texts: How to scale aliased elements in Photoshop.

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I'm working with Photoshop for a few years now, but I've always had this problem that I didn't really understand or found a proper sollution for, I just found some work arounds...

When you create a shape in Photoshop(especially circles,rounded rectangles...curves..etc), sometimes, especially after you transform it, the edge of the shape is not full pixel, crisp and neat. It's sometimes a bit transparent or something like that. It has some sort of default Anti-aliasing or something like that...can it be turned of? Is it good to turn it of? Why is Photoshop doing that? [in illustrator for example there is that option to align object to the pixel grid, is there something like that in photoshop?]

I know that at certain sizes and twitches this does not happen, but I'm wondering why does it happen and if there are any rules to avoid this...

I also know and noticed Fireworks does a better job for this kind of stuff, but for some stuff I just love Photoshop...

have a look at this screenshot to understand what I am talking about:


texts: How to treat right margin/padding of list?

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This is well in the realm of "it doesn't really matter" or "whatever looks best", I know, but I was curious as to whether or not there was a generally accepted convention about this (or a well-supported opinion).

Should the right padding/margin of a list more or less mirror what you do on the left side (first two bullet points below)? Or should it go all the way to the normal margin (second two bullet points)?

I only ask because I was working with a document today where the bullet point ended up sticking out further than the paragraphs above and below due to now they were ragged, but I'm working with limited vertical space and don't want to take another line on this particular list item.


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I'm having problems trying to fill in some color in a halftone effect. My process is that I create a gradient, go to the effects menu then select color halftone from pixelate. Then I expand then image trace. After tracing I select ignore white, then trace, then I expand again.

I want to fill the effect with a certain color, but this isn't the result I get.

Am I missing a step, or is there a better way?


texts: I need to restrict the copying and printing of my artwork

texts: I need to restrict the copying and printing of my image files. Please tell me what is the best file format for restricting copying and printing of files?


texts: Strokes appearing on my logo in the browser when no stroke colour has been set on the SVG in Illustrator

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First of all please forgive my lack of experience in illustrator, I've just started out and am therefore a complete novice in design.

I've just created my logo, saved and exported it as an SVG. It appears how I want it in Illustrator with just colour fills and no strokes, but in the browser a light stroke colour is being applied to each path. I used the live paint bucket tool to fill in the different shapes with different shades. Anyone know what I've done wrong here?


texts: Remove (or mask) a specific colour from multiple layers CS5

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This question seems to have been asked a number of times but either the requirements are different or I'm not able to follow the answers.

I have an animated GIF that was created using a third party tool. This tool uses solid green (#00ff00) as the colour to represent transparency.

This GIF needs editing as it needs breaking down into different sections to produce multiple smaller GIFs, I'm doing this in Photoshop CS5.

However I can't seem to replace the green with transparency, when I export the GIF from CS5 the green is there as a solid colour.

So what Im asking is:

Is there anyway to tell the "Save to Web" tool that #00ff00 should be transparent, OR
How can I delete the colour from all of the layers (there are 591 of them), OR
Is there anyway I can use a mask to make that colour transparent?


texts: How to import an SVG image and set the SVG width as the gliph advance?

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I use Inkscape to draw one SVG file per letter and FontForge to integrate it. For this, I follow this guide of FontForge documentation.

In the SVG file, I use the right border to indicate a character’s xMax:

But when I import it to FontForge this one doesn’t care about the border and set’s an arbitrary (?) width:

So, how can I define (with Inkscape) a vertical line which will be used by FontForge as the xMax? Or, how can I force FontForge to use SVG width as glyph width?


texts: Keep background layer when cropping (script)

texts: I know that if you choose "Delete Cropped Pixels" in the crop tool, that it will preserve the background layer, as a background layer.  However, I wished that I could still maintain this function when cropping without the delete cropped pixels option checked as well.  It seems like a silly thing to have to recreate that layer as a background manually every time.  Is there a script out there that can do this?


texts: Exporting various icons at the same size from Illustrator

texts: I've created some icons, but they export at various sizes. We'd like to have them all be the same size, for use in our app. How can I export these all as the same size? Right now, they're exporting as their exact shape dimensions, which are all different. Currently, I'm exporting as PNG. (side note, I'm only exporting the white items, the background is only there for visibility)


texts: Do anybody know a vector program with custom compound lines?

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If somebody don't know what I mean by compound lines. Here is example of use:

I know that it is possible in some Cad programs, but they don't provide much possibilities for art.


texts: How to learn composition when dealing with products or videogame graphics?

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apologize if this can be easily googled or was answered before, I could not find anything. Most composition is how to frame your picture.

I am frequently preparing images for my articles and need to compose either few products on a single image (for example new laptops) or screenshots from games. Are there some general guidelines how to go about this? Or some cool techniques that are not obvious?

From my point of view, my compositions look very lame.

Thanks, if something is not clear I'll be happy to provide more info

EDIT: Sorry guys, here are some examples what I meant:

http://imgur.com/a/OrooX

This is the size I need to use most of the time. Usually I have a lot of assets in PNG from different angles.


texts: How do you batch export in Photoshop using "Save As" commands and still have unique names?

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I have a very long action that generates over 100 PNG images using frequent "Save As" commands. I use Automate > Batch to perform the action, and have chosen "Document Name" + "3 Digit Serial Number" + "Extension" as the File Naming option.

The problem is, instead of appending the serial number each time, it instead adds it to the filename every single time. So instead of FileName001, FileName002, FileName003, etc. I get something like this:

FileName001.png
FileName001001.png
FileName001001001.png
FileName001001001001.png

Eventually, the name gets so long that it goes over the path length limit and throws an error.

The name of the files doesn't matter, just so long as they're unique and able to export successfully.


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What is the inkscape keyboard shortcut (no mouse drag) equivalent of
Ctrl+mouse drag to resize an object?
I am trying to resize 2 objects by same factor. However with mouse it is difficult to know how much is resize. Selecting both object together and resizing using Ctrl+mouse drag moves 2nd object out of original position!


texts: What's the difference between Illustration and Graphic Design?

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What is the difference between graphic design and illustration?
I ask because I want to know what to write in my social media biography.


texts: When I save a PSD, have it save a PNG w/ a new folder

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Could I do this? For example, if I was making a new logo, I would save the psd, it'd create a new folder called Avatar, and in that it would save the psd and the PNG.

Would that be possible?


texts: Is there a graphic design specification system?

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Is there a commonly used design specification system to present a graphic design to a customer before we start the implementation? My challenge is specifically on mailings (PDF A4, HTML sent per mail), but I am happy to hear any insight from other domains (web design, advertising, ...)

My goal is to present a document, that the customer could sign-off, and representing the actual design. Once the document is signed-off, we can start the implementation; and have very little risk that the customer is unhappy with the actual product; or request many changes afterwards.

Especially, I'm trying to avoid multiple round trips after implementation where the customer asks: "Can you move this box a bit to the left?", "Hum, can you move it a bit to the bottom?", "Can this image be a bit more blue?", "Hum, can this field be a bit larger?", "This works fine in GMail, but I'm not happy with Lotus Notes!"

I understand that iterative approaches, either billed as Time&Material, or with a capped effort, are probably better fit for that. (and if you use them, as a professional designer, please let me know too). Yet, in some projects, the customer needs a waterfall approach for some reasons. I'd like to know how to handle those cases best.


texts: font-family: "ITC Avant Garde Gothic" not working in CSS

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I have a text from an image whose font-family is "ITC Avant Garde Gothic"

I tried putting this font-family in my CSS but unfortunately I cant see any change.

I am wondering, do I need to add something else in my CSS for the working of font-family.

The CSS code which I have is:

{
  font-size: 7.433px;
  font-family: "ITC Avant Garde Gothic";
  color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
  line-height: 2.348;
  text-align: center;
  -moz-transform: matrix( 1.81893039778896,0,0,1.8236290753447,0,0);
  -webkit-transform: matrix( 1.81893039778896,0,0,1.8236290753447,0,0);
  -ms-transform: matrix( 1.81893039778896,0,0,1.8236290753447,0,0);
  position: absolute;
  left: 45.265px;
  top: 181.274px;
  z-index: 127;
}

Unfortunately, font-family: "ITC Avant Garde Gothic"; is not working for some reasons.


texts: How to create a one pixel pencil brush in Gimp?

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I have googled this and found a number of answers and videos which all say that this can be done by setting the brush size slider in the brushes panel or brush editor panel.

I'm either clicking on the wrong thing or doing something strange as I don't seem to have the same options available to me. At least setting all the sliders to their minimum value still leaves me with a 3 pixel wide square brush:

I'm using Gimp 2.8.4.
I'm obviously making a basic error, can anyone help?


texts: How to Change Colors of a Company Logo without Using Pen Tool?

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I have a couple of company logos that I want to change to color white (to be placed in a black background). This logo is pretty simple enough to just use the pen tool. However, I have some logos that are complex as this one below:

What's the best way of changing these colors with minimal pain? Other solutions that I found is to Recolor with Preset in the Edit action, but that option is greyed out and cannot be used. Please help me out! The struggle is real.


texts: What should I call a non-rich version of a color?

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I'm working on a branding presentation in which I have to present, explain, and justify all of the colour choices.

The palette has two different greys, one rich/darker and one not rich/lighter. To clarify, they're totally different shades, but I know they're going to ask me why we should have both.

I don't have a problem explaining why the rich grey is rich and why that matters, but I was trying to come up with a way to explain the difference between the greys and I can't think of the proper name for a not rich colour.

I've been searching the internet but only articles about rich black seem to come up.

Is there a particular name for a not rich colour?

Words like desaturated and faded come to mind, but they're just untrue.

