texts: InDesign: Updating ToC causes All Document Text to Disappear

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I am using a template supplied by the service bureau. After adding 200+ pages of body text, I returned to the table of contents, and updated it. The red box (overset text) appeared. The next page was blank, containing only a blue hidden crosshatch (#) character. I clicked on the red box, got a loaded arrow, and clicked on the page with the blue crosshatch. The ToC updated properly. I went through the document where there were a few unneeded blank pages and deleted them. Now when I update the Table of Contents, all the text in the entire document disappears. If I undo that action, the ToC and the rest of the document's pages reappear, but the ToC isn't updated and contains entries with incorrect page numbers. How can I fix this?

Update: Apparently a ToC has to be within its own "story" in an InDesign file. I think, though I'm not sure, that the "story" was demarcated by the blue crosshatch character(#). In the version of the file that's giving me problems, now there is only one blue crosshatch at the end of the file. If there was a way to insert the blue crosshatch at the end of the ToC this might solve the problem but I have no idea as to how to do do this.


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I've used Photoshop to design (more or less) every website I've made in the past 9 or 10 years. I hear people going on about Fireworks saying that it's excellent for web design and prototyping.

When Adobe took over Macromedia, I was surprised that Fireworks survived so there must be something great about it to keep it going alongside, for what I can see, a very similar program.

Can anybody give me a good outline of the pros and cons of using Fireworks over Photoshop and the differences I'll need to know about before trying it out?

-- edit --

I'll be more interested to hear the little things that people do with it that makes it so useful over having massive articles pasted at me.


texts: Design term for a callout box with lines to source?

texts: What is the industry term for this effect?


texts: Can you extract raster layers from Illustrator back to their source files?

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I was given an illustrator file that was used to mark up screenshots.  The screenshots themselves are the original raster images, one per layer, and the annotations are all additional shape/path layers.  In other words, the original screenshots are unmodified themselves as the annotations are on different layers.

What I'm wondering is if it's possible to somehow get those raster images back out again as separate files.

  Note: To my knowledge this is not the same as exporting an illustrator file/layer/whatever to a raster image as that (re)creates raster images from the layers, including rendering down any paths, etc.  I'm trying to simply gain access to the already-rasterized data behind the layer.  Hope that makes sense.


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I want to create a brushstroke along a given path, that looks like it has been made with a Chinese calligraphy brush.

The exact effect that I'm going for is, that it starts kind of bold at the beginning of the stroke and gets thinner, sharper end pointier towards the end.

This is the Chinese calligraphy brush style I was talking about, however, the exact stroke that I'm going for is not displayed here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjApRsvyUKI

FYI I work with a mouse and not a graphic tablet.


texts: I'm trying to export an SVG image, which contains text from illustrator. I want to use it for a website. For SEO and size reasons I don't want to convert typo into vectors. What are the settings I have to use to make it work in all/most browsers. I'm having trouble with Firefox and IE not rendering the fonts correctly.


texts: How would you fill past a boundary in Photoshop?

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By default, the fill tool in Photoshop with contiguous on, would perform an operation such that the specified colour floods until it touches the detected boundaries.

Is there a way of modifying the fill tool, or a series of steps, that would allow the fill colour to flow past the detected boundaries by a specified amount of pixels. Almost like a stroke around the filled colour but with the colour of the stroke corresponding to the fill.

If such is not possible in Photoshop, could I be directed to software that has such capabilities, preferably a free raster image editor.


texts: How to choose a grid, for a complex mixed content web page

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Planning a web page design in wireframes is super easy, but the next step is to choose a grid and build the page in Photoshop. This is a mine field to me.

What is your methodology for choosing a grid and deciding how to build up your page?

I am particularly interested in pages like news websites that have a lot of different types of information on them.

I find this kind of layout particularly difficult, since it becomes really easy to make the page look cluttered and noisy.


texts: Find a good colour match from an RGB to a CMYK / spot colour that will print well

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I have a hex colour #0d152c, which is a corporate colour, when this is converted / printed in CMYK the colour doesn't convert well when printed and looks a bit washed-out because obviously CMYK has a lower colour range.

Is there a way of taking a hex colour and finding a CMYK colour that is reasonably close that will look good when printed (I think this would be called a spot colour?). When I change the colour mode in Adobe illustrator the colour on screen doesn't change, and is still rendered on screen as an RGB colour because that's what my monitor uses.

I am new to Graphic Design so please be kind :)


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I used to think that the inner margin should be smaller than the outer margin in two-sided paper layouts, as in classical book layouts.

This is an example of what I mean:

This example was taken from this document: http://www.ntg.nl/maps/30/13.pdf

However, people in the printing house where I am going to have my book printed recently told me that I am wrong. According to them, the inner margin should be equal to or greater than the outer one, mainly because there is a small part of the margin that gets partially hidden in the binding process.

I know that I should add a small offset to the inner edge of the layout. When I am asking about inner and outer margins, I mean without taking that offset into account.

So, my question is: What are some most common or accepted rules about inner-outer margins ratio, when talking about a classical book design?

When I say classical I don't mean medieval but just not too modern.


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In the following post @joojaa writes out the math function for the artwork shown here:

His code is specifically in PostScript, which is awesome...but I'm wondering if this can't be converted to Javascript specifically to be written as an Illustrator script. I've tried it myself with no luck.

  var t = 1000;   //not sure what 't' should be other than a number
  var e = a.pathItems.ellipse(20*Math.cos(t)-10*Math.sin(5*t+Math.PI/2), 20*Math.sin(t)+10*Math.cos(5*t+Math.PI/2));
  e.stroked = true;
  e.filled = false;

The code actually does generate an ellipse but its def not correct.

Any ideas on how to draw a math function for Illustrator using scripting?


texts: How to apply image to inside of stroke (fill area)?

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I would like to know, how can I apply that stickerbomb image to fill the inside of a stroke, but not the stroke.

I mean I was trying to apply it in many ways but always it ended up with image on stroke and not inside of it.

The stroke has been drawn in Illustrator if it matters.

I would like to manipulate the image inside of stroke as well.

I would like the image to appear like this:


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Before I do this, I wanted to ask the experts on how to properly do it.  I need to glue a printed sheet to a heavier card stock paper, than I need the whole thing folder in half.  The question is do I score/fold before or after I glue the sheets together. I'm trying to avoid paper rips where the folds are.

Your help appreciated.


texts: How should I handle a client when they ask for my opinion about another designer's work?

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I met a client that currently works with a designer whom I don't know - the client showed me his new logo and asked my opinion about it. I answered that I don't like "grey on grey background". That's all I answered.

Two days later I got an email from the client (He just sent it without prior conversation) with all the sources of another designer's works and he asked my opinion about the whole bunch of 4 PDFs and their content.

How would you price it (to give an opinion about another designer's work).
Do you think it is ethical to answer that question (I actually dislike the results, thus I am biased from the beginning. Secondly, I don't make that kind of designs - i.e. CMYK-based printings etc).
And if you don't want to answer that question - how can you articulate the rejection?


texts: Logo: improvement, what software to use, general guidelines

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I'm an amateur interested in graphic design.

What I'm doing is a logo for a brand called Shelves. I started sketching with the idea of the letter S + a book, shelf, sheet of paper or something associated with the name. That's what I've made:

Then I changed tactics and just started creating a simple S logo in Photoshop. I ended up with some weird stuff looking like they are made by 5 years old kid playing with PS. I'm talking about these:

So my questions are:

Is there potential in any of my sketches to become a nice, clear, simple logo? And which one according to you would turn out a good one?
What would you recommend as software for creating the logo? Right now I'm using only Photoshop and I'm not sure if I'm not using it right or there's a better software (should I use Illustrator!?) ?

I would be glad if you recommend me some tutorials, techniques, rules, articles or anything that's going to help me learn how to create a nice professional looking logos and designs on the whole. Thank you.


texts: Remove object with multiple angles of its background?

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I have this image:

My goal is to remove the pillars on the side of the edge of the image so that it looks something like this: (I did a terrible clone job)

I have the a photo taken at a different angle:

Are there tools in photoshop that can help me achieve my goal?


texts: Subpage numbering on only specific pages in InDesign

texts: We are creating spare part manuals in InDesign where some of the pages are for only a few different parts where we want to change their page numbers as for example from 7 to 6.1 (because page 7 is originally a slightly changed version of page 6) and then continue to count the main pages from where we left. This is not applied to all the pages but just to a subset of them. Is this possible and if yes how can we achieve it?


texts: Why is flat design not as common on the desktop?

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Flat design has become extremely popular since the release of Windows 8, but I cannot find as many examples of it on the desktop as I do on the web and mobile apps. By desktop examples I mean Windows 7/Vista/XP visual styles, Gtk/QT themes and Linux desktops. I don't think there are as many applications which use principles of flat design either.

Is there any reason, maybe even UX-wise, for the unpopularity of flat design on the desktop?


texts: Photoshop CS4 - File saving error "File in use"

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I'm using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac.  I'm constantly getting this error when I try to save a PSD:

Could not save "file-name.psd" because the file is already in use or was left open.

I have to end up saving the file with a 1 appended and then delete/rename.  Any one have some idea how to get around this?


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I admire Monokai color scheme. Did the makers of Sublime Text design it or is it in use before Sublime Text arrived?

The second part of the question is that can I freely copy it for my own editor or does anybody have copyright on it?


texts: I'm a first time GIMP user. I have an image that contains a design that'd I like to copy on to a transparent background. therefore, I started tracing the design using the paint/pencil tool. now that i'm finished, i want to the design that i created by tracing into another layer that is transparent. how would i go about separating the original image and the new design?


texts: im new to photoshop, so im watching a tutorial of removing a man from a photo. but content aware fill is not working . i have tried many times. but its not getting removed .This is the before and after picture . i cant see any change. can you pls  help me.


texts: What is appropriate visual tool to trace a simple cartoon with minimal points?

