texts: AI CC: gradient opacity mask from one object, assigned to another

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First question here.
Decent knowledge of Photoshop, perhaps even better of After Effects (quite competent software actually even for graphic design, at least web-targeted).

At the moment, however, I'm working in Illustrator, since I figure it's best suited for my project, which is print-targeted, and Illustrator is definitely not my strongest point.

I've got a few text elements upon top of a hexagon patterned background, and I'm wondering if there is any way to create a gradient opacity mask (or any other kind of mask, if need be) based on the characters I have typed, and have the background pattern fade away just a few millimeters from the characters.

Hope this description is clear enough.

Any sort of help would be greatly appreciated.

Update

I'm still experimenting on this.

Now I have my text elements in a separate layer, which is currently hidden.
I have made copies of these texts and I found out that if I add stroke to them, let's say 2.5cm, I get all sorts of funny spikes around my glyphs. This may normally be a problem, but for me it works just fine, if I can just get this spikey text elements to serve as an inverted mask for my underlying background - that is I want my background to be visible everywhere else and not within the area of the mask.

Can I?


texts: Good printing effect for pattern packaging design

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I am currently designing a tube for skincare products similar to this:

The design so far has repeated patterns on the tube kind of like this:

My team wants to use nude and cream color on a matte finish. I thought it would be hard to stand out.

I thought about using:

2 Metallic Inks, but pattern is small so it won't print well since matte paper will absorb the metallic inks
using texture paper with foil...too expensive, company can't afford
using UV on pattern, with matte paper? maybe?

What would you use for soft cream colors with pattern on a tube like this. (with limited budget?)


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Possible Duplicate:
  How to design sleek magnifying glass effects like these?

I've seen this done many times, and I'm wondering how to do it.

If someone could point me to a tutorial on how to do the magnifying glass thing, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.


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I'm using inkscape and I want to put a text vertically on center, the following text has a two font sizes, i want to display them on baseline.

I can't convert text to path because I put on path.


texts: Photoshop: How far can I reduce something while maintaining legibility?

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when designing iphone icons,but in general designing something that is bigger or smaller than my screen size, I have problems in understanding how far can I go with using smaller/larger fonts (and drawings) so that everything is clear and fully readable when it is seen by the user at 100% its size.

Is there any trick? or something I should know?


texts: What is this "justified" text technique called?

texts: You usually see this technique on infographics and brochures, and sometimes magazines:


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I am having a headache with a brand palette from a client, the values in which don't match Pantone's colour finder values on their website nor my Adobe CC colour books.  For example, when I select type 2748 into the Pantone Solid Colour book in Photoshop (brought in from previous version), the CMYK, RGB and Hex values are way off. I wondered if it was the Pantone+ Solid Colour book, but equally none of these are correct.  When I type 2748 into the Pantone+ Colour Bridge Coated colour book in Photoshop, I get the CMYK values in the brand palette, but they don't match Pantone's values for 2748CP on the Pantone website. Has anyone come across this before?
Visual from the brand palette for ref.


texts: Is there a way to do a perfect background removal on hair?

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Is there a way to do a perfect die cut on a person's hair or on dog's fur or others like difficult hair styles?

Similar to this:


texts: How to achieve this Gradient (Done in Figma with layer Blur)

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how can i achieve this Gradient? I know its done in Figma with multiple rectangles and a bunch of Layer Blur. I'm a noob with the Gradient Mesh Tool in Illustrator, so Figma would be easier for me. Especially the smooth transition at the bottom is just stunning, as well as the color range.
I would appreciate any tips, thanks in advance!


texts: Targeting every second tab using Grep and then changing it to nothing

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I imported this tabbed text from Microsoft Word into Indesign as shown in the attachment.

I am attempting to replace every second tab in this text into no character ie any tab number that is divisible by 2.

Can this be done with a GREP find change in Indesign please?

Hope this clarifies what I need.

Thankyou!


texts: Add column break and space to using paragraph using styles

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I'm going to design a fairly large festival programme and wish to make use of XML to ease the process.

But I need to be able to make column break after each entry, and also add spacing after certain XML tags.

I know how to make the XML tags connect to specific styles. But there seems to be no option other than Search and Find as to adding invisible characters.

I used the method of search and replace styles last year and the big drawback is that once you have done it, there is no going back – if you were to find out you did a mistake. Which is why I want to make use of XML to be able to make alterations to the structure afterwards.

Has anyone got any experience in this matter?


texts: Dieline- how do I send a dieline to print.

texts: Have a dieline I need printed. Do I send a preserved pdf? Or a full packaged folder?


texts: Who owns authorship when an employee makes a design for their employer?

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Let's say Designer X worked full time for Company Y.  While there, Designer X built an illustration to explain how Company Y's product works.  Then, some years later after Designer X left Company Y, a third party requests permission to use said illustration in some educational material it plans to publish, and wishes to cite the author.

Who does the third party cite, Designer X or Company Y?


texts: Automatically scale text to fixed width in Illustrator or Photoshop

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I hope someone may be able to help...

I have an AI template (it could also be PS file) which I would like to populate using variable content from a separate file to create PNG assets from.

One of the two elements on the page is a line of text (2 words) that I would like to proportionally scale to fill the full artboard width (using text size, not letter-spacing).

Can anyone suggest a way to set up this document to automatically scale the words as they will have a varying number of characters?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Objects in Illustrator Not Aligning to Pixel Grid Correctly

texts: I'm having problems aligning my objects to the pixel grid in Illustrator. As you can see in the picture, my object is correctly aligned with the pixel grid. However there are still parts outside of the green transform lines. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I've been trying align correctly with the direct select tool for over an hour with no luck.


texts: What's the difference between the font rendering in these two pictures?

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I’m comparing font display on Ubuntu vs Windows. Here are two screenshots taken from the same code file displayed in Sublime Text. Both are using Consolas, size 10.
Ubuntu:

Windows:

I’ve noticed that there is a small “bold” effect under Ubuntu. What type of effect is this? Could it be hinting or anti-aliasing?


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I created an icon for  a web page with lines of 2px and dimensions 42x42(px) but when I put it in webpage the lines are blurred, see the image

Next is the icon I'm developing with the correct lines

How I can make the lines so they are not blurred?


texts: How do I make my pen anchor points around isometric grid?

texts: As you can see in the photo there lines dont link up pefectly and don't follow the guidelines precisely. Is there a way I can make every exact?


texts: Number of colour palettes when branding a company

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Context

I'm creating the branding for a company. The company's main product is a web portal where customers have a collection of functionalities. For the portal I'm using a lot of soft colours to create a calm and trustworthy environment (by color association).

However, I'm not sure if this color palette will work when using the branding for promotion material like flyers, brochures and commercials. In that case I want more popping colours to get potential user's attention and direct this attention to call-to-action (to register with the company, for example).

Question

What would be the best thing to do in this case? Either change the first colour palette to have a multi-functional palette (just the one), or is it OK to have multiple color palettes as a company?

I'm currently going for the soft color palette for the company's products and a variation on that one with more contrast for branding and promotion.

Thanks, guys.


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I have created a vector image in Adobe Illustrator. It is basically a simple schema. I would like this schema posted in a web page, but what type of image should I select, raster or vector? According to my understanding, vector is better because of better quality, it should take less space since it doesn't need to save each pixel, and shapes are saved using algorithms that retain proportionality. But in reality I can't find any vector images used in web pages. Why?

If I decide to save the image in raster for web, I need to understand the benefits of both. Assuming that most monitor resolution is 1280 x 1024, I'd like to fit my image to half that monitor size and make it approximately 640 x 512 resolution size.


texts: InDesign: Faster way to resize image in frame

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I'm using Adobe InDesign (CC 2014) to layout a photo book. I've created a frame, and placed an image inside it. I want to resize the image and drag it around to frame it nicely.

I know that you can select Direct Selection Tool and resize the image by dragging the box handles, or by changing the size on the toolbar. Is there a keyboard key modifier that I can hold down and scroll my mouse/trackpad to dynamically zoom the image within the frame? In a document with dozens of pictures, this would save a lot of time.


texts: Placing vector in After Effects results in grey box

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In After Effects (CC2017), when I import a project from Illustrator (CC2017), place it on the timeline and select "Create shapes from vector layer", it creates a grey rectangle. There is no opacity on any layer in the Illustrator project and none in AE.

I've provided some screenshots below to show the object in AI and how it looks after being placed in AE.

Does anyone have prior experience with this issue or have any idea on what could be causing this result?


texts: How can I ensure that users will think a button is clickable?

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I had to make a page with a couple links on it, so I thought I would try to make the links big and decorative:

But I ran into the problem that people didn't realize it was a button, so they didn't know what to click on. It's obvious that something like this is a button:

My question is: How can I design my buttons to be obviously click-able?


texts: What font is used in Adobe CC program icons?

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I am looking to create a logo similar to this one, found as the cover image to this video:

But I am having trouble finding a suitable font.  What font is used in the icons for Adobe CC programs?  Are there other sans-serif fonts available in Typekit similar to Futura Bold that are suitable for a logo like the one shown?


texts: How to manipulate the gradient mesh correctly?

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i am learning about illustrator technniques and i want to do this tutorial:

design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-draw-a-vector-t-shirt-and-apply-a-pattern-to-it-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-28926 (sorry for don't put this like a link, this don't leave me to add more of 2 links)

Basically, i use the mesh to create something like this:

The problem is that i cannot do the mesh like the example of the tutorial.
I start drawing the shape with the pen tool. Then i use the mesh tool to create the lines, but the lines is not even close that the sample was. See my example:

So, i try to do the shirt starting with a rectangle. This don't work neither.

What i should to do? I need to move the points until see like the sample? There Is another way to use or manipulate the mesh tool points and i can get the mesh like the tutorial? Thanks for all your help.


texts: Is there a way to resize the dimensions of multiple APNG files at once?

texts: I have about 40 APNG (animated PNG) files that are each 618 by 618 pixels. I would like to convert them all at once to 408 by 408 pixels, while keeping the same animation, frame duration, transparency, etc. I found an online converter here that seems to do what I want, but it only allows you to convert one file at a time.


