texts: Apply filter only on clipped bitmap in Inkscape

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I would like to apply a filter in Inkscape only on the clipped part of an object.
I want to apply a filter only on part of a bitmap (shown here as a white square). Typically, I use Set Clip to select the part I care about. However, when I apply e.g. Dark and Glow after setting the clip, it uses the original object as the source.
How can I apply the filter on the clipped selection? Can this be done with clipping? Or is there another way of cropping in Inkscape?


texts: What is the font of Bernard Tschumi's Exhibition in Shanghai Power Station of Art?

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I went to Bernard Tschumi's exhibition (Bernard Tschumi: Concept and Notation) in Shanghai Power Station of Art, I'd like to know what the font of "Bernard Tschumi" in this poster.

I used Whatthefont multiple times to identify the font, the best guess is Red Ring Bold:

although they do look similar, but the dot above "i" shows the obvious difference, and when looking closely, the "a", "d", etc., all of them seem different.


texts: What is this network pattern/symbol called

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So I want to make a seamless repeating background pattern using the line and dot in this image below...

Is there a name for this type of design?

(sidenote) If you have any other suggestions, I'm trying to convey a corporate feel to big social media data. I'll submit a nice grayscale/monochrome image to a design blog or subtlepatterns or something once it's done. Thanks!


texts: What design resources should I expect to get from a client?

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I've just been approached to create some t-shirt designs for a tech company and I was just wondering whether I should expect anything from them besides their logo?

As an example, If they had a specific typeface they would want on the t-shirt would they have to supply me with that typeface?


texts: How to resize icons without losing quality?

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I have icons (in png format) with a resolution of  about 500x500 pixels and want to use them in app development around size 30x30 pixels. But when I resize them, they become very aliased.

How can I resize them so they remain crisp, without aliasing or blur? I am using Windows 10. I have GIMP installed, and am happy to use any free software.

For example I have a heart icon

When I scale it down in the app (by setting the width and height programatically), it becomes aliased:


texts: How do I select multiple layers/groups with mouse's dragging?

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I have in the workspace some objects. Some are grouped, and are near.
I'd like to make a selection of them with click/mouse drag, instead of shift-click selecting each of them (they are somethings like 30 objects, in a small range).

I don't want to make a new group with them.

Is it possible?


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I created some shapes with the pen tool and then with the brush, but when I switched back to pen tool I couldn't change the stroke.

I can't change its colour or make it transparent either. Does anybody have an idea what went wrong?

Here's screen:


texts: Gradient numbers for multiple svg export from illustrator

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When exporting to svg from Illustrator, the code generates a "linear-gradient-" or "radial-gradient-" plus number. This seems to work until I export multiple files with different gradients. No matter how I name them in the Graphic Styles, Illustrator exports them and names the gradients chronological, restarting for each file. This means that when used on a website the gradients completely mess up because multiple are called the same e.g. "linear-gradient-2". Is there a way to export the svg's so that this naming convention isn't used? or do I have to fix the code manually?

Ex1

<linearGradient id="linear-gradient-2" x1="662.49" y1="137.19" x2="796.91" y2="271.61" gradientTransform="matrix(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 578)" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
  <stop offset="0" stop-color="#ff7900"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#ffa300"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#f59c00"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#ce8201"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#b67102"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#ad6b02"/>
</linearGradient>

Ex2

<linearGradient id="linear-gradient-2" x1="234.52" y1="892.3" x2="234.52" y2="1254" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
  <stop offset="0" stop-color="#2d4847"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#294c4c"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#1c595b"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#066f73"/>
  <stop offset="1" stop-color="#00757a"/>
</linearGradient>


texts: Random rearrangement of objects within a grid in Illustrator

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I've got a set of tiles and I want to create a pattern out of it. Normally, this would produce a pattern with a single rectangle of these coloured tiles, which would give me noticeable repetitions.

To avoid that I have to duplicate the rectangle several times and rearrange single tiles manually to hide repetitions, which takes hell lots of time.

So, here's the question. Is there a way, a plugin, a script, which will make my life easier? Something, which would randomly generate a large table out of the given set of tiles?


texts: Printing on Plastic - How is this being done?

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Can someone here tell me how the images are being printed on plastic?

Example:

Source: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PlayStation-4-HDD-Cases-MGSV-Ground-Zeroes.jpg

From what I have read, printing on plastic is not easy as the paint has very little to stick to.

So does anyone have any insight into how the above is being done?

Can one use hydrographics for static images (e.g. not patterns) to transfer a photo to plastic?


texts: Illustrator and direct selection tool. Help!

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I was watching a tutorial on youtube on how to make a specific logo on illustrator. The guy draws a triangle with the polygon tool. He then takes the direct selection tool and grabs the uper and left corner anchor points and drags them to the right. Suddenly the corners disappear and it becomes round with only one corner left. Like a sideways water drop. I try to do this but when i drag the anchor points it just moves them. Can you help please?
THIS IS THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyApsHN6ZEo&list=WL&index=21
Go to 0:50


texts: I want to make a double Helix around a line. Is this possible? Preferably I'd like to costumize the form of the helixes as well like make them triangles around a cylinder.


texts: How to sort artboards by artboard order in the layer list in sketch?

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Is there a way to sort artboards in Sketch from left to right according to their order in the layer list?

What I mean is doing it without changing the artboard names or reordering them in the layer list, only to reflect the list order to sort the artboards from left to right.


texts: How do I convert a Keynote file to a high resolution PSD?

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I mocked up several marketing materials for my team in Keynote, and I'd like to convert them into high res files (preferably PSDs or JPGs) to upload to a printing site (like Vistaprint). I've tried to convert to PDF and JPG directly from Keynote, but the files come out pixelated and at a much lower resolution when uploaded to the printing site.

I'm hoping I can solve the pixelation upon upload by converting my Keynote files to PSDs (if at all possible).


texts: Please help to identify this map-printing technique

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Most old maps in my home (ranging from a school atlas to professionally made large maps from the National Atlas of India) use a peculiar technology. Instead of colored 'dots', they use 'strokes' of continuous, straight lines oriented in different directions.

The following image is a portion of a map of South America from a school atlas published by a local publisher here in Kolkata (Chandi Charan Das and co.,  150 Lenin sarani, kol-13. No mention of date or edition found, but it is a 15 to 20 year old book).

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Scale:

The word Caracas ( "কারাকাস" ) on paper is approximately 1.05 cm wide.

On a compound microscope (biology) (objective: 10X, eyepiece: 10X) but using reflected light, the lines do not show any 'dots' but instead uniform, continuous bands. The photograph below is taken from another map (on Asia, topography) from the same book.

The image on the left shows some vertical and horizontal lines. The one on the right shows some diagonal lines.

However the same school atlas also uses dot printing. There are also other maps which are solely made from dots, without any of these 'solid' lines.

An old map by the National Atlas of India, copyrighted in 1986, uses a similar pattern and probably the same technology. However, their grids are finer (narrower and more closely placed).

Scale:

The width of the word "Chamoli" on paper is approximately 3.3 cm.

Could anyone help me identity this beautiful, old map printing technology?


texts: How to use value-based pricing for design projects?

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tl;dr
What is the best way to use value-based fees for design projects? What would the "value" be?

I see that a lot of designers use time-based pricing (hourly, daily, etc.) Time-based pricing is horrible, for the following reasons:

There's a conflict of interest between you and the client. The longer the work takes, the more you earn and the more the client loses. So it's unethical.
When you set an hourly fee, you set a limit to what you can earn, as you have limited time. Say you set 100,000$ as your goal for the year, who knows you can't earn double, or triple that?
It's difficult to justify a price after you are done. What if you finish the project, and it takes you much more than you calculated, and the client refuses to pay?

Second option, putting fixed prices to specific tasks is better, but still not really good, for the following reasons:

When you set a fixed price to tasks like business card design, website design, etc., it might be completely different from one client to another, and you will still be charging the same.
It's difficult to justify costs to clients when you show your services as commodities.

Best way to price things, most of the time, is to use value-based pricing, because:

You will be able to justify much higher fees to the client, if you show them the tangible benefits they will be getting.
It's ethical, as you base your fees on the value you are offering to the client. If they are expected to earn 10$ from your services, you can charge them 1$, and they will be happy with an ROI of 1 to 10.
Sky's the limit.

But I'm wondering what the best way is when you are using value-based fees for design work. For example, when you are doing consulting, you can see that a 10% improvement in "Operation A" can offer the client 1 million dollars in revenue. So you can charge the client 100,000$.

With design work, the ROI is not tangible enough. How would you justify your fees to the client, and what would be the "values" you are going to be offering?

What exactly do I mean with "value-based fees"?
I think "value-based fees" have a different meaning in design community. What I mean is this: There's a school of thought saying "your fees should be based on the tangible and intangible values the client will get." A tangible value could be direct increase in revenue. An intangible value could be offering a service no one else can offer, or increasing employee morale. But I'm having a difficult time thinking of values the client will get in design projects.

For example, one thing I can think of is showing the client how much a client with professional logos earn more. Let's say there's a research saying that "companies that have professional logos earn 10% more". You can use that research to say that the client will get an average of 10% experience in revenue and you can get 10% off of that. Though the difficult thing is, design is pretty much subjective. So what is a "professional logo"? Or which logo is better? All these things make value based pricing difficult, as it's easier to use value based pricing with tangible things, which design seems not to be.


texts: way to apply the clipped shape of the path

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When you blur an object then it's dimension gets increased, say you only want the blur to happen radially without leaving the circle, this behaviour causes trouble, so you'd have to clip the shape. But, the actual geometry used for clipping is still there(unlike boolean operations), which we may want to get rid of, but if we do get rid of it then the clipping won't remain.

