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I am a webpage creator and I´d like to give my webpage a nice graphical twist by using traingle-patterns in the background. I´ve seen this on many other webpages before (for example this one) and I know I could to this with software like Photoshop. But, as I´m not very engaged in the graphic design branch, I haven´t purchased any software for this and I´m not planning on doing so. So, does anybody know how to do these triangle patterns in a free software like Inkscape or Gimp?

REMARK: My operating system is Windows 8, so I can´t use that apple software out there.


texts: Illustrator: IImage Trace -Not able to release after editing

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This is the image I am trying to trace and I have gotten to the second stage after erasing the outside and unwanted stuff, . Now I went to try get it back to normal but as you can see the image trace panel is all faded out and when i go object -> image trace none of the options are available. Any idea how to get it back to original state minus what i removed during image trace?

Result: Solved it, in the end I used GIMP and using the Free Select Tool I traced the image selecting slightly inside and then inverted and made the rest transparent. This tutorial was extremely helpful. I believe the way to do it in PS would be with the pen tool? Would love to know for the future if anyone can verify.


texts: What's the term of what I need to fix here - Umlaut dots missing at 80% zoom?

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In my font, the Umlaut character is broken when viewing at 80% zoom in Word. It displays like U but is in fact Ü:

I'm now looking for the correct term of what needs to be fixed. First I thought the font needs kerning, but it seems that's only for distances between letters.

I only need the name of the problem. I can then google for the rest.

From the comments it seems the question is unclear, so again in other words: I don't want to fix it in Word - I could just zoom to 100%. I want to fix it in the font by using an aspect or process of typography.


texts: mass animate shape layers like the attached .gif

texts: I want to animate each shape layer like the two on the attached gif image. To do this manually will take forever. I have tried an animation preset but it saves the position meaning they all animate but at the same start point and end up at the same end point.


texts: How to use custom placeholders when sharing projects in Figma?

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So I have designed a website in Figma that I want to share with multiple clients. I want to personalize the content of the project as in the nav-brand or any other content.

For instance, if a customer X is viewing the project then he must see his company name X and if another customer Y is viewing the same project he must see his company name Y in the navbar and so on.

Is there a way to create multiple instances of this project automatically that I can share?
Can I add a placeholder in the project file and use a .csv file with personalized content that fills up automatically when sending bulk email?
If Figma doesn't support placeholders, is there any other software that you can recommend for my use case like Adobe XD?


texts: How can I make this into a better dashboard?

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I need to redesign a link and text heavy dashboard to make it more useable and aesthetically pleasing. The existing page looks like this:

As you can see, it's basically a dump of links to other reports, with a little bit of grouping and some preview of the aggregated data. I think this is hard to use because it's not clear what all of the links do, and it's unattractive and just plain overwhelming with text.

What would be a better way to lay this out to show some useful dashboard type data and provide intuitive drill down for more reports and charts?


texts: How to make a linear gradient along curve?

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What I want to achieve is basically this:

a path with a gradient that goes transparent towards the sides.

What I really want, though, is that gradient to be linear. For the example above, I used a Gaussian Blur filter, which, by definition, isn't linear.

I also tried to make a small rectangle with a vertical linear gradient transparent-black-transparent and then applying it to the path, but it doesn't work, because objects cannot be put along paths, other paths can.

Any idea?


texts: Erasing all parts of a cinemagraph (animation) but the movement?

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I've got a few cinemagraphs we shot for a client. As expected they want them high quality, I'm following this tutorial to achieve that. http://cssmojo.com/animated-gif-with-a-jpg-background/

What I'm having issues with is (for lack of a better word) erasing all the still image. I started with actually erasing, but that gave me 200ish frames to change.

I tried grouping all the layer, but I was presented with the error, the pixels in a group could not be edited without merging the group. Merging the group removes all sorts of animation and masks so this doesn't work.

I tried to convert everything to a smart object, grouping it all into one smart object. I get the error the smart object is not directly editable.

Essestially what I'm looking for is an "apply to all frames" button. I want to erase everything but the animation, export that as a gif, go back and export the image and then be done with it. Please help!

*Edit; Something to note, these are video files, not frame by frame animations.

Photoshop cs6


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I'm setting up a document and the document has some * and footnotes. The document itself is A6 size, which is pretty small (postcard size). What font-size should I assign to the smallprint footnotes?

I need the smallest appropriate size really.


texts: Partial Overlap of an Object in Illustrator

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The black part of this image is the outline of the State of Georgia, and the orange part is a line that is meant to have the effect of orbiting the state.

I would like to make this illusion, but I don't know how to get the tail end that is meant to look like it is going behind the black outline of the State.

What do I do, because playing around in Illustrator CS6, I can only get the entire orbital behind the state, not just the two tail ends.

Thanks


texts: Inkscape for cartography: fill the background of a text

texts: I want to produce a geographic map with Inkscape. I have cities with names. I mean I have dozens of city names. I want to fill the background of cities names with a semi transparent background so that texts are readable over colors and lines etc. on the map.


texts: How to distinguish chinese fonts in Illustrator? (I can't read their chinese names)

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I chose the fonts from a site so I know their latin name and what the font face looks like:

But when I want to choose them in illustrator to try and see how they look in my document with a specific text, they show up with their chinese name, and I can't identify them. They do show a small sample on the right but it's not enough to really see how they'll look in the document:

How would I do to identify them?


texts: Best resolution for a 2x2m design in Photoshop ?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What PPI should a large format artwork for print be done at?

I am required to create a 2x2m design that will be printed.
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS5.

What is the best width, height and resolution?
I think it is odd to create a 2x2m document! Do you?


texts: Is there a standard design for adding(editing)/removing/reloading a file?

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I am building application that stores pictures of my friends in a database.

Each friend has exactly one picture of himself in the database, so there will not be multiple pictures of the same person.

Each action is committed when user presses OK button. This way users have option to correct mistakes.

When performing new entry (adding new picture), user should have following options:

upload new file
delete file (in case they made an error)

When they work with existing file, users should be able to perform the following actions:

replace existing file with new one
delete file
"reload" existing file from database*
export file from database

*In case users overwrote/deleted original file (but then realized their mistake) they are able to "reload" the original file.

After searching here for similar questions, I came to the following implementation for entering new files:

It is pretty much self-explanatory, since this is the method Google and many others use.

When working with existing data, I have a problem. I do not know how to design GUI to take into account conditions I listed before. The best I came up, as an amateur, was this:

This way user can add new file (that should overwrite the old one) with the + button. If user decides it was a mistake, pressing the refresh button can "reload" old file. User can delete file by pressing x. If user decides that deleting is not necessary, pressing refresh button can "reload" old file. Exporting picture form database is done with the bottom-right button.

QUESTIONS:

Is there a standard way for dealing with the above described file operations?
If not, can you improve on my design (I am software developer, not UX/Graphics designer)?


texts: How to get this noise glitch in Aftereffects?

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Alright, Ive looked through many glitch tutorials but cant find one on how to achieve this sort of stippled/noise glitch:
https://dribbble.com/shots/6626459-Suspiria-Social-campaign
Is there certain stock footage I could use a displacement map with? How can I do this?


texts: Combine multiple, independent animations to a single animation

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I've been messing around with Pencil2D to create simple, keyframe animations, and although it works nicely, I can see how if you have an animation which is a combination of lots of independent animations (as I'm sure most animations are!) then you'd have difficulty creating that in software as simple as Pencil2D. I don't know how professional animators handle this, but I would have thought that it would make sense to create each of the independent animations separately, and then be able to import them in to the main animation and position each one freely and set their own frame rates.

I was wondering what software is available (preferably free, but trialware would be OK) that would allow you to combine several independent animations, whilst still in their original, vector format, onto a single canvas that then forms the final animation (which will be a standard video that can be uploaded to online video services)? I don't think that a standard video compositor would work because I want to be able to zoom in and out of my animations while retaining fidelity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

I'm working in Windows, but have access to Linux if needs be.

Thanks,


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Is it possible to find proportions of a plane in perspective? All drawing the tutorials I find on the subject presume that there's a square object in the scene that you can reference to but what if there's none? How do I find if the object is square if I only have 2 vanishing points?

For example these three planes are: square and two rectangles with 1.5x and 2x height but can I calculate the proportions without knowing this?

Using a method from this video — How to Draw a Perfect Square and Cube in 2 Point Perspective — I was able to find the proportions using a geometrical approach but I wonder if that's possible to do mathematically, by, idk, multiplying one tangent by another or something... ugh I forgot maths.

It is possible that the question is more suited for math.stackexchange but they seem to discuss much more complex stuff in there


texts: What is the best program for image optimizing for the web?

texts: What programs besides Photoshop are good for saving and optimizing images for web?


texts: Perspective/non-linear blends with a common centre

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In illustrator, if you want to take a blend between two objects with a specified number of steps and give it a perspective-like effect - changing the curve of the blend from linear to non-linear so the blend has different density at different points - it's pretty straightforward. You add a spine to the blend and edit the spine until you are happy with it.

(to add an editable spine, an easy way is to plonk a line or shape on top of the blend, select it and the blend, then Object > Blend > Replace Spine)

However, this method does not always work well when the shapes you a blending have a common centre. For example, in A below, manipulating the spine requires pushing the blend out in a direction, like in B. Using this technique, the blend has to be lopsided, and can't be neatly centred and symmetrical like C (which I made for this examples via the tedious process of expanding the blend then resizing each line by hand).

How can you create an effect like C from a blend like A?

I'll accept methods that are not based on blend, so long as, like editing a blend's spine, they can be editted, tweaked and adjusted conveniently after they are applied.