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It seems like all my designer friends are focusing on their portfolios too much. They tell me, "my portfolio is the most important factor in getting hired, as it demonstrates my skill". So, they seem to spend a lot of effort in enhancing their portfolios.

As a software developer, it seems very strange to me. It's as if I considered demonstrations of my code quality or my algorithmic thinking in my CV as the deciding factor for employer. But it's rarely true. I'd say it matters only if you don't have any work experience, to ensure your potential employer that you must be good for the job. But as long as you have work experience, demonstrations of your abilities are secondary in CV. The employer can deduce your skills from your real world achievements.

Same must go for design realm. Not everyone can easily judge your excellency from your portfolio, but if you show examples of work that got into production (which can mean photographs of produced objects), they will know that your work is valued by clients, even if it's not the best of your work. OTOH when you just show a bunch of images, it doesn't say anything about whether you will fit with the team, miss deadlines, and similar organizational matters.

So I'm wondering how most of employers or clients evaluate candidates: do they focus primarily on excellency (judging by portfolio), or they would prefer a candidate with a less elaborate portfolio but better work record?


texts: I imported multiple images to make a GIF. The problem is, that the images have multiple resolutions. How can I automatically scale all images to fit the canvas?


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I zoom a lot and need to move the current viewport...is there a way to move it with mouse wheel click like in other programs?

Currently I must go to the scrolling bars for adjusting X and Y view.

Thanks!


texts: Do all gif files only store changing pixels?

texts: I opened a Gif file in GIMP, and noticed that only the pixels that changed from frame to frame are actually saved in each frame.  I read various explanations of the file format, and none of them mentioned storing only changing pixels (or they did, but used technical language I didn't understand).  Do all Gifs work like this, or do only some of them do?  If only some, is there a way to tell based on the bits in the file?


texts: Skewing/Shearing Text On A Path In Photoshop or Illustrator?

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How can I skew or shear text on a circular path in either photoshop or illustrator? I need the text running along the bottom outside of the circle to skew the opposite direction of italics (slanting to the left). Apparently, this is something that has never been done before because I can't find anything on it anywhere.

If that makes sense, I want the text slanted as if it was showing motion by following the rotation of the gear.


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I manage IT for my company and generally try to stay out of our designer's way. We are an eCommerce company, and our designers spend a lot of time shooting, cropping, and cleaning images for display of products on our website, so heavy use of Photoshop. We also make product demo videos, so we rely on Premier as well as InDesign and Illustrator for other tasks.

We own several copies of CS2 and CS3, but that is the newest we have. I've looked recently at Creative Cloud as a possible upgrade path for us, as well as just plain old CS6.

The problem is, I'm not knowledgeable enough on this subject to know if we do actually need an upgraded/newer CS or if the ones we have are just fine? I've heard of fancy new features such as de-blur in CS6, however we take images from a controlled environment, so de-blurring is not useful, etc.

To aide me in my purchasing recommendation, is there an actual need for a newer product? What new features are available that we may enjoy, or what work-flows are improved, etc. Basically, I"m trying to decide if I should pursue getting approval for upgrades or not.

I should also mention, our designers don't seem to care — however I believe this isn't because they have assessed the new options and decided what we have is fine — instead I believe they "know" their current setup and resist change. But, if the new options will help them be more productive, work more efficiently, work more easily, etc, — then it's worth the upgrade. Simply not having to learn a new program isn't a good reason - the company would pay for training if needed, etc.

Question Summary: What new features in CS6 and/or CC necessitate an upgrade? What things in CS6 and/or CC make it superior to older versions (people have to upgrade for some reason besides buttons looking fancier, etc).


texts: How to copy text from Illustrator to another program?

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If I open an Illustrator document from a collaborator and select the text with the Type tool:

...then proceed to copy the text through the Edit menu:

...then try to paste this text in another app such as TextEdit:

...this results in a pasted graphic of styled text that TextEdit cannot modify.

How do I paste text from an Illustrator document into another app to be able to modify it?

Here are the current File & Clipboard Preferences:

Edit:
This does not seem to be a font licensing issue, as the problem persists with different fonts.
Illustrator CC 23.0.2


texts: How can I bulk-change the color of text in InDesign?

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I’ve got a twenty-page document; each page has six text boxes on it with no other content. I want to change the text colour of all text, including the text boxes.

Is there a simple way I can do this ?

I believe you can assign a class to text, a bit like CSS, so you can make changes like this in one go, but I have not done it for this file.

I’m running InDesign 2017 CC.


texts: How do I use the Duplicate Brush in Krita? (on a tablet)

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I'm getting into digital art, and I want to make a pair of twins. Because I suck at making things the same, I think the Duplicate Brush is what I need. But how do I find and use it?
This was the original question.
How to use the duplicate brush in Krita


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Maybe a dumb question, but I just wanted to know if Adobe's CC Libraries are actually being used by professionals, or whether they are just something Adobe is trying to force on everybody but isn't being used.

If you use them, what do you use them for?
Does it make sense to put everything in there, or only certain types of assets, like colours and the likes.

I hope I am not asking to broad of a question here, but I am really confused as to whether I should use them or not. Every time I do, I kind of get stuck.


texts: Need png optimisation/compression advice

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I have a large set of png images I am trying to compress and I would like some advice from all of the graphics experts out there :) on the best method to do this.  I have access to both a Mac and Windows machine and would like the compressed images to be as small as possible without losing any quality ().

From what I have read it seems that PNGSLIM is the best way for me to go (http://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/?p=7), has anyone used this before and would you recommend it?  Or should I just use PNGCRUSH?

Looking forward to learning from your wisdom.

UPDATE: When I tried to download PNGSLIM my virus checkerflagged it up as a dangerous file??


texts: Why Illustrator CS5 Expand breaks my shape?

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Ok, so I got a logo that's made of group of compound paths with appearance, I've already Expanded it once, so appearances (strokes only) are separate paths, and what I'm doing next it taking all the objects from the whole document and expanding them so there's no appearances or anything that wouldn't act 100% accurate while scaling.

Then, something unexpected happened. (The image is from a small portion of a poster, containing an obvious problem.) It seems as if the outer path of the O in PARTIO wouldn be open ended, but it's not. Both, the inner and the outer path of the O are two anchored paths. BTW, tried "outline path" as well as Expand, didn't make any difference. It just breaks.

Why?

After a little bit of experimenting, I noticed that by adding third anchor point I can prevent the breaking, so I guess this is just a bug, and can't be helped, but can't be sure. I'll provide a picture here with the problem in detail and the workaround:

I applied the third anchor to all of the 3 shapes, approximately to the same point, and it worked wonders. Only thing is, what if I had a blend of 1000 steps, would I go all the way? Hmm.. not unless it paid really well ;).


texts: How can I reposition pages in InDesign to space them more?

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I am working with InDesign with a layout that contains 4 different elements of different sizes.

However, sometimes these elements bleed over onto another element's page boundaries, and I would like to space them out more:

I tried looking in the Pages panel, but couldn't find a setting allowing me to position them:

I know how to do it in Illustrator, but I want to do this in InDesign.

How can I space out Pages of different sizes?


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I am trying to resize this image:

The image is 73x44 and I would like to resize it down to 53x32.

First, I tried using Photoshop CS6 with different resampling algorithms using the Image size dialog:

Bicubic automatic:

Bicubic:

Bilinear:

Nearest neighbor:

They all look pretty bad, especially that the border on the left, right and bottom are more pronounced, but the border on top has almost disappeared.

I then tried picresize and the result was pretty good and did not have that much distortion:

What settings should I adjust in Photoshop to be able to yield the same resize quality as picresize?


texts: Why is my brush width changing for no apparent reason?

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My paintbrush tool on Gimp has recently started to act up to the point where it’s frustrating to use. I have reinstalled the program but it did not resolve the problem. I checked to see if it was a sensitivity issue with my tablet but no dice; it will shrink and grow my strokes with both my mouse and my computer’s touch screen, and I can’t figure out what I did.

The picture I’ve provided are my attempts to figure out what I’ve done. they are with both my laptop’s touch screen and my touch pad. It is doing this with all of my  brushes including my eraser.


texts: how set quickly set photo size fit to frame size in photoshop

texts: when i have dragging a photo into a new document, it may be bigger or smaller in size than new created document and i have to resize the picture via ctrl + t. i seeking for a way or a shortcut to pressing and quickly image fit to document borders. is there any way?


texts: Rectangle mouse over changes font color in Axure

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I am using Axure to create an interactive front-end prototype.

In my design I have a table with 3 major cells (p.s. the cells are rectangles I just put close together) I focus on.  In those cells I have some text, but the are separate files on the 'Outline of the page'.  I have grouped the text and the rectangle for each rectangle in their own groups.

Now what I want to do is be able to hover over the rectangle and the text will change colors. I do not want to hover over the text, I just want to be able to hover over the rectangle its self and be able to change the color of the font.

Here is an image of the table, all of the marked out red stuff is text.

How can I do this?


texts: Prevent Photoshop from EVER saving metadata in my files?

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Photoshop saves metadata in my files.

This is dangerous for people like journalists and others who don't want their photos to have identifiable information in them.

Some of the data tells people IDs which I can only guess are unique per user. Some data tells the type of machine being used which narrows down a large portion of the population. Others give multiple dates wish could be useful in excluding some people vs others in many ways.

While I understand one can pick "Export" instead of "Save" that requires to user to never make the mistake of accidentally picking "Save". "Save" is the default. It's the faster workflow. Open a file (double click), edit, Cmd-S/Ctrl-S the file is saved. It's even common to Open File, edit, Cmd-S, edit more, Cmd-S, edit more, Cmd-S. Having to pick Export every time will make working extremely cumbersome. Forgetting will be too easy and requires every user to be perfect.

