texts: InDesign: Why are my text frames shifting down slightly when I copy them from a master page and paste in place to other masters and pages?

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I am creating a number of business card variations in InDesign CC 2014 on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system. I am attempting to copy text frames from one master and paste them in place on another master.

However, when I paste in place my text frames shift down slightly. It also appears that sometime different text frames shift while others stay in the proper place. Additionally, when I override master page items to edit the text it also shifts.

I've done my best to check all aspects of text formatting to make sure I'm not accidently adding whitespace or changing line height before a chunk of text.

Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, do you know a solution?


texts: Small Caps Character Choice for Abbreviations Commonly starting with a Lowercase Letter

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I am pondering the following question, is there a typographical convention for which of the following choices should be prefered?

or

The background is:

I want the title style in small capitals.
fMRI is a common abbreviation where the first letter is always lowercase (which in other font styles is a minuscule).
Small capital f might be the representation for lowercase f in the chosen font style, but it makes thee abbreviation less recognizable.
Whereas most words are capitalized or not depending on the surrounding punctuation, fMRI is never capitalized, therefore the word recognition is more affected by the switch from a minuscule to a small capital.

If there is no such thing as a convention, which would you recommend?


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I have a path consisting of three nodes where two nodes are in a 45° angle. Now I want to shorten the angled part and keep the angle.

Is there a way to snap two nodes and drag them across a specific angle?


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I'm currently studying graphic design and find I do a lot of work at home and then bring that work into class only to find I have to re-download all my fonts to work on my documents.

My teacher has told me that by simply logging into my Adobe CC account it will automatically sync whatever fonts I use on my personal home computer onto the school computer. However I have found this not to be the case.

I know you can download fonts from typekit and have them sync, but I want the fonts I've downloaded from dafont/fontsquirell etc to sync. Is this at all possible, and if so, could someone explain to me the process? Because simply signing in doesn't do it.


texts: How do I "cut out" an icon with a background in Illustrator?

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I am having some difficulties trying to delete the space where I created a simple '+' icon.
Here are some images for reference.

I hope this explains what I am trying to accomplish. Sorry for not using technical terms, I do not know them!

Thanks!


texts: What is this helvetica-like font called?

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The font is used in this dribbble post for the headlines and titles, not the body text.

So far I have tried multiple font identification sites but none gave a satisfactory result. Neue Haas Grotesk is the font that I've found so far to be the closest.

For me, the following things are important:

The leg of the "R" is straight
the dot on the "i" is round
the ends of the "s" and "S" are fully or almost horizontal


texts: I have tried a lot of different things, including reading a lot of answers on here about this question and I still feel like there has to be a better way. Basically, I am trying to design these labels that are an exact size. I want to be able to send them to be printed and tested, but I'm having issues with sizing and resolution. I just figured out that if you select 72 PPI it will export with the correct dimensions. Awesome, but it doesn't look good at all because of the low resolution. So right now I have to take higher quality images and import them to Pages and make sure that they are the right size. Please tell me there is a more streamlined way of doing this. Thanks.


texts: Photo has bright and darker on an aerial photo question

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I am not very familiar how to manipulate with the photo i have has a bright and a darker in the same photos.  I do not know if this is a common or not .
I got this from a contractor that scanned many aerial photos however; I have a few of them that happens to have like this. I wanted to see if anyone has the same problem as mine ?
Donn't need to copy to another GIS Stackexchange as I already post there but have no luck
I discovered that the darker has 8 unsigned bit while the bright one has 16 unsigned bit... I'd like have the bright one to match with the darker in a 8 bit .
Is there a way around for me to fix this problem ?
I have tried to use breakpoint to find the similar match but no luck.  I split the two and tried to get the bright to change to similar to the dark one...


texts: Is this is a specific type of Design drawing?

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Being inspired by Apple's design, I came across some of Jony Ive's earlier work, and noticed he produced these drawings-- I have seen their 'style' before and it seems like industrial/product designers adhere to this style, if that's in fact what it is.

If it is a style and not just my perception, what is the classification of this type of style?

For context, compare the bottom two images done by Ive with the screengrab of the concept motorbike(?) seen on fiftythree's Paper app media page: http://www.fiftythree.com/paper


texts: How to copy font weight and size from a PDF to CSS?

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I'm struggling with an issue where I'm given designs for websites in PSDs and they use Google Font fonts and trying to match them when building the site in HTML/CSS.

Is there something i'm missing in terms of being able to match the font sizes and weights with that in the design? The sizes in the photoshop file don't match reality at all, and the font weights look wrong on my Windows machine when trying to match.


texts: How to apply text to irregular non-flat surface?

texts: I was wondering how I can make something like the text in the yellow? It doesn't seem to be a warp tool.


texts: Is there is any Short key to show smart guides in Photoshop?

texts: Here is the Screen Shot mention for the smart guides


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What color profile settings should be used in Photoshop for web design?  Does monitor calibration effect save for web images?
I keep my monitor calibrated with a colorimeter and want to make sure my colors will be consistant acros all major browsers.
I use my calibrated monitor profile for my workspace, color management off and don't embed a profile for save for web and try to use .png 24 whenever possible.  Is this the best practice?
Color settings

Save for web


texts: Correct location for a pie chart internal label

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I'm producing pie charts algorithmically. In many cases, each segment of a pie chart should contain a label inside the segment (space permitting). Where exactly should the label be placed in order to be more-or-less perceptually centered?

My leading approach is to inscribe a circle inside the segment and center the label inside that circle. Then, if the label does not fit in the circle, it will have to be moved outside the chart.

An alternative is the centroid of the section. To me, this didn't look quite as good.

Is there a common convention for this? Is there an approach often taken by high-quality tools that I should be aware of?

Example of the inscribed circle approach:


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I'm using sketchup to create a book cover. I want it to be a wooden cover of about 2 CM thick with 1 CM engraving. It is going to be a bucket-list book.

I've created a wooden cover of the right size, and now I want to have some images on top of that cover. I don't want to print them, but engrave them. I've added a picture of a branch with birds, and traced the entire image by hand. That took pretty long, so I'm looking for a way to automate that process.

Currently my cover looks like this:

I want to add a globe (countries, not the water) to that cover, and just like the birds it must be pushed into the wood. I don't want to trace the entire globe by hand, so I'm looking for a way to import an image and push that without needing to trace it.

I've tried to download a 2d 'world map' from the 3d warehouse, but I am not able to 'push' that into the wood. I simply get a red mark on my cursor if I try to push the object.

