texts: Can anyone suggest a paper similar to mass-produced movie posters?

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I'm looking to print posters similar to the mass-produced movie posters. Is there a place online that sells 13"x19" or 11"x17" or similar sized paper that I can use for printing posters?
I can't seem to find any info on the subject.


texts: Krita: how to add imported image to a layer mask

texts: I need to add an imported image mask to a transparency mask layer. I'm currently using Photoshop in my workflow and can import image masks created in blender and create layer masks with them, but cannot figure out how to do it in Krita.


texts: InDesign - Arrange doesn't work with stroke applied to frame

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I'm hoping someone has the answer to this.

I have a frame with a stroke around it, and I want to position a text box with the word 'bird' in front of it. There is no colour fill, but I don't think that matters. The 'frame with stroke' and 'bird' are on the same layer but I can't arrange the word to the front. If I drag 'bird' off to the side, it appears, and also appears when dragged in front of other text boxes, but won't show in front of frame with stroke.

I also tried putting them on separate layers but that doesn't help.

I searched this problem and found a couple of suggestions, one being to unlock all on spread, but nothing is locked and this is a new document created to try and figure out this problem, so no other lurking problems.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions, and please ask if I have not included any info that would help find solutions.


texts: Splitting a pdf into multiple pages with Adobe Pro

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another piece of software allowed my to export my document into a pdf, my desired format for sharing. However, the document is quite long, and when I print it, the entire thing is printed as a tiny stripe in the center of the page.

is there a way to zoom the print out, so that it fills the page width?  Maybe some way to add page breaks so that it prints like any other document?

Thanks in advance for your help, guys!


texts: Import PDF in CorelDraw2017 with image inside wrong

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I received a pdf from a company which needs to see it in Corel Draw 2017. So I can see the pdf as per the below image.

and for me it's perfect!
But when I import the pdf into Corel Draw 2017 I see something wrong

Why is my image in another position?

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks

Luna

Here is the link to get the PDF


texts: Move circle and connecting points in Inkscape (manipulate graph plot)

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I'm creating a network graph in R and exporting to Inkscape as a PDF (see image below). I would like to move the nodes around and have each node's edge (line connected to it) move with it. Is this possible to do in Inkscape?

My approach now is to ungroup the object, move a node and then try to move each edge and arrow object so that it lines up. But, this will take too much time. Is it possible to anchor one end of an object and move the other? Or is there a workaround to this?

Thanks.


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I am trying to use the blend tool to make a gradient that wraps around like a circle, but I can only get it to go 3/4s of the way. Is there any way to get it to go the full 360 degrees?

Step 1 shows a circle being applied to the blend.
Step 2 shows the circle replacing the spine of the blend (object > blend > replace spine)


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I have a bunch of social media icons that are in color that I'd like to make grayscale.  I've opened them all in Photoshop and am applying a black and white adjustment layer to each one.  The problem is each icon has a different underlying hue so I'm getting different shades of gray in the icons.  Is there an easy way to tell the black and white adjustment layer that I want the resulting gray hue to be a specific color (e.g. #666) so all icons match or do I have to just futz with the adjustment layer settings to match each one by sight so the grays all look the same?

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: Media Size, please stop resetting. (Adobe Illustrator Print Settings)

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I'm printing a bunch of sheets that have need usual print settings, and every single print, I have to go back and re-set the Media Size in the print dialog. If I forget, the print fails in a way that requires a full reboot and manual clean-up of the printer queue.

How can I get Illustrator to preserve my Media Size setting?


texts: Protocol for using other's designs for a demo

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I ask this question based on an incident I saw on Dribbble.  I am not going to say names or point fingers but a particular person had used someone else's designs as part of a demo and the owner was livid.  With that said I wanted to know:

What is a good way to approach other designers?
Is it bad practice to use other designer's work period?
Should it be a courtesy to always include reference of the other designer's to help support them to?

In regards to this, it was also mentioned that some theme developers that sold their themes also included the dummy content of other designers.

How would you pursue that?
Are the developers financially liable for technically selling your content?


texts: Photoshop transform selection bounds larger than selection

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When I select all documents' transparent pixels by selecting a patch of transparent pixels outside a pixel object and putting Selection > Select Similar, then Selection > Inverse, it gives me perfect marching lines around my non-transparent object. However, when I go Ctrl+T to transform the said selection, there's some mysterious extra pixels in the transform box that are outside the marching lines. This messes up my automatic script I'm writing.
Is there some simple solution I am overlooking?

I made sure the pixels were really "transparent" by doing a Clear after doing Selection > Select Similar. However, this had no effect on the mysterious extra space. But, if I dragged a marquee next to the object and 'delete' some of the extra space, it really does go away.

My goal is to use Selection > Select Similar to get the transparent pixels, then do the inverse and still have the selection transforming bounding box fit the marching lines if possible.


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I've got this image of one of our products (baby bottle nipple) and I need to change its color to Pantone 7596, which is RGB 92, 61, 49:

In Photoshop CS5, I first use the Magic Wand Tool to select the nipple. I copy and paste it into a new document. Then I use the Color Replacement Tool with these settings (following instructions in this article):

Mode: Color
Sampling: Continuous
Limits: Find Edges
Tolerance: 50%
Anti-alias: checked

However, the result doesn't look correct to my eyes:

This is my first time replacing an image's color. Should it be darker based on the RGB values? Or is this correct?

Here's the RGB color I'm trying to use in the image:

Thank you.


texts: Is there a command-line program that can convert an image to an ASCII art image?

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Is there a command-line program (for Linux) that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png?

To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the image below into ascii art

The output that I desire from a program should be similar to this one, which was created by taking a screenshot of the output of an image-to-ascii converter (the output was pure text)

I'm aware that GIMP has the ability to save an image as ascii art and aview can also convert an image to ascii. However, the former cannot be done via the command line and the latter only lets you view the output, not save it (I don't want to resort to taking a screenshot of the output).

I'm also aware that libcaca can save its output to an image, but it only outputs colourful ascii, like below.

Made by converting the source image to greyscale and then with the following command:

img2txt -W 70 -f tga input.jpg > output.tga

The reason for wanting a command-line program is to batch process a folder full of images.


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I want to create my own Font using some images that formatted as .PNG.

is there any tool to create fonts using this method or anyway to do this ?
because i'm more comfortable to create characters in Photoshop and save them as .PNG

Thanks,


texts: I'm trying to make my character look big, strong, and imposing, but it always ends up cute and fat. What am I doing wrong?

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Here is a quick example sketch:

This is supposed to be a big, strong, evil, imposing demon-sculpture, but to me it just looks a bit too cute and cuddly. What should I be doing to make it look more scary?


texts: Is line height related to the typeface used in css?

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I am trying to figure out how line-height in css works. I am setting body line-height to 1.5em ( 24px ). And I am using a link tag with font-size 24px.

I am expecting the total height of the inline element to be 24px. With 'Times-new-roman' it works as expected but when i use a custom font say 'Open-sans-latin extended', the height of my link is 33px.

I think line-height changes according to the font-face used. Am i right?


texts: How do I draw straight lines tangent or perpendicular to a path?

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The tangent is the line which is perpendicular to the local radius. Intuitively, it's the line "resting" or "balanced" on that point in the curve.

The perpendicular (or the normal) is the line crossing the tangent at a right angle.

How can I draw these, besides eyeballing it?


texts: GIFs on PowerPoint 2010 running at a lower frame rate than actual

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As the title suggests. I have to put a GIF I made on Flash in a PowerPoint presentation. But when I run the presentation, the GIF runs on a dreadfully low frame rate. Is this issue fixed in later versions of PowerPoint? Or is there a fix to it in the 2010 version itself? Or if there's another software I could use to make presentations which run the GIF properly?

I did search for this, but I could only find forum queries which were unanswered.


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I want to draw an animated signature.

The way that I draw it it's to cover it manually with a mask layer and keyframe each frame.

There is a more efficient way?


texts: Is there a way to lock a layer/group at the top of the layer stack in Photoshop?

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Been looking around, can't find anything on this. I would like it so that if I lock a layer at the top of the layer stack no other layers can be placed above it.

Is this possible?


texts: When I used Inkscape before, I was able to snap an object so it would align with the center or edge of another object nearby without going into the Align and Distribute window. Now I can't do it anymore. Did I accidentally turn this off without knowing about it? All I've been able to find is how to snap to corners and use the align buttons.


texts: For web, should a P3 image be converted to sRGB or left in P3?

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When preparing graphics for the web, if an image is using Display P3 color space, should it be converted to the so common (and so unfortunately named) sRGB EIC61966-2.1, or left in its native Display P3?

Considering how common P3 displays are becoming, if P3 is likely to be the final viewing medium, I'm wondering if it's a disservice to images to "standardize" them by squeezing them into sRGB space and lose that fidelity.

This article has really got me wondering.

This question is concerned with web content primarily, but feel free to elaborate beyond the web.


texts: how to create professional flowcharts in scribus?

texts: I believe that scribus is powerful. But I really can't find any way to make professional clean connector arrows between the boxes. Any help will be appreciated


texts: Illustrator: All objects in same layer (or in sublayers)

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I need sometimes re-edit Illustrator files made by somebody else and i have noticed that all objects are in same layer and it's sublayers. Elements might be also combined with each others (texts are combined with background images for instance).

What is the purpose of this, how it is made and can elements "restored" back to original state (text is not combined with other elements)?


texts: What size should portfolio thumbnails be? (Wordpress)

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I'm doing my portfolio (graphic design) on Wordpress and I was wondering if you know what the dimensions (in inches or pixels) that I should use for the image of the thumbnail for my portfolio.

Is there a standard thumbnail size we should use? Or is it dependent on the theme we are using? I'm using this theme: http://demo.select-themes.com/stockholm4/three-column-gallery/
and they are all the same size boxes rather than masonry.