I need Photoshop to never to put metadata in the file

How do I achieve this?

Note: Older versions of Photoshop did not have this issue. Opening a .PNG, editing, and saving again with Cmd-S did not add metadata to the file. I'd like to make the current photoshop do the same.


texts: Which part of my website does the use of a CC -by-sa licensed picture affect?

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If I use a CC -by -sa licensed picture (modified by cropping and text overlay) on my website, what part of my website does the "contagious" nature of the license affect?

Do I need to license the modified picture under CC -by-sa? (probably yes)
Do I need to license the page/post text used with the picture under CC -by-sa? (maybe?)
Do I need to place all the content on my website under CC -by-sa? (I guess not)
Do I need to license the work I do for clients via my website under CC -by-sa (almost certainly not)

The question comes down to what the definition of a derivative work is. Any ideas?


texts: Is There any way to remove my recent Adobe XD project from home page?

texts: is it possible to remove Recent projects from Adobe XD home Screen, must of my clients aren't familier with XD and have to walkthrough the project from my laptop and don't want them peaking on other projects i'm working on.


texts: How do I tell Photoshop to preserve the RGB color of fully-transparent pixels when exporting as PNG?

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I'm having a problem with how Photoshop handles completely-transparent pixels when exporting as PNG, which is that the red, green, and blue color channels of any completely-transparent pixels are saved as 0 instead of the color that I define in Photoshop.

For example: I have a PSD file with a layer mask. Some colored portions of the image are made completely transparent by the layer mask, but I still want the original color channels to be written to the PNG file instead of just 0.

(Yes, the PNG format itself does contain RGB data even for fully-transparent pixels. This is a problem with Photoshop, not PNG.)

If you're wondering why having color data matters when a pixel is completely transparent, then here are a couple of use cases:

The PNG is being sampled at a higher resolution than it is saved as and the sampled values are interpolated between neighboring pixels. This can result in a faint black "halo" around the image if the interpolation isn't weighted by transparency. (In my case, this up-sampling is being done on the GPU, which for performance reasons does not weigh by transparency.)
The red, green, blue, and alpha channels in the PNG file are being used for purposes other than storing color information. (In my case, I use all four channels to store data needed for real-time lighting computations.)

Thanks for your help!

EDIT

I'm going to try to explain the problem I'm having with use of some visual aids. Showing transparent things is hard, but hopefully this makes my problem clearer:

I have a PSD file with one layer and a layer mask. The color layer looks like this:

Its layer mask looks like this:

If I export this PSD file as a PNG, I get this:

(The white regions are indeed transparent; they just look white against the white background.)

You may be wondering: What's the problem? That looks right! Well, the problem is with the color information stored in those transparent pixels. Using a tool to strip out the opacity data from the PNG while leaving the RGB intact, we can see the color information that Photoshop saves to the transparent pixels:

As you can see, Photoshop has replaced the color information in the transparent pixels with black. Whereas, with the opacity data removed from the PNG, I want it to look exactly like the original color layer:


texts: How would I make a pattern stay relative to a shape?

texts: When I have a shape's fill set to a pattern in my swatches, and I move the shape around, the pattern doesn't move with the shape. How could I make the pattern offset be relative to the shape (Move with the shape, so that moving the shape doesn't mess up the pattern), rather than the artboard?


texts: Why are grey lines on the left, right, bottom and the top of my PNG file exported from Illustrator?

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So I made an event card in Illustrator and then exported it, but the PNG file Illustrator has created has some grey lines at the top, the bottom, the right and the left of the card. I uploaded the event card on Facebook to see if they are still there, but they are, and I don't know what are those lines.
Could you guys help me?
(Sorry for my english, just learning the language.)


texts: How to export groups to separate PNG files?

texts: I have an Illustrator file that contains several animation frames for a game. Every frame is a single group and they are all on the same layer. How can I quickly export all these groups, each to a separate PNG file?


texts: Can I save layers as a template in InDesign CS6?

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Is there a way to set up layers without data & style sheets & color in a file and save as a template so that when I open a new document of that particular layout those layers are already there?

I know I can just take one and delete the data and save as a template and resave each time I create a file…I was just wondering if this can be saved as a page type under new docs?

Also, how do you edit and or delete a saved page preset?


texts: How can I create paths with accurate border-radii

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So I'm getting a little confused with radii in Inkscape. For quite a while I thought that this:

was the same as this:

... But it turns out that overlaying them on top of one another reveals that they are different:

(where the red is the rectangle and the blue is the path)

Further analysis reveals that (after converting the rectangle to a path) the handles are in weird locations:

So my question is, is it possible to create accurate border radii without the use of the Rectangle tool (where the radius is the same in all angles)? Or must I always rely on it to give me truly accurate results? And also does anyone have an explanation as to why the handles are where they are?


texts: How can I extend the pattern in a group layer mask?

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I'm fairly new to photoshop (currently using CC 2015) so I apologise for any incorrect use of terminology and if I'm asking a stupid question.

I created an A6 document and followed instructions to create a watercolour texture background (via fill->pattern of a masked layer group) to paint on, but then it turned out I actually need the document to be A5; I've extended the canvas but the texture now doesn't cover the whole document.
I found a make-do solution by duplicating the whole group and free transforming it to the new area on the canvas but I then can't blend the harsh line between the two (original and duplicated) watercolour painted layers - I'm happy with the A6 watercolour I had and don't want to paint anymore so am just copy-pasting to make the A5 I need.
I tried starting again on A5 but the watercolour looks different so I obviously did something else with the pattern settings that I don't remember and can't replicate from scratch.

So essentially it boils down to: is there a way to simply just extend the existing pattern? Any help would be much appreciated and thank you in advance (:


texts: GIF generating website that generates a true-transparent background

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Many sites offer gif generation services with the option to create a transparent background behind a gif, however, when placed on a dark background, you can see edges around the animated gif. Ajax-loader.com and chimply.com (as well as many others) do not work as well as I had anticipated.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a place where I can find a true-transparent background loading gif?

Note: I cannot rely on a different color background, the site uses a preloader already and I would much prefer not to have two.


texts: Better way to handle colors for printing

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I am paper bag manufacturer, on daily basis we are dealing with graphic designers and printing operators.

Often I am receiving orders for 2-color or 3-color printing. I conveyed the same message to designer. But sometimes the print operator analysed the design report me hat the design contain more than two or three colors.

This issue mostly arose when using modern color variants. I got somebasic understanding about RGB vs CMYK.

The reality is, I am more interested to use modern design and colors to get the best result, meantime i can't use extra colors as it is chargeable.

So, my expectation is,

Does anyone have any practical solution to handle the situation better way.
How do I check numbers of colors used in the Design? In terms of CMYK basic and combinations.
Any resource available to get more knowledge about color combination. For example, by using two basic CMYK color (ex: cyan and yellow), how many combinations can be produced.
What are the information i need to gather/convey to print operator, Ink producers and Designers and so on.


texts: Align two images based on matching lines

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I am attempting to reshape a heightmap to that of an old scan of a map I have (both pictured below). I would usually reproject the heightmap using GIS software but I have been unable to find the source CRS for the old map so I am attempting to manually reshape it in photoshop.

I have added lines every four degrees in photoshop (as a smart object) and I am hoping that if I can align these two images by getting the lat and lons lined up visually, the underlying the heightmap will match (relatively closely) to the shape of the old map. I've attempted to do this by warping the heightmap but it is really difficult to get them to align this way. There must be some way to get these to match up somewhat closely however.
If there are any other methods for aligning the heightmap to the old map I am all ears.


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Is there any tool for fine zoom in GIMP?
I mean not 125% or 100% , something in between.
Thanks.


texts: How to make the confetti background frame like this?

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I want to make the confetti background so it looks like it is radiating out from the middle. I have tried using the scatter brush in both Photoshop and Illustrator but it looks a lot messier than this picture, and I can not just have two colours using the scatter brush.
Could someone please tell me how to do it. (it has been suggested to me by a teacher that they would have done it manually)


texts: Lighting Effects changes to black when save to JPEG

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I'm fed up with an issue (It should be) in which if we have some light effects on a  layer, after saving to JPEG or even on flattening the layers, it just saves a black background and what ever we did on background effects getting lost. (Filter → Render → Lighting Effects)

After some googling I tried Un-checking Use Graphics Processor under Preferences → Performances. I updated my Graphics Driver as well. Still the Lighting Effects not being saved.

Please help me to resolve the issue


texts: Colors in Illustrator's Artboard appear different as they do in the Color Picker

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I have been working with Adobe Illustrator for quite a while and I've never encountered this problem. When I pick a color the Color Picker shows the right values, but the color displayed in the artboard is different.

I'm working on RGB mode and have all my settings in sRGB mode. I have tried changing the View Mode to CPU, I have recalibrated my display, but nothing seems to work. This just affects how colours are displayed and not the actual file and colours in it.


texts: How to use colour scheme and select colours for web

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Some of the clients have very bad logo colours, which are nightmares to develop or design websites for these kind of clients. Also, some of them have a good shapes design, but still the colours are miserably chosen. so how can I deal with kinds of problems.

I would like to have a better understand of colours theory. can anybody lead or recommend me with some resources and materials? Please

Thanks a lot for all of you.


texts: White spaces in clipping mask of just gradient and compound mask?

texts: How do I take these annoying spaces away? I thought it was a preview error. But I moved it and it stayed in the exact same place.


texts: Inkscape 0.91: How does one convert symbols to a path?

texts: I'm using Inkscape 0.91 and opened the Object > Symbols menu to use the various icons. When I try to convert a symbol to a path, nothing happens. How can I edit paths on symbols?


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If I want to replace an icon that's inside another component, the color of that icon also changes. What I want is being able to set one color for the component, and every icon I swap should take over that color.
This is what currently happens:

The icon inside the component was blue, but is now gray.
How can I accomplish this?


texts: How to create distorted gradient banding?

