' get the effect I want, using the Blend Darken option on each layer, but certain parts of each photo are now not showing properly.  I'd like each image to still be nice and clear.

:)


texts: Which program should I use to design business cards, Illustrator or Photoshop?

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I see people in Youtube tutorials all the time design business cards in Photoshop using sometimes "Branding stationery templates" which they found online on sites that offer free design templates which is the quickest way to design business cards.

Others however also use Photoshop's feature "Smart objects" with these templates, but why is this?

Should I be really designing business cards or any stationery items in Illustrator or Photoshop?

I find it very difficult to design business cards in Illustrator. I often find that I have to do too many steps and use too many features or tools to get the job done.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: In a CMYK raster image, why does pure black look darker if I switch off other 3 channels?

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File mode: CMYK
CMYK working profile: Fogra 39
Grayscale working profile: Dot gain 15%

Any region with pure black (0 0 0 100), if I turn off the cyan, magenta and yellow channels, it gets slightly darker, almost to rich black. Why is this?


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I recently installed Kubuntu 19.04 and installed the latest Gimp (v2.10.12) with apt. I moved my plugins into the folder ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins and made sure the python files are set to be executable.

When I launch Gimp, the plugins are not loaded. Launching from the terminal I get this type of message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/davide/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/GIMP-lens-blur.py", line 25, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
ImportError: No module named gimpfu
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error

What can I do?


texts: How can I achieve a sharp pixel perfect stroke effect in Photoshop?

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I'm working on retro-style pixel art for a video game. I would like to be able to add a border around a sprite, but I need it to be sharp and "pixel perfect". Using Photoshop's Stroke effect seems like the obvious choice, but unfortunately Photoshop does some fancy anti-aliasing and adds extra pixels where I don't want them:

(Image magnified to 400%)

The top image border was created using the Photoshop Stroke (size: 1px, position: Outside).

The bottom image border was manually drawn with the pencil tool.

The bottom effect is the one I'm after, but I'm trying to achieve it without having to manually draw it with the pencil tool. Is there a way to force the Stroke effect to behave this way? Or is there another method that I could use to automate this effect?


texts: Approximate smooth path with line segments

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Can Illustrator convert a smooth path to a series of straight line segments?

I am looking to approximate a curve with line segments in a way similar to this:

I want to do this because I plan to import the data into other software and to do some measurements on it.  It will be much easier to deal with a series of straight line segments than Bezier curves.


texts: Looking for a particular font from an old logo

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I've been tasked with recreating the logo from and old ID badge. There are some texts on the logo and one baffles me in particular. Unfortunately the client doesn't have the original project file.

WhatTheFont can't scan it properly for me and returns bad results, Photoshop Font Match doesn't do the trick either, and I can't seem to find it in my Font Vault, Google Fonts or TypeKit.

Maybe I've just overlooked it, but I've been looking for hours now and can't seem to find anything.

Note that the fourth character is polish ł.


texts: rounding corners of different-size elements

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In our web application we are adding rounded corners on small elements (e.g. 60px buttons and tabs), medium elements (e.g. 150px dropdown menus, help-tips sections), and large elements (e.g. 600px borders around forms).

I'm assuming that it makes sense to put larger rounded corners on larger elements, but how much larger?  Is there a rule of thumb or generally accepted guidelines for how border-radius should relate to element size?


texts: How can i get this stroke with square corners? (illustrator CS6)

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I'd love to get some more insight on this.

So i'm trying to get this stroke to respect the sharp corners of a letter C.

I'm trying to make the round corners to look like the upper one:

I made certain the path's corner was set to squared, and then i tried to adjust the miter limit but still w/o success. I've read similar question all over the place but all of them seemed to be releated with acute angle shapes only.

Is there any trick to get this sorted?

Again, thanks for your time.


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When exporting slices in Photoshop through the Save For Web... dialog, PS automatically names as the input_filename + _XX + .png. So for example: myfile_01.png, myfile_02.png etc.

It is also possible to manually input a filename for a slice; which will then override this numbering system. My question is: how can I get rid of this slice name? I want to revert to the default numbering behavior. Deleting the "name" field in the dialog has no effect (it simply resets to the last used name).

The only workaround I have found is to delete and recreate the slice, which is terrible.


texts: What technique is used to create these image based icons?

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I just saw a mailbox zero inbox icon and thought it was cool! I am wondering: what is the technique to create this artwork?

Mask with an image? I am looking for a keyword to google it.

Example:


texts: Is it possible to use iPad Pro as a touch screen for Macbook Pro (retina), without lag and without app such as Astropad?

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I would like to use my iPad Pro (Retina) as a natural extension of my Macbook's pro retina screen, without lag and keeping the touch screen functionalities. The aim is to draw directly in photoshop or other softwares using Macbook's computational power, while exploiting the iPad's touch screen + Apple Pencil.
I know there are a few apps like Duet and AstroPad that do the job, but I also know that they create a virtual screen and that the resolution becomes poor and lag increases with increasing resolution.

Thanks,
Frank


texts: I can expand the canvas to the right without a problem, but is it possible to expand it to the left? Of course I can just move the whole drawing to the right, but the problem is that guides will stay where they are.


texts: Software to measure arc length/perimeter

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I don't work in graphic design, but currently I have a problem which could be suited for this site.
I am looking for a software which allows to measure a 3D - curvature length. Just googling I found that Autodesk has a "measure arc" function which seems to be what I am looking for. Unfortunately, I can't access Autodesk, or other expensive software.

To be more clear, I have a surface (currently in STL format, but I can have it in some other formats as well). I'd like to trace a line (possibly in 3D) along it and know the length of the line. The software I am using only allows to calculate distances (ie along straigth lines)


texts: How should the design of a business' in-house web app differ from the business' website?

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I'm currently sorting out a proposal for an in-house web app build, and design is a factor that I'm thinking through. I expect there's minimal budget for design, but I want it to look good, so some tips here might help me organise a good-looking app for cheap!

Now there's lots of advice out there for website design, but less so on how web apps should be designed differently.

One such point where I think the design differs - clean, flat designs are clearly the trend with public-facing websites, however I find that many business web apps tend to throw in a good handful of bold gradients, shadows, and other decoration into the design. E.g. Harvest and Xero.

Is there a good reason for this? At a guess, it might be easier on users who are used to Microsoft Office's outrageous amount of gradients and shadows. Lots of gradients & shadows = it's business time?

But flatness of a design is just one factor. How should the design for a productivity-first in-house web app differ from a normal, public website?


texts: How do I modify this colored Mesh in Illustrator?

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I have this nifty glowing ring in an EPS file. I am trying to figure out how to use Illustrator to have the same blue ring with a white background.

I'm having difficulty understanding where the black background comes from. I know that the layout of the file is a number of overlapping circles, then a single mesh that results in the final output. When the Mesh is hidden:

On that Mesh, I think the blue color is controlled through the "Recolor Artwork" dialog

Knowing now how the effect is constructed, how would I go about having the same blue effect with a white background?


texts: What textbook(s) should I read to learn Adobe Illustrator from start to mastering, and use it as a reference?


texts: When designing, what techniques can be used for determining if the right amount of "fluff" has been added?

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Fluff (N.): something inconsequential

Source: Merriam-Webster Online English Dictionary

In design, this is often viewed as unnecessary ornamentation. In web design, where load times are important, there is a move almost entirely away from this. However, when working on print design or even video, what techniques can help determine if there's too much fluff, too little fluff, or just the right amount?

Let's see some examples with varying level of fluffiness:

Or in Video you can see:

Daily Show Interview, when look closely there's a lot going on. The stripe at the bottom showing Daily Show with the white swirls, red blur and some sort of text on the bottom. The top doesn't just say Paramount or even Paramount on red it also has some white shape which is very subtly moving.

