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So, I am just starting out with Affinity Designer, coming from Illustrator.
What I want to do is create shapes that are symmetrical by drawing lines, then duplicated and reflecting the lines and then joining the lines.
This is done in Illustrator very easily by having the points I want to be combined in the same spots and then selecting both lines and going Object>Path>Join.
I tried doing the same thing in Affinity Designer and so I selected both lines, I then went to the Node Tool and hit Shift while selecting both overlapping nodes from both lines, then hit "Join Curves" but instead of getting a line with a sharp point in the middle I get a line that loops around and joins itself again.
See the photos here:
These are the lines I want to join, I drew the left one and then reflected it and moved it over one width of itself so it is lined up with the left one.

But this is what results in Affinity Designer, the shape has two nodes at the top instead of combining both nodes into one.


texts: Can I use an OFL or Apache font to produce a commercial product based around the font?

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I'm interested in making some physical goods based around well known fonts that are released under the OFL license in order to sell them. For example, a block of wood in the shape of Lobster's letter "L" or digital CAD files showing how to print the "L" with a 3D printer.

Are these uses of the font permissible with OFL licensed fonts? What about the Apache license?


texts: How to attribute Creative Commons art on a T-Shirt

texts: I'm creating a T-shirt using an image licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0. The main problem I'm facing is how do I attribute the image used? Do I put the attribution on the site I sell the T-shirt on, or do I put it right on the T-shirt?


texts: In Gimp, how to replace an image with the same dimensions and position?

texts: I have got a Layer in Gimp with an image that I manually scaled down, many times I want to just replace that image with a different image file but with exactly the same coordinates and size. Basically I want to change the source/url of that image while maintaining the size and position.


texts: Why isn't the 'Map Colors' fixup changing text colors?

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Please see the screenshot beneath. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Version 2019.010.20064.

I'm trying to convert the book's default (C, M, Y, K) = (99%, 98%, 18%, 6%) (ie dark purple) to (90, 0, 90, 0) (green). After I click 'OK' and click 'Fix', Adobe Acrobat executes the fixup, but the color fails to change.


texts: Hi, I'm curious on how the texturizing effect for the latest DOOM games was achieved. More precisely, what kind of texture was applied to the shape and how would I go about applying it properly?


texts: How can I describe the font I am looking for or looking at?

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I have no experience regarding Graphic Design, so this is kind of a intro question.

If I have a font I'd like to identify, but cannot describe the details/semantics of it, how would I explain it?  For example, some people here describe fonts as "x". What would it mean for a font to be "x"?  Are there "categories" that fonts are typically organized in?


texts: Linking font properties on different text layers in photoshop

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I'm looking for a technique in Photoshop which allows me to have a master text layer that's linked to other text layers and changes applied to it are applied to all liked layers (regarding font properties: size, color etc). I want to be able to delink or link additional layers to the master layer at any time. I know about layer filtering I'm not looking for an answer like that. If you have confirmation that this is not possible in photoshop atm, that's an answer as well.

Thanks!
Adam :)


texts: Web design for Legal pages: What are some things to keep in mind?

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So I have been looking around but cannot find any good advice on how to go about designing a page for legal matters. These pages would clearly state Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, etc. I think there is a huge challenge to designing these pages because you cannot always make them flashy because, from a legal standpoint, you want the reader to be  reading the documentation.

I went and looked around and I found this question on UX Stackexchange but it does not truly answer my question.
Design Requirements for ToS and Privacy Policy pages

What are some things to keep in mind when designing legal pages?

Specifically I am hoping to find insight on what others have done to make the experience better.


texts: Typefaces in which numbers look great for sale offers, discounts, price tags, and similar

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I am looking for a typeface, no make that more than one typeface in which numbers look nice and appealing. I want to use these typefaces when designing vouchers and stuff like that, I get a lot of work in that area, and I’m stuck with Georgia.

The typeface will be used on price tags, vouchers and discount offers for generic products on shops with no brand guidelines whatsoever, your average mall local shops, mom & pop type of shops that don’t know what a brand is and don’t want to know. They just want numbers that look good. The text 5% needs to look that good that you “want it now” just by itself, with no other tricks.

For more than a year now I’ve been using Georgia for that, I kinda got bored of it and I’m on the look for a new typeface.

Georgia (for those that don't know it):


texts: Can we use Photoshop for the print related designs?

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I know it is better to use Illustrator but still, I want to know.
As far as I know, we can use photoshop for Digital printing. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks!


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I was working on a logo design for a client in Illustrator CS4 when suddenly the default brushes were no longer there. The brush files are still in place but they do not show up in the brushes panel. The options to show the brushes by type are checked but greyed out.

I tried a preference reset, that didn't fix it. I haven't tried any new brushes because the brush I needed was in the stock set. I know its bad form not to try everything but I needed one of the stock brushes to tweak an existing design.


texts: Reducing colours using 454 colour palette

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I have an image that I would like to make into a cross-stitch sewing pattern with around 15 colours.

I have a swatch of all 454 possible thread colours and their rough hex equivalents.

In Photoshop I have tried using Indexed Colour mode and then loading my swatch as the palette (the colours to choose from) but it seems to only load the first 256 colours and thus not do a very good job replicating the image using the thread colours.

I am fine with a final result that is 256 colours, but I would like it to pick from the full 454 to get there.

Any ideas on how to do this?


texts: Inkscape - Ungroup and Break Apart vie Inkscape CLI

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I am relatively new to this topics. I am trying to covert my svg file into dxf. This can be done with GUI and works fine but I have a lot of such small files which are needed to be converted to dxf so I wanted to automate this. Can anyone suggest me or tell me if such commands exist?

It can be CLI or even any programming tool/API/Script

Thanks


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I wonder if there is a possibility to edit the source image of the patterns from the preset manager in Photoshop. On right click on a pattern the only options are
Delete Pattern and Rename Pattern.


texts: How to make a font / letter filled with dots using Inkscape

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Is it possible to fill a shape or letter ( alphabet, Indic etc ) with random dots ? ie, when the base is removed, the letter will appear as if made of dots. Something like we can see below

My goal is to achieve this for an Indic language. I hope it as simple as drawing a circle or diamond and then make it fit inside the shape. So that the letter of the font will look like they are made up of dots.

I am an Inkscape + Ubuntu 18.04 user. Thanks.


texts: Having problems removing background from hair between two people(samples included)

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I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6

I am having challenges trying to remove a background from an image. I followed the generally used method of using selections, masks, refine edge, edge detection and so on.

The best tutorial I found on the topic was on YouTube. It is a for Photoshop CC but works well for CS6. Followed it to the book and was impressed by the removal of the background from the hair.

I do have a challenge though on a particular portion of hair, that lies between two subjects. I was able to remove the background around them and to get back the "missing strands" of hair that were initially cut out.

I failed to, however,remove the background between the two subjects.

See images below, from LEFT to RIGHT:

Left: original image
Middle: my final image with a white background
Right: my final image with a black adjustment/colour layer


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For an upcoming photoshoot, actors will be holding champagne bottles and pop them (with liquid flying everywhere). Since i'd rather not buy 50 bottles and risk getting the studio plus equipment wet/damaged, i'd rather have them hold empty bottles and have the liquid simulated in post (either using a brush or some technique).

I've looked into water brushes/water drops and none really "fit" what i'm looking for. Most of them are designed to simulate if you're dropping something into water, not having a stream of liquid coming out of an object.

Below is the effect I'm trying to achieve, any guidance/recommended brushes/techniques would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Missing diacritical marks in an Adobe licensed font

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I'm designing a print publication in InDesign CC using Adobe Caslon, and the typeface appears to be missing these characters:

This is how the text is rendering:

Switching to a different font isn't an option because it's a 140-page periodical, and that would mean changing the whole darned thing. I'd like to avoid using images of the missing characters if I can, as those are so tricky to size and align correctly with the text flow. I can't just add the characters in FontForge because of the licensing, and because Adobe CC locks its font files down tight.
What would be the best way to solve this? If inserting the characters as vector images is the best way to go, then I'd appreciate any advice on how to fit them smoothly into the text (other than zooming in to a million percent and sizing/aligning them by hand).
Thanks, hive mind!


texts: How to create shading effects for flat design?

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I learned a way to use Blend Tool to create shading effect for flat logo design.Here I put same adjustments as the tutorial does, but my shading is not smooth for some reason. I am guessing it's a setting problem but have no idea how to fix it.
It would be great if somebody know about how to fix this!


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Prevent graphics styles from overriding stroke and fill?

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I have a graphics style that has the following attributes:

  Stoke: None
  Fill: None
  3D Extrude and Bevel: Applied [*]
  Opacity: Default

[*] Actually, this links to countless irrelevant parameters

I want to do is apply the 3D Extrude and Bevel to multiple paths at once.

By highlighting the paths and clicking on the graphics style, I achieve this effect, but the various "Stoke" and "Fill" of the selected paths is overridden by the graphics style's "no fill" and "no stroke". Basically, it 3D extrudes the paths okay, but then it goes and makes them colorless as well.

How can I disable/prevent that when I can't delete the Stroke, Fill or Opacity Graphics Styles attributes?


texts: Rotating Object causes the size to change in Illustrator CS5

texts: I create a rectangle of size 200px X 200px. Select it, double click the rotate tool and rotate it at 45 degrees. This causes the rectangle to chage size and become 282.842px X 282.842px. How can I turnoff/disable this behavious maybe using the Preferences, or do I have to change it back to 200px X 200px by using the Tranform Panle.


texts: How do I get size changes of Sketch symbol originals to reflect in artboard instances?

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I understand how to resize an instance of a symbol that's a layer on an artboard (and how to specify how that resizing should work on the "master" symbol). My question is not that, it's about resizing in the other direction.

