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I usually use the phone call icons, or email, sms, and so on.

But in my case we found the need for a generic "get in touch" icon, which will lead to either email, or phonecall, or sms, depending on what is available.

Is there an icon for such a feature? Right now I'm looking at hybrid icons with a phone over an envelope for example, but while that would do the trick, I'm curious if there is anything more to find out here.

Is there an icon that exists for such an action?

EDIT: adding context to understand my question :

I have a list of contacts and in that list, each cells displays quite a bit of information : complete name, company, role, email, a couple of other tags, and 3 possible phone numbers (home/work/mobile).

All that is quite a lot to display in one cell ; it was the original design but it's just too much.

Touching a cell simply selects it and is outside of the scope of this question.

Right now, you can also tap on the phone numbers/email to send an email or call the person. Which forces us to leave enough space on the cell to select it easily (I'm in a mobile app), which makes the cells quite big on top of displaying a lot of information.

But there is zero use for our user to actually know the phone number of the contacts, in our case, we really just need a "call home", not a "call 123456789". We tried reducing it to text (call home) but changing the number to text does not solve the issue.

We then decided to simply add a button that opens a picker modally, with "Call home, call office, send email", etc. depending on what was available in the contact information. Then selecting somethign in that picker initiates the actual phone/email action and switches you in the relevant app.

We're happy with that, the cell is quite small, we can see more contacts on 1 screen, and it does not obscure the experience to hide the numbers and emails (you never really look someone up by email or phone number).

I'm talking about that button, the one that opens the picker, this is the icon i'm looking for. It's a contact that person using whatever mean is available, which probably includes an email and at least one phone number, which could be home/office/work button.

I hope this provides enough information and context :)


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I'm a Photoshop n00b, working with version CS6.  I'm trying to fix up a PSD I was sent from my client so I can convert it to HTML and CSS.  Here's a screenshot of some layers I've extracted, that hopefully will help illustrate my question:

The two white shapes are in one layer.  The black "i" is a text layer on top of this.  How can I make the "i" be a cutout inside the white layer, that allows the transparent background to show through?  I can't find any tutorials online that demonstrate how to do this.


texts: How to fill path in Illustrator with average color (like in Ps)?

texts: So i have made triangle path in Illustrator and I want to fill it with the average color of that area. It's possible in Photoshop with Filter>Blur>Average. Is there an option like that in Ai?


texts: Which one first, Visual design or icon design?

texts: When attempting to build a mobile app and decide its visual design, means colours, shapes, etc, should we design the Icon first which is going to lead the look and feel of the app or should we design the visual for the app first and finally the according icon?


texts: Preparing artwork for print in illustrator?

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I am preparing a complex artwork for print in illustrator which includes:

textures, overprinting, overlapping colors, gradients, blend modes and transparencies

I would like to prepare these files for print I know that I will need to flatten the image and rasterize.

I have also read that I might need to expand and rasterize areas of the artwork where there are overlapping textures and transparencies.

I would like to know to correct method that I would need to use to make sure that my artwork is ready to send to print.

I would appreciate some help with this process.


texts: Why did people used to make buttons that looked pressed by default?

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Examples:
- https://dribbble.com/shots/5364117-Compose
- https://dribbble.com/shots/433877-Introducing-Tweebie/attachments/34845
- https://dribbble.com/shots/472747-Download-and-Share-Buttons
- https://dribbble.com/shots/237766-Navigation-Duo
- https://dribbble.com/shots/66468-Concrete-blog
- https://dribbble.com/shots/4030219-Removing-Mud
- https://dribbble.com/shots/103722-Blog-Preview
- https://dribbble.com/shots/1476443-Footprints

I'm new to design. And I know this kind of buttons and icons are kind of out of fashion today, but I'm still curious. Why did people make buttons that looked pressed by default, when they're not yet pressed? What are the reasons for / advantages of doing this?


texts: Brush Tool keeps changing whenever I try to use (Adobe Illustrator CC 2015)

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Currently, I'm facing this kind of problem. When I tried to use the brush it keeps changing its attribute randomly. I've read some thread that says, I need to uncheck the New Art Basic Appearance located on Appearance panel. Already tried that but not working.

My preferred brush attribute is

But the attribute keeps changing after using the brush.


texts: How to visually represent a color contrast issue to a person with normal color vision?

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I have two colors — #FFFFFF and #009688.

I want to simulate graphically how it will appear to a person with color blindness issues so that I can present it to a person with normal vision and explain it.

Is there any accurate way to do this?


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I have made a shape and did 'Stroke Path' to paint it with the brush. I want to make the shape a dashed line so I set the Shape Dynamics and the Angle Jitter to 'Direction'. When I paint the shape, this is the result:

The blue middle line should be following the path. How can I do that?

It should be something like this:

Thanks!


texts: How to create a PDF template and export as HTML/CSS?

texts: I need a tool that allows me to design how a PDF file would look like in a web page. Something simple the image below, I would like to design using some visual tool, export to HTML/CSS and then just fill the fields in my backend. Is this possible?


texts: How to make logos like attached examples?

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i really love this kind of style for logos. These are simple yet catchy. I would really like to design these logos but whenever Ii try, I fail to give effect and outlining like the attached logos(mascot and complete logo). Can anybody tell me how can i give these effect and outlining(in illustrator or CorelDraw)?

NOTE: I'm using featured logos  from LogoPond.com, If i'm using your logo and you don't like it, I will immediately remove it!


texts: Wrapping an image strip around a circle in photoshop

texts: I need to wrap this image strip around a circular frame,how can I do it in photoshop?


texts: Post-processing inDesign layouts? When to transfer to photoshop, illustrator, and in what order?

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I know that there are a lot of similar questions on this topic and at the end of the day, it is a flexible process that really just comes down to personal preference, but I'm seeking some insight.

I am a professional artist and designer, really looking to just upgrade my skills, portfolio, and website. I'll be honest and say that my past layouts for these things have just been a means to an end rather than a creative piece in and of themselves!

I'm highly fluent in Photoshop, then Illustrator, and lastly Indesign, which I can navigate but have definitely not mastered.

Indesign and Illustrator are great for setting up layouts, graphics, and text, and I'm familiar with pasting images into both via photoshop or elsewhere on my computer... but I don't like the 'clean' results that I get from the two latter programs... I want to take things to photoshop, mess them up a little, make them or artistic, but still be able to do so selectively, so not on a fully flattened final image or layout, but one in the end/stages that just needs those final touches.

I want things like texture, grain, grit, slightly fuzzy edges, and skewed channels on some features... I can think of a million, possibly inefficient ways to go about this process but I'm wondering if anyone here has a perfected process to achieve rougher results? At what point do you take the work into photoshop? Is it at the very end? Is it element by element when you've determined the final composition and placement of everything, and then reintroducing the edited elements into Indesign or Illustrator in place of the original vector?


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I create my design using appearance panel. Then alt click 'new graphic style', named it and instantaneously it appears in graphic style panel.

But each time i create a new document it disappears.
It seems like nothing was saved!

I see tutorials and all do this far. but theirs graphic style is not keep disappearing.

Am i missing something?


texts: Why are my pixels not aligning to grid in Illustrator?

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I have a small Problem that occurs from time to time.

Sometimes, when I copy things or when I put an object from the symbol library on my page, the whole file gets messed up. The screenshot shows it. I make the graphic on the right, Illustrator the ones on the left.

I have pixel snapping checked. Is there a way to tell Illustrator to align everything to pixels no matter what?


texts: Seeking advice to improve the design of my productivity app

texts:
I'm developing a productivity dashboard for Google Chrome called  Beautab, which has about 500 users. This is my original design, which is heavily influenced by a similar app called Momentum:

And my new design looks like this:

I've tried to organise the various elements better and keep a strong visual hierarchy, but I've lost the "Good evening" greeting and most of the elements have ended up grouped into one corner.

Does it seem out of balance? Could the elements be placed better to improve the overall balance?
I'm not a professional designer -- are there any design conventions I'm currently breaking or should be following?
Would you consider this an improvement on the original design?

Beautab uses lots of different background images, so designing around the images shown isn't necessary.


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I'm new to Illustrator and have created some icons. When I export to svg, I get thin white lines between shapes. There is no gap when I'm using Illustrator.

I've taken a look on the web with the main solution being place the same colour behind the shape to hide the gap.

These seems quite clunky, is there a better solution?


texts: Are there any colors besides black that will work with the tetris palette?

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The palette consists of blue, green, purple, red, orange, yellow, and cyan.

I've been trying to generate background colors based on the most prevalent color on the play field but it doesn't look very good. I could always use black or a dark gray but I was curious if anyone had other ideas.


texts: Illustrator shapes differ in size based on color

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I'm new to Illustrator\PS and I'm self taught so I google a lot, and learned everything that way.  I've noticed an issue that I couldn't find any mention of online.

When I make a shape (ex. triangle) with a black background, I get a much smaller triangle than if it's black on a white background. In transform the dimensions are the same. I figure it may be an optical illusion, and when I do put the 2 shapes on top of each other, what do you know, it's exactly the same.  But really it's a big difference and does show when printed.  Any help would be great, I hope I don't have to manually adjust it by guesstimating the exact size.

I use 2017 Illustrator CC Ver. 22.0.0 64bit


texts: Critique - Logo for company that cleans medical linens

texts: A company known as MedLinens has asked me to create a logo for them. They specialize in cleaning medical linens i.e scrubs, gowns, bed sheets. I have shown the client a few logos but the attached one had the most positive response. However, they critiqued that the logo was too round for their liking. Any ideas how I could "square" up this logo without losing the main innuendos of the logo (heart, stethoscope, collar)? I was also thinking of just scrapping this whole idea and creating new a new square-like logo and any ideas would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
I'm creating a billboard with cutouts. How do you represent the cutout portion.

