texts: How to increase negative space / improve scaling of vector graphic?

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I'm fairly new to Illustrator. I bought a vector graphic of a wolf for this logo I designed (see screenshot with  purple on white logo). It looks good when it is quite large, but if I scale down the logo then my wolf doesn't look as good anymore - you can barely see his eye and somehow his fur looks a bit too bulky and out of balance for the image (see a screenshot with t-shirt design).

I was wondering if it is possible to somehow increase the negative space in the wolf graphic without screwing things up, so that the purple (or gold on the t-shirt) becomes thinner leaving more of the negative space. I am concerned about manipulating individual anchors, as I think I'll make it look weird.

Or if you could suggest how to improve on the wolf graphic otherwise so it looks nice and crisp when scaled down - it'd be most appreciated.


texts: Outline-like artifacts in Inkscape bitmap trace?

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This seems quite similar to How to get rid of these outline artifacts in an Inkscape SVG trace? but I thought asking again would be helpful since it seems that at least the preview does not have the issue.

The source file is a 160x160 bitmap of the smiling face with halo emoji, Apple's version.

I imported this into Inkscape 0.92 (on Ubuntu 18.04) and used Path --> Trace Bitmap on the imported raster image object. The preview and final result are this:

Notice how the preview looks perfectly fine, but the final result has these outline artifacts, interrupting the smooth and continuous color gradients. The thing is, the preview looks fine and has the smooth and continuous color gradients, unlike the final trace. And yes, the preview is actually of the final trace, I checked this by adjusting other settings and yes, the preview changes as it should.

Is this an Inkscape issue? Or perhaps a quick fix in inkscape to make the final trace look like the preview? I'm not sure, but it seems like I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks for the help!

Final trace result: link (please download first and open in your browser, the drive preview isn't accurate)


texts: Why are gradients and opacity rasterized when saving SVG's in illustrator?

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I'm a web designer and frequently use illustrator to create graphics for use on the web. The most ideal format for me is SVG because it is light, performant and looks HQ at any size.

Something really annoying is when I try and export slightly more complex graphics as SVG from illustrator, such as the one I included with this post. Any complex gradients or shapes with opacity are rasterized. To get around this I have been simplifying the artwork and then applying the desired effects post design in the SVG code.

As you can imagine, this is highly unproductive and annoying. Is illustrator capable of outputting SVG code that supports complex gradients and opacity? If so, how do I enable this feature?


texts: I am wondering how to deal with the new Symbols in Sketch: If I don't need a symbol anymore, (deleting all instances or detaching) it seems to stay in the symbols palette anyway (for what reason?) So my Symbols collection just grows endlessly — Is there any way or plugin to tell sketch that if a symbol itself is not longer used in any instance in the document, that it should be removed from the symbols collection?


texts: How do I use GIMP to change the black circle to red in this indexed-color png?

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I have this .png

These are the image properties from GIMP:

I want to change the black background of the circle to red using GIMP.
I have tried methods 2 and 3 mentioned in this guide.
When I try

Colors > Map > Color Exchange
or Bucket fill (Tools > Selection Tools > By Color Select followed by Tools > Selection Tools > Foreground Select followed by Bucket fill)

the result is always a grey background
Color Exchange result:

Bucket fill result:

I think the challenge is the png's color space is "indexed color". How do I change one of the indexed colors to red? Here is the colormap for the image.


texts: How to convert raster in Illustrator to link?

texts: I have rasterized an object in Illustrator, so it is embedded. I want to enhance it with photoshop, but I don`t know how to convert it to link.


texts: How can I make crisp icons for Windows Store apps?

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I'm pretty new to making graphics for a specific platform but not to graphic design in general.

I have a logo I made using Illustrator and had scaled it accordingly by using the Save to Web feature of Illustrator and then added it to a canvas in Fireworks.

In Fireworks the icon looks really crisp, even when I view it in Windows by using the built-in image Preview context menu. Its a square logo sitting at 70x70 pixels.

However, when I add it to my application and I pin it to the metro start menu in Windows, it looks blurry.

What do I need to do to make my image look sharp, crisp, and overall correct on the Windows Metro OS?


texts: How do I create a dual lined border in Photoshop?

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I have a square box, that I need to create a dual lined border of differing widths.

I've selected the shape and then done a 10px stroke inside. Now I want to add a 2nd rectangle of 5px width that is 5px inside the outer stroke on all sides.

For clarity, this is one 10px line around the full edge of the background shape. Then a 2nd line of 5px which has a 5px gap between it and the outer stroke.

Any pointers on how to achieve this second stroke accurately will be greatly appreciated.


texts: What is this style of art with blue and red shades called?

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Does anybody know what this style of art called?

As I want to recreate the same style, is there any suggestion for techniques?


texts: Illustrator: how to export multiple logos from SVG to PNG

texts: I am working with a bunch of SVG logos each placed in a 200x200 pixel artboard. When exporting these to PNG, they turn out to be pixelated. What is the fastest and best way to export them as high quality logos without having to go through the hassle of scaling the artboards and logos individually?


texts: Can GIMP be used to extract scribbled-out text?

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A student of mine has submitted their exam paper with a large portion of text scribbled out beneath one of their answers.
This is what it looks like:

For context, their actual answer is written eight lines above this, meaning that it almost certainly isn't part of their answer.
This student is troubled and it is vital that I decipher what it is that they have written.  It could either be something negative and/or threatening towards another student, myself or fellow teachers, or perhaps something altogether different, hence why I need to figure this out ASAP.
The reason I am asking about GIMP specifically is because I am using it on Ubuntu 20.04.
I am aware that the brightness and/or contrast levels can be adjusted in order to make certain portions clearer, but I am only able to make out four words at present.
Is there a good way to achieve this?  I have also scanned hi-res versions of both the front and back of the answer in order to potentially extract it from either side.
Is there perhaps a better tool to decipher this?


texts: Render 3D CAD model as lineart/blueprint

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Coming from an engineering design background here. I’ve got this rather complex CAD model I’m supposed to make a poster for. I figured turning it into linework with transparent background would clear things up and not clutter the poster. I could then overlay that on a light grey background and text over it as needed.

I’m using Fusion 360 and can’t find any option for rendering as wireframe/linework and when I tried just taking an engineering drawing I was locked into orthographic view (and we all know that looks way more weird than perspective).

So I figure I can export it as STEP or SAT and import it into some other program capable of doing so. I’ve got access to a decent range through university but any freeware tips and tricks are very appreciated!

Many thanks :)


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I have a background that looks like this:

I want to change the color of the image to be as close to #66a6ff as possible.

I've tried setting image's blend mode to Overlay and setting the opacity to 70% with the color layer below, but it comes out looking like this:

Which looks nothing similar to the color I need (#66a6ff).


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I am making a logo and it's associated monogram for my college section and I am wondering in what situations a monogram should be used ?

My biggest concern about the monogram is that contrary to the monograms of widely known brands (such as Louis Vuitton or Channel) it isn't something that you would know what it is about just by looking at it.
So to me, it seems logic to avoid it in any situations where it wouldn't have the surrounding context enabling you to know what it is about... this leads me to this question : where and when should a monogram be used ? When should you avoid it ?

I am also wondering if it is recommended to use the monogram next to the logo (especially since the logo is essentially composed of text) ? To me, it seems a little bit redundant and graphically unpleasant.

Thank you.


texts: Can gimp rescale the workplace automatically?

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I haven't found any solutions for this yet. My problem is this:

When I open an image with Gimp, the editor sets a fixed size for the image. For example, I open a 1920x1080 image with Gimp. Then the Borders are also set to that size. If I now import a 500x500 image, which is smaller,there is no problem.

But if I open the 500x500 image first, and then add a 1920x1080-image, that image gets cut off:

Is there a way, to tell Gimp that it needs to rescale the image to the largest layer that exists?


texts: How to record a specific color swatches as an Action in Adobe Illustrator?

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I have a file contains of many objects which can either be images, vector or clipping mask. But every objects are grouped with a same specific color of swatches. Let's say the color is CMYK Cyan.

I want to select all of CMYK Cyan color and move them to New Layer (Layer 2), change these CMYK Cyan color to another color (CMYK Red) and give it outline preview (by ctrl+click "eye" icon in layer menu).

Here the steps I tried to records in Action:

Copy objects grouped with swatches
Create new document
Paste
Use Magic Wand Tool (W) to select CMYK Cyan color
Create new layer
Move "Indicates Selected Art" (it should be all CMYK Cyan color) to Layer 2
Change CMYK Cyan to CMYK Red

The recorded results missing step 4 and step 6. The question is, how to record step 4 in Action?
Actually this question only asking the step number 4, but I will be very grateful if someone can also tell me how to record step number 6. Thank you.


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im trying to create an hq svg, but also remove the black space top and bottom of image.
im having difficulties, ive tried vectormagic, picsvg, now i am trying to use
inkscape, but im not even sure if its possible in ink scape, i can create the svg no problems, but removing the black and top and bottom is a pin, as black is part of the image detail. so i need to somehow create thin black line border around the image instead of the large black space.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/PMSnK.jpg
my plan was to burn it onto wood with a laser
thanks
dave


texts: When to use "Align to Pixel Grid" in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: The title pretty much says it all.  Looking for pros/cons, and situations where it should / shouldn't be used.


texts: What aspects of HTML5 are replacing Flash?

texts: Everyone is saying that flash design is dead for websites. Besides the issue of compatibility with "iDevices", why else should flash be kicked out the designer's door?


texts: How to convert an Illustrator EPS to SVG and keep alpha channels and transparency modes?

