texts: I am working in Illustrator from a document created by another designer. I'd like to use the info in this document but need to know what the size of the document is. How do you determine the document size in Illustrator? Can anyone answer?


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As a former CAD draftsman I always found the snap function in Illustrator very inaccurate.

But now in AI CC I find it even more inaccurate.
Am I the only one? Is there something one can do in order to make Illustrator snap more accurate?

100% Zoom:

The green Line would indicate that the mouse has the line in range but the purple line is not aligned. That doesn't make sense.

1600% Zoom
Still the same but a bit closer

The colored lines would indicate that the alignment would fit the two lines together but it doesnt.

6400% Zoom
At this zoom ratio its possible to align the lines 100% what a miracle.

So why does AI indicate the the lines are aligned, when they clearly aren't?
Thanks for any help.
(By the way: The useless "Align new elements to the pixelgrid" is disabled).


texts: Adding a Fill to a Diagonal Text Box in Illustrator

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The standard answer to the question of how to add a fill to a text box in Illustrator isn't working for me because it assumes that the text is horizontal. I'm creating a map in which virtually all the text is either on a path or at an angle, and the geniuses at Adobe decided that the text box fill should cover the x/y coordinates of the text box rather than the text box itself.
Are there any workarounds other than painstakingly placing a rectangle or stroke object behind every label? (It's a large map with about 500 labels, so the manual approach doesn't have much appeal.) A script or a plug-in perhaps?


texts: Can I manipulate a Shutterstock vector for a logo?

texts: I am designing a logo for a friend. I have the font and colors done. All I need is an icon for it. I found a vector on shutterstock that would be perfect. I took the vector and used it as a base and re-designed it so it's completely different from the original. Should i be worried about copyright and licencing.


texts: How to subtract differences from similar images in order to obtain the background

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I have 4 images, all with the same original background, every single one of them has writing somewhere in the picture, if compared 1 to 1, the only difference would be the writing, I wan't to extract the pieces of background from each of the images in order to build the whole background back.

Image:

if all the difference are substracted, it can be achieved the background without text (and no contant-aware fill):

What I managed to do, which is really bad and time consuming:

Select -> Color range
Select all color from text
Select -> Modify -> Expand by 2 pixel
Delete
Merge all of them together

This will leave JPEG artifacts and also won't be a real substraction, there are probably a term for what I'm trying to do, but since I don't know how it is, I arranged this title.


texts: Best icon to represent "I need help to remember this"

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I am building a flashcard web application and I want to give to the users the possibility to ask some help (mnemonics) to remember of something.
I'd like have a little icon that would represent in the best way possible "I need help to remember this".
The icon size will be very small, like the star in the screenshot :

Also like the star, there will be only the shape won't be filled (to avoid reading distraction), so that's why I would need a very simple, representative shape.
I thought to a lifesaver, but at such a small size we don't really understand what it is. I also thought to a question mark but I think that it's too general.
Have you got any idea ?


texts: Range of icon sizes and formats on various operating systems

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I would like to know the range of icon sizes allowed in different OSes (such as Ubuntu, OSX) and the default format they use.

For example, windows allows icon sizes from 16x16 to 256x256 and uses a .ico file.


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I need to mimic the way Messenger boxes each message in bubbles. Word, obviously, is not a tool for this. However, going full-fledged HTML is kind of overkill for me. This is for a research article, so being able to focus on the content is pretty important to me. There is LaTeX, but it lacks aesthetics and can't be used for responsive contents.

What word processing tools that can work with complicate text boxing? I use Windows 10.

Related: How to format a chat conversations?


texts: Has anyone used Blender for prototyping animations of mobile apps?

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After Effects and other Mac only tools are popular among designers for prototyping animations of mobile apps. I wanted to know if there's anyone here who uses Blender for prototyping?

If you do use could you tell me your workflow and experience with it?


texts: Is there a way to find the font used in this image?

texts: Which font is used in this image or how can I find?


texts: How to easily merge/blend multiple images together in photoshop?

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For a project I have to merge and blend multiple images of ruined cities, ive been trying to use photoshop to merge and blend but I cant seem to make it look 'clean', anyone know any ways that I could do this.
SPECIFICATION:

I want merge multiple city scapes together
I want to keep the depth and main part of the city scapes but remove the background and blend

I dont know whats the best way of doing this?
Some images I would like to work with are included below:
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texts: Gimp 2.10.14: How to make the panels bigger on 4K monitor?

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I am using a 4K monitor with 200% system DPI. (200% is a little big for me and I would like to use 150%, but some applications did not scale well under 150%, so I had to choose 200% DPI.) Now, I am using the latest version of Gimp, and it does not seem to scale properly. For the tool icons, I chose "Huge" in the "Custom icon size", but I could not find any options to make other panels bigger.

See the relative size below. The tool buttons next to "Move" are too small to see.

I used 400% magnification, and now you see the buttons...

I found an answer that suggests adding GimpToolPalette::tool-icon-size   = large-toolbar to "gtkrc", but that had no effect. Is there any way to properly size the panels?


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I am trying to recreate the below poster. I have found substitute fonts for most of the text I just need help with the part that says "of the CHARLIE NAPIER."
I'm wondering if anybody know the typeface?

It's an old poster. Victorian era.


texts: Perfectly symmetrical curved line / edge

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I'm trying to make the bottom edge of a layer curved / look like waves.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve but it is just hand drawn: (image no longer available)

As you can see, the curve is not symmetrical. What tool or method is guaranteed to get a perfect symmetrical, consistent curve along the edge?


texts: What method of downsizing my artwork to multiple print-sizes would be best?

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I'm rather new to design and find this really confusing, even after researching it for days.

I begin with a canvas size of 24x36 inches and I want to downsize it to the following print-sizes:
4x6
5x7
8x10
11x14
18x24

Just resizing the standard way (automatically or manually), without any special settings, some of the sizes are noticeable stretched. Even though I don't have anything special like faces or similar in my designs it looks borderline unacceptable. This obviously gives the correct print-sizes and pixels according to the dpi.

Using "Preserve Aspect Ratio" and "Smart-Cropping" it trims the edges which makes the prints noticeable different if some of the graphics are in the corners. This also gives the correct print-sizes and pixels according to the dpi.

The best result is when I just use "Preserve Aspect Ratio" in the software I'm using, but then I get the print sizes:
4x6
4.7x7
6.7x10
9.3x14
16x24

This last option can't be considered acceptable for print?

UPDATE

I was thinking about manually resizing the individual elements for each size and for example, between 24x36 and 18x24, the numbers (percentage in decrease) seem to be

Circumference: 30%
Width: 25%
Height: 33.3%

In the software I'm using the choice is to downsize either in width or height in percentage while maintaining proportion. Is this a viable option and which value should I aim for?

The goal is to make the prints as similar as possible while following the standard print-sizes.


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I have difficulties understanding the coordinate system for SVG shapes on my viewBox. In Inkscape i have set the page size to A4-Paper size (Width = 793.70079, Height = 1122.51969) and i have a rectangle with 100x100 side. When i move the rectangle in Inkscape upwards as you can see in the first picture below the y-coordinate is growing, while moving downwards decreases the Y value. This seems for me in contrary to the concept that upleft-corner is set to (0, 0) and Y increases towards the bottom of the page.
Rect towards topleft:

Rect towards bottomleft:

And more specifically the (0, 0) point of my viewBox seems to be the bottomleft corner rather than the topleft (which also seems to apply to my rectangle, so that setting it's (x, y) to (0, 0) puts it at the bottomleft corner). Can someone point me to what i am missing?


texts: A way to automate or speed up transforms on multiple layers in After Effects?

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I am trying to create something i like to call pseudo rotation in space. Given multiple objects created in illustrator, each representing the same thing (e.g. a triangle) of different sizes arranged into a circle (so that some of them seem more distant than the others, I would like to "rotate" them i.e resize and move each of them so that it seems as if they were rotating. I tried doing this the hard way i.e. moving each object manually, which seems to be taking a long time. Is there any way to automate or speed up the process?
Thanks.


texts: Export artboards in multiple folder with Photoshop

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I have a PSD file with several artboards, is there a way to set a specific folder to export each one of them when export with the command cmd + alt + maj + w (or Export as)?

The key is that I cannot really modify any Photoshop system files since the software is provided by my company and IT policy is pretty strict...

Thanks in advance :)


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I've seen this How can I create a double helix? question but I am here to ask you how to create a double-helix in Inkscape, instead of illustrator. I have tried to achieve this via creating two sine waves (using the Parametric Curves extension) and doing some cutting and colouring-in from there and this is what I’m at at the moment. After this I would create another sine wave with the opposite vertical orientation (which would be the second helix) and go from there.

This is what I have so far from the sine wave method; see in the first instance where I wanted to colour between the waves, the coloured area would form part of the helix.

I have also tried vectorizing a structure of DNA drawn using Accelrys DS Visualizer and failed pretty miserably: I find it impossible to seamlessly vectorize such complex raster files. See below for the original image if you have the skill to vectorize it in a way you could share with me I'd be more than willing to hear. I would like to know is there any better ways of doing this.

This double helix is the one I obtained using Accelrys DS Visualizer, with later GIMP editing (mostly in an effort to make it easier to vectorize, you may note that the helix backbone is no longer coloured in shades of white like it was originally).


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I have "Snap to Point" option enabled and expect shapes to tile without hovering when I drag one shape to another. But there is intersection between them that can be seen from the snippet:

So tile figures using mouse is not working and "Align objects" and "distribute objects" is not helping as well. Is there any way I can use some functions to tile it without doing it manually with a mouse?

P.S. Sorry if I was unclear but I hope you understand what my problem is.


texts: Problem printing PDF from Freehand-10 via Acrobat X

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When I go to print a pdf file with "Adobe PDF printer", I get the following error:

  cannot complete command because read or write access has been denied.

