texts: I have converted some svg fonts into paths and saved them in a svg file. I then use the paths (by referencing the paths using the xlink:href attribute of the use element) to use the converted font glyphs in another svg drawing but i want some reasonable horizontal space between glyphs. I know i am doing it wrong, but what i did was to multiply the horiz-adv-x of the original font element (horiz-adv-x="246") by 16 (since 1em = 16 pixels) as the default horizontal value to be added to the x coordinates of the drawn glyphs. This generates a huge horizontal distance. My question is first are the horiz-adv-x values in em units and how should i get a reasonable horizontal space for my converted glyphs considering these values (by reasonable i mean so that the font glyphs are not overlapped by each other)?


texts: How to downsample an image to match a 16-bit color mode?

texts:
NOTE: I'm a systems administrator, not a graphic designer, so I'm a total n00b when it comes to image manipulation.

That being said, I thought this would be the best forum to ask this question:
I am setting up a terminal server farm where the desktop shows our corporate branded background image.  The problem is that the RDP session is limited to 16-bit color, and it creates a visible and annoying vignette pattern in the image which looks unprofessional.

Is there any way to downsample the image to a 16-bit color palette and use dithering to reduce the color banding in the image?

I'd rather use GIMP since it's free but I can borrow a computer with Photoshop in it if I have to.

----EDIT----

I cross-posted this question on Server Fault and got the following information:

  "5/6/5 has always been how Windows has handled 16-bit video modes (at least, in my memory) so I'd be inclined to grab a Photoshop filter that dithers to 5/6/5 format and tweak from there."

Is there such a filter in Photoshop that I can use?


texts: How to optimize the packing of multiple shapes inside a page for print

texts:
Is there a tool inside or outside of Adobe Illustrator which packs custom shapes inside an (say) A4 page?

This would be an optimization for printing the same element multiple times on the same page.

Example doodle:

This example involves rotation, but it'd be ok without too.


texts: It is window with tools such as magic-wand -selector but cannot find anything from Tools or View -dropdowns. So how can I get the Tools -window back after closing it?


texts: How best to adjust the colour of different parts of an (all raster) image that are on the same layer?

texts:
I am attempting to experiment with different colours for the grey, orange and pink areas of this image. They all appear with no separation on a single layer.

So far I've tried selecting and separating them on to their own layers, then adjusting the hue/saturation of those layers. This did not work, however, as I only succeeded in adjusting the entire image.

What's the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there a easier way than using hue/saturation and adjustment layers? I can't quite figure out how the resulting colours correspond, so it would be easier if I could select the colours I wished to use directly...

Thank you in advance.


texts: Importing layers from another InDesign doc via script...?

texts: Is there a way to have layer imported into an Indesign document from another separate INDD file (contents intact with paragraph and object styles) upon running a script?


texts:
I struggled to find this font used to print a receipt. I have already tried several online tools without success.
It has some serifs and I'm almost sure it's a monospace but cannot figure out the name.

Sorry for poor quality. If needed I could provide more samples.
Thanks.


texts: Feedback on font and color choices in the logo

texts:
I got my logo back from the designer, and I liked the logo image, but I didn't like the color choices or font. The font he used was too futuristic/space ship looking, and the colors were too heavy. I wanted to show a touch of playfulness and whimsy to highlight my personality.

So I have been playing around with the colors and fonts, but I am not sure it works.

Beacon Point, my business, offers one-on-one English tutoring, online writing courses, editing, and content writing.

Option #1:
I like the two purple colors (purple is my favorite color, and I thought the gold feather was playful and exciting, but it might be too much. I like the font in my business name, but it may not work with the font in my tagline.)

Option #2:
This gets rid of the gold and simplifies the logo. But I am not sure if I like black being used in the loop. I also tried another font for business name, but I am still not sold.


texts: Adobe Illustrator - Apply brush to single stroke in appearance panel

texts: Trying to create a graphic style.  Basically, it is multiple strokes applied with different widths, opacity, etc.  I wanted to see if it was possible to apply a brush to a single stroke within the style - in other words, one of the stroke items on the appearance panel.  There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this.  Using CC 2021.  Any ideas?


texts: How can I create a custom shape with round edges on Photoshop CS6?

texts:
I'm trying to create a custom shape overlay in the navigation bar similar to the example below.

I'm struggling with trying to create the radius around the bottom edges. I'm not too great with the pen tool, I find it hard to create the 'bend' of the shape. What is the best way to create this shape?


texts:
I'm trying to make a hexagonal grid, I want each hexagon to be it's own shape, with no extra paths.

I've tried a bunch of different methods to create a hexagon grid, something like this (where each hexagon is it's own shape/path):

[The artifacts you see now are merely a rendering issue in Illustrator, once I export it, it looks better.]

I've tried creating the shape and manually cloning and placing it while using smart guides, which is extremely hard to align properly.

I can get one side aligned easily, just not the other:

Using Transform Effect is also quite difficult, since I don't know how I can get the exact values of (the different) distances that they need to be moved. (It's probably some mathematical equation @joojaa)


texts: Previewing my design in browser makes it larger

texts:
I haven't been able to find the answer to this which is really frustrating. My zoom level on both chrome and firefox are 100 . My zoom level in adobe fireworks on the same machine is also 100. For some reason the design i create in adobe fireworks which is sharp and smaller is quite a bit larger and more fuzzy in both firefox and chrome. Why is this and how do i fix it? This must be a common problem but very strange.

Thanks allot for your help.


texts:
I am getting into motion graphics, video editing, some 2d and 3d, compositing (the whole vfx pack). I am getting good at handling the software I am using, and have completed a bunch of tutorials and mini courses (freebies). I want to get into more serious projects and particularly to work as a freelancer, creating 2d intros for people, editing templates, 2d motion graphics for channels or plain video editing.

The problem is I am not a particularly creative individual. I can't seem to have any good sources of inspiration and don't have lots of great ideas. This is why I favor compositing, cause i get to put things together that are made by other people. I enjoy every part of creating and editing, but i don't seem to create a whole bunch. Getting into the business of logo/banner design honestly scares me a bit. But its something I wanna slowly get into, so i would appreciate any advice.

For those of you who have worked professionally, how did you deal with the pressure when you first started? Although I think I am sufficiently trained, I feel as though I am totally unprepared for a real world paid job and that I'll fail a customer. What level of skills is required to work at a platform like upwork of fiverr or something like that? Thanks.


texts:
I am trying to follow specs for iTunes app graphic.

The requirements state:
72ppi, rgb,flattended, NO transparency
High qualtiy PNG plus 8-bit alpha.

Everything I read about alpha is WITH transparency. How do I meet their specs?


texts: Similar plugin to GuideGuide for illustrator

texts:
I really like the GuideGuide plugin for Photoshop that really quickly allows you to setup guides.

Is there something similar to this in illustrator ?


texts: Is there a tool to extract colors at regular intervals along a curve or line?

texts:
I have an image on which I would like to sample colors.
It could look like this (it's the Novamind logo) :

I'm looking for a tool that could define a path ( Bézier, circle, regular polygons, for example), set the number of samples I want, and output the colors found along the path in various formats. I' not looking for a Photoshop plug-in, but more something like the DigitalColor Meter on OS X; it's a simple color picker.


texts: Do I really need an ſ (long s) in my typeface?

texts:
From what I can tell, the long s (ſ) is obsolete. According to Wikipedia (that well known fount of infallibility), it fell out of use in the U.S. and U.K. in the early 1800's[1] and it mainly survives in modern usage either in other forms (such as the integral symbol ∫), fraktur script (including a few logotypes) and historical reproductions[2].

If that is the case, why do so many modern typefaces include the character?

The following, for example, are roughly a ¼ of the "ſ"s available in the fonts I happen to have active at this minute (not installed, actually activated—à la font manager).

So what's the deal here? And more importantly, is there any point in me including one in any typeface I design (assuming it isn't a Fraktur script or historical reproduction)?


texts: How to turn the white colour portion to transparent

texts: I got this map icon in work in illustrator, and would like to turn those white dash line and the white outline of the location mark to transparent. Can you please advise me how to do it? Thank you in advance.


texts: Game development graphic design: Bastion-style

texts:
I am developing a game and I am particularly interested in a Bastion-like mapping style. This is a good shot:

I am unsure about how to achieve that. Currently I use both Photoshop and Illustrator. Any ideas?


texts: Good approach to rotated exports in Sketch App

texts:
I created some artboards with mobile screens. The screens are all symbols, with more nested symbols and elements. I want to make a nice preview of my designs and I'd like to rotate my screens to give it a fun look, kind of like this guy did:

However every time I try this, my edges look jagged or the images look very unsharp. The picture above doesn't seem to have this problem at all.

I tried flattening to bitmap; it results in an unsharp scale and jagged edges. I tried importing a symbol; it can't be scaled down easily. I tried exporting to photoshop and rotating there; even more horrible jagged edges and weird problems.

The best result I can manage to get:

Export artboard to .png at smaller size
Rotate png layer

But as you can see, it still leaves jagged edges:

I'm out of ideas on how to achieve clean, non-jagged edges on rotation, but I see so many people doing this. What is the best approach?


texts: How do I merge these two objects in Inkscape such that the space in between is gone?

texts: I'd like to remove the white space in the screenshot I took of an Inkscape file and merge the two pink objects together into a single object.


texts: Margins only displaying on document pages, not master pages

texts:
I'm running into a problem I haven't encountered before; I set up a document in InDesign and my margins are correct on all of my document pages, but when I click on the Master page they are not showing up.

I checked Margins & Columns from the Master page and they appear to be correct, but again, no pink and purple guides. Guides are turned on and nothing is hidden. I even tried to just work around it by placing the elements I need on the Master page on a document page, cutting, and pasting in place but when I tried it, InDesign pasted the element on the Master in a wonky spot about two inches to the right of where it was on the document page.