Today Show with Matt Lauer, has some random geometric shape with animation and lighting effects.

How to Install a Vinyl Sticker from VinylDecalStore, is simpler yet with basically text on a background to make it more visible.

With too little fluff it can at times, like in that VinylDecalStore video, appear like an amateur designed the ad. When is there enough and when is there too much?


texts: Term for the process of converting a raster image into a vector - 'vectorization'?

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I thought this would be the most appropriate SE.

Regularly I'm asked to convert clients logo's and various other images into vectors - for whatever reason they don't have the original files or cannot find the original designer to ask.

What is the term for this process? Is 'vectorization' a word?


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I am currently working with another graphic designer.

She Keeps encountering AI files not opening when selecting them from her specific project folder such as opening with the "right click open with"
option.
She is using windows 7 at the moment at work and has to open up illustrator and select the file drop down in Illustrator to open up that specific AI File.
I strictly use creative cloud with my mac and have not encountered this issue since the new creative cloud roll out.
I have had her uninstall and reinstall AI and the same issue keeps occurring

Any suggestions would be great

Thanks,


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I want to begin with drawing but I have literally no experience. I wonder if there are high quality video tutorials, like www.digitaltutors.com just for drawing?

I want to start with hard surface objects.

Also would you recommend me to begin with a pencil or with a tablet?


texts: Specific-sized grids such as 49x49 in Photoshop for sprite generation?

texts: I need to generate sprites where images must not intersect. How can I get a custom-sized grid in Photoshop?


texts: Setting "Pixels per inch" to match Macbook Pro Retina

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Basically just a quick question from a newbie to Photoshop, recently i've been finding that my text on photoshop amongst other items in my designs were ending up blurry as a result of my retina display on my Macbook Pro, I have subsequently changed to the pixels per inch on the image to 227 pixels per inch (the exact PPI in respect to my screen) and the text is clear as day.

However I'm worried that on slightly lesser displays this will then appear distorted as a result?

So my question is, would the image appear pixelated on lesser displays or worse or would the image still be clear as day as it is showing on my screen currently?

Cheers!


texts: What is the difference between Rococo and Baroque design

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I want to incorporate Rococo style into my graphic design projects, but i'm having trouble distinguishing between Rococo and Baroque design features.

What is the philosphy behind both Rococo and Baroque design and how do they differ. I find it hard to understand exactly how they differ from the wikipedia descriptions.

As an example, I have provided pictures of two lamp designs, one is Rococo, and the other is Baroque, with descriptions of the style and features from wikipedia. The pictures came from sites advertising them as conforming to the Rococo and Baroque styles respectively.

Rococo

  Rococo pushed to the extreme the principles of illusion and theatricality, an effect achieved by dense ornament, asymmetry, fluid curves, and the use of white and pastel colors combined with gilding, drawing the eye in all directions.

Baroque

  The baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, grandeur and surprise to achieve a sense of awe.


texts: Sketch export entire canvas size for every object in an artboard?

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Is it possible to create one separate, full-canvas-size .png for each of 100 or so vector shapes within a Sketch artboard?

I have an artboard that has about 100 vector shapes, and I'm hoping to animate the visibility of each of those shapes within After Effects. But I don't want to export all of the pieces from Sketch and then have to place them all in the right place manually once I get into AE. I would like to export each of the 100 shapes including the full canvas size (1280x810), not trimmed down to the size of the shape, and then just dump those all in AE and animate them appearing.

Is possible in Sketch? What about Illustrator?


texts: Make two vector points move together (Sketch or Illustrator)

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I'm trying to speed up my workflow by making vector points move in the opposite direction simultaneously when I have two highlighted. For instance, below I highlight the top and bottom of the arrow so they will move at the same time, except I want the bottom point to come up when I'm moving the top point down. Right now, they just move up together or down together. So if point 1 is at Y:20 and point 2 is at Y:10, I want them both to go to Y:15 if I move point 1 down 5 pixels.

What it currently does

What I want it to do


texts: Why is Illustrator CC saving my files as pdf?

texts: I have installed Illustrator CC and when i save a file it shows a pdf icon next to the file name the application bar. When i check file info, it says File info: application / pdf. Please help!


texts: What tool is used for 3d looking layouts like this?

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https://www.behance.net/gallery/17399911/Dimense

I've been trying to find a way to create layouts like this for a while, and now that I have the time to try, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to do this? Where do I start in trying to create images like this, especially like the second image in the link provided.

I am fairly advanced in Ai, Ps, and some of the other applications in the CC suite, but I never really use inDesign. Is that the tool used for these layouts?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, for I would really like to learn how to do this.


texts: How do I draw a line outwards from the exact middle of a rectangle's edge, and combine the paths in Inkscape?

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I want to draw this shape in Inkscape:

The line coming from the side needs to be aligned to exactly the middle of the edge, coming out at a right angle.

It must also be part of the rectangle object, so that when I alter the color or width of the line, I don't have to do it separately for either object (the line and the rectangle).

What is the simplest way of drawing a line outwards from the centre of a rectangles edge, and then combining the paths, in Inkscape?


texts: TTF and other "modern" font systems, and font size differences

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I have no formal (and precious little informal) graphic design training.

Fairly famous Computer Science person Dr. Donald Knuth long ago developed a font description system called Metafont. In and of itself that's not very interesting, but a thing about Metafont was that fonts could be described such that the production of the font "actuals" (the glyphs in vector form) could yield different letter shapes at different point sizes. For example, serif sizes could change, or thin/thick ratios in Roman fonts could be more dramatic at larger point sizes, etc. Thus you'd make your font description and then generate separate font files at various point sizes to be used for rendering actual documents.

What I'm here to confirm is that vector formats like TrueType, OpenType, or Type1 (really I only care about ttf at the moment) do not have any way of doing that.  To be more specific, I'd like to confirm that there's no practical difference between doing one or the other of these two things when I'm adding some text to line art (specifically SVG via Inkscape, but it'd be basically the same question for Illustrator etc):

based on the context, pick a font size and create the text element so that it's "born" at the right size;
generate a text element at an arbitrary size, and then resize it as a generic object to adjust it to fit

This probably seems like an insane question but I just realized that it's a nagging "factoid" stuck in my head for like 25 years and I'd just as soon stop worrying.

edit — when I say "resize it" I mean of course to resize while retaining original proportions.


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I'm on CC 23.1.

When I copy/paste an object, it pastes correct, but the x/y positions are not snapped to pixel, even if I have Snap to pixel enabled.

Also on "Pixel Snapping Options" all options are enabled.

The only way is copy and "Paste on place", than move it.

Why? Its annoying and sometimes I "forget" it (so I need to adjust x/y manually, round to int).


texts: What to put in my portfolio if I have not had any clients yet?

texts: I am a newbie self taught web designer. My skills are HTML/CSS web designs. My problem is, how do I start marketing myself or what type of web designs should I put in my portfolio if I have not had any clients yet?


texts: Are softwares like maya, autocad, 3d max, nuke, etc. helpful in anyway to a ui/ux designer

texts: Are the above softwares actually helpful in any practical way while applying for a job in big companies as a ui/ux designer?


texts: Script to copy text object and increment value in Adobe Illustrator

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I would like to have a hotkey in Adobe Illustrator that copy, paste text object and increment number value inside that object.
For example I select text object with value "1", press hotkey and it creates new text object with value "2" next to previous object. Is it posible?
Thank you.


texts: How to automate some picture manipulation (define a crop and apply a crop) in photoshop?