So, say you're ok with the shape you want, and want to 'apply' the non-destructive clipped path to a finalized destructive clip. How would we go about doing that?

EDIT: The endgoal is to create something like this: somehow 'applying' clipping or without using clipping


texts: Getting odd issues while selecting things in Photoshop

texts: So I am getting these extra selections when just trying to normally box select the image, anyone know what's going on or how to fix it? Haven't been able to successfully google the problem


texts: Why is Adobe Illustrator rendering my concentric circles like this

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I'm not a professional user of anything Adobe makes, but I am a programer and I do understand math, which is probably why this hurts my brain.
I open a new empty Adobe Illustrator CC document, set the dimensions to 250px x 250px, set the Artboard center markings on, place my cursor and create a circle 25px across, I carefully use the transform tool to move it -12.5px x and y, and then make my next circle, this time 30px across, and transform it -15px x and y, and I notice it looks wrong. I loose 15 minutes mucking around with the idea perhaps I turned something stupid on with perspective then give up and try to reproduce the 'bug'.
I make 2 new circles, each time doing a right click, and transform manually so that they are centered, then move it to the back of the layer stack so the circles in front are visible.

I get a weird "saggy bulls-eye" effect like each circle has warped either high or low and I have no idea why. Explanations?


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Is it possible to resize shapes or move shapes without aligning to pixel grid in Sketch 3?
I can use real numbers to set size like 34.5 but when resizing in convert size or position to integer numbers.


texts: In InDesign, is it possible to create Math-like Markup by mixing line and block elements?

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I am making a song-book, and many songs have repeating pairs of lines. I want to group these lines and mark how often they should be repeated on the right hand side of the lines. Here's a crude example of what I want to achieve (this looks quite blunt, but it illustrates the basic idea):

I'm using InDesign CS5, but I cannot find how to do this in a structured way (repeatable and consistent, not by manually positioning images or so). The accolade may also be replaced with a thin line if that makes it more feasible.

My idea was to put two block elements next to each other, one containing the lines to-be-repeated, and the other on the right containing the line and vertically centered line of text (either nested in the left box, floating right, or outside, but maintaining the height of the first). All must stay consistent with the rest of the lines of the song, so no changes in overall line distance or indentation should result out of this.

I'm planning to write a script that will generate the markup and put it on the clipboard so it can be pasted into InDesign.

If InDesign is not capable of such, what alternative would you recommend? I am considering LaTeX, but that would be quite a deviation from our normal workflow and will likely get some resistance from the rest of the team, as well as being a new learning project for myself.


texts: Design issues concerning header and body fonts with a different x-height

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I've heard it's harmonious to have the header and body text have similar x-heights. What if your headers have a lower x-height than the body text? Are there any design principles or other issues going against mixing like this?

As I understand it, using a high x-height font in body text will increase legibility. But if your headers have a lower x-height, wouldn't using a lower x-height font for the body make it less readable?

I read a few related posts here, but they didn't address my question.


texts: Specifying distance between objects in Adobe Illustrator CS5

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As I'm placing items for a design, I find myself guessing a lot about positioning, usually I will take an item and everything else that might be similar I'll use align-left, or distribute-center. However, if I have text, all aligned left, and I want an item to be X pixels away from the end of that item, is there a way i can specify that without tapping the right arrow five times?

There might be a better way to do this, something more magical that Illustrator was born to do, so any suggestions are helpful.


texts: Distributing objects between guides not working properly

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I've had this issue with Illustrator 5.5, 6 and CC, usually I work around it, but today I am sorta frustrated with the issue and decided to try and find a permanent solution.

It doesn't happen all the times, but sometimes when I try to evenly distribute objects between guide lines it won't distribute then right and actually moves one of the guides out of place.

I attach an image to explain better.

here's a better example I made


texts: Whether to put special words in headings in italics?

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When we use some term for the first time in a text, it is usually suggested to put in italics. For example:

Hereinafter, such hyphens are referred to as connectors.

My question is whether we should use italics when the first appearance of a term is in a heading. For example:

Embrace the slug. (Pro Tip)
Some systems define a slug as the part of a URL that identifies a page in human-readable keywords. It is usually the end part of the URL, which can be interpreted as the name of the resource, similar to the basename in a filename or the title of a page. The name is based on the use of the word "slug" in the news media to indicate a short name given to an article for internal use.

Here, I put the word "slug" in italics twice, but I'm not sure it is correct. Maybe I should put it in italics only in the heading? Or only in the normal text ("Some systems define a slug as...")?


texts: What sans-serif fonts pair well with Bookman Old Style?

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I'm far from knowledgeable about fonts, and I'm dealing with a real beast; Bookman Old Style Bold.

I've been looking for hours but I can't seem to find a sans-serif that balances well with it.

I have to use Bookman for the company name on a business card, but I can choose another font for all other text.

Could anyone help me with this please, what should I be looking for in a sans-serif font to pair it with Bookman?

Additionally, because it's for a business card it needs to be easy to read at small sizes (<9pt), so what do I need to look for in the font I choose regarding that as well?

Also, one of the reasons I chose to ask here is because I'm aware there are some typography experts from an older generation that use this site, and I'm hoping maybe one of them has already encountered this task, considering the age of Bookman.


texts: What is the boldest version of the font Neuzeit?

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What's the boldest variant of the "Neuzeit?"

Neuzeit Grotesk (or "GroT") is the boldest I've found online, but I just came across a sample in an illustration that was even bolder than that. I need to be able to match it.


texts: 12pt in Photoshop looks totally different in Web

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we are creating a website right now in Photoshop and we are using 12pt for the fonts. But when we see the fonts in web with 12pt they look much bigger. It seems that we have to use 12px in web so it looks same or similar.

So my question is how can it be that 12pt in photoshop look different than 12pt in web?

Thanks


texts: Is is possible to correct very blurry text with Photoshop? In a hurry, I took this picture, but the text is pretty much unreadable.


texts: In gimp how to create a silhouette/"Burn" a layer into another layer?

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Well I have an (set of) image(s) and I wish to create silhouettes out of those. Based on the alpha value of the image (alpha is either 0 or 1 no intermediate values).
The idea I had was to create three layers: a white background layer, a black foreground layer and a third top layer with the image.
Then for the top layer  select the right image each time and would pick a blend/layer mode so that it "burns" the alpha from the top layer on the bottom layer. Then I could just load all images into the layers, set the blend modes and make them visible one by one.
Is this possible, or would I have to go through the lengthy process of creating a selection, and making a path from this selection and then using that path as object to fill in the "black" layer. (which requires many more steps and with around a 100 images to process I'm not looking forward to that).
So say I have this image (and/or with the white replaced by a transparent region):

And I wish to create the following:


texts: Do all offset printers print spot colours too?

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I was wondering if all offset printers print CMYK + Pantone ?Or just some models do print Pantine colours?
Thanks


texts: Smoothing edges from jagged to a beautiful curve

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I've had to scan a logo that was printed by a very low-DPI printer. This printer messed up all the curves in the picture and created some very jagged edges that are quite visible when the logo is big (notice the bottom side of the curves). I'd like to recover the original curved edges, without the awful aliasing.

So far I've tried playing with the Select -> Feather and  Select -> Smooth tools in Photoshop but I've only gotten results where the edges are just curved teeth, rather than a nice prolonged curve. Also, blurring and feathering alone aren't much of an option because the scan still needs to be sharp.

Can I get some help, please?


texts: How to create an extruded halftone effect in illustrator or photoshop

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I saw this photo on Smashing Magazine:

  Portrait of Alfred Nobel by Viktor Hertz

And I was wondering how I can make a similar effect with the halftones extruding into 3D like it is shown. I don't have access to Photoshop Extended, so was trying to create the effect in Illustrator with the 3D effect with no avail.

Anyone know how this is done?


texts: Inkscape: How to set a stroke/object/path at 0 degrees, i.e. perfectly horizontal?

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I created a simple stroke line and it looks tilted, i.e. there's an angle with the horizontal. I would like this angle to be 0 degrees so the stroke is perfectly horizontal.

I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can achieve this.


texts: Lines appear on my outer fonts, its not stroke

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The font is Myriad pro and the color is white. There is no stroke or anything added to it. Why is it showing like this? Even if I put another color on, it will still show these lines. Even when I open it in the Photoshop.

Question: How do I remove these lines or what are they called and why are they showing up?

Behavior: IF I zoom-in around 200% they will disappear, but that doesn't solve my problem. When I transfer the AI file to Photoshop it stays like it even on 100% Zoom.

Thanks!


texts: Split vector polygon into multiple vector shapes?

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I have a logo that I am designing and I want to create an SVG. I started with 2 polygons, but I need to remove one side of the polygon and then split the polygon into multiple trianges (for different colors). How can I achieve this in Sketch?

What I have:

What I want it to look like:


texts: "Step backward" also changes currently selected layer

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I have few questions on this subject. The problem is that when you select a layer and put 2 strokes of brush you have to hit "step backward" twice in order to delete them both (you can't use undo since it will redo the first stroke you delete) and the currently selected layer changes to the last selected layer, not the one where the brush strokes were applied.

The problem is described here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWe8cDGiQo&feature=youtu.be

So are my questions :

Why "undo" doesn't change layer selection and "step backward" does ?
Why can't you display "layer selection changes" in the history ?
Why adobe doesn't get spammed about this problem ?
How in the world adobe developpers are not annoyed themselves by this problem when they use their own product ?

Edit :  Okay fair enough. First reports of this problem are dated from year 2008 it's a shame they don't intend to fix it.

