texts: How to flip Brightness and preserve color in Photoshop?

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as the title is saying.
Using Photoshop, I want to invert the luminosity of my image using adjustment-layers, while the colors stay the same.

So here is my example image:

Dark Background (it's totally black in this example)
Light Text (it's totally black in this example)
two glowing edges

To explain it a little further.
The expected result based on this image should look like the following:

White Background
Black Text
Colors are the same

The Problems

I don't know how I can prevent the colors from being manipulated as well.
If I try to invert the image with an Invert Adjustment Layer with the blend mode of luminosity (which is the last in the list) it won't give me the desired result.

As you can see here, the Hue of the glow is still the same.
But the brightness has been flipped too.

I also tryed to calculate Channels in LAB-Mode and could not come up with a decent looking result.

The Solution

I don't want to manually select the text & the shape and fill it with the opposing color. That destroys the edges and looks awful.

Quick thought at the end: I need an selection by saturation if that's possible ... ;-)


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I have a PSD of a website design. I like the layout but I would like to experiment with the color palette. Is there a way to swap colors? I was think something like variablizing the colors and then quickly swapping them or importing a color palette from Kuler.

This is what I'm looking at:


texts: Where can I input a color palette and find combining colors that fit in?

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I use the Affecton template in a bit different way that it was designed to be used probably. I do not have as much content as it was designed to support. I have only a couple of pictures on the page and very little or no text. The result is that the white background is very irritating:

I want something darker than white but I don't know how to find a colour that goes well with the rest of my template.

I looked at colorschemedesigner.com but it does not let me start from the existing palette.


texts: Apply drop caps to the first word in a paragraph?

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Simple question: Within paragraph styles, is there a way to tell inDesign to create drop caps not using a set amount of characters at the beginning of a paragraph, but instead using the first word of the paragraph, regardless of how long it is?

(Except setting the drop caps individually for each paragraph!)


texts: I have written a children's book and also illustrated it. However, I have asked a graphic designer to redo the images for me. I hired her through a company which affords me total rights to the new images. My question is do I list my self as the illustrator on the cover? I would like to add her as co illustrator however I am concerned about implying that she also has rights.


texts: Automatically scaled opacity for multi-layered images

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I have several set of images with a fixed background and an object moving in the foreground. I'd like to get an idea of the motion of the object by superimposing images with scaled opacity.

If I load a single bunch of N images into GIMP as N distinct layers, is there a way to automatically set the opacity of all the layers to get a scale effect from the first with P1% (e.g. 0% opacity) to the last with P2% (e.g. 100% opacity)?


texts: Resize a frame without moving/scaling the image in InDesign

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I have placed a large PDF in InDesign, as below:

I want to shrink the frame so that only a section of the content will be visible, but without changing the size of the content in any way, so that I end up with something like this:

How can I do this? The InDesign help page says

  To move a frame without moving its content, click the frame using the Selection tool, switch to the Direct Selection tool, and then drag the center point.

However, I can't figure out how to scale the frame without scaling or skewing the image.


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I need to convert many files of the same size to polar projections. This is easy to do in GIMP with the Polar Coordinates plugin (Filters > Distorts > Polar Coordinates). However, I'm not sure how to either automate or batch this process.
I know that it is possible to script the automation and there is a commonly suggested batch processing plug-in called BIMP. However, both options call the "plug-in-polar-coords" procedure which does not act the same way in script as it does in the GIMP GUI. Below is an example:
I need to go from files that look like this (courtesy of  Flickr user gadl (Alexandre Duret-Lutz) under CC BY-NC-SA):

...to images that look like this:

Which I've done with these settings in GIMP GUI:

Now I need to figure out how to do this with multiple images. I tried to use BIMP with the manipulation "plug-in-polar-coords" but it does not provide an option to map the image to a circle as in the Polar Coordinates window (i.e. the "To polar" radio button).

And outputs files that look like this:

Any thoughts on how to do this? I would prefer solutions in GIMP but will also accept solutions in Inkscape.


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I have three questions:

I've read in some places that I should start designing for mobile and then build responsively out for tablet, then laptop, and finally different desktop sizes.  I've also read the opposite: to design top down, ending in mobile.  What should I do?
What are the "traditional", or perhaps the best places to place breakpoints in my design for the website to be optimized for any and all devices?
Related to the previous question: how large should my largest design (breakpoint) be?


texts: Heterogeneous word-spacing in justified text

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Using InDesign, I am trying to make my multi-column justified text homogeneously spaced, i.e. the inter-word spacing equally distributed across the entire page (or article).

As you can see below, the text is a total mess : there are different inter-word spaces, even in the same line (for example, compare the space between the 1st and 2nd words of the 2nd line, and the one between the 2nd and 3rd words of said line) !

How can I fix this ?


texts: Fixing an error in the RandomSwatchesFill.jsx script?

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I am trying to assign random colors to vector shapes in Illustrator 2021 on my Mac (running macOS BigSur). With some research, I found the script below.
Each time I run it, however, I get an error message:
Error 8. Syntax error./Line: 1/-> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartff2578
I don't do much coding in Javascript, so I am at sea when it comes to figuring out what to fix...
mySelection = app.activeDocument.selection;
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
if (mySelection instanceof Array)
{
    selSwatches = myDoc.swatches.getSelected();

    if(selSwatches.length != 0)
        for (i=0; i<mySelection.length; i++)
        {
            if(mySelection[i].typename == "PathItem" || mySelection[i].typename == "CompoundPathItem")
            {
                selItem = mySelection[i];
                selItem.filled = true;

                swatchIndex = Math.round( Math.random() * (selSwatches.length - 1 ));

                if(selItem.typename == "PathItem")
                    selItem.fillColor = selSwatches[swatchIndex].color;
                else
                    selItem.pathItems[0].fillColor = selSwatches[swatchIndex].color;

            }
        }
}

Any help is gratefully accepted!


texts: Indesign: getting rid of footnote numbers in table of contents

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When I add my Table of Contents (Layout > Table of Contents), if some titles have custom footnotes, these will also show up in my TOC.

To get rid of them, I have to manually delete them and change the case of page number (from exponent to normal case).

Is there a way to automatically remove footnote numbers (or exponent) from the TOC?

The title

The Table of Contents


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I've merged some pictures into panorama and it looks like a rainbow. See my below picture:

I wonder if there is a photoshop tool which allows me to draw/indicate a curved path and then have the tool automatically adjust the image until the path is a straight horizontal line.


texts: Creating black grunge effect on white text in illustrator

texts: I am fairly new to illustrator, have searched for the answer to this but having no luck. I am trying to add a grunge effect to white text using opacity mask and grunge textures, but it comes out grey, I would like a black effect. Can I somehow edit the opacity mask to be black, or should I be using a different technique? As far as I can tell the vectors I am using are already black. Thanks.


texts: Change pen color on the fly in Autodesk Sketchbook

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I use Autodesk Sketchbook and Wacom drawing tablet for my educational videos:

https://youtu.be/IxBo34BazJY
As you can see, I hide all the toolbars while drawing, so when I need to change the color of the marker I would like to do it directly by pressing a button on a Wacom pen/tablet, not by opening a toolbar and picking the color.

First approach is binding a hotkey to a Wacom pen/tablet button, but on the official page I couldn't find a hotkey for setting a favorite color, for instance key '1' for black, key '2' for yellow etc.

Another approach is using TouchBar on MacBook Pro Magic Keyboard, although it allows to set the color of the marker, it is not easy to use when you only need 3-4 favorite colors:

Is it even possible?
Or is there a better way of doing it?


texts: Remove "padding" around layer similar to Image->Trim with PS CS5

texts: I used the selection tool to drag part of one image onto another image in a new layer.  That layer has a "padding" (not sure what else to call it) of about 75 transparent pixels around the image.  I'm wondering if there's a way to remove the transparent pixels for that layer alone similar to the way one can use Image->Trim on the entire image.  The purpose for doing this is so I can make an image sprite with each icon on a layer of the same size.  Thank you so much!


texts: How to edit text that is in a jpg photo (using newer technology)?

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I know that there is some software that makes it possible to instantly replace text in a photo, as shown here (from this TechCrunch article about a feature in Google Translate released in 2015).

If I have Photoshop or some similar software, how can I select an area of the photo that contains text and then make it editable such that I can type new text that will appear in the same style as the original text?

P.S. My question is very similar to this one but I am already fully aware of how Photoshop files and layers work and how text shown in jpg photos isn't directly editable. I'm thinking there is probably a new tool or feature available sort of like Edit > Fill > Content Aware.

UPDATE (in response to comments):

Look at this screenshot of my iPhone's Google Translate app translating this StackExchange page from English to Spanish on the fly:

What you're looking at here is not a webpage. (Yes, Google Translate does have a webpage, and it's totally easy to understand how to replace text within HTML. This is different. We're looking at an iPhone app that manipulates whatever live image my iPhone camera is currently looking at. It's augmented reality.)

It's pretty amazing, and it seems to be better than rudimentary "drawing a rectangle over the text in the same color as the background and creating the text again". In fact, if I hold my phone camera at an angle, it's able to replace the text at that same angle (and color, etc).

And here are a couple other great examples:


texts: How to change colour of outline after I draw with a brush in Photoshop?

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I drew something in Photoshop using brushes but I wanted to change the outline colour. I have seen many people change the outline colour without any side effect like became thicker. I tried to use the paint bucket tool and the colour change according to what I wanted but it became thicker.

Please can someone explain how to change outline colour

I don't want to change the fill colour, just the stroke/outline.


texts: coreldraw X5: multiple transparancy gradients

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Is there quick and easy (non destructive) way to get multiple transparency gradients on one object?

For example I want a black-white gradient from bottom to top as well as top to bottom, or variants of that.

