texts: Prevent stroke from eating near characters

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I'm trying to build web text editor based on SVG, I want the outline/stroke to be always behind the text, currently SVGs looks like this

<svg width="209.00049363057323" height="62.000025477707005" viewBox="0 0 164.84375 54.34375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" preserveAspectRatio="none"><g id="0.6622862991524896"><text fill="#FFFFFF" stroke="#1a2234" stroke-width="15.3428571428571425" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" x="" y="" text-anchor="start" font-size="24px" style="paint-order: stroke;" data-textcurve="-74" data-itemzoom="1 1" data-textspacing="0" itemzoom="0.7887260765550239 0.8765120967741935" data-stroke="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" fill-rule="evenodd"><textPath xlink:href="#textPath-item-2"><tspan dy="0">Vestaburg High </tspan></textPath></text></g><defs><path id="textPath-item-2" d="M 5.46875 20.359375 A 128.52837025907655 128.52837025907655 0 0 0 160.16935824632242 20.359374999999986"></path></defs></svg>

https://jsfiddle.net/z3pa9a8q/

How can I fix that, so white text always stays on foreground?


texts: After Effects: Bend and animate along path

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I have been looking for a way to bend and animate an object along a path and I stumbled upon the Omino plugin [omino snake to be precise] and after preparing the scene I realized nothing's happening [ :)) ].

I can't get it to work while the plugin doesn't give any errors. Everything is set in place, I have the path as a mask on a solid and the objects that I want to animate inside a pre-comp, exactly as needed.

Almost all of the options of the omino snake plugin do nothing, the only thing that works is the clear background feature.

Is there a way to fix this? Is there something else I need to do? Or is there another way to animate and bend something along a path?

  PS: Copying a Mask Path and pasting it over the Position of the
  pre-comp won't help cause it will animate it along the path but it
  can't bend it.

  PSS: Using the Puppet Pin Tool to shape the pre-comp in the final position and animating the pre-comp contents isn't exactly a nice way
  to do it cause the Puppet Pin Tool is hard to manoeuvre and often the
  final result isn't satisfying.

UPDATE

The closest I could get to something decent is using the Puppet Pin tool and transform each pin into a Bone inside Duik and rigging it as a tail. But for some reason, animating this will produce artefacts :


texts: Double sided letterhead design with heavy ink coverage on the reverse

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I have a question for seasoned graphic designers.

I'm designing a logo and a stationary including the letterhead. The back of the letterhead uses a very dark background. The question is, is it risky to use such dark background as it will show through on the other side? Or is it risky only with certain paper types?  If there is type of paper that is safe to use?  Any paper type/brand would you recommend?

This is the stationary:

External image link


texts: How can I cut up an image in Illustrator or Photoshop?

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I'm doing an assignment for my class where I'm supposed to rip a magazine article into bits and rearrange them into a different shape. But the teacher prefers things to be done in a program, rather than physical art. I've been trying to hours to "rip apart" my selected image in both Illustrator and Photoshop but haven't gotten anywhere.

What am I able to do to divide an image into a lot of little bits that don't all look identical without spending hours and hours on it?

And why is such a simple function to just cut up an image so seemingly impossible?


texts: How do I stop Illustrator from changing my anchor coordinates?

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I am an Architecture student creating some graphics for my website. I am trying to set up some construction lines for my graphics and the snap to points tool is not setting my anchor points to the right location.

I've tried turning off the snapping and align options in both the the view drop-down and transform fly-out menus. After which I manually assigned my anchor point locations but it just reassigns to locations that don't line up.

I select an anchor and change the X,Y to 1000,500 and then select the anchor point that is supposed to be vertically aligned with the previous one, set it to 1000,500 as well and Illustrator sets one of the two points to 1000.5, 499.5.


texts: Place already made svg animated icons from a site to my Sketch file

texts: I wish to integrate svg animated weather icons from https://www.amcharts.com/free-animated-svg-weather-icons/ into my high fidelity wireframes in Sketch. How can this be accomplished?


texts: Is there a way to automate reversing the order of artboards in Illustrator?

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Is there a way to reverse the order of artboards so that pages 1 2 3 4 become 4 3 2 1 ? I am trying to extract the English pages from a bilingual booklet and changing each artboard manually is not the most efficient.

(Looking for automation solution)

Thanks in advance


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(not sure this type of question belongs on this forum but thought i would ask)

So I'm looking at learning a particular style of hand letter, for the life of me i cant find many other reference other than the the one attached. I'm curious as to if this style of lettering has particular name? or if anyone could point me in the right direction to find some similar inspiration?

Any help would be appreciated,

Cheers


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I was provided an image file, which is a photo of a painting; unfortunately, the photo is not of the best quality, and shows glare. How can I "deglarify" the image? I do not have Photoshop, but I do have Paint.net and Irfanview.

Here is the image:

UPDATE

A friend of mine was able to improve it, like so:

This is actually a "punified" version, as his file was 2MB and too large to upload here.

I don't know exactly which magic wands he waved, but it definitely looks better!


texts: Repeat a bokeh light pattern the most naturally in Photoshop

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I have the picture below [hide the face of the subject for anonymity].
My aim is to fill the under left side of the picture with the upper bokkeh. What would be the best way to do it with Photoshop with a naturally looking result.  Just imagine that the Christmas light garland of the left side were touching until the floor...


texts: Illustrator CS4: Default opacity of new objects

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I'm working on a document in which I need each new object to be the same opacity as the last created. It seems that the only thing that carries over to the next new object is the stroke and fill of the last. Thus, each time I start drawing a new object, I have to reset the opacity...

Yes, I could just select all necessary objects and set their opacity at once, but it's important that I see what's going on in below layers while each new path is being drawn, so having a default opacity for new objects would be extremely helpful in this scenario.

Is there any such thing?


texts: Turning Multiple Vector Paths into a Solid Object/Image

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I'm having troubles trying to figure out how to make a complete object/image with NO pen tool paths or anchors etc...

I have a vector tree... theres lots of completed paths/shapes but still in path form.

How do I get all of them to be 1 solid item so that I can color and then emboss the entire thing? Every time I emboss due to tons of parts it wigs out.

I've been searching everywhere... Do I need to go through and select each little complete path... and outline it?

End goal: Still technically a vector object but 1 solid object able to be filled and then embossed. I can do it all in PS!


texts: RTL support in sIFR, Cufon, and Typeface.js

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I want to use some font-embedding technology for a website which uses right-to-left language. I don't know which of these alternative ways of font-embedding support right-to-left languages.

If they don't support it yet, do they have plan to add it in future?

Is there any better way to embed fonts for RTL languages?


texts: What's a good source of color palettes to provide to a color-blind user?

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There's a question on this site already about choosing good color palettes when designing for color-blind users. My question is different — it's about working with colors for an audience with normal color vision.

My boss is color blind. He often wants to generate full color charts and other graphics. When he does this, the result is often comical.

I suggested that rather than selecting the colors himself, he should have some known-reasonable palettes to work from. He said, great, make me some.

I'm a sysadmin, not a designer. So, here I am. :)

How can I find good color palettes for my color-blind boss to use in charts and other color-based presentations?

In general, these should be attention-getting and able to color-code for different sometimes-opposing concepts — monochromatic color schemes are less useful. But any set of colors pulled effectively at random from the set should work well together.

Where should I look? Thanks!


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This has been driving me mad for the past 2 hours. I am stuck in a course where I need to create a 1 pixel brush. Every time I define a brush preset, it doesn't work as expected. Anti aliasing is turned off in most options. I then use the magic wand (I tried the square marquee select as well, doesn't work). Then to Edit -> Define Brush Preset. The Brush says 1 pixel but it doesn't look like a square but rather a square with an arch on the bottom right. It worked fine earlier, a square 1 pixel brush, suddenly it does not. I have reset Photoshop to it's defaults and also Preferences -> General -> Nearest Neighbor.

1 pixel square using the pencil at 1px

Another student had the same problem but somehow resolved it themselves:

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Hi thanks for the reply! so i tried other brushes and they work. the pencil tool even with another 1 pix brush does 4 pixels and they are about 50 percent opacity. i will delete the brushes i made and try again.

Thank you for taking the time to read my problem, any help is deeply appreciated. Apologies for being a noob :(
EDIT
The instructor did it without any problems

The reason to use the brush is I need to create an 8px horizontally and vertically brush.
EDIT 2

That is the result I get when defining a brush preset of 8 pixels vertically (on the left is the pencil tool, on the right is the brush preset)


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I have such a document:

1) How to merge each spread (two facing pages) into one big page?
For example, how to convert pages 2-3 (each of them A4) into a single A3 landscape page, without having to move all the content manually?

2) When working with Facing pages (File > Document setup), is it possible to remove the fact of having the first page alone? i.e. I'd like first spread to be 1-2, then 3-4, 5-6. This, instead of
1 (alone), 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, etc.


texts: What is the standard method of slicing a photoshop document?

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Is there any industry standard method of slicing a PSD to convert to HTML? Because I use marquee tool rather than slices.

At times there is design where slicing cannot do the job like if you need 2 slices one with a layer hidden and one with a layer visible. Do we have to use marquee tool there? Or is there any other technique?


texts: Illustrator CS6 'Save for Web' doesn't save the image as expected

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I have an image 8x8 pixels as below; this is the image as I see in Adobe Illustrator CS6:

Each gray shade in upper left and lower right corners is 4x2 pixels. I would like to save this image as I see it with "Save for Web", but when I save it as PNG-24 with no anti-aliasing I get the below image:

Obviously it is very different than what I expect. What is happening here? Can anybody give me a hint about saving the image as I see it on Illustrator artboard?

NOTE: I saved the image with Photoshop without a problem. I still want to learn this weird behavior of Illustrator though.


