texts: How can I create an interactive mockup of my Photoshop web design?

texts: This is my first time doing this. I made a web design in Photoshop and I don't know what to do next. I have to show other people the website and I was think of using WebEx. Is there another software I can put my design in to and then it will work as a website or do I have to get another software and make the design again?


texts: Script for applying character style on text after inserting it from variable

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I need a script for InDesign which do the following: insert text string from variable and format it with existing character style.

The previous to last string does not working in my attempt:

var myNewText = "someText";
var myStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("Inserted Text");
myTextFrame = app.selection[0];
firstInsertionPoint = myTextFrame.insertionPoints[-1].index;
myNewText.appliedCharacterStyle = myStyle; // THIS NOT WORKING
myTextFrame.contents += myNewText;


texts: How to remove all color from SVG image in Illustrator?

texts: I have this PNG image and I need to erase "all" colors, including the white light on front, vest and belly, seeing only the outlines' image, because once that's done, I'm gonna convert it to SVG. This is the image I need to edit


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I'm trying to create a dashed stroke, but I can't get it to stop doing this:

As you can see, there are two overlapping dashes (indicated by the red triangle) that give the appearance of one long dash. How can I make sure that all my dashes are the same size, non-overlapping, and evenly spaced?

I've tried changing the dash density and offset, but these didn't work.

Note: This image is just an analogue to demonstrate the problem - my actual design is not a simple shape.

Thank you in advance!


texts: Alpha clipping mask for a PNG file in Illustrator?

texts: So let's call my PNG image layer Z. I have group A of layers that is behind my layer Z and group B of layers that in front of my layer Z. Now, I want to create a clipping mask to apply it to group A of layers using layer Z silhoutte, how can I do that? In Photoshop it's very easy, you simply click with left button of mouse while holding CTRL on a PNG file with alpha channel and it automatically selects the silhoutte of the image, and then you can use that selection on another layer. But how can you do the same thing in Illustrator?


texts: What size should an image be for printing a very large (10m x 2m) banner

texts: I work as a graphic designer and until know I have worked only in vector. Now I have to do a very big banner like a landscape and I have to use a photo for this. What is an acceptable resolution for an image for a 10m x 2m banner?


texts: Merging Multiple Page InDesign Documents

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I worked on a book that was saved in separate InDesign documents. Each file has about 10 - 20 pages.
I want to combine it now to become one big InDesign document.

Is this possible?


texts: Is there a Sketch search/replace function for primary hexadecimal colors?

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I created 20 website templates with multiple layers and assets.

I use a primary pallet of five colors.

These colors need to be changed and I would like to use the DRY concept. If this was a prototype in HTML/SASS - I would just change the primary set colors across the whole site.

Is there a native function that can search for a particular hexadecimal color and replace it?


texts: Drop Shadow Design in AI CS5 with linked PSD Image

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I am doing a ring of products with drop shadow, but I am unable to get a unify shadow direction.

I know one way to solve this will be do it all in Photoshop, and place the circle back to AI, but already design mutiple ring of products and designs I don't want to go back and redo it all.  is there a way to achieve this in AI?


texts: Embedding a color profile makes the image look different on different monitors

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I have always embedded color profiles in my images because I thought it was a good practice, without really understanding the details of how it works.
Today I noticed something alarming:
I had opened a photo which had no colorprofile in Photoshop and clicked on "assign working RGB: sRGB".
Then, after some minor image manipulation, I saved it with "ICC profile: sRGB" checked.
Now, when I open the 2 photo in Irfanview (before and after) on my second monitor, they look identical. But if I open them on my main monitor, the colors look different.
However, when I save the manipulated photo without embedding a color profile, the before and after versions look the same. When I open the images in chrome or when I disable "color managing" in Irfanview, they also always look the same. (The profile Irfanview was using was my monitor's profile).
I definitely want my files to look the same no matter what monitor or program I'm using but apparently I don't know how to go about that. I thought the point in embedding a color profile was to avoid something like this happening. The "Color managing" option in Irfanview sounds like a good thing but it makes the colors less accurate. What is going on?


texts: How can I fade an image along lines in Illustrator?

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I was wondering if anyone could assist with teaching me how to fade an image along lines in Illustrator (similar to the picture below).

As the lines progress a larger portion of the image is revealed.

Thanks for any help!  It is greatly appreciated.


texts: Draw diagonal line with a specific offset to another diagonal line

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I have a vertical line with a 45° turn. I want to draw another line next to it with a specific offset. What is the best way to do it?

I tried moving the pink anchors directly over the orange anchors and then use the move feature to move it -135° with the specific offset.

But when I move the pink endpoint with shift to move it diagonally, it won't snap perfectly to the vertical line.

In my case, it was off by 0.004 px.

What is a better way to do it?


texts: Photoshop file dimensions for touch screen

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I was recently tasked with creating a full screen web page for a 48" Commercial LED touch screen that is full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and 5000:1.

Should I make the Photoshop file dimensions 1920 x 1080?

I apologize if the answer to this question is obvious.

Thanks in advance,
Steve


texts: I hate when I repeat this task on every Branding project...Copying the colors' values, is there a plugin or an easiest way to export all color values (Spot, CMYK and RGB) to text from the color palette?


texts: What are your key books for reflecting about graphic design education?

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I own "The Education of a Graphic Designer" by Steven Heller. It's a great collection of essays to help teachers reflect about graphic design education.
I've yet to find other similar works however.

Are there other works exploring the philosophy of graphic design teaching? I'm not looking for books that teach graphic design, but books that strive to deepen a graphic design teachers' reflection or position about their teaching.


texts: What colorschemes do you think stimulate learning and attention seeking without being distracting?


texts: I've been supplied with a PDF that I need to insert into InDesign. The particular InDesign document is a 16pp booklet, so there are facing pages. The PDF is going on a facing page. The PDF is set up with a 3mm bleed (which matches that of the InDesign document), so obviously there are crop marks. What's the best way to insert the PDF in the right position and remove the crop marks?


texts: What program can I use to convert a 2D industrial design plan to 3D model?

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I'm currently working on a project to make a metal part. I have designed a 2D plan and I was wondering if there was a software out there that would enable me to transform my 2D plan into a 3D model. This way I could have a better look to what I've designed.

I know Autocad has this capability, Alias I guess, and Solidworks will do the job but I'm looking for something simple and why not a free software that will be very simple to turn my 2D in 3D.


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I am a fledgling designer but I have a bit of a problem - when I give people the "final" copy, there are always mistakes that I couldn't find (blinded from over saturation in the project usually) but the person who asked for the project notices them right away of course.

How can I best avoid this? The mistakes are usually little stupid things that just make me look careless.

Thanks for anyone's help with this!!


texts: Single operation to crop/resize to fit to specific size

texts: I have some images that I'd like to resize to a specific size by cropping and resizing. I've tried using Paint.NET, but the resize and crop are both individual operations. How I'd like it to proceed is as follows. I type in the size that I am trying to resize to. I then get given a box with the right aspect ratio, I can resize the box and move it around. When I'm happy, I click a button and the image is cropped to the selected region and then resized to the aspect ratio I originally entered. Are there any lightweight programs that handle this workflow?


texts: Scanned document prints with a blue background from Photoshop

texts: I have scanned a document, and now I need to print it. The document has both black and blue on it. However, it has a white background. When I print it from Photoshop it prints with a light blue background, instead of white. Anybody knows what to do in order to remove that? So again, it's a white background on the original paper and in Photoshop, but when print it comes out with a light blue background.


texts: Visual guidelines across multiple products

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Where can I find resources on how to create a visual guideline across multiple products, eg. apps.

Example; If a company wants to do 20 apps, and they should have a visual guideline across all 20 apps. The functionality ect in each app is completely different, but the style is the same.

Where can I find resources on how to get started with creating such a guideline? What does it take and whats the does and don'ts?


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I'm a bit puzzled because I'm not able to register any python script in Gimp (2.8).
I've tried to follow the docs there are two complete examples, clothify and echo, I've tried to put both on my ~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins/ but they doesn't seems to get registered.
At the end of the page there is the test using console invocation and I got:

batch command experienced an execution error:
Error: ( : 1) eval: unbound variable: python-fu-console-echo

I've tried with other plugins, and restarting with a new ~/.gimp-2.8 dir

What do you suggest? (I'm on Ubuntu 15.10)


texts: How to group all crossing paths in a selection in Illustrator

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I am working with handwritten letters and want to select a group of letters and all the ones that come from multiple brushstrokes ("t", "f", etc....) be joined.
I know I can select an individual letter and Command+g to "group" the stokes of that letter.
That's the behavior I want, but I want that to happen with every instance of crossing brushstrokes in a selection.
Thank you.


texts: How to import Illustrator swatch libraries into InDesign - Adobe Indesign Mac?

texts: I have a very reach swatch library in adobe-illustrator like food colors and.... But in adobe-indesign I don't have many colors. Why? Can I import them to indesign?


texts: How to remove black pixel bleed? (Illustrator CC or Sketch)

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I'm working with a color logo created in Illustrator. When it's exported as a PNG at a large size, it looks fine. If I export it at a smaller size, it creates a faint black line between the colors.

I've also opened it in Sketch to see if it was a program problem, but it's happening there too.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!


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I'm trying to use the PDF CMYK export plugin for Inkscape, but it fails when I save the document.

I have selected an ICC profile (A FOGRA39L.icc profile) and applied it to most of the colors in my document.

