texts: What's the name for cropping a video clip/animated gif in time and making it shorter?

texts: I'm having a nightmare searching for this and it seems pretty simple. I have an animated gif and I would like to not have the last few seconds/frames. I.e. I would like to crop it in time, not spatially. I've heard this referred to as slicing a clip but that still isn't helping. What term should I be searching for?


texts: Acrobat is creating files starting with "magick-" What are these?

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I just noticed today that in every folder where I have PDFs, there are also a random number of files that begin with the word "magick-" which is followed by a string of around 17 numbers, letters and symbols.

I've opened these files with Sublime Text. They all seem to have an XML structure, and all start with "%PDF-" followed by a version number, such as "%PDF-1.5"

What are these files, and are they necessary?


texts: How do I curve a textbox on the lower part of a circle without the text having to be upside down, in Illustrator CC?

texts: I used the "type on a path" to make a curved textbox on the top of a circle but when I want to have the text curved on the lower part of the circle it has to be upside down.. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Photoshop saves animated gif frames individually

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I am trying to save an animated gif using
File > Export > Save for Web Legacy

It saves the frames individually instead of as a complete animated gif. I've been trying for hours using different file sizes, resolutions, frame rates but the issue persists. I remember it use to work well. It puzzles me that it is not working now. Are there any settings that I need to check?


texts: Hiya I am fairly new to illustrator. I have made a logo for my client, which is all vector and ready to handover. I've saved a pdf version and an .ai version to give to him and these are good, but they seem to have a white background on them. I have saved one as a 24bit .png but I seem to lose the vector quality can somebody help me please? what do I need to give him and how? P.S he will use these both for web and print. As he wants tshirts made and obviously no white background!


texts: Trying to recreate graphic from image as a vector

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I am trying to recreate the rings from the following image into a vector graphic. I have made several attempts using various shapes and the pen tool with no luck. Any help on which steps I could take would be greatly appreciated!

Here is the image in question (on pinterest):


texts:
I have rotated an object with Sketch.
But, the old frame is still visible.

I would like to flatten it, so that in a way, I only see the outline of the object and not the old frame.

Possible?


texts:
Is there any border pattern version to the website http://subtlepatterns.com/?

What I mean is that these patterns are usually used not as backgrounds but just as a border or divider between two sections. Although I can use some from Subtle Patterns, they're more geared to be used as backgrounds and not as a one line pattern.


texts:
I am putting together a telephone directory, and I was trying to figure out a good way of getting section markers to work for me.

My setup has 3 towns: Burford, Paris and St George. Under each of those there are alphabetic listings, to which I would like to have a marker for each letter to denote the change of the letter in the listing. Ideally I would like the that has an object style. So it would have markers for A-Z under Burford, then A-Z under Paris.

When I change the numbering & section options, it just changes the page number. It seems from my reading that this should be possible, but I haven't found any examples of how to do this.

[Edit] I have added a photo of what I'm trying to achieve. As you can see I've got a page number, a variable to pull the town name along the page edge. I've added those manually, but the idea behind this question is to figure an automated way of creating markers like that.


texts: Expanding paths and shapes is making strange shapes in the background CS6

texts: When expanding a path or shape I get weird "ghost shapes" in the background i can't select these and they seam to have some relation to the bounding box? how do i stop this ?


texts:
Can someone please tell me how to create that glowing text box

I know how to add glow to text. Actually I'm not even sure it's the glow effect which has been used here. I can't understand ho to end up with this text/box in the image.


texts: Font with (fairly) symmetrical S (or how to edit Arial's S)

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I'm looking for a sans serif font (similar to Arial) with a (fairly) symmetrical 'S'

This is Arial's S:

See how the top part is so different from the bottom?

Even if not 100% symmetrical, if somebody can help me find a better one?

Or know how to edit this one (Arial) to at least improve it... I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks!


texts: Inverted layer mask not working as expected

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Consider the following gradient:

Now I create a solid color layer and copy-paste the gradient as its layer
mask.

Where the mask is white I got 100% opacity and where the mask is black I got 0% opacity, with a fading in between.

The result looks like this (visibility for the gradient layer is off):

At this point I duplicate the solid color layer and invert the mask of the new layer (Colors → Invert in GIMP).

What I expect is that the opacity of the new layer should be complementary
to the first one, so having the two layers stacked one on top of
the other should result in a solid color.

This is what I get instead:

Why is this happening and how to get what I want instead?


texts:
I need to import an EPS file got from a free website. It contains an EPS file. When imported in CorelDraw, I'm not getting a similar result as form the original file.

I tried to convert in PDF and lower version as AI-9 did not succeed. I downloaded the original EPS logo from here. Any solution to import the correct shape and color into CorelDraw?


texts: How can I cut out certain parts of text?

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This is the logo I have in mind:

I have been using white rectangles as blocs to hide the words like this:

However, when I merge the layers of text and white rectangles together, I am seeing something like this when I turn my background transparent:

It's very time consuming and laborous to manually delete those white spots in the final layer. If I change the color of the white rectangles to transparent then I am not seeing any "cutting" of the letters because it's transparent!!

Is there a better way to do this?


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I've been trying to trace this image without any success. I just can't seem to get the shapes right, I've tried to use a grid while tracing to ensure that I get the right thickness, but nothing seems to give me the result I need.

How would you trace a logo like this? What technique am I missing?


texts: I was wondering if there was any way of aligning circles in diagonal corners like in my first picture down below. Now I know there is a round corner effect and I also have a script that rounds only specific corners that I want, but I've been puzzled when I see people have an actual circle guide perfectly placed in the odd corner. I've seen it plenty of times on Dribbble snapshots.


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I drew a circle, added a diameter to it, joined objects, removed topmost anchor point...

Now I need to make it united shape:

The question is general and the situation is general: suppose I have exact parts of desired outline shape. I can't use any averaging or pen tool, because all anchor points are already in place. All I need is just declare some overlapped points pairs as single points.

Why can't I do that?

UPDATE

If I press Object -> Path -> Join I get a message

UPDATE 2

Video proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfFY95rdq8


texts: How to make a selection that includes multiple layers with a free form selection

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I'm really new to photoshop, so please excuse any ignorance. I have watched numerous tutorials to try and figure this out.

I have a blueprint for a patio I am designing. I put the pavers on it and am now trying to select the shape of the patio so that the overlap of the square pavers are not seen.

I have tried using the lasso tool to do this. When I select the area, and try to copy to a new layer, nothing shows up. I tried combining the layers in a group too.

Does anyone know what I should do?


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I'm trying to build a Scribus template for use by people who do not necessarily have some of the fonts that the template prefers.

In CSS one can define a "font-family", such as font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; or font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; (which isn't really the standard meaning for "font family", but never mind).

I see in the manual (Help:Manual Fontswin32 and Help:Manual Fontsconfig) that it's possible to set font substitution preferences with this dialog box:

But that appears to set user preferences in my instance of Scribus; what I'd like to do is define font substitution preferences for a template instead.

Related question if I have to fall back to Word (which seems even less likely to have a solution at this point): https://superuser.com/questions/1337305/word-font-substitution-in-templates


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I want to write some simple scripts to use in batch mode, such as doing a resolution resize, or converting from rgb to grayscale.

The old scripts repository seems to have been taken down. I am looking for the most basic, bare-bones scripts that work. If these already exist, there's no need for me to reinvent the wheel!

I have read in the procedure browser how to get the functions I want, but the scripting language is not familiar to me yet. Are there any examples of super basic functions collected anywhere?


texts: serious RGB to CMYK issue for book printing

texts: I´m having a serious problem with RGB to CMYK conversion on my artwork. I create all my artwork in photoshop, using images of scanned fabrics to make collages. Most of my files have many layers. Up until now I´ve been designing for web and video, so all the artwork I have is in RGB. Now we want to publish printed picture books using the artwork featured in our videos, but I´m running into serious problems with the RGB to CMYK conversion. The first book has a lot of night scenes, and hence a lot of different blues, and the converted CMYK files are just a mess. Totally washed out. I´ve spent hours and hours trying to find a solution, playing with adjustment layers, selective colour correction, hue and saturation - you name it, but it still looks terrible. I have seen printed books with very acceptable depths and shades of blue. I know it´s not possible to get an exact match between RGB and CMYK, but I cannot get anywhere close to reproducing something that looks decent in the proof colours view of photoshop. I´m wondering how print houses deal with scanned artwork for books? Any help and advice would be much appreciated!


texts: Change the color of already painted brush strokes that are inside selection

texts: How do I change brush-marks of a certain color (everything that is not white) into another color. For instance, having lasso-selected the following brush-marks, how do I change the color from black to red?


texts: Is it best to use RGB color-space when you don't know if the end-user of the document is going to be printing the document on an inkjet or laser printer? For example, even though my home printer has 4 cartridges (CMYK) it still uses RGB 'drivers'.


texts: How can I (using Gimp) accurately remove a red background from an image?

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I've been designing some custom backgrounds for a game recently, although I have little to no skill with photo editing. I've usually only used MS paint, but this particular project required tools that I could only access (for free) through the Gimp editing software.

I've no skill with Gimp, and while a lot of the functions were ridiculously useful, most of the time I'm just confused and lost in all the different tools and values. So, for a particular element of my design, I decided to export my project to a png file and do some tweaking in good ol' MS Paint.

The element consisted of black and white, and so I used a red background because I thought the sharp contrast would make it easy to remove later on.  After finishing on paint, I opened the file in Gimp, pressed Select > By Color, and selected the red background. After deleting the background, I saw that there was a layer of red all around the remaining elements.