This very strange error only appears if I change the paper size in the PPD settings. If I leave the default A4 size the PDF is generated without any problem.

When the error comes to light I need to delete the fhprefs.txt file. I tried to put somenthing like "whatever" in the export preferences of freehand, but that did not solved the problem.


texts: I've got an image I'd like to use as the border on a DVD label, which I'm creating in InDesign. The effect would be like the "Type on a path", but with an image instead - preferrably repeated until it comes to the end of the path (or full circle, in this case). How can this be achieved? I tried doing a "Polar coordinates" transform in Photoshop, but that didn't look very good.


texts: Increasing the significant figures in Illustrator CS6

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I am making very simple images that requires extreme precision. I would like to draw black boxes that have a width of 0.59266662mm, but illustrator rounds to 0.5927mm. I need this precision because the printer I'm using has very fine dots with of a width of 0.04233333m. So I need to print bars that have a width of whole number of dots to prevent aliasing from arising.

Is there any way to prevent adobe from round the numbers?
If not, is there any way for me to specify units used in illustrator to have the exact dimensions as my printer dot dimensions?

I really hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you need any clarification.

Ty


texts: InDesign document needs to be converted to Word or similar program

texts: I have an inDesign file, a booklet of mostly text in a table (names addresses etc) and my client would like the file set up so they can edit it themselves, add to the table. Is there a way to convert my inDesign file to a template/editable format (not PDF) in a more common program such as Word, whilst keeping my formatting/fonts? They do not have inDesign or inCopy.


texts: Better ways to visualise a box of uncertain colour when the possible colours are complementary?

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I try to create an illustration containing certain items represented by coloured boxes (exhibits 1 and 2), with the colour distinguishing different types of items. Assume that the look of these boxes (shape, colour, …) is fixed. Now I need to create a third type of box that should represent an item whose type is not known, but that is either of the blue type or the orange type¹. I am struggling with how to best do this.

Here is what I considered so far and why I am not happy with it:

Exhibit 3: Splitting the fill colour of the box, making the question mark white. The part of the question mark on orange ground is not well visible.
Exhibit 4: Splitting the fill colour of the box, making the question mark black. The part of the question mark on blue ground is not well visible.
Exhibit 5: Splitting the fill colour of the box and the question mark. The question mark is difficult to recognise as one character.
Exhibit 6: Using some average fill colour between blue and orange. As the two are complementary, this does not make sufficiently clear that only blue and orange are possible states and that this is not about some state in-between the two.

All the above contain the question mark as I consider some indicator other than the fill necessary to indicate that the state is uncertain. This indicator does not need to be a question mark however.

My question is: Is there any better way to visualise this that I am missing?

In case this matters: This for a scientific poster (i.e., it should be readable from about 1 m distance), with each box being roughly 1 cm wide. The background is white. I cannot finetune the colours of the printed results but have to live with what I get.

¹ A case that is actually both, orange and blue is clearly excluded by context.


texts: Placed images resize on their own when reopening an Illustrator file

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I have a problem that I have been struggling with for some time. We deal with Illustrator files all day that have placed images, either JPEG, TIF, PDF, or EPS formats. On several occasions, when we reopen a file that contains placed images or art, the aspect ratio (height and width) has changed to something completely different.

This is a serious issue that we have been dealing with due to the amount of client files we receive that are built to specific sizes, by the client themselves, and we end up having to "best guess" the exact size and position of the artwork and resend a proof to the client to confirm before we can begin plate production.

Also, at times, the file will come in with a massively larger bounding box than the actual artwork requires.

Anyone else experience anything similar? We REALLY need help!


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I have a certificate that I am designing.

Excuse the inconsistent text alignment. At the bottom, I have two logos. The red one is about twice as tall and half as long as the blue one. I am attempting to align them in the bottom corners in an aesthetically pleasing way. Currently, their bottom corners are aligned to the bottom margin corners of the page. However, Logo2 encroaches rather significantly on the signature lines, and I cannot shrink the logos without making them appear comically small.

What are best practices for aligning multiple logos of significantly different sizes/proportions?


texts: When I choose a font size for use in a graphic I usually opt for font size menu dropdown defaults like 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, 60, or 72. If I'm working on something large (like an A3 poster) I need much larger fonts. I'm always tempted to keep these as powers of 2 (e.g. 128, 256, or 512). But why? Am I just being superstitious! Does font size have any technical implications? Is choosing 512 in any sense better than 513 or am I actually free to choose whatever looks best?


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I am trying to create a pdf doc through Indesign. When I put an icon in the document, it gets pixelated. This is how I put the icons in indesign:

ctrl + D  and placed the icon.

I've tried this too: view > Display Performance > High Quality Display.
After doing this icon looks a bit nice in the indesign but looks very bad in pdf.

this is a screens shot:

Original Image is a png image and it is very fine.

I am new to design so please pardon if I have written anything technically wrong.


texts: Which font is used for this Cyrillic text?

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I was given the task to engrave an inscription in this font:

Click image for full size

But I have no clue what is written in it nor what font it is written in... Can anyone help me discover what font was used here? Thanks


texts: What does BE and BQ stand for (or mean) on a font name?

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I have noticed that some fonts have the letters BE or BQ appended to their name. What does this mean? Is this a standard code for some features of the font? Extra glyphs perhaps? Or is this just a naming convention of a specific foundry?

For example, what is the difference between these two fonts? I am trying to decide which one to buy. The price is exactly the same.

Akzidenz Grotesk BE

Akzidenz Grotezk BQ


texts: Before computers, how did cartographers draw roads with perfectly parallel sides?

texts: If you're drawing a road on a map, and that road happens to be straight, it's easy to draw its two sides parallel: you just move the ruler. But most roads twist and turn, and drawing their sides perfectly parallel cannot be done with a ruler. And yet even before computers came along, no matter how windy their roads, cartographers appear to have had no difficulty drawing both sides of their roads perfectly parallel (or I should probably say equidistant). I cannot begin to imagine a mechanical way to do this. Can anyone tell me?


texts: In printing from digital images, how is PPI converted to DPI?

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I know there are 'similar' questions on Stack Exchange and the internet, but none has answered my question. I am not confused between Pixels Per Inch (PPI) of the digital image and Dots Per Inch (DPI) printing quality of the printer.

What I am confused about is, all the explanations for determining print size, says to take the numerical value of the largest side of the digital image in PIXELS, then divide it by the numerical value of the largest size of the physical real world print you want to create. This basically says 1 pixel = 1 dot. From memory, one tutorial even said that 1 pixel = 1 dot. I do not believe this is true at all (please correct me if I am wrong). A pixel is the smallest part of a digital image, while a dot is a dot on a print medium, such as sheet of paper or canvas and is determined by a printer. They are not the same (as far as I know) and I thought, and have read, that you should not use DPI to refer to digital images (see this post PPI Doesn’t Matter (and stop saying DPI))

It makes sense that digital images are in PPI, they are after all made of pixels But why are some digital images specified in DPI too? And why do printing businesses still ask for images to be supplied as 300 DPI? DPI as I said, is used to specify printer quality, not digital images. And like this post says, I don't believe dot = pixel. Calculating dots per pixel when printing an image It says: "The article is massively over simplifying things though as that's generally not how printing works. A printed dot does not align with the pixels in an image."

Where in this process does a pixel suddenly equate exactly to one dot, or, more importantly, how can I accurately determine print size? (please do not tell me to divide the largest dimensions in pixels by the largest dimensions of the physical print I want in inches, for reasons I have already mentioned). I don't understand how there is any sort of ratio between PPI and DPI, it's like asking Americans to manufacture something in inches and the Europeans to manufacture something in centimetres then forcing them to be equal somehow, or having a ratio magically appear (like this disaster Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error). All printers are different, and I was under the impression that a pixel is the same size no matter what kind of printer is used.

Please also add 'conversion', 'pixels', and 'dots' as new tags, and others as necessary. Thank you.


texts: How can I make colors richer (photo printing)?

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So I bought a good inkjet printer and wanted to print some photos with it, the colors were kinda dark and dull compared to what I see on screen.

I made my researches and I understood that CMYK and RGB are 2 diff things, and I can only try to match what I see on screen choosing the right CMYK values, so I did try editing photographic attributes like sharpness, levels, hues, saturation, etc...

I did this for a few weeks and I printed more than 350 images... I finally got close to the colors I see on screen but still, they are not as rich or vibrant as they should be... So I thought maybe I should buy brighter paper or better-coated paper...

I did try few diff ones they were almost the same (I don't have big choice of paper in my country, all that we have available in market is normal plain copy paper and some cheap matte photo paper and plotter paper) so I thought maybe I should try to treat the paper to make the photo look good on it.

I tried to put a plain paper into water with salt and fabric softener, leave it for few minutes then get it out of the solution and let it dry overnight, the next day when it is dry I printed on it, and this did help a little bit the quality with making the paper absorb less ink, but I wasn't fully satisfied, I thought I would spray it with some acrylic matt spray varnish (I did not find inkjet fixative) when I spray it the colors become so rich and nice but when I let it dry they become even duller than what they were before should I buy a glossy varnish instead?...

Can you guys recommend anything regarding this issue? thank you!


texts: On Photoshop, how do I export without the effects?

texts: I have a low poly portrait that I want to export to a JPEG or PNG. The polygons have strokes around them as an effect. In Photoshop I can hide the effects, however when I export it as a JPEG the effects remain. How do I remove the effects/strokes when exporting? Thanks in advance. :)


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Use fontspring's Matcherator and didn't get an exact font. I see this tyepface used a lot recently and was wondering if anyone knew what it was. Appreciate the help.