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I am not a graphic designer. I am using PSTricks to draw mathematical and technical diagrams for daily works. With PSTricks, we need points to draw.

Reproducing the following, for example, is tedious in PSTricks if we have to locate the points by trial and error.

Question

Is there any free visual tool to trace the above image to obtain the critical points as minimal as possible?


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I've tried to make a filter in Illustrator so that it looks like the filter used in the Yosemite menu-bar. I can't seem to get it quite right.

Here's an image of the menu-bar, for those of you not familiar with Yosemite.

Any suggestions on how to proceed would be highly appreciated.


texts: I searched already on internet and my colleagues. Mesh tool is used to create realistic shadow in Illustrator it is mostly found in Freepik vectors. Please help me to re-create this effect your help will be really appreciated. And it will also help me in my career I'm self-taught graphic designer. Here is the reference image: mesh tool used


texts: Keeping quality of bitmap illustrations for web/print

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I draw illustrations by hand on paper, scan in and then wish to use as artwork or edit further.
One way I've done so way to trace hand drawn work using the pen tool in Illustrator, creating vector work.

I've found I now want to retain the hand-drawn quality of work, but still use online and print.
I wonder what the best way to do this is?
And how would someone like Laurène Boglio retain the quality of her work online and in publication–I think she uses ink on paper, and they don't look like they've been vectorised, particularly the work at the bottom of the page of her portfolio here:
https://www.boglio.com/gifs

Thank you!


texts: I am designing an outdoor pvc banner for a customer, ya know the ones that you tie to railings. Does anybody know what the standard size is for the inside margin for the text all the way round the banner?? in mm please? i am working with InDesign by the way


texts: In Photoshop, how can I increase the transparancy of a PNG image?

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I have an image with a gradient that goes from fully opaque to fully transparent.  I was given this by a customer who doesn't have the original PSD file.

All I need to do is make the file more transparent so the opaque part is semi-opaque and so the entire thing really is more transparent than it used to be.  If it's a layered PSD I know how to do that but can't figure out how to get the layers back.


texts: Is Adobe the only company that can license usage of Myriad Pro?

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I am trying to get Myriad Pro onto my website and I have the use of Adobe's Typekit, but I think that it is stuck in the last decade with its JS loading and FOUT so I am wanting to embed the fonts using @font-face.

Is Adobe the only company that licenses the use of Myriad Pro, as they won't give us a server license to use the fonts in this way, or am I able to obtain a license from elsewhere?

The company already has a license that allows it to use the font in all the commercial brochures and prints, but I'm not sure if this covers us for using it on the web.

Any advice about this would be much appreciated as I am getting nowhere asking the marketing department who are adamant I must use the font on the website.


texts: How to change the color of text inside a TextFrame instead of color of the bounding box itself

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Inside indesign javascript scripting: how it is possible to change the color of a block of text instead the color of the bounding box of the block itself?

Because something like:

textFrame.fillColor = color;

would just change the color of the bounding box, not the text itself.


texts: How can I move the bezier handle (not vertexs) in Sketch?

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I can't find the name of the things which stick out of vertex to show what angle and strength the bezier is going to curve coming out, so I'm calling them bezier handles.

Anyways, I keep getting vertexs that have none coming out, and sometimes dragging on the vertex adds them and other times it moves the vertex.  Is there some way I can specify what I want?  Like, hold some key to move a vertex, hold this other key to move the shape, and hold this other key to move bezier handles?


texts: What is the right way to ensure design you really want?

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When working with logo designer, what is the correct model of communication in helping designer to envision what you want and improving chances of delivering what I have in mind?

Do I "direct" the designer to what I feel should be on logo or just fill out questionnaire with information what my business does, demographic metrics, company slogan? I had experience of "directing" designer and it wasn't as I wanted it to be, maybe because the designer just followed my direction and didn't have something in mind?


texts: How to get the outline of a thick line in Illustrator CC

texts: I have perhaps a silly question.  If I have a line, very thick, say 70 pt, and I wanted to use the outline of this line rather than its actual path for vinyl cutting, what can I do to change this?  I must add the line has be distorted and I don't want to lose the distortion.  It's a horseshoe.  Thank you


texts: is it possible to save a selection of several layers in photoshop?

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So let me explain the issue. Say I have layers A-Z I select layers A, B, F, R for example, make a change to those layers, but then I go back to doing other things so I deselect those layers. Is there anyway I could have saved that selection of layers, so that I could then comeback later and make more adjustments to them, or do I just have to reselect them each time? anybody know?

p.s. it isn't an option to group the layers as they're from all over the document tree and grouping them doesn't make sense for moving them later.


texts: Spreads in the pages panel are stuck together

texts: When duplicating a spread, the new pages are stuck on the right side of the previous spread. In the pages panel, this looks like a four-page spread. can't seem to split them apart.


texts: Repeatingly increase an object size with certain amount of px

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Fairly new to AI, certainly to scripting. I'm trying to recreate this poster:

The problem I'm having is that I want to automate the creation of the large amount of circles. I want to record an action that I can apply to a shape (in this case a circle) to do the following:

copy the shape
paste it on the exact same place
move the object 2 px up and 2 px left
increase the size of the object with 4 px.

I found the moving part, but increasing the size with a certain amount of px seems impossible. The action records the scaling as a percentage, resulting in increasingly bigger distances between the circles.

Is there a way to record an action that that makes every copy move by the same amount of pixels? Thanks


texts: Is it possible to set text in columns like you can in InDesign? I can't find anything online about this.


texts: Which font conveys a feeling of security and credibility when dealing with banking?

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We are building a site which will include actions related to bank accounts and banking in general. We need a good font that conveys a feeling of security and credibility. It's preferred that the font will be widely supported in all websites, but not mandatory.

Any suggestions ?


texts: Icon that represents 'Delivered Fully Assembled'

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Can anyone think of an icon that represents delivered fully assembled? Only requirement is no tools.

Client has said no to tools or screws etc, as he thinks it leads people to think you might need them. Current icon below.


texts: Avoiding designs that reflect limitations of your application?

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All applications have some things that are hard and some things that are easy. So naturally one would tend to avoid the hard things and prefer the easy things instead. Unfortunately, this biases your design ability towards something that may or may not be optimal in your case.

What kinds of basic strategies should one employ to:

Notice that your design indeed is limited by your tool.
Design without this limitation.

In the end its not so much about what is easy for me to design as what is a the best possible end result within your resources. So how does one easily break the barrier of the application. Any general strategies available?


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I know how to set the general leading for at text box in Illustrator.

However, I would like to know if there's a way to set leading between paragraphs?


texts: Can anyone help me identify these two Japanese fonts?

texts: Can anyone help me indentify the two fonts that are used in the areas I circled? I’m hoping to find fonts that have the multiple outlines like the ones in the picture. Thank you!


texts: looking for a white cotton paper texture

texts: I am having trouble finding a nice white cotton paper texture. It is very common in printwork. This will be for commercial work. Also, how would I go about creating the texture myself? i.e, buy cotton paper and just take a photo?


texts: Why does text appear off canvas in Photoshop?

texts: When I select the type tool and click in the center of the canvas, the text always appears outside the canvas. This has always happened on my work PC and I have never had the issue at home. How can I reset the type tool to get it to appear where I click inside the canvas?


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I have been trying to work with using iconography for the status of a booking, which allow my app users to pay now or pay later. After they have selected from these options, they are presented with a list of bookings, which the "Paid" or "Pay Later" details are a part.

As there are more important details displayed on the booking, which need to be visible at a glance, I would like to show the "Paid" and "Pay Later" details as icons (with a touch action revealing the written status).

However, I'm having trouble with the Paid and Paid Later icons? Any Advice? Have you done this in an iOS app interface before?


texts: Illustrator 3D extruded paths overlapping contour

texts: I made 2 paths, then take one on the each other, grouped and then used extrude and bevel fx. How you can see, in place where they're overlapping you can see the countours of the top path. How can i fix that problem? Is there any way to mix these paths or to fix it i'll have to manually redone the paths to make one?


texts: Can't find how to make distort effects fit to layer boundaries

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I can't make any of the distort effects to fit my shape layer and is instead using the full size of the comp.

Here is a picture showing the problem:

I thought that might be coming from my shapes generated from an Illustrator file and created a simple rectangle on a new one, but the problem is still here. I also checked the option we get when clicking the "Toggle Switches / Modes" without any luck either.

I don't remember having this problem before and can't find anything on the web about that.


texts: How can I convince a stubborn client that white space is absolutely necessary?

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We have all been there: you show a client your design and they say "look at all that unused space, we can go ahead and make the text bigger, in fact let me give you more copy. We need to make use of that space!"

I always try to explain to them the value of white space and how it can potentially impact the perceived value of the product/service. I have seen this question and agree with its answers. Its answers are geared towards getting designers to understand the reasons but my question is:

What is the best "silver bullet" way to convince a client that white space has incredible value? Is there a great example or argument that will silence them and make them feel satisfied?

Update: This question pertains mainly to print or web design, not software/interface/interactive design.


texts: Creating Open Type font from True Type fonts?

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I have a set of True Type font files which are different style of a given font. Say

 myfnt__.ttf  -> regular
 myfntB_.ttf  -> bold
 myfntI_.ttf  -> italic
 myfntBI.ttf  -> bold italic

I believe there's a way to wrap them all into a single otf file (say myfnt.otf) and having the corrent glyphs selected depending on the style (magic of OpenType).