I tried increasing the threshold, but then it selects bigger parts of the element as well. It's the same issue with the magic wand tool. I don't seem to be able to cut my element away from the background. Are there any tools in gimp that could help me? Its all still greek to me, and playing around with the different functions was, unfortunately, no help.


texts: How shall I lay out 2 horizontal elements to look balanced?

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I tried using the rule of thirds to place my elements, but it looked wonky ... possibly because the elements are different sizes and heights.  I repositioned them so the vertical distance is even between the elements, and also between them and the top & bottom of the "page" (phone screen for an app I'm developing). Is this the right approach?

Note that the top 2 lines are just one example, and that the app may display between 1 and 4 lines at the top.


texts: Highly-legible Font options for Living Room Computer?

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I recently had the good fortune to inherit a very small form factor computer (Mac Mini). I've hooked it up to the TV in our living room with an all-in-one keyboard/trackpad combo, and it's working well. While TV is not too small, it's not overly large either, and I'm not happy with my ability to read normal text on the screen from the couch or recliner.

To help with this, I've already done several of the usual tricks for increasing the visibility of items from across the room, including increasing font size as much as I feel like is safe without breaking user interface elements. Now I want to see if I can increase readability by changing the font face.

Can anyone recommend a good, highly-readable font face? I know of several that were designed specifically with print and signage in mind, but screens have different challenges than signs and print (i.e. limited resolution, pixel grid, different lighting conditions).

The machine in question is dual booting OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1 (Living room PCs seem to be the one place I've found so far where the "Metro" visual style really shines), so fonts for both kinds of systems are welcome.


texts: How to draw different coloured waves in Photoshop?

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I want to know how to draw waves like patterns in photoshop easily.
I have attached an image of it so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about:

(source: gstatic.com)
Please anybody help me in this.


texts: What steps should i take to make my .eps file less editable?

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I am pretty new to the adobe program and love it. I just have trouble finding answers by searching the internet. I have a certain group that likes my design posters but prefer the .eps (thus using the program) I don't want all the elements in the file to be copied then used later for something else. (I'm sure this won't happen but just in case

In some of my posters I have images that I have for sale as well, those are the images I don't want copied and reused. What steps should I take to prevent this from happening (if it would happen)

Forgive my ignorance as well, this program is very new to me. (I used to design and have someone else digitize them)


texts: How do I reproduce in Illustrator the typeface that the web browser is displaying?

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I'm trying to figure out how to reproduce the exact typeface of a font being displayed on my web site in order to use it as a typeface for a logo in Adobe Illustrator.

The text is AJ Acevedo in the header of http://ajacevedo.com. Which appears to be an italic and bold version of 'Lucida Grande'. At least on a mac using Safari.

The problem is that a bold/italic version of 'Lucida Grande' does not exist.
A close comparison reveals that the browser is not falling back to the 'Lucida Sans Demibold Italic'.

Here is the css for the .site-title

.site-title {
    font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Demibold Italic", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
    text-decoration: none;
}

The question is:
How do I reproduce the typeface that the browser is displaying for .site-title in a native OS app like Illustrator?

NOTE: If you do not have 'Lucida Grande' installed, your browser will fall back to 'Lucida Sans Demibold Italic'.


texts: What career paths does a graphic design degree offer?

texts:
I'm considering a number of different options, including Computer Science, Graphic Design and Physics.

I enjoy graphic design, but I wonder what jobs I would be able to do with said degree - does it open up career paths other than design in particular?


texts: If I wanted to create my resume in Illustrator/Sketch what pixel dimensions should I use?

texts: If I create a 8.5x11in file in Photoshop, it works out to 612x792. If I want to create a resume in Illustrator or another program like Sketch by Bohemian Coding should I use that size? Or would it be wiser to use a different one (such as a doubled version of that)?


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Where do I put non-adobe photoshop templates so they can be used in the "New File" dialog?

For example, the Apple iOS Photoshop template, which can be found through a simple Google search (the TOS forbid a direct link).


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Does anyone have experience selling a typeface they've made? What are some foundries that buy from individuals? Any advice? Asking price? It's a full set of glyphs with some ligatures.
Thanks!


texts:
I keep running into this weird behaviour of InDesign which probably has a simple solution.

Whenever I work with large text, I start getting weird line breaks inside the text. The example below is one line and does not contain a line break. It keeps breaking at the same position:

The text behaves as if there were an object in the center that forces the text to flow around it. But there is nothing. The page contains nothing but the background bitmap, and several text elements that are not interfering with each other.

What could this be?

I've already played with the "Adobe Paragraph Composer" settings outlined here, to no avail.


texts: Acrobat PDF file is having difficulties. Can't open illustrator file

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I'm having a problem with and .ai file. It gives me "Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Object label badly formatted." error.
It's pretty frustrating since I have a bunch of work in there, that I can't access now.
I uploaded the file here - https://files.fm/u/gv7anesw
maybe someone can at least try and open the file themselves and see if the problem remains and it's not just me, or better yet - have a solution.

Thanks!


texts: Why are my printed colors duller than expected?

texts:
Basically, I've designed a booklet on Photoshop CC. It's an informational booklet so it's quite vibrant with lots of colours and pictures in it.

I've finished it and exported all the files into PDF format. Upon doing this, the PDF's are much "duller" for use of a better word. Now I'm not a designer and the whole thing was a learning process but now I'm reading about CMYK and RGB colour models and conversions etc. I designed the whole thing RGB (because CMYK looked duller obviously. The PDF's aren't disastrous, red is still red, black is still black but it's nowhere near as visually appealing anymore.

Is this just because of the monitor and the models each program uses or when I send my brochure to be printed, am I doomed for a much duller booklet? There's obviously a way around it otherwise all print would be dull.


texts: How to draw a smooth line shape like this in Photoshop?

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How can I draw a smooth line shape like this in Photoshop?
I have been trying using Edit -> Transform Path -> Warp but there I cannot control the shape.


texts: How to prevent black fringe from appearing after resizing in Photoshop?

texts: I have a light gray graphic atop a darker gray background. I flattened this file with CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E. Then I chose the crop tool and specified a smaller crop width. After the crop + automatic resize, the graphic developed a dark fringe. How do I crop/resize without introducing this fringe?


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How can I digitize or pixelate clay figures like Mason Lindroth does? https://masonlindroth.tumblr.com
Can it be done with photoshop? Im looking to do it only in black and white. Thank you for your help :)


texts: Keeping Margin Space from a PDF when Editing in Photoshop

texts: I am trying to edit a PDF in Photoshop. I want to keep the white margins on the page, but each time I pull the PDF into Photoshop, it automatically crops to the size of the image on the page. I previously used Adobe CS5, and I was able to adjust the canvas size after flattening the image to adjust my white space accordingly (Sometimes I need white space around my image, sometimes not). Now have Creative Cloud and cannot figure out if this is a setting I can change.


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What software can be used to create an ideology scale like this?

I tried to use Excel, but it seems impossible, the only way was timeline with dates (0 - 10), but even that didn't place names automatically and it seems it is not meant for stuff like this.  Option like  -2 -1 0 1 2 wasn't possible in excel.


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I'm trying to be an expert for choosing colors and combining colors. So I found a tutorial making schools sets icons and for a start, I am making a pencil but I'm not going to follow the same exact color on the tutorial. I'll do it my own with a touch of red with the flat pencil vector as an exercise for me, I am choosing the monochromatic method of color theory but how do you know exactly if your lighting or shadowing of red on the pencil is correct or industry standards? I am having the hard time understanding people I encountered in youtube on how they choose a light or shadow color of the main color. If there are any question please free to ask. Thank very much.
My Work:

The Tutorial I'm following:
As you can see how the tutor made the pencil yellow color beautifully from lighting to shadows.


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I am using Adobe Illustrator CC 2015.2 and  trying to align guides to artboard but instead of artboard, guides are intersecting at the right corner of of the whole document page. like this

I checked align to artboard  and nothing is checked in Transform panel.
I don't know what's wrong.


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I made a logo for my dad's company.
I'm stuck because I can't decide which one to pick. Also it's my first logo so I'm not sure if it's the best.

Background info:

He is a handyman, but primarily manages a residence.
He does cleaning and other chores for the residence such as installing a lamp or what not.
The residence consists of 4 towers. I processed this within the logo. The last tower is the tallest, which is why I made that one so in the logo. Also, he wanted to have a blue color for his brand identity.

I reworked this logo because it had 3 towers. I did this because I liked the ratio of space the logo takes.

But then I realised a logo should be realistic.

This is the rework (2nd version with variations)


texts: i'm wondering how these horitzontal lines have been textured, it doesn't seem to have been done with a brush. Something that is also interesting is that where ever the horizontal lines converge with the logo it sort of glows/thickens.


texts: An error in printed book is my fault: what do I do?

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I designed a kids' activity book for my client. She handwrote all the text correctly and I typed a sentence out incorrectly. She approved the proof before print but that was the 6th draft so I guess both of us were too tired by that stage to spot this error.

If it was her provided text, I wouldn't see it as entirely my fault. But I typed it myself from her correct notes so it is. Should I give a discount? A full refund? She's printing labels to put over the incorrect text. Should I at least pay for that?


texts: How to prevent wireframe art from having sharp point in Adobe Illustrator

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I was attempting to create 2d low poly art in Illustrator, but I ended up liking the wireframe version more.

The problem however is that the individual paths have a thick stroke, the outline of the path breaks the outline of the logo itself.

This is what it currently looks like:

This is what I want it to look like:

I followed this guide: http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-a-low-poly-art-mountain-illustration and each single polygon is a path by itself.

What is the best way to solve this?


texts: Transform/resize image for label printer using Gimp

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Starting from an image like this one, how do I resize and transform it into something a label printer can use? That means a black and white bmp about 1/3 of this size.