When editing a symbol in the Symbols area, if I resize it then the changed size isn't reflected on the artboards.

It appears that, basically, the layers are now considered to be resized versions of the original symbol (even though its size was never changed/overridden when originally inserted on the artboards).

Is there any way for me to get the layers to update on the various artboards after changing the original symbol size?


texts: How to twist a complex shape in Inkscape?

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I have a shape derived from the letter i:

Each of the blue “waves” and the two orange crosslinks are a path, the dot is a circle.

I want to make the shape derived from a script i instead, following roughly a curve like this one below the dot:

I tried using Pattern along path, but it ended up doing strange distortions and not what I imagined:

It is OK if it can’t be done at once, but I need to apply the same effect to all of the four paths in my shape, or maybe only to the two blue paths – I can somehow arrange the orange paths afterwards. But the blue paths are complicated, with many points, and I don’t think I will get a good effect if I try to bend them by hand.

Any ideas how to do it, if it’s possible at all?

If you want to play with the SVG original, I uploaded the source on pastebin.

This is not the same question as this one. I assume that it is because of my complex shape instead of a simple rectangle – the solutions there don’t work for me.

Update Wrzlprmft's method produced this when used with a two-loop segment traced with Bezier curves:

Beside the strange squish, I'm still looking for a way to use it with an existing combination of curves, instead of having to redraw them using other methods.


texts: How to import SVG icons to Sketch so that they don't open each in different sketch files but all in one

texts: Recently I got a problem, when I am importing Svg icons from one folder, they are automatically opened in separate sketch files, so I have 100 opened sketch files in total. Can someone help with it? Thanks!


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I have an image that was taken using a negative color filter long ago, but now I need the normal picture, is there a way to get a good quality of that picture with the actual colors?
The current software I am using is GIMP.


texts: How can I stop the points on a path extending past the path

texts: The path seems to extend past the point.  I have two paths and ideally I would like them to touch as in the end I would like them to be one single shape that I could fill in.  But my paths clearly extend beyond the point in the image.  How can I avoid this situation?


texts: Photoshop: exact transform via 3 point selection

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I need to exactly align maps of the same area. Because they come from different sources, they need to be scaled / slightly rotated / skewed to match the features. I can do it manually, but my work could be sped up if there was a way to simply select 3 "source" points on one image (e.g. corners of some streets), then, on a second image, select the corresponding 3 "target" points, and have PS automatically transform the first image to align with the second. Is there a way or a tool (plugin, perhaps) to do this?

EDIT: sample "source" and "target" images:


texts: Identify these two fonts, on serif one sans-serif

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Please someone can helpme to identify these two fonts?

I have tried many different websites without success.


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What are some graphic design environments that are fundamentally markup-code-based?

In other words, an environment where you do graphic design not with a WYSIWYG-style drag-and-drop interface, but rather by describing/experimenting with a graphic design via writing declarative code.

One example is the Blueprint CSS Framework.


texts: Textured and gradient image as stroke/outline of logo

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I am trying to get a textured, gold outline on a logo. I want it to be the texture and gradient of an image of gold.
I tried to create a clipping mask but I don't want the fill, only the outline. Is this possible in Illustrator?
Thanks!


texts: How to correct scanned colors in Photoshop?

texts: I have scanned a pen and ink drawing and I'm trying get rid of the variations in ink color. The black ink appears as black and different shades of grey, the blue as different shades of blue etc. How do I turn each field of ink into a single solid color?


texts: How to make specific shots from movies into posters

texts: I want to find a way to get two specific shots from The Shining into a nice print. I dont know what size yet. Really what i would like to know is how to go about doing something like that? Thanks.


texts: I'm using PNG Express to extract asset from Photoshop. Is there any supporting plugin for Adobe illustrator to extract the assets?


texts: I am new to Inkscape, I want to edit the text in .svg file. Please let me know what are the steps to edit an already saved svg file..


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I would like to write with golden letters in Inkscape. I've found the Gold gradient, but no gold texture in the filters.

How can I do that?


texts: How to remove scratches from shiny object

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I have a simple cropped picture of a cornet (my gravatar, actually). However, it is many tiny scratches that it has accumulated over the years (it's 50+ years old). Anyway, because the photo was taken with a flash, they are showing up as tiny white specks all over. What is the best way to remove them and still maintain the natural lighting gradient and hue?

I've tried blurring, but this only blurs them. They are still there. I've also tried smudging, but this damages the hue. I've thought of using the clone stamp tool, but there aren't many areas without scratches and the lighting effects are different everywhere. What's the best way to go around this problem?

This is the picture with the scratches. Open it in a new tab to see higher detail.


texts: First client's partner demands free website redesign, wants deposit returned - moral dilemma

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Sorry in advance for the long read.

I'm 22 years old and just finished university for graphic design. I was approached by a small business which wanted me to design them a logo, stationery, and a website. I was only charging them $20/h NZD because it was under the table and my first client.

Anyway, I've finished everything.  They're happy with the logo and stationery, but not the website. They think the whole website needs re-designing. They only told me this a month after I finished (once her husband started to get more involved with the deal). So I came up with another concept and sent them the wireframes for it, told them it would take roughly 50-60 hours. He sent a long email filled with analogies about flooring and how he wouldn't want his floor tiled twice, etc (it was an entertaining email). He left me with an ultimatum: do the re-design of the site for free or return the deposit he paid and walk away (after the hours already gone into it).

I would LOVE to hear from other freelancers and hear what they would do in this situation as I'm new to this and can't tell if I'm in the wrong or not. An important piece of information to note is that I didn't send them the wireframes of the site in the beginning (which was a mistake I now know) but does this mistake really have this much of a repercussion? And yes from now on I will use a contract.

If you read to here I would love your input, cheers.

Update: I took the advice from the answers below and told him I would need payment for a re-design or I could take it down and we part ways. After some discussion he said never mind and is now going to live with the current design and pay what he owes. (Sounds like he was trying take advantage and get extra work for free).


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TL:DR Smart guides aren't accurate - even though the snap, (end up causing more problems in the long run) is there a way to fix it?

Maybe there are some settings that I'm missing (need to be changed)

I use my smart guides all the time (and am overall pleased with them). I do have my issues with it, as explained here:

A lot of times, when I'm trying to make a bunch of triangles like this:

Done by making a triangle, cloning, flipping, rotating etc. Repeat until full

(Perfect) Snapping using Smart Guides

Ends up looking likebetween the triangles (Outline Mode)

Now I personally (with a strong attention to detail) will notice that there is something off after making just 1 or 2 triangles (Even before outline mode... strokes look oh so slightly thicker/off)

And then I check in outline mode... and sure enough:

Notice the line spaces (and this is in outline mode, so if I didn't notice it before, now it's sitting right in front of my nose)

The way I (seemingly) "fixed" the first image was by adding in a thick stroke outline so that masks out the difference, however, in a lot of my cases I don't want to have a stroke at all (and then you really notice the problems).


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I am making a menu for an indie game and I'm not quite satisfied with my results. The menu itself needs two text fields (one to enter your username and the other for your password) and two buttons. (“log in” and “register”) I also need to have a button which brings up the credits and a button that brings up the settings screen.

Currently, the title is centered at the top of the screen. Below the title is a box which contains the username and password fields. Below that box are the “log in” and “register” buttons. Here lies the problem, I can't figure out where to put the other buttons. (Credits and settings) Should I just put them in the upper right-hand corner? Or should I make them more prominent? Or should I just completely re-arrange the current layout?

Current design:

Just as a side note, the current (interim) theme is a bit off. It's in a web 2.0 style, but the MMO is supposed to be adventurous so I wanted the background to remind someone of an old map. Incorporating this theme idea in your answer will greatly help.

Thanks.


texts: How to make double drop shadow in Illustrator?

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I want to make something like this artwork.

I tried using gradient, but it look so ugly and flat. How to achieve such shadow in Illustrator?


texts: Photoshop - Export layers to files using plugin

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I'm using a plugin to export my pngs (https://www.fnordware.com/superpng/)
Anyone knows how I can replicate the Export Layers to files functionality that comes with photoshop but export as SuperPNG?

There is export options documentation but only includes the default photoshop formats...

Thanks in advance!


texts: Good Conferences for Environment Designers

texts: I'm a graphic designer working in events, pop-ups, retail and brand activations. My work has encouraged me to seek out conferences and learning opportunities and I'm having difficulty finding conferences that are applicable to environment and event design. I'm looking to learn skills relating to designing temporary structures, retail environments, and branded spaces. Does anyone know of good events or conferences related to this field?


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I've been searching for a solution for two hours now, but I can't find any. My logo is almost done, but I would like to apply some lighting on my picture with the blend tool, and I can't get it on the text. The Sala and Plast parts were originally texts, and I merged it with the border layer. Now if I put the light on it only apllies to the border as you can see on the picture below (I changed the original white light to red to make it more visible)

Thank you


texts: Create more than one artboard when document is already saved?

texts: I'm already working with an artboard, but i need two more, how can I add additional artboards to my document in Illustrator?


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There's that beautiful DR Agu Sans Black:

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/rastvortsev/dr-agu-sans/black/

Do you know any free/cheaper replacements for that?
I've tried ObelixPro and LuckiestGuy, but they seem too "sharp".


texts: Rotate object in Illustrator while keeping its horizontal alignment

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I want to copy a shape in 45 degree increments around the center of a circle.  Is it possible to do this while keeping the shape's horizontal alignment - i.e. if its a square being rotated, its bottom half should always be parallel to the X Axis of the Artboard.

