texts: Critique: How can I make my 'add post' website element stand out better?

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I'm working on building my own blogging website from the ground up, or at least that's what I assume that's what it will turn into at this point.

So far what I have built is fairly basic but one thing concerns me. I have an "Add Post" button that is inline with/on top of other posts but seems to blend into the flow of the site to well that it could easily be over looked.

Here is a link to the live website where you can play around with it.

My question is, in what ways can I make the "Add Post" element stand out without affecting the overall look/feel of the website?


texts: batch export from dataset as a png in illustrator

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I have two artboards with two text lines and I use a CSV file to import a dataset to those variables.
When I use the action tab to export each artboard as png, the action exports the two first files and then they replace the new artboards with the existing artboards, and in the final, I find just the last artboards saved as png
I want to save each artboard as a png file


texts: GIMP: the closest thing to Photoshop's smart object?

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I've been learning GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop, which I haven't been using for design purposes for more than 5 years now. I discovered that there is a new interesting thing called the smart object in Photoshop. In GIMP, I haven't been able to figure out how to create that smart object.

What is the closest thing to Photoshop's smart object in GIMP?


texts: InDesign CC : Change pixels with decimals to whole numbers

texts: In InDesign CC, how do you change the pixels to whole numbers? In the Info panel, when I try to resize a rectangle, the Width says 646.845px and Height is 88.992px....it's so hard to work with!


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Some fonts come with different optical sizes. A few Adobe fonts have different optical sizes that are recommended for 6–8 point text, 9–14 point, 14–24, and 24+ points. I am designing an A1 poster, which is will not be read from such close a distance as regular text. Most, if not all, text will be set larger than 24 points, and certainly not smaller than 14. Should I use the optical sizes as intended, or should I take the viewing distance into account?

Example: 12pt type viewed from 0.4m subtends an angle of 0.61 degrees, so it looks as tall as 30pt type viewed from 1m distance, which also subtends an angle of 0.61 degrees. If I use 30pt type on the poster, should I use the optical size intended for 24+ points, or the size intended for 9–14 points?


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I'm looking for a tool or a filter that closely resembles how this looks, it transforms the layer kinda of like a smudge tool but again I'm not sure what its called or where it's found.
any help?


texts: Exporting multiple sizes in sketch. Saving it as defaults?

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I'm trying to figure out the way to keep my export sizes and prefix names as default options,

When I do it to mobile I have to create 7 diferents sizes and prefixes

I design in @3x so I have to export then for iOS and Android like:

So every time I create a new doc, I'm repeating this process like 20 times per day.

Let me know if you know how to perform this easier.

Note: I also tried some export plugins for mobile, but those all export my buttons without the transparent background. I mean, they add the background on it ( I can't export only the button with transparent bg)

Thanks for answering!


texts: What is the name of this semi-slab serif font?

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Could anyone tell me what this font is on the following images?

It looks like Courier but it is not.


texts: Is there any way to buy Adobe Illustrator instead of subscribing?

texts: Based on my other question here I started googling the price of Adobe Illustrator and it looks like they only let you subscribe to a monthly payment. I couldn't find a direct way to buy AI and permanently own a license. Do you have any idea about this?


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Indesign CS5.

I'm trying to perfect a regular expression to quickly replace the single-space from raw text to the EN space.  I'm using the following:

(\w)([.!?])(['"]{0,1}) {1,}(['"]{0,1})(\u)

Replacing to:

$1$2$3~>$4$5

This should have captured and replaced the space with an EN space the following tests:

work. To
work! To
work." To
work.' 'To
work." "To

etc.  I recognize it's not perfect as work.' "To would get through it, but that would be picked up in the editing sweeps.  Please ignore that and similar conditions.

My problem is the replacement is coming out as...

work. $5o

The RegEx is finding text perfectly.  If it finds work." "To, it replaces the space with an EN-space perfectly.  Anything else isn't replacing correctly.

It appears that the (['"]{0,1}) expressions, since they're capturing nothing, are not having their relevant $# (e.g., $3) variable set.  However, if that's the case, I expected to see work. $4$5o as the replacement for the work. To test.

Is there a workaround for this, or am I condemned to running a series of RegEx replacements?


texts: How to make a cylindric wrapping go all arround

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I´m using After Effects and the cylindric wrapping tool for Text. The Text has the right size and everything, the only problem is, that the wrapping won´t close all the way. There is always a gap left.
How do I get rid of the gap? (Emphasizing the Text won´t do the trick)


texts: Are there mathematical models behind Google material design metrics?

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Google's Material Design guidelines such as Typography - Style - Google design guidelines or  Metrics & keylines - Layout - Google design guidelines contains many ad hoc metrics for font sizing, spacing, margins etc.

I wonder if there are any mathematical patterns behind?

For instance, analysis of the proposed font sizes gives
the following sequence of ratios (next font size divided by previous):

1.166, 1.143,  1.25,  1.2,  1.417,  1.323,  1.244,  2

The ratios here fall (roughly) in the range of 1.14 - 1.42 (with the exception of the last one). This suggests there might be some fundamental value behind, such as the square root of golden ratio 1.27.

Replacing all those ad hoc ratios by single consistent value would certainly simplify the whole system and make design calculations as well as any implementation much easier.

The same question goes for the layout sizes, the model here being clearly more complicated but not hopelessly impossible.

Are there reasons why the more verbose ad hoc system was preferred and whether using more consistent mathematical model would have had any downside?


texts: What is type of design (Youtube music background and thumbnail) called?

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I have found some examples where the thumbnails and the background of the following YouTube videos has these characteristics:

Cover album at the background of the video.
The cover is also in higher size behing the "smaller" cover album.

These are some examples I found:

Phenomenon

Rockefeller Street

In the Shadows

The Cage

I'm not a web/graphic designer, but I found this design interesting. Did this kind of design has a name?1

1 I'm interesting in get any official documentation (if exists) about the name of this kind of design, because, looking in Stack Oveflow (about the grey boxes in YouTube), the only answer shows a name, but I don't know if this is a real-official name.


texts: What is the name of this category of visual artwork? Is this pop art?

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There is a style of artwork that I want to learn to create. It abstracts away most detail, but it is not really abstract art. It has a lot in common visually with vector illustrations, but some of the examples I see are created using markers, acrylics, and other physical approaches (as opposed to digital). Here are examples (all motorsports, but I also see this style with some vintage travel posters):
example 1
example 2
example 3


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I am writing documentation for a software program. To open a document, it must be double clicked.

Considering readers skimming through the screenshots only and not reading the text, how to design the double click action so that it is understood intuitively?

If possible, this should be inline with a single click, which I also need to indicate.

So far I came up with a pixel arrow and a single circle vs. double circle. Is that clear enough, also if the reader sees one of them only? If yes, why is it good enough? If not, what could be enhanced and why?

The green color used here is one of the CI/CD colors for highlighting.

Update

Thanks for the feedback so far. Based on the answers and comments, I have compiled a number of options and collected a bit of (subjective) feedback. Since I need to consider people printing the documentation, I also need to look at the black and white version. Proposal no. 5 with the additional x was IMHO best received.


texts: Is there a way to export all the layers properties in a PSD file into an organised "legend map" PDF file for the developers?

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The design is ready inside a few PSDs and needs to be passed on to the developers. Is there an easier way to do it instead of manually creating it or giving away the PSD?
The end product should be a PDF containing the main layer (iPhone screen or webpage)
with relevant properties to each object. For example:
Back Button:
x:10
y:20
w:100     --------------- > Here will be an image of the object inside the main layer
h:123
Color: 20,50,20,1
Name: back_button.png

If such a tool doesn't exist, how do you pass the above data to the developers? Is there a common standard for this?


texts: converted vector image doesnt show correctly in corel draw

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Im having some issues converting my image to a vector image

my png

Im following this guide which uses inkscape to convert it.

after saving I have my svg file

opening this in chrome looks good.

however when I open in corel draw I get this:

Why does it look the way it does in corel draw while chrome shows it correctly?  In the end this is a waterbottle design that Im having engraved and the engravers needs it to look right in corel draw.

link to svg file

link to zipped contents of my working folder

Update1

I have tried the below suggestions of removing the image tag, Combine the paths and Rafael's walk through.  However it is still the same issue.

I also tried to start from scratch.  this time starting and working solely inside inkscape.  Tracing each silhouette individually as opposed to the whole image. But it still does not look right

here is the latest svg, ill try to get a screenshot of what it looks like in corel shortly.


texts: Best way to convert multipage pdf to separate jpg's

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What is considered the best way to convert a multipage PDF into single page JPG's with photoshop CS3?

I'm looking for a (semi) automated process since it's a 150 page pdf so a little cumbersome to do manually.


texts: Illustrator color picker fails to detect a web color

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I opened a new document in Adobe Illustrator CS5, which defaults to CMYK as a color mode. I imported a raster image, used LiveTrace  with 6 grayscale colors, expanded, and saved as SVG, which changed the color mode to RGB (which I believe makes no difference, since it's only grayscale colors at this point). In the text, I replaced black in the plain text of the SVG to one web color and gray with a tint of that web color, where the opacity is proportional to the amount of gray. In the example below, I used 7B68EE for MediumSlateBlue. I opened the SVG file in Illustrator and the color picker shows 6666FF instead of 7B68EE; when I click OK, the color changes to 6666FF.

Here is the color picker pointed at the area with 7B68EE in the source SVG file:

And here are three images of the difference for this case. The SVG with fill="#7B68EE" in the plain text:

The same SVG after clicking OK in the color picker for color 7B68EE, which becomes 6666FF:

I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and Illustrator CS5 15.1.0 (yes, I really am, I was able to make them play nicely).