The best result I have so far are with an online converter but this image became a smudge.

I use 2" x 4" autoadhesive labels, and I need to reduce images to 1/2" or smaller.

This is on a PC with Ubuntu.


texts: What's the name of the image that looks like several curly brackets together?

texts:
Like the one shown on the RSVP design. Thank you.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/194569646371938464/


texts:
I'm creating a website in photoshop with artboards.
So i have for example created a navigation, and created a smart object of that to use across the artboards, this way i only have to edit 1 version to change all items.

I have one problem thou, since this example is for the navigation, i would like to highlight the selected item per artboard, but since its a smart object it gets edited on every artboard.

Is there a way to edit a smart object, but only for the current selected item?


texts: I am trying to shadow some text in Gimp. However, whenever I go to filter drop down shadow it gives a shadow to the region I previously selected with the selection tool on another layer. I have selected my text and the text layer. Why is it not giving a shadow to my text in the text layer?


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Is there a possibility to convert an object to be a linked file?

In my scenario I do have an object I exported earlier (so that it can later-on be placed as link). The file I exported it from of course still has the original in it which I would now like to be linked to its "exported self".

Of course I could just delete it and place it again, however this would mean that I would have to adjust position and everything again which I would like to save myself from if there happens to be a quicker way.

I was thinking of something like this: "convert to link > specify link-source > done"

I don't know if I have been dreaming, but I could've sworn I saw a similar functionality either in Illustrator itself or another Adobe program.


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I am using CS4 and I am trying to keep my own palette of colours, organised in groups, for my projects.

I am a bit annoyed by the way I use it and I am wondering what the best way is. Ideally, I would like to have a file containing all my colours, modifiable, stored in a neutral directory that can be automatically read at start time by Illustrator and Photoshop. My actual problems now:

I can save colours from the AI Swatch, but if I do not save it in a
default directory, it seems they cannot be opened at start time, even
when they are Permanent.
I cannot add new colours as I want in an
existing library. I have to delete all Swatches, import my library
into the Swatches, add the new colours, and save the file again. This
is very annoying. Dragging and dropping new colours on an existing
library has no effect.

How can I efficiently store and share all my colours?

My other idea was creating a regular .ai file with coloured boxes, so I can open it anytime I need colour. It is not ideal, but it seems that I will always be able to use it, store it where I like and add new colours easily. If this is a possible solution:

Is there a way to automatically dump my colour palette to objects without having to manually go one by one assigning colours?

(Note: There might be new CC features that address colour management, but I am not a CC user)


texts: Is there any way to fix the lights and shadow in this image?

texts:
I had hard time figuring out what's the major problem in this editing (1st image. I manually placed the hand and sachet in this photo).

But the I figured it out after few days that it was light and shadow related problem, on especially hand.

So, to experiment, I took a real photo of a hand and sachet, with almost same angled light source (sun) and placed it on photo. It looked much much better without any special editing.

Now the question is: How can (if possible) I use Photoshop to fix the shadow on lights on hand in 1st picture (2nd is already fixed, but that is a real photo) to make it look little more realistic?


texts: What fonts are these t-shirts (I'm a wild one / Ain't nobody got time for that)?

texts: Trying to figure out what font these are?  I have tried dafont and WhatTheFont.


texts: How do I sort colors in the color table in photoshop

texts:
I'm using adobe photoshop cs version 8.0.

Using the menu: Image > Mode > Color Table, I'm trying to make some colors transparent.

The problem is that the range of colors I need to pick is scattered all over the color table. How do I sort the colors in the color table according to saturation to ease my work?

In the picture below, the background should be transparent so that only the lady's face and hair should be extracted.


texts:
What effect is used in this image?

Bigger photo.


texts: What should I do if a potential client claims my pricing is too high?

texts:
I gave a possible client a price estimation for concept of a character, and making it 3D as well.
Now I find out that my estimation is double what he is paying his current artists. He never mentioned a budget and I believe he was under the impression I was a college student that would work for $50.
He even mentions that he has an artist with 40 years of experience giving him concept work, for just $150.

I find it highly unlikely that this is true. With so many years of experience, an artist wouldn't sell their work for $150. Their work is worth so much more.
I feel this client was trying to take advantage of me.
Now I'm in a tough situation. Part of me wants to salvage the situation, apologize in some way and accept $150 for my work. Likely he won't give me that now, since I don't have the experience to be worth that.

Doing that however feels like I'm saying "I'm sorry, I'm a cheap artist, I'm not worth more money but I dared ask for more. sorry about that, please still hire me."

In this economy, every penny counts. Even if I did want to say "just give me 150 bucks for something that clearly costs more", how would I say that professionally?


texts: How to create an EAN-13 barcode with a font?

texts: I've googled for over 30 mins now, I can't find a free barcode font for EAN-13. Anyone know of any? fontsquirrel have none, Dafont have a few,  But none of them are EAN-13 (as far as I know).


texts: How to change color of the dot on the "i" letter in Illustrator?

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How can I change the color of the dot part (in this case, the dot is the triangle) on "i" letter with Illustrator?
I have done the Create Outlines but I can only change the I color as a whole.
I'm still noob in Illustrator so I need your help to enlighten me.
Thanks


texts: How do I copy a layer with its applied effects?

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How do I copy a layer in Photoshop in the traditional method of selecting an area and CtrlC while maintaining the layer and it's applied effects?

I don't want to drag and drop the layer; I prefer the way File →  New will set the size of the new canvas to the size of the selected area.


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As shown in the picture I just want to make those 3 ends more round like a half circle maybe, but when I try to do that with Effect → Stylize → Round Corners it deforms/warps the whole object?

Why does it do this and how can I fix this or is there maybe another way to make the corners round (I know you can click on the round corner button thingy but that doesn't make them round enough)


texts: Cutting overlapping shapes to expose shape beneath

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What I'm trying to do is find a way to cut out the snake in some places so that the sword can show up and it can appear as if the snake is coiling around the sword. I've tried numerous techniques but nothing seems to be working..

Any ideas?


texts: Clipped layer area dont get uniform shadow in Photoshop

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See the problem below, Blue layer is clipped with the grey background but as soon the blue shape layer starts "Shadow Intensity is low"

Here is a closeup of the problem

Okay here is the Layer Panel for this


texts: How do i maintain the size and integrity of my QR code in Photoshop?

texts: As soon as my QR code is opened in Adobe Photoshop, the size is reduced. Is there any way to maintain the size and quality of the image so that the quality is not compromised. It becomes impossible to scan once I resize it.


texts: Sketch disable snap to automatic guidelines

texts: How can I disable snapping of a cursor to the red guidelines?


texts: cut object from path not working in inkscape

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I am very new to using inkscape. I have been learning from a huge amount of tutorials available over the net.
However, one thing that never works for me is "cut out from objects"

I've attached a screencast to actually explain what I mean.
Where am I going wrong here?


texts: How would you create this geometric logo?

texts: Is it as simple as creating a circle and doing step and repeat at an angle?


texts: Which free fonts are similar to this sans-serif Handel Gothic font?

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What is the font in this extract?

(hint: I've already found that it looks very similar to Handel Gothic, but the M is round on top)

and what free (or even open-source if possible) font (to use in a printed book) could I use to replace it?

Edit:

I actually decided to replace it with Roger White's Newtown:
http://www.fontspace.com/roger-white/newtown:

Edit:

I fixed the small caps by ``thinnering'' the font as explained here. The small caps have been adapted to the height and width of the small "x". The capital "S" is still bigger because that's part of the way it's supposed to look. Here is the result:

It's not strictly the same, but close enough for my needs, and the font is free (GPL actually) :-)


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I am trying to remove the background from the image in PS. I am new to PS and have tried the Color range option as follows with no luck

From the menu Select/Color Range
Click on the background area which will select some of the gray area
Adjust the Fuzziness and Range as shown below
Click on the eyedropper with a plus (+) next to it
Click on the gray areas that are not selected until you have a good coverage
Click OK
Press Ctrl-J to create a new layer with the selection

Any help would be great


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I am creating a presentation for a school assignment and wanted to include a visual aid I have seen before; however, obtaining tips for designing it has been extremely difficult as I cannot for the life of me figure out what they are called, or even what keywords to search for to find out. The graph should be shaped like an equilateral triangle (at least in my case - any symmetrical polygon with equal sides probably works) and compares points in such a way that adding weight to one point lowers the others accordingly, and vice versa, always maintaining the same total area. It is similar in principle to the "fast vs cheap vs good" diagram, but uses weighted values, sort of like a pie chart, rather than a simple "pick only 2."

The  first image below was the closest I could think of to search for and comes from a Pokemon game. The second, found by chance on Google Images, is exactly what I want; unfortunately none of its "suggested" images led me to the answer. This has been bugging me all day...


texts: Does Photoshop also pull HTML? Or just CSS?

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Im new to the most recent version of Photoshop, it has a cool feature I discovered where it takes the CSS of your design and copy's/paste's the thing into an editor.

Where would you arrange the HTML for it though? Whats the best way to quickly get around this? Are there tutorials?


texts: The problem with mockups for Branding/Corporate-Design applications

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I would like to ask you about a problem I’m facing very often at the end of a corporate-design process.

After all corporate-design elements are approved, I usually go on with proposing some interesting branding-applications (folders, pen, office stuff) which suit well to the branding-concept.

For this purpose I could google for branding mockups, but the weird thing about mockups is, that these products do not exist. Mockups are detached from the real product. I could pick a nice pen mockup I found online, that looks quite convincing with the logo on it, but if the client says “Yeah! This is a nice pen, I want that” I’m screwed. This pen doesn’t exist. It’s just a mockup.