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I recently volunteered, not as a graphic designer, at a non-profit organization helping cancer patients but they knew I was major in graphic design.

Since they knew I was a graphic design major, they asked me to help them with their presentation board because they had an event coming up in 2 days. What they had was printed texts, some clip art pictures, and glued them on the board. I told them what I usually is design a poster on computer and print it out.

Because time was sensitive and it was my first project designing for a non profit organization without charge, I didn't think about writing a contract. I thought the project was just for that event.

After my poster was approved by them, I printed it out for them. Couple hours later after meeting with them and gave them the poster, I got an email from them asking for the pdf file of the poster and editable file for the future because they like it.

Personally, I'm very hesitate to give an editable file because it was my work.

From reading some articles about designing for non-profit on the website, a contract and invoice is needed to protect both parties, the designer and the organization/company. I assumed that my work was pro-bono for the organization.

Because I don't have contract with them, I want to know what is the best step I should take now? Would it be proper for me to give them an invoice with 100% discount now? Should I write a contract for them although i didn't presented at the first place?

The reason I want to write an invoice is because the design of the poster looks pretty simple and easy but I put 12 hours on it. They thought that I came up with the concept and the layout of the poster pretty easily, which wasn't true.

They also asked me to print another 2 posters for them. Which I'm a little hesitate because 13x19 epson matte paper and epson ink aren't cheap for me.

Any advice?

I don't want to look unprofessional! sigh


texts: How to move two anchor points in different directions in sketchapp at once?

texts: I want to skew the Rect from both left and right in the same time, all i know is to select one anchor point at a time and move it as the two anchors needed to be moved in different directions, how could i do this in the same time in sketch-app?


texts: Techniques and suggestions for drawing clearly visible lines

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I am looking for how to draw visible lines by using pen tablets,
I know that vector applications such as illustrator draw  visible lines (strokes) but I don't find it as comfortable as drawing in Photoshop when you use tablet.

So I have question, when you use pen tablet for drawing how do u set it to draw clearly visible lines? And what is your software suggestions (Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketchbook, or something else ...)?

This is drawn by Photoshop using pen tablet. You can see that lines aren't clear (visible).

This is drawn by Illustrator using the pen tool () but not tablet, the lines are clearly visible.


texts: Can I use a Freepik icon as my commercial mobile app icon?

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I know Freepik icons may not be used as logo types, but logos and icons are two different things. I have a mobile app that I intend to sell, can I use an icon from Freepik and use it as the app icon?

Note: I get Freepik icons from falticon.com


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I'm building an 80 page, fixed layout, image heavy EPUB for a client. When exported as a low quality PDF in its current form (A3 design from InDesign), the PDF total size is around: 500MB.

The EPUB will be viewed via an iPad for an important presentation.

I'm very concerned about performance for such a large EPUB. To ensure the end-user isn't waiting for the whole presentation to load, is it possible to implement lazy loading?

In an ideal world, I'd like to load 5 pages when the presentation is launched. When a page is turned, it should load additional pages.


texts: Illustrator: Generate Array of Objects with random Properties like Length or Position

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I am just trying to generate a pillar diagram within Illustrator. Since I want it to be very tiny and detailed, I want to use multiple Instances of one pillar with modified Properties, like length or position without having to place them manually.

Is there any possible way without creating an extra script for it?

Thanks in Advance


texts: Photoshop: How to save only the masked area of an edited photograph?

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Question

If you have a PSD file that consists of one main mask (masking all other layers), isn't there an easy way to save just the masked area as an image?

Background

So I have a photograph I've edited in photoshop, mostly cropping things and moving them around.  As a final step, I created a rectangular mask to crop everything (while keeping all of my layers and edit history in tact).  The end result is a picture of my wife standing in a different place and cropped smaller.  That is, it looks like there's a photo in the middle of the canvas with about 2-3 inches of white all around it.

Now I want to save this picture in the simplest way possible.  What I ended up doing was:

Save PSD file
Flatten image
Magic Wand > tolerance 1 > select all white area
Select Inverse
Cut
New File
Paste
Save For Web as JPG
Close everything, without saving

Summary

When I choose, save for web, it saves the entire canvas. I don't want the extra white "padding" all around and I don't want to manually crop it again (the mask has already done that for me).  Surely there's an easy way to save only the area within the rectangular mask.  Any and all suggestions welcome...


texts: What is the font used in the logo and product names of Robotis Inc.?

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Robotis Inc. uses this font in the logo.

It's also used in their product names, as you can see on their webseite. Here are a few examples.

I manually moved the letters apart a bit, so that WhatTheFont can detect them, but it does not list very similar fonts. What font is this?


texts: Sketch: Is it better to make as symbol one element or group of elements as one symbol?

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I am in situation where I would like to understand how to correctly organize design project symbols/symbol page to reuse them in design file later by different person.

For example, I am making a web design in Sketch and currently I am in Home page where are different sections like what we do, out works, our members etc. As an example I would like to mention members. There is a picture of member, heading text, body text and social profile icons. As a symbol I can create the picture and later use the override option to change it, I can create all these social icons as one symbol to reuse them later during the design process, OR I can select all this information (picture, texts and icons) and make it as symbol.

Can I choose between these methods and are they both correct for end user that will work with this file?

In addition to my question I would like to understand what counts as one UI element in Sketch design file. For example, it is one icon as one element or group of icons also can be as one element?


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I have some saved layer styles. When I apply them to my document it changes the settings of the style. For instance - The Saved Style has a Stroke of 5. Yet when I apply the style it applies with a stroke of 17.

Why are the settings changing?

I am using PS CS5.


texts: "Dashes" greyed out for brush strokes (Inkscape 1.0)

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I suppose this must be an easy question, but I searched for it and couldn't find any related docs. What I want to achieve, with Inkscape (1.0, in MacOS), is hand drawn brush strokes (with mass, pressure control, etc...) but getting a dashed line instead of a continuous line (just imagine you are hand-drawing a cube in perspective, and you want the hidden lines to be dashed).
So, I use the "Draw calligraphic or brush strokes" tool, which seems to be the best suited tool for hand drawing, but when I select a stroke done in this way and go to the "Fill and stroke" settings, the "Dashes" setting in "Stroke style" is greyed out...
If I use the "Draw Bezier curves and straight lines" tool instead, then the "Dashes" field is available, but that tool is not well suited for hand drawing...
Can I get a dashed style for hand drawn brush strokes?
Thanks!


texts: I hear the term design language a lot, not in the sense of the vocabulary. For example the Apple Computers built in the 80's had a Frog Design Language for the characteristically 80's look for their hardware. Microsoft recently introduced the Metro design language mostly for the software interface. Are there any resources out there (books especially) that could teach you to create a design language for a range of product's?


texts: How to bend a path along an arc (or any shaped path)?

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TL:DR

  How can I bend a shape along a path in illustrator

I've been wondering for a while how I can do this, when I saw this question, I got very excited.

Inkscape: Bend a vector along a circular arc

But the methods provided seem to be just for Inkscape.

I'm looking for a way to do this in Illustrator:

Edit:

{This is just an example shape,I don't actually want it in this shape or curve - in Inkscape it's pertty simple, just bend on curve, I'm looking for a similar feature in illustrator}

I have (a group of) shapes and I want it curved along the - - - - - - line:

(Really just any path to my customization, just an example)

Or these shapes:

I want them to "warp" all the way around the circle (to make a complete star-ish)

This was the best I could get using Object→Envelope Distort→Make with Warp (Alt+Shift+Ctrl+W):

It is clearly not the desired effect, it needs to be dragged in further (and more consistently across the entire shape)

Note: This can easily be done with text: (just use the type on path tool)

  I'm looking for a way to do it with standard shapes/paths. I do not want to make a brush (unless it's my only option).

Why you ask?

If it's a brush, I have to make it beforehand manually (I can't just choose an item and bend it to X path - which I can do in Inkscape.) With a brush, the benefit would be to be able to have full control over the curves, but at a cost of extra time and effort, so sometimes I just want the computer to do it's thing


texts: How to batch resize a group of images by area?

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I know how to run a batch resize based on fixed width, height, or percentage... but what if I have a number of photos of all different sizes and shapes and I want them to be roughly the same size visually? I am using photoshop, but could try fireworks or some other thing, but hopefully  nothing too complex.

I guess this would mean the same number of pixels in each image (as in the example image), but there may be a better ways of determining.

Max-height and max-width constraints on a percentage resize would probably suffice here as well.


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I really have no idea with graphic design, but I was just wondering.

Comic sans is a very popular font for home-made signs to print out and tape to a door or something:

Sadly, it looks terrible (and I haven't even installed it on my OS). However, things like that always seem to look terrible (to me), regardless of the font used.

Are there any tricks to make "signs" like that look more ... professional?


texts: How can I recreate these gradients? in illustrator or Photoshop?

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Hi all! I've been trying to recreate the gradients inside the two coloured shapes in this logo. I've tried using gradients, hand drawing them with brushes, inner glow and a whole bunch of other stuff. I must be doing something wrong.

Any advice out there?

Thanks


texts: Is it okay to attempt to retract pro bono work?

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I am a member of a non-profit organization that has used a logo that was designed pro bono by one of our members for several years. Very recently, this designer has had a falling out with some of the organization's members that was purely personal and had nothing to do with the work. He is now asking us to remove his logo from all of our materials and not to use it in the future.

Are we obliged to follow his request? It seems to me that he donated his time and expertise (for which we're very grateful) at a time when he had no expectation of eventually wanting us to stop using it. He still uses the logo and designs on his personal portfolio site, including a picture of an active member wearing a shirt with the logo on it. I think of this as a parallel: If I make a cash donation to an organization, I can't later ask for a refund, nor can I expect both a refund and a tax deduction.


texts: InDesign: Header, footnote and span column

texts: How can I move a footnote from below the header with a "span columns > span all columns" settings to bottom of the page?


texts: How to crop multiple selection and save into separated images without Photoshop

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Take a look at this image:

My question is how to crop multiple selections at once into separate images. I want to select each panel of the comic and export them as individual images and do multiple exports at once. Do you have any suggestion how can I do this? I don’t have any clue how to do this.

