texts: Vectors: How do you deal with background 'spill' on overlapping edges?

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When covering one vector shape with another; if the edges overlap, the background shape's color is used as a (distasteful looking) pseudo-anti-alias effect on the foreground shape's edge, instead of having the foreground shape's color blend in with the color of whatever is outside both shapes. (Wow, I'm not sure if I made any sense describing this.)

I can cope with this happening within Illustrator, but why does it have to happen in any exported vector formats as well? For instance, when rendering logos in .EPS format, how do you deal with this annoying phenomenon? Is there any way to circumvent it without having to manually offset (trap?) the background object's edge so as not to get this undesired effect?

Choosing "Save for Web" in Illustratos seems to always render perfect results. But somehow (maybe someone can explain the technical reason) vector formats won't regard the behind-object to be entirely covered by the frontmost object (i.e. disregard the lower object's edge), but instead insist on "spilling" in its color onto the edge of the frontmost object.

To wrap it up:

I'm mainly looking for advice/approaches when dealing with this, especially within context of logotype crafting, where deliverables may often be requested in .EPS format, apart from normal bitmap formats.

EDIT: one thing I find interesting is that when doing "Save for Web" and switching between Art Optimized and Type Optimized, the latter will also exhibit this undesired phenomenon.


texts: Does the inDesign working space apply to placed images as well as text and lines

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I just about understand color-management in the context of a single image file in Photoshop but unclear how it works when creating a multiple component item such as inDesign document.

If I specify the workingSpace for an inDesign document to be proPhotoRgb and I start creating text in the document I assumed they are using the proPhotoRgb profile. But if I then place an external image that uses sRgb profile does that image get converted to proPhotoRgb  or left as sRgb.

Then if I export the document to pdf and select Colour Conversion to No Colour Conversion does the pdf comprise of an object with multiple separate color profiles for text and images or not ?

Conversely if I export the document to pdf and select Color Conversion to Convert to Destination Space  and pick a CYMK profile is everything text and images converted so the pdf consists of a single profile ?

Side note:There is a curious warning when you select Convert to Destination regarding colours created within the application' I assume if you have a working space set for the document there is no issue.

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  If you choose to not convert, the images that were imported in
  InDesign won't be changed at all. And the elements in your InDesign
  should keep the InDesign profile/color space.

  So that means you can have CMYK and RGB together, they'll remain this
  way. For the profiles, you'll have the option to not include them or
  convert to the destination profile. To my knowledge, you'll have one
  profile in your PDF or none at all

Isn't this a contradiction, i,e that the images arent converted to the Indesign profile, yet you can only have one profile in the PDF. To be clear InDesign is a temporary step for me to be able to create a pdf so its the final pdf (that gets sent to the printer company) that I most concerned about.

  Additionally, you can also choose to "convert to destination (preserve
  numbers)". This will only convert the elements that have a different
  color space but will keep your original color recipe in your Indesign
  (eg. swatches) without changing them for example. So that's not a bad
  option.

I can see from your coloured images that this option appears to be better then the convert to destination option but isnt this just putting off the inevitable. If everything has one colour profile in the final pdf dont we need to convert it, and if we preserve numbers doesnt that mean the numbers (e.g R=123, G=234,B=234) are being kept the same even if converted to a new profile where those colours no longer have the same meaning in the new color space.


texts: On which sites can I sell fonts I've created?

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I made a typeface that I would like to sell non-exclusively on several online stores. I have been searching and found a few nice outlets so far.

What are the font shops you know of? Where do you sell your typefaces?


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I am working on a health startup and was thinking of building some character unique to my startup as zocdoc does to explain itself.
Will a sketch doctor seem derivative?
PS: My site would be frequented by mid to old aged users.


texts: How to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?

texts: Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so it will look like the text is actually on the background rather than above it?


texts: Oddly Specific Style - 70s children's book covers

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I'm trying to find if there is a name of an art style that I associate with countless book covers from the 60s/70s, mostly for books about the outdoors or the frontier. I've provided some examples that I could find but it's difficult since these books have been repressed with so many different covers over the years.
The "Ralph Stanley" one is an album cover and is the exact style I'm looking for. The others are close and fit that general style, but I'm mostly focused on the album cover.

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texts: There is probably a fairly obvious answer to this question, but being a PSP convert I can't seem to find it.  What I am looking to do is delete the rectangle at the specific angle shown with the line.  I assumed it was draw line, direct selection, click, delete: I was wrong, apparently I've missed some critical step here.  Any direction would be most appreciated.


texts: Creating in PS a bleed for a die cut sticker

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I am creating a album with stickers, each sticker is die cut and has a special place in the album. How do i create a bleed for each sticker that can be correctly interpreted by the machine that cuts the sticker so, in the end, to obtain a sticker that fits its special place in the album?

Here is a example:

I will print them at a typography, the problem is, will they be able to make a exact die cut so those stickers fit exactly with the bleed i have made? do i have to export the sticker without bleed as well so they can use its shape on the stickers with bleed? do i have to add a vector path on the tiff with bleed? what is the best way? is there a better way to create a bleed for the stickers?


texts: I'm using Photoshop and I'm colouring in the sea in my image as you can see below. I'm using a combination of the magic wand tool and the quick select tool and then using the 'fill' option. I'm very new to Photoshop. Does anyone know a way to make the edge less harsh? It just seems very jarring at the moment and I'm wondering how to soften/blend it in better.


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As I am preparing a catalogue in InDesign based on xml import.
Ideal would be that the chapter titles would be imported as well as a variable/xml tag.
That would mean I can have 1 xml file and 1 .indt .
Is this possible?
I experimented with running headers, but how to include this data in a xml?
The way I do it now:

for each chapter 1 InDesign template (24x)
and as many XML files to import (24x)

No problem, but I perhaps it could be done more efficiently.
thanks


texts: Fill selection holes (selecting the convex hull) in Photoshop

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How can I select the convex hull of an existing selection in Photoshop. In other words, how does one fill the holes in a selection in Photoshop?

Consider a donut shape. You use the wand to create a selection of the donut shape, but the hole of the donut remains unselected. Is there a tool or sequence of actions to fill the "donut holes" in a selection, preserving the precision of the outermost selection lines?

This same question was asked previously, but for Gimp.


texts: How are letterings such as this example usually created? Is there an easy way to achieve a similar effect?

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I see this kind of effect quite often, and wondered how it's usually created:

Is it as simple as choosing a "fun" irregular font, and then applying different artwork/patterns to each letter, or is there a different process going on?

Thanks!


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I want to choose proper GIMP font for my purpose, so I would like to browse through all of them visually. But, having to choose GIMP font based on a single letter "Aa" (as provided by the text tool) really sucks:

Googling around, I found there are three ways to open font dialog in GIMP, but all of them are equally bad.

Is there some better preview of all the default GIMP fonts? In the GIMP program itself or at least somewhere on the Internet.


texts: Critique: Help with placement of logo elements in relation to each other for a web and app-based music service

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I've developed a logo for a web and app-based music service. I'm pretty happy with the shape of the icon, it's very close to what I envisaged before making it.

However, I can't seem to find a comfortable placement for it next to the name and slogan. I'm hoping you guys can show me a way to place it, with a good reason for aligning like that.

I can't make the name public, so I've given you three out of the 9 letters, and one of the two slogan words. I hope it's enough for you to see the shape I'm working with.

The slogan can go anywhere and can be increased/decreased in size slightly, I don't mind at all. I've mostly finished the graphical elements, I'm just trying to make them coexist together comfortably.

I don't want to set specific rules about any of the elements, because I'm hoping you guys can look at it and go "that goes there, that there, shrink that a bit.. et voila!".

As a bonus question, is the sharp tail thingy on the 'e' comfortable, or might it draw attention unnecessarily, considering that none of the other letter have a curve that meets at a point (except one other e)?

I'm including a large enough image that if you want to help you can easily cut, move, resize and paste the elements with almost any graphic software.

I'll be happy to add a rep bonus to any and all extra helpful answers. Thank you in advance.

I have taken some of the advice on board, fixed the E, and I'm trying a close up of the symbol version.

I was tired when I posted this and forgot to explain that I'm trying to arrange the logo in a square context, for the app icon, facebook, twitter etc. I have a horizontal logo that I'm pretty happy with. Here's an update of what I'm thinking with this at the moment, the colours are temporary, and likely to be beyond my control, that's why I'm working with grey at the moment.


texts: How can Irfan View show me the resolution?

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How Image Resolution Affects Print Quality - Photoshop Tutorial

  So how high of a resolution value do you need for professional quality printing? The generally accepted value is 300 pixels/inch. Printing an image at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch squeezes the pixels in close enough together to keep everything looking sharp. In fact, 300 is usually a bit more than you need. You can often get by with a resolution of 240 pixels/inch without noticing any loss of image quality. The professional standard, though, is 300 pixels/inch.

Let's consider these pictures from Reddit. I opened Irfan View, but it doesn't show me how many pixels/inch?

Autumn in Woodstock, Vermont.

Birdbox in Norway (by Studio Livit)


texts: Is it best practise to make an icon for example in Ai and then export to png resolution 72 for use on the web?


texts: How do I transfer a simple outlined sketch 550mm x 290mm to a PDF file or to vector graphics in Corel draw ?


texts: How can I resolve this gradient issue on a TV screen?

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I am having an issue with a logo designed for my company.

The design consists of the company name with a circular gradient behind it. This image is used frequently on TVs, as it is for a film company, and we fade the logo in and out at the beginning of every film and project.

The gradient looks fine on most computer screens, but transfers terribly to TV screens and some other screens.

I did some research and it may involve the bit depth difference between TVs and computers, but I wasn't sure. I have tried using dither and adding noise, all with no success.