P.S. are we supposed to design the thumbnail image on indesign or illustrator or photoshop? does it matter? is it best to save it as jpeg (as the other images on my site are saved as jpeg) but I was wondering if we should save in another format for best quality to display as thumbnail?

Thank you!! =))


texts: How to assess whether a non-designer values good design?

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I am in a situation where I need to evaluate some people (non-designers) based on how much they value great visual design.

This is in the context of company branding, software product aesthetic & experience.

To be clear, my question is not about assessing someone's taste, or their innate ability to recognize good design, its about assessing whether they agree that its important to have good design.

For example, a CEO candidate might have absolutely no design skills and only layperson design knowledge, but their past actions demonstrate that they recognize the importance of design. Perhaps they have hired a Creative Director and empowered her/his team within the company. Perhaps they have repeatedly engaged with reputable design firms on major initiatives.

What questions can be asked? What observations can be made?


texts: Largest commercially available paper size and binding for art books?

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Although there have been notable instances of very large photography books being printed, there doesn’t seem to be a way to search books by their size.
In other words are there printing presses that handle art books beyond folio size?


texts: Can i use Mrs Eaves premium font in my logo?

texts: I have Mrs Eaves premium font. Its the same font which is used in WordPress Logo.  Can i use it in my logo?. What is premium font mean?. Do i have to purchase license for each website's logo?


texts: Advice when hiring a freelancer for creating a company logo

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I'm about to hire a freelancer to create a logo for my IT consulting company. My personal thoughts:

The logo will be vector based as I might need to use it at different sizes.
It should look good in color as well as in black and white.
I'll give the artist as much freedom as possible, as I think the result will improve.
Antialiasing should be done using different levels of transparancy. So that I may use my logo on different colored backgrounds.

Some questions:

Which vector based file format should I choose? I work exclusively in GNU/Linux and use free software.
Should I ask for a color and a black and white version? The alternative is just to ask for a color version and just turn it into black and white myself, or let the printer driver take care of it.
How would you recommend I structure the project until delivery. I don't want to be unreasonable and I want the artist to have as much freedom as possible. Still it would be nice to get a few rough choices (maybe done using stencil or another quick way) fairly early in the project.
Should I provide 2-3 backgrounds which the logo should look good against? Or maybe just say that it should look against white and black backgrounds.
Anything else I should think of?


texts: Why would a designer want to purchase a typeface instead of using free ones?

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This isn't just a nagging question. It's to help designers (such as myself) to understand the importance of paid for fonts.

This  question is mainly based on my curiosity to why we should pay for fonts (not meaning we should get them for free) when there are a vast number of adequate fonts out there on the interwebs!
I understand that the fonts you have to pay for are (usually) very high quality but I'd rather use a free font from lets say, FontSquirrel that to me, looks just as good as most of the paid for fonts out there, instead of paying £30-50 for just one font family, and sometimes that's not even all styles (bold, italic, etc), just the original font.
I'm probably being narrow-minded (I hope) and I have never really had the need to buy a font so I was wondering apart from owning the license to use a font or to support the font creator, is there any other reason to actually use purchased fonts?


texts: Why does my embedded EPS look pixelated on my Photoshop PDF?

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I have a PSD file with an embedded .eps logo. When I export to Photoshop PDF and zoom in, all the text and shapes look very smooth, but the Smart Object .eps ends up not retaining its vector status.

When I double click the .eps smart object in Photoshop, the preview that loads shows me that it clearly is vector (I can zoom very far, and it'll be smooth).

However when I embed this in Photoshop and export to PDF, no dice. I've also tried with .ai and .pdf versions of the logo.

I am using Press Quality on the PDF export settings.

Thanks!


texts: Illustrator: creating two colour-wheel-like objects out of 23 circles/discs

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So what I'm trying to do is make 23 circles in the same style as the image below, but in two concentric rings instead of one big one. The circles should be the same size and also arranged in a gradient.

I know I could just "brute force it" and make them in the obvious way, but I'm trying to learn more about using Illustrator effectively and wanted a more Illustrator-y way of doing it that utilizes the tools and methods provided in the software.

Specifically I'm interested in how you, the experienced Illustrator user, would do the job. You don't have to explain it in painful detail, just enough that someone (who knows how to Google) could reasonably reproduce it. Thanks!

Note: This question previously was asking about Photoshop, but I learned from comments that Illustrator is more appropriate for the task.


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Google's Noto Fonts include, in addition to Noto Emoji, the color TTF font called Noto Color Emoji.

Can TrueType fonts have built-in colors?


texts: Levels/curves/gamma gradient in photoshop

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I have a raster image with an obvious gradient of exposure and contrast from top to down. I can easily find perfect adjustments using Photosho/Image/Adjustments/Levels or Curves  for any individual part of the image, but I need a corrected continous image (according to the unfortunate gradient in exposure/contrast). I found solutions for lots of gradients and tried adjustment layers, but could not figure out how to make an adjustement gradient for levels/curves/gamma.

EDIT for clarification:
I am dealing with grayscale imaging data, where the visibility of the dark/bright contrast on print depends on correct settings/adjustments. With the original data in the imaging application, you can play with brightness/contrast on the screen and easily identify the bright structures in parts of the image, but for print, one needs to find one setting that fits for the whole image area.
As example I added the famous checkerboard illusion (taken from http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html, where the shade increases smoothly.
So what I'd like to do is to create a mask/adjustment layer/whatever, that corrects for the uneven exposure/"shades". For the beginning, I'd be satisfied with a linear gradient into one direction.
I am looking forward to any help!


texts: How to remove stains from a white dirty car?

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I wanted to "clean" a car using Photoshop but Healing tool etc. don't work good enough to remove the dirt.

It looks like this:


texts: Are graphics tablets (drawing tablets) still relevant?

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So a precursor - I'm not intending to call their relevance into question, rather I am a non-expert looking primarily for an expert's view on whether a graphics tablet (the input device) offers any functional advantage over tablet computers such that they are still relevant tools to a modern graphics designer.

Long story short, my SO is an artist and she is purchasing a new laptop and is wanting to get more into graphic design. I had thought about buying a graphics tablet for her as a gift, as this is what all my artist friends used in university. However, I'm not really sure if they're still relevant?  Other than cost, does using a graphics tablet offer any functional advantage over a tablet computer?


texts: How do you draw a border around banners that aren't off-center?

texts: Does anyone know how I can draw a thin border around my Illustrator artboards where the border/stroke is equal on all sides after the export? What happens to me is if I have a 100px x 100px artboard, when exported it will be 1px on top, .5px on the sides and 1px on the bottom even though it is on the edge, set to inside and the correct dimensions.


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I am a 3D artist and I use a lot of textures for bump mapping etc...

If I take a regular 8bit black and white jpg image and add a blur to it with PS set to 16bit. Am I Gaining information? (I realize my image will be blurry, and I will lose sharpness detail) but will I GAIN pixel information with the blur gradients that are created?

So if I saved it out as Tiff, EXR, etc.. in 16bit, would it be a true 16bit image?

EDIT:

Added some test (have no idea if this was a fair comparision).
Clearly converting an 8 bit to 16bit is better. So something is being added.


texts: How to determine Photoshop layer in terms of bytes?

texts: Is there a way to determine how large a specific Photoshop layer or group is in terms of bytes?


texts: Object showing behind transparent gradient

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I want to draw objects that have a transparent radial gradient in the stroke paint option.

The problem I have is that I can still see the object behind because of the radial gradient. How make the bottom object not visible when another is placed on top of it?


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I am wondering when creating a new document in Photoshop about the color mode options. If you choose RGB Color there's another option via a drop-down which you can chose 16bit.

When I create a 1300px × 5000px 16bit document and save, the file size is already 32mb compared to 371kb with an 8bit document.

Why is there such a difference in file size and what is the use of 16bit vs 8bit?


texts: I have a bunch of colorants, what are the properties I need to know about them to predict the LAB values of the resultant mixture?

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Let's say I have a bunch of colorants/paints in liquid form and my job is to mix them together. After mixing, I will have to take a sample, spray-paint it on a metal substrate, dry it, and then examine the resultant Hunter-LAB values with a Konica-Minolta Chroma Meter.

Is it possible, if I have full knowledge of the specifications of these colorants/paints, to mathematically predict the final Hunter-LAB value of their mixture? Specifications as in:

Weight in kg of colorants used
Their LAB values upon spray-painting
Their tinting strength

Etc. etc.

If yes, what are the important specifications I need to know about my colourants before I can mathematically predict (using equations/formulas) the resultant LAB values?

If no, why is it not possible?

Thanks in advance!


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I'm primarily a UX/Interaction Designer, however, since I'm working for a fairly small company I'm having to overlap to graphic and visual design. I'm fine with this however I'm having a few problems.

Currently I'm building a color palette for an app and I think it works well and I've found a good balance using tools like coolors.

I'm used to backing up my design decisions with rationale to argue for my decisions within UX, but my problem is I don't have all the background knowledge to back up my decisions when it comes to picking a color palette. I'm faced with opinions from other members of the team and I have no way to argue for/against them, as such, it's difficult to arrive at a decision.

My Question:

What rationale can I call upon when proposing a color palette and how can I argue better for my decisions in this case?


texts: Critique: how to visually differentiate similar looking icons of "Test", "Save", "Load" & "Download"

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I'm Currently working on a mail template builder project. We're using a lot of icons and now I need to make some for our menu bar. As you can see they must represent Test, Save, Load, & Download actions. I believe I failed with my first try. Icons looking too similar, too many arrows et cetera.

I'd really appreciate an advice on how I can improve this situation.Thanks

Update:

Test/Preview - Tube / Eye / Checkmark (Solved)

Save/Save Draft - Floppy Disc (Outdated) (?)