Does anybody know if this is possible and how to do it? Or could provide any direction on where to look?


texts: Inkscape - export presentation in PDF, plugin?

texts: I want to ask you if you know about way or plugin for exporting slides made in Inkscape in PDF (yea, I don't like anything like PowerPoint)? I'm making them into seperate layers. Sozi and it's tool for export not only makes it PNG first before making PDF, and also is not supported for Windows. Do you have any idea how to make it without a lot of hand-work? Thanks for any ideas :)


texts: What is the pattern and which color is the odd one out?

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I saw this a couple of days ago on ueno's brand redesign and have been trying to figure out the pattern between the colors for the past few days. Can anyone offer some insight. Been working on my color theory but can't seem to find the pattern and therefore the odd one out. I thought it could be some math around the hue values or some consistency in the saturation brightness but can't see any patterns jumping out. I then tried testing to see if the perceived brightness was identical across the colors which it isn't.

You can see the colors below:


texts: Converting a greyscale image to a single solid colour with Photoshop, while preserving transparency

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I have a grey scale image, with transparency. How can I convert this to one solid specific color, and preserve its edges/transparency?

As an example of what I'm trying to achieve:


texts: Icons and illustrations in GIMP without jagged edges?

texts: I usually create my icons and illustrations using GIMP. I'm sure everyone who uses GIMP knows that it pixelizes the images so when you get shapes that curve or are round, the edges appear jagged. I concocted a theory that, if I create these icons/illustrations at a high resolution (say 5000px +) that the jagged edges will appear less? is there some merit to this theory or am I just full of it? I would like to, finally, put this doubt to rest and to know the truth from someone who really knows


texts: Gimp: How to reverse the direction of gif image

texts: How can i reverse Gif image with out affecting animation of the image and save it. I used Flip Tool and reversed image then after save it. Then i lost the animation effect of the image.


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This is the logo symbol for a psychologist.

Client briefing: Logo should be "Friendly, open, gives you a good feeling, encouraging, creating interest and curiosity, natural elements would be great"

I chose as an natural element the dandelion as it stands for:
- Healing from emotional pain and physical injury alike
- Intelligence, especially in an emotional and spiritual sense
- The warmth and power of the rising sun
- Surviving through all challenges and difficulties
- Long lasting happiness and youthful joy
- Getting your wish fulfilled

Besides I integrated the symbol that stands for psychology (Psi) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_(letter)

Thank you for your time and feedback


texts: How to cut lines exactly outline of shape?

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ish to illustrator, and I've been working on this logo for my partner. I have created all these lines and am happy with how it is looking.
However, I want the lines that make up the image to be cut the exact shape, rather than being behind a shape to make it appear as if they are.
(as shown in the image) that is how I would like the end result to look, with most lines fitted to the shape and some sticking out. if someone is able to help me in how I would go about cutting the lines to achieve this? I would be very grateful!

Also another question is there a way to make the lines maintain there 'thickness' when increasing/decreasing size without changing the stroke?

n o t e: Im sorry of this seems like a really dumb question :( i'm struggling finding answers lmao.


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Recently I have started watching/listening to the High Resolution podcast -- which I enjoy a lot, and there has been several occasions where the hosts or the guest has mentioned the term design with capital D and it sounded as it was something important to understand the context.

I was wondering what does design with capital D mean and perhaps a little bit on its origin.


texts: Icon idea for the air line distance between two places?

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The user is allowed to enter an address.
After that he is (next to other information) shown the direct airline distance to that place.

I just can't come up with an icon that fulfills following:

this is not a routing distance
this is the direct flying connection
this has nothing to do with airplanes
takes up very small space

Any ideas would be appreciated.

EDIT:
I'm sorry if this came off wrong. I really expected there to already be an icon for this, but I can't find one. Also I don't want to have anybody do my work for me. I'm just stuck, because I can't come up with something clever for this disambiguation.


texts: What would be a less distracting background for white?

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I was told that the photo on the left is too bright and the white shirt on white background blending in.

When I tried to use some kind of neutral color (like grey) as a background I was told that it's a distracting background.

So, what would be a good background for such a photo?

The context it'll be used for: business profile photo for websites like LinkedIn, etc.


texts: Exporting SVG from Corel Draw to Illustrator

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I was working with a project, i need to export SVG or AI format from Corel Draw and I need to import it into the Illustrator , But If i design some filters or shadows in corel draw as path and when i exported as SVG and Imported in Illustrator , I am not getting the exact design of what i have designed in corel draw

I am designing as path in corel draw and design not so complicated , even the simple design makes much problem

Please help in the correct settings that i need to follow to export SVG or AI format from Corel Draw which works exactly in Illustrator


texts: applying compound path on a single object

texts: in every documentation i have read that object > compound path > make works on two or multiple objects and creates a compound path so that holes appear where the paths overlap, means i need at least two objects to make a compound path. but in the following pictures i have tried to apply compound path > make on a single object and in the layers panel the object successfully turned into a compound path and showing . what is happening here?


texts: How to center group based on one member?

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I have a group of 2 objects a circle and a line. Looks like letter Q.

I want to center this group, so that the circle will centered in a page and the line will maintain its relative position to the circle.

Currently when I center the group Inkscape uses the group center not the circle center.

Thank you.

Sample picture:

Notice how this group is aligned to page center. I want to align it so that the circle is in the center.


texts: I am trying to cut (knockout)text from another text word. I can't seem to figure it out! image attached


texts: Does anyone know what tool or ways to create this multi-colored dither effect?

texts: I'm curious what tools or process you need to not only create this nice dither/dot pattern but to make it with multicolored like the example below. Thanks!


texts: How to control the tiling of a brush stroke in Illustrator?

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I have a shape with a stroke
I selected a brush as the stroke style

Result:

I seems like the brush is stretched to fit the whole path. How do I control the "tiling" so that it repeats several times across the path?


texts: Online radio logo feedback request (Part 2)

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After gathering valuable feedback, I worked on a second version for the logo of my online radio station that plays indie music without commercial interruptions.

I wanted to come up with an original one-single-colored shape, one that represented the word "blur". I explored with dots and waves, but most of the results ended up in boring clichés.

So I came up with this version of disaligned lines, aiming to represent the unfocused, the blurriness.

I would really appreciate your thoughts and general feedback:

Do you think the symbol represents the word 'blur' in an original way?
Are proportions and kerning correctly applied?
Colors: are they appealing to you?

The same logo using Gotham Rounded Bold:

Final version using Gotham Rounded Medium (it blends more harmoniously with the symbol)


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I've seen this type of buttons - no background and with an icon on top - in some places in Android 10 settings (Lineage OS 17, if that's important) and in one another application which uses slightly different design language.
The question is - is there some specific name for this type of buttons? I tried googling it, looking for it in Google's Material Design guidelines and found no info about it.


texts: Is it okay to purchase stock images in the developer company name?

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We've used some stock images (vector graphics) on a Flash website we created recently. We're just about to purchase a web license for the same that allows "unlimited use of the vector graphic on websites and print media". Can we purchase this in our company name? This would be better since we could use the stock images on other projects as well. Or do we have to purchase the stock in the name of the client? The website is copyrighted by the client, we are just the designer/developer.

The exact license terms are as follows (its a Fotolia.com "V" license)

What I can do

Use the image in print and electronic documents, as well as web pages
Modify image or use in derivative works
Make backup copies

What I cannot do

Resell the original image
Use image in any way that violates local or federal laws
Distribute copies of image to friends, family or other organizations
Use this file on adult industry or dating sites


texts: using desktop inkjet to print on shells already printed by commercial digital printer

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I have designed a set of recipe cards for my client in the foods biz, which were printed by a commercial digital printer. As part of the series they wanted to have some blank cards printed... "blank" as in they didn't have a recipe on them - just the background pattern and border. Anyway, along with these, I created them a MS Word template for the recipe portion close to that which was printed on the other set of non-blank cards (that was laid out in INDD) so that they could print a new/special recipe on their ink jet printer, in low runs, on the fly whenever they needed to stray from the handful of recipes they had printed by the commercial printer.

As I suspected may happened, the ink from the ink desktop jet didn't seem to take to the card. they looked ok right after pulling them off the printer but after a little while, everything got really washed out... almost as if there was nowhere for the ink to grab on to. I'm positive that this is due to either the ink from the commercial printer or some sort of coating they used (even though I didn't order anything glossy or anything like that).

Does anyone know of any technique (specific printing specs or particular type of stock) that could be used to allow for printing a blank "shell" commercially and then over printing the text later on a mid-level desktop inkjet? Or do the 2 just not mix well?

A shell is just the outer elements (background, borders, etc) with a blank area where the recipe goes. The client needs the ability to produce a small quantity (in the 5-10 range) of recipe cards for any recipe in their pool of thousands, on-demand, so sending the entire card (shell and recipe text) to the commercial printer is not a viable option.


texts: Is there a way to run Photoshop Actions and export an image on an input image from the command line?

texts: I would like to convert thousands of images to pen and ink style like this. How can I automate this so I don't have to manually go into Photoshop for each image and apply the action and hit export? Can I do this from the command line or some programming language somehow?


texts: How to adjust an SVG image in such a way that it is modifiable in QGIS?

