texts: I'm trying to draw a lady that will get printed on a t-shirt. The lady will be positioned around the heart and will be around that size, so just a lady on the center of the chest. What size should i make the file where i will draw in Photoshop. What resolution. Thanks!


texts: What font used in the logo of a ROBLOX game?

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i'm new here, what font it is used in RBLXWare's logo?
Image:

I can't literally find the original font in all font identiers on the internet. So thanks if answered.


texts: Why when I change a drop shadow do all my drop shadows change?

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It's always been a mystery for me while creating drop shadow effects that one layer changes the angle of its shadow automatically if I change the angle of the other.

For example: in Layer 1 I am setting the drop shadow angle as 0. In Layer 2 I want to set its angle to 90 degrees. As soon as I do this, the first layer changes its angle to 90 degrees.

Why is it dependent and how do I remove this link?


texts: InDesign - Paragraph styles apply different settings

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I have a file with no styles. I create different styles for later use based on the text (mark text and create paragraph, character or table styles).
But the styles are different when applied.
Here is text in table. Style created based on this settings.

But when I applied the style to text in another table the only thing that match is font.

The table styles and cells styles are the same as I only created one style for each. Text in unformatted table was imported from word document with "clear styles" checked during import.


texts: Is there no capitalize button in Inkscape?

texts: I do not see an option to set a phrase as uppercase with the click of the button. Is there no such feature, or am I missing something?


texts: Clipping mask is filling the wrong part of the shape

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I'm relatively new to Illustrator so I hope this isn't a stupid question.
I'm trying to apply a clipping mask to a line drawing i've made to make it appear as gold foil. The problem is that when I'm applying the clipping mask, it is filling in everything inside the outermost lines with the picture in certain parts, when I want it only to apply to the lines themselves.
Below are images of both the line drawing and what is happening after applying the mask. I'm also unsure why some of the lines are being masked very very thinly?


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Whilst creating a new document in Illustrator, it gives me a warning when I switch the colour mode to RGB:

"The chosen colour mode is different from the colour space defined by the document profile."

What do I have to do, to get rid of that warning? I do not see any further options in the "new document" dialogue that would allow me to switch colour modes or profiles ...


texts: What are recommended resolutions, sizes and ratios for designing Windows 8 apps mockups?

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I'm about to start working on some mobile Windows 8 apps, and I'm a bit confused about the recommended resolutions, sizes and ratios for supporting different devices. For iPhone, for example, I normally create mockups of 960×640px, for iPad 2048x1536px and so on. But I'm lost about size for Win8, and especially for Windows Phones.

What resolution / screen size / aspect ratio should I use for creating Win 8 smartphone apps mockups?


texts: In Photoshop can you convert a screen layer to a transparent .PNG?

texts: I've always wanted to know how to do this-- basically seperate the flat base color of an image, and save it with transparency to .PNG. The only method I can think of is with selection tools and that gives a really bad result (not the same).


texts: Merging a semicircle with two parallel lines

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How can I merge a semicircle with two parallel lines? I want to have the leftmost point of the semicircle to bind with the leftmost line in the illustration below, and I'd like the rightmost point of the semicircle to be bound to the rightmost line simultaneously:

I'm using Illustrator (16.0.3).


texts: Combining all paths with the same fill color into a group?

texts: In Illustrator CS5 is there a way to combine all the paths with the same color into the same group?


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In many fonts I come across, I see that the glyph uppercase i - I is same as lowercase l.

Why is it so? Why don't font designers add a differentiating factor between the two glyphs?

This specially creates a problem with the word 'Ill'. Whether to read it roman 3 or short for 'I will'.

Extra

I am asking this because I am making a font, so I want to know if I should stick to this standard design, or use different glyphs for the two...
Also, see my last question on fonts as well.

P.S. I don't know if this should goto SuperUser, but I can't post questions there.


texts: How create action for all layers in Illustrator file

texts: I have an Illustrator document with hundreds of vector images (each a color variation of a single image). Each vector image is on a separate layer. I have created an action to resize and export (save as png). Currently I have to apply this action manually for each layer. If 100 layers =>  click Action play button 100 times. Is there a way to create a batch action to perform an action on all layers in an Illustrator document with one click?


texts: How can I edit this specific .eps file into a transparent image on photoshop?

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I'm kinda new with Photoshop so please bear with me.

I found this .eps file on freepik that I want to use for personal use.

I opened the .eps file on Illustrator and everything looked fine there, then I tried removing the background and only moving the effect part to photoshop, but without any background the image turns to this:

I noticed that if I simply add a grey background on photoshop and make the circle have a screen blending that it looks similar enough to what it should, but as soon as I remove the background, it goes back to having that black thing around it.

I need this to end up being a transparent image to use elsewhere, I could simply look for something else similar, but I kind of want to learn how to make this work, there must be a way.


texts: How can I get a general line from a bunch of sketch lines?

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I made this line work in Manga Studio, and transferred it to Photoshop CS6.  I tried the pen tool, but it just doesn't look as good as I would've hoped.  Are there any better ways to go about getting this general shape in Photoshop?  Plugin or Vanilla?

[edit] keep in mind, i'm not a digital artist; this line work was a surprise to me haha


texts: Trouble connecting straight segments with a smooth curve

texts:
I'm trying to create a capital 'E' like the first image (without the text filling up the body).

The second image is what I have so far. I'm having trouble specifically with creating a curve that looks smooth enough to connect the vertical rectangle with the horizontal one.

I've recently started using Inkscape, and am a beginner, so any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How do I change the colour of a shape in Photoshop after I've drawn it

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For some reason it seems impossible to change the colour  of a rectangle I've drawn in Photoshop after I've drawn it. I can change the colour of a new one that I want to draw but once it's drawn there doesn't seem to be any way of changing the properties of the shape. I've googled this for a while but it seems as though this is so simple there are no tutorials for it or no one knows what I mean.

Please can someone explain how to change the colour of a shape after I've drawn it in photoshop, thank you


texts: What are some common open (royalty-free) image formats?

texts: Which common image formats are open or royalty-free?


texts: Cut Marks (Interrupted rectangles in the corners)

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I recently read a post explaining cut marks and their purpose. However, if they're meant as guidelines as to what has to be cut off to create a neat brochure in the right size, why are they still visible on some finished print-outs. I've seen multiple text packets where these corners are there (in the text packets during exams etc.) - so I'm wondering why they're still visible despite only being guidelines.

I'm a beginner at this, so I'm sorry if it's a stupid question w/ an obvious answer :)


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I would like to learn to use 3D Studio Max, but I cannot find any good tutorial to start with.

I bought the manual, but there it explains in details all the possible functions you can find in the software. The fact is that I never had a course about 3D modelling, therefore I need something really easy.

For example, when I learned to use Photoshop I just looked at thousands of tutorials and I learned the commands just following the instructions and then  trying to customize the results.

I would like to follow the same procedure for 3D Studio Max, the problem is that I found very few tutorials on that.


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For a mockup, I need to add some text to a photo of a piece of cable. It has to look like the text is printed directly on the cable.

So far I've tried to do it in Photoshop. I drew a path along the cable and placed the text along that, but it doesn't look quite right, because the letters don't curve around the cable vertically. The warp tool is usually effective for correcting something like this, but it didn't give me precise control on the curved long strings of text. Any ideas how to achieve this is very much appreciated.

Here's an example photo:


texts: How to create a new master page based on the current regular page?

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There are easy ways to take a current style and turn it into a Paragraph Style, Character Style, etc.

Is there any equivalent for Master Pages? I.e. taking the margins etc of an existing regular page, and creating a master page based on them.

All I can find in searches is how to create master pages based on other master pages.


texts: Indesign script to copy from clipboard to story

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I know app.paste(); method dumps the contents of the clipboard at the spot where the cursor is currently. However, I want to define the location via a variable such as this:

myStory = app.activeDocument.stories[1];

And I want to dump the contents of the clipboard in that story as defined by the variable myStory. Is it possible? How?


texts: securing my product image that i am selling online

texts: I am an online tunics seller. I buy my product from some companies in India and the company itself do online retail like me. I want to sell my products in the US. I don't want my customers to know from where i am buying my products.. Especially not through my product picture. I added watermarks, change the background and tried to search my product image in google, but i can see the manufacturer as well as other sellers selling the same product with the same image. I completely understand that its almost impossible to hide those manufacturers, but my question is can I make my image more secured, so customers can't search other online sellers who is selling the same product like mine, through my product image. I have added one of my pictures below. I have 1000 more pictures too.


texts: How do I get this vintage/retro look using Photoshop?

texts:
I'd like to get a similar vintage/retro blur look shown in these images below, using Adobe Photoshop.

What would be the best strategy to use to mimic these images effectively?


texts: Removing pause between loop iterations in a Flash movie

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I work with a creative services that has created a Flash animation for a page my team is building out. The animation was created using Flash Catalyst, and we're experiencing an issue where, once the animation gets to the end of its loop, it pauses for around half of a second before it starts over again. We're looking for the transition to be smooth.

We have auto-play and loop checked in the options. Is there something else about the method of exporting the movie in Flash Catalyst that could be causing this undesired pause?


texts: What font is the "Sears Roebuck & Co" found on the doors to some Sears stores?

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Here it is:

I've seen some Sears stores in Maryland that have gold lettering on the glass front door saying SEARS ROEBUCK & CO.. It's something older-fashioned looking and very widely spaced, maybe Caslon? Can anyone help me out here?


texts: How do I limit a blended overlay to its parent content?

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I may not fully understand CSS's 'isolation' attribute, however let me describe the hierarchy simply (https://jsfiddle.net/8zq7r23u/2/).

<svg>
 [shapes filled with grayscale]
  |
  -> [some kind of tint shape with a blend mode] -- to colourize its parents

What is happening is if the SVG is placed on a gray background, the background is affected by the blended item. I do not want this. I want the colourizing layer to only affect the SVG.