How can I automatically turn an image or model to serve as outline for my push action?


texts: wrapping text around circle in illustrator

texts: right now I have two separate type paths- I want type to wrap in continuous circle but still need the calico skies on top and sparkling company on bottom- basically want the type closer together so it appears to be constant circle. How do i extend the bottom circle shape to bring this type closer to top without changing the arc?


texts: I'm looking to print something with my laser printer and then foil it, I found silver and gold foil in markets, it worked great, but I'm looking for a white foil. I seen on the internet that there's white foil by deco foil, but unfortunately shopping online is forbidden in my country.. is there anyway I can stick something white to toner ?


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Can I draw this graph using Inkscape? I am new to this image editor and I have read the guidelines but it still seems hard to do.
Can you please help me to draw an identical graph that also includes the symbols?


texts: Need name for font used for the Office 2013 Icons

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I need to create a logo design similar to the icons for Office 2013:

Can anyone help me with font name as I am not able to find it


texts: Inkscape insert text after importing pdf

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I am trying to edit text from a PDF file - but when I enter the new text, it jumbles it up. What do I need to do to fix this? For instance, below I wanted to insert Hourly into 'Percent Maximum Concentration`.

The path for the text object has:

  <g
         id="g10872">
        <g
           clip-path="url(#clipPath10878)"
           id="g10874">
          <text
             id="text10882"
             style="font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;font-family:Helvetica;-inkscape-font-specification:Helvetica;writing-mode:lr-tb;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
             transform="matrix(1,0,0,-1,115.27,141.72)">
            <tspan
               id="tspan10880"
               sodipodi:role="line"
               y="0"
               x="0 6.7870002 12.903 16.566 22.066 28.181999 34.298 37.355999 40.414001 49.577 55.693001 61.193001 63.634998 72.688004 78.804001 87.967003 91.025002 98.967003 105.083 111.199 116.699 122.815 128.931 131.989 135.54201 141.658 144.716 147.158 153.274">Percent Maximum Concentration</tspan>
          </text>


texts: Create light with two layers of different levels Photoshop CC 2015

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Consider following images:

The second one is a darkened version of the first. How can I create car lights on the second image so that it takes (blends) pixel information from the first one to show the road? Something like this:

But this is done with adjusting curves of the second image and adding blur to it, so it doesn't use first image's information for light.

Apologies for not using more technical terms.

EDIT 1:

What I got so far with blending the two layers + adjusting curves + gaussian blur for light: (different light bulbs = different tint/color)


texts: How to change the colour of a wire frame in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I have a letter, which I converted into a wire frame, now I want to change the colour of wireframe, but no reliable option found so far.


texts: I have placed a reference image in Glyphs in order to draw paths on top of it. Is there a way hide the image and show it again (in other words turn on and off my reference)?


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I am need of a typeface with descenders that match or come close to the x-height. Can you recommend some?

System fonts or free fonts would be ideal.


texts: Illustrator: how to fit a circle perfectly inside the arboard

texts: I have the artboard's dimensions set to 1000px by 1000px. I am trying to create a circle that fits perfectly inside the artboard without the circle's edges being "cropped" out, which happens when I set the width of the circle to 1000 px and the height to 1000 px. (like in the picture). Also, the circle is placed in the middle of the artboard.


texts: How to resize multiple icons (centered in multiple artboards) in Illustrator?

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I have multiple versions of a logo (different colours, keylines etc) laid out in a file on multiple artboards. This so I can save off in batches multiple .PNGs from the one file.

My problem is I now need to decrease the size of the artwork (by 75%) but can't seem to keep artwork centered on artboards?


texts: Objects outside of Art Boards are extremely sharp

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As shown in the picture below, I drew a regular white brush stroke that transitions between an artboard, and the "regular" canvas below. But the problem is, why does it increase the crispness when it leaves the artboard?

This really applies to anything, I was testing it with text and it does the very same thing. Is this a feature, or bug? Or neither and I am too amateur to understand the intricate complexities of Adobe's Photoshop CC 2019 Art Boards?


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I am currently working with a photo that is placed in an InDesign document.I currently have a directional feather applied to the image but the edges are still visible. I would like to feather the edge so that the background color smoothly transitions into the photograph. When I open the image up in Photoshop, I select the entire photo, and then select Refine Edge and then choose a non-zero Radius for edge detection and a non-zero value for Feathering, but when I apply it nothing happens. Is this the wrong way to go about the task I am trying to accomplish?

Here you can see the boundary of the photo against the fill of the bckgd which I would like to remove:


texts: How to reduce enormous GIMP (XCF) file size for simple photo correction

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Thank you in advance for your help. I am a fairly new GIMP user with no Photoshop experience, so bear with me.

A batch of 600 images was ruined by something inside the camera that caused a smudge to appear in the left corner of every photo. I found a blog post about how to use GIMP's healing tool and successfully blotted out the smudge on one of the images.

I did this using a layer so I can come back and do it differently if I learn a better method later.

When I save as XCF, the file size jumped to 23.2 MB! WHAT? And if I choose the option to use better compression now available in GIMP 2.10, it is still 14.1 MB.

The original RAW JPEG is only 3.27 MB. I'm very conscious about my disk usage. Is there something I'm missing that can keep the original image quality but a more reasonable file size?


texts: How To Ask Fellow Designer For Native Files For Prepress Purposes Only?

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I am the graphic designer and sole prepress person for a small quick print shop. I often come across issues with a file to be printed and cannot make the needed changes or compensations as they arise due to the file hand-off from the clients' designer. For example, we use EFI Fiery Command Workstation to print our jobs and it sometimes misinterprets .PDF files, especially element-heavy files created in InDesign which uses transparencies, and results in a loss of elements. Or, the client is requesting the printed file to match a certain existing copy which requires color correction to mimic the final... Even if the desired customer copy in question was printed with the colors over-saturated and blown out ("We want people to know how bright the place is" was her defense...)

I often come to issues with the clients' designer because they do not want to give me the native files. I understand the value of native files to a designer, and that the contract may not include the hand-off of the working files. However, I am not their client -- I am just someone in the process of making sure their printed work looks best for their client. I am the PREPRESS person trying to make sure THEIR client is happy with their printed piece.

How should I communicate to the designer that I need their native files for prepress purposes ONLY? Is that even acceptable? We have missed deadlines in the past for our clients because their designer cannot make the needed changes in time, or does it incorrectly, or not at all.

It's driving me nuts!

Thank you!


texts: Saving batch edited images with filenames based on text content

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I have a specific design which is always being used, the only thing I am editing the is text line.

For example, the text line is a date.

1950 (save as 1950.PNG)
1951 (save as 1951.png)

and so on

I have to do this for about 100 years so from 1901 to 2014.
So is there a quicker way to do this?


