texts: Is there a central font-license search site?

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There are many font websites, that are eager to sell you fonts, or let you download them for free. So many that there is no way to know which are legit, and give the money to the copyright/license holder for the font. Is there a good central location to search who owns the copyright/license for fonts that can be found online?

In my current specific case, I am trying to find out if I can use "A L Heavenly" for commercial purposes, but have not been able to track down who owns the license beyond the name "Autumn Leaves", and that it has been around since 2013.

So is there a good way to track down authors when the licensing info on font websites is not completely trustworthy?

Note: yes, I realize the question is very similar to Establishing the real copyright owner of a font, but in my case, what I want to know is what options are available in terms of a reliable, trustworthy, website that has links to contact the font authors (something most sites I have run into do not seem to have) or which can be trusted when they state a font's license (as free, or licensed by paying through the site).


texts: How to find out percentage of selected area on Photoshop?

texts: I need to take a photo for my University's ID card. Specific instructions say that face should fill 50-70% of the photo. How can I find out if I took the picture right?


texts: Best practices for full width browser images?

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What are the best practices people follow in respect to images on larger viewports?

What size browser should we design for? Meaning how do we deal with high resolution monitors and what % of users have large screens?

How can we best deal with the height of hero images, as we really need to decide which screen resolution to go with?

Of course, all of this is while keeping to the 12 column grid philosophy ;)


texts: Illustrator: How to cut out a circle from the middle of a shape with effects?

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I've tried multiple online tutorials, looked at several previously asked questions on here that I thought should have worked for me but for some reason I just cannot figure this out.

All I want is for the purple area to be gone/transparent/deleted, and the green area to remain. I've tried selecting both objects and clicking minus front in pathfinder, but I must be doing something wrong.

Also tried just making the inner circle transparent and filling in the area between the two shapes with live paint but when I tried that it removed the zig zag effect from the outer circle.


texts: Designing a form in InDesign, table or other method

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I've been tasked with creating a form/report for a client. The client provided a printed example with the fields they require and the start of a layout which I was to amend. The final design was to be used for NCR printing.

I designed this by creating a table in InDesign, and commented on how I wish there was a feature to move columns individually in a row. I get around this issue my merging/splitting rows to gain the desired cell width; however, I was then told I was wasting my time and it would be quicker to just draw lines to create the form and use the Align panel to distribute instead of creating a table.

Which is the best method?

Thanks in advance

Example of form:


texts: Industry Term for Interface that looks Intentionally Realistic / Archaic

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It's killing me because I can't find a good way to search for this, but I've heard the term used when people discuss a lot of iOS applications that use knobs, sliders, and other graphical elements designed to imitate physical interface components.

There are a lot of great examples of this in the music/sound design software industry, for example Propellerhead's Reason :


texts: Change color of word inside text box in Sketch

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I want to change the text color of 1 line of text inside my textbox that has multiple lines of text. When I try to do this through the style dialog, the text color changes of the whole textbox content.

Strangely it is possible to style a single line with bold or an underline.

How do I change the color of just a single line?


texts: Cannot find the file type png-24 using export layers script in Photoshop CS3

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When choosing File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files.. in Photoshop CS3, why can't I select a png format (png-8 or png-24)?

I cannot trim layers using any of this. :(


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I have a website that hosts images of mine for sale and they limit the file size to 25MB per image.

Is there away to have Photoshop resize an image to 25MB. I know how to resize by long side or short side lengths but if it can be done by limiting to 25MB this would be a major time saver and not having to do some trial and error resizing sometimes.


texts: Indesign - scriping xlink:href via scripts

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I have xml in the following format:

   <WebsiteAsHyperLink><websitewithURL xlink:href="http://www.google.com"> Click to view website </websitewithURL></WebsiteAsHyperLink>

and I have the following script, when ran it converts hrefs into valid tags, but it does not work on xlinks

If I could get some help on how to alter it to look at all xlinks

main();

function main() {
   var doc = app.activeDocument;
   var elems = doc.xmlElements;
   var ruleSet = new Array (new Rule);
   __processRuleSet(elems[0], ruleSet);

   function Rule() {
      this.name = "Rule";
      this.xpath = "//websitewithURL [@href]";
      this.apply = function(elem, ruleProcessor) {
         var elemText = elem.texts[0];
         var linkURL = elem.xmlAttributes.itemByName("href").value;
         var linkSource = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(elemText);
         var linkDest = doc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(linkURL);
         doc.hyperlinks.add(linkSource, linkDest);
         return true;
      }
   }
}


texts: How Can I Create a seamless vector pattern or brush that wraps around a snake?

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How would I be able to emulate this snake's scale pattern that maintains shape throughout the curves?

I can go in and hand draw the face afterwards but as of now I'm pretty stuck on a solution without trying to draw it from scratch.


texts: What do you think of puzzle backgrounds? Maybe old-fashioned?

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please take a look to this fast wireframe:

It comes from a web designer I work with. We are discussing it, because I perceive the puzzle background as somewhat, don't know, something not modern, quite old fashioned. I don't know where I already saw it, but I'm almost sure I saw it several times, especially in the paset decades, from back in '80ies to '90ties.

So, do you think as me it's and old-fashioned graphic expedient? Do you maybe remember where you already saw somewhere?

Thank you, regards


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I have several layers all within a group. When I click a text element with the move tool and try to drag it, everything within the group moves.

I can click the text layer and move it with the arrow keys but is there a way to drag just this text layer?


texts: How do I show the tooltip when creating guides?

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I am setting up guides for an art print in Photoshop. I want the guides to each be .025" on the top, bottom, left & right. I've noticed in some tutorial videos, when you pull down on the ruler to create a guide, a little tooltip pops up showing what the position of the guide is (Ex: Y: .025 in)... I do not have this option currently and I am wondering what I need to do to get it.

I want to be sure my guides are all exactly the same (.025") and right now I am just eyeballing it. I have CS5.


texts: Using inner and outer curves to create an icon

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I've recently come into working with Adobe Illustrator to create icons and I was wonder how I could replicate this pre-made icon I found.

I originally thought of using two rectangles and joining them using shape builder and then manipulating the rounded corners but the two lower corners on the top rectangle need to be inward and the top rectangles can't round as far as is needed.

Then I went ahead and just made the top rectangle smaller and tried to use the pen tool to make the inner curve. This sort of works but it doesn't line up right and it leaves weird strokes behind.

What would be the best method to go about creating this simple shape in Illustrator?


texts: How can I set the Photoshop pencil tool to auto erase to transparent?

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Photoshop's pencil tool has a setting for "auto erase". When set, clicking on a pixel of the current foreground color causes it to draw over it with the background color. This is great if you're drawing on a colored background, but useless when the background is transparent.

How can I set the pencil tool to erase pixels (replace them with transparent) instead of just drawing the background color over them? Or if this is not possible, is there another tool that can be set to draw a single pixel in the foreground color and then auto erase to transparent?


texts: Photoshop: How to make background transparent without affecting image quality?

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I'm really new to Photoshop, but I use Indesign and Illustrator regularly.  I have a picture of a product (books basically) that have a white background and I need that background to be transparent. I used the quick selection tool to select all the white space, then selected the inverse, cut and paste into a new file with a transparent background. When I do this the image ends up looking different-- kinda grainy, ragged edges. What is the best way to change the background to transparent without losing the image quality?

Here are links to the photos

Original:

source

After trying to remove background:

source


texts: In Adobe Illustrator CS3, how can I fill particular parts of non-objects?

texts: In Adobe Illustrator CS3, how can I fill just the boxes of a plot with color? The plot displays as just one object in Illustrator, so it is not as simple as selecting the box object and filling it.


texts: Fixed size of arrowhead for any line weight in Illustrator?

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Is it possible to keep the size of an arrowhead independent of the weight of the line it is attached to?

I'd like to fix the arrowhead at a particular size, and from then on adjust line weight without it changing the arrow size. Open to any method that achieves this!


texts: Maybe a dumb question, but is there a name for this kind of design element? Zoom, preview or something along those lines?


texts: What are the general rules for heights/widths of punctuation marks when designing a font?

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I've been getting into font design recently, and I'm pretty clear on the various widths and heights for the letters, but I realized I'm at a loss when it comes to punctuation. I can kind of guess that certain things like an exclamation point or a parenthesis would go all the way to the cap height, but how big should a period or a comma be, or how wide should an underscore be? I have questions for pretty much every punctuation mark.

Are there rules or guidelines for the various marks, or is it just whatever looks right?


texts: How can I create a layout in Adobe illustrator?

texts: How can I make a design like the example below.  When I generate some lorem ipsum text, I don't know how to set up columns, or how to set the text to wrap around the letter.


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I have a multi-page document set up on logically ordered layers (background, photos, type, etc. in ascending order, so type on top). On some pages, text wrap works perfectly! On other pages, the text wrap will flat-out not work. One of the following will happen:

If I set the text up, drop in placeholder text, it shows. I add a photo, it shows as under the type. When I attempt to text wrap it, the text disappears, but the photo shows, as does the outline of the text box.
If I drag the same photo and text outside that particular page, the text magically appears and is wrapped correctly. If I drag it back into the appropriate page, the text disappears as mentioned above.
If I go to Object/Text Frame Options and check mark the box, "Ignore Text Wrap", the type disappears. If I uncheck the box, the type appears again but runs across the photo.
Worst case scenario, "Ignore Text Wrap" undoes ALL the correct text wraps that already exist in the rest of the document. I have tried copying/pasting a 'good' set of photo + text wrap into a new page to only have it undo the text wrap on ALL pages. (Thank goodness for Ctrl+Z!)