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I am currently working on a lot pictures (around 1000) and would like to automate some tasks:

define a crop region that correspond to specific aspect ratio. For
example if i have a width/height = 16/9 i need to find the best fit
in an image that can hold this aspect ratio.
crop the image.
save the image as a png file.

can i automate this in photoshop or lightroom with a minimum of user interaction? Is there some better alternative than photoshop or lightroom to realize this task?


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I like web 2.0 style design - less info, more space, bigger font-size, etc.
But my designer doesn't.

So when we use a web 2.0 design template, she changes the font size of contents into smaller one like web 1.0 style (ex. 13px).
She just uses the layout only.
She says that large texts look dull.

Of course, this is a subjective matter, but I want to know what you guys think about this.


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Photoshop 19; drawing with the pencil tool or eraser tool the cursor has a ring of dots around it making it hard to see the line.

Can this ring of dots be removed in settings?


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I have been searching for the font "Tykewriter," often used by Scholastic Publishers. I've been in contact with the creator of the font, Josh Korda, who sadly no longer has a copy of the font.
Scholastic has not been helpful in providing information about the font either. Would anyone on this forum know where or how I could obtain a copy of the Tykewriter font?


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As we all know, Google have released a material design UI/UX platform for developers.
What are the image sizes that I have to follow to slice them for the various resolutions of android devices?


texts: PDFs suddenly loose quality after cropping in Adobe Illustrator and get pixelated

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I routinely placed and cropped PDFs within Illustrator, without any issue. From today, when I crop a placed PDF, it gets kind of pixelated after cropping (example below). This never happened before. The quality loss is also observable after exporting the project.
I already removed and re-installed Illustrator, but this didn't help.
Can you please advice how I can fix this?
*Edit: This is how I crop an image: First I select the PDF object with the selection tool. Then I click on "Crop Image" on the Properties panel under "Quick Access". Then I select the area how to crop the image. To finish the process I click "Apply" on the Properties panel under "Quick Actions".


texts: When saving an image as a PNG or JPEG, does photoshop/GIMP only save the top layers or all the data?

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I need to send a file to someone but it has sensitive information on it that I would not like to share.  I was going to just scan the document and edit out the sensitive information with a layer covering the sensitive information, but I wonder if this is acceptable.  For example, if someone were to intercept the file and read the data to unmask the information that is being hid.

Any thoughts?


texts: How to resize the background canvas size to the size of the layer in Gimp

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How to reduce the background canvas size to the layer size.
I used Image > Fit canvas to layers but it does not do this.

In Fireworks there was a button named Fit To Canvas for doing this. I searching this in Gimp.


texts: How do I use the width tool and brushes in Illustrator?

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I am following this tutorial on Custom Lettering

In one of the steps, it says " Using the Brush Tool (B), with the “Basic” brush; use the Width Tool (Shift+W) to adjust the width of our new path"

I tried doing this in Illustrator CS5 but it seems that the width tool is not able to expand my newly created path.

Based on googling, I found this site its say's width tools works only on Art Brush and pattern brushes.

I tried using an Art Brush and Pattern brush and I was able to use the Width Tool on them.

I am just confused, how do I make it work on a brush with a basic settings that is based on the tutorial that I am following.

Any hints?


texts: How to create beautiful (block) diagrams

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I would like to include a similar picture in my bachelor's thesis.

I am looking for tips on how to make this (or in general) diagram(s) more beautiful.

Can you recommend programs for creating such diagrams? Preferably free and runs under Linux.


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I am new to Illustrator and vectorizing Logos. I need to vectorize this logo

My questions are: how can I find out the two font types and colors? What will be the best way to vectorize this Logo 1:1 in Illustrator? Because I am new to Illustrator it will be helpful if you tell me how to do it.


texts: How to keep track of the degree value given to a skew transformation?

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I am using a font that does not have an italic or bold versions.
To simulate italic, I am typing the text, clicking over it, selecting and draging the top-middle point to the right, thus changing the angle to a negative value.

How can I keep track of the dragged distance (degree given) ?
The idea here is to reuse the value on other words or objects.


texts: find out the gradient start and end values of small distance out of larger distance

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I have the following design with gradient

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The gradient is 348px long, linear, starts with #F7F7F7 and ends with white #FFFFFF. I need to know what gradient color should I put as a starting point if I want my gradient to be not 348px, but 270px (shown by red line) with keeping to the original design. Is that possible?


texts: Master pages with elements that are locked!

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A friend of mine gave me an InDesign file which has A-Master page that has two elements on it, but when I try to copy the whole page, it only copies the elements that were added afterwards. The background and the two elements on master page seem to be locked.
As I press shift+command and click on the elements to unlock them, they disappear.

Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to set stroke weight to be exactly 1 pixel in Illustrator?

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The grid unit is 1 pixel.

Below is two overlapped rectangles:

Underlying one has blue fill color an black outline color. Also it has Align Stroke to Inside setting:

As you see, it also has stroke weight set to 1px.

Nevertheless, the overlapping rectangle, which has no outline and blue fill is obviously slightly bigger.

Also, according to the grid, it is evident, the outline of the underlying rectangle is thicker than 1 px.

How can I fix this?


texts: Selection tool height and width setting disappeared in Illustrator

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Before when I used the Selection tool I had some boxes in the top toolbar where I could set x and y positioning and width/height. It somehow has disappeared. How can I get this feature back in y toolbar?

Here's an image of how my toolbar currently looks:


texts: How to censor individual words in a long text paragraph without catching attention to them?

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I have a video presentation slide with one long text paragraph of ~30 lines of purely black text on purely white background (well, with some font smoothing) that I am using in a presentation video. The whole text itself is in regular font with no special formatting, I definitely do not expect the audience to read it during those 15–20 seconds they see it. Let's say it's only the last sentence that I'm actively pointing to and the whole shown text is just to emphasize its quantity.
Now for a reason™ there are two or three words somewhere in the middle of the paragraph that should be “censored” and not be readable at all, even if someone pauses the video and reads the whole paragraph. The video is already done, so I am looking for some solution that can be done directly on the video and not by modifying the slide itself.
Since those words are totally irrelevant to the content of the presentation and I am not expecting anyone reading the lines around them, I want some way of censoring them without catching attention, i.e. when someone sees the slide for the first time, their sight is not attracted by some black bar, huge grayscale pixels, blurred spot, or white island in the text, but they still see a long dense paragraph of text with 99% of the original content.
What would be the best way to accomplish this?
Edit after the answer of @Scott: The used font is proportional, i.e. iiii does not have the same width as WWWW, but the text is long enough so that I can find some other word that has the good width to replace the censored word. Also I'd focus on using the screenshot of the video because re-creating the words from the original font would mean I'd have to match the exact size and proportions of the font transformed to slide and to video. And the main reason is that that paragraph is actually a screenshot from a website, so I even did not choose the font. But provided that I am speaking about a video the whole time, this shouldn't play a role.


texts: How can I snap points to the grid in Vectornator X?

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Using Vectornator X on iPad, I can show the grid, and I can set the grid dimensions for example 20px x 20px.

When I draw a point, it does not snap the point to the grid.

How can I turn on snap to grid?

If it's impossible, is there another similar vector app which can do grid snapping?


texts: Sketch: Quick-Export tries to create PDF instead of PNG

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in Sketch, when you select an exportable artboard you get a little preview in your inspector panel. Dragging this preview out gives lets you export it, however for some reason Sketch tries to export some of my artboards as pdf instead of png. It also wont let me drag it onto my desktop of anywhere else.

I guess this is some sort of setting you can do per artboard, but I cannot find where to change this behaviour. If you could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful. Thanks


texts: PNG to SWF. Getting stuck exporting vectorized image to swf due to white gaps

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Complete newb here. Trying to vectorize some pngs with plans to convert to swf for a mobile app.  After image tracing and exporting to swf, I end up with white gaps in my swf.  Did a lot of google searching and reading of lots of forums, but still can't get rid of them.