Normally what I do in your standard raster desktop applications (or vector for that matter), is I apply a mask. I've come to this point to ask if it's possible without the mask, or am I doing something wrong entirely?


texts:
Simple question here: Is it possible to zoom smoothly in Illustrator CC? Like in Photoshop CC?

I can only alt+mousewheel zoom now but that's more of a snap zoom then a smooth zoom.


texts: How to change color of product in a picture

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I have a picture of Jacket, the color of jacket is black. I want to change the jacket color to white. Here is the picture

How can I change the color of jacket ? Please help.


texts: Is the spacing around my typographic elements correct?

texts:
The image below is a more or less standard paragraph example for the website I'm trying to design. It's probably not much help for the question I'm asking, but I will try to further detail what I'm doing there.

font used is Roboto Black and Regular
the section has a margin top and bottom of 50px
the heading is 36px
the heading has 30px margin bottom starting from the underline (yellow line)
the paragraph is 18px with 27px leading (1.5 line-height)
the design is based on a 1170px grid (Bootstrap) if that's of any use

To expand a bit on my question, I would like to know if the space between the heading and the paragraph is sufficient or it should be at least the size of the gap between the two paragraphs (which is 42px)

P.S. I feel like a tone deaf person trying to sing when I'm doing typography, so any constructive criticism is much appreciated.


texts: Using png files in illustrator for printing invitations

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I purchased some pictures to use on party invitations, it said all files are 300 dpi, RGB, transparent background. They are a png file type

I have opened the file in AI and copied the parts I want to my new document which I set up as 300dpi, CMYK. Is there something I need to do to the png before I go to print my file?

I will also be saving as a pdf, I am new to AI, thank you


texts: How do I keep rounded corners consistent in InDesign when drawing a stroke?

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I'm working on a diagram where I want my strokes corners to be rounded and keep consistent. However, when I draw a stroke, the measure doesn't seem to apply to all corners equally. I didn't scale this stroke in any way, just clicked and held shift to keep lines straight.

Am I missing something? How do I draw a stroke with consistent rounded corners?


texts: Using Inkscape and printing on larger paper than canvas

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Wondering how to print (to scale 1:1) on larger paper than the canvas. Currently, when I print (using larger paper, but not changing printer setup, so it thinks it still canvas sized) a border of about 1/2" all the way around is missing its content. I have tried selecting a larger paper size in page setup, but that causes the print to be scaled, and it still does not print the content at the edge of the canvas.
Any suggestions?


texts: How to reduce loading time in flash based website?

texts: I have a flash website and i continuously face problem of loading time it take long time to load how could solve this problem.


texts: Any tool to automatically generate HTML layout structure diagram?

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I usually post in StackOverflow, but this is more a layout/design question. I am trying to get an overview of the HTML structure of an application I am working on, and was looking for a tool to automatically generate a diagram of the layout/ordering. Does anybody use such a tool?

It would be great to see the layers, or a UML type diagram, showing the order of the parent/child elements in relation to each other.

What I've found:

Chrome DevTools Layers Panel (in experimental state, and barely usable)
FireFox 3D View - Using the Tilt plugin (looks very impressive, but is more visual than practical)


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I want to make a 3D looking text that would in fact be 2 2D layers.

Here's what I want to make - I duped the layer 2 times and moved the second layer a little lower, then used Blend, recolored and put the original layer on top:

But here's the culprit:

Is there a way to avoid using the Blend command and fixing the curves myself?


texts: Convert shape to line with a stroke in Illustrator

texts: Example. I drew a line with a pencil, set stroke to 5 px and made a shape using Object->Path->Outline Stroke. Is it possible to convert this shape to line with a stroke again? 100% accuracy isn't necessary.


texts: Is there an SVG collection or a set of "stickers" for free?

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I'm looking for a set (or multiple sets) of stickers in SVG or at least good PNG (with transparent background).
By stickers I mean like what some chat application uses like a collection of a pig doing stuff (sleeping, jumping, showering, etc)

Thansk for your help!


texts: Action to crop a photo with user input. The batch processing

texts: I'm stumped.  All I need to do is open my photo, have the action stop to wait for me to decide where the crop should be (to center the important part of the photo), then close that photo so the batch processing can go get the next photo.  I see the "inset stop" is the key, but it never allows me to crop, it just moves on to the next photo.


texts: Photoshop Action to determine dimensions of layer

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I'm wondering if there is a way to setup an Action in CS6 that would be able to determine the  dimensions of an image or layer?

Ultimately, I'd like to create a watermark essentially which would stamp the image with its own dimensions.

Any help appreciated.


texts: How to edit text in psd or ai file without photoshop and without illustrator?

texts:
I have two files from the graphic designer: psd file and ai file.
How can I edit the text?
I don't have photoshop.

Thanks


texts: Why does Photoshop call ppi "resolution"?

texts:
There are some things in Photoshop's "new" dialog window that I find troubling:

Assume an image of 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels. How can there be an input box for ppi? Ppi a property of the result of displaying or printing an image,  not a property of the image itself, am I right?
Also, why does Photoshop call ppi "Resolution"? Shouldn't it be called "density"?


texts: How can I work with a client that doesn't know what they want?

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I am helping a client/friend with a website design.

He is a conceptual thinker. Yet his ideas are always inspirational but not practical.

He is always wanting a different direction after I show him my design.
He wants something new and refreshing. He doesn't like the website out there because it's too commercial. I think it would be easier to manage later though.

I am struggling with him because

I am not getting paid for this.
I would like him to just choose a design.

However, I was wondering if you have any tips on dealing with client who has no direction, and doesn't know what they want?

What would you do? Choose some web and have him decide which style they like?

How can I guide him in the right direction? Any suggestions for me?

Thank you for the help!


texts:
I have white circle and 3 stripes at the back: blue, violet and yellow. I want to have this white circle to have background with those 3 stripes like this:

I've tried path -> difference and other path option, but it doesnt work.


texts: What resources can help me with some basic design skills for an internal web application?

texts: What resources could I (a programmer) find to help me with some basic design skills for an internal web application?  I don't mean to make it look like it is off the shelf, but I would like to group information together in a nice format, to have tabular data displayed nicely, get some icons for "help", sorting, deleting, adding, saving, etc.  I'd like to start with some best practices for when I design reports so that they can be printed relatively cleanly, etc.


texts: What is the correct name of this filter?

texts:
Normally, this is what would you would see if you magnified older newspaper images printed in color. (check the background of the attached image)

What is this filter called?
How can I recreate this filter in GIMP or Photoshop?


texts: How to make a clear scribble effect with white color

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I'm trying to create a typographic logo using Adobe Illustrator, I'm trying to make a scribble effect and I know how to do it, no problem of doing that, it's very easy.

My problem is that the scribble effect becomes so dense that it looks more like plain text with 100% fill.

Please can you help of best practice of how to do a scribble in white color, so it appears nice and professional?

if you need an example I'm trying to do something like this logo:


texts:
I have a traditional logo (as on Illustration board, inked and painted) to finish for a client in Pennsylvania. I am in Idaho. What would be is best;

Mail the piece and let them use it with a local print Company?
Get it scanned in high res. and put it in a flash drive, then mail both the piece and the scan for local printers use?
Work the logo in Photoshop for various formats for the net and business cards, then put them in a flash drive for the client?

I ask because I have had bad luck trying to get designs to clients in PDF for their local printers. I want a solution before I get done with the design traditionally.


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This is the original image and I want to move the text to the right of the image:

But I failed, I tried to resize the canvas but then when I move the text the layer gets invisible when put on the resized canvas area:

I'm sure I'm just doing it wrong with GIMP and I wonder if you can help me to achieve the result?

Thanks


texts: Why are my strokes showing up black, with no colour selected?

texts: All of my strokes are coming with a random black 1pt stroke that I can't edit or get rid of. I can change the colour of the 'outer' stroke, which is technically the same line. That shouldn't be possible. I'm not new to Illustrator but just recently purchased CC, is this usual in CC? Quite frustrating. Please help. Here's some pictures.


texts:
What pixel width should a designer use for the PSD, given the pixel width of the website? (for example, I need a design for a website thats 1920px wide. What resolution should the designer use in photoshop?)

I'm a web developer and I always get PSDs from designers that are ridiculous arbitrary sizes. For example, I just got a PSD (for one single page of a website) that is well over a gigabyte, the image size / resolution is 5616px by 3744px. This makes it really difficult because I have to resize practically every element of the design. I have no idea why or how the designer chose to work in that resolution.

Personally, I would design at 2x the final website resolution, so I have retina images available..


texts: InDesign: Faster way to resize multiple frames but not images

texts: I've used Shift + Cmd to place 48 images into an indesign (cc2014.2) doc. i'd like to change all of the image frame sizes to let's say 9p square, while not affecting the images. how do i do this?


texts: How to determine the "native" size of a bitmapped font?

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I have a couple of bitmapped fonts in the form of *.dfont files.  I would like to find out the "native" size(s) for these fonts.  By "native" I mean the sizes (in points) of the bitmaps themselves, without any scaling.

I thought that Font Book's ⓘ tab would provide this information, but it doesn't (or it is wrong: the only size information it gives is, invariably, "18pt", which I can see is obviously wrong).

Is there some other way?


texts: Why can't Photoshop properly open this PNG?

texts:
When I try to open this image in PS (CS5) I get red rectangles around the parts of the image that are not transparent.

If I copy the image and paste it in PS I get the contents of the image, as seen via the browser, but with a built in black background (not transparent, as it really is)

What is wrong with this image?! Or is it my PS?


texts: Created concentric circular pattern illustrator

texts: I want to create something like this in illustrator. Need some help.


texts: Dimensions of logo causing branding difficulties

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I am working on a logo for a company called unstack on a pro-bono basis.

