texts: In Photoshop is it possible to change the size of all layers (that are different sizes) to the same height?

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I have a collage-like image in Photoshop with 35 layers. On each layer is a picture, and each picture is a different size (with different dimensions). I want to change the height of every layer so that they are all 200px (currently they range from 350 to 1200), without manually doing this one layer at a time.
I have tried using actions but that sets it by percentage, not pixels (and not only the height).
I have tried selecting all layers and then entering free edit (ctrl T) but this edits all layers in relation to one another.
I tried Export Layers to Files, so that I could then use the image processor script, but this keeps the canvas size as it is.


texts: How to reset Vertical/Horizontal Scale of Smart Object to 100 percent by script

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I want to write a script to reset Vertical/Horizontal Scale of a Smart Object.
I tried using ArtLayer and many properties of it, but it's not success.

Example:
W:100% - H:75%

app.activeDocument.activeLayer.resize(200,200);

=> W:200% - H:150%

app.activeDocument.activeLayer.resize(100,100);

=> Nothing happened. ItW:200% - H:150%

Is there anyway to get Vertical/Horizontal Scale of a SO and set it to 100% (original scale)?

Thanks


texts: My Xylophone is off key; Understanding this kerning

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I was playing a kerning game where the goal is to see if you can kern a word by eye and then compare your kerning with that of the designer.

I was doing... ok. Until I got to:

I kerned is as such:

Not perfect, but not horrible.

The 'correct' kerning was:

A comparison; blue being the 'correct' kerning:

I can see that I could have made the 'Xyl' tighter, but why is there so much space in the 'one'? It seems that there's a gap there.

Even when typing "Xylophone" I see the gap from the kerning.

What's the reason for this spacing? Why did the designer choose to create these kerning pairs?


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This question has probably been asked, but I can't find it, exactly. I'm a bit of a noob, and am unclear on some of the terminology.
How do you combine all adjoining objects of the same color, all in one fell swoop? This is different from "Grouping" them, is it not?
Perhaps some explanation is in order. I did a Live Trace of an image that had been printed slightly off register. I changed the color of all these small, off-register objects to match the background, so that they "disappeared." It seems to me that it would be a good idea to combine all these very small objects into the one, large, background object, to reduce the complexity of the image.


texts: Illustrator: Logo fade out to transparency gradient in outer edges

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So, I've got a rectangular little/logo banner thing drawn up in Adobe Illustrator:

And I want to fade out to nothing around the edges relative to a new shape; in this case, an ellipse.

Here it is again with the fading part overlaid in pink for clarity. So it's like a frame within a frame.

Using a raster image editor, I managed to hack together an approximation of what I'm going for.


texts: How to troubleshoot a design that doesn't "feel" right?

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I'm a new designer (sort of) and I'm wondering how you guys fix a design that just doesn't feel quite right. When you've been working on a design for a while, you can get the feeling that one of many things are wrong but you are too close to spot it.

I'm sure it varies from design to design but is there a checklist of things you would go down? e.g. type, alignment, contrast etc. ?


texts: How to fix stepped diagonal lines happening in illustrator export

texts: I am trying to save a logo file for a website from illustrator but when I view the image after export the diagonal lines are stepped and not sharp. It is a small file, 175px wide as this is what it needs to be for the website. Can anyone help me? I need these lines to be straight.


texts: Which font is used for the Yorkhill Children's Charity logo?

texts: Can anyone tell me the name of this font? Or similar fonts?


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I would like to add some animation to an Android application, in which an icon would move from left to right along a horizontal line.

Our graphic designer suggested animated GIFs or MOV files, but we're not sure if these are the right formats for Android - especially in terms of file sizes.

Which animation file formats are supported by Android? Is there an official or recommended format by Google?


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I have a complex group :

I want to replace the screen of the iPhone by a "hole": when I export the group to a .svg file, I would like the screen to be a transparent area.

I would prefer a solution with Sketch but I will also be interested by solution that uses other software on the exported image.

EDIT:
I am not able to use the subtracted area as a mask.


texts: How to balance and match colors in a color scheme?

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I've selected a list of colors (for months of the year). This initial set seems (logically) good to me, however I certainly need to adjust some color tones in brightness, saturation or so.

Is there a systematic way to make these colors more balanced and matching?

PS: It's for data plots so the color should be distinguishable.


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I have to create a 4-banner wide roll-up design, but all I have to work with is a 1500px wide image. If I resize this, so it fits the banners, it becomes, logically, very pixelated. I have taken a look at this question, but the result (after importing it in Illustrator) looks quite blurry.

This is why I'm wondering if there is a function or trick in Illustrator to blow up a picture, without it looking like crap. Of course it doesn't have to look like it's not resized, but it should be good enough to take pictures in front of.

The image I'm working with is this one.


texts: A font that's readable with a 5px height

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For use in Photoshop, I'm looking for a font that's exactly 5 px high but still readable. I tried some system fonts myself like Arial, Tahoma, Segoe UI but it all results in a pixely mess.

Ideally the font will use their space optimally and make words like 'ISDN' readable like this:

This specifically needs to be 5px. So Which typeface is suitable for marking of wires? doesn't answer my question


texts: Designing for Retina display in PPI or DPI?

texts: As for designing for retina do I.... set up the  image canvas to be the true size to my display device, say iPad screen size (not resolution size) Dimension size. Then set my dpi to 72....? Is DPI 72 or... the resolution to whatever the retina display is (I.e 4k, 1080p etc)


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I am facing some problems with font rendering in different browsers.
I tried to add a custom font and font get distorted in browser like firefox, chrome, IE

http://demo.techanveshan.com/triprental4/listing.html

Following is the CSS tried :

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Museo 500';
    src: url('../font/Museo500-Regular.eot');
    src: local('☺'),
    url('../font/Museo500-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 500;
    font-style: normal;
}


texts: Intersect mesh and a flat surface in Rhinoceros

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I have a big mesh object and I'd like to generate a line that copies the intersection between my mesh and a flat surface that passes through that mesh.

I cannot convert mesh to polysurface. I tried and my computer crashed after Rhinoceros explicitly warned me that it might crash.

Is there other method?


texts: Issue with obtaining full transparency around design when making tiff files

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I am making tiff files in Photoshop out of designs I made in Illustrator. The designs contain a raw image with a masked border on top of them. When I copy the design onto Photoshop, there is a thin, almost transparent color around the design which I am unable to avoid. I save the tiff file with transparency, but when I paste it back to Illustrator, I can clearly see that layer around my design. My designs are to be printed, so I am scared that thin layer would show. How do I avoid that and have everything around my design transparent?

Here's what it should look like:

click for full resolution

Here's how it comes out:

click for full resolution


texts: What is the status of numbers in the Mollerup's taxonomy for trademarks?

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I am wondering how are numbers treated within the taxonomy of trademarks by Per Mollerup which is explained in his book Marks of Excellence.

Numbers are not explicitly defined and I believe there should be a distinction between literal numbers (numerical value) and numbers which represent other letters or words.

Example of literal/actual numbers: 100 Kilo, Studio 42

Examples of representative numbers: H3LL0, Gift2Win, 4EVER

The names are made up for the sake of this question.

Taxonomy reference:

Consider a trademark which consists of only numbers, or it could have a name but the logo is just numbers, where will it fit in the taxonomy?

Any feedback appreciated.

P.S This is for a research in graphic design studies.

Further reading: http://iconresearch.net/mollerups-taxonomy


texts: Illustrator CS5 do not automatically change the measuring unit to the files default?

texts: I am creating images for both web and print so I use pixels (px) and millimeters (mm) back and forth. But whenever I open the other type of file (i.e. opened web(px) first then print(mm), or print(mm) then web(px) ), the units displayed in Transform is always set to the previous file's setting. I have to go to "Document Setup > OK" or  every time I encounter this. It is very frustrating. Is there anyway to fix it, or is it fixed in later versions of Illustrator? Thanks.


texts: How Do I rotate without bound exceed composition size in after Effects CC

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Hello I want rotate this

But... I have problem rotating this

I want rotate without exceed bound.
How can I fix this problem?
sorry for my poor english.


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I have a 2000x1500 image created with Photoshop CS6 Extended. When I save images in different formats for re-use in other programs, e.g. PNG, the image quality will suffer. I have nice basic gradiants and layout overlays but when I save it, the transparency will suffer a lot.

What to do? I would like to use PNG because I need to send that image to one company so they can print it (only PNG supported...).


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I am keeping a close eye on the question about logo design contests, and I hope that my 1st Question here does not get completely slammed.

It never really occurred to me that 'logo design contests' are similar to Spec Work and this could be considered unethical.

I am an amateur web developer and it became clear that my Illustrator efforts looked rookie.

I have two situations where I need help from a graphics designer.

Girlfriend has a TV show on a volunteer based TV Channel.  We have had a friend do the logo for free, as for him it was also good publicity (name in credits) and looked good in his portfolio. If we needed more work, where could we ask?
The company I work for, the logo for a product we are developing looks dated.  Problem is, the people that hold the purse strings will see this as trivial.  Where could I ask for help on re-vamping our logo? It could lead to more work.

So what am I asking?
First off, I completely understand that SE is not the place to be asking for free help (help being, can u do me some graphics).
- Where is the right place to ask for people to do free graphics work?
If you could also squeeze in any thoughts on if you think asking for help for free, for both my 2 situations, is detrimental for other people working in the graphics space.

I work in GIS. Its not such a freelance industry as Graphic Design, so maybe its not comparable.
My thoughts are, if someone was asking for me to put together a map/mapping website, for free, I would not bother.
However, if you had asked me when I was fresh out of Uni, and nothing on my CV, or perhaps between jobs, I think (pending what they wanted done) that I would do it.
- In case of #1 above, I have advised my gf to perhaps put up posters at the local arts uni.


texts: What DPI to design at for small label on 4800 DPI printer

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I have a printer that prints onto labels at supposedly up to 4800 DPI. https://www.primeralabel.com/lx900_features.html

I'm guessing this is mostly marketing.