Do you just outline the parts to be cutout with a solid line like a crop mark would do, except the cutout goes around a person's body in the picture.


texts: How to draw iOS Safari app-like ticks in Pixelmator?

texts: How can I draw a tick in my image on Pixelmator? I'm now creating my iOS app icon with 1,024 x 1,024 pixels, and have put a background rectangle to cover the whole picture, and on it draw a circle and filled it with white. Now want to draw those ticks like in Safari app...


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I have two lines with a double appearance:

which I would like to be joined at their intersection:

(which I did with Object->Path->Join).

However, I don't want the lines to be joined at the end; rather, they should look like:

I was able to achieve this effect by converting the lines to objects and unioning them, but that makes it very difficult to adjust them later, which I need to do fairly often.

Any ideas?


texts: Illustrator: Quick way of removing redundant anchor points after unifying shapes?

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Except for manually removing redundant anchor points that gets added when unifying two or more objects, is there a quicker operation to wipe in-between anchor points?

EDIT: To complement Lollero's answer below, here's the setting to automatically remove redundant points from Pathfinder operations (as embarrasingly simple as it may seem, I never thought of this before):


texts: Best practice to creating distorted text?

texts:
Trying to practice better on my typographic logos I wanted to challenge myself in creating a distorted text logo but I was unaware if any practices exist when considering pre-existing fonts in regards to Serif VS Sans-Serif. So my questions are as followed:

Are there any stroke considerations when distorting the bowl?
Is there a degree of bend to consider when distorting the Ascender for a Serif or Sans-Serif?
Is it harder to distort a Serif because of the Bracket, Ear, and Terminal?
Should an eye be rotated, resized, or just depends on the font?
Is there an amount of leading you shouldn't exceed?
Is there an amount of X-height you should consider for the first letter in the word?
Should you consider a baseline when distorting?

Examples:


texts: Tutorial to Create a Wunderlist-like Icon in Photoshop

texts: I'm developing an application for iOS and Android and I love the style of the Wunderlist icon, so I want to know if there is any tutorial about how to create this "rounded wooden drawer" effect in Photoshop.


texts: In Illustrator, how to "unflow" text in columns but retain individual page layout

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Hope someone can help. I have designed a template where the text flows into four columns per page, and there are four pages in all.

So in all 16 columns, and the text flows beautifully.

The problem now is that because these 4 pages need to print on front and back of a folded A3 paper.

Much easier to explain visually:

Which means, I need to "unflow" the text from those columns, because Page 4 and Page 1 need to print on one A3 side (because, when folder through the center in landscape, A3's Page 1 and Page 4 will be on the same side), but I cannot easily split the pages and rearrange them as the text is flowing across.

I would love to some idea from experts about how to manage this? I bet this is a common problem in the DTP industry -- the text must flow between pages, but printing wise they need to sometimes be not in sequence?

Thanks for any pointers!


texts: How to determine what quality a JPG was saved as?

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When saving JPG images with Pixelmator or Photoshop, I select a quality from the scale 1–100 that gives optimum file-size.

Later on, I sometimes take these images and crop them a little more (not always possible to find the originals), but when re-saving I can no longer know what quality I saved them with.*

Are there any Mac programs that will reveal the quality that the JPG was saved at?

* Perhaps this is not the right way of going about it, because it seems that, for example, if I'm already saving a file that was saved lossy at 59 quality previously, and then go ahead and I save it again (even at 59 or 99), it will loose even more quality? Correct?


texts: "Actually" filling a shape with a pattern in Illustrator

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I am trying to "actually" fill a shape with a Pattern in Illustrator.
When I create a shape, then use the Window > Swatch Libraries > Patterns > Basic Graphics > Basic Graphics_Textures feature, the shape appears to be filled with a Pattern:

But what is actually happening is:
-Illustrator places several seamless pattern "tiles" next to each other (but that are overlapping);
-it then creates a Clipping Mask in the shape of the Object, and hides what is outside its bounds.

This process doesn't work at all for me, as the shape isn't actually "filled" within its bounds, it's an illusion.
I need a way to "actually" fill shapes with a Pattern in Illustrator, without involving messy overlapped lines or Clipping Masks. When using a pen plotter, Clipping Masks are ignored and overlapping lines produce visual defects.
Can Illustrator "actually" fill a shape with a Pattern?
(I am ok with external plugins or third party software, exporting/reimporting - etc - but I would like the result to be as clean as possible and to be what it looks like - a Pattern inside a Shape).


texts: Make an random shaped image rectangular ( photoshop )

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I have a shirt imagine, that was originally rectangular, but is now deformed:

I want to make my selection " fille the rectangle ", i dont mean to just "zoom into it ", but more like transform it like a vector shape. It would also be convenient if i could vectorise my image in the first place in the process.
Thanks for the help.


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i have a question to do with formatting in Indesign. i'm currently working on a pre-existing document/brochure template at work which as been used in the past a presentation tool. As i'm repurposing this tool i'm working through and adjusting visual elements eg. colour and imagery to suit the client but ive got stuck on this underline that used for on the section titles. the underline adjusts size based on the size of the text frame not the text itself.

could anyone explain how to adjust this underline, and more specifically the colour? i cant seem to find any option within the paragraph/character styles.

i've attached a image for reference as i'm not the best explainer ;)


texts: Indesign: table borders when spanning across pages

texts: When a table with a border but no internal row strokes breaks across pages, is there any way to automatically put a stroke below the last row before the break? Otherwise the table has borders on three sides, but is open in an ugly fashion at the page bottom?


texts: Illustrator: scaling changes when I relink an image

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I'm assembling panels of multiple images in Illustrator CS5. The images are similar, but of slightly different sizes, therefore I put each image in a clipping mask, so the final sizes of clipped images are the same, so they can be arranged in a grid. The magnification of the images should be exactly the same, for example, I scale all the images to 5% and then I put them in a clipping mask.

I've made a grid of 2 x 2 images and then reused this grid, to put a different set of images inside the clipping masks. The four images in the initial grid were scaled to 5%, but when I relink an image inside the clipping mask and choose a different one, the scaling changes - as seen in this screenshot to 4.708% for this particular image:

So my question is: is it possible to re-scale the image(s) to exactly 5%? I tried Object-Transform-Scale, but the initial value is always 100%, so I would have to calculate percentage for each image separately, like 5/4.708*100% for the one in the screenshot. Is it possible to use an absolute scaling percentage for image transformation?


texts: Trouble making editable letterhead template in Word

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I'm having quite the headache tying to figure out how to make the header of my letterhead template editable in Word 365 and considering my other options.

I wanted to ask is, for documents with more than 1 page, is it standard to have the letterhead on all pages, or just the first?


texts: How to keep the portfolio updated while working at design studios?

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In my experience, when you work with branding agencies or design studios or organisation of such nature, you are kind of bound by law or contract not to disclose your work for a certain period of time which is understandable because the clients the studios work for may not be comfortable with it before they adopt the new design.
In such cases, how does a designer keep his portfolio updated? The next employer most certainly would like to see what the candidate did for the previous company or even to judge his skills, but the designer may not be able to disclose or publish the work.


texts: Confused over hue, saturation,luminosity

texts:
I am trying to make sense of luminosity, hue, saturation and color.
I read this online: Hue, saturation and value together make a color.
But hue is also the term for pure colors like red, green, violet etc.
I guess my questions would be: which one is it?
and
is luminosity same as brightness? and also called value?


texts: How to insert text into an Illustrator file using ExtendScript JavaScript

texts:
I opened my Illustrator file successfully using the below code:

var fileRef = new File("E:/project/AH_Portrait.ai");
var docRef = app.open (fileRef)

I want to write some text ("Handgloves") into it, but I'm unable to do so using the following code:

var width = 100;
var height = 100;
var doc = app.documents.add(null,width,height);
var text1 = doc.textFrames.pointText( [20,height-50] );
text1.contents = "Handgloves";

How can I write text in to my document?


texts: Choosing an appropriate font weight and line height

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Typically a back-end engineer, I'm venturing into the world of vector design, trying not to hurt myself on the way.

I'm aware that I'm struggling to size things, with my home brewed typography style guide:

I am trying to combine these fonts with a graphic style which should be rather precise, see below:

It seems no matter how I size my icons, the line weighting, corner radius, the line heights, font sizes within those line heights, or similar. I never come up with a suitable "vertical rhythm", here pictured with 14px bold weighted text, within a 19px line height, I can't come up with good looking alighment and spacing next to a 40px high icon, with a 4px weigh line, with 8px weighted rounded corners.

I don't want absolutes "make your text X heigh" kind of answers, but is there a place to start, with the structural elements, such as the icons and lines, and then work backwards to a suitable line height and font size?

Line height of 30, with a font-size of ~20/22, for example, to match the size of the icons?


texts: Illustrator - Duplicating text across several artboards

texts: I'm creating canvas' of multiple sizes and shapes that have blocks of text that are the same. Is there a way to have edit the text in one instance and have that same text duplicated across all over canvas'?


texts: How to save a channels file to a format that can be emailed?

texts: I have a PSD file in channels and want to convert (flatten?) it to something I can email to a client to show progress on the design. How is this done?


texts: Am I breaking any Copyright/IP law by designing and selling posters based on an existing design and concept?

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I have found a website that sells posters that includes graphic design, and am now thinking of creating from scratch my own posters to sell on my website, using the same idea/concept (please note that I am not copying any of the already existing work, I start from a blank page).

By using the same idea/concept for my own website (commercial use), am I infringing any copyright/IP law?

Thank you guys!


texts: I created files AI files using adobe creative cloud. How can I open .eps files in AI CS6?

texts:
I created a bunch of files using Adobe Creative Cloud, saved files in both .ai and .eps, but have since decided switch to AI CS6.