The company will provide short instructional videos on programming concepts.

I have produced the first logo for them, but I have been told that the dimension may cause some branding issues.

As a result, I have thought about merging the unstack element and the u. But that would make it wider.

I was just wondering how people generally deal with such problems? Especially given the breadth of print and digital mediums available? What suggestions would you have for my design so it fits a more square of spherical shape.


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I am using the latest version of Photoshop.
For months and months I have been able to save my work as a JPG with no issues at all.
An update was performed this morning, and now it won't let me save as JPEG.
When I adjust the colour and the bit size etc., still nothing works. All my images (always have been) are A4 2480×3508 px.
I have been using frame mock-ups with my A4 images for months and this has only started happening today. Please help, I need this for my business.
Only options I have are PSD, PSB or TIFF. My file is only A4 size, so it's not because it's too big.
Please help.


texts: Seeking inspiration for software suite dashboard

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I am in the middle of designing a software suite's dashboard, however I am in a bit of a rut as my only source of inspiration is Adobe's Creative Cloud software suite dashboard http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/desktop.html

Does anyone know of other software suite dashboards that I may glean some inspiration from? Or perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms as all I've been coming up with are product dashboards or just general app dashboards, not really what I'm looking for. Thanks!


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I'm using FontForge to convert otf fonts to ttf, it works fine if I'm working with "Latin/English type characters" but when I'm working with Korean the resulting ttf includes none of the characters (seems as if it only tries to convert Latin/English) and obviously the resulting filesize is close to zero.

How can I tell FontForge to work with Korean characters instead of Latin/English?

The Process

fontforge -script ttf.pe

ttf.pe

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Bold.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Bold.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-ExtraLight.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-ExtraLight.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Heavy.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Heavy.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Light.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Light.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Medium.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Medium.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Normal.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Normal.ttf")

Open("SourceHanSansKR-Regular.otf")
Generate("output/SourceHanSansKR-Regular.ttf")

Font URL/Link

It's called "Adobe Source Han Sans Subset OTF - Korean OpenType/CFF font" and I downloaded it from the Arch Linux repo:

Direct download link (Arch Linux Repo)
Arch Linux Repo info page
Official GitHub Repo


texts: What should I include in my portfolio to apply to design school?

texts: I'm applying for Parsons (interior design) School. Does the portfolio have to include everything Interior design related or is it okay if I include some of my sketches and art which are not Interior design related?


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What style is more effective/easier to read for a logo that includes text?

Logo on the left, with text/name just to the right of it.

or

Logo on the right, with text preceding it.

The use for the logo would be typically on letterhead and business cards.

I'm looking for some concrete advice that will tell me if the image or the text is more important from a brand recognition perspective, and therefore which should be presented first.  Target audience is for the most part left-to-right language readers.


texts: Where can I find a large palette / set of contrasting colors for coloring many datasets on a plot?

texts:
I need large set (20 and more) of contrasted and easily visually-distinguishable colors for coloring different datasets on a scientific plot (the set of colors should not include white or black, and colors should be as bright as possible).

The plot is generated programmatically and intended to be included in a presentation which will be displayed using a projector.

Are there any ready-made sets of colors for such a task (I need colors as a set of RGB values)?

Or maybe there is some algorithm which generates such a set of colors programmatically (I use Wolfram Mathematica for plot generation)?

P.S. The plot itself may look, for example, similar to this one:


texts: Best Way to Build & Design Buttons, Icons for Mobile application

texts: Which is the best Way to Build & Design Buttons, Icons for Mobile application of Android and IOS platform.


texts: How can i make the alphabet beautiful? (web)

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I'm working on a directory type of page where I will have your typical "A B C D E ..." alphabet posted on top so people can jump down to listings starting with their letter of choice.

The alphabet just looks really boring and I'm looking for ideas or solutions to how i can make it look better.

I'm open to any solutions ranging from graphic design changes, fonts, jquery plugins, etc

Thank you.


texts:
I have tried automated online font searches as well as manually compared with more that 3500 sans serif fonts but I could not find this font.

The nearest font I could find are following:
The following list is not in any particular order.

Pen Sans Rounded by Jeff Levine
Duddy by Letritas
Kalyant by Sign Studio
Pilcrow by Indian Type Foundry
Core Sans R by S-Core
Falena by Typoforge Studio
Core Sans DS by S-Core
Everbright Sans by Nyalaapi
Venture Eroded by Michael Hill Design
Boodle Bold by Ckhans Fonts
Rustic Printed by Edignwn Type
Ardena by Julien Fincker

(Only 8 links allowed in my post)
There are only few characters which match with any of the above fonts but not the whole character set.
Can anyone help in identifying this font?
This font was used on the frontpanel marking of a French machine whose production date is 2006.


texts: Why does my hexadecimal color in one browser render differently in another browser?

texts:
On the left is how it is rendered in Chrome, and on the right is how it is rendered in Safari. The color in Safari is what I am trying to nail, as determined by Photoshop's eyedropper tool, so it's rather peculiar to see it render differently when displayed on Chrome.

Any help will be very much appreciated, thank you!


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I am starting out as an author and do my own book covers using ‘Be Funky.’ I start out with a photo and edit it to suit, and then ‘add text.’ The problem is that my text sometimes looks blurry when seen on Amazon. AND when I print it off to use as a poster. Looks fine on my screen but seems to diffuse when uploaded. This is driving me nuts. Can anyone help please?
Thank you


texts: Illustrator CC : Distributing Objects (spacing)

texts:
I'm having an issue re-spacing the dots on the map below evenly. I created the whole thing in Illustrator and somehow missed that spacing issue in the early stages. Needless to say the issue repeats throughout my final product. I was hoping to fix for equal space between all of the dots without having to start from scratch with the blend tool.

The shapes are irregular and I need the dots to all be complete on the map (no half dots on the edges).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here's the actual AI file if anyone wants to give her a looksie:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztfd4p2t2ms7h5p/Vector%20Smart%20Object.ai?dl=0

Thank ya!


texts: What is a good free font management tool for linux?

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I've been trying to find a font management tool that is free, but all solutions are comercial.
Is there a good font management tool that is free?


texts: How to cut out objects with background layers and effects intact?

texts: I'm trying to do something that is probably really simple, but can't figure it out for the life of me. I have a bunch of stars I have made into a type of logo. I then placed a cool antique paper layer on top of them and then added some more fx above that. So I have this great effect on the stars, but can't seem to cut it out with the effects and paper background still inside the stars. I want to take the cutout stars with all the effects still intact inside the stars and transfer it over to another tab. The image below is what I have right now and would love it if someone could explain to me how to cut out the stars, but with the effects and paper background effect intact please. Thanks so much. Best


texts: Photoshop, no infinit move with the spacebar?

texts: I user the spacebar to move in my document, when i zoom i can use spacebar to move to the infinit but when i unzoom, the document stay at center and i can't go on the left side at infinit.


texts: Formating Text added via Data Sets in Photoshop

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I've been using Data Sets to fill alot of my graphics with Text. However I want the text to have different formatting styles (New Lines, Tabs, Bold and Italic to be specific) with certain words. For example:

"He should have seen it coming."

I'm using .csv Files for Data. Are there any "special characters" I can insert to allow this? Or any other way to do this using standard Data Sets in Photoshop (CS3)?

I want to avoid editing each file seperatly.

Thanks in Advance!


texts: How to break node path without distorting the object?

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Inkscape completely distorts the object when a path between selected nodes is broken.
How to avoid this?
                           ***  Updated Question  ***

The visualize nodes tool shows continuity between the selected and the  neighbouring nodes.Still there is complete distortion (ie unconnected nodes right upto the leg are being distorted)on using break nodes tool .
In such a case ,how to split an object into parts ?


texts: Is there a collection of basic open source web templates I can use and customize for my projects?

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What are some flexible, open-source, free/public-domain templates I can use that are easy to customize with my text, a logo and a color scheme? Plain-old HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (no Coffescript, Node.js, jQuery, or anything requiring some specific back-end like ASP.NET). It doesn't have to be for mobile either, although the ability to detect-and-self-adjust to mobiles would be a nice-to-have.

Something I could learn some best practices from too would be ideal. Well written code, clean, simple, modern, compatible, and that uses free resources (web fonts, public domain graphics, etc.) that can be given back as a template.


texts: How to make graphics that cannot be traced?

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We are making a website for graphic designers to sell their work to fashion designers.

However the problem is that if we showcase their work, it can simply be copied and traced.

I want to ask your opinion to find a way so that the images can't be traced?

It could be either a format, or watermarked style etc., so that the images can't be traced through illustrator or other software, and at the same time we can showcase them clearly for designers to buy.


texts: Export an image from Illustrator with multiple sizes at once?

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In addition to this question - How can I export an image from Illustrator image at multiple sizes?

Is there a way I can do this at once? I wish to define few different sizes and export couple of images with one click of a button. Can I even create image size presets? As far as I can see there is only such option for output file format but i don't need to touch it...

More precisely my case is:

I have document with bunch of icons on different layers.
I want to export each icon with those few different sizes to use it in my android app. Right now, each time I want to export an icon i have to

Open "Save for web..."
Select "Image Size" tab
Type size.
Hit "Apply".
Click "Save".
Change file name.
Hit "Save".
Jump to step 3 (times number of sizes).
"Done".
Choose next layer.
Jump to step 1.

Is there any good solution to avoid this nightmare?


texts: What is your ideal workflow for web development?

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More than occasionally if I am tasked with creating a website from scratch, it seems doable right up until I begin working on it. Then it feels like a mountain of work that is bigger than I can measure.