Load/Open Draft - Single Circular Arrow / Open Folder / (?)

Download - Same (?)

My main problem is an amount of icons with arrows here. 3 is too much. I want to reduce it to 2 icons.


texts: What's a good, free, program for creating graphs based on Excel data?

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I let it slip to a friend that I took some GIS courses before, and he asked me to help him make graphs/charts for him. Being the good friend I am, I agreed, but only if he would buy me lunch.

My old go-to program was Tableau, but it's no longer free (you need to register it with a business or something like that).

I do have access to the entire Adobe Suite, but I doubt that will be useful.


texts: In Inkscape is there a way to preserve file name of imported images?

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I import (embed) a lot of jpg's and png's to Inkscape, many of them visually similar to each other. When you select an image, the tool-tip/status bar message will say something like: "image 1000 x 1400: embedded in layer..."
Is there a way to get Inkscape to keep the original name of the image, so that if it was 'Lincoln-3' on your desktop it is 'Lincoln-3' in your drawing? The file name is preserved when Linking, but that is not an option for me.


texts: How do I get the menlo font onto Google Docs?

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I want to get the menlo font onto Google docs but it's not in Google fonts.
It looks like this:

The big brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

However, it's not available. I need it because that's what the F12 console defaults to and I'm writing a book about JavaScript.


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Yahoo is currently changing its logo's font every day and I particularly liked this font:

Would anyone know if this font is a custom development of Yahoo or if it is some (possibly paid) public font?
I tried myfonts.com but it couldnt identify it.


texts: How to draw a semicircle inside of another one in Illustrator?

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I am having trouble drawing a partial circle inside another circle.

The outer shape is actually a lower case "b" with a font converted to outlines, so as you can see, the circle is not perfectly round.

You can see the general idea I'm going for - I want that semicircle inside to be equidistant from all parts of the inside of the "b". If you look very closely, it's not. I just drew a circle and stretched it.

How can I do this properly?


texts: Removing colored background behind woman's hair

texts: I am using Photoshop CC attempting to remove the background from a woman's hair. I've tried the background eraser tool and select mask but neither have worked. I've included the photo as an attachment. Any suggestions are welcome.


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I'm looking to create a "retro" effect on some images. I don't know a better name for this style, the main features of it being few colors, flat design, and bold outlines.

Some examples:

Source image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Zion_angels_landing_view.jpg

"Retro" style:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/adg-bucket/zion-national-park-angel-s-landing/medium.jpg

Source image:
http://image.boomsbeat.com/data/images/full/113727/rick-knepper-jpg.jpg

"Retro" style:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/7138b6Gz1bL.SY450.jpg

My inspiration is the posters of US national parks made in the 1930s that have a retro/vintage style to them that I'd like to recreate on my own images. What are some tools that I could use to achieve something close to this? Ideally something in script form that I could apply to a big set of images.


texts: What is the correct way to convert from HDR to EXR without data loss?

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I purchased a pack of HDRis that are in HDR format. I want to convert them to EXR files. If I just do a "Save As" in Photoshop CC to EXR, will all data and EV information be retained? Will colors be exactly the same in the EXR? I am using these in various 3D apps for lighting. Quality is important.
Thanks!


texts: stretching clipping mask based on clipping mask dim photoshop cs6

texts: what should I do if I want to stretch the clipping mask together with the masked layer based on clipping mask dimensions, in photoshop cs6? can I set the final dimensions using numbers? thanks


texts: How do I make logos look good at small sizes?

texts: I've made my first logo in Fireworks) and it looks ok at full size but when scaled down it looks pretty bad. Is it common for designers to make separate versions for smaller sizes?


texts: Why isn't the lines exporting in the pdf file?


texts: How to switch to sub tools in photoshop using keyboard? Move tool to Artboard tool

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Artboard tool is under move tool, but keyboard shortcut for both move tool as well as artboard tool is "v" (as stated on adobe website).

But when I press "v" on the keyboard it selects move tool.
How can select Artboard tool?


texts: How to create an outline of a outline using illustrator?

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I'm new to graphic design and self learning adobe illustrator.

I have been attempting to create almost like contour lines around an image but cannot seem to figure it out.

Any tips on how to go bout achieving this would be greatly appreciated. Attached an image of what I would like to do.


texts: I wanted to know what the name was of this type of images? I am basically asking for the name of the style that these were done in?


texts: I have a black and white image with a transparent background. I have the numbers "190" cut out of the white area with a transparent background. The numbers aren't text, they are just holes in the image. I really want to move those numbers/holes sideways but I'm not sure how to go about it.


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In Inkscape, what would be the best way to join the two nodes highlighted in red below? One is an end of the line, the other is the leftmost point on a circle (the horizontal line goes through the center of the circle).

As to why, in case there are better suggestions - I wanted to make a glass, such as:

and I wanted to make it "proper":

Have the edges be joined together, so no gaps exist
Have the whole glass be a group that can be manipulated
Not complicate things too much (e.g. converting object to path wold make the circle harder to manipulate, right?)

I tried converting object to path and joining the nodes, but that did not work as expected - it kind of opened the path. Is there an easier way? Not sure if I'm doing this in the spirit of how it is usually done (from design standpoint), so feel free to comment on that.


texts: How to get the coordinates for a selection bounding box in Gimp

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I'll make a rectangle selection in image. I have to read the left, right, up and down dimensions of this selected region in full image. The following image is an example of this.

Edit:

Can we print the following variables in the window or debug screen?

Units in mm.

L = X of Selection Bounding Box
U = Y of Selection Bounding Box
D = H of Image - (H of Selection Bounding Box + U)
R = W of Image - (W of Selection Bounding Box + L)


texts: Is it 'vectorizing' or 'vectoring' an image?

texts: What do you call the action when you transform an image from raster into a vector? Is it "vectorizing" or "vectoring"?


texts: Inkscape: how to add background stripes not overlaying some objects

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I am trying to draw a schema using Inkscape but I am not familiar with the software to make it as I am picturing it. Presently, it looks like that:

What I would like to add is a strip pattern (color #800000, rotated 45 degrees) but only in the background: meaning not entering the back potato-shaped object and stopping around the written `A' to leave it totally readable.

I have tried drawing a general box, filling it with a pattern, rotating it, moving it to another layer but I was still very far from the end result I would like to achieve.


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I', trying to understand difference between DPI and PPI.

I learned that a DOT is the smallest physical entity a device can show or printer can print and a DOT may consists of R,G,B elements.

A pixel is the smallest amount of information within a digital image.

So, does that mean in coloured picture each R,G,B value are individual pixel?

If so, then each dot consists of more than one pixel, am I right?

If I'm right is there some attribute like pixel per dot?


texts: Working with InDesign paragraph styles and text indenting with paragraph rules

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I'm trying to create a "Pull Quote" paragraph style and having issues with spacing.
I'd like the paragraph to have "padding" or text indenting around all sides (I realize that padding is the wrong term). Then have a "margin" around the bounding box. Then I'd like to to work with a top and bottom rule.

Rules especially seem to get messed up when changing font size, leading, etc. Is there a way to "anchor" the rules to the top and bottom of the text box?

All of these concepts seem simple but I can't get all 3 to work together properly as a Paragraph Style.

To get a better idea of what I'm looking to do:


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Aloha,

I had a client send me a logo to use for making a sign.  When i opened it in Illustrator it had several colors in it, but when i look at the swatches there are only 2.  There are about 3 different colors that all come up as the same swatch when I click on them. First thing i check was opacity, but they are all at 100%.  When I open the color palate they all read the same CMYK as the darker blue.

I looked at the swatch and it's labeled "book color" instead of "spot Color", but i haven't encountered this before.  I need to figure out the PMS colors so i can match the paint, but they all read the same PMS.

Does anyone know how to convert these into normal CMYK values, or better yet PMS color swatches?


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I've been asked to create a vector illustration where "K" must equal 0. I keep going to the shape fill, set it as 0 and all looks fine. But when I click back on the shape, the K value still shows up even as a small amount. See the snapshot below:

How can I set K to 0 and it stop moving?


texts: What line width is appropriate for a scientific A0 poster?

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I am in the process of making a poster to be presented at a scientific conference. What line width would you recommend for elements like arrows, graphics, and frames around text?

I am using 28 point Arial for the body, and 48 point for the subheadings. I am at the moment using a line width of 1.1 mm, but it’s hard for me to judge if this will look right once printed. Of course it would be best if I could just make a mock up and print it on A0, but let's assume this is not an option.

If it matters, this will be a mathematics conference, most of my graphics will be abstract shapes, like cylinders, tori, and loops.


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I want to give a logo to an open-source Github project. I can use git, but I don't know the etiquette of pushing stuff. Especially if it's not code. Also, what licenses are possible? Where can I give myself credit?

Thanks.


texts: Is there a (free/open source) black and white emoji font?

texts: I wonder if there is a free black and white emoji font out there. All of the ones I have seen are in full color, but there are the two Unicode glyphs ☺, ☻, that's all I have seen.


texts: Is this logo copyright infringment of Beats' logo?

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I was recently informed by friends that my logo looks far too much like Beats' logo, and I did find it to be so.

I made some adjustments, but it in my mind, it still looks fairly similar. Yet, there is almost no identical elements, except for the p standing for "Plenty" -- our project's name. (which is a b in the beats logo).

Here are the two side by side. Do you think I'm infringing?


texts: How create such amazingly smooth grain with gradient like this?

texts: Is it made in Photoshop or illustrator? I tried many way but can't reach this smooth level


texts: How to create/draw stick figure vector art

texts: I'm new to graphic design and I want to create stick figure vector art, the kind you find on most start-up websites, that looks neat and professional. However, I have no clue on where to get started. Any ideas/tutorials? Example:


texts: InDesign: Synchronize styles WITHOUT Color swatches

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I need to have several InDesign (CS6) documents with same object, paragraph and character styles, but each with a different color scheme. For example a Paragraph style Heading with Character Color set to swatch "Color 1" which is different color in each document (other settings being identical).

