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I'm working on a document with diacritics. Everything was going well until I needed to use an Ḥ (H with a dot under) as a small capital for titles in the table of contents. These titles are set in small capitals.

At first, I thought that the font didn't have them. I spent quite some time looking for fonts that had support; I could not find any. I then decided to add them using Font Forge. After hunting for the Unicode address, I have come to the conclusion that this might not exist.

Case in point (XeLaTeX with Adobe Garamond Pro):

Is it true that Ḥ doesn't exist as a small capital?

I've checked the following:

Latin Map charts -- Unicode
List of Latin script letters -- Wikipedia
Small Caps -- Wikipedia
Voiceless epiglottal fricative -- Wikipedia. This is what a small capital H represents.


texts: I'm trying to add texture to the layer with the bushes using an opacity mask, but the texture is cutting around the shapes on the layer that is below. I want to apply the mask to only the top layer with bushes. I've tried using the knockout group option but that doesn't seem to be doing anything. Can someone please help :(


texts: Can't see alpha channel in png using GIMP

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I created an RGBA image as png file using Blender. When opening image with GIMP, not everything is visible.

Here's the original png file created with Blender:

Here how does it looks in GIMP:

Here's how it should look like (use command: ffmpeg -i original.png out.mp4 [using original image] to see for yourself):

The third image is a movie, using ffmpeg to convert original image to movie.

How to view all data in png file using GIMP? Is there any other graphics software that will read .png file correctly?


texts: How to find which brush was used in a layer in Photoshop?

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In a new layer, I selected the shape of the letter U and used a specific brush to brush in that selection in Layer 16 (in the screenshot below).

Now I can't figure out which brush I used to get this hand-drawn effect. Is there a way to identify which brush is used in Layer 16, or is it hopeless? Thank you! I spent 20 minutes Googling this to no avail.


texts: How to make a pixel perfect adjustable outlined circle in Photoshop and also Illustrator, like, the one that Microsoft Paint has, as example?

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How to make a pixel perfect adjustable outlined circle  (with a simple tool so the circle can be readjusted and newly calculated later) in Photoshop and also Illustrator, like, the one that Microsoft Paint has, as example?
Like in Photoshop, I could go and use the Eclipse selection tool, remove the "smoothing" and apply a stroke. However, if I resize the circle, the circle does not recalculate, it resizes it on how the circle is, the circle stays the same with the pixels, which is an issue.

This is how the one in Paint looks like: https://i.imgur.com/GzrQlFv.png
In Paint I can use the tool easily without any problems.

And if I create a circle in Photoshop, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/1HAC5PG.png
So, yeah it's like all blurry and stuff.
The same thing goes in Illustrator, however I found this comment https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/pixel-circle-no-fade-no-fill-how-exactly-pixel-art/td-p/9627897#M143458
That says, that you can use the path of the circle and then apply a stroke by using the pencil tool, which makes it look correct, but I couldn't find a way to do that, not sure what exactly he was talking about. But if that would be possible to do, it would be a possible solution because the circle would then be correct and can be adjusted and copied at any time.

Or is there a Photoshop extension, script for that, that adds the tool aswell?


texts: illustrator cs6 : gradient of in each shape gone when unite

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the gradient in each of my shapes are gone when I unite them. the combined compound shape just turns into one solid color. for example,

before unite

after unite

i have searched the internet, and found no answer to my problem. perhaps i did not type in the keywords exactly. please help!


texts: InDesign: How to restore text-frame position/size to be managed by the master page instead of the actual page?

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I have some designer that moved slightly a text-frame and in order to be managed again by the master page we need to remove the page and create a new one inserting the content in it.

Is there any different way to do it?

I would like to be able to restore the "power" of positioning/size to the master page because now we need to change the master-page to position the text-frame a little bit to the right and in the case above mentioned will not be updated.

Thanks


texts: How to handle rejection from a client and would you bill for work not used?

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Would you bill a client even if they end up not using your work? A client of mine had initially liked and chosen one of my designs but then a friend of their friend offered something different that spoke to them more. The client told me to go ahead and bill them as agreed upon but I just feel a bit guilty billing for a design that isn't being used.

At the same time, I am bummed that my work got replaced by another, and I am curious what professional advice you may have for handling rejection.

Thank you in advance!


texts: How can I make Photoshop's transparency 'checkerboard' match with pixel size?

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im new at photoshop
i want my photoshop transparency background square size be 1 px size


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I want to know if there is a function in Photoshop to transform a circular cog wheel I have illustrated so that the cogs are pointing inwards instead of outwards. What I would need is something like a weighted puppet transform. Has any one done something similar?
ADD: I do not want ordinary gears.  I'm asking a function to warp an already existing gear so that the teeth that are now outwards turn inwards keeping the current graphic style of my gear.


texts: Where do user flow diagrams fit in to the UX/UI designer's stages of development?

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I'm a web administrator by trade and am curious about UX/UI design.

After doing some research I've decided to resurrect an old idea and build a website. This website will serve as a tool that members of my community have been asking for for a long time, and have thus far relied on a recipe of tools that still don't achieve the goals they wanted nor represent a positive user experience.

From further digging I found that there are 4 main UX/UI stages of development:

Sketch
Wireframe
Mockup
Prototype

Question:
Where do user-flow diagrams fit in to the four stages mentioned above?


texts: Illustrator: locking a single object – what's the quickest/most efficient way to re-unlock only that object again?

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I find my workflow for temporarily locking/unlocking single objects to be very awkward. I often refrain from this operation since the process of re-unlocking only that, one, particular object at a later stage, is simply too cumbersome.

I assume you can relate to what I'm referring to, but for clarity, here's my typical use case:

You're inside a tangled mixture of paths, groups, objects… trying to prevent affecting this one, particular object, while working on others. Once you hit Command-L/Ctr-L on that object… continue working… then sometime later want to revert the locked state on that one, particular object, you're pretty much screwed, having to either:

Locate the needle in the haystack (Layers palette) prior to unlocking it… or
Unlock All with Command-Opt-2/Ctr-Alt-2 which is obviously pretty stupid, since you only wish to (referring to the scope of this question) unlock that one, particular object under your mouse cursor.

…You can't just right-click on the locked object and select unlock.

So:

What's your workflow for this operation – how can I improve it?


texts: Exporting multiple web design views or phone app views into phone wrappers?

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I am using Illustrator CC to design web sites and mobile apps. Each view is in its own artboard which means that I get about 20 different artboards in the end. In photoshop I have a phone mockup file and I want each of the Illustrator artboards to be wrapped in that file.

I usually export a pdf with 20 pages from Illustrator and then wrap each page in Photoshop and export a jpg from there. This is a time consuming process and I wonder if there is any automatic way to do it?

What I want is to add a "frame" (a phone mockup) to each artboard in Illustrator when exporting it (and exporting all at once).


texts: How to show the coordinates of point handles in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: When I move cursor on an anchor point, Illustrator shows me the coordinates of the anchor. But how can I find the [x, y] coordinates of the handles (in red circles)?


texts: Reasons against using a photograph within a logo

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A client of ours has had a logo designed which is simply their brand name in block characters, with stock photos of smiling models within the characters themselves.

Aside from the garish design, is there a technical limitation on using images within a logo? i.e. cannot create in vector format etc.

The logo itself is incredibly high resolution (and the logo will be printed on a very large surface).


texts: Indesign: Is it possible to Replace frames those content a specific link with clipboard content?

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I have a lot of frames (as icons) linked to one image (link). But now I want a glyph instead them. Is it possible to replace them with a glyph that I copied to clipboard? Any script?
Even is it possible to track down a specific link with its path within InDesign?


texts: Do theme developers create their own graphics?

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I'm a developer trying to strengthen my design skills. The problem lies with my expertise being in code versus design. So my question is, when creating a theme to sell, and the focus is the functionality and features of the theme - are the graphics in a theme (whether it's Tumblr/WordPress etc.) all created by the person who made the theme?

Or can I use stock images/free graphics for themes that I build and then sell?

Thanks for any help in advance.


texts: Is there a name for this kind of graphic?

texts: I found this image on Dribbble, but I see it's very different from normal images I see everyday. I don't think this is created from Photoshop; it's hard me to explain it. What is the name of this kind of graphics, and which software is used to create it?


texts: maintaining stroke proportions along length of a curved path in Illustrator

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I’m attempting in Illustrator to generate a series of images with 6 elements and to maintain their proportions along straight and curved paths.
I have a path that represents a segment of an ellipse, and I’ve retrieved the length of the curved path from Document Info and calculated the length of each element in proportion to the length of the curved path.
I’ve entered the scale in % and the shifts in points in the Effect Transform for each stroke and entered a custom profile for each stroke.
Where can I control the slope of the strokes?
Or how can I constrain the slope of each stroke to equal the slope of the path?
I’m using CS6.
Thanks for your help.


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My boyfriend very vaugely mentioned wanting a drawing tablet for christmas.

As a person with no artistic talent, I'm honestly at a loss. All I know is he would like one that doesn't have to be connected to the computer (basically so we can hang out in our living room and he can draw while his desk top is in the office) so the drawing itself needs to actually appear on the screen.

The only ones I've been able to find have been hooked up to the computer in order to see what you're drawing. And I don't necessarily want to spend an insane amount of money either.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Illustrator: Eyedropper copy only color, not other formatting

texts: Can I copy only the color from another object using the eyedropper without copying other formatting?


texts: Coloring a transparent black/white image

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Given a black and white image like lips, how would I get those in red?

I don't want to use global flood filling, because that may not consider alpha transparency correcly.
How would I do that with layers?
No matter what I tried, the transparency is always lost. Paint.NET answers only, please.


texts: Does anybody know what the font is in this picture? Thanks!


texts: How do I remove hidden parts of objects in Inkscape?

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So if an object is behind another one, it is cropped so the hidden part is removed.
For example the red rectangle has been cropped as I wish in this image:
Ideally I would like to do this for all objects in the document.


texts: Re: View Size vs. Print Size and Resolution in Adobe Photoshop

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They say you start to see the pixels in an image when it is printed around 200 dpi/ppi or less, right? I'm looking at some images here at 100% view in photoshop, and when I open the image size window, it tells me that the images are between 70-100 ppi each. However, I measured the images on my screen and they are both larger than the shown print size, AND I see no pixels or other signs of poor quality in the image being displayed on my monitor.

So my question is: Why would the image print in less quality/smaller size than it displays? Is it really necessary to print in 200+ ppi (or the more recommended 267-360 for HQ) to get a quality print, or am I missing something here?

Since many are unique designs that I've spent a fair amount of time on, I'd hate to have to discard, upsample, or restart from scratch. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.


texts: Interactive elements of a PDF being hidden when viewed in iOS/Android et al

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we have created an interactive PDF in InDesign CC for a client with rollovers on various charts, that display extra information when rolled over.

Now obviously the rollovers are meaningless on touch based devices, but we have found that the chart underneath is also not being displayed.

Here it is viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader XI:

And here is the rollover in the same:

And this is the same page in iOS etc:

Now I understand that interactive elements are disabled in a lot of PDF readers, but is there a way of saying "if interactivity is disabled, display this"?


texts: Random horizontal white stripe in exported PNG (Illustrator)

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I have designed a shape in Illustrator and I'm exporting this to PNG, however, some random, white line appears in the exported PNG.

I've tried exporting it to different formats (BMP, PDF) and no other file format exports it with a white line. I have shut off all layers, so it's only the bottom layer that's visible in the file, no other extra layers.

Illustrator

PNG

BMP

PNG purple (to show it doesn't matter which color I choose)

Now, it's going to be an icon in the end, so it will probably disappear, but it's really weird to me where this horizontal line is coming from. Does anyone have an idea? It shows up at the same spot every single time, but it's random since it shows up without reason.

EDIT: When I open a PNG file in Photoshop, it actually shows it's a transparent line, not white!

Download the test file here


texts: How to use tracking on serif headings on web?

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Is there a simple principle or a "rule of thumb" for using tracking on serif headings on a web page (or in general)?

And most importantly what's the reasoning behind it?

For example I could gradually increate tracking (CSS letter-spacing) as headings increase. Or the other way around. Or may be don't adjust tracking at all.

Here is the example I'm working on:


texts: Is Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1 compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)?

texts: I have Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1 installed on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), and it works just fine.  Does anyone know if this version of Photoshop will still work if I upgrade to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)?


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I have brought in an image in ai and image traced it to make it a vector. Right now I'm trying to select specific color to blend the image better. The problem is I can't select anything on the image, nothing happens... what do I do?

Please Help :)


texts: Rendering only the edges in Blender 2.6x - wireframe with thicker lines

texts: I can't figure out how to render only the edges of my object ( mesh ) with thicker lines, someone know how to do that?


texts: details of (Inkscape) SVG to PDF/X conversion through Scribus

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I am trying to gain  understanding of some of the nuances of the workflow described in Inkscape SVG → print-ready EPS/PDF workflow.
The general approach is to ensure that an SVG document generated by Inkscape represents colors using a printer-ready color model, then to generate a PDF/X document using the export feature of Scribus. Generating the PDF/X file in Scribus is a process with two major steps, to complete after opening the file in the application. The first is activating    color management for the document, and the second is exporting to a PDF document.
A few questions emerge:

In Color Management under Document Setup an option appears labeled "Convert all colors to printer space". While it may be unwise to accept an automatic conversion  from an RGB representation of black, in many cases automatic conversation may be agreeable. Does use of this option have the same effect as the use of the CMS tab in Inkscape to give a color representation according to the target profile, if the default CMYK values for conversion by Inkscape would have been used? That is, would this option allow me to bypass using the CMS tab for certain colors, without harmful effects, by allowing Scribus to convert the colors from an RGB representation given by Inkscape?
A color profile called ISO Coated v2 300% appears abundantly in the default values for options in Color Management  as well as in the default value for Output Intent in the Prepress section of the PDF export settings. Is this choice appropriate for use with documents  originating in Inkscape with the  the color profile eciCMYK (which was recommended to me for use with Inkscape documents targeting a CMYK printer target)? Should I instead  select  eciCMYK   for any of these options in Scribus, to match the original Inkscape document?
Related to the above, the default value for options related to the RGB color model is sRGB display profile. Is this value normally preferred over the alternative, also available, labelled simply sRGB?

As may be apparent, these topics are new to me, part of a recreational project rather than a career. Hopefully answers would avoid  a large amount of unnecessary detail, and explain, or provide references to explanations for, any topics mentioned that   may be unfamiliar.


texts: Centered title but left aligned text to fill up content

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Hold your horses, I'm aware that centered titles are generally frowned upon. However, when given a fixed size container, simply having everything left-aligned gives an empty impression – which itself is bad UX.

Is it more important to have good alignment than good looks? Alternative solutions are also much appreciated.


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I was given the task to design a texture for a ball, a spherical object, but I have no idea how to accomplish this with Photoshop or AI.

How do I begin the design process in Photoshop, AI, or 2D Design Software? A 2D circle, a 3D texture map, etc.? This is getting confusing...

For example, I want to make a Pokeball, but the Pokeball button (the black circle) must be at the intersection of the ball's hemispheres (along the "equator").

I'm having a lot of trouble getting the projection of my design just right.

Please give me a suggestion.


texts: I have a layer of text in illustrator. All text has a fill and an outline stroke. However, all text/words are different font size. i want to scale all text by 33% for example. I have tried, select a word (all other layers locked) - select same fill (also same fill and stroke) - transform - transform each. This does scale text but it shifts the text to different position. Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks!


texts: What's a more efficient way to deep-etch?

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Working in Photoshop CS5, I deep-etched an image using a tablet. Where I thought I'd really gotten it quite clean and feathered the selection by 2x before inverting the selection and deleting the background, it in fact left a fair amount of background colour tracing around the edges.

What I would usually do is create a layer mask and use the brush on black to remove what's left. I was wondering if you perhaps know a faster, more efficient way of doing this?


texts: Program to create pictures for applications

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I am not very good when it comes to creating images. So, I decided that I wanted to learn. The reason is, I am creating a chat program/game where I want to be able to create some pictures. I was wondering what type of program you guys think is best to use when creating new pictures. What I am looking for is a program to create pictures like these:

Also since I'm kind of new it, it would be nice if the program wasn't too advanced


texts: How to do a perfect circle with the bezier tool in Inkscape?

texts: I need to create a perfect circle with the bezier tool and not with the circle tool. The purpose of this is to later animate my svg with css.


texts: Is there a way how to replicate the subpixel rendering look of Windows/Outlook/browsers in Photoshop?

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I would like to replicate the antialiasing made by my browser in photoshop. Look at this picture: It is 500% image of standard 13px Arial #464646 font. First line is screenshot from browser(chrome), other lines are some of the antialiasing options from PS.

Notice the color change on the first line. Does it have something to do with ClearType?

Can I somehow replicate the first line in PS?


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I am starting with a blank canvas in GIMP.  I want to create a gradient border around the entire perimeter of the image.  I am not looking for fade to transparency or feathering the edges (which there are many tutorials for).

I want to create a Gradient using the gradient tool that goes from foreground color to background color.  Unfortunately the gradient tool only allows you to do 1 of the 4 edges.  How can I do this using the gradient tool?

Here is the bad part.  I've done this before and can't remember how I did it.  I attached a picture so you can see what I'm trying to do.  I need to do it again because I want to change the color.


texts: Convert my Illustrator file-letterhead into word doc

texts: I created this letterhead design in Illustrator and I have to give it to the client now, as a usable file in Microsoft Word... I don't really know Microsoft Word, so I need a step by step detailed clarification if it is possible!!!


texts: Illustrator - Draw shadows after Live Paint

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I draw by hand (fashion drawings), scan the drawing, import it in Illustrator.
Then I use Image Tracing and Live Paint to colour my drawings.

How can I easily draw shadows on the clothes and the skin?

You will find an example below. I "Live Painted" the zones and I would like now to add shadows (on the clothes and on the skin) as if I would have a source of light coming from upper right.

Thank you for reading.

Edit after answer:

I chose to add additional shapes (strokes) as follow:


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I am new to graphic design and my information is very limited

After I have done the curve I noticed that it is not smooth curve

How can I change it to become smooth with same line width all over the line


texts: Global color settings for illustrator / keeps switching to gray

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Is there a setting in illustrator that will make all of my colors, in all new projects, RGB? I'm not really sure why it often ends up as grayscale. I only use RGB for web assets and having to change if for small shapes all the time makes me sad.

Show me the magic setting please!


texts: The shadows and the textured background. I have been trying to work on the adding noise in solid colour but have not been able to get the exact texture like this.


texts: Text on path not working as it should be

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Whenever I'm trying to type on path the text appears in the circle; not around as it should be. (see image bellow)

I've searched the web but without result..

Is this something in my settings or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I add the transparent white layer that the picture I've attached have?

texts: I need to edit an ad and I saw a design that got my attention. I want to add this layer of transparent white to a picture that I have. How would I do that so the end result is similar to the one below?


texts: Gimp: removing background from product images

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I often have the task of making the background of product images pure white.

While preserving the best possible image quality, what is the quickest way to adjust colors such that the background becomes pure white (AKA each corner is 255,255,255)?

For example given this image:

If I fiddle with levels I can make it into:


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As a independent graphic designer, I've developed and produced a yearly catalog of machine parts for a long term client beginning about 20 years ago!  The catalog began at about 100 pages, and now is up to 500 pages. It is created in InDesign, and design of the catalog was created by me. All text was input and formatted by me; photos of the parts were supplied by the customer, sized/placed/altered by me. They give me a general idea of what they want on each page, but I am free to make my own adjustments so things fit and/or look balanced.

Every year there are extensive price changes, new products added, deleted, etc.  This takes me about 3-4 months to finish, and is an expensive job.  Finals have always been given to the customer as high res PDF files. These PDFs are then given to their printing company to print thousands of catalogs.

Customer is now asking for the original InDesign page layout files, as they said they want their employee to use them for other promotional pieces for their company (although I believe they simply want to make changes on their catalog themselves and stop using me to save money).

I feel the working files are my property, and I have that disclaimer on the bottom of my invoices. We have no written contract.

What are my options here?  I have heard a 300% buyout for transfer of working files, but would this apply to the latest catalog I finished (which some pages have minor changes, some are completely redone)?  Or for what I would charge if I had to reset all 500 pages from scratch?  Since this was an ongoing project for such a long time, I'm confused as to what the buyout should be should I decide to go that route.

Any help would be appreciated!!  :)


texts: In regards to drop caps, how do you treat paragraph spacing/drop caps when the first paragraph is a single short sentence? This is causing a large white space below the first paragraph.


texts: How to change the perspective on text that is angled?

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I'm trying to take something like this:

And change the perspective so the base line can be flat like this:


texts: I was following a tutorial on how to make an abstract desktop wallpaper. One of the steps required you to use a 3D render for abstract shards. They provided one but I don't want to use something someone else made. I know I can use a program like Blender or C4D to create but I was curious if I could do it all in Photoshop. If Photoshop can, then how?


texts: Issue with a "stray stroke" from Unit command while following YT tut. Pics included

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I was following this YouTube tutorial when I got stuck at the uniting part (timestamp in the link).

There was an added diagonal edge/stroke that appears that I can't seem to get rid of.

Does anyone else have this issue at all?

Here are 2 screenshots before and after the "unite" command. What's going on?

https://imgur.com/a/MHbY27N


texts: What to do with small cap initialisms at the start of a sentence?

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I am typesetting my thesis and am enjoying the use of small caps for initialisms.  They look great in the middle of a sentence, but I'm unsure what to do if they fall at the start of a sentence.

Currently I'm doing (1) and if I end up writing an initialism at the start of a sentence, I reword to avoid that. This sometimes ends up contorting the sentence a little, so I'd like to figure out my options if I want to leave it at the start.

(2) just looks wrong to me.

Is (3) common? It looks a bit like a normal word that has had small caps applied to it.

(4) seems inconsistent with the two different presentations in the one sentence.

(5) is me giving up on small caps altogether.

What should I do?


texts: Code to lock specific point of graphic to another graphic

texts: Is there code to lock specific point of graphic to another graphic or point on a page, so that no matter what device it shows on (or how the page is resized) the graphic on the top stays linked in the same location relative to the graphic or point on the page below it?


texts: Illustrator Opacity masks not recognised in InDesign

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I am trying to place an .ai file containing Opacity Masks into InDesign.
However, in InDesign the Opacity Masks are not displayed as intended. Any ideas or checkboxes I might have missed?

Here's the object in Illustrator:
(its a simple red square with the "stamp border" outline that is clipped via opacity mask)

And this is what the placed .ai file looks like in InDesign:

I know that there are ways of constructing the stamp shape in Illustrator without using Opacity Masks – I would prefer to keep the edges live though, to be able to edit the "cutout"-radius.

Any pointers in the right direction are greatly appreciated.


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I have a font that I downloaded that I would like to apply to an existing document, but the font size I need is consistently 5.5pt less than the font size in the TTF file I downloaded. So if I want to use the font, I have to go through the document and change each instance of that font to have a size 5.5pt less that it was before.

Is there any way to scale the font down so I don't need to change the font size over and over in my document?

I apologize if this question is novice or impossible, I am quite new to graphic design.

Text with font size of 24pt

Text with font size of 19.5pt (5.5pt less)

This is the font size I would like to get by default, so I dont need to change all instances of this font in my document with font size 5.5pt less

Please let me know if this is possible, and if so, how to so it.

Thanks!!


texts: Filling paths with transparency after breaking apart a traced bitmap

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I'm very new to Inkscape, and I'm sure I'm missing something trivial. I had a .png image with some lineart that I wanted to vectorize. I know how to vectorize lineart as to have black vectorized lineart, but for this one I needed two different colors for the lineart. The original image is grayscale, I'm the one adding the color. I looked it up and found a tutorial that seemed to give me what I wanted so I followed the following protocol :

Opening my .png image with inkscape
Selecting the lineart by clicking on it (do remember that since I'm a newbie, there are a lot of things that I do because I know it works, even if I don't know how it works)
Clicking Path -> Trace Bitmap -> Brightness cutoff with whatever threshold worked for me -> Ok
Selecting the old image below the newly created path, deleting it.

Now comes the part I'm not familiar with, because usually after this I have the .svg file of my black lineart on transparent background.

Selecting my newly created path
Clicking Path -> Break Apart

At that point, all of my closed paths became filled with black, which I thought, fine, whatever, I can just fill it with white. So then I :

Select the lineart paths I want in color and fill them with color
Select the paths that where previously transparent, and fill them with white.

I'm sure you see where I'm going : after that, I had my lineart with the colors I wanted, but some parts were filled with white, and I'd actually want them transparent. I've tried looking that up to. I have tried :

To select the path, and press 'delete', but it appears black afterwards
To put the alpha value to 0%, but then it also appears black

I'm putting some pictures to illustrate :

On this one, you can see at the bottom that the alpha value is at 100%

On this one, you can see that by decreasing the alpha value, it actually gets darker instead of transparier.

I'd add the picture of the preview so that you can see that some parts are filled with white and some are not, but I'm limited to two pictures.


texts: Cannot drag/drop vector objects from Illustrator CC to Photoshop CC

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I recently formatted my computer and in doing so lost my preferences from my Adobe programs.

I drag and drop vector images to Photoshop constantly. After the reset, dragging images to Photoshop will not place them in my canvas. The cursors act as though it is going to work (cursor does not change to stikeout circle). I am able to copy/paste, but I lose the Vector Smart Object attribute in doing this.

I do not want to save my AI files and drag and drop the files from the explorer library into my canvas. This is a waste of time. I have explored changing UAC controls, and opening as administrator, and blah blah blah.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Windows 10/Photoshop CC/Illustrator CC


texts: Specifying input for a batch photoshop job

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In the next 2 months, I will be helping local artists sell their work on various product types (tees, canvases, hoodies, etc.). They will be sending me high resolution PNG files which I need to obviously apply to the various product types.

I want to automate this as much as possible (keeping in mind that things like hoodies can come in 10+ different colors, for each gender, etc. so this could take A LOT of time). I have found this script that should handle most of the heavy lifting (including the naming, which would ideally be something like "design-name_hoodie_yellow_male.jpg" with the Photoshop group names being used as subfolders like hoodies, tees, etc.)

https://github.com/jwa107/Photoshop-Export-Layers-to-Files-Fast

However, since I could also be receiving 20+ PNGs per day, I would like to put them in a folder and have the batch job scan it for new artwork and apply it to a smart object area in the PSD, is this possible?

Any suggestions (or how you would do it to save time) would be appreciated!

P.S: The input doesn't have to be PNG but the output must be jpg as I will be putting these designs on an eCommerce site. When the item goes for printing, the company will receive the full, uncompressed file (not the jpgs).


texts: Client wants .ai file but it doesn't display correctly

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I have a client from hell, she wants my original .ai files and that is fine, however she downloaded Ai CC and is now complaining that "things don't show up right"... this is a map and has about 70 layers and is very complex.

I outlined the fonts, I embedded all the files, I packaged the project but still she complains that I am doing something to prevent her from seeing the file properly. She claims that some the "houses" I created and saved into my symbols pallet and used on the map are not showing up in the right color. I am trying to tell her that it is a settings issue or a layer issue, but if I flatten the layers she won't be able to modify at all. I provided 100% vector PDFs but she isn't happy.

Advice? What would you do? What would you do to the file before you send it? Help this is the job I have only heard about from others :)


texts: How to convert Photoshop drop shadow parameters to Illustrator drop shadow parameters?

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The parameters of the Drop Shadow effect in Photoshop are blend mode, colour, opacity, distance, spread, and size.

In Illustrator, they are colour, opacity, x-offset, y-offset, and blur.

I am struggling to recreate my Photoshop shadow effect in Illustrator. I understand the relationship between distance in Photoshop and x,y-offsets in Illustrator. Blur is what I am stuck at. Is there a metric/formula I can use to copy the shadow attributes from Photoshop to Illustrator?


texts: Can I distort a pattern that I have created in Photoshop in a circular way?

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Can I apply any pattern that I have created in Photoshop in a circular way as if the pattern itself was emerging out of the centre of the circle? I tried to scale, distort, add filters and everything but I am just not able to figure out how to do that.

This image is the reference image for what I am trying to achieve:


texts: How do I convert these paths so that I have a transparent fill and colored stroke?

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I apologize in advance for failing to ask my question articulately. I'm pretty new to illustrator and following a tutorial where he/she at one point changes the colors of the outline of the mug seen here -->

For me, I have all these anchor points and guidelines and however I try to change the color of just the path, I either end up changing nothing or filling my objects. Is this because I expanded my ellipses?

Here's what my line looks -->

Hopefully one of you can translate what I just said into something meaningful.


texts: Trying to plot a sine wave using Javascript in a Photoshop Script

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I have to create this sine wave inside a layer on an image I already have.

The image is 600 dpi, 10x10cm and I have a new layer created at the top that is selected.

The image is CMYK.

I have to run this javascript that creates a sine wave that is 20 px away for the four margins.

I have ever created a script for photoshop.

I am experimenting with this script that is a copy paste from several things I have found on the web.

app.bringToFront();

app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
var strtRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
var strtTypeUnits = app.preferences.typeUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
app.preferences.typeUnits = TypeUnits.PIXELS;
var Colour = new SolidColor;
Colour.rgb.hexValue = '000000';

var document = app.documents.add();

var canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

var divisions = 100;
var pi = 3.1415;
var step = pi/divisions;

var margin = 20;

var w = app.activeDocument.width.toString().replace(' px', '');
var h = app.activeDocument.height.toString().replace(' px', '');

w = parseInt(w);
h = parseInt(h);

var marginX = 20;
var marginY = 20;

var amplitude = h-2*marginY;

var fn = "Math.sin(x)*amplitude";

for (var positionX = 0; positionX < pi; step++)
{
   makeSine (positionX+marginX, amplitude);
}

function makeSine(positionX, amplitude)
{

var y = eval(fn);
// HERE COMES THE MAGIC FUNCTION
}

This creates a new image completely blank because I need a magic function to put where it is written... "HERE COMES THE MAGIC FUNCTION"...

Thanks for any help


texts: How to prevent small images from becoming pixelated and truncated

texts: I usually save my images (.png) by selecting an object followed by selecting the artboard and reselecting my object, then saving for web. This method has served me quite well till now. I need to save a very small image (circle 15x15px). This method cuts off part of the circle edges and the images are pixelated. I am using Illustrator CC 2017 21.0.0. Please see the images below. How can I save such a small image with it getting cropped off?


texts: Intersection between layers for empty and filled heart vector in Photoshop

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I have downloaded a heart icon vector from flaticon, I will use it as "add as favorite" icon, so I need two states:

The heart filled with black background with opacity 75% for
        example (unchecked)
The heart filled with red color 100% opacity (checked)

Question: I can't figure out how to fill a vector while keeping the border color, In other words get rid of the black background outside the heart in my example (see second screen-shot)

What I have tried: I have tried to use the intersection between layers as you can see from the screenshot

Note: I am not a designer, I an iOS developer who try to create my own design for the first time, so be easy ;), I have spend more than 1 hour searching in Youtube and Google and here and I guess for a designer it will take 1 minute to do what I want.


texts: Remove part of shape that's outside another shape

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I am trying to cut a part of a shape that is outside another one using illustrator.

I've found this answer for Inkscape and I tried to reproduce it with Illustrator but I did not success.

I'd like to remove the part of the green shape that is outside the other one. When I try to use Pathfinder -> subtract  it creates a hole in it.

I found if I use Pathfinder -> substract (front - back) Illustrator is keeping only the part I want to delete. I could copy paste that part onto my original shape and paint it the same color as the background but I don't like this solution...

P.S. What is the name of the operation I'm trying to do ? I have little to no knowledge about Illustrator and Graphic Design in general so I have trouble googling stuff


texts: InDesign: Find a character at the end of each line

texts: How can I find a character "-" at the end of the line in Adobe InDesign? I do not want to be at the end of the sentence/paragraph, but the line.


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This is somewhat hard for me to explain, but what I'm looking for is a technique to correct a fixed-pattern intensity variation in an image. The pattern comes from (say) a projection system and is not inherent to the actual image.

I can produce a 90%-average white frame that exposes these variations, which amount to perhaps as much as 10%, so that the range of values will be from about 85% to 95% in different areas. I then need to make an inverted mask / alpha that undoes those variations. So if applied to the original white frame it would result in a pure image with no variations. Once created, the mask will be applied externally, not within a graphics program.

If I've managed to convey that, how would you approach the creating of this transparency / alpha mask, given the original white frame with variations? My tool of choice is PSP 9 (no laughs), but a solution using PS would be fine.


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I need to create a banner that is 18 feet wide by 2.5 feet high.

What would be the best way to go about planning this as it is going to be made in Illustrator and every element will be a vector.

Would my best bet be to create the document in its native size and then scale it down in Illustrator to keep the ratio but reduce the file size?

I've come across this before working at large sizes but not quite this large.


texts: How does 6 colour printing affect a CMYK image?

texts: I'm going to use the Epson Artisan 1430 inkjet printer, which uses 6 inks, for my project to do sublimation. Will this have any effect on the colour or resolution of my image?


texts: Can anyone say which sans serif, extended font is this?

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The attached image contains font used in the Die Hard 4 movie. I researched a lot to find that font / similar fonts , but did'nt get anything similar to it. Can anyone say which font it is or a much similar font ?

Thanks in advance.

[ PS : Don't know if this kind of questions are allowed here or not. However any help would be greatly appreciated.]


texts: Imported image looks good in Inkscape but pixelated in the exported PDF

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I want to import some images into my design. I have removed the background in Gimp and when I import them into Inkscape they look almost fine:

But when I export as PDF they are pixelated:

What you see is a screenshot of both. What is the problem and how I can solve it?
P.S. These are the settings when exporting as PDF:

Restrict to PDF version: PDF 1.5
Text output options: Embed Fonts
Rasterize filter effects: no
Resolution for rasterization(dpi): 396
Output page size: Use document page size


texts: What sans-serif font is used in this image ("Uniform Center")

texts: Can any one find me what font is used here . I searched for it everywhere but cant find it .


texts: How to select all vectors within a larger vector in Illustrator?

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For context, I'm a cartographer so I make a lot of maps with GIS software (ArcGIS Pro 2.5 in this case). Often for design purposes, once the analysis is done, I export my maps to Illustrator for design work. I'm using Illustrator CC 2020.

The question I have pertains to 2 different layers on a map. I have a statewide map that shows a pattern by county, so there are county boundaries for the whole state. I then have 4 larger regions, so each county falls into 1 of these 4 regions. The county info is grouped into its own layer, and the 4 regions are grouped into their own layer. I would like to know if there's a quick way to select all the counties that fall inside 1 particular region. The outcome would be only those counties that fall in 1 particular region get selected, so I can further group them. Currently I'm doing this manually in the layers panel.

This becomes problematic when I start getting to much smaller geographies (such as census tracts or block groups) where the number of vectors in 1 layer can be in the order of thousands, so a quick way to select of subset of vectors is key.

To be clear, I already did the county selections manually, but I'm now working with very small census tracts (my state has > 1,000). Each little tract is a vector within the tract layer, with no outline and a fill with 1 of 4 possible colors, since this is a dasymetric map.

I know these selections can be done in GIS, but the problem is that the groupings I did in there came undone once I exported to AI and PDF, so I'm wondering if anyone has a workaround to do this in AI instead. Or possibly a better way to export to AI from ArcGIS Pro to ensure my map layers group as they were in GIS. Thanks.

Here are some pics to help illustrate:
1)The part of the map in question 2) the corresponding layers panel, the dark teal areas have over 1,000 vectors in that layer


texts: If i have two images and one image is 7360 × 4912 and the other 3888 × 2592 and i downscale them both to 3000 px width - does either of the image get downsample differently or would one of them need more or less sharpening?


texts: Gimp Question: How to remove multicolored transparency?

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I am getting a little frustrated with the newest version of Gimp because it is doing something that the older version has never done in regards to a transparent background.

In the old Gimp, when I copy and paste a layer with transparency (like a custom sprite sheet) to a image program that doesn't allow transparency by default like Paint or Sketchbook Pro, the background is a solid black color. There are easy solutions to this, and all are definately easier and quicker than what I have to do with the new Gimp.

Transparent pixels in the new Gimp now don't take one uniform color; instead, it takes what ever color it had before becoming transparent. This doesn't seem like a problem to programs like Gimp and Krita because they keep the alpha channels of the pasted layers; but, for sprite and other image editing programs that don't support alpha channels, whenever you paste a Gimp sprite layer onto these programs, instead of a uniform black or
single-color background, you will get a flat image of both overlapping new and old work done to the pasted layer thus always leaving a messy image.

Is there somewhere in the Gimp settings that prevents transparent pixels from taking colors from the opaque pixels before it, and instead, have all transparent pixels keep to a single uniform color?

Edit:

Thanks for answering, everybody; but, how do you turn off this "non-destructive" erasing or "pixel data" option? I find it more of a hindrance than a benefit because I often use undo for erasing mistakes.

Kerr, though I haven't tested it yet, your solution seems to be the best for changing all transparent pixels back to one color. But, that is only a quick fix to a problem that will come back so long as that nuisance of a feature remains active.

I'm getting closer and closer to finding the solution, I just need that OFF switch!


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Summary

I'm trying to resize a symbol in Sketch and the text is not resizing with the symbol.  I have "adjust content on resize" enabled and it's still not working.

What I've tried

I've also tried making the text into a symbol with "adjust content on resize" enabled and that's not helping either.
I've also tried "cmd + k" to change the scale and it's not scaling down the text properly.

Additional Information

The text is setup as a global text style in my sketch file, not sure if that makes a difference


texts: How do I keep the colour of the traced image opaque? (Illustrator CS6)

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I image traced a JPG file as a High Fidelity Photo then chose Expand. I was able to remove the white background, only keeping the details of the image. However, when I change the background colour, the image also changes colour with it, as if it were transparent. I'd like to know how to retain the original colour of the image/vector despite the colour of the background. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
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A theoretical practice question for you: are Bezier curves really important?
I'm not at all a "graphic-one", that's for sure, but sometimes used Inkscape (or other software that had Bezier curves among its tools) for simple tasks and I never felt the need to use them... I'm wondering what am I missing? I mean, what's most common use for them? How would your life be worse without them? And what couldn't be done at all without them? I think you got the point about what I'm asking about, thank you in advance!


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In printing, CMY are the inverse colours of RGB (possibly not in the right order!)
and in light a colour negative is made up of the inverse colours of what was projected onto it.

How exactly do you find the inverse of a colour, and why is it "inverse"?

For example, what is the inverse of (Cadbury's chocolate) Purple, and why?

Additional: I am not asking how I can find the inverse of a colour, I am asking how is an inverse colour actually calculated/found - I am fully aware there are tools that do this, but how?


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Setting order for text to be highlighted

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I am trying to arrange my text in my Adobe Illustrator file such that when it is saved to pdf, and the reader wants to copy and paste the information in the document the order is somewhat preserved.

For example I have 2 main columns with multiple text boxes and I'd like to label it so that if the entire document is copied into a text file then it would read:

column1textbox1,
column1textbox2,
column1textbox3,
etc
column2textbox1,
column2textbox2,
column2textbox3,
etc

Right now it's all over the place


texts: Material Design Spec - Leading for Same Font Style

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I've been having a hard time understanding the Material Design guidelines for leading for text of the same style. I'm working on an app that displays a full RSS feed. The MD spec provides the following:

https://material.io/guidelines/style/typography.html#typography-line-height

These values for leading are huge.... My understanding is that these leading values should be applied only if different styles are shown close to each other. Is that correct?

If that's the case, then is there any guidance on how much leading I should use for text of the same style? The only thing that I see in the spec is this:

But it doesn't actually give me any hard dp values for what the leading should be.

Can anyone provide some guidance on this? How am I supposed to interpret the leading values that we're shown in the spec? Is there any recommendation for the leading that should be applied to text of the same style, or should I figure this out on my own?


texts: How to hide offcanvas elements in Gravit Designer

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I just started to teach myself some UI Design lessons, but since I dont want (and can't afford) a Mac, i had to look for a good alternative to Sketch, which runs on Windows. I stumbled upon Gravit Designer in another question here, and it seems to do the job pretty well for me.

Now I have some Objects, which are part or completely off-canvas (as you can see in the image below), and I want to hide everything off-canvas. I know it is obiously not shown, when I export it, but I would like to hide it in the Designer as well.


texts: Photoshop 3D - creating textures to the correct size for each face

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Is there a way to create new face textures, in Photoshop 3D, that match the dimensions of the objects face.

By default the original texture, for the face of an object, is set the dimensions of the original. For example, if I create a cube, then scale it to be more like a cuboid the textures of each face because skewed and is no longer proportionally scaled. If I select the face I wish to texture, and go Displace>New Texture, the dimensions of this new texture at set to a default arbitrary height and width--usually what the size of the last document was that I created.

The reason I am asking this, is because I'm trying to use Photoshop 3D for retail visualisations, where I often need to create a single 3D object that then gets put into various in situ photos. However I need the faces of the modelled object to be at a 1:1 proportional scale and not skewed in anyway, so that I can design each surface as though it was designed as a flat graphic.


texts: Are there examples of software that use a dark colour scheme?

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A client told me they want something with more a design software feel rather than web 2.0 feel, particularly something with a dark colour scheme. So now I am looking for some examples to show to him. I do not use many different types of software, so I am just looking for something that looks nice so i can understand what he likes or doesn't like.

The only one I've thought of is the dark colour in Adobe Bridge, but I was wondering if there is other software that tends to be on the dark grey side? Please include a screenshot of the software example.

The most interesting one that I found is Final Cut Pro Server. I would appreciate if you have some other software designs to suggest. I am focusing on the visual, not so much the UI, as it is a matter of taste not functionality.


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Sites like What the Font, Identifont don't have the scope to identify every font but do have a matrix ID system. I have about 4,000 faces split into 18 categories and hunt manually using Nexus Font (PC). Is there a quicker method to identify a typeface?

Image from Nexus Font, http://www.xiles.net

categories http://www.aquapod.co.za/nexus.gif


texts: Technical drawing for logo design, what is your workflow?

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3D printing is trending and some of my clients are asking for logo design be done ready in 3D with CAD blueprints. Meaning when I do my regular 2D logo design, I have to make sure it can be re-created in a manner, not by export and importing the path of the logo mark from the design file, but by drawing on a blank blueprint with clear instructions/dimensions/constraints.

I find it hard to use Adobe Illustrator to create accurate logo design where I need drawings mathematically perfectly aligned e.g. in tangent to a curve or to mark a curve with curvature. Smart-guide and snapping in AI wont help me to find the tangent of a line against a circle or to lock multiple shapes with constraints.

I resolve by working my design on Fusion 360 or FreeCAD. I am fine with them but I am not sure if they are the right tools everyone else are using for the same tasks. Or, are there better alternative to create CAD drawing in logo design?

And a futher question here: is Affinity Designer better or worse than Adobe Illustrator in doing this?

Here are some famous logos that were done in technical drawings:


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I am in need of some measurable goals, they have to be measurable by an amount or number. I am a web and graphic designer in a marketing department and I am the only designer. Need to come up with SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely).

It is up to me to come up with these goals, but I have a hard time coming up with measurable goals in my job. I did see in a similar thread, that a possible goal could be to reduce # of typos in first drafts by 10%. I did think this was good, but all the text is always supplied to me and it has already been proofed, so this shouldn't be a problem.

Does anybody have any other possibilities for measurable goals and can be measured by a number???

I'm in charge of designing and developing our main web site, creating email templates, increasing social engagement and visitors, building web graphics, trade show collateral, product data sheets, webinar graphics, etc

Thanks so much!!


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I'm all new at Graphic Design, so correct me if you can. I found this graphic picture today from Earth Hour's website for 2012:

I really want some fonts that looks a bit like them. Someone having a clue which family they are in? And maybe know about some similar fonts? Appreciate any thoughts and ideas.


texts: How to create a pattern or tiles from rotated elements

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I have a geometric pattern – say, a cross:

Which I want to repeat with some overlap and tile … easy:

The blue square marks the 100×100 px unit tile.

However, here comes the catch: I want to rotate the image by about 30° and then tile it. This has proved surprisingly hard; of course rotating the image is easy – but finding a perpendicular unit tile (the blue block in the above image) isn’t:

Clearly the 100×100 unit tile won’t cut it. How do I choose the correct unit tile? The position presumably doesn’t matter, only the size is important, but I don’t know how to calculate that. Intuitively I expect that the rotation angle and the dot product will feature heavily but that’s as far as I got1. What’s worse, the rotation for arbitrary angles isn’t exact due to the inherent discreteness of pixels so even if I calculate the mathematically correct size it won’t necessarily result in a seamless tile.

So how can I calculate an optimal angle/size combination given the size of the perpendicular unit cell (here, 100×100) and an approximate desired angle?

1 My thought was that (using Wikipedia notation), since we want the projection of A onto B to be as long as B, we have |B|=|A|·cosϑ, and thus |A|=|B|/cosϑ. Which, in my case, would yield the new length |A|=115.470 but a simple try shows that this cannot be correct by a long shot, besides yielding an ugly non-integral number. In fact, just looking at the above rotated picture we can see that the whole 200×400 picture doesn’t contain a repeating perpendicular unit.


texts: Selecting and moving anchor points based on User input

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I am pretty now to scripting inside Adobe Illustrator.

I made a basic script, that opens UI window, where user input three dimensions and the output is three variables X, Y, Z.

What I want:

I want to move anchor points, like the move (enter) tool do. So when the X=200, all the anchor points in section A and D  will move 200mm to the left

Is it possible to select some "regions" of the document, to tell which anchor points to move?


texts: What type of license will allow me to modify a base font with original ligatures and resell it as a commercial icon font?

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What licensing is appropriate for a font to be used as a base for an icon font?

So basically I need to use the UNICODE table of that font to include custom icons and sell that font.

Most of the free fonts out there are SIL, but I definitely don't want to include any license notice for the base font, since this is not the part of the font that gains attention. The icons are created by myself and will be included as a ligatures in the webfont.

For example. When the user hits a on the screen will appear a, which will be taken from the base font. But when the user types mail, the font will take this as ligature and display a mail icon.

The result will be similar to this one : Ligature Symbols


texts: Flatten transparency in illustrator (not PDF file) is showing white lines/gap between the shapes

texts: I have an illustration with transparency's blending mode applied, I am willing to flatten the transparency for better output but when I apply Flatten Transparency some tiny white lines appear as outline around the shapes. Refer the image below:


texts: Cutting Overlapping Path (Illustrator CS6)

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i have a problem with a Illustrator CS6, i want to cut overlapping path from my content. I need the path to be over my content (the badge seen in the image) , but not have it overlapping the content. I have the image with actual content removed, i colored the overlapping path red, so it can be seen better. I tried using Pathfinder, but i couldn't figure out how to actually solve the problem.

Thanks in advance for your help.


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I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC to create SVG for my web animations, but the only tedious process is finding the length of each path lines in the generated SVG.

I tried Googling, but couldn't find anything related for CC Version(found for CS6 though).

So, Is there any tool(or plugin) which I could use to measure the length of Path lines exactly?


texts: How to apply a drop shadow on an object outer borders only?

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Let's say we have a ring on a transparent background:

My question is: how I put a drop shadow on this object's external borders only?

If I apply a plain Drop Shadow effect, I get the following, which is not what I want since the internal borders also have a drop shadow.:


texts: How to apply layer style on the same layer on all frames at a same time

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I am working on a gif where i have used a  cloud image.

I now want to apply effects on the single layer .i.e cloud image on all the frames at the same time.

I have tried selecting the no. of required frames and right click on the layer then paste layer style.

But the style is applied to only one frame. There are around 80 frames. Is there a way to apply the effect on all frames at the same time?


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I'm new with GIMP and I have lot of images for doing patterns with them.
The problem is that they are different sizes and I need secific size for specific piece of work.
In other applications I could resize the filler tool, but here, I can't find this option...

Could someone help me, please?


texts: What's difference between place Linked and Embedded in Photoshop?

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I tried both options in Photoshop. Both created their own layers. When double clicked them, both opened the original PDF file in my PDF reader.

So what's the difference between them and is their any specific use of each of them?


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I am building a drag and drop web builder.

One of the actions requires that the user select a "component" from the sidebar and drag it across the page. Once they drop it, the component fills the page.

Now, I do not want each component to have a unique icon... I would rather it be that I have one generic icon to represent a component.

Now my question is, what should that icon be? So far I am using a rounded square, which works ok... but seems kinda forced.


texts: Determining Relative Font Width (Proportion)

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I am working on a web application that sends print data to a newspaper system - we do not actually load and store font information we just create an approximation of the article to be printed. I am having a terrible time matching lineage for aGarmond 10 pt.

Does anyone know is there anywhere I can find relative font widths for AGaramond (the proportion of the letters to each other) ?  Like 'M'=1, and 'l' is .75?
Thanks


texts: What process for applying graphics to painted plastic or metal surfaces?

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I'm working on a project where I need to apply graphics to both painted plastic and metal surfaces that will be outdoors and have UV exposure.

These surfaces will experience moderate wear and tear throughout their lifetime so that should be considered.

Additionally, we need a process that's cost effective and can be applied relatively quickly since this'll be done at scale 100's of times per day.

I've looked into inkjet transfer process which seems promising, but I don't know the specifics of things like which inks to use, which transfer process, etc.

Are there any other methods you'd recommend?

Also - if this is the wrong site on stack exchange for this type of question, where should I post it? This seemed most appropriate


texts: When exporting PDF file from Indesgn, Why colors messed with one another?

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I made a 10 pages file in In-Design, RGB space designed for web. Created some masters. After exporting (smallest file size as well as others too) to pdf the result gives me different tint of color on pages even if i used the same master. So, if page 2 uses Master A and page 4 uses the same master A, in PDF they have a different color, more like they have a different color management.

http://postimg.org/image/8yyw8c5pd/

Up is the page with wrong color. Page 1 uses the same master as the page 3 below (at page 3 you wont see number in this print screen) but their colors differ and I don't get it why. I still need this file the same colors everywhere and the right color is displayed at the page at the bottom.


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I scanned an 210X297 mm page and the scanner gave me a 899.58x1238.25 mm image. (not sure why).

I am trying to resize the image to be 220x310 mm. The bit that confuses me is that is the measurement of images in the computer rely on pixels? If so, how much is that in mm?

Since the size difference is so big, obviously, my photo will be pixelated.


texts: Perspective geometry: How to put an item in a projection according to distance

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I have the following image of a road

The image represents a road 100 meters long, as viewed from a camera 1 m high.

I want to place a car 50 meters ahead of me in the middle lane but I can't quite figure out how to calculate where to put it. I can calculate the expected width it will have using the view angle and then according to that figure out it's location on the road, but I'm hoping there's something simpler.

Example:

Any tips on how to do this?


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How do I set up snap to grid in Inkscape? I have a grid enabled but snapping doesn't seem to be working. This answer pointed me in the right direction but still didn't solve my problem.

I am sharing what I learned about snapping to grids in my answer below.


texts: Illustrator pen tool edges are way too sharp

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I'm trying to draw a vector diamond with a tutorial, but when I connect two anchor points the corner becomes extremely sharp. Why is that happening?

Here's an example of what's happening

Thanks.


texts: In GIMP, how to use an image as colormap (or gradient, or palette)?

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I already have a reference colormap in the form of a raster image (basically, the vertical extrusion on a 1D colormap). How can I use it to colorise a grey-level image in GIMP ?

If gradients or palettes are the way, I see quite raw editors, but no way to import or paste a raster image.


texts: Need help with identifying the font of "abc" in the shown logo

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I need help with identifying the font of "abc" in the "abc web consulting" logo. I am guessing it's Brandish but the "c" and the thickness of Brandish does not match the one in the logo.

Any help is very much appreciated!


texts: How to extend the background of an image?

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I have an image with a woman, and I need to make an ad (size 260mmx125mm). I want to put the woman to the left side, but then right side becomes empty. So, how I should solve the problem? I have picked the color from image, but it is definitely different than in the actual picture.

Should I use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop, or there is a better way to do this?

By the way, it will be used in print, so I need a good quality.


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Can anyone help me to identify the font used for most of the headings and body text on www.stripe.com

I am hoping it's a font which is available via Typekit or Google Fonts!

Thanks,
James


texts: How could I make more appealing titles on this particular design?

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As a Desktop Publisher I feel like I lack the skills of designing something to make it look appealing overall. I have an A4 page where there are some products shown. It has a kinda dark background image and to fill in some of the whitespaces I'd like to add some titles.

My attempt isn't professional enough in my opinion. For some reason the transparent black feels too overused. How could I work this out better?

EDIT:

Thanks to the feedback, I changed the layout to this very simplistic design.


texts: How to get the exact rotation angles of a rotated 3D object in Illustrator?

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I would like to get the rotation angles created by the effect of an existing object (Undo is not possible):

Effect -> 3D -> Rotate...


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I am creating a PDF for printing, and I got some weird artifacts on places where elements with the same color overlap.
My workflow is from Illustrator to InDesign to PDF, and to be honest I dont know where the problem comes from.

Here is a screenshot of what I mean :

Here you can see it on the brownish-beige part

Here is another one where you can see that they are really overlapping
The lower beige part is on top of the upper one, whose green outlines you can see

The weird thing is, it depends on the actual Zoom level whether or not you see the line. How can I get rid of this? I am scared this will be visible on the print later on...

INSERT: These screenshots are from Illustrator CC2017.1.0 on Mac. The problem is visible also in InDesign, Acrobat and Adobe reader. The problematic shapes are only simple paths - one triangle and one half circle.


texts: How to enhance text and line drawing scan in photoshop?

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I have photographed text and writing with usual camera. Picture contains black printing lines and blue pen writing.

Picture contains the following artifacts:

1) paper is not white

2) non-uniform shading over paper

3) irregular paper pattern

Are there conventional ways to enhance such an images automatically? I wish paper to become uniformly white, without pattern, printing will be close to perfect black and writing close to perfect blue.


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In Inkscape 1.0 I found new text "Features" tab:

Even capitals are disabled, why? How to use this Features?


texts: How to prepare a design document in Corel for UV printing on glass

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I want to make a decorative glass panels on walls on our kitchen (the one between the hanging kitchen cabinets and the tabletop). The company I am negotiating right now uses UV coating as a printing method. I can't say for sure whether it's printing directly on glass or at the white glossy film glued to it.

Problem is, the image we're intending to print failed two coloring tests already. Red color becomes pink and the amount of colors drops considerably (details gets lost in the dark areas).

First coloring test was from CMYK image with color profile for US matter paper, saved to TIFF with ZIP compression.

Second coloring test was from RGB image (same CMYK as above but converted to screen sRGB) saved to JPEG level 9 baseline.

I don't even know whether they use CMYK color model or what because their "designer" don't understand my questions.

Is there anything I must account for when preparing the images for UV printing? Color profile, amount of colors, color mode?

The process is as follows: three separate raster images gets placed into the CorelDRAW layout and I assume this CorelDRAW layout gets printed directly to the printing device.

Will their CorelDRAW template (I can ask for it) help us in preparing the design which will not get colors screwed or it's a problem of the source raster image?

Will reducing the magenta color channel by some amount help? My main problem is red color becoming pink (I admit it was pink initially but it becomes much more pink in the resulting piece of glass).

UPDATE
We finally decided that we'll print anyway and got our glass panels delivered. Colors were screwed up completely, all yellow was gone and overall the picture became darker. It looks like someone put a pale blue color filter over the picture. And it was nowhere close to what we got on the coloring test.

My best guess is that in this kind of printing the glass determines what colors the output will have. In our case obviously we got some pretty thick glass with blue hue so the image came up as it did. I will remember to always ask the people at printing company to make coloring test with exactly the same kind of glass as the final product.

However, my original question is still open: how one should prepare the design document for printing on a white film behind a glass?


texts: What's the technical term for groups of glyphs in an OpenType font?

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This question is asked with FontForge in mind, but I'm sure that if I get the terminology right then it would help me.

Here's my screenshot:

See how in this font, you can hold the mouse down and view alternates? In this case it's variants for sub and superscripts and such, but with some fonts you get three or four different takes on a character.

I'd like to work this into my font, but I don't know the technical term for what I'm looking for. I guessed Stylistic Alternate, but that's something different that shows up in the OpenType palette. Nothing else has worked yet.

Any thoughts? Like I said, if someone knows how to do this in FontForge that'd be ideal, but just an education on terms would probably help me search for answers better.


texts: What is the name of this font ? please help

texts: I am trying to find the name of this type of font to use it in a project that I am working on. help?


texts: How do you save custom settings for image quality in InDesign?

texts: instead of going to View > Display Performance > High Quality Image every time


texts: Make a PNG transparent where color is white and area is not within lines of an object/item?

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I have this image below which at 1 time I had it as a transparent PNG but somewhere down the line I have messed up and saved it with a white background.

I really need to make all the white that is outside the edges of the items to be transparent and still have it have a clean crisp line when shown on top of a colored background.

I can't simply replace all white since the inside items have white as well.  I an a developer and not a graphic person.

How can I fix this image?  Any help please?


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Back in the 90s I used a small utility called "Bannermania" from Broderbund Software to make banners. It came with several fonts in a proprietary binary format and I need a TTF version of one of them called "Hollywood":

I've tried WhatTheFont! and fontspring.com without luck.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Using incomplete web designs in a portfolio

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I have battled a situation in the past from when I have an idea for a website I would design it. A few years back I decided to apply for some companies that were starting out in web development and posted they were seeking designers.  So I created a portfolio tailored to each employer and my understanding of a good portfolio was for it to not be overwhelming and to prepare no more than my ten best designs.  While on one of the interviews I was told, "we like your designs but wish they were full functioning sites".   So my questions are:

Is it a bad idea to use web designs that aren't coded?
How do you properly sell the design to a possible employer?
Is it bad to be honest that the designs are your ideas or should you pass them off as possible clients?
Is their a good balance to use in client work VS personal work?
Is a template design considered as personal work?


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We're rebuilding an online platform for online commerce and are thus contemplating hiding the product menu (represented as a tree, usually with a depth of three or so) and only making it appear on mouseover someplace that attracts the user's attention.

Naturally, we could just have it say "Products" in plain text, but a graphical icon would be a better fit with our overall design (a looking glass for product search, a shopping cart for check-out, etc.) The icon should preferably be pretty self-explanatory even if it's rather small. Perhaps as small as 16x16.

I'm not a GUI designer, but rather a dev working closely to the visual design team. And my thinking is we might want to go with what I can only describe as "a binary tree structure with right angles" (I'm not good with the graphicy stuff), while others have put forth more mundande objects, such as actual trees, or stars.


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Is there a way (possibly via a 3rd party plugin) to read/write PDF annotations/comments in Illustrator?

We use PDF comments heavily in our workflow with Illustrator.  The problem is to add/edit/view these comments we need to use two programs.

The comments are used to embed markup language that our custom software which converts it into a web based template.  This is why is it is so critical to be easily accesed from our primary design tool (Illustrator).


texts: White space between objects when exporting to SVG in Illustrator

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I have white space between objects when I export to SVG from Illustrator CC 2015.

I have checked that the lines touches in preview mode and I have exported with 3+ decimals.

What I see in illustrator:

What I see in the browser after SVG export:


texts: How to create perspective like this in Photoshop?

texts: I really want to start creating professional mockups for my branding projects and for my portfolio but don't know how to create perspective like this.


texts: Define a different color inside and outside a Compound Path

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I need to change the color of the inner edges of a compound path, but I cannot figure out a way to do this. For example, if I have the following image:

How do I re-color the inner edges?

Alternatively, can I remove the inner edges and keep the outer edges without changing the general geometry?

EDIT:

I came up with a solution that solves my particular issue, but it looks like recoloring a segment of a compound path is not possible.

What I did was create a duplicate of the compound path:

Select the compound path with the selection tool: v
Copy the path with ctrl + c
Paste in front with ctrl + f

Then, use the anchor selection tool: a and select every part of the new path except the edges to be recolored and delete it.

The remaining path can be recolored and sits on top of the original compound path as a new object.

I also found it cleaner to remove all of the edges from the original path and redraw them on top in separate layers.

So, for the following image:

I ended up creating 3 layers:

Aaaand it looks like I can't post the other three images until I get more reputation, but I made a compound path for the recolored eyes and mouth, a compound path for the black outer outline, and a compound path for the inner yellow fill with no stroke.

It gets the job done, but you end up with a lot of paths for a simple change. I'll try to update my solution with the other images if I get the required reputation, as it's helpful to see visually.


texts: Should I get poster printing for higher resolution than 5400 x 3600 for 36“ x 24”?

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The highest "common" resolution I've seen for printing a poster is 5400 x 3600 for the reasonable price of (~$15), but I have the ability to make the images I want to print (procedurally generated) as high of a resolution as possible (within limits of transferring several gb files to the store to print them). I was hoping to get a print with as high res 12K x 8K but maybe this is unnecessary for only a 36" x 24" poster print.

I also hope to print 12K x 8K resolutions for reasonable price similar to 5.4K x 3.6K, since going much higher than that seems to require spending much more money very quickly (~$100 per print or more), so I guess it's important I can get it done cheap. I do want to know what options are out there, even if they are outside my price range.

What would the highest resolution be in 24" x 36" for a canvas print and for what prices?

Thanks.


texts: How to find open source alternatives to commercial fonts?

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What is the best way to find an open source alternative to a commercial font? I was thinking as some service as alternativeto.net or a whatthefont.com that would spit out fonts that are similar to the one uploaded.

For example: What is the open source font that looks most similar to Scala Sans? (see picture) What would be the criteria and tools to identify similarity?


texts: Resolution Photo for 2m by 3m advertisment

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I want to place a board on the side of the road where people are about 5/10 meters away when viewing.

The board is going to be 2 meters by 3 meters.

I was wondering which resolution photo do I need for it to still be sharp when viewing from about that distance.

Also, what size does the text need to be to be readable?


texts: Do not overprint black text over metallic Pantone colors

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I just read a good book on DTP.

The author stated that one should not overprint black text over metallic spot colours. Unfortunately he doesn't explain this further.

I would like to ask why not overprint black text over metallic spot colours, what is the problem?


texts: How to quickly create multi-page layout presentation? (image maps?)

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How to quickly create an interactive presentation of the layout where user can click buttons to navigate through the site.

Obvious solution from HTML side would be to use image maps, but these are very tiresome to make - any clue if there are generators allowing me to edit and create something similar, only along multiple pages? Preferably: free.


texts: I designed a Powerpoint deck and would like to convert the design into a PPT template. is it possible? and if so, how?

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I designed a Powerpoint presentation and would like to convert the design into a PPT template. is it possible? and if so, how? i don't mean to "save as" .potx but to actually auto create the master slides according to the design.

thanks!
:)


texts: How to convert a specified colour to transparent for a series of PNGs with ImageMagick?

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I've installed ImageMagick on Windows 7 64-bit and I'm wondering how I can convert a series of PNGs to transparent PNGs in a timely manner (I have 180 PNGs to convert, so yeah I can't exactly do them each individually if I ever want to have spare time again).

How can I quickly edit the transparency of a colour for a batch of PNGs using ImageMagick?


texts: Inkscape - Force Bounded Region to be Transparent

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I am trying to fill a region with a color. Inside this region, there is another region that is on a separate layer (on the highest layer). I want this region to be transparent and to not show the color of the outer region. How can I force an enclosed area to be transparent?

Here are some images to help explain my problem:

This is the graphic I am trying to create.

This is what happens when I fill the inner region with 'none' and the outer region 'grey'

I would like this green region to be transparent, and not the color of the outer region.


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We built a game for facebook http://apps.facebook.com/jibrjabr that uses images created in illustrator and exported as gif.

This is a high res version of one of the achievements as it appears on the achievements page

When you "Brag to your friends", FB will place a statement on your wall that includes a image scaled from the one our app provides to the 90x90 size they store on their CDN.

The 3 images below are from left to right:

90x90 from FB, 90x90 from AI, 90x90 PNG24 from Illustrator

The designer, (also my girlfriend) is going nuts over the way the 90x90 jags up around the outside of the circle.  So she goes to create 90x90s directly from illustrator to get around this problem and it appears that Illustrator is doing only marginally better than FB did.

Is it just impossible to get nice smooth edges at this resolution?  Is there some trick to getting the small image to look as nice as the larger one?  Is the transparent background  causing this?

They are 256 color gif images.  She's tried exporting them as PNG24, but gets the same effect.


texts: I designed a label for printing in Pixelmator. If the printers don’t have Pixelmator they can’t see my layers... How do I save it that someone using AI can open it?


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I am redesigning a logo for a client. For that I am designing the typography myself (no premade fonts). As I have never done that before I wonder if there are guidelines on determining the width of each glyph.
I am using minuscules only. I determined some letters already from the preexisting logo(seen in black below), but am struggling with the "s" at the moment. The problem being that in the logo i got the "s" is a bit wide for my taste, but i have no idea how to determine the right width.  Also it seems to me that the stem of the preexisting "s" is way to narrow. My research on the internet did not bear fruit so far, so any tips from a more experienced type designer than I am is very much appreciated.


texts: Why is my character lost in the background?

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I am designing and developing a 2D-platformer and I'm having trouble with the look and feel of the game. The game is about an inventor who is kidnapped for warfare. Theme: Childish but sad.

There are three other layers: the blue cracked sky, the pillars, doodads (like the missile) and the tiles.

(The hairy guy in the center is the protagonist.)

  What should be changed to make the character stand out?

  What should be the palette of the tiles, the font, and the background to make the
  character the center of attention?

  What colors should be there revolving around the character and the
  theme?

Edit:

This is the revised color palette. Should've studied color theory before I went drawing like crazy.


texts: What is corporate identity and what does it contain?

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As question explains, I did a search on the web and didn't find a suitable answer, even in wikipedia.

Can anyone please explain it to me?


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I'm trying to make My Own Mock Up But I don't get the realistic vibe from it. What am I missing?

EDIT/ I'm very thankful for your guidance @user287001 and here what I came up with. Can you pinpoint anything wrong with this one?


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I am currently running Sketchup Make Version 17.1.173 (I assume this is a free version as I have never handed money over) I am trying to export to svg (or pdf, ps, eps and vector format basically).

I tried to install an extension from flightofideas as linked here

I can right click on my model and now have Export to SVG file in the dialog menu. But I cannot seem to export anything. The dialog remains open and does not generate a file. (I tried opening the Ruby console in case this would reveal an issue, but its empty).

Is this possible with my current setup?
I am worried I am missing some step to prepare the model before attempting to export.

I also tried printing the file to pdf, but when I open that in AI I get an embedded bitmap.

I am running MAC OS High Sierra.
Adobe Illustrator CS6.
Sketchup Make Version 17.1.173.

(I have very rudimentary knowledge of Sketchup).

Right click dialog

SVG Export dialog


texts: How to find relation between colors to recreate scheme?

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I'm messing around with some premade site designs and I really like the color balance of one, however the scheme is not the color I'm looking for. There are about 30 color variations in it.

Is there any way to find the numeric relation between the hex colors and then recreate that using a new base color?


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I have recently gotten my hands on an old, used Risograph GR 1750. It is in working condition and prints like a charm. In the manual it mentions on page 58 (see image below) that it is possible to connect the Risograph to a PC. Unfortunately, it does not specifiy how this is done and the mentioned additional manual for the »Risograph Computer Interface System« is nowhere to be found.

Is anyone informed enough about this old machine to help me out and explain to me how I can connect it to a PC?


texts: Quick reveal faint marks from semi transparent image

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Hoping for a quick way to reveal faint pixels on a transparent layer. In the example image below, there's a smudge in the upper left that was hard to see in Photoshop.
Ideal Solution
Adding blend modes or adjustments would probably work. But hoping for something a bit more casual, less destructive. Something like Illustrator's outline mode would be ideal. Likewise, Photoshop's isolated view of masks. Both of those methods make it very obvious where pixels are and are not. And since they're view based, they don't require you to undo the adjustment or leave it in by accident.


texts: Right image resolution for large format printing

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I have a question regarding the large format printing and the image sent to the printer. This is not a duplicaten, I've checken the other possible questions and did not find the response there. I'm interesten in a large print for in a house, what resolution to take and where to find those kind of images.

Imagine I found a photo on internet which I would like to print out in a large format => 150cm x 120cm.

The photo itself is 70cm x 50cm, 250dpi, 9Mb, type: jpeg

What will happen if I force the image to print in 150 x 120cm or even larger size, will I see the pixels or some other abnormalities in close range? If I'll upscale the image the DPI will be dropping and having a photo with 150x120cm and 75dpi is not good for honing it on the wall.

What the minimal original size of an image can be so that it can be scaled to larger size without any distortion?

Another point is, I want to print on matte cotton canvas ...

And where can I find that kind of photo's, as even on paid stockphoto's sites the resolution is around 4000 / 5000px with 300dpi.

Thanks for the reply


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I use Illustrator to export coordinates (x, y, width and height) of rectangles to JSON. I use JSON to import the coordinates into my web app and repaint them. I use the free Illustrator extension 'Drawnscript' for this task.

Problem: When I export the coordinates of rectangles there are only x, y, width and height in the JSON. Illustrator makes it possible to give an rectangle a name. I am missing the 'name' of the rectangle in JSON.

Question: How can I pass the name from an rectangle to JSON additional to the coordinates? Are there any better exporting tools than Drawnscript?


texts: Can I apply Edit / Edit Colors / Recolor to specific layers?

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I'm working on a many-layered file (a vector of hundreds and hundreds of people), and I'd like to make some of them, but not all of them, non-Caucasian.

Each person is their own layer in the file.

I'm trying to change some people by locking specific layers, then running Edit / Edit Colors / Recolor. But the recolor command seems to ignore the layer locks, and recolours the whole file regardless of the locked layers.

Is there any way to force Recolor to "respect" the layer locks, or any other effective way to approach this?


texts: Turn any 3D Graphics type file into a Surface/Curve Parametric Equation

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I always wondered if it's possible to turn a 3D graphics type file into a parametric equation. For example, we'll take the free program "Blender" which allows you to model anything you can think of.

Example Image:
Example

Is it possible to turn a random 3D shape I just made in Blender to a surface parametric equation? If it is possible then how?

(If this question doesn't belong to math.stackexchange section, then tell me where is the right section).
(I know this is tagged Blender, it relates to any file format of 3D Graphics).

Thank you in advance.

P.S
I have been told to post this question here (It was posted on math.stackexchange section).


texts: make an image that appears transparent (but has a background) actually transparent

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I have an image that has a white background but its also semi transparent so the white background seeps through. now if i remove the background it will still have the white parts where the original background was seeping through making it look really strange on any other background but white...
Is there a way to remove the "white" parts in the image...

The bottom of the img is exactly like something i have in mind (where the arrow is reflected and the arrows shadow as well)

As you can see when i remove background and change it to black it looks horrible:

Update:
I actually made a mistake by voting the first answer up. I want to know how to remove the background completely. I know how to save images so they are transparent


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I use the Image Trace function on Adobe Illustrator all the time, and usually it works fine, but I just encountered an annoying issue I'm unable to solve.

What I usually do when tracing images is I place the photo/image on the Artboard and bring up the Image Trace window to tweak the parameters until I'm satisfied with the result and then proceed to trace and expand the image. After that I Select (V) the resulting image and change it's colour. Works every time. Except now.

For reasons unknown, after starting to work on a project today, I noticed that with each traced and expanded image, the fill of the selection has a question mark on it, indicating that two or more objects have different fills in them. If I change the colour of the fill, the entire selection goes gray. I have to use Direct Selection (A) + Shift to select each part of the image separately in order to change the colour which is difficult and slow and doesn't even work properly every time. And even then, upon changing colour it still turns gray, and I have to manually change the Color Palette back to CMYK each time.

It's driving me insane. I haven't seen this problem before and I've tried to create a new project and restart Illustrator but nothing works.


texts: How can I shrink these areas using gimp?

texts: I have an imagemap. I want to shrink to areas that are pink and are overlays when hovering the mouse over the map to highlight the selected region. Now I can't seem to shrink the pink areas that are used for highlighting the regions. If I press shrink then it seems like only a preview and the areas are not shrunk. I need a way to remove the areas that I want removed.


texts: How to Identify an exact color within a photograph?

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I want to Identify the exact color of this image.

Is it possible, to calculate the difference in color of the dollar bill and the suit colors, to get the "original colors?

I want to create a spiderman suit, for that I want to use the exact colors from the real suit.

I figured, that it would probably be easiest, to somehow calculate the difference of the dollar bill color (because that should be normed) and the red.

Would it make sense to grade the whole picture so that the dollar bill green matches the "real " dollar bill green, or would that disturb the other colors?

Does it, or is there a smarter way?

Does it have to be taken in account, that the dollar bill is in some kind of a case. Color variation can be calculated from the difference in of the "white shades".

How would I do this? Or how else could I Identify exactly this color?


texts: How to adjust spacing of underlined text in Illustrator

texts: Anyone know how to do this? Right now when zoomed out at 100%, the underline looks a little too close to the text. I'm using the latest version of Illustrator.


texts: What font is used in the 2014 Snowball Summit logo?

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Does anyone have any idea on what font this is?

Seen at http://snowballsummit.webflow.com


texts: How to use clipping mask on complex objects in illustrator?

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Below I have an image of a bookmobile that I am creating in illustrator...

The main goal of this is to get the gradient shape inside the perimeters of the bus and not including the wheels. When I try to make a clipping mask it says, "The top object is very complex, and may fail the document to print or preview if used as a mask. Do you want to make it a mask anyway?". I click yes but the bus and gradient shape both disappear. Since the bus is made up of many different shapes, I attempted to ungroup them but to no avail have I been able to get this to work. What would be the best solution in this situation?

Thank you!


texts: What is the algorithm behind photoshop palette knife effect?

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I am trying to find the algorithm or even the general idea behind some of the effects used in Photoshop. Specifically, the palette knife effect that simplifies the colors of an image. For instance, the image bellow:

turns into something like this:

I want for each group of pixels that have similar color, to turn into a simple block of one or two colors (in real time) as happens in Photoshop. Any idea of a method to do this is appreciated.


texts: Export settings for a sharp logo in Illustrator

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I want to export a logo which I made in Illustrator (CC 2015) for a customer and import it into Word so it can be used as a standard template for their letters. The logo in Illustrator is created in a 300 ppi document setting. It contains text with a non standard font. I am working on a retina screen MacBook.

My problem is (and I know I'm not the only one) that no matter what I try: the file becomes just terrible after importing it in Word. With 'terrible' I mean: it loses all of it's crisp and smoothness. The lines of the logo but especially the text parts just become totally pixelated and blurry. Presenting it like this to my customer would not be professional in any kind of way.

This is a screenshot of the logo in Illustrator:

This is how I export it to PNG for example:

The result isn't all that bad actually:

...but wait and see what happens after I import the PNG into Word:

The end result:

I am aware that it's practically not possible to get the same kind of quality after exporting the file as a PNG or JPEG (or even importing an .AI file directly into Word, I already tried that) since Illustrator is vectors and PNG of JPEG files become pixels. Still like I wrote before; I can't imagine it can't be done in a way resulting in an acceptable logo quality, at least I do believe there are ways to do it better than I am doing it right now :)

I think Word has a built in compression setting which I know can be turned off on a Win machine but as far I as I can see I can't find that option in the Mac version of Word.

What would you recommend I do?


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Please as stated above in the title, how can I clean up extra points in a path? keeping only the extrem points that holds a path inbetween?

Thank you very much!