I’m looking for a free way to do this (not Photoshop or some other pricey software).


texts: InDesign CC dynamically apply colour to text from master page

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I have a timeline on a master page, then pages for most of the items on the timeline. I want to set a character style to the item on the timeline related to the current page. The content, position, etc isn't changed and should be linked to the master page.

The only way I know how to do something similar to this is by overriding the text frame from the master page, which I very much do not want to do (there are a lot of items, and they might change).

Perhaps this is possible with a Primary Text Frame, but I can't think how.

Edit: Here's an example

On page 1, everything is black. On page 2, "Something" would be red and "Another" would be black. On page 3, "Another" is red and "Something" is black. Etc…


texts: How to evaluate line width in real life?

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Sorry if it's too basic, I have some work that where made in Illustrator using the line tool, so it's made of lines with a stroke of 3pt .

Then, I have to print it on large size (vinyl decal) , and I am trying to make sure the line would appear the way I want it .

When I scale my work (by cmd+drag) the lines appears smaller and the work looks bad.

How can I get the result according to what I see in illustrator ?
(So the relation between lines distance and their width will look as it looks on my screen)


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i am trying to replicate this  for learning purpose since i found it very eye-catching. So far i have tried both free form and mesh gradient without success. With mesh gradient, i am able to create highlight sharp edges but find it difficult to create shadow area. It goes the other way for free form gradient. So is there any tip or trick for this ? Thank you

Edit : This is the best i could try


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Is there a name for this effect and what would be the best way to achieve it in Photoshop or Illustrator in terms of filling a different vector shape with a similar distribution of rainbow circles?

Another example:

I did something like this long ago, but it was painstakingly slow by hand and I'm sure there's a better way.


texts: I use Rightfont as my font manager.  I made a bunch of lists and I need to migrate them to a new user profile on the same computer.  Is there a way to copy the lists to the new user without recreating the list and dragging each font manually?  The new profile also shares the same Fonts as the original user.


texts: How to achieve this effect for pictures in Photoshop?

texts: I tried Torn edges, but my results are noticeably different from these pictures


texts: How to read trim dimensions (115 3/8”w x 38”h)?

texts: I have been given these dimensions: 115 3/8”w x 38”h for a print banner but I don't quite understand what it means! i.e: what is the width & height of the canvas I should work on?


texts: InDesign: vertical align text with linked inline image

texts: I need to vertically align the Google Cloud Vision paragraph with the symbol next to it, which is a vector placed within the text frame.


texts: How to make the 3D extrusion smooth in Photoshop?

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I'm trying to make a rounded 3D cube in photoshop:

The right one is what i wanted to replicate in Photoshop, the left one is what i could do using the 3D feature in Photoshop (3D -> New extrusion 3D from layer).

How can i make the corners of the cube rounded, like the right one?


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I'm trying to create a Bootstrap grid. But on 1170 width, each column is 97.5 wide, so I will need to create decimal guides.

But when I add a guide with the "add new guide" tool, it always round up my numbers! For instance if I put 42.5, it will render 43px! But I still can move the guide by hand to 42.5 afterwards... it makes no sense.

Does anyone have any insight as to how can I solve my problem?


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I have a shape with a CMYK fill color and a transparent image. When I export it to PDF the colors get distorted. In the export the color setting is in CMYK.

What I noticed is when I change Transparency blend space > Document CMYK to RGB I get the colors as they are in the PDF.

What can I do to export with the intended colors?


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I just discovered the "DIN" font-family and I absolutely love these geometric, angled-off commas and quotation marks. See for yourself.

Is there any other font-family that has this kind of geometric punctuation? (Preferably a free font-family)


texts: (Non) Rubber Band Pen Tool line preview won't show

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I'm not new to Illustrator and I've already done some research.
I'm unsure why my problem is occurring and it's more or less a convenience issue.

When I am using the pen tool in Illustrator CC, a preview of where my line is and where my point is being dropped doesn't show up until after I've made the drop.

Unsure of exactly how to word that any better other than a preview guide of my path and hover point before clicking.

I have already tried hiding/showing edges as well as dipping into preferences to enable rubber band (but it was already enabled).


texts: Photoshop, dealing with objects/models as in scripting/programming environments to manage repetitive operations

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I am trying to design a restaurant menu, I've decided to go with Photoshop (would you suggest something else?) but I can't find a way to work with objects (or maybe models, I don't know the proper way to call this feature, I am thinking objects as in object oriented programming)

My problem is: let's say that I wanted to have for each food the couple

  (name, price)

and that I spaced the two elements by 200px. Then I go on creating 50 food entries. After that, I realize that I'd rather have name and price spaced by 150px.

What could I do about it?

I could select all the prices and have them aligned to a guide 150px away from the foods' names maybe (it's probably not how you would do it, but I'm not an expert user), but what I'm trying to achieve is having a "parent object" that I can modify, so that all the modifications would propagate to all the "children objects". In this way, if I changed my mind and I decided to go for a triple

  (name, food type, price)

and I therefore wanted to have three elements, each one separated by 40px, I could simply add a layer to the "parent object" and move things a little bit and see all that work propagated to my menu.

Does anything like this exist in photoshop? Would you suggest a different software to perform such operations?

I apologize if a lot of questions about this feature already exist, but I wasn't able to find anything due to the fact that I couldn't figure out a proper nome for it.


texts: How can I create WORKING gears in Illustrator?

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I cannot seem to get this right.. I want to create 2 gears that work together.

I can create gears, but I cannot seem to figure out the math needed to make them uniform, or where they work together.
There is a mathematical way to do this. I do not know the formula..
What I'm trying to accomplish.

What I tried:

Create a circle 800px x 800px
Create a circle 600px x 600px
Create a star with inner radius 200 (400 diameter), 500 (1000 diameter) outer, with 12 points.
Compound the smaller circle and star. Intersect the remainder.

Do the same thing, except half each value and the points.
I would think this would make a 2:1 gear ratio where both gears match exactly, but they don't...


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I was watching a photoshop tutorial, which was created using Photoshop CS4. During the tutorial the instructor split his brush into two brushes side by side (using a keyboard shortcut I believe).

Does anyone know how this is done in CS6 or what the name of this tool technique is called?

Here is an image for reference, showing the double brush (slightly overlapping each other) after it was instantly switched from a single brush.

Here are two more photos. The first shows the single circular brush, then in the next frame of the tutorial, it instantly became two overlapping brushes. Could it be that the size of the brush affects the shape? Like if the brush is less than 80px it is a single circle, but over 80 it becomes two overlapping circles?


texts: Rotating a layer (created using illustrator) in AE does not rotate it as a group

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I created a flower in Illustrator and tried to rotate in AE.
Instead of rotating as a whole layer, I see some jumps.
What am I missing?


texts: Alphanumeric Icons - cannot find a collection and cannot draw them properly

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I don't know what else to call them.  I googled for simple icon collections
that combine a letter and number like G5, S3, or Z2.  Maybe my search
results produced nothing because they are listed under a different name,
not alphanumeric.

I've tried many times to create my own icons. I have two icon creation apps.  Almost any image looks ok when it's big. Icons are usually very small, like toolbar and menu icons. Typically, 16x16 pixels. When I shrink and save my images as an icon they look horrible. Maybe I'm using the wrong apps. If it exists, can you recommend an app that will produce clear icons after the image is reduced to toolbar or menu size?


texts: Jpg to svg but source contains only lines

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Origami Crease Patterns contain every fold needed for the base model but they usually come in low resolution and bad coloring. I tried many options from adobe illustrator for tracing the jpg and creating outlines or whatever it could read.
Is it possible to "tell" illustrator that the jpg contains only lines so that it can create those lines automatically and then with a little grid snapping and manual editing i will have the same result in svg? (the svg file is more useful than just being easier to read)

Imgur example 2


texts: How to apply a master page to every Nth page?

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Is there a expression/code in "apply master page" dialogue to apply selected master to every n pages, for example every 6th page?
Any scripts suggestions will be appreciated!


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I have many layers of SVG with different objects, starting from the universe down to the cellular level. Each of them are scaled down to acertain extend to simulate depth as each successive layer is further away. The idea is now, to animate in to the furthest layer but there is a limit on how much I can scale up in adobe animate.

Is there any strategy to position elements in the z axis without any limit? In canvas 3d transforms are deactivated.


texts: How to change between Live shapes to masks properties in Photoshop CC

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I am slightly confused as to why the properties panel changes suddenly (as far as I know) when using shapes in Photoshop CC.

This is the normal properties panel when working with shapes

Then I sometimes get this

On the first image, I can see that I could toggle between the two views (masks and live shape). However On this second image I only see the mask tab. Is there a way to get the normal tab back. Or somehow prevent this from happening.

Thanks


texts: Erase back ground or change a shade of color to white in photoshop

texts: I recently painted a card and scanned it into my computer.  I want to be able to use it so I can print out more card with the design I hand created, but the background needs to be white or erased.  Im having trouble changing the beige shade of the card to white or at least do something to only keep the green and pink shades.  Does anyone have any suggestions or help on how to do this.  I am attaching the image below.  Thank you! Any ideas help!


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I've been using Abode Photoshop CC video editing for a while. Whenever I exported a video from photoshop. For some reason, the video doesn't come out clear. I've no idea why the video doesn't come out clear. Can anyone help?

Updated: One of my render settings

Updated: One of my video information:


texts: Set Background of Adobe Flash Layer to Transparent

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Is there a way to make a layer's background transparent?

