texts: Photoshop Gradient Overlay requires a shape layer, not a regular layer?

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Today I was following a tutorial using PS CS6 on the internet and it asked that a layer be added and Layer Style > Gradient Overlay be used, which would later become a background.

I'm not a big user of the fx button in the layer panel, I admit. But, I didn't think it was so utterly confusing.

I simply created a new layer (transparent) and accessed the Gradient Overlay in Layer Styles and expected to see the new layer filled with the gradient I had configured and then I'd move on to the next step. There was no effect at all and no indication from Photoshop CS6 that I had just done something that would have no effect.

To my great surprise I discovered that even after making a (marquee) selection, there was no gradient overlay appearing.

Not until I used the shape tool (or text tool) would my gradient appear within it.  Of course, I thought the so-called 'layer' style would apply on a layer level basis and not require that a particular object be used for filling.

Is my software not working correctly or does anyone else find this observed behavior counter-intuitive in the slightest?

Why does it only have effect on text or shape layers?


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I have a horizontal spread of pages (1 and 2 side by side). I need to get page 2 at the bottom of page 1.

How can I achieve this? I have tried manually drag, but as these are master pages applied, it's getting difficult to move them to along with content.


texts: Inkscape: Text appears upside down without any "on path" business

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I'm new to Inkscape and haven't tried anything even remotely advanced like putting text on paths. For some reason, Unicode mode in text (ctr + U) didn't work so I stopped trying. But since then text always appears upside down. Google search only leads to "upside down text on path" related links. The only way to get text upright is to flip the text object vertically. Please help me resolve this.
Edit: It only happens when I drag a pdf and drop it on the Inkscape icon to open Inkscape with that pdf.


texts: What shading technique/effect was used in this calligraphy?

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Do you know what technique was used in this calligraphy? I would like to use Illustrator CS6 to achieve this look.
The effect looks like glow in the dark.


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I've been using many icons to make buttons through my application distinct and easier to understand(by using common icon), but one button struck into my mind: "Set Default" button. I couldn't find anything like icon for this, and I wonder if it exists or how it possibly can be expressed as a pictograph.

EDIT:
To clarify what I mean: default here meant as default in list of values, not a default value:

Item 1 <- default
Item 2 <- set default button with default icon
Item 3< - set default button with default icon
Item 4 <- set default button with default icon


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What I am doing is, I open up a file I saved as an Illustrator template, which I have used several times to create icons. What's happening is, I created a rounded rectangle and set it for a 2px stroke, but no fill, yet Illustrator is filling it with this off brown color. Why is that?

Here's a shot with the Layers panel:


texts: Creating a Border with Different Measurements at Top, Bottom, and Sides

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So I'm trying to recreate this plaque in Illustrator to have a replica made, but I'm a little stuck.  When creating the gold border around the oval, the measurements at the top/bottom are different than the sides.  The top/bottom are 3/8"H and the sides are 1/2"W.  How would I go about creating this border?  I am trying to avoid using the pen tool, considering the picture isn't straight on and it would just be a hassle.  Any help would be great!

Thank you! : )


texts: Transparency in Illustrator: text with outline

texts: In the following logo created by a designer, the Forever de Sales text is two layers: text + outline. I am trying to make the white portion of the text transparent. Whatever methods I try, it either doesn't work at all or some portion of the shape of the outline shows thru making it look odd. I need the exact steps to make this work. Making the M transparent was easy; the text, not so much. Thank you]1


texts: Best way to add an individual image to pdf form letter

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I want to add an individual image to a static pdf.
Like I have 200 individual images and one pdf that is always the same. Then I want to say something like 2 inch top and 3 inch left and then the programm will place the image on this position and in the end I have 200 pdfs. Which software can solve this problem best?
Thank you.


texts: Fonts with ambiguous / similar characters

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I'm looking for a font with deliberately ambiguous Latin characters.

i.e. where symbols like O0, 8B, Il1, 5S, 2Z, 6b, 9g, are either identical or visually indistinct.

Certain fonts like Arial have some degree of ambiguity - but I can't find a font which is specifically designed to have as many homographs as possible.


texts: Rectangle with gradient around entirety of shape . - Illustrator

texts: How can I make a rectangle with basically a fade to middle gradient on both vertical sides and also gradients from the bottom of both horizontal sides of the rectangle? I cant use radial because that is equal gradient on all sides where I want the gradients on the horizontal sides to end quickly, because it's a rectangle. Get it? If i try to do clipping with the rect it gets weird because the gradients don't match. Thanks.


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I have the following Text in one PDF file,

http://www.docdroid.net/10053/22.pdf.html

and want to insert it in following Border PDF File:

http://www.docdroid.net/1004w/110.pdf.html

in such a way that background of text is omitted. I try Clipping Path for remove background but because we have font, some margin of font is distored !!! how I can do this ?


texts: Can I use the "Keep Calm Crown" in a commercial design or is there any copyright?


texts: How to graphically represent customer flow in indoor environments?

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I'd like to know how can I represent human streams and paths in indoors facilities. Where to are people moving? How do they move and in which proportions?

Something like Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns or Facebook's Visualizing Friends would fit my needs, but somehow they don't seem to show the stream/flow direction, which is a crucial dimension in an indoors paradigm.


texts: Spacing letters in a word so that the end result is exactly a given width

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So my problem is the following.

I can't seem to figure out how to space 6 letters in Illustrator that are 10mm high so that the end result is 80mm wide.

If someone has a solution for this that would be great.


texts: Exporting Cinema 4D to .png - remove thick lines around the poly/

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On my screen in cinema 4D I see this -

Which is the low poly effect I want.

But when I render it in the picture viewer and exported result, looks like this -

Is there a setting to turn the lines off?

Thanks in advance.


texts: What is the standard size for email greetings cards, birthday cards?

texts: Is there a standard, or best practice size for a greeting card you plan on sending only via email? I saw one post say as long as the width is below 600px


texts: Image Discolouration when printed in Microsoft Word

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I have an image which was created in Adobe Photoshop and is being inserted into a Word Document.

The document contains a rectangle with a coloured fill which the image sits on top of.

The same RGB values are used for the colour in Photoshop and Microsoft Word and this looks perfect on screen however when the document is printed the image colour comes out a darker shade than the document colour.

I have changed the display and Photoshop colour profiles to sRGB IEC61966-2.1.

When I take a screenshot and colour pick the document and image colours in Photoshop they have the same RGB values.

EDIT: Just to check - my problem isn't that the chosen colour isn't identical to the on-screen colour (I know and accept that the printed version will be darker). My problem is that if I create a solid coloured rectangle in Photoshop and then save it. When I insert the image into Word and then add a rectangle as a Word shape and use the same RGB colour settings for its filled background and click print the image colour will print darker than the Word colour.


texts: Ways to remove/select scanning artifacts from document

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I often receive scanned documents that has dots and grains in them. I often use the paintbrush in gimp to manually remove them, but it occurs to me that all the dots share so many similarities that a simple algorithm should be able to "white" them out automatically.

Take this example:

If blacks surrounded by whites in a given area is detected then select that said area for further processing:

Does anybody know of any scripting-way or plugin that can do such a thing?


texts: How to create an art asset that can be dynamically colored in software?

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Specifically, I have a bunch of photographic crayon images. I would like to remove the color from one to produce a neutral image that I can load into an iPhone app that I'm writing and dynamically color. The crayon images have dark regions (shadows) and light regions (shine) which I would like to preserve. I will be dynamically coloring it with many different colors, ranging from white to rainbow colors to black.

My first inclination is to turn the image into a grayscale image and then somehow turn the color channel into an alpha channel, and change the color of all pixels to black. Then I could use it as a mask. However, this would only preserve the shadows, and I would lose all the highlights.

Any ideas?


texts: How can I substitute images on Illustrator CC while mantaining the way they are laid out?

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Hello I'm totally new on Illustrator but I've looked for this and didn't find anything.

I want to print an PnP game called Maximum Apocalypse, most of the files come on a 9 grid per page pattern but some others, as well as the backs, come alone in the center of a page.
I want, for example, to substitute every image on this file with a copy of the back image:

File with the fronts of the cards

I can move the image but can't substitute it, also please note how it has a weird un-selectable white frame, wich is in front of the images

Also there is this super strange thing going on, the images all overlap each other but the program kind of splits the difference and creates a junction in the middle point, hiding the rest:

You can see the overlapping and the way the difference is split

I don't even know what concept or tool to look for, maybe somebody can help me, what I want is to have a way to place this image on top or instead every card, while mantaining that weird split and white border and everithing, so I can print correctly, am I asking too much?

Only the center part, wich I can select and copy no problemo, and also is the same size as the images I want to substitute

Please help me!! I've worked so damn hard for a month to translate this game to play with my friends, I've learned a lot along the way but this is a wall I can't pass.
Many thanks yous!


texts: I'm making this graphic to explain a game mechanic and my problem (middle example) is that Aiming and especially Firing do not clearly appear as being main timespans (yellow and orange) but subsets of them. I cannot simply place the labels first because Rushes, Kill Bullet and Hit are events that occur at the beginning of those timespans. I can't find a solution that wouldn't make the graphic more complex.


texts: Photoshop how to create a box with curved edges and a background color easily

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As you can see in this picture, the edges are very rough because ive used the the brushes with background color. What I want to achieve is the perfect curve for this angle. I tried to edit the brush settings but it's too complicated for me. Is there any easy way to do this that doesnt involve creating the curve with a mouse because that seems impossible for me.

Thanks


texts: photoshop cc 2019 saving image without background as png

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tried this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDRFPZ01eE
I set up my settings like this:

When ever i want to save my image as png i keep getting a white background even though i didn't utitlize the whole thing of my dimenions, it just fills the rest up as white background.