Is there a way to render the image to make the gradients appear correctly on TV screens?

It seems there's a problem reading the fade of the gradient images on the TV that just displays it very poorly.

Image on Computer Screen:

Image on TV Screen:


texts: What is the best way to resize things in illustrator?

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I am working with this "complicated" ilustrated cat character in Illustrator. The problem is that I worked and modified what I needed to modify and now I have to resize this cat and I stumbled into a weird issue. Its all vectors, no raster effects. No strokes on it, only Filled Shapes.
When I resize it some paths seem to move a little, like for example the glasses on its eyes are not in the exact same position when I make it smaller... I tried diffrent ways, if I resize from a corner and hold Shift + Alt it doesn't work, if I resize from a corner hold Shift without Alt its a little better but still... stuff moves around, only a little, but... it moves...
If I group certain elements I get better results when I resize, but still...STUFF MOVES AROUND... WHY ?!

has anybody else encountered this issue before ?

I think it has something to do with compound paths...i have a feeling, cause I get this error only on strokes that I expanded(using Object > Expand) and on paths that I modified using Offset path...

Have a look at the image to see what I mean, look how the glasses changed and the frame is diffrent :

This happens when I double click the glasses(I go inside a group that has inside it a Compound Path... )

Note: the glasses look ok when I simply double click them and enter the group>compund path, i just moved things a little in the screen shot to illustrate that this is what happens when I resize them... HELP :)


texts: 3d effects and gradient fill produces raster images in Illustrator

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I have a collection of some arbitrary shapes that I deform with Effect > 3D > Rotate. I want to apply a gradient to some of those shapes. The problem is that Illustrator, trying to preserve the 3d correctness, will rasterize and segment the gradient for each individual shape affected and when I export the project as svg, the svg will contain an actual image for every shape. Also it's extremely unoptimized and for lots shapes in a group, it takes a lot of time.

Is there a way to the make the gradient simply overlay?

The same effect I achieve manually by deforming the initial collection with the Free Transform Tool so that it matches the 3D Effect, but that is a destructive manipulation and I'd like to keep it procedural and work with the Appearance window. (In that line of though, can I save Free Transform manipulations as a preset?)

EDIT - added sample images

1) Initial image (length is 2182 characters): https://svgshare.com/i/7Qp.svg

2) 3D effect (length is 79394 characters): https://svgshare.com/i/7Rh.svg

3) Manual distort (length is 3358 characters): https://svgshare.com/i/7Po.svg

As you see, in (2) due to the rasterized gradient effect, size goes crazy.


texts: Photoshop: Apply Basic Color Gradient Below Mask

texts: I have a photo of someone's profile. I have used the Lasso tool to select the sillouhette of this person. I would like to apply a gradient to everything in the photo (the bckgd) leaving the person themselves unaffected by the gradient. I press m after I select the person with the Lasso tool, and now there is a bunch of red in the background showing me that I have somehow isolated the person, But I do not know how to proceed. Thanks!


texts: What is the name of this category of videos?

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I've seen a trend in scientific videos/tutorials where the concept at hand is being sketched out, either by hand for real, or emulated by making it appear as if the images are handdrawn (while still beeing computer images)

e.g. like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I94-tJlovg

Is there a name for this specific graphical style of videos?
And, are there public software to do it?


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I'm new to Gimp and it seems the color picker does take a color brighter than it is supposed, i have to get the hexa color from another app using screenshot.

is there any settings that will make it work properly?


texts: Are drop shadows on screen elements considered good UX, or distracting?

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I have a business site with shadows around boxes, to give a bit of a 3D look.

Our off-shore UX folks feel shadows should not be used.

What is the general UX feeling about this? Are shadows around screen elements a distraction? Should we consider slightly thick borders? The 1 pixel plain border makes the boxes look bland on the screen.


texts: Photoshop Free Transform Constrain Proportions in Photoshop CC 2019

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It appears that the latest Adobe update (Photoshop CC 2019) has changed the way proportions are done. Previously I would use Shift + Drag to constrain proportions in Free Transform mode. Photoshop now defaults to only Drag to keep proportions in Free Transform and uses Shift + Drag to size at any ratio.

I could manual click the proportion lock in the toolbar but after more than a decade of using Shift + Drag, it's really cumbersome to have to take this extra step and it's disrupting the workflow that's been ingrained in my head since I started using Ps.

Has anyone found a way to enable Shift + Drag to constrain proportions in the latest Photoshop CC 2019?


texts: How to change thousands of PNG images to JPG formate with black background

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to convert a high number of PNG images to JPG forcing the background color?

How to convert more than 1000 of PNG images to JPG formate with black background in photoshop at a time


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut in Photoshop to select the lowest layer?

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The scenario is that i have 7 different layers and obviously, my screen monitor can't show them all (just only five layers). If i select the upper-most layer(the layer panel will adjust up) then I want to switch select the lower-most layer, is there shortcut key for it? Thanks.

Btw, the lower-most layer is locked.

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texts: I'm in the market for an alternative to Photoshop for my G5 tower.  I tried GIMP and I'm a bit blah about it; are there any other options that you can recommend?


texts: Working file request due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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I have had a request to supply a client with all of their files (including InDesign docs) due to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). My client also wants me to delete the files from my machine. I'm really not comfortable doing this as the time involved would also be lost as they won't want to pay.

How should I respond to such a request?


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I essentially want to subtract a dotted, unclosed path from a background shape in Sketch. I can see why this doesn't work, but I'm wondering if there's a way to do what I want to do (subtract the dotted shapes from the background shape). I think I'd have to expand the stroke (or in Sketch's case, border), but I'm not sure if that's possible.

Here it is before subtraction:

Here it is afterward (it is essentially closing the path before subtracting it)


texts: Is it okay to sacrifice exact country flag designs in favor of aesthetics?

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The usage case is a freeware game with skill rankings, wherein each player is associated with their country and has their country's flag next to their name.

The most noticeable discrepancy between the game's flag design and the actual flag design is with the USA's flag:

The game's version of the flag has 13 stars (rather than 50), five stripes (rather than 13), and red/blue/white colors of #ED5565, #4A89DC, and #F5F7FA (rather than #B22234, #3C3B6E, and #FFFFFF).

I think that this version of the flag, as well as all the other flags the game redesigned, look quite nice, and all of them are very easily recognizable despite straying sometimes quite significantly from the original designs (primarily changing dense symbols and harsh colors):

But the question to ask here is simply as follows:

Is this okay?

These flags may look nicer, but is this in violation of the terms of how flags should be used in general? Do any countries have rules on how their flags can be represented and how strictly such a representation must follow the source design?  I’m skeptical that any country would come after the people who made the game for not representing their flags exactly. I'm just wondering if this is a common practice that's accepted in the design world and – if not – if it's because of the preferences of the countries.


texts: How to fix horizontal lines from JPG compression in an image?

texts: I have a geometric wallpaper that I downloaded for my phone, but it has these horizontal lines in it, from what a presume is an artifact of JPG compression. Any thoughts on how to fix?


texts: Letting a Text Copy itself along a path until the end. (Indesign)

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Ich am having trouble finding an elegant solution.
Here are the assumptions:
I have a path along which I want to have a text (Company Name + Spacing Element)
I want that text to copy itself until the path ends.
I don't want to copy the text by hand along that path, because if I format the Text differently I want it to fill with Text automatically without having to erase overflow text because i have less space, or recopy because suddenly i have more space. Also it would be neat that if there is ever a change of the repeating text element, that i just have to go into one place change it and have it apply automatically.
I have tried it with text variables, but i seem to be stuck on how to achieve that effect.
It will look somewhat like this:
Sample Text:
"- Super Cool Company -   "
and the aim is to have something like this along the path:

"- Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -   - Super Cool Company -  "

The path will be along the edges of a shopping bag (Left to Bottom to Right)
I want the text to flow along those edges.
I hope my question is understandable ! :)
Best wishes
Roxi


texts: Supplied image was not owned by client - Legal case

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I was supplied an image by a client, used it on their new website and now I've received a letter from the image owners solicitor asking for £900.

Does anyone know my legal position on this?

I can prove it was supplied by the client (email).


texts: Unwanted cracks in my svg in illustrator

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I don't get why it looks fine in illustrator but when I export to SVG there are cracks in the SVG.

You can see through some parts the star is gold/yellow not green.
My settings

Output


texts: How to resize a painted object in Illustrator?

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I have an outline of a small robot figure. I used the paintbrush tool to colour him in and now I want to be able to resize him. Of course though when I simply resize him, his outline works fine but the paint does not follow (as the outline grows, the paint blobs grow with him but obviously he is not filled so it's not working properly!).

Can someone please help me figure out a way to fix this? Thanks!


texts: Illustrator Multiple Variable Column Graphs

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Is there a way to input variable excel data into multiple column graphs in Illustrator? So, for example, I need 100 different graphs, like the one shown below, that have the same graph style and the vertical axis (0-100).

The variable data that needs to change based on the excel input are:

2 blue and green bar columns (%Percent1 & %Percent2)
the horizontal axis (Year1 & Year2)

Example excel input:

I want to avoid manually copying and pasting 100 individual graphs to then manually change the 100 blue and green columns and horizontal axis?

I'm also having trouble figuring out how to put a % to the end of the totals in both column designs. I currently have them set as "%00" to capture the data input as it changes, but when I try to add a % to the end of the text it no longer follows the data input.


texts: XML in Indesign - how to use attributes to assign formating

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I wanted to use XML to design a big festival programme. Unfortunately the XML consist only of text elements that have certain attributes (like date, time, type, etc) assigned to them.

I can rename the text elements to whatever I want to name them by selecting them and assign them a new mark. But how can I automatically do this for the entire document?