I have a background image that is a little smaller than the frame size, so there is a white line when I export the movie from the layer on top of the background.

Is there a way I could set this white background to transparent so all the user sees is my background layer?


texts: Can the color of the underline below the text be changed to a different color than the text in Corel Draw x7?

texts: I am making a visiting card in corel draw X7. I want to change the color of the underline of a word but when I do it the color of the whole text changes too. Please tell me how to change the color of underline without changing the color of text itself.


texts: Full justify paragraph in Illustrator (Part of the word out of text box)

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I am up to full justify paragraph in Illustrator CS5, but there is a line which goes off the text box. I use text boxes, and set full justify. Settings for Justification window are recommended:

Word spacing   80,100,133

Letter Spacing     -3,0,3

Glyph Scaling  97,100,103

The problem persists no matter of Single Line/Every line choice. I've tied to fix it with kerning, but the last word in line is nailed to this position.
How to solve this, and could it be a problem with the actual font (setting during creating a font)? Thanks!


texts: Illustrator Variables XML file specs - can I define text formatting from XML?

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I'm trying to generate lots of files by dynamically loading texts inside of a template. The layout I'm going for is 2 threaded textboxes for 2 columns, and the text is made of title, paragraph, title, paragraph. Like this:

The textboxes are bound to an Illustrator variable named Textbox, and my XML looks like this:

<variableSets  xmlns="&ns_vars;">
  <variableSet  varSetName="binding1" locked="none">
    <variables>
      <variable  varName="Textbox" category="&ns_flows;" trait="textcontent"></variable>
    </variables>
    <v:sampleDataSets  xmlns:v="&ns_vars;" xmlns="&ns_custom;">
      <v:sampleDataSet  dataSetName="1">
      <Textbox>

Variable-length title

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet etc. etc. etc.

Second variable-length title

          Ad delectus in, consequuntur eligendi incidunt etc. etc. etc.

      </Textbox>
      </v:sampleDataSet>
    </v:sampleDataSets>
  </variableSet>
</variableSets>

When I import this the whole paragraph is the same style, as it's only using
 tags. No differentiation for title.
I thought I could simply write
Title
 for this but have found that Illustrator won't parse this.

How can I make this textbox have different formatting?

I would create different separate textboxes for titles, but where to place them? I never know where they will show up vertically, that's determined by the amount of paragraph text in each data set. The title itself could wrap on 2 lines as well.


texts: Font licensing warning when saving in Illustrator

texts: I want to use a basic typewriter font for t-shirts to be sold. The font I'm using is "typewriter-serial-regular" that is available in Illustrator. Yet when I go to save it, it says I can't keep the font because of licensing. I know how to get around the output, but don't want to be in trouble for using it later. Any ideas?


texts: Is there a way to make Photoshop CS6 work with touchscreen monitors?

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I have a 15.6" touchscreen laptop and I would like to be able to use the touchscreen in Photoshop. It works fine in Illustrator but for some reason Adobe didn't make Photoshop compatible with touch screens.

Does anyone know a way to make Photoshop CS6 work with touchscreen monitors?

It's so frustrating not being able to use touchscreen in Photoshop, especially now that I'm getting used to using it in Illustrator. Not to mention every other program I've tried works with it no problem.

My laptop is an Asus Q500A 15.6" Touchscreen Laptop.


texts: Illustrator scaling vs Photoshop, images aren't the same size

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TL;DR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQK1BNNABx4&ab_channel=KrisClarke
I'm trying to create a flyer, I usually create them in Illustrator but all of a sudden I realize Illustrator has been shrinking my images. I don't think it has ever done this before. I would either open an image and copy it onto another window or simply use place. Now an image of 5300x3500 becomes something like 1700/1200 or something like that.
However, in photoshop, it all opens regularly.


texts: Why do I see transparent background behind my image?

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So I used the blur effect on an image

But when I do that I see a weird transparent background through the effect at the top and bottom of the image. I can see this thing even sometimes when I crop the image. When I try to rotate the image, sometimes the rotated image will have the transparent background behind it which is in the shape of the image when it was not rotated.

And at this thing appears at the bottom edge too


texts: Every time I type character ' InDesign converts it to ›; why? How do I fix it?


texts: Does anyone knows what this font is? or similar font?

texts: I searched the font sites but failed to find similar.


texts: How to get rid black border around object in Photoshop?

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I want to put red background (layer 2) on my green object (layer 1). It all looks smooth but after I save as PNG or JPG, black border appears around my green object. How do I get rid of this black border ?

PS. In my photoshop screenshot below, it looks like there's black border too. But in real there's no black border. Image size is 900x900 pixel. I need to use the picture for image processing later so I can't have any other color except for my red & green value.

What I have tried but still fail :

Save as PNG
Save for Web and Devices in PNG24
Save for Web and Devices in PNG2 & unchecked transparency option
Flatten the image before export to PNG
Try to change to color mode into Indexed color and then export it

→ Here's the file.

Zoom :

This picture from the photoshop window is taken with my phone. Zoomed in 1400% and the edges are still sharp.


texts: Are there any noticeable differences if a grey scale image is converted to RGB?

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Browsing through the archives I didn't see this question asked before after reviewing the tags color-profile, rgb, grayscale but I am wondering if there are any visual differences if an image that was once a gray scale profile is converted to RGB.

To explain what I'm doing I'm currently working on an image based website design that needs an app to assist in the upload process so when I check the image's profile with ImageMagick to convert CMYK images to RGB I noticed the greyscale profile and I couldn't tell any major differences on the conversion and I wanted to know if there were any side effects when converting grayscale to RGB?

When trying to figure out why to use grayscale if there aren't any distinct changes then is there any reason to use grayscale other then to get an image to black and white?  Wouldn't a grayscale profile produce a smaller file size than RGB?


texts: Illustrator: How do I fix this inner corner issue with my custom pattern brush?

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I've been trying to make this fairly simple knot however I cannot seem to make the inner corners no matter what I do. I tried everything, here's what happens:

There's that weird gap. God only knows how many tutorials I've seen and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, as you can see the brush works great for closed objects but those inner corners...
The auto sliced one is technically okay but it squishes everything around it.
I even tried adding just that corner but illustrator always included the huge gaps. I'm definitely doing something wrong and my sleep deprivation isn't helping. I'm using Ai CC 2019.
What do I do?


texts: Adobe Illustrator Save For Web SVG becomes empty

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Windows 7, AI CS5

I have several artboards with different versions of a logo on them that I'm trying to save as an .svg file.

ctrl+shift+alt+s to save for web.

Active artboard's logo shows up in the preview panes. I can switch from GIF to any other format and see the logo in the preview. Sometimes it changes appearance slightly (as it should). But when I select SVG, NOTHING, the preview goes completely blank. I can see the artboard, but there's nothing in it.

EDIT: More details about logo, save methods, and result of saving as SVG from Save for Web
The logo contains hand-drawn paths as well as some typed-in fonts.
When using Save As AI will save the entire file (all artboards and things outside of artboards) as an SVG, with only the active artboard visible. It converts fonts to outlines if that option is successful. Everything looks great, except that it saved more than just the active artboard.
Using Save for Web saves only the active artboard, it seems.
Furthermore, selecting SVG with Save For Web results in an empty looking SVG (when viewed in a browser). But when I open that SVG in AI, I see just what I should: the logo, with font converted to outline.

EDIT2: I believe I've found out what the problem is, but not why.
I used "save for web" to get an empty-looking (when viewed in a browser) svg. But reopening it showed the exact artboard I was trying to save originally. Now, using "Save for Web" again, the image did not disappear from the preview when selecting SVG. And saving it resulted in a usable SVG. Opening up the 2 files, I found this:

Bad SVG file (logo is there, but invisible):

viewBox="1366.6 -2698.5 1785 241"
enable-background="new 1366.6 -2698.5 1785 241"

Good SVG file (logo is visible):

viewBox="0 0 1785 241"
enable-background="new 0 0 1785 241"

For some reason, AI saves the wrong viewing information when using Save for Web and selecting SVG on an .ai file. But when opening the saved SVG and resaving, it saves it correctly.

Why is this happening? How do I fix it? Thanks.


texts: Illustrator: How to drag-to-select objects atop another object

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I have several objects atop a rectangular backdrop, and I'd like to select them all via drag-selection (ie, creating a rectangle selection box around them).

Problem is: anywhere I can start the rectangle, the backdrop gets selected and my dragging just moves that.

Wondering if there's another solution besides the ones I've already deduced:

start selection off-artboard or on a locked object, then deselect items i don't want
be more judicious about locking background items (not an unworkable solution, but inconvenient in this project.

I'm asking mainly b/c, in Inkscape, holding down Ctrl makes your dragging automatically a selection box, avoiding this problem.  My hope is that there's something similar in illustrator.

Thanks!


texts: Does it affect print quality if a font in a .psd file is "missing" when received from a designer but you are NOT editing the text layer?

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The designer did not supply the font and it is not available to me. I'm aware that if I edit a text layer in Photoshop with a missing font, I risk making the text blurry. However, if I'm NOT editing it, I believe Photoshop preserves the original font, so it should be ok (and will save considerable time looking for fonts on future projects).
I'm placing the .psd into an InDesign file (with other text/elements) and then exporting a printer-ready PDF. InDesign and the printer's preflight show no errors (they can't see that fonts are missing in the linked .psd file), but I'm wondering if the type will print any less crisply. I suspect that it won't appear any differently than fonts that ARE present/linked in the .psd file.
I am not flattening layers (in Photoshop or in exporting the PDF from InDesign, except for transparencies) or rasterizing text or converting text to shapes (in Photoshop). My guess is that if these steps are required for the sharpest printing quality, it would be required for ALL text, not just for the missing font. And perhaps that step isn't necessary/noticeable to the naked eye on printing.


texts: How to turn a photograph into a line drawing or sketch

texts: How can I edit a photo so it ends up looking likje a sketch? Example:


texts: Exporting to pdf for latex generate a .pdf_tex with several pages

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I am using inkscape 0.91 on kubuntu. In a script (that I created some time ago) I use the following command line:

  inkscape -z -D --file=input.svg --export-pdf="output.pdf" --export-latex

It generates two files: output.pdf and output.pdf_tex (then I can add the image in a tex file with \input{output.pdf_tex}).