How can i save as png without the white background?
tried also multiple tutorials on the web but none of them really helped me or the options to select isn't in the adobe photoshop cc 2019
for example i get this when i try to save an image as png:


texts: Designing interesting looking websites in greyscale, minimal tones

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I know a business that wanted a website to match their brand, and it would seem that they are allergic to colour. I think designs in greyscale can look amazing, especially in print, but it feels near impossible to apply to website design.

In this case, the business was centered around social networking and new technology but a greyscale design I feel is rather outdated and didn't reflect at all what they did, even though, apparently that was their brand. (They said they were going for that 'Apple like minimalism style and sophistication' but perhaps they were thinking of Apple ten years ago) The business's website today is about as bland as cold white rice, (like one of those warranty documents you get with a new gadget you bought).

I recently received a request from a client who, for an architectural practice requested the same look and feel, without colour.

What do think makes a website look modern and interesting while lacking colour?


texts: Punch out area of shape using another—with translucent edges

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I have a ellipse-ish raster shape with a ragged, translucent edge. I'd like to use this to punch out the same shape (with the same ragged, translucent edge) from a photo, so that I end up with a photo in the ellipse-ish shape.

In Illustrator, I could use the Pathfinder "crop" tool, though not sure how I'd approach the translucent edges. Is this possible in Photoshop CS6? Thanks for reading.


texts: In Inkscape, how can I save colors for use in multiple elements?

texts: For example, I'd like to have a color called "text-color" or one called "content-box-color". How can I save a color like this and then assign it to an element?


texts: How to import vector drop shadow from Sketch to Android Studio

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If I add a drop shadow to an asset in Sketch, then export that asset as an svg, then open that asset in Gimp, I see the shadow, so the shadow must be exporting to the svg.
However, if I import into Android Studio as vector, shadow is removed. Any idea how to reproduce the drop shadow in Android Studio vector?
Thanks


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I'm having trouble flipping arched text in Photoshop CS6. All the other answers seem to use Type on a Path which I can't find in my version.

Heres what I'm trying to do, I want to flip the lorem ipsum text upside down so it reads correctly, while maintaining the proper curve:


texts: Does this particular style of image mashups have a specific name?

texts: This style of image mashups is very popular in digital news magazines. Does the style have a specific name?


texts: How to add images and videos to screen mock ups?

texts: I'm a beginner in UI right now and I wanted to upload my work on Behance. But I want to put my project images on the iPhone screen mock-up. I did know basic things about it but still confused about how to do it particularly. I'm putting some images down here, I wanted to do as same what is there in images.


texts: How to add white-space / padding / margin around the outside of a finished page layout in InDesign?

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I am recently working on an InDesign template, however when I export the template as PDF the contents of the page reach to the far left of the page. I want to leave some gap on the left side, center the content, whichever be best for printing and spiral binding.

How can this be done without individually moving all elements?
How can I add space around the outside of a finished page design, for use in home printing?

In the following image, the green borderline shows where I want my contents to be. I want it to be similar to the layout InDesign produces when it adds printer marks sans the marks.


texts: What tool captures full web page screenshots including CSS transforms?

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I have been using Ember and Paparazzi in the past. The design I am working on has several images with perspective and CSS Transforms. As a result the image frames are distorted like an object in three-dimensional space.

I have tried several alternatives like Snagit and Pixave, but none captures the transform effects.


texts: How to represent quotes in an animated graph?

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I made an excel file with more than 5,000 derogatory quotes (date, insult, target, twitter link) made by an individual on Twitter.
I would like to make a Youtube video of it.
This video would show his daily insults from 2016 to 2019. Each day we would see the targeted person and the insult.
Plus, I want to include two other graphs showing the most targeted person and another graph showing the most used insults.
It would look like something like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2nqd6-ZXg
How to represent this the more clearly possible ? Bar charts ?


texts: Illustrator: create four double sided arrows to form a circle

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I'm a little bit newbie to Illustrator, so sorry if my question is pretty banal.

Following art work is what I'd like to design:

This is the plan (that doesn't work!):

1 - Draw an empty circle with required stroke. (A ring, namely)

2 - Erase some part of that ring and divide to to four parts.

3 - Add arrow heads to both sides of each part.

My main problem is conversion of a circle to its corresponding ring. Here is a question, which might be similar to my problem, but it didn't work. I think I should transform the shape (circle) to a path, then it will become a ring and applying steps 2 and 3 would be possible. Even this video didn't help too much because I can't modify the tickness of the final ring by Stroke > Weight

Could you give me some advice to find the steps?


texts: What file types should my web designer provide me with?

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I am building web site, and I paid a designer to design my site,

What should the designer provide me?

png cut images?
psd file?
Should I insist on getting psd file?

What is the disadvantage of not getting psd?

Thanks.


texts: I'm trying to model some wire for a wiring diagram and I'm trying to figure out a quick way to model striped wire in Illustrator. I can do a solid wire by making a line and then adding a secondary stroke for the outer black line and then using  a solid color for the infill but I'm unsure how to make this dual color like my example (done in paint). I'd prefer to use lines because I can get them straight, as opposed to brushes, but I'm relatively a newbie. Any tips?


texts: Why was my experience with a logo contest so miserable?

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I'm starting out as a freelance designer (and no job experience at any company before) and I decided to join "contests" held by freelancer.com's users.

I've joined several of them already and I can tell that my designs are really good, I read what the client wants and doesn't want, etc... But instead my designs end up getting rejected or having only 2 stars and 1 star.

My head really hurts right now as I spent hours crafting it with all my heart and it end up getting beaten up by some crappy designs.

Thanks for sticking with me so far and sorry for making you read my rantings, and also for saying others' designs are bad, but I just can't accept that my designs got beaten up by crappy designs.

Have you guys gone through this before? What advice would you give me? Any response would be really appreciated. Thank you :)


texts: Need to understand the technique used in the artwork of sites like Slack, Hioscar, Avocode, etc

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So there is this sort of a pastel/raster artwork used in some sites that I want to learn to make and possibly replicate it. Please help my identify this these techniques

Eg1:The pastel/paint marks on Slack

Eg2:The patterns used on Avocode

Eg3:Pastel images on Hioscar


texts: How to ONLY scale in Illustrator proportionally

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When I hold option (alt) and shift in Illustrator when using the Scale tool with an anchor point that is on a distant vanishing point, I have to move the mouse while click-holding and move it until I get what I want- for it to scale proportionally. Is there some setting that I can set that disables scaling along the x or y axis? I don't want to scale along the x or y axis. I just want it to scale proportionally towards the vanishing point (anchor point).

This is extremely tedious and frustrating because I have to click and hold, and hold shift and option, and move the mouse in every possible minuscule area until I get what I want and it takes half an hour to accomplish this. How do I disable scaling along the x or y axis? I just want it to scale proportionally towards the anchor point.

https://youtu.be/-Jwyi-IL5A4


texts: How to save a symbol or graphic style in Illustrator?

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I designed a link button in Illustrator, much like the ask question button here.

Since I am new to all this, I have difficulties creating just the perfect shape every time, so I want to save that button as a symbol or graphic style so that the next time I can just click on it and change the text length.

How do I save as a symbol or graphic style?


texts: How to make selection with Pen tool in Pixelmator?

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I am new user in Pixelmator and I used to use Photoshop. Now, I would like to use Pen Tool in Pixelmator.
In photoshop, we use pen tool to cut things and then Ctrl+Enter to make a selection.
In pixelmator, I cannot make selection and it automatically fills with color. All I want is just selection .
Please help me how to do this.


texts: How to recreate (digitally) this image's texture?

texts: How can I recreate (digitally) the texture in the image below? I always loved old pics foundable in old magazines :))


texts: How to precisely edit segment angles and lengths in a path?

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I want to take a path I've created and transform it into a uniform, precise "zig-zag" consisting of equal length lines at alternating angles (45 and 315).

What is the best way to do this?

I've tried creating line segments and joining them but end up with jagged corners.

I tried sketching roughly what I want and going in to edit the line segments' length and angles, which seems like the way to go, but I don't see any way to do input precise attributes like I can when laying a line down.


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I'm a junior graphic designer with main focus on vector illustration and UI design.

I'm working in the industry professionally for 2 years now. And so new recruiters often give me design tests (even after rounds of interviews and reviewing my portfolio).

I'm not against it totally (although it becomes often frustrating to complete assignments for free with no offer in sight). And thankfully I didn't have to take the design tests with materials that are personal to the companies like their web-ui or logos or their brand illustrations and such.

I often was asked to take the test on made-up cases or generic briefs. So I'm now wondering who owns the rights of those 'tests' I have been taking?

I would very much like to add those in my portfolio. But I'm confused who owns the designs, illustrations etc? The recruiters or I?


texts: Adobe Acrobat Pro X can't use font for text field, which Indesign 6 can

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I've exported an InDesign 6 (on Mac OSX) file to PDF (not for print, but for interactive), the PDF file has embedded several subfonts of Helvetice Neue  already used in the InDesign 6 (on Mac OSX) file.

Following this I opened up the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Pro X (on Windows) - and wanted to add a text form field, but in the tab under appearance there is only "Helvetica Neue" to be found in the dropdown box with the fonts to select from, and not the subfonts ("Light", "Medium", and "Bold"). If I selected the font "Helvetica Neue" - it just pops up a box showing this font can't be embedded due to licensing restrictions (InDesign has already embedded these subfonts properly, without a hitch!).

So my question is does the fonts need to be of a special type perhaps for this to be possible? Need to be embedded in a specific way? Or something entirely different perhaps?


texts: How can I create a letterhead template that doesn't break our company branding guidelines?

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I'm a director of a nonprofit, and I've been working on a letterhead for my group that we can use.

