texts: How do I get the client to see his files (PDF) the same colours as it will print?

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I am a self taught graphic designer and do a lot of design for print. I usually design in CMYK when end product is print. I rarely meet with clients and the way I approve artwork is by sending an email. This means the client sees the work in CMYK but on a computer and the colours change.

How does one go around this, I wonder. Do you convert the file to RGB at the end to send to client or is there another way. Most of my work is from Illustrator CC with my images created in Photoshop cc.

How do I get the client to see his files the same colours as it will print? (
If the answer has to do with color profile settings then I would appreciate steps, since I am not fully grasping that.)


texts: What are the true complementary colors and their values ?

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Being a webdesigner I learned that
Green= 00FF00
Blue=  0000FF
Red=   FF0000
Yellow=FFFF00
Correct ?

And color theory says that Red is the complementary color of Green.
Yet when I use http://kuler.adobe.com/ I get FF007F which is still far from Red.
However when I use http://www.colorschemer.com/ I get true Red.
For Yellow kuler gives me 7D00FF while colorshemer gives me 8800CC which are different enough for the naked eye to notice.
For Blue kuler gives me FFD100 while colorshemer gives me FFBD00

A third tool colorschemedesigner.com give slightly different values (once adjusted to max saturation & brightness).

So as you can imagine, I'm confused as to what are the values of the complementary colors that aren't easy to guess with hex such as Orange and Violet and which color wheel is the most faithful.


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I have an image that has blocks of useful content and blocks of useless content. I would like to remove the blocks of useless content without copy/pasting all of the useful content into another image.

Basically, is there a way to remove a stripe of an image?

Zealous crop does not want to remove transparent areas.

here's a sample image, with useless content deleted already:


texts: In photoshop how do I create an obfuscated window like this

texts: I am trying to make a carbonless invoice for a client, however I need to create something like below to 'blank out' parts of the invoice on the copies. How would I fill a shape with random numbers, in Photoshop?


texts: Illustrator brush pen pressure distortion

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After a few months of using my Wacom, I started to notice that my strokes became distorted near sharp corners and curves when I changed the default 5pt brush to pen pressure.  I saw similar questions here, but the answer was to revert the stroke back to basic stroke

Is there any way to keep the pen pressure line variation, without having the distorted strokes?


texts: does anybody know how this graphic style is called ?


texts: What is the best practice for laying out and exporting custom icons from AI?

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I'm working on creating completely custom icons with AI and essentially exporting them out as an individual svg icons to be used in our app development.

I have been experimenting with different ways to effortlessly layout and export icons from working artboards within AI but not finding it comfortable.

The way I'm doing at this moment is having an main artboard only dedicated to working raw icons laid out in 24x24 grid (block) with subdivisions of 24 (creating lines in every pixel for high accuracy). Each icons are apart one block from each other.

When the icons ready to be exported out as a svg, its moved to a 24px by 24px individual artboards named according to the icon placed inside and the icons itself flattened (Compound Shape). This allows me to export the icons using individual small artboards to be exported as individual svg icons with its own unique name.

But I'm finding this tedious and think that there might be a better way to do this.

Any other way to streamline this process?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I change the opacity of a pasted gif in GIMP?

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I have two gifs. I'd like to put one gif on top of the other, but with low opacity.
This is what I did:

open gif1.
create a new layer
paste gif2 onto the layer
change the opacity of the layer

The problem is that for all opacity levels above 50%, the image is fully opaque, and for all levels below 50% it disappears.

How can I get the desired effect?


texts: How can I change the color of a text that is part of an image in GIMP?

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Please excuse the simplicity of my question as I'm new to image editing:

I have an image with some text and I would like to change the color of that text. I don't have the original file; I only have this image file. The text is currently white, and I'd like to change it to red or black, while keeping the + symbol yellow. I've posted a screenshot of my view in GIMP as well as the actual image file.

I somehow thought that I would be able to add a layer of red or black on top and the text would magically fill in and change colors, but that didn't work.

I did take a look at this question: How can I change the color of images in GIMP?

I'm went to colors --> hue-saturation but I could only change the color of the + symbol; "mathematics" stayed white. I tried changing other colors settings, but couldn't get the white in my image to go red or black. The darkest I could get was dark grey, but that's because I decreased the lightness. I could not get it to go solid red or solid black.

I'd appreciate and suggestions and/or solutions. Thank you!


texts: Altering between filtered and original version of a photo and making a gif of it

texts: I want to make a gif of a photo by altering the exposure. I'm actually trying to do a smooth transition to ''lights off'' then coming back to original version. Also I want to save this as a gif. With which program I could do this?


texts: Illustrator - Substract creates compound path

texts: When I am trying to substract two shapes where one shape is completely inside the other illustrator creates something like a group of two objects. I want to avoid this because I need shape with 'hole' in it, not only two overlapping shapes. Can't figure out what I am doing wrong.


texts: Any ideas how to start making a customized city map (one example below). I'm fairly good in using Illustrator and Inkscape but I'm unsure what an optimal workflow would be.


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I have just completed and supplied 3 logos to a client. I quoted $750 for 3 logo designs. This quote was accepted and I was told to proceed. The problem is that my client is not happy with any of the logos and is refusing to pay. In the 10 years I've been running my own graphic design business I've never had this problem before. Normally my clients have trouble choosing between the options supplied.

I don't know what to do. I can't seem to convey to my client that they must pay for my time regardless of whether they like the logos or not. I have even offered to do an additional logo for them, to be included in the initial quote. Only to receive this response: "I don’t understand how legally I can be charged for something that doesn’t suit my needs….it’s like a customer come into my store and I show him 3 products that he doesn’t like, but he must choose one of them! Do not proceed any further with any more logos, in case I will be charge for something I don’t like."

Any advise? Please help.


texts: How to create a Grid like pattern as shown below using adobe illustrator tool

texts: Grid like pattern needs to created for logo background Same like the image shown below


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How to remove a shape from an image?
It's a simple question but also googling it I can't find a solution.

Image to explain the problem
Image I'll have to do

Concentrate attentions to the Image to explain the problem
As a result I would like to have two circles,

One black
And one green
PS: The green one will be cut with the shape that is in the center.

How can I achieve this?
It's simply but I don't know how to make it
Ps:
if you think this question is useful and well written, do not hesitate to put an upvote, thanks


texts: How do I remove one side of a shapes outline?

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I am trying to make text with 2 different colours. I am trying to also have a white outline on the text.
I know there's probably a way easier way of doing this.
Can anyone help me remove the middle outline


texts: How to wrap text on a curved path with perspective?

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I need to replace some text in a photograph where the curved path is on a plane not perpendicular to the camera. I am using PS/AI CS4.

This example is actually harder than the one I'm working on, since my text is on a flat plane :

I have a feeling the solution involves Photoshop's 3D features. Bonus points if you can do it without rasterizing the text.


texts: Trying to find balance in uneven text blocks

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I'm designing a business card for my small business.  The text at the bottom of the card is throwing me off.  I'm separating the employee's name and title from their contact information, to "square off" the bottom corners of the layout.  The employee's name and title comprise 2 lines; the contact information comprises 3 lines.

Should the two lines go on the bottom left, or on the bottom right, to create the best balance?  If there's really no difference, and either one will work, I'd like to hear that too.


texts: How to create opentype fonts (from mf files)?

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I have a general idea of how to create fonts using the metafont programming language. Using mftrace, I also understand how to get the Adobe font metric information (.afm file) and Type1 fonts (.pfa file) from the .mf file. But for my fonts, I would like to have glyph substitution for multiple characters (super-ligature if we may). Also 256 glyphs seems insufficient for my needs. After some reading up on opentype fonts, I understand that these issues are taken care of by the opentype font specification.

But I can't seem to be able to find a step-by-step beginner's guide to build an opentype font from scratch. I am looking for pointers in this direction. Even source files for a font will be very useful for deconstructing to figure things out.

Also is there a way to take the afore-mentioned .afm., .pfa files to create my .otf fonts ?

Thanks.


texts: I'm having an odd issue in indesign. I have a book to reset from one column to two columns. When I reflow all the pages (doesn't matter if manual or automatically), some texts jumps a frame (see attached snap). I've tried a lot of things, wrap options, oversets, etc. The only way I can fix it temporally, is clickong in the connect arrow at right bottom of the previous frame. I have to do it for all the blank frames. But if I edit something it goes wrong again from that page to the rest. This is making me crazy. Someone has an idea of how to fix it. NOTE: If I move the blank frames to other place out of the page, the text goes back. This error seems to have something consistent, so that makes me think is some kind of option I'm missing up. Thanks.


texts: How can I open my InDesign 7.2 document in 6.0 or convert it into PDF?

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I have a document that was saved as a InDesign 7.2.

Now I have version 6.0,  and I was wondering if there is any way to open it or convert it online to a 7.2 document and/or PDF.


texts: Opacity problem with Illustrator and general inquiry

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I'm a new member here and I started Illustrator a few days ago. I'm trying to find out stuff here and there but a huge problem I'm encountering is changing the opacity.

First problem

The opacity is supposed to be 26% however that colour is literally the same as it is. Once I leave the object and click on it again.

Why can't I change the opacity? I honestly don't know a lot about Illustrator but I clicked on the appearance tab (the sun thing) by luck and I found this thing.

Is that normal? Is the eye of Opacity supposed to be like that (I mean I think it's supposed to be like the rest but hey?)

Second problem

I have faced this with the shape builder tool, Shift + M, I had opened a new document (Idk what I choose or what I did but it opened) and I drew some rectangle, and wanted to build a shape, so whenever I overlapped them together (In the same layer) and tried to use the tool, it would completely choose one shape (with the intersection part obviously). I plan to draw and paint and stuff what format should I choose.


texts: Is there a font that has the same height for every character?

