texts: Adobe Illustrator arced text gets distorted after rotating

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Whenever I try effect->warp->arc... I can arc my text, but when I try to rotate it (say by -30 degrees) the text gets very distorted -- especially at the end point. Matters are worse if I try to rotate by a higher percentage (say -60 degrees).

I played around with countless vertical/horizontal distortion combinations, but the only way I found around this problem was by rasterizing the text first then rotating. However, this introduced its own set of problems because now I'm not in vector space anymore and I lost a good deal of fidelity in the process.

Question

Is there a fool-proof way to arc text and then safely rotate it as desired without having to worry about distortion?


texts: Illustrator: What is the difference between rotating a symbol with the Selection Tool vs the Free Transform Tool?

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I ask this because I just discovered and filed a bug that apparently outlines all the strokes of a symbol when expanded, given it has been rotated or scaled with the Free Transform Tool. Replicable in Illustrator CC 2015.0 and 2015.3.

Is there reason Illustrator should be outlining the strokes of an expanded symbol rotated via Free Transform but not for those rotated with the Selection Tool? Is there any way to determine with which tool a symbol was rotated? Seems there is some fundamental difference, although possibly not visible to the user.


texts: Critique: Looking For Honest Feedback On A Logo Sketch

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A little intro: Graphic Design isn't really my thing and the last time I did design was back in 2007... until today that we need to brand our new wedding videography studio. Because of budget constraints, I had to try my hand again to pencil in a logo (will go through the trouble of relearning Illustrator later on).

After numerous concepts, this is the sketch that my partner liked the most.

I have been gathering feedback from friends and I'll be definitely looking forward for any unbiased feedback from experts like you. For example, I'd like to know:

What are the top keywords/message that pop in your mind when you saw
the logo (albeit still a sketch)?
What letters, in your opinion, are visible? (I'm going for the easy readability of the logo)
Are there any logos you have seen that is too similar to this one? (If so, I will take it into consideration and modify the logo)
Where do you think I should improve on/any advice to improve

This is the sketch I am talking about (Sorry for the hastily shot and unprocessed image):

Thank you for your time - take care! :)


texts: Struggling with the eyedropper tool in illustrator sampling colors?

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I'm trying to figure out how can I use the eyedropper tool in illustrator like you would in Photoshop?

When I try to sample colors outside of the gradient panel/color pallet panel, the tool is not as simple as it is in Photoshop.

I need to add the colors to the swatches panel, making sure the panel is un-docked so you can add the colors freely, the process is very annoying and time consuming, not like with Photoshop. You can sample colors at any time.

I was hoping there was a solution, maybe a setting I need to check for this or something I'm doing wrong.

An image is attached for a better understanding


texts: How to Export Layers to File but take into account the Adjustment Layer's Tweaks?

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I have document with 5 layers, each of those layers are are full of different colors. I want to essentially export the Desaturated versions of each layer. I got past my first hurdle (which was how do I apply an affect on all layers at once by creating an adjustment layer). But now when I tried exporting those layers to files, the adjustment layer's affect was not added.

I've read similar answers where you'd have to either create a custom script file or or an action scriplet that would apply this change to files in a folder. But I'm really surprised that there's no standard option that would say something like:

Export Layers to file:
 - Apply Adjustment layer during export?

Does this exist under a different set of rules or will there still be a manual process involved like I've read in other threads?


texts: How to scan charcoal and graphite drawings?

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I was trying to scan some of my sketches in order to post them on some community sites, but the effects are quite bad. An example could be seen here:

Basically, the contrast is terribly off. All soft shading done with a hard pencil is gone, the white is too bright and too "aggressive" and bleeding all over. All the shading had been "flattened down" in the process of scanning.

So, my question is, are there some techniques or procedures I should follow, some typical settings for the scanner I should use in order to get good quality scans without the brightness/contrast distorion?


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I'm trying to find a good font that pairs well with a logo that uses 'Kursivschrift.' While I'm not a fan of the font due to the excessive amount of kerning required to make it work, it is the main logogtype.

Here's the idea: I want to find two fonts, or a good family, that fit the look of Kursivschrift (I think a Sans-serif and Serif would give the most versatility) so that I don't have to use Kursivschrift as a headline font, it can just be the logotype.

At least one of the fonts chosen has to be used with the logotype as a tagline of sorts.

If it helps at all... I've been playing around with URW Grotesk and its sister URW Antiqua (just not sure about the choice):


texts: Illustrator: snapping circles together in an interlocking way

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I'm looking for a solution for a certain problem. I have two sets of vertically evenly-spaced circles with equal gaps between circles in each column. I would like to know a way to find a point to achieve a perfect snap of both columns, so that they form an "interlocking" pattern.
I have a feeling it has to do with tangents, but the best I can do is to run a script that builds tangents between two circles. I tried it and I can't see a way for it to be helpful. I also tried googling for a solution, but none of the keywords that I used yielded a helpful result.
I tried drawing an equidistant line between two vertical circles, snapping another circle (1) to the bottom circle (2), and rotating it (1) so that its centre snaps with said line, but it's far from elegant. The cursor floats and I can only get a snap if I do that 15 times, checking how far the center point is from the line.
Reference image  attached (right element is snapped manually and not in a perfect way):

Many thanks!


texts: How to use the minor axis to draw an ellipse in perspective?

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In How to Draw by Scott Robertson, they say that to draw an ellipse within a plane, you find the minor axis by drawing the line perpendicular to the plane. You do this by using another vanishing point and drawing through the plane's center point.

The problem is that when I draw an ellipse that touches all four points, I can't seem to get the minor axis to cross the plane's center like in the book. Does this only work when the plane is a perfect square? How do you draw an ellipse in a non-square plane? Also, won't the minor axis change depending on where the second vanishing point is? When I use other vanishing points the ellipse doesn't look right.

I'm confused about how to draw ellipses in perspective. Is there a big difference between this method of simply dividing the plane several times to know where the ellipse should be?


texts: After I made paragraph style for my body text a lot of words are with bad letter spacing

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Hello,
After I created a paragraph style for my body text and I applied it to the whole text now I have very bad letter spacing with a lot of words. I already used find/change and I replaced all doublespacing with singled, because I tough that might be the problem, but it didn't help.

P.S. I am sorry that the text is in different language, I hope that this is not a problem.


texts: Ligature glyph bearing rendered incorrectly - FontForge - OTF font

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I'm trying to modify a Burmese font "Myanmar Text" using FontForge so that it displays Latin letters with Burmese ones. Everything is fine until I realise one of the ligatures (the ligature ur_1 which combine U and R into 1 single symbol) seems to have zero right bearing and hence leading to the overlapping of letters that follow it when tested in Word or any text editing software. I checked the bearing in FontForge and it's set to 58.

The Metric view is correct.

But when installed and used it looks like this:

I have checked the bearing multiple times it's set to 58. I have also tried removing all kerning info but to no avail. I have also tried other symbols in this glyph and using different glyphs for this ligature but it still the same. Other ligatures work fine except this one. Is it because of the name of the glyph? Anybody knows why this is happening and how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!


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After many years of casual use, I'm still very new to GIMP. I've somehow managed to get a boundary around my shapes. If I try to move any shape it is truncated at the boundary.

What is this yellow and black border? How do I reset/remove it?


texts: How to find out true dimesion, dpi of picture inside a powerpoint slide without it original JPEG file?

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I have a big problem here is how to find out the true quality of picture inside  a powerpoint slide and I dont have it original image in JPEG form. Please help me to solve this problem because my client need it to print a big backdrop 6m x 3m.

I appreciate all of your helps and comments.

Your regards,


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I was looking for a description of what kind of style these images are:

How can I replicate this style and also would I be better use Photoshop or Illustrator for it?


texts: Clearly distinguishable colours for scientific figures

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I am looking for pointers on how to pick a set of colours (or a colour gradient) that are clearly distinguishable, for use in scientific figures.  Was there any systematic research on this?  If yes, I'd appreciate some links.

When creating scientific figures, colour is often used to distinguish elements.  One example is lines in a plot:

Another example is a colour gradient to denote values:

I'm interested in two questions:

How can I pick the largest set of colours that are still distinguishable from each other, for use in a plot?  Similarly, what colour gradient will allow the eye to discern the largest set of values and detect the slightest change?  Are there colour schemes made specifically for this?  I'm looking for something that works well both on-screen and in print.
How can I pick a set of colours (or a gradient) that are still distinguishable enough when converted to greyscale, but the contrast is enhanced when they're viewed in colour?  Is there a colour gradient that is not much worse in this respect that a full-white to full-black gradient when converted to greyscale, but gives significantly enhanced contrast when reproduced in full colour?  (Take e.g. my example figure from above with the rainbow colour: it has excellent contrast in colour, but it's unusable in greyscale.  Many scientific journals will publish figures in colour online, but ask for figures that are usable in greyscale too, in the print edition.)


texts: At what point does one decide a font is in the public domain?

texts: I've tried to find who created the font Orion Esperanto Normala (which is quite similar to Arial), but none of the distributions I've found have either stated the author's name or included any kind of licence. So it sounds as though it's in the public domain and can therefore be used and modified at will by anybody for either private or commercial purposes. But is that accurate?


texts: Approximated simplifaction of path/shape

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Am trying to include a HDMI connector in Latex and OpenSCAD. Obviously there are many possibilities, but would prefer to have simple, native commands.

