texts: Batch canvas resize (add 1 inch of blank canvas to the top of all images)

texts: What is the most efficient way to add X amount of blank canvas to the top of a bunch of images? I'm sure there's a program capable of doing a batch process somewhere. But so far all I've found is batch programs that will resize all canvases to the same size; I don't want that, as in this case all images are different dimensions. I have access to GIMP ifranView and Photoshop, though I'd have to dig out my Photoshop CD and reinstall it.


texts: Display Screen colors on laptop vs desktop

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I do my work on a laptop.

I have this problem and I'm trying to find a solution which the problem is when I set screen brightness on 100%, the colors on my screen are mixing up with the backlight of the screen, and I dont get the true colors of the picture's.

When I send the pictures to other people they see a different colors like more saturation or more or less of the adjustments.

Do you have any solution for this?


texts: What is the name of visual technic to draw line showing both velocity and accleration in 3d animation software

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In several animating software such as Blender, source film maker,etc. ... , they visual the position of an object over time by pulsating line. Does that  visualization technic have a name?

Edit:

In this link, you can see the line with gree dot that illustrate the movement. In source filmmaker, the green dot also glow one by one depend on the difference in timeline of the keyframe


texts: How do I create symmetrical curves on vector shapes in Photoshop?

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Let's say I want to make a mark representing the shape of a rotor in a rotary engine:

 (image source)

This shape is similar to a Reuleaux triangle:

 (image source)

I know how to create equilateral polygons in Photoshop, but I do not know how to create curves that have the same curve handle (is that the right term?) on both ends.

How do I modify lines into curves and keep them symmetrical?
By the same token, how can I then make other lines symmetrical to the first line, especially when they are at odd (non-right-or-45° angles)?
In general, what is the best way to keep elements of shapes symmetrical when modifying them?  Right now, I resort to lots of copying, pasting, flipping, and combining.

Note: I realize there are instructions on the Wiki-page for constructing a Reuleaux triangle using circles, but that only applies to an exact Reuleaux triangle where it is a curve of constant width.  I am interested in creating a shape that may have shallower curves and is therefore no longer a curve of constant width.  In addition, this is a principle I've run into more than once, so I'm interest in general principles for creating and working with symmetrical vector lines.


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In Hebrew, there are some diacritics which occasionally need to be combined. However, a frequent result is that they will all be centered, leading to a stack of characters which need to be re-kerned. For example, the meteg (אֽ) a vertical line used to indicate syllabic stresses (when not final) often migrates so that it crashes with the vowel diacritics (אַ, אָ, אֶ, and אֵ). (This also occurs with some cantillation marks)

Is there a way to individually kern the meteg to avoid crashing type? For some reason, my attempts to use the kern tool in the character palette invariably do not succeed.

An example of text where this may occur:

  אֱלֹהִ֑ים (where the esnachto crashes with the chirik)

or possibly

  מֶֽלֶךְ (where the meteg crashes with the segol)


texts: Illustrator to Word - Text Size Large (scaling issue)

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On windows, when exporting text (and more broadly any image) developed in illustrator to word, by dragging it from illustrator to word, there appears to be an issue with text size - the text from illustrator is much larger in font size than what it should be according to word. Attached below is an image to show what is occurring. The text above was drag and dropped into word from illustrator. The text below was typed on word. Both were set at size 12 (the text on top, set to size 12 on illustrator and the text at the bottom set to size 12 on word),

Is there a way to get illustrator to export to the correct size on word? Interestingly, this issue does not seem to occur on mac!

Also, I require the crisp vector image output supported by drag and drop (rather than a lossy png file) as I need to export the word file to PDF.


texts: Smooth logo cut outs in Illustrator for design of product card

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First time posting to Stack and I would identify myself as a hobbyist with adobe suites and the design world...

I'm doing a product card for print in Illustrator. It was requested to have an "As seen in" section near the bottom of the card and Logo's were pulled from websites for this purpose. The problem I'm running into is after removing the background in Photoshop. It appears to be very rough on the curves and some of the text (pixelation). For Web this isn't a problem but this is a handout card and having the rough curves could be visible to everyone reading it.

My process is:
 - Take the supplied logo (.jpg format), put it into Photoshop.
 - Use the magic wand tool to select the background and erase.
 - Use the magic wand tool select the main font and logo and fill it
   in as soft grey.
 - Export as .png and load into Illustrator project.

Attached is an example of the pixelation

Is there any or technique after removing the background to smooth the curves back out in Illustrator? Am I missing a simple step? I've tried to vector it in Illustrator but the text and logo become too warped and the lines become inconsistent.

Any help is appreciated!


texts: Merge and delete the nodes from overlapping shapes in Inkscape

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I started my adventures with Inkscape.
I am trying to merge and delete connection between nodes.

I have got a two objects that intersect:

I would like to merge them and delete a section so the result is similar to this:

I tried join selected nodes for two node from two objects but it doesn't work.


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Recently, I started taking interest in logo designs and started replicating some famous logos.

Soon, I came across this article about twitter's new logo, released somewhere in june '12 . On this post, I learned the fact that circles and the mathematical constant golden ratio are being used in logo designs of twitter and apple and icolud.

I want to know, what's the reason behind this? Is it a matter of good practice or is it some standard practice?


texts: How can I use the arrow tool in Sketch App without navigating a menu every time?

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I am designing a flow chart.  It requires lots and lots of use of the arrow tool, but there is no hotkey for it.  Therefore, every time I want to add an arrow, I have to navigate Insert>Shape>Arrow in the menu.

Surely, there is a better way.  How can I use this tool quickly, over and over again?  How can I use this tool without having to navigate the menu every time.

I tried creating a custom shortcut through apples system preferences, but it did not work.  Perhaps there is a hotkey for re-do last command?


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I designed a CV in Photoshop yesterday, but when I exported the pages, I got this result.

On the second page, the baseline is thicker then what it is in Photoshop.

This is what it looks like when exported to a pdf.

And This is what it looks like inside Photoshop.

I can't get the thick line to appear unless I zoom into a certain level.

I'm not sure what the problem is and I have never faced an issue like this before.

EDIT

After reading the answers I have decided to create the whole document in Illustrator or In Design.

Thank you for all of your attention.

Also, I'm not very skilled and I just listed the programs that I familiar with. Most of the agencies in my country don't use them for highly skilled applications yet they are always searching for someone who has 2 years of experience.

I'm looking to impress them with my CV so that is why I added them.


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In a few operations, how can I crop closed paths and have the result be a set of open paths? It's important that the solution be as few operations as possible, and not rely on point and click. (I'm looking for something scalable to perform operations on very complex map images.)
Someone asked the same question here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/comments/75xjfa/intersection_with_open_paths_or_equivalent/
Here's a very simple example of the objects I'm starting with:

The orange area is a closed path that I want to crop to, and the black lines are a bunch of closed paths that I want to be cropped. This is what I want the result to look like:

The lines must be open in the final result. That is, each line is just that - a line with no fill. (Ideally, they'd keep the stroke I've set initially, but not required.)
It's important that this solution applies to much more complex scenarios too. For example, I'd want to crop the lines in this example down to the purple areas:

The images I'm working with are extremely large, and can have thousands of islands to crop out. (Point and click with a mouse to delete paths won't work...)
I'm open to using any software available, but I'd prefer something open source / scriptable. Illustrator or Inkscape would do.


texts: Why is Illustrator exporting only what's inside the artboard?

texts: When I try to save an image with illustrator it only saves a part of the picture. So only the part of the picture that fits on the actual page gets so and everything that hangs off of the page just gets cut off. How can I change this setting?


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I am currently working on a GUI and iconset in Illustrator which will be exported (using a plug-in) to XAML.

While GUI elements can be exported by placing them in a new file, this becomes a lot of work with iconsets. Which I want to avoid. So I am looking for a streamlined workflow to export multiple groups/artboards/layers (similar to Export for Web & Devices) for XAML (the plug-in does not support "use artboards").


texts: Applying a gradient to bloat/blur effects in Photoshop

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I am trying to recreate the effect demonstrated on the logo for the Tate galleries in the UK with Photoshop.

Here are some of the logo variants:

Using quick masking I can emulate the gradient blur, but I haven't found a way to bloat the text in addition to the blurring. I'd like to know how to do this, specifically as a gradient.

The font used for the Tate logo appears to be a variant of VAG Rounded, if that helps at all.


texts: Where did the Mountain + Sun Image Iconography Originate?

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As far as I know, the Mountain + Sky or Mountain + Sun Iconography is used almost ubiquitously to represent an image file across Windows and Web browsers.
Whether it be a:
A png file

An unloaded image:

Or even, I think, denoting a location where images can be dropped, in order to uploaded:

It even appears on SE directly above the Styling/Headers tab.

So where exactly did this iconography originate?


texts: How do I change the Black used for text in PDFs exported by InDesign?

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I have a problem when I get a PDF from a designer and I have to chop it up in Photoshop and place it in InDesign and then re-export it.

When it goes to print, it prints all the text in registration black.  I've tried several options such as: preferences, advanced type, appearance of black, export all blacks accurately.  That option and several others I've tried have not worked and it still prints in registration black.

Haven't been able to find the answer to this by searching.  Can anyone help me out with this?


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I don't know if it's inappropriate to post something like this on this site but I didn't have anywhere else to relay my problem. (I'll remove it if it is.) Everybody online had something different, so it was just becoming a bit frustrating to not be able to find a solution.

I have Krita and MediBang on my desktop computer and they both work fine. No lag, no freezing, they run real smoothly. But I notice with the lines I draw, both tablet and mouse, they come out angular. It's barely noticeable in Krita, but in Medibang it's more prominent. It's really frustrating because it messes up any sketching I try to do. Sometimes the beginning of the stroke is completely straight before it follows the rest of the input. Is this due to some settings in the programs? Or is it my computer? I don't have the slightest clue what to do about it.