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It occured to me that in all fonts I know of, different characters have a different height. Why is this so? Are there fonts where all characters have the same height? If so, is there a name for this class of fonts?

Some more details:

Of course it is understandable that a letter like Q needs to go below the baseline, such that it lines up well with other characters like O.

Still, is there a font where no character exceeds the baseline?

Second case, and this one is actually more interesting for me, it seems that letters like I, T etc are in general shorter than "rounder" letters like C or O.

Zoom:

The rounder letters only overshoot the baseline by a few percent, but still this is quite annoying in certain cases; so I would like to know the reason for this, as well as any possible workaround, best of course a reference to a font where this does not occur, but also any explanation of this phenomenon.

I did find this question about the same symptom, but it does not address the underlying issue at all.


texts: Is it possible to have "synchronized layers" in Photoshop CS5?

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I don't really know the right terminology for it.

Suppose I have more than one layers with 50x50 content, at different positions in a bigger image. Those layers have identical material in them and will always have identical material in them forever.

I just want to work on only one of those layers and want to see the changes reflected in the other identical layers. Is this possible at all? If not is there any workflow tips that would make my life easier?


texts: How would you print extremely small words (microprinting)

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The Problem:
I am working on a project and I wanted to add super fine print (words and graphics). When I say small I am not referring to 7pt type at 300dpi business card small. I am referring to something you would see on security items or the small graphics/words that appear on currencies etc.

The Question:
The question is would a 1pt word on a 600ppi document translate if printed on a printer that could print at 600dpi. Does this scale even lower at higher resolutions.


texts: I am using some third-party SVG music fonts for an application. The single glyphs of these fonts, are by default very huge in size. I was wondering what the reason for this could be. I can think of, this allows to do more fine-tuning work while designing the fonts, and since they are of course scalable, they should be down-scaled as needed when I want to actually use them. Is this true, or are there some other points to consider?


texts: Affinity Designer: Hiding the Blue Outline on Selected Objects?

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In Affinity Designer, is there a way to hide the blue outline surrounding the vectors on selected objects - similarly to how Adobe Illustrator hides the blue lines going forward by pressing "CTRL + H"?

I often compare adjustments to a design by doing undos/redos and the blue vector outline changes what the design looks like.

Thanks for any help!

Affinity Designer selected object:

Illustrator Selected Object (what I'm looking for):


texts: Adobe Photoshop: Creating a matrix grid / collage of images

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Is there a convenient way of creating a grid, or a collage of images, without having to do it manually?

Ideally I want a 64x64 square grid of images that are each 100px * 100px. I've seen them done a few times, I think Groupon used to have one.

Are there any plugins that exist for this or any way of doing it without having to resize each image manually?


texts: How can I create an image with a carbon fibre looking texture and lighting effects in GIMP?

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Here is an example of what I would like to create:

How can I create a graphic similar to this with GIMP?


texts: Illustrator CC Snap to Grid with Pen Tool Not Working Correctly

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This is my first time using Illustrator CC and I'm just trying to draw some simple shapes with the pen tool and snap to grid turned on.

It's a bit hard to see the grid in the image, but I've zoomed right in.

The blue squares should fall on the points on the grid but not a single one actually does - they are all adjacent to the grid. The software isn't even consistent with this, putting some vertical points on the horizontal lines and some below them; one horizontal point is on the axis and the rest are to the left.

The result is a complete mess as seen below. How to I get the blue squares to snap to the grid with the pen tool, or is there a better tool to draw custom polygons?

If the lines were all internal then I could draw a bunch of polys next to each other - this would be ok, or if the lines actually snapped to the grid I could draw one big poly..

Perhaps the answer is to remove the line thickness as this seems to be interfering with the snapping, but I have a feeling this will not make the problem go away; only make it smaller.

Here's a second image where Illustrator couldn't even complete the triangle.

When I'm moving the pen tool, the blue line and blue square are correctly snapping to the grid on the x and y axis but as soon as I tap the pen to the screen to draw the line, the line and blue bits suddenly jump to the side to align the side of the line to the grid (sometimes - this is again quite inconsistent).


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How much time does it take for large studios to render a big production?

I don't know much about animations or rendering, but I cannot figure out how things work.

Let's take this article as an example about Cars 2 and Pixar's rendering farm (I know it's 2011, but I'll be happy to be enlightened about both how it worked and how it works now).

  One of the keys to Pixar's ability to do what it does is the giant,
  powerful render farm located in its main headquarters building here.
  This is serious computing power, and on "Cars 2," it required an
  average of 11.5 hours to render each frame.

Those are not the first figures that I can find, there are other examples, but the time seems pretty big to me, considering the following (and maybe it's here that I am mistaken):

A film lasts about 90 minutes, with a framerate about 25fps, which taking 11.5 hours average per frame would give a theoretical rendering time of more than 4000 years. And it's not considering 4K, stereo 3D...

What am I missing? Can someone explain how things work and how it's done in a simple way?


texts: Automatically Resetting the Current Workspace on Startup

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I'm looking for a way to force InDesign to reset its current workspace when I start the program. I have created the jsx script below and placed it into the startup scripts folder. It does a great job of applying the workspace, but it doesn't actually reset it. So if I move a panel, then apply a different workspace and close InDesign, it will apply the correct workspace when I restart InDesign, but the panel is still moved. I have tried playing around with the language, using "app.reset" or "app.refresh" but those are just failed guesses. I have not been able to find the right commands to perform a proper workspace reset. I'm not married to this approach, either. A script that would send a key command to reset the workspace would be fine as well. I already have a key command assigned to the the function, but I would prefer to have it reset on its own upon startup. Any other approaches to achieve this effect would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

try{
app.applyWorkspace("MyWorkspaceName");
}catch(e)
{
    alert(
        "Fail:"+"\r"+
        "Slap yourself and try again."
        )
};

FYI: The reason I'm doing this is because InDesign has a bug that causes some panels to be dismissed. Adobe fixed the problem for a short period, but now it's back.


texts: Layering silhouette using Illustrator/Photoshop

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How does one attain this type silhouetting using layers and the laso tool?

My intention is to have a different background photo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45792897@N08/6219956490/in/photostream/

Briefly speaking, :( new beginner to photoshop and illustrator.


texts: How to semi/automatically clean pixels noise from a photo taken from an image on a screen?

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I have this photo:

I want to remove all the "noise" that's introduced when taking a picture of a screen. For instance below is a zoom-in of part of the bigger image, from which I manually "cleaned" the annoying "noise":

How do I clean it automatically, or at least semi automatically (levels/curves/filters/etc...), avoiding the pointless tedious manual work in this digital age...?


texts: Free, easy way for client to add logo to a PDF?

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I have designed a 2-page flyer for a client and left a blank top right corner. Their partners (apparently many partners) are supposed to open this flyer in PDF and add their own logo in that blank space on the first page and resave as PDF.

While I can easily do this via InDesign, it seems the partners need to be able to add their logo internally, so.. any free, lightweight, not complicated tool to recommend for this?


texts: Duplicated object that reflects changes in illustrator

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I've been using Sketch recently and they have this really nice concept of grouped objects that can be cloned.

When you make a change to the master group item it reflects the other items. Optionally you can make changes to children like text by holding CMD.

Just wondering if this is possible in illustrator?


texts: How to freeze part of an object when scaling in Sketchup?

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I have an object that represents a board with a 1/2" tenon on the ends. If I scale the board by changing the length, the 1/2" tenon changes length. Is there a way to change the length of the board but keep the tenons always 1/2"? In other words, if the length changes, the middle part of the board changes length, but the tenons remain the same length.
Before:

After:

I have Pro, so I can do a dynamic component if that would be the best approach, but I can't figure out how to freeze a certain part of the object. I thought of creating the object with three different objects sandwiched together and then in the DC adjust the length of the outer (wider) part of the board independent of the center of the sandwich (the tenon part). Then, if possible, hide some of the edges to make it look like a single object. But I'm hoping this is easier than that and I'm just not experienced enough to know it.


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I'm binding a custom book.

The edges of the text block need to be painted black.

I've been experimenting with techniques but have not found the perfect one yet. The best I have so far is using clamps to hold the book shut and using a paintbrush to dry brush acrylic paint on.

This almost perfectly eliminates bleeding, but the pages stick together and tear a little bit when I separate them.

I have zero experience with airbrushing so I'm not confident trying that.

What is the best way for me to make my book edges black?


texts: How to change patterns in a clip with an alpha matte version

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I'm a beginner in this field and I have to buy this clip from shutter-stock.

This clip comes with some pre-rendered patterns and has an alpha-matte version.

My question: I want to use different pattern for the ripped paper, how can I achieve that? Can the alpha-matte version used for this purpose? if no, what is it used for?


texts: Print Booklet feature in indesign is Shuffling my pages?

texts: Indesign has a very handy feature only id doesn't seem to be working for me. I have set up a 20 page document with facing pages (1 being the cover and 20 the back) the second page is designed to be blank, and an introduction on the third page. when I selected print booklet for a mockup it shuffled all the pages forward, so the introduction is now immediately after the cover and my back page is now set as page 18 (18- designed to be a blank page) and I have a blank page as my back page (20) and as page 19(19 was meant to be index, but printed on 17 instead). can someone help me with this? i tried to explain myself as best I could hope it isn't confusing I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.


texts: How can we talk about the “resolution” of a JPEG file?

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A JPEG is characterised with three parameters: width (pixel), height (pixel) and bit depth (bits per pixel). And resolution is a characteristic for output devices, e.g., monitors or printers. Why? Resolution is measured in dots per inch or pixels per inch,  with other words: the ratio of some discrete value to some unit of length.