When I try saving to a PDF, I get this:

Am I doing something wrong? Is this known?


texts: flip an ico-image without quality loss or size increase

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My goal is to take an ico-image, like this wikipedia.ico and flip it vertically. My first attempt was

$ convert -flip wikipedia.ico flipped.ico

And it works, except that the resulting file flipped.ico is larger than the original:

$ identify wikipedia.ico
wikipedia.ico[0] ICO 48x48 48x48+0+0 4-bit sRGB 2734B 0.000u 0:00.000
wikipedia.ico[1] ICO 32x32 32x32+0+0 4-bit sRGB 2734B 0.000u 0:00.000
wikipedia.ico[2] ICO 16x16 16x16+0+0 4-bit sRGB 2734B 0.000u 0:00.000

$ identify flipped.ico
flipped.ico[0] ICO 48x48 48x48+0+0 8-bit sRGB 15086B 0.000u 0:00.000
flipped.ico[1] ICO 32x32 32x32+0+0 8-bit sRGB 15086B 0.000u 0:00.000
flipped.ico[2] ICO 16x16 16x16+0+0 8-bit sRGB 15086B 0.000u 0:00.000

Adding the flag -depth 4 does not help.

How can I do I get the exact same image, simply flipped?

Edit:

Thanks to Paolo Gibellini's answer, it got a smaller file flipped.ico. However, using  -colors 16 -depth 4 still results in a file, that is much larger than the original:

$ convert -flip -colors 16 -depth 4 wikipedia.ico flipped.ico
$ ls -l flipped.ico wikipedia.ico
[...] 10734 May 14 21:05 flipped.ico
[...]  2734 May 14 09:41 wikipedia.ico
$ identify flipped.ico
flipped.ico[0] ICO 48x48 48x48+0+0 8-bit sRGB 10734B 0.000u 0:00.009
flipped.ico[1] ICO 32x32 32x32+0+0 4-bit sRGB 10734B 0.000u 0:00.000
flipped.ico[2] ICO 16x16 16x16+0+0 4-bit sRGB 10734B 0.000u 0:00.000

I am running this on a debian pc. In the first line, there still seems to be some 8-bit image. Is there a way to have flipped.ico exactly the same size? Dos this really work on windows, as mentioned in the answer?


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In Photoshop 6 there was a menu item to extract an image.  Essentially, it would allow you to create a transparent image so that you could apply Styles to the image.

In Photoshop CS6 I've found a tutorial on making a mask by using the Quick Selection tool.  However, the tutorial wasn't really geared towards my outcome, so now all I have is a mask.  And anytime I try to apply a Style to it, it just styles my entire image.

How do I create a transparent image so that I can add styles?  I'm using CS6 on a Win2K computer.


texts: Why is my gradient printing like a faint white box?

texts: I am trying to print from an Illustrator file and my items with gradients/shadows look fine on screen but when printed I get a faint white box. What setting am I missing??


texts: New Smart Object via Copy inside a Layer Group

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Is it possible to duplicate a layer group that contains multiple smart objects with relationships to each other, so the duplicate group is separated from the original?

I need the duplicate to be editable without changing the original. This can be achieved by the context menu when interacting with a single smart object, but not for a group containing multiple smart objects.

Any ideas?


texts: What kind of effects-brushes where used in this picture?

texts: I would really like to know how someone can achieve this type of illustration. What kind of effects or brushes were used?


texts: What technique I should approach to remove dust from blue circles in attached picture? Actually I would like to have clear illustration instead of photo. How to achieve that?


texts: Can one create a scalable brush in Photoshop?

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Imagine if I'm drawing an image using brushes. Is there by any chance, possible to use the brushes as a vector and resize/transform them, without losing data?

For instance; if you draw a tree in with brushes. Then you want to scale it up by 50%. Is it possible to perform that scaling, without image starting to go blurry?


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Can I know how to change the manipulator from the current local status to global? Unable to do it via clicking right button and getting the local/global options (the option doesn't appear). Please help Thanks.

This is how the manipulator currently looks. I want to adjust it to global so that the green arrow points straight up and the red arrow points straight left forming a right angle.

Image:

New Image:


texts: How can I stop Illustrator's eraser tool from making small details vanish?

texts:
When I use the Eraser Tool (Shift+E) in Illustrator, there is a strange and undesired effect. It seems to clean up fine details on the effected layer, sometimes removing small shapes. For example, here are some small shapes (these are fine details, note the zoom is at 1600%).

Now I click the eraser on the top-rightmost white shape, with a brush size just large enough to cover it:

All but the biggest shape is gone!

Why is this happening and what can I do to prevent it?


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I'm following this Inkscape Boundary Logo (Link will start at the right point in time to demo) where the designer snaps the guideline to the top of the circle.

I'm trying the same thing with snap midpoints of bounding box edges turned on in Inkscape 0.92, however my guideline does not snap?


texts: Best fonts for improving reading experience

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I am building a website whose major purpose is to serve content (legislature) and I want to give best reading experience to users. You can take a look at the example page at:

http://iura.cl/cc/44

As you can see, I have stripped everything that
At the moment I am using Telex webfont.
I also have an option for night reading that should reduce glare:

http://iura.cl/cc/44?estilo=nocturno

I wonder what I should consider about the font that I choose to ensure it is legible, if there is any guide to adhere to?


texts: Does anyone know if is there an effect to make something like the following images with photoshop? I thought it was halftone lines but this lines aren't straight.


texts: Why does resizing PNG with alpha transparency make edges gray?

texts:
I'm using PSP 7 (I know it's old, but it serves my purposes).

I am resizing a bunch of images. PNG images with alpha transparency load with black backgrounds when I first open them. I have little experience with masks. I learned that I can do Masks > Load From Alpha Channel to see the transparent areas.

After loading the alpha channel, I resize the image. Usually, this works fine. However, sometimes the edges look a bit gray - kind of like if I made a transparent GIF on a gray background.

For the record, the box for Resize all layers is checked. If I uncheck that, the edges are black after resize. Also, the original images are already PNG-24 (16 million colors).

Here is the original viewed at 8x zoom (scaled in the browser to fit):

And here it is after reszing viewed at 8x zoom:

And here is the resized image viewed at 1x zoom:

It's probably not that noticeable to a lot of people, but the top edge does not look smooth to me.

Is there an easy way to fix this? Do I need to resize the mask separately?

The last one I had like this was a white circle. So I just cropped out the edges and added a white circle behind it. This one is a little harder.


texts: What animation tool is best for teachers for 2D animations?

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I am an online teacher who often have to explain the concepts which are best understood with 2D animations like these :
https://youtu.be/u1DYs2I-_lU?t=134
I learnt AfterEffects because that was the first thing that came to my mind, but I later felt that it might be too heavy for these simpler animations and there must be simpler alternatives. Second problem with AE was to time the voiceover with animation.
I could then use Powerpoint for a while and voiceover was not a problem because I could control the next animation with button presses. But sometimes I felt its not flexible enough and could not do the job for complex animations, but that is still ok considering I do not see a better option yet.
But I would like to explore better alternatives. There might be some tools available which teachers like me are not aware. What do majority of online teachers use? I see many online teaching lectures on youtube (like the one I shared) and they have nice presentations and voiceover timings too. Can you please provide animation tool suggestions which are easier to pick up and can help produce simple animations for teaching purpose.


texts: Pricing considerations when doing logo work for an agency as a freelancer

texts:
I've read this post and a few others: What price should I charge for design services?

And Jessica's Hirsch's Dark Art of Pricing. However, what are the considerations when an agency wants you do to logos on an hourly rate? How do we factor in the very valuable royalty aspect into that number, assuming that the agency will hold all right to the logo design?

Has anyone done this for an agency before? Do you just quote them a huge hourly rate?


texts: Why is photoshop not taking in my fonts?

texts:
I downloaded this psd file with fonts I did not have. That's fine. I looked at free font sites and found it. Once I downloaded it, it still has that exclamation mark next to the layer. I have the font within the brackets that it wants. I see it in my character panel...

It's not that big of a deal but I'd like to know what's going on.

Thank you.


texts: Looking for the best PDF editor or plugin for InDesign

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Does anyone know about a good(free would be great) PDF editor?

I am trying to edit/translate an "Instructions Manual" PDF for a certain product. I need to edit the text in the PDF in order to translate it to another language.

The only workaround I found is to open the PDF in Illustrator(page by page). But I'm sure there is another way.

I am looking to purchase some software to do this if I cannot find a great free product.

I found a plugin for InDesign that allows me to import PDFs,

do you know about it?
Have you tried it ?
Is it working for InDesign CS5?
Does it Import all the pages in the PDF ?
Is it free?
can you provide a link to it please.

If not...

Would Adobe Acrobat Pro do the job ?
What is the best PDF editor you know of ?


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Inkscape uses clip -> and clip ->set inverse have the same result? Why is this happening?

Why does set inverse have the same effect as set? Shouldn't set inverse keep the opposite?


texts: Clipping an object to a path underneath in inkscape

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I have two objects A and B that need to be both visible.  B is on top of A.  I want object B to be clipped to A's boundary.  I am using Inkscape 0.92.

Currently how I am doing this is that I am making a copy of A, then clipping B to A's copy.   The disadvantage of this is that whenever I want to edit either A or B in ways that will affect their boundary, I need to remove the clip on B and delete the copy of A, make the changes to either or both of A and B, copy A again, and then clip B again to the copy of A.

Is there a better way?  Ideally one where B is effectively "live-clipped" to A?

EDIT:

The graphics are a bit simplified to what I am actually working with, but I hope it will illustrate the point:

I start with one object, with its some gradient defined on it:

I am placing another object on top with its own gradient:

And the effect I am after is thus:

As I said, these objects are a bit simplified to what I am actually working with, and have much more convoluted boundaries, but I hope that it is still clear what I am trying to do.

I can do this, as I said, by making a copy of the first object, moving that copy to the top, additionally selecting the second object, and then setting the clip.  But if I ever modify the boundary of the larger object, then I have to delete the clip object and start over.   I'd ideally like to be able to edit the boundary of the first object and have it immediately impact how the second object gets clipped.


texts: How to rotate an object to make one of its side parallel to another object's side in Adobe Illustrator?

