texts: What is a better way to paste illustration from Illustrator to Photoshop without invisible pixels?

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For fixing gradient issues, I need to paste the Illustration from Illustrator to Photoshop. Now, the issue is explained in the image I have shown at the end.

This is the original illustration. For some reasons (like reuse), I can't remove the parts which are outside the artboard.
I need the final output in 1600x1200px . So I resized it to 1600x1200. But to maintain the illustration same edges of illustration (see arrows in image 1), I simply couldn't select all and resize it. I needed to put a clipping mask on it. So I resized it perfectly with same outlines/edges (1)
I created a new file in Photoshop with same DPI, and 1600x1200 px resolution. Pasted the clipped illustration as Smart Object. And here I faced the problem. I thought it would be a perfect fit, but it didn't, probably because of the invisible art? And just because of that, if you know, you can't simply resize it to fit the canvas perfectly. (NB: I could somehow fix it with resizing the pasted object in Photoshop, but I needed exact same outline/edges. I would need to do hit and trials for that. There were some imperfections of white space either in left/right/top or bottom. I don't want that.)
I tried another approach to fix it. Instead of clipping mask, I cropped it. That solved all problem. Was pasted perfectly on the canvas. But that caused the problem that I have exaggerated in ( image 4, i.e., every object gets divided and independent. As a result, the final saved image shows some imperfections. I don't want that either.)

So what can I do that to fix it or is there still any better way to do it?


texts: "Change this design to a quarter page, from a half" - page layout reduction but keep content

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Hopefully won't be too vague a question or specific, but understand that it might be.

I rarely touch design work, but my employer has asked me to take an A4 page advert (PDF) for  a client and "simply" resize it in to an A5 advert.

To me this sounds like practically a complete redesign as in my eyes there won't be any way to re-fit A4's worth of information in to half the space.

Do you have any tips for this kind of task? Seems a ridiculous thing to ask; but I'm struggling to think how to go about doing it short of redesigning the whole thing; and even then there won't be enough space for all the information!


texts: Overlaying one .svg image onto another without loss of transparency

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graphic design noob here:

I have two plots that I have saved in the .svg format. One is a smaller plot, that I want to overlay on the larger plot. The border background of the smaller plot was set to transparent.

However, I notice when I copy and paste one image onto the other (in Adobe Illustrator for example), the smaller plot does not retain its transparency and has a white border background that blocks features of the larger plot.

What software could I use to overlay two .svg photos without losing transparency?

Thank you


texts: How do I preserve hard edges not working in Photoshop?

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I want to rotate/warp/resize images but keep all pixels the same color, I don't want soft edges (no antialiasing). I started off with a red square, and rotated it, and it looks like this in the side:

I want every pixel to be fully opaque red. I went into photoshop cs6 preferences/general and changed the image interpolator to nearest neighbour (hard edges) and restarted photoshop, and then did this, and it looks like the image here....

Does anyone know how to actually do it, or whats wrong?


texts: Create and Edit Parallel Paths in Inkscape

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I have been using Inkscape for some months now to edit and maintain a transit map of San Francisco.  For the most part I am very comfortable editing paths, removing and adding nodes, snapping to grids and objects and the like . . .

But what I have yet to figure out, is how to bring multiple lines together, in parallel, either stuck together along their edges or separated at a constant distance, like railroad tracks.

One technique would seem to be to create a wider path objects beneath a narrower path object, then snap their nodes together, to create a path with an outline, but I would really like to combine two or more lines in parallel, as you often see on transit maps.  If anyone can shed some light on my desire, I owe them a cookie!


texts: Looking for a Japanese font to match Garamond

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Question:
I'm currently taking a Japanese History course, and typing up (what I believe to be) a very pretty set of course notes. However, I'm having trouble finding an appropriate font. I'm currently using one of my Chinese fonts which has a medium calligraphic style to it, however it doesn't have great Japanese support. I am strongly preferential to free fonts, for the obvious reason of being a poor university student.

I've searched for Japanese fonts across the internet but I'm having significant trouble finding a Japanese font that matches my body text (EB Garamond). If anyone can point me in the right direction that'd be amazing.

(Please pay no attention to the grammatical/spelling errors, this is from the latest class period and hasn't been edited yet)

OP's comments: This was originally on the Japanese SE website, but they quickly closed and deleted it without consideration of the fact that their community was probably the single best resources for this topic.


texts: Often I do an Image Trace of a hand-drawn work or .psd but can't seem to select Simplify?? Why?

texts: I just want to reduce shake and pixelation. I have memories of doing this in previous versions to tidy up work. Does anyone know why the option is greyed out and not available?


texts: How to auto delete a space left after a data merge in InDesign?

texts: I have an InDesign document which is filled from the data in a CSV file using data merge. The CSV has columns for First Name, Middle Name & Last Name, but some of the data in the CSV isn't filled in - such as Middle Name if the person doesn't have one. InDesign then leaves a physical space when the middle name is missing which is putting a double space between the first and last name when I merge the data. Is there any way to get InDesign to ignore blank cells in the CSV file?


texts: Merging two images and highlighting different regions

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I have 2 images, one taken with flash on(A) and other with no flash(B). Both images highlight different parts of the view.

How can I add details from both images to create a new rich in detail image?

I have Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and GIMP, so any would do. I prefer Adobe PS.

Example images are:


texts: Color management for printing on foil packaging

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I recently worked on a foil packaging design project on Illustrator, but the colors on the end product are very off. Everything seems way off and a lot less sharp, what are some tips and pointers for managing the colors so it's closer to what we see on the screen?

Also, does printing on foil packaging make a difference in the outcome of the colors?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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So this is the picture, can someone please tell me what the fonts used in this picture are?
Thanks
-W


texts: Unable to Preserve Some Parts of Vector in PDF (Illustrator)

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As the title states, when I save a vector file I created in Illustrator as a PDF, the vector is not preserved.

My client has an .ai file for me to insert an pattern image in, then it has to be exported as PDF to go to the printers.

I have a .jpeg image that I created a pattern swatch for, created a seamless pattern the size of my client's artboard, then save as PDF. Only the vector elements of the original file is preserved, the pattern included isn't. But in the Illustrator system, the pattern is vectorized and can be zoomed in and the lines are still crisp. On the PDF, it is not.

I included a screenshot of the zoom so you can see what I mean. I've already reset my Illustrator preferences in case I might have changed something but still nada. :(


texts: How to curve the tops or bottoms of texts like this?

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I tried googling letter art, but I don't know what it is exactly called, so my research was not fruitful. I'm talking about the part "Backwoods Distilling". https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/1400_opt_1/70a71079599867.5d3f9dd3eb71c.jpg
How to curve the tops or bottoms of texts like that?

PS. I know many of you will give the solution in Illustrator, which is very much welcome, but if someone knows how to do it Affinity Designer, please tell as well.


texts: How to create a light sheen/gradient with Photoshop

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I am trying to replicate the slight matte/sheen effect seen on this blue Visa card graphic, and was wondering what would be the best approach to replicate a color gradient such as this.

I used to eyedropper tool and tried to determine whether there was a pattern to the way the colors were distributed (i.e a circle, fade towards top, a "light" source towards the top etc) but could not find any real patterns. Any guidance is much apprenticed - thanks!


texts: Name for florid corner style on a fantasy game site

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I just want to know about this sample website: http://ragnarok.levelupgames.ph/main/

As you can see, there is something CURLY on every corner of the divs.

I know about "fleur de lis" as a design element, but how do you call this kind of design? Is it "crown like corners"? I'm searching about it, but I fail.

Also, is there any website that has these kind of pictures in PSD/AI formats?

Hope you guys can help me.


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In MS Word, justify tool works great. It gives nice spacing between latter and words but it doesn't work well in Photoshop. As you can see in image.

How to make it work like in MS-Word?


texts: Are there technical\design reasons there are no vertical alignment options for text in GIMP?

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By this I mean to align to the top/middle/bottom of the text entry box (which seems reasonably pointless to have a vertical size without these options).

I found reddit and Gimptips have more drawn out methods/discussions about how to do it.

Is vertical alignment not something that fits the typical purpose of GIMP?  Or graphics design reasons to exclude the option?  Or perhaps there's a known technical issue making it more challenging in such editors?

Or is it just a matter of the developers not seeing it as a priority?  None of my search results hit anything from their site indicating it has been proposed (in fact, I couldn't find where to propose features at all, only bugs?)


texts: I'm trying to create a set of 6 text colours that are to be used on both white and dark purple (42185D) backgrounds (on a web page), and still meet accessibility standards (AA). Are there any tools or guidance that could help? Not a professional graphic designer so any help appreciated.


texts: How to make corners round in Illustrator?

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I have created this image, I couldn't manage to make the corners look rounded (see below)

How can I make the corners round in Illustrator?


texts: How to make Illustrator default to CMYK. My color box says CMYK, but my swatches still default to RGB please help.


texts: How can I color a logo to make it bright at the top, and dark at the bottom?

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I'm trying to create a logo with a background that is bright at the top, and darker at the bottom, like the following:

I tried some tools under "Colors" in GIMP but couldn't get what I wanted. I mainly edit at GIMP.


texts: (Photoshop) How do I get rid of grid/pixels every time I draw with brush tool?

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I searched and did everything like going to the preference and turning off the transparency grid, changing the snap to, unchecking the extra....and creating a new document setting the grid to none. I don't know what to do. Please help!

I want to upload a screen recording, but I don't think I can here. So I am uploading the screenshots


texts: How to make a brush stroke take gradient colour like pen tool stroke in illustrator?

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When drawing strokes with the graphic tablet using brushes, the paths are editable and can accept color change or applying gradients only after expanding.

I wanted to apply the "gradient across stroke" to the brush stroke but because it's ineditable unless expanded, I can't do it because when expanded the brush strokes turns into shapes.