The sentence I've written to explain the difference is basically this: "As compared to the rich grey we just looked at, this light grey is a not rich(??) colour."


texts: is there an illustrator "components | block"

texts: Is there any way to create some sort of component or a "smart" group in illustrator? One that when duplicated can be cahanged and all its other copies will change as well?


texts: how have a smooth lasso tool before select an area

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i wish to give smooth to lasso tool as we can set feather for that with
feather box.

as you know we can set feather and smooth after selecting an area but i want to know is there any way to set smooth for lasso tool before of select an area?


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Question for the: Topic Challenge #1 – Famous Designers

I remember as a kid my favourite book in the whole house wasn't a book of fairy tales or colourful illustrations. It was The complete works of M.C. Escher. I could stare at his works for hours on end. Trying to wrap my head around how those little people could go up and down the stairs forever.

But what intrigued me even more were his Tessellation pieces, where he would divide a plane into interlocking figures, such as here:

Later, in his Metamorphosis pieces, he would take this a step further and morph one tesselation into another, like so:

Nowadays, it's pretty trivial to get a computer to calculate an optimal tesselation, but Escher didn't have any of that. And the metamorphosis works add a whole new level of complexity even a computer would find hard to do. So my question is quite simply: How did Escher make his art? If I wanted to do something similar today, how would I go about it?


texts: Combining Shapes for Laser Cutting and Etching

texts: HELP! I would like to add the black circle to the center of the flower. The red strokes are cut lines for the laser. The black is etch.  I need the black circle to merge with the flower, eliminating the red strokes behind the circle while keeping the cut lines that remain visible. Advice?


texts: How to curve a line into an arc along a circle in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I would like to create a shape similar to this, and I was thinking of using a line and then bending it along a circle, but I'm not sure how to do that.


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Basically, a lot of SVG editors, even Inkscape, insert tons of random stuff into the file that is not needed to render it correctly inside an HTML.
I want to be able to copy the source of the file, and paste into my HTML source without making a mess.


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[update: sorry guys i couldn't explain. but i somehow managed it. in adobe lightroom, detail tab, when sliding 'masking' in sharpening section i hold'alt' button in keyboard and took screenshot.and cropped that hell screenshot. i think you guys could understand wwhat actually i am trying.]
i have an old android phone where I have a filter called "edges" in built in gallery photo editor. this makes the real photo like this. I can't find this filter in newer android or even in desktop. charrette is a clip art, ignore that.


texts: How do I apply an effect on only one line of a shape in Illustrator?

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I'm making a ghost character and I want the lower line of the ghost shape to have a Zig Zag effect like this

How Can I do that?


texts: When using fonts in Bootstrap, is it quicker to use the Google Fonts API or to just install the font file on the server?

texts: Normally UX designer, I'm currently also product manager for a range of web tools but my dev skills aren't very strong at all, so forgive me if this is a silly question. We're building a range of Bootstrap pages for a set of corporate tools, and at the moment we're using the Google Fonts API for our fonts. I'm a bit worried about load-time, and we think it may be Google Fonts gathering data. Before we unpick our current designs and install the font files on the server, I was wondering if anyone else noticed any load time when using Google Fonts and whether uploading the fonts themselves was a solution - or whether that's just going to make it even worse?


texts: How to remove a digonal line that intersects mutiple background patterns?

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I am working with a flat image that has a light gray diagonal line intersecting the background in multiple areas. I would like to remove this line, as it used to belong to a label that is now cropped from the fame.

Due to the line being diagonal, and the perspective, I'm finding it unusually challenging to reconstruct the background behind the line.

Here is the result of my most successful attempt so far:

The line is less noticeable here, but still visible. This was done by selecting and duplicating diagonal regions above and below the line, and moving/stretching them over it with the Transform Tool.

Other tools I have tried include: Content-Aware Fill, Clone Stamp, Liquify (Pinch), Motion Blur, and Transform (stretching to match the perspective).

I'm just curious if there is a better approach to tackling this kind of problem. Thanks.


texts: Why are certain colors more prone to compression artifacts than others?

texts: I most often see this with compressed video, but I've also seen it often enough with JPEG images.  Many times blacks, reds, and other generally dark colors seem to be especially prone to compression artifacts, even if you're just opening a file and saving a copy of it.  What causes this, and what countermeasures can be taken to prevent it?


texts: Grid and bucketfill are just off center/ have offset

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When I apply a pattern with the render option or the bucketfill it doesn't completely fill the selection without being off center/ having a offset (I'm not good with GIMP terminology ☹)

I DID NOT apply a pattern on a separate layer

I circled the parts of the pattern that are "off center"

edit: I decided that the easiest choice for fixing this was to erase the offset (which are apparently called "seams"), and then stretch the remaining tiles to fit the selection, and it looks pretty much like how I wanted it to look


texts: Image Size / Resolution for printing a Rollup

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I need to create a design for a rollup that will be 2000mm X 850mm.
The place we're printing at has an info sheet, which only says the file should be 150dpi.  When trying to create a file to design this in, photoshop makes a 1GB file!
Is there a trick that I'm missing here? I have never had to print anything this large...

Thanks!


texts: How to color bitmap or non-editable objects in Illustrator?

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Context
I have a bitmap image in Illustrator (Effects > Rasterize > "Color Model: Bitmap", resulting in a black and white image). Alternatively, I have a brush or pattern, whose original I don't want to edit.
Objective
I want to change the appearance of the bitmap image (or pattern) by replacing the black with a color.
My Method
Create a fill in the desired color, make a mask, and move the black-and-white object to the mask layer.
This method works fine, and gives the desired appearance, but is a pain because it means the objects I actually want to work with are tucked away on masks that hard to access.
Is there a better way to colorize objects whose fill you don't have access to?
Example
I begin with a photograph (Image 1), which I have dithered with Effects > Rasterize > "Color Model: Bitmap", resulting in Image 2.
How can I color Image 2 to get Image 3?


texts: Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator CC - Colors are inverted

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I am trying to follow this tutorial on how to create Digital Version of a signature. In the Video he clicks on Trace Options, and then clicks Ignore white, before doing a a Live Trace to vectorize the signature. When I try to emulate his process in the newest form of Illustrator, the resulting image, before vectorization is changed to reverse type (white text against black background) as opposed to the original scheme. Is there  a way to toggle the reversal of colors or I am inadvertently setting an option in Image Trace that is doing this?

THanks!


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Are there any better way to view fonts in Photoshop (CS5.1 preferably) than this?:

EDIT: When i said 'better' i was trying to say: larger.


texts: How do I eliminate the cut path on top and bottom of letters? See below

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My design in Inkscape I'm trying to eliminate the cut paths on the top and bottoms of the letters.

So that it will look something like this type of card cutout


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You'll have to forgive the novice question, because I am a novice where illustrator is concerned.  I am attempting to draw a path across a specific shape, but am having a difficult time actually getting the path aligned with the curvature of the shape.  I've spent the last hour tinkering with the pen tool, anchor point tool, attempting to use envelope distort, and everything else that I could think of.  Maybe one of you fine folks can point me in the right direction here.

What I was originally attempting to do here was convert text to the shape you see on the bottom.  I kept getting an error indicating that I needed to select more than on object or some sort of path.  I essentially want the text to match the curves so that the text can be the thin red line.  Anyone know what it is that I'm doing wrong here?


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Recently I've come to know about Layer comps. They are great way to create and save multiple variations of a document without having multiple files.
Can anyone explain how to use/create them? How do they work and why they are useful?


texts: Recreating cutup/displace/chopped up effect

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This may be off-topic, I'll try to make sure it isn't though.

I've found a really nice effect, and I'm trying to recreate it. I don't know much about graphic design, but I've been trying lots of ways to recreate this. I just don't have the knowledge/experience to do it myself. I'm asking for instructions, or help to create a similar effect.

So, here's the example image:

I've extracted the colors, and used the same font, with different text to create this:

I think I've got the basic image the same, but I have no idea how to make all those cuts/distortion.

I made my image in Sketch, but I quickly realised Sketch wasn't enough to create that effect. So, I exported my design to an SVG, then opened in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. BTW, I've never used either before. After opening it those apps, I preceded to muck around a bunch, and try and get something reasonable. Photoshop didn't seem to be the right thing, so I tried Illustrator. Using Illustrator, I created this, by doing:

Holding alt, and using the Knife, I made a cut
Then I pushed cmd+shift+A to deselect everything
After that, I used the Direct Selection Tool, to move the shape around

As you can see, it's... similar. Now, I could keep doing this manually, but that'd take hours. So, my question is this:

How can I create this effect without, manually cutting everything to pieces?

Maybe there isn't a super easy way to do this, but there must be a better way then what I'm doing.


texts: I have been trying to figure out the typefaces or stencils styles that were used for this 1941 map. I was thinking that it could be something like a Leroy Lettering template, but I can't find it. This appears to be handwritten, but also based on some type of actual lettering. Thanks.


texts: Photoshop: How do you make the corners of a square straight?

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I know this question might sound confusing. I just didn't know how to say, so I provided a video of what i'm trying to do.

I know you need to use the path selection tool to change the corners but no matter how hard I try to it always comes out round.

I am trying to do what the person in this video does to their shape.


texts: Getting concentric circles to have equal spacing in Inkscape?

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In this youtube at this point in time the designer snaps circles equidistantly around each other, but does not show what settings are necessary to achieve this?

Thoughts?


texts: How do you make a binary image in Photoshop?

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I am trying to make a binary image. I want more than just the look of the image to be black/white, but I want the actual file to be a binary file. Every pixel should be either black, or white.

I don't just want a monochrome image. I can't have varying shades of gray, every pixel needs to be black or white.