Edit: After asking, it occurred to me that the blend tool spine alone will never be the right tool for this task since it controls only the positions of the intermediary shapes, while what I'm trying to do requires changing their sizes. So treat the blend spine thing as an illustrative example of the idea only - an answer is not likely to involve that technique. I imagine there is probably a good answer that involves envelope distorts, but I'm not having much luck making the details work.


texts: Illustrator: Projection of one object onto another

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Consider two overlapping shapes, for example a filled solid rectangle, and a solid circle.

I want a quick way to project the rectangle onto the circle in such a way that only the overlapping part is visible. The circle shall therefore act like a screen for the rectangle. In other words, the overhanging part of the rectangle should disapear.

I thought this could be accomplished with blending modes but I havn't find a solution yet.


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I am using Photoshop CC 19.1.2. and I have the following problem:

I want to add to a more or less random picture after a blur (gaussian or maybe field blur) the following effect:

As you can see, it gives it a touch of blurred shower window (like if you dont have a curtain or a transparent glass wall, but one with some kind of blinding pattern). It may be some kind of noise/selective emboss effect with highlights and shadows.

How would you proceed?


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I work with a lot of Matlab figures which were exported to SVG-files. Matlab produces a lot of garbage alongside the actual image (mainly invisible lines). So there is a lot to clean up after importing an image to have a clean .pdf_tex export for an inclusion in my Latex document. I do this cleaning in the XML editor window by deleting any object which is not part of the actual image (click on it and press delete, wastes a lot of time).

After importing several SVGs, my ID numbers in Inkscape a getting very high with big gaps in between (e.g. 9229, 10503, 24219 ...). So I wondered if it's possible to reset them to have consecutive numbers?

It would really facilitate that cleaning process I described above.

Thanks for your help!


texts: How can I make the edge of a mask blurred/feathered like this example in Sketch?


texts: Is it possible to use stroke width from kind of variable?

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Here is the problem. We do have project in AI where objects are stroked. For now we assume that objects will have stroke 2px.

However we can change our mind and want all strokes to be 3px - and we want to avoid changing it for each separate object. Is there a way to define this number and change value later so all strokes will be updated?


texts: Combine text as part of shape outline photoshop

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Hello can someone tell me how id get the effect in the image in photoshop or a link me to a tutorial on how.

Pardon my crude drawing skills
Thank you


texts: What is the best way to reproduce the graduated in width stripes that radiate from the center seen here?

texts: In Illustrator, What is the best way to re-create the white radiating stripes seen here (without eyeballing)? I have tried making a blend and using replace spine feature, but the shapes don't radiate, they stay vertically positioned. I also made a pattern brush but it won't allow the graduated size change. Any advice? thanks to all of you in advance.


texts: Issue when I export as pdf single pages a spread in design doc

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I have an issue with the sigle pages PDF created from Indesign from a long document created as side-by-side pages (spread). I have a black background graphics on the right page and a blank page on the left. The exported PDF files shows a small part of the black background on the blank page even if in the document the background is not extended to the page on the left.
Do you know how to solve this issue? I also have a 5mm bleed margin but I don’t think this should be a Problem. Thank you for your help.


texts: What are the best tools/processes for web design refinements / adding polish?

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I'm working on a particular part of a web page right now and have a mocked-up design to work from. I've always been able to get everything blocked out in HTML and roughly looking how I like in CSS no problem. It's when I get into the final stretches that I feel I'm constantly fighting CSS to achieve the look I'm aiming for (not even aiming for pixel-perfect or anything like that, I know that's a whole different discussion). Just figuring out how to move some text just so and space the words how I want and get sizing and spacing how I want is taking up so much time. This project in particular is driving me up the wall because making one thing look right messes up the other stuff I've done.

My questions are these: Is there a better way than trial and error in a browser's dev tools to figure this stuff out? Is there a resource for CSS of high-level "You want to do X? Use Y technique" that isn't ad-ridden blog-spam of "17 amazing ways to X"? Are there better tools for this beyond browser dev tools? Or is this struggle just "how it is" and there isn't anything better than to just fiddle around for hours?

Mockup, my attempt, and most relevant HTML + CSS snippets are below

Mockup:

My attempt in HTML+CSS:

HTML:

        a used home costs

                MORE
                PER MONTH

        to own than a new home

CSS:

#result-message {
    float: left;
    position: relative;
    top: 28.7rem;
    left: 25rem;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 1rem 2rem;
    height: auto;

    background: white;
    border: 6px solid #ECC246;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    font-weight: 900;
}

#result-message .content {
    /* margin-top: -1rem; */
    color: #DB9F32;
    font-size: 29px;
    font-weight: 700;
    text-align: center;
    /* text-shadow: 2px 2px #2EAA60; */
}

#result-message .content .message-row {
    width: 272px;
}

#result-message .content .before-cost {
    margin-top: -2rem;
    margin-bottom: -4rem;
}

#result-message .content .after-cost {
    margin-bottom: -7rem;
    position: relative;
    top: -2rem;
}

#result-message .content .outer.message-row .textFitted {
    text-align: justify !important;
    width: 100%;
}

#result-message .content .outer.message-row {
    display: block;
    height: 50px;
    text-align: justify;
    clear: both;
}

/* For single line justify as described at https://kristinlbradley.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/cross-browser-css-justify-last-line-paragraph-text/ */
#result-message .content .outer.message-row:after {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    width: 100%;
}

#result-message .content .cost {
    display: block;
    color: #347341;
    clear: both;
}

#result-message .content .cost .monthly-cost-delta {
    float: left;
    font-size: 80px;
    line-height: 94px;
}

#result-message .content .cost .over-under {
    display: block;
}

#result-message .content .cost .over-under .over-line {
    font-size: 40px;
    display: block;
    float: right;
    text-align: center;
}

#result-message .content .cost .over-under .under-line {
    font-size: 20px;
    border-top: 3px solid #347341;
    display: block;
    float: right;
}


texts: How do I adjust handles symmetrically on the same path?

texts: I want to adjust opposite nodes on a path, made from a shape tool, simultaneously to maintain symmetry. For example I make an ellipse, convert the ellipse to a path, then select the two nodes opposite each other and make them symmetric nodes then lengthen one handle by 50% or so, I want the other selected node to do the same. Is there a way to do this?


texts: How do you switch between "free" and "bounded" text boxes in Pixelmator Pro?

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As per the official guide, in Pixelmator Pro you can click to create a free text box (which changes size to match what you type) or drag to create a bounded text box (which remains the same size regardless of contents).

Is there a way to switch between these two text modes?


texts: Do you know some successors of the designer Alexey Brodovitch?

texts: I think his work is amazing and I would explore some designer inspired by his design's approach, here an example of Alexey Brodovitch work:


texts: I have a rotating 3d image on a transparent background psd. How do I render/output it in Photoshop CC to keep the transparent background as a set of 32bit pngs to create a video?


texts: Should I lower my price for having no reputation?

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First of all, I'm 16, and I've been using Adobe applications for 6 years. Since 2014, I've been "working" as a freelancer.
When it comes to pricing, I have a lot of problems:

I haven't developed a portfolio yet
My age doesn't help
I'm too kind

Recently I made a logo and a badge for 13$. By now, I'm developing a book cover for 10$.

I consider theses prices to be really low, sorry if you don't agree

Why? Because when I try to charge my real price, people refuse to pay.

" Too young and too high "
" I know a guy that does it for less "
" I can only pay X$ " (this one refers to kindness)"

What should I do?


texts: Does anyone know why text Alignment can be locked?


texts: Removing Highlights/Making highlights less harsh and "warmer"

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I have a pretty basic digital drawing, using a wood texture. The problem I have is the texture has highlights on one side that don't match the rest of the wood. I have tried just putting a brown color over them with 20% opacity, messing around with HSL, but I don't know anything about levels or stuff.

Here is the image, I want to make the wood's highlighting and color more uniform.


texts: Apply a feather to only one side of a path

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I'm tyring to apply a feather to a path, but I only one it applied on one area of the path.

I tried using the Direct Selection Tool (A) to select the anchors I wanted it applied around, that didn't help.

Is there a way to apply a feather (Effects → Stylize → Feather) to only one part of a path?

This is just an example, not the actual paths I'm using

I want the area in the dashed red line, to gradually fade in (using a feather was my initial thought)


texts: Want to make a border transparent for multi color backgrounds

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I have a simple shape and want to make the actual grey borde transparent to allow me to place the image on a multi color background.

How to do that please ?

I followed a lot of tutorial but I want make i work in my case.

My example file is here: https://we.tl/sg9f3ccq35

Thanks.


texts: How to make PNG-quality animations in GIF format?

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I've noticed more and more sites using animated GIFs that have PNG quality. You'd think they're the latter if you didn't check the image info. The lines are crisp, the colors look great, there's none of that slight-but-still-noticeable graininess that GIFs get. How are people accomplishing that? I'm not a graphics designer but I'm curious and I'd like to create such animated GIFs that have no recognizable loss in quality compared to GIFs. (I use GIMP but I do have access to Photoshop, if required.)

UPDATE: Here's an example. http://codyhouse.co/gem/smart-fixed-navigation/


texts: I am trying to figure out slowly how the following artwork is produced. Would you guys have any clue? It looks like the base work is a photograph, but has a lot of similarities with these faded, vintage illustrator grain gradients as well. In sum, I have no clue and really want to figure this out


texts: Gaussian blur gets pixelated when I copy, paste, and shrink image

texts: I am creating a set of comic strips. I create each panel in its own Illustrator file. Then, when it's time to assemble the panels into one strip, I copy, paste, and shrink the images so that multiple panels are on one page. Some of these panels have a Gaussian blur. When I do the rescaling when assembling the comic strip, the blur looks not like a blur but pixelated. Is there any way around this?


texts: Batch combining images in latex or inDesign?

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I'm making my print and play card game. Everything is ready: card frame which is common for all cards (svg), custom image for each one (svg or png) and text to be placed below image in the text field.