Medibang - Angular Lines:

There are marks where you can see the angles.

Krita - Straight line breaks:

I'm certain I don't need to clarify this, but just being safe; This isn't just messy sketching, It's called feathering; just a bunch of repetitive, short strokes that can help represent a form more accurately. I would show all examples, but this is already long enough as it is.


texts: Features of a good logo for a smartphone app

texts: I can design but I am new to the "phone app" world. How do I make an awesome logo for this smartphone-app job? I am looking for a "To Do" list, please.


texts: Resizing Images without changing the proportions or losing quality

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Hi my client has given me a load of images for the site I'm building for him, they are going in a Javascript Image Nivo Slider Banner at the top, the size of the banner is 720px x 200px but the images aren't.

I can crop the images, but I wonder if there is a way to resize them and change the proportion without destroying the quality, or due to the nature of how pixels work is this not possible?

I would like to be able to turn them into wide angle images and work from there.

I have Photoshop CS6 Ext.


texts: Recommended column width for text reading, digital vs printed

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Coming form a digital background, I have often read different kinds of suggestions (for example 35-50 ems) for how wide a column of body text should be to still maintain a good readability.

Is there any advice from the print design that could be adapted, and in what measurement are they given (em, word count, letter count, other..)? I am particularly looking for articles, books or other references on this. Can digital be mirrored to print media when it comes to column width, and vice versa?


texts: What Colors should I use for changed/added Items?

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I am programming an Application that manages a Database. The User can add Items to the List or modify them. These Items should be colored.

The Background ios white, and the currently selected Item is Blue (Standard Windows 7 Colors). Those are "immutable".
What Colors are nice for Changed and Added? At the moment I have Green and Yellow, which makes anyones Eyes bleed.

As I am a Programmer, making things look "nice" (aka Non-horrible) is not my forte...


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Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export error Indesign

Context:

I am currently trying to export a file from Indesign into a PDF, however, I am getting the following errors:
Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export.

Followed by:
Failed to Export the PDF file.

I looked this up and came across this forum on Adobe help centre. Following the answers on there, I isolated the issue to Page 5 (which has a number of images). However, the forum suggested the problem was having an RGB image on a CMYK, but all my images on my file seem to be RGB (No CMYK) and since there is only an issue with one page, this must not be the issue.

Question

Does anybody know why this error keeps happening? How can I fix it or if need be override it to create the PDF?


texts: Remove bottom corners when using 'Round Rectangle Tool'?

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I use a 'Round Rectangle Tool' to create navigation bar (for website)..

How to remove two rounded corners at the bottom?

Once it has been removed then I can apply some style from blending options.

For example:


texts: How can I lock down Microsoft Word to protect our branding?

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I re-branded our organization a couple years ago and created what I thought were very "easy to use" Word templates for things like letterhead, forms, and long documents. As well intentioned as my co-workers may be, they're not very Word savvy and/or think they are creative geniuses and usually end up destroying the very brand and style guide I worked so hard to create. I've tried locking down Word but it's pretty quirky and caused too much of a headache for people to turn Show/Hide on or learn how Word styles work. I've also tried proactively training people on how to use Word the "right" way but its just not working out. In a perfect world I would have all documents come through my office where I could ensure their design before going to the public, but that's just not possible here.

Can anyone suggest the best way to go about protecting our brand and still allowing co-workers to author their own documents? Different software, workflow, anything???


texts: Is it okay to set a project price significantly higher than the printing costs?

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I was asked to write and design a 2-page flyer  (A4 size) for an industrial product. I would like to charge AED 1000 for this job.

I was also requested to find a printer and get the flyer printed (1000 copies to be printed in 4 colors); I find that the print quotation is just above one third the price I want to charge for my services - AED 380.

Is such a big difference OK?


texts: A4 portfolio as a book in photoshop. page compilation?

texts: i want to design my A4 portfolio like a book format. and want to design 2 pages at a time. Could you suggest how shall i go about it. I was thinking of taking pages (1,4-2,3) and (5,8-6,7) together. Since i was wondering how they would be printed and put together to be bound as a book.


texts: What is the resolution of two horizontally joined pictures?

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I want to get a confirmation of what the final resolution should be after joining two pictures horizontally.

I have two pictures A and B which have resolutions 100x100 and 100x100, respectively, for the height and width.
I joined the images.

Output shows correctly, Image B at the end of the Image A. However, the resolution of join A-B picture is 200x400.
If I iterate once more for two A-B-s, I get 400x1600.

So each join increases the height resolution and width resolution 2x and 4x, respectively.

This causes problems for me. Any idea what's going on here?


texts: Where can I find tutorials for Inkscape?


texts: Mac app to compare processed image before/after?

texts: I often use ImageOptim and ImageAlpha to optimize images. ImageAlpha has a really nice feature because it lets you compare optimized image to the original one before saving it. Is there a software that does exclusively this (comparing two images) in a convenient way?


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I have an Illustrator file with icons set up in this fashion on one artboard.

Is there a way for me to create artboards for each icon for export easily, without going in and having to click each icon?


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I have an image (It is 474 x 162 px) and was asked to send it in the following formats. However, I have no design software and use Canva. I put in custom dimensions for 1200x628, 1200x1200, etc. and the image looks pixalated. What can I do?

Landscape (1.91:1): 1200×628 (min required: 600×314)
Square: 1200×1200 (min required: 300×300)

Landscape (4:1): 1200×300 (min required: 512×128)
Square: 1200×1200 (min required: 128×128)


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I often have the need to illustrate a little section of coding that would be best achieved by showing an animated gif of how the code is typed. I see these kind of things often enough that I feel there must be tools available to make it easier. Here is such an example:

So the way I've done it (not the above image, that's someone else's) is to do a screen capture after every keypress, paste that image as a new layer in a document in GIMP, crop the entire document with all layers to the section I'm interested in and then export as gif.

As you can imagine, taking a screen grab and pasting it into GIMP after every single key press is tedious work. Also, I have to then manually tweak the timing of each frame to simulate that natural appearance of text being typed by a human.

Surely there must be tools or techniques than can speed up this process. I was thinking for instance that if there is a tool that captures video of the text being typed, then breaks it up into images for each frame, then combines those images into a gif but removing duplicate frames and adjusting the duration of the remaining frame accordingly. So each frame will be unique but they will all have different durations.

Any pointers to software (preferably free and preferably for Windows) would be much appreciated.


texts: Losing quality when scaling layers to smaller size

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Is there any easy way I can copy groups of images from one document to another document with a different format, then resize all the images to a smaller size without losing the quality?

I'm making an advertisement, but want to make a similar one just in a completely different format and copy certain images from the other poster. However, I can't do so, because I lose the quality as soon as I shrink the images smaller.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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How is the space at the top of a text field determined? I know it's dependent on the font, but what's the logic.

I can't see a clear relationship between the leading and this space at the top of a text field.

I've included two diagrams to demonstrate this question.


texts: What's the best way to locally dim light sources in Photoshop?

texts: For example, on this image, how to best reduce the brightness of the lanterns on the temple ground without dimming the whole photo?


texts: How to enlarge image without distorting it?

texts:
I would like to double the size of this image without causing any pixelization.

Can you please let me know how can it be done?

Thanks!


texts: Creating snap node from intersections in Inkscape

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I created a straight line using the freehand line tool, and then from the end of the line, using the snap-to-node feature, I created a circle using the ellipsis tool. This means the center of the circle is exactly the end of the line.

I now want to create a node at the intersection of the line and the circle, so that I can start drawing more lines starting exactly from that intersection point.

Is it possible to dynamically create a node through intersected lines? This doesn't need to be specific to circles and lines. I'm also wondering if I have two intersecting lines drawn by the freehand line tool, how can I break them apart so that each intersection point becomes a node?


texts: How to open a file the fast way in Gimp?

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The classical way to open a file is not followed in Gimp. There is no browse button, nor there is a textbox where one can paste the path to the file. I do not edit images everyday and I always have to loose half an hour to be able to open a simple file. So here are my questions:

How to open a file in Gimp the fast way (something akin to pasting the pathway on a textbox).
Is there a reason for the current state of affairs, or is it just the decision of some chief developer?


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I work for a small graphic design company. Very small. It's just the owner and myself. I'm technically an independent contractor, although I act more as an employee (I know this is already not a good arrangement, but go along with me for now).

The owner will find clients and sign them on, after which he pays me an hourly rate to essentially do everything else, from start to finish.

Recently he has stated that he will begin billing me for any time that he spends on the projects "finding things wrong" and "fixing client relationships etc." when there is something that he deems a mistake.

This doesn't sound right to me. It seems to me that it is his job as the sole proprietor to have an active role in the process; that his clients are paying him to do a job and now he wants me to also pay him to do that same job. I could see if I was making a set amount on a project and I really dropped the ball, but that's not the case.

And I could also see if these were my clients and I was giving him a finder's fee, but that is also not the case. His company receives all the credit. He negotiates the prices with the clients. And he is paid directly by them, only after which does he write me a check for my work. I have no idea what he's earning off of these projects in which I am essentially doing 100% of the fulfillment, but on top of that, he now wants to bill me whenever he feels the need to work on them.

It obviously doesn't sit well with me that he would suddenly want to bill me for work he's doing for his own clients.

I'm having trouble making sense of this. Is there any precedent for what he's proposing? Is my instinct correct that this isn't okay. And if so, how do I explain this to him nicely without making him angry, while backing up my position with relevant information?