Is this possible? I looked under Image > Mode but nothing there seems to indiciate a binary style image.


texts: How to save each slide of a gif animation to png in ImageReady

texts: Can someone please explain me how to save each slide of a gif animation as a png file in Adobe ImageReady?


texts: Why is this gradient considered metallic chrome?

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Why is the "white to brown & white to blue" gradient generally considered a shiny metal?

What is the reasoning/theory behind this? Why those colours? (If someone says chrome, you might first think of shiny silver & gray — not brown & blue!)

Where was it first used to depict metal?

(Bonus: could it be succesfully used without the metal/chrome association?)

Image shows how Photoshop thinks the "chrome" gradient is oriented by default.


texts: How to set a different space for the first bullet point?

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I have a Paragraph style called Bullet List. Like all my basic paragraphs, I need the list to have a space-before of one line (14.3pt). However I would also like to be able to control the space between the bullets independently of this. It seems that the only way I can change the spacing between the bullets is to change the space-before value, but this also effects the space-before the first bullet.

How can I set one value for the space-before the first bullet, and a different value for the space-before the subsequent bullets?


texts: Photoshop actions: saving with custom addition

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I have searched far and wide for this, and cannot figure it out. I create and run an action, but I want the action to save the image with the original name + two custom letters.
Original image is called IMG_3232.jpg
I want the after-action (resize) image called IMG_3232aW.jpg

So of course the whole idea of creating an action is to run this on lots of images, and they all should get the "IMG_xxxxaW.jpg marker.

Any pointers much appreciated.

Displaying my ignorance: it seems to me it will not accept aW as addition to unique file name. It seems to insist I add a running, unique addition - which is what I do not want.


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Given a set of colors, say colors on this webpage, and another palette of an equal number of colors, what would be a good way to map the former to the latter while:

preserving contrast between individual colors
preserving the relative intensity of the colors (not sure how important this would be)

Essentially, this webpage should be rendered in the new color palette while still legible.

What color space would be appropriate for this task?

Can you also point me to any related work?

Update: The mapping can surely be done manually but I intend to automate the mapping for any given set of colors and palette and so I'm looking for an algorithmic approach or rather an understanding of what properties need to be preserved in favor of legibility and beauty.


texts: What software can create a paint-by-number?

texts: Is there any software which can convert a photograph to a black-and-white outline containing tiny numbers stating which color to give each area?


texts: Creating a fill on grouped paths using paint bucket tool

texts: I am trying to use the live paint bucket tool on this skirt. I have grouped the whole skirt together and all the paths are closed but it isn't creating a fill.


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Anyone got a quick fix for this?  I've tried everything and am a little stuck right now.  When I use the photoshop brush, it won't draw when I have my mouse clicked down.  It will only do one point and then I have to move somewhere else and do another point.  It only draws in points if that makes sense and I can't extend the point.  Thanks a bunch!

Tyler


texts: How to delete the grid in pixel art - Illustrator

texts: I'm doing pixel art with grid tool, but when i save with pdf, i still see the grid. How i delete the grid?


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I am very new at graphic design, and although I did search for this question already, I don't understand all of the terminology yet to know if it has already been answered... if this is a duplicate question, please direct me to where it has already been addressed :) and thanks!

I have created a graphic in Illustrator in CMYK (at least that's what the "color" tab and "edit color" is using) using the color 12-100-91-3. I plan to use this graphic in an InDesign document that will be exported as a PDF to be printed. I've tried two methods:

Export the .ai to a .png, and then "place" that .png into InDesign
Import the .ai file directly into InDesign using "place"

When I export the InDesign file to PDF, the colors looks like this on the screen (they match each other visually):

When I print that PDF, the colors come out like this (the .ai color is super dark compared to the .png color):

I don't really understand what is happening. The exported .png color looks like the right color both on the screen and when printed, but the imported .ai color is all wrong when printed.

So this brings up two questions that I desperately need answered:

1) Is there something I can do so that the directly placed .ai file comes out as the "right color" (the brighter red)? The .ai file results in a much cleaner image with the graphic, but the dark burgundy red is all wrong.

2) Is the "right color" even a concept I can grasp in the world of graphic design? I know that .png must have some color limitations, so is the "true color" for 12-100-91-3 the dark red or the bright red? I usually use .pngs for most of my materials, so the bright red is what I expected and associate with the color, but I do sometimes get materials from 3rd party printers that result in the dark red. So which of us is correct?

Colors are confusing... but I'm willing and wanting to learn.


texts: Can I use company logos in my portfolio?

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Just for aesthetic purposes I want to add the logo of the company I worked for near the paragraph where I talk about my work there. The same goes for a Stack Exchange or Dribbble logo. Is that legal?

I usually read about how you can't use logos in a way that it seems they are endorsing you, but is using a Stack Exchange logo near a paragraph where I clearly state that I'm a member of the website classify as endorsement?


texts: Clever way to get equal margins in Sketch app?

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When I'm designing pages I want certain margins to be the same. To achieve this I currently draw up a rectangle with a height/width of X, and use this to space out the elements equally.

This is an example where I would duplicate a 20px high rectangle to space out all items equally.

But there has to be a better way, right?

So far I figured I can incorporate a 'padding' in a symbol by making the artboard slightly larger, I'd still use the rectangle once but at least not 100 times. This also doesn't work very well when I need to make for example unordered lists in my design. Not every list item will have the same height, so this trick won't work.


texts: How to make CMYK Spectrum the same in two documents in Illustrator CS6?

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I have two documents open in Adobe Illustrator CS6 for Mac. They are both dragons and I want the dragons to be the same colour. I have entered the same value however the colours are different. I noticed that the CMYK spectrum for both documents are different - one appears to be lighter than the other. How do I change this so they are both the same?

Thanks


texts: How to add drop shadow to a picture via CLI?

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I have a bunch of pictures (mostly screenshots, but it doesn't matter) to which I'd like to add a drop shadow. (Reason for it is to add a nice border, as they have white background and I use them on a white background.)

My current workflow is:

open the .png file in Inkscape,
Filters/Shadow and glow/Drop shadow,
select a 3px blur radius, with a 2px 2px offset,
export the modified .png.

However, this is done all manually… and it is quite annoying when I have more than… 2 pictures.

I know Inkscape can be used with Command Line Interface (CLI) (I'm on Ubuntu 18.04). I know how to import and export files. However, I don't know how to apply a given filter.

Here's what I've tried, it didn't work:

$ inkscape --verb org.inkscape.effect.filter.ColorDropShadow --verb FileSave --verb FileClose image.png

Hence, could you tell me how to add drop shadow to a picture using CLI?
(This could be done using either Inkscape, or any other open-source software running on Linux)


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I'm designing a div container that will contain some rows of text. Every row can contain 0 to 35 chars.

I need to specify a fixed width for the div, but I cannot predict how "wide" the string can be.

An example of strings (all 35 chars):

aeR1riPhah9chaicaegae7oobaiz8eiquoL
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
da da da 35 chars text With CApital

As you can see, the glyph "i" is narrower than the glyph "L".

A possible solution could be to use a Monospaced font, but for some stylistic constraints I need to use Arial (or equivalent font).

The idea is to size the container considering a string that contains the largest glyphs, but I am not sure what is the largest glyph, especially if we consider all the UTF characters.


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I have a very simple psd file with 2 layers. The top layer has a layer style:

This is how it looks:

But when I try to rasterize the rounded rectangle layer, it turn it into this:

It's missing the green.

How can I export it with the green stuff? Thanks


texts: How do you apply a clipping mask to multiple layers in Photoshop?

texts: I have 20 multiple images in different layers withon a Photoshop file.  I want to apply one clipping mask for all the layers.  I grouped all layers and tried but the clipping mask option is disabled.  How can I apply one clipping mask to multiple layers?


texts: How to pin app design taskbar to the bottom in Adobe Experience Design?

texts: How to pin app design taskbar to the bottom in Adobe Experience Design, so when doing vertical scroll, it stays pinned to the bottom and always visible?


texts: Retain quality when exporting jpeg (Illustrator)

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Hello I was trying to export in illustrator the same file in jpeg 100 and png formats but I noticed that the jpeg one is much worse than the png

illustrator @40 width scale: jpeg 100  /VS/ png

Then I tried saving the png with MS Paint as jpeg

MS Paint: jpeg from illustrator's png

(MS Paint jpeg from illustrator's png is much better quality than the main jpeg directly from illustrator)

The question is... Is there a way to fix the quality drop when exporting as jpeg directly in illustrator? or I have to do this process of saving with paint for everything?

By the way, this is the 1x raster png version of the picture
https://s9.postimg.cc/vftmrlb6n/Vector_Improvements_1x.png


texts: Develop a tool for inserting text/image in a photoshop file

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I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators who don't have Photoshop but I can't find any library that supports layers.

I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround.

Let's say I get an image from our graphics team that's just a layered background. The translator opens this image with my tool and it renders the text over the image and then save the rendered text as a separate image. I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team.

Is there an easy way to script (or automate somehow) the following?:

open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text)
look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd)
open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer

Thanks for the tips


texts: Exporting SVG paths to HTML to animate with JavaScript

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I have a complex blueprint, which I've traced in Inkscape. I'm going to programmatically animate the path and also add some other effects with JavaScript. I can include the file using HTML (e.g. <img src="filename.svg"/>) but then how do I manipulate each path in that SVG file?

So far what I've been doing is manually transferring the values to HTML by copying and pasting (e.g. <svg><path d="x,y x,y x,y..."/>), I can then attribute ids and classes to each path and use those ids and classes to manipulate the paths using JavaScript, but it is extremely time consuming. There has to be a better, faster way to do this.

I've looked everywhere, and I've only been able to find instructions for exporting paths using Python, which I don't have installed on this Windows system.