Any idea why this is happening or how to fix it?


texts: How would you recreate this rough brush style?

texts:
I'm still learning and getting used to brushes and stumbled upon this deadpool design. I really like the style so I'm currently trying to recreate it to learn from the process.

I tried it with different splatter/splash brush styles, even tried to create some scatter brushes (if they are called this) but never quite getting close to this style.

So my questions to you, if you would recreate this style:

would you use vector or pixel (I think both are fine in this case, though as its only one color, a pixel scatter brush with a random luminance factor wouldn't be necessary)?
would you create a scatter brush or just use many different brushes and "speckle" the design?
would your approach be something completely different?

Sorry for the beginner question, I'm having trouble finding tutorials for this topic.


texts: Does the current web typography from the browsers stylesheets follow a Fibonacci sequence logic?

texts:
I am trying to understand and write a source document that links the PT, or Movable Type to the web typography that we all know today, to be a better Designer and inspire others into Typography. Also, These origins are important not just to a better UX, Design but also Development. I am trying to understand how the decisions behind the Browsers' default CSS stylesheets, such as why they use 16px at 19.2 px line-height in Firefox, and if this is any way connected to the Metal/Wood Movable Type used in the early Print or follows a Fibonacci logic.

Is there any Web Typographic Consortiums that regulate Typography?


texts:
I'm trying to figure out how to distribute some square objects evenly all the way around a path. It's a rounded rectangle.

I've tried using object > blend but there's only an option to align the objects to the center of the path. Is there another tool that can be used to accomplish this?


texts: How to reduce banner image size for website, which is best way?

texts: I have created a product promotional banner using Photoshop and uploaded it to my server. The size of the banner is too high. So, my website takes a long time to load. How do I reduce the the image size in Photoshop? Or should I use other software for better or easier results?


texts: How to get a circle to snap its size to a specific radius?

texts: I have a diagonal line and I want it to be the radius of a circle. I can snap the centre of the circle to the first cusp node fine and extend it out from there, but for some reason it won't snap the path of the circle to the other cusp node. What am I doing wrong here and how can I circumvent it?


texts: One image divided by multiple tiles in Photoshop?

texts:
Is it possible to have multiple tiles(borderless windows forming a matrix) and each capture input separately?

Meaning, the tiles must appear as a whole, as one image, but receive input separately. The input tile is changed by clicking on another tile.

Motivation

I want to have a big image for sketching a big scheme; that image would be displayed by a projector; the input would come from a graphic tablet; and because the tablet's size is quite small for my needs, I need the image to be divided appropriately (I'm thinking, a 4x4 matrix).

Note:
It doesn't have to be photoshop. Any software that can do that and supports graphical tablets would do.


texts: Photoshop: how to resize a text box without distorting the actual text?

texts:
When trying to resize a text box in Photoshop, it is stretching my type instead of just making the box larger. It is a text box and not a bounding box.

It just started doing this out of the blue. How can I fix this?


texts: affinity designer iPad isometric grid snapping issue

texts:
I’m a newbie to affinity and one of the main reasons I got affinity for was its isometric capabilities. Maybe it’s my OCD but my main issue is that shapes and path nodes don’t snap exactly to the isometric grid. They always snap a little off.
I have snapping enabled, the grid is turned on and the only layer I have is the shape layer that I am trying to build.
Am I missing an option in the snapping settings or is this something else?


texts: Why can't I export a large .ai file to .png?

texts: I am trying to export a large AI file to PNG in Illustrator (Per request) and have been unsuccessful. I believe it's because my file is too large. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on how I can export that large file to PNG?


texts:
Some colors like #FFFF00, #00FFFF, #00FFFF, #FF00FF, #00FF00 seem really bright while others like #FF9900, #2D4FFF, #6699FF,#4603FF, #00FF5C don't.

I ask because I thought that any color with at least one maxed component forces the pixel to be at maximum brightness, so I would imagine every color with an #ff in it should be equally bright on screen.

Is this purely my perception, or are these colors quantifiably less bright than others on my screen?


texts: Transform/Distort Image points to new positions in Photoshop

texts: How do I transform the 4 points A B C D to 1 2 3 4 respectively so that the individual planes AB, BC, CD and DA are mapped and stretched evenly across into 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 4-1?


texts: How can I change the white color to random so it's still looking good?

texts:
I took a photo of some vegetable powders in small glasses. Now I would like to change the white color to blue or any other color (maybe gradient), so the color of the powders doesn't change (of course... :P) and the new background color would also be noticable on/through glasses.

Is it possible, to make it look really realistic?

Image will be used for a product sale web banner.

Thank you guys in advance!


texts: Adobe Libraries and Creative Cloud storage

texts:
this is probably gonna get comments like 'it belongs in Adobe forums' etc. but:

Does anyone know why CC -Libraries- and CC -file storage- are two different entities? I've been trying lately to start using libraries but I find it very cumbersome. IMO it should just be one space and you should be able to browse all content from the various Adobe Apps' libraries panel. Or maybe getting rid of the individual panels in each app and just have one app that interacts with all apps. (Like f.ex. pulling out CC Bridge and make it useful. Does anyone use Bridge?) I've been trying to look at learning material to find out what's a good way to use it, but I really can't see it.
Also I've been trying to upload multiple files to libraries at once from desktop, but it doesn't seem possible? I can only upload an open document? So I have to individually open, say 30 images in PS and then add each to library? Appreciate any useful hints on workflow with libaries, thanks.


texts: Best workflow for both google HTML5 banner ads and animated GIFs

texts:
We have recurrent product campaigns and we are moving on to HTML5 banner ads from just plain GIFs but we are still keeping both formats as some of our target audience is on old systems.

I am looking for the best workflow for making the banners in order to save time and not do the same things twice.

The banners I am making are in 7 different sizes. I am aware of the responsive format but these banners are a bit too complex for them to resize properly so I am sticking to fixed size for now.

I used Google Web Designer for the first HTML5 banner and getting the hang of it but I would like to find a way to convert the final to Gif as well.


texts:
Is there a simple way I can achieve this? I seem to be struggling to get a straight answer on this from searching on Google and other forums.

Or is the only option to open my InDesign file and individually convert all my swatches and images to RGB? This would be a real pain for larger documents.

I would do it in Photoshop but I could do with leaving all the text intact and it will be a PDF that people can view online.


texts: How differently the Scale Tool (S) works in Illustrator?

texts: Illustrator gives a tool to Scale objects (shortcut-s) but you can do the same thing by transforming the bounding box. I am just curious about how differently it works and in which conditions it is used to scale the objects?


texts:
I'm trying to make a vertical endless slider in Figma for an app and I run into a problem. The animation after the last slider is not transitioning smoothly. It keeps refreshing and clips.
https://www.figma.com/file/d0CEbOwSBFLQwNpdUNExMQ/Untitled?node-id=1%3A3
I think the problem is in the Interaction from imac-7 to imac-1. I tried different animations but its not working.


texts:
I have got a project of Book Cover design. The client is telling me that book cover should be print ready and ready to upload on Create Space.

I know if design is in CMYK color mode, means it is print ready so no problem with this. Create Space allows only 300dpi resolution cover design so my question is;

What image size should I use to design book cover?
I am designing both front and back sides with spine.


texts: Illustrator: how to join paths while preserving vectors

texts:
When joining paths in Illustrator, I get a straight line, even if I had vectors at the endpoints. Is there a way to join, preserving these vectors, so I don't have to figure out how to restore them when I actually want them?

i.e., going from this:

to this:

instead of this:

Any help would be appreciated, as this should be so easy.


texts: Why is Times New Roman the default font for high school papers instead of Times?

texts: It seems to me that Times is a superior font. On Microsoft Word at least, Times supports ligatures and Times New Roman doesn't. It may just be personal preference, but the symbols for Times are far superior. Why does Times New Roman always get preference over Times?


texts: Critique: How can I tie a logo into my website design at both mobile and desktop screen sizes?

texts:
I'm new to the graphic design section of SE, this being my first question here, but not new to graphic or web design.

I am in the process of making a free website for a new local eSports bar. The basic layout is there, but the logo looks out of place. (please note none of the grahpics were made by me and are currently just placeholders) The website uses media queries and there are 4 different size layouts based on width:

Very Large: 1051px +
Large: 751px - 1050px
Medium: 461px - 750px
Small: Less than 460

In my opinion, the logo looks perfectly in place on the "small" layout, but looks terribly out of place on the other three.

My Question: What can I do to tie my logo into the larger layouts so that it doesn't look as if it's just sitting there? (Resize browser width to see different layouts)

Website: http://pvp.comeze.com/


texts: What width should I design for when creating a website?

texts: I just got a freelance project to design the UI for a website. Can someone tell me what layout (dimension) is used to design a website front end in Photoshop? What are the basic dimensions used?


texts:
I'm new to design, contrast and color concepts but I'm trying to get my programming code snippets to look crisp, clear and very legible, without hurting the eyes. I'm looking for a font that is ideal for programming code snippets in a blog. I'm looking for a free web safe font.

The background color of my page is almost white (#eee) and the code snippets will be wrapped in a  container with the following CSS details

<div class="code-snippets">

</div>

.code-snippets {
   background-color:#070707;
   color: eee;
   padding: 20px;
   /*   font-family: ??? */
}

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance


texts: How to explain the reasoning for and against a font choice?

texts:
I have a client who runs a fairly traditional transport business; no thrills, creativity or fun about it.

Until recently, he has been using a combination of Bookman Old Style Bold for headings with Comic Sans MS for main content on all internal and external documentation.

I have tried to explain in a neutral manner (without offending) that his ongoing clients expect a level of professionalism that Comic Sans just does not represent, despite that he has often stuck to his guns.