As we can see from JPEG file properties, it also has a horizontal/vertical resolution. But how can we apply the concept of resolution to something that does not have a length? (It sounds funny for me to talk about a “JPEG file with a width of 5 inches”.)

And another word to this is about user perception: Let’s assume we have a JPEG image with a width of 1920 px and we look at this picture on a monitor and an iPhone:

24-inch wide-screen computer monitor: 1920 × 1200, 102.5 ppi
iPhone 6 Plus: 1920 × 1080, 401 ppi

So width is 1920 px in both cases and each pixel of the image corresponds to exactly one pixel of the device. So if we choose to look at these screens from a distance such that we have the same ratio of pixels per degree of vision, we would have exactly the same quality (≈ 70 PPD).

So why can we talk about the resolution of JPEG?


texts: Adoble Illustrator: Penrose tiling - Golden aspect ratio

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Can someone help me how to create this tiling? I don't know how it is generated. I know that the creator uses Adobe Illustrator, but I can't imagine how. Maybe the creator import from Nodebox or Mathematica? How this is possible in Illustrator?

Many thanks, guys.


texts: What's the name of this serif font from Art Basel?

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Seems to be a very modern font. No identifier-service I found delivered a result.

Source

I tried MyFonts WhatTheFont and several other services I found on Google, always without success.

Here are the WhatTheFont results


texts: What is meant by a letterbox logo ? the client asked for the logo to be more like a letterbox than a portrait or a landscape so what does it mean for the logo to be a letterbox?


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Can I print the User Guide using Google fonts legally?

In particular, Roboto.


texts: How to split and colour a part of a pen drawn object

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I'm new to illustrator. I have the below picture I created with a pen tool:

How do I select the bottom part of the picture like this:

I want to keep the rest of the shape and the portion that is selected I want to colour it differently. How would I do this?


texts: How to Subtract a Vector Path from a Rectangle in Sketch?

texts: How does one subtract a vector path in Sketch. Shapes are straightforward and text is also doable. The white lines in the attached images need to be cuts through the rectangle so they are transparencies in the rectangle. Suggestions?


texts: illustrator CS6: can't wrap text around object

texts: I manually drew some shapes and grouped them. Then I was trying to put them on top of a text box and let the texts avoid those shapes by choosing Object→Arrange→Bring to Front and choosing Object→Text Wrap→Make. However the texts were still behind the shapes. I've searched for online solutions but nothing worked. Any thoughts?


texts: How do I zoom with Ctrl instead of Alt on Windows in Adobe CC?

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In Windows, the standard scroll-wheel zoom key is Ctrl. Pretty much everything follows this standard, including all web browsers, Word, Explorer, even Adobe Reader. Except Adobe Creative Cloud software (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.). It uses the Alt key instead.

This drives me nuts. Switching between all of these programs has my fingers in a frazzle. I keep using the wrong key in the wrong program.

To make matters worse, I also use Macintosh PCs on a daily basis (school vs home), and they use Alt to zoom. I could deal with the differences between MacOS and Windows just fine, except Adobe CC on Windows has to come in and throw a spanner in the works.

Is there a way to scroll-wheel zoom with Ctrl in Adobe CC software on Windows, instead of Alt?


texts: Best printer for greeting cards that won't fade?

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I'm so stuck and can't find an answer anywhere!

Which printer is the best for printing greeting cards and stationery? I don't want to outsource as I'd like full control over colours, fonts etc. So a home printer that will ensure that my graphics don't fade.

I print onto a thick, matte, slightly textured paper.

Thank you!


texts: How do I make a 8 meters(W) X 4 meters (H) banner on Photoshop?

texts: I'm trying to make a 8 meters(W) X 4 meters (H) banner on Photoshop, but I can't figure out the right resolution for it, and for the other stuff like "Colour Mode," etc.


texts: Creating personal customized set of brushes

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Actually there are two questions here.

Creating personal customized  new set of old brushes, where I want
to put different brushes from different sets (like 2 from assorted,
2 from basic etc.) in one set.
Creating personal customized  set of new brushes, how can I
create my own brushes?


texts: Inkscape: How do I create negative space in an existing object?

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This is what I want:

This is how I achieved it:

My goal is to have this embroidered, but I don't want the white bars as part of that. I want it to be true negative space so it would just be whatever I put it on. What is the best way to achieve this in Inkscape?


texts: How to set up iPhone screen grid in CorelDraw

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I use CorelDraw for creating wireframe layouts for iOS app UI. For this I need to set up a rectangle as following, to act as screen boundary:

Size in pixels: 640 x 1136px

Size when unit changed to millimeters: 51.7 x 90.4mm

This can help realistic pixel-level control, and at the same time printing on a paper in actual size. How do I achieve this?

I tried setting document DPI to 326, which is iPhone's PPI, but it didn't help.


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Consider this ...

Notice three joins are very good, but one is not so good.

My question: in fact, is the problem shown in fact precisely an example of THE FOLLOWING type of problem, and solution:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/16011/30169

So, indeed, is the total solution correct implementation of the techniques explained there? OR is there a further more complicated problem in this case?

Or, in my naivety is there some other problem?  Thank you!

Supplementary question: is there an outstanding article or book, that deals obsessively with achieving perfection in the issues relating to joining straights and curves in splines?  Thank you.


texts: How to make shapes like this in Affinity Designer?

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https://www.behance.net/gallery/74642263/New-Character-collection-Illustration (3rd Image, Coffee cup)

What are the easiest way of making smoke or clouds of such shape?

Other than drawing the whole thing with a pen tool or subtracting rounded rectangles from bigger rectangles and then smooth the joints?

Is there an easier way to do that?

I'm using Affinity Designer, but feel free to describe the process in Illustrator too. I'm hoping it consists of some method that is common to both applications.


texts: What program should I use to make UI sprite animations for unity3D

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We are creating a game with Unity engine. And we want to make UI buttons to animate when idle and on click. Which program should make the most sense to use when creating animations. Is it worth using Adobe After Effects or there a better and more optimization friendly software or methods?

As an e.g. outer circles would rotate around the play button. Simple animation, nothing too complicated.

P.S. Icons will be created using illustrator

Link to large image


texts: Critique: Poster for event on Friday the 13th

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I'm designing a poster (for the web) advertising a Friday the 13th vodka party.The party's theme is Friday the 13th / Test your luck on Friday the 13th. I've come up with the below so far, but I'm thinking it doesn't make clear the Friday the 13th theme.

Stack: Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC

Do you think the theme is clear enough ? If not, I welcome any suggestions on how to make it more clear.


texts: Looking for fonts that have anything to do with cognitive science. E.g., a type that somehow evokes either brains, thoughts, science, biology, psychology, connectionist networks, mind, etc. Anyone know of any?


texts: Photoshop is changing text when saving as PDF

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When making circular text with photoshop CS6, for example:
Circular written text

Now, when I want to save my project as PDF the text is getting turned, for example: Turned letters, but the same circular path

Does anyone know what is going wrong?


texts: How can I make a selection in the shape of text with a given font in GIMP 2?

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I'm trying to design a logo for my band. My idea is to have a fraction of a scenic image be duplicated in the shape of some text (my album name). I can't figure out how to do this.

Like that, but with text, not rectangles. Is there any way to do this?


texts: Pixelated images and smart objects in Adobe CC suite

texts: I have been using Adobe softwares for a couple of years now and I never had this issue before. Every time I save for web (png), or even pasting smart objects from illustrator to photoshop I get a really low res, pixelated image. I tried everything: Resolution is at 300 dpi, anti alias is turned on. Nothing works and it's driving me crazy. I checked all the adobe forums and no one has a solution. I do have a macbook pro retina display but that should have nothing to do with it. The strangest thing is: it used to work a couple of months ago perfectly. Can someone please tell what could be causing this issue? Thank you


texts: How to prevent Photoshop from selecting the space after a word when double clicking it?

texts: So when double clicking a word to select it, Photoshop likes to select the space after that word. Is there any way to prevent this? Sounds so simple, but it means having to select and drag to highlight to make an accurate selection, when it should make sense to select the word I'm double clicking.


texts: How can I use GREP to get all text between the third and fourth underscore in a file name?

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In the firm I work for, they have file naming system. It always has 5 sections as in the examples below:

File Name: YYMMDD_PROJECT NUMBER_PROJECT NAME_FILE NAME_initials.ext

140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_INFO_ne.doc
140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_MAIN ENTRANCE_ne.jpg
140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_PROPOSED SECTION EAST VIEW_ne.jpg

In my indesign, I am working with hundreds of projects images. Instead of writing the titles of the image, I want to grab this from the file name itself. I use Insert Variables/ Image name. It works but it grabs all the file name including the extension as well. What I want to do is to get only the fourth section from the file name above. It always comes after the third underscore and before the fourth one.

I'm not sure if it's doable or not, since it has multiple underscores in it. I thought I better ask the experts.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I convert my AI icon to a PNG file?

texts: Should each AI icon file be taken to Photoshop up to 100 times to convert 100 AI icons to PNG files at a size of 64×64? Or is there a shorter/faster way?


texts: Snapping shape anchor points to a curved path in Illustrator

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I have a curved path generated with the line tool followed by the Zig Zag filter to which I'd like to snap a shape I've drawn. I would like it that the shape can be dragged only along the line (like a carriage on a train track), and that the shape be rotated as it's dragged to be tangental to the curvature of the path. The shape itself is, at its most basic, a styled rectangle, and the effect I'm trying to achieve would be the result of locking the vertical-middle left-most and right-most anchor points to the curve simultaneously.

Is it possible to do this in Illustrator CS5? Many thanks in advance!


texts: How to truncate text with an ellipsis in Sketch?

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I can't find a good way to truncate a line of text with an ellipsis, like this:

Is there any way to do this without modifying the text itself? I want it to add the ellipsis intelligently – only when characters are being clipped because the text element is too small.