I am able to open the .ai file versions without a problem, but when I attempt to open the .eps versions, I get a legacy error message. How can I get the .eps files to open? This is the message I get when I attempt to open the .eps file versions.


texts: Part of graphics missing when exporting PDF?

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Hey, I tried exporting this design of a car from illustrator into PDF and it seemed fine to me on Illustrator and on Acrobat DC preview, but client reported that the tip of the bottle is blank white. I didn't notice the white space before I opened it in Safari, as you can see from the leftmost image.
Does anyone know how to fix this issue? What are the steps I can take to prevent this issue from occurring? Every little bit helps :)
The problem occured when I used both PSD and PNG version of the transparent bottle image. Illustrator working place is CMYK. Most of the design consists of vector shapes. I don't intend to use overprint.


texts: Talking about front end web development frameworks from a designer's perspective

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I am a web developer working at a company where the front end framework we have selected is Angular JS. I am now in the position where I am the 'resident expert' whatever that means. I have been tasked with teaching/explaining everything that our designers need to know about Angular JS. Therefore I have the following question:

What, if anything would a designer need to know about a front end JavaScript framework in general/Angular JS in particular in order to streamline their productivity? What kind of things are irrelevant? What kind of things are important?


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as you can see in the photo example. I would like to know how can we create smooth gradient like that.Thank in advance

[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fu05l.jpg


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I am using Illustrator CC 2018, trying to do the same explained in this tutorial.

In the step 3, I don't see the intersection label between the circle and the segment (but they do intersect, I don't know why).

That prevents me from deleting the inner part of the rect segment.

In any case, is there any quicker way to do this? I have like 100 wire intersections and going one by one can take a long time.


texts: How do I make a photoshop action pick a color from the image?

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I am trying to capture a photoshop action that requires setting the foreground color by using the color picker at a particular location in the image.

When I record the action, a 'set foreground color' operation is recorded, but to a fixed color, the one I have just picked. I want the action to be something like "use picker to capture color at location (x,y)".

Is there any way to persuade Photoshop (either CS6 or CC) to record this sort of action?


texts: PDF only with JPG photo is 7 times larger than original

texts:
I start a file in Illustrator with these settings:

I save the file with these settings (no PDF compatible file):

The AI file weighs 1.1 MB.
I place a JPG picture from a DSLR camera which weighs 4.4 MB, rescaled to A4 size. I save it and it still weighs 1.1 MB.
I save it as PDF with the standard settings, except that I uncheck "Keep Illustrator editing capabilities":

The PDF now weighs 33.1 MB.
I would expect the PDF file to simply embed the JPG image with coordinates and thus be only be marginally larger than the photo, or maybe a bit more for thumbnails. Instead, the PDF is more than 7 times larger than the original.
Why is the PDF so large?


texts: I wonder if there's a setting for letting PNG's that you've added to your canvas be updated if the original file is updated? Now when I add a PNG to the canvas it creates an image copy of the original PNG, I don't want that, I want the image to be linked to the original PNG so that any updates to the PNG are also updated to the image.


texts: What font can I use to recreate the logo for JP&R Advertising Agency?

texts:
I'm trying to recreate (as close as possible, doesn't need to be exact) a logo with text, but am having trouble.  The reason I'm not just using the image is because it will be looped several hundred thousand times in a mailing app and introduces unnecessary overhead so I just want to use the closest possible text alternative.

I've tried the various font identifying sites (whatthefont, etc.) but it's to jumbled and Photoshoped to identify.  Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Rule for leaving some particular amount of the white space on the bottom of the page. UX

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Is there any rule for leaving some particular amount of the white space on the bottom of the page? Or having the footer with a specific size? Especially for allowing users scrolling text of the website from the bottom of the website to the middle - to read it more easily.

I am always expecting it on websites and now I am creating one and other people in the team don't think it is needed. I am wondering if it is just my preference or:

Is there any UX rule or a good practice about letting people to scroll text higher by adding white space on the bottom?


texts: Kerning Approach for Letters with Large Spaces

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Is there a specific approach to kerning letters with large spaces (apologies if there's a technical term for this)?

For example, the 'T' and 'Y' below both have large amounts of space either side of the 'stem' in the center (in comparison to, say, 'N' which has straight sides). If adjusting the position of the bullets, where would be best the best place to start?

I appreciate kerning isn't necessarily an exact science, but any tips on what to focus on would be greatly appreciated.


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I edited a b/w image in photoshop with the effects gallery and saved it. I opened up illustrator and placed it behind some text I created. Now I'm trying to add a  fill and stroke around it to match the text stroke, but I'm unable do it in the appearance panel.

What am I missing?


texts: I was wondering if Pixelmator Pro can do some basic ruler & mark like Mark Tool Basic?


texts: How to Export in both in RGB and CMYK in Affinity Design?

texts: How do I export a logo in both CMYK and RGB in Affinity Design, provided that the Logo design starts with a template that is in CMYK? I mean when I start a new file, it asks me to choose the colour profile.


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I am looking for a font that provides coding ligatures, especially arrows, but which has a rather narrow appearance. Hence, could be a proportional font rather than a monospaced font.

Font should be free to use for private purposes
Coding ligatures should be similiar to Fira Code
Sans serifs is preferred

Any ideas?


texts: Is Photoshop forcing me to have a certain canvas size?

texts:
I'm making a plate graphic for a new item at my company and the engineers have specified that they need it to be exactly 12.5 x 7.25 inches.

I set up my Photoshop file, specifying those dimensions, replicated their sketch and sent it over to them. They sent it back to me and told me if was the wrong size. Sure enough, Photoshop had made the canvas 12.5 x 7.377 instead of what I specified.

Luckily, I left extra padding at the top and bottom of the graphic, so I went to adjust the canvas size and just planned on letting Photoshop clip it a little.

Photoshop took a minute to process the resize and then when it finished, the image moved up a little in my workspace. It didn't look different to me, but it's such a small change that I wasn't too worried.

However, when I checked the image size again, it's still 12.5 x 7.377.

I have been working on an artboard so I thought I could manually drag up the bottom of the artboard to resize it myself, but even that won't change the canvas/image height from 7.377.

I tried changing the image size (leaving it linked) by specifying 7.25 for the height and letting the width shrink below the specifications. (I planned on trying to pull back out the width afterwards.

Again, Photoshop processed the image resize but when I checked afterwards, it's still 12.5 x 7.377.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Will Photoshop not allow those dimensions for some reason?


texts: Exporting Designs for different social media platforms without losing aspect ratio

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I am designing posts for different social media Platforms like Facebook and Instagram as well as LinkedIn and Illustrator. My question is that how to export the same design for multiple social media platforms without losing aspect ratio.

The above image is designed for Facebook on the resolution of 1200*628

As when I try to export the same image for Instagram that is 1080*1080 resolution I am losing aspect ratio and you can see clearly that below image is not in a crisp shape and the graphics are like suffocating.

My question is how professionals handle this situation, and how to export designs for various social media platforms without losing the aspect ratio of designs?


texts: Illustrator Javascript to Embed Linked Images

texts: Hi I'm Trying to Embed linked Images in Adobe Illustrator. I've edited some Javascript code to get the linked Images to Embed and It works fine for 1, 2 an 3 Images. When I try to embed a fourth Image the Image jumps/moves position before it embeds.


texts: Will digital printing be able to match RGB better than offset printing?

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I have a client who insist on using a lapis lazuli ( Royal Blue ) color because its part of their brand name. The rgb value is about R20, G30, B225. Can this be printed? Will digital printing be able to print better than offset printing as far as getting close to the RGB result viewed on screen?

Example image:
https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2018/1/13/0/3/f/03f54ba2-0a98-4e64-b1fb-ab4e89cf1731.jpg


texts: What is the "baseball team shirt" style called?

texts: I really want to know that this style is called. You see it often, also on clothing. I would like to create something like it in my own name. But before I can actually look for tutorials, I think I need to know what it's called.


texts: Is there a way to create 360 banners/images (not polar) without a 360 camera

texts: I am looking to create a 360 degree banner for my website where users can use the controls to pan around. I don't want a video like YouTube. I want an Image. Can it be done? How do I do it?


texts: Tips for emulating this illustration style?

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I'm trying to create an Android/iOS game and I'd like a few pointers on creating the style.

I'm trying to go for a style like in Dragon, Fly. Are there any tips in color schemes, shading, etc that anyone can offer me?


texts: Critique: Does this image looking like active brain?

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I want to represent an active brain. So I created an image of brain. In order to show that it is active, I used a bit of animation. I want to highlight right & left brain which suits my requirement. I used colours in order to differentiate

My question is, Does it conveying the meaning what I intended?
If not suggest me how can I improve this one.

P.S
I made few changes in this image. As Zack said I made the points to move fast and added few more dots.

I intentionally made few dots to move slow which slowly turns fast. I want to reflect my mind. When I begin to learn something new I usually start slowly and when I get in touch with something I do things fast. So for that reason I would like to reflect that in animation.

How's it now?

P.S 2
I tried to make it look like loop. Since few lines doesn't connect with anything I made it somewhat closer. I think it looks more smooth and looping compared with previous one. Is there any thing else to improve? :)

Version 4Increased the width and made few changes in animation style. While designing I kept in mind to make variations in speed and to make the animation look like continuos loop. How is this version?

I did some random dots look using fading effect. another version.


texts: Photoshop: What is the quickest way to make changes to headers and footers in a web design?

texts: When I start working on a web design project and finish up the home page, I duplicate that PSD file, remove the contents leaving the header and footer, and start working on the next page. I run into problems when I need to make changes to either the header or footer as I would need to go back and make the same changes to the other files. I've tried using smart objects but I find it complicated to make changes as I would like to see how it looks with the rest of the design while I'm making the changes. Is there a better way to go about this?


texts: Extract vector graphics from PDF in photoshop

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I have a pdf which I want to extract a high resolution / vector graphics format from.