EDIT, as pointed out in the comments, I'm looking for this kind of rotation (actually it would be better described as a translation)


texts: Illustrator clipping mask leaves an outline

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This question has already been asked a couple times: here and here*. Those question's answers do not satisfy me, however, and I think it is a slightly different issue. Besides, I'm using Illustrator CS6.

Say, I have a white object on a coloured background:

And I apply a clipping mask to it like so:

No matter my colour settings or way of exporting, I tend to end up with very visible coloured lines marking the places where the mask cuts off the white shape:

Is there a way to avoid this glitch? Oddly enough, it doesn't pop up when I punch out the object and then clip the resulting punched shape and place the result on the regular white background.

The fact that the offending line is lighter than the actual colour I use, makes me think it has something to do with pixel alignment. I do, however, kind of refuse to work with pixel alignment, because it prevents me from exact positioning. And I wonder how I would have to solve the issue on a clipping mask that is, say, hexagonal:

*Scott/SOIA's solution to this question, unchecking 'Anti-Aliased Artwork', doesn't do the trick for me, especially when exporting to *.jpg.


texts: How to make weird fill in on brushstroke go away?

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Ok, I dont know why this happens but need a solution other than switching to basic brush. Sometimes when I draw with this brush (something other than basic): (3pt round):

I have this weird fill in that changes when you rotate the path:

How can I get rid of this?


texts: New generation of 'Edit' icon that is not a pencil?

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I was jotting down some notes for a future project, sketching some simple icons for functionality etc, but all I could come up with for an icon to represent 'edit' was a pencil.

The pencil seems to have become pretty universal in icon design, but I think it's pretty outdated and it's not clear enough from a distance (it just looks like a diagonal line).

For 'add', we have the universal '+' sign, and for delete we have 'X' or '-'. I feel like we (the world) needs something similar for 'Edit'.

I saw the similar post on here about the 'Save' icon not being a disk, and found it really fascinating. But what about the pencil?

I've been thinking about this now for a few days, but I can't think of anything. Can anyone else?


texts: How do I move my artwork around after dividing it into artboards?

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I've divided an artwork into a bunch of artboards and now I need to move the contents of the artboards around, resize them and such. Is this possible?

Whenever I try, it either moves just the artboard boundaries, or if 'Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard' is switched on, it moves everything in the whole artwork, as opposed to what's only in the artboard.

Edit: People have pointed out that you can not do this with the artboard tool, so I'm going to respecify - Is there a way to automatically 'Select' the objects within an artboard?


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My client gave me a set of 13 icons to use in some print and web materials that I am designing for an event. They are simple one color icons with a sketchy kind of look, and the original file they gave me was an .ai. The problem is, any time I try to work with them, Illustrator moves really, really, really slowly. I click on the icons and it take a full 5 seconds to select them. I try to move them and it takes 15-20 seconds for Illustrator to register the move. This is making the design process unbearably frustrating. Any ideas on why Illustrator is struggling with them? What can I do to make it run faster? I have not had any other performance issues, so I'm sure it's the icons. I wouldn't use them, but my client specifically requested that I implement them in the designs.

Here are some of the icons:


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Does anyone know of any linguistic terms icons (icons for "noun", "stem", "grammatical number", various grammatical cases), or preferably a package of them?

I know of the Noun Project and there are some icons from around the web and from various package (like Material Design Icons) that I've used or created icons based off of icons from there.

I created some icons I need from scratch, too, but I'm looking for already-made icons, either intended for linguistic terms of that can be good icons for linguistic terms.

I know it's a bit vague, I just don't want to request specific icons, but find (a) source(s).


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There are many "pencil" brushes for Photoshop, both shipped with the software and distributed over the web. None (that I have tried) show the specific behavior of a real pencil.

A real pencil of about medium hardness, if you brush it over the paper only very lightly, creates a grey line – no matter how often you draw over the same part of the paper! If you hold the pencil lightly and keep going over the same part of the paper over and over again, you will create a silvery, light grey area. You will never achieve black.

At the same time, when you press the same pencil harder, your can create a dark line. How dark the line gets, depends on the hardness of the pencil, but always a light pressure does not result in dark color, even if you keep going over the same part of the paper forever.

The reason for this is that if you press lightly, the graphite will never be rubbed into the fine "valleys" of the paper structure. With a light pressure, you will always only color the "tips" of the paper grain. If you want to color the whole paper, you need to press and "level" the paper grain (or rub the graphite into the "valleys").

In Photoshop, on the other hand, all "pencil" brushes lead to a black area or line when you keep drawing over the same area for some time.

I have tried fiddling with the brush settings for quite some time now, but I don't know how to emulate this specific effect of a real pencil on paper. There is the background-foreground jitter, but that will create a light grey line on a dark area, if I go with light pressure over a darker color, which is something a real pencil wouldn't do. A real pencil does not lighten dark pencil lines when you draw lightly over darker areas.

So how can I emulate the effect I describe in Photoshop?

I have Photoshop CS5.1, but would even be willing to upgrade to a current subscription-based version or change to a different software, if what I want is possible there.


texts: How can I create a PDF file from an Inkscape SVG with multiple pages?

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I have an SVG file that was created in Inkscape. It's the layout of a page for a book that is like a diary, so every page is exactly the same.

The printing service that I will be using to make a hard cover book from this layout can't just repeat the page when they print it, I need to provide a PDF file that has the same layout replicated on every individual page.

What I want to be able to do is create a PDF from my Inkscape file that has 185 pages, each page exactly the same. Is there a utility or something that can do this (in Windows)?

(Right now the only way I can think to do this is import the SVG into a program like LibreOffice and copy/paste the image to every page, but, that's a little tedious.)


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I need some help with kerning my wordmark. I have read some blog posts, and tried an online game to "test" my kerning skills. I usually get a score of 80% or higher, but I also sometimes get a really poor score. Since it's possible to get a score of 100% in the "kerning game", it got me thinking. Is there something called perfect kerning? Any help on improving my current kerning attempt (as well as my kerning process) is appreciated.
Background
This is somewhat a follow up question to one I made a couple of weeks ago, Critique request: Logo design for a tech company.
I went back to the drawing board, asked for help and feedback on The Looking Glass, and ended up with a wordmark and logo I am satisfied with.
Below is my current work in colors, black, and white.

Is it just me, or does the space between "R" and "E" seem shorter on the black background version? I checked to confirm that the space between characters are the same on each version.
Kerning process
My process to kerning so far has mainly been to get the white space between each character to be roughly the same. I started looking at the space between [ITE]. The white space between these two characters are equal, and I used that as a standing point for the rest of my kerning process. The next thing I did was look at the space between [REI] and [ECH] separately. I also tried looking at the wordmark upside down and from farther away.
Maybe the space between the "R" and the "E" could be slightly larger? However, the wordmark looks a bit odd to me if I increase the space between those two letters. Maybe that's because I have been staring at the same wordmark for weeks now.
Here is an illustration of the wordmark upside down with white space in different colors.


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I don't know if this is the right place but I am looking for a software through which I can show some comments/text on image. You know the bubble text that we show on images to describe something!?

So basically I have a home page site design on which I want to place bubble text to describe different elements. I have used such software before but don't remember its name so came here.


texts: Change background color of batch of similar image

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Is there any way to change the background color of a batch of photos?
All photos have the same dimensions and background
I have around 100 of these images with transparent background

These images are for a TFT display and the display UI editor does not support transparent images. It will convert the transparent part to white


texts: Illustrator: Can I "Expand" a Clipping Mask?

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I'm creating a brick pattern for laser cutting.
I created some lines and dragged it to the swatches

I then filled a rectangle with the brick pattern and did an Object > Expand:

This creates a clipping mask... The problem is, my laser cutter software can't see the clipping mask, so I need to convert the mask back into paths.

My question is, how can I "remove" the clipping mask (highlighted red) but keep the results (highlighted green).


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How should one modulate white space within an image, poster, or a logo? Some people say that there should be a certain amount of white space available within an image to make it appealing, while others say that white space should not be used.

What would be the best option to control the white space?
Are there any guidelines regarding the use of white space in design?


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I have created File>Package in photoshop for linked smart object so that a folder with source file and psd file created in the respective image folders. But that is creating a duplicating copy of the source image files and it is increasing my total file size. So I want to cancel this Package (File>Package). But there is no such option to cancel this Package.
Anyone have an idea how to cancel the Package option so that no longer the source image will be duplicated in the source image folder?


texts: How to search objects by label in Inkscape?

texts: How can I search and find objects by their label in Inkscape 0.92?


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I have been having a mare trying to replicate fluorescent orange in Photoshop.

No matter what I try, like altering the hue, saturation, vibrancy etc. I cannot create a fluorescent orange in Photoshop, like Pantone 804 C sort of colour. The orange just comes across rather dull rather than fluorescent.

See below for illustration:

Is there a way I can achieve this? or is fluorescent colours not a possibility?


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I've come across many similar questions relating to similar projects on Stack Exchange Meta. Despite this, I still can't quite translate to my own project and problem.

I believe this is fundamentally a math question. I struggle desperately with math and logical thinking, so can't work out what calculations are needed or whether this is possible for my document.

I have created a z-fold document.
I calculated a layout grid using the following dimensions:

Each individual page is 99mmx210mm
I set a margin for each page to 1cm (10mm)
I want to divided the space within the margins into 9 rows and 3 columns.  I've set a gutter width between each row and column to 2mm (I wanted it to be small, as I have a lot of content to place).

This is what I am left with - all good!

I then now want to set up the baseline grid to fit with this layout grid, as I will be using a fair bit of text in the design.

As my copy will be set to a point size of 10 (10pts) I set the baseline grid increment to 10 pts also, lined up within the margins.

This is what I am left with:

I believe I am struggling with logical maths equations or something. Any insight or formula explanations that would help me both with this project, and for calculating future projects, would be appreciated.