Are there any ways to do this natively in Inkscape? Or any other ways that you are aware of?


texts: Email Campaign Unable to make it Responsive

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i work for an advertising company and i create responsive email flyers.
the image starts at a pdf and i put this into photoshop to slice and add URLs, once added i can save for web design and it nicely put this into an images folder and a separate html file

this is perfect for the basics however i need to make this Responsive i am able to keep it in the middle with the traditional 600px applied however when it goes smaller than this image (screen size i.e. iPhone 4,5 etc) it becomes an issue and i have to start side scrolling.... very unprofessional.

is there a quick way to be able to code so no matter how big/small the screen size is it will adjust accordingly

i have tried media queries till i have gone blue in the face lol however have had no luck

is there a fast and productive way this can be done

Yea i have the full adobe CC packages and looked at a few of the products like muze and code but they seem to be too sluggish

I have used media quries and tried to simplify my code by using blocks which gives me a smooth rescale without it snapping to a new res which am happy about as it makes my designs look fluent and flow better

Theres is still a few issues i have so not sure if anybody can help with this...

As it is a email E-Flyer it has to be 1 html file and a image folder so all css javascript is in-line code

The main issue i face now is compatability i have designed my code in Chrome as the developer options in 'inspect element' is f**kin awesome however gettin it to work on all platforms: safari, firefox, outlook seems to be my next challenge

Is it possible to do a generic plugin or perhaps a default code i could you to help woth compatbility
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texts: Using Opacity of a Div without affecting The color of the Paragraph inside the Div

texts: I have created a div with background color black, and written a p inside it with white. When I am using opacity in the div, the color of the p is also getting changed into gray. Is there any way to change the opacity only of the div without affecting the color of the p?


texts: Difference between a Font attribute and a Typeface attribute

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Background:

So, I am getting UI development in Android and as I started reading TextView attributes, I found an attribute called typeface. I then searched the technical differences between a font and a typeface my understanding boils down to this:

Typeface(or a font-family) is defined by a set of symbols(or glpyhs) having a defined meaning and fundamentally typefaces differ in the unique shape/design of the glyphs it will have.

Whereas, a Font(for a typeface or font-family) is a very specific set of symbols that have certain attributes on top of the typeface characteristics.

Problem:

Now, I think I fairly understand the differences between the two but what confused me is the following:

Since Bold, Italic are Font styles, they apply to a font, are they also TypeFace modifiers? I mean, is it possible for a typeface to have a font attribute?
The attribute I mentioned has (normal, sans, serif, monospace) provided as possible values. Is Monospace or a serif a typeface attribute and only applied at Typeface level. So for example, I cannot change Times New Roman typeface to be a sans-serif without changing the entire typeface. But applying a font-style doesn't seem to change the entire typeface.

Is there a concept like font-only modifiers/attributes and typeface-only modifiers and I cannot apply one to the other?


texts: Can I drag a node without breaking the edges in SVG file in Inkscape?

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I used GraphViz to create a diagram in a SVG file. The placement of the nodes is not ideal. I learnt that  Inkscape can be used for editing SVG file.

Is there a way to drag and move a node, without breaking the edges between it and other nodes, but automatically stretch or shrink the edges?

For example, I have a svg file created by graphviz

and would like to drag the nodes roughly to a 2 by 3 array, and hope their edges automatically are adjusted, to look like

Thanks.


texts: How to create this kinda halftone circle in Inkscape

texts: I'm trying to create this halftone effect in Inkscape but I'm not able to produce it. All I'm able to do is create a small circle and clone it to produce simple halftone. But how do I do this?


texts: What is the difference between Glyph and Font?

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I was going through one document and I came across this term 'glyph'. The term was new to me so looked into wiki for its definition. I felt both glyph and font is same. Am I correct? Else please tell me what is the difference between this two.

Edit:

I am newbie in this field. So feeling bit difficulty to picturise your answers. If you can add examples in your answers that will be very much helpful.


texts: How do I adjust the level of black in a photoshop file?

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I don't claim to be an expert in print media, but I have been getting stuff printed professionally for a while. Today I'm using a new printer for the first time, and they've come back asking for this:

"Ideally we could do with the black being reduced though to 40% Cyan,40% Magenta,40% Yellow,100% Black, as this is the maximum coverage our press can take."

I don't know what they're asking me for to be honest - how can I globally adjust the black in my images? I'm using photoshop and sent them PDFs.

Any help appreciated, I need to get the proofs signed off today.


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What does "Collateral" means in the printing world and how does that differ from "Stationery"?

People usually use the word collateral when mentioning stationery. I would like to know what is the difference between them and what each word represents.


texts: Adobe Illustrator / Rhinoceros custom object select

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I'm using both AI and Rhino. I've got a file that's got over a thousand small circles that are nested inside other curves all over the file randomly. I want to select them all and group them in either Rhino or AI.

How can this be done? I'm thinking programmatically, like select_if{ 0.05cm <= a && a <= 0.10}. Of course this string of code is just pseudocode to give you the gist of what I'm after assuming there is an "under the hood" approach to graphic design vis-a-vis AI or Rhino.


texts: In Photoshop CC how can I start editing on top of a layer mask

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I have a background layer (under exposed image layer), second layer (over exposed image layer), I applied the layer mask on second layer to blend. I have set the second layer's opacity to 25%. Now, I want to apply some more edit to the layers. For example: I want to use Viveza2, generally i copy the top layer, and apply any effect. But, with layer masks, how do you copy so that all the effects below become my base line for any more edits? Also, I don't want to merge layers and apply my edit as that will make me loose my layers to come back to.

Please help.


texts: incorrect background color show on mobile devices

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I am using Bootstrap and wanted a colored background for my h2 title like this:

So I wrapped the text in a  tag.
The problem is on mobile devices it shows like this, which is not good

Can you please help with a solution ?
Thank you


texts: No fill where text overlaps in Adobe Illustrator

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I have a word where one object (letter) meets with another. You can see some white part at the junction of the letters "L" and "A". It is transparent just like it has been cut but every single letter should be filled.

How can totally fill the word with one color?


texts: I am trying to create a bevel effect similar to the attached image. I have set the depth to 30%, size to 1px and soften to 0px, but the final effect has bevels which are not as crisp as those on the attached image - the bevels look very slightly blurred. Any advice on the necessary settings to recreate the bevels seen in this image please?


texts: Apply blending mode only to fill in Illustrator

texts: Would this be possible? Applying for example an "overlay" blending mode to the fill of a shape while keeping the mode of the stroke set to normal? Or would I have to duplicate the shape?


texts: What's with all the Lorems and the Ipsums?

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Is there a better way to represent text in a layout or design?
"Lorem Ipsum" is good at taking your attention away from the text to showcase the design as a whole but I think it looks unnatural for typeset design.
Why is it used and is there a better way?
What alternatives the experts use for dummy/placeholder text?


texts: What can i do if my boss gives me an image to use and says he has rights for but wont show me that he does?

texts: So my boss buys tons of old images and asks me to use them on some of our work. I notice that these are images of classic/old famous stars and he wants me to make calender's and posters. He says he has rights for them but doesn't want to show them or tells me not to worry about it. not sure what to do in this situation and i have looked online for a legal document that i would like him to sign to protect me. any advice?


texts: Easiest way to arrange layers into a sprite formation using Illustrator CC

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I have been provided an .ai file containing icons for a website project (hundreds of the things). The file consists of all the icons on a single layer each, filling the space of a single artboard for the entire project (see below).

I need to arrange all of these icons into a sprite formation whereby each icon has 6 different color variations. So if there are 100 icons, the sprite image would be 100px x 6px artboard sizes big. From there, I can resize the entire artboard if the client ever needs the sprites at a different size.

The only way I can currently think of doing it is displaying each layer one by one, save it as a web image (transparent .png), import into Photoshop and manually arrange into the sprite layout (using color overlay for the different colors). However, this is going to take hours.

There must be a more automated way to achieve this since every icon is the exact same size (if you include the artboard behind it).

Many thanks for your help.


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https://youtu.be/edKic78kOag?t=21

any way to tell which photoshop she's using? this was published on aug25, 2016 my closest bet is CC but i'm not sure


texts: What is the name of this floral design style?

texts: I am looking for the name of a certain design, but unable to figure it out with the aid of Google. I have posted it here as I am currently making a magazine.


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I can't insert umlauts or a sharp s in Acrobat after I created the form with InDesign CS6.

Does anyone a similar problem / can help me with this?
I suppose it has to do something with UTF-8 encoding but I have no idea where to look at. I'd be thankful for any tips with Acrobat or InDesign

Edit:

Alright, I found a (not so great) solution. Adobe Acrobat Pro -> Tools -> Forms -> Edit -> double click the field -> Appearance -> change font to Tahoma or similar. But is there a way to adjust that in InDesign?


texts: What do call these types of graphics? I'm referring to the green part of this image. I found it on a website.


texts: Illustrator: How to prevent layers showing white background?

texts: Just installed Illustrator CC. Coming from PS, I would really like to see a 'transparent' background in my layers. In PS, you see a checkered background when no pixels are present in the canvas -- would love the same in Illustrator but it defaults to white and I can't seem to figure out how to disable it. Help appreciated!


texts: How to print PNG or SVG file with full details?

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I usually post coding problems in here, but apparently there is also a tag for printing. So here it goes:

I need to print very details designs for a family business. However, the prints results I'm getting with the Epson 475L are not what I'm looking for.

Which better printer do you recommend for a small Stickers Business?

  In most cases, I'll be just receiving the designs. It could be in PNG,
  JPG or Photoshop Files, Illustrator Files, PDF, etc.

How to work with color profiles in those cases?

Budget $2,000

For example:

I need to print this, and it has a "halo" on the top corner of the hexagon.