I've been searching for a solution for 2 weeks to no avail. Any clues out there? No threaded text exists at this point (one problem at at time, oy!), no hidden objects, nothing overly complicated.

I sure hope someone has an answer. Thank you in advance.


texts: How to to use bevel and emboss properly for clean buttons in photoshop cs6

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I've heard of different methods in getting a nice highlight on the top of a button.  Can some of you explain a preferred fx for the example here? Along side the nice highlight on the top of the button, can you explain how each button is tastefully differentiated?

http://dribbble.com/shots/391714-Archivme-iPad-app-iOS?list=searches&tag=buttons


texts: Avoiding optical illusions in (icon) design

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I am fairly new to the wonderful world of icon design and I have a recurring issue that I find difficult to deal with. for me, consistency in line thickness, shape sizes and colors is very important to create a well designed piece.

However I seem to run into an 'optical illusion' problem often. The latest icon I am creating for example should represent an old bike. I have set my line stroke to 10px and have drawn a small circle of 10x10px. Yet all three of my shapes seem to be of different size and line thickness to the eye.

However as you can see by the orange balls I included, the lines really are all the same size.

How do I prevent such things from happening? It looks very awkward to me. I could reduce and increase the size here and there so it pleases the eye, but then it is not technically correct anymore...


texts: How to create a nondestructive gradient mask over an object?

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I'm trying to create a mask with a nondestructive gradient. So far I have managed to create my shape in a smart object and the masking gradient in another smart object.

My mask looks like this:

The image that I'm trying to mask looks like this:

By setting my image over this gradient smart object, I was able to produce the following:

The setup looks like this:

The problem is that it's also displaying the black from the clipping mask. I have tried turning down the fill on the masking layer but it also hides the image to be masked. I need to make the clipping mask work without displaying itself. I managed to create a bitmap layer mask which produces the desired result (below) but I need a non-destructive solution.

Desired result:

I need a way to not show the clipping mask layer and only use its transparency. I am also open to other solutions that can do the same thing, provided they are non destructive.

How can I create a non destructive mask over my target object, to achieve the effect I have shown in the final image?


texts: What is the best way to acheive this "geometric triangles" effect?

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I'm currently playing around in Illustrator and I would like to know the best way to recreate this pattern from a Samsung wallpaper (or similar) so that I can colour it how I like.

The main problem I'm having is positioning the triangles between each other. Is there a better way to place then flush against each other so there are no gaps?

Do I have to just painstakingly pull each point to match up with each other?

Or is there a way to "cut up" a larger shape?


texts: Is there a way to set Photoshop brush dynamics so that the brush gets larger as you paint?

texts: In Photoshop you can set the brush dynamics to Fade, which causes the brush to get smaller and smaller as you paint.  But sometimes I'd like the brush to start out small and get larger as I paint.  Is there any way to do this?


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We're in the middle of a redesign and since we now have nicer looking dashboards, would like to utilize some gifs showing them in use. The problem is, whenever I save a gif out in photoshop, it appears pixel-y and blurry.

I was wondering what could I be doing wrong here? These were done with all vector art so I don't think sizing should have been an issue. They weren't resized in PS, only sized in AI.

I am looking for a result similar to this. The section I am looking at is mainly in the "overview" section. I understand this example is an HTML video, but I have seen examples using simple gifs. Would my best bet be to use HTML5 Videos instead and forget the gifs altogether?

Thanks for the insight!


texts: We have a new printer with ability to print clear, gold and silver. I need to know how to setup the file for clear or gold print. If anyone can help :) Thank you.


texts: Illustrator opens files in RGB/GPU Preview

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I've downloaded a SVG file from a free online source. Upon opening it in Illustrator I cannot edit the SVG but on top of my tab it says: (RGB/GPU Preview):

I am a little confused when I open every file I am not able to edit it. Am I doing something wrong here or ss the file edit prohibited by the author?


texts: Change all uppercase letters in a named style to initial case (Indesign Grep)

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This is my first post here. I have Peter's (forgot his last name) excellent change  case-script so I can do the replacement with no problem, but the find is baffling me.

I have a glossary where the term has been written in a character style so I can easily select all the words in that character style. It's all caps and I want to change those words to initial caps.

For example:

ALIASING changed to Aliasing.

BALANCED INTERFACE changed to Balanced Interface.

If I can somehow do a find from the second letter of each word, then hopefully I can use Peter's script to change those to lower case. Any help would be tremendous, thanks!


texts: Indesign: how to remove the white space between the text and the left side of a text box?

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To the right side by default, it seems to do it right but always leaves me a white space to the left.
Is it possible to set the text close to the left text box's margin? Thanks.


texts: Pixel lines using Shape builder tool Illustrator

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I'm doing a logo design and these messy lines appears after using shape builder tool in Illustrator. See the image. It's the faded lines on the intersections between the P and the A. I have tried several things but cannot get rid of them. And they mess up the clean look.

Anyone able to help would be awesome. Thanks!


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I'm drawing an exemplary function graph using bezier curve:

Notice the horizontal line which appears because of automatic closure, merge of the first and last vertices. How can I disable this behaviour? I don't need a shape, nor color filling, nor closing, just an open bezier path.


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I would like to know how to disable smoothing for layer styles in Photoshop so that edges get jaggy.

For example, I create a text layer and disable smoothing in the toolbar. Now, when I go to Layer Styles and enable Contour, while the text itself remains unsmoothed, the outside of the contour is smoothed. How can I disable that?


texts: InDesign: correct page order for printing tri-fold brochure

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I have designed a trifold brochure spanning 6 spreads in InDesign using individual pages. My print-shop tells me I have to arrange them into two pages (each containing three of my spreads), one being the outside and one being the inside. (I hope 1. I am using the term spread and page correctly, 2. one can follow my description).

I did find out, that you can use the "print booklet" feature to "convert" my document as if I had only worked with two pages from the beginning on. However here is my problem: The pages are not in the right order.

My print-shop told me the order has to be Spread 5, 6, 1 for the "outside" and 2, 3, 4 for the "inside".

However for me it is 1,2,3 and 4,5,6:

Is there a way to change the page order in the "print-booklet" dialogue, or do I have to do this "manually" by reordering the pages in my project.

I think this might be the dialog where I can define my own order? However things are greyed out.


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I'm trying to make simple icons to use with Fontello.  When I export what I've made as an svg and try importing it to fontello, it won't import it properly and it complains:

"If image looks not as expected please convert to compound path manualy. Skipped tags and attributes: stroke,stroke-width,fill,fill-rule"

My question then:  how do I join all these paths? Especially the ones that aren't even touching?

Thanks!

Update: I'm unable to bring shapes from Sketch to Icomoon either. The svg file is here for anyone who wants to have a look at what I'm doing. The Sketch file is here.


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I'm very new to web development, it's something I'm trying to learn myself with addition of online courses so I hope I'm not insulting anyone with my questions.

my questions were considered to broad so I'll give this a new attempt and hope I get it right this time. If you're not sure what you're asking it's difficult to narrow it down.

What's the best option: asking your client to purchase the domain and hosting or get it yourself? I've already received a great answer on letting your client deal with that part, thank you very much for this answer! But what if you have someone who really doesn't know how to do any of this and I end up purchasing the domain and hosting, is there a way to transfer both so the client ends up paying the monthly/yearly fee instead of me? If so, how is this done?

It's a bit early in the game for me but I'd still like to know. When you and your to be client decide on working together I guess you make up a purchase agreement(probably the wrong word but not sure about an alternative) of some sort. As I don't think it's the same with something like buying a fridge, what should be present in the agreement?

All the info and courses I follow are all about html, css,... But they don't explain how to actually bring the website together so I'm a bit lost in this part, I hope I was able to narrow it down a bit compared to my previous question.


texts: Is there an Illustrator alternative which supports SVG natively?

texts: By natively I mean the application needs to create, open, edit, and save in the SVG format without conversion. I'm aware that Sketch can open and export SVG files, but in doing so it changes the XML structure of the document each time, which is less than ideal for versioning purposes.


texts: How do I make sure I copy objects and paste a duplicate of it in another artboard but keep the layer the same as the artboard before?

texts: I'm designing a website in Illustrator, and want to make multiple pages in one file using multiple artboards. So some elements need to be copied from page to page. I want to keep those elements in the same respective layer.


texts: Join multiple brush strokes into shape I can fill

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In illustrator if I use the brush tool and draw one complete enclosed shape I can then add a fill colour and changing the stroke color changes the color of the lines i drew. However if I draw a shape using the brush tool in parts (e.g letting go of the mouse then drawing again) even if it is fully enclosed I cannot apply a fill in the same way. If I use object->expand then it converts the lines themselves into the objects that the fill color gets applied too.
How can I draw a shape using the brush tool in multiple strokes and then convert it to the outline of a path so I can apply a fill and change the stroke?
Here's a picture of how it's currently working. I've used different colour brushes here just to show where one brush stroke begins and ends but normally the brush strokes would all be one color. I'm importing from adobe draw hence why I'm working with brush strokes


texts: What make the colors in this picture look soft?

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See this image:

http://soranootoshimono.wikia.com/wiki/File:46456845235358656364.png

To me it look soft like some sort of low-pass filter but I also can see sharp edge of the image.

I'm curious what make it look softer than others.
And if you can make one from a normal image I also want to know how can you do that?


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I've just begun using Macromedia FreeHand (version before it became Adobe Freehand) that we had laying around. And I want to do this same thing--namely, invert a shadow.

In FreeHand there are two effects called "Bevel" and "Emboss". They both are pretty similar to each other. But, I can't seem to get that far because the shape I bring in from ArcMap is a river polygon. In ArcMap it's a filled in polygon, but when I import the EMF file to FreeHand it becomes a polyline image. This is where I'm having problems... Does anyone know how to fill the shape to look like it did as a polgon (see before/after images)?