Following guidance:

As you can see, I haven't had desired effect?


texts: Can anyone help me find this Japanese font?

texts: I can't seem to identify what this font is. I found it on a youtube video. Thanks in advance.


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Say I have a texture/pattern (like this one from subtlepatterns), and I want to make it a specific colour. I know a number of ways to color it (mostly in PS), from overlaying it on a block of the color, adding a hue/saturation layer.. that way I can get it vaguely the right colour, what if I have a specific colour that I want it to mimic as closely as possible, say #e4caa5 as demonstrated here.

Is there a general process I can follow to keep the texture of the image on the left and apply the color on the right without too much trial and error?


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So I am familiar with the align toolbar, and am attempting to get two objects to align centrally.

The problem is that one of the objects is where I want it to be placed, and I want the other object to centre itself against this object.

How would I go about keeping one element static and aligning another to it?


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Save for web feature in Photoshop for image size reduction, would this be the simplest way for a beginner (like myself) to try and save on (some) loading time without losing too much quality.

I am using images for my menu buttons, background, header, post page, etc etc

I have only just found this save for web feature and I was wondering does it really help in image size or does it not make that much difference.

Is there any other option?

(website for reference: www.kizzieskorner.com)

PS: if you mark my question down please could you give an explanation why so I know what not to do next time - as I am new to these question forums too!


texts: Sketch App Fills color dropdown solicitors

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I've been trying to figure this out today but had little success.  I'm wondering if any of you from the community could help me.

I'm trying to add the color pallet saved in my sketch design library to appear under the fill dropdown menu. Apple's iOS UI library (the one you get from their resources page) shows up automatically when the library is active, but mine doesn't.

Is there a way to show my color pallet (already saved as layer styles) from the master Sketch library into the Fill panel view? — Image attached

Thank you in advance


texts: Combining batch actions with manual actions in Adobe Photoshop

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I need some help. In the past few weeks I have found a large portion of archived ww2 documents. Now I'm trying  to make proper PDF's out of these files but there is one issue. The archiver who digitized the documents has left a black space around the documents which I obviously would like to remove. This issue however is that the documents differ in size, position and rotation. I have added an example file.

Now I'm wondering if it is possible to design an action which allows me to manually crop a file and then save and close it. in general the batch and action should open the image, allow me to crop and then continue to save and close the file for me. I want to have a minimum of mouse and keystroke actions as we are talking avout several 10.000 images which have to be processed.

Can any one help me?

Cheers


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not a graphic designer or student or even hobbyist..

I have the full suite of Adobe CC at my disposal

My wife's friend has to submit some documents for some official business / studies. Problem is that to "get" these documents she has to submit some PDF's of her grades to the institute she studied which is in India.

She sent me a bunch of PDF's varying from 400 to 800 kb in size. They were scanned using camscan.

I've tried to reduce the size of the documents using native features in Acrobrat Pro and got the 400 kb pdf to 200

I then tried opening the file in Indesign using the place method and saving it using the highest compression methods available. Even then it didn't change in size from the Acrobat compression.

For now i've asked her friend to scan her documents using a proper scanner and I hope that would help..?

Does anyone have any tips, I was thinking of asking her to send raw pics that I could compress then just turn into PDFs.

The Uni in India only accepts 100kb file size of PDFs and nothing else which seems like madness to me, but heyho.

Yours,
DN.


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I'm tryin to make this thickening halftone effect

I got here a simple example of a circle with a gradient from black to white

and I did the following effect with gimp

only problem is that I need it as a vector which means I have to use image trace which I'm not a big fan of.

Does somebody know a way hoy can I get that effect ready as a vector?
I saw some plugins that may do the job but I'm a bit short on budget


texts: How to show the dimensions of a document as a ratio

texts: When we are using Image size window, width and height is displayed in percentage, pixel, inches etc. I need to get a pop up window showing the dimension of the document in ratios. Is this possible?


texts: save for web produces blurry png's with white tracing

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I'm having an issue that I can't seem to get around.  I wouldn't call myself a graphic designer, as I only use photoshop and illustrator in relation to web design, so I know enough to be dangerous.  I've had an issue numerous times in the past when I use save for web and save an image as a png-24, it comes out blurry, and often has a white tracing along the inside edge of parts of the image.  I'm not sure if that makes sense, but you can see it in action with the logo here:

Notice the gray aircraft in the background has a faint white tracing.  Believe it or not, this is one of the better ones as I've been doing a lot of reading on here and trying various things. The latest thing I tried was to make the original image 4x the size of what I wanted, and made sure it would scale down exactly with no half pixels. No luck.

In the save for web dialog everything looks crisp and no white tracing, and if I click the "preview" button, the resulting image is perfectly crisp.

If I open the image from the website in another tab, the text looks clearer, but the white lines on the aircraft are still there.  So I'm guessing Wordpress is causing some of this, but I'm unsure of how to fix it.  I've also tried uploading the image in the size I want to use, which is 120px in height.

Does anyone have any tips?

posting screenshot as requested, but its barely visible here:


texts: I am looking for point of interest (POI) icons which would be suitable for use with MapQuest

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I'm developing a web application for our company that uses MapQuest and we are trying to plot different items on the map. The default MapQuest icon is a purple circle, we need to use different coloured push pins for different groups of POI's.

Is there any site I might find icons that I may freely use or could someone point me in the direction to create my own.


texts: What are good pre-internet books or courses for the creation of a logotype?

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I am a software engineer attempting the impossible: to codify logotype creation.

I want to learn all the rules and principles for logotype design and don't want to rely on blogspam.  I'm looking for timeless, pre-internet information.

What are the definitive books and courses that career logo designers have read and taken?


texts: Trying to edit a smart object by using my own image, but it shows up massive and I can't scale it down

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I'm using this template:

 (source)

I have my own image that is 1136 * 640: the size of the smart object that depicts the contents of the iPhone 5 screen. When I drop my image onto the smart object, it is 1.5x the normal size (stretched) and I can't use Free Transform, as it's greyed out.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Photoshop action: how to make a crop (menu item) in an action without deleting pixels? Editing the atn file?

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I am working on a workflow to make an auto crop. I have an action set up with an automatic selection (magic wand), a little expansion of this selection and a crop to this selection. To make a crop based on a selection, you have to use the menu item 'Image' > 'Crop'. But it seems impossible to perform this crop without deleting the pixels, although this is an option when using the crop tool.

Many people on many fora said: a crop is made when you want to delete pixels, so what's the fuss all about? Well, I know that there will be errors when I perform a batch action of this workflow. This isn't a problem, because I can perform a quick visual check afterwards and correct images if needed. But for this to be possible, I need the crop to be non-destructive.

Workarounds already tried:

First make a smart object of the image. The problem: you get huge files that are hard to work with.
Change the action manually: within the action, there seems to be an option to the crop function (still menu item): "With Delete Cropped Pixels". Yet, when you double click on it, you are not able to change this 'option'. So I went a step further and tried to change the script of it. Using this and this tool, I converted the .atn file (export of the Ps action) into an editable xml, and changed it back to an .atn file to open it in Photoshop. In the xml file, there seemed to be an interesting piece of code:

<ActionItem key="TEXT" expanded="true" enabled="true" withDialog="false" dialogOptions="2" identifier="TEXT" event="crop" name="Crop" hasDescriptor="true">
<ActionDescriptor key="crop" count="2">
  <DescValueType.BOOLEANTYPE key="1147958304" id="1147958304" symname="Delete" sym="Dlt " boolean="true"/>
</ActionDescriptor>

This seemed related, so I changed the boolean="false" into "true". It had a certain effect: once opened in Photoshop, the action showed "Without Delete Cropped Pixels" underneath Crop. Unfortunately no luck: the crop was still performed with a deletion of the pixels. Furthermore, when I performed the action step by step, the option changed again into "With Delete Cropped Pixels".

So now I wonder: is it only possible to change the appearance of this option, or is there a real option to perform the crop within an action without deleting pixels.

Other workarounds are also always welcome.

Thanks for the support


texts: Affinity Designer: Fill space without closed nodes

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I have done this using Designer Persona. However, I can't see how I could colour the space between the curves that are not enclosed without having to re-do the shape and enclose it.
In the second picture, I used the Pixel Persona to colour it. Is there a better (and more accurate) way of doing this with the Designer Persona?
What I have:

What I'd like to achieve:


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I'm a newbie with computer graphics and I'd like to learn what "light baking" means.

I've heard of this term but never understood it completely. Can someone explain this to me in plain English (possibly with some images)?


texts: Scale up image inside layer in PSD loses quality?

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I'm an Android developer who knows not much about getting assets (pngs) from a psd or ai file to multiple resolutions that the Android platform needs.

With Inkscape it's pretty straightforward. Foreach vector or image I need, I just export it to PNG for multiple resolutions.

However a client sent a psd file and I don't really know if scaling up and down images or layers inside the psd loses quality. I know that ai files are vectors so there is no quality lose, but with psd files I'm not sure.

Is it okay if I scale up and down images inside layers on the psd files for multiple resolutions without quality lose? Or I have to ask the client to send me an ai file?

Thanks!


texts: What print production method is shown in this video?

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I've came across this scene from the Season #3 of the Outlander series. I'm really curious to get a detailed elaboration on what is the method shown in the video?

I've already reviewed some contents from around the Web, and I think this image closely relates to the method used in the video; but I look forward to hear from an specialist who knows better in details :)


texts: How to copy and paste a color in Pixelmator?

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Is there an easy way to copy and paste a color? I keep having to remember the RGB values and it's kind of a pain...