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I really like the brushed black & white font used during the intro to HBO's 24/7 series.  Any guesses as to what it might be?

EDIT:

In response to Phil's answer, 'Impact' isn't quite it.  Notice the 'C' and 'S' characters, how the Impact curves are squared off, whereas the 24 7 font curves are more rounded:


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I have opened a PNG image in Photoshop. I want to export as SVG and make the image pixelated. How do I do this?

When I zoom in the image in Photoshop, the image is pixelated. I want to have the exact same effect but in an SVG export.


texts: Illustrator CS6 - Can't Find the NON-Perspective Free Transform

texts: So, in Illustrator, there's a tool called the free-transform tool (shortcut is E), and while stretching an object, by holding control, it changes to the perspective stretch (allowing me to pull just one corner). The perspective stretch is sometimes neat, but I don't always want it. Sometimes I just want a generic stretch. But I can't find online or anywhere in the program how to do a basic free transform. E.g.:


texts: In the image below, I have illustrated the interior of a bedroom with a slanted wall. On the slanted wall, I want to add a poster. Did I correctly use perspective here? Basically, I picked a point on the horizon that matched the top part of that slanted wall and used the same point to match the top of the poster.


texts: Color to 12 shades of Grayscale conversion & Grid overlay

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Thanks for reading my post. I would like to create a grid drawing, like the ones done by Chuck Close.  This uses a system where an existing photo is transposed/painted by hand to a much larger canvas, using a grid system, so that the resulting painting/drawing is photorealistic.
The system uses a numbered grid overlaid on the original photo, which is used to transpose the colour in each grid cell onto a larger canvas which also has a grid overlaid on it. It is kind of like a “paint by numbers” process.
I am planning on doing this with a ‘black and white photo’ - really grayscale, but with only 12 shades ranging from white though to black which align with the markers I want to use, which are a ‘cool grey’ set of 12 copic markers. I can find the RGB values for them here: C-0 to C-10 plus the black “100” marker.  https://www.swatchtool.com/copic
Markers are here: http://www.copicmarker.com.au/copic-marker-set-12-cool-grey
So, I would like to know how I can convert a black and white photo, preferably in photoshop.
to:
Have an 18” longest side (this is the maximum size my local print shop can do)
Convert to a 12 colour greyscale
Overlay a grid (in a colour that stands out, perhaps red)
Number each grid cell from 1-12 corresponding to the shade of gray
Thanks for your help


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In Photoshop you can use the wrap-text tool to shape the text arch like (More here). In Affinity-Designer you can create a text on a curve but that does not the same like the arch option in Photoshop. Is there a feature in Affinity-Designer?

In Photoshop (Art="Type", Torbogen="Arch"):

In Affinity-Designer


texts: Gray background when scanning a line drawing

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When I scan a line drawing on my Canon 9000F scanner I get the scanner reading the white paper the drawing is on as gray. In other words, the background is smudgy, not pure white. Someone suggested putting black paper on top of the drawing because the cover lining that goes against the picture is white. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this. I'm told the scanner intensity cannot be adjusted.

Thank you.


texts: A "line" around an unselected layer in InDesign

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I'm using Adobe InDesign CC.

Whenever I create a square using the rectangle tool, a 'green line' is shown around it (I'm not sure how to call it).

Up until now, such a 'green line' was only shown around a SELECTED (active) layer; but for some reason, it is now shown permanently, even though another layer is selected, and even if the original layer is locked. Please see the screenshots attached.

I'd be glad to know how I can get rid of this 'green line'.

Thanks in advance for your kind help :-)


texts: Exporting web design from illustrator to photoshop

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I have a website designed in Illustrator that I have exported to PSD, which works okay apart from the fact that it doesn't like clipping paths which I can deal with.

The main issue is that when the design is viewed in Illustrator it's 1024px wide, but when imported into Photoshop it's 4217px wide. I understand Illustrator pixels and Photoshop pixels are not the same. Is there a way to work around this problem?

Thanks, everyone!


texts: How to produce a blurred abstract (frosted glass) background like this?

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I have been seeing these blurred backgrounds all over the place, so I would like to know the exact steps how to reproduce something like this . What I can imagine, is that they first blurred an image/gradient with a gaussian blur. But there has to be something more to it, right ?

+) How do I correctly use a gradient instead of a picture?


texts: Can I increase the thickness of an outlined path in Illustrator?

texts: I have downloaded some SVG icons from the web which are all outlined paths. In Illustrator I would like to make those paths thicker. Is there a way to do this? I know when a line is still in stroke-mode you can just adjust the size of the stroke, but once this has been converted to outlines I don't know if this is still possible?


texts: How to count total magazine pages correctly for sending info to printer?

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I need to send a magazine to printer and I need to provide total number of pages including cover. Inside pages are 100, does this mean that I should say 102? Or cover counts as 4 pages, outside and inside? This is also what I need to calculate size for spine.

The pages that are like introduction pages after opening cover, are these two going to inside cover spread?


texts: Is there option to fit square to artboard size in Illustrator?

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I constantly create square background which I should adjust to artboard size.

Almost every time I miss one or two pixels (Retina is good for that), so I looked for one-click feature "click object to artboard size" and didn't find it.

Probably there is a faster way instead of inserting exact parameters of the artboard to the square dimensions?

Illustrator CS6.

Thanks.


texts: How can I create this abstract, folded, smooth black & white lines effect?

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I'm trying to recreate this type of effect:

My first guess was the Warp tool in Illustrator (I want this in vector) but I get gaps between the black and white lines so I don't think this is the approach. Any tips?


texts: Validation colors in the same family as my primary

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I am working on a web application and the particular shade of blue that is our company's primary color does not jive all that well with standard red, green, and yellow on the web. When I want to put up validation messages they look a bit out of place.

I tried using the Adobe color picker, but all of the compliments, compounds, etc. do not feature a red or green.

I'm looking for a red green and yellow shade that look like they they mesh with a primary. Are there tools for this? I'm leaving it generic so it can be more of a general question.

What tool/calculation can I use to find these?


texts: Any solutions to a Minimalist Packaging on 1oz dropper issue?

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I'm working on a packaging project with a minimalist aesthetic on a 1oz dropper.  The problem I have is my client has so much text it's hard to execute a minimalist vibe with maximum text (they have a reallllly long list of ingredients, directions, etc).
Does anyone have experience tech-packing or designing labels where you 'peel off' the label to reveal ingredients or directions for extra room / know what's that called / knows what that .ai template would look like?
Has anyone ever suggested or designed with an additional 'tag' or care-card of ingredients/directions rather than on the actual label?
Any other ideas for solutions? Thanks!


texts: Transparent gif blurring when saving for web?