Tried offset path, but that didn't work. Can't rasterize, because that means no more vector right?


texts: Split an image into Hue Saturation and Value layers

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Either using an online tool, or in Photoshop, is there a way to separate an image into pure Hue Saturation and Value layers?

For example, I can get just the values by desaturating an image completely. Is there a process that does the same but for hue and saturation?


texts: Finding the possible vanishing points in a landscape

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I was trying to practice finding vanishing points in different images, and most tuts I followed showed images with at least some rigid surfaces like a table or something, but, I found a particular image, that I think has only one vanishing point, but am not quite sure how to plot the vanishing point of. How do  you suggest I plot vanishing points for such images?

EDIT: I need to find the vanishing point and the horizon line because, in blender there is a tool that allows you to set the focal length of the camera feeding in these two data, and I'm unable to do so in the specific cases of such images as below:


texts: Batch Automation: Is there a way to change the image quality, when saving for web?

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I have just downloaded the /uploads/ folder, from a website I am working on.  This /uploads/ folder, containing all uploaded images.

There are over 5,000 images, each not having been optimised for the web.  As such, I would like to use Photoshop to perform the following optimisations:

Reduce Image Size;
Change File Format to JPEG;
Select 'Save for Web'.

I would like to automate this process than manually perform each Action.  I have tried the Automate > Batch approach.  Whilst this does perform the necessary actions, it does select the 'Low' option for image quality.  Is there anyway I could perform this Batch Action but with changing the 'Low' option to 'High'?

Current Effort

After some guidance, I have tried the below steps.  Unfortunately, I still cannot seem to achieve the results I am looking for ...

Select New  Action and name it accordingly;
Select the Record Button;
I then proceed to select Open ... then select the required image;
I then head to File > Save for web;
After I have made my modifications, I then select Save within the Save for web pop up window and save accordingly;
I then close the image.  When I close the image, I do not select the 'Save' feature since I have already Saved, when saving for web;
I then select Stop Recording;
I then head to Automate > Batch and enter the following settings:

I just cannot seem to get the images to save within the Destination Folder.  I have played around with the Settings.  For example:  Selecting and Deselecting the Override Action "Save As" Commands but the closest I can get is the images are simply being saved to the Desktop rather than the Destination Folder.

Update

I have managed to get the images to save within the Destination Folder.  The way I achieved this, was that I figured that when you Save for Web, you need to select Save and then Cancel when the save box appears.  Otherwise, the Action will save to that destination, regardless of what you enter into the Batch Settings.  That said, however, this approach triggers the following settings after each image:

I selected the Override Action "Save As" Commands but this just resulted in the images not being saved at all.

How can I include this within the Automation, so that I do not need to select the relevant options after each image?


texts: Objects not snapping correctly. (Overshooting or undershooting target)

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I have a rectangle that should be snapping to the lines of the other rectangles on my artboard, but it keeps overshooting the mark. Can anyone advise on how to get it to snap the other objects lines correctly?

Ai version: CC2014. OS Mac: 10.9.5.


texts: Look as if this is Desire font or castle line grunge. But some character does not match and in the castle grunge is there any without grunge font. I  tried in My fonts, What font, Squirrel website. Did not get the similar font. Any suggestion or help which font is this.


texts: As a computer science graduate, how can I develop a potfolio?

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I am a Computer Science Graduate looking to apply for a job in graphic design. I have completed a few graphic design projects for clients I know who needed work done.

From what I understand, I need a portfolio. What do I need to include in a portfolio (designs only, descriptions, etc.) and where would I display these (on a separate website, LinkedIn or elsewhere)?

How do you showcase real life examples of graphic design work that has already been completed?


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I am following a tutorial which is far too quick for me to see what is being done, I am trying to smooth a kind of blur effect, it looks like it's blur being used, but when I try something similar it doesn't seem to achieve the same effect, infact it looks pretty bad.

This is the tutorial:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1UNz3jKGo)

Here are images of the desired effect (on the right)and my before and after attempt:

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Changing layer colours across multiple Photoshop documents

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I'm designing an app, and when I designed the screens, over 40 of them, I did it in the clients colours.

We've now settled on a new colour scheme, and I need to replace old colours with new ones. Is there a way I can assign one colour to change to another across multiple documents?

I don't want to have to spend a few minutes per screen changing each layer manually if I can avoid it. There has to be a way I can create an action or something to speed it all up.


texts: How is this Chinese character with boxes in the background font achieved on iOS?

texts: I was wondering how this text effect was achieved? The characters appear with boxes behind them on desktop versions as well (this is from Instagram) and i’m wondering how this was achieved and where I might be able to recreate it. The characters still register as Chinese characters in every context but they also have the box behind them.


texts: How can I copy only the style of a border in sketchapp?

texts: I don't want to copy the whole style of a button. I only want to copy the style of border. Is it even possible? Thanks ^^


texts: How can I make raster effects permanent?

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I'm creating a logo where I have applied a stamp effect to the text and boundary.

How can I make the stamp effect become permanent without needing to have the 'art' underneath masked by the opacity mask?

Is it even necessary? I'm concerned that people opening the file in the future could easily change the logo, accidentally or on purpose.


texts: Removing Background of an Image using photo of Background separately

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Is there is any solution is photoshop or any other tools where this scenario works.

If I have two image, one with people standing somewhere and another without people. That means the empty area only. So my question is, is there any tools which consider the background image and the peoples image at the same location and it is able to remove the background from the main image.

In simple words, like chroma keying, we are removing the background considering the background image as a reference.


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I have been using online printer suppliers previously but I am wanting to invest some money into a good quality printer so I can print business cards (on normal, Gloss & matt card) and flyers...

I am wondering what printer would be best for this sort of work?


texts: How to resize an image without losing quality

texts: I have an image of 90x122 pixels i want to resize it to make it 512x512 pixels but the image loses it quality Is there any way of doing this without losing the quality?.


texts: Which pairing works best for these sans serifs?

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I'm on this project where I want to keep a sans serif font for my titles (shown as title in the examples) but it works very poorly for the text. I already have a serif matched with it but I also want to be able to typeset my text in sans if needed. I'm not planning on ever using the sans used for the title in the text and the sans used in the text as a title.

I'm having a dilemma, my gut tells me that the bottom pairing works better (contrast) but I'm falling for the top pairing's ligatures. Constructive feedback would be appreciated. Top is Hurme Geometric Sans with Calluna and bottome is Hurme Geometric Sans with Whitney.


texts: What is the name of the glyph that looks like a dash, but tapers on a single end?

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What is the name of the symbol shown below used to sometimes stylize page numbering or to call attention to an item in the page? It's hard to explain with words, but here's a picture.

Does this have a name? It looks like a dash with a tapered end. I'm looking for the general name of this type of dash, the unicode value, or for information about the font family that it is tied to.


texts: How can I replicate this effect in Photoshop / Illustrator

texts: I'd like to know how this is done. I have both photoshop and illustrator.


texts: How to create this grainy text overlay effect?

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There is a cool text overlay effect I saw here.

How can I make an effect such as this in Adobe Photoshop?


texts: How to change color of multiple svg files in illustrator

texts: I have more than 600 svg icons. Each one is separate files not combined, is there a way to change the color of all of it at once in Illustrator. I am using Illustrator CS6 version. is it possible through scripting or action?


texts: Which tool to convert webp to gif using adobe suite

texts: Which adobe product can I use to convert webp files to gif? I've tried opening a webp file with both premeier and phososhop but neither recognize the file type. There are free online tools but I would like to edit files locally with existing adobe tools. Thank you.


texts: How to print an image to specific physical dimensions on multiple pages

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I have a personal project for which I have to print an image and I want it to have a printed size of 68x68cm. I only have an A4 printer. I know how to print an image on multiple pages, it's easy, but what I need is a fraction of an A4 page, not a full page.