For example, if I make a circle shape and set it's color to 123 44 5, can I somehow copy that value and paste it onto a triangle shape I make in a different file?


texts: Indesign Data Merge - Variable number of pages from column in CSV file

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I have a CSV file with one line per SKU and a column "Qty" specifying the quantity of each SKU in a large shipment of products.

To clear customs in the country I'm in, I now need to stick one label per box, so I need to set up a process for printing X labels per SKU, with X corresponding to the value of column "Qty" for each respective SKU in the CSV (the quantities vary greatly).

Getting one label per SKU is no problem through data merge but how could I get the number of labels for each SKU from a column in the CSV?


texts: Trying to find the font used in this logo

texts: We can't get the information from our designer, so we are trying to find out what fonts were used in these different logos.  I have tried using 5 different font identifiers and can't seem to get to a "close match".


texts: Arrange Two Layers Without Colors Blending

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in my scenario I have two layers with two circles. Both of these circles are the same color, but they are different opacity.
The two circles are not images, rather I used the Elliptical Marquee tool, then colored them in with the paint bucket tool. Each circle exists on its own layer. I'm trying now to get the lighter circle to appear in front of the darker circle to no avail. I'm wondering, How would I get the lighter circle to appear above the the darker circle without the colors blending?
Thank you for reading


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I really like the look of the Launchrock logo:

It's subtle, but it seems to 'pop' off the background. Being that the background is dark, I can't image that they're achieving this with a simple drop shadow. I'm wondering what tools in Photoshop would I need to use to create a subtle 3D effect like they have here?


texts: Split an image with a zig-zag in Illustrator?

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I've been trying for the last 3 nights to halve a simple vector image of a padlock I had drawn following a tutorial. My headache is: I don't want to simple divide it right at the middle, I want to divide it with a zig-zag.

This is the intended result:

My first idea was simple: using the pen tool, I drew freehand a zig-zag, gave it a stroke width, put it over the padlock and used the Pathfinder "Minus front". The problem was the path wasn't a real zig-zag, but Illustrator made it a string of triangles, so it didn't split it the way I wanted.

My second try was using a line, and the Zig-Zag effect. I used the minus front again, but the line simply disappears, without any visible effect on the padlock. I'm going nuts with this annoying software. I miss the age when we could simple use pen and paper to draw. :(

Please, how can I obtain the result above using this simple vector:

Thank you so much!


texts: How does a printing machine render an image onto plates internally?

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I do understand how raster and vector images are rendered onto a 2D surface (screen, paper). Resolution, scaling, etc.

Is it the same inside the machine that makes plates for offset printing?

If so, what is the resolution there? And how does the machine do that? Does it have embedded software that understands all raster and vector formats? Or the image must be pre-rendered on a PC and then fed as pure raster?


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I have a colored image with gradients that got color-distorted. By distorted, I mean that the colors have been shifted (not in a linear way) but in a global way, not locally.
I know exactly which parts of the image should have which colors but since there are complicated gradients involved it's not so easy to just replace a color. Using adjustments layer like color balance is also not very helpful, because it's difficult to set the sliders exactly the way I want and there may be no combination at all that changes all the colors the way I want them to be.

Is there a way to tell Photoshop directly which input color should map to which output color and blend the rest accordingly? E.g. if I tell PS that red should map to yellow and orange should map to green then an orangy-red should map to a yellowish-green.

Edit (Example):

This is part of a scan that I'm working with. It's unedited apart from rotating, skewing and resizing.

There are 3 types of gradients: a simple linear gradient for the hair, a more complicated gradient for the skin (it's hard to see, it will have to be enhanced greatly) and wherever two colors meet.
First, I get rid of the noise and grain. I do this by using a smart blur filter and a great deal of manual clean up. There may be a more efficient method but that is not the main point of the question.
Next, the colors of the scan are all wrong. Since they are mostly flat colors I tried to select them with color range and fill the selections with the intended color or apply a color adjustment layer for this selection only.
However, that leaves the areas anywhere two or more colors meet and mix into each other. I don't know how to account for this and that's what I meant with complicated gradients. Making exact selections of the colored areas is really tricky and blurring it makes the image much too blurry (no surprise).


texts: Is there a way to know which font was used in Illustrator?

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This is something I always wondered, and right now I'd really use. From time to time, our clients send work from illustrators using fonts that are outlined. Sometimes I can get the illustrator to tell us the exact font they used, but sometimes they're unresponsive, so we use any of the many font identifiers, and usually get the correct font name.

Now, I have this file with a logo using a font that looks like many different fonts, yet not exactly like any of them. I assume the designer used a font, and then modified it a bit, hence I can't find the exact match.

Either way, my question is: is there a way to tell which was the original font used in a document? Maybe some kind of metadata in the file?


texts: What does my client mean by a '100.000 DPI, lossless vector 3D' logo?

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My client sent me this:

  I'd like a logo for myself, must be 100.000 DPI, lossless vector 3D printed in gold.

I totally don't understand his request? Please explain things to me. First client ever.


texts: How can I resize a round image in Photoshop?

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I am working with Adobe Photoshop CS4. I wanted to create a round button of size 20px x 20px. To be comfortable I have created a round button with the size of 200px x 200px. The image is shown below:

The image is perfect. Now I want to resize this picture to 20px x 20px, because that is the size that I really need. But upon resizing the image's quality degrades. The black border seems to be distorted. As shown below:

How can I have the same quality of a 200px x 200px image with the size of 20px x 20px?


texts: How can we see the difference between RGB and sRGB spaces?

texts: RGB and sRGB I found were said to be two color spaces the former adding some kind of a standard. There are a lot of details about what their difference actually is but how exactly can we spot or see a difference? (If my whole concept is wrong please correct me.)


texts: Why have different font faces for title, text body and graphs in texts?

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I have read several recommendations, e.g. this one to use different font families for titles (sans-serif), the text body (serif) and graphs (sans-serif). This is also what the default article document class in LaTex uses. I read that those fonts should be "complementary". So this seems to be a widely accepted practice, unless it is taken too far.

But I wonder why? Afaik design should be as simple as possible, be consistent and clean, especially for formal, scientific papers. Why does the title not stand out enough by having a bigger font size or increasing the font weight? Shouldn't the text in graphs be consistent with the one in the body of text?

So far I read only recommendations but no reasoning behind this decision? Have there been studies regarding this? Are there any design principles that outweigh the drive for simplicity? Or do complementary font types just look that much better that there is no discussion necessary?

I made some quick examples (the former looks better to me and has the same font):

Edit: I understand that a different font face increases the contrast between the title and the body of text, but as already written: Why is increasing the font size/weight not enough? Why sacrifice coherence if it can be avoided?


texts: Gimp – blend between layers controlled by a heightmap

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Suppose, I have a gray-scaled height map and ten layers with different diffuse textures or solid color textures.

I would like to blend these texture layers in a way determined by the heightmap, as follows: If a heightmap pixel is white, then pixel in the result will come from layer 10; if the heightmap pixel is black, from layer 1; if it’s between, it will show a layer between.

It’s like a terrain where on top there is a snow texture, and at the bottom, there is a water texture.


texts: Is there a proper technique to overcome the "feedback mismatch" issue on a digital tablet that doesn't have a display?

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I bought a Wacom Bamboo tablet as a way of easing myself into the world of digital illustration. I find the "feedback mismatch" issue (sorry, couldn't find the proper technical name for this) a bit jarring.

The "feedback mismatch" issue is as follows. While drawing on the tablet, you look at the screen to see what you are drawing, but you have to guide your hand on the tablet in order to draw correctly. This is not the case while drawing on paper because both the drawing and the verification happens at the same location, i.e., you're looking at the paper as you guide your hand on the paper itself. As a result, I can draw lines and circles on paper quite well, but everything comes out malformed while drawing on the tablet looking at the screen.

Is there a proper technique that I am missing that will overcome this problem? For example, should I orient the tablet and myself in relation to the tablet in a certain way? Or is this just a matter of practice?

I have seen many videos that guide on issues like drawing from the shoulders instead of wrists, how to hold the digital pen, etc. But so far I have found none that addresses the "feedback mismatch" problem.


texts: Changing the color of one line/stroke of a shape (Illustrator)

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I'm new to illustrator.
When I try to shape certain objects for a 2D cartoon character like the nose, for example, I want it to make the outer part of a nose one color while the color of the inner part of the nose matches the skin.
Or if I make a triangle and color two sides of a triangle blue while making the remaining one side yellow. How do I that?


texts: Collaborating on large InDesign files across a server

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As we all probably know, InDesign doesn't work well with servers, but my team has to work from a server on InDesign docs that contain lots of large images and we experience crashes and hangs throughout the day.

I'm curious what others' file structure environments are like with InDesign files that are shared between multiple people and if anyone has found solutions or workarounds to alleviate these issues .


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I have an image of an iPhone, where the screen is a Smart Object. I am trying to put a screen recording in the Smart Object, and then to export the image with the video in it as a video.

This is the image I am trying to put the video in:

This is what I have tried (on Mac):

Open the Smart Object in its own tab by double clicking the layer
Drag the video into the Smart Object and save
Return to the main image, and notice that the screen has indeed updated to show a still frame of the video
File > Export > Render Video...

This is what the window that pops up looks like:

As you can see, Photoshop is trying to export the file as a jpg, but I am trying to export the video. Indeed, when I press Render, a single still jpg is spit out.

How can I export a video instead of an image?


texts: Scaling down images and the impact on image quality

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I would like to know how scaling down images affects the quality. When scaling images up, they get pixelated and it's clear to see that the quality decreases, but when scaling down I sometimes notice the quality getting worse and sometimes I don't.

Background
To be more precise we are developing a digital magazine and will have to use thumbnails of the cover throughout our application. I am wondering whether the designer (who we haven't hired yet) should export the cover to all the different thumbnails sizes we are going to need or whether it is ok to export it at it's native resolution (1024 x 768) and then just use a program which will automatically resize it to all the thumbnail sizes we will need.