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I'm editing out the background of a gif for the first time (I've done it for pictures before) and I noticed when i save for web the layers that have been edited start to blur together.

Is there a setting I'm missing?


texts: How to change the color of the artboard in Adobe Illustrator?

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It is practically impossible to edit a white illustration on the default white artboard background.

Hiding the artboard makes the whole work area receive the artboard's white color.

So, is there a way to change the color of the artboard in Illustrator CC?


texts: Indent paragraph to end of the last line of previous paragraph

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I believe I've seen this method of indenting in older books at times and in poetry when one metered line is split between characters or quotes. Essentially, I'm wanting to indent a paragraph based on when the last line of the previous paragraph ends. Something like this:

I could do it manually like I have in the pic, but that's not feasible for large amounts of text. I could also do it with an indent-to-here character and a soft return, but that doesn't leave me with true paragraphs.

Any thoughts? I'm in Indesign CS6.


texts: Why does a PNG I downloaded not display transparency in photoshop?

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I have been trying to download photos/pictures from the internet and edit them, but whenever I do it the transparent background becomes white. I have tried copy/pasting, which never works. I tried downloading as a PNG and opening it in Photoshop, which works sometimes, but usually does not. I've tried downloading it, copying the preview and pasting that into Photoshop, but that does't work either. All the pictures are transparent in my browser (I use chrome) but when I download them they often don't maintain their transparency. I know there is a post on this, but none of the answers helped. I am on mac.

The first photo shows the image on Chrome, with the transparent background. The second is it in Photoshop, with a white background.

In Google Images setting, I change the background to "transparent" before searching, meaning all the images that come as a result of the search have transparent backgrounds. By searching specifically transparent images, and seeing the checkered background, I am sure the images are transparent. Also, it's a PNG, which always have the transparent background. If it were a JPEG, it would have a white background.


texts: How to type in the desired dimensions of a Frame tool object in Photoshop?

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As entitled (Frame tool option (K), 6th down in lefthand menu, below Crop tool). I clearly see how to size a frame by dragging, but how can i set the dimension values of a frame by typing them in?
(I'm using v21.2.2.)


texts: Make Illustrator Infographics Fully editable in PowerPoint

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I create complex infographics in Illustrator that include both shape and text elements.  From time to time my clients need a fully editable version that they can manipulate using only Microsoft office programs.  I'd like to find a tool that will convert Illustrator files into fully editable PowerPoint text and shapes with formatting preserved.

I've tried the editable PDF to powerpoint and exporting as .wmf and ungrouping in powerpoint. In both cases the text is often broken apart into random chunks (sometimes the conversion places each letter of a word in its own text box) requiring me to manually replace and reformat most of the text.

Does anyone know of a technique or a program that could help?


texts: Is the following navigation design readable?

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I used D3 JavaScript library to create a time-based linear post navigator for my personal blog which departs significantly from the "traditional" way of linking posts together. I wanted to gather some feedback on whether or not this design works: and, more specifically, whether or not there are visual elements that I can add which I can use to reinforce the "obviousness" of the navigation bar.

Here it is unactivated:

The nodes activate when you hover over them:

My big question is: is this design functionally obvious?
and what can be done to make it more so?


texts: Smart object anti aliasing Photoshop CC 2015

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I get the new version of photoshop CC 2015.
Now when I past a vector from illustrator directly on photoshop they create me a smart object but they are no anti-aliasing at all.

May someone help me?
Thanks


texts: Learning to draw: start in the pen and paper realm or the digital space?

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My question is should I start with paper to learn to draw or learn to digitally draw with Photoshop or Illustrator or any image manipulation application.
I am thinking of using a book or some other accompanying material (if you have any recommendations). I am thinking of this book.
If I do learn to draw digitally (or do graphic design to be more precise) does that translate or least help in drawing in the real world?
Also if I learn to draw with pen and paper does that improve your Photoshop or Illustrator skills?
Lastly if you have learned Photoshop and then started to draw in paper did you notice or feel a difference in your designs?
I am interested in practicing graphic design and feel that I should learn to draw as well. Not just for graphic design but for pleasure as well.


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Is it possible to invert a custom brush?
I am not talking about angle/rotation/horizontally but what part of the brush is drawn on the canvas.
I want to invert it in a way so the area which normally does not apply color will apply color.


texts: Resizing objects with different width by specific value in Illustrator

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I've searched similar questions but none matched my need. Let's say you have a lot of rectangles with different width (12mm, 35mm, 6.54mm etc) and you want to add 2mm to each object's width, 1mm both left and right. I am trying to create a quick action but Transform tool doesn't have that ability and I've tried Transform again but it doesn't seem to work when saved as an action.  Would it be possible to do this by using a script? Thanks in advance!
Edit: the action I'm trying to make supposed to look like this: Copy- Paste in back- Transform- Deselect. Unfortunately,  the Transform part is the one I can't make to work.


texts: Can someone help me identify the fonts highlighted within the red boxes?

texts: What font was used within the red highlighted areas of the included image of KPM 1001 The Mood Modern?


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I want to make a bunch of dashes that are 10 pixels long horizontally, 5 pixels long vertically, and separated by 20 pixels. Is there any way to do this easily in GIMP?

I was looking at slice, but that seems to output the image into a bunch of files. I just want to be able to make a uniform dash without having to manually draw a line pixel by pixel.

I want it to look something like this:


texts: applying clipping mask to multiple objects

texts: I want to apply a brush splash to the central petals of the flower. But clipping mask doesn't work. It says object is too complex. The only way I found to resolve this problem is using shape builder tool and cut every single petal in order to avoid outlines overlapping.  Then make a copy of petals with fill and place a brush splash between outlines and fill layer. I wonder is there any less time consuming solution ? The main problem is outlines, they overlapping each other without a fill. Opacity mask doesn't adress my problem, because I don't want the outlines to be covered by a brush splash. The brush splash have to be inside of each petal. Thank you !


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For example, when I save an SVG from illustrator and view the code, I see a <circle> element, for example,

<circle cx="131.6" cy="292.3" r="311.7" />

but I'd like for it to be a <path> element, not a <circle> element.

How can I change it to be a path element?


texts: Adobe Illustrator 2018 Live Corner Edges not Showing to round rectangles and basic shapes

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These live corner edges are missing in adobe illustrator. Rather than it is giving me a simple rectangle.

  My adobe illustrator version is 16.0.0. Kindly somebody, please guide me how to resolve this issue.


texts: How do I turn gray and white pixels on black lineart into a transparent gradiant?