At the same time paths made with a pen tool for example are fully editable and it's possible to apply the "gradient across stroke" to them.

I can't figure out why strokes drawn with the brush are not editable as other strokes like the pen tool ones.

It is possible somehow to make the brush strokes editable and apply the "gradient across stroke" to them?

Thanks!


texts: How can I create text with a drop shadow combined with a stroke in Photoshop?

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I want to achieve this text effect. The references below seems a mix of stroke and a box shadow. But the shadow seems connected to text (normal text shadow is like basically another text layer just below it, displaced slightly).
There are answers here for how to do this in Illustrator and Photoshop but the drop shadows are not combined with strokes. I am not sure how to do it in Photoshop.

Kindly note that I don't mean this kind of effect. It's just separated drop shadow.


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I am trying to create chrome/holographic sticker mockup with photoshop. I came across some tutorial for liquid iridescent textures but it wasn't what I was looking for.
I'd really like to create a mockup like this:

which is not just a "liquid holographic texture" but a sort of chrome background with rainbow shades, that seems more like a cd texture.
Has someone already done something like this before? Can someone give me some advice?

EDIT:
The final result i'd like to have is something pretty similar to this


texts: New Folder with Selected Files in Adobe Bridge

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I have hundreds of images in a folder in bridge. I have tagged them alternatively by colour. The first bunch as Yellow, the second as Blue the third as Yellow again and so forth. I want to copy each bunch in separate folders and rename the folder to the name of the first file in the folder. Is there a script that can automate this process?

Thank you!


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I need a way to find out what font sizes were used in a psd document, similar to this, but for font sizes. It would be great if this way or script is compatible with older versions of PS, like CS4 and above.
Tools like Avocode and Adobe Extract support this, but I need it to work inside Photoshop.


texts: How do deal with frontend developers remotely

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This is more a question for the web designer guys.

I'm just wondering how you guys deal with sending designs to your frontend developers? Or do you just do it yourself?

What is your process for sending your designs to your devs? ie Do you send PSDs, or PNGs or other? How do you send them? Email, dropbox or something else?

And what do you do when you need to make changes to the files? Do you send a new comp? Or just a list of email instructions?


texts: Photoshop Bitmap to Greyscale and Back Concerns

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Hello Graphic Designers,

Thank you for this helpful board.

I have this weird color related print related question. My situation is, I am doing some layout changes of a bitmap black and white comic book. However, I found that I could not modify the bitmap pages unless I made them into color, at least greyscale.

I didn't see a lot of information when searching Google or YouTube regarding my concerns, but perhaps someone here can answer.

1) Is there a way to modify bitmap images without changing the color mode? (Add layers over and under, erase, add text)

2) Since I did end up changing the color mode from Bitmap to Greyscale to edit, is this going to cause problems later on when I print my book? (As in, mis-matching blacks, incompatibility, etc)

3) Can I change it back from greyscale to Bitmap now that I am done with my edits? (I only need the comic book to be black and white, but it is not letting me change the color mode back)

4) And if I do manage to change it back to Bitmap, will my edits made during my Greyscale phase be a different black and need to be altered? And is there a way to make the entire document have the same consistent black? (I got worried after reading about all these blacks and how they can ruin print jobs if you pick the wrong one)

Sorry for the questions if they are noobish. Thank you for your assistance,
Angie


texts: Proper resolution for large scale printing

texts: I'm not savvy at all when it comes to any of this.  We need a photo of our dog that will be blown up to go on a van wrap. My photographer has a camera with 24 mega pixels which is a 4000x6000 resolution.  Will this be sufficient?


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Newbie here. I like the web and UI design, and I know what good UI and good design is, but I lack Photoshop skills.

Sometimes when I try to do design work my mind goes blank or gets mixed up because there are too many references that I like and it's hard for me to determine which design I prefer.

Where can I learn and improve my Photoshop skills and how can I start working on a concept?

Until now, I've been paying a designer to do what's in my mind, but I really want to be able to design.


texts: add layer mask for an android background image

texts: I am developer but I am in a situation I should act as a designer too for awhile..My question is I had an image I want to it to be a background for an app so I need to modify it to something like this app's background; it's not blur but a little darky..I need to know how to add that layer to the photo with simple tools?


texts: Pen tool in Photoshop not becoming larger

texts: How do i create a larger or smaller stroke using the pen tool in adobe photoshop?


texts: Keep Illustrator Path Divide Below from Closing Lines

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So I have some objects, open-ended lines, and a box:

I select the box and choose Object > Path > Divide Objects Below, and get this:

You can basically see that the objects have been divided, but also made into a closed shape. Even the lines that fell fully inside the box have this happen!

Is there any way to avoid that? So my "lines" are just divided but not closed off?

Or is there a better way? What I really want is to chop the lines where they cross the box. I don't use a Clipping Mask because a) it doesn't get rid of the clipped data and b) I have 30 layers and they all get moved into a single layer

Similarly, I looked at using Pathfinder Crop, but that too creates the closed shapes and also drops everything onto the same layer as a group.

Sorry if my terminology is off. I'm from a GIS/CAD background. Fairly new at Illustrator and frustrated that what should be a simple clip/crop task has taken me two hours to just get this far!!!


texts: What CMYK values should I use for rich black, and how should I handle tints/shades?

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I'm working on a full color piece in Illustrator which has a few large black and grey areas.

I'd like the black to be a rich black. I was thinking c30 m30 y30 k100. What is the best ways to match my gray areas?


texts: Inkscape: How can I prevent background to shine through path?

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I have a background layer (gray in the example) and on top of that a foreground layer with black line art. I converted the line art to a path (using Path -> Trace Bitmap).

How do I prevent the background from shining through, like in the example? Clearly you should not see the fence through the person.

I made an new layer, manually traced the outline of the foreground (person), and put that shape in the "shine through protection" layer. That kind of works, until I change / move / resize the foreground picture. So I am wondering if there is an easier / better way of doing this.

I cannot just select a white fill because the traced path is on the drawn lines, not the area included by these lines. The picture below shows a red fill and black stroke for the foot:

So maybe I am doing the tracing wrong.


texts: What do use instead of complementary colors for colors near "color wheel"'s center?

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I am quite news to graphic design so I don't know how to define it better.

I use to design my presentations and some mockups based on complementary colors. e.g. yallowish and orangish as complementary colors.

However when it comes t particular colors (white, black and closer ones like gray scale, yellow..) I have no clue how to obtain the complementary color (if there is an appropriate one) to make the text visible, while being complementary.

What would you advice in this case?


texts: How do you increase icon weight in Sketch?

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How can you increase/decrease the weight of an icon (vector) in Sketch?

For increase:
- I added an outside border around the icon, then did Layers -> Convert Outlines.

I got this:

Any tips on increasing and/or decreasing the weight of an icon in Sketch and properly exporting it so it doesn't look super jank in Illustrator or on the Web would be SUPER appreciated.

Thank you!


texts: PSD is a different size on another computer?

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I am designing a postcard and the size of my design is 177x122mm, which I obviously saved as a PSD right awa. Here comes the tricky part. When I send this file to another designer and they open it on their computer, in another photoshop, the size is signifiantly different?
I even added grid markings to show me where my bleed was and when they adjust check the size of the canvas on their end, it shows that "my" PSD is completely off? I believe the size they see is something like 150x119mm. I don't exactly know for sure but it's more than just a few digits off the 177x122mm size we're supposed to be working on.
I gave the file in a USB. I really can't think of why it does this but you guys know better, so please help?


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This might be a question with a stupidly easy answer:

I have been casually using all of the adobe products for awhile.  Although I have used Illustrator and InDesign the most, I occasionally use Photoshop.

My question: when I am making something in photoshop, the background of the board sporadically changes between grey/white squares and a grey background - what is the purpose of this and how do I make it so that it stays a consistent color?


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I am working on an app that displays various colors for kids to choose from.  So, we'll have a red, a blue, a yellow, etc.  These are not real objects, just a small image (like the one attached) that represents a color.

They are all 600x600px squares.

I have been asked to include one for Silver, one for Gold, and one for Bronze (if possible), but to make them look more "realistic" (which I take to mean they need something besides plain RGB colors).

What I'm looking for is an approach to creating "realistic" swatches for these metallic colors.  I realize this is likely a very broad category, and not being fluent with graphic design, I wonder if anyone can make suggestions to approaches.  I will be fumbling through this with Inkscape.  Any suggestions appreciated.


texts: Photoshop (CS6) bitmap halftone pixelated

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I want to create a halftone effect in Photoshop. The only output I'm getting is hard pixels and nothing like dots. I also tried lines, diamonds, etc. etc. and the output is always the same. It also doesn't matter if I change the output value or frequency.

I think there is some setting in Photoshop which I may have changed but I have no idea which one.


texts: How do I enhance the effect of trypophobia?

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For a project using synthetic images (styleGAN to be precise), I'm looking at many different manifestations of an eye. Displaying them on a grid unintentionally created a trypophobia-like (fear of small holes) feel.

I don’t have any background in art, and I'm very curious to how this image evokes a particular response – and how I can make it stronger.
What can I do to increase this effect? Adding the black lines seems to help a good deal, as they highlight the contrast between them.


texts: How can I move two lower nodes of the rectangle to get x1 = x2?


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I have joined two same sized rounded rectangles creating 90 degrees. Then I made 45 degrees guide and copied figure so they both can be on the same guide.

Then using a blend tool I evenly distributed figures every 9mm.The result I copied and pasted every 24 mm. The result is on the Figure 2:

Now I want to crop it and save as a pattern. But before that I did Object > Expand ang grouped it to prepare it for cropping. As on the previous stage it wouldn't crop at all. I'm not sure how to do it right so I created a square and placed it in the centre of the group.