To get a around you can use this script
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3580711/StepBackwardSmart.jsx, put it in "photoshopdirectory/presets/scripts" then launch photoshop and go to "edit>shortcuts", under "file>scripts" assign CTRL+ALT+Z to the script "StepbackwardSmart". Then you can step backward and the layer you are working on stays selected.


texts: Good UX for container alignment for main content

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I'm working on User Interface and I'm trying to figure out if a left alignment on the body container or a center alignment would work/look better. I'm adding screenshots of my project.

Have there been any testing done in relation to this or is there a recommended structure on the layout that gives users the better experience?


texts: What is the most attractive number less that 100?

texts: I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I have an app that I am planning on releasing to app store. I'm trying to decide how to price the app. And I was thinking that aesthetically perhaps there is a number that is most appealing ? Perhaps users don;t consciously think of this when buying an app and all they are concerned with is the actual price. I've read that .99 versus 1 is makes a big difference when consumers are deciding wether or not to purchase. Or maybe I am just over thinking this and should just go with what I feel its worth.


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I'm not sure if this kind of question fits in here but, I'm trying – for quite some time I confess – recreate a gradient spec from a very small source to use in a another, larger.

I'm not very good with design to say the least, so I tried think logically and then I picked the colors of the first and last pixels of the source image:

But when replicating, even adjusting Photoshop's Gradient Overlay settings (see below) it was... pale, although in here, with the white background, they look very close.

These are settings I used, trying to match:

How could I solve this?


texts: How can I create a dashed line that slowly changes into a solid line in Illustrator?

texts: I am trying to create a dashed line that initially has small dashes and large gaps between each dash. The dashes lengths should increase while the gaps decrease until the point is reached that the line becomes solid. Is there any way to do this other than manually drawing in the line lengths?


texts: How can I link from a printed textbook to online exercises apart from QR codes?

texts: We're writing a print textbook that will have online interactive exercises, which we want the students to be able quickly access. We could use QR codes, but they're ugly. Is there a better solution, or is there a way to make the QR codes look not so bad?


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I ran a font previewer (PrintMyFonts) which provides a sample of every font you have installed on your computer. It gives me a sample of Helvetica Narrow, but I can't find the font anywhere to use it! I have a client whose branded font is Helvetica Narrow, so I need to be able to access it. I hate to have to charge them for buying it if it is, in fact, already installed.

It's not available in any application (MS Office or Adobe). Any ideas why it's showing in my PrintMyFonts list of installed fonts but not in any application? Thanks!


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I have an image 4288x2848 I just need to resize it to 993x264

I did this way.

Create photoshop layer with these settings

width 993
height 264
resolution 72
color mode - rgb 8bit

Then I have moved large image to this layer. It auto resized to new layer height but lower image quality(blurry)

Then I did this way also.

Open larger size image in photoshop
Image -> Image size
Set width to 993 (it automatically set height to 600)
Then I moved that to new photoshop layer (993x264)

But result was the same. Lower image quality.

Is there any way to resize this larger image to smaller size?


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Inexplicable Transparency

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I want to work on an SVG-File I downloaded from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Risk_board.svg

I opened it in Illustrator and removed everything but the strokes. But there's a problem, there is some inexplicable transparency on the lines. Opacity is set to 100%, Blending Mode is "Normal", but see for yourself:

Can you help me remove this effect?

Edit:
Selected a line in the screenshot and here's a dropbox link to the actual file I'm working on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3hghnja22t0wkg/risk_map_001.ai?dl=0


texts: How to design stack-like icons like Apple and Bootstrap do, in Sketch?

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Sorry if this is a really stupid question or something really easy, I'm just a backend developer who has no talent with design.

I'm actually programming a Dynamic Library for jailbroken iOS devices that allows you to create multiple enviroments.

I would like to create an icon like this one apple made for the Siri Kit:

Or something like the Bootstrap logo:

I already have the image that would go on the topside of the stack and the color scheme for the icon, just need to know how to create that stack.

Any help would be appreciated. I can use either Sketch or Photoshop to do this.

Thank you for reading.


texts: Photoshop: edit specific frequency band independently

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this question is targeted at people who understand something about fourier transform and the image pyramid.

Is there some plugin for photoshop that allows me to edit only a particular frequency band of a layer?

for example, sometimes you have an image that looks quite alright in the details but you have some low-frequency gradient going over the whole image that you'd like to get rid of.

it'd be great to decouple low and high frequencies of the image, edit only the low frequencies and then recomposite them again.

hope you know what I mean and maybe you know a way to do this?

thanks!


texts: Is it possible to export a *.png with RGBA8 in Photoshop?

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Doing some design for 3D and developers need PNGs with RGBA8 for transparency. I am not even sure if this is possible with png. When I look at channels I see no alpha channel but there is alpha on the png, which is very confusing.

My flow is usually through generator, so I name layers fileName.png32 so it does full alpha but they turn out wrong and I have to open them and resave and that fixes it somehow (though I still cannot see alpha channel).

edit: more details. Here are the actual error I get from the program trying to import the PNG.

  MakeImageCompatible: Converting Image 'item url here' from TEXFMT_BGR8
  to TEXFMT_BGRA8

so its saying somehow it cannot read the alpha channel from what I gather.


texts: Certain Printing Specifications for Folding

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I want to be able to print on tabloid paper then fold it like a booklet but with a spine. So essentially it would have two folds so that it somewhat represents a spine. I would also want to have it stapled along the spine or folds of the spine. I was wondering if this was possible, right now I use a xerox 4112 if anyone has any ideas that would be great thanks.

The printer can fold and staple just not sure if I can customize folding.

Also my initial problem is that when I print it, the booklet along the fold bludges a lot and I want to try to make it more flat. If you have any ideas for this I would also be greatful. I print 4-6 tabloid sheets. Thanks


texts: How I can do this "light streaks" or "linear lights" in photoshop?

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Can someone teach me how to do this lights?
I don't even know how to call them.
Not the black silhouette, the lights (the "lines" and that "light up"),
Thanks!


texts: Where do professional designers go to look for typefaces?

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I was reading The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams and was very impressed how on almost every page, Ms. Williams seems to "pull out" some beautiful typeface which I've never heard of. I'm not a design professional, but this got me wondering:

Where do professional designers find their typefaces? Any books you can buy with nothing but type samples? Certain websites which are commonly used by "the pros"?


texts: Extract Assets with CUSTOM Size, Format and quality?

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I have a 1920x1080 PSD with many layers (close to a 100) of emeded assets that I need to extract at 66.67% (scaling down to a standard 1280x720).

Is there a way to add a custom size on export? (all is offered is the 0.25x, 0.33x, 0.5, etc...)

In addition! Is there a way to add JPEG (quality 75%) AND PNG (with Transparency) all in the export? Right now it requires to add those setting to export file  individually. Seems to defeat the whole purpose. No?

Am I missing a settings window somewhere?

This is a HUGE time saver IF we can add custom settings.

Thanks for an insight, or work arounds.


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I am a newbie in design and Inkscape and I think this question is very simple.

I have two objects (for example , circles) that overlap partially. I need to draw a contour of the entire object (the set of two circles). I've tried group (ctrl+G) or combine (ctrl+K) options but none of them do what I want. Here is a image:

http://imgur.com/XDjFln4


texts: How to change 'print' margins using Adobe Illustrator?

texts: My document size is US Legal paper size (14 X 8.5 inches). I've chosen that setting under the page setup. In the viewer window, I can see that there are what seems to be preset margins, and my design content does not fit in those margins. What are the margin inches, so I may design within them? Or is there a way to manually set the margin sizes on an Adobe Illustrator CS6 document?


texts: InDesign: one artboard significantly larger than the others

texts: I am having an issue with one artboard in my document, as you can see it is much larger than the rest, how do I fix this?


texts: Can i used stock images in a portfolio for university?

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I want to get in to a graphic design course in university. I have alot of projects in mind, however i dont know if im allowed to use stock photos...would it be ok if they were in the final piece as well (such as in a magazine cover or a brochure). I also want to do photomanipulation, but i dont know if could use stock photos for that either.
Thankyou so much


texts: Black color transformation with transparency

texts: I need to make an icon like this http://findicons.com/icon/download/579673/stackoverflow_24_black/24/ico?id=582600 so that it is in blue color (instead of black). I can't use Hue/Saturation/Curves because they do not transform black color. I can't also use fill tool because I need to preserve borders, which are partially black with some transparency. The preferred tool is GIMP.


texts: How do I make conditional ligatures in Fontforge?

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Edit: I'm not sure what I did wrong last time I did this, but I tried it again recently and it worked perfectly.
I'm working on a Hebrew font and I want to make a conditional ligature that only shows up after certain letters. This ligature has its own unicode encoding so I though that this tutorial will be my savior as it's dealing with the same situation (but in Greek). I followed it step by step and I cannot seem to get the ligature to work at all. I don't know what I'm missing.
I also want to have an alternative ligature of the same letters which is not tied to any unicode encoding and would also be contextual. Would anyone know how to do this?


texts: How do I blend/fade images with background color on inkscape

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I normally use transparency tool on Corel Draw to blend two images together or an image with either colored or black background with fade in fade out effects. Recently I started using Linux, unfortunately no Corel Draw in Linux but Inkscape as one alternative. I know it can be done with GIMP but please how do I achieve the same effects with Inkscape?

This is a sample picture of what I want to achieve. I did this with Corel Draw.


texts: How do I replicate the Apple Family Sharing Icon

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I was trying to replicate the following icon from Apple as a practice. I like the gradient effect but it seem to be shared by all the circles and the base. And there is also a opacity change, where all the circle has transparency, while the base has a gradient in opacity.