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I tried everything.
I googled, found this site, tried everything:

How do I apply a gradient across multiple objects in Illustrator?

As you can see.. it doesn't work.
And I don't quite get why?
Any tips?
I tried to make it as clear as possible
Cheers
vic


texts: Differences and similarities between .ttf and .ttc fonts

texts: What is the difference between .ttf and .ttc files? I also appreciate the images to understand better. Thank you very much to everyone.


texts: When is positive/negative tracking too much in a text?

texts: What are best practices when increasing/decreasing tracking in a paragraph to make it look better, whether the paragraph is justified or not? How do you decide when it's overdone?


texts: Publish my design work to portofolio but hide client's identity

texts: I have a question that has been stuck in my head for a quite a long time. Let's say, I designed a business card for my client and would like to publish the design to my portfolio. Because the business card has my client's identity (name, phone number, email, etc), is it okay if I publish the design while hiding my client's identity?


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I am unable to use the "paste in front" function. It does not matter if I use the keyboard command or go to edit>paste in front. No matter what I do, it pastes the object in its original location. I have tried to change between Global and Artboard rulers as per a previous suggestion but it did not help. I have read a ton of similar posts but none of the suggestions have worked.

I am getting very frustrated as I've used this function many times in the past and never had an issues until today and this issue is stalling a big project. Anyone have


texts: What is the easiest way to reduce the file size of a TIFF without losing too much of the image's quality?

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I have a few high res TIFF files I'd like to reduce in size as they are currently around 20 MB, but need to get them down to no more than 10 MB so I can upload them to a website. Is there a way I can do this without converting them into JPEG files to avoid losing too much quality?

The dimensions of the pictures I'm looking at are around 3540 by 2720 pixels.
DPI is 300.

Thanks :)


texts: Emulating a Procreate Brush Pen in Illustrator

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I'm a hand letterer looking to take my work to Illustrator and I was wondering if there's a way to emulate this sort of look & method in Illustrator.

So far I've only been toying with a Wacom tablet and calligraphic brushes but the smoothing still needs some getting used to.

I'm fairly new to Illustrator so I was wondering if there was a 'snapping' and 'curving' kinda mechanic like in the above linked Instagram video.

Thanks!


texts: Can I use freepik web element in website?

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Can I convert PSD web elements like a pricing plan to HTML and use it free in the commercial website without attribution?
for example this component :


texts: Convert smart (curly) quotes to dumb (straight) quotes in InDesign using JavaScript

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I am trying to write a script to automatically convert all curly double quotes (“”) in a text box into straight double quotes ("). Here's all that I've tried so far and none of them seem to be working:

  imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, '"');
  imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, "\u0022");
  imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, '\^"');
  imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, '^\"');
  imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, '\^\"');

The Find/Change option in the Edit menu works perfectly fine and is exactly the functionality I'm trying to replicate using my script. Here's what my Find/Change dialog looks like:

What am I missing here?


texts: Creating print mockups in Adobe Illustrator?

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I am very new to working with Illustrator. So, basically, I have this stock image I downloaded from Adobe stock - I have no idea how to put my own images inside the pages! As you can see it is an AI file. I saw that you can do this with Smart Objects in Photoshop but wondering if I can do something similar in AI?
Thank you!!!


texts: Exporting to PDF in Illustrator: Reduce file size in document with multiple occurrences of the same raster graphic

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I have a multi-page PDF created with 7 Artboards in Adobe Illustrator CS6.
The problem is the PDF file created is too large (40MB).

The pages (artboards) have the same exact high-res raster graphic as a background, but with different vector graphics on top of them. I'm sure the PDF file size could be smaller if Illustrator didn't include that raster 7 times, but only ONCE and referenced it.

Can this be accomplished somehow? Forcing Illustrator to not write the same raster data to file 7 times, but only once...

P.S. I'd like to keep it one single PDF file for easy distribution. Exporting an SVG + PNG folder wouldn't be a satisfactory solution, but if there's no other way, let me know.


texts: Design solutions/ideas/examples/sugestions for good looking cropped images in a product booklet

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I am doing this booklet for some chairs and I have a problem.
The problem is that I have small images, but the booklet is intended for A4 print.
I will post 2 images to explain my problem.

What I would like to do:

But I can't do this, as to do this I have to enlarge the image and it would look bad when I print it...

What I can do with the image at it's actual size without enlarging it:

Do you have any suggestions on how to crop the image at its actual size so that it looks better without modifying the crop area ?

The idea is that the crop area is aligned with the copy on the right hand side. It starts at the top of the page to align with the title, and it ends at the end of the description text(the text in the column under the title).

Any suggestions are welcome ! (getting a larger image is the only solution, of course, but sadly there is no larger image)

What would you do ?


texts: Design Research: Interactive graphic following mouse pointer on website

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Doing some more visual design technique research. Nikita Nikiforov shows a very interesting visual feature on his website Nikita Nikiforov.

See the .gif below or visit the website to see it in action.

How might this be achieved? Being part graphic design, part web design related, this question might also need to be posted in the stackoverflow community, but I'd like to try here first.

(No stealing of intellectual property intended, all credit goes of course to the original designer, I'm merely interested in broadening my horizon in regards to visual techniques)


texts: Can you help me identify one serif and one sans font?

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Hello everyone! Quick & dirty question.
I'm a junior designer - not used to knowing fonts off by heart yet. I need to figure out the names of the two fonts used here, or their closest counterparts. Any insight is appreciated!


texts: Is there a name for a style with black outlines and flat colors?

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It's always tricky to look for something when what you need is the name. I'm working on a videogame and I'd like to give general instructions for sprites.

This is an example of the style I'm talking about:

The defining traits are:

Black outline, often fairly big
Flat colors, generally one color by material + one simple layer of shading
Lighting only when necessary (shiny surfaces), if so it's one shade and/or white
No gradients

You can almost see the graphic tablet pen line sometimes.

Maybe there's a single word or term I'm missing, but I'm not a native English speaker and neither is any of the team members.


texts: InDesign: are columns inside of a text frame individually customizable?

texts: When I create a text frame with columns, is it possible to adjust every single columns and gaps width individual? Like in the picture, there is one text frame with 3 columns (different widths) and also the gaps are different.


texts: Is there a way to script InDesign to read the EXIF information of a photo?

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I'm thinking of making a photo portfolio in InDesign and I have the following functionality in mind:

First I would make a document of several pages containing placeholder images. Each page has a fullpage photograph with a small black rectangle on the side, overlapping the photo a bit.
This rectangle should contain three text-boxes with the following information:

Title
Location
Year

This data is already present in the photographs EXIF info. Is there a way to automatically read these entries from the photograph that will replace each placeholder on the page and place them in the three text-boxes in the black rectangle?

I haven't tried anything yet as I have no idea where to start. I have used InDesign before, so the basics are more or less clear to me.
I have InDesign 5.5 at my disposal on Mountain Lion 10.8.2


texts: How to draw a image transparent in photoshop?

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This arrow is transparent image.
I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop.

The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app.

It would help me if you could suggest the steps you want us to take?


texts: What's a good resource on learning OpenType?

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So in my spare time I like working with fonts. During the creation process it's hard to remember all the possible features offered by OpenType at one time.
What's a good resource (maybe a primer of some sort) on using OpenType features during font creation?


texts: Is Designing For Portrait Orientation Important?

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I'm developing a website that's almost ready for release. I'm a coder, not a designer, and my designer doesn't code. So I've been basically implementing her designs myself. Everything is finally perfect, and has been tested on various browsers and mobile devices, and it all looks good...except one thing.

It looks great on mobile devices in landscape mode, but is too small in portrait mode. So my question is this: how important is it to get it working in portrait mode? I figure most users, when they see the small page, will instinctively rotate their device, but then I remembered that some people lock their orientation. So how frequently do people lock their orientation to portrait rather than landscape, and what are the reasons they might do so? These are things I need to consider before deciding if it's worth the trouble to make things work in portrait mode here.


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I am designing a brochure and run into a small problem: I have three columns with headers and text, however the headers are different length. I have aligned the text beneath the headers to begin at the same line, but that creates a lot of white space under some of the headers. Just wondering what the best practice would be.

The image shows how ideally three columns should look like. Now imagine the header in the third column being long - it will cause a big white gap under the first two headers...

Any ideas how to go about this?


texts: I am recreating a logo from an image in Inkscape to have it as a vector graphic. I need to write some text in Microsoft YaHei Light, which I have already installed in Windows. In Microsoft Word I can write in Microsoft YaHei normal or bold, and then I have another font called Microsoft YaHei Light which also has options for normal or bold. However in Inkscape, I only have one Microsoft YaHei font and a styles table with two columns which are CSS and Face, and the following three rows: weight=290 and Light, Normal and Regular, Bold and Bold. Bold is visibly different from Normal, but "weight=290" does not change anything. Any idea how to fix this?


texts: How can I get rid of a visual flaw in my logo. It appears to be coming from 3D effect

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I'm creating a logo that is text-based. When I add the 3D Bevel and Extrude effect, it makes an odd-looking glitch on one of the letters.

This logo is something I created in Photoshop then had to mimic in Illustrator so that I can give my client a vector format of the logo (rookie mistake!). So, I had to manipulate each letter to take on the shape of the one I'd made in Photoshop. Each letter is on it's own "layer" (is that a thing in Illustrator?) so that I could space them appropriately and edit each one separately. The letter in question was stretched both length and width-wise. There are no flaws in the letter before I apply the 3D effect. I've tried saving different formats of the file as well as undoing and redoing the effect on that letter by itself. I thought maybe it was just an issue with Illustrator, so I opened the file on another machine and saw the same flaw. This problem is not happening to any other letters.

Here is a photo of it:

The issue is on the top curve of the "S".