After cropping I've got some weird lines on the shapes. Also my pattern does not tile smoothly. Here is the result:

Why do I have these thin lines on rounded rectangles? And more importantly, how can I make this pattern tile smoothly?

EDIT: Well, at least one problem is solved. Turned off the Anti-aliased Artwork option and those lines dissapeared.

EDIT: I saved pattern from the Figure 2 as a Pattern and tried to tile it by playing with Pattern Options. Now it's much better, but still it doesn't look smooth. Do I need to change something?


texts: How do I set 'Combine Shapes' to a default setting in Photoshop?

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I'm doing some linework for a perspective-rendered image and I need to draw lines frequently. I've turned the combine shapes option on and it works... for one layer.
Is there a way to set this to be default on anything I'm working on?


texts: How to export from Illustrator to Photoshop and preserve the artboard structure?

texts: The app zeplin.io is a tool that provides developers with information about a design, such as positioning and colors. But it works exclusively with Photoshop and Sketch. I would like to know if there is a way to take an Illustrator file with artboard, export it to a Photoshop file with artboards, and then import it to Zeplin.


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Hi can anyone advise about linked files. How do you stop it getting lost. Is it like indesign where you have a links folder?

For logos should you just copy and paste in so it's embedded?

Many thanks


texts: What's the most flexible way to create a "wrap around" banner with an offset stroke?

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So here's the graphic I'm working on (don't hate me, I didn't come up with this one). I'm in Illy 15.1.0.

You can probably see what I'm trying to get to next:
I want the offset rule to follow the wrap effect.

I know I could draw a path independent of the base ribbon shape. Trouble is, my team is going to be doing a lot of these. I'm trying to help them find the most efficient way to build them so they can be scaled and stretched and whatnot. Please tell me there's a method I'm missing.

Here's what I have now.

The main rectangle with the stroke and shadow is created with effects.

Bottom line: Is there some way to carry these effects "around" the wrap that doesn't require a separately drawn offset stroke? I know the shaded part of the ribbon that goes behind will be a separate shape but I'd like the designers to just keep the stroke as an effect somehow.

Incidently, this is where the team landed. You can see why I felt the need to find a solution for them ;)


texts: Place into InDesign and keep transparent padding / exact artboard size?

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When I place a vector image like an Illustrator file or PDF into an InDesign file, InDesign always trims away any clear whitespace around the artwork. This causes problems because normally, I've set up the artboards to be exactly the size I want, and when I update or re-link the link, if the amount of padding changes, the image may be resized.

How can I force InDesign to respect the exact size of the file I'm placing and stop trimming or cropping away any whitespace?


texts: Digitize notepad to PDF (ebook) while preserving typography

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I'm looking for a way to convert a notepad (multiple pages of hand-written text) into a PDF or other e-book type file format (DjVu?) that would preserve existing typography as well as allow searching and selecting texts.

One more difficulty with it is a fact that pages I have got some hand-painted graphs on them, which would also require preserving in output format (these can be pure graphics)

I got scanner and some OCR to make an initial run through it if required, but if there's and all-in one solution that can take scanned pages and convert them to ebook - it'd be great.

Looking for suggestions what I can use :)


texts: What are good sets of photographic portraits to use in mockups?

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I've been using the same set of photographic portraits in my mockups for a long time, and I'm looking for a more extensive set of square, male and female avatars/photos (portraits).

What are good sets to use?


texts: Check image compression used in PDF document?

texts: Is it possible to find out what compression algorithms have been used for images in a PDF document?


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I'm using GIMP to do a simple but tedious operation for many images so I'd like to know how I can make a script that will do it for me, or find some simpler way of doing this.

I import an image file that has large dimensions but is mostly square, sometimes like 550x564, 580x596, etc., which may be jpg, bmp, or png, and I want to export a 192x192 PNG file, resized and cropped on both ends of the longer dimension, which is usually vertical but can be horizontal.

I perform the following steps for an image that is longer vertically than it is horizontally:

Image->Scale Image->Set Width to 192 (Locked, so Height will automatically be set to something like 196)
Click Scale
Image->Canvas Size->Set Height to 192
Click Center
Click Resize
File->Export As->same file name but extension changed to .png, and PNG image selected from the dropdown list (usually the original files are jpg, but sometimes they are png, so overwrite if necessary)
Click Export
(Click Load Defaults)
Click Export again

I've looked at some tutorials for creating scripts, but they seem to require external plugins. Is there no way I can do it without downloading a new file? If I should download and use a plugin, what is the best one for this type of thing?

Is there any macro recorder that will let me do something like this:

Start the macro recorder
Perform the operations once on a sample file
Stop the macro recorder
Import a new file
Press play on the macro recorder
etc

Or is it possible to make a script that will do these operations on all files in a directory?


texts: CMYK color related to RGB / hex - different online than in Adobe

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I'm working in a palette where for each color I have:
- hex value
- rgb value
- cmyk value

I was working with online tools like http://www.color-hex.com/

The thing is, for the same rgb/hex value I get different cmyk values in Adobe Illustrator than on the web... Which one should I use?

e.g.   rgb(110, 201, 200) / #6ec9c8   gives me:

cmyk (0.45, 0, 0 21) for color-hex.com

cmyk (57.04, 0, 26.6, 0) for adobe

a couple of screenshots showing that...


texts: How do I turn a pen outline into a single object for gradients? (Inkscape)

texts: My question is a bit weirdly worded, but I'm sure this is common thing to ask. I inserted an image and traced it with the pen tool, but I didn't do it in one go. I have one part, which itself was done in separate traces, so it's made out of three separate traces, I thought connected the nodes would automatically turn it into a whole shape, but during a gradient, I get this weird pattern where the gradient connect in an a to b fashion of the nodes that were connected, like so.


texts: Can Someone Please Tell Me The Font Being Used?

texts: Can't figure Out What Font This is, someone please help]1


texts: Why did 'Convert colors' and 'Map spot and process colors' fail to remove background color?

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Please download the original PDF. As you can see beneath, 'Convert colors' didn't remove the background of (C, M, Y, K) = (100, 25, 0, 50).

Not only did 'Map spot and process colors' fail to remove the background of (C, M, Y, K) = (100, 25, 0, 50), it deleted the text in that color that it oughtn't have!


texts: Font Files Resolution and conversion from pdf

texts: I have created a new font from a template I got from calligraphr.com. I am wondering firstly, what dpi I should save them at and secondly, if I can save them as a .pdf, then convert them to .fnt, .ttf, or whatever.


texts: What make this design suitable to use for poetry texts?

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This is how WordPress formats a block of verse:

I wonder why does that design suit poetry texts? Why can that combination of typography, spacing, border reflect the poetry effect/ambience?

Meta discussion: Are questions about the rationale behind a design choice on-topic?


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Im kind of new to illustrator and wanted to creat a simple logo, so here what I did:

changed background color to black and text color to white, used typography for text, created outlines to convert text to objects and (heres the funny part) I used black pen tool to amend my typography, so most of the corners of the typography are changed. On black background it looks nice, but when I change background color it looks really messy. How should I delete the unwanted part of the drawn typography and merge wanted part with my text objects?

I tried same-> select by fill color, but it doesnt select everything what I need illustrator

thanks in advance.


texts: How to flatten a texture taken with a DSLR camera in Photoshop?

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I took a picture with a DSLR camera, but I noticed that there is a bit of perspective over the edges, as you can see in the example (especially in top right)

My goal is to produce a texture, so it must be flat and equalized in the same way and in each point of the image.
Is there a procedure to do that in Photoshop?
Thanks.


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While putting to practice everything I've learned in this meanwhile regarding art restoration/enhancement I've got this one so destroyed due to consecutive JPEG compressions from multiple sources that I just can't save the background.

But before I can replace it I must ask how could I reproduce this polygon:

It has some pseudo-3D appearance with 3 distinct colours, inside, outside and the borders. The shape appears 4 times in the picture, at different parts (you can see a blue shine of a second instance close to this brownish-orange one) and with different positions, so I must be able to adjust this... extrusion? E.g: the blue one nearby has both the "hole" and the darker area turned right, down inclined. Theoretically, I believe it should suffice to duplicate and rotate, but who knows...

Additionally, it also has this spiky shine behind with two distinct colours with a tiny fade when they change. If they could emit light over the main image — which I already finished the stressful selection (so many curves... >.<) — it would be awesome, but not entirely required.

Problem is I have no idea how could I do that. In past, I had very bad experiences with Photoshop's way of dealing with shapes. Back in the day, I had to make the shape with the correct dimensions right at the first try because the edges became blurry after Free Transforming.

Of course, that certainly was just me knowing less than I know today but, in any event, I thought for the best to ask first how could I do that.

Thank you for your time


texts: Best practice when implementing numbered lists in columns?

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I often implement numbered list for both print and web projects. At times it is just more efficient to break the list into two, three, or four columns.

How should item ordering be handled?

Should numbers start at 1 in the top left then move down the column, then jump to the next column to continue numbering? (Option A)

Or should numbers start at 1 in the top left the move sideways to #2, #3, etc., jumping columns for each number? (Option B)

In terms of web responsiveness, Option B provides better break points (at times with 3 or 4 columns).

Should this be handled the same in both print and web?


texts: How to package all faces of a font into one family file (Mac)

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I've got a few fonts I've purchased over the past few years.

These are decent quality fonts with, on average, 8–15 different faces for the family.

The problem I have is each face is listed separately in various applications (Photoshop, Indesign, etc.) Rather than simply one item with a submenu for faces.

For example I have:
(fig. A)

FontA Bold >
           Regular
FontA Bold Italic >
           Regular
FontA Italic >
           Regular
FontA Regular >
           Regular

Rather than:
(fig. B)

FontA >
        Bold
        Bold Italic
        Italic
        Regular

What tool on the Macintosh can combine these faces so they are all listed under the family name? As in the figure B, above.