I tried the following to replicate it. Having circles with different color, and then an overlay with gradient opacity. but I seem not to be able to replicate the family sharing icon. Wondering if anyone knows how to do it.

As shown, the color change is not what I wanted.


texts: How to create this (see image) repetition effect in adobe illustrator?

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I'm wondering since a long time how this (see images) effect is created in Adobe Illustrator.
It looks like the blend tool but I've been trying to accomplish it but it seems like it's done with an other kind or repetition tool. Or it seems to be done with the transformation tool, but also via this way I can't get it anywhere close like this.
Does any one knows with which technique this is able to accomplish?


texts: Who is the rightful copyright holder of images to Windows components?

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I was curious how could TechTalkz copyright images as follows (notice the © sign at the top left corner):

More examples at: techtalkz

From what I know, the copyright holder of these images should be Microsoft™ since they are images of a windows screen.

So, does TechTalkz really own the copyright of these images?


texts: Place Custom Icon Into Document Flow in InDesign

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I'd like to place a custom icon on either side of my section headings similar to this hastily-made mockup.

I could just place them as images, but every time that subheading moves, I'll have to move each of them manually. Is there a way to place an image into the document flow so that they would stay attached to the subheading? Ideally this would be something I could set up as a paragraph style and use over and over, but I'm not going to dream that big just yet.\

Thanks very much for any advice.


texts: Illustrator workflow: merge vertexes on contact

texts: When drawing a path B with the pen tool, is there a way to automatically merge with another path A, when I’m adding a vertex on path B that is at the same position as path A?


texts: Create a two headed arrow connector in Inkscape

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Is it possible to create this in inkscape? It would be very useful in flow diagrams. At the moment I have two arrows and it becomes a mess when it needs to be repositioned:

I tried drawing two connectors and combining them, then using snap at midpoint feature to some what connect them. It produced a decent result:

But I am having problems scaling, to have it fit a certain space while maintaining the line thickness.


texts: Reserved Font Names for SIL/OFL & Registering/Trademarking Commercial Fonts

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In the last few years I've shifted the focus of my design career from marketing and advertising to typography: everything from custom lettering and logotypes for in branding to entire font families for public use.

Over the fifteen years I’ve spent as a designer, I’ve rarely had to deal directly with legal frameworks.  I had a basic contract for client work to protect me as a freelancer and access to lawyers for my time as an in-house designer.

With typography I’m discovering that even if I want to release a font for free, I still need to do so under the appropriate framework such as the SIL Open Font License, or a CC0 Creative Commons license, etc. Otherwise, if I'm not careful, it sounds like anyone could just copyright my work as their own and even charge for it

And then there is the question of what to do with about commercial fonts.  I understand that as "typefaces", the designs cannot be patented or registered as trademarks, but as font-software they can.

So here are my questions:

What, if anything, does it cost to register a font as my design? If the answer depends on whether it is sold, licensed, or distributed for free, please explain.
How and where do I go to do that?
As far as fonts go, what are the differences between patents, trademarks, and other such terms? Please list pros and cons of commercial options separately from open-source options.
The SIL Open Font License refers to something called Registered Font Names (or RFNs): is this the act of registering a word or phrase for the express purpose of reserving it for a font, as opposed to registering a business name for example?  If not, what IS the correct way to register the name of a font, or is it part of registering the design?
Does each font weight and style have to be registered separately, or is the process for font-families the same as for single styles?
Are there any automated, one-stop websites where one can go through the processes described here?  Please provide references.


texts: I'm making this on adobe illustrator, it's one shape (minus the eyes) and several lines. How can I color the bottom half of the whale, not using the paintbrush tool?


texts: changing the frame rate of an animated gif made in After Effects

texts: I'm trying to export an animated gif from a 30fps comp in After Effects. Adobe Media Encoder won't offer the option of 30 for frame rate (just 1,2,4,5, 10,12.5,20,25,50).  I can't simply enter the value either.  Is there a way to do this?


texts: How do I create this tessellation Mondriaan-like graphic?

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Recently I discovered the work of Andy Gilmore and I would really like to learn how he did this piece. I'm not looking to replicate it but would like to learn the technique.

Right now I'm fiddling around with creating triangles, duplicating those and transforming them but this seems rather unwieldy. I am proficient in Photoshop but I recon this is more of an Illustrator project. Any tips are much appreciated!


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I am using photoshop to design a t shirt..

As for the photo to look like reality I have taken a picture of a t shirt which has wrinkles. Now when I keep my Image(design) on the tshirt, it is looking like that I have kept a design. But I want the design to adjust in a way that it will adjust according to the wrinkles. I have given an example having an examples which shows both the design which I want to design(downloaded)

Note: Green Circles: shows the image adjustment according to the t shirt..

For more information just give a comment and I will respond in seconds.....


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Need some help and advice, been working on an app, works good, time for the fun part, the design right. Turns out i really suck at that. So i made a few drafts, the green and yellow one was how i originally imagined it, but didn't quite turn out. Which one do you like best, which would should i change and how, do you have any other ideas, i would really appreciate them!
The logo that says Skopje Life will probably be drawn better by a pro and not me, and will be replaced. The facebook log in button at the bottom, i cant change its color. The markers on the map, wont always be blue.
Anything else is changeable !


texts: I am putting my portfolio together. Should I show the original logo that I redesigned on that page? Is it necessary? I have seen it both ways and would like to know your opinion


texts: Is there a worldwide applicable color-emotion chart?

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Colors are used to represent emotions; especially in advertising.

People have even come up with color-emotion charts like this one:

Yet, depending on the country, some colors have different meanings... in one country (eg USA) WHITE represents purity, cleanness, while it the other county (eg China) it's the color to represent mourning.

Is there any color-emotion chart which is applicable worldwide ?


texts: How to ensure shapes in Photoshop only use complete pixels

texts: When using Photoshop for designing pixel-based layouts (websites, apps etc.), is there a way to ensure that when you're using the shapes tool, or resizing a layer, it always snaps to a complete pixel? I know when you use the marquee tool it snaps to pixels, but then as soon as you resize that layer it could become 20.40 px wide, and I want to lock it to 20 or 21. Is that possible? Any help appreciated!


texts: What happened to pasted SmartObjects from Illustrator to Photoshop?

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In older versions of Photoshop (before photoshop cc 2015, latest update)the app used to create smart objects from pasted paths out of Illustrator. When I wanted to edit the Paths (double clicking on the smart object in PS) Illustrator was opened and I was able to simply adjust the paths. After saving the PS Smart Object got updated. Pretty simple, pretty cool.

Now when I paste paths form Illustrator into photoshop, the app makes some kind of cloud smart object, with a little cloud icon before the layer. If I want to edit my pasted artwork, by double clicking, I get an error something like:

  This element can't be edited in Photoshop..

(I actually get the german error)

I can't believe its not possible to paste illustrator artwork in Photoshop anymore as well as not having the opportunity to change the artwork afterwards.


texts: Create an infinite background wave pattern

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I need to adjust this background wave image to an infinite pattern.

When the background repeats in the x direction the lines need to be integrated in a way that only looks like a single image, not like the image below.

I have the .sketch of this file. Can anyone help me to achieve this?


texts: How do I align objects within the key object?

texts: What I'm trying to do is distribute an equal amount of space between the three objects while at the same time having them remain inside the key object. My problem is that when I select the horizontal align center button, it stacks the three layers on top of eachother. I'm guessing there's an easy solution to this, but I haven't managed to figure it out so far.


texts: Share colors between CS5 programs (Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, ..)

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I'm looking for a good workflow to use the same colors in, for example, a new file in InDesign or Illustrator.

is there a "best practice" workflow to use the same colors in different programs?


texts: I'm trying to draw these arrows in Photoshop. They were originally done in Affinity Designer. I couldn't find equivalent tool to draw these paths/arrows.


texts: Break apart handwritten letters -- automated

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in addition to the question asked in How do I break apart scanned letters using Gimp or Inkscape? : is there a way to do this automated, in a sense that I do not need to select every single 'fill-able sign' first and do 'Combine'?
I want to separate the letters of a whole page, so it would be quite a tedious job.
AMEND: I do not intend to do letter recognition. I want to be able to scan/photograph handwritten notes and transform them into a vector graphic svg so I can continue editing the notes with my favorite note taking app "Stylus Write (styluslabs.com)".
To be able to move text around, the letters need to be individual paths. Break apart works fine but having all the filled in letters is quite ugly.


texts: Critique my 10y/o logo and my redesign attempt

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I'm a self employed engineer and 10 years ago when I started I quickly put together my logo. Since then I never really had the time to update it. I'm mostly dealing with machine vision and electrical measurements, so an iris and a signal made sense at the time. The font was a random scifi looking font.
The logo is used mostly black on bright background (white, silver) or white on dark background (blue, grey). The icon is used for software icons (16x16, 24x24, ... up to 256x256). Here is my current logo:

Issues that I am aware of and bother me:

Poor legibility of the letter D: it's Diff, not Oiff
Poor readability when height is small (mostly on sofware UIs, headers, etc.)
The EKG heart signal. A measurement signal is almost never like that.

Now I finally have some time (thanks corona) and decided to update it. My goals are to fix the issues and to not deviate too far from the original design because of brand recognition. Here is my attempt at a redesign:

I altered the proportions, changed the signal, changed the iris to better fit in with the letter d, all small caps for better legibility. I thought about a ligature on the double ff, but it was strange. What do you guys think? Have I missed anything obvious?


texts: Create multiple images with diffrant zoom level from one document in Adobe Illustrator

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I’ve following project… (Inspire by Fastest way to custom design a race course map?)