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I've downloaded an SVG image of a looped arrow from a website. It looks like this:

I'd like to adjust the code of this SVG so as to make the fill color, stroke color, and stroke width modifiable in QGIS. (QGIS is an open-source geographic information software system.) It is explained how this can be done in this GIS SE question.
Unfortunately, I am having trouble applying the methods in jgrocha's answer. He states one ought to replace the style attribute of the path element with the following code:
fill="param(fill) #FFF" stroke="param(outline) #000" stroke-width="param(outline-width) 1"

However, upon opening the SVG file in Inkscape, I cannot find the style attribute. Here's what the code looks like in the XML editor:

Although the path element is there, I don't see the the style attribute anywhere. I've also tried viewing the SVG code in a regular text editor. When I open it up, I obtain the following code:
<?xml version="1.0" ?><!DOCTYPE svg  PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN'  'http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd'><svg enable-background="new 0 0 48 48" id="Layer_1" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 48 48" xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g><g><polygon points="43.1,13.3 31.3,12.4 31.6,8.5 39.6,9.2 40.2,1.2 44,1.5   "/>

Over here, I cannot even discern the path id anymore.
Questions

How -- if at all -- can I change the code of the SVG file of the looped arrow in such a way that the stroke/fill color and stroke width is modifiable in QGIS?
Should this be done in the XML editor of Inkscape, or can it also be done in a “regular” text editor?
Why can I not see the path id of this SVG file in the regular text editor?


texts: Inkscape place object on a hook (through the back out the front)

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I have two objects, one is a hook and the other is a circle with a hole in it. How can I give the illusion of the hook going behind the object through the hole and out of the front?

Currently the hook is in front of the object.


texts: How to draw border around layer in GIMP?

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How can I draw a simple border around a layer in GIMP 2.10?
Filters > Decor > Add Border works on the image as a whole, not an individual layer.
Edit > Stroke Selection has been suggested elsewhere, but I can't figure out how to precisely select the edges of each layer. How would I precisely select the arbitrarily shaped visible contents (polygons and ellipses) of a layer with an alpha channel?
Or is there another way to do it?
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Sample produced using the technique suggested by Billy Kerr:


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I have a scan of an old children's book that contains both graphics and text. I want to revive the book for my children, while preserving as much as possible from the original layout and illustrations.

I have a very limited experience in this field. I thought of using Photoshop, which I have used in the past for other projects, but none of this kind.

My approach was to try and segment each image, find the contours and fill the regions with new uniform colors, based on the original colors, such that I obtain clean illustrations. Also, if possible, I want to get the text such that I don't need to retype it (but this is only a minimal problem, since the book does not contain too much text).

I don't know if this can be semi-automatically done in Photoshop. I found useful the Trace Contour filter, but I assume that there are also other tools that can be helpful in achieving a good results with a least manual effort.

Here is what I achieved so far, by a direct approach using the Trace Contour filter in Photoshop, then by manually filling the regions with uniform colors from the original scan.

How would you solve this task? Any hint or advice would be helpful.

Original scan of the cover:

Partial result:

Two more scanned pages from the book:


texts: What logotype files should i give to a FASHION client? & what thickness of logo elements is minimal?

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I made a Logotype for my client, who is designing a casual leather fashion.

I know that a similar question was asked allready, but I have to add something more, because this logotype goes not only for Online or ATL,

but on materials as well, like : label, so it is going to be:

1.embroidered
  2.embossed ( on leather)
  3.or printed on materials

Does anyone of you did it already?

Firstly:
Is any maschine for embossing or embroidering need some other type of logotype then vector esp, with stroke fill? Maybe to embrider it, I should make only stroke lines??

And secondly:
What is the minimum thickness of a logotype element (eg. a line) so that it will be optimal for any machine? is 0,42mm o.k.?

here an example:


texts: What are good Sans-Serif fonts for technical documentation (printed and from monitor) where characters differ from each other?

texts: What are good Sans-Serif fonts for technical documentation (printed and from the monitor) where "I" (big i), "l" (small L), "1" (one), "!", "i", "j"  look different and also other characters differ from each other?


texts: Sketch export multiple icons to a different file each all at once

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I've made these icons and i want to export them at 2X. What i do now is that i select each icon, hit export @2X and then move on to the next icon until I'm done.

Is there a way to export all my icons all at once to a different .png file each? For example, i want to select my 10 icons and end up with 10 different .png files without repeating the same task 10 times.


texts: Can I make a CMKY PDF if the Scribus project it has some RGB images in it?

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So, I'm trying out Scribus (1.4.8 on Win 10) for a project.  I've installed and am using SWOP v2 ICC for color management in this project.

My question is when it converts this book to a PDF/X3 could I have problems if one or more images in the Scribus doc are not CMKY?  In other words, will it convert the images to CMKY within the new PDF or am I setting myself up for a headache?

I understand that not all RGB colors translate to CMKY (like some blues and some reds) but I don't know how to tell if any of the colors in these files will not convert.  I'd like to be able to identify that before it becomes an issue.


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I’m trying to edit a repeating pattern in Inkscape. I covert the pattern to objects and make my changes (adding some additional company’s), select them  all and create pattern from objects.

The resulting pattern appears to have a different boundary extent, so the repeating pattern doesn’t align.

Can I set an extent to the newly created pattern?

EDIT 1:

I'm trying to create swatches of geological symbols to use in a QGIS map.  My original data source was here, where some kind person has already converted the FGDC digital cartographic standard to SVG:
USGS Inkscape pack instructions

I'd like to alter one of these swatches from this:

to this (but nicer - this image just to show the intent):

EDIT 2:
I've added an inkscape svg document (xml, download and save as .svg) to pastebin to show what I mean about different boundaries. Ideally, the end result would have the same boundary/mask/extent as the original - in teh same position to preserve the repeating pattern.

I can see in the xml hierarchy where the boundary is applied - I just don't know how to generate it in Inkscape

xml - contents of inkscape svg


texts: Photoshop Elements only opens 1 layer of gif

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When I go to open a GIF I have saved on PSE, it comes up as only the first layer and it's locked. I go to mode and unlock the layer, but it's not a gif anymore, just a still of the first layer. How do I fix this so all the layers show up?

(Photoshop Elements v. 6)


texts: JPG image colors change when opened on Illustrator/Photoshop

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I have logo which format is .jpg. That's the only logo file that my client has provided me. Now, when I open this file on Illustrator or Photoshop, it suddenly change its colors. Here's what I mean;

This is how it looks when opened on Photoshop/Illustrator

This one is how it should look, I had to take a screenshot because uploading the original file will result in the image above.

Does anyone knows what's hapening and how can I fix this?


texts: Sketch mangling Illustrator vector file: how to fix?

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I purchased the vector file above and when I open it in Illustrator, it looks just as expected.

However, when I open it in Sketch, it looks completely different (see below). I get the same result if instead use Illustrator to export in various formats (EPS, SVG) and open that file in Sketch (I've also tried copy pasting from Illustrator). Sketch just doesn't seem to be able to understand the file.

Is there anything I can do to use this file in Sketch?


texts: Inkscape: text with dropshadow gets blurry when saved as pdf

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Please see the picture for more details, how can I save the file as pdf without it getting blurry.
Thank you


texts: Learning to do icons - any collection of tutorials for a start?

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I am a developer and really need to get to grips with graphics.

Even before settling on a specific tool, what I need is somewhere to go and
learn how to do things, such as for instance a "save" icon. Problem is, I
wouldn't know where to start and I am a total newbie in this regard.
What is worse, googling without knowing pretty much anything on the
subject isn't going to be really helpful, because, well, how can you
tell good from bad? :)

Ideally, it should be a set of tutorials "building" up from something
simple, say a square with an X inside :), to more complex things, such as a
saving disk or "better".
I am saying the square with the x inside because, well, if I do it it's
awful, but I've seen pretty good ones :) so I guess there might be a
better way to it :D

Do you know of any such place where I can start learning?

Thank you for any suggestion!

Andrea


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What you're looking at here is a zoom-in of a custom drop shadow I've created in Illustrator CC for some text.  The foreground text is hidden.

Since I'm ultimately going for a hand-painted effect on the 'shadow' I can't have obvious sharp corners, I want to soften the corners, but only certain corners so that the foreground shape still touches the shadow correctly on the necessary vertices.

I've tried a number of things, including using some combination of offsets and strokes which did give me nice corners but the overall size of my shape would change (and I didn't have control of which corners to affect, though I could conceivably work around that by layering in pieces of the original shape to restore certain corners).

I've also tried the following techniques that haven't worked out:

Convert anchor to smooth:

Well that's not what I'm after.

Round corners effect:

That's too goofy, even if I split up the shape.

Live corners:

A total non-starter there.  It will let me push the whole side out to a point, or severely round off an entire side, but not the subtle softening of the corner that I want.

Finally I came up with a semi-tedious technique of creating a circle (the green shape) and pushing it up against the corners I want to soften, and then hitting pathfinder -> divide.  This would give me the paths I need to work with to solve this.

In theory this should work... the shape of the bottom-left of that circle follows the sort of path I would like to have, but I can't seem to align the circle correctly to the edges of the shape to create those new anchor points.   As you can see in that screenshot; I don't receive any registration marks to hint at where to drop the circle.  I've tried to carefully place the circle at a high level of zoom and totally miss that intersection each time or overshoot it and I'm not happy with the result.

So my question is either:
- How can I make that last technique work reliably?
or
- Is there another way to easily soften those select few corners in a nice consistent manner?


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Let's think about the Harry Potter franchise for a moment.  Suppose that I wrote a great book about wizards, and I found an awesome water color of Daniel Radcliffe (the guy who played Harry in the movies) online.  Supposing, further, that I got the artist's permission to use the image, what are the legal issues regarding using the water color for my book's cover?

Would it be legal in the US, UK, and Europe?  What are the issues to consider?  I suppose it's copyright (which seems to pass, since I would have got the artist's permission), trademark (which I'm unsure about), and model release (also unsure, but I think it's a pass since it's just a water-color and not a photo).


texts: What software to create this gif with animation effect?

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I'm not sure what software I should use to create this gif, which is small in size (311kb) and yet having effect like a swf video.

Photoshop is quite painful to create a gif with such effect, and window movie maker can't have these effects.