I need to print onto 25mm by 51mm labels and I am trying to get the text to be very clear, what DPI should I design at?


texts: Need an outside perspective on logo design for outdoor company

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Logo Context: For an outdoor equipment company that is developing specialized gear for hiking, climbing, and backcountry skiing. Aiming for a design style similar to the fjallräven logo, with a little mountain climbing character to give the brand some personality. Main concern is keeping it simple enough for a logo that will potentially be embroidered/printed etc.

I'm a bit new to logo design, so this has taken me a few (200+) iterations... But I'm finally getting to a point where I'm happy with the logo. I've been staring at illustrator too long now though, so I would really appreciate an outside perspective on which direction is best, and what could be improved, simplified, or changed to finalize this. Thanks so much!


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ILLUSTRATOR: I Can't Divide Shapes The Way I Want
I'm trying get a mesh of two shapes, but no matter what Pathfinder I use, I can't get the desired effect.
What I've Tried:
    • Pathfinders (all of them)
    • Object > Path > Divide Objects Below
Example:


texts: Show perpendicular guidelines while using gradient tool

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On lightroom, when you're using the gradient tool, you're able to see 3 guidelines showing the start of the gradient, middle and end of the gradient while creating the gradient itself.

Is there any way to show that in photoshop too?

Note: The same lines also appear in the gradient tool on camera raw, but I wish to use it outside camera raw for masking and such.

An example for what I'm referring to:


texts: Wish to make a GIMP layer visible to me, but "hidden" to GIMP

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I am attempting to create a color-coded grid diagram for a cross-stitch pattern. As shown in the attached image (sorry it is a little blurry, this is just my test run), I have a white "background" layer, a "symbols" layer with the pattern showing the symbols of the pattern for each square, a "grid" layer with a blank grid used to control where the color via bucket fill will go), and a transparent "colors" layer that I am using to bucket fill the appropriate colors in each square (specific to the symbol shown on the symbols layer).  In this fashion, I will have a layer for the blank grid as well as a layer for the colors.  When doing the bucket fill, I will be using the "sample merged" feature since I only want a single square to be filled with each color (based off of the grid layer).  However, here is where is run into a problem.  With the "sample merged" feature on, GIMP of course will look at the symbols layer as well, and not just fill in the grid layer with a color.  So, at this point, all I have been able to figure out is that I would need to make the symbols layer invisible before adding the color.  But I need to see the symbol layer to know which color to put in each square!  Toggling the visibility of the symbol layer would be exceeding tedious and time consuming (as there are approximately 65,000 squares on this one pattern alone.  If this is the only way to do it, then so be it...but I was hoping someone out there knew of a way to make the symbols layer visible to me, but not to GIMP...sort of a selective "sample merged" option?

Thanks!


texts: Usage costs for logo animation intro / outro template

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As a freelancer I recently produced three web animations for a client.

The company has just rebranded and I've been asked to create an animated logo intro / outro template (that's 2 x concepts, animation and sound design) for use on:

The three existing videos
100 previously made videos (not made by me)
All future web videos

The cost for the concepts, animation, sound design and adding the intro / outro to the existing three videos I can calculate easily enough but should I be charging extra for the additional usage and the fact this is a template that will likely be sent to other people to be added to any videos they are making for the same client?

If so, can anybody please advise on the best way to price that usage?

With voiceover fees I'm used to paying for usage or buyout.. same with music licensing but I've never had to consider the same with my own work.

I found this thread - Charging an Intellectual Property transfer fee for design work - that suggests the following formula for design work:

"Final formula:
Design fee + (design fee x 3) + (third party licenses) = Fee for native files"

But I am totally unsure if that is appropriate in this case.

Any advice greatly appreciated - thanks.


texts: How do you get this overlay effect on Photoshop?

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I'm talking about this logo

I'm trying to make something with the same effect. I've tried a few things but can't really find the right mixture of what is used, the overlay just looks great on the one in the picture and it darkens the layer below it but mine just does that a little by using the multiply layer type. :(


texts: Designing backdrops at reduced file size

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I'm designing some backdrops for a play using Illustrator, the printed dimensions are 18m x 11m.

What size should I make the document so that it looks clear but isn't a huge file size?


texts: Adobe Illustrator 3D revolve produces missing parts

texts: I'm trying to make a 3D bottle using 3D revolve but I keep on producing models with missing parts. I'm using CS6 on OS X and the settings are shown on the image below. I tried two variations: the path on the far right is closed, it is a complete shape; the one on its left is an open path without the straight line on the right. They both produce the same result as shown. I've redrawn the shapes a few times and 'united' them using pathfinder just to make sure, but it didn't help. Thanks in advance for any insight into this!


texts: I'm editing the SVG file in inkscape. How do I have the red loop overlap the top part of the blue tag like in the image above the svg?


texts: How do I move image over a title header that is filled with a solid background color in power point?

texts: I'm trying to post an image over a solid filled title header in the master slide layout in power point.


texts: Leaflet fold where full-page spread is the last thing seen?

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Is there a type of fold for one-sheet flyers where the last thing a reader reaches while working through it in a natural way is a full-page spread, and where sections of that full page spread are not seen before it is reached?

Trying to think about how that could work is giving me a headache... and I'm starting to run out of paper to test-fold :)

The closest I've found so far is (from the book Forms Folds and Sizes) the '6 page barrel fold'. It gives everything except the very back panel before reaching the centrefold, which is close enough, but 1/3 of the centrefold becomes visible in isolation after the first opening.

The problem is that one of the brown centrefold panels is shown on its own at step 2 separated from the others - I'm hoping for a fold where the whole centrefold is introduced as one unit, as late as possible in the reader's progression through the folds. Is this possible?

Taking a classic 'Closed gate' fold (which introduces the centrefold too early)...

...and turning it around would theoretically solve the problem...

...but unfortunately, in some very unscientific testing on colleagues, I find that while about 50-60% read through like that, about 20-25% read it like this...

...and about 20-25% read it like this:

...which would result in content being read out of sequence and the natural flow being broken. How they read these seemed to hinge on how much the leaflet happened to fall open while they turned it over in their hands.

Edit--

The reason why reading order is key is that the content is a series of information panels, which together build up a complete picture, and go progressively deeper into a topic. So, if they are read out of sequence, it might not be obviously wrong to a reader as panels cover separate topics, but it would make less sense because the reader will be trying to understand a detailed topic before they've understood more basic foundational info.

If that's hard to visualise, imagine something like the structure used in The Oatmeal, where a series of points are made that are factually independent, but together progressively flesh out an overall picture. Now imagine you were producing a leaflet version - you don't want to distract from the flow of the content, and you want to be sure it's read in the right order else the message can be weakened or muddied.

And the reason the centrefold needs to be last or nearly last is, that's how the content is - the final point is a difficult multi-faceted point that needs the extra space and needs the prior background to have been already read.


texts: When I draw a simple rectangle, it doesn’t appear

texts: When I try to draw a rectangle, it does not appear. I can fill it but I don’t want to. I just want a normal rectangle with borders. How to do it?


texts: How to draw a seven point star with one path in Adobe Illustrator

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I am looking to create an SVG seven pointed star which is drawn with one path, similar to how you used to draw 5 pointed stars in grade school but scaled up to 7 points. I've included an image that shows what I mean.
I would also like the points of the star to be rounded, as seen in the image. The problem that I am currently facing (as seen in the image) is that I am able to draw the rough idea, but its completely asymmetric and doesn't look too good. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.


texts: How to create a shifting colour hue in Asprite

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I am new to learning pixel art and trying to study from examples, such as in the image below: I would like to understand what tools exist to simplify the shade/gradient transition effect below (rather than manually shifting the shade for each pixel). Looking at a given top to bottom strip such the central vertical brown line a transition effect of each pixel going from dark to light and back to dark again - is there a tool/brush/add on that can automate this?
As it would seem quite hard work to change each pixel for a big image, or am I thinking of this the wrong way?
So far I have researched the use of shading tool in aseprite, which only allows you to shift between three colours, the gradient tool only seems to work with paint bucket, the blur tool sometimes has this effect but is random pot luck.
many thanks


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Using GIMP, I used the fuzzy selection tool to fill in colors. Now between shapes there are some white pixels, see the pixels between the hexagon and the exterior black color:

Using GIMP, or another tool, how can I clean up the outer edge of the hexagon, to remove the white pixels so it's just either black or teal?
Is there a name for that technique?

I am on Linux/Ubuntu.


texts: Save a vector shape with transparency with a clean outline in Photoshop?

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The problem I'm having is that after I've drawn a 16px by 16px, vector shape (circle), with a transparent background everything about the shape is as I need it, except that the anti-aliasing on the image makes the image look jagged when the background isn't white.

As far as I can tell when I'm saving the image in Adobe Photoshop I may be saving the image incorrectly in the "Save for Web" dialog screen.
Desired result is a 16x16 (px) vector shape with a transparent background (so that it can hover a gradient when the image is placed on a web page). This image could be .gif or .png, I'll take either.

Steps to recreate:

Open Photoshop
Create new document
Add new Layer
Delete the Background layer
Select the Ellipse Tool (not the Elliptical Marquee Tool)
Left-click and drag on the Canvas
Type 16px for the Height and Width in the dialog that pops up
Click Ok,
and the properties for the vector shape we just added looks like this:
Right-click the shape in the canvas, and select Make Selection
Leave Feather at "0" and check Anti-Aliased, click Ok.
Under the Image menu, select Crop
Open the Save For Web dialog (ctrl + shft + alt + s)
The following are 1 of the 20+ settings patterns I tried:
Review the saved image:

As we can see this final image is not a smooth circle, I can't seem to smooth out the jagged border of the image. My other attempts are smooth but unfortunately the anti-aliasing doesn't remain transparent and resembles a white matte border, so if the background I place this image on top of is white, everything looks great, but the goal here is to place this image over a dark gradient background.