As the person who makes most of the new documents, I have sort of forced him to change over a long period by simply using Bookman Old Style alone, and avoiding the topic of font when discussing the work. This is not exactly kosher in my opinion, as I'm making a decision for him.

How can I explain the reasons for using or not using a font, in a clear and concise manner?

How do you describe the effect that a font will have? Are there a set of broad categories that you can use to describe fonts (and maybe their personalities)?


texts:
I want to make a dashed line with an arrow, for UML, like this:

However in Sketch the border is also getting applied to the arrow, so I am getting an output like this:


texts: FOSS Font editing or creation tools for windows

texts: What are the best free or open source font editing/creation tools available for free on the Windows platform?


texts: How do I turn a full color design, into a 1-color design?

texts:
I was asked to design a piece of junk-mail advertising. It has to be one color. Here are links of how it should look:

What I want to know is, how do you get your design like that?

It's like everything was full color and changed to black and white.... well in this case to blue and white.

Is there a specific way to design like that. Or can you design in full color, and the printers will print it only in one color?


texts: Easy way in Illustrator to create template of grommets for printing on banners?

texts:
Easy way in Illustrator to create template of grommets for printing on banners ?
I'm at a print shop and would like to know an easy way to create a quick and simple way to stroke an object with a grommet pattern.

Thanks


texts: What are key elements that define a design as vintage?

texts:
Curious to know what key elements out there that some use or see that defines a design as vintage.  I know some would consider vintage by the typography or pattern used in the design but what are other elements that are key to define vintage?

Per the design below would it be defined vintage based on:

color palette?
typography?
pattern?


texts: How to pick CMYK colors in Adobe Illustrator Paragraph Styles?

texts: I'm trying to set CMYK colors to a Paragraph Style on Illustrator CC but it seems impossible to get over the preset colors list, mostly colors in RGB. Is there a way to choose colors I want in CMYK?


texts: Beginner in Photoshop, how can I take an iPad psd file and put an image inside it?

texts:
I have a screen shot image for my app. What I am trying to do is insert it into a nice image of the actual device.

So I downloaded this image:

but I am clueless about how I can cut out just the front-facing ipad image, and place my screenshot instead of its screenshot.

Could someone please explain the process?

Thank you!


texts:
I am a front-end web developer and I like design a lot, as matter of fact - lately, I am focusing more on UX/UI design to create top-notch products for my clients.

Coming from coding background, I find myself struggling a bit with design patterns and creativity for new concepts. Some clients come to me and simply just ask for a website without any idea of what they want or maybe just a reference to 1 or 2 sites. They provide me with only images and expect me to come up with a beautiful and functioning website. Although, I get inspirations from looking online and following a lot of designs articles but still, I lack the ability or struggle to come up with new concept and design on my own.

So my question is:

How can be creative for new concepts of designs
How do I learn to create unique designs
Is it hard to learn a bit of graphics just to put some effects to my designs

I am open to any ideas and suggestions, thanks a lot in advance.


texts:
I would like to know the steps to achieve the colour effect in the picture below.
As you can see, the overlaying parts between objects have different colours. I believe this is done with some layering manipulation. However, I'm not aware of how it's done.
Using an example, how can I make the intersection between the two circles below green and maintain the non-intersecting area as it is.
P.S.: This work it's not my own, so I did not included the entire drawing.
Referencing the author's Instagram: @totoi_semerena


texts: I need help creating a specific type of background in photoshop for a packaging mockup

texts: I would like to create a background similar to the one attached, but I am not sure how. Please help. Hopefully someone can explain how to, or can link me to a site/video on how to do this. Thank you.


texts:
How do I set the canvas size in MyPaint 1.1.0? There is no dialog when creating a new document and there seem to be no options or settings in any of the menus.

The exact same question was asked on a forum thread and answered with a now outdated link.


texts: When using the rectangular marquee tool, are there guides to show the center while selecting?

texts: When selecting something with the rectangular marquee tool, I'd sometimes like to see where the horizontal and vertical center are.  Is it possible to turn on some kind of guide that shows center information, or at least some kind of grid?


texts:
Was told if you want to send your design to the print shop for mass printing, best set up your .ai for CMYK. But CMYK have muted colors, if i want to select a specific color (see below). Can CMYK to this? or want would you guys do, if you are facing this issue?

Appreciate


texts: How can I improve the specification table on the back page of this brochure design?

texts: I'm working on a brochure for this Garmin device and would appreciate some feedback! In particular, how I could improve the Specification table on the back page and any design tweaks you think are necessary. Thanks for your help :)


texts: Why does Illustrator create those corners when using expand compound shape in Pathfinder

texts: So whenever I use "expand compound shape" (pathfinder selected button on the bottom left on that image) Illustrator adds those random dark corner to whatever shape I have. why?


texts: How can I reset the grid rotation in Illustrator?

texts:
For some reason the grid got tilted in my Illustrator. Now everything has this tilted grid, even when I open new projects. I can't find anything online.

Any clue what's going on?


texts: How to remove a point from a closed vector shape in Illustrator without breaking the shape?

texts:
When I try to delete a node in a space, by pressing DEL, the closed-shape it gets broken (not-continous anymore).

How can I remove point from these without breaking them?

Note: I used Illustrator CS6, is this makes a difference.


texts: How to create a light highlight in Inkscape?

texts:
I have the following image created in Gimp.

I'd like to create a similar image in Inkscape. What I want to happen is to have a bright light source and I want this light source to brighten the circles having the most intense effect at the edge of the blue circle.

In Gimp I'm able to achieve this by having a white to black gradient as separate layer on top and setting the blend mode of that layer to addition (using the technique in this tutorial: http://gimp-tutorials.net/gimp-glow-effect)

How can I achieve a similar effect in Inkscape?


texts: Set white lines & strokes to transparent [Illustrator]

texts:
Good evening!

I'm having a problem finishing a logo for a customer. Basically I made an effect like this with 2 text blocks and 2 white lines:

The letters J and C are 2 different text blocks with a white stroke of 2 pixels and then, in the middle of the letters 2 lines (white aswell).

The problem comes when I export it in png and use it in a different background (not white). It looks like this:

I've tried following what I saw in this post: How to create a transparent stroke in Illustrator and made the opacity of the strokes to 0 and then selected "knockout group" but this is how it looks now:

The problem here is:

There's no space between the J and the C like the first picture.
I wasn't able to do the same with the lines.

Is there a way to reach the effect of the first picture but with transparency instead of white?

Thanks you!!


texts: I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text.  Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of it in newly sized boxes?  Thanks beforehand.


texts:
In Photoshop 2019 it's possible to set guides to 50% of the canvas; I tried to do the same in Ai but it didn't work: i had to calculate the distance in points, and then set it manually with move guides (ctrl+shift+m).
Is working with percentages of the artboard possible in Illustrator 2019?


texts:
I have a text frame as wide as the document. It's divided by 12 columns (settings of the frame itself).

How can I set a line to a range of e.g. 10 columns?

There are only the options 2/3/4.


texts: Trying to make a logo similar to this in Inkscape but cannot get the parts of the circle to cut out around the image. I've tried everything. Difference, intersection, Object-Set-Cut. Nothing works. The image I am using in place of the bicycle is also ungrounded.


texts: Show 3x3 grid when cropping picture on Affinity Photo/Designer

texts:
I would like to have a 3x3 grid shown when I'm cutting a picture.
I've tried changing the grid settings but it does not get adjusted to the picture as I expect and it seems to need a lot of trial and error to get a 3x3 grid depending on the picture I'm using.
I am interested in having this grid shown and automatically adjusted to the picture when I am attempting to crop it. That way I can make sure the composition of my image is making sense.


texts: Rounding and aligning crescent shapes in Illustrator

texts:
I am in the early stages of developing a logo using Illustrator CS6 and am having a real issue.

I used the shapes tool to make the circle and then using another 75% smaller circle, I created the crescent shape using a Pathfinder "Exclude". What is the best way to make the end points on each of these crescent shapes rounded? Also, I'm struggling to get each of these shapes evenly spaced inside each other.


texts: How Would I remove the lights from the windows in this city picture

texts:
I have a mockup of my take on removing the lights from the city but It looks really scrapped. Thank you to anyone who might be able to help. I work on photoshop CC 2020
Picture with Lights: https://imgur.com/LEmisa2
Edited Picture without lights: https://imgur.com/VohCIHB
It doesn't need to be extravagant (Just better than mine) as it's a collab with someone who is using it in their visual effects edit.


texts: What do you call the inverse of an ease-in-out curve for tweening?

texts:
I understand that an ease-in-out curve starts slow, gets fast in the middle, and then ends slow. But what if I want the opposite of that? Starts fast, slow in the middle, ends fast? The reason is that I want to simulate a super-high jump. I'd like to use it but can't find any info about it because I don't know what it's called, and searching for "inverse in-out-ease" is not working out for me.

I'm sure people use this all the time on their websites but I just can't find any info on how to do it.

Thanks in advance.


texts: When using "quick export as PNG" on Photoshop, the file exports with huge dimensions

texts:
When using the "quick export as PNG" option on Photoshop, the file exports with different, enlarged dimensions.

I.E. the canvas size on photoshop is 8.5x11 but exports at 35.42x45.83.

See Here:

Pretty new to this - anyone have any ideas?

Thank-you!


texts: Where can I find icons / vector art of everyday objects?

texts:
I am designing an application that requires between 100 - 200 icons / vector art of everyday objects - grandma, banana, boat, etc.

The resource that I've found that is closest to my needs is The Noun Project but, preferably, I would like something with a bit more color.

Are there any similar resources for this purpose?

(Note: I know I will have to pay someone for a unified look and feel, but I would like to mock out the application with default icons initially.)


texts: What are the basic rules for designing a book (novel)?

texts:
I promised my friend I'd design a book for him he's releasing for free and I could use the help of you guys.

I'm going to use the latest InDesign. The book should be in .pdf format and is intended for printing.