Nearly a decade ago, we had an actual graphic designer draw up a branding guide for us that we try to abide by, but I'm being stumped by the requirement that our logo not go at the top of the page (as dictated on p12).

I was wondering if you had any ideas on what the "right" way to do this is, (or examples of letterhead where this is the case?). To my knowledge, I've never seen one like this, but I'm definitely not a graphics designer by trade.

Thanks!


texts: Use an artboard as a template, exporting multiple versions with an image swap?

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I have an artboard with a card design and I have an image that have to change one hundred times inside that. It´s an image that changes the meaning of the card, but it will always have the same width and height. Those images are a JPG file, that I will place on that card design AI file.

Is there any solution without using one hundred different layers? Like an action?

Thank you!


texts: I've been using Adobe Acrobat 10.1.16 to add a text box in a PDF file, by using Tools -> Content -> Add or Edit Text Box. However, the largest size is 24, which is still too small. Is there anyway to add bigger text?


texts: Sorry for the lame question, but I can't figure out what font is used in image below?


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I would like to generate an average stroke from a given compound enclosed path, or fill, in Adobe Illustrator CC or Inkscape.

Sorry I don't know the mathematical function name to achieve this. I've come upon a couple bizarre hacks involving Photoshop, but it stands to reason there is a simpler way to achieve this within a vector program. Unfortunately Illustrator's path averaging collapses my example into a single point, likely because it has both horizontal and vertical aspects.


texts: Web font that supports some basic music symbols

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I am working on a web page that displays some music note names such as "B", "Bb" (B flat), or C# (C sharp). For a better readability I would prefer to display the correct flat and sharp symbols.

It seems that the standard sans-serif fonts such as Arial or Helvetica do not support these symbols, which leads me to the conclusion that I need to find a web font that looks similar to the widespread sans-serifs (Arial, Helvetica) and in addition has these two symbols.

Q1: Do you know of any such web font?

Q2: Or was I completely mistaken and the Arial and Helvetica actually do support musical notation symbols, and they happen to be in the same position for both of these fonts?


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Grid systems are one of the most useful tools in graphic design. They can range from a simple baseline grid and margins to a complicated modular system. Some examples:

I'm interested in how to decide on a grid system to use.

Do I need 3 columns, 7 columns, 12 columns, how do I know?

The baseline grid obviously has to relate to the font sizes used, so do I choose font sizes first then work out a baseline from there and work out margins, gutters and columns from that, or do I work out font sizes and baseline from the grid?

Where do I start?

Note: I'm specifically interested in print design. Grids in web design have a lot more technical limitations so lets stick to print.


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There is the Saturn ring texture

how can I properly add this texture on the ring (thin tube) in C4D?


texts: How to handle complex User Interfaces in Photoshop Layer Comps?

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TL;DR  - How does one create a complex User Interface in Photoshop in a way that Photoshop doesn't slow down to a crawl?

I create a lot of complex User Interface scenarios with Photoshop and routinely get to 10-20 layer comps and hundreds (thousands) of layers.

For example:

Layer Comp 1 has a list of items with checkboxes. There is a filter
across the top (Aging Accounts that are less than 30 days old, more
than 30 but less than 60 ...). There are drop-downs which lets users add x to y;
merge x; delete x; and icons which display different information
depending upon the above mentioned filter.
Layer Comp 2 has a drill-down (user selected on one of the items and
gets a sub-item and a new set of checkboxes are displayed.
Layer Comp 3. User selects drill-down line (checkbox selected) and goes to drop-down.      (Drop-down revealed and selection highlighted)
Layer Comp 4: Pop-up is displayed allowing user to ....

By the time you go through several scenarios you have dozens of comps; and dozens of variations.

I use smart objects as much as possible; and organize, group, and label my layers meticulously so finding items is simple. However Photoshop is slowing down tremendously.

My, not so good, solution is to create as many different .psds as is logical. But sometimes (too often) it makes "logical","organizational" sense to keep things in one file.

I hesitate flattening layer groups as I update them often as the requirements change (or more accurately stated they become more and more precise).

What is the best solution to this problem (so many layers that Photoshop slows down)?


texts: I'm trying to make a sequential numbering system where if I enter a number in one text layer, the other numbers will add by +1 date sequentially to all the other boxes. Am I able to do this in Photoshop, Indesign or in Illustrator?


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How would you draw a curve/path and make a gradient face the direction of the path? Let me show you what I mean: https://prnt.sc/1036pgl
If that isn't clear, I want that path to have a gradient moving dynamically along each of those directions along the path. It would look like a cleaner, procedural version of this: https://prnt.sc/1036suz
I realize this is probably a longshot, but if anybody would know how to do this it's you guys.


texts: How do you trace a raster image and make paths in Sketch?

texts: How do you turn a raster image into vector paths in Sketch?


texts: Where can I find assets and the terms of use for creating buttons/icons with various social network logos?

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Sharing icons/buttons are a big thing these days:

 (From here)

Are all/most of the icons you see around the web created without explicit permission?
If there is permission granted for the logo, where can I find the terms of use for the popular sites? (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Dribbble, Vimeo, etc.)
Is there any resource for vector graphic assets for the common logos? (the logo itself, preferably a one-color vector shape)


texts: How to create an outlined drawing of a map or easily turn a Google Maps screenshot into one?

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I could probably figure out how to do one, but I have to do like, 30 of these and I want to learn how to make it quick and painless. My first thought was using Live Trace in Illustrator, but I'm not terribly good at that yet.

Essentially I want streets to be in black (and at similar relative thickness) and the rest of the map to be white.

A good answer can simply be a link to a tutorial that I haven't been able to find via a Google search (if the tutorial gives me the right information).

I'm quite sure I'm leaving out some information you need to know, so please ask for clarification in comments. Preferred software is either Photoshop or Illustrator CS6.

How can I create a stylised, outlined map?


texts: What is typographically right: 100€ or 100 €?

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I'm wondering if there is supposed to be a white space between the number and the € sign.

100€ or 100 €


texts: How would I create this extrusion in Illustrator?

texts: It's a warp effect with a 3d letter depth/extrusion. I've tried the 3d extrusion effect, but it's not the right perspective. Is there a trick to get the extruded 'infinity' text behind the letters?


texts: How to repeat text formatting settings in Illustrator

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I have a bunch of text point objects and I'd like to select a subset of them and change their font size (for example). They might be in different groups so I can't select them all at once, so I select a few change the font size, then I select a few more, and change the font size manually again.

I'm wondering if there is a repeat last action button. I know about Cmd+D but it doesn't work for applying text styles.


texts: How do I make a shape not show outside its stroke in Illustrator

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As said in the title I need to know how to make it so a shape does not show outside its stroke in Illustrator.

As you can see in the image. The black shape, which is a circle, is going outside of its stroke. How can I make it so it does not do that?


texts: How can I get a similar "handmade feel" stroke in Illustrator?

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Hi ! How can I get this shape with Illustrator ? ( I refer to the house shape, both inner and outer shape).

I tried to use the Pencil tool, then I edited the stroke using "Roughen", but the result is not what I expected. The shape, the feel, the stroke that you can see on the pic is really what I would love. Should I use a tablet instead of the mouse?


texts: Convert a pen signature like a marker or fountain pen using the tools on line

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Starting from this old question, How to convert a signature from JPG to vector strokes?, or other similar, without to have installed anything on my notebook, is there the possibility to trasform my signature written with a ballpoint pen and make it as if I use a marker or fountain pen?
Here there is a crop of my signature:

I hope not to disturb you.
I use only Paint and Microsoft Picture Manager of Office and I hope that exist a free online tool without registration that can do this.


texts: Illustrator export flatten design layers when export to PSD

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Tried two Illustrator versions, 2018 and 2020.
The issue is, when I export as PSD it exports without layers as flat image.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ufh9mebCLki1VDJ7RNmp15-pur3jHMpD?usp=sharing
Tried to google, found some workarounds, but all of them not working.
Used Ungroup all and Release all layers options but still no luck.
Also tried to do single files for each artboard, example attached 1.ai file is still not working, flatten when exported.


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I need an image that will be printed with the proportions 160x230cm.
I have made my artboard size 160x230cm(I am starting to think this wasn't a good idea because it is too big and everything is really slow).
To what size do I resize the artboard and how can I export the image so it won't lose quality when printing 160x230cm? How big does it have to be? What ppi do I use?


texts: How to save multiple smart objects as separate image files in a single click?

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I downloaded a psd file from some website. In that , it had various smart object layers in a single image. When i hit save, these smart object layers are saved as separate image files.

I don't know whether you understand my question or not. If you didn't, then see the image below (for example)

Consider the above image, these four colors are four separate smart object layers. When i hit save, each layer will be saved as separate files. Like below !

  So how can i do this....?


texts: Critique: Which of these logos best suits a custom rap song website?

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Rappacy is a company that makes custom Rap songs to their clients, so the main principles on the logo would be:

SOUND:  Represented by the headphones and the microphone

CREATION: Represented by the “sound wave” that intentionally resembles an ECG wave or “heartbeat” to get the idea of the birth of a new song

ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE/CUSTOM: The part of “accessible to everyone” can be represented by the circle which can be interpreted as a globe/Earth (anyone can have a rap song). On the other hand, the part of “custom” can be represented by the shape of an head, which represents the fact that any person can have his own song

SIMPLICITY: We want the logo to be as simple as possible, but we want also to represent the principles stated above

Based on these four main principles, we have made this short selection of 4 logos:

We would love to know your feedback regarding these 4 samples we've made taking in account the 4 principles.