— Ladnav

PS: Let me know if further clarification is needed on anything. I'm still a little rattled by this and trying to wrap my head around it.


texts: Select and Mask option missing for Quick Selection Tool (W) in PS CC v20151209

texts: In my instance of PS CC v20151209 there is no Select and Mask option for Quick Selection Tool. Is this a buggy software or is it really missing in this version of PS? Because everywhere in video tutorials the option exists.


texts: Business Card printing and correct CMYK profile settings

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So I bought this business card template that comes as a PSD file with the U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 CMYK profile. I edited it in Photoshop and then found out the printer company:

wants CMYK colour mode and uses FOGRA39 as the profile.
says fonts must be converted into paths / curves or embedded completely.
suggests to send PDF/ X-standard (PDF/ X3-standard or PDF/ X1a-standard).

So now I am unsure what to do so colors on the card look as close as these on screen:

Convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39
Rasterize > Flatten > convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39
Save as PDF using FOGRA39 directly

Also I believe Photoshop uses vector fonts, thus I assume it is better NOT to rasterize them, so when saved to PDF they look great at any magnification? Would that work if the printer company doesn't have the font? I mean is this what they mean by "embedded completely"

Thank you.


texts: import CSV content to InDesign document with script

texts: I have a Daily Planner (400+ pages) created in InDesign. Each daily page has date. The 365 daily pages start from page 17 to 382 in my InDesign document. I figured it would be better to add weekday to the daily page too. I created a csv file with dates and corresponding weekdays. I wonder if there's a script that can import csv data to my InDesign document so the weekdays can get added to the corresponding daily page. Ideally, the weekday can go to a specific location of the page and set to a character style I created in my document. Any help/insight would be much appreciated!


texts: How can I make a png's Alpha contain undetectable colours?

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Okay, I'll try to make a long story short. I use PS elements 8 (yeah I know that barely counts a PS).

I make textures for a video game mod, and I came across a problem. To help explain I quickly put together this little gallery because I can't explain my problem in words, it would take 5-6 paragraphs. http://imgur.com/a/WXfMt

The last image is the actual Yellow eye texture that has the weird transparency. The transparent part has no colour when you use the eyedropper as you would expect.

Interestingly if I open the Yellow eye image in PS and save it as a png it removes almost all of the hidden pixels. All that remains is a rectangle around the eye itself. Any help on how to save pngs in the same way that is used here would be invaluable to me. Cheers!


texts: Illustrator: Font thickness letter 'I' changes when exporting

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I am exporting a logo in a certain font.
When editing in Illustrator all is well.
When exporting the capital letter I is thicker than the other letters.

Because the letter I is perfect slim rectangle in comparison to the others.
How do I fix this?


texts: What should graphic designers consider when designing tattoos?

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I searched the site but couldn't find anything relating to tattoo design, I believe it's a relevant GD form and would like to cover some of the basics here.

What are necessary considerations a graphic designer should make when designing a tattoo?

More specifically, what must a GD consider regarding:

Ink Colour Limitations
Line Widths
Uneven Surface of Skin
Fine Details

Please feel free to add any topics of consideration I've missed.

Just to be clear, I'm asking about designing a tattoo, not drawing it on skin.


texts: How do I place a selection of many objects onto an arc in Illustrator?

texts:
I have 3 objects that are 3 stars, I have them placed in a straight line.

I would like to know if there is a way to place them making an arc (like the paramount logo style). And if in this process the stars will rotate over themselves or can stay straight up.

I'm asking this question specifically for a selection of more than one object.


texts: What is this procedure called in Photoshop

texts: I am a beginner in Photoshop and trying to emulate a template, but now I'm stuck. I don't know how to name the procedure marked by the arrow. So I have a picture which is masked by another layer. Can you tell me how to term it, in order to find a related tutorial or tell me how to do it?


texts: Gradient depth effect - How can we achieve this gradient?

texts: I have been trying to achieve this effort for a while using the circular gradient and then another layer of linear-gradient however, I am not able to figure it out. Any help will be appreciated or just pointers.


texts: Export a PSD to compressed and transparent TIF files with only one layer

texts:
I have several packshot images inside a group (with a mask to have a transparent background) and a shadow layer at the bottom.

Is there any way to export all images in TIF files with only one layer and transparency?

I tried with Layer Comps but I have every layers in each file, so that's about 500mb for each (instead of ~15mb).

I have the CC 2015 version.


texts: How to fill a shape with symbols in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I'm trying to fill an object with symbols, but can't get the right effect and spacing that I want with the Scatter Brush tool. Is there a way to fill this object with a symbol that would fit them all side by side (hopefully even with the ability to adjust size and rotation for each iteration) without having to tweak the symbol's settings, as well as the Scatter Brush settings? It just feels like that's a lot of tinkering and I might be missing an easier way to do this? Thanks! =)


texts: InDesign — Span an anchored text box over 2 parallel columns

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I'd like to span an anchored text box over 2 parallel columns. Those are bilingual, i.e. each containing a separate story.

Attached is a screenshot that shows 2 boxes (containing red text):

An anchored box — anchored in the left column, but the text from the right column is not wrapping.
A Non-anchored box — now it works fine by wrapping text from both columns, but it's not flowing with the text.

Is it possible at all?

God bless and thanks in advance!


texts:
I need to export a PNG logo which is designed in basic font, the issue that I'm experiencing is that the exported PNG is still fuzzy.

My current settings are:

Font: NTR > smooth
PNG-24
Transparency checked
Quality: bicubic


texts: How do I find the inclination of my Horizon line with respect to the paper/board while sketching a 2-point perspective?

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Premise:
In a 2-point perspective, the two vanishing points dictate the angle of the lines parallel to the respective axes they represent, say X and Y, while the third axis, say Z, is perpendicular/orthogonal to the horizon line, i.e., the line connecting the two vanishing points.

Problem:
When I am drawing a two point perspective and the vanishing points are well within the bounds of the paper, I am able to figure out the horizon line by connecting the vanishing points, and hence I know how much inclined/vertical the lines parallel to Z axis would be.

But when the vanishing points extend beyond the paper, I have no means to connect them as I don't effectively know where exactly they exist, and hence can't establish the horizon line or the angle it makes with the paper's edges.

In such a scenario, how am I supposed to draw the lines pertaining to the Z axis?


texts: How to denote verses of a poem in running text?

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I need to fit a certain amount of text onto one double page of a print document. The text has several poems in it which of course have verses. But because it would take up too much space I can't use line breaks to signify the end of a verse.
Is there a common character used for denoting the end of a verse or something else I can do to show where the verses end?


texts: PSD 2 HTML/CSS/JS - are "redlines"(help guides) and 2. grid lines not the same thing?

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I have 2 PSD projects with 2 different types of blue-sky guide lines:

https://s15.postimg.org/s421pj5mj/PSD.jpg
https://s4.postimg.org/7d9ecmr8d/two.jpg

I heard that in 1. PSD there are so called "redlines" (help guides)
and in 2. PSD there are so called "grid". What is the difference between those 2 different guide line types?


texts: Is there a Photoshop plugin with additional transform resampling filters?

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I'm from a VFX background (working with compositors) and I'm fairly new to Photoshop. I notice when performing transforms that there are only a few resampling options available (Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear and some Bicubic variants). Is there a plugin available to provide additional filters (e.g. Lanczos, Sinc)?

Thanks for your help.


texts: Photoshop Action for save mysteriously increase file size

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I record a Photoshop action to save file as png format. It works except one thing: file sizes differ when I do manually save and when I play the save action (recorded exactly the same steps in manual save). For example, in manual save the file size is 10KB, in action save it becomes 40KB.

I tried several different files and got similar results. Action save always increases file size by around 20-30KB, which matters to me since I am doing iOS dev and keeping file sizes minimum is essential.

Any idea what cause the file size difference, and more importantly, how to get rid of it?


texts: How do I change all instances of a color to another in photoshop?

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I am have created an image that has elements in it from another image that I didn't have a psd for. The elements in question are black(#000000). How exactly can I change all of these elements to a different color(#292929). I would need for it to basically change all elements that are black in the image to that color. Can anyone help?

I am using Photoshop CS6


texts: How to create basic animations of Illustrator files?

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I have this device that I need to create a movie for. I also have the Illustrator files for it.

I now have to create a basic animation out of them , things such as basic moving parts, changing colours of some rectangles, blinking (eyes) and moving the camera around so for example zoom into object and see another object.

Is this something that I can learn and do by myself? If yes, with what software? Is only Flash good? Is there any software to make these things for someone that doesn't know anything about it?


texts: Export: Copy text from pdf without line breaks

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There are some PDF out in the wild where every line of text seems to be hardcoded so when I copy a text block everything comes with it: Line breaks and even "-" separators.

My questions is: How do I create PDF's in InDesign where this behaviour doesn't happen.

Does somebody know more about this?


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Most people make logo by creating an image for it. I don't want that since I don't know Photoshop and I may make it ugly.

Can logos be made just by using a font rather than creating a logo image?


texts: What is the Font type of "pocket edition" text in Minecraft Pocket Edition logo?

texts: Does someone know the font type of the text "pocket edition" in the Minecraft Pocket Edition logo pictured here?


texts: How to populate a 'DropDown' with a search bar in Adobe XD?

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I am new to Adobe XD and I am trying to create a 'DropDown' which also has a search feature like this:

Note: highlighted it black to hide sensitive information

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Illustrator - How to clone text fields along anchor points?

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I'm working on a large number of dot-to-dot puzzles and want to speed up the process and make it easier.

Right now I'm trying to find a way to clone one text field along the path so every anchor point of the path will have text field near it.

If you have any information about the way I can do this, please let me know!


texts: Is there a way to attach or 'stick' the end of a path to an image layer?

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This is my first post, so please tell me if there are any protocols I should be following!