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I have this red object and grey object.

I need to rotate the grey object around such that it fits perfectly well on red object's line.

How do I achieve that?


texts: Which cut of Gill Sans is it that is included on a Mac?

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Like many classic fonts, there are several different cuts of Gill Sans by various publishers. Monotype distribute it as 'Gill Sans MT', and Adobe and ITC have their own versions.

Which version is the version that is distributed on a Mac? I can't find any authoritative answer or clues in the font files themselves. All I'm able to discern for certain is that Gill Sans (Mac) and Gill Sans MT aren't identical - at regular weight, they're almost identical (tiny, tiny differences in aliasing but no significant differences), but Gill Sans Bold as bundled with a Mac and in MT version are simply very different weights. (I currently don't have access to Gill Sans Light to test).

So, which cut of Gill Sans is it that comes with Mac OSX?

For bonus points, if it's the Monotype cut:

What are the weights of the "bold"s and "light"s in Gill Sans and Gill Sans MT? On the bold side, it looks like there's a difference of at least 200
If it's possible to complete the Mac Gill Sans set so that it matches the Gill Sans MT set by buying and installing the missing weights, is there a way of changing the namespacing so that a file created using the Gill Sans MT set imports correctly using the same-weight equivalents from the Mac set without needing to replace fonts each time?


texts: How to make documents scanned with camera look like those which are taken with scanner?

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I took some photos of a document with my iphone. Everything is perfect except the colors, the certificate looks great in the middle, but on the side it looks dark, darkness increasing spherically towards outside, the camera points directly towards the center of the page when photo is taken.

I tried maxing out the brightness and contrast in gimp, until a level so that I can atleast read the important part. This removed the  darkness, but it made the text in middle also very light. How can I remove the darkness as well as prevent the text from becoming very light?


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How do I create this type of effect with an image? I'm wondering how to get the thick edges and the tilted look. Is there an online tool that will convert a flat image to look like this?

Source


texts: How do I ensure the file I send to an external printer will print correctly?

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Hope you can help here?
I have an Ilustrator 2020 design which I want to get printed on A3 (Giclee).
I have an ICC profile (seems to be RGB) from my external printer who will print for me.
When I softproof using this profile, colours look fine.
When I use the save as PDF feature, colours look fine. (I select convert colours to destination and select the ICC profile from the printer).
When I use the print option and then select the ICC profile as above, the colours come out highly saturated.
I am not sure which option is the safe approach when sending to printer. Will the save as approach come out saturated too? Whilst this file looks OK on my screen, when I sent to my inbox and check colour on my phone, again it looks saturated.
A little confused here. Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks,
Ed.


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Okay, I have a markdown file (.md) that has all my book's content. I want to style and arrange this content in InDesign. Then I want to export this styled content to a PDF for reading.

The way I was trying to go about this is using Pandoc to convert the .md to a .icml and using File -> Place in InDesign to place the .icml into a .indd document ala this tutorial. However, this means all the .icml content is not editable.

There are some default styles (paragraph, header 1, bulleted list, etc) I can change, and some of these changes are reflected in the document. However, I cannot change what content uses what style, or cut text from one text frame to another (i.e. inserting page breaks instead of using the text frame overflow).

Basically, if I had pasted the text into an InDesign text fame directly, I would be able to double click into the frame, highlight some text, and apply a style or cut and paste it into a new frame on a different page. The File -> Place'd content, however, does not let me interact with the text frame beyond moving/resizing.

Even worse, every time I change the .md and re-export to .icml using Pandoc, it breaks the File -> Place in InDesign and I have to delete every text frame with placed content, create a new text frame, place the new export in there, then click the overflow button and create new frames for each page.

Is there some way to edit placed .icml content in a .indd document? Failing that, is there a better way to import .md content into InDesign? I am at my wit's end with this!


texts: After masking, copy command selects the complete canvas. How do I just select the masked object?

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I have used a layer mask to select the Jar from the image.
When I select and copy the Jar to another document the whole transparent canvas is getting copied. Also when I select using transform tool, the whole canvas is getting selected.
How to just select the Jar?


texts: Preserving a jpeg image exif orientation after it's been edited and saved

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As the title says, I need to take an image with exif orientation value of 8 (rotate 270 clockwise), load it into Photoshop, edit it, and save it back to the filesystem with the same exif orientation value of 8.
I know that Edit > Preferences > File Handling > Ignore Rotation Metadata will preserve the metadata while I'm editing the image, and Save As rather than Export will preserve most of the exif in the output. The orientation, however, always saves as 1 (don't rotate).
Is there a setting I'm missing that will preserve the orientation exif as well?
This is a bit of an odd mixture of requirements, so it may help to know why I need to do this.
We're a photography company with a mixture of portrait and landscape images, but our last-stage printing process requires that all images be stored landscape for them to print correctly.
We used to use information stored in a database to display the images in internal and external systems but have recently found that using the exif is more reliable for images which have not been edited.
The last stage of editing a portrait image is always rotating it back to landscape to appease the printer, so we currently end up with an image with the head rotated to the right but exif saying it should be displayed as-is. Saving the original orientation value along with the other metadata seems like the most logical way to overcome this.


texts: Are there any platforms on which we can keep our Psd's and AI file safe and also for sharing purpose?

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I am looking for some platforms on which I can keep my heavy PSDs and other AI files safe. Also, I want to be able download them later when I want.

How do design companies share files? Through network or they have any space like Dropbox?


texts: How to know in which fonts a specific glyph is available?

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I am looking for free serif fonts containing a glyph for the U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (i.e. a non-breaking thin space).

A Palatino-style font would do fine.
I already checked TeX Gyre Pagella but the non-breaking thin space glyphs fails.


texts: What is the name of this mosaic technique?

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Does this mosaic technique have a name? I want to learn how to create images like this:

Marquee of InDesign CS6:

And random image of a girl I found on the web:

It combines many almost random but thematically or stylistically similar images, newspaper clippings, letters and snippets of text, etc to create one rough, chaotic, energetic image.


texts: Why can't I use my history brush in photoshop cs6?

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I am a beginner in photoshop and I have a question.
Why can't I use my history brush..? It shows this pop up:

How can i fix it now?


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I am trying to create a linear gradient with a transparent edge.

I am hoping to use blending options in photoshop, so that I can fine-tune my results. The issue is, that it seems I would have to use blending modes to get my results. The issue with blending modes is that they introduce a transparency effect (multiply).  I hope to achieve my results with opaque colors and the shapes tools. I'd rather not use the gradient tool because results are not editable without recreating the gradient from scratch essentially.

Here is the effect I am going for!


texts: How to extract the black and white components of an image to superimpose it over colored backgrounds

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Say I want to create a glowing button for a website. I would like to have the possibility to dynamically change the color of that button by changing the color of it's background.

For this I need to create some kind of transparent layer from my original image that i will then superimpose over a colored background.

Imagine I create a round button with an external glow such as this one :

The image I need to create from the image above is the one below :

By superimposing this transparent layer over a colored background, I could "re-create" the first image, but with the color of the background.

Is there a way I can create the second image from the first one using Photoshop CS4?


texts: Batch Saving Data Sets - Illustrator Error on Data Set Change

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I am trying to update all the Data Sets in my Illustrator document so that when I do a Batch Action Save I don't get the following error:

  The current values have not been captured and will be discarded upon switching data sets. Proceed?

I found this StackExchange answer here, but this script is not working on my Illustrator when I execute it from the File > Script > Other Scripts menu.

Here is the code:

function cycleUpdateAllDatasets(doc){
for(var i = 0; i < doc.dataSets.length; i++){
var d = doc.dataSets[i];
d.display();
d.update();
 };
};

I am not very familiar with javasript so I am not sure why the script isn't working and was hoping someone could shed some light on this?

I am on the Adobe Illustrator CC


texts: Photoshop "Save as PDF" doesn't retain the transparency

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So I have this PSD with several transparent layers.
As I need to hand out the file for a professional printing, I export it through Photoshop (CS5) using the usual PDF/X-4:2008 PDF 1.4 profile to retain the transparency.

But the written PDF doesn't have any transparency :

when I open it under Adobe Reader (with the transparency rendering option set to on), it has a white background
when I open it under Photoshop, it also has that white background which means the transparency is not kept

So I guess there's something wrong with the layers as the profile used is the correct one, but I don't know what.
Any hint ?


texts: I couldn't use the pen pressure feature of Wacom tablet within Photoshop

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I am using a Wacom Intuos Art tablet in my Windows 10 PC. I am trying to use the brush tool with pen pressure control in Photoshop CC but it doesn't work. I can see an alert icon near control option in the brush tab.

I have even tried "clear brush controls" option but that didn't fix the issue.

I am facing this issue only with Photoshop. The pen pressure feature works great with Illustrator, Affinity Designer and such.

Please help me troubleshoot the problem!

My Wacom intuos driver info, this is the latest version.

My Photoshop CC version


texts: Can't Align Text to the Center in a Rounded Rectangular Button in Photoshop

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I am a beginner in Photoshop. I can't align the text to the center in a rounded rectangular button. I have tried using "align vertical center" and "align horizontal center" options. But they do not work. Please, see the screenshot.

How can I solve this issue?


texts: How long do you wait for client input before writing off a project?

texts: I agreed to a client project in March 2016. Did it for a low price to build my portfolio. We worked together for a few months and the last I heard from him was June 2016. I did receive a 50% deposit and delivered first drafts of the project that was awaiting his feedback. Never heard back from him  and wrote the project of my books at the end of the year 2016. We did not have a contract. Last week, dec 2018, 2.5 years later, he contacts me that he was working on other projects and is now ready to get back to this. I’m not sure I even have the files, or the program to continue. Should I continue working on it like we were still in 2016? If he came to me today, I would price the job probably 3 times higher than what he paid. Really confused, lol, seems so weird to me for him to even come back after such a long time.


texts: PIxelated lines in illustrator... images are for print, should I worry?

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I am working on a big project and have done a few drawings but I am noticing some weird stuff with my strokes and I just wanted to check if it is normal and just something that I am seeing on my screen but want show when printed.

You can see as I zoom in and out the irregularities in the lines change.

If I may ask and second question also, about saving these images for print (using inDesign), should I import the .ai files directly or save as PDF as import those. Are there any pros and cons.

Thank you,

Daniel


texts: How do I select and transform just one layer at a time in Illustrator?

texts: In Illustrator, I pressed something and everything except one selected layer became greyed out and I could transform the single object that was selected. There was also a back arrow (pointing left) at the top left-hand corner of the art panel that I clicked to get back to normal. How do I get back into this singular layer selection for object editing?


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I can not change tiled clones in Inkscape, help me to solve it, please.

Here is what I have at first:

I group that in order to make tiled clones:

I make tiled clones:

Now I would like to tweak the created clones, but I can not ungroup them and can not change them as paths:

What am I doing wrong?


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I'm pretty new when it comes to working with Illustrator and Photoshop.

Basically I've got a vectorized Illustrator file at 2838 x 893 and I want to scale that as large as I can.

In Illutrator when I open it and select all objects and transform -> scale, the max it lets me is 200%. Then when I try to export as a JPG it tells me insufficient memory to complete the operation and when I try PNG it tells me the rasterized image is out of bounds.

So I tried saving as a PDF so I can rasterize the image in Photoshop, but the new PDF file is still at the original 2838 x 893 resolution.

Surely what I'm trying to do is possible and I'm missing a step somewhere?


texts: Fill complex technical drawing with a gradient

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I have some complex technical drawings that are in Illustrator CS5 that I got from a pdf.  I need to be able to fill each with a gradient to look as if there is a light source.  When I select and make live paint, there are many objects in the one drawing so it does not fill with the gradient as I need it.  There is still more than one object when I expand it.  I've tried some other things without success.  An example of one technical drawing with box of the gradient that I need to fill with is at:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69750361/gradient-tech-drawing.ai

Help is appreciated.


texts: Why are the edges on these images so different?

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I am currently making some web images and am getting very riggid lines. Exhisting images on the website seem to differ (these images are pre me so I do not know how they created them so differently).

Does anybody know why they are so different? The image on the left has very smooth edges, whilst the other is blurry and jagged!

The image I am working on is also appearing very jagged but from looking at the properties of the 2 images shown, there does not seem to be a difference!

The images I am working on need to be 150x150 pixels which is not helping the matter as the individual pixels are so visible.

Any tips on how to create a softer edge of improve the quality of the image on the right would be a huge help!

EDIT

This is one of the images I am using. Originally it is 900 x 650 pixel JPEG. IS this too large to try and rezuse to such a small image? Or is there a better format to use than JPEG? Thank you for your help!!!


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I have a Win10 on 3840×2160 screen with 200% system scale. Working in Figma I have all the designs shown noticeably larger so I got original size at 90%  zoom level. The same situation is in presentation mode and also in browser version of Figma. Only switching display to full HD (with system compatibility, for example) removes that extra 10% zoom.
Any tips to solve this annoyance?


texts: How to set default layer group in Photoshop cs6 that i can call all the time for new psd files

texts: I'm using a layer group all the time for my psd files. I would like to call/insert that group as a default layer group all the time into new psd. What is the best way to that? Currently i go to previous work and move it to new psd.


texts: How to create 3D Box designs with User-Generated Dimensions?

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I'm trying to learn how to make 3D Box Images in Photoshop. I need this for box designs of different sizes, and so I found this tutorial that makes it easy to create with the use of Photoshop Actions.

While fast-reading the tutorial, I found around Step 10 onwards, the shape of the box is explained on how to shape it... For me, I need these shapes of different sizes (varied length, depth, and height).

How can I set the shape to be varied on user's input? For example, when the action is running, how can I alter the tutorial's method to ask user input for the length, depth and height?

Also, is there ANY software (free/paid) that can let me create these boxes hassle-free? Any Action/script/template in Photoshop that can let me change the dimensions as per requirement?

Thanks.


texts: InDesign CC GREP Help. Adding spaces around "+" (plus) symbol

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Should be simple but it's not.

This GREP expression works in the FIND/CHANGE PANEL in InDesign CC:

However, when I plug it into a FindChangeList.txt, it doesn't work:

I know for a fact that the list file is being called correctly and works - so it's not anything to do with that. (If I change it to TEXT and change "2+2" to "2 + 2" the script runs perfectly.)

What is going on?

Thank you!


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Lately I have been getting into font creation, and for the most part, I have been using software and website (such as fontstruct).
While these websites give me some control over the fonts, they do not give me much. I was wondering if there was a way to learn how to write a font from scratch.
Is this possible, and if so how?
I also know that in terms of time, this might not be the best way to go about it, but I am curious, and if possible, I would like to try it out.


texts: How can I reduce/smooth the colors of an image?

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I have an drawing that was created with colored markers.  I've scanned it and would like to use it as clip-art/icon style image.

I'm wondering how I can smooth out the colors of the image such that the marker strokes are no longer visible.  I've tried posterizing, but this also ruins the edge of the image and ends up appearing too extreme.

Are there some other techniques I could use to make an acceptable-looking icon or clip art from a scan of a marker/crayon/colored-pencil drawing.


texts: From this iPad App Store screenshot, what are the fonts for the Title, Author and Description text? Myriad Pro?


texts: How to change color of multiple text objects at once

texts: I'm using GIMP and I have a lot of text object in a project that must have the same color. Every time I want to change this color I have to select the texts one by one and change it. Is there a way to speed up this operation? Something that let me to change all text color at once?


texts: How do you present typeface options to your team during a rebranding

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The startup web dev shop I work for is maturing and all the design/branding decisions that were thrown together early on are being reconsidered (logo, typeface, colors, ect...) for a big rebranding. One of the things I'm dealing with now is choosing a new typeface. Does anyone have tips on how to present this to the team for meaningful discussion?

In this day and age the options are so endless it is really tough to focus. I understand enough about typography to realize I'm not an expert by any means but in a company full of developers I'm the most experienced designer.

I understand a typeface with many weights is important and choosing the right character for the type of business ect... But even if we decided on a San Serif Humanist typeface the options are so vast. Going the route of popularity is an easy solution (i.e. Open Sans) but how do you present multiple examples to the team and create meaningful feedback and discussion without overwhelming them? Thank you in advance.


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I'm having trouble finding a successful way to get precise shape snapping in Illustrator.

I don't know how to get circles to align with each other when along a diagonal edge, like in the hippo example below.

This is a common tactic for logos and icons, but I can't seem to find an easy way to get circles to align when they're not perpendicular.


texts: Pixels shifting after applying Transform in Photoshop

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Before Transform:

During Transform:

After Transform:

As the images above show, when trying to use the Transform tool to rotate a layer the pixels in the end-result are in different positions from the preview. This also happens during other Transform actions, but rotate is the most obvious.

Is there a setting that would disable this from happening? Should I be using a different tool to apply the transformations?

I'm doing sprites for a game, which will be scaled up in the engine, so I'm trying to get the end-result to be exactly like the transform preview without added anti-aliasing.

Problem: Pixels are shifting position between setting a transform and applying it. End result is drastically different from preview.
Global Image Interpolation: Nearest Neighbour (preserve hard edges)
Transform Image Interpolation: Nearest Neighbour
Snap off?: On/off, same results.
Grid off?: On/off, same results.
Which Transform?: Free Transform, Ctrl+T.
Layer as a Smart Object: Running the transform on a smart object shows the result in picture 3 during transformation, not just after applying it. I'm guessing when applying Transforms to rasterized layers, Photoshop runs the same functionality it uses to transform smart objects.


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I would like to give an object a striped fill, where the stripes are thin and dense. I chose "stripes 1 : 2" from the Pattern Fill menu but the pattern was too coarse. Online help suggested that after selecting the object, handles for controlling the scale, orientation and origin of the pattern should appear. However, I could not find them so for now I'm relying on scaling the objects up without resizing the pattern, then scaling down while resizing the pattern.

Is there a better way to do this, or did I miss a way to find the above-mentioned handles?


texts: How can I efficiently detect all pages with different dimensions in a PDF?

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It's doubtless too unproductive to open "the Page Thumbnails pane on the left", and eyeball each page's dimensions.

In the screenshot below, all pages have the same dimensions from page 575 onwards, but up until this point I've found five that have different dimensions (like page 574).

Using Adobe Acrobat, is there a more efficient way to delete all pages within a document that are not of a particular size?


texts: Print some pages colour, others grayscale

texts: I'm creating a booklet where only the first and the last page are allowed to be colour and the rest grayscale (for printing; CMYK). How do I do this with Scribus?


texts: illustrator cs6 when exporting to PDF and print - the black area of masks shown in a low opacity also in PDF preview

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When I save an illustrator file to pdf (press) that includes a mask
and view the PDF preview or print the file, the black areas of the mask are shown in low opacity.

What's causing this?


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I have a file with about 500 layers, and I need to replace a color in all of them. I looked through different solutions here and elsewhere, and they all suggested using an adjustment layer or something similar. This doesn't help much - the layers are used for animation so it would break everything.

The best I could come up with is export layers to files, run a batch on those files, and load them back in. However, 15 minutes later it only managed me to export 3 frames out of 500. Is this some kind of a joke? The whole gif is 300kb and imagemagick managed to export it in a fraction of a second, though I'm not happy with what it did to transparency.

Update:

ffmpeg did the exporting just fine, now I'm trying to get photoshop to replace color. I select a gray color #e1e1e1, click on the result, and type in the required color #f2f6f8. It suggests hue -160, sat +30, lightness +8, which does pretty much nothing at all. How is it possible that when I specify the result color I need, it fails to figure out how to do the replacement?

I ended up using a short piece of code to do the color conversion (because I had a png library at hand) and imagemagick to convert it back to gif. So much for the almighty photoshop, failed me at all 3 steps.


texts: Options for controlling rendering of thin lines in PDFs?

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Background:  When rasterizing vector graphic images (such as PDFs), there are two common options for rendering thin lines: (1) treat them like any other elements, so they might become invisible at low resolution; (2) use a minimum thickness of thin lines (such as 1 pixel), so that they are visible at any resolution.  For example, Acrobat Reader uses method (1) if the "enhance thin lines" option is off, and method (2) if "enhance thin lines" is on.  For art, method (1) us usually best.  For technical drawings, method (2) is usually best.  Method (2) is more common, with many programs using it by default and not providing an option to use method (1).

For my work, I need option (1).

Question: What are options for rendering PDFs using method (1) (i.e. thin lines are NOT enhanced)?  I'm especially interested in command line tools.

Sub-questions: Is there any way of making ghostscript use method (1)?  (I've pored over the ghostscript documentation with no luck.)  Is there a way to coerce Apple Preview into using method (1)?

Remark: I'm aware of the following work-around: First render the PDF to a high-resolution raster file, then scale down to a lower resolution raster file.  I'm interested in a less clunky solution.


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I have strange issues modifying a shape in Inkscape. I am designing a number 3, but see the screenshots.

When selected, the selection rectangle only covers a part of the shape:

When editing, the edit nodes are in the correct place:

When I hover over the shape, the outline seems correct:

I have tried:

saving the file and reopening - unfortunately it does not help.
menu Object / Mask / Release
menu Object / Clip / Release

What could I have done wrong and how to undo that?


texts: How can I create an action to increase my canvas size in Photoshop ONLY if the canvas is X?

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For starters to be clear, I'm looking to manipulate canvas size. Not image size.

I want to create an action to automatically increase the width and height of my canvas in Photoshop to a specific size when necessary. I only want this to happen if my canvas is less than that specified size. For example: Let's say my canvas size is 300x250. I want the canvas to be at LEAST 600x600. If I run my action it will increase the canvas size to 600x600 for me. If I run this same action on an image where the canvas size is already 700x700, it won't do anything at all to it.

It would also need to work with the height and width on an individual basis. If my image is 400x800, the action would increase my width from 400 to 600, but it would leave the height of 800 alone.

It's kind of like the "Fit Image" option in Photoshop, but I only want to manipulate my canvas size, NOT my image size.


texts: Why using Spaces in Names of Files and Directory in Sketch?

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When I use other sketch files, I always see that the namings of files and directories have spaces in it. For me it does not make sense, because in coding file and directory names with spaces cause trouble. It starts when you use a terminal - you can not open a directory which includes spaces easily, there is always some more writing because the directory or file you want to open needs to start with " and ends with ".
what is the actual added value here?


texts: Fade an image's bottom edge to white in GIMP? Current method results in far too "harsh" a gradient

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I have a series of photos that I'd like to create the effect of them fading to white on the bottom edge in gimp.

I have this working very nicely in CSS already with linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255,255,255,0) 20%,rgba(255,255,255,1) 100%).

When I try to create a similar effect in GIMP, I end up with a gradient that is far too harsh - nowhere near as smooth/subtle as the CSS effect.

Steps:

load photo
create new white background layer
select photo layer
add layer mask
set bg/fg colour to white/black
draw gradient
disappointment

What am I doing wrong?

What I get with CSS(left), and Gimp (right):

Thanks, I can't tell you how much time I've lost to this today!


texts: How do you create a new document from a layer group that's also the size of the group?

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I'd like to create a new document from a group of layers. It should be the same size as the largest layer in the group, even if the current document is a lot bigger.

For example, I have a web page layout and I just want to isolate a button image that's made of several layers (which are grouped in this case, but I guess they don't need to be) and make a new document with just the button layers in it, and it should be the size of the button.

Is there an easy way to do this?

It seems like making it into a smart object and then duplicating it in a new document is one way to go, but it makes a document the full size of the original, not the size of the object.

(Note: I have seen this thread, but it doesn't answer this question: How to copy layers from one Photoshop document to another?)


texts: World machine outputs terraced maps (minecraft)

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As you can see on the image above, when displacement map was applied to a plane it gave me this Minecraft look, while it should look smth like that

Same goes for Maya, when i add same height map in Maya, it produces the exact same result.

the height map it self also looks terraced when zoomed in and probably this is what causing this effect, but i added same height map to unreal engine Landscape and it produced awesome results without any terracing.

Somebody please help me. SOS


texts: How should a software be taught to under grad students?

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So I have to teach Autodesk AutoCAD to undergrad students (It's a 4 years Honours degree equivalent to a masters and this is their 4th semester). I am concerned about what kind of approach I should have.

Should I show them everything that every tool does, how is it used (which I feel is like spoon feeding) or should I help them explore on their own?

The approach I had adopted in the beginning was to give them small assignments. For example, the first assignment was to find 10 tools in the Draw menu and find out what they are used for.

I feel this way the fear of the software can be minimized. I have shown them my work in the said software from student projects to professional ones. My major concern is at university level should I be explaining to them the tasks by doing them myself in every lecture? (I have tried that before with other students and it made them depend on me more to solve the smallest of issues such as not being able to find out where turn the hidden layer back to being visible again.)

I am also concerned about one of the students thinking that I may not know the software myself (which is very disrespectful because I have already shown them my work and having to prove my credibility is absolutely irreverent) and he keeps on asking ME to show how the tools are used in the class using a projector. The students requested me and the department head to take their course. I also give hints to students if they encounter any problem when using a tool which leads them to a solution rather than giving them a straight answer or solving it for them.

I need advise on how should I handle this matter? At university level should I be teaching the students a software as I would teach at elementary level? Please help. As a teacher it is very important for me that my students trust me.


texts: Photoshop: Optimally arranging pictures of various sizes&aspects ratios into a new rectangular canvas

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I have a bunch of images (about 15 of them) of various sizes and aspect ratios, which all need to be fitted into a large new blank image, in a sort of mosaic fashion. Since the images' sizes & aspect ratios vary considerably, there is no simple way of arranging them (e.g. they can't be arranged in a grid), and to find the optimal solution manually takes a lot of time.

Is there a way in Photoshop/GIMP to have these pictures optimally resized in the new blank slate, such as to maximise the size of each individual picture but minimise the inevitable white space remaining between them?


texts: Sketch: disable snapping to layout rows while measuring distances

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In Sketch, there is a measurement tool which works by selecting an object and dragging mouse towards other object while holding Alt key.

Is it possible to turn of it's snapping to Layout rows when Layout feature is turned on? It is especially confusing when you need to measure distance between two text blocks, which have invisible boundaries. Currently I have to turn off Layout when I want to avoid this snapping.


texts: Photoshop CC - Create a line path with the path tool

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Is it possible to create a shape path line with the path tool in Photoshop CC? When I create a path and convert it to a shape, it looks something like this.

It would be great if I could convert the current path to a line shape path with a specified width, the same result as the line tool.


texts: Illustrator: Selecting all objects across x axis

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Ok so I got this huge document, about 1.5 x 1.2 metters and because I was working a little bit fast the aligning of some elements wasn't pixel perfect but is more or less accurate.
Now that I've finished setting all this elements I want to align them so they are all placed correctly. The problem I'm experiencing now is that the elements are too small so when I zoom out to select them is not really easy and most of the times I select elements that I don't want to select.

Here is a zoomed example of the document, what I want is to select all pink dots and allign them with the blue one. Nothing really difficult with align tool the problem is the size of the document itself.

But when I zoom the whole document out this is what I get.

and without guides it seems this way

I belive this could be achieved via scripting, but I don't know so much about it. What I want is for example select a blue dot and then run a script for selecting everhing that matches its y position so I can just align to that key object.

Edit: What I need to do is something like this.

Imagine I have a selection like this one

And I want to expand it only in x position through all the document like this one

The distributing horizontally is great but vertically they are not correctly aligned. Blue ones are in place but some red/pink ones are missplaced by some pixels and need to fix that. I hope this clarifies a little bit the question

Any help will be appreciated, thanks for your time.


texts: Applying same mask to multiple layers in Photoshop

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I've got a bunch of puppies i need to mask in the same way as below, where each puppy will be within a shadowed circle:

I got the first one working using a layer mask, but now i want an easy way to apply the same mask layer to all my other puppies, and I can't figure out how. The current mask is tied to this specific layer, like so:

How would I create a single mask that I could apply across many puppy pics, and modify in one place if need be.

Update on this:

I discovered I could apply a mask to a group, like so- however, I can't apply filters on the group-level mask. So I'm closer, but not there yet...


texts: Sorry, i'm sure this is a basic question. I'm trying to create type on a path. It's currently in a S shape. I want to delete the anchor point in the middle so it's simply an arch. but when i delete the middle anchor point, my text disappears. It's showing it's there in my layers panel, but it's not on the path any longer. where did it go and how do i find it? Thanks. Janice


texts: What should I do to get an image equal exactly to my design

texts: I'm a newbie in graphic design. when I do my design in illustrator I create a big artboard usually 800X500px, but I don't use all the size. So what should I do to get an image of exactly of my design. For example I create an artboard size 800X550px after I do my design the size is only 300X300px, so I need to have a png file size 300X300px.


texts: Managing Assets in current Illustrator File

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I'm playing around with working with Assets in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017. I've run into an issue that I can't seem to figure out.

My issue is this:

I drag a set of elements to the assets panel to save it as an asset, ready for export
If I modify the shapes in the asset, the asset is updated as expected.
I can't figure out how to add new shapes to the assets on the fly.

I tried:
- grouping the shapes before adding to the assets panel.
- Adding new shapes to the group.
- Asset is not updating.

The only thing I can think of is creating a symbol, then making that an asset.

I've googled all around the internet and searched Adobe's forums. Maybe this feature is too new, but there doesn't seem to be any specific documentation that talks about auto updating current assets.

Any ideas? Anyone ever run into this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help!


texts: How can I randomly distribute objects in Illustrator?

texts: I have a small star object that I'd like to randomly distribute copies of all over a large space background in Illustrator CC. How can I do this automatically? I've tried to do it manually but the results are never "random" enough, and making it dense enough is very time-consuming.


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I would like to creat rays around an object. I've tried to do it but I'm not quite satisfied with the result...

Any idea how to make in a more systematic way?


texts: I have an image of a gradient which i want to copy into a shape i've created in InDesign however when I click on the image, the gradient doesn't change in the colour box and so I'm unable to save that gradient and drag it into my shape. Any ideas?


texts: How to Generate Swatch Library from Json file?

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I'm looking for a way to generate a swatch library from a JSON file in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything on the web about this, and I don't know how to write my own plugin/script that will do this for me.

If there is a free script/plugin out there that will do this can you please send me the link. If nothing exists can you direct me to a place where I can find a template for a Photoshop CS6 script and to some sample code that can make a swatch from a given name and RGB values?


texts: Blender - displacement of a repeated mesh over another single mesh

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My idea is to achieve something similar to this:

Let's say that I have 2 mesh:

1 cube
1 character

I want to cover all the body part of my character or a particular region with this cube duplicated as much as is necessary: how can I do that?


texts: illustrator cut text from a shape with a brush

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I have a rectangle with a brush applied like this:

I then put some text on top of the shape like here:

I want to subtract text from that shape so that it is cut out.  when I use pathfinder => subtract, it applies the brush stroke to the subtracted shape as you can see here:

I'm wondering if there's any way to remove the text WITHOUT it applying the brush stroke to the text.  i just want to cut the text out of the shape.


texts: Exporting Image to PNG causes it to be semi-transparent

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I'm trying to create an image with a transparent alpha channel. After clipping image, I've removed white rectangular background using the 'Color to Alpha' tool. It seems to work fine by converting white background to transparency.

The problem is when I export to PNG, the white background is transparent, but the image itself is semi-transparent. How to I remedy this?


texts: Photoshop groups not behaving correctly on mac

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I use photoshop on a mac once a week at my college class and find that the group layers function does not work like on my PC.

When I group up some layers I can move them all at once just fine, but when I try to move them on their own, it snaps back to moving them as a group.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Most accurate way to cut up a shape at 45 degrees

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I am working with the latest version of Adobe Illustrator. I have the following:

I would like to cup the shape at the following location, so that I create a flat document icon that is folded in one corner:

How I can achieve this? The knife tool doesn't do straight lines! Even though I press Ctrl / Shift / Alt .. etc

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.


texts: How to apply text effect in InDesign but not have it effect text stroke?

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I need to apply an inner shadow effect to some text in InDesign, which works fine. But I also need to apply a stroke to the text, but the effect is also being applied to the stroke ( unlike in photoshop).

How can I apply a text effect to the text but not the stroke?


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I have a picture of tall-ship-stations with a grid on it. I want to remove the grid so I can mirror the sides, convert to svg and have it laser cut.

I have done a bit of research beforehand, but none of the solutions I found was applicable to my specific case.

Line trace with low density - since all the lines are equally potent, this did not work.
Go by color - since both the stations and grid are same color, this did not work.
Ask on fiverr - no one would take the task and do it for me.
Google a program that could remove all vertical and horizontal lines - didn't find any.
Eraser tool on gimp - worked to some extent but it either corrupted the thickness of the lines or made small "crosses" appear where the lines intersected.
Ask a friend - All my designer friends are too busy.

Any hints or tips would be appreciated, preferred with free tools like gimp, inkscape, blender etc.


texts: What should I choose for an icon for "praise"?

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I want to make an icon that symbolises action such as praise. Thumbs up icon for "Like" is great. But it's just a casual thing to do. I want something that we do for something like

Show appreciation
Show respect for someone's achievement
Show gratitude

For example something that would express my emotions to someone who has either done something amazing or someone who has helped me tremendously. (Like the person who answers this question).

What i've thought so far
Someone already mentioned it in an answer, I thought of something like a heart with a hand below it. As the hand is giving a lift to the heart. But i have to put a favourite icon with it which is obviously a heart icon.
I'm just confused. I think a hand and a heart should do, What do you guys think. It won't confuse with favourite icon rite?


texts: Is there a "painters tape" type of function in Gimp 2?

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I'm looking for a way to basically mark a specific area where, if i'm painting/smudging/blurring/etc, it won't be affected.

For example, say I am trying to add color to sharp edges, I could use this tool to mark outside of the edge, so I can be more "reckless" with the brush. When the marks are removed, the color/smudge/etc hasn't affected the area under the mark.


texts: make transparent skin for oldifying image

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I am new to graphic design and have started to learn Photoshop.

I want to create a transparent image of mask like the attached image. It is the mask of an old person that is applied to the face of a captured image. So far I tried creating the image by reducing the opacity of someone old's face but that left the color of his skin. If I take some white old person's face it don't work on black.

How can I make these wrinkles on a grey, semi-transparent image or make these out of some old person's face?


texts: Combining Multiple Paths / Parts in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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I have created a design in Illustrator and am having difficulty combining the shapes/paths.

The goal is to make this:

...which I have essentially made, but the pieces won't connect properly. When I use the pathfinder, it doesn't follow the contour and connects points that cut through the image like this:

Here's the AI file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1rsfxcqknv50oy/Interlocking-Circles-Illustration-1.ai?dl=0

Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Direct select multiple anchor points in Sketch 3

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What is the most efficient way to select multiple anchor points in Sketch 3? I'm an Ai user and I want to instinctively toggle between the direct selection and pen tools and just click and drag - can someone provide me an equivalent process?

Below is how I currently select multiple anchors in Sketch 3.

Click object
Press enter
Hold cmd + option and click and drag anchor points
Adjust


texts: Size of PSD in CMYK increases trifold after adding a photo

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I have a 8640x12120px poster template in PSD. It is in CMYK and has a size of 120 MB.

After pasting a 8640x4790px 4MB JPEG photo, the size of PSD file increases to 350 MB. Is there a way to avoid this and keep the size closer to the sum of originals?

Update: I tested it from scratch by pasting another 4000x3000px 4.5 MB JPG photo to a new empty 8000x12000px 7 MB PSD (CMYK/8). The PSD's size instantly increased to 104 MB. Using "Place" option instead of pasting produces 108 MB PSD.


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I have an Illustrator document that has a layer called "keylines" showing some folding lines/design details.  It looks like the following:

When I save the document as a PDF, however, these lines do not appear, as follows:

I cannot determine how to preserve this layer when saving as a PDF.  I have unticked "Create Acrobat Layers from Top-Level Layers" in the Save dialog but this has not helped.


texts: Is there a way I can transfer a smart object's animation to the original file?

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I am using Photoshop 2020.

I have a mockup of a laptop with a smart object as the screen. I created a scrolling animation within the smart object. Is there a way to transfer this animation so that it shows up in the original file? I want it to look like the website is scrolling on the picture of the laptop.

(I realize that doing this without a smart object is probably easier, however it can only be done with a straight-on view of a laptop since keyframes cannot be created with transformed objects. I would like the laptop to be at an angle)


texts: Does adding text effects (drop shadows, glow, etc.) in InDesign lower the resolution of text or file when it goes to print?


texts: EPS file looks great in AI but washed out in Mac Preview or ghostscript

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I have an EPS file that, when opened in Illustrator, looks great. AI can export to a PNG that also looks great.

When I open this file with Preview on OSX, or use ghostscript/imagemagick to convert it to a PNG, it looks washed out.

AI version:

Preview version:

Many of the darker greens are black layers with transparency laid over a green layer. It looks like some sort of color space conversion problem but AFAICT I'm not asking for a color space conversion.

What's going on? How can I use imagemagick/ghostscript to generate a normal-looking PNG of this EPS?


texts: using the 'straighten' feature of PS to straighten just one layer not all of them?

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When i use the straighten of PS, i cant find a way to just get it to straighten one layer at a time, itseems to straighten the entire canvas, is there a way i can get it to work on just one layer ?

just to clarify by the straighten tool i mean draw a line with the ruler and then click straighten in the toolbar allong the top.

Im using cs5 but its a pretty common feature so im sure its similar in most versions.


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I created a brush because I needed the terminals of my line had angles. But the brush is generating some kind of thorn in the corners, when the brush option "Do not adjust corners and folds" is active.

Any tips to resolve this?


texts: How to create in Photoshop reversed colors effect?

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Is it possible to achieve effect like this?

I know how to do it static way, but I would like to have it like this when I move the layer with text or rectangle also


texts: Adobe InDesign/Typesetting: No kerning possible for first letter in indented line?

texts: In Adobe InDesign, I have setup a paragraph style for a sub-headline which has the headline as well as the first line of the following paragraph indented. In some instances, the sub-headline runs over two lines and the alignment of the first letters sometimes is rather unappealing. I understand that kerning usually means the adjustment of the space between two letters, but is there also a method of tweaking the alignment/spacing in such cases? Please refer to the screenshots below. Here, I would like to nudge the »V« in the second line a little further in but I can't find any way to do so.


texts: In Photoshop, what is the difference between "Save As" and "Save for Web" for a .png?

texts: I've been wondering about the settings used for "Save As (.png)" option available in Photoshop. Does it save the highest quality, largest size as a default setting and how does it differ from PNG-24 and PNG-8 in "Save for Web"? Let me know if I can be more detailed in my question.


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I'd like to surround a path with a border (see the third illustration below). However, I cannot get it done without using Path -> Outline stroke. This is very inconvenient, as Outline stroke replaces the original path with a new, much more complicated one, and it becomes much harder to edit the path later.

I thought that maybe some border effect exists that I don't know of. Something like Outer glow (see the second illustration), but solid rather than a gradient. Is there such an effect?


texts: much obliged to any tips.  There are a few fonts here, mostly looking for the "Joy" one.


texts: What hardware do I need to work with very large 300dpi illustrator files?

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What hardware do I need to make a 300dpi 2000mm x 1200mm illustrator files rich with 2 x layers of jpeg artwork and 1 x layer of vector?

I suspect the final files for printing will be in excess 1GB but will wait and see (printer has requested orginal ai files). Our current machines are not up to the job so we need something new very soon.  Any advice about hardware and also about making the files would be very welcome!


texts: Master page elements displaying when no master applied

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this is driving me mad and I'm hoping one of you will have a solution for this.
I have a master page spread here containing 2 pictures and 2 red lines.

Just to clarify this is not one red line going across from one page to another. The left page has one red line that ends at the centre line and the right page has one red line that begins at the centre line.

I have applied this master to all the pages apart from one as you can see in the picture below:

However, the line that's on the right master page spread still gets applied to the page  and I don't know why this is happening. Could someone please let me know how to stop this from happening in the future? I made sure to select the right master page before I created the red line on the right, so why is it applying itself even though I didn't apply a master page to this specific page?

I hope this makes sense, thanks for reading.


texts: Critique - Logo design for baby-related products

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I am launching an e-commerce brand targeted to parents of newborn babies. The products I am starting with are teething necklaces and teething rattlers. The products are meant to be a stylish piece of jewelery accessory worn by the mom but can be used as a teething toy for a baby.

FEEDBACK QUESTIONS:

I would like to know if the logo represents my vision of products or is it too focused on the nurturing portion (baby representation design)?
I am interested in knowing if the ratio of the vector logo portion, vs the brand name, seems correct or should I change the ratio to offer more of the name or of the vector logo?
What would you suggest the layout to be when making a rectangular tag?
I am having a hard time liking my rectangular layout of the logo.
Any additional feedback would be appreciated.


texts: How to make this shade of white look less "dirty"?

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I have a picture of a blanket:

When I try to open up the Color Adjust panel on Sketch and try fooling around with the brightness and contrast, it makes some of the parts look overexposed.

Is there a better way to make them look cleaner without having to retake the picture? I want a white similar to this:

P.S. I have both Sketch and Photoshop


texts: Is there a name for the type of photography or layout where items are arranged on a grid?


texts: strange outline when making shapes in inkscape

texts: i have issues with the rectangle and elipse tool where everytime i draw something i get these really odd edges around the shape. this is in a new document and i was having this issue on the document i work on also. i dont understand what i have done for it to work like this.


texts: What is this grey block around my workspace in Illustrator?

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When I create a new document in Adobe Illustrator, a dark grey block appears around my workspace and I do not know how to disable it.

What is this and can I turn it off?

Thanks !


texts: Is there a rule of thumb or some guidelines for deciding what colour to use for a border?

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What's the border color paradigm in terms of color schemes and background color?

Some borders look nice on some backgrounds. Is there a rule of thumb when choosing div's border colors in respect to parent div color?

Can you advise me on what to consider when choosing a colour for an elements border?


texts: How to set the data range for palette to map out color in gnuplot

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I am using gnuplot. I would like to compare across different settings of the same type of data in a color plot using something like the following:

plot 'pdratio' using 1:2:(abs($1)>0.3?$4:1/0) with p ps 0.75 pt 4 palette

Gnuplot automatically chooses the data range for the palette to map out color, which can be different from case to case. Is there a way to ask gnuplot to map out colors for the same data range consistently across different cases?

Something like set palette maxcolor 100 would not be adequate for my purposes.


texts: Ideas for designing the logo of a national logic association

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I am not a professional graphic designer but I am going to design a logo for "Iranian Association for Logic" which made an announcement for gathering ideas about designing it. My proposed design is shown below. It will be used in an official website and news bulletins, scientific journals, official documents and so on.

Question 1: I would like to know if it is well-designed, creative and interesting enough for such an association in any sense which a professional designer defines? What are the possible strength and weaknesses of this logo? Are its symbols and fonts well-chosen and appropriate? What about its slogan, "Logic for all, all for logic"? Is it an old fashioned motto?
Question 2: If anything is wrong with this logo, could you please give me an insight how to improve it?
Question 3: My proposed logo is somehow classic, what is a "modern" logo idea for such an organization including its abbreviated name "IAL", "a logical symbol" (here the "universal quantifier (inverse A)") and probably an Iranian national symbol (for example "Damavand volcanic mountain")?


texts: Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga compatible wacom-pen

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I bought Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga that has wacom pen, but it doesn't have eraser.

I bought a Wacom Pen CTH470, but it doesn't work on the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga, either it's fake, broken, or the pen tip is fake (it looks like plastic, different from the built-in pen from Lenovo), or it's not compatible with Lenovo's.

The question is,

how to make sure what's wrong with the pen I bought?
what's other pen model that can work with my thinkpad, that have 2 buttons and eraser?


texts: Transparent Logo for Powerpoint Template

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I am looking for a way to create a template in which a transparent logo
is always on top of an image placeholder.
Google doesn't seem to be very helpful in that area.
What I have found out so far is that powerpoint always puts the placeholder on top in the eventual slide and it seems there is no easy way to send a placeholder behind a logo that is placed already in the master.
Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thx Guys.


texts: Mobile app screen visual design critique

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This is a hi-fideltiy mockup of one of the mobile apps I am designing. I personally don't like the design that much.

However, I cannot pinpoint the issues in some objective way for me to improve it.

Here are a set of questions I have:

Are the slider arrows looking good?
Is the alignment of text correct? How should I align the fields and values in that blue box
Is the font good?
I want to follow iOS guidelines ... This design seems very "flat".
Does a rectangular button follow iOS guidelines?
Is the font size too small for the Buyer/Seller/Profile icon below?


texts: Why do some anchor points have handles, and others have not?

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I'm new to Illustrator and I've come to a situation in which, strangely, some of my anchor points have handles, but others, instead of handles, they have a little ball that allow me to "smoothen" the edge.

Look:

How can I get rid of this little ball and get my handles back?


texts: How to reproduce a "stamped type" effect in Photoshop?

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I'm working on an illustration and want to have an effect such that the type looks imprinted into a textured leather background, as if it had been stamped in place.

Examples:

In the real world, this would be a combination of deformation (embossing), and then you'd color or gild the interior of the type to make it stand out even more.

I've tried using the Emboss function of the type tool, but the effects were miserable. Have you successfully replicated this look?


texts: How to prevent an object from changing into a text frame when I click it with the type tool?

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I have a shape, say, a rectangle and it has a fill color. I want to add text on top of that shape, but when I click with the text tool on top of the rectangle, the shape will lose its fill and the shape has turned into some "text bounding box".

I don't want this, I want the shape to stay the way it is and I want the text element on top of it. So far I've solved it by adding the text element outside the shape and then dragging it on top of it, but this is a frustrating step which I hope here to get a solution for how to avoid.

Does anyone know how I can disable this "transform shape to bounding box" feature?


texts: Where I can find Pattern Maker tool in PS CS6?

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In previous versions there was Pattern Maker tool to create patterns out of graphics and photos. This feature is not available anymore under Filter -> Pattern Maker... in Photoshop CS6.

It was removed? If so, where I can find it now?

I'm asking, because there is tutorial how to make patterns out of the photographs.


texts: Open source PDF to grayscale conversion tool

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I need a PDF (vector) to grayscale conversion in Linux CLI.

Any open source tool to achieve that task?

I have already tried ghostscript for that task grayscale conversion was happen but fonts are converted to a rectangle box with a cross mark in adobe illustrator. Any solution for that issue?

ghostscript command:

- gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sProcessColorModel=DeviceGray -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -o out.pdf -f in.pdf


texts: Image file location (on hard drive) - how to find it?

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I first opened Photoshop and it had a lesson in it. There were already some photos provided.

How do I find this image on my disc? I want to open it outside of Photoshop.


texts: How can I quickly turn all objects of a layer to independent layers in Illustrator?

texts: Lets suppose I have 10 objects in the root layer of my project named layer 1. Now lets suppose I quickly want to turn all those object as independent separate layers all at the root level. Is selecting individual object and pressing on collect in new layer the only way?  Is there a quick method of selecting all the objects and doing something to turn them all into layers at once?


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I'd like to know if it's possible move artboards, with their contents, across open *.ai files.

I have two *.ai files, each with two artboards. I'd like to move two of the artboards from one file to the other, effectively merging the two files into one (I'll delete the empty one). This is useful to minimize the number of different *.ai files I have, sorting them by content type and making use of the artboard mechanism that works so wonderfully.

I've read that it's possible to save each artboard into a separate files (opposite of what I want).

I also know I can copy and paste the contents of an artboard (which is what I've been doing), but it would be cleaner to just move the artboard as a whole.

Is it really only possible through script?


texts: How to replace a PNG layer with another image in bulk?

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I have 200 photoshop banners (200 .psd files) and in all of these files is a layer with the same name in which is my logo. I need to replace that logo with another in all 200 PSD files at once without doing it manually.
Please help.


texts: Looking for a software to use images as reference layers

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I want to draw a very low resolution image and need to use a very high resolution image as reference layer. However, Photoshop does not allow to use different resolution images in different layers. And if I lower the resolution of the reference image, all the details get lost.