Help would be appreciated.


texts: Converting very wide logos to square formats

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We all know how much easier our lives became when social media decided that our clients brands needed to be adequately represented in square format! So far I have always managed to pull of this tricky conversion, but this time I am faced with a particularly tricky (inherited) logo:

You can see here that the logo is comprised of three elements. The "Bosch" logo which has to be included contractually, the companies (unfortunately) extended name (stylised), and a tagline that could be omitted in square format.

I have relied before on a method of using only the company initials in the "avatar" format, stylised in the same way as the logo, but in this case, with the (ironically) square Bosch logo needing to be included I am stumped. These, for example, are awful:

I would love to here what tricks/techniques any of you have for dealing with this issue. I think it goes without saying that this client is not Bosch! If they were then firstly I'd me much wealthier, and secondly I'd be very happy my logo was exactly square and take the rest of the day off! In this case both the Bosch and the stylised company mark have to be included. Somehow!


texts: Krita: How to apply a stroke effect like in Photoshop

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when cleaning images from their background I always used Photoshops Stroke Effect, which applied a coloured stroke around any visible pixels. This is extremely helpful with nearly invisible pixels or whole areas of pixels, which I can easily erase then.

So how can I accomplish the same effect with Krita?


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Illustrator is a tool more geared toward artistic purposes, but it has deterministic internals when it comes to most objects features, but sometimes it feels like it lacks certain functionalities.

I'd like to be able to constrain the distance between objects (objects' edges) in a quick way. Is there a way? Or am I limited to Object > Transform > Move...

I'm working on a house floor-plan. I'd like to define the distances between objects (walls and what not) in a practical way, while being able to stylize the objects afterwards. The issue is that I need to set several many measurements at the same time while not knowing the final position of most objects. The Move... command is just too error prone.

If it weren't for the need to stylize objects visually I would just use Solidworks.


texts: How detailed can I be for embroidery/patch personalization?

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I was tasked with designing a logo for the EMEA team and from our meeting they want to have the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) in their logo. I started tracing out the countries, but am afraid when the get their merch personalized, that the company will say the design is too intricate. Is this kind of design too 'ornate/detailed' for that kind of personalization?

Are there any tricks to showing countries in embroidery? Will I need to simplify this?


texts: Help with size of text on photos 4272 x 2783

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When my photo comes off my camera, rebel T3, 4272 x 2783 is the size of photo with a resolution of 72.   I then in photoshop go to change the resolution to 300 in order to have calendars and scripture pictures printed.  The largest size of font in photoshop is 72. 72 is not large enough for the photo.  If I manually input say 150 or 200 for the fontsize, will it print out okay?  I hope I'm making sense.  I'm fairly new to printing my photos for sale.  I also hope that changing the resolution is okay?

Thank you for this site, it looks wonderful.

Kathleen


texts: Black lines on either side of video in PDF

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When I embed a video (mp4) into a pdf in Acrobat Pro to make an interactive PDF, I am getting black lines down the left and right sides of the video when I play the video.
When I scale the video, I get black lines on the top and bottom.

Any ideas how I can stop these from appearing?


texts: How to quickly create satin fabric in illustrator？

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Is there an easy way to quickly create satin fabric in illustrator.

Sample picture:


texts: What comic / cartoon style fonts are suitable for a mobile game?

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I am currently in the midst of making an iOS game. So far, I created an overall look, i.e. figures and backgrounds. However, I also have to display textual information to the user. This makes me wonder which font to use. For this, I created two mockups with different fonts.

The first one uses Avenir Next (which currently is one of my favorite fonts) with weights "Regular" and "Medium", while the second one uses Action Man with weights "Regular" and "Bold":

Personally, I like both mockups but would prefer the second one with the Action Man font, because in my opinion, it fits better to the overall look of the game. However, Avenir Next is probably better readable, since the font size is rather small. But I also think it kind of breaks the design, although this might not be bad.

Therefore, my question would be: is it ok to use a rather round font when the surrounding design is also round or might it be better to use a font that breaks this paradigm.

The requirements I can describe for the kind of font I'm looking for would be:

Good readability with rather small font sizes (the screenshots use 36pt at an resolution of 1136 x 640 px, on the iPhone this would then be half the size)
Two different weights, probably regular and bold
Should fit to the game, which itself has kind of comic style
Should not distract the player during gameplay or overly attract attention

What fonts are suitable for a cartoon / comic style mobile and tablet game / application?


texts: Exporting file dimensions in Illustrator not correct

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I need to create a pdf 8.75" x 11.25" (which has the bleeding and safety zones) for a print flyer of 8" x 11". My print shop said the flyer pdf I got is actually 36.47 x 46.89. My designer sent me a screenshot of this - see inside red box.

I'm not sure if this is where the export size setting is set. How do I get my designer to export the size correctly? Is there a setting for print letter size with bleeding pre-set in Illustrator?


texts: How to split my huge banner (W5155 mm x H870 mm) into 2 so i can save it as pdf for printing?

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I need help on saving my banner into pdf to send to the printing shop. I currently can't save my banner as pdf because it's too big..
If I split it into 2 artboards, will the printing result still be in 1 continuous banner?
Sorry, I'm a newbie. I've tried to find tutorials on this but only found the tutorial to split 1 big image into 2 panels and ended up they print the banner sepparately..
A respond will be much appreciated thanksss :))


texts: Distinguishing real and faux bold and italics

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Some software (such as Microsoft Word) will silently use oblique or "faux" italics and bold styles when the appropriate font variant is not available.

For italics, I've been using the test of typing Roman and italic lower case f next to each other, since most italic variants have an F that uses a descender. If I don't see a descender, it's likely that the software is faking it.

My question is:

Is the above test (comparing lower case f) a reliable test for true italics?
Is there a similar test that can be applied to bold weight?


texts: Should Widgets Follow the Vertical Rhythm?

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When designing for a vertical rhythm on the web, should form elements also follow along with the rhythm?

I am currently working on developing a new set of guidelines and patterns for an enterprise web based application, including developing both a vertical and horizontal rhythm -- something the traditional product has lacked in the past. This is the first time I've actually paid that much attention to the vertical rhythm, so I've been reading up on it a lot.

I've found one source particularly useful, both in terms of documentation and looking at their CSS as an example. However, when I reached the section about form controls (e.g., buttons) the cadence fell apart. At least, that I could see.

The example was a 6px vertical rhythm. But the default <button> was defined as 32px, with no additional margin.

Should the form controls also fall into the rhythm, or am I missing something when it comes to the controls lining up with the overall page rhythm?


texts: What do professional artists do when preparing blueprints/reference images for vehicles like this  with complex shapes as you can see on its side. I am asking since I have seen a lot use orthographical front-,side., and top-views, but I cannot see how these views used as blueprints would feature such complex shapes.


texts: Background idea for displaying black png images

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I need a good way to display black png images in my webapp

Hover

I thought about using a "transparency tile" but that wouldn't look good
I even used CSS stripes but the result wasn't great

I need a background which could work for all sorts of images


texts: Why does Adobe Illustrator change my web colors?

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I opened a new document in Adobe Illustrator CS5, which defaults to CMYK as a color mode. I imported a raster image, used LiveTrace  with 6 grayscale colors, expanded, and saved as SVG, which changed the color mode to RGB (which I believe makes no difference, since it's only grayscale colors at this point). In the text, I replaced black in the plain text of the SVG to one web color and gray with a tint of that web color, where the opacity is proportional to the amount of gray. In the example below, I used 7B68EE for MediumSlateBlue. I copied the design in the SVG file with 7B68EE into a CMYK document and the color became 666699.

Here are two images of the difference for this case. The SVG with fill="#7B68EE" in the plain text:

The design pasted into a CMYK document:

A similar replacement happened from Orange (FF8C00) to FF9900 and from LimeGreen (32CD32) to 66CC33. I wonder if it's a coincidence that the hexadecimal characters in Illustrator's colors are doubled, e.g. 323232 becomes 333333.

I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and Illustrator CS5 15.1.0 (yes, I really am, I was able to make them play nicely).

Why does Illustrator change MediumSlateBlue (7B68EE) in an RGB document to 666699 in a CMYK document?


texts: In GIMP, what is the equivilent to adding a 'spot channel' in PS ? Need a white layer below image and edges transparent for printing

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I am looking to print an image with a white layer behind the color image.  The image is of a face with the background in transparent.  When it get's printed, it goes on a dark wall and therefore I wish to lay down white prior to the color layer.  Apparently this can be done in Photoshop using a spot channel.  When I google 'spot channel GIMP' I get info on channels but nothing specific.  I am a rookie with GIMP, but really want to give it a chance.  Any help would be appreciated.  All exports have todate been Tiff files and the transparency begins printing in black, with no white layer behind. In the image below, the white wall area of the wall is the transparent region.
Again, the idea is The Wall Printer lays down an area = to the facial region in white and prints the actual facial image in color over top the white, because it's going onto a dark wall color. This can be done with PS, i'm just trying to prove it can happen with GIMP as well.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How to distort artwork for printing on a cup?

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I need to print using my regular office printer a design I have already made to wrap around to the shown here under mug.

As you may notice that the circumference of the top part is wider than the lower part. which mean That I need a sort of deformation or cone projection to do the job.

So please how can I do that doing Illustrator or Photoshop.

ps. There is a post discussing the process designing and printing for mugs here and it is not my case, it discuss the mug printing production itself, but my case is just a regular printing to warp a the printed paper around the mug.

using the wrap command is the solution but actually I don't know the exact amount that I have to adjust the distortion to get my design wrapped exactly over the mug. also I need to know how to determine the dimensions I marked "?" below.


texts: Join two anchor points to same line path

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I've created very basic shape with Illustrator CS6. here's my shape

My first anchor point on inner shape (no. 1) successfully join the line path (on left side). But not with the second one. No.2 cannot join the line path on left side.