When I open the PDF with Preview I can zoom in forever and artwork always seem to have a crisp edge. However when I open in Photoshop they appear pixelated at a certain resolution.

I have tried choosing the option "images" when opening, but it doesn't find the particular art I need.

Any suggestions? I'm not desperate to have vector, but just as high a resolution as is possible as I will be enlarging the figure by 1000% or more.


texts: Add a new layer to a set of button icons

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A designer has created (for money) a set of button icons (Facebook, Settings, ...) for me, where all buttons have the same rounded rectangle outline:

Now I need to add few more buttons, for example with a train picture - but the designer doesn't answer my mails since weeks (longer vacation? busy?)

So I am trying to do it myself, but being a programmer I know Photoshop even less than Gimp.

How could I add the train picture to the existing buttons?

I've created a new layer and pasted the train there, but have 2 problems:

How to scale down the train, so that it fits into the rectangular outline? Yes I can scale the train image in Gimp, but I'd prefer to do it "live" while editing the button icons file in the Photoshop - so that I could move and scale the train pictue until it looks well. But I don't see a "scale layer" command in Photoshop's menu?
I have problems with the outline, it is covered by the train's grey background. Or vice versa - if I move the train layer underneath it:

Any help please? Here is my psd file available for download.


texts: How to make View > Show > Layer Edges on by default?

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I always enable the layer edges in Photoshop, since it disables after I close Photoshop.

View > Show > Layer Edges

Is there any way to let it always on?


texts:
I have this header image:

And I'm trying to find the best colors for the text of the title. Any suggestions?


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I found this pencil stroke is very fancy and I wondered how it can be emulated in Gimp or Photoshop.

Actually I found pencil drawing is really fascinating and I hope to learn more about it.

I will greatly appreciate any:

tutorials on how to make this kind of drawing
similar works so that I feel the beauty


texts: How can I add unicode glyphs using just the keyboard?

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I want to use glyphs in my text with keyboard shortcuts.

Say an endmark, instead of placing it through the glyphs panel I want to use my keyboard.


texts: how to make image frames that give animation effect of a ball or circular object separating from a thick substance

texts: I am trying to draw individual image frames that when pieced together will to give the animation effect of a ball or circular object coming out of a thick (not necessarily sticky) substance or liquid. The idea is for a protruding object to form a circular object as it separates. How can I create these image frames using  illustrator?


texts: In GIMP, how to get a selection from a mask?

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Let's say I paint a mask in GIMP and I want to convert that to a selection for applying filters, etc. What are the steps for doing this?

Using this sample image from Pixabay we'll create a mask for the purpose of adding more blur to the background.

Here's the original image:

Next I paint some white around the flowers on a new layer:

Then I add a layer below this one of solid black and merge the layers into a mask:

What is the next step for getting a selection from this mask layer so that I can apply a filter to only this area? Thanks.

[Note: This is a workflow I use regularly in Photoshop, but still have no idea how to do it in GIMP and would like to know how.]


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I recently uninstalled and reinstalled photoshop from the creative cloud and now half my blending options are disabled.  I tried the solution from the 4-year-old topic of resetting them to the default, but it did not make them light up.

Any other suggestions?  Thanks in advance.


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Background

I'm building a breathing and mindfulness application and I have two texts similar to these ones:

  Breathing in I know I am breathing in

  Breathing out I know I am breathing out

These are shown in a small "popup" dialog on the screen. This dialog is interactive, the user can give input to say whether she is breathing in or out. (Only one phrase is "active")

Question

I'd like to find a way to make it easy for the user to focus on the active breathing phrase

What I've discovered so far

I've been looking at various ways to draw attention to areas in a design, and there's movement, size, color and contrast, space

Movement is very powerful and this is okay for this case since the user will not have to pay attention to anything else. But I'm not sure how to use movement

I'm not sure if moving the text itself would work, perhaps changing the background by changing the color somewhat is one way


texts: How to indentify original color in a white background picture

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I have a picture of which contains a letter. The letter had a certain opacity when layered onto the image.
I look to find the original rgb and even opacity of the text that was written upon a white background.

Here is an image:

Also if I have the same text but in a different background color would that help?


texts: Illustrator - Compund Paths (2 paths) to SVG

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I have two compound paths that seemingly can't be merged together with any of the Pathfinder presets without loss or distortion to the objects.

This image represents the two objects in the Layers panel that have been joined into Compund Path's.

Currently I'm exporting the glyph to SVG by clicking File > Save As, then using the following export settings:

The first Compound Path's path's are simply single line path's with a 100 pt stroke applied.
The second Compound Path's path's are 7 circles with a #000 fill.

I've also tried probably 10-12 different approaches in converting these objects into Compound Path's before exporting to modify what is being exported to SVG, such as combining all into one Compund Path. But when I import the glyph into IcoMoon App the SINGLE LINE PATH's that have the 100 pt stroke applied DO NOT RENDER.

(What I mean by a Single Line Path is simply a Path that does not close (no fill can be applied).)

Question:

What do we need to do to get a Single Line Path to render when loading into IcoMoon?


texts: How to set the pen tool in photoshop to control one side anchor point in just a click

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I wanted to set the pen tool in photoshop to act like pen tool in illustrator where whenever I click again the last point the other side of the anchor point disappears.

Is this possible? And if so, how?


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When dragging an object to copy it, I sometimes forget to hold ⌥ before releasing, so the object is moved rather than copied. In this case I need to undo, and then retry the copy manually, which is frustrating when it takes time to align it properly.
Is it possible to create a shortcut for automating this, i.e. storing the "move" distance (which would be the numbers inside the Move ⌥ ⌘ M dialog), undoing, then applying the move again as a copy?

In other words, when I copy an object from position A to position B, I forget to hold ⌥, and now the object is only in position B. How can I now get copies of this object in both positions A and B, without manually finding position A or B again?


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If you know about Data Merge, you know most people have trouble with styles or with actual entries. Here, I'm having trouble with the layout itself. The document I'm working on will shift down and to the right when created a Multiple-Entries layout, instead of sticking to the upper-left as expected.

Aside from the placement of the new data merged items, everything displays correctly! Styles are good, info is imported correctly, spacing between objects is correct. Just the whole thing is in the wrong place.

Attached below is a screenshot. Anyone seen this problem or know a solution? It's happening on two different computers, both with InDesign CC.


texts: Create a repeating glare effect over a coin in Flash

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Please kindly advise the missing steps for adding a glare (shining) effect to a yellow circle symbol, representing a coin.

The effect should run every 2 seconds. The symbol will be exported and be Embeded from inside of a Flex game.

I have already prepared the following and I think not much is missing, but I'm not a Flash expert.

I have created 3 layers called Glare, Metal and Shadow.

In the Metal layer I've created a yellow circle with darker outline by using the Oval tool.

In the Glare layer I've created 2 white rectangles without outline by using Rectangle tool and then skewed them a bit:

I think I need somehow to create a mask from the circle and then add a Tween to the Glare layer - so that the 2 white rectangles move to the right every 2 seconds, but are masked by yellow circle.

Please advise the steps for that in Flash CS5.5.

UPDATE: Thank you poepje, almost there... How to add the last frames? I've marked them with the red arrow below. There are several options there and I don't know if I should take blank or key frames?


texts: After placing a .png file into InDesign, can I edit the fill on the object and not just the background? When I apply a fill it only changes the background color.


texts: Cannot detect background color from PSD file

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I'm a web developer who has recently been given a desing in a PSD file. I previously worked with Zeplin. I'm using a trial version of Avocode to extract information from this PSD file. Everything is fine except for one thing.

I cannot find what is the background color (the background color of the component that is marked as Background layer). It looks like dark blue but in Avocode it does not show background-color property as for all other components. The properties of this background component are just width, height, and opacity 100%.

I also tried to export this component. If I export as SVG it shows me transparent-marking squares, if I export as PNG it shows me dark-blue.

Does someone know what is going on here, is background somehow transparent or what?

If really necessary I'll try to share the actual PSD file.


texts: Bullet list syntax for Adobe InDesign script

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I'm looking for the syntax that defines bullet points so that I can create a bullet list in a script for use as a guide template for other users. At a guess my best bet so far is that it's under 'character styles' but other than that I'm really not sure what to try.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Can anyone identify this "pixelated" type font? I tried every online identifier

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I have been trying for far too long to find this font. I've found some very similar, where the G and A match, but then the rest do not.
I have tried all the font recognition tools I know, including the ones written in the font identification requirements post, except for the ones that require a download.
What's noticable:

The A is mirrored, has two 4x5 empty spaces, and is pointy
The S is mirrored (horizontal then vertical)
The T has a thicker "stem" than the top part

Unfortunately there is no website attached to this font. It's found on an image I found, so I can't even check the font-family.
I'm almost at the point where I suspect they used different fonts, but I'm not entirely sure.


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I am trying to export sprites from illustrator so I can later import them to unity. I have a ring asset that I am trying to export. The steps I followed:
- Draw a circle (250 by 250 px and 3px black outline as shown in the screenshot)
- Draw an artboard (256px by 256px)
- Go to File -> Export -> Export for Screens
- Make Scale 4x and the Format as png
- Export Artboard.

Even though I tried different variations, the output is always pixelated on the edge as shown in the image. (Even when I export with scale of 1x)

1- Illustrator

2- Actual Png

3- Screenshot for how I see it on my computer (pixelated) without zooming here

4- Screenshot for how it looks in unity (scaled down to 0.5, 0.375 and 0.25)


texts: How to get the same colors for printing while exporting image

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Hello is have prepared a business card using cmyk mode keeping resolution as 300. Now while exporting the image as jpg the colors get brighten up.....how to solve?