Now I want the styles to be synchronized so that when I need to change e.g. some spacing in the Heading style, it can be easily changed across all the documents, but I want the colors to remain the same (i.e. different in each document).

I thought that this can be done by adding these documents to a Book and in Synchronize Options checking all the styles but unchecking Swatches, but apparently it does not behave that way. It keeps synchronizing the color swatches regardless of whether the Swatches option is checked or not. So whenever I synchronize the documents, "Color 1" swatch is overwritten everywhere.

I tried to rename the "Color 1" swatch in other documents but then after synchronization a new "Color 1" swatch is created (copied from the source document) and applied to the relevant styles (again, even if Swatches in Synchronize Options is unchecked).

Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to achieve this?


texts: Is there an automated way to draw pixel measures on an image in GIMP

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Question

Is there an existing plugin or script for GIMP that performs the same function as the pixelmeasure script described below?

Background

There is a JSX script for Photoshop (pixelmeasure.jsx) that allows you to draw pixel measurement rules over your image. This is very useful to keep notes of relative distances of objects in an image.

A version of the Photoshop JSX script can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/yorb/5042960

How the pixelmeasure script works

In Photoshop Use the rectangular marquee tool to select the area you want to measure.
Run the script

Features:

It will draw a rule along the longest dimention of the selection.
You can alias it to a hotkey to make the process very fast and convenient.
The rules appear on a separate new layer.
The font is configurable by editing the script.
The color of the rule is taken from the current foreground color.

Desired output

The output looks like this:


texts: Open Photoshop Smart Object in Illustrator instead of Photoshop

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When I go Create New Layer => Convert to Smart Object => Double click on Smart Object thumbnail it opens in Photoshop as a .psb, but I would like it to open in Illustrator. How do I get all my Photoshop smart objects to open in Illustrator?  I'm using PS & AI CC.

The Adobe docs just say you can open in either of them. The docs aren't clear how to choose set one or the other.


texts: I am designer with 8+ years of experience in Designing websites. I am currently facing a down phase in my design skills. It seems like my design skills are going nowhere. It seems like I have to make my transition from a amateur designer to more of a Pro. So can anyone please suggest to me how I can practice to become more of a Pro Designer on my own.:)


texts: How do I add more points to a polygon in photoshop?

texts: How do I add more points to a polygon in adobe photoshop?


texts: Is binding correction necessary for a single-sided, bound document?

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In book design, the combined inner margins of the recto and verso pages should add up to the outer margin of a single page (of course there are different designs).
When I open a book, I see:

  left margin | left page text | center margin | right page text | right margin

where left margin is equal to right margin and should also be equal center margin (which uses space of both pages).

If I were to place the single pages smoothly next to each other on a table, I could achieve a correct relationship between the outer and inner margins by using half the value of the outer margins for the inner margins.

When a book is bound, its pages are connected using one of several binding techniques (glue binding, stitchbinding, spiral binding…).
As a result of this process, a part of the pages is curved or disappears in the binding and is therefore lost as usable space.

To take this into account, a binding correction is applied.
It reserves space (millimeters up to centimeters) on the inner margins on book pages.
This space is subtracted (and therefore: excluded) from the dimensions of the paper which are used to calculate the type area and the margins.

Single-sided (but multiple-page) documents may be different in that respect, as only one printed page is visible at a time.
For that reason it is argued (article »Ausgleich des Bindeverlusts bei Büchern« by Markus Kohm on p. 31ff, specifically p. 37f; in German) that single-sided documents do not need binding correction, as the reader does not look at a double page (the article discusses loose-leaf binders, ring binders and application portfolios: all documents, that do not typically connect the pages in their binding).
It further suggests that with these types of documents, the margin should be adapted to reflect the punch holes.

The problem I see with this is that the margin makes part of the paper dimensions that are used to calculate the type area, whereas a binding correction is not.
However, there are other forms of single-sided documents to which paper loss due to binding technique definitely applies: e.g. papers in academic journals and theses.

Should binding correction be applied to single-sided documents which are subject to a rigid binding method (like a book)?

This could be asked at the LaTeX stack exchange (like this question asking for specific binding correction values), but since my question is about document design and not about its implementation in LaTeX, I ask it here.


texts: Are there any universally accepted icons for Gold, Silver, and Bronze?

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This is an additional question to one which I had asked on UXSE for making the Badges inclusive by providing unique icons for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Badges.

Are there any universally accepted icons of the same?


texts: Critique: music and graphics company logo

texts: This is the logo I designed for my Music and Graphics Productions Company, http://www.psychoproductions.net. Can you please review, and provide feedback. Is this logo well branded for the type of company? Does it draw attention?


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Have you come across a font with good ticks and crosses?

The reason I ask is that I'm making a sprite for the uniform.js form plugin (http://uniformjs.com/) and they use Lucida Grande for their checkbox ticks. They look great but I don't have the font and want to increase the size of the checkboxes.

So, are there any fonts (ideally free fonts) that have ticks and crosses included in their character maps?


texts: How to get all supported opentype settings for a font?

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I’m using often open source fonts from the web for my web projects. One thing I’d like to do, is activating opentype settings like ligatures or kerning (and in some cases, it would be helpful to check also, if there are any discrete ligatures or stylistic alternates available).

Unfortunately, most fonts aren’t very well documented when it comes to opentype settings, so I’m searching for a software or tool which gives me a quick overview over all supported opentype settings.

How do you get an overview over all supported opentype settings for a specific font?

Thanks for your ideas and comments!


texts: Text variables of frame's properties in Adobe Indesign

texts: How do I create text variables of a frame's width and height then insert them as the text? Or is it possible to do that?


texts: How do I slow down a Photoshop timeline animation?

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I have created a complex Photoshop timeline animation (as opposed to a simple frame animation) that I would like to slow down. By "slow down" I mean increase the time between each frame and correspondingly increase the total duration of the animation. If this was a frame animation it would be easy, but I can't figure out how to do it for a timeline animation.

I see that I can adjust the frame rate of the animation, but doing so keeps the total duration the same, whereas I want to adjust the frame rate and the total duration simultaneously.

I'm looking for a solution that does not involve adjusting the frame rate and then manually adjusting all my keyframes (because I have too many to make that an easy process).


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In GIMP, when I use "Color to Alpha" to remove the dull blue background of this image:

It removes some blue from the entire image, so most of the image looks slightly transparent:

How can I stop this so that only "the dull blue" is removed?


texts: Why is my PNG icon fuzzy when I reduce its size in Photoshop?

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I downloaded an icon in png format. Now I try to resize it to 20x20 pixels using Photoshop CS5. This causes it to become fuzzy, as shown in Photoshop's navigator. I want to use the smaller image for a website. How can I make the reduced image have the same quality as the original I downloaded?

Here is  a screenshot of the photoshop screen.


texts: Sketch App - changing orientation point for position of object

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In Sketch App, For the X and Y position of an object, is there a way to configure it to display the X and Y of a different corner of the object?

It seems to always display the X and Y of the top-left. But I'm interested to know the X and Y of the bottom-left or bottom-right or top-right. Illustrator had a nice way to do this.


texts: How to approach the creation of a personal logo

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I need advice on creating a personal logo. I am stuck.

I have done one professional logo for a friend before, It was for a trust, the logo came out well because I know what the logo represented very clearly... not that I don't know about myself, but I can't seem to think of anything to represent me the way I could for that trust

I am not asking you to suggest a logo for me (since I will be figuring that out myself), what I need to know is how you guys go about it, a personal logo?

  Things it should(n't) represent

  Logo ≠ My name (Any alphabets/word, I am not good at typography)
  Logo ≈ Image (Something I may hand draw and trace-out)
  Logo  ≠ Brand ( I am not a graphic designer by profession, hence I don't need it for business)
  Logo ≠ Hobby ( Camera as my logo? Nope! )

So what other things a logo can represent about a person?


texts: How (or will) using black and white version of logo on main site be contra-productive?

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A company I work for is in process of making a new website. Management wants to use only black and white version of our logo which primarily is colored.

The website will have a very minimalistic design and to tell the truth on such design black and white version of the logo looks better than the colored one.

Some people, including me, are concerned about using it. I never saw that company use black and white logo over the colored one, when there is absolutely no reason for that, we are not limited by printing factor and we can alter website design. Moreover, we never used black or white version until now.


texts: What kind of goals would come out of a rebrand?

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When I'm designing a website or a print publication, I find it is quite straightforward in asking a client what their objective is. It could be anything along the lines of:

Increase awareness of company
Encourage more members
Allow existing members / customers to interact
Encourage more business enquiries

...amongst many others.

However when I'm working on a logo design / rebrand, I always find this is a real grey area. I've read that it is important to establish what the client's goal is with the rebrand, but I'm reluctant to ask them in the event that they find it a confusing question, because I'm not even sure myself what they could say.

Is the only real possible answer something along the lines of the following?

  To position our brand in the marketplace as a leading supplier of [* service name *], to reflect our professional and reliable service... etc


texts: how to choose the colours for different states for android components(ie pressed.selected focused..etc)

texts: i am working with android project i choosen flat design for app...i got struggle on choosing the colours for pressed state..as per my design background is white..normal button is red...now the problem start for me..is there any guidelines is there for choosing colours..or if any body knows kindly share..thanks in advance


texts: Inkscape crashes - internal error at select font

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Start inkscape

Click menu text --> font & text to open text dialog

Click text tool (F8)

Click drop down field in tool control bar

Inkscape crashes.