Download vector data from www.openstreetmap.org
Import in Adobe Illustrator
Dismantle and separate everything on each layers
Add, delete, modify and complete editing
Now, I want to save multiple images at macro level to micro level details

Macro level – At High level with only major details

Micro level – At low level with all details (I put all low detail on
separate layer)

It could be explain well with these pictures…

So, for last step, any suggestions?

Thanks


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I'm wondering how to create this typography in Photoshop or Illustrator
(It's all Travis Kane's posters https://www.instagram.com/ttraviskanee/)


texts: How to center a text within a rectangular shape in Photoshop CC?

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I have the following layers:

Which look like this:

Now, I want to align the text within the rounded rectangle both horizontally and vertically. However, it seems I can only do it vertically. If I tap the fifth button below:

That is, "Align horizontal centers", the text will be aligned to the artboard itself and not the rounded rectangle.


texts: Why does Illustrator sometimes save as PDF and other times it keeps it as an AI file?

texts: I create PDF files from my Adobe Illustrator files by saving as. I would prefer it to create the pdf file and retain the AI file but sometimes it converts the ai file to a pdf. Not all the time, only sometimes. Why is this? Is there a way to create PDF files without having it convert your current artboard to a PDF file.


texts: Except China, which country will use red for up, and green for down?

texts: When I design some stock or investment related things, I found that China is different from country like US. In US, red color represent a negative trend, and green represent a positive one. In the contrast, China use the red to represent the positive, and green for the negative. What else company have the same color schema like China? Thanks.


texts: Image features are lost when exporting SVG as PDF from Inkscape

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I have created a complex SVG file with scientific data: https://svgshare.com/s/TcX . The individual plots were generated as PDFs by the original data analysis software (FlowJo), I imported them separately and made some minor modifications (resizing, adjusting alignment etc.).
When I export the figure from Inkscape as a PDF, the small dots are lost and some plots get an unwanted black background: https://pdfhost.io/v/HAndEZSsd_nucleigatingpdf.pdf
Is there a way to export the figure without it getting changed, or can I modify some objects so that they are not problematic to export? I would ideally like to export the figure as PDF, as I want to import it into a Latex document, but other vector formats might also be ok.
If I export als PNG the figure comes out correctly (but I need a vector format).
Update: If I ungroup all the objects and export as PDF, the dots appear but are blurred: https://pdfhost.io/v/gIOby7gcM_nucleigatingtestpdf.pdf
Solution: I solved the problem by going to the original file exported from FlowJo, removing all groups and masks, and copying the embedded raster images into my layout. Then the PDF export worked correctly.


texts: Twitter bootstrap prepended and appended input text

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We are working on a CSS framework for our app, having made the prototype with Twitter Bootstrap and we started by designing the elements of Bootstrap we had used.

One of them was prepended and appended inputs

Which is basically something that helps you recognize what the input is used for, it's not necessarily a label, it's rather some sort of helper. Say it's an input with date, so you throw in there a little calendar icon.

Now I think that it's kind of important for this element to be visibly part of the input, wouldn't you say so?

Our graphic designer thinks otherwise, he's basically done this

So, do you think it should be visibly part of the input? If so, what would be your arguments for it?


texts: Force page footer in master to stick to the bottom of pages of different height in Indesign

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I'm trying to create a website prototype in Indesign. It consists of multiple pages with different height (home page, article page, archive page etc.).

I created a master page with header and footer on it and set the master page in Liquid Layout palette as Object-based. Footer is supposed to stick to the bottom of every actual page I create based on that master, so I:

selected all the objects it consists of and grouped them,
checked the Pin: bottom checkbox in the same palette for this group,
created multiple individual pages depicting different web pages I want to prototype,
set them in the Liquid Layout palette to Controlled by master so they'd inherit supposedly the rule of resizing behavior from the master.

Now to the resizing part.

The supposed outcome for this is that when I resize an actual page to which this master is applied the footer should stay pinned to the bottom regardless of what height I set for this individual page. Instead:

if I resize individual page with Page tool manually (resizing it from one of the sides/corners while pressing Alt), I have the desired result, the footer sticks to the bottom automatically regardless of the height:

But, ALL pages get resized together to this size, so it's impossible to make pages of different height then;
if I resize individual page by changing its dimensions (see image, again it requires Page tool to be activated)
 then the stickiness doesn't apply: page is cropped or enlarged but the sticky footer stays at the same absolute position and thus is either cropped or goes up from the bottom border of the page:

What is the right combination of settings here, and is it possible at all? What do you think?


texts: How do I convince my boss that grey font is legible?

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One of the big bosses at my company is up in arms about "grey font" right now. Even using the dark grey from our style guide for text ends in a lecture.

I know that contrast is critical and I have always valued function over form, but I see cases across the web where grey fonts have been used. Personally, I believe that pure black font is too much contrast and can be kind of jarring to look at on a web page.

The examples I have below come from Google and Apple, both of whom are renowned for leading the way (more or less) in web design. Both of these sites use almost entirely grey font.

I tried to use this as a way of saying that dark greys are fine to use, but my boss swears that it's a bad trend that people will look back on in 10 years and say "man they were stupid in the 20 teens".

I pulled the following info off of a government website.

From Section 508:

A contrast ratio of 3:1 for text with a size of 18 points (14 points if bolded) or larger, or
A contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for text with a size less than 18 points (or less than 14 points if bolded)

I checked the contrast ratios on one of Google's web pages and apple.com using this tool.

Here's Google

Here's Apple

I also found this on another website that shows the point at which the grey becomes too little contrast.

How can I convince my boss that as long as we pass the contrast test, grey font is fine to use?

And is it okay for Apple to have text on their site that fails every section of the contrast test, or is it bad design/a bad trend?


texts: Is a Photoshop EPS file a vector format?

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If I save my file from Photoshop as a Photoshop EPS is that going to be okay as a vector across the board (ie will it be resizeable in whatever it's opened in)? I know if you open a .psd in Photoshop and resize the image, it holds it's quality, so that's fine, but when people need an EPS file because they might want to print it on the side of a building one day (or whatever) is a Photoshop EPS going to be okay? Or is there something else I need to be doing?

All my designs are always vectors within Photoshop, so text/shapes/designs done with the pen tool - I just need to know that they'll still be a vector for people who don't have Photoshop and can't open it in there to resize it.


texts: How to create watercolor-like artwork with Illustrator?

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I would like to make something like this in Illustrator.

How can I get the fills like it has been drawn? So like, dark to lighter... you see where the brush has been darkest etc.


texts: What Photoshop CS5 Book Describes Making Images From Scratch?

texts: Can someone direct me to a photoshop cs5 book that details the image making process from beginning to end ie showing how to make an image from scratch, best techniques etc Please share why you think this book is good and why you recommend the particular book.


texts: We get a lot of questions in regards to what should my file spec be, what should I do with X and Y, how should I do my black etc. etc. and a large majority of the time we suggest to ask the printer which is an accurate assumption.  Even though I think this is an accurate answer I think we should have a question that would help educate designers on what questions they should ask the printer.  Knowing the right questions can help determine if the printer is professional and if you can meet the requirements.  So my question is when print designing what questions should I ask to make sure my designs are compatible and high quality for print?


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I have to export my illustration as the best resolution. Adobe Illustrator allows me to export as a PNG with only 4x scale, is there any option to unlock this for higher scales? Or can you recommend any programs, which are able to export ai/eps/pdf files without limits?

(specs: GTX 1070, i7 6700k, 32GB of RAM, Win10)

Thanks!


texts: I have a client that wants me to create some designs to promote their book. I have done work for them before, but having a hard time trying to come up with a price for this project. The project includes creating 14 Facebook covers that act like a countdown for the book and 10 photos to share with their fans on their Facebook timeline. The images will include custom graphics. I was going to charge $7 ($98) for each facebook cover and $5 ($50) for each photo which totals to $168. Is this too much to ask? How much would you charge?


texts: Why does GIMP ignore the font field in Tool Options for Text?

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All the other fields work as intended, except for the text setting, which seems to do nothing. Why? How to fix this?

Using GIMP 2.8.18.


texts: How to efficiently draw bent or curved lines or arrows with Photoshop?

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I always use the Line Tool to draw arrows (by setting an Arrowhead at the end), like this:

Is there also a quick and easy way to draw bent (arched) arrows, like this?


texts: Can I fill a ink cartridge with any type of ink? Even valuable ink?

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I have a project that requires the use of really valuable ink - particularly GOLD ink (made with real gold and a water based adhesive - very fine and smooth in texture), in order to get a near perfect print I'm planning on using an ink jet printer. The print will be on soft-type paper and occasionally greeting card like paper.

For this reason I'm looking to fill an inkjet printer ink cartridge with the valuable ink in order to print what I'm after.

Since this is my first time filling an ink cartridge and I'm using really expensive ink it begs me to ask the question: Can I use any type of ink, even super expensive ones to fill an ink cartridge?

Will I waste a lot of ink? Will it work with the printer? Or is this unrealistic?

I've looked around the internet for answers and it doesn't seem like it's a popular question, which brought me here.

Thanks!


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How can I draw dots with a specific size and random colors?

Is it possible to create a brush or something similar to do it?

With the pencil if I hold Ctrl + click I can draw a black dot, but is always black and same size. Is it possible to change the default size and color of the dot?