Why does the Illustrator color picker show a web color such as MediumSlateBlue (7B68EE) as 6666FF?


texts: Indesign - remove empty cells from table

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I have imported XML which contains nested tables and have created a script to remove all empty cells which is as:

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
for(var i=myDocument.textFrames.length-1; i>=0; i--){
    for(var j=myDocument.textFrames[i].tables.length-1; j>=0; j--){
        for(var k=myDocument.textFrames[i].tables[j].rows.length-1; k>=0; k--){
            myContents = 0;
            for(var l=myDocument.textFrames[i].tables[j].rows[k].cells.length-1; l>=0; l--){
                if (myDocument.textFrames[i].tables[j].rows[k].cells[l].contents != "") myContents++;
                }
                    if (myContents == 0) myDocument.textFrames[i].tables[j].rows[k].remove();
            }
        }
    }

This works for an ordinary table, but on my XML document which contains the tables it doesnt remove the empty cells even though it hits the right if statement

Does anyone have any solutions?


texts: Easiest way to create vintage grane/corners/angles in Ai

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I am looking for an easy way to create in Illustrator vintage style corners like on the picture provided.

I have some technical ideas, but they are time consuming, there should be an easier way I believe.


texts: How To Split Two Intersecting Circles in to Three Separate Shapes

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My question is specifically about Making a Venn Diagram in Adobe Illustrator.

I am trying to make a Venn-diagram to visualize different set operations in math. I found that Illustrator made some pretty good pictures but I am stuck now.

I  want to turn the part of the Circle A that does not intersect with the Circle B into its own object so that I can fill it with a color.

The problem is that the intersection of A and B is one object, and the complement of the intersection is also one object.

So if I try to fill Circle A, but not the intersection with a color, it also fills Circle B minus the intersection.

In other words, currently the two circle make up two object, but I want to turn it in to three separate objects that share sides. I used the pathfinder tool to get this far, but I don't know how to use it to get what I want.

How can I create three separate shapes from the shape in the diagram below, one for Circle A without the intersecting part of the circle, the same for Circle B and one more shape for the intersecting part?


texts: Website to get in contact with an interface designer?

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is there a popular website where I can order an interface design for an application to a fixed price or make an auction style request? Maybe something where I can browse the previous work of that designer?

Thanks


texts: How can you convert a black and white image into color using Photoshop?

texts: Is there a better way in Photoshop to convert a black & white image into color other than just selecting the area and fill with color?


texts: How does random choice of alternate characters work in OpenType fonts?

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I have a question similar to “Writing text with character variations”: I would like to create a casual hand-written-style font, that reproduces the natural variety between occurrences of the same glyph that one find in handwritten text. Contextual alternatives are good, but from what I understand they are mostly appropriate for letters linking together than for a script where all letters are separated by whitespace.

One of the answers to the above-linked question says (emphasis is mine):

  While you'd normally have only a few letters with a contextual alternate, it's theoretically possible to have several forms per letter. But I don't believe you can really randomise their appearance, only cycle through them (so, if you had three forms of 'a', they'd be used in sequence and start repeating in 'the black cat sat on the mat')

Well, it doesn’t seem to be true, because I found some mentions of an OpenType feature called randomize, which can apparently do that. For example, on this TeX package webpage:

  Knuth’s original fonts generated different shapes at random. This isn't actually possible in an OpenType font; rather, the font contains several variants of each glyph, and uses the OpenType randomize function to select a variant for each invocation.

So: is there a mechanism for random selection of glyph variants in OpenType, and how does it work? A link to adequate online documentation or quote from the spec would be invaluable. Also: do you think this goal makes sense, i.e. it would improve the quality of the typeset text much to include multiple randomly-select glyph variants?


texts: Cannot integrate Zeplin into Figma project

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I would like to integrate Figma with Zeplin. Because I could not connect Figma project with Android Studio which I can do with Zeplin.

I have installed Zeplin and Figma desktop apps on Mac OS Mojave.

I tried to integrate Zeplin with Figma according to this instruction.

But Zeplin button is not clickable:

How to solve this problem?


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I've created some pattern in CS6 (object->pattern->make) and filled with that pattern some square.
I've deleted the source elements from the file but I still can edit the elements is pattern edition mode.

I cannot edit the elements inside the square filled with that pattern and because of that the stock site has rejected the whole work.

How can I make the pattern filling to be editable (when I fill the square with the pattern I cannot change elements inside this square), where is the fault?


texts: Can I upload works from tutorials in my graphic design portfolio?

texts: I am wondering if it's possible to have works from Photoshop or Illustrator made from online tutorials, into your portfolio? If some work's design can be changed a bit, can it be counted like mine?


texts: Getting text from a Word doc with no subscription?

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So I don't have a legit (or non-legit) copy of MS Office. I really don't want to buy this sorry software, but my client keeps sending me Word 2016/365 docs with markups and crazy formatting and I'm having trouble lifting the text (don't need the formatting) for copying into InDesign. They are very resistant to sending me a PDF for some reason.

I've tried Word Reader, and Word Online seems to have a suspicious "sync" option for uploading the Word docs there, so I want to avoid this option too. Any other ways to get the text out of the Word doc? Thanks!


texts: How to apply Graphic Style correctly in Illustrator?

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This is my first time to post a question. My question should be a best following to the answer below, but I cannot comment it because it requires 50 reputations (which I have only 1 as a newbie).
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/19828/58120

This regards to how to highlight text with background color in Illustrator.
My question is exactly as what @MartinBlick asked. By following @SOIA's instruction, I can successfully make the appearance e.g. black text in yellow background. But when apply the Graphic Style to a new text object, it becomes a yellow block (without showing the text). I think the trick is the "Move new fill below characters" in @SOIA's instruction, because when I clicked back the style of my first successful stance, the new fill becomes above characters again. It seems that the relative position of Fill and Character is not properly saved. Please correct me if I understand this wrongly.


texts: ITC AVANT GARDE Slanted A V & Unique N T & H -

texts: I am not a designer just a person trying to find the right font for a presentation. I love the examples of ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold  but when I look at the actual letters in all the various versions I don't see the extreme slanted A,V or the N that & H that bend inward. Is that a designer customization? Or am I missing something?


texts: I've been using inkscape to create SVGs. But I've come across a problem. I've created a simple plus sign (as simple as you can imagine). It is currently in PNG format with a transparent background. I've imported it into inkscape so I can convert it into a SVG. However, when I use trace bitmap, Inkscape CHANGES THE SHAPE such that the straight lines that are one pixel wide are tappered! I've tried different options in the trace bitmap settings but nothing seems to work. Help?


texts: How does one make a brush smoother in Photoshop?

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I recently installed Photoshop but the brushes (default brushes in Photoshop as well as my own custom brushes) come out pixelated and rigid. I know that there is no way to remove pixelation as Photoshop is a raster program, but I would like to make the brushes less pixelated as I have seen in many drawings made with Photoshop.

I tried using a big canvas, high resolution, 100% hardness, and minimal spacing. This does fix it a little bit, but the brush still has the same problem, albeit to a slightly lesser effect. The pixelation occurs when it's zoomed out. I am not looking to make vector lines, but to instead make clean lines in Photoshop with the brush tool.

5x5 inches; 1000 pixels per inch. Not zoomed in. Photoshop default brush.

Brush with 10% spacing

Brush with 10% spacing and no shape dynamics

Thanks


texts: scribus: adding and naming spot color, which then can be seen in a pdf after export

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In the current Scribus version 1.5.5.svn, I am adding an additional spot color as follows:

Edit --> Color and Fills... --> Add --> name and select "is spot color" --> OK

I can then use this color on certain elements and export my project as e.g. PDF. But when I load the PDF it does show me another name for the color: FromPDF#009ee3. Also it doesn't show me that I have marked it as overprinting.

I need this for partial refinement in printing. Does anybody know a solution?


texts: How to center the title of my artwork on the artboard?

texts: I need to give a title to my artwork. Unfortunately, the arboard is randomly extended during the process and how I am wondering how to center the title of my artwork which is written at the bottom.


texts: "Print size" & "Distance from viewer" requires "What font size?"

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I have always selected my font size by the eye or educated guess/trial and error but at this point I would like to know where I could find a chart or document with guidelines regarding what font size you should use for this print size considering the viewer will see it from this distance.

While the suggested "Duplicate Question" might have some nice details, as far as I saw from the question and answers, this only targets Street Signs while taking into account car speed limit. This is only a branch of what my question is about.

I am interested in a more general way, a rule of thumbs of some sort that will help you get an idea on how to design something from A4 posters to outdoor billboards.


texts: Is it possible to merge branching paths to transform as one object?

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Due to the SVG format, Inkscape users cannot connect more than two paths to one node. As a result, I'm struggling to think of a method of connecting up my 'road' map below.

Ideally, I want a way to turn these separately sketched paths into one editable object. The reason is that I'm attempting to make an isometric road map - I planned on sketching it out, combining them, applying a stroke; stroke to path, transform to isometric projection. If anyone has any ideas on how better to do this, I'm all ears.


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When I am having an object of any size (in this case it will be 300px x 300 px), I need a tool like a brush. For example, I want first pixel on the top left to be black, second pixel on the top left - red, but what I am calling a pixel is not actually a pixel, it is a pixel-sized vector.

Color Eyedropper Tool [Sample colors, and apply them to objects], which is used in CorelDraw applies these colors to the objects as a whole - and in this case it is an object of a 300x300 size. Can I apply my color to one pixel only - like I said - first on the top left?

CorelDraw was only an example of a software used. Please, give me another soft to make it easier for me to work with desired colors. (Corel PaintShop Pro X5 maybe?)


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I've made this petal and turned it into a flower:

As you can see I have a problem with the petal no 6. Half of it should overlap petal no 1. I googled that I should use the clipping mask which I did. The result is okay but not perfect (look at the red flower):

Now, I'd like to remove the fill and I followed a tutorial which suggested using Pathfinder -> Trim option. I did that and removed the fill and added a stroke. You can see the result on the green flower.