There is a similar question posted, but this doesn't answer my question.


texts: Why is the spacing between titles usually set to equal length?

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In text editors, html, etc. the default mode of sub title spacing seems to quite equal. Why is that?

To clarify, we have an end paragraph of a subsection and a new subsection with title and opening paragraph. Looking like this:

p1

h3

p2

Now the spacing between p1 and h3, and, h3 and p2 is usually by default equal or near to equal. Why is that? Is there some typography lesson to be had? To me it just looks plain wrong.


texts: Puppet warping a polygon in Illustrator with internal line-art

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I am attempting to warp a leaf symbol that I made, but the individual elements aren't maintaining their relative positions.

I select, then add three warp pins (have tried more, and adding at the intersections):

I warp the leaf:

This is what I get no matter what I try:

I feel like there's something fundamental I'm missing, or just misunderstanding about the puppet warp tool, but I can't figure it out. I've tried:

Grouping the elements differently (lines grouped together, or nested). Although perhaps I am not grouping them "properly", as I know Illustrator can be picky about how things are grouped (Pathfinder, etc).
Ungrouping all of the elements in the symbol, so there is only one group (the symbol container itself).
Joining the paths (although, this creates a contiguous line, which adds more than the art should have).
Doing the same thing to the polygon/line not as a symbol.

Normally I'm pretty good with Illustrator's tools, but the Puppet Warp has always perplexed me due to idiosyncrasies like this.


texts: How to achieve this pixel-y vibes effect

texts: What's the best way to achieve an effect like this design?


texts: What are the font settings which correspond to "default" font styles in iOS 9?

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There is a set of default font styles accessible via the iOS API. What settings (font size, weight, etc.) do they correspond to by default on an iPhone 6 running iOS 9? Does this vary across phones/tablets? (I only know that it varies if accessibility settings are modified.)

The existence of these defaults is described in the wwdc talk  introducing the SF font family at ~ 18:42.


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Is possible to build an impossible 3D-shape?

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Would it be possible to build this "impossible" shape as a 3-dimensional object in Illustrator?

(Image Source: Youtube)

So far I have only been able to create a 2-dimensional version (which obviously is quite easy in Illustrator), not rotatable like the one in the example above:

Do Illustrator's 3D-capabilities allow for the creation of an actual 3D-version of such a shape?


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WACOM Intuos Pro is my first graphics tablet and in week or two nib become sharp, like pencil.
Also there is little scratches on tablet surface. I afraid there will be more of them and they will influence tablet's work.
Is it normal nibs become sharp so fast, and little scratches appear so quickly? It was completely new tablet, and I'm just use it for hour or two every day.

Here is two nibs, each one after week of usage:


texts: How do I separate an illustration by colors in Illustrator?

texts: I have a large illustration with several groups and subgroups of objects. I want to flatten everything and separate the whole illustration by colors. I tried merging the artwork into one layer and clicking trim but nothing got trimmed. I also tried flattening the artwork and clicking trim but nothing happened. Am I supposed to use another tool in the Pathfinder? What am I doing wrong?


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I'd like to create a circle with rings of equal area (as opposed to rings of equal thickness). The inner ring ends up being a filled circle, and there are two extra rings, for a total of three(3).Here is what I have, which doesn't satisfy the constraint, but just to give an idea:

I selected, filled, shrink, filled, shrink and filled (BGR). I could try taking into account the math beforehand, but I'm wondering if there is a simple way to do this, either with Gimp or other software used in graphic design?


texts: InDesign: how to align paragraph to ascender grid

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I would like to align nicely two paragraphs with different sizes together. Currently, aligning them to the baseline creates a disgraceful whitespace on top caused by the different leadings.

What I have:

What I would like:

How to align my text to an ascender grid instead of the traditional baseline grid? To put it another way, I would like each paragraph to align starting from the ascenders of its first line.


texts: Illustrator Performance Issue When Dealing with Heavy Files

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I'm trying to create a repeat square out of six pretty heavy (100MB-700MB) Illustrator illustrations. When all six files are placed they weigh in at around 1GB.

I need around 30 of these files placed on the page to complete my repeat square, but this is near-impossible for my computer (iMac 2011 16GB 2.7GHz i5) and Illustrator to handle without crashing.

Is there anything I can do or turn off to help performance or rendering in Illustrator. I'm using Symbols to reference these files so there's only one instance of each file, but I'm still having issues.

Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

P.S. I can't raster the files because the printer needs the .ai file.


texts: Is it okay to extend graphics beyond bleed just a bit?

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I Googled and found this page about bleed. It says the following:

  The fact that content needs to extend beyond the page boundaries is no excuse for sloppy design. Letting images extend beyond the needed bleed clutters the file, can lead to bloated PDF files and simply looks sloppy.

Point taken that you shouldn't just leave large graphics unkempt and extended beyond the trim marks willy-nilly because that does seem to clutter the file and be sloppy; and I'm not entirely sure if a desktop publishing program actually cuts off graphics at the edge of its container (for example, in Adobe InDesign, placed images are contained within a bounding box which defines the visibility extent of the images) and embeds only those cuts in the PDF instead of the whole original graphics, but if that's what it does, then bloated PDFs may be a concern.

That being said, is it really necessary to spend time extending graphics precisely to the bleed marks? Would it be that big a deal if I extend graphics beyond the bleed a tiny bit, like say five milimetres or so? Adobe apps like InDesign or Illustrator actually crop out whatever is beyond the bleed mark anyway on exporting to a PDF, so is it really worth the trouble to be too concerned about bleed when placing graphics? Or is it a problem for other programs upon exporting to PDFs?

Here's a screenshot of a PDF page exported from InDesign. The original page in InDesign actually has a magenta rectangle extending beyond the bleed mark, but it's not visible at all here. The cyan rectangle was precisely extended to the bleed mark, and the yellow rectangle to the trim mark.


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This has never happened before and it's driving me insane. I'm merging perfectly aligned elements and when I do the rounded edge comes out jagged. Any ideas?

Before

After

Outline

After outline


texts: How can I export only text with a distinctive character style from InDesign to a new document?

texts: I had a catalog layout with 200 captions. They all have the same distinctive character style. I am searching for a solution to export only these caption texts with the distinct character style out of InDesign in a new document as for example, an RTF text. The format doesn't matter. It's more important to have only the captions out of the whole catalog.


texts: Adobe Illustrator and Indesign render .otf poorly

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I was looking for a solution to the .otf rendering issue Illustrator and InDesign have, they render fonts very poorly (until the saved & rendered picture) but for viewing means during the design process is very unpleasant.

Apparently Photoshop does not have this issue, perhaps because they have different rendering choices from Crisp to Strong.

I couldn't find non-.otf version for these fonts so I'm stuck with these file formats.

Here's a screenshot from inside Illustrator, demonstrating .otf render quality in comparison with .tff:

First two rows are .otf and last row is .ttf.

I noticed that these software render .otf fonts just fine in larger font size, ~36px and up. It's still an issue for smaller font size.

Here's an exported PNG of this image:

All texts look rendered properly, at least close enough.

I made this thread because it's still problematic, despite that font will come out as normal only after exporting as image, so I'm hoping to find a solution.


texts: Where to find a handwritten font with English and Chinese?

texts: I am preparing a book which needs some material to appear like it is hand-written. I see many fonts available which simulate this look, however, I need something which also has hand-written fonts for both English letters and simplified Chinese characters, preferably with an open source or similar license. Where can I find such a font?


texts: Rotate as well as resize duplicated objects in Illustrator

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I want to achieve a pattern around a circle. Consider the petals of a flower. I want to repeat the petal around the circle's center, with gradually increasing size. The increase in the size would be radially outwards. It is quite easily achieved in Photoshop, but I'm facing problems in replicating the same over in Illustrator.

Please, can anyone let me know how to do the above?
In positive anticipation, many thanks!


texts: Inkscape: bucket fill area enclosed by stroke

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I have got a path that encloses small areas within it. I would like to fill each small square below with some color using the bucket fill tool in Inkscape.

However, it always tells me the "area is not bounded" and I can't figure out how to fix that.


texts: Limited pixel values in layer effects and styles (Photoshop)

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Some layer effects and styles in Photoshop have pixel settings. The problem appears when you want to scale your design. For example, in Bevel and Emboss you are able to set the Size and Soften. The former is limited to 250px and the latter to 16px.

To scale and preserve my design I need to set values greater than the Photoshop limits. Is it possible to do that? Any workaround?

Moving to Illustrator is not a solution, since some Photoshop effects that I'm using are not present in Illustrator.


texts: I'd like to create a bulge in a section of text that makes it looks like a sphere is pushing through. The below image is kind of what I'm going for. I would really appreciate any help on this.


texts: I need to repeat a text box on multiple pages in Indesign. The text is a model number so I want to type it in once on page one and it repeats on other pages. However it would not be in the same location on other pages. Is that possible?


texts: Can I open Illustrator cs4 files in Illustrator cs6?

texts: The files that have been saved as illustrator cs4 will not open in cs6.  What, if any, are the ways these files can be opened?


texts: How can I prevent photoshop from re-sizing a picture when I drag and drop it from another window?

texts: I have images that I made 1:1 in one Photoshop document. I then am dragging and dropping them (either as the whole image or cropped regions) into another Photoshop document (both documents are 1000 ppi), but Photoshop is doubling the size of the image on transfer (i.e. the image goes from 1'x1' to 2'x2' in the new document). How do I stop this? This is only happening with some of my images. Images that I scanned and then opened in Photoshop, seem to be fine, but images that I exported from another program and then saved as Photoshop documents are affected. I'm using CS 5.


texts: How to apply gradient transparency on an object in Illustrator?