I know there are a couple of high-end apps (Fontographer, FontLab). Are there any basic smaller apps to simply edit the font info without editing character and other tables? I don't want to edit the actual font data specifically, merely the titles and naming structure I believe.

How do I do this with the tool suggested, specific steps please?

Notes:
Running Mac OS 10.7, but can boot to 10.6 or 10.8 if needed. I am not absolutely looking for freeware. If there's a paid app to do this, I'm fine with that. If someone wants to outline steps in FontLab or Fontographer, I'm all ears.

These are commercial .otf fonts.


texts: InDesign HTML 5 plugin or web apps to create HTML 5 ebooks based on InDesign project

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I am designing e-books for iPad & Android tablets. The problem is I have very little options to add animated effects to my e-book when doing it on InDesign (which is a must for me, as the e-books I'm designing are based on paper books/magazines that were previously designed for printing).

I am looking for one of the following solutions:

Adobe InDesign HTML 5 plugin, that I could use to add (almost) any HTML 5 code snippet to my project and then export the whole project to HTML 5
a web application, that would allow me to upload my InDesign project, add HTML 5 effects/snippets and then export the e-book in a HTML 5 format

I would appreciate any recommendations/links.


texts: Need help with newspaper magazine design/layout

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I am designing and doing the layout for our senior year newspaper. I want this to look as professional as I can get it. I feel like somthing is off with the design but I can not put my finger on what.

In advance Thank you!

Here is the newspaper:

More examples in this link.


texts: Logo with multiplied transparency blending option won't show up on black - Illustrator

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I'm running into a very frustrating issue. I have a logo element that the client specifically asked for: a hand-painted circle. So I painted the circle, scanned it, did an image trace to vectorize it, and it looks great. On a white background. But with a different color background, the image presents some problems.

Case (left: looks great on white; right: not so great...):

I tried (a million different things, including) using the 'Multiply' blending option to make the white transparent. Which works(ish), except on dark backgrounds (due to the darkening effect of Multiply, which just makes it disappear on black).

Case (left: logo element doesn't show enough on darker backgrounds; right: doesn't show at all on black background):

Any suggestions on how to get the messy white out of the original logo without making it look chunky and choppy or compromising the color of the logo (i.e., the same appearance as on the white background, but on any different color background)? Obviously this will be part of a logo, so it is necessary that it be versatile in its placement on websites, stationery, etc.


texts: Proper shortcut to the Fill dialog box in Photoshop

texts: What is the "proper" shortcut to bring up the Fill dialog box in Photoshop? In almost every tutorial on Youtube I can see Shift + Delete being used, which doesn't work for me. I'm on Windows and I use Shift + Backspace. Shift + Del is probably a MacOS version, but it would be quite unusual to have 2 different shortcuts for 2 operating systems. To make things more complicated, under Edit -> Fill I can see Shift + F5 as the default. It doesn't really matter as long as Shift + Backspace does what it's supposed to do, but I don't want to memorize not standard shortcuts in case I ever work on a diffferent computer.


texts: Which program is used to create these effects? (see example within)

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http://www.mynuvia3.com

There's an animation on the front page and eventually I'd like to make something like that. I don't know where to start though.

Which program(s) could be used to make such animations?


texts: How can I specifically improve my webdesign?

texts: My website is www.strongape.com and I'm looking to improve my design.  I don't know where to start.  Are there other forums I should visit for advice?


texts: Editing photoshop smart layers in fireworks

texts: If I import a psd file with smart layers into Fireworks, is it possible to edit one of those smart layers the same way you would be able to in Photoshop?


texts: How to record screen on graphicdesign.stackexchange?

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I've seen some answers on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com where people have made small recordings of how they navigate menus to show someone where a particular item is located. These are usually animated gifs and not videos.

What software is being used to create these?

What is this type of video called? It isn't an animated gif because animations aren't being used. Someone recorded a small section of their screen and uploaded the recording as a gif.

Here is an example:
Keep pixels crisp when rotating object?


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I have created a simple ellipse and then from one end to the other created a path using the pen tool that intersects this ellipse. I now want to divide the ellipse into two shapes using the path, however no matter what I do I can't get this to work.

I am trying to use the pathfinder - divide tool, but when I apply this effect nothing happens, I have tried grouping the objects but still nothing works. Is there a simple trick that I need to apply to get this to work?

The ellipse I am trying to divide in two and the path I want the division to be made along


texts: How do I find a range of colors (ex. different blues) that will contrast well with another range of colors (ex. reds, yellows etc)?

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I've searched online; I've used numerous color web apps; I've even spoken with my graphic designer - but I still don't have a solution for this.

What I want to do is come up with a color guide or tool that helps pick colors that contrasts well when placed adjacent to each other.

Normally, this wouldn't be too difficult of a problem to solve but there are a few criteria that makes this problem more of a headache:

Colors will be printed on a special kind of paper that affects the presentation of the colors enormously. This means colors will look different when printed out, but there will at least be consistency in the difference in color (from its digital counterpart).
All color families (ex. a green, a blue, a red, a yellow etc) will be suggested.
- All color families should have as much contrast from each other as possible.
Colors suggested must be from a list of pre-selected colors.

A huge pain in the ass as you can see. I can't simply use a web app because I have a (long) list of pre-approved colors to follow. And I can't simply judge colors by their values alone because I want a color palette that includes all color families (as you know, some colors simply have more gray in them).

This is a difficult problem.

Does anyone know how to solve it?


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I'm looking for a method to add a specific amount of space around the sides of a shape. For example, suppose I have the following black shape:

The black shape is my original shape, and I want to expand all sides by 1mm. The sides would end up at where the red lines are located. For my purposes, I'm not particularly worried with how the corners are handled (they may be left out if need be).
A very similar effect can be achieved by making the stroke of the shape the same color (black) and making that 2mm big:

However, this isn't suitable, since I need a filled path without a trace.
Scaling the object isn't a suitable solution either, as that modifies the shape in ways I don't want it to be.


texts: Pantone CMYK Values don't add up to 100 - How to make the ink mixture?

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The Pantone CMYK Guide has colours which have values as follows: CMYK = 0,25,56,8
The total does not add up to 100, therefore how to interpret these values into percentages?


texts: Extract the text out of Illustrator file any API or script?

texts: I'm working on a project that has 1000 files with the same typo ex. the file with the word "dogs" that has to be turned into "dog". these 1000 files has the same typo. Is there anyway that I can write a script to do that in Illustrator? or some API that I can extract out text from the file then edit it (change from "dogs" into "dog") then save it back because I don't want to open 1000 files and do it 1000 times.


texts: How to get the right resolution for printing artwork

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I am a student. I am using InDesign to create a magazine that has lots of illustrations and artwork in it but I’m getting confused about ppi and effective ppi.

So for example, one image has actual ppi of 600, an effective ppi of 2059 x 600 and needs to be printed across and area that is 340mm x 112.367mm. The piece of artwork is a Muriel. On my screen in actual size it looks a little pixelated.

If anyone can help that would be amazing!!!


texts: I was planning to do a 1920x1080 wallpaper from my favourite musician's cover. Everything was going good so far until I used correction brush which totally ruined my whole work. There are pixelated lines (how do I call these?!) everywhere! They're everywhere, it's very visible when zooming. Using Content-Aware Fill did nothing about it. I beg for help. Sorry if I did something wrong writing this post, i'm a beginner.


texts: How to render text pixel-perfectly with subpixel antialising with Illustrator?

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I'm exporting a document to raster image with Illustrator and get this result:

But I want to get this quality:

It lookes more pixel-perfect and thin then the Illustrator's render.
How do I setup Illustrator to render text pixel-perfectly? Also, is it possible to enable subpixel AA in it?
Thank you!


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Recently, I hired a graphic designer to design a brand, a web site, business cards and several other things.

After the initial design was complete and we launched, we have continued to make changes and tweak things. The designer is expressing concerns that she owns the design and therefore should be included in any changes updates etc.

We decided to open a new division to the company and in doing so we wanted to have this division have its own web presence. In order to do this we took our current site and had our  marketing company create a new site, basically just changing the color scheme of the site of our parent company.

The graphic designer is accusing us of stealing her design and says she should have been involved and compensated.

We want to do the right thing, be we cant get a clear picture. We completely felt like the reason we paid so much money for the original design is because we own it. Now we are confused.


texts: How do you create the depth stroke effect from Premiere in Illustrator

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Sorry in advance for the wall of text

So basically what I want to do is recreate the Stroke Type Depth from Premiere in illustrator. I realise that I could convert text to a path in illustrator and just manually connect the points but that would take too long and still isn't quite as good as premiere's effect.

This is what premiere outputs with an edge outer stroke above a depth outer stroke, note that the depth stroke also expands to fit the previous edge stroke.

After a while of messing around with illustrator and some googling, this is the closest I could make. I made the depth by using Effects > Transform & Distort > Transform of (-0.1px, 0.1px) with 150 copies to make a 15 px depth effect at 45 degrees down and left and with Effects > Stylize > Round Corners

This is close but it takes a decent bit more steps to do and doesn't accommodate (and align the copies) for the stroke. Also not nearly the biggest issue but with the copies, its not scalable. Also round corners seem to sometimes not work as expected and have artifacts such as random corners not being rounded. But that was probably just a one time thing.

When I first found the depth stroke in premiere I really liked it and I wanted to make something with it in illustrator and was really surprised and confused to not find it. I would expect that if anything illustrator would have more options for transforming paths and text that premiere would have but that doesn't seem to be the case.

So am I missing something or is this not possible in illustrator, at least to the same degree of ease and quality?

Thanks for taking the time reading this and responding, I'm sure it will help other people too!


texts: What is the best way to convince clients to send original image files instead of screenshots of images?