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I'm hoping my question is a simple one, as I'm strapped for time.

To put it simply, the lineart looks great from afar, and I plan on adding color to it in a layer under. But unfortunately, due to a bad tip, the lineart became filled with gray and white, covering up color and making it look horrid.

This can be fixed by turning these gray and white pixels into black and having them fade from the middle (The way most black brushes would look when used over a transparent background), but insofar I haven't found a way to do it. Even in most gradiant tutorials.

If I could get a step-by-step way to fix this, I'd be greatly appreciative.

Thank you!


texts: Customer Requests (Sometimes) Drive Me Bonkers!

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Like lots of you, I do freelance graphic design and content creation (copywriting and traditional artwork, some photography) and generally I have no issue with customer requests and/or complaints, or 'reasonable' artwork changes. HOWEVER...

SOMETIMES my customers make requests/demands that are the very essence of bad-to-horrible design. I acquiesce, but not very happily, and at such times try to remember that ultimately, the customer is always right, at least (and maybe especially?) in those areas that concern what they want for the job.

Still, I have to ask myself, is the customer always right? After all, aren't I the artist, and the one they hired for expertise in such matters?

How did the artisans of the Renaissance deal with this situation? (And what version of Adobe did they use way back then, anyway?)


texts: Need direction on automating the process of copying and pasting a shape

texts: I'm trying to automate the process of pasting a box over some existing text on a pdf. For each new pdf I would like to cover some text in a light gray box, so the end result is that the text is not shown. I want to be able to make a tool that will pull in 50 pdfs, have a gray box cover the text, and then have them saved. What I'm looking for is some direction on how I can automate the process. For example, are there some tutorials or methods you would suggest I look into?


texts: I'm designing and printing an image with some text at 450cm x 250cm for a exhibition backdrop. What resolution is needed?

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Will a shutterstock image work for this or do I need a better quality image?

This is shutterstock info: Large  |  10297 px x 3433 px  |  87.2cm x 29.1cm @ 300 dpi

Is my calculation correct: DPI will be 34? Is that too low if people will be standing 1m from artwork?


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I am currently in the process of trying to cut part of a circle while still displaying the full image that is masked. It might be easier to show an example.

I am trying to do something like this:

This is what I have:

But I'm not really sure how to get that same effect.


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I am a beginner in Adobe Illustrator. In a project I was doing on Treehouse, I got stuck when the instructor told me to expand and then merge without explaining what that's for.

Why do we have to expand before merge?


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I'm having a strange problem with Facebook Ad designs in the Creative Hub. I reached out to Facebook several times with no luck and figured I'd tap into this community to see if anyone has experience designing these.

I am doing a 1080 x 1080 pixel ad and on mobile all of these ads are considerably blurry. I do not experience this with the Desktop versions, they are completely clear.

I have ensured the dimensions are correct (1080x1080) and have tried 2x and 3x of the dimensions with the same results. I understand Facebook quality is not the best but in this case it's completely unacceptable, all images on mobile that I upload are very blurry. I even experimented with actual photos instead of digital illustrations and I have experienced the same results. It's frustrating because I see crisp ads on Facebook all the time and I feel like I'm missing out on some kind of secret. For the record I am using Adobe Illustrator CC and using Export > Export for Screens for this example and when using photography I am using Photoshop CC Save For Web & Devices - they get the same results.

Any feedback and knowledge would be greatly appreciated.

Desktop - Screenshot in Creative Hub (Clear)

Mobile - Screenshot in Creative Hub


texts: I'm re-making a logo, how do I make a vortex in illustrator?

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Here's the original (made in photoshop), but it's way too pixelated so I'm re making it in illustrator.

However, I'm having a very difficult time re-making the vortex. I've tried using the Ellipse tool and stack circles and then cutting them but it's not working at all. The circles look all weird and distorted. Any help here would be great!


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In the past I have been able to group objects and use the bounding box to center my selections. I checked "hide bounding box" and it is not active. I've also checked "hide edges"

I also can't rotate my selections anymore using this method.

It also seems like even though I have it "grouped" and am using the new group selection tool, it doesn't allow me to transform the entire selection.

What is happening here?


texts: How to have Hex automatically selected in Illustrator

texts: Whenever I click the color pikcer in Illustrator the H is automatically selected, I usually work with HEX colors is it possible to have the HEX # automatically selected upon opening the color picker?


texts: Cut hole without stroke into object with stroke

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I have a custom white object with black stroke, like this:

I want to cut a hole into that, so I create an object like this:

If I do Minus Front from the pathfinder, I get this:

But I don't want the stroke on the circle in the middle. How can I do that?

I want it to look like this:


texts: Any good example of electric waves incorporated in a web design?

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The client I work with has undergone an internal branding exercise. The result is that all of their documentation standards have been updated to include a common header. The header contains a black background with an orange electric wave as a prominent design feature.

I've now been asked to incorporate this into their intranet design. Can anyone please provide me with any examples of web design elements incorporating an electric wave? The designs can be either prominent or subtle.

I'm basically struggling to design around this without it looking dated. Any inspiration would be appreciated.


texts: How do you change the origin of a radial gradient in Inkscape?

texts: I want to change the origin of a radial gradient in Inkscape (so that it's not in the centre of the shape, but off to one side). How do I do this?


texts: InDesign: how to import text from Word Perfect or Pages format

texts: My book designer is using InDesign, but she cannot import text in Word Perfect or Pages (mac). She likes me to send my text in PDF but then she retypes it. It is causing lots of confusion and error.  I have a new Macbook Pro and am willing to learn or buy any program so that my designer can just import my text directly. It seems crazy that we cannot do this. BTW we are both 60+ yo ladies. Thank you.


texts: Making Advertisement System in Magazines with InDesign CC

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When making Magazines, it's pretty clear that there will be Advertisements that will be placed in with different sizes (full page, spread, 1/2 page, 1/6 page, with bleed or without etc.).

1. When planning/making a new magazine in InDesign, I also create Library where I place all the planned sizes for ads, so later it's easier to put them in when they are ready. At the start, when one of the first things I know from technical point of view is the magazine size, do I need to make this Library with all possible ad sizes at this point OR only start to make them when magazine other specification (margins, guides, bleed are set)?

2. What should I keep in mind when I make measurements for ad sizes that there will be placed, both with or without bleed? Is there the one and only right system that I need to keep in mind when doing this?