I have kept proof setup on and in color picker the 'only web colors' check box is off how to recognise which proper tint shade of color will not get brighten up after exporting?

Usually while selecting the color from color picker we have two boxex new and current. Sometimes Besides new a small triangle icon appears what does that mean?


texts: How to change Black CMYK Values to bring the Total Ink Coverage down for printing?

texts: I am trying to edit a picture that is mostly black with values CMYK - 75 68 67 90 and near and Total Ink value of 300. I am looking to bring the CMYK values of this down to CMYK 40 20 0 100 as recommended by my printer. How do I do that?


texts: Why are my elements moved after being exported to svg

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I'm quite new to Adobe Illustrator, but used to PS.

I wanted to experiment with Illustrator to create SVGs that can than be manipulated with JavaScript.

I created some kind of background-layer and filled it with a rect. That has a pattern as background-image (Adobes Waffelmuster - Doppelt).

I then created a second layer and added several filled paths to it. I tried to align these paths as best as I could to the background-pattern of my first layer.

When I export my graphic as SVG, my paths are not aligned to the background as in Illustrator. It seems they shifted a little bit to the right. Also, if I zoom in Firefox (STRG,+) the mismatch becomes even bigger.

Why is that and how can it be prevented? Is there something like relative and absolute positioning?


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Since some of the newer cs versions of PS I got the problem that the Ctrl + left click stopped selecting layers directly when they're grouped in a folder. Instead PS simply selects the folder. If I right click inside the actual working space/viewport/image I get a somehow structured "tree" view with the folder name and the correct layer inside the folder. Is there a shortcut/mouse-keyboard click action that can directly select a layer inside the folder (again)?

Thanks!

Edit

The possible "solutions":

Ctrl + left click = Select folder/group | Select outside a group
Alt + left click = Select layer inside a folder group
Mark "Auto select" (toolbar - top) + "Layer" from the drop-down
right click then select the layer from the context menu


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I have found here an explanation that "when you draw with the Blob Brush the preview you see is the spine. When you let go of the mouse, the spine disappears and a shape is created using the spine (and the Brush appearance options) as a guide."
My problem is that when I let go of the mouse (tablet pen) the spine does not disappear, and I can actually see the anchor points on the path together with the shape/line. It is very annoying to draw like that without seeing the clear lines/shapes. Is there anything I can do to see only the clear line without the spine?
Thanks.


texts: Are single double quotes an acceptable deviation from typographic rules?

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I've recently noticed websites with pull quotes with only a left-hand quote.  There are two basic scenarios:

Left hand quote is used as a graphic element to indicate a quotation follows.*
Quote appears to be used as an opening quote, but is not closed.**

Use As Graphic Element

Unclosed Qutoe

Is either scenario an acceptable deviation from typographic rules?  I don't care for either approach, but since the position of the quote in scenario one treats the quote more like a glyph and not text, I would say yes.  Scenario two seems wrong to me since the quote is close enough to the text to appear as part of the text.


texts: Why is the quality/resolution dramatically reduced when viewing as PDF vs. PNG?

texts: I created a certificate of achievement award in Adobe Illustrator and I wanted to save it as a PDF that would have an editable placeholder for the person's name. When I save it as a PDF, the quality/resolution looks terrible on screen, but looks perfect when I print. When I save it as a PNG, it looks great on screen as well, but I can't edit the name.


texts: Archer + Quaadrat Sans for a resume / CV

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Is it advisable to use Archer (Hoefler) for headings with Quadraat Sans (FontFont), probably condensed, for the body of a resume / CV for someone working in teaching technology?

This website
http://www.typeconnection.com/matches.php
recommends Archer with Eurostile, as an 'embrace the other' strategy. Although I really like Archer, Eurostile is too severe for my tastes.

If you have any suggestions for a friendly slab (teachers need to be friendly) + square-ish sans (for a technological feel with a  human touch) then I would be very grateful.

As I'm not applying for the North American market, I don't think the Martha Stewart connotation applies. I would be happy to use Rockwell as the slab font. I like Geogrotesque (Emtype), Sanuk (FontFont), and Riga (Ludwig Type). However I'm new to the font pairing game and I don't have much idea. I did see advice about pairing fonts from the same stable. Impressive and distinctive though Forza / Vitesse Sans is (Hoefler-without-Frere-Jones), I find it a bit too severe. However I have no idea and not much taste, so I am happy to be wrong. Just because I don't like a font doesn't mean I wouldn't use it if advised, except Helvetica...

I have looked at lists of Eurostile alternatives on various websites but haven't yet found anything I prefer to Quadraat Sans. I considered putting a list of them here with my reasons for not choosing them but I didn't want this post to be off-puttingly long.

I ruled out fonts because I really dislike single-storey 'a', single-storey 'g', and 'r' without a spur sticking up over the shoulder, like in Maven Pro. Helvetica leaves me cold (sorry) and Meta isn't for me (sorry Erik, though I do rate Meta Serif highly).

Thanks in advance


texts: Illustrator layer doesn't show when exporting to a PDF

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I have an Illustrator layer that when exported to a PDF, the objects in that layer are hidden when viewing in a PDF viewer. This doesn't happen when I export the image for web. All objects are simple shapes or text, no linked files.
Similar but different issue: Placed image doesn't show when saving as PDF


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I have been using Lightroom for several years and have not run into this problem until now. I used to and usually would run Lightroom Classic on my computers which were Windows machines. I really enjoyed using the book module as I liked for each year creating a book of the best photos I took during that year and then I could easily export it to a PDF and have it printed.

However, I recently purchased a MacBook Pro which runs Lightroom incredibly well. But there is a problem in the book module now which was not there on my Windows computers or even this computer a few days ago. The text which I am typing comes up looking incredibly pixelated. When I export the PDF the text looks razor sharp (how it used to look when in the book module), but while typing or looking at pages which already have type on them there are pixelated blocks around the text, I will attach a screenshot to show what I mean. I already checked that Lightroom is not opening in Low-Resolution mode and that did not fix it. The rest of the text in Lightroom looks fine (the system text or the develop settings for example) it is just the text actually in the book.

I hope someone may have found this issue before and knows a solution thank you!


texts: Multiple view in Photoshop : different layers visible for live modification (without Smart Objects)

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I'm working with non-destructive layers in PS CC. I have a stack of three layers where each layer outputs to the next one in the stack (1st layer outputs to the 2nd which outputs to the 3rd).

I'd like to have my workspace divided into three views of that document, only with each view displaying a different combination of layers active.
To be clearer, here's an example :

Here I'm looking to convert an image to pure black and white, working in three stages : original, intermediary color reduction with Posterize, final result with Threshold.
I'd like my workspace to display those three stages at the same time and have them update live, so that when I modify the original, the other views follow. The objective being to be able to fine-tune more easily.

I'm aware I could wrangle this through Smart Objects, but I find it clumsy and unpractical. I often work with more than 2 filters, so the idea of having a number of objects embedded, which I'd need to go and save in turn so that the final result may update, seems like a bit of a headache and not very dynamic. I'm looking for something a little more viable.

Does anyone know of any way to accomplish this ? I couldn't find much searching here and on Google.
Thanks !


texts: What's the difference between Color and Swatch in InDesign

texts: Regarding the API (JSX or COM) there's the option to add Colors and Swatches. What's the difference? I see Color's that I add listed in the swatches panel.


texts: Reflowable ePub TOC Links Not Working (all other internal links are)

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I am working on a reflowable ePub in InDesign, and the Table of Contents links are not working. When I view the ePub in iBooks and click Table of Contents in the top menu bar, they work fine. But the links on the page itself do not. They show up as links (blue with underline), but nothing happens when I click on them on the page.

They all link to text anchors. I have checked the Hyperlinks window, and when I check "Go to Destination" for each of the links, it goes to the right spot in the document. Yet when I export the reflowable epub, none of the TOC links work. I use internal links throughout the book, and they all work fine (except for TOC).

My method for creating the TOC was Layout > Table of Contents, and selecting "Section Titles" as the Paragraph Style pull.

Any thoughts or recommendations to try would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!


texts: How can this bitmap-style text effect be achieved?

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I'd like to replicate it but I'm not sure what kind of bitmap would be necessary.

An alternating, vertical line maybe? But then I still don't know how to get the areas of solid.


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I'm doing project about Cyborgs and I saw this animation in instagram. How do you think This texture is applied and the movement of texture is made?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVskoXTAkCC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


texts: indesign: starts number from 1 mid way through doc

texts: I have a 32 single page document created in indesign and i have numbered the pages but at page 27 the numbering reverts back to 1. How do i change this?


texts: ID CS6: Matching blacks for printing via POD services?

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I'm an experienced but self-taught InDesign user. I can put a book together for print, but I've got gaps in some basics. Still, everything I've done through POD services so far has printed clean. Now I want to print a book of b&w sketches, working from scans.

Some of the black tones vary from drawing to drawing, some change slightly when scaled to the page. On some pages, I've set drawings into black rectangles in InDesign, but haven't been able to match their tones with any precision.

Is there any magic wand solution that will ensure all black tones in the document will output for PDF/print with uniform values? I'm hoping there's some setting or process that will take all black values in a certain range and bring them into harmony for printing.

Am I hoping for too much?

Thanks!


texts: Creating GIF Animation For Web to Animate Memory Management / Data Addressing in Computers

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I need to create a GIF animation for my blog which will explain the memory management and data addressing of a computer w.r.t a clock.
Let's say, I have a digital clock signal with a frequency of 1 Hz which will be varying between high and low position indefinitely. Below that, I have memory represented in the form of stacked rectangles and an arrow pointing at a current memory address (which is one of the blocks in a rectangular stack).
I want to move the arrow up one block of the rectangle stack each time a blue circle traveling onto the clock signal passes from low-to-high transition. I need to make a GIF out of this and put it onto my blog.
I do know about the drawing tools in Photoshop. Can anybody kindly tell me what will be the best software to learn about animations like these? I have looked at Adobe Animate and Adobe After Effects, but could not make a decision. I will need to learn the software from scratch, as I have to make a lot of likewise animations for my blog in the future.
Looking forward to your valuable suggestions. Thanks.


texts: Apply single mask to a layer group in Sketch

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I have the following icon:

At this point I have tried to reduce the number of paths as much as I could but still this icon consists of multiple shapes.