Regarding the feedback we would like to know which one you liked the most, which one you disliked the most or any suitable adjustment we should make. To sum up, any feedback is welcome.


texts: Zooming in with dragging and making an area

texts: I'm watching a guide on Youtube about Illustrator and they seems to select an area and zoom in there, but if I do that I select an object. Also, he uses the 2015 CC version, meanwhile I'm using the 2018 CC one.


texts: Switching colours of complex illustration

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I have a photoshop illustration in mid-century modern style - essentially there are only 3-4 global colours, but they're in multiple layers with grouping and sub-groupings.  I want to be able to try out different colours, but need to keep the current structure as the groups correspond to elements that I'll need to animate at a later point.

Ideally I'd like to have them as smart-objects, and have the 2-3 main colours exposed as sort of properties of the smart object.  Is something like this possible?  I'm happy even if someone just provides links to a good tutorial!


texts: What do you call (S×V) in the HSV color model?

texts: What do you call the quality of a color being “vivid,” or in other words, the quality of a hue being distinct and recognizable? Mathematically speaking, what do you call (S×V) in the HSV color model?


texts: I was playing with curves and i've set the black, white and grey point and now every time i use Auto Color Correction it's calculating using those colors, how do i reset those points?


texts: Illustrator -- multiple overlapping lines for laser

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My team designed a building in Archicad, then exported a view as a pdf and imported it into Illustrator to then laser it onto cardboard and build our model.

We have run into the following problem: after having imported the file into Illustrator, we found that all of the lines in the view are layered over one another three times, meaning to avoid the laser engraving each line three times, we have to delete two of the three. Of course, we can do this manually, but it's taking a massive amount of time. Is there a way to delete two of these line layers with just a few clicks?

MacOS, Mojave, 14.10, Illustrator CC 2019, ArchiCAD 22


texts: Is there a way to set PNG as default output in 'Save for web'?

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For 80% of the time I want my Photoshop images "saved for web" to be of the file type png-24. I know it is possible to set it as default, for I did it once before, but I don't know how to do this.

Right now it always prompts to save as JPEG.


texts: Photoshop adding background layer to my cut and paste

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When I cut and paste part of an image to a new file I am getting a back ground layer that is slightly larger than the size of the image.

How do I prevent Photoshop adding a background layer or at least make it the same size as the image dimension.


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I'm pretty new to image editing. I want to be able to batch oilify a number of images. However, I can't find a GUI option in GIMP to do this.

In the filters menu there is a Batch process.. option, but this only allows for basic operations such as resizing, cropping, and so on.

Is there a way I can do a batch process from within a GUI? If this is not possible, is there some command line, or script method I could use?


texts: How to remove low-alpha pixels in photoshop

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Assume that I have a png image of size 32x32(1024 pixels). It consists of x pixels with alpha > 60% and (1024-x) pixel with alpha < 25%. Could you please tell me how to remove all low-alpha( alpha < 25% ) pixel in image?

Is there anything like alpha range - color range in photoshop?


texts: Gradient tool in photoshop is not working on layer masks

texts: I create posters for boxing events. Usually these posters involve a background image with multiple pictures of fighters in the foreground. In the past, it has been easy for me to add a picture of a fighter and then remove the fighter from the background using "select and mask". This makes fighters look like he/she is on background. Then in the layer mask of the fighter I add a gradient from the bottom to top of the fighter image to blend them in. However, this Spring I had to re-install Photoshop on my computer and ever since, the gradient tool has not been working like before. Now when I apply the same steps as above, the gradient tool always pulls in the old background of the original fighter image - like I never did "select and mask" in the first place. I have no idea why this is now occurring and can't get the old functionality back. Please help!


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I want to create a kind of vertigo effect in maya.
However if I key frame the first and last frame (distance and focal length) it's most of the time too far to one end.

I assume that the two are not linear and that I have to add some kind of formula to keep the values together.

There would be too many keyframes for it to be a comfortable option.

Is there a relationship between these two numbers that I can input somewhere in my animation?

Or are there curves that I could adjust in some way?

How could I do that?

My problem is the following:
When I make a keyframes on the first and the last frame , the frame in the middle has a a far to large angle of view than it should be.

How can I tell Maya to calculate the in-between correctly?

On the left how it should be and on the right how it is.

The vertigo effect is also known as the dolly zoom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom


texts: I designed a poster for non profit, but I don't have license for the fonts. Is it ok?

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I went to a design school but they never told me to buy any fonts/typefaces. I think the fonts/typefaces were actually given to the students to use for projects. I probably have more than 80+ different type of fonts to use in my computer.

I recently did a poster for a non-profit, with the fonts/typefaces that were given to me from school. I didn't charge them anything.

My question are:

Is it legal for me to do that since I don't have license for those font/typeface? (Univers, Rockwell, Berkeley)
If the not profit have the ability to print unlimited, do they need to pay for the font?
How do i find out if the font/typeface is free to use anywhere?


texts: What should be size of Document in Adobe Illustrator?

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I have downloaded Adobe Illustrator 2017. It has different options for Mobile, Web, Print, File Video, Art Illustration.

I have to redraw a logo in illustrator which I have already designed in Adobe Photoshop. Actually, customer wants generic high resolution image which he can use for printing business cards, printing on portfolio, posted on web or mobile devices and then to be printed on Board (Bill Board outside his Showroom). I want to know what should be the exact option and size (Height, Width, Bleed) of document so that all his needs can be catered in one image without loosing quality in resizing. A bigger image will be resized in smaller image for printing on business cards and smaller image will need to resized in larger image to be printing on Board.

Currently, Adobe Photoshop designed logo (.png) can only be used on website. The logo I designed in Adobe Photoshop is of (340 pixel * 340 Pixel) 72 Resolution and RGB Document. I have also attached the already designed logo which I should redraw in Adobe Illustrator.


texts: Why does a brush with 50% opacity and 100% flow take 8 individual strokes to reach 100% opacity?

texts: I have a simple round brush with 100% hardness, 50% opacity and 100% flow. All other brush settings are disabled (brush dynamics, transfer, etc). Since it has 50% opacity, I would expect 2 brush strokes to equal 100% (50 + 50) opacity. However, it takes me about 8 brush strokes to reach the same level of opacity that a single brush stroke on a 100% opacity brush makes. What kind of rules does Photoshop use when adding the opacity of overlapping brush strokes? I'm using Photoshop CC.


texts: making lecture notes for students with hand drawings and handwritten text

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I am a teacher and I have been making lecture notes for students with sketches and hand written notes all in Sketchbook with my Wacom Intuos Pro. It was working really well but I started loosing work because Sketchbook would crop large section of my notes after I had pushed them off screen to "bring up" more blank area.

It seemed like it was possibly a bug so I switched to Photoshop since I have access to it. I'm not an artist and I know nothing about Photoshop. Does anybody use Photoshop for this kind of a thing?

Do you know of any good Youtube videos or courses on how to master basic pencil sketching, writing words with the pencil, highlighting, changing colors of text, making geometric shapes etc.?

Is there an "obvious" software I should be using that isn't Photoshop? I don't mind the learning curve if there is a good resources (I just can't go buy a 500 page book on editing art etc.).

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!!!


texts: When/how to stop brainstorming new ideas and move on when there is no clear frontrunner?

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I'm currently working on naming a product, and I have a list of names. Some are okay, some aren't, but I know at some point I have to close the list, pick a couple that sound good, and present them to the team members as the available choices for the next round.

I've experienced this sort of thing with logo designs as well in particular, but this is an issue that can happen with pretty much anything we design.

Sometimes you create something and you know it's perfect, or great enough to present to the client and move on with. But how do you move on when that's not the case?


texts: Apply multiple gradient colours in one image

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I'm trying to apply multiple colours in a single photography.

The effect that i want is like this one:

I've been playing with standard gradients, big brushes, opacities and saturations, but none of them give me this great colours overlayed to the image.

Does somebody know any tutorial to do it?
Thanks in advance.


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Not sure if this is the right place as I'm new to Stack Exchange but I was messing around with a discord bot that had a Minecraft texture tiling feature and I got 2 transparent jpeg files from it.
I'm just wondering how this is possible


texts: What is the monospace font used in Postman? (screenshot attached)

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What is the font that is in this screenshot?

I've tried using font-identifying tools with no luck.

Thanks!


texts: Create a smooth connection (blend) between open paths in Illustrator

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I'm trying to connect two open paths with a perfectly smooth curve. It is an easy task in CAD/3D software, But I can't figure out a way to accomplish that in Illustrator.

The top part of the image is what I'm trying to do (I don't expect Illustrator to handle curve continuity, just to make it smooth is enough).
When I use the Pen tool to extend one end of a path by dragging from anchor point, it always causes the original path to slightly change shape. (see the bottom part of the image). I've tried many things: connected path with a straight line and used reshape tool, created helper geometry, etc. to no avail.

So i'm asking for help. Of course I can export paths from Illustrator to Rhino and back, but there has to be another way.


texts: How to resize an object in photoshop after adding pantone color to a part of that object?

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So I made a selection of the petals, created an alfa channel and added a pantone color to them.

When I try to resize the whole thing, like in the picture, the selection stays in place. And I can't select that channel with cmyk channels together.

Is there a way I can resize the whole object after adding a color?


texts: Illustrator CC live corners not all corners available to curve?

texts: This dot that appears at anchor points and you can drag to curve / arc the corner. This tool is useful but I want to know how to make it happen in the corners where it doesn't automatically appear?


texts: How to make a shape that blurs the image behind it in illustrator?

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Im still familiarizing with illustrator here and I have an image on the canvas. I need to make an image (drawn using paths/pen tool) that ideally wherever I put it it blurs out the image behind it.

I am trying to achieve the effect that I have the image that is sharp everywhere EXCEPT for that one shape - that shape is the blurred version of the part of the image underneath it, similar to apple's alerts on the iPhone.