How to join the anchor point no.2 to line path? I want fill the inner shape with outer shape with different color. Thanks in advance.


texts: Photoshop content not moving with Artboard

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Content move along with artboard when changing position by dragging with the mouse, but changing position from properties panel only moves the artboard, not content.
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texts: How can I extend edge features to add bleed to art designed without any?

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I have an image with some sharp linear/curved features and some noise and some other features near the edges. I want to enlarge the image and extend those features that reach the edge and span a significant distance into the interior of the image, but not repeat/extend features that do not.

In the before/after photo below I have extended a handful of linear features and a lot of colorful noise, but I did not extend or duplicate the numbers in the grey areas because they do not reach the original edges and don't span inwards from those edges. Are there tools that can automate this process?


texts: using fonts that are under (personal use only) license to make commercial coaching notes

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I have downloaded a font for personal use only.
Can I use it for preparing my commercial coaching notes as if I were a teacher?
Those fonts make my notes attractive.
Should I buy a commercial license?


texts: How should a text button with hover state be aligned?

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Using Material UI components for demo (the misalignment is not as huge with Material but might be more visible with other libraries)
I am aligning the text button (PRIMARY) against a heading (Form)
Normal state
See how the text button is placed slightly right compared to the heading?

Hover state
On hover state, the button now appears to be slightly left compared to heading?

Question: How can we have the text button aligned to heading on both hovered and normal states?
A couple of options come to mind.

keep the padding minimal to make the misalignment negligible
move content right on hover to accommodate padding from hover (apply transform effect make it look better)

https://codesandbox.io/s/material-demo-forked-zll0r


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My logo consists of letters in black, grey (109,109,109) and pink (244,0,128).

What are some guidelines or techniques that I can use to choose an appropriate secondary color to use on my website, in Powerpoints, and other branded materials?


texts: A2 french folded then trifolded - InDesign pages/spreads support?

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Does InDesign support spreads with pages arranged above-and-below as well as side-by-side? And if not, how do I work around this shortcoming?

I would like to arrange sheets as follows, for a folded map:

where the A2 sheet will first be folded on the red line, then on the purple line, then trifolded into a DL size. The "A" pages are 100x210mm, the "B" pages will be 97x210mm.

I didn't think it would be this hard to find support for this, as cross-folding sheets isn't that unusual. But so far I've only been able to make pages join laterally into a spread. Am I missing something, or is this support simply not in InDesign?

If there isn't such support in InDesign, how do I at least tell alternating spreads to have different bleed & slug settings, so I can pretend that adjacent spreads are actually conjoined? Or to set it up otherwise in such a way that a printer will appreciate what I deliver, instead of either hating me or sending it back for rework?

I know I can create an A2 page and chop it up with guides and arrange everything manually... I was hoping to, you know, use a layout tool for... well, layout.


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I've realized that simple textures like the one used on this site:

..add a lot to the look of a page. How are they made though? I'm not very experienced in Photoshop, but I can't imagine what tool would be used to make the random specs across the pattern.


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I am currently creating a PPT template. Everything was smoothly processing till I tried to copy a manually created textbox from another PPT file.

The font size and color have been defined from the Slide master but when I copy paste manually created (inserted) textbox or the text in that box to my current working slide, the font size and color do not follow my theme formatting. For example, my theme color for content text is gray with 18pt Calibri size but instead copied text keep my theme formatting, it follows source formatting.

I am not sure how can I fix this problem. I hope I have stated my issue clearly.

Your help will be appreciated.


texts: How was this distorted line text effect achieved?

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The tapering of the white lines varies in severity and shape throughout. I'm guessing a lot of tinkering was involved here, but curious as to the general effect and how it's achieved. It's pretty stunning.

Anyone have an idea of how this could have been put together?


texts: Do I want to convert or just tag with the CMYK profile?

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I have some images to send to the printer. The printing company wants them in 'CMYK' but doesnt offer any other information. I've read up quite a bit on this but most info that I've found seems to be about the theory of color profiles with not much on the actual procedure.

Currently my image is in sRGB (I'm using the GIMP which I believe uses sRGB, but doesnt embed this color profile in the image). I understand that ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.ic is a good general-purpose CMYK profile.

1) Do I want to convert my image to the CMYK profile or do I just want to add the profile to the image?

2) How can I verify that the above has worked. E.g. if I load the image up with some viewer app and view it on the monitor, how can I tell if it is all correct? I.e. I believe once the image is in the new profile you should be able to preview to get an estimate what it will look when printed (as CMYK has a smaller range than sRGB) and maybe adjust the colors to improve things. Maybe there are some test images showing before and after conversion?

3) Can anyone recommend tools for 1 and 2 (free hopefully). I am on windows 7, but could also use Linux. (Other than Separate+ for the GIMP - I tried it but I'm pretty certain its not working correctly for me as yellow turns into yellow-green).


texts: I'd like to make the navy square transparent over the area where the white diamond is. Not the inner navy portion, just the white area. Is it possible to do this and end up with only one object?


texts: Fill object that has holes with text in Illustrator

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I am trying to create a logo where a text is inside a shape that has holes, but I want it to be within the shape, including the eyes and teeth. The eyes and teeth are just filled white here and the client doesn't want any words missing.

I cannot figure out how to do so. Maybe I can space it in such a way?


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I make digital paintings and, I want to sell them to potential customers.
I usually work in sRGB mode and save the file as jpg. Is it the right way for printing to any printing service? If not, what can I do without making the paintings all over again?  Next time I make a digital painting, what color mode and save file type must I use?
I use the jpg file type because I am not specialized to export the file as pdf. How can I export my digital painting as a pdf file?
Is a psd file another option for printing to any printing service?
Also, the colors a customer will see on their monitor will not match the colors I see on my monitor and, the colors on the final print will be different. What must I say to them?
How can I fix the colors on my monitor to be printed correctly on the final print?
Thank you.


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Is that possible to connect dots in Adobe Illustrator, automatically?

To do something like this:


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I would like to purchase the same font the Windows Phone Phonly app uses. Anybody has idea what font is it?

Update: I tried font identification services such as WhatTheFont and had no success.


texts: resize svg file width 100% and height fixed.

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I made this svg file with sketch.app.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg width="478px" height="36px" viewBox="0 0 478 36" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:sketch="http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ns">
    <!-- Generator: Sketch 3.3.1 (12002) - http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch -->
    <title>フッター</title>
    <desc>Created with Sketch.</desc>
    <defs></defs>
    <g id="ツリー" stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" sketch:type="MSPage">
        <g id="フッター" sketch:type="MSLayerGroup">
            <rect id="Rectangle-3-Copy" fill="#EFAE00" sketch:type="MSShapeGroup" x="0" y="0" width="478" height="36"></rect>
            <path d="M160.5,36 L478,36 L478,0 L141,0 L141,0.467532468 L103,36 L160.5,36 Z" id="Rectangle-3-Copy-2" fill="#3D4D5A" sketch:type="MSShapeGroup"></path>
        </g>
    </g>
</svg>

I want to resize to width 100%, height 36px

I change

<svg width="478px" height="36px" ....>

↓

<svg width="100%" height="36px" ....>

but not work.

How to resize?


texts: How can I tell basic color a hex code is closest to?

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The following hex values would all probably be considered "red" by the layman's eye:

Is there a way, using only the hex code, to determine which basic color a given color is most similar to? I would like to be able to do this for red, blue, green, yellow, green, purple, brown, pink, black, and white as well.


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I'm trying to draw a water drop, but I'm not sure how to curve this points.

I've drawn it with a pen, and then curved it with the curvature tool.

Also if possible, how can I make the pen thicker?


texts: How to convert guides to objects in Illustrator

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Can someone please suggest how to convert guides to objects in Illustrator? I have guides at the moment in a design that I am filling with color, however, it doesn't work for a clipping mask.

I followed Scott's suggestions. The first is not checked and release guides was not available for unchecking - grayed out.

Here is the image I designed.

(Click image to enlarge)

I'm unable to do a clipping mask in either Photoshop or Illustrator with this.


texts: What are these line and dot graphs called?

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I am looking for some kind of minimalistic network graphs but I can't find the right words to describe them.

A while ago, I discovered a webpage that has these kind of graphs but I no longer find it.

I have tried terms such as: "big data visualization", "network graphs", "design network graphs", "stock network graphs"...

An example of what I am looking for:

Or the background logo used on this site itself:

I am just looking for a graph (minimalistic or flat design) with lines and nodes.

This is a similar website that I found:

http://personalbrandinstitute.com/


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To put it simply, I don't want to just switch black to alpha. I want to make it so that the more black a pixel is, the more alpha it has.
I've got this nebula I made following a tutorial:

The image shown doesn't do it justice; there's a lot of very minor flushes of color around the nebula that I need to keep. As you can see, it's also black.

I want to make it so that the more black an image has, the more alpha it has. How would I do this in Photoshop (CS6)?


texts: How do I edit my CMYK greens to output as brightly as possible?

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Converting my photoshop work from RGB to CMYK to send to print. Found out today that RGB has a much broader and vibrant colour array than CMYK.

Trying to edit the values, saturation, brightness, exposure etc. to make my greens look even REMOTELY close to what I want. All I've been told is "you'll never get CMYK to look like RGB" which is fine, except for nearly every magazine and booklet I have at home has the vivid, vibrant greens and blues I want. How?

It's very frustrating especially seeing as I've only learned this 3 days before I need to have it printed.

I've searched the values for lime green with CMYK with were C - 70 & Y - 100 (in reality I want it a bit darker than that) but it just comes out as a murky khaki colour on my screen.