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Zoomed in....


texts: How would I create this spotlight projection effect in Photoshop?

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I would like to create a similar effect to this image in Photoshop. The aim is that the background and the effect colours can be changed as needed.

I only need the projection part of it, I don't need the cirlce at the bottom.

I mostly use vector programs and I'm not really good at Photoshop. I've tried to use the mesh fill tool in Corel draw X7 and the trace tools, but the result looks a little artificial.


texts: Is "Communication design" is the same as "Design Communication"?

texts: I want to know if the meaning of communication design is the same as design communication?


texts: Letterhead Template translated to Word 2016

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I've designed a letterhead in illustrator which I am trying to put into Word 2016 so that the client can type out his letters and save them as PDFs.
Page one I will layout as the template looks.

The problem I am having is page 2.

I would like page two to be margined differently with just the footer displaying. The only way I can think of doing this is to use a page break, but I don't want to send my client a template with two pages and for him to have to print just the page he wants to.

I would like for the page to automatically have no header, the narrow margins of a normal page with the footer remaining.

Is there a way to do this without burdening the client with making manual edits?

What is the best setting for the red bar on the left, its and image that has been given a wrap text of tight and positioned where it needed to be. I would like for the bar to remain there (on page 1) without being deleted if all the text was selected.


texts: Merge different paths into one - inkscape

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I have 3 adjacent rectangle as shown belown. I have 2 simple questions based on that.

1 - In this picture, selected area has 2 paths on top of each other. how i can make them one?

2 - In same picture again, selected area has 3 different paths.They just touching each other by a node. How i can make them one single path again?


texts: Best way of presenting persons in a brochure/three-column page

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In a brochure (A5) I am designing in InDesign CC I would like to present several persons. Currently my layout is designed such that I divided the page into three columns, place the image of the person in the outermost column, a small text box below the image for the name/position of the person and use the space in the other two columns for text describing the person. This text is placed in a separate text box. Works so far.
Still, I am running into several annoyances:

If the text describing the person is too long, the large text box is higher than the image and the short text combined
Each time I would like to add a new person, I have to create two text boxes and an image, and align them. Furthermore, when moving them around, I have to keep in mind to mark them all at once to avoid re-aligning afterwards.
Each time adding a new person means that I have to put the person into the correct slot (assumed I would like to sort them according to their names), and shuffling all the other persons around. Pre-setting the persons is not possible, unfortunately

Thus, are there easier ways for dealing with this situation?

The layout I had in mind looks as follows:


texts: Photoshop -- inaccurate 1 pixel brush/pencil

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I've seen a lot of stuff about this, but everything I've tried has not helped my problem.

I made a custom 1 px brush using the marquee tool (seems like the default 1px pencil should also work fine though) and I am finding it to be extremely inaccurate on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running Sierra 10.12.6 (16G29)

I think I have the settings configured right with no options turned on in the
brush palette and square pixel ratio turned on under view -> Pixel Aspect Ratio

The pixel grid seems aligned properly, yet when I go to make a mark using this custom 1px brush, or the 1px pencil tool, I get the following effect in many (but not all) cases:

The pixel will be drawn one or more squares away. What other settings could influence this?

I set up these squares for a sprite sheet using 20px by 20px squares, which seem to have formed properly judging by the grid.


texts: How to exclude a shift-tab character from a nested character style?

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I have a paragraph that looks like this:

NN TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

Then in the paragraph style I set the first word, which is always a number to characterStyle A. After the first word I set the characterStyle B, which includes the

TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

part. But this is not what I need. I need characterStyle B only for

TitleA TitleB

and characterStyle C to the

[alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

part.


texts: “Select by color” and “draw path from selection” in Inkscape?

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I imported an image to Inkscape. Now I'd like to select all those regions that have the same (or to a certain degree similar) color. From this selection I'd like to draw a path (to which I can add a border or background color).

I'd like to generate an object, that has the exact dimensions as a certain region in an Image. How can I do this with Inkscape? I couldn't find one of the functions above, but I'm sure there in a easy way to do this.

EDIT:
The answer by Takkat looked quite promising. Unfortunately, although I turned off all smothening options, the paths do not follow the colours precisely:

Before:

After:

The same things are happening, when I use other scan-modes. I couldn't find an option that follows the border of the enlarged pixels,...


texts: SVG font-weight changes when rendered in html

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I have a logo in SVG format that I am using on a UI Prototype I'm creating using HTML5. I created the SVG using Inkscape. Today I noticed the logo's font-weight has changed, and I can't seem to change it back. I've been using this logo for months without an issue. I'm not sure if newly added CSS could be changing it, but when I inspect the logo using Chrome's Developer Tools (F12), there does not seem to be CSS changing it.

If I open the SVG in an HTML page by itself, its font-weight is off (too bold). I am able to target the specific text and remove the font-weight property. This fixes my issue, but I can not seem to target the text of the logo when I'm using it on my Prototype pages.

This seems to be a very similar issue, but since I'm using Inkscape and a newbie to vectors, I wasn't able to use this solution: Preserving font type in illustrator SVG file


texts: Is it possible to divide one Photoshop document into multiple source files?

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I am new to Photoshop and therefore in need to get familiar with it fast.
I wonder, if there is a way to divide Photoshop like a website, to make every picture (such as a website logo) editable seperately, so when I edit it, it automatically updates in the master Photoshop document.

This would be very useful to me, if Photoshop had something like this, for organization and ease of use.

I am making a website and I just have too many layers to manage.

Thank you in advance


texts: InDesign line composing for left alignment

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I see this kind of text alignment (alternation of long line/short line over and over) in many books lately.

I wonder if there is any way to achieve this with a combination of specific justification + hyphenation settings in InDesign? Does a specific line or paragraph composer exist for this? Or is every line break just manually done? (which seems like a crazy thing to do for hundreds-pages books...)
Thanks for any help!


texts: Adjusting warp arc bend with Adobe Illustrator scripting?

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I'm attempting to write an Illustrator script that will get the length of a text phrase...  Then based on the string length, set the warp arc bend, horizontal distortion, vertical distortion to a new value...

Here is my fake pseudo code:

if (textlength = 5)
{
warp_bend = 60%
warp_horizontal = 10%
warp_vertical = 25%
}

I have looked through the Javascript scripting 2017 guide, and I do not see any variables for these warp values.  Am I missing something, or is this not possible?

Any help is much appreciated.

Wyatt


texts: The easy way to modify icon color & its background color

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Sorry for the question. I am new to graphic design. I am a developer. I just bought an icon bundle for iOS & Android applications. I found that the colors are only black & while. The icons come with some formats such as PNG, PSD. I just want to modify icons colors. I only used Windows Mspaint application before.

Can someone guide me how to do? What software do you recommend?

How can I extract an icon from set of icons in a big PNG file?

Note that the purpose of using these icons is for iOS & Android applications.

Thank you!


texts: Need to identify the technique used to create smoke swirls in the image

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I want to recreate the smoky texture that is depicted in these images. Please can someone identify this technique and if possible direct me to a decent tutorial for it?
I'm adept at photoshop and illustrator.
Thankyou


texts: How to warp an image for sloped rooftop graphic?

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I have a friend/client who wishes to paint a single graphic mural on their garage/shed rooftop, but they want it to appear in "proper" perspective when viewed standing on neighbor's lawn.

First, what information would I need from client to even begin to work on this (best guesses = rooftop width, height/rise & run, and slope angles; maybe distance between shed and viewing neighbor, etc.) and second, then how do I use all this info to warp the artwork appropriately?

My expectation would be that the graphic should appear a bit unnaturally top-heavy when viewed flat, but it would look right with it angled away from you, is that correct?

I have Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator CC at my disposal & I've dabbled with warping in both but I don't know how accurate my results are.

Truthfully I wouldn't even attempt if this wasn't for a friend since it isn't exactly in my wheelhouse, but figured I'd give it my best attempt ... help? (Happy to learn more on my own too if you have recommended resources rather than personal knowledge/tips & tricks.)


texts: Colour Overlay is tinting white background, how do I make it apply just to black pixels?

texts: I have 2 layers in a photoshop document, both with black tonal imagery. I wish to apply 2 different colours to these black images, using the colour overlay effect. I am using 'screen' blend mode so that the colour only applies to the black image. Which seems to work when only one layer is visible. When both are turned on, the colour overlay on the top layer is tinting the white background of that layer, and therefore changing the colour of the image underneath, as I'm using the 'multiply' layer blend mode. If I cut a 'hole' in the white background I can see the true colour of the image underneath. How do I make the colour overlay just apply to the black pixels, and not to the white background? Thanks.


texts: What font does N*E*R*D use for their logo?

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What is the name of this tech-ish, uppercase font that NER*D uses for their logo?

Hi I was just wondering what font style this is. If you could help me it would be great appreciated! Thanks!


texts: Are there any tutorials on how to emulate MBE's style?

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I'm trying my hand at emulating MBE's style of designing these cute character/icons in order to progress my understanding of illustrator.

That being said, I suck at it and was wondering if anyone has seen or knows of any tutorials along this sort of style that I might be able to pick up some tips from? In particular I'm not sure on the best way of doing the broken outlines?

Here's a link for reference - https://dribbble.com/shots/2476325-Egg


texts: How to apply a gradient to an Outer glow (example attached)

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I want to achieve this sort of an effect on my own. As you can see, there's sort of a non uniform glow (in terms of color) to the text. Simply using the gradient option in the Outer Glow blending option makes the gradient appear from outside the letters to further beyond them. I'm looking for it to appear horizontally as the text continues.
I'm using Photoshop CS5. Any tips?


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So I have a client right now which is asking me to include a second logo on the website's header. I am no graphic designer but I feel this is so wrong.

The second logo is for one of the projects the company has.

Background. The company is into palm oil extraction and exportation. As of 2015 they need to be compliant with certain environmental guidelines and certifications. I guess this is why they want that second logo on the header, since the project is about Clean Energy Generation and is a big plus with stockholders and industry.

They are asking me to make a second header in which I am supposed to place both logos, and keep the actual image header below.

How can I make this work? This feels so wrong to me from a marketing and UX perspective.

site: acey desa.com (Just concatenate the parts of the url, I dont want it showing on google results)

EDIT
I am including both logos. The first one is the company's logo and the second one is the logo of the Clean Energy Project. My question is if this is wrong. Wouldnt this confuse users?


texts: Inkscape stroke to path width changing on rounded polygons

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When I create a rounded polgon and elongate it, when I try to export it as a pdf, the thickness of the line changes (thicker in the elongated axis). So I tried object to path and stroke to path, but this causes the same problem. However, this does not happen when exporting as a png.

Any ideas on how to convert to paths without the line thickness changing?

Thanks


texts: How should I approach designing special characters I am unfamiliar with when designing a typeface?

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When designing a typeface there are a number of characters that I, as an English speaker, have never used, rarely seen and simply don't understand. These characters fall in to a number of different groups, but all cause the same problem. I don't know how to design them!

There are mathematical symbols.
Not being a mathematician, there are some of these I am familiar with, some I am not. But even the symbols I am familiar with can cause me problems. How do I design a plus and minus sign? I know what shape they should be, but what about alignment? Should the minus sign have the same vertical alignment as a hyphen? It often doesn't but I don't know why. When I get to symbols I don't even understand the use of I am totally lost.

Some examples of mathematical symbols I am unsure of:

There are Non-English characters and diacritics. I don't speak any languages that use any characters other than the standard 26 letters of the English alphabet. I have no idea how diacritics are used or should look. I also have no idea about characters like ß (sharp S), þ (Thorn) or ð (Eth).

Some examples of of characters I am unsure of:

My current approach is to find a font similar in weight and proportions to the font I am designing and using that as a base to design from, but I'm worried I may be getting things wrong.

Are there any official sources that describe how symbols and characters should be designed? And more generally—How do I approach designing characters I am unfamiliar with?


texts: Make sure the text is always visible as much as possible

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I am given a text that is placed on top of a background of a given color. I need a way to determine the monochrome color the text should have to ensure the text's maximum visibility.

My intuition: take the background color, invert it and make it monochrome - this is the color the text should have. Is this correct? This does seem to work, but I am not sure if the method is infallible. Perhaps this method does work, but there is a simpler way to do this?


texts: I am an illustrator newbie. I have 2 shapes: rectangle and triangle. I want to delete the left and the right part of the triangle(just like the image)...Any idea? It s probably easy for you!


texts: What's an appropriate icon to represent the concept of 'all'

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In my app, I have a collection of objects that I'm allowing the user to filter. To represent each filter, currently starred objects, watched objects and the user's object, I use the icons pictured below:

However, I'm having trouble coming up with a way to represent the concept of all objects being visible. Does anyone know of a good icon to represent this?


texts: Changing colour of placed object in Illustrator

texts: On my artboard I have a floral image which I placed as a png and then did image trace.  I then want to add some wording which is currently in an .ai file.  If I place the .ai file with the wording on to the artboard with the floral image, can I then edit the colour of the wording in the placed ai. file? Or does it need to be placed in a different format?  I want to sample colour from the floral image with the eyedropper tool.  Thank you!


texts: Open Sans installed by default on all major OS's

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Do all major operating systems have Open Sans installed by default? Ie, if my website uses Open Sans will it display on:

Windows
Mac OS
Linux
iOS
Android


texts: Putting a 0.25pt stroke on type in illustrator - will it mess up printing?

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I'm still getting a feel of Illustrator after being pretty much Photoshop-reliant. I'm doing a brochure and needed some text to be slightly heavier, so I put a 0.25pt stroke that's the same color as the text. I'm wondering if this is standard practice? Will it mess up printing? It's a paragraph of text and the client needs it to be editable and easily accessible.

This is what it looks like when viewing on Preview at 300%. There's a bit of a misaligned outline on the text. All I did was add the stroke, is there anything else I should be looking out for in the settings?


texts: Animation (Adobe After Effects): Text rotating without cylindric wrapping of text

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I am trying to animate a piece of text rotating in a circle. In itself, this is a relatively easy thing to achieve; using Adobe After Effects I created a string of text and used the CC Cylinder effect (Effects & Presets->Perspective->CC Cylinder) to create the rotation animation. Take a look at this .gif to see my current result:

However, what I would like to accomplish is a more static rotation of the letters, that is, the letters rotating around an axis as individual objects instead of being mapped to an invisible cylindrical surface on which they rotate. Take a look at this example to see what I mean:

How might I be able to achieve this in After Effects?

UPDATE: Thanks to Cai's simple and effective solution I was able to create exactly what I was aiming for. Thank you very much.


texts: How can I make the colors less subtle in a design for objects and background?

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In this design, the background color is brownish, which I chose to show inside view of a hut. So I couldn't think any other color palette for hut. But because of this, the items in front looks a bit separated from background, to me.

Both BG and objects don't seem part of a same thing. Sometimes it looks like coming out.

Having said all, it is possible that maybe the colors of objects are not matching with BG. But I can't figure out the exact problem. But overall the problem is what I described above, at a first glance.

So can any other color palette represent a inside view of a hut, other than brown? If no, is there any way to make objects and brown BG look like part of a same thing and colors look less subtle?


texts: Why objects are not distributing in between first and last object in illustrator?

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I have seen in the internet that by selecting several objects, clicking on Horizontal Distribute Center or Horizontal Distribute Space will result in distributing the objects with same space in between first and last selected objects. But in my case, the objects are distributing throughout the artboard width, not in between first and last selected object. Please see the attached image for example.

How to distribute object only in between first and last selected objects?


texts: How can I showcase a working example of my past web development work, without linking to the constantly changing live site?

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Whenever I design a website, I think it's useful to not only show screen captures but also coding abilities.

Unfortunately, most of the time, clients end up editing websites themselves and if they're not paying me for maintenance, the site will lose some of its appeal which doesn't make me too fond of inserting URLs in my portfolio.

Are there any best practices to showcase web design/UI (that is actually working and not a simple screen capture)?
Do you keep an offline copy to show clients?
How do you link it to your existing website (Behance or other)?


texts: Material Design: Actions on items in a table view

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The problem with the FAB (some would say there are many) is that often you want to be able to invoke actions on an item in a table view. The fact that that has been precluded with this design is surprising, but the fact that they don't even mention it in their ridiculously scant spec doc is laughable.

So if I have a table of items, say I want to do the simplest thing imaginable: just include a button for each item to mark it completed. You are not supposed to do that. I guess a TODO app interface might work, where I add a checkbox and then train people that that's what it means. The MD idea is that tables should be informational and all changes should be done in detail pages.

Interested in any ways people have tried to deal with this. Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to do Pathfinder-like operation to 3D objects?

texts: I created two 3D objects inside Illustrator, can Illustrator CC 2017 do some Pathfinder-like operations to these two objects? I want to intersect them, is it possible?


texts: Why is Illustrator CC adding backgrounds to my text boxes?

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I am working on a series of exercises from a text book that we are using in my college course.  We are to create text boxes using a grid system per the instructions in the book.  My problem is that all of my text boxes are appearing with backgrounds of a saturated shade of red.  They do not appear that way in the book.  How do I get rid of this?  When I go to the Print dialogue, the preview does not show the backgrounds.
PS:  The cyan and magenta blocks are supposed to be there and are meant to be spacers.


texts: Illustrator: how to create a gradient with transparent ends on both sides

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I have an image like this

And i want to add transparent borders like this

I made the second image with photoshop but i don't know to do this on Illustrator.

i want to make something like this with an image :

With transparent borders. Sorry i just start using AI.


texts: How to merge two objects within a unique layer?

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I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6.

I've created a Cross using tw rectangles:

It appairs like a two layers:

but I'd like to merge within a single one, so I can easily manage and move across others layers. How can I do it? Tried to select two layers, Layer menu and "Merge selected", but its grayed out, and I can't click.


texts: Problem importing .png files with transparencies to Flash Mx

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I can´t import .png files with transparencies to Flash Mx, it says that if I want to import the hole pictures of the sequence and later that the import did not finish because an unknown error occurred.
So, I think that if I change the image to .gif or something it could work but I´m not sure if .gif saves the transparencies??

What can I do??

Thanks for answer.


texts: I have a vector image of water. I would like to keep the top wave/bubbles as they are BUT extend the gradient blue on the bottom (to fit the longer length of a trade show banner). I'm sure there's a simple way to do this in Illustrator but I don't know how...


texts: What are some ways to spice up boring designs?

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I'm looking for what you guys might have in your "bag of tricks", meaning design elements you use frequently, such as interesting shapes, lines, textures, all that sort of stuff that you use to spice up a boring job.

So for example someone comes to you for a business card and all they give you is their name, address and phone number, they will sometimes say they want something flash. What design elements would you tend to go for? Or someone will give you a bunch of text and they want a DL brochure. What are your favourite design elements?

Also what's your method for selecting colour, if you have nothing at all to go off, for instance a company logo?

I'm talking about print design, not web design.


texts: Photoshop canvas is too small at 72 PPI on a Retina screen

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OK. Let me see if I can explain a problem I have in Photoshop.
I'm working on designing a web site in Photoshop. My screen is a Retina display.

Why is my canvas so small at 100% when at 72 PPI? Zoom in at 200% and the image looks pixelated, go to 300% and it is just impossible to work with it.

Is anyone in this forum having the same problem? If you have found a solution would you please share with the rest of us?


texts: Better way to save photos in InDesign so that they print in higher quality when turned into PDF's?

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I create my newsletter in InDesign, and then save it as a PDF. I typically print a few copies from Adobe Reader, but no matter how high quality I set the printer at, my photos always look horrible and pixelated. The photos aren't of great quality to begin with, but they look far worse printed than on the screen.

Is there a different way I should be saving the photos in InDesign before turning that file into a PDF? Is there a way to maintain image quality from ID to Adobe Reader?


texts: Why won't a certain object combine into another in Inkscape?

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I am making an icon pack using Inkscape that is focused around brand and social icons. I am planning on adding the FreeBSD logo to the pack, so I have been recreating the logo:

However, when I try to combine paths and set the color to black, this appears:

As you can see, instead of it having no color like the other objects, the right ear turns completely black. How do I fix this? Thanks in advance.


texts: GIMP: how to create a collage where the photos can be repositioned within frames?

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I'm trying to create a collage with 3 photos in GIMP, and I want to be able to reposition the images within each frame, not just crop them to fit the frames. Here is a sketch of what I want it to look like:

In short, I want to be able to move each photo independently within each frame (black box) without them showing on the other frames. Here's what I've tried so far (and what problems I ran into):

Create background, add layer mask from selection, import photo as a new layer below (possible to move photo inside frame, but multiple photos/layer groups block each other when added with the same background - only one layer group shown at a time)
Create transparent layer, fill selection with foreground color to create a frame, import photo as a new layer above, add layer mask from selection (allows multiple photos to be shown on the canvas, but the layer mask inhibits repositioning by cropping the photo to selection)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm using GIMP 2.8.10 on Windows.


texts: How to create a realistic sun lens flare using photoshop?

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Using Photoshop, i'd like to create a realistic sun lens flare, like the one shown on this picture :

What I have already tried : draw a white circle, then apply radial blur effect multiple times, but results are poor and not convincing.


texts: InDesign - Can I “float” an anchored frame to the top of a column?

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It is very, very common in textbooks and publications of that ilk to locate a figure (or even two) at the top of the page that contains the figure reference text (e.g., “See Figure 39.2”). If layout is such that the figure and its reference do not fit on the same page, the figure “floats” to a following page (the closer the better). I seek such behaviour in InDesign.

In FrameMaker (r.i.p. on Mac), there is a Position setting “Top of Column” available for an anchored frame that causes the frame to locate itself at the top of the text frame containing the anchor (or, if the “Float” setting is checked, on the first available autoconnected text frame, possibly on a subsequent page). I can write a whole chapter with dozens of illustrations, and Frame will place figures at the tops of pages and will displace text accordingly, with no manual layout intervention. Arbitrary amounts of material can be inserted in front of a figure, with no need for manual adjustment of column heights or positions or manual rearrangement of anchor positions in text. Admittedly, a little bit of fine tuning is sometimes called for upon finalization of layout, but all in all, it works like a dream.

The majority of today’s textbooks use such a layout style, and the majority of today’s textbooks are laid out in InDesign. I have searched and searched, so far without success, for a comparable feature (or a set of hacks to mimic the feature). I have been able to position a graphic frame at the top of a column by locating its anchor near the bottom of the previous page. (I set text wrap around the figure frame’s bounding box.) Apparently though only text AFTER the anchor “wraps” (runs around) to avoid the graphic frame; that characteristic of text wrap seems to preclude my placing the anchor adjacent to the figure reference. Also, as I delete material ahead of the anchor, the figure moves up and up and up into the top margin of its page. It’s a mess.

Is there an InDesign facility (or hack) comparable to this Frame feature?

Follow-up: Is there a mechanism in InDesign to put a table at the top of a column?


texts: How do I take a combined shape that's outlined and subtract another shape from it?

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I created a folder icon with two outlined shapes and combined them and also converted to outlines. I want to now subtract from the right side of the folder. However, every time I try to subtract, it gives me weird outlines.
The first image is how I want the final icon to look like. The second image shows what happens when I try to subtract from the folder shape.


texts: Why does deleting the transform property of a rotated object change the object's location?

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Why does the location of an object change when I delete it's transform property?

Steps to reproduce:

Create a rectangle and select it.
Click again to get to see the rotation handles and rotate it a bit.
Use XML editor (Shift-Ctrl-x) to edit the rectangle's properties and delete the 'transform' property.

After step 5 the rectangle changes location, and not to the initial position of the rectangle. I've not seen a pattern to what controls the new location.

The location also changes if I instead of deleting the property change e.g. 'rotate(15)' to 'rotate(0)'.

I wonder what is going on here?

Background: I had read this question Reset rotation point to center of object and was just trying things.

PS.
Inkscape 0.92 on Ubuntu.


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I realize there are a ton of questions like this, but they are all way overcomplicated for what I am trying to do.

What I want to do is very simple.  I want the background of my image completely transparent, and the foreground completely opaque.  My background is white while my foreground is a pale blue and gold.  Whenever I use color to alpha I end up with the foreground being semi-transparent.

How do I make the background transparent without changing the transparency of the foreground?


texts: Inkscape: clip imported raster just inside colored line

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here's a map of a country with a red border:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Congo_Kinshasa_Topography.png

i've imported the .png and now want to clip it to just show what's inside the red border.

tracing results in a huge complicated mess of paths and nodes that basically cause inkscape to hang when i try to intersect/difference them with pencil-drawn paths to try to isolate the border.

i feel like i must not be approaching this correctly, what's the right way to do it?


texts: Can I use OS fonts for a website? How do I know?

texts: I'm creating a layout design for a client's website, but I'm not sure how to tell if I have web licensing. How can I tell? Are the pre-installed fonts web safe?


texts: How do I infinitely loop content in AfterEffects?

texts: I want to scroll these images from top to bottom. When they start to exit the bottom I want to them to re-enter from the top - therefore creating the illusion of infinite scrolling


texts: How much text should I use for an ad image?

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I'm new at marketing and design and I could really use some tips.
What is the appropriate amount of text in an Ad image? I'm trying to figure out whether less text is better than more text.

Here is an image I've edited and am considering publishing:

And this is the image I am currently running:

I know the image is a bit stretched but please focus on the text, it is very complete, it includes the discounts info, our number and even our Logo.

However a number of text would not be needed. Our phone number for example isn't needed since the image is linked directly to our website with out contact information, our logo also isn't required since I am using facebook as an ad medium and our logo is our profile picture.

Is the first image better than the second because there is less text? or is the more text heavy image better?

This is my base image for ads:

Keep in mind these are for Facebook, and there is a 20% text rule that prohibits me from putting too much text in my images.


texts: Pixel art illustration app identification

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While browsing through (genius) Uno Moralez's Instagram account, I came across this screenshot from his computer with a set of illustration tools:

I am curious to know what app this is, if anyone knows.


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In Photoshop I made a pencil type brush for sketching using the brush settings using pen pressure to control scattering, line thickness and opacity.

However, when I change to a different brush e.g. hard edge, large diameter for shading, the brush settings stay so all brushes now have those scattering, thickness and opacity settings.

How can I make these settings only apply to my pencil-type brush so I can use other brushes without re-creating my settings every time I want to use another brush?


texts: Automate image creation with addition of number, that increases with each iteration

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to create a batch job, numbering images (writing text on them) from 1 to 100 in Photoshop?

I have an image and I'm adding number to it as a Type layer with some blending options selected.  As a result I need to have some flattened image like png or jpeg etc… The problem is that I need to make 99 images like this, each with the different number (1, 2, …, 99).

Can it be automated somehow (and saved in some folder with filenames like (1.png, 2.png, …)? It's a killer job to repeatedly change some text & save the image almost 100 times.

Any replies will be awesome!


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When I start a new poster project which is to be printed on A4 paper, I select Gimp's A4 dimension template, but as I recently found out, it is actually NOT A4.
If I import the finished product into MS Word which uses standard A4 sizes, my picture turns out to be longer than expected.
Why is it so?
Is it a problem in Gimp or are there different A4 dimensions for text and different for pictures?


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Can Adobe Ilustrator export to Sketch file?

If not, is there any plugin that can be used?


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How can I draw a spiral tube shape by autodesk 3d max like that

Thanks


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I have to create a powerpoint poster. The following guidelines are given:

Now I am very confused. In powerpoint I see the options to set the size of the slide:

But what about format and pixels? After some googling I realized that one can convert pixels to cm. I tried using this converter: http://www.unitconversion.org/typography/pixels-x-to-centimeters-conversion.html

But the dimensions in pixels seem not to be consistent with the dimensions in size. What am I misinterpreting?


texts: Creating Gradual Text Using Paths in Inkscape

texts: I'm trying to create a gradual text the follow a path using Inkscape. I know it can be done using Illustrator (see image bellow), but I can't figure it out using Inkscape.


texts: Export Photoshop Artboard from Timeline Video to MP4

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I set up the file to be HD format for size (1920x1080) but when I start to move layer files as smart objects across the workspace of the artboard, the document size increases to encompass all of the "negative space" in the black frame around my artboard, and any mp4 export shows resulting artboard super small in the black video viewing port or frame.

Is there a way to see just the 1920x1080 size that I am trying to edit for?

I followed an artboard file export workaround touted by someone else above, but my file did not export the timeline, just the layers....

What am I missing?  (I have tried resizing the document size, the artboard size, the image size and document size but export still won't come out full screen in the viewing portal...)

Thanks in advance,

Craig


texts: Acknowledge a design company as source for my work

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I started working on a website 3 years ago. For the first year, I worked with a design company that created the original look for the website.

Since then, I stopped working with them and I changed the technology used for this website. Because of this change, I had to re-design the website (adding animations, new features, new views, etc.).

In the end, my design is based on the work done by this company during the first year, and then, by the work I have done and the enhancement I have done to this design for 2 years.

I want to acknowledge the work they have done but without saying "Designed by xxx". Is there a "standard" formulation that states that the design is based on their work that I iterated upon ?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this (and the question can seem weird but I couldn't find a way to search for this question on internet)
Thanks


texts: What are the exact parameters of Apple's Defocus filter?

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Apple OS X does a fine job of blurring images with gaussian blur and opacity.

Does anyone have the parameters for using PhotoshoSketch to achieve this precision?

Apple defocus
My defocus


texts: How to do an infinitely extending text effect in Illustrator?

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I'm looking to create a similar-style text effect to what is in the image.
Mainly, I want the extended rainbow effect coming off the backside of the text.


texts: Turning down a job while leaving the door open for future work?

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Would love some tips on how to turn down a project while still leaving the door open for future work with a client.

Background - This potential client saw an annual report I created for a nonprofit and loved the concept (front page was sort of an infographic / illustrated story). They want to do something very similar...however, the outline they sent me doesn't lend itself to the same treatment as the work for the other client. Basically, they are trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole, just because they like the look of the square peg.

I initially told them that I was so busy that it would be at least a month before I could even begin on their project (which is true!), thinking that would be the end of it. Apparently, they are so enamored with the work I did for the nonprofit that they are willing to wait and want me to put together a proposal...which is certainly flattering, but I honestly have no idea how to turn their outline (which has an overwhelming amount of detail for what would be a one page marketing handout) into a finished product. I'm ready to decline the job and suggest they simplify their concept, but would love to hear some advice on how to do that in ways that at least leave the door open for future work.


texts: Export from Sketch - vector to SVG strange output

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I'm trying to export some vector icons I drew from sketch into SVG and PNG.

Here are my icons in sketch:

All nice and crisp. The shapes are in a group and against a mask, like so:

When I click export, I export them to SVG and PNG.

Here is the PNG's on a webpage:

These look great, exactly how I want them.

Here is the SVG's on a webpage:

The hexagons are no longer rounded, and at some points the stroke is thinner (eg - the bottom of the first icon) and some times it just completely disappears) also, the mouse cursor on the third icon has rotated to be facing straight up!

Does anyone know how I can make this export just like the PNG's but in SVG format? I can't seem to see any other option than 'export' so not sure what i'm doing wrong?


texts: How to determine transparency level of a pixel in Fireworks

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I am a moderate user of Photoshop and have never really used Fireworks. I have been given a Fireworks document which I need to modify.

The document has just one layer, the background layer. On it are some icons and some of them have a semi-transparent border which I am needing to recolor.

If I use the eyedropper tool on a border pixel, I get the semi-transparent color value which changes based on what color I have the canvas set to.

Is there any way I can see what the original border color is/was, and what the transparency level is set to?


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I'm trying to bevel a word with just a gradient color and a black stroke, but one character - the 'T' - is having issues and just turning black.

It says "Bevel self-intersection may have occurred", how do I fix or go around that?

Font is Arial Black, but is expanded.


texts: What is the easiest way to make the background transparent in this image?

texts: Hello.  I am a volunteer coach for my 7 year old daughter's soccer team. I want to make a coach's shirt with a logo on it and use the image below.  I do this myself typically and do the iron on myself as well.  However, I don't want it to be on an all black background.  Would like for it to be transparent.  I'm not really literate in the photo editing software that came with the computer and don't have access to photoshop.  Not sure my skill level would do it even if I did ahve photoshop LOL.  Can anyone help?


texts: How to delete horizontal line from letter A in sketch?

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I have an issue with text manipulation in Sketch. I want to change how letter A looks, so I need to delete the horizontal line so it will look like an upside down V.

I converted my text to Outline, but I still can't find a way to delete it.

Any ideas ?


texts: Indesign type not working, shows up small and garbled

texts: i'm working on indesign and i'm fairly new but i am trying to type something and it shows up like this


texts: How to scale proportionally in after effects

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Hey. I am using ae 2018 version on mac platform. Trying to scale shape by holding shift key, but its streches automaticly.

How it looks with holding shift you can see on this image.


texts: Creating and printing svg for business cards

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I've created this svg file with guidelines defining the size of business cards for Avery 5871. When I print it out, it is slightly too small, 1/8" on top, right, left, and 1/4" on bottom.
What am I doing wrong?
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Can someone please tell me the formula used on this online cm to pixel calculator? https://photoresizer.net/pixel-calculator
I have images that I can easily get the dpi, bit-depth, pixel height and width, and I need to calculate the print centimeter dimensions of the images. For example, If a 300-dpi, 8-bit image has pixel dimensions of 9448x3543, the calculator should give me 80x30 cm as shown in the screenshot below.
I actually need a pixel-to-cm formula and the calculator in the link above only does cm-to-pixels but if I knew the formula, I can easily reverse it.
NOTE: I notice that if you divide the width or height by 118.1 it gives the correct result (9448 \ 118.1  = 80) but I don't understand why that would be the formula and if it's the correct number to get correct results with ALL sizes. What's the relation with the number 118.1?


texts: Spacebar "Hand" tool affected by its own grid in Illustrator

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There is something about the spacebar "Hand" tool that I never noticed before.

It may sound ultra picky, but when it's at max zoom, you can see that this tool follows a pattern which I never noticed before, nor I remember seeing it.

I don't know if I toggled something (that's not snap to grid neither in Transform nor View) but I remember it being super fluid, no matter how zoomed in I was. Now that I'm aware of that "invisible grid" it feels extremely choppy and annoying.

Is there a way to disable this? Or has it been always there, and I just never noticed it before?

I'm using Illustrator CS6.


texts: How to completely erase background of pen and ink drawing leaving only the lines

texts: Using GIMP I'm trying to cut out all white background from a picture of a pen and ink drawing in order put it on a colored T shirt, like a silk screen. Thanks for your help!


texts: How to identify used style in Photoshop?

texts: I prepared some text with style but I can find out witch style is it in style gallery (I simply forget). There is just small thumbnail without any name - how to find it, I have lots of styles.


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Is there a way to add a certain amount of lines at a 90°-angle to a arc?

Crudely demonstrated using Paint.NET with red lines.

It's important to me that I can add any amount of lines, with the same exact distance between each one of them.


texts: InDesign: aligning a horizontal line to an exact coordinate

texts: I am trying to put a Horizonal line at Y: .9253 but cannot do it exactly by dragging it with the mouse. Is there a way I can punch in the exact Y value of the line's placement?


texts: Client asking me to copy another website layout and effects but not content. What point is it copyright infringement?

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I know very similar questions have been asked but couldn't find insight on a situation as similar to mine. A (very good) client that I don't want to drop wants me to mimic another website's layout and effects. It's a very specific and high end interface so if they saw it there would definitely be a connection. The fonts/colors/styling/content are all different and I'll be coding it from scratch (I won't even look at their code) so I'm not worried about the obvious copyright violations with those. I guess I'm wondering if website layouts/effects are vulnerable?

Trust me, I don't like doing it and have been constantly trying to steer them in another direction but they keep going back.

I'm also asking lawyers but I thought I'd also get insight from this community just for more different perspectives.


texts: InDesign: hiding center line between two facing pages

texts: I'm wondering how I can make the center line between two pages disappear, for example:


texts: Say I have a red object. I fill it blue with paint bucket. But I want the final color is blue+red=purple, not blue. And if the object has gradual red, then the final color is gradual purple as well. Is there a way to do so?


texts: Problem converting color from RGB to CMYK for print

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I designed a poster in CorelDraw X5 for printing purposes. I was told by the Printshop guy to use colors only in CMYK. For the most part I did, I don't know why I missed it but I used one color in RGB. I liked this color so much that I've used it at many places. So, current situation is that some colors are in RGB and some are in CMYK. So, I want to convert all RGB to CMYK and thought the problem would be solved. But now I'm actually facing a lot of trouble. The colors are not at all same. I hate the colors that it is showing me.

This is the color I used in RGB:

When I changed the "Model" to CMYK, the color it shows is really different. As you can see in the picture below, it's too dull:

The RGB values of both colors are not the same. What can I do to get the same color in CMYK? I did a little bit of reading here and there. They say, that you can't get same. In that case, what is the closest color that I can get?


texts: How to navigate between tabs in Fireworks CS6 with keyboard shortcuts?

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Is there a shortcut for switching tabs in Fireworks CS6?

In case it's important, I´m using a mac with a Spanish keyboard.


texts: Photoshop: How to remove vertical teal lines?

texts: I just received a design from a designer and I opened it in photoshop but there are teal vertical lines. How do I remove them?


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How can I simply add a class to a layer in Photoshop CS5? That class should hold properties like "fill color", "size", etc.

I'm very new to scripting Photoshop so please bear with me =)

Thanks!


texts: How do I change a shape's color in Scribus?

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I'm a long-time Adobe Creative Suite user who's exploring Scribus as an alternative to InDesign for creating a document. As is often the case when getting outside of the Adobe workflow, accomplishing simple tasks can seem really difficult.

For example, here's what a shape looks like when I create it:

I created a basic square that renders with a black stroke and white (or no) fill. In Adobe, I'd now go to the color palette and select the color I'd like to apply, but I can't seem to find such a feature in Scribus.