I am doing a bit of a design in Photoshop (20.0.3) with electronic components, and am drawing wires between images of components using the pen tool. It seems to be working well, but when I need to adjust the position of a component, I need to manually update the wires using the pen tool.

Is there a way to attach, or stick, one end of a path to a particular location on another image layer, in such a way that when the image layer is moved, the end of the path will move with it, and thereby changing the shape of the path?

In the image attached, the thick red and black lines are paths, and I want just the bottom end of them to move downwards when I move the battery icon down - I don't want the whole path to move, or I would group them.

I have a feeling there is a slim chance, but it is too tempting to not be asked.

thank you!!


texts: Does CC0 1.0 Universal require attribution?

texts: I would like to use photos from the Public Domain Archive without attribution. They say that their photos are free for personal and commerical use. But they don't mention whether or not they need attribution. They are licensed under the cc0. Do I need to attribute them for the use of one of their photos?


texts: How to calculate how much contrast you need in a header if the focus is on content?

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I am redesigning a dental blog. So the focus is obviously content, they can read related news, download technical documents, watch videos, etc.

So I wanted the design to be subtle.

But the header I immediately wanted to grab their attention. Using Yellow to draw attention to the main selling point about the main product.

But it almost looks like there is too much attention there with that yellow and a little red. How can I calculate how much color contrast would be ideal? And should I perhaps put some dark background behind the header that expands full width?


texts: Weird solid color layer thumbnail in photoshop

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This has happened a couple times; the normal thumbnail looks like this :

but for some reason i've been getting this one lately:

It doesn't seem to have an effect on my projects but i'm just curious about the reason why it changed. Thank you for you help.


texts: how do you change jpeg export quality in Sketch?

texts: e.g. if i want to export a jpeg at 80%, how do i do that in Sketch.app? it appears to export at 96% by default.


texts: Master Page Placeholder Text Frame that can be changed on the pages

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What is the best way to create a placeholder text frame on the master page?

I have several pages that are basically section title pages, so everything on the page will be the same in terms of formatting, position, etc. Except for the obvious title of the section. Or should I just create a new text frame on each section page?


texts: Draw lines connecting a series of circles making rounded triangles

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I am trying to create a shape designed with 3 circles that will act as the corners. I am placing the circles very precisely so I want to start with them to define the shape. What I need to do now, is create a path connecting and surrounding the circles so I end up with triangles with rounded corners. Is there a way to do this in Illustrator so it can be done automatically so it is most precise?

See image for example idea.


texts: Does a graphic designer need to be able to code websites?

texts: The title says it all really. I just want to find out whether I need to know web code to be a good graphic designer.


texts: How to change colour automatically with size?

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Is there a way in GIMP to automatically associate a colour with a given brush size? The use case is that large objects are typically in the foreground, and should in general have a lighter tone than background (smaller) objects.

I'd like Gimp to associate color with a brush size. That is all.

A larger size should result in a lighter color (that's one algorithm; there are infinitely more).

I am not asking for an AI to decide what's in the foreground and what's in the background; I'm just saying that the way I paint is that large things go into the foreground and are lighter in tone.

The decision, therefore, is made by the human, but the automation is done by the software.


texts: Adding a screenshot to a product image in Photoshop 21.2.2

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I've downloaded the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max product images .psd from here and opened them in photoshop to add my app screenshot to them.
However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to add the screenshot to the layer correctly. It only opens as a new tab and no option will allow me to add it to the other psd. The layer reads "".
Can someone help me with this?


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Does anyone know what is the difference between transparency and overprint?

In other words: if I print 100% cyan and then 100% magenta with 50% opacity, how is it different from printing 100% cyan and then 50% magenta with overprint?


texts: Photoshop-How to add the layer arrow thing

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So I got PS a few days ago, and I've been working around a bit.
I was wondering what it was when someone snaps a layer to another one and it has like an arrow down on to the layer, and it colors any objects in the layer, how do I do it.
Sorry if it's already answered, I didn't really know what to search as I don't know the name of it.


texts: Why does screen captures get a better quality than saving (EPS to JPEG)

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I have EPS files containing photographs that I can’t open in Isodraw for an unknown reason.

I’m converting them to JPEG (with Irfanview, quality 100) and experience a significant loss of quality which is normal.

What I don’t understand is that, when I zoom in a do a screen capture of the image that I save in JPEG too, the quality of the picture is better.

Can you help me understand that?


texts: How legible is a right-aligned same-line header compared to a more conventional left-aligned separate-line?

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I maintain an internal weekly newsletter* sort of thing with zero or more points of interest* for each of a couple dozen people*. It's organized in groups within columns with a header for each such person-group, and my initial design when I took over and reworked it originally was to have the header right-aligned (displacing the text flow around it if necessary):

On the suggestion of my boss*, and although I wasn't really convinced it was necessary, I changed it a while back to a more conventional format with a slightly-indented left-aligned header on its own line:

I'm not really asking for bullet points to use to argue for one side or another. What I am asking is whether I'm even right in the first place to think that the first style is at least as legible as the second, while being more compact and maybe tying the name closer to the info for that name. (If there are other obvious glitches in the design as shown, I'd like to know about those too, but I suspect the whole thing would have to be shown to really catch much else.)

Since the whole thing has to fit on a single double-sided sheet of 8½"x11", compactness is a feature. But it's not the only one. And since everyone who reads this knows most if not all of the people mentioned, it doesn't need to be so much good at drawing in readers as acting as a readable quick-ref. (The lower margin in each group is for taking additional notes, and sees a good bit of use. It's not really going to be removed, although the height is occasionally tweaked to fit better.)

Full page with liberal lorem ipsum substitutions everywhere — all other formatting, and approximate bullet point distribution (including the occasional empty group), as original:

*None of this is quite accurate but it's close enough. In particular, this is volunteer work.


texts: Can image transparency be calculated automatically from multiple non-transparent samples?

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I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically calculate transparent image from set of non-transparent ones. No manual work with individual pixels or manual setting of opacities.

Many times I need to export images from "image editors" which are not supporting transparent backgrounds (example: PowerPoint). I can still give the image any background. For example I'm able to export two samples with mutually inverse backgrounds (as seen on 2 samples below). Or I can create 3-5 images with backgrounds for example: red, green, blue, white, black.

Example:
2 samples with mutually inverse backgrounds leading to expected result (I'm seeking technique/plugin to get such a result):

With such a set, based on differences between samples it should be completely clear what pixel has what alpha value.

Is there a method/plugin for converting set of samples described above into single image with correctly derived transparency?

I prefer GIMP.

EDIT:
One more sample to illustrate the idea. Semi-transparent glows are used:


texts: How to print very long images (e.g. 10" x 64") on a single sheet of paper

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I've got a very long image (10" x 64") that I would like to print on regular paper.  Most of the printing services I've seen print either posters (e.g. 24x36) or vinyl banners (e.g. for hanging outside a store).  Is there a printer that can just print something arbitrarily long (i.e. from a spool)?  Are there services that can do that?  I thought plotters did that, but when I researched plotters a it more, it sounds like they are for vector images (as opposed to photograph-style images).
And just to be clear - I do not want something like a big heavy-duty plastic banner that a company might put up at a trade show or outside their store.  I just want something printed on regular paper from a spool.


texts: RGB palette to predetermined CMYK palette in InDesign and/or Illustrator

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Happily this isn't yet another "why do my RGB colors look different in 4cp output" question. But let me admit that I may be missing something obvious here.

I am working with InDesign and Illustrator documents that adhere to a brand-defined palette of various RGB colors. The documents are mainly intended for web viewing and download via PDF. However, some will now be printed via offset/web/digital.

I know InDesign and Illustrator can convert RGB documents to CMYK for print output; however, the design language here also defines the brand colors in predetermined CMYK colors. These were determined kind of arbitrarily based on a press check someone did long ago looking at what CMYK swatches on coated paper appeared closest to the RGB brand colors seen on-screen.

So I know that if I output to PDF with convert to US Web Coated (or whatever the vendor wants if not that), the final print output will look preeetty close to our CMYK swatches but not exactly. I'd like to get it exact. By adhering to the "correct" CMYK values, and so I want to swap out the RGB swatches with the CMYK swatches without resorting to any kind of color profile stuff. (Or—do I in fact need some kind of custom color profile stuff? This is not what I understand them to be intended for)

In Indesign, the only way I can think of to do this IN the source file is importing the CMYK palette, then deleting the RGB colors one by one from the document and replacing with the equivalent CMYK swatch. Or some even more onerous process in Illustrator. There are a lot of colors and a lot of files so want to avoid this.

So the problem is I can't think of or find a way to automatically map the RGB values to those assigned CMYK equivalents. Either in the source file or upon output (either way would work for me—although it would be nice if I didn't have to start maintaining two versions (RGB+CMYK) of each source file). In any case, is there some method or script or plugin to swap the RGB swatches with the assigned CMYK swatches programmatically?

Or is this something we should be asking the print vendor to do for us? (this seems doubtful).


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I designed a vector in Adobe Illustrator CS6, but when saved as an .eps file, white vertical lines appear in my gradient.

image http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/772/28292306.png

What is happening? I've tried rasterizing the vector at 300 PPI with anti-aliasing, but the edges look jagged (but I really want to keep it as a vector anyway)

Does anyone have any idea what I could do?

Additional info:
The lines appear when I place the .eps file into Photoshop. When I open it in Illustrator though, it is as smooth as a baby's behind. I saved it in Illustrator EPS CS6.


texts: In spot color printing, does black count as a spot color?

texts: Do I have to choose a Pantone black, or can I just use 100% K?


texts: When printing, how thin is "too thin" for use of rich black vs standard blacks?

texts: I've read up a bunch of posts about the differences and understand about misregistration, etc. I also realize it will probably vary somewhat depending on the actual printing equipment, ink, and paper types... but in "general" when people suggest not using rich blacks for small/thin lines can someone shed some light on actual numeric measurements to take the "relativity" out of the words "small" and "thin"?  I.e. some people consider 8 point font "small" where others consider 12-14pt "small". I realize fonts can vary in weight so I am not expecting an answer in terms of font size, was just using font as an example of the relativity of the word s small and thin.  I'd imagine it would be inches (or mm) but have no idea if it's 1/2" 1/4"? 1/8"? 1/16"?


texts: What's the maximum file size of a jpg image?

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I'm attempting to ascertain the maximum file size possible of a jpg to detect when someone has hidden additional data (viruses etc) within it.

Assuming that you have an image that is 640x480 with no metadata (no camera make,
gps data etc), what is the maximum size that that file can be? Is there an formula for calculating this with other jpg dimensions?


texts: Illustrator: How to trim lines in a circle?

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im working on a little analyses drawing but im stuck with trimming some lines. Im drawing infrastructure with a circle over it to specify a location of intrest. But i need to cut the lines (drawn with the pen tool) to the contour of the circle. (i know its weird what im saying lol, please look at the pictures). Im using pathfinder tool and it worked the first time (see picture) but now it wont.

Am i doing it wrong?

Picture 1 is what i need to do, the circle cutting of the paths so its only colored in the circle

Picture 2 is what i need to cut

picture 3 is the message i get

Sorry for bad English, its not my native language ;)


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I have XML that I'm using to make a catalog, but I'm facing a problem with a certain repeated tag.
In the structure I have short lists
<item>content</item>
<item>othercontent</item>
<item>somethingelse</item>
<item>entirelydifferent</item>

I have <item> assigned to a paragraph style, which works fine for font, bullet points etc.  but the problem is that this list is being counted as one single paragraph.  The bullet point is being applied only at the front of the first <item> tag, and not the subsequent tags.  Subsequent tags are also not having a line break applied to them, any line break in the template gets applied to the end of the last tag when xml is imported.
InDesign is basically treating the above list as:
<item>contentothercontentsomethingelseentirelydifferent</item>

Why does InDesign count repeated identical tags as one and the same tag (and thereby one and the same paragraph), and what can I do to resolve this issue?  I need each <item> tag on its own line and with its own bullet point.
n.b. These lists vary in length by product, so I can't just use dummy/placeholder content with a specific number of <item> tags.
Thanks a million for any help that can be provided!


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I have a set of icons that I resized to 30x30.  Now I want to use them for my iPhone TabBar as specified here:

http://www.idev101.com/code/User_Interface/sizes.html

How can I make these transparent png's, or add transparency, in Photoshop or Gimp so they appear properly in my TabBar?


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How do I tone down the extreme white that shows up along the side of his neck, his ear, and on his knuckles? Adjusting the contrast doesn't seem to help.

EDIT:

(Some background information on what I've tried)

I tried:

Like mentioned above, adjusting the contrast and brightness. No luck.

Then, I selected the brush tool, selected the "color dodge" mode (on the panel at the top of the screen), however, it affected nearby pixels.

Using the color replacement tool lead to a similar result.

I read somewhere that you should try using levels or curves, but it when I tried the first time, it didn't work for me. I was adjusting the position of the gray, white and black swatches underneath the histogram, but that didn't help. Jagged black outlines grew around the white highlights when I tried to adjust the white to a grayer color.

In desperation, I even tried putting a grey cut out the same shape as the man in a layer beneath, and tried painting dark grey onto the mask I applied on the top layer. Again, other pixels became grayer too.

However, thanks to all the comments suggesting levels/curves, I figured I was doing it wrong. On my second try, it worked. (Instead of the swatches, I shifted the a slider on a palette, and the white was toned down to grey.)


texts: Illustrator how to edit the shape of a intersecting point of 3 thick lines?

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I'm working in Illustrator and I've got trouble making the corner in the graphic look like the one in the original image, without those sharp things sticking out of the corner.  I need to keep those closed paths (marked with thick red line) so that they can be filled.

I've attached the graphic and a part of the original image.

Thank you.


texts: Width of unicode musical symbols vis a vis fixed width font

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In my experience, the musical Unicode symbols for flat (♭) and sharp (♯) are not exactly the same width as the fixed width font that I am using, consequently columnar character alignment becomes slightly crooked. I am using this to depict guitar chords, and the alignment is a real nuisance.

Is there some way that I can draw strings and frets (presently using ╫, ─, ╢) together with musical symbols (presently using ♭, ♯, etc.) and Arabic numerals (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13) and retain completely fixed width spacing, such that columns spanning multiple rows will align properly? (I am presently allocating three characters between each "fret" (╫) so that I can sharpen or flatten an eleventh or thirteenth; single digit numerals receive an extra string filler character, ─.)

Here's a JSfiddle as a test case. The linked code results in this view:


texts: Drop caps for first paragraph in chapter in InDesign

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Is there a way to format paragraph styles so that only the first paragraph in each chapter gets a drop cap?

So far I have seen this solved by saving a "first_paragraph" style and a "regular" style to be the next-style, however I am modifying an imported text, so I need it to be able to automatically change all first chapter paragraphs.

Is there a way to de this without introducing separating into two paragraph styles?


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I have a handwriting font (TTF/OpenType) I created with another tool.  I like how it looks, but I would like to have a variant which is equivalent to a 125% horizontal stretch:
I'm aware that this affects vertical line thickness but not horizontal etc. but I'm fine with that:

How can I scale my font like this, including all spacing/kerning/glyphs/ligatures?


texts: Color shift when image is converted to CMYK

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I'm working with a graphic designer to design a book cover for a self-published title of mine on Amazon. The purple in the cover image becomes dull when converted to the required CMYK.
Original Image

This is what it looks like after being converted.

The designer has adjusted the hue and saturation levels before the conversion to try to compensate but it's not working. Does anyone have suggestions?


texts: Sketch 3 - detaching a symbol leaves items within folder still linked

texts: I'm using the BootSketch 3 symbol library for Sketch 3, and want to edit the color of one instance of a glyphicon. However, even after I detach that instance of the glyphicon from symbol, changing the color of that glyphicon results in all instances of it changing color as well. What am I missing?


texts: What's the main principle for app image sizes? (iOS)

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This is sort of a newbie question, but I'm not a designer.

In iOS, we can make universal apps (i.e. support both iphone & iPad). But when it comes to background images' sizes I have NO idea what's the principle there.

For example, I have an idea for an app. It will be universal app. The login screen would have a full size image (or image that's stretched from size to size). The point is to make it look HD on different devices (from biggest iPad to smallest iphone)

Is there are some principles/rules to follow? What's the biggest size you make your full screen images?

Thank you


texts: Can the Render Setting: Glow, be applied to specific objects? Realistic LED Wall Effect

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I am trying to create an LED wall effect for a background in Cinema4D and trying to make the individual LED lights shine convincingly. I made the LED material that displays the texture from an image giving it these settings:

The result wasn't so great:

So after having watched this LED light show video I added the Glow setting in the Render Options as follows:

and achieved this result that is pretty much what I need at the moment:

However, this had the undesired consequence that any and all lights and or backgrounds also have the Glow applied to them in the render as follows:

Is there a way to have the glow effect only apply to the glowing material? OR, is there a better way to achieve this glow effect I could look into? (I am pretty new to C4D).

If you wish to have a play around with the original files I have uploaded them to my GDrive Zipped here.


texts: Composite two images to reduce glare in label

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Image I want to use but has a glare on labels

Image that has no glare on label

I want us the image with the completely blown out white background, but replace its label with the one in the other image that has no glare.  How best should I do this?  I tried a few ways which didn't look very good.  I tried to mask the layer and paint over the label with a brush, also tried using the pen tool, but I'd always leave a sliver left over and couldn't quite get it too look flawless.


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I'm a fairly inexperienced Inkscape user.  I've added a hex grid with this add-on:

https://github.com/lifelike/hexmapextension/

The grid is roughly 60 hexes across and 50 hexes vertically.

I really like the hex grid . . . but it really really slows Inkscape down.

I am looking for ways to speed up Inkscape particularly while using this hex grid.

I know I can turn off the layer with the hex grid, and that works, but I like having the layer available.

I tried copying the hex grid layer, then combining the objects that make up the hex grid.  It took a ridiculously long time to combine it, but maybe performance is better with it combined.

One thought I had was if I could somehow turn that layer into a bitmap, that that might be faster, but I haven't figured out how to do that or even if that makes much sense with a vector graphics program.

My machine is a 2-year-old Dell XPS laptop with fairly decent hardware:

Intel i7 CPU
Intel HD Graphics 530
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
32 GB RAM
1TB SSD hard drive

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: In Illustrator, can I make Envelope Distort with Top Object ignore clipped art?

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This is a recurring problem for me which has cropped up again recently.

I have a rectangular object, a clipping mask with shapes inside, which needs to be warped to a very specific shape using the Envelope Distort tool. If nothing inside the clipping mask extends beyond the limits of the mask (if nothing is actually being clipped), it works exactly as expected.

However, if anything is being hidden by the clipping mask, the envelope distort includes the clipped content in the overall size and shape that is warped, which makes the result wrong; the rectangle of the clipping mask is not warped 1:1 with the envelope shape.

Any ideas? I feel like there's an "Ignore Clipping Mask" check box somewhere that I'm missing.