Think of that box being the blurred version of the red image:

I know how to blur the ENTIRE image with transform, but how can I blur JUST where a certain shape is?


texts: How do I make a landscape cover in ibooks Author?

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I'd like to change the cover in an iBooks Author book from being a portrait to landscape. The art has already been created to be the same as a page spread and it doesn't work to cut it in half. Wondering if I need to use another software like InDesign but Ibooks seems to be much easier.

It seems like even the landscape templates have a portrait cover.


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Here are some types that i can think of on top of my head:

Typography.
Illustration.
Initials.
Abstract.
Symbol/Iconic.
3dish
flat/simplified
hand drawn
animal
...what more..

I have always thought of creating a list with all categories..as there are some categories i don't excel at, like illustrations, so i want to make sure and be mindful of that when looking for best approach to a logo.

Also it serves as quick guide in coming up with very unique ideas and assessing the right direction.


texts: How to split or cut image object in Adobe Illustrator?

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How to split or cut raster image object that was placed in Adobe Illustrator?

The Knife Tool doesn't work on raster images.


texts: If i create a canvas/new file for a digital painting, would it contain metadata or info that can be tracked down to me?

texts: This is somewhat my concern. I have  surface scratched knowledge or at least i have heard how a photograph can contain metadata that has info of whereabout the file was taken etc. So i was wondering if the same is applied to when creating a new file for digital painting.


texts: Branding for various communications in the same company

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I have a question on Branding. My company has different communication platforms from e-newsletters to magazines. We have various names like Talent Times magazine, Innovate e-newsletter, Digest e-newsletter, Impact brochure. Each name has an identity because it caters to different target audiences.

How do I make sure there is a consistent branding throughout? Must I use the same font for every one of them or use the same primary colors?


texts: How to align objects relative to a circle in Inkscape?

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I need to draw a circle divided into n sectors. The sectors can be equally sized, for example, 360°/n.

My solution is based on the manual division only. I have drawn a circle and a sector; then the sector was copy-pasted n times and rotated manually:

Question: Is it possible to align the replicated sectors, for example, in a parametric coordinate system?


texts: Edit clip path nodes not showing up on Windows

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I am running Inkscape 0.92 on Windows 10.

I have clipped a portion out of a picture and "Show clipping path(s) of selected object(s)" is also enabled as per this similar question. However I do not see any nodes to edit the clip path. Below is my screenshot. As can be seen, no nodes are visible to edit the clip path. Am I hitting some bug? I saw the same behaviour on my Ubuntu 18 machine running same version of Inkscape.


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I have built a catalog in in-design and the prices, description and item numbers are in Excel. We have imported the data by linking the excel sheet to  tables.

Here is the issue. My reps want to change the pricing for each of these items themselves and be able to save it out as a PDF. My reps don't have Indesign nor the skillset to use the program.

Is there an easy way for them to import all their adjusted prices into a PDF somehow? Like a data merge only using a pdf and excel? Maybe there is another approach or another program that can do this because each rep would have different prices and they will not want to type in each price for over a 100 page catalog with approx. 5000 items.


texts: Iterating between pastel colors with a constant perceived luminance?

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For my app, I'd like to create a horizontal, hue-only color slider for picking pastel colors:

At the moment, I do this by simply using the HSB color model and keeping my S and B constant. However, according to some of the site answers I've been reading (as well as my own experience), simply modifying the hue will not generate colors that are percieved to be equally bright. Unfortunately, linearly iterating on a formula like l = .299 r + .587 g + .114 b by hue is not as simple.

Am I correct in understanding the limitations of HSB in regards to percieved luminance?
Is there a good way to iterate between pastel colors (linearly from R to V) with a constant perceived luminance?


texts: Cut same shape out several times in photoshop image

texts: How do I define a rectangle and then cut the same size several places on an image?


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Imagine we have drawn a 1-point perspective cube. If we move this cube to the left or right from the station point, does this mean our cube doesn’t rotate, but it only moves left or right and our eyes will move to the left or right to view it?

Now let say we have a 2-point perspective cube. How would we move this left or right from the station point?

And how would you rotate the 2-point perspective cube?

I hope you can understand what I’m trying to explain. As I really want to be able to understand perspective.


texts: Where to find people interested in collaborative work between designers and programmers

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What is a good place to find people and make a team to finish projects and perhaps make a profit?

I feel there is this huge disconnection between programmers and designers, and normally there is someone else who acts as a bridge between them. However, both designers and coders have ideas of their own that maybe they can't see completed cause they lack the complete skill set for that task, or the money to hire someone.


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I'm a software developer and am working on a personal project (website + iphone/ipad app). I need simple illustrations for these to fill in the blanks until the project gets "some" paying customers or I find investors. With more money I can hire some graphic design folks to do a great job. As for now, I'm aware of the big brand tools out there (Photoshop, Illustrator) but am looking for an illustration tool for beginners. I've used "Paper" app by FiftyThree Inc. and was able to create something fairly decent in just a few minutes. I'm looking for an application that will do this on my computer, that has more features than Paper, but without the learning curve of Photoshop or Illustrator.

Summary question: What are some great beginner illustration tools (OS agnostic)?

Thank you


texts: Someone wants me to make a 4x6 outdoor banner. How would I do this in photoshop?

texts: I've read that Illustrator is probably the best way to go, but I don't have that. Any advice on producing this in photoshop?


texts: Graphic appears blurry in Chrome and oversharpened in Firefox

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I exported the images on Adobe XD. For some reason the graphics on my page appear blurry in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and oversharpened in Firefox. Also in Google Chrome when I go inside the inspector the images appear correctly, but when I leave it and refresh the page they appear blurry again.

When I open the graphics in Photoshop they show up correctly, not oversharpened or blurred.

Here is the page:
http://blulog.eu/iosapp/


texts: Color Profile Proof - Deep Blacks with simulated paper color?

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I am not entirely new to graphics design in general, but this is the first time I will send my work off to a professional printing business working with the following details:

FOGRA39 (ISO Coated v2)
Ink coverage limits of 300% (theoritical limit 330%)

Enabling color proofing in Adobe InDesign with simulated paper color on the mentioned profile, the deepest black I can achieve is this black: 78,68,58,94, giving me a coverage of 298%. However, my color proofing (softproof) looks very "flat", more like a medium grey color.

My monitor is not specifically for graphic design, so how do I check whether my final print (from the offset printers) will look?

Is it possible that paper color simulation is inaccurate, and the softproof is lighter than the actual print?


texts: What is the type of these coarse drawings?

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Disclaimer: This question might not be suitable for this site, I am not sure beforehand.

Having seen this sketch on today's Google Doodle, I remembered that I have an innate crush for them - those having little details on facial expressions, and on shapes/body parts yet still expressive enough. They look like rough sketches but I hesitate to classify them as such. I wonder if you have any ideas on the naming of such drawings. What are they called?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: To be more illustrative I am adding the following sketches, which I assume similar to Google Doodle in terms of drawing and details. Let me know If I am wrong about this similarity.


texts: Does the eyedropper in Photoshop CS5 behave differently than in CS6?

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I'm having this weird issue where I received PSDs to work on, and I'm on a Mac if that has anything to do with it, and I've eye-dropped colors here and there from the darkest pixel whenever the designers haven't used a hex value and opted for opacity instead since I need the hex for web development.

Now these same PSDs on another person's computer, a PC, and using CS6 whereas I'm using CS5, is eye-dropping the same exact things I am - and is getting a totally different hex value.

I can't make sense of it - the person suggested maybe the strength of their back-light on their monitor might affect it, but that can't be it... right? How do I know which hex values are correct?


texts: Vertically align and match angle of a shape to a line

texts: I'm trying to add a grouped pair of rectangles to many different radially ordered lines. Each line has a slightly different angle. I'm trying to have the center of the gray rectangle vertically aligned and matching the angle of the line. Is there a way to do this without painstakingly trying to match the black line's angle with the grouped rectangles by eye? I'm doing this for 728 lines arranged in a circle for a scientific figure.


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What would be the average value of font height vs font width?

If we consider common fonts, do they tend to follow a certain ratio for the height vs the width of each glyph? Is there a standard value or a reasonable average?

Or is there no pattern to this?


texts: Illustrator - Delete points but keep curves

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I am used to editing vector graphics in FontLab, which allows you to simplify vectors like this:

The behavior I'm used to

  If I delete a point from a curve, the program will roughly maintain the original shape by adjusting the handles of neighbouring points to compensate. Result: A curve that looks roughly like the original.

However, in Illustrator, the default behavior seems to be different, and it drives me a little bonkers—not quite because I'm used to the behavior above, but because in 90% of cases it's actually better for my particular use case and illustration style.

The behavior in Illustrator (it seems)

  If I delete a point from a curve, the result is a straight line between the original points. If I want to recreate the original shape, I have to do some combination of joining points and adding/adjust handles.

Is there something I could be doing differently to get the behavior I'm used to? I would love for it to be as straightforward/keyboard-friendly as I'm used to Fontlab, without having to click a bunch or manually add or adjust handles. For all I know I'm using the wrong tool or action; though I'm not new to Illustrator, I haven't used it much to directly edit curves before.


texts: Combining angled shapes in Photoshop CS6 causes antialiasing on all

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When I combine two shapes where at least one has a non-right angle or curve, both shapes become anti-aliased.  This appears to be some new to CS6.  Are there any ways to get around this?  The photo below shows two sets of combined shapes, one with a 45 degree angle which causes the blurring and one with right angles which does not blur.!

Example of Blurring


texts: What is the difference between a designer and an artist?

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I've noticed that I often use the words "artist" and "designer" in the same context. It seems to me that every designer can be an artist, but not every artist is a designer.