How do I bypass or solve this?


texts: shaded area on pdf created from InDesign

texts: I have a shaded area in InDesign that is translucent and you can see the drawing area beneath it on the screen, but the pdf created from InDesign it's completely opaque and the drawing area beneath is no visible.


texts: How to preserve pdf file sizes when working on photoshop?

texts: I modified some details on a pdf in photoshop but after saving it again as a pdf , photoshop changes the file size somehow, even though the editing was done at only a small portion inside the page.Original file size was 839 x 595 but once saved again, it becomes 814 × 546 points.  What can I do so that photoshop preserves the file size ? Thanks


texts: How can I get an RGB color using Photoshop's color picker instead of systems's?

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I am using this script bellow to get an RGB color from color picker. Any idea how can I do the same thing but using Photoshop's color piker instead of system's one?

var hexToRGB = function(hex) {
    var r = hex >> 16;
    var g = hex >> 8 & 0xFF;
    var b = hex & 0xFF;
    return [r, g, b];
};

var color_decimal = $.colorPicker();
var color_hexadecimal = color_decimal.toString(16);
var color_rgb = hexToRGB(parseInt(color_hexadecimal, 16));

I have found something like this, var cP = app.showColorPicker();, but it just returns a boolean value...

PS: Newbie to Photoshop scripting!!!


texts: How to put a dotted line stroke on a vector shape using Photoshop

texts: I've created a simple vector pennant type banner using Photoshop. I'd like to put a stroke on the banner with dashed lines approximately 3 pixels in from the edges of the shape. I know I can add a stroke to the shape and that looks fine, but I want to position the stroke so that there is a space of about 3 pixels between the edge of the pennant and the stroke. Is there a way to do that using Photoshop?


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I have a flat die line image in jpg format ready to go to the machine for cutting, but the machine accepts only a red pattern to cut through and the current image has a pattern in blue.

I have tried manually changing the color in Photoshop but there are some curves and edges that I could not color correctly.

How do I change the blue to red in Photoshop? I am using CS6

The machine accepts below red color (though with a white background instead of red):


texts: What could happen if a corporation was using a font commercially with out a licence?

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This is purely a hypothetical question.

But let's say a large corporation or company was using a font family that was not free to use commercially and the font was published by a high-end font foundry.

More detail on font use: in their logo, stationary and across all printed and digital media.

What could actually happen?

Is there any online legal information that I could refer too?

On another note:

If the creative/publishing agency who created the brand on the behalf of the corporation/company, and they purchased the font with a licence. Do these usage rights then get passed onto the company which they created the brand for?

Or does every individual company need to have a licence to use the font family commercially?


texts: How does one get work in the graphic design field?

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How do graphic designers go about getting a job?

I feel like I read about people that say you have to create your portfolio of all your best work, and then always be advertising your work to people. Is this really what it's like? Does everybody freelance, or are there ways to work for a company in this field? Or do they freelance for a few years till they have lots of work to show for themselves and can get hired on somewhere? How do you go about this? I know you can't just walk into an office and ask for a job.

My interests vary from computer programming and graphics design to photography and film making. As a 15 year old, it is tough to know what jobs are like and which one is right for me. I would appreciate any feedback on this.


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I'd like to change the style of our Windows Mobile application to follow the Modern UI style (as in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7). While there are excellent guidelines for layout, fonts and sizes, I'm not able to find suitable icons to use in our toolbar (little images showing the state of the network or the battery). Those are the flaws of the icon packs I already found:

Usually there are just one or two battery icons, whereas I need several
to indicate the different states
The icons get very blurry when resized to 16x16 pixels (even for vector graphics)
A lot of icon sets contain gradients, shadows or gray pixels
Most of the icon sets contain only a hundred to five hundred icons

If you have a look at the icons used by Windows Phone 7, they're very clear and sharp. I already know Syncfusion Metro Studio, but the icons get very blurry when resized to 16x16 pixels as well. Currently we're using the icons from IconExperience, but they don't provide suitable icons for Modern UI applications.

So my question is basically: Where can I find professional, high-quality icon packs with a lot of different icons (either PNG or vector graphics)? They don't have to be free, but must be allowed to be used for commercial applications. What are the major icons vendors and what platforms are available to obtain icon packs from?


texts: Which font license should I buy for use in a company logo?

texts: I would like to know which font license I should buy for use in a company logo? I am going to use the logo in my web application, in advertisements and everywhere the company logo appears.


texts: Trying to turn brush stokes into something so i can move it without lag

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I could not find a font that I liked so I kind of made my own. However I used so many strokes with my brush that it makes ai very laggy when i try to downsize, move etc. I was just wondering whether there was a way to make it into like a shape. I tried convert to shape but it did not really work.
Thank you!


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I need to create renderings without anti-aliasing (i need to sample exactly and only pixel centers). For this reason, I deactivate the "Max subdivs" property of the Bucket image sampler and set Min subdivs to 1.

This works, however, I get a lot of salt-and-pepper noise on some materials.

Increasing the Min Shading rate doesn't seem to improve the situation. What can I do?


texts: how to import vectors from fireworks to illustrator

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I created some vector graphics for my company's website in fireworks because I like the pixel perfect control I get but now everybody likes the artwork so much that they want to use it all over the place, even for some large posters.

I want to create an illustrator version but when I paste the vectors from fireworks to illustrator they get rasterized. Anyone know if there's a way to import from fireworks to illustrator and keep the artwork as vectors?

Thanks in advance!


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The Brand Guidelines have specified the use of Gotham and Arial as the typeface, and I can see that in the past people have had various experiences with using Gotham on the web.

Instead of using Arial, which I feel is not really a good alternative to Gotham because it doesn't have the polished finish, it seems like Proxima Nova is one of the best options, but I might not have considered other options.

My comparisons:

Gotham vs. Proxima Nova (capital M and the number 3 are most different)
Gotham vs. Proxima Sans (capital M and the number 3 are most different)
Proxima Nova is nearly identical to Proxima Sans
Gotham vs. Arimo (captial Q, M and the number 1, 3 are most different0
Gotham vs. Montserrat (captial Q, M and the number 1 are the most different)

I would conclude that Proxima Sans and Montserrat could be suitable replacements, with Montserrat being a Google Font which should be web safe.

What are some popular webfonts that have an open license and can be used as an alternative to Gotham?


texts: When creating a sprite should I pull all the actual sizes?

texts: I would like to know if i should put all the sizes that are going to be used in the web site in the sprite or if i should put only one and let the Front-end designer scale it with CSS but it seems weir to me to scale the whole image (sprite) only for one item.


texts: How to represent blurry artwork with vectors (Illustrator or SVG)?

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I have a recurring problem that I'd like to solve once and for all: how to create a blurry vector image.
For example, this bitmapped image represents the drop shadow for a rectangle:

It should be possible, with 50 or so rectangles with rounded corners, to represent it pretty well in an SVG or Illustrator file.
The main problems are that:

blends use a linear distribution of gray levels, so the edges don't fade out correctly
image tracing fails to recognize the smooth nature of the image and adds thousands of points, resulting in a large and jaggy image

I am looking for some way to create the correct distribution of gray levels while retaining the blurry effect.
This is just a simple example, but I often need blurred images that are much more complex.
I can either start with a sharp-edged object or I can create the "first and last" paths manually and blend between them. The problem there is having the correct levels.
This is what a 50-path blend looks like:

the transitions from gray and to white are much too abrupt.
Does anyone know how to create paths to better represent fuzzy content?
At this point, it's such an issue that I'd be happy to use an entirely new app for this single task.
[edit] I know about the SVG blur effect, but it won't work for my purposes. One of my main use cases is creating images in Mac apps, and SVG filters are ignored. For web use, I have also found that zooming a page causes the SVG filter to scale incorrectly.


texts: Colour overlay while maintaining shadows/highlights

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I'm working on a car signage concept in Photoshop. To achieve (reasonable) realism with the white sticker I simply knocked back the opacity a little. I think it gives the illusion of white but with the shadows and highlights of the car contours evident.

However, the bottom panel has a blue/cyan background. This too should be affected by the shadows and highlights. Below you can see how terrible it looks without showing the underlying contouring.

I had (arrogantly) assumed this would be solved with one of the layer blend modes, probably "hue". After fifteen years I still don't know what they do of the top of my head and I generally click through them until one works! To my amazement, none will accomplish this. Probably because the hue is so much lighter, I really don't know.

In fact the "hue" blend mode does (somewhat) realistically change the colour, but to a deep purple, not the intended cyan. "Screen" with lowered opacity isn't bad...but I am sure there is a simple way!

How would you go about realistically changing the colour of that lower panel to blue/cyan, whilst maintaining the shadows and highlights?


texts: 3DS Max: Multiple subtraction (boolean) - how to do it?

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I have a board full of inputs, and need holes in the box behind them.

How can I do these all at once instead of multiple boolean operations?


texts: Sketch: Text on Path not preserved when exported to SVG

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I am creating a vectorized version of my school's logo because we currently only have a low-res bitmap version. The logo includes text on a circular path, so I used the Text on Path feature in Sketch to achieve the effect.

The trouble is that when I export it to SVG (my desired format), the Text on Path does not export properly, and the text appears to be just normal lines of text. How can I fix this issue?

Thanks!


texts: How can I create a word using a font with my own pictures in it?

texts: I'm not very technical and want to know if there is an app or software I can download to put my own photos into a letter to create my own font? Like the word MUMMY done but eith images of her children filling the letter?


texts: Is there a shortcut for the last used tool?

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I know this question sounds really simple; I'm a beginner with Photoshop.

I'm learning about the different tools. Is there a keyboard shortcut for accessing the last used tool? If not, would it be possible with AppleScript?


texts: How can I fade an object which uses the gradient or mesh tool?

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I am trying to achieve this look in illustrator.

I can only do this much using gradient tool in illustrator.