Source image is album artwork off of LCD Soundsystem's latest LP.


texts: S-shaped(ish) Bezier curve control points? (GIMP)

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New here, so let me know if I do something wrong!
I've been sitting here researching Bezier curves for hours now, and I cannot seem to find the answer to what I would think would be a simple question...
I want to create an s-shaped(ish) curve (i.e. one that doubles back on itself). Where exactly should I be putting the control points?? (And please explain why this is the case in your answer, if you would; I've seen a number of answers to questions on this and sister sites that just give steps to solve the problem without explaining why, and I do way better if I understand why something is the way it is. Thanks!)
Note: I'm not a font designer...or at least, that's not what I'm attempting to do now. That seems to matter, according to this question.
I keep seeing stuff about putting the points at the extrema of the curve...but I'm having some trouble finding it. I've been trying out the Bezier game, and I may be sort of getting the hang of it...but tbh, I'm not very good at it.
This answer (and the comments on it) says that

"Another good habit is to cut s shaped curves at the point where the curvature direction changes."

...which I guess makes sense to me? The comments on the above answer mention a different method:

"I tend to do curvature maximum minimum and Inflection point."

But then this page (sections 6. Keep anchor points at extrema – and handles straight and Edit: 7. Explicit Inflection Points) seems to be saying that the inflection point thing goes along with the part about extrema and keeping the handles straight. Is this the same method?
Specific example:
I'm trying to trace the logo for the TV show "Supernatural" (and yes, I could just do it with the Inkscape trace feature, but that'd defeat the purpose of learning, haha), and the flames around the edges are driving me nuts. I'm fairly certain I at least want points at the tips of each flame and also the places where the flames meet, like this

but then I get stuck. I could put points at extremas, which I think--though I'm not by any means certain!--would look a bit like this

But I'm not at all sure if this is right, because some of the stuff I've seen seems to say it should be the opposite, like this

And then the section of the page I linked above

But then this page (sections 6. Keep anchor points at extrema – and handles straight and Edit: > 7. Explicit Inflection Points) seems to be saying that the inflection point thing goes along with the > part about extrema and keeping the handles straight.

seems to be saying that I want both?? Maybe?? Like this

...but surely that can't be right, because I thought the idea was to have the smallest number of points possible...??
I'm very confused, so any help is much appreciated!!
Thanks!
Note 2: I'm working in GIMP currently, then exporting the path to Inkscape. Cannot for the life of me figure out how to translate the practice I've been getting in the Bezier game to Inkscape, as the Inkscape pen tool appears to work very differently than the one in the game... Feel free to help out with that, too, if you're able/willing :)


texts: Add motion to multiple layers in Photoshop

texts: I have created a painting with too many layers in Photoshop. I'd like to add motion to it and make a simple animation using Photoshop timeline. Is it possible to add a motion one time and extend it to several groups of layers in order to zoom them all in and out simultaneously? It is so hard to add the same motion to all layers separately.


texts: Adobe Illustrator radial gradient is not smooth in both SVG and other image formats

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Adobe Illustrator gradients are not smooth.
I have tried to export in high resolution, and applying a blur effect to the gradient, but still it is not working.

Did I mess up some setting?

There seem to be circles in the gradient:


texts: Is double sided printing a requirement to print a booklet via InDesign?

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I need to print a short booklet via InDesign and my document is ready. However, I'm unsure if the printer I'm gonna print on (tomorrow) is capable of printing both sides.

So I'm wondering: Is double-sided printing a requirement to print a booklet?

I guess single-sided will work just as good, but not completely sure


texts: How to make arc text effect in Illustrator?

texts: I'm wondering how can I achieve such an effect in Illustrator or Photoshop. I think that part of the trick is to place text on arc, but then you also need to give it a little bit of perspective, like the text is coming from afar, and it kind of rotated a little bit. Sample below.


texts: Photoshop, change canvas size ADDS to existing canvas size rather than change

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Here's me changing canvas size to 100X10 inches:

Then I click OK, and then when I go to Image > Canvas to peep the current size it shows up as 220X30 inches:

I notice that my original size was 120X20 so it appears that it's adding the original size + the changes. But why?? I want something to be 100X10


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How to colorize GIMP arrow_brushes_BW http://www.gimphelp.org/arrow_brushes_BW_2.html ?

I mean when i try use some another brush on same RGB document with some arbitrary Foreground Color like red or green i received expected result. In same time when i switch brush to arrow character i receive only black color result without any gray-color variations.

Arrow brush Tool Option:


texts: Path/shape (not really sure how to formulate this question)

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I would like delete parts of the shape with the path.
Its 4am, and I have deadline to meet, and I am really stuck.

I am adding a picture so you can understand what i am jibbering about.

I would like the result to be like it is in the top picture, so it works on any color background, not only white (or background with same color as path)

(Top pic = Result I want to achieve)
(Bot Pic = Where I am now)

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texts: Are light type face versions simply thinner than the roman (regular) ones?

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I am taking a regular version of a typeface I love and making a light version of it, and I'm wondering:

Is the light version just an inset of the regular version?
Are there any special considerations I am missing?

This is my first albeit tenuous foray into type design, and while I have experience with and appreciate good typography, I have never actually got my hands dirty in making or altering a type face.

Extra credit question: Am I using the terms correctly here? I understand typeface is the term for the design of type but at what point should I be using the term font?


texts: Inkscape - How can I create a rectangle trapezium due to the height, base and inclination of the oblique side?


texts: How to reference a sublayer by name in an Illustrator script?

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How can one reference a sublayer in functions like setLayerVisibility, that accept layer names as arguments?

I tried

setLayerVisibility("MyLayerName.MySublayerName", true)

, but that was ineffective.


texts: How can I get a count of the amount of colors used in an Illustrator document?

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I'd like to be able to get a count on the current amount of colors being used in an Illustrator file. Additionally I'd like to be able to export the colors info (names, values, etc.) to a text file if possible.

Does anyone know how to do either of these without counting and exporting each color manually such as this question suggests? How can I separate colors by layer in Illustrator?

I've been digging around for an answer and am mostly finding articles on reducing the amount of colors instead of info on providing a count.

Thanks.


texts: I have been using a Huion tablet tablet. I have 2 monitors connected to my macbook. At first, my tablet automatically worked on whichever display that my cruiser was at, i.e., if I'm working on display 1, all the tablet area was display 1, then if I moved cruiser to display 2, all area of tablet was corresponding two display 2. In this mode, I was not able to move from one display to the other using stylus, it stoped at the edge of the display and I should have moved it by the mouse. But now, suddenly, I can either choose display 1, display 2, or both together. The problem is, when I choose both together, half of table is for one display and the other half is for the other display. I was wondering how to go back to the mode where tablet automatically worked on the whole area of the display on which my cruiser is located at.


texts: Do commercial artists have any legal obligation to avoid predatory design practices?

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Smithsonian Magazine recently ran an article, Ads for E-Cigarettes Today Hearken Back to the Banned Tricks of Big Tobacco, about E-Cigarette Ads utilizing techniques that were already banned (in the US) by combustible cigarettes.

I've done freelance work for a Vapeshop before. Thinking back on the services I provided I don't believe any could've been at all considered predatory, though I may be forgetting one. I dropped them as a client a long time ago because of moral reasons anyway.

This does beg the question though - as a designer do we have any legal obligations to be aware of predatory design practices? If vape advertising does get regulated in the way that combustible cigarettes are regulated then does any of that burden fall on us, the designers? Or should we accept the job, get paid, and leave the legal fallout entirely up to the client?


texts: How to place files to Photoshop without scaling?

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Is there a way to place files in Photoshop without scaling (true pixel of image)? They automatically resize to fit screen when I drag into PSD file! For example, when place a 48x48px to 480x480px PSD, it's scaled to 480x480.

My system info: Photoshop CS5, Windows 7.


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I was wondering if there is a way in Illustrator to create a certain number of swatches out of a gradient. Say that I need 9 distinct colors and I want to extract these colors from a gradient. What it would return for example is the color at 10%, 20%, 30% etc in the gradient.

Is there a function in Illustrator to do this?


texts: I'm having difficulties with a really basic concept in Inkscape. How do I fill an enclosed path that has a line going into it? I've combined the original two paths to form one path, but filling it doesn't actually fill it. The only way I can seem to get it to work are hacks like adding a background object filled with the right color. Here's an example of my issue:


texts: Do I have to leave a ® registered trademark symbol in "normal" typeface?

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I had a project head tell me I had to leave the registered trademark symbol ® in standard, unbolded, non-italicized Myriad Pro.

Is this a requirement or just a style choice? Curious to get feedback before I engage further in the discussion with him.

Thanks!


texts: Adobe Illustrator AI - Working with mesh and i want to make strokes with the mesh that i made

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Like the title says, I want to make a stroke along the lines made with the mesh tool.

How can this be achieved?


texts: Client is selling her business - can she on sell the design work I've done for her over the years?

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I've had an amazing client for the past three years who I've done regular graphic design work for - mostly product promotions (print & web), product brochures, posters and point of sale.
She is now trying to sell her business (which I'm gutted about!) and has asked me to put together a presentation of all the marketing work we've done over the past three years as part of her pitch to sell her business. I have no problem with doing that but my question relates to when she sells - can she sell all the work that I've done for her to a new owner? My thoughts are that the arrangement we had means she can use the work for promotional purposes but she can't on-sell the files or transfer them to a new owner.  Any thoughts on this one as I'd like to put my view on it to her before she enters into any contract with a potential buyer… Thanks


texts: Adobe Illustrator Auto Check 'Use Artboards'

texts: I want to automatically check 'Use Artboards' check box, when exporting JPEG/PNG from Illustrator. Is there any way to do it? May I have to change some script file to avoid manual checking for every new export dialog box. Thank you


texts: Best way to save JPG images to scale up in web (Css) without losing quality in Photoshop?