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The top image briefly was translated into the bottom one for a split second as it was loading in an app.

Question

How can I intentionally make an image distort like this:

Original image

What I want to re-create

I've tried

Low compression in Photoshop but I'd also like the horizontal bands at the top and bottom that accidentally occurred.

What sort of program would allow me to change the axis/oscillation of images and pixels in such a way, I guess like controlling it like analog video. Any help or points in the right direction would be appreciated


texts: How does Apple's retina display affect sub-pixel rendering?

texts: How will Font Rasterization and Sub pixel rendering be affected with the new retina displays?


texts: How can i remove white streaks from an image in photoshop?

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i have this image in photoshop below, and i am trying to figure out a way to get rid of all of the white parts of this image and replace with the same blue color that is there.

I have tried:

Hue / Saturation
Replace Color Tool

and neither seems to give me what I want.

Is there anyway to do a replace of the white streaks in this image and replace with the blue color?


texts: Recreating this blueish-silverish/gritty/grainy texture

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I'm trying to recreate the following blueish-Silverish/gritty/grainy texture I found on IG from my favorite tattoo artist @ryanlejarde. As a neophyte/starting graphic designer on photoshop, I'm wondering how could I get close to it with a starter image from Google Images for instance and arrive at a similar result.
My guess is probably via color-correcting, good shadowing and/or fusion masks of grain on top (but that could also totally not be it, that's why I'm asking).

Here's an Imgur link towards more pictures if needed.
https://imgur.com/a/MTwsJpA

 Click for full size


texts: Font-face loaded on Windows look really bad. Which fonts are you using that render better?

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EDIT: The problem was that I did not have "Cleartype" turned on in my settings on Vista.  This question may not have much meaning if you have Cleartype is installed/enabled on Windows OS.

A new typography wind has arrived on the web, with font-face property of CSS3 be able to load fonts other than the OS/system set. My Mac render many perfectly while my Windows machine doesn't. Which set of fonts should I use that will render better on Windows?

This is similar to a question on Stack Overflow.

And here an example of a website that looks bad rendered on PC with Myriad Pro: http://css-tricks.com/

NOTE: I am not talking about the difference in antialiasing between browser versions (like between IE9 and IE6).

I am expecting as answer by your tests, a list of fonts plus the size (please use px) which they look well, or at least in a way that they can be used for short text or small titles.

For example, at the moment "League Gothic, 30px" looks like the following:


texts: What is the largest size offset commercial printer?

texts: I am looking to offset print a poster and can't find a service that does above 36"x48". Is this the largest size offset printing can accommodate? What's the cause of this limitation?


texts: Drag layers between tab-docked documents in Photoshop

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Using Photoshop CC (on Windows), I sometimes need to drag layers from one document to another. When the documents are tab-docked, I expected to be able to drag the layer over the tab and have have it "spring" open (as with folders on OS X). This does not work for me, however, and I instead have to undock one of the documents involved so that I can drag the layer onto the content of the document I want.

dragging layer over tab and holding does not bring tab to front

I have now seen other posts on this site that appear to say that this should work. How can I get this to work for me?


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Is it possible to duplicate lines of text with GREP? Here is exactly what I would like to do; I have a list of letters and numbers that looks like this:

  R1H3BOA2HA4

  R1H3BOA2H4

  R1H2H3BO4

And I need it to be like this:

  R1H3BOA2HA4=R1+H3+BOA2+HA4

  R1H3BOA2H4=R1+H3+BOA2+H4

  R1H2H3BO4=R1+H2+H3+BO4

So basically I would like to duplicate every line, add the = symbol between the original and the copy and then add + after the numbers of the copy except for the last number. I understand how GREP works but I’m very bad with the syntax.
Any idea? Thank you for your help!


texts: A common reset for IE, Gecko and Webkit browsers

texts: I am developing a website that emphasizes a lot on CSS. I wish to pre-inform everyone that I am not a professional with the task. The problem I face designing the UI is that Gecko and Webkit browsers tend to respond to a CSS in the same manner, whereas, IE's response is ridiculous. Is there any reset that can aid me in resetting IE, such that it starts behaving similar to Gecko and Webkit?


texts: How to add stroke to all layer in Illustrator?

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I am creating an illustration in Adobe Illustrator CC 2020. My illustration has got many objects and shapes and now I want to add a stroke only to layer, not for all shapes inside this layer. How can I achieve this? I was trying to group all draw but it's not working properly too.

Here's example link what I want to achieve:
https://dribbble.com/shots/4532545-Ninja-Mascot


texts: Advice on how to do intricate "non-printing" or "cutout" areas

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I did a marginal amount of searching but kind of lack the semantics so apologies if this has been addressed repeatedly.

I am in the final stages of a design on a metal can. It's a small can and I have some small text and some intricate designs that I would like to NOT print. What I mean by that is that I would like for the metal of the can to come through as the "color", as opposed to white, for example.

As I approached the issue I thought perhaps that you could set a layer to be non-printing, and to somehow knockout the shapes below. I did some googling re: knockouts and long story short is that I don't feel I have the expertise to even know if I am setting these up right.

What I have done, and what I'm sharing with my team as a "final" is a version where I outlined the text and used pathfinder to subtract those objects from the color bar in the design.

It looks... fine on screen but I'm very concerned that
a) this isn't the proper way to do this for the best print results
b) there is a better way that takes into account ink and not light

I'm including images that hopefully helps show what I'm getting at. It shows the "on white" and the design also with a contrasty color "behind" to show how my "cutouts" are reacting to the pathfinder (janky) workaround.

I would really appreciate any advice, even if it means telling me I don't know what I'm doing. I've been doing this for a longish time now and if I've learned anything it's that I have more to learn than when I started!


texts: How do I find a paid version of Didot LT Bold if I want to use it commercially?

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I can't find a single version of the font that has a commercial license, what do I do? Do I just settle for another font?

https://www.fontsmarket.com/font-details/didot-lt-std-bold
https://www.download-free-fonts.com/details/73537/didot-lt-std-bold


texts: How to paste a raster image into Illustrator with pixels positioned 1:1

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I have copied and pasted a raster image to Illustrator and this is what I get:

The pixels of the image obviously disagree with pixels of the grid, they're smaller and shifted.
Is it possible to paste an image where the pixels line up at exactly 1:1?


texts: Inkscape 0.91 shows Font Size 14 in dropdown and 17.5px in XML Editor

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I am using Inkscape 0.91 for Ubuntu and am working on a template. The unit chosen for the document is pixels, the font size for the menu items Open Sans 14px all caps. But when I check the font size in the XML editor it states it is 17.5px . Why is that?

Screenshot:

And document properties:


texts: How to get rid of / minify Photohop Layer Styles in Layers List?

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I use Layer Styles a lot, unfortunately with bigger projects it's really annoying that they take so much space in Layers list (even if their parent is not expanded as like in the picture below).

Is it possible to hide "Effects" for all the folders / layers or, what would be even cooler, to indicate having them with some small icon (next to layer name / "fx" or something)? Because right now 5 layers with Layer Styles take as much space as 40 layers without them...

Thanks a lot! :)


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I know how to increase the stroke weight in Illustrator, but I have custom stroke weight points on an object and I'd like to make the whole object's stroke thicker without losing the customized weight points.

Is this possible?


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I manage to stroke a path so that the brush goes thin -> thick -> thin along a path. Thing is though that I want the stroke to go thick -> thin, meaning I want the stroke to start at its thickest and then go thinner and thinner along the path.

I can't seem to figure this out using the Brush shape dynamics.


texts: Tron style 3D wireframe matrix surface effect with Illustrator?

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Remember that scene from the 1980s Transformers movie when this happened:

I thought it was amazing.

Anyway, I'm trying to make that retro "this is what we think the future looks like in the 80s" Tron perspective-neon-laser-grid effect you see in the background. I actually bought a stock image that had it, thinking I'd be able to reverse engineer it and figure out how its done. So I stripped away all the layers until it just looked like this, but I guess whoever made it didn't want people to know, because it was just hundreds of tiny line segments; as if it had been expanded and flattened.

My first thought was "Is this where I finally break out the perspective grid and mesh tools I've been neglecting for so long?"... Lets just say, it didn't go so great. What do you guys think; any ideas?


texts: Please help identify this font - Have tried all font identifier programs

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Font used here is close to Goudy Trajan or Galba MN and a few others, but when I look closer at all options, they are not quite the same. The next best guess is Trajan Pro 3 Semi-bold, but I'm not entirely sure about that, either.

I optimized the image according to instructions given on sites like WhatTheFont and Identifont and submitted for identification. I have tried all of the identification programs suggested here, so far, but no cigar. Maybe I'm missing something.

It seems pretty difficult to determine the exact font in this case because I don't have more than a few words to work with - limited characters - and they are all in caps, no lower case to use for reference. Can't use The Serif Identification Guide and get an accurate result, for example, due to having no lower case characters.

Every font I have found that looks like it could be the right one, doesn't seem to be exactly the same. I narrowed it down to being Galba MN, at first. But the font is not quite the same. There are subtle differences. It may be just a case of the image file of the logo that I have, not being of high enough quality to use to identify on font identifier sites.

The font is part of a logo sent to me by a client whom I'm doing some work for. The logo was not designed by me and whomever did design the logo did not supply my client with any files that contain information on which font it is. My client thinks the font is Comfortaa, which it's obviously not.

I also need to find a good pairing for this font for a project and not sure yet, what would work well with it.

If anyone is familiar with the font in the image, I would appreciate you letting me know, thanks.


texts: Need concept or pictorial representation "thinking code"

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I need to insert a small logo where I can convey that code can think or thinking code.

Is there way to represent that in very small logo form?


texts: Using real products when creating fake mockups

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When creating mockups for marketing material, what is the legality of using real products to demonstrate the use of your application?