I wasn't sure though, so I had a look at the definition of design, by Google:

  de·sign

  noun

  a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or
  made.

  synonyms: plan, blueprint, drawing, sketch, outline, map, plot, diagram, draft, representation, scheme, model

  the art or action of conceiving of and producing a plan or drawing.

  synonyms: pattern, motif, device

  purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or material object.

  synonyms: intention, aim, purpose, plan, intent, objective, object, goal, end, target

Based on that definition, a designer could be the creator of many things. So in that way, it seems every artist might be a designer.

So, are the two interchangeable? If not, what is the difference?

Edit: Please support your answer via citation or definition so that your answer might be marked correct, rather than being a matter of opinion.


texts: How to make a "wavy" path in Illustrator

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I have an array of lines that each have a stroke:

Now I want each individual line to have a "wavy" effect like this:

How would go about something like this? - I've had no luck with the Warp > Wave effect.


texts: How can I bucket fill or path fill an area with a tiling texture?

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I already have a tiling texture ready in GIMP to use, do I have to add a pattern to the the right folder in order to do this? Or can I just select the texture? I noticed that the image I want to tile already shows automatically in the brushes menu, but not the patterns.
Edit: Actually the copied clipboard image is shown in the brushes automatically.


texts: Photoshop - Video Timeline Timecode units confusion

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When a Video Timeline is created in Photoshop, there are 2 options for viewing time units:

a Frame Number mode (which is pretty self-explanatory), and
the Timecode mode, which I don't understand.

There are 2 kinds of suffixes there : -f and -s, at first, I thought that the -s suffix is  meant to mark seconds, but it's not the case. The -s suffixes appear only when I open a video file like .avi in Photoshop but the -s units are much longer than 1 second, the -f ones appear when I create a Timeline within a standard Ps document.
What's the difference between them, and generally what's the concept behind such an unintuitive time units for video in Photoshop?
Edit: A screenshot with -s units:

Eidt2: There are -m suffixes as well (movie duration was about 1h 30 mins, so the suffixes mean probably seconds and minutes, taking into account bigger units in front)


texts: Resizing line icon in Sketch App leads to lines disappearing at a smaller size

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I'm having a problem with a line icon symbol losing detail on resize.

I have a line icon that was created in illustrator that I copied over to Sketch. I made this line icon a symbol following the steps I have used in the past. Then when I apply this symbol to a page and try to resize it the line detail inside the icon disappears at a smaller size.

I think it has something to do with how it was created in Adobe Illustrator and maybe related to the pixel grid? The only solution I can figure out is recreating it in Sketch from scratch. I have a lot of icons to import in and I don't want to spend the time painstakingly re-creating each one. But this looks like the only option right now.

Anyone else run into this issue and found a work around?


texts: How to fix disproportional scaling across multiple images at the same time in InDesign?

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In InDesign CS6, you have to directly select an image and scale up or down after clicking the "constrain proportions" chain-link button in order to revert the proportions back to normal.  When selecting multiple images at the same time, this trick does not work.  To save time, I'd like to fix multiple disproportional images all at once.  Could this be done by writing a script?  Is there an easier way?

Thanks!
-JD


texts: Keyboard shortcut for making text bold in Indesign CC

texts: I know the shortcut ⌘⇧b works only if you have the bold variant of the font in question installed. For me, it works smoothly for Gill Sans. But elsewhere, where I'm using Adobe Garamond Pro, it's not working. I am assuming I should have the bold variant installed since I can do the boldface using the dropdown type option as in the screenshot below. What gives?


texts: How to ensure the whole path has same width

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I'm trying to make a old style font for Oriya language from early 20th century prints which have been scanned. I need this font to train tesseract for OCR-ing old books.

My illustrator skills are practically nil. I just learned how to use pen tool from youtube. I cropped one letter from a scan and traced it manually to get a rough outline of a letter. The whole letter is supposed to have uniform stroke thickness. How can I ensure that? Width tool? Any good comprehensive guides for tracing such letters are welcome too.

Btw say I have a set of letters and I want to generate condensed tall forms. How can I transform the existing outlines in X axis only (to get tall condensed letters) but without making the horizontal strokes of a letter excessively thin?


texts: What sort of program is Google using to make these drawings?

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This is the new app of Google for the world-cup:

  https://www.google.com/trends/worldcup

What program is Google using to design these drawings? Or what's the name of that type of design so I can try to learn it?


texts: I am trying to set a solid ( non 4 colour ) black in Photoshop. I am able to do this successfully; however if for instance I create a shape or a piece of text using my 100%K black all is well until I go back in to check the fill colour and then into the colour picker ... and without touching anything in there the colour has changed back into a 4 colour black. I cant see any way to make it stay as 0 0 0 100. I have been using this video as a reference and I can see this is is definitely possible, but I can't see what I am doing wrong. Is there some setting I'm unaware of. I'm using CS6.


texts: How to get tiny lines to swarm together into a circular pattern?

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Preferably using Adobe Animate or Illustrator.

Image taken from: https://material.io/guidelines/material-design/introduction.html


texts: Should we increase saturation and brightness on CMYK colors?

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I already heard that when we're gonna pick a correspondent CMYK color from a RGB one, it's "recommended" increasing saturation and brightness in order to get a better printing result, because every color when printed on uncoated paper (regardless pantone), they "become" darker and less saturated.

I'd like to know from you if that's true. I already saw that proof when I downloaded a visual identity manual from a bank here in Brazil and I could notice that their CMYK choice is brighter and has a little bit more of saturation. Here are those colors just to give you an example of what I'm talking about:

Their RGB is 204, 9, 47. Their CMYK is 0, 100, 75, 4.

UPDATE: the print shop contacted me and they said me to proof colors using FOGRA39. That generated a BIG difference in comparison with default US Web Coated Swop v2.


texts: How to make lightning effect on photoshop

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I was wondering on how to make the following lightning around that sprite.
I've tried a thin pencil and outer glow but it just doesn't have that effect.

Below are the things I am talking about:

There are 4 pictures above with different lightning styles, it'd be great if someone can tell me how to add it on.

I assume it's just a pencil brush or something.


texts: In indesign 5, I have created several A4 pages after another. However the ruler stretches over the three pages, see picture below, and I would rather see them "restarting" at every page, i.e. ever page should have its own ruler. Is this possible?


texts: How does the concept of "fresh pair of eyes" work in graphic design? Can it be expedited somehow?

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In almost all my design/illustration making process, when I start it and complete the first draft and review it later, maybe after few hours, there's room for improvement. I can even find silly mistakes in it. Which I can't notice or can't think about improving when I was working on it.
Similarly, if I further leave it for 2-3 days, there's still room for some improvement and silly mistake fixing. And sometimes, I can evaluate it to the extent that I find it not worth finalizing and why it wouldn't work and I work on a new concept.
So when I finalize it, after say 6-7 days, I'm quite satisfied with it and I publish it. I keep checking from time to time. And I like it.
Months later, I find that this thing could be improved, I made a mistake here. Why couldn't I notice it at that time.
So you know, this keeps going on. But yes, room for improvement keeps decreasing with time, in most cases.
I understand that you might definitely do a design better after a longer period of time because you have more experience till then. I understand often we find some of designs a bit bad after few years because we learn new things. But still what I'm discussing is more about my ignorant eyes.
I just feel if I can make it fast, I can think/design/illustrate better in comparatively less time.
So how does it work and what are some ways to expedite (for example alternative ways if any) it somehow?


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In InDesign, I know that I can break a text box into columns pretty easily by selecting it and playing with these options:

I also know that I can set up the margins and columns and then use linked text boxes to do columns:

However, neither of these do what I want to do, and I haven't really found a really elegant solution, so I thought I'd ask here.

I have one-column text box, but I want to do some columns, like this:

This is easy to do in Word - you select the text you want to reflow, go to Page Layout > Columns, pick a number, and you're more or less set. But is there a way to do the same thing in InDesign? I've done things like tabbing and separate text boxes, but these are not very elegant solutions.


texts: How to draw the perpendiculars from the incentre in Inkscape?

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I have a triangle ABC. I know how to draw and find the incentre O (Extensions → Render → Draw from triangle → Incentre).

I need to draw the three perpendiculars KO, LO, MO from the incentre O to sides of the triangle and then extend they outside of sides (blue lines on figure):

Question. Could you please give me an idea how to draw the three perpendiculars KO, LO, MO from the incentre O? Is there a build-in function or an extension?


texts: Creating right canvas size for a project

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I have a project wherein I need to create a banner with a size of 205cm x 445cm. When creating a canvas for this size do I need to convert it in inches first then set the resolution to 300 pixels/inch or is it okay to just convert it directly to pixels?

When converted to inches:

455cm = 175.197 inches
205cm = 80.7087 inches

When I view the image size of this canvas I get 52559 pixels width and 24213 pixels height.

When coverted directly to pixels

205cm = 7748 pixels
445 = 16818 pixels

What canvas size do I follow when creating project like this?


texts: Scribus Jpegs not appearing on first insertion

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Hi I'm new to Scribus but have been working through my first document well. However this evening have hit a problem...

I  can insert an image frame, select a jpeg image and frequently it's just not appearing.

Some images are appearing but then some will not. There seems to be no reason why some work and some don't.

Then preview mode a number of Jpegs which were looking perfect suddenly disappear.

These are files which have been scanned and saved as Jpegs. Actual photograph Jpegs are inserting fine.

Has anyone any ideas about what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks very much!

Thanks so much for the reply @a.l.e
I've checked the image scaling but that isn't the problem.

The printer company I'm going to use scanned in all of the images I'm having a probem with.