Is there a way to tell Indesign to mark the elements depending on their attributes?


texts: How can I use Photoshop to imitate a photo taken with a low-quality camera?

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How can I create an image in Photoshop that imitates a photo taken with a low-quality phone camera? Examples of qualities I want to simulate:

blurring in some areas caused by a dirty lens
low quality exposure handling in the darkroom
noise

Some examples:


texts: Will scaling down incrementally hurt quality?

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In Photoshop, will there be a difference in quality when a raster is scaled down 75% once as opposed to being scaled down 50% twice? In both cases, the final size will be the same: 25% of the original.

The reason I ask is because sometimes I want to scale down an image that I know has been scaled down previously. I hate having to CTRL+Z (undo) a hundred times to the state where the image was in its original size. If final quality is not affected, I'd rather just scale the image down right there and then.


texts: How would I go about referencing a group of layers in a script if I wanted to perform a rotation on all of them as a group, not individually? Essentially I want to rotate all my layers in the group around the center of the canvas.


texts: How to make Photoshop CS6 open 32-bit depth file?

texts: I have PS CS6 installed and a couple of 32 floating point TIFFs I'd like to process. The problem is, though on that on a basic search on Google I've seen 32 bit is supported, I keep getting the error: The TIFF file uses an unsupported bit depth. Any ideas how to make this work?


texts: Indesign CS6: Cannot add alt tags to images

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I am developing a flyer that will be distributed as a PDF, and our requirement is that it be "Section 508" compliant, that is, readable by a screen reader. I am trying to add alt tags to meet this requirement, but when I go to Object -> Object Export Options and click on the Alt Text tab, the Alt Text Source pull-down menu is greyed out and does not allow me to do anything.

Does anyone have any idea of what is wrong here?


texts: How to stop auto rotate of shapes in Illustrator CS4?

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When I create a shape, like a rectangle, it starts out slightly rotated down to the right. This happens every time I start a new file and create a new rectangle. I don't see rotation in the appearance panel. When I look at the transform panel it lists rotation at zero. Yet all of my shapes tilt down and to the right.

How can I stop my shapes from auto rotating?


texts: How can I make a meander (ancient Greek style) circle

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I would like to be able to create this style (pic) called meander in Photoshop/Illustrator, but I have no idea how.

I have a border image like the pic below but in a straight line, so how can I get the ends of the border to meet each other to form a circle (no matter the amount of "squares" in the border image)?

(I tried the "Polar coordinates" effect in Ps but it stretched the symbols lengthwise in the design instead of just bending them.)


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I'm trying to find a good pairing for the main font that I've chosen for a website, namely the Phenomena font from Fontfabric:

I'm using this font for the Headings and Titles, and I'm trying to find a good match for the body copy text. It must be said that the Phenomena family is fairly complete, and by mixing different weights and sizes, even using the same font for the copy doesn't give a bad result:

Anyway, it seems to me that in terms of readability, this font gives its better on heading and not on copy text, and probably there is not enough contrast (but this is just my opinion, I may be wrong).

Some other alternatives that I've considered are the "standard" Noto Sans:

and Roboto Slab:

The best result so far seems to be the pairing with a Slab font, that compliments fairly well IMHO with the geometric vibe of Phenomena.

What do you guys think of these pairings? What is the one that you think works best? And of course, I'm entirely open to new suggestions, not limited to these trials by me.

If you want to suggest new fonts besides the ones that I've mentioned here, please limit the choice to free-for-commercial-use ones (not necessarily present on Google Fonts). Thank you.


texts: How is it usually referred to a design kit made for specific campaign or product?

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So the business has already its Brand Identity Kit. This defines the general guidelines.

Now let say the business wants to use a style variant for social media and display ads. Every post should be based on that specific predefined style.

So what's the popular term to refer to those specific and temporary design kits?
Take for example this one:
https://www.disruptivestatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nike-display-ads-examples.jpg

Thanks.


texts: Illustrator - make text wrap instead of scale

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I have a chunk of text I need to paste into Illustrator. No matter what I do, I can't resize the text area without scaling the text. I want to resize the area and have the text wrap (font size to remain the same).

How can I do this? I'm using CS5.1


texts: Is there a reverse Font lookup for copyrighted fonts?

texts: I often get font files from other designers. Is there a way for me to check if those fonts are copyrighted and require me to have a license to use them.


texts: Illustrator: Pathfinder divide not working as expected

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I'm trying my hand at making a map using illustrator. I'm fairly new at it so I'm still learning the ropes. I'm trying to divide up a continent into several countries using border lines. Here's an example of what I'd like to do:

...so I would end up with two separate, enclosed figures sharing that border. I've tried using divide, but it doesn't work like all the tutorials (like this one) are saying it should. They say that when I use divide, it should keep both figures. But when I use the divide tool with the coastline and border, it cuts the left country as I want it, but discards the right, like shown below. Naturally, I want to keep both.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.


texts: best way to style a 14 person staff directory in one page

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i'm doing a 14 person staff directory for a corporate souvenir program.

it has to be done on one-page of 190 (w) x 270 (h).

the arrangement is in alphabetical so no hierarchy between positions.

the best i could come up with is:

|-|x|x|-|

|x|x|x|x|

|x|x|x|x|

|x|x|x|x|

any other way to style it?


texts: I need to build a grid with a1 a2 a3 ... b1 b2 b3 ... and so on, is there a way to automatically generate the necessary blocks without editing the text on each manually?


texts: Professional software to replace Geometer's Sketch Pad

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I've been using an old copy of a program called "Geometer's Sketch Pad" to design character sheets for a tabletop game (think something like D&D). I'd like to copy over my existing work into a better program, but I don't know which ones would have the features that I've been using from GSP.

The main things I'm looking for are being able to make points, lines, geometrically accurate shapes(triangle,square, pentagon, hexagon, etc.). I also need to be able to label and color any shapes, lines, words, points, etc. Being able to export as an image file to edit in Gimp would be ideal, since I'm somewhat familiar with that program, but as long as it's possible to screen capture the finished result that's fine.

While I know that there are ways to do all of these things in Gimp, or even Paint if need be, I'm looking for software that is specialized for the features that I need. Here's an example of a picture made in GSP using all of the features I am looking for, to give an idea of how GSP works.

GSP is great software, but it was primarily intended as a learning tool for teaching geometry in middle-school and high-school, rather than as graphic design software.


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When I draw a rectangle in Photoshop, it does not place it on any layer.  This seems like unusual behavior.

Create a new document
Unlock Layer 0.
Click on Layer 0 so it's selected.
Draw a rectangle in my document.

At this point there is still only Layer 0 in my layers tab. If I make a new layer, then delete Layer 0, the rectangle is still there.

What am I misunderstanding about Layers in Photoshop? In Illustrator this would have added a rectangle to the selected layer.


texts: Font identification, similar to Helvetica Condensed

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I'm looking for the font used in the word "Honor" from the posters below (click for larger size, image taken from the brilliant designers at Watson from The Jungle Book Social on Behance):

Identifont and WhatTheFont! didn't turn up the right results (note the leg of the R). Thanks in advance!


texts: How can i center the bullet to the body text in InDesign?

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as you see at the picture, the bullets look not at the right position as it's not centered the body text!
what can i do to fix that problem?
thanks


texts: How to create circular "returning" arrows in Inkscape

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I want to draw something like this:

But when I use the bezier curves and straight lines tool, I'm getting lines that are not round enough:

(And if I use several points, it's still ugly.) How can I make the arrows as in that picture?


texts: Which software should be used for simulating light beam reflection from headlight reflector?

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We are designing car headlight reflectors.
The most important thing that we need to do is to design the curvature of the reflector so that all the light from bulb is reflected onto a specific and small part of road on front.

As soon as we have achieved light reflection simulation, we'll have to keep tweaking the reflector shape to achieve desired result.

Initially I tried doing it in SketchUp with a plugin that can simulate reflection of a light rays.
But as per designers in our team, it's a very basic software and difficult to design in it.

Our designers have tried simulating reflection in Maya. But couldn't do it.

Can anyone please guide us on which software to use to simulate light reflection and design the reflector.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.


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I'm using photoshop to support my job so I want to know how to get all text in layer and save it into a text file?
I was using this script I found in github to get coordinates and layer:

// Enables double-click launching from the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer
#target photoshop

// Bring application forward
app.bringToFront();

// Set active Document variable and decode name for output
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var docName = decodeURI(activeDocument.name);

// Define pixels as unit of measurement
var defaultRulerUnits = preferences.rulerUnits;
preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;

// Define variable for the number of layers in the active document
var layerNum = app.activeDocument.artLayers.length;

// Define variable for the active layer in the active document
var layerRef = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;

// Define varibles for x and y of layers
var x = layerRef.bounds[0].value;
var y = layerRef.bounds[1].value;
var coords = "";

// Loop to iterate through all layers
function recurseLayers(currLayers) {
  for ( var i = 0; i < currLayers.layers.length; i++ ) {
    layerRef = currLayers.layers[i];
    x = layerRef.bounds[0].value;
    y = layerRef.bounds[1].value;
    coords += layerRef.name + "," + x + "," + y + "\n";

    //test if it's a layer set
    if ( isLayerSet(currLayers.layers[i]) ) {
      recurseLayers(currLayers.layers[i]);
    }
  }
}

//a test for a layer set
function isLayerSet(layer) {
  try {
    if ( layer.layers.length > 0 ) {
      return true;
    }
  }

  catch(err) {
    return false;
  }
}

// Ask the user for the folder to export to
var FPath = Folder.selectDialog("Save exported coordinates to");

// Detect line feed type
if ( $.os.search(/windows/i) !== -1 ) {
  fileLineFeed = "Windows";
}
else {
  fileLineFeed = "Macintosh";
}

// Export to txt file
function writeFile(info) {
  try {
    var f = new File(FPath + "/" + docName + ".txt");
    f.remove();
    f.open('a');
    f.lineFeed = fileLineFeed;
    f.write(info);
    f.close();
  }
  catch(e){}
}

// Run the functions
recurseLayers(docRef);
preferences.rulerUnits = defaultRulerUnits; // Set preferences back to user 's defaults
writeFile(coords);

// Show results
if ( FPath == null ) {
  alert("Export aborted", "Canceled");
}
else {
  alert("Exported " + layerNum + " layer's coordinates to " + FPath + "/" + docName + ".txt " + "using " + fileLineFeed + " line feeds.", "Success!");
}

but with text layer I can't get full text of this layer. Can someone give me some solution?


texts: How to automatically save each layer as its own png/jpeg while keeping one main layer above

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We offer vinyl decals for many devices. To show what a design looks like on a device, we have to create a main layer of the device, having the place of where the skin would fit cut out for our background layer images to slide behind.