And it’s not just pens, its actually every branding mockup product without unified proportions.

Isn’t this weird? How do you handle this?

How do you solve this problem that mockups are detached from real products?


texts: How do I directly set layer positions in Gimp?

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I'd like to directly set (i.e. type in actual coordinates of) the position of my layer in the image, like you can with the selection box:

(Not the size, but that would also be cool)

Is this possible?
Thanks


texts: Resize an element of sketch-app symbol without detaching

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I use sketch 51.1 and have a symbol like this:

I want to resize it in these three ways:

is it a way to resize a single symbol in three different ways without detaching it? If not, what is the best practice for resolving problems like this?


texts: Aesthetically pleasing and consistent way to handle mixed case abbreviations/acronyms

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Bringhurst tells us that, as part of harmony and coutnerpoint, the typographer should set abbreviations and acronyms in small capitals.  This is the style followed by many publications, including the Economist and the New Yorker.
However, in my writing, I have come across a dilemma: how to write mixed case abbreviations?  This is most acute with degree names: I can easily write  Master of Fine Arts as ᴍғᴀ, but how to do Doctor of Philosophy?  ᴘhᴅ just looks wrong.  How to handle this? I could make the 'h' smaller, but then the type risks being illegible.  I could also just write PhD, but how can I have different rules for different degree names? I could also write ᴘʜᴅ but that implies the 'h' stands for something.
Similar issues arise with legal names (the European Court of Human Rights is ᴇᴄtʜʀ, with the 't' looking unsightly) and many other commonly used terms.  Is there a way around this, or must we abandon Bringhurst's injunction?


texts: Open an .ico file in Photoshop or Illustrator?

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I have some icons I'd like to purchase and use from iconfinder.com, but they are only available as .ico files. I want to use these as part of a user-interface on a website, so I need them as either bitmap or vector format that I can bring into Photoshop to produce transparent .png files.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get .ico files into Photoshop through some third-party application? If it matters, I am using a Windows computer.


texts: Graphic term for precise/geometric double exposure images

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I need to find a graphic term that allows me to do a search of mixed split images with a clear division, no matter the type, especially photos. I don't find anything that fits, I tried with split images, double exposure, double images, divided images (which shows me a picture of Donald Trump...)

Double exposure is the closest but the type of blend is a fade, I can't find the adjective for a geometric or precise cut.

A simple sketch of the image type I'm looking for.

I just need the term to make a specific search and look for more examples like the one below, it's like a video transition frozen frame:

In other words, if I use this:

to make this:

what's the name of the resulting image?

In zeustudio.com they call it Photo Masking Cutouts, but Google Search doesn't show much results.

George Chamoun use a custom name for a specific project: Iconatomy, but it's the same idea

Add after the answer:

In relation to the valid answer I found animated Wipe Gradient Transition examples in monzoon.com


texts: Should I get the Intuos Pro SMALL or LARGE?

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My boyfriend is awesome and is going to be buying me one of those for Christmas this year. I have a macbook pro 13 inch mid 2014. I would like to use it to create digital art, digital drawing ect.

I want to make personal comic style, portraits, manga, I love water colors, paint, and use of colors. I like to draw people, nature, and animals. I'm not sure which I should use.

I've heard that the small is good if you prefer to zoom in for detail. I guess Im not sure. I wish there was a store that has them that would let you test them out but oh well.

I may call around but I figured I'd ask and see what you all think :) Thanks so much for the advice appreciated! Im not a newbie but Im not professional.

I havent use a pen tablet in a long time. I've never experimented with a medium sized one.


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can anyone suggest a small letterpress machine for a beginner? It's for personal use only. I absolutely love this print technology and have been watched countless videos on youtube. Can anyone suggest a good machine for a beginner if they are still in production?

This is some of the work that I wanna try to make myself:


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I was advised to post this question from User Experience (UX) to this site instead.

Assuming I always have enough space to write what I need to write, and I never get into a position like https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3330/what-is-the-best-font-for-extremely-limited-space-i-e-will-fit-the-most-readab, when should I use a condensed font?  Is it ever appropriate, or does it just make the UI feel cramped?

The reason I am asking this is because I have six items on the screen at once:

Would this be an appropriate time for a condensed font?  I can fit all the wanted text with a wider font, but there is less space between sections with this wider font.  However, the condensed font of course makes the text look more cramped.

Is this a case where a condensed font would be appropriate?  If not, when would be an appropriate time to use it?


texts: InDesing: How to get rid of the gap between a textframe and text in a large font size?

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I have a textframe with a large heading and some small text. Between the edge of the textframe and the first letter of each line is a small gap. That gap gets wider the larger the font size gets. I use a white space before the first line of the heading and then [ALT] + [<] to even out that space, but that doesn't get it perfectly aligned. When I needed it to fit perfectly I used two different Textframes and aligned these in the past, which doesn't seem to be the right way to do it.
Is there some way to get that gap even between large and small font sizes in the same textframe ?


texts: The Client's Customer Isn't the End-User. How Do I Pitch My Design Idea to the Client?

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I was taught to always focus the design on the end-user, which is the client's customer, because it's easier to pitch an idea when it's about the customer.

However, this one client wants me to design a logo and their brand material for their personal satisfaction, not their customer's. And they told me that a lot of their customers never notice or seem to care about their visual identity because of the industry they are in and that they are also still learning about their customers.

So my question is how should I pitch my design idea to the client when the customer isn't the end-user of the design?


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I've created a design in Photoshop CS6, and used a large number of smarts object which made the workflow more easy (at least for me). Now I've finished working on the design, and I want to "unsmart" all the objects due to the large file size of the PSD. I do not want to do Rasterize Layer because I want to keep every layer which was originally on the Smart Object.
I want to convert each smart object (some of them have Layer Styles applied) to a group (folder) which will have all the layers inside + the FX applied originally to the Smart Object and it will be in the exact location of where the smart object was before.
I couldn't find anything about this in the internet.
Also, some of the smart objects has inner smart objects inside of them. I don't mind doing this manually, but to copy & paste every layer in smart object is very annoying way, because I must scale and transform the layers pasted.


texts: How to find the fourth point on a plane defined by 3 points

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I am attempting to draw a plane defined by three points.

What I've done is I started out with a vertical rectangle in perspective, and I've drawn three points at varying distances from the points on the vertical rectangle, along the lines connecting the corners to the vanishing point.

Now, however, I am trying to find where the fourth point on the plane, defined by these last three points, should go. According to the picture, the fourth point should be on the line labeled with the question mark--but for the life of me I can't figure out where. Is there a general technique in drawing to find the point?


texts: Vectorizing artwork and finding source of an image

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So, hello all here at stackexchange.

I need help.

My client wants me to make a logo around this image.
But he sent me a jpeg despite apparently "knowing" how to convert to vector or svg for me to make my life easier.

Live trace is too messy of a method for this, and I know I should be able to export paths to illustrator from ps, but it seems to only transplant a blank image. I used to know a method in school to make this easier, but to make the file editable as is the only method I tried was to magic wand bits and export piece by piece by piece, or tracing it outright.

Preferably, I'd like this to be a layered document, saved as vector. Are there any possible methods of conversion?

Also, is there a whatthefont for images? This is clearly a jpeg of a nice vector but I have no idea where he got it, and I think I've asked before.


texts: What are some good resources for learning Synfig Studio?

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I am new to Synfig and am facing issues in understanding how to proceed with the application. Can you share some resources which can help me getting started with Synfig-studio. Or can you suggest some other tools for 2D animation which has support for Linux.
Thanks.


texts: Simplify and remove duplicates in a path

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I have a path as seen in this screenshot:

After "release compound path", I have multiple path segments superimposed on each other:

Ho can I make one path from several paths?


texts: Tip of stroke gets cut off at certain angles in inDesign

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I am lettering a comic in inDesign and I've come across this problem.

When I create the speech balloons the tip of the tail is cut off. This seems to be an issue with the angle. If I keep the lines straight, there is no issue as seen in the first example from the left.

I've changed the mitre limit in the right-most tail but it goes way too far out. I have also tried to change the path alignment from middle to inside, and outside, but similar problems occur.

My question: Is there a way I could get a middle ground between the second and third tail?

EDIT:
I want to achieve something like this in Illustrator:


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I'm unsure of why my label's golden/brown colour is so dull. It's in and was created in CMYK, the PDF was outputted to press quality. It's being printed digitally. (It's a small run of labels.) I've included an image of what it's supposed to look like vs what is printing.

I've chatted with the printer for advice but was essentially told it prints from the file and that's it.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Matching a Pantone Solid Coated colour with a Metallic Pantone perfectly?

texts: I'm creating some packaging for a drinks company, I'm trying to match the flavour colour used on the bottle with the bottle cap which is metallic. The problem is i'm not getting a good match using pantone premium metallics. Just wondering if its possible to mix the flavour colour (Pantone 2995 C) with a Pantone Silver to get a perfect match? Any advice welcome...Thanks


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I'm trying to change the colour of animal fur to make it look natural, as if the fur has actually grown/been dyed that colour. I've tried a colour layer with various blend modes, hue/saturation layer and a gradient map. They all work ok, but the effect isn't quite right. It's easy to get light colours that looks painted over, but I'd rather have a dark colour that just retains the texture of what's underneath.

This is what I'm trying to achieve, with shapes that look vaguely like letters:

best example of cat that says 'cat' on it: http://www.shareably.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/unique_cat_fur_23.jpg
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unusual-animal-markings-60.jpg
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unusual-animal-markings-41.jpg
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unusual-animal-markings-51.jpg

Here's examples of what I've done so far.