I googled as much as I could and this is what I found out:

the project size should be 6'' by 9''
the best font to use is Adobe Garamond Pro for text and Helvetica for headers
outside margins should be 0.5'' and the inside margin should be 0.75''

I don't know what font-size/line-height to use for text.

I think these are the basics I found out. Can these be improved on? What else should I know before I start? Any recommendations?

Also, I live in Europe, where we don't use inches. Should I still set the sizes to the inch values, or should I somehow use cm/mm ? Because 6'' / 9'' does not convert to a nice cm/mm value.


texts: Highest contrast colour for annotation of greyscale image

texts:
When making figures for research papers I often have to do line annotations on greyscale images, such as the example below:

The problem, as can be seen in the image, is that a colour that has high contrast in the light areas of the image is often hardly visible in the dark parts.

What colour, or set of colours, have the highest contrast in this situation?


texts: How To remove alternative layout in InDesign?


texts: Photoshop - Export Asset with multiple clipping masks

texts:
How could I export all my clipping masks (the clipping masks in different colors and pattern - 32 clipping masks) in one go with a single asset/model?

My normal approach is to export manually, one by one of the clipping masks which consumes a lot of times.
When I am using the export → Layers to files → it only export out all the clipping masks without the asset/model in it.

Any work around of these?


texts: rotate 3d object at specific point with photoshop CC

texts:
Hello I want to create some simple assets for my iOS game but I'm very new in creating graphics. What I want to create is a moving punching ball.

I created a 3d model for that but was not able to rotate the 3d model so it looks like it is hanged up somewhere. It is always rotating to the center point of the model.

It looks like this:

So how can I rotate this object to the point on top of the object so it looks like a hanging punching ball getting punched?


texts: Interaction of Color (albers) - book question

texts:
Wasn't sure where else to ask this, but I have just finished The Interaction of Colors, which is an excellent book by a Bauhaus legend. I had one glaring issue which I wanted to bring up-- in one of the plates demonstrating the concept of colors influencing each other, the author asserts that the small squares in the below screengrab are exactly the same color.

note artifacting errors caused by sub par scanner, but I wanted to include a prop for show and tell.

As you can see, even with the knowledge that colors can influence each other and present illusions, that it doesn't look like those squares are the same color.

I have read that later editions of this book (this particular edition is a later edition) suffered from reproduction errors, and this may be one such error. Does anyone have a picture of the original or some insight into what color the small squares actually would be?


texts: What is this style of jumbled, mixed words called?

texts:
I encountered this image that is very impressive and interesting to me.

In particular, I love the mixture way texts are presented.

I just wondered if there is a name for this style so I can Google for more similar images.


texts: Open a Photoshop document layer in a new File quickly?

texts:
My First Question here,

I have a lot of PSD's to work on in which my main job is to:

Copy a layer/layers
Make a new Document
place/drag them into the new document
Trim the image to size
Save as a PNG File
Then reduce their sizes to half and re-save

Then, I have to make a hell lot of images so all this is very time consuming..

I want to create a shortcut.

Is there any way, if I select on some layers or a layer, a shortcut to automatically open that layer in a separate document?


texts: Photoshop Actions Now Prompting for User Input?

texts:
I have a set of Photoshop Actions with many steps which are a vital part of my workflow. Recently, after upgrading to Photoshop CS6, it prompts me for user input at various stages which the Action steps never required before.

Contrary to what you might expect, none of the 'Toggle Dialogue On/Off' boxes are checked 'On' for any of the action steps. I have verified this several times.

I am trying to figure out a way to stop this behavior as it adds a lot more requirements on my attention than previously and I rely on these actions heavily for creating artwork.

Has there been a change in the actions system between CS5 and CS6 that might be causing this?
Does anyone know how to stop this?

Any help or insight would make my life a lot easier!

Thanks!


texts: Photorealistic cloud in a specific shape

texts: Say I wanted to create a photorealistic (or as near as possible) volumetric cloud in the shape of a space shuttle (or any complex object I guess), can anyone recommend a particular set of tools/method to do this?


texts: Change specific color to another in a PDF file

texts:
I have a PDF file whose objects' color are either pure Cyan or pure Black or a tint of them (30% Cyan or 50% Black, for example). The objects include texts, line strokes and vector fills.

Now, how may I change the Cyan color (and all the tints, of course) to another color, lets say to Green! It's for presentations only, so any workaround is greatly appreciated :)

P.S: Actually I've created the file using InDesign; and of course I can change the colors there, but the files include an immense number of linked EPS files (Math expressions) that would need to be modified manually! and since it's for presentations, it doesn't worth the time. Also; after each modification, the required color conversion needs to be done again to create an updated file for an updated presentation! So it defines the need. I do have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro, but I'm not restricted to the Acrobat Pro, any other tool is also welcome :)
P.S: The initial colors (the Cyan and the Black) are the final colors; and that's OK! Nevertheless, the colors need to be changed for presentation purposes only :)


texts: How to use Clip and Set in Inkscape by filling only the borders of the object, not the interior

texts:
I want to fill the outline of my object with another image. If I use Clip & Set, my object gets all filled.

My current object is a cat:

The black color should be replaced by an image, the interior of the cat should stay transparent. How to get it?


texts: How to randomly distribute a group of icons / graphics in a canvas?

texts:
I want to design something like this:

It has been established in previous answers that these are doodle graphics.

Some ways to make them manually are seen on here and here.

How can I make one or more doodles, select the group and randomly spray them on a canvas with a few skewed orientations?


texts: 1960s technical charts sans-serif all caps font

texts:
I'm trying to identify a font of which I don't even have an image, only a very distinct memory. I remember it having seen used in technical charts of about the 1950s / 1960s, e.g. diagrams describing the NASA satellite and moon missions. It is sans-serif, all caps, or actually more all small-caps since the letters tend towards a square aspect ratio more typical of small letters. The letters have a very clean appearance with no ornaments, none or almost no variation in line width, straight line ends, and a clear rhythm (without being monospaced). The weight is medium to bold.

Does anyone have an idea what I'm talking about?

Update: Thanks to JennaDesign who found an image containing the font:

What I was thinking of is the font used in the bold labels in the lower part of the image in all small-caps, "mission", "edition", "date". Comparing with the title of the document "flight plan", it appears now as if the other labels are actually the small letters of a small caps font, whose large letters are used in the title.

Does someone know what this font is?


texts: How does the income of your target audience matter for logo design?

texts: I see this question being asked in logo and branding discovery phases. Anyone want to weigh in as to why this is?


texts: why blur of drop shadow becomes blocky while saving pdf from illustrator

texts:
While trying to save an ai (illustrator) file to pdf, the blur portion of drop shadow lost and it looks blocky. Please look at the screen shot of pdf below:

You can see that the blurred portion of drop shadow becomes solid color and even becomes block at SEVEN word. But if I reopen the pdf in illustrator, the blur looks ok.

Why this is happening and how to resolve this issue?


texts: Low res vertical photos using Photoshop CS5

texts:
I´m using .raw files in CS5 and saving them to .jpg and they are all unedited...

The portrait photos are all being compressed and have low res while the landscape ones are fine, why is that? I have reset my setting in CS5 with no result. I just processed 200 photos for a client and half of them (all portrait ones) won´t print larger than a 4x6.


texts: Giving a light brown/fazed/grained effect to images in AI-CS5 (disorting/pixelization of images on purpose)

texts:
In reverse engineering a letterhead, the actual image is as follows scanned as 300 dpi.

This is what I have come up with.

It is achieved by placing high resolution images, drawing rectangles and creating a clipping mask.
As it comes with Clients, no matter how hard I explain that the new (bottom) is actually better than the old (top), my Client made it very clear that he needs for the images to be 100% (not the term he used, but "as close as you can get them to be to show us that we are paying the right guy" was the term actually used) indenticall.
I guess my question is how would I go about giving the images a fuzzy effect. I have already applied the "feather effect" to achieve the white-ish borders in AI-CS5.
Maybe it is the fault of the scanner. But a ideal solution would be is to give some kind of mask/filter (I don't know these terms, but they come around often in PS & AI) to give a indentical/same color effects to all the images.


texts: How much should a computer science undergrad charge for web design/development services, when just starting out?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What price should I charge for design services?

I'm a computer science undergraduate and have recently successfully applied for a web-design job but have a few questions.

Before a contract is drawn up I have a discussion scheduled to discuss salary and other details, but I'm not really sure how much to ask for?

I'm 18
I'm currently in full-time study so will be working part-time, therefore paid by hour - roughly 10-15 hours a week
The majority of the work will be graphic design with PHP/ASP coding every now and again.
My main reason for this job is to gain some real-world experience in the hope of actually getting a decent, related, job when I graduate.

They want me to officially start work after Easter but however they also want me to work on a small re-design over the Easter holidays (that's fine with me) in order to understand the company better, start to get familiar with their processes and show them what I'm capable of.

However, they want me to quote for this but again, not sure what to charge. I've done websites for friends/friends of friends in the past but charged fairly low rates(£50-£100 for some fairly advanced stuff, i.e. Paypal IPN etc).

The website I must re-design is a fairly simple, static, website with just a few pages.


texts: Command-line bitmap tracing with inkscape

texts: Suppose you want to trace multiple bitmaps with some fixed inkscape tracing settings, is there a way to do it automatically with a batch file?


texts: I'm looking for a font that has the same look as the late 90s early 2000s Audi LCD displays. The closest match I have found is Register Font but the spacing between "pixels" is too big. Thank you in advance :):


texts: Small outline icons from illustrator to photoshop

texts:
I had created 24x24 pixels size outline icons (width: 1 pixel) on
AI6 and I also used the Path/Outline stroke at the end. When I paste it as shape layer, smart object etc. to Photoshop it looks fuzzy.

The icon located in pixel perfect without any decimal value and
I didn't resize it in Photoshop.

What am I missing? could be that there is no way doing that for small icons?

Thank you


texts: Is it possible to animate a PNG in a website?

texts:
We saw this page and wanted to know if anyone can point us in the direction of how this was created?

https://www.zoho.com/creator/

Watch the PNG move and animate.


texts: Applying a torn effect on a text rectangle in InDesign

texts:
I have the following text rectangle in InDesign, to which I would like to apply an effect that looks like it was torn, on the bottom.

The most I could do, is to add a rule below to the last paragraph, but this doesn't look good at all. Is there any way to change the appearance of the bottom border of a text rectangle in InDesign?


texts: How to create an image with complex gradient?

texts: I need to create an image like this, but I do not know what software or technique to use. I tried to use the Mesh Tool in Illustrator, but the result is odd, also I tried to blur an image in Photoshop, but I need to use some particular colors.


texts: Line displays differently in SumatraPDF and Acrobat

texts:
When looking at a pdf file I noticed that a line was much thicker than it was supposed to be. Now it seems that Adobe Acrobat (both Pro and Reader) displays this line much thicker than SumatraPDF. I made sure the scaling of both programs was the same. Below are two crops at the same magnification that clearly show the problem. As I was under the impression that pdf should be platform independent, this seems like undesirable behaviour. Is this indeed the case, or am I misunderstanding something here?

For completeness, I'm using Acrobat Reader 11.0.18 and SumatraPDF 2.5.2 and the file was generated using pdflatex 2.9.5496 64-bit and pgf version 3.0.0.
Acrobat and SumatraPDF images, respectively:


texts: What is the best Adobe program to make an animated logo?

texts:
I already have the idea in my head but I'm not sure how to execute.

I have a couple of years experience with Illustrator and have designed several "stop action" artboards but I know there has to be a better way.

The logo is made up of several pieces of the same shape. I took all of the pieces apart and made it look like a puzzle to be put back together. The shapes move around, like the puzzle is being solved and when it is complete, it forms a hexagon. The hexagon will inflate like a bubble, then deflate slightly to the final logo, which is a hexagon with all sides slightly concave.

I have access to all Adobe programs now but I don't want to waste time learning several that won't help me achieve the end goal for this project.


texts: How to achieve the popular faded, matte effect used in website hero images?

texts:
I was wondering  how the effect in the included images is achieved, I have noticed it is a popular technique used in website banners and 'hero' images.

I am interested in specifically what adjustments might be helpful to achieve this. ie the muted colors, suppressed highlights and faded blacks. Another characteristic of this image (other than the 'bokeh' lens effect) that interests me is the 'hazy', 'soft light' feel to it. It appears the light is contouring and pouring over the edges of the subject(s) of the photograph.

Any thoughts and tips would be a huge help, regarding what the general workflow might be to achieve this.

Many Thanks for your time and help.

Reference Image


texts:
Me and my fellow co-workers are using PS and if one of us uses a font that the rest do not have you get those annoying warnings about not having that font... Is there a better way to share that font(s)? Like a shared folder that we could point PS to look for its fonts. This way all of us will be in sync.

Some of us are running Mac with PS5 and some Win7 with PS6.

Thank you in advance!


texts: Is there a feature to export a layout with dimensions?

texts: I'm creating a layout for a website with Affinity Designer. Is there a feature in Affinity Designer (or Photoshop/Illustrator) to somehow export a design generating all dimensions into the target file, so that a frontend developer can easily see which dimensions to use when building it? If not, how do you guys handle this problem?


texts: How to Illustrator Apply a value and keep focus in edit field

texts:
Shift + Enter

Apply a value and keep focus in edit field


texts: CorelDRAW X8: How to increase the number of colors in my color palette?

texts: I really need more colors to pick from. Right now I use the color hue cube to get more colors. I was wondering if there's any way to increase the number of colors/add more colors in the RGB palette itself?


texts: Importing a no-disposed frames animated GIF into Photoshop

texts:
I've been mucking about with animated GIFs for a while now, but I've only come across these in the last two days.

The last two times I just manually flipped on the layers frame by frame to create the "Do Not Dispose" effect, now I have a much longer GIF and just telling Photoshop to "Do Not Dispose" all the frames isn't cutting it

What I think is happening is the original software is Not Disposing more than one frame, but Photoshop isn't capable of doing that.

For the comparison, note the cyan LED ticker in the middle, the smoke on the bottom left, and the light on the road when something is passing on the highway.

Original:

Photoshop output:


texts: Adobe InDesign: Hidden/non-printing forward slash-markings

texts: I just came across a (to me) strange phenomena which I can't explain nor find an explanation for via Google. When editing a text, there are some forward slash markings in my text as non-printing characters. Can anyone explain to me what theses are?


texts:
On Android we know that the icon set is the Material font icon set from here: https://material.io/icons/

However I cannot find the name for the icon set on iOS. I have seen people say many different things. Some say Linearicons, some say Linecons but neither of these really look like iOS official to me.

Does anyone know the name of the official iOS icon font set, and where to get it?


texts:
I'm a freelance graphic artist.
I'm designing book covers and the book covers require stock images. I want to get stock images legally and have a couple of questions. Do I need to buy the stock images if only the client will see or use my design, or do I need to buy them before designing the book cover?

These are some of my designs as examples:


texts: How do you create alternate font glyphs/characters?

texts:
I used a font recently that had alternate glyphs assigned to each character. It was a handwritten font. Like someone scanned and traced a sample of their own handwriting. And I guess to make it look more convincing, each letter was scanned/traced several times.
So if you type the uppercase letter 'A' (or lowercase 'a', or whatever) four times in a row, it could appear as four similar, but slightly different (or sometimes quite different) variations. But it was only a single font. It also seemed to prefer a particular glyph variant at word boundaries. So, the first and last letter of each word might have elaborate flourishes or some fancy thing like that. In Adobe Illustrator, the alternates pop up as you type, and you get to pick & choose with the mouse.

Maybe this isn't uncommon, but it's the first time I've seen it. Anyway I'd like to create a new font of my own, or perhaps modify an existing one to utilize alternate glyphs in the same way. But how?

For example, this font is designed to look like the one from the iconic Coca Cola logo. But it can't really recreate the original because the original has two different "C" glyphs. Maybe that's not the best example, but you get the idea.


texts: Learning WordPress for designers does a framework help?

texts: I ask this question because it is in relation to Scott's thread here.  I understand we have a WordPress stack exchange but I wanted to know before I dive into WordPress how designers have approached learning.  Did you find it easier or beneficial to just dive into traditional themeing or did a pre-existing framework help?  I've debated frameworks and I have spent months researching possible issues because I would like to implement Woo and BuddyPress in my CMS but I'd hate to dive into a framework and realize that it isn't compatible with what I need to do.  What experiences have you had and is gantry a possible solid solution?


texts: How does Yoga Perdana colorize his illustrations?

texts:
If you haven't heard of him or seen any of his work, Yoga Perdana is a digital artist who, in my opinion, creates some really awesome illustrations with a very soft feel to them.

I believe I understand how he lays out his illustrations using circles, but I'm unsure of how he gives his art such a soft feel to it. There are definitely gradients involved, but his come out so different looking compared to mine.

Any ideas on the process Yoga takes in order to colorize his images while maintaining a very soft feel to them? Are there any tutorials available?

This is what I have so far:

I went off of Yoga's initial construction design, creating circles, using minus front to create the initial ring shape, and then using the outline pathfinder to create anchor points where the rings intersected. From there I deleted curves correspondingly to look like the original logo.

How do I connect all of the points to become a singular shape so I can add a gradient?

UPDATE (11:15pm): Just got the gradient working. I ended up joining the disconnected paths to create singular shapes in which I could insert a fill into. From there I selected all of my new shapes and filled them with a gradient.

This brings me to my next question, how do I create the shadows within the logo to create a sense of depth? I'm thinking about duplicating the shapes, creating a shadow gradient for each one, and altering their opacity to around 40%.

UPDATE (1/9/15): I was able to add some shadows to give the logo depth. All I did was duplicate pieces of the logo so that they were overlaid right on top of each other, and added some fade gradients to them.

However, I think there's still something that differentiates Yoga's logo from mine. Is he using some sort of grain or blur technique? I can't put my finger on it, but I definitely feel like something's different.

UPDATE (1/9/15 @ 5:01pm): I exported my logo as a png and loaded it up in Photoshop. Added some very fine grain (0.5 gaussian noise) and gave it a dark background to accompany it. Here is how it came out, Yoga's is on the left, mine on the right:

I realize the shape of the logo is not exactly the same as Yoga's, but I'd say it looks very similar design wise. Please give me any tips on how I can improve.

Til next time.
-Chris


texts: It is possible to convert a regular shape to a hand-written shape using illustrator?

texts:
I want to convert regular forms let's say for example a rectangle and circle to a hand-written looking forms using Illustrator or Inkscape(best scenario).
I don't want to use the pencil to draw the shape using the mouse.

Here is a an image that illustrate better the desired result:


texts: How to get a gradient (not color!) effect in paint.net or gimp

texts:
Is it possible to obtain a gradient (aka gradual) distort (or other) effect in paint.net or gimp? How?
For example:

pixelate: start on the left with pixels 2x2, and end on the right with pixels 10x10; or
motion blur: start from the top with blur distance equal to 2, and end on the bottom with blur distance equal to 20.


texts:
I want to make a white rounded rectangle (which will be used for an in-game alpha mask) and another layer which contains a drop shadow.  That way I can do quick export for the two layers. WITHOUT RASTERIZING

I use blue and red to help me provide the contrast to help me debug.

I have a rounded rectangle which I converted to a path.

I've created a vector mask where I reversed

When I create the clipping mask I get the following.  Which is close to what I want except for the white background as I just wanted the drop shadow with a transparent background.