This Magic card gives you an idea (the main difference is I'm working with black and white images only):

I know latex and indesign, but batch combining images seems to be a hard task for both of them. I could also go with the python scripts in Gimp, I suppose, but all those approaches are not straight forward.
Am I missing something in those tools or should I use something else?


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I haven't been able to find the help I'm looking for online.
I'm trying to place dots on my drawing - ideally just clicking the mouse / pressing the tablet pen where I want the dot to be.

The dot itself could be a very short stroke object, or a small circle with a fill - it doesn't matter - but should be visible. I tried using the Paintbrush tool, the Pen tool, and the Pencil too. I do not want to use the Ellipse tool and have to drag the tool each time.

This is a good example of what I am trying to do. I also prefer placing the points myself as I draw them rather than drawing lines or shapes and filling them with points.


texts: Is composite color editing my print media ads in photoshop a frowned upon practice?

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Obviously with print media, the norm is to design the ad in vector, CYMK, in a tool such as InDesign, and export straight to PDF or something.

But I like to put a vivid "edge" in the coloring of my design. To do this, I export my design from InDesign to PNG at 700+ppi, which keeps texts and images very crisp through the rasterization process. I use PNG because it's the only exportation option that I find accurately reproduces the design's effects in a form I can use with Photoshop.

So in Photoshop, I use all of the powerful RGB color alteration tools to bring my colors and darks and lights into a more vivid and more interesting composite result. For example I might add some slight blue into the black rages for an abstracted, rich feel.

I always find that this makes my ad much nicer and more professional looking.

I convert to CYMK, export to EPS (Photoshop creates massive EPS and PDF file sizes) and use Adobe Distiller to convert the EPS to PDF. Distiller somehow keeps this 700+ppi image at the correct resolution and drops the file size down to <20MB and my ad is done!

It sounds like alot but with practice it only adds 10 minutes to my design workflow and creates a product that feels far superior to what I could do with InDesign alone.

But my co-workers hate this! They look down on the idea of rasterizing anything for print, having been taught in college "Never rasterize!!". They say I could brighten my colors in InDesign. They say no design firm would do what I do.

But I feel that many skilled designers must be doing this, judging by the advanced color effects and curves I see in magazine  ads. And I know that rasterizing upward of 700ppi creates the same image crispness of a vector, just a slightly larger file size.

Maybe my co workers could somehow be right to look down on this practice. Or maybe they don't have an eye for perfection and extra effort in a design, feel my way is too complicated, without a good cause. So I wanted to ask the design experts:

Would my design practice be frowned upon by experienced print media designers / experts?


texts: How can I ensure my photographic artwork is a high quality when printed

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I make personalised story books for children. My books use a photo of the child's face inserted into the illustration to make them the main character in the story.

When my customers send me the photo of their child, I try to explain to send me a hi-res photo and not to download from social media, but often they send very low-quality photos, which will not be accepted by my printer who needs at least 300DPI for these 8 x 10 inch books (the child's face is around 3x4cm when printed).

I could get my website to only allow a certain filesize, but I know that isn't always a true measure of whether the photo will look good. For example if the photo is a close up of the child's face, it can be a smaller filesize than where the child is in the background of the photo.

Can anyone explain the parameters I need to consider to make sure the face prints correctly (especially if I were to have this coded so my order form would check the image's suitability), and how best to explain this to my customers?


texts: Moving multiple chained layers separatey in GIMP

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I put a set of layers in group A and linked them and another set of layers in group B and linked them.  If I use the move tool to move the layers in group A, the layers in group B also move.  This does not happen if I use the scale tool; the layers scale separately.  The only way to move the layers separately is to unlink the layers in group B.

How can I move chained layers separately?


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I’m currently building my own website and I’m trying to do everything as best as i can. I am currently learning about images and i have some questions on optimising them so that they dispaly appropriately across my site.

I bought a website template that comes with a carousel & 3 images to populate it. The three images are all jpg and the dimensions are 1920x700. I have since replaced these images with my own and although i set the dimensions to 1920x700 when i saved it (as png, using Photoshop save for web and devices) the file size is 2.69mb. When i hit my site for the first time the images takes a long time to load which is definitely not what I want.

When it comes to images should i be saving as jpg or png or any other format that is available? I know from a transparency point of view then i should use png because jpg does not support this but im confused when to use which.

I would also like to know (using Photoshop) how i could reduce the file size (for quicker load times) but maintain the dimensions of 1920x700.

Any information regarding best formats and other general advice to help me understand image use with website will be gladly taken on board.

I’ve just bought a camera so would like to know more about photography and images :)

Cheers
Paul


texts: How to decide on a color pallet for an application?

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How does one decide which color pallet to associate with an application? How do you make color communicate tone of app?

Deciding one color is easy: say gray for serious enterprise theme. But how about about the rest of the colors in the pallet?

I have seen people picking up a picture and extracting colors from it to complete a pallet. Is this good practice?


texts: I want to find an Inkscape shortcuts profile with defined Illustrator shortcuts. For example 'A' for Node Selecting tool, 'P' for Pen not Pencil. Please give a link to file to Import from Edit > Preferences > Interface > Keyboard Shortcuts


texts: How to set up artwork page when measurement given in pixels?

texts: I normally design (mostly theatre posters etc) for print so the size of artwork in cms or mm always. However, when folks ask me design graphics for web they stipulate the pixel size i.e 200 pixels high x 200 pixels high. I have NO IDEA what this measurement is so cannot even begin to set up a size for the artwork. Is there method of calculating? Thanks


texts: Gimp won't let me select the pencil tool

texts: I am creating an image with Gimp but the pencil won't show up. I looked in the manual for the keyboard shortcut and it didn't show it. I tried to open the toolbox and I wouldn't open. I need to open the pencil for a school project.


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I am trying add a drop shadow to the bottom of a shape only, I have tried playing around with the x and y offset, though that doesn't quite do it, I have also tried using a clipping mask around the shape but for some reason the clipping mask had no affect on the drop shadow.

Is there something obvious I have missed, appreciate any help.


texts: Changing units for margin sizes on Ctrl/Command tool

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This the tool that shows how big are a certain element margins related to the canvas (pressing command or ctrl).

I want to change the units in the pink boxes so that instead of displaying it in cm, I want to display it in percentages.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Using photos without permission for purpose of charity

texts: I'm making a video collage of photos from the internet of the California wildfires to ask for people's donations for the first responders. Will I run afoul with copyright laws in doing this, or will this be ok under a 'fair use' case, as I am not looking to profit, but rather collect donations for charity.


texts: How to go to layer of currently selected object in Illustrator?

texts: Say there are hundreds of unnamed layers in an Illustrator artboard. How do you just click one of those objects and reveal what layer it is on? And change to that layer?


texts: InDesign: How to import repeating XML with multiple masters

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I currently have importing XML in InDesign working, but I'd like to work with multiple masters so that the page design alters every other spread.

Something like:

[ A-left | A-right ]
[ B-left | B-right ]
[ A-left | A-right ]
       .....
[ B-left | B-right ]
[ A-left | A-right ]
[ B-left | B-right ]

Where content on the A masters is something like:

Heading        |
---------------|
Description    | Project Image
---------------|
Author Details |

And the B master would be a reflection of the A master:

              | Heading
              |---------------
Project Image | Description
              |---------------
              | Author Details

I tried moving my XML structure from my first page, to one of the A master pages, but this seems to mess up the XML structure, with multiple root elements, one per page with the master applied.

My current XML structure looks like:

students
  \-- student
       |-- heading
       |-- description
       |-- project image
       \-- author details
            |-- forename
            |-- surname
            |-- supervisors
            \-- major


texts: Can Illustrator use a clipping path from a jpg created in Photoshop?

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I have images created in Photoshop that have a clipping path around the main part of the image and are saved as jpg. When I open these jpg files in InDesign, the image is clipped using the stored clipping path.

When I pull the same file into Illustrator, the background also shows, as if there was no clipping path in the file. Is there an Illustrator setting or some other way to relatively easily get the jpg's Photoshop clipping path to clip the image inside Illustrator without finagling each of these jpg images I import into Illustrator?

I know saving as eps from Photoshop will allow Illustrator to access the saved clipping path, but for several reasons I want to use jpg instead of eps if at all possible, but still have the jpg image clipped inside of Illustrator.

I'm aware of techniques to port a Photoshop path over to Illustrator and use it to mask a raster image, but the reason for me hoping there's something as simple as an option in Illustrator to access the stored path is for the sake of avoiding any workarounds and to save that time.

I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan and the very latest versions of Adobe Creative Cloud apps.


texts: What preparations can be done to a photo to make it a little easier to then illustrate?

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I'm working on a program that will require a lot of flat styled vectored images. I'm very comfortable with Photoshop but fall short in the artistic department. I've been practicing and am happy with many of my results, but the designs take me days to complete. The issue I keep running into is "seeing" the highlights and shadows on objects while still seeing the big picture at the same time.

I'm looking for a way to get the image as close as possible to the desired final result in Photoshop before working on vectoring the entire design so I can have a reference for the shadows, highlights, and color changes. I've tried using the Cutout filter to achieve this but it usually just adds to the struggle when vectoring.

How can I edit an image in Photoshop so that I can quickly create a vector from it?

For example, here's an image I used for practice and the final vectored result.


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I am a relative sketch / design newbie. I am trying to creating a simple check mark icon embedded in a green circle.

The problem is the clipping on top of the circle on all sides. My sketch file organization looks like this.