Blended colour layer

Hue/saturation adjustment layer

Gradient map adjustment layer

Gradient map on a darker original fur - hard to get the fur white like it is on the top of the donkey. It looks more like a shaved/spray painted patch than its real fur.,,,

Originals:


texts: How can I recreate the shadows and blur effect using Gimp?

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So I'm fairly new when it comes to working with images and creating different effects.

But can anyone explain what effect is being applied to the conference logos in the following link?

The middle of the logo is brighter and as you work your way outward, it gets darker.

Are there any good tutorials to reference in to recreate this effect? I'll be mainly using Gimp for this.


texts: Creating a named CMYK swatch with specific properties to enable contour cutting

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When creating images/text in Illustrator ready to be exported (eps, AI or pdf) to enable me to print & contour cut on my vinyl printer, I have to take the following steps in Illustrator to create the cut contour:

a. Create the shape, and select "No fill".

b. Select "stroke", and open the fill & stroke window.

c. Using CMYK, colour the stroke as 100% magenta.

d. Select "create swatch" and create a new SPOT colour, which must be named "CutContour"; set the stroke width to 0.25mm, and the mitre limit to 1.

I am new to Inkscape, but I can see that I can set the stroke width and the mitre limit, and I can use "stroke paint" to colour the stroke as 100% magenta as a CMYK colour. However, I cannot see where to (a.) set the colour as a SPOT colour, or (b.) give the newly created colour a NAME (which is vital if the print & cut software is going to recognise it as a cut line).

Can anybody help please?

Much obliged!

Steve


texts: How to rename individual fonts so Photoshop recognizes them as a font family?

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I downloaded some weight variations of a single font (ex. light, regular, bold, etc.) but the naming conventions used weren't consistent (ex. Font Light, Font LLight, etc.). I think Photoshop reads them as separate fonts because the naming within the file isn't consistent so I'm unable to simply change the font in the "font weight" dropdown. Instead I have to search for the name of the specific font weight every time I need to make a change, which becomes tedious.

Is there an easy way to fix the font file names so they appear as a complete font family in Photoshop?


texts: Photoshop is automatically changing colors of an image

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I am fairly new to photoshop, and I was drawing images for a client's wedding invitations today.  The image I created was white, and it wasn't clear enough against the backdrop, so I tried to increase the stroke size around it.

That part worked ok, and it outlined the image in black.

When I attempted the change the outline to white, something odd happened.  The image became rainbow colored.  And I have about 10 images it did this to. . .

WHAT IS GOING ON?!  I just want the images outlines to be thicker, so they stand out against their watercolor backdrop.

Thanks!


texts: How to split a text box based on new lines on Sketch?

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Are there any ways/plugins to split a text box into multiple layers based on new lines / line breaks on Sketch?

Below is the result I want:


texts: Outlining a group of movable objects in Inkscape

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So I have a group of completely arbitrary objects in Inkscape that I want an outline around.

Not around each individual object, but around the group as a whole.

So I convert to paths, do a Union, and set my Stroke. Success!

....Except I forgot to mention that I want the component objects to be autonomously movable for the sake of reuse and animation.

The process I just detailed leaves everything as one consolidated image, defeating the reuse purpose.

Now, I obviously can't set a stroke on the group itself. That just sets the stroke on the components. But wait! Inkscape has cloning, right? So if I clone and Union the clones....

Oh.

Now, I suppose I could just eternally destroy my work and do it all over again. That is always an option. A horrible, horrible, option, but an option. All the possible workarounds I've seen or come up with myself in a day of searching fail at the point of remaining linked to the original, and some also eliminate the path that lets me do fun things like Path Effects. I do like playing with line width, but I suppose I could get over its loss if that's the only way to save time.

Are there any tricks I'm overlooking to be able to link an outline to a dynamic group of shapes?


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I’ve been doing some work on trying to figure out some color themes for light and dark modes for a UI (aren't we all these days?). Basically, given a particular light theme how might we determine the “equivalent” dark theme? After a couple of experiments/prototypes I started to use contrast ratios between colors to calculate the dark version of the UI. For one version, the hypothesis was that if the contrast ratios were the same between two colors across light and dark themes, they would be just as easy to distinguish in either mode. I think I’m learning that is not the case…because of how math works. I was hoping someone here might have some insight on this. I’ve been scratching my head on it for a while.

Example
In the image below I have two sets of colors (light set and a dark set). The contrast ratio for the two sets are both 1.48. I would think that if two sets of colors had the same contrast ratio they would also appear to have a similar difference between the background and foreground of each set.

Note: Given a contrast ratio of 1.48, I know that these particular colors shouldn’t be for text but this is just an example to illustrate a problem.

However, in the image above the light set of colors seem much easier to distinguish than the dark set. I know this is a bit subjective and can depend on a number of factors (my monitor, calibration, ambient lighting, how good my eyes are, etc..) but I was thinking that a similar contrast ratio would appear to have a more similar difference.

It starts to make sense as I consider how math works, though. Darker colors at a given contrast ratio are going to be closer together in terms of relative luminance as opposed to lighter colors.

In contrast (no pun intended), if I consider colors that have the same difference in relative luminance as opposed to ratio I end up with colors that look more similar (to me)...but still not right.

All in all, I’m struggling to figure out if there is a way to calculate a dark theme based on a given light theme.

Should I be basing it on something other than relative luminance and
their difference/contrast ratio?
Am I misusing contrast ratio in this case as it is typically (but not exclusively) targeted at text on background scenarios?
Am I just crazy and the images above that use contrast ratios do, indeed, seem similar?
Have I overthought all of this and there is a much simpler solution to create an “equivalent” dark theme from a given light theme? Equivalent, in this case, means that all elements of the UI are just as distinguishable and legible across both themes.

Thanks for your time.


texts: Why is my "clip adjustment layer to layer below" button greyed out?

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I'm trying to set an adjustment layer to clip to an entire group of layers, but the button is greyed out.

How can I do this? Why is the option greyed out?

(Photoshop CS5)


texts: Layout of a piece that will be folded horizontally (InDesign)

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I'm creating a promotional map, that will fold down to 4" x 9"

When someone opens the map, it will get to be a large piece with one horizontal fold, so when opened, the text/folds are oriented like this:

There will be a lot of stuff to set up on the "upside down" page, so I would really like to be able to set up my InDesign file like that shown above (working upside down is not fun for me).

What would be the smoothest work flow to produce this?

Set up 2 separate InDesign files (one for just page 1 and 2, and another for Inside and Outside) and place page 1/2 in the second file with page one inverted?
Is there some other method I'm not thinking of that will be easier?


texts: Are there rules for using warm and cool grey tones together in UIs?

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I am currently working on redesigning a web app and want to reduce the number of colors used, especially the lot of different grey tones - warm and cool mixed up as accents for UI elements and the background.

What I want to achieve with the new color concept is to increase reliability and trustworthiness by eliminating colors that somehow don't fit in. So I came across those different versions of grey.

Is it a good idea to mix warm and cool grey tones in the UI of an application (web or desktop) and if so, how similar are they allowed to be? Especially in combination with a small set of accent colors?

Personally, I feel like it is a bad idea - as different warm/cool grey tones (both used as 'background accents' somehow don't go too well together in my aesthetics. But as a designer, I don't just want to rely on personal opinions. So, are there any rules of thumb or guidelines to follow? So far I haven't come across color schemes that include both warm and cool grey tones.


texts: How do I achieve this screenprint-like effect in photoshop?

texts: how would I go about replicating a similar effect to the one shown here in photoshop? It seems sort of like a duotone effect, but I like how there is some texture and you can see the dark grey coming through the yellow dots. How did they do it?


texts: What is the name for these vertical bands in this graph?


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How can I generate a volume of revolution of the following plane around the point (bottom left)?

I would like to have something like this:


texts: How to modify thickness of existing graphics in Inkscape?

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I have an existing svg image:

source: https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/165174/thought-bubble

And I'd like to modify the thickness of lines to be a bit slimmer. How could I achieve that in Inkscape?

The manuals suggest editing stroke and fill but I can't seem to find any way to have these attributes influence the image.


texts: Which font is used in this Warranty Rewards logo?

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I’m having a hard time identifying this serif typeface used for Rewards in the above logo a client presented to me. They also have no recollection to what the name of the typeface is.

I’ve tried multiple resources including What The Font and my own collection of typefaces. But no luck. The closest I can relate the typeface to is Fairplay Display because of the ear on the letter r. But besides that, all that I can tell is that Rewards contains both a serif and sans-Serif collection of faces, due to the letters a and e being san-serif like.

I can also assume that this is a really bad script typeface found on Font Squirrel. But, I couldn’t find anything there either.


texts: How do you move the text anchor in Inkscape?

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There is a very nice way of including Inkscape graphics in LateX files such that Latex renders the text from the image. Here is the description.

Now this answer already describes how the text is positioned. Unfortunately it just treats aligning the text left, center and right which will move the anchor. However, due to the nature of my illustration I need the anchor to be at the top. How can I get there?

In images:

I have:

I want:


texts: Are there any presentation software or sites besides Microsoft Powerpoint?

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Are there any good presentation software/websites
besides Microsoft Powerpoint that are

Free
Simple to use
Doesn't require sign up

Thanks.


texts: Acrobat Pro: how to add multiple custom stamps at once

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Is there a way to add many custom stamps at once? Adding within the program only allows one stamp to be added at a time (I have 71 to add). I tried adding the image files to the stamps folder within the Adobe program folders, but they do not show up in the program when I do so.

I have also tried creating a new category and adding a single stamp from within the program (which creates a PDF file in the program folders). I then added all of my image files to the program-created PDF, but the added stamps do not show up in the program.