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I have created an object and set it's opacity to 30% however I want the object to get less opacity as it goes down
how can I apply gradient opacity?


texts: Having hard time removing this white background from a logo, need help

texts: I need to remove white background from this logo, but whatever I have tried, doesn't seem to work correctly. For example, when I try to use the magic eraser tool, it also erases some of the text.


texts: Solid layer in Powerpoint 2016 embedded video changes color, slightly

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I've exported a video from Adobe After Effects into .avi, as well as encoded to .mp4, .wmv, .m4v and other formats using Adobe Media Encoder. Since I can't get a transparent alpha layer to work, I've changed the background color of the video to match the color of the slide, but the video's background color is changing slightly.

This does NOT occur when I export an uncompressed .avi directly from After Effects, but that leads to ~1GB each video, which is unacceptable.

Some example frames:

Note that in frame two, the colors match, but in frame one, this is taken from the same video. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: PowerPoint edit points: eliminate Bezier handles

texts: Any time I try to edit points of a shape in PowerPoint, the points have Bezier handles, and I want them as corner points.  Selecting the context menu item for straight point or corner point doesn't seem to help.  Basically, I'm looking for an Illustrator equivalent of shift + C on the point to convert it from curve to corner point.  Any suggestions are appreciated.


texts: Recommended workflow for creating complex curves for circular patterns

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I keep seeing quite a lot of stuff like the attached screenshot:

At the moment, I usually fumble around with the pencil tool to draw a rough curve and then spend ages smoothing it before tiling it to create the circular pattern. More often than not, what I create isn't as 'crisp' geometrically as it could be.

Here are two attempts. The one on the left was made by cutting up circles and creating the line joining the top spiral to the bottom 'tear drop' using the pen tool. The one on the right was just done with the pen tool. Both are a little bit rough around the edges and that is something I want to try and fix.

What could I do to improve my workflow and achieve a better result?


texts: I have a design. Some parts of it are white, I want to extrude everything except the white. The white, will be holes. This cannot be done manually, it must be done by color white. What tool is the easiest way to get this done?


texts: Intersection on text object as two colours in Inkscape

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I have the following logo design and basically I want to get red text on white background and vice versa.
I tried to convert the text with Path -> Object to Path and then do Path -> Intersection or Path -> Difference, but nothing seems to work.
I seem to be missing a crucial step or some deeper understanding of how shapes and text relate to one another.


texts: Can't go in layers when in pattern editing mode in Illustrator

texts: I am wanting to fill this path with a different colour. I have made it into a repeat pattern so I am in tile mode. It didn't allow me for some reason to live paint bucket fill the shape. I tried to double click to go into the layer and it doesn't seem that this is possible in the tile editing mode in the pattern tool?


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I've been wondering if it is successful to have two or more designers work on the same graphic design.

I have tried a few times, but I ended up with a design that was not good enough, even though we are good individually. I think that's because everyone has their own touch.

Should I ask to design by myself, or should I learn to do it successfully with a group?


texts: how to convert PSD files to Xcode App IOS 7 Flat Style

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Experts, I would like to ask about how to convert PSD files to IOS 7 Flat Style, I know there are many companies providing PSD TO HTML5，But I have not found this conversion tool to xocde,

Source from 45+ Cool Premium iOS 7 Flat UI Kits & App Mockup for For Designers

I purchased a Flat UI Kit for IOS, BUT IT'S PSD FILES NO CODE, ONLY PSD FILES
I need to ask a ios programmer to write code for this kits?

Can anyone recommend a tool to convert psd to xcode? Many thanks


texts: Icon suggestions to represent "Style", referring to CSS styles?

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If it wasn't clear, "style" in this context refers to changes in the CSS, so things like font-size, font-style, background color, etc.

I have a very simple and minimalistic icon at the moment with 3 ampersands with increasing font sizes and boldness, but feel that there are probably better representations.


texts: What is an appropriate software for furniture design?

texts: I want to master a software for furniture design but I don't know what's an appropriate and powerful solution.


texts: Difference between "Expand" and "Outline Stroke" in Adobe Illustrator?

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Using Adobe Illustrator, "Expand" and "Outline stroke" seem to produce the same result of converting a path to an object (correct me if i'm wrong). So I'd like to know;

Do both commands really perform the same action?
When to apply either command?


texts: I am trying to give a logo a white variant so it is easier to use when i design flyers or for marketing videos. I tried using the paint bucket tool but it did not work. Any help will be appreciated.


texts: Is there any way to combine a picture's border into the shape in illustrator?

texts: I made an icon with a border, but I don't want the border. If I remove the border, the icon loses it's thickness and doesn't look right. Is there any way to make the border into part of the shape?


texts: Does it make sense to convert jpg image files to dng files upon import into Lightroom?

texts: As far as I understand, converting input files to DNG is reasonable for Raw files only. Or is there any benefit if I convert jpgs to dng?


texts:
I have four shapes that make up a circle. I've grouped them and I'm trying to rotate them together. But instead of rotating all object together as a circle, all four objects rotate individually around the individual object centres.

How can I rotate all four objects around the group's centre?


texts:
Is it possible to reference two anchor texts hyperlinks for the same paragraph in Indesign?

I can create two different anchor texts for the same paragraph. However, when inserting the cross-reference, only one seems available.

I would prefer to avoid complex scripting solutions.

EDIT: To make it clear, Document B has a paragraph. Document A has two links to the Anchor Text associated to the paragraph of Document B. I need to define two different anchor texts for the same paragraph in Document B (which is possible and I have done it) and then being able to "select" a different anchor in Document A per each of the links. This last bit is where the problem is, because when inserting the cross-reference and pointing to the paragraph, only one anchor text is available.


texts: How can I turn brightness to transparency in grayscale image

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I would like to turn a grayscale image into a transparent image where:

#000000 (black) → turns into → #000000 (black) 0% transparency

#FFFFFF (white) → turns into → #000000 (black) 100% transparency

Example image of a grayscale gradient (on the left) and desired result (on the right).
How can I do this in Photoshop?


texts: Making an image clean with 2 colors only in Photoshop

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I'm trying to take an image that was designed in SolidWorks and exported as an AI file and make it two colors only.

I'm using a manufacturing process using UV light so the areas I'm cutting away need to be transparent whilst the other areas need to be completely black.

The problem is there is a slight Color variations along some of my edges. As these will print as tones of gray it can drastically ruin my part. Is there a simple way to eliminate the issue?

I tried a color selection and that did not work


texts: Svg not showing shadows in web browsers (Inkscape)

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I have newly created a logo that has shadows applied with masks, so they only affect the logo itself, and not the background. Here's a picture:

The text of the logo is splitted in 3 main layers: The back text (G and A and top of B), the shadows (applied with a mask so they don't go outside the text) and the front text (A horizontal bar and bottom of B).

However, when I export it in Optimized SVG, Inkscape still shows the text shadows (of the front text), but not the web browsers...... What to do?

Here's what the SVG looks like on browsers:

I have played with the Save As settings (checking and unckecking Group Similar Objects and Reduce Groups), nothing worked...

Please help!


texts: How to remove all color from selected text (resulting in transparent text) perfectly?

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I want an image with some text, such that the background color of the image is white, while the text should transparent.

The twist here is that the font I am using does not satisfy my needs, and I have to apply "transform" (using Ctrl+T) after I write using the "Horizontal Type Mask Tool" and to sort of spread the text horizontally (so that the letters become a bit less condensed).

What I tried:

I created a new file with white background
Wrote the text on it using the Horizontal Type Mask Tool
Added a color to it (because without this when I try to apply the
Transform, it complains that the selected area is empty) using the
Paint Bucket tool
Applied the Transform.
The text was still selected. So pressing Del deleted everything
from the selected text.

But when I deselected it, the result was very ugly. There is an ugly black border sort of a thing around the text.

I have also tried using the Background Eraser Tool but that doesn't do it perfectly either. So I conclude my approach for getting what I want was not good. So my question is that what is the best way to do this?


texts: What density should be used to create mobile wallpaper?

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I created an invitation card of double the A4 size with 72 dpi in photoshop. I intend to share it via phone. However when seen in actual size, it gets blurred.

I tried same with 300dpi also.

What should be properties of image so that it should not get blurred irrespective of the screen size, when seen at the original size of the image.


texts: Retaining Slices Made Within a Symbol in Fireworks

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I've been working with FW for a little while now, and I've come to using symbols for sections of a site in my designs. Mostly things like a header or a footer and the occasional sidebar.

These parts of the site don't change very often so to make things a bit more modular I make them symbols and edit them if needed and the changes are global for those items.

One of the things I am trying to achieve here is to be able to make the slices I'll need for like the navigation or the cart icon of a e-commerce store.

While I can do it easily, I'd like it to be within the symbol (I have made slices within a symbol but it doesn't seem to carry over into the common library symbol) that way I can keep it in my common library to basically put together the pieces of a page that I know will be there and have the slices already made if I need to make a new page for my layout on a website.

I'm curious if someone has this same problem and looking for the same answer as me or even a work around. I think this would greatly increase anyone's workflow when designing a website that they want to show to a client as a prototype.


texts: Saving Multiple Pages as PDF in Photoshop

texts: How to save Multiple pages as a single Portable Document Format document in Photoshop.


texts: I have two images with different size and resolution. I need to do a cognitive experiment so is mandatory that different images are as much equal as possible. Is there any method to reduce the quality of an image in terms of size and ppi to make it equal to the other one?


texts: What font is used in the old Ben Sherman logo?

texts: What font is used in the old Ben Sherman logo below?


texts: In Illustrator, possible to apply one layer to another?

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I have the following:

where the text "Panning" is on one layer, and the rectangular grey mask that covers it is on a different layer. I was wondering, is it possible that I can somehow apply the grey mask to just the text area, and not have the excess mask surrounding it?