I have noticed in other magazines on the iPad the thumbnail covers often have "jaggy" fonts and would like to avoid exactly that.

So my question is:
What kind of images are save to down size without noticeable quality loss and what kind of images should I export to the desired size?

Questions regarding retina support

Another question I am having is regarding making the magazine "retina ready".
I understand that it's best to design as much as possible using the vector tools in indesign or create icons and logos as vector graphics in illustrator, this way nothing else needs to be done for it to look good on both retina and non retina displays.

For raster images it is best to create two PDFs one with all the images at retina resolution (142PPI) and one at non retina resolution (72PPI). I know I can setup InDesign to automatically downscale images to those resolution on export.

For photos, which are only available at high resolution this seems to make the most sense and the only way.

My question is in what cases would a designer create images as raster graphics instead of vector graphics? I assume this would be for very complex graphics. But could someone give me a couple of examples or images which would not be suitable to be created as vectors?

In the case of images that have to be created as raster images, do I have to create two versions from scratch or can I just create a retina version and then scale that one down to non retina?

From my background with iOS development I know most designers create two versions of each asset from scratch. Especially for the icons. Could someone please explain the reason for this and when it is necessary and when not?

Please let me know if I am understanding this correctly or whether I got something completely wrong.

Greetings, Kim


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The new layer filters is nice but doesn't record when making actions. Before I was able to add 'Select similar layer' in an action and edit all similar layers (because they have different layer names) now it won't recognize the filter as part of a recordable action. Currently I have to use STOPS in actions to get same results with less automation. :(

EXAMPLE:
Automating a batch of multi-layered files with numerous TYPE (text/character) layers. Need to remove all TYPE layers from files without stopping mid batch for each file.

help? Or help write a script? (i don't know scripting)
thanks.


texts: How to shrink down paths in Illustrator (cs6) whilst maintaining equivalent strokes?

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I have a selection of paths in illustrator (cs6).

I want to select all the paths and free transform them to something like a 3rd of the size. The problem is when I shrink them down, the stroke on the paths stays the same. So originally some had 1pt and 2pt stroke, bit when I free transform all the paths to a 3rd of the original size, the strokes are all still 1pt and 2pt big.

I don't want to have to go through each path and change the stroke, as it would take a long time. is there a tool/option in illustrator that can help with this?


texts: How can I preserve my icon size in Illustrator on export?

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I have created a few icons of 64px x 64px on one canvas in Illustrator CS6. Now I need each of the icons to be in .png file format. So I created a new document in Illustrator with 64px x 64px dimensions and copy paste one of the previously created icons. Now when I want to save it as f .png file format it does not remain 64px x 64px size rather it becomes like 63px x 63px size with 1 pixel from 2 sides erased. What mistake did I make and what is the remedy to it? How do I get to a 64px x 64px size?

Thanks


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My cross-hair and brush tip are misaligned. The crosshair is near the bottom right of the brush tip, and any changes are based on this crosshair (ignoring the brush tip).

Very frustrating as working on pixel art. How can I reset this so that the crosshair is in the middle?


texts: Photoshop automate copying shapes and changing color

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I am currently manually creating a set of cards. The cards consist of 1-5 copies of the same shape, in one of a handful of colors.

For example, I have a card with 1 red circle, a card with 2 red circles etc, a card with 1 blue circle, 2 blue circles, etc.. a card with 1 red squares, 2 red squares etc.

Essentially, a card has either squares, circles, triangles or octagons.

Instead of me creating a circle, then making versions in different colors, and finally versions with different numbers of them, is there any way to automate the copying and color changing of these items?


texts: Automatically rotate and translate paths to reduce space without them touching (nesting)

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I wrote a script that makes a design for a laser cutter. I want to optimize the layout to reduce waste and make the most of expensive Perspex material. I lay out the pieces so their bounding boxes have 2 mm distance from each other and fit within a 400x600mm sheet. This first picture shows the result of the script, which loses space in the tail of the cursive "j" and in between the "1"'s:

This next picture shows some manual optimization: I moved pieces left of the cursive "j" to the right and rotated and squeezed together the "1"'s. Notice how I was able to fit the full "p" and an extra "1" in the same space:

I imagine designing such an algorithm would be very involved, but does Inkscape or Illustrator have a way to do this automatically, e.g. "take these SVG's and fit as many as you can into a 400x600mm rectangle"?

Update (July 7, 2018): After the suggestions of @BillyKerr and @Testujin, I tried SVGnest.com. The website had several problems.

First, it ignores stroke width: compare the size of the 1's in the original SVG in the top panel below to their size in the bottom panel. It also changes the original beziergon: compare the "j" in cursive and script, the "a", and the "oe" (French letter) between top and bottom:

Second, the algorithm breaks apart compound paths, such as the outside of the "a" from its hole. The first picture below shows in Illustrator that the "a" is a single compound path, not a group. The second picture shows the result of SVGnest.

Third, the site runs JavaScript on the client: for a sheet of 400 x 600 mm acrylic with around 40 letters, it was taking 350% CPU with an estimate of over 30 minutes to complete.

A minor point is that the algorithm gets stuck when the material is too large for the objects. The status after 80 iterations was the same as after 1 iteration, with pieces all over:


texts: Export PNG image without alpha channel in GIMP

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How do I export a PNG image without alpha channel in GIMP?

I have checked a lot, but I can’t find this. I found an option to export PNG images without alpha channel in Inkscape, but I am not familiar with that program.

Also, is there any way to check whether an image has an alpha channel in GIMP?


texts: Adobe Indesign CS4 XML Import Problem(Missing Elements After Import)

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I have been troubleshooting this problem for hours now. It's quite puzzling since a few hours back this did not happen at all. So I have completed placing the tags on individual text frame and was about to Import another xml. Basically all structures of the xml file are the same just the content of the tags are different.
Now after import all other element did update but are now gone from the drop down of the root.(please refer to the images) I am not an expert and have been reading now on the web for hours without luck. I hope someone here experienced this problem before and solved it.


texts: In Photoshop, how can I replicate the color tone (sepia) from one photo to another?

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I scan old original photos from the 30's and 40's and for some of them I get some blueish metallic reflections that are not visible "in person" (and the photo paper is not glossy). I think this phenomenon is called silvering (or mirroring?).
Here is an example with one of my photos (look on the person and in the dark areas of the photo you'll see the blueish reflection - look at the photo at 100% size otherwise it can be hard to see):

I use a color deconvolution plug-in in Photoshop to remove these reflections with amazing success:

But the reparation process changes color tone of the image (the sepia). In the example above the original is a bit more brown/yellow.
How, with Photoshop, can I restore the original color tone after removing the reflections?


texts: How can I get photos to look sharp and save for the web?

texts: I am working in Adobe Illustrator...and old version...version 5. I am importing photos and doing a banner design for a website. Every time my client views it, her comments are the photos are blurry. I agree. It is probably a simple fix. Canyon help?


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I need an image manipulation software with certain features, the cost doesn't matter to me.

I am looking for the following features:

A program which enables me to: Make logos and other vector works and allows a little bit of raster aka bitmap editing too. I need images to be able to be optimized for print and on-screen media (i.e smartphones and laptops). I would like some kind of Batch Processing and the program should be easy and have a lesser learning curve.

I don't need a complete suite, I just need one program that does these things.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Exporting Scaled Down Artwork to PDF for Large Scale Print

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I've been a graphic designer working mostly in print for the past 15 years and I just realised that the way I have been exporting for Large Scale Print has been wrong this whole time.

Normally if there is something that is a few metres I might create the artwork at say 10 or 50% keeping things like bleed to scale. I make sure images will be at least 150dpi when scaled up so if it's 10% I will make sure the images are 1500dpi.

However most print PDF defaults compress any images over 300dpi down to 300dpi. I only just realised that all those scaled images I've been setting up have been scaled down again.

I've never had a printer come back to me saying there was an issue. For anyone working in print production, would you just run it as is because it's not usually a problem or are there no preflight systems that pick this up?


texts: Calculate size in cm relative to objects in photoshop

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I do know the height and width of this stairway.
The width is 2.8 meters, and the height, from the devider right bellow the image up to the ceiling, is 3.08 meters.

What I would like to do is making this image proportionally 2 meters in width relative to the wall it will be hanged on.
And place it about 40 cm up from the wall-"devider"...

Is this possible using Adobe Photoshop CC?


texts: How can I change the gradient angle inside of a Live Paint object in Illustrator?

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I have been infatuated with this artist style of color, drawing and use of subtle textures.

http://1212m.tumblr.com/post/49348782338

So I ended up drawing this derpy little thing from Final Fantasy using the pen tool in illustrator and converting it to a live paint object.

Ok! Making some progress here. The one issue I'm having is using the gradient illustrator with the live paint tool. I set the angle to 95 and no matter what it goes left to right as if the angle was set to 0. Any ideas as to why?


texts: How can I modify an image to have colors that flow into each other and what is this effect called?

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I have been trying to find the name of this effect in this image

Specifically, how the image has been converted to white and a spectrum of colors that flow into each other. I would like to know how to do this, what is the name of this effect so I can Google it?


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I search to have a Balsamiq mockup skin style in the Sketch mac app.

Is there a library or something else ?