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Any ideas how to save a JPG (or any similar - small (KB) size Format) image with the size of 300px/300px in Photoshop - to scale it up to 600px/600px with using css in a webpage, without loosing "Quality"? I try to figure out wich settings are doing well... And how I can save the images in small sizes (KB)

1. Saving JPG in Photoshop in 300x300px

2. Scaling up with CSS to 600 x 600px


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Sometimes when you design things you become blind to the fact that your graphical design does not actually work all that well. It can happen that you fail to account for some corner case or you can fail to account for missing contextual information etc.

How do you ensure you are in fact designing it right and the design works as intended? When doing some user testing how do you ensure you do not taint the test with your context that then does not always exist? Or we might ask teh wrong audience. What other options do we have?

Some examples:

Image 1: Sometimes you just don't get the design as presented.

Both of the designs above probably were perfectly valid in environment where they were designed, just not when they were applied. It is just that the selection highlight probably worked quite well when the designed menu had more than 2 items. Well tough luck in the version i was presented they weren't present. Likewise the symbol if perfectly understandable if you happen to see its counterpart, but alone it does not work as well. Unfortunately in practice this comes up every day since the icon are not all next to each other.


texts: Handling image masks and borders when exporting Sketch to Adobe XD

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I am trying to export some of my current designs, made in Sketch App, to Adobe XD so I can make small prototypes out of them.

I don't want to be remaking these in XD, so I export them instead. However, the file has a number of image masks that don't export well in the recommended SVG.

Is there a way around this?
When converting these masks to bitmap it includes any layer styles such as borders as well and I need to be able to influence these things for ie hover styles. The borders seem to render weird in XD anyway, see screenshot:


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I am wondering if someone can tell me how to batch export from a specific folder. This is the process that I want to have happen.

Save all my files to a specific folder
Withing a document I want a script to import all the files I previously saved to a specific folder to my artboard as separate layers
I want the same script to the export the layers individually, but it to include a overlaying layer that I will have had previously setup on this new document.

Any ideas?


texts: icon indicating "Nothing happened" or "No Data"

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I have a website showing a matrix of Scheduled Operations

the matrix has server names on the y-axis and dates on the x-axis

I need an icon that represents "No Schedule".

My first thought was
,but I really don't feel like this is the right icon for "No schedule" or "nothing happened".

What would be the "right" pictogram for this in your opinion?

The data I'm showing is a matrix of clickable status indicators (the icons are the status indicators) - when you click an icon, you get details about the event.

My icons suite looks like this;

 - Scheduled Operation Succeeded (Nothing went wrong)
 - Scheduled Operation is In progress
 - Operation missed its scheduled (basically as hard fail)
 - Scheduled Operation Failed
 - Scheduled Operation is waiting to start


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Is it possible to export a Sketch prototype as a working file?

I have made a prototype but I need to export it to show a stakeholder and give to my boss so he can use it in a meeting.

Are there any ways in Sketch, Plugins etc that I'm not aware of?

Im running Sketch 50.2, which is the latest version right now.


texts: Handling inversion on black and white photos in Photoshop

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I'm looking to recreate a similar black and white effect to the dome in this casino token. It's the Capitol Building in Austin, Texas.

I've looked at a variety of different images of the dome, in different lights (day/night shots, black and white/color).

I've experimented with various adjustment layers (brightness/contrast; exposure; black & white; inversion) but can't seem to get close enough to the desired highlighting...

I'ver been considering trying to isolate the different elements of the dome, adjusting those new layers and merging them back together but that seems labor intensive. Like I'm missing something really obvious!

Any tips greatly appreciated! :)


texts: Optical adjustment guidelines for typographic curvature

texts: When designing a geometric sans, such as Futura, do you adjust the thickness of a circular arc for a better visual match to a straight stroke?  I'm hoping for a formula like “a circular arc of inner radius r and outer radius R will seem as thick as a straight stroke of thickness f(r,R)”; maybe it's simply R–r, maybe it's not, for all I know.


texts: Illustrator: how to add segment to a closed path

texts: I created a rectangle by pointing and clicking 4 anchor points. My question is, is there a way to connect two already existing anchor points to create a diagonal segment? I am trying hard with the pen tool and the direct selection tool but I'm not having any luck. Thanks!


texts: Embedding a picture in Photoshop without super big size

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I'm working on a 300 DPI (print) Photoshop document.

I imported a medium quality .JPG file (~ 3 MB) into a layer of the Photoshop document.

Problem: the size of the Photoshop file has now grown from 4 MB to 13 MB ! (If I do the same for all images that I want to embed, the document will end 3 times bigger as it should)

I know that Photoshop is a bitmap/picture editing software and not a page-layout software like InDesign, etc. and I know it's usually a bad idea to use Photoshop for something else than photo editing. But still:

Is it possible to import a 3 MB image into a new layer of a Photoshop file, such that the size of the Photoshop file won't grow more than 3 MB?


texts: Proper typesetting of right-to-left text in overall left-to-right context

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Screenshot taken from a popular game (LetterPress), where a user has his name in a right-to-left script (which looks like arabic).

This typesetting is clearly surprising, as the name is out of line with other usernames (e.g., “whocaresalot”). However, I can see the logic at work behind it… So: what are the general rules guiding typography of right-to-left text in a left-to-right context?


texts: Add a special character o glyph made of three dots for quick insertion InDesign

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I am working on a long text with InDesign cs6 and I need to be able to quickly write/insert a special charter that looks likes this three dots in the image
(They are three dots and the middle on is higher making them look like a triangle.)
any ideas are more than welcome!
Thank you!


texts: When using the blend tool in Illustrator, I get large white patches

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So I made one path, then another. Opened Blend, set to Specified Steps, and then applied it to the paths. With straight paths, all was well. But with curved ones, I have large white patches where Blend did not fill anything in. Is this a common problem?

Thank you


texts: I need to edit a lot of images by removing the background turn it to a PNG and cut it to size, is there a way to automate any part of this all the images are different shapes, the photos have a white background my budget is close to zero and the images are all fairly simple shapes.


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At the bottom of the toolbar in Illustrator there used to be an option to paste inside a shape:

It's a really convenient that helps you not have to make a clipping mask if you don't have to, and closer in use to the user-friendly way of placing an element inside another of InDesign.
But I cannot find this great feature anymore in Illustrator 2020. Where is it?


texts: How to create a grid system on a tri fold leaflet or brochure in InDesign

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I’m new to working with grids and tri folds, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out?

As you well know when creating a tri fold, the fold in panel width becomes a different size than the other two panels. And from some templates I’ve downloaded or looked at online they have made one panel smaller than the other two.

I understand a grid system won’t work across these different panel sizes, so what is the best way of creating a grid system that works across the whole page and also with my base line grid?

Do I just create a basic grid across the whole A4 landscape page (or whatever size page you may have) with three columns that are all the same width, and simply make the margins a lot bigger to compensate when folded, or is there some jazzy thing you have to do?

Sorry if I haven’t explained myself well enough but I’m very nervous because I have done a poster for this charity and they really like it and now they want me to design a tri fold.
I’m just a little scared that when it’s printed and folded it will all go wrong.

Please see the image below of the grid I designed on a A4 landscape page. Would this work in the real world when printed if I used this for both sides of my tri fold?

Thank you for your help!


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I read a good book on DTP.

The author stated, that one should flatten layers on PDF export from them DTP program. Unfortunately the author doesn't explain this further.

I would like to ask, why flatten layers on PDF export? What is the problem?


texts: Explaining your design choices: how can we both argue for "being consistent" and the opposite; "I spiced it up" (I e I was inconsistent)

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I've chosen to use circles as a graphic element because they relate beautifully to the geometric form of Century Gothic.

That could be a justification for a design choice, and it would make sense, I think. I e you are being consistent, basing your design choices on already existing elements.

That's all fine and dandy, right? However, equally often you hear the opposite as a justification:

  Here, I've used squares as a graphical element to break the monotony of the rounded Century Gothic.

And that's like yeah, cool, see what you did there.

How come it seems two complete opposites seem to be such great justifications, really?


texts:
Sumopaint is an online photoshop like web-based utility, I am trying to open a psd file with the free online version but it does not open.

Can we open a psd file with Sumopaint, if yes how?


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I have a couple hundred paths in one image.

Is there a tool in Illustrator that would allow me to select a few (10) colors, and then using those colors to randomly fill all my paths.

An example would be a military camouflage pattern

There's a tool in Illustrator called Recolor Artwork (However I don't believe that this solves my dilemma)

I'm not exactly sure how this tool works. I believe that it recolors the artwork, meaning that if all of your paths are already colored in, you can "randomly" change their colors.

I'm looking for a way to do the first step (once I have all my paths filled, I can use the Recolor Artwork in order to change hues etc.)

Edit:

So I've found multiple different scripts that accomplish this (and they do it quite well), but I'm still curious if there's a way to do it within Illustrator, since running the scripts is kind of a hassle - and if I want to reset my colors, I have to do it again. (is there a way I can make it into an action?)


texts: Is there a Photoshop action to create bump, normal and reflection maps for rendering software?

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Does anyone know of a Photoshop action, or set of actions to produce a defuse, bump, normal and reflection map for use in 3d rendering software?

It seems like quite a simple thing and I have searched google but couldn't seem to find one. I'd be realy surprised if one didn't exist.


texts: Licensing a font for a clients website use?

texts: How does font licensing work for client web usage?  Currently I use typekit through Creative Cloud for fonts on my projects.  Every font foundry I see charges by the page view for web fonts.  If a client has a small business with under 500k views then suddenly blows up and is getting some ridiculous number of views how would that work?  Do I just eat the cost of buying them more views?  Also, what if a client decides to stop hosting their site with me and wants to go with another company?  Am I just supposed to say well you have to buy a typekit membership(or whatever foundry) and switch the linking to your account?


texts: Search for string and delete entire text frame with JavaScript for Illustrator

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I can delete a layer by name:

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myLayers = myDoc.layers;

    var myLayer = myLayers["layer name"];
    myLayer.remove();

or by stacking order:

    var myLayer = myLayers[1];
    myLayer.remove();

and I know how to find and replace text with a script so I am trying to find a way to combine these two and find a string, then delete the layer that string is on since I can't use the layer name or stacking order. I am trying to learn scripting as I go so this may not be possible (then someone saying it's not possible would be helpful) and my script is probably full of issues...but this is what I tried to put together and it doesn't work so here I am asking for help.