Let me explain, how I see it in 68cm I can fit 3 x 21cm (A4 height) and I have a remainder of 5cm. Also on height I have 3 x 30 cm it is too much, I need 2 x 30cm + 8cm on the last printed page.

Anyway I hope I was clear enough.

I am a software developer, I have reasonable graphics skills (photoshop etc), but I can't seem to find a good solution, except for a custom print of a larger size, which would be quite expensive.
Thanks!


texts: What font is used in this "Reality" video games poster?

texts: Can anyone help me identify the font used for the heading of the following poster?


texts: In Photoshop CC, you can right click on a layer, and in the context menu, there will be an option, "Quick Export as PNG". This will make a PNG out of the current layer, but it has an issue: The new layer it makes will be the size of the document (way bigger then the image). Is there anyway to have Photoshop crop the new PNG to the exact size of the layer?


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This is mainly referring to branding / logo design. I typically offer (at least) 3 different ideas so that my clients have more of a choice of what they prefer. I will then revise their favourite until they're happy with it.

Each idea will be based on some kind of 'focal' keyword which will often be the main idea behind the concept... with other keywords to support it (which can determine, say, the colour palette or choice of typefaces).

But recently I've wondered if it would make more sense to just stick to one main keyword / idea... and base all 3 logo concepts on that. So for example, all 3 ideas may be based on the idea of 'connections'... but carried out different ways.

Rather than say:

  Logo 1 repreresents this... whereas Logo 2 represents this other thing... and finally Logo 3 represents this other idea altogether

So it might make more sense to involve clients more in the design process, so that everyone can agree on what kind of 'idea' should be behind the logo before even any sketches have been drawn. I imagine this could be done purely through research, client meetings, mind-mapping etc (maybe some sketches if necessary)

I'm just thinking that will make everything go a lot smoother. Because sometimes I feel like I'm forcing myself to come up with different ideas when really I should just be focusing on the one.

How does everyone else go about it?

Edit:

Here is an example of a previous branding job I worked on a while back to help illustrate my question...

The main idea behind the (chosen) logo was 'unexpected'. There were several supporting keywords such as 'elegant' and 'majestic'... these helped determine the look & feel of the logo. Whereas 'Unexpected' was the focal keyword that the logo was aiming to portray.

But the other logo ideas I worked on originally, used the same supporting keywords (elegant / majestic) but had different ideas behind them, e.g. one was influenced by the client's own work. Another was based around 'imagination'.

After I completed the job I realised the ideas based around 'imagination' and the one influenced by the client's own work really werent working as well as the concept based based around 'unexpected'... so I now think I would have been better off coming up with three different concepts all based around 'unexpected', but seeing what different ways I could visually communicate it


texts: Can anyone tell me what blackletter font this is?

texts: Hi, can anyone please tell me what blackletter font Disney have used int his original Snow White & the seven dwarfs logo please?


texts: How do I figure out the right size font / text for a given read distance?

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To avoid printing single letters at varying sizes and measuring how far away I can see it from a distance is there a formula for determining what size font for a particular read distance? Is it better to take the midpoint between the ascender line and x-height or to go purely off of the x-height (since going purely off the ascender line could leave lowercase letters difficult to read)? How does vertical height play into this? Would I need to then figure the hypotenuse distance instead of a straight distance?

For example if I'm shooting for a 20' read distance but the sign is to be placed about 30' up should I use a distance of  35' instead of 20'?

I'm shooting for a 20' read distance for the headline and then possibly a 10' read distance for additional content depending on how it all fits on the active area.


texts: How to align rotated objects in Illustrator?

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I've been looking everywhere but don't know if a solutions exists for my problem:
In the image below, you can see two shapes.
I want to rotate the shape on the left so it matches the shape on the right, without repositioning the shape on the right in any way.
The problem I have run into is that Illustrator does not save the exact rotation angle of the object on the right. So, I cannot simply rotate the left object and then align.


texts: How do you create an effect like this in Photoshop?

texts: I was wondering if anyone knows how to make the faded effect thing like that. As far as I'm aware that could be possibly done with pixel sorting but I was wondering if anyone would know an easier way to do it. Preferably in Photoshop.


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In the plastic industry, what's the meaning of 2X after a Pantone reference ?

802 C2X compared to 802 C


texts: Symbols appearing at different scale in Illustrator

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I've searched but couldn't find anything relevant to my situation. I made symbols in Ai and was able to replace them easily, they all appeared at the original scale when turned into a symbol. Then it stopped working: the new symbols I made would appear at a smaller scale.

I can use "reset transformation" to get them to go back to the original scale, but this is a pain as I have to do it for each one and I have a lot that I'm working with. Anyone know how to get the symbols to appear at their original scale?

I deleted the prefs but it didn't help.


texts: Recommend a good font management software for Windows 7

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I am looking for a good Font Mangement Software for Windows 7.

Can you guys please recommend a good professional one, something that has options like:

install/uninstall a font at the touch of a click
lets you preview the typeface when you select it
install all the fonts in one folder and uninstall them after you're done with them
something with as many options as possible but yet simple to use, user-friendly
possibly something that recommends similar typefaces (that's utopia already...but maybe..:)

Ideally would be a free software, but I have a feeling there isn't one, so if you don't know about a free one, recommend what you know as great professional software you have used and works great.

If you can, please include screen-shots in your answer or links to see as much as possible about the software. I don't want to install 10 and choose, I want to choose and install 1-3 and decide what is the one that works for me.


texts: How to design a websites using thin fonts that will look good in a web browser?

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I recently quite repetitively encounter the same problem - the fonts in photoshop don't look even close to the fonts embedded onto the websites.

Obviously - it's mostly about external, 3rd party fonts, because for Helvetica, Arial, etc. I get quite good results. Most troublesome are thin and tall fonts, although this issue occurs also with regular fonts if used in sizes lower than 16px (no idea why so often there's a magical border at 16px since when stuff starts to look great everywhere).

Here we've got an example of SkarpaLT font at 14px #000000 - on a left you can see it embedded using @font-face onto a website as it is rendered in Firefox on Windows 7. On a right you can see the exact same font in exact same color and size as it appears in photoshop using different anti-alias settings:

As you see - the difference is quite gigantic. In Firefox:

Whole font is by far thicker, seems like in photoshop it's light version, while in firefox it's regular
Anti-aliasing is very weird, on some letters (eg. O) it almost doesn't exist, on other it's fine
A is oddly short comparing to the other letters
O isn't round

As you can see - I tried messing with photoshop settings, but so far I never managed to pull out the results that are close to the Firefox. I also made few attempts with changing text in Firefox to make it look closer to what the Photoshop renders, but I got nowhere.

Therefore two-part question:

Is there any way designer can predict when font won't behave nicely in web browser, even if it looks fine in FireFox?
How to either render fonts in photoshop in a way that's closer to a web browser, or force web browser to render fonts in a way that's closer to the photoshop?

Or a long story short: How to design a websites using unconventional, thin fonts that will look good in a web browser?

[edit:] Solution highlight: Seems like the only good solution is font dragr which allows testing of the fonts in a web browser to actually see if they don't produce any weird artefacts. Nothing much other than that can be done.