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I have an Illustrator EPS file which has a number of shapes that are set to multiply and overlay modes. I am also using a number of masks. Is there a way to export this art in SVG format and keep all the visuals intact?

As per this WIKI page I think it should be possible.

I've tried saving my EPS as SVG several times with various options but am unable to get the alpha channels to render properly some of my vector shapes get rasterized as well.


texts: How to remove background from Complex in Photoshop

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I have tried to remove the background from the image below but it just disfigures the image.  I have used adjustments->Replace color,  Hue and saturation layer,  magnetic lasso and manually erasing around the edges.  Would anyone have an easy solution to removing this background and replacing it with white ?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Line dimensions in Sketch.app do not match display and output

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I have a rectangle in Sketch that is 100px height.
I drew a line at 100px but it shows as 99.01px yet matches height of the rectangle?


texts: Can text that has been distorted with an envelope be copied and pasted in that format?

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Is it possible to take text that has been distorted using an envelope and copy and paste it into another file maintaining the shape?

When I hit command+C command+V I am getting a grey fill in the shape of the envelope but no text.

I am new to Illustrator and have been trying to figure this out (or find an answer online) for the past few hours.

While I am at it, is it possible to edit said text once it has already been distorted?


texts: I can't seem to get the handle of this text that i want to align with the red rectangle in the back, the only solution i have is to make the text an outline and align it after that, but i have some different text that i want to edit with more rectangles, so it's not what i need.


texts: What type of creative commons licensing do I need for free templates?

texts: I'm planning on releasing a design template for a specific platform to make it easier on users who use that platform to design their pages. I want to allow anyone to download this template for free; however, I would not like anybody to sell this template or use it as artwork in a project. Basically, I just want to allow people to use it to build their designs. Do I need CC licensing and if so, what type of CC licensing do I need?


texts: 1px Transparent Border around image after resize in photoshop

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I'm not sure what setting or anything has caused this, but when I resize an image in Image > Image Size, the resized image gets semi-transparent 1px border! There seem no obvious settings to cause something like this.

It does'nt seem to do it 100% of the time, I notice it more when I'm cutting up a design and paste images into new documents. Here I have recreated it with a simple 2-layer image:


texts: Is there a name for smaller text on top of bigger text in typography or UI design?

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I have a pattern where important clickable links have smaller text on top of big text to save horizontal space and emphasize the bigger text.

Example:

What do you call the smaller text? I'm just trying to name my CSS classes. I'm looking for something semantic like how HTML tags are designed that describes what it is, and not how it looks.


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How can I straighten up the line between two nodes in Inkscape?
I need the part on the screenshot to be straight and not curly as it is right now.


texts: Where can I get the specifications for my half-page magazine ad?

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So I need to do a half-page magazine ad. I was going to make some different concepts using both Photoshop and Illustrator (I don't have much experience with InDesign so you folks that do it for a living please go easy on the judgement).

My question is, what's the generally safe dimension guidelines you would follow for a half page magazine ad? I know the generalities like CMYK at 150+ dpi (EDIT: There's a reason I put 150+, I know 300 is the general for higher printing, I was thinking just cmyk print media in general, hence the "+") but what about just size in general? Is it generally in inches or pixels, and what would those dimensions be?

I've looked around and found various "standard" templates but many of them have conflicting dimensions. The magazine the ad is for didn't even seem to specify any basic requirements which leads me to believe they just take the flattened image and skew/resize it to fit. Which in my mind fires off red flags they could butcher the image quality for the sake to "just get it on the page" as their rep told me.

So can anyone offer the basic guidelines for dimensions, bleed, etc?

Thanks!


texts: can we apply one background to multiple artboards in photoshop

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my question is specific to adobe artboards. i have 4 artboards of same dimensions of 1080px by 1080px. now i want to take only 1 background image that will split into all artboards.

generally all artboards have their own backgrounds separately.

this image will explain what i want ??

i have searched everywhere but having no luck to found the exact answer. help will highly appreciated. thanks


texts: Identify font for the logo of web site "Les Passeurs"

texts: I am trying to find the fonts used in the following Logo for web site "Les Passeurs". I've been trying to use whatthefont.com, but haven't had much success.


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I've been an avid reader of the site and now asking my first question. In regards to setting up baseline grid for multi column layouts, with a mix of type and image per page like a magazine spread. the process, which I'm interested in hearing about from designers.
First, work out what the headings and body copy will be, then use that leading for the body copy as the base for the baseline grid? But I've read that using a half measure of the body copy leading is good practice as this will allow for space after issues. So once that is setup is there a general rule of thumb as to what the space after should be? The headings/ sub headings should be in regards to leading ?

thanks peeps!!


texts: Increasing spaces in image between written text

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I have several images similar to the one shown below. Each image is of the same width. What I want to do is to increase the space between the answer posibilities (A-E) for example by 40 pixels (and keeping the width). How can this be done easily for a couple of pictures with for example Adobe Illustrator?

I have extracted the pictures from a PDF (with slice selection tool), perhaps it is easier to do it directly with the pdf instead of the image.


texts: Text in my Photoshop image looks "blurry"

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I am creating a website header in Photoshop CS5, however when I look at it, the text looks very blurry and I have no idea why.

I use the Web preset. What do you recommend for the sharpest and best results?

Here's the current mockup:


texts: How to align bulleted text in a paragraph style InDesign

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Im creating a paragraph style right now and I want to make sure all the text is in line as you can see the second and third lines are indented. I've played around with the bullets and numbering, indents and spacing section but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
Have tried the following in response to the same question from another user but still does not seem to do anything. See images below.


texts: Order objects according to their place in Adobe Illustrator

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I made this collage with CercleFill Script in Adobe Illustrator, it's a great result but the cercles are in random order, I found an other Adobe Illustrator script that can order layers alphabetly, but isn't the case I want.

I look for any script or plug-in that can make this cercles in order according to their place if it possible.

I hope my question is clear


texts: How to smoothen pixelated background without affecting nearby foreground objects

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Here is the photo I'm trying to work with.

The background is heavily pixelated and I want to polish them up. I already polished the top part of the sky using gaussian blur. I want to do the similar on the lower parts of the image but I've found further applying gaussian blur on the lower areas ruins the image with smudged black and etc, and working around the areas between the utility poles and wires seems extremely difficult for me.

What would be the best way to go about this problem? Thank you very much in advance!


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I have the PSD designs for my website and now want to create the site using these designs. I am not very good with css though I know HTML, javascript well. Is there any tool, site, software that can help me create an html and a css by drag-drop of controls.

I tried understanding the use of Blueprint CSS framework but could not gather much out of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


texts: Source Academy has discontinued their Subtle Patterns Photoshop plugin (and all their other plugins), and I'm left without a tool I use frequently.  Any suggestions for an alternative plugin for subtle background patterns and textures?


texts: Printing on pre-printed awards certificates to complete information

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I have multiple 8.5 x 11 card stock winner/participation certificates.  They have a certain layout and design with a few blanks to fill out specific information.  I do not currently have a soft copy of the template, I was only given the actual stock copies, but then again I probably would not wish to go reprint on new stock.  I wish to at least fill in the few blanks but perhaps also create a custom image/logo in a blank area of the award if it is not too hard.

What is the best way to accomplish this?  I am worried about the printers available to me and working with card stock.  Also, I don't have professional graphics packages available to me.


texts: Is it possible to give an offset to page grid in Scribus?

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Is it possible to offset the page grid in Scribus?

My page layout has the following settings:

Margins = 1.5 cm (top, left, right, bottom)
Page Grid = Main spacing 5.0 cm, Secondary spacing 0.5 cm.

I'd like to offset the Page Grid so that the Main spacing has its origins on the margin of the printable area (the blue line in the picture), instead of the whole page area (the red line).

Is it possible to do so? And how?


texts: Is there a way to fit table cells to their content? (InDesign)


texts: How can I do this effect or pattern in illustrator or photoshop

texts: The photo is typography art and I would like to know how to achieve it.


texts: Deselect path points without selecting new points

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Working in illustrator. To make this example easier, imagine I'm working with a traced raster image where there are lot of similar colors close to one another. Say I want to select a bunch of points using the lasso tool. I select bunch of points. Oops - I didn't mean to select those 300. Darn it!

Now I need to deselect them. I have two choices. I either try my selection again, and hopefully get precise enough where I have less points that I don't want to select selected. Or I can go point by point, holding down shift, and deselecting.

What I'd like to be able to do is to use the lasso tool again, and deselect from my current selection. I know I can already do this with the lasso tool, but it's almost impossible to do without selecting new points along the way. I want a way to "deselect only", so that I can subtract from my selection with inadvertently adding to it.
 I know that this can be done in Raster editors like PS or Gimp, but there is nothing obvious to me in Illustrator. Any ideas?


texts: What are the biggest software pains for graphic designers?

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What are your biggest software grips as a graphic designer? Some examples might be software that:

is unnecessarily complicated
doesn't allow you to accomplish what you really want to do
doesn't have very good documentation or customer support
crashes or malfunctions

Why I'm Asking

I'm doing some preliminary anecdotal research into how software limitations limit the creativity of creative professionals. I thought I'd ask here to see what kind of response I'd get.


texts: Why do my vector graphics look like %$* when printed?

texts: this is a newbie question: I only made a bit of interface design in my life, and now I have to produce some printables - I used my old faithful Fireworks because Photoshop I don't know how to use quickly, I made documents 300 dpi, created vector graphics solid colour fill, RGB (well, I knew only the Pantone hex colors but Fireworks also puts the RGB number, don't know which one denotes the file) but whenever I try to print the colors are all meh and not very vivid, I exported PNG and JPEG highest quality, and I just don't seem to get a good image quality. I tried different papers, and different copy shops. What am I doing wrong please? Should I just redo everything with Photoshop or Indesign, would that change things?I have some vector graphics and fonts that I did myself and some photos processed with a filter by some apps, also 300 dpi I believe. What else can I do to get those pretty solid colors you see in commercial prints please? Thank you


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I'm launching a company and currently working on the website. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/HKbIK
As I'm not a professional webdesigner your comments / feedback / suggestions of improvements would be very welcome!