After some use of Inkscape and "SVGO", I have the following file (whitespace added):

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="224" height="92">
<path fill="#fff" stroke="#000" stroke-width="5.988" d="
  M 19.733 10.388
  c -5.722 0 -9.962 4.85 -9.962 10.31
  v 30.087
  c 0 5.537 3.459 8.543 6.354 9.575
  l 6.021 2.147
  c 2.761.868 3.696 1.841 5.382 3.757
  l 10.166 11.55
  c 1.892 2.15 4.823 3.802 8.413 3.802
  h 131.796
  c 3.59 0 6.521 -1.653 8.413 -3.802
  l 10.166 -11.55
  c 1.687 -1.916 2.62 -2.889 5.382 -3.757
  l 6.02 -2.147
  c 2.896 -1.032 6.355 -4.038 6.355 -9.575
  V 20.698
  c 0 -5.46 -4.24 -10.31 -9.962 -10.31
  z"/></svg>

And am wondering if there are any tools for taking this a couple steps further, eg maybe half the number of segments and only integers (or integer fractions).

I would be happy with an "upper limit" type path, ie one that is significantly simpler and then also circumscribes the given one as closely as possible without sacrificing any simplicity.

Any ideas anyone?


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I need to make composites of 2-3 images and create a new image. Let's say product shot 1 is a table, 2 is the table legs, 3 is the hardware. I need to make a new image of all of these components in one image, as well as keep the originals.
These individual shots all have vector paths, and all need to be scaled about 50% to make them all fit on the same size canvas.
I can transform the images, and I can transform the path, but these are separate operations.
Is there a way to transform the object with the path "linked"?
I've converted my object to a smart object, tried converting the path to a selection, moving and scaling, then converting back to vector path but I lose so much integrity of the path that it's not an option.
CC 2018 19.1 for Mac OS 10.11.6


texts: How does Photoshop's snap feature affect the image?

texts: Hey does anyone know how this feature affects the image if it is turned off? I am confused with this one.


texts: Why is my text messed up when converting a PDF to SVG?

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I'm trying to convert a PDF to a vector image so that I can display it online.
When I convert it to SVG, it doesn't convert the font glyphs correctly.
When I convert to SWF, it is perfect, but I would rather use SVG.
SVG Rendering (download link):

Click image for full size
PDF Rendering (download link):

Click image for full size
What is going on? Is SWF superior to SVG or is this because of a bad converter?


texts: Photoshop CS6: Brush strokes looking completely different on desktop compared to laptop

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So on my laptop, here is what the brush looks like, along with its properties. The lines are more clear than the ones in the next image:

Now on my desktop, the brush is the same and so are the properties. It’s just that it looks more pixelated and the glow around the brush width is bigger even with identical brush properties

What is the reason for this? And it’s not just when I edit it in Photoshop, when I save the image as a PNG file, the results are the same.


texts: Can I set text to appear at exact left of frame InDesign?

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How can I set text to appear at exact left of frame in InDesign? When left aligned, text still appears slightly inset within the text frame.

Can it be made to align to the exact left edge?


texts: Which of these 2 designs convey the message better?

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Let me explain what I mean by better.

There are 2 designs (rough unfinished work). First one has only search icon made by characters. Second has some creativity and a search icon (and a feel of working hours).

Suppose you're a designer and you will post it on a platform where recruiters and employers (who know about design) see such stuff. You're looking for a Graphic Design job.

Now, you're a designer and you're posting any of them.

So the motive is: You're a designer (and NOT a recruiter) and you're are looking for a Graphic Design job, which is emphasized by a search icon and typography.

Given all that, which design conveys the motive better and is easy to understand for recruiters (and also designers who after seeing it will ask their recruiter about it)?


texts: stretching all of image based on part of the image

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I need to resize an image based on part of image. I could talk about it all day but you won't understand so I am going to show you what I need.

^ Image 1  is the image I have. Red part is the part I need to extend or stretch. My output should be Image 2->  So how to do it with Gimp free or pixlr free online editor?


texts: How to prepare fonts for an online printable poster

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I want to make a website that people come and type a sentence and I make a poster out of it, print it, and send it to them. I was thinking of exporting as PDF (as recommended in this SO question).

I know I can make a box with html divs and color it and put some web font, but I wonder:

How do I go from HTML to TIFF? ( I've read TIFF is the best format for poster print)
Can I use web fonts?


texts: Constrain certain dimensions while resizing groups of objects

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I'm creating a mockup in Adobe Illustrator. I have a mockup of the Yosemite window (with the close, minimize, and fullscreen buttons) and some stuff in the main content area. The annoying this is that if I resize the mockup, the Yosemite buttons and the titlebar area get fatter. Is there a way to constrain the proportions, so that when I resize the entire screen, the titlebar will only resize in the x direction, and not in the y direction?

Here's a visual example of what I'm talking about:

Now when I resize, I get this undesirable behaviour:

The only way I've found to get around is to manually resize the content area and the titlebar area individually. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks!


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I'm trying more and more to get by sans PhotoShop for my personal/freelance work. I do primarily web work these days and don't do enough side gigs to justify keeping up with the Creative Suite beast.

Alas, that does bring to the table some limitations. On OSX I've been enjoying Pixelmator but it has woefully inadequate PNG export support. I can dump it out as a PNG then use one of the many great PNG optimizers like PNGCrusher and can reduce the size fairly well.

Alas, all of the PNG optimizing tools I've found are purely lossless.

Is anyone familiar with a tool (other than PhotoShop) that would offer up some lossy PNG compression options as well like reducing the color pallet, converting 32bit to 24 or 8bit, etc?

Addendum: I'm open to OSX or Windows software. I could even fire up Ubuntu if I had to, I suppose...


texts: What is the shape of curved text in a typical logo?

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I'd like to know what type of path the curved text commonly seen in logos takes. For example, consider the following logos (all pulled of a recent Google search):

Part of each logo is curved. In each case it appears that the curve is not along the path of a circle. It looks like it could be either a parabola or a hyperbolic sine, though I can't tell by eye. Presumably they used some graphic design software that rendered the image, so a correct answer can cite the practices of common software to achieve this effect.


texts: How can I achieve the dark tones in this photograph?

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I have tried blending, curves and all I can imagine so maybe I probably just need a good photoshop course.

I have managed to reach certain aspect of this but there's always something missing.

This type of visual is what I'm looking for on my artwork and I'm desperate to know how to achieve it.

If you guys could help me out with some tips on how to achieve this, or something similar, I will truly appreciate it.


texts: What is the name of the design technique based on dots?

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I am searching for more information and resources about a technique I really like: unfortunately, I don't know its name.

It is based on a layout in which everything is drawn with dots of several size, the size giving the intensity of shade.

It's really close to the technique used for black and white printing of pictures on old newspapers. Maybe it's even the same technique name.

The results could be things like this one:


texts: Is there any way to lock down Photoshop to prevent designers from creating styles that cannot be rendered in CSS?

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Photoshop is a much more powerful design tool than CSS, and given free reign to design at will, designers will often tweak things like font settings to a degree that cannot be recreated on the web.

Is there any way to lock down Photoshop, or perhaps run an equivalent of the Office 2010 "Compatability report" that shows the designer where they have designed something that cannot be rendered on a web page.

Something like the old-school "web-safe" colour palette, but for an overall design.


texts: Getting weird results when image traced using line art

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I tried to make a monoline text effect from a text by rasterizing it first and then image tracing using line art preset. But I am getting weird results as shown in the images. How can I fix this issue to get a clean line art of the text ?

Object > Rasterize

Selected Line Art from drop down.

Image trace settings.

Results.

This is what I want to achieve.


texts: Converting bar code to CMYK "True Black"

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I have .tiff. Part of the .tiff is a bar code. My printer is insisting the bar code be converted to 100%K - CMYK "pure black". (Their words)

A couple obstacles:

The Bar Code has been scaled up. Since it got resampled in that
process, the edges aren't pure black anymore. Just selecting the
black area by color is tricky now, since the outermost pixels might
or might not be included.
The .tiff is in RGB8, and my printer wants CMYK. RGB rich black does
not translate to 100% K in CMYK.

How would you go about changing this one part of the image to 100%K CMYK, to make the printer happy.


texts: How can I import a vector format file into Google Drawing

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Apparently this is not possible out of the box. I have found some crazy workarounds that require using different operating systems and 4 different applications but I was hoping for something simpler

The original app i'm using to author the vector files is Sketchapp.


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Which sans-serif fonts are best suited for body text? Currently I think about Gill Sans, Proxima Nova or Frutiger, but since I'm not full-stack graphic designer or typographer, I'm not sure in my choice.

The text should be easily read in large amounts, from screen, with long lines, also it should have hightly distinctive bold and italic versions.

But it's not for website. It's for Word documents, for personal use. I write a lot of stuff for myself and I want to read it in easy way.


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How could I make a curvilinear perspective with Gimp? I've found out making a linear perspective, but not curvilinear.

My guess was that there were any way to move the single points in the grid, and not just the endpoints.


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Examples: Arial HC, IDAutomationHC39M.
It seems to show up most strong textfrequently with free fonts.


texts: Photoshop: Save for Web - Always same size?

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I'm working as a product photographer and I have to edit around 30 images a day in Photoshop. Whenever I'm done editing, the images have to be saved for web and always with a width of 1080px.

My question: Is there a way (maybe a script) that sets the size for the images  to 1080px automatically when exporting them?
I know that you can save presets for the "save for web" feature, but that doesn't include the actual size, only the quality etc..

It would save me a lot of time, any help is highly appreciated.

Thank you!


texts: How do I make a clipping path around a word?

texts: How to make a clipping path around a word say a name 'Joshua'. Then I need to take the path 'Joshua' and cut out a pattern I have created. How do I do this?


texts: Great Anti-Aliasing settings for text: methods,tips, tricks, advice?

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Why doesn't type look crisp and clear in Fireworks/Photoshop etc?

I am the only one working on a PC at my work place, I've noticed that the text in my Fireworks looks a bit ragged on the edges, its not so crisp and clear as it is on my work mates computers...