On a side of the designs this action can be used to create subpixel anti-aliasing in Photoshop. It'll make fonts sharper and similar to what you get in a browser. Only issue is that it creates 3 text layers, so it needs to be applied after all of the text editing is done.


texts: FXG file looks ok in AI and Flash CS, but wrong in Flex app produced by FB - out of bound lines

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In a Flex card game I have all cards as vectors (purchased as stock cliparts), but the back of the cards has been bitmap (couldn't find a good stock clipart)

So I've asked a designer at a job board to draw me a back in Adobe Illustrator, which she did and the FXG file looks flawlessly -

in Adobe Illustrator:

and in Flash CS6:

But looks absolutely wrong where I need it - in Flash Builder:

Does anybody please know, how to get rid of those "out of bounds" lines?

How to "cut" them of? This is porbably some minor change, but I just can't find it in AI.

UPDATE: On Scott's suggestion (thanks!) I have selected Expand Apperance:

But can't find the crop he suggests...


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I've been kerning this logo and I'd love input from those well versed on the subject.

I'm particularly interested with the space around the "f", but also appreciate any other kerning input or advice.

I've updated the logo kerning based on the advice given.


texts: After Effects: Move shapes forwards & backwards asynchronously at a slow/moderate speed

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I'm working on a video intro and am trying to figure out a solution for moving hundreds of shapes backwards and forwards on the z-axis. As most posts like this, I'm new to AE expressions.

The animation will begin with a swarm of icons zooming in and out of focus, wiggling around randomly while moving from point a to b, and will end with them clustering together to form the outline of a logo. I have wiggle expressions controlling the x & y axes, however am stuck on finding a way to accomplish my goal for the z-axis.

MAIN QUESTION: How can I have each object move forward and backward on the z-axis at a slow/moderate speed, not in unison, with a displacement of ~ 1000 units (and end with a value of 0)?

Here's a screenshot of a test comp with something I tried but doesn't work (movement was way too fast, and I need the last frame to end at a zero value)

Screenshot of the icons I'll be applying this to in the final comp:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6kbq57xuwy55cye/StackExchange_AE_icons.png?dl=0


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I am having the hardest time trying to create the effect between the image subject and the background texture in the reference below.

Obviously the image is masked to blend into the texture, but what I am looking for is the blending so that the texture shows through the image, with that vintage effect while still keeping colors in the image. The textures and blending modes I have tried always seem to look more dark or light or washed out. Do I set the images over the top of the texture, or visa versa?

Please, any help would be greatly appreciated to stop from banging my head against the wall.


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I'm looking for a script or any another solution to convert a PSD file for Gimp because our developpers use to work with Linux.

We've seen that some layers don't work, it is necessary to merge the masks, and to rasterize smart objects for example, or the PSD file cannot be opened by Gimp. I tried to create a Photoshop action, but I just can't select specific layers.

Does somebody know anything that might help to do this, as I am no developer myself?


texts: How do I duplicate/export only the visible part of a layer?

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I've got two layers—a green one and a brown one. A little part of the green one is underneath the brown one.

These are the layers—I need to get just the visible green part. The image shows the layers' borders when the green layer is selected. Well, I need to crop (or duplicate as a new picture) the visible part of the green layer.

How do I do this? I'm not even a beginner in Photoshop.


texts: How do you equally space these around the center in Illustrator please?


texts: Where should be put a feedback box on a website?

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Is there a special place where to be this kind of section? I have a task to integrate a "feedback box" and I have no idea...

Thanks!


texts: Retaining px dimension when export to a PNG file. Adobe Illustrator

texts: In Adobe Illustrator I have an Icon that has dimensions of 200px by 200px. When I export it to a PNG file though,the PNG file is 834px by 834px. Any suggestions to keep the icon at 200 by 200 pixels?


texts: How do you nearly darken an image in Photoshop?

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I have been trying to darken pictures of animals, but it only darkens the darks and I wanted the whites to darken.
What are ways to accomplish the style?


texts: How do I achieve a 'grainy' / 'snow-dusted' effect in Photoshop or Illustrator?

texts: If someone could point me to a tutorial for getting the "grainy" or "snow dusted"-like effect, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks!


texts:
I am creating this graphic in Illustrator and InDesign.
It is using an outer glow with the same magenta color as the fill of the shape. Normal blend mode 100% opacity.

I would like to get a similar glow result in CMYK as I get in the RGB version. I do know there are significant differences in the RGB and CMYK color spaces.

Still I was hoping there might be some tricks to achieve a less white glow.

Color values:

RGB: #e40045 on #303c49

CMYK: 0/100/60/0 on 63/32/14/76


texts: Inkscape problem: rectangle with unequal stroke width

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Can someone help with this problem in Inkscape?
When I attempt to draw an empty rectangle with stroke, what I get is a rectangle with stroke which lines are a little bit thicker on the left and right side compared to the top and bottom lines. In the process of drawing it the lines are still equal but once the rectangle is made they automatically change. I think it's something in the settings, but I just can't figure what it is. If I open a new Inkscape document, I don't have this problem anymore, but I just want to know what's the trick here. Does anyone know? cheers


texts: I understand tracking relates to all pairs and word spaces while kerning relates to specific pairs. I’m wondering about how tracking is related to kerning: Is tracking added to kerning linearly, across all pairs equally, or is it more like a scaling factor for individual kerning distances?


texts: How to achieve this coffee powder photo effect?

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I am interested in how to achieve this coffee cream/powder effect using Photoshop.

I have spent quite some time trying to figure this out, but wasn't successful. Using a clipping mask to apply texture works on very simple logos or text, but not on photos or anything that requires detail.


texts: Get the closest swatch from an PNG color set

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So I have a set of PNG colors provided to me.

But as agreed to our design guidelines, we shall use the Material colors provided by Google.

So if example that there exists a "lime" color from the PNG colors provided to me, I want to select the closest "lime" color to it from the provided Material palette swatches for Illustrator (maybe through the eye dropper tool or something else).

Is there a way? Manual selection of a similar color is a tiresome process, and I also color-blindness tendencies, so I have somewhat difficulties in comparing the provided PNG colors to the Material palette.


texts: Match the brightness on X layers at once in Photoshop

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I have a collection of 142 partially overlapping images, taken on a grid with a microscope. I've had to go through some pain to patch them all together as the automated software packages seemed to have a lot of trouble doing so, but in the end it worked out. However, now I am stuck with the issue that each image was taken at slightly different lighting conditions (due to how the microscope is setup), which gives me a sort of patchwork of different brightness squares. It is illustrated by the (partial) image below:

As you can see, the squares have slightly different lighting. Now, of course I can manually adjust each single layer until it has the same brightness as its neighbour, this is clear. But doing this 142 times is.. time consuming at best. I feel as if there should definitely be a way to automate this, but I haven't been able to find one.

So that is my question; is there a way to automatically match the lighting on multiple layers at once? I suppose I have to pick one as a reference, that is fine.


texts: Leading and aligning to a baseline grid in InDesign

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I'm using InDesign CC trying to format for an academic journal-style article. My problem is with consistent leading.

I have a text frame, and in Baseline Options I set Offset to: Cap Height.

At the start of the frame I have text 'Part One', which aligns correctly, cap height to top of baseline. It's in an 11-point font.

However, two lines down I get to my body text in a 9-pt font. And the caps do not reach the top of the baseline.