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var search_string = "words I am trying to search for";
    var text_frames = myDoc.textFrames;

    if (text_frames.length > 0)
    {
        for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)
          {
              var this_text_frame = text_frames[i];

               if (this_text_frame = search_string.contents)
                   {
                        this_text_frame.remove();
                   }
          }
    }


texts: How do you choose the spacing between letters in a diagram?

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What considerations do I have to think about when I choose whether to set line spacing at 90%, 100%, 110% or 120% when I design a diagram?

Is there research about the effects that different line spacing has on the user?


texts: Copying a selection without adding a new layer in Krita

texts: I want to duplicate a selection area in Krita and move it to anywhere I wish. The problem is, I can't do this simple manipulation because it creates an additional layer each time copied and pasted, which is not something I expect for ultra simple drawings such as black-and-white stickman sprite sheet. I have already used clone brush but it is not practical.


texts: What is this style of isometric illustration called?

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What is the following style of illustration called?
I've searched with Isometric Illustration but there seem to be various types of it. Is there a specific name for this one?


texts: How to efficiently work on resizing glyphs in FontLab

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I'm wondering if people use Illustrator to design the actual font-glyph, and use Illustrator until the glyph is fully developed, positioned, etc.. Then only once the glyph is basically done do you go into FontLab and copy-paste your Illustrator glyph and boom it fits into the grid automatically. The only reason you use FontLab is to organize your glyphs into the font file... You don't use FontLab to do the actual drawing and resizing of the glyphs, because it seems to primitive to do anything substantial.

The reason I'm asking is because I would like to scale all of my glyphs in the font to be the same width and height and be centered according to the guides. The only option I see in FontLab is to select multiple glyphs in the font view, then go to the Transform Panel and specify a percentage width. But that is far too crude. I don't know what percentage width to change each glyph!!! The glyphs are each different sizes and in different places in the glyph area, so I don't know what sort of math I would need to bring out to figure this out, but it seems crude and hard.

Instead, I would like to say basically: "take the farthest points on the left, and put them 20pt to the right of 0. Take the farthest points to the right and put them 20pt to the left of the right edge of the guides. etc.." Basically, tell them the constraints I would like the font glyphs to all have, and then boom, it dynamically adjusts each individual glyph to be 20pt to the left and right edge, scaled appropriately.

This seems like something that might be possible in Illustrator, but I am sad to find that it doesn't seem possible to do this in FontLab. It seems FontLab tried to recreate some of Illustrators stuff, but are miles and miles behind the technology, so it's almost worthless to use FontLab as a vector editor (let alone one at scale).

So my question is, (1) Can FontLab actually do this? And (2) Is it better to do all the "vector work" in Illustrator, and only when you are close to "feature complete" for the glyphs do you move them into FontLab for output to the font file. I would like to know if this is the better workflow. Also, it would help a lot if you knew some resources to look at to get better at making the font glyphs and doing batch operations like this. Seems like I should be doing this in Illustrator, but even then I'm not sure it's possible.

Thank you.

https://font.is/fontlab-using-illustrator-to-draw-fonts-for-importing-into-fontlab/
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-font-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25921
https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/custom-font-illustrator-fontforge
https://creativepro.com/how-to-build-font-adobe-illustrator/
https://coursetro.com/posts/code/145/Learn-How-to-Make-a-Font-(Written-&-Video-Tutorial)
https://creativemarket.com/blog/create-your-own-hand-lettered-fonts-in-minutes-with-fontself
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-your-own-font--cms-29019
https://www.sitepoint.com/create-an-icon-font-illustrator-icomoon/
https://blog.storyblocks.com/image-tutorials/use-adobe-illustrator-artboards/

None of these are that detailed.


texts: Paint .Net - Resize and edit existing shape (Like Rounded Rectangle)

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I am new to Paint.Net and first thing that I would like to learn is how to re-size existing Shape. Please refer below image. Here I have two rectangles in two different layers, I would like to re-size or say change any of their properties (like color).

My understanding is that I need go to their layer first and then click on Tools -> "Some Selection Control" and then it should allow me to change properties of the rectangle (like size or color). I have already tried all of the existing selection controls but wasn't able to find any control which will let me select that rectangle only and will let me change the properties.

I searched on Google as well as Paint.Net forums but didn't find any helpful answer.
I have already referred below links

Shape Selection Tools
Resize shapes

I used to use Photoshop and it was pretty straight forward in Photoshop, in there it would allow you to select existing shape and change its properties easily (like size, color). Just referring Photoshop to explain my question :)

Thanks in advance for your time and help :)


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I'm trying to use the selection tool to cut a logo from a image, without success. The darker parts in the bottom of the logo is a big problem because of the main background color. In addition, the selection tool fails on the border around "2015" also. Is there any way to improve this process? Now i'm just using standard settings in Photoshop.

Here's my image and "2015" is what i'm trying to cut out and create a transparent png-image.


texts: InDesign CS4 or CS5: How do I export tiles to a PDF?

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Let's say I have a document which is 30 inches by 30 inches. My printer is 11x17. I need to print tiles.

Let's also say that the printer is attached to a computer which doesn't have InDesign, but does have Acrobat, so I need to export my fie to a PDF in order to print to the printer.

How do I get a PDF which is made of tiles?

I can use the Print function to print tiles, manually or automatically. I can Export to PDF. But I can't figure out how to Print to PDF or save my print job as a PDF and have it come up as tiles. (I tried using the Save As PDF option and the PDF which was generated couldn't be opened; my Mac kept spitting back an error.)

Is there a way to do this from InDesign, or do I have to create a PDF with four identical pages and create tiles manually by cropping in Acrobat?


texts: What kind of perspective is used in this image??

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I'm trying to figure out the perspective of this image!!

I'm sure it's not a 3-point perspective and I lean toward 1-point perspective. I tried to figure out the vanishing points of the image and find the horizon line and that is what I came up with

Is it a 1-point perspective used with multiple auxiliary points??
and is there's a VP in the center of the squared city???


texts: gimp 2.10.20 issue with scaling blurred images

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for some reason in the gimp 2.10.20 version of gimp, scaling blurred image with transparent background(or layer) has problems. I just blurred a circle on a transparent layer, and I tried to scale it, but the gaussian blur jumps back to  a smaller strength as if it's trying to preserve the blur, as a result I end up with a much thicker circle than I'd expected to. I think this might be a bug, but I'm cautious to report it , so I'm asking to confirm it here, or is it a tool feature somewhere with a swatch to toggle on/off?
Full demo here: in this video


texts: I am drawing a geometric pattern in inkscape. I have faced a problem. In the white rectangle shown below, I need to make it into a trapezium. I drew two triangles at two sides of the rectangle with three lines. I tried to fill in the shape. But it is not possible to fill and also to cut these two triangles. Can anyone please help me with this? Thanks.


texts: What do you call this type of top down, not really 3D, perspective?

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It's not isometric, it's not one point, maybe top down?

I want to Google it and don't know how.

Thanks


texts: Adobe Illustrator: how to save at 600 dpi for print

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I am learning AI now and one of the requirements for a project is it must be submitted as 600dpi in order to be printed. Can I accomplish this with Adobe Illustrator? If so how can it be saved as 600dpi in PDF format, as the only CMYK option I find in AI for print is 300 dpi?

Can I accomplish this with just AI or will I need to use Photoshop also?


texts: Bind the content to the outline in Illustrator

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I created a rectangle into Illustrator CC and I putted inside it a print in a right position.
I would to move that rectangle but the print moves.
Is it possible to bind the print to the rectangle's outline?


texts: frame around the selected area to the script in Illustrator

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var idoc = app.activeDocument;

var sel = idoc.selection;

var blk_color = new CMYKColor();
blk_color.cyan = 100;

for (i=0; i<sel.length; i++)

{
    var pgItem = sel[i];
    var bounds = pgItem.geometricBounds;

    var ipath = idoc.pathItems.rectangle
    (pgItem.position[1],
    pgItem.position[0],
    pgItem.width,
    pgItem.height);

    ipath.stroked = true;
    ipath.strokeColor = blk_color;
    ipath.filled = false;
    ipath.strokeWidth = 5;
    ipath.strokeDashes = [10];
}


texts: Difference between RAW file size and Photoshop Image size

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I have a RAW file from a 24 megapixel camera. The RAW file is about 25MB in size, looking at it in OS X. When I load the RAW into Photoshop and then look at Image > Image Size in CC 2014, Photoshop reports a size of 58MB. I find this dialog useful as it allows me to assess how big I can print at various DPI but I wonder about why the file size has now doubled?

I am guessing that this is because Photoshop has to hold the data in an RGB color space vs the native bayer sensor format of the camera.

Interestingly, when I save the file as a PSD, file size grows to 110MB. I am considering a higher megapixel camera but I shudder to think what the end file sizes will be.

Extra info

Just as an exercise, I pulled down a 7360 x 4912 RAW from a Sony A7R. RAW file size is 37.7MB. In Photoshop, Image > Image Size reports a file size of 103MB. Saving as a PSD, 254MB.


texts: How do I "Render Video" of a single artboard in Photoshop?

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I have a Photoshop (PSD) file containing several artboards as well as a timeline animation. I would like to export the animation contained in one of those artboards as a PNG sequence. Ordinarily in a Photoshop file without artboards, I would just use the "File->Export->Render Video" command to render out the PNG sequence. But if I do that in my file with multiple artboards, it renders out all of the artboards, not just the artboard I have selected.

How can I get Photoshop to render a PNG sequence of only a single artboard? (I've already tried making the other artboards invisible, but Photoshop still renders out blank space where those artboards would be.)


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I'm trying to merge down the picture layer on the sides of the cube, however, the results is that the image is merged down on the sides that I don't really intended. I'd like the picture to wrap the front sides of a cube that are actually visible.

How should I solve this?

Here are the pictures:

Before:

After:


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I'm trying to automatize giving character styles to the editor given names (not the author names) in literature sources like this one via Find/Change (not GREP styles):

Jacobs, G. A., Boero, J. V., Quevillon, R. P., Todd-Bazemore, E., Elliott, T. L. & Reyes, G. (2002). Floods. In A. M. La Greca, W. K. Silverman, E. M. Vernberg & M. C. Roberts (Eds.), Helping children cope with disasters and terrorism (pp. 157 – 174). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Doing that, I want to grap any capital letter followed by a dot AFTER the word In in a paragraph. Since the regular lookbehind (?<=) won't work with . and + opperators, I use \K
As an additional info to this particular case: Using a fine-tagging script, everything is already tagged with different character and paragraph styles, the script just has problems with the double/multiple given names of the editors which is why I'm trying to  find them manually to correct them. I can't post the script here since it's not mine to give.
what I have:

I managed to grab all double or more names (singular is for a reason not necessary) which come after the word In:
(In )\K([\u]\.( [\u]\.)+)

I managed to grab double or more names after the first occurence:
(In [\u]\.( [\u]\.)* .+(\,|\&) )\K([\u]\.( [\u]\.)+)

I have multiple things not working out:
1. finding more than one occurence
The second query only finds the last occurence, not the ones inbetween. Since .+ looks for everything that comes before f.e. M. C., it seems to include any occurence that come before the last.
I just can't seem to find a way to grab all occurences. Does anyone know a way or is this simply not possible
2. combining the search with "or" |
Both queries work for themself but I can't combine them with "or". Now in general it does work with simpler test queries but with the ones above. Possibly because the first query is a part of the second.
Does anyone have an idea how this could work?
Thanks in advance


texts: Display layer where luminosity is greater than fixed value

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I had a paper-and-ink image with a thick black border around it. Past the black border was very dirty white paper. I wanted to (using Photoshop) replace the dirty white paper with pure white, or possibly with paper texture cloned from other parts of the image.

I realized that there was a reasonable gap in luminosity between the border and the dirt, so I figured what I could do is pick a shade of grey somewhere inside that gap, let's call it the threshold, that's brighter than the border, and darker than the dirt. Then just use the polygonal lasso tool to select right down the middle of the black border (so no finicky feathered edges on the selection, just nice straight lines) and select the dirty trim around the image. Fill that area with white on a new layer, and then say "Display this layer wherever the background is brighter than the threshold, otherwise display the background." If I pick the right threshold value, that should have the effect of masking off the dirty white paper, but letting through the border, right? All without the need to do any tedious, risky manual work that might gnaw into the border.

But how can I do that? Is it even possible?


texts: Why does blend smooth not work perfectly for two black objects?

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Here's what I did in Illustrator CC 2015:

Typed a letter i
Clicked Create outlines
Selected the circle and below part of shape and clicked Make compound path
Copied the whole shape and placed at some distance
And tried 3 different shades (Black - Black, Black - grey, Black - White) of color on 2nd shape for smooth blend and here's what I got:

Now, I don't understand why 1st experiment acted as if I selected blend steps? Also, why did it kept making it more smoother as I changed shade from Dark black to white?

Finally, even it looks like I achieved my result in Black - White case, but if you zoom in, it is also not completely smooth from bottom edge as compared to top edge. How can I fix it?


texts: Font Identification help for DiffChecker logo

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I need help identifying a font. I've tried WhatsThisFont with no luck. I appreciate any help. I'm specially interested in the "Diff" part, although both would be helpful.

(this is the current logo of DiffChecker.com)

Also, it doesn't have to be the exact same one... I like the look and a similar font would also work for me.

Thanks!


texts: Photoshop Guides for widescreen web designs

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Does anybody know what the guides should be set at get a basic viewport for the typical 13" widscreen laptop?

Anybody know of a template of sorts that can assist in this matter?

Thanks in advance.


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I use Affinity Designer, and I found that although I create the design in CMYK colour model, when I export it as a .jpg or a .png file, the design reverts back to RGB colour model?

Is there any way this can be fixed?

Thanks in advance!


texts: I had create a logo using illustration and my client want to use it in a video what format will be good form saving logo?

texts: I am using illustrator to create the logo and my client want to use it in a video and I want to know the best format to save the file in.


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What's the closest web-safe font to Roboto?

I need to know this in order to provide a decent alternative to Roboto for my apps.

UPDATE: reading the answers, it's clear that the concept of web safe needs to be clarify.
Actually I'm referring to the webdev concept of web safe: http://www.w3schools.com/csSref/css_websafe_fonts.asp

which includes the following:

Georgia, serif
"Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino
"Times New Roman", Times
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
"Arial Black", Gadget
"Comic Sans MS", cursive
Impact, Charcoal
"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande"
Tahoma, Geneva
"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica
Verdana, Geneva
"Courier New", Courier, monospace
"Lucida Console", Monaco


texts: How to create the effect in this animated GIF of morphing faces?

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I saw an amazing animated gif

And I thought I should give it a go.

I tried laying out several friends' pictures in movie maker and power director and though I sort of have a video where it is animated up to an extent, it is not as fluid, it feels more like a slideshow no matter how much I tweak the time/tween.

I thought, may be I need to fine control it and opened up Photoshop and added layer mask to go from image to image...though this is a lot better, I still don't have this fluidity.

I am not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but do any of you know how this method can be achieved? I think it's a great pic!


texts: How to change time format in Playhead Position on Premiere Pro CC 2015

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This is how it is (there is only numbers):

That is what a want (time is separated in hours, minutes and seconds):


texts: Alternative to Keynote to design great slides?

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What software are designers using to create great presentation slides?

E.g.

Adding (configurable) drop shadows on text
Creating custom slide backgrounds, e.g radial gradients
Adding noise or patterns to fills

Do people create their slides in Photoshop? Is it not a huge pain?


texts: AfterEffects - control audio spectrum with precision?

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Alright, perhaps I shouldnt be using an Audio Spectrum for this effect but this was the only way I knew how to achieve this circular, extended line animation:

This was achieved with:

This distorts the lines and is not ideal, but achieves the overall effect. instead of the lines growing all around the circle in accordance with the selected audio file waveform, I want to control and isolate the sides that grow.
For example, I'd like be able to move a slider and have the green side be full height (with heights tapering into the other colors), then go to the blue side, etc etc. At this point, only one side of the circle would be full height.
How can I achieve this? Is there any way to hack audio spectrum or is there a better way?


texts: GIMP: How to transform one color component to alpha, keeping the others?

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I don't know if the question's wording is correct. Basically, I have something like this:

As you can see, blue is fading into white. The blue and white are both merged in one layer. I want to take out the white, leaving a transparent background, so that blue can fade into any background color. Obviously just selecting the white pixels and deleting them won't do the trick, because the pixels in between would either be deleted as well, destroying the fade out effect, or kept, and it would still fade to white until another solid color appeared.

So is there any way to achieve this?


texts: How can I merge 2 bitmap layers in Sketch App?

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Is there a way (or a workaround) to merge 2 bitmap layers in Sketch?

I often use cutouts of print screens to start sketching out new interfaces and I would like to merge these into 1 bitmap afterI'm done with the sketching and ready for the 'real' work.

So far I just group and lock them, but this is not always wanted.


texts: Is there any concept of a shape builder in Sketch?

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Sketch is awesome because it's cheap and can do most things I need, but when I go to work on a logo or something, it sucks compared to Illustrator's shape builder functionality.

Like... I really just want to be able to subtract pieces off each other, or combine them together so a gradient will work with them... in a destructive way...

In lieu of Sketch, or a Sketch plugin offering this, does anyone know of an inexpensive program that offers similar functionality?


texts: How to get flat collection of paths from stacked ones

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Here's an image to help (the top is the original image, the bottom is after moving the white object to the front):

What I need is an object that is all of the white in the image. The problem is that the white space is created by stacking blue objects on top of white, so I can't just remove all the blue objects from the .svg file. How can I create objects of the visible white areas?

In the example image, that would mean that instead of white and blue stacked on top of each other, it would be a flat image - blue objects with white objects around them. If you move blue or white, there would be nothing behind it.


texts: InDesign: Can I use a variable in a cross-reference?

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I have a book with many documents; each begins with a numbered "Chapter" paragraph style. Rather that numbering all the chapters manually, I use a variable for the chapter numbers. However, when I create a cross-reference to one of the chapters, the chapter number is omitted. So instead of getting this...

  For more information, see Chapter 6: Combat.

I get this instead...

  For more information, see Chapter : Combat.

The obvious workaround is to get rid of the variables and manually number all the chapters. This is less that ideal because I will have to re-number the chapters when I add new content to the book later.

Is InDesign really unable to capture variable information in a cross-reference?


texts: Primary color and accent from similar colors

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I am new to material design and still learning.

Is it a good idea to have the primary color and the accent from similar palettes, e.g Blue 500 and Light Blue A200? Or is the whole idea of the primary/accent to create enough contrast and you should be using colors that are really different?


texts: lines capped by lines in Adobe Illustrator

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to create my own arrow effects in illustrator CS 2

Is there an easy way of creating thin perpendicular lines capping the end of a line segment in Adobe Illustrator CS4? The sort of effect I'm looking for is this:

|------------------------|

(but without the dotted effect!). This is useful for example for adding dimensions on technical type drawings.

I would have expected I could do this easily either with add arrowheads or with line cap type options, but I can't find a way in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Obviously I'd prefer not to draw three separate line segments every time. I am struggling to investigate this as I'm not even sure what the proper term is for this type of line decoration.

Thanks for any suggestions.


texts: What is this arrangment of elements in broadcast news called?

texts: I am searching for the name of an arrangement typically used in news-broadcast designs, exemplified below (Terror in Boston, with rectangle above). In French we call these mortaise, but I cannot find the English term for it.


texts: What is the best book with american typography rules?

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There is russian book, The Publisher’s and Author’s Handbook by Arkady Miltchin and Ludmila Tcheltsova which is well-known and considered the best comprehensive guide to typography and writing of text in Russian (formatting, margins, font sizes and so on). You can get the idea if you peek my link (even though everything is in Russian).

Is there an American alternative available?


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I havent been able to find any references that this should be possible, maybe you can assist ?

What i would like to do is to add a user interface for our designers when dealing with a specific object (box object), its like a electrical floor drawing where they will add boxes to many segments of the drawing.

The thought was to import a CSV file with a list of predefined boxes with the following format :

Name, BoxType, Color, Floor

When all has been done and they changed what they want, we do another export of the list.

1)

When adding a box object i would like to be able to pop up a form, like a small properties form, where they are able to select from a dropdown box one of the predefined box-records from the imported list.

2)

Would also like them to be able to change each of the 4 values selected, manually in a form, so ex. they can give the box its own name ( different from what it was in the imported records ) - i imagine just a form popping up ex on rightclick or hotkey where they can change the 4 values as they wish, ex. changing what floor it is located on.

Is this possible at all in any way in Illustrator using script or SDK or somekind of other method ?

Hope you can help.


texts: Can I globally change colors in an SVG using illustrator?

texts: I have an SVG graphic in illustrator. I want to replace colors, everywhere in the illustration, with different ones. Could I operate the color swatch to make the change? I'm looking for a global process. Is this possible?


texts: Easy way to set text style across documents

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Sometimes when I click a color with the eye dropper in Photoshop CS 6, the color of a text layer in my document will change to that color. Oddly enough, this happens only one and I cannot duplicate it. I do not know how/why that happens and would love to know.

To the more pressing matter at hand: After I have designed a text layer the way I want it, I wish to use the same style on a series of other documents, I have not found anything, short of duplicating the text layer and retyping the text, that would accomplish that and I would like to ask for help with that.
I wish for a text layer in another document to have the same font, size, color etc. as the one in the current document. How pls?

I believe text styles do not transfer across documents for some reason?


texts: Illustration Isolation and Clipping Groups

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I'm a bit stuck here.

I only want to click on one part of a character's body. Every time I try to click on one it just them clicks on the whole body

I also have this on clipping group and isolation. Do you know how to get this off?

Please help.
thanks


texts: How to remove a repeated image from .psd file?

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I have a repeated image in my .psd file. I have a map that contains street numbers and i need to automatically remove all numbers. I am looking for a photoshop tool to remove each number. Is there such a tool?

This is how the map looks like and i would like to highlight one number, say 4, and then remove all 4's from the map.


texts: How was brand consistency maintained before computers?

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The era of computers makes it easy to regulate brand consistency - you can e-mail anyone your branding guidelines in a PDF and it will have all the information they need. However, I still sometimes struggle to acquire the files I need from clients (no, please do not fax me your logo).

I can't imagine how difficult my job would be without e-mail. How was it done? For example, if I wanted some stationery with my company's logo printed on it, what was the process like without computers? How did brand logos remain consistent without digital assistance?


texts: Images resizing when printing through photoshop to printer

texts: So I have the task of printing these images to a set size 300dpi and 5cm x 3.5cm pretty simple really, I've adjusted the images in photoshop and saved them as a jpeg, when I print them off through photoshop sometimes they come out 5x3.5 others times they are 4.7 x 3.3 cm it's the exact same image used each time and I can't work out if it is photoshop or the printer anyone have any suggestions?


texts: Remove Extra Background behind the iPhone frame in Sketch

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I have a 2 layers in Sketch the iPhone frame and the image in the background.

This is what it produces

Is there a way to hide or erase of that extra area using Sketch ?


texts: Tracing logic behind the pen tool / bezier curve

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One of the strategies I employ when using the Pen Tool in Illustrator to trace something is to use as few nodes as possible to make the curves as smooth as possible.  I'm often surprised by what curve variations can be managed between a mere two nodes, and on the other hand occasional come across seemingly simply curve segments that require three or more nodes to trace properly.  As a somewhat scientifically minded person, I find myself wanting to "know" just what's going on...

I wondering whether any experienced tracers out there have a kind of mental checklist for when they need to drop another node, or whether anyone has a good summary of it from a maths point of view?


texts: Can I change users on Adobe Draw but transfer my artwork to the new user?

texts: I was using an old work account on Adobe without realizing, I no longer have the login for it and was hoping to login as my new account. Can I transfer the artworks to my new account?


texts: How, in Illustrator, do I release a clipping mask without releasing masks contained by that group?

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Example:

Illustrate a fake "painting" to go in a scene, and apply a clipping mask to bound it to the frame.
Group whole scene and apply clipping mask to the layer, or to the group if there are multiple versions, so I can show a coworker/my boss how they'll look for the final.
Now need to get rid of 1-20 clipping masks that contain other clipping masks that I don't want to get rid of, or re-mask.

If I release the masks by highlighting the group/layer in the layers panel and clicking the make/release mask button at the bottom, it will release not only the mask on that group, but every mask contained in the group. I will then need to re-mask them all manually.

If I just delete the masking object from each group/layer, the problem goes away, but the layer/group is still technically masked, just by nothing. If I try to add a mask later and forget this is the case, I will still need to re-mask every sub-group, as the first click will release every mask.

I do illustration and some website mockups and my work flow is to work mostly in one layer until I need to output/hand it off to someone else. I ended up doing some animation assets/storyboarding in the program (long story), so I had one master artboard with everything layered on it, and 10-25 artboards as storyboard frames. This is all descriptive of what I do, not prescriptive for what I should do.


texts: How to superimpose one image on another that has a different perspective?

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I would like to take the menu image, below, and superimpose it on top of the screen in the image below it, so it looks like the person is looking at that on their screen.

Is this easily done in Photoshop, or is it a bad idea for a beginner-intermediate to try?? I would assume it requires some kind of mesh that can change the perspective of the menu. I'm using PS CS6.

Thanks in advance.


texts: I have created a business card in InDesign and when I export the card as a PDF or JPG it is missing the background colour and a vector image I created. I have all layers selected when exporting.


texts: Removing the background from product photos

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How do you remove the background from a product photo?

I'm trying to find a faster and cleaner way to remove the background from my product photos. I shoot on a white background but because the product is a clear glass bottle, its hard to make a quick selection without deleting parts the product itself.

What I currently do is use the Select Color Range tool for the background and then use the Polygonal Lasso tool to remove parts of the bottle from the selection.

This usually comes out pretty sloppy and imperfect. If anybody has any tricks to share that would be awesome! Below is the image I'm starting with today and I want to experiment on this one


texts: Scaling image to suit 480dpi Android screen(xxhdpi)

texts: I am newbie designer. Have designed the screens for an android app using illustrator and measurements are in pixels. My developers have asked me to provide the images @480DPI. My online research did not provide a straightforward answer so would like to hear from an expert who have done this before. My research says to make the images suitable all I have to do is scale it 300% in other words if the image is 30 by 30 pixels then make it 90 by 90 pixels. is this correct? if not what's the right way to do this?


texts: Strange bug with Cambria and text variables

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I was typesetting a document using Cambria as the main font (don’t ask me why). Then I have noticed a very peculiar bug that almost ruined my whole work. Below I explain step-by-step what I have experienced. (I am not sure which steps are relevant and which are not, so I list them all).

I have defined a style for the headings, based on Cambria as well.
I have defined a text variable for the running headers based on a null
character style, i.e. an invisible style that is only used as target
for this variable.
I have selected the headings that were supposed to
be displayed in the running headers and applied this invisible
character style.
The header effectively works.
Now, some of my headings contain the sequence “thin space” + “tab”. Each
time when it does so, there are some strange figures (numbers) coming out in the
header (see the picture).

You can inspect the source file directly, if you want.
After some attempts, I’ve discovered that this behavior pops up with any kind of “special” space, but not with the standard space. The order must be exactly this: “special” space first, tab next, even with some characters intervening in the middle. Moreover, this happens only with Cambria, not with other fonts (even if I haven’t checked them all).
Any idea? Is it Cambria to blame or it’s InDesign?


texts: Can you help me with a font licensing question (AKA what is the licensing for my font)?

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I'm asking this question on behalf of the occasional new members who ask questions in the following categories (fill in the blanks as appropriate):

Does anyone know the licensing terms for ______  font?
I have conflicting licenses for ______  font, can somebody clarify them for me?
I have a font with ______  license terms, can I use it for ______  purpose?
I have a font and don't know the license terms, can I use it for ______  purpose?
Font ______  was included with ______  software/operating-system.  Is it legal to use it for ______  purpose?
Can I embed ______  font in my product?


texts: Please suggest some books or some courses I can take online. Given that I know nothing about typography or design.


texts: Graphic Design book for an artist that would like to study graphic design

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I would like to give (gift) a book to a friend which studied art for many years and is thinking about studying graphic design.

I know pretty much stuff about web design, having read books, articles and guides, I know that good web design books always explain a bit of graphic design too, but usually they're more specific to web stuff.

I'd like to give her a book which is more about graphic design in general (she likes illustration) informative, practical and inspiring.