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Originally posted in UserExperience, they recommended I post it here.
The application I'm working on has been around for over 20 years now, and in some cases still has not updated the UI in some places - the font is one of them, as it uses MS Sans Serif.
I am trying to find a more modern alternative that would fulfill some criteria:

it is a business application, and numerical readability is primordial
the average character width would need to be similar to that of MS Sans Serif, to avoid text overlap of nearby UI controls (or applying a full application redesign, several million lines of code)
some of the clients being in Arab countries, the above 2 criteria would need to apply for Arabic characters as well
for Arabic characters, they mustn't look 'modernized' (Tahoma, - even Segoe UI - fails here)
optimally, the font would be built-in to Windows (unless there are no such satisfactory fonts)
to make matters a little more difficult, the average character width would also need to be maintained when applying Windows scaling (meaning the font height gets scaled, by say, 1.25x or 1.5x)

I've tried a few dozen fonts, none of which seems to satisfy the (admittedly) complex requirements above. Closest i found was something called "Gadugi" which i had never heard of before.
Has anyone faced anything like this? Or are there any tools to help find other fonts with same average char width to narrow down the filtering for us? Finally, any other source of fonts outside of Windows defaults, or anything that may put me in the right direction?
Edit:
i've added a screenshot of MS Sans Serif (up) vs Microsoft Sans Serif (down) for various font sizes, both in English and Arabic.
Few things can be noticed:

odd sizes for MS Sans Serif don't scale (seems the font is not defined). For those same sizes, Microsoft Sans Serif seems 'vertically compressed'.  Could it be that it's not defined as well, and just stretched horizontally?
in size 9 Arabic, the text actually shrank. How could this be?
in Arabic, sizes 8 and 10 look normal, but for other sizes, the font gradually changes, as if it is falling back to some kind of default.

Due to how Windows scaling works (internally, it scales the font height, not the size), I may end up on various monitors with these various font sizes, hence the comparison.
Do these points make any sense? and what can I do about them?

Thanks again!


texts: How to create a node at the exact midpoint of a segment in Inkscape?

texts: I have created a path that is a line segment. It only has two endpoint nodes. How do I create a new node at the exact midpoint of the segment? Thanks.


texts: What color should be use on the edge of isometric pixel art

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Is there a general rule to put outline/contour in isometric pixel art and what color should be used?

I know the inside can be outlined not by black but by the color used, but what about the outer part (the edge?), should it be black always or colored, and if colored, in what shade?

What is the general concesous?

Example shows edge of different colors used in edge, should it be always black,
should it be same color of the part near the edge, should it be darker shade of the color near the edge?


texts: I use InDesign 4.  I do a lengthy quarterly journal for a non-profit.  I always start my articles with a drop cap, but now I have one that begins with a open quotation mark.  Is there any way to leave that small and "drop cap" the first actual letter (the 2nd character)?


texts: Is there a way to increase the darkness of a global color to black in illustrator similar to how it can be decreased to white using the tint?

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I am new to Illustrator so I am likely missing a step but when it comes to the fills, I like to choose a root color, make it Global then use the tint to give lighter variances of that color. The problem I have found is that when I am trying to find/make darker variances of the root color, similar to how I can do 50% tint to make it lighter, I have no idea how it is done. Is there a way to make it darker in percentages just as I can make it lighter with the Tint option?
Here is an example for further clarification

As you see in Ref 1 and Eg 1 I made an attempt to find the darker shade of the root color by increasing the Key Color value to 100 while leaving the other CMYK values as is, and regardless of what percentage I put the tint thereafter, none of the lighter values matched the root color, by time it reached 60% it was already lighter and a dingy version of it. At 67% it was darker and no increment between them matched. So I am hoping that there is away to increase the darkness as seen in Ref 2, eg. 2 in which I can increase the root color values up in percentages until it is black (NB. the color stops in eg. 2 are not true color I just added colors as a reference).
So in short, I wish to freely decide on a root color for any of my art work and be able to go in both directions for lighter & darker shades as seen in Ref 3. The root color would be considered the middle ground. If that's not possible is there a way to find the darker shade of my root color so when a tint is applied at some point one of the percentages will land on the same color # as the root color?
thanks so much for any assistance.


texts: Why Vector fonts are rasterized before using on screen?

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I am new in Typography and nowadays reading about fonts, rasterizers like FreeType etc. What I got until now is that fonts are mainly divided into two types: vector fonts (.ttf, otf, .pfb etc) and bitmap fonts (not used nowadays, .FON). FreeType is a rasterizer that is responsible for rendering these fonts. It basically gives us bitmap or glyph information.

So, my questions are:

Why vector fonts need to be rasterized (with FreeType) dynamically for using on a printer or a display screen.
Is what we see on screen bitmap display using rasterizer?


texts: use of graphics stock icon (spoon,fork,skull head) for logo

texts: I am a new graphics designer I want to  use skull head, spoon icon, fork, etc in my logo from free stock but I don't know how to avoid copyright issue


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I have an object that is a rectangle which has a 20px wide border. I want to resize the rectangle, but to maintain its border width. If I select it and use Transform I will have a smaller border width after the transformation. So I want to make it first wider. How to do it? Is there some other way?

The rectangle looks similar to this:


texts: Android Launcher Icon "suggests" a border

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Looking at the Android Asset Studio Launcher Icon Generator, the launcher icons always end up with a transparent border of at least 2dp. Same goes the App Icon Template. But Googles Design Guide does not mention any best practice or requirements for such a border.

My question: Is there any good reason to follow this suggestion instead of using the available space as you please?


texts: How do you vertically align layers in Photoshop so that they are one below another touching their borders?

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I have a bunch of layers in Photoshop CC 2017.

I want to make them be aligned in a way that layer 2's top border touches layer 1's bottom border and layer 3's top border touches layer 2's bottom border, etc. I.e. be in a column one below the other, possibly horizontally centered.

Is there a way to make not not by hand? I'm not talking about Edit -> Auto-Align Layers... because I didn't see such an option on it.


texts: How do I create a transparent hole in Adobe Illustrator

texts: I am designing some key tags and am VERY new to illustrator. I currently just have a circle placed where I would like the hole, is there a way I can "cut that circle out so there is just a hole in the design that is transparent behind it?


texts: How to add a small amount of local noise to a path in illustrator?

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I'm trying to recreate the xkcd look. Is there a way I can take a path and apply an effect that makes it look like this?

I've tried using Effect | Distort & Transform | Roughen but haven't been able to match that look (the uneven twists in different directions, at random intervals).


texts: Changing text with drop shadow over a radial gradient in GIMP

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I want to change the text in the image below without modifying the background.

I tried cutting the text and filling the gap with a new one, but it doesn't look nice. Is there a simpler way?


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I have a menu header:

The drop shadow effects of it as present in the adobe photoshop are:

Blend Mode: Multiply
Opacity: 0.25 (25%)
Distance: 3px
Spread: 15%
Size: 9px
Color: #282829

I am trying to use the above code in my CSS for my menu header (above) but unfortunately for some reasons I am unable to replicate it. The code which I am using for the menu header are:

position: relative;
top: -890px;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
height: 89px;
border-bottom: 3px so


texts: Illustrator: Cutting out overlaying squares

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I'm trying to cut out squares where four paths overlap. I highlighted it in red here.

Except I've gotta do a bunch of them.

I've been selecting the line, cutting it at both intersection points with the scissors tool, then deleting the line inside the X. That isn't very efficient at all. It wouldn't be possible to just do one and then paste it onto all the others since they aren't all the same size. A fill also wouldn't solve the problem since the file is going to be exported for cutting out by a machine. What can I do to cut out all the squares efficiently? Thanks in advance!


texts: Vertically trim a series of shapes/labels

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I have a box with a list of labels inside of it and a separator line between each label. Now I want to cut all these shapes by a vertical line, say remove the left 50% part and keep the right 50% part with a "razor sharp" cutting edge. Pretty much the same as how you in Photoshop select an area of a rasterized layer, invert the selection and delete the outside of the selection. How do I achieve this with vectorized graphics in Illustrator? Expand and then select -> remove, rasterize -> select remove...? I can't get it to work.

EDIT : Illustration of what I'm trying to do.


texts: Interactive template for making printable document

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I'm creating a template for a simple printable document where the user should be able to change the placeholder text and example images. These user won't have access to any fancy program like InDesign.

The documents will contain information about different projects and each project leader should be able to add project information and a photo of the project group.

I'm thinking of either creating an interactive pdf using InDesing or a Word template using Word (duh).

The interactive pdf seems more elegant but is it possible to change photos? The Word way is maybe easier but I don't want the user to be able to change fonts, size, text placement etc...

I found this question which addresses the issue but does anybody have any different ideas? Maybe there are som online web tools for doing this?

Thanks!


texts: Turning normal image into a sketched looking image

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I want to know if there is an easy way to turn a normal looking icon into one that looked sketched. I need some or a web project I am working on, ill give an example.

Normal image:

Sketched looking:

Now I want to do this for some icons that are not available, such as the android logo:


texts: Why can't I resize the artboard in CC from center point and not adding only to right side for width?

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When resizing and adding any amount of pixels to the width of my artboard I cannot figure out how to add equal amounts to each side rather than just adding to the right side of my artboard. Previously when adding height or width to a canvas size it would give the option to anchor to center, top, bottom, left or right.

Please help :)


texts: How to replace a mask group from within a component in Adobe XD?

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I'm new to the concept of a component in XD, but I found it to be very powerful. Right now I would like to create a master copy of a component that is a button and contains an svg inside of it, but then on the copies of this component I would like to simply replace that svg with another one.

I would like to replace that bar with another svg in another copy of this component, but I'm not finding an easy way to do that, this happens instead:

How do I do this?