Why doesn't the 9-pt font hit the baseline? The leading is 15 pts and the baseline is 15 pts. Why can't I get my baseline setting to apply consistently for all text? I have different paragraph styles throughout - headlines, body text, block quotes. I'd like all of these to align to the baseline the same way.


texts: Indesign CS6 - Anchoring an image large two full page in the text

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I'm trying to use the anchor point of an image, that is large two entire pages, to anchor it at the text that it is in the precedent pages, like in this image. The problem is that when I try to do that, the image goes to that page, as a background to the text.
 How can I do to anchor the image but mantain it in the position that it is actually? I need to do that because I'm trying to export the book as an EPUB.


texts: Sometimes when I open the File Info and I enter the title, description  and keywords I misspell some words. Is there any way to use spellcheck in File Info?


texts: Illustrator opens PDFs rotated 90 degrees. Why, and how do I deal with it?

texts: As I open a PDF file in Illustrator CS6, it displays it rotated 90 degrees CW. If I rotate the artboard and content back to normal for editing and save it, Acrobat Reader displays the file rotated 90 degrees CCW. Where does this behaviour come from, and how do I deal with it?


texts: Is it possible to add an interaction to a component in Invision?

texts: So far all I've figured out is that I can create a transparent rectangle over a button to create an interaction over a component. Is it possible to actually have an interaction on a component itself? The functions are grayed out when I attempt it.


texts: Pixellation in font for iPhone wallpaper

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I'm trying to create an iPhone wallpaper from an image. (iPhone 4, retina display)

I've already found the resolution, which is 640 x 960, but the problem is that when I export the image out of Pixelmator (Mac alternative of Photoshop – similar to GIMP), the image looks fine, but the text that I've put is very blurry / pixellated.

I've increased DPI to 320, but the text still looks terrible.

What am I doing wrong?


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I'm trying to freeze transforms in Maya, for an object that has animated children, but is not animated itself. (Explanation will follow in detail)

First of all, is this possible? Because it should be, so my intuition tells.

My hierarchy is like this :

ParentObject
- ChildObject

ChildObject has animations, however ParentObject hasn't any. I removed them manually from the Graph Editor. I also deleted all history on ParentObject, but still, when I select ParentObject from the Outliner, and call DeleteAllHistory; FreezeTransformations; I get the error message : // Error : line 0: Freeze Transform was not applied because ChildObject.translateY has incoming connection

It doesn't even make sense because I select Parent, and not the Child. Does it automatically selects the child. If so, how can I prevent this behaviour?

Thanks for any help !

Edit:

One possible solution is to select the Parent and group it, so add a grandparent. But I don't want this to go on, until I have

GrandGrandGrandGrandParent
- GrandGrandGrandParent
 - GrandGrandParent
  - etc

so I want to know what I'm doing wrong, so I can fix it in later, probably more complicated situations. Thanks again !


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I have an image of a living room, that is naturally illuminated, very bright, and I need to alter the image as if it was illuminated at night by a dim light, and I need it to look natural.

So far my attempts have failed, it doesn't look natural at all.

Is there a way to darken the whole image of the living room so it looks natural?

(I'm quite newbie with PS, the more steps you indicate the better)


texts: shaving a pixel off the outside of an image

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Hi all,
In this example picture, you can see around the top and sides of the hair there is something like an extra pixel or two of a lighter color.

I can't think of a easy way to effectively shave or trim a pixel or two off the edge all around this image. The trim feature doesn't do it, and stroking doesn't help.
Probably an easy way to do it but my brain has quit lol help!


texts: Why is the snapping tool leaving some gaps between the shapes snapped together? (Affinity Designer)

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I am using Snapping tool with the default settings.

However, as you can see, it is leaving gaps between shapes, thus totally undoing the whole point of the tool, if I have to manually line them up anyway. How do I fix this?


texts: Is it possible to preserve the length of an arc while changing it?

texts: Lets say I have an arc and I want to change the endpoints/handles/etc. but I want to preserve the length. Note that I do not mean the distance between the endpoints but the length of the curve. Is this possible in Illustrator? (It is probably super niche so I don’t know if this is something they would have thought of.)


texts:
I have this shape made up of lines (see left side of image). Why is it that when I resize it to a smaller size, it becomes slightly transparent (see right side of image)?

Changing it to a smart object has no effect.

Duplicating the resized one multiple times makes it appear opaque (as it should), but merging all the duplicated layers results in the transparent version.

How can I resize it to smaller without this weird transparency?

(I'm trying to make a UI kit where I can copy/paste/resize elements without their look changing. I would like to avoid Illustrator if possible.)


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I'm working with a graphic designer who doesn't know how to design for the web, I can't blame her, she's not a web designer.

She keeps sending me pictures and PSDs that seem too big, I do my estimations and create them using CSS, she sees them and says it's too big. In the screenshot I can see that an image is 70% or 80% the width of the screen, so I do it as I see it, but her measurements are different.

The main problem is that she doesn't know how to specify how big her images should be in terms of percentages and the average width of an image is 1100px. She doesn't know that the average screen size is 1024.

I need a way to scale everything down to 1024px so that I can test her precise design on real screens and then convert them back to percentages. If that task can be automated then there's no need to ask her, she's comfortable working with a big scale and I respect that.


texts: Crop a big picture into several small size pictures

texts: Is there a a way with GIMP editor to crop a big picture into several small equal sized pictures? So when all those small pictures connected in order would make a big picture.


texts: Creating booklet "templates" for users with no design experience

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Currently, we design print booklets in Adobe InDesign. We create hundreds of these booklets a year, the design and layout is mostly the same, some content and images are swapped out on each.

We would like to find a software that allows "templates" of these booklets to be created, and content/images easily swapped out with other "template" pieces. Example: I want a booklet with product 1, product 2, and product 3 in it. Then I want a booklet with product 4, product 2, and product 7. This should automatically create the booklet with the products I have chosen.

Generated files still need to be of high print quality.

The software must be extremely user friendly - any employee with no design experience or knowledge should be able to easily generate their own custom booklets. That said, the design of the "template" pieces should still allow a high degree of customization by a professional designer.


texts: How to calculate other colors with the same perceived lightness as a given gray value?

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This is related to a question I asked on tex.stackexchange, which has a color aspect. The result of that question is the following image:

I have drawn a series of gray squares on the left, with a red branch departing to the right. The goal is to have different red squares with a different saturation, but all with the same gray value. In the hsv color model, they all have the same v, but when I convert the image to grayscale using Gimp, they are not converted to the same gray. Also the visual impression is that the red squares on the right are darker than those on the left.

How can I, given a certain gray, calculate colors with a certain hue and the same gray value (or, even better, with the same gray impression)? The colors used in the image are all calculated, so I prefer solutions that incorporate calculations as well.

I might have used wrong terms here - I'm a mechanical engineer, so please correct me where appropriate, or ask for clarification.

The suggestion to use the Lab color space has led me to some conclusions:

I can use the Lab model's L value to set some kind of gray value for different colors. In the hsv model this is v. I'm not sure if I am actually allowed to compare those, but I'll do it until someone complains.
In the hsv model I can also set some "base color" (a hue), which I can't find in the Lab model.
In the hsv model, I have 2 constants (in the image above: h = 0, v = 0.375) and one variable (s).
Up to this point, I only have one constant in the Lab model. That is not enough to generate something similar to what I already made with the hsv model.

I guess it's time for experiments.

Done! After I got the conversion code running, it was wuite easy. The first step was to define the "target red" on the right. I calculated RGB2Lab(255,0,0) and changed the L value of the result to the desired L in the figure (L = 62.5). The colors are calculated using a linear interpolation in Lab space from (L,0,0) to (L,aTarget,bTarget). The result:

Thank you!


texts: Should my white logo be a Spot or Process color for printing?

texts: I am creating my logo in Illustrator (ready to place in InDesign as part of a DVD sleeve.) and I'm wondering if I should be choosing 'Spot Color' or 'Process Color' for my whites. (For the other settings I have chosen 'CMYK C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=0'.)


texts: How to convert higher order Bézier curves to piecewise cubic Bézier curves

texts: Is it possible to convert higher order Bézier curves to piecewise cubic Bézier curves in Inkscape?


texts: MS Word: protect header only from editing

texts: I'm creating letterhead template in MS Word for a client. They want to protect the header from editing but allow the footer to be editable. I can't seem to get the Protection feature to do that. It will protect both but not just one. Thoughts?


texts: How to add this unchangeable text below each slide?