We have 2,000+ designs to offer for each device, so this takes time. After we line up all the backgrounds as individual layers behind the main device window, we then have to save out each layer as its own png. This is a very time consuming process. Here's a test example of a few designs.

Each background layer is titled corresponding to what the design is called. For example: The top layer here is called "Blue Vector Fish and Boat Pattern". How we do this now is we double click the layer title, so it allows us to "copy" the title (instead of typing it in).

then we bring up a "save as" window and you will see our PSD file is currently save as "The (layer name) Skin for the Beats by Dre Solo 2 Headphones",

so we will then need to put our layer title into the spot that currently says "(layer name):

Then change the save type to PNG or JPEG.

We then save out that design, delete the layer we just saved and duplicate our actions for the next layer in this case would be "Seamless Vector Gold Fish".

Is there a way to create a custom script to automatically perform these repetitive actions? I am obviously doing the same thing over and over again. I would appreciate any help! We usually set up batches of 500 and save them out manually and it is brutal. Please contact me if you have any suggestions. Thanks!


texts: Styling/Layout advice on an Isotope/Masonry website

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I am experimenting with a masonry layout web site bringing niche news and cultural information on East Asia to a Western audience. I have chosen a masonry layout for the homepage because the site will be functioning as a microblogging platform pushing out several small updates daily (images, videos, tweets, texts, listicles, quotes). The masonry layout works fine, the only problem I have is that I am unable to come up with a non-obtrusive, minimalist design that doesn't look dull and boring at the same time. Currently, I think it pretty much does. Here is an item (representing a post or article) from the layout.

The sans-serif font is Ubuntu and the serif is Droid Serif. The colors are black #333, gray #999 and the accent color is purple #939.
Notice that the items do not have separate graphic planes or borders, i.e. they are laid out directly on the background of the page (solid white #fcfcfc). The only visual separator between the items is a 1px dotted #999 border-bottom and a few ems of white space. (see screenshot link below)

If you take a look at the whole page (no header or footer, only the main content area) you will see that it is not very spectacular.

I have checked a lot of masonry layouts but I find none that doesn't separate the posts from the background by different colors or borders (like Pinterest) and still looks amazing.

How could I tweak the typography, contrast or visual seperation of the items to make things slightly more impressing without adding too much clutter?


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I have a problem with a data merge. On several tutorials if they selected the CSV file, all the data loads up separately but when I select the CSV file, all data loads like this:

So I can't load them up separately. What I'm doing wrong?

My steps:

make excel file with all my data
save this file
save the CSV file
open InDesign document
select data source
then I see this...


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I've created an icon in Illustrator for an iPhone app.

When the icon is in the size for the iPhone, parts of the graphic fuzzy. How can I improve the details on the icon? My icon is a clock, and it looks fine except for the hands.


texts: Trying to change the orientation of my type

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I have Adobe Design Premium CS4 with Illustrator CS4.  For some reason, my type is now vertical instead of horizontal when using Illustrator.  There was another question along the same line as this a couple of years ago - I followed all the suggestions, but nothing has changed. The letters are not running vertically, they are running from bottom to top at a 90 degree angle from what they should be doing - actually, my letters are going bottom to top, not top to bottom, and they are facing the opposite direction.

Help!  How can I get them to go horizontally across the page?!


texts: Force InDesign to backup / autosave / keep backup copy

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We recently had an incident were we lost some work in an InDesign file, although InDesign by default autosaves every minute. The issue we had is that when the program was closed it prompted us to either: cancel, save or don't save.

By mistake we clicked don't save. What seems to happen if you do this is that InDesign will delete its autosaved / reconvert files so it's as if you never worked on the file at all.

I don't think there is but is there a way to restore my lost files after I hit don't save?

Is there a way to get InDesign to either autosave back to its original file or create a separate backup file (either over written or versioned)?

Or is there another way (obviously clicking save would be helpful, but mistakes happen which is where you need a proper backup/autosave rather than a 'recovery'autosave)


texts: Is it possible to generate a gradient from color swatches?

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I am trying to generate two gradients using color swatches in Adobe Illustrator. It took me a very long time to find out that it's possible to save the colors using "Add Used Colors", and as it can generate the swatches automatically, I was wondering: is it possible to generate a range of colors from the swatches?

I mean - is it possible to pick one color from the swatches menu, and another one, and using them generate a long gradient (including any color that is between the two)?

I already saved the range of colors that I want, but if there is any way to make my life easier and generate the gradient without really picking every color, it will be awesome.


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I'm rather new to vector graphics and trying to learn Affinity Designer.
Could someone give an example how to draw a line like the example attached?

I'm really curious how to get the curviness but still have the sharp corners.

Regards,

Ron


texts: PDF Design - A one size fits all devices solution

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I was wondering if anyone has a common method or document ratio they use every time they design content for pdf use, so it looks the best it possibly can on different sized devices?

Example - Say you were designing a PDF brochure to be downloaded from a website or sent via an email and your client didn't have any analytical data to say what kind of devices their target audience uses?

How would you consider approaching the project regardless of how much or little content there had to be used in this brochure:

Would you design based on a certain ratio/screen orientation?
Would you have more of a mobile first design approach to help things like text display the best you can?
Would you create multiple sized brochures for different screen sizes?

I would love to know your thoughts on how you approach this kind of thing and thank you for taking the time to read and answer my question.


texts: How could I use a slug in InDesign as a digital client sign off?

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I'm hoping to find a solution for a digital client sign off on artwork by using the digital signature feature in Acrobat but I'm hoping to be able to have this automatically set up in InDesign so I don't have to manually set the fields in Acrobat each time.

I've created a separate interactive PDF file that contains the fields I need and I can import this into the InDesign file but I can't include the slug when exporting as an interactive PDF.

Does anyone have a workaround? I can't resize the page to include the 'slug area' as this seems like a recipe for disaster.

If there is a better suited automated way of doing this?


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I'm trying to create a rounded rectangle with zigzag borders in Adobe Illustrator CS5. This is how I want it to look like:

With the normal zigzag effect on a rectangle with no rounded corners, I get this very ugly effect:

So my question is how I can influence the zigzag around the corners. Do I have to do this by hand?


texts: Perfectly blending dots along infinity symbol path

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I am trying to figure out how to produce the below image in Illustrator.

Is there a systematic way to do it via first blending the dots and then via “Replace Spine”? (Or, perhaps, there is an better method to do it.)


texts: Illustrator .ait Swatches into photoshop

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G'day

I need to know the easiest way to import Colour Swatch groups from Illustrator into Photoshop.  (I have only found answers for the reverse in my search, ie PS to AI)

We have an Illustrator template (.ait) that contains all our used swatch groups, which we have no trouble importing into various illustrator files, however I need to import these same swatches into Photoshop.
We do currently have a work around, but I am sure is the long way.

Q: How is this done quickly?

Thanks so much!


texts: PNG from Illustrator placed in InDesign exports badly in PDF?

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Sorry about the title but I'm not quite sure how to word it.

Hopefully this will help explain it more:

Click image to enlarge


texts: Logo design: is this too simple or boring?

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I'm currently designing a logo for a film production company, but I am struggling a bit and would be grateful some feedback. This is my progress so far:

I've received some feedback from people on instagram and most seemed to have positive responses but some mentioned the general lack of colour and one said that it is more a badge rather than a logo and is "trying to be an illustration but it is not".

I'm also not sure if what I have done is too safe/obvious and whether I should perhaps come up with something more abstract? Or if it is too simplistic, but then I'm not entirely sure if that's necessarily a bad thing!

One idea which was raised was to go with something completely different and use an icon of a hatchet - as Baltag means hatchet apparently, but I feel that is beyong my logo design abilities.

The company is called 'Victoria Baltag Production', and in terms of design I haven't really been given anything else to go with aside from the name, and that it should convey that it is for a production company.


texts: How can I select all nodes of a path at once in Inkscape?

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I like the 'autosmooth' feature on curves (lines) in Inkscape.

Sometimes I want to smooth out a complete path.

I choose 'edit paths by nodes', click on the node I want to smooth, and then use the 'autosmooth' button.  But I have to repeat this for every node in the path.

I know I can select multiple nodes by shift+clicking them all, but that becomes tedious as well.

