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How can this pattern be recreated?
Pay attention that it has round lines in the bottom and straight line at the top.

I tried to use blend tool (in Illustrator) on two arcs and one dot with dotted stroke, but result is far away from original picture.

Trick is to calculate size of arcs, distances, dots frequency, but guys.. there should be another way to to it.


texts: How Does One Recreate Paint Brushes and Other Drawing Tools in Photoshop Accurately?

texts: I'm wondering how to recreate a paint brush or any drawing tool in Photoshop. I tried making a brush similar to a paint brush but it didn't turn out right and the stroke doesn't look like a fluid stroke (I already changed the spacing). I tried recreating a pencil, but it doesn't look like a pencil stroke. I saw brushes online that recreate paint brushes and pencils and the strokes made with those brushes look like how it would in real life. I tried playing around with the settings and the brush still doesn't look right. How does one recreate a brush/drawing tool so that it looks accurate?


texts: How can I make these links more obvious to click on?

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Currently working on a redesign for a dental laboratory.

While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the links to the main pages.

The asusmption when I created the wireframe was that the user would click on the descriptive links based on what they needed to do. I thought it would be super convenient to have a list ready for them to just click on the action that they intended to do.

I would also appreciate suggestions for

Font size
Font color
Font family for the headings
List item
Ideas for images where the thumbnail is supposed to go, or maybe it needs to be removed.
Round out the buttons a bit more?

Let me know any thoughts and why you feel that way, thanks.

EDIT: After some suggestions from other professionals here, I created another revision (not yet tested with users)


texts: Photoshop: how to create buttons that look "subtly pushed"?

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Any ideas how can I create "subtly pushed" buttons like the "Active filter" buttons in the following screenshot?

The mockup is from here.

UPDATE: Here's what I have got so far:


texts: How can I achieve shadows only at the corners of a rectangle?

texts: I'm looking to recreate this effect in Photoshop by giving a shadow only to the corners of the rectangle (in this case a sticky note):


texts: Why is Photoshop A3 size is bigger compared to Corel Draw A3? And how to solve that....?

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I'm used to design a small icon / graphic art, rather than
the big size of A3 paper.

So then When i tried to use A3 as the Paper Size with resolution of 300 dpi.
The file size is bigger in Photoshop compared to the file size in CorelDraw.

Is there any calculation that we need to use
for achieving a smaller size for designing
but the image is safe for later use in printing?

file size : more than kilobytes, it's bigger than megabytes.


texts: PSD file that only links to other image files but doesn't contain them

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In InDesign, when importing external images, the .indd file stays small, and the images are not embedded in it : the .indd file only contains links to images instead.

Is it possible to have the same with Photoshop : when adding a layer to a Photoshop document, coming from an outside JPG, is it possible that the .psd file only contains link to the external file and not embed the image itself?


texts: Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent

texts: I have an image of smoke over a black background. If I set the blending mode of this layer to screen, the image's background is perfectly edited out, however if there isn't another layer below this, the screen mode does nothing. How can I make the background truly transparent, so it is just smoke on a transparent background? Colour Range selection is useless in this scenario, because smoke needs different levels of transparency throughout, and not just a clear cut selection. Thanks


texts: How to "Enter group" without double clicking

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From the Inkscape keyboard and mouse reference, "For groups, double clicking performs the "Enter group" command (the group becomes a temporary layer)."

This is great, but what if I can't easily double click on the group and I still want to enter it to paste or create elements within the group? For example, when the group is underneath another object it's impossible to double click on it. I can select it using Alt+click or by locating it in the XML editor. After I have it selected, is there a way I can enter the group without double clicking? (I don't want to have to move the item to the top, because I have an extensive and complicated stacking order.)


texts: How do I push my footnotes to the bottom of the page again?

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Some time ago, I created a document with one of the two style templates we use in our company.

It has two sub-chapters in the same page, say 1.5 and 1.6, and both sub-chapters have some footnotes. The footnotes are displayed together, at the end of the page.

Now, I need to edit the document in order to use the other layout. I imported the master pages and the text styles from a different document, and the footnotes are now at the foot of each sub-chapter (my page has sub-chapter 1.5, its notes, then sub-chapter 1.6, then its notes).

Despite removing text in order to see if this was somehow caused by the different fonts, different margins (single column everywhere, in case you were wondering), different spacing that might have forced one note out of the page, nothing changes.

Copying all the text in a document that already uses the intended style results in the same problem.

What could this be? How can I get my notes to stick to the bottom of the page as they did before?


texts: Is it possible to align several single-line text frames to the common baseline?

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Imagine I have two or three text frames each containing a single line of text. They sit next to each other, at a distance. I wish to align them "between themselves" so that they all appear to be typed as one line of text (of different fonts and sizes) even if they in reality are not. Can I do this or not?

P.S. I'm not using the document-wide grid (or whatever this is appropriately called). I just wish to select all three frames, apply some inter-aligning command and be done with it. Ideally one frame should be selectable as a reference, and the two others should be moved to match that reference baseline position.


texts: Is there an automated way to replace several layers with a template layer in Photoshop?

texts: I have a file where there are several "cards" that will be containing text information. All of these cards are exactly the same but have been aligned differently. Unfortunately, I have to replace all of these cards with a new template that I have created. Is there a way to do so without having to manually replace all the layers individually and realign them?


texts: Why does Color Dodge produce different results when applied to a group of layers, compared to when applied directly to the layers themselves?

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In Photoshop, I can't figure out as to why this happens.

I painted with a soft round brush at 100% opacity with the color set to white and grey on a new layer.

I duplicated the layer and then I put the duplicated layer inside a group.

Next I set the blend mode to Color Dodge for the original layer and again set the Color Dodge blend mode to just the group I created - not the layer within the group. This gives me two different results.

Can anyone please explain why I get different results with the different methods/configurations?


texts: Adobe Illustrator export the PNG as edited size?

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I want to export the created file as a png on Adobe Illustrator cs6. I exported the file as png but also it had been as a png file, it wasn't as I wanted size. How to set the png size as I wanted.

The exported picture is given below. But I want to above size for png file. So How to set png file size manually.


texts: How would you create something similar to this flower?

texts: I am guessing that out of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, you would use Photoshop?


texts: Graphic in PDF gets "messed up" by Adobe Reader

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I designed a big front-cover for a magazine in Photoshop.
I put the PNG into an ODT-Open-Office-File and then save it as a PDF.
When I view it with Adobe Reader ...

It seems to be a display-problem!?
I want that the graphic is looking good at every percentage of view.
Thanks for help, dudes!


texts: PhotoShop CC SVG extracted assets not recognized by IcoMoon

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I have a project where I need to extract Vector Smart Objects as SVGs to use on a website.  I'd like to make a single file with these SVGs - it looks like IcoMoon.io will do this for you.

I've extracted each Vector Smart Object layer as an svg (right+click layer, export asset) and then uploaded the files to icomoon.  The images don't seem to be recognized (getting blank icons).  If I test with an SVG acquired from somewhere else, it seems to work fine.

I'm new to this process - am I missing something?

Here are the settings one of of the objects.  It looks like it was created in AI - although I don't have access to the original.:


texts: What font can I use for a Japanese book?

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I have a PDF book to be translated in Japanese, and what wondering which fonts to use.  My main languages are French and English and I have no experience with asian fonts.  I would not be able to say if a font is OK for reading a Japanese book or not.

For example, in English or French books (Latin-alphabet typography), the font types normally used are serif font (Times Roman, Caslon, Bodoni and Garamond).  Other font types would not be appropriate.

Is there such thing as Serif font or Roman fonts in Japanese?

Do you have any suggestions for a common Japanese Roman font?


texts: Find unwanted paragraph marks (GREP, find, replace, script)

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I have an InDesign CS6 document with a lot of numbered paragraphs. They begin with a number and end with a paragraph mark. However, there are some paragraphs which have unwanted paragraph marks in the middle.

Question: how do I find these unwanted paragraph marks and remove them?

In other words, I want to remove the extra paragraph mark (highlighted) in this image...

So, in human language I want to say...

If a paragraph has "Paragraph style 1" applied
...and the
paragraph begins with one or more digits
......and those digits
have "Bold character style" applied
.........and then there is a
string of characters which could include footnote markers with
"Footnote reference character style" applied but should not include
any digits with "Bold character style" applied
............and
then a paragraph mark
...............and then another string of
characters which could include footnote references with "Footnote
reference character style" applied but should not include any digits
with "Bold character style" applied
..................and then a
paragraph mark
Then delete the first paragraph mark!

Now, in this particular document I am working on I could get away with not specifying the paragraph and character styles so my first thought was the following GREP expression:

(\d+ .+)(\r)(.+\r)

…which reads: find any digit(s) followed by a space and then a string of characters, then a return, then another string of characters and a return.

Then I could easily replace the three bracketed expressions with just the first and the third.

However, when I conduct a search, for some reason paragraphs with footnote markers are skipped. Also, it does not specify that the text string should not include any digits with "Bold character style" applied.

Any help will be appreciated.


texts: Adjusting generated colors to make them more subjectively pleasant

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Is there any formula or correction values for r, g, b channels, that takes into account visual perception of color and will allow me to adjust generated colors to be more pleasant while keeping them on approximately same level of saturation and lightness?

I'm using "vibrant.js" library to pick colors from images and use them in my app's interface. I pick two colors "darkMuted" and "vibrant" - one for the background areas and one as an accent color for controls.

After plugin returns the colors, I adjust them slightly, to ensure they work well together and have enough contrast. Basically, for the "darkMuted" color I'm setting saturation and lightness equal to 0.2. For the "vibrant" color I'm using the saturation of 0.8 and the lightness of 0.6.