The green on the left is the colour I get in RGB. The other two are the colours I've managed to replicate. However, I have at least 6 brochures/booklets at the side of me which all have that bright green colour on the left in them. So why can't I get that colour? Is there a difference between screen and print due to the way the models work? I'm a novice to this and it's all a bit confusing! Thank you


texts: Photoshop CS 6 - Multiple shapes, same layer, different colors

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Does anyone how I can change the color of a single shape, that is in the same layer of another shape, in Photoshop CS 6? The default behavior of changing colors seems to change the color of all shapes in that layer, as opposed to the selected shape only!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Help with using Direct Selection Tool while creating an icon in Illustrator

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I am new to Illustrator and learning how to make icons following this link https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/how-to/icon-design.html

I am stuck at step 5. I am not getting the corner widget outside the shape as highlighted in the image on step 5. Because of this, I am unable to get inverted (outside) corners for the top rectangle.

So, my icon looks like this


texts: What are the best open image formats that support layers?

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I've commissioned images from an artist, which all images have been delivered in PSD and PNG formats.
As a Linux user, PSD files don't open well on software like GIMP and ImageMagick due to the issues with clipping masks, plus I'd like to avoid a proprietary format if possible regardless as these will be going on a public project on GitLab.
What are the best image (or project) formats that support layers? It's preferred if it's widely supported, but if it at least works with GIMP and ImageMagick, that'd be good enough since a script will automatically export it to more conventional formats like PNG.
I've tried looking at many standard ones however they don't support layers, TIFF I learned isn't completely open which is why even though Photoshop supports layered TIFs other programs can't open each layer, EXR doesn't have good support it seems between what Photoshop exports when GIMP imports it.
Edit:
Small addendum, I've now looked into OpenRaster (.ora), however it appears ImageMagick does not support it unfortunately.
Update: 2021-02-18
ImageMagick now supports OpenRaster.


texts: Arranging images, arrows, text and similar for research presentation

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I am going to prepare presentation slides for a research presentation. Below I am showing an example of type of images people generally include in such presentations. The presentation has been prepared in Latex which I know to use. But, the image includes many discrete components, e.g., faces, arrows, and text, stitched together.

I am not sure which graphic software is best suitable for creation of such a graphic. To clarify, I am not planning to create individual “components”. Those I will use ready-made, downloaded from Internet. The problem lies in compiling those together to create a meaningful image as per my needs. Will Gimp be sufficient, or are there easier alternatives?


texts: Create a Layer of White Noise and Save as a Transparency file (With Only the White Noise showing)

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I'm try to create a layer of white noise in Photoshop that I can export as a transparency (png) file to use on a website. There are a couple of other similar questions on here, but they are trying to export a general noise transparency layer as opposed to a layer of white noise (with only the white noise showing).

I'm relatively new to PS and I seem to have wasted nearly a day trying to do this so any help would be super amazing.

Emily


texts: Colour replacement tool wont target certain items - Photoshop

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Im trying to colour replace the highlighted areas in the screen shot below, but when i use the colour replacement tool it dosnt seem to be able to colour these areas, any ideas ?

Ive also attached the full image below for reference


texts: How to create this effect in photoshop CS5

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First let me start off by saying that I'm a programmer and have very little experience with Photoshop, so thanks for helping me out! I'm trying to create a background for my main view, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing it.

I'd like there to be vertical black stripes tilted 30 degrees clockwise on a yellow background. However, instead of the black lines I'd like stripes randomly spread about the image but with the same slant. For the stripes, I'd like them to give a sense of movement with sharp ends and be a little thinner than the stripes in this picture. Is this possible? How would I go about doing this with Photoshop CS5?


texts: Should I use Illustrator or Photoshop for Collateral Design?

texts: I am creating a web advertising rate card. Basically a brochure. It will be a PDF file. Should I do brochure designs or collateral designs using Illustrator and then import the non vector images from Photoshop? Or can I use Photoshop entirely? Most importantly, does text quality come out better when creating a PDF through Illustrator or Photoshop?


texts: Horizontal Alignment in Photoshop - Which is correct?

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I usually align two text within a box using "Horizontal align center" button at the top menu in Photoshop. Is it the right way to align a text horizontally, or should i measure pixel by pixel using a Marque tool to make it visually horizontal?

It visually appears to the user that it is not aligned center. But technically I am right. How will the UI developer measure it to align it in HTML? Will the user think the alignment is not centered even though it is technically right?

The above picture is technically aligned centre.

This image shows the manual alignment which is visually correct.

Which method should I use being an UX designer?

Please explain this to me with an example.


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Possible Duplicate:
Why can't Photoshop properly open this PNG?

If I save this PNG file on my machine locally:

And then open this file in Photoshop (CS5 12.0.4 x64 on Windows 7) it doesn't seem to preserve colours as expected. It seems that this is an 8-bit indexed colour PNG image, but even though Photoshop should preserve it.
Browsers display it without a problem, so does the Image preview in Windows...
How do I open this file in Photoshop, so it will look as it should?

Note #1: To see the invalid file representation in Photshop, just save upper image and open it in Photoshop. Then locate the "movie" icon in the first row, that just renders black...
Note #2: icons courtesy of Glyphicons. All licensing and usage should be consulted via their website. Same icons are used in Twitter Bootstrap library.


texts: Where to start when styling widgets for an app?

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I'd like to improve the visual appearance of these widgets. What tools are available to help me?

I am in need of advice on how to make widgets I create look and feel professional. I am no artist and have been tasked with making these widgets pretty, but I am not sure where to start.

Some ideas I have are: make the background black or dark gray to match the overall dashboard these widgets sit in. Change the text to white. Make the text boxes have rounded corners or just make them invisible. As far as tools I am using, I am simply using Eclipse with GWT (Google web tool kit) to build the widgets, but this may change as we also use the Dojo JavaScript tool kit. The dashboard is a custom layout that holds 5 different widgets with specific dimensions.


texts: Are there any textbooks/works on Graphic Design that are objectively seen as the best?

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I'm looking to read a textbook or a work about graphic design or typography that is considered to be essential or the best for its field, and in particular, I would like one that is somewhat old and has stood the test of time.  It could be either technicalities of design or philosophy of design or something else, but it needs to teach concepts that can be applied timelessly; If the book covers the ins and outs of Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and how to use the software, that isn't helpful to me.  I would like a book that teaches a way of thinking that can be applied no matter what the software or hardware used, as a good designer needs only their mind to produce a piece of art.

An example of what I'm looking for is a book from the field of programming: SICP. This is an ideal example as it has withstood decades of use and is still relevant today because it teaches concepts rather than the nitty-gritty details of the language used.

This is not a subjective question, I am asking for a specific type of book and not your favourite book. Any recommendations would preferably be written by a reputable graphic designer, professor, or have been used in a college course.

Thanks!


texts: Delaunay triangulation to generate abstract networks and nodes

texts: Is it possible to use Delaunay triangulation to generate an image like the below from a raster or vector of an object (in this case, a human heart)? What software and techniques would be required to make something like this? My intention is to make and use something like this in Inkscape without having to draw all the nodes/lines/effects manually.


texts: Designing for a specific embedded display issues (PS vs AI)

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So this feels silly but I had a team member question something and now I'm not sure.

We have an embedded display inside a device with a resolution of 800x480 @134DPI. They said they always have to design in Photoshop to get the right DPI. I want to be doing this in Illustrator or Sketch though.

If I export a 24x24px Illustrator icon at 134DPI I get a 45x45px icon, where as Photoshop gives me a 24x24px icon.

My thinking is that if I'm designing in vector, then I just design to the 800x480 resolution and not worry about the DPI. But when I export my assets can I just export @1x?


texts: How to improve supersampling screenshots in designer's portfolio

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Look at iMac mockups on this page.

Quality of skewed screenshots placed in the mockups are poor. Seems like photoshop knows too little about super-sampling.

I know how to render a 3d model in 3dsmax with good supersampling, but it's a much more tedious work. How can I make screenshots look good in photoshop? 3D layers? Maybe vanishing point? Smart-objects seem to be rendered poorly, very bad supersampling I mean.


texts: How to get close to PMS 662 or PMS 296 in CMYK?

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Basically I am trying to achieve Navy color or PMS 662 or PMS 296 with CMYK and having trouble. This will be used on Dye Sublimation print.

Is there any recommendation on how I should do with CMYK.

Thank you in advance.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Can the Barcode parallel lines be coloured lines viz Red, Green, Blue etc i.e. other than Black & White?
Can we use contrasting colours other than black & white?
https://learn.g2.com/color-contrast
If No, Why?
Can there be technical challenges in designing & manufacturing a
Universal Colour  Barcode reader / scanner device?


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Here's my current InDesign problem. I'm given text that, when imported, looks like this, with embedded links in the paragraph:

The final product has to look like this, with proper spacing around the images:

My current solution is to select the affected lines of text and change their leading amount:

However, I'd like a more automated and responsive solution that would simply add padding around the top and bottom of the inline objects. Text Wrap seems to work for the bottom of the object, but never the top. Hopefully someone knows an awesome workaround here. It would be really appreciated.


texts: Iv been given a creative director as my first job and am developing our visual identity from scratch.. We are an outdoor media owner.. If created a simple cartoony style for all our illustration.. Can I update this and make it evolve as I go along?


texts: What font is used in this CoffeeSmith sign?

texts: What is the font / typeface is it in the image? (or any similar ones)


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I'm looking for a way to simulate a permanent marker in Photoshop. All I have been able to find are pre-drawn brush strokes of circles, strokes etc. (Permanent Brush), but not a permanent marker brush tip which would allow me to draw/write whatever I want.

Can anyone recommend PS brushes for this purpose? I don't mind paying for them, so it doesn't have to be a free Brush set.


texts: Why are my pencil/brush paths invisible in Illustrator?

texts: When using the brush or pencil in Illustrator I would always see the path (basically a blue outline). For some reason I never see it anymore. I have to wait until my shape or object is finished before I can see what it looks like on the screen. Any help would be great.


texts: How much will it cost to create 3 completely different InDesign 24 pages Report Templates?

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My client asked for a quote to create 3 different  A4 InDesign templates with different page layouts, font families, colour palette, chapter separation styles, all the heading and paragraph styles set up with approx 24 pages layout. I have priced £490 for a 2 days work but the client thinks it is expensive.
Please advise as I don't want to work for free.


texts: Color filling the interior region of a traced bitmap

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I have got a very simple logo in jpg format. The logo is mostly text, think something like "ABC inc." with a very simple styilized shape which merges A, B and C preceding the text. Only two "pure" colors are used.

This logo is used everywhere, resized for every occasion, with an evident degradation of quality. I think (am I right?) that a vector version of it

should be very easily obtained, since I am tracing something which is more traceable than "a drawing", in my case simple geometric shapes and fonts
and should provide for a solution to the image quality degradation.

I have asked the "graphic dept" if they already had a vector version of the logo. Disappointingly for my purposes, they sent me a larger jpg to start with.

So, I have downloaded Inkscape, and I have traced the bitmap. The result, even if not perfect, is very good (mainly because the font has sharp angles, while the tracing uses smooth curves and so there is a "roundish" feel to the letters.

Now I would like to fill the (interior region of the) traced shape with the original colors. The trouble is that the "fill" tool doesn't work like I am accustomed to in an image editing program (say, Gimp). In particular, it doesn't "fill" the shape but it is apparently "tracing" another path within mine: and so while a good approximation, one can clearly see the "white" space between the two shapes.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I rectify it? I can live with a "rounded" text, at least as a first approximation. But the white space between the boundary and the interior region  is so evident that it is not acceptable.

Please note: I am a complete beginner in the field of vector imaging. So I am aware that my approach could be easily wrong from the first step, and the whole question may be "missing it".

UPDATE: as requested, I am adding an example. This is a "dot", like at the end of "Inc.":

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As you can see, when I filled the interior of the dot, a white space remained around. What am I doing wrong?


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None of the font ID apps can accurately identify the below font. I have tried:

WhatTheFont!
Identifont
Serif Font Identification Guide
What Font is

I saw the font on social media and am looking to ID the font.


texts: Cut a Grouped Circle in Half without Extra Borders Being Created

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I created this intricate circle object that is made up of a group of objects.

I want to simply cut the circle and half but can't seem to get what I want.

When I use the knife tool, it kind of works but it adds extra strokes to it and I don't want.

Then tried using the pathfinder tool (minus) and I'm just  I just left with the outside half- moon circle


texts: What considerations are there in designing pixel fonts?

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I'm designing monospace pixel fonts for a game, and so far I've only been able to work with extremely small sizes (largest I've managed is 5x9) because those ones are the easiest to try and err with. Often times the results I come up with for sizes even as small as 7x13 are all blockish and unappealing.

I've analyzed some other pixel fonts, and most of the graphically appealing ones make lots of alternate considerations that I never would have thought of making, such as making entire sections only diagonally connected.

Are there any special block sizes that are "optimal" for designing pixel fonts? Are there any special pixel placements that I might have to keep in mind? Because sometimes when I draw a line that's only 11 pixels long (or make things intersect at such small sizes), it ends up looking like something else once zoomed out.


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What I need: to draw different sets of icons in the same points of the picture (with the purpose of drawing different network schemes with the same structure). There are A LOT OF Points.
Therefore I want to be able to separate the production of the icon and the positions of them in the final picture, i.e. I don't want to draw the icon and then copy and paste it in different points, since I would not be able to change the sets of icons without having to redraw everything.

Attempted Solution: I thought of i) draw the icon and save it as a brush, ii) draw single points with the path tool in the proper positions, iii) stroke the path using the icon brush. Iterate step iii) with different brushes.

Problem: Stroke Path.. does not work with single points. However, if I use short paths instead of single points there is an issue with the spacing: in the path I have sometimes 2 icons, sometimes 1 and sometimes 0.

Am I addressing the issue in the wrong way? Is there a solution?


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I'm currently designing a poster, and when I view the design in Illustrator my Ben-Day dotted images are heavily distorted in their color and spatial appearance.

I really like this. Is there a way I could (possibly in Photoshop) recreate these distortions so they end up in my exported pdf?

This is how the poster looks when exported to png:

Here's a screen-shot from Illustrator:

Screen-Shot http://timneutel.com/content/2.2013-2014/85.departementsdag-poster/1.departementsdag-poster.png


texts: How to get original clipart from this scanned picture?

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We are recreating a magazine from 1993.
Original source files are lost and we want to get everything in best possible quality.
This is an image scanned from the original magazine. It most likely comes from a clip art database of the DTP program used to make this magazine. It can't be newer than 1993.
But we don't know what DTP they used.
I tried Google Images and Tineye but no luck
Can you identify this clip art? Or the DTP program? Perhaps it was QuarkXpress, PageMaker or Publisher.


texts: Why would I get aliasing on a vector like this?

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I've read several similar questions but they keep leading back to eventually becoming raster images, in which case the aliasing makes sense. However I haven't quite figured out why an image made entirely in Illustrator with vector objects would display with what appears to me like an aliased line on the bezier curve like my little example shows below.

So as in the example, if that's a vector ellipse with a stroke, can someone please enlighten me as to why that aliasing appears so dominantly on the Top/Bottom/Left/Right edges (EXAMPLE: RED ARROW) of that vector ellipse to make it appear all jagged on the four sides....EXCEPT while around the rest of the ellipse it appears as a clean & smooth line (EXAMPLE: GREEN ARROW)?

Also, and more importantly, how do I fix it so that the entire ellipses stroke appears as the same uniformed clean & smooth line all the way around the ellipse on both the artboard, and any exported RGB vector graphic types?

Thanks!


texts: Can I use recolor artwork feature in Ai to get this result (swap color of objects)?

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See the image below. I need to do this thing. If you see, the positions of hands and diamonds are same in both parts, but there colors are swapped. I did this manually by picking each of them and moving here and there.

But I faced a problem with this. 1st it's really time consuming. Secondly, the final height and width of whole group (Highlighted by red boxes) becomes slightly different. I need same position of each individual object and whole group, so that they can be placed on over other exactly.

So I learned about recolor artwork feature. But I couldn't figure it how to use it and if it's even possible.

Can it be done with recolor artwork keeping the same colors but swapped? If yes, I would like to know how.

NOTE: Each individual object is a vector. There are many objects in each object with different shades of same color. (See image 2)


texts: newbie illustrator question : how to create a cut in a shape?

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Below is 2 letters where one goes across the other (the O) and can see the small white space between the two.

How can i do this in illustrator, creating the cut shape so i get the white line ? i want to do the same with 2 other types of font but no clue how i do it :(

hope you can help


texts: Making a mirrored design's text "readable"

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I am an amateur texture designer and I have been working on my own design for a vehicle from the game Arma 3. For the side of a vehicle I am texturing for, it mirrors one side to the other. So if on one side it says "POLICE" on the other side it says "ECILOP".

Is there a way that I can make the text read "POLICE" when the template is mirrored so that it reads correctly on both sides?

This is the vehicle template:


texts: Example of free downloadable SVG font with complex curves

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I am trying to learn about SVG curves and how font glyphs are built. Specifically how you taper complex curves. I'm wondering if it's the stroke that is tapered or it is a fill. I'm wondering too how the structure of the SVG markup is to allow for animating a font. Wondering if one could link to a good, possibly animatable ("stroke" animation, even though what may be stroke may actually be a fill of some sort), svg glyph or font.

Searching for free, downloadable SVG fonts leads to a lot of pinterest and dribbble posts without content, or paid-only content.


texts: InDesign: making an universal color change

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I am working on a 144-page booklet. I need to make an universal color change throughout the document wherever the original color appears (text, strokes, etc).
I used to be able to trash the color in the color palette and I would be asked for a substitute. This doesn't happen anymore. Any other method?


texts: Make stroke path tips fading fading on both tips in Photoshop

texts: how could i achieve to have a brush like the one in the picture with both tips fading? I checked in the brush window but I could only affect (alpha and size) the ending tip of the brush stroke..


texts: Why Computer Modern (latex) font doesn't contain all the math symbols?

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I downloaded the Computer Modern font, which is the default LaTeX font, to use it on my website, but when I opened the file with FontForge I noticed that it misses a lot of math symbols. It contains just the basic math symbols, such as + - : = < > and few others.

I download the font files from many sources but they seems to be all the same.

For example, the sign "not equal" ≠ is missing and if I write it, what is displayed is the default font symbol instead (Times New Roman I think). I tried typing ≠, &#x2260;, &#8800;, &ne; but the result is always the same.

Dozens of other symbols are missing, is there a reason for this? Also, is there a way to add them to the font?

If you would like to inspect the file you can download it here, then open the file cmunrm.woff which corresponds to the normal style.

Here you can see a comparison of my site output and the latex output. As you can see all the letters and the 3 are displayed correctly (same font), while the "not equal" symbol is not (different fonts).


texts: How to ignore objects outside clipping masks in symbols in Adobe Illustrator

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I have created an illustration of a box out of 3 simple shapes in Adobe Illustrator CC. They are actually 3 clipping masks that clip 3 different embedded raster textures. I then turned the whole group into a symbol. See bellow:

The three large blue rectangles correspond to the boundaries of the original raster textures. Even when they are clipped by the smaller shapes, if I hover on the symbol, all the original boundaries are shown.

Is there a way to:

Hide the boundaries of the objects outside the clipping masks? I am planning on using this object several times in the artwork (that is why it is a symbol) and it becomes very annoying to keep seeing the original boundaries every time I move the mouse over one of the many instances of the symbol.
Make the symbol alignment to be based on its registration (as opposed to be based on the boundaries of the whole art outside the clipping masks)? In this case I have aligned the symbol horizontally centred with the light blue line. Notice that, instead of using its registration (middle cross) it is using the total bounding box of all the textures outside the clipping masks to determine its middle point.


texts: Avoid pen tool from modifying another path in After Effects CC?

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Sometimes when drawing a path using the Pen Tool in After Effects when I want to click in a place that is near another path a plus sign appears to the pen and modifies that path if I click.

How can I stop that?

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:

Thank you all!