Now I know this is an issue about text rendering, and it is because of something called anti aliasing, i know what that(antialiasing) does from games, it makes the edges smoother so that the whole shape looks crisper, its like a pixel splitter :P
(windows has something caller Clear Type that does that for text)...

My problem:

How can I make the text look better? How should I set up windows? How should I adjust Fireworks/Photoshop settings?

Screenshot:


texts: Convert a low resolution raster image to vector

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I have an raster image like this. That I would like to convert into an svg.

I tried the Image Trace option in Illustrator thinking that it would makes colored squares on top of a black box but that does not work and just turns the whole image into a black shape.
I need it to convert into a vector because it turns into this when embedded into a pdf.

I'm open to any solution other than converting it to a vector if it makes it look like the first picture inside a pdf. The pdf was generated using Latex if that information helps.
The original image is here if required.


texts: How can I do curved mirroring in Photoshop?

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how can I do this result speaking by reflection?
If I use the simple vertical reflection I lose left and right sides..  But in this image the mirroring starts from the bracelet (the mirroring is "curved") instead from an imaginary line.. how can I do this?
Tnx

 bracelet


texts: How to add new colors but keep the same color scheme/temperature?

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Sorry, I'm not sure if those are the right terms. So, here is an example.

Let's say I want to add blue to this design:

Source.

How do I pick a blue that matches the existing mood/temperature?


texts: I just downloaded a set of Glypish icons, however I'm not sure how to scale them up using Pixelmator (my only graphics editor). They give a .psd file with each image as a separate layer...


texts: problem with pdf export in inkscape - line stroke

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I had today some surprising experience in converting svg to pdf using inkscape.

I am preparing drawings for laser cutter. for laser cutting, the drawing should be passed as pdf and the line stroke should be 0.001m (1µm) or less.
I can set this in inkscape easily. but when exporting, the pdf "looks" empty and cannot be printed. this is in fact not completely true. here are some observations I made :
- file has normal weight (compared to the one with 1mm - see below)
- nothing can be seen from acrobat reader
- as I sent my file along using gmail, google apps pdf previewer displayed properly the drawing (with very fairly line)

I could fix the problem by exporting the drawing to pdf with 1mm line stroke and then use libre office pdf editing capabilities to get the line stroke back at 1µm and saving it back to pdf.

there might not be big differences in how the pdf is written by both apliccations. could there be some rounding effect (in inkscape)

at the end, this is not handy, and I am wondering why is that.
any idea on this ? have I missed something in the pdf export ?


texts: Inkscape - Center Drawing to Page via Command Line/Terminal

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Is there a way to center the whole drawing to the page in Inkscape with just a Terminal command? I need to do this for a couple hundred images. Manually, you do this by hitting "CTRL+A", "CTRL+ALT+H", "CTRL+ALT+T".

Halfway through writing this question, I figured it out. I'll post the answer.


texts: Construct ellipse from five points in Illustrator

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It is known that we could construct an ellipse (or any other conic section) using five points. I've found a plugin for Inkscape that do that construction. But I want to solve this task in Illustrator.

Is there any plugin for Adobe Illustrator that could construct an ellipse using five points?


texts: Removing Font outline when stroke is set to none

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I'm having issues trying to remove the stroke from my text which has no stroke set. I've also tried different fonts however the stroke(or outline?) remains the same.

How can I go about removing this?


texts: Using Illustrator vector layers in Photoshop for Gif

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I'm hoping I can make some sense of this in the question, but bear with me as I'm not super clued on all the jargon for these programs. I'm trying to work out the best way to move Illustrator layers to Photoshop for a Gif animation while preserving placing, layers etc.

I've created some artwork in Illustrator to be used in a Gif animation (using Photoshop for the entire process as I don't have access to After Effects or similar).
In Illustrator I've separated each 'frame' on individual artboards (so each subsequent artboard contains the next frame of the animation, with parts edited/removed/added as needed for next frame of animation).

I created everything as individual layers in Illustrator, separated so that each component could be animated separately in Ps if so desired. So then Exported as a Psd. file and opened in Photoshop. It opened as the separated artboards as one long document.

I then realised that for creating a video animation using timeline in Photoshop, this was a little confused as the background layer (the black and red blocks) that will not move for the entire animation, are in the document three times over, and moving from one frame to the next (or layer to the next) means the artwork appears shifted over across the canvas.

I decided in the end the best way was to set up the Photoshop canvas as the same size as one of the individual artboards in Illustrator and manually copy and paste the vector artwork as smart objects. However, this irritates me because I haven't been able to place in exactly the same position as on the original artwork.

I feel I'm missing some basic workaround or process, and this community is always so wise. How would you go about this?


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I played a little bit with the color settings and the working space and I regret it.
Is there a way to go back to the default settings?


texts: Illustrator - Artboard misaligned everytime after saving

texts: Refering to the picture above, wonder why the Artboard always misaligned by 0.5 for both X and Y axis after I saved it. Even after I align it back to 0, click save, the next time I opened the file it will still misaligned itself.


texts: Animation of entire project in Illustrator

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Is there a way to make an animation of an entire Illustrator project from start to finish?

I don't want to screen capture movie (as if it were a tutorial), nor do I want "my current view" of the progress (e.g. no zooming in and out). Rather, the animation should be of the whole artboard as the art gets created, step-by-step.

(I've seen this done for Proceate here)


texts: How do I position an InDesign object using Javascript?

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I'm working on a calendar in InDesign and I have a circle object (oval) that I want to position over the day of the month:

I'm pretty sure it should be possible to write a script that sets the x,y position properties of the oval object on each page to the proper values.  I've already got the seven x values and the 6 y values that make up the month-grid, but I'm very new to JavaScript so I don't know how to get started.  The sample scripts I saw were very involved, and I think what I want to do is much simpler, albeit with some iterations, etc.

If anyone can help me script the basics to get me started I would greatly appreciate it.


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I have some text that I converted to outlines in sketch. Now I'd like to cut out some circles from the text, so that it looks like somebody has taken a bite out of it.

When I select the circle and the text and click subtract, this creates a very odd result. Am I doing something wrong? As you can see it worked on the letter r, but not on the letter e?


texts: Barcode standards: is there a minimum size?

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I'm coming to the end of a project with a client, we are just artworking and getting the standards correct. I have designed a label for a bottle, the label is fairly small, 150mm x 50mm so I have to be conscious about the label real estate.

I'm wondering if there a minimum size I MUST have the barcode or any standards that I must comply by? The client is located in New Zealand.


texts: How to change in photoshop script color of Smart Object Layer, or Rasterized Image?

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I need to change color of Smart Object Layer in JS script. I found how to change TextLayer, but SmartObjects haven't "textItem" property. Need to change it like Color Overlay works in Photoshop. For example i have this hoodie:

I have been selected Compass layer right now and I wanna run my JS script. Then compass should change his color to red (or something else). This compass layer is Smart Object Layer (or Rasterized Image).

Can anyone help me with that? I spend 3 days to find how to do this. Thanks!


texts: Can text edits in QuarkXPress automatically replicate in a linked text source file?

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Is there a way to import a text file into Quark in such a way so that if there are any spelling errors that are fixed in Quark they will also be updated in the original imported text file?

Kind of like the way one can link an Excel file in a Word document.


texts: How can I create a specifically located line in Gimp?

texts: How can I add a plain black line in an image in Gimp in specific pixel coordinates for example between (10,15)->(300,116)?


texts: Revert color curve modification having original/modified pair

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So, I have this image, which has a filter applied: nothing fancy, it's just a reduction of blue intensity and maybe some temperature raise (I took a screenshot with Twilight enabled on my phone). If I have two identical images, one with the filter and one without, can I generate the curves' difference, and apply the filter backwards? How? I have Photoshop CS6 (and GIMP).

I know some quality is going to be lost, and I can probably do it by hand. I was wondering if there is a cleaner way to do it, and catch the opportunity to learn something useful.


texts: Making a PNG to PDF with very high quality

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I have seen that several authors of scientific papers include in their work, black and white graphics (university logos mainly) that appear to have an incredibly high resolution. I have found the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and my university logo with that quality, but recently my university logo has experienced some changes so the one I have no longer works.

I was able to remove the colors of my university logo with a software called Pinta, but the output wasn´t perfect (I got very thin lines) and not a very good quality.

I include de logos I am talking about

That file is in PDF.

I have read that a way to acomplish this is to create a "font" with just a ligature of the logo, or convert a PNG file to a Vector and save it as PDF. I tried this last option with inkscape, but it looks blurry due to some gray lines produced when I trace my image.

So my question is, How can I acomplish to get a PDF file with the logo of my college in high quality? (I don't know much about graphic design software or theory)

This is my college Logo.


texts: Why is Preview app bloating image file size?

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A client sent me a 420 KB photo, saying the file size was too low for a web form with a minimum requirement of 1 MB.

I opened it in Preview app, chose File > Export… and the JPEG quality slider was initially at roughly 80%. At that setting, the new file size was higher at 503 KB. If I dragged the slider to Best quality the file size increased to 1.5 MB.

Unless I'm incorrect in thinking this, the app can't add any new image data to increase the quality of the JPEG, right? I understand it might add some for a thumbnail but the photo already displays one of those. So what's Preview adding to the file that would increase its file size at all, let alone by over 300% for Best quality?


texts: How can I export a flash file to a gif format without losing quality?

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I'm making a series of animated gifs witch I design using adobe flash. The problem is that when I export it to the animated gif format, it pixelates losing a lot of quality.

I wanted to know if theres a way or format that will allow me to export this with a decent quality, or if theres a program to use as a bridge to do so. I'm using CS5 by the way.


texts: How can I undo the Lock Guides default setting in AI? It seems that Indesign also has the guides locked by default. How can I change this default setting? Thank you.


texts: How do you make an Android loading icon in Illustrator?