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Some clients send screenshots of images instead of the image file. Is there a reliable way to communicate that it would be easier for them, and for us, if they simply sent the image file instead?
I work in print (magazines) and I need as many pixels as I can get - screenshot are not only sent at 72dpi, but they often need cropping before they can be used.
This is an example, from a clients blackberry (personal imagery blurred out):

I have also received screengrabs from iphones, androids and desktop operating systems. In many cases the clients are clearly showing that they have access to the image they should have sent, and they have chosen to take a screenshot and to send that instead.
This is not a 1-client problem, I have this conversation with people regularly. On no occasion has a client understood what the problem is, and I have ended up getting their images printed, either very small, or very upscaled.
I communicate with clients by email, and sometimes verbally over the phone.

"Some of the images attached to your last message are
screenshot/screengrabs, would it be possible for you to send the image
file to me directly? instead of opening it and taking a screenshot.
You can attach the .jpg (or whatever file format I see in the image
sent) to your email and send it to me that way."

Any thoughts appreciated.


texts: What is this type of design called when vectors are superimposed with bitmaps?

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The old Microsoft Campaign ads of Your Potential Our Passion showed white lines running through bitmapped video. Most probably this is made in After Effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT7QQYzrWog

Do the white lines in itself have a name of the type of design? Is there a general term for superimposing such "vectors" in bitmaps (photos / videos)?

EDIT A Few Screenshots:


texts: Convert text to paragraph text in Illustrator

texts: Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?


texts: What is the name for the long dashes that sometimes replace the inner letters of a name?

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What is the name for the long dashes that sometimes replace the inner letters of a name in older printed texts, and what is their purpose?

Image source: Wikimedia Commons


texts: How to keep a 2 column text flowing top down after a column-spanning-paragraph

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My column-spanning-paragraph breaks the desired text flow. This illustration probably makes it clear. How can I force the text to flow from left-top to bottom to right-top to bottom?

The page is ONE text-frame. I would like to keep it this way since it makes it easy to keep the different elements aligned when I insert content before or after.


texts: Scale layers in a psd file by 200% for retina iPad

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I have a PSD file that my designer gave me fitted for iPad dimensions. I need to support the retina iPad as well. What's the best way to create the 2x retina images? Should I scale up the layers by 200% and then cut the PNG file? I imagine this would be better than just scaling up the PNG file itself.
If so, what's the best way to scale layers in photoshop? I've tried the Image -> Image Size but that seems to produce jagged edges as well. "Content-aware scale" also distorts some of the straight lines in the icon.

Thanks.


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My aim is make the neck area more narrow

Before:

After

Currently I am tring to achieve this with liquify, but the results I achieve are not very succesful. Is there a better option to change the neck?

Edit: To Clarify the problem better, What I am tring to narrow down is not the neck of the person, it is the neck of the t-shirt. I am t-shirt seller and the t-shirts that I sell have necks like the one in second picture, but my t-shirt template looks like the first one, so I am tring to make my template look like the t-shirt in the second one.

Edit 2 I am uploading my current template (PSD), and the possible candidate JPGs which I want to achieve a similar look. Click to download.


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I have the original image and filtered image.

Original:

Filtered:

Difference:

These images are from pixiv WHICH IS NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=43697578

It look like a linear FIR filter which mean blurred image = original image perform convolution with some window function

In theory from this 2 images I can find the window function but I don't know how to do that in practice. Do I need some tools or software to analyze?

The main question is what kind of blur filter is this? (Or if it doesn't has particular name I'm asking about window function. a name, a plot, anything)

And if you can tell by using some method or tools (not just your experience or instinct) could you tell me how?


texts: Adobe InDesign: Avoiding first line indent of the first paragraph (via Paragraph Style)

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In InDesign, is it possible to create a Paragraph Style that indents the first line starting with the second paragraph instead of the first paragraph? In other words, I would like to create a Paragraph Style with no First Line Indent in the paragraph right beneath the headline (naturally the first paragraph). All remaining/following paragraphs of the style should receive a First Line Indent.

As of now, the only way I know to achieve this (besides not using paragraph styles and setting everything by hand) is to create a Paragraph Style with the First Line Indent set to whatever is needed and than changing the indent of the paragraph beneath the headline manually to 0. Is there some way to automate this process?


texts: Z-axis rotation of multiple layers/objects in GIMP

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Using GIMP, I have split an image into multiple layers, each holding a similar part of the image (object). I want to perform a z-axis rotation on each of these objects/layers, to give the impression that the object is not flat, but rather extending into the image (as in How to z-rotate a rectangle in perspective using inskcape?).

I am currently trying to achieve this using the Perspective Tool. This works well for one object/layer, but I can't find a way to apply the same transformation automatically to multiple objects/layers. It is difficult to manually achieve the exact same transformation matrix every time, and it would be great if there was a way to do this automatically by selecting multiple layers at once, or at least save the transformation matrix and apply it to each layer without having to manually adjust it each time. Is this possible in GIMP or am I better pasting my bitmaps into Inkscape and trying it there?


texts: How to straighten the sides of a photograph of a frame?

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How can I straighten the sides of a photograph of a frame. I use an old verion of Paint shop pro 5.0. My camera distorts the straight sides of a photo and causes them to curve.

See my photo:


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How can I color a pattern in Inkscape without creating a custom pattern? I guess this should be possible, but can't make it work.
I draw a square and fill it with a color (green). Then I choose a standard pattern for the square. The green fill is gone and I have a black pattern. Now I would like to change the pattern's color. How can I do this?


texts: How to make gray and white boxes not visible?

texts: I have an .eps image that supposedly has no background, but is showing the gray and white checks no matter what I do.  What's going on?


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I'm converting SVGs to PDFs (using a svg to pdf library) to use the PDFs in iOS development, but I'm seeing some strange behavior in iOS when I view the images — certain groups / layers seems to be missing. The strange thing is that when I open the converted PDF in Acrobat, it looks totally fine, but in the preview I see in Finder on my mac, parts of the image are missing. Is there something about saving a file that causes problems when it's converted to a PDF? Maybe the way the elements are grouped? I When I directly save export the file (using Illustrator e.g.) as a PDF, it doesn't seem to have any problems.
Thanks so much!
Update: I believe the parts of my image that are missing are the subgroups (i.e. group within a group) — does that sound like it could cause problems?


texts: Copying a portion of an image and translating it to the same position on new image in Pixlr

texts: I'm new to using Pixlr so I'm wondering if there is a way that I can select a portion of an image using the wand tool and then copy it to a new blank image (which has the same dimensions as the original) so that the copied portion is placed in the exact same spot in the new image as it's located in the original image?


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I've created a tennis racket in Illustrator CS6 and i want to make the text only visible on the lines of the net. I tried to use a copy of the net as clipping mask for the text, but the result was'nt so good, because the black of the underlying lines was still lightly visible. Even when the mask and the net was perfectly aligned.
Is there an easier way as a mask?


texts: How to convert a group of two objects to a single path in Inkscape?

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I'm trying to convert a group of two objects in Inkscape to a (single) combined path. When I select the image with the arrow tool, it says the following:

I tried converting it to a single path by means of the Path -> Object to Path option, but then it says “No objects to convert to path in selection”.
I'm not quite sure what to do next. How can I convert this group of two objects to a single path?


texts: How should I study the vast subject of Art History?

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Since I am a graphic designer I would like to study the subject of art. In doing so, I hope to increase my knowledge on the building blocks of creativity.

To me, an obvious first choice of study would be art history. However, art history is so vast I must narrow it down.

If you were to start studying art history, what steps would you take to narrow down your field of study?

Thanks


texts: Removing background and keeping transparencies in Photoshop

texts: Is it possible to remove the black from an image like this in Photoshop so it is only white but respect the transparency? I am aware that a Screen blending mode would give this effect but I need to completely remove the background and import it in another program as a png with no background.


texts: Photoshop batch save, two files from one source, specific data & naming

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I've searched existing questions for this, but I'm not finding a way to do this one specific task.

I work from 24mp photographs, fixing up across several apps but always ending in Photoshop.
I have already tagged my file by the original _DSC number plus a 'scene name' & will file back into the day's shooting folder. That part is fine.

Once completed & whilst the original Ps is still open, as a last 'filing task'  I then need to generate two jpgs, back into the original folder, converted to sRGB, containing all exif data, in two different sizes & at two different qualities, each suffixed with the 'size' like the new Save for Web can do eg -@0.33x

So,
_DSC1234-SceneName-@1.0x.jpg [at 100% quality]
_DSC1234-SceneName-@0.3x.jpg [at 70% quality]

These requirements mean I cannot use the new 'Export As' [because it discards exif] or a simple Save As.. [no resize] so it seems I must use the old 'Save for Web'.

I've tried setting this up as an Action, but that hard-codes the naming & destination. It also fills the Action parameter list with so much extraneous data that I can barely follow it. I'm by no means an 'actions expert'.
Toggling the action to show the dialog basically negates the entire point of having set it as an action & I can't figure out a way to just edit those couple of parameters inside the 'Export' part of the two saves.

Is there any way to edit an action to change the hard-coded names & destinations to instead use suffixes & save back to original location?

Or is there an alternative method to achieve this?

I'm on Mac Mojave & current Ps 2020, if relevant.


texts: Is it possible to make vector from hand drawn artwork?

texts: I just wonder is there any way to make vector from my hand drawn artworks. I tried auto trace and some settings, but lots of shades gone. And its supposed to be only black and white without any grey shade.


texts: When to break out of a grid in webdesign?

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Grid systems like the 960 grid and BluePrint can be useful to place the main elements for a website in a mockup: header, slider, content blocks, sidebar, footer etc. But do you use the same grid system to place the content within each of these elements?

I find that often quite difficult. For example I have a sidebar covering 3 columns for a table of 5 columns. I could actually create a mini-grid for the sidebar only.