Examples for any given application:

Google chrome with a website inside
The iPhone with an app inside
An Apple monitor with an app inside
Sublime text with some (freely usable) code in it

All of these things contain products created and sold by someone else, and quite possibly a logo, though they only provide a wrapper to the main content of the image. What is the legality of using these physical and digital products to market my own? Can they be used only if a logo isn't present?


texts: Distorting Two Irregular Shapes to Align over Each Other in GIMP (2.9)

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So I have two images both of which are maps of the world, however, the size of the continents are slightly off each other as shown below. The question is how do I distort them so that when overlayed they are for the most part equal in their outline. Below I have added both images if you want me to clarify something I wrote please ask.

Link to pictures on Imgur


texts: How do I make this punched-out text style in Photoshop?

texts: Can someone tell me how to do this stencil style? I've tried searching for "stencil text style" and others but it only shows stencil fonts. I think this is not a font but is made with photoshop. Please help me, thank you.


texts: how can i create a new font and publish it?

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I have an idea for a new font, I need help with two things:

how can I create and publish it so that it could be used by people?
how do I check if its not similar or same as existing font


texts: How was this wavy line text effect made? What is this effect called?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Need help with the Color Combination for the Red

Can some one help me to find a color that contrast the color Red HEX: cd0001

I am looking for something i dark rang of Grey, Black or Brown..

Its for a Food Photo website.


texts: What is a bevel join of two lines exactly (Illustrator)?

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When joining thick lines there are usually some options

round
miter
bevel

In a bevel join, the joint is 'flat'. But what does that mean precisely?

There seem to be two options:

Orthogonal

The two points are orthogonal to their respective segments and half the thickness away from them:

Thickness

The distance from the 'flat' to the center line is half the line thickness:

Which of them is actually a true bevel-join? And is there a name for the other (I'm thinking it might be some kind of truncated miter).


texts: How to add a specified gap in a object stroke without separating the two?

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I feel like this should be a simple technique, but I haven't been able to find information on it. So basically what I'm wanting to do is add any number of gaps in any place along a stroke on an object, assuming it's possible of course. Here's an example of one of Discord's graphic designs with the desired effect.

you can see the border of the Gameboy, as well as the screen and similar outlines.

The reason I'm wanting to do this is for cleaner project files as well as I think it should be faster in the long run. Thank you, -Sam.


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Inkscape v0.92

When I zoom I would like to see the individual pixels instead of the zoom anti-aliasing. This occurs not only for paths but also for bitmaps.

I realize there is now a 'Display: Use antialiasing' option in Document Properties but this does not facilitate my request.


texts: I'm looking for best practices on how to name exported assets, especially in User Interface Design (e.g. icons) in order to create a unified naming scheme among all assets. I'd like to stick with Camel Case but I'm facing the problem on how to name assets that show the same content but in different size. How do you name these files, what are your/your team's naming conventions?


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The top layer has a drop shadow, but the shadow should not have any effect on the transparent area outside of the circle.

I tried using duplicating the circle and using Path-->Intersection,  but that didn't clip the shadow.

Using Object-->Clip-->Set and Object-->Mask-->Set remove the shadow entirely, though there may be some setting that could allow them to work that I am unaware of.


texts: Outer glow on 3 sides of a rectangular shape

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I have a rectangular shape to which I want to apply an outer glow using Photoshop. I did it but the glow is applied on the four sides, yet my need is to skip the upper side and apply to the remaining ones.
Any ideas?


texts: 3 pages viewed as spread, but still print individual pages

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I am working on a three page spread in InDesign that will be viewed online as a PDF. I can make the spread appear correctly when the PDF is opened (all three pages next to each other), but how do I set it up so that if someone wants to print it, each page will print on its own sheet? So far I can only get them to print all together on one page, or I have to really mess with the print settings each time which is obviously less than ideal for customers.

Thanks in advance!

ALM


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Working with GIMP I need to use the grid. It is aligned on the top-left corner of the image, but I need it to be centered, splitting the incomplete squares on both the sides. I tried with Image > Configure Grid..., but it only allows me to manually set an offset value. How can I make GIMP automatically center the grid?

Update: I need the tools to snap to the grid, so a rendered one is not good for me.


texts: Packaging design process? From pricing, to mockups, to finding vendors

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I'm wondering what the general process is for packaging design?
I've got a few years of graphic/web design under my belt, but in discussing a re-brand, a client has requested that I also pitch new packaging designs. I'm sure the overall process can't differ much from what I'm accustomed to, but what are the keys to success here?


texts: How would you mimic the glaze of a donut (varying opacity) in vector art?

texts: I've made a vector graphic of a donut. See . But I'd like to add an effect of a glaze where the glaze has differing opacity throughout. How can I achieve this?!


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When you draw a cube in one point perspective you start by drawing a perfect square. But, if I understand perspective correctly, you can only see the front plane of the cube as a perfect square when the cube is right in front of you. If the cube is to the side of the vanishing point, wee see its side plane, so we are looking at it slightly from the side. Therefore the side of the square that's farther from the vanishing point should be foreshortened? Why is it then that all tutorials I've seen tell you to start with perfect square. Is it just because it's a good enough approximation?

Thanks


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In order to teach a game to kids, I would like to make a chart. Since english is not my mother language, I'm just asking for the proper name of the template I should use to display my data.

It's a construction game, with tons of raw materials, you collect it at a cost. i.e. : wood, stone, metals, etc.

You can use this raw material to make other precious materials, such as boards, tools, houses, roads... and so forth, those materials can also be combined to make others stuffs. Production costs should be aggregated. it's the main point of the visualization.

What is the type of graph I can use in order to represent the multiple combinaisons between materials ? I should look like a tree I guess. But not quite the same. It seems like a rather simple question, but I cannot figure out which kind of template I should look for.

Thanks for any help !


texts: How to render none sharpy element when saved as png?

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So basically I have an artwork which render like this :

But when I try to integrate it in a website it get itself all pixelised (probably due to the fact that I'm saving it as png).

So is there a trick for outpassing this kind of behavior ?


texts: inkscape extension - covert use node to path node

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a couple of weeks ago i learned:
inkscape - combine svg elements into combined path, and would now like to do it programmatically.

my document has <use /> elements, which in inkscape 1.x show path entities with the path tool, so, i figured i'd first try and just coerce the use into a path:

if el.TAG == 'use': self.svg.replace(el, el.to_path_element())

but inside of elements.py, on the to_path_element call, it throws with AttributeError: Can't find attribute Use.path.

ideas on how to convert <use /> to <path />?


texts: Sounds simple, but it's giving me a headache, I'm able to save the file and open it in Adobe acrobat pro dc, and edit the text but my client is asking for the logo symbol, to still be editable for them. Adobe acrobat shows it as a picture above the editable text, but now it won't allow a simple color change to the part of the picture he want's editable. Is there a way to keep the photo editable, since my client doesn't have illustrator?


texts: Photoshop batch job: export to folder (filenames)

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I'm trying to run a batch file on a custom action. The action does one thing: File -> Export -> Paths to Illustrator.

However, whenever I run that action as a batch on multiple files, it saves each file with the same name. So if I open File1.psd and save it as working/File1.ai, then run the batch on File2.psd, File3.psd, and File4.psd, what I get is working/File1.ai as an Illustrator file exported from File4.psd. Files 2 and 3 have been overwritten (as was File1.ai, obviously).

Here's my Batch dialog:

If I change the destination to e.g. Folder, it re-saves all the files as PSD in addition to overwriting the AI files. How can I run this export on an arbitrary number of PSD files and get the same number of AI files out the other end?

EDIT: re-recording the action and refusing the dialog box gets me the dialog box on the first run of the batch, and subsequent files saved under the name I provide in that dialog (in other words, one dialog box for all files).

EDIT 2: Following the answer below, I tried saving to Folder and overriding action save commands (screen shot):

This produced the same results. :(

Here's the action I'm running:

ETA 3: Based on the comments, my problem might be that the Export -> Paths to Illustrator command does not honor the "Override Action Save As" checkbox, which means I'm just stuck with that shortcoming of Photoshop.


texts: What's the difference between a graphic designer and an artworker/Mac operator/production artist? Is one a subset of the other? Do they overlap? Are they industry-specific terms? Are in fact artworker/Mac operator/production artist not synonymous?


texts: Is attribution required while using a Google Font as a piece of art or in video?

texts: I let all fonts I used to use when I found there was free and paid between them and the files were mixed. I started from zero to find a clear resource and I found google fonts. Then I was shocked with this word "attribution". I think, "It is impossible and insane to attribute if you use a font for one word or in a piece of art or in a video, and the usage rate was simple." I've never seen anyone do that! I cannot find a clear answer, and on the other hand, by attribution, do they mean the source if you edit it or use it in a piece software or in a project?


texts: Does "XYZ tristimulus values" always refer to CIE1931?

texts: I have a question about color space terminology. When referring to "XYZ tristimulus values" and "xy chromaticity coordinates", does this always refer to the CIE 1931 XYZ color space, and never to other color spaces like CIELab?


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This is less of a question with a definitive answer and more of a request for some tips.  I am hoping that some of you may had had this problem yourself and can offer some advice.

I have been designing for myself and occasionally freelance for a number of years and I have always gravitated towards a monochromatic/muted approach, reserving colour for information, link/rollover colours etc.

I started working as a web/UI developer around 6 months ago and am now designing a new web front end.  Layout is nailed - I have zero problem with that - but I am having some trouble with the colours that I have to use -  2 shades of blue.

I feel these shades really cheapen the whole look of the site; replacing this colour with a more metallic colour or subtle shade instantly changes the site for the better.

There is something about blue that really bothers me.

So I suppose what I am asking is:  How can I practice using colours that I would never choose myself?  Are there some techniques I can use to make it less about the colour and more about how the colour has been used?