And here are my settings for the effect:

What am I doing wrong?


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Can a 2-color logo be red, black and white?  I'm thinking that maybe white doesn't count because it's the background color?

Does a 1-color logo need to be literally black with a transparent background?


texts: How to create my own filter in photoshop?

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I need to be able to do very specific stuff like :

-inside the selection, select pixels that have a color saturation above a treshold X,
-then replace those pixels with the average pixel that have a color saturation below threshold X in a radius of Y

Basically this removes colors on a gray background. Do you know if it's possible to program such a filter in photoshop ? Or maybe there is an existing filter that does that ?


texts: How to/is there a simple way to stitch together an HDRI image from a google earth street view location?

texts: I'd like to make an HDRI image out of this spot in Manhattan. I've been looking for a tool that allows me to create an HDRI map out of a google earth location, but it does not seem possible to do easily, so I think I'll just have to stitch one together using Photoshop. I don't know much about photoshop, so how would I do this?


texts: I want to print a double sided BOOK not booklet that is 200 pages long

texts: My book is 200pages long.I need to print double sided but I want it bound properly so needs to be in order for guillotine and stacking.My paper size is A4 but the book is A5 sideways on the A4 paper and double sided.I did this twice before for books but am now 65 and the settings are eluding me to the point of distraction.Any help would be appreciated. I have spent 3 days on this and loads of paper already...Perhaps I need to change my name


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I am currently working on our company's design guidelines (which is much needed). At the moment I am puzzling on how to use set-up the logo's spacing. Generally using the height of the first letter as our measurement is acceptable, which is normally a capital and also a sans-serif. Our logo, which is a by-product of the design-by-committee days, uses a serif type-face.

So my question is: Should I include the serifs in the spacing measurement?

Without serifs in spacing:

With serifs in spacing:


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I'm interested in making a dotted brush. Am I able to do that?

I'm also interested in making a dotted line brush, but a row of three lines of dots instead of just one. Is that making sense?

I'd like to be able to draw one dotted line and have identical copies of the line parallel to the line drawn. Is this possible in either Photoshop or Illustrator?


texts: InDesign: change justification on autoflowed text

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Is it possible to have two text frames with different justifications, which are linked to allow the text to flow between them?
I'm inheriting an old design someone made using two individual text frames, but the text keeps getting updated and I'd rather have the frames linked, to allow autoflowing from one to the other. I can't find a way to alter the justification of the text frames individually, now that I've linked them.
Current look:

Desired look:


texts: How to convert a high number of PNG images to JPG forcing the background color?

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I have around 200 hundred PNG small images and I would like to convert all of them into JPG with a black background.

I usually do these kind of batch work with FastStone Image Viewer but there are no option for background color.

Can you suggest me a method and a program that I can use to achieve that result?


texts: InDesign: How to place multiple images in a text frame

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I need to place many images into a single text frame. I know that you can place as many images at a time as you like, but I can't figure out a way to place them inside a text frame. The only way I can put images in the text frame is one-at-a-time by placing an image outside the text frame and cut-pasting one-by-one into the text frame.

There's got to be a faster way to do this, right ?

EDIT: What I'm trying to accomplish: I'm making a book which contains mostly images, on some pages there are a few images on some only one. I need the to flow automatically in case I need to add or remove images later on.


texts: Adobe Illustrator RGB Not showing anything

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Hi I need your help with my Adobe Illustrator 2021, when I open my RGB files there are no colors, objects appear also it's not on the outline mode but you can see the object under the layer tab an example image below:

but when I tried to switch it into CMYK Document Color Profile the colors appears:


texts: Is the Monoprice Tablet a good investment?

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I'm planning do to some serious animating and drawing this summer so I've been considering buying a cintiq 13HD. The pad tablet works, but it's not the same feeling as drawing on papers which is why I think I want a cintiq or a LCD screen.

Is there any guy using this LCD tablet?

http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=108&cp_id=10841&cs_id=1084101&p_id=14481&seq=1&format=2

It's very considerable price relative to cintiq.

Also bigger screen but not Wacom.


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Any designer worth their salt will talk about the importance of the grid, and rightfully so. However, as I've continued to practice my trade, I've found that the baseline grid in particular doesn't always seem practical to me.

For example, I work with a lot of marketing sheets that have bulleted lists. My first inclination is to space everything evenly and keep the baseline grid, as so:

But a lot of times, we come to the conclusion that even though the bullets separate the items, the even spacing between lines and between list items makes it harder to separate the points visually. So we end up with something like this:

Each list item is better distinguished, but now the baseline grid is gone and the whole thing feels a little messier.

On a smaller level, here's another example:

Keeping a proper baseline grid makes a two-lined title look like separate things, but changing the spacing to correct that harms the flow (if some people only had a one-lined title).

It's possible that I could just still be inexperienced enough to not know how to have my cake and eat it too here. But I suspect that this could be a scenario where design rules have to be flexible to address different priorities.

But I'll ask regardless: Which is more important - maintaining a baseline grid in a situation like this, or compromising the grid to achieve gains in readability?


texts: Does sketch have the feature of Fireworks - drawing vector items + pixel editing?

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Drawing vecotr+bitmap items in Fireworks is super convenient. However, Adobe had failed to make Fireworks live on and MacOS 64x has sentenced Fireworks to death.
It seems the best alternative is Sketch so I am trying out. However, after some research I found it quite hard to do similar tasks - Where is the pixel tools (for instance, pencil in Fireworks) in Sketch?
Is it even an impossible task? Or do I miss something?


texts: After making a selection float in GIMP, how to move it in a straight vertical or horizontal direction?

texts: I am doing kerning manually in GIMP, i.e. trying to move letters closer to each other, but my hand movements are not exact enough on my mouse so whenever I move a layer to the left or right, it also goes a little in the vertical direction. I wonder if there is some feature that enables me to move a layer left or right (alternatively only up and down) so that I don't accidentally sway it a little down or a little up. Does anyone know? I am a beginner when it comes to GIMP.


texts: Export layers to PNG files, with their layer sizes with Photoshop

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Possible Duplicate:
  Exporting layers in Photoshop

I have a psd file with 30-40 layers.

I would like to export these into PNG files, since I need the transparent background.

I have tried some scripts out there and the File ⇒ Scripts &rArr Export... (which outputs only in jpeg), but the results are not how I would like.

I want it to export each layer using just that layer's visible height+width for the PNG output.

When I export a website PSD to PNG file, the logo PNG image size should be like 80x80px, and not the big 1200x800 (which is full website/size of the psd) where it hides the rest and leaves big white/transparent pixels.

See the image under, this is NOT how I wish it:

I only want the layer itself, which is the pink colored text, to be in the output png file.

Hope you understand what I am looking for to do.


texts: Increase the number of Anchor points on a circle in Illustrator?

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By default the circle has 4 anchor points. Is there a way to increase it?

Not manually adding them with the Add Anchor Point Tool with which you could never possibly manage the natural symmetry.


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I know that my question is could already be asked, but I can't find a clear answer.

I'm new to Indesign (i'm coming from webdesign), and I have to create a catalog. Each page contains the photo of a product and the description. To generate my indesign file, i've used data merging, and it works ok, in a way.

The only thing I'm not able to do, it's to have:

on the left page: the photo on left side and text on the right side
on the right page: the photo on the right side and text on left.

It is possible without paying for plugin like easy catalog?
Should I use XML ? What's the easiest way to do this?

I've tried to check/uncheck the "facing page" option, before and after data merging, but the pages are always the same.

Note : I'm using Indesign CS3, perhaps a more recent version has this possibility?

Thanks,
PS: sorry for my english...


texts: Figma: Material Design Theme Kit: Designating primary & secondary colors

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Material Design Theme Kit
I've successfully swapped out the default color pallet via the color styles with my own color pallet however by default the "Primary - 500" and "Secondary - 500" color tones are the selected tones leveraged by all the components.
In my color pallet, it is the "Primary - 900" and "Secondary - 300" that I have chosen as the selected tones for my components. There doesn't seem to be a way to re-designate which tones should be picked up by the components and individually setting each one is going to suck! Is it possible? Any speedy workarounds?
There is also a designated Primary Variant and Secondary Variant, which also cannot be re-designated within the theme kit.


texts: Affinity Designer: How to maintain the colour of the intersected object

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I have a rectangle and a circle (fig1). I would like to apply an intersection to these two objects.
For this, I duplicate the rectangle and then select the duplicated rectangle and the circle and apply an intersection.
After the intersection, the part of the circle overlapping the rectangle becomes of the colour of the rectangle (fig2).
I would like to know if there is a way of maintaining its original green colour like in fig3.


texts: Photoshop CS6 - Remove glare/hue from image

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How can I remove the glare/hue from either side of this image?

Heres what's been tried to remove the glare/hue.

Auto Tone
Reducing the colour balance blue tone for shadows (Makes the whole image yellow)
Reducing the Gamma correction (-)
Using curves to reduce the blue channel over the blue hued area. (Makes the whole image yellow)


texts: Requirements for clients at the beginning of the design process?

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After freelance designing for a little while now, I've realized that sometimes the process between the designer and client goes smoothly mostly when the client has a pretty good idea of what they want and aspects they want to incorporate. However when they come to me with a vague idea and just business name, I end up going around in circles trying to come up with something they like. Make one design, they want to see something different, make another, they want to change this or that?

How do you make this process better? And how do you deal with multiple revisions?


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I want to create my own font by using constraints. I want to define the size of angles, how long lines are, distance between points and so on. For example the sketch editor of FreeCAD offers this functionality but only for constructing parts in 3D and not fonts. I have tried a lot font creation tools like fontforge but creating a font feels more like drawing something with paint.