I haven´t found a resource that answers this question specifically, so I´m curious to hear how you do this and if there are any "best practices" I´m not aware of.

Cheers!


texts: For the main image on the landing page, can a dark contrasting background help increase conversion?

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BACKGROUND OF PROJECT
Initially I envisioned that the header would have an image that can span the entire width of the page. I was thinking centered, and it would be so wide that as you stretched it, you would see more but it would blur progressively outward.

However without having a photographer to shoot that with a better set and models I only have the current image to work with. And here is what I have created so far.

*disregard the items on the top bar which are in progress

CURRENT OBSERVATIONS
My thought process when I created this current example was that a dark background would force visual focus to the image. The models are then redirecting you with their eyes to the message and call-to-action.

I was wondering what your experiences have been or if maybe I should go with a different color.


texts: Adobe After Effects layer not snapping sometimes

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I have recorded the problem here:
https://vimeo.com/454995903
I'm holding down Shift key, and trying to move the layer to snap to the beginning of the other layer.
As you can see, I narrowed down the problem to the text layer above it, it seems like the text layer's opacity key frames are causing this issue.
How do I fix this? Every time this happens, I have to zoom in maximally on the timeline and move the layer frame by frame to get the layer adjusted to the beginning of the other layer, because I don't know which other layer is causing this.


texts: My MacBook Pro is set to a resolution of 2880*1800 yet when I take a screenshot, the selection shows 1440*900. How is it halved?


texts: When I paste an image into photoshop it is blurry

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I open a high quality photo in Photoshop.
I then cut the section I want into another image (I am making a cover photo for Facebook 848 x 315 px). When I paste the image and scale it appropriately it appears to be pixalated when I zoom in.
I am wondering is it when I set up a new image to paste it to, am I setting it up wrong?


texts: Placing an image inside a basket in Photoshop

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I'm looking for a creative way to insert image to another.

Let's take for example:

A basket

an Apple with transparent background

I want to put apples in the basket, and make it look natural in it. I couldn't figure out a way to do it without placing it all over the front of the basket, and not inside it.

Any creative way?


texts: White space between snapped shapes in Illustrator

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I am working on a pattern of a bunch of tiled square shapes. I matched all of the shapes right next to each other until I get that little green "Align" line and let go. When I zoom out I see a little space between most of the shapes. I'm assuming that is so I can see what shapes I'm working with better because when I zoom in the lines go away.

However when I export as a jpeg or png the lines are actually there. I tried it twice to make sure I had all the squares lined up and I'm still getting white space between them. Any idea whats going on?


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I know how to trim an image in Photoshop. (choose Image > Trim in Photoshop's menu)

Is there any method to trim a slice to get rid of extra transparent space?


texts: Do we need bleed if the Print output isn't intended to be cut (as is output)

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been trying to get a handle on this bleed thing.. and i kinda get it, but for the most part it talks about making sure there are no white-outs at the edges of your printed document after it's been cut out to your size specification.

Now I kinda understand this easy, but what I'm wondering is if for example i'm printing on an A4 paper from a desktop printer...and my design is A4 size as well.. I would think that there is no reason/use for bleed ,right?

Thanks


texts: Can I explode a transformed object in Illustrator?

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I created a circle in illustrator.

To create an array, I added Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform.

The problem is, now I want the array of circles to be individual objects.

Is it possible to explode them somehow?


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I've seen many advertising logos, they are quite simple and don't show anything related to advertising. I saw some with call out signs but this is not the only thing,i think. I'm curious to know about what should be there in an advertising company logo.

Thanks


texts: Tube Label Gradient Abrupt Cutoff when Printing Help!

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We are trying to print some labels on a plastic tube(Using a third party company).  We are supplying the artwork. The gradients on the tube sample, when viewed rather closely, are cutting off abruptly.

We are using the Illustrator Gaussian Blur to get the gradient effects, but as you can see there is no abrupt cutoff on the digital version when viewing the image below, but when you view the photo I have attached of the the tube sample it looks cutoff. The Tube manufacturer says the issue lies with the artwork itself. I have tried everything I can to smooth the gradient out as much as possible but nothing seems to work. Like I said before, it looks perfect on screen, its just when we go to print it gets cutoff.

Do you guys think it is an issue with the printer or the artwork itself? Any ideas on how to have the gradient seamlessly fade in? Help!

Thanks so much in advance.


texts: Alternative to Photoshop that can handle smart objects

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I would like to edit a simple PSD with a smart object like this one.
I only need to replace the smart object with a screenshot of an app and export the image as a PNG or JPG. Is there an alternative to Photoshop available that can do this? (I'm using Windows 8.1 and I don't need any other of the advanced Photoshop features)


texts: What is the difference between 'Scale Tints' and 'Tints and Shades'?

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In Adobe Illustrator, in the 'Recolor Artwork' dialog box, what is the difference between 'Scale Tints' and 'Tints and Shades'?

As far as I understand, a tint of a color is white added to it and a shade is black added to it.

Then, why does 'Scale Tints' preserve the spot color and 'Tints and Shades' does not. Im my opinion, both should not preserve the color. Where am I mistaken?


texts: How to save padding around an icon and make it a part of it - Photoshop CS3

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I have an icon with the dimensions 24px × 23px. The canvas is 24px × 24px: There is 1 transparent pixel at the top of the icon.

After I use the rectangular marquee tool to copy and paste the icon to another psd document I get the icon as 24px × 23px. But i need it to be 24px × 24px.

How do I copy the dimensions with the transparent pixel to a new document?


texts: Nesting Paths for Vector Artwork in Illustrator

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Good day!

Just wanted to ask designers for tips on how to speed up my workflow when creating the following:

Example 1: When creating wrapped effects for paths on top of another, i have to add anchor points to the main path, cut it out and adjust to hide it underneath the path on top of it.

Example 2: When creating bulging effects, I can do the same for the 1st example, however I was able to easily remove the bottom path by using the subtract feature of the shape builder, but it modified the look of the path.

Thanks in advance for those who can help out! :)


texts: How to set override to "no symbol" by default in Sketch?

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Let's imagine I have a Master data cell symbol and several tables that already use instances of it. There are no dividers in the Master cell symbol so far, so I want to add them. I create a master divider symbol and nest its the instance inside the cell to use as an override.

The problem is that dividers appear in all cell instances I have already used to create the tables. Thus, I have to select each cell instance in the design and manually set divider override to "no symbol".

How to set symbol override to "no symbol", when I first insert it in Master?


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I have a logo which I am happy with however I would like my brand to include the .com.  The problem is when I do the .com in the style of the rest of the letters it doesn't look so good.  When I don't match the style, and just put the .com in plain text, it doesn't look so good either.

Any suggestions as to better ways to add the .com would be appreciated.  Willing to modify the logo if necessary.

Thanks!


texts: How do I make colours consistent between different programs?

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Ever since Windows 10 big update about a week a ago I am having some issues with colour between different programs, namely Photoshop (CS6) and Corel Draw (X7). (Illustrator is the same as Photoshop)

As seen in the picture below the 50% grey is totally off in both pictures (documents are CMYK - Photoshop on the left, Corel Draw on the right).

I have tried playing with every setting in Corel Draw but it just does not seem to be doing anything to the Black - Grey - White. The colours like Cyan, Magenta Yellow Green etc all seem to ok in both the RGB and CMYK.

I am having most trouble with CMYK Black - Grey - White.

These are the settings for the two programs.

Corel - European Default (tried to change CMYK to FOGRA27 still nothing changed)

Photshop - European Default

I've tried all the different settings, colour engine, preserve pure black etc, as well as changing the default presets but nothing seems to change in the Black - Grey - White.

Is there a way to make sure the different programs display colours consistently or near consistent?

Note 1: Viewing the artwork created in Corel Draw on another screen shows the colours to be correct.

Note 2: Taking a 50% grey image exported from Photoshop into Corel Draw shows the grey wrong. It shows it as it is in the first image.


texts: Hidden characters in InDesign affecting alignment

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I'm working on an InDesign file (possibly from an older version, it's been a minute since the file was used), and when center aligning the text, it appears that the hidden characters or "invisibles" are being treated as if they have width — therefore affecting the alignment.

Hiding the invisibles does nothing, and attempting to resize the text boxes even a pixel or two before the edge of the characters sends the entire word off into oblivion.

Thanks!


texts: Voronoi Diagram (Delunay Triangulation) in inkscape not working properly?

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I'm working on some low poly wallpapers on inkscape 0.92, but when i use the voronoi diagram (delunay triangulation), i got this ugly result :

should i fix some thing in my design?
or it's a bug on this version of inkscape?


texts: Hard to translate English to Chinese language in Photoshop CS6

texts: I was trying to translate texts on my design into Chinese but for some reason it displays random numbers and letters. Is there a way to get this done? And is there a font that is downloadable to make it work? Thanks!


texts: Photoshop paste into selection from illustrator and keep it as vector smart object

texts: Is there a way that I could paste sth from illustrator into a selection in photoshop? What I want to achieve is the effect which could be done in the same way in indesign(make a box and paste into it, that when i move the inside of the box the viewable area should be exactly the box and not the full pasted element)


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I'm looking for an animation software which has native support for creating and manipulating mathematical objects, such as parabolas, and algebraic curves. At the same time I want to be able to use animation tools such as "onion skin".

I know Wolfram Mathematica can handle mathematical plots very precisely, but creating a serious 10-minutes animation project there seems difficult. On the other hand, Adobe Animate CC is pretty convenient for making standard stuff like faces/bodies/background, but lacks (as far as I know) the ability to create precise parabolas and such.

My question is: Is there an animation software that does well on both aspects? If not, should I just do the mathematical things on Mathematica, and export them to Animate CC?

Thank you!


texts: Is graphic designing (web pages) mostly faux, unreal, unscalable and somewhat based on illusion?