I'm very confident that this is possible, as I am working with some production files from an unknown source that appear to have been done this way. If it matters, I do not have any rasters within the clipping mask, but I do need to avoid flattening the mask–the content needs to remain vector when the warp is complete.


texts: How to use CMYK "true black" in OS X Pages

texts: I am new to Mac but am seeking to design a brochure for printing using the Pages app. The normal color settings of RGB and CMYK do not seem to be present. What color setting do I need to use to obtain a CMYK "true black"?


texts: Extract path from shape, and preferably merge it with another path from a shape

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I have two different shapes, one that looks like a drop and one that is a square. The drop was made using the pen tool.

Now, I want to merge these two shapes, combine their paths to create the illusion of the drop transforming into a square.

I can't figure out how to extract the path of the square, so that I can manipulate its anchor points.

Googling it didn't help me much.


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https://dogstudio.co

Saw this on awwwwards today, and was blown away was just curious what tools/software could have been used to create an interactive background like that.


texts: Illustrator CS3 Live Trace not working with a placed image

texts: I am trying to convert my drawing (black and white) into a vector graphic using Illustrator CS3. When I place and select the drawing on the canvas and  when I press the Live Trace button... nothing happens! Have a missed a step?


texts: Inkscape: How to assign the tool default Fill & Stroke to an existing object?

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If I create a new object with a tool, e.g. the rectangle tool, the object will be created with default fill and stroke colors and stroke style.

How to assign these same default values to an already existing object?

Note: I'm aware of a possible workaround, Paste-Style (Shift+Ctrl+V), but it requires an object with the default style already existing.


texts: How can I prepare for a career in character design?

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I'm a young girl and I love to draw, especially characters. I started drawing people when I was much younger. I love character design.

I would like to have a job that involves drawing people in different poses and backgrounds. It could be for games or motion pictures. What college major would be best for me, and what should I focus on now to set myself up for the this sort of career path?


texts: If Adobe Reader appears to be hyperlinking URLs when I didn't hyperlink them in InDesign, what do I do?

texts: In InDesign, I have made sure that URLS in my citations are not hyperlinked. However, when I export the file and open the PDF, I can click on the URLS and access the linked websites. How can I prevent this from happening?


texts: What technical/objective qualities do good logos have?

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What objective (that is, not aesthetic) qualities should (almost) every logo have, that should you take into account when designing a logo or ask for when hiring someone to create a logo for you and why?

For example, a logo has to look good in black and white and not only in full color because even if you design the logo for a web site it's very likely you will need to print a B&W document with the logo sometime in the future.


texts: What is the little white box when I select text in inkscape

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What is the little white box when I select text in Inkscape. I'm assuming some sort of center box. If that's the case, how do I get it back to center over the text.

The text has been put on a path. The issue is when I load the SVG in another tool, the text moves from it's current position to the position of the white box.


texts: How can I distort an image to wrap around a sphere with no pinching?

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I already made an image which I want to wrap around a sphere. However, I know if I were to try this, the top and bottom of the sphere would look like they are pinched.

I want to distort the image in a way so that it doesn't look pinched when wrapped around a sphere.

To clarify, I do NOT want to unwrap the sphere, I want to distort the image like the one below has been. I want to know how to do this to any image with no specific size or ratio.

Edit for Billy:
The image I posted above has the desired effect which I want, it is not the image that I want to be wrapped around a sphere.

Here is what I mean using the Earth instead of Mars.

Below is what I want the final product to look like.

Below is what my image would look like in comparison (this is not my image).

See how the top of the first image looks stretched compared to the top image? That stretching is what I want it to have. That way, when the texture is placed on a sphere, the top and the bottom don't look pinched.

After writing all this, I found a great example. My image is like the top one in the picture below. I want it to look like the bottom one in the picture below.

It doesn't look like it was done perfectly, but I hope it gets the idea across.

Thank you!


texts: I am working in Indesign cc and i am using images with an actual ppi of 72 , and i need to know how much the effective ppi of the same images should come upto if i am to get the document printed in a good manner. I am working on a A4 sized document


texts: Change Hex Color of Graphic Image in Photoshop With Transparent Background

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My question is very similar to this one:
Changing hex color of a graphic
I just want to change the hex color of the shell graphic from #53767F to #375459:

According to the top answer in that question, I need to add a solid color adjustment layer above the image and enter the hex color that I want in the field.
That's what I'm trying to do - I'm adding a solid color adjustment layer by doing:
Layer > New Fill Layer, and choose an option - Solid Color, Gradient, or Pattern. Name the layer, set layer options, and click OK.

Well, this seems to change the background to the color that I'm looking for, but not the actual color of the shell graphic. What am I doing wrong here? The blend mode was set to color, as was suggested. I also tried changing the blend mode to hue, but it didn't seem to make a difference. The background is still there. I just want to make the shell graphic a darker green - #375459 - and preserve the transparent background.


texts: What is this font used in many academic papers and notes?

texts: I have been trying hard to get the same serif font that seems to be the standard my professors use to write lecture notes and research papers. Does anyone know what exactly it is? Ive tried Times New Roman but can't make it look similar to this, TNR is much thicker! Please help


texts: Webpage image zooming or quality lose issue on mobile

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I'm making a responsive site and my logo loses quality when I'm opening the site on mobile (iPhone, Android) http://kadmos.li/web/ji/stck.html My logo size is 266x68px and I'm not resizing it on any responsive size. When I'm opening this link on desktop browser, the logo doesn't change in quality, but when I'm opening it on ios or android, the logo doesn't look good.

As a solution I've made my logo 2x larger, the image width now is 532px instead of 266px But as I need my logo to have fixed 266px width I've set this with css. And it seems everything is ok and it looks good on all browsers and devices.
http://kadmos.li/web/ji/solution.html

But in any case it's not good to have the image 2x larger than you need. And for that I'd like to ask if anyone has faced such issue and has a better solution for this.

Thanks in advance


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What's the best way to create something similar to the panel that the controller sits in:

This is for the web and using photoshop.

I think the gist of it is an inner glow on a low opacity background, what I'm struggling with is that the glow/stroke almost looks like a gradient and I'm not sure how to achieve this. Would it be a mask of some kind?

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for this kind of effect? I think I understand the bulk of it, but I'm struggling to achieve a similar level of polish.


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I'm a pretty decent graphic designer but I'm not quite sure
what the best method would be to make it a vector image.

I'm going to try and make it with the pen tool and gradient fills.

This was is an edited logo from a stock logo site and is only a large png.
I've tried using various live tracing methods but they don't seem to work.

Any ideas you can come up with help me thanks!


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I have a photo of a man wearing a black shirt. I'd like to change the shirt to become white.

I have tried using a Color Overlay but it looks "Photoshopped".

Any alternative methods will be appreciated.


texts: How to print image file so that it blends with 100% black

texts: Trying to figure out how to print this image of a motorcycle so that it doesn't have this halo effect (if thats what its called) when printed on top of 100% K. Tried a few different things but nothing seems to make much of a difference and it just clearly sits on top of the black without blending at all.


texts: Why has the file size gone from 2MB to 12MB when making one text change to a 6 page PDF?

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I've been given a 6 page PDF that is 2MB in size.

I need to edit one of the pages - two simple text edits in illustrator.

When I save the file - it jumps to 12MB - I've got no idea why.

Doing a Save As simply saves that particular page.

It's a doc for printing - so I can't afford to lose any of the image quality.

I'm using Illustrator CS6 - help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Why is it recommended to make the cone of vision 60 degrees?

texts: Im currently trying to understand the cone of vision and I was wondering why the cone of vision is recommended to have 60 degrees? I mean where does the number come from? I always though the vision span was about 120 degrees for our eyes?


texts: Creating underlines in callygraphy style

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I am not very familiar with graphic illustration. I want to create some underline samples like in this example, maybe a little more understated:

I have no Photoshop and I can't find any good samples via google (since I don't even know an exact term which describes what I want). Are there any good samples around? Best would be in SVG format.


texts: Align text content left and right within the same layer

texts: I am pulling a lot of data from a Word document into Sketch, and would like to know whether its possible to align parts of a text layer both left and right, without having to separate them on individual layers.


texts: Design system - shades of primary color from 050 to 900 how to evaluate which colors are these?

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I want to create a scale of shades from 050 to 900. (I refer to Material Design Color palettes like here: https://material.io/design/color/the-color-system.html#color-usage-and-palettes)
I have my primary color: # 39C063 ie HSL: 139 54 49.
I found such a shade generator: https://noeldelgado.github.io/shadowlord/#39c063
This generator seems to me - it makes no sense because, for example, a 10% darker shade is:
HEX: # 33AD59 HSL 129 54 44.
This means that Light is 5 points less (from 49 to 44). And now I think - if it's 10%, how do 5 points relate to it? Does this generator give me the correct answer? How do I create a palette from 050 to 900 from the output color HSL: 139 54 49.?  Because probably not from the generator  Should I manually reduce/increase the light intensity by 10 points (L)?
PS.
(I know this color is not accessible, but that's another point that I don't want to touch on now).


texts: Why is InDesign pushing short words to the next line?

texts: As shown in the image, "the" easily fits on the line above but regardless of what I do, InDesign pushes it down to the next line.


texts: What is a good icon to represent a toll?

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I'm looking for an icon to represent a toll.

I found this icon on Material Design under "toll", I'm actually curious as the only thing I see is a circle and another part of a circle.

I'm thinking that it's possibly a coin going in a coin slot, but still seems a bit weird.

My question has two parts;

How does this represent a "toll"?
What is a good icon ro represent a toll?


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I can't grab text from just anywhere, I have to specifically click the text line or bounding box, is this new to cc illustrator or is there a setting for this?

example, there is a letter "B" in size 60 pt font, I am not able to click on the "B" itself, I have to find the line it sits on or its bounding box. Just gets tricky when there are so many type boxes in a design...thanks


texts: In GIMP, how to resize a rotated selection box?