Obviously this is not the result I'm after. Is there an easier and less messy way to achieve what I'm after? What am I doing wrong? I'm a beginner with Illustrator and don't know how to solve this. I've been working on it for hours now. Please help and thanks. :)


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I'm new to GIMP (trying to finally move over from PSP9!)
I want to create a sunburst gradient with a variable number of repeats either by repeat count or angle (e.g. 4 repeats = 90 degrees).  Is there a way to do this without adding dozens of points to a gradient?


texts: Smart Object Layer Mask Transform Size in Video Timeline

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I have a smart object (circle) and I want to have a mask grow from scale 1% to 100% on the video timeline (imagine a doughnut hole where the hole gets bigger and bigger until there is no doughnut left).
I'm able to get the circle to transform if I liked, but the layer mask never does anything on the video timeline. Am I unable to transform a layer mask because it's not a smart object?
I tried using a vector mask but a vector mask is more of a "window" than a "mask". It's hard to get the effect I want (the center of the circle having a transparent hole that gets bigger until the entire visible circle is transparent).
Any help would be hugely appreciated.


texts: How do I add multiple symbols on main timeline

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I'm having trouble when I add a symbol into the main timeline. It can be seen on the main timeline even when I have a playback command trigger set halfway along. I have one already playing from the start, and I want to add the second symbol and pay this one when the first one finishes.

I have set the playback command to 'play' so the second symbol will begin playing after the first symbol animation is done, but it is displaying before this trigger point. I don't know how to make it hidden until I want it to be seen on the timeline.
Thanks in advance :)


texts: How do I handle thumbnails of white-on-transparent pngs in Bridge?

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When handling multiple white-on-transparent png images, I am hindered by the fact that the thumbnails of these images are all-white. Both Adobe Bridge CS6 and Windows Explorer suffer the same problem, I can't discern between two of these pngs.

Is there a way to make these thumbnails useful? Is there some setting I missed that allows changing the thumbnail background colour for a png -- now a deafult white?


texts: Apply symbol to a line in illustrator CS6?

texts: I'm not sure how to take a symbol which represents a overturned thrust fault from one AI file and apply it to a solid line in another file. If I create a new symbol from the pattern I want which has two teeth as shown in the attached picture, it only applies those two teeth to the whole line no matter how long it is. I would like the teeth pattern to repeat throughout the whole line if possible.


texts: I need to do the following shape in Illustrator, if can be done by Illustrator. I think it can be done by spiral, circle and pathfinder tools but I'm not sure. Please I need the details of how to do it, or if you have a tutorial that can help me about that.


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Wondering how one would go about designing a long questionnaire with 700+ questions

The questions should have an input text field next to them or sometimes a Yes/No checkbox, and can be mandated/deleted.

Would you go about grouping them by certain criteria, or is it best to lay them out one by one?

Can anyone present some good examples I can relate to?

P.S. This is an example of what I'm building right now - not quite mad about it:

Thanks.


texts: How can I create a mosaic with my own tessellating tile shape?

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The effect I want to achieve is the same as the one created by 'create object mosaic' command in Illustrator - but using my tile shape instead of a square or rectangle.

I have created the effect I want for a small number of tiles, but the mosaic is likely to contain over 10,000 tiles - so the method I have used is not practical. So, I would like to try and create an action to do so.

My current method:

Create my own tessellating tile.
Repeat it many times to create a pattern.
Overlay this on top of a photograph.
'Create object mosaic' from photograph.
Overlay my tessellating grid on top so that it lines up.
Using eyedropper tool, drop colour from each tile in the 'create object mosaic' grid onto the corresponding tile in front on the tessellated grid.

Problems:

Creating an action that will run across each tile individually.
Dropping the colour from a specific tile in the grid below onto the tessellated tile directly above it.

Ideas:

I have exported to Photoshop on different layers and can select an individual tile using colour range. Changing the colour and repeating the process for all of the tiles remains the problem.

Other possibilities:

Use effects / blur / average in Photoshop. The problem here is that this cannot be used for multiple selections. My knowledge of Photoshop is much more limited than Illustrator so there maybe a simple solution here...

I have attached an image showing the process and what I can achieve manually.

Any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated! :)


texts: What is slice tool and what are practical ways to use them?

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This is a noob question, and I've looked for answers on the internets about the slice tool in Sketch. I understand it is a type of layer, but I don't understand why and when they're used. Other questions that I have -

When do they come in handy to use?
How do you organize them so you can be efficient and fast?

The sources that I've checked out are sketch documents, youtube videos

Thanks in advance!


texts: In GIMP, how to colorize using a reference color?

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I have an image I wish to colorize using a picked color. What is the handiest/easiest way to do this in GIMP?

I've tried my best by checking the palette for my picked color's HSV, then using it as starting point to find corresponding HSL values for the Colorize window. But this seems absurdly difficult and imprecise. I don't do much image processing, but I repeatedly come across this specific problem, so there must be a better way that I just don't know about.


texts: Background Object Outlines on "Print Booklet" but not on "Export"

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I am using Adobe CS6 and have been using the "Export" function within InDesign for many years. I am tired of creating brochures in "Printer's Spreads":

[Blank Page]
[8,1]
[2,7]
[6,3]
[4,5]

I want to create the brochures in "Designer's Spreads":

[Page 1]
[2,3]
[4,5]
[6,7]
[8]

I know InDesign has an option "Print Booklet" that lets you create in "Designer's Spreads" and export the PDF in "Printer's Spreads".

The Problem

Whenever I export using "Print Booklet", I always get these thin outlines of background objects on my PDFs. I do not get these when I do a standard "Export" which is what I have been using the past few years.

I've verified as best I can that I am using the same options and Adobe PDF Presets when exporting PDFs (ex: Smallest File Size, High Quality Print). I've checked all the print settings under "Print Booklet" including (Print Booklet -> Print Settings -> Setup -> Adobe PDF (Preferences))

Question

What are these lines and how do I get rid of them?

Including an image to help show what I am talking about:


texts: Is there a color picker that will generate a large palette of colors say 10 or so? Most I've seen max out at 5. In my case, I have a project that has about 14 color-coded sections and it would be nice to find something that can generate a nice set of colors easily. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


texts: What is the name of a photographic effect where there are subtle shadows in corners?

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If you take pictures and the aperture settings are not ideal, you will see a light shadow in the corners.

Example:

This effect is a sign of bad quality, but is also often used as a design element in movies, pictures and so on - how is it called?

I want to use it, but I have no clue how it's called.


texts: How to make the background of an image opaque in Inkscape?

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I've created an image with a transparent background (by tracing a bitmap) in Inkscape, but now I think I need a white layer under the image to fill in all the areas of the image that were white.

The final image will be placed on a primarily green background.  When I do place it on the green background, all the areas of the image that should be white now show the green background!

How can I fix this?  Can I somehow add a white layer under my transparent image?


texts: Remove transparency from semitransparent pixel

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When drawn with the black brush with 50% of transparency, this color (when picked by color picker) recognized as gray color (128,128,128 rgb).

How to remove transparency to get black color?

What I managed for now is:

Duplicate layer until there's no transparency and then pick color
(theoretically): export to gif format, then open this gif and pick color with removed transparency

Is there more convenient method to find brushed transparent color value without transparency?

I'm using photoshop7

Here's some illustration-demonstration

(source: adelavida.com)


texts: How to create warped / distorted line effect in illustrator?

texts: I want to know how to create the warped lines like the one in this photo. I am aware of the evelope tool but do not know how to use it or if it could be even be used to create this effect.


texts: Is there a straightforward way to have double-clicking on an object cause another Inkscape document to be opened?

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I'm looking for a way to open another Inkscape document by interacting in some way (like double-clicking) with an object. I'm not referring to linking to HTML documents, just want another (detail) drawing to open when I click on an object in an overview document.

Thanks for any pointers.


texts: Saving .tiff files in Photoshop the tumbnail show a split image

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I work in PS the stacked astrophotography images that coming in Raw 32 bit .tiff and then saved in 16bit when working in PS after the first streching on the stacked image.

When I finish working on the image I use to save it as .tiff not compressed. Usually the image I work can be around 250Mb - 650Mb or even further, 1.2-1.6 Gb. depending the numbers of images stacked etc. I work under windows, my PS version is 2015.5.1.

Several times I found that when I save the image I'm working, the thumbnail show well the pic but almost all the time shows a split image, distorted of the object I was working as you can see in the pic bellow.  Also happen that I could not even open again that image. I just always save the work after I flatten all the layers, in the same format .tiff 16 bit.  No compresion or layers added.
As you can see in the pic bellow, several images where saved while was procesing that image, the .jpg is not the problem, but the .tiff, that some show a properly thumbnail, but other a split image.  All the images in the pic I can open in PS, but as I say before, happen that sometimes I can not opened as say memory is out of RAM (In Perfomance is set at 26Gb)

What I'm doing wrong?  Are the saved .tiff files afected in some way because the tumbnail is not showing properly the pic?. It depend how big is the file? Can I do a Save As in a layer in the middle of the work showing me that stage only? Is the best way saving the files under .tif or is better in .psd?

Odd thing is, some of the splitted thumbnail images (images are around 277Mb) can be opened in other image software, but others don´t. (GIMP, RawTherapy, ACDC)


texts: Can I automate saving different combinations of layers?

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I have a source file for an icon. It has a base layer which is the icon background, and a number of layer folders, each of which contains layers for each individual icon. There are 20 or so of these folders. To save the icon set, I need to:

Make the base layer visible, and hide all other layers
Show the folder of the icon I want to save
Save the file, with an appropriate name (the name of the folder)
Hide that folder.
Repeat steps 2-4 for every folder

I've played around with the scripting in Photoshop but haven't been able to make something that does this automatically (it's an annoyingly time-consuming operation). Is it possible?