Is there a way to select all the nodes of a path at once?


texts: How can I get this sort of effect on my photo?

texts: I'm looking to get this sort of effect on my photo with the vintage type look with a red coloured highlight, I'm using photoshop & have tried using threshold color but the look doesn't come out very similar. Specifically the highlights don't look great. Does anyone know a good way to reproduce something like this in photoshop? Or the techniques they are using to do this?


texts: Exporting isometric cube to png results in incorrect sides and rough edges of the cube

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UPDATE:

I did what @Danielillo suggested and it worked but the width of the exported .png is still one pixel wider then the original:

The blue outline is from Illustrator. You can see the one pixel on the left side of the cube. I am still trying to figure out where that is coming from. If someone knows what happens here, please let me know. :)

Original Question:

I recently started to make isometric art for a video game. I made a 2:1 ratio isometric grid (26,565° for shearing and rotating) in Illustrator, where each cell is 128px by 64px. Then i turned the grid into guides and drew a simple rectangular cube:

This worked as expected, resulting in a rectangular cube being 128px wide and 192px high. A close up zoom without the grid shows that the edges and corners are perfectly aligned as well:

Then I exported the cube as a .png and opened the .png again in Illustrator:

There are a couple of problems here which I cant really explain to myself.

The dimensions changed from 128px by 192px to 129px to 192px. I really don't know why that happens
The middle part where the two walls meet the floor doesn't fit together anymore
The edges and corners are very rough, especially on the diagonal parts on the top and bottom. This probably happened because i turned of anti-aliasing in the export settings. I read in another post that it is better to turn it off since it could correct pixels and change dimensions of the exported image.

I used the following export settings:

This is my first art project and i probably made a mistake building or exporting the object. I tried to find information on the internet but most people seem to get blurry output, which doesn't happen in my case.
What i want is the exported .png to look the same and have the same dimensions then the original object in Illustrator, so i can take the .png and use it to make a tile set for an isometric video game.
If someone knows a better way, tool or workflow to create isometric (2:1 ratio) art, I am very open for suggestions since i don't know much about making/designing graphics.

I included the .ai file so maybe someone can take a look at it and clarify what i did wrong. Sorry for the amount of pictures but i thought its better to provide more screenshots to clarify my problem.

Thank you in advance!


texts: How do I create this one colour painted matte effect onto any object in photoshop?

texts: I have seen this effect created in a few places and want to know how i can apply this effect to any object in photoshop. Here are a few example of posters ive found where it has been executed well.


texts: Exporting color information and font sizes from Illustrator to PDF

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I am looking for some tool that would allow me to export the all the artboards from Illustrator to PDF (can also be any common image file) that would automatically create:

labels with colors used (preferably RGB)
labels with font sizes, pointed to a given label when the font has been used


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I noticed something strange with Photoshop...I have an object and I want to align it lets say at X position: 1280! I set exactly that number and then all of a sudden it becomes 1280.50 px! I know .5 pixel isn't that a problem but then .5 and so on it will become 1px and the 1px 1,5 etc. I want something to perfectly aligned with something else!

For example, I have to objects 355x355 and one 490x490 which are both perfect circles and want them to be center aligned! but then I see that there is a difference of 1 pixel between them! How can I fix this?

I have the same issue with Illustrator and in Preferences I have set the 1 px increment!


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I have a gradient that I want to apply to many objects, and for each object I want to move the handles in the same way. Is there a way to apply these changes to a single object and to have the change applied across all objects using the same gradient?
The edit gradient tool allows me to, say, change the colour across all objects using the same gradient, but moving the handles of one objects does not change the others.


texts: When and why do I use "s"-shaped quotation marks?

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When and why would you use quotation marks that are the superscript of the letter "s"?

It looks like this:

In case you want to look it up yourself, I've seen it in a recent book by the philosopher Robert Brandom: From Empiricism to Expressivism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015, p. 36.


texts: What's the easiest way to create to get this subtle 3D effect in an icon in Illustrator?

texts: I managed to make the drop shadow, and I think I know how to get the ~1px bright outline/stroke, but how would you do this dark/bright effect around the edge and across the hole path?


texts: When I create shape, in the layers panel it is created as a PATH. Because of this my shape don't show the points that are used to change the corner radius. I want a way to convert the path into a shape.


texts: Illustrator: can't CTRL+S after opening and editing EPS

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I have hundreds of EPS files and i need to find the most productive way to remove the backgrounds. The plan was to just load the files in illustrator, click background, delete, then hit CTRL+S.

However, when opened the files seem to have their titles renamed in Illustrator. For example, 'some_test_file.eps' gets renamed to 'some_test_file [Converted].eps'.

So when i hit CTRL+S, it opens the "Save As" dialog instead of just saving and overwriting the existing file.

What am i doing wrong ?


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Being a CC subscriber, is it ok to use Adobe Typekit fonts for commercial purposes?
And are there any other notable T's and C's one should be aware of when using Typekit fonts?


texts: JavaScript library that will display variable size wedges on a Pie Chart

texts: I'm looking for a JavaScript library that will create pie charts with variable sized wedges like in the image. (It looks like a doughnut graph but the the image in the middle just has a white border around)


texts: avaiability of public-domain platform/os vectors

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I have looked high and low for platform logos (iOS, Android, Unity 3D, Haxe, Java, .NET, etc.) in a vector or even photo format that have a consistent look and feel.

Short of collecting disparate logos from each brand, re-sizing and making consistent, is there a good resource or site where I might look?

I realize this is probably trivial to do from scratch for most here, unfortunately I can't say the same for myself.


texts: How do I flatten this vector logo leaving only the visible black paths?

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Hey guys I've got years of experience with Photoshop but I'm new to Illustrator.

I've followed this simple tutorial to create this logo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y9unghEExw

I want to flatten the image and make only the black lines my vector shape. Is there any way I can do this?

I've tried using the pathfinder but the entire shape goes black, possibly because its reading the White as part of the entire shape? Please advise!


texts: Sources for Color Theory or Psychology of Color

texts: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book/blog/forum that focuses on design principles such as psychology of color, specifically where it relates to picking a color palette for a communication design work?


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I have a word that am busy cutting out of a box in Illustrator. I have all the letters cut out, except for 2 of them, which doesn't seem to want to "divide objects below".

For some reason the other letters are allowing to be "divide objects below" but these last two letters won't. It brings up the error message that "I have too many objects selected" but I only have one path selected at a time.

Anyone knows what could be the problem?


texts: Never studied Design, but work in design, where/how can I catch up on the things I missed

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I am working in graphic design for almost 10 years and I always feel like I'm missing something when working along side other designers who have studied the subject.

Are there any books, courses or tips that would help me strengthen my basics in design?

What I feel like i'm missing? The hierarchy of design. Grids I have taught myself but micro-typography is definitely missing. Photography and selecting a good picture, where is that line between a good amateur photo and a professional photo. How to choose the right picture. The art of storytelling in a design.

One perfect example is something I learned recently at where I work: I was showing a web mockup of a homepage to our art director and he flat out said(in german) "wenn mann nicht weiss, macht mann ein kreiss" which translated means "if you're inexperienced, you'll add a circle". And I had a relatively large circled element in the middle of my design.

I literally just recieved an email from 99designs saying my account has been put on hold because my designs lack visual hierarchy, typography, composition and color. This is pretty much the feedback I was looking for and will search now for answers to these.


texts: If I see a vector that I would like to use for commercial purposes on one of the free vector sites but a few minutes later see it on Shutterstock for $x, how do I know which one copied it from the other?  Do I just assume that it was copied from the pay site and avoid it?


texts: What is this shape called? It's a circle with a right angle in one corner

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I'm trying to find an example of this shape online, but I don't know what to look for. It seems to be pretty popular in graphic design lately. It's a circle with a right angle in one corner. But when I search for that nothing comes up.

Thank you ahead of time!!


texts: Choosing colors that work well on projectors

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When specifying colors for use in a software user interface, what's the best way to ensure that those colors will look acceptable on all common display technologies: CRT, LCD, and in particular projectors?

This topic comes up frequently during design reviews, where a work-in-progress piece of software is presented to an internal audience, and the initial reaction is "the color of that widget looks weird."  The presenter then responds with "it looks fine on my laptop!"

Note that I'm not just concerned with the one or two projectors in our meeting rooms at the office, but projectors in general, as the colors also need to look acceptable when demoed in a sales presentation.

The software is a Java applet embedded in a website, if that matters.  I believe our UI designers use Adobe Illustrator for most of their work.

Update: I'm not looking for 100% accurate color reproduction of the sort that motivates a full color managed workflow.  I just want it to look "close enough" for lay people.


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With the latest version of Gimp (2.10.x), is there a way we can quickly type notes?  This will come very useful in instances where I am using the Measure Tool and simply need a place where I can capture my X,Y measurements, without opening another application like notepad.

Is this possible?


texts: How do I move vector logo from Illustrator to Photoshop without losing resolution?

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I am unable to move my vector logo from Illustrator to Photoshop without losing some resolution. It is going to be printed very large! Help!

Here is a picture of the good...

Here is a picture of the bad...

You have to zoom in to see what I am talking about... I know there are layer effects on one


texts: Auto add dimension annotation to vector file

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Are there any software to auto add dimension annotation for vector file  ?
for example


texts:
Is it possible in Adobe Illustrator to straighten up this track removing the zigzag?

I want to create a line, or a curve, depending on the original.


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I have two layers. The background layer is way bigger than the front layer (which contains an image).
I want to center the front layer horizontally and vertically on the background layer.
I can't get it to work with Image -> Align Visible Layers...
How to do this?


texts: What font is typically used for receipts?

texts:
Can someone please help me identify the fonts used in these two receipts. I'm looking for downloadable free fonts that I can use to reproduce the same looking results.

The two receipts used different fonts.


texts: How can I create a Gaussian blur that doesn't effect the edges? Adobe Fireworks

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I'm trying to use a Gaussian blur on an image, but I don't want it to effect the edges of the image. How can I do this? I'm using Adobe Fireworks.

Here's the image I am using:

And here's what I did:

See how the Gaussian blur effects the edges? I don't want that.

I'm trying to create an effect like this:


texts: Can I merge layers of same name in any auto script instead of selecting & merging one by one in pdf.


texts: How can I improve the clarity of my output animation in Flash CS6?