Thanks.


texts: How to ignore word from global GREP style?

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I asked this question to create a GREP style to make the 2 subscript when I typed H2.

I need the GREP to ignore the word H2Van.

I thought to amend the GREP to look for a space after the 2 as well as to look for a H or any uppercase letter before it. This does work, but if there is punctuation after the H2, then the GREP also ignores it.

How would I amend this GREP to ignore the word H2Van?

(?<=\u)2(?=[[:space:]])


texts: Inkscape: Drawing a perfect circle in 2 point perspective

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Is there a way to draw a perfect circle in a 2-point perspective drawing in Inkscape? I'm looking for a way that I don't need to estimate.

For example, I want to draw the largest circle that fits inside this rectangle at its center.

I couldn't find answer to this. If that's the case for Inkscape, what software can I use to achieve that?


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I've got a text object on top of a solid colour, and I'm trying to cut out the text from the background image.

I outline the text and then use "Minus to Front" function on the text, and the background.

But when I do this the text quality gets compromised (see images)

Any suggestions on what's possibly doing this?


texts: What font type is being used on this logo?

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Im re-building a project for a new client and I know I've seen this font before but cannot see to locate it and the font finder services are not having much luck either.

Does anyone know what it might be?

Thanks in advance


texts: Best File Management Practices when you have thousands of Files

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We publish over 100+ textbooks and growing (1-color, 2-color, 4-color) maninly designed in CorelDraw & Indesign with associated Image and Font Files. We also have merged multipage PDF & EPS files that we send to our offset printers.Also, some Image files are exclusive to a project while some are shared across projects.

What are the best practices to follow when it comes to management of these files? We are always working on multiple versions of the same files and often with multiple DTP operators.

Right now it is all on a Shared Drive with Individual Folders but that always creates confusion in identifying the latest version of the file and some users save the file to some other folder. Security of the Data is another issue as we work with a lot of freelancers also.

How do big design studios and publishing houses handle versioning, collaboration and the associated files with a project neatly? Do they use a CMS / Document Management System?


texts: Can you get out of text edit in GIMP without choosing a different layer or tool?

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Is there a key combination I can use to exit text editing?  The only way I can current get out of text editing is by clicking another layer, or clicking another tool in the toolbox.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to finish editing text?


texts: Different dominant color codes are extracted from same image

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I try to extract the dominant color from a image by using 3 different tools, i.e.:

Tineye Labs
Color Theif: http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/
Vibrant.js: http://jariz.github.io/vibrant.js/

However, the result are different after I used them to analysis one same PNG image, e.g., the dominant colors I extracted from the image are:

rgb(185, 199, 123)
rgb(176, 192, 116)
rgb(189, 202, 122)

I wonder why this happened and is there anything I can do to make the results better? Do I need to create a histogram of the image? Do they extract the color by analyzing pixels?


texts: What's the name for typography that looks like the meaning of its content?

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For example a flame who looks like a flame

Or a typography snow who looks like snow

Do you know the name of this exercice ?


texts: How to hide object between another object with transparent background color

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I have two objects in Corel Draw: rectangle without background color and text (like in this image). How can I make invisible the text´s part which is after the rectangle like this:? (Without setting the rectangles background color, I need it transparent)
Thank you very much for any help.


texts: Illustrator Script Group Sublayers One By One

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Trying to convert all sublayers of my design (with or without children) into a group on its own. You can check on my screens what i have to what i need to obtain.

What i have

What i need

Here is the code i currently have but is not working. I've tried to select each layer as standalone and then group each one:

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

groupLayers(docRef);

    function groupLayers(doc) {
        for(i=0;doc.layers.length>i;i++){
        var currentLayer=docRef.layers[i];
        app.executeMenuCommand('group');
    }
    }


texts: What is the math behind gradient map in photoshop?

texts: I am trying to implement gradient map of Photoshop programmatically. Consider below shown gradient map where all white components are replaced by green and black by blue. For other color components Photoshop calculates based on the linear gradient between blue and green. I know there is a math behind this calculation. Does any one know formula to find output color for particular  input color value?


texts: Why are title images so often distorted?

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Example.
I've read somewhere it's because people upload them in too high resolution and the browsers' scaling programs aren't perfect. However, today I bumped into a distorted logo of equal size on this website.

So what can one do to avoid it?


texts: Convert dashed stroke to a regular path using Inkscape

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For example i want to convert the following shape :

to a group of paths so i get path points in all edges.


texts: Managing a large amount of very similar designed materials?

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I am responsible for creating and maintaining a medium-sized (50 or so) and growing library of product/portfolio/informational flyers. Many of these flyers must include boilerplate information, like patent and regulatory notices.

I realized today (many years too late!) that there must be a way for me to make this change once and have it apply across many files.

Currently I use Illustrator for these materials, even though the majority of the "design" is simple layout with 1 photo and a lot of text. I've been told many times that I should be using InDesign instead (but you can tell me again; maybe I'll take the good advice if I hear it enough).

So the question is: what's the best way for me to make a boilerplate change in one place that will ripple across all other documents? Bonus points if I can somehow group documents into different categories so that a given change will only hit the documents that I want it to (or something similar to this).


texts: Preserving proportions when adding to a selection in Photoshop

texts: Is there an easy and shortcut way to add a square selection to an existing selection? Normally to draw a square or circle selection one needs to hold the Shift key, but the Shift key is needed when adding to an exisiting selection. Is there any shortcut to preserve proportions when adding to a selection?


texts: Copying one stroke from Illustrator gives two masks in After Effects

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I am new to After Affects CC but very experienced with Illustrator. I am trying to animate this logo to behave as if it is being continuously drawn. So it basically draws itself over and over. A looping GIF.

I originally had a fill in illustrator but when I copy and pasted it into a new solid layer in After Effects it splits the fill into 5 masks and animates each new mask individually. So now the logo is 5 different shapes and not 1 continuous stroke. I am using Effect > Generate > Stroke. So then I drew the logo with one single stroke using the variable width tool to adjust the stroke width. Copied it into After Effects the same way and After Effects splits the single stroke into 2 paths? I have the same problem. Is there anyway to join the masks into 1? I don't understand why After Effects is splitting a single stroke into 2 separate masks? I have experimented with using Add, Subtract etc. on the masks in After Effects but that still makes no difference to it still being split into 2 separate masks. See pictures. Thanks for any help.


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I would like to invert the color of this flame in Illustrator. Is there an easy way to do it?

In Photoshop it's simple (Shift+I) but that doesn't work in Illustrator.


texts: Apply a brush on a path in Photoshop CS6

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Hy. I want to create something like this:

using path. I want to draw a line in fact and on that line I want to apply a rainbow effect like this one. Some time I want to have 2 colors in the rainbow, other times 6,7 it depends.

How can I do that ?


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It is possible to take an existing image which has black texted covered by solid red layers and remove that so the text can be seen?

For instance this pictute here is a screenshot with black text covered by red colour layered over the top. It's for the purpose of some competitive branding pursuits etc.


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I have install the script and i want to dock the panel in After effect.

I can just move the panel here and there is no option or snap so that i can dock it. The panel moving above the other panel and composition. Any suggestion how can i dock the panel.


texts: I want to have the background be black and white and then a rectangle of color be normal but I don’t know how and when I erase it it’s shaky. What do I do.


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Im completely new to inkspace and im struggling to get 2/3 points to join together seemlessley so I can begin filling my image.
So far I have this....

I just cant figure out the process of joinging the two points together, I have tried breaking the points apart and rejoinging them but then I am left with another point that is not linked in. Any idea?
Thanks for your help in advance!


texts: How to make an inner shadow around a page in Photoshop CS2?

texts: I'm working on a web site and want to create a bounding-shadow effect around the whole site, like in the image below. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've tried inner-shadow but it doesn't quite do it, since the shadow in my example isn't consistent. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!


texts: Why is my image turning gray when I paste another image on it?

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I opened a .jpg file that only contains one channel, whenever I try to add another image to the file, the other image also turns gray.

Why is this happening?


texts: I am trying to create a gif of a growing line, which changes direction. I drew the line using the path tool, so I need a way to animate drawing process of a Beziér curve. Essentially I need to create a similar animation to the the following one (just the red line and the black dot, however the black dot is optional):


texts: Remove alpha channel from exported .tiff using GIMP

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I am using a program that requires a .tiff input with 8 bits (grayscale) and the 1 sample per pixel characteristic. I scale the layer down in GIMP, keep the canvas the same size, choose grayscale, and turn off the alpha channel. Only 1 layer exists. However, when I export the image, the size is twice the original image, has two samples per pixel, and says that there is an alpha channel. The following is output from the sips command on OS X.

pixelWidth: 3296
pixelHeight: 2472
typeIdentifier: public.tiff
format: tiff
formatOptions: default
dpiWidth: 72.000
dpiHeight: 72.000
samplesPerPixel: 2
bitsPerSample: 8
hasAlpha: yes
space: Gray

My main guess is the alpha channel is saving when the layer is smaller than the canvas, even though the alpha channel is turned off for the layer. Any ideas why this is happening? Appreciate any answers.


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In one page of my inDesign document, there's a pink rectangle. I created a text element and moved this element on this rectangle.

No matter how hard I try to send this pink rectangle to back (arrange > send to back) and bring the text element to the front (arrange > bring to front), the rectangle stays above and hides the text, as if it was on front by law. What could cause this problem?


texts: How to make a jpg logo able to be enlarged without distortion?

texts: So i have a logo on jpg , how or what can i do to be able to expand it with out distortion and have it on a format that can be used for marketing, like newspaper adds, apparel, etc..


texts: How to save keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop

texts: After 1 or 2 years if I need to format of my Windows PC with a fresh installation, how can I keep my keyboard shortcuts that I configured manually?


texts: How to prepare an image / graphic file to be printed or embroidered on clothing and garments?