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I know many work in where they enjoy but lately after spending all day at work I get home and all my thoughts and ideas for my freelance projects all day become annoying after I am drained and exhausted.  So how do you:

manage your energy with your work and freelance?
not burn yourself in your field?
balance your time with work and freelance?
Stay inspired to complete what you've been working on?

I know I tend to bounce around on projects because I believe in managing my time when I get into a design block.  However, is this method bad?  Should I stick to one project until completion even when battling a hurtle?

I have read many articles on this but nothing seems to motivate me.  If it helps someone else:

How to Recharge and Get Motivated
How You Can Get Motivated To Reach Your Goals
How to Beat Designer’s Block Like a Kung Fu Master
20 ways to beat the creative block
5 simple ways to beat designer’s block


texts: In the Sketch App I have at home, he displayed a few different items on siderar than I use at work. Basically you have the option of selecting label colors for artboards and layers and also a line next to the layers. I would like to enable this at work, would anyone know how to enable this? Thanks for the thought.


texts: Change an ellipse/circle's size from the center after it has been drawn

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I've drawn several vector circles (all on different shape layers) in Photoshop and now would like to change their size to make them a bit smaller. Is there a way to do this and have them shrink/grow from the center?

If I select the layer then select the ellipse shape tool I can adjust the size from the tool options but that doesn't make the shape grow/shrink from the center.


texts: Illustrator symbols: How to edit symbol to affect mulitiple files?

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QUESTION Part 1.
As far as I know, when you edit a symbol, it affects all instances of the symbol within the current document open. Is there a way to have the changes affect other documents? Illustrator doesn't seem to let you import and save and update symbol libraries, as it just creates a new instance of the library when you open it in another doc.

QUESTION Part 2.
The main reason I ask is, I am wireframing a responsive site in Illustrator. I want to be able to have a document for each page. I.e home.ai (this will contain multiple artboards of the various responosive sizes of the home page). So when I make a change in home.ai in say the footer via a symbol, I want the footer symbol to also change in about.ai or contact.ai without me manually having to change it.
Is there a better way to do this?


texts: How to make transparent shape to make the color more bright

texts: How to make a transparent shape for example a rectangle that increase the brightness of background color or other shape like image below. The background color is dark blue, the shape make the color more bright.


texts: how do I make a custom gradient shape mask or vector mask that is gradually transparent on one side only?

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Using Vector masks or layer masks, In photoshop CC, how do I make a custom gradient shape mask or vector mask that has a gradient on one side only? A side that is curved and the gradient should follow the shape's curvature precisely .

below  is an example mask

Image Samples:
My goal is to create a composite of these 2 images

Final image should look something like this:

the green shade is where blending should be (for a natural finish)


texts: Advice: How can I smoothly translate my artistic logo into a text logo? (Illustrator)

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I'm currently designing my club's logo and I'm having trouble finding a simple way to translate to text-only for brochures and such. I was hoping I could receive some constructive advice. This is my first go at Illustrator, so I've stumbled quite a bit already.

Should I use the same two fonts I've already used? More than one line, or just flat out on one?

Thanks in advance,

Luna

PS - Any advice on transparent fade-out in the trees will be happily accepted, that was very tough to do in Illustrator.


texts: Radial tiled clone where objects point to center of rotation in Inkscape

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I'm trying to arrange some shapes radially using Tiled Clone. The objects are distributed evenly as I was hoping, but the orientation is not what I'm aiming for. I'd like all the "fish" objects to point towards the center of rotation, rather than chasing each others' tails as is happening now.

I'm using ShiftX per Column of -100% and no other Shifts, and 1 row, 8 columns, with Rotation of 45 degrees.

Thank you!


texts: My wacom pen out of sync on all graphics app

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I installed lot of drawing software:

MediBang Paint Pro
Inkscape
GimPhoto
Krita
MyPaint

but then my pen started out of sync on those apps (cursor shows on about 400 pixel more right and 300 pixel higher), even after I start doing Tablet PC Calibration (in the control panel).

It doesn't happened on another Windows program (mspaint, windows explorer), only on those software. How can I fix this?

I'm using Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga on Windows 8.1.


texts: Get offset between two layers in photoshop via ExtendScript

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I've been trying to write a script that lets a user indicate two layers/groups, and then output the difference in position between them (of their topleft most points)
like so:
var calculated_offset = [group.bounds[0].value - originGroup.bounds[0].value, group.bounds[1].value - originGroup.bounds[1].value];
Now, getting the first layer is fairly trivial:
app.activeDocument.activeLayer;
But I can't think of a good way to let the user switch their selection, and then start the comparison.
I've written script for a dialog that requests for an exact match name, and then a recursive function to find the correct (grouped) layer, but the find function takes a long time, and a non-fuzzy search is terribly user-unfriendly.
I've also tried creating a new window, and then taking in a first and then a second selection, but since these modal dialogs are blocking windows, that fell flat.
Answers could include ideas to:

Let users select a second layer after being prompted
Implement a fast (< 4s at ~100 nested layers) (fuzzy) search
Access the multiple layers that the user has selected
Make the window non-blocking
An alternative way to get the offset between two layers


texts: How to use vector path as a guide to snap to, in Adobe Illustrator CC

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How can I tell Adobe Illustrator CC not to edit an existing path when I draw over that path? I want to use a path as a guide to snap to, but I don't want my new vector to start extending/editing that path-guide I'm drawing over.

To clarify the question more. When I draw a vector, and I want to draw a second vector starting with the anchor point of the existing vector, then Illustrator always starts extending the first vector, instead of keeping the first and second vector separate.


texts: I am trying to enter text on Gimp 2.8.  However, when I try, a cursor just moves across the screen and no text is entered.


texts: Can anybody help me identify this font I've search everywhere

texts: Been looking for this font every where can't seem to find it I'm not sure when this font comes from and what font pack family it originates thank you for anyone's help.


texts: How to drag opposite direction points of an anchor point simultaneously in photoshop cc?

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I have an anchor point B selected on a shape created with pen tool as shown in the image

Given that 2*AB = BC. Now, whatever pen tool I use to drag C or A, it only changes BC or AB, not both of them. The only way I found is to use convert point tool, but the problem is it resets AB = BC.
Question: How to drag C and A, in opposite directions, simultaneously keeping ABC a straight line?
Cheers.


texts: Does the positioning of this text negatively affect readability?

texts:
I am trying to position the text in the website header, I ended up with something like this:

The text "Simply and efficiently" has a mixed "software and IT products" inside. I was wondering if it's a good practice. I like how it looks but then I randomly watched this Youtube video with crappy design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXs5NyX5WI and it made me wonder about the design above because their first example of crappy design is something like this (which is an obviously unreadable text) - I realised how bad such fonts / text mixing can end:

Does this kind of mixing fonts and sizes affect the readability in a negative way always? Woud it be better to leave it like this:


texts: Why do dark shades of green and teal feel "muddy?"

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I'm trying to articulate why I prefer dark shades of blue in an interface over dark shades of teal, especially since the color is on a dark gray background. To me, dark green feels "muddy" and hard to look at.

Is there a scientific or color theory explanation for this preference?

By the way, in case you are going to suggest that I just not use dark shades, I'm working on an app that will be used in a dark environment, so a light interface is not an option.


texts: graphing: show a distant cluster while minimizing negative space?

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I am preparing a map of cluster assignments for a publication that seeks to minimize negative space in their figures.  This is what my map looks like:

Notice the distant island in orange?  I want to emphasize the fact that its far away without showing the all the negative space.  The issue in bar/scatter/line graphs is simple: make the axes discontinuous with a zigzag or a gap in the axis line.  But for a map like this, where there are no axis and distance is purely qualitative, how do I demonstrate the difference of the orange cluster without the negative space?


texts: Looking for a simple font that is similar to how people actually write characters

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I'm looking for a free font that most closely represents glyphs as they are commonly drawn. For example, people draw a single story lower case a, while most sans-serif fonts (for good reasons) use a two-story a.

The context is for young children learning to read and practice drawing letters. I am not looking for a novelty font that looks like handwriting.

The specific characteristics I'm looking for are the following:

single store lower case a
lower case g has a hook instead of a bowl
lower case q has a hook instead of looking like a backwards p
none of the letters or numbers are overly ornate (e.g. Q doesn't have some fancy tail)

The closest I've found so far is Sofia Pro, which meets most of these requirements except it's lower case q does not have a hook.

(In general, I'm finding it hard to find any fonts with a hooked q--why is that?)


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I want to convert an image to this style using Photoshop:

How do I add the border made of clouds?  Does this style have a name?


texts: I'm looking to design a modern website for a C++/Javascript library. While I have several ideas in mind I wanted to know what are some good design strategies for representing source code documentation. Particularly, I'm looking for some modern examples of great looking and easy to follow source code docs around the web.


texts: How to replace an embedded font with a standard system font in Acrobat X?

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In a large PDF document with several hundred pages there are abour 10 embedded fonts used.

Can I exchange a specific embedded font against a system font (like Arial or Courier) with a single command everywhere in the document?

(Of course I would try to use a font very similar in size and style to the original)


texts: How to create Radial flower effect like this?

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It is also seen that the flowers leave a nice trail.
Is there any tutorial to do this or similar?

I took this image Radial streaks and added as a layer on top of my image with add blend mode and masked out the subject.. It doesn't look anyware close to the streaks in this image. Also i don't know how to add flowers randomly assuming I have a flower to add.


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I am designing a swing tag for a client. I have designed it in Illustrator, for print, in CMYK profile.

One rectangle object in the design needs the fill colour to be a web safe blue #0099ff / C70 M34 Y0 K0

but when I click off the object, then click back on it and check the colour it has changed to #3399cc / C73 M26 Y5 K0

Can any body tell me why it is changing the colour and how I can make sure the colour I want, stays as I want it?