Really hoping for a simple solution.


texts: How to fill a selected path with color in Illustrator?

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I am new to Illustrator and I am editing artwork which seems that it is drawn by paths.

My problem is I am unable to fill the part which is selected in the below image:

How I can fill the shape with a color?


texts: Make a design with just 1 hue in photoshop

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How to make a monochrome display-like style in Photoshop?

For example, like the following image:

I am curious how to make part that is monochromatic and looks like a display.


texts: Choosing placement of colorbar and registration marks in illustrator

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In Illustrator's print dialog, I can choose trim marks and color bars, however it decides to place them outside of the print area.

The print I'm working on will be die-cut and would like to move the registration marks and color bars to a specific area inside the die-cut area.

Is it possible to get access to those marks in illustrator as objects?  I'd be happy with a pointer to a vector based template as well.


texts: How to fill this type of gradient in circle in photoshop?

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How can I fill this type of gradient in a circle?

This is my sample:


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Here is what's going on: The graphic on the left does not have a fill, while the graphic on the right does have a fill.

Here's what I am trying to do: My end result is that I would like the graphic that doesn't have the fill to closely resemble the graphic on the right, even without a fill covering up the extra lines. To get the graphic on the left to look how I would like, I would need to remove the parts of the shape that have a red line over them.

When I use Pathfinder to try and remove the unwanted lines, it produces a result that ends up removing far too much.

Does anyone have an idea of how to accomplish this removal cleanly and/or without Pathfinder?

Edit: I should also mention that these graphics are made up of 4 individual rounded rectangles that are not merged / united together.


texts: How to pull out the guides from ruler like photoshop in sketch 3?

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I am learning sketch 3.
I need to create new guides.
Smart guides can't help me in sketch 3.
Is there a way to do this?

Thank you very much!


texts: Saving text effects as graphic styles in illustrator

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I created text effects a few times before and tried to save them as graphic styles by sliding the finished text into the graphic styles panel. But when I do this I just get a blank white box. Its the same when I try to load it back into the graphic styles panel from the library.

I recently watched a tutorial on creating graphic styles and I noticed the style was created using the appearance panel which I'm still learning to use.

What am I doing wrong?
Is creating in the appearance panel the only way I can save a graphic style?


texts: Replicating red/blue image separation effect

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I was wondering if anybody would be able to explain how to create the type of image that is done here.

Does it require RGB lighting whilst taking the photograph or can it be done in Photoshop?


texts: What style features disproportionate figures, bright colours and noisy shadows?

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Some examples of what I mean:

From Gmail:

From a video by Cosmin Serban:

From Eurowings in-flight magazine:

Also Eurowings in-flight magazine:

From The Goods by Vox:

Also from Vox:

I have seen designs like this popping up everywhere, but when trying to search for it/tips on how to achieve a similar style, the only label I could find was broadly 'flat design' (or Flat Design 2.0, like in this question, but which doesn't narrow down on the shapes themselves or the grainy shadows). The style I am looking for specifically includes:

Few colours, but vivid ones, often used abstractly (see the third example: the skin colour is reused on the shoes and roses, and as a detail on the trousers). Also gradients sometimes appear, especially to indicate depth.
Grainy/noisy shadows, sometimes looking like a paintbrush stroke (see the details in the fourth example)
Disproportionate shapes, usually people with big bodies and small heads (the last example demonstrates this well, although it is not coloured too interestingly). Shapes are (almost) always curved/rounded off: never completely sharp.

I would like to get a name for this style, and I'd be interested in any resources talking about making it yourself. I think it gives off a certain feel that I would really like to replicate, but am unsure how to start, partially because I don't know the name/what to search for.


texts: Best way to document ideas when brainstorming website design

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Alright I am thinking of designing this site for xyz need or customers. Now when i am thinking...ideas that pop up in my mind are about lot of things, which are not necessarily related to graphic design immediately.

Ideas cover from new features, animations, inquiries/theories, user interaction, website layout...to everything else.

Basically ideas are born from new insights that i gain as i go deep into the goal. I could just write them, but some are just too simple to be written down. But i know i will rediscover them like 4 times more because i'll also forget them. Whereas others require more thinking but if i think about them i'll definitely lose the mood that i am in for doing what i am doing now. And it may very well all amount to procrastination.

So it got me wondering is there any tool, strategy, workflow, tips, or anything else that helps in profiting from these ideas.

Tools like that let me store ideas by features double click them to see extra details.

Workflow...like stop every now and then review what you have done..write down things that you think you ought to further research or think about. Also dot down new features that seem very helpful and natural by user's point of view.

or keep notebook/(notepad open) near by to write down whatever is in your mind then later when done go over them..

or one other way would be store ideas but don't implement them but think of them features that you would like to have implemented in next version.

I guess my goal would be to not waste brain cycles, minimize amount of revisions, and mainly not lose brain gems.


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I have to design flyers for someone, which will be printed in black and white (low budget thing). My problem is, I am used to design with colors, to use colors to direct the focus, to emphasize important points, balance the overall design, etc.. and I have no idea how to do without colors.

I have tried to just use tones of grey instead of several colors, but it still feels like playing with one color, and I am not going anywhere. Even small pieces of one color would totally change my life, but it is not a possibility.

I am pretty sure there is a way to make a good design even with only grey shades, and more talented people are able to do it, but I just don't know about it. Where can I look for inspiration? Are there applicable principles for this kind of design?

Thanks!


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I want to start designing my own icons.

I already have some experience with Photoshop and I made some icons using a tutorial.
Do you have any tips on how to learn icon design?


texts: Finding and replacing footnotes inside punctuation

texts: Is there any way of finding and replacing footnotes inside punctuation with the same number footnote outside the punctuation? I don't mind doing separate find and replaces for all conceivable types of punctuation (full stops, commas, exclamation and question marks) but if I have to do it all manually it's going to take days as there are thousands of footnotes and almost all of them have been placed inside punctuation, i.e. footnote then full stop rather than the footnote after the full stop. I know there is a GREP to find the footnotes but I can't find a way of getting it to replace the footnote with the same footnote, or of leaving the footnote and moving the punctuation. Thanks in advance!


texts: Make InDesign not re-hyphenate an already hyphenated word

texts: On a publication that I work on I run into a problem where hyphenated words are hyphenated again at the end of a line. (Here's an example:  self-sufficent would end up self-suffi-cent) Is there a way to change the hyphenation settings so that this will not happen?


texts: Photoshop: Does creating a work path from type lose quality?

texts: In Photoshop there is a menu option to create a vector from a text layer: Layer > Type > Create Work Path. Does this lose any quality over leaving it as a text layer, such as font hinting?


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How can I setup actual 100% document scale in InDesign?

I'm working on a document for web and I need to everything as is. It looks like that InDesign calculates scale based on 72 PPI yet my monitor is 94 PPI. Thus the canvas is bigger than it's suppose to be.

In following example I've created the document is 800 px in width, but at 100% it is about 1044 px. That's correlated with my calculation with PPI: 94/72 * 800 px = 1044.4 px.

How can I setup a proper PPI so I can see 800 px document as exactly 800 px? In Photoshop everything works fine. Thanks.


texts: Illustrator: paste text without formatting

texts: Is it possible to somehow copy and paste text from TEXT-A into TEXT-B and make the pasted text formatted like TEXT-B? It always keeps source formatting. In InDesign apparently it's possible via Edit menu, but not here (I'm working with CS6 on Win7)


texts: Adobe Illustrator draws multiple shapes while drawing single shape

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I'm trying to draw single shape using shape drawing tool in Illustrator but,
when I hold click and slide my mouse, it draws multiple shapes. How can I resolve this issue ?


texts: Gimp: How can I only keep shades of yellow in an image?

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I have a spectrogram of a sound

Darker colors mean quieter parts, brighter colors - louder ones. I need to erase all "quiet" parts from an image and keep all "loud" ones. Loudest parts are represented by shades of yellow. I'm only interested in partly keeping the spots marked by white rectangles.
How do I erase everything that's not bright yellow from an image using Gimp?
P.S. Unfortunately, it's not an option for me to do it analyzing the actual sound. This needs to be done through analyzing the image.


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This is a common issue but none of the previous posts had the same thing, and none of the fixes worked.
As the title said, I cant move the layers up and down the layer stack, and when I add a new player it isn't named "Layer" but rather "final" which is rather odd, might have something to do with it.


texts: I'd like to open a PNG image in GIMP, change its DPI, and save it (overwrite the original file). I only want to change the DPI and nothing else. I mean size, colors, transparency, compression etc. must not change. What should I do exactly?


texts: How to proportionately rescale a 3D model by a specified amount in Maya?

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I'm working with Maya for a uni course and still really green with it. I've got (what is probably) a fairly simple issue. So apologies if this is really basic.

Basically we've been building a character in Maya, and in a separate file, we've been building a unicycle for said character to ride. However, when I import the character into my unicycle file, the character is a literal giant in comparison. I'm assuming I've accidentally constructed my character using centimeter units of scale, while the unicycle has been built using millimeters.

So I need to know how I can resize my character down to the millimeter scale so it fits with the unicycle?

The character already has joints and bound skin, I'm hoping that doesn't complicate things too much.


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How to get rid of the Isolation Mode Layers without losing any Layers. See the image, for example, attached.

Another way to state the question would be how to convert isolated layers into normal layers.

Issue: when we save the isolated layers disappear. I have to get rid of this.

Important Update: while saving all the Isolation layers disappears.
Please check here.

I hope that there must be some remedy.


texts: The graphic design theory behind the landing page

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Today most of the landing pages are using common pattern like following

Navigation bar section
Full width section with scrolling images
Three small sections with feature images
Contact details

Is there any design theory behind this?
How to organise a good design to the landing page?