Is there any idea of what software I should use to create this gif?


texts: Out of HSV, RGB, & CMYK, which is more consistent

texts: Adobe illustrator does not have L*a*b* color, and I'm trying to create a color palette for my company, and I want to know which of the 3 values Illlustrator uses will give the most consistent color. I'm assuming HSV is most consistent, and will translate to L*a*b* more accurately than RGB or CMYK, but I may be wrong.


texts: Is it possible to change the layer visibility (eye) icons to be more readable, in Photoshop Elements 11?

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In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, the eye icon appeared as opened or closed to indicate a layer's visibility. In Photoshop Elements 11, the layer's visibility is only indicated by a diagonal line through the eye icon, which makes it much harder to read at a glance.

Is it possible to change, customize, or replace the eye icons, either to the previous open/closed pair, or to something else that makes the difference between visible and hidden layers more obvious?

(I asked this question on superuser.com before, but received no response there.)


texts: Calculating Fold Lines Based on Paper Thicknesses?

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I am wanting to know how do you calculate the curvature distance a fold line may produce based on paper thickness?

For instance I am wanting to do artwork on a thick paper stock and I want to make sure my artwork is within the folds instead of perhaps very close to it. As what I am doing is on small thick boxes, it is critical that I can work this out.

Many thanks.


texts: A Problem with cropping an image in Photoshop CS2

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Please can someone assist me with a very frustrating problem I've just encountered using my trusted old version of Photoshop CS2.
Up to now everything has worked fine (about 10 years) and I've edited 1000's of images this way, please see a scaled down editing technique.
Open an image
In the Crop Box I've always used dimensions width 108.373 cm by height 72.249 cm resolution 70
Crop Image
Change Image Size to 1200 x 800 pixels giving document size of width 43.54 cm height 29.02cm Resolution 70 pixels/inch
Scale Styles/Constraint Proportions/Resample Image Bicubic all ticked and selected
When I now go to the Erase Tool to start a part of my editing process Alt Click I get the following annoying warning every time
"Could not use the history eraser because the current canvas size does not match that of the history state"
I'm not sure if I've by accident selected something in PS I shouldn't of and not had selected before, but I've been racking my brains and working for hours and hours trying to resolve the problem!
As mentioned before I've used this method for years without any warning messages?
Thank you very much


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How can I undo File > Place Embedded image once the file has been saved?

Is there a method to get rid of this?


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I'm designing small icons for screen, I'm using align to pixel grid. One problem I've encountered is aligning a compound path to the grid.

This is the letter "O", which is a compound path, when I align to grid, it messes things up. How can I fix this?


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Im making a package design for my company in illustrator CS6 which im new to btw (only been using it for a couple of weeks).
Tried googling this but it has gotten me more confused :p

I have been given a template file of the package for me to make my design on.
I have placed symbols and my logo etc from other .Ai projects i have made onto the package design.

How do i prepare the final product with linked images before sending off to print?
Which resolution do i choose? 300 ppi ?

Thanks in advance :)


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I'm creating a mobile app that will be used by maturer people, 40 to 60 yo, so I've been searching for sober colors and I came to gray, the problem is, How much gray is too much gray? What colors should I try instead of gray?

Any advice is appreciated.

This is my mobile app:

These are all my gray stuff:

Gradient colors from top-bottom:

for the menu and search box I'm using #7f7f7f on the top to #b2b2b2 on the bottom;

the square around the codes: #e5e5e5 to #aaa

footer: #e5e5e5 to #F2F2F2

One color only:

menu buttons: #808080

footer buttons: #c1c1c1

"beam me up Scotty!"


texts: Why is my 'FG to Transparent' gradient mostly black?

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I'm having some trouble with gradients here, can anybody help me?
I'm currently trying to follow this tutorial... How to make retro 80's chrome text in GIMP?

I'm in the Text Shading section, and I'm trying to apply a gradient to my text.
This should basically give a smooth gradient from full black to transparent from the vertical middle of the text to the vertical extremes...
Basically, I want this:

But I'm getting this,

The problem here is that I'm getting a thick horizontal block of black that's not shaded until the VERY END of the defined area for the gradient.
Messing about with the Edit Gradient dialogue in Gimp is only allowing me to change the gradient at the very ends of the definied gradient area.
It's really weird. Any ideas?

---EDIT---

So, I've been trying to follow Billy Kerr's example below and... I've kinda got a result similar to my objective.

However! What a nightmare! Obviously a subjective opinion, but those gradient controls are... somewhat obtuse. In addition, the in-line gradient controls mentioned by Billy seemed to just stop moving at apparently arbitrary positions, as the length of the gradient application line is not relative to the width of the Gradient Editor window. Really frustrating.

And it's still a ridiculously harsh transition from gradient to hard colour. So annoying.

Thank you for your advice, though, Billy!


texts: Do I make my half raster half vector logo in AI or PS?

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I always make my logos in AI because I want it to be the best quality possible and all proper vector layers. However I have a client who wishes for an image to be used in their logo. So my base and my text are all or could be all vectors but the only thing raster would be that image.

Where do I edit it to get the best result and quality? Do I just copy the vector files as a smart object into my PS doc or do I do it in reverse and add the image into AI?

I actually don't have much or any experience adding images into AI so if somebody could maybe explain a quick do's and don't to help me for future reference that would also be very appreciated...


texts: Image loses clarity when it is put over a black background

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The original image I do have is the one on the top of this screenshot, I would like it to have a black background. The problem as you can see below is the loss of clarity whenever it has a dark background.

Long story: I need that image to appear as a tile of a menu in a website (http://www.sharpmix.com/) that has a white background. I guess this is the way to go but I'm not a graphics designer at all, any ideas are welcome.

EDIT

Thanks everyone, I've ended up with this:


texts: Select all objects in another object area in Adobe Illustrator

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I explain the situation : I have objects in background and circles in front. I would like to select all objects in background that are contained in those circles area.
The pathfinder will not work, because I need to select the complete objects and not just the anchor points contained in circles area.
As in the screenshot below, I would like to delete all objects contained in this area. Do it manually is very long...
Thanks in advance for help :)


texts: How can I remove compression artifacts from an image?

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I got a picture where there is some noise in it. To remove that I have to redraw it with pen because all I want is a crystal clear image. Is there any simple way to do it? I not, what steps would you take?

before:

after


texts: Create your font with custom glyph not found symbol

texts: I am new to creating/editing fonts. I want to create a font with custom symbol for "glyph not found". I have downloaded FontForge as it seems to be a widespread free font editing program. I was hoping first U+0000 NUL, Default Character would be that, but it seems that I was wrong. I cannot find any info on how to make your own "glyph not found" symbol on google, maybe here somebody could help?


texts: How to make stereogram using Photoshop or any other Adobe software?

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I searched a lot for some tutorials about this, but came empty at the end. There is some info how to do it, but that doesn't work after doing those steps.
There are some stereogram builders, but I need an option to make them by myself. Is there a way how to do it in Photoshop or any other Adobe software?


texts: InDesign: how to change the underline opacity?

texts: I added a 15pt weight -4 pt offset underline to this paragraph and I was wondering if it's possible to lower the opacity of the underline without changing the text opacity.


texts: Could someone recommend an app for simple designing of icons?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What are some good resource for programmers to design icons?

I have been developing web and iPhone applications for our company to use internally. For the artwork I've been using Procreate Inkpad and Sketchbook on my iPad and Inkscape and Gimp on my Mac.

I'm wondering if there is a simpler package. I'm, for the most part, only designing icons that the user clicks on.

If the tools I'm using are sufficient, any reference material for creating decent artwork, for the usage I have outlined, would be greatly appreciated.


texts: I'd like to use this sort of a half tone effect on shadows shown in this image. How is this achieved?


texts: InDesign Table of Contents with section headers which occur multiple times

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I am currently working on a magazine using Adobe InDesign CS6. On each page I have a head with the name of the section in it, and applied the paragraph style "Header" to the text element. Naturally some of my sections are more than one page long, and because of this, the same header will occur multiple times.

Example of a spread where the header occurs twice:

Resulting ToC:

My problem is, though, that the header will also occur multiple times in the TOC. Is there a way to skip headers which are similar to the previous one?

Not running headers, because I do not use the header on the page itself. Instead I have subheaders.


texts: PhotoShop CC 2018 - Video editing - Timeline shows neither timecode nor frames

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Edit: I can now provide images. Also, Aaron's obviously on a Mac, whereas I'm on Windows.

Good day,

The title gives most of the relevant information. Maybe these data are, as well:

Photoshop is build 19.1.6, if that makes a difference
I'm running on Windows 10, on a desktop computer

So, I get these notches/fenceposts that show at regular intervals on the Timeline, but neither frame counts nor timecode shows on them.

I'm a technical writer who's fairly new to PS, although an enthusiastic learner. HOWEVER...I have an absolute wizard in-house with me—15 years of experience. He doesn't have a lot of experience with editing video in PS, but he can't figure it out, either.

Between the two of us, we've looked at every setting that we think could be relevant, and nada.

I have already Googled. Any and all suggestions are welcome, though.

Thank you,

CoolWahad


texts: While using the Slicing tool in the Sketch app, the Slice drawn doesn't snap right at the edges of an asset. How do I get it to work right? There is no 'Don't snap' Slice option or anything.


texts: How do I make JPG the default format when exporting in GIMP?

texts: Using GIMP 2.8.22 on Windows. When I export images, gimp usually makes PNG the default.  How do I make JPG the default format when exporting?


texts: How can i join two paths without losing round edges of one path?