Which font creation tools offer this functionality?


texts: I'm working on a project that allows the player to purchase different skins. Can you make textures in MagicaVoxel? If not what are some good programs to make textures? I aiming to make blocky 3d textures for the skins that I can turn into a material to manipulate in Unity.


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I'm working on a logotype in Sketch and has set some text in Futura. Unfortunately the kerning looks quite bad and I'm not skilled enough to correct it manually using the character spacing property in Sketch.

Indesign has an automatic/algorithmic kerning setting called 'Optical kerning' which usually produces great results but I don't have access to any Adobe software at the moment.

Is there any other software that has high quality automatic kerning?


texts: How to delete unused data sets after a batch export to separate files?

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I read the answers to the following question:
Illustrator variables / data-driven documents: how to batch-export one file for each data set?
So now I have multiple files created...awesome! But now I want to remove the extra data sets from each of these files and can't figure out a way to automate this feature.


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I'm trying to achieve a certain effect with Photoshop. Basically, I want the edges of my shape to bleed seamlesssly into the background. I'm trying to achieve a "radial" gradient from black to transparent based on the shape.

Here's a quick and dirty example. I can't use the gradient/radial tool because it is based on a circle and doesn't adapt to the uniqueness of the shape. Any help appreciated, thanks.


texts: Is there a way to get a text value from the user in a Photoshop script?

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I'm using a JSX script to export an image to different sizes in Photoshop and I would like to get a value from the user such as to let them type in the file name. I would really like to show a dialog with a form but I would be fine if I could get the text value.

Link to script: https://gist.github.com/appsbynight/3681050
Link to similar post: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/21796/33547


texts: Trying to remove the back ground on this image but because its white on white the Magic wand, Quick Selection and Magic eraser tool won't pick it up. I know I could sit and eraser it all with a brush tool but I can't do it in a straight line because of the shape of the product. Is then any other way? I've tried different layers with brighter backgrounds etccc


texts: Create fallback for SVG in email signature

texts: I have looked everywhere for this, and I am surprised I haven't been able to find anything yet. Is it too early to refer to SVG images in an html email signature? I am just so surprised that someone hasn't figured out how to include a fallback to an png or jpg so that this is possible. I am not knowledgeable enough to even determine whether this is possible.


texts: Cut opacity of multiple shapes overlapping

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I want to create an overlay of 4 shapes. All of which are triangles which overlap. What I currently have is the opacity of the largest image set to 60% and then each smaller image the opacity reduces by 10%.
The problem I have is that the smallest shape is therefore the darkest but what I want is for each shape to ignore the opacity of the other shapes.

I have tried selecting the layer and then removing the selection from the bottom layer but this is not 100% accurate as it leave a small gap between layers.

Hope this makes sense, If anyone has any pointers that would be great.

Edit: here is the example i am working with currently... I have managed to use masks to remove the unwanted areas but as you can see there are still small lines overlapping each layer causing it to look bad. is there anyway to get around this?


texts: Displaying 20 in x 600 in GIMP/Photoshop file as PDF in Acrobat Reader

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I am preparing the  art project which involves using characters to obtain a visual and not literary artwork. Something like concrete poetry.

Project is supposed to be 20 inches of width and 15 - 20 ft of hight.

I tried various programs like Scribus but settled eventually with GIMP.

This project is to be viewed only on the computer it's not going to be printed.
Now I need a software I could use for viewing only purpose.

I thought of exporting GIMP file as PDF and use Acrobat Reader but apparently the project is too large for the program to display. So, is there any software capable of displaying such a file for viewing purpose only like PDFs or should I just use GIMP or Photoshop for displaying the project?

I don't want it to be a picture you need to zoom in to see details (the text) but something like scrolling down like a PDF or website because it's important to view the project in chronological (top -> bottom) order.


texts: Is it worth buying a screen tablet because it's easier?

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I'm an experienced traditional artist by hobby who's considering making a switch to digital art. I tried a non-display tablet (Huion Inspiroy H640P) that a relative of mine gave and found it incredibly hard to make hand-eye co-ordination with the screen.
I thought of getting a XP-PEN Artist 12 because it has a screen and it's also significantly cheaper than the other screen tablets out there just because it's easier with a screen.
Is it a good idea to go for a screen tablet because it's easier?


texts: Any way to automatically find and save any .ai file as .svg?

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For reasons, I would like all my .ai files saved as .svg too. I have hundreds, if not thousands, saved in different folders. Is there a way that I can script this using Illustrator?

Why?

Amazon Photos offers free, unlimited backups of photos. From what I can tell, it considers a .svg a photo, but does not consider .ai one. Hence I would like to save all my .ai files as .svg so I can have some form of additional, off-site backup.


texts: Gimp: Add border to half elliptical section

texts: I am trying to add a colored border to only the half elliptical seen in the image. Is there any way to do this? I have been trying everything possible and have looked all over online. I originally cut the image out of another image, and can now paste that half elliptical anywhere I want, and can also select it and move it around. I see the dotted lines around the shape I so badly want to put a border on, but cannot for the life of me figure out how. Please help.


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I'm a beginner with Inkscape. I have several objects in a file. By testing here I discovered that I can switch between objects through the TAB.

I have two questions regarding working with objects:

1 - Is there a way to list the objects in the file? And can I get an idea of how many elements there are?

2 - It is possible to select an object and work with it in a separate window as if the other objects were hidden. The idea is not to hide the others, but to work with a selected object and work in another window.


texts: Inkscape Stroke Does Not Follow Path Outline

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I'm somewhat new to vector graphics, but this is really baffling to me.

When I make a shape, the lines are supposed to follow the path outline, right? According to the outline I should have a niceish rounded square. Instead the lines inexplicably distort outward. What is going on here and how do I make it stop?


texts: i try to add a diagonal line in the background of a div. i wonder if it's possible to do it without to use a .png image. I saw some css options but the render quality is poor and the line don't touch both side.


texts: Photoshop: Incorrect placement of new grid

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I'm trying to create a new guide line in Photoshop CC (2017).

I've changed my 0,0 point in the file to be at the corner of a particular layer (so no longer at 0,0--or the upper left of the image).

When I click "new guide" and put in a value (like 3 in), the new guide will appear as if I had never moved the 0,0 point.  It will show the guide if I kept the 0,0 point at the default upper left hand corner of the file.

I've never run into this problem before.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


texts: I am putting multiple tables into my InDesign document, created in PDF format (using LaTex). The PDF are not rasterized. When I change the size of the frame, and rescale the graphic, the relative size of the font changes. How to I keep the same font size across all of my tables.


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I work on some detailed graphics.
I would like to have two windows of the same file open at once, one zoomed in and the other at 100%. This is easy.
But what I can't figure out is how to remove ALL "stuff" from the 100%
I don't want any guides, rulers, Bounding Boxes handles or such only my pixles.
This works in PS using hide extras on the 100% view. But in Illustrator hiding the bounding box for example hides it in both views.
Am I missing something here?


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I have a layered file that consists of a colored background and sparkles over it. There are multiple sparkle layers of different sizes and intensities. The purpose of this file is to generate production images with various kinds of sparkles. I achieve it by tuning background color and sparkle layer opacity. Here's the simplified cropped example:

All layers are of Normal Blending mode, with the exception of the SPARKLES group, which is Color Dodge. And the resulting image is:

As you see, the sparkles have the same hue as the background. But the problem is, for some cases, I need to add a golden tone to the sparkles, so their color would look like (sparkles' form doesn't matter in this example, pay attention to color only):

And I don't know how to do it. I don't prefer duplicating sparkles in yellow, because there are too many layers to duplicate then, and I like the sparkles' appearance in Color Dodge mode - it keeps the original background hue, but just lacks a gold-tone there. Is there a way to add a golden effect in a single place? So it can be easily tuned. I tried to implement it with an adjustment layer, etc. - no success.


texts: How to script resize export and specific folder output?

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I maintain my uncle's photography website and that work currently at least consists of resizing new photos to different sizes (full, retina-thumbnail, regular thumbnail) and putting them on the site (non-wordpress).

To speed up my workflow, I was hoping to create a script (probably Photoshop, but any application will do) that

Scale the size to 1920 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/full/
Scale the size to 400 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/retinaThumb/
Scale the size to 200 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/thumb/

It's importing that quality, as well as file name is maintained, no matter what. My current Photoshop script forces me to set a specific file name and that should be a wildcard, i.e. remain the same as the inputs file name.

Thats why I'm hoping for a script that export and maintains filename, but how?


texts: Selling a logo to a business who did not ask for one

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One of my projects in college was to recreate a logo for a local business.

The professor picked the business and I do not believe the business owners know about it. Since my logo has won several recognitions, I thought it would be cool if the actual business would use it.

Since they did not ask for a new logo, how would I go about asking them if they would like to buy it?

I do not want to come out sounding like a cheesy business person trying to sell something or offend the owner if perhaps they are the one who created their original logo. I am having trouble with the wording in my letter to them.


texts: How can I remove some portion of my background base on other layer?

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I know very little when it comes to design.

I have 2 layers - a text on top of a background.

result

How can I delete/take-off the shape of my layer 1 out of my layer 0 ?


texts: Cinema4d: how to move a selection of points towards a camera's origin

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I want to translate a selection of points along the camera ray in Cinema 4d.

The desired effect is to have the points retain the same screen based 2d position but change there 3d world position.

How is this done in cinema 4d? I'm missing the terminology to search it.

Here is an image to help describe...


texts: Use of a hamburger menu for minimalist design on desktop website?

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Here is a link to my website. My aim was to have a "minimalist" interface, with large font and lots of blank space. The idea was coming from the fact that I personally feel more like reading a webpage when the font is not too small! Consequently, I chose a hamburger menu so as to tuck the navigation away and make the page feel "lighter". As the website is pretty straight forward, I planned to rely on pretty obvious in context links (especially from the index page).