I apologise if this is a vague question; I am genuinely concerned that my inability to use colours that have been given to me well is going to cause a problem.


texts: Looking for examples of "thank you" e-mail designs

texts: I've been tasked with creating "thank you for attending" HTML e-mails/graphics for a number of events. I've already done a few, but they all need to look distinct and I'm running out of ideas. Does anyone know of a gallery that shows this type of design, or of any outstanding examples?


texts: Synchronize tool settings between mouse and tablet

texts: I am trying to use a drawing tablet with Gimp. But it appears each tool has a different setting for mouse and tablet, so say if you adjusted the brush size for the tablet it's not changed for the mouse. Is there some way to change the tool settings for both mouse and tablet, so that it's possible to use both of them without hassle while working on an image.


texts: Adobe After Effects Render Disorted / Preview

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My render is distorted for some reason. The preview looks good trough. Using trapcode, filters etc. but separated into compositions.

The entire render looks like this... Some hints ?


texts: Batch Tween/ Fade Function in Photoshop (Fade between frames)

texts: I have a series of sequential .bmp images (exported from ArcMap--a mapping software). I would like to have these images fade between each other and, ultimately, export as a gif. Is there a simplified way to batch the Tween function to apply to all 50 frames in my dataset? Or can you recommend a better way to get the desired result?


texts: How do you quickly toggle the background color of an illustrator document?

texts: I've been working on some icons that I need to be able to preview in front of a dark and light background and find that I often want to, briefly, switch between dark and light while designing them to see what they look like, but there don't seem to be any obvious keyboard shortcuts to do this with.


texts: What software do I need to shift an image within its frame?

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I am trying to create a time-lapse sequence of my house demolition, but have not used specialised time-lapse equipment or software, just my compact digital camera on a fixed-point tripod in the garden.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the images have ended up not quite as 'fixed' in reference to each other as I'd have liked.

Consequently I'm looking for something like the Picasa 'rotate' facility, which will allow me to shift each image freely within a set grid, and thus register each one around the same point. Freeware would be great.


texts: I need to edit HSB curved. I know there is a filter to convert from and to HSB here. The problem is that I am not able to see the preview as long as I edit, I need first to apply the filter (the image will become all "weired"), do the curve trasnformation and then apply the fiter again to see the final result. Is there any better way of doing this?


texts: Name for noir-esque art style in the Burial at Sea promotional art?

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BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode One has a very cool illustration for the cover artwork:

I initially would say its art style is "noir" but when I did a Google Images search for "noir art" it came up with images that had some similar elements, but they were not very similar to the style above:

Is there a name for this kind of illustration's style?


texts: Adobe Illustrator vs. Inkscape: Smaller than "Smallest file size"

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Vector graphics is a compact way of storing simple drawings.
And I always thought that the most compact .pdf file you can get from Illustrator, is achieved with the "Smallest file size" preset.
However, I have recently discovered that a .pdf saved from Illustrator with this preset or any other I have tried so far is very large compared to what Inkscape can produce.

For example, here is the same simple picture drawn in Illustrator and Inkscape and saved in the .pdf format with minimal settings.
It is easy to see that while the Illustrator .pdf is 37.3 Kb, the Inkscape .pdf is 3.2 Kb, which is 10 times smaller! An enormous difference!

So, the question is why the "Smallest file size" setting of Illustrator makes such huge files and can Illustrator .pdf files be made much smaller (because I have found myself recently making figures in Illustrator, saving as .svg and making a .pdf in Inkscape)? And what on Earth does Illustrator write in those .pdf's?

Here is an .svg picture  which can be open in both Illustrator and Inkscape in case someone wants to try. And I put her a .png picture just in case my uploaded files are no longer accessible:


texts: PSD file with same measurements as InDesign document appears larger when placed

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I have a 300dpi layered .psd file with the exact same measurements as the InDesign document (14.525 x 11 including bleed).

When I place/import the .psd file into InDesign the file appears larger.

The guides on the .psd file do not line up with the guides in the InDesign document which are in the exact same positions on both files.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Photoshop equivalent to Illustrator offset command

texts:
I have the following image...

...that I'm trying to get a vector outline for in a similar way to the Illustrator Offset command.

I'm looking to have a finished vector look similar to this...

(Note: This is simply a stroke layer style that has been added to the original)

The two outlines must be vector shapes.

Is there anything in PhotoShop that will allow me to do this?


texts:
I have a selection in Photoshop that looks like this:

When I Paint Bucket (or Edit-Fill), it comes out all wrong and fills half wrong and half too far:

What am I missing? How can I get it to fill the selection exactly? You can see my fill settings at the top.


texts: Oops, my shutter speed was too fast. How do I fix this light banding?

texts:
I was out photographing some performance art this weekend and took a picture that I really like. I had set the camera set to auto ISO to handle the rapid lighting changes, but this unfortunately backfired. When the lighting switched to the backlight shown in the picture below, the camera decided to shoot at 1/4000 instead of lowering the ISO and shooting slower, and since the scene lighting was LED, which flickers, I got ugly stripes showing up in my photo:

Camera Raw's tone adjustments minimize it but the controls aren't really granular enough to eliminate it, and it causes some funky stuff on her head:

How would I fix this using Photoshop CS6?


texts:
Ive got a folder full of PS files that I want to export as JPGs.

So far, I open each Photoshop file and use File → export on each file manually. Is there a quicker way where I can tell Photoshop to open all PSD files in the folder and export them as a new folder full of JPGs?

(I’m running Creative Cloud latest (as of Sept 17) on OSX 10.10.)


texts: What do you call one-color concept variations?

texts: When reviewing logo concepts submitted from designers, I want to ask them to include a single-color gray version, like something that would be stamped in a background. Is there a name for this in the graphic design world?


texts: How to create alpha mask from an image in Photoshop CS/8

texts:
I have a monochrome image, and would like to replace the colour with a gradient.

I assume the best way to do this would be to create a background layer with the gradient, and then apply the monochrome image as a mask.  However, I can't for the life of me get this to work. If I copy the image, and then try to paste it into a mask layer, it just creates a new normal layer and pastes it there.

How to accomplish this?


texts: Illustrator: blurry app icons when scaling down

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I've created an icon in Illustrator and have been uploading it into makeappicon.com to try to get all of the correct icon sizes. Most of the icons are extremely blurry and I can't figure out why. Any thoughts?

I've tried "snap to pixel" and I've tried using Object > Path > Outline stroke, but got the same results.


texts: Alternative to Google's "Material Design?"

texts: I have really fallen in love with Google's "Material Design" when it comes to building UI for web/mobile/desktop apps. However, it was also the first time that I had encountered such a rich style guide for UI (I come from a web dev background). Are there any other similar style guides, but based on other design principals or aesthetics?


texts: How to save a PNG with text in Illustrator so it displays clearly on web?

texts:
I've designed some badges for a new forum. In the mobile version I would like these to display the same size as the navigation icons.

I know that if they are too detailed, detail will be lost once they get too small. However, the badges are flat with not too much detail. But they do have text descriptions in the design. When I save and upload them as PNG, the design is very fuzzy and the text unclear even though it's at an ok size.

I'm using Illustrator to do this and wondering if there are some best practice methods in designing and saving PNG images so they are clear and sharp on the web at smaller sizes.


texts: How to resize one static rectangular banner to several sizes in PS or Sketch?

texts:
Let's say I need to make a set of banners in 25 sizes.
Is it possible to make only one design of rectangular banner and resize it to 24 other sizes afterwards using scripts?

The only way I see now is to pre-produce a template with fixed layout and slots for smart objects. But I want to make the process more flexible. Is there any PS or Sketch script that will resize one banner without messing up the elements inside of it?


texts:
Why do jpeg files increase when they were converted from a gif file?

When I would convert a jpeg file to a gif, the file size would get smaller. However, converting the gif file to a jpeg would make the file size bigger than the original jpeg image.


texts: GIMP: image in linear colour still uses perceptual gamma values

texts: After I set the GIMP image preferences to 32bit floating point en using Linear Light, I created a new image. Then I set the foreground colour to R=50%, G=50% en B=50% and fill a rectangle with this foreground colour. To my surprise the Colour Picker tool now shows RGB values of 0.2140 instead of 0.5000 as I would expect because I am using linear colour. 50% is 50%. Since 0.2140 is the linear colour equivalent of 0.5 in the perceptual gamma space, it seems that GIMP treated my colour setting as a perceptual gamma number and converted it to linear light. Really strange. Why does the program think I started with Linear Light in the first place?


texts: Is it possible to specify width in pixels for multiple objects at the same time in Illustrator CS5?

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Illustrator has the 'Transform Each' dialog, but it only allows you to scale multiple objects by specifying a percentage.

Is there any way to specify the size in pixels?

More specifically, imagine I have 10 rectangles on my canvas, and I want them all to be of a specific height. The bar order and position on the canvas matters, so I can't do the 'vertical align to top and then resize group height' trick - they need to be resized in place.


texts: Align and re-orient objects from a circle to a straight line

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I've been given a file that has several objects arranged in a circular fashion. I'd like to arrange these along a straight line. Is this possible in Illustrator? I've seen methods for doing the opposite of what I want to do, but doing these steps in reverse won't do what I need it to do.

Short of manually rotating each object I cannot see an easy way to do this. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
I'm on Windows 10, and just an hour ago, I did a Filters/Blur/Pixelize... on a PNG image succesfully; at that time, I did get this dialog for the Pixelize filter options - taken from https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-filter-pixelize.html :

However, now I started Gimp again, and did a Filters/Blur/Pixelize... on a different PNG image - but the dialog I get is this instead:

Obviously, this does not really do the Pixelize effect (I'm not sure why it says GEGL operation) - and I cannot really tell how to stop it either.
What the hell is going on, and how do I get Pixelize to work again?


texts:
I've sent a CS6 AI file to someone else to add a vector layer, in addition to an existing vector layer, with a raster layer as a reference.