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I recently created some graphics with Adobe Illustrator, saved them as PDFs and sent them to a printing company for a quote for part embroidery, part screen print on clothing.

The quote came back with an additional fee for the file to be sent off to someone else, to be prepared for embroidery.

What needs to be done to a vector graphic for it to be embroidered on clothes?

Is it a different software? Is it possible to prepare it in Illustrator, or another Adobe CS5 software to avoid the fee?


texts: How to delete everything outside of selection on layer

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I'm learning GIMP little by little.

I need to deleted everything outside my selection (make everything outside transparent).

How do I achieve this?


texts: Hidden guide lines in Illustrator are included and visible in PDF after export

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I am working on a Disc Makers 12 panel booklet template on Illustrator CS2.
I have 6 illustrator files: front and back /  1and2 /  3and4 /  5and6 and so on. All are text only (cut and paste) with the exception of the front and back where I have also placed my PDF logo.
To hide guide lines (bleed and safety):

Select /object/ clipping masks
Object /hide /selection

All the guide lines are hidden except the text and logo.
I "Save as..." to PDF and the front and back save fine, no lines.
But when I save a PDF for any of the other files the guide lines are still  in the PDF. They all print without the guide lines.
I have tried everything I could think of (except, of course, the one thing that will work).


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I would like to be able to lengthen arrows between cells in this

without changing their

direction
colour
width
dimensions of their heads

(Just adding to the length of the arrows)

Source

How would I achieve this in Inkscape?


texts: Does the image in this scene look out of place? I can't seem to incorporate it into the scene

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So, in this scene I have cards which can come with our without an image, and for those who do come with an image I can't seem to incorporate into the scene cohesively. It's hard to me to explain how but it looks off.

Buttons on the bottom aren't finished, I am going to put some arrow icons in them.

All kinds of critiques are appreciated!

Thanks

edit, new picture:

edit 2:

edit 3:

edit 4:
image 1:

image 2:


texts: Vectorizing pixels in bitmap images for infinite resizing. Possible?

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Just putting this out there for discussion, and because I can't currently think of why it wouldn't work...

Imagine you converted every pixel of a bitmap image into a vector square. Could you then resize that image (or the collection of vector square "pixels") proportionally and infinitely, essentially creating a vector-bitmap image?

What would be the limitations or hindrances of this?

If it's possible, couldn't it be implemented anywhere and everywhere (eg. like svg for websites, etc.) so we no longer have the "raster-images-get-blurry-when-enlarged" problem? Some sort of automatic conversion tool (ie. open/import a bitmap image and it's automatically "read" and converted to a vectorized-pixel image), even within Photoshop itself, that could turn any old raster image into a fully responsive vector-pixel image?

Why hasn't this happened yet?


texts: Affinity Designer: How to re-colour in Pixel Persona

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I would like to know how to re-color a pixel layer (after using the brush tool) in Pixel Persona. Is this even possible?
Example:
I'm doing some shadowing on a pixel layer with the brush tool in yellow but then I realise it would look better in blue. Is it possible to change that yellow colour into blue?
When I try to do this, I select the pixel layer in question and try to change its colour in the colour picker (as you would do for a vector layer) but this doesn't seem to work on Pixel Persona.


texts: Making multiple vectors one single vector in Illustrator

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I have a company logo in vector repeated multiple times to make a pattern/background. I want to apply a halftone to it, but to do so I need to make all the repeated vectors into one single vector. I have tried all of the pathfinder options with no luck and making a compound path messes up the logo (fills in the hole in the "a"). Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Thanks!


texts: How do I remove the extra space in the artbroad in Photoshop when slicing?

texts: When I tried to save a gif or image, there are always some extra space in the final result. Does anyone know how to remove the extra space? I have tried to use the slice tool to resize it or crop it but nothing works. I would appreciate a lot if you can help. Thanks!


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I'm not quite sure if this is the right place for the question, so if not I'll happily take it down.  This could fall under linguistics or semiotics.  But in many hard sciences, we basically overload the arrow symbol for every single concept that suggests "directionality".  We use -> or some version thereof for functions, for inequalities, for connectivity, for "this implies that".  If you pick an asymmetric relationship in math, physics, econ, or you name it, there is a high probability that we represent it with some version of an arrow symbol.  I just enumerated four examples, but I would ballpark that around 50 concepts are expressed with some version of an arrow--and often we use exactly the same arrow symbol for multiple concepts, occasionally causing some amount of confusion.  The main exceptions I can think of are the set-membership and the subset relationships.  Even the subset symbol is overloaded in its own way and if you squint, looks like an arrowhead.  (Maybe like a Clovis arrowhead ... now I'm getting distracted.)
So anyway, it would be nice to sometimes choose a different symbol, evoking perhaps a different metaphor, for some of our asymmetric concepts.  But when I try to think of a symbol that evokes the notion of "from here to there" or something like that, I really struggle to pick something that isn't like shooting a projectile and yet still visually makes intuitive sense.  You could employ the metaphor of a river, and a simple squiggle can visually suggest this.  For some concepts where you want to conjure the notion of an indirect path this could be great, but what about concepts where you don't want to suggest indirect, winding paths?  (Either because the path is rectilinear or just because straightness/curvy-ness is irrelevant.)  The metaphor of a tree is nice, going from the ground toward the sky.  But in the sciences we usually like the direction to go left-to-right in flow with the written text.  So the up-down direction is only sometimes the one we want.
So I guess what I want is any ideas for symbols that are:

Visually, intuitively suggestive of a left-to-right direction on the page

Easy to draw in in-line text with a small number of pen strokes

Does not rely on the projectile metaphor

Usually suggesting either "This thing is to the left of that" or "This thing goes (or travels) from here to there."


texts: Representing newline with a character placed "inline"

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Background

Hi all, i'm developing a diary application where the user adds several short entries (on a couple of lines perhaps) rather than adding entries for an entire day

For layout and look reasons i'd like these entries to be without newlines inside

Question

When pasting a text into an entry and the text which is pasted contains newlines, i'd like to find a way to represent the newlines with a visual character rather than going to the next line. How can i do this in a nice way?

What i've considered so far

One option is to choose a character like this one. Another idea is to use a pipe with a space before and after " | "

Grateful for help with this!


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Let's say, I am trying to recreate a shape (the circle attached within the M shape) like the attached image. Is there any way to do this simply and perfect?

They way I have tried it is not giving me the desired result.

Covert anchor point of the circle,
Drag until it's almost in line with the to other ends...
Fail.

Thanks in advance!

Image:


texts: How can I assign hotkeys to specific layers?

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I am flatting pages in a comic book.

The process is always the same, and I have a set of four layers that I need to cycle through constantly while working (but there can be several dozen other layers in the document).

Is there a trick, workaround, or plugin that would allow me to connect those layers to specific keyboard shortcuts?

There seems to be no built-in way in the app right now, and no obvious solution out there on the Internet.

I'm using the CC version.


texts: What is a good icon to indicate that a given item is NOT part of a list?

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I need to place an icon next to an email address to indicate that the email address is NOT a member of a given mailing list.

This could be abstracted as: What icon best indicates that the entity it is associated with is NOT a member of a given group?

In my case, I'm going to use an envelope icon to indicate that an email address IS a member of a mailing list. But what icon should I use to indicate non-membership?


texts: Font licensing for a web app hosted on clients servers

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Frutiger 55 was the winner of the crude typo-battle I hosted in my mind this week (I felt really sorry for poor Gill Sans, one of my top-5 of all time). I want to use it for a Web App that is hosted in different client's servers (client buys the app, the app is hosted in their server, although it can be accessed from different regions), and I'm a bit confused about which license is the correct one.

According to Linotype, Frutiger 55 is NZ$ 53.00 for a standard License (maximum of 5 computers at one single geographical location, or a single LAN). Last time I checked, it didn't have a Web version, but it now links to fonts.com, and they say it can be self-hosted and used in an unlimited number of sites.

Which font/License would be the one I need in this case? Since users are not going to have the font installed in their computers, is a web license the right way to go? Or should it be a license per server? This is Linotype's list of desktop licenses, maybe it's the Webserver License? Thanks!

Edit: I'm quite sure it's NOT a Web Server License because the font will be "read only"

Edit: I found some more info on licensing fonts for apps but it only applies to MyFonts.com.


texts: Indesign text frame properties not applying to text

texts: I been setting up multiple text frames in Indesign, copying text from another file into the new one. The thing is that the text I copy does not get updated to the text frame properties. How can I solve this without having to retype everything again?


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So i created two curves and i saw 'intersect' and snapped to it.
After that i saw an error message about 'to join, you must select two open endpoints' when i was trying to join the two lines using ctrl-shift-alt-j (IDK what this is but it's part of tutorial).

Upon closer inspection and zooming 6400% i noticed the two path ending anchors aren't connected and i can't drag them onto each other to connect.

Why did this happen and why won't my path ending anchor points connect..?


texts: What's the easiest way to produce an image strip from a set of files with the same height

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I have a set of images (actually many sets but let's stick with one for now) that all have the same height in pixels and varying widths, I would like to combine them into one file with the images aligned into a horizontal strip and no overlaps or gaps.
I can do this manually of course by opening the set as layers then carefully moving them before flattening. I've also attempted to figure out how to use the "Image > Align Visible Layers" tool which sounds like the right thing but I haven't got it to work. Is there a quick way of accomplishing this?


texts: Exporting InDesign file to XHTML file with script

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I have a inDesign file with many pages that I want to export to XHTML format. I use a script i found to do so:
Main();

function Main() {
    // Check to see whether any InDesign documents are open.
    // If no documents are open, display an error message.
    if (app.documents.length > 0) {
        var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
        // Build the filename
        var myDocName = decodeURI(myDoc.fullName);
        var myDocBaseName = myDocName.substring(0, myDocName.lastIndexOf("."));
        // Export the page to FXL HTML
        with (myDoc.htmlFXLExportPreferences) {
            epubPageRangeFormat = PageRangeFormat.EXPORT_ALL_PAGES
//          epubPageRangeFormat = PageRangeFormat.EXPORT_PAGE_RANGE
//          epubPageRange = "1-2";
        }
        myDoc.exportFile(ExportFormat.HTMLFXL, new File(myDocBaseName + ".html"), true);
    }
    else {
        // No documents are open, so display an error message.
        alert("No InDesign documents are open. Please open a document and try again.")
    }
}

Now, the script is working fine with converting to the right format, but the problem I have is that I get 1 html file for every single inDesign page I have.
Is there anyway to make it, so that I get 1 single XHTML file as a result, with all the pages inside that one file?


texts: Illustrator: check if object is colliding

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I'm working on a large map and there are a lot of text objects where some of them collide for some reason. Now I'd like to figure out if there is a method where I can see if objects collide with each other. So that all text objects that has another text object colliding should be selected or highlighted in some way.

Is this possible?


texts: Photoshop doesn't recognize image when I export; keeps trying to export blank background

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Note: This is happening on all PSD files that I have.

I'm trying to export a couple of images from an artboard I made in Photoshop. But it's not recognizing the images. Instead it keeps trying to export a blank background instead:

Layers on the side: no transparent background as you can see.

Any idea why this is happening?


texts: How to remove the background color from and animated GIF image?

texts: How to remove or change the background color of an animated GIF image? I would like to remove the background color from the attached image.


texts: Metallic color vinyl combined with frosted-glass-like vinyl

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I'm wondering whether it's possible to get vinyl with metallic gold colour on the adhesive side? Let me explain why on the adhesive side.
My application
I would like to design a kitchen worktop glass backsplash with some Klimt-inspired vector graphics. I would like to combine frosted glass-like look with gold (Klimt was using it regularly in his paintings).
I could design the simple frosted-like effect using such cut vinyl so some parts would have the clear-glass look while others would be frosted. The problem I see here is that backsplash is very close to white wall which could create insufficient contrast between both surfaces.
That's why I was thinking of combining frosted look with gold so in all places where glass should be clear there would be gold and frosted elsewhere.
Because this is kitchen worktop area, the front should only be glass. Everything should be on the back side so one wouldn't be able to damage it in any way shape or form.
As vinyl would be attached to the back of glass all that one sees is the adhesive side of vinyl (unless applied in some unusual way).
The main problem
The main problem that I see is the lack of sufficient contrast between clear and frosted glass due to close proximity between glass backsplash and kitchen wall. If anybody has ever done this before or can test now on a small sheet of glass and using this translucent frosted vinyl I'd be extremely happy to see results against a white painted wall in a form of photographs.
Any better suggestions?


texts: Repeat client is suddenly demanding intellectual property rights!

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A fairly sizable client whom I've done a few jobs for over the past several years has recently contacted me for a new job. We have never had a contract for any of the work I've done for them (I'm a freelance designer). In his most recent email, he said:

  "By the way, I am requiring that all files in their native form belong
  to [my company] and are to be delivered to me upon completion of the
  project. The files must not be password protected and are to be in
  their 'collected-for-output' form before payment will be made. I
  consider what we pay for to be the intellectual property of [my
  company]."

Aside from the fact that this is a little insulting (considering I've held nothing hostage, have been perfectly civil, and complied with every request I've ever received from any client I've had, including providing original working files), I understand that this is not standard practice... Most designers, it seems, do not hand over copyrights or intellectual rights to a design. But I don't feel that it's worth losing a fairly good client over something that may make him feel I'm somehow taking advantage of him. (The designs I do for them are mostly advertisements, flyers, small brochures, etc.)

What would you do? What do you recommend?


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We are working with two brochures, which we are looking to copy content from into one new brochure. These two brochures are different page sizes, and so image and text are different sizes as well.

What we would like to do is resize the pages of either brochure and copy them into the new brochure, keeping all the text and images in the same position and in tact (except smaller or bigger).

How would we go about doing this? Any help would be much appreciated!


texts: Baseline and dealing with leading on headlines

texts: So, I've set up this baseline that works like a charm for the body copy. What are the rules for headlines? Usually if the leading of the headline is following the baseline it usually is looks too tight.


texts: Where to start preparing a portfolio to enter a graphic design program?

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I need to create a portfolio to enter a graphic design program.
Subjects are the use of typography and imagery to communicate information and ideas.

Possible projects might include things like

posters
magazine article layout
package design
interface design

What software do you recommend?

How should I produce the final product? I mostly crave fabric publication but I don't know about the process.

Thank you!


texts: Best tool to quickly colour vector shapes

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I need a tool that lets me quickly colour vector shapes. The Live Paint tool in Illustrator is good BUT the problem is that I also need the same shapes to have a specific stroke, an hand-drawn like stroke, which, as far as I know, you can not get with Illustrator.

Just so you understand the stroke that I need, I am attaching a picture.

Edits after the first comments:

Thanks guys and let me explain further:
I got that illustration by using a program/app called Concepts. They have a beautiful hand-drawn brush so my linework is okay. The problem is that when I import it in Illustrator, the Live Paint tool does not work very well cause it does not detect the paths (exactly what Scott said). I closed the gaps with the gap detection tool but it did not work :(
I said "quickly" in the title cause I do architecture drawings and imagine colouring all those windows one by one... nightmare!

@joojaa: how can you get hand-drawn brushes for Illustrator? I mean, exactly like that one in the picture? I tried to create custom brushes but I could never get that kind of look.


texts: Where can I find hi-res stock photography previews?

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Does anyone know of a stock photo resource that offers high-res watermarked comp(preview) images?

Creating mock-ups with the tiny comps that getty provides really dials back the look of the mockups.


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I'm really inspired by Tim Van Damme's and Abstract's Mac Icon. The rounded corners that make up the icon are interesting to me. I've seen Tim make rounded edges like these before and would like to learn how it is done.

This is the icon I am referring too. In Ai or even Sketch, how would you approach or create rounded corners like this?

Image property of Abstract

Update:

I'm finding that image trace in illustrator to be somewhat helpful. It's not making this shape from scratch, but it is allowing me to study it better.


texts: Where did the early graphic design theory in Asia originate from?

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As a North American designer, most of the graphic design theory I've encountered can be traced back to the Bauhaus in Germany. I've also read there was a less famous Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus school, called Vkhutemas.

Were there Bauhaus equivalents for Asian countries (i.e. a school or institution where the early graphic design theory was defined?) or was the Bauhaus' influence global?

My best lead so far: http://www.mplusmatters.hk/asiandesign/paper_topic6.php

  [In 1981,] none of the histories of industrial design made any
  reference to Asian design, while the prevailing history of graphic
  design by Philip Meggs only mentioned Japan among all the other Asian
  nations.
  [...]

  I did eventually discover books like Scott Minick's and Jiao Ping's
  book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century and Richard
  Thornton's Japanese Graphic Design...[...]

  In 1989, Design Issues, the journal I co-edit published a special
  issue on Design in Asia and Australia. Our authors included Matthew
  Turner, writing about Hong Kong, as well as other authors dealing with
  design in India Japan and China. Since then we have sought other
  articles on Asian design and have managed to publish a number on
  design in China, Japan, Indonesia, and India.

Self-answered from chat for China:

In the article Chinese graphic design history since 1971 by Wendy Siuyi Wong:

  China had been cut off fro the outside world, and there were hardly
  any commercial art activities there for three decades. Under such
  circumstances, the modern Chinese design movement started in the 1930s
  by the Shanghai designers was not able to keep pace with the
  international design trends throughout this period. [...] With the
  introduction of the latest design trends through an increasing number
  of international exchanges, very little influence of the older
  generation of mainland designers was passed on to the younger
  generation in the 1980s and 1990s. The main direction of the design
  education system in mainland China, in today's context, is still based
  on a skill-training curriculum from the 1960s Russian model.


texts:
My co-worker sent me a file created with Photoshop CC that she swears contain vector layers with shapes in them.

I am running CS5, and the same layers are showing up as rasterized. Is this a versioning problem?


texts: Uneven white lines around PDF in Adobe Acrobat

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I have created an image in photoshop, then flattened the image and saved as a PDF. OPened the PDF in Acrobat in order to add hyperlinks. My client wants to send this image out digitally with hyperlinks.

But when I open in Acrobat there are en even white lines around the border. WhenI saves and opens in another program they are still there.

I am not sure why they are there or how to get rid of them, please help.

I have tried cropping the image on acrobat but the white lines show back up. not sure what is going on here.


texts: Can I extract parts of this image and then use them as an overlay or mask on other images?

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This is a long shot!

Is there a way to extract the white bits from the example below and then using them as a transparent layer to add the same noise pattern to solid images.

I have experimented with photoshops inbuilt filters but there are no parameters within them to adjust to get exactly what I want.

Is there a commercial plugin that will do this?

The example image is not particularly great as I had to take a small part of an image and tile it to make it of a size I can use in this post.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

image


texts: I created a rectangle with the rectangle tool and I'd like to add vertices to it. I usually double click on the edge to add a vertex but it seems like the rectangle I created is some kind of special shape that doesn't behave like other shapes.


texts: InDesign: Create changeable "Profile Pages" from template

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I want to create a yearbook for my school with Profile-Templates (think about a Facebook profile). Let's assume i have 3 of these Profile-Templates. All contain various graphics, styles and placeholders but all of them will keep the same fields like "lastname" or "birthday".