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I am using Flash CS6 ActionScript 3.0. I am creating an animation with 3-4 images of registration form. The clarity of images is poor in the output of animation even though I am using really clear and large image files.

What do I need to do to produce clearer animations?


texts: How to remove unwanted background in an image (that has already been masked)? (Adobe illustrator CC 2019)

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First thing off my chest...

...Yes I know the image is Lego's...

... Anyways, so I was exploring how do to remove unwanted background in a clipping mask (even if the unwanted area is outlined with the pen tool) and came up empty. Here are some step to visually understand the process of the masking.

1) Added all the paths into a one compund path
2) Selected the compound path and the image
3) Make the clipping mask
How do I remove that background that was not removed during the mask?
(The eraser tool is not working either)


texts: How do you export the original image that was inserted in a Sketch document?

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I've inserted a few JPEG images for backgrounds into a Sketch document, and now I want to get the full-resolution images out to use on the web. I don't want to export the JPEG into another JPEG, compressing the image yet again, but that is the only method that I can find.I don't trust Sketch's JPEG optimization to be as good as PS's since it isn't specifically a raster editor.

Is there a way to access the original images placed into the document, and "copy and paste" them out, as opposed to "export as a new JPEG"?


texts: Can I key in the amount I want a layer to be moved in Photoshop?

texts: I know I'm able to Cmd/Ctrl+T a layer in Photoshop CC and drag the layer and it will say how many pixels it's moved in a specific direction. But is there a way to just type the pixel distance into a directional moving area, similar to the behavior in Sketch?


texts: Applying different fills simultaneously in illustrator

texts: I have multiple elements with  different stroke colours. I would like to fill all the elements with  their individual outer stroke colours. Is there a way to do this without having to apply outer stroke colour to the fill individually for  each element?


texts: Specific Animation: Object Falling Into Snow

texts: I was wondering if anyone knows where I could find a template for After Effects that involves a ball or some other object being dropped into water, snow, smoke, or some other kind of environment.  Are there websites that might be helpful for this?


texts: Export from Figma to Flinto, Principle, After Effects

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I’m considering to switch from Sketch to Figma.
But there is a serious blocker: I can’t export Figma designs to the apps I’m actively using for prototyping and animations – Flinto, Principle, After Effects. There are plugins for Sketch for export to these apps, but I can’t find any solutions for Figma. Please share if you know any solutions. Thanks!


texts: What is the name for the kind of abbreviation that employs an underlined superscript to the terminal characters?

texts: Sometimes abbreviations are made by placing the terminal characters in superscript and underlining them, as in "1st," "Mc," and "No" (see examples below). What is this process called, and what is a general name for any one of these abbreviations (the abbreviation a whole, not the superscript characters alone) so made?


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Is there a tool that can extract controls from screenshots (dialogues, windows,...) automatically in something like layers in Photoshop?
In my memory there was a tool for Mac doing this. But I couldn't find it anymore. Better would be such a tool for windows, of course ;-)


texts: Illustrator is cropping exported icons despite artboard being Fit to Selected Art

texts: I'm trying to export certain graphics from an Illustrator file. I'm selecting the object, fitting the artboard to the selected artwork, and saving for web & devices, PNG-24 format. When I look at the art in Illustrator, it is properly capturing the artwork, but when I look at the outputted file, I am losing a few pixels on the right and bottom sides of the image. Take the included image as an example, you can see it's not a perfect circle-- the top and left sides look correct, but the right and bottom sides come to too much of a flat part. Nothing is obscuring the art in Illustrator, and I can't figure out what is causing this. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.


texts: Why is my brush pixelated at size 400 in Photoshop?

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Please help me, every time my brush is at size 400+ it will look different than the preview.

This brush at size 405 looks like a middle finger when its being previewed.

It looks like this in the preview

But then it will look like this :/


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I have two paths - one traced bitmap, another created from rectangle. I want to separate lower part of the traced image by using the rectangle path. However Path Division removes the whole image. Could you please advise what is wrong?
Link to SVG.


texts: Are you allowed to use another company's logo for a graphic design project?

texts: I want to create a booklet about NIKE for a school project & I also want to keep it in my design portfolio. Am I allowed to use the Nike Logo?


texts: Why are some SVG Filters automatically converted to PNG when creating an SVG in Adobe Illustrator?

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I was wondering why some of the SVG Filters found in Illustrator are automatically converted to PNG when I export the entire file to SVG. I don't want any hidden PNG files because of scalability.

To put it differently:

Why do some of the effects I create get rasterised, even though I'm working in a vector application with a vector file format?


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I want to replace the blue part of the image with red. I've tried this using a combination of the Magic Wand tool and the Paint Bucket but that doesn't work well.
Can somebody please help me out?


texts: Resize text with bounding box and character styles - Photoshop C6/CC

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Here is a video with the bug.
Resizing text with the bounding box can't be restored by character styles. No matter what you do, you have to create a new point/paragraph text and start all over again and never, ever resize it with the bounding box, which is really annoying.
Any idea how to reset the font-size if you used a bounding box to resize the text?
Thanks & enjoy,


texts: Solidworks: Is it possible to export assembly as vector PDF file? (or EPS?)

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I'm relatively new to solidworks and am looking to export my work in the highest possible quality for inclusion in a report (which will ultimately be a PDF).

My understanding is that Solidworks is based on vectors and hence, it should  be possible to save one-view of the assembly as a vector image file (pdf, eps etc). I appreciate that saving a 3D model won't be possible, but is there a way I can save the current view in solidworks as a high quality image?

The alternative, I guess, is saving as a raster image with a high DPI but then this results in a large file size.

Thanks for any tips.


texts: Design books with quantifiable, real world resources (vintage)?

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I am looking to pick up a few reads. I am mostly interested in the fundamentals of design such as space, hierarchy, balance, etc. but beyond the scope of the basics. I have been through the fine arts program at my university and done plenty of reading and studying online, and work full time designing and doing web development but I would like some true in-depth information from someone who really knows what they are doing.

I am a big sucker for the International Typographic style of the 40s, 50s, 60s and possibly stuff from the 70s and 80s. I am really NOT looking for something with definitions and maybe a few picture examples, I am looking for texts that go in depth on how to use and abuse these methods in real applications, and explanations for what makes sense when.

Grid systems, typography, color, whatever is all great. I find the Bauhaus school really interesting and I know there is a lot of great material that exists from this time but I am really not sure where to look.

If anyone has some insight or possibly a reading list it would be very appreciated. No beginner stuff, school text-books, or material written by hacks (think Type Idea Index, seriously awful stuff throughout the whole book).


texts: Align pathes next to each other in photoshop

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I want to use Photoshop for drawing some simple shapes (I mostly need it for app development), and I just found the path drawing tool. I would like to put multiple pathes next to each other, and fill each one with a different color. But I don't know how to align them next to each other without having some 2-pixel gap between them. Maybe "align" is the wrong word here, because when I google for "photoshop align pathes", I get 30000 results, but the results are not answering my question at all. I have a picture to illustrate what I was trying to do:

As you can see in the picture, there is a gap between the two pathes. When I fill them, it doesn't look quite right:

How do I place multiple pathes in a way that they don't overlap and don't have a gap between them?

Or maybe the path tool is not the best tool for my particular problem? I'm open to other suggestions as well. Maybe the way to go is to create a big path and then cut it with some kind of Autodesk/Maya-like "multicut tool"? I want to partition a rectangular canvas into a set of non-overlapping coherent subsets and give each one a different color (and maybe apply some filters afterwards).


texts: How to remove white background from multiple images?

texts: So I received approximately 70 or so images from a customer and apparently they were all scanned. They are 4x6 prints but each one has a white background the size of a paper. How can I get rid of them en mass?


texts: Change table stroke thickness using swatches in illustrator

texts: I am currently creating a large table and I would like to quickly be able to change the thickness of the borders to see what looks best. It is possible to quickly change the color of multiple items by changing the swatch they are colored with, but is there an equivalent for thickness? Or can you add thickness into swatches? Currently the only way I can change the table is by painstakingly selecting cells and changing it manually. Thankyou


texts: How to obtain the hex code for a color that isn't 100% opaque?

texts: Alright I'm working with Illustrator and I want to have the hex code for a color that I've lowered the opacity on. When I try to get it from the color picker it only gives me the hex of the 100% opaque color, whereas I want the same color's hex when it has less opacity applied to it. How to obtain it?


texts: Photoshop CC 2017 - Why is lasso tool cropping image when used in Select And Mask?

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I photograph a leaf on a blue background.  The original image is 6000x4000.  I want to make the background transparent.  So I use the Color Range selection tool to select most of the blue background.  Then I use Select and Mask to tidy up.

In particular, I need to remove some dust spots from around the leaf and select areas the Color Range selection missed.  I invert the selection so that the leaf and dust spots are surrounded by marching ants.  Then I use the lasso tool in subtract mode to select large areas around the outside of leaf, thus deselecting any dust and left over blue.  I run the lasso tool well outside the borders of the image so that I am cleaning up right to the edge of the image.  Then I save out to New Layer With Layer Mask.

The problem comes when I "Export As" that created layer+mask so that I can end up with a PNG file with transparency.  The size of the image as reported in the Export As dialog is now smaller - Might be an odd number like 5829x3650.  I have determined that this size reduction happens when I have used the lasso tool outside the image and essentially deselected an entire original edge.  It's hard to explain.

But I think PS thinks its doing me a favor by reducing the image (and canvas) size to only the part containing the selected leaf.  Changing the canvas size back to 6000x4000 will indeed export a 6000x4000 image, but then the registration of the leaf is off (it has shifted location relative to the original image).  This is important, because later, I will also export the black and white mask (which remains at 6000x4000 for some reason).  I need the mask for other operations, but the exported leaf must be registered with the exported mask.