They're using CC, and when they send it back (both AI and PDF) there's just a clip group confined to the artboard, which only contains part of the raster layer (I was reusing an old AI file because the swatches matched and hadn't set it up yet). I can disable the clipping mask and see the whole raster layer, but both vector layers are missing.

When I select the file in the File Open dialog, I can see that both vector layers are in place and the full raster layer is visible.

Is there a way I can get the vector layers to work?


texts: Is it possible to save a swatch library as part of a PSD file? I want to open PSD files and have my color palette in place. Seems very logical to me.


texts: How can I make a hollow effect as seen in the back side of a VW bus?

texts:
I'm working on this illustration project. It is a VW samba bus from the 50'slike the image below.
The part I'm struggling the most with are the air ventilation grills seen in the backside of the bus.

I don't know how to create that shade or hollow effect as depicted in the sample. Because in the original image this part is blurry I cannot distinguish exactly where is the shadow or how the light enters in the object so it creates that hollow effect.
In my research by comparing with pictures of samba VW buses around I found these samples of engine vent trims.

But from the different examples it seems that the vent trims protrude or stick out from the surface. Is it possible to use these ideas the replicate the part which I'm struggling?


texts: Why does a clipping mask layer sit below the layer that can be seen, instead of on top?

texts: It seems backwards to me that the clipping mask layer is below the layer that you want masked.  If I'm looking down through the layers, why wouldn't the clipping mask layer be on top of the layer I want masked?  I am missing something fundamental about how to understand Photoshop (or other like programs).


texts: Proportions and skewing of ovals, 3x5 vs 4x6

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I signed approval for an order of 500 oval bumper stickers after the printer's graphic designer cleaned up my art. She designed it thinking i was ordering 3x5 ovals. I later changed the order to 4x6 ovals and the printer said it would not make a big difference using the 3x5 design. He is ordering it now and the graphic designer is not available to answer my question.

Should i trust the printer? This is a big investment for me, and they warned me that the edges might not be perfect, but i am worried about the text being skewed.


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Can an object cast a drop shadow without being visible itself?

texts: Is it possible to apply a drop shadow effect to an object and then somehow make the object itself invisible while the drop shadow remains visible?


texts: Does anyone know why some images get a grainy "halo" when uploaded to the web - NOT a low resolution image

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I have a thorough understanding of high resolution vs low resolution photos, print vs web resolution etc, that shouldnt be the problem here, at least not entirely.

Does anyone know why some photos get a grainy "halo" around the edges of objects within a photograph when you export them for web? And/or what that pattern/issue is called? See my example below. Along the edge of the passport seal, its extra grainy and pixelated. I highlighted a portion of it in yellow, but if you look closely, it's happening around the entire seal. It also appears around the "United States". This is the most recent example I have but its been a random problem for me forever, usually around edges and text in photographs. I dont know what its called to google it myself either.


texts: Preparing Print Docs — Recommended Reading

texts:
Although I've been working as a designer for a number of years, I feel a little inexperienced in preparing documents for print (a lot of my past work has been designing for digital).

I'm looking for some recommended reading material (preferably in book form) to help me get clued up on the matter... covering all of the nitty gritty stuff such as ink limits, overprinting, and loads of other terms that I've probably never even heard of.

I thought I best get clued up on it properly before I have some kind of print disaster resulting in any angry clients, any advice would be great


texts: Line between lines of a shape in illustrator

texts:
I got this shape of planet earth and I want make it made of one line
I thought theres got to be a way to average the two lines to one line in the middle
anybody know how?


texts: How much memory is required to send a 300x500 pixel page to a 500 dpi printer if each pixel is 20 bits?

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I am stuck in solving the problem given below:

We are sending a page for printing to a printer with 500 dpi. the page size is 300*500 pixels. if each pixel is 20 bit then how much memory this would take in memory?

If anyone can solve this problem please reply soon. Thanks!


texts: Exporting style sheets from InDesign 5.5

texts: Is there a way to export style sheets from InDesign 5.5? Even a list of style sheets that can be printed or exported to Word will be okay.


texts: How to intersect paths of three circles in Illustrator?

texts:
There are three circles as following (which are selected from the Golden Ratio), I wonder how to intersect the paths like pic 2

Is there any way to make them precisely tangent to each other in Illustrator?


texts: Import or Sync Symbols between Sketch Files

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I have various symbols in various .sketch files, such as Font Awesome, Bootstrap UI, etc...  I would like to have access to all symbols in other files too - or ideally I would like to make specific symbols as 'global' while others can remain accessible only to the sketch file they're in. Is that possible?

Also, where does Sketch 'keep' these symbols...  e.g. in the Font-Awesome-Symbols-for-Sketch , the symbols remain accessible to insert, even after you delete any pages. They are NOT (as is frequently suggested in tutorials/posts) actually placed on a canvas. So where are they and how can I copy them?

There is a plugins for importing symbols from another sketch file. Unfortunately, it does not work for me.


texts: InDesign CC File... but I am running CS5

texts: I have inherited design files created in InDesign CC...but I am running CS5.  Other than the obvious solution of upgrading my software, are there any other resources that would allow me to work with this file?  I don't have any way of procuring the "exported" file format, which would possibly allow me to open this in a later version.  The .indd file is all I have. Thanks in advance for your help—I know this may be a long shot.  :-)


texts: How to trim stroke and fill in Illustrator

texts: Hi there, I'm trying to figure out how to trim the overlapping fill and stroke on this picture of an eye. Is the knife tool the only option for this? I've been trying to figure this out for a while now with no luck.


texts: Make baseball diamond squares align with equal spacing in Adobe Illustrator

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I'm trying to make the baseball diamond squares image to represent each base but I can't align them right. I have Snap To Point set but it doesn't snap to the exact points I want. Here is my image and you can see what I mean by the squares not aligning like I want. It's a bit hard to tell but if you look close enough they aren't aligned perfectly and I want the spacing to be equal on both sides.

I'm new to using Adobe Illustrator so any help is appreciated!


texts: How would I restrict a path to a hexagonal grid?

texts:
So I need to create a world map using only hexagons. I have an svg of every country on earth that I got from QGIS. Basically, I need to do what I did with China (above) to every single country.

Above I did it manually (and messily) in Photoshop to illustrate my intent. I'd rather not do it this way for the whole world because there are a ton of countries, but I will if I have to.

So my question is this: Is there a way to take my shape file and some how restrict the paths to a hexagonal grid, thus saving me the mountain of hours it would take to do it manually?

I'm working in Illustrator CC, but if there's a better option I'm all ears.

I've never really done a project like this before, so I'm really excited to get started, but the sooner it's finished the better. I'll continue to search for a solution, but I'm kind of at a loss for where to look. I'm also not sure exactly if the tags I put on this question are the best suited for it, so if you have a better one, please let me know.


texts:
How would you recommend to proceed to learn css?

Is there a great book, or online tutorial?


texts: On which occasions would you use italics in web design?

texts: In which occasions you would like to use italics in web design? Because the use of bold fonts is quite obvious not sure about italics.


texts:
First of all I appreciate your answers.

I have finished my Msc in mechanical engineering, but now I realize that engineering is not for me. I was very good sketcher and painter but my mathematics were good too, so I selected engineering since everyone said it was more money. Now I am not pleased with myself.

I don't know if I want to be architect, graphic designer, products designer. I am really confused but determined to become a designer.

Who should I talk to, where should I start?


texts: Any suggestions on how I can fix this hair issue or "crop" it out and get away with it?

texts:
I'm having another challenging "hair day".

I have an image I would like to sharpen and remove the feathering around the hair. It does not look professional at all.

Any suggestions on how I can either trim it away nicely or remove the feathering?

(image below)


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I have around 15,000 JPG files that need to be watermarked. Is there any way to process these images en masse and add a watermark?

The images may be different sizes, I want the watermark placed in the center of the images.


texts: GIMP: A code to edit a whole folder of images

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[GIMP 2.8.16]

EDITED: See below.

Hi,

I am new to python, and I need to ask the community to please help me find where is this code failing. I am having trouble. This is version 1.0, following this answer:

import glob
source_folder = "/home/pecesaquadros/Desktop/T/"
dest_folder = "/home/pecesaquadros/Desktop/T2/"

def auto(source_folder, dest_folder):
    for filename in glob(source_folder  + "/*.JPG"):
        img = pdb.gimp_file_load(source_folder + filename, source_folder + filename)
        pdb.gimp_image_rotate(img,0)
        pdb.gimp_image_convert_grayscale(img)
        drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_drawable(img)
        pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(drawable, 28,100)
        disp = pdb.gimp_display_new(img)
        yield img
        pdb.gimp_image_merge_visible_layers(img, CLIP_TO_IMAGE)
        pdb.gimp_file_save(img, img.layers[0], dest_folder + filename, dest_folder + filename)
        pdb.gimp_display_delete(disp)
        pdb.gimp_image_delete(img)  # drops the image from gimp memory

seq = auto(source_folder, dest_folder)
next(seq)

with output, in GIMP 2.8.16 Python Console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<input>", line 2, in auto
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

Many thanks. I am sure this question will help many. I might make a plugin out of it, with interesting parameters, available for everybody; it will be named "Photocopy" :)

...next I am creating a loop to create a TeX code that will compile all images to a pdf...