One was a photo. It's gone in fine. (Exported to PDF no issues. I checked).
That was 3.31mb
Width 3518, Height 5210
Horizontal Resolution 72dpi
Vertical Resolution 72 dpi
Bit Depth 24

One was a Newpaper article 12.7mb
Width 5940, Height 8652
Horzontal Resolution 72dpi
Vertical Resolution 72 dpi
Bit Depth 24

Many were scanned handdrawn A4 pages ranging from 2.37 - to over 6mb
They were all around Width 4852 Height 7020
Horizontal and Vertical resolutions are blank
Bit Depth 24

Do you have ideas please?

(Edit) Just been doing some more work. Most of the images are appearing on screen now. There are about 6 missing (now with a big red X on most of them). However, when I try and export this draft to PDF, the very first previously questionable image comes up as missing and so the export stops then!


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My question:

Can I create a magazine exclusively using Photoshop?

My understanding:

It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high resolution.

Other software:

InDesign is pretty alien to me though I've read that it's better for managing large amounts of text.

Request for additional context:

Any links to resources on this manner would be appreciated (e.g. good websites for learning/templates).


texts: How to covert and save the size of a 512x512 sticker image into 100 KB in adobe Photoshop?

texts: When I am going to save the 512x512 sticker icon in photoshop. It shows the 215 KB size of an image which is more than 100 KB. I want the 512x512px size png icon in 100 KB. How is it possible?


texts: Best practices for combining header/body typeface WITH a brand/corporate ID existing typeface?

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I have recently become aware of a fundamental mistake I had been making; I have been matching a company's identity's typeface and using it for the headers of my websites, which in hindsight really detracts from the overall feel and merges their brand in with the rest of the site.

I have now had to start thinking about the shock-horror of having the company's 1/2 brand typefaces and selecting 1/2 typefaces for website headings/body to synchronise with them.

Any tips/advise that could be shared about doing this, when there are 3-4 typefaces to be combined?

Is it a case of just varying the weight and style of 1 particular font that works well with the ID?


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I've got zero experience with drawing in real life and I don't have a tablet. Neither do I know anything about human proportions. But I do know my way around Photoshop & Pixelmator. My goal is to draw people somewhat like:

Are there any good tutorials or books out there which I should check out? I don't want to mess with it until it looks good, I'd rather start bit by bit so I get good at it.

(Image from American Presidents by Peripatetic)


texts: Replacing whiteness with transparency in Photoshop

texts: I want to replace the whiteness in pixels with transparency in the same way as described in this question - i.e. for lighter pixels to be made proportionally as transparent. All solutions found via google are based on magic wand or other methods that do not work for my needs.  I'm sure there used to be a way to do this in earlier version of Photoshop (a simple functions to replace a colour with transparency), but I can't seem to do it in CS6.  Replace Colour has no alpha options..


texts: How this overlay color effect was created?

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I'm struggling with a little problem. I want to recreate some kind of overlay effect, but I cannot get close to it. I hope some pros among you know how this overlay was created...
Note: I have tried all the blending modes of Photoshop but none of them could give me what I wanted. The closest blending mode seems to be the multiply but it actually removes the orange color from the tiles, which I don't want.
Here are the images, if you want to try to recreate the effect on your own:

If you are not able to replicate this effect with Photoshop or something else, do you maybe know, what kind of blending/filter or whatever could have been used to recreate this effect?
I have also tried with a temperature shift, since it looks like the blue is added to all the colors without destroying too much of the original color (we can still guess that the tiles were orange), but It doesn't seems to be the way to go either
Note: I've showed a simpler problem since the second picture contains only one color. I'd like to be able to use any kind of overlay image


texts: How to quickly find all transparent objects in an artwork in Illustrator?

texts: I have document with 15000 paths. I used a lot blending modes, blur effects and gradients with transparent nodes. I need to convert it to EPS. I found most of transparent objects, but over 50 more I'm not able to find by myself. Flattener preview in Transparent objects isn't showing anything. But in All affected objects there are quite a lot of red space. Is there any script or plugin that helps in finding transparent objects?


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Looking for feedback on logo lockups.
Concept: Logo for bar concept in Austin Texas that will appeal to a causal, hipster, young urban crowd. Rooftop patio with yard games such as corn hole, washers, basketball hoop, darts.

What other objects are associated with moonshine, Hooch besides the obvious bottle?
Do you think the "H" With a handle on it is strong enough for a stand alone icon?
What can be done concept "E" to make it a stronger mark? Does it read like an H?

Thanks for your feedback. Greatly Appreciated.


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I am trying to create 2 SVGs that can be morphed from one another in order to use them in an Android app.

However, the requirements are rather strict: The 2 SVGs (from and to) must have the same number of instructions and the same types of nodes in the same order, i.e. if path 1 is move then line, then path 2 needs to be move then line too, otherwise it will crash the app.

Is there any tool to accomplish this?

So far I have only encountered visual tools that do not give any control on how the exported path will look like and nothing allowing two SVGs to match.


texts: Is there a typographical term for vertically-stacked characters?

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I recently discovered this type technique in the July/August edition of Little White Lies Magazine.

Here's an example of the typography:

I wish to know, is there a term for the technique of stacking two characters? This can be seen in the above image in "TRACK" and "RELEASES" with the R/A and E/A respectively?


texts: How do I create different UI screens for multiple phones without recreating every screen in Sketch?

texts: I am building an app using sketch and the client wants all mobile phones including Iphone and android to work. How do you export the screens to work on all Iphones and android.


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I have a 2D logo that I would like to make into a 3D "voxelized" logo. This website shows exactly what I mean...

http://www.drububu.com/miscellaneous/voxelizer/index.html
http://www.drububu.com/animation/lego/index.html

... it turns an ordinary image into a voxelized image...

... however, the downside is that I need to provide a 3D model for it to render. Instead, I'd like to know if there are resources out there to turn a logo into a voxelized 3D version. Are there special Photoshop/Illustrator effects that can assist me in this? Is there software out there that can extrude a 2D vector into a 3D model and voxelize it automatically?

Please let me know if I need to clarify anything.

Thanks,
Hristo


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A client of mine wants to use photos off the internet for her book that will be printed on a small run from 50-200 for clients of hers for a training manual.

How do i cite them properly to cover both of us for copyright?


texts: How do I use an SVG "icon font" within Illustrator?

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Trello uses an icon font and I'd like to figure out how to bring in some of the glyphs into an Illustrator project. Admittedly, this is going a bit backwards (usually you want to import Illustrator art into Glyphs). I'm creating a board mock-up in Illustrator to be used in a video (After Effects).

Here's a direct link to Trello's icon font SVG file: https://d2k1ftgv7pobq7.cloudfront.net/images/fonts/a91174257e439d87d1987b15ad199035/trellicons-regular.svg


texts: What's the font name of the new iOS 7 note app?

texts: What's the name of the font used in the new iOS 7 note app?


texts: How and when should petite caps be used?

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I am the lucky owner of James Felici’s magnum opus The Complete Manual of Typography (second edition). In most documents I write (academic), I prefer using EB Garamond, as it now is a fully-fledged font with support for most symbols, as well as excellent Greek. I recently discovered that in subset 1 of the font, there are petites. I cannot, however, find any instructions on neither when nor how petites should be used in Felici, and I do not have access to any other such books at my library.

There is a somewhat related post about this topic here, but it does not say anything about the usage of petites (only small caps).

Here is the font instruction I use in my regular text when enabling ss01 (in LibreOffice): EB Garamond:liga=1&calt=1&onum=1&pnum=1&ss01
Adobe’s list of OpenType features: ‘Syntax for OpenType features in CSS’

It seems strange that this alternative would exist without having a prescribed suggestion for how to use it. Is it, for instance, better suited to running text (e.g. on the first line after an initial?), whereas small caps should be used for shorter segments (acronyms, abbreviations and the likes)? I just don't have any idea, but expect there to be a typographic consensus as to what is the better usage.


texts: Looking for monospaced, calligraphy-styled font

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The title basically summarizes the question. Is there a font that is both monospaced and looks as if written with a calligraphy broad-pen?

The purpose would be use in a programmer's text-editor (Emacs), mostly for spicing up everyday use. So

Monospace is a strict requirement, and must cover the full ASCII range, i.e.

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./    PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
0123456789:;<=>?    `abcdefghijklmno
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO    pqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Unicode support would be nice, but is optional (editor uses fallback fonts)
Style-wise, simple calligraphy is preferred over intricate but hard-to-read designs (as commonly used for initial caps of book-chapters), as the font would be used as a 8 to 20 px screen font. The main criterion is the angle-dependent line-thickness produced by broad-pens.
It should be a vector-based font; I do not know if a high-resolution bitmap font would work, but a low-resolution bitmap font definitely would not.

I hope it is not offtopic here (due to the intended usecase).


texts: Type identification: Rödelheim Hebrew typeface

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I've been looking for a modern typeface similar to that used in the old Rödelheim siddurim and machzorim (prayerbooks) printed by Heidenheim, Lehrberger, and Kaufmann over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, as there seems to be a relative lack of suitable search tools for Hebrew type, I've come up empty.

An typeface answer would include all letters, typographer's variants, vowel points and cantillation, and ideally be configured to take advantage of OpenType features.

Below is a sample from a 19th century Rödelheim siddur.


texts: Open CS5 document in Indesign CS6 without converting

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I'm working the layout for a school newspaper using InDesign.  However, while the school's computers have CS5, installed, I have CS6 on my home computer.  I can access the files from home because they are stored on the school's afp server.

What I want to do is to open the CS5 document in CS6 without converting it.  I know about .IDML, but I don't want to use it as it'll result in confusion on my teacher's and fellow students' parts and we'd end up with multiple documents that might get edited independently, leading to even more confusion.