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Is design mostly faux, unreal, partly based on illusion which combines different elements and combines into one beautiful piece, which is not scalable but give a nice look to the eye. Consider these images when answering the question.

First Image. This second image which gives an illusion of if the edges are lift, I draw a rectangle in the left side and you can see it still give that look although it is a pure rectangle.

Basically what I am asking is : I am a programming and think strictly in terms of logic. When I look at these effect, I say wow but when i look deep into it, I see that these are just images sticked together to give a beautiful look. They are not scalable. If you change the font on these page for example (make them bigger), everything will fall apart. My question is is most of the deign based on this faux design, illusion and piecing things together to give a better design and look but they will not be scalable at all. My question is strictly related to websites and website designs.

The following is just a few more pics which basically says about illusion which may or may not be used in designing a page. I don't know, that is why this question.

The building on the right is leaning more towards the right but actually it is the same image. The three pillars are actually the same size! Are these types of illusions used in Graphic Design (web pages in particular) to get the desired effects. Here is an explanation for these and more. Are they taught in graphic design schools?


texts: How to break up a letter after every intersection in inkscape?

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I have the following letter in my inkscape:

I have the following XML generated from the above letter.

JSFIDDLE

The main portion of the letter is ofcoure the below XML:

<path
       style="color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:40px;line-height:125%;font-family:sans-serif;text-indent:0;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;direction:ltr;block-progression:tb;writing-mode:lr-tb;baseline-shift:baseline;text-anchor:start;white-space:normal;clip-rule:nonzero;display:inline;overflow:visible;visibility:visible;opacity:1;isolation:auto;mix-blend-mode:normal;color-interpolation:sRGB;color-interpolation-filters:linearRGB;solid-color:#000000;solid-opacity:1;fill:none;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:#0000ff;stroke-width:6;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1;color-rendering:auto;image-rendering:auto;shape-rendering:auto;text-rendering:auto;enable-background:accumulate"
       d="m 407.88415,333.72984 -25.70508,93.04297 -26.77344,-93.00391 -3.56445,3.21094 -30.25977,27.26171 0,134.33008 35.26758,31.77149 0,-78.57031 25.4375,66.86132 24.19727,-65.87695 0,77.58594 35.26757,-31.77149 0,-134.33008 -33.86718,-30.51171 z"
       id="path4206"
       inkscape:connector-curvature="0" />

Now what i want to achieve is multiple paths , that is break up this M further , so that every straight line is a path and after every intersection the path is not continued , How do i do this in inkscape ?


texts: How can I easily set the opacity value for several layers within a composition at once for a key frame?

texts: I have been doing this manually, but I believe there should be a way to handle this for multiple layers at once. How can this be done?


texts: Which color space should be used for a logo?

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I'm currently designing a logo in CYMK (in Illustrator CS6). The logo will be used in digital printing, web and for business cards. Is it correct to use CYMK or would it better to use colors from Pantone/HKS?

If CMYK is the correct choice, is it good to export the logo from Illustrator for web publishing? Is there something that I need to ensure that the colors remain the same as in CYMK?


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I want to convert RGB to CMYK color code, but unfortunately, I have some problem with colors.
I want to use this color #31C68B in Photoshop, and after that I want to print that for Visit Card and the other printing product.
But when I see the color on my monitor, the color is not good.
I think the main problem in source file based on RGB color. If you have any experience for this issue, or any other idea for solving this problem, please let me know.
Thank you.


texts: InDesign: TIFF vs PSD for placing links with transparent background

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When working on photos with transparent background in Photoshop, which file type would you recommend is best to use to import to InDesign, TIFF or PSD?

Why and when choose one over the other in InDesign?


texts: Should I use capital letters (titlecase) when using small caps?

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I just came to realize this problem with chapter titles in my thesis.

I'm using small caps for them, but I also noticed that (because I'm use to it) I wrote them in titlecase, e.g.:

However, if I use a long chapter title, I'm not so sure if it looks ok...

Since I'm not a graphic designer, nor my aesthetics are very good (go figure, I'm a scientist) I would like your help on what should I do:

Go completely with lower case
Use titlecase
Use upper case for all of them
Use Capital letter on the first word of the title


texts: Outline around text on CMYK black background in Photoshop

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I'm trying to make a document with one color black  (c:0,m:0,y:0,k:100) background with red text on it. However in CMYK the text has this weird grey white-ish edge. In RGB it doesn't show but in CMYK it shows. I'm wondering will this show when printing or do I need to use different methods? ie. using rich black etc.

Here's the RGB and CMYK comparison


texts: How can I export an Inkscape image as a png without any alpha?


texts: Arrange multiple items at once in Illustrator

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I have a series of rectangles I'd like to line up one right behind another - in other words, I'd like to have one "in front" of one object, which needs to be "in front" on another object, etc. etc.

I'm essentially looking to distribute these in a "front / back" arrangement so when I apply a shadow effect to them I end up with a look similar to clapboarding on a house (shadow line at the bottom of each rectangle). I can do this easily enough if I click on each rectangle and select "send to back" (cmd+shift+[) or "bring to front" (cmd+shift+]) but I'm wondering if there's a way to select a group of them and have them essentially distributed along the z plane automatically (yes, I know it's a 2d drawing).

Has anyone run into a way of doing this?


texts: What process do you go through when creating a typeface to make sure that it is not too similar to something that already exists?

texts: From the comments and answers I received from a previous question (How much alteration to a font constitutes a new variation?) I thought that this might actually be a more constructive and practical question to ask since it gives people some idea of the things that they need to check for to make sure that the typeface that they create is not too close to something that already exists and might be seen as simply 'copying' or 'modifying' an existing typeface slightly.


texts: Create a Price Tag Icon with Rounded Corners

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I am learning to create icons in Photoshop, but I'm not sure how to tackle creating this icon.

Is it possible using only Photoshop?


texts: How do I design the footnote number at the bottom of the page?

texts: When I insert a footnote, a superscripted number appears. I don't want to change this, but I want to design the number that appears at the bottom of the page without changing the actual text content of the footnote. How do I apply a character style to all of these numbers?


texts: Variable Text Size for Illustrator Variables

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Using Adobe Illustrator, I have imported a list of data from a CSV file into illustrator variables.

I'm wondering if I can have different font sizes for each record. Some records are longer than others and don't exactly fit into the design. I would have to optimize each record individually.


texts: Placing Circle Tangent to Two Lines (Illustrator)

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I have a circle and I want it to perfectly kiss two lines of arbitrary angle in Adobe Illustrator:

How would I do that?


texts: InDesign: any way to set up document so client can edit content?

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I'm creating a brochure for a client which has a table in it. The client will need to change the content in the table in the future.

Is there a way to set up the project so that only the information in the table is changed and the formatting stays the same?

The client has very basic understanding of InDesign.


texts: How to split large figure into smaller A4 pieces for printing?

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I have a large figure (the original file can be found here or also here in pdf format):

This figures size is approx. 255cm x 160 cm. This is quite large. I want to print this figure (in original scaling, so not smaller). However of course I cannot print that large file. I can only print usual A4 papers.

I now want to split the figures into smaller A4 pieces and print each of them and later put them together. So here is an illustration (I just entered a few A4s and the size is also just guessed):

It could be also like this:

How can I do this?

(would be great also to have it with a numbering, so that it is easier to put them togehter afterwards)

Thanks for any help!


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Being a developer wanting to be a designer, I'm really interested in learning how to create top notch UI for websites, mobile apps, etc. However, I know nothing about Photoshop or anything related to design, my main skills being HTML and CSS.

Where should I start? How do I learn how to create beautiful websites and interfaces?


texts: Why is my EXR showing up lighter than expected in Photoshop?

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I have a 32-bit EXR image that's supposed to show the following color:
r: 0.5
g: 0.5
b: 1.0

each color channel is in the [0, 1] range. When I open the EXR file in Photoshop, this is what I see:

You'll notice that the color picker accurately lists r: 0.5, g: 0.5, b: 1.0, but visually it's much lighter than it should be. A color of those values should look more purple, like this:

The problem is that I need to take the 32-bit EXR and convert to 8-bit PNG, but it's coming out much lighter than it should. Instead of getting the color I need #8080ff, I'm getting the lighter #bcbcff. Do I need to do gamma correction, or some sort of linear-space conversion? I believe this question is very similar to this question for GIMP, but that one doesn't have an answer either.


texts: Inscape Version of Corel Draw's Clone Tool

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Does anyone have an idea of how to do this: Corel Draw Clone Tool YouTube Demo
 in Inkscape? I'm very familiar with Corel Draw and Adobe Creative Suite, but at my new job they are cheap and I'm stuck with Inkscape.

I've been trying to figure it out for a while now and can't find any documentation on a tool similar to this.


texts: I want to add images to a template, print it out, and make an origami dodecahedron shape. Where can I download a dodecahedron Photoshop template?


texts: How Do I Clean-up noisy pixels in transparent .png using gimp 2.28?

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I have converted a .gif to transparent gif using gimnp 2.  I export as .png.  When I Insert Picture into a MS Publisher .pub trifold.  I send it Backward and I see the text over the pic.

All is okay except the png has a few 'floating' dark pixels near the object in the pic (a church).  How do I get rid of those individuals 'noise' pixels?


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I've been using Photoshop proper for quite a while, but have just recently started working with the 3d aspect.

I have some tileable 2d images as source (human skin) and some importable 3d models with uv maps (human body). What i want to do is paint the 2d onto the 3d but not in a 1:1 size ratio. If I just plonk a texture in as a diffuse, it covers the whole body with one iteration of the texture.

My experience with photoshop says that I need to create a material > diffuse using my source 2d image(s) tiled however many times and brush it on as needed. If at some point I need to scale the material, then I'd need to basically remake the source 2d.