However, while giving good results on the average, this approach lacks the adjustment for the subjective perception of color. As you may know a couple of colors with different hues and same "s" and "l" values could be percieved differently: one as a pleasant color and another as an acid'ish, "my eyes are bleeding" color (especially with the green and purple hues).

Is it possible to receive colors with an equal visual perception using this kind of approach? Or, maybe, there are better ways of doing the same?

UPDATE: As far as I know Google using color picking from the image in their Android music app. How do they know that picked colors work well together and visually pleasing?

UPDATE 2: By this link you can find screenshots of the image and picked color pairs. I've added pairs of screenshots to show you the difference between "original" color pair returned by "vibrant.js" and colors with adjusted s and l values.

Thank you in advace!


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I have a large number of elements (triangles) that together make up a bigger object. Each triangle has a slightly different fill color and no edge color. A part of the surface is shown below:

The problem is that although zooming in to 6400% still doesn't show any disconnection or overlap (see below), the thin edge lines are still visible.

Does anybody know what is causing these lines and, for me more importantly, how I can get a smooth transition between the different triangular elements?

Since the images above are with transparency I tested without transparency as well. Without transparency the lines are still there, but now they are white.


texts: How to export groups to separate PDF files in Adobe Photoshop?

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I have 180 groups (see image for example), each group is a different label design. I need to export each group as an individual PDF file.

What is the best way to achieve this? I know how to export them individually and how to bulk export to png, jpg etc. but I can't figure out how to export to PDF. I've tried exporting layer comps but that exports as one big pdf and not individual files.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

EDIT - I'm not looking to batch export Photoshop layers to individual PNG files.


texts: How to upscale when exporting to PDF from InDesign

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I need to design a roll-up banner that needs to be 850mm X 2150mm. The printers sent a template that was setup at 20% scale  in size. I designed my lovely banner with the template, exported it as a PDF like they asked and sent it over. They came back saying the size for the banner was wrong... and that it needed to be 850mm X 2150mm. My question is, is there a way of when exporting it to pdf upscaling the document?

I know I can create a new document with those dimensions and just copy everything and scale it to the correct size but then I just don't understand why the printers would sent me a 20% scaled template. Don't they usually upscale the documents when they get them? Since they where the ones that provided the template...

I'm not very experienced with printing "big scale" designs so any help and knowledge would be appreciated :)


texts: Gimp - Using an image as the transparency layer of another image

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I have two images (For the sake of simplicity, Image1 and Image2). I want to use Image2 as a transparency for Image1.

How can I do that? Assume I've done little more with Gimp than play with some filters.

Thanks.


texts: Best way to save web ads in InDesign with maximum clarity?

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Creating InDesign web ads saved at 72ppi they look blurry.

When saved at a higher ppi and then checking image size in Photoshop, the pixel dimensions off.

If you create a web banner ad in InDesign, what is the best way to save it?


texts: What is the most uncommon pigment in the phyiscal world?

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My intuition on why Hollywood movies use a particular hue of blue for the background screen is because this pigment is not common in the real world. So a computer program would have an easy time replacing the blue background with computer generated graphics.

I would like to use this particular blue color in a related fashion. In my Adobe Flash SWF, I would like set the stage background to this blue hue. A separate program will cut out the blue and replace it with a scenic background.

What is the exact hex value of the color used in blue screens on movie sets? Or if you know other pigments not common in the physical world, then feel free to share.


texts: CMYK export illustrator to JPEG and/or PNG

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I need to export my illustrator artwork to a JPEG or PNG.
I checked everywhere to see is my file was in CMYK and also my colors. Everything looks alright. But, when I export my file it seems that the colors are wrong.

Do you know where that can come from ?

Thanks in advance


texts: Turning a series of line segments into a curve with minimal end points

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I am working with a pattern making software that exports to a PDF. I cannot control the output vectors. When I open this file, the file in Illustrator has a million short line segments that are all straight lines.

I have tried joining them. I also tried using the script Join Reasonably. Both have about the same result. If I kept the line black, that wouldn't be a problem, but when I give the line a special brush, I get this:

Is there a script or extension I can use to either turn an area of my shape into a smooth curve with handles and maybe only one or two anchor points? If there isn't, is it possible a script can be created to do this?

What I currently do is just use the existing shape as a guide and redraw the shape over it with a new layer. It is very time consuming when I'm dealing with 500+ of these at a time. Any advice? Thanks in advance.


texts: I converted Type to shape, but now I want to make the entire vector one color

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Is there any way I can flatten this small portion of the vector? To me it looks like a pixel that I should be able to paint, or change the color of. However, I tried to Edit > Recolor, and it did not work.

After further inspection, it looks like the lower right side pixel is a "Spot Color". How do I make all spot colors the exact same as the other colors?


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When I edit text in sketch, such as changing color of text. All of the text i have on the view will change colors too... How can I stop that?

Example: I have 3 text-fields on 2 separate pages, if I edit just ONE, all of them will change too...

How can I change this?


texts: How can I talk about drawing and at the same time avoid the assumption that I am only talking about analogue drawing?

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In my day-to-day life, I instruct people to deal with problems that have a geometrical or topographical nature. And usually there is a critical step in the process that requires one to draw a picture to explain the problem to oneself and others.

Now if I tell people to draw an image, most people will seemingly gravitate into thinking that when I say draw, it means pen and paper. To be honest I don’t really say that that is necessarily a bad option, just not my intention to give a narrow picture like this. People in this case are most often a mix of engineering, business and art students. Though quite often also people that have already graduated.

So how do I talk about drawing and make it clear that i am not only talking about traditional methods? While I have nothing against having the discussion of what to use, it is often not so fruitful to the task at hand. Also I do not want devolve the discussion into I don’t know how to draw or I don’t know any software, because again I’m not always there to talk about tools.

So how do I – politely and without insulting the intelligence of the audience – convey this message that I mean drawing in the broadest of possible terms?


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I'm not much of a graphic artist, but I try to learn how to do new things.

I learned how to use the Extrude & Bevel to create a 3D effect. I like the result.

But I'm using the resulting graphic on a web page. What I would like to do is be able to control the color through CSS. I was thinking maybe create some kind of transparent 3D mask (overlay?) that I can put on top a flat DIV of the same size & shape. This would allow me to change the DIV color and maintain the 3D look.

Doable? If you can tell me how, or point me to a tutorial, I'd much appreciate it.


texts: In Illustrator, I am trying to make my text bolder by adding a stroke to it. The stroke is the same color as the text, but when saving as SVG, the stroke is considered separate from it, adding unnecessary code. Is it possible somehow to make a letter with a stroke only one object? Thank you very much.


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I'm trying to make a logo in illustraot using this font:

http://www.dafont.com/pokemon.font

Unfortunately, when I add a stroke, it ruins the overlapping on the font. For example, I want the blue stroke on the 'O' in overlap to be behind the 'v'. Any thoughts on how to accomplsih this?

Thanks!


texts: Inkscape difference with multiple objects selected

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I am trying to cut multiple holes in a rectangle but it doesn't work.  The steps I take are:

create rectangle
create multiple circles on top of it
selects circles then rectangle, go to Path tab, then click difference

What am I missing?


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This question is a follow-up on this earlier question here

As I am attempting on printing a photo-magazine in black and white, I am losing rich blacks in my photos when converting them to CMYK and previewing the tones with "Proof Colours" in InDesign.

As mentioned in the answer left by Scott, CMYK won't appear as black as RGB blacks viewed on a monitor. He also mentions how a proof print would be a much more accurate representation of what the preview in ID shows.

Still, I do fancy a bit of certainty or control, so I went into Photoshop to play with the photos a little. When converting the photo to a CMYK colour profile, I saw no change unlike in InDesign.
I used the colour picker to see the CMYK values for some of the darkest blacks in the photo. These were approx. 90, 80, 60, and 100 respectively. This is in total much more than the 300% which I have been told would give drying issues, and thus smudges.

Are these values accurate? Should I lower these blacks, even though the photo previewed in ID already seems quite dull?


texts: How to remove noise/grain on a picture, based on some "noise pattern"

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I have a picture containing lot of noise (see example below). Using photoshop CS5, is there any way to remove/or minimize these artefacts ?

I know this is possible in sound editors (like Goldwave) : you select a small sample of the sound containing only noise, and then apply a "noise reduction" effect, it will remove anything in the sound that contains same frequencies as sample selected. It is not perfect since its also remove some other usefull information in the sound but results are generally very good.

I am looking for the same functionality but for pictures. It should allow me to select some region in picture containing mostly noise (a black / very dark area) and then based on this region, the plugin effect should remove any noise on the picture with same frequencies/pattern.

I think some cameras have same possibility : you take a picture of a black background (thus containing only noise), then real pictures. using the picture containing only noise, the camera automatically remove artefacts in real pictures.

If not possible in Photoshop CS5, any other tool doing that would also be nice.

Note : i know about Filter > Noise > Reduce noise but it is not what i want.

EDIT : thanks all for your suggestions, after searching a lot, i have found one tool that does it : NeatImage. This was perfectly what I was looking for and made miracles. During some googling sessions I have also try some other and find Noise Ninja and Noiseware to be nice tools.
I will try some of your suggestions when i will have time.


texts: What design software to use to create a styleguide?