Unfortunately, it does not work anymore. The .pdf_tex file now contains several lines mentioning other pages (page=1, page=2, ...). Example:

  \begin{picture}(1,1.07214514)%
    \put(0.84154257,0.80899201){\color[rgb]{0,0,0}\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{text1}}}%
    \put(0,0){\includegraphics[width=\unitlength,page=1]{output.pdf}}%
    \put(0.84228219,0.13316749){\color[rgb]{0,0,0}\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{text2}}}%
    \put(0,0){\includegraphics[width=\unitlength,page=2]{output.pdf}}%
  \end{picture}%

Here is a picture of the corresponding svg file (and a link):

The second \includegraphics mention a second page and if I remove its line, it works fine.

Do you know why the command line behave like this with inkscape 0.91?
I can remove the additional lines manually, but there can be many of them and I often use the command (each time I modify the .svg file and want to see how it looks in my pdf file) so it is quite time consuming...

Thanks in advance.


texts: Is there a difference between the actual ruler and InDesign's inches scale?

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I am pretty new to InDesign. I have set my scale to measure in inches. Today I had an actual physical-ruler (like the one image below) lying around so I picked it up and compared it with the scale on screen in InDesign.

To my surprise, I found a difference. Note that there are 16 points/stops that makes an inch. On comparison, I found the on-screen-scale to be one point shorter than an actual physical-ruler. I assume it is not supposed to be like this, what am I missing ? I have my document size view set to actual (Ctrl + 1).

UPDATE - Seems like I was missing  the obvious concept, that the measurement in a software is just a simulation and are dependent on the resolution of the device they are used in.

I also got some very useful insights in this Photoshop article on View Print Size. Unlike InDesign, Photoshop has a menu named "Print Size" that can be used to get an almost accurate (It worked for me) size simulation provided you have a similar setting (again depends on your screen size and resolution).

Preference > Units&Rulers > New-doc-presolutions > ScreenRes. > 100 pixels/inch


texts: Is it possible to align objects on multiple artboards simultaneously in Illustrator?

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In Illustrator documents like in the example below, I place images on multiple artboards and then need to centre align all of the images to each artboard. I usually do this by clicking the top left image to 'select' the artboard I want to align to, then select all of that row and then vertical centre align. Then repeat this for all other rows and then for columns. Is there a better way to do this?
Images are always the size of the artboard and all the same sized image (ignore that they might not be the same size here or multiples of the same image.)


texts: I saw a lot of font designs like this, but haven't found any tutorials on how to create such a font. How can I create a font like this?


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What is the correct way to set type units in HTML? Stuff like

2km

Do I just put the unit right after the value as above? Or is there a special short space? If so how do I prevent a line break between value and unit? How about combined units like

3Ah

where A stands for Ampere and h for hours does anything special go between A & h?


texts: Measure path of multiple objects in Inkscape

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Firstly, I'm a total novice, so please excuse me if this is a basic question.

I'm designing a backboard for a neon flex sign which will contain text and a surrounding circle. I'm trying to calculate how much of the neon Flex I'll need to order to fit my design/tweak the size of my design to ensure it works with the dimensions of the flex neon LED strip.

There's two things I need to consider
1) I need the width of the text to be about 7mm so when its etched via laser cutter or CNC router I can set the Neon Flex rope into the groove.
2) I need to know what length of Neon Flex rope to order once the design is complete.

So far I've been eyeballing the width by using a monoline font and measuring the width after setting a font size. Is there an easier way?

Im using Measure path extension to determine the length of each path, but wondering is there a simple way to combine them all so I get a single answer. presently, if I select multiple letters in the text after switching Object to path, i get a result above each letter separately. This might be handy when it comes to cutting, but for now I just need to know the combined total length of the whole design. Can this be done?

Thanks in advance!


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Is there a way to create a table in Gimp?

Something like this for example:

I made this with one single field which I duplicated many times to arrange it at the specific points and want to create more tables with x rows and y columns

By the way I am using Gimp 2.8.10

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I know that you can import tables made with word etc. but it has to be created in Gimp because I need the Cells to be individual Layers (sorry did not mention this in first post)

-Edit:
As mentioned before I need the cells to be separate layers, is there a way to achieve this for a grid of x rows and y columns? Except creating the layers manually.


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Let's say I have a triangle that I drew with a pen so it's not perfect. I then upload it to illustrator and image trace it into a vector. It's now clean but still not perfect. Is there a way to approximate it into a real triangle? Similarly approximate an imperfect circle into a perfect circle.

Edit:

Redrawing it in illustrator using shape tools is not an option. the image I'm working with is too complex to do that and it will take a very long time. I just want to be able to perfect it using some kind of algorithm on illustrator. simplifying the path doesn't work.


texts: What is the name of this effect, and what is a good way to replicate it?

texts: See how the image background fades with the black menu bar? I see this effect very often and I like it a lot. I would love a tutorial (either Photoshop or Illustrator) or how-to article but I don´t even know how to search for it.


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I'm designing a labeled circle and so far it's been a struggle of finding the perfect vertical position for a one letter label.

Currently I have two options.

Which one seems better centered?


texts: InDesign CS5.5/CS6: How to work with facing pages, but retain bleed area all around each page?

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I have this very real situation. I have a 68 page brochure + cover. I'm working with facing pages, which is ideal for clarity and design of the brochure. But the problem is when I need to export the brochure for the printhouse.

The printer tells me he needs each page separately (as opposed to spreads) and each page has to have its own bleed area. This makes perfect sense. But when I work with spreads in InDesign, there is no inner bleed area. What happens during export, is that whatever is on the opposing page gets included in the other page's bleed area, on the inner side at the spine.

I needed to get the job done quickly, so I did it the dirty way. I converted the facing pages document into a non-facing pages document. Then I had to reposition some elements because they got moved, especially because the left and right margin of each even/odd page, were different. So I had to prepare new master pages, for the left and right page with appropriate margins, and assign the master pages to each even/odd page. This is a terribly error prone workflow. It got the job done, the printer accepted my file. Each page got its own clean bleed area. But this is just wrong (dirty) workflow.

Is there a clean and flexible way to do this in InDesign CS5.5 or CS6? A feature that does this? What I imagine would be appropriate, is a gap between the left and right page, so that there is space for the inner bleed. Then I could keep working in facing pages layout, but have the ability to provide the inner bleed.

Edit: This is not a dupicate question. In my case, I need to have different content on the left and right pages, hence I need different inner bleeds. The other question is for when I want one image to spread accross the facing pages, it's not the same situation.


texts: How do I produce the ideal drop shadow in Photoshop (like this one)?

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We all know the default Photoshop drop shadow:

I know that ideal is subjective, but I have a hard time producing anything that doesn't seem nearly as crude as this does.

A drop shadow that is more "ideal" is one like this:

I love how the drop shadow is sharp and defined (almost black) up close to the object, but has a large spread.  I suspect it might be achievable with contours, but I don't know well how to utilize them.

This is a quick effort:

And these settings don't work well at all on text.

Anyone have any better advice?  How do I produce a drop shadow that isn't as crude-looking as the default?  Using what techniques can I achieve drop shadows like in the example image?


texts: How do I create Mexican hat potential figure in Illustrator using 3D Map Art?

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This is what I'm trying to create in Illustrator. (for those interested, it's a graph of a Mexican hat potential function)

Here's what I've done so far, using Illustrator's 3D->Revolve and Map Art.

I drew a curve simliar to the shape first. (I know this is not the exact shape, the top should be curve a bit. I'm just using this curve for a proof of concept for now.)

then I drew a grid(expanded) and made it to a symbol.

While having the curve selected, I picked 3D->Revolve. I checked the "Invisible Geometry" option. I used the grid symbol I made to map the 2 surfaces. Illustrator divided the 3d shape to 6 surfaces. But only 2 are needed. Basically the "cone" and the "bowl".

This is what I got.(I'm showing the perspective at a different angle from the original to better present my problems) At the first glance it wasn't too bad. But looking closely:

The grid lines don't connect seamlessly between the cone and the bowl surfaces.
The lines at the edge of the bowl are too thick. I want all the lines to be the same width.
I need to hide the lines of the bowl behind the cone, so the cone doesn't look like it's transparent.

For problem (1) my guess is that I need to create different grid symbols and scale them differently. It may be a painful process through trial and error. I wish I could somehow make Illustrator see this whole thing as 2 surfaces(top and bottom), then I'd only have to map art to the top surface and ignore the bottom surface.

For problem (2) I'm not sure if there's anyway to get around this at all, since mapping to a circular surface will no doubt skew the mapped pattern.

For problem (3) I guess a work-around would be to expand the 3D shape and then manually clip off those paths. Still this will be painful.


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I’ve just made this logo for a client. I hit on the idea of making the dd of “saddle” a bicycle. But the client also liked the mock up of the saddle with call out sign (to the right of Swag).

Now the client wants to use both of these ideas and I’ve added them together to make a complete logo. I was just wondering whether having two symbols in the logo will divide the viewer’s attention. Will that be a problem?


texts: How to clone/duplicate gradient transparent pixels?