3. Any other helpful information about planning ads in magazines would be much appreciated!


texts: Stroking Merged shapes not working as expected

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I have a simple question. I was reading this tutorial. And I couldn't get the effect as expected. After some experiments I found that when I merge two shapes and apply stroke only its outline gets a stroke. For example I draw 2 rectangles and merged them. This is what I got:

I would like to have stroke also inside the shape. How to do this?

EDIT:
This is what I got doing above tutorial

What is expected:

My path options:


texts: What are some essential tools I need to start school?

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I dont have an artistic background, so when I start school soon, I don't really know what I'm going to need and what I'm not going to need. I'm trying to prepare as much as I can before starting and get some supplies I will need while I have the money to do so right now.

For those that have gone to school for graphic design, what are some tools that I will undoubtedly need?

And when I say tools, I'm not talking software or skill sets, I'm talking more along the lines of craft supplies. If you've graduated or are currently in school, what supplies did/do you need when starting out?


texts: In Inkscape how to create a fill only above a line

texts: I need to create for the pink line a similar thing to what is there for the red line. If I follow this steps Inkscape fails to recognise properly my pink vector and I get just the filling all over the place. Do you have a nice way for me to fill only the area above the lines? Thanks.


texts: How to define a custom shape in photoshop

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I have created a shape and selected a layer.
In the Edit menu the Define custom shape... option is disabled.

Can any one tell what mistake I have made.


texts: how to change "frame animation" to "video timeline"?

texts: When i open the timeline window it directly opens up as frame animation and it doesn't show me the option where you can choose either "frame animation" or "video timeline" so where do i change it?


texts: Why Gaussian blur in Illustrator fades into gray?

texts: Why does my Guassian blur in Illustrator go to gray or faded white when I use it?


texts: Font design and typographic choices for dyslexic readers?

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I recently stumbled on a font designed specifically for dyslexic readers (OpenDyslexic). It explains how it works like so:

  Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to add a kind of "gravity" to each letter, helping to keep your brain from rotating them around in ways that can make them look like other letters.

I wonder:

Are there other design principles behind fonts specifically targeted at people with dyslexia? (Links to research on the effectiveness of such design principles would be very much appreciated.)
Are there also typography tips that can be used to make an overall block of text (or page) more readable to dyslexic readers? I can imagine things like tweaking kerning or small random baseline modifications could be of some help…


texts: How can I draw an arc (outline only) in Illustrator?

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How can I draw a precise arc in illustrator, where only the edge shows?

Example:
In the picture below, you can see a circle, and part of that circle has a darker section (an arc).

There is a similar question here, but the accepted answer will produce something like a pie slice, not just an arc segment like in the picture.


texts: How to recreate this effect from Apple's GameCenter?

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How could I recreate the background and the effect on the ribbons, borders, and "Other" text in this screenshot from Apple's GameCenter app?  To me, the background looks a little glittery, but also a bit like felt, while the other parts look kind of like they have been painted on, with some of the texture coming through.

I am using Gimp, but can usually follow basic Photshop tutorials pretty well, if they don't rely too much on effects Gimp doesn't support.

Screenshot:

Larger image here.


texts: Modern image/assets saving workflow for Print and Digital using Adobe CC

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my departments are setting up some new file naming conventions. We use a CMD system to autogenerate a number of folders from a dynamically created Job Number. Currently, we have the following structure

JOB NUMBER/
--/DOCUMENTS
--/SCANS_LOGOS
--/CLIENT_ORIGINALS

DOCUMNETS for InDesign and PDF outputs
SCANS_LOGOS for Indesing links / photoshop / ai files a
CLIENT_ORIGINAL for Word docs supplied by clients and used for text in inDesing

In my mind, this is an antiquated/inadequate filing system as Adobe is pushing towards alternative workflows.
Below are a few modern workflow scenarios:
-An InDesign document might have links saved from a CC Library (should we save a link to the library in the job?
-Photohsop user might be using artboards and exporting images from photoshop using prefixes
Illustrator exports assets as well as artboards.

Does anyone have a good workflow for print /they could suggest


texts: Smooth rounded boxes in Illustrator and path end angles

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I'm new to Illustrator but have a decent background in Photoshop and After Effects. Anyway, I've spent a good amount of time creating this logo in Illustrator and am unhappy with the results. It's likely that I've used the tools incorrectly.

Here are my list of questions:

The rounded corners don't seem to connect to the straight lines in a
smooth fashion. How would I clean that up? Is this caused by the
fact that I used a path/stroke? Should I have taken a different
approach?
I cut angled corners off the "B" on a rasterized layer in Photoshop.
How would I make sharp angled ends on a path in Illustrator?
Is there a way to approach creating a design like this that will auto-magically make the outer wider rounded corners have a wider radius? Or is this something I'd have to do manually? I really dislike how dirty it is a the moment.

Here's the image as reference:

Thanks for reading, I look forward to your answers.


texts: Would redrawing images completely from scratch be considered copyright infringement, if they look the same?

texts: Assuming an anatomical figure from a popular anatomy book is drawn completely from scratch, and I have the PSD file to prove it, would it still be considered copyright infringement, even though it's of the human body? I mean the muscles, arteries etc, are the same for almost everyone.


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in my current web project I am using Benton Sans as main font. It is all about a webapp dealing with numbers, which are displayed in matrices, whereby some should be highlighted and others greyed out.
Since there can be a lot of those matrices, with a lot of numbers in them (~80.000) I am looking for a monospace font, which suits well to the Benton Sans, but is also easily readable (especially for numbers) and comes in at least a regular and a bold cut.


texts: I need good web/cloud (paid/free) storage for my graphic work. It's lots of data with photos and videos too. Any ideas?


texts: How to display spacing information between the two elements in adobe illustrator?

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When I hold down Ctrl in Photoshop it displays spacing information between the layer that I have selected and other nearby layers.

Does Adobe Illustrator a similar function to this?


texts: How to place a 3d object in a photo with correct measurements?

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I want to make a Infographic, which shows how much water is flowing down a river per sec.

To do this I want to make a photo near the river and place the amount of water with imaginary 1m³ bricks.

But that infographic only works when the size of the bricks are correct to the scale of the image.

How do I do this, or what is the correct research term for this?

I imagine something like importing the image into a 3d program and add a two point perspective to the image? And then place the bricks within that perspective grid based on a 1m ruler I've put on the photograph?


texts: Controlling vector opacity in Adobe Illustrator

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I recently moved from Paint Tool SAI to Adobe Illustrator CC 2015. I'm confused on how to control the opacity of the vector.

There's the "Width Tool" to control the width on any point on the vector, but there's no option to control the opacity on any point on the vector.

Is this impossible to do in Illustrator or am I missing something?
Any help will be appreciated!