This however seems old-school, and google is happy to show me results for painting solid colors (not what I need). Is there a better way using current features? If there were a tutorial somewhere out on the web, I'd be happy to see it.


texts: Examples of expensive color related printing mistakes?

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I was preparing a lesson for new designers about "How to make print ready files?" and I wanted to add some historic facts about the greatest and most expensive print mistakes—something interesting to help them take their job more seriously. So I went to Google and found some interesting examples, but unfortunately they all seem to be about spelling mistakes.

Are there any famous print mistakes that happened because of a color error? Something like a big brand having to reprint their material just because of a color mismatch, color profile error, or incorrect pantone that cost them a very large amount of money.


texts: What font is similar to Zapfino One but a bit more legible?

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I am looking for a font for my wedding invitation. I like Zapfino One but I think it is not readable enough for an invitation. Especially the letter "f" is very large. Is there any professional looking font which is similar to Zapfino One but a bit more readable for my purpose? If not are there any other suggestions?

For sake of completeness, here is a sample of Zapfino One:

Since I make the invitation with LaTeX (XeLaTeX) it would also be ok if you suggest a LaTeX metafont (which I could use with pdflatex).

I am also considering to make the menu-cards with Zapfino One, so it would be great if the font of the wedding invitation would fit to Zapfino One.


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I work for a medical journal, and we use InDesign C5. I am wondering if there is a way to "teach" InDesign how to correctly hyphenate medical jargon at the end of a paragraph line. Obviously, our journal prints a lot of unusual words, such as ischemia, translateral, psuedomeningioma, and a host of other neurosurgical terms which I can't spell, ha ha. InDesign sometimes hyphenates these words incorrectly at the end of a paragraph line; for example, we often see translateral broken as tran-slateral, instead of trans-lateral. It can be fixed manually, but this is a time suck and sometimes we miss them.

Is there a way to get InDesign to break these words correctly? Would adding a medical dictionary solve the problem? We are English US, btw.


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I've been stuck on this problem for a while. I'm trying to make a road piece. Initial size is a plane of 7 x 7. That is the road piece template. Following that I wanted to make a corner piece but it is slightly misaligned from the grid.

How can this be solved?


texts: Bought Wacom Intuos4 for teaching through online videos

texts: It came with Photoshop 10 Express, Autocad SketchBook Express and Corel Painter Sketch Pad. They all seem like great tools for creating/modifying art and photos. Is there a better application for drawing using the Wacom Intuos4 for the purpose of teaching, like they do at Khan Academy?


texts: Create text with cutout through letter leaving cutout part transparent

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I need to create a logo. It's very basic but I cannot figure out how to achieve my desisred effect with Adobe Illustrator.

Like the image before, I need to have a part of the text cut out. I tried using a white rectangle and under pathfinder I used divide but that leaves me with the white rectangle attached still.

I need the part that is cut out to be transparent.


texts: How do I create a gif with a transparent background using Adobe Photoshop?

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How do I create a .gif with a transparent background using Adobe Photoshop?

It's a bit late in the evening to ask my web developer to do this. Here's a screenshot of the image I've created:

But I don't want white around the letters — it should look more like it does here: http://wordfruit.com

Here's what I've done:

I downloaded the original .gif from the website files.
When I open it in Photoshop, the layer is locked and I can't create a new layer…
… so I copy pasted it into a new .psd document and edited that
finally saved it as a .gif


texts: How to create outline on blurred shape in photoshop

texts: Hello I need help creating an outline to a blur shape I managed to blur the shape but I'm just trying to create a an outline to the blurred shape so it stands out more and I cannot seem to do it. The way I blurred the shape was I made a copy of the video and put Gaussian blur filter and tracking matte key to make it blur out the background now when I try to create the outline using properties on the shape it will not create a solid outline. You can see in the picture below for a better understanding .


texts: What is the best approach to improve skills? i.e good tutorials, books, course

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I would like to improve my design skills. My main focus is web development and even though my coding skills need to be improved upon a lot, right now, design is where I feel like I lack the most.

I do have quite thorough knowledge of photoshop, I learned most of it during retouching my photos or when I occasionally create some random website mockups. But it is really missing that professional touch that I would like it to have. I think that what I'm missing is the good practice in design, the rules and basically how are things done properly.

So what are some good books or courses to improve this?


texts: Script won't output bleed on PDF export, and stuck on other portion of script

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So, the following script is a modified version of the script I found here. Its goal is to:

Export the current page as a PDF using the HQ Print default
Check for bleed. If there is one, the bleed will be included in export.
Extract the content of the second text frame (in top to bottom order) it finds on the page
Extract the first two words of that text, flip their order, add a dash between them, then prepend it to the file name.
Export the file

As of right now, the only thing I've managed to get working is item #1. For some reason this script won't export bleed no matter what I do, though InDesign's own documentation suggests that what I have in there should work. Also, I've been unable to puzzle out the correct way to handle items 3 and 4; I tried to modify the GetDate function to handle this, but it didn't work (as you can see from the commented out lines).

So scripting gurus of StackExchange, what am I doing wrong? Any and all help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

*Note-- I don't actually need the date appended to the filename; I was just using the GetDate function as a container for the name extraction code, since the function was already there in the code.

var scriptName = "Export current page to PDF - 1.0";

Main();

//===================================== FUNCTIONS  ======================================
function Main() {
if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("Please open a document and try again.", true);
var doc = app.activeDocument;

if (app.activeWindow.constructor.name != "LayoutWindow") ErrorExit("Unable to get page number. Quit story editor.", true);

var page = app.activeWindow.activePage;

with (app.pdfExportPreferences){
pageRange = page.name;
viewPDF = true;
bleedBottom = app.activeDocument.documentPreferences.
documentBleedBottomOffset;
bleedTop = app.activeDocument.documentPreferences.documentBleedTopOffset;
bleedInside = app.activeDocument.documentPreferences.
documentBleedInsideOrLeftOffset;
bleedOutside = app.activeDocument.documentPreferences.
documentBleedOutsideOrRightOffset;
//If any bleed area is greater than zero, then export the bleed.
if(bleedBottom == 0 && bleedTop == 0 && bleedInside == 0 &&
    bleedOutside == 0){
    useDocumentBleedWithPDF = true;
    }
    else{
            useDocumentBleedWithPDF = false;
    }
}

var fileName = doc.name.replace(/\.indd$/, "") + "_" + GetDate() + ".pdf";
var file = new File("~/Desktop/" + fileName);

var myExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item("[High Quality Print]");
alert (myExportPreset);
doc.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, file, false, myExportPreset);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function GetDate() {
//var page = app.activeWindow.activePage;
//var nameFrame = page.textFrames.item(1).contents;
//var employeeName = nameFrame.substr(2)

    var date = new Date();
    if ((date.getYear() - 100) < 10) {
  var year = "0" + new String((date.getYear() - 100));
   }
 else {
   var year = new String((date.getYear() - 100));
   }
  var dateString = (date.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + date.getDate() + "-" + year + "_" + date.getHours() + "-" + date.getMinutes() + "-" + date.getSeconds();
return dateString;
}


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I have an image of the USA. I'm currently cutting it up into layers, one state per layer. I'd like to convert this into an image map, with all the glorious html around that.

Is there a simple method to do create this form of polygonal
image-map?
If not a simple method, what would be the more complex method within
photoshop?


texts: What are good and maybe free UI storyboarding applications, especially for mobile UIs

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Hi I would like to get an overview of existing UI desktop or online application, which may have a specialization towards user interaction modeling and mobile device interfaces. I guess there are some applications out there which suit that constraints, but I just do not find them.  So please share your experience, which application do you use for developing (mobile device) UI storyboards?

Thanks.


texts: How to change the color of only a part of this line in Inkscape?

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In the following image, want the cat head black and the shape of the heart in orange.

I tried selecting the line that I want but it only selects all.


texts: I am just beginning to learn about fonts and typography so pardon if my question seems naive. I really like the look of Futura Bold for titles in a powerpoint presentation I'm making but the unequal spaces between letters is bothering me. Is there a sans serif font with equal spacing to replace Futura(preferably in the same gemoetric style)?


texts: How do they make illustrations for the functional programming?

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Here are some samples from "Learn some Haskell"

Here are samples from "Learn some Erlang"

Here are "Illustrated Monads"

And here is Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory caffe

I wonder, how do they make such drawings. Why do they look the same and can I do the same easily?


texts: How do I export an SVG from Illustrator such that it renders well in small sizes?

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I come from a Photoshop background and this is my first time dabbling with AI.

I would like to show my product logo in a small size on a webpage (about 15px height). I currently have a PNG (created in Photoshop) but the font is quite choppy. I am assuming it has to do with the scale.

To fix it, I am now trying to work in Illustrator and saving as SVG. I've tried a bunch of things but the logo shows up very nicely in large sizes, but not small.

Here's how it is big:

But here's how it shows when it's close to the size I am looking for:

How do I make the smaller text smoother on my webpage?

I have tried setting anti-alias in the Character window but it's disabled. Should I even try using an SVG or should I try fixing my PNG in Photoshop?


texts: Where can I find align objects to pixel grid option? [ Illustrator CC 2018 ]

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I've already checked transform options
and new documents option..I couldn't find it.

I just want to know where to check that options, not to snap option.

I want to know why I can't see that option.


texts: Text Variables on Master Slide in InDesign CS6

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Currently I want to neatly organise a batch of 500 PDFs in one InDesign document. I placed them slide by slide into my document, and now I thought of adding a small box on the corner of each slide which indicates the names of the individual PDF files. I did this via the

Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable > Image Name

option. Adding the box and the variable to the master slide adds it on every page, but it does not "intersect" with the images/PDFs, thus it does not recognise the file names ("< No intersecting link >").

Is there another way to solve this, apart from adding the box with the variable to every page individually?

Thanks a lot!