How do I change the color of this polygon?


texts: Cutting parts of text using other text in adobe illustrator

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I have created a logo in adobe illustrator however as you can see the picture below I wanted to cut part of the E in airforce of using the shape of the A in advice. I normally have the logo on a white background so for the time being I added a white stroke to advice to create the illusion of cutting part of the E of as well having a bit of a gap. However now I need the logo to sit on different backgrounds I think it is time to cut part of the e off properly and not cheat by using a stroke. Can anybody show me how?

Thanks in advance


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I am considering Andalé Mono font for a website, but I do not know the license.
I did not see mention of the license here:

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalé_Mono

Where can I find the license for this font?


texts: How would I draw a shadow from a spherical object onto a non-flat surface?

texts: I am trying to figure out how to draw a shadow from a spherical object onto a non-flat surface. How would I draw the distortion of the shadow onto the surface?


texts: I want to use "Send to Current Layer", but it's disabled no matter what I do

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I want to move the selected groups below to the Cross Sections layer.  Drag and drop in the layers tree works, but there are many more paths and groups I need to select, and drag and drop is a hassle when you need to scroll around a lot.  Assume the I need to move an item that's so far away from the target layer that I keep missing the target layer as it autoscrolls.
As you can see the groups are selected and the Cross Sections layer is highlighted, but the "Send to Current Layer" command is disabled.
As a matter of fact, no matter what other layer I click on, Send to Current Layer never gets enabled.  I've never ever seen it enabled.  Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding what the "current layer" is and how "Send to Current Layer" works?


texts: Style identification: How was this painting effect made?

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I'm specially interested in the flowers in different colors.

Can they be achieved using a filter?

Image Source: Robbi Robbins.


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I'm in need to create a responsive power-point like presentation that is landscape on desktop and portrait on mobile. PDF's could also work.

Which would be the best practice and is there a way to detect the device the presentation is being viewed on?

Powerpoint presentations and PDFs are preferred because the presentation needs to be downloadable.


texts: ExtendScript: Align group items centered in Ilustrator

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Hi, I am new to illustrator and I want to align the textFrame centered to the pathItem(square) using Extendscript as shown in picture1. I have uploaded another picture, which shows the layer and group of these objects. Actually, all these squares and textFrames in one group. let me know how can i want to align them horizontally centered according to each other.
I want to align this green square and textFrame(TEST)'s midpoints horizontally.
Thanks in advance!


texts: Isometric Deboss Effect in Adobe Illustrator

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How can i create isometric Deboss Effect in my object (right) like Sample image (left) ?

I know 3 shadows used to create isometric deboss effect.


texts: Can I choose multiple layers in Photoshop in the same manner as selecting multiple objects in MS Word?

texts: Selecting multiple objects in MS Word is very easy. You just drag along the page and all the objects such as pictures are automatically selected. Is there the same way in Photoshop?


texts: How do I change the text of 10 text layers simultaneously?

texts: I downloaded a custom image, it's like gold font, and it consists of 10 different text layers. Whenever I click on a text layer to edit it, and to change my text, it will just go to the topmost layer. Making it impossible for me to edit it. It would be really great if I could change the text in all the layers at the same time. That might now be possible. I think I did change the text one layer at a time but i had to make all the layers invisible one by one. Is there any easier way of doing this?


texts: How can I best achieve this "Victorian" style?

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First of all, is there a particular name for such an art style?
And also I'm not expecting a quick "here's how you do this" type of answer and I understand that it may just be a case of me studying the style and repeatedly drawing until I can match the style, but any additional help on achieving it would be great.

I'm looking at creating a logo that has more of an old fashioned illustrated style; much like these Victorian illustrations

I've seen modern companies that use logo's with this sort of style for things such as clothing or food, especially people looking for that old fashioned "rustic" look to their brand.

I am currently looking to start up a business for hand-made homeware that has more of an old fashioned/warm/rustic feel so this style of logo would be perfect

How can I best replicate this art style? Is it something that would be best hand drawn and the "traced".


texts: Can I disable selection for specific elements?

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My frame contains an element filling the entire frame area (in the back).
Every time I span a selection, that element is part of it, and I have to Shift+click to unselect it.
Can I make it unselectable or inactive somehow?


texts: Indesign - how to set up a page for printing with crop marks

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I received the request to make a project with Indesign. 300px width 100px height.

This project should have the crop marks on the corners.

Questions: 1) If I want to have those crop marks, should I create the project of the exact width that I was requested (300x100) or it should be bigger? 2) If it should be bigger, how much bigger should the project be?


texts: How to add an artboard preset in Illustrator

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How do I add artboard presets in Illustrator CC 2014? I believe I've done it before, as I have some custom devices listed there currently. Google was not helpful.

I think it is in an Application Support folder somewhere.


texts: Photoshop CS6: problem with cropping animated gif after moving layers

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So I started making animated gif images for a little side project lately and encountered a problem for which I couldn't find any information online.

Basically, since the subject in the future gif is diagonally moving across the image, I moved the layers sideways on some frames to negate the horizontal moving and keep the subject in the center (more or less). I did this because I wanted the width of the image to be smaller than the height and keep the subject always in the center.
I don't know if there is a better way for "motion tracking" in photoshop (It would be nice if I knew one though), because I'm pretty new to generating animated images.

After that process, in most frames one side of the image was empty, since i moved the layers in the direction of the other side.
So I finally tried to crop the image to finish it and encountered the problem: those empty parts of the image remained, they somehow moved themselves to the new set broders of the image, and through this, they deleted parts of the actual subject I wanted to portrait. This was somewhat unexplicable to me, because I always thought cropping an image would completly ignore the left out parts of an image and delete them.
I hope what I'm saying is not to hard to understand. English is not my first language and I dont know any photoshop jargon.

So my question is basically how do you crop a gif correctly after moving some of the layers, and is there something I might have overlooked.

I hope you can help me with this, and otherwise I'm sorry for having wasted your time.

EDIT: to clarify the problem a little bit, imagine a video in landscape format video which I imported in photoshop with the import "video frames to layers" option. Now, the subject to which I want to limit the image to moves from the upper right corner to the under left corner (not all the way though). My final product should be a portrait format animated gif which should always have the subject in the center.
So what I did was moving the layers a little bit to the right, every following frame a little bit more. Thus, in the left side of the canvas appears a thin line of "empty nothing" (I dont know how you call this in photoshop jargon), which gets thicker with every subsequent frame, because the layers are moved to the right, so there is no "image" in that part of the canvas.
Finally I had the subject centered in the canvas on every frame, so I tried to crop out the rest of it (right and left side, I left the height as it was) to have only left the center of this image, with the subject on it. But this didnt work out as planned, because the empty part on the left side was in the now portrait format image as well. Basically, the left side of the final gif is empty in the same way the uncropped image was, deleting important parts of the final product. I hope this explains it.


texts: What is the easiest way to remove background from an image using Photoshop?

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What is the easiest way to remove background from below image?

If you can show it with screenshots it would be great.


texts: Remove white background from white object in Photoshop

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How can I remove the white background with Photoshop?

I am having trouble doing it with the quick selection tool, because of the whiteness of the object, specially on the top.


texts: Taking consideration for advertisements in web design

texts: Can't argue that advertisements are an extra means of a web site generating income but should web designers take advertisements into consideration when laying out the pixels for a site?  Should this be discussed in a design brief?  How can you determine when advertisements are enough?  Is their a ratio to consider when adding advertisements?


texts: how to make edge of layer round in GIMP?

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I am using GIMP.
I want to make a new layer (above another layer) with round edges. How to do it? thanks


texts: indesign equivalent of ms word's "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style" feature

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In Microsoft Word, for paragraph formatting, you have this option:

"Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"

Is there a similar feature in InDesign?
Note: this question is also related with this question and this question.


texts: In Inkscape, how do I make one path partially repeat another path?

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This is what I am trying to do:

So essentially, there's a path (the filled one) that repeats another path (the outlined one) perfectly on some, but not all, range. This example I did by creating a "fill" with exclusion method, and then editing the resulting fill, but I thought that maybe there's a method that would accomplish what I need quicker and simpler? I was thinking, perhaps some "snapping" technique that that snaps a path against path instead of a node against node? Or maybe a method that copies a section of one path into another?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Automatically remove overlays from a set of identical images using Gimp

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I have a number of images that have all the same background but each has different text overlaid (they are covers of a magazine journal).

I don't have access to the background image, but I know that I can create a composite of the covers and get the background that way.

I can do this manually with a photo-editing program by moving from layer to layer but I'm wondering if there's a tool or filter that automates this (ideally one I can use in Gimp, since I don't have Photoshop).


texts: What's the best file type for photos to be brought into InDesign?

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I'm building a newsletter in InDesign and have some company photos of people's faces. What file type should I use to place them in my InDesign file?

JPEG
TIFF
EPS
PSD


texts: How to render objects in smooth mode in Maya

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There is smooth mode (3 on keyboard if I'm correct) to show objects 'smooth' in the viewport, but when I render it, there is no smoothing.

What should I do in order to get a smooth render?

I've tried to look for tools for smoothing, but was unable to find anything. In 3ds max I could achieve it by applying the modifier Turbosmooth.


texts: What is the official name/type of pattern?

texts: What is this texture or fine artwork called/named? The poor graphic is a screenshot from a 70's styled movie? Geometric surrealism doesn't pull Google images, but is best guess.


texts: Photoshop plugin to export visual hints on spacing, margins, width & height

texts: Is it possible to produce such design hints (on elements padding, spacing, width, height) automatically in photoshop? Is there any plugin that can potentially do this?