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I need to rebuild this logo for a poster, because it is in poor resolution and all the rest are vector graphics. I am struggling to find the name of the font that was used in the creation of this logo. I have tried several online font recognition tools, but they did not return any satisfactory results. I tried:

WhatTheFont
Identifont

and here's the actual logo:

Any Ideas? Thanks!


texts: How to create files with dynamic heights

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I'm wanting to make layered "cards" for print design (think of a tabbed index card but the tab goes the whole width) they'll be layered on 8 1/2x 11. Each card maybe 6in wide.

The thing I wish I could do is keep the heading (top tab of the card) a fixed height while letting the body vary in height based on content.

I can do it with multiple objects obviously but drop shadows get messed a little up so I'm stuck with manually making each height I need and grouping them.

Is there any way to set the header height but be able to adjust the overall height for each different card I need?

I'm ultimately doing this in indesign but illustrator would be fine too


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currently trying my first experience with Illustrator and I came across a minor issue. I have a shape and path going through that plane which is partly enclosed. Now I want to paint the enclosed path in white but can't seem to figure out how.

This is my current pic:

This is the shape without the path

This is only the path

I want the little loop at the top to be white and the rest of not any color only the stroke itself should be seen. How would I achieve that? I tried Pathfiinder > Subtract but that didn't seem to help.


texts: brush strokes creating new layers in illustator

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I am painting in illustator, using a basic brush. Every mark that I make is creating a new sublayer grouped under Layer 1. Is there a way to stop this from happening? I don't need hundreds of sublayers.
Also, is there a way to merge all of them now?
I tried "Merge", "Flatten", Pathfinder "Unite". The Shape Builder tool is working, but for each stroke? Seems crazy.
Thank you!


texts: Can I align a stroke to the inside of a shape with "Apply gradient across stroke"

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I am trying to make a gradient going from the edge of a shape to its offset center, to make it look like letters that have been forged or carved in stone, in this style (but with 0° shadows):

Basically, I am trying to give letter O/shape A's appearance to shape B, but without changing Shape B's proportions/thickness. Shape A and shape B are the same object before I apply styles:

Unfortunately, "Align stroke to inside" in the Align panel is disabled for shape A, and I can't figure out why:

Scaling down doesn't work either, even with "Scale strokes and Effects" ticked / unticked.

I looked online, but the only post on Adobe's forums that was remotely close to my problem had to do with shapes within groups. Shape A is not a part of any group:

These are the gradient options:

I would like the gradient to look like it does on Shape A but within the bounds of Shape B. I don't think Offset Path does what I want. I would prefer not to have to expand the gradient for this.

Can I align this gradient stroke to another setting besides "Align to center"?


texts: How to prevent unification when animating in photoshop?

texts: I am trying to create an animated gif where text drops down and smashes into the background and cracks it. Whenever I try and transform it though, the transformation is applied to all frames. How do I prevent this? I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64-bit)


texts: Make an outline out of filled shape with Photoshop

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I'm not sure the title really reflects what I want to do so I will just show you what I want:

From the shape on left I want to get the shape on right. I did it with an pen tool thats why it's cut out unevenly. Is there some better way to achieve this more uniformly?


texts: I'm looking for a free to use font like Avenir Next with raised superscript for the registered trademark character

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I'm using Avenir Next for a website. One thing about it is that it renders the registered trademark as superscript. So for example:
Extensive Enterprises®

The R looks smaller and higher than the other letters. Avenir Next comes included on Macs. Other machines don't have it, so I have fallback fonts. These fallback fonts don't render the R character as superscript, so I'd have to do:
Extensive Enterprises<sup>®</sup>

This causes a problem because now it doesn't look right on Macs (or other machines that do have Avenir Next).
Can you recommend a free font that raises the ® character in the same way that Avenir Next does? Ideally it would be as similar to Avenir Next as possible.


texts: Simplest set of inks that could print the RGB gamut?

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Artist Tauba Auberbach produced this recently:

It's called RGB Colourspace Atlas, and is a physical, printed book of what it implies is the whole RGB colour space.

Is there an existing commercially available ink set that could print something like this? Naturally, CMYK printers couldn't do it because they don't cover the full RGB gamut - they couldn't reach the pure reds, greens and blues. And for spot colours, mixing and blending them is a Bad Idea - not what they're normally designed for - so it's hard to see how they could be used in the complex hue gradients.

Could a hexachrome (CMYKOG, Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black/Orange/Green) ink set manage this? Or CMYKRB (.../Red/Blue)? Or anything else?

(Bonus points if anyone somehow knows how this exact book was printed, and hat tip to blog Flowing Data)

Edit: just saw these after DA01 and Brenden's answers, which suggests that Hexachrome gets close to the sRGB gamut but doesn't reach all the blues and doesn't quite reach all the greens:

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...and this which suggests HP Indichrome 6-colour doesn't reach all the reds and blues, and quite a lot on the greens (so you'd expect Indichrome Plus to get close to, but not quite reach, the RGB greens):

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texts: InDesign CC - Making a table of contents that spans a single section

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I want a book where each new chapter has a page which displays a ToC containing the headers within that chapter.

The problem I'm running into is that indesign generates the contents for the entire document and I haven't been able to find a way to limit it to a single section.

I know I can probably do it by making a book out of multiple documents, but the truth is that the publication is short enough that it's not worth the effort.


texts: Separate a transparent layer from this image?

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I have this image :

As you can see It has a transparent layer of QR Code and I need to extract It somehow..

How can I do this?

I tried selecting the QR Code using color range.

but as you can see It was an unsuccessful attempt.


texts: InDesign CC: Place a batch of phots and text on pages

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I am currently working on an InDesign-Project involving a ~200 page DIN-A4-Sized Book for our high school graduation. Any student in our senior year gets his own page with a photo and a short text that other students wrote on him. Therefore, the middle ~135 pages all look the same and contain each a photo, the text, and another text field. The photos and texts exist in individual .jpg and .txt-files.

I have created a master page for this task, and placed the image and text frames on that master page. Is there any method to automate the procedure of placing the images and texts? Otherwise I would have to create ~135 copies of that master page in my InDesign-Document, make the text and image frames editable for each individual copy, and go through all the pages by hand. There's got to be something better, right? Looking forward to some help, thanks in advance.


texts: How to know which of my fonts do or don't support certain glyphs?

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I have a long list of glyphs with various Unicode points across several Unicode blocks that I need to represent in a monospaced form (which mean with a single font). How I can know which glyph the font does not support in that list?

I tried Microsoft Word, Open Office, Notepad++ and some others, but even ᴡindows® Notepad tries to substitute unknown characters from glyphs in other fonts instead of using the replacement character directly. Sometimes it even substitute characters whereas they exist in the font

Opening a font editor and checking Unicode points one by one would definitely takes hours.
Below is the text I need to display properly

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texts: Have a large photo, approx 27" x 56" @ 72 dpi that needs to be submitted at a max size of 5 x 7, also 72 dpi

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When I change the settings in Mac Preview Ap with the Resample Image option unchecked, the result is a highly pixelated pic.
(Pic was taken on an iPhone.)


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I have a really weird problem with my InDesign TOC – it interchanges the levels I preset in the Table of Contents menu.

The setup looks like that:
Included Paragraph Styles:
name – Level: 1, Page Number: No Page Number
h1 – Level: 2, Page Number: After Entry

When I create the TOC it changes interchanges the Levels like so:
h1 #
name

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.


texts: Dots placing incorrectly in multiple language document

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I'm translating a book from English to Persian where some of the words need to still be in English and it's a mix of Right to Left and Left to Right reading directions.

my language is persian and

Persian reads Right to Left, which is fine, but whenever I use dots in my translation it shows up like this:

This is incorrect, the first dot should be before the min like so:

Testing in Microsoft Office Word  it works correctly but in Adobe InDesign 2017 it is wrong.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Creating 3D halftone wavy effect using any tool

texts: I am looking to reproduce this effect. I've scoured the internet, but couldn't find any plugin/tutorial that replicates this exact effect.


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http://www.proxybase.org

Can someone help me identify what this website theme is? I have seen it a couple of times on other websites as well.


texts: How not to get dark line on the edge of colors when doing gaussian blur

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When gausian blurring image that is left half red and right half green there appears somewhat of black border instead of liquid transition from red do green.

In photoshop I can use LAB Colorspace and it is ok, but I haven't found anything for GIMP to achieve such effect.

Is there any method to achieve effect like in LAB colorspace in PS?


texts: Indesign — Object Style - Force Specific Frame Width

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Using Indesign CS6.

I'm trying to set up an object style for images so that the frame is always a specific width, and the contents scale proportionally.

Under Text Frame Auto Size Options, I've set Width Only to 5in minimum, but it doesn't seem to apply.

Additionally, in General Options, I've set Columns to Fixed Width, 1 column, Width 5in; also doesn't seem to apply.

Am I doing something wrong?


texts: Is there a specific term for horizontal gutters?

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Context
My team is working on a responsive website and we allow the user to configure some of the properties of the page, including the spaces between the grid "cells". We had a conversation about the correct terminology to identify the "space between cells". Obviously we could use something like "margin", but that's a bit too broad as that would include the space between the page and the outermost cells. We want to identify the space between cells only. Our users are not necessarily tech-savvy (meaning CSS, etc), but may have some background in graphic design (or at least be familiar with common terminology).

The Question
"Gutter" seems like the most correct term, but most of the definitions for "gutter" that I can find specifically refer to the space between columns.

Is there a specific term for the space between rows? Or is it appropriate to simply refer to them as "horizontal gutters"?