Is there a software that I can use to open the reference image and that will remain on top of every window, and will be unclickable, so I can go over on it and draw my image following the reference image?


texts: How to indicate dark mode / light mode options on a user interface?

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To indicate a button on an interface that switches to dark mode or to light mode, it's common to have a couple of sun/moon icons:

 for light mode
 for dark mode

But at least part of my brain is saying "Click the Sun icon if your screen is too bright", and I have to work out whether the moon is only visible during the night, and so "do I want the screen to be brighter because it's darker or ... ".

Well, perhaps my brain is a bit perverse - but are there better options for indicating a dark/light mode switch?


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I am aware of two common types of color wheels - RYB and RGB, but it seems that even two wheels of the same type can look different in different software.
Let's take two popular online services, Paletton (http://paletton.com) and Adobe Color CC (https://color.adobe.com), both using RYB type of color wheel.

First, make an "Adjacent" scheme in Palleton with base color being green (#00FF00) and leaving "Distance" with its default value. In this situation, two other colors that Palleton suggests are #00FFFF and #AAFF00. Looking at the wheel we can be sure that the angle between the base color and these two looks equal.

Now select a "Custom" scheme in Adobe Color CC and type in three mentioned RGB values. On Adobe website the angle between #00FFFF and #00FF00 will look greater than the angle between #00FF00 and #AAFF00.

Does this mean that there is no such a thing as a standardized RYB (or RGB) color wheel? Previously I thought that with a beginning of the Computer Age it became possible to digitally render such things using some well-known algorithm, so all color wheels in graphics software should look really close (at least without such clearly visible differences as I describe in this question).


texts: I usually use the colour bridge coated guide to get a match between my cmyk and spot colour. The problem is I find the RGB colour match in the bridge book (which im aware is a conversion from the pantone coated values) is usually way off my cmyk match. What I tend to do is use a programme conversion from cmyk to RGB to get the closest match. Is this bad practice or should I stick to the colour bridge RGB values?


texts: How to fill or Paint bucket in Inkscape without white space between two paths?

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In inkscape I imported a jpg map file and by using trace bitmap utility I created a set of paths. Now I am trying to fill the regions between maps using paint bucket tool( More specifically the boundaries of area are traced as black. And they are paths not single object with black color filled in it and with no strokes.). But it is not filling completely. I tried variying the threshold and others.

But no luck. How to fill the space between boundaries without leaving white space.

Or

How to trace a map boundary as an object not as a path with black color fill in it.

Or

How to fill area between black color without using this paint bucket tool.

Answers of Is it possible to get Inkscape's bucket fill to entirely fill regions marked by lines? question partialy addresses the problem. Even though the question is somewhat same but answer is not clear.


texts: How to create a line graph around a circle

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How can I recreate this chart (wave line) around a circle with actual data in Illustrator?

Or is any other way to generate vector format? I need this for print.


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When I upload this 110x110px image with 100px resolution it seams blurry.

Have any idea what's happening? Do you think it's the color?


texts: Rendering issues when printing PDF file with transparency on images

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I've created a document using OpenOffice / LibreOffce with a black background and PNG images which have some transparency. I exported that document to PDF and printed it. The black which comes from the background looks matte whereas the black which comes from the images looks glossy.

Q: How can I make sure my entire document will render the same once printed?


texts: Illustrator: How to accurately align shapes

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i didn't really use Illustrator before, but i'm having troubles with some basic things such as aligning shapes together accurately. I'm using this auto-snap feature to align things but it's never really pixel-accurate as shown in the screenshots:

Whenever i try to resize the shape so that it fits the edges of the circle it snaps back as shown in the screenshot. Don't get me wrong, i just want to have the shape the same size as the outter circle.


texts: How can I create a smooth mask that allows me to multiply the already existing blur?

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The question is very simple, and it surprises me I couldn't readily find the solution by googling: I want to reduce the depth of field of a photo in Photoshop. I expected to find something that allows to convert the sharpness of any given area to a smooth mask, so that I can then play with the curves of that mask... but nothing. I only found a "focus peaking" action that uses the high pass filter (very poorly) and tutorials on how to select the foreground image with the lasso -__-'''

What I was hoping for is something that allows me to smoothly simulate a real f/2.8 when the picture was shot at f/5.6. Which means that a binary selection (in focus/out of focus) is no good; I need a smooth mask that allows me to multiply the already existing blur.


texts: How to create multiplied flying object effect in Photoshop?

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How can I create the flying ripped clothing effect like on this picture?

Is there a simpler way than editing each part manually?


texts: What are the recommended icon sizes for a Smartwatch app launcher?

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I am creating app launcher icon for Android smartwatches.

What sizes should I consider while designing it? I tried searching for a template but I couldn't find any.


texts: How can I export a Sketch document as PDF without hidden layers?

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I have designed my CV in Sketch. I’ve done it in two languages (French and English) in the same file. When I want to export the English version, I turn off the layers which have French text.

However, I notice that when I export my CV as a PDF, the file size is very large (2MB). This is because there are so many layers being exported (even the hidden ones for some reason).

So my question is — is there a way in Sketch to export everything but not export hidden layers?


texts: What is minimalism in graphic design and how can one apply this concept to a design? I keep seeing the term minimalist design while reading graphic-related websites and magazines, but I'm not so sure on the specifics. Could someone explain this?


texts: Is there any option in Photoshop to fill gradient in any stroke along the path?

texts: Is there any option to force the gradient/fill in the stroke along the path? Or you have to use some other option to achieve same effect?


texts: Anyone know the name of this serif font?

texts: Anyone know this font? Or a similar one?


texts: Exporting to svg leaving ghost path lines

texts: I'm exporting out my filled paths(made using the arc tool) to svg using illustrator cs6. I get these shows lines where the path lines are; they appear even if I outline stroke the paths. In my export settings I convert to outline as I have text I also need to export.


texts: How do I rotate a shape around a certain center, in increments smaller than 1 degree?

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Using the Rotate tool, every rotation is in increments of 1 degree, but I want to rotate something 7.5 degrees. I can do this using Transform in the right pane, but then I can't pick a custom center point to rotate around.

Is there a way to get the best of both worlds, by rotating around a custom center point in increments smaller than 1 degree?


texts: Are there any good practices for designing web pages with a possibility of a very large amount of info?

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I'm building a user profile page that sometimes displays huge amounts of text (depending on how much the user has created). It's basically a bibliography.

Are there any techniques or good practices for a good way to display or work with huge amounts of text without making it too overwhelming?

Unfortunately the information is ordered in a specific way on purpose so I can't turn it into a table with the title in one location and the authors in one location etc.

EDIT: The type of information is a list of medical publications that the user has authored, and it's listed in a required format.


texts: Illustrator: Only show guides of current artboard

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I have a document with multiple artboards that have different sizes, but all the same margin.

Now my problem is, that when I have two artboards next to each other, the guides I created for the margins will interfere with the artboard next to it.

Is there an option to hide all guides from artboards you are not currently working on?

Only solutions I have thought of so far:

positioning the arboards diagonally, so guides do not interfere
grouping guides per artboard and hide / unhide group

My preferred solution would of course be: as soon as I click on an object within an artboard, only the guides relevant for this artboard will show up, all others are hidden


texts: Why do I have the feeling that there is a gradient when there isn't?

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I was trying to edit the following picture in GIMP when I noticed something strange.

This is the original picture:

And this is what it looks like when opened in GIMP (the only important thing here is that GIMP uses a somewhat light background).

When seeing the picture in a small thumbnail size (around 64x64) in Google Images, I saw that it was simply a red square with some text, but here in GIMP it looks like the red in the sides is darker than in the middle, like if there were a gradient from the inner to the outer. But I can confirm that the red is plain #CE0400 (206, 4, 0) apart from some places where JPEG compression turned it to weird brown. Definitely not a gradient.

Two questions:

Am I crazy?
If not crazy, why is this effect happening?


texts: How do you define different art board sizes for a custom Document Profile in Illustrator CS6 on Mac OSX?

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How do you define different artboard sizes for a custom Document Profile in Illustrator CS6 on Mac OSX?

The default profiles all have options for different sized artboards. It should be easy to set this up and I can't figure it out.

I know how to make new document profiles and put them where they belong.
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texts: How do I keep my PSDs from getting corrupted?

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It has happened with me lot of times while I am working in Photoshop and suddenly stops, when I reopen my computer I see that .PSD file is corrupted and can't open it anymore. What a waste of time. The big problem is that there is no way to repair a corrupted .PSD file.

How to prevent .PSD file from being corrupted?


texts: How to create this grunge texture effect

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I am making a logo in photoshop and want to add this old spotted vintage type of filter. Can anyone let me know how? Specifically the light dots on the black:

I'm using photoshop CS4


texts: InDesign: how to export Photoshop created pdf's without losing quality?

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I'm trying to create a pdf, the kind where you can zoom as close to the text as you want without it getting blurry. My goal is to upload it to issuu, the online publishing platform. I can create the kind of pdf in which the text stays sharp in Photoshop, and if I open it on my computer the text stays sharp, just like I want. But once uploaded to issuu, the text loses it's sharpness and becomes rasterized.

In InDesign I can make pdf's which stay sharp-texted even after being uploaded to issuu. The problem is that while I'm good with Photoshop, I can barely use InDesign. Just doing the whole thing in InDesign would be the best way to go, but if there's any way to avoid it, that would be great.

The question is: if I make a "sharp-texted" pdf in photoshop, and open it in some way in InDesign, is there a way to export it from InDesign so that it would keep its sharpness, even after being uploaded to issuu?