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I've been searching for hours and couldn’t find any tutorial on the web... Unbelievable. Am I the only one to face this??
I'm just looking for a method to clone some gradient transparent pixels (or are they called softened pixels? I don't know how to refer to them).
I tried using the clone tool of course (obviously with the wrong settings - it worked now, couldn't change my comment below so clarifying here). It works great with 'normal' pixels. But when you try it on 'gradient-transparent pixels', it doesn't clone them as 'gradient-transparent':

I also tried by making a copy of the selection into a new layer but here there's an overlapping:

And when I remove the selection from the layer below, it still doesn’t look good:

Could someone help me please??
Thank you!


texts: What is the best tool to make big screen size of document? high resolution document?

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I'd like to make huge scale of document. for example multi depth of mind-map, software full stack diagram, and flow of full logic.

I have tried using Powerpoint, Excel, One-note, Prezi,...
There are some limitations and cons for each program like as followings

pre-fixed resolution should be defined
browsing and magnifying specific area, and editing something, it is very slow
or flickering, and therefore presenting is also not good enough.
adding another big page, it is difficult to go page prev/next or move up/down. tools are not easy to handle these functionalists.

Therefore, I'd like to get advice from here, the frontiers


texts: Illustrator: how to cut and delete a group of elements

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I have the following group of elements created using Blend/Make option in Illustrator. Is there any possibility to delete the selected left part before the guideline?

I've tried eraser tool but is not so precise, I can't use it as a rectangle/delete tool.

View post on imgur.com


texts: Is there a quicker way to collapse Art boards in Sketch app?

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I want to collapse all the Art boards I have in one go, not just by manually closing them down.

Is there a short cut or a option in Sketch which enables me to do this?

End result:

Thanks


texts: SVG - make overlapping lines in a  element visable

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I am building a blog and would like to have a line of social media icons immediately underneath the title. I have achieved this somewhat using the FontAwesome.

However I would like to include some icons not present in the toolkit. I have worked out that I could design my own icon as an SVG and make a custom font using the Icomoon app. However I am having trouble implementing this as is discussed in the related SO question.

It appears my original SVG is the problem and despite being a single layer on Inkscape the Icomoon app picked apart individual <path> elements in the SVG. From this and the fact that all the raw FontAwesome SVGs appear to have single paths I conclude that I too need a single <path> element SVG.

This is the icon I am trying to generate:

The way I see it there are three overlapping shapes in the image; the square, the pocket and the arrow. To demonstrate I have all the shapes here is each one individually:

I have then arranged the shapes into a single SVG like so:

<svg width="1792" height="1792" viewBox="0 0 1792 1792" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="
  M 1664 416
  v 960
  q 0 119-84.5 203.5
  t -203.5 84.5
  h -960
  q -119 0 -203.5 -84.5
  t -84.5-203.5v-960
  q 0 -119 84.5-203.5
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Ultimately I'd like the shapes to be black, white and black respectively with white being the background as the shape is cut out from the shapes below it. However what this SVG actually looks like is:

and the shapes look black, black and white respectively.

Thus overlapping shapes can change from black to white (or cut-out), as is also seen in the raw FontAwesome SVGs (e.g. this one), but in this case it is not the right shape.

What determines this and how can I achieve what I'm after?


texts: Resize font size automatically to fill bounding box

texts: I have an area text box, I would like the behaviour that the font size is automatically adjusted depending on the width or height of the bounding box. Is that possible?


texts: I'm making a mobile game. The game requires dirt/rock textures. I tried making a dirt Texture in GIMP using a bump map filter and a tried the different filters for creating the random noise. The result was not bad but not what I was looking for. It was to detailed. A good example of something along the lines of what I want is  Is there a good way of creating such type of textures in GIMP.


texts: Does the Pantone Color of the Year have an impact on the colors used in graphic design that year?

texts:
Just today I learned that there is such a thing as the Pantone Color of the Year.
Wikipedia says that the color of each year is used by ... consumer-oriented companies ... to help guide their designs and planning for future products.

I was wondering if the Color of the Year is also used in graphic design.
Did anybody encounter a job where the client requested to use the COTY in the design explicitly?
Or are there guidelines in companies where the COTY is mentioned as part of their corporate identity?


texts: Why do photos jump around when exporting from Muse?

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My company is trying to slowly move towards digital and we are in the process of learning Adobe Muse as a stepping stone to more legitimate web practices.

One issue we continue to encounter is our images moving when we export the site. The photos are usually in a text box with a text wrap applied.

My questions:

Why do they move?
Is there a way to "anchor" them in Muse?


texts: What do you call this design that has low poly shapes, but instead of shapes, it's wires

texts:
I guess you know very well that be able to search for references you need to exactly know what is what, or what it is called or at least keywords that are related to a subject.

Here is the image:

I remember seeing a google (a google product / or service) site that incorporate this kind of style, but with "moving wires" using javascript and svg, look, I've tried searching for weeks now, with different keywords, like wires, and low poly lines, but with no luck. Hope you can help me guys out :D


texts:
I hope that some kind soul could take time out to write me a very clear explanation of how to perform the following task, I am told that this can be done in photoshop through actions and or batch processing but for a guy in his mid fifties I am struggling to grasp the exact steps required.

Here is what I need to do & how I currently do it. I sell on ebay & Amazon personalized gifts such as coffee mugs, mouse pads etc. I have close on two million images in my library & I need to create mock ups for my entire library across all my blank products which stands at about fifty products just now.

I use CS3 & this is how I currently perform the task.

1) Open blank image (let's say a coffee mug)
2) Open an image folder & open the first image in that folder.
3) Magic wand
4) Inverse
5) Move tool to drag image onto coffee mug
6) Free transform to make the image fit the coffee mug.
7) Save
8) Delete top image & leave the blank coffee mug visible & start all over again.

As you can imagine this is taking forever. There are plenty of free mock up generators online but they only let you work on one at a time.

The majority of the images are jpgs on white backgrounds & they differ in size from say 300kb to 1.5mb

I have a very limited understanding. I have been able to apply a smart object / layer mask but it brings in a white area which I think is due to the fact that there is colour behind the image that I drag over, so I have just about figured how to make it transparent / remove colour behind the images. But when I try to batch process or load in stack it just says that smart objects can not be loaded.

I am a my wits end with this, so frustrating I think I nearly have it but I cannot crack it.

If anyone out there knows how to do this please could you write me some clear idiot proof step by step instructions.

Thank you in advance.

Eddie


texts: Inkscape shows wrong colors when zooming out

texts:
I have an object in my image that consists of a lot of small dots (~10,000) clustered together in a very close space. Naturally many of the dots overlap. The problem I'm having is in setting the color of each dot. When I do so while zoomed in on the image, everything looks as I expect it to (note in the below image there are ~10,000 individual dots, or "rings", making up the larger circle. These small individual dots are what I'm talking about):

However, when I zoom out, the color of all the dots gets darker than the shade I assigned them:

When I look at the stroke paint for each of the dots inkscape still says they're the original color, but of course they no longer look that way. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?
Thanks!


texts: How, in Adobe Photoshop, can I create a circle of outward-facing bars?

texts:
I'd like to make something like this in Adobe Photoshop:

But I have no idea how to do that. Is there any tool within Adobe Photshop CS5+ that will allow for this kind of design? I know how to handle the color and glow and whatnot; it's just those bars that make this a challenge.

If not, perhaps there's a different design tool that I should try?


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I don't know if any of you had this problem, I'm using photoshop CS3,
And sometimes in order to choose a font quickly, while the text tool is selected, I click on the text field that shows the currently selected font, then I type the name of the font I want to use, most of the times it works just fine and finds the font I want,

I just bought a package of fonts, they all begin with this "EFT" and when I type that in photoshop, it will not find any of them, but only select a different font.

The fonts do show on the list when I open it and I can select them manually, but it gets annoying when you have more than 1,000 fonts installed.

Do you have any idea what I could do to solve the issue?
Thanks


texts:
A golden rule in graphic design is to always start with the source design files and re-export once the appropriate changes have been made.

Often in digital printing in publishing this is not an option.  What exactly are the repercussions of opening a PDF with Photoshop, making alterations, and saving in PDF format?  What kind of quality is lost?

I realize that the actual components that form a PDF are complex and hard to understand, but does this hurt the integrity of the PDF components?


texts: Quick way to set background to transparant

texts:
What is the quickest way to set a transparant background to jpg image with a white background without any major editing?

I have tried a few online solutions but the quality always seems poor, so any online resources would be useful too.


texts: Scale multiple Text layers one point down?

texts:
I'm on Photoshop CC 2017. I make a lot of UI design and I have come across this...

I want to scale down multiple text layers one point at once. From 22pt to 21pt for example, without having to go to each text layer and change the value there.
Is this possible?


texts: How to set type to display around a circle in InDesign?

texts: Is there an automated way to set type to display around a circle in InDesign, like the below image?


texts: How do I make a grid-like fill in Photoshop or Illustrator?

texts:
Is there any way in Illustrator or Photoshop to format the fill of a rectangular object so that the fill looks a bit like here?

Could somebody maybe point me in a direction? Or tell the unclear part of the question?


texts: Illustrator: how to make a transparent favicon of non-square logo

texts: I have a logo that isn't square. I want to make it a favicon that has a transparent background, but doing so requires making it a 16px X 16px, which changes the logo, squishing it. Is there a way to make a transparent square behind the logo in illustrator so that the logo doesn't get damaged and the favicon looks fine. The favicon on this website is an example of what I want to do. Please show me how in Adobe Illustrator.


texts: How do I create a solid semi circle shape in Photoshop?


texts: How to Create a Leather/String Lace texture or stitching effect

texts:
So I've been going through some iOS designs and love the features you see in bar gradients. More specifically the textures are to die for - but I'm still fairly new to mobile design stuff. I'm wondering if anybody can help out with a method for creating textures or the repeating string/lace pattern found in this example?