It's a 'parralax' style design with several large, striking high-resolution background images, overlaid with simple information graphics about the product. It can be navigated by scrolling down or using the jump links at the top.

Many thanks for your help,


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What is the easiest way to change shortcuts in Inkscape?

After watching a few tutorials it seems that the most widespread way to do this is by changing a little bit of code. But is there a less manual way to do this?

Specifically I would like to set the shortcut which would select the node selector. I am using Windows 10 and by default it is set here to be F2.


texts: How to convert a shape into another shape in Illustrator

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I have an illustrator file with many (~40) similar circles (just with different colors) but now I regret having chosen them as circles and want them as triangles instead. Is it possible to do this with Illustrator?

One option is to create lots of triangles and positioning them on top of the circles, individually color them like each circle and removing the circles. But I am wondering if there is a more automatic way to do this


texts: how do I warp a rectangle to part of umbrella/sphere?

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how do I warp a rectangle to part of umbrella/sphere, as shown in the image?----I mean, converge all points of the upper edge of rectangle to the middle of that edge.

Further more, as shown in the second image, what's the best tool to wrap that umbrella to a side-view?


texts: How to make that custom shape-soft edge gradient in PhotoShop

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I'm just trying to learn some new stuff and found this. How can I make that sort of gradient on a custom shape with those smooth edges?

Thanks in advance.


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Essentially I'm wondering how I would have a text box pop up and every time you press e, the next string of text will appear. Then, once you get to the end of the array of text, the textbox art should disappear.

Is there anyone that could point me in the right direction?


texts: Remove white background for in GIMP with calligraphy scan

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I scanned a calligraphy using color mode thinking I would capture more details, which I did along with much noise.  Now, I would like to remove the background (white) and make it transparent.  While doing so, it is difficult to keep some of the details.  Appreciate any guidance on how to do this effectively, I have over 60 of these scan to process.  Attached one example for illustration purposes.

Please note the details I would like to keep include the thin lines that fades into the supposedly white background.  Image reduced for fast upload.

Thanks.


texts: Why aren't my anchor points snapping to guidelines?

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I've been using Photoshop CS3 for quite some time in my work, but this one has really bugged me. When I have created a vector shape with the Pen tool, as I want to move those anchor points precisely to a specific point I sometimes need to snap it using some guidelines. But the anchor points don't seem to snap to any guides or even to edges of my other layered images.

How do I make the anchor point snap to guidelines?


texts: Can you include retina and non-retina images within the same sprite?

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When building a web page, I've always created 2 different sprites for my icons. A sprite for normal images and a sprite for retina images. The retina images are saved out twice the size and twice the DPI.

Example:

Normal icon - 50x50 at 72 dpi
Retina icon - 100x100 at 144 dpi

Using a retina display media query in my CSS, I would target the icon and replace the background image with a retina one and also apply the appropriate background sizing property. (e.g. if the image is 100x100, background-size: 50px 50px).

Instead of having 2 separate image sprites, I decided to combine my images into 1 sprite. Using 72 DPI, I have a normal icon and beneath it I have an icon that is twice the size (for retina). This seems to work just fine on a web page.

Aside from performance in downloading a larger image file, is there any reason why I should have separate images for retina and non-retina? Does DPI actually matter when saving out for retina or does it just need to be twice the size?


texts: I have an indesign file with 6 links. I just learned about the File>Package option of sending them to another editor. However, I am wondering if there is a feature in Adobe CC where we can save the linked files to the cloud so that they are always shared among the editors.


texts: Export InDesign to Epub removed "^j' character

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I'm exporting a book to epub. In Persian, there is a special character that is used to make a small space without creating two separate words.
Adobe InDesign knows this character as "^j", But when I export the book to epub all of these characters were removed.
Is there a way to prevent this?


texts: How can I create a transparent background for an object that's on top of a white background with AI?

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What I am looking to do is for those areas in red to be transparent.  However the problem is that they are placed on to of the areas in white so they do not show the background when the svgs is placed on a colored area.

Would appreciate any suggestions on if / how I can do this with Adobe Illustrator.


texts: What tools are available for designing a font for a new method of writing?

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My friend and I are working on a new way of writing using the idea of fractions: the part above the fraction line is the consonant and the part below the line is the vowel. This method of writing has several diacritical symbols as well.

Example 1

From top to bottom:

Diacritical symbol signifying Specific Consonant (The little V; marks a Consonant to be stronger in a list of Consonant with the vowels (below) applied to them.)
Diacritical symbol signifying stretching out the sound of the specific letter (the horizontal line).
Diacritical symbol signifying using the vocal cords on the specific group of letters (the "sine wave").
The consonant itself (the rotated "D", in this case, Uh).
The "fraction line".
Vowel (in this case, ee).

Example 2

Here there are three consonants, from right to left: "Ko" (stressed, little V); "V" (sine wave above-head), "M" (horizontal line). As you can understand, the common vowel is "O" as in Overwatch, and is located below the fraction line.

Getting rid of the little V above the A-like letter will make this unreadable.

Can TrueType itself even support this sort of writing?
Can it deal with multiple symbols above a common line (i.e.
grouped to a common vowel)?
Is there software that can support this font creation?


texts: I'm wondering how can I curve the text  below to fit the curve of the shape below. I am somewhat new to Illustrator and yes I know my version is outdated


texts: How to isolate single sections from dxf file?

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I have the problem that I have a dxf file. It shows basically a model I want to build in the future. This model was exported to a dxf file and I load it into Adobe Illustrator. Then it is possible to isolate the single sections to a svg file so that later on they can be cutted (in the best way automatically). I understand it in general and I have the finished files. So I know it works.

However there is one key knowledge missing which is really important for me, because I later want to do this with my own model (these file is only a template to illustrate the workflow so that one can understand how it works in general). I have the dxf file loaded into Adobe Illustrator, however now I don't know how to isolate the single section layers from the dxf file and put each one to svg file? This is my question.

As I said I can give you the two finished files. So from the dxf file the svg should be created. I tried to somehow isolate these single sections but my technical abilities are not sufficient for this. I guess these sections have to be selected from the overlayed ones I marked red here (but thats only a guess):

From the dxf file the svg should be created. The finished svg file contains all sections already aligned and collected for optimal space savings when cutting it. See here this example screenshot:

The dxf file can be found here and the svg file here. The preview of the svg file does not work (blank white page is shown), but the file and the download works. When you open the svg file in Illustrator probably it just shows you a white page. This is because you have to zoom out. When you zoom out you can see the sections left to it in the grey area. They are already aligned and have the size of this white area (this is the cutting area to check it fits into the limited size of the cutter). So just zoom out a bit. As you can see in the finished file there were some additional modifications done to make it more easy to put peaces together. For me the first and most important step is how to isolate the sections. Of course if one can also explain and reproduce the modifications this would also help me a lot, but this is a minor question.


texts: Can a detection mechanism like EURion be used on other documents than banknotes to protect them?

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The EURion Constellation is a pattern of symbols that make it difficult to scan or photograph banknotes and import it into Photoshop.

From Wikipedia

I am interested in understanding how this system works, and how single users could design patterns of symbols that Photoshop would not be able to import.

From what I have gathered online, the pattern itself is detected by Photoshop, so I am assuming that a user couldn't design their own pattern to protect their work individually.

But is there a way to reuse the already existing pattern in a graphical document to block a user from opening an image that contains it?

Disclaimer: I am not asking to reveal trade secrets regarding the making of money and I am not asking about counterfeiting techniques. I am asking about using a technology to do more copy protection than it was designed to do.


texts: Is there an algorithm to orient several shapes/symbols towards the center of another shape?

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What is the the easiest way to orient several shapes/symbols towards the center of another shape (see my sketch below) ?

In Illustrator, I know the rotate tool with the copy option, but I think it is not a smooth way to do it.
Thank you for your help.


texts: Can I automatically replace missing fonts by other fonts in inDesign?

texts: I have an inDesign document in which certain fonts don't work (size equal to zero for PC fonts). Is there a way to have these fonts automatically replaced by other fonts of my choice? If so, can I also choose some settings such as letter-spacing and size in order for the new fonts to resemble the most the missing ones?


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I need to provide a glass door maker an ai file to sandblast lettering on the glass. I need to provide them the fonts that I've used in Illustrator. They're regular fonts, don't need license. I can embed the fonts when I'm making PDF.

However, I cannot provide them a PDF file as they cannot use it in their CAD app to sandblast the glass.

How do I package fonts in Illustrator or package Illustrator file?

Thank you


texts: Krita export image create white lines D:

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I am new to krita and im running in a weird problem that I don't know how to fix.
I just finished and drawing and wanted to export it to post it, but whenever I post my drawing, the exported drawing doesn't look like what I did in krita, the export adds ugly white lines in the middle of my drawing :
Here is a zoomed screenshot of my drawing in krita :

And here is a zoomed screenshot of my drawing once it has been exported by krita :

Note how there are ugly white lines in between the colors on the second image
And now that I look at the two images side-by-side, I also notice a slight shift in the colors, the red looks more vibrant on the first image, but maybe that's just an illusion caused by the white lines.
I tried exporting in jpeg, png, jpg, and the everytime, the compression was set to 1/the quality was set to 100%. I have no idea why this thing happens and I don't have extensive knowledge of how images are encoded in function of the formats so I don't know how I could fix it D:
Thanks in advance for your help :D


texts: What is this shifted red and blue effect often seen in VR called? How can I achieve it?