To reiterate, I don't want to export the document; I want to save it. And I only want to have one document the whole time.


texts: Read options from tool preset and swatches in ExtendScript for Photoshop

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In ExtendScript for Photoshop is there a way to read the swatches like name-color and the configuration of a text tool preset? I want to detect the color from some rectangles in the image, get the name of the swatch associated to and write a text inside it with the style of the preset with the same name.
The best would be being able to read them from a .aco file for the swatches and from a .tpl file for the tool presets but it might be fine even read them from inside Photoshop. I looked at the official documentation by I couldn't find anything about it. I tried to reverse engineer an aco file and all I found is that it is an hex file with the name of the swatches encoded in utf16-be but I couldn't find the correspondent color. Even the tpl file has strings encoded in utf8. Thanks.


texts: What font is used on the 'Stop Talking' business cards?

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I would like to know what font is used on the stop talking business cards. There is an image below showing the font.

I have tried identifying the font by using a range of websites including WhatTheFont! and WhatFontIs.com but they both gave me fonts that look different from the font on the cards.

The font on the business card has a larger letter spacing and the letters were also shorter than the ones that the websites suggested.

If anyone has any idea what the font could be please answer as I would really like to know.

Image:


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When I try to merge an image with an adjustment layer, the whole image change.

Without merging:

After merging the image with the adjustment layer:

How can I fix it?


texts: How can I get all shape layers where their names include specific word?

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I have this function which gets all shape layers of a document...

function getAllShapeLayersData() {
    var lyrs = [];
    try {
        activeDocument.backgroundLayer;
        var layers = 0
    } catch (e) {
        var layers = 1;
    };

    while (true) {
        ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putIndex(charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), layers);
        try {
            var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
        } catch (err) {
            break;
        }

        var lyr = {};
        lyr.type = desc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("layerKind"));
        lyr.name = desc.getString(charIDToTypeID("Nm  "));
        lyr.id = desc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("layerID"));

        if (lyr.type == 4) {
            var adj = desc.getList(stringIDToTypeID("adjustment")).getObjectValue(0);
            if (adj.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID("color"))) {
                var curColor = new SolidColor();
                curColor.rgb.red = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("red"));
                curColor.rgb.green = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("grain"));
                curColor.rgb.blue = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("blue"));
                lyr.color = curColor;
                lyrs.push(lyr);
            }
        }
        layers++;
    }
    return lyrs
};

I changes to this if (lyr.name == "Something") { instead of if (lyr.type == 4) { so now I managed to get all layers by the name "Something". I tried something like this if (lyr.name.includes("Stitches")) { so to get all layers where their names contains the word "Something", but I get an error!!!

So, how can I get all shape layers where their names contains specific word? In other words, first, how can I use if (lyr.type == 4) { and if (lyr.name.includes("Stitches")) { together and second what is the correct syntax of the "include" part?


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I would like to use a shortcut to go to next (or back) frame on photoshop timeline.
On adobe guide, the shortcut should ne arrow right or left.
BUT I dont know why it's not working for me.
I can't even find this action on the shorcut menu of photoshop, to edit it for exemple.

If someone have a solution it will be awesome,
THX


texts: What is the graphic design term for this element on a layout?

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Whether print or digital media, what is the name of this element?

On the main page layout, there is a small, not too obtrusive element with text inside. Usually a circle. It's not a callout because it's not referring to anything specifically on the main layout.

Here are two examples. See top right hand corner.


texts: How do I learn making modern illustrations?

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What are some good resources to learn this type of illustration?

I would like some help to decompose the technical elements that serve as building blocks for making theses types of illustrations

source: https://dribbble.com/shots/4950216-Online-shopping


texts: How can I make this bevel and emboss effect look deeper

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I am trying to design an image which looks like this:

But I ended up with the following image: (edited image)

I tried adding layer styles as in the below image (Edited image).

How can I make the second image look deeper, like the first does?

Edited one :

with this new bevel settings


texts: How to smoothly bend a shape in Adobe Illustrator?

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I have been trying to bend a shape this way, but I find it hard, I don't know which tool should I use and even if I should start with a shape.
How is it possible to achieve these sort of smoothly curved lines?


texts: Difference in Applying of brush strokes between the real world and the digital art world

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I am new to Digital Art and it's a completely new world. I used to make sketches on paper and was accustomed to the usage, flow and technique of applying brush strokes in the real world. I am getting into the world of Digital art slowly but I ma having a hard time with brush strokes.

Let me be a little more elaborate, when I was painting on canvas I was able to bend all the brush strokes together. Even if I apply a new brush stroke upon the previous one it used to blend with the old one. This doesn't happens in digital art due to transparency, if you apply a new stroke upon the old one both overlaps and a darker color appears in the overlapping area (I found a fix to this here within the GD Stack Exchange forum), but my question is something else.

Until now what I was able to guess is that, this over-lapping is happening because I am picking up the stylus from the digital tab while I drawing/creating a brush stroke. As soon as I making a new stroke again putting the stylus down on the pen tablet the previous stroke is over-lapping. If I continuously paint my artwork using brush by putting my stylus down the overlapping doesn't happen.

So, can anyone tell me exactly what's happening here?

Any video tutorial on using brush strokes will be very helpful.


texts: InDesign: How to set magazine layout pages for PDF export?

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I am working on a magazine design and my pages are set up as spreads that also has bleed. I have some questions about this and also some other questions regarding to preparing file for print.

Do I need to work in InDesign as single pages for all magazine instead of spreads or I can switch that at the end to adjust content bleed? Asking this because if I will export as single page PDF, the part of inside bleed will not appear in that PDF file, how can I fix this to export single pages correctly with bleed on all four sides? Magazine will also have full spread photos, does this matter in this situation?
If printer didn't give exact CMYK colour profile, but I know that it will be printed on uncoated matte paper, is that fine to choose one of the uncoated colour profiles and work with it? This seems fine until I started to think about maximum colour % for it, because it could be from 300 till 340.
When exporting all pages into single page PDF document, do I need in the "Colour conversion" field set to "No colour conversion" or "Covert to Destination (Preserve numbers)"?


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Can anyone suggest a good (and easy to use) freeware for creating animations in Windows? I was looking at the Pencil mentioned in a similar question, but it seems its development has stopped. In addition, I'd like to export the output animations directly in the GIF or FLV format rather than SWF or QuickTime. I know it's possible to export PNGs from the Pencil and put them together with the other tool, but I would appreciate this feature. I'm looking for something like Animation Shop, but freeware.

Thanks a lot.


texts: What do you call the technique of integrating type into an image / background with perspective?

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I'm having a really hard time describing this:

It's from the GTA IV Title / Intro. I'm talking about the way the text is part of the image in regards to perspective. Some even go so far as to have some elements of the picture appear to be in front of the text etc. - can't show an example because I'm having such a hard time googling it :(


texts: Cant get rid of red outline that appeared around all paths

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These red line appeared over every path in the design I was working on and I cant seem to get rid of it, it even appears when the image in exported. I know it must have been caused by a button I pressed by accident but cant seem to work out what by googling the problem. Changing the path color just changes the color under the red lines. Would love some help with this!
Thanks!


texts: What causes Illustrator to lose Exactitude?

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See below image, then read on...

Previously this circle was 76 pixels diameter.

I changed it to 64 by manually entering it into the W: container, then tabbed, expecting 64 to appear in the H: container.

But no... I got this odd number.

Why?

How do I get it back to not doing stupid things like this?

It used to be accurate
I haven't changed anything
There's nothing turned on that wasn't on before

Mystified.


texts: When I move my object Adobe Illustrator shows an error: Can't move the objects

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When I drag my selected object it displays the following error:

  Can't move the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area.


texts: What is the difference between 32 Bit Float and 32 Bit fixed pixel types?

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I am using a real time graphics program that offers the following "pixel formats".

I understand many of them but one thing I do not understand is the difference between float and fixed.

Why would someone use one over the other? They both take up the same amount of space so I do not see how one could offer more precision.


texts: How to remove unwanted color in illustrator

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I practice drawing and coloring in illustrator. I faced problem on color filling after I have used pen tool to trace image. The color filled on the area that I don't want (as the red circles shown in picture below).How I remove the color on the area that I don't want?

I would be grateful for any help in getting this working.
Thanks.


texts: I've recently inherited a brand which uses Avenir Next as its primary font. Looking through previous documents I have noticed the height of certain characters seem to be off, with the u being the most noticable.


texts: How to stretch an image following a "geometric progression" pattern in Photoshop?

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It's explained in the image below. I need to stretch like 2nd option.

The normal stretch can be done using Distort option. Is it possible to do it in Photoshop?


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I was wondering how can I create a shape like this one? In Photoshop there are several options with Brushes and I think you could do the same thing in Illustrator.  But my question is, how can I create a shape like this?

Thank you! and have a nice day]1


texts: CSS resizing a website image reduces quality

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A customer found the images on her WordPress website too blurry. All images were uploaded larger than needed. For example, the image is displayed 620px wide and was uploaded 800px wide to prevent upscaling. Anyway, the images were blurry. I couldn't make sense of this and created a simple static HTML page:

https://demo.my-blog-shop.de/bild.html

Max. width should be 620px. I uploaded the image with 620px width and 1800px width and scaled them down bei CSS: 620px to 619px, 1800px to 620px.

The large image did not look better than the smaler one. This was no surprise. What really surprised me is that the CSS scaled images look much blurrier than the ones reduced in size in Photoshop. And this is not a minor difference.

Is there a solution for that? Best practice would be to upload (or create automatically) a set of images that contains all image sizes that are used on the specific site. However, I've always thought, it's ok to upload an image slightly larger than needed. But this is obviously wrong.


texts: Change Gimp units from relative to absolute

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Is there a way to change the guide units from relative to absolute when moving them on GIMP?

Also is there a way to add a guide on the edge of the image? I can add a guide on 0,0 but not on (max,max)

Regards