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I have created the round corner at the bottom by using scissor tool to cut the upper part(which is shown blue in the image) and use 'Effetcs> Stylize> Round Corners' at the bottom path

But now when I join it back by 'selecting both the paths> right click> join' or by 'path finder> unite' every time I lose the rounded corners at the bottoms


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I have a bar chart, a selection of which looks like this:

I'd like to fill in the white spaces between each bar such that the bars become a single uninterrupted color, which would look (roughly) like this:

This was done manually with the fill tool, but I can't do it for every bar. Is there a technique for this kind of problem?


texts: How can I get the boundaries (width & height) of the current clipboard image?

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To reproduce what I'm looking to do with scripting (JSX) in Photoshop:

Select part of image with transperant background (no background layer)
Copy
File -> New *1
Paste

*1 - Photoshop will then automatically crop your selection to the boundaries of your image and use that as widht & height, how can I get this information through scripting in JSX?

I've managed to get the layer size boundaries, but that's not what I want. I want to get the size from whats on the clipboard.

EDIT -
I looked through all of the docs, and figured out that you get an ArtLayer when pasting - I could then get the bounds of this artlayer and crop the image. Incase anyone else needs it I put my working script here: https://gist.github.com/amaeland/49f84bb14c76c35e825f


texts: Make white text standout on light backgroud

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I'm designing a new jersey for our cycling team. Our logo can be white or black text, always with orange 'o' and graphic image.
The jersey is offered in multiple colors : blue, red and green.
Using the plain logo as is, it doesn't standout from the background.
All I can think of is using dropshadow, but this might look dated over time? Leading drop shadow seems to be more readable.
Any other suggestions / design tips? Looking for some advice / insight.

I tried with outline of the objects.
Perhaps a background a bit larger, following the outside of the design?
Note : we can't use gradients / blur.

WeTransfer link : Source files
Black drop shadow

Accent color drop shadow (more subtle than black, perhaps lacking contrast on red design)


texts:
Just wanted to know the font family of the New Game to download the ttf file

Can anyone please help out?


texts:
Is there any way to have two patterns instead of two colors for a gradient?

I am trying to make a terrain where by the two types of ground textures blend into each other with a gradient, which makes me wonder if patterns can be used in gradients instead of colors.

If not - what would be the simpler alternative to create the same idea?


texts: How do I merge many objects as a single mesh in Sketchup?

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When I try to import the skp file directly into Unity, it produces tens of thousands of objects ruining performance.
How can I group objects that make up an entity like chair, desk, car?
If not possible, do I need to convert to COLLADA format and then merge the objects in Blender? What is this process called?
As you see in the picture below, when I export to FBX, it will split up every object into its separate entity producing tens of thousands of deeply nested hierarchy of 3d objects.
I hope its clear what I am trying to achieve.


texts: Unexpected results when using compound path to combine objects with strokes

texts: I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix this. Just finished a logo design for a client and am trying to make all of the white areas a compound path with the circle, so that it's fully transparent when overlayed on a background. The screenshot below shows the before and after. As you can see I've lost detail in the rough line inside the circle but picked up a lot of unwanted detail in the letters. Has anyone ever encountered this before? I put a yellow background behind so you can see it. Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Does anyone have a clue on what this font could be?


texts: InDesign: Display number of heading on all pages that belong to said heading

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I am currently working on a larger document that has a number in the top left of every page to give you an idea what part of the document you are currently in. Not as in the page number, but rather regarding the content structure.

This screenshot may give you a better example:

The number shall only increase on pages with a new heading, however. Not every page. This for example is page 2 of the document, which however still belongs to my first heading (would you call these chapters? Sections? Idk ... I am lost for a better term here):

Now the problem I have is, that I don't know how to update it accordingly:

As I may have hinted above already, I thought one might be able to do that using chapter / section numbering? But I am having a hard time figuring out whether this is even the right way of going about that or if there is another / better method. Especially one that is easy to update if I were to add more content later-on.


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Pantone to CMYK conversion is always a pain to deal with, but does anyone have experience with coming up with the closest CMYK conversion of Pantone 021C?

According to Pantone website the CMYK value is 0 65 100 0, but that seems not too accurate:
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/Orange-021-C

Thanks,

Andy


texts: Should I print on colored stock or print background color on white?

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As a hobby / small side business, I design greeting cards. So far, I have had all my cards digitally printed on white stock. I would like to mix things up and have some cards that do not have a white background, at least on the front cover.

Should I have these printed on colored stock, or should I just have the background color printed on white stock? Printing on colored stock seems like it would be hard to get the colors right, but printing on white seems like a lot of ink.

I'm very new to this, any advice would be great. Thanks.


texts: Recreating pencil hatching in Illustrator

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I’m trying to take a friend’s pencil-and-paper design and recreate it in Illustrator for use in a poster we are creating together. She’s proficient (away from the computer) and it’s my job to get her ideas into the computer. But sadly I’m a novice at Illustrator (and Photoshop), though I’ve been using Fireworks intermittently for years.

I’m using CS5 (Illustrator 15.0.2, Photoshop 12.0.4) on Windows 8 Enterprise RTM, and a Wacom intuos 4.

Here’s a fragment of the scan of the artwork I am trying to recreate (note that the hard edge is an artefact of my cropping the scan, not the artwork itself).

And here are a few of my attempts to recreate it using the brushes in Illustrator.

As you can see the results look nothing like the original :-(

That leaves me with three questions, though the first is the one I most need help with.

Question 1
Can anyone explain the steps I’d need to take to recreate in Illustrator the pencil hatching from the original paper based artwork, or point me to a comprehensive tutorial covering the required techniques?

This seems to be straightforward in other answers (e.g. Scott's answer here) but is not working for me.

Question 2
Perhaps I should instead abandon trying to recreate the pencil stroke hatching with an Illustrator brush and use Live Trace? I’ve not done that partly because I want to understand how to do it as a brush, and partly as I would not then have as much flexibility in creating different foreground text and background hatching combinations. Should I swap to Live Trace?

Question 3
Should I give up on vectors and try recreating the artwork in Photoshop? (E.g. as Ryan suggests here.)

(N.B. I've also posted this question to the Adobe Forums here. I hope such cross-posting is OK.)


texts: Remove median background from stack in Photoshop

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I have seen many examples of using the median of a stack in Photoshop to remove variable foreground elements like tourists in vacation photos. (https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/remove-tourists-stack-mode/)

I am wondering if there is a way to do the opposite in photoshop or another tool? In the tourist example this would mean keeping all of the variable elements (the people moving in the stack) but removing the median background (the buildings and scenery).


texts: What software can I use to design pattern for a tweed fabric?

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I have experience only with Adobe Photoshop, but I'm looking for something easy to use, a program that will let me focus on the design process and testing many concepts without having to do a lot of "craft" work/clicking.

Are there any templates available on the Net that I could use?


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I'm trying to connect two Bezier curves in Inkscape. As this answer suggests, it is possible to use the edit-paths tool for this.

However, of the two Bezier curves I am trying to connect, one of the two is a clone of the other (which means I cannot use the edit-paths tool on it, it simply does not recognize the points within).

I want to still be able to edit the original, and see how the result looks when applied to all clones, however I want several clones to have their endpoints connected with a path. Is there another way I can go about this?


texts: Where can I learn about graffiti for my next project?

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My next project is to design (as a vector graphic) a logo inspired by the so-called layer style of graffiti. As such, I need to learn as much as I can about this particular graffiti style.

It would also be useful to have an online reference for graffiti-inspired graphics in any upcoming projects... Are there any out there?


texts: Blending Colors after Image Trace - Illustrator CS6

texts: I've used image trace to turn a .png file into a vector image but some of the colors in the sky background look kind of off. Is there a way that I can blend the shades of blue in the sky so that it doesn't look weird?


texts: What is the difference between points and pixels?


texts: How do you divide a rounded rectangle using pathfinder using Illustrator?

texts: I'd like to create a rounded rectangle that's cut evenly in half with the flat edge in the middle left open (#4). Once I created my rectangle using the rounded rectangle tool I created a line using the line segment tool in order to divide it in half (#1). Then I'll select both the line segment and the rounded rectangle and use the pathfinder divide tool. This causes the space in between to be filled with a black line (#2). Once the two halves are ungrouped the solid black line stays as part of the individual shapes (#3).


texts: Why are the colors changing when printing my PDF file?

texts: Im working on an illustration with various elements, they all look fine and print fine from Illustrator, but the colors change when I try to print them from the preview window, any idea why and how to change it?


texts: Possible to map an image onto another so that the new one is the same size and shape?

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I'm a bit of a newbie when confronted with photoshop and Fireworks etc, I much prefer drawing mountains in paint.

However, I've a wonderful idea for a site navigation element but I'm having difficulties.

I have the original image and an image the size and shape of a jigsaw piece.

I need to make the original image the same size and shape as the jigsaw piece image so that I can map the coordinates onto it for the html markup.

Is this possible and if so could someone give me an idiots guide as to how I might achieve it please?

Many thanks in advance.


texts: How do I automatically set a vertical guide in the horizontal center of my Inkscape document?

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Every time I need to figure out where the horizontal middle of my document is, so I can place a guide, I'm counting little block spaces...  Is there an easier, automatic way to place center gudies?

Any help is much appreciated.

Wyatt


texts: I'm trying to create an email header with a ticket design on it. The ticket has small text on it which always seems to be pixellated, especially when I rotate it. no matter what I seem to set resolution to, (the 100% size is 600px) I can't write clear, but very small text. What am I doing wrong please?


texts: Is it possible to add a collider to an alembic animation in C4D?

texts: i'm new to C4D and i'm trying to have an animation i made in blender interact with a soft body object in C4D. But when i create a collider and start the animation, nothing happens, the animation just goes through the object. Anybody has experience with that kinda stuff ? Thanks!


texts: How to get the minus sign in the shape builder tool ?