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I'm looking for more information regarding a specific type of visual effect that I have been trying to recreate many times in Photoshop, without any success. I would like to learn how to do this from tutorials, that is if I knew what to search for.

Below I have an image from an Oculus Rift game, and another from a movie trailer (Kung Fury). Notice how light at the edges of objects diffuses into two, sometimes three slight red green and blue colors (RGB). What is this effect called? Obviously the examples are very not alike but the result is pretty much the same thing, and I really want to learn how to accomplish this in Photoshop.

Sorry if the question looks kinda dumb, but I knew no other place where I could ask this.


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About a decade ago, COLLADA hit the scene, and it was supposed to solve all of our 3D graphics interchange problems. Maybe it does that for some people, but my experience is that everyone interprets this open standard differently, so that the chance of getting a model to transfer between unrelated programs in this format is near zero.

(My pet theory for the reason is that there is no reference implementation with enough market clout behind it to make software developers people give up on their idiosyncratic ideas and implement the standard the same way the market leader did. Consequently, I find that Wavefront OBJ and 3DS are more likely to give a clean transfer between two unrelated programs than COLLADA. Some people also like FBX for much the same reason. These proprietary formats are harder to implement idiosyncratically, because you have each format's primary program to refer to in cases of dispute.)

I'm late to the game, but I recently heard about Alembic, which seems like the second verse of the same song.

Given that some people have had 4 years of experience with this format, I think we can start answering some hard questions about its utility without straying into pure opinion.

Does Alembic solve artists' actual problems? Under what conditions might I expect success myself?


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How do I specify the position of a line of text relative to the baseline,
rather than relative to its lowest point?

I can see the little white square next to the baseline; however,
I am unable to select it or position it.


texts: The supplied Pantone colour and CMYK colour are slightly different. Which one should I use?

texts: I've been supplied a branding colour palette from the company with their primary brand colour. They have supplied the Pantone spot and CMYK number for this brand colour but the two colours are slightly different. Which one do I use?


texts: I've saved a photo in Ps at 24x36 inches. When I try to bring it into Ai on a 24x36 artboard the picture is huge in comparison. Why is this?


texts: For someone struggling with the disconnect between eye and hand on a tablet with no screen, would purchasing an LCD tablet be worth it?

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I am no professional artist, but I am able to draw pretty decently with just pencil and paper. I purchased a Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch (Small)  several months ago with the intention of doing some animations in my spare time. However, I am unable to produce anything decently on my tablet due to the disconnect between eye and hand when drawing. The reason I purchased a tablet with no screen is due to the cost of products like the Cintiq, and also most reviews of said product suggest something along the lines of "buy a cheap tablet first to see if it fits your style".
That advice in mind, for someone who struggles with a tablet with no screen, would it be just as pointless to upgrade to something like a Cintiq? Did anybody else have a similar situation to this, and were you able to produce better artwork after upgrading?


texts: How to draw arcs of arbitrary angle, or defined by tangents in Visio?

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I am using MS Visio 2013, trying to draw a circular arc which spans between two 45 degrees lines. Think about an isosceles right triangle, where the head (90 deg) vertex is trimmed to a circular shape of a given radius.

The ultimate goal is to create a pincushion shape made of 4 such arcs. Here's my current shot (resized for showing details). It was made by drawing a 90 deg arc using the arc tool (from 0 deg to 90 deg), then rotating the shape, using the 3-D Z Rotation in 45 deg.

As you can see, the connection of the arcs with the diagonal sections is not smooth and overlapping.

Questions:

Can I draw an arc defined by its start and end angles?
Can I draw an arc defined by its start and end tangent lines?
Is there a pincushion shape hiding in one of the sets (it has the advantage of being opaque, and you can set the internal color)?

Finally, if you think there is a better SE site to ask this question, please point that out.


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I am using a clipping mask to cut out some shapes. These shapes are composed of a rectangular "base color" and then some extra shapes overlaid for shading. However, with the clipping mask I get bright outlines where the base shapes show through the shading. See the attached pics:

Is this the wrong way of doing this? Is there a way to fix this? I thought it'd be convenient to define the shape in a single clipping mask, so I can modify the shape and coloring/shading separately.


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...in photoshop, and like the one in photoshop

I know how to make the gradients, but how do I make the colors precise? Like showing all colors in the hue bar or getting a perfect black-to-transparent gradient.

This color picker image would then be used in javascript...


texts: Should your website and logo have the same color scheme

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I am working on a completely new blog from scratch. New logo, branding, house style, everything needs to be done. Now the logo that is designed for the website has 3 colors, brown, green and black. You can think of a tree with leaves.

Now on the blog itself, I do not really want to use those colors, it makes the site look really boring. I want to add some flashy colors like red and blue to put some emphasis on certain elements. Plant brown and green are no easy colors to add flash to.

Now my question is, will this break the overall style and design, if I just go with a different color scheme than the logo itself.

Or is it better to have the logo redone to reflect the style of the website.

PS. Anyone have any good resources for branding and house style. I know I can just Google, but maybe someone has some recommendations.


texts: Create .GIF from a video with one loop has problem in firefox

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I have a video and I want to create the animated GIF from the part of the video using adobe photoshop CS6. When I select the frames and generate the GIF by setting the option of loop forever it works fine. But when I generate the GIF by setting the option of loop once, the generated animated GIF doesn't work in firefox. The animations work fine in chrome but in firefox I only see a static image.

Any solution?


texts: How to change stroke width of line in Photoshop CS6?

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I have drawn some lines with the line tool in Photoshop CS6.

The lines are vectors on a shape layer.

If I select the line with path selection tool I can change the stroke colour, in the options panel at the top, but not the stroke width (if I change the stroke width nothing happens).

Is there a way to change the stroke width?


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I'm taking this website as an example: BuddyMiller.com

Is that border that looks like a nice persian rug, surrounding the page, something I would get from a template online (I've been searching for hours and can't find anything remotely close) and if so could you point me to some website which has these type of page border templates (not bad-looking clip-art, but nice like this).

Or is this something I can do in Photoshop, and if so how would it be done or is there a good tutorial out there you can point me to?


texts: How to remove dithering from image, which was in GIF format before?

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I tried to look in the internet, but every question and topic was about improving quality of animated GIF, however it is not in my case.
What I have is static image with 256 colors, it is saved in PNG format, but it seems like it originally was saved in GIF, because every gradient is suffered from heavy dithering.
I want to improve quality of image and get rid of dithered gradients.
Do you have something in mind what I can use to make gradients look like they supposed to do, in other words revert dithering and make smooth gradients again?
I have many images. There is 3 example areas which was affected with dithering:

EDIT: Forget to mention beforehand, that other part of image are detailed, so I provide more examples both with dithering and details:
dithered gradient in detailed area:

thin lines:


texts: Set preview mode to pixels in illustrator after the fact?

texts: How can I set the preview mode in an illustrator document to pixel instead of default after the fact? If it is not possible, what would be a good workaround?


texts: How to remove an object in a photo in inkscape?

texts: How to remove an object like stairs from a photo without leaving a missing part in the photo in Inkscape? I'm trying to remove stairs from a photo and then blend it so you can't tell that the stairs were removed in Inkscape.


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I'm creating a dynamic pdf for correctional officer with a fixed number of ''events'' that can be filled. I put 6 possible events that can be filled. However, some individuals have more events. Is it possible to add an option that will allow more cases to appear if the professional filed the maximum cases?

Ty,


texts: Trying to reduce the area a layer can bee seen in After effects

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I'm creating a UI animation for a phone. I've got it so the menu transitions slowly moves in from the side. However as you can see the menu can be seen coming in from outside of the screen like the image below.
How can I make it so the layer can only be seen within the green rectangle, so I can keep the same transition, but you can only see it occur within the phones screen?


texts: Automation: how to scale and place a images in the given area?

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I have two thousand PNG images. I need to scale up the images to place it inside the whitebox; also the edges of the images should touch the red color in any two sides (shown arrow below)

how to automate this in Photoshop? Or is there any other software?

Sample images are given below:

The output should look like this:


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I have a vector logo and I need to upscale it to 6000 pixels, but for some reason, when I resize it, the whole thing doesn't resize, even if they are grouped...

Stretches as far as about 2000 px, but over that it breaks...

The canvas is set to 8000 also in case that's the problem?


texts: When I edit the guide dimensions it keeps reverting to mm measurement. I just want inches and the document is in inches. How do I stop Inkscape from using the metric system by default?


texts: How to make a curve when having a corner?

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Let's say a table or something that is made from a cube. I have the corners of the table and I want to make them more circular. How is this made?

I know bevel technique that can make it a bit more smooth, as I did here, but I want it totally circular.


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I have a very large number of PNG images (too many to practically do one at a time) with a bright pink background and would like to replace the background color with transparency. If this is not possible or particularly difficult, replacing the specified color with white would be useful.

I have gimp but not photoshop and am not particularly comfortable with command line, so if a  solution requires that please show each step. It'd be great to be able to do this, any help would be appreciated.


texts: How could letters overlap in manual typesetting?

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Generally speaking, ascenders and descenders should not touch each other in the text body.
This is self-explanatory as it could lead to text that is difficult to read.