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Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of HTML emails. And, like the web before it, the inbox has officially gone mobile—with over 50 percent of email opens occurring on mobile devices.

So can email really be responsive considering how Email HTML Suck?


texts: how do I get size of preexisting circularly shaped layer in photoshop

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I am new to photoshop (Adobe Photoshop CC) and not finding it very intuitive. How do I get the radius of a preexisting circle in photoshop? Someone sent me an editable psd, and I have the circle as a layer. Also is there a way to resize a circular layer to give it a larger radius or would I just need to recreate the circle?

Thanks very much for any help or tutorials you can point me towards.


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I need to make bump-map for objects like shirts or sofa that I could apply new patterns to it so how should convert the following shirt

into this:

?
How can I make bump-map for this?
Thanks


texts: As the title says, how can I export only the layer mask? I want to do this because I need to use it in another program.


texts: Why is the edge of this pixel-perfect rectangle in Illustrator still fuzzy?

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I have a simple rectangle that is totally aligned to the pixel grid. Position X, Y and width and height values are all whole integers. I've also checked the 4 corner vertices which are all definitely on pixel intersections.

Yet in Pixel Preview, it still has a fuzzy bottom edge – what is going on?


texts: Photoshop. Space glitches like in the game Quantum Break

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So here's this glitch effect in a game called Quantum Break. Essentially, it breaks the space into lots of randomly generated polygons that you can say "warp the space behind them". You'd rather look at it. You can see the glitches on the image. First, you can see them left to the main character, little bit down the soilder. The sky and the big building in the front is also glitched. Also, the surroundings of the car to the left are somewhat glitched too.

Sure it's a 3d game, but, I guess one can do similar distortions in photoshop. I tried to make it myself. I took an image, duplicated it, then created lot's of different triangles and quadrilaterals. Then I grouped all of them, and clipped the duplicate layer onto the group. Then I tried different manipulations with the duplicate layer(i.e. scaling, distorting, rotating etc). I guess I had to spend some more time on that.. but anyways. I'd like to see the result of people who know their stuff.

By the way I also tried to look in the web on that, but to no avail. The game doesn't seem to be very popular.


texts: How can I create accented letters in a font where the glyphs look wrong?

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I’m translating to Italian an English manual for a game about 1980’s Poland and it often mentions the Solidarity movement, which is spelled Solidarność in Polish and Solidarity in the manual.

Here in Italy, we never used anything but Solidarność in our books and newspapers. Starting to call it Solidarietà, i.e. translating the word into the used language like the author of the original manual does, would feel very strange.

Hence, the author never had to use the ś and ć glyphs, while I need to.

The font used in the manual, Meridien LT std Medium, has the ś and ć glyphs, but they do not resemble the standard s and c glyphs (they look like they were ported from a different, Sans Serifs font).

How can I go about getting an ś or ć that looks like it’s been written in the right font?

Anything goes, from using a very similar font to using a software to modifying the font, importing the tick from a letter that already has it, as long as it is free. This is a homemade project published under CC-BY-US 3.0 and I won’t die if it has some blemishes, even if I’d rather polish (ha!) it to my best.

If it helps, I’m doing my translation in OOo-Writer. Yes, Open Office. Because I don’t have InDesign here at home and Scribus was too hard to grok with my deadline.


texts: How to avoid sequence numbers when exporting layers in Photoshop CC2015?

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I am using Photoshop CC2015 to modify and then export layers as files. While saving, Photoshop automatically adds a number sequence to the file.

I do not want this numbering. All I want is 'prefix_layername.jpg', not 'prefix_0001_layername.jpg'.

I've read a thread which described a solution for CS5, but this doesn't seem to work for CC2015. I understand we need to edit the 'Export Layers To Files.jsx' which is located at:

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2015/Presets/Scripts

Can someone give me the changes that need to be made at this file to avoid the numbering?


texts: InDesign CS5: How to create a contact sheet automatically?

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I know the instructions exist. I have tried them repeatedly and they simply don't make sense. Can someone explain the steps a little better? (Reading down the list of comments, I'm not the only confused person. The last comment on the page was a second attempt at explaining the process, and I'm still not getting the cursor I should get.)

When I try to place several images at once, I get a loaded cursor icon, but all that ever happens is that I'm placing one image after another, in individual boxes, which is not what I want. How is it supposed to work?


texts: How to set up a perspective grid to draw a scene with multiple horizon lines

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Most perspective tutorials I've encountered cover the basics of one, two, and three point perspective. However, they fail to discuss more complicated scenes in which there may be multiple horizon lines (i.e. any picture of hilly San Francisco illustrates my confusion!)

For instance, where are the horizon lines and vanishing points located in the following images?

Example 1

Example 2


texts: Flattening / Rasterizing content in InDesign for print

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I have a InDesign document which contains log of graphics imported (linked) from Illustrator.

I need to have this document printed. What should I do with the content to send the most appropriate file?
Do I need to rasterise the content? Flatten the layers (there are many)? Leave as is? What will give the smallest file yet sufficient content for the printer?


texts: Export svg from illustrator including objects outside artboard

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I am trying to create a svg for a website, this svg will later be animated (with css & a plugin that removes the hassle).
The artboard is the size of the view for the user, there are other elements in the .ai that will be animated and later on be visible.
How do I save my illustration as svg using Illustrator without losing objects that are outside of my artboard?
A visual representation of what the artboard looks like:

A visual representation of what the current export looks like:

the desired outcome is an .svg that has the same content as the .ai


texts: How to deal with ungrouped layers in Affinity Designer?

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I'm opening a freepik.com vector file in Affinity Designer and the layers show ungrouped. There a millions of layers for a single drawing. How to deal with this?

Do I really need to my hands get on Adobe Illustrator? How to move from there so that I can continue on Affinty Designer?

PS: I'm not at all a fan of Adobe and currently don't own a subscription...so it would be quite a pain. Alternative workarounds would be very appreciated!


texts: Improving the dithering of the gif image

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I was having a question between this gif and my work:

Is it possible to get the better quality of dithering of colors on the first gif to my work? Btw, I did this on Ps via frame animations with the default profile of:

-Selective

-Diffusion

-Uncheck transparency

-Uncheck interlaced

-Check convert to sRGB

-Colors: 256

-Dither: 100%

-Matte: 0%

-Web Snap: 0%

-Lossy: 0

-Quality: 100%

-Quality: Bicubic

Btw, comparing about these two animated gifs, the first one has really smooth dithering of colors unlike my work with full of dead pixels :/ Hope someone can help me about this or give suggestions, thanks alot!


texts: How to create embossed text in Cinema 4D. See example


texts: Practically making interrupted underlines that don't clash with descenders

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I'm looking for a practical way to achieve pretty underlining (interrupted at descenders) in InDesign or Illustrator.

See Should underline clash with text descenders?

I've tried to fake it by applying a white stroke to the text, but the way that cuts into the underline is too ugly to use. Because I'm trying to use it for large text with a thick underline that's also round-capped.

Simply removing the underline does interrupt nicely around letter like g, but leaves too much of a gap for p

If this can be achieved at all, it's got to be something only one of you wizards could think up.

It really needs to be an InDesign & Illustrator feature though (here's the link to Adobe's wishform). Like text-decoration-skip: ink; from CSS3 needs browser support. March 2018: Wow not only did it get support, it's now the default in Chrome/Chromium.


texts: In Dreamweaver (or HTML and CSS in general) how can you style the ® Registered mark to be smaller and floating upwards?

texts: On the web, using ® (&#174; or &reg;) will make the Registered mark almost as big as the rest of the text. How can you modify the size of it to match how it would appear in print?


texts: Where can I find examples of visual competitor reviews for a brand designers?

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I'm teaching graphic design and would like to show my students an example of a competitor review presentation (i.e. a presentation showing how competitors in the same industry present their brand)

Where can I find an examples of this type of presentation?

I've searched throughout the web, Googling, searching SLideShare, using different terms like brand benchmarking, brand competitor analysis etc.- All in vain.
Many thanks.


texts: How to Resize InDesign Document and Reflow Text

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I have an InDesign document; 100 or so pages of text, no images. I'd like to resize the document from A4 to 6 in x 9 in. Or 5 x 8.

Going to File > Document Setup lets me easily change the page size, but then the text remains outside the margins and does not flow. The text is not affected.

Adjust layout doesn't work. Liquid Layout doesn't work. The Adjust Layout VB script doesn't work either.

Cut and paste into a new document didn't work because there was no autoflow of text and creation of additional pages.

Place text (from the indd file) didn't work either. All I could see was the last page of the text from the larger size file on a single page in the target file, with no way to expand the number of pages or autoflow the text.
There has to be an easier way to do this.


texts: Creat a transparency mask such as clipping mask?

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I can see a "Creat mask" button in the transparency pannel. Its such an easy way to quickly add texture on my shape. But the thing is that its made to manage transparency whereas i would like creat texture with color.
The best way to do it is to creat a clipping mask but its not as easy to do because i have to go to object > clipping mask > creat… I would rather have a button like the transparency pannel.

Is there any way to creat a clipping mask with in a pannel ( such as the transparency pannel ) or anyway to completly change color in the transparency mask instead of made the transparency change ?


texts: Why does Photoshop decrease resolution of image when saving as PDF

texts: I'm creating a PDF for print as a poster. I've tried several times saving my Photoshop PSD image as a PDF yet no matter what options I select (High Quality, X1A, etc. it always downsizes the resolution. I have turned off compression and everything else. I can't figure out why. I've pasted the file info from the "Get Info" option on Mac's Finder. The resolution is 1314x1746 px yet the image is 5475 x 7275px when I look at the PSD file in Photoshop.