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I'd like to know how to make an android style loading icon in Illustrator. Can anyone help? It doesn't have to spin, i'd just like to know how to create the opacity on the circular object.

This is the one i'm talking about:


texts: How can I recreate a graph paper grid in Photoshop?

texts: In Photoshop we can display the grid, but I want this grid to be printed so I want to make the grid myself. What's an easy way to make this?


texts: Overlapping anchor points of a compound path

texts: I have a compound path which I am trying to edit so that I have a closed path. However, when I drag the anchor point over a part of the compound path, the overlapping portion gets negated and becomes white. How do I fix this?


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It sometimes appears in Illustrator CS6, only with some text:

It's annoying me. How can I remove it?


texts: Software for converting bulk PSDs to JPEGs?

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I have a bulk of working PSDs and I want to convert them to JPEGs. It will take a long time to convert those PSDs to JPEGs using Photoshop by dragging each into it.

So I searched in Google and I found a software to for bulk conversion called Sage Thumbs. After converting a PSD to JPEG using this software, the file size is 530 kb, but when I use Photoshop to convert PSD to JPEG the file size is 2 MB.

The two images seem to be the same, but I can’t see any lower image quality in Sage Thumbs’s image. Should I proceed to use it to convert PSDs to JPEGs? Am I correct with my decision? Or is any other software to convert bulk PSD to JPEG without losing any image quality?


texts: Is there a standard "magazine" size for printing?

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I'm thinking of printing a informational project in magazine size, however I have a hard time finding what the standard size for magazines is?

There is no default size for this in InDesign and from what I've read there is no specific standard size, but I wanna ask anyway.

If there is some default template out there or anyone willing to share, I would really appreciate it. :)


texts: I need to print images off of google at a 36" by 36" size, but if I increase the size (using Adobe Illustrator), it gets pixelated

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Possible Duplicate:
  Techniques to dramatically scale an image

Is there any way that I can increase the size of these google images without ruining the quality? I'm starting with high-resolution images, but when expanded to 36" x 36", the images that I have tried are pixelated and look to be poor quality. Are there any programs that can help me? Or is there a way within the Adobe Master Collection to do this?


texts: Why are the CMYK breakdowns of PMS colors so inconsistent?

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A Pantone color is a pure ink color, all CMYK breakdowns of that color should be the same, they are not. They differ between programs and between libraries.

If I pick a Pantone solid color when designing a logo but then need to use it in a brochure that is being printed in process, the CMYK conversion is different then if I picked the color from the Pantone Color Bridge library. And both differ from the actual printed breakdowns in the Pantone Color bridge swatch book. I am a seasoned designer and I think Pantone and Adobe have confused the issue and have made it difficult to maintain consistency between platforms.

Does anyone out there have any answers for me?


texts: Content management for reports with low technical barrier

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In my work we produce a large number of architecture reports usually between 20 and 100 pages every year. They must be high quality and are currently being produced in Indesign. However this creates an important barrier, because not all collaborators know how to use InDesign or have it installed on their machine. Also the reports are meant for publication in three different formats: 1. a classical booklet (A4) format, 2. as a nice PDF optimized for the web, and 3. as a presentation-friendly version.
Now I was wondering if there wasn't a better way to do that. Personally I often use LaTeX or markdown (with pandoc) to create PDFs. Using that would allow me to simply switch between different layouts and I would always receive a professional result. However, such a solution would be too much of a technical barrier as most (100+) collaborators are architects and will not be interested in learning LaTeX.
So, can you think of a professional software solution / tool chain that could fulfill our requirements (separation of content and layout, collaborative, low technical barrier)?
As I am not a graphical designer, please apologize if this question is not quite up to speed for this stackexchange community. Please let me know if you see ways to improve my question.


texts: Old .EPS and .AI just need font change -- How?

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I have a number of old .EPS files that were created in FreeHand, and some early Illustrator (.AI) files. They use fonts my machine doesn't have. Is there a free app I can use to open them and choose a different font?

The PTB won't buy me an Illustrator license at work, since my job description doesn't include altering graphic files at all. I actually need to do this at least once a week, but on an unpredictable schedule.

I don't really want to rasterize the files, as then I have to retype and reposition all the captions and delete them from the existing image. If I could just update the font they would be fine.

Currently running Mac OS 10.10.5 and Photoshop CS6


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I am following this map-making tutorial (which uses Photoshop) and I would like to "set the fill opacity of the layer to 20% (not the overall layer opacity)".
(See point 3 of the tutorial)
How can I do that in GIMP?


texts: Failure when changing color in Adobe Illustrator CS6 turn a single object to double overlaping objects

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I tried to change some text color using eyedropper tool from another object but it seemed to fail. The color didn't change, or on other occasions it turns to different color that i don't pick up. When i check the apparance panel/color info, it has changed to the color that i've picked up, eventhough the actual object is not. But when i look closely it looks like the color i've picked appears as a very thin outline, but there's no color in the appearance panel for the stroke.

I'm trying whatever i can to fix this, at some point i expanded my text and ungroup it. It appears that when i change the color, my object turns to two overlapping objects, and the color that i choose only appear in the bottom object which is covered by the upper object that retain the old color.

Anyone know how to fix this? Eyedropper's setting still the same, and the problem sometimes happen when i try to change the color manually. It started to happens several days ago, so i've restarted the software and my pc pretty often.
I've attached some screenshots to make it clearer.


texts: Photoshop PDF not appearing in Save As - too large document?

texts: I've got a banner that is 43,000px x 8,500px @96dpi done in Photoshop but the PDF option does not come up in the Save As. Only if I reduce it to 30,000px across will the Save As PDF option come up. Is there an inherent limitation for PDF sizes in Photoshop or PDF's in general? Any help to get around this would be great. The printer guy wants it in a PDF. Thanks.


texts: Term for content-holding iconographic images

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What is a correct term for images that are to act as containers for other content, e.g. for holding text or cropping images?

Common examples of these content-holding images are badges, thought bubbles, stickers, flags, ribbons, starbursts, etc. Here's a couple of examples of more interesting [whatever these are called]:

So we're talking about simple images, typically solid colour / silhouette that are used to contain text or crop/clip photos.

Imagine an organisation had created a library of [whatever these are called] to give commonality to their graphics. What would you call it?

They're not typical illustrations because their role is purely to support another item of content. They're a bit icongraphic in that they represent something in a simple way, but they're not typical icons. I'm sure there's an obvious term I can't think of that is better than "content-holding images"...


texts: As an iOS developer, how do I provide design specifications for my UX/UI designers?

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Some background, I'm an iOS developer making an app for my startup company. I've been working with two UX/UI designers for the last couple months, but it's all been very informal discussion on how to decide what they want to design.

Typically we sit together, discuss what functionality the development side and business side wants for the app, and helping them just understand what it is we're trying to make and if they can come up with a design to match our functionality.

As our startup is beginning to scale into more fast-paced operations this year, I owe it to my designers to be more formal about how to give them their future assignments. I've done few research and seen things like [Creative Brief] but I was wondering if there's any way to give them assignments since I'm already very comfortable with them and they already are on-board my team.

I come from an electrical engineering industry background where when we used to develop new products, we had an engineering specifications document with:

Background, Scope, Design Criteria, Simulated Testing Criteria, and Acceptance Test Requirements.
I was wondering in the graphic design world that there's anything similar to this? I have very little experience in this domain so any advice will be much appreciated, thank you!


texts: Save an Illustrator vector drawing with bigger dimensions

texts: Since vector drawings are scalable infinitely, I should be able to save my drawings at any DPI I wish. How do I do that with Illustrator CS5?


texts: I just had someone design my logo, and when I try to place it on a vistaprint business card the logo came with a white background already making it look real odd. I just wanted the logo itself so when I place it on any background it would be that color.  Is this common?  Is there a certain format to ask for, because I will be using this logo for business cards, website, merchandise, promo items, banners etc.  The logo was also too small and looked even worse when I made it bigger because of the white background.


texts: How to make clear images of thumbnails when they are enlarged on the web?

texts: What is the best format to use to make clean looking thumbnails when they are enlarged on the web?


texts: How to create an overlapping circle graphics in Photoshop which looks like a camera aperture?

texts: Here's an example for the circle image, this has to be a vector image, using shapes in Photoshop. I tried working on it but I couldn't get the circles to overlap.


texts: Have PDF hyperlinks open in a new window in InDesign CS5

texts: I'm created an InDesign file using CS5. Where do I find the option to have my hyperlinks open in a new browser window? When I create the PDF from InDesign and post the PDF on my web site the links work, but open in the same browser window.


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Can I have multiple slice layouts in Photoshop?

I want to have multiple slice layouts and switch between them. Is it possible in Photoshop?


texts: Export Layers to Files exports only 4 png files from 100 layers

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I am trying to export my layers to png files.

Googling suggests that File → Script → Export Layers to Files… is suitable.

However, this takes ages to complete and for some reason it exports only 4 images out of 100 layers.

Why?


texts: How do I avoid round corners in an text with outline/stroke?

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Some time ago I managed to add this text (see below) to a logo at 512 x 512 px.
I reproduced the black text using Arial Bold 200 with kerning at -20 in Paintshop Pro.

However, if I try to feather, expand or contract in Paintshop Pro or Photoshop, I end up with a much more rounded inner area (shown in white below). I've also tried using a smaller font, but I can't get it to match the right size of the black border.

My question is, how do I produce the outlined text (as shown below), where the black text is at the size mentioned above, in Paintshop Pro or Photoshop?

I need to generate a much larger image, 1024 x 1024 px, so I can't just scale it up as it will look awful.

Note that although I have scaled up this image for the benefit of this question, the text is anti-aliased in the final image.


texts: Where can I find a list of system fonts for current and recent OS's?

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I'm considering using a system font stack for a project so that I can display beautiful typography without the performance hit of webfonts. I'm having difficulties finding a conclusive list of fonts for current and recent operating systems.

Does anyone know of any resources they could point me to?

Related:

Implementing system fonts on Booking.com — A lesson learned.
System Font Stack | CSS-Tricks


texts: Creating Beveled Edges Without Using a Filter

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If you look at the below image you will see that the the edges of the box at the lower left corner where the arrow goes through it are beveled. Note that not the entire box is beveled:

Does anyone have an idea as to how I can recreate these beveled edges? I tried creating a white path following those edges and then blurring it, but of course the blur bleeds over the edge of the box, which is a problem because in my design the black area is transparent and thus if you place the image over a dark background you will see the blur bleed over. See below for my design:


texts: Damaged path importing from PDF to Illustrator

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I imported a logo from PDF to Illustrator 21.0.0 and I get this unusual result. The path is fine and smooth when viewed in keyline mode (the second picture) while the rendered version (first picture) is fragmented and it has some weird glitches (like that pink thing on the top right) that are not there in the path-only view.
How to fix this?


texts: How do I give text an offset path in Illustrator?

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Okay, I am just trying out the offset path effect for a custom font.
I followed this tutorial -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2wDdLNTdE
I tried doing the same, typed a word and expanded it,then put a stroke to it and finally offset path.I got the desired effect- the expanded version of my base letter,without expanding the red stroke proportionally.

I tried to repeat the effect, as told in the tutorial,but by applying offset path again I get this-

However this was not my desired effect.All this has done is increased the fill for the inner 'o'.
I want the stroke to be retained for the blue path. In other words, I want multiple 'o's beneath the previous 'o'. Each bigger than the previous, but the stroke should remain- As shown in the tutorial.
How do I achieve that ?


texts: Is it possible to prevent download of images when designing a website?

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Say you wish to provide sample high-quality images in your website but also wish to protect them from download, as in you can view them on screen but can't save from the website.

Is there a way to do this?

Edit: This is not something I need to do but as per one method in the answers I had seen the right click disabled on a website and was interested.


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Any idea how make this image vertical seamless..I tried lot in ps..but no result..

or..tell me..where can I found this type of images(one side designed and seamless)?


texts: Discrepancy between grid and document crosshair

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I noticed this discrepancy while editing a pattern 0,8 x 1,6 mm I have tried setting horizontal grid to 50% and to 0,8 mm and the result is the same. If I use ruler tool grid lines are distant 0,8 mm from the middle one. However document crosshair gives a different indication for the center.

While I drag the selection tool, it also show to be at 0,8 mm while above the purple crosshair and not the guide. What one should I listen to?


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I have found this very nice 3d model of a city : http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/paris-33983.html

However the model is very big and has lots of streets, buildings etc. whereas I only need a small part of it. 3-4 blocks are enough for me, and I want to remove the rest of the model. How can I do that?

I cannot select with mouse because objects are grouped in a strange way, i.e. all the trees are a group, all the roofs are a group etc.

I'm using Maya but I'm ok with any type of solution with Blender, SketchUp, MeshLab, SolidWorks or anything. Just tell me a way to select and remove parts of this model.

Thanks for any help!


texts: Fluid / Liquid Vortex in Photoshop or Illustrator

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I'd like to do something like this in photoshop or illustrator:

I've already tried drawing some circles of different tints and i've used the liquify tool (PS) but the result was too "mixed". How would you make an effect like that?


texts: Export layers and smart object layers to files?

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In my .psd file I have many layers, and within those layers are many Smart Objects. These Smart Objects also have their own set of layers that I would like exported as well when I choose the Export layers to files script, but alas they do not. Anyone have any solutions for this problem?

Thanks!

Addendum for clarification (hopefully!):

I'm creating game level mockups in Photoshop which include some fully rasterized layers (for background elements and such), as well as Smart Objects which link to other Photoshop documents that contain animations that have been converted from frames to layers (these are for later use as animated game sprites). From my main game level mockup document, I would like to be able to export every layer in that file, as well as all layers in every linked file at the same time. Ideally if the 'Export Layers to Files' script had an option to include layers in linked Smart Objects I would be a very happy man. Hope this makes a bit more sense!


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Suppose that I have a font in a modestly popular format (.ttf, .otf, etc.), and I have the legal rights to modify it. As it stands, it is a normal font with different charaters (glyphs?) varying in widths and spacings. How would I go about turning said font into a monospaced font (e.g. all characters are same dimensions, etc.)?

If possible, are there any automated tools that can do some of the guesswork for you? (The results don't have to be perfect.) The font may be large (many characters), and editing it could be tedious.

Any suggestions on the problem are much appreciated! :)

Disclaimer: Sorry if this is considered a simple howto, but Google has very little information on the subject, and for a programmer that doesn't deal with graphics or fonts much, it sure isn't simple. Also, sorry if my terminology is off... :P


texts: Morph vector shapes by more than 100% (shape extrapolation)

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I'm looking for the tool that can perform blending/morphing of two vector shapes by more than 100%, i.e. extrapolation. Standalone or online tool or plugin/script will work for me.

It shouldn't be very smart, it is ok if it requires both shapes to have the same number of points.

The following example was made with Illustrator Blend command. The biggest shape was drawn manually, that is how I expect vector shape extrapolation to work.

I'm certain that the math behind it is simple enough but currently I would prefer to avoid digging into bezier programming.


texts: Tile business cards on a A4 page, inDesign

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Ive got a bunch of business cards i would like to print and cut out myself.

I have created the card artwork in inDesign. The card is 55 x 85mm.

Is there a way i can tell inDesign to print the cards with crop marks with multiple cards printed on an a4 sheet ? I know i could export the inDesign business card design as a PNG or similar, then place them into another inDesign file and tile them that way, but wondered if there was a more automated solution.


texts: How to preview colors when using the color picker in Illustrator?

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When using Adobe Illustrator, how do I preview my changes when I'm using the color picker to change the color of an element?

Picking the color of an element is dependent on what's around it, so I'd like to see my color changes as I'm making them rather than having to click apply every time I'd like to see my work.

*Bonus points if you also know how to remove the outline that appears when an element is selected during this process. [That also interferes with choosing the correct color]


texts: Is it safe to incorporate a Star Wars Light Saber into a logo without permission?

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So I am trying to design a logo for a company, they have requested I incorporate a Star Wars light saber into the logo. I fear this may cause copyright problems.

Is it okay to use something like this in a logo? Or is it suggested you don't?

Is there a risk of litigation if I design a logo that includes recognisable elements from the Star Wars franchise?


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How do I get rid of these edges? I've tried the Join Tool. I've tried to highlight them with the white and the black arrow and then Object>Path>Join.

At this point I don't know what to google for, since everytime I search for a solution only the same suggestions come up, which I've tried.

Thanks


texts: Illustrator files with linked PSD files working over the network makes PC slow to a crawl

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Me and my buddies have a small design studio going on here at our office.

We always work from the network when working on any of our Adobe files.

Our server is on Windows 2012 Standard with 9TB storage space RAID 50. It's got shadow copy turned on and backup on top of that.

It's been working for the last 2 years and has saved us a bunch of times when we accidentally delete files or overwritten the wrong version, we use shadow copy to restore instantly.

However, lately our Illustrator files have been getting bigger and our linked PSD files even bigger to a point we are working on 1GB of total file size between all the linked PSD files, some are 300MB, others are 200MB, 1 might be 500MB.

The problem we have run into lately is that out Adobe Illustrator is running to a slow crawl, to the point where you can't move anything every 1 minute.

This does the same when we work with InDesign using linked images that are big.

We also know that if we embed the images, then we do not get the slowdown or crawling feel.

If we use the linked images with our entire project on our local c: drive or local hard-drive then it runs normal as well.

So what do other design firms do? Especially magazine publishers?

a) do I need to switch to Mac desktop and Mac server using the Unix network protocol (would that fix the linked images on the network issue)?

b) get 10GB network cards and switches and hope that it would work faster?

c) do other big design firms use other third party software such as Xinet (North Plains) or something similar to that in terms of a digital asset management system (and would it solve the whole linked images issue over the network)?

d) or is there another workflow I am totally unaware of?

Adobe Support Claims: no support with any files worked over the network.  Recommended workflow - do all your projects in your local hard-drive, then copy to server after project is finished. (Is this why adobe Cue server was abandoned after 2 releases).

I am looking for any help which is greatly appreciated.


texts: Client has 53 categories in a mega menu and he wants icons

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Dear fellow designers,

I got a client who wants me to design a wholesale website. I've designed a mega menu for his categories but now he wants me to make icons for every category (53). The question actually is... 53 icons only makes it more difficult to overview the menu right?

I tried to explain it first but he wants to see it first and I don't want to waste any more time on icons what doesn't get used anyway.

Does anyone have an nice example of a lot of categories in a mega menu form?

Thanks


texts: Normalizing heightmap image without creating ramping effect

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I'm trying to get a real-world heightmap data for my game. I'm grabbing an image in GeoTIFF format from here and then converting it to png and cleaning up some errors. This is an example of a fjord heightmap after cleanup:
You can see that it's mostly white and I would like to use the full range form black to white. I tried normalizing it in GIMP with Strech Contrast with Non-linear Components checked (it gave the best result), but it creates this ramping effect, which is very visible when used as terrain height data in Unity:  I tried using a blur filter on it, but I have to blur it a lot for the "steps" to disappear. Is there any better way to normalize an image without creating ramping?


texts: Inkscape: Transform geometry of cloned path, but not the style

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I want to design an illustration with a curved path and a skewed version of it. The original path org is somewhat "in flux" and a moving target; I have to adjust the shape of org so that important features of the skewed version skew are clearly visible, and vice versa.
So, skew really should be a linked clone of org rather than just a transformed copy.