Oscar.


texts: What is page bleed and how can I avoid issues with it ?

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I have never had problems in the past with printing documents, but ever since I started doing posters or mockups.. somehow I end up unconsciously cropping or padding (I am not sure it that is the proper term) up my set to get it to print.

Once I worked a 11 in. by 17 in. that took several prints to get it right (The print preview lied to me every time)

I think all the years of document printing has made me take for granted what the program does in the background to get my information on 8.5 in. by 11 in.

Is this practice used more in magazines (do I need to bother about it ?) ?
Should I be regularly checking my printer to make sure it is aligned or set up properly ?


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Hello I'm a newbie here.....I can't find much on this direct subject so hope it is ok to post a question. My problem may be more associated with not knowing how to search for what I am looking for....and if so I apologies in advance.
Anyway, I am trying to create an optical mask from a photo...of the sort you would use to make a silk screen for printing t shirts for example and I need the image to be sharp areas of solid black and white. Because I started with a colour image, back ground areas that I need to be pure white are in varying shades of grey....the shade of grey being created by the low black pixel density.
I'm using GIMP and I wonder if anyone can show me how to perform a lithographic change to my image such that light grey (low pixel density) areas are converted to solid white and dark grey (high pixel density) areas are converted to solid black. It sounds like something that the threshold tool could achieve except that that works on a pixel by pixel basis and appears to be intended to convert coloured pixels to black or white...if I use it on my image it has no effect whatsoever (turns black pixels black and white pixels white making no difference to the overall image!).
Many thanks


texts: Minimizing Image Quality Loss with Initial Image Size?

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I know there are a few questions regarding reducing image size while minimizing image quality, and my question relates to it, but I'm more concern about what the initial image size should be to minimize as much quality loss as possible.

For example, let's say I want to downsample an image to a size of 500x500.

To minimize as much quality loss as possible, is it best to find the highest quality resolution image of the biggest size, i.e. 1000x1000 or 5000x5000, etc., or somewhere near the size I want to resized to, i.e. 600x600 or 700x700, etc.?

My thought process is that if the number of pixels to downsample to is minimized, then the image quality is minimized, i.e. if I downsample a high-quality image of 600x600 to 500x500, then there is much less image quality loss then downsampling from 1000x1000 to 500x500.

Is my thinking wrong or can I get better insight in this?

Thanks.


texts: I've been asked to replace the font we use on the web and mobile apps with Proxima Nova. I wanted to ask the community if any of you know if Promima Nova is a web safe font?. Thanks.


texts: Tint and Opacity on swatch do not yield same color on white

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On two identical rectangles I use a swatch as fill color. The swatch is C=100, M=0, Y=0, K=0. On one rectangle I've set the Tint for the swatch to 10%, on the Other I've set the opacity to 10%. The result is not the same color on a white background. I'm not sure why this is.

I do understand one makes the rectangle transparent and the other does not, but on a white background I had not expected the difference because the Tint itself would also be calculated based on 0% being whit.


texts: How to create a grunge/spray-paint text effect in Photoshop?

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Please show me how I can achieve below effect for text:

Those random ink spray spots, shapes are basically transparent so it will show the color of whatever the background is (black in this case).

Thanks for your help.


texts: Page header/footer in sans-serif font; body in serif?

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I want to use for chapter titles/section a sans-serif font and for the normal text a serif font.

To be consistent:

Should page header/footer then be seen as section text (sans-serif) or body (serif)?

I assume page header/footer is section so sans-serif?

Should footnotes then be seen as section text (sans-serif) or body (serif)?

I assume body text so serif?

What often goes wrong when combining sans-serif and serif fonts? What to take into account? E.g. do you see class A (and which class) of text being typeset in sans serif where you would expect serif? What else?


texts: Character panel keeps going to all caps even after switching if off

texts: I have found tons of answers on how to turn off the all caps on the Character Panel on Photoshop 2021 which is great but it keeps going back to it. I click it, turn it off and it turns itself back on. Also, never paid any attention to this but it also keeps saying French instead of English: USA which also keeps going back to that after I change it. How do I change it so it stays changed unless I want all caps or French?


texts: How to create a pictogram representing "experimental therapy"?

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I work at university. Our department has a student's day, where we all show posters presenting our research. Of course, the poster isn't supposed to be text-only. But we have to take care of any illustrations ourselves.

I don't have a tangible research subject suitable for taking a photography or a screenshot, so I decided to draw a representation of how the abstract concept works. But I wanted to make it visually more varied than just the labelled bubbles in powerpoint. It is about making better software by taking the users' personal values in account. The result is here:

The text says "Stimulation [minded physicians] want to also see risky therapy options [in their decision-support software]". It is explained in more depth in the text of the poster.

Now my boss is not quite happy with the drawing. She objects to the third pictogram in the second "application screen". To her, it looks like a drill. I wanted it to look like a cartoon ray gun, because that would be consistent with the idea of "new-fangled" and "risky", and will introduce a hint of humour into the quite dry poster. I hoped that even if nobody recognized it as a ray gun per se, people will still connect the shape with a sci fi prop.

Now I don't know if I did such a bad job of drawing or if my prof just doesn't recognize something which would be obvious to every student (she doesn't watch/read sci fi). Any ideas how to improve the drawing? Or maybe a suggestion for some other shape which will work at this place, instead of the ray gun?


texts: How to connect three different nodes into one in an Inkscape?

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I know that I cannot join non-endnodes in Inkscape due to the SVG spec.

I know how to join two different nodes into one merged one ( How to Connect Bezier Curves in Inkscape? ).

But how can I join three end point of this

into a single end point? I want to be able to move either entire line, or just shared node without breaking T junction apart.

I even tried selecting separate color for each way, but it seems impossible to merge nodes without merging lines.

To avoid XY-problem: I want to make lines between other lines that reach them exactly. Neither going farther, neither going too close. SVG image will be send to a laser cutter, so I prefer to be 100% exact.

In addition I want to keep further modification easy. I want to be able to move grouped object and move all attached ways with it, stretching them as needed.

I thought that I can achieve this by merging nodes.


texts: What techniques are there to create a geometric diamond pattern in Photoshop?

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I cannot figure out how to go about making a pattern similar to this one:

I know it must be relatively simple but I cannot wrap my mind around creating a consistent repeating pattern.
thanks!


texts: How do you obtain official brand logos for design prototypes?

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I need to use company logos as a part of my designs. These companies are institutions that are stakeholders for my client. Some sites have SVGs you can grab from the website but how does one go about getting those that are not available on the site in a useable format like a PNG or SVG?
Should I ask my client to ask these companies for design assets? Does my client need permission for these logos as well?


texts: Why is the asset I make in Sketch 3 slightly blurred?

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I'm making an app where I'm using sketch 3 to create image assets. First, I design something, click "make exportable" in the lower-right, chooses 0.5x and export it to somewhere on my Mac. Then, I drag the asset (*.png file) into Xcode 6 and for instance created an imageview with that asset as image - but if I look closely when running the app on my phone, the asset looks slightly blurred or not 100% focused, as if some of the color made it onto another pixel.. Does anyone have a clue on this? How can I make it sharper?

Thanks!
Erik


texts: Illustrator: how to crop image without losing quality

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I'm trying to use Illustrator to edit .eps images.

I want to crop an image. But it always decreases the resolution of the image after whatever way I crop it.

I tried setting the cropping resolution to 300dpi or Original, but neither worked.
There doesn't seem to be a working solution online.

Any ideas?


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The Unicode Ideographic Description Sequences are

⿰ ⿱ ⿲ ⿳ ⿴ ⿵ ⿶ ⿷ ⿸ ⿹ ⿺ ⿻

and they're used to indicate the structure of e.g. Chinese characters.  However, I'd also like a box that indicates that it doesn't break down.  Over at Chinese.SE, 口 was suggested, but it looks completely different to ⿰ etc.
Question: In Unicode, is there an empty square box in the same style as ⿰ ⿱ ⿲ ⿳ ⿴ ⿵ ⿶ ⿷ ⿸ ⿹ ⿺ ⿻ to indicate a Chinese character that doesn't decompose?
What I'd like it for: I'd like to take Chinese sentences, e.g.

但是，许多反对该举措的环境组织认为，释放转基因蚊子会对当地居民、环境和濒危物种造成不可挽回的损失

and replace Chinese words with their corresponding ideographic description, e.g.

但是，许多反对该举措的⿰⿰组织认为，释放转基因蚊子会对当地居民、环境和濒危物种造成不可挽回的损失

and see if I can infer the missing word from the sentence.  The structure of the characters gives a clue as to what word is missing.


texts: Illustrator Opacity Mask Not Fully Hiding Object

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I'm trying to make a logo and I'm having trouble cutting out part of a line. I'm trying to use an opacity mask to do this because using the pathfinder tool changes how the lines look. The problem I'm having is for some reason my mask is not fully hiding the line.

(semi-transparent line through middle should not be visible)

I have checked to see if opacity or color were the problem and they don't appear to be.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Why is this simple, masked animation flickering?

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I'm working on animating a pie chart. I've started with a hypothetical 60% chunk. Here's the fla... it's pretty simple, but in order to mask more than 180 degrees I had to use a movie clip for a mask, which seems to work fine but for one small thing... no matter how many timelines I put a stop action on, I get a repeating flicker that looks like looping to me at the end.

I've got a stop at the end of every timeline involved – even single-frame ones. I've put a trace on all these as well to make sure they're being hit, and they are.

Maybe my brain fell out, but I can see no earthly reason for the flicker on the swf upon export. I suspect the cause is simple, and am prepared to feel like an idiot (too late). Please, experts, tell me what is up here!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0a7u5x7vu6yh8l/chart-animations-working.fla.zip?dl=0

EDIT: Here is a link to the swf:

http://ilium.com/test/chart-animations-working.html


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Problem / Question:

I designed a logo for a little project I just began contributing on, but there's a problem:

The F was unbalanced, meaning there was no way I could use this logo on rectangular button or shape. Ultimately the balance makes it a poorly designed logo.

I've been working for hours to balance this thing, but I simply cannot figure out how to create an "F" that is balanced with the "I" & "X" using the style shown here (this is horrid):

Is there any way that I can achieve symmetric balance with the letter F in this style?

How should I proceed after hours of not finding balance in this design?

Result after building upon advice here:

Note: I'm still not liking the balance / shape that I've achieved. I'll keep trying.

Thanks to everyone who helped here, and feel free to chime in in the future with advice that might help others with this kind of problem.

This is posted as an answer, but just to make sure everyone sees it:

I think the lesson I learned from this may benefit others in the future:

When it just isn't working, try re-thinking your design.

Sometimes it's good to just play it simple. Although the simplest solutions can often be the hardest to reach:

While this isn't related to the question directly, it's indirectly important: I kept working a design that didn't seem to want to be what I needed.

In the end the answer was to revisit my objective and ask: Am I trying to create something because I like the style, or because it's the right style for the job at hand?

The answer was obvious in this case.


texts: How to smooth a scanned image using Gimp

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I have drawn an image which I then scanned into the computer and saved as a png.

I just want to make the lines smooth on the image. The image is a logo

Any help is much appreciated. I am using GIMP 2.8


texts: Inkscape - When saving as SVG and uploading to web, nothing shows

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I'm really new to Inkscape and I'm having problems exporting my file for use on a webpage. I've created a logo and exported it as a SVG by doing the following:

File -> Save As -> Optimized SVG (default settings).

The file's name is logo.svg and so in my HTML for my website I've simply done , but the problem is nothing shows up. If I replace logo.svg with facebook.svg (something I got online) then that shows perfectly, so my issue lies within exporting it incorrectly.

The logo is made up of 2 text objects and an elipsis object used to add a shine to part of the text, and nothing else. What could I have done wrong during saving?

Any help is appreciated.


texts: Script to color parts of image based on input data

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I have a picture of a map of Europe with proper borders.
I need to color each country in different shades of color according to certain properties of the country. This is trivial manually in PS or GIMP with the Fill tool. However, I need to do it many times over, with different colors for different use cases, so I would want to automate it. I'm comfortable programming, but have zero experience in scripting graphical tools.

Any hints on what the best way to do it would be? Imagemagick, Gimp? If at all possible, I would prefer free tools (since it's a one off thing, i dont want to invest into PS).


texts: InDesign, Acrobat and Illustrator and PDF-file-sizes

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I’m observing strange behavior in Adobes Creative Suite (I’m on CS6 right now) when it comes to file size of PDFs. I export PDFs from InDesign with various options and sometimes need to make smaller versions to post on the web or send by email.

Acrobats options to save PDFs in reduced size are

File > Save As Other > Optimized PDF
File > Save As Other > Reduced Size PDF

in both cases it seems to me that the reductions in size are not as big as with older versions of Acrobat.

When I import one of my Acrobat-reduced PDFs into Illustrator and save it as PDF there—without preserving Illustrator Editing Capabilities, but no other fancy options—the PDF gets much smaller.

Specific file size examples:

InDesign CS6 PDF

(one page, one small pic in a corner, two fonts, three styles for each, export --> Adobe PDF (print) --> PDF/X-3:2002 but: compatibility Acrobat 6 and bookmarks/hyperlinks are activated) 692 KB

Adobe Acrobat X:

Save as reduced size, leave Acrobat 6 compatibility --> change file
name --> file doesn’t get saved at all.
Save as reduced size, leave Acrobat 6 compatibility --> change file
name --> change folder 565 KB
Save as optimized --> Standard (images 150 ppi) --> change file name
--> file gets saved as: 565 KB

(fiddling with the settings it is possible to shave some some additional KB)

Illustrator CS6:

Open PDF as exported from InDesign: Illustrator claims to convert some text to path --> color mode: RGB --> use embedded profile --> save as --> Illustrator PDF --> no editing capabilities 1,5 MB
Open PDF as exported from Acrobat in step 3 (optimized, standard 565 KB): Illustrator claims to convert some text to path --> color mode: RGB --> use embedded profile --> save as --> Illustrator PDF --> no editing capabilities 307 KB

307 KB this is what I was lloking for.

The small picture looks as good as before, it seems to still be 150 ppi. Text is sharp and selectable.

What happened to the remaining 258 KB?


texts: Is there a way to turn a photograph into a line-art sketch vector?

texts: Can anyone tell me how to get this kind of vector line drawing from a photo? I'm beginner and can't find any answer. Thanks in advance :)


texts: I have vector with joints. How can I snap an object(circle in example below) to the joint like in screenshot below?


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I am wondering why the InDesign snapping and smart guides works like a dream, but when it comes to Illustrator it works so badly.

For example when I align stuff with snapping/smart guides etc turned on in Illustrator it snaps to stuff so inaccurately. It is so frustrating and tedious.

But when I use InDesign it does it how it should work. Is there something I need to change or tweak in Illustrator to get it to function how ID does or actually work properly? I am running 2014 AI still so if its been improved since then I may need to upgrade.


texts: Recolor an element after applying an effect in Illustrator

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I want to change the colors (kind of recolor) of an element A on which I apply an effect E(x), such that the new colors will be based on the colors of the element after the effect B=E(A). Does anyone know how to do it?

For example, let's consider a color gradient on which we apply a stamp effect. This last one will turn all the colors to black and white. Now I want to change the black to blue and the white to yellow, but if I apply recolor on the original object I will always get a black and white output. Instead, I want to change the colors after the effect.


texts: How to convert a colored image to something light and something white background in PS cs6?

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How to convert a colored image to something light and something white background?

here is an example:


texts: What happened to Adobe Illustrator's Crystallize Warp effect?

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Adobe Illustrator used to have an Effect → Warp tool called Crystallize, that was good for creating starburst shapes & effects, like this:

Source: http://av.riard.lt/blog/illustrator_crystallize_tool.html

It seems to have disappeared in the last few years (actually, sometime between 2015 & 2018). There's a totally different tool by the same name (Effect → Pixelate → Crystallize). There's also a similar, but slightly different tool with a different name (Effect → Distort & Transform → Zig Zag). There's also the Star shape tool. But none of them are quite the same.

What happened to it? Has the name changed?
Has it been removed? If so, how best might I emulate it?


texts: How do I reduce noise in a normal map with Photoshop?

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I'll be straightforward: I want to create a normal map resembling this

from this texture:

I've been at it for about an hour, and everything I've come up with has an absurd amount of noise. I don't expect it to be nearly as perfect as the first image, but something that doesn't look terrible would be nice. I'd prefer to use GIMP, though I do have a copy of Photoshop I can use.


texts: InDesign: how to get first letter bigger in each word of a sentence?

texts: How can i get first letter bigger in each word of a sentence?


texts: How to create a perspective view of a screen shot so that it appears as a photographed 3D object?

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Ok so this is difficult to put in words but I want to know how designers present their Graphics Design work in screenshots something like this (source: Dribbble):

Not about the iPhone but I'm talking about presenting the design as a photograph taken from side-view, I believe it is some sort of Photoshop thing but since I don't know what to call this pattern, I couldn't Google anything on this.

Similar examples are this, this and many other on Dribbble.

Link to a brief tutorial on How-To creating such snap-shots would be great.


texts: Smooth intersection between two paths without joining the paths

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I have two paths which intersect. I want to smooth the vertex where they intersect, but not join the lines so that their layers stay separate. Is there a way to do this?
My ultimate goal is to achieve the following animation: Separately Animating Multiple Segments That Belong to One Layer: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects


texts: I know how to make the background transparent. What I can't find is a one or two click way to change black to white. I ended up having to spend over ten minutes trying to manually change a bunch of black pixels to white. I have other icons I want to be white. I'm trying to use a free tool like Pixlr but could install trial of Photoshop if needed.


texts: is it okay to mix two font styles on the front page of a web site?

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I am developing a static website which has to look professional.

I found a font (Quicksand) that looks good as a short introductory kind of message / slogan that goes just under the header on the front page.

For the rest of the front page where I detail the services provided and all that jazz, I'd rather use some other less fancy sans like helvetica or verdana. Is it ever okay, from a web design standpoint, to mix two fonts or does it look amateurish?

Otherwise, if I consider using it in the whole site, do you think Quicksand looks good and is legible enough for walls of text with several paragraphs?


texts: Why does adding bevel to a graph object in Illustrator take longer to render than a shape in Photoshop?

texts: It's very quick (a few seconds) to add bevel to a shape in Photoshop but when I do the same for a graph object in Illustrator the Mac I'm working on takes an age to render the artwork. Why does this happen?


texts: what tools will help my collaboration, version control and work-flow

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I need a database to upload my artwork so they can be shared between myself, another designer and manufacturer. I'd like some suggestions of different services used within the designing community.

I'd like to be able to upload the file and be able to label colors. I want all info right in front of me when I pull up the file. Albeit barcode, colors, size etc.

Looking to keep things simple. Suggestions?


texts: I need to know the name of this drawing style, i found a lot of them on dribbble and everywhere. Is there is any tutorials on how to make them?


texts: How can I make my vector graphics anti-aliased in illustrator? My paths always turn out jagged. Is there an option like in Adobe Fireworks to smoothen[remove the jaged edges] my paths?


texts: How to preview an Illustrator document at different rasterized sizes?

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I'm designing a favicon in Illustrator and I'd like to see what it would look like in pixels at 128px and 16px as I'm working on it.  Is this possible?

Edit Found the answer - posted below.


texts: Changing color using hue is creating unwanted border

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I have an image with green and blue stones:

I want to change all the green ones to be blue as well.

Currently I'm following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fwiNyDHLI

It says to:

1) Select > Color Range
2) Use the dropper on the green stone to select all the greens
3) Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation

However, when I do this, it adds an unwanted dark border around the green stones and I can still see some green:

Is there a way to clean this up?