Thanks again,

Al

EDIT

New code:

import glob
source_folder = "/home/pecesaquadros/Desktop/T/"
dest_folder = "/home/pecesaquadros/Desktop/T2/"

def auto(source_folder, dest_folder):
    for filename in glob.glob(source_folder  + "/*.JPG"): #blabla.JPG
        img = pdb.gimp_file_load(filename,filename)
        pdb.gimp_image_rotate(img,0)              #Editing starts
        pdb.gimp_image_convert_grayscale(img)
        pdb.gimp_image_select_rectangle(img, 2, 0, 0, 1839, 600)
        drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_drawable(img)
        pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(drawable, 60,127)
        pdb.gimp_image_select_rectangle(img, 2, 0, 600, 1839, 900)
        drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_drawable(img)
        pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(drawable, 32,127)
        pdb.gimp_image_select_rectangle(img, 2, 0, 1500, 1839, 900)
        drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_drawable(img)
        pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(drawable, 14,127)
        pdb.gimp_image_select_rectangle(img, 2, 0, 2400, 1839, 900)
        drawable = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_drawable(img)
        pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(drawable, 0,127)
        disp = pdb.gimp_display_new(img)      #Editing ends
        yield img               #Image is displayed for me to manipulate
        pdb.gimp_image_merge_visible_layers(img, CLIP_TO_IMAGE)
        pdb.gimp_file_save(img, img.layers[0],filename,dest_folder + filename)
        pdb.gimp_display_delete(disp)
        pdb.gimp_image_delete(img)

seq = auto(source_folder, dest_folder)
next(seq) #This, and enter, to go to the next file

Results in:

Files are overwritten, not saved in the new folder
Sometimes, and only sometimes, one of these two errors appear:

A

B

0_0

PS: yield is in my plans.


texts: Photoshop CC: PSD to PDF conversion problem

texts:
I have a problem converting from PSD to PDF in my Photoshop. When I try to save to PDF via 'Save as > Photoshop PDF' then the PDF that I get is not editable or searchable to browsers nor to Acrobat Reader or Pro. I have a friend with the exact same version and he showed me that he doesn't have any problem.

Here is the summary of my PDF settings:


texts: Why exporting to SVG reduce quality rendering?

texts:
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6.

Once I export a (rotated) Area Type Text in SVG and I view at 100%, I can see it with low quality rendering:

Only once I start to increase the zoom I gain quality:

I'm on Windows, and I'm using Impact as Font. Where's the trouble?


texts: Is there any automated tool for convert PNG to Sprite image?

texts: Hi I have a bundle of PNG images I just want convert that all to one Sprite image, I can understand that each PNG image can arrange one by one for Sprite using Photoshop. But the purpose is I want to reduce the arrangement process time. So if anyone have a idea for that please suggest me.


texts:
I've been looking at lots of the Motion Graphics on Behance lately and i'm wondering what program and how these people make these animations?

Some examples:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Think-With-Google/11204911

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Vector-experiments/9710159

Any help would help a ton.  I'm sure lots other people would want this as well.


texts: Appropriate Button Color for Dark Background

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What is a good color to use for a button that will be put on an HTML page that uses this dark background color: #404040 ?

I looked at various shades using Adobe's Kuler of the above mentioned background color (#7F7F7F, #FFFFFF, #E5E5E5) and I'm thinking about making a PhotoShop button using #7F7F7F.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I join a reflected object to the original so there is no stroke running down the middle?

texts:
I am designing a logo for a trucking company and I have an idea of using the front of a truck. To that end, I used the pen tool and traced half of the truck. Each element (bumper, grill, lights, windows, etc.) are different layers. Each element is a completed path.

When I was done, I copied the paths then pasted and reflected them. When I joined up the two groups of objects I had a symmetrical truck!

The issue I'm running into now as I try to color it is that any stroke I apply will run right down the middle.

How can I join these two objects so they act as if they are one piece? Right Click > Join doesn't work because it says:

  "The selected objects cannot be joined as they are invalid objects
  (Compound paths, closed paths...)"


texts: Should a logo for an organization be presented together with the name of the organisation?

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Take a look at, for example. apple.com and nike.com. These are two extremely sucessful companies that on their webpages displays their logos but no necessarily their name. That is, when going to apple.com, the name "Apple" isn't displayed anywhere. The same thing goes for nike.com (although the contens of the submenus are a different matter).

Now, is there any theory behind this choice? Are people distracted if both the name and the logo are shown?


texts:
I need some help with recognizing the font used in this BMW catalog, do you know what font it is?
Link to the catalog:
https://www.bmw.co.jp/content/dam/bmw/marketJP/bmw_co_jp/pdf/all-models/M/M3-M4/G80G82%20PSL44%20JPN_V2_web.pdf?trflg=1


texts: Prepress: I do not know the printer, what color profiles should I use?

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IMPORTANT: I dont know who the printer is or will be -- the PDF goes to an unknown layout person who will incorporate it in the publication (book). That would make it for offset printing I believe.

Background:
I do semi-technical illustrations which are used in publications. I never hear anything once I've sent off the figures -- until I see them in print. Till now these illustrations have only been B/W.

I now want to prepare full-colour PDFs which, I emphasise, will be given to an unknown layout person and printed somewhere unknown. So,
I'm wondering should I use no color profile -- or does it matter?

PDF dialog - color output. Preset is "Press Quality" changed to appropriate destination for "European Prepress 2" (see below).
I'm using save-as PDF in illustrator (CS4) preserving illustrator editing capabilities.

I am based in Europe, my color settings in illustrator are set to:
"Europe prepress 2"

Document color mode is CMYK.
All inks are (perecntages of) CMYK.

FWIW I'm self-taught i.e. ignorant of many things I probably should know.
TIA for any help!


texts: Joining layers in an illustrator file together

texts:
My Illustrator file contains multiple word clouds, which I have completed. I have saved these in separate files, but would also like one file with all of my art work. However, as there are many layers of text, the file is very slow. Is there a way that I can combine multiple layers to make the word clouds into separate images, which should then speed up the file?

Many thanks in advance.


texts:
I'm trying to generate some content in InDesign CS5 by importing XML data, but I can't figure out how to do it.  Here's what I have:

XML

<stuff>
    <person>
        <name>John</name><age>42</age>
    </person>
    <person>
        <name>Oscar</name><age>39</age>
    </person>
</stuff>

And here's what I want the result to look like:

InDesign

Person: John, 42
Person: Oscar, 39

How do I go about doing this?


texts: Photoshop: Cut text from underlying image to expose transparent background

texts:
I'll start by saying I'm an enthusiast and amateur Photoshop User, and any help is much appreciated.

I have a simple PSD file containing 2 layers, an image and a font overlay. The underlying background is transparent. What I'm looking to do is place the font over the image, but remove it in a way that the font is "cut out" of the image with the transparent background visible.


texts: Is it important for a catalog cover to be left with little copy?

texts:
In catalog design the cover often has little information. A photo, company name, maybe a website, and a header possibly with subheader seems to be fairly common.

For an example here's a Ford Fiesta catalog:

They could've put additional copy. The HP, Best in Class, ample cargo space, etc in some of that white space and still had a nice design.

Here's a Pelican case catalog cover:

Again, they could've chosen a different design to fit a small blurb about their cases build quality and durability on there beyond the "Watertight Protector Cases" tagline.

Is there any factual data to support this design over jumping right into the body copy on the cover? Understandably there's a historical trend from books of... This is the cover, open the cover and then you have the content. The question is, in current design of marketing collateral does any data indicate a relevance to keep with that precedence?


texts: When creating PDF from an image, what determines the screen dimensions when viewed at 100%?

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I would like to use pdf for ease of use and annotations when creating previews of my screen designs. However, no matter how I create my pdf, I can't seem to figure out what determines the 100% view of my pdf file. Naturally, I would like my pdf 100% view to be the same size on screen as my photoshop layouts - how do you achieve that?

From my tests I can see that the dpi of the photoshop/tiff/jpg file affects what acrobat picks as 100% when importing the image from file (or saving as pdf from photoshop, for that matter), but seeing how about 95dpi for the image file results in a 100% pdf view that roughly is the same as my actual pixel size, I wonder what's the logic here.

Short answer as I understand it based on the answers:
100% size is determined by the "preferences > page display" ppi value, which is user/system specific


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This is a screenshot taken from a Women’s Health article:

I am trying to find the font used here. I tried using Whatthefont, and the ”font matcherator— on FontSpringfont with no luck.


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I'm trying to draw a circus tent with inkscape in the style of this one. I'm unable to properly place the different parts of the tent together though, because there doesn't seem to be any overlapping. What tends to be the best strategy to draw something like this?

The way I'm currently doing it, is drawing the separate pieces and arranging them somewhat next to each other. But that isn't working out too well.

Example:


texts: How do I stop Illustrator from snapping to pixel increments?

texts: I am working in Illustrator (15.0.2 (CS5) or 16.0.0 (CS6)) and when I try to move objects small distances, they snap to the nearest two pixels on some invisible grid. I can't find anything in the preferences. Here are some screen shots:


texts: how to fill a shape with multiple colors

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Hey I recently started using Illustrator so still a newbie. I am trying to add 4 colors within the sunglasses as shown in Img1.

At the moment I have created 4 different sized circles and gave them a stroke of 1 and separate colors. I then created a group of these 4 circles and placed them behind the sunglasses.

What I have not been able to do is get rid of the remaining part of the circles which are not behind the right side of the sunglasses. Hence my requirements are;

I only want the part of the colored circles in the right part of the sunglasses as highlighted in Img2.
The circular part which is not behind the sunglasses can be hidden or deleted which ever method is easier but also smaller in size.

Img3 and Img4 are for reference.


texts: How do I access radius control in Sketch?

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I am trying to increase the radius of a graphic in Sketch.
However, the slider control for Radius is not appearing.
What could be the problem?


texts: Affinity Designer: What's needed to make individual hairs look more natural?

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I'm using the pencil tool to draw individual hairs. I changed the pressure to give them a smoother appearance. However, the start of the hair still looks rough (see picture below). It looks too rounded and it does not look natural. By changing the pressure on the start of the brush the hair looks thinner than what I'd like. Consequently, I need to increase the pencil width and I'm back to the same issue.
Alternatively, when using a brush in the Pixel Persona, the quality is horrendous (see picture below). I'm using a resolution of 3150x3150px and 300dpi.
What settings or alternatives would you advise so I can draw more natural hairs?

UPDATE
I've created a vector brush. However, I'm still curious if there's an easier way.