However, Erik Spiekermann points out that there are use cases that profit from partly overlapping letters, e. g. to render headings more forceful (Spiekermann 1986: 43).

He also provides an example (Spiekermann 1986: 42, arrows by me), which says:

  There’s a rule according to which descenders and ascenders must never
  touch. There’s an exception to this rule which states that they may
  touch if it looks better.

In this example, the letter g touches the letters ü and R in the following lines.

In digital typography, letters are not necessarily connected to the size of their “metal” block (which still exists virtually) anymore, e. g. in the font Amsterdamer Garamont, the lowercase h exceeds its block on the top while the lowercase p exceeds its block on the left and bottom side (Forssman and de Jong 2014: 86). The authors write (transl. by me):

  In manual typesetting, this would not be possible; the overlapping
  parts of the letter would collide with the letters on the lines above
  and below, and break.

The question:

Before the invention of digital type, in manual typesetting with lead body type, how were overlapping letters produced, and how were the problems described above solved?

Works referenced:

Forssman, Friedrich and Ralf de Jong. Detailtypografie. Mainz  2014 (2002).

Spiekermann, Erik. Ursache & Wirkung: ein typografischer Roman. Erlangen 1986.


texts: Print catalogs: should pdf version have selectable, searchable text? Even if ten pages?

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I do in-house graphic design for a retail store. We outsource the production of our short catalog-flyers, roughly ten facing pages and two covers. Among my duties is to maintain the ecommerce side of the retail store, from designing the marketing to implementing the code and data entry for the products.

We use the homepage to feature the sale, so on our "About the Sale" page we just put a pdf of our sale flyer. The pdf is fully flattened so no text is selectable, though it's chock full of product names, descriptions, advertised prices that correlate to the ecommerce, and images.

I could use this info. I believe search engines would read it (if I'm not mistaken) and provide more hits. It would give the savvy user the ability to do a text search if they need a particular item, or allow them to copy and paste. People filling out purchase orders within thier company might appreciate.

Almost every flyer or catalog I come across in PDF format has selectable text. I cannot think of one without it now but I assume I've come across some.

In talking with the company head myself, they insist that it is impossible for them to produce a pdf with selectable text because they "don't use in-design but rather photoshop and illustrator" (to paraphrase). In request for the working files, I was told they could not do that due to their graphic design guild's standards and would have to charge us 3x the price. In practice, I'm just trying to find out if the text layers are in illustrator or photoshop, and if they could simply export it and not flatten it.

What are your thoughts on the company's reaction to my request for text-selectable layers? Am I barking up the wrong tree to want this to have selectable text? Would it really provide a noticible benefit to anyone but me? What kind of price difference would make sense to have a text-selectable document or are they providing a service that is not up to par with their industry?


texts: Missing fonts in PDF created and saved in Illustrator -- not outlines, the actual fonts

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I have a PDF that is editable in Illustrator. I have to open the PDF in Illustrator and edit individual parts of the document but I am missing the font that is used in the PDF. When I open the PDF in Illustrator, the PDF opens but the font is automatically replaced with a substitute font.

How do I get the original fonts?  Can they be extracted as the original fonts, even though I do not have them in my system?  I need the fonts that were used when the document was created.  Not outlines, the actual fonts.


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Is there is any option in sketch app where I can align object with reference object? E.g. I have on icon and one rectangle shape, want my icon center middle aligned of rectangle.

Like in illustrator we have option. Check image for reference.


texts: Indesign CS6: Applying "show/hide" function to elements on separate pages from trigger

texts: Is it possible to apply a "show/hide" function to an element on one page that effects elements on other pages throughout a document?


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I have this text on a white bar in Illustrator, and I would like to make that part of the white bar transparent instead of what it currently is - the same color as the background.

I tried doing the clipping mask, but it does the opposite, it gets rid of the white bar and makes the text white

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

when I then try to make a compound path, the 2015 converts fine, but there is another compound path that I try to do this to and it does not work, and it also distorts some of the letters:


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Disclaimer: This is my first real time using Gimp, so I apologize if this is a basic question.

I'm trying to blend the colors of my pixels together based on the neighboring pixels. For example, consider the following 9 pixels.

0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8

Suppose that each number represents a value in a color channel. I'm looking for a tool such that given a pixel p, p's new value will the average of its (at most 8) surrounding pixels and itself.

The new values of the pixels above should be, after rounding:

2 4 3
4 4 5
5 6 6

Can someone point me towards a tool that can help achieve this?


texts: Curves automation in Adobe Photophop (CS 6)

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I have some microscopy photographs with different exposures. The grayscale images will be used for comparison next to each other. Currently, to 'normalize' the differences in the pictures I tweak the Curves while looking at the data in the Histogram tab (mean, median and standard deviation). I have quite a lot of pictures to correct, which is going to take a lot of time.

Is it possible to normalize the grays in those images using automation (actions, scripts etc)? For instance, I would select the mean gray value and standard deviation (optionally min and max), and the pictures would be adjusted.

Please let me know if such option exists. If not in PS, then perhaps in other software?


texts: Import .png files into separate layers of a PSD file?

texts: Is it possible to import a batch of .png files into a PSD, such that each imported .png is in a separate layer?


texts: enforce identical scale between two objects saved in .png files

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I have two characters like this:

But the white ones and the black ones are stored in different files, and the relative size of them, the scale of the object, although it has the same shape, is different.
Is there a way, using gimp, to enforce that they are the same size?


texts: Technically, what are the prime gotchas that could affect your logo further down the road, if it incorporates justified* fx & blend mode treatments?

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Explanation

(*Justified meaning they favorably add to the identity and aesthetics; i.e. we're assuming that they make perfect sense in a structural meaning.)

I'm looking for technically specific examples pertaining to particular treatments; less theory on aesthetics.

Reason for my question is that I wish to get a better sense for what's considered 'elaborate' and not.

Again, keep in mind that we assume that these treatments makes good sense in terms of representing the identity. Question relates to the 'tipping point', where you'd say, this ain't worth it, even if it helps better present the brand identity – i.e. where do the technical/practical consequences of (which particular) treatments overshadow any advantages of a more favorable identity representation?

Please restrict the answers to Illustrator.

Examples of the treatments I'm referring to

Might be things like Inner Glow, Drop Shadow, SVG filters, miscellaneous blending modes – you name it.

Examples of consequences I'm referring to

Might be display incompabilities, software incompabilities (notorious or not), printing problems (printshops commonly rejecting certain mixtures), RIP issues and basically, what have you.

Background

This question is not about justifying effects and 'elaborate' treatments. It's about situations where you'd find such to be favorable, but where you'll have to consider their technical implications.

Comments such as this, is what made me curious to open this question thread (this is not directed to you personally, Scott) :

"I don't use effect on logos. I design flat shapes for logos" …


texts: How can I arrange layers 'forward and backward' in Adobe products?

texts: In Adobe products are there any shortcut keys to move layers forward and backward instead of dragging layers up and down in the palette to arrange them?


texts: Remove small cracks on a black and white photo in Photoshop

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I have a photo that is not of very high quality and and these kinds of small cracks all over its surface.

Is there a way to reduce this effect?


texts: How many inches/mm is left as margin on a standard A4 paper?

texts: Is there a standard length of margin left that works for all printers? On my note taking app I want to know how much space to leave so that when I export to PDF and print (on HP, Brother, Epson, you name it) none of the text is left out.


texts: Looking for the logotype font used in the AprilSix logo

texts: Just looking for this font - or something similar if you have it. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.


texts: How should I lay out a page made of only a small amount of text?

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I'm making a website that only has text, and a small amount.

What would be a good layout for it? Should I put the text in the top left? Center screen? Somewhere else?

The site is a download verification page, a purchase verification page, or a page telling the user his action was completed successfully, etc. About images - There's no need for them.


texts: Flash: default compression settings for imported PSDs

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I've been working on some pixel art lately and whenever I import a PSD or bitmap into my library in Flash Professional it sets the compression option to JPEG.

I want it to be PNG lossless and disable "allow smoothing". It's getting really annoying to have to do this every time I import a file.


texts: I've added a few light effects in Photoshop. When I export it i.e., save a .jpg or any other format all of the layer that have the light effects applied on are coming out full black. The effects aren't being rendered/exported in the output file. How do I render the image with the light effects applied? I can see the effect applied in the Photoshop file. But the output is black.


texts: Why does an almost solid line appear in this image?

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I am learning how to use python's pillow library to produce images, and for a test I made it produce a 256*256 RGB image with each pixels green value equal to its x position and its blue value equal to its y position (relative to the top left corner) Everything worked fine, I got an image with green and blue gradients, just as expected, however their seems to be a solid-ish blue line from the upper left to the lower middle. This color artifact made me intrigued. I checked that my program worked correctly, which it did. I don't know if It's my computer monitor, or some visual effect, but I'm puzzled as to why I am seeing this? Could you shed some light on this? The image is attached.

EDIT: When I uploaded the image, the artifact disappeared, I took a screen shot of the image in a viewer, then cropped it and posted it. My image viewer might be partially responsible.


texts: New: Photoshop - Export As - Why no Progressive JPG Option

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Photoshop - Export As - Why no Progressive JPG Option

Why does the latest version of Photoshop not have the JPG Progressive option as a choice when using the Export As option and only in the Legacy Save for Web?

Export As offers higher quality compression, so it a bit disappointing that you don't get to use it if you are optimising your images for websites with Progressive.

Google PageSpeed - Insights - Optimize Images

JPEG is a lossy format. The compression process removes visual details of the image, but the compression ratio can be 10x larger than GIF or PNG.