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I'd like to know how do I add a text below the Powerpoint slides, something similar to what is added to every presentation here:
https://www.free-power-point-templates.com/
I mean this text:

How can I add it to my presos? I checked in Master slide, but it's not there... not editable at all.

Thanks


texts: How to make shape background transparent?

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I am trying to get white moon icon from PSD file. As I understood, there are 2 layers with different background colors: white & orange.

I tried to select orange shape area using Elliptical Shape Tool and delete but nothing happened.

How to make orange shape background transparent to get white moon like icon?

PS. Sorry if this question seems like weird. I am not designer


texts: I create pixel perfect design but shows with extra pixels in photoshop

texts: I'm working on a logo in Adobe Illustrator and I have Snap to Pixel and Snap to Grid enabled. I've also right clicked and selected Make Pixel Perfect. It looks great in Illustrator but when I export the selection and I open the PNG or SVG in Photoshop I see shaded borders around my work. I can't figure out how to stop this from happening. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Spaces aren't showing on text in illustrator from converted CorelDraw file

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My goal

I am saving CorelDraw files as AI files, and bringing them into Adobe Illustrator. I am then a text element.

My issue

When I'm creating a text element, spaces have no width, so "hello world" looks like "helloworld". There is a space, but it doesn't take up width. Even putting 10 spaces in a row cause no actual space to be taken up. This only happens with CorelDraw files that I saved as AI files and opening in Illustrator. Existing text from the old file does not have this issue, even when adding text to those elements. When I start a new project in illustrator, text on a path behaves as expected.

What I've tried

I've tried changing several settings both when saving the CorelDraw file as AI, and when bringing in the AI file. I've set the compatibility when saving the CorelDraw to both newer and older versions. I've tried with and without legacy artboard. I have tried different fonts. None of this has changed the behavior of spaces not taking up space.

I have searched google and the graphic design stack exchange, but have not found any relevant information.

UPDATE: Discovered this was not path specific, so removed references to doing this on a path. It applies to all new text elements.


texts: How do I make adjustment layers work without a background layer in photoshop cc?

texts: As it is, I can't get my adjustment layer to apply to the layers I want because when I get them to clip for one layer, they stop working (they no longer change anything for any layer). If I hide the background layer, they stop working. This has been incredibly frustrating. I recently set my backgrounds layers as gray in my document presets for figuring out colours and I have a hunch that might have something to do with it.


texts: Why circular 8 looks better than square 8

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Here is a drawing of the two:

The circular 8 is much more common than the square "shape" that kind of could be considered an 8 on the right.

I would like to know why.

In both shapes there are clearly two "divisions", and they both have the same "orientation". So it seems they should be both equally 8. They also don't really conflict with any other shape I don't think, well maybe 0 a little bit.


texts: Minimal color poster generation (Obama Hope style)

texts: I am trying to create images like this. How are these images created? I need the simplest way possible. Can it be done online somewhere?


texts: How to make a round halftone texture/pattern to use? I tried to do this via Bitmap, but it doesn't make exactly what I want. Thanks for your answers!


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Ive got a sign i created in inDesign that i wish to export as a PDF using file > PDF Presets > High Quality to send to print shop.

When im in Illustrator and export a document to be sent to a print shop i highlight the text object > right click > text to outlines so that there is no issue of the font opening up on the print shops end when they open the PDF.

Is there a similar function / feature inside of inDesign ? Ive search the help menu but couldn't find it. Is it another workflow perhaps ?


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I want to document my images and looking for a tool like this as in the image below.

I want to highlight my image feature like the pink arrow, is there any tool for this to highlight features of an image? Or please recommend something similar to this.

Thank you


texts: How can I match face tone in this picture. I tried Match Color and playing with Curves and Hue/Sat layers. Also this Youtube tutorial makes it look so easy but it didn't work for me at all.


texts: Connecting drawn lines from a tablet in Photoshop

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I recently bought a Wacom tablet for someone I know as she is interested in getting into the digital design industry. She's mainly just been doodling some drawings in Photoshop with it at the moment, but she wants to start adding colour to the drawings. However, she told me that due to the brush strokes the lines are not completely connected (for example if she draws a circle as a face, there are gaps in some places). What method do people use to get around this, and to start adding colour?

Thanks!


texts: Merging two anchor points of the same path in Illustrator

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Assume the following situation in Adobe Illustrator, where I have two neighbouring anchor points on the same path. For the left anchor point, only the left bezier-handle is important and for the right point, only the right one. There are no bezier-handles pointing inwards.

Is it easily possible to merge these two points into one point which has two bezier-handles: the left from the former left point and the right from the former right point?

When simply moving one over the other, the two points are still existent and something like simplify path changes the look of the whole path which is not wanted.


texts: Saving as SVG in illustrator gives me an error

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I'm getting an error when I view my illustrator doc.

  error on line 33308 at column 20: Namespace prefix inkscape for
  connector-curvature on path is not defined

My illustrator document is pretty basic except it uses a custom font. I don't know how to begin to solve this error. Any troubleshooting tips/ideas?


texts: Merge Photoshop groups each into their own single png

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I am looking for a script/way to automatically render all Ps groups in a project into their own single .png file (so one .png per Ps group).

I have found scripts that export all layers as .png but that's not useful.
Also having to go in and select the layer groups that I want is a bit annoying because I will always want one PNG of every group.

Anyone that can help?

ps: I have a script that exports all layers into a .png, so having a script that automatically merges groups into one layer would do aswel!

Thank you!


texts: What feature of Autodesk Inventor is used to bring in a vector image and use it as part of your part?

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I'm using Autodesk Inventor to create sheetmetal designs for cut out on a plasma cutter cnc table such as an electrical box.   After laying out a sheet in the sketch, I'd like to import a vector based image like a DXF which might be a logo, clipart design, etc., resize it and use it in cutting the design out of the sheet metal.

What feature/function of Inventor will allow you to do this?  Are you aware of any tutorials that show this type of functionality?


texts: Print Finishes : Are "Spot UV" and "UV Varnish" the same thing? If not, what are the differences?

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So I was browsing quotations for an online printer and i came across these two terms "Spot UV" and "UV Varnish".

I understand that the Spot UV effect is sort of like adding some plastic-like material onto the print material in a desired shape/design eg a logo or text.

Is UV Varnish the same thing, or is it something else altogether? A quick Google search returns UV Varnish and Spot UV to be the same thing, but why would the print company use two different terms for the same idea? I think it might mean something else, hence this question.

Thanks it advance!


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I am using the Papyrus font in a banner and I would like to make the font darker and thicker without going as dark as Papyrus Bold.  Papyrus Bold seems to loose the feel of papyrus which is caused by the "voids" in the font.  Bold reduces those "voids" which gives it a different look.

Is there a way to tweak fonts in Gimp that would allow some modification somewhere between Papyrus and Papyrus Bold?  I have been using Gimp for almost 20 years but have never even considered tweaking fonts.   Or, is Gimp completely the wrong tool for the job?


texts: Vertical flipped line exported as SVG shows coords "flipped"?

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I have a line created in Illustrator. This line have some small curves. Im animating (revealing) this line with an animation library.

My issue is: In Illustrator I flipped the line vertical and when exporting the line as SVG, this seems to result in paths coordinates that relates to the "un-flipped" line - meaning, the coordinates for the line starts (is created) from bottom and up.

I need the coordinates for the path to start from the top. Any ideas?

In any case the SVG output could be of use, then it's:

<svg version="1.1" id="svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
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