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I'm working on a logo for a startup that makes tents. Here's my first concept (Their name starts with K):

The shape at the top left of the K is the shape of a tent. The problem (that you probably noticed too) is that this K kinda looks like a guy pointing to something:

Any suggestion on how to get rid of this?


texts: Illustrator CC: Turn off align objects to pixel grid

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I have inadvertently created an illustration with the align new objects to pixel grid turned on (not sure why it was on, I did not know or ever turn it on) and want to now scale the image. When I turned it off, I scale and it is still affecting the illustration.

So I copy and pasted it into a new document (Making sure that the option was turned of when I created the new document), and it is still affecting the illustration.

How can I scale this object without it being affected by this option?


texts: InDesign export PDF: Visible non-printable layers

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I try to export a document as interactive PDF with non-printing layers but they don't appear in the exported file (they are visible but non-printing). The file has to be interactive due to buttons etc.

Is there a way to achieve this?


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How can I cut a rectangular selection exactly in half, so that a 128-pixel long selection becomes 64 pixels long?

I have this:

I want to select just the top half of this box (so I can bucket fill it with brown), then select just the bottom half and bucket fill it with green.

The end result should be a box that is split perfectly between two colors.


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I am starting out with Maya and just moved my object up to reveal a mystery grey wireframe which I can't work out what it is at all. It appears I can't select or interact with it at all.

I have been playing predominantly with UV Maps, potential cause?

What is it? And how can I hide/remove it?


texts: Does a freelance graphic designer send a brand identity project to a printing company or is that the clients job?


texts: How can I color 4 different headings in a black-and-white PDF simultaneously?

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Click to download the PDF. Ought the little-known publisher have lessened the file size from 253 MB?
Anyway, how can I color only the 4 different headings most methodically and quickly? Coloring each  is obviously too unproductive.
The snag is that some of the book's content (that oughtn't be colored) may match heading 4's font formatting. See the combined screenshot beneath.


texts: How do I make a scatter brush in Illustrator that randomizes the tint and shade of elements in the brush?

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I am trying to create a scatter brush in Illustrator CC that adjusts the tint and shade of the objects in the brush to give me a result like this:

Currently I can only get the scatter brush to look like this:

Here are my settings:

Is this possible? I have been searching online and haven't been able to find a solution yet.


texts: Fontforge: `some fragments did not join` - how can I find this fragments?

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Sometimes I can see the problem and connect the dots, but sometimes I just do not see where the fragments are not connected. For example this letter:

What can you recommend? I importing svg from Inkscape – maybe I can fix something inside Inkscape to prevent this error?


texts: Where would I find a high quality version of a wooden floor like this?

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It is to be used for background on a website. I like it exactly the way it is except that the image quality is not good enough. Looking for quality that will look good on a Retina screen. Must be able to license to use it (free or paid) for a commercial website.

I did of course already search Flickr, Google and some stock image sites. Primarily searched for "wooden floor", "wooden texture" and "wooden background".

Anyone knows where to find a high resolution one like it? Like one commenter mentioned, the image shown has been copied three times which is OK for the new image too - that way I can minimize the filesize the users browser has to download through the CSS background repeat-x method.

UPDATE: Found what I needed - please see my own answer below.


texts: A Strange Behavior in Adobe Illustrator CC (Version 17.0.0)

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I have the following problem with Illustrator (with a small number of files). I open the EPS file from Illustrator and I translate the figure in Greek. Then, I save the file. The problem is that after the closing of the file, any subsequent attempt to open the file again, displays the message
Can't open Illustrator
In other words, the program is not able to open a file that previously has been saved via exactly the same program !!! Any idea? Thanks a lot !!


texts: Is it appropriate to use lower quality design to make a product look cheap?

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In an article I was reading it has this picture:

It claims and rightfully so that one looks cheaper than the other. However the explanation says,

  My old direct-mail client was correct in his assessment of whitespace for his particular product, because direct-mail packages need to appear down-market to work—and adding whitespace to his design would have lent his package an undesirably upscale quality.

But is this a correct outlook to have? Should a product deliberately use an advertorial style that looks like they have a small marketing budget?


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How to create a style of word that stands on top of a word on Indesign -  like this:

But in a way that they would be on the same line, not a separate paragraph or table cells.

I use it for word-for-word interpretation in ancient text


texts: Pasting screenshot changes colors in Photoshop CS3

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I've done search after search, messed with color profiles, image color management, etc, but I still find that when I simply print screen and paste it in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I get a much lighter image. It even looks like it has less colors, or JPEG compression artefacts.

I've tried flipping between sRGB, Macintosh RGB modes etc. If I paste the screen capture in windows paint, it's absolutely fine. Any ideas?


texts: How to repeat automatically seamless pattern in Illustrator?

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This is basically the same question as I asked recently, but about Illustrator, instead of Photoshop.

Let's say I already have a seamless pattern. For example this one:

I'd like to quickly repeat it 4 times.

So the result would be:

(pardon for scaling)

Is there any automated way to do this in Illustrator, instead of resizing the workspace then copying and placing it three more times?


texts: Best practices around creating LARGE poster image 24X36

texts: I need to create a large image (for print) at 24X36 inches.  It is a seating chart poster for a wedding.  What settings in Photoshop would I set for an image this size (DPI, etc.)?  I would need it to remain sharp when printing so suggesting some Export options would be great too.


texts: Displaying a proprietary logo modified to match website style

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I'm designing a blog that has a "Tags" page.
I was thinking of displaying a modified logo for each tag.

For example:
 Tag: CocaCola Logo: CocaCola logo modified

How legal is this approach?


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Hi there after finishing the logo for a sports clothing brand I thought it was too similar to something and I went looking and found this USAF logo, what do you think? The Bulldozer logo is meant to look like a bull, and the USAF logo is wings.
Are they too similar to use?

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texts: How to manipulate only one stroke/side of a shape/object in Illustrator CS5

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How would I manipulate only a single stroke of a rectangle while leaving the strokes unchanged?

For example, if I have a line and use effects > Distort & Transform > ZigZag, the line changes to a wave.

How would I select only the top path/stroke/line of the rectangle and apply the same effects of ZigZag to that line only?

I tried to play with it but it changes all the lines as well as the top. I also tried the scissors tool, cut the path, apply the effect and rejoin them. It works but when I rejoin them, again all the lines gets converted to zigzag.


texts: Indesign: PDF hyperlink to a specific line

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I am unable to find the way to export a PDF from InDesign where hyperlinks go directly to a specific line (not just a page), but at any zoom level. All the PDFs I've exported zoomed to fit page when you click the hyperlink.

Ideally not using third party software.


texts: I have just started design for mobile apps. My question is: in the beginning of the design process I have so many ideas, but I am not able to decide which one visually looks great... Designing all ideas that came up is very time consuming method. Any suggestions to a good method?


texts: Sketch3: How to enter in value for ruler guide instead of manually clicking position?

texts: When I want to add a ruler guide, how can I enter in an x/y value, instead of manually clicking where I want it? In Photoshop you can do so by clicking insert guide, then it gives you a value box, similarly with Illustrator you can type it in once the guide is selected. How about Sketch?


texts: How to combine two images and create a swirl affect that blends the two images

texts: I need to combine two images into a single image and then I need to add a swirl that splits the two images but I want to blend the swirl with the two images. I don't want it to look like I just added a swirl on top of the two images. How do I do this? Is Photoshop the best program to use?


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Masks exported in SVG have a default ID of "mask0" <mask id="mask0" ...>.  I tried changing the mask layer name, but it doesn't influence the ID in the exported SVG.
How do I declare masks IDs in exported SVGs?


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If I've a big sprite png image with 40x40 icons. How I can convert it to separate images for each icon with photoshop or gimp?

As the sprite is quite big I would prefer and automated method.


texts: Editing Arabic text in Indesign - how to get sane cursor behavior

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On occasion, I have to edit multilingual documents in InDesign, containing both English and Arabic.
My system locale is English. I've got Indesign set up to display the Arabic text correctly, but this has one infuriating side effect: when I place the cursor in an Arabic paragraph and I use the left/right arrow keys to move the cursor, their behavior is mirrored. When I press left-arrow the cursor moves to the right. Right-arrow moves the cursor to the left.

This gets worse when you have English words in an Arabic paragraph: inside the English word the cursor behaves normally, at the boundary English-Arabic cursor behavior swaps. This makes it nearly impossible to select a word.
Mouse behavior is similarly erratic: when I drag over a word to select it, it will leave out the first or the last character.

Is there a way to end this insanity and make the cursor behave normally?


texts: Illustrator problems with free transform and type tool

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I was used to trasform object by clicking ctrl+T and then working the shape off by dragging the vertexes here and there as much as I want.

Now this shortcut is not working anymore and I dont know why..(the new shortcut is suddenly  "E")I also have a similar problem with type tool.
I click on the Type tool then click on the stage and start dragging for defining the area for my text.So I start writing my paragraph.

The point is that when I try to resize the text area also the font stretches!

why this is happening?

thanks
Luca


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So I'm working on an Adobe Fireworks project, but I am no longer able to enter fullscreen mode. I linked an image of the buttons that don't react. The keyboard shortcut (F) doesn't work either. When I click them nothing happens.

I tried restarting the program and also searched for solutions on the internet without success.

This is on Windows 10. Does anybody have an idea what I can do to fix this?


texts: Just need to bold and touch up scanned signatures and logos

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Had a program called SLED from VSsoftware (Aristotle?) that converted vector graphics to fonts.  It had a very basic editing program to crop, scale, bold check signatures and logos (all b&w) and could accomplish very quickly a few minutes.  Nothing fancy.  I believe the company has gone out of business (we've had the program since early 90's) but the dinosaur computer and parallel port scanner it was on has moved on to better places.

I'm looking for something similar but not finding anything and in looking at various products as possible replacements it appears to be way overkill.

Does anybody have any ideas.  The steps I've seen in Adobe Photoshop or Gimp look daunting.


texts: How to flip picture at an angle in photoshop?

texts: How do i flip the top starship ( the darker one) at a 45 degree angle so it's facing the same way as the lighter ship? I want to flip because I want the sun reflection to be on the same side (upper right)


texts: 3DS Max viewport canvas painting artifacts

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I created a cucumber model model (my first model) in 3DS Max 14. I used object paint to paint the bumps on the cucumber and user proboolean to attach the bumps to the cucumber.
i am working with the default international unit
and the cucumber is about 4 in length (I want to work in a 1:1 scale with a game engine).
After all the modifiers i flattened the model out and it is just an editable poly.
when I start to paint it looks like this:

When i just move the paint brush over some weird areas (they are all highlighted), I get wierd painting all over the cucumber:

What am I doing wrong? Is it the scale? Is it the object paint?
Also can someone tell me a quick (auto) way to make the intersection areas of the bumps quad friendly?


texts: Colors are washed out when editing an imported PDF in Illustrator

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I was given a PDF map to recolour in Illustrator. I've added some Pantone colours to my colour library. When I assign those colours to a shape in the map, the colour is washed out.
The opacity is 100% and I am not using a tint.
The document colour mode is CMYK.
Help appreciated.


texts: Inkscape - how can I create an ark between 2 existing points

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I have create a shape in inkscape and now want to finish it by creating a smooth arc between the last 2 end points.

Edit
In response to step 9, union splits the shape not joins it. It seems to create a union of the arcs not join the shape.

Select all

Path -> Union


texts:
How can I vertically center text in an element?

For example, from this:

to this:

I know I can specify the height property on the text and then use

position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
margin: 0;

but I don't want this because the height of the text is variable.


texts: Why can't I find Adobe Extract in my cloud Assets anymore?

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In the past I've been able to open the "My Assets" page and upon viewing a PSD I could've extract CSS information from the Extract tab, like it's still being explained here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/extract-css-images-psd-files.html

I didn't use it for a couple of months and now when I'm back the tab is gone. I have a free account but this service was free (it's even stated in the above link).

Any ideas? Did Adobe put it behind a pay-wall without telling anyone? (Couldn't find any post about it).


texts: Why doesn't my HTML markup have any indentation when I export it to .epub from InDesign?

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I am using Indesign CC to create a book on HTML programming. I have used TextFrames to add blocks of code and markup. When I generate an ePub out of it, the code blocks and markup are generated without indentation. Everything is left aligned.

However when I export the textframe as an image, the markup comes with indentation but the file size is way too big and the code is obviously not selectable.

What options do I have here? Here's an example of the kind of code I am dealing with:

                ABC
                PQR
                XYZ

                1
                Book
                Top


texts: How to make text look realistic on scanned paper

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Please kindly teach me how to create the blurry effect for the background where I will type in words to make them more realistic (the illustration below is what I want to achieve after all)
Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Why does Photoshop's color profile conversion change appearance when source and target profile are identical?

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Recently, I've noticed something in Photoshop I cannot quite understand:

I've got a Photoshop document (not a specific one) in e.g. sRGB, ICC-Profile embedded. Now, when using 'Convert to Profile' with  soft proofing against the same profile (so source and target profile are identical), no matter the other settings, the colors of the document change pretty strongly.

As both the profiles are exactly the same shouldn't the colors stay the same too? I'd really appreciate anybody telling me whatever I'm missing here.


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I am creating a book in InDesign for the first time. It's a children's book that will feature scanned actual photos that I've touched up in Photoshop and am dropping into Indesign. I've saved these as PDFs.

I have to scale these up significantly (most are done on a standard 8x10 page, the book is going to be 12x18. And I am worried about losing quality as the image gets printed.

Is there a trick to this I am missing? Should they be made into a vector image? When I do this, the Vector image actually appears worse than if I drop a PSD or PDF into indesign.

This book is hugely colorful and I don't want to make a mistake that will wind up costing me a large amount of work if I have to convert them later to .ai or something.


texts: InDesign: How to create lines for form design?

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Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done.

I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float from one to another without being sure which is the best. And, as I often find on sites like these, I don't have all of the answers!

I'm sure people here do form design; what do you find to be the best way? I'm thinking about ease of doing in the first place, ease of aligning lines to each other and to margins, ease of editing later, ease of Acrobat making it fillable, and perhaps semantic considerations?

Some of my techniques are: Drawing a straight line, drawing a line then pasting it inline into the text frame, underscores, underlines (with tabs, non-breaking spaces, alignment tricks), table cells.


texts: How to convert a Keynote file and preserve resolution of the images?

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I have a situation where we start with Keynote files, must convert them to Powerpoint and then back into Keynote before I can work with them.

The extra Powerpoint step is 100% necessary. The files need to be translated and the translation software doesn't accommodate Keynote.

The thing is when files are brought back into Keynote the resolution of the images are reduced. Is there any way to keep the quality of images intact while converting back and forth?


texts: How can I graphically represent width, height and depth dimensions?

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I want this but so it adjusts to sizes entered in a form on a webpage in fairly normal HTML/CSS:

Way back in the 1990's you could show the proportions of a box in 3D using VRML and have the controls adjustable with nice sliders/text entry fields. It also would not take all day to work out. The box could be lit and you could see it in perfect 3D at any angle.

A decade on and I am stumped as to how best to represent a simple box with relative proportions. I want something that will work in all browsers.

How hard can a box be?


texts: How can a design be balanced and yet have a focal point?

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The concept of a focal point seems to be a fundamental one in web design, yet doesn't a focal point mean a page cannot be balanced?

Surely by definition a focal point means that the page's 'weight' is shifted towards this focal point?


texts: Transfer Attributes not transfering UVs [Maya]

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I'm trying to retopologize an asset (a sweater) created in Marvelous Designer using Maya 2019. Following a tutorial, I created a new flat mesh on top of the original flattened mesh and adjusted the UVs so they would match. After that, I selected the mesh I created and then the non-flattened sweater, and used transfer attributes with the indicated parameters. The problem is, it just doesn't transfer the UVs.
I've tried re-making the mesh several times, changing the Transfer Attributes parameters, the order of selection in case I was messing that up, but I can't seem to find the problem. It's my first time working on Maya, usually I go with 3dsMax, but I thought that Transfer Attributes would be a very useful tool.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks in advance


texts: Exporting colour image from GIMP turns grey

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I have a gif image that I want to use as a background on a web site, but it's a bit too colourfull and when text is laid over the top of it, there's not enough contrast, so I want to knock it back a little.

I thought I could use a plain white layer in GIMP (v2.10.6) on top of my image and set that white layer to 50% opacity. On the screen, it looks about right, but when I try to export my image, parts of it just turn plain white, and other bits go grey. Same problem if I reverse this and set the original image to 50% opacity over a white background.
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I've tried exporting as PNG, GIF, and JPG, but the result is the same for all three.

FYI, I get the same result if I try playing around with lightness and saturation settings instead of the white layer.

Here are some links to illustrate the problem:

Original image https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKLFFN39-4MK5iKRuvazVqfHox3c5RFP
Screen shots of GIMP https://drive.google.com/open?id=10UR1Awqoo-OUJsic8xcaIxqujDRV6lyd
Exported image https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dkVXDdWr7OD9RnUEolCevHrsktCeQrdz

How do I get the exported image to look like the image in GIMP?


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I have frequently found that Helvetica appears as a missing font when I open a PS file, I have Helvetica on my system so is there a way to readdress the missing fonts of a PS file to another font?

Normally I do this manually... but it will be better to have something more automatic...

It appers that "Helvetica" font does not exists on Windows Systems, just Helvetica LTD, NEUE, etc. Am I right?


texts: How to space objects logarithmically / exponentially in Illustrator?

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I'm working on a chart that has to be on a base-10 log scale (meaning, the divisions are at 1, 10, 100, 1000 instead of 10, 20, 30, 40), and I'm trying to make it more intuitive and obvious to people who don't understand log scales and/or might not notice the non-standard scale. One of the ideas I'm trying is, to have subtle ticks / lines spaced out at regular intervals so an inattentive viewer will notice that the scale 'barrels' away and the ticks get much closer together further up the chart.

To do this, I need to space those ticks out in a logarithmic / expontial way, so they look something like this (numbers are for illustration purposes only, it's just the line spacing I'm interested in):

I know a little Javascript, so I generated that above image with some code (here's a live editable demo on jsfiddle.net ) using the Raphael framework that draws SVG, which is a format Illustrator can use. So, the worst case scenario is, someone could adapt that code each time, dig into the generated HTML using Firebug or Inspect Element or View Source, find the generated SVG element, copy it into a text editor, save as a .svg file, then open that svg file in Illustrator, then work with it.

But that's hardly convenient or a smooth part of a design workflow. If there's some clever way to do this in Illustrator itself (maybe some smart use of Effect > Distort and transform > Transform with many copies, <100% vertical scale and >0 vertical move?), that would be much better.

Note I'm not particularly interested in any other part of generating a log scale chart in Illustrator. Illustrator's geriatric, creaking Graph tool just doesn't do stuff like that, so I'm more-or-less resigned to copying in something from Excel or similar then adding labels. It's the progressive spacing of the lines I'm interested in.

I've asked a slightly similar question before about graded 'barrelled' spacing of lines, and found an answer that worked for my needs then, but that was about 'barrelling' lines in an approximate visually-controlled way: here I'm asking how to do it in a strictly controlled, accurate way that would match up with something generated on a log scale.


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I need help with creating a new layer in Illustrator. I work with Photoshop on a regular basis doing design work and although I've worked with illustrator a few times, I'm only really getting into it now with my tablet. I'm struggling with a small issue and need help. When I create a new layer and start to draw in it, Illustrator automatically jumps back to the previous layer and my artwork appears there instead!!?? It has happened almost consistently for a week now and I'm wondering if there is a setting causing it.
My layers are all listed in the layers panel but all the artwork sits on layer 1.
illustrator won't allow me work in a new layer. Please help - very frustrated.


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I have just installed photoshop and  have, as an exercise , tried to design this logo.

I am stuck at trying to make one of those 8 rounded triangle shapes.I have used the pen tool to draw the upper arc but wen I try to sketch a line to the third vertex, I get a curve instead.I have tried changing from smooth point to corner point but that also converts the arc into a line.Is my approach correct? If so, how can I draw a straight line starting from a smooth point?


texts: How can I make this whitespace into a new path?

texts: I remember drawing this tea bag with the pen tool. I then made some coloured rectangles around it, played around with the shape builder tool (if I recall correctly) to get the coloured shapes to stick around the tea bag. Then I accidentally removed the tea bag, and now I would really like to know how to easily re-create the tea bag.


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I am very new to Illustrator. I've created a text only logo and exported it as a png. When I try to insert it as my email signature it becomes pixelated. How can I export it so it will not lose quality regardless of how small or large i need it to be. (I will also use it for letterhead, business cards and website).

Any help anyone could provide would be much appreciated!! thanks in advance.


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I'm looking for a tool to make dashboards or reporting mockups.

The idea here is to present several presentation possibilities to executives who know which metrics and KPIs they want to see, but have no idea about how they want to see them.

An ideal solution for me would be web-based.


texts: Why are my Urdu fonts generated by FontForge broken?

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I was editing an Urdu font with FontForge. After editing I generated fonts, but when I tested all of the characters are being displayed separately. How can I correct that?

Here is an example of that:

فونٹ ٹوٹا ہوا ہے


texts: Tool to see how my logo look like on clothes , websites , booklet and bags

texts: Is there any tool which can help me to check how my logo will looks like on certain goods like booklets , bags and clothes ?


texts: Most productive workflow to create animated display ads

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I am currently working on over a dozen display ads using Google Web Designer.
I use the Static template and animate within GWD to export as a mix of SVG and HTML files that comply with Google's Display ads policies.
At the moment my creative workflow is pretty convoluted.
We create usually 4 sizes of an ad with 4 different texts for each size.
I create Illustrator templates.  Each vector image I import into GWD has to be converted to SVG to retain Brand fonts, so I end up creating 32 vector assets for 4 ads, for example.
If there is a last minute change, I have to go back and change it in Illustrator to export to SVG and then re-import the edited file into GWD. Outlining text on export in AI doesn't always work, so I end up having to redo a lot of things when a font reverts to the default one.
I feel like since I'm working with AI, After Effects would be a better tool to handle my animated files (to skip having to export as SVG), but AE doesn't export vector animations, so I could only create GIFs which might be too heavy for Google.
Is there a simpler workflow to produce vector-based animations for display ads featuring custom fonts than my current workflow?


texts: Which one of 'Convert colors' and 'Map colors' Fixups are unnecessary?

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I'm using Adobe Acrobat to change colors in a PDF.

Using merely 1 Fixup is obviously easier than 2. So is one Fixup a subset of the other? To wit, which is more all-encompassing?
Which Fixup can I delete from my list, without losing any capability?
As mrserge  used the 'Map colors' fixup on Jan 8 2019, but needed  'Convert colors' fixup on Feb 1 2019, I'm guessing 'Map colors' ⊂ 'Convert colors' ?


texts: How to replicate this text effect? Skew? Arch? Bulge?

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I need help on how to create this text effect in Illustrator CS6.
The free transform is not working, the bulge, envelope, and arch are not giving the same effect.


texts: How to enable spell check in Adobe Illustrator CS6

texts: I have a long, text-heavy brochure created in Adobe Illustrator CS6. I don't want to copy the whole text to a Word document to run a spell check. Is there any way to run a spell check without leaving Illustrator? It would save me a day or so. Thanks in advance.


texts: Is there best practice when displaying other brands, such as partners or clients, on your website? Full color or greyscale?

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We're debating an issue which I'm not entirely sure should be up for discussion.

We have a dozen or so partners who's logos we're displaying on our website. Both our web/marketing designer and I strongly believe these logos should be greyscale. Our two strongest arguments are…

Those brands use colors which conflict with our brand, causing brand confusion and/or brand inconsistency.
Displaying multiple full color logos, all with different brand colors, adds visual complexity, noise, and clutter to .com

Does anyone have any suggestions, references, opinions on "Best practice" when displaying this kind of content?

If so, would you please explain?

Thank you


texts: Creating a pressure sensitive pencil style in Gimp

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I am new to GIMP and illustration in general but am trying to draw my own map and am following this guide.

The first part of the guide is to sketch out the layout of the plan on the map and the author gives advice on how to setup the pencil. The results they achieve look like this:

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I am using GIMP 2.8.14 and the best I can achieve, using the Pencil Generic Dynamics is:

I wrote this using different pressures on my Wacom Bamboo and as you can see I am missing any sort of shading/transparancy from pressure.

My question is: WHat settings do I need to use, and how do I set them up, to copy the above pencil style in GIMP?


texts: Do visual designers often use existing sketch/Photoshop/illustrator templates or start from scratch

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I think my workflow is extremely inefficient since Everytime I start a new project for visual design I have to start all over again ...

Seems like I cannot reuse anything between projects. Is this normal? Or do people building a symbol library that they can reuse.

Also for every project I start by searching sketch resources for a template that might be a fit in terms of color combinations and then I start tweaking it.
Is this how one should do it ?


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What are good sources for Open-Source fonts?

Note that by "Open-Source" I don't mean only free, but truly "open, free to modify and published under an Open Source license" fonts. These are still very rare.

I know of two:

The Open Font Library
The League of Movable Type

Any others?


texts: Why does Twitter app use different fonts in two screens?

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I'm sure that this is not a coincidence, that it was very well thought out by the designers of this app, but I can't seem to understand why. In the timeline, they use a sans-serif font, while in the main tweet view, they use a serif font. What are the reasons for this?
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texts: When Clients ask for all of the fonts you use in their branding materials

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What is the correct way to handle a client if they ask you for all of your native design files and specifically the FONTS.

Do you charge them for the native files if they have already paid for the initial design of a flyer, brochure etc. Do you release copies of the fonts used in the design to them or charge them a fee for both native files and fonts or send them link to purchase their own fonts?


texts: Illustrator: how to save a JPG export preset

texts: Every time I want to export a JPG, I have to set the quality setting, which never happened with previous versions of Illustrator. It's resets to 0 each time, which is unusable for me.


texts: Paint with the Brush Tool from a light to dark color

texts: I'm seeking for a specific way to use the Brush Tool so that the result be from zero (light color) to dark color. From 0 to 100% color. I want paint hairs but full dark color is a bad idea.


texts: Overlapping images - how to slice in photoshop CS5

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I got pretty simple example of site layout (link below), and i need to slice it.
The problem is, when i have 2 images, or image and title overlapping, and when i try to make slices of both, i get one of the images cut into 3 or more parts. Which is not good. Is there a way to make slices overlap? So i get each image in one part?


texts: Photoshop animation with Fuse: batch saving for different frames and options

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Is there a way to make a batch-script for automate saving (in .png files) each frame of the animation (Fuse character in Photoshop) with different character options, for example head location (as marked in the image below)? Unfortunetly, PS Actions are not working for 3d Fuse character options. The animation is made of preset body position (for example: Standard Idle). Thanks for your time!
What I would like to obtain is set of saved files for:
1st frame - Head position X=50
2nd frame - Head position X=49
3rd frame - Head position X=48 etc.


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Full confession I know absolutely nothing about graphic design, Im usually over at stackoverflow.

Ive searched, googled and pretty much everything else but I cant get a concrete answer.

Consider the following:

The image above is a jersey of a sports team which has been made as a "cartooned image" of the real jersey . I need to get this done for a whole league (32 teams)

For lack of proper wording description here is a visual example:

See the real fabric jersey below, I need a "cartooned" jerseys graphically designed of all the teams in the league as the example posted above.
(sorry not sure what the correct terminology is for what im trying to achieve?)

I simply want a static image.

(Sorry guys this is completely a foreign area for me, thus looking for some advise.)

Software I have:

Photoshop
Adobe Animate
Adobe Illustrator

Can I achieve the above using one of the software packages mentioned above? Or would I need a professional designer?

Im merely looking for a starting point, perhaps im using wrong search queries but I have no idea even where to start in an attempt to accomplish / try and achieve above effect?


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I'm formatting a simple book (novel) document. I have basically two master pages, one is for basic pages (a large text field and a page number) and the other is for the first page of a chapter, with the text field starting mid-page and another textfield for the chapter name (all really basic).

Both the master pages are two-paged, with the left text field linking to the right so that I can just import the source text of the novel in RTF format and let InDesign create all the needed pages for me. I do this with the basic page master.

How can I afterwards change the master page in every first chapter page and apply the correct one converting the full-sized text field into the mid-page one and having the text field for the chapter name? Trying to apply said master page results in having it added to the page, like it overlaps what's already there without even getting the text.

Thanks


texts: Font groups of FIFA world cup brazil 2014

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Someone can help me to identify this font used in the groups of FIFA world cup brazil 2014

Thanks.


texts: Clipping a photo to a rounded gradient background

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I have a photo I removed the background from, leaving only the human models - 3 people sitting in front of a computer. I need the new background to be gradient filled and the left bottom corner of the image to have a 3px rounded corner so it can be incorporated into a Website slider with the same rounded corner. The new photo will be placed at the left-side of the slider.

Using Photoshop, the photo is on layer #1, a gradient filled rectangle with rounded corners is on layer #2. All but the left bottom corner of the rounded-corner rectangle is dragged off the visible canvas.

When I clip the photo using layer #2 the photo takes on the gradient fill completely obscuring the people - all I have is a gradient filled layer. How do I clip the photo to the gradient filled rectangle, producing a photo of 3 people with a gradient background and the left bottom corner rounded? I would prefer the photo remain editable because I have smart filters applied.