You can see another small example with the bottom tab bar. This still uses the pink outer lace but has provided space for 2 button icons.


texts: I'm Having A Problem With my SVG Font Design

texts:
This is my first take on making fonts. So, please try to be as elaborate as possible.
So, i'm going to try and explain my issue as clean and elaborate as possible.
I'm using Inkscape to create my font. I designed the first letter "A" using Bezier Curves. I stroked them with the black color and disabled the fill. I opened the Glyph Viewer and added the curves to the reference "A". When I preview the letter in the preview box, it appears to be filled with the black color. The point is that I want the letter to look just the way I designed it. Here, in my case I only want the strokes/outlines to show up in the preview, which will eventually become a complete font family.
FYI I have a backup for the letter that I created. I designed each part of the letter separately and finally joined them.
Any remedy for this problem would be deeply appreciated!
I'm attaching a sequence of images for your reference.


texts: Pantone Color Bridge vs CMYK Color Guide

texts:
Color Bridge Coated vs CMYK Coated What is difference in CMYK colors from Pantone Color Bridge with colors from Pantone CMYK Color Guide? What does the CMYK color simulation mean in Pantone Color Bridge? Why CMYK color from Pantone Color Bridge is called Pantone 1234 CP and the same CMYK color from Pantone CMYK Color Guide is called differently - Pantone P 000-0 C?
How should I search the color in the Pantone Guide? For example, I selected Pantone 2190 C color that is the first color on the page in Pantone Color Bridge. Now, if I want to find any matching color I should only search the colors horizontally (only in the first row) or all colors from all rows (what it is difficult comparing the first color with the last on the other page)? At first glance, the colors in the rows have similar saturation so match together very well.
Gray and black CMYK colors from Pantone Color Bridge are not tones of K (0-100% K) but mix of 4 process colors. When I want to use any black Pantone color I have several "black" colors with admixture of red, blue or green color. Is a good idea to buy Pantone CMYK Color Guide for matching gray and black color? When I design a logo I can make the text gray (C0 M0 Y0 K80) and primary color select from Pantone colors, right?


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I have a complex logo that needs color change in photoshop. It's not my original design, so the orange logo you see is my original reference in good quality.
How do I change this to the green tones, attached, but of low quality?
Have tried hue/saturation and color balance and filters but nothing comes even close. Its a logo I will need to change in the future to copy pink, brown, and blue tones the client has used on other labels. Thanks for any ideas.

The green version has been made and used but now the client wants to increase the size of the label. The version I have is too small and came to me in low quality. So, basically I have the orange logo that needs to be adapted with all other colors.


texts: Any tool or tricks to convert the image colors into the colors of another image?

texts:
For example you have these two images

Your image that you want to change its colors:

And the image where you want to based your image colors:

The output image should be the first but all its pixel colors are all present on the second image.

Any recommended tool or tricks to achieve this?


texts:
Can anyone identify this font in the image?

It's also here :

http://livedemo00.template-help.com/wordpress_34886/


texts:
It's a general question of desktop publishing.

I sometimes wonder what notions where taking place where we now have ICC profiles (and there PCSs). Which are computer notions, materialized by files (and matrix spaces).

But before the 70's, for describing or applying colour conversions, colour to black, Pantones, photographic exposure and so on (all what can be done through ICCs)… what was there?


texts: Illustrator - Clipping mask has untidy edges

texts:
I'm attempting to draw a basic "armorial achievement" (aka a "coat of arms").  I have a shield outlined with a bold stroke and there is a diagonal white stripe that passes through the shield.

I used the shield outline to create a clipping mask that I want to use for the entire shield (by expanding the outline and using that as the mask, which very nearly works).  I'm applying the clipping mask by grouping everything first and then adding the mask to the group overall...

I am seeing artifacts of the white diagonal (with red outline) appearing outside the shield outline.  Zooming in does show that the clipping algorithm handles the shield outline differently to the white diagonal (in other words the red and white areas are more clearly visible at higher zoom factors).

I'm convinced that nothing has been nudged out of place (the fact that both ends of the white part are having he same problem supports this) and that the shield outline thickness has not changed since I made the mask.

Is this a real problem or is it just a graphical / floating point error in my graphics engine telling me lies?  If it's a real problem what can I do about it?


texts:
Do any of you happen to know of some recommended techniques in creating the effect/look that makes a page appear as though it had been folded before?

Something like this:


texts: How to disable the "corner to corner" feature in inkscape?

texts: Every time I want to place an image near another in inkscape, is trying to position it close to one of its corner. I could avoid this using the Shift key, but how can I disable that feature so I don't need to press the shift key which is annoying.


texts: Is it possible to convert OTF font to TTF font without losing quality. If yes how?

texts: I need to convert OTF font to TTF font without losing quality. If it is possible how can I do it?


texts: Expanding patterns into complete paths without clipping masks in Illustrator

texts:
I've made a set of seamless patterns in Illustrator, that I want to expand into complete paths. Object>Expand... expands the pattern into separate tiles of the original pattern with a clipping mask (see image below in the outline view).

However, I'm looking for a way that I end up with the paths limited by the shape's boundaries. The purpose is specifically to transform the SVGs into gcode for CNC machine-style plotting, which only works with complete paths.

Any help, tools, plugins, advice appreciated!


texts: What's the best way to make a curly brace used for grouping items together?

texts:
Many documents (especially older ones) use what looks like a curly brace { to join multiple elements together.  Here's an example of this to illustrate programming code, and here's a thread about doing this in TeX.

This can even be done directly in posts on math.SE: an answer using these braces.

What's the best way to go about making braces like this?  An ideal solution for my needs would:

use InDesign or Photoshop
keep the typographic look of a serif font's {
be easily expanded to cover more or less area

Any ideas?

Update: Check out the links above.  Just resizing a single { character isn't the desired effect.  Imagine if there were characters that meant "start of brace", "straight part of brace", "middle of brace", and "end of brace".  You could use them together to make one giant brace.  Something like `-----v-----' where the brace can encompass more space by simply adding more - characters.


texts: What is the best way to create these radial stripes (background) in sketch?


texts: How to resize shape relative to a certain side/corner in Sketch?

texts: Just started using Sketch. In Illustrator, when you want to resize a shape relative to a corner or side, you simply click the desired node in the transform tool bar square, is there something similar in Sketch?


texts: Why does my PSD file contain only one layer after saving a project from Photoshop?

texts:
I have saved a brochure for print and because of the file size issues I saved my original Photoshop file as a PDF without Photoshop editing capabilities.

Then I applied some changes and saved as Photoshop again - ONLY to have it open up later and only have one layer. As this happened to me before, I checked it today and it did the same thing, now I still have the file open in Photoshop with all layers intact, but when I "save as" PSD under a different name and open it up again it only gives me one layer!

How can I use the Save As... function in Photoshop and still keep all of my layers intact and unflattened?


texts:
Bear with me here, I'm not 100% sure how to ask this, let alone how to search for some good visual examples to reference, but I'm going to try…

Say you have a list written out in sentence form, where each item is styled for emphasis. Do you then style the commas and punctuation as well.

Here's an example of what I mean:

I understand that in terms of formal writing, although there doesn't seem to be any strict rule on this, it seems that styling the punctuation the same way as the word preceding it is the most common approach (as in the first example). However, from a graphic design perspective, I feel like both approaches leave something to be desired.

In the first example, at first glance "kittens" and "bunnies" almost appear to be sort of the same item, since there's not really anything separating them. I mean, I know there's a comma separating them, but they still look lumped together.

But conversely in the second example the alternating style of the commas looks weird and out of place.

All of this to ask: is there an established convention on this in graphic design? If not, which option would a professional choose and why?


texts: Stroke with gradient across it in Inkscape

texts:
In Inkscape, or in SVG, I'd like to have a path with many differently curved sections with a stroke that has a gradient from one side to the other, not from one end to the other but from one side to the other.

This seems too simple not to have been asked before, but I can't find it.


texts: Exporting a GIF for a large number of frames

texts:
So I am working on my personal portfolio and am planning to include a GIF in the background. To give a brief idea, it basically shows the transition from a Mobile device to an I-pad and finally to a desktop screen. I created this animation in After-Effects and exported a PNG sequence. Since this is a 6-7 seconds animation, the number of individual PNGs is coming out to be somewhere around 650.
From What I know, I am opening this image sequence in Photoshop to create a GIF, but due to the large number of frames, it is only allowing me to create the GIF in 50% or less canvas size(the original is 1920X1080).I even tried bringing down the colors to 128.
Is there something wrong that I'm doing? And/or is there a better way to export GIFs like this?
If GIF is not a good option, should I use a video?

Thanks


texts: How do I know if my downloaded font is legal

texts:
My graphic designer has specified Gotham Thin for the font in the iOS app that I'm writing. I googled around and found a site that will sell it to me, and I found some sites that just will let me download it for free.

How do I know if the free site is legitimate or not? I don't want to be a pirate but I don't want to pay if I don't have to.


texts: How do I import elements into Adobe After Effects CC 2020 libraries?

texts: I have been going through many tutorials about the mighty Adobe After Effects, and as of now I have the cc 2020 update. But I would very much like to know how I import my elements into the After Effects Libraries so that I am able to apply them into my master project. without importing a project file.


texts: Indesign bleeding makings 4x6 into 4.50 x 6.50 instead of 4.25 x 6.25?

texts: New to indesign and when I have a document thats 4x6 and when I add the bleeding to be .25 the red border(which I assume is the bleeding border) is actually enlarged to 4.50 by 6.50. Is there any reason why?Thanks!


texts:
I'm working on a project that requires me to change several hundred images(somewhere around 550). They're all the same size and type. Each image needs several color corrections. Initially I use color exchange for the top 50px, then I apply a hue of 360 to the bottom portion, then color exchange several shades of the resulting color to white. There are several individual files that I need to change even more at that point, but much less than the overall bulk. It's a ton of work having to open each individual image and go through the motions. Is there any way to apply the same techniques to multiple images at once ? It would vastly lower my workload.