EDIT: I'm talking about making the lines look tapered through transparency to mimic inking, not making the WHOLE vector line more transparent but just a part of it


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I'm trying to achieve something like this image in Photoshop CS6:

However I only need two large letters inside. The goal is to have the letters in a standard "squared" font (Arial Black) follow the contour of the sphere and split evenly at 90 degrees in the middle. I've tried liquify and spherize filters with no luck, as well as the text warp tool.


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I've been reading about colour theory and want to understand how it relates to rainbow palettes like the attached, also a palette type commonly used by the designer Paul Smith as his signature.

How are the colours related? I have a suspicion they are being mixed from a main set to get all the varieties?

How would I go about creating a similar palette?


texts: When I currently scale objects they always scale from the top left. Is there a way to set a different scaling starting point, like for example in Illustrator?


texts: How to remove a portion of objects in Illustrator

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This would take me a minute in Photoshop, but can't get it to work in Illustrator.

How can I remove a portion of one object over another in order to create a "hole" or "counter" within the bottom object?

Image


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I've got an svg in Illustrator, build from 3 paths. I want to create a path that is the complete inverse of the current paths. So everything that is transparent now - I want it to be white and the three paths I want to be transparent.

I've tried using various selection methods, different layers, not to sure what to try now.

How can this be done?

Basically what I want is to have a box round it with background x color (I can change to white later) and the current colored paths/shapes to be transparent


texts: Removing corrupt 3Delight Renderer from Scene

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For a recent Maya 2018 project (Mac), I was experimenting with a bunch of different renderers. I ended up settling on vRay, but in the process I was testing 3Delight.

The problem is the 3Delight is basically a cancer now. I'm not using anything from it anymore, but I can't get rid of it from my project without it crashing. Its presence has led to several glitches and rendering problems in my project. I can't remove the 3Delight files nor unload the plugin without massive problems and crashing.

I would like to just remove 3Delight from my computer outright, but although I'm done with the project, I would like to be able to access it for various reasons.

I'm guessing I might be able to remove any dependencies through text editor, but I have no idea what yI'm doing in that and I can't find any text that goes under 3Delight's normal naming conventions.

Any ideas on how I can remove 3Delight from my file completely?


texts: Is there a way to get rid of the center dot when transforming?

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I'm trying to figure out how to disable the center mark thingy when transforming objects in photoshop.

I always end up dragging the dot instead of the object and it gets pretty annoying.

Any ideas?


texts: How do I get this dark border effect in Photoshop?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to make an inner shadow around a page in Photoshop CS2?

How do I get this effect where the edge is darkened?


texts: How to make full color brush in photoshop?

texts: I need to pint with full color image as brush. How can brush contain all colors from source image? I need something like clone stamp, but with predefined contents. Picture for better understanding


texts: How do I create a box image which contains a photo and text?

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I'd like to create boxes just like what's shown in the following link, using images of hair colour which are jpeg's and bmp's. Is it something fairly simple that I could do on my Mac? Many thanks.

https://cysterwigs.com/pages/colors-101-your-color-cheat-sheet


texts: What page numbering conventions are there for front matters (prelims) of books?

texts: When a book uses arabic page numbering, the usual habit is to treat the front cover as a page number 1, and start the book itself by page number 3. However, sometimes the front-matter of the book is numbered seperately by roman numbers. In such case, should the first page be i = 1 or iii = 3?


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I’ve purchased a mockup “Surface Studio, Presentation Kit” and I’m trying to replace the computer window with my own image. I actually achieved this, but I have a little problem: I’m working on the 6K resolution and my image doesn’t cover all the screen of the computer, infact as you can see from the red square (which I added) to header and footer of the screen, there is a blank background. This is an image which explain the issue:

Is there a way to fix that without stretching the image? Could you suggest me something?

Kind regards.


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Do you know how to make the vertical bars in this image more visible? Especially on the right side. I'd like to have the vertical bars more sharp and outstanding from the background)? I tried using the sharpening tool in photoshop, but that wasn't sufficient.

In the last resort, I am thinking to draw new vertical elements over the image. But that would be tedious and something I'd like to avoid.

EDIT: This is the best result so far. Please note that the code does not match.


texts: Looking to achieve frame effect with shadows at corners

texts: Where can I find PSD file or tutorial to create the effect of frame with shadow (see red arrow in image)


texts: Do I need to be Creative and Artistic to be a graphic designer?

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I don't like to draw things, and I'm not so creative and artistic.
Can I become a graphic/UI, UX designer?

Your kind suggestions are highly appreciated.


texts: Tools for information architecture mockups

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I often find myself making very high-level sketches of UIs in order to illustrate information architectures. For example, I want to show that a certain page displays a certain kind of information, and links to certain other pages in certain ways. But I'm not really attempting to design anything: I ultimately hand these schematics over to a real designer, who is responsible for figuring out how to actually present the information on each page.

Can anyone recommend any tools for me to use at the "information architecture" level? To be clear, I do want to generate actual UI mockups, but I don't want to make any decisions about the design or layout of this information.


texts: Can I create a book index or table of contents in InDesign that automatically updates page numbers as text reflows?

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I have nearly completed an employee handbook with sections and headings such as "Your Guide to Personal Conduct", "Parking", "Benefits", "Dress Code", etc. As the handbook is updated, sometimes the beginning of a section might reflow to another page. Is there any way to track that so that my index, once linked to a section heading (if that's possible), can reflect the proper page number of that content?

E.g., if I have an index that looks like:

Dress Code.........7
Parking...........12
Personal Conduct..22

and I add enough content to the Dress Code section to push both the subsequent sections to pages 14 and 24, respectively, can I somehow have the page numbers listed in the index automatically update to reflect the page number of their new positions within the book?

Dress Code.........7
Parking...........14
Personal Conduct..24


texts: Photoshop: Bend Anchor Points Around A Circle

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I want to bend some text around a circle. I can just write the text on a path, but I want to keep the side that's not ON the path in a straight line.

For example, look at these chalk letterings.

The top of this one is a straight line, the bottom is curved:

And on this one, the top is curved, and the bottom is straight:

Here is my text, including the anchor points:

I want to pull the lower half of the anchor points down around a path (say, a curve for example), like the pics above.

How do I achieve this affect?


texts: Photoshop - Camera Raw filter distorts color

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I am really new to PS, I am trying to improve myself from books and by watching tutorials. I am using CC 2017 and every time I try to use a Camera raw filter, my pictures are looking strange in Camera raw.

This one is the original:

Click for full resolution

And thats how it looks like in Camera Raw:

Click for full resolution

What am I doing wrong? Is it some misconfiguration with Camera Raw, or my pictures are in bad format, or I am missing something?