Is there a way to combine icon into single shape in Illustrator?

I need that to apply a single mask to this icon in Sketch. I suspect I can't combine icon into single shape as I tried multiple ways of doing that and as far as shapes don't overlap they will always be separate shapes. So the new question is: How to apply single mask to a layer group in Sketch?

P.S. Why do I need that? To make design process more efficient by placing icon into a shared library and be able to change fill color using overrides. Since there are multiple shapes in the icon I need to use mask to each of them so it leaves me with this:

How to apply a single mask to a whole icon so I could use only single override for a color change?


texts: Whats the name of the font used in this Mickey Mouse birthday banner?

texts: Can anyone identify the happy birthday font? Whatthefont's closest match is Lithos Pro, but it's not.


texts: Industry standard file format deliverables for logos?

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During an academic discussion regarding file formats I received from a most excellent designer, I thought I was correct in writing (based on my experience with hired work):

  ...the industry standard for logos is vector...

I received the following response:

  Industry standards are interesting things, in that they are more often talked about than actually followed...
  We can find all sorts of references to push one point or another, I only talk from experience, and my experience is that even large corporations ala Microsoft are fine with raster.

My question then is perhaps not as simple as I thought:

When hiring a designer to create a logo for an organization (corporate, non-profit, etc.), what is the industry standard deliverable file format (vis-à-vis vector versus raster)?

(Of course, hiring a designer should come with a contract that explicitly states the file format, but most people aren't aware [or don't care] about various file formats and might therefore neglect such a clause.)

This is different than asking what should go into the deliverable package. This question is about an authoritative source that describes what is expected of professional-level deliverables from designers. Some people agree that vector graphics should be included, but is that a de facto standard, or is there an official (or semi-official) body that dictates what people should expect as deliverables from graphic design?


texts: How to deal with vague comments about a design from my clients and boss?

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I am the only qualified designer in the company I work for, and I struggle with someone higher up the food chain, who has no experience in graphic design, who doesn't know current trends or anything of the sort, looking at my work and giving me vague instructions such as - "give it some more colour" or "jazz it up a bit".

I did a nice black on yellow advertisement which utilised nice typography and a visual hierarchy, was well put together with the 2 colours. His comment was "give it some more colour, maybe some bubbles to make it a bit flashier". Problem is "more colour" ruins the effect in my opinion. Basically he seems to think "more is more" and I think his suggestions are just distracting from the main message of the piece. Basically my problem is I feel I'm taking instructions from someone who knows less about design than I do.

How do you deal with this sort of thing? My thought is get him to tell me exactly what he wants and then just do it, but what he does it he gives really vague instructions like "spruice it up" or something, and then I have to think of a way to make my design worse all on my own.


texts: How does one get an over/under effect on letters in illustrator?

texts: I am having trouble figuring out how to create this effect in illustrator in an efficient way. A professor had shown me once and I never could figure it out afterward. I remember a few things like ungrouping them and creating outlines, but from there I am lost.


texts: What can be done to avoid your design having a second meaning?

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Occasionally, you hear about a graphic that has been published, but unfortunately the designers missed a second way interpreting of it. For example, this ad that was actually published:

Source: A Reddit thread.

The name of this company is Locum, but for this ad they switched the 'o' in their logo (see the bottom of the ad) to a heart. Unfortunately, the lowercase 'L' of the logo could also be interpreted as an capital 'I'. This made the logo spell out "I♥cum". Readers of the paper noticed it and ever since this image has been wandering around the internet. While this might have given some free publicity to the company, this is of course something you would want to avoid. So my question is

What can be done to avoid this happening to one of your own designs?

Of course one of the most important and easy things to do is to get input from someone else. But apart from that, what can be done? Are there strategies or best-practices that help prevent something like this?

I've tried finding a duplicate question on this site, but I couldn't find one.
I found this question about misinterpretation, but I'm specifically asking about missing a second meaning, not a general misinterpretation.

I also was pointed towards this question about how designers should react when a second meaning is pointed out to them. I feel this is a different question, because I'm specifically asking how you can avoid such meetings with the client in the first place.

The actual motive for this question

The misinterpretation I described happened to me when I wanted to switch back to this site from a different tab:

   The graphic reminded me of the female reproduction organ. Now I can't unsee it. I'm so sorry.


texts: What is the Japanese font used in the ending credit of Steins;Gate anime?

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This frame is taken from the ending credit of Steins;Gate anime.

What is the Japanese font used?


texts: Inkscape bizzare copy and paste behaviour

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I've got a PDF document I've imported into Inkscape as a raster image with poppler/cairo import. The document has text and mathematical equations and I want to copy parts of it into a another Inkscape document. When I try to select some text and copy it into it, it seemingly changes font, size and adds lots of spaces between the letters.

This:

Turns into this

How do I copy this without it changing? If I import internal import or the vector alternative, the text and mathethematics loses it's formatting/font which I want it to retain.


texts: How can I pixelate an image via the command line on Linux

texts: Is there a command-line utility for Linux that can pixelate an image by a specified percentage eg "-pixelate 30%"


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I would like to reproduce the look of the following image which has been delivered to me without the settings used. I'm a beginner and I cannot seem to be able to match it. It seems to me there will be a lot of clarity and then maybe compensated by lowered contrast, maybe highlights lowered (now speaking in terms of ACR settings) and then probably some split toning. I don't have the original image so I'm working on a similar one from the same environment (the second image). What I was able to achieve is on the third image but it still isn't completely right (also apparently the color of the shirt doesn't match although it's the same one). I used +clarity +saturation -highlights and split toning setting (ACR) with cyan in highlights and yellow in shadows. Any ideas how to match it completely?

EDIT: Here is also the raw file of the image I'm trying to make look the same https://ufile.io/7zaajrxn


texts: What is the difference between "Rasterize type layer" and "Convert to shape"?

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This is my first time trying to export a photoshop file to a svg, and I was surprised to see that the font-based elements changed dramatically when I tried to export the file. The internet tells me that there are two key ways to avoid this:

"Rasterize type layer"
"Convert to shape"

Both of which are options in the "type" menu on Photoshop and need to be applied to any font elements.

I was wondering if anyone could confirm if these are the two best options and explain what the benefits/ disadvantages of each option are?


texts: Photoshop stops registering mouse clicks

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I have a brand new computer with Photoshop CS 5.5 64bit installed on Win 7 Pro 64bit and my graphics drivers are up to date.

When I open photoshop and I click on a file menu drop down (e.g. File) and I move the mouse to hover over "Edit", the Edit menu doesn't drop down. That's not a big deal, but annoying.

However, when I create a new file, I cannot use the drag select tool as it wont register my clicks on the canvas screen. I cannot right click and I cannot resize the canvas.

I've spent the last few hours trying to troubleshoot this including reinstalling Photoshop, running the 32bit and 64 bit versions, deleted preferences, uninstalled DisplayFusion, ran in compatibility mode, had a graphics programmer remote in and disabled openGL. None of those things have worked.

Adobe forum: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4352886

The strange thing is that it works perfect once every twenty or so times I try it.

Any ideas? Reinstalling Windows (this is a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro) is the absolute last resort.

Cheers

-- Update --

I couldn't answer my own question but the problem was that I had synergy running as a service on the computer. Stopping it made Photoshop work.

Reference: http://synergy-foss.org/tracker/issues/467


texts: What is this warped/ irregular rectangle in this mobile app UI?

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What is the name of this effect present on the rectangle (e.g. light brown rectangle), and how is it done? The rectangle does not have a constant border radius, and gives a 'fun'/ friendly feeling.

I took it from Dribble, available here.
Here is my funky analysis:


texts: I'm in the process of creating some icons for an application, and find myself coming up with the same question over and over again. Are there any guidelines for how thick the lines should be in an icon. I need to use lines with strokes that vary in thickness, but I don't know if there is any standard for it. Let's say the outline of my icon is 16pt, should the lines inside be ideally half of that? Is it better to use odd or even numbers? Any other tips or suggestions?


texts: How I type Arabic text without error boxes?

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I want to use the Arabic text in Photoshop v22.0.1 but it only types in as error boxes. I have tried the Preferences > Type > World-Ready Layout. and Paragraph's World-Ready Layout with Middle Eastern Features, Single-line Composer but this does not seem to work. Please kindly help on how I can fix this to use the Arabic text in Photoshop. Thank you.
To be more specific, I found this kind of problem solving at photoshop 21.2 but it still having.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-212-arabic-text-issue/5f5f46234b561a3d4275a5ee
Also, In my case font is not problem. because it working at adobe XD.


texts: I'm an amateur graphic designer, looking for feedback on my logo

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I going to start my own company this year, which is going to sell my own designed snapbacks.
Now I'm just an amateur when it comes to graphic design, so I'm looking for feedback on the concept and the design.

If you're interested in the back story:
This snapback kinda symbolises me and my ideology. I'm gonna call the logo/company ''Roots'', hence the design. In the roots you will see the letters K,V and A, which are my initials. The concept of the roots came from my interest and respect for my past (I'm a Dutch, where my parents and grandparents come from Suriname, South America, and my great grandparents from India). So there is a lot of history there. Because of my family's journey I find it important to pay respects to the past in the broadest sense. For instance I have a lot of respect for my heritage and my (grand)parents journey. They all came from a little and worked their entire life to give the next generation more than they had.
But even my story aside, I generally interested in history and different cultures. So that's why I created the concept of the roots.


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i'm trying to achieve something similar to this in illustrator

How can i spray a symbol around a shape
How can i spray within my symbol (just like the example in the image)


texts: How do you create divs below the fold in Adobe Edge Reflow?

texts: When designing in Adobe Edge Reflow, how do you create divs that start below the fold? Using this site as an example, after you created the top level purple screen, how would you create and position the next screen down with the cream colored background?


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I work with PSDs that have the same layout frequently. I need to extract a few areas in each, and these areas are always the same. Same position, same size.

I know I can save a selection, but I was wondering if I can pull that selection into the next PSD I work with.


texts: I am trying to recreate this sphere with webbing on it in Illustrator. I tried a lot of things but I can't get the same outcome. I think I am overthinking it but I can't seem to figure it out. Could someone point me in the right direction or tools to do this?


texts: Where can I find visual examples of the thought process behind different logo designs?

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In this image you can see a preliminary grid and then circles are added that are aligned with the grid and then the shapes are formed by the intersecting circles, etc:

I'm looking for some examples like this.  Even works in progress and logos that didn't make the cut are ok.  I'm trying to understand the thought process behind logo design.


texts: I am trying to create a wire mesh (the format should be POWERVR POD, but I if there is a way to convert from another format to this it's fine). However, all I have are images of the object. Is there any way to create a wire mesh from several images?


texts: What Icon Can Be Used to Represent "Attributes"?

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I am looking for a comprehensible icon/a visual metaphor to express "arbitrary attributes", in the sense of additional information.

In my particular case, each record represents a word, or a name, but the question is generally applicable for other cases - the additional attributes I am referring to provide some arbitrary additional information on the record; maybe it could be called "meta-information". To give an impression of what attributes I am talking about, here are some examples of that additional information are:

Who created the record?
How often is the record used?
Is the record deprecated?
In which century did the word/name stored in the record first occur?
What other words (records) often appear in combination with this record?

etc.

So, to open the dialog box where the values of such attributes can be configured for a given record, I am looking for a commonly understood icon. My ideas so far, none of which I am completely happy with, are:

Tools

A set of tools is often used to convey "configuration", but that could be confused with the application-wide configuration that also exists in my program.

Luggage tag

A luggage tag could adequately convey the meaning of "attached information", but aside from said attributes, "markers" or "comments" can be attached to records, and I would like to use a luggage tag icon for those.

Information i

Such a symbol would express that we are dealing with information about the record, which is ok, but it also implies that it is read-only information, a mere information output, rather than a way to edit said information.

Is there any commonly understood visual way to express attribute values?


texts: Photoshop: How would you illustrate a video signal?

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I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth.

How exactly would one design this video signal? I don't want the viewer to think the beam is a laser beam, and I don't want it to look like a particle beam, or a light beam from a UFO, etc.

How would you draw/illustrate a beam or streak that conveys to the user that it can't be seen by the naked eye, yet, it illustrates that data is being transmitted?

Also, if anyone knows of a Photoshop tutorial out there that I could follow to create it, that would be great! Thanks for your time.


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Suppose I have an image of a model wearing some outfit:

and another image of the same model in the exact same position and lightning without that outfit:

Is there an easy and quick way (e.g., requires minimal manual manipulation) to create a new layer on Photoshop that contains only the outfit, without the body?


texts: I'm using two monitors and buying my first graphics tablet. Does a two monitor setup affect what I should buy?

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Someone using a graphics tablet with two monitors, what observations have you made about how a two monitor setup might need to affect one's choice of graphics tablet.
I'm buying something like this to be clear about what I mean by tablet:


texts: How to create mock ups in GIMP using templates like PSD in Photoshop?

texts: I am almost novice to graphic design. I need to know whether there is any way to create mock-ups in GIMP, people generally create in Photoshop with PSD format. Is there any format like PSD in GIMP, which can be used to create mock-ups easily?


texts: How do I create a 'inner glow ring' in Photoshop CS5?

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I would like to make a ring that has a faint inner glow ala this image:

I've tried first creating a circle, then applying a layer mask with a radial gradient from pure black to pure white, but that only achieves a linear gradient from center to edge, whereas this appears to be purely transparent right up to the edge of the circle.

Next I tried creating a circle again, then applying a inner glow effect. This nearly achieves what I want, except the circle is not transparent.

Here is my progress thus far:

Any tips? I am using Photoshop CS5. Would this be better done using different software?


texts: Control the size of subsequent footnote frames - InDesign

texts: Is there a way to keep very long footnotes from filling the page? I know you can put in frame breaks manually or setup a paragraph style that limits to one paragraph per page, but neither of those are really viable solutions.


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I like keeping a rigurous control over all the design works I do, because that way I can keep a record and track all my work with clients, prices, times, type of designs, etc.

Right now I'm doing this with an Excel made by myself with all the parameters I want to keep a record of. But maintaining an Excel is not efficient at all and consumes a lot of my time.

Is there a software that can keep a record of my design works? That automates at some level the task of keeping track of the works I made. And if that software can generate automatic reports, informs and invoices for the works, that would be awesome too.

Don't want a cloud-based or a web-based solution, or a mobile app. I'm looking for a desktop software with a local database (no Internet) that let me keep a relation of my works, like a catalogue or some kind of portfolio, with the ability to make reports and invoices for that works.


texts: What kind of digital brush was used to create this?

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I've tried using some of the brushes that come with Illustrator but I can't seem to achieve those distressed borders (please click on the image to see what I'm talking about.). Not sure if it's a brush or an effect.
Thanks.


texts: InDesign: How to stretch anchored object with text frame?

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In InDesign, I have a text frame with yellow line at its left border as an anchored object. The text frame is set to resize vertically to fit its contents, and as it grows, I would like for the yellow line to grow with it and match its height. If this is possible, how can I do it?

The reason I'm not making this adjustment manually is that I have 80 pages of content, each with three of these lines, linked to XML documents. I also looked into created these lines as borders on text frames and tables, but it appears neither can style border segments individually.


texts: Extract images like background,Logo and Headings form PSD Files as image

texts: I am working on a new project,I never work  on PSD files so having difficulties in extracting images form PSD Files,I want to take background and logo from the images.


texts: How to randomly distribute objects only in selected area?

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Imagine you wanted to design a glass of soda. First you create a glass:

It's, in fact, a beaker - but that doesn't matter

Now you copy the object, make it smaller, black and delete the stroke. Then to try to center it in beaker:

Finally, you want some pretty bubbles. How can I randomly distribute them in the brown area, besides copy pasting (which sucks for complicated shapes)?


texts: When I try to separate 2 parts of an object of a picture, the whole picture moves!

texts: When I place a photo in AI and then I want to separate 2 parts of an object-let's say, a shoe (it is a jpg image). I want to separate the upper part from the out sole. So, I do a path, then select, then Pathfinder -> Divide but then the whole picture moves and I don't manage to separate them properly! Maybe I am doing something wrong when I place the photo in AI and therefore it becomes "mobile"? I see the photo with the a blue anchor square around it. I guess that is the issue? How can I solve this?


texts: Recommended practice to improve illustrating skills?

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The last few years my interest in illustrations and animation has grown a lot. I work as a visual designer at the moment, focussing on interfaces mostly.

I'd like to start improving my illustrating skills in my own time, however this time is very little and irregular. I've been reading up on techniques to improve drawing skills but they all seem to suggest something else.

I am currently only drawing short periods of time during the weekends, making not much progress.

Do I need to start drawing daily?
Do I need to start following tutorials?
Is using references (using an image or drawing as a reference to draw something for yourself) recommended?
Does it matter if I work digitally or with pencil/paper?
Should I start working on one 'style' or start broad?

To specify what I'm interested in: 1 2 3 So I think what I need is sketchings kills to draw out things to digitalize and then possibly in the future turn into simple animations.


texts: Information please on how to set-up Indesign for creep/shingling on 116 page booklet.


texts: Did I choose a good typeface to accompany my logo?

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I have a logo (the swan) and need to choose a font to accompany it. I would like to make two logos:

One where the company name is under the swan logo.

Another one where the swan size is similar to the font size.

I am not sure if the chosen typeface is a good decision. I am afraid the typeface is not readable enough.


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So I am looking for a special shortcut or plugin (in either Illustrator or Photoshop) to select a color and export a text version of the color values. For example...

I select a green color, then click a button that then copies the Hex, RGB, and CMYK values of that color and allows me to paste the values in a text box or word doc.

It would really help in creating Brand guidelines when listing off the brand colors


texts: What workflow should I use for enterprise-level business card creation?

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At my current company, we-- the in-house design team-- oversee the creation and ordering of each employee's business card. This involves:

Duplicating a page in the master Indesign Document that houses all of the business cards
Placing the employee's information into the relevant fields on the new page
Exporting a JPG of that page for proofing (must rename file to correct format first)
Emailing that proof to the employee
Make any revisions if needed
If not needed, export a PDF of that page (must rename file to correct format first)
Send PDF to the printer

This process is tedious, and when multiplied out over the 4 - 10 card requests we may get at one time, time consuming as well. I know the real solution is to outsource this process to a printer-managed service that will allow the employees to setup, proof, and order their cards themselves, but the challenge we've run into there is that those services don't allow you to use custom typography, nor do they have a means by which proofs may be sent to us, the design team, for approval before the employee is allowed to place the order.

I've looked into automating the process in some fashion, but InDesign's limitations (namely its lack of an "export current page" feature and an ability to name files based on a certain fields) have made this prospect unlikely. So, those of you in or who have been in a similar situation, what would you recommend as a more efficient workflow for cranking these cards out?

Edit: to clarify, this document was initially created with data merge, but for new cards it's more practical to enter them manually. Each card in the indd document is based on a master page with paragraph/character styles.