Yet, I wonder if this is not "too" minimalist? Am I the only one who likes "white space"? More specifically, what do you guys think of using the hamburger menu in this context on desktop version? I could be argued that such navigation style is unclear and counter intuitive, although it feels quite natural to me...


texts: Help me identify this font or something close to it?

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I'm looking for the font 1:30 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhgyp0KNQQ:

The Adam Tensta text is in a font that I think is used in the old game Street Fighter, but I'm not sure, and I can't find it or something even close to download.
Do I need to create it myself? Or is there a font out there like this?


texts: Does Photoshop CC produce CSS for gradients?

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Photoshop CC allows exporting CSS.  When I try this with a gradient layer, the whole thing is basically an image.  I was thinking it would produce complex CSS for the gradient.

Is this a limitation of Photoshop CC or is there a way to get the actual CSS needed to create the gradient.


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In Photoshop when I want to cut out part of a picture I can easily move along the edges with the pen tool and draw my curves - not so easy with Pixelmator. Especially the Alt key does not do anything when clicking the handles here.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Indesign CS6 Is it possible to make one really long page and use breaks to make it work as if it's multiple pages?

texts: I'm having trouble using the show/hide feature in Indesign to effect elements across multiple pages (see my question on  the issue here).  If I can't figure out how to make that work my next best solution will be to make one page that's about 75,000 pt long and use some type of feature to add breaks where the pages would normally be so the user will be able to follow along and jump back and forth between "pages" like any other multi page PDF.  Is this possible?


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Let's say I've got a UV map with defined edges of the certain elements of an object and white lines inside those edges.
What is the best way to paint upon that? It seems a little bit unnatural (as I'm only starting) to create a texture upon those. I've been trying out 3DCoat which allows you to edit the object in the external editor in the plane you want (for example, from right/left side, I think Blender also allows that). But the end result is not the same as if you were painting on the texture map itself. The difference is that when you paint in such a way, the painting is applied in a different way (not that precise I would say). It's easier though. What is a common way and how to get used to it and understand how you should properly do it?


texts: Getting vector graphics software that works on windows 7 in 2021

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I need a vector graphics software that works on Windows 7. I'm a strong opponent to programmed obsolescence, and I have strong objections against monthly subscription plans to use a piece of software you will never own. My computer is old but still working fine, and I see no reasons for buying a new machine with Windows 10.
I wanted to know if anybody knew of a place where I could get older copies of CorelDraw of Adobe Illustrator. I would obviously prefer legal answers.
Thanks.


texts: How do I convince my client that coloring their brand name in a text block is a bad idea?

texts: My company keeps requesting that the company name be in green (the brand color) every time it appears in a text block. This is jarring, disruptive and generally bad design but I am having a hard time convincing them. Does anyone have any rationale that I could use?


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The easiest way to pick (non-professional) color schema is to use free on-line instruments, like https://color.adobe.com/ or many others.

If I choose 0 degree, calculator set complementary color to 137 degree. If I choose 100 degree calculator set complementary color is 235 degree.

I expect simple relation: (base + 180) mod 360 = complementary degree. But this is not the case.

I make decision that hue is not linearly distributed across 360 degree in HSL/HSB/HSV color representation.

Am I right?

How can I make complementary, triad, analogous colors in term of Hue, Saturation and Value which correspond to usual color wheel?


texts: Adobe Illustrator - create new document at launch

texts: Is it possible to change Adobe Illustrator settings to create an empty new document each time it is launched?


texts: How to simplify a slide change in Photoshop?

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What is the best way to simplify a slide change?

I use "Gradient Overlay" and moving the circle, but it takes a lot of time.

I need to take a lot of different pictures with other values.

PSD file: https://we.tl/t-dyLOKgncE8


texts: Trying to give text a gradient effect in Illustrator cs6

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I'm trying to change the "3" to a gradient, but when I click the gradient icon it just goes black and the gradient settings to not take effect. I tried going to object > expand but that didn't do anything.
Here are screenshots.
Selecting the fill works.

Selecting the gradient does not work.


texts: I created a grey scale bmp image (depthmap) which corresponds with the first frame in a short video clip. my intention is to use the bmp image as a mask and then track the mask for the remainder of the clip. how would i do this? my experience with after effects is limited. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Rectangular Grid Tool gets hidden when I click on image, how do I stop that?

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I want to keep the rectangular grid tool at the front as I am manipulating images in Illustrator. The problem is that as soon as I click on an image, the grid disappears. How do I keep the grid visible while changing the image?

And the image ends up going behind all the others. Even if I try to move it forward or to the front, it still does not work.


texts: When brushing with a translucent colour, is there any way to make multiple strokes into one?

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The example below is using Krita, but since this kind of operation is common in almost all graphics software, I would like to know if there is a general method for this.
When brushing with a translucent colour, while I am brushing without releasing the mouse left button, the drawn part has the same colour. But if I release the left button and try to brush again to add some missing parts (that was not painted by the previous stroke), the overlapping area gets thicker.
But often, I want to paint a single entity with multiple strokes, because painting the exact shape in one stroke without releasing the left button is not easy. Is there anyway to make a few consecutive paint have the same effect as one paint, that is, the overlapping area below would not be thicker than the other part? Something like pressing a modifier key during multiple strokes, etc (tried, but there seems to be no such thing)?
The workaround I could come up with is creating a separate layer, paint with a completely opaque colour, change the opacity of the layer, and then merge the layer, but this is really cumbersome.


texts: Saving many artboards as eps without the artboards' border

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I have an .ai document with many artboards.

I would like to save each artboard separately as an .eps so I can place it in InDesign.
If I use the "Save As" option and check the "Use Artboards" box.
It does save them separately but the result has the artboards' border:

As opposed to when having only 1 artboard in the .ai file, and saving as .eps, it takes only the artworks' frame rather than the artboards':

I would like to save all the artworks as an .eps but without the artboards' frame.

Is there a way to accomplish what I want without moving each artwork to a separate .ai document and then saving it?


texts: creating a guide along the page edges in Scribus

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I want to create a box on a page that spans the width of the page. In order to do that, I want to draw a rectangle and move the corners so that they snap to the edges of the page. I have turned on the snap to grid and snap to guide options.

I am unable to create a snap guide on the edge of the page, it is visible until it is about .80 points away from the right edge and any closer than that to the edge, it disappears.

I want to create some default guides in this Scribus document, similar to what the second part of this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/20195684/1484229 suggests.

Is there a "guides around page" option or something like it in Scribus?


texts: Clicking on the smart object opens a new blank photoshop window instead of the file contents

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So, everything was working fine until I reset my Photoshop preferences and all of a sudden whenever I click on a smart object to edit it I get a "New Photoshop window" thing. Same thing happens when I click on Edit contents while the smart object is selected.

What might be the problem?


texts: Is there a name for logos with four letters in the quadrants of an X?

texts: I'm trying to do some research into these types of logos but I can't find anything of use on Google using the buzzwords - 'Cross logo', 'X logo', 'X with text around logo'. Is there a certain name for this design?


texts: I am a new fashion designer and would like to have my logo printed on my designs.How do I print my logo on my clothing designs please? Some are cotton others are a stretch fabric. Many thanks


texts: WCAG luminance contrasts - current practice, what is it?

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I tried to ask this question in another group, but got a hint this group might be more appropriate.

I just wrote a little tool to check luminance contrast (WCAG) on a web page. Testing this I was surprised to see that a lot of sites (for example Facebook) uses contrast as low as 2.7 where the recommended contrast is 4.5 (WCAG2 AA).

There are many sites doing that (for example this one ;-) ). It seems like there is some practical consensus. It looks difficult for a designer to avoid using lower contrast on some elements.

This post took up a somewhat similar problem. Is there any documentation about this practice with contrast of using low luminance contrast? Some research or some recommendation at W3C that I can not find?

I hope my little tool does not get this wrong. ;-)


texts: Using imaging software to turn images into colouring-in activities

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I am trying to prepare colouring-in pictures as children's activities.

I have seen this question and attempted using this kind of technique. It works well for touching up existing line art, but isn't appropriate with arbitrary images.

I have also tried using Posterize in Gimp followed by edge detection and threshholding. I have also tried Trace Bitmap functionality in Inkscape, but I find that it that most of my attempts are producing too many tangled contours to be useful for colouring-in without a lot of time consuming cleanup.

I am wondering is there an existing filter or script that automates this process for Gimp or Inkscape or recipes to use with existing filters.

I am using Gimp and Inkscape (but I may consider Software-as-a-Service or a commercial solution if there was something that works really well.)

EDIT I have added two attempts below for clarity.

Attempt using Inkscape Trace Bitmap

Below is an example of my attempt with Inkscape using this NASA image of a tardigrade. After the image is Bitmap Traced, the Fill is removed and Stroking is added to produce the contours.

Attempt using Gimp Posterize with Inkscape Trace Bitmap

This uses the same settings as above but with initial Posterizing.


texts: Creating CM-Wallpaper pattern using Inkscape's Tiled Clones tool

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I would like to recreate a relatively simple graphic pattern in Inkscape - dots arranged in a manner like in this image:

For what I have learned, this is CM symmetry and fortunately, Inkscape's tiled clones tool has support for it. Unfortunately, I'm unable to get it working correctly.

It looks like Inkscape is creating two arrays of dots, one being slightly shifted (in X axis):

So far I was unable to influence that shift with any of the available settings. I can manually delete half of the clones and get what I want, but I believe there is a better solution.