Example
Here's an illustration of what I'm trying to identify.
(Image borrowed from https://www.init.de/en/news/responsive-design)

Issues with My Current Terminology
"Horizontal(/Vertical) Gutter" is a bit confusing, in my opinion, as it's unclear whether the gutter is between horizontal(/vertical) elements or if it provides horizontal(/vertical) space between vertical(/horizontal) elements. There's some disagreement on my team about which definition is accurate, so I think that's evidence enough that the phrase is actually confusing.

At least in relation to the web, "padding" and "margin" aren't appropriate for what I'm describing. Padding refers to the space between the border and the content, while margin refers to the space around an element. Two adjacent elements with a margin of 10px each would have a 20px gutter between them. (Yes, I'm aware that CSS margins often collapse, but not always.)

I've seen the term "gutter" used often in responsive grid frameworks, so I know it's an acceptable term in web development. I'm just wondering if there is a more appropriate term for a "horizontal gutter".


texts: Photoshop Export Color Lookup Tables bug

texts: I try to export a custom LUT from Photoshop and there seems to be a bug in the Export Color Lookup Tables dialog box. The Description option is supposed to provide a custom name but whatever I write in it is not applied and the LUT is saved under the name of the main Photoshop file itself. There is a way of changing it in the Windows Save As dialog box, but still the Description option in Export LUT is not working. Is this a bug or am I missing something?


texts: Change the stroke width without changing the width and height of the rectangle

texts: When I change the stroke width of a rectangle the width and and height change also. How can I  prevent this from happening?


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I often see professional and amateur artists posting drawings of characters they don't own. Some sell "con sketches" of Marvel's Hulk, others create erotic fanart to Assassin's Creed.

Who is the copyright holder of this new work? Do I have to ask the copyright holder of the characters, or the artist of the derivative work, if I want to use such an image?

Who can sue me, if I create a derivative work off a derivative work? The creator of the fanart? The copyright holder of the characters? Or both?


texts: How to crop image inside a specific shape in Inkscape

texts: I have an image of a iPhone X and I want to add a screenshot inside the phone. How can I crop the image or mask it so it fits the entire screen including under the iPhone x top status bar


texts: I've been seeing this distortion treatment popping up everywhere lately and was curious if anyone knew how or could point to some resources? I've tried a google search but can't find anything relevant. I've also tried the flag/wave effects in Illustrator but it looks like a cheap recreation.


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I need to add extended characters (š,č,ř,ž,ě) to a font. I can do this in Photoshop, but can you please recommend me a program that has this functionality + can save it as a font that I can use on the web?

Thanks and sorry for a dumb question.


texts: Illustrator - stroke doesn't connect / brush pattern

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so I'm having problems figuring out a stroke issue. Below is an image of what I am referring to.

Essentially, I want to create a brush that I can use on strokes so that no matter the shape, when I use it, I have 3 horizontal lines applied as the stroke.

At the moment, if I use the pattern brush, the outer corners are all over the place. If I use the art brush, the ends do not connect.

What can I do?


texts: Strange grey lines on illustrator? how do i get rid of them?

texts: im very confused. Never seen these before; How do I get rid of them?


texts: How to make this color gradient effect in Photoshop

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How Can I apply this Effect :

on This picture

I Tried but it doesn't quite look the same :


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How can I replace all red with black on the image below, using Photoshop, without damaging the image?

Thks!


texts: Object won't align central to artboard in Illustrator

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I create a new file in Illustrator. 30 x 30 px. No stroke just black fill.
I create a new rectangle 27 27 px
I select the rectangle and go to the icon align to artboard
I click to the icon Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align Center
It moves but it does not align in the center

I do not understand. Is there anything else I have see. I am sure there is not guides, no other objects. I closed and open Illustrator and still does not center.

I have the same problem if I create a new document with any new rectangle. I do not know what else to check.

Any ideas?


texts: Illustrator: how to create a pattern brush

texts: I am attempting to make a simple pattern brush with five b&w rectangles, with no success. Each time I drag the artwork to the brush swatch and i get the message seen below. I have tried various things like deleting some of the objects, but it fails except where there is one square white rectangle.


texts: InDesign: how to place table of contents in an actual table?

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Is there a way to load a table of contents into an actual table? I laid everything out manually in a table, but have to add page numbers and would like to not have to do it manually.

Alternatively, is there a way to load only page numbers into table cells based on paragraph styles that the content appears on?


texts: Want a tracing font for Montessori Work Sheets

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I am designing Montessori work sheets.

I wanted a Font for tracing for pupils. I googled it and found "KG Primary Dots by Kimberly Geswein", but when I use this font in my work sheet and printed it, the font was looking very thick for tracing.

My question is that could you tell me any font that can fulfill my choice?


texts: Knockout text. Illustrator won't do full text

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So I am trying to knock out the foreground object, in this case, it's text from the design. But it's not doing exactly what I want.
I would like to do it creating outlines since I want to unite another object to this eventually. however, I am having a hard time, cause it seems to only knock out part of the text and I am not using a stroke as it is transparent now.

Knockout issue


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I have a small tea company and I'm trying to redesign our logo.

What I would like is for the text to bend in a arc, as if on a coin.

I would like to render the text as if it's "backbone" were shaped in the following way:

Or even a "softer" (i.e. slightly flatter) arc.

Towards this end I've watched some tutorials online- I point them out below.

This tutorial is the most useful resource I've found thus far.

Also this one, and this video.

The general consensus is to use

Filters > Distorts > Curve Bend

but this makes the text very "fat" in the center and small on the sides.

People also mention

Map > Map Object >

But there isn't an arc, only a circle or a cylinder and these options also horribly distort the text.

Is there a good way, using Gimp, to render my text in a nice gentle arc- for instance to fit the ellipse I linked to from my site, or even a sharper arc, as if on a coin?


texts: Change color profile in Photoshop without loosing layers

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Is there a way to change the color profile e.g. from RGB to CMYK without merging all layers to one background layer?

At this time I've two layers one pixel filled background and a curves layer. I want to leave the curves as they are.


texts: Why rasterizing objects in Illustrator causes them to be pixelated

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I am having a sudden problem with my vectors after being rasterized within Illustrator. The rasterized image becomes pixelated. If anyone might have an idea as to what might have happened all of a sudden, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Thank you and here are some reference screenshots of what I mean.


texts: How to work around 100 artboard limitation in Illustrator for large project with many symbols?

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In Illustrator CC 2017, there is a limit of 100 artboards per file.

For a project I'm doing, I have several global swatches and symbols that I need on more artboards than that.  (If the limit were 200 I would be okay.)

How can I work around this limitation?

Specifically, how can I share my global swatches and symbols between two files such that any changes to the symbol definitions or swatch definitions propagate to the other file?

Failing that, how can I manually propagate such changes without going to every symbol instance?


texts: I hope you can help?  if an image is used in illustrator that will be used for office products what is the best format?


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What is the way to subdivide individual edges/polygons in 3dS Max? That is, to add more vertexes on edges and to add more vertices/edges on faces.

For edges -
For a polygons -

Anybody knows how to do that or something similar to that in 3dS Max?

Note - The images are in vertex mode. The mode doesn't matter, but I'm more interested in how to do it in polygon mode.


texts: How to anchor text to bottom-right of container?

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When I use the Type tool in Illustrator, text automatically flows from the top-left:

Is it possible to have the text flow from the bottom-right instead, like this (Illustrator CC 2014)?

The Paragraph toolbox doesn't have any setting to do this, and the Type tool doesn't present anything that intuitively does this.  Google turns up very little apart from anchoring the whole shape to another.


texts: How can I achieve effective handdrawn line boil?

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I am trying to achieve a deliberate line boil effect in a pose-by-pose animation. Similar, for example, to the effect achieved in Dr Katz (I know this particular example was done with software rather than by hand).

My process is currently:

hand draw a pose
trace second version of pose (with some deliberate tracing badness to achieve line boil)
scan both poses
repeat for new pose
for each pose, display for desired period, looping through two versions

However, the effect is not as I intended. There is often an illusion of movement, rather than a mostly-still pose with vibrant lines, and my intuitions about which lines to boil, and how to boil them, is sometimes just plain wrong. How can I instead achieve an effective line boil? (For example, do I need more than two boiled versions per frame? If so, how many? What line variations generally work, and are there any in particular to avoid? Should I avoid any simulated movement, including gestures and mouth movement?)

(The software I am using happens to be GIMP + Inkscape, but this is mostly for aligning / tweaking images, not the actual drawing or animation. I believe the answer lies in what I'm drawing rather than software, but I'm tentatively open to software related advice.)


texts: Using tabs with multiple lines of text in two columns (InDesign)

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I'm hoping someone can help with a tabs issue I'm facing in InDesign. I attached a screenshot below. For a resume design, I currently have the left and right information in separate text boxes. However, I am trying to figure out how to create this same design using tabs (as the two text boxes make it difficult to edit and line everything up). I know how to use tabs to create a single line on one side and paragraph text on the other side, however, I cannot figure out how to use tabs when I have multiple lines of text on BOTH sides.

I've been trying to figure this out for days and am completely stuck, so I'd very much appreciate if anyone has any advice. Thank you!


texts: Illustrator: Cannot select text behind "Place" Object

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I did a File > Place in my Illustrator document, and it is displaying the X frame over the thing, even after I press Enter.

Unfortunately, I cannot select the text box or do any of the stuff I want to do on top of the image I am trying to place.


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I am trying to display the non-breaking dash with itextpdf. However, it can't not display in normal myriad font. But I really want to use Myraid.

Therefore I need to find a version of Myraid that support unicode. Could anyone know about it? Thanks!

A existing example: We have arial font, but we also arial unicode MS for unicode display. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial_Unicode_MS