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I'm a junior UX developer, tasked to create a styleguide for a project. What software do you use to create a styleguide? Sketch, Illustrator, or Photoshop?

edit
The styleguide is actually a design system. So this design system will include:

brand (color palette, typography)
pattern library (grids, components, etc.)


texts: Pdf file and Png file colors printed differently from the same printer

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I have a design in png and pdf formats. The png file was printed fine from Microsoft Photos and the colors were accurate. The colors of the same design however became brighter and lighter when I printed it as a Pdf file. I am new to design, does anyone know why is this happening, since the printer was able to print the correct colors from the png file?
Thank you so much!!


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Is it possible to stop drawing shapes with half pixels in InDesign CC?

I'm trying to draw shapes that are absolute pixel sizes everytime, but I'm struggling.

I've setup my InDesign document in a Web format. Changed my units and increments to 1px.

I also changed the document grid to pixels and I've set in my view options to Snap to document grid - but still I continue to be able to draw square shapes that have half pixel measurements.

Does any one have any ideas?


texts: Does the usage of symbols improve illustrator performance?

texts: I create quite big illustrations with a lot of small complex symbols/icons in it, for example different kinds of servers etc. Some icons/symbols are used multiple times in one illustration. Would it improve the performance of illustrator if I convert those icons to illustrator-symbols and use those ones? From my point of view illustrator would only have to save the location of a reference to a symbol instead of all the details of the icon...


texts: Why is my img leaving a 1px unfilled space in a table cell?

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I am writing some html to go in a mail to be sent to internal users programatically. They all use Outlook 2016. (Coding for Outlook is horrific, as simple things like CSS backgrounds don't work. As such I'm stuck with coding html like it's the 90's.)

The content is kind of a flowchart, and it needs to be visible in the mail client as the users won't bother clicking a link to take them to an external page. As it is Outlook I am doing everything with tables. Basically, everything graphical is a table cell, but I need to add arrowheads. i have done this by coloring the background of the cell and "capping it" with a white on transparent arrowhead cutout.

I'm pretty much there, except for a really annoying bug where on some, but not all of the arrows, there is a 1px line to the left of the arrowhaed. (The ones in the picture with red arrows pointing to them.)

My arrowhead image is the same width as 2 x my column width, and the code is as follows to make a row with 2 arrowheads (I'm using 36 columns, as the design is based on a 12 column grid, but then I need to be able to split down cells further in order to make the arrows):

    	Y
    	N

And the relevant CSS is shown here:

td {
    background-color: #82d0f5;
    height: 48px;
    border-right: 6px solid white;
    padding: 6px;
    word-break: break-all;
}
td.blank {
    background-color: white;
    padding:0;
    height: 24px;
}
td.shaft {
    background-color: #82d0f5;
    padding: 0px;
    vertical-align:bottom;
    height: 24px;
    border-left: 1px solid white;
}
img {
    width:100%;
    display:block;
}

How do I get rid of the troublesome line on the left?


texts: I would like to know that which tool is best for illustration for my art designing. Actually I am confused between Photoshop and Illustrator.


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I have seen photos that have a nice glossy sheen or shine to them when viewed on the web. I would like to replicate this view but in searches I am only able to find how to do this with text or icons and have had poor results trying to make this looks good and realistic with a photograph. How can this be done for a photograph? I am not sure where to begin.

Note: I am using Photoshop CS6 to edit photos.

What I Have Tried

Here is the original photo before I have done anything with it:

Here is the photo after I have attempted to add a gloss look to it:

Here are the settings used for the gloss photo:

The adjustments were done as Adjustment Layers and the Gradient Fill is Transparent to Solid White (#FFFFFF)

The example photo is Creative Commons BY-SA License and attribution goes to: AngMoKio. The photo can be found here.


texts: I'm using DotMatrix font for my powerscan simulator, but I would need a monospaced version of that which is not available. Is there any chance to convert a font into a monospaced one? or better, there's a dotmatrix looking like mono font?


texts: Script to get x,y positions from a path in a vector image

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In the old days, if someone had a scientific graph, then readers would only have access to the rastered image. So if you wanted to get the raw data from the plot, you could use something like DataThief or Webplotdigitizer on a rastered image like the one below.

These days, scientific publications usually require authors to submit plots in vector format (pdf or eps). Which means you can directly open up the plot in illustrator and see the data being plotted (usually as some path object?). For example, Figure 5a from here is a vector plot that is accessible from the pdf (reproduced below).

My questions are the following:

What are the usual object types for a line in an XY plot (see Figure 5a in the above pdf)?
What is the best way to run a script over the object (in Illustrator or some other program) to get the exact position of the points of the line?

Edit: I already saw this question, but rather than just getting a single point associated with the object, I wanted to absolute position of all the sub-points (if that makes sense). That way I can recreate the graph using the positions of the axes labels.


texts: Best Way To Digitally Capture a Pencil Sketch

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I am building a small app about the human face.

I have an artist that is sketching pencil based illustrations for me. Mostly in black and white (pencil black/grey) with a hint of colour here and there.

What is the best way to digitally capture the sketches/illustrations?

A high resolution scanner I am guessing.

Any suggestions as to the surface he/she should be sketching on?

Apologies for the simple question. Thanks in advance.


texts: Animated SVG Javascript Infographic for timeline

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I am considering to make an animated infographic based on SVG, Javascript and CSS technologies of a timeline. I have lots of experience in programming but not so much in using these technologies to animate something (means that you could possibly tell me that I should approach the problem in a different way).

With Inkscape, I can generate a large SVG image (large in the horizontal dimension and also relatively large in file size, unless I avoid embedding the pixel graphics). The SVG contains lots of boxes for events (SVG groups) which I would like to enlarge when clicked such that the details may be seen. I think, I could produce a working animation that shows the whole SVG and allows to enlarge all the boxes separately.

However, since the timeline is so long, it is necessary to zoom it such that only a part of it is visible at a time. There would need to be some buttons that allow the user to shift to the left or to the right to display earlier or later events. But still, whenever the user clicks one of the events it should be enlarged.

Here is the concept in pictures (the smaller large box is supposed to be the screen or the visible part of the graphic):

I am wondering if that is a feasible approach (how would I approach the combination of the two functions?). A different option would be to generate a separate SVG, or whatever, for each of the events and to position them in a different way on the screen.

Since I will need to repeat this many times for different or updated timelines, I will need to do most of it programmatically, working on the source text files. However, If such a single timeline can be created with some tool, from whose output I can learn how to do it, I am open to suggestions. In this case, I would need to know how.

Also, it would of course be very useful to have a working example, if there exists something comparable out there.


texts: Best Approaches to streamline production design for assets

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I'm looking for some suggestions for how to do best manage a design pipeline that requires lots of assets that need to be created based off a few core templates.

For our marketing we have 2-3 core templates that require us to change some of the images/copy/elements in a variable way (E.g. if we are creating an asset for Chicago vs Los Angeles we'll use a different map, different asset and change the city name). Off a core template we might generate 50+ variations so its can be very labor intensive to do this manually in Photoshop.

We are a tech-savvy team so there are no limitations on programming etc. Our main goal is to be able to have a designer provide a template and then "automate it" in such a way as we can constantly plug in new values to generate new assets. Hopefully the marketer who wants the asset doesn't have to fool around with too many design tools.

Right now the only thing I have come up with is using Sketch Symbols. We could create a template as a Symbol and then use the overrides. It still requires opening Sketch and doing a bunch of stuff.

What other tools/processes work for producing assets at this scale? We are open to Adobe Suite or anything else.

UPDATE (someone said I was being to Vague so here is a very specific example):

We have an advertisement that needs to run in many DMAs.
We have a core template that contains the following design elements:

MY TEMPLATE
Layer 1: City Name  + extra copy
Layer 2: Image of a map outline (will vary per city)
Layer 3: Small App Icon Logo (will vary per city)
Layer 4: Call To action button (will vary as we experiment), (Background color code will also vary)
Background Color Layer: Doesn't Change

Ideally I would have a spreadsheet or database entry where I can input

MY VARIABLES
Variable A: Los Angeles
Variable B: Link to Los Angeles City Map Outline Image
Variable C: Link to App Icon Logo for Los Angeles
Variable D: Text I want to use in Call to action
Variable E: Background Color for Call to Action.

I want to have lots of rows MY VARIABLES be able to generate assets of MY TEMPLATE

My dream workflow would be :

Designer exports a template from Adobe product and
Developer integrates that into a web UI that has ties data entry form inputs to that template
Marketer can then just generate new assets from the Web UI by entering variables in a form.


texts: Custom brush size scales back when changing brush

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So I downloaded some free custom brushes to draw some hills.
The "default" size of these brushes are ~850px so I change it to 35px. But if I use another brush and then switch back to this, then it always scales back to 850px.

So, if I change a brush size then how to achieve to "stay" at this size forever?
(sorry for my English, if something is bad)


texts: insert the same image on every other page

texts: I am creating a booklet and want to include a small image on every odd page. To do that, use master pages, right? But here's the catch - I want to rotate and move the image just a little as the pages progress to make the image look like it's jumping.  The image is a little man.)  I could just copy the same image on every page and guess at it's location, but I'm wondering if there is a feature that let's you place it in the exact same spot on each page.  Master pages won't work because I want to move each one. Any suggestions? I am using Indesign CS5. thanks.


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I am trying to come up with an icon that would capture the concept of "in use".
I have a list of files, some of which will be used by other objects in the system, and I need a visual cue to present to the user that a given file is "in use" - i.e. has an established relationship/dependency with another object.

So far I have come up with a simple green light indicator.


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How can I Import vector shapes from photoshop to flash cs5.

I have tried to export an .ai file, and Import it in flash but that doesn't work.

Thanks for help.


texts: How to wrap text in Photoshop like in terminal?