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I've tried selecting a rectangle and rotating the box with the rotate tool in a blank layer, but clicking in the box doesn't seem to allow me to resize the rotated box.

I am attempting to remove lens flare by subtracting a rotated gradient that is restricted to a box, but it is quite hard to get the size of the box correct before rotating it.  Unfortunately, if I click in the selection box after rotating it, GIMP seems to forget that the box was there.

The advice given here: How to edit existing rectangle selection in GIMP? therefore doesn't seem to work.  Is there any other way to resize a rotated selection box?


texts: Difference between traditional and digital 3D

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What is the basic difference between traditional 3D and digital 3D?

As you'll be seeing in the attachment, it is used on major sites like artstation!
www.artstation.com


texts: How dissimilar to an existing logo should mine be to avoid copyright issues?

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Thinking about starting up a small clothing company with the symbol below:

But after surfing the web I discovered Nike's undefeated symbol.

Will my design cause copyright issues? How dissimilar should mine be to avoid issues?


texts: Is there a proper name for a "coming soon" website?

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I know it is a simple question, but I failed to google it, or the answer is simply "no".

A "coming soon" site is a page that keeps on the domain while the actual page is developed. There are examples of it on hongkiat, and those pages can be done on wordpress with ultimate coming soon page plugin.

Is there any proper way to call those pages? Or it is usual calling it  "coming soon page"?


texts: What is the single most influential book every designer should read?


texts: In printing: Is there a standard colour for transparency?

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Sorry if this has already been asked,I'm not entirely sure how to search for this.
I'm working on a design that has a gradient on it. The idea is that part of this is actually transparent when printed So that it shows the material underneath (it'll be printed on a metallic aerosol can).
Is there a standard colour to make it clear for printers that certain parts of designs need to be transparent?


texts: Is it necessary to attribute Creative Commons licensed art?

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There are tons of sites out there with free graphics. You can find a bunch of these sites through freepik.com. It seems that 99% of these graphics use the CC Attribution 3.0 license. I'm wondering what the deal really is with these graphics, and the sites they are hosted on and their licences. I can understand if you are using someone's photo from Flickr or a free web template that you would put some attribution in the caption or footer. But when you are using one vector icon on a website or using a Photoshop pattern as a small part of some larger graphic... are people really expected to attribute that somewhere? I find it hard to imagine that people are carefully attributing things every time they use these graphics. Some of these graphics appear for download on multiple sites and they don't even attribute each other. How do I know that the CC license is real and not just a default license applied to every graphic on a particular site?

My real question is: in the context of using one or two different graphics from these free sites as minor elements in a web or graphic design, is it really necessary to attribute someone, and if so, how do I know who I should really attribute?


texts: I'm looking for a monospace font which has a lot of the unicode glyphs. In particular I'm interested in the speaker symbols, code points 1F507 to 1F50A.


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I am looking for a review for a logo that is going to be shipped with a project of mine.

I wanted to keep it simple and clean, with a high level of appeal so that no one will really dislike the design of it.

Specifically:

Should I implement more color into the design?
Is the hexagon a suitable drop-back?  Should I even have a drop-back?
Are there any design concepts I overlooked and haven't implemented?

Another rendition based off of a suggestion from a friend:

If it is important, the design was based off of a tritium atom, since the project name the logo will be paired with is "Tritium". Here is a picture of part of the website for the project (also a work in progress):

Also keep in mind that I am brand new to graphic design, so please be as harsh as necessary with this.

Update:

Thank you all for your feedback, unfortunately I could only accept one answer!  Some of you had really good ideas/concepts, and I will try my best to implement them in my final website design.


texts: How can multiple arrows be created along a path in inkscape?

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I need to indicate the path of light rays along different paths. So along each path, arrows are required (not as arrowheads, but at exact places I want it). How can this be achieved?

[Edit: I tried achieving it by making a small arrowhead using a short line, and overlapping this simple arrow over the required straight line. Arrowheads can be created wherever nodes exist, however, the direction of each arrow cannot be changed]


texts: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 moving layer question

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When I drag and drop one of the layer in the layer panel,then it would automatically aim this layer to the first one layer. Can't the panel just hold on there, not move? After the panel moved, I always need to fine the layers' relationship again. It annoyed me a lot.

screencast.com/t/YNt2bh6DCjOD Take the video for example.

you can see now I want to put [ Text- Health] this layer above the [bg] layer.
Ideally, the layer panel won't move, and see the [bg] is above [Health].Then you can see after I drop [Health], the panel automatically move [Health] layer to the in the view's top. Can't the panel just hold on there, not move?


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First post here!

What I'm trying to accomplish looks fairly simple but so far I've had no luck in finding a way to accomplish it. Essentially I want to create custom stroke caps (or strke profiles if necessary) that will allow me to create strokes with a shallow rounded end or an angled end as shown below

Is this even possible? If so, how would I go about making this happen? I am working on a typeface where these two shapes will be common, and I prefer to work with pure strokes first, so if I can accomplish this it would be great. Thanks in advance for any tips!


texts: I want to reduce the size an image in order to get it to fit on a online program I'm using for an experiment. However, the issue with this is that it reduces the file size, which I need to stay the same. Is there a way of editing the image size of a photo without reducing the file size or the resolution?


texts: I have text in 2 columns in a text box. There are large gaps inbetween some of the words in one area of a column. There is one space before and after each word. What  could account or this?


texts: Which PC hardware specifications should a Graphic Designer focus on?

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I am new to this forum and am looking for some advice on a PC specification which I will be using to re-skill with Adobe CS6.

I have played about with Adobe in the past as a web designer but I want to become more proficient with the product.

I know the debate about which is better (mac vs pc) is still ongoing but I personally don't want to move to a mac.

I'm wondering which specifications I need to focus on and be aware of, so that I can decide whether my current machine is sufficient, or if I should purchase a new one.

What hardware components should a graphic designer be aware of when sourcing their IT hardware for design purposes?

My current machines specifications are:

- Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66Ghz
- 8 Gb Ram
- 1 Tb sata h/d
- Ati Radeon 2400 HD Pro video card

Is this beefy enough or do I need to upgrade?


texts: Export a PSD Photoshop file to a format editable in GIMP

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I know a "general export" Photoshop PSD file => GIMP, preserving all features won't be possible (for example I can imagine that Adjustment layers from Photoshop won't be available in Gimp), but is there an export that would work for this specific case:

I want to preserve the image layers (just bitmap layers)
I want to preserve Text object layers, i.e. the text should be modifiable in Gimp

PS: this is linked to this question but more specific, i.e. it's not a duplicate.


texts: what are some good greeking fonts for demonstrating text

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So i am making mock ups for website, and i want to show some text. I want to use some font that make it look like it's a text but not really anything readable. Like a cursive line with personality that looks like it is something written from distance in real life but you have to come close to read it but it somewhat consistent and precise enough to look that's not hand written.

something like this but more professional...


texts: Helvetica Neue Equivalent on Google Fonts?

texts: Does anybody know a font on Google Fonts that is very similar to Helvetica Neue?


texts: Photoshop - Extract fine text from image; extrapolate background behind text

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I'll note outright that I'm new to Photoshop and that this may be a bigger question than I realize, but I appreciate any guidance.

I've taken a scan of a water-damaged dust jacket for a book which I would ultimately like to recreate. I chopped it up, straightened it, and used the Spot Fix tool to fill in losses and create a 'complete' image. Here's my progress:

At this point, I'd like to either 'extrapolate' that lovely blue color from the flaps to the rest of the image that can be printed onto appropriate white paper, and/or remove the background entirely so that the text can be printed onto equitable blue paper.

I've taken a look at some answers here about the Magic Wand tool, but this text is so fine that I'm having trouble cleaning it up. Is there a better way to go about 'extracting' this text to its own layer?


texts: illustrator CS6 dialogue box "color conflict" doesn't pop up

texts: Where can I set the illustrator CS6 dialogue box "color conflict" to pup up?  When I paste color shapes havig the same color name, the color change without any warning or a dialogue box


texts: How to create high-quality jpg from pdf in Acrobat Pro DC?

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I need to a) rasterize and b) convert from CMYK to RGB a lot of pdfs, to make them work with the Flip book plugin on our homepage.

The method I have used is Save as - jpg; then Combine files (selecting all the jpgs, save as a new pdf).

The images look good, but my issue is that text gets really ugly, like this:

This happens when I save as jpg. All settings in the Save as dialog are set to max, but that seem to affect only the images. Does anyone have a suggestion?


texts: How can I make a horizontal ellipse appear to go through a vertical one?

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How can I make the horizontal ellipse (in the image on the left) appear to go through the vertical one as shown in the image on the right?

I want the horizontal circle to look like it goes through the vertical one. How can I make it appear so by manipulating the path (like exclude or intersection)?


texts: How do I control the way the cropping tool works in Photoshop CS3?

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I'd like to set the behavior of the cropping tool.

I want it to define cropping areas based on...

A fixed, numerical set of pixel dimensions.
A given proportion, e.g., a 9 by 12 area of arbitrary size.
Free size and proportion -- wherever I release the mouse button.

Where can I set that for the cropping tool?

UPDATE / CLARIFICATION

The marquee tool provides this menu, circled below...

But the cropping tool doesn't offer a menu like that...

Does the cropping tool does have these three modes like the marquee tool? If so, where do I set that? How do I tell the cropping tool which mode to use?


texts: Photoshop: Get x/y origin of paragraph text box via Javascript

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Is there any way to get the x/y position of the origin of a paragraph text box via Javascript, excluding use of the Photoshop UI?