EDIT:

I kind of managed to get what I want, but in order to do so I had to build a custom version of Inkscape. Editing the code responsible for clones' placement and tweaking in a bit kind of does the job - half of the clones are created in the original - place with this change, it's easy to delete them later with one click:

//clonetiler.cpp
case TILE_CM:
    if ((i + j) % 2 == 0) {
        return Geom::Translate(0,0);
        //return d_s_r * rect_translate;
    } else {
        return d_s_r * flip_x * rect_translate;
    }
    break;

Result:

I'll keep the question open, as editing the Inkscape's code shouldn't be a part of regular workflow.


texts: How to use hatching and crosshatching with ink?

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Recently I have been trying to learn some new media, and ink is one of them. I love what some people can do with it, both modern comicbook artists and old masters. I would love to achieve effects similar to what Durer did, for example like this:

I cant really find any useful info on how to do that. The youtube videos I watched on hatching with ink were all about shading spheres and boxes, small ones I might add. Not very useful, when I tried to apply it to a portrait.

What are the guidelines for learning and using ink for portraits and similar art? Are there any good resources on the topic? Where should I be looking for them?

While someone corrected me in the comments, and told me the work I posted as an example of what I want to achieve is an engraving, it is still doable with a pen and ink - it's all black lines, and black lines are what pens do really well. I would like to ask for answers focusing on the drawing with ink aspect and ignorign the engraving thing - I have a quill dip pen and i want to learn how to hatch to get the threedimensionality and awesomeshade gradation that Durer's pieces have (ignoring how he made them). A less awesome example of how I would like to draw is this:

The thing that I like about the Durer example is that it has light tones that arent pure white. The others show a lot of white - especially the Santa example has blazing white cheeks and nose right next to pretty dark shades. I like the softness of shade gradation in Durer's autoportrait.

How can I learn shading this way? Are there any guidelines? Could you recommend any resources to learn from? Or maybe you could instruct me on how to learn this in an answer?


texts: Saving Illustrator AI File as PDF and PDF is inaccurate

texts: I created a wireframe in Illustrator. I have it saved as an AI file. I decided to "Save As" a PDF so as to send it to the client. The PDF shows excess footer layers at the bottom. In fact, it replicated my footer two more times. I did not name my layers and I cannot find where to delete this is in the AI file version of the wireframe, because the excess footers do not show up here. Any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: trying to recreate a logo & need some pointers

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I am trying to figure out how to create a logo based on a series of semi-circles within another, with only one end of the most interior semi-circle extended.

This is the original logo I'm trying to recreate (found here):

I am trying to do this while maintaining a constant and uniform angle/width between all semi-circles. I have managed to create the exterior part, by creating a circle with stroke weight: 9pt and splitting it and rounding the edges, but I am having trouble figuring out a way to approach the interior segment.

I have tried using the arc tool with the anchor points of the exterior semi-circles as a reference but cannot seem to get the angles right.

I have also tried creating smaller semi-circles but when it comes to extending one end, I am unsure of how to approach that as well and cannot maintain an even width within the semi-circles.

Beginner at Illustrator, looking for some tips. Any help is very much appreciated.


texts: Can I connect multiple line segments to a single point using the pen tool in photoshop?

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I'm using the pen tool in CS5 to draw shapes, and I'm getting more comfortable with it, but one thing I'd really like to be able to do is add to a path.  For example, if I draw a circle, I'd like to be able to bisect it with the pen tool and have two distinct paths emerge without having to draw two separate paths and try to get the duplicate points on top of each other by hand.

How do I do this?


texts: Font with transparent holes-fill in and outline in illustrator

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I'm using a font called Nashville. I want to outline only the most outside of the paths. If I try to use the outline tool, it outlines all of the small holes in the font, too. I want to fill in the holes in the font and then outline the most outside paths.

Somehow I got this to work on on block of text, but can't remember how I did it. I used some combination of Outlines, Expand, and Flatten Transparencies.

Font-no outlines

Font-how I want it to look

Also, is there a way to round the edges of the outline so it's not so spikey?

Thanks!


texts: How do I equally space the pieces of a split shape in Illustrator?

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I want to move all of the pieces of a split hexagon so there is equal space between each piece.

I could use the stroke function but I need it to have a transparent background.

I've split the hexagon into 24 pieces but I am stuck.


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I am by no means a Graphic Designer but try. I have an image I got from iconarchive and am trying to set the color to red (#840a0c) and setting transparent where there is white. I am using GIMP for this task and every time I give it a whirl I get jagged edges and it just looks awful:

Original icon:

Modified icon:

Would appreciate any help.


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I created a custom font, and wanted to use it in Illustrator. However, some of the kerning was not working. Most of the kerning works, but there are some that doesn't. I've tried the font on MS Word and Powerpoint, and the kerning works perfectly on those programs. I've tried deleting the preference but that did nothing.

How can I get the kerning to work on my custom font?

EDIT: Thanks for all the response! Here are some of the information that might help resolving the issue...
I'm a complete newb when it comes to making fonts, so the problem is most likely in the font file.Also, should I upload my font?

I use illustrator CC 2017

⋅illustrators kerning settings are set to automatic

⋅as a work-around for a problem in after effects all spacing between letters are handled by kerning

⋅created using fontlab studio 5, but also tried importing the project to fontlab VI preview and then generating the font(both had the same problem)

⋅most of the kerning is done by class kerning

⋅done by following the tutorial here:
https://youtu.be/UhDMmIJE-BQ
https://youtu.be/P0C4oVSBOQg

⋅.ttf file format

Edit2:it was a problem with my font.. some of the characters were included in the classes more than once. thanks!


texts: What icon can I use to represent 'concept'?

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What sort of icon/graphic could represent 'concept'?

It would be very helpful as a place-holder when I am making basic sketches and notes.

Third Party Edit (from comments):

  hhajemi (OP): From my experience, I will normally try to clarify some key concepts in the areas of interest and the following discussions will be based/built/developed upon these concepts. Than the light bulb or CFL (thanks koiyu for sharing this) moment, I can use a "brick" or "jigsaw" piece to represent a concept. I believed that this is not original but I think it can serve the purpose. Thanks all for commenting.


texts: How to deal a freelance design project remotely?

texts: When a client approach a designer via social media to make a design job, how to deliver that project to the client keeping a security payment? The designer can't just mail the project and wait for client to pay. What if they just vanish? Same goes for designer side. So is there any convenient way to deal this?


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I'm looking for help in creating curved lines in the example below:

I've tried using rounded rectangles but it the final result doesn't look quite the same.


texts: How to isolate layer effects into their own layer

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I've put some nice effects on a layer in Photoshop, and the effect is repeated across several layers. Now, I have to cut it up for the web, and I want to be efficient with how I display the effect.

For example, I had an outer glow for a quiz game I had to use for a bunch of images, and could be switched on/off. So instead of exporting each image with/without, I can just export it separately and use it/not on each image.

How do you separate the layer from its effects, so you can export only the effects?


texts: InDesign Paragraph Styles, Object Styles & GREP

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New to the forum so apologies if this has possible been covered before.

I work in catalogue creation and we've recently transferred over to inDesign
Im trying to recreate our price lozenges in InDesign and i can only get so far.

What I need to achieve is this:

Note: I have successfully recreated this using one text frame, a paragraph style and a lengthy amount of GREP Styles.

What i've recreated:

I am really struggling with the fact that we "need" (my boss needs) the 'each' part of the lozenge to sit on the right hand side of the lozenge (where it sits in the first screenshot) but for the life of me, i can not find a way to do this without using an Anchored object.

Unfortunately we're using a CMS and its quite important that the price imports in one text frame, otherwise the CMS can not export our prices..

If anyone has ANY suggestions i would REALLY REALLY appreciate it


texts: Illustrator: Copy appearance between documents

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I am currently making assets for an InDesign project. In order to stay consistent I wanted to copy over the shadow I created to the rest of my assets. It was then when I noticed that I do not have the slightest idea how to do that ...

Note that they are all in seperate documents / .ai files, in case that is relevant.


texts: InDesign - Link text frames without threading and proper Master creation

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InDesign novice here. I am trying to create a catalog-type document to simplify the creation process for a client (previously using Illustrator), but I am not understanding very well how Master pages and text frames work.

What I'd like to achieve is the creation of a "Product template/block" that I can add repetitively on each page (6 per page), and products rearranging on next pages when I delete or add a new one.

I believed I would just create my text frames on the master and link each in relation to the other, but I am starting to think I am approaching this problem wrong: each text frame "threads", sending the text of one reference inside the previous box.

Ultimately I'd like to perform this through XML but since the Excel document of my client isn't harmonized yet, I'd like to give myself a heads-up and recreate the template in the meantime.

A copy of the initial page (from Illustrator), the block I'd like to appear on each section and move around, as well as what I've done so far on my master are attached.

What I'd like to achieve:

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My progress so far:

Thanks in advance for saving my life if you can!


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I just started using Inkscape today and began making a logo for my robotics team.

The logo consists of a phoenix that has overlaid text reading "Project Phoenix", with various other descriptors around a circular path.

For some reason, the "Project Phoenix" text that is overlaid on top of the phoenix bird graphic does not properly show up when viewing the SVG in other programs or attempting to use the SVG in other uploads.

I am using a Mac running OS X El Capitain.  When I render the SVG using Gapplin, the "Project Phoenix" text does not appear.  However, when I attempt to upload the SVG to the t-shirt designer on The Graphic Edge, the "Project Phoenix" text appears as an orange block with various black blocks that form around it.

When I save the SVG to EPS and PDF formats from Inkscape, the rendered graphic appears to look as it should.

If anyone might be able to provide some insight as to why the SVG is not rendering correctly, and does so differently in different situations, I would greatly appreciate it!

Below are some screenshots of how the SVG is supposed to look (once rendered in EPS and PDF file formats) and what happens when rendered in Gapplin and on The Graphic Edge t-shirt designer.

Intended Graphics

Gapplin Rendering

The Graphic Edge Rendering