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I'm pretty new to CorelDraw, coming from a background of Photoshop. Now I'm designing a Brochure which needs to be done in CorelDraw and exported to PDF for printing. I believe the press only prints in CMYK color mode.

While I publishing the CorelDraw design to PDF the colors the washing out. I think I'm missing some configuration.

I can fix this by changing PDF generating settings which saving the PDF in RGB mode. But this might affect the printing, any suggestions will be helpful.

Another thing is I'm using some gradient effects. Will these be printed in good quality ?


texts: Why do images appear to have one file size on desktop but then another in an image editing piece of software?

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Recently, I have started to look into image optimisation.  Specifically, optimising images for the web.

Using Photoshop, I have come to notice that when you open a new image, the file size could appear around the 45kb whilst in Photoshop, it can appear at over 2mb.  That's a big difference.

Furthermore, I can then save the image for the web, where I can reduce the file size by over 75% in Photoshop but when I then look at the file size on my Desktop, the image either has negligible difference or can sometimes appear larger than the original, despite Photoshop indicating that the image has been reduced.

How can all this be?  Am I missing something here?


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This question might be kind of stupid... but I am looking into creating multiple websites featuring a couple different fonts from Typekit and other places.

I was just wondering... if I have a font on my computer that doesn't say "Non-commercial use only" or something like that can I put it on web without a problem?

Thanks! And ask me if you need any more clarification.


texts: My logo goes blurry when I try and upload it to instagram

texts: I've made a logo in photoshop, it's high quality. When I then export and try to upload as my instagram profile picture, it becomes blurry. Is anyone able to help.


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I've read through a few threads and tried section numbers, but can't work this out.

`Pg1 - cover
 Pg2 - contents
 Pg3 - section a cover
 Pg4 - section a 1 of 2
 Pg5 - section a 2 of 2
 Pg6 - section b cover
 Pg7 - section b 1 of 2
 Pg8 - section b 2 of 2
 Pg9 - cover`

I'm trying to get "1 of 2" etc generated automatically based on starting a new section, independent of page numbers.
Sections don't seem to do this, but I can't work out what will.

Any clues?


texts: Adobe Illustrator - importing DXF files from QGIS3

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I am trying to import .DXF files into Illustrator which are produced by QGIS3, when creating the QGIS3 dxf output there are many options to choose encoding types of the .DXF file.

All options that I have tried so far have resulted the file loading but not viewable, as the items seem to be scaled incorrectly. So, my question is:

What .DXF encoding formats does Adobe Illustrator accept/work best with?/ Where would I be able to find this information?


texts: Should the F-Pattern be considered in all designs?

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The F-Shaped pattern is a pattern found in an eye-tracking study as the primary areas people glance over when reading a website.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

Is this something we as graphic designers should consider not only in web but in all mediums? If so do we give priority placement to our content for maximum benefit to our end-users or to advertisers/sponsors for maximum revenue?


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I have a PDF with a character that looks roughly like a backwards g and is typed using the WP font (it is a "k" in that symbolic font). When I export the text this gets logically switched to a k. I believe using alternate fonts for special characters was common before the expanded Unicode character set was established?

I want to be able to get this text out in some way which allows me to either:

Have the correct character be represented in the text or
Have the characters be replaced with a placeholder I can then do a replacement with.

I have tried exporting in several ways using various PDF export tools including acrobat pro, as well as look for a way to search and replace in the document for a k in that font, but I am at a loss. Does anyone have a loose thread I can pull at on this?

In preflight I can see all the pages with at-issue characters (there are several others besides the example above), but this is thousands of needed replacements in the first document alone.


texts: What font/typeface does Adobe Lightroom use for its UI? How do I recreate the font+kerning in Evernote?

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What font is used for the folder names (left pane) in the Library Module that all your photos are stored in?

Once I know the font, how do I get Evernote 6.25.1.9091 (Windows 10 Desktop version) to use that font and have the same identical kerning as Lightroom? Several fonts don't match Lightroom in terms of kerning like:

Segoe UI
Segoe
Adobe Clean
Myriad Pro

Here is what they look like in Evernote:

Segoe UI looks the closest, but the kerning is off and Evernote's "﹣" small hyphen minus (U+FE63) is super short when compared to Lightroom's. Does lightroom and Evernote have different kerning engines just like how Windows 10's File Explorer UI has a different kerning Engine for Segoe UI as well?


texts: How do I replace a white or colored background with transparency in adobe illustrator?

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I am working on a Logo and am attempting to make the background transparent. Unfortunately, I have zero graphic design experience and am unable to figure out how to get this done.

Could someone walk me through how to do this?


texts: How can I add two gradient layer styles photoshop

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I made a rectangular shape. I set it's layer style to gradient overlay and the layer mode to multiply.

It looks great with one layer, the one on the left. However when I make another shape and repeat the process only with different gradient orientation.. it does not seem to properly multiply over the previous. Hence the interruption in the corner.I also tried grouping the shape and adding the second layer style to the group.

Practically I need a left to right gradient and a bottom to top one blending together to form a nice corner shadow.

This is a screen:


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I'm having some difficulties with Gradients... again. There's this image with the artwork of a bezel in which the artist simply "dropped the brush", guess that's an appropriate analogy, with the colour of the lens' case in the bezel's metalon (the "body"), causing a very distinguishable stain:

I tried some different approaches I know but I couldn't get a decent result because of the gradient, so I ended up deciding to paint the whole thing as close as possible. I masked only what you can see above and build a Gradient definition very close to the original. I could share the .GRD file but I don't know how.

But no matter the direction I drew my Linear Gradient I couldn't get anything even close to this.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Adding anchor points at a specific measurement on a curved

texts: I have a curved path with two anchor points currently.  I want to add an anchor point 1.5" from one anchor point. I am not sure how to do this.


texts: Which Photoshop features are affected by different DPI or PPI tags?

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A Photoshop document‘s physical size, pixel density (DPI/PPI) and pixel dimensions are all linked.

Bitmap images contain bitmap data, which are a specific size (pixel dimensions). They also contain a DPI/PPI tag, which is usually a single value or pair of values (one for X, one for Y). The image's physical size is calculated using the pixel dimensions and DPI/PPI. This is how some print design apps place images at “100%” optimal size, which will typically be a different physical size to viewing an image at 100% in Photoshop.

Questions

Please note that the questions below relate to changing a document's DPI/PPI without changing the pixel dimensions of the image.

Given that DPI/PPI is just a single value contained within a Photoshop document, which — if any — features in Photoshop change depending on the document's DPI/PPI?
Do gradients and gradient dithering look different with different DPI/PPI values?
Do other layer styles look different with different DPI/PPI values?

Additional info:

DPI = Dots per inch
PPI = Pixels per inch

Sometimes metric measurements are used instead of inches, like pixels per centimetre.


texts: Ink drawing on school notebook art style name

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I am not graphic designer and this is my fist question on this site and sorry if I won't be clear enough or it's not fully related to this portal.

There are lot's of art styles e.g pixel art and so on and I am asking this question because I want to find out what is name of style of art which is used in mobile game Sea Battle and Sea Battle 2. Here are the image for more details.

The reason I am asking this question is that I want to find some free assets in the internet. I am not digital artist myself so I cant draw anything. Can you suggest me how would you google that?


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I don't know how to call this but how to make a monochrome like the one on bottom.
The exclusion (white), but originally it doesn't overlap.


texts: In Illustrator, how do I paste but re-size to fit artboard

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In Adobe Illustrator CC (latest version) I often find myself copy/pasting artwork from one file to another.

The problem is the artwork in one file is often larger than the destination Artboard, so I have to zoom out, re-size, then move back onto Artboard ... etc.

Is there a way I can 'smart paste' by telling illustrator to paste it, re-size it and fit it somewhere on the target Artboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.


texts: Is there a way to change the color of a .png object using Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I just downloaded a zip file of .png banners and arrows. However, they were all created black. Is there any way I can change the color of the objects in Adobe Illustrator?


texts: I have a very High resolution image in illustrator, which leads to a very heavy eps file size, I'm asking for a batch tool or a script to compress the eps image , in other words reduce its resolution without affecting the width and height of the image.I don't want to export the image as a separated Jpg file


texts: What's the difference between scaling text via transform and changing font size?

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Is there a difference between using Transform commands to scale text and altering the size of the font via Character panels?

I'm working in Photoshop CC


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Previously there was a blur dial in my Photoshop by which I could change the blur amount directly on the image. The dial was just outside of the blur pin area (inner circle around the pin). But now the dial is missing by anyway and I can't bring it back.

Please have a look on the second image. I have pin (#1/blue arrow) but there is no dial (#2/red arrow)

Can someone help me to turn on the blur dial again?

Thanks


texts: Compositing transparent paths so topmost pixel wins

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I'm having difficulty wording what it is I want to accomplish, but I'll try to explain. Let's start with the images below:

   (a)           (b)

Image (a) shows the image as I have it right now, with the proper transparency for the topmost layer. What I would like is for the darker rectangle not to show the angled rectangle behind it, like in image (b), but without breaking the path into pieces (and without the additional stroke next to the upright rectangle. It's not clear, but if you look at (b) closely, the dark rectangle still is transparent.

The catch, is that there won't be one angled rectangle, but many, each with varying degrees of opacity. I only want the topmost pixel to show through for each shape, though. I also need to be able to change it flexibly, so copying each shape into a clipping group for each layer below it would be really cumbersome.

This seems like this should be a compositing mode or something, but I don't know what to call it, or how to do it (if there is a simple way. Also, I'm using Illustrator (CS5).