This image shows my predicament; what I need vs what the Photoshop Javascript is giving me:

The .bounds property gives the coordinates of the actual text content, as shown in the image by the guides and the green circles. I got this by running the simple script alert(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds);, which gave these measurements:

What I would expect to be stored in .bounds, and what I need, is the top-left and bottom-right coordinates of the paragraph box. Does anybody have any good way of getting this?

TextItem.width and TextItem.height are getting close, but they give no indication of where on the canvas the text item actually is.

Right now I'm having to find the center of the bounds coordinates and extrapolate from there, but that is not precise enough because it varies 1 or 2 pixels depending on the characters in the text field.


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What is this type of style called?
What is this type of style called?


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does anyone know how I can create such a white-out/ burned-out font like in the example attached? Either in Photoshop or Illustrator.

It looks like the text sits in front of a very bright light so that that edges of the text are burned out. At the same time some of the letters are merged together at the edges.

I would be very thankful for any tips!


texts: Is there a better and quicker way to create "half of logo is inverted" effect?

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So I am creating this T-shirt design, and I want to create an inverted effect in a way that doesn't require me to split the design in half, make edits, then seam them back together.
The way that I got the example is using the slice tool and then exporting the two halves, making my edits on one of the halves, putting the two halves back together, and then image tracing to make it vectorized again.
This method sucks because it ruins the font that I was using, and there is now no way for me to make changes to text or anything like that without completely redoing the design. There absolutely must be a better way to do this, but I have no clue as to what it is. Thank you so much to whoever answers this.
Image of the effect that I need to know how to create:


texts: What techniques can I use to bring out text on B&W images?

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My website at the moment consists mainly of B&W images with some text over each one. At the moment the text is just white, which of course looks fine when the background is mainly black, but when the image is white, you can't see the text.

I've tried adding a 'background' to the text which looks like this

But I am just wondering if anyone else has some ideas on what I else I could do in regards to having text over top of B&W images? (without using ridiculous text colours).


texts: How do I select half this shape and delete/remove it? (Affinity 1.7)

texts: I have a star made on the canvas, but I can't find a standard selection box to select only half and then delete it.


texts: Help! Why is my image divided into these small squares/boxes? The file is saved as a PDF file, and when I open it in Ai, it does this when I use the Selection tool and hover over the image.


texts: I came across this font and I really want to use it. Does anyone know it?


texts: Reduce number of colors in illustrator using Recolor artwork not working?

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Here is my problem:

I select all my items
click the recolor wheel
merge some colors
click ok, but it does not seem to change:
deselect, then reselect the shapes
click the color wheel: all colors are back, my color merges are deleted!!

See it in action:


texts: After Effects - Parenting shapes to points on a stroke

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I've created, rigged, and animated a character in After Effects using strokes for legs and arms. I was wondering if there's a way to parent a shape (such as hands/feet) to the ends of the strokes. Just parenting the shape to the path doesn't seem to be accurate enough because the paths bend and flex and not just rotate.

So for example, if I'm using a circle shape as a hand, how could I attach to the arm that swings and bends?


texts: How do I make this ripped paper/vintage effect?

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I am using photoshop.

I have tried by following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxbC5HKnT3o

But it doesn't seem to have the vintage/realistic touch to it.

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: What is the use of color mode 'bitmap' in Photoshop?

texts: I am looking to design in color mode 'bitmap'. I don't understand the use of the color mode bitmap. When and how can I use it?


texts: Adding kinetic movement of jumping to my typography for this logo

texts: Ok i need help. I am currently making a logo for a company called “Jump Jump Rentals” specializing in Bounce Houses. How can I add the kinetic element of jumping to the 1st word “jump” over 2nd part “jump rentals? (But still maintain a clean look)


texts: Which Catalog I will buy Pantone Solid or Color Bridge?

texts: What is the difference PANTONE 340 U and PANTONE 340 UP? Is the UP color CMYK process printed color or not? Because they are really different. I want to buy pantone catalog today and I don't know Color Bridge is enough for me? For example I am generally using Pantone 320 C and this color is our company branding color. If I send something to print I am using Pantone 320C, If I sent something to print as CMYK, I am using 100,0,31,5 CMYK. So Color Bridge is enough for me? What is including this cartela?


texts: I tried compressed plain SVG (.svgz), the files are smaller and it looks the same than the regular .svg. Is there any downside? Can I use always .svgz?


texts: How can I overcome the impulse to continuously critique (and possibly rework) my designs?

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I have been designing for almost 5 years now. I have noticed something very strange in my development lifespan. My appreciation for my works decreases substantially over time. Especially in my UX works for applications, where I work almost 10 hours a day (writing code) and where I am confronted with the interface all the time.

When I layout the user interface in Illustrator for example, I am very satisfied with how it looks, but after a couple months of development and seeing it over and over again, I always find something that I could improve and I kind of end up in this vicious cycle which does not seem to have an end.

This is a huge problem for me because my own products do not seem to be worthy to be launched in my eyes. I also have to say that I am a perfectionist, so of course that plays a key role.

Does anybody experience the same thing?
How do I put an end to this cycle?


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I have this antique style map:

I wish to customise it by adding more land.

Is it possible to create a custom pattern that represents the land? How would I add the "edge" of the land; perhaps as a stroke/outline on the brush preset?


texts: How to protect against third-party claims when using free stock images?

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Today's royalty-free Stock image sites are relatively open, meaning that theoretically, anybody can submit any kind of content, including copyright-protected content created by others.

It's even happened to myself: I accidentally uploaded a photograph to a german Stock photo site once, only to discover later that it wasn't my own photo at all, but one I had downloaded from another stock image site!

Using content that was uploaded this way to an open stock image site could, theoretically, have problematic consequences for both the designer and their client. Although the content was used in good faith, the third party could make claims, as their work was used without permission; it will most often be impossible to shift the blame to the stock content site one got the image from.

Is this an issue at all?

How to protect against this kind of thing? Is there any protection?

Or is it simply an unavoidable risk when using content from free or cheap stock imagery sites? Is it necessary to switch to paid stock sites that control their sources to avoid this risk?

(Disclaimer: I am asking out of curiosity; and because I would like to see this kind of question on this site. Whether this is in graphicDesign.SE's scope or not, the community will have to decide!)


texts: Using InDesign CS6, how can I simultaneously edit A4 and A5 versions of a poster?

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I'm on Adobe Creative Cloud, so I have the latest InDesign, and I'm attempting to design a poster for my choir's next concert. Traditionally, I've done this in Photoshop, in two separate files, however I've recently started using InDesign after converting to it to create wedding albums through Blurb.

I've created an A4 document, and created an alternate-layout for it in A5. I've then lined them up side-by-side, and I've added a black frame to the A4 page, to act as the black background for my page (by the way, feel free to advise on better ways to do this).

My assumption is that I've failed to understand how this works, as I was hoping that I'd magically get a black frame on the A5 version, and that I could use liquid layout to get this to automatically scale (along with all other elements), in order to create the two versions simultaneously.

All help/advice would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How can I use design to teach history to 8th graders?

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I want to use graphic design and website design to teach history to 8th graders, so kids can express what they have learned about history and use their knowledge to teach others. I also want to use design practices to plan the research learning and analysis of the information.

I'm currently using wix.com as software, but what other resources are available to help me teach history to kids?


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I need to get an image (optimal would be pdf/tiff but png will work, too) from my svg file. The svg is relatively small (cca 300 kB).

What I need is an image in resolution cca 10000x5000px in 60+ dpi. When I use Inkscape and try to export the image of the desired size, it takes forever and it sometimes crashes. I have 4GB RAM... Is there some workaround for this problem?

Thanks for any tips.


texts: Is any quality lost when saving a flat RGB PSD as PNG?

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Sometimes when I have a PSD I'm working on, and I flatten it and do an incremental save, I save as PNG instead of PSD because (1) the file can be opened even without Photoshop on another machine, (2) it is obvious that it's flat from the file extension alone, and (3) PNG will result in a much smaller file size.

What I would like to know is, am I losing any image quality by doing this? I am wondering about color data, or possibly other data I haven't considered.

Considerations & details worth mentioning:

Let's assume saving in the same bit depth, 8-bit PSD to 8-bit PNG, or 16-bit PSD to 16-bit PNG. (32-bit PSD to PNG doesn't work through the Save As menu, and using Export produces an 8-bit PNG)
I am aware that guides are lost once the PNG is closed and re-opened.
I am also aware that CMYK color space is unsupported in PNG, so this question only applies to RGB PSD files.
I realize paths won't be saved in a PNG file.
I realize additional channels (from saved selections, etc) won't be saved in a PNG file.
Let's assume saving with the "Large file size" setting in PNG Format Options. (Other settings have caused problems when trying to re-edit later)

Thanks.


texts: Auto updating an image and its thumbnail version in a document

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I've looked around a bit and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for, hopefully you guys can help.

I'm building a calendar template for a client because he has 15-20 different calendars he needs to generate with different pictures.
He also wants the back page of the calendar to contain thumbnails of the 12 images featured in the calendar.

How can I "link" 2 image frames so that if he changes the image on page 3, it also updates the thumbnail for page 3 on the back of the calendar?

It sounds like something that could be done, but I haven't found anything because I keep finding tutorials how to span one image across multiple image frames, which isn't what I want to do.

Thanks a lot!


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I'm trying to export all 155 raster layers, each 240*240 in pixels, to separate png files, but it takes ages to do that using CS5 File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files.

This script creates new psd files, copies all layers to them, then makes one layer visible before deleting all the layers he has just added. It took about three hours to export half of my layers.

If I was a script coder i'd make exporting this way:

for each layer do {
   make layer invisible }

for each layer do {
   make layer visible
   save file as "layer_name.png"
   make layer invisible }

Is there any faster way to export all layers to png?