Thank you in advance!


texts: How can you fix a header in InDesign so content scrolls underneath?

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I have a one page InDesign document with a top navigation element similar to a website that I want to fix and have content pass underneath when a user scrolls through the PDF, is this possible?

Thanks
Mark


texts:
So I'm trying something pretty simple, that is to have arrows around a circle, like the blue arrows in the following image

At the minute, I have a circle, with a stroke, in the stroke flyout menu I have this:

Which is ok, I just duplicate the circle, rotate it into position (I don't know how to add multiple arrow heads to a stroke.

Is there a better more flexible way that I should be doing this?

Thanks in advance.


texts: I have 8-bit indexed BMP image. How can replace some colors in it using Photoshop (13.1.2) but obligatory making sure/constraining that the new colors will be taken taken ONLY from the image palette?


texts: How can I add shapes to anchor points in illustrator?

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I'm trying to make a connected dots background quite similar to this.

What I'm doing is using the pen tool to make triangles and then manually dragging circles to the anchor points, is there an easier way?

I've tried using circular arrowheads, but they only seem to affect one point in each triangle.

Thanks for your help.


texts: I'm trying to create an isometric cube, but I don't know how to add 30º to a square shape. Is it possible in Sketch App?


texts: Is the shelf life of consumer printer ink cartridges limited?

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Should I avoid high capacity printer ink cartridges, if I don’t print high volumes?

I've bought a Canon TS9155 and I don’t print much. If I buy high capacity cartridges, and they end up on the shelf for a year before I use them, will they deteriorate or dry out?


texts: What font does Google Material.io use to create icons?

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Can the font used for text in Google's icons be downloaded from somewhere? For instance the font used on this icon:

The icon comes from Google Material.io and the font used in this icon is used on multiple icons. It looks like it is a mono-font but I can't figure out which one.


texts: Can I insert tabs in quotations? Design/Indesign

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Here's a picture showing what I mean.

Is it correct to tab quotations such as did here?

Thank you!


texts: Looking for a grid template for PowerPoint

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I'm new to this community. I wouldn't describe myself so much as a designer but rather someone who has a need to create presentations as part of my job and would like to improve the design of those presentations.
I've recently discovered grids and would like to begin experimenting with them. All my work is done in PowerPoint, but I've not been able to locate a grid template I could use in PowerPoint. Using the Guides in PP is hugely frustrating since you can't lock them, so I'm constantly grabbing them by accident.
So, I'm looking for something like a .pptx file where the gridlines are part of the Master slide that I could turn off when finished designing.
Does anyone know where such templates can be found?


texts: Match skin tone in a black and white photo

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How can I match skin tone colors in a black and white photo, using Photoshop? I am trying to learn how to turn a photo into a digital painting with this process.

I used desaturation on a colored photo, then used the smudge tool to create a paint effect, then colored them using different modes. However I can't seem to match the skin tones in black and white color, so that when I color them it will look natural.

How do I go about this?


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I'm trying to create hexagonal pattern of slightly offset colors. Similar to Code Review's background, but with hexagons.

I've attempted to draw a hexagon and slightly change the colors but doing this ~800 times would be highly impractical.

So essentially, how would I create a group objects with slightly different colors for each

Here's a rough example of what I've tried so far.


texts: How to determine spacing and padding on the side of this banner?

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Please see the image. The yellow arrows are spaces/paddings I'm talking about.

If I use the height of my logo (bottom right corner) for all measurements, then this tag and even logo appears little too close to edges. So currently I'm using little more space than the height of logo.

How do you usually determine them? Is there any rule that will eventually make it better or it is just opinion based and can be done what looks better?

Also, I needed the big hashtag. I randomly chose a font size. Should it also follow a rule like 70% of the total width or something like that?

PS: The reason for asking this question is that last time Scott fixed my design by using a method for properly placing an object on design. So I think there might be a rule.


texts: Exporting ray-traced 3D animation Photoshop CC

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I have a 3D logo made in photoshop and I made a basic 3D rotation animation.
I ray-trace the object but when I export it, it appears that it's not ray-traced and looks bad. I've tried all the 3D options in video export menu with no luck.


texts:
I know I can scale by pulling on the handles with the Select and transform tool. Or similarly, rotate them by first clicking to toggle the handles.

But how do I shear an image?

Clicking again toggles the handles back to scaling mode.


texts: PDF rendered differently by illustrator and acrobat

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I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, so maybe some can point me in the right direction if it isn't.

I have exported an chart from the R programming language as a PDF, and it needs some manual edits before it can be included in a publication.

If I open the PDF in acrobat it looks fine. But if I open it in illustrator, there are parts missing:

Acrobat:

Illustrator:

The missing part is a filled path.
If I open the file, and then save it without making any changes, the missing information is now missing in Acrobat also.

If anyone has any ideas what might be happening, or how it might be fixed, I'd be very grateful.

Edit:
Here is a link to the original PDF


texts: Make black sofa white in Adobe Photoshop

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I try to change a black sofa

into this color

But fails to do so even after looking on diffrent guides. I have played alot with levels, Hue and color replace tool with no success.

I Suspect that tha sofa is to black so I tried to first make it white but it generates alot of artifacts and it ends up looking like metal?

This was the best result I got and that is not vary good :

Edit:

This is the original image


texts: automatically resize type tool box - shortcut

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I was some time without using photoshop regularly and i forgot this shortcut. How adapt the size of the type tool box to the dimension of the text ?

Obviously this can be done with the mouse, but i am interesting in the shortcut.


texts: InDesign: grep style to move single i words to next line

texts: I need a Grep style in my paragraph styles in InDesign that makes sure that the letter i cannot stand alone at the end of a line, but will always move to the beginning of the next line. I have a client that makes me do it manually.


texts: Is there a good source for ANSI character sets for typography testing in web design?

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Since clients like to see a visual example of typography I am looking for a way to test and display fonts chosen by client's that will include a full master list of all possible ANSI character sets with their unicodes but I am having trouble finding a reliable source.  My goal is to script a package that I can load on a test server that shows every font and the possible issues for their project since some clients choose to not use web fonts.  After a few Google searches I did find:

ANSI character set and equivalent Unicode and HTML characters
HTML ANSI (Windows-1252) Reference (yeek...  w3schools and of course no unicode.)
ANSI Table

Is there an official list of all ANSI characters sets I can use?


texts: How can I align text in a text area vertically, in Illustrator?

texts: how can I align some text in any text area vertically? so I can align a label vertically and Horizontally in any text area, as if i align the text in a table cell.


texts: How to control alignment with a reference layer?

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I am attempting to align the horizontal centers of background box here with the bookmark icon and associated text (all three are on separate layers).

The problem I'm having is that when I select all layers and click Align Horizontal Centers, the icon and text shift left to align with the box, whereas I would like the box to shift right to align with the icon/text.

I believe it is possible to set a "key/reference layer" in Illustrator which will make other layers align to it, but how can the same be done in Photoshop?


texts: Designing icons to represent abstract concepts- match test / suggestions

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I'm making a site which requires users to review and tag information.

The interface would benefit from icons, but many of the tags represent abstract concepts that I'm struggling to represent.  I'm worried some of these are more confusing than helpful.

As a quick test (in a totally non representative group) here are the concepts in a random order, followed by the icons.

Do these map without an explanation?
Suggestions for the obscure ones?

Concepts:

Legitimate
Accurate
Complete
Precise
Clear
Relevant
Balanced


texts: Does Photoshop scale better than Illustrator?

texts: Is it advisable to scale a raster image in Photoshop to the final size before embedding it in Illustrator or does Illustrator use the same bicubic algorithm as Photoshop when (up)scaling pixel images?


texts: Background color passes through foreground in Affinity Designer

texts: The background color passes through foreground in Affinity Designer if the outline (border) stroke is "Align stroke to outside". It is barely visible, but it is there. If I change the stroke to be centered or on the inside, the pink line disappear. However I need the outline to be aligned to outside the path in order to get my masking correct. Is this is a bug in Affinity Designer, or am I doing something wrong?


texts: Where to get feedback from professional comic artists?

texts: I'm looking for a website where I can get technical advices from people in the profession.


texts: Does this "ribbon" design fit with SE Community?

texts:
I love SE Community, and I love badges, it has something similar with Xbox achievements. I used to play a game called Gears of War 3, it has a cool system called Ribbons. Basically you played this game and you got ribbons for your performance at every single battle. Here are some examples.

So I was thinking, if we could have a similar system in SE Community, ribbons based on your everyday activities.

I am a new guy into design world, and here are my ribbons design.

I am not here to ask whether this proposal of ribbons is OK or not, this question has been discussed at Meta Stackoverflow. I want to know does this kind of graphic design (whether Gears of War 3 style or my terrible design ) fit with the whole SE Community?


texts: How do I (consistently, systematically, theoretically) extend my website's base colors scheme?

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I am using the following basic RGB color scheme for my website:

43/66/79

84/129/156

79/68/43

156/122/84

176/176/176

79/79/79

I would like to extend the pallette, but not in a random way. I would like to apply known theories of how that is systematically done.

Can someone refer me to reading on the subject, or perhaps even better, places on the net that allows me to enter the base colors and receive suggestions on extentions.


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I work for a magazine and every so often we get ads (PDF format) that run through the pre-flight process with no errors. I will export a PDF with the ads out of InDesign and these boxes appear. This does not show up when we go to print, but we have an online edition which has the boxes. Does anyone know what causes this?
Thanks!


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My questions

Should I capture the product in a completely black background then use my method to make background transparent in GIMP?
I know the product color is also white so how do I make it outstanding in a white background?