Can someone tell me how can I make it look fade out like the first picture?


texts: After Live Trace in Illustrator, I can't figure out how to change some of the lines' color

texts: I auto traced an image and am trying to change the color of all the black lines and sections to brown, but some of the lines I can't change with the Paint Bucket tool (because it fills in a large section of white instead). Is there a way I can change these lines' color?  If not, what should I do differently when applying Live Trace so that such lines don't exist?


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I'm a little confused about the resolution here, I know the dimensions suppose to be: 320x480 points but what do I need to put for the resolution? e.g. 300 dpi?

I'm designing on CS5.


texts: How can I use multiple overlay effects simultaneously in Photoshop?

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There are 3 overlay effects available in Photoshop as layer styles: Color, Gradient and Pattern. The problem: these effects come in a strictly fixed order!

Is it possible to make a translucent Gradient Overlay over a Color Overlay using only layer styles? Or a Multiply Pattern and Color Overlays?


texts: How do magazines and newspapers allocate ad space to perfectly fill each issue?

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Magazines and newspapers have ads of different sizes and different issues of the same publication don't always have the exact same template each issue, so I assume they layout the different sections according to the advertisement requests and content for each issue.

My question is, how do they arrange it so they all fit in each issue? What happens if you get a request for one extra ad, be it one whole page or a small quarter page ad, that they have no space for on existing pages and therefore need to have it's on page, and since 1 sheet of paper has 2 pages, there would be at least 1 whole page empty? Say I have 10 pages including the covers. Then someone requests a quarter page ad that would require a whole sheet of paper by itself. How do magazines and newspapers manage to have all their pages filled perfectly every issue, no blanks that would otherwise be earning money through advertising, yet not a single ad too much that would then require a whole new sheet of paper (ie 2 pages)?


texts: Delete path with size smaller than 0.7mm in Illustrator

texts: I have a traced image in Illustrator with many smaller shapes. I want minimum 0.7mm size for every shape. Is there any way to delete or increase size of all shapes that are smaller than 0.7mm?


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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I keep getting files with the ~ symbol beside them.
I have the actual PNG version of an image but right under is the same file, labeled PNG~.
Should I keep them? Is it safe to delete them?
Looks like this (happens with krita files as well):


texts: Photoshop Smart Objects PSB instead of JPG

texts: When I drag or drop photos into Photoshop, or add them via the File > Place command, they are created as smart objects but the embedded asset is still a JPG. How can I convert these embedded smart object JPGs to PSB? If I save to a different format it just ignores the changes. Thanks!


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How do i change the pattern 1 tile (used in the first image, the inside of the castle) to look like the pattern 2 in the second image (the castle roof)

I just want to change the color of the pattern to be as close as the one on the roof (the white and light blue grey color) without too much degrading the drawn scuff marks and bricks.
I tried using Photoshop but i can never get the dark grey to go lighter without fading the black color of the drawn scuff marks and bricks.

i dont have the pattern from the roof, and just want to make it using the pattern i have, since its the same just darkened.


texts: Can anyone identify this slab serif font that's perfect for branding some blue-collar organisations?

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I've run it through what the font and only found similar results.

The unique characteristics I've identified are:

equal and symmetrical serifs on all 'external' serifs. (Hard to describe, but I'm having a go.)

This characteristic is what told me none of the results I found are correct.

Please could someone help me to identify this font?

The picture is from the back doors of a parked vehicle.


texts: Grouping / editting png file in Illustrator

texts: I have a menu that was sent to me as a png file. I am trying to edit it with illustrator. I need to move and resize the logo.  I also need to group each menu item with its description and the background items so i can move them around and resize them.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Photoshop: how do you pick the original color from a layer that has effects on it?

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Let's say I have a layer that is originally white, but there's an effect that makes it gray. When I use the eyedropper tool on it, the color that's picked up is gray.

How do I make the color that is picked up white, which is the original color of the layer sans effects? Is this even possible?

Thanks!


texts: How I can move the images like in this video?

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I want to know how I can do this moving animation with images. What is this effect is called? Here is the video that has this "animation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq5qyFrO-RU


texts: What method to use to create opening animation for webpage

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I need advice on what program to use to create an opening animation for a webpage that looks similar to this: http://melaniedaveid.com/

I am most familiar with adobe illustrator and am not familiar with coding. I'm wondering if creating the animation as a gif in illustrator would be the way to go? I want to be sure that it isn't going to be an issue with the webpage loading.

What program would be best for a beginner to use to illustrate an animation and what format for a webpage?

Thank you


texts: Illustrator: exporting to PNG makes edges darker

texts: When I export vectors from Illustrator to transparent PNG and bring that image to Photoshop, the edges become darker especially when vector color is light, like white or light gray. How can I resolve this?


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Anyone have any suggestions for making "Durham" extend as high as "Hillsborough" without making the kerning huge and therefore look really weird? I've tried multiple fonts and higher horizontal scale percentages. TIA!

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texts: Help identifying (or finding similar) fonts

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I'd like to see if I can find a free font(s) similar to the font(s) listed below. I think the originals were probably hand painted, but I have no doubt that there are free fonts out there that are similar. Any thoughts?

Ideally, I'd like one font that is similar to "The Adventures OF" and one font that it is similar to "Robin Hood."

If either of them is a web font, that would be even better =).

EDIT ADD
another picture with the letter from the same movie -


texts: Question about bleeds from Illustrator to Photoshop

texts: I have a vector file, created in Illustrator. I added 0.125" bleeds to it. It's all fine. However, when I export the file to PSD the guides disappear in Photoshop... and I wondered if there's an easy way to mark the bleeds that are already added in Illustrator to the exported file, when opened in Photoshop. I'm sorry if I didn't explain clearly enough what I mean. Hope the pictures below clarifies more:


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In follow up to this question: Critique: Tritium software logo design. For reviewing the website code (performance, bugs, related user experience), please visit the sister question on Code Review.

I am looking for a review of the design for my Tritium website (source code).

Specifically:

One goal of the website was to keep it simple.  Have I accomplished that?
Do the colors in my palette complement each other?

Background: #171d25
Animated atom: #333
Logo: #f8bd24
Link text: #6e6e6e
Brand header, hover link text, button: #78C40F
Navbar: #000
Body text: #fff

Are all of the past critique implemented correctly design-wise? Did I go overboard?

Implemented @DA01's logo design (used with permission).
Added the atom to the background per one of @Yisela's suggestion's, animation courtesy of @squeamishossifrage.
Tried to keep it simple based on the numerous other suggestions.

Does my font choice work well with the rest of the website's look and feel?
Are there any design concepts I overlooked and haven't implemented?

I am still somewhat new to website design, so please be as harsh as necessary with this.


texts: What's the best way to downsize alpha transparent images in Photoshop?

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I'm trying to downsize a very large app logo with alpha transparency in Photoshop CC, but I can't seem to replicate the sharpness that I get using paint.net.

Below are a couple images I've created to illustrate the problem. I started with a 5000 px circle and resized it down to ~90 px using various resampling algorithms.

paint.net -  "Best Quality" / Fant
This seems to produce the best result

Photoshop - Bicubic Sharper
Notice the thickened, blurred outer edges along the sides, top, and bottom of the circle

Photoshop's bicubic smoother, bicubic smooth gradient, and preserve details resampling algorithms all seem to exhibit the same problem as bicubic sharper. The bilinear algorithm has a similar edge-thickening problem, but the edges look a little more jagged. Nearest neighbor is the only resampling algorithm in Photoshop that doesn't seem to thicken the horizontal and vertical edges of the circle, but it results in extremely jagged edges.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there anyway to match paint.net's Fant algorithm in Photoshop CC?


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1) I create a horizontal rectangle shape.
2) I select the 2 top anchor points using Direct Select, the white arrow (A) while holding shift.
3) If I move them the move the same way forming a parallelogram.

I'd like to know a way for these two top anchors will move mirrored so it form a (tryed alt, etc but couldn't catch it, or if theres a better way to make a trapezoid .


texts: Is serif necessarily related to "past" or "history" etc?

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e.g A company that has a long success history and they want to depict that in their logo then would a serif be a must?

Why or why not?

Additionally on what criteria do you decide to use serif or its opposite?


texts: Problem with colors when uploading images to Facebook

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I'm having problems uploading a PNG file to the web. The problem is that it distorts the color of the image.
The image is a trademark and uses a PANTONE color.  I think this could be the problem because the distortion affects only this color alone.

I have tried saving it for normally, for web, in multiple formats (JPG, PNG, GIF) Always the same exact result: color distortion.

So, how can I upload this image without having to change the color?

EDIT: Here's a link to the image because I don't have enough rep to publish any image yet:

EDIT 2:
OK, it seems that the problem is Facebook, which is the place I'm trying to upload this trademark, because I uploaded this to ImageShack and it shows correctly.

Any advice on how to fix it?


texts: Why does expanding a brush stroke have a different effect than expanding a pencil stroke?

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I am trying to achieve an appearance of an outlined shape that overlaps and intersects itself (The shape on the left). I can only achieve this effect by creating a stroke from the brush tool (or stroke with a 'round' brush definition and selecting 'expand appearance.' However, this leads to a very messy shape with tons of anchor points, and it's not worth cleaning up.

If I create the same stroke with a pencil (or 'basic' brush definition), only 'expand' is available and it combines into one solid shape instead of retaining the intersections.

Is there a way to achieve the effect of the left shape from a pencil/basic stroke?

screencast: https://share.getcloudapp.com/YEuA2d7q


texts: How can I merge two objects in Illustrator?

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In Illustrator how can I merge this roof vector to the background of the square?

roof and square


texts: Adobe Flash get angle of layer (rotation value)

texts: How can I get the angle of a rotated layer. Or is it possible to see the angle while rotating? If so, where?


texts: inkscape - copy shape of an object without the content

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I've imported a .png image and then cropped it with an rectangle. Now I'm looking for a method to copy the outline shape of the resulted element.

I need just the contour, without the image content. The cropped image is rotated, so simply making a new rectangle isn't a solution right now.

Is there a possibility to do that?


texts: Script: Change color Saturation while maintaining L in LAB model

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For example, I have a red color #633b3d (Saturation: 40, L: 30) and I want to transform Saturation to 80 while maintaining L (resulting color should be #83211b). If I simply change foregroundColor.hsb.saturation to 80, lightness will change to 21. If I restore L to the original color L, saturation will change to 66... How can I change Saturation to a specific value while maintaining the L? I wrote Lightness in the image below, but I guess Luma is a more correct term.

I want to do this with a script so I can use JS libraries. Current code is simple Photoshop DOM:

var curColor = foregroundColor;

foregroundColor.hsb.saturation = 80;
foregroundColor.lab.l = curColor.lab.l;


texts: How to break apart text in individual words or letters in Illustrator cs6?

texts: Hi all does anybody know how to break text in words or letters. So that they can be editable individually as text not Path ?


texts: Logos critique: Dayton Web Developers meeting

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I created several logos for the Dayton Web Developers meeting. This logo will represent the web developers group in Dayton, OH.

The palette is based on a very popular Sublime Text theme called Cobalt2. Sublime Text is one of the most if not the most popular IDE in the web development community.

We like to abbreviate the Dayton Web Developers group as DWD.

EDIT-- Adding more info:

My concerns/comments with the designs are:

Design #1

Maybe the circle badge feels too overused.
I really like to highlight the symbol. The style of this symbol is the one I like the most.
Not so sure about the blue text over the gold. I tried black text but it doesn't feel it fits.

Design #2

I want to highlight the symbol but I feel without the gold outline it lacks punch.
Not entirely sure about the gold circle on the outside.

Design #3

Maybe this one works well for this style out of 3, 4 and 5, but the square ends feel too simple.
I like the strength of the symbol, but I feel the rectangle in which the name is makes the logo lack presence.
I like the typeface used.

Design #4

Different typeface, more playful trying to contrast the straight lines of the rectangle.

Design #5

Trying to break that stiffness of the rectangle with triangle ends, but I feel that there are too many triangles going on now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


texts: I have just gotten Blender 3D, and was wondering how to create a wireframe.  Could someone please guide me on how to do this?


texts: Removing background around text-heavy image

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Recently lost my father and going among papers I discovered a sheet depicting our family coat of arms, along with text explaining all the details and a brief history of the family name.

It is delicate, the paper appears to be something similar to tracing paper, and the paper has yellowed just slightly and the old school typewriter generated text is not black but grey.

I scanned it and opened it in Photoshop CS4 and adjusted the brightness and contrast to enhance the text and drawing of the crest. Sadly that made the background a dark grey with a bunch of imperfections.

Is it possible to take out that background without losing the detail etc in the scanned text/crest? I do not know much about how to use curves in PS but I toyed with it and if I turned on "show clipping" it looked pretty good, meaning the background went to white.

I know there won't be a perfect answer but is there a reasonable compromise? I will rewrite the text and trace the crest by hand at some point, but for now I'd like to preserve as much info/detail from this old parchment-esque document as possible in case it finally disintegrates. There is probably extra info within all the details and decorative scrolling border on the page.Thanks so much for any help


texts: Better way to display three pieces of data on one graph for a website

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Note the oldest answer was referring to my graph prior to this last edit. It was a great answer, please don't discount it due to my edit.

I want to display how much study I have done, and how many pages I have completed throughout the week, broken up by day, and I have done so as shown below:

I have had people tell me that they can't understand the graphs, but I have no idea how else I can display them.

How can I display these more clearly?


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I've seen decks that are PDFs during presentations where type on the same page transitions. For Example: Page opens with a sentence -  "Hi, my name is Ann" and then a few second later another line appears below saying "and this Mike."

I have been trying to figure out how to get this dynamic quality in deck. Can it be done through InDesign or are these created in a different program entirely? If it can be done using ind. - anyone know how?

Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to create a quick checkerboard pattern that can used to draw behind a shape? I can use the Rectangle Grid to make a normal grid to do this but when I create a checkerboard shape the draw behind option is grayed out. Polar Grid has an option to alternate ring color but I don't see one in Rectangle Grid. The only other way I can think of is to build the squares individually.


texts: How do I fill the transparent areas of this vector in illustrator?

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I have a vector that I downloaded from a stock image site. If you look at the vector you will see that it has some transparent specs within the black and red areas. How do I get rid of the transparent areas so that the black and red areas are totally solid? The transparent "Family Reunion" is fine and needs to stay. I just want to get rid of the little specs.

I should also mention that the vector isn't organized in a user friendly manner. It's just a bunch of paths and compound paths encapsulated by a group. See screenshot from layers panel:


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I am designing UI for an application which is going to be available for both Android and iPhone. While for android, slicing/chopping up the UI elements is pretty much simple and straight forward, we have to resize the UI elements for ldpi, mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi.
i.e., 36X36, 42X42, 72X72 and 96X96 respectively. However, am not sure about resizing the UI elements for iPhone. I read somewhere that we have to resize the UI elements in @x and @2x sizes and also I've read we need to change the ppi of the UI elements as well, like 163ppi and 326ppi.

So, I am confused between:
1) By resizing image.png @x and @2x
2) By changing the image.png's 163ppi and 326ppi versions.

Which one is the appropriate way?


texts: How to shade areas of a path with another, invisible path?

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I'd like to be able to, in this example, darken a portion of a text based on a path I draw, without seeing the path. I've tried variations of opacity and clipping masks without a good success.

Attached some screenshots of a simple example.

First I have two objects..

One way to get close to desired effect is to set opacity of path and make it black.

But then at this point I'd like to only see the text.


texts: What's this type of abstract, blended-color image called?

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I'm trying to create a landing page, and the main image which I have in mind contains a blended combination of mixed abstract colors. Something like those images:

However, it seems I'm not using the correct terms as I can't find really good examples. Could anybody please give a clue as to how this effect is called, in UI jargon perhaps?

Thanks.


texts: How to create "lichtenstein" hair strokes quickly?

texts: Is there an easy and fast way to create strokes like shown in the image? I think about drawing one white stroke on a black shape and use some effect and/or some sort of transformation?


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I have 500 page I want to restore it digitally, they are a set of pages from a very old book I already have and want to reprint it again with my digital restoration. all the pages have no page numbers.

After scanning all the pages, I was wondering if there is any way to renumber those pages without open the 500 page in Photoshop and type the page number!?

I am asking of a batch, a software (or a smart way) that could render numbers in a certain position to all my 500 page, just like the way we watermark photos.


texts: How does one align images in a grid in Photoshop CS4?

texts: I have a number of equality sized square images and would like to distribute them evenly in a grid on the same image. How does one do this using Photoshop CS4? I'm trying to create a sprite. The images will have styles (borders, shadows) applied to them so using an external site isn't feasible.


texts: How to scale/rotate vertexes/edges/faces around a point in 3DS Max?

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When using Blender, you have a "3d cursor", that you can put it on a location and then make an operation like scale and rotate around that point. Can
I do the same in 3DS Max?

When that point is placed on one corner of an edge, that corner remains stationary while the other corner is scaling/rotating. For the polygons it is the same way.

How can I do something like that in 3DS Max?

For scaling -

From this -

To this -

For rotation -

From this -

To this -


texts: How can I change colors in an Illustrator file without modifying other aspects?

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I purchased a stock vector design.

I want to change the preset colors used in vector art and leave everything as it is. The object is made up of bunch of shapes.

As I try to change the colors instead of it looking nice and blended as it did when I have bought it. All I see is the shapes with no gradients or blends.

Since I am new, I do not know the simplest way to change the color "theme" without messing up the way it looks right now.

Is there an easy way to change colors of an exiting Illustrator file?


texts: Is there any InDesign extension that gives Sublime Text 2 like capabilities?

texts: I've been working in Sublime Text 2 on my own time to learn web development. Now I'm laying out another book in InDesign and just dreaming of having some of Sublime Text 2's workflow. Does anyone know if there are any extensions / plug-ins that offer this? Particularly the ability to select a segment of text, instantly select all instances of it, and edit them all simultaneously IN COLUMN as opposed to the very tedious find and replace functionality.


texts: Is being a graphic designer a stressful job?

texts: I am considering my options and interested in becoming a graphic designer, however i often hear its a stressful job due to deadlines and pressure to deliver. Is this the case?


texts: How to do a glossy air bubble effect with Illustrator

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You know how some sneakers have those transparent little air pockets in the heel?

I'd like to achieve that sort of 3D, smooth, glossy, rounded, translucent, light reflecting, window/bubble-like effect.

Kind of like a glass pipe or, amplifier valve, or a test tube.

So far, going with the sneaker bubble idea, I sketched this by tracing basic shapes, and then using a clipping mask to cut out the transparent parts.


texts: Transforming a layer in Photoshop creates a copy of the layer

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I'm a regular user of Photoshop since the CS3 times, and this is the problem that haunts me from the beginning, regardless of the PS version, and the platform - when I do a transformation on a layer (Scale, Skew, Distort, Warp... but not Rotate), sometimes a copy of the layer is created and my transformation is done on that copy, not on the original layer. I say "sometimes" because I can't find any regularity in this behavior, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

Weird thing is, I can't find anything about it on the Internet, like it's happening to no one but me. Anybody knows why is this happening and how can I prevent it?


texts: Why does the whole box fill when I transform an object in Illustrator?

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I'm an Illustrator rookie and having problems. Whenever I rotate or transform the object, the whole bounding box fills. See examples below. Rotating, perspective distort, etc all seem to have the same problem.

What am I doing wrong?!

Before transforming:

After rotating (same problem with other transformations)


texts: Use master pages to change text frame on every page

texts: I am currently using InDesign to edit a book that my father wrote and is republishing. He is making some changes, most notably, differently sized pages. I was able to very easily change the size of every page through the master pages, however, now there is a large page with a very small text frame in the center of it. The master pages had the same small text frame, however, when I set the frame in the master page to the desired size and position, the frames with the writing itself, the ones on the actual pages, they don't change. Any ideas?


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Is there a shortcut in Sketch to make 2 elements switch places?

I want to select 2 elements and swap their locations. Is there a shortcut to this?


texts: Photoshop Script change each successive image

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I have a script that batch processes images, adding a radial blur on the blue channel.
What I want to do is change the radial blur's origin or centre point in each successive image. Is there a way of scripting this?
At the moment for the first image, when I recorded the action, i placed the centre point manually, photoshop must have some code somewhere to show what I did. Any ideas on how to access this?

It's a series of the sun shining through trees, I want the radial blur to track from one side to the other like the sun does in the images (timelapse)


texts: How does a graphic designer design a webpage?

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This is a really stupid question, I know. I took a graphic design class some years ago and we designed our website in Photoshop and then sliced it.
I have a feeling graphic designers don't do that anymore.
Update me, please? :)
Thank you.


texts: Is there a simple way to change all TIFFs to JPGs in an Indesign document?

texts: I have created a zine using TIFF images. However, the images are way too big and making the file way too huge to share easily. I want to convert all the TIFFs to smaller JPGs. They are already placed in the document and there are a lot of them. Is there a way to automatically change each without placing the images again on the doc?


texts: Is there a good add-on for RTL text support in Photoshop?

texts: I've found this website where you have to write and paste (!) Arabic text for Photoshop, but I need a better one with more language abilities. Anything in mind?


texts: How to make sure there's equal difference in length between lines

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I'm working on a logo that uses curved lines of different lengths, but I want to make sure there's the same difference in distance between the lines.

I measured it out with straight lines, but I don't know how to curve those lines to a circle shape like the attached rough version I've worked on. I want to make it look as clean as possible.

Also any tips for how to make sure there's equal spacing between the lines would be much appreciated!


texts: Convert Dotted Stroke to Fill in Inkscape

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I tried Path > Stroke to Path but it just fills the whole rectangle instead of converting my dotted stroke into filled dots.

Is there any way in Inkscape to easily convert my dotted stroke to a fill?

If not is there an alternative application that does such which is free?

The SVG file's code is located here.
https://codeshare.io/aypQBe


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I've downloaded dribbble color palette and wanted to install it on Sketch (version 50). Is it possible to do that? How to install color palettes on Sketch?

ps. I also have Sketch Palettes plugin installed.

Thank you all in advance!


texts: How do I perfectly align geometric designs that are printed on clothing?

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So I'm designing a hoodie for an event; I would like to create an abstract geometric/network pattern that wraps around the sleeves and the hood, such as in the rough sketch attached.

I'm planning to create the sleeve/hood patterns on AI– how to I align the pattern exactly, such that it wraps around seamlessly, without a line that indicates the start and end of the pattern?

Thank you!


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I was recently playing a game, and saw a nice loading indicator that I wanted to try making myself.

I’m using Adobe Photoshop Elements 14, and I tried making a circle with a transparent center and seeing if there was a paint-bucket-like tool for gradients. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way. So is there a way this can be done in elements or do I need Photoshop CC?


texts: Why can't I use live paint with the paint brush?

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I'm new to Illustrator and I'm clearly doing something not quite right.

In Microsoft Paint I'm used to using my prodigious skill to produce color swirls like this:

Which are made by scrawling around with a brush or pencil and then just using the bucket to fill in the sections.

So I'm trying to carry that over to Illustrator by swirling around with the Paintbrush tool B and then trying to fill it with the Live Paint Bucket K. And it doesn't work very well at all. I'm clearly not understanding how to use these tools.

What am I doing wrong?

I know it will work if I use the pen, kind of, but why doesn't it work with the brush? Why isn't there a simple bucket fill tool?


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I'm just curious if anybody knows how viewBox values (i.e. viewBox="a b c d") are determined.

I'm trying to understand Inkscape's SVG functionality, so what I've done is created a document in Inkscape that is 100px x 100px, drawn a line from the left side of the viewport (i.e. 0 horizontal value) to the right side (i.e. 100 horizontal value).

Strangely, however, when I save this document as a Plain SVG file, and then open the file in a text editor, the viewBox values are set to viewBox="0 0 26.458333 26.458334" instead of, say, viewBox="0 0 100 100".

Does anybody know how these values (0 0 26.458333 26.458334) are determined, and why there is seemingly no relation between them and the viewport dimensions?

P.S. I know you can edit the viewBox property manually in the document options, but I'm still curious as to why Inkscape sets them to funky values.


texts: Which font is used for Dr. Kuldip Kular's election ad?

texts: I'm a newbie and can't figure out what font is being used in the image below. Please help.


texts: Creating Isolated Points in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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I noticed that isolated points appear when I import some pictures and made from them the paths (OBJECT >> IMAGE TRACE >> MAKE). Moreover, there is the way to remove stray points: OBJECT >> PATH >>CLEAN UP.

I wonder if it is possible to create isolated points in Adobe Illustrator CS6? How to create them? If not, is there any work around?


texts: Clipping Mask makes coloured box disappear

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I'm having issues with Adobe Illustrator clipping mask.

I'm learning as I go and have a created a masking path to work with a coloured rectangle. However, whenever I select 'Make Clipping Mask', the coloured box goes white.

This hasn't happened to me before, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong?

I've posted a gif to show you what I mean.


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I'm printing a short-run of labels at home on my Epson Inkjet.

I have a CMYK pdf I've exported from Illustrator.  No rich blacks, no color conversion when creating the pdf, Appearance of Black: both options are set to "accurate".

I've opened the pdf in photoshop and looked at the Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow channels.  Color only exists where I've told it to be (no help from CMY to create blacks).

I still get 4-color blacks when I print! How do I stop this? Is there a way?

If not, is there any way I can get more life out of my ink?
Most of the print is black with some green letters, and I've already had to replace Cyan after less than 40 glossy pages, and Magenta is almost empty.


texts: List all hues used on a webpage or an application

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I read How can I find out what RGB colors a website uses? and know how to spot a color on the website. There are several plugins available, and this topic is beaten to death on above stack page.

However, I want to know all the colors (hue to be specific) at tertiary level on color wheel used on the website (webpage to be specific) and the location where it is used. I don't want to get flagged for posting an XY problem. My goal is to figure out the color schemes, and how it relates to the product.

Essentially, I am trying to reverse engineer all the colors used on the website. This will also help me to augment any website by being consistent with the colors already used on the website.

As an aside, I researched this topic and found that there was a good discussion on fonts at How can I know what fonts a website is using?, but I couldn't find anything for listing all the colors.

I am a PC user and regularly use Chrome, Firefox


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Is there an "ideal" number of data points on an infographic to maximise the impact and readability of the graphic?

I see some where there is too much text / text is so small or there are just so many data points that they all get lost amongst each other which is something I want to avoid so at what point does an infographic get too overcrowded to be effective?


texts: How to make "symbol" typeface italic in illustrator?

texts: I want to type $Omega$ $\omega$ (in Latex) as italic in Illustrator. I found that there are such fonts under "symbol" typeface but there is only "Medium" setting instead of "italic".


texts: Client refuses to pay and yet is using my work

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I've been designing (my personal projects) for the past 6 years and recently I started designing logos for clients.

Now, there is this client who wanted a logo. I took 6 days to submit 1 logo and 1 day to submit 5 variations (totally different) of that logo upon rejection (PS. all 6 were standard).

Finally, he selected the last one (IT'S STILL THERE AS HIS LOGO IN HIS WEBSITE) and when I asked for my payment, he started "abusing" me over phone claiming that I delayed his project (He never mentioned any deadline). Since I'm a beginner, I didn't know that I had to sign an agreement before hand. But, I have the PSD file, whatsapp conversation with him and a screen shot of the logo in his website. How do I deal with this?


texts: Where to buy graphics for cheap that I can use in work that I sell?

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I am making my own cards to sell, however, I would like to use some graphics and or backgrounds once in a while without having to make them all the time.

Where is the best place to buy graphics, images and backgrounds for a low cost that I can use in some of my cards that I will be selling?

Sometimes I just need to add one image or graphic and would like to purchase some but not sure where I can get them  so that I can use them in a card that I will sell.


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Is there a way to rotate each line of text by 25 degrees as seen below? In
Illustrator or Photoshop.


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I have to make artwork for a banner that is 123'' X 194''.
I am not sure what size to make the page I am creating the artwork on in Photoshop. It obviously doesn't let me make it that big. Do I need to make it into CM or MM?
Thanks in advance


texts: How do I add arrowheads without increasing the apparent length of a line?

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Arrowheads are by default added to the end of a line, which means that the length of the line plus arrowhead is longer than the length of the line alone. This is annoying when I carefully clipped the line to the right length, only to find that I need to realign everything once I add arrowheads.

Is it possible to add arrowheads in such a way that the the length of the line plus the arrowhead is the same as the line alone?


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So I have been experiencing an issue where if I right-click and "copy" an image and paste or open new doc in Photoshop... the color of the image is much lighter than the original. If I save the image and open in photoshop, the color is fine. This recently started happening after I switched out an old mac monitor to a Dell.

Has anyone experienced this? I can't figure out how to fix it.


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I'm working with a hand calligraphy piece which I've cleaned up in photoshop - removed specs etc and used magic wand to delete the background. When I try and then drag and drop this into illustrator with the two files side by side it shows a little white arrow that suggests I can drag it directly, however the artwork doesn't appear in Illustrator. The drag and drop trick works with text but not with my artwork?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks