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I was asked to do a Billboard design that is 10 X 22 feet for a fashion brand that I'm interning for. I do not have experience in this kind of stuff, I use AI for fashion flats and vector illustrations, I don't do print work. I did do 2 posters for the internship, but that was easy because I used a template and just added the art work, they came out beautiful!

However, this time, I was unable to find a 10 X 22 billboard AI template. How to set up the document, what numbers do I plug in and do I use inches or centimeters?

Also the images I'll be using is a 150 resolution, is that ok? Don't they need to be 300 dpi?


texts: how can I arrange four objects into two rows and two columns?

texts: Is there an easy way to take four objects that are in the same location? The objects are pasted on top of each other, and arrange them into two rows and two columns without scrambling them manually, selecting two, aligning them left, selecting another two, aligning them to the bottom, etc.


texts: text gets pixalated when converting from illustrator to Photoshop

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I drew a 8.5"x 11"rectangle, then convert it to smart object and distort it according to the image size.(am creating a mock)
But when i copy my document from illustrator and paste it on the rectangle in Photoshop every thing gets pixelated.
How can i stop this from happening.


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I have recently designed and sent a 1 colour t-shirt to a client for the final review. I used black colour for white shirts and white colour on black shirts.

I know now i should use Pantone Spot Colours but i don't have the Pantone Book yet (i'll order at the end of this week).

For that reason in a previous post in this forum i was suggested to choose a White Opaque Colour for Black Shirts and a Black Colour for White Shirts without using the Pantone reference and to leave the Printer to choose the colours for me. I believe the designer in the post refers to the Printer choosing the “Spot colours" for me right?

I'd like to use White Opaque C5% M4% Y4% K0% CMYK Colour for Black Shirts & Rich Black C40% M30% Y30% K100% CMYK Colour for White Shirts no Pantone colours and leave the Printer to choose the Spot colours for me. If you have any suggestion about the colour (%) to use you're welcome to post it.

Few questions:

1) Should i still make the colour Separation in the illustrator file when using CMYK colours or is the Separation needed only when using Spot Colours?
2) Is there a risk to leave to the Printer the choice of Spot Colour for me or is it a basic task that any printer should be able to achieve?
3) Or instead should i pick a Pantone for the Black Colour even i don't have the Pantone Book? If yes can anybody suggest a popular Black Pantone Spot Colour to use?

If you want to check my previous post look at this link: Pantone colours or CMYK for a 1 colour t-shirt print?.

Thanks in advance for support.


texts: How to make Illustrator type tool selection automatically adapt with text length

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So I'm learning Illustrator but when I try to use the type tool and write for example a long text, this will happen,

type tool won't automatically adapt with the text length and the same thing happens if I wrote one letter, the selection would be much larger than the letter so I have to adjust it manually when typing.


texts: How to create 736px rounded triangle with 18px border radius in Illustrator?

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I am creating an app icon and, for the envelope's top part, and I want pixel perfect accuracy.

When I try to create a rounded triangle using the polygon tool with a width 736px and then use live corners to round their radii to 18px, the width of the triangle squeezes to 688.66px (some non-even, half pixel value).

See the pink shape in this envelope? I need it with perfect 18px rounded corners with 736px width.

How is this possible with pixel perfection in Illustrator?


texts: Opening Inkscape SVG in Illustrator, not looking right

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I'm new to graphics, and had to make a small poster for a competition. I created it in Inkscape, but found out they need a .ai file. I tried opening the SVG in Illustrator, and it just does not look the same. I don't know how I can fix this!

Here's what it looks like in Inkscape:

And in Illustrator:

I know nothing about Illustrator, so I don't know if there is a simple fix for this.

For reference, here is the file as well in SVG format.

Thanks, I really appreciate your help!


texts: What tool do you prefer for interface design?

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I primarily designs interfaces for web based applications. I prefer to use Illustrator. I find that it's quick and flexible for designing interfaces. Working with flexible artboards and vector based objects is useful for responsive design. I have also used Photoshop and Sketch, but have found illustrator to be the most versatile for designing responsive interfaces.

But it seems like most people are using Sketch and Photoshop for interface design and I feel like maybe I'm missing out on something. I'm always looking to improve my workflow and I am curious what others are using and why.

So, what tool do you prefer for interface design and why do you prefer it?


texts: Apply MasterPage to even pages in QuarkXpress

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I have created a new project with automatic text box (non facing pages) and have created a second master page that I would now like to apply to all even pages.

InDesign has this option when I right-click on a master page, but I can't seem to find it anywhere in QuarkXpress 9.1. Google hasn't been nice to me either.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Even to say "it can't be done".


texts: Is there a good approach to deal with spacing as a first class design construct?

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I am interested in a seasoned designer's advice on how to deal with the technical aspects of spacing. This applies to typesetting software, document design software, or even CSS on a website or web app.

Whenever I start building a design system, I usually end up with a very disorganized spacing design approach. For example, one may wish a level 3 header to have a certain amount of padding or margin above and below it. However, this is context dependent in more complicated documents.

I always end up with what I consider to be a hack, where I haphazardly apply different top and bottom padding conventions given the context. I've often felt that simply designing with "space" as a design element, as apposed to being indirectly linked to padding and margin of other elements would solve this problem.

Does anyone have a good reference or system style advice for dealing consistently with spacing? I'm more interested in technical solutions, not so much theory of spacing (Law of Proximity, for example). I work mainly in CSS and Scribus.


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I found some STL files for a 3D printer, which are mainly linear extrusions of a 2D shape:

I would rather cut on a laser cutter. How can I convert them to a 2D SVG file?


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Is there a culturally-universal symbol to represent religion or a place of worship?

I would like to avoid having an icon containing multiple religious symbols because that opens up a whole mess of problems and which symbols to show would depend a lot on the cultural of the viewer.


texts: How do I move the shape or selection while creating

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In Photoshop, how do i move the selection or shape while creating it self. is there any procedure or shortcut key to move the selected path while selecting the path itself?

Thanks very much for any help.


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Does anyone know how to export the art board view in Sketch to 1 image? Maybe a plugin exists?

I know how to export all the art boards to a pdf/jpg, but I am trying to keep the art board view and titles in tact on export.

I would like to be able to print this out on a large format printer when discussing the designs and flows with my team.

Thanks for your help.


texts: How to tell Adobe Illustrator to use a font of a slightly different name?

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I'm opening a PDF created with Adobe Illustrator CC in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and other than some features may not be available warning, it complains about a missing font:

  The font TrendRoughSlabOne is missing.  Affected text will be displayed using a substitute font.

However, I did purchase that font, but it shows up in the Illustrator Font menu as Trend Rh Slab One.

How can I instruct Illustrator to substitute and use this name variant instead?


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I created a path connecting different segments and than I created the 3D effect using the command extrude & bevel
Do you know how I can fix the imperfections (in the 3d effect and in the connections among the segments) you see in the screenshot?


texts: If I download a free font and upload it for download on my server is that illegal

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I use to download fonts from places like DaFont and use them on my computer and designs. I also use to upload these free for download fonts onto my server and have them linked to be able to be downloaded by anyone on my website.

I was informed that someone I know got a letter threatening to be sued if the links weren't removed. I figured they probably used a font that was not free for download.

My question is, is that if they are free to download from multiple sites is it illegal to for me to have them for download on my site. Right now I have them linked to the sites I found them on but that is a true hassle and I'm looking to not do that anymore.


texts: Add contrast with threshold in Photoshop, possible?

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I'm adding a lot of contrast to some images in PS (+100), but I'd like to keep the dark areas, like that, because otherwise they get all black and I lose the details.

Is it possible to do something like that?, like setting a sort of dark threshold.


texts: Draw "artificial neural network" with illustrator

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I'm a researcher in computer science field, and a beginner of adobe illustrator.

I'd like to draw "artificial neural network" like below:

Is it possible to easily draw this kind of picture with illustrator?


texts: Exporting an object as svg from inkscape

texts: I know that Inkscape does not have the ability to export selected objects as svg, but is there a workaround that people have found that works?


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I'm trying to convert a PNG to SVG by using trace tool. The problem I'm facing is that the resulting image doesn't preserve gradients properly.

Here are two versions of the image that I'm able to produce at my best. One color and the other black-white.

Can you show me how can I increase the quality of the generated image such that the gradient is preserved exactly as it is?

EDIT: Original High Quality Image is here - http://lenagold.narod.ru/fon/clipart/l/lev/leon45.png


texts: Creating an interactive rotating image from multiple JPEGs

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I am looking to create an interactive image of a machine. I will be taking incremental photos of it rotationally at two different distances from the machine (approx. 20ft and 5ft away).

Once I have all the images taken I will process them for exposure and whatnot.  At this point I will just assume that they will be ".jpg" files. It's the next part that I need some help with:

I want the website user to be able to click and rotate the machine as well as zoom in and out and pan up and down (similar to Google Earth).
I would like the series of images to be cycled left and right as the user moves their mouse left and right to give the illusion that is is rotating, but it is in fact simply cycling through the images and essentially giving them control of the "animation effect".
I am looking for a direction to begin creating this interactive image.  So far I have not been able to find anything other than rotating GIFs or something similar that has no user interaction.


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I am working on some artwork to use in my web project and I am using the latest version of Adobe Illustrator.

When I go to File > Save for Web I get the following:

As you can see the Art-board space around my artwork also shows! Is there a way I can tell illustrator that I'm only interested in saving the artwork?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.


texts: how to change the workspace color window from RGB to CMYK mode in Illustrator CS5.1?

texts: I'm using Illustrator CS5.1 and started a new document in RGB mode. When I change the color mode to CMYK under File > Document Color Mode > CMYK Color, the Color window in my workspace doesn't change from RGB to CMYK mode. I can change the RGB levels using the Color window but I want to change CMYK levels.


texts: How to change html tags into xml elements with xslt in InDesign xml import

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I'm importing XML into InDesign (with merge content mode) and using XSLT to pick specific XML elements from the XML file. Problem is that some of the text inside XML elements contain HTML entities (see the example below) which are converted as characters in Indesign and then show as HTML tags. I need to set correct character style for the text between HTML tags and remove the tags. I'm aware I can do this with GREP Find/Replace in InDesign after the XML import but is there a way I can do this already with XSLT? I'm guessing I should convert these HTML tags into XML elements so I can map character style to correct XML element in InDesign. Not sure if this is possible and how to do it. Or is there some other better way?

XML:

<TextElement>Just some random text with &lt;b&gt;HTML tags&lt;/b&gt; within.</TextElement>

Text in InDesign:

Just some random text with <b>HTML tags</b> within.


texts: How to make an image completely black and white? (force pixel values to #000 or #fff)

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I need to make an image completely black and white. By "completely" I mean the ONLY colors pixels can be are #000 or #fff.

I have about 20 Black & White, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast layers over an image layer, but there are STILL some pixels that aren't completely black or white :-(

How can I make an image completely black and white?


texts: Is there a color system in which Red, Yellow, and Blue are primary colors?

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Children are often taught that Red, Yellow, and Blue are "the primary colors", with Orange, Green, and Purple "the secondary colors."  This matches neither additive (RGB) nor subtractive (CMYK) color models.

Is/was there a prominent color system which used Red, Yellow, and Blue as primary colors?
If not, why are Red, Yellow, and Blue often taught as primary colors?


texts: Photoshop: how to print logo without a gray background

texts: I've tried a lot of different things already: inversed it, added a layer mask, trimmed the transparent pixels and deleted the background. It still prints with a gray background to my image. What can I do?


texts: How to export 3DS Max file to .obj with multiple objects?

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I have a 3DS Max model of an inhaler which is made up of two parts, the actuator and the cap. When I export the file as a .obj file the cap and the actuator are classed as 1 part.

How do I export this as a .obj file that recognises the actuator and the cap as being separate objects?


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I have created paths in Illustrator. I have one path, see image, that crosses itself. It produces this white box inside. How do I fill it with the same black. Everything I tried seems to be rather a stupid workaround, like just putting a box behind it. This path has also a stroke that is important in other parts of the image. What to do?

Edit: These are my points and that Non Zero Winding Order button did remove the box once I made it bigger. Can I somehow remove the stroke showing up here? I need the stroke for other parts of the image, but not here.


texts: Is there a way to reverse the order of anchors in a path?

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Is there any way to reverse the order of anchors in a path? I don't want to redraw the path again. I want to change the starting anchor point from the starting point of any path to its end.
reversing the order of the anchors I already drew has some benefits to me, like:

Applying an art brush without flipping the direction of the brush in the stroke options dialogue.
If I want my SVG to appear in any webpage in the order that I want, like a drawing stroke animation effect.


texts: Make a new Background layer in Photoshop with default properties

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I photograph crafts I've made and turn them into collages to share online. Usually I accomplish this by unlocking the background layer on one photo and copying all the other photos into the same document, then mushing them around till I have a nice display.

Using this method I've essentially gotten rid of my background layer, which leaves me with a transparent background. I can throw a new solid fill layer back there, but resizing the canvas doesn't fill in the edges of this new layer like a background layer would, requiring me to re-fill it.

Is there a way to mark / make a new layer as a background layer so that it retains the properties of a default Photoshop background layer?

I am on a Windows computer if this is something that involves keyboard shortcuts.

Note: I know the described workflow is horrible but this was the easiest way I could think of to illustrate this scenario. I'm not looking for better workflows. I specifically want to know if I can create a default background layer.


texts: Extracting an image from a white background in photoshop

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I have a set of images that background color and the object color is white. So its hard to extract(selecting) the object. Is there any way to make this easier?

Example of an image


texts: Critique: Modified template for a greeting card service

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I'm modifying a template to suit my own needs.  While I've been fairly successful overall, I've been struggling with the pricing section.

Specifically:

I picked the colors because they were complimentary to the background, but they don't seem to be readable.  What process can I use to pick colors that blend well, but allow easy readability?
The plan titles seem to be too small.  Should I increase their size?
Originally, the box sizes were tiered to draw the eye to the biggest plan.  Is there some way to allow easy comparison (i.e. the text of different plans on the same horizontal level) while still allowing the tiers?

I'm still new to the design side of things, so please explain more advanced terms in your answer.  Comments as to how I can improve the general look of things are also welcome.

(Based off of Escape Velocity)


texts: What is the name of this classic serif typeface with large round counters?

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Can someone help me to find the name of the font in the picture? I’m looking specifically for the capital letters.

I've tried all of the websites below but came out with nothing:

WhatTheFont!
Identifont
Serif Font Identification Guide
What Font is

I found this font used for wedding stationery on a picture on Pinterest.


texts: Import/Export vs upload/download icons arrow direction

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Why are the arrows for download and export in opposite directions?
They do the same things : send a file from the server to the client.

Differences between downloadand export
export is focused on the data and import is also often possible.
download refer to a file or the whole page/table.
Refs :

Quora : What is the difference between upload import export download
SO UX : download vs export

Context
I'v got into a disagreement with my colleagues for using a download icon (downward arrow) instead of an export icon (upward arrow) to download/export a table of data from a web page into an Excel file.


texts: Where do I find foreign keyboard sets in inDesign?

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I am running an English version of inDesign with a german keyboard. Unfortunately, some of the shortcuts don’t work, due to the QUERTZ keyboard layout.

If I remember correctly, the English version of inDesign supported keyboard layouts for other languages, but it does not seem like that anymore.

Is there any way to get them back without first installing the German version, saving the default German keyboard shortcuts, only to install the English version again and paste them in there? Is there any resource, where I can get the shortcut set without going through all of this?


texts: How to make letter shapes by filling in motifs?

texts: How to make a shape by filling in motifs like the effect of the attached image? I know how to clip a pattern to a shape but this one is different. Thanks.


texts: Merge multiple images horizontally in PDF

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I have a bunch of folders with contents ranging from four images to fifteen images each. I am looking to create horizontal composites of each folder with the file names without extension under each image. All images are sized exactly the same.

Here's an example of what I'm looking to export from one folder with five images-

The closest I can get to automating this is by using Photoshop's Automate → PDF Presentation tool and then place the pages side by side manually. Is there any way I can use actions to automate merging the PDF pages together? Or possibly a way to change Photoshop's PDF Presentation tool so that it does that in the first place?

I am also looking to change the font that Photoshop uses to write each filename if possible. I'm open to suggestions that don't involve the PDF Presentation tool.


texts: Why is my Path -> Difference not cutting the whole object?

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Im trying to cutout an object from the background (both are objects/paths). So I am selecting the background object first, shift selecting the foreground object. Then pressing Path -> Difference
As you can see in the images below it's not cutting what I expect. The top portion is not even the same size. Am I missing a critical step??
Pre Difference

Post-Difference


texts: How do I put all my Illustrator and Photoshop toolbars and windows in one single window?

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I have all my Illustrator and Photoshop toolbars scattered throughout my desktop, and I simply want all of my menus, toolbars, and files to be within one window.

This is often super annoying because the toolbars don't pop up when my files are open depending on what desktop I am on.


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I have a situation with my company. Every time there's a project I never get the final copy to start my design work. The constant changes and many hands getting involved is making my workflow suffer and I am being blamed for missing stuff and my proofreading suffers tremendously. I do not know what to do to explain this to them. I have the type of boss hat "needs to see things first" so he know what to write. It drives me up the wall.

Anyone else has this problem? How can I improve this situation?


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I'm looking to create an effect similar to this patterned logo and blurry? also, I'm trying to blur half of the shape but in all the blur effects in Illustrator, I could find only blur the whole element.

please help.


texts: How to create a repeating pattern from the previously designed pattern?

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I know the steps in how to properly create a custom pattern by creating a square with various color and shape differences. However, I found the hexagon repeating pattern from a movie and I much rather how best to crop the hexagon so that it will tile properly.

This is the pattern that I would like to re-create for my swatches.


texts: Free tool to view millimeter coordinate under mouse of a PDF

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I am looking for a free tool (Windows/Linux) which can display a PDF and show the coordinates under the mouse pointer in millimeter (or inch/etc just what the settings are) based on the PDF coordinate system. It would be nice if it comes with a zoom function for extra precision.

Background is that I want to check (pdflatex) placement of objects in the PDF output.

I found this StackOverflow thread however the answers are not free tools (Illustrator) or pixel based solutions (GIMP), etc.


texts: How do I easily separate multiple objects on an artboard to new SVG files w/ sizes?

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I'm new to Adobe Illustrator, so please forgive me if this seems like a dumb question.  I have an SVG file with the USA map and all 50 states.  I need to create 50 individual SVGs, one for each state.  I was able to complete this by selecting each state and then exporting my selection.

However, the SVG selection export does not allow me to define an image size.  I'm assuming this is because SVGs are scaleable?..  I would like to be able to define the default width of these states in my SVG export.

How do I assign dimensions of the states in these SVG exports?

SVG states file:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zhawu1lle2rm00/State%20Outline.svg?dl=0


texts: Making my own char set for representing computer programing source code in lambda calculus (help)

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cross post from linguistics since I was told this was a better place to ask my question
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am making my own char set for the programing language I am working on, and have some questions?
first is, I want to have the char's of the set be composed of horizontal lines, vertical lines, and blocks with no white space separating them and a total of 256 code points. So my fist question, is there any prior work I can look into to help me figure what symbols to use for good readability.
second is, if there is prior work I can look into, based on my conditions of 256 code points, how many H X V pixels are necessary for such a char set?
thanks in advance


texts: I've had a couple of times when working with scanned images where the piece I need is obscured or otherwise blemished by things such as halftoning in the case of printed items or moire effects when scanning patches or pieces of cloth.  Is there an effective technique for removing these visual artifacts?


texts: What is the Font used in Amazon Kindle Android?

texts: What is the font used by Amazon Kindle in the image below?


texts: Sketch: Dynamic Text and Object Alignment-Symbol Overrides

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I have a symbol with an icon and text. The text is a specific distance from the icon. Together the icon and text are grouped, and center aligned to the symbol artboard.
Anyone have a tip on how to use the text override function so that if I change the text to something longer or shorter the objects in the symbol will stay center aligned. Otherwise I have to constantly Detach from Symbol, which is annoying!

Thanks!


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I relatively new to GIMP and inkscape and trying to build posters but i couldn't find a any video or forum posts in which people create custom border images and use them as border (either they add solid color as border or just give rounded corner)

So my question is if I have an image how can use it as a border with style like rounded edge or triangle etc ?


texts: Illustrator CS4 - how to align objects treated as they were group to the artboard

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I have multiple objects accross many layers. What I would like to do is to select all of those objects and then align everything selected (as if it was a group) to something (e.g. to artboard, to some other object etc.). I don't want to align every of selected objects separately but rather to move them all at the same time, exactly as they would be moved if they were grouped.

The problem is - if I select objects and then make a group, all selected objects are pulled out of their layers and are put in the layer of the topmost selected object. If I, after aligning the group, ungroup the objects then I end up with initial layering of the objects being lost, what is not what I would like to happen.

In other words, I'd like to align selected objects treated as a group - but without losing/changing the layering.


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I am currently trying to create my first ever business card. However, I am not sure what are the standard properties which I need to give to my image file. For this project, I am using Photoshop, and here are the settings which I found from different sources over the Internet.

Width: 3.5 inches
Height: 2 inches
Resolution: 762 Pixels/Inch
Colour Mode: CMYK Colour (8bit)
Colour Profile: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels

I would be really grateful if someone who has more experience in this area can verify these settings. Thank you in advance.


texts: As you can see from the picture, the paint bucket fills over lines and thus i cant colour over my outline


texts: Illustrator knows I have a font but refuses to select it

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I need to use a specific font (Nanum Gothic Extra Bold) for a certain project. Illustrator knows I have the font: If I start typing the name in, it autocompletes. But once I hit return, it selects a different font. And the font doesn't appear on the list.

What's going wrong and how can I get access to this font?


texts: How do I enlarge JUST the background layer in GIMP?

texts: I am working on an image with several layers on a green background. I want to make that background bigger WITHOUT also enlarging everything else. How do I do this? Canvas Size doesn't work, it just adds a blank space on one side that I can't fill with the green color. And yes, I selected "Resize layers:none" and "Fill with: Background color." I can't figure out how to fill it with color. Do I just have to start over on a new canvas?


texts: Can I improve this logo design with any effects or filters?

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I've been asked to design a logo for a heritage trust. The logo must have a medieval cross as its centrepiece. However, whilst I'm a photographer with negligible graphic design experience I gave it a shot:

It was a case of trying to combine the intricacy of the original Celtic knots with the simplicity of the best logos. It looks somewhat clumsy to me.

I then messed around with some filters in PS to try and roughen up the edges. The stamp filter (nothing else was used) seemed to give the best finish. The result is better but could it be improved on:

So, what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of a very quick filter or combination of filters that could be applied to the original "cross" image to give some "sparkle" to the original file? This is very vague, I know, but to an extent I'm going by feel here. Watercolor effect? Stone effect? Carte blanche rules.

Not a technical question and it sounds like a logo design on the cheap--which it is. But if someone has an idea that could quickly be applied to the file, I would be very grateful as this is an area I'm very inexperienced in. Even a suggestion to look at another logo that might provide me with ideas would be great? Any assistance is much appreciated.


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I have some projects on Inkscape that I would like to transport to Krita as there are more tools there. However, when I copy them and then paste them on Krita, nothing is pasted. I tried both with the shortcut cmd + V and by right-clicking and selecting "paste". I also tried to open the .svg file with Krita and it does not show as an app I can open an .svg file with. In some forums, people say they do it with no problems.

I would please like to know if there is something extra I need to do or if there is any sort of trick.

I am using a MacBook.


texts: How can I print this PDF and fill an A4 page?

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I have this PDF. It's a simple grid created in Pixelmator with lines every 500 pixels. I want to use it as a template for drawing over a Wacom tablet.

For some reason, no matter what I do, print preview won't display the full grid. I've tried changing scaling, etc to no avail.

The image is 2880 x 1800 (the resolution of my MacBook Pro Retina 15").

This seems like a really simple thing to do...


texts: Preserving color variations in font with FontLab

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I am very new to using FontLab, so please pardon my ignorance :)
I am trying to create a font from lettering I have done in watercolor (so some areas of each letter are darker than others..see screenshot as an example), using FontLab.
My process has been:
-Create high-res scan of each letter
-Drop the scan into Photoshop, convert it to grayscale, adjust the contrast, save as high-res jpeg
-Drop the jpeg into Illustrator, then Image Trace it as a High Fidelity Photo, and Expand
-Copy and paste this into FontLab
I can export the font fine, but the color of the font is entirely the same--the variations between greys and blacks is lost.
Is there a way to incorporate these color variations in the font in FontLab, or is this just impossible? I have looked in the FontLab docs, but haven't found much in the way of how to do this.
The end goal would basically be to preserve those color variations in the font. For example, if I were using this to lay out some text, and selected a blue for my font, the darker areas of that "A" would be the blue I selected, where the lighter areas would be lighter/more transparent version of that blue.
Any advice would be much appreciated!


texts: Help me identify a 'techy' sans-serif typeface used in a lost project

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I lost a bunch of project files with fonts in tow. I cannot identify/find this typeface anywhere. I know it only comes in 2 weights.

The font is unedited.
There are 2 weights: Bold and Thin

I used the usual avenues for identification already, including WhatTheFont! / Identifont / What Font is


texts: .tif grayscale image becomes lighter in InDesign CC

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Background image( grayscale .tif) becomes lighter(on screen & PDF) when I add any transparent square on top.InDesign CC.

For a quick solution, I placed a layer within the .tif file but how do you fix this in InDesign.


texts: Bizarre Illustrator error - SVG output looks different

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I've never run into this. For some reason, Illustrator is changing this SVG file (see versions 1 and 3) for a coat of arms, although it looks perfect on my screen and there are no apparent SVG errors. (I apologize as I do not code SVG by hand, so I wouldn't know how to fix it by looking at the Code).

This is how it looks on my screen:

And yet this is how it looks in a browser:

It's cropping off the top of the three pales nebuly (red bars with wavy lines). The earlier version actually cropped off the bottom, and then I recreated it, thinking I hadn't been paying attention, and it started cropping off the top:

There are no SVG errors with this file. I tried workarounds and finally got it to appear correctly by exporting to PDF and then using cloudconvert to convert back to SVG. But this still bothers me. I'm using Illustrator CC 2015 on Mac. Is this just a bug? Thanks.


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This is my first question here and I'm not a graphic designer, just need to change some 'ground truth', as we call it in computer vision to train a conv. neural net.

There is an image, size HxWx3 and its 'ground truth' mask, HxWx1. Ground truth uses just white (for borders) color delineating some objects. I need to change it a little bit, by adding more white borders.

I need to overlay these two images such that both are visible (i.e. some transparency is necessary) and add these changes to the mask. Then I need to save that mask in a separate file.

Sorry if the question's dumb, but I've looked around and haven't been able to implement anything sensible. These are the images, the former is 1000x600x3, the latter (mask) is 1000x600x1:

The best I could manage is this, and this is nowhere what I want; among other things, I couldn't find the way the use white color to draw.

Any help is appreciated


texts: How to use Windows Type-1 fonts in Inkscape on a Mac?

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I have type 1 fonts in pfb format that I would like to use with Inkscape on a Mac. However, I can't get Inkscape to find them. The instructions seem to be only for Linux or Windows, but I assumed things would work like in Linux. I could not find *fonts.cache-1 files in my system, it seems like what fc-cache does is to populate a few locations like .fontconfig/ with *-le64.cache-3 files (I assume this to be the same as the *fonts.cache-1 files).

I copied the pfb file to ~/.fonts. From a verbose output of fc-cache, I could see that this directory was read and included in fontconfig's cache. But when I try to open a pdf file with this particular font, Inkscape does not use it and replaces by the default font.

I've searched the web to no avail, there just isn't a lot of material out there on this. I've successfully opened the same pdf in Illustrator by copying the pfb file to Adobe's local font directory, so I know that the font works. But for some reason, Inkscape doesn't use it. Any clues?

I am aware that I can convert the fonts from .pfb to .dfont or otf/ttf, but in my case it is just not practical.

I am using the Inkscape.app downloaded from the webpage (0.48.2 r9819), XQuartz 2.7.4, and OSX 10.8.2. Thanks!


texts: How to edit a vector mask in Photoshop CS2?

texts: This will sound astronomically simple, and you will indeed wonder how is it possible that I've never learned it. But: How do I quickly edit a vector mask in CS2?


texts: How does one revert a 'Save' using Adobe Illustrator?

texts: My intent with the document I've created in Adobe Illustrator was to save one as an original and one as a copy with a few different characteristics. Accidentally, I saved both with the changed characteristics. How can I revert one back to the original?


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I have an imported SVG graph in Illustrator CC like the one below. I want to color the area under the curve (the area under the curve that the red arrow is pointing to). I tried drawing new paths and so on and it's been a mess. Can anyone shed some light on how could this be done in the most efficient way? Thanks a lot in advance.

Jon


texts: How to adjust the stroke width of an SVG path between two specific nodes?

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I'm slowly understanding how to edit paths, objects and nodes of SVG files in Inkscape. Right now, I'm almost done with an arrow loop I'm trying to create. It looks like this:

This is now a path. The only thing I'd like to adjust, is to remove the black stroke between the nodes at the start of the loop (on the right). So it would only have an orange color at the top of the horizontal segment. In other words, I would like it to look like this:

I've tried learning from this question, because I suspected it would be useful. However, I'm not sure how to view and select the arcs between nodes. When I click on the “edit paths by nodes” option, I can only see the nodes -- not the arcs. I've also tried to apply the ideas from this video, but when I delete a part of the path, I get a new boundary with the same stroke width as before.
Question(s): how to adjust the width of the boundary between two specific nodes on a path in such a way that it becomes invisible? Or: how to delete the path between two nodes and make the stroke disappear?


texts: How to preserve layer settings when copying between files

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I have two illustrator projects that represent a warehouse floor layout. Both projects have the same layers (same names, same color).

One project is the entire floor layout on one artboard and the other project has 8 artboards that I've used to break things apart to make viewing easier.

I have a lot of updates from the single artboard project that I want to move over, but every time I do this all of the objects end up on the same layer. It just puts them all on the currently selected layer of the project I am copying to. I've tried keyboard copy shortcut for this as well as floating my other project on another monitor and doing a alt+click to clone. End result is the same, all objects in one layer.

Is it possible for me to copy between projects and have my objects stay on the proper layer?


texts: A shortcut to create a new guide and place it on mouse click (Photoshop 2019)

texts: Is there a way to create a shortcut, or to write a script, so that once the shortcut is pressed, a guide appears under the mouse pointer and moves with the mouse until next click. Once the mouse is clicked, a guide is placed.


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I have a created a small GIF consisting of 7 frames using photoshop CS 4.

Unfortunally, my GIF contains alpha/transparency and only after the fact did i realize the whole alpha / color palete problem with GIFs, so my animation is looking really bad now.

Im looking for some kind of way to combine the animation of a GIF with the innate abilities of a PNG file if possible. However, i was unable to find something so far.
Can someone advice me ?


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Ok, I'm really interested in hearing the feedback of others on this one.  I work in a company with a number of marketing managers (as I've stated in a couple of other posts)... And we have FINALLY hired a new designer for me to work with. Yay, no more 70+ hour weeks.

But to get to the point of my question. Sometimes MMs will design their own ads/flyers, etc. and then come to me (now us) to make it print-ready (yeah I know...lol). Or, they will come to me with a magazine or brochure they like from some random company and ask me to create the exact same thing.

Which brings me to the point. One of the marketing managers asked us to create a brochure that looked identical to a children's foundation brochure.  We work in the construction industry and even though the brochure is very well designed, I really don't believe a brochure with giant twinkling stars and cartoon style fonts are best for our company.

Unfortunately I couldn't attend the initial meeting, so I didn't have any input before the other designer started working on it. I came back to my desk and there she is standing over his shoulder telling him how great she thinks it looks, and I'm quietly banging my head on the desk.

It's not that the brochure he is creating now isn't pretty; quite the opposite, it looks great …

It just doesn't match the branding of our company IN ANY WAY! The first thing that goes through my head, when I see the brochure, is: "Where the Wild Things Are" meets McDonald's. (Again, construction industry!)

And to be honest, pretty much all the marketing managers I work with are like this. They see something "pretty" and don't care that it's completely inappropriate for the company. I try to explain my point and still, I always get back the same "what do you mean, it looks so pretty" response.

Is it me? Am I wrong? Is pretty good enough? Am I being too critical? I'm beginning to feel like such a nay sayer because every time someone comes to us with their own idea, I keep shouting back "BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE COMPANY'S BRANDING?!?!?"

Anyway, sorry for such a long post and if it sounds too much like one giant rant … I swear, if someone comes to me with a flyer for a club opening and says "Can you make my ad look like this", I am going to walk out the door.


texts: How to create irregular and rounded shapes in Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator?

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I'd like to recreate and make different permutations of the image below. What's the best approach to do this?

I tried doing this in Photoshop, however it doesn't look how I want it to and the shapes are too irregular. Is it not as flexible as doing it in Illustrator? I have little knowledge of Illustrator, so I'm unsure how to exactly manipulate the shapes in an arrangement like this.


texts: GIMP Clone using different size, rotation, reflection, perspective transforms?

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Is there a plugin for GIMP to enable cloning with transforms (size, rotation, reflection and/or perspective) performed automatically?

Currently, the only way I can see to do these things is to duplicate, transform & re-select the clone source each time, which is rather onerous if a new transform is required frequently. (Also, the "Perspective Clone" tool does not behave as required i.e. transform a flat image into a perspective.)

I have searched, but found nothing useful. I am considering learning python-fu just to write such a plugin myself, but won't bother if one is already available.

Thanks!


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When I paste a thinner version of a letter on a bolder one, I get this cutout effect inside it, somewhat similar to this:
(please note that this is not my image, not my font and that I do not claim any rights for it)

However, some letters don't do this when I paste a thinner version on them, in fact, they look the same when previewed.
How to fix this?
Is there a better method of doing this?


texts: What's the best way to intersect a box shape layer?

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I'm attempting to create a login box based on the below, but with a line (in the same style as the outer stroke) dividing the two sections. Is the best way to do this to literally draw a line as a new shape layer through the middle of the box?

I'm wondering if there might not be a better way involving combining paths, or something that would make the whole thing into one shape...

Any advice appreciated.


texts: Font recommendation for chemical formulae (disambiguate "I", "l")

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Chemical formula can look ambiguous with most sans-serif fonts, e.g. Cl (chlorine) can be confused with CI (carbon iodine).

Ideally, a font would have a hook on the "l", and bars on the "I" (apologies for incorrect terminology), many of the fonts in similar questions only have one or the other.

I'm looking for either:

a font that disambiguates both "I" and "l", but is otherwise as sans-serif as possible;
or, a semi-serif font that will not clash with a different sans-serif font that I can use for the rest of the body text.

The best I've seen so far is Roboto Slab but it unfortunately clashes with the Helvetica that surrounds it, and is too serif-y to use everywhere.


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I am into game design and I want to make my game in pixel art style. I saw a program called Graphics Gale. Is it good for pixel art?

Can anyone recommend some open-source, or free, Windows 10 pixel art software?

Additionally I'm looking for software that can also help me with the animation.


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I am looking to create a simple border in Gimp and have tried both the selection >> border and both the stroke selection methods and both are not creating what I am looking for. The stroke selection technique is the closest I have gotten. I am looking to create an outline in gimp around a selection using diagonals. Like the following (the dark purple):

However I am getting it on the top but on the bottom, I am ending up with this:

How would I go about making the border like the top (connected diagonally) all the way around. I could do it manually but I have spent hours doing this tedious task. Thanks in advance.


texts: Constructing a basic shield from primary shapes

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I was wondering if it's possible to create these relatively basic shapes from the primary geometric shapes (i.e. polygons and ellipses - particularly circles, squares, and triangles).

You don't necessarily have to use Illustrator, that's just what I use (pathfinder, shape builder, boolean operations, etc.). It's probably more related to geometry and tech drawing with a straight edge & compass than anything.

These were done relatively freehand and by tracing curves with the pencil & pen/Bézier curve tools. None came out perfectly symmetrical, so I split them down the middle, and paired the best half of each one with its mirror image.


texts: Why does Photoshop not render my font letter directly under its family letter?

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This has bothered me for ages, a way out of the problem is to, of course, create the text in a new layer, and then position that where you need it. My question is, however, why does Photoshop render (a large majority of fonts) Helvetica, one of the most popular fonts ever, not directly under the letter above?

The green line is a guide, with the letter 'P' just off of the guideline. The first letter of the top sentence is exactly where it should be.

Double checking, It could have been to do with my letter spacing at 44; reducing to 0, does not rectify the problem.

Why does Photoshop render the font so?


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I use Gimp to make PNG cover banners for social media sites.  I have a hard time getting a clear finish, my end product appears slightly cloudy.

I do my best to make small logos or letters in HD so when they're reduced they don't lose quality. Here are attachments to show what i mean with "cloudiness":


texts: How can I prevent file size from ballooning when using linked images?

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I'm creating a poster that is 50cm x 70cm at 300dpi. The empty document is 5.1M when saved... which still seems ridiculous for a completely empty white document, but I can live with it.

When I place a linked 4.3M JPEG image (File -> Place Linked...) and save, the PSD balloons to 95.5M. Nothing else, just a 4.5M JPEG linked in an empty document.

This seems completely absurd... the file is under 5M and it shouldn't even be including it, and when the JPEG is opened in Photoshop itself it's full in-memory size is only 34.9M.

How is it managing to waste all this space? How can I prevent it from doing so?

I've already tried:

Turning off "Maximize Compatibility" (Preferences -> File Handling -> Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility = Never)

Helped a lot, was 384M before I did this.

Turning off "Image Previews" (Preferences -> File Handling -> Image Previews = Never Save)

Didn't seem to do anything.

"Covering" the entire image in a solid white top layer before saving (in an attempt to let any preview image compress to almost nothing).

Didn't seem to do anything.

I'm using Photoshop CC 2015.05.0 on OSX 10.10.5.

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It's pretty obvious that Photoshop is saving a version of the linked file in the PSD: if I delete the linked file and open the PSD I can still see the image in the document. What I am looking for is a way to disable this behavior so that it does not include that information from the linked file (I don't care about it showing up if the source file is missing).


texts: Create foreground/background color pair presets to cycle through

texts: I am doing some work with pictures where I am going to doodle in colored cloud effects into some existing nebula to try and give a little more definition to the features I am seeing. For this I wanted to know if I can make a set of foreground/background pairs I can cycle through since I need 10-15 pairs of colors that I'll probably have to cycle between. I have moderate familiarity with photoshop but still am lacking full familiarity with the UI. Thanks.


texts: Denoise and reduce JPEG artifacts from a grayscale historical document on microfilm (Adobe CC preferred)

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I would very much appreciate your thoughts on how to improve 600 images that look exactly like this.
The end-goal is to upload these images as a book to the Internet Archive (archive .org).  These images have already been worked on as 600 separate PhotoShop jobs (each of which, I have saved).  All I have done, thus far, is to de-warp each image using PhotoShop's perspective crop feature, then manually adjust levels for each image.
The images themselves were captured by camera in 1953 under varying light conditions.  This was done to produce a microfilm duplicate.  A scan of that microfilm--which involves two pages of the opened book per slide--is the source for each image.  Unfortunately, the digital files I have, for each page, are HIGHLY compressed JPEG from the scan of the microfilm duplicate (I think each download was around 1.2 MB per slide (with two pages on it)).
I could really use some ideas on how to make these pages look as legible and "pleasing to the eye."  My goal is not for the pages to reproduce with any authenticity to the original document.  I intend this to be a workhorse for historical researchers, so legibility is key---but if the digital artifacts could be smoothed out, etc, I'd be grateful.
Thank you in advance!


texts: Convert Resume from Photoshop to ??? to improve PDF quality

texts: I've made a huge mistake. I found a cool template for a resume that I liked and spent hours making it what I wanted in photoshop only to find out that saving as PDF makes all the text look blurry. I've tried converting the text layers to objects but it doesn't seemed to have helped. I have the entire adobe suite, is there anything that can be done? I don't know how to transfer PSD files to other apps. I tried with indesign but it shows up extremely blurry when I use the "place" function. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Critique - Logo design for a beer brewery

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I have made a logo design for a beer brewing company,

Ræit

Background for the name
The name is based on the background of my surname, Reiten, and stems from the Norwegian word "Reit", which means "(a piece of) land/field". I wanted to use Æ instead of E to express that the company is from Norway, and also because it fits better with my logo idea (see next section).
Background of the logo
I wanted to combine the name Ræit, and a piece of barley in the name, the "Æ" is replaced by a glyph of a barley grain. I uploaded two different logos, using different fonts. Because I have some questions about the fonts as well (see next section). I want the brand to express nature, mountains, forests, fjords, cottage, Scandinavian, but I want the logo to be simple and recognizable. And this is what I came up with for the logo.
This one is using Modum regular

This one is using Newslab regular

I have a few quesitons:

Is the angles in the "Æ" too sharp? (See α in below image), making it too difficult to read the logo as an "Æ"?
I have not seen many brand names that incorporate the logo in the middle of the brand name, as I am doing with the "Æ". Is is poor logo design to go this?
I am not sure if it is a good idea to have the height of the "Æ" above and below the baseline of the font? (See orange line in below image)
If using the newslab font, will the font and main logo become too similar? I mean, there are only straight lines.
If using the modum regular, you get some more sleek, "rounded" corners on the letters, but I do not like the anit-aliasing on them, so you do not get that crisp font, but I am not sure if that is a bagatelle/trifle. I am also wondering if the contrast is too subtle, and a font with a bigger contrast is better or not?
I am not good with fonts, and I am having a hard time finding one that fits with the logo (the barley grain). I am open to a completely different font if you have any suggestions.

I am not a professional designer. And I only do this for fun, but I want to get you opinions on it.


texts: What to do for eye/retina "burn-in" now that we're all darkened up?

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Like many, I've been so excited since I switched to dark mode on macOS. I've been able to work at night and in my studio with dim lighting so much easier. My eyes feel so much better now! But this has come at a price...

I'm now frequently finding myself having "lines" and shapes in my vision when I look away from my monitor. It's really very similar to CRT or even LCD burn-in from what I can tell. The longer I stare at a design or document, the worse it is and when I simply blink I see the afterimage still pretty darn acutely.

Are there any suggestions or aids for preventing or minimizing this both for ourselves personally and in our designs for users of systems we design?


texts: When saving, I'm not getting all the Photoshop image formats as options

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So I've edited a photo in Photoshop and I try to save it as a JPEG, only it doesn’t give me all the options for formats; no PNG or anything. Why is this?

Anyone have any suggestions or know any possible fix for this?


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I created a simple symbol in InkScape and I want to convert it to WMF.
But there is a loss of quality in the conversion.
I attached the link to download 2 files. The original SVG and the WMF output. Look at the result. Download Images
The strange thing is that this problem started to occur a few days ago on my machine.
Has anyone had a similar problem?


texts: Change hue of image from one color to another

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I have an image in blue and want to change it from blue to another color. An example shift is below:

The entire image I want to change the color hue. Instead of changing one contiguous area of colored pixels to another color, I just want to do the whole image. For example, changing it from blue to green/teal below, the light blue changed to light teal, the dark blue to dark teal, etc.

I'm not sure how to do this in either AI or PS. The artist I hired to make the above image said I could just change the spectrum of colors but what this means I'm not sure. He originally made the green and changed it to blue at my request and said it was straightforward how to do it.


texts: When does the designer pay for a reprint

texts: The QR code supplied by designer was incorrect. This was discovered by the client after all materials were printed and delivered. Everything was scrapped and reprinted. What level of responsibility does the designer have?


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I've seen many times an icon to represent "random" that looks like this:

But does anyone else feel this icon is awkward?

I can understand what it wants to express, but it's just not that straight forward. People have to think about it to really understand what it's referring to.

What would be another alternative to this icon?


texts: Mask a shape in front of many small shapes in Illustrator CC

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I am working on the latest version of Adobe Illustrator CC with all the latest updates installed.

I have the following:

I would like the dome shape in front to act as a mask for the complex shapes behind. How can I do this? The shapes behind are 100s of small shapes and even though I grouped them all as one, I still can't get it to mask when I try various things in the Pathfinder panel.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Another weird Ilustrator bug with transparency mask

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Whenever I create a transparency mask with multiple objects one of them gets automatically moved to the transparency zone. I have no idea why is this happening, it never used to do such thing. I tried ugrouping all objects, but the result is the same. Tried ticking all transparency options and nohing.

Here is a gif to illustrate the problem.

EDIT: Now it's happening when I'm grouping any object. One of them dissapears. What da hell?


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Is there any way to combine these expanded strokes without a completely botched result?

The normal boolean operations aren't working at all.


texts: How do I change the dpi in Properties of a jpeg from 96 to 300?

texts: I need to change the dpi shown in the Properties of a printscreen jpeg image from 96 dpi to 300 dpi for text editing in Abbyy. How do I do this in Microsoft Paint or other freeware? I need to change the dpi shown in Properties, not just change the image size.


texts: Removing all colour from a file, making it a vector

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just had a question about removing all background from an image traced file. If ever someone sends through an image which has words (like the one attached) or if it's got closed off sections, the background remains - when I try to remove it by selecting that specific part and deleting it, it does disappear but also removes the hole which was meant to be there. Similarly if I choose the colour fill and change it to applying a none (/), the same thing happens and the gap disappears. Just wondering if there is a way of getting rid of the filled colour while still retaining the artwork?

The happens with PSD, PND, JPEG files, not illustator files. I work at a printing company so the artwork some customers send is really hard to fully raterise the image, gaps and all?

Very sorry if this doesn't make sense


texts: Constraining Curve Angles on Existing Paths

texts: When drawing paths, I can easily constrain the next point to 45° increments by holding Shift.  How do I hold these same angles when modifying existing paths?  I want to ensure lines that appear level are actually level, and cannot think of a way to do it.  Thanks.


texts: I'm publishing a BLACK AND WHITE book being published. The lady asked to have a color image (against my thoughts) at the beginning of the black and white (interior) book. I did it wondering how it would look. Of course, it is dark... very clear but dark. How can I lighten it? It can be much lighter.  Would I use 'lighten' under the effects panel or what?  I'm in a major panic trying to get this figured out ASAP. Thank you for any info or help that you can give.


texts: What is the best practices/ethics to follow as a graphic designer to avoid silly mistakes?

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I have been working as graphic designer quite, but I have this issue that I can assure that there will be something left or error in final design or layout. And I will get to realize that when the 100 copies of prints arrived near door step.
I always get thumbs up for design but it will turn to thumbs down when read through or find that error.

what kind of practices, training, checklist every designer should follow to create stunning graphics with no embarrassing.

Thank you mates,

regards


texts: What skills are necessary and/or recommended to become a graphic designer

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I am planning to major in Graphic Design, but I am unsure if it is the right choice for me.
I would like to know what skills I should know before starting to study it so I can get a head start.
One particular skill I am confused on is drawing.  I have read online that drawing is a non-essential skill for graphic design, but on some cases I have also read that some drawing skill is required.


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I'm typesetting a document in InDesign, copy/pasting from a TextEdit file that I copy/pasted into from a client-supplied PDF. Not sure if its the greatest workflow, but I collated all the text from the PDF into the TextEdit file because the PDF didn't have editable text, and so I could have all of the text in one place (and not use Word). I thought this would strip the text to as close as plain text as could be, so when I paste it into InDesign, I could apply a Paragraph style with no problems. But when I'm doing this, I'm getting colors that aren't even in the Paragraph style that I'm applying:

and the formatting seems to be almost random in different instances and I don't know why. I thought I could override whatever was going but no errors are showing up in the Paragraph styles panel in any of the cases:

So not sure what to do or why its doing that, and where purple is coming from when its nowhere in the style? Maybe missing something simple but I don't know what.


texts: In GIMP, how do you crop a photo without changing the aspect ratio?

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I know I can go to image properties and then type in the resolution manually into crop for each image I work on, but is there a button to keep the photo's aspect ratio automatically?
Seems like this should be the default, but it instead keeps whatever you last typed in the box


texts: What is the difference between pdf "print ready" and just straight pdf?

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I am about to get a book printed and the term: "pdf print ready" has come up.
How is this different from an ordinary pdf file?


texts: How to remove border from this coffee cup image when Magic Wand in Photoshop can't?

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In Photoshop I've taken Magic Wand as far as I can, I think.
Now I'm left with this grayish edge around the coffee saucer.
How do I remove it?
I've tried altering tolerance in Magic Wand but don't seem able to get it.
Any suggestions please?


texts: Changing colors of raster images in Illustrator

texts: I would like to change the colors of a Photoshop PSD in Adobe Illustrator. Can a raster image's color be altered in Illustrator?


texts: How are patterns that look like they're moving created?

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Every time I see a pattern that looks like it's moving, but really isn't, I wonder what the principles are for creating such images.

I suppose this is the best place on the web to get a good answer to this. Some observations I have made are that they usually involve circular shapes, and somehow draw your eyes towards a specific part of the image.

Some examples:

So what are the principles for creating optical illusion patterns and images?


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I inherited a bunch of Flash animations that I am in charge of updating, maintaining, editing, etc.  They are really basic animations, really just sideshows of pictures with the occasional floating text.  My question is, some of them are 30fps and others are 24fps.  I am the kind of guy that likes standardization, so I would like to set them all the same.  There is no documentation as to why the person that originally created them used two different speeds (in fact I am not even sure if they were all made by the same person).

Any real advantage with one over the other?


texts: Remove lines from a double-lined path to become a single-lined path

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I' quite new to Inkscape and came across something that I don't quite understand.

I made two simple paths. I tried filling them both, but as it appears, one of the two paths has double lines. This causes the fill to have an effect more similar to a stroke.

This is my "normal" path.

And this is the path in question. I have no idea how it became this way.
Is there any way to revert it to a single line?

This is a link to the file, in case that could help.


texts: Customer asking for InDesign files as a Word doc!

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I have taken on a freelance project.

I sent in a cover letter to the client saying that I use InDesign and Quark and was offered work by a publisher.

They sent me all the files I required, and detailed instructions on the layout they would like. I spent a few days putting the book together in InDesign and send them a PDF to have a look at.

They are requesting that I send them the Word document of the completed book.

How do I go about telling the publisher that Word is not a typesetting/layout program and they cannot have the InDesign files supplied as a Word document so they can make changes themselves?

If I try converting the InDesign document to Word then all the margins, running heads/footnotes, images/layout are not kept exactly as requested.


texts: What application supports working with sprites (PNGs) over 10,000 px wide?

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I'm currently using Fireworks for image manipulation and preparation, and I do the following tasks:

Resizing the canvas
Rearranging components, i.e. cutting bits out and putting them elsewhere
Resizing components
Exporting as PNG32 (an efficient PNG32 export algorithm is essential). Note this should support alpha transparency.

Fireworks is great, but has dramas for canvases over 10,000 px wide, and some slight dramas for canvases over 6,000 px wide. 10,000 px used to be ridiculous, but these days with sprite methodologies and Retina DPI, it turns out it's pretty easy to hit that limit.

Do any applications do the above and support massive resolution (10,000 px ++) canvases?


texts: Free Transform in Photoshop Elements 10 without anti-aliasing

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I am re-asking this question for Photoshop Elements 10 :
How can I resize an image without anti-aliasing?

I want the same result as the user got here- the ability to change a layer's angle and scale without having photoshop try to smooth the image for me (I'm working with pixel art). The only issue is that there is no "Interpolate Image" option in the general preferences tab like in other photoshops. The only area I can even access the "Nearest Neighbor" option is in the Image Resize tab, and that doesn't allow me to operate within a specific layer or to change the angle at all.

Thanks for your help!


texts: how can I resize a layer and have the other change to the proper ratio

texts: I have monkey.psd that each layer is a part of a monkey and I want to resize monkey's head from 500x500 px to 300x300px and have other layer reduce the size to same ratio as before


texts: What software do you use to design website layout mockups?

texts: I use Adobe Photoshop but I find it kind of buggy sometimes. When I import what I do in photoshop to Flash the quality of the design drops down a notch...


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I would like to know if any one of you knows what font Kiln Sans & Serif are based on.

Here's the font:
http://www.yellowdesignstudio.com/fonts/kiln (images below)

I'd need it because i would like to use the non-distressed version of the font.

Font creator, Ryan, told me they made it out of scans, but does not recall base font...

Would any of you have a clue on that? What the Font gave me approximative results, but cannot find similar fonts for both the Sans & Serif version.

If nothing shows up, i might have to "un-distress" by manually, and would appreciate advice on how to do it in a not that tedious fashion...

Thanks a lot for your help!

Charles


texts: How to arrange images by their dominant color?

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I want to arrange a stack of images by their primary color/s - or another, aesthetic way by involving an algorithm, rather than my own poor judgement. Is there a tool for doing so?

These are Photoshop CS4 layers, so a plugin solution would be great, but anything is appreciated :)


texts: How to add readable text to a light and dark image?

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I'm trying to add text to a photo of a city but the colors in the background make it difficult to read light and dark text. I've tried several light and dark colors but they all looked overpowered by the colors in the image. What colors could I use or what can I do to the text to make it show but also make it so you can still see the background?

Here is the image I'm trying to use: http://getwallpapers.com/wallpaper/full/3/e/b/151308.jpg


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When should I use them, and how do I pick one?

(NB: I know the answer, but think this question fills an important gap.)


texts: Creating a new stage in Adobe Edge Preview 0.10.0.134.17040

texts: I recently started working with Adobe Edge, and need to create an additional stage for a more complex animation. How can this be done?


texts: How to use the line tool to draw a continuous line with corners in Illustrator?

texts: I'm trying to create a box with a lot of corners in it but it would be helpful if I could make the corners without having a break in the lines.  Is there a way to draw lines continuously without any breaks at all?


texts: Is it possible to recover unsaved data in Illustrator cs4?

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I was working on a file and Illustrator suddenly crashed, just wondered if the data gets saved somewhere.

Any tips?


texts: Small Font Size on Labels, Instructions and User Guides

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The font size for a current product instruction label I am working on is 4.75. I am needing to reduce the size even lower to make more content fit. This goes against everything I've learned about usability and readability, not to mention customer satisfaction with the product.

The need is partly over the requirement to have the label be bilingual. I've tried to work with my colleagues to reduce the amount of text, but am not gaining any support. The size of the label cannot be increased.

I've seen even smaller text on OTC drug instructions and women's makeup packaging, for example. Too small for normal reading glasses in normal lighting.

What is the absolute smallest font size that is acceptable. What are thoughts on industry standards? Anyone have experience with this?

I'm cringing over having to do this but think I will have to go down at least a point size.


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I've created a bunch of layer slices. However I need a way of hiding the background layers to make the images based on the layers have a transparent background when saved.

As i'm doing it now, I need to hide the background layers every time before selecting save for web. Is there an easier way?


texts: Edit Animated SVG File in Adobe Illustrator and keep Animation

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I have an animated SVG that I would like to edit. The edit is very simple and I only want to change some text.

I can open the SVG correctly in Illustrator and make the change, but when I save it and view it in my web browser the animation no longer works.

Is there another package I am best off using to edit SVG files without losing the animation?


texts: What am I missing if I have a font created from SVGs using some online application?

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I have love for fonts, especially in web and print typography, though my background is not in this regards. Recently I came to know that, I can make SVG images in Illustrator, and can upload them to web applications to convert them into web fonts, and they did it wonderfully. I already am using such fonts in one of my websites.

I also installed the TTF file contained in the package, opened MS Word, entered the keyboard key associated with my characters and they started appearing – wow! As they’re made of SVGs (instead of pixels), they are simply awesome and taking larger sizes without any hustle.

My question now: I heard that, making a font is no fun; especially there’s something called hinting involved there that is painful. However, I don’t know anything about font making.

Can you please shed some light on the differences between the scenario I presented and how a font should be developed – what actually is the difference in between and what are the issues my automated font can create of which I‘m not aware?


texts: How to reduce the vertical bounding box of a font?

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I just extracted Twitter's iconography glyph font (before the new redesign) to also keep it in history (because I also much love it than the new one imho) and also study and use it on my Twitter UX concepts (the copyright is all on Twitter, just using it for my personal uses only), It's called Rosetta, but when you convert that WOFF font to OTF or TTF from any converters online, it shows a big vertical bounding box below, which makes picking glyphs on Photoshops difficult as they're cropped, like this:

How could I modify it using a 3rd party font maker tool like FontForge to remove that bounding box below so it will show correctly?


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When starting a new file in Photoshop, one is given the choice of selecting many things, among them is "Pixel Aspect Ratio".

What is this? What does it do?

Do I get smoother lines if I choose anything other than 'Square Pixels'? Will everyone see the same quality?


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Hopefully someone out there with PitStop experience can help.
I have to merge Millions of variable QR codes into layouts, I'm doing this through XMPie, and outputting PDFs for my layouts.  I have this figured out, this is the easy part.
First, and highest importance, what I need to do is to add a Page Info text line to the margin of every sheet (Page# & File Name).  Is there a way to do this with PitStop?
Second, in the "would be nice" category, if I could add a mark or bar or something on every Xth page to mark for QC checking.  In my case, it would be every 1000th page.  Is that possible with PitStop?
I use PitStop a lot for general preflighting, so I'm familiar with global changes, and creating my own actions, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do these two things.


texts: Sketch: How to change the background color of an image?

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I have a PNG I downloaded from the internet / shutterstock:

It's a PNG, however the background is white. Is there a way I could remove the white background in Sketch and replace it with a different color (e.g. purple)?

Ideally I'd like a tool similar to the Hue slider, but just for a specific color (white in this case).


texts: Are there easy ways to convert an image to a cartoon achieving a high quality?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?

Is there some relatively easy way to convert an image to a cartoon with a high quality ? This example shows what I would like to achieve.

I've watched this tutorial but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.

Is there a way to make a better one (as close to the picture as above) ?


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I am a fresher UI/UX designer.
My APP icon is showing blur and I am using photoshop 72 resolution and please tell me about android & ios icon measurement, Resolution and size.


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Need to find a replacement for Microsoft fonts for a 'metro-style' UI design project. Just wondering what the best replacement might be because of Segoe's evolution from Fruitger.

In terms of a suitable font replacement, I would have thought that the main criteria is for the font family to have styles in different weights (Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Extra bold, etc), and that the general look and feel is similar enough and would fit with a interaction (and tile) based visual styling.

I thought about something like Clear Sans or Open Sans, but what are people's experiences with them?

A list of possible alternatives (in no particular order):

Open Sans
Clear Sans
Droid Sans
Noto


texts: What Design process should you follow as a design lead? Are there any ways you can make it easy for your juniors?

texts: Say, I want to make it easy for my juniors to follow a design process so that it help them from missing the deadlines and work in an organised manner, so that they enjoy while working.


texts: Sketch: "Resize to fit" artboard will crop borders

texts: When I resize an artboard to fit the content, the resulting arboard doesn't fit at all. Borders expand beyond the artboard unless I choose "inside" for border positions. Is this a known issue and is there a workaround for it except changing all border positions to inside?


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I use the term from time to time and i just cant get my head around it why is it called branding 'collateral' - in my mind collateral is something you put up as a security, usually in conjunction to a loan ect.

Is there something ive missed here ?


texts: Is there a quick way of batch converting multiple files from JPG to PNG in photoshop?

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I made a rookie error and accidentally saved about 20 images in Photoshop as .jpg files rather than .png files.

Is there a quick way I can convert all these files to a .png format at once rather than individually?


texts: Export PDF with colors that show up in InDesign

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I'm very unfamiliar with the color profile settings in InDesign. Most of the images in what I'm trying to export were pulled from the web. (Clearly, I'm not the most advanced user).

When I export the document as a PDF, the colors don't show up how they show up in InDesign. When I look online, I find a lot of information about how to make Photoshop compatible with InDesign and have the colors show up the same in both places.

I understand that InDesign is production-level software, but is there any straightforward way to export a PDF that looks like what I see on the screen in InDesign. Whenever I try different "destination" color profiles in the export window, some images show up fine, and other colors are distorted worse than before.

Other information:

Color settings:

Even colors on the same page don't show up the same (that's the same shade of blue in both):


texts: Which would be a better Material Design bottom nav on desktop color combination?

texts: Which colors combination are better for the bottom navigation bar, while in expanded state, taking in consideration the user experience:


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I am having trouble with elements that are on and near the edge of the Artboard being cut off when I go to save the image.

For example: Let's say I create the document with an Artboard size of 800 by 800 and then I create a Rectangle shape that is also 800 by 800 and I Align it perfectly and then I proceed to add elements near the edge plus a Stroke to the Rectangle, rather it's inside or outside, and then I go to save the image as a .png (or whatever) the Stroke and objects near and on the edge get cut off.

And no matter what I do I cannot make the Artboard just a few pixels (or whatever) less or more and I cannot extend the rectangle just a few px's less or more to make up for whatever is happening.

So, I have looked and looked through the (ever elusive), Adobe Illy Manual for an answer but have not been able to come close to an answer/solution. This has now (at this very moment), made me wonder if one can work with Illy without an Artboard so that this problem will ... well, not be a problem.

I have even tried using an Artboard much bigger than I need and then fitting the Artboard to the Selected Artwork but I still end up with the same problem.

Thank you so much for reading my long post. I appreciate your time and efforts to help me navigate this annoying issue. Be well,
Kara


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I want to use the Ubuntu Font Family in my designs. They are licensed with the UFL, which is confusing to me. Can I use fonts licensed with the UFL for making “things” (images, videos, documents etc.) – even for commercial usage –, and license them with other licenses (or keep the copyright)?

I understood that if I attach the font to my “thing”, the font will still be licensed under the UFL. And if someone extracts the font from my “thing”, the font will still be under the UFL.


texts: How to draw proportionally in Illustrator?

texts: I want to draw a graph that is similar to below image in Illustrator. I can use the Rectangle tool to draw a graph that looks like it. However, I want to draw something proportionally (according to the size info in below image) so that it looks real (at least for size). How can I do that in Illustrator?


texts: Apply an "anti-aliasing" effect to a layer in Photoshop CC

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I am aware this type of thing is probably very general knowledge, but after reading some tutorials I can't seem to get things right. I am a programmer, but have been tasked with some minor UI tweaks.

I have this caret as shown below, but it was much too small, so I used free transform and enlarged it by 200%. Now, it looks slightly blurry, and I am not sure how to rectify this.

I know anti-aliasing in fonts takes care of this type of thing, so how can I achieve the same effect with just a layer? *I can also rasterize it/convert to smart object - not sure if this helps in any way.


texts: I want to take a photograph and distort it as if it were being wrapped around a satellite dish; that is, concave, a parabolic shape. Or a singularity if you will. I've messed around with envelope distort and tried searching for answers, but I'm coming up dry. Any suggestions?


texts: Eye pleasing aspect ratio for slides and handouts

texts: Assuming that there are no restrictions like the ratio of a screen; what is an eye pleasing ratio for presentation slides and handouts (containing information about the presentation)? Is it something to consider or negligible? Can it be generalized?


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I'm working on a website and the client want this font to be used for the logo:

But he has no idea what the font is and the guys who created his old design are no longer in business. So if anyone knows the name of this font it would help me a lot. Thanks for the patience as this is a bit of a dull question.

UPDATE: This is what I manage to actually do using one of the fonts you've showed:


texts: Creating Voronoi diagram from Adobe Illustrator CC

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I have some artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC that I want to use to create a voronoi diagram from.

You can see what a voronoi diagram looks like here:

Link

I would like to use the points on my paths to seed the diagram. I have found a tool that uses an old Illustrator extension called Scriptographer, unfortunately Scriptographer stopped being supported past version CS5.

I am okay with using other applications in the workflow as long as they are free or of insignificant cost (<= £15), however I must be able to export from Illustrator and not have to rebuild my artwork in them.

Does anyone know the best method for going about this? My only other option is to write my own Illustrator extension but I would rather not as I have no experience doing so and will be a significant time investment.


texts: What are the consequences of using unlicensed fonts?

texts: I know that whenever somebody makes something and we want to use it, it is better to contribute to them and pay for it. But I have nothing to hide: I have used fonts illegally a few times. Is it possible that someday somebody will contact me because of this? As fonts are sold in various online shops can they determine from where I bought it, or that I did not buy it at all?


texts: "Multiplying" a white background gives perfect results! how do I save this image?

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This is my original image in a layer... on top of a pattern bg

as you can see, it has a white background. I would love for it to be transparent.

When I change its blending mode to "Multiply" it becomes transparent as you can see in the image below

This transparency is nearly perfect. I cannot reach even 10% of the quality of this white background stripping by any mean, magic eraser, color replacing etc. nothing works like this blending mode.

How can I use the same "technique" to create a saved transparent PNG of my image? without any forced background? This is really my goal here. I'd like to strip it of its white background in the best way possible without working on every pixel for weeks...  how do I apply the same "blending" technique that stripped the image of its white background in order to save it transparent?


texts: How should I determine which graphic design tool to use?

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I usually build grey-ish government type applications but lately I've been try my hand at some iPhone and iPad work. It looks like graphic design plays a large part in these systems.

I'm wondering if there is any one product which has the bigger community, or is the most frequently used. E.g. I don't want to spend hours learning Photoshop and then learn that 80% of designers use Adobe Illustrator.


texts: Dominant color vs primary color vs prominent color of an image?

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What is the difference between the primary color of an image, dominant color of an image, and the most prominent color in an image?

Is the primary color and the most prominent color (most frequent color) in an image conceptually the same? What about dominant color, is that taking the human eye/perception into account?


texts: What does the default 'whiteboard' in illustrator represent?

texts: Does this have any significance / mean anything? More specifically, am I allowed to draw outside it or am I limited to drawing within the white space. See attached


texts: I want to save a logo as PNG-24 with a transparent background. Is it completely the same outcome if I Save for Web in Photoshop and Save for Web in Illustrator?


texts: Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign - placed image different dimensions and resolution

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The same problem over and over again - why do images placed in Id/Ai show different size than in PS?

I've made image in PS of about 2000x1500 pixels at 300 PPI.

Then made Ai document of 2500x1600 pixels at 300 PPI. To avoid any conversion/compression surprises I simply placed the Ps document in Ai document. Guess what? It's shrunk and terribly pixelated though MB size in link properties seems correct.
Ok, then maybe for some reason it reduced the resolution: let's make an Ai doc at 72 PPI. Surprise again - the placed PS doc is exactly the same size as it was in 300 PPI doc. And exactly the same pixelated.

Let's try Id then: one with print intent (so it should have like 300 PPI) and one with web intent (should have about 72 PPI), both size like before. Guess what? Absolutely no change - Ps doc is shrunk and pixelated (and appears same size in both cases), though shows correct MB size, Actual PPI = Effective PPI = 300 and correct dimensions according to link description.

When tried with *.png file instead of Ps, nothing changed as well.

I'm totally dumbstruck by now.
How is it that suddenly one 300 PPI file is not working with other 300 PPI file and 2000pix height becomes less than 1/5 of 2500pix height?...


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I've done this a hundred times, but this time I worry I am overthinking it! This clients company name happens to be two words of similar width. The second word slightly wider, and it's confusing me as to the best strapline size and placement.

See below four versions, all of which have faults to my eyes. We can eliminate the fourth of course as "silly", but the first the tagline is somewhat small (relative to the wordmark) and the second two suffer from obvious "alignments" with the start and end of words.

Does this have to be done by eye, or is there some kind of grid, or ratio that might steer me in the right direction and break through my block?


texts: Trying to get pattern into specific shape - GIMP

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I am trying to get a specific pattern into a shape with GIMP using layer masks. But i cannot make it work, either the layer mask is grayscale for some reason or i cant get the pattern to show.

This is the shape i am trying to fit the pattern into

And this is the texture i want, but only in the shape above

I assume it has something to do with getting a transparent layer made and then making adding the texture as a layer mask or something. Can anyone help?


texts: Illustrator:Why does the PDF version of my file show content I already deleted on the AI file?

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I had a few random lines on my illustrator file so i Decided to delete them.

Now: When I open this file on illustrator, the lines are gone - perfect.
But when I saved this exact file as a PDF, then opened the PDF separately from illustrator these lines were back.

I went back to the original AI file to discover the lines weren't there. Then I saved it again as a PDF to discover they came back.

Why is the PDF showing lines which are CLEARLY not on the original AI file?


texts: Photoshop ruler guides embedded in JPEG image?

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I saved an image of an iPhone from Google and when I opened it in Photoshop, it had ruler marks set in place around the phone. I've never seen or even heard of such a thing before. I thought it was my doing at first but I re-opened the image again and the ruler marks were back.

How is it possible to embed ruler marks into a .jpeg image?


texts: Resizing a large number of Images with Gimp or IrfanView

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I have about 300 pictures.
They were taken of the restoration of the place where I work.
Now we have an opening night with some people.

The pictures are sometimes portrait and sometimes landscape, in varying resolutions and sizes.

What I actually need now is to resize all of these pictures to our monitors with a maximum size of 1920x1080.

What is a quick and efficient way to do this?
Here are the programs I have access to.

GIMP
IrfanView

I could ask a friend if I might use his PC since there's Photoshop on it.


texts: Illustrator - How to change the color of the line between two anchor points

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How can I change the color of the (anchor handle and path) lines that illustrator shows between two points?

Example:

In my case, the line is black and it's impossible to see if I'm working with a black background.

Thanks!


texts: Can someone please explain non-trivial behavior of Direct Select tool while attempting to resize a rectangle in Photoshop?

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I am a Photoshop novice, but an experienced C++ programmer.

In the process of attempting to resize a rectangle (created with the Rectangle tool) using the Direct Select tool, I ran into some non-trivial behavior that I do not understand and that I am having a difficult time reproducing.

I have taken the following steps:

(1) Choose Direct Select tool

(2) Click once inside image, but outside the rectangle (to deselect any current Direct Select selections made to the rectangle)

(3) Click and drag the Direct Selection rectangle to completely surround the top two corners (and neither bottom corner) of the rectangle

(4) Zoom in to 3000% magnification by clicking the Zoom In button on the Navigator

(5) Scroll the visible area to the middle of the top edge of the rectangle by dragging the red rectangle in the Navigator pane

(6) Press the Shift key and then click/hold the mouse with the cursor directly over the top row of pixels of the rectangle

(7) Still holding the mouse button, drag the mouse upwards to resize the rectangle by moving the top edge up.

This seems "simple enough".  The problem is that it does not always work.  It sometimes works - just not always.

The strange behavior I sometimes observe is the following:

(1) Sometimes there is a 1-px grey line on some, or all, edges of the rectangle.  Sometimes these lines disappear completely.  As noted, sometimes these lines appear on some edges, but not all edges.  I cannot figure out what steps to take make them appear, and what steps to take to make them disappear.  As far as I currently understand, it's random.  (Obviously it is not random, but I cannot currently understand it.)

(2) Sometimes, when holding the Shift key, the rectangle, as it resizes, is constrained to vertical resizing.  Other times when holding the Shift key, the rectangle is not constrained to vertical resizing, but instead the rectangle changes to a parallelogram or (perhaps, I'm not sure) another non-rectangular shape.

(3) When the ruler is displayed, and shows a pixel-based grid, I find that there is a horizontal grid line within the top row of the rectangle that is NOT aligned with the pixel marking on the ruler.  As the rectangle is resized, the non-aligned grid line always remains inside the top row (all other grid lines appear exactly at the pixel indicators on the ruler).

(4) Most importantly - SOMETIMES when I shift-click and drag the mouse to raise the top edge of the rectangle (having already selected the top two corners of the rectangle with the Direct Selection tool before zooming in), the rectangle does NOT resize.  Instead, a "selection rectangle" of some sort follows the mouse.  Nonetheless, the Direct Selection of the corners of the rectangle still seems to be present - I do not de-select the Direct Selection settings, it's just that an additional "selection rectangle" of some sort seems to appear when I attempt to resize the rectangle - rather than the rectangle actually resizing.

Can someone please explain this non-trivial behavior of the Direct Select tool while I attempt to resize a rectangle in Photoshop?


texts: Company wants to see email design portfolio, I (stupidly) never created one?

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I screwed up bigtime.

I never considered myself to be an "email designer" until just recently, when I ended up in a couple of jobs doing just that. I've always focused on web & graphic design, and somehow ended up doing a ton of stuff with Bronto/ExactTarget/etc. However, my idiotic self never thought to SAVE any of that work for portfolio use, and now I'm interviewing for a new job where they have asked to see examples of past email work...and I don't have access to any.

What the hell do I do?


texts: Good practice of showing Items details in the same table's page

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I have an application which have table of Item, now I'm wondering what is the best practice of showing Items details :

Option 1

Search an Item, then click on details button of that Item to open a new page which show all details

Option 2

Option 1 +
A quick show In the same page, which show only the important details.

My question is :

Is it a good idea to use the second option?
If yes, In which side I should to display this details?


texts: Trifold mock up does not match with main document

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I have created this trifold brochure (front) in Adobe Illustrator. After completing, I want to apply it on mock up.
I opened a smart object for a specifically assigned part and then  saved it.
But the finishing is not good at all. Waves are not matching with one another!
Am I doing something wrong, or is there some specific process for work like this??
What I tried:

Copy / paste from Illustrator to Photoshop mock.

I opened JPEG in Photoshop, then sliced it in equal parts, and copy / paste it on brochure.


texts: Need to erase the stroke between start & end points of a path in Illustrator

texts: I opened a PSD in Illustrator. The file has a path in it, but when given a stroke, it joins the ends of the path, which I do not want. I do not want a closed stroke, instead I want an open stroke.


texts: Using a similar feel as CNN's Breaking News for banner to promote product - is it fair use?

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I'm creating a "Breaking News" image / banner to promote a product. I'd like to give it an air of authenticity by using a similar look and style as CNN's or BBC's "Breaking News" flash (Title, subtitle, feel). The end result will be similar but different (won't be using real CNN logo).
See examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=bbc+news+breaking+news&client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1464&bih=777&noj=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj37ImDoeTQAhVqBcAKHQwhDwYQ_AUICigD
or https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1464&bih=777&noj=1&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cnn+breaking+news&oq=cnn+breaking+news&gs_l=img.3...460148.460595.0.460722.4.4.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.img..4.0.0.iGjj-J_Gv-E

So I'm wondering, is this fair use if the style is similar but different?


texts: Recreate my text-based vector logo in HTML/CSS

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I know that this could also be posted for the coders, however I figured a lot of you stepped in each other's backyards from time to time so here goes:

I'm using the Twentyseventeen WordPress theme and my logo just isn't near as sharp as the webfonts of the same font family right next to it.

I want to take my logo which is currently in .EPS, .PDF and .AI format and recreate it using Webfonts, HTML & CSS. One font is stacked over the other and the kerning on the second font is a bit stretched to match the length of the first font above it.

I have rights to both desktop and web fonts for both of the fonts in my logo.

Is it possible to recreate a text based logo in strictly HTML/CSS to match the designer's kernings, etc.?

Thanks, I know I butchered the hell out of this question.


texts: What Japanese font is used in the Try Knights logo?

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Attempted to use https://en.likefont.com to no avail

Sample from: https://www.ntv.co.jp/tryknights/


texts: How to turn off InDesign's smart text wrap auto-adjustments that minimise/mitigate breaking words? (make text wrap dumber)

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I'm not entirely sure what this feature is called, but I'm doing something which depends on perfectly consistent lengths of strings of text, and I need to turn it off.

Sometimes InDesign makes tiny adjustments to tracking/kerning or break positioning to minimise the ugliness of text breaks.

For example, here's a string of characters, followed by a line with the same string with one extra character, followed by another line with the same string of characters with one more added:

InDesign is doing something that is causing the characters on the second line to have very very very slightly tighter tracking, so that they fit, and is breaking the third line somewhere other than the necessary place, so that if it was a broken word it would look less ugly than having one lone letter.

Normally, that's great, exactly what any typographer would recommend. But for what I'm doing here, I need to turn this off and have it wrap text in the most "dumb" way possible, making no such adjustments or calculations.

What is this, and how do I turn it off (ideally, just for one character style or paragraph style)? I've already got Kerning on the appropriate character style set to None and hyphenation turned off. I've also tried Ignore optical margin.

Must be in InDesign; if version is relevant, I'm using CS6.


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I want to make 3d text in photoshop that has a thick square border, with a different color than the text, very similar to this:

I've been playing with these contour settings:

But this is the closest I can get:

Is this effect possible to achieve within photoshop?