So, is this normal behavior?  It sure surprised me.  Is there any way to prevent Select and Mask from changing the size of the image?  I think this also happens if you use the selection brush and brush all along an edge.  Any other ideas about how to restore the image size without shifting the location of the leaf?

Image descriptions:

First:
Just about to close lasso loop selecting area to remove from selection.  Note that includes the entire top border

Second:
The "Export As" dialog showing that the image size has changed, and its consistent with more or less having deleted the top part of the image where the lasso tool was used


texts: Illustrator: how to align grouped objects and expand to be aligned top and bottom?

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The rectangles below have been grouped together by me.  I realized that I probably should have aligned them before grouping them.  I'm wondering if there is a way to align them (to their top edge) within their group.

Also, after I am done with the alignment, is there a way to "expand" or "transform" these rectangular objects until they are the same width, and aligned on the bottom side? They are very close, but could be a few pixels off here and there.  I am just curious if there is such a workflow for aligning and expanding objects as necessary to that they are "flush" with the alignment plane.
Illustrator knows where the boundaries of these planes are.  Take this selected object for example:

It clearly knows the outermost boundary points in the object to make a rectangle.


texts: Illustrator CS5 brick pattern with perspective

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I created a curving arrow shape that starts wide at the bottom and thins out near the top where the point is. I also created a brick pattern swatch but when I apply it to the shape it appears like the pattern is overlaid instead of like a real road where the bricks follow the shape and narrows near the most distant point. How can I apply a perspective to the brick pattern without looking like I used a clipping mask?

Here is a link to what I achieved with a clipping mask - not what I want though. I need the bricks to look like they are inlaid just like in real life.


texts: What's the font used in the game Return to Ravenhearst?

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I am trying to find the font used in Return to Ravenhearst game. A screenshot of the text of which I am looking is:

I have tried WhatTheFont and similar services, but they are very sensitive.


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I’ve got a large design format to print. The original image resolution is about 3000 px - 4500 px & resolution is 300. I worry if we blow up the image to the truck size 590 x 200 CM, the resolution will be terrible.
What is the correct resolution for thé truck size i mentioned? How can I find a high res image to suite that size.


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Firstly, thank you for taking the time to look at my question.

So, I'd love to know how to achieve this effect (pic below).  As you'll see it looks as though the ink is sitting on the brown paper and the ink hasn't totally covered it.

Thank you so much for your time and response.


texts: How to shear an arrow head in illustrator cc

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I am making a design and I really like the look of one of the arrow heads for a stroke - as seen in the picture.

The design is all on a perspective slant which I have been shearing text to get the desired look. However the arrow head just looks off next to the type. Is there any way to shear it? I tried converting to outlines and that did not work.

Thank you!


texts: Whenever I select an object by clicking on it in Illustrator CS6, the second I move my mouse it moves the object. Is there a way around this? I just need to select an object and then change it's color or font but as soon as I move my mouse, the object is moved 3-4 pixels.


texts: How Do You Use the Redeye tool in Photoshop CS5?

texts: I applied the redeye tool for my image, but after applying it, I do not see any major difference… How can I remove the red eyes in that image?


texts: Change Color Of A Monotone Icon To Another Color

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Basically, I'm a programmer and I'm pretty new to graphics design, and I don't have much knowledge of the keywords used by the graphic design community. That's why I'm facing problem in googling this out. I've an image like this:-

As we can see that there is only one color in it. How can I convert this icon into a red color, white color, or a custom HEX or RGA colored icon? As it is only one color and have a transparent background so I believe that this is pretty easy. But I don't know how.

Basically, I'm a GIMP user. If you can tell me this in GIMP then that would be great. However, if you can tell me this in Adobe Photoshop then I can search for similar technique in GMIP.

Thanks,


texts: Is anyone still selling 'Gordita' by TDF?

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We would like to buy a license for the font Gordita by The Designers Foundry. They are working on a version 2.0, so they mailed us they don't sell it any longer. That's why I'm asking here. Perhaps anyone knows a reseller who can sell us a license for the font.

We fell in love with it and need it for an identity system. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated :)

Cheers,

Sim


texts: How should I go about exporting objects with stippling?

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Example of the problem:

I'm new to illustrator and am stuck at the last stage trying to export my icon. The image is an example of part of the icon with stippling applied. Straight exporting as svg has a filesize of 8MB and too large for web purposes.
I'm hoping there's a way to export and have illustrator automatically delete all the shapes/path outside of the clipping mask (done through draw inside). I've tried flatten transparency at 100% vector, and expanding all the stippling and merging them. This has reduced the file size by a little bit but doesn't solve the boundary problem and is still too large.

I've tried googling but can't find anything that addresses how to efficiently export work with clipping masks.
Any ideas on how to proceed would be appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Why does the small h letter in Garamond italic bend inward?

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The small h letter in Garamond italic usually bends inward, as the following:

Sometimes it's difficult to distinguish it with b. Can anyone give some (historical) reason for that?


texts: How to blacken all pixels below certain brightness level in a grayscale image in Gimp?

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I have a grayscale image in Gimp. I need to blacken all the least bright parts and only keep those that are above certain brightness threshold. For example, initially all grayscale pixels lie within 0-255 range of brightness. Those that are, say, below 128 need to become black and those that are above 128 need to stay intact.
How can I do it in Gimp?


texts: How do I convert B&W penciled book drawings to Illustrator colored drawings?

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I have an opportunity with an author, but I want to see if I can even deliver first, if I were to take it. The author needs her current black and white drawings to be in color for a book she is putting online. The images for the children's book are scanned jpeg files of actual artwork. Her book art reminds me of stuff from the 80 or 90s - the drawings aren't Blue's Clues type of artwork. She had some already in color and showed me those. The illustrations are also created to looks to be pencil. As you can imagine some black lines are darker than others for example, lots of variety of colors in the form of lines, curves, squiggly lines to add details on the main subject (whether it is hair on a person, plants, clothes, etc).

Imagine the artwork being similar to these:

I have a few of her book illustrations and I am trying to figure it out. I've tried Image Trace (low color) but the lines become fat once you hit expand and you loose the details.

My question: 1. How do I convert this scanned image to an illustrator file with paths/points (like image trace>expand does)? 2. How do I convert black and white to color, as specific as down to the line of the pencil drawn for one detail.


texts: Is there a kind of font with consistent stroke width across sizes?

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In normal outline fonts, as the font is scaled down, the stroke weight also gets smaller, until at some point the characters look almost invisible. Is there a kind of font with fixed stroke width across all sizes, just like when written with a pen, so that the characters are always visible?

To clarify, I have this simple illustration:


texts: Illustrator- Resize different proportioned objects proportionally with fixed dimensions

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I'm working with two rectangles, one is 50x50px and the other is 46.3x46.3px. Oddly specific, no? But it's to illustrate my issue.

I'm trying to figure out if I can resize one object and simultaneously resize the other proportionally, but with fixed dimensions. See, when I select both objects and I want the smaller one to be 60x60px, then how big will the bigger object become exactly? If I select both objects and they are perfectly aligned, the bounding box and transformation tools will only tell me the height of the bigger box.

Using the transform each command is out of question, because it does not let me specify the dimensions for a key object.

Who can tell me how to achieve it, without using a calculator and math, if it can be done at all?


texts: Progressive line width increase in corel draw

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I would like to know if it is possible to draw a line in corel draw with variable width. I need to draw a line which is 1 px at the beginning and then grows progressively to 3 px at the end.

The line is a very difficult curve and I really can't figure out a way to do it.

I really hope this can be done. Thanks for your replies!


texts: Create a color shifting (chromatic aberration) effect using Illustrator

texts: I've got three copies of a vector in pure Cyan Magenta and Yellow colors. I wish to overlap them so that they merge to give a chromatic aberration effect letting a blackish color where they merge.


texts: How to convert a small logo into a big one in illustrator?

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I have a small old personal logo the biggest would be around (update:: 88x88  original:: ~100x100 pixels (before it starts to look pixelated) so everyone is telling me to convert it to a vector in illustrator but I was wondering how can I keep the same shape (its a old simple cutout) to become a smooth lets say 500x500px (or bigger...)

basically I like it to stay (look) as much as it did in a PSD just bigger so I can make a wallpaper out of it without looking blurred and pixelated.

PS: I have never used illustrator before.

edit: Here is what I wanted to make but bigger (the max dimensions are 88x88)

PPS: It doesn't have to be with gradient and shades I just want to convert it into a blank (dark or white) vector so it can be scaled down or up without making it look pixelated.


texts: How can I add perspective to something using Illustrator?

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I was trying to recreate this kind of image in Adobe Illustrator.

I had tried perspective grid tools in Illustrator as well as blend options, but couldn't get the proper result.  How can I create this using the perspective tool?


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When I store transparent images with shadows as .png I have filled areas instead of soft edges. It seems like it is a saving/compression or whatever problem because the .psd is in photoshop really fine and the same .psd worked for a transparent when he created the transparent .png.

This is how it looks as .png: http://puu.sh/gZdrh/8b8fc16424.jpg

This is how it looks in photoshop (red background):

http://puu.sh/gZdAf/6991e89fc4.jpg

What is causing this problem? It's a RGB / 8bit .psd


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When I was in practice back in the day, before computer-based type, recognising typefaces wasn't a problem.  I knew hundreds by sight, and the example books from the type houses were an excellent fallback reference when I was stumped. But now that everyone and their cousin's cat can kludge up a font (okay, that's hyperbole) I generally don't even try.