I think I can do a layer mask but it seems I have to rasterize the path.  This is basically what I got when I rasterize.


texts: What is the best platform for displaying interactive PDFs on a tablet?

texts:
We want to produce a series of interactive PDFs which will be viewed on iPads by our employees in a retail environment (in 350+ locations in our region). We are looking for a delivery platform which will give us the following:

A clean, easy-to-use interface (the less options the better)
The ability to update these PDFs remotely
The option to view these PDFs in a 'library'.

We would really like to utilise the interactive and video aspects of interactive PDFs, so ideally the delivery platform would allow this.

Does anyone know of a piece of software (an app or a web-app), or an alternative delivery method that ticks these boxes?


texts: Indesign - Need to split between only 2 text boxes

texts:
first time here.

I'm working in Indesign and I was wondering if anyone knew how to split text between just two text frames/boxes.

To be clear, I'm not trying to unlink text boxes, but split them. I know you can split all text boxes using the script in the scripts window but it splits the whole story. I'm just looking to split from the text box linked above/ahead of another one. (think of it like a knife tool. lol.)

Is there another script out there I need? Any advice would be appreciated.


texts: Hiding parts of images falling outside the page

texts:
I'm using an image that it a lot bigger than my page and I don't want to make it smaller. Problem is, I see it entirely in my inDesign window, not just the part fitting into my document, but the rest of the image too, extending far beyond it.

Is there a way to hide this part? I don't need it and it distracts me too much.


texts: Little Gaps between rectangles when exporting .svg with Illustrator

texts:
i have these little white gaps between the rectangles (only in exported .svg files)
In illustrator im able to zoom in as far as possible without seeing any of these

Is there a way to fix this?
I already rebuild the thing with "Align to pixel grid" off.. But it changed nothing.. I tryied also combining the rectangles with the path finder, but thats only possible with rectangles of the same color (afaik, correct me if im wrong)..

the .ai file: host.lohr-it.de/tree.ai
.svg file


texts: Basic Illustrator Help, Design not transparent, trapped in white box, how do i fix this?

texts:
https://imgur.com/a/h8y5baH

Got the world clipart thingy from the online and vector traced it ( maybe not completely, not sure ) and was trying to put it next to some text for a design. Problem is it's not transparent and is in this white box, so when i try to place it next to the text the white overlaps and doesn't work.


texts: Photoshop - unkown effect applied (facebook and linkedin)

texts:
I am trying to understand what is the effect that is applied in the dashboard icons of Facebook and LinkedIn android application. They change the icon when the user press it, replacing to another darker icon. In the following links you can see the original icons.

LinkedIn:

Facebook:

I am not a photoshop expert so I can't figure out what is the effect that was created in the hover icon.  It seems to be a gray transparent mask over the original image. I am thankful for any answer to this question that can lead me to the same effect.

Also, what is the best approach to have the same border lines in my icons. They have smooth borders using a lighter color.


texts:
(Note that as far as attempts go, I can't find anything that helps me)

I have a 3D polygon, and for simplicity's sake it's going to be the one below:

It is textured using the UV map below:

Side Note: I just found the texture on Google. It is not being used in any manner other than solely to demonstrate my question.

I plan on 3D printing the polygon. Since I suck at painting, I want to print the textures for each face so I can glue/decal them onto the correct faces.

My question is: How can I go from a UV texture map to individual polygon faces (and 1 texture per face) that is correctly scaled to fit the face. I want something like below:

Is there any way to do this? I don't care about width * height as I can manage that on my own, but I need the textures to be distorted just like how they are on the corresponding face of the polygon.


texts: How to create usable graphic for a powerpoint template?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What's the pixel dimensions of a powerpoint slide for Open Office / Libre Office Impress?

I need to create a PowerPoint presentation template that will be used in several different monitors/projectors. Are there any advices on how should I treat my template's graphics/design? Should I have two files? One for HD screens and other for low resolution ones?


texts: How to beautify images without decreasing sharpness?

texts:
a few weeks ago my girlfriend shot about 300 pictures of an event (personal collection) and asked me to improve colors and such with Photoshop. When I returned all the photos she told me many pictures decreased in sharpness and said the pictures weren't better, although the colors were improved.

For the record, I've used a combination of auto tone, auto contrast, auto color, levels, contrast, brightness and color balance. Not always together and especially not in that order. I mostly use levels to increase brightness, but easily add shadows/black to areas that require them.

I do not work on multiple layers, just the default layer.

Now we went on holiday and I've got a bunch of new pictures. I don't want to spoil them, so I would like some advice on 'beautifying' pictures, without decreasing sharpness and such.

What I'm exactly looking at is what's the best practice for increasing brightness and make colors (a bit) more vibrant, as I think the contrast is a bit too low, often. This, as these are the most important issues, if you ask me.

I do want to note: I do not need the perfect picture, just a better, good picture. I don't want to spend more than a few hours on those new 500 pictures, so 48 actions including multiple layers and masks is probably overdone, unless it's quickly achievable. Time vs quality..

What I'm actually looking

I worked on my secondary Dell monitor, but will work on my Macbook scree because of better color accuracy.

Thanks!

Before-after samples of the past edit


texts:
I just joined these boards in hope to find some guidance. I am not particularly a graphic designer, but I am working on designing my own logo. I have limited knowledge of Illustrator. I am diving into becoming a serious Prop Maker and I want to make a logo to represent my work.

This is where I am at right now after a good amount of tweaking. Basically I want the silver/white/dark turquoise color scheme, and the image I was sort of going for was a vague representation of a workbench, particularly mine I just built from scratch recently.

I hope to get some feed back as to what could be changed, what I did right, and simply to know my logo is good enough before I officially release it to all my social media sites.


texts: How can I transform patterns in Illustrator to simulate a perspective?

texts:
I am using rectangles filled with patterns to create the walls of a room.  I have transformed the rectangles, to simulate perspective, but the patterns do not reflect these transformations - they remain constant.

The method I am using:

I create a rectangle and then fill it with a pattern.
Then, I choose Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Mesh (1 row and 1
column).
Using the Free Transform tool, I click the corner and
hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift while I
drag to create the perspective appearance.

As you can see in this picture, the patterns are not being transformed to simulate perspective.

I used to use this same method, in an earlier version of AI, but now It doesn't work.  I am currently using Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 (trial).

I have also tried Effect 3d / rotate, but it takes time to work and isn't a good choice.


texts: Is The main role of a web designer is to create a  full visual identity to a company through his design ? ( to a company that don't have a visual identity )


texts:
I'm trying to duplicate a header for a book project, but I can't get my text to go over the two lines I created, like it is in the example i posted below.

I created two lines like on the image, but when i put a text frame over them, the text dissapears or goes over or below lines. I tried text wrap and that didn't help either.


texts: I'm familiar with blend and using the envelope mesh but I can't seem to duplicate an effect like this, other than painstakingly drawing each line individually :P Your help is greatly appreciated!


texts: A question about rounding corners in this situation

texts:
I have a rectangle cut from in the middle diagonally. The cutting stroke is rounded. So the rectangle edges should also be rounded I felt. The question here is, do I round the top-left and bottom-right corners or all corners that are made due to the cutting?

Here's a quick video (converted to GIF) I made to better explain things (ignore the "pattern," it was unintentional while converting):

Basically, here are the different versions:


texts: How to em/deboss logo in a front view? (in something metalic)

texts:
I am creating a golden medal (and later silver and bronze) and I want to deboss and emboss the logo into the medal. I have already tried a view things, like having multiple fills, transform them to opposite positions and blur them. As well as trying the extrude effect from Illustrator, but this only works okayish if there is an angle, which I don't have.
I looked at these:

Adobe Illustrator: Deboss or Engrave Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upaeoOwaRgg

I want to achieve something like this:

And this is the closest I could get, but it just isn't as crisp as my example:


texts: Make top of type sit on path - illustrator

texts:
Im trying to get type to sit on a path, so far ive been able to get it to work but when i try and get the type to sit the right way round (ie. not upside down) it sits on the inside of the path, which is on the wrong side of the circle (as the first image below).

I could align the circle by eye, but im sure there must be an easier way.

Is there a way to get the top of the type to site on the path as the sketch (second image below) ?

Ive also attached an .ai file if any one wants to play around with it. - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngvexixdckftkpt/type-on-path.ai


texts: Simplest way to resize a folder filled with pixel art

texts:
I'm trying to compile a nice website/portfolio for internships etc, and I have a folder filled with pixel art I've done (100's of images, not feasible to do them one at a time except if absolutely necessary).

Unfortunately, it's all a little small (32x32 and the like) and the website service I'm using, Squarespace, displays them at actual size. I really want to make all of my art 2x as big (or perhaps 4x as big) without losing the pixel quality (I don't want any blur or anything like that). I've looked in a lot of places and I can only find vague references to unwieldy command line programs that I can't seem to figure out or links to webtools that take several seconds per image to do.

I would much appreciate a step-by-step guide (or link to one) on how to do this in the simplest way possible, for free or very cheap. Thank you!


texts: In Gimp how to take the brightest value of each color channel for every pixel?

texts:
In Gimp I want to generate a gray scale image of a RGB image defined by this per-pixel formula: value_xy = max(R_xy, G_xy, B_xy).

I didn't find a builtin feature so I wonder if there's some generic filter out there where I can operate on a per-pixel basis by just defining some formula.

Is there something like this already? Would I have to write my own filter for Gimp?


texts:
I created a logo using an M & C from Moonhouse font. I modified them letters to suit their brand, but the basic shape is still recognizable. The company name is in Goodtimes font, to indicate that the company is modern and is moving towards the future with it's technology.

They want their tagline underneath the company name to be in yet a different font, Sansation. I do like Goodtimes and Sansation together, but it is just too conflicting, too busy with the logo.