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I'm trying to get monospaced text in Photoshop to break mid-character. This is what the terminal does by default. Here's an example of what I want to happen:

Here's what's happening in Photoshop:

How do I force a word to break mid-character in Photoshop?


texts: How can I make my graphics look less "cartoony"?

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To begin with, I'm a programmer -- not a graphic designer, so I'm not very good at making pleasing looking images.  But I want some that at least look decent enough for version 1 of my video app, and I came up with a bunch of logos for it.  I have one here:

Here is another:

I've been bugging my friends for feedback, and they seem to think the images are too cartoony looking.  I don't really know how to fix this, so I welcome suggestions from the professionals!

EDIT

I followed some of your all's recommendations.  The new image is:

I redid the star from scratch entirely.  My friends really like the new look of it.  I'm still not sure about the blue border though.  I've been messing around with it for 3 hours and can't get something that "clicks" for me.

Oh, and I remember where my idea for the icon came from.  I originally had just a star, but that seemed too generic, so my buddy suggested making it like a Hollywood star, and those stars have a little camera in them.


texts: How to use all colors in Illustrator? Remove out of gamut checking

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I just can't make pure blue (R=0,G=0,B=255) circle. It says "out of gamut warning". If I press "fix" or something, it makes color black but not blue.

I don't need this "service".

How to bother out such things as "gamuts" and that similar staff?

I want each object be the color I want, not somebody regard as "correct".


texts: How to create line icon comprises paths in sketch?

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Hi！ It's my first post.

I am totally newbie in sketch, also in design.

Because I want to use the "Shared style" function which can let me change all icons' style quickly (just like this tutorial Sketch 3 Tutorial Shared Styles. One click then you can change all icons' colour.
So I tried to mimic a line icon as below image. But my result looks strange.
Please see the image.

My question is :
How to turn icon become a lot of piece? (I tried flatten, it didn't work.)
Actually, I even don't know if I ask right question.
Please someone tell me how to make line icon in sketch in correct way!

@hack_nug Mr.hack_nug:
please see below image.

All ovals made by borders,and I also union them.

But my dots are just "line" circles.

I don't know how to union border circle and remain dots at the same time.


texts: Can this be stretched without an actual stretching?

texts: Is there any way to make this picture in 1920x1080? Both sides are filled with a lot of pencil strokes and for me, this makes it nearly impossible to use even a stamp and duplicate a part of the background to fill the rest of the white sides.


texts: Solved - Extrude and Offset don't work as it usually do in Maya

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UPDATE: So I managed to make it work by filling the hole and offsetting on faces. Then, extruding or offsetting whatever I wanted. It works now.
I noticed that removing the face and extruding on its edges creates that weird offset and extrude when it comes to mesh with subdivisions or more than 1x1.
BUT if I do it on a (1x1) mesh it just works fine.
So fill hole > offset its face > then extruding / offsetting from its edges work.

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Extruding or offsetting the faces should be straight as usual, but mine is acting weird. I don't offset and extrude at the same time but it looks as if it behaves that way.
The only clue I have is that using global works, but is there a way to make it work as it should be?
Thanks!


texts: How do I add the "enhance" toolbar in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014?

texts: I have adobe Illustrator CC 2014, but don't have the enhance toolbar with the features such as spot healing, clone, red eye, etc. How do I add in this toolbar?


texts: Illustrator C6 How to count the border width into the box dimension?

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Is there any way of telling Illustrator that I want it to include the border width into total dimension of the object?

For example I want a box 30x30px with 1px border. Of course I could make it manually and insert 29x29px for the box and then 1px stays for the border.
In this case it works, but what about when I change my mind during the creation process and want increase the border to 5 px? My box will be 34x34 px and I want it to always be 30, just different proportions between the fill and border. Does anybody know the solution?


texts: Filling areas using transparent color without affecting the border

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I am drawing a figure which shows several tetrahedrons in Illustrator. I have drawn all the line segments and connected them at the endpoints. Now the figure has been like this.

Now I want to fill the areas surrounded by the line segments. I did this as follows: first selected 3 line segments, join them and fill the color.

However, I found another problem. Since there are dashed lines in this figure, if the 3 line segments contains one which is dashed, the join operation will cause all the lines dashed. That is what I don't want.

So What is the correct operation if I want to meet my purpose?


texts: Recreate existing logo in different format

texts: I have been asked by a client to recreate their logo in a new file type. The client owns the logo, but the brand book they bought is from another designer.  Can I legally recreate the client's logo for them?


texts: How to avoid pixel shifting for embossed tiling in Gimp

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I'm trying to create tiles with a cloud embossing.

I generated the tiling clouds with filter > render > clouds  , and then applied filter > distort > emboss.

But the modified clouds don’t repeat properly anymore, as you can see I have transparent pixel vertically and some shift horizontally.

How can-I control this aspect of the emboss filter, or how can I get the same result without this pixel shift?


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I am making a dashed line in Gimp by making a new layer, drawing a path, clicking "Stroke Path" in the tool options, and then selecting the dashed line style in the Stroke Path window.

My foreground color is black. I would expect this line to also be black. Instead it's filling with a brown gradient, similar to a gradient that I used for the bottom rectangle in this image.

Why is this happening?


texts: Interlocking shapes with clipping mask and stroke

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I'm trying to create something like this:

(Ignore the gray diagonal line)
I have the female symbol and the rainbow flag. I know how to add stroke, create clipping masks, and create interlocking solid-color shapes with the live paint bucket, but I can't put everything together to make this design. The logical way, I think, would be to "bring forward" or "send backward" a part of a shape by selecting nodes, but I don't think that's possible. How should I go about doing this?


texts: Separating one element of an Svg file into multiple elements with Inkscape

texts: I want to edit an svg from wikimedia commons that shows the human arteries to highlite a specific artery in a specific color. Unfortunately multiple arteries in that svg are represented by the same svg object. What's the best way for editing files like that to be able to select different subparts and color them?


texts: Batch background removal on non-uniform images

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The issue I'm having is the following: I have an archive of about 700,000 tif images that were originally microfilms.

They are all black and white and are basically paper with information on it. I'm trying to figure out a way to trim/crop out the black background, so as to reduce the image size/resolution to show only the paper part as the whole image, but preserving everything inside the paper part.

Thing is, the images are REALLY messy and noisy. The black parts are really noisy, full of white dots and lines, and the paper section of the image is no better, only in reverse (full of black dots on white paper), and the actual information on the paper can be really blurry, sometimes looking like a bunch of black blotches.

I have access to ImageMagick, GIMP, Photoshop, and PhotoScissors (which I made an RPA script to automate, but the results were less than satisfactory)

So far I've had more success with ImageMagick, thanks to the help an amazing guy in their forum.

But the variety of the quality and resolutions of the images seems to be making it impossible to write a single line command line that manages to properly remove the black background and trim the image in order to leave it the way I need it.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Here's a link for a drive folder with different images, organized by how bad they are. Also, with folders for what the end result must be like (end image format does not really matter).

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R_EkpsOZs795n9i7-UoSHdh9pxrz8fVm?usp=sharing


texts: What is the safest / most precise way to convert spot colors to process in post production?

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I work in prepress production at a publishing house and often times only have access to .PDF cover files which contain spot (pantone) colors from their former offset printing days. Because I set up these files for digital printing, spot colors are NOT an option.

What is the most professional way to convert these spot colors to process? I see features in Acrobat that claim to map them to the (nearest?) process value but I wish to understand more about this acrobat feature and if more precise alternatives exist, pitfalls to avoid, etc.


texts: Trouble scaling an outline in Adobe Illustrator CC (2017)

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So I'm attempting to make another outline of the vector (in white) within the actual vector shape (black), but scaling the image doesn't keep the vector points aligned with each other. Is there a way to create that outline and have it correspond to the vector path of the original shape (black)?

I'd like the white line to be within the original shape, but cant figure out how to keep the scale bound to the vector points of the original image. Any thoughts?


texts: GIMP decreases quality of image after every saving

texts: I used GIMP to draw and after couple of weeks I noticed that image isn't as sharp as it was before. It seems GIMP can't save a file without quality loss: the more times you save file, the less and less quality you get. Is it possible to change that, may be some settings? I'm not talking about exporting, but exactly about saving.


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I want to create this effect (the second one)

using the first one as a source, ultimately to create the last one. I'm trying to learn some stuff, following a tutorial but the guy is using a tool that's no longer in Photoshop (he's using CS 3). Is there any other way I can do this?

His original instructions.

  Open smooth sphere.jpg (the first sphere). In the Liquify filter (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + X), make small circles with the Mirror tool (M) over the centre to create a depression. Press OK. Erase part of this, leaving a bevel, and darken the whole in Curves (Cmd/Ctrl + M). Copy Mountain.jpg into this image and create a clipping mask with it over the shape.

Thanks!


texts: Can the end of double spacing after periods be dated?

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From this Slate article:

  Hundreds of years ago some typesetters would end sentences with a double space, others would use a single space, and a few renegades would use three or four spaces. Inconsistency reigned in all facets of written communication; there were few conventions regarding spelling, punctuation, character design, and ways to add emphasis to type.

  […]

  Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren't for a quirk of history.

However, a double-space after period rule is still the default in some software, and most famously in TeX. This implies that the transition may not be as “complete” as the Slate article implies. So, my question is: can we somehow date the end of the double-space?


texts: Export layers in photoshop with levels applied

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I have the following sequence of 35 layers within Photoshop CC 2015:

I'm using Files > Export > Layers to Files to save the images as JPEGS. Unfortunately, the levels are not being applied to each image and are being processed as empty JPEGS.

How do you export the images with levels applied?


texts: How to create a light border for an app icon

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This is a fine piece of iPhone app icon:

I'm wondering how they created the fine texture along with the slight 'glow' on the edges:

I suppose the texture is made by a semi-transparent layer on top of the red background, but how did they do the light red glow on the border of the icon?


texts: How do I create thick circle in Inkscape?

texts: How do I make the circle into thickness ... I am a beginner of Inkscape and not sure how to do create like this.


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Here it says when using "snap to grid", that it snaps when I am within 2 px of the grid

  When the object’s boundaries come within 2 pixels of a gridline, it snaps to the point.

How can I change that? I want to move objects in smaller steps than that.


texts: How do you blur out one end of an object more than the other end?

texts: I am busy creating shadows for a 3d glass box that I am working on. I want to create the shadows that the pillars make on the ground however, I seem to be having trouble trying to figure out how to blur one end of the shadow more than the other end. My shadow is a vector shape that I have drawn with the pen tool. I do not want to blur the whole shape evenly, I want to blur one end more than the other end. Kindly see my screenshot below. Any help would be appreciated.


texts:
I was searching around and I found this question here talking about how a designer knows when thier work is 'good'; and it has a lot of crucial information.

My question is almost an extension to this:

How do I know when I'm ready to start doing professional work? Right now all the jobs I do are for school so they are free/very discounted and they are all for friends who've hired me.

I feel like I may be ready to start doing some small-time freelance work (like on Etsy or craigslist, for example) to get some portfolio pieces and to make some money on the side, but the thought of actually freelancing beyond the confines of a class assignment is really daunting...

I'm scared I'm going to start taking work orders and then get in really over my head.


texts: Photoshop - save for web and devices, how to save using default options each time?

texts: I wonder if there is a way to ask photoshop to save for web and devices using the default options, and save two or tree mouse clicks each time.


texts: How can I export png layers to flash? (GIMP)

texts: I am a GIMP user and I would like to create a flash animated image from PNG in order to preserve the colour quality that otherwise gif fails to deliver. I've searched the web but I am having problems since I cannot find a step by step "tutorial" how to install the script/plug in.


texts: Is there a benefit to using the "eraser" side of a Wacom tablet?

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Wacom Intuous and Intuous Pro has an eraser side on it that at least in Photoshop defaults to... the eraser. I'm not sure however, and couldn't find much about that side of the stylus. Not sure if there's any benefit, otherwise its just as fast, if not faster, for me to tap the E with my off hand.

Is it just personal preference or is there some technical benefit (like different pressure sensitivity, or tilt control, or something) to using the Eraser side of a Wacom?


texts: I made some icons using Krita. How do I get those icons into Android Studio?


texts: Adobe InDesign - Courier Not Fixed Width

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We have an InDesign project on a technical topic. Like many such books, we are using using a variable width font (Palatino right now) for the body text and a fixed width font (Courier) for portions describing source code or system commands.

Strangely, however, InDesign seems to be trying to make Courier a variable width font.

I've included a screenshot from the PDF we've exported from InDesign, but it also shows up as variable width in the InDesign interface itself. Note how narrow the 'i' character is.

I have no idea what's going on here or even what to start looking at. Any ideas?

Thanks
Friedman


texts: Please help identifying this brush-written typeface

texts: This is a painted sign I found and I really like the font. I cannot identify this font. I have tried several of the sites where I can upload a picture but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks


texts: I use Photoshop and now starting on Illustrator but I can't work out how to change the size of the overall image.  I have opened a pre-existing one but unlike Photoshop I can't see where to find the existing size then to be able to enter the new required size.  Example is the current file is 64cm wide and I want to go to 100cm and keep the proportions constrained


texts: Is it possible to do “Step and Repeat” on a group of layers at once?

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Step and Repeat can be applied to a single layer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T. But after I tried it on a group of layers, it is not working; it is repeating the transformation, but not duplicating.

Is there a workaround to do Step and Repeat to a group in Photoshop?


texts: Export vector design from Illustrator to photoshop and back

texts: How do I take a gradient vector design into photoshop, add noise to it, and then return it back into Illustrator without the white background?


texts: Gimp - Level adjustment as layer, like photoshop?

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Is there any way to adapt the levels of an image through a specific 'level' layer, like in photoshop ?

I find it very handy to have it as a layer.

See below, I'havent found a way to achieve that...

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Regards


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I'm making up a A3 graphic for a client that will be getting printed. The only problem I have is what to use as the default printer clearance margins in the paper.

I assume for the final work it will be best to double check with the printers but is there a guideline/industry default sizing for the margins?


texts: Reactive shade of global swatch in Illustrator

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I know in Illustrator it's easy to make a tint of a global color reactive to changes in that global color. How do you do this for a shade too? I have a global color and want to create shades of the global which react to changes in the global.

Is this possible? If not, what are the workarounds?


texts: What is a good general document size for web page mockups and prototypes?

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I do mockups and prototypes of sites and designs all the time, but I've always wondered if there is a standard size or width I should be using. Generally I'll make my document either 1024, 1200, or 2560px wide, depending on what I'm doing.

So what do you think? What is a good or standard size for this?


texts: How to export to compressed BMP RLE using CorelDRAW/Photoshop?

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I have a problem when exporting to BMP file with RLE compression using CorelDRAW X6 & Adobe Photoshop CS6.

CorelDRAW have option exporting to BMP RLE but the output file will not be compressed.

Adobe Photoshop have the option but it's greyed out.

Do you know how to export to BMP RLE using these software or maybe there's other alternative?

P.S. Here's the screenshot CorelDRAW X6 & Photoshop CS6:


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I have an EPS file with transparency. How can I convert it to PNG with GIMP and preserve transparency?
Edit: I tried opening it in GIMP and exporting as PNG. Didn't work.


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I want to model a railroad line by using paths from GIMP. Of course rail tracks cannot have any kinks. Therefore I have been adjusting the handles of each vertex to have the same angle:

While that works, it is really inconvenient, inaccurate and annoying. Is there a feature/plugin in GIMP to force the handles to have the same angle, i.e. to forbid any kinks in paths?


texts: Punch through layer below in Illustrator

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I have read that Opacity Mask is used for such task. However did not manage to make it work properly. Is there any other way to punch through layers?

Vector File


texts: I have tiff. files that are 72dpi. In order to put them into my book for publication they have to be 300dpi.  How do I increase the dpi without changing the size of the image.  When I go to PhotoShop and change the dpi the picture of course shrinks. Then when I put it into my document and enlarge it to the appropriate size the dpi goes back down.Is there a way to keep the size but put the dpi at a level the printer wants.


texts: Free editor to render a custom logotype on different goods?

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I need a free editor (online or offline) to apply a logo on different goods, like pens, t-shirts, cards and so on.

UPDATED
I don't need to draw a logotype, I have it already. Just I need a some tools to see quickly print it on many things (card, cups, T-shirts,...). To see how it looks printed on different things.


texts: How to create animation with svg format file?

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How to create svg animation like this?
https://cl.parspack.com/clients/templates/ps_seven/img/svg/header.svg

I search on google but I can't any way to create animation with svg format file like this. Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate and Adobe Edge Animate can't export file by svg format for animation!!


texts: What is the meaning of the prefix "A" in material design color guidelines?

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I look at Google's material color guidelines and can understand that 500 means the primary color. Higher values, like 900, mean "darker" versions of the primary color. Correspondingly, lower values means "lighter" versions of the primary color, like 50.

However, what about A100, A700, etc? What is the meaning of "A" prefix?


texts: FIGMA Auto Layout with stroke only on three sides

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I have a little challenge with Auto Layout in FIGMA.

I need to build a navigation where every element has only a border in the bottom, the active one everywhere but on the bottom, ie some kind of a tabbed things.

I couldn't really build that with Auto Layout, played with nesting some of them too.

Any hints how to approach that ?

/B


texts: Printing a consistent grey: is that still a challenge with comic books?

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In a documentary on the American TV series The Incredible Hulk (1978-1982, dir. K. Johnson, with Messrs. Bixby, Ferrigno etc.), the producer/director explains that he tried to petition Stan Lee to allow him to do a red Hulk because of the association with anger. More to the point, he reveals that Mr Lee explained the reason Hulk was green was because they couldn't do a good grey primer whereas they could do a consistent green. Obviously he's not talking about makeup but the comic book and this is consistent with the wikipedia entry on the Hulk.

Any reason why making a consistent grey would be difficult to do in comics - does that apply to print generally? And is that still a challenge today?


texts: Need help identifying a font often used in the figures of scientific papers

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In the figures of scientific papers, I have been seeing this font very often (image below). I see this font in papers as old as from 2010s. I like the simplicity of this font and would like to use it. However, the issue is that I don't know the name of this font.
This 'sans' font has characteristic capital 'C' (no inward curves) , 'M' (angled outer lines) and lower 'c' (no inward curves), 'l' (just a straight line) letters.
To search this font based on a scientific figure I had, I used image-based search engines e.g. the one of Adobe and others.
The closest fonts I found were following two, but after looking closely, I realized that they are not the right ones, because of some subtle differences.

Trebuchet MS, but lower 'c' and 'l' are different.
Myriad, but 'f' and 'i' should not be connected in 'fi' i.e. if lower 'f' and 'i' are adjacent, there should not be connection between them. The upper dot of 'i' in 'fi' should be visible.

I wonder if I could get any help in this regards. I think getting an expert's opinion here is my last option in this investigation.
Here's some extra information that may probably help.
I am a python coder myself and I use linux and I never encountered this font while making scientific figures. So probably this font is used by plotting software of another coding language or OS or just a graphic maker (e.g. Adobe illustrator).


texts: How to subtract a shape from another one grabbing gradient continuity?

texts: I wanna "cut" a triangle (see above, the black one) from that rectangle's left bottom corner, but when I use pathfinder or shape builder tools to do that, the triangle "assumes" the rectangle's full gradient, and instead, I need the triangle to "grab" gradient continuity, like if it had been cut with a scissor (on photoshop I just would have to rasterize the rectangle). I wanna put that triangle on my artwork left bottom, and sure, keeping it editable.


texts: Tools for classifying and organizing fonts

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I have a fairly large collection of fonts, is there any automated method (via a tool or something) to organize them in groups according to their font family? If not, is there any sort of a list of 'font name – font family' pairs?

** note : the most important feature I look for is the software ability to automatically recognize and organize the fonts collection into families **


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I am importing a figure with multiple text objects in inkscape (e.g. graph). I sometimes need to change the overall width of the figure to match publishers requirements (e.g. single column figure cannot be over 8cm wide). Therefore I select everything and scale the width. This leaves text distorted, but I need to maintain the text aspect ratio. How can I now un-stretch the text afterwards to not look distorted?

The only way I found so far, was to select each text object, press ctrl+shift+x to bring up the XML editor, find the scale attribute of the distorted node and remove it. However, this is a) cumbersome (have to do it on all text nodes manually) and b) moves the text object around.


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I've been trying to understand the concept of frequency seperation, and so far have been able to deduce very less of how the technique works.

This page, says that an image can be broken into low and high frequency sine waves!!! How is this possible? And how can we even visualize the sine waves in an image? What is the in depth mathematics of frequency seperation?


texts: Where would I be able to download/purchase stencilled background artwork?

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What I mean by "stencilled" artwork is cartoonish glyphs for the background of a graphic, visible on this app page for Things or in the background of this graphic the Ember app page in the top banner.

More than willing to pay, just haven't come across something like this.


texts: How to enlarge a mask in Photoshop non-destructively ("bleeding", "outer glow")?

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I would want to enlarge a mask be it either a pixel based or vector one by adding a "bleeding" effect so to increase the masks's area. Adding actual "Outer glow" FX doesn't change the masking area, but only adds FX itself if put on the adjustment layer and if put on a group - cancels the adjustments, that are inside the group. Transforming the mask is not option since I may have several masking zones on a layer and the size increase has just a different result, not identical to an "Outer Glow". Selecting the mask and then modifying the selection takes too much time and has no live preview.
I'm coming from Affinity Photo, where the "Outer Glow" can actually be used on a layer used as a mask (Affinity's masks can be their own independent layers). So I wanted to find an identical way of doing so in Photoshop.
Adding feathering(via Gaussian blur) and increasing the area(via Outer Glow) in Affinity Photo of a mask layer.


texts: Inkscape png export: color at the boundary of touching rectangles

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I got a question concerning the .png export of Inkscape. I want to draw 2 rectangles which touch each other (snapping enabled, snap bounding box corners). Each box has a certain fill color and no stroke paint. After exporting a .png image I would expect to have only two colors in my Image, but instead IrfanView tells me I got 3 colors. Zooming in, this third color occurs at the boundary line where the rectangles touch. Zooming in with Gimp, there is transparency between the rectangles. Neither by letting the rectangles overlap, nor by using stroke paint, I can get rid of this 3rd color.

Does anybody know how to solve this problem? For my purpose I need a .png image which contains only certain color values that I used to fill rectangles.

here is the XML code of the rectangeles:

sodipodi:docname="1.svg">
  <defs
     id="defs4" />
  <sodipodi:namedview
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="2.8"
     inkscape:cx="195.53572"
     inkscape:cy="607.85714"
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
     showgrid="false"
     inkscape:snap-bbox="true"
     inkscape:bbox-nodes="true"
     inkscape:snap-intersection-paths="true"
     inkscape:object-paths="true"
     inkscape:bbox-paths="true"
     inkscape:window-width="1280"
     inkscape:window-height="1002"
     inkscape:window-x="1912"
     inkscape:window-y="23"
     inkscape:window-maximized="1" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata7">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
          rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
        <dc:title />
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g
     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
     id="layer1">
    <rect
       style="opacity:1;fill:#797979;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1.77165353;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-opacity:1"
       id="rect3336"
       width="514.28571"
       height="182.85715"
       x="85.714287"
       y="255.21935"
       inkscape:export-xdpi="300"
       inkscape:export-ydpi="300" />
    <rect
       style="opacity:1;fill:#dfdfdf;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1.77165353;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-opacity:1"
       id="rect4140"
       width="514.28571"
       height="199.28571"
       x="85.714287"
       y="438.07648"
       inkscape:export-xdpi="300"
       inkscape:export-ydpi="300" />
  </g>
</svg>


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I am a starter in illustrator. I make pattern and put it in swatches panel. When I open it from swatches panel, the pattern tile has a rectangle shape even if I have given the size of a square at first (before drawing and making pattern). 1) How can I have a square pattern tile not rectangle? after that, 2) How can I make a new  artboard of my pattern tile?(When I open my rectangle(!!!) pattern tile from swatches panel, and draw a new square by ellipse tool to drag the tile to it,suddenly all the screen is my pattern tile!)(There is no new white square to see and drag to it)
Can anybody help me solve the problemsa? Many thanks.


texts: Convert region between ellipses to bezier path

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In an Inkscape file I got from somebody I found the following:

On the right there are arcs of ellipses (not paths), and on the left there are 4-node bezier paths each perfectly corresponding to the inside of the set of four ellipses next to it.
I have been trying to do the same: I create four arcs of ellipses and try to convert the inside region to a single path. Given the above examples I guess there must be a very quick way to do it, but I can't figure it out.


texts: How to change the curve of two separate points simultaneously in Illustrator

texts: Is it possible in Illustrator to change the curve of two separate points at the same time so that the change is symmetrical? For example if I have a rounded cornered square but want to further adjust the top two curves, can I select both points and somehow pull the handle of one and have it adjust the curve of the other point at the same time so they remain equal?


texts: How to change RGB to CMYK without affecting blending mode?

texts: In Illustrator, I create some designs in RGB mode (eg: glow effect and blending mode), If I drag and drop the CMYK document some blending options are changing. So please give me the solution for this problem, I am very confused by this problem...


texts: How to automate creation of OpenType features based on glyph and/or class names?

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I use FontLab Studio, but if there are ways to do what I'm asking in Glyphs, I'd make the switch.

I know how to write OpenType features by hand, based on the naming-conventions of my glyphs and classes.  And I've tried to expedite this lengthy process by copying features from another font, or loading them from a .fea files.  But this only works if the name and number of the glyphs are the same, and even then the .otf file usually fails to export.  I know there are such things as "Macros" in FontLab but I haven't used them before for lack of understanding.

So, is there a way to automate creation of OpenType features based on glyph and/or class names? Or to expedite this process with Macros or something else?


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I am designing a couple invitation cards on Adobe Illustator using the the sizes 5x7in and 5x3.5in, CMYK mode, 0.125in bleed and 300ppi settings. Normally if I used those settings in Photoshop, my canvas would open up zoomed it to 66%. However while creating a new canvas to work on in Illustartor, I realised that I was immedately zoomed into 300%.

I don't work that often with Illustator so I am not sure if this is normal. However all the files I've opened before (vector/pattern files you can download online) are usually huge and zoomed to 25% or something around that area.

Does anybody know if I did something wrong while creating a new document? Or is there some Illustrator only trick I haven't learned yet? Haha I know Illustrator is vector base so I don't have to worry so much about the quality, but it still worries me a little that I am working on such a tiny file. When I zoom out to 100%, the file looks so tiny!

Here are how the two files look on Photoshop and Illustator. Both using the same settings. It's not so much if your screen or my screen is bigger but rather, why is it such a huge difference in size on both software?


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i try to edit a photo like the picture.
i think that is an overlay color. after i try to make overlay with Photoshop, the result is totally diferent.

This is the result of my attempt


texts: Planning to use different size images across different devices

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The current framework I use to design webpages currently doesn't do anything to optimize images across different devices. As I see it, their are four types: mobile, tablet, desktop PC and large desktop PC to make things simple, the last three can be considered as one unit and mobile devices as a separate entity (I understand that they are not the same and shouldn't be considered in the same breath).

Dimensioning is the issue I'm having. If we consider a graphic for the header that will take up 100% of the width and be a height of 500px how is that graphic best translated down to a smaller device (iPhone 5 for argument's sake)?


texts: How is this type of grain/noise effect made?

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I've spent the morning playing with noise in both illustrator and photoshop, blending layers and testing various grain textures - trying to get close to this type of superbly fine but crisp noise but it ain't working - the black noise in many places (see the teeth and lips) boggles me. Is anyone here that knows how this was done?

https://imgur.com/nM1YRcJ


texts: I need to to know what my artboard's size be to created for a trifold brochure. For my own reference I folded an A4 paper manually. So my question is will a horizontal A4 sized artboard will do to have the same thing on print?


texts: Transparency dithering issue when saving for web

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I am trying to optimize the graphics for a webdesign, since I am not satisfied with the performance in terms of load-times. The logo is quite big and in PNG24 so I experimented to see how much I could shrink it. It was thrilled to see that I could get from 158KB to 61KB with practically no image quality loss until I started implementing the picture in the design and noticed white "ghosting" transparency issues around some of the edges. Then I started playing around with transparency dithering, but the best result I managed to get was with diffusion dithering enabled, but the amount set to 0% (yeah, it actually still has an effect?!), but I still find the edges a bit to jagged for what I am looking for. I made a collage where I put the tree versions of the logo on a subtle gradient, which makes it easier to see the issues on the following link:

Any suggestions on how I can get closer to that attractive ≈ 60KB filesize without giving up on the smooth edges when not performing dithering?

BTW: I'm using the "save for web" dialogue in Photoshop CS5.5 in case you're wondering.


texts: PDF/InDesign: Identify which export settings were used in InDesign from a PDF?

texts: From a PDF, is there a way to figure out what settings were used to export the file from InDesign (High Quality Print/Press/Smallest File Size, compression settings, etc.)?


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I have got a component which is a wall.
I want to add different cutting to different walls.
However, I do not want to make walls unique, since I want to be able to resize walls in the future.


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I'll try to keep this as simple as I can.
I'm just about to pen over a sketch on A4 paper but my intention is to print it on a shirt about A3 size. It's also a design which doesn't look very well when vectored and my intention is to colour it in Photoshop.

I've done some practice scans and expanded the black outline a bit to A3 size and don't see too much a difference on screen but was wondering if it would show when printed? I know expanding anything on Photoshop is complete no but I'm trying to find a shortcut to purchasing A3 paper and starting again.

Also, if this doesn't work then are their any other solutions other than using a drawing tablet to computerize the sketch?

Thanks to anyone who can share their experience and answer the question :).


texts: How to setup a duplex document printed both sides with page numbers in InDesign

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I'm about to create an A4 business brochure magazine style of 8 pages and i was wondering how to setup my document.

I have two options. 1 would be creating an A4 document, facing pages with proper margins and bleeds with page numbers on the left page and right page on my A master.The problem with this option is that in my page panel, the pages are hierarchically organized as followed:
page 1 alone
facing 2-3
facing 4-5
facing 6-7
last page 8 alone

On the other hand, options 2 would make more sense i think and would be hierarchically organized as followed:
facing 8-1facing 2-7facing 3-6facing 4-5
This way i'd have a real duplex document printed on both sides, i feel that would be the right way to go but is it? If so, how can i achieve that? And if not, how professionals usually do this montage?

Thanks a lot in advance for your enlightenment.


texts: Looking to identify the font used for the River Road Ice House logo

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I need to identify the font in the logo below.

I read the meta post on font identification questions, and tried several of the recommended online identifiers.

What The Font gave me 5 choices, but none were correct. (For future reference, what am I supposed to enter on What The Font when it highlights multiple characters? For example, it highlighted the RIVE all in one image, but would only allow me to enter one character, so I left it blank.)

Identifont suggested ITC Mona Lisa, which is incorrect, but I can hardly blame it... I had to say "not sure" to almost everything, because I don't have a large letter sample (or any lowercase letters). The serif font identification guide gave me a lot of incorrect results, for the same reason.

So I've definitely done my due diligence... Help please? :)


texts: Illustrator: Remove white lines from PDF export

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I have two illustrator files containing low poly designs. I have exported both of them and one of them has lots of white lines in between the different shapes I have drawn (see below for images):

I have been looking at various other forums and have tried the recommended fixes. I loaded them in Adobe Acrobat and got rid of "Smooth Line Art" however this made the images very jaggedy.

I am not sure how one design can have no white lines and the other one has lots.

Thank you!


texts: Is there a font alternative to Mason Book?

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It looks like this:
link.

Anybody know of any alternative, commercial licensed fonts that are simplistic and semi-serifed?
Thanks!

EDIT (partial picture of the font) -


texts: How to swap the z-order of two objects in inkscape

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I have two objects A and B in an Inkscape drawing with many other objects. At the moment A lays over B (i.e., A is higher in the z-ordering than B). I would like that the z-ordering swaps, that is, that B lays over A.
Because the drawing has many objects, it is burdensome to use the function Lower Selection or Raise Selection. I would like in one click to swap the z-ordering. Is that possible?


texts: InDesign: Printing as booklet messes up colours

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Graphics were designed in Illustrator CS3 and "placed" in InDesign CS3. When I use the print booklet option to print to PDF, the pages are correctly put in the print spread order, but my some of my colours (specifically a faded out vector logo) are wonky when viewed in the PDF. If I instead "export" to PDF from the same InDesign document it looks fine when viewed in the PDF .

This is a booklet that is going to be printed on a digital printing press, not viewed on the web.

Attaching samples.


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I am pasting text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (as seen in the screenshot).
I'm not sure how to turn off hyphenation for this paragraph, or is it bad practice to leave it on?


texts: How to measure sizes and distances from parts of an image file?

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I have this image sprite containing many small icons.

I don't know the accurate size, height and width of each icon and it's too difficult for me to find it manually with my current tools (I am using Google chrome to edit CSS). Additionally, I need to know, in pixels, how far each icon is from the top and left of the whole image file.

This is the image file:

Are there any software or Photoshop tools that will enable me to select each icon and find out how big it is, and how far it is from the top and left of the image?


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Using Gimp 2.8.4

I am developing an animation for a game in gimp. The game does not require a gif animation - I load individual images as frames, usually pngs, and animate them in the game engine. The animation frames depend highly on transparency, and when I preview the animation using Filters -> Animation -> Playback, everything looks completely wrong. I would be fine with simply exporting the animation to preview it, but I don't see any options. I tried installing the apng plugin, but that did work (get an error saving the images.) I tried exporting as an mng, but I am not able to find software to view it.

Does anyone know of a way to preview animations in gimp that allows transparency, and doesn't compress the frames? Or maybe a better animation format that Gimp can export to?


texts: Best way to export NEF files to JPG for best Facebook quality in GIMP?

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Hey I'm looking for compression and exporting recommendations!

Unfortunately, I took an awesome picture of a drone in flight while my Nikon was set to save NEF / RAW files.... So I have this great shot I've edited in Gimp and it appears crystal clear until I upload it to Facebook.

I've tried setting it to Facebook's sizing recommendations (720px, 960px or 2048px wide) as well as comprising the file size to under 100KB. I export it to JPG for cmy personal color preferences. The picture looks great on my computer still, and then I upload it to an HD folder on Facebook and it's disgusting...

Anyone know the exact parameters I should use in GIMP or what I should set each individual compression option to when exporting? Any advice is appreciated!!! I want this photo to sparkle online a little more than what I've been able to achieve so far. Thanks!


texts: Wacom Tablet: is Intuos more easy to use than Intuos Pro?

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Struggling to choose between Wacom Intuos and Intuos Pro:

Somehow, the non-Pro tablet visually looks nicer to work with -
I like it's M size is more compact than Pro M size,
and especially I feel like the dotted area on the non-Pro can help to be precise in some working issues.

I am not an illustrator or an artist, though I am working with vectors and retouching. I also work a lot in MS Word () and PPT.

A comfortable work is more important than a budget, so am I weird to think that non-Pro will be more easy for me to use?

Thanks for any advice.


texts: Matching blacks on an Illustrator poster

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I've searched and read the suggestions to my question but I'm not finding entirely what I need in one place and by now I've made so many changes I'm sure I've passed right over the right combination of settings that would work.

I have been given poster art created by a graphic artist volunteer for an event we're having (we're a non-profit.) She's not available for assistance at the moment, so I'm struggling with printing this on my own.

It's a poster with an image background that has has black areas. There are other elements (text and vector shapes) that also have black backgrounds, which are layered over the image background. When printing, there are different 'colors' of black.

I have fiddled with various printer (ricoh universal PCL6 driver) settings and cannot get rid of this difference. The black from the graphic is actually what we want to achieve - the black that's in the vector shapes seems grayer (I get that it's not the rich black I've read about) but what I don't know how to do is get it to be all the same. We're trying to save money for the event by printing the 11x17s in house (the 24x36s are going to a shop.) I do have Illustrator and I both the .ai file as well as PDF of the poster.

Is there any hope of easily getting this to print with the same, nice black?


texts: Where can I get colored pencils for custom palette?

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I do a lot of scribbling with pen & paper and for the upcoming month I will exclusively work on a design for a project, where the color palette is already fixed. Thus it would be great to have colored pencils in almost, if not exactly the colors of that palette (the colors are given in hexadecimal).

My question is now, are there any shops that offer pencils for given hexadecimal colors?
On encycolorpedia there are sometimes also the "names" of the colors given but in my examples there are not. The colors for which I need pencils most desperately are:

#1ca3dc
#ff8502
#656565


texts: How to save out multiple layered PSD language versions?

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I have 14 display ad PSD files. Each file has approximately 15 design solutions (layers), divided into 3 style types. Each of these layers needs to be saved out 5 times for different language versions.

I need a quick way to batch save out the layers (but only specific layers) not all. Currently I go through this process:
1. Turn on the layers I need (depending on language and style)
2. shift-alt-cmd to save for web
3. Save file e.g. Occasion_300_250_inline_rectangle_A_FR.jpg I change the file name from A to B, B to C etc..
4.  Repeat.


texts: Should I ask for client’s budget before the initial first meeting?

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First of all, is it a good idea to ask a potential client for a ballpark budget they are thinking to work with? I just don’t want to meet with somebody who has a very low budget, and who could be surprised during our first meeting that I’m not the cheapest guy in town.

So what do you think my first step should be when a client sends me an e-mail, wanting to discuss a project? The client has no idea what I charge, beside the fact that the client likes the work I do.


texts: Where can I find a large set of user avatar photos?

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I'm creating a demo account for a product I'm working on and need about 500 photos of people's faces. uifaces.com offers this, but the images are very low resolution (128px square at the largest).

Any ideas where I can find such a set of faces that can be used commercially?


texts: How to change the color of multiple objects of the same color all at once?

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I have a design that has MANY objects. All objects are one of five different colors. I want to change all the objects that are a peach color to a different color all together. To find all of these objects, select them, then change them would take forever.

Is there a way to select one of the peach objects and tell Illustrator CS5 to find all of the other peach objects and change them all to my new color?


texts: How to create Pinyin character PNG with transparent backgrounds?

texts: We need to generate Chinese Pinyin Characters with transparent backgrounds for overlay in a video. We are trying to do this in photoshop but are unable to access the pinyin character set on a mac. Any suggestions?


texts: How can I make Photoshop not change colors on export?

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I have a color #840608 somewhere on my web page and it is coded as #840608 by HTML and it displays as #840608 by all browsers plus it is recognized as #840608 by screen analyzing utilities.

Now in Photoshop I am creating image, and make rectangle there. I am painting this rectangle with #840608 color. It is displayed as #840608 by eyedropper tool.

When I export it as a PNG the color turns to #920203.

How can I make Photoshop keep it's creative potential inside and be just a computer program?


texts: Drinking Straw stripe pattern Illustrator

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I'm Trying to draw a drinking straw on illustrator, with stripe pattern. I've tried using pen tool, converting the line into outline stroke and setting pattern from swatches but the straw pattern is not correct because it doesn't follow the line.

this is what I am trying to do:


texts: The default fore- and background colors are reversed, how do I undo that?

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I have Photoshop CS5 extended. Since yesterday, pressing D the foreground color is white and the background black.

Pressing the switch icon or X the colors switch.

I need the default foreground color to be black and the background color white, as was the case before yesterday.

I tried to solve this by searching for relevant settings in the preferences, however without any success.


texts: how to split an image with a grid and export automatically every frame of the grid in a single file in photoshop or illustrator?

texts: The goal is to export automatically every frame of the 5*6 grid in a new folder with 30 single files.


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All fonts I have ever heard of are two dimensional: each glyph is basically a two dimensional region (a closed contour or some closed contours), which the software or printer somehow strokes or fills depending on the instructions given by the user. I would like to know whether there are one dimensional fonts, where the glyphs are described just as collections of segments (which the software can stroke but not necessarily fill), not of regions.

In other word (or better, in images), what I would like to have is the left thing instead of the right one in the picture below. Does this exist?

(sorry for the picture, I know it is really bad; I just did that quickly)


texts: When I transform a selection in gimp, it disappears

texts: whenever I transform a selection it disappears becoming a floating selection which I cannot see and when i try to link it to a layer it just disappears from the layers tab and nothing happens.


texts: Exporting multiple vector shapes from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop

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Countless time's I've needed to transfer vectors from Illustrator to Photoshop. It's not that hard for one or two vectors. However when you start needing to transfer a few hundred it's almost impossible unless you do it by hand one by one.

Question

I have a layer in illustrator with hundreds of individual path shapes. I want to export them to be used as shape layers in Photoshop. I need them to to be individual shape layers.

Research

Here is a similar question asked many years ago but a real solution was never found. The closest work around was importing the .ai file into adobe fireworks then exporting to .psd but since fireworks is no longer supported that's no longer possible.

Exporting to a psd from illustrator simply flattens the layers and rasterizes them which is completely unhelpful.

We now have Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC. There has got to be a way to transfer lots of vector shapes from one to the other...


texts: Why does exporting an image change its width in Sketch?

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These icons have the very same width in Sketch:

When I export them as PNGs (3x size), the inbox icon has a width of 69px, while the trash's width is 63px.

Why is that? Why don't they have the same width when exported?


texts: How do I create a (custom) alignment guide in Pixelmator

texts: How do I add a custom/fixed alignment guide in Pixelmator? I know it's possible because I done it before and I'm working with a file that already has three, but I need to add one more. How is that done?


texts: Converting complex layered vectors into coloring pages

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I have a series of images that were created for me by a visual designer. They are beautifully done, but consisted of layered shapes that do NOT have outlines. I would like to make coloring pages from these but because of all the layering I can't just select all, fill white and add a stroke. I have tried rasterizing and doing an image trace but I can't figure out settings that do this fairly cleanly. It seems illustrator doesn't do a great job at tracing former vector images, how ironic. Any ideas here would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Christine


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I am trying to create an effect where glowing "dust" made from a particle simulation is flowing off an object (that looks a bit like glass) while it flies through space. I have got a particle simulation but don't know how to get it detailed or react to air behind the object. I was going to upload a picture of what I have but Maya crashed.

Here are examples of what I want flowing off the object.

Also I was wondering how to create shimmering particles in the background


texts: GIMP - Adding new layer blocks image below

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I have a JPG image, then I add a new layer on top, with Mode: Color, and fill with color red.  I get what I want, where the image below shows through:

But when I do the exact same thing on another image (also JPG), that image is completely blocked:

What am I doing wrong?  In both cases, the Layer Fill Type of the new layer is set to Transparency.  In both cases, I use the same red color to fill the layer.


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I need help to identify this 2 fonts, the both font is used in super sentai series, the first one in Kyuranger and the other is used in Megaranger.

Megaranger examples:

I have searched all over google and font sites, but it cant be found, which is why I'm asking here.

Thanks too much.


texts: What's a good (and easy) way to show that a screenshot is a screenshot?

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I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and I like the system screen grab tool. By default when you grab an entire window it will put a bit of a shadow / gradient below it, with transparency, using a PNG image - which I think is pretty nice.

However, if you capture a region of the screen, for example from a web page, the edges are flat and it can be difficult to tell it apart from the rest of the website, especially if it looks similar to the elements that are already there.

So my question is this - what's an easy, classy, way to show that an image is not in fact part of a website? I think a 5 pixel black border would probably do it, but that's not classy. I like the subtle gradient that OS X does, but is that appropriate for all screenshots, and would that be easy to create?

I'd truly love it if there was a script I could use to apply the transformation without having to open photoshop itself, but that's not a requirement for an acceptable answer.

^ example of the problem I'm talking about


texts: How realize such concentric rings with increase of dots on path?

texts: I want to understand what is way to realize such concentric rings in illustrator more simply?


texts:
I'm wondering how can I set a background color to white instead of alpha?

I've already tried more things.


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As part of my work in a science & tech based student magazine, I investigated redesigning the logo. I noticed that a lot of similar magazines (New Scientist, WIRED, etc.) use only a stylised version of a font to create their identity/logo (without any specific colours, shading etc.). I dutifully went out to try and find a font that would represent our magazine. I found one that was close, but then struggled to take it from being 'just a font' into a logo/brand.

In essence my question is this: What techniques can I use to transform [brand name] written in a font into a recognisable logo? Or even where to start the changes to the lettering?

Things I've tried/learned:

Always use vectors
Keep it readable
Be careful about kerning (people will look at this logo a lot so it needs to be as good as possible)


texts: Is there any way I can trace a white image in illustrator without going into Photoshop to create a mask? When tracing an image it turns my white image into a full white block that I then can't direct select the background to reveal the traced logo as that too is white. Is there perhaps a way to change the default background fill of a traced image from white to another colour?


texts: Creating an Android App which records data as a pie chart

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Hey this might be a bit of a tricky one!

I have designed the wireframes for an application which will work out expenditures on a weekly monthly and yearly basis.

The first screen is for input, with 4 fields:

A simple text box to input the name for the item bought/bills.
A drop-down box to pick from categories to find the one that best describes the product.
A text box which the price of the product is entered.
Something to determine whether the data input is an expenditure or income.

I have then designed the next screen to be a list of every item the user has entered.  The user can view weekly, monthly and yearly results.

The information will be then be broken-down into the different categories and displayed with pie charts showing weekly, monthly, and yearly results.

I have all the details to make the app in the visual style that I want, but I feel as a graphic designer the next step is above me!

If anyone as any idea of what software to use and how to code it help would be much appreciated as this app has to be made as an university project.


texts: How to make all font glyphs more bold automatically in FontForge?

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Take for example this Tibetan script:

This, and every font I have found online for Tibetan (except for Google Noto) does not come in bold. But some I really like the shape of. I was wondering if there is an easy way to take any of the fonts and make it bold.


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I don't know it should be asked here or on freelancing.

Designing a webpage and do coding for webpage both are different tasks and need different skills. I have seen some coders saying that we can convert your psd into webpage. I also have seen some clients asking for web design and then they would ask for coding from someone.
There is also a platform for designers to work for clients where I would only get designing jobs. There were a webpage design category and when faq about this category, they say that I can only work on designing webpage not for coding.
As I mentioned "PSD" that means it can be done in Adobe Photoshop.

My question is, how can I design a webpage using Adobe Photoshop and what types of webpages I can design in?

can somebody provide complete road map for designing webpage in Adobe Photoshop. If I complete designing then how would I send final files to client.


texts: How I can select UI elements inside sketch symbols for Invision Craft Prototype Tool?

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I can't apply links in elements that are inside of a symbol. I don't want detach them from symbols so how I can put these elements selectable for Craft Prototype tool?
Here's example for tab app menu:


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I am opening SVG files generated by D3.js code in another computer and seeing a pop-up -

And the opened file in Illustrator is missing some letters (showing cross sign instead, as if the fonts are missing as the pop-up says). The missing letters are superscripts, negative sign (-).

What is the significance of the pop-up and how do I rectify the missing letters problem?


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I have a work I should adjust according to the uneven surface. I need to print the mockup on A4 printer, i.e. the result is the glued A4 pages where each of the page is a separate part of the image. In other words, I have no printer of sufficient size and want to joint separate A4 pages into one large paper.

I never performed such a task, thus I ask to provide Illustrator as well as printer side solutions.

Thanks