This is my first post here so if this is incorrect syntax for questions please let me know and I'll edit this post to match any format necessary. I've tried googling and I can't find an answer. Thanks!


texts: How do I create alternating patterns in illustrator using halftone effect and phantasm version

texts:
Closed up Halftone Pattern I have created using Phantasm

As you can see, the patterns I have created are consistent and I was wondering if it's possible to make it non-consistent? (But the shape should still be going towards the centre)


texts:
I uploaded a file to a market place but it got rejected. They sent me messages for some modifications and the one modification they want is to close opened paths.

How can I find open paths or their numbers? i.e. how many paths are opened

I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6.


texts: How can I edit smart vector object in Photoshop?

texts: I copied objects from my Illustrator project (several objects in multiple layers) and pasted them in Photoshop using the smart object option. The image appeared with the diagonal lines in one smart vector object layer, but all file, edit options have been grayed out and all buttons are not responding. I want to apply some noise effects to my image.


texts: When designing PSDs for responsive design, how do grids and columns behave?

texts:
Ok, so I have this question that has been bugging me for quite a while, I'll try to explain it in detail.

I'm designing a regular marketing website, and did the desktop version first using the standard bootstrap grid (12 col, 30px gutters). I don't do code (I know I should).

Now when asked to do both tablet and mobile versions this big question came to mind. How do this grid in particular behaves at smaller resolutions? It would make sense that in iPad which is small but still a good resolution the standard of 12 columns and 30px gutter stands. This would make the website just adapt and resize some containers and it would still work.

My problem is with mobile. When we arrive at the breakpoint, do the same number of columns and gutter size stay the same? Because at 30px gutters, the columns become smaller or same size than the gutter. Or should I just make a breakpoint and erase 8 columns and only leave 4?

How should the grid then look in a PSD file aiming for mobile? Or at least, what's the best approach?

Thank you


texts:
I am trying to create a custom image overlay on leaflet.js. For sake of learning something new, I am trying to lay over the co-ordinates on a 3D-looking map. For example (the map inside the red rectangle):

So, far I have tried the perspective tool and 3D edge extension on inkscape, which are giving a bit of hacky result.

My main confusion so far: what is the thick edge (or height) at the bottom called? and, most importantly, is it possible to simulate this on gimp or inkscape? I have heard of blender, but might be a severe overkill.

Thanks a lot.


texts: How do you make perspective layer formation?

texts: I want to make a graphic that looks similar to the image below using "flat" or birdseye images. I'm not even sure of the right way to ask the question. Can someone please tell me what it is called and provide a few pointers?


texts: Is there a shortcut to change to a different tool while typing in Photoshop?

texts:
I am just wondering if there is a way to use keyboard shortcuts while using the "T" Type tool. For example, while I am creating text with the words "hello," and I want to move to the selection tool, I would end up typing "helloa," because "a" is the selection too. Is there a command/option/shift ability so that text is not written while using this tool?

Thanks!


texts: My SVG file shows as a blank icon on the desktop

texts:
I'm a new at the web design and I'm not sure if I've done right thing while saving my icon as svg file. Here's the thing - I got an outline icon and when I save it as svg with options shown in attached file, the icon of the file on my desktop is shown as a blank paper with folded edge and no program can open it. When previewing the svg file in the browsers everything looks great. I'm concerd why does it's icon on the my desktop doesn't look as every other svg file...Will my svg file work anyway?

Thanks in the advance!


texts: How can i add contrasted lines from a layer to another?

texts:
Hi i have this layer :

And this layer :

And what i want to do is add those black lines to the red layer but i dont want the white parts , how can i do this ?


texts: Creating a mask for a blur effect from a PS layer in After Effects

texts:
I importet a PS composition to Adobe After Effects and have trouble achiving to following effect.

I have a rendered Text Layer that I want to use to mask a gaussian blur effect.

The final effect should be that only the area within the Letters is blurred and nothing else (also with the sharp corners of the letters shapes).

I created a adjustment layer in after effects and applied a blur effect which blurs everything. I've tried to set the mask field to alpha and luma of the text shape layer, but for some reason it's not giving me the result I want, it makes everything look a little grey and mushy, but it's not the blur effect that I get when I turn the alpha/luma off.

thanks!


texts: clean up the background for scanned document

texts:
Could anyone please teach me how to clean up the background of a scanned document, using PS?

Does PS have text recognition function that I can use to extract the text, because essentially the text is all I want?

Thanks!


texts: How can I use my CC Libraries colours in Photoshop CC Color Swatches?

texts: I created a Color CC Library but I can't use it when I need to pick one of these colours for a gradient. How can I fix this?


texts:
I've seen a design pattern pop up now and again on the web and mobile apps. It's a "rainbow" pattern across the top about 5 pixels high.

For a great example, check out gowalla.com.

Anyone have any idea what this is useful for or what type of effect they're trying to accomplish?


texts: InDesign: how to get anchored objects to flow within text boxes

texts:
Writing my thesis and this drives me mad. I:

place images,
add captions to them,
..and anchor (see pink arrow) them to relevant text, see image:

(ignore here that the image falls off the page to the right)

Then I write more, and the image fall out of the text box and the page itself, like so:

(ignore here that the image falls off the page to the right)

I have fiddled endlessly with the "anchored object options" without any of that helping whatsoever.

Clearly what I want is InDesign to accept the anchor, but when the image lands between pages, to choose either. As long as the images stays on a page I am happy.

I have trawled piles of tuts, but none address this. Anyone?

(I have automatic addition of pages; there are no manual text-box connecting)

___________________________________________________________

Edit

@CAI answer below aaaaalmost gets me there. Here is the problem now. I anchor the image – red circle is the anchor:

I then write more, above so the text and image moves down. BUT: I get text (from before the anchor) behind the image before it shifts to next page as it should.

I have changed transparency so you see:

Soo close... any suggestions?


texts: Indesign script to add/change text in a paragraph

texts:
There's a particular paragraph in my document and I want to replace its content completely with something else programatically. Is there any function to do this? I need something like this:

  app.activeDocument.stories[7].paragraphs[0]. = "blah blah
  blah";

where <function> is the function that would allow you to replace the content of the paragraph in question to "blah blah blah." I bet this is possible but am not aware of the functions available.


texts: Single and Double quotation marks moving above a letter

texts: I'm new to Fontlab and I've been working in Fontlab to make some changes to an existing font. I have a issue to deal with. When I type using this font and whenever I use quotation marks (both single or double), the following thing happens. As you can see from the provided picture the quotation mark somehow moves above the glyph of the letter. However it doesn't happen above the letter "l". Can you please point me in the correct direction of dealing with this issue? Thanks!


texts: What website allows you to type in a word and it gives you the associated color?

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There is a website that I used to visit that allowed you to type in any word and it would search google images for the word. It would then get the average color of each of the top 20 results from the search. It would then get the average color of the average color from each of those 20 images. It would return that average color. So you could type in anything from "apple" to "Cupertino", and you'd get the most "average" color for that word.

I either simply forgot the web address for this site and it's really hard to find, or it doesn't exist anymore. Does anyone know?


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I have an iOS layout designed for Retina, which means it's double the resolution of the older devices.  To create standard-resolution PNGs, I would need to scale down the design by 50%.

Problem is, I have a lot of vector paths and scaling the image to 50% causes them to land inbetween two pixels.  The result is blurry borders all over the place.

So the question:  What do I do to resize the document to 50% while keeping all the vector paths on pixel bounds?


texts: Ideas or advice on a new career path I could follow

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The more I study graphic design and the more freelance jobs I take on, I start to realise that my future in graphic design is not really going to happen.

I've been teaching myself graphic design and how to use the creative suite for about 4 years now. I desperately need to take a design course, but as much as I wish, I physically don’t have the time. Having a full time job and being a parent, I barely get the chance to sit down, let alone study, and I don’t think that will change anytime soon.

I work in a factory and like most of them, they are dead end jobs with very little pay unless you want to become a zombie and work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week. And believe me, I watch people on a daily basis fall asleep at work or go hours, if not all day, without saying a word.

I applied for printing jobs as that had some relation to the creative world of design, but unfortunately there were no jobs available.

Does anyone have any ideas or advice on a new career path I could follow? Were you can learn as you go and were you don’t really need a degree? I would love it if it could somehow side line a creative world like printing or being a photographers assistant could do for example.

I love using the adobe creative suite and with so many programmes on it I was hoping that there was a job that might allow me to move out of the dead end world of factories and have a little more of a meaningful job.  We would all love to be paid loads but to me it’s not about the money, it’s the idea of spending 8 to 9 hours a day at work and it not meaning anything at the end. I would like the chance to be a little proud of what I do even if the job is still not very good.


texts: Is there a way of taking a snapchat filter off a saved image? Its a leopard nose and ears and would like to know if i can get them off or if any one else could?


texts: how can I get the cloud effect the image?

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I am trying to get the effect on the clouds (that makes it look like it's fading out getting to the lower part) in the image below. How can I achieve this?

For those who need to see what I've done so far please see the image below. I used the pen tool to create the clouds.


texts: Multiple-page, varied-information Data Merge in InDesign?

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Can I use Data Merge in InDesign to input various information from a .cvs file into multiple pages of a resource directory?

The idea is sustainability for the customer... lay it out once and then they can update the information in Excel, run Data Merge in InDesign to update the directory in months and years to come, and not have to pay a designer each time they update information.

Or is there a more efficient way altogether for them to input that information into an InDesign file?