I want to fill many pages made from these Template but on every page there will be other data (other birthday, other lastname, ...)

When I change styles/placement/... on this Template it syncs across all pages that use these (thus i can add finer design details later or fix errors without having to fix it on 200 separate pages).

When someone doesn't like their template and prefers a different one i can just apply a different one and because it contaisn the same fields the data such as "lastname" wont change but the new styles/placements/... apply to it.

This is my vision. Is this even remotely possible? It seems to utterly important in InDesign. For example when i create a cookbook i want every page to look the same more or less but always with different recipes and different image.

I thought Master pages would work fine here but it turns out I cannot change the Fields i put in it.

I already searched here on Stackexchange and via Google but because i don't know how the feature is called (or even if something like this exists) I'd like to ask you guys

I hope this is possible. My InDesign skills aren't very high but i basically took this project to learn it so don't shy away from giving me advice to use hard to use features. Thanks


texts: How do I export multiple objects to raster images from Illustrator cs5?

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I need to export multiple objects from Illustrator to individual .png files. The objects are different in size.

I know this is easily done from Inkscape, but Illustrator seems to produce nicer images.

What is the routine to do it?


texts: How to remove Background in multiple and make it white in just one click or automate

texts: I have more than 40 pictures of which I want to remove background and make them white background. I cannot do it one by one as its gonna take a lot of time even days. I want to automate the process is. Kindly help me if there is any possible way to do this.


texts: how do i change the color of typeface on photoshop?

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i used masking + Gaussian blur + curves on my typeface on photoshop

after all, i wanted to change the color of typeface by

clicking the letters using magic wand,

but the shape of letter is changed as i filled colors on it.
(the typeface becomes thicker)

how can i change the color of typeface?


texts:
Does anyone know this font?
I have used 3 or 4 font-finder engines
and have looked through over 1100 sans serif fonts,
but i can not find it. Maybe it is self made.


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Is it somehow possible to edit the color of something that's in a .png file that cannot be edited?

I'm trying to change colors of icons in a .png file that's used as a .css sprite. The originals are from Twitter Bootstrap.

A guy who did manage to change the color (See attachments. White and Black are Originals, Blue is the edit), said he did it using GIMP.

But how is this possible? Does anyone know the procedure? I'd like to create some 2 more colors in all.

Would really appreciate some help on this.


texts: Graffiti texture creation from image in gimp/krita

texts: I want to take a black and white image and create a graffiti image out of it, as in the cover of linkin park's album "hybrid theory", and i must do this with either gimp or krita. The result will be a texture, so i don't want funky backgrounds or anything outside the graffiti in the resulting image. How could i do?


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I'm trying to figure out the name for, or a collection of, the kinds of images that "fade-into" a solid color.

For example, twitter has this image:

This allows them to add a background image that doesn't have a large file size, and then they set the background color of the website to be the color of the bottom of the image.

The end result makes it look as if the entire page is an image:

Does anyone know if a name exists for images like this that "fade-into" a color or if there's a place where these kinds of images are posted?

Thanks.


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I am designing a booklet: the print house needs the two sides of the booklet to be on a single PDF page.
When exporting the PDF from Scribus, I found a way to make it such that PDF viewers display the pages side by side (Viewer -> Display settings -> Document Layout -> Double Page Left), but the actual PDF still contains the pages 1:1.
In essence, I'd like to export the PDF such that the document which looks like this in Scribus:

contains two pages AB CD, instead of four pages A B C D


texts: What should I do after sending a file to print with a typo?

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After sending a booklet to print, after client approval, I noticed a typo that was my fault. The client supplied the text but in the design process it was edited and I have misspelt an email address. The client was given proofs and didn't spot it but they haven't received the print version, yet. I feel terrible even though the client is unaware of the issue and may never spot it, but should I email them to explain and offer a discount, or should I wait on them contacting me?

Update: I've contacted my client to notify them of the typo and haven't yet heard back, but feel much better being honest with them. I offered two solutions thanks to the below answers so hopefully this will be resolved soon. Thanks for your input everyone!


texts: How do I convert a diagonal line pattern in my *.psd to a Photoshop pattern?

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In my psd from designer I have a background like in the red rectangle.

This pattern doesn't show up in any Photoshop patterns. (maybe it's inner psd container)

How could I fetch a small rectangle from Photoshop and use it as a css background, having it repeat seamlessly without any bugs or borders etc.?

How do I fetch repeated content for a background from a .psd layout?


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I get how the pathfinder tools work whether it's uniting, exclusion, intersect, etc.

Is there a way to do the same thing, only exclude a path instead of the whole shape?

Example: There's a square background with a circle outline in front of it. Can I remove the circular outline while keeping the center intact? (Probably becomes part of the square)


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I'm addicted to using the X, Y, W, and H parameters in the upper right of the window in Illustrator . It makes precision layouts, resizes, and measurements trivially easy.

I understand you can get precision placement in Photoshop by putting a horizontal and vertical guide exactly where you want an object to snap to, but there are countless disadvantages to that method. Are the writable XYWH fields hidden somewhere in Photoshop as well? Or is there another way to put something at an exact spot, resize it to an exact size, or read off its exact dimensions as easily?


texts: Photoshop a low-res image to make it appear higher-res

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I want to enlarge an image to a bigger size. This will cause pixelation. So I want to apply some treatment to it in Photoshop that will suppress some of this pixelation. Of course I cannot generate new pixel information, only smoothen it etc. so that the pixelation is not so much apparent in full views and prints. Example, one effect popular with photographers is to copy the image into a second layer, set its blending mode to overlay or soft light etc., then apply a blur to it. This somewhat smoothens the image. But it also changes its appearance into a glowy kind of look (which is the aim, usually). I want a treatment that will fake the appearance of a higher-res smooth image without too many side-effects.

Any tricks of this kind that anyone knows of?


texts: I followed this solution to make Polish ogoneks in InDesign through GREP style BUT every time I use it, the negative tracking is also be applied to the space or next character which immediately follows it. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?


texts:
Can anybody help me in identifying the font used in the logo of Safiya Travels:

I have tried using the font-identification websites online, and the closest I could get was Jaunty Gent NF on MyFonts:

Is there a better match?


texts: The other red line is set to opacity 50% and is closed. I'd like to join them to later subtract them from from the basic picture (the fill) or make it white, but how to join them perfectly?


texts: Question about spot colours in full colour documents

texts: I am trying to understand various aspects of spot colours. If I am working in photoshop and I use say a pantone colour for a part of my artwork (in my CYMK file) ... lets suppose I've used it as the colour for a logo which is overlaid on top of a full colour image ... and then export this as a PDF and give to my printer ( who is using an offset printer) ... what will happen? I cant imagine that the pantone will print as intended - how would the printer know that I had used a spot colour? Would the pantone be approximated as CYMK? How would I do something like this properly?


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I've read a bunch of blog posts and stuff on web design, but don't have any formal education or experience/training.

In experimenting with my first website, I've found that having 3 colors works best. At first I tried just black and white, but that didn't look good. Then I added a color (blue nav bar), and it still looked like it needed more. Then I added a second color, and that looked much better, even when it was just a small element like a button or something. Finally, adding a third also had a notable benefit. Beyond that, the marginal value of colors drops off considerably, and even might become negative.

Is there a consensus about this? If so, what is it?

Also, is there some sort of reason for this? (I know it's hard to articulate why some things are aesthetically pleasing, so I wouldn't think so, but I'd still like to here theories!)


texts: Do a lot of freelance designers buy fonts?

texts: A lot of the fonts I see are pretty darn expensive. Of course you can find some awesome ones for free, but do freelance designers usually buy fonts? Or is buying fonts a practice reserved mostly for studios?


texts: How to apply filled mask to an audio spectrum layer?

texts:
Sorry if the question may appear confusing, I will try to explain as clearly as possible. I have created an audio spectrum layer and I'm trying to apply a filled mask to it. See first image: I drew a shape with a pen tool and my goal is to apply a fill effect only to audio spectrum.

Once I fill that mask with a desired color, I fill the whole mask. How can I fill only to audio spectrum layer?


texts: How do I create a bleed for a doughnut shaped design? (A Collar for a Keg)

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I'm very new to this and I've searched around and found one specific thread that almost answered my question but maybe I'm not entirely sure that I know what I'm looking for.

I have a design that will be printed and cut out (die-cut, I assume?) to the edge of the outer circle and then also a small circle in the center to create the collar for the top of the keg (looks like a doughnut).

I've watched lots of tutorials on creating a die-cut line which I have placed on the outer edge of the circle and the also on the inner parts where it will be cut out, but what about the bleed?

For the bleed specific dimensions, I can create them within the document but then it's rectangle or square, is it possible to create it around the circle - or does that matter? For now I've just extended the stroke of the outer circle a bit further than the cut contour line.

The company that i've created this design for did not give me any specifications from the printing company they use and I called the company and they really said as long as the bleed is fine and text is converted. So maybe I don't have a lot to go on either.

I appreciate any and all feedback that can help me get my design over to the printer.

Here is a picture to show what I'm looking at:


texts: Elliptical Marquee Tool - Adjusting after selection Photoshop CS5

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How do I refine/adjust my selection after?
Right now, I just randomly click in the top left hand corner
and drag until I get the desired outline, but this seems
very inefficient.

Here is an example of the circle images and one of my attempts to
select around it.


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What does it mean and how do I get a darker shade of a given color. For example if I have the color

R = 53, G = 140, B = 205

or

H = 204, S = 74, B = 80,

or

#358CCD

What value do I change in Adobe Illustrator CS5 or Above Photoshop so that I get a more darker/solid/bold look of the same color?


texts: Hundreds of icons in one Illustrator art board. What's the quickest way to organize these better?