My clients don't quite understand why simple is better and I am out of explanations to convince them with. I am much better at the art side of design than justifying how the principles of design work.

How can I explain to my client that more than two fonts in a logo is a bad idea?

Any ideas would be much appreciated, thank you very much.


texts:
I'm trying to figure out how this logo was constructed but I can't make sense of the highlighted (in pink) circles... Can anyone tell me how that was made? I'm looking for an Adobe Illustrator solution, please!!

Notice that, in fact, what I really want to know is how to align the shapes in the manner of the image shown (left side). I think this could be a particular approach in Design because I've seen it in other logos and icons, but my concern here is with the technical aspect of alignment in Adobe Illustrator.


texts: Move handles without pivoting/rotating in Adobe Illustrator

texts:
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC. How can I move a handle without pivoting it, so that I can change only the length of the handle, but not its angle?

I only found one way to do something similar, which is to drag the path between two anchors – but this moves the corresponding handles on both the anchors.

Is there a way to move (change the length of) just one handle without changing its angle?


texts: Pasting objects between files in Indesign CS6

texts:
I just upgraded from CS4 to CS6 and am having an issue pasting objects between files in InDesign.

Seems like the issue is with the styles. I'm copying a basic graphics frame but it is losing the image and rounded corners while applying a stroke to the frame.

Shouldn't the characteristics of the copied object carry across? Anyone know how to overwrite or force InDesign to paste objects 'as is' regardless of what styles a file may have?


texts: How to make a given color a bit darker or lighter?

texts:
I have this picture:

The arrows show two different colors but in fact they should be same color but a bit lighter or darker.

I made this screen-shot of the application I make and the brownish color on the edges is just the blue color summed with 30. As you can see it does not do the trick, i.e adding 30 to the actual color will not work for all colors.

How can I just shade a given color i.e make it brighter or darker?

Also what should I do If I want it to look semitransparent with alpha?


texts: How to fade out tail of path in InkScape?


texts: Printing from directly from InDesign vs PDF

texts:
After exporting a file to PDF from InDesign to be imposed in Acrobat, we sometimes get unexpected color/appearance changes that are almost always easily solved by printing directly from InDesign. We don't print directly from Acrobat but drag-and-drop the PDF imposition file into the Fiery queue.

The unexpected results seem to happen only with more complex files that use transparency, though it might be something else also. Does anyone know why this kind of thing happens and any workarounds? Are there settings that can be modified in Acrobat to produce better results? The workflow here is PDF-based, so I don't know how to get around these color/appearance change issues that sometimes cause re-prints, etc. because they can sneak by unnoticed, or only show up while printing.


texts: I'm doing another art piece and a couple of artists recommended instead of making skin colors as shapes with the pen tool as a base I should make a correction layer. I googled correction layer but the first thing it said was adjustment and fill layers. What is and how can I make a correction layer?


texts: Cover Art for Ebooks - Is it acceptable to use images labeled by google as "for reuse with modifications"

texts: I want to put photos of 3 celebrity sportsmen on the cover of an eBook that I intend to self-publish on amazon and other stores, and I wonder if images that are returned by Google image search with license (under 'search tools') labelled as "for reuse" or "for reuse with modification" are fair game? Can I just use them and be free of any obligations?


texts: I am kinda on a tight budget and I want to start designing stuff on a computer screen and I am looking for a cheap but decent tablet so i can start using Sketchbook pro as a start. I was looking into android tablet like Asus MeMO pad. Any advice or help would be helpful. I am not looking for a pad,just a tablet for on to go type stuff


texts: Difference between vertical spacing system and baseline grid in digital design

texts: What's the easiest way to explain the difference between vertical spacing system and baseline grid in digital design? By vertical spacing I understand distances between all elements on a web page and not only text.


texts: How can I produce custom vector based buttons in Photoshop?

texts:
I want to create some vector based buttons which resemble the button design shown below:

I can just take a button and treat it as a bitmap and change text and appearance, but the output doesn't look professional. If I have a vector of the same design, it can easily be re-sized and modified without loss in quality.

How can I create vector versions of these in Photoshop CS6?


texts:
I'm a portrait artist. I do paintings in Photoshop. What I do is I trace a photo and then when it's done , I get rid of the photo. The remaining layers are all my brushstrokes. Therefore, when its done, its all from scratch. It's a technique I use.

I attached one of my recent portraits. My question is, is my artwork too realistic? And if it is , what advice should I take. I like my realistic portraits but its getting to the point where I feel like people question my work. Is this technique illegal? Whenever people criticize my work, they say things like I use a filter, which is false. They never criticize me for tracing or saying anything about that.


texts:
I have a square image that I am looking to turn into a landscape sized image by adding  solid black borders to the left and right of the image (optionally with a fade to white type gradient). I know this is a really simple thing to do, but I don't know where to start.

I don't have any image software on my PC, other than Picasa. I tried looking at PicMonkey online but it didn't seem to do what I wanted.

Can someone give me some simple steps to accomplish this?


texts:
I'm working on a panel design for a museum in indesign. The design has a sections of text and images contained by a box. Right now I'm using a text box with inset spacing to see the inner margins of the section, like this:

However, this is not a great solution for me because I can't see the guides once I click off of the text box:

Is there a way to set indesign so that I can see the inset spacing margins  all of the time without having to click on the object?

EDIT:

I do have a grid set up:

However the grid doesn't allow me to create consistent "padding" around subsections of the page, like this.


texts: Looking for a font - random characters based on sign lettering

texts:
This is a bit of a long shot, but maybe someone here knows this. I came across this font project a few months ago that I think was based on a sign the creator kept seeing at a burger place? It was one of those marquee signs but they had used all different letters so it looked really random.

The designer had built a font inspired by that and worked with a developer to make it truly randomize which alternate was used as they typed.

Ring any bells? I can't remember how I found it the first time.


texts: Automatic extraction of layer information in Inkscape

texts:
I need to digitize photographs and extract area information from the digitized layers. I want to use Inkscape for this. I digitized the areas as paths. I can then calculate the area using visualization → measure path → Measurement type → area.
However, I have many paths organized in named layers. Is there a way to automatically extract that information using a script?

Thanks,
M


texts:
How to I get this iridescent duo tone effect?

I know it's probably quite simple but I have tried many different ideas and can't get it looking like this. Any help would be appreciated!


texts: import vector file from illustraror(*.ai files) to aftereffect

texts: I want to import vector file from illustrator to aftereffect but it become pixel ed when it imported . Even when i draw a shape with pen in aftereffect it is not vector . What can i do?


texts: How to smooth frayed edges of a path with curves in inkscape

texts:
I have a given shape in a bitmap format which I am trying to convert to svg.

I have imported the bitmap, increased the size and converted into a path as described in this answer.

Unfortunately, the shape has frayed edges and does not look very smooth. I tried to use the "Path effect" "simplify! but the result is not satisfactory.

original image

how it looks in inkscape


texts: How can I delete bezier lines without deleting the colors I've filled them with in Inkscape?

texts: I made this polygonal art with a bunch of bezier lines and filled them with colors. I want to delete all the black lines without deleting the colors. How?


texts: How do I remove gaps between selections pasted into separate layers?

texts:
In the image attached A and B are two separate layers. They are two different selections pasted from the original image. If you look closely there are some transparent/opaque pixels between the two. What is the best way to make the get rid of these gaps?

Do I need to stroke the top of layer B and get PS to decide what colours the new filler pixels need to be.

I have saved all of my selections.

I've tried defringe: https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/tips/removing-edge-halos-defringe/ but it didn't appear to do anything.

Thanks.


texts: Export artwork with Pantone from Illustrator file to PDF

texts: I have an artwork with one Pantone colour and I need to export it to PDF with Press Quality. In "Save Adobe PDF" window in section "Output" is it correct to choose "No conversion" in order to export it with correct Pantone colour information?


texts: Saving Illustrator as PDF without the hidden layers

texts:
We have roughly 55 cards that all have the exact same text. The titles and backgrounds differ among the cards. So I've made just one AI with the different backgrounds and all the text as one copy in a layer on top.

Now I can just hide each background layer and save as PDF. But even unchecking preserve editing capabilities, the file sizes let me know that it is still including the images and backgrounds for all the hidden layers. Doing a quick test and deleting all the hidden layers brings the file sizes done considerably.

I was under the impression that saving as a PDF without editing capabilities only saved what was needed for that particular PDF. It seems I was wrong. Do I just have to keep deleting the hidden layers for each copy?


texts: How to combine icon + fill to export icon in sketch

texts:
I am new to sketch. I got handed a sketch document and trying to export icons included in the file.

This is what the folder looks like

You can see there are icons and Fills. On the sketch file it looks like any social media icon, but I cannot export them individually with the icon inside of the Fills (the fills are just a black cirlce).

Is there anyway I can combine the social media icons along w/ the Fills and export them together?


texts: How to form semi-circular text in gimp or photoshop?

texts:
I am not trying to wrap  text around a semi-circle but form a semi-circle with text.
Basically the font will gradually increase from left to middle and then decrease from middle to right.
Can photoshop or gimp be used for doing this?
Thanks a lot in advance.


texts: Got rid of alpha channel containing colors

texts:
I try to edit some UV map exported from Blender.
Before I want to edit some textures I want to select the regions by alpha.

What I did was some kind of binarization of the image and got rid of the false pixels.

That is working so far I got a black background and a white foreground.

My problem is I did something wrong and now all pixels are fully transparent.
So if I deselect the alpha channel I can see the regions I want to select.
If I remove the alpha channel everything is white.
What I want is a transparent background and only the regions of the UV map visible (alpha value 255).

How can I achieve this?


texts:
I'm working with an EPS file I downloaded from the internet (a business card) and I'm editing the details. It has a background color and some text over it. If I change the text color to white, it completely disappears.

Everybody keeps saying disable the "Overprint" option, but I checked I already have this turned off.