  Reduce quality to 85 if it was higher. With quality larger than 85,
  the image becomes larger quickly, while the visual improvement is
  little.
  Reduce Chroma sampling to 4:2:0, because human visual system
  is less sensitive to colors as compared to luminance.
  Use progressive format for images over 10k bytes. Progressive JPEG usually has higher
  compression ratio than baseline JPEG for large image, and has the
  benefits of progressively rendering.
  Use grayscale color space if the
  image is black and white.

Export As

Save for Web


texts: How to achieve a bevel effect like this?

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I have a design question. I'm trying to achieve a bevel effects like on the image below. I have a rasterized layer so I can't see what settings were used to create this. I have tried various combinations with Highlight, Shadow modes and Glass contours. This effect is strange cause it puts the light like from the center or something. If someone has any idea how to achieve an effect similiar to this, I would be thankful for a tip! :)

For curious designers, I need this to create an outline like this:


texts: "Exploding" objects apart evenly in inkscape

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Just wondering if this is possible by some built in function or a plugin of some sort.
Basically, I need to take a group of objects, and 'explode' them apart evenly.
So, if I started with the 4 squares in the first image:

I need to 'explode' them apart by a certain amount, so that the gaps between them are evenly spaced. See second picture for illustration:

I would just select them one at a time and space them by moving them via the arrow keys, but I've got a few images that have hundreds of objects that this needs to be done to.


texts: Move to another slide in animation and on return start animation from the point where it stopped

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I have a Main slide that has flow chart with boxes, lets say:
A -> B -> C -> D
In this flow chart each box i.e. A, B, C and D has animation on it that appear on a mouse click one after the other.
Now, I added a Zoom in Slide on box B so when you click on box B it will zoom in to another slide. On this zoom in effect I selected option 'return on click' so as to return to the Main slide that contains the flow chart. But on return to the Main slide the animation starts all over again from box A. Is there a way I can start the animation on Main slide where it was stopped previously.?


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I've got some text in the image and I need to match its style. I typed a text I wanted to add in and I was able to match the font and so on. The only thing I couldn't have done was to match the patten of the text. I've added some noise to make it look alike. It looks kind of close but not the same:

If you zoom in you'll see that PB has got some light green dots and lighter dark hues. How could I transfer that to the RNOV.

Is there soemthing I can do about that? Sample different areas, create a pattern and paint with it?

I tried the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool but I ended up with a messy inconsistent pattern and painted over the edges of the text. I don't know how to make some area not be affected by it.

PS I'm like a newbie in PS :)


texts: How to place a double spread InDesign document into another InDesign document

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We are designing a magazine using InDesign.

Our Setup:

1 InDesign Document (we cal it the Ladder) that binds all below mentioned document into the Magazine.
A lot of Single Page InDesign Documents.
A few Double Spread (2 pages next to each other, facing) InDesign Documents.

Using a new InDesign (We use CS6), it is possible to place an InDesign file inside another (this is how we bind all the pages together). This gives us the ability to have the whole team working on different pages at the same time (InDesign locks the file when it is opened).

By using the Double Spread pages, we are able to easily design the longer article pages to have a single PSD background, text continuity etc.

The issue we are facing:

When we place a Double Spread into the Ladder, only the first page is shown/imported into the Ladder. We can't get the second page to also be placed in the Ladder.

What we have tried:

Expanding the rectangle of the placed page - this stretches the first page over the 2 pages.
Searching for an answer - found a lot of answers, all for placing a singe page or multiple pages which are not Double Spreads.

Any help will be greatly appreciated


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I saw this graphic the other day and wondered, how I'd the gradient done?

It looks like a linear gradient but instead of going left to right it starts at the base of the wing and curves up to the tip as if it follows the path of the actual wing. How is this done? (Photoshop or illustrator by the way)


texts: How to turn a shiny metallic surface into a matte surface?

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How do I turn a glossy/shiny surface into a non-shiny or matte surface in Adobe Photoshop?

I have here two images. The first is the image I would like to manipulate. The second image is the look I'm going for (not to replicate everything about it, but I want to achieve the same non-shiny look for the first image).

I'm aware that what I need to do is to dampen the highlights, and lower the contrast, but my attempts at adjusting the highlights via the Shadows/Highlights... menu and the contrast via the Brightness/Contrast... menu did not succeed. Adjusting colors by means of Replace Color... also did not yield success.

What other methods or techniques should I consider?


texts: How can two versions of the same product be sold under different licenses? (standard royalty-free and "editorial use only")

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I've run into a conundrum where I want to purchase two 3-D models (one of a Boeing 787 and one of a Volvo semi truck with trailer) from Turbosquid for use in a commercial, but both models are listed under an editorial, non-commercial license, presumably because they are depicting real-world products.

However, there are other models of the exact same plane and truck (available at either a higher price or lower quality or I would've saved myself the dilemma) that are released under a standard royalty-free license for any use.

So who should I believe? Did the artists in the latter case not know what they were doing? Were the artists in the former case being too cautious? Might the latter artists have gotten special permission from the manufacturers to sell their models for commercial use?

And furthermore, is it on these artists if they released something under a commercial license that they shouldn't have? Or am I the one in trouble if I buy an improperly "commercially-released" Boeing airplane model and Boeing comes to me later saying that I used their stuff without their permission?


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I have asked this question earlier tonight at the Inkscape forum, but the Stack* is more fluent, so here it is:
When I tried to save a very basic drawing as a sif (Synfig Animation) file, the Inkscape have an issue as in image bellow. After that warning, the other window appears with err that the file could not be saved. The OS is very fresh copy of Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS, and the Inkscape has been recently updated to 0.92.5, I think. Please, any suggestions?


texts: Paste at Mouse Cursor Position ("stamping") in Illustrator (just like in Inkscape)

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I have a large number of icons that I need to place at specific points throughout my document and as far as I can tell the paste function in Illustrator only places the point in either i) the center of the view or ii) at the same position as the original object that was copied (in front/back).

Is there another way that I'm missing, through additional scripting or a plugin or really anything else that might be able to allow me to paste an object directly beneath the mouse cursor position? In Inkscape this is fairly straightforward and the default behavior, but many of my projects require work in Illustrator.

Maybe there is an alternative that I'm forgetting about? Perhaps creating a certain type of symbol object that allows you to use the mouse cursor to stamp duplicates throughout a document. Anything like that sort of functionality would be especially helpful.

Thanks


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Does Inkscape work with CMYK?
what is the color tab (picture)?


texts: Filter to preview result of laser-engraving of photo

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I often engrave different photos as souvenirs on the laser cutter. I use LaserCut Pro 5.3 with the Tools > Half Bmitmap (sic) to convert a JPEG to a black-and-white bitmap.

Photos close to black-and-white have the best result. For example, this photo is a clear bi-modal photo with highlights and shadows.

For grayscale pictures with midtones, the result is often pure white versus the rest. For example, this photo of a rabbit gets white only in the tree branches.

For such grayscale photos, I tried doing luminosity and levels masks and found no procedure that works for all photos. I engrave photos only once and I am happy to adjust each photo manually, but I want to avoid the trial-and-error of trying different masks and waiting 15 minutes for the result of each.

Can I apply a filter to an image and see what it will look like when engraved, so I can easily try different masks on different photos?


texts: Web design: How to make sure all web design elements doesn't look too big before coding it?

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When making web designs and UI designs in Photoshop CC 2017, after being approved by the customer, then the website is being coded. During the coding process, website becomes available on some domain name for testing purposes and sometimes I get a report from coder or client, that all elements that are on the site looks too big, not much, but definitely needs to be made smaller.

I am trying to understand, why this happens and one of the versions is that maybe during the design process I forget to fit artboard to 100%. Text size is the main problem in most cases.

I want to know, is there some tricks to learn and know to be sure that all these web elements looks like it should be every time I design for web? Is there some mandatory specifications that I always need to keep in mind, like smallest and biggest font size for header menu, website main text etc.?


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I'm having trouble with the pen tool as it won't stay at the stroke width that I set it to. It seems at some points of the image it accepts my settings and others it automatically resets to 1 pt and can't be resized.

I tried making my details on a separate layer to see if perhaps the current layer had been set to something that would be causing this issue but the problem remains.

In the image below you can see that I managed to illustrate a few lines down the building but when I try to make a vertical line it converts to 1pt.

Does anyone know what's up?


texts: disabling PowerPoint's "automatic centering"

texts: When I design charts in PowerPoint, I sometimes need to typographically fine tune the text boxes of data values, where I have to zoom all the way in to see them.  Inevitably, PowerPoint will automatically animatedly shift the viewport to the center of the chart, bringing what I need to look at completely out of view.  Is there any way of suppressing this monstrous "feature"?


texts: How to turn the grey background white in a phone camera picture of a book?

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Here is a picture (of many) that I took from a book with my phone camera.

The problem is that the background is too grey. I want it fully white. I have adobe Photoshop CS6. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Note: I need instructions, as I need to do this to many other pics.

Thanks


texts: What's the name of this grungy "hand-drawn" font?

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I made this image a few years ago and no longer have the computer I made it on. Now I can't for the life of me figure out what I used for "SAM FATHERS".

Although it looks hand-drawn, it's definitely a font; the differences between the A's and S's is probably due to upper- and lower-case letters producing the variations.


texts: How to find name of original image in PowerPoint presentation?

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I found an old PowerPoint slide I made, but I really want to find the original image that I imported to the slide. Is there a way to find the name of the image, upon which the slide is based (e.g., I inserted 'imageFoo.jpg' into my slide). I'm sure it's in one of my hard drives.

I have tried exploring the properties of the image (right click, format image), but the closest I got to the original is its size property. Googling didn't reveal the answer.


texts: Rectangle's corners being automatically rounded upon creation or copy

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Whenever I create a rectangle, the corners are rounded. I can use the circular handle on the top-right corner of the shape to remove the rounded corner, but if I then copy this rectangle, the resulting rectangle has again rounded corners.
I would like to know how to disable this automatic rounding, or if this is a bug.


texts: I'm a volunteer webmaster with a non-profit organization. Our original web site designer specified the "Amphion" font for some elements. This font is freely available on dozens of web sites. Some members of the society's board are concerned that we may be using this font illegally, since we have not paid a license fee for it. I've tried to locate the original owner of this font on the web with no success. So my question is: Should we be paying a license fee to someone for permission to use this font, and if so, who?


texts: SVG exported to EMF loses precision, but exported as PNG looks fine

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I am Windows desktop programmer that needs to convert certain SVG into EMF in order to use it for programming.

My graphics design skills are at beginner level, but I have managed to convert SVG file into EMF successfully using Inkscape. However, the result is not looking as the original one, it is less "precise" so to say. If I export the SVG as PNG the result is the same as the original file. Unfortunately I need vector format that Windows recognizes and that is only EMF ( I am using pure WinAPI and C++, hence this limitation... ).

To see exactly what I mean, original SVG, and EMF and PNG that I made are here. Just click on the Download:test.rar ( see the image below ).

The problem seems to be the dimensions of the EMF file ( it should be 90 x 120 ) as the picture is crystal clear when I resize my application to bigger dimensions.

I am asking your help to get the same graphic quality of the EMF file as the original SVG.

To further help you in your efforts to solve my problem, here is a small application that will display EMF in a window. Just keep the EMF in the same place the application is, and name the EMF as test.emf.

Thank you for your time and efforts. Best regards.


texts: Comparing numbers of vastly differing scales

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I'm working on a project that looks at the nature of electronic data (bits/bytes, storage) and the exploding nature of data traffic on the internet from 1990 to projected 2016.

For one part of this project, I've developed an incrementing counter that compares data-traffic per second for the years 1990, 2000, 2010, 2013 and 2016. Quite interestingly, the scale of difference between the years has been absolutely mindblowing from a purely numerical perspective.

See below a purely mechanical representation of this data:

I'm struggling to settle on a dynamic visualisation that will illustrate this per-second data traffic of each year, whilst still providing the user of the full context of what they're seeing - for example, a vertical bar that you scroll down might work in theory, but in practice the 2016 forecast traffic is so much larger than 1990 that you would be scrolling down infinitely to see the bar's end, and completely lose sight of 1990's miniscule bar, and therefore lose comprehension of the scale itself.

Another related problem is the matter of infinity. We've realised that at some point the data will be so large at some point that it WILL break the display, unless it is purely numerical strings.

So.

How could you visually compare values of massively different orders/sizes?


texts: Common ground for image sizes when using Photoshop save to web

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Recently, I was working on an image in Photoshop and wanted to save it for web usage. I wanted to know whether there is a good size to go with for the modern design standards when it comes to websites. I am a little hesitant to save it as a 1920 X 1080 simply because it is on the higher end and then use CSS to move it around as a background.

I am also not sure that using the more common 960px as the width will really serve my needs when the viewport size of a browser goes beyond that with all the new resolutions out there.

Furthermore, I am a little concerned with the size of the image and loss of quality as we get into higher resolutions considering that if I start small, I am left with little growing room and then having to deal with a diluted image as the size of the viewport goes up.

Any recommendations or links that talk about this? I am trying to build a site using responsive design and I have seem some JavaScript utilities that let you resize images but I am more concerned with the size of the image to start with and moving from there.

Thanks for any help or suggestions here.


texts: Mirror an image with stretched pixels arced between

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I am looking to replicate the way this photo is edited. I would like to create the effect of having a mirrored image with the pixels stretched between the two sides (with the pixels bent upwards).

Thanks


texts: How can I create an portable object in Illustrator that will render anything beneath it transparent?

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I'm creating knitting charts in Illustrator CC on a Mac. Every chart has a lined grid on which I place symbols. Most of the symbols are one square high and wide, so they fit right within the black gridlines. Some symbols, however, span several columns, and the gridlines beneath them can't show through. I don't want to create symbols that have a white background that will cover the gridlines because the backgrounds for the charts are sometimes shaded and the white will show up. So I need for the multi-column-wide symbols to be able to render anything beneath them as transparent so that the gridlines don't show through the symbols.

Photo #1 shows how the gridlines are showing through the red-outlined symbol. #2 shows how I want it to look - I cut the gridlines so you could see the look I want.

How can I do this? I've tried knockout groups and zeroing out the opacity, but neither has worked, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. I have made it work once or twice in the past, but when I try to use the old symbols in a new chart, they don't work.


texts: Create a two color printing image with only one color (dithering)

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In Illustrator: How do you create the color Grey with just using Black, but without changing opacity? (it can also be used for other colors)

Whenever we have to print something (shopping bags, wrapping paper, etc) we have to create a template for each color that is used. There is a "cheat" where you take a graphic element and fill it with tiny dots in stead of a 100% solid fill, thus creating the illusion that a second "lighter" color is used. The "further" the dots are from each other, the "lighter" the color will be. But since its the same base color, it saves on having to create another template.

I hope that made sense.

--> Original file used by the producer in .pdf format (open in Illustrator)


texts: How can I analyze image colors expressed in the L-a-b model?

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I have a database of colors in L-a-b format.
 the colors of the database comes from  the colors of porcelain material  and they are 80 or 90 colors, when I want to make a new color thes reference of the color does not is in the database to get the same reference we have to mix several colors with different quantities that we have in the database
  I want to analyze how many colors there are [in an image (??)], and I want to know the quantity of each color that it contains.So I need it for creating a new color.

  For example: I want this color: L: 75, a: 3, b: 16. In the database there are many similar numbers of which the following are examples.

  L: 79 a: 6 b: 22
  L: 72 a: 10 b: 18
  L: 80 a: 7 b: 19

  I use to make a mixture of several colors with different quantities that are in the database, the result of this mixture must be the same desired color

  L: 75 a: 3 b: 16

  What method or algorithm can I use to get the right result?{Normally we use formulas of CIELAB ΔE, "Delta E" but this brings us closer to the color does not give you the same color so we have to calculate to know how many quantities of each color must be mixed to get the desired color.}


texts: How can I fix colors bleeding in an SVG file?

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what tools are available for myself to fix the green from bleeding outside of the black bucket? Preferably free tools. I just want to get rid of this green border surrounding the bucket icon.

I hired a cheap (yes I got what I paid for) free-lance designer to create this SVG based off my PNG. The green highlight is very noticeable on black backgrounds, what are some ways I can fix this myself? I downloaded inkspace, haven't played around with it yet. But I would like to hear some recommendations from the graphic design experts in this stack exchange.
The end-state of the file needs to be in SVG, as this is for a responsive website.
I could also edit the SVG file myself if that's possible?
please let me know some of your thoughts.


texts: Illustrator isn't allowing me to select part of a graphic

texts: I'm trying to edit a text based image in Illustrator CC but parts of the text are not allowing me to edit or even select them. even clicking Select All doesn't work. has anyone had this problem? any solutions?


texts: Identify font from "For the voice" (Dia golosa) an El Lissitzky book on Maiakovski poems

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Can someone identify which font is this?

I found these fonts:
Ritz Slab Serif JNL - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/jnlevine/ritz-slab-serif/regular/
URW Clarendon Narow Bold - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/clarendon/urw-clarendon-t-bold-narrow/
Superclarendon Bold - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/superclarendon/bold/
Bogue Slab Black - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mika-melvas/bogue-slab/black/
Clarendon Text Bold SCOsF - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/clarendon-text/bold-scosf/
FF Zine Serif Display OT Black - https://www.whatfontis.com/FF-Zine-Serif-Display-OT-Black.font
FF Quixo Pro Extra Bold SC - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/ff-quixo/offc-pro-extrabold-sc/
Chamberí Text Black - (link removed for lack of reputation points to post more than 8 links)
MPI Antique - (link removed for lack of reputation points to post more than 8 links)
But none is quite right.


texts: How can I re-establish text threads after merging multiple files into one for ebook?

texts: I have combined multiple CS6 Indesign files into one through the "move pages" option. Now, I need all my text links to be re-establish because this book will also be produced as ebook as well. Is that possible? If so, how do I do that?


texts: I am trying to create scala logo in HTML however could not find the font for the logo. Can someone help me with it.


texts: What font do the buttons at the top of the page on Netflix use?

texts: I have been working on something that would add some buttons to the Netflix browsing page for easier browsing and would like to know what font the buttons (the "Home", "TV Shows", "Movies", "Recently Added" and "My List" ones) use.


texts: Same SVG displayed differently on Illustrator and Inkscape

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For the following SVG file

It is shown correctly in inkscape as

At 100% zoom level

For the same zoom level in illustrator it's shown as

If you zoom into the illustrator image the pattern is alerted

Why is this so?


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It is possible to center selected objects to a guide?

Example:

...or to selected path:


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When a compound word is hyphenated, should a second hyphen be added at the beginning of the next line? And what is the case for compound words connected by a dash instead of a hyphen?
Is any of the following correct, or is the proper way different?
Note: My primary interest is English. However, this could be language dependent and if there are differences, I'd like to know about them.


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I have an artboard that is 565 x 28 cm
I am unable to export it as a PDF. Can someone guide me as to how to do this?
It is still within Canvas range, but bearly.


texts: Why is photoshop adding a white stoke to my work after I save it as a gif, but not as a png?