However, I want the skewing to only affect the nodes (geometry) of the path, not the stroke (style). This works as soon as I unlink the clone, which gives me full access to all style attributes; but unfortunately this means that it, ahem, is not linked anymore.
(Strangely, this holds for "proper" paths, but apparently not for circles or ellipses; see the image below, 2nd row.)

What I'm after is the looks of the last column, but without unlinking.
([edit] Sorry, imgur decided to shrink it smaller than I expected. All are paths with strokes; first and last row are paths, second row is an ellipse. Note the varying stroke angles and visual thickness of the third column vs. the others.)

So, is there any way to decouple style and geometry for cloning? (In a perfect world, I would also be able to change other stylistic attributes, e.g., the color of a clone; although I understand that this could be "difficult" to specify for cloned groups etc...)

N.b.: For setting size and position via the top toolbar, Inkscape offers buttons to enable and disable the scaling of stroke and corner radii, as well as pattern movement/rescaling. This doesn't seem to work for the transformations applied via the Transform tool (Ctrl+Shift+M). I understand that this is due to the fact that the transform tool sets a transformation matrix in SVG, while setting size and position is done immediately via recomputation of the coordinates of the control points.

The SVGTiny 1.2 spec has a vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke" property that should allow exactly what I want: it makes stroke "resistant" to transformations. Unfortunately, I cannot make it work for use elements, despite the fact that AFAICS it should apply to them, too.


texts: How to resize a palette that's dropping off the screen?

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I'm using CS6 on a laptop, usually hooked up to an external monitor. In that setup, the monitor is my primary screen and the latop's is my secondary. Since I like some real estate in my palettes, I tend to stretch the Layers panel to full-screen height on my primary view.

When I start working with just te laptop, the Layers palette is too tall for my screen - Photoshop remembers the size and location of my palettes from when I was working on a larger screen. I can't resize the palette short of resetting the workspace to a standard. Annoying thing is that the buttons at the bottom of the palette are beyond my view now.

Is there a way of resizing such a palette without resetting the entire workspace?


texts: How do I export images for each device in Sketch?

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I'm struggling to export a header image for multiple devices in Sketch.

I design mobile first and I will take a large image and scale it down for the mobile header. I do the same for tablet, and website. Each device type will get its own header image based on the device.

But, how do I export this image and ensure that it's suitable for retina displays? If I export the following header image it ends up losing its "sharpness" for any device in-between mobile and tablet. Also exporting all 3 manually seems like a pain is there a plugin or a way to do this in Sketch?

I'm still learning Sketch and I had a hard time Googling this so asking here.


texts: Sketch Symbols - maintaining padding between 2 paragraphs when adding/ removing text

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I wish to create the following responsive symbol for a popup in Sketch.

I am a big fan of the Resizing functionality built in to sketch, however cannot solve the following problem with the Resizing tools.

If I duplicate the text "Curabitur lobortis id lore...", not all the text is shown, as there is not enough space in the default placeholder. I have to manually increase the height of the symbol, which also writes over the 2nd block of text.

My question is, what can I add to make the top level text block automatically expand to fit its contents, whilst maintaining the padding to the 2nd text block of text located beneath it?


texts: Illustrator CC 2015 text and color profiles

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Is there any way in Illustrator CC 2015 to save a text and color profile? I want to apply the saved presets on the marked text of my document by just clicking an option.

For example, I want to use Myriad pro 16px, #ccc for my titles and Verdana 14px for my main text.


texts: What licensing requirements are there for the use of fonts in logos?

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Imagine a logo that uses only a few characters from a font… or more exactly, the vector outlines of a few characters (between 2 and 4) from a font. What are the licensing requirements for commercial use of such a work?

This differs from the more general case in that I'm not really using it for typesetting text, but rather the outlines of a few characters. But, legally speaking, is that in any way different?


texts: Can I convert a jpg to vector, resize, then back to jpg?

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From what I've read I can convert a jpg to a vector file using Illustrator.  but I need to know if I can do the reverse.

I have pictures (jpgs) that I eventually want to convert to a cross stitch pattern (using another program I have), but the pictures are large and I need to resize them. I can resize the jpg as is - but I lose a lot of detail. If i'm understanding vector correctly, I should be able to resize a vector file without distortion and hopefully no detail loss.  (please correct me if I'm wrong about this).

Once I get the vector file resized - I will need to convert it back to a jpg. Due to the limitations of my cross stitch program I can only import jpgs.

I can't find much on converting from vector to jpg - so I could use some help.


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Is there a way to resize a symbol's width without resizing the height of the symbol also?

I just want to change the width of my symbol.

See below:


texts: How can I create a tiling hexagon tesselation (for SVG/Web)?

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I'm looking to create an SVG background image for a webpage using regular hexagons in a tessellation pattern similar to the image below. However, I need the hexagons to interconnect so I can use the:

background-image: url("path-to-hex.svg");

CSS pattern. I'd like to do this in Inkscape. I'm not sure how to "cut" the pattern into blocks though. How would I get started doing this?

EDIT
The result came out looking really good!


texts: induce pseudo-random movement of figure in image (gif?)

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I've created what I think is an interesting gif.

It involves a kind of voodoo head that moves around the frame.

What I would like to know is, is there a way that I can encode this so that- rather than moving around on a pre-specified path, the head will move all around the frame in a pseudo-random way?

Maybe that would take us out of gif land, but- that's ok.


texts: What characters are good to start with when designing a typeface?

texts: Given many characters in a typeface build on others and even just a couple of characters can reveal a lot of the features of a given typeface, what characters are good to start with when designing a typeface?


texts: Draw a circular distorted shape in illustrator

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I am still very new to vector and I wanted to make something similar to this image.

I want to make it as circular shape. The only idea I got is to manually draw it point by point. Any better techniques?

using Adobe Illustrator.

Thank you


texts: Adobe Reader not following tab order for interactive PDF set in InDesign

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I have set a tab order for an interactive PDF in Indesign. See order below.

When I start pressing tab from advance shipment Booth # it starts to work OK but goes from Direct Shipment Booth # to Shipped from State when it should be going to Shipped from City first.

Any ideas?


texts: Change color of details in photo to a specific color in Photoshop

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I want to change the color of details in a photo eg. make a green sweatshirt into a read sweatshirt (to the company profile color).

Today I am:

Masking out the part I want to change (or using Select > color range)
Change the color by using "Color Balance"

What I would like is to in step 2 be able to provide the color I am trying to match and have Photoshop making the color balance automaticly. Is that possible?


texts: How to trim part of object after subtraction?

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I'm using Sketch 3 to make a horizontal subtraction composed by four ovals out of a rectangle. See images:

Problem is though that the rectangle is still in "one piece". I can't simply delete the upper part half of it, something I'm used to do previously with Illustrator. Here instead I get some sort of masking between the objects. But I don't want my ovals to mask the rectangle, I want the ovals to use as a cookie cutter to cut out what I want to keep from the rectangle.

How do I go about to make a complete trimming of the rectangle using the ovals so that everything is discarded except the lower wave form object?


texts: how to merge an end anchor point with a path

texts: I tried to unit and join the end anchor point with the path shown in the picture but I either get the paths interlocked or part of the drawing just disappear.


texts: Accidentally deleted my custom color palette and need to retrieve it

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I work in CorelDraw CS2 on a PC and just accidentally deleted my color palette on the right side of my project page.

It has all custom colors I've added over the years for projects and is actually a different set of colors found in the fill tool on the left. How can I recover this palette?


texts: Weird cutouts in stroke Illustrator CC 2015

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For some reason, no matter what size I set the stroke to, there is always a strange cutout or an add on in a corner where two strokes meet. I've even tried changing the corner type and the limit. Still nothing.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I would appreciate any insight into the problem.


texts: Different image depending on background color

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I'm trying to replicate this answer in gimp 2.10, but the results are very different. Right in the first step the result deviates.

Subtracting the two images in gimp 2.10:

And in gimp 2.8:

In gimp 2.8 the ending results are fine. Why doesn't it work and how can I replicate this in 2.10?


texts: RGB Vs CMYK : Deciphering gradient transitions in different colour modes

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This issue may be related to Photoshop or to colour modes in general but this is what I am trying to figure out.

The image below is from a CMYK file with two layers.
It has two duo colour gradients.
Both gradients start and end with exactly the same hex value colours.

The top gradient is one generated from in the open file using the gradient swatch shown in the image.
The bottom gradient is copied from an RGB file and pasted into the CMYK file displayed in the image.

PROBLEM

The CMYK gradient clearly does not match the expected output indicted on the colour swatch.

QUESTION

Why does the CMYK gradient appear to have an orange transition and not match either the output expected or that of the RGB gradient?
How can the true gradient be created in photoshop from within a CMYK file?

NOTES

Its interesting to note that this does not appear to be a colour palette issue as the same thing occurs when a black to white alpha channel is created on top of a pure red layer.

The hex values used for this gradient are: #de1f26 to #ffffff

RECREATE THIS ISSUE

These steps create the issue.

Create new file in CMYK mode.
Draw a gradient on on the left side of the image. (gradient appears orange in middle as top gradient in image above.)
Convert to RGB mode.
Draw the same gradient on the right of the image.
(There is a clear difference in the gradient transition.)


texts: Sketch: Resize Element and Keep Content Centered

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Is it possible to resize a grouped element, and preserve the centering of its child elements? Also, is it possible when resizing the group element that the elements inside the group, preserve their ratio?

It's getting a bit tiresome having to realign the children elements every time I resize the parent element.


texts: Two overlapping lines causing darker shades

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I got a vector map of India and am trying to make my own edits.
Everything has been going well except for one small point.

As you can see from this image, each state is counted twice in the "inner" lines, making interior borders from states doubly shaded whereas exterior border of india is lighter. I would like the interior and exterior borders to have the same opacity. How can I do this?

Many thanks.


texts: Outlined illustrator poster appears to have degraded font

texts: I made a poster in AIllustrator for a scientific conference and was told by the printer to outline it before converting to pdf for printing. I was looking through the outlined and regular pdf and it appears that the outlined pdf has font that looks thicker in places and less well reproduced. For example, notice the heavier weight on the l in the attachment. I wanted to know if this is just how the pdf renders the outlined file and will be solved during printing or how can it be fixed if in fact these weird font changes will carry over to printing.


texts: ImageMagick: define 16 million as colors

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If I need to convert colors of my bmp image to be 16 million, which value exactly shall I provide?
I  mean I know that I can define colors directly like that:
magick convert myimg.png -colors 256 BMP:myimg_256.bmp

But in case of 16 million colors, what is the exact value?


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I can't add guides in Sketch.
I've tried to hover on a rulers and a red guide is showing but nothing happens on a click or double click. I simply can't add a standard guide. Lol :)

Someone, please help.


texts: Scaling a symbol in Sketch scales all instances of that symbol

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Title pretty much says it all, but the problem is simple. Say I have a logo imported from illustrator or whatever. I make it a symbol, and then I use it in one place in my design. Looks great.

But there's trouble - I also want a smaller version of that logo somewhere else in the design.

So, I Insert > Symbol > My Crummy Logo and drag it where I want it to go, and then I scale it down, and blammo, the other instance(s) of the logo has just been shrunk too.

Am I doing something incorrectly? Or is this just completely and totally stupid behavior? Or is this logical behavior and I'm just not grokking it?


texts: GIMP - change color of object preserving feathering

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I have an .xcf image and I like to change the color of some objects within it. The objects are mostly one solid color with the edges feathered into transparency. I.e. all pixels in the object are white with most pixels fully opaque and some with transparency.

I've tried to change the objects' color using the color select tool + bucket fill but this destroys the feathering. Is there a way to get the gimp to change just the color but preserve the transparency?

The actual objects that I have are multiple bits of text all at different sizes and rotations that I have merged into one layer. So it is no use re-adding the feathering as this messes up the text quite noticeably.

Thanks


texts: How to Import 3d graphic to Adobe Dimension. I'm trying to import a 3D graphic from Illustrator to Adobe Domenssion. How to format it and what formats it allows to import.


texts: How to create a sine wave with a given angle between the side of the wave?

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I want to create this shape using Illustrator CC and maybe it could seem easy but actually it has to be perfect, the shape are basically two triangles and each one of them with 52 degrees of aperture.

I've been trying to using the rotate tool but it's still imperfect and even if I leave it like that the rounded part looks awful (2). I tried with the Pen Tool and try to reshape the form with the sketch but still don't get the results that I want and with the rounded form I tried with the Shape Builder Tool (1).

Could someone please help me? Should I create the form on paper (perfect, with rulers, pencils and stuff) and then digitalise it? And if that's how it suppose to work, the angles will be the same?


texts: Identifying an app used in a touch pen promo

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Anyone have any idea what app is used in the lunatik touch pen promo materials?

This one:


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Is there a way (plugin, add-on, etc) to export assets from Illustrator the way one does with Photoshop Generate? I'm finding myself spending a lot of time meticulously separating everything into many many artboards, and it would be very helpful if I could just have each group output to a different subfolder (dare I say, even exported at different sizes), and then be able to drop the elements into my layouts (or animations...or link them in my code). I believe that Illustrator and SVG is clearly the future of web design/dev, but the workflow (as it stands) is atrocious. I've done a bit of digging online to no avail. The artboards do work, but they are massively tedious to separate, and it doesn't allow separation of overlapping elements the way I'd like.

P.S.: Any useful tools for speeding up a vector => website workflow are also very welcome. I find myself spending way too much time on the export as my procedure stands now, and any way I can streamline it is a step forward!


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I know that size, color, proximity, etc. are the building blocks of visual hierarchy but I'm wondering, which properties have priority over others?

For example in this video it is shown that when you add color to a bunch of circles the eye is drawn to it. However in that same example there is a circle with bigger proportions than the others. So, why wouldn't the eye be taken to the size first and then the color? Does color have a higher priority than size?

Also, I don't really agree with his demonstration of visual hierarchy on a previous version of the apple site. I think the image is visually more powerful than the big-sized bold headline. What do you think? Do images have a higher priority in the visual hierarchy than other properties?


texts: Is it possible to create a grid in Gimp that is part of the image?

texts: I want to make pixel art in Gimp, but the grid that I pull up is only a filter. I'd like to get a perfect fill for each pixel instead of having to measure the pixel and line it up each time. Is it possible to get a grid that can do this? Thanks!


texts: Is 4-color process printing (CMYK) more or less expensive than using 4 spot colors?

texts: Is there much of a cost difference between the two?


texts: Photoshop Copy one Text Layer and change font

texts: I want to make a logo. I want to make a text layer and copy it for example 100 times and change each font. Is there any possibility?


texts: Using vectors/stock graphics in designs?

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I'm looking for a little advice, hopefully somebody can offer me some.

I currently work in Marketing/Graphic Design.I do not have a degree in Graphic Design, but a degree in Advertising (which was very design heavy) so I came out of university with good design skills. In my current job, I do very basic things such as mail shots, website graphics, leaflets, brochures etc. where the use of stock photography and imagery is fine a) because of time-constraints and b) because we obviously do not sell anything.

I would love to start designing things like invites, announcements and wedding stationery. As many of my friends and colleagues compliment me on my eye for design, good use of space and images etc when I design for them. Of course, when I design for myself or friends, I use whatever comes to hand. Sometimes I incorporate free vector packs (of things like intricate swirls/flowers or silhouettes of birthday cakes or some baby vectors to enhance a baby shower card) and sometimes I even buy some off places like shutterstock. A friend wanted a birthday card for his girlfriend which had a typewriter on (as she is a writer) and i made a lovely card using a drawing of a vintage typewriter as the focus with good use of typography.

Without using these resources, I am afraid that my skills are very limited. I am very good with colour, layout and typography. And very good with coming up with wording and beautiful unique ideas. But I cannot draw to save my life, and I definitely cannot make vectors of my own (at least not brilliant ones - i do have some limited knowledge of using illustrator)

My question is, am I unsuited to selling my designs online as I rely too much on stock images to help pull designs together? I absolutely love doing it, but if I took out graphics that I didn't design myself, I fear I would only be able to take advantage of typography and colour. Do I absolutely need to learn  to draw? Would I be better off learning these skills before even trying to design invitations to sell? Or is some use of stock graphics okay? I am not entirely sure what is acceptable in the industry. Sometimes I see shops on Etsy selling cards with what looks like stock graphics/vectors and wonder if they are the original artists or not.

Thanks for any help/advice you might have. Very curious to hear your answers.


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I have a PSD file with one layer. When I try to save as JPEG it doesn't show JPEG and other formats as an option. It only displays a limited set of formats (5) including Photoshop.

When I manually create another PSD file I am able to save it in any format I like. I think it's something with palette or layers.

What can be wrong with the PSD file that I can't save in normal formats and what I can do to save it to these formats in Photoshop?

UPDATE

I have the following MODE: RGB, 32 Bit/Channel.

When I switch to 8 Bit/Channel it works now - I have all standard formats as option - JPEG, PNG, etc. But the problem now is that my image doesn't look good with 8 Bit color. Is it possible to do something to save it without losing the original picture?

UPDATE 2

I have 32 bit JPEG photos on my computer + most icons I work with are 32 bit PNG images. Why doesn't Photoshop allow 32 bit JPEG ? What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE 3

Is 8 bit/channel actually 32 bit color?


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This is the work in question. How can I seamlessly connect the two anchors on my vector drawing (the gap is highlighted with a red circle - that's not part of the vector). The picture on the right is a reference drawing.

Btw, I'm using Illustrator.


texts: Ai: Resize object to artboard dimensions within an action?

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I'm trying to create a custom action for initializing a new document so that it has a rectangular path marking the artwork bounds, trim marks around that, and a few other helpful guides and such on various layers.

These are things I find myself needing to create repeatedly for designs of various dimensions, so rather than repeat this process many times creating different templates, creating an action to handle all sizes seems more logical.

The problem is that there is no "Resize Selection to Artboard" option that I can record into my action, and it seems like the only solutions that exist are scripts (1, 2). Can scripts be triggered within an action? I tried doing this as a test, but the script execution was not recorded in my action.

I've also tried creating a rectangle of dimensions 100% by 100%. Of course this didn't work, it just defaulted to 100mm.

I'm pretty much open to any solution that can get a rectangle to fit the bounds of the artboard through an action. Thanks.


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I am really new to graphic design and was given a project for which I have to put silver-lining color in a circle and text. What is the meaning of silver lining?

After a suggestion I came up with the following. Do I have to ligthen this more?


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I'm pretty sure the answer to this is 'no' but I'll ask it nevertheless.

I'm designing a form in InDesign (the kind of thing you might get from a bank, a big light grey box, with white spaces to indicate areas that need to be filled out). I want to make the white spaces have slightly rounded corners, but ideally I'd like to build this as a table.

