texts: How to use drawing for tracing in illustrator

texts: I don’t have scanner but I want to use hand drawing on paper in illustrator. I have laptop and iPhone I don’t know how can I make that easy so every time I span a picture of my drawing using phone. I can use it to trace in illustrator.


texts: Software recommendation: What program can I use to create maps like these?

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I have tried to look online for an answer but I don't seem to be able to find what I am looking for. Here is my questions:

What is used to create maps like this:

and like this:

http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/brochures/ctaSystemMapBrochure.pdf

My goal is to augment already existing map with a few extra elements. I checked out Edraw Max but it does not seem to be able to upload a customized background.

So basically it would be great if the software accepted a .pdf file like above (I think it is already in a vector form) and after minor change and editing, I would be able to generate a similar .pdf file

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How do I efficiently create closed shapes with shared boundaries in Inkscape, e.g. countries on a map?

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In the drawing you see five paths (orange pink green blue and red), which define the boundaries of 4 regions (a b c and d).  I now want to create those regions so they are fillable, and without crazy "op-art" effects due to differing directions. For instance, to create region b, I need to use the pink path (which is shared with c), the green path (shared with a) and part of the blue path (shared with d).

What is a process for doing this that is efficient?  My actual drawing has dozens of regions and I'd like a process that doesn't take a week.


texts: I am designing an iPhone 6 app. I have set up my artboard to 750 X 1334px which I have found to be the standard size according to helpful websites. However, When convert the artboard size to inches it is 10.42 in x 18.53 in. Why is it so large? During exporting..is this when the actual asset size is found?


texts: Inkscape proportional resizing based on "part" of an image

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Using Inkscape and wanting to proportionately resize a grouped object based on an included part of the object.

For example I have an image with an outline of something. Within that image is a simple square of some random size. I want to expand the image proportionately until that square is exactly 1"x1" (or whatever)

Presently, I draw a 1"x1" square then select the original object, lock the width and height, and corner drag it until that square looks like it matches my 1x1 square. Then I have to move it to get closer to overlay, and stretch again. Repeat until it looks as close as I can visually manage.

There must be an easier and more efficient way. Suggestions?


texts: Does the front plane ever change in 1 point perspective?

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In one point perspective drawing does the front plane that is facing us ever change shape or get smaller if you draw a box?
If I keep drawing boxes that is below the horizon line lower and lower in 1 point perspective, will the front face get smaller or disappear eventually?


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I've seen this pattern done in a lot of images but have no clue how it's done. I'm pretty sure it's not done line by line considering how perfect it always looks regardless of the image. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about:

I'd like to create this in Adobe Flash CS4, if possible.


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I'm completely new on a Mac. I would like a pointer as to how to visualize a preview of a given headline in as many fonts as possible from those installed on the system. What I need to accomplish is twofold:
1) Discover which fonts are installed on the system.
2) Look how my headlines looks in ALL of the fonts, spending as little time as possible (a screenful of previews rendered using the various fonts would be golden, perhaps with right-arrow/left-arrow allowing me to browse until I find something I like..).

I cannot import my usual Fonts onto this system so I need to use what they have.


texts: How to combine pictures to relate them to the person who viewed these pictures?

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I have a lot of video footage in first person view, dramatic scenery, and a photo of an old man.

I want to combine them to make a background picture (1920 x 1080) that should transmit the message: this is what he saw, this is what shaped his face.

I came up with a picture mosaic, mixing pictures of the raw footage, but I found this unconvincing.

Then I thought about showing the face of the old man and putting footage into his eyes as a reflection, but that would limit me to one or two pictures of the footage.

How can I combine more pictures while conveying the idea of the first person point of view?


texts: Inkscape: how to display the buttons name

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I'm new to Inkscape so I'm learning the basics.
The buttons name or function doesn't display when I put my cursor over it, like it normally happens (here in Krita). It would greatly help a beginner like me (Window 10 system).
Thanks in advance for your help!


texts: Select all objects within a path (Inkscape)

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I'm currently working with tiled objects (objects that themselves consist of many more smaller objects) with Inkscape. Now it would be so much more easier to not have to select manually all tiles I want to do the same operation with (for example colour, remove) but to be able to select them according to a path that I can paint across/overlay the objects with. Here is a picture of what I'm trying to do:

Draw a path on top of objects.

Colour all objects that the path overlays.


texts: Typographic character to 'fill' a white space ; is asterism ⁂ right?

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In a printed technical publication, I need to present a large double-pages illustration on the same double-page than its explanatory paragraph.
Doing so, I had to insert a page break at the end of the preceding paragraph, and most of the previous double page gets empty...

Is there any typographic character which would mean "this page [or this part of the page] is intentionally left empty" ? I used to see some kind of stars in older novels. Is there any good practice for this ?

EDIT (Typographic terms)

I retrieved the precise terms:

Asterisk * (as pointed out by Lauren Ipsum) [alt+42] [U+002A]
Asterism: ⁂ a centered line of usually three asterisks (a dinkus), OR a centered triangle
made of 3 or 4 asterisks [alt+2042] [U+2042]

The asterism would be used to enhance a break in the document flow (french Wikipedia), or to indicate a minor break (english Wikipedia).

So, does it match my needs only in english? Or is there a better solution?

EDIT (to answers)

Thanks for the answers I received so far (Unknowndomain, Scott & Lauren Ipsum). However, the three of you would not worry that much about a blank page (with the exception of a legal document which could lead to legal issues if some content is actually missing or added illegally onto the blank page). However, I think a full blank page may indeed break the document's flow and the reader's perception of hierarchy : a blank page would mean a change of a main section of the document. Don't you agree ?

So, I'm still worried :)


texts: Split a path into two separate paths in InkScape

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I have a monochrome drawing of a face done in SVG. The entire face is one path. How do I for instance select just an eye and make it into a second separate path? Thanks.

Note that the eye is just kind of floating there in space and is not connected to the nose, mouth, etc.


texts: Preventing overlapping contours from "cancelling out" in Type Light

texts: I'm using Type Light 3.2 and am struggling to find a reasonable way to prevent overlapping shapes "cancel out" and leave white areas in glyphs. How can I avoid this without having the overlaps be omitted by having the contours move past each other? E.g. having a )( shape instead of an X shape.


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Any ideas on what font this is?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/KotakuLogo.jpg


texts: Image is blocking my subheader I have on the A master pgs (needs to be on every page)

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I have an image that I need at the top of the article but I also have the company name on every single page (it's an requirement) so I had the company name as a A master page and applied to every single page I have, but now this image is blocking the company name. I'm not sure how I fix this? Do I have to just write it out again manually in an ordinary text box?

Thanks


texts: Adding a brush to an existing custom brush library in Illustrator

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I have an existing custom brush library I created in Illustrator (CS5).  I just created a new brush that I would like to add to this existing library.  How can I do this?
Drag and drop does not work.  There is no fly-out on the custom brush library panel allowing me to add a new brush.  I can't overwrite the existing custom brush library like I can in Photoshop.

Is there a simple way to do this or am I stuck having to recreate the entire library again in the default brush panel just to add one more?


texts: Which 3D software (MAC) can export basic or modified primitive wireframe objects as a vector? Example included

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I would like to create some large prints so the scalable vector with editable stroke weight is necessary. Found these examples that would be perfect for my needs.
Any tips would be much appreciated


texts: Create an image from multiple overlapping image parts

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I currently have taken pictures of my computer screen playing all of the League of Legends map modes. From there, I have deleted everything but the map itself from each of the images. So now I have of ~13 maps that are overlapping on each other on one PSD. I did this because I wanted to see where the maps overlap specifically. I tried making them all 25% opacity and etc but because there are so many maps it looked like a jumbled mess. I could just do that two at a time, but I wanted to know if there was a way to streamline the process.
Here is the PSD

Edit: I want the area of all the overlapping maps to be silhouetted, and the parts that are not to be gone. or just the latter


texts: Is there a way to remove artboards in photoshop?

texts: Does anyone know if there's a way to remove artboards in photoshop and just work with a file the good ol' fashioned way?


texts: Adobe Fireworks: How to make the master appear on all page states

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When I create new states for the page - the master is gone. It appears only on the first state and not on the others.
Is that how it works or am I missing something?
(CS5, ver 11.1, Windows 7)


texts: How do you make the circular knobs shown at the right? When zoomed in enough, there will be a fine texture of concentric circles. I only use Photoshop and Illustrator.


texts: How can I match a site's background color in both Chrome and Firefox?