It is basically two lines at an angle and an oval. I tried using the oval as a mask and without mask. Not sure what I am doing wrong. The figure looks good on sketch

The sketch file is uploaded on dropbox here.


texts: How to group the object in coreldraw 2020

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Im using the current release 2020 version. I have my artwork place in center of the page, Ungroup once (ctrl+u) , And move the text little, When trying to group, The option is inactive, How can i group. Any suggestion or help. Thanks
Note : When i group all it split all the object to individual then the option is active. That i dont want. I just want to ungroup once and move text and group it.


texts: Creating high quality multi-resolution icons

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Preface:

I needed to design a few ( maybe 30 or so ) icons for an app that I'm developing. At first the thought of designing all those icons for different resolutions was really daunting for me ( and still is ), specially considering that I need to design several themes. So I decided to create vector icons so that I could design once and resize several times, without quality loss. But as it turns out I was dead WRONG. When I export the svg to png, specially for low resolutions, the quality is awful and it's nowhere even close to good. I could say that anti-aliasing is missing.

The question:

How should I go about designing icon themes with different resolutions?

Shoud I design each resolution independently??
Am I doing something wrong while exporting the SVG to PNG?
or what?

BY THE WAY: I'm using InkScape to design the svg

Thanks a lot

EDIT

The resolution of the output file is not standard, since i'm creating a sprite image. But you could say that the icon sizes are almost 32x32 48x48 72x72 96x96 ...

And here are the icons:

EDIT 2

To be honest I'm starting to think that I'm asking the wrong question ( in the wrong place :-D ). When I uploaded the above image, I started to think that it's not that bad. or even if it's bad, it's not as bad as the final product. So I started to play around with the icon in GIMP with adding different backgrounds. IT'S NOT AS BAD.

So I should add that I need the icons for an android app. Maybe android or my code or even a resized ImageView is responsible for this mess.


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What file type should hd wallpapers be saved as?

For example, a 2560 x 1440 or larger wallpaper should be saved in what file type in order to optimize quality vs file size?


texts: What's the font that Lawson, Inc. (Japanese convenience store) used?

texts: Searching for the font that Lawson, Inc. (the Japanese convenience store) used for their logo (the Latin alphabet one). I've tried to identify the font using services like What the font! and What Font Is, there's some fonts that are similar to it, but no luck on finding the exact font they used. So anyone has any idea as to what font they are using?


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Is there any software that allows to draw block diagrams

like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Windows_2000_architecture.png

or like this:


texts: I've noticed that Photoshop makes my image size, specified in inches, smaller than it really is. Approximately 1 inch both in height and width. Since this is an approximation and not exact, and because this image may actually be larger than what Photoshop is showing me, I don't want to recklessly use a larger size in an attempt to solve this problem. I just want Photoshop to show me an image in inches life-sized. It's not a zoom problem either, because I am currently zoomed at 100%. Thanks for any help.


texts: Is it possible to adjust opacity of stroke without interfering with the fill of the shape because every time i try to adjust both changes.


texts: I have a layer with color where I have decreased the opacity. I would like to duplicate the layer, and keep the color as it appears now due to the decreased opacity, but I would like the new layer to not be semi-transparent. Is this possible?


texts: InDesign: layering options ignored when updating links

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Question
How to update links when prompted, but also preserve previously selected Layer Import Options from earlier placement?
(linked file has been altered to trigger prompt)
Issue Context
Opening an InDesign file with link(s) to Illustrator file that has been modified, and saved, prompts the "update links" or "ignore update links" dialogue.
The INDD has multiple frames linking to separate layers within the AI file. This had been done using Import Options and choosing which layer was displayed (by visibility toggle). The process was repeated for each frame.
The dialogue prompt, after selecting update button, follows with a displayed message stating a change in layer visibility settings will effect linked items.
Then, frames containing links are replaced with the entire art board and all layers. I then have to manually re-link and re-define Layer Import Options for placement of the AI file for each frame.


texts: How to make an SVG glyph (from a font) look like it was handwritten?

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I want to take this font:

and make it look more like the handwritten version:

I don't want to make it look that handwritten, but a little rougher curves and more stroke-like tips to the curves rather than so computer-generated looking.

Assuming I have the SVG for a single glyph isolated, how can I apply some sort of effect to the SVG path that makes it look more coarse, more handmade? And then so it can be output as an SVG path as well.


texts: Copy a line of text from Illustrator artboard into save as dialog window

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A small issue but a persistent one: Since the early days of Illustrator I've been unable to copy a line of text from the artboard directly into the 'save as' dialog box when at the point of saving my work. Reason being the filename is always present in the documents I create for my clients and it seems unwieldy to type it out twice.

(nb I can work around it (but it's cumbersome)—and that is to copy>paste>copy again the text using the find and replace window)


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Is there a plugin for any of the Adobe apps or in general that adjust on-screen colors for custom color blindness deficiencies?

This way the affected designer can design seeing the colors clearly and the output would be accurate or correct for normal users and/or printers.

Ultimately, having something on the MacOS level would be the best thing and this way you wouldn't have to on a per-app basis.


texts: Die Lines Drawing of boxes Adobe illustrator cc script

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http://swsharings.blogspot.com.tr how do I do this for the described here FEFCO 0201 code box ?

I tried so hard but I couldn't

The .jsx script can be downloaded at the following link instances.

In addition these examples might need people. Are Sorry for my English.


texts: Photoshop selection tools not working correctly

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I've been using Photoshop for a while now and I've never found an error like this.

I needed to use the selection tool to cut out a part of an image and then paste it on a layer on top. However, whenever I do this there is a very obvious transparent line where I made the selection remaining.

The image is an example, made a circular selection around stomach I used the lasso tool, Ctrl-x then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste in place and then this is how it ends up.

I don't know what to do. Sorry if I posted this question in the wrong place, I'm new to Stack Exchange.

Thank you very much!


texts: How to export SVG in illustrator, and make object doesn't messy?

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I've been struggling to create an icon in illustrator and convert it to SVG but the result is my SVG file becomes a messy object after I export it into SVG.

Can someone explain me why? I'm already trying different export setting but the issue still same.


texts: Sketch How to make text overrides push other text?

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So basically what I'm trying to achieve is a basic navbar setup like so;

Each 'nav item' has a spacing of 80px.

This itself is a symbol which is great. However, when it comes to text overrides and renaming the 'nav items' becomes a bit of a pain.

As you can see below, it results in text overlap.

I want to achieve something along the lines of;
Type something no matter how long or short, and have the padding change based on that length so that in the end, the items still have 80px padding between them.

I am aware that Sketch has this functionality Kind of built in, issue is, it seems to only apply when the padding is <= 20px (I think?).

I've tried a variety of options with no luck including;

Using the 'Paddy' plugin to somehow keep them equally separated. This sort of worked but was super buggy.
Tried using some "Button" plugins that keep a set padding. These were unsuccessful.


texts: How to find the center of an object using Rotate Copies in Sketch 3?

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How can I tell where the center of an object is?
How can I display the center of an object using Rotate Copies?
Example
Where is the center of the orange oval?


texts: Best way to design map markers based on their 'heat' parameter

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I'm creating a google map, with some custom markers on it.
Each marker has a "heat" parameter, and I would like to design those markers depending on this parameter. But I can't figure the best way to do it.

Let's say if I have a marker with a score of 100, and another one of 30, I would like to show that the one with a score of 100 is hotter of course, but I don't know what is the best way. Coloring them with shades or red? And turning this red to yellow the less hot the marker is? Is this a good way?

I'm coding with javascript, but I'm bad at designing and coloring things. So I'm kind of open-minded about colors and animations, but I don't actually know how to use them. Also, I would like to show which marker is the hottest one. I thought about bordering this one, or maybe making him pulse with an animation. I don't see as many examples over the web showing a lot of markers "ranked" with some color, or whatever else. I also thought about the size of the marker, but I ask you what is the best way.

I don't ask you to do the job for me, like the coding or whatever else, just to give me an idea of how a designer would solve this "heat" problem.


texts: Created the following image (or rather, just changed the text to Digital Electronics). How to change the white color of the background of the picture to a suitable color or picture (image) (specifically with the indication of Photoshop tools or possibly using markup without photoshop)? I'm new, so please don't ban me


texts: Selecting and Moving Only Clones From Applied Masking?

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I applied a Square Mask to a 20X20 Grid of Clones.  The squares that were under the mask are now gray.  Before I applied the mask I unlinked all the clones.  I'm trying to move the gray squares using Right Click > Select Same > Fill Color.  However this also selects all the other squares that were outside the mask.  This is an image:

How can we select and move only the gray squares?


texts: Correct term for stacked / super-justified / variable height text

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Meaning like this, where there's a fixed width, and every line is scaled maintaining its aspect ratio to meet the width - including scaling the height (unlike regular justified text).

There might be tweaks to the tracking and kerning, but they're not the core feature of the style, which is the changing text size:

Woah! While finding examples I just noticed we have an almost-identical question already:

What is the name for making words equal in length?

But those answers don't give a name for this style, they're just typographic terms, some of which may be used in creating this style, but none of which are this style.

Is there a name for this style, where the size (width and height) is adjusted to make each line equal in width and to bring out certain words?

It's not "justifying", because that doesn't involve changing the size of text, that only changes the letter spacing or occasionally width. It never changes the height. It's not "typesetting", which is setting type. 99% of the work of typesetters is not in this style.


texts: What is a good FREE software for creating 2D schematics?

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I'm not sure if this is on topic here, but it's not exactly against the rules in the Help Centre so I'll give it a shot.

I want to create a few simple 2D vector images like floor plans or furniture diagrams with some measure arrows on sides etc. When I'm done, I'd like to put them on the web, which means exporting to PNG or better yet - SVG.

The last time I did something like that was 15 years ago and then I used Microsoft Visio. It wasn't great, but usable. However I don't have access to it anymore and I think there should be better free tools today anyway.

I tried using OpenOffice Draw, and I did make something, but it was pretty much a pain and I feel like the UI for doing it could have been a LOT better. In addition, the PNG/SVG export results leave a lot to be desired. Perhaps Draw simply isn't meant for this kind of work.

So - what would be a good free tool for creating such diagrams?


texts: Does Krita have a hex color selector? Where do I find it?