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I was just going through the tutorial HERE and at 2:43 this guy uses the shape builder tool, so in my AI , i have the following:

Now i am getting the plus sign below my cursor , but inorder to follow the tutorial i need the minus sign , how do i get the minus sign in the shape builder tool ?


texts: None of the objects I'm working with have a stroke on them, however all of them display an outline that shows up through other objects in illustrator. It looks as though I'm in preview mode with colors turned on? I can't figure out how to turn this setting off, help!


texts: Remove Illustrator CC application background

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I'm trying to remove the application background from Illustrator CC. On the previous version (Illustrator CS5) I didn't have a background. This made it easier to multitask and have various items on my desktop open at once. The app background in CC is solid black. Any way to remove it? I've Googled and looked all over the place, but I can't seem to find the solution. Note, I'm not trying to remove backgrounds from files or from a project artboard. I'm specifically referring to the background that appears even when there is no project open.

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: In Inkscape, can I link to a pdf/svg instead of embedding its content?

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I am using Inkscape as a canvas to layout existing PDF/SVG/PNG plots that I have made in Python, and then add some details and text to the overall figure. When I import the PDF/SVG files via File >> Import... >> Link, they are embedded in Inkscape. I have noticed that if I do this with a raster image I get the option to link to the file instead of embedding it, so that when I update the plots in Python, they are automatically updated in Inkscape.

I can not find how to link to PDF/SVG files in the same way. I wish to keep the full resolution PDF/SVG plots, instead of using rasters. My friend showed me how to do it in Adobe Illustrator with PDFs, but is this possible in Inkscape?


texts: How do I change the thickness of paths in an SVG using Sketch?

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I have collected SVG icons from different sources. Some use thick paths and shapes. Others use thin ones.

Is there a way to change the thickness of paths and shapes in an SVG without having to adjust all the points in the object?


texts: How do you package a final logo design for a client?

texts: I mean once the logo is already approved, what is the most professional way to send them the logo — and what formats do you include?


texts: Is there a non-copyrighted famous sample photograph that could replace Lena?

texts: I was going to use Lena because most people would know what it should look like, but suddenly I thought "Isn't this picture copyrighted?" and searched the web. It seems that, at the very least, it is possible that the image is copyrighted. Then, is there any other famous sample image that most people knows and NOT copyrighted (free to use)?


texts: Is there a way to have Illustrator handle text the same way as Photoshop?

texts: As the title says, I am looking for a way to get Illustrator to handle/make text look the same like it does in Photoshop. I've tried looking everywhere for some kind of setting to change this but so far I cannot find a setting that will change it to what it needs to be. The main reason I ask is because I am trying to put the text on a perspective grid in Illustrator.


texts: Photoshop CC (OS x) not cropping tight to edges

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Photoshop CC isn't cropping tight to edges of images in my canvas.

When using the marquee tool and selecting an area, then going to Image > Crop, there is still canvas remaining outside of the selected area

It only seems to be happening when pasting an image and trying to crop it with this method

This screen shot shows my image (the block of blue colour) which I pasted into a new canvas but has transparent edges. (The large black area is just my photoshop app background, left in to show the transparency)

This shows the marked out area which I have then cropped, but the transparent area remains after performing this action.

What setting do I need to change to make the crop work to my selected area, not with this unwanted white space/padding?


texts: How to batch save data driven graphics with a script in Illustrator?

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I build data-driven graphics in Illustrator and am able to run a batch "Save to PDF" action on these graphics.

Can I do the batch "Save to PDF" action with a script instead? My thinking is that the script will have to loop through the datasets somehow, but unsure where to start.


texts: Problems when importing font into SketchUp

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I am trying to make 3d text in Sketchup but the font I want is not showing up. The font (Gotham) is loaded on my computer and I am able to use it in Photoshop, Word, etc but can't find it in Sketchup. I think it is a purchased font. Does anyone have any ideas why this font isn't showing up and how I can load it into sketchup?

Thank you for your help!


texts: Help Identify the Japanese and Chinese Fonts as Pictured

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I'm trying to identify the fonts used in the attached images.
I suspect that the Japanese sample is a Dynacomware font, but I don't see a match on FontShop. I think it’s been discontinued by the company or something. I have no idea about the chinese sample. Does anybody know what they are?
Actual Japanese Text:
ネズミどものにおいは確かに不快で強烈だったが、その食欲のすさまじさには比べるべくもなかった。


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I am a hobbyist (like doodling/fashion designing) and want to start on Illustrator etc.

I Googled a lot and realized that Wacom tablets are all the rage. However, I have my doubts over whether I'd be able to adopt to its style (eye-hand coordination). Is a Wacom tablet a good product for a beginner/hobbyist?

Is 6" too small even for a beginner?
Are there any products similar to Cintiq but cheaper?
Is an Android tablet a good alternative to a Wacom?


texts: Isolating an object in Photoshop to paste in Illustrator

texts: I am trying to select an object out of a photo and place it in illustrator without a white background around it. I have selected the object, but if I try to paste it in illustrator it always sits within a white box. How can I make the background transparent and only place the object?


texts: How to create a professional Floral Swirl Patterns

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I need to know how can I do a professional Floral Swirl Pattern using Illustrator. I know I can find many vector-based custom shapes already made, but I need to create it from scratch. I need to do something like this.

So my questions are:

I need to know which tools should I use in illustrator, I know I need a brush, what else?
Do I need a graphic tablet to do it?

One of my problem is each time I try to draw the main pivot using the brush by the mouse, it comes out so ugly not smooth like when you draw using a pen.


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To preface, I'm an occasional freelancer (it's not my main income by far) and still fairly new to working with clients.

I created a business card design for a client and am showing this design on my portfolio. Now I got a request from someone in the same line of business to purchase this design, with their info on it. I am wondering how I would handle something like this?

I feel like, if I agree, then I can't charge them a lot because it's not much effort to change the contact info, but this also feels very unfair to the first client who paid in full for creating the custom design. And charging the full price feels unfair to the second client.

Or is resale like this not done at all, even if the second client feels the existing design would be perfect for them?

(The first client is a friend and there was no contract involved, so everything's open to negotiation.)

I'd love some input on this, thank you!


texts: Photoshop: color profile keeps changing to ProPhoto RGB instead of sRGB

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The last few weeks I'm having trouble with wrong color profiles attached to my exported JPG images.

I've always have my color space set as sRGB but somehow, somewhere something has changed where my images now have the ProPhoto RGB. Which sucks because this mainly becomes apparent when uploaded.

Am I missing some preferences that are not set correctly?


texts: Is using yellow text on a black bg bad as Mike pointed out here? If yes what colors should I use (RGB or hex values)?


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I searched all over but can't find a solution - maybe I'm just not grasping the concept of an artboard quite yet. Here's the issue: I can't paste into a specific artboard that is not on top (not the first in the list of artboards). I have tried selecting the artboard in the Artboards panel, Paste in Place, Paste in Front, Paste in Back. Even Paste on All Artboards puts two copies of the object on the same artboard.

This is getting a bit frustrating which is why I'm taking to StackExchange. Any help/suggestions/corrections/tips would be appreciated.

Note: I'm still relatively new to Illustrator.


texts: Can I match the corners WITHOUT expanding the path. Almost impossible, any creative cheeky way to do it?

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Like adding extra anchor points, custom arrowheads etc...
I don't know how to google this problem.


texts: When should a Material Design ripple be dark, and when should it be light?

texts: In the Buttons page of Google's Material Design online handbook, touch/click ripples are only mentioned in the "Buttons in motion" section, as an example video with no explanatory text. Here, the ripples shown are dark. In their Polymer elements demo for paper buttons, both light- and dark-background elements are demoed, and the dark button's ripple's ink is light. At what point should the ripple's ink be light (semitransparent white) versus dark (semitransparent black)?


texts: White color objects not visible outside the artboard!

texts: The white color objects are now not visible outside the artboard. It wasn't like this before, it occurred after changing the artboard background from document setup. Is there any way to change the artboard color without making the white objects turn invisible?


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I am working on publishing a book on Lulu.  One warning it has about my PDF is:

Images: Your file contains images with line thickness less than 0.14 points. This may be too thin to print. Please review your file.

I have all of the EPS files that go into the book. However, I do not know how they were created, so I cannot edit the originals. Is there a way to edit the EPS directly to make all lines at least 0.14 points?
I see this question, but they had the original.  I see this ps_thicken script, but it did not work for me.


texts: Whats the best format for saving a project that isn't yet complete

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I'm halfway through a project where I'm doing some destructive editing and:

I want to keep the original Raw (CR2) image.
I haven't finished, so I want to come back later and pick up where I left off.

What is the best "interim" format? Once finished, I'll flatten all the layers and save a a JPG, but I'm not ready for that yet.


texts: Save for Web & Devices in Illustrator CS5 Causes Artifacts on Large Files

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I am saving with these settings:

And ending up with weird transparent line artifacts:

The ai file does not have this, and the path has nothing near the place where the lines are showing:

From what I can tell it has to do with rendering the gradient as it appears the line is showing across a color band location, but who knows. How can I prevent this from happening?

UPDATE

I tried saving with a layer underneath it and the same problem occurred, but in a different spot?!?!


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Text created without bounding box in inkscape renders normally, but text with the bounds are mirrored vertically on the Y-axis. This only happens to SVG's converted from PDF's, but not on SVG's created within inkscape. Is there a way to reset the text mirroring?

Here's a screen record of the process: (imgur trashed the video, but the issue can still be visible) https://i.imgur.com/9huehOW.mp4


texts: Is it possible to make Photoshop pixel perfect?

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As a web designer I hate one particular thing about Photoshop:

Is it possible to force PS CS6 to turn decimal pixels EVERYWHERE off?