But I ran across a nice Modern Uncial being used as drop caps and I'd like to know what it is, if it actually has an existence separate from its use in the books where I found it.  I haven't tried to hunt it down myself and wouldn't want anyone else to spend any time either; I'm hoping only that someone will recognise it immediately, from having used it.

The underlying model is pretty standard 13th-14th century uncial as you can see by the A, B, M, and S.  The distinctive chars are the C, which breaks serifing, the G which is out of proportion, and the W, which is the double-V type.

Except for the C, I can practically feel my fingers pull out those elegant serifs with a twirl and lift of my pen.  But that bottom serif on the C is more suited to chisel and hammer.


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As part of my college project, I have chosen a well known local design company and I am redoing their logo, as you can see I have got quite far with the logo however I am having trouble finding a font to suit. I have tried dafont and 1001 free fonts and many other sites but I just cant seem to find a font that matches the beginning letters of each word. This is now the last resort as I cant seem to find one :(. Oh and I would prefer a free one! hehe

Update:

This is what the final piece was. Thanks for everybody that has helped. Its lovely to have somewhere to go to bounce ideas off of people as nobody I know or talk to are designers.

Thanks guys


texts: Border end caps not rounding on some shapes in Sketch App?

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I have been having trouble with border end caps not wanting to round up properly. I can't seem to find much about this issue, so I wonder if I'm just doing something wrong.

I start out with a normal shape, for example a rounded rectangle. I hide the fill and give it a border of 6px. I then use the scissors to cut something out and set the end cap to rounded.

As you can see, some shapes will round and others won't. Why? Is it the rounded shapes of 2 and 3? Is this a bug and is there a workaround?

What the path looks like:

And the shape is just about as basic as can be. No clipping or anything:


texts: recolor objects different versions from swatch (excel)

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My question is similar to Recolor Artwork: single swatch to multiple swatches, however, instead of coloring random squares, I have objects such as a shirt that want to make multiple versions of, the colors should not be random, but are pre-defined. I have a list of these colors in rgb format.
I would ideally like to make it so the shading textures in the shirt change appropriately as well. What is the best way to go about this, make x number of copies of the shirt in one artboard and recolor all of them from a custom swatch? Or can I use a script that takes the single shirt artboard and recolors it from an excel matrix. Very new to illustrator and its scripting so please be thorough in your answers! Thank you!


texts: Quickest way to create a 'stepped' or zig-zagged path in Illustrator?

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Is there a really simple way to create a stepped or zig-zagged path like this in Illustrator?

I created this by showing the grid, 'snapping' to it and drawing each step.

Ideally I'd like to find a way to draw a stepped or zig-zagged line by simply holding down a button, clicking and dragging. However I'm kind of expecting that creating a brush is the only way to do it.

Any ideas?


texts: Question on color theory and automatic color scheme generation

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I am majoring in Computer Science and me and my friend are doing our thesis on Color Theory (in particular, automatic color scheme generation).

We have created some models that create palettes from given colors based on color wheel combinations. Another model is based on data taken from Adobe Kuler color palettes and ratings, where the scheme is created in such a way to achieve the highest rating given by the model.

The thing is that our advisor wants us to find a way to measure the quality of the work done, i.e. how do we know that the palettes proposed by the model are actually aesthetically pleasing? I know that this question has the subjectivity component to it, but can you suggest any ideas on how to measure the effectiveness (whether the color schemes make sense aesthetically) of our methods? Thank you!


texts: Using game related images, wallpapers etc in commercial design products

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I am looking to expand my graphic design services more into the gaming & esports space. For example, esports jerseys, Twitch.tv streaming graphics, web themes & templates, etc.

In many cases users love to have specific game related assets (sprites, character artwork etc) including in the designs. There is currently to my knowledge no Shutter Stock type exchange for officially licensing game related assets. Most hobbyists and gaming graphic artists typically grab wallpapers and screenshots publicly available for a given game (often from the official developer website) and modify them to their needs. However this is a niche space that I believe flies under the radar or concern of the larger companies.

Many game developers will offer a "Media" repository on their official website, with artwork and wallpapers for their game. However there's usually no permitted use or licensing info.

Is there a legal way to use game related artwork or wallpapers in commercial products or graphic design services?


texts: I'm using Pixelmator instead of Photoshop. The problem is there are no books on learning Pixelmator. Is there a book that teaches design techniques that is not centered around Photoshop? Where can I read about "layers" "masking" and the like without needing Photoshop?


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Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar?

I'm really sorry I'm unable to provide more letters due "technical issues" and, as I've read in similar topics, answering anticipatedly, yes, I've cleaned the image, as best as I could (as I'm not a designer), as well as I've tried to identify by myself in WhatTheFont, FontSquirrel and "manually" in IdentiFont

Closest I've got was Arial, but although very similar in some letters, some didn't match.


texts: Photoshop: How to paint black and white image to purple and yellow

texts: I need to make my black and white image purple and yellow. Turn all black colors to purple, all white to yellow and all grey shades to proportion of purple and yellow the same as black and white in original image. Is there a way I can do this in photoshop?


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How Do I make something similar to following image in Photoshop?

(Click to see larger)

I thought of creating a curved shape by pen and then apply the tiled pattern to it but not sure how to create the pattern and spherical effect.

I need the whole shape and its inside pattern vector.

Thanks


texts: Overlapping backgrounds cause unwanted borderline

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I'm trying to hide the borderline between the overlapping differently colored backgrounds. Has anybody a tip how to deal with this:

I have tried the brush tool, but the result wasn't acceptable.

Thanks and great day :)


texts: Making text stand out in front of images

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I'm trying to make my text stand out in front of my image. I've seen sooo many websites that do this well:
e.g.
http://brewsters.ca/

However I clearly am not:
http://immehabayas.com/

I wanted to know what exactly are they doing to the images so that the text stands out so well (even without one of those containers with opacity).

NOTE: I'm not looking for: "why don't you use a black container with an opacity.

THANK YOU!


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I'm doing layout design, pro bono stuff for my uni, and I haven't done much designing lately. But back when I did my high school newspaper I remember what I was told: your pictures must be in .tiff format.

Now why is .tiff so favored by print? As a person who is not professionally involved in graphic design, I would say that it's the resolution that counts (the bigger the better, since that way I don't loose the quality when resizing).

Because what good will a 400x400 tiff image be if I need it to be 10x10 cm big? In the end it would still be pixelated, right?

So what's so special about .tiff? Because the color information?


texts: Is it possible to convert photos created with an uncalibrated monitor to the calibrated profile?

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I ordered a Colorimeter and I am wondering if it is possible to save my old monitor ICC profile before the calibration so that I can later in Photoshop convert my old images to the new profile so that I will have the colors I originally saw on my uncalibrated monitor

I am a total newbie regarding color management so feel free to educate me on any relevant details regarding this that I may have overlooked


texts: What program is functional, yet simple to work with in order to create a 3D model?

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I'm fairly new to this 'creating models' and shapes on an online program. I'm willing to create a model for a Digital Design class I take and wonder what program to use.

I've made an account for scratchcad, but need a WEBGL in order to use it and not too sure if I can do this on the device that I have...

My idea is a small device that converts sound energy to electrical energy and it looks like a speaker, because it would use that energy collected to fuel it's own power to play music.


texts: Make 15 lines / ticks with Photoshop, each of them rotated of 20°

texts: I would like to draw a few short lines, each of them rotated from the previous one of 20°, to do a knob graduation (here only 9 ticks). How to do this in Photoshop?


texts: How to create perspective with curved lines?

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I have a simple task:

I want to create a train track that's slightly curved and disappears in the distance. The best I've achieved so far is the following image which I created with Affinity Photo:

It transports the idea but when you have a closer look, it's clear that the perspective is wrong: The planks should get much thinner in the distance, but they appear to be somewhat distorted instead.

How can I do this right?

I guess I'll have to start with something like the follwing as a first step. What's step number 2?

(I currently don't have an Adobe subscription, so I'd welcome a solution with Affinity or Inkscape or some other software. But I'm also curious how an Adobe solution would look like.)


texts: What it the name of the computer art that seems to zoom forever?

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I was watching BBC Click today, and they showed this website where there was a picture that, when zoomed in, it does not get hazy.

You actually zoom straight into another picture, and this just goes on and on. It is like a sort of infinite zooming. Could anyone tell me the name of this and even a place on the net where i can see this.


texts: Collapsing a continuous gradient onto shape(text) only - in Illustrator

texts: As can be seen in the image provided I want this logo to have the 'water' gradient collapsed onto text only. Even if it likely means deleting the areas that fall outside the text after. At a complete loss how to do that.


texts: How can I create a spherical perspective grid in Photoshop or Illustrator

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How can I create a spherical perspective grid (six point perspective) in Photoshop or Illustrator CS5 where the poles are shown on the top and the bottom (exactly like the image below).

I have explored the 'polar grid tool' in Illustrator and the 'Vanishing Point' filter in Photoshop. Neither of these tools are able to create this kind of perspective grid.

If possible I would like to find a method that allows customizations like, setting the number of concentric and radial dividers like how the 'polar grid tool' works, rather than trying to build it with shapes or something..

Thanks for any help

EDIT: I have learned that this is referred to as Six Point Perspective.

EDIT: reference image source, in case its at all useful


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I want to create a T-shirt to commemorate the tenth edition of a gaming convention and I had the idea to have the names of all the games that were played during the convention form a big roman numeral X.

I'm looking for a free program, app or plugin that allows me to insert chunks of text (the names of the games) and automatically sorts them to fit the shape as nicely as possible, without mixing the words in the same chunk (but if they continue on the same or on the following line it's ok).

Multi-directional words forming the shape is ok too but those usually make some words too small for the t-shirt printer.

Do you know a program that can create such a thing?

I can easily work with the image of an X or even a raster image.