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A designer before me created icons for our software in Illustrator files (i.e. icons-12x12.ai, icons-16x16.ai etc). All of them have one art board and potentially hundreds of icons in them. The process for exporting or modifying them is toggling on and off visibility of each layer. It's excruciating to work with them. I'd much rather have them in separate files or art boards but the process of doing this seems so daunting considering the amount of manual work that would have to take place.

This is an example of one of the files: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s113/sh/d27d63f7-7785-4546-9ae5-655633efd299/0929248e1446b859

Is there any tricks to automate some of the exporting or splitting them into art boards?


texts: How would I go about making text like this?

texts: I am designing a poster for fun and I found this text somewhere online. I wanted to attempt to recreate it but I am completely stumped. I am really new to Illustrator so any answer with as much depth and detail as possible would be really appreciated.


texts: Optical illusion caused by gradient. How can I avoid this effect?

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I have a background image that is bright on one side and dark on the other. Below it I have a gray box. The issue is that the gray box appears to be diagonal instead of flat which I believe is caused by an optical illusion due to the brightness of the image above. I measured with page ruler and the pixels appear to be the same on the left as the right.

I made the quote section thin which appears to exacerbate the issue, but it is still noticeable even if the gray section is thick. Has anyone managed to counteract this optical illusion or work around it?


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I have several color groups that I use to conform illustrations to brand guidelines, most of them saved either in the Cloud, or in .ASE format.

Each color group has a little "folder" icon next to it, but I'd like them all in the same folder.

I would like to merge these color groups into just one ASE file - how can this be done?


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So, I was working on Illustrator, I saved my progress and my computer went off. When I came back the AI file was blank, the file had 6 art boards and a lot of content, it was a brand guideline I was working on. I have to print and present this work in the next 3 hours and I'm about to freak out! I opened the AI file with a text editor and there were just a lot of 0's.

This dialog box appears when opening the file

Does anyone knows what happened? Can I get a temp file or something like that?


texts: How do I edit an existing layer mask in Photoshop?

texts: How can I edit the mask that is being applied to this layer?


texts: Smoothly join two rounded rectangles at one joint

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I would like to join my two rounded rectangles together into a single shape at the elbow joint they create but no matter how accurately I line them up, whenever I combine them into a single shape the joint is off and you can tell there is a curve and it's not a single smooth shape.

Is there a way to create this shape in a more precise way?

Pre-Pathfinder

Post-Pathfinder


texts: How do I make a ray effect in Illustrator?

texts:
What I've been doing is copied each stroke, selecting the end anchor point and moving it using the arrow keys:

Is there an easier way to do the following "semi-circle ray effect" in Illustrator?


texts: What effects do Photoshop layers have on preflighting a PDF for print?

texts:
I've created PDF files with Photoshop, then combined them to create a 16 page PDF. Photoshop's colour profile is set to SWOP (Newsprint), with Total Ink Limit set to 235%.

Depending on how I save the file (specifically with layers or not) seems to affect both the colour and the file size. Do layers have any effect on preflighting? Specifically, I'm trying to convert the file to X/1-a format.


texts: Need to improve the quality of images with GIMP

texts: I have a number of jpg images whose quality I would like to improve. It is planned to both print them and use them in digital format. I guess to use the GIMP or another programm that I can install in my Linux. I expect you to advise me a tutorial with relevant information.  I have reduced original images with ImageMagick's convert command for posting here. These are scans of award documents from the Second World War in Russian.


texts: Exporting multiple images from a multipage pdf

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I have a client who insists on sending me images in pdf form which I have to extract, resize and upload to their website. I have been using Photoshop to manually crop out the images but im looking for a faster way.

The main problem is there are 2-4 images per page in the pdf and I can easily export a whole page as a jpg but I cannot figure out how to export all of these images as separate jpgs.

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015

Im really looking for a batch system that allows me to extract all the images at once.

EDIT: I know the ideal thing would be to instruct the client to send us jpgs, however, I am looking into this export pdf possibility as well. Please only respond if you have any information on exporting multiple images from a single pdf page using Acrobat DC. Thank you.


texts: How to replicate this text scattering effect in Adobe Photoshop?

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In the following picture (by /u/Your_Post_As_A_Movie on Reddit), how would one create the effect of the symbol scattering? Does Photoshop allow one to scatter text with similar parameters as brushes? Or would all the individual graphemes need to be placed manually?

(note: I am using CS6)


texts: Purple Ghosting/Fringing when merging to HDR

texts:
This problem pops up frequently when I try and create HDRs. I'll have a bunch of base images that I've corrected for lens defects such as chromatic aberration and distortion, and when Photoshop merges them, there will be fringing in the highlights, almost always when clouds are involved. Take a look below:

So far I've just painted over this with the brush tool in PS, but there must be a better way. What causes this, and how can I stop this from happening in the first place?


texts: I am trying to illustrate in GIMP 2.8 with pixel-perfect precision. The pencil tool allows me to fill in a single pixel without any fuzzy edges or anti-aliasing. However, the eraser tool operates more like a brush. I want to erase a single pixel (setting it back to transparent) without disrupting any neighboring pixels. Is this possible to do?


texts: How to cut a line by object in Inkscape?

texts:
I have an object and it should cut a curved line at two points. In the image below, I want the line to reach the object and invisible inside the object and then continue after the object. How can I do so?
I tried intersect, division etc, but it didn't work.


texts: I just started getting into adobe illustrator again and upon install, I noticed that, while dragging/transforming objects, I don't seem to get the preview outline that looks similar to this. Is there a setting I don't know about?


texts: Batch Process images to remove identifying features

texts: I'm looking for some software that can batch process images to remove any identifying features (the same effect as saving a screen shot of the image). I don't want any data associated with the image to remain so that it appears to be a new image to search engines. Is there a program that can do that?


texts: In GIMP, how to stroke a selection or a path with gradient?

texts: I need the edge of mask to be fuzzy. The ways i found to do this is either by feather a selection or by stroking a selection with a fuzzy brush. But i need to define the edge transition more specificly. Ideally to create a custom gradient and use it for the edge.


texts: Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?

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This question is not political in the least!

While looking at the SVG version of Hillary's logo found here, I noticed there were notches in the two vertical bars of the H. The arrow crossbar covers up the notches so they are not seen when viewing the logo. But I'm very curious why the designer might have put in these notches. Does anybody know?


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I am designing a logo and I would like multiple forms of this logo. Example, I have a dark layer behind a white logo, or a light layer behind a black logo.

What I am asking is how can I update the main logo, lets say the black logo with the white background and the white logo will follow any changes made to the black logo, can this be done?


texts: What printing techniques or folding tools can I use to hand fold a commercially printed design without it cracking?

texts:
I recently created some tickets that were professionally printed then hand folded into an origami heart shape.

We used 170 GSM paper and I'm not sure what ink the printers used.

They arrived beautiful, but once the folding began the ink started to rub off around the folded edges. Our bodge was to colour in the immediately visible edges with a colouring pen.

It was for a student event with a tiny budget, I wouldn't do that with a real client.

What ink and paper combination would be best to make sure the ink doesn't rub off in future?

What manual tools are available for hand-folding?

Here's an example (the example was coloured in with a badly matched shade of red and was not sold, others were much better but I don't have any left):


texts: Web Design: Is centering a content section a good idea?

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I have a design where the header and footer are 1170px wide. (Standard Twitter Bootstrap 12 column container size.)

I have been reading about the ideal width for good readability and discovered that the content width should not be more than 600-700px wide. The problem I am facing is this-

Except for the blog which has a sidebar all other pages have content  sections which are 600px wide (trying to follow above guideline). So if I align it to the left then there is empty space on the right and if I align it to the center then it doesn't line-up with the header and the footer and it feels like it is floating

Here's what these pages look like. Quickly mocked up since I can't use actual design. it's for a online course website.

How does one approach this layout issue?
Should I forcefully create sidebar content so that content + sidebar can line-up with header and footer (like the blog pages) or is it alright to center align the content boxes on these pages (include pages like about us, terms of use, my dashboard, my profile, my payments which currently have a single column of content)

I can't reduce the width because the homepage and blog articles are able to use the entire 1170px by the design. Is there a guideline or good practice for such situations?


texts: Scale drawings in Illustrator, maintain proportions of line weights and effects

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My problem is that when I scale down my drawing, the line weights stay the same, blotting out the artwork. If I scale up, the line weights become too thin. I've noticed that parametric effects don't scale together with the drawing.

How do I scale drawings in Adobe Illustrator and still maintain the proportions of line weights, gradients, and effects such as offset path?


texts: Can adjusting color (or grayscale) properties of an image affect its visibility in daylight?

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I'm trying to find ways to make images more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the image screen/print).  For my project, I want to display digital images on an electronic display in daylight, but I am generally curious about techniques/tricks for enhancing visibility in daylight for both digital and print images.

I recently stumbled across the term "daylight grayscale", but am having trouble finding out exactly it means?  Is it a technique that can be accomplished/reproduced using image editing software?


texts: Does anyone have any idea what this kind of illustration is called, if it can be created with Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop and how?


texts: How do I apply a warp effect to an object from an Illustrator script (JavaScript)?


texts:
There are Serif fonts like Times New Roman, Slab Serif fonts like Bree Serif, Sans Serif fonts like Calibri, Arial, etc.
Times New Roman is well known but here is a sample of Bree Serif:

My question is where to use these three different kinds of fonts? Serif, Slab Serif, Sans Serif...
Where are they best suitable for? Headings, books, book covers, newspapers, magazines, brochures...