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I'm designing a page with both a background image and a background color for the area past the end of the (gradient) background image.

Something like:

background: url("/images/bg.png") repeat-x scroll center top #666666;

I can get the background color to match the end of the image in either Firefox or Chrome, but not both. In one of the two the color I set is always darker than the end of the gradient, so a dividing line is clearly visible between the two.

I can't figure out how to select a color that works in both browsers.

Here's an example of a site using this technique successfully:

http://www.thermometerapp.com/

In this case the background color matches the end of the background image in both FF and Chrome (near the end of the page the bg image ends and the bg color fills the bottom portion).

Any ideas how to make this work? Thanks.

Edit: This reminds me of old palette-related problems, but I thought we were past all that now?


texts: I'm looking for a conversion table for colours in Photoshop/AI/Ind into Microsoft applications

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If colours are selected in Adobe and completely defined in CMYK, RGB, HEX
the (RGB) colours are translated by Microsoft applications into a different colour.

Is there a conversion table from Adobe to Microsoft available to stay true to the original colours?


texts: Indesign: Master pages not applying correctly in the right order

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I'm guessing this is a pretty simple problem I'm having. I'm new to indesign and can't figure out how the masters apply to the pages properly.

For example, I have a 3 page master and I drag down the first page - fine; I drag down the second page - fine; I drag down the third page and the first page displays instead of the third. It also happens when I try to put the first page of a 2-page spread on the right-hand page.

Is there a setting I need checked or unchecked for this? What am I doing wrong? Sorry if this is a really simple problem.

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texts: Icons degrade when converted to PDF using Photoshop

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I'm working on a graphic resume in Photoshop. This project was started by someone else and they used some social icons from flaticon.com. I need to replace the Facebook icon with a Github icon.

Here is an image of the icons after I swap the Facebook one for Github:

At this point I want to convert my PSD into a PDF. After I do that my icons end up looking like this:

The Github icon is degraded compared to the Facebook and Twitter icon.
Why did this happen?

The Github icon I used was a PNG. I've tried it with everything else except SVG because I can't get that file type to work in Photoshop.

Let me know if anyone has an answer to this, it's very frustrating!


texts: When saving images in photoshop CS6 as png they get a white background

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I've got an image, it's an RGB 8 bit.

But when i save it as png, i don't see the transparency, it's all white


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I agreed to make 5 images for a web slideshow for a client.

I haven't sent the quote for the work yet but they are already asking for the source file (psd file) I guess to create their own images in the future.

Should I charge for the psd file/the usage rights?

I know it's common to charge for that for print work but I am a bit confused here. My gut feeling is yes? TIA.


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I wanted to make a logo for 3 friends of mine, just for fun. They asked me if I could make a logo for them, because they simply want a team logo for a video game they all play competitively. Nothing fancy. It's not for sale nor is it to be printed out.

I found this logo of a football team, and I really liked the design. Is it OK for me to create my logo using another logo's elements and tweaking a few things. I'm new to graphic design and I wanted to make sure that it was ok for me to create a logo by copying a few things just for the purpose of making it for my friends.


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I'm trying to modify this image (with Gimp) to make the droplets on the surface where H905 is written stand out as much as possible, and everything else to stand out as little as possible.

Would anyone have any tips?

At the moment, I have this: the operations I have performed are:
Colours, Colour Balance:
        -> Midtones, Cyan 100
        -> Highlights, Magenta 100
Hue-Saturation:
        -> Hue, -20
ColoriseL
        -> Hue, 0
        -> Saturation, 0
Brightness-Contrast:
        -> Contrast, 10


texts: How many InDesign points to a milimeter? (and mm to pt)

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What's the conversion between InDesign's point measurement (as used in leading and text size etc) and millimetres? What's the pt : mm ratio?

I've seen sources suggesting that a point is 1/72 of an inch, and an inch is  25.4mm, so in theory a point would be 0.3528mm and a millimetre would be 2.8346 pts, but I'd like something authoritative as I might well have gone wrong somewhere there.


texts: Cannot change the width profile of a brush stroke in Illustrator

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I'm learning to use Illustrator and I've maid a brush stroke, but I cannot change the width profile of the brush stroke.

This is what I do: I select the stroke I've made with my custom brush, I go to the panel at the top, I change the width profile of the stroke but it doesn't work.

Even if I select any width profile and I use the brush, the brush stroke is always the same.

What is the problem?


texts: Is it possible to change an object and automatically change all copies of that object across artboards in Illustrator?

texts: As the title say, is there any way in Illustrator to "link" an object to its copies? In other words, is it possible to change an object - for example some text inside it - and automatically change all copies of that object across artboards in Illustrator?


texts: How to apply a gradient to a (Raster) image in Illustrator?

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I have tried to add a gradient to an image for my logo.

I have tried using Adobe Illustrator, but it doesn't add a gradient to the image, only the objects you create in Illustrator.

Is there any way to add a gradient to the image below in Illustrator? I want to make the top part lighter than the bottom.


texts: How can you continue to work with an undecided client but has already payed?

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I've been working with a logo for a client whom has already payed a deposit. I created 3 different proposals until he picked one and started making changes from that chosen design.

In the next to last meeting we had, there were several issues with the chosen logo, I must say that the client's decisions were based under several comments from three members of his team. They decided that they just needed a "renovation" from the actual logo since they are more than attached to their logo, so, it is crucial that the new one maintains the four elements that are already captured in the old one.

Having that in mind I created a fourth proposal in which all four elements were polished and updated, and in our last meeting (yesterday) I emphasized the negative points from the previous meeting which led to this new proposal. The second the client checked out the logo, the comment was: "I don't like it."

I had really high expectations since the proposal captured everything that the client wanted and not wanted... Is it time to ask for a new deposit? even though the total price was already negotiated but I didn't consider to make all this changes.


texts: Inkscape ICC profiles location - specifically Adobe RGB color space

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I'm trying to figure out how to get Inkscape to use the Adobe RGB color space. In the menus I've found the colour management section in: File > Preferences > Color Management, and from there I can see in the Display Profile drop-down menu that there are some existing choices such as sRGB, Epson RGB etc, but I can't see Adode RGB here.
I've been told elsewhere that I need to install the Adobe RGB ICC profile in the correct director, then it will appear in this menu and I can select it. I was given the following link:
http://write.flossmanuals.net/inkscape/color-management/
In this article it states that for Windows:
.ICC color profile files need to be present in one of the following folders to be listed in the preferences dialog dropdown menus.
Windows (Inkscape 0.47+):
C:\Documents and Settings<user>\My Documents\color\icc
C:\Documents and Settings<user>\Application Data.color\icc
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\color\icc
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data.color\icc
application directory\share\color\icc
However I can't actually find any of these folders in Windows 10. I think the article is quite old and my understanding is that the Documents and Settings folder doesn't exist in Windows 10.
I'm at a bit of a loss what to do next. Basically I want to get hold of the Adobe RGB (1998) ICC profile and get Inkscape to allow me to use it as the Color Space. I've tried following the article in the link but I still can't figure out what to do. Does anyone know how to get Inkscape to use Adobe RGB as the colour space and if so how do I got about doing this? I'm basically thinking do I just need to download the Adobe RGB colour space as an .ICC file and place it in the right directory and then select it as the active colour space from with Inkscape.


texts: Transparent partial slicing in Photoshop

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I am trying to fix some issues I have with Photoshop as a web developer creating graphics for web. I'm using Photoshop CC/14 and have previously used Fireworks.