What I've done is normally for product with completely white background, I will use Fuzzy select then Color to Alpha to make the white background transparent. But what if the white background contains shadows something like gray-ish color (refer Image 1)? I have hundred of images shot in this way, imagine if I were to crop for each image.

Image 1 below:


texts: I can't seem to create a Bulleted List in InDesign CC where the first line is not bulleted and do it as a Paragraph Style. I have a whole bunch of blocks of bulleted text which are basically menus. You can create complicated outlines with defined lists as long as you use Numbered Lists. Since the bullets are set at paragraph level, nested character styles won't overwrite just the first line. This seems simple, but I'm stuck.


texts: How can I draw a hoop with both halves on different layers?

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I'm trying to learn more about layers and fills in Illustrator.

I have a ball and two ellipses in the shape of a hoop.

Problem 1: How can I get a fill into the space between the two ellipses?

Problem 2: How can I get this circle to pass through the hoop. So the circle will go UNDER the first half of the hoop and OVER the second half of the hoop.

Here is an image describing what I am trying to do:

What I tried: I tried drawing a circle, removing the anchor points on one side. Then I copied the circle half to another layer, used the reflect tool to flip it on its Y axis. After that I used the pathfinder MERGE option to join the paths. However, the paths just revert to the same layer upon merge, which defeats the purpose of this exercise.

Ultimately I am trying to animate an SVG with HTML/CSS, so the circle won't be stationary. It will be a moving animation.

Here is a link to the ai file: https://cl.ly/0q2t0P2M1V2O


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I am using MSPaint (Windows Vista version) mainly for line drawing pixel art.  When I save and reopen dithering messes with my nice crisp lines. Am I correct in thinking that if I use a palette of only the 256 windows colors it will prevent this?
I have looked extensively, but nowhere can I find the color codes to do this. I am confident converting between hex and RgB codes, I just need a definitive list to work from.


texts: been noticing this datamosh/databend trend picking up everywhere. Anyone know the best ways to accomplish this in photoshop? here's some images of ways i've seen it done:


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During a project I will periodically turn on the 'overprint preview' button to check that colours and objects are appearing as they should. When a job is complete I will usually do one final check in Acrobat Reader Pro to ensure the same.

This method can sometimes really slow my machine down. Is there any other method to use for this?


texts: How to create interfaces in a graphics editor for responsive grid systems considering that they aren't pixel-perfect?

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Any responsive CSS grid system uses long decimal point percentage values for columns' width (e.g. "16.66666667%"). I don't understand how to lay out the grid in Photoshop, because elements of the interface will either be longer, or shorter than the CSS grid expects them to be, which leads to certain problems with the whole layout (elements can shift position because of number rounding)—in the end it doesn't look the same in a browser.

To illustrate it better, let's take Bootstrap's values: column width for the biggest container is ~97px. So, how should I lay out the grid in a graphics editor, should I round it to 97 or 98, or perhaps I should forget about these precise values and design not for the exact pixel numbers, but for the amount of columns instead—whatever the width?

I mean, I just can't get over the fact that it won't look the same, paddings would be different from how I drew them (sometimes even different from one another in case of an element taking 100% of a column [or two] width, say, a button with some text on it can have the padding-left of 30, and the padding-right of 32; it's noticeable and isn't right), widths would be different, gutters would be different, and so on. I don't understand how can you create functional and beautiful interface with this inconsistency and lack of precision.

Can you please share your experience? How do you do it? Am I wrong about something? Maybe there's something good I can read on designing for responsive/fluid grid systems? Thank you very much.


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I'm an architect and I use Illustrator as a tool to set line weight before print or site publish. I have a small, but annoying problem: a lot of my cad drawing have 0pt line weight and apparently illustrator cc2017 doesn't recognize them anymore. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

here's how the original PDF appears in Acrobat reader:

here's how the original PDF appears in Illustrator CC2017:

here are the lines of the original PDF selected to show the lines are there:


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I'm trying to use a bunch of svg icons on something I'm designing. Photoshop doesn't process svgs, apparently. I read Illustrator does and that I can just export it into psds. That much is managable but the problem is there are 300+ icons and I thought I'd just turn them all into psds in case I ever need them in the future.

How exactly do I do that? I'm using the CS5 suite.


texts: Adobe illustrator perfect curve between two grids

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How would you combine a vertical grid and horizontal grid with matching width & heights with perfect curved lines?

Example:

I'm trying to find a method that would be salable for 100, 1000, etc grids.


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Do you have any good examples of academic poster design? Most posters look exactly the same (I don't want to pick on anyone in particular), and from my experience at conferences, almost nobody reads them. There's a good article on this here.

What I rarely see is:

Clean layout - everything is wrapped in boxes and coloured backgrounds
Nice typography - it's rare that the text is legible from a foot or two back
Data that doesn't look like it was copied straight out of Excel
Consistent use of colour

Can you share any examples of good design?


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I created some shape using 6 pixels stroke (no fill), then I expanded it and get the desired shape. Later, I need the same shape with thinner lines, but resizing does not work well for it.

So, the question is - Is there any way to get stroke (i.e. line connecting middle of thickness of the expanded line) from expanded shape?

(I cannot redo the actions because move far away from the expanding the path).

CS6


texts: In InDesign, is it possible to make tables flow to new pages as you insert more tables?

texts: I have a multi-page document with lots of separate tables on each page.  I want to be able to insert new tables into the middle of a page, so that the tables below it are then 'pushed' onto the next page (and all following pages with tables are also pushed).  Is this possible?


texts: How to transfer an .ai file from Adobe Draw to a different Adobe account?

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I'm a graphic designer and I'm working with an artist who uses Adobe Draw (on an iPad), and does not have an Adobe subscription themselves.

I was wondering if it's possible for them to send their Draw file to my Illustrator, without them having to use Illustrator themselves?

I need to work with an editable file instead of a flat image, so I'm open to any options to make this happen for me without them needing their own access to Illustrator, if possible.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Maintain italic style texts from original text document when applying regular body text paragraph style in InDesign

texts: I have a MS Word document that has a lot of text and some words are in italic style. When I paste the text from this document to InDesign layout, I apply regular body text paragraph style to it and then I need to clear overrides, but when I do that, the parts that were italic in original document now becomes regular. I would be very pleased if someone could tell how to fix this, so after applying regular text paragraph style I will not need to go trough all text to search which texts should be italic and this could work automatically. Thanks!


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One particular font in IBM PLEX: "Semibold" is not rendering properly on one particular indesign file. I'm using adobe cloud fonts.
There are no same fonts installed on the computer(so no competing).
I tried activating and deactivating the fonts from adobe fonts.
The font is rendering correctly on a new file. I tried clearing font-cache on my computer. I got this file from my colleague.
What might be the reason? Perplexed.


texts: How to use a Wacom tablet to draw shapes on Microsoft Power Point

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I have Power Point 2016 (16.16) running on a Mac with High Sierra and the latest Wacom driver installed on the laptop.

The point is although I can control the input with the Wacom pen, I can't find a way to use it to draw anything. I have seen videos where there was an Ink/Pens menu but they don't show up anywhere.


texts: I want to color a heart. I push shift button on keyboard and click on the heart and choose the color from color panel. but nothing happens. Or just some parts of heart are colored. Can anybody help me find the way to color it completely? Thanks.


texts: Adobe Illustrator - Convert .jpg with gradient background to vector object

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I don't have too much experience with Adobe Illustrator (I am a beginner), but what I am trying to do is to convert a logo (see attached image - .jpg format) to vector object in Adobe Illustrator.

Is there a way to do that without color distortion ?

I have tried with Image Trace - High Fidelity Photo option - 100% colors but the result does not look good (color distortion - see another image) , also I have tried to find which font is used with font finder online tool, but is seems to be premium font and idea was to rewrite the letters with black colors, and later to recolor the letter(s) with gradient color.

What do you think, please give me advice. Thank you in advance


texts: How to create a grain in illustrator with specific colors?

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I'm trying to reverse engineer a graphic that I like in Illustrator, and here is the part that gives me trouble:

I have followed a few tutorials using the Grain effect with multiply, however it does not have the desired effect in my case. Here's what I did:

The result is this: The color is correct when over transparent background, but when I move it over the desired background, it becomes darker. I suspect this is an effect of "Multiply", where the grain is multiplied with the background color instead of simply covering it.

I guess I could try and changing the grain color until the combination matches, but that just seems wrong and inefficient. There has to be a better way. How to best achieve this?


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Does anyone know what this font is?
I have already tried using whatthefont

Var1. Originally posted by topic starter.

Var2.

The are differences between the images, however they may be result of scaling or other image manipulations.


texts: I have a vector file contains over 500 circle , the diameter of circles are different ( 5mm , 5.5mm and 10mm). are there any ways to select all same shape circle (for example all 5mm diameter ) and change the back color ?


texts: Why is browser-resized image crispy and manually-resized image blurry?

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I've come across this problem several times now and I can't really understand what causes it; my background is in Wordpress, not really in computer graphics.
I have a big initial image, say 1500x1017 at 300ppi, 566 KB. I upload it in my Wordpress site: the browser resizes it to a fixed width that depends on the site (in this case 718px), and it looks nice and crispy. See two screenshots.

In general you don't want to upload oversized images and let the browser do the resizing for you: I'm sure everybody here is familiar with the concept of Serving scaled images to optimise site performance. In a few words,

Serving appropriately-sized images can save many bytes of data and improve the performance of your webpage, especially on low-powered (eg. mobile) devices.
You should use an image editor to scale images to match the largest size needed in your page.

Enter Photoshop (or sips or any other resizing tool). I open the image, resize it to 718px width, save without optimisation, i.e. to max jpg quality. I would expect this image to look as crispy as the big one once uploaded: I am just doing the resizing instead of letting the browser do it, right?
Not quite. The image's size matches the displayed size, but the image looks blurry.