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I'm doing some webdev stuff, and I'm creating some designs in Krita. Since CSS mostly uses hex values (aside some hard-coded ones), I need to access the color hex values.

The Krita color pickers come with a color wheel and sliders, but nothing for hex values. It should be in the specific color picker, as mentioned in the forums, but it doesn't seem to show up there either.

How do I use the hex color selector?

Screenshot for reference:


texts: Is there an alternative to Brush Script which looks similar but is available under a FOSS license?


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When I create a Table of Contents based on my chapter title paragraph style, the ToC header appears with no other text. Meaning the chapters and chapter numbers aren't generated.

The story I'm placing my ToC in is not linked to the main body story.

How can I get my ToC generated?


texts: 1st time sending PDF book of 48 pages created from InDesign to press

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While I've been sending PDFs to press for years, I've never sent an annual 48 page booklet to press as a PDF. I've always sent InDesign package.

I guess the thing that makes me most nervous is the creep factor. I always thought that pre-press could only deal with creep from an InDesign file but now I'm told they can deal with it, if even if I supply PDF.

It would make my life so much easier as I have 54 RGB images!

Additionally I'm concerned about the flattening of some transparent graphics and the bleed for the edges that fall into the saddle stitched center.

Can anyone tell me more about making press ready PDF booklets for press?

Do they need individual pages and crop and bleed marks?


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I am a very basic user, I scan pencil (comic) drawings as tiffs and use Photoshop cc 2015 to darken the lines and clean up a bit, and put text balloons and save again as tiffs. I use the 'levels' layer to blacken.
I have done this for a while (15-20 drawings) but now I have a page that shows nicely on screen but when I save as tiff (or bmp or anything) the black drawing lines that I see on screen are grey.
When I merge they also become grey. When I merge and add a new 'levels' layer it shows black nicely again but when I merge and/or save, they black becomes grey again. I suspect I changed a setting.
Before merging it looks like this:

After merging or saving it looks like this:


texts: Is there a name for this line-based halftone style?

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I'm wondering what you would call the style/technique of the picture above? It looks similar to linocut, and is halftone but neither of those terms are specific enough.

I'd love some advice on how to apply such an effect to a photo in Illustrator or Photoshop as well (can't google it yet because I'm not sure what it's called)


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1 ) Lets say I have a cube in 1 point perspective. Now I want to rotate the cube downwards (front plane rotating/spin downwards). What would I have to do to achieve this so I can draw it down on paper? Or you cannot achieve this using 1 point? Is there a way to draw this?
Thanks


texts: Adobe Extended Script: Any way to localize the promt confirm()? Yes and No should be translated to "Ja" und Nein"

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if (!inddLastest.exists) {
    doc.save(inddLastest);
  } else {
    //btnText = { en: "Yes", de: "Ja", fr: "Oui" }; b1 = w.add ("button", undefined, localize (btnText));
    var res = confirm("Die InDesign-Datei existiert bereits. \rSoll sie überschrieben werden?", true, "Problem");
    // if the user hits no, stop the script
    if (res !== true) {
      return; //get out of this function
    } else {
      doc.save(inddLastest); //yes, overwrite
    }
  }


texts: How do I change the background of a bitmap from white to grey in Inkscape (or other open source photo editor)

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Here is a nice picture of a 4-d hypercube "sliced" into 3d and then projected onto the 2d plane.

Unfortunately its background is white and I'd like to use it on a 10% grey background:

How can change all the white to 10% grey, while (hopefully) retaining any anti-aliasing?


texts: How to cut out a specific color in Illustrator?

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My chosen title doesn't really get across what I'm trying to ask since my issue is a little hard to put into a few words.

Here's an image that describes it better.
I've made this design in Illustrator and I need to remove all the black in it, leaving behind transparency. I've tried it with Photoshop but the result is always a little sloppy. Vectors are just way more clean and sharp.

But to achieve this in Illu I'd have to expand all the strokes and shapes and then continuously subtract them from all the underlying shapes which would take way too long.

Atleast I think this is the only way to do it in Illu. Do you know of any better way? Or maybe some way to export it into a PNG with a specific color removed? Maybe with a plugin?

Thanks in advance!


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I've browsed around and can't find what I'm looking for. I am experienced in Photoshop and Illustrator both to a certain degree, but would prefer something in Illustrator (scaling vector image).

How do you go about designing and creating such a smooth gradient as in the following image? Are there any tools or methods for helping with color selection? Also, the subtle "blocking" or "sectioning" throughout where there a little slice of similar, but different colors? Just looking for an overall methodology in the design and creation of these commonly popular designs.

Bonus: Anyone seen any HTML5- or CSS-only implementations?

Thanks as always, geniuses!


texts: Pasting from Illustrator to Photoshop - thin borders around shapes even at 100%

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I've created a vector logo in Illustrator and pasted it into Photoshop as a Smart Object with the intention of creating some images with the logo. In Illustrator all of my paths and shapes are bang on in terms of lining up with one another which I've double checked by viewing the outlines. There are no strokes or shadows present on the artwork. When pasted into Photoshop there are tiny 1px borders in some areas which are viewable even at 100% (to a keen eye).

Is there any way to avoid this? The most noticeable bit is the arrow which is a line connected to a shape. The same effect happens if I paste the artwork in as pixels too.


texts: How to make Photoshop connect Gujarati characters?

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I am using Photoshop CS6.

Recently when I try to type in our local language "Gujarati" via Google Input tools (I tried without Google tools also, with Gujarati fonts), the typed text not showing joined word and characters correctly.

This is how it looks in Photoshop:

It is working correctly everywhere except Photoshop. This is how is should look (typed in Chrome):

To better understand my problem, there is a similar question on Stack Overflow. That problem is for Android and my question is for Photoshop.


texts: How to select everything Lens Flare filter has added to the image?

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How to make a selection of the flare that was added by Lens Flare filter in Photoshop CC 2014? Is there an automated way to do it?

I want to be able to mask the flare and tint it with blue


texts: How to count colors in an image or series of images?

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Perhaps this question is too technical for this subsite, if so, please relocate it to a better spot.

I'm doing some research on colors where I need to figure out how common colors are. The end result will be a bunch of charts, somewhat similar to this flag analysis.

I will have 50+ sets of 100 or so images and I want to calculate the color distribution in each set, and then compare the averages of each set. Which is the most common color in all sets, are there changes/trends between sets, and so on. With thousands of images obviously it's not feasible to count all pixels myself and decide what colors are most prominent. So I'd like to automate.

Ideally, I'd have a tool that looks at each set and quantizes colors based on a palette I create myself. I'd also love it if the tool would accept a series of different-sized images, but I'm willing to rescale and combine each series in to a single collage.

Note: I'm looking for something that lists PIXEL colors, not IMAGE AVERAGE colors. Since I will have images that have multiple colors, looking at the average or most prominent color gives misleading results. For example, in the following image there are several images that use a rainbow of colors, but do not get placed near eachother.

And this image is predominantly blue, but should still count for about 1/3rd as green pixels:

Or even worse, the following image uses bright green and red, but would either be categorized as yellow (average hue) or grayish (average of RGB values):

To recap: I'm looking for a tool that can reduce an image to a small (specified) color palette, and then count how many pixels of each of those colors there are.


texts: How to remove background in a scan of an old drawing

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I have the following image which I would like to clean using GIMP. Usually, with B&W images one of the following methods works, see here or here. However, I have 3 additional problems in this case which make the mentioned methods unusable:

The image is in colour and I would like to keep the colour and just set the paper colour to white.
The colours in the drawings are sometimes very close to the colours of the background.
I believe the paper was stored folded and hence there are ghost images in it, especially in noticeable in the rightmost drawing.

Could you tell me how to clean such images using GIMP (or any other free tool)? Many thanks in advance.


texts: Icons for hardware elements (cache, pipeline, etc.)

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I am trying to find symbols for hardware elements which are not usually visible and do not have AFAIK a more recognizable symbol, such as caches, pipelines, etc.

It's in the context of a hardware-oriented application, so it does not need to convey the information for any kind of people, but for those which already expect such icons to exist.

I wonder if using symbols related to the usual meaning of the words (e.g. an industrial oil-like kind of tube to represent a pipeline, a weapon to represent a "(weapon) cache", a small branch to represent a branch predictor, etc.) would be appropriate, or if there are rules which state such kind of "metaphors" detract from the design. I am concerned some users might consider it as derisory.


texts: Export the SVG only within artboard in illustator

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So I've added a text in Illustrator and I'm trying to cut in 2/3 - 1/3 proportions with artboards as in the picture below. I exported it as an SVG but when i open it with a browser it shows the full letters text in SVG. I expected it to only show the letters inside 01 Artboard or 02 Artboard.

Using only one artboard at a time doesn't help.
I've checked the Use Artboards option when exporting.

The problem is that I made it once with another word without any problems, then two days later I tried with another word (the one shown below) and now either it doesn't work anymore for some strange reason or I am doing something wrong and different from the last time.


texts: How to create a rounded edges like this In Illustrator CS6 (Example included)

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Sorry for such a newbie question. I tried google but can't find anything similar. I'm using Illustrator CS6 so I don't have CC's rounded corner tool. I tried Effects > Stylize > Round Corners but it doesn't work.

Here's what happens: (as you can see it distorts it)

I also tried applying a stroke to circle and removing the bottom half of circle then applying rounded caps to stroke but I don't like the final result.

Here's what I want to do.

This is what i have created by manually adjusting the corners using the pen tool but it looks pretty bad.


texts: Image as background for magazine cover in InDesign

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I've created a new car guide magazine, similar to this example.

However, I cannot get the image to fit exactly to the page size, in my case 222 x 291 mm ( width x height) and it ends up looking squashed and stretched when I did 'Fit content to frame'. I can get images to work in InDesign, using the Place command, no issues there, but getting it sized right is the issue.

I have tried Photoshop, and am wondering, is this the solution, resize images in Photoshop before using Place command to insert image into InDesign document?

This is my image I am using for the background: Image here.

I have got the text on my page and front cover advert working well (PDF embedded in page), it's just getting the background to work which is the issue.

I would appreciate any help on this.


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I am new to Adobe Illustrator and I need to make a logo.

  How can I dynamically keep only the part of the earth which is inside
  the white circle?

I tried with Pathfinder but the result is fixed. When it is done, I cannot change how much the earth enter inside the circle anymore.

I want it dynamic.

What I have:

What I want:


texts: Can anyone help me identify this Japanese font?

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It's used on the earthquake warnings. Here's an image:

text: 緊急地震速報 (気象庁)

I have searched all over Google and everything - it can't be found, which is why I am asking here.

thanks in advance :)


texts: What is the best format I can export or save a logo in for print and web?

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I have created a logo in Illustrator.

In which file format / document settings should I save it so I can use it for creating a card in InDesign (print) and for placing it in a website?


texts: What is the name for the "broken line" effect seen here?

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And how does one do this?

An example where the lines are intersecting the letterforms:


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One of the jobs I'm often requested is to prepare screen-print sheets with series of numbers, from 0000 to let's say 9999. with this configuration:
A0-0001 to A0-9999
A1-0001 to A1-9999

What I've done is:
a) Created a symbol for the Field "A0"
b) A threaded text for the text boxes that will contain the numbering.

It works fine for smaller quantities. But in this case I'm putting 5000 numbers in a 60x80cm sheet and that's too much for my iMac pro even with it's Ferrari capacities...
What would you advice ? My problem is that I'm taking like forever to perform any action on the file.

Thank you in advance.

Luis M.


texts: Text Wrap not being applied to stroke style in InDesign CS5

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My designer supplied me a design and it contained a stroke style.

On his version (on the left), the images with a text wrap stop the stroke style.  But on my version (on the right), although I have a text wrap which cuts into text, it does not stop the stroke style (dots) that goes to the edge of the text box.  It goes underneath the image and out the other side.

You can see in the image on the left the handle stops by the text wrap.  On the right it continues through past the picture Touching it.  Apologies for bluring out most of the picture, I wasn't sure the client would like it.

I have ensured text wrap is not being ignored by the text box.  The text wrap is applied identically on both pictures.  For now I have put a white box in place to cheat it but I'd like to know the real answer.


texts: Recommended powerpoint template dimensions

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I am creating a new powerpoint template for my company (yes, I know, I know...) and I am not sure what dimensions are best to use.

I know the most popular is 4:3, but I see the 16:9 is widescreen and that's what most people use nowadays.

The 4:3 or the 16:9?

Is there a best practices guide?

update: I have since come across this useful slideshare which breaks it down. http://www.slideshare.net/Presentitude/what-slide-dimensionsshouldyouuse

I will probably end up doing doing both, design for 4:3, then adapt it to the contemporary 16:9 dimensions of powerpoint 2013

thanks!


texts: Some glyphs won't copy from Illustrator into InDesign

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I'm trying to copy a table created in Illustrator (not in the screenshot) into InDesign but glyphs like currency symbol or other mutations won't copy properly.

Illustrator on the left and InDesign on the right:

It would be nice if I could copy the whole Table, which I created in Illustrator and still be able to edit it in InDesign.

Anyone an idea?


texts: need some help with this parallel projection

texts:
Hi there,
I want anyone to analyse with  parallel projection cuz i got that and completely sure this is wrong i got it as this is how i see it https://imgur.com/a/IQrKT (can't upload it here)
my vision to the shape is a V letter and this thing like a triangle


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I have seen you advise on exporting to a pixel size from InDesign by using the 72ppi to get the actual pixel size; however I also end up getting a poor quality resolution.

How can I both get the pixel size and a better ppi?

I am exporting to jpg or png (web banner)

thanks :)


texts: How can I remove two edges of a shape but leave the fill in Inkscape?

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I have a hexagon with a border. I can remove one edge from it, and keep the fill colour in it. But if I want to remove a second edge, the fill disappears, because the node has been deleted - as you can see.

Is there a way to keep the fill and only use one shape?

I can do it with two:

But that means doubling the complexity of the model - and a lot of work to change it all. Is there a way to achieve the effect above with one shape?


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I am designing a billboard that sizes 13 Feet width and 3 feet length.
my system doesn't support big files so what would be the best artboard size for the illustrations. also, it won't affect printing quality.


texts: How to make an object thiner or thicker WITHOUT changing the length or width of the object - on Illustrator?

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How to make an object thinner or thicker WITHOUT changing the length or width of the object - on Illustrator?
I took a picture of a letter that was written on other software, and I'm trying to make it thicker or thinner while keeping the original size. What's the best way to do so?
N.b. this letter isn't taken from illustrator fonts, otherwise, I knew how to deal with it by stroke function. But this isn't the case here, of I'm trying to do just the same but with an object.


texts: How to create new toolbar hairline in coreldraw

texts: I have created new toolbar (Tools -> customization -> command bars -> i created new tool and drop the icons there). With the new toolbar i have add the regular tools which need. No hairline, Hairline, 0.5, 1 hairline. But in between 0.5 & 1 i want to have a 0.7 hairline that i use regular. I have to press f12 and with the mouse i have go click the hairline and with mouse i have change the figure 0.7. As it take much time. How can i have a hairline of 0.7 as default it has 0.5 & 1. Any suggestion or help. Thanks


texts:
I am working on doing an Electronic Direct Mail (EDM) for a client and I want to make a really smooth simple animation of a notification bell ringing.

Typically I would use Photoshop to make a .gif, though I am after something that can help me create a more advanced, smooth result.

Any recommendations would be brilliant.


texts: Problem with printing grid on white paper

texts: I tried printing grids on white paper using an offset  sheet feed machine. I used a gray color ink. I wanted to use a fountain  pen on this paper. When I wrote on this paper I found that the fountain pen ink  was skipping whereever it crossed the grid lines making the writing look bad with interruptions. Can anybody help me with this problem.


texts: Photoshop: Should I use my monitor's color profile (under proof setup/colors) when designing for desktop?

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The title says most of it...not sure whether I should set Photoshop to Monitor RGB color profile and set "show proof colors" to true when working on desktop layouts. I notice that Firefox uses my monitor's color profile and Chrome does not. If I select sRGB everything seems way off, especially compared to what I see in either Chrome or Firefox.

If it's any consolation, I am using two identical Dell IPS monitors (2209WAf). I have not calibrated them, yet, other then adjusting brightness/contrast based on color bars and other test charts (I know how to calibrate a video monitor off of SMPTE color bars, not saying I'm a pro at it, but I know these are close).

Just so you can see the dramatic differences between the 3 color profiles - here's a shot comparing the three (taking a screen shot in photoshop, cropping it down, saving as JPEG)


texts: Illustrator: which settings to design a logo for print

texts: What settings should I use when creating a document for logo printing? Looking to achieve the best quality for my logo design.


texts: Why is Arial Bold condensing in my Illustrator CC?

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After an update, Arial Bold is displaying condensed while all other varieties of Arial are working as expected. Any ideas on why this would be happening?

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Should I use specialist "titling" fonts for headings and titles?

texts:
I once read, that one should use optimized/specialized fonts for headings and titles. The claimed reason was, that a kerning which is good for reading is not good (or optimal) for titles.

I tried to google this issue, but only found collections of 'free fonts for Big and Powerful Headings[tm]' and one Q/A on ux.stackexchange regarding using different font families for headings and body

Do the fonts for titles differ from their 'normal' brothers and sisters in features like kerning and x-height?


texts: Width and height of every element is shown 100% in photoshop CS6

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I want to know the width and height of a rectangle in a Photoshop CS6 design. When I select it's layer and press Ctrl + T it's width and height both are mentioned 100%. The problem is with every other layer. Whichever layer I select the width and height are always 100%.

So, how do I check the width and height of an element in pixels?


texts: Design OpenCourseWare course recommendation

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I have alway been creative and interested in Graphic Design but never had any formal training. Ideally I would like to return to University to do a degree in Graphic Design, but due to time and financial contraints this isn't possible.

Can you suggest some good OpenCourseWare courses for Graphic Design (Print or Web)? The best I have found so far have been some tutorial articles, but I would prefer something that has better coverage of the theory.


texts: Pathfinder divide tool on object with gradient mesh

texts: I'm using Illustrator CC, and have a tear-drop shaped object which has a gradient mesh applied to it. I need to use the pathfinder divide tool in combination with another simple shape to take a chunk out of the teardrop, but the pathfinder tools don't seem to have any effect on an object with gradient mesh applied. Am I missing something obvious, or is this not possible?


texts: Photoshop Batch - Add incremental serial number on image

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I'm a Photoshop newbie

My goal is to add a specific serial number (S/N IO 0001, S/N IO 0002, S/N IO 0003) on the same image and export it as jpg such as "img_sn_0001.jpg", "img_sn_0002.jpg", "img_sn_0002.jpg" etc..

Is it possible to do this in Photoshop?

Or is there another way to do this?


texts: Why can i see contours through a layer above in Adobe Illustrator CS5?

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I am using Adobe Illustrator CS5 for a simple game.

I do not know why, but I can see contours of my chair through my table. The table is a layer above the chair. The table is not transparent. Nevertheless I can see the contours of the chair through the table:

What setting is responsible for this behaviour?


texts: Gimp: Howto antialias round border around

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I have a gif file with a round logo on top of transparent background. The border around the round item needs to be antialiased.

I have tried selecting with the fuzzy wand as well as with border: 2px, but either case I'm not able to choose Color to Alpha nor Blur Gaussian Blur as suggested in many tutorials.

I have also tried changing the format of the file to xcf

Any ideas? Gimp 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 12.04


texts: What this networking grid style effect called?

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what is this effect called like dots connected to each other ?

I want to create this effect in Illustrator , is there is any script or plug-ins available in market to create this? , i tried " Distribute on path" script but i just could not create it. Client wants this design in the part of website so i needed to create it.

Image is stock image , Image courtesy : Shutterstock video

This is from Graphic Design perspective


texts: What kind of Design is this? Lowpoly or polymer or something else?

texts: I want to know what kind of design is this? Low poly or polymer or something else?


texts: CMYK Print - Jpg colours changing between Mac OS and Windows

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I am a designer working on Mac OS X - I have created a CMYK .jpg graphic for print using InDesign. I printed it out and the colours appeared as expected.

I sent this graphic to my account manager - she has printed the image and the colours appear very differently both on screen and printed. We are concerned as we will be sending this to a client to use as a company wide footer graphic for MS Word.

Please help!


texts: Convert Photoshop Layers to Artboard and keep artboard the same size as original canvas

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I'm a dev working with some .PSDs given to me by our designer.  We use Zeplin, a fancy tool that can give us a dev head start, but requires the designer to have created an artboard to export.  Unfortunately, our designer did not use artboards while creating these PSDs.  I'm OK in photoshop (CC 2015) but am running into trouble keeping the created artboard the same size as the original canvas.

My goal is to create an artboard the same size as the canvas delivered by our designer.  When I select all layer groups and choose 'New Artboard from Layers' from the context menu, the artboard expands to include all layers that are positioned off-canvas.  These layers include images and shapes.  If I manually punch in the desired artboard size in pixels, I can't choose where to 'anchor' the artboard and have to manually line everything up.

Although this flow works, I'd really like to be able to do this faster.  Is there a way to create an artboard the size of and in the same position of the current selection?


texts: Allign 3 B&W layers to make an RGB picture

texts: I'm trying to process a picture of Jupiter from Junocam and I'm trying to align 3 B&W picture to make an RGB picture but it's not working, I tried differents opacity but it still not working, I also tried with a random image from blender and I exported each colour layer then I aligned them in a new picture but it was not working, what am I doing wrong ?


texts: Photoshop Vectors turned into raster images automatically

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Sorry if this has been done before. I just got Creative Cloud, have worked on older versions of Photoshop before. Every time I try to do anything vector based in Ps CC, be it Text, Pen Tool or creating simple Shapes, Ps shows them pixellated and as if they were rasterised whilst showing it as Shape layer, with option to rasterise still selectable. With type, anti-aliasing is on. Am running Illustrator too and there is no problem with my screen representing vector based shapes crisp and clear.
When I print text from Ps, it comes out pixellated.
When I save it out as e.g. jpg, it is blurry and pixellated.
Help please!

Is there something in Ps like the Pixel Preview Setting in Illustrator that I may have switched on accidentally without knowing?


texts: Is there a tool for easily creating a GIF/video with a morph transition between two images?

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I have found the following video, which shows a transition effect which is based on a sort of morph-based interpolation between two images:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/f07/proj_final/www/amichals/one.mpg

Is there a tool for easily creating a GIF (or a video) with a similar effect (so no fading), starting from two images (start and end)?


texts: Critique: Musically Inspired Brand Identity Design for a Freelancing Home Studio Music Producer

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My name is Kaitav Sapre and I am an independent home studio music producer. I am having a new logo designed for myself, but I am unsure about the type of logo I should consider getting designed, and what direction I should go with this.

By 'type of logo' I mean, should I go with a symbol/icon with my name, or should I go with my initials 'K' and'S'. Even just 'K' for the symbol and write my name beside it?

I'm lacking thoughts and guidance towards the right course of action. I am really confused and need some advice and direction on what logo would work well based on my name and what I do - music. I don't have much knowledge on typography.

Could anyone please give me some feedback on my logos?
Do they suit an independent home studio music producer?
What kind of logo would be most effective for a single person brand identity?

Here are the current ideas I'm working with:


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I work on a lot of projects where I have to put little spans of text in big paragraphs. These spans are always a - and a capitol letter. I've been trying to make a library of these spans like, -A, -B, -C where the dash is black and the letter is a different color in a different font than what I normally type.

My hope with the libraries is that I can type a sentence and click on the element in the library to insert the -A formatted the way I want it and then go back to typing in the usual font.

Is this even possible? Are there any workarounds or ways to get close to this?


texts: InDesign: Import spreadsheet as single, formatted, column

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I'm laying out 100+ business listings into a three-column document.

The listings are currently in a .csv spreadsheet that looks like so:

A | B | C | D

Company name | Location | Blurb | Contact Info

ABC Ltd. | Bristol | Great company, cheap prices. | 0117 9876543

DEF Inc. | London | Great prices, cheap company. | 020 234 5667

GHI GmbH. | Berlin | Grosse Firma, gunstige Preise. | 30 12345 678

I'd like to import, and if possible sync, the spreadsheet into my 4-column layout like so, with applied character formatting (font size, colour etc.) for each imported column:

ABC Ltd.
Bristol
Great company, cheap prices.
0117 9876543

DEF Inc.
London
Great prices, cheap company.
020 234 5667

GHI GmbH.
Berlin
Grosse Firma, gunstige Preise.
30 12345 678

Can anyone suggest how I might do this, if it is in fact possible? All the info I can find suggests that I can only import a sheet as a table, which doesn't suit my requirements.

I'd prefer a solution that can be achieved in InDesign, rather than formatting in the spreadsheet or other programs first, though if that's the only way of doing things that works for me!

If any clarification's needed let me know, I really appreciate any help or pointers anyone can give me on this.

Thank you!


texts: InDesign: override master page text style while maintaining master page text content?

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Say I've got a master page with a text box on it, and in that text box I have the text "cat." I color the text black. I then apply this master to a basic document page, allow overrides on that page's local instance of that text box by Ctrl+Shift+clicking it, and then change the text color to blue. Now if I go back to my master page layout and change the text from "cat" to "dog," and then I go back to my local page (where I'd previously re-colored the text blue), the text is still "cat"; it hasn't been updated to "dog."
Is there a way to allow local overrides to text style, but maintain the live link back to the actual master page text box content? I could've sworn InDesign used to do this back in the day. Are there options / toggles for this sort of thing somewhere?


texts: How to perspective project or warp an image onto a book cover?

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I'm trying to photoshop an image onto a book cover for a mockup, but am a bit confused about the best way to do this?

I'm using the 'Perspective' warp tool, but I'm finding it hard to:

Set the perspective exactly correct
Keep the image from being resized without respecting ratio

I seem to recall in the past being able to almost define a plane, throwing my image onto the plane and resizing/scaling it accordingly, whereas perspective warp confuses me because you aren't defining the plane of the object you want to map onto, but rather the object you want to map itself.

For example:

Setting perspective layout

Warping

End

Is there a better way to do this? I find it very finicky to know if the perspective is actually correct without a lot of fiddling, and also the aspect ratio of the image is definitely off


texts: Hard drive contents not showing in GIMP (Windows 10)

texts: I installed GIMP 2.10.0 yesterday. When I try to open files, there are a few folders listed, such as "Documents" and "Pictures" as well as the letters of the hard drives. When clicking on a listed folder, the contents show up fine, but when clicking on any of the hard drives, it shows absolutely nothing. I tried running as administrator, but to no avail. Restarting the PC did nothing as well.


texts: businescard disguised as a real iphone, anoyone knows a good mockup / sample?

texts: I try to create a businesscard like below. I searched for the internet for an template to no avail. So playing now around with Illustrator but im not that of a design guru. Does anyone know if below image is based on a freely available template / mockup ?


texts:
My goal is to achieve the following:

Batch resize images with different background colors

I already use Photoshop to batch process and center (horizontal and vertical align) 2000 different images into square 200 x 200 tiles on a white background (the images are different in size, background color, and sometimes file-type).

I can process and batch resize the images and place them on a white 200x200 tile using the batch processor and recorded 'Actions'. With transparent .png images this looks great.

Problem: Some of the images have a colored background. If an image has a colored background a white border around the image looks quite awful.

This is how the output currently looks:

How do I dynamically resize the non transparent images of different colors and sizes to 200x200 square .jpg images? I can do it manually with the color-picker but is there another option?

As you can see it is only a problem when images have a colored background.


texts: Switching to GIMP from CS5.5. Is it feasible?

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I've recently moved to linux from Windows7. The only program I can't do without is photoshop. I make a lot of banner ads and small landing page creatives.

My question, is it realistic to switch and would I be able to easily create graphics like this? They're fairly straightforward but I do use a few filters such as drop shadow, inner glows etc.


texts: Importing and Editing File in Adobe Illustrator

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I have what I'm sure is a very basic question. I've just opened a friend's ai file into adobe illustrator, but the text had been completely changed and the images/pictures removed because 'they could not be found'.

I then tried to place the file instead in order to keep the image the same, but didn't know how to then edit it. When I embed it, it again changes the text and removes the images. I also tried expanding and ungrouping but that didn't seem to work either. How can I freely edit the original file with out drastically altering it?

Ultimately I just need to quickly edit the text and adjust the placement of the images. I'm new at this, so any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance


texts: Perspective transform on a raster image in Illustrator

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All I want is the Illustrator equivalent of what right-click -> Perspective does in Photoshop. Normally I would just use the Free Transform Tool, but it doesn't appear to let me do it with an imported raster image like it does so nicely on a vector.

I also don't need the Perspective Grid to snap to or anything like that, what am I missing here? Thanks!


texts: Why are multiple paths being selecting in inkspape when I click on one

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I have two paths that do not appear to have any intersections but if I select one of the other they both get selected. Is this because they touch somewhere or is there a way to "link" paths that I am not aware of?

Here is a screen capture of the same thing https://imgur.com/a/r8md4Nt


texts: inkscape problems exporting filling pattern to pdf

texts:
I have created a filling pattern. When I export to pdf a shape filled with such pattern I get something really different from what I see in the editor.

This is an example:

what I see:

what I get:

Am I doing something wrong?

thanks for your help


texts: In Adobe Fireworks CS4 how do I change document dimensions without cropping bitmaps contained in the document?

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If I am working with Bitmaps in fireworks their data behaves independently of the document area,  in other words I can move a bitmap in and out of the canvas without losing any of its data.  This gives me room to play about with part of the bitmap in visible areas.

But as soon as I crop the document, it crops all bitmap data to the confines of the canvas.  All I want to do is make the canvas smaller but still have the full bitmap to 'play' with inside the smaller canvas.   How do I crop a document without cropping all of its assets?


texts: How to make parallel dashed stroke lines?

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When I try to offset my line with dashed stroke, the original and the offset path do not run in sync. The dashes should be side by side, but they are not. Screenshots:

Can someone help?


texts: How to draw attention to a specific area of a design?

texts: What are the best practices for drawing attention to specific parts of a design?


texts: Bookmark pages with sections in InDesign

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It's hard to navigate lots of pages to find the article Inside a large InDesign Document for edit or review, it's good to have a feature or script that can find pages they have Sections within them and then generate bookmarks for them (title bookmarks same as section title), so then user can see what's what on bookmark panel.
Don't know, but maybe there is a feature already be there in Indesign to navigate easier in document, please guide me there.
or
Is there any nested-featured or external script with same functionality or would anyone like to write some?


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What is the general purpose for making or converting graphics / images to a raster format?

What happens to an image when it is rasterized?


texts: Photoshop plugin to change hue/sat/val by holding a key and dragging mouse?

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I'm a beginner digital painter and am looking for ways to make my process more fluid.

Ideally I'd like a plugin that lets me change:

Hue
Saturation
Brightness
Brush size
Brush opacity
Brush hardness

By having a key for each that I hold, and then click and drag on my Wacom tablet.

I know that size and hardness can already be changed by using the alt key in a similar manner, but I want to do this for everything.

Any ideas? As a last resort I think I'll learn how to write plugins.


texts: How do I covert Photoshop swatches to illustrator swatches in CS5?

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I want to bring my Photoshop swatch library into Illustrator.

I've tried saving swatches for exchange and then opening them in a New Swatch Library in Illustrator, but the colors become corrupted.


texts: Font Identification - Recent Starbucks Ad

texts: I was  wondering if someone could tell me what font this is? This was a coupon Starbucks sent out a few weeks ago for the Caramel Flan Latte. I'm looking for the "Let's Get Together" lettering. Thanks!


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I've been using InDesign for 6 years, and I've never had this issue. When I export a file to a pdf, the margin line is showing up on it. I can't seem to find anything online about this issue and have no idea why this would be happening. I didn't update or change anything with my version of InDesign. It started happening yesterday.

Edit: here's the picture. I had to mark out the identifying info, thus the weird white boxes. You can see the purple line - that's the margin guide that should be invisible when exporting. It doesn't show for any other format, just when I export to PDF.


texts: How can I combine these two shapes with shape builder?

texts: Basically I want to keep upper edge more curved and the lower edge less curved but with shape builder tool I am not able to do this and while viewing the same scenario in outline mode I am getting this .


texts: How can I create a multi-color blurred background?

texts: I have seen an image with this background. As a newbie I am unable to get this multi colored mixed background. I am able to get just two colors and that too linearly with the Blend Tool. But that doesn't look like this at all. Can some one please suggest me on how to achieve this in GIMP or in Photoshop?


texts: How to find out what a font on my computer's web font name is?

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I've got a font installed on my computer. I want to check it doesn't look terrible in common browsers before deciding whether to set it up as a web font, buy they appropriate license, etc etc.

How do I find out what the name to put into css font-family: fontname will be? I've tried various variations on the font's name as it appears in software, but none work.


texts: Ok, a bit of a noob question this but it's sending me a little crazy. How do I change the transform panel measurements from pt (which appears to be the default on my Illustrator CC) to px?! I've gone into preferences > units etc and the panel is still displaying pt not px


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I have a large 300mb layered .ai file containing .jpg and .psd images. I would like to save it as a Photoshop.psd file.
Is this possible?


texts: Please help me, i am a beginner and started to watch the Illustrator tutorials on their website. When they use the Pen tool they can draw strait line, but mine starts from the middle, and draw curves, etc.


texts: Professionals: Would you choose GIMP over Photoshop and/or Inkscape over Illustrator?

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I know Adobe's solutions are more advanced, but, as professionals, do you think you would survive (against competition) using GIMP and/or Inkscape instead of Photoshop and/or Illustrator for your actual work?  Would it be worth it or would it actually complicate your work?

I am specially interested to see if there is anyone that actually made the switch to the open source solutions and know why you did it.

My question is with regards to the possibility of fully divorcing from Adobe's solutions and still being able to function as a graphic design studio.


texts: Strange squares appear in halftoned PNG image with transparency

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I have a strange issue with large, off-color "squares" appearing when I preview a PNG with halftones on a transparent background. This doesn't happen with all images (so far, I've only had the issue with about 4 out of 60 or so images) and this is exclusively when the halftones occur on a transparent background. Here's a small example:

The image on the left has a transparent background, while the image on the right is on top of a small white square. Other than that they are identical. Here's what it looks like when opened in photoshop:

I believe these are some strange artifact caused by the viewing program (e.g., Windows Photo Gallery) and not an integral part of the image, since if you zoom in they "disappear."

I believe this is an issue only with fairly large images (in this case, 13x16" at 300 dpi with halftones at 55 LPI). My main problem with this is that if I upload the images to a site (dA, RB, S6, etc.), the weird squares appear there as well. I have tried reducing the halftones to as low as 30 LPI, but to no avail. Does anyone know what might be causing this issue and how remedy it?


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I have a client who has asked me to design a new logo. I had designed the current logo some 12 years ago and it's time for a brand and logo refresh. The client has asked that I use three typographical symbols to represent the company. However, two of those symbols are currently (and very prominently) being used by an internationally renowned gallery and museum in a similar way.

I've suggested that its neither good design nor a sensible brand direction to use another organisation's logo and brand elements - even if it's a different industry and context. Yet the client wishes to pursue the idea. Am I being asked to plagiarise?


texts: How to batch convert multiple Inkscape SVG to plain svg and converts all objects/layers to paths?

texts:
I'm making some illustrations for a dissertation in Inkscape and I like this software.
However, when inserting those illustrations to Word files, there appear some weird artifacts like:

disappeared end of arrows
text render (spacing, etc.)

NB!: weird behavior. At insertion svg file it seems to look OK, but after saving and re-opening docx-files, the artifacts appear.

I figured out it can be fixed by converting all objects with artifacts to paths and saving as plain svg. Inserting obtained files has no problem after re-opening.

I found info, how to batch convert Inkscape svg to plain svg here, and how to convert all objects and text to path.

I combined everything in a PowerShell script, but it fixes only issues with texts, not with objects like arrows.
How to fix that?

My scripts is:

$input_folder_name='as is'
$output_folder_name='as path'

# ------------------------------------------
$input_folder=$(Join-Path -Path "$PSScriptRoot" -ChildPath "$input_folder_name")
$output_folder=$(Join-Path -Path "$PSScriptRoot" -ChildPath "$output_folder_name")

# This will work if Inkscape is installed from the installer, not from Microsoft Store
set-alias inkscape "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe"

# ------------------------------------------

$svg_selector_filter = $(Join-Path -Path $input_folder -ChildPath "*.svg")

# ------------------------------------------

$files = Get-ChildItem "$svg_selector_filter"
foreach ($file in $files){

    $output_file=$(Join-Path -Path "$output_folder" -ChildPath "$($file.Name)")

    # key "--export-area-drawing" will export anly area occupied by drawing!
    # key "-T" will export all font text as vectors, but not objects like arrows!
    inkscape -f "$file" --verb=EditSelectAll --verb=ObjectToPath --export-area-drawing --export-plain-svg="$output_file" -T
}


texts: opening Illustrator template file (.ait) for editing results in untitled.ai

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I'm using CC 2018. I created a business card template by saving the art via File --> Save as Template. Double clicking that file in the finder opens a regular Illustrator document (.ai) with the saved art as expected.

However, I need to change a color in the template. I thought opening the .ait file from within illustrator via File --> open would allow me to edit the template itself. Instead it does the same thing as double clicking it from the finder (described above).

What am I doing wrong?


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texts: I have to upload alot of product images to an eCommerce website. Dimensions are now 600x600px and image size 200-300kb. I want to batch reduce the file size of these to under 70kb.


texts: How to make a white section in a design transparent instead of black

texts: There’s a small white section on a design that I can’t get to turn transparent, it just turns black. How do I fix this problem?


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I created a small flyer and placed four flyers on one DIN A4 page.

But it seems to be impossible to distribute the four text frames correctly. In order to be able to cut the flyers the width between the text frames must be twice of the width between the outer border and the frames.

When I distribute the text frames with Scribus the width between the frames is the same as the width between the frames and the border. How can I distribute correctly to be able to cut the flyers?


texts: Is there a way to quickly change color palettes in Illustrator?

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I work on a lot of RGB files with Illustrator CS5 for Mac. In those files there are lines that must be converted to a specific percentage in the grayscale palette (but not all of them). As a result, I find myself wasting a lot of time opening the Color tab, and changing its palette from RGB to Grayscale (I have to do this for each line or object in the same file).

My question is: is there any shortcut to make the change to the Grayscale palette faster? Or maybe you know some other way or trick that will help me improve my workflow in this particular matter?

Thank you very much in advance for any tips you can give me. :)