As a designer, I am often left with parts that are not graphic design, such as:

Preparing designs for coding
Coding them
Figuring out what the business needs: who are the customers, what's the industry standard, what's the competition doing, what are its main strong points
What is doable
Architecture of site for best speed, SEO, maintenance, and expansion

Just the notion that I'll be coding the entire project brings my creativity from level 500 to 20. On top of these, time constraints make it clear that it's not in fact a feasible project. I feel like a one man army all the time.

What are your strategies for handling tasks that are not only about where to put content and how to style, present, and share content, but to also determine what the content should be?

I am interested in your workflow when you go about developing a website from the ground up and any advice ranging from research to execution.


texts: Can you export drop shadows, etc, to PSD and maintain transparency?

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I'm really new to Adobe Illustrator and I've looked around here and while some posts show that it's possible, I'm not able to replicate what they're doing.

I have a logo in Ai that I would like to export to PSD, but when I do, the drop shadows are replaced by like a white background surrounding the logo instead of shadows. I've tried to just cmd + a to select all from Ai and paste into Ps, but then it pastes everything except for the shadows and other glowing effects.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just simply not supported?


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I am reading and learning about SVG paths here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Paths

I don't get the point with the path in the following code:

<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

  <path d="M10 10"/>

  <!-- Points -->
  <circle cx="10" cy="10" r="2" fill="red"/>

</svg>

Even when i remove the path element, I can't see any changes in the circle position or whatsoever. Can some one explain what is path doing in this example?


texts: What does a "white-on-transparent" image mean?

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Reading Android's new instructions to adapt my app icon (in a status bar), I am stuck on this:

  Notification icons should only be a white-on-transparent background image.

What does it mean a "white-on-transparent background image"?

Basically, I currently own a .PNG image with the icon of my app (not transparent).


texts: How do I denote (shade/hatch) a curved surface in a technical drawing?

texts: I am creating some 2d technical drawings, is there a standard way to shade/hatch a curved surface?


texts: Pre-deforming Artwork for screen print transfer with a silicone presshead

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I am printing to the outside of bowls in an industrial setting by transferring an image from a flatbed live paint print station via an silicone pad printing head. The image distorts quite a bit growing outward as it moves down the bowl but compressing cylindrically at the same time.

Because the artwork is constantly changing to new designs but the area on the ware to be decorated remains the same, how do I pre-distort the image no matter what it is, to become the same shape every time? I believe that others must have the same dilemma.

I am using both Photoshop or Illustrator to develop images based on what elements are needed but they seem limited and time consuming to distort every image. There are a lot of the. and they need to be repeatable.

Can someone help?


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I have many different sizes pictures (scanned) and I would like to crop them at the same size but not at the same coordinates (then I cannot do with XnView automatically).

Do you know a software I could use in order to quickly crop picture after picture?


texts: How can I make a transparent PNG object spin from the center in Photoshop for a gif if the object is not a square

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I've been trying to achieve this for a while now. I need to make (Image A) spin on the center point of the logo, image B (the tree point). The final should look like image C but the centre piece spinning.

I have tried the rotation effect in photoshop, but I've had two problems.

Firstly, the image I want to spin is not exactly square. So it does not spin on the centre of the windmill.

Secondly, when I did get it working, by adding pixels to the image to change the centre point, it only outputted as many images or a video format. I need it to be a gif.

Question: How can I get image A to spin on the centre of the tree, image B to look like image C but with the blades spinning?

IMAGE A:

IMAGE B:

IMAGE C:


texts: Applying an action to each item in a selection in turn? Illustrator Script

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I have a lot of text in various sizes in illustrator CS5.  I have tried running a script  that I found on this site...See below:

Apply an action to each item in a selection in turn?

The code is as follows:

    var docSelected = app.activeDocument.selection;
if ( docSelected.length > 0 ) {
        var actionName = prompt("Which action do you want to run?", "");
        var set = prompt("Which set is your action in?", "Default Actions");
    for ( i = 0; i < docSelected.length; i++ ) {
        docSelected[i].selected = false;
    }
    app.activeDocument.selection = null;
    for ( i = 0; i < docSelected.length; i++ ) {
        docSelected[i].selected = true;
        app.doScript(actionName, set)
        docSelected[i].selected = false;
        app.activeDocument.selection = null;
    }
} else {
    alert( "Please select one or more art objects" );
}

However, when i run the script i get an error message saying:

error 24 app.doScript is not a function....line 11

Is this because I am using an old version of illustrator?  I don't know much about coding but this would really help me if i could get it to work as I have hundreds to adjust....It may be worth noting that I am using a Mac....Thanks for your help...


texts: Super-thin UI Trend: Is there a name for this "beyond 'flat'" style?

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I really like the look of this screenshot on Dribbble:

And I'd like to employ a similar navigation for both desktop and mobile devices.

I’m looking for a similar UI set – large (X) to close out a pop up
box, for example –. Is this a current trend or is it custom?
In the same project I really like the glassy/blurred out backgrounds that they are using for the mockups. My application is different, but the look and feel would apply to my project. Is there a certain search term that I could use for that background style and super-thin icon UI?


texts: how can i set a specific size for a polygon in 3ds max

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i'm working on a model in 3ds max and i need to input specific sizes after converting to edible poly.
is there a way to set a specific polygon after selecting it ?

thank you


texts: Wrapping lines around a (circle) path in Illustrator

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I have the following reference image:

What I am trying to do is recreate the sound wave like design wrapped around a circle path like in the image above. However, the distort effect doesn't produce a perfect circle wrap and doesn't really allow for 'randomization' of the waves.

I have found the following topic

And it works but it really lacks control over maintaining that circle look. Is there an alternative way to achieve this effect?


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I'm a programmer with almost zero knowledge of graphics and svg structure. But I would like to know if it is possible to break this kind of svg file into multiple ones. Or at least access only one image at a time. (I'm using javascript and FabricJS if it matters in this case).

I did open the svg file and saw there are multiple path's and each one correspond to one sillhoute. But they have no identification as long as I see.

The question is: Is there simpler/automatic way to separate this file into multiple ones, or I would have to write a script to break each path into a separate file?


texts: How to align guides relative to an object

texts: I have four objects and I need to align guides to the middle of each. Is there a way to align the guides relative to those objects?


texts: How do you align an object to an anchor point?

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Is there a way to align an object to an anchor point without changing the shape of the object?
Let's say I wanted to align this triangle to a single anchor point on a complex shape like so:

I can align an anchor point, or multiple anchor points from the triangle to the anchor point on the complex shape like so, but this just stretches the anchor point:

But how would I align the triangle to this spot without changing it? Like so:

Or with just the edges of the object aligned, like so:

Is this possible?


texts: Script to resize InDesign page to fit content

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I'm wanting to use ExtendScript javascript to loop through each page of an Adobe InDesign document and change the size of the page to match the visible bounds of all the objects on that page. I'll just ignore any invisible objects.

I know how to loop through pages, select everything on a page, and group them. But I'll need help to figure out how to:

Save the locked states of each visible item on the page to an array so I can unlock all of them in order to be sure to select all visible items on the page before grouping, so I can then be able to return each object to its original state of locked-ness (those little monsters!).
Find the boundary coordinates of the grouped object.
Use the coordinates to send some kind of "resize page corners to these coordinates" kind of command to fit the page to its content.
After ungrouping the objects on the page, restore the lock states of each object.

I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan, Adobe InDesign CC 2018, and Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC.

Example:

  becomes


texts: How to make figures with labels and text using Illustrator editable in InDesign

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I work at an engineering/research firm (as engineer/researcher), and I make a lot of figures for reports and presentations. My usual workflow uses Illustrator and InDesign (and matlab): I make graphs in matlab, export them to illustrator where I will add labels and/or diagrams where needed, and then place the linked .ai file into the InDesign document. I have no formal training in graphics design or any of the tools I use, so all I know is what I have learned over the last few years after switching to them from MS Office and latex.

However, I often find myself unsure what I should do in InDesign and what I should do in Illustrator. I might have some graph or image, and I want to add text labels to various parts of the graph. I find it easier to do this all in Illustrator, but then after adding it into Indesign I find that the graph doesn't quite fit that way because the labels make it too bulky. Then I have to go back to Illustrator, move around the labels, guestimate where it will fit better, and then update the Indesign links. This then repeats until I am done.

Because of this, it can sometimes be tempting to just make the labels in InDesign instead, but then it can get harder to keep track of changes later (I might update the graph because some data changes or we decide we need to add something else), and then I am stuck with the fact that now my Indesign labels need to be redone.

In other words, Is there some way for me to make parts of an Illustrator image editable in Indesign? Or is there some better general workflow to deal with this?


texts: How do I configure Photoshop to reference a central common object store?

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In web design we often have a number of elements in a design that are the same across multiple pages and designs. Typically this might be the website navigation menu and some side bar elements. In this question I am terming these objects.

I want to have a set of common objects that I use in multiple PSDs. When one of the objects is updated then this change should automatically be reflected across all of the PSDs that reference it.

These objects are likely to just be a few PSDs sitting in a folder that are pulled into the overall page design PSDs.

How can I do this with Photoshop? Perhaps there is a better or complimentary tool out there that deals with this problem. Any suggestions welcome.


texts: Design guidelines proportional pitched fonts

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I searched the internet and a big local bookstore for a good resource on designing proportional pitched fonts.

I know there is no fixed rule-book on how the width of a specific glyph or ligature is determined, but are there general rules of thumb or a guideline where to start from?

Which letter does one typically start from? Are there approximations of relationship between different glyphs, e.g. "m" and "n" and "r" or something like that?

Any tips, book recommendations will help. Thank you guys.


texts: How to put pictures in running text as if they were text?

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Some tutorial books have text lines containing graphics like these:

It'd be a lot nicer to build an OpenType-SVG font, but there doesn't seem to be any intuitive workable tool for that yet. Thus I'd like to know how to put graphics (especially colored graphics) into running text like the above examples, as if the graphics were text themselves, so that the graphics are aligned perfectly and consistently on text lines. Not just symbols already built in fonts, but actual graphics (rastor, vector, etc., especially colored ones) Ideally using Adobe apps.


texts: Is there any program that can interpolate a monospaced font from a non-monospaced font?

texts: I am trying to create a mono-spaced version of a font. I am wondering if there's any sort of program that can interpolate one from the original. I know additional work has to be done, but I am wondering if the interpolation would reduce some of the boilerplate work.


texts:
I made a vector logo using Illustrator cs6 in my office, but when I returned back to my home to work on it on Inkscape, it shows nothing, showing the error-- the file is not supported!

to solve this problem, I need Illustrator, but I don't have money to buy it.
I want to use Inkscape or similar products which are open source.
so, my question is:

what are the other tools available for editing eps files other than  Illustrator?


texts: What is the font used in the www.whitehouse.gov Presidential portraits?

texts: What is the nice Times-like font used in the Presidential portraits here? WhatTheFont gets me close but doesn't quite match. Example with a 3 and an 8: Gerry.


texts: Is there any shortcut or feature to copy the preview output from Photoshop, without going to export option?

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I remember I once saw something related to it on a blog, but didn't give much attention to it. I had made a note at that time which was:

  Ctrol Shift E to preview layer

I'm not fully sure whether it was for solving this problem or not.

Anyway, let me explain what I need:

When I design something (there are a lot of layers), I have to make a lot of changes according to requirements from my directors. So every time, I have to go to export and preview it as web from there. Since the file is big, it takes a bit to open the output in browser. Then I copy the image from there (right click, copy. I guess it's OS feature) and send them to feedback.

I like copying the image because it works for me and it's easy then exporting it again and again, until it's ready for approval.

Another approach is, group all layers, duplicate it, press Control + E (on Windows). It just rasterizes all. Then I can simply copy it. But at times it may be destructive (sometimes I lose my artwork, because by mistake I save the document without copying and directly merging it).

So is there any already existing feature in Photoshop it?


texts: Critique : Feedback for portfolio website design

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I'm in the early years of an aspiring web/graphic designer. The two main intentions behind creating this website were:

To get some practice
Use it as an online portfolio while hunting for jobs (Where I plan to learn more)

Here's the link to my website

http://projectilepixels.com/

I'm currently at a stage where I'm not happy with the way it looks, but am also failing to find faults and elements I'd want to change.

The only things I noticed are:

The number of colors used in the "progress bars" for PS, CorelDraw etc might be too many and I might need to tone em down a little (But am unsure what to use instead)
The shiny gradients used for the progress bars along with the shadow effects might be making it look to gaudy (again can't think of an alternative here)
Contrast, color etc on different images might need to be matched.

A few additional questions I have:

Is there anything else I am missing?
Is the use of fonts appropriate? What kind of fonts should I change to if these ain't right?
From a UX prespective, is this kind of concept user friendly

Hope this question has been crisp and concise as needed. Looking forward to some really helpful feedback. Thanks a lot.


texts: How do I create multicolor text in Photoshop?

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Say I want to combine two different colors into one, how would I do that? Like this
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/highlight-text-with-the-gradient-fill-effect-in-word/


texts: Inkscape: Add a 180deg arc to a rectangele

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I'd like to add a 180 degree arc to the top of a rectangle and remove the internal lines to create a single shape (best described as a 'finger' shape).

I've managed to create both shapes, but lining them up is proving tricky and then selecting Path/Union seems to only remove portions of the common lines.

I'd welcome some advice on the bet way to go about doing this to help expedite my workflow and contain the swearing.


texts: How do i export the whole canvas of the layer with photoshop "export as" feature

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Im trying to find the most efficient way to export a lot of layers in to jpgs with a specific size, but the layers have differently sized artworks in them. When using "Export as" on the layers they will only export the visible artwork in the layer and ignore the canvas size.

I.E. i have 10 layers with differently sized artworks on a canvas of 1000x1000px, i want to just export the layers as 1000x1000px jpgs but they are exported as each individual artwork size instead.


texts: Illustrator: Alt+Click in Pathfinder not working

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Unite, minus front, intersect and exclude all work fine. But once I'm alt+clicking (on unite, minus front, etc), nothing is happening. Like, my 2 grouped shapes just stay the same. For e.g. when I alt+click on Unite, it doesn't even give me the result that clicking on Unite alone would give me.
Can anyone please help?


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I downloaded a magazine mockup which uses a smart object layer where I can place my own artwork. However, the mockup and the smart object layer are quite large in size (6000 px by 4500 px), and my artwork is roughly 800 px by 1100 px. I can't make my artwork larger as that would generate so much extra work for me, as I have several mockups with different types of artwork to complete.
I tried resizing the height and width of the mockup (including the smart object layer) to roughly match the size of my artwork, and initially that works just fine. However, after I place my artwork in the smart object layer, save it and jump back into the mockup, my artwork shows up very small. It is as if the resizing of the mockup and smart object layer never happened.
I downloaded a few different mockups, and some accept the resizing without issue, and others don't.
The first screenshot shows the original magazine mockup with the mockup artwork (person standing in field). The second screenshot shows the magazine mockup after I resized the overall height & width to about 25% of its original size (I resized the smart object layer by the same degree), and you can see my artwork (nature medic 25) shows up quite small. In screenshot 3 I changed the opacity of my artwork so you can see how my artwork is about the same size as the mockup artwork - screenshot 3 is the smart object layer.
If anyone can help out, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9LuYZ.png" alt="
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texts: Fonts similar to Andika and Lexie-Readable?

texts: I have dyslexia but the regular dyslexic fonts don't work out for me. Andika and Lexie-Readable are much better for me, and I was wondering if there's anything similar.


texts: Cloudy stormy trailer text background in AFX

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I am sure you can imagine what I have in mind (if you can't, few links are at the bottom of the post)
Trailers usually have some sort of message at the end (release date, name of the game/movie, etc). Some have this running stormy clouds, very dark and subtle, sometimes with occasional flash.

I am wondering how to simulate this in After Effects. I have not yet tried this since I really can't figure out where to begin, I am thinking maybe use some Photoshop generated clouds, layer stuff and sprinkle it with dash of AFX magic, but I don't really think this would by satisfactory. Should I maybe use some particle generator? I am pretty new to particles and aside from the regular rain or sparks I have very little experience in this field.

Or is there some other way? Any insight from someone more experienced in this particular field would be great help!

I really don't want to use stock footage.

Few examples of what I have in mind

300, this is partly what I have in mind: http://youtu.be/UrIbxk7idYA?t=2m24s DA
Inquisition first trailer: http://youtu.be/rh8v3Et4tGE?t=1m32s
Harry Potter: http://youtu.be/_EC2tmFVNNE?t=2m16s
Hobbit: http://youtu.be/iVAgTiBrrDA?t=2m16s


texts: How to create custom Arrowheads in Illustrator properly

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Arrowheads.ai file in C:\Users\admin\Documents\Illustrator specifies: " ... add new arrowhead symbols of your own design. A horizontal stroked line in the back of the design is used to indicate the placement of the arrowhead and the default scale relative to the stroke weight. (The preset arrowheads are drawn with a stroke weight of 1 pt, but you can use any stroke weight as long as the arrowhead is drawn as it should look with a Scale option of 100% on a stroke of that weight.)

However after numerous attempts to create a new arrowhead and add it to symbols, it does not perform as it should when used from a "Stroke" pannel in a project.

This is what happens:

Can anyone elaborate on any kinks that may arise out of this process? There doesn't seem to be any tutorial online to show the exact way this should be done.
Thanks for any help in advance.


texts: Where should I start learning the skills required for creating textures and patterns?

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I am a software engineer but I also like becoming a good graphics designer but I don't know where to start.

I especially like mastering the skills necessary for designing textures and patterns but I am totally lost as most books and tutorials are about the tool set and not the theory and skills required to transform a pattern I see in the real world (e.g. a brushed metal surface) into a pattern or texture.

Also the texture/pattern tutorials on the Web are again very specific and not theoretical (e.g. they show you a finished example and the steps required to produce it).

So, how can I master the art of texture/pattern design


texts: Lost ability to move anchor points in Illustrator

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I have been working on this project for almost a week, and have been moving single points just fine using the direct select tool. At first, I was struggling with how to select and move a single point. I found if I clicked it 3 times, moving on the third click, it would move just fine for me.
Now even that isn't working.
I assume I changed an option or something, but do not know what it was.
Final Answer:
Just using the 'A' allowed me to isolate the single anchor point to be moved.
Thank You Lucian


texts: How do I scan black and white, minimize file size, but keep gray image tones in shading?

texts:
I'm attempting to scan some documents with basic science and math diagrams in black and white that can be emailed. The challenge is that some of the pages contain diagrams with gray shading. Many of the reduction tools I've used either remove the shading or change its tone. I have to keep to be able to distinguish among 3 shades of gray, for example, in a bar graph.

The 40 page document at 600DPI in PDF format comes in around 18mb. This approach keeps the image quality that I need, but I'd like to reduce the file size to 5-10mb. I can rescan the document with any settings.

I have an Epson ES400 for scanning. I have all Adobe programs, but I've been using Epson Scan 2 with the scanner.

Would it be better to create a TIFF format? I want to keep the pages as one document.


texts: How to layer via cut/copy multiple selections (from 1 layer)

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How can I "layer via cut/copy" multiple selections from one layer at the same time. These selections are all different shapes and all on the same image. I have no problem making the selection one by one so the selection is not the problem.

Is there a short cut where I can just "layer via cut/copy" all selections, to their own individual layer, all at once at the end? It would save me a lot of time!

Thanks!!


texts: Missing objects during resizing after copying/pasting from Illustrator to InDesign

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After copying a group of objects (including some containing clipping masks) from Illustrator to InDesign some of the objects disappear after resizing said clipping. My apologies if this is quite vague but to be honest I'm not sure what's happening, just that things are missing. I've recorded a video to better demonstrate what I mean.

https://vimeo.com/83398666

As you can tell in the video, I copied the group of squares from Illustrator to InDesign, then resize the entire group. After resizing, some of the circles in some of the squares are missing. Upon dragging some things around I find one of them and it is still full size (it didn't resize when I dragged the entire group) and it is really far away from its original place. The squares where things are disappearing are all clipping masks (they look different from everything else when I first select the whole group to Cmd + C it).

Thanks a lot for your time and sorry for any bad wording. I'm using Adobe CC.


texts: Style identification of flat-ish design with gradients

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I am looking for a general name or style identification of this type of design. Mainly so I can look for more examples and their common theme.

Click for full size

More examples can be found on the authors Behance page.


texts: Antonym / opposite of Pastel Color Space (Color Scheme?)

texts: In color spaces we have the regular solid colors like solid red (#FF0000), solid green, solid blue, etc. ... Then when we add about 50% white ontop of it, it becomes a "pastel" color space... What about the opposite, if I add 50% black it gets just a dark and a pastel gets light... What are these called? What is the antonym of a pastel color space? Thanks! God bless!


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When I use the pen and I put 1.0 size, it draws a 1x1 pixel square. But after that, it goes like this:

At 2.0 size, 3x3 square.
At 3.0 size, 3x3 square.
At 4.0 size, 3x3 square.
At 5.0 size, 5x5 square.
At 6.0 size, 5x5 square.

How do I make it that a set pen size draws a square of this exact size in pixels?


texts: How can I change colors of a B&W graphic in Photoshop?

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I have a black & white graphic, which I want to turn into a blue & yellow.

Black → blue,
white → yellow

I can do the first part by creating a solid color layer and change the blending options to "lighten", but then I have a blue & white image.

I have a vague idea that I should select highlights  and shadows, resp., and turn the selections into masks for a solid color layer, but I don't know how to do this. Also, I'm not sure this is the best route to go.

Photoshop is version CS6.

EDIT:

I think I found it, but I'm not completely satisfied yet.

In the "select" menu I select "color range" and then "shadows". I then add a mask using the selection. I make that layer yellow. Underneath I place a solid blue layer.

The problem is that the edges are very hard and jagged, like when you convert an 8-bit grayscale to an indexed color image. So the mask seems to consist of black and white only. Any ideas how to solve this?


texts: I'm putting some type on a path, a circle; but when I do it, the type is upside down. How can I flip it so it reads the right way up? See image below:


texts: Create a GREP style that finds paragraphs that starts with 2 possible words, then styles the entire paragraph

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I have a QA style article where a question is posed, then answered.

Community News: How are you today?
Tom: I'm doing great!
CN: I'm doing well today. Thanks for asking.

I'd like to apply a grep style to each of the interviewers questions, but I haven't figured out how to apply the style to the entire paragraph.

The below grep finds the specific words and applies the style, but nothing I've tried applies the style to the entire paragraph

^(Community|CN:)


texts: I want to draw a circle with a exact diameter in illustrator

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I'm designing a glass table top and it needs to be a perfect diameter of 36" can I specify diameter anywhere? or even in Photoshop?

I also need to have the file removed from artboard just a transparent background it needs to be just the circle as a eps file.

does anyone know how I can do this.

Thanks


texts: Sketch, how to find and replace "text style"

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I have a library file in Sketch and I need to replace a specific text-style with another one, in all the instances it is been used across the file.

Is there a way to find and replace the text-style?


texts: Making changes to a page that I own, but was made by someone else

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When a web designer makes a website, they usually put a small writing at the bottom. It usually says something like "Made by Joe Whatever". Let's say I paid Joe for the website design he made.

Now, can I make changes to that website? I mean, Joe signed himself on that page and if I change something and that change drastically reduces the quality of the website, Joe would take the blame.


texts: Adobe Illustrator PDF Works, but then uploading it changes colors

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I searched through the site and I couldn't find an answer to this specific question, so here we go:

I've designed a business card in Illustrator. The background is a darker red. I export it as a PDF and it looks great. Here's what the PDF looks like:

The problem is when I upload it to the card printing site (I'm using got print) the upload has a solid black background, like so:

So, is the site just displaying it funny and they should print fine? Or am I doing something wrong? I've made sure it's CMYK not RGB, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.


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I am programmer and I have an idea for a mobile app. I wanted to learn more about UI design and how to provide a better experience for the app user.
Are there any courses (preferably free) or books that I can learn design from?


texts: numbers and units in InDesign: Is there an easy way to do this?

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I am involved in the writing of a lot of scientific texts. A lot of them I (am forced to) do in LaTeX. However, I prefer InDesign, and use it more often than Latex.

Scientific/engineering texts often requires lots of numbers with units ("5 m", or "10 s", or whatever). The scientific styleguides I tend to write to usually want at least a space between number and unit, but even more preferable is an em-space. Latex has this nice package called siunitx, which handles a few things with regards to units. To my knowledge, it:

Deals with the em-space between number and unit
makes the number+unit pair non-breaking, IE, you never get '5' on the end of one line and 's' on the next
Handles the fact that you might want to change the writing style of a certain unit based on industry standards (Common example: gigabit-per-second should, in true 'SI' style, be written as Gb/s, but many electrical engineering works prefer Gbps instead). This can all be tweaked later.

The third point is something I don't really care about too much, but it would be nice if I could get a similar functionality in InDesign that handles the other two points: Make the space between them be em-space length, and have the entire thing be non-breaking.
I've experimented around with paragraph and character styles, but it always ended up still being a hassle. Is there a 'correct' way of implementing this?

Edit: As pointed out, I was incorrect about the em-space (I will not change it in the original body to preserve context for the answer below). After more research, it is a debated topic among certain engineering, scientific and mathematical communities how wide this space should be (some saying it should be the width of a multiplication-dot, others using regular 'space', etc).


texts: Photoshop picture black and white with colour (Lights)

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I came across this picture online and I want to try and create something similar.

Can anyone give me some tips on how to recreate this image?

I have tried the following:

Create new layer & saturate.
Use the history brush to restore the lights.

It's not turning out the way I would expect it to, i'm a Photoshop beginner and this to how I would usually create a color splash.

Thanks


texts: Paper that reflects car lights? Or glows in the dark

texts: I have an assignment at uni that requires me to think of a way to make a flyer work as an accessory. I chose to design it as a reflector for pedestrians (on one side, regular text on the other). I'm not actually going to make one, but I'm wondering about what paper/material the flyer would have to be made of/coated with. I'm looking forward to your opinions.


texts: When I used to go to college, I used to had a Graphic Design teacher who made an isometric grid using code. He had made the grid so that anyone who downloaded the template just jump straight in to the file, pick a triangle to start colouring in. However, on most of the tutorials that I have found online, it looks like you have to use the pen tool to make a shape around the triangle you want, then colour it. So, my question is, would anyone know how to make what my teacher made? Thanks.


texts: SketchUP: How to to resize only one dimension of the model and leave others as is

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I am somewhat new to sketchup - I have used it for just simple woodworking.

I have a problem with this model.

My research says this should be very easy.

I want to resize the short side from 1' 11 9/16  -to-  1' 11 1/4". I just want to shorten those six horizontal rods which are a little too long, not to scale anything else.

Every time I do this it resizes the long side and scales the model down.

Here is what I tried that does not work:

Use the tape tool, resize the short side
Group the entire model, Use the tape tool, resize the short side
Explode model to just a component, Use the tape tool, resize the short side
Explode the entire model, Use the tape tool, resize the short side

I could just redraw the model again in about an hour, but there must be a way to do this. Can you advise on a better way?

EDIT1:

I tried to undo everything down to the basics.

I resized the vertical frame and saved a horizontal 2x4

I selected the long 2x4 and resized with the Tape tool to 13' 3 5/16".

Notice that the base of the vertical frame got resized from 1' 11 1/4" to 4' 1/2"

Am I making these componets incorrectly?

EDIT2:

I exploded the frame into two vert 2x4s and one horiz 2x4 because I noticed that when I modified the frame as a component OR the horizontal separately it would distort the 2x4's dimensions. I deleted everything else.

This time, when I modified the horiz 2x4 the dimensions of the vert 2x4 remained the same, but notice the horiz: It shrunk!  The horiz is not 1.5 x 3.5 anymore.

So let me rephrase my original question: How do I tell Sketchup to modify my models overall dimensions >WITHOUT< changing the dimensions what the model is made from (namely 2x4s in this case).


texts: Good strategies for typesetting bilingual books

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I’m currently laying out and typesetting the second edition of an academic book about European fisheries and their status in the current EU climate. The book is bilingual, with all articles appearing in both English and Spanish: English text on left-hand pages, Spanish on right-hand pages. The Spanish text is usually about 25–30% longer than the English text.

The first edition of the book was typeset and laid out by a Spanish designer, and I don’t think it’s saying too much that it looked horrible. Not only was there no baseline grid, the text (both in English and in Spanish, but most noticeably in the English) was also maltreated rather cruelly to make the length of the two versions match up. In this endeavour, nothing was spared: font size, kerning, and leading were all rather randomly and egregiously tweaked up and down on a per-paragraph (sometimes even per-line) basis. The result was a mess, so I decided to start over, keeping font-size, kerning, and leading consistent throughout and simply finding a good balance in size difference where the English and Spanish texts end up being of approximately equal length.

In the first edition, the Spanish text was set in a different (and rather unpleasing, it must be said) colour to the English text, which had the desired effect of breaking the two up quite clearly. Obviously, since we’re used to reading from the left page to the right, a fairly strong visual cue is needed to let the reader know he shouldn’t be doing that here. Unfortunately, the funding for the second edition is not quite sufficient that full-colour printing is feasible, so I’m having to go a different path.

The strategy I have so far gone with is to choose a font that has both serif and sans-serif variants, and using that as a visual cue: left page/English in serif, right page/Spanish in sans serif (I’ve gone with Fedra, just because I quite like it and it’s a good, readable font that isn’t overused). The result looks something like this (lo-res, but you get the idea):1

My concern now is that this differentiation is not strong enough to create a proper visual cue: it doesn’t break apart the left-hand pages from the right-hand pages as efficiently as colour does, and I fear the reader will just continue from the English text right into the Spanish text automatically and have to do a little double-take and back up to get back into the sentence they were reading—hardly optimal for good book design!

I have considered a few alternative options on how to make the visual cue clearer, but they have rather obvious downsides:

Using more dissimilar fonts. Would probably make for a clearer visual cue, but at the cost of something that feels icky and hacky, and looks messy and less ‘under control’ (which is what I’m trying to improve over the original layout)—just imagine a book set half in Caslon and half in Avant Garde (*shudder*).
Tinted/grey text. Would definitely make for a better visual cue, but once you tint/grey the text enough for this to happen, it starts getting light enough that it can become difficult or straining to read, particularly if the book ends up being printed as digital print-on-demand, rather than being offset printed.

So, my question in a nutshell is: what are some good, tried-and-true methods for breaking up bilingual text flows like this that do not rely on colour, do not look messy, and do not result in less readable text?

1 Yes, I know the margins need work; I’m still not sure if I’m limited to this particular page size or not, that depends on where we end up printing the book.


texts: Remove white background from b/w vector image for web

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I have created schema in black and white vector image using Adobe Illustrator. Now I would like to make image for web. I choose GIF and save. Unfortunately I have A4 white background  where schema was created. I would like remove this background at all. How to achieve this?

UPD

It looks I did like described in answer below, but got picture wit huge backround anyway.

UPD
OK I got it! "clip to artboard."


texts: Best way to export a Job application to a client for easy editing

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This is my first topic, so go easy on me. :D

I got a customer who wants me to design her job application. I want to design it with Adobe illustrator and set up the text with indesign. However the client does not own copies of these programs, which then leads me to the question:

How should I export the final product for my client, so that it is easy to edit in the future. Either for Microsoft office, or maybe by some easy freeware program?

Any ideas?


texts: Word breaks at a parentheses within the word ex. (im)possible

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i recently got an offer to do a quick catalogue for an artist and there is a point in his text with a parentheses in it ex. (im)possible.

indesign is breaking the word into:

blah blah one line (im) break

possible blah blah second line

im looking for any way to stop this from happening, as it is an artists catalogue and something i cannot simply remove from the text.
i appreciate any and all help.
thanks in advance!


texts: How to add auto-dimensioning to Photoshop or Illustrator

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I have layers with different elements in each layer.
Each elemnt have their own margin from edge.

Is it possible to export file to png\jpg\etc with overlayed layer with dimensions of each separate element (maybe text sizes too)?

I mean smth like that:


texts: Typeface similar to Papyrus with bold and italics

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I use the Papyrus typeface for some creative writing I am doing.

Except for the rough edges, I like all aspects of the typeface. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with different weights or italics.

I would like the proposed typeface to be available for non-commercial use without purchase if possible.


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I am creating a catalog in InDesign and I am using the “book” feature because I have different files to create my catalog all into one.

I am trying to create bookmarks, so that when  I PDF the book, they will show up in Acrobat. My problem is that you can only bookmark each file separately and not as a whole book. I want my bookmarks to be for the whole book and to be in alphabetical order.

IS IT POSSIBLE to determine the order to put the bookmarks in?


texts: How can I convert this .eps file to pdf / something more widely used?

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I've gotten errors when I attempted to use Inkscape, GIMP, and Uniconverter because I don't have access to the proprietary software.  Perhaps the file corrupt?  Thanks for any advice, this is a charitable cause ("Feed my Starving Children") if that is extra motivation for you!

I'm trying to convert the .eps which is part of this .zip.  Another way to get to the file is to start here, and scroll down to the three "Mobile Pack Logos"


texts: Quick Selection Tool not selecting objects

texts: When I click on the quick selection tool and try to select an object I get lines and it won't go around to select the object. Instead, I get a line. What should I check to ensure the quick selection tool is enabled properly. In the attached image I am trying to use the quick selection tool to select the rock hill top and you can see I just get the lines. I am using photoshop 2020. Thank you.


texts: Color combination suggestions for medium contrast background

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I am developing UI for iPhone App, and in the navigation bar I used this grey color. My requriment is to use font colors which catch the eye. I tried blue but on iPhone the theme is transparent, so the text doesn't get highlighted enough.

What colors can I use in combination with a medium contrast grey? My background color is Red :90 Green :90 Blue :90

Here's my background. This light color is final from the client.


texts: Remove lines (from a wireframe-rendered object) but keep image smooth

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I have the following image that I rendered using Blender:

What I want is to remove those black lines (wireframe) but keep the image as smooth as possible. I tried removing them using the Color to Alpha removing the black color and then use a gray layer behind it but that didn't work.

Is there a way to remove those lines in Gimp?


texts: Is there any way to make the guides "pop" in Illustrator?

texts: With each iteration of Illustrator, I'm finding the guidelines fainter, thinner and generally harder to see.  I'm speaking of the guides dragged from the ruler or created via Cmd-5.  I've tweaked the lines vs dots in Preferences, as well as their colour without any joy.  After trying to use what turned out to be a stray hair on the monitor as a guide, I decided I needed to see if an actual solution to make these suckers pop again existed.


texts: Illustrator CC 2014 - Live Paint Bucket Won't Work

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Does anyone know how I can change the stars/radio towers to "no fill" without changing the surrounding areas? I still want the surrounding fill to be white, but the inside of the star/radio towers to be transparent/no fill. When I use live paint, it changes, but since it's "no fill" it shows the white fill from the circle that contains it.

Does that make sense? I hope so.


texts: How to distribute objects inside another object in illustrator?

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I am new to illustrator and am struggling to find answer anywhere to this seemingly simple task...

I am trying to align 3 narrow vertical rectangles inside a larger rectangle ( I am making a Trash Can Icon)

I am trying to use the align tools but have yet to manage to get these 3 rectangles to distribute equally inside this larger rectangle.

I am sure there is a very simple solution but I can't find it...


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Every time I work in Photoshop I use multiple tabs, but It gets annoying if I have more than 3 tabs open in the same window because the tabs display the name of the file, the zoom % and the first line of text, making the tabs too long, so if I open a 4th one, it would be automatically hidden, making it harder to drag layers around my tabs. Is there a way of disabling the tabs showing the zoom % and the first line of text in the file?

Example: Health Banner 1.psd @ 61.87% (The best way to prevent…)

Thanks a lot.


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I am putting together a flyer for our company. We have three different logos. The logos are actually trademarked or registered names such as ReMan, LiftTrax, LiftSafe and all are in the same font. When I import them, they are all different sizes.
I need all the three of these logos to be the same size for placement purposes. How do I get all three of these logos to be the same size?
Thank you.


texts: Why does Illustrator turn a shade of grey into non-even RGB?

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I found this problem recently in Illustrator CS5. Make a new document, either RGB or CMYK, make a rectangle, and click on the fill of the color palette. Set K to 10%, and the RGB changes to non-even 230, 231, and 232:

Why?


texts: GIMP 2.1 apply gradient to my brush layer

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I used older version of GIMP and I was able to do this: https://youtu.be/LeHdoQI8xME?t=207
Now with newer version of GIMP, I can't seem to figure how to do that again. I drew abstract image with brush, then select a gradient and color - map - gradient map and it turn the image to yellowish instead of what shown in the video.


texts: What is the difference between an icon and a button?

texts: Since we are getting more UI questions here on icons and I didnt see this question here I thought it would be on topic to ask what the difference between an icon and a button are other than an icon sometimes has more design aesthetics and a button fires an event or takes you somewhere.  So my question is:  How do you judge the difference between an icon and a button?


texts: How to center a shape with text under it?

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TL;DR I want my pattern to be centered with the (dashed) outer circle, but I want the text to stay at the same position in correlation with the pattern/circle.

I want the pattern to be centered to the outer circle, but whilst keeping the text at the same distance in correlation with the pattern circle. (almost like a key object - but within a group) so that it will move the text with the shape, but not consider it in the equation while aligning.

This can apply not just to text, but any "other object" to be left out of the equation.

(I do not want to be remaking the shape or measuring and manually replacing the other object)


texts: How do you create a client website design mockup/image?

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For all the graphic designers who do web design too: How do you produce client design mockups for review and then convert them into HTML/Wordpress etc?

Are they created in Illustrator/Photoshop and then the images extracted for use with the new site?

Can any HTML/CSS properties be extracted from a website page mockup done in Photoshop or Illustrator?


texts: Script to assign a Pantone color to a channel in photoshop

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I have a Pantone color, say "PANTONE 3135 C", and I would like to assign it to a channel in Photoshop (CC 2015, with ExtendScript 4.5.5, Toolikt CC 4.0.0.1) using JavaScript/ExtendScript.

To do this manually, I'd select the channel, double-click, click the "Color" box, click "Color Libraries", and then choose the respective Pantone color.

I could not find any way to script this online. The help is of little help (no mention of Pantone in the Javascript CS6 reference, although it does suggest the color has to be/is a SolidColor). I've tried manually selecting a Pantone color and seeing what Photoshop will tell me about its type by running

   $.writeln( app.activeDocument.channels[0].color )

(which would normally print [SolidColor] for a regular solid color), but got a run-time error message saying "This version of the ScriptingSupport does not support custom colors such as PANTONE (r) colors."

I now suspect that I indeed cannot do this form a script. Before I restore to a Pantone -> RGB/Lab conversion/lookup table, I'd like to ask:

Is there a way to assign a Pantone color from JavaScript/ExtendScript?
Is there a way to achieve this using actions? (keeping in mind that the pantone color and channel will be different every time and have to be parametrizable).

Thanks!


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In Photoshop, how can I create a horizontal gradient of transparency?

For example, I would like a grey background with a 100% opacity band in the center and opacity progressively reaching 0% at the left and right edges.

Similar to https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/image-illustration/modern-abstract-horizontal-background-white-transparent-1113297590, though with transparency inverted.


texts: InDesign master pages and modifying placeholder text style

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I have a master page set up in my book and it has a text box to act as placeholder text. This is to be common headers used throughout the book.

All I want to do is to reduce the font size, but changing it in the master page doesn't take any affect. The font remains large on the style source document and the rest of the docs in the book. I've adjusted the font itself and tried applying a paragraph style.

But this has no affect. The font is still large on all pages.

Maybe I did this wrong - to apply the headings to each document, I Ctrl + Shift + Click on the placeholder text and use the text tool to enter each heading. Maybe that's incorrect?

EDIT: I just noticed 2 strange things:

1) If I remove and re-apply the A-Header master page to a document and redo the text, it does follow the new formatting. But that's rough because there's a lot of them, I'd have to redo them all manually. Blah.

2) I can go to any page and edit the master page text freely, without having to ctrl+shift+click. So it's almost acting like it's free text and not from a master page. This may be what the issue is but I'm not sure why/how that happened.


texts: Types of artwork to include in portfolio?

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I am currently employed as a Graphic designer in an IT company and want to switch to a company that is more focused on brand or design.

I plan to make a new portfolio. What types of work are relevant to the following topics 1. design, 2. brand or 3. marketing?


texts: How to get an object style in Illustrator scripting?

texts: I'm writing a script to automate scene states. I using graphic styles to change appearance. How do I get object's graphicStyle? Is there a way to have a collection of objects of chosen style?


texts: Adobe Illustrator CC ~25.000 circles vs. glyphs

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I am trying to plot a massive amount of data points (25.000 and more) and edit the resulting pdf in Illustrator. I noticed a peculiar behaviour that I want to understand better:

When I plot the datapoints (with R) as glyphs (single letters from a long text) like in [1], and embed the graph in Illustrator, it is slow/sluggish, but I can still work with it.

If I plot the data as points, embed them, Illustrator can simply not cope and freezes for minutes or crashes.

A glyph contains many more bezier handles than a circle (which consists of four), why is Illustrator nevertheless much faster with glyphs than circles?

Side remark: Adobe Acrobat Reader works fine with either.


texts: 3DSMAX: Cleaning up a photogrammetry model

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I'm attempting to build a model of a car fender. The goal is to modify this in software, CNC route a mold and fabricate the resulting part.

The original part is fairly complex, with a bunch of compound curves and things that look perpendicular but aren't quite. I do not have access to a 3D scanner. So, I thought I'd try AutoDesk ReCap Photo to generate a model, clean it up and go from there. This is what I got from ReCap:

Getting rid of the background trash, etc. was straightforward. What I'm trying to do now is clean up the mesh itself, where there are a lot of bumps (see the bottom of the fender in the image, and areas around the vent towards the top of the piece).

I'm currently waiting on ReCap to generate a new model from much higher-res images of a much cleaner part. That will hopefully reduce the amount of noise in the model.

The Question: What techniques should I consider to smooth the surface to get rid of bumps, dips, and generally remove noise from the mesh, or should I be using a different technique to generate the model?

I considered creating a lower-res quad patch and using the Cloth modifier to drop it onto the fender. That (perhaps obviously) didn't work very well. :/


texts: Where can I find a good repository of semi-transparent tiles for web?

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I have been looking frequently for a site, a service that provides a repository of semi-transparent tiling backgrounds. I've found some grain generators, but I would like some more things that I could use for effects like; etchings, smoke, blur, rust or dirt.

I love these kind of background tiles as it can really add a lot of depth to your design. It's just so hard to find a go-to place where I can buy and download.


texts: The diff between a shape layer and a layer with a vector mask when applying a gradient overlay layer style in photoshop CS 6?

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The image

The layer panel

The yellow top rect is the layer with vector mask, the one with full gradient is the shape layer. They are both applied a gradient overlay, but the layer with mask does not have any effect.
I've also tried to check or uncheck the Align With Layer, the result is still same.

Could anyone explain this? Or is there any method that could turn the layer with a mask into a shape layer directly?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Change text box color in Adobe InDesign CC

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When modifying text in Adobe InDesign CC, a text box with a bright yellow outline appears around the text in question. This text box and its handles are extremely hard to see on a white background, especially on a high resolution 5K display.

It is possible to change the colors of guides to whatever you’d prefer By going to Preferences > Guides and Pasteboard and customizing. However, the text box outline guide color (which seems to me to be the most important one to customize) isn‘t present anywhere on this list.

Does anyone know how to modify this?


texts: converting a dashed line into multiple lines in illustrator

texts: I am wondering if anyone knows of a way to take a dashed line and quickly turn it into multiple lines, retaining its dash pattern. Maybe I need to get into some kind of scripting? If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great. Thanks.


texts: How to open Brush Tip Shape palette on the fly while painting?

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Normally when you click on the Brush tool, a palette appears somewhere on the screen and one of the many palette options is Brush Tip Shape. But I've seen a Photoshop tutorial on Pluralsight where the person who was painting opened the Brush Tip Shape right at the brush position on canvas, probably after pressing some hotkey. This way it's very close to the brush and you can adjust the brush tip direction quickly. But I can't find any information about such hotkey. So, how to open this palette on the fly?

[Edit]
This is a screenshot from my computer after right clicking on canvas (there is no square with arrow to adjust the brush direction):


texts: How are modern cartoons animated, more or less?

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I'm talking like The Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. These shows blend 2-D and 3-D together, and are very high quality or "sharp", and they're not manually animated by hand much, if at all.

In some cartoons from several years ago, preferably Ed, Ed, & Eddy, they actually do appear to be animated by hand manually for a degree of it, or pretty much all.

What I want to know is how modern animators do this now. It's not like how they were made in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, where they would literally draw each frame by hand, pretty much, and use radiation to emulsify the pictures on to film stock with sound combined and the like.

Nowadays, I bet they use animation software to automate some of the process, and the characters, i presume, can be digitally-drawn by hand or with another HID device and combined with layers/etc. Could anyone clarify this a bit more though? I've looked around; not much info.

NOTE: I am new, and although I have drawn and animated before, I've only used dated methods, such as Pro Motion 6 and Draw, and found it tedious and tiresome to get much done.


texts: How to modify the size of Drop Shadow in Illustrator

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I want to increase the size of the drop shadow that I am adding. In the case of Photoshop, I could change the size of the drop shadow by using the size option (and varying the spread) under Drop Shadow in Blending Options. How to do that in Illustrator.

For Example:

I want to increase the size of the drop shadow here, changing the x and the y offset has not the same effect.


texts: Office Template no Footer/Header showing

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I had to do a Template for Office 2013.

I simply created two pngs one for the header and one for the footer.

Now my client says they are nowhere to be found. If he prints the page the header/footer shows up just fine but in the programm ittself it looks like the header and footer are croped away.

Does anybody has any idea about this?


texts: How to blur part of an image in inkscape

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I want to use filters in part of an image opened in inkscape. I could use filters in the whole image by clicking on the image in selecting the filter.

But I can not figure out how to apply a filter in part of an image?


texts: In color theory, what are primary and secondary colors?

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I went through an article on color connotations and it did not explain why colors are grouped as primary and secondary so I don't know if it is important to know the reason why we have:

warm color
red -> orange -> yellow (red and yellow being primary colors)

cold colors
green -> blue -> purple (blue being primary color)

My questions:
a) Is there an important reason why these are the primary colors?
b) Is their a rule on how these groups (primary and secondary) colors should be used. for example would you ever say "for this element you need a primary color)
c) Would you use cold and warm colors together in a website
d) how important is to know how (for example) information like blue + yellow = green

Also (might seem slightly of topic) I started experimenting with the color while and I don't get where would you chose the mono, complement, triad and so on. Can anyone direct me to a blog post which explains the reason why there are so many options to chose from; or the "good way" to use the color while

Thanks a lot


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I'm looking for a book on Inkscape. This may be a subjective question but I'm looking for a book that ideally complies with this criteria:

For the more advanced user. I don't mind if it has some basic stuff but I already know how to draw a star and rectangle ;)
Explaining design concepts and theoretical background is okay or would actually be good.
Some Inkscape "programming" would be great! To see how a vector graphic program works (basically, the math behind it) would be nice.
Ideally it shows the full potential of Inkscape and its tools. I don't want a full guide with examples for each and every option but an overview and what-else there is and possibly a brief introduction on how to use it would be nice.
Ideally written by someone of the community and/or a open source supporter.

To summarize I would like a book to learn something new from and not a step to step guide to be followed on the computer screen. Something that can also be useful without a computer at hand where you would think "Oh, this looks great, didn't know that was possible... gonna try it tomorrow!".

And yes, I'm looking for a real book. I know that there are thousands of tutorials online but I really like to have a physical book in front of me.


texts: What's the meaning behind adding an underline to letters such as 'N', 'U', 'O', etc, in a logotype?

texts: I have seen many minimal logotypes like the one below that include an underline in one of its letters. I did lots of web searching, but didn't find anything explaining it. I'm curious to know the meaning behind such logos. Can anyone explain the reason along with providing an example?