What's the deal? Am I resizing with the wrong procedure? Is this about Wordpress media management with its billion of thumbnails?


texts: Why can are the handles of node only sometimes locked in a straight line?

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I don't understand the logic of Inkscape nodes. What I have figured out so far:

If I Ctrl-click a cusp node, then it turns it into a Bézier node with two handles
If I pull a handle back into the node, then that side of the node becomes straight (i.e., cusp-ish)

What I can’t figure out is:

Why are the two handles sometimes locked in a straight line, and other times you can move them independently?


texts: Is there a way to annoate a layout with the file source in indesign?

texts: Is there a way to print / export a indesign file as a pdf or other but first annotate any images with the file source ie. user/documents/images.. etc so that whens its printed / exported it will say what the source is for each image by the side / ontop of the image.


texts: How do you set Resolution DPI for an SVG Vector Image when you open it in Affinity Photo?

texts: When I open an SVG Vector Image in Affinity Photo, Affinity doesn't bother to ask me for a resolution or DPI.  In Adobe Photoshop, I would be automatically prompted for resolution when I open a vector.  How do I do it in Affinity Photo?


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I want to turn a photo in a engraving style picture, like for example this one using GIMP and, if possible, then make an SVG out of it with Inkscape.

Can you recommend any filters/tools/plugins/tutorials for this?


texts: I'm looking for a way to open two instances of Gimp 2.10.22. I know you can toggle off "Single-Window Mode" but I don't want to detach the sidebars.


texts: How to make photoshop/illustrator ONE panel and not split into many?

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This is really annoying me, and no google search got me anywhere. How to make it look normal as one program with the black background as usual?

not like this:


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Align by key object to artboard

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I'm trying to align my main object to the center of the artboard while retaining the spacing of the objects. Whats the best way to do this?

Basically I want the yellow box to be centered and the greenish star to keep its relationship to the box off to the right. I know I can center the parent object but I want the center point to bisect the yellow box and not the parent object.


texts: Illustrator: remove curves from multiple points

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I have some shapes i am working with in illustrator CS5 and I want to remove the curves from some of the points.

Normally i would use the convert anchor point tool and single click each point, however i have a lot of points i need to do this to.  Is there a menu item that will apply this function to multiple points at one time?


texts: Converting shape into symbol in Illustrator distorts the box

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I am trying to convert a simple shape into a symbol.

When I do that, the selection box (I don't know the technical term for it) changes.

So here we have the shape. Align to pixel grid is off, snap to grid is on. As you can see, the pink selection is aligned to the grid. This is how I want it.

Now I have converted this into a symbol, again Align to pixel grid is off.
Now the pink selection box selects the boundaries of the shape. This box is not aligned to the grid.

I need to keep snap to grid on because i need precision in my work. The changes in how illustrator sees this symbol really makes it tough because snap to grid is on. Now when I move this symbol, the selection box aligns the outside of the symbol to the grid.

I need help to understand how I can keep the symbol and the selection just like in the first figure.

Plus.. what is the technical name for the pink selection box?

Thanks


texts: How to export special characters from illustrator to word

texts: The problem is I want to get some specific special characters from SVN-Bellico font like the H below. I could use it in Illustrator but I want to use them in MS Word to be able to edit them.


texts: How to use- "color to alpha" in GIMP when it is grayed out?

texts: While you try to change the background to transparent- the filter "color to alpha" is not selectable. How to get that changed.


texts: Photoshop Not Saving Image at Specific Dimensions

texts: I'm trying to export my Photoshop artboards as 800x800px jpgs. I hit Export As and changed the dimensions to 800x800px. It shows me it's scaling it down. Great. I hit Export All, and it saves the jpgs where I tell it. When I then go check the file dimensions - one of the artboards won't save as 800x800px! I tried again and can see that in the Export dialogue box it WON'T let me put those dimensions in, but has to change them to 754x800px. Why in the world? It can scale it to other dimensions, just not that one..?! Please help!


texts: Illustrator CS6 - cut document into three panels

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We have been sent a design which is to be used as three panels for an exhibition shell scheme - at the moment we have a single page in essence which has a coloured bar top and bottom and there is currently 5mm document bleed.

The problem is that to print, we need to provide the printer with three individual vector prints (PDF ideally) so they can print one per panel and each panel needs to have its own bleed - for example, at the moment, the left most panel when created would have bleed on the top, bottom and left side from the document bleed but it would not have any bleed on its right edge.

The designer won't reply to emails and we have an exhibition next week so we are really up against it.

I have read up on slicing but it refers to "web images" which I don't think will be good enough quality so how do I create three equal vectors from one and how do I ensure that each of those created prints then has a bleed all around as needed?


texts: Critique this map with many labeled points. Is there a better way to do this?

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This is the centerfold map in a booklet printed for the homeless. The numbers represent the page number that the information on each service provider is also found. We are limited to black and green for two color printing.
It looks too busy and we would love other ideas on how do label a map like this. Thoughts?


texts: Why does this happen in Photoshop (CS5) when repeating patterns?

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I'm trying to create tileable pattern from a background that I created.

The left side of the image: created with layers (gradient fill, pattern overlay)

The right side of the image: created by repeating a 8px wide slice from the left side and repeated. You can see a slight but irritating banding at the edge of each slice. Why does this happen? Is there a solution?

Thanks a ton!


texts: Illustrator: extra white space when exporting to PNG

texts: I've created a PNG version of a document that I made in Illustrator. The PNG seems to have a couple inches of white space next to it. I have checked for artifacts to the side of the doc. Nothing I don't have any hidden bounding boxes or clipping mask's overhanging my artboard. I even created a new blank document and carefully copied the body of the work and pasted it into the new document. The space is still there in the new PNG. What could be going on that i've missed?


texts: Illustrator export to Photoshop is changing object scale

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I have several layers in Illustrator, all of them on an A1 canvas.

When I export my layers, one by one, to photoshop format (.psd), and I add them as layers on my photoshop A1 canvas, they just adjust to the whole canvas, thereby losing the original scale.

My canvas/layer is 500ppi in illlustrator, and I export them in 500ppi.

How can I avoid this?


texts: Is this "G" logo too complex for a website logo and mobile phone logo? How to improve color scheme?

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1) Any suggestions how could I make it less complex, or is it OK?

2) Any suggestions how the color scheme be better? We want to emphasize we are global, and we are mainly targeting women, hence the salmon pink, but at the same time, we don't want to turn off men with a neon pink. How can we make it especially attractive for women, but still gender neutral?

small (slightly different colored but same thing):

big:


texts: How to keep a line under the text when resizing a symbol

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I'm trying to create a 'header/title' like text with a line underneath as a symbol. But I'm struggling with resizing the symbol.

This is what the symbol itself looks like:

And here is a resized instance of the symbol:

As shown in the image above; the title gets cut off.
I've tried finicking with the resizing options, but alas to no avail (yet).

What I'd like is that the line stays underneath the title and the title should be center aligned. Here is a (custom made) example of a possible end result:

I know that text elements have an underline option, but this is not always appropriate in my design. But I'll use it as a last resort if resizing is a no go.

Forgive me if this question is already asked somewhere, I've tried searching but couldn't find an answer.


texts: How to select an InDesign vector path point when a text wrap contour is in the way?

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How can I use the InDesign direct selection tool or pen tool on a path that has a text wrap over it, without just hitting the text wrap contour?

So to recap: in InDesign, when you apply a text wrap to an object - pushing away text above or below the object (or more often, only below if you change the Composition options in Preferences) - it creates a path-like object (a text wrap contour) that marks precisely where text is prevented from going.

You can edit this path like any other path using the Pen tool or A direct selection tool (white arrow). Using the V selection tool (black arrow), you can select the original object and its text wrap contour, moving or transforming them together. Holding down alt (opt) with the Direct Selection tool - which makes it act like Illustrator's Group Selection tool, adding more elements to the selection up the tree with each click - you can select the whole text wrap contour and move it as a unit.

Great, but there's something missing from all this. Assuming the original object is a vector path, how do you select individual points of the original path, not the pale, lighter coloured, greyed-out looking path of the text wrap contour? And how do you add or remove points to it with the pen tool? The normal way just grabs points from the text wrap contour, even if it has been sent to the back of the stacking order.

A few options that kind of work, but aren't ideal:

Turn the text wrap off, manipulate the object, turn it back on again. Potentially a big pain and not suitable if you want to change the path but not the wrap.
Select the whole text wrap boundary, hold shift, hit a cursor key in any direction making a big nudge in that direction, edit the original path, then big nudge it back into place. Not a bad option, but a bit of a pain.

Surely there's a better way? Is there any way to toggle or specify whether it's the path, or the text wrap contour, that I'm interested in?


texts: I sometimes use Illustrator as a drawing board for online lessons, and I'd like to have a good calm, but vivid full color palette for writing or drawing, preferably CMYK. Illustrator has a lot of built-in color palettes, and the best one for my use is just Print Brights, but it only has 6 colors, lacking light blue, pink shades, etc. Where can I get good palette like this with 10+ or so colors? I could've built it myself, but I'm not very good with colors specifically


texts: How do I wrap my drawings around a circle in Illustrator?

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I want to wrap my drawings around a circle. I tried using the warp tool but I could not make it work the way I wanted it to.

I want to take this drawing...

and wrap it around a circle like this (but obviously better)...


texts: Help! What color palette should i send to printer: CMYK or Pantone?

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I'm totally newbie in printing production and now I need to print something that requires high color correction (be as close as possible to the colors on design file). So what color palette should i send to the printer: CMYK or Pantone? If Pantone is considered as "standard" in matching colors so why people don't design in pantone but still in cmyk?
Thank you!


texts: Photoshop CS5 - how to "normalize" colors in an image to reduce the noise?

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New to photoshop so bear with me...