Thanks.


texts: Photoshop-effect in Illustrator creates non-smooth edges

texts: I am having troubles with the photoshop filters in Illustrator. If I have a box with rounded corners and then apply grain to it, it will get some white pixels in the corners (or the corners will look really "pixly"). Is there some smooth settings to this or some way to prevent this from happening?


texts: How can I add my logo to real stuff in Illustrator

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Im a newbie here, Ive been learning how to design by myself and I want to learn more, so I hope you guys can understand.
My question is:
How can I add my logo to stuff like Mugs, T-Shirts and if possible, over Mountains (The texture is important on this one) and so on, using illustrator.
I dont want it be extremely obvious that it's not really there, so, Can you guys help me please?
Thank you very much


texts: Move photoshop viewport 1 pixel at a time

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I can move a photoshop layer 1px at a time, however I need to be able to move the viewport (so all layers move together).

I need to so I can align with a browser window behind it (photoshop is transparent).

At the moment, I have to use the scrollbar however it's a pain to get it to align pixel perfect (near impossible). If I need to scroll both I have to align all again (would be ok if I can move the view 1 pixel at a time).

Thank you


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Trying to save Gif in photoshop, but saves frames as separate images? When I click the file it doesn't save as an animated gif.. help?

I do File > Export > Save for web > Make sure it's a gif > Save > Images only and Default


texts: Add a permanent scrollbar to a full screen pdf without changing any settings in the reader or removing the touch mode feature

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A little bit of a niche question.

I have created an interactive pdf that opens in full screen mode (which is a mandatory) and in single pages which works well and includes the touch scroll.

One thing that has been requested (and I understand from some users perspective as it's a more traditional approach to page scrolling) is to force/ enable the scroll bars which currently do not exist. This would need to be enabled within the distributed pdf file rather than within the reader's settings.

I am guessing that this may require a snippet of code if it is at all possible.


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I have been trying to fix this for a while and now it is getting really annoying. All my text and anything that I fill is jagged. The image below I filled with the polygonal lasso tool and it looks very jagged.

I have the DPI on 300 and have tried going lower and higher but it doesn't effect anything. I have tried a lot of different ways to fix it over the year but nothing seems to work. It used to get worse every time I resized the image, but I ended up finding a fix for that.

I am not sure if this is just a me problem since I have a weird resolution 1400x900. But completely straight lines are jagged and it is very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.


texts: How can I combine two open paths in Sketch?

texts: In Inkscape a path can consist of multiple (potentially open) subpaths that all share the same fill and stroke settings. Is it possible to do this in Sketch? I tried to make a union of three open paths but it fails.


texts: How can I thread text with offset headers?

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I would like to thread a sequence of text through a number of pages. My requirement is that the body text always starts on the same line, and if there is a header, it always sits above this point. Each section (using the word section in the standard sense, not the InDesign sense) starts on a new page and has a header.

In this image, each chunk represents a different page, with the header in red and the body text in black.

Obviously this would be easy to do if the headers appeared at the same position as the body text starts, but this is not the case. I know I can use the Keep settings to make each header start on a new page, but how can I offset the header from the point where the body text starts.

At present I have removed the headers from the text and add them in separate frames outside of the threading, but this means that as text is amended the headers keep getting left behind on the wrong page.


texts: I am in InDesign and I want to align all the text vertically but am not sure how to do it, it wont let me space or tab because of the bullets.I just want to move the lines under the bulleted line and not affect the whole paragraph?


texts: What is this style of layered lettering called?

texts: Basically what the title says. I just can't think of what to call this style in order to look up tutorials.


texts: How to find the nearest color from a list of 9 in Photoshop?

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I've a picture of an static object correctly balanced and exposed:

I would like to sample the nearest color from my own palette of 9 RGB or Lab using Photoshop:

Colour palette:

#8270a4
#aa83cb
#62487c
#b8b2fb
#785cb4
#304384
#8372a6
#8270a4
#9faae5


texts: How do I delete two sides of a rectangle in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I have this rectangle with of course a border around it on all four sides. I would like to delete two of these sides so you have a rectangle with only two colored sides instead of four. The problem is that the scissor tool does not work.


texts: Are there any serious competitors to the Cintiq Companion 2? (pro mobile tablets)

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Precise details on what I mean by "serious competitors" below.

Wacom recently announced the Cintiq Companion 2. It's a laptop-sized pro tablet that can run all design software including Adobe CS6/CC and basic 3D graphics software (running Windows 8.1), and it has a built in pen & touch screen that is the same as Wacom's latest regular Cintiq and Intuous range.

So, you can pull it out of a bag and start drawing or designing with virtually anything you use at home or work. If you have a higher spec machine at home or work, you can also plug this in to that when you get back and use it as an input device (unlike the original Cintiq Companion).

Before I start saving up (they won't be cheap), I want to check see if there is anything else that comes close. Wacom's patent has expired, and their competitors have been catching up fast,  but I've lost track of all the different companies who make things like this.

To cut out any subjectivity, here's the standard I'm talking about. This is based on personal experience with similar devices plus research on common frustrations for designers and digital artists using these (feel free to suggest anything I've missed):

Capable of running pro design software: at least Adobe CS6 and/or Adobe CC, bonus points for designer-friendly 3D software like e.g. zBrush, Blender, Mudbox or Cinema4D.
As portable as a MacBook Pro (bonus points for any portability beyond this)
Built in pen digitizer comparable in quality to Intuos Pro / Cintiq. To be more specific:

Accurate, consistent customisable calibration, so you can set it to the angle you naturally hold your pen at and draw without thinking about correcting for inaccuracies.

Accuracy is hard to measure objectively, but to give a comparison point, I (and many other reviewers) would rate the Wacom "penabled" digitizers (used in some laptops, many Windows tablets, Mac Modbooks (I believe) and the Samsung Galaxy Note series) as being very nearly but not quite at the "just draw without thinking about it" standard, early Cintiqs also not quite at this standard, but modern Cintiqs comfortably above it.

No major inaccurate areas (some tablets lose accuracy towards the screen edge)
Smooth pressure curves (early N-Trig digitizers were notoriously blotchy)
Editable pressure curves (I think Surface Pros and many other Windows tablets can't be customised, but I could be wrong our out of date on that)
Many bonus points if it does tilt angle and/or rotation similar to a Wacom Art Pen.

Many bonus points if you can plug it in to a Mac or PC and use it as a screen and pen tablet device for that other machine
Many bonus points if it has a replaceable battery. The original Cintiq Companion didn't, and it looks like the sequel might not too (only being able to last one charge is a big drawback for any portable professional gear).


texts: Is it possible to batch remove specific layers with Photoshop Actions?

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To start with, I have a project where I create a poster each day, and I'm in the process of getting them ready to be sold as prints. Each of the posters that I make for this project has an overlay which essentially says posters number, social links and copyright information (see example below.) I want to offer two versions, one with and one without the overlay (in case people want the poster but not the "branding")

What I'm wondering is if there is a way of making an action that opens the PSD, removes the overlay file (they are all named the same) and then save as a JPEG? I've been experimenting with doing this for an hour or so, but so far I've had no luck.

I'm thinking the process should be:
Open PSD > Remove layer > Save JPEG

Would anyone know of a way of getting this to work?

Thanks for any help you might have!


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I opened a PDF file in illustrator, and I noticed that it only created objects
for some of the cells, example

I tried using using a trace, but I cannot seem to select the problem cells.
How can I get Illustrator to recognize the remaining cells?


texts: Are there any tricks for changing the height to width ratio of an image without making it look compressed?

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There are many times when I found the perfect picture for a slide show but after re-sizing it to the carousel desired height it is still too tall.

Besides cropping, are there any tricks to shave off height of a photo? I know it seems like a ridiculous answer, but maybe there are tools or methods out there for dealing with these problems I am not aware of.


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How can I set auto page numbering in CorelDraw. I know there is some macro to do this. But how do I do it for range of pages.

Say I do not need page numbering for a Brochure cover and back pages. All the inner pages should have numbering. I'm using CorelDraw X4. Any ideas ?


texts: What are the workflow differences between vector file formats?

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I came here when I found AI vs EPS vs SVG here. The main point most (all) answers have is that the workflows in the three formats are different.

How and why these differences are is not so clear to me. I use for example SVG to design for web. All fine, but what would be different when I started the same project focused on print? What would be different when I take the SVG version and convert it to EPS for print?


texts: Separate white image from dark background

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I'm creating a t-shirt design and need to know how to combine all the white shapes that make this image and separate it from any dark green. The white image will eventually be printed on a dark green t-shirt as shown in the template. If you open the file you can see that the image was created with a combination of white and dark green shapes. I would like the white part that's visible to be the only image in this file.

Here's the link to the illustrator file: http://www.lendtmusik.com/NWBandAlumniT-Shirtversion2.ai


texts: How to create Anamorphic, Optical Illusion, 3D Large format print?

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Sorry it's a broad question..
I have a project where I am making the inside of a trailer look like it's either the interior of an aeroplane, or its an aeroplane with no roof, so you have visible site of the wings and sky in all directions. I will include an image i found which give some idea of what I'm trying to achieve.

(This isn't my image - copyright to Technicion IXION)

I would like my design to appear as realistic as possible. The trailer I'm wrapping does have curved walls..which suit the airplane idea but It makes things a little more confusing with the perspective... I hope I'm making sense here It's tricky to explain but as you can see in the image i found, the wings appear to be in the correct angle from the current view point. How then would you wrap a slightly curved wall if you were facing the wall so that when you stand back at the view point (like in photo) it appears 3d..


texts: How to set Photoshop opacity to something other than an integer 1-100%?

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How do you change the opacity of a Photoshop tool (e.g. the brush or the paint bucket) to something other than an integer 1% to 100%, such as 0% or 0.5% or 99.5%?

When I try entering these numbers manually an error window pops up, saying it's invalid:

It's my understanding that in many images (8-bit per channel PNGs at least) the alpha channel has a range or 0-255, just like the red, green, and blue channels. So more than half of those alpha values are impossible to reach with an integer from 1-100 (without complicated compositing of multiple transparent layers). After all, Photoshop has 0-255 sliders for RGB, why not for opacity? Or, if so, where can I enable this feature?

I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (which has no tag it appears).


texts: Odd PS CS5.5 problem: can't right click, drag, or use the keyboard

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The strangest Photoshop problem I've ever had just came up...  I all of a sudden cannot right click, click and drag, use modifier keys (I can push B for brush, but can't say Ctrl-O for open) or long click (I cannot select the secondary tools such as switching between the paint bucket and gradient tools).

I tried deleting my user prefs (had to do it manually because modifier keys aren't working so no Ctrl-Alt-Shift), and that works for literally a few seconds and then the problem reappears.  I can't recall doing anything strange to trigger the error; I was using the program just fine and suddenly I couldn't do anything I needed to.  I'm having no issues with other software, even other Adobe software.  I'm running CS5.5 on Windows 7 Pro.  Has anyone encountered this problem before?


texts: How do I make changes to the mesh when I've already started to make animations?

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I'm animating a character with bones, using keyframes. The character is made up of a skeleton and a bunch of planes attached to that. I want to edit the scale of one of the planes, but when I do that, every animation keyframe that I have already overrides that and sets it back to the value it had when I started animating.

Is there a way to make changes to the mesh and propagating that change throughout the existing keyframes?

Pardon my Maya-illiteracy.


texts: What's the relationship between the L value of HSL and fractional paint mixing?

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My question is simple - I want to know if there's a linear relationship between adjustments made to an HSL value's L amount and the corresponding adjustments achieved by taking a paint of that colour and mixing it with white (or black).

For example, say I have an HSL red: 0, 50, 50, and a paint which is exactly this red. If I took the paint and mixed it 1/1 with white (for the sake of argument, assume I do this extremely accurately), would the resulting colour match HSL 0, 50, 75?


texts: In Illustrator, how should I typically set "Preserve Spot Colors" under "Document Raster Effect Settings"

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I am learning Illustrator. Under Document Raster Effect Settings there is a check box which is labeled "Preserve Spot Colors". The fact that is unchecked by default is puzzling to me. Surely I would typically want to preserve spot colours and only uncheck it for unique circumstances ... or do I have a misunderstanding here?

Maybe it would typically be unchecked; but otherwise I would need to go into these settings for every document which uses spot colours and remember to check it. Can somone clarify to me why I would typically want it unchecked; and if that's not the case then what is Adobe thinking is in leaving it unchecked.


texts: How do I learn a certain type (link given) of digital art?

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So I have this friend on Instagram who posts digital art (her Instagram is maegandawnsyiem, it's the first link that you see on Google), and I am so in love and fascinated by it. I really want to learn how to make similar works. I tried contacting her, but she is quite busy. I really like her type of artwork, and was wondering how do I get started with it? What types of tools she uses etc. Any tips are greatly appreciated. Additionally, if you can point me to courses on edX or Coursera etc., that would be great!

Thanks for the help! Cheers! :)

Edit: Her art - https://imgur.com/a/eex4BFq


texts: What does "Ratio Of Headline to Body Font Size" mean

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in a smashing magazine article, I read "According to our study, on average, the ratio between the headline and the body copy is around 2.5" - and this is the formula HEADLINE ÷ BODY COPY = 2.5

Does it mean that if my body copy is 16px, by heading one <h1> should be 40px (16 x 2.5). The only reason I think I am wrong is that in the same article and in all the websites I investigated, the body size is 16px and the heading font is 29px or 30px

On the other hand Tim brown says that we should multiply the body text by the golden ratio and select any of the results to be your heading size, is this the same thing but by using 2.5 instead of 1.618?

Can you please help me understand this


texts: Indesign auto column width size for table based on the data containing?

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I have a lot of tables that designers have to adjust slightly to fit the content. This takes a large amount of time in our process and I would like to know if there is anyway to skip this? Perhaps a custom script?

If not, could you suggest what I should do? How would I go about creating my own script to auto-fit the columns to the data?

Also the table must always be 100% of the available width (normally into a text-box)


texts: round corner controller is not working in adobe illustrator

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I am using a pen tool to draw a curve and I have made some sharp corners so that I can round it with a round controller.

But only at some point, it shows a round controller and most of the point is left out.

as you can see only 4 sharp corners have the controller even though a lot of other corners is also sharp.

What is the problem in adobe illustrator?


texts: I have 20 vectors, groups of 2 on an .ai artboard, how do I make these into 10 files?

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I have one .ai artboard, it contains 20 vectors in groups of 2.

I want to create 10 separate files without having to manually create each artboard and pasting each of the 10 sets one by one.

With all the functions within .ai, I am wondering if I can slice up this one artboard into 10.


texts: How to create an array of circles within a circle?

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I'm looking to place exactly 750 filled circles in a random array within a circular shape, essentially a static version of this infographic

I've considered scatter graphs (but that seems as painful as manually placing each circle), the transform effect and blend tools (but these seem linear, or require going along, rather within a path). I wonder whether I need to script this, but I've never done that before so would love it if you could step out exactly how I should go about this?

One user has suggested making a custom brush, however this does not allow me to specify an exact number of circles (I need to be sure there are 750). One thing I didn't mention earlier is that I want to select and alter the colour of 162 of the circles once they've been drawn, so they need to remain editable.


texts: Illustrator - Make paths as a compound path

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I am having a simple issue from import SVG path to Fontello:

'id.svg' contains multiple paths/shapes. Please, make them a compound path, and try import again.

So, I have this vector:

What I really tried:

1) Search on Google !
2) Unite paths in Pathfinder
3) Join Paths in Object > Path > Join

The Results

1) Teach me other 2 options, none of them works   --> Actually bring me to some kind of Fontello's forum, 2 unanswered posts.
2) Only group paths (once them don't touch each other)
3) Nothing happened.

Is there anybody that already tried to import SVG icons to Fontello?


texts: How can I gradient a multicoloured line into another to create a cleanly gradiented rectangle?

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I'm trying to blend one vertical line of multicoloured pixels (1px width, 200 px height) on the left, into another vertical line of multicoloured pixels (1px width 200px height) on the right, with a spacing of 500px between them, to create a 500x200 rectangle where each horizontal row of pixels is a smooth gradient between the corresponding end pixels on the left and the right.

Is there a standard way of doing this? I know how to gradient from one pixel into another, but I'm unsure how to do it for a whole set of pixels like this into another set of pixels. I could do it one-by-one but that would be very slow.

I'm using Paint.net; if there is a feature in it that does what I need I'd love to be pointed to it.


texts: Crop to specific size (not a ratio of it) in Photoshop

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I'd like to crop several images to a specific size. Previously, I would set the size in the crop tool and happily run through a few images and have them all crop to the same specific size.

Now it seems Photoshop wants to crop to a ratio of the specific dimensions. The final output is technically correct in that it's the right size but I want the crop tool to resize to the exact dimensions I've entered and not try to auto-fit to the current image with a ratio.

For example, I have an image that is 300 x 200 x 72. I want to crop it to 150 x 100 x 72 and have the crop tool appear as those exact dimensions, not as a ratio of them relative to the current image size.

I'm attaching a screenshot of what is happening, to help explain. I don't want this, I want the crop box to be the exact size I've specified so that I don't have to re-size the crop box for each image.


texts: How can I add Sine waves to follow the path of a circle using Illustrator

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In Illustrator I'm trying to create quite a simple shape but I don't know the simplest way of going about it.

I have created a Sine wave using the Sine Curve script by Sato Hiroyuki.

I have doubled it and flipped it to create this "wave band" image and I want to know how I cant get it (if possible) to follow the path of a circle:

Is there something similar to the Type on a Path tool but for shapes? or is this going to be a case of painstakingly "free-handing" the curves?


texts: How did Jony Ive draw the curved lines along the edge of this pen so evenly spaced together?

texts: Along the edge of the pen case there are three curved lines very close together. Was this done by hand?


texts: How to permanently save swatches in illustrator cc 2018?

texts: I save my swatches and every time I re-open Illustrator CC 2018 they disappear. Is there a way that I can permanently save my swatches so they don't disappear after exiting? I'm a bit new at this. Thank you!


texts: The logo I have made in Illustrator changes when I save to PDF

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I have made a logo in Illustrator. It is a very simple text logo where I have created outlines to turn it into a Vector. I also have made some small adjustments with overlays to remove part of the text (see picture). When I zoom in everything is perfect the way I want it to be, but when I save it as a PDF it suddently changes my design and make certain lines thicker and parts of the logo blurry.

Why is that ? I just want a clean logo that I can resize and use for different purposes.

In the second picture you can see that the I is thicker that the other letters but it is not that way in the first photo which is a screenshot of the illustrator file.


texts: Orthographic projection of 2D SVG texture map onto 3D SVG sphere

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Background

Looking to project a 2D texture map onto a 3D surface.

Texture & Globe

The SVG source for the texture map is online:

The crack data without gradients, simplified:

The SVG source for the sphere is also online:

Problem

When the texture map is placed on top of the globe, the result is flat because no UV mapping is performed:

Problem Constraints

Consider the following constraints:

An SVG-based texture map as input (such as that given)
An input spherical radius (no oblate transformation needed)
An SVG file is produced as output

Question

What approach would you take to map a 2D texture (comprised of lines, Bezier curves, or other data) onto a sphere to produce an SVG of the projection (without rasterization)?

Resources

D3's Geo with an orthographic projection appears to meet the requirements of loading a texture map, performing a projection based on some topology, and can export the result as SVG:

https://observablehq.com/@d3/world-map-svg?collection=@d3/d3-geo
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23218877/59087

The reference-only rasterized versions: