texts: Is Adobe Flash back from the dead? Seeing Flash web content on iPad

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One of my clients today asked me to study some banners for a slider they have on their site's homepage, I went there to take a look, and suddenly "I saw FLASH".

My first reaction was to write them back and try to let them change the slider in order to use some other technology (JavaScript, or static images), but, trying to get some screenshot of the broken page viewed via an iOS device, but... I can see the page normally, via a MAC book pro, an iPad2, and some random mobile devices (Android, win phone etc.), so the question is... Did flash get back in town? Do we have to start thinking about inserting adobe flash into design workflows as 10 years ago?

Do someone has some information about it? I could only find the famous "about flash" letter by Steve on the Internet, but nothing about the resurrection of Adobe Flash actually.


texts: Possible to link raster Photoshop image to Illustrator to trace real time?

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I'm wondering if there is any way to draw an image in Photoshop and place it into Illustrator in a way that allows for modification of the original raster (in PS) to update the Illustrator live trace of said image.

My goal is to be able to make  edits to the image in its raster form and have Illustrator trace it real time (or near real time, I wouldn't mind having to re-save the PS file for the changes to take place).

In this (potentially hypothetical) scenario, each layer of the original PS file would be traced on their own layers in Illustrator according to the values I would have set for each instance of tracing.

I'm open to suggestions that would accomplish the same goal via alternative means; my main goal is be able to draw something (preferably in PS) and have it turn into a vector that can be modified via altercation to the original raster, in order to quickly see the modifications in vector form.

Currently I'm drawing in Photoshop, placing the file into Illustrator, then vectorizing the image upon each placement (meaning I'm repeatedly setting the trace values for each and every modification on a project that has many layers and many iterations, which seems wasteful).

I welcome any suggestion that would help me cut out some steps. Thanks!


texts: How do I make these circles with radius in sketch?

texts: I am trying to make the following effects in sketch. As presented in the picture, they seem to have a curved and border radius cut to their ends.


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Can't upload GIF because of file size limit, shows up "file not supported when adding imgur link so here's the GIF explaining my problem:- Tiling problem krita

As you can see the original texture tiles fine when using the "Wrap Around" mode but when I try to copy and paste the selection, it suddenly cuts off at the corner and doesn't tile. I would appreciate if the problem can be solved within krita itself, but I am also willing to accept the solution to the problem using alternative software such as GIMP if all fails.


texts: How can I use two different opacity values on one shape?

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I want to have a circle with a border of opacity 80% and the fill should be 40%. How can I achieve this within one layer?

As far as I know I can change the opacity of the layer but that changes the opacity of the whole layer.


texts: Colour management for logo design in Inkscape/Scribus

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I’m new to graphic design and am unsure of how to manage colours in a logo I’ve just created. It’s black text (converted to paths) with one small graphical element (a leaf). I created it in Inkscape using default/darkest black (000000ff) for the text and a green with RGBA value of 556b2fff (“dark olive green”) for the leaf. Inkscape shows the CMYK value as being 21, 0, 56, 58, which matches what I see on conversion sites like rgb.to and encycolorpedia.

But I’ve read that to create an actual CMYK file to send to the client, I need to import my Inkscape SVG file into Scribus, and edit the colour and export as an editable PDF. When I select and edit the green, the ‘new’ colour Scribus suggests (which looks very close to the original) has CMYK values of 57.25%, 25.88%, 84.71%, 40.39%. If I change the values to the corresponding values given on rgb.to/encycolorpedia (21, 0, 56, 58), it shows a colour more different to the original colour. (I’m using the HSV Color Map option - is that a “colour profile”? - as suggested in a video and a text guide on using Scribus.)

I’m very confused and am not sure if I’m allowed to ask multiple sub-questions here - please let me know if I’m violating rules/etiquette! Otherwise:

Why would the CMYK values in Scribus be so different from the
conversion chart values?
Which should I use - the ‘true’ values (if they are indeed true) from the conversion charts, or the Scribus-generated ones which look
closer?
Is there any issue with having CMYK values which have decimal places, like the Scribus-gen’ed ones? I.e. is it better/more normal
to have whole-number values, in basic logo design at least?
Are the CMYK values of 21, 0, 56, 58 more cost-effective, because there’s no magenta being used? I.e. does this reduce the colour
count, from a printer’s point of view?

And re. black:

I’ve been advised on Reddit to create both a flat black and rich black variants of the logo; should I use Scribus to create a rich black version, inputting 0, 40, 0, 100 for the black value there? [Edit: Or some other common rich black value set, if the answer to q. 4. is yes!]

Designers on Reddit have advised I should also specify a Pantone colour for the green leaf - the first website I used for a rough conversion guide gave 371 C as a very close match (up to 16 colour distance), and the second gave 371.

Do I specify the C in the style guide, or does each printer decide whether to use C or U depending on the paper?
Would it be better practice for me to just get the exact corresponding CMYK and RGB values for PMS 371 and use those in the logo (and do it that way for future work)?

Thanks in advance for your help! I’ve been browsing a lot of articles here this week whilst trying to learn how to create a (good-quality) logo in Inkscape; I appreciate the time you all put into your answers.


texts: Are these designs just images and not relating with the product any way?

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There is a long detail. I kindly request you to ready it carefully, so we can understand each other in better way. Please tell me how can I improve it, if you think it must be down voted.

We do designs to promote our product and engage people. The client is related to medical devices and equipment.

For the current campaign (campaign is 4-5 days long and we share 1 design per day on social media), the product was Nebulizer.

Normally, we combine the product and the event related (we do events based designs for campaigns) elements together, just like these.

But this, time, it wasn't seeming easy to combine things. I discussed properly with my director (not art director) and content team that we can do around Monsoon, as it's rainy season here. I well explained them the concept.

Here I made 5 options (copies are pending, some fixes pending), so we can go with at least 3 to finalize:

1st - Like the mask in Nebulizer ultimately cares for your health in asthma, here Umbrella also represents the care for kid.

2nd - The window glass is stopping the rain entering to home. So its relatable, as product also help eliminate asthma.

3rd - Cool breeze in rainy season may trigger asthma. So the kid with umbrella flying away because of wind is relatable.

4th - Same concept as 2nd.

5th - Just like paper boat has a smooth flow, sails forward and saves you during storm, is somewhat same way, Nebulizer help you breathe
easily, and saves your life.

These were basics concepts. They agreed before making them.

In a few of them, I changed background accordingly (like Windows).

But my director said we just can't use Shutterstock images. Do something creative we did before.

My whole belief about this campaign was that they will brainstorm the copies for them, so the message can be properly shown.

It looks like I did the most work, even provided them a rough guide for writing copies. But my content team and director team hardly give 20 minutes
to writing creative copies. I never saw them brainstorming.

So they rejected my designs without any specific reason.

Are my designs really not related? If not, how do I effectively explain my director that sometimes we have to go with this way?

I remember some good user here said that we can sometimes use happy images just to show the outcome of product. But according to my director
that will also be wrong in current scenario.

How should I proceed?

PS: I don't mind rejections. We have always done a lot of changes, re design things. The thing is my director is thinking we
should stick to same format (like combining things, which visually looks creative), even when it's not possible. In past we have done similar things like design with simple images. But now they expect every campaign should have great manipulation. I will definitely change the designs again here, but I just wanted to know this, as I have invested some time in it.

I'm the only designer in my startup agency, and only I do research about creative campaigns. They write copies based on designs I make. So their ultimate message about campaign is highly dependent on my designs. So ultimately I'm doing marketing as well (which I suppose I'm not very good at).


texts: Is SVG conversion to PDF lossless and deterministic?

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Assuming an SVG is converted to PDF vector paths.

Deterministic: Will program A (e.g. Inkscape) produce the same PDF for a given SVG as program B (e.g. Ghostscript)?
Lossless: In the same program, will every PDF visually resemble the original SVG, regardless of SVG complexity?


texts: Move a 3D object while keeping its exact 3D orientation in After Effects

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This is probably findable on Google, but I don't know the right terms to search. I have an 3D layer. If I move that 3D layer it will change orientation visually while the values stay the same.

Example (watch the blue arrow):

So how I keep it's original rotation anywhere on the canvas? Thanks!


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I got really confused with this. I read a lot about this, but yet can't be sure. I'm trying to make A4 document(graphic design work, not text-only doc.) for print. The problem is I don't know who is printing this(no idea how, in what printer etc), but I got twice my document with white spaces in sides(up-down and left-right). At the first one, I didn't know about crop marks and bleed, and the file size was original: 210x197mm and 300pix/inch resolution. In the second, I add an extra space(with graphics) to the edges.

Now, I need it to be done for sure, but I'm not really sure again :( I add again extra space to edges(5mm each edge, in total 10mm sides, 10mm height) and used graphics to fulfill this extra space. Plus, I did black crop marks as was explained here(some tutorial at youtube) but I don't know how printer works, because the color of this crop marks is black, but at two of the sides I have a background dark as well(#5c0d0d), so I don't know if it will cut it as I want it or not(by this crop marks). I can't add an image of the work, because of the terms etc, but I did the image of the corner:

Please help!


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I have a presentation on a very big and high-resolution screen (1200*5760).

I set up my InDesign file to the right pixel resolution (as specified above) but when I’m exporting the pdf and open it in Acrobat to see the file in 100% display the image is pixelated and does not look good.

Is it possible that the problem is the difference between my computer's resolution (3840*2160) and the file’s? if not what did I do wrong?


texts: Enlarging small photo for a large format print (banner)

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I don’t have a lot of experience with large-format prints and was assigned a task of creating a wall vinyl banner 2,80 m × 2,92 m. I’m working on a smaller artboard in InDesign (25 % of given measurements). There’s a picture that I need to use and it’s quite small for this job: 15 cm × 17 cm, 300 dpi. How much could I enlarge it so that it would fill the good amount of the canvas but it wouldn’t be blurred or pixelated?

I would also appreciate the help with the text size on this project. What is the usual size for heading, body text, dates?


texts: Printing on small sheets of polypropylene

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I'm looking to print on sheets of Polypropylene (PP) (the size of a playing card). It would be to put custom designs on PP sleeves, that look like this:

I've considered some options, like screen printing them but that would be very tedious work I think (no exp with it tho and cost more then it should?). Per design I make I'd have to probably print on about 60 ~ 200 of these.

If more information is needed please ask! Any advice is welcome!


texts: Pixel grid and Grid don't align in Photoshop CC (PS CS6 provided as a reference)

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This is how it should be (PS CS6)

This is how it is (PS CC)

Seems to be some kind of issue with some kind of measurements?


texts: Is there a way to create a symbol with variable header sizes (which would have variable height containers)

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I am trying to understand how I can create a Symbol A, that allows differing header sizes.

[header 1 or header 2 with variable height]
[body copy]

I can create a nested symbol if the two header sizes have the same artboard size, but not otherwise.

I can use the auto layouts plugin to stack the header element to the body copy, such that it supports variable heights above the body copy, but I would like to be able to swap out one header style for another from the same symbol.

Is it a given that any symbol with differing nested symbol heights need a completely separate symbol?

In the screenshot below,
I'd like to swap Header - Small with Header - Large in the Text Lockup - Left symbol.


texts: Use paint bucket in empty layer in Photoshop

texts: I want to use paint bucket for a layer. But I do not want to change base layer. Instead I want the color added by paint bucket to different empty layer. How can I do that?


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I have a 180cm × 900cm document in 300dpi RGB 8-bit and I want to save it as a JPG, but when I try to "Save As", the only available choices are PSB, RAW and TIFF, why?

I need it for overseas printing and to be sent online.

Can anyone help me please.


texts: Looking to duplicate vintage Batman font that was used for the pop up words?

texts: For the words like kaboom, zappp, taka taka, pow.


texts: Slices - retain header and footer and edit middle

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I have an email template that's done in Photoshop for a weekly newsletter. It's sliced up and the only parts that stay the same are the header and the footers, the height of the email is always different.

What would be the best way to just change the middle part when creating a new email, leaving the top and the bottom as an asset? Should they just sit in separate PSD files and then be combined after it's saved to HTML?


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I want to align some text so it matches the curve of a face.

If you see the image below you can see the text and I have drawn a path that I want each line of text to go.  The effect will be that the text is not vertically aligned, each text line will go in to the drawn line that matches shape of face.

I hope I made that clear what I mean.

How do I achieve this?


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Been working on an icon for a blog called Bitcrate which focuses on tech/media stuff. First off, what I have so far:

I didn't want to do some rehash of playing off computer 'bits' but thought the motif of the crate actually having been 'bitten'would be interesting-- the two ellipses protruding on the left are meant to be hinges or flaps that you might see on a crate, albeit a little more bent.

So two questions:

1) How would you improve the core image? Do I need to tweak some of the anchor points/handles?

2) To you, is the concept even good or DOA?


texts: How long are designers expected to keep client files?

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A client recently emailed me asking for the source files from a project I did for them two years ago. I don't have the source files since it was such a long time ago and the client said it was very unprofessional and strange to not keep the source files for all the projects I do.

Is there a customary length of time that you should be expected to keep source files? Should you keep all your source files for projects and never get rid of them?


texts: What do font artists mean when they speak of a "clean" font?

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I'm in the process of creating a small bitmap (pixel) font and want to name it in a way so as to differentiate it from further variants I will create later.

Naively, I would have appended the word "clean" to my font name, associating with that word properties such as no ornaments or decorations, very regular appearance, very minimal geometry, no special features that attract attention.

But when I have font sites list fonts with the tag "clean", not all of those fonts match my notion of "clean". That's why I suspect that they refer to other properties and features.

How do font artists define "clean"? Which exact characteristics does it refer to?


texts: Using the Export Layers as Files (png) script results in multiple sized images

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I have a psd that consists of around 50 layers and would like to export each layer into pngs.

I have tried the Export Layers as Files script in PS CS5, selecting the PNG format. I need all exported images to have the same dimensions. However, the script automaticallyremoves all the transparent background pixels that surround the artwork, thus the exported images have the height-width of the foreground artwork. The result is what I do not want: multiple sized images... Any way I can resolve the issue?

Thanks,
Andreas


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Is it possible to be able to draw a select rectangle and then use the fuzzy select tool so that it will only expand to that rectangle?
Thanks.


texts: Is dark UI pleasing to general app consumers?

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I noticed there is not so many dark apps on the app store. With few exceptions such as Spotify, it makes me wonder. On the other hand, Android seems to embrace dark colors a bit more.

Is there any specific danger in designing dark UI such as the one below that I am working on?

Thank you.


texts: Possible fonts for tabs in technical site heading hierarchy

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As we sort of came to accept as an axiom - the heading fonts for any document should be arranged in an hierarchy, and the hierarchy font choices should make sense and match.

I have a design that looks something like this:

Clicking on Item One opens an Item One tab with the heading hierarchy presented.

Without going into discussion on the validity of the design (but please, by all means, do point it out if you think it's important) - how one would arrange the heading hierarchy?

It seems to me that it should include the tabs (on both sides) as well, since they serve as headings in concept, but then I have too much - 5 (or 4 if you think that both tabs should have the same styling - which I do).

Any ideas?


texts: Is there a way to edit en existing pattern in photoshop

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I opened a new file and created my pattern, selected all and defined pattern. Then I closed the file without saving it and then used the pattern - great.

Now is there a way to make changes to that pattern?

The real problem is I need to used that pattern on my css, Though I can not remember what dimensions i used, so if I could edit the existing one, then I could just save it as a jpg and use it in my css
Thanks


texts: In GIMP, how can I identify and match the saturation of an image

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I have various album covers which are low resolution, but the colours come out really pretty.
I have higher resolution images of the same covers, but the colours are very different, much duller and less vibrant.

The first image is the original which I would like to imitate. The second is the larger resolution image I have acquired (scaled down for easier viewing). The last image on the bottom is my attempt at imitating the top image using the second image. Using GIMP, my settings were:
Colors → Saturation: 1.500
Colors → Brightness-Contrast → Brightness 35
Colors → Brightness-Contrast → Contrast 8

But as you can see, the colours and tones are just not quite the same. The skintone isn't as rosy-peachy and the colours just don't feel as warm as the original.


texts: Illustrator: how to change selection behavior

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With the Selection Tool, I would like to be able to select the objects that are completely encapsulated in the selection box, NOT including the objects which bounding box is just intersected by the selection. Is there a way to do it?
Changing "Show Center" in Attributes menu does not help to achieve the desired behavior.


texts: What font is used on this material design arabic RTL?

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I want create design in arabic RTL with material design like this :

I found that image in guideliness: https://material.google.com/style/writing.html

what arabic font is used on that picture ?

I have try automatic identification font service like "whatfontis", "whatthefont" but no result.
I try use Noto arabic font but not same like image.

Thanks for help


texts: Where can I download social media icons?

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I've seem these icons on lots of sites, so I assume they are publicly available and free to use.

Does any one know who designed them, and the official site?


texts: GIMP: how to rotate a picture from its end

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Hello I want to rotate a picture in gimp but I want the axis to be at the end of the picture. Kind of like a picture being a knife in a folding knife. I want to be able to rotate a picture like that. Anyone know how to? Cheers.

Look at the picture ( I want to rotate the photo from the white point) meaning I want it to spin with the axis at the white point.)


texts: As a graphic designer, I do website designs, but not the development. Someone asked me today if I know about Typekit, and I hadn't heard of it so I googled it, and it seemed pretty much like a paid for version of Google Web Fonts; which I occasionally use. I don't know the technical, developer reasons for using one or the other, but I don't want my client buying something when he could have just used something else for free, and got the same sort of results. So, my question is, is one better than the other? Or are there good and bad points to both?


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I am a newbie to Illustrator. What I want is to create add a "pressed-in" effect to a shape (basically add some depth to it), so that it looks like it has been "pressed-in" into its surrounding background.

What I want is kind of similar to how especially the dot of the i in the following logo looks:

But I want it to be a bit more pronounced.

Could anybody provide pointers on how to do this in Illustrator?


texts: Batch Place Multiple Linked Files in Photoshop

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So I've got an insane amount of images to process through Photoshop, and I've worked it out that linking them is my best bet. Has anyone come across a script or action that would allow someone to import / place multiple linked files in one fell swoop? I've already discovered the alt+drag into Photoshop trick, but I still have to press enter to place each file.

Any help would be much appreciated!


texts: How to access the code underlying a graphic

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Given the particular nature of my question, I am not even sure this is the right place to ask.

I have relatively simple graphics made in Intaglio which all use a certain color and I would like to change that color, say from 99FFFF to FFCCCC. The problem is that I have several hundreds of these graphics.

It occurred to me that, after all, underlying the graphics, there is a text file for the code and that, presumably, this code includes 99FFFF.

Now TextWrangler can search several hundred text files and change 99FFFF to FFCCCC but I do not know how to get and give it the underlying text file.


texts: Can I predefine brushes with color and size in Gimp?

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I sometimes find myself using Gimp the way I would use paper. For example, I want to use blue ink size 1.4, anthracite 2-px pencil and size 20 eraser, to recreate the look of a school notebook. I don't want to use three shades of blue when I have selected the ink, or to vary the size of the pencil.

But switching between these three is tedious. I have to choose the tool, the foreground color and the size. It is still rather easy when switching between ink and pencil. But the size of the pencil setting stays selected when I turn to eraser. And in other circumstances, if I want a thin half-opaque red brush and a sated thick green brush, I have to change everything when going from the one to the other, than change back when I need the first one again.