I have a scanned image that, ideally, should be just three colors: red, black, and white.  The original was a pen an ink drawing and the act of scanning added all sorts of slight color variations.

To make things worse, the image was saved as a .jpg before it was sent to me, so the compression has created some artifacts as well.

I've already tried "reduce noise" filter in a hundred different ways and, while somewhat helpful, does not produce the effect I'm looking for.  Is there some way to convert, normalize, or blend all of these different shades of red to a single "red" color?  Likewise for the blacks and whites.  I don't want 35 different shades of light gray around the edges of the my image.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.


texts: How can I thread a compound path through a shape in Illustrator using masks?

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Imagining that the blue shape in the attached is a bead and the black path is a thread, how do I create the illusion that the path is threaded through the hole in the bead using a clipping mask? Also, is a clipping mask even the correct way to do this?

I've got round this by using the knife tool to cut the path and bring a segment forward in the stack but would like to know if it can be done with clipping masks.

Desired result:


texts: License for logo of an open source (GPL) project

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If you were to design the identity of a software project that is released as Free Open Source Software (FOSS), let's say under the GPL licence, including the identity, graphics, logo, etc., can it be distributed under a different licence and specific set of rights granted to the project?

What would be the preferred licence for a logo, from the project's perspective?

The goal would be to have identity graphics which were created for one project in particular remain with the project and not be hijacked by a commercial fork.

Main reason for using a Creative Commons licence for the logo I see is:

Simplicity - it's free, derivations, modifications, no permission need to be asked nor given. It can be distributed together with the GPL code without worry.

Main reason against using a Creative Commons / GPL licence for the logo I assume is:

Keep branding exclusive to the project it was created for, either through disallowing forks or derivative commercial products to use the same branding. A commercial project with money thrown at it and spent on PR for example could generate enough publicity to channel potential users (and contributors) away from the original open source project (which could lead to its stagnation and end). Having access to the same branding (because it was released under CC) could cause confusion and would it make it impossible to retain the identity exclusive to the project it was designed for?

The commercial fork hijack is just a scenario I came up, would there be more serious ones worthy of consideration?

Also, I understand CC-NC-ND would prevent the commercial fork hijack scenario but would that be a licence you'd consider for a logo, does it have any other noteworthy drawbacks? Or is it easier to use a standard licence such as a very comprehensive bullet point list of rights given.

I've checked similar topics, they seem to deal with specific cases on how to mix and match software and assets with differences licences, this question assumes there is a free choice of any licence. What would you choose for the logo design and why?

Why this question even came up: some in the community believe the logo must be released under the same license as the software, others do not. There is no consensus.


texts: How to shrink parts of a vector image in either Inkscape and/or Illustrator CS6?

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Lets assume I have an .svg/.eps/.ai file like this (viewed in Inkscape):

What I want to do now is to shrink those ears to half of the size while they should still stay in their position on the head. They should also keep their basic shape just be smaller.
Obviously I can not move the nodes one by one (sorry if this is a noob question I am a programmer and tried/googled a lot, nothing worked).


texts: How does the Isometric system in Affinity Designer work?

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I hope I can articulate this properly. How does the isometric system work under the hood in Affinity Designer? Coming from Illustrator I noticed the power of the isometric system in Affinity with the plane system. When I was designing a basic isometric cube I noticed that fitting each side of the cube to its corresponding plane keeps the dimensions of each side of the cube a perfect 1:1 ratio even in isometric perspective.
But when working in Illustrator and I make each side of the cube fit its corresponding plane the dimensions are not equal
Even when I do the SSR method in Affinity the resulting objects still keep their 1:1 ratio. So I am just curious to know how the inner workings of the isometric system work within Affinity.


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I would like to batch render 1000 models using Maya. I have set up a Maya scene and I need to render these models one-by-one with the same scene

I am thinking of writing a MEL script that does the following thing:
(1) Load a model obj
(2) Render it
(3) Replace the current obj by the next obj, render it and repeat

Can someone give me some hint how to do it? I am not familiar with MEL. Thanks!


texts: How to point strokes into the same direction?

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I am trying to achieve this effect on an even bigger poster with many more strokes. I want these random strokes to point into a specific direction. There is a tool or effect that can help me with this?

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to remove page margins in Indesign, or make the margins apply to a spread as if it were a single page?

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I'm building an app in a hurry, and we're starting the process in InDesign. I won't go into the crazy technicalities that led to this need, but I need to flow text over two pages as if they were the same page. Here's a screenshot of what I mean:

Obviously I can do this just by stretching a text frame across the two pages - but when I try to flow text through the pages on a grander scale using a master page with that text box, the pre-existing margins interfere and act as unwanted text boxes. I can't find a way to remove them, or make them stretch across two pages in the same way the text frame can.

Has anyone got a solution, or is this going to be an arduous case of stretching a frame across every single spread in the document?

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!


texts: Changing resolution doesn't affect image size in Photoshop

texts: I am trying to change resolution in Photoshop but no changes appear. No change to size. For example I set resolution to 300 or even 1 but the size remains as before. It worked well before. Is there an option that turned off?


texts: Photoshop Indesign / Photoshop Placement issue

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I have a bit of an issue that I was wondering someone might have the answer to.

I'm working with some images, that are 24mm x 17mm (they're really small 35mm slides) at 3600dpi. I need these to be this is exact size.

However, when I come to place the image into InDesign, my image is then 24mm x 16.994mm. Normally, i'm not that fussy about this kind of thing, but the client wants the to be the exact size, as he wants them to be truly represented in the publication. Can anyone help me fix this horrible 3 decimal place thing?


texts: How can I get rid of the content edges when I mask it with smaller container in Illustrator?

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I have placed an image about 1000px*800px into Illstrator and I mask it with a box of 500px*500px now the content boundaries of the image is annoying me when positioning it with smart guide or with the align tool. it always align and keep track to the bigger content which is hidden or masked not the small mask.

my question is: how to get rid of the edges of the content without turning the global edges off?

For example:
in the screen shot below I have masked a raster image with grime symbol. but as you can see, Illustrator is considering the dimensions of the masked raster image while ignoring the mask boundaries which I need its exact dimension to relocate it into my design, I mean when I use the alignment tools for example to center the masked image, it will align to the raster image not the mask.


texts: I am not much of a designer. Looks like a very basic thing to do but i don't know how to do it. I just want to create a line that is blurred from the ends and have this shade at the bottom of it. Its a kind of a separator that i can use on a website. I want to do it in Photoshop. As an example, check out the following image:


texts: How do I remove a green screen background in Photoshop?

texts: How can I green screen in Photoshop? I am making a picture were I need to green screen, and it would be very helpful if someone could help me!


texts: Where can I find digital scans of Christian paintings? (examples provided inside)

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I need to make a website for a Christian group and they requested some images similar to the ones found on the following website: http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/

I've tried iStockPhoto and there is nothing useful there. Any other ideas where I might be able to get a hold of images like on that site?


texts: Painlessly export from Sketchup Pro 2013 to Cinema4D R15 Studio

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I Use Google Sketchup Pro 2013 for modeling in 3D, and then I export said models into Cinema4D for Rendering and tweaking the textures applied in Sketchup. Most of the time it works, but on the odd occasion it doesn't export into Cinema4D as it looks in Sketchup.

Recently I made a building in Sketchup based off of a real life picture from a client, and after about 3 days of solid work I'm finally finished the model. When I opened the .3DS file from Sketchup in Cinema4D, though, almost none of my materials are importing correctly if at all, and when I try to reapply the materials to the areas which don't have the right materials I end up applying materials to the wrong areas as well as the ones I meant to. Below is the model I noted earlier and the version of it in Cinema4D;

I've tried everything within my mind to fix this- I've exported under every possible format and setting but to no avail, and nothing in Cinema4D can seem to fix this either. Is there any way to import a model directly from Sketchup into Cinema4D and have the model look exactly as it did in Sketchup as it does in Cinema4D?

Thanks!

PS. All answers are appreciated as this is a very urgent question!


texts: Which is better for icon design: vector graphics or raster graphics?

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Which of the following approaches should I take to design icons in many resolutions?

Create them in vector graphics, as SVG or AI and then rasterize them
Design them directly as bitmap graphics (BMP, JPEG, or PNG and separate files for each resolution)

I'd like to consider the following factors:

Dependable: will not fail to provide a good quality output and force to start from scratch
Easier to learn for beginners in computer-aided graphic design
Faster to finish
Easier to modify later
Better quality of output
More common to be used
Have good tools, including open-source tools and support for Linux

The use case is launcher icons for an Android app:

  Launcher icons on a mobile device must be 48x48 dp ( denisty-independent pixels: 1dp is one pixel on 160 dpi screen),therefore 3 sizes needed

  Launcher icons for display on Google Play must be 512x512 pixels. That is the fourth size


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I did some painting on iPad, in Procreate. Now I am moving to Mac with Wacom Intuos Pro. I am playing with Photoshop, Pixelmator and Sketchbook.

I am looking for some plug-in or maybe completely another painting app, with the canvas recording.

In this very moment Screenflow is encoding my last painting and it says it will take more than hour. That's something I want to avoid. Back on my iPad there was not such big waitings during painting(recording) or during video export.

I ideally want to record the whole canvas, not just the window in which i zoom, rotate, etc.

This is the kind of recording i mean. I zoomed the canvas number of times and did undos. In the resulting video there are only the changes i actually made to canvas. No tool selections, no zooming.

Better explanation may be Article about Procreate's recording

So... How can I achieve that on Mac?


texts: Got this jpeg image that has incorrect proportions. That's how it should look but here's the thing - by simple means of resizing and recompressing it to jpeg, after conversion the size gets bigger and the quality of course gets worse. So I'm curious if it's possible to simply change its aspect ratio via some header information and avoid conversion.