But my printer does not recognize this and prints a very flat hexagon.

Original Design:

Source: rstudio PNG

rstudio SVG

Prints from EPSON 475L:

BONUS:

I'd like to ask also about color matching. As my eyes can see the colors are the same of what I see in screen and what I get printed.


texts: Need help merging two shapes in Inkscape

texts: I'm new to Inkscape, and I'm working on a project where I want to merge these two shapes in such as way that that green shape fits in the yellow one and all the excess stuff gets removed. I have included some photos to explain what I'm, trying to say.


texts: Morphing names of a team roster in to a volleyball shape

texts: I need to shape text into a volleyball "word" graphic. I have my volleyball (which is actually just individual arcs) and I have my text. I have been using the envelope distort-make with top object, but this is not yeilding the results I had hoped---any ideas how to achieve this task?


texts: How to deal with another person changing my designs?

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To keep things simple, I will write all the facts in bullet points:

I have a 9-5 job while volunteering my services for a non-profit organization as part of the sub-committee board.
I am the only graphic designer in the organization.
However, the non-profit do get non-member designers volunteering their services for big events.
Upcoming big event, I was given the  responsibility to design the event visuals.
A volunteer (who one of the head committee member has introduced) offers her services to animate the transition slides that I design.
I made confirmations with the volunteer and the committee member that she will only animate the design elements I provide without making any changes to it.
Sent the volunteer the files and that was that.
Later in the day, I messaged her to make sure that the files were working great and just to ask how she was doing.
She mentioned that she tweaked my designs.
Asked her to show me and what was shown was a completely different design.
She mentioned that the head committee member liked and approved it.
Keep in mind that her design is completely different from all other visuals for the event, making it inconsistent and that none of this was communicated with me.

My reaction was that this is disrespectful after 2 weeks of non-stop designing after coming back from work. The designs I did was within the guidelines that were given to me while the volunteer's design is not. I was/am upset.

ps: The head committee member is a very influential person in the non-profit and the corporate work while I am in my first 3 years of working life.

What is the appropriate action(s) to deal with this, objectively?

Update:

Right after I wrote my question here, the head committee member actually messaged me apologizing about the confusion and of what happened. Our conversation was very civil and respectful plus we came up with a solution to prevent anything like this to ever happening again. The volunteer did suggest to the committee member another design but I feel that she just suggested what she personally thought was better for the event.


texts: Resize object and parent objects based on child dimensions

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I have the following Illustrator drawing of an iPad. The red box is set to be 176x235 pixels and I want to resize it up to 768x1024 pixels and have the the iPad container resize with it.

How can I make it so that resizing the red box object, the objects around it also resize with it (without selecting them as well) i.e. act as though they are locked to the red box.

I basically want to be able to do a transform on that red box and type in its new dimensions and the rest of the objects follow it.. is this possible?

You can download the .ai file here to see how it looks: http://dev.driz.co.uk/hero-ipad-vector.ai


texts: How to draw circle tangents and removing the inner lines?

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I'm new to Adobe Illustrator and I wanted to accomplish this task. How do I remove the inner lines in my drawings? I tried with all the pathfinders effect but it keeps removing my tangent lines (the lines connecting both my circles).

It works like a charm as I followed the selected's answer guide:

Here it is.


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i have this weird problem, that i cant fill my shape in after effects. Does anybody know what do do?
when i want to change the fill, basicly i see this:

When i change the color in the fill setting, nothing happens, there is still no fill attached to the shape.

"Fläche" means fill in german :)

Thank you guys!


texts: Why is the site resolution 1600 x 616px?

texts: I'm a beginner in web design and I'm learning through tutorials and I do not understand why the screen width is 1600px and height 616px. Why is not 1920px and whether this is a good solution on the half of the screen?


texts: How can I manually add outlines to image traced using Image Trace

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I have an image traced in Black and White mode using Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator. Doing this gives me outlines of which areas of the image will be rendered in white and which will be in black. I know I can adjust the outlines by increasing/reducing the Threshold in the Image Trace window but I want to find out if I can/how to do this manually.

Thanks.


texts: How to smooth a simple shape in Photoshop

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I'm trying to make my own custom triangle shape and note that I'm extremely new to photoshop. I've watched at least 10 videos about my issue before posting this, I searched everywhere on google but there was no answer and maybe because the answer is too simple, but I've looked everywhere in photoshop. I made a triangle:

What I want to do is make it something like this:

Photoshop is extremely noob unfriendly, there's this rasterizing layers, smart objects, whatever that is and I'm just unable to smooth it out.

What I've tried:
I tried selecting the pixels and then using the Feather method. That only readjusts my selection, not the image. I then tried blurring it, but it doesn't work, nothing happens.
I'm left with but one option and that is to manually erase and do my edges, but that will make everything really uneven, I might as well use Paint for that

I've become really desperate and I'm sorry if this is one of the worst questions asked here, I just need an answer


texts: How to create a vanishing point on a curved surface?

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How do I create the effect of a viewer looking at the interior of a flat parabolic surface that seems to stretch off into infinity? Please see the following image for an illustration of the idea.

The best idea I had so far was to use the vanishing point tool in Photoshop with several perspective planes at different angles but that's not working.

EDIT

This is close to what I want:


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I'm involved with a project that needs a few icons to represent some categories. Some of them aren't that difficult to represent graphically, however I'm having a hard time thinking of how time is represented graphically.

Specifically, I need two simple icons to represent both past and future. I tried looking up other representations, but the best I can find are arrows pointing left and right. However, these are very unclear and would just be confusing to the user.

My question is, how has time been graphically represented throughout history?

EDIT: This edit is for my specific purpose. However, I'm still really interested in the bigger question of 'How was time been graphically represented'.

Since I didn't provide context, I'll clarify a bit. I'm working on an app that allows users to take a picture of something, tag it with 1 of 5 categories, and then upload it so that everybody can see all of these notes (optionally sorted by these tags) on a map.

The purpose of the app (right now) is specific to Madison, Wisconsin - and is trying to showcase the cool things the city has to offer.

The 5 tags are Madison Culture, Must Do Things, Innovations at UW, 'Stories of the Past', and '100 Years From Now'.

Stories of the Past are cool things that have happened in the city, excluding inventions and such (innovations) - so not really 'stories' in the book sense.

Past: I've thought of making a moldy tome, or silent film representation of our famous State Street.
Future: A flying car by the state capitol.

The problem with these ideas, is that they are only supposed to be small annotations on the map, and I'm afraid that these are too detailed and will be impossible to decipher.


texts: Why, when I copy and paste an object in Inkscape, does its selection become larger and it gains a filter?

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I have an Inkscape SVG document that when I copy and paste and object, the copy has an unexpectedly larger selection box around it. When selected, the information bar at the bottom marks it as "filtered" despite my having applied no filters to the original or the copy. How can I stop this from happening?

What objects look like when individually selected:

What the information bar at the bottom looks like when the copy is selected:


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Just wondering if anyone has hammered out any good solutions to presenting PNG screen comps to clients, especially if there are more than a dozen screens. Adobe Bridge has some half decent HTML gallery output options, but I was wondering what other tools and techniques people use to remotely and reliably present full-quality comps.

Any advice?


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I'm trying to use Powerstroke to improve the joints in these paths using extrapolated arcs, but I find difficult to do it with closed paths.

This is what I'm experiencing

Before closing a path I see that extrapolated arc option correctly works;

Then I select the first and last nodes and join them
I obtain something different from what I'd like to obtain, as follows

I suspect that this is somehow expected, but I'd like to know why. What's happening?


texts: Is there a way in Illustrator to "snap" open paths to a curve or detect when they are not?

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We are working on projects that are basically all open paths. However, we run into the following situation a lot:

If we change the shape of one curve, all other paths that had "intersected" are now off. Is there someway to keep an anchor point "snapped" to a curve? (Similar to connectors in OmniGraffle, etc.)

Or is there an easy way to detect where these have occurred in the document? "Join" doesn't work because they are not two anchor points.

Thanks.


texts: Illustrator/InDD - Grayscale layers combine to CMYK

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Problem

I have a grayscale eps image that is throwing CMYK errors with Acrobat preflight. Output Preview show no CMY values - only K, but the preflight errors will cause problems when we send it to the printer.

Setup

I have a Illustrator EPS file that has three layers: text, lines, wave graphic.
That EPS file is placed in an InDesign file
That InDesign File is exported with set Adobe PDF preset (print - with crops - technically prints for CMYK, but should leave colors alone since everything is black - 100s of other images are fine. Changing to no conversion doesn't help)
Open that PDF file in Acrobat and run Digital Printing B&W and the image comes back with "Document Images on CMY plates" (14 instances in the image)

History of things that didn't work

First step was to select everything in Illustrator and convert to grayscale.
Originally the wave graphic was an embeded bitmap. Suspecting this was a problem I unembeded it to a tiff file, converted that to grayscale
Since that layer has to show the one below I needed a way to get a transparency. Eventually (magic??) I ended up with the wave as a PSD file (in Photoshop) with a transparent background - which I then selected and copied into the original EPS file. It is now an embeded TIFF image.
Created a new EPS file and copied the stuff over into it.
The lines were CMYK gray - converted to grayscale 80%
Text is black. But just to be sure I selected it all and made sure it was grayscale black.
Appearance of Black: Both ID and IL were set to rich black. I switched to output accurate black (and did another "convert to grayscale" to get a changed image to update the link in ID). Still triggering the CMYK preflight error.

Interesting things

There are three layers, if I hide two layers and save with the third visible there are no problems in the preflight. If I display the wave and the lines (lines go behind the wave image) - then the CMYK error comes up.
Output Preview show no CMY values - only K
When you go to "show" the errors it outlines random square patches of the image.

Why EPS?
Unknown why the original choice was made, but it's part of the workflow and cannot be changed (we are talking thousands of images)


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(The next level from Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application)

How can I combine multiple pngs of different sizes into a single ico? I want the 256x256 and 128x128 versions to look the same, but 32x32 and 64x64 to be from a different file. How can I do this on a mac?


texts: What is the general process for planning and developing a new website?

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I work at an agency mostly focused in software development however sometimes a microsite is accessory to one of our solutions and we need to build it.

I'm trying to define the process for creating these websites but I don't know in which order each task is commonly done and specially I'm trying to figure out at which point any copy/static content should be written.

I can think of some tasks like: writing static content, design, wire-framing, defining keywords and SEO, coding. but I'm not sure in which order tackle them.


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So, I've tried creating a flag on the artboard (essentially three rectangles of different color, and one star), and then type text on top of it.  I've tried different ways using Pathfinder to minus front, so that I'm left with just text filled with the flag colors, but can't seem to pull it off.  The text is converted to shape/outline, and the shapes underneath were outlined stroke.

Alternatively, I've tried the "Draw Inside" and "Place" an image of the flag, which 'kind of' works, but not really because it becomes badly distorted.

Is there another method, or just a better way of doing something like this?

Edit: just wanted to make sure I described the look I'm going for... basically to look like each letter was cut right out from a flag.


texts: How do you force right-aligned paragraph text to respect trailing whitespace in illustrator?

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If you make a text box / paragraph in Illustrator, then right align the paragraph, as you type, everything moves to the left since it's right aligned - just as you'd expect.

However, if you start typing spaces, Illustrator ignores them and nothing moves until you type a non-white-space character, then it respects all the the spaces it was ignoring suddenly.

How can I force it to respect the spaces?

The default behavior is probably convenient normally, but I'm importing placement from another place that respects the spaces and Illustrator's smartness is changing the original design intent (in an automated workflow).


texts: how to efficiently make a tab bar in Sketch?

texts: So Sketch has symbols. These are great if every instance of the symbol across your various artboards is exactly the same. But what if say you had a tab bar, and on different screens, you wanted to show a different tab highlighted/selected? I've been just having the tab bar as an individual element, not a symbol, and manually changing the tabs for each page to show the right tab selected. I feel like there is a better way to do this, as when the client changes their mind about a colour, I'd have to individually change every instance.


texts: Eyedropper doesn't copy entire appearence in Adobe Illustrator

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Despite manual, my eyedropper doesn't coppy everything from appearence of one object to another. Here I am copying from bottom left object to top right:

Only fill color is copied, no any other effects.
How to accomplish?


texts: Cooperhewitt (or other) font family loading issue in Illustrator running on windows!

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I have been trying to load the Cooperhewitt font family on Windows 7 running Illustrator CS6.

But it fails to load any font from the family most of the time or sometime only few of the fonts from the family can be seen in the font drop down list. What's wrong?

Even on the font download page it says windows can have only 4 basic weights!
Check on the right column.

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/colophon/cooper-hewitt-the-typeface-by-chester-jenkins/

Is there any way to load all the weights on windows?


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What is the best way to give IOS/Android developers UI specifications like
font sizes, icon size, images, positions, etc.?
Is there a best practice for this?


texts: Is there a way to have something like a guide (both horizontal and vertical) that follows the cursor in Photoshop?

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I've been looking for a functionality that makes it so that there's a something like a crosshair which extends from the horizontal and vertical rulers to where the cursor is, like this image (taken from here), and follows it when it moves:

I do know that guides can be used, such as dragging from the ruler, but as far as I know, there is no shortcut to create either a horizontal or vertical guide from the mouse's current location (which is another question, similar to this).

EDIT: Note that I'd prefer something quick (as such as why I mentioned something dynamic and just follows your mouse), and I don't care much for guides staying on the screen, as I will only be using them for multiple operations in succession that won't last longer than a handful of seconds.

Also, I'm using CC 2018 if it matters.

Thanks!


texts: Photoshop: TIFF: Difference between "gray/8" and "gray/8#"?

texts: I've opened up some TIFF graphics in Photoshop CS4. When going to Image -> Mode, they all show "Grayscale" and "8 bits per channel" checked. But when looking at the tabs, some show "Gray/8", and others show "Gray/8#". What's the difference?


texts: Is there a way to switch to a brush preset in Photoshop but keep the current brush size?

texts: I'd like to keep my current brush size when switching between Photoshop brush presets. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Photoshop Batch Script for Exporting Layers with a Master Backround

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I have 100 layers that I want to export with a specific master layer as the background.

Any JSX scripts out there for CS6?

thanks!


texts: Is there anyway that I can convert multiple psd files to multiple pdf files?

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I have 200 psd files, and I want to convert them to 200 separated pdf files. Is there anyway I can do that? I have tried to search on google, all the tutorials are about how to convert and combine psd files into one multi-page pdf.
Thank you!


texts: Powerpoint-like presentations with InDesign?

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So I'll have to create a few presentations and I'm not sure what software I want to use. I distinctly dislike the Microsoft Office programs; I have used LibreOffice Impress before, but it wasn't my cup of tea as well. I refuse to use Prezi for ... religous reasons, I guess °^°

I wanted to try using InDesign for my presentations. I think it should be possible to achieve presentation-like interactive PDFs with it. Do you think this is a viable option?

I'm also looking for a way to have distinct elements of one page to be hidden first and be revealed on pressing the navigational buttons (like in a Powerpoint Presentation), so that I can e.g. press the right arrow key to move on to the next page, press it again three times to reveal 3 hidden objects in succesion, and then press it again to move on to the page after that. Is this possible in InDesign? If so, how do I do that?


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I don't know if I am in the right section so I sincerely apologise if I am somewhere lost right now.

I have an Etsy store selling Printable designs. Either they buy it and I print it for them, or they can download specific files to print on their own. One of those designs is a planner and somebody wrote to me today asking if they can use it on their iPad?!

Now I have seen on Etsy something in that region. What some stores do is create an editable PDF file, for example for wedding suites, where the buyer can simply change the names and other text information to your preference without having to ask the seller/designer to edit the information for them.

However, is there something like that for an iPad?


texts: How can I print two separate cut jobs on hp latex with onyx rip?

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HP Latex 360, Onyx RIP software, I have a summa plotter cutter machine.

What I have found is, as I can only fit a certain size width in my plotter I have to cut down , or make sure my print file is the correct size. However, this means i end up with half a sheet of vinyl wasted on my printer. When i have duplicated the jobs or even loaded as separate jobs, it combines the barcode strip , so how can I get to create two separate barcode sections of the two jobs so that i can cut it down the middle and load them separately into my plotter... there must be a simple solution I'm missing surely people don't waste loads of vinyl?!


texts: How can I decide on a size of my Android drawables?

texts: I understand how big should my drawable be when it's displayed in a certain size, e.g. 24dp, 48dp etc. But what if the size was dynamic, for example, it takes up the half of the screen? In that case, there isn't a predetermined size, but it is rather calculated on-spot, and is different on different devices. So in which sizes should my drawables be, so that they're neither too big (it would cause performance issues), nor too small (it would be blurry)?


texts: Best way to apply glossy shine effect with GIMP

texts: I am using GIMP 2.8 and, so far, upon browsing the internet, I have not yet found and effect that works for me. There was a post here on this site right here Creating a shiny black plastic effect, but the link in referrence on this post is broken, so this post does me no good. I attached the image that I'd like to apply the glossy effect here:


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I have several images like the one below. I need to remove the background grid using a Linux based tool (and I know nothing about graphic design!) Maybe this can be done with Gimp or Krita?

I could just painstakingly delete the grids manually but it's just too much work to do on ~20 images. Is there a way to this on at least a semi-automatic way?


texts: How to create 3D effect (relief) in lines (adobe illustrator)

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How can you create this 3D rilief looking effect in lines like there is an object laying underneath.

This question might already being asked on the forum, But can't find it..

Edit: Someone mentioned in the answers it might be a plugin for illustrator, it's called Afternow by Scriptographer. But this plugin isn't up to date anymore since adobe CS7


texts: How can I create imagery for cyber security and cyberspace general while avoiding that late 90's early 2000's look?

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If you were to do a google image search for cyber security you'd see exactly what I mean. Even the slickest images representing cyber security or cyberspace seem to fall under a style that IMO is very iconic to computer related subjects in the late 90's and early 2000's. Eg. glowing blue streams of light, glowing blue anything, ones and zeroes repeating themselves, and desaturated, or of course, blue, wires or illustrations of circuits fading into each other. I understand that this imagery, the wires, circuits, and binary representation, are on point depictions of the subject we're talking about, but they're still iconic to a certain era of computing.

I need to make a facebook cover photo for an organization involved in networking and cyber security, and could use a basic direction to go in. A facebook cover photo is a lot of space for imagery, and we're not using a group photo, if we even have one.

So how can I represent cyber security, networking, etc, while avoiding this iconically dated look?


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We have a badge machine for making badges based on design that we print using our laser printer. The is useful for small runs and short deadlines.

Currently we print on normal 80 gsm paper, which is then put behind a plastic screen before squeezed into a badge.

A colleague asked if we could make refective badges.

I am thinking of something like this material but as A4 and made for printing, so it can go in our printer.

Can something like that be done without having to use an external printshop? Or is there a better way do make "homemade" reflective badges?


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I'm new to photoshop mockups to present my work. I can't figure out why the smaller text in the mockup isn't sharp, or the whole image in fact. I've been saving as a jpeg and then viewing at 100%. The PDFs I'm putting into the smart object layers are perfectly sharp. Is there something I'm missing? The files I'm putting into the layers were produced in InDesign, saved as PDF, then dragged into the relevant layer.

Thanks.


texts: What are the good ways to constantly backup Photoshop files and exported images?

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What are the best ways to backup large files like Illustrator or Photoshop and exported images directly after working on them.

For example, people working on code often directly commit to a Git repository and backup is done!

I looked for a similar solution at Bitbucket which unfortunately only provides 10GB/month for its premium account.

What are the alternatives for an simple constant backup workflow.
Are there for free alternatives also?


texts: Illustrator 2020 Snapping relative to Cursor Position

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With the latest Illustrator update, snapping has been all wonky. When dragging objects before the update, I was able to snap the object's edge or center to the guides from the edge or center of another object. Now, the update has caused everything to snap based on the cursor's location when I start dragging the object, which doesn't seem useful at all.
Is there a way to disable this feature or revert it? I'd rather not have take multiple steps when aligning my objects by zooming in and click on the furthest anchor points on two sides.
I have tried turning on and off all snapping options, smart guides, checking every option in preferences, but I cannot find anything that says snap to cursor vs. bounding box.


texts: How to set a colored light or dark point?

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I'm not sure what this photographic style is called and I'm not sure how to create it in Photoshop.

I have a portrait and I've spent a couple hours messing with hue / saturation, color mixing, following tutorials for "split toning" but am unable to get the effect (the skin in my photo is still white, it's just that the other colors that are red tinted (but even then, not to the desired color).

Maybe I have to do a very finely tuned black and white filter to get the skin gray, and then try to tint that? But even then, I don't know how to get it to tint to a specific hexadecimal color.

I guess what I'm trying to do is set my white point to a specific color (so where it's white, it will actually be color X), and my black point to a specific color, and apply that to a grayscale photo.

I don't need this for a project, just trying to learn by recreating the design. Any help would be appreciated.

(Talking about the photograph, not the web design.)


texts: Transparent Pattern Background Overlay Issue?

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Using Photoshop, I created a transparent patterned background (gray scale w/Luminosity blend mode) on top of another layer which is a solid color. Now the developers I’m working with need just the “transparent patterned background” so they can simply change the underlying color as needed. The problem is that they are simply overlaying the “transparent patterned background” and without the ability to apply that “luminosity blend mode” the result is muddy and missing the pop of the original. I tried playing with curve adjustment layers and others but can't seem to get the same result. I personally don’t think it’s possible to give them what they need and still get the same results as the original. Below is an example of the two results.

Does anyone have any idea what I’m dealing with and is this even possible?


texts: Graphic being cropped by EPS artboard when exported from Illustrator

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I've got a graphic in Illustrator that I want to export as an .EPS file.

But when I export it, it clips the bottom of the graphic (I've attached a screenshot below); you can't see it unless super zoomed in, but it basically removes the very bottom of any text that sits below the line like capital S and G.

I've added 10% size the artboard in Illustrator but to not avail. Apart from adding a white/clear object behind the logo, which feels like a work around, is there a proper way to fix this issue?

I've come across this issue before when exporting PNG files and in that case the solution is to make the artboard slightly bigger/align the graphic to the pixel grid, but don't see why I'm having the issue with an EPS image as it's a vector file.

I'm running Illustrator 2020 on a Mac running OSx 10.13.16


texts: How to use Illustrator to Create DIN A4, six-sided folder-flyer?

texts: I'm not sure how to know which space I need to set a document in Adobe Illustrator CS5 when I want to create a six-sided DIN A4 folder-flyer. Is there a template somewhere out there that I can use? Or how can I configure the document so that the flyer will be I want to create this flyer and let it get printed by a printing shop, and we've only got Illustrator in our company - and I didn't work with Illustrator too much before. I hope this Stackexchange site can help me even if I don't have much experience with CS5.


texts: How to drag and drop Image into Photoshop without creating a new layer?

texts: Is there a way to drag and drop and image into photoshop on an active layer rather than it creating a new layer in Photoshop CC 2021?


texts: Vectorize a Photoshop file in Illustrator?

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Can you create something in Photoshop, save it, open it in Illustrator, and convert it to a vector?

I haven't tried any other things, but I'm trying to make a logo and I'm comfortable with Photoshop, but I need it to be a vector. Can anyone help?

Adobe Illustrator is so different and I haven't been trained in anything other than Photoshop. As an independent artist taking commissions for commercial work and fine arts, I need to be able to use vectors now. I was not prepared, so any advice would be appreciated!


texts: How to move nodes along another parallel path in Inkscape

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I would like to ask two question about paths
Sorry for my poor English first, and hard to describe my question just in few words in title.
thus I display a schematic diagram below.

The first one is how to move a node on a line along another parallel path
Actually I know how to generate series of parallel lines with mutiple nodes, and I know that pressing ctrl while moving the nodes can let that node move horizontally or vertically. But I want to do is as the diagram, that is, the node move along the path and make the interval unchanged.
The second question is that, is it possible to make two intersected segment into one path just like the diagram? I could only zoom my file to very large scale and move nodes by mouse, it is hard to find un-parallel with normal scale but this is still a stupid way anyway.


texts: How can I use multiple images on a smart object to make many new files

texts: I have a mockup that has a smart object component. I then have around 200 images that I would like to create mockups of. I dont want to do this one by one. Is there a way to "mail merge" the images outputting each one to its own jpeg file?


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I have a question about an InDesign document setup/ export.

I have a task to create an outdoor event poster at these specs.

'Actual size is 2175mm deep x 3230mm wide
type area 2095mm deep x 3150mm wide. Add 50mm bleed all round. Set to 10% at 400dpi'

I have not created such a large poster before so I'm a bit confused with 'Set to 10% at 400dpi' I'm not sure what it means from an InDesign point of view.

Is the 10% just the view in the program or an actual setup of the document? if so I'm not how that effects the export file... or does the 10% thing, somehow in the PDF export settings.

Also the 400 dpi. is that also a PDF export settings? I know InDesign is a layout program. All the art is imported vector image from Illustrator. so its all vector and no restored images in the InDesign project. Normally imported images set the resolution.

There is no time to do a test print so I'm want to make sure I'm sending the exported PDF.

(soz, no screenshot, keeps giving me an error)


texts: How to merge two parts of an image in Illustrator to avoid overlapping effect shadow

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First time in this community. I am new to illustrator as I come from a science and research background. I extract this image directly from MATLAB in eps to export it to illustrator and probably because of the way MATLAB treats images, the shape is divided by two as you can see in the image. The colorbar is an automatic object that comes out of a certain programming in the app, is not something I draw. The thing is the colorbar object is cut in half and I would like to merge. I have tried the pathfinder>merge option and it says it does not produce any results.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!

UPDATE: This is the same problem but with other type of object I have when I deal with brain activation images from the same app. It automatically segments the object. It looks like it's an image although it saves it in eps. I'd like to know how to tell illustrator it's just an object and to not separate it so it doesn't have to antialias the edges and display the white line showed in the colormap bar (which also happens in the topography object).


texts: I am still pretty new to illustrator, so I am still learning. I have a shape (pill shape) that is all white. I am trying to "fill" half of the shape with a yellow color (keeping the black stroke intact. Does anyone know how to go about this?


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I have a resume that was designed on a Mac, which came with Hoefler Text pre-installed. I no longer have access to the Mac, but I need to edit the resume (done in Open Office Draw). It's not really an option to purchase the font.

Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Hoefler Text (read: looks as similar as possible)?  This resume took quite a while to design and I'm not really that keen on redoing it.


texts: Tribute band logo copyright infringement

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My band created this logo as an idea for our tribute band to the Beatles:

Since it is based on the original Beatles logo:

Would the logo be considered copyright infringement?

We know the name itself is OK to use, but are not sure about the font or anything else.


texts: Editing a logo in A1 format and EPS format

texts: Somebody designed a logo for me and gave it to me in PNG and Jpg format.  I upgraded to get the logo design in "editable" formats.  He sent me it in A1 and EPS formats.  How do I edit a logo in A1 Format, or EPS format without having to subscribe to adobe illustrator?


texts: Genre of fonts similar to the Nerve Logo (Jojo Mayer)

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I'm an amateur graphic designer looking for a genre of fonts, similar to what is being used here in Jojo Mayer's band Nerve's logo:

What I'm looking for is extended characters, with a post modern kind of look. I just want to know what these type of fonts are categorized under, so I can try and find a few examples for a project.


texts: Photoshop Relative Colormetric conversion inconsistent?

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The Photoshop relative colormetric conversion seems to be inconsistent.

I'm converting from Adobe RGB to sRGB. Settings are as follows:

I open the same file twice and run the same conversion. The results are different. Not enough to be noticeable to the naked eye, but enough to have different pixel values.

Summary: I open the same file twice, convert it with the same settings, and get two different outputs. The image is an uncompressed 8-bpp TIFF, 640x1024 pixels.

EDIT: It seems to occasionally give the same results twice, but never twice in a row.

EDIT: Disabled dithering in the settings dialog as per Mr. Wizard's suggestion, and now the results are the same every time. Dithering isn't algorithmic? (It's random?)


texts: How to change text couple times and save every single one?

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Is there a way to make really quickly ID's for events?

I have a background for my ID's but I have to make them one at a time and save it for each person on the list.

Can I somehow automate this process?


texts: How can I remove a transparent interface in a 3D extrusion in Adobe Illustrator?

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I created a 3D structure with three layers in Adobe Illustrator using the Extrude & Bevel effect. It consists of three slabs (orange and transparent, then grey and opaque and blue and transparent), where the grey one has holes inside. The orange slab should continue into the holes in the grey slab. As can be seen in the picture at the bottom, there are two separate orange blocks that have an interface together. This interface looks darker than it should, since two boundaries meet.

How can I remove or merge this interface (to make it look as if this is one solid block with cylinders sticking out from it)?


texts: Proposal Software that's NOT based on a SaaS model?

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Does anyone have any recommendations for a proposal creation system that isn't a SaaS offering like Bidsketch or its various competitors? I know one-time purchase software is growing incredibly hard to find in this day and age, but I loathe SaaS and I'd really like to find a solution I can purchase once and host on my own server, like my current billing software Pancake App.

(Pancake, incidentally, does offer proposal creation as a feature, but it's horribly unfriendly and buggy as hell, and I hate it)

The alternative is creating them manually in InDesign the way I used to, but that was super tedious and I'd rather not revert to that. :/

Thank you for any and all suggestions!


texts: Make Lines of .EPS Graphic Bolder or Thicker

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I have an image that looks like a read out of an EKG wavy line.  It's in .EPS format and I have placed it in an Illustrator .AI file I am creating.  I want to make the wavy line thicker looking but I cannot figure out how to do it.  I tried increasing the stroke size from 1 to 2 but then at the start of every path a weird little short burr-like line gets added.

Can someone please let me know if there is a way I can make this line more wide/bold or whatever?


texts: Should I include the original image I based a logo on in my portfolio?

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I recently created a logo for a local student body that I want to include in my design portfolio. They already had a logo, but it was taken straight from a vector graphics stock website (CC-BY licence). I used that as a basis for the look and feel of my design.

The finished logos (I created a couple of variants, including a simple one as the general logo and a more intricate one for their T-Shirts) have really nothing in common with the original vector graphic. However, I'm wondering if I should still include this vector graphic in this project in my portfolio, mentioning it as the starting point of my own creative process. Of course, I would clearly attribute it to the author, thus fulfilling the licence terms.

Will this make my own portfolio look better or worse?

Pros:

Shows my process, giving better insight in how I work
Clearly separates and underlines my own creative work
Potentially gives the impression that I'm honest and open

Cons:

Could diminish my own work (i.e. "it's not original design, he just ripped that thing of and changed it")

Those are my thoughts on the matter, but I would like to get some other opinions. On a related note: If I do include the original vector graphic, should I include earlier versions/revisions of the final logo design as well?


texts: Photoshop/Illustrator: Angled Dashed Line (example included)

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Hey I can create a box with a dashed line like that:

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any options to tilt the dashes. Pls check the links for an example

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81s%2Bodnu-hL.SX355.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/152180525702-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

What's the easiest way to achieve this? I thought about masking a layer with dashes that go diagonal but that doesn't seem to be the most "dynamic" way.

SOLVED: Both are good answers and both would work for me but Scott's answer has the "dynamic" factor that I want so I marked this one. Harder to set up at first but Scott makes it easier to adjust the distance/width afterwards. Thanks to both of you!


texts: Restore an original image that has a transparency-fade applied to it: Select by color gradient in GIMP

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I have an icon (png) of a suit of armor, which fades out about halfway through the image (it is transparent in the latter part).
Here is an example of the image in question:

Its alpha channel is transferred to the mask here:

I want to restore the image to how it looked before the fade-out was applied, i.e., I want the bottom part to have the same "whiteness" as the top part, and the bottom shadow to have the same properties as the upper one.
I've tried:

Select by color and use fuzzy select, but it doesn't do as I wish.
I could manually free select around the region of interest, but I
wish to automate this task.
Duplicating the image multiple times (or
using threshold alpha) gives an unsatisfactory solution, as it also
makes the background glow far too extreme.
Color to alpha is not satisfactory
Extracting the component and applying blending mode is satisfactory at restoring the color somewhat, but not the glow

The image itself (uploaded here due to transparency issues) can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/izraCiq
Any suggestions are very welcome!


texts: How to export an InDesign file to PDF that is going to be spiral bound

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Ok so I designed a 106 page cookbook that is going to be spiral bounded.

I created my InDesign document with a 3mm bleed and facing pages.

On some pages there is an image that is stretched between two spreads, and some full bleed images.

My question now is how do I export this to PDF to send it to the printers.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Is there anyway to select a custom image/icon in Indesign CC for use in lists other than by making a custom glyph typeface?

texts: Trying to use a heptagon (7-sided polygon) in place of a dash in a list style for a project in Indesign CC 2015. There doesn't appear to be a simple way to add it to the available icon choices without it being in a font. I'd rather not have to manually place all 200 some heptagons, thus the goal of trying to do it with a bulleted list style. Anyone have any ideas?


texts: Join multiple SVG files into one? Looking for automatic (scriptable) solution

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I have multiple SVG files (such as https://gist.github.com/matkoniecz/8e71fcfabcc52818ed47a430f23ca88b )
All of them have the same height, width, viewbox etc. I want to combine them into one file.
Doing it manually is fairly simple, see https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/267743
The tricky part is that I want to automate it due to large number of files and frequent repetitions (every time I tweak something).

To avoid XY problem: I am generating (using mapshaper) several SVG files with labels at specific locations.
I also generate with mapshaper a background map.
I want to merge this vector data into one file, for use in laser cutter.


texts: Need information on .aep files and related stuffs

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I have never used adobe before and in fact have no experience of Graphics design as such. .

I got an animation developed on freelancers.com.
As a final delivery they are giving me a .aep file.
The size of the animation they sent me as .MP4 is 17 MB, while the size of  .aep file is only 2.7 MB.

I want to make sure that I have got all raw files, so that in future I can modify them as and when required.  Now I have two questions :

1- The .aep file of 2.7 MB is sufficient to recreate the 17MB .MP4 animation?
Or do I need any pother files?

2- What tools I have to install in my PC?


texts: Reduce image size in photoshop without compromising text readability

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I found a similar thread that gave some great pointers, but still doesn't solve my issue.

My boss asked me to create a corporate presentation, and I had the unfortunate idea of doing it all in photoshop (I figured it would allow greater flexibility than the usual powerpoint).

I created 24 slides at 3000x2000px and 300dpi, for a total size of 69Mb.

Now obviously this is not ok for a presentation that must be sent via email to multiple clients, so i decided to reduce its size using the technique described in the thread above.

Before:

After:

It all worked great and the file size is now down to 4Mb, only problem is that the text is starting to blur. Since it appears that text makes up for only about 3% of the total file size (it's the images that are bloating up the Mb count), I was wondering if it's possible to reduce the image quality without "touching" the text layers.

In powerpoint you can have a bad quality background image and write perfectly sharp text on in. Even at 640x480 text looks good in powerpoint. On the contrary, if I lower the res in photoshop, the text turns crappy.

So is there a way to add hi res text to a low res "background" image in photoshop?

UPDATE: after a long afternoon of work, and thanks to John's help, my presentation is now perfect, so I thought I'd give back to the community an share a couple more things I've learned working on this project.

This is what the text looks like after the PDF conversion when faux styles is applied PDF with faux and this is what it looks like when you strip off all styles from it PDF no faux.

As you can see, like John said, if you have faux styles applied, the text is automatically rasterized and this creates a lot of artifacts during the conversion. On the contrary, if there are no faux styles, the text stays in its vector form and, even when you reduce the image quality a lot (see the picture on the right side of the image), the characters remain tack sharp.

So I went ahead and re-formatted all the text boxes in my presentation. Again something went wrong see here. As you can see, sometimes the PDF version screws up your text. As silly as this may sound, I found that this only happens when you write too much text in a single box. All text longer than 6 or 7 lines got screwed up. Splitting it into two different text boxes with 3 lines each fixed this. The same problem happened on multiple slides, and the same solution worked to correct the problem on all of them.

Last but not least, I managed to decrease the total file size some more by going to file->Automate->PDF presentation (not sure about the exact translation cause my photoshop is in italian) instead of the usual file->Save As->Photoshop PDF. Try for yourself, with the same compression values the first option yields smaller files (some 30-50% smaller!!). So I guess there's some hidden parameter that the "Automate" command sets somewhere that the "Save As" does not.

I now have a 2,8Mb presentation with razor sharp text and low-res images (still looking good ad 100% zoom, artifacts start showing only at 120%). Thank you stackexchange! :)


texts: Is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines in Adobe Illustrator?

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In Adobe Illustrator CS5, is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines?

This is the effect I'm aiming to create:

I have created my grid and now I want my brush to align or snap to the guidelines, it is possible?

Now this is want I really want to do:

This the effect I want to create using the pressure of my pen tablet, with the help of the guidelines.


texts: How to export different crop sizes in Photoshop?

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I would like to take a typical 2:3 ratio image in Photoshop CC and make a square 1:1 crop and an 8:10 crop.  I want to save my crops non-destructively within the PSD file so I have access to my carefully-placed crops again in the future.   I then want to export each cropped image to JPG.   Problems:

If I make one layer for each crop size, and crop non-destructively
(without deleting cropped pixels), I can see each layer nicely in my
desired crop size, but I cannot then export that layer properly
because Photoshop wants to maintain ONE canvas size for all layers.
If my original image ratio was 2:3 and I crop to 1:1, I see all the
transparent pixels on the sides of my cropped square image filling up
the canvas back to the 2:3 ratio. When I choose "File > Save As > JPG", it saves a 2:3 image with white space on the sides of my square image. There is no option during saving a JPG to eliminate the transparent pixels. I heard that the Export option might remove the transparent pixels but I cannot use Export because Adobe still limits exporting to 96 dpi.

So is there a way or workflow to export my Photoshop image in various crop sizes but do so non-destructively and keep my various crops? The only way I can think of is to make one PSD file per crop, but that's a lot of wasted hard drive space.

(My question is not the same as the "batch resize" post because that one creates an action to create/save different sizes and does not save any preferred crops within the original Photoshop file.)