Note: I was able to accomplish this by merging layers and then clipping to a rounded rectangle but this effectively destroyed any chance of future editing the photo with the original filters.


texts: I converted the letter "Z" to a path. Now I want to make the Z extra bold. The corners should stay sharp. I don't want to make the letter bigger, I want it to be more bold. Any hints?


texts: How to release clipping masks on Illustrator?

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I'm having trouble to find where do I release a clipping mask on Illustrator.
I want to release it to make another mask, but when I select the object which is "equipped" with the mask, it only selects the mask vector, not the objects.
Is there a way?
Thanks.


texts: Photoshop way of transferring layer's alpha "channel"

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New Photoshop user trying it for the first time.
I'm trying to get an inverted alpha "channel" but I can't. There are things I'm missing.
Steps I took:

Create sRGB 512 * 512 pixel document.
In an empty layer say, layer 1, use one click in the center with brush tool with settings:
color black, hardness 50, size 256.
Create new layer say, layer 2 and fill it with black.
Select transparency of layer 1 (Ctrl + click its thumbnail).
Create mask on layer 2.
With layer 2's mask selected, invert colors (ctrl + i).
Make sure both layers are visible and only them.

I expected to see a total black as the layers perfectly complement each other, with any pixel having alpha 1 as: layer 1 alpha + layer 2 alpha (which is 1 - layer 1 alpha).
Then I said it's maybe because of the color space and I tried linear RGB. Here are the results:

What am I missing and how to get a perfect "complement" of the alpha of a layer?


texts: Change color area with different transparencies

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I have a picture which I need to edit, but everything I tried didn't work.

My picture has different transparencies but everything is the same color. I just want to change the color but the transparency of the unique pixels should stay the same.

Here is the picture so you can better understand my problem.

If you have a procedure that would solve my problem, please note that I am using gimp.


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If you want to improve your typographic craftmanship an reoccurring advice is to stick to and master a few typefaces like for example Helvetica, Caslon or News Gothic. This was, for example, a common advice Massimo Vignelli gave, who's famous for only use about 6 typefaces. By master, I mean to know how to use them in a way that makes the typography looks good. To know what the best line height is, sizes, weights and so on.

Are there any ways to speed up this learning process?


texts: How to export JPGs at different sizes without losing image quality?

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It's always a painful process for me to save an artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator for the Web to 25 or even 50 kb with adequate quality, even if there are not that many graphic details. Also, it often has strange quality after change-over from 300 to 72 ppi.

Are there general approaches to saving for web with good (as original) quality in small, medium and large sizes?

For example, I need 25k file for client as smallest size (but the problem is that's actually the main size they will use). Here is original vs 25k:

Fonts and vectors look awfully pixelated (scale 800%):

Gradient looks too linear (scale 100%):

(scale 800%):


texts: Trying to insert a barcode into some artwork on Illustrator CC when i try to free rotate the barcode and downsize the lines are becoming jagged? I have anti aliasing checked and the barcode is in an eps format?


texts: Using Gimp; which is the best method for removing the text from this image

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Heal selection? This is the one I think might work best but not sure and would like to know if others agree.
I searched the various methods used to remove text from images and found one I thought might work best but I couldn't comment on the post to ask (something about not having enough points?) So if I am repeating the question, I apologize, but I really do need to know which way works best without going through all the trials and tribulations process, as I am pressed for time. My end result should preserve all background content, remove text only, new text will be written over it. I have the SVG format and PNG, I'm working with Gimp and Inkscape. Both are current version to date (09/27/2020).


texts: How to adjusted opacity for part of a gradient in Photoshop

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i am newbie.
I have spent one day searching for solution and find nothing working...
Maybe i am searching for wrong keywords. I am sorry if this is stupid question.
Problem:
Photoshop 2017 CC
I am trying to re-create lenses for sunglasses and then put it on face.
I have cut out lenses from frame, changed color of lenses.
The goal is to make lenses (100% opacity)
with opacity continuously decreasing verticaly from 100% (upper part) to 40% (bottom part),
so bottom part will be semi-transparent and little of face will be visible via lenses.
I can not find settings which allow this.
I am able to change opacity of lenses only for whole lenses, not able to set decreasing opacity.
Any simple solution?
Thank You a lot!
Jenna
2nd question
@AndrewH Thank You very much for your attention and help. I have tried your "Here is how to add a gradient to an existing lens", but i did not get what i wanted. For better example let´s talk about gradient from 100% color to 80%color+20%transparent.
When i go to gradient overlay settings to set: left upper candle: opacity 0% right upper candle: opacity 20% , the result is not look like i expected (or i am semi-blind, sorry): the lower part is going to be full transparent instead 80% of color+20% transparent.
I did not expected settings like 0% and 20% will display end of lower part of lenses invisible - with opacity on 0%. I expected end of lenses will be with opacity 80%. So i wanna gradient transitions from 100% color to 80% color+20% transparent.
I am sorry if i am too horrible to describe my problem. I have tried to change some settings, but still i did not get result i wanted. Or did i get it but i do not see it? Cause the same results are visible different on transparent background, black or red.
See photos please.
I am sorry for wasting your time.
3rd question
@AndrewH Thank You for reply.
In my previous image i followed your gif tutorial:
new layer with cut out lenses from frame
add layer mask and add gradient overlay with settings:
left upper candle: opacity 0%
right upper candle: opacity 20% (and another image with 80%)
left and right lower candles are black color.
When i put image with 100% opacity under image with 80% opacity - please see image.
If my goal is to create gradient from 100% opacity at the top of lenses to 80% opacity at the bottom of lense - how to create it?
Cause if i use gradient overlay with those settings - result image looks like the bottom part of lenses is ending with 100% transparent (or 0% opacity) instead of 20% transparent (or 80% opacity).
If opacity is set to -20% of original color - why do i do not see at lower part of lenses any border shape of lenses? But at the lower part it looks like gradient is ending to 100% transparent?
Do i wanna something which is too difficult to reach or impossible or do i using wrong tool (gradient overlay) or settings or ... what?
I though it is easy process with Photoshop.
Thank You all.


texts: Printed booklet changes margins on every second page

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I have encountered a very strange problem. I am printing booklets (abt. 80 pages) where one page is in A5 format, the arranged booklet-pages by InDesign are all in A4 and I have to arrange these booklets on A3 to print two booklets at one time. I'll attack a screenshot of the final arrangement.
When printing on our office printer, every second page has a different margin, it seems like the printer changes something when turning the page, as it is always one side of the paper, the only two consecutive pages with identical margins are the ones in the middle.
I can't find out what the problem is, all the margins are correct in the arranged InDesign document so it has to be the printer.
I asked in a copy shop, they also claim it was the printer. Other colleagues though have worked with that printer before, and their booklets are completely fine. I know that the printer has its usual printer-problems including paper jamming when printing A3.
Extra question for the comments: If I cannot fix the problem in time, would it look better to abolish the baseline grid at all. Is it better that everything isn't quite right than one detail not being quite right.


texts: How do I have a black on white drawing into a black on clear drawing using adobe photoshop?

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I am trying to make the background of a drawing transparent, yet the drawing is a little bit blurry giving some problems. The drawing is only black and white, and I am trying to get all the white removed. I believe the best way is to get each pixel to be black, yet having the opacity be such that when placed in front of a white background, it looks just like the original drawing. This should achieve how the drawing would have looked like if he had drawn with a clear background in the first place (yet his drawing program doesn't have clear backgrounds, which is why he asked me cuz I have photoshop, and I thought it'd be easier than I thought).

I tried to use the magic eraser and select color range (where the color was white) and neither gave me what I want. They both treat the grey from the blurriness as a grey and only sometimes simply erasing it.


texts: File Size issue when exporting from Word 2013 to PDF

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First off I hope I am posting this in the right community. If there is a more appropriate place please let me know.

My problem is this:

I regularly generate PDF files from Word documents which contains text and images. As long as I was using Word 2010, the behaviour of the export was fine, meaning that a Word .docx file of say 4MB would result in a smaller .pdf file of say 1MB.

But now that I was upgraded to Word 2013, the opposite happens! A Word 2013 .docx file of 500KB generates a .pdf file of 7MB, with all the same options as before...

I have tried to play with all of the export options I could find (e.g. "Delete cropped areas of images", pdf resoltution of 220, 150 or 96 ppi, etc.), but nothing seems to have any significant effect.

Constraints:

I have looked at some solutions from previous posts (e.g. Why is my PDF size from my InDesign Export still large?, Adobe PDF file too big to upload. What are my options?), but there were none that I can apply.

For example, I need to preserve the Bookmarks from the Word document, so Printing is not an option. I also don't have access to any of the other paid software sometimes mentionned (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.).

Question:

Does anyone have any experience with Word 2013 and would know why the export to PDF has changed? Anyone knows of a way to reduce the size of exports to PDF while preserving the transfer of Bookmarks between .docx and .podf?

Thanks in advance for any help of tips you may have!

Vincent


texts: Is motion/animation part of graphic design?

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I work with a few design studios with mainly graphic design experience. Nowadays more and more they are asked for motion and non-static solutions.

I wonder. Is that out of their scope? Should they embrace other design disciplines? Does graphic design incorporate motion and or animation? - Not big ones, something simple like this logo animation.


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I've designing a page for a site of mine, but I'm getting a strange issue with the following code.

....

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section .inner { margin-top: 1.5em; }
div .inner { padding-top: 1.5em; }

AS you can see I use the .inner class in the section item, but for some reason also the div .inner is read adding double the space.

I can't understand the reason.

Is the "section" item treated as a div.


texts: Breaking polygons into paths in Inkscape

texts: Is there anyway to break up a polygon into paths? Actually what I want to do is to change the colour and dash of certain sides of the polygon, but that seems like the straight forward way. I can't seem to make this work. I know I could draw the polygon from scratch but that seems tedious given that there exists a polygon drawing tool...


texts: Adjusting the Document size for Adobe Illustrator CS6 files

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I've read many articles on how to adjust Artboard width and height settings in Adobe Illustrator, but have not found a single article on how to adjust the width and height for the background document layer that Artboards sit on.

A single Artboard may be 1000px by 1000px, but I can still scroll for miles left and right of the Artboard.  I don't want that.  I want the background size to bthe same as my Artboard size.  How do we do that?  Is that possible?

Thanks


texts: How do I build my webdesign portfolio when all sites I've designed have been taken offline?

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This is my first time on this site. Here's the problem.

I've been designing since I graduated from college and have been for 4 years. After I graduated, I had my first client, who I grossly undercharge on top of doing many unbillable hours where money was based on promises. I designed the website. Later, the partners dissolved along with the website. I didn't do a backup of it, so it no longer exists.

My second client, again, undercharged, and started down the wrong road of doing unbillable hours. The client didn't have knowledge of WordPress and I wasn't training without pay. She decided to change the website from WordPress to WIX (which now it looks absolutely terrible. It's complete junk, but that's her business). Again, I didn't back it up so I have nothing. I honestly didn't think that anything would ever happen to these website, therefore, I didn't think to back them up. In hindsight, many issues occurred with their website where things were almost lost, but it still didn't hit me to do a full back up.

The problem. After all of those hours of work, I now have nothing to show for it. I have a client who want me to do a website (a family member no less). I quoted almost 4 figures. I'm at that point where I'm tired of undercharging, working for pennies, and disgracing the design industry. He of course is reluctant. Why wouldn't he be? I have nothing to show that I can do work worth that much.

I feel like I have two choices. Start from the bottom again or throw in the towel and just forget it. I'm that discouraged. What should I do? Any advice?


texts: Best fill page with image tiled - mosaic?

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Do you know of any plugin that best fills the page with as much copies of an object as it can? I don't care about orientation (they can be vertical and/or horizontal as well), and it would be a plus to specify in any way a minimum spacing between copies, for cutting purposes.

Some time ago I asked how to create Symbols in Illustrator in order to generate a mosaic. I'm not really sure that "mosaic" is the word - I need to fill a whole page with the same little image, so I print lots of copies in a single sheet of paper.

I've tried using the approach of Transform's copies in the last answer, but I was thinking there has to be a plugin for doing this - come on, I can't be the only one in the world printing labels.

Any alternative method that doesn't involve loosing quality of the image can be valid, but sticking to Illustrator would be great.


texts: InDesign 'find object format' by width and change, 'cannot find match'

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Basically I want to find objects that are 423 pixels wide and change them. Is this possible? It seems like it should be pretty straight forward!

I've been trying with 'text frame general options' but I think that is more for columns and their widths.


texts: Crop path outside text region in Inkscape

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I have a text (created with the Text tool), with fill: none and stroke: black 3px.
Also, I imported an SVG image (using File > Import), which I wanted to put as text background.

What I tried:

Object > Clip > Set, with both text in front and path in front.
Object > Pattern > Objects to Pattern with the path, but can't position the pattern exactly as I want it to be by using the Node tool.


texts: Why does the stroke position have to be 'center' on an open path in vector programs?

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I've noticed that in every vector drawing program I've used, the options to place strokes 'inside' or 'outside' are disabled when a path is open (or on text). I assume there is a reason for this, but it makes mimicking CSS hard to do, as borders are never in the 'center' of a line segment.

Can someone explain why this is, and if there is a workaround to have a 3 sided shape with the stroke in the inside of the anchor points. Think a "tab shape" that is open at the bottom. It seems to me that if you can still "fill" an open shape, you should also be able to control the border position.


texts: How to make millimeters the default measurement unit in Adobe InDesign?

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Almost all of my design requirements are given in millimeters, not points, pica, or any other classical measurement. I design for board games, and the printer's specifications always list their requirements in terms of millimeters for margin and bleed, not points and pica.

I'm making the jump from doing my layouts in Illustrator (which is happy to think in mm) to InDesign (which everyone assures me is the best program to do layouts in). But InDesign's insistence on converting every measurement I put into it to being in points and picas is wrecking my workflow.

How do I convert InDesign to defaulting to measuring dimensions in millimeters rather than points and picas?


texts: Mapping 3D RGB color-space to 1D Visible light wavelength

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I wonder how to make a 1-to-1 mapping between the 3D RGB color-space and 1D visible light wavelength (nanometers)? I have shown their images below:

I mean if I want to know what is the RGB color that is equivalent to 450 nm wavelength on spectrum or 550 nm or 600 nm then how would I do that calculation? Similarly if I have a color in 8-bit RGB space for example (10, 100, 200) then what wavelength it corresponds to on the visible spectrum?
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My actual goal is to test optical filters. These materials have cutoff wavelengths let us say a specific material has cutoff wavelength as 630 nm. So all wavelengths above this will not pass through it. If I want to generate that color on my RGB screen that approximately corresponds to 630 nm wavelength then I could see if my optical filter stops that color to pass through it or not.
Any approximate look-up table can work for me as I know its not an exact mapping.


texts: Move design from Photoshop to Illustrator for printing

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I'm working on some business cards in Photoshop and I come understand it's not the best medium for print since it's not vector based like Illustrator.

I want to avoid the edges of my font from coming out "fuzzy" so of course I'm considering moving the design over to Illustrator but, it's definitely not my strong suite.

Is there anyway I can keep my design as a photoshop file and have it print out "crisp"?

Or

Is there a simple way to move it over in Illustrator and make everything vector based?

Btw: the designs are not graphic intense, more typography and shapes.


texts: What font is this? Font with curved A's?

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I'm trying to identify the font used in this heading from one of my son's DVDs:

Whatthefont wasn't even close. Identifont wasn't either. Not one of the fonts either suggested had curved lines on the A and l. The i looks almost like Futura Extra Bold, but it's missing the whimsical curves and many of the letter forms look totally different. Anyone have any ideas what this is? Or if not, something similar?


texts: Is there a way to stack two SVGs on top of each other?

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I have two SVG images:

1

 <svg width="260" height="260" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="rgb(255, 115, 0)" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">   <path fill-rule="evenodd" fill="rgba(146, 168, 209, .7)" d="M8 15A7 7 0 108 1a7 7 0 000 14zm0 1A8 8 0 108 0a8 8 0 000 16z" clip-rule="evenodd"/><circle cx="8" cy="8" r="7"/> </svg>

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<svg width="260" height="260" viewBox="0 0 147.9 65" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g id="svgGroup" stroke-linecap="round" fill-rule="evenodd" font-size="9pt" stroke="#000" stroke-width="0.25mm" fill="none" style="stroke:#000;stroke-width:0.25mm;fill:none"><path d="M 147.9 0 L 147.9 5.1 L 139.2 5.1 L 139.2 59.9 L 147.7 59.9 L 147.7 65 L 125.4 65 L 125.4 59.9 L 133.5 59.9 L 133.5 14.1 L 133.1 14.1 L 110 62.2 L 106.5 62.2 L 83.2 14 L 82.8 14 L 82.8 59.9 L 91 59.9 L 91 65 L 68.8 65 L 68.8 59.9 L 77.3 59.9 L 77.3 5.1 L 68.6 5.1 L 68.6 0 L 82.4 0 L 108.3 53.7 L 108.7 53.7 L 134.1 0 L 147.9 0 Z M 64.7 0 L 64.7 5.1 L 58.6 5.1 L 35 65 L 30.1 65 L 6.4 5.1 L 0 5.1 L 0 0 L 22.5 0 L 22.5 5.1 L 12.6 5.1 L 32.6 56.8 L 33.1 56.8 L 52.7 5.1 L 42.6 5.1 L 42.6 0 L 64.7 0 Z" vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke"/></g></svg>

I have only a basic idea of how it works, but I want the second one to be inside of the first one.
The first one is actually already a combination of two:

1.1

<svg class="bi bi-circle-fill" width="1em" height="1em" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

1.2

<svg class="bi bi-circle" width="1em" height="1em" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

It was easy to combine 1.1 with 1.2, however, I can't get my head around combining 1 and 2. I can understand that it has to do with different viewBox attributes for 1 and 2, but if I simply change it either for 1 or for 2 nothing good happens.

Given that the two SVG images have different viewBox attributes, Is there a way to put SVG 2 in the center of SVG 1 where 2 will be on the front and 1 will serve as a background?

There was a similar question here, but it describes combining two SVGs side by side. By recommendation of @mayersdesign I removed transform="translate(184.3)" attribute and it helped, it put one SVG on top of each other like that (not exactly the way I want it to look):

The code looks like this:

<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
 viewBox="0 0 368.6 184.3" style="enable-background:new 0 0 184.3 184.3;" xml:space="preserve">

Can the combination be made to look better?


texts: Scaled layer in background for 8 bit art

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I want to create some 8-Bit artwork using gimp. Is it possible to open a larger, higher resolution image and have it transparently in the background while drawing the 8 bit representation of say, bacon on a layer that is a different resolution but scaled to fit over the background image?

If that is not possible in Gimp, do you know a tool capable of that? (preferrably free)

Thank you very much in advance.


texts: How to move the background in After Effects?

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I have just started learning Adobe After Effects, and I couldn't find how to do this :

I have a character which looks like walking on a black background. So I want to move the background (or the camera?) to make the walk look realistic. How can I do that?

I can think of a way but I'm not sure :

I will prepare a very big image (all the possible positions of the background) and move it as an object.

Is this how I should do it? Also I would appreciate a tutorial link.

Thanks for any help !