I have a "button" layer on top of a lot of background layers. The button has a feathered border.

How do I easily export the graphics for this button without all the background layers and instead a transparent background?

I could hide all the background layers and then create a layer slice which then is easy to export. But hiding all the background layers every time I need to do that seems stupid.

What's the smart and brilliant way to do this I have overlooked? alternatively just explain how you normally do it?


texts: How to create this rounded shape in illustrator?

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How to create the following shape in illustrator or Sketch?

Whenever I try to create a circle, copy this circle and work with smaller circles in it, it does look a bit odd. Is there any other way to create this shape and to make sure every part has the same width and height?


texts: Photoshop: Converting text to shape makes them all one color

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I'm trying to use the Perspective and Distort functions on text, therefore I'm trying to convert the text to shapes in order to accomplish that.

When I did it though, it made all the text one color even though I had set multiple different colors to the letters:

After selecting "Convert to Shape" from the "Type" menu, I got this:

The letters that I had colored differently all changed to the same color. What's the best workaround for this?


texts: I've made a quick sun graphic for a portfolio in illustrator that is pixelated when I zoom in and when I import it into InDesign. I can't seem to make the geometry a vector or find any answers as to how to fix the pixelation.


texts: How Do I Resize An Image Without Ruining Text?

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I just finished a Photoshop project at 1600x3200 that involves several images and multiple lines of text. Upon saving the image as a .tif, I uploaded the image to Imgur. Once uploaded, I went into Imgur's editor and noticed that I liked the editor's default display of the image at a lower resolution (950x1900 to be exact) more than the full size (1600x3200) version of the same image. It looked crisp, legible and exactly what I wanted out of the project. Note, I didn't do anything in the editor, all I did was look at the image.

Upon this discovery, I decided to go back into photoshop and resize the image myself to 950x1900. This resulted in a far inferior version of the image than how the original file was displayed at 950x1900. The text is nearly as legible and there artifacts all over the place. For the past few hours I've been trying to find a solution to the problem - eventually coming across a few questions on this website - but nothing has worked. I would just save the high resolution 950x1900 image from the Imgur editor but that's apparently impossible.

Here are screenshots from a section of each image that demonstrate the difference in quality. Sadly, I'm on a MacBook with Retina Display so my screenshot settings are a little goofy but these do accurately represent what I'm talking about:

Original Image in Imgur Editor: http://i.imgur.com/SYqzhZw.png
Resized Image: http://i.imgur.com/Odhosmr.png

I have no idea how to properly word my question because I'm a newbie at graphic design, so here are a few that should cover all my bases of confusion.

How can I resize my image to 950x1900 so that it looks like the original version of the image displayed at 950x1900 in the Imgur editor?
Assuming a worst case scenario where I have to redo this whole project from scratch, what are some precautions I can take in the future to avoid this problem?
Why does an image of a higher dimensions displayed at a lower dimensions look so sharp? I've noticed it in video editing software when taking a 1080p video and putting it into 720p settings. Is this some sort of trick my mind is playing on me?


texts: SVG to bitmap converter that doesn't generate horrible bitmaps

texts: I've been using Inkscape to generate PNG's from various SVG files. This works fine for larger images, but for smaller images (like icons), bitmaps appear grainy and extremely anti-aliased at the edges. Is there a better tool - one that can generate crisp edges, even at low resolutions? Mac or Linux, freeware or commercial (hopefully not too commercial) would do.


texts: I've used some vector elements from an online stock bank in 2 logos but completely redrawn them

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And now I'm wondering what is legal and what isn't. I purchased the elements, used them for inspiration, but completely redrew them. I'm being told by the company that I would need to purchase the full rights to these images. However again when it comes to vector graphics and rather simple ones too. If I am not using the original files and have redrawn, doesn't this in effect mean I've sort of made it my own. Images in question are very very similar which I recreated but not identical.

So just makes me question having to buy the full rights of these stock images. Any advice here thank you.


texts: Export to SVG with blend mode or "Apply" it

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I have an image with a gradient background and a transparent gray shadow on top of it set to multiply. When I export to SVG, it loses the blend mode and appears gray.

How can I have Illustrator either export as SVG with the correct blend mode, or "apply" the blend mode to the shadow so it becomes an opaque gradient with the same color as the result of the multiply?

Edit: Flatten Transparency is very close to what I want, but it cuts the shape out of the object below it. Is there any way to avoid this?


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In Adobe Photoshop I am able to select multiple layers at once with Shift+Click.

How can I do that in GIMP?


texts: I have an Illustrator file with two 8.5x11 artboards that I need to save out as a PDF around 300-450KB. Is this possible to do without losing quality? And if it is possible, how would I do this?


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I am working on a multi-page report that has several different sections.

Due to text available, some of the sections are left aligned while other sections are full justified.

Is it acceptable to use mixed alignment of different sections in the same document?

Here is a sample image that has two different sections with different text alignment...


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We all know you can "type on path" in Adobe's Illustrator like this:

Now, I would like to do the same in Maxon's Cinema 4D but after checking the documents and several search engines, I still haven't found the magic bullet to do that.

How can I "type on path" in Cinema4d like I can do in (eg) Illustrator?


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What are the best tools available in InDesign to control left aligned body copy so that you avoid unattractive line endings and paragraph shapes?

I have a lot of text to work with and would like to automate at least some of the process so that I am not having to do it all manually (tracking, kerning, soft returns etc.).

Also, is it best to avoid relying on hyphenation?

I have fairly short column widths and a fair few long words.


texts: How do I use random color script to fill up the circular patterns that I have created using Phantasm version?

texts: I have already expanded the appearance, broken the symbol link of the halftone patterns and ungrouped it. I want to fill up with several colors using random color fill script but it's not working.


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I have what I'd like to think is a top of the line Windows desktop, built recently.

Ryzen 3950x processor
Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD (M.2 NVMe)
32GB of DDR4 3600 memory
Win 10

Photoshop takes 13+ seconds to open, every time. My entire OS doesn't take much longer than this to load. Is there any way to speed this up?


texts: InDesign Cross reference footnotes numbers

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—The goal/problem

I am writing an academic thesis in InDesign CC 2019 (14.0.2) on mac OS 10.14.6. There are A LOT of footnotes. I hence use the automatic footnotes of InDesign a lot. Up until here, there's no problem. So, as an example, let's say I have: (footnote 12) 12 Max Writer, «intelligent article», 2015.

The problem is that, when I later want to cite the same article again, I have to write it as: (footnote 33) 33 Cited above at note 12.

—What I tried

Using the cross reference functionnality of InDesign, I see that there isn't an option for linking to a specific footnote number. I can repeat the whole paragraph, but not the note number.
I modified the paragraph style for the footnotes to include an automatic numbering, thinking that I would then be able to link to the number by using the "paragraph number" option in the cross references panel. No luck, because turns out that automatic numbering of footnotes resets the numbering for each footnote… so the cross reference links to a "1" every time.

—The cumbersome "solution" I came up with

When I first cite an article, or book (let's say we're still at footnote 12) I add in front of it's footnote: "12", followed by a marker of nested styles. Then I use the cross references panel and choose the option for partial paragraph, up until the nested styles stopper. That way, I still have to enter the right number, but only once, as then all the subsequent references to the article will automatically update. Cumbersome indeed… not ideal at all.

—What I'm looking for

A plugin that can recognize the numbering of the footnotes and add this functionnality to the cross references.
Or a way to make the paragraph numbering flow throughout the footnotes.
Or any other ideas…

Thanks for any help.

Cheers


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I've just installed Fireworks CS6 on my Mac. In a previous version of Fireworks I was able to change the size of my canvas from the default od 6000 pixels. Since then I've upgraded to Yosemite and to CS6 but no longer seem to be able to find the Fireworks CS6 Preferences.txt file to make changes.

There was a question on this previously but the suggestion doesn't seem to work?

Adobe Fireworks CS6 maximum image dimension


texts: I am trying to achieve the exact effect as on the image above, starting from a screenshot. Any links to similar PS tutorials would be of great help.


texts: Legibility of familiar fonts vs. typical considerations for typeface legibility

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I recently had a coworker mention that we might prefer selecting a handful of familiar fonts for some built-in themes for a software application we are developing over a handful of other potential font choices (for example, Georgia over ET Book, an open-source Bembo clone) because he recalled that he had read somewhere that familiar typefaces are easier to read than unfamiliar ones. Can anyone help source a reference for this assertion (or sources for the opposite idea, namely typical considerations of typeface legibility)?

Ignoring goofy, extreme, illegible or tasteless fonts (Comic Sans, Papyrus, Arial -- all problematic for their own sakes) on the familiar side as well as lousy, poor, crazy fonts on the unfamiliar side, my understanding is that font choice depends mostly on the use case itself (body v. title), the quality and readability of the font itself, how it is applied (font size, letter-spacing, line-spacing), document-wide consistency, etc.

Like I said, ignoring really weird fonts or poorly designed fonts, is there any reason to prefer broadly familiar ones over potentially better-designed, high-quality fonts? (I can't imagine a typographer ever uttering such a Familiar Implies Readable mantra, lest no one buy her fonts!)

Is there any other non-legal and non-technology-related reason (assume we have that licked -- we could ship and enable both TTFs or WOFFs as appropriate) to prefer a widely familiar font if other choices are available, all things being equal? The only thing I could come up with is that it might be a little distracting to be reading a new font (especially body copy), thus drawing a little attention to itself, or that the reader has already internalized a representation of familiar fonts in their visual cortex? (No sources for this, just applying some brainstorming.)


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In Sketch I know how to draw a one-side border (using shadows) and I know how to draw dotted border. But what would be the most elegant way to draw an only-on-one-side dotted border?

One obvious way would be to draw a rectangle and then just put a dotted line over it. This also can be converted to a symbol and looks like a bearable solution. But I guess still it can be done better.

To give you idea what I'm talking about:


texts: How do I resize an object in inkscape to an absolute size?

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I have imported a dxf in inkscape, which is now converted into several paths resembling a logo. It has no round dimensions (i.e. many decimals) as it was processed multiple times to make it.

To use it in other software I want to resize it to well defined heights (e.g. 10 mm, 5 mm, 1 mm etc.) while retaining aspect ratio.

When using the transformation tool, I can only resize to relative sizes, not absolute. What could I do?


texts: How to determine the difference of color vibrance of a pair of images?

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I'm an engineer, so my terminology may be incorrect when posing this question.

I have a pair of pictures below and the top one is clearly more "colorful", "vibrant" and "saturated". The bottom one has very saturated colors and is mostly white/gray/beige.

How do I quantify the difference in how colorful or vibrant the two images are? In other words, I want to break the image into spectrum of colors present in the image using the scale in the middle. The top image would have very high values for blue and green, while the bottom image would not.

Does Photoshop or illustrator has a tool to help me with this? Histogram comes to mind, but I'm not sure if it has what I need - the histograms for images are below.

Colorful beach image histogram:

Whitish classroom image histogram:


texts: Using Illustrator CC when I insert a vector flag into a vector eagle shape it fails constantly

texts: I am trying to insert a vector, spot color flag into a vector, 1 color eagle. I have ungrouped and released all clipping masks and compound masks in both objects but my results are always a 1 color object. I made the eagle black so you can see what I am working with. As you can see the eagle does have 3 elements separate from the wing. I tried with these ungrouped as well as simply removing them. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can I convert a PNG's transparency into a selection?

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I have a transparent PNG. Its transparency is defined by an alpha channel.

I am used to extracting this in PhotoPaint with a "Create selection from object" and this makes an exact match of the original transparency.

Is there a quick way to recover this transparency information into a selection or a channel in Photoshop?


texts: How to use path operations to make a ribbon?

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First, I draw a closed path like this:

Then, I draw a line down perpendicularly down from one side of the path (I have snapping turned on, so that I can snap to the path):

I copy and paste this line to the other end of the path:

Then, I copy the initial closed path, and place it below the original like so:

Altogether, these are 4 paths involved: the two lines, and the two loops.

I would like to produce something that looks like this:

Where the paths involved are (forgive my shaky hands):

There are two closed paths: the top one (in red) and the bottom one (in blue).

How can I get something like that from the 4 path intermediate step? I suspect it is a matter of the applying the right boolean path operations? Or, is there an easier way to do this from the very first step?


texts: Replicating a highlighting effect in Photoshop

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I was looking at some car bodies. Think perfectly shot stock photograph using perfect lighting. You always see some amazing highlighting on the car body.

I wish to create a background for a website based on this highlight effect. What I want is for the background to look like a car body closeup complete with this kind of highlighting.

Is there a way to easily replicate this effect in Photoshop or should I look to 3D rendering for my answer?


texts: Why can't I use the Delete key to delete in Photoshop CS6?

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The previous version of Photoshop I used was CS4 and whenever I selected a portion of an image with the magic wand and hit Delete, it simply deleted that portion of the image (rendering it transparent). Easy!

In CS6, this is not the case. Now when I select a portion of an image and hit Delete, it brings up the Fill dialogue.

For example I have this picture (it's a Vauxhall Corsa). I want to use the Magic Wand to render anything that isn't part of the car transparent, so I start by highlighting some clouds with the Magic Wand like so:

Click on images to see larger versions

Now when I hit Delete, instead of that area of the picture being deleted as I would expect based on my experience with CS4, I get this dialogue:

My questions are:

Can this dialogue be used to achieve the functionality I want?
If so, how?
If not, how do I delete the background in CS6?


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I have found the question in several places on the Google and in StackExchange, but I can't find an answer.  So it either can't be done or I am asking the wrong question.

Of course, I am using the wrong program, but Autocad 3 is the last time I used Autocad.  And I do know Photoshop.

I am trying to design the shape of a 2D part to be printed on a 3D printer.  I do not want to learn yet another program to do 3D drafting, so I farm out all of my 3D printing.

Here's my problem.
I am using the guides to draw my part outside  dimensions (it's rectangular).  But when I zoom into the part, the ruler changes.  Remarkably frustrating when I am trying to indicate a hole to be drilled and the top of the board is no longer at 0 (vertical ruler).

So, can I do this in Photoshop?

Example images:


texts: Why does the vanishing points have to be 90 degrees apart in 2 point perspective?

texts: When I have set up my Picture plane and cone of vision and station point I've read that you need to place the vanishing points 90 degrees apart and I never understood the reason behind it? Why 90 degrees?


texts: Blur edges of shapes with transparent background

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I am trying to have this blurred edges below done on Photoshop. However, when I go to Layer Style> Outer/Inner Glow, it makes a white background under the noise and not transparent.
ORIGINAL IMAGE (Black is a background)

INTENDED RESULT

FAILED RESULT


texts:
I am new to inkscapeand have the following problem:

I need to generate an svg image which does not contain a clippath - only vectors.
But I used a clip mask to create a shaped pattern from an outline and a vector pattern (imagine a hatched circle).

Now I try to turn this into just vectors without the clippath.
I tried to use path menu (turn object into path etc.) without success.

Can you give me a hint?


texts: When you apply strikethrough or underline to text in Illustrator you can't define the color or weight of that line. Is there an easy way to do this? Maybe using an effect and saving that as a style?


texts:
It is driving me crazy and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. In my document I have to autoformat some regular expressions in and including the brackets.

An example is here;

  [DP, 07.04.1911, „Protestanten“]

DP could also be BSZ, the date varies and the string in the quotation marks too.

I tried following grep expression:

  \[(DP|BSZ)(.*)\]

This is working in all cases where there is only one such sequence in the paragraph. If there is a second it starts at the opening bracket of the first sequence and stops after the closing bracket of the second and everything in between those sequences is selected too.

What am I doing wrong? I tried to use the closing quotation mark as a stop, but it gives the same result. Here is the grep expression:

  \[(DP|BSZ)(.*)(“*?)\]


texts: How can I apply a gradient overlay to *only* non-white areas of a group?

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I am working with a vector image (not my design, bought as stock) and wish to overlay all of it with a gradient from the top to the bottom of the image.

Each of the many objects in the image is comprised of a compound path (as a grey outline... not all the greys are the same shade!) and a path in the middle (as a white fill). The fill therefore blocks out the objects behind it, which is essential.

I first tried to apply a fill to the whole group of objects, but found it covers both the outlines of the objects and the fills, which removes any distinction between them.

(Note ^ I want that behaviour over every object, not just one - e.g. the gradient will not 'restart' with each new object)

I have also selected one of the white fills and used Select > Same > Fill Color to remove all the white fills... but now you can see objects through each other!

I next tried selecting everything of the same stroke colour, but couldn't group them together to apply a fill (as they are already in many different groups sorted into individual trees, etc... with the fills included in each individual group). The ungroup function didn't seem to work here for some reason.

Is there any way for me to selectively apply a fill to only the outline compound paths?


texts: Why is a part of my font blacked out and how can I fix it?

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I wanted make a custom font which I could use in my app. The bottom right circle should be a lock-icon. After finishing it, I used the Fontself extension to create a glyph which I could use in my app. The font itself was exported as .ttf format. The icon itself is displayed but the bottom right icon looks like this in my app:

I am relatively new to Illustrator and thought I could just create a white circle, put the lock icon onto it to simulate a rounded corner cut this way (or what ever it is called).


texts: I find manually collecting fonts to be a tedious, detail oriented job, is there a plug in or script or something that has thumbs up to do this tedious job for me?


texts: How to apply a dusty texture on a photo?

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I found this example photos in Noel Shiveley 's Instagram

I wonder, how he applied this technique? What is the white noise called? Dust? Old Paper? Where I can find or create it?

And how to apply to photo?
I mean which blend option? Softlight? Mutiply? Screen?

By the way, what is this font name or style? hand drawing?


texts: How to gradually increase the pixel size of an image?

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I would like to gradually increase the pixel size of an image, going from the high resolution image (base image) to the left to a significantly lower resolution to the right as shown in the example below:

Any ideas on how to get this done?
Thanks!


texts: Vintage photos and inkscape: removing "yellow" background

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I am 1 week new to Inkscape, so forgive my ignorance here.
I am working with a Glowforge to engrave vintage photos like this:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vintage-blueprints-1-andrew-fare.html?product=art-print

I basically need this as black and white, not black and yellow.  When I try to remove background, I can get rid of the yellow, but shaded grays remain that is picked up by the engraver.

How do I pull out just the ink (black) portion of these kind of pictures?


texts: Converting marker and watercolor art to Illustrator/Vector?

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Hi everyone. I have been playing around with watercolor and marker lettering lately. I know how to turn them digital in Photoshop while keeping the natural watercolor and permanent marker textures.

I see a lot of watercolor/marker style logos and I was wondering how they were converted to vector while keeping those textures (if so). Whenever I take them into Illustrator, it completely fills the artwork. I am mainly worried about issues with scaling and blurring with Photoshop vs having no restriction to size in Illustrator. Image trace with a high fidelity photo option seems to work, but I wanted to know if there was an alternative I haven't figured out.

Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks.


texts: web dev looking for some suggestions on this amateur logo design

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I'm a junior web developer. I'm actually in the process of building a personal website and I decided to design myself a logo first. This is the first logo I have designed or let alone use Illustrator, and this is the result.

The Letter J is my first name John and the "angled brackets" denote the HTML open and angled brackets. I've positioned it to look like an S which is my last name and the other two slanted lines are there so there is more to the angled brackets.

I'm planning to have a dark background layout for my website, and red being my favorite color, decided to fill the background with it so that the logo stands out.

I was planning to type in my name in there with an "Inder" font however I'm going to put my name in the intro section so opted out of it.

On the right side, I'm not sure if that is. Initially thought of placing a vertical line with a stroke of 5pt but decided with this.

I'm really not sure about that brush stroke I'm planning to remove it. what do you guys think? Should I include my full name in this? Should I remove the brush stroke on the right?

Any suggestions on improving my design?


texts: How to remove the selection frame around a layer

texts: I'm trying to shrink a buddy's face using Photopea.  The Image of the 2nd layer still keeps its selection frame around the layer so I can't merge the 2 layers together.  Anyone know a way to get rid of this?  I just wanna merge the 2 layers and use the spot healing tool.


texts: InDesign: Table of Contents with differently coloured numbering

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I want to generate a TOC whose numbers are a different colour form the actual text. Here an example made in Photoshop:

As you can see the leading numbering is in blue, but the text itself is in black.

I sadly have no idea how to recreate this in InDesign. When I make a table of contents I can choose a Paragraph style for the text, but no character style for the numbering (at least I cannot find it). Also when I add numbering in my paragraph style, I simply have 2 numberings ... one in the desired colour and one in black (coming from the TOC). This obviously is not what I desire.


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If I have selected another layer and a path is incomplete, so it just looks like a path, how do I "re-activate" it so I can continue to add anchor points?

Also, can a path only be manipulated (e.g. Rotated) once it has first been converted to a selection?

Lastly, if I have made multiple paths on the same layer, how does one select/edit just one of them?

Thanks very much in advance for any help.


texts: What ppi do I need to save a photoshop image for a printer asking for a 300dpi jpeg?

texts: A printer is asking for a 300 dpi jpeg. I have set the image size to the correct printing size but what resolution do I set the ppi in photoshopCS2 to for 300 dpi. Also when saving a jpeg there is a box at the bottom saying Size which is 56.6 Kbps do I need to change this as it doesn't seem to change the image size?


texts: What font is used in commercials of CTV's new channels?

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I'm trying to find what the font is for the purposes of using it myself. I guess another question would be whether the font is even publicly available/freely-usable or not. Should anyone know any freebie similar fonts, that would be nice to know as well.

Using fontfinder the closest was:
Bambino Bold by Mindburger (https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mindburger-studio/bambino/bold/)
But the "sci fi" text is completely different so that's either not right or there's multi-sets of fonts.

Here's one of their many commercials using it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gTq8Av9Qg


texts: How to make a color match with other colors in gray-scale?

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I am making a document in Adobe Illustrator the problem is I want to be able to print it in both monotone and color just visible fine, however for monotone the values of each element don't match, and I don't know how to do that.  I tried copying the element's "S" and "B" values of it HSB to another elements but it did not work.

Color

Monotone


texts: Photoshop shortcut for File, Save As, Format: PNG or JPG, Save, OK

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Classical situation: you're working in Photoshop on a PSD file and you want a to export it to PNG or JPG.

Here is the usual way: menu File > Save As > Click on Format > Find PNG in the list and select it > Save > PNG Interlace dialog > OK.

A little shorter is to use CTRL + SHIFT + S to do Save As.

Question: is there a way to do all of this in one or two keyboard shortcuts?

Example: CTRL+SHIFT+J: Export to JPEG, CTRL+SHIFT+P: Export to PNG


texts: Why are laser printers worse with color than inkjet printers?

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I printed some color designs on a laser printer and the results were surprising: MediumSlateBlue looks like DarkBlue, and Gold and Orange seem to me much
closer on a print from that laser printer than on screen. Crimson and LimeGreen
are noticeably darker on print, but that difference is similar to an inkjet
printer.

Here are two images with part of the laser print and the design on screen:

The white of the print has a blue tint because of the indoor light but it the difference looks similar under other lighting conditions.

I found that laser printers are worse for color thank inkjet printers, for example on Wikipedia:

  Inkjet printers are better at printing photographs and color records

and on a thread from this forum:

  InkJet printers however tend to be better at printing color, especially photos.

but neither has an explanation, and the same thread has a different opinion:

  In my personal experience (web and logo mockups for agencies and clients), laser printers consistently outperform inkjet

Why does color appear so different on a laser print compared to an inkjet print and to the screen?


texts: export pdf cuts of small part of transparent line

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I made a logo with 5 leaves. Two of them are transparent. When I export it as a .png, it's good. But when I export it as a .pdf the line of the 2 leaves are cut.

I experimented a bit and this only happens when I turn the leaves diagonal and when the lines are transparent. If the stroke is not transparent or the leave is horizontal or vertical than everything is good.

Someone who can help me, I would really appreciate :)


texts: How to edit a ring-shaped image into a straight line?

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I am looking for a way to make the image below straight - like in the line. To make it clear - it would be a tattoo template, which will be placed around my upper arm.

Is there any solution of this, in Photoshop?


texts: How do I draw a simple rectangle with no fill in Inkscape? To my knowledge, the "Stroke style" doesn't give me this option.


texts: Giving an exact position to a set of selected layers Photoshop

texts: I have selected an image made out of multiple layers but I want it to have an exact distance from left, right, up and down. so far, I can only use my eyes to move the picture but how to set an exact distance for the layers?


texts: Inkscape trace bitmap removing all white from image (background is alpha)

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So, I recently took on the challenge of learning how to use Inkscape. I wanted to trace bitmap an image of the Australian flag, but the white parts if the flag is removed.

I tried the Trace Bitmap with Remove Background off, but it just made the image have a white background, even though the .png image has a transparent (alpha) background.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!


texts: What are some good heading fonts that pair with Merriweather?

texts:
Right now we're using Open Sans, but I'm not a huge fan of it. It falls flat for me (maybe I'm wrong?).

We can choose from Google Fonts or maybe a $2.5-5k one-time purchase. We get a few million views a month and don't want to be tied to some subscription.


texts: Trying to superimpose a face onto a smurf

texts:
So I've removed Papa smurfs face, and I've pasted the face over the photo so I can grab the exact part that I cut out of the smurf's face to superimpose. But everytime I paste I just get the smurf face back and not the selection shape of the face, but from the photograph.

(I found it hard to search what I'm trying to do, because I am not even an amateur at this)

Essentially I want to use the shape of my selection to select on the photo.

What I've done sofar is change my paste layer's opacity to 0. But as soon as I anchor it into the image, the selection shape disappears.


texts: What is a free, rounded font with bars on the capital "I"?

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I'm looking for a rounded font similar to Quicksand, but I want to have a capital "I" that is distinguished from the lowercase "l", which means I need bars. I've found a font that does the job (Monosten), but unfortunately it's not free. I was wondering if there's a similar font to these two which is free and has this particular characteristic for the "I"?
Edit: I'm looking for a sans serif font in particular. I really like the look of Quicksand, but I was hoping to find one that just had the addition on the "I" as well.


texts:
I have opened an old project and in the timline i can see  and not single key frame.
How can i see the single keyframe?


texts: Do I need to flatten an artwork made in Indesign, which will be used for an e-mail blast?

texts:
I am currently working on an artwork which I plan to use for an email blast and not for print. Since I am new with InDesign, I want to know if I need to flatten the fonts / transparencies like what I normally do in Illustrator.

I also started exploring InDesign and made the artwork somehow interactive. I have already saved it as an interactive PDF but I am not sure if the it will be affected once I upload online or send as an email.


texts: Trying to create an ultrawide wallpaper with a gif

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I am trying to make a 3440x1440 wallpaper with a single gif. The result I am looking for is like from this website  http://girigiri.love/

You can see how the single gif fills up the entire screen in grids.
Any ideas? :D


texts: How to create an arrow in Adobe Indesign

texts:
I've used an arrow like this:

➜

...in lots of programs - on the web in WordPress, in MSWord, even TextEdit.

But when I paste the arrow into an inDesign document, it's not recognised.

Is this arrow character not usable in inDesign?

How do I get an arrow character in an inDesign doc?


texts: Name for Stripe Pattern & Implementing It in PhotoShop or Illustrator

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I'm looking for the name of this style of striping, as well as how I might go about implementing it as, say, a vector mask.  See below the image for additional thoughts.

Specifically, this striping appears to involve a pattern where each stripe section has a portion of negative and a portion of positive space.  How much is negative/positive from section to section appears to wax/wane proportionally such that one end of the graphic has a mostly negative space stripe and the other has a mostly positive space one.

Ultimately, I would love to figure out some way to create a selection or mask that makes each section a certain width, and alters the negative/positive space by a specified increment from stripe to stripe.  I would like to be able to create such a mask/selection pattern over a solid shape, and resize the pattern until it had the right look before applying it to the solid image and knocking out all the appropriate negative space stripes.

As of now, my best idea is to create a guides layout in PhotoShop to represent the sections, then manually create a guide within each section, moved by a certain number of pixels, then using those guides to make a big complicated selection, finally converting it to a path which can be resized.  This idea seems kind of masochistic to me.


texts: In an HTML element, is margin-bottom measured from the baseline?

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I'm doing an internal style guide for a big company and want to make sure I get the spacing perfect.

If I add margin-bottom to a text element, does it measure from the baseline of the text or the descender if there are any (ex. g)?

I'm not using a baseline grid but want to make sure my elements are spaced consistently. Any help would be awesome! Thanks.


texts: How can I edit the colors in an already-placed, custom gradient in Photoshop?

texts:
Here's a basic list of what I did to the document before I sat down at the computer tonight:

Customized a gradient
Applied the gradient to the image in the usual way (mouse stroke), in its own layer
Saved the file (as a .psd)

Now, it is sometime later. I'm opening it up on a different computer and what I'm trying to do is edit the way that gradient appears on the photo. I tried selecting the layer with the gradient in it and then selecting the gradient tool to attempt to edit it, but the gradient tool does not show me the current gradient (what with all my customizations), as I would have expected.

I'm trying to avoid re-creating this gradient again from scratch since all I really want to do is change the color and orientation slightly. It's not the most complicated of gradients, but starting over would lead to me spending an hour tweaking things to get them just right again. I've got other things to work so, in the meantime, I thought I'd see if any of you guys knew what to do.


texts: How do I convert an image into vector path and then get the coordinates?

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I am new to photoshop and trying to convert this image into vector path and then get its co-ordinates.

After I get the co-ordinates i will use it to develop an interactive object for a web application.


texts: Modifying a text path after text has been placed on it

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In a recent project in Illustrator I was creating freeform paths to place text on them.  Since the design was freeform I kept running into a problem where I would create a path, place the text on it, then realize that the text didn't fully fit on the path or the path needed to be tweaked slightly to make the text look right.  However, once I placed the text on the path I found that I couldn't modify the path's anchor points anymore.

Is it possible to modify an text path's anchor points once you have placed text on it?  Or do I have to undo the text on a path action, modify the line, and then place the text back on it?


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It seems like it will take a very long time to go through the entire document and edit and reformat the large amounts of text. Does anyone know of a good workaround for this kind of situation, where lines of text are separated into several boxes and options such as going to Properties to changes the font aren't useable to change the font of paragraphs etc?

The only other option I know of is to use the Edit Page/Edit Objects Touch-ups that send me to Illustrator where I have to remove several or potentially dozens of Clip Groups, then use a combine text frames script to get a normal line of editable text. Both ways are huge time wasters so I'm sure theres better ways to work with a lot of text in PDF files but I'm not familiar with what they are.

Thanks!


texts: Typeface suggestions for both family programming and contemporary art

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I work at a fairly large not-for-profit arts/cultural organization that hosts diverse activities from children's art camps to family cultural events and contemporary art/performance.

We use Trade Gothic as our in house font on almost all things and are looking to refresh the brand. Any suggestions on typefaces that would work across such a broad amount of activities and events? Does it make sense or is it proper to have to type faces that work for the children/family activities and adult/contemporary activities separately?

We've played around with Avenir in a few cases and it's worked well. Any other suggestions or experience in a case like this?


texts: How do I resize an alternate layout in InDesign CC (15.1.2)

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I created an alternate layout and realised the width of the page is 5mm shorter than I'd like. I cannot find any option to resize the alternate layout.
I've tried Document Set-Up and Adjust Layout, but those are only resizing the original layout and not the alternative.


texts: How to make halftone grunge like this in illustrator?

texts: I want to learn how to make a texture in Illustrator as shown below:


texts:
what is needed for printable psd file in Photoshop?
i need printable file .
but i made it with rgb color mode and wants to convert into a printable copy.


texts: What's the correct use of commas for ALL CAPS title?

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I'm working on a an ad for my company. The company name, when typed out, is in all caps. I work for a law firm, so the company name is three last names. I am currently typing it out as follows (using fake names here):

SMITH, JOHNSON & BROWN, PLC.

I was just told by the previous graphic designer, who is now the head of IT, that when using all caps I should not put a comma after SMITH. I've been a graphic designer for nearly 14 years and I've never heard of this rule before. It seems to me that if I did not put a comma after SMITH it would make it seem like SMITH JOHNSON is one person.

Am I correct in my thinking? What is the correct way to punctuate this?


texts: Where can I buy designs for my t-shirt website?

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I'm building a t-shirt website and I want to be all legal and stuff. I want to offer the customers interesting designs, like the ones from threadless.com or zazzle.com.

So the question would be... where and how do I buy designs that I can later sell on my website? I know there are interesting sites like designcrowd where you can get nice designs for your ideas, but what I really want is existing designs that I can sell on my website.


texts: How to distribute an equal amount of space between each object in Photoshop?

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I'm using "Distribute Horizontal Centers" in Photoshop, but it might be the wrong tool for the job. I'm guessing Photoshop will be distributing the CENTER of each text object and aligning that, so long links won't have as much 'spacing' either side.

Is there a way for me to distribute a group of objects evenly taking into account their overall size, rather than by their center points?


texts:
Hello I am new to print as I do most of my works on digital format...my client asked me to edit a label of their product in Adobe Illustrator and here are some terms that I dont know what they mean and how to do it...

"We need Line and Screen Black separation"
- what does this mean and how do I do it in illustrator

" key line the knock out type."
- I dont know what keyline means and I assume knock out type meant the text. How do I do this keyline thing?

"We will need a light  Spot Green (PMS 361 C)"
- I read about PMS colors does this mean I need to change the green colors to that PMS spot colors? How do you do this?

the labels looks something similar to this but with white text:

Big thanks in advance!


texts: How to create dynamic boolean masked objects in inkscape?

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Sometimes when tracing bitmaps in inkscape, I'll see a an object which has two or more disconnected curves, which automatically exclude each other.

For example tracing this image:

Results in this:

I can edit either path and the fill updates in realtime:

How can I set something like this up manually?


texts: I can't join lines in Illustrator. CMD-J gives an error

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We're doing a project for our university, where we have to lasercut some gears. We've found a template for our gears online, but somehow the lines aren't joined, which makes the lasercutter cut twice.

We've made sure that the lines aren't duplicated and we've spend hours playing with the Join Tool and Pathfinder. We just can't get them to join.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I've attached the .AI file if anyone wants to try their hand at it!Download here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrstr4qarj4vfaj/Lampegears_3.0.1_joinedlines.ai?dl=0

We will appreciate any help!
Thanks!


texts: Is there a tool to convert SVG to AI in bulk? Everytime I search for this I simply get online convertors that convert SVG to bitmap formats, or similar stuff. I would need an offline tool, and one that can do hundreds of files at a go.


texts: Specifying paper weight/thickness for a textbook

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I have to specify print instructions for a textbook that will be printed in China. If I want to create a hardcover textbook that is 300 pages in length, and will weigh less than 5 pounds, what paper weight/thickness do I need to specify?

(I'm hoping this is the right SE to ask this in)


texts: What is the best practice of B2B email dimension?

texts: The ideal width of marketing emails is 600px, does it also apply to enterprise product emails? or it can be responsive without any max width limit?


texts: filling a grid with one image in indesign?

texts: I'd like to make a mural wall of rectangles 100 across and 20 down with space between them and fill with only one image so where the gutters are them image is missing. Is this possible?


texts: Where can I learn about the low level concepts used in a Graphic design application?

texts: I am new to Graphics design. I want to learn a graphics design software in order to develop a game. I chose Gimp as it was free and i followed few tutorials. Most tutorials accomplished the goal  without explaining low level concepts such as different blend modes, color terms such as threshold, levels, etc. Where can I find detailed explanations about these? If possible provide free resources. Thanks.


texts: Reduce size of image reduce quality. why?

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Everything in the picture is clear.
lower quality for increasing size of picture is acceptable Because the new pixels must be created but how about reduce size of picture?

  why? and does it possible to make image smaller without reduce quality and without redesign it?


texts: How to colour the area under a graph in Inkscape?

texts: How can I know color the are of the parabola, say, of the positive x values? I'm using Inkscape for creating the figures.


texts: Why doesn't a shape or form I've created fill in?

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Not new to Illustrator (actually studied this a few years ago).
I'm designing a logo by using a drawing tablet to trace over the design I drew with pencil.
When I go to fill the logo in, it doesn't fill in properly.

I know theres a simple explanation for why this is happening. I've made the shape form using paintbrush tool (I don't know if that's why perhaps).


texts: how to rename project name in Adobe Premiere

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Adobe Premiere
Stack overflow development


texts: How to produce 35mm lomo film noise/grain effect?

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Click on image for full size

There's a lot going on in this image. It's some 35mm lomo goodness. I am looking to produce some of the rich grain in my own digital images but am having trouble. Does anyone have any strategies or know of any tutorials to produce this kind of grainy effect.

I've been through the basics of generating noise but there has got to be some way to push those effects to an extreme to get something like what I've attached. Once I can get the grainy, pixelatedness I will need to go about producing bands, like the white one seen.


texts: Need a specific section of a smart object warped

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As displayed above, I need to warp one part of a smart object one way, and another part a different way.

Any way to do this?


texts: General Rules for Choosing Colors/ Patterns

texts: So I'm trying to design a dashboard and I was wondering if there were some general rules for colors to use for buttons, borders, headers, containers etc. Like what are the appropriate colors that will stick out vs. blend in and which colors work well together. If anybody could refer me to resources or tell me where I can learn these techniques that would greatly help in presenting my information easier on the user.


texts: Is there any way to get GIMP make the "Keep Aspect Ratio" option a default option for scaling?

texts: Only asking this question because no one else appears to have done so. In GIMP, when using Transform > Scale, the option to keep the aspect ratio (hidden away in the primary toolbox rather than the Scaling window) is not a default. Is there any way to make "Keep Aspect Ratio" a default? Thanks


texts: Joining two rectangle with a line in between Illustrator

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I am trying to join two shapes (figure - a) in Illustrator, And I want the effect should be like this (figure - b). I tried Unite option in Pathfinder, but that makes a big rectangle.

Please note: after joining I want one middle cut inside the rectangle.

Any idea?


texts: What is the font used on the scoreboard of "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege"?

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The following screenshot is a scoreboard from an online game, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.

I've tried matching it on multiple sites like Font Squirrel's Matcherator and WhatFontIs, with some fonts coming close like the FF Good Pro Extra Condensed Bold, but the "a" has a little curly and the "g" looks slightly off.

Specifically the names please, I'm not sure that the top-left text is the same as the names.


texts: How to guide the workflow in a collaboration? How to not kill the other’s motivation?

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While working together, how can I discuss my ideas and objections without killing the other person’s motivation?

I want to do a design project with a friend, for study purposes, but I experienced some obstacles I don’t know how to deal with:

We didn’t learn yet how to deal with objections or dislikes from the other. As a result our meetings are inefficient,
either because we let the other do whatever they want, or because
someone gets into a bad mood and instead of thinking, they try to
put on an unaffected face.
My friend has a habit of letting their attention stray away, and they
do it at the most unexpected times.

I know that being sincere is needed and inevitable, but I would like to learn a method to keep the attention and motivation even in these situations. My problem is that I don’t know what to say or do to keep our task looking interesting and fun to do.

As a possible solution I thought of inserting a 5 minute period where we shouldn’t say any good things, not even a word, but have to point out the bad parts of our own work.

But I fear this one won’t be enough, that’s why I would like to hear ideas and tricks that could make our sessions going.


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I'm looking for a quick way to make a video clip from a series of images, combined with sound. I have about 30 images, and just need them to be played one at a time, with a 1-2 second delay between each one, and I'll have a sound file to attach.

Any suggestions on what software I can use? I have Windows 7 and XP, or I'm willing to install any flavor of Linux if there's some specialty that would work well. I'll install whatever software I need, as long as it's free.

The clip just needs to be playable on the web - so a Flash movie might work, but I'd prefer a real video format if possible, so it can be posted to YouTube.

Thanks for the help.


texts: When exporting from Illustrator to Photoshop, should I be worried about aspect ratio?

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when I am exporting a design made in Illustrator to a Photoshop document, I have to use different resolutions and each of them have its own aspect ratio.

Is Illustrator able handle this without skew? Is it possible to properly align all elements for any aspect ratio?

So far I do not see anything bad, but I don't want to be surprised later in the process.


texts: How do I produce a fully editable multipage PDF from multiple PSD files in CS5?

texts: I have a large number of pages ready as multiple PSD files. I need to make these into at least 2 page PDFs for double sided printing (even better if I can combine them all into one large file), while maintaining full editablitly in Photoshop. I can easily save them as single page PDFs with full editing enabled, but I cannot find a way to combine them without turning them into static images. I have a full CS5 suite to work with. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Alternatively, if this is just not possible at all, can people let me know so I don't waste any more time looking for a method.


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I am a web developer. What happens is that the Client sends a PSD (Photoshop designs) to the company. Then the designer needs to create a HTML page from the PSDs

What happen every time is that the designer does not create the HTML with same fonts ie the boldness goes away and the font does not look similar as per the PSD means the quality is too degraded.

And the designer can convince my seniors that this is not possible i.e. The same font size, boldness cannot be achieved in the html while conversion

Can you please specify is it really true? or the designer is just fooling the developers.

I am really sorry if this question is not correct is this website


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I have a folder that contains many strings. This folder has layer effects applied:

Color overlay (bright yellow)
Stroke (black)
outer glow (can be any color, currently white.)

I want to clip a layer with a pattern to the outer glow of the layer effect applied to the folder. basically I want the Outer glow not to be a solid color, but to have a image/pattern overlayed.

How can this be done?

I found one way that works but is a bit of a hassle and the result is not perfect:

I convert the whole folder to a smart object (layer effect is applied INSIDE the smart object)
then I clip the layer with the pattern to the smart object and use blend if to apply it only to the bright white outer glow.

Its not perfect because the font itself is quite bright and it has some fringing around the outer stroke. Also, if possible, I would like to avoid converting to smart object..


texts: Is it possible to create a kind of horizontal "invert mask" in CSS?

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I have two blocks (div elements) with one black on the top background-color: black and one white on the bottom.

Is it possible to have a piece of text that straddles the two zones with inverted colors?

For example: the top part of the text "FOO" will be white on black and the bottom part black over a white region.


texts: Do formatting (invisible) characters have a name?

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In typography, some text editors will offer the option to display "invisible" or "formatting" characters such as these:

(from this page)

Do these have a name?

I mean, of course you could call them "bullet" (the first one) or "tab" symbol (the second one), etc, but I am thinking that they might have a special name for this very particular typographical use.

The only one I could find while searching through Apple's Character Viewer is "Pilcrow" (the "paragraph break" sign), but its Wikipedia page and an online search didn't help me in fining the names of the other ones when used as formatting symbols (I'm especially intrigued by the symbol used to represent the Nonbreaking space, which looks like a bullet with a circumflex accent).


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Probably a fairly simple problem, but I'm a noob at this: We've got a logo with my band, looks like this:

and we would like to use some fluorescent tape or whatnot to create a shiny logo to use as a prop on stage and we would like to use this jpeg as a blueprint for measurements so that we can recreate it in real life.

Is there any tool I can use for this, preferably nothing too complicated?


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I recieved a package of PDf that were scanned from original documents. Files are rather lighweight but when linked in InDesign they slow it down and make creating PDF immposible (the export stop on first page with such item, InDesign take all avaiable RAM and freeze).
In Illustrator I see additional layer that looks like UV map(?) with moved/warped content that appears around central image

In Acrobat file appears to have OCR-ed text.

Any ideas what's the issue nad how to use PDF? I can save them as tiff but just one file jump from 1MB to 100 MB in weight.
https://we.tl/t-l4XFlcWVoN - original file


texts: Sometimes shapes would have parameters like a stoke or rounded corners, but once the shape is drawn, I can't find how to see or change these parameters. Ideas?


texts: How to create high quality 32x32 pixels BMP?

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I know it oxymoron but I have a pretty unique situation.
We have LED panels with 32x32 resolution. To display an image on these LED panels, I have to run BMP format file through a special program to regenerate HEX matrix.

I'm struggling on how to generate these BMP images so that they don't look like crap.  And the images aren't even that complex... For example, a walking man and a hand (walk/stop signs you see at traffic lights).

I have AI and Photoshop so I think I have the right tools and just don't know the best way.  So far I tried creating 32x32 in AI and saving in BMP format but pixels don't translate well.  Tried creating 32x32 in Photoshop but it's so hard to work in this resolution that I almost have to do it one pixel at a time.
Also tried going highest res possible in AI and the resizing to 32x32 in Photoshop.


texts: Deconstructing this posterized, photocopy-style effect?

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A trend I've seen in the last 6 months is a levels-crushed, posterized, aesthetic, mixed with strong colors that really pop.

The original is here (I've just isolated from the background)

What I know

There's obviously a papery texture underlying the whole image
There's a white fleck texture over the top of the image

What I'm fairly sure about

The colors (e.g. the yellow on the sleeves, or blur on the shoulders) are drawn back in, and blended down. The edges are too straight to not be. I'd be interested in more thoughts on this!

What I don't know

What's the treatment on the original photographs? Are they just grey-scaled, then massively over exposed, then posterised? Maybe they're messing with curves to reduce the shadows?

I've tried recreations but it's tough to get the original photography so flat with just posterizing adjustment layers in photoshop.


texts: Typing on a path but retain the path itself

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I am currently trying out typing on a path and I seem not to do what I want.

Is there an option where I could retain the path itself?  I notice that typing on a path removes the path in preview mode.  This is so that I could have a circular text with a circular path in it.


texts: How can I create a tree effect in Illustrator?

texts: How can I create this type of effect in Illustrator?


texts: How to make text behave as a hyperlink in PDF exported from Adobe InDesign 5.5

texts: I have a long text with some hyperlinks in it. All hyperlinks except of one are automaticaly recognised and behave in PDF as hyperlink. One not. How to do it manually?


texts: Make simple bitmap feel like real Mondrian painting

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I'm using a bitmap API with Java in an effort to make a Mondrian-esque painting.

This is my result:

This is what i want to achive:

How can I try to make the image I generated more like a Mondrian painting? I imagine an overlay and off colors would help? Is there anything else?


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I try to solve some "enigmatic" issue with the Pathfinder panel used along Alt/Option button as Ai suggests -

The help explains as follows -

Apply a Pathfinder effect using the Pathfinder panel Select the
objects to which you want to apply the effect. To apply a Pathfinder
effect to a group or layer, target the group or layer.
In the Pathfinder panel, click a pathfinder button (in the bottom
row), or Alt‑click (Windows) or Option‑click (Mac OS) a Shape Mode
button (in the top row).

However, I cannot achieve any compound shape using Option+click on Pathfinder panel (as opposite to applying pathfinder effects) - I dont see any changes in the appearance panel also (no any live effects I mean).
What do I miss?
Ai 16


texts: How can I create this 'link' or 'chain' icon?

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I'm trying to find the name of this highlighted image element to look for similar vector icons. I tried to search by "link", but can't find anything like it.

How can I recreate this shape using a program like Inkscape or similar?