Is there a way to save a combination of these settings, so that tool, brush tip, size, color and opacity are preselected and I have a palette I can use to switch between them with a single click? (I don't mean the predefined brushes, they only switch "tips" for the same tool). While I have used Gimp enough to be quite certain that there is no such on-board functionality, maybe somebody knows a plugin which adds it?


texts: I cannot get the appearance of the body to be shiny in photoviewer 360

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I want my object to look like so:

I have tried many things including selecting different metals, changing the setting to shiny, changing the scene & more, but it always ends up looking like the following:

This is what happens when I hit final render when brushed chromium is selected:


texts: How do I split a circle into equal sections in Inkscape?

texts: Illustrator has the polar grid tool (as mentioned in this question) but how do I properly split a circle into equal sections in Inkscape?


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Although layers are visible, some are not exporting. There seems to be no consistency with this, from artboard to artboard.

In this case, I cannot see "mBTC" or "VIRES IN NUMERIS"
I'm totally stumped.

Here is a download of the project, I apologize for the size http://ge.tt/7My7izf1/v/0


texts: How to preserve pixels when placing 96 PPI image file on 72 PPI Illustrator document

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I have a 256x256 PNG file with 96 PPI. My document has raster effects set to 72 PPI.

When I place the file on the document, the linked file selection shows dimensions of 192x192 (which is 256 * 72 / 96).

Will I get scaling artifacts if I resize the linked file to 256x256, or should I first convert the image file to 72PPI outside of Illustrator?

Or, is there a way to define the PPI of a placed file?

I intend to make a color-accurate mosaic from the pixels, so I'd like to preserve the image's 256x256 pixels, one-for-one.


texts: Do PDFs have to be square or rectangular?

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I'm creating a sticker in Illustrator and was wondering whether when exporting to PDF format, can it only be saved in a rectangular/square shape?

I'm asking because if not then I'd prefer to have a PDF that wraps around the corners and curves to create a more interestingly shaped sticker.

Thanks


texts: How do I find which layers has a specific font family in a PSD with many layers, groups and several different font families?


texts: What brush or what configuration should I do to avoid different color at the border when using the brush tool?


texts: How to set the default line cap and corner style in Illustrator CS5

texts:
How do I set the Round cap and Round join as the default line behaviour in Illustrator?
Now when I create a line the cap is set to Butt cap and Miter join by default.


texts: How to create a noise texture like this website's

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How would I go about making a texture similar to the one used throughout this site:

Is it some kind of noise pattern?


texts: Why does Photoshop want to save JPEG as quality '10' out of 12?

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I'm currently editing a bunch of images (JPEGs) and Photoshop keeps wanting to save them as 10/12 instead of 12/12.

Why does it constantly want to save it as 10/12 instead of 12/12? Is there an algorithm that says that 10 is enough for this picture (or all of them)?

Or a bit differently: Should I do 10/12 or 12/12? Yes, quality matters.


texts: How to annotate both citations and that something has a definition (i.e. text style)

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Say you have a sentence like this:

I am an \adef{example} sentence about \acite{foo.com}.

Where \adef is marking it as a definition and \acite is marking it as a citation. The citation would be put in the bibliography, and the definition would be defined in the glossary. But I'm wondering how typically to visually show this.

I am an exampleᵈ² sentence about foo.comᶜ⁹.

Wondering if it should be done sort of like that, or if there is a better way to tell someone that "hey this has a definition" or "hey this has a citation".

This is monochrome, so no color as well. There are also already "links" which are underlined.

Also, sometimes words might be 2 or 3 word combos, like "Open Source", so like

I am an exampleᵈ² sentence about open sourceᶜ⁹.

That doesn't quite seem right.


texts: Sometimes, I'll have several layers on an image and I want to crop one of them. NOT resize it, crop it. Every technique I've tried simply crops EVERYTHING, not just the layer I'm working on. I have to delete the layer, crop the original image that it's from, then re-paste it into what I'm working on. I'd also like know how to rotate a layer without rotating everything else in the entire image.


texts: A good tool to visually design graphical user interfaces for iOS devices?

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I'm developing an iOS apps and I need to find an easy design tool, something that would allow me to drag widgets into my GUI, and visually build it.

I'm currently using Adobe Illustrator with this nice kit:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/12/illustrator-ipad-sketch-elements.html

But Illustrator is not that straightforward to use. It is a bit too much work to drag the elements, encupsulate them into other elements, resize them, etc. I don't feel very comfortable with it.

Also, I've seen Blueprint for iPad ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blueprint ) which seems exactly what I want, but I don't like for 2 reasons:

I can't export the interface in any format beside PDF, and therefore it is difficult to work with designers (pdf, or ai needed).
I would prefer to have a mac app, I think I can be more productive dragging items with mouse and keyboard.


texts: How to place different sized circles inside a shape

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How could I make something like this? I know how to place text inside a shape but not this. Could it be vector and scalable?

Thanks


texts:
Is there a rule of thumb for determining grid gutter size as it relates to type size?

I'm struggling with this issue on the web, especially when dealing with larger size type set at 20px and above. It seems that with larger type, the 20px gutter is barely enough to create space among different columns, maybe the solution is to increase padding as opposed to the gutter?


texts: Photoshop: Switch visibility between two layers

texts: For example, i got two adjustment layers (A and B). At last, i will only use one of them. While considering which one is better, i can compare them by turning A visible and B invisible, then A invisible and B visible. This is not so good because in the transition, there is a stage that BOTH layer A and B are invisible. Is there a single way/shortcut that i can switch their visibilities in one go?


texts: Copy/Paste image with transparent alpha layer into illustrator

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I often go to Google Images, search for something interesting and do right-click/copy-image then in illustrator I paste it. Unfortunately when the image has a transparent background, this background is replaced with an ugly black color.
I know one solution would be to go to Photoshop, but it is cumbersome...
Is there a way to quickly restore the transparency in illustrator?


texts: Merged shapes anti-alias differently in Photoshop, any workaround?

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For some reason, when two shapes (in my case, lines) in different orientations are combined into one layer, they alias different than expected.

To present what my issue is, here is how to replicate the strange behavior:

Start up Photoshop and create a basic blank document, I used 500x500.
Grab the line tool, create a new layer, and begin drawing a diagonal line. Hold shift to align it at 45deg.
Create another new layer, and draw a horizontal line. It should look like this:

Now, select both layers, right click, and "Merge Shapes". To illustrate how it changes, I moved the diagonal line a bit – you can see how the vertical line (and the horizontal line) both have strange anti-aliasing now.

If anyone has any idea how to prevent this, that would be awesome. I'm looking to export a single layer of merged shapes as a vector for use on my website, but this issue prevents me from doing that.

All help is appreciated. Thanks!


texts: Where and/or how to generate custom android button graphic images?

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I'm creating an app, and I want it to be more colorful and vivid. Though, I'm not an artist or have any drawing talent. Is there someplace online where I can create custom images for my android buttons that can save to a .png file?

I'm looking for images that make my buttons look more real than the plain, generic buttons.

I'm looking for something like this: http://www.webarti.com/best-CSS3-button-maker/ but to able to obtain a png of the final button.


texts: Which features should I look at when choosing typefaces for classical, text-rich publications?

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I am thinking about self-publishing some of Søren Kierkegaard's works (mainly because I realised that I can release them at a much cheaper price than what they currently cost). In order to keep costs down,  I am looking for some good free font(s) that would work well in this context. I have (more or less) decided upon a size of 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm (approximately the same as 6 in x 9 in), font size 10pt. The number of pages varies between 100 and 300 pages, but in order to keep costs down, I keep the top and bottom margins small (probably around 0.72 in and 0.65 in, respectively). I am using running headers in the top margins.

Any good recommendations? I know, I know: It depends on taste. The problem is, I do not trust my own taste on this. I need advice from someone with more experience than myself. Any particular features to look for in typefaces for these kinds of works? Any advice, anything at all, is appreciated.

By the way: There is a lot of Greek text in these works, so the fonts need to support this well.


texts: Mailto: links in a PDF, with a prepopulated Body, not working when viewed in iBooks reader

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I've designed a brochure for a client using InDesign, exported as an interactive PDF. He wants a simple way to capture info from the reader so I suggested an email link with a prepopulated body. The mailto link contains a Subject and Body, basically like this:

mailto:info@xxxxx.xxx?subject=BlahBlahBlah&body=Thank%20you%20for%20your%20interest.%20Please%20provide%20the%20following:%0D%0DYour%20Name:%0DBest%20Phone%20Number:%0DBest%20Email%20Address:%0DBest%20Time%20to%20Contact%20You:%0D%0DAny%20Additional%20Message:

The problem is, he'd like this PDF to work in iBooks reader but this mailto: link doesn't work. Can't even 'click' on it. It works as expected on a desktop version of Adobe Reader. A mailto: link with a Subject works great, the problem comes in when I try to add the body. Any suggestions on what to try next? Thank you!


texts: How to invert text color with respect to background in Illustrator?

texts: I'm trying to create an image having text of color half black and other half white. But how?


texts: What would you call these illustrations' style? Minimalist?

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They differ quite a lot from the usual flat design minimalist trend, but is still quite a common style? What kind of techniques are being used here?

... and would using Illustrator or vector drawing software be a good way to go about trying to reacreate it?

Alessandro "Shout" Gottardo

Owen Gent


texts: why the (ALT + right-click) brush resizing shortcuts does not work in illutrsator?

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I bought an adobe illustrator, but when I tried to change the size or the hardness of the brush with (ALT + right-click) it doesn't work.
and when I try with [ and ] keys, the size of the brush does change.
but I prefer (ALT + right-click) shortcut, how can I enable it?


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I have read everywhere that .jpg can't have transparency and you can't save it as transparent.
But I have a .jpg picture with transparency.
Link to the picture
Can anyone explain how the picture I linked has transparency despite it being in .jpg format?
And is there any way to export it with this transparency using Gimp or Krita? I tried to export using them transparency was removed.


texts: How to make the bend of the letter 'Z' like in the Amazon logo?

texts: If we observe the Amazon logo, the bend of the letter "Z" is perfectly aligned with the bend of the arrowhead. Is there any trick used in Adobe Illustrator to do it or will I have to manually experiment with the direct selection tool?


texts: What is the math behind these color combinations?

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In short, I want to know what the theory is behind the Helpscout colour palette. I think it has something to do with material.io?
https://style.helpscout.com/visual-elements/
Now I've always had my own way of generating shades of brand colours (which works pretty damn well!) but I thought I'd try to move to something more conventional which would help the design team (and devs) generate palettes for themselves easily and extend palettes.
So I post as I can't figure out what the pattern is here after playing around for a bit. I feel like I'm missing something very obvious and being a bit of a noob ...or maybe just snow-blind working late.
So what's the math behind this? Thanks in advance!


texts: After Effects/ Photoshop GIF animation stops looping

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I rendered an animation from After Effects via Adobe Media Encoder as an MP4 file and opened it in Photoshop to export as a GIF. This worked, but the GIF stops looping after 3 loops. It's endless in AE and Photoshop. Any idea why the final product doesn't loop forever?

The GIF is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ed2oo2jog4m8toe/Earth-and-astronaut_1.gif?dl=0

TIA!


texts: Is there a constant thickness font? (not monospaced)

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I'm working on 3D printing using FDM (filament) and SLA (resin) technology and I'm always struggling with small text details because I have not found one with a constant thickness path.
Is there a font with a constant or fixed inner path? (I don't know how to call it)
See the red line on the following image as that section is smaller.


texts: MediBang - How can I move objects from multiplayer layers while still keeping its distance from each other?

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Sorry if the title didn't make sense but I'll try to explain my best. Basically, I have this drawing where the yellow scribble is in layer 2 whereas the red scribble is in layer 3:

Let's say red scribble is higher than yellow scribble by x value. So, I want to move both of these scribbles down while still maintaining the fact that red scribble is still higher than yellow scribble x value. At the same time, I also want the distance between the 2 scribbles to be the same when I moved down:

How can I achieve this?

I'm terribly sorry if this doesn't make any sense. But any help would be sincerely appreaciated.

Thanks alot!


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I want to make a basic square pattern background in Photoshop. However, I'm a real newbie at it.

My plans are to make a 70x70 pixel square and divide it into 4 squares - each one with 35 pixels. Then paint 2 of one color, and 2 of the same but lighter color.

How do I split it in half, vertically and horizontally? And when painting how to I block the other squares to not affect them?


texts: Trying to highlight specific fields in an already existing document in Adobe Acrobat Pro, getting ghost image when trying to print

texts: So, I have a document that I am trying to highlight fields on.  I have lined up the highlights, but when trying to print the "image" of the highlight onto a blank document, the original document (which was scanned in for reference/placement of the highlights) prints as a ghost image, but 2 inches left of the original text.  I guess my question is why would this be happening and how can I avoid this when printing my document highlights onto a new document?


texts: How to tell Photoshop to treat layer as a Vector graphic?

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I have a 48*48 png file that I'm trying to scale up. Even though I converted it to a Smart Object, when I scale it up, Photoshop mixes the color of adjacent pixels to make more pixels for the transformed sized which is not what I want.

Here's a screenshot of the image:

When I'm scaling it, the preview does not show mixed colors:

But when I hit enter, Photoshop mixes the colors:

Which as you can see looks very blurry. How can I achieve the the second photo?

Basically I want to tell Photoshop to treat the layer as a Vector and not an Image.

Here's the original png file if you want to download:


texts: How to plot images using cutting plotter with pencil?

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I have cutting plotter and I want to plot raster or vector pictures with it. For example I have a photo... I convert it to B/W mode, than using some software (this is the question - what software!?) that makes trajectory for a plotter pencil movement ("slicing" in 3D printers terminology), then I send the information to plotter and pencil sketch of my picture done.

How can I realise my idea?


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Need a bit of help sorting out how to make an egg. So far, I took a previous map to sphere image, squeezed it with perspective tool, then cropped to an egg path.

Original:

Not particularly convincing.

Is there some other way using GIMP to get an egg?

Thanx
Steve


texts: Indesign - TOC with one chapter heading, multiple page headings

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Any one know how to automate categories with in a ToC?  I'm trying to get ...

cars

item 1
item 2
item 3
item 4

trucks

item 5
item 6
item 7

Right now each page has "Cars(or trunks) | item" in it.  I'm getting ...

cars

item 1

cars

item 2

cars

item 3

cars

item 4

trucks

item 5

trucks

item 6

trucks

item 7


texts: Cutting out part of an outlined shape in Photoshop

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Without rasterising a vector shape, is there a better way to cut out part of an outlined shape in Photoshop? I currently do this:

Create shape
Double click on layer to edit layer style
Select the stroke tab
Apply outline to shape
Right-click on layer and rasterise
Use the eraser tool to cut out part of the shape

When selecting the "Subtract front shape" option, the outline shifts to the outline of the shape I'm cutting out of the original shape.


texts: What is the font used in this Crane Towing Logo?

texts: I'm trying to redo this logo in Illustrator. There is no larger image size than what I've found and I can't use live trace on it. So I'm redo-ing it with the pen tool and was just wondering what's the font used in this logo:


texts: What is a good practice for vector projects that may need to be resized or changed?

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I recently finished a large project with many layers. I was thinking that, in order to resize the project, it might be better to create a back-up copy of the finished file, put all the objects into one layer in that new file, group all the objects, and then resize the one object group. The back-up file with the original layers would allow you to make further changes more easily, if they are needed. And, of course, you just want to back up something that's important.

For resizing or changing the layout of the overall piece, working with one (grouped) object would be better than multiple objects.

Obviously the best thing to do is to think about how big the final product needs to be, or to finalize the layout of objects in a project in the first place. But, I'm betting that people who have a lot of experience with vector programs have run into this resizing/layout change problem before.


texts: How do I convert multiple SVG files with embedded base64 fonts to a single PDF?

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Quite new to graphic design and SVG editing here, so apologies for any mistakes.
I have a lot of SVG files of a textbook with embedded base64 font-faces and I want to convert them into a single PDF. Here's an example. When I open them in my browser (Chrome), they appear fine. However, If I try to open them in any graphics-processing application (Inkscape, Illustrator), the application can't detect the fonts and loads default fonts, which is not ideal at all as it also changes some of the characters. How can I convert these files into a single PDF using the embedded fonts?
Note: extracting the base64 font and installing it into my computer is not an option as there is a separate font for each page (due to bad formatting) and I don't want to install 1000+ fonts into my computer.


texts: InVision : How to export or record or convert prototype to video / gif in InVision?

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I am using InVision for prototyping online. I am done with designing. Now I want to export this interactions as video or gif to show others or to upload in social media.

Can anyone help me how to do this ?


texts: Can you merge multiple .indd files into one editable .indd without using book?

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I was curious to know if it is possible to merge several .indd files into one master .indd file that can be editable and preserve all links and images?

I am familiar with the drag and drop method and it does work but attempting to drag and drop 20+ .indd files can become an issue and may cause an error.

I do know how to use the File -> New -> Book:

although I am not happy with having to click on each .indd file in the panel to open and edit.  So I ask, is there a way to create a master file either in .indb or .indd that will let you edit within one document?


texts: Having trouble with Retina image size in Email

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I just got a new imac.

When I opened up an old email design in Photoshop it was small. I saw that I was zoomed at 100% so this was confusing at first before I remembered RETINA...

I redesigned an email with a width of 1200px which appears like a 600px container in Photoshop at 100% zoom.

When I save the image as a .jpg and drop it into an email (inline or attached) to share with client for feedback, the image is huge.
What am I doing wrong?

I tried reducing the size of the image by 50% back to a 600px container, which looks properly sized for an email when I attach the file to an email, but it's blurry (even at 144 DPI)

Can't wrap my head around this. What am I doing wrong?


texts: Sketch "Trim Transparent Pixels" is unselectable/greyed out

texts: I am trying to export icon svgs to icomoon and am getting svgs with a huge artboard.  I believe i need to select "Trim Transparent Pixels" checkbox on the artboard in Sketch but it is greyed out.  I created a brand new project and it is still unselectable. Does anyone know how to enable this option/why it could be showing as unselectable


texts:
I want a solid region bounded between two spheres with different radius. It seems using the sphere and Boole does not give me anything. Please help.
thanks


texts:
A recent article in Nature discusses the effect of typeface on credibility, and points to another study suggesting that

  resumes displayed in a high
  appropriate typeface (Corbel),
  resulted in the applicant being
  perceived as more knowledgeable,
  mature, experienced, professional,
  believable, and trustworthy than when
  displayed in a neutral typeface
  (Tempus Sans) or low appropriate
  typeface (Vivaldi).
  ...

Of the typefaces in the study, I would only consider using Corbel - but I don't think this indicates that Corbel is the best, only that it is better than the others in the study, which were rather silly (also Playbill, Bauhaus).

I generally use the LaTeX default Roman font. I could switch to the default sans serif or any font from the LaTeX catalogue but it doesn't include Corbel.

What other fonts should I consider for a curriculum vitae, and is there any way to predict how people will respond to them?


texts:
I get weird results when displaying a PPM:

(this is actually an upscaled PNG)

And here's what the file looks like:

The dimensions are fine (10 rows, 8 columns), just the colors are wrong (or am I wrong?).