Is there a (hacky) way to give the cells of an InDesign table rounded corners?


texts: Which font looks great with Georgia? where Georgia is the body font

texts: I have a blog on blogspot.com - mentioning this so you may know I don't really have a lot of font options! Anyway - In my blog, I want the body font to be Georgia. What should be the Header font with it? I like georgia so much that I could very well choose it for the headers as well; but I want a sans font for that purpose. I have tried Verdana, but that looks somewhat boring along with Georgia. Any suggestions?


texts: Bucket-fill whole selection rectangle in Inkscape

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Consider sample Bézier curve with a red stroke:

Now, I want to paint the background of the whole selection area.
Like this:

Is there a straight-forward way of achieving this?

This is what I get using standard fill option:

I've created the mockup by creating a rectangle with the same dimensions as the curve, then aligning and grouping the two.
Perhaps it's the only way.

However, I don't quite like edges not aligning perfectly in case of a thicker stroke:

Furthermore, I thought that the approach with rectangle is workaround-ish and does not produce accurate and scalable result. It does.
Explained in my comment to @user287001 's answer.


texts: Transparent circle in white rectangle using fireworks

texts: I need to make a transparent circle in a white rectangle/background... so using css I can can color the transparent area and obtain a colored circle. Help!


texts: How to create 3D Rectangle in Photoshop CC 2015

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I am not familiar with the new 3D option that Photoshop CC 2015 provided.
I am trying to create a simple rectangle box in the 3D environment but I could not figure out how. My guess is that I could alter the Cube shape in order to create a rectangle shape in 3D mode.

Could someone help me with it?

Thank you so much for your time!

LS


texts: How can I round the inner corner of a path?

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I have this shape.
When I add stroke and make the round the corner I still have the inner corners and they are not round.


texts: How to create buttons with editable text that are re sizable (to accommodate longer/shorter text) on all browsers

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I often find that I need to change the text on buttons.

I'd like to create some CSS based editable buttons with mouse over effects.
And the whole button should be clickable (not just the text).

I have heard that older browsers don't "stretch" images very well so maybe I'll need several variations of the CSS Class, each with a different image background.


texts: How can one search for a quick icon on google images without all the stock photo sites coming up on search results?

texts: I'm looking for just a very simple icon of just a black and white notepad, but when I use google images its very annoying to have stock photo icon sites to come up where they make you pay for it. Is there a way to filter out all these sites that are polluting the image search results?


texts: Best free program to view 3D models in Collada format?

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I'm working on a software project which requires some 3D models. We hired a freelance modeler and she just delivered the first model in Collada format.

For now, I just want to see what it looks like (rendering will come later). I have tried:

Collada import plugin for Caligari trueSpace, by "Clintonman"

This one never worked. I followed the instructions for installation, but when I try to use it, it pops up an error message. Googling for the message didn't come up with anything.

Ballistic3D Collada model viewer

I can run this one, but when I open up the model, nothing appears. No errors or anything appear in the application log.

colladaAirViewer, by Anthony Scavarelli

I was able to install and run this one. When I try to load the model, it starts churning away, using 100% of CPU and 500MB of memory, but after 15 minutes, the model still doesn't appear.

colladaAirViewer is telling me that the model has 143104 triangles. Is it strange to have such a large number? Perhaps this is why it is taking so long to draw.

Can anyone recommend a better (free) model viewer, which works with Collada files?


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I am new to the world of digital art. All these years, I have used pencil and paper for my art. I am really interested in digital art. I am not into editing photographs, I want to draw and paint stuff digitally.

So, I started looking for graphic tablets. I found that Wacom has the best graphic tablets available but I am really confused about getting one.

Initially I thought Wacom Intous Draw was a good one for beginners. But I saw a lot more options which confused me. I am looking for a tablet with price below $150.

The list of tablets I found are -

Wacom Intous Draw
Wacom Intous Comic Pen and Touch
Wacom Intous Art Pen Touch
Wacom Intous Photo Pen and Touch
One by Wacom
Wacom Art Pen and Touch
Wacom Draw Pen Tablet
Wacom Bamboo One Drawing Pen Tablet

All these tablets are reasonably priced and I really don't know the difference between all these tablets. If anyone has a detailed analysis of each of these, please share it.

I also have few general doubts about the graphic tablet.

Can I use any software to design my art like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects etc?
Are all these tablets compatible with Microsoft Laptop?
Does the nib of the pen stay strong without breaking? Is there any cap provided to protect it?

Please share the resources which will help me choose the best graphic tablet.


texts: Any idea when blending modes might be implemented in browsers?

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I think it would be great for div's/img's to get some of the functionality that "layers" have in photoshop.

Right now, using .png's, div's/img's/etc.'s have their RGB and alpha values.  If you have a 50% transparent layer on top of an 100% opaque layer, the resulting color is a 50/50 blend.  Similarly, if you have a 100% opaque layer on top of another 100% layer, the top layer is the only one that shows.

In photoshop, however, you have blending modes -- multiply, color dodge, screen, overlay, soft light, et al. -- all of which blend the layers using methods different from the method described above.

I made a web site that has a spotlight on the page, but I won't be able to light up the dynamic content that it's pointing at (unless I use JS to do so) because the only blending mode available to me is the "normal" RGB*A method.  There is no option to blend a gobo (picture of the light) using a color dodge, overlay, or soft light method.

Is this a feature that will be coming out soon to any web browsers?


texts: Export image with clear edges (no gradient pixels)

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I have a vector file with about 150 vectors in diferent grayscale colors and I need to export image with clear edges.

For example black and white border should'nt have any aditional colours - only black and white.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.


texts: Photo Manipulation and texture... like instagram

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Does anyone have any recommendations, links, or tutorials on how to create a similar effect to this using a normal photo?

More: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nike-60-Surfcali/1242523

My goal is to create a subdued, dream like photo with gritty, tactile texture.


texts: Font name has '*' added and type has a pink background in Illustrator

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I've been  using Illustrator for a short time and just now installed some fonts on my computer to use them in my project, only Illustrator doesn't recognize them. The background is getting pink.

And the sources bar, they are with a "*"

What should I do?


texts: How can I display extra information in a table?

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So I recently got this theme and I have been modifying it to fit my needs for the application and I came across a piece of design in which I am unsure about.

I have a table which contains bans, these bans have a lot of data attached to them for instance Player's GUID, Admin's Ingame Name, etc. along with the ban entries.

I wanted to know...where can I display this extra data. There's not enough data to display on another page along with the fact that the data should be easily accessible as well as fast to get to.

In the image below you can see that I had this idea: You click on a ban entry, it expands downwards exposing some extra data however I don't know to display this data so it fits with the rest of the theme.

Please halp!

Link to full image


texts: How to create transparent 1 bit background as in the sample?

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I stumbled upon a background image with transparency I have never seen before (image below).

When placed as a background-image on web, it mantains the set
background-color and only adds some "noise" to it.
When you place a one-color 8-bit png picture with transparency over it, the foreground picture is perfectly visible - only a little "noise" added.
It is also very small (<300 kB) compared to a duplicate PNG images I tried to create from scratch (>1.5 MB)

How can you achieve something like that?

I've tried (Photoshop):

using a plastre wall texture image and save it as a 30% visible layer -> picture in the foreground is perfectly visible, but it won't maintain the background color set by css.
using a plastre wall brush + grey color and paint transparent background with 50% brush transparency -> background color from css is maintained, but the picture in foreground is not visible for some colors.


texts: Should design for a specific product across different platforms be consistent with the platform or the product?

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Does anyone have graphic design advice for designing for a product across different platforms? I know from a UX perspective, it's important to take into consideration the different ways people interact with products on a specific platform and then applying it to your product.

This also goes for design, but at times I see products lacking consistency in design (Android will look completely different from iOS) at the expense of maintaining consistency with the platform they are being served on. For example, Google recently released Material Design so it makes sense to apply those design practices to your product to be consistent with the platform. At the same time though, if you have the same product/application being served on Apple products, it does not make sense to apply those practices necessarily because it does not fit with the platform.

So my main question which I can probably ask more clearly here: Should we be designing products to be consistent with the platform even if it is at the expense of consistency with the product? When, if ever, is it appropriate and when, if ever, is it not?


texts: GIMP GAP - exporting frame sequence as .png with transparency

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I can't find anywhere how to save my frames as .png sequence with alpha channel. Frames are semitransparent grey. I need it because then I want to convert them into .webp animation with another tool. I tried 'Frames Convert' and set png, but the checkbox for transparency in 'Export' dialog is unchecked and disabled. I understand, that standard video cannot handle transparency, maybe that's why this option is disabled.

The only workaround I found is to save them as non-transparent pngs, then pull them all as layers to GIMP image, then apply 'Color to Alpha' with white to all of the layers and finally use 'Export layers' plugin I have. But this seems dirty and not always applicable to any type of image. I lose frames' grey color and get black instead.

How can I achieve this easier and in more correct way?


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I am working with this timeline as seen below. I'll try to explain it a bit:

Each circle represents an event.
There are no tick marks because it's not a "mission-critical" kind of
data set.
We just need a rough idea of events. Also, I have omitted the text
for clarity.
Desired aesthetic is still a professional one though

My personal take on my own work is good for the most part. I like how the colors "jump" out of the gray background rectangles.

However, the edges of the timeline (far left, far right) seem harsh. I tried capping them off with semi-circles but that resulted in a too "playful" kind of look. It seems adding too many circular elements tends to make it look less professional -- at least to my eyes.

Question

Is there a way to keep the rectangular shape of the rectangles without seeming too harsh?

Note: Feel free to critique other parts as well.


texts: Creating animation and exporting it as series of PNG files

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I am keen to have a tool that allows me to generate a particle animation and export it as a series of PNG files with alpha transparency.

This is possible to do so with GIMP/Photoshop by drawing every single frame of the animation. However I guess there may be some other tool that is more convenient (or even a function of Photoshop that I haven't learned yet) and that allows me to skip some drawing steps.

https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/vis/dynsys/frolic/picture007.JPG

Any suggestion?