Any suggestion?


texts: Identifying a monospaced programming font

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I came across this font while looking at a Github Repo, and it looks quite similar to 'Monofur' in some aspects, but it's not the same. I tried using many online font identifying tools, but none of them worked. Here's the font I'm talking about:

I'm sure this is a monospaced programming font, but I have no idea what font it is. I've used WhatTheFont, Identifont, WhatFontIs. But none of them came up with good results. Saw the font originally at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/jaypei/emacs-neotree/imgs/neotree-1.png


texts: Why do edges get blur for font outlines and shapes?

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(Illustrator 2015, artboard size: 960px x 887px, Units: Pixels)

Original .ai  file is here:

For a few months, I was designing some logos and shapes using Illustrator. Now that I've some concepts clear, I have noticed that professional designers have designs with crisp edges. They hardly have blurred edges. I have always made designs without align to pixel grid option checked.

So to experiment with checkbox, I did following things:

In the image attached, I drew an inverted U type shape (3). And when I zoomed in, it was perfect! no blurred edges except curved part (see 1)

Then, I copied the same shape, resized it using mouse, Ctrl and Shift to maintain ratio. Then I zoomed in and to my surprise the edge got blurred :(

Same issue happened with text. I typed in Hello (3). Created outlines from it and zoomed in. Again, every letter had blurred edges (see 4)

Now, I have following queries:

Do designers really use align to pixel option checked for pixel
perfect designs?
Why the object edges got blurred in case of resize and text outlines?
To fix, I assume you have to use Direct selection tool and grab
points to fit to pixels. But it doesn't seem right to it. It would
distort overall designs and curved parts. So is there any way to
fix this?
Am I doing something wrong and missing something in designing
pixel perfect objects?

I tried setting H and W to perfect integer whenever they were in decimals, still, things didn't work.


texts: InDesign: Table of contents grouped by article type

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I'm creating a newspaper for a small association, and have run in to a problem when creating the ToC. The paper has a few different types of articles; "Info", "General news", Articles on this issue's theme and Buy&Sell.

Each page has the type of the page's article in the header, and then a title (and a bunch of text). Now I want to create a ToC which lists the articles grouped by type, something like this:

Info
    Editorial                     1
    Meeting minutes               3
General news
    Article 1                     2
    Article 2                    10
This month's theme
    On the greatness of themes    4
    They are really fantastic     6
Buy&Sell
    Stuff for sale                8
    I want to buy a...            9

Note that the article types are not necessarily on consecutive pages.

I created a Table of Content style which has the page header paragraph style (eg General news) as Level 1 content, and the title style as Level 2. Now, if I generate a ToC, I will get for each page an entry for the page type, and for pages on which an article begins also the title of that article. Something like this:

Info
    Editorial                     1
General news
    Article 1                     2
Info
    Meeting minutes               3
This month's theme
    On the greatness of themes    4
This month's theme
This month's theme
    They are really fantastic     6
This month's theme
Buy&Sell
    Stuff for sale                8
Buy&Sell
    I want to buy a...            9
General news
    Article 2                    10

This has two problems, first that they are not grouped, and second that since the page header is on every page, it will have an entry for each header, even if there is no new article on that page.

If I update the Level 1 style to be "Sort entries in alphabetical order" I get somewhat closer:

Buy&Sell
    Stuff for sale                8
Buy&Sell
    I want to buy a...            9
General news
    Article 1                     2
General news
    Article 2                    10
Info
    Editorial                     1
Info
    Meeting minutes               3
This month's theme
    On the greatness of themes    4
This month's theme
This month's theme
    They are really fantastic     6
This month's theme

But still the types are not grouped. Is the Table of Contents feature powerful enough to do this?


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I'm fairly new with adobe illustrator but how can you achieve this kind of affect?

Were there's a tint of yellow in some parts of the green area

I colored this by hand but I'm not sure how to replicate this in illustrator

If anyone can link a video tutorial that would be great as well.

Thanks in advance


texts: Adobe illustrator - Save for Web function truncates all anchor points to integers (no decimals)

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I'm using Adobe Illustrator Cloud CC to save a vector illustration to web.

The issue I have is that when I save for web, the polygon's (which I saved as URL) anchor points which all have decimal numbers are truncated to just integer which distorts the image.. when I copy the coordinates and plot them in Tableau or Excel..

Is there any way to just export the original (X,Y)s without truncation?

I've included an extract below, the numbers are all in integers..


texts: Exporting photoshop layers to PNG in cs6

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I've seen the response here, but the built-in script is excruciatingly slow (I let it sit for 3 hours before giving up) and the custom one in the response thinks there's only one layer (and only exports one PNG). What are my options?

EDIT: I actually want to save each layer to a separate PNG, not export the current visible layers to a single PNG.


texts: How to change objects at the same time in fireworks?

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I haven't used Adobe Fireworks in a long time, but today I have used it again to try create some object. Anyway, I remember that when I last used fireworks there was something you can do so that if you copy an object such as a circle or a rectangle then when you change the new object's color or size then the old object changes as well. As I said I havn't used fireworks for a long time and I don't remember if this property is in fireworks or in some other application.

Do anyone know if this property exists in fireworks?

Thank you.


texts: Photoshop CS6: Cropping and resizing images simultaneously

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Maybe I've just completely missed the option, but how in the world do you crop and resize an image simultaneously in PS CS6? In CS5 and prior, when using the crop tool, I could set dimensions for the crop, resize the crop area to my liking, and cropping would resize the image - not just change the aspect ratio while maintaining the original image size.

I know that I can go down to "Size & Resolution..." in the dropdown on the left side of the crop toolbar, but that seems more than a little kludgy when previous versions could do it without any fancy footwork.


texts: Unicode superscript numbers 1 to 3 vs. 4 and above

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¹²³⁴⁵

&

¹ Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT ONE' (U+00B9)
² Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT TWO' (U+00B2)
³ Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT THREE' (U+00B3)
⁴ Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT FOUR' (U+2074)
⁵ Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT FIVE' (U+2075)

Unicode superscripts one, two and three seem to have been done at the same time and are thus the same "height". Unicode superscripts four and five seem to have been done at the same time but at a different time from one, two and three and are thus the same "height" but said height seems to be different from the heights of Unicode superscript one, two and  three.
Are there no Unicode superscript numbers whose heights do not differ?
I'm hoping to not have to use <super></super> for every one.
Georgia (font) does seem to render them at almost all the same height.


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I am requesting feedback regarding the use of the letter "r" from the logo with other images and text to create and overarching theme/identity for the brand. Which of the following options (A, B or C) is a better approach? Thanks!

Original question:
I designed a logotype for a client's business containing a stylized letter "R". Is it a good idea to use just the stylized "R" from the logotype to develop creative theme/concepts for the brand?


texts: Printing a transparent PDF document with alpha channel results in artifacts on the photo

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Me and my friend are kinda struggling a lot. We have a "overlay" PDF file containing a PNG bitmap image (no vectors). We use this PDF for automatic montages in PDFlib together with generic photos to create another print PDF. This PDF is printed afterwards.

However, the source overlay PDF seems to have issues with transparency. On screen, everything looks ok, even the PDFlib output PDF looks alright, but after printing the document out, there are artefacts clearly visible on the transparent part of the overlay PDF. Other parts on the photo do not have any artifact issues, except these transparent ones.

Is there a way to prevent these artifacts from appearing? Now, as I said, we put a PNG image into inDesign and export it to PDF (v1.6) afterwards.

I will attach 2 images of, one is before the actual printing (no artifacts visible at all) and the other one is scanned picture of the printed document. Artifacts are clearly visible in that one. (Sorry for the crappy scanner quality that darkened the photo, but it will do. It looks exactly like the input, except the artifacts.)


texts: How would I perform SnapSeed's "ambience" filter using Photoshop?

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SnapSeed is a great little iOS photo editing app.  Along with brightness and contrast, it has the ability to alter "ambiance" which does a great job of lightening up shadows while still keeping a nice deep black.

Does anyone know the best way to achieve this using Photoshop?  Would it be through the use of curves?  Or perhaps adjusting the contrast of just mid-tones or something?

Using my motorbike as an example.  Before...

and After...

(You can open the images in separate tabs and switch between them for a better comparison.)

Notice how the shadows in the top-left are a bit brighter, colours are perhaps slightly warmer, but black is still black and highlights are not blown out.


texts: How do I indicate foil blocking to a printer?

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One of our clients had a set of stationery made by us, and it looks really great, even though printing design is not our thing (not at all, we do interaction design).

Anyways, when looking for printing options, I have found foil blocking, which  fits exactly in what I wanted for the design. Now, it's not possible for me to go to the printer since they're not even in my own country, thus I think I need to inform the printer which part should use foil blocking. Is enough to let them know "this logo uses foil blocking" or is there any specific convention to do this?


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These two images are pause-buttons for a program. The first one shows the button in its default state and the second one when it is being focused on.

I am wondering how the person, who made these buttons, did the focus effect? I looked all over the Internet but couldn't find a tutorial or a hint on how to do something like that.

I recreated the first button with Inkscape. It has a background layer (the gray background as seen in the first picture ) and a button layer which contains the pause symbol (just two rectangles). But now I am clueless on how to proceed.

I hope I am in the right place with my question. Also if this is somehow not possible with Inkscape, I can only use Gimp. I have no photoshop :(


texts: SVG loses "pixel" when exporting - wrong export settings?

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I am working closely together with a developer to create websites. We've stumbled upon a problem when it comes to exporting SVGs from Adobe Illustrator (CC) and implementing them on websites.

The artboard in illustrator looks like follows:

Yet, when added to the web code, there is a gap we cannot get rid of:

SVG export settings age:

styling: presentation attributes
font: svg
object ids: layer names
decimal: 0

Additional option: responsive

Has anybody experienced anything similar?

Thanks in advance for your help :)