Edit:

Sorry that I slightly "misworded" the question. Of course my background will not be plain black. It will consist of buildings, streets trees etc. I just need the way to move it so that the character will feel like walking.


texts: Overlap RGB values to produce a single color

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I am new at graphic design (obviously) and I would like to create a logo with overlapping colors to produce a desired color. In this case I would like to overlap 3 distinct colors (with I assume different opacities) to yield sapphire blue (#0F51BA). I have tried to overlap RG and B with different opacities of varying percentages* and I have gotten no success so far. So I am curious to how I would be able to derive different colors (with different opacities?) from a desired color that will overlap to produce that desired color. I added the picture below to somewhat represent what I am trying to accomplish.

*I specifically chose the percentages from what this site said http://www.color-hex.com/color/0f51ba


texts: How to use Rotate tool to create this window design?

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Hi

I'm looking for some way to create this window design with rotate tool

The Problem is I can't able to achieve the Beginning and ending of those Red shape as straight line (Green line as a guide)

I need some little gap between those shapes

How do I achieve this in Illustrator?


texts: How to hide html elements in mobile mode only

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I'm working with the following code on my squarepace Pacific template via the html code injection (the code creates a white double lined border around the page):

It works on the desktop mode but for mobile it cuts off the copy:

Does anyone know how to enable this border on desktop but remove it for mobile device?

Thanks!


texts: Non-contiguous stroke (pixels touching diagonally) in Photoshop

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I need to make a few custom subtitle bitmaps for a DVD. The trouble is that DVDs support only 3 colours, which gives me one colour for letters, one for anti-aliasing and one for outline.

What I've done is typeset the text white on black background, converted the image to 3-colour indexed mode, then selected the background (Magic Wand with zero tolerance), inverted the selection to get letters plus anti-aliasing, and applied 1 px stroke.

Now, the letters with anti-aliasing actually look half decent, considering the constraints, but the outline gives the whole thing an ugly squarish look.

I then took a closer look at some retail DVD subs and, among heaps of absolute abomination, found a specific type of rendering that manages to minimize the visual weight of the outline. It's hard to describe it, but unlike the usual Stroke in Photoshop, which makes all pixels fully touch, this draws them with only corners touching on non-straight lines.

So, the question is, is it possible to get this effect in Photoshop?

Here's a close-up of the comparison, with a few of the differences pointed out. Open the pic in a new tab to see it at actual size.


texts: Illustrator is Driving Me Crazy with My Epilog Laser Cutter

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Everyone. Thank you for accepting my membership.
I have recently acquired a wonderful Epilog laser cutter for my business, their entry-level Zing model, 30 watts.
I am using Adobe Illustrator and everything has been going well. Since this is new to me, I've just been cutting regular copy paper, for testing.
I first cut circles at 1.75" diameter and it cut like a champ -- no problem. Now I'm attempting to cut the shape below. As soon as I hit the green GO button, the Epilog beeps, the laser head doesn't move, and the window instantly says DONE. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.

I spoke to Epilog earler in the day, and they gave me some general guidance for setting up Illustrator.
Here's what they told me to do:

Go into Effects > Document Raster Effects Setting:

Change Resolution to 600

Set Color Model to RGB

When I did all these things with the regular circle, it worked fine.
In the Epilog interface in Setup, I went to Printer Preferences and set the exact same numbers with which I successfully cut the circles.
SPEED 50%
POWER 5%
FREQ 200
I made sure I clicked on Vector.
And...nothing happens.
Is there something else I must set in Illustrator because I am attempting to cut an unusual shape?
Thank you. I know people say to get Corel Draw but I'm pinching pennies, and Illustrator works great for my relatively simple designs.
Thanks in Advance.
Scratching My Head,
Scott


texts: Does my logo design convey the right feelings for a University Student's Council?

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I'm a self-taught graphic designer, I started some years ago making billboards because "you're the one who can use a computer" (I'm indeed a web developer) and since now I consider to have acquired some fine design feeling and skills.

I'm designing a logo for the newborn Student's Council of my University, in Italy. The council (CPS, Comitato Partecipativo degli Studenti, in Italian, translated as "Students' Participatory Committee") is headed by a student and is composed entirely of students.

The logo was conceived to embody the two main aspects of the committee:

It being for the students, by the students, modern and sensible to the student body inputs
It incorporating different "student parties" (as in political party) and uniting the students' representatives from all four of our departments.

The latter is symbolized by the four colors (which are the official colors of the four depts.) placed around the classic parlament hemicycle. The order of the colors was chosen by me to make it more visually pleasing.

The former is symbolized by the hemicycle, which looks like some sort of stylized "communication waves", much like the semicircles around antennas, and the downward slope of the text, which has the double purpose of making it more visually "captivating" and trying to make it stand out from classical institutional logos, and the font, rounder and more "friendly".

But, as I look at it, I cannot convince myself I've done a good job, while other friends of mine like it very much.

Is the color choice too much "colorful"? I fear that too many colors will render it unusable with non-white backgrounds.

Am I doing a terrible mistake by inserting a downward slope in the text?

I also cannot decide the correct spacing between the "C" and the hemicycle.

The logo will have a monochrome version for b/w prints and white-on-dark graphics.

Update

I've taken from both answers, and one of these will be the final logo. Thank you very much! I love stackexchange ❤


texts: Adobe Illustrator exporting layers to pdf

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Hi fellow designers!!

I've created a design in Adobe Illustrator and exported a PDF file that needs to be sent to the print shop where they can open it in Acrobat Pro DC.

The design is a folder that needs to be die-cutted and folded. I've created separate layers in Adobe Illustrator - with lines indicating where to cut or fold - and when they print I'm hoping that people can hide these layers so the lines won't get printed.

I've tried to open the exported PDF in Acrobat Pro DC - but I couldn't see the layers. Is there anything I need to take notice of while exporting PDF from Illustrator?

Thanks a lot!!!


texts: Graphic designer/illustrator about to buy my first display drawing tablet

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I really want a drawing tablet with a display. So far I've looked at the iPad Pro and Cintiq models. But I keep getting caught up in reading reviews, articles, blogs, etc., about each product that I keep forgetting to think back to core of what I'm looking for. I wish there was a person who knew everything about every product I could chat with, but a design forum is probably the closest I will get. I would be using the tablet for mainly sketching, illustrating, graphic design, and MAYBE animation. Here is a list of capabilities I'm looking for in a tablet (having no experience. Some of them might not even exist). (Features of high importance to me **)

** Display tablet (visual screen built in)
** Accurate touch point with virtually no lag
** Wide scope of pressure sensitivity
** Wireless capabilities (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, power. For sending files to my computer, working remotely without a power source, etc.)
** High definition, retina display, etc.
** Work directly in my Adobe programs (Photoshop and Illustrator at the LEAST. I also use InDesign, After Effects, and Flash)
* Use the tablet for other things, browsing web, games, Netflix, etc. (probably only iPad, huh?)
* Hook up with keyboard (I'm just thinking about shortcuts while using Adobe)
* Touch capabilities (I like the idea that I could move around the screen with my fingers, zoom, in, etc. I watched some videos on Cintiq and iPad Pro, and this would be amazing. But since I've never used a drawing tablet, I'm not sure how much of a pain not having it would be)
Ability to use as a mouse (I love using the Wacom Intuos. It would be nice to have the choice of working solely within my tablet, or on my MacBook while using my tablet as a mouse)
Screen protector that fits? For protection and maybe give it that rougher paper texture
Save files directly to the device

I know that this list is kind of insane, but I know I'm going to spend a pretty penny on this device and I want to make sure all (or most) of my needs are met. I'll probably go to Best Buy to try some tablets out and talk to someone who knows a little bit about what I need, but I'd rather here opinions from people in my field or any design-related field who has experience using tablets.


texts: How to convert clipping mask to individual paths?

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I'm a programmer, not a designer. I'm handy with a graphics program as long as it doesn't require artistic abilities. However, I'm not sure about the correct terminology.

I'm working with Adobe Illustrator 9. I have several files, provided by client, that I need to prepare for use in a PHP PDF creator (TCPDF). I'm saving as version 3 .ai files.

One of the files has a line through the text. The text has been converted to outlines. The line is a stroke with no fill. A clipping mask is used to hide any excess line.

Here is what it should look like.

And this is what it looks like inside the PDF that TCPDF created.

Apparently, TCPDF doesn't understand the clipping mask. TCPDF supports up to version 8, but that makes a bigger file. I tried version 8, just to see, and get the same results.

So how do I convert this to individual paths that TCPDF can understand?

I could do it manually by cutting the line into pieces, outlining the stroke, and then adjusting the shape to fit the letters. But is there an easier way?

In this case, it probably wouldn't be too hard. But I am going to have to prepare a variety of graphics and will likely run into some more complicated masks.


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Does anyone have advice on a lost soul?

I'm currently studying Civil Engineer already finished my second year. I hate it but I want to finish this degree. I've found myself interested in Graphic Design though I have no experience apart from an A* in A-level Art.

Would I have to start a whole new degree? Or is there another way, such as taking a foundation year? Is that enough to make me employable?

I just don't want to graduate at 25 as I'm already 20.


texts: Adding text with an action in Illustrator

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I make multi option proofs on a daily basis and have started setting up actions to simplify my repetitive steps. Is there a way to add text that is consistent on every proof by using an action? I have tried using the "insert menu item" option but when I type text in the box and hit search, only texture comes up. I also searched for type, and that added the word type to my action, but didn't let me add the actual text. I am also trying to add "resize artboard" to an action but am having no luck.
On the image below you can see the "Option A, Option B and Option C". When I have a proof with 3 plates like this, I would like to automate adding the "OPTION" text since it is in the same place every time.


texts: photoshop cc: creating transparent patterns within text

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I know how to create transparent text and have an image display within the text (clipping mask), but how do I create patterns (such as stripes) as transparent into text? Some examples:

These have text but also there are transparent stripes. I'd like to do something similar if its possible?


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I would like to ask you, if you know how can I replicate text selection overlay effect.

I tried to Invert colours, and also adding another shape and selecting blending mode Difference. Here is an example of what i'm trying to achieve:

The rectangle at the top has blending mode and the text beneath is just highlighted text - the effect I would like to achieve.


texts:
we are having problems trying to come up with a graph that would show the current and the estimated value, while maintaining the simplicity of the graph and still making it clear at first sight what is estimated and what is current.

Here are some graph types we tried before(don't mind the changing graphic style, we've settled on the flat, boxy style for now), from newest to oldest.

I kind of like the newest the best, the problem is when estimated becomes bigger than current, it'd have to switch colors and it could be confusing. The second is not bad either, but having them under each other adds to complexity.

What's worth noting is that the hero of the graph should be the estimated part, current got a graph of its own up above and it's here just for the context, so you can see the difference between current and estimated..

Which one do you think is the best, or do you have any other idea, perhaps something completely different(like only showing the difference or something), how to process this?


texts: What is this type of perspective called?

texts: The two Vanishing Points (yellow and purple lines, I think?) in this image are not on the same Horizontal Plain. We have been calling this “Split Perspective,” but so far have not been able to find the official terminology. (The image is a screen shot from the film “French Kiss.”)


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So I'm pretty noobish when it comes to Illustrator, but I can't tell what I'm doing wrong here. I've got this pattern brush on a path, and the path has some Width Points set on it, but I can't select Width Points as the source for the scale of the brush.

Every menu item is greyed out, which okay, I don't have a tablet plugged in so I get why I can't use pressure etc. but I don't understand why it won't let me use Width Points.

(This is CS6, btw).


texts: Saving SVG with transparent background in Inkscape

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How can I save an SVG file in Inkscape with a transparent background?

I've tried setting File > Document properties > Background color > Set the alpha channel to 0, but the resulting file has a white background when uploaded to my printer's website.


texts: Convert multi-layer Paint.NET (pdn) files to Krit (kra)

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I am moving to a Mac from Windows and thus moving away from Paint.NET.
I have several multi-layer Paint.NET (.pdn) files that I would like to continue using.  How can I move these easily to Krita?
I know I could save each layer as a separate image and create a new Krita project and add each layer one by one.  I would prefer a single multi-layer export and import or something simple like that.
I have one solution that I have discovered that I will post as an answer, but welcome any better answers!


texts: How do I join these two faces together, making the lines between them disappear?

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I have the following situation in Sketchup:

This is the situation I want to achieve (I didn't actually do this, I edited the lines out)

Is it possible to achieve this? I have tried joining, as cited by a source here but didn't find the Join tool mentioned. Whenever I simply remove the lines, the entire face of the horizontal bar gets removed with it. I don't want to stretch both the shapes out and ignore the problem because I ran into texturing issues doing this and  I want to limit the number of faces rendered. I see no reason for those lines to be there.

After this, I want to stretch the now joined plane to create a thicker horizontal bar like in the image below. (I was trying to make a low-poly streetlight)
I made this image by stretching both out and removing the lines afterwards, but when I looked inside of the model by hiding the front panel, there was a mess of lines where the smaller shape used to be that just couldn't be right.


texts: How to simulate weather conditions over a group of images

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I'm working on a machine vision project and work with a sequence of recorded stock images to test my algorithms with. They are city images that were recorded in relatively good weather conditions. Now I would like to be able to simulate some alternative weather conditions using these same pictures. I'm thinking of rain, fog, maybe even snow.

I was wondering if I could apply a filter as it is explained on https://www.lifewire.com/produce-fake-rain-in-gimp-1701711 to 1000s of the stock images I'm using?


texts: How can I achieve a ribbed pipe/tube effect in Photoshop or Illustrator?

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I'm looking to create a tube with an effect like the following - the cylindrical segments which come together to make a pipe. I was wondering how this might be achieved; You could layer ellipsis with lighting effects over each other, but does anyone know of an alternative method to achieve?

Yes, it looks something like a hoover pipe.


texts: Possible to have calculated text fields in photoshop like Excel cells?

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In excel we can have a cell which content automatically changes based on what is in another cell.

Example

   Cell 1      Cell 2
+----------+------------+
| tuesday  | 01/02/1980 |
+----------+------------+
| thursday | 03/02/1980 |
+----------+------------+

Cell 1 automatically changes based on the date in Cell 2.

Can we achieve similar in Photoshop? I have some text fields which must be the same in other areas of the document, rather than duplicate layers and manually move them around, I would rather just edit one field and the rest change automatically.


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I have a very old photograph that is scanned from a document dating to 1869. I do not have access to the source document.

The image itself is very badly sampled and looks almost completely black. Can anyone suggest some techniques/processes I could apply to help me try and recover some detail from the image?

I realise it's entirely possible that no detail now exists.

The image below is what I'm dealing with (extracted from a larger document):


texts: Adobe PDF file too big to upload. What are my options?

texts: I have 4 Illustrator (Adobe pdf) files I need to upload to a freelance website for a job I did. I saved each one as a PDF file but they are 184 MB each. The site only accepts files under 100 MB. Each file is 36 in X 24 in and 300 ppi. That's the size they need it printed at for a poster. Each consists of 1 large image for the background, a woman cut out in photoshop, and some text in "thought bubbles." What are my options to be able to upload them? I searched on here for duplicate questions but didn't see the same issue. Originally I had them done in Photoshop at 600dpi  but cut in half at 18x12 in. but they were still around 126 MB. Someone here mentioned it would be better in AI. Thanks for your help.


texts: Design safe area / top and bottom bars height through different systems and browsers

texts: When designing RWD how do You consider design safe area? For example in 1920x1080, do You design for 1080 or You shrink it? If shrink, how much, considering Windows and Mac and also different browsers? What's the safe height that takes in consideration every medium out there? We measured 980-970px for Windows but it's 948-900px for OS X - what do You think?


texts: How to handle drop caps when the first word is just one letter?

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Suppose you have a document or similar where each section starts with a drop cap.
What's the standard typographical way to do these drop caps when the first word of the section is one letter long? E.g. "A" or "I".
If you do them exactly the same as normal, it'll look like the first and second words run into each other. For example, this post from Viz at first looks like it says "Anotice":

Adding a space before the second word would look misaligned with the second line.
The only other option I can think of is to increase the indent so all the indented lines are one space's width more indented than they'd normally be. Is this a standard practice?


texts: How to create a page template of solid and dotted lines for handwriting practice?

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I am looking to make a tear off children's handbook for writing practice of words. I wanted to know how make "dotted lines" or "four lines" template that is to the standards of what child handbooks have.

Is there any template in illustrator or InDesign?
Is there a specific measurement between those lines?


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I have added end arrows to some connectors and Bézier curves, but I cannot find how to set their colour, since they appear to be concerned neither by the background settings nor by the outline ones. They remain black no matter what.

How can I assign a given colour to an arrow?


texts: How do pixel artists create random colours for example Grass. Some games use a Grass texture with different colours That are green and are similar. I jist want to know how people create it.


texts: How to choose a PMS colour close to a certain CMYK value?

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How do I get a Pantone (PMS) ink colour similar a specified CMYK colour? Is it possible that in some cases the PMS swatch chosen doesn't eactly match the CMYK colour?

How would you go about this when choosing brand colours? Choose a Pantone colour first, or choose the CMYK value first?

I'm working in Adobe Illustrator if that's relevant.


texts: SVG Website Logo Aliasing Issues (uneven and messy when scaled down)

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Website logo is an SVG and looks like this:

When I resize it by setting my logo width on my website it turns into this:

If you zoom in you can see the image is lumpy, uneven and messy. For example, the middle line is off-center, the left line is blurry and two pixels wide, the right line is sharp and one pixel wide, some of the small inner lines are sharp and bright the rest are blurred... I am really confused as I thought SVG files should scale as closely as possible but this is all over the place.

How do I ensure the logo remains pixel perfect and symmetrical at all sizes? Am I resizing it wrong or is the SVG file itself too intricate to scale? Perhaps the lines are not truly centred?
How do I communicate this issue to our graphics designer?

Many thanks!


texts: How do I get my vector logos to look super sharp on the web?

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I do a lot of work with Illustrator, but I've never been super happy with how my work looks on our website. I've tried various techniques - saving from Illustrator, and opening in Photoshop and saving - but I'm still missing something.

Ed. The logo was only ever supplied as AI. I get the same slightly fuzzy result whether I'm saving for web & devices from Illustrator, or taking the vector into Photoshop. I tend to scale in Illustrator to the required size, and then save for web (inc type optimised - there's text in the logo).


texts: Do I need permission to use cars in samples?

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I made design software and I'm making samples of its use.

Am I allowed to use things like mini-coopers in my samples?

What are the legal guidelines for using another company's products in my sample designs?


texts: Design Nuances: Can they add value to any design, or are they simply a personal taste decision?

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Update

Since asking this question, I've come to a better understanding of how question scope should be defined (more precisely than this question's original version), so I'll better define the scope herein.

Nuances in Interface Design

Somewhere in my question, Do Interfaces Really Need to Look Good?, a user expressed vivid appreciation for the nuances of graphic design, expressing their importance. I didn't agree so much with the importance of such subtle features in graphic design, so I posed this question.

Are the nuances of graphic design important?

In user interface design, I've heard artists stress that the "smaller things" are actually of equal importance with the "general features", or at least, very important.

General Definition of Nuances

The smaller things are the subtle features, the nuances of an interface's design. The effects of light touch, going unnoticed without close inspection but contributing to the page in a collective way.

I personally love to pay attention to finer detail; I think subtle detail collectively makes a design unique and adds finesse. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a very important aspect of interface design.

Example

Facebook:

While Facebook's design is beautiful, crisp, and, in my personal opinion, good-looking, all of the visual features that I see are very obvious, each serving a specific purpose. I don't see anything that goes unnoticed at the first glance.

Every feature seems to be an important aspect of the page's layout and functionality, not a supporting detail that adds unnoticed finesse to the design.

Twitter:

Twitter, on the other hand, shows a handful of interface design nuances. Subtle outlines, the subtlety through which the twitter icon is engraved (top, center), faint clouds in the background, as well as a few other non-functional, decorative features of subtlety in mobile versions of the interface.

Many of the features seem to provide subtle, decorative value to the interface's design without directly contributing to the its functionality in an obvious way.

The (Updated) Question is:

Can these nuances add value to any design, or are they simply a personal taste decision?


texts: Indesign - TOC divided in multiple categories

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This is something related to the question "Indesign - TOC with one chapter heading, multiple page headings".

I'd like Indesign to generate a TOC like this one:

News

item 1
item 2

Culture

item 4
item 5

The problem is that my pages are not in order, which means that in the document there might be a News page first, then a Culture one, then another News one. It would be amazing if Indesign could put them automatically under the right category, but I'm not sure if it's possible.

Do you have any advices? Thanks.


texts: Using a Smart Object as a mask for another layer?

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Let's say I create a complex smart object containing layers, filters, effects, shapelayers, etc.

Then, in the main comp I want to use that smart object to mask another layer/smart object with.

However, I do not want to see the masking smart object itself.

Is there a configuration, such as blend mode, or similar, that lets me do this, without just adding a layer mask and copying over the visible parts?

Basically, I want to let the smart object (the mask) be fully editable, and make it automatically apply as a mask to another layer/smart object, with no manual steps other than editing the smart object.

Note, I am specifically not asking how to make a "clipping mask", by Alt-clicking on the separator line between two layers. I know about this function, but if the layer above (the one being clipped) is transparent, parts of the layer below (the one masking) will be visible. That's what I want to avoid.

Basically, to reproduce an example comp, create two layers by using the rectangular marquee tool, and creating two solid color layers, of different colors:

+==============+
I              I
I              I
I      +------------+
I      |            |
I      |            |
I      |            |
+======|            |
       |            |
       +------------+

Then I want to mask the topmost layer so that only that layer is visible, but only the parts masked by the bottom layer, without the bottom layer being visible, like this:

       +-------+
       |       I
       |       I
       |       I
       +=======+

With a straight clipping mask, I would still see the underlying layer.


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I'm using Photoshop CC 2015.

For webshop needs I have to create svg file from the below image. The plan is that the color of the object from the image can be fully changed without loos of object relief. The object is the blanket which has the tiny hairs that should be visible regardless of color change. The color of the blanket on the image should be as close as possible to a RGB color that user has entered.

So, I was thinking of making two layers. Bottom layer fully colored by user choice. And the top layer white, i.e. 40% transparent. But, done so, the problem is that the color of the blanket is not as the entered color, as the top layer changes the full image color. So, that doesn't work for me.

Is there any tool in PS that could change the blanket color by entering only RGB color, but that the image remains realistic? Any other ideas how to achieve this?

As I said, it's important that I can change the color programmatically via SVG.

Edit 1:

Thanks to @Scott solution I have achieved what I wanted. But, the problem with exporting to SVG occurred.

As stated in @Scott solution, I made two layers: Bottom "Layer 0" (100% fill, normal bend mode) layer and top "Color Fill 1" (100% fill, Hue bend mode) layer shown on the next image...

When the export to SVG is done, this is what opens in browser

Edit 2:

I made the next example to show the problem.

This is the SVG export window


texts: I am creating a website and I have the logo. When I insert the logo in the HTML basically as a fav icon in the tab, it appears so small. The question can any body help to increase its size so it can be big and clear.


texts: Can this design be considered as a banner?

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EDIT

Thanks for your answers, they're all pertinent to the question I've asked.

However, it's not really what I've been expecting, i.e. it's not the right question I've asked !

Can you tell whether this entitles to be considered as a banner or not ?

Portion of the banner at 1:1

Full banner (right-click and open image in new tab on your browser to see it at 1:1 scale)

EDIT

I forgot a detail actually, its usage will be in a desktop application.


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I have an image with color (in photoshop), it is 512x512 with a radius of 80.  This image has several blending options like color overlay, gradient, pattern overlay, etc.

I am trying to export this image to illustrator so I can add a 3d effects but when I import it to illustrator,  and select the image, the outline is boxed and not curved to the radius so when I add the 3d effect, it's essentially a cornered box and not a rounded box.

How do I get the outline to snap to the edge of the image and not edge of the canvas size?


texts: Practices for making visual ideas into real designs

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As far as I can see, creating graphic design goes through two main steps.

Coming with up an idea.
Turning the idea into a real design.

I find that I am stuck in the first step.

I am new to graphic design with little professional training or real project experiences.

I love this field and can feel a bunch of lovely visual ideas constantly emerging in my head.

The disappointing fact is I can neither make those ideas into real designs nor become satisfied with the work I have attempted (both possibly because of my lack of skills and experience).

I believe there are some (possibly many) of you who have gone through this anxious period and I wonder how you have reacted to make yourself better at turning visual thoughts into real designs.


texts: How do two different colors match in strength?

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I am not a designer, just an average man with no business in graphic design. But sometimes I see two colors in an ad or in the clothing shop and I can say that they are a perfect match. As if they have the same strength.

My question is how, using some computer program, transform e.g. red color into green color of the same strength? (so they match)


texts: Creating object connectors in Inkscape - how to get rid of gap?

texts:
The connectors I create between two square boxes leave a gap. How do I fix that:

I connected the centers and was expecting the line start/end at the border of the shape, instead I get this gap.


texts:
How can I get rid of these 3 PMS channels, without flattening it and losing the transparency?

Thanks All!


texts: How many different colours can I have in a data visualisation?

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I've designed a (6x6) matrix of similarity values, where there are 10 different values. I want to assign color to the cells that the values are representing, where color signifies a certain value.

Is there a limit on how many colours I can use in a visualisation? I'm trying to find related papers or documents that argue for or against using more than 6 colours (6 is an example).


texts: Illustrator: stop gradient from applying to new objects

texts: I used a linear gradient onto a line and now it applies to every new object I create. How can I stop this?


texts: Pen Tool in Illustrator (Creating a new layer)

texts: I would like to know how to set it so that when I start a new shape with the pen tool in Illustrator it creates a new layer every time. I can't seem to find the setting for it, can anyone be of assistance?


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I want to clip the image in the background using the image on top based on the transparency

Original link: http://prntscr.com/8brfnb

I want the areas that are under the opaque parts of the top image to be deleted/subtracted

Is this possible with Illustrator? How can it be done?


texts: How to draw these subtler but standard emojis in monochrome

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I'm looking at this and this for basic text emoticons, and some of the standard graphical ones we use today aren't really easily done in text, and don't seem easy to do in monochrome without the use of gradients.

I'm wondering if one could offer some suggestions how to potentially convert the following standard emojis to something monochrome (and gradientless, i.e. basic vector).

You'll notice on the Wiki link that many of these have close variants that are doable in plain ascii, but I selected the ones that I thought would be harder. Specifically, the long tears, the hearts, the blushing, the subtle happy eyes. I am in particular wondering about for small resolution, like what you see when you paste an emoji here for example: ☺. Maybe a little bit larger, that's pretty small. It's the gradients mostly that make it seem difficult, as well as the intricate detail in some of them.

If I try to draw the first one in monochrome it looks like a clown :'(


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I have created text in Illustrator that I want to show in an arc'ed format.  I selected the text and then chose Effect/warp then I chose the type of arc I wanted.  So far so good.  The text shows as arc'ed BUT it also shows in a straight line underneath the arc'ed text.

Can someone please tell me how to do this without ending up with two sets of the same text?


texts: Illustrator: transparent shapes used as highlights are visible

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Looking for some help rasterizing / flattening a complex image.

Here is the image in Illustrator as it should look, placed on a white background.

The image needs to ultimately remain a vector EPS that can be placed on different backgrounds, etc. However, when it is placed on a coloured background, the shapes and paths I overlaid to create highlights are visible. Here is the image moved off of the art board so you can see it set on the grey:

How do I rasterize / blend the shapes so that they do not appear and simply function as a highlight effect?

This is the file: http://hospitalgrade.net/media/object-blue%20grad-highlight%20adjust.rar


texts: Some general guidelines for choosing images in webdesign

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So here's a good question: one problem that often comes up is a client asks for a site, but they have no content (specifically images) and so leave it up to the designer to find appropriate images to use. The first thing a lot of people will do (including myself sadly until recently: is go and find stock images of smiling business people that all look like models, or worse pictures of handshakes, little icons hugging a globe) and these all lead to generic looking websites that reveal zero about the company or brand you're trying to represent, and might even damage the brand by making it seem unpersonable and lifeless.

So here's the question: what might be some good(general) guidelines for choosing images for client work when they don't provide any: thoughts?


texts: How to get rid of weird black borders in Krita?

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Can you provide steps to get rid of those ugly borders while painting in Krita.  Here's what I am talking about:

Here's how to prevent it in Photoshop but that's not available in Krita.
https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photoshop-computes-color-incorrectly-but-theres-an-easy-fix/
Thanks.


texts: What are the most important qualities to look for when hiring a great mobile UI designer for a consumer-facing Internet startup?

texts: I'm looking for an experienced mobile UI designer to lead the vision and design for our iphone and android applications.  What characteristics, experience or requirements would a mid-to-senior level mobile app UI designer have to have?


texts: The new Opera logo looks really nice and so does the 2011 Office for Mac icons. What style are they?


texts: How to make a black and white inked effect?

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I want to make normal looking pictures look like they were inked on paper, so give them a 'rough' inked look. Is it possible to achieve this effect in photoshop?

This the effect I want to achieve:

I hope someone can help me!


texts: Given one exact measurement, how can I use it to measure the rest?

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I'm asking how to use a given measurement to create a custom scale that I can use to accurately measure the rest.

I have a vector file that looks like:

I wish to measure parts of the car, to build a 3D model.

How can I use the single measurement provided to measure the rest?

Which of the Adobe CS5 programs can I use for this, and what tool should I use?