Obviously, the text layer is above the background layer, overprint option is deselected, opacity is 100%, and other objects with white fills are visible over the background.

I know this problem has been discussed several times before, but couldn't find a useful answer.


texts: I have a workflow issue. I create a homepage design in Photoshop and save out a layer comp. When I make secondary page layer comp it's invariably shorter. Obviously I can't crop to size, so I export out that layer comp then have to crop the jpeg. Can anyone suggest a more efficient way to do that?


texts: How make rulers relate with grid somehow in Illustrator?

texts:
How to make rulers and grid show the same coordinates and units?

Currently it shows absolute delirium for me:


texts: What is this black line around image in PDF?

texts:
The the psd file is a clean cut. Looks great (1)

Still looks good when brought into Illustrator (2)

But then as a PDF this ugly black line appears around the edges of the psd file (3)

Any ideas what causes this because it looks really bad sending this to the client?


texts:
Was trying to find a font type that looks like this:

All I could find was FreeHand 521:

WhatTheFont gave me no relevant results. Has anyone seen such font?


texts:
In Blender, shift+middle drag is for moving the view. In Krita, just middle drag is doing that thing and shift+middle drag does image rotation. The thing is, I am accustomed to Blender that I keep accidentally use shift+middle drag in Krita, resulting in unwanted rotation.
It seems that the undo button does not undo the rotation. I could do shift+middle drag again to get the image straight, but that would require a very precise control to set the rotation to 0. And the "Image->Rotate->Rotate Image->Angle Custom" adds that value to the current rotation, not setting the image rotation to that value (that is, if the current rotation is 5 degrees, applying Angle Custom 90 does not make the image rotation to 90, but to 95).
Is there any easy way to undo the shift+middle drag rotation or an easy way to set the image rotation to 0?


texts: Random pattern generation in Illustrator

texts:
I am new here and a beginner graphic designer. I am trying to learn how to generate a pattern like below:

My question is:

Is there any way to do this in Adobe Illustrator?

In the image above, I am looking for learning:

Randomness in a specific set of colors, or shades/tints of a color.
Randomness in a specific set of angles.

Appreciate your help.
Thanks.

Disclaimer: I don't own the image above.


texts: 2 column text frame different text in each column?

texts:
In indesign I regularly make a 2 language magazine in 2 columns.
Now the 2 columns are 2 different text boxes on each page that I link so the text flows to the end of the document.
This is a problem if there are a lot of footnotes, the footnotes have to span over two columns, this you can do easily if you work with a text frame with two columns.
Is there a option to use a text frame with two columns in which you can place the first language in the right column and the second language in the left column?


texts: What's the name of this distorted / dirty brush?

texts:
For example in these images, what are the 'dirty spots' brushes applied to them called?

I am newbie in PS and trying to figure it out.


texts: GIMP: Smooth png image from black to transparent (how to make gradient)?

texts:
How to make a transparent 'png' image from black (not transparent) to nothing (absolutely transparent) in GIMP smoothly?

As result, this image on the red image gives the image from black via dark red to red?

This is an example (but not of good quality, I'd like to know how to make this image properly):


texts: Is there a name for this kind of website footer graphic?

texts:
(taken from KeePass site)

These images were quite popular on websites around the early 00's, from as far back as I can remember. They seemed to phase out with the introduction of flat and material website designs. They were often used to demonstrate the capabilities of the site (XHTML-compliant, CSS3, etc), and then longer strip variants were commonly used in signatures for bulletin boards.

They had a simple elegance about them, consisting of a small logo, a simple common font, a white background outlined by a thin black border and a further inset background colour to compliment the font. These aspects lead me to think they might have been generated, in which case does anyone know what they were named?


texts: I am wanting to create a dashed line on the fill rather than the stroke if that is a possibility? I created outlines of a font and now I want to make it dashed. The left 'S' is what I am hoping to achieve, Its done badly but what I did is just overlay white rectangles on top of the path to imitate the dashed effect. Hoping to find an easier and more consistent way of doing this instead of individually moving the rectangles. The right 'D' is the adding a stroke to a path which is not want I want as I would like just one dashed line.


texts: Pull apart pie chart slices in Illustrator but retain stroke

texts:
I have a pie chart created using Illustrator CC's Pie Graph Tool:

I want to separate the slices to create a gap in-between.  I see that this has been asked and answered before, but the answer causes a loss to each slice's stroke (gray becomes white):

Is there a way to add the dark gray stroke back onto the slices?  I know that technically they are not actually separated, so must they be ungrouped or something first?

Thank you.


texts: Can I assign actions to non-function keys in Illustrator CS6?

texts: I simply want to be able to assign actions to keys in different locations on the keyboard, other than F1-F12. Is this possible? How?


texts: What is the difference between a closed figure with two radii and an unclosed figure?

texts: I have been trying to learn Inkscape and I encountered a property of the ellipse tool which said closed figure with two radii. I am very confused about it and cannot make out why it doesn't qualify as an unclosed figure.


texts: What should I do regarding color profile when designing for the web?

texts:
I have read this article by Doug Avery where he explains how to disable Color Management in Adobe Photoshop and the follow-up article in response to the uproar of the commenters arguing against it and supporting sRGB, although I am still not convinced on what technique I should apply in my personal workflow.
From what I've gathered while reading the article (please correct me if I'm wrong), the correct way to deal with this would be to have Photoshop manage the colors as sRGB and making use of Proof Colors when in need for a more "faithful" preview of the your work.

At the moment I have an entire website project that has been designed with color profiles disabled. I started on it that way because months ago I had noticed that the colors Photoshop rendered, although reported correctly by Photoshop's own Eyedropper Tool, did not correspond when measured from a screenshot to what I was seeing in Google Chrome when opening the image exported as a PNG.
After a quick search I came across the post I cited earlier and applied its suggestions blindly (without even noticing the follow-up nor reading about the problems with it). Since then, I've had no problems: I take screenshots of my work in Photoshop and I upload them for the developer to make use of. He gets to see the same colors I see and use when developing the design, and I don't have to jump through hoops to see what I'm actually doing.

My questions:

Is it really necessary to use sRGB in a web design (I understand the implications of not using it in something like photography or print) when it only adds more work by forcing you to use Proof Colors? (That's just how I see it, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Since saving with an ICC Profile will lead to some browsers correctly applying the profile while others ignore it, the article also says that it's probably the best idea to just design with sRGB and then save without the ICC Profile. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using the color profile in the first place? Or am I misinterpreting what the article says?


texts: Dicom files: how to extract brain/organ from MRI scan?

texts:
This is technically not a graphic design question, but it is technically not not a graphic design question either, so here I go.

I have a set of MRI scans of my head. They are 5mm slices in x,y,z (or if you prefer med-speak: saggital, coronal, axial). (I also have some sets in 1.5mm slices, but they are incomplete. I.e. only a section, not the entire brain.).

My ultimate goal is to extract the brain only, and have it 3D printed. I am using Osirix (though I have Slicer, but have not tried it yet).

I could hand-draw the outline of the brain in each individual slice, but apart from taking weeks to do properly, I am not sure the resulting slices will add up to anything near good enough (If I knew it would turn out good, I would consider it). But there have to be a better way.

I have tried to make a 3D model of the entire head using 3D surface rendering, and the result even of that is rather disappointing:

I have also tried using the "growing" tool, where, as far as I understand, I should be able to select a colour/density and then removing everything else.

As I see it, there are two ideas, but they both boil down to the same:
How to select one organ, when the other organs and tissue close to it are much of the same density? (the inverse approach would be; instead of extracting something spesific, then delete what is not needed).

I realise that if I am ever successful in extracting the brain, there will be the voxel lego-effect (albeit in x, y, z), and I would also need to set some smoothing parameters.

So. In short:

What settings (for contrast/density/tissue type/bone) do I set, to
make the extraction possible?
Do I use the "grow" tool, and if so, how do I get it to select all
voxels in all three series?
If not the grow tool... then what?
If I get it extracted, where and how do I determine smooting options?


texts: I have been using GIMP successfully for a little while, but had no trouble with it.  Now my  transparent backgrounds are not transparent anymore.  I go to Layer and Transparencies then to Add Alpha Channel.  Then Duplicate Layer.  Then I make the image black and white using Color.  I use the Brightness-Contrast control.  Then Invert.After this I paint whatever is needed, and I want transparent Black, and what I want opaque I paint White.  Then to Edit and Cut, back to Layers and  Mask, Add Layer Mask.  Then I go back to Edit and Paste.  When it is ready I go to file and Export As a png.  When I try to use it the background is either black or white. What is my problem?  I have already tried several different things to change this such as making sure that the opacity is set right and that the .Save Background Color is not checked.


texts: Images imported to Illustrator get resized despite their original size

texts:
I have a folder full of pictures, they are all 6000x4000 images. However, when I impor them into Illustrator (drag&drop inside the app) their size changes, their width and height sometimes is half of what they are, sometimes they are correct.

I'm thinking that probably something is wrong with the images, but I can't find out what.

I assume this also happens in Photoshop, didn't try it yet.


texts: InDesign: how to apply styles to specific words/phrases

texts: Is it possible to change the font style of specific phrases within an .indd document? I have several phrases to update in a giantic wall of text and all I need to do is change the font to a cursive. Be mindful that some parts of text have different font sizes and other styles.


texts:
I have to make an e-book that contains code snippets. I am using GREP to select all code tags (bounded by <> — triangular brackets), and apply a custom style to them.

The RegEx I have developed: http://regexr.com/39puq

Works fine online.

However, it does not work in InDesign. I've attached an image (see the difference between it and the link above.

The second paragraph contains a set of indentations that InDesign just skips.

Any idea why? Am I missing something?

Thank you.

Later edit:

Following another StackExchange thread, I found this snippet: <.*>

However, it has the same undesired effect. Help.