texts: How can I use motion graphics templates created in Adobe AE CC 2018 in older software (CC 2017, CS 6)?

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First of all: why would somebody break backwards compatibility or at least don't offer a way to downgrade project files or uses an open file format at last?

Secondly: I've made a lower third template in AE 2018 for my client, unfortunately they only work with Premiere Pro 2017 (or lower) without the new motion graphics feature. I, on the other hand, can only use the current Adobe Suite. Now I'm looking for a way to make my template compatible without the need to rebuild the whole project. I even can't open an ordinary Premiere project in an older version... why Adobe, why?

I'd be glad if somebody could offer workflow!


texts: What do I need to manipulate in GIMP to follow these specific color patterns I'm working with?

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I am using GIMP and my images are appearing darker in an app I'm using, specifically OOTP 18. For example, my blue #0054a4 displays as a darker blue #003184, when I need it to appear as blue #004295 to match the blue in the game. There is a consistent pattern happening for all colors, but I don't know what exactly I need to manipulate on GIMP. Here is an example of what's happening to my colors from lightest to darkest:

RED: png file color #CE1041 --> file stores as #C40930 --> display result #B90421

and then...

BROWN: #965C0E --> #854907 --> #733703

BLUE: #0054A4 --> #004295 --> #003184

I need to figure out what I need to manipulate, or what is a common pattern between these colors to have the next lightest set of colors to match the other similar images in the game. The built-in images in the game are proprietary, and therefore can't be viewed or opened. I only use GIMP and Mac Preview, unless anyone can recommend another free editor that will do the trick.


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Hey guys!

I've been working on this for a long time. How would I overlap the "ACM" over the belly of this penguin? I tried to move the "A", "C", and "M" layers over the belly, use Object >> Arrange >> Bring to front, but nothing changed.


texts: How do I change the dimensions of a cylinder in PS CS6 for 3D mapping?

texts: Scenario : The standard cylinder for mapping in PS is a tall and skinny shape. I want to map to a "tuna can" shape. How do I edit the dimensions of the cylinder I want to map my 2D art to?


texts: Illustrator: changing the opacity of fill and stroke independently won't work

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I've read various threads on how one can change the opacity values of stroke and fill individually by going to the Appearance panel. Unfortunately I cannot do that and I'mm stuck.

As you can see in the picture, when I'm selecting the yellow triangle and going in the Appearance panel, I get a fill and stroke option, but when I adjust them, nothing happens to my shape. This is a mixed object but even when I expand fill & stroke and ungroup the shape, I cannot adjust the fill opacity.

I want to adjust all three triangles' fill opacity without affecting the stroke. Please help.


texts: Critique Request: Very Generalized Catering Logo

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Update:
First Try:

I used the advice here and went back to the drawing board, wracking my brain for some creativity with this name and developed:

A "C" icon representing (hopefully) a borderline mix between a grill and a silver platter

The focus on the letter group "eat" in "creative"

A fruit basket holding the "O", using the leaf to replace the "i" top

A bright blue and green out door scene. I just needed to push "visionary" and a bright outdoor letter background was the only option that seemed to fit the logo.

Second Try:

I'll keep this design in mind, but Scott's right when he says too much is going on, the C isn't right, the fruit basket isn't right, (and there shouldn't really be fruit anyway). The fruit and outdoors text backgrounds would make a nice fruit orchard logo, but this one is dead for this purpose. I let the design lead me rather than the topic. Time for a redraw.
~ Going 85% back to the drawing board on this one.

Original:
A client wants a logo that (And I quote the client):

stands out (duh)
looks professional
expresses creativity
shows "all kinds of catering" (The client caters a wide range of events/ is open to any and all types of catering business. There is no central genre focus.)

This is a black and white draft that I'm considering for initial presentation

Cons that I recognize:

It doesn't seem to fully express "all kinds of catering" -- a platter like that appears pretty fancy.

Pros that I recognize:

Simplicity: A good logo should be easily recognizable through a large range of sizes and mediums.

Easily Animated: As a web developer, I like the potential that I see for animation. The platter opening to reveal "Creative" and thus forming the logo can be easily and nicely arranged into an SVG and animated for a nice header or intro piece.

Looking for general advice, best practices, comments, and improvements.


texts: InDesign - Changing the number type of the previous level in a multi-level list?

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I'm trying to create a multi-level list in InDesign (CC 2017) which goes as follows:

PART I   Heading
         1.1  Subheading
         1.2  Subheading
PART II  Heading
         2.1  Subheading
         2.2  Subheading

My problem is that I can't find any way to change the number style of the level-one list items when referenced in by the level-two list items, so what appears is:

PART I   Heading
         I.1  Subheading
         I.2  Subheading
PART II  Heading
         II.1  Subheading
         II.2  Subheading

This doesn't look great. I've looked around for a solution but haven't turned up anything helpful. I'm guessing this is impossible and I need to either settle for "PART 1", "PART 2" level-one headings, or manually create the "PART I", "PART II" headings outside of the list, but I'd love for you to correct me on that point.

Here's the style panes:

Thanks!


texts: Make sharp dashed line path stroke on rounded corners in Photoshop?

texts: Following this answer, I've tried to make rounded corners with dashed stroke, but the output is blurry. Is there any method to make a sharp dashed stroke in Photoshop?


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i'm working over some artwork but the document size showing in the photoshop in the system i'm using is more than 1 GB. Although, the size of the PSD file is 33.6 mb. Due to this, photoshop is hanging and i'm not able to work properly over the artwork. i'm attaching the document size underneath.

i just want to know that why the photoshop is showing 1.17 GB?

Moreover, how can this problem be resolved?


texts: How to make night effect and empower car with extra lights

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I'm new to design and it would be great if you could help me out here.

I have a photo of a car:

and I want to make a very realistic effect of night and put some extra, cool lights on top of the car, and make some sort of realistic light from it and how is it lighting the path for the car in the darkness :) I'm like super excited and trying everything around, but all I'm getting is very, very unrealistic effects... besides, I don't know how to make some things like this one below(with perspective) and would be glad if you could tell me how should I do this.

So, I took this image of lights

But didn't know how to make a right perspective(tried the "perspective" transform, but it didn't help much)

Thanks in advance!

I can't post any more links because of my reputation, so I decided to give you one more photo:


texts: How would I make the white highlights like what you see in the fingernails of this image?  I've tried several methods but nothing comes out looking this nice.


texts: Fireworks master pages the same as shared layer?

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The more I'm using shared layers, the more I believe there's no real difference between 'Share Layer To All Pages' and master pages. Except for layer sharing being way more flexible, because you can put a shared layer on top of all the others.

Are there any benefits in using a master page?


texts: GIMP - how to make transparent brush from an image layer?

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I would like to make a (semi-)transparent brush in GIMP.

Starting from an image of marble with white background and veins in shades of grey, using various layers I selected the white to alpha and then changed the Hue, so now I have nice red veins on a transparent layer. I would like to turn this transparent layer with the red veins into a brush.

However, whatever I try, the brush has a white background colour (even when I delete all other layers).

I just want the veins on the brush, no background colour. Is there any way to retain the transparency while creating the brush?

Thanks!
Gladys.


texts: Why is my color being darkened when printed?

texts: I am creating a logo and I am using Pantone 638U in Illustrator.  I know Pantone has to be premixed but I just wanted to test print on my printer in CMYK.  So I converted it to cmyk which is C83 M0 Y10 K0.  My document is in CMYK mode and I am using View > proof colors.  Here is a photo of what result I am getting.  The left is on screen and the right is (approximately) the printed result.


texts: What is the maximum number of glyphs an OpenType Collection can hold?

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If I understand correctly, OpenType font files (.otf) can possess a maximum of 65,535 glyphs.

What, if any, is the maximum number of glyphs an OpenType Collection file (.otc) can hold?


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What would be the best way to subtract the radial (shape 1) lines from the grey ellipse (ellipse 1) so that the background image (ios7 wallpaper) would be visible as a "notch" effect and so the background image remains visible in the centers as well?

Tutorial from http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/flat-design-countdown-timer/

Thanks!


texts: How to get rid of background on exportable symbols in Sketch?

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I have a symbol in sketch which I need to export. Whenever I make it exportable, it generates a large rectangular background to the symbol, which is not what I want. I want the symbol only as a png with no background.

I've never had this problem in the past, it usually just exports properly. I did, however, just upgrade to Sketch V.52, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

How do I get rid of the background? Thank you!!


texts: Adding anchor points offset from intersections automatically in Illustrator

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I'm a stained glass artist using Illustrator to create patterns and cutting templates. I'm always looking for ways to simplify and automate things.
My designs are ultimately just a series of paths crossing each other on a simple Illustrator artboard. Here's a zoomed in example of an intersection of two paths where 4 pieces of glass would meet.
I'd like to automatically have the paths be a different stroke width or color a specific distance (say for example, 2mm) leading up to the intersection along each path, to speed up measuring the lengths of joining material that happens at these intersections.
I know that I can do this manually by creating a 2mm circle centered at the intersection, using Pathfinder->Outline, and deleting the parts I don't need. This then lets me control and stroke or color the lines leading up to the intersection, as needed.
For small designs, this workflow is fine. For large designs (100s of intersections), this would be pretty tedious, and not worth the effort. Is there any way to automate this a bit using the path offsetting tools or scripts or something?


texts: .eps logo disappears when I export artwork

texts: I am creating a print advert artwork for a magazine on illustrator cs6. However, I'm having problems with one .eps logo on the artwork which disappears once I export the artwork as a jpeg. What could be causing this particular logo not to show once I export the artwork as a jpeg, yet the 2 others are showing?


texts: What is a difference in Css frameworks vs preprocessors

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I am somewhat confused as a graphic designer. What is that distinguish them.
I know what both provide to some extent. Like I read about LESS and liked it.
I guess i want to know what is a difference between framework and preprocessor.


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I'm taking some photos I've took and I'm attempting to pixel art-ify them.

Before, I have used Illustrator for this, but I found using a box->split into grid->live paint group to be cumbersome, memory-intensive, and a roundabout way of doing things. However, it let me lay the photo underneath the live paint group and trace it. Which is how I come to my current situation;

I'm making these pixel graphics 150x150.

In Illustrator, I could trace it out where each pixel in my graphic equated multiple pixels in the image (i.e., the image below may be 500x500, but the pixel grid live paint group was 150x150).

In Photoshop, if I try to resize the image down to 150x150, it gets super blurry and hard to make out the details.

TLDR; Is there a way to make an image appear "smaller" in photoshop without actually modifying it/reducing the pixel count, or; is there a way to draw larger pixels?

Edit it seems there is some confusion. I'm not trying to take a picture and turn it into pixel art, I'm trying to use it as a guide when creating my own image from scratch.


texts: Image search engine, but for logos / How do you spot plagiarized logos?

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Is there such a thing?

A search engine where you're able to upload an image with a logo, and you get results of sites that are using that logo :)

I tried Googles image search: http://www.google.com/imghp (click on the camera, then upload image), but the results are pretty poor.


texts: How to create the blur like in this low quality photo?

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I'm looking for a way to do that type of blur with Photoshop.

Anybody ?

You can find more examples on Wiz's Instagram account.


texts: 3dsmax - Snap a single vertex of an object to a 0,0,0 (world), moving the entire object with it

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I need to position an object at 0,0,0 in the world for game engine purposes. Exporting as an OBJ seems to ignore the pivot entirely.

Currently, I'm using a cube with a corner at 0,0,0 and lining the object up by eye but this is tedious and non-exact. How do you actually do this?


texts: Pairing a bold geometric sans-serif with a light transitional sans-serif

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I'm looking for a good heading typeface to pair with Numbus Sans Light body copy.  I tried a few modern and transitional serifs but I didn't really like them.  I think Futura PT Heavy would look good, but this is a violation of the "pair serifs with sans-serif" rule.

Do font pairs like this contrast enough to work well? (Main heading could also be normal caps or small caps)


texts: Changing an all Black Icon to a Colored Icon

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I recently bought an icon set of all black icons (http://glyphicons.com/).  These icon's look really sharp, however I am interested in changing the color of some of them so something other than black (shade of green, red, etc).

I am kind of novice with image editing (I use Paint.NET - I can do some things, am familar with basic concepts like layers, clone stamps, etc).

I have a color replacer plugin for Paint.NET that I can use to change black to my new desired color - but the icons lose their "sharpness" because of the lighter grays that exist around the main dark black portions of the icon.

Is this an easy thing to do?  Or am I just being lazy - do I need to just change every color, even the lighter shades, to my color - shade by shade?

Here is an example of one of the icons I want to turn to a different color:

Also - I am willing to use GIMP or some other free editor to accomplish this. I like Paint.NET, but am not married to it.


texts: What is the best process to test Pantone formulas for plastic before production?

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We've been tasked with designing a plastic straw that will have a printed logo.

The Pantone colour of the plastic straw (320 C) and the printed logo (7700 C) have been provided by the client, although they have only ever used these Pantone colours for their screen and print mediums - they haven't ever used these for producing plastic or printing on plastic.

Can anyone suggest a process to test our designs using Laser or Inkjet printers before it goes to production? Which colour books and tool would be most useful?


texts: PNG images from Illustrator have a pixelated border in InDesign

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I've never had a problem with my exported graphics in InDesign before, but I'm definitely having one now. The PNG graphics I am making in Illustrator and then importing, have a pixelated border in Indesign as you can see below.

My export settings from illustrator are as follows

I am using the File>Place function to import my graphics. The Display performance settings in InDesign are set to high quality display, and the pixelated border is still there when I export to PDF. I can't tell what I'm doing wrong!

Anyone have any suggestions?


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"Kitchen 154" is a "punkish" restaurant that offers casual spicy food in Madrid, Spain, and I am updating their logo.

They started with a lean DIN 1451 Std font. Now I am "grunging" it a little bit.

Is it too obvious to use grungy artline with the concept "casual-rock and roll cooking"? I prefer to use full-filled shapes with one color instead of textures. This logo will have to work for printing, signs and online.
Is the pepper too "mellow and nice"? Do I need to use a different style of pepper? Peppers and hot food is very obvious IMHO (along with flames and fire) but clients really love it... Any suggestions to replace the pepper?
Same with red-black colors. What other colors would work as well?
"NI GASTRO NI POLLAS" is quite rude as a claim, and people love it. It means something like "Food. No snooty shit here".

Am I on the right direction? Are the new logos better than the old ones?


texts: Why Font becoming blur while exporting as .png? How to export correctly?

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While exporting image from Photoshop, The text is slightly loosing its sharpness.

But When I take the same as screenshot (or by using the snipping tool)the sharpness remains.

The following image is showed for comparing both exported from Photoshop and using snipping tool

Please help to solve the exporting issue to export exact font.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to use WCAG requirements for logo text contrast in interface?

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Please, help!! I've read rules from WCAG (Accessibility Guidelines) for using logo text contrast in the interface. The rule 1.4.3 https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html It is said that "Text that is part of a logo or brand name has no minimum contrast requirement". BUT In the rule 1.4.5 https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-text-presentation.html It is said that "Logotypes (text that is part of a logo or brand name) are considered essential". And we need to follow AA Level of Conformance according to this rule. AND In the rule 1.4.9 https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-text-images.html It is said that "Logotypes (text that is part of a logo or brand name) are considered essential". And we need to follow AAA Level of Conformance.

I wonder where is the key? I have text logo made for website. What rules should I follow in Accessibility Guidelines to make good contrast for logo?

Thanks a million!


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Possible Duplicate:
  Name and possibly a tutorial for this inset rounded rectangle technique

I'm looking for some special effect to accomplish in Photoshop for both text and a rectangle. Please have a look of below screen cast:

http://screencast.com/t/TSeeuWAfgMyh

You can see rectangle with some inside effect and seems empty area. Can anyone guide how to get this effect in Photoshop?


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I have an image about 1000 by 600px.

In Photoshop CS5 I could set the pixel width of the line to say, 3 px and drag the mouse from point A to B to create the line. Now, in CS6with the vector system, I cannot set the WEIGHT of the line to less that .35mm. I cannot create a thin line!!

Grrrr


texts: How to eliminate angle parts of triangle to get six sided polygon with mask in Photoshop CS 5 or 6

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I'm trying to recreate this image  with help of a Rectangle Tool (U) and masks as it was suggested in chat room, but so far I was able to do it by adding three rectangles, where two of them were turned a bit for lower cuts. Still due to stroke on main triangle I was unable to get exactly same shape as on image above.

Could anyone provide maybe an article or link to a tutorial.

PS. Obviously I could just cut those parts off. I'm more interested in masks usage to achieve that.


texts: Cannot modify my handcoded SVG with Illustrator

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I've handcoded a logo for my website with SVG markup in a text editor: https://codepen.io/Deka87/pen/LQzgrz?editors=1000.

I saved its contents in a brand.svg file and tried to open it with Illustrator to save as a PNG image. I got no error messages (e.g. those that the svg is not valid), however it appeared as a blank white image there.

Is there anything I missed while handcoding the SVG? Any help would be highly appreciated.


texts: Photoshop -- How to stop patch tool from smudging nearby pixels as last step? (quick video demo)

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I've created a very, very short video displaying my problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobFes92_Fg&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

Its a pretty succinct issue. Photoshop's patch tool is pretty awesome, until I release the mouse button and it smudges nearby pixels into my selected-to-be-patched area.

Wanting to know how I can prevent that from happening. Thanks

EDIT: I've gotten a bit more "performance" I guess you could say from the "Content-Aware" patch, but nothing as good as what the patched area looks like just before I released the mouse button...

EDIT: The (mac) keyboard shortcuts for the brush (B) and eyedropper (I) tool are my working solutions to the larger issue. Still wanting to know how to get the patch tool to work for me though. Its a tighter solution.


texts: How can I create a large-size water caustics texture for animation?

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I'm really having a hard time trying to find SOMETHING on how to create a fairly decent water caustics effect for an animation. The only thing I've found is a program that generates textures for me (Caustic Generator), however with the free version of this tool the textures max out at 512px. I'm trying to get something like this:

I own Adobe Creative Suite.


texts: Searching for a font that's similar to Lato

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I need to find a font just like Lato font that includes a Latin Extended version. I like Lato but it doesn’t include characters from Latin Extended and so I can’t type ş, ğ etc.

Here's an example screenshot:

I’m using this font for my web-site project.


texts: Saving Batch Files With Slight Hue Adjustments in Photoshop

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I have a file with several layers that need to be created with very minor differences in hue and saved.

I've created this example for simplicity.

I have 2 layers 1 with a red circle, and 1 with a blue circle. Each of those layers has a hue/saturation adjustment layer clipped to them currently with no changes.

Is it possible to automate a small change to the hue value (and not necessarily by the same values) and save the file, doing this in bulk until I had values for each possible hue?


texts: I am trying to understand the logic behind these "loose" grid systems often used to display photographs. I have tried deconstructing these types of grids but can't seem to find a coherent explanation as to how the positioning and scale of images is determined. Please see examples below.


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Does the quality of JPEG pictures changed when cropped in any app editting pics?
and

*what can I do to have a high resolution JPEG pics and unchangale (vector) format?, because as i know that using illustrator gave you this feature (vector pics\unchangable resolution)..

I'm confused ~

thanks,

regards


texts: Make transparent text with drop shadow with Affinity Designer

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I'm trying to make transparent text with a drop shadow in Affinity Designer. So far I have had no luck.

I want the end result to be similar to this. (It's hard to tell, but the text is transparent)

Is this possible?


texts: How to pan with the hand tool in Photoshop CS6 when the view is "Fit on screen"?

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I would like to be able to pan an image while I'm seeing 100% of the image, but Photoshop doesn't allow me to do. Do you know any workarounds?

I'm using Windows.


texts: PDF prints don't look the same as the on the computer

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I've created some images in Illustrator (simple portraits to be exact). I have been using the "Save As" option to save PDF Versions to email to my boss for the past few weeks.

Here is my problem: Now that I have begun printing, the prints have glitches all over them. Some of the shapes and paths are not filled all the way in and have white spaces, and in some spots I can see the bottom layers coming through the top layers.

For example, the white of the eyes may show up on the eye-lid, even though the eye-lid is on TOP. I'm not understanding why the PDF files look so great on the computer screen, but my prints look so screwed-up.


texts: How to change RGB to CMYK color specific in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I am using adobe illustrator cc 2018. I have a color #ff32cb. I want to convert it to CMYK same as it is looking. If i use this code in cmyk then its not same.(see image attached. Right color is rgb, i want same in left in cmyk) Please help me how to do it. Thanks


texts: Stroke of diagonal triangle not lining up with stroke of rectangle. Points of stroke are over-extending anchor points

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I'm drawing a basic ribbon. I have a triangle for the fold of the ribbon.

My problem is that despite the anchor points being in the correct position, the points of the stroke (top right and bottom left) are over-extending.

How can I fix this?


texts: Importing highly complex(maybe vector) graphics[3D model] from PDF to Illustrator

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I am trying to import a PDF into illustrator, the problem is that the PDF is a highly complex 3D diagram.

I don't know from which software the PDF was genarated. I know that the original file format was vc3(I think its for CAD stuff).

I am doing this on a Laptop(Processor: Intel Core Duo CPU T6570 @ 2.10Ghz with 4GB DDRAM memmory, so its not a studio laptop but its quite decent for usual and above stuff a GD would do.

The problem is that the diagram inside the PDF is higly complex, even when I just open it with Acrobat Viewer, it takes about 2-3 minutes just to display it. It seems different from other stuff I've seen in PDF fromat so far, I think the diagram is all vectors, but its a little weird as I open it it seems that the 3D Model in the diagram is being build(it shows stuff from behind first then builds up towards the front part of the 3D model, for example if it was a cube, you would first see the faces from behind then as it adds the faces from the front part of the cube you don't even see the faces from behind that you just saw previously, but I think those faces are still there). Have a look at the screenshoots.

I didn't even know that it was posible to have a 3D model in PDF format, that is cool, Im just google it now to see what I can find out. What I am looking for is maybe someone that did this sort of stuff before, are there ways to tell Acrobat to not generate/be aware of the back side of the model, I just need a large image of the model, I don't need it 3D, I need to extract it as an image in order to use it in a Print Brochure I am designing inside Illustrator.

If I try to import/open with Illustrator the whole thing crashes and i can't really do anything about it. It crashes from the Place screen(when you place a PDF in Illustrator a window appears trying to generate a Preview of the first page of the PDF, then you can select with page of the PDF you want to place) well, it crashes at the part where Illustrator tries to generate a preview of the first page in the PDF...

[I can upload the PDF somewhere if you wanna have a look at it, maybe on a super computer or something...

Im not sure about the title of the question, and if in 3D generated graphics the "stuff" its still called vector, If there is someone around here that knows about this stuff please edit the question as best as posible, excuse my poor english, not native speaker :D ]


texts: What kind of file should send to client?

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I don't want to send editable file or native file (i.e. Ai.) to client. I read some articles and found out that people send pdf file to client. Do I need to add password to it? because when I open pdf file on illustrator, I still can edit it and see all the layers.

Please advice


texts: Hiding source layer after applying a layer style (bevel) in Photoshop / Advanced blending

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I have a letter A (see left) as .ai file which has transparency set at 70% in Illustrator. In Photoshop I have a layer style Bevel & Emboss (see center) on this letter.

Is it possible to hide the original layer (letter A) so that the final image shows only the applied layer style (see right)? I tried editing in blending options under advanced blending but can't seem to figure it out.


texts: Is there a way to test a color series of .ai graphics placed in InDesign?

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I have a set of 8 label graphics designed in Illustrator (.ai files) that I am placing in InDesign for text layout.  I've placed these labels on a large page for printing and want to test out a series colors for the graphics (and how the text looks with the various colors).

Is there a way to easily test a "color series" of these labels, systematically making various tweaks in coloration of the vector graphics?  Currently I can edit the .ai files in Illustrator and then re-open the Indesign file, but since the .ai documents are "linked" in the InDesign layout, the old version disappears.  It's quite tedious with so many labels.

This must be a common issue - the need to quickly test a color series on a complex design (in this case a set of 8 labels).  I can imagine wanting to test out 10 or more color pallets, so this task seems a bit tedious.  Wondering if there are workflows that can make this easier.


texts: What to do after your client rejected your designs?

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I'm not sure how else to write the title, but here goes!

I'm currently designing a new logo for an organization. I have designed various mockups sketches, but my client has rejected them all, and I have to go back to square one. I initially gave the client a design brief for her to fill out, but should I file another, revised one or should I just design more with the design brief I already have?

Sorry if this question might sound awkward; I'm not sure how else to phrase it.

Thank you! :-)


texts: How can I add stop point to linear gradient in inkscape?

texts: I want to create gradient with multiple colors. How can I make it with inkscape? One obvious solution is to add more stop points.


texts: GIMP: Can I see other layers while playing with the iWarp filter

texts: It's useful to have the IWarp filter, interactively smooshing parts of a layer around. But often I need to see the layers underneath it while I'm doing that, so I can check that my distortions look right in front of their background. Since the standard IWarp preview doesn't show background layers, I have to do it by trial and error, attempting many IWarps and keeping the one that works out best. There has to be a better way!


texts: Identifying sans-serif logo font with rounded cut corners

texts: I saw this font on a logo and I need to use it on a software I'm creating. I've run it through several websites that try to identify it and none of them work.


texts: How to make even intensity straight lines in GIMP with a stylus

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When I want to make a straight line in gimp, I press shift and press at one point then another and it makes a straight line in GIMP between those two points.

However, when I do this with a Wacom drawing tablet, I get totally different results. I get like a gradient of intensity between the first point and the second. See for yourself:

As you can see, the intensity of the stroke goes from zero at point A and to the desired intensity at point B (as hard as I pressed the wacom-pen at point B)

Can you please tell me, how do I make the intenisty of the line uniform to the intensity at point B? That is, if I press harder at point B, the entire line should be more intense or if I press lightly at point B the entire line should be light.

Thanks


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I'd like to know if these kinds of logos are categorized or labeled as something.

One thing I noticed is that they all make you look at the negative space.

E: I also noticed that they all connect to the background to use the negative space to make the actual logo.


texts: Making a tall texture more realistic with colours affected by light-direction ond visitors' position?

texts: I created a tall grey building texture for a wall from this. Now if you look at the general trend in the black-white picture, you can see that certain patterns are too repeating. For an arbitrary-sized building I don't know how to create realistic textures: convex correction for light and user position? I used Photoshop to create this texture but some 3D program may be to better here. It should output the light-processed textures. Can I do the light-manipulation with Photoshop or some other tool and how?


texts: Things to consider when creating realistic highlights and dark reflections on metallic surfaces

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I want to re-create this white (metallic) looking skin.

I've seen some tutorials in a magazine on this. If I remember it correctly, the first step is to adjust the curve to a "W" shape. I don't remember the remaining steps.

I would like the highlights and dark reflections to be as realistic as possible.

Photo By Denis Kushnarenko

this is my work but its not perfect.

Here’s the original unretouched shot, which you can download in the Chapter 7 archive on the kelbytraining.com site.


texts: I was wondering if anyone could help me. So I've been trying to make a liquid metal effect in photoshop and I'm having some trouble. I wanted to know if anyone had any idea on how to achieve this effect similar to the image I added. I've searched the internet on tutorials on how to get it done, but nothing comes close. I understand how to make the ripple effect as well as adding the chrome-like effect, but can't get it to be multiple colors like the image added. if anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be amazing! Thanks in advance.


texts: Inkscape - How to create uniformed group sizes for a svg file with multiple Object IDs?

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I am a currently trying to create my own desktop theme in the plasma desktop environment. Right now I am currently at a roadblock and I need some advice.

I am working on a svg file with multiple objects in it. This file corresponds with the audio icon in the system tray on the desktop panel. There are four multiple objects in this file; audio-volume-muted, audio-volume-low. audio-volume-medium and audio-volume-high.

I would like to create an uniform sized bounding box for the group of each of these icons. More specifically, I would like to create multiple group bounding boxes around each of these icons that are larger in size then the object within it and uniformed in size across all four icons.

I am not even sure if this is the most efficient way to achieve my goal. My goal is to have a visual pleasing and uniform spacing between objects in the system tray. Any other suggestions to solving this problem would be appreciated.

That said larger group bounding boxes is a common practice that I have seen over and over again in Inkscape. For the life of me I cannot seem to find any tutorials on how to do this.


texts: Is there a book about motivation behind the choices in material design?

texts: As in the title, has there been a book released about motivation behind the choices in material design? I would like to read why and how some choices were made.


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I have a sidebar in my project with 5 icons and I want to active only one of them in every page.

I defined the sidebar as a symbol. Is there a way to select the active icon in every page? I mean, is it possible to change the icon colors in every instances?


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I need to create a vectorized version of my local city skyline.

If I use multiple artists photos as reference, is there any copyright concerns?

I realize just taking one photographers work and tracing it would be against copyright law, but can I use multiple photos as reference? If I pull a mountain range from one photo and a building from another, is there an issue?

Do I need to take my own reference photos?

Does anyone "own" the skyline of a city, or the lines of a mountain range?


texts: what is the name of the font given in the image?

texts: i had tried to find this font in many web pages but couldn't find the exact font.So please can somebody help me to find this font.


texts: What is the PSD to HTML best practices with HTML5?

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I'm getting quite confused with all the different methods of converting from psd to html 5. I'm trying to practice converting PSDs to HTML so i get enough experience. There are a ton of complicated multi layer PSDs with tons of grids and rulers and etc. I'm confused by the workflow and need some step by step guides on what exactly the process is. Especially with current standards, most text ends up being shown using css web fonts.

What exactly is still done in psd and why? How do we know exactly where to place the stuff?


texts: How to increase resolution in Adobe flash

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Im making an animated gif in flash,  its having width and height 1024px*730px ,  when i convert into animated gif, its clarity is too low.

when i try to increase the resolution, the width and height is increasing..

How to increase the resolution without changing the width and height..


texts: Howto convert a RGB8888 png into a RGBA8888 png?

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Does someone know how to convert RGB8888 png into a RGBA8888 png?

I am using paint.net or paint, but I cant find any way to do so.


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A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out how to convert RGB files to CMYK mode. I was viewing hundreds of tutorials and I can remember that most of them taught me to change the color mode from the Convert to Profile options and now I'mm having trouble whenever I drag an image into the canvass I'm working with, this message pops up.

Please tell me how to fix this cause it never showed before when I was working with Photoshop.


texts: What is Albrecht Dürer's Perspective Machine drawing style?

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This style of drawing always fascinates me but I can't find what this category is.

Here is another example from Eric Mahler:

And another one from Tom Gauld:

Line Drawing doesn't quite fit. Is there a better name for this common style?


texts: I'm trying to recall what this style is called where it's super minimal, there's a light use of shapes to guide the attention and the shapes and text are slightly out of kilter to each other. Does anyone know what this is called?


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If I switch to the text tool and just click in one spot, without dragging out an area, it normally appears as a text object which does not have a constrained size.

Another method which sometimes results in the same is if copying text from another source and pasting into Inkscape.

One effect of this is that you can't get automatic linebreaks (you have to use [Enter]).

Is there some way to 'convert' this text object so that its size can be constrained?

Example, I want to convert this:

into this:

Thanks


texts: Creating a selection from a path with 'holes'

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I am attempting to create a custom logo in Photoshop (mainly because I'm not familiar with Illustrator). I've used the pen tool to create a vector path for the logo, but when I try to convert the path into a selection to fill the logo, I have a problem.

The logo most closely resembles a letter, and as such has some 'holes' in it. See below:

When I convert the path to a selection, it just selects the outside of the shape, ignoring any holes completely:

I've tried making the selection, then selecting the 'hole parts' of the path (via the delete anchor point tool) and adding/subtracting from the selection, but it either removes the selection entirely or just makes a new one.

How can create a selection from a path with interior holes?

Note: I am aware that Illustrator is far better suited to this. However, I do not know Illustrator, and this is a one-time project and I know that Photoshop can do it.

EDIT: I have resolved this problem. It appears that when I made the shape, all of the paths were set to 'subtract from the current path.' (Don't know why it let me make any paths in that case, but whatever.) Ctrl+clicking on the path and setting the outside one to 'add' rather than 'subtract' had no effect, even though it kept the setting. However, creating a new path and making sure that the outside path was set to 'add' and the inner ones were set to 'subtract' did work. So it seems that if you set your path one way, it is irrevocably that way regardless of whether or not you change it later.


texts: Swap symbol instances with another symbol

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I've used the Symbol Sprayer in Illustrator to create a huge pile of symbol instances. I expanded the object so now I have many instances of those symbols in a group. I duplicated the group, and now I want to make all the instances in the second group point to a new symbol.

How do I say "Given these symbol instances that I have selected, please change them to be instances of a different symbol"? I've looked through all options in the Symbols palette, as well as the context menu for the selected items, and I can see nothing relevant.

(I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC 2015.3.1 Release, version 20.1.0 64-bit, on Windows 7x64, in case it matters.)


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I often see color combinations on webpages, images, posters, products etc. that harmonize really well. Am I allowed to use those colors in my own design?

This is solely about the colors. I will not use images, logos or shapes from that source, and my content is not related to the original color source. I am also far from any commercial aspect here.


texts: Reduce 30MB image to less than 50KB without significant loss

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I am creating figures for a scientific paper. The journal I am submitting to seems confident "all figures can easily be reduced to less than 50kB each (gzipped) without significant loss of quality". One figure I am starting with in photoshop PDF format is ~30MB. I cannot comprehend how I am possibly going to reduce this down to ~50KB without significant loss, but perhaps there is a way?

My image has text, symbols, colour charts and sharp lines that represent functions. I include a screenshot of the image below, and a dropbox link to the actual file just in case that is helpful: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3p6j6fmccnfvgw/figure2.pdf?dl=0

Any help greatly appreciated :)


texts: Edit colors in a pattern from one vector

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I'm having a hard time figuring this out (and phrasing it...sorry) but I'm making a pattern in AI using object > pattern > make and I space out everything the way I want except I want to change the color of the vector in every other one or so and I can't figure out how to do that except adding another vector with the new color into the pattern but if I do that I can't get the right layout... I'll attach some screenshots.

this is the right pattern that I want but I don't want them all to be green...

these are the right colors but as you can see this pattern doesn't repeat...because I had to lay it out myself


texts: What is the name of this perspective and how is it constructed?

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I stumbled on this image in The Promised Neverland:

This kind of perspective is relatively common in the series and I'd like to know it's name, and how it can be constructed.


texts: Plugin or brush for transforming a photo to a fractal in gimp?

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Folks,

I've been looking all over for a plugin or brush that will help me take a photo and reduce it to that 'electric look' (or fractal?) that i'm seeing in various places. I'd vastly prefer one for Gimp.  Does anyone know how these are being done? I'm seening references to fractalius for photoshop, but what about gimp?

Examples:


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I'm using GIMP 2.10.6 on Ubuntu 18.10.
I'm trying to script an automatic image manipulation, and for part of the workflow I need to dither a layer in my image.

I can't find anything in the script-fu/python-fu API that exposes the functionality provided by the dialogue located at Colors > Dither...

Am I missing something?  Or does it just not exist?


texts: What font is used in the Heritage Publishing logo from the sixties?

texts: I am trying recreate this logo’s type and having a problem finding the font. This logo was designed in the early sixties.


texts: Adobe Photoshop CS5 64bit Colour picker colour range is wrong and unable to set background colour

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I have Adobe CS5 64 bit on a Windows 64 bit computer.
It used to work fine then today when I opened it to do some colour correction, the colour picker suddenly does not display the right colours, and I cannot set a foreground colour.
Colour picker colour issue:
This is the colour picker colour range when I double click on the foreground colour box. As you can see, it does not show the normal range and does not include the black and white.

The background one has a similar issue but shows a different set of colours:

Additionally, it does not display the right colours even when I set the right settings. Here is a screenshot comparison of my colour picker on the right and a screenshot of a colour picker used in a tutorial online, on the left. Note that I have set all the numbers and percentages to match the one in the tutorial:

Trying to set foreground and background colours:
When I select a colour from the colour swatches on the right, even if the foreground colour box is active, whatever colour I select only changes the background colour. My work around is select a colour I'd like for the foreground then since it is applied to the background, manually switch the background and foreground colours around.
Since I cannot select the foreground, this meant I could not change the colour of the text I was typing: I typed the right side (it was red by default, I did not choose it), then typed the left and then highlighted it, then selected a colour to differentiate it from the red text.  However, the colour I chose got set as the background colour in the colour box (not to the actual image), meanwhile, whatever colour I had as the foreground colour got applied to the text.
Any insights would be helpful, thank you.


texts: Showing a competitor's product in ad: legal?

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So my client wants to show a photo image of their competitor's product in an ad of theirs. The ad is implying that the competitor's product is bad/obsolete. Is this legal?

I know that you can't use a photo of the product without proper rights, which the competitor is unlikely to grant. And lifting it off of Google Shopping probably won't fly either. If it shows up in a stock photo though, that might work?

Any other reasons I can tell my client to stop trying to do this?


texts: Does AE have a similar widget like the corner widget in Illustrator to easily animate corners to a rounded shape?


texts: Fill selection regions with the average color inside them

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I'm trying to design stained glass. Photoshop has the "Stained Glass" filter, but I need a bit more flexibility than it allows.

I've used it to create the came structure:

Now I want to take my original image:

And color the regions according to it, such that there is only one color per region.

Here's the expected result:

Of course, I know I can select each region individually and posterize it, but I was hoping for something that made use of the computer a bit more.

If this is not possible within Photoshop, I'm happy to use any other graphic software for the task


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So I have an image of a map and I want the top & bottom edges of the map to blend out into a gradient blue background.

I'm a compositor so am only really familiar with InDesign. I've managed to feather the bottom of the image but can't work out how to do the same to the top. How can I feather the top to match the bottom?


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Usually, when I crop an image in Photoshop, I can drag around the area and just crop.
But when I try this in Photoshop Elements, however, the image is always resized.

Is there a way I can just crop and not scale so it's insanely small?


texts: Is there possibility to export from Toon Boom Animation Harmony 16 Pro to json?

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I'm a developer and we want to create an animated hero for one-to-one video chat and this here will be like the third participant.
We want to get along only with css animation in extreme case start using canvas.

I like how bodymovin works https://codepen.io/airnan/project/full/ZeNONO but it has plugin only for Adobe After Effects but there is no plugin for Harmony 16 Pro.


texts: What's the term used when the first word of one page is repeated at the end of the previous page?

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There's a common feature in old typography where the first word of a page is repeated at the end of the previous page, usually right-aligned on a line by itself.  This book from 1759 shows this feature on nearly every page.
For example, page eleven could end with:

A sentence like this starts near the end of page eleven and
then

On page twelve you find:

then continues at the top of page twelve.

What do you call this feature?


texts: I'm not sure where to look for these resources, but I'm trying to create an Art Nouveau style logo. What I would like to do is have the actual text be shape similar to what is in Carl Jungs redbook.  any suggestions on how to create this effect?


texts: Illustrator scripting: resize that works like transform tool in illustrator

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I'm writing a script for Illustrator CS5 to resize my artwork (and artboards and a whole lot of other stuff in a batch).

I'm having severe issues with the javascript functions resize() and transform().
When I scale my object manually inside Illustrator (double clicking on the scale tool or using the transform dialog), I can select "Scale Stroke and Effects" and scaling looks fine.

I scale this down to 20%:

:

And I get this (which is fine):

Now, when I use the resize() or transform() functions in Illustrator's scripting I get this:

The simple script to reproduce:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var item = doc.pageItems[0];
item.resize(
    20.0, // x
    20.0, // y
    true, // changePositions
    true, // changeFillPatterns
    true, // changeFillGradients
    true, // changeStrokePattern
    true , // changeLineWidths
    undefined); // scaleAbout

I have tried playing around with the parameters to resize() but nothing comes close to the transform dialog in Illustrator.

The original .ai file can be downloaded from here.

So my question is: How can I get the same effect from javascript as I can from using the built in transform dialog ?


texts: Illustrator Split Words around TextWrap without Hyphen

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I did some research for the text wrap that I am trying to achieve, as seen here:

As you can see in the image, the text is justified (Paragraph Option), and words are split up without hyphens. Minimum letter is as little as 1. How can I achieve this?

I've been able to use hyphenation, with minimum 3 letters. However, I want the split-up to be smaller, and I don't want the hyphen.

Thank you very much.


texts: Is this effect (leaf hair and mustache) as easy to obtain as im thinking?

texts: So, in my estimation, it looks like, you would just take the image you wanted to mask as the hair, and then just place it along the hairline? I guess the issue i have is making it look organic, like in this image. Can i get an experts opinion?


texts: Align all hanging text with multi-line bullet points

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The default in Scribus 1.5 is to show bulleted text as follows:

But I want it to look like this instead:

Problem is, to get that I have to hard-code the indent values like this:

And if I ever change fonts or want to adjust the placement of the bullet point, everything gets messed up and I have to eyeball the alignment again.

Is there a better way? InDesign and Microsoft Office do this automatically, as I understand it. I wonder why it doesn't work in Scribus, or if I am missing something. Thanks!


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I need to create letter template for one company which will keep a format styles unchanged (to keep united design across all letters which are sent from the company) but allow users to add specific content (text, tabs, images etc.) into it. Do you know best way how to do that? I tried Word forms but it doesn't work well.

I needed to lock formatting to prohibit changes of fonts, size, colours etc. However users usually need to copy and paste text from another documents. In Word forms they pasted text with original format but because of my prohibition they couldn't then change it.

Do you know any other solution? What about adobe forms? Is it used also for letters? Or do you know any other software for it?


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I am looking for practical advice on the rules and best practices for graphic designers, and how to utilise these in Adobe Illustrator.

I have designed a brochure, and am now organising the layout for the type elements/blocks.

I want to create a grid that uses margins and gutters in an effective way. I can then both follow this as a guide, and break the grid (through use of alternative text placements/images etc. A bit like this example I found online:

I am using a mix of different font sizes and placements. I am confused on how to organise this following the graphic design best practice on my own design. Here is a snapshot of where I am at:

I don't think there is a baseline grid option in Adobe Illustrator. The grid you see is just the standard grid. Moreover, see how the larger blocks of text mean that the text that is parallel to it (but further to the right of the page) can not remain in line with other text? I am not sure if this is 'wrong', or how I can practically go about structuring a grid.

I'm trying to understand how to set up proper margins, grid structures and the calculations to work out my own baseline grid in Illustrator, if I know the page size of my document.


texts: What is meant by 'designing an icon at 100% scale'?

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From the Android's Material Design guide,

  System icons are displayed at 24dp. When creating icons, it’s important to design at 100% scale for
  pixel-accuracy.

What is meant by designing at 100% scale? Does it mean the icon should have 24*24 dp dimensions? Or does it mean that they should be in a file format in which scaling would not result in data loss or distortion etc., like SVG file format?


texts: InDesign: How to change the position of a textbox to match the height of another textbox beside it?

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I have a textbox containing the main content [P]
A textbox [C1] is to always align with the upper border of [P]. I have done this by anchoring it to the start of [P].

Another textbox containing other content is [C2]. It is to always stay above [P] but with a certain gap shown by the blue arrows.
[C21] is the child of [C2] and will change its position when content within [C2] changes. I have anchored it to [C2]

Next, there is a dividing vertical line which should change its height automatically when content changes in either [P] or [C2].

Now all I've done is anchored [C1] to start of [P], auto-sized [P] with height changing from mid-bottom.
Similarly, I've anchored [C21] to start of [C2], auto-sized [C2] with height changing from mid-bottom, and also Anchored [C2] to [P].

But when I change the height of [P] both [C2] & [C21] disappear instead of getting pushed to the top.

Also, I've no idea of how to make the vertical line change its height according to heights of both [P] & [C2]

Can this be done in InDesign?

  [P]=Parent Textbox [C1]=1st Child [C2]=2nd child [C21]=
  1st Child of [C2] [C22]= 2nd child of [C2]


texts: Photoshop - Creating a prefab 3d rectangle for use in 2.5d game development

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I'm semi new to Photoshop, so my terminology may be lacking which might be why I'm having problem locating anything on Google.
What I'm curious is *if a prefab can be designed for a 3d square/rectangle for the sake of creating buildings in a 2.5d perspective game. I'll refer to the screenshot below for the sake of an example.
All buildings have a 28 degree side to them. I wasn't sure if a prefab could be made of a 3d object that keeps those angles as static so that if I wanted I could click and drag and make a longer building for example. If this exists, what terminology or feature is this called?


texts: Removing an element from text in Illustrator

texts: I want to remove the dot above the "i" in Illustrator but still keeping the text as an editable vector object, is this possible?


texts: How do you call "Charte Graphique" in English?

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This is not really a translation question - more of a designer vocabulary.

How do you call the set of visuals, logos, designs, colors, fonts... that make a whole design project?
In French we would call it "Charte Graphique", and I've seen some translate it to "Graphic Charter" but I think this is just a google translate translation.

Is there a word to describe this?


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What are muted colors? How do I create muted colours? How do I convert standard colors to muted colors? Why do muted colours look the way they do? Why are they different?

Here is a bunch of colors what I call 'standard colors'.
"#ff0000", "#ffaa00", "#aaff00", "#00ff00", "#00ffaa", "#00aaff", "#0000ff", "#aa00ff", "#ff00aa"

And here are a bunch of so called 'muted colors'.
"#f9b5b2", "#f36e4b", "#f69431", "#f1dd40", "#c6c752", "#b1cc9f", "#a5dad2", "#a2a18f", "#c8b384"

I would appreciate responses from those with knowledge on color theory or  experience with colors.

Muted colors by Meg Biram (http://www.megbiram.com/muted-color/)


texts: How To Convert Pantone Tint to similar Pantone Color

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I have a file provided to me by a client of their logo which consists of various tints of the same Pantone color (50%, 25% etc)

I'm trying to find a way to convert these to actual Pantone colors that are similar that I can use to match paint colors for a sign we are making for them.

Is there any way to do this easily?

I can try to compare my screen to Pantone swatches, but its not usually easy to get a good match that way.


texts: Why does my shape have a tiny horizontal line?

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I need to remove the horizontal bar of an A char so it looks like a V upside down. What I did is: I opened Illustrator and typed the character A, then I clicked "create outlines". Then I joined bottom left anchor point of the horizontal bar with the top left one and did the same with the other side.

That removes the horizontal bar but it leaves a tiny horizontal line, I tried removing the path left but the line still remains.

Here is the .ai file:  http://www.sendspace.com/file/d9je5o

How can I remove the horizontal bar from the A completely without getting that horizontal line?


texts: What does "draft font" mean? How does it differ from other Fonts? I have been looking a fonts and keep seeing this designation. I thought this meant draft in the way that it is normally used but now I suspect it means something different. Google search has been no help.


texts: How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?

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I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.

However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different.  If I open the jpeg in Photoshop the colors are correct again.

Think this is something to do with the color profile?  Photoshop seems to be using the North America General Purpose color profile.

How can I make the jpeg look the same color as in photoshop?

Can I convert the file? I hope I don't have to redo it!

Thanks


texts: Gradient tool in Photoshop not even blend?

texts: When you make a gradient in PS, for example a black to white gradient going across the screen, it seems that it is not an even blend from black to white. There is too much black, too much white, and not enough in between. Here is an example picture. The histogram display in the curves window shows what I mean. If it was an even blend, the histogram wouldn't show this curve shape. Am I correct in this? Is there a way to get an even blend?


texts: Textures for city facade design such as roofs and walls?

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I have used textures from services such as FreeImages.com (formerly sxc.hu) and different bundles but is rarity that they connect well together. This print design resulted in odd lines and some bad textures where the images do not connect well together. My friend suggested blurring and I think it could work with the best textures but not with poorer ones. So how should I design this kind of textures? Some good sources and which method to use with poorer textures for large city facade designs?

Update

  Use Photoshop and put each vertical texture to independent file so the file size does not increase too fast, easier to manage.

In Photoshop, I used the finger, perspective projection, rotation -- to create dark textures for a tall building from this texture. Now if you look at the general trend in the black-white picture, you can see that certain patterns are too repeating here. It is very rough and time-consuming to use orthogonal textures with convex fix and then adapt it to the environment. For an arbitrary-sized building how to automate the creation of unique tiles? Basically the problem would require to build a convex lattice against which to apply the texture with light coming from the floor level when the texture rises up like a tower. How can you do it? With some 3D software that could extract the light-adjusted texture?


texts: What is the convention to indicate "the same value as above"?

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I have received a table of data to put on an html page. Many values in the second column are repeated for a few rows. The author indicated this by using starting double quotes (“), probably automatically converted by Word from a simple typed double quote.

So it looks something like this:

=======================
| name | group  | age |
=======================
| John | Family | 45  |
-----------------------
| Sue  |   ,,   | 23  |
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| Alex |   ,,   | 36  |
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| Jane | Friend | 38  |
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| Rob  |   ,,   |     |
-----------------------

I have used two commas, which I think is customary in Dutch handwriting, but the web page is in English.

What is the typographic convention to indicate "the same value as above"? If relevant, I would like to use the British English convention.

Should I use a character or combination of characters, or would row spanning be appropriate? Or should I just simply repeat the values?

A WCAG 2.0-compliant convention would is preferred.


texts: How to find all text layers with specific color and replace this color with an other one?

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Recently, I added a similar question about how to find all shapes with specific color and replace this color with an other one. Sergey Kritskiy gave me the solution with a working example which I changed slightly, according to my needs. The problem is, that if I try to change the color of a text layer, using the same script, it stops at var adj = desc.getList(stringIDToTypeID("adjustment")).getObjectValue(0); and I get this message The requested property does not exist.. So I need your help to find the right way to do the same thing for one or more text layers.

function getLayersData()
{
    var lyrs = [];
    var layers = 1;
    while (true)
    {
        ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putIndex(charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), layers);

        try
        {
            var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
        }
        catch (err)
        {
            break;
        }

        var lyr = {};
        lyr.type = desc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("layerKind"));
        lyr.name = desc.getString(charIDToTypeID("Nm  "));
        lyr.id = desc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("layerID"));

        if (lyr.type == layerType && lyr.name.match(layerName))
        {
            var adj = desc.getList(stringIDToTypeID("adjustment")).getObjectValue(0);

            if (adj.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID("color")))
            {
                var curColor = new SolidColor();
                curColor.rgb.red = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("red"));
                curColor.rgb.green = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("grain"));
                curColor.rgb.blue = adj.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("blue"));
                lyr.color = curColor;

                if (lyr.color.rgb.hexValue == currentColor[0])
                {
                    lyrs.push(lyr);
                }
            }
        }
        layers++;
    }
    return lyrs
};


texts: How to create a colour border in Inkscape?

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I am making a poster with Inkscape (version 0.9.1 Ubuntu). I would like to make a simple border with a specific colour and width.

What I have done previously in other applications such as LibreOffice Draw is to create an object as a group of rectangles which reproduces the border. I would prefer to edit the page properties instead of add objects to the page.

The only way I can think to do this right now is to add a base layer to the page, group four rectangles onto it in the shape of the border and then add transparent layers to that. I would like to avoid this though.


texts: Knockout, Page Knockout, Subtract, or Compound Shape. When to use which?

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I often see suggestions of using Compound Paths, Subtracting Front Shape, or Knockout (or even Page Knockout!) in the creation of vector graphics, for example, in Illustrator. When should each be used?

Are there specific functions or drawbacks to any of them? I understand that Knockout is to go all the way down, but I still see people suggesting compound paths for this function, is there a reason? And what about Compound Path vs Substract Front, is there even a difference?


texts: How to merge two images, so that one will take the shape of the other?

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Got two images, one of an old sheet of paper with jagged edges. The other is a photo of beach. How can I merge them together, so that the beach image will take the shape of the other picture, i.e. with jagged edges?

I got indesign cs5.5, illustrator cs5. The photoshop I got is old 2003 version. Can I use any of these?


texts: Can I use the VHS Logo for a commercial Artwork?

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I'm planning to make an artwork as a spotify sonng cover with a VHS style and I was wondering if I could have used this logo for this job:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/VHS_logo.svg/1200px-VHS_logo.svg.png


texts: Illustrator: Crop paths to Artboard while keeping layers

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I have created somewhat of a world map of my own (for Dungeons & Dragons reasons) in Illustrator so that I can have a master document of the world at large and would now like to take a smaller part of the bigger map to create a more detailed section of it.
Is there a way to crop the paths I have created for the landmasses to the size of a smaller Artboard while keeping the paths and layers intact? I would like to basically take everything inside the Artboard (the black outline in the screenshot I provided) and discard everything around it while preserving the separate paths and layer structure as far as possible so I can scale and edit everything inside the Artboard.

The entire document is a bit too large to be scaled up entirely just for the small part that I want, my PC would certainly not handle that very well. I have so far tried to create a rectangle the size of my desired Artboard and creating a Clipping Mask for it as well as using the Pathfinder tool to crop or intersect etc. but all those leave me without control over my original layers.
Is there a way to do what I am looking for and being left with only the parts of the paths inside my desired Artboard? I would very much like to be able to continue working with paths rather than rasterizing the part I need.
Best regards,
Panicmode
Edit: I have in the meantime, using some of the very useful tips Kyle has provided, found a way to mostly achieve what I was looking for. Copying the layers while preserving the layer structure I have used the Eraser Tool to erase around my new Artboard, which keeps the paths inside the Artboard intact. Everything not needed outside the Artboard can then simply be erased. I wish there was a simpler way to achieve this same result, but so far I have not found a way.
This is what it looks like after erasing around my artboard:

And after deleting everything unneeded (the black lines are artboards for different map areas I was thinking about using):


texts: What is the best way to obtain fonts to use for something commercially produced?

texts: I am looking for fonts to use for a bound planner of sorts that I am making for myself, but possibly to sell in the future.  I've downloaded a few free fonts, with SIL open licenses, can I use these? Thanks!


texts: How do I do coloring like in this image?

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Could I do coloring similar to this image (especially the background city, water, cars, etc.), with a photoshop filter/action/color modification?

I'm a bit of a Photoshop noob and would love any insights or links to a tutorial (I'm not sure even how to properly describe this type of coloring technique - flat? muted? vintage? not sure... so I haven't had much luck searching). Thanks in advance.


texts: Critique: Is my logo conveying what I want to communicate?

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I'm working as a junior web designer. I want to redesign my portfolio, including that I'm also designing my logo.

This is the first time I'm designing a logo. I learnt guidelines and I designed my new logo.

What I want to communicate through my logo is:

It should clearly convey my profession i.e. designer.
I'm very much passionate about my profession, so I want to reflect the same in my logo.

Is my logo conveying what I want to convey? Also, if there is anything to improve in my logo please suggest it to me.


texts: InDesign: create template and paste from Word

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I'm asked to convert a Word document to an InDesign file for print.

The Word document only contains the text, but in InDesign I need to set up a template with paging and a logo on each page.
While I'm able to do this, I can't figure out a way to completely paste the text from the Word document in InDesign so that it will automatically create multiple pages for it.

So basically I just want to create the template in InDesign and then completely paste all the text from the Word document in it.
Is something like this possible?


texts: Thick "Initial" font, with a particular "S"

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I want wondering if anyone knew of any commercial-free fonts where the "S" doesn't curve down, but instead the ends go horizontally? I'm having a hard time searching for something with that kind of wording. I'm looking for an impact like font (in terms of thickness).

So below is an image, of an "S" where it curves down, but as mentioned I'd want it to come out horizontally.


texts: Photoshop CC won't switch from Artboard Document Type option when creating new document

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Whenever I try to create a new document in Photoshop CC it always creates a new 'Artboard' type document with in-determined width and height.

I've tried to update PS with no changes.

Now, the only way I can create new documents is to open old ones, delete everything and save them as a new file.

Would anyone know what can be done about this?

Thanks


texts: How to create smallest repeatable background image from a large pattern?

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My designer has sent me a background image for a website we're working on that is just diagonal lines, but the image is very large and I would like to make it as small as possible and then set it as a repeatable background to make it cover the entire element.

Is there an easy way to generate the smallest possible background image from a large pattern? I've been trying to just guess but I can't get the pattern to line up perfectly.

Here's the image:


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"Chibi" or "super deformed" (SD) is a "cartoonish" art style that involves making characters two to three heads tall. One example of a well-known work that consistently uses a chibi art style is the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, as well as its animated adaptations. I understand a couple uses of the chibi style:

To make characters appear "cute" in an exaggerated manner, as the brain associates a larger head compared to the body and simpler facial features with protective instinct.
To keep faces visible in wide shots, which was required in two-dimensional low-definition video games (roughly pre-1997).

But I also see drawbacks. For example, because the arms are usually not long enough to touch the top of the head, it becomes difficult to animate a character doing any of these:

Pulling a shirt over the head
Putting a hat on
Dressing one's own hair

What are the common solutions to this in chibi illustration and animation?


texts: How to cut a chord from a circle in Sketch App

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I have a circle that I want to cut several lines horizontal lines from so I can see the background.

As you can see from my image below, I want to cut out the part of the circle so I can see the background.

How do I cut this out? It must be a transparent gap, not a piece of black color because the round shape will be placed on different backgrounds as SVG file.


texts: Photoshop using Marque Tool > Path > Circular But Not a perfect shape?

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Please consider this image below :

This is happened when I have a circular shape (marquee tool selection). THen after that I converted to Work Path (by right click of that selection). And I add 2.0 as its Tolerance Pixel.

After applying it. The shape become not perfect, could you see the difference? I make it with a black background so everyone could see it from the image no.2.

I realized this is a problem, because If i use that path for placing a text. the text wont follow the correct path as circular (selection), instead ... the shape a bit changed (i think it's ugly shape :: see the detail of the arrow).

How to solve this case ? I'm using Photoshop CS3.


texts: How to export a picture with guidelines from CorelDraw?

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Can I export a picture with guidelines from CorelDraw?

Those dashed lines are all is guidelines, created by dragging from the left ruler.

I want to export this whole file and include those guidelines. Is this possible?


texts: Illustrator is unable to make a horizontal line thinner than 1pt

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Possible Duplicate:
  Bug: Illustrator now refuses to draw lines with stroke weight below 1 pt

On my Illustrator CS5.5 I have the strange behaviour that when I make a perfect horizontal line, the stroke weight has a minimal value of 1pt. I can set it to 0.5pt, but it will jump back.
If I make a non-horizontal line and set its stroke weight to a value <1pt, everything is OK. The moment I make that line horizontal the weight jumps back to 1pt. It is possible though to set the weight to 0pt, however this renders the line invisible.

Is there a setting I can change to avoid this behaviour or is there some special reason for this?


texts: Converting JPG map contours to paths for AutoCAD

texts: I have a map in JPG format that I want to turn into contour lines in CAD.  I've been able to make it into a vector drawing in Illustrator (without really knowing what I'm doing with all the settings) but I think all I need is simple paths that follow these lines.  The map is messy, and the lines on it just end up a big spaghetti object.  Wondered if there's a fairly straightforward way to do this.  I also have Rhino to work with.


texts: I am interested to find a proper way of reproducing an illustration like this example.


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I've noticed that everything I seem to export or local share on my machine from Sketch seems to be blurred, even if I am looking at it, at that size.

I'm on a MBP Retina would that make any difference? I know I'm doing something stupid. If you don't understand what I mean I'll export and show you.


texts: Weird display problem with strokes in Illustrator

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I had this problem recently in Adobe Illustrator where whenever I draw a stroke it shows sometimes parts that doesn't really exist in it, like in this screenshot:

but in the outline view:

as you can see, there is no explanation for the added/removed parts, also they are all the exact same strokes (copied and rotated), so if it was a problem with the stroke itself it should be the same in all of them, and not a different deformation in each one.

he are the stroke settings:


texts: Is there a way in InDesign to quickly resize text that is stacked so that each line is the same width but different sizes?

texts: I have a method currently of just going line by line and increasing the font size until it takes up the width of the text box and just readjusting the line/paragraph spacing but want to see if there's a shortcut to doing this on InDesign. Here's an example:


texts:
So I have the following

and I would like to remove the lines inside of the circle. I've tried the scissors tool, joining them then using the scissors, and outlining them using the pathfinder window then using scissors.


texts: Where to find a milky-way skysphere map?

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I'm doing a PovRay scene and am using NASA's Blue Marble images as a source to render earth.

I also found some maps for the moon and the sun. Now I also want to have the milky way in the scene. The closest I could find was this star-field which works fine, but does not feature the colorful milky way. After a few hours of fruitless searching I'm at the brink of creating my own using other sky-map sources, but thought I'd give it a shot to ask here before putting effort into this. I need a good high resolution source that can be mapped seamlessly on a sky-sphere in PovRay.


texts: InDesign: how to solve this numbering issue?

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I'm putting together a brochure. I want to speed up my workflow. I have something resembling a table of contents, but made manually, meaning, I have a list of galleries each assigned an arbitrary number. A numbered list of galleries (the numbers have nothing to do with page numbers, these are arbitrary numbers). Each gallery gets 2 pages in the brochure. Now I need to put those same numbers next to each gallery's name on the appropriate page . Can I do that in InDesign CS5.5 and how, so that when I change the number in one place, it will automatically change the number in the other place. Is this what text variables are for? Or do I need to write a script that would do it?

I want to kind of automate the numbering, so it is consistent, because the gallery list and numbering may change a lot in the coming days, and I'd rather avoid mistakes.

That would take me to question 2. I also have a map made in Illustrator CS5.5 and placed in the beginning of the brochure. All the galleries are marked on this map using the same numbers. Now is it possible, probably using scripting, to also steer the numbering on that map, from InDesign? Again, so that changing the number in one place, changes it in another place in InDesign and also in the AI map, linked to the InDesign document.


texts: Downloaded font not showing colors, only shape / contour

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I've downloaded a couple of fonts - Abelone and Playbox, but neither of the font colors or designs are showing up in Illustrator. They are just showing in all black/solid colors:

They should show the colors as in the original designs:

I found the fonts on https://colorfontweek.fontself.com/2018#playbox. Any idea why the colors aren't showing up?


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I recently got a lot of offset printing jobs and with them the ability to choose options that were not available to me before.

So the Problem is that I generally have to make a presentation of the design to the client. Normally I would make a render in 3d or present the design as a flat image and that's it.

Since the last two jobs included silver pantone 877C and sectorized varnish coat (5th and 6th plates) I was at a loss when preparing the presentation. Ideally it should look like the real thing without the need of printing it out.
There are a lot of photos out there where you can clearly see the varnish finish but I'll need to show approximately how it would work out on my designs...

A while ago I stumbled across an tutorial where this was made with fairly good results. But I was unable to find it again. Any help is appreciated!
Hopefully I used the right terms... Corrections are also welcome.

here's an example photo with the effect I want to achieve using Photoshop or 3D software


texts: When using the pen tool I can't draw a simple straight line - it doesn't let me just click two points.  Basically I click the first point, click a second point and that should be my line - however it doesn't let me end the line there - continues with another anchor point as if making a shape...do i need to uncheck some setting?  Can't figure it out!!


texts: Sketch 3 - Copied objects all changing when edited

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I know this is a feature of Sketch but I don't know its name or how to shut it off.

I created a screen for an iOS app that has a base navigation bar at the bottom with symbols and text as the icons. I then created several other artboards by copying that one and pasting.

When I change the active state for the bottom nav, it changes the others which I don't want happening as I want to display each page with it's active nav.

What is the function called that links them together and how do I disable it or unlink the elements?

EDIT This seems to pertain mostly to shapes that I place via the insert menu.


texts: Is there a way of using a boolean between a grouped object and a regular object on Inskcape?

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I have a grouped object and I would like to cut it in half. For this, I created another object (a rectangle) and tried Path>Difference but nothing happens (neither with any of the other booleans). I've noticed that this has happened before and the common point is that there's always a group involved.

How can I overcome this issue?


texts: Generating a random "city lights from space" pattern

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I'm working on an alien planet design in Photoshop, and I'm wondering if there are any brushes or techniques for easily creating that "city lights from space" effect? I'm hoping to create a randomized field that I can apply to various images, mimicking the clusters (i.e. big cities), smaller lights (i.e. towns), and lines (i.e. roads) to create a convincing sense of civilization.

It doesn't need to conform to any coastlines, etc, as I can handle that later with masks. Just a black background with grayscale pinpoints, following this type of structure, in a random pattern.

Ideally, it would be easy enough to produce that I could crank out several versions quickly, and the pinpoints would be of varying lightness so that I could filter by a luma value (e.g. "everything above 50% lightness") to simulate varying levels of population density on the same landscape (i.e. "here's a planet barely colonized, and here's that same planet densely colonized").

Does a system like that exist?


texts: The simplest replacement of color in PNG icons

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I need to replace the color of some PNG icons. Examples:

shall become JavaScript2 http://www168.lunapic.com/editor/working/146856450596963-bt-5.

 shall become: YAML2 http://www168.lunapic.com/editor/working/146856450596963-bt-10.

Only color replacement: orange → violet, orange → green, and no other actions.

I never worked before with the advanced graphic editors, whether I can carry out replacement of colors?

Any non-commercial graphic editor for Windows would be fine (not Photoshop).


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im making this logo for a Restaurant in a little town in Peru called Lobitos. They want to look friendly because their service is one of their most important strength. Should i make it simpler? Like one basic shape o a simpler shape? Greetings!

After the answer of go-meek i've made the following changes. Tell me what you think and thank you very much it really helps me a lot!


texts: Moving Images from Photoshop to Illustrator

texts: I downloaded this very awesome set of iOS7 GUI components to use for building mockups for apps, found here: http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone/.  I'm working in Illustrator but the file is a PSD.  I'm running both Ps and Ai simultaneously, and when I drag a component from the PSD into my Ai file, the transparency becomes white.  To be clear, I am literally dragging and dropping from Ps into Ai using the Move Tool which generally works.  What am I doing wrong here? Thank you!


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I am a beginner in everything but especially GIMP.  I used Inskcape to create a cover for my coloring book.  It has multiple layers and transparencies.  I know I have to flatten the transparencies.   So to do this, I opened the svg cover I created in GIMP but it is just showing one layer in the layers panel.  How do I upload my svg file in gimp and flatten the entire image to make sure when it prints I don't have trouble?   I will need very beginner instructions with this very detailed (as detailed for each step as you possibly can since I don't know much about GIMP).

P.S. I would just flatten in Inkcape but I hear putting everything in one layer in inkscape doesn't really correlate to flattening all transparencies (something to do with alpha might still be there).

EDIT

Billy - I just saw you asked what the requirements are. The following are the requirements to upload my Paperback cover to Kindle Direct Publishing. I made a cover in Inkscape but don't know how to flatten the transparencies. I'll eventually probably be asking how to embed the fonts but for now I don't know how to flatten all transparencies. :)

*Save as a PDF. Your cover must be a single PDF that includes the back cover, spine, and front cover as one image.

*Flatten all transparencies. These can cause the file to print with missing or distorted content. Consult your software's documentation to learn how.

*Embed your fonts. Consult your software's documentation to learn how.

*Remove crop marks, color bars, template text. Crop marks are lines showing where pages should be trimmed. Color bars are strips with a series of patches used to ensure color balance during printing. Also, remove any template text, PDF creation guides, or software references.


texts: How to create brush stroke on one side of shape

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I'm creating a logo for a client and one idea I've had is below. I want to create brush strokes on one end of the two shapes below the T. One image below is the original, the other is my attempt at adding a brush stroke.

At the moment the stroke has been added by expanding a brush stroke and basically trying to position the end of the stroke over the shape (really messy,  you may be able to see that it's not really perfect.

Is there an easier way to do this? To essentially taper one end of the curled shape to look like a brush stroke?


texts: Create a Border with An Image as the Stoke

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I would like to know how i can create a border (or rectangle with no fill) but with an image as the border lines.
Image example attached.
Can competently use Indesign, Illustrator or Photoshop so open to all.
Thanks


texts: Client buys logo but wants to buy other concepts too

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I have a client that hired me to design a logo for them. By our contract I supplied them 3 concepts from which they chose one.

After all was said and done the client asked to buy the other 2 concepts as well. For example they want to use one of them as an artwork for a T-shirt design.

I'm having trouble quoting those 2 other concepts. They came into existence during the work I did for the first logo... so technically I wouldn't need to put extra hours into them.

On the other hand I don't want them to go of cheap because then they get 3 designs for the price of 1.

Does anybody have experience with this?

Also they told me they wanted to use one as a t-shirt design. Is it common to ask a flat fee or are royalties a better approach in this case?


texts: Exporting from InDesign to PDF - getting weird issues

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We have a number of product brochures that we print internally in booklet format using a Ricoh MP C4503 Multi-functional copier.

Our document creation process is to create the document in Adobe InDesign 6
export out to PDF and send the final PDF to print.

The document is using the Google Font OpenSans.

However when we were sending the document to print we were seeing random lines of text within a paragraph look blurry or as if they were being set to bold.

Having searched around forums I found a fix that said change the text colour from CMYK 0,0,0,100 to 100,100,100,100
Now this worked when we printed out the document, however now only on a specific document, when I view a block of text that has been changed to this new 100 black colour the text looks really jagged when viewing the exported PDF on screen? I have the zoom level set to 100% and it is only this one paragraph, all other paragraphs in the document look find after having their colour changed to the 100,100,100,100 colour settings.

Any ideas?


texts: What is this shape that looks like a rectangle with rounded ends called?

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This cannot be a rounded rectangle because those are not fully or "perfectly" rounded at the two ends. This is more like an elongated circle? A flat cylinder?

I searched a lot, but among all guides or pictures that identify and name different shapes, I couldn't get this particular shape. The closest I could get was a stretched ellipse.

There are only two processes to get this shape as far as I know: the first one is making a long rectangle and making its corner radius exactly half of the height. The second one is putting two circles a distance apart and adding a rectangle between those. So, are these something like "perfect rounded rectangles" or "rectangular circles"?


texts: How to cut out a shape from another shape that has effects?

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I'm making some art that involves molecules and stuff and wanted to cut out a part of the parent ring. I tried the subtract function in the pathfinder that comes in Adobe Illustrator CS6 but it gives me some distorted shape. The brown base layer has a bloat effect of 2% on it to make the sides a little bit rounded, does that matter? What am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to cut out the circle shape from the brown base such that it looks as if the circle was white in color when placed over a white background. I could do just that but I don't want the white circle in transparent pngs.

I didn't know what to search to check if anyone else had the same problem so I thought I should just ask a new question. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Image 1 is before subtraction and image 2 is after.]

Note: I'm not very familiar with illustrator but I'm pretty comfortable with photoshop so detailed answers might be required, sorry for the trouble!


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I'd like to remove the texture from a logo I made.

I'm not sure how to attach the AI file, but here is a screenshot of what the logo looks like.

I've tried going into the Appearance panel, but there didn't seem to be anything texture- related there.

I also tried using the Live Paint Bucket (K) tool to just fill "over" the texture, but that didn't get rid of the texture.


texts: Photoshop: How do I edit a path once it is closed?

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I have closed a path, and it now appears in my Paths pane. However, I have no idea how to go back and bring up the anchor points again in order to edit it. Having clicked on the path itself, it simply remains closed, with no anchor points...

Any help much appreciated.


texts: Good way to highlight important values in limited space

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In my app I have a card that looks like so:

In which I want to highlight to the user certain values when, for example, there is less than a day left, the card is less than a kilometer away or when it is free.

I don't find a way of highlighting a value while keeping a cohesive design.

Things I came up with (Given that gradients are a common theme in my app):


texts: Can I scale a text box numerically without stretching the type?

texts: The type does not scale if I drag the side-handle of the text box, but when I adjust the width numerically it gets stretched. Is there a way to size a text box (I need it to match the width of other text columns) without scaling (distorting) the text.


texts: Sketch: How to select only the contents of selected artboards

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I'd like to be able to make a selection of artboards (let's say 20 of them), and make Sketch select only the objects inside of them, as opposed to artboards and objects together.
It's for changing a layer style of that objects.
The result would look like this:


texts: Photoshop tablet issue: Fade in Brush Presets doesn't stay selected

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I'm using Photoshop CS6. I discovered recently the Fade preset for brushes and wanted to try it out.

So I select Fade in "Shape Dynamics" and set number of steps to 120, but the stroke showing in the brush presets menu looks like it's using Pen Pressure and not Fade: both ends are thin.

Moreover, when I use it on a path, I can't get a fade effect either. And right after I apply the brush to a path, or when I go to another section in the presets, Pen Pressure gets selected automatically instead of Fade. I mean that when I get back, Pen Pressure is selected even though I didn't touch anything. Trying to save the preset doesn't keep Fade either.

I tried on different brushes and even reloaded Photoshop, without success. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?


texts: How to join up different shapes smoothly?

texts: I've tried using the join function but it doesn't seem to work. Is there some way for Illustrator to intuitively join up the three separate shapes smoothly whilst still keeping them on their own separate layers? If not possible on separate layers, I'd still like to know any other ways? Thanks for any help! I've attached a picture where red circles show the parts that I need joined up smoothly.


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here is a problem that's been bugging me for a long time and as I didn't find any solution from the web, I thought it may be time to ask for help.

When I export a .psd from my 3D app with a layer of objects rendered as plain red, green and blue colours to use as masks from RGB channels I run into edges problems.

When I copy/paste (or copy merge/paste) the channels into layers and blend them with Lighten, Linear Dodge or anything else I always have visible edges, like pictured here.

This lead to nasty edges in the final image :

I also have the same problem when I invert the masks.

This happens in Photoshop CC 19.1.2 on OSX 10.13.3 in a 16 bit RGB file, but I had the same problem on earlier Photoshop versions and other image modes.

Maybe this is a normal behaviour but I don't feel like it, so if anybody is willing to shed some light onto the problem, thanks!


texts: Making annotations in figures of the same font size as main text

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What is the best way to ensure the same font size in figures as in main text with open source formats and programs like Inkscape or Scribus?

A typical use case: I would like to include a figure consisting of two photos side-by-side. I annotate the first photo with the letter "A" in the upper right corner and the other one with "B". The size of the letters should be the same (or at least consistenly relative) to normal main text.

The TiKZ LaTeX package does a good job there, but it is time consuming and not WYSIWYG.


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I have the following element in my InDesign page, which currently is done by manually placing 9 rectangles, and a line object together:

How could I replicate this, with a pure table object in InDesign? I want to use tables, because if later on, I want to change the color of these tables, which will appear multiply times in the documents, I would want to be able to quickly do it, with modifying a table or cell style for example.
I've managed to clear the outer border of the table, and all the inner borders also, but I can't find a way, to separate them from each other.


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I'm doing computer art with images mixing low zoom areas with high zoom areas automatically. So far, the only images I can use reliably are vector graphics images, since they support infinite zoom without pixellation. Here's an example:

I warped a vector graphics image consisting of just a simple tiling pattern out to infinity. If I can get a high enough detail image, I should be able to use it to do the same thing without any nasty pixelation. I know there are extremely high detail satellite maps covering the whole world. What I'd like is a massive archive full of such maps that I can use offline to create these images. Does such a thing exist?


texts: What is this type of design called - mobile app

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I'm a new member to this community and I have been looking at quite a few designs recently for an app I intend to work on. I honestly like this kind of style which is used in a lot of modern apps/designs I see online. Unfortunately, I'm not quite aware of what this exact style is called. I've attached an image from Monobank Enhancements by Denis Perepelenko (Dribbble) as an example.
To clarify further: Its kind of like an off-canvas design where the white/canvas is on top of a more vibrant color/gradient/image. This colorful area contains very little, but important information, while the main 'canvas'/white area contains more info/options. I guess its similar to the Material Design Backdrop, but not exactly the same.
I'd like to search specifically for these designs, but I'm not aware of the exact term.
Thanks for any help :D