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For some reason Photoshop is adding a weird white stroke (which I'm not to fond of) to my finished work after I save it. However this only happens when I save it as a .gif, otherwise the image is completely transparent and how I want it.

Example:

Gif: (open image in a new tab to see the white line)

Not Gif (png):


texts: The title says it all. What is the effect used in this image and how are there any good tutorials to do it in Photoshop?


texts: What is the different ways in Photoshop to copy the remaining layers and create a new document?

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Basically when someone gives me a PSD that has a bunch of copy and other things that I need to quickly strip off to use the background on a web page. What are the fastest ways to clear that and start new.

Currently I save a copy. Then start deleting the layers that will not be used as web backgrounds.

But then what? I remember a keyboard shortcut in Photoshop to copy and then paste to a new document, and when copied it came down to the size of the remaining object (not the original canvas size).


texts: How to reach / create direction points if they are close to anchor point in Illustrator?

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I have sharp angle and wish to start to move control points

I dont see any direction points there. Either they are coincide with anchor point or they are very close to it.

Hot to start moving direction points in this situation?


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I am looking for a way to do citations in Adobe InDesign, preferably without footnotes. I'm planning to write a document similar to a bachelors or masters theses. Therefore, it would be awesome to have an option to define a specific format e.g. IEEE for citations, so they are consistent throughout the document.

In case you know Tex, I am looking for such a functionality, but since I am planning to do a lot of designing I think that InDesign is better suited for the overall task of writing a academic document.


texts: In trying to reduce file size for PSD, does eliminating saved selections do anything? I've found lots of useful tips, but none relating to selections. Thanks.


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I'm using a sprites sheet on my 2D game that contains different buttons.
I would like to create other buttons with custom icons because I'm adding new features to the game that need a specific icon.
The sprite sheet is in png.

Screenshot shows part of the sheet with a list of buttons (Great work by the author) where I simply added two rows of clean buttons where I would like to put some custom Icon.
In this example I'm working on a bell which I downloaded in white png format, added as a layer, filled with a gradient for the first green button on the left.
What I need now is to create the inner shadow effect to create the cool depth effect like in the other buttons.
Do you have any technique to suggest in GIMP or other free drawing tool to create such effect?
Thank you in advance.
P.s.
Buttons are small in the game so I don't expect to have the fantastic details of the original buttons; good enough would be ok.
EDIT:
Thank you @BillyKerr, with your detailed instruction I made it.


texts: Do the fonts Bebas Neue and Klinic Slab pair well?

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I am trying to find two fonts to use on my resume.

Bebas Neue

Klinic Slab


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I'm curious which pricing model other feel best fits freelance design, in what situations, and why.

I am not seeking dollar values.

There are a few basic pricing models a freelancer can use:

Time-based pricing. This is where you calculate every minute you work on a project and break that down to your hourly rate and charge whatever the formula states you should. There are several questions here at GD.SE which refer to time-pricing models, with some excellent answers, such as: Graphic Design Pricing / What price should I charge for design services? / Pricing for Website Design (Graphics Only) This model can be accurate provided a client is aware each and every minute you work costs more. Therefore each revision will increase fees. Some clients are fine with this, some freak out because they didn't understand the pricing structure.
Per-service or fixed fee pricing. Sometimes known as project-based pricing. This is where you calculate a price for each and every service you offer and essentially work off of a price sheet. This way you know a brochure costs $XXX every time, a 3-page web site costs $XXX every time, etc. This model does not allow for alterations should project scope become an issue. So it can result in those difficult conversations with clients telling them to stop with revisions or pay more.
Value-based pricing. This model doesn't adhere to any set pricing or per hour structure. Value based pricing prices services according to their perceived value or importance to the client. This one is a bit tricky. Essentially it's the old "If you charge more, clients think you are worth it." model. You can often use this model to increase revenue without increasing workload. This is why "Name Brand" items cost more than generic items - a perceived value when in reality the items or workload are / is the same.

There are others such as licensing, use-based, royalties, etc. but I feel those are special circumstances which don't generally apply to most work. If you feel they do, please explain why.

It is also possible to use a combination of price models or hybrid model. For example, you may figure a job cost using time-based pricing but then add additional fees for value-based pricing.

It is also feasible that different services or projects are priced differently. For example:

sales piece creation fees are a hybrid calculation using time-based and value-based figures to arrive at final fees. Then, additional edits to that sales piece at a later date are strictly time-based priced. Poor Practice? After all , if it's a sales piece each and every copy seen by end users has potential to generate revenue for the client. So, is it more appropriate to use some value-based pricing for the edits?
Web site creation fees are calculated using hybrid fees from time-based, per-service, and value-based figures. When an additional page is requested a year later, fees are based solely upon fixed fee rates for an additional page. Is this adequate? What if the additional page requires different services? Still a fixed fee then?

Obviously, all price models must cover your overhead at a minimum.

I am not seeking dollar values.

Which pricing model do you feel best fits freelance design services?

When do you feel it's appropriate to use the different price models, if you do?

Edit: I realize that in the end, most deliver what could be seen at fixed-fee pricing to their clients. This is just naturally what any hard quote appears to be. I'm not really thinking in terms of what a designer delivers to the client as the pricing. What I'm curious about is how you get to that figure the client sees.

I do realize this is a complex matter and few scenarios fit nicely into a specific category. Just looking for some general input from others in the industry.


texts: How to have joined line segments with different stroke colours in Adobe Illustrator?

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I have two line segments: one with a black stroke and one with a red stroke. Both have a stroke weight of 0.25pt.

I'd like to joint the two paths and treat them as a single path, but with the two different colours. However, when I join them with the Cmd/Ctrl + J shortcut, the two segments fuse together and the stroke colour is changed to black in both.

Now, is it possible to achieve such a desired effect? Any smart workaround?


texts: Why buttons without icons in Material Design

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In Google's Material Design, do the guidelines prefer buttons without icons next to text? On http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons.html no such examples can be found. Is it written somewhere why?

(I know the floating action button or paper icon button have icons; I'm talking about text buttons.)


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Do you guys have any font suggestions for a ministry website (for headlines, logo etc.) ?

So far I found this one:


texts: Guidelines for printing a raster image of text?

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I need to include png images of text in a photo book, but I don't know how to achieve the best quality. Are there any general guidelines?

For example, should I use a DPI above 300 and let the printer handle any downscaling needed? Is output sharpening advised?

The book will be printed on matte photo paper by a photo lab, but I don't know what print process will be used.

Background: I'm using the photo lab's own software to design the book, as I don't have the software or knowledge to create a pdf where I could include vector text.

Note that I do understand the purpose of DPI, and that rasterised text is not ideal. My instinct is to increase the resolution of the text image at fixed physical dimensions, but I'm unsure if there are any hidden downsides to that (e.g. in supplying a higher DPI than the printer is capable of) or if anything else should also be done.


texts: How to delete a line of pixels in pixel preview, within illustrator?

texts: I know how to do this with photoshop, but is there an easy way in illustrator to just delete this specific(marked in blue) line of pixels, while in pixel preview?


texts: Typeset similar to that used in the Encyclopædia Britannica

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Can anyone tell me the name of a typeface that closely mimics (or is exactly representative of) the one used in the fifth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 5th Edition? I have included a picture here for reference:

Please note that the 5th edition appears in the top section of this image only. The bottom section pictures the 6th edition, which has a different typeset. I'm not necessarily looking for a typeset that includes the archaic ligatures such as the long s and the 'ct' patterns seen in the image; I only wish to know one that mimics the general style of the 5th edition's typeset (if one exists).

I apologize if the answer to this question is blatantly obvious.


texts: Can I merge CMY layers to K layer to make the black?

texts: I can only use 3 screens (colours) for a degree module and was wondering can i merge a copy of the key(K) layer to each of the CM and Y(cyan, magenta and yellow) layers in Photoshop so when they are layered onto the paper they will add a darker colour replacing the black? Thanks


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I have a question for you guys. I design graphic stuff like invitations etc. I am in cooperation with some printing company but we have a problem.

They use Xerox C75 and I print on 330x488 eco paper (250g). The problem is that there are four invitation on one piece of paper. They cut it on the machine but there is huge offset (about 4mm) between first and last invitation.

It cannot happen because it looks ugly. They say that it's normal that printer is moving its printouts a little bit and when they cut it on the machine this happens and there is nothing we can do about it.

Please tell me if it's true. This printer costs about $10k, i don't believe that there is offset for about 4mm betwen first and 20th piece of paper in the printout.


texts: Interlacing Letter Objects Using Transparency Mask?

texts: I'm interested in preserving the object integrity of the two letters in the image on the left.  However, I would like to interlace the letters in the same manner as the image on the right without using the knife tool (as I did on the right, which has left a line on the S just to the left of the V that I can't seem to get rid of).  I understand this can be done with transparency masks but I'm not sure how to do this.  Any help would be much appreciated!  Thank you!


texts: MS Word — setting a section break so that it's fixed in one place

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I'm creating a letterhead template for a client. I'm using a section break so that I can style the header on the first page so that it's different to the headers on all subsequent pages.

My problem however, is that the section break moves with the text as I type:

I would like it to stay fixed in place... so that, once the first page is full of text, then the text then automatically continues into the second section. At the minute, the section break just moves further and further down the document the more I type.

Otherwise, it means me handing the template to my client and explaining to them that, once the first page is almost full, for them to then move their cursor into the second page / section manually... which of course isn't very user-friendly.

So it would be ideal if I could just fix it in place at the bottom of the second page.