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Is there any way, in GIMP, to set the color of a paintbrush to be a gradient, the first color at the beginning of the stroke and the second color as the end of the stroke? I found a help page from 2.2 which implies that it was possible then, but the UI elements don't seem to have equivalents in 2.10 and 2.10 docs don't mention it. A layer with a gradient using the brush stroke as a mask does not do anything similar to what I'm trying to achieve.
Specific use case: I'm adding various climate layers to a (fictional) world map image. I'm trying to add wind lines in a way that makes it obvious which direction I drew the line. I will probably be drawing around 100 of these, so any solution needs to be do-once-use-often and cannot assume that the gradients will be in the same direction across instances.


texts: So noob question coming. I need to draw some connecting lines on top of images but I've been struggling to do so. Everytime I draw a line (with the Pen tool) it just sits on top of the image and erases it. Can you give me a hand here? Thanks in advance!


texts: Selecting glyphs of font based on previous and next char, aka "continuous ligatures"

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I'm currently thinking of designing a new font prototype, whose specificity is to adapt each glyph based on the previous and next character.
The idea is to split each glyph in two parts, "left" and "right"; with optionally various versions for each. Composition would then select the left part based on the previous character, and the right based on the next. The final glyph would be the union of both parts.
For example, for buiding the letter a on some font:

Pan would use a left version having a slightly shortened top arm  (this version to use with v, y...); and a right version with a straight final (downright) stroke (to use with letters i, n, h...)
bao would use a left version having a normal top arm (this version to use with lots of letters); and a right version with a standard curvy final stroke (to use with o, d, e, p...)

In this example, the lowercase a would have 3 left versions (short / normal / long top arm), and 2 right versions (curvy / straight downright final stroke), so in total 6 glyph versions.
Standard ligatures (ff, fi, ffl...) would be implicitly built by selecting the appropriate right/left version pair.
I would call this concept "continuous ligaturing".
My question is thus two-fold:

Does this concept already exists?
Does some font format (OpenType?) allow for the selection of a specific glyph version based on previous and next character? I could eventually pre-process the font by creating for each glyph with N lefts and M rights a N×M matrix of all possible combinations (N and M are usually rather low, often 1 or 2, sometimes 3, 4 or 5).


texts: What style would you guys say this image is?

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Does this image fit into any of these styles?

1830 Victoriana
1875 Arts & Crafts Movement
1883 Art Nouveau Movement
1909 Futurism
1919 Bauhaus
1925 Art Deco
1945 International Typographic Style (also called Swiss International Style)
1950 Figurative Typography
1966 Psychedelic Art
1976 Punk
1990 Deconstruction

Thanks.


texts: WALKING TEXT: How do I animate text like this?

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I would like to animate a set of text, like this http://www.doctorhugo.org/e-poetry/shewalks.gif
as in the the gif i create should consist of text I choose. Are there any tools for that? How would I approach it in HTML5/canvas?


texts: Why empty adjustment layer with blend mode multiply darken images?

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I know blend mode "Multiply" means multiplying the colour (0 to 255) of its layer, with the visible underneath (0 to 255), then divided by 255, forms the resulting colour (0 to 255).

As a visual effect, it is always darkened.

However, adding an empty adjustment (level or curve) layer, with NO adjustment content in it. Using blend mode multiply also darkens the image. Why?

Its effect is NOT like blending a white layer, nor blending a 50% grey layer.

An empty adjustment layer is regarded as transparent, somehow. But what explains the darken effect while blending with multiply?


texts: Looking for tiles to construct modern city in 2D quest

texts: I want to develop a simple 2D quest and for doing that i need a tilepack for modern city. I googled for some sites with tileas, but I don't found anything interesting (all that I found is a few common tilepacks).


texts: Move a selection on multiple layers at once in Photoshop CS6

texts: Is it possible to make a selection in Photoshop CS6 and move that selected area on more than one layer at the same time?


texts: I am trying to get the pink checker pattern to go on top of the red shapes. I have been trtried using the minus front, minus back, etc. I tried to do a clipping mask, but I might not be doing it right. Please help!


texts: Alternative to "Lorem ipsum" suitable for testing out a new font for the English language?

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This question is similar to this one and this one but it is sharply focused on the contemporary English language and on font design. When you are designing and "stress-testing" a font, you need to see all of the letters and digraphs, and any ligatures that you may be testing, and if any letter has more than one glyph then you need to see all of them too – and you need to see all of this in a realistic looking text. "Lorem ipsum" simply is not the tool for this. It does not show the letters "k", "w", "y", or "z" at all – so it is totally useless if you want to see how the unusual-looking descender on your "y" fares in practice when it precedes say an "i" or an "l", when it follows a doubled consonant that you'd forgot that "y" occasionally does follow, or indeed when it does anything else. Does the rightmost slanting line of your capital "W" look all right before the letter "r"? Don't ask "Lorem ipsum"! "We thought you were woozy, but he knew you were crazy" may be a sentence that makes some of your design choices look absolutely ridiculous, but don't expect Cicero to give you forewarning when somebody wants to use that sentence in a poem and they email you to tell you your font doesn't cut the mustard.
I realise the worldwide web has numerous texts in English, some of them lengthy, and that it's easy to find one :-) Also there are various humorous alternatives to "Lorem ipsum" out there as alternative placeholders. But my question is this: what is a good text to use when designing and testing a new font for the English language?


texts: using pencil with 1 pixel in GIMP has no effect cannot draw on any layer

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I wanted to start trying to make some pixel art characters. I tried 128x128 and even 16x16 image.

I have grid enabled and snap to grid enabled (even though the cursor doesn't appear to snap to the grid unless I hold shift which seems to be a line-tool)

Regardless of this, no matter what I do the pixel doesnt draw. If I change brush and size to 3 then I get a 'cross' consisting of 5 pixels.

Here is a screenshot of my problem, the cursor is not snapped and the settings are shown for the pencil, which will not draw


texts: Bulk reformat font weight and colour in indesign

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Ive added text boxes to each page of an indesign document. The text content is all correct, but now i want to bulk change the weight of the font and the colour of the text.

Can this be done or would i need to go to each page highlight the text box and change each one manually ?

All the text boxes will be changes to the same font weight and colour, there are none that i want to keep in another style / colour.


texts: In Photoshop, I've drawn a circle with fill set to 0% to get a circle without a fill, but the circle is filled when saved as PDF

texts: In Photoshop, I've drawn a circle with fill set to 0% to get a circle without a fill.  This looks fine in Photoshop, but when I save it as a PDF for use in another document, it fills the circle!  What gives?  How can I keep it without the fill when it's a PDF (the background is transparent).


texts: Photoshop - How to convert swatches to a color table?

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Is there a way to convert Photoshop swatches to a Photoshop color table?

I am converting an image to indexed color and I have the option to choose a color table.  I have the swatches I want already so is there a way to make them a color table that doesn't involve using the dropped tool and adding them to a color table one by one?

I see that swatches can be imported/exported as .aco files and color tables can be imported/exported as .act files.  I wasn't able to find any conversion tool however.


texts: Illustrator: how to add bleed to a circular badge?

texts: I am trying to make a badge (75mm diameter) for my team in Illustrator. The question is, how do I add bleed to the final PDF or AI file in order to be sent for printing?


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On my mac I use font 'Open Sans' Semibold which translate to:
font-family: "Open Sans";
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 600;
line-height: 16px;

using CSShat plugin.

The result in HTMl doesn't look the same as is PSD (see attached image).

Any ideas please?


texts: Best way to mockup folder/dropdown structure on a website

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I am using photoshop to emulate a dropdown list, and how someone can drag items into and out of folders:

This is beyond tedious, especially as various folders have different properties. Are there any useful programs to mock up something like this? I've used Balsamiq but even that seems pretty indequate this this. Is there something that might be better than photoshop for this?


texts: How do I extract the path back out from a brush?

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Is there a way to convert a brush back to its underlying path, in Illustrator?

I want to edit a brush, make some small adjustments, and then convert it back to another brush.


texts: Making Demonstration graphics for web applications

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I have been through a lot of websites which have the following kind of demonstration images/icons which look plain but awesome. What are they exactly called? What is the term for such graphics?

Any good tutorial for learning or a link to start with would be appreciated.


texts: I love the site Emblemetric but I've read everything on there since it's not updated so often. Where can I find other resources dedicated to metrics and analyzing logo trends?


texts: FontLab: change (scale) font size for browser

texts: I have an OTF font. Currently, in a browser my preferred font-size for it is 16, what should I edit in this font, using FontLab Studio 5, to make this font appear the same size visually, but if font-size is set to 14.


texts: How to skew / shear text in Illustrator?

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So, in doing a commissioned logo for a church, I learned the hard way that, apparently, font-skewing (as opposed to warping) has been removed in Illustrator CS6. I'm not sure why and now that I'm looking for a clean alternative, so far, to no avail.

I want to create my own skewed font-face, I'm wondering what other Illustrator artists, who use CS6 and CC, are doing to sharpen their skew technique, if at all.

How can I make text lean to the left or right, ie. skew or shear it, in Adobe Illustrator CS6 or CC?


texts: Removed background from image but it has removed the inside colour

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I was editing an image on illustrator (i have photoshop as well), but the after removing the background, the inside colours were taken off as well. I put the background of the page as blue so you can see the contrast. I wanted the hair, flag, face, torso, arm, hand and one of the feathers on the right wing to still be white. essentially i wanted everything outside the outline to go. the other image with the white background is what was sent to me
any help will be great.
thanks

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texts: Count total number of words in Illustrator file

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I am designing a poster in Adobe Illustrator (ver. 2019), and one of the suggestions I am following is keeping the total number of words around 150.

Is there a way to count all words (inside text boxes) in Illustrator?