Update

Since it seems my motivations aren't entirely clear, let me explain some more. The image is going to be used in a UI for the Cocoa environment. It's going to be a template image, which means the only color used is black. The only way to introduce shades of gray is by varying the opacity. That's why I need what seems like such a strange constraint.

Update 2

I updated my images to better reflect the transparency problems. The bottom layer is now also transparent. The only chroma value in both images is now Black, at varying opacities.


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im just wondering how you would go about making this texture overlay in photoshop. im familiar with masks and blending modes but i just cant get it looking right.
any help would be great.
cheers


texts: I am working on a graduation announcement for a client, and the images they want me to use are huge. They are around 55in by 88in with a resolution of 72. I asked if they had any other format of the pictures besides jpeg and they said no. I am trying to change the resolution then resize the images. Because if I just resize the image it's way too pixelated. Is there anything else I can do? My photoshop keeps crashing when I try to change the resolution before changing the size. I tried doing size first then resolution but those were pixelated too. `


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When I open a PNG in Illustrator CC and save it as SVG, once I open the SVG on the browsers I found out that the Photo has been shrinked. Can you tell me the reason and if there is a solution for that or not ?

Thanks in advance,

Waleed


texts: Is there a thing such as "too good" of a design?

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Ok, so I just ran into this idea.

Right now I am designing materials asking for donations for a charity association dealing with child hunger/starvation and lack of education from underdeveloped villages from my country.

While at a roadblock and looking for ideas, a lot of the posters/materials I found on the internet asking for donations are poorly made even if created by designing/marketing companies. [There were also some, more recent, good ones but that's a minority.]

Then it hit me, may there be a reason behind it? Are these posters designed intentionally with a cheap look?

Does a 'bad' poster give the idea that they didn't even have the money to hire a professional designer while a good design may trigger the 'they had money to hire a good designer but they are asking us for money?' idea?

Are there real life examples when asking for donations, a bad design is more appealing to the public rather than a good one? [this gets crazier by the minute].

Is there something really happening in a viewers brain when they see a good, fine and bad design asking for donations. All with complete transparency of their activity and full credibility.

How does someone choose which of the 3 causes [with the good, fine and bad designed campaign] is more worthy of their money? Will they pick the good design thinking of the time and effort put into it or will they choose the bad one thinking they are more in need of the money cause they couldn't even afford a decent campaign?


texts: Delete photoshop layer doesn't ask for confirmation

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I don't know if this is a repeated question or not but somehow when I delete the Photoshop layer it doesn't prompt a confirmation box if I want to delete or not.

Is it a normal behaviour or do I need to do some settings?

Advance Thanks for any help.


texts: How to add bleed in an image in inDesign which has important details around the edge that should not be cropped?

texts: I have a page in inDesign document that i want to be fully covered by an image. I have added bleed (3mm, the page is A5 size) due to printing but if i just extend the image to the bleeding area some of the image details in the edges will be cropped. How can i avoid that? The image should cover the whole page but contains info around the edges that should be printed.


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I've tried a grand total of 12 times to save my Krita files (called .kra) as .png or .jpg files, but it doesn't work. Each time I try, Krita freezes for a few minutes and then shuts down without saving it as either of the files.

Is this just my computer, or does this have to do with the program?

Could I open it in a different program and save from there, or is that impossible?


texts: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks disable floating and lock all panels and other preferences

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For the last few years I've been lazy and suffering through a poorly managed workspace in all these programs. It all started when I upgraded to the Mac versions instead of the Windows versions I had on an old laptop. On Windows, the preferences came pretty much where I wanted but on Mac I don't know how to change these things. I've scoured the Internets and haven't found anything useful concerning these issues.

1) How do you stop floating all windows and lock everything to the sides of the content pane? On Windows this is out of the box but on Mac everything is floating and I can't figure out how to change it. This occurs in all programs and it's very annoying to have the scroll bar hidden under an open panel.

2) How to change the save as preferences for Ai? Whenever I use this option, it never remembers my last location and always takes me to root. Very annoying when I have a deep directory somewhere and need to save several versions or different images there.

3) How to organize the file open/save as browser in Ai? In Ps, I can arrange the files displayed according to kind, date, etc. In Ai I can't and it's a jumbled mess every time I try to open or save anything.

4) In PS and FW, how do you get more canvas real estate? I have to work at a very close zoom sometimes and if I'm working near the bottom of the document I can't get it to the center of the screen because it won't let me go below the canvas. In Ai, I can move the canvas to the center where it is more comfortable for me to work with. I can't do this with the other programs and it's flush with the bottom of the screen. Very annoying.

Thanks for the help.


texts: InDesign to Word: Issues with spacing when editing Word document.

texts: I created a document in inDesign, exported it to PDF, and then exported the PDF into word. The formatting and style looks fine but my issue is when I try to edit the content in the word document. The spacing gets messed up when you try to replace some pieces of text in the word document. Is there any way to fix this or prevent it from happening in the future?


texts: Our company's new logo looks similar to another logo. Will this be a problem in the future?

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We are into Fintech space. We are doing a rebrand and the logo we have finalised unfortunately looks similar to the one on left in the below image. Now we are in a dilemma that if we should go ahead with this or not. Can anyone tell us if we can trademark this? Is it going to be a problem? Can the other company file a lawsuit against us? Also, did you see any other logo similar to us?

After your feedback, we have updated it like this. What do you think?


texts: Can I draw a three-points circle in Inkscape?

texts: As in subject: can I draw in Inkscape a circle from three points, similarly to CAD software?


texts: What is good Vector Software with a pencil tool?

texts: I am struggling to find a vector program that is set up similar to Paint Tool SAI or mainly used for sketching. It seems like all the ones I have tried don't even have just a plain pencil tool. Maybe I'm just missing something? The artists I like never seem to tell whether they're  programs are Vector or not. Help?


texts: How to input a specific Pantone color number in Illustrator?

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Can someone please tell me the steps to input a Pantone number in Illustrator?

For example, I have selected what I want to color, now I want to make that selection Pantone #300.  Where do I input that "#300" so that my selection now using that color?

I've looked all over the swatch panel and do not see how or where to do that.


texts: Batch replace placeholder image with a perspective warp?

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My goal is to be able to batch create a highly scaleable number of "product impression/example" images.

What I have is a Photoshop document, which will serve as a template, with 3 layers (ordered from foreground to background):

Layer 3: a layer with some shadow effects
Layer 2: a perspective transformed smart object containing an image
Layer 1: a stock photo

Layer 1 contains a stock photo with a large picture frame, in which I want to place the image from layer 2. To create a convincing effect, I need to transform and perspective warp the image from layer 2. On top sits layer 3, that casts some shadow to create a convincing effect.

My question is, how can I automate this process? What I want to achieve is that I can select a folder of product images which will then replace the image from layer 2 and export each individual image to a separate folder.

For my case, I can't use a Photoshop variable because that doesn't work with a smart object it seems. The number of images I need to process is in the thousands so doing it manually isn't really an option, plus that I intend to use the same technique on other templates as well.

I'm not restricted to using Photoshop for this task. Inkscape, GIMP, using a trick with Python or Blender or anything else would be perfectly fine as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Arrange one object specifically behind another object?

texts: I have a complex artwork in illustrator with a few hundred separate objects altogether. I want object A behind object B. I know I can send object A all the way to the back, but I would like it to be directly behind object B. If I send it back/forward one at a time, it takes an hour to get it to the right position. Is there a way I can send object A specifically behind object B?


texts: How do I keep the spaces in my dashed line from changing when I modify the line length in Illustrator?

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Using Adobe Illustrator CS6, I drew a line and clicked the "Dashed Line" option in the stroke palette.

When I change the length of the dashed line, by grabbing an endpoint and moving it or clipping it, the size of the gaps and dashes in the line change. I don't want that to happen. I checked the various boxes in the Transform options but nothing helps.

How do I keep the dashes and gaps consistent in a dashed line?


texts: Illustrator Action, Batch process - Let user draw a line or an area

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I am creating an Illustrator action that automates shape cutting however now I need to put a system in the batch process where it stops and let the user draw the line or an area according to which the shape will be cut. So far, I am unsuccessful. Can anyone suggest?

Scripts are welcome. No problem in using them.


texts: Free Style Guide / Brand Guideline Templates

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Does anyone know where / if I can download any for free? It's more just the content that I'm after, I could then tailor that and the design of the document itself to each branding job that I work on.

Writing isn't my strong point so a template would be a good starting point I believe.


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Is it possible to rotate a pattern fill in photoshop? I need to make a maze for a project, but I can't rotate a pattern to have the right perspective.

I found the vanishing point in Photoshop, but I can't seem to get it working, even with some tutorials found on the web.

When I go to Edit > Transform Path, I can rotate it, but not the right amount of degrees.

I included a screenshot of my work, hopefully it helps to understand my question.

Thanks a lot in advance!


texts: Anyone happen to know what font this is?

texts: Wondering the name of this font, or the next closest thing to it. Image is from the StudioCanal trailer for the re-release of the movie. I've tried What The Font and FontSquirrel without much luck.


texts: Automate combining 2 picture and adding logo without photoshop

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What I would like to achieve is for someone to be able to input 2 pictures, which would be center-cropped and stretched to 100% height of the new composition.
Also to have a logo added to the same place every time. The logo should have transparency.

Is there a way to do this without using photoshop. Maybe some kind of php page which the user could upload the pictures to which would then spit out the result?

I've attached a VERY crude drawing of what I mean...


texts: Is Inkscape good for creating 8bit graphic for mobile games? If not, what's better? I'm looking for a fully legal program, I know how to use Gimp but there's no vector graphic option.