I've been lurking around GD for a while now and nothing seems to work, as I don't even see Pixel Preview option anywhere. Also Edit\Preferences\Guides, Grids & Slices and setting Guideline every 1px doesn't help either.

What am I missing?


texts: How to edit transparent shape without any paths

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I have this transparent shape inside this ball which doesn't have any paths and the problem is that this shape doesn't resize with the ball..

Where is this shape coming from? and how can I change it to conform to the original dimensions when resized?


texts: How to fix a low quality glitter texture in Illustrator?

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I'm using Illustrator to make a mockup for flyer. I want to add a glitter effect on heading, but when I apply the grain effect, it becomes very pixelated, doesn't look good.

Here is example:

what I want is this(this one I created in Figma through scaling a glitter texture):

Could you help me to understand how to create a good quality glitter texture in Illustrator? I have tried a lot of things, and now the only result I got is save the texture as pdf from Figma and then upload this pdf to Illustrator, but it also doesn't look very good for me.


texts: How to create a knockout on a live paint group object in Illustrator?

texts: I am trying to get the face to show as transparent through the mug object which is a live paint group. I've tried the Pathfinder, but it didn't work. What do I need to do?


texts: So I'm using Adobe Illustrator and I've got three colors, white, and two different shades of gray. when I make a mask with all three colors it turns out great, but when I put the new graphic in front of a white background it doesn't show up even though there's gray in the art. Even when I print the art, it all prints white... Does anyone know how to make sure the grays still show up?


texts: Learning Photoshop just for web designing

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I want to become a web designer, so I'm watching a lot of Photoshop video tutorials, but some of those tutorials are not useful for web designing. For example, some movies are about skin, or teeth or drawing a flower or changing the pattern of a wall or things like this. Because I don't have any specific resource for web designing, and those tutorials are a kind of wasting time for me!

Do you know any tutorial source in order to help me learn web design in Photoshop?

What should I do to focus on web designing in Photoshop?

Which parts of Photoshop are necessary for web designing and which parts are not?


texts: Sketch / Illustrator: Creating H8 Pentagonal Tiling?

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(source: jaapsch.net)
I'd like to create type 8 pentagonal tiling in illustrator and--if possible--Sketch 3. I first tried tracing in sketch which obviously gave imprecise results.
Is this level of precision possible in Sketch? In Illustrator?
If so, how do I handle the borders and create the shapes? Should they overlap?
Googled tiling and couldn't find anything--help would be appreciated!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/aug/10/attack-on-the-pentagon-results-in-discovery-of-new-mathematical-tile


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Currently running Adobe Suite CC 2017.

Im currently working on some branding material which requires work to be done in Illustrator and indesign.

However when creating the artwork I'm using the CMYK values in both but I keep getting different colours.

Both programs have the same colour settings which has been setup to our print suppliers. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?


texts: Illustrator: Shortcut for switching documents

texts: Is there a shortcut in Illustrator (CC 2017) to switch between opened documents?


texts: InDesign: Text spacing having no effect on anchored object

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I have an anchored object (graphic) inside a textframe. The positioning is set to "inline". Text-Wrap to "jump object".

Now I am trying to get a consistent distance above my headings throughout my document by changing the "space before" value. My anchored object, however, does not seem to fazed by that in the slightest bit ... not to say it is ignoring the setting completely. See this video for evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S804CVWt-N8

This surely is a rather simple and dumb mistake I am making, but anchored objects and text wrap in general are kind of giving me a hard time, so help would be appreciated :)


texts: How to remove these weird ruler lines around artboard?

texts: My illustrator opens this way by default. I have no idea why or how. I have tried tweaking settings in document setup, preferences, etc. but it always opens a new Ai document like this. My older Ai files are fine tho. Can someone please tell me how to remove these rulers around grid and how to get the normal background instead of a transparent one?


texts: How to unlock an object larger than the page in InDesign?

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I have an object larger than the pasteboard. Its lock icon is outside in the grey field and not visible.

How do I unlock that object?


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I want to export a file from Adobe Illustrator but it's kinda messing it up. I've no idea why.

In case you don't see the problem instantly: The shadow (3D Extrude & Bevel effect) of the gray line gets cut at multiple positions.

My export Settings: I've fiddled with a lot of different settings around but couldn't get it any better.

Original vector from Adobe Illustrator:

Exported SVG, as seen in any common browser:

3D Extrude & Bevel effect


texts: How can I best represent scaling when painting?

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I want to add a scale to a drawing without putting an object for scale in it.

I have no problem showing the scale of an object by putting something like a human or a banana next to it, but how can I add hugeness to something like a hall or a cavern w/o them?


texts: Neon Text Effect with Compound Shapes - Illustrator

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I'm following this tutorial for neon effects in Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWSFGIEAz4s

However, whenever I offset the path, for some reason some of my letters remain filled in and some of them turn into outlines? I don't understand what I can do to stop this from happening. I can't have some of the letters filled in and some not - it doesn't work for the neon look.

I'm using Illustrator 2019, version 23.0.3. The only difference I have between the tutorial and my file is that I didn't start with a font, I started with a logo (which is just an outlined version of the font originally).

What am I missing?


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I should scan a brochure and remake it with all the text and images replacing some obsolete text like emails and old links, but preserving the pictures and text relationships. (No, I do not have any digital files).

I am looking for a software which can convert the page-images to PDFs with text and images as close as possible to original brochure.

If there is no choice I will cut all the true-images and OCR the text separately, which is quite time consuming.

Any recommendations and advices would be highly appreciated.


texts: I have a logo on a cream background that I need to delete the cream from so I can make it match the documentit will go on.  In photoshop I would just use the magic wand tool, but I need to know how to do this in illustrator so I can keep it a vector image.


texts: Illustrator: Centering two groups according to an object in one of the groups

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I think that the easiest way for me to ask this question is by illustrating it.

So, as a simplified example, say I wanted to create a watch vector:

I have created the hands (which is a group of thee objects - an ellipse and two rounded rectangles) and the frame (simply a stroked ellipse):

Now I want to center the two, but if I use the normal align functions, my hands will obviously not be put in the right place, because the center of the entire group will be used, not the center of the ellipse within the group:

So I'm wondering if there is a way of centring the group according to an object in that group. At the moment, the only method I can think of is using rulers and snapping, which is fine when the image is as simple as this, but much harder when working with a more complicated image.

I would be surprised if there was a way of doing this within illustrator, so I am also asking if there are any scripts which would allow me to do this.

Thanks, and please say if my question is not clear enough.


texts: Create new photos from a photo based on variations of an adjustment

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I have a picture here and I want to apply an adjust (brightness for example) and save like 40 pictures, each one with a different level of brightness. Is there a way to do this automatically?
I use gimp and Photoshop.


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I'm trying to put an object on a backdrop image. After copying it out of the original image and placing it upon the backdrop I realized it had a blue reflection from the object it stood next to it.

What is the best way to re-adjust the color back to its original beige tone?

The image:


texts: How to convert a signature from JPG to vector strokes?

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I would like to convert a scanned signature to a vector file. Specifically, I'd like to obtain a clean, small SVG, like Barack Obama's signature on Wikipedia. It consists solely of paths with no fill and a black stroke of width 1.4.

Here is an example scanned signature. I've tried the tracing functionality built into Inkscape 0.48 and Illustrator CS6 but was only able to obtain paths with anchors at the boundaries, plus fill and no stroke. Needless to say, the resulting SVG is not clean (path has varying width) and it's size is roughly four times that of the Obama signature.

Do any tools exist that can decently trace a scanned signature/line art as strokes, not as paths? If not, how would I go about creating the strokes manually with the pen tool in Illustrator?


texts: Default CMYK profile not perfect for print

texts: My client sent the print PDF I provided him with to a print studio. They replied that the black CMYK profile is set to 100/100/100/100 and they need it in 64/55/53/100. How do I fix that? I'm designing in Photoshop and exporting with Bleeds in Illustrator.


texts: Large Format Printing viewed fairly close- suggestions?

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Assume we are idiots- that may help!

We have been asked to cover /wrap the inside of an exhibition trailer's walls (approx  8m length and 1.5m height) with the image/s of sky (above the clouds) .

First question:
Choosing the image, as we don't have any flight arranged to take photographs above the clouds (ha) we have decided to purchase good res photos from shutter stock. Is this a good start?

our image purchased - 43.89cm x 51.34cm pixels 5084x6064 PPI 300

Second: How to we resize without causing the mac to lag etc we are using photoshop. One colleague as already resized it and it is 10GB! Surely this is far to large to work with??
It just seems far too painful for this to be the answer there must be a better way of re-sizing, keeping good quality and isn't so slow. Also then we have ONYX Rip, which will we print from.

Thirdly: we have a latex HP printer at hand, the max width this can fit to print is 60 inch. What is the best way to break our image down for printing, The rip software can tile the image but if the image is too large to begin with do we have to create a tilled image in photoshop instead and rip individual files?

HELP!!! Many thanks :D


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I wonder if its possible to change the color of a pattern overlay in Photoshop?

I googled a lot but couldn't find anything useful.

So I have a layer with pattern overlay, but I also want to use color overlay so I can set a color for the pattern.

Thanks


texts: InDesign CS6 - Content conveyor: placing collected objects (links) at their original positions

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With the intent of easily updating elements across several pages I am using the content collector tool to place linked objects.

I am finding it unpractical to precisely position several collected elements on new pages at their original coordinates.

Question 1:
Is there a way to place several collected elements and maintain their original positions?

Question 2:
Are there any other ways of duplicating page contents while retaining links to their respective InDesign internal source objects?

Note: I don't wish to use any external links in this case, just internally linked objects, like one would use symbols in Illustrator.