As it says in the 3rd line of the file, I want to use a value from 0 to 255 per channel. Using an usual rgb color space like (255, 255, 255) for white, (0, 0, 0) for black, (255, 0, 0) for red and so on. But those colors in the image are apparently not the same as in the file.

Already at the first look, the image seems way to dark.

Do I misunderstand the format? Is the file not interpretated this way?

(Wasn't completely sure if this is the place to ask, or stackoverflow. But thought you might have an idea.)


texts: I have no experience in panting and drawing but I would like to start learning it in digital media. Are there any books, websites, or tutorials which teach digital painting and drawing? I use Corel Painter, but I do not want tutorials about how to use the software.


texts: Sketch: I have the vector mode by default, how can I change it back?

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I am using Sketch, its been a few days the vector option is in default.
For example:

I create a shape, nothing happens when I hover on it
I can only drag it
double click vector mode, if I try to enlarge it, only one side moves.

I can't explain what happened. How do I get out of the vector mode?


texts: Replicating s curve lines where gap between is exactly the same and top and bottom lines match replicated curved lines. (Illustrator)

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I am trying to create a downward sloping curve for an 'R' and repeat it downwards while maintaining the same width and gap between the lines.  So far I have only been able to get really close. When I replicate the top curve and try to align it below I can never get my desired result.  The height or width is always slightly off and the curve isn't flowing with the above curve.

I tried again using the pen tool and a bunch of guides to try and get as precise as possible but still ended up with this:

I found Adobe illustrator perfect curve between two grids and replicated it in several ways but they are 90 arcs and I want a sound shape that has a more gentle flow to it like the first picture linked.

I also want to be able to match the gaps between each line.  I was wondering how to set this up so that it would be mathematically sound; not just eyeballing it.


texts: How can I paint with 90% opacity over existing areas on a layer mask without increasing the opacity?

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I often run into this frustrating problem when using layer masks.

I have a layer to which I have added a layer mask. Now I select a black brush and paint over it with 90% opacity to hide that part of the layer and reveal the layer below which is grey. If I now paint again over the same area using the same brush, the effect sort of adds up and I now see that area as black instead of grey.

Is there any way at all that I can avoid this? Is there any setting with which the brush will not paint the part that I have already painted?


texts: how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv?

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I designed my cv on Photoshop and then I did two things but still I have a problem:

I have two pages of my CV, I saved them as JPEG with save form web and then I combined them in a PDF in Acrobat around and got a 450 KB file, which is suitable in some job websites but the websites didn't detect text as it is a message I always got it when I upload my cv.
I saved my cv as PDF files and then I combined them in Acrobat but the size was 233 MB ! which is never possbile to upload.

I want my cv to be a good example of my work and not just a word document. I am not sure what I should do to upload it to job websites.


texts: How do I make interwoven symbols on Inkscape?

texts: Sorta like this, but with actual depth (the lines crossing over and under each other):


texts: How to save transparency on .eps file (Adobe Illustrator CC)

texts: So I've drawn a design in Illustrator CC that has some transparency throughout the actual shapes (not just the background). When I save the file as a .eps and open in photoshop, the background remains transparent, but the shapes themselves are completely opaque again. How can I maintain the transparency when saving as a .eps from illustrator?


texts: Photoshop: how to recreate this uneven noise effect?

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How can I achieve this kind of background effect in Photoshop?

I tried some tips using textures or noise filter, but I can’t get close.

I like that the noise on the picture has gradients and unevenness – it looks natural and close to paper and chalk or something (especially the window light).

I tried to paint the picture using paint bucket and gradients first and then applied noise filter above all. Also tried to apply noise using masks on painted layers to get a gradient grain effect.

All looks very rough and computer-made:


texts: How can I select a good font to contrast with my body text?

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I'm not a graphic designer, but I'd like to make my site look nice. I've read the primers on picking fonts that match and contrast well. Once I've chosen the font I want for the body of the site, how can I pick a good contrast font for headers etc?

I'm using Sorts Mill Goudy for the body, so how can I find a font with similar letter spacing, but perhaps a thicker, chunkier style, for headers etc?

I can't find any automated tools for doing this, nor can I seem to find font width information etc from Identifont etc.

Any recommendations - either for tools, or for suitable fonts - gratefully received.


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My master page has a stroke at the top which is supposed to be shared across all pages. The stroke has a style assigned defining its appearance.

Lets say the idea is to have the stroke's colour change depending on the section you're in. It's pretty common in magazines where, say, movies section would be themed red, and sports would be in green.

Is there an easy way to override the colour only? I'd like to keep the stroke size, position, pattern etc. the same.

I know there are master page elements overrides, but I guess this is different since it involves a style override?


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For a logo I am currently making I try to recreate a tire, including tire tread. However, I can't seem to get the tread to "follow" the tire path.

How do I get my tire tread to follow the path of the tire?

See the example of what I am looking for (the tire tread won't be this complex).


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I've been having some trouble lately trying to create some simple images when going from AI to PS.

I'm initially starting out with this apple logo vector that I want to convert to a white color in photoshop, clipping away the rest of the image, leaving only the logo.

These are the steps that I'm taking that seem to lead me to a jagged looking picture:

Copy and paste the AI file into PS as a smart object.
Resize
Rasterize the layer
Use rectangle marque tool to select everything but the logo and cut it out of the picture.
Use the paint bucket to color it white.
All done. But it looks jaggedy. Am I doing the right steps for this? Any tips would be appreciated.


texts: Cutting out shape with pathfinder renders differently to uncut shape

texts: Cutting out a shape is rendering totally differently to a shape with shape above, even though the paths are identical. Any ideas why this may be happening?


texts: My office is transitioning from Windows to Mac. Files which were created in Illustrator on the PC are showing up with images missing and their links broken. Same thing happens in reverse, if someone on a PC opens files made in Illustrator on the Mac the linked images will be unlinked for them. The images are stored on a central server and have not moved at all. What is causing this?


texts: What font is used for the 'GRAPHIC DESIGN' logo on this website?


texts: Programmatically hide certain elements in batch export of SVG with Inkscape

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I have some SVG images which I'm exporting to various formats by means of Inkscape's command-line interface, driven by a custom Rake task. This is working beautifully, but I'd like to be able to programmatically tell Inkscape to omit certain elements from the output. I can see command-line options that only include certain elements, but I have not found an option that only excludes certain elements.

Another way of accomplishing this might be to use CSS to tell Inkscape to hide the elements, but I haven't found a good way of doing that programmatically either.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I'm perfectly happy to use some other SVG manipulation tool if necessary to achieve this. (Ideally I want this to work on Mac OS and other Unix-like systems, and hopefully on Windows as well.)

My use case is that I'm trying to get two outputs from a single source, one with some visual guidelines in the output and one without.


texts: How do I add this sort of color field/effect?

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I want to do the overlay/filter effects below(note they are pretty subtle):

I've experimented with several blending options but I can't seem to find out how the make that overlay effect. A detailed response is appreciative. Thank you in advance.


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I recently got an Ipad Pro with Procreate.
I start by doing the lineart and then I want to color, and shade. i saw people use the clipping mask and I did the same. The thing is, when I color the clipping mask it goes over the lineart. How can I keep the lineart when shading?
Also, I'm struggling to color efficiently. Do I have to draw on element on one layer? For exemple, let's take a fish. If I want to shade his eyes and that it does not affect the body, should I draw the eyes on another layer?
I hope my questions fits here. Thanks!


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I want to send out a postcard to several thousand people with a specific image on each just for the recipient.  I have designed the common background in GIMP and have my series of specific images.

In GIMP (or a similar program), is there a way to vary the graphics (similar to Mail Merge) in each by adding in the specific picture?

My other options currently are to put both images into Word MailMerge or create some code in C# that combines both of them into one image and iterates through the images, but I'm curious if there's a simpler and/or ready-made solution?


texts: How to change default text settings in Adobe InDesign?

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This problem appeared immediately after installation: InDesign interface is in English, but text settings (RTL, right alignment of new frames, default language of text frame, and therefore arabic numbers etc.) are for Arabic and reset to it after each new document initialization?

Is there any way I change this?

I tried to change all the apparent language settings in Preferences and it did nothing.


texts: What is the font used in Adobe software UI?

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I'm building my personal portfolio website, and just for fun I wanted to make the "Coming Soon" page look like an Adobe interface. I managed to get to a good-looking result but the only thing I am missing is the font used in Adobe software interface.

For instance here in Premiere Pro CC 2017

(this is the area with the most text I have found in Adobe software.)

First thought: "This must be Myriad Pro!" but obviously it isn't.

Google returned very few relevant results and no answer at all, WhatFontIs could not find it, same for WhatTheFont.

I'm sure someone here knows the answer!


texts: InDesign: how to choose which artboards to import from AI file

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I have about 10 artboards in my Illustrator file I need to link to in InDesign. I want to use a single Illustrator file to place my content rather than export each artboard separately. This will help me cut down on the amount of files. How can this be done?

I go to place the artboard in InDesign, but it defaults to the same artboard each time.


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I am looking to incorporate text into the path of an object, but remove that part of the path. I hope that makes sense.

So to put it more crudely, the result would would look like this:

  —————text—————

Except the line is the shape of the raindrop, and I just want a small portion of that object removed in favour of the text.


texts: Short Run Commercial Digital Printing Quality

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I got back a short run print job from a commercial digital printer recently. The background was designed as a block color, not a gradient or patter or anything, just all the one color; but when printed there were strange lines in it. The lines are very subtle but are definitely present, and quite obvious when you look at the result.

I took a scan in case it helps. The lines are not 100% horizontal they sort of wave a bit and it seems there are vertical lines also.

I'm asking here because the printers said it was a side effect of digital printing and there was nothing which could be done about it for short runs ( 200 ). He said on photos it would be masked by the photo but on solid block colours it would show. Can someone confirm my suspensions that this is not the case? I am surprised because I don't get any lines on my home printer.

I played with the contrast and curves a bit to bring out those lines a bit - there are several if you look carefully but the most obvious 2 are about 2/3 way down particularly on the left.


texts: Tip of my tongue, a term for how we associate icons and logos with products

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i remember one of the terms had to do with the icon was actually what it represented. (like illustration of a highway means this is now a highway)

and the other one was something in between like knife and fork reprecenting food

and if i recall correcly the third was something unrelated / abstract doing the reprecenting

(picto..something?)


texts: Layout Design and Color Scheme for a Crisis Mapping Web Application

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Here are a few screenshots of a web-based crisis mapping software, basically built for both governors and people. The design is somehow combined by ideas from different people, so we are interested to know your ideas, pros and cons of the design choices made there.

What are the pros and cons of the chosen Color Scheme and the Layout?

Please consider that at the design goals, it should looks clear and nice yet informative for decision makers, also still nice and easy to explore for a regular person.


texts: Same Illustration needs to be printed at 2 sizes

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I have a query about printing the same illustration at 2 different sizes.  I have produced an illustration  - in Illustrator, at A1 size to be printed at A1 size.  However, I also need to print the same illustration on A4 paper.

Printing the A1 size is easy - save as pdf etc, etc, but to print the file as A4 size is the best way to:
a) resize the original A1 illustration down to A4 size in Illustrator, save as a new file and print from there or
b) Use the pdf print files from the A1 size illustration and scale them down to fit on an A4 piece of paper??

Thanks for your reply. All prints A1 & A4 will be done professionally - A1 main illustration, A4 handouts.


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What are the standards for designing iOS apps? By standards I mean rules for margins, paddings, font sizes, etc. that should be followed when designing an iOS app. Are there any rules?

To clarify what I mean, here is the link for Android's design guidelines, which are very detailed. Is there anything like this for iOS?


texts: Subtracting lines/stroke from a vector shape

texts: I made this logo in illustrator (pictured above) and cannot for the life of me figure out how subtract the lines from the black text so that I can place it onto different backgrounds without having the lines show up. I attempted to use pathfinder to do this but, it doesnt work. I believe this has something to do with the fact that they are just lines with a stroke on them. Can anyone please help me??


texts: How to get Layer size (Width and Height)?

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I have a number of layers in a Photoshop document.

I want to find out what a specific layer's width and height is. How do I do that?


texts: How can I resize a logo without losing quality?

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I have created a logo for my business using photoshop. When I try and resize the image to be used on the website, it becomes really blurry!

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong? I understand why it pixelates but no one else seems to have this problem? If I create the logo on a mch smaller canvas then the font becomes blurry on photoshop.

Any ideas?

Thanks


texts: How to fill an area with open end points with a gradient?

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I've been battling this question for a while now. It will sound very trivial I'm sure to an experienced Illustrator user but I've found it extremely hard finding any relevant info regarding it. All info I find about how to use the gradient tool is regarding either shapes or text and it can't be applied to my problem.

See in the image below to see the boiled down version of my problem. What I have is an ellipse shape and a path inside that ellipse. The path combined with the shape creates an area. Now, I want to add a gradient to that area, without having to close the endpoints of the path. How would I go about doing this?


texts: Photoshop/Illustrator: How to create custom separations?

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If you had a printed artwork that used only Pantone Reflex Blue U, Rubine Red U, and 802 U (Neon Green) -- some colours are pure, some are blends, some are at 100% density, others are less -- and you were then provided with an RGB scan of this print (saying the unprinted paper happened to have an Lab value of 100 0 0), could you separate the RGB file into the corresponding spot channels (Reflex Blue U, Rubine Red U, and 802 U)?

Would you use the same method if there were 5 spot colours, instead of 3?

From what I can tell, converting to Duotone/Tritone/Quadtone would be unsuitable, because it requires converting to Greyscale first.


texts: Will a commercial printer print my invitations using floral png's

texts: I'm using InDesign for invitations. Can I use png florals in my designs? Will they print properly at a print company?


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I am designing a PowerPoint template for a data report. I am more or less happy with the layout of the elements and unity of elements, but even after a few days I still not sure about the weight of certain areas of the page. Specifically the right-hand side text box has a triangle that takes up a lot of the weight of the composition. See below:

I initially tried to diagonally align the text, and that helped a bit, but ultimately not a solution because it's not scalable: need to be able to just insert a vanilla text box, not have a new text box for each line.
Question
Weight is just one of my personal observations, but with this post I simply aim to invite broad critique of the design.


texts: Why does my Photoshop CS6 timeline have a different layout?

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I'm doing a tutorial, and I noticed my timeline is quite different from the one in the video:

This is mine:

This is the tutorial's:

The first problem is that I can't find the Add Videos button in my timeline.

The second is that when I import videos from the top bar File, the videos become layers instead of whole videos.

I hope someone can tell me what's wrong with my Photoshop!


texts: Export artwork from InDesign to MS-Word with print-quality

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Please help with advice, what is the best file format to export 1 page from InDesign and place it in MS-Word with high-quality (for print)?

That's should be 2-pages flier, where one of them should be complete 1 page from InDesign. (You'd better don't ask why :(

Thanks in advance for any help!


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Photoshop2020 seems to have EXR support. I can't find in the scripting reference of PS2019 any mention though of how to save EXR files and I also couldn't find a scripting reference for the 2020 version of Photoshop.

Does someone know where to find the 2020 scripting reference or how to save EXR from script?


texts: Prevent photoshop from cropping 100% transparent areas of PNGs when placing. Or prevent hard edges on placed png files

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If I place a png file that has intentional transparent space surrounding the image into a photoshop document photoshop seems to remove that surrounding space.  This wouldn't bother me too much, except that what tends to happen is that if I resize the placed png after it has been placed I end up with hard edges where photoshop has not antialiased beyond the edge of the now cropped image, resulting in an ugly hard edge.
I end up having to work around this by, for example, adding an almost totally transparent pixel beyond the visible edge of the image I'm placing, within the source document, to force photoshop not to crop to the visible pixels, and thus include the antialiasing on the edge as it does everywhere else (to make the resized image look nice).  This creates new problems though, such as causing photoshop to include that almost invisible pixel when applying effects such as glow/shadow etc.
Is there a way to prevent this phenomenon when placing PNG files?

Edit: Source PNG added by request (however it was created purely to illustrate my point. This happens with any placed image with transparency)


texts: Encyclopaedia-style InDesign running headers, where pages have many, one or zero headings

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So, you can have a heading running on each page that varies automatically based on the most recent heading (or, occurrence of any other paragraph style) by putting text with InDesign text variables based on the Running Headings text variable type ( type > text variables > define). Example tutorial.

So, for a textbook, novel, etc, where chapters span multiple pages, you could have the title of the latest chapter run in the header of each page automatically:

For a book like a dictionary, where each page contains multiple headings, you could get running headers that show the range of each page, by using two Running Header text variables, one set to "First in page", one set to "Last in page":

My question is, what if you have an awkward book or report with sections that have very variable lengths, which can be very short (several on a page) and can be multiple pages?
Imagine something like an in-depth dictionary or encyclopaedia, where most entries are short, but a few are necessarily exceptionally long.

The ideal result would show just one running title where there's one or less header on the page (where the result of the "First in page" and "Last in page" lookups are the same), and the first and last where there is more than one (where the result of the lookups is different):

I can't find any way to do anything like this, however - even with manual input. Using the Dictionary-style method like above gives ugly duplication in cases where there are one or less entries:

Re-jigging the content of the book or changing the heading hierarchy isn't an option - they're all of equal importance, regardless of their awkwardly varying lengths. I'm fine with answers involving scripting or some way of manually varying text from one master page text frame between pages - but I'd really not like to need to manually set a whole different text frame in the same place with the same style on every page then manually type into and adjust all of them as independent elements...


texts: How to delete spaces between different shapes after you divide a shape in multiple ones in adobe illustrator?

texts: I'm a beginner with adobe illustrator and for a project we need to split letters(A,B,C..) in many pieces because we need it for an application, and I did that using shape builder tool, pathfinder-divide, knife tool etc but when I save it as SVG(we need it like that) the shapes have a bit space in borders(like a white line). Does anybody know how can I divide without those lines or hide them?


texts: I have multiple images open in Photoshop CS6, all with the same color mode of RGB. When I use the color picker to select a color in image #1, and then move to image #2, the color drastically changes for no reason and becomes brighter.  Also, when I select the color in image #2 and copy the hex code, it produces a color code that is not true to what was selected.  I don't know how to fix this problem.


texts: How can I resize an image without anti-aliasing?

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I design emoticons, and often I need to resize things. However, this usually needs to be done without anti-aliasing. I can't find anywhere to do this.

It's kind of backward, as it's actually harder for a program to use anti-aliasing than not. It also means I need to spend lots of time hand-pixelling everything twice as large.

I'd especially prefer a way that this can be done within Photoshop CS3, though it's not required.


texts: Plotting points from external file in GIMP

texts: I've got to believe someone has written a SCRIPT-FU scriptor or simple plug-in that reads a file of (x,y) points (in GIMP's coordinate system) and plots small circles of specified color and diameter at those locations in the current layer (or similar functionality that I could adapt), but a quick search doesn't turn anything up. Can someone please help me?


texts: Self-hosted, web-based typeface management?

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I'm a web designer/developer, and I use linux. Linux has always been pretty poor with font management, and none of the options will even read woff2 files.

Almost all my font management is for webfonts, and I realized that it would be great if I could just host all my fonts on my server, and preview them in the browser — since this is where they're going to end up, anyway.

I'm looking for a way to preview my webfonts, preview the opentype features like swashes and ligatures, play with the size and colors, and copy the paths to where these files live on the server. Is there anything out there that will let me do this?


texts: Layer Mask is gone while creating clipping path

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I have come up with a gimp plugin which is supposed to create a clipping path along with the layer mask. It does if we check the output in gimp 2.10.22. But when I open the output with photoshop cc 2019, the layer mask is gone!
Here is the problem and all the associated scripts and files-
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14nklxAf454TiJlHtyO-14J_sK2Cua951?usp=sharing
Please help me understand what I am doing wrong.
Thanks.
Note: We are open to a feasible bounty for this if required.
Shamim Hossain
sparrowmtm@gmail.com


texts: How to take a logo out of its background

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I have this image of the logo of my NGO and I want to use only the part of the actual logo (without the white background) so that I can put it on photos/flyers etc. I hope I could explain it clearly enough.

How can I do this? I have Photoshop CC 2015


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I'm working on an art request with a race car, and have been provided with a vector file of the design that's printed on the side of the actual car. However, I can't seem to get envelope distort > make with mesh to work properly. Here is the art I need to fit onto the side of the car I've drawn:

But when I try to use envelope distort, some of my shapes change, like this:

It's as if some of the points have been deleted or moved for some reason. I can't find anything unusual about the shapes that are doing this, no compound paths, clipping masks, or embeded images, and I've tried ungrouping everything, grouping everything, hitting expand a couple times, and relaunching Illustrator, all to no effect.

Has anyone ever seen anything similar? Any fixes beyond redrawing everything?


texts: how to crop multiple images in Inkscape?

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I have a great amount of figures with the same properties and I would like to crop them all in the same way.

Is there a faster way to do it in Inkscape instead of doing it one by one?


texts: Guidelines for what pixels/quality ratio is more efficient when compressing images

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I'm trying to get the best size to quality ratio on images that are being scaled up (bc of size constraints).

When saving out a jpg, is there any guidelines as to what generally looks better at a smaller size:

50% quality - height: 300px;
80% quality - height: 200px;
1% quality - height: 10000px;

These are not specific numbers, just trying to give you an idea of what I'm wondering (quality % is in Photoshop).

I know a case by case comparison will be better, but there are batches of many files


texts: Simplifying complex overlapping paths in Illustrator

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I am working on creating a map for a client; the data comes from different sources, i.e. imported over an ArcGIS extension.
I have the issue that there are provinces, and within the provinces there are communes (like districts). I need to highlight certain communes to show where my clients plans to implement.
The borders for the communes are much rougher / jagged than the borders I have for provinces, they overlap each other and the province boundaries.
Any thoughts on how I can create smoother borders for the communes that don't overlap but rather fit nicely together with each other and the province borders?
(Screenshot shows 2 communes highlighted in red to make it easier to see their shape, with more communes adjacent in red and light grey. Province borders are dark grey.)

To speak in Illustrator terms, the communes are all paths. Regrettably I can't just turn them into shapes, which would allow me to use the Shapebuilder tool.
None of the pathfinder tools work well - I tried isolating two communes, and using 'divide' to deal with overlaps. But that creates many smaller paths in addition to the separated commune paths that I then need to sort through and delete, thereby not a simplification of work at all.
In the past I've just ended up manipulating individual points on paths by hand to deal with this issue.
I'd be really grateful for any tips. I encounter this often when I import data from disparate sources. I'd love a more efficient workflow.
Thank you in advance for your help!


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I have a pdf template file with printers marks and a bar code. I'd like to add graphics to the file (essentially cover the whole page). Covering the printer's marks is required, but I'd like the bar code to survive the coverup.

How can I accomplish this?

Here's the template. PDF's can't be uploaded here, so it's a screen shot.
The printer only issues templates in pdf or InDesign format--there are no other options. Notice the bar code in the left panel:

The blue portion must be covered completely, like so:

Notice that the bar code now is different, because it's not the bar code that came supplied with the template. I'd like to preserve this bar code in some way.

In terms of tools, I've created the overlay using various programs, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Gimp, etc. But I'm having trouble preserving the bar code.

If I just open the template in Photoshop, for example, and copy the barcode, I can't paste it into the overlay because the barcode is only 72 dpi when you do a cut and paste in this fashion, and the template must be at 300 dpi. If you resize the image after the cut and paste, it's fuzzy. Is there a way to do this with layers, where the only element on the template, the bar code, is preserved onto the overlay, which would be on a new layer?


texts: Currently i'm working on my resume using Photoshop cs6. When i get the pdf version of my CV,i can see some of the fonts are in grey color and some of were not there.I'll appreciate if someone help me to resolve this


texts: How to reduce weight of text underline in Photoshop?

texts: I am editing a web mockup in Photoshop. I have underlined text in the character window to represent a hyperlink. The default underline for my Arial 11 pt text  appears to be two pixels tall and I would like to reduce the underline height to one pixel. Is it possible to reduce the height of the default text underline or do I need to actually create a 1px tall line and place it under the text?


texts: how to split many objects into the shape of one single object path in adobe illustrator?

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I have a group of many objects in an illustration and I want to split the picture into two sections: one being the shape of the path i use, the other one is the remainder of what is left.
For example, I have 3 rectangles stacked on top of each other in a random manner, and i wish to clip it resultant image with a small rounded-corner rectangle.
3 rectangles here

small rounded corner rectangle

what I get in the end

I know how to do exactly this: first make the small rectangle and go to 'Path' and 'Divide Object Below' and hit the selection tool/V and get the wanted part out of the whole thing, and you have two parts which is want I really want to do here.
Then here is when i have a problem using this method. I have a new picture like this:

It has many object paths as a group:

I can still cut the picture below with the small rounded rectangle shape, however, it's almost impossible to select the part thats being cut out.
And i still wish to retain both the 'clipping mask' shape, and also the remainder part too.
I can do this with the clipping mask method but I only get the picture as of shape of the clipping mask - I still wish to retain the remainder.
Any idea how to do exactly this? I am still new to adobe illustrator by the way.


texts: I need to convert a logo into four spot colours

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I was given a logo by a client and last year I vectorised it, but it was coloured up as per the original, which was fine for her digital printing jobs. This year she wants some merch done, and the printers I am contacting are all asking for the logo to be four spot colours / or three spot colours.

This is a new area for me, and I am looking for some advice please on how to achieve this.

Or are there any agencies who would do it for a small fee?


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I'm curious to know what other graphic designers here quote clients for responsive design.

As I've only done a few and they're all very different, its not enough to really calculate a consistent method, but I'm trying to ensure I'm not over-labouring and undercharging, but also not scaring the clients away with high quotes.

Has anyone found an effective formula for charging for the additional breakpoints? Or how would you charge for the design of say 3 breakpoints (desktop, mobile, tablet)? This is for design only, no development.

I'm not developing the site. I'm designing a PSD for each breakpoint because that's what the client is requesting for their developers who will use them to build the site from. So time is spent creating each PSD. Not sure I want to be giving any of that time away for free! In essence what I'm asking is how much extra time do typically spend designing mobile and tablet breakpoints / PSDs on top of a normal design?

So for example, once you've created the first design, you it might typically take another 1/2-day to design the other two breakpoints per design. I realize this will vary depending on the design but I don't have any brief yet to see the layouts, so thought I'd get an idea for how much time others spend on average. So add 20% extra time per page design for example....


texts: Client requesting source files to all design drafts and to all versions throughout the process

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I started logo and packaging design a year ago. The client warned me they would be complicated and would demand many changes - however, I believed with my skills (and love for the product) we would get there soon.
Now: I'm not sure for what reason - the client turns sour and won't communicate professionally with me (only bullying and sort of abusive way). They never indicated what they like as a final and for example: wanted to see the last three designs in 10 colors... etc. as they are not sure what information they want to say on the boxes. Believe me, I tried hard, even made tick boxes. However, they think I'm overcharging them as we haven't got to the final state.
I said I'd like to quit and am willing to give them all their final files (as usual process) - however, now they also demand all the logos that I created along the way (which could be about 10-15 logos). I believe they have no rights to those. They've been given the complete package of the final logo of course.
They also asked me to give them 'final' banners and packaging labels - even the latest we had them in a state of drafts - laid on A4 in a presentation style - not set to dimension, etc..
I couldn't find any information if the client has the right to use all the logos produced along the way? And can they force me to get to the final state (without paying for it of course) - I know the answer is no - I am just not sure how to explain this to them.


texts: Export multiple groups in photoshop to different photos for web! Each group in Photoshop is a photo

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I dont know how to export multiple files for web (JPG) without having to press all the time the same thing File--> Export--> Save for Web... I could use the quick export which has the option to save groups with their names in JPG but I need to have optimized files for web! This is an image for you to see and understand better
Thanks!


texts: I don't understand why I cannot cut image in Photoshop. The cut command is disabled. I'm sure that I have selected the image. I can copy and paste, but just not cut.


texts: Is it possible (and usually done) to create such grainy effect in Illustrator?

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Sharing some illustrations from Handsomefrank agency. If you see them, all have dotted / grainy colors.

I've highlighted the thing I want to ask about by yellow color.
It's not limited to one artist. For example, you can see this artist's work also, where in some illustration you would find similar grains or grainy gradient but non-uniform.
Now, I know similar effect can be done using Illustrator Filter > Artistic > Grain or similar filter. I've done the same in one of illustration done by me below (in the main background):

But there's slight difference in between mine and the ones shared above (first 2, done by agency). If you observe them: 1) The grains are non-uniform. Looks like the designer used more effect where he wanted more and less where less needed.
2) He even has used in form of gradient also.
In my case, I can do both things like I've done in Teddy, but the grains are too large, uniform (see pink background) and are not subtle. While in the agency's, they feel different than mine, looks like sand particles spread over layers by hand. And is non-uniform also at some places. I think I like mix of both effects, so I want to learn this techniques also.
So is it possible and convenient to do this in Illustrator? Or you would recommend Photoshop (where there are lot of free brushes available)?
Also I don't want to limit myself to grains only. I want to know about it and learn this technique so that I can try other similar types of grains/effects also.


texts: Using ccmp with Latin letters and CJK glyphs

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I got stuck on a detail that is possibly trivial and covered in some sort of 'OpenType 101,' but I have never seen anything similar in the specifications.

I'm trying to set up a ccmp feature in a Unicode-mapped font that would work with CJK glyphs (ccmp apparently doesn't matter; what matters is I am making a many-to-one substitution). It works as a breeze when I combine two glyphs Unicode-mapped to ASCII symbols (Latin letters) [obviously: how come would 'fi' combine to ligature otherwise], or two CJK glyphs, or a Latin letter and a PUA glyph etc.

However, my usercase demands to setup a substituton sub glyph_1 glyph_2 -> glyph_3;, where glyph_1 is Unicode-mapped to a Latin letter and glyph_2 to a CJK glyph. And I found out it immediately stops working. The opposite order does the same. After experimentation I even found out digit+CJK is OK, but Cyrillic letter+CJK is not. Literally, just adding a bonus PUA mapping (without deleting the Unicode one) to the same CJK glyph_2 leads to the case when if I input these two glyphs using PUA code for the second, they immediately combine, but when I use the Unicode one (the very same CID being internally!), composition breaks. I tried any combinations of languages and scripts, and couldn't make it work even in default language with default script; furthermore, even codepoints for full-width Latin letters instead of Latin letters destroy composition.

Is it some sort of failsafe introduced to OpenType standard in order to defend from script-mixing producing unwelcome results - and how come it is not mentioned elsewhere?
How do I trick the font, if it's possible, and still make the substitution of Latin letter+CJK? I don't want to force users to type, say, a digit instead of a letter or to paste a combining zero-width joiner etc.

Anyway: how come the workings of font would depend on where exactly glyphs are mapped to Unicode?


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In following image:

I want to make the lines inside the colorful polygons disappear, but leave the line between colorful polygons. For example, inside the green polygon at the right, there are two horizontal yellow lines which I want to remove and make them green like the polygon itself. But I want to leave the lines surrounding the green polygon intact.

I tried to use "eraser", but this changes the yellow lines to transparent lines rather than to green lines.

I tried to use "smudge", but this blends the yellow with the green and creates a dirty-looking image.

What can I do?


texts: Resizing a .tiff file for print on 3M x 4M canvas

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I have a .tiff file of an image, it is 17815 x 12426 px and is landscape. I need to print it 3 x 4 metres portrait, it's for a wall vinyl or canvas. The resolution is 500dpi. So if I try to resize it at 300x400 cm it isn't high enough to do so without stretching it bigger.

Would it be best to do it at half size eg. 150 x 200 cm then tell the printer to output at 200% or what would be the best solution? also should the resolution stay at 500dpi?
Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to rotate an artboard along with the contents?

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I created an envelope in Illustrator and when I finished I switched the orientation from landscape to portrait. While the artboard does switch, the artwork remains landscape and I have to switch that by hand using the rotation tool.

Is there a way to switch the orientation of an artboard that includes the contents in the switch?

I've searched for an answer but haven't found anything yet.


texts: How to change index image to background image in Photoshop

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I have recently opened some images and in the layers palette, instead of saying "background" it says "Index".

I have been unable to figure out why it says "index" and cannot do anything to the image because every tool is greyed out. What's up? I must be doing something wrong.


texts: How was this Path embedded in a JPG image?

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If one downloads this image to their computer and opens it in Photoshop, they will notice something very interesting in the Paths panel:

Several paths are included in this file, one for the laptop's logo, one for the laptop, one for the screen and one for the reflection.

I thought this type of information was only available inside a Photoshop file. But it is a JPG.

I am surprised, and I'm also wondering how one can embed path info inside a JPG.


texts: I have licensed several 'light effects' photos from Adobestock.com that are AI files.  They are supposed to be transparent but they have a gray background that I am unable to remove.  How do i USE these files and incorporate them in a design?


texts: Artwork from different designers: Achieving an integrated look?

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First of all, I am not a graphic designer.

I am launching a new website soon. I have the text almost ready. I have a web designer and infographic designer.

In order to prevent visitors meeting walls of text. I am now thinking livening up text by adding stock vector-line art  from sites like https://www.flaticon.com/. I can submit these to the webdesigner. However, I will also be submitting infographics from another specialist infographic designer.

Using this approach, is it possible to achieve an integrated look or is it going to look messy? I would really appreciate your opinion on this.


texts: How to override color on illustrations/icons that can't be flattened in Sketch App?

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I'm trying to create a styleguide according to atomic design. For this I'm trying to create a set of icons where I can override the color so I can use them in different sets.

I made an icon of a plane using shapes and strokes:

Normally I can use a mask to override the color on the icon. But I can't use folders as masks. When I try to union/flatten this icon, things go wrong:

Is there a way to fix my icon or a way around this so I can still use a mask for the override?


texts: How to embed an ICC CMYK colour profile in Scribus

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I need to embed an ICC CMYK colour profile in a PDF file using Scribus.
I have done following documents setting.

After saving, the PDF document, it does not have the ICC profile embedded, there are only out /OutputIntents in the PDF file.

Also, even I have installed the CMYK profile on my computer, it cannot show the CMYK ICC profile in the selection below (PDF Export → color → use color profile).

However, it does show the CMYK profile in Pre-press → PDF/X Output Intent → Output Profile.


texts: How do I get this vector field effect on an image?

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I recently came across an image in which there was a photo of horses running and (what appears to be) a vector field:

it looks like they may have taken a screenshot of an edit mode in whatever software was used, does anybody have any ideas on how to replicate this effect?


texts: Photoshop CC Text Overrides Block Character Styles From Working

texts: This is more of a description of a problem I'm having and not so much of a question. When I make a paragraph and format it to be the right size font and color, I can't highlight text and click on a character style without first clearing overrides. That would be fine, but it changed the font size, leading and kerning to some default size 12. So after clearing and clicking on the character style I have to edit the kerning, leading and font size. At that point it would be faster to highlight the text I want and manually set all the things I set up in my character style. Maybe I'm missing an easy work around. If anyone knows of a workaround I would appreciate it.


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Dear professional designers,

I have questions regarding to creating packaging texture.

I am intersected in creating a packaging design with a little paper texture.

See 2 example below.

I was wondering...

-How do I achieve that small subtle texture on the paper?

-Do I have to create my own texture and tell it to the printer company?
-Do printer company just emboss the the texture?
-Or the texture comes with the paper?

Thank you so much for your help!

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What about this type of texture? This is letterpress. Is that correct?


texts: Generally speaking, does there exist an "optimal" line height as a proportion of how high the text is, for maximum readability?


texts: Tools to convert from 16-bit RGB to 24-bit RGB and vice versa

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Are there any image editing or research tools, commercial or otherwise which will allow me to:

map colors (images) from 16-bit RGB (565) space to 24-bit RGB (888) space or vice versa
save files in PNG, GIF, or JPEG
give user the ability to control how colors are mapped from 16-bit space to 24-bit space.

Here's a little background for this request.

I'm working on a project evaluating an LCD display panel.  The native bit depth of the panel is 24-bits (RGB 888) and it is currently available on an evaluation kit that uses an LCD controller that supports 24-bit output only.

The LCD controller on the product for which this panel is being evaluated only supports 16-bit output (RGB 565).  In the final design the remaining bits for each color channel on the panel will be connected in some way.

The evaluation kit does not take RGB inputs (as mentioned above it only takes PNG, JPEG, or GIF). I'm looking for a way to create 16-bit and 24-bit RGB files which will then be converted to a PNG.   By manipulating the values of the R, G and B channels in the source files (16-bit and 24-bit) I want to compare the difference between driving a 24-bit display with 24-bits of color and 16-bits of color (extended to 24-bits).

I'd also be interested in learning about others experiences with this sort of evaluation and the sanity of my proposed test methodology.

Thanks.


texts: How to visualise percentages of two circles? Illustrator

texts: I am trying the create a circle with different percentages in colours in a ring shape. See below. As you can see the shapes even have sometimes little ends or notice the green part inside the ring. How would I make this?


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So I'm new to graphic design as a whole, but I've worked with layered PSD files before. I don't have Photoshop, but I do have a copy of Pixelmator. Clearly a cheaper alternative, but obviously not Photoshop.

So, I created a layered file in Pixelmator and now I want to implement it. Obviously there are situations where a couple layers together need to make a single image. How can I export those layers without copying the layers and making a new file just to export them?

Can't I export those layers from that master file?


texts: Is there a name for the type of design that's a bunch of 3D triangles of similar shade?

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Usually see it in SVGs, either 2D or 3D.  I really like the design, but not sure what it's called.

Something like this: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/images/polymer1.0-01.svg

Or even the banner background here: http://snapsvg.io/ http://snapsvg.io/assets/images/background.svg

Would like to create some of these myself in Illustrator!


texts: Joining paths in Islamic geometric design

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I am a beginner and I am trying to follow this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okO_AidqvqA&index=12&list=LLuf1g5wMxw-Jhh36rqgdQ8g

First I made a framework which you can see underneath the design. Then I connected the dots and made the design. The corners of the lines are broken until I join them with the CMD + J function. The problem lies in the centre where this doesn't work. It either adds extra lines (connects the wrong dots) or it stays broken. How would you approach this? How to turn all the separate lines into one line.

I even face this problem when only having three lines for example. It then jumps into a triangle shape whereas I wish it to stay a line.


texts: I'm designing a logo for a client. I've always used 2 - 3 colors max because (besides simplicity of style), I always understood that it's more cost effective to print a two color logo than one with many colors. With so many digital RGB printers around now, does that still stand? TIA!