What can cause this?


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Good evening,
I have a question about the exportation of a file made in Indesign that I need to print. I hope you can help me.
I have to precise that short time ago I used  Freehand for projects as catalogs with many pages.
In that case, to export a file that I had to print I had to transform necessarily every image present in the file in TIF at 300dpi and I had to adjust the measure of every single picture (percentage of resizing).

My question is: Is this the process that I have to adopt also when I work with Indesign?

Moreover, If I want to design a catalog or a project similar to a magazine, is it right to realize it with pages placed side by side?
If it is the right way, is it necessary to make the edging of 3mm also in the borders of bookbinding? Otherwise, is it an option that is made automatically during the exportation in pdf?
I hope that I have exposed properly my doubts. Sorry for my poor English…
Thank you very much for your kind help!

Serena


texts: How to smoothly cut a non-vector image out from its background

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The picture below shows the initial image, and the desired effect (sorta), First I used the magic wand to remove the background around the bell. Then I did CTRL+I and inverted the colors. This was great because I ended up with that small shadow under the black. Then I used CTRL+U to get the color I wanted (blue & orange).

My problem is, I still have a residue of black around the edge of the bell and inside as well (around the colored areas).

Is there a better way to cut a non-vector image out that makes it cleaner than the magic wand?

Here is the three steps I mentioned above:


texts: Why some fonts have the 'f' and 'i' joined

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I noticed today that when I type a word with the character pair fi in it, the f changes when the i is typed to have a longer top and the dot above the i is removed.
I was wondering if this occurrence has a name and, additionally, do fonts that support this functionality have a categorical name?


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Indesign: Paragraph styles. Is it possible to have a style that sets no indent for the first paragraph and 4mm for the rest of the paragraphs? What do I need to search for?
Cheers.


texts: Exporting a slice in Sketch with transparent background around

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Using Sketch 3 want to export an icon, the icons themselves are 24x24 but they sit within an area of 32x32.

I've figured out how to do it by combining two different layers one 24x24 and the other 32x32 but it's a tedious process.  I need to do this for every single icon.

Is there a faster workflow?


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Is there an existing script for InDesign that will save an INDD file and an IDML copy at the same time?

I work with dozens of independent designers on collaborative projects, and those of us with Creative Cloud have to remember to save an IDML copy for those on earlier versions. And we often forget.

I'm hoping to find or tweak a script that will, for instance, add a menu item called, say, 'Save with IDML', and will save both the current document and an IDML copy alongside it.


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I want to set the length of the red line to be 0.5". (Actually, the svg doesn't export the red, so let's say the one that points to 4 o'clock.)

How do I do that?


texts: Why does the clone stamp tool seem to be misaligned?

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I'm using PS6 and for some reason, whenever I use the clone stamp tool, it starts recreating the image that I'm covering up, above the original image's position.

I select the stamp tool, press down alt, select a small area, release alt and start to fill in the area that I want covered. The image begins to get covered up with my sample, but then the image starts to appear above the location that I'm filling in--as if I had sampled the area I was covering up.

Does that make sense? I've reset the tool several times to make sure it wasn't some setting that was off, but maybe something's still set wrong some where. Anyone know what's up? Any help would be much appreciated.

I've tried "Aligned" both checked and unchecked, no luck


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I am not sure if this is the best place to post this but it seems like the best from what i've found.
I need to print stickers for identifying my company assets and I'd like to put security features on them like this:

My printer can't print it clearly, so I'm looking for one that can. Any help will be much appreciated :)
Thanks


texts: Reflecting/shared changes amongst groups?

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I don't know how to search for something like this on Google so I thought I would ask here.

I am wondering if it is possible to have a group and a duplicate of that group and reflect changes from the original group to the duplicate group automatically.

Any changes like a new layer, a layer edit, deletion of layer, etc. The exception would be a single layer that would be different, like an image.

Is this possible in photoshop?


texts: Smooth width transition with a calligraphic brush stroke

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I know that Illustrator does not allow the use of width tool or a variable width profile for a stroke/path made with a calligraphic brush. I am looking for alternative ways of producing the same effect.

First, let me show you what I am trying to achieve. Excuse the crude WIP graphics:

So, I have this cassette tape. Two strands of tape will come out and wrap around other objects and eventually the remaining strand expand in size and break into pixels. I am looking for a way for the last 15-25% of the strand to start expanding in width, kinda like that:

The first line is where I would like the tape to start smoothly expanding, to the size shown at the end.

To give you more info: The tape is made using the pen tool with the Illustrator default 5 pt. flat calligraphic brush from the brush definition menu. I can technically achieve the expanding effect by hand, but it will be hard to keep it really smooth and make it more difficult to modify the shape afterwards (which I would like to keep). Is there a way I can achieve this effect without making the shape by hand?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to fill space with color between two different layers?

texts: I draw a simple snake for my game and I created it with brush tool. Now I want to fill this drawing between lines that are on different layers, image that I want to paint this drawning as a normal kid. Closed lines I want to paint with different colors. My problem is that I don't know how to use properly live paint bucket. When I want to paint something i have not allowed button.


texts: GIF with transparency output not as expected in GIMP

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I have been trying to create a GIF using a sequence of PNGs within GIMP

An example PNG from the sequence shows the correct transparency I want to be shown in the GIF,

But when I process the PNG sequences in GIMP and create the GIF image, I get the following result:

What am I doing wrong here?

I have set the settings to create the animation frame by frame, additionaly making sure that the RGBA setting was selected.

Can anyone show me a solution to this problem?

Thanks, Chris


texts: I'm trying to automatically crop my canvas size to a square

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I'm trying to create an action that makes the width of the canvas equal to its height.

I tried using cut and paste and tabbing between them, but this only works on the first picture.

Any I try after, just resize to the height of the original recording.

please help

i must do 350 a week, various size images, needing to be a perfect square.

I was going to create 2 actions, one if the height was larger and one if the width was larger, i need the square to be based on the larger of width and height

thanks
corey


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Is there any way to set bleeds in Illustrator of 5 cm? If I try to set it, it won't let me and tell that 2.5cm is the maximum allowed amount.

But the print company I'm going to send my prints to requires the files with 50mm bleeds.

How can I trick Illustrator into doing what I want?


texts: How do I remove film overlay artifact from an image?

texts: I am trying to remove the film artifact on the left of this image. Can anyone help? I am not very good at photoshop. Thank you!


texts: I'm trying to make shapes with a similar texture to this image, but i'm not sure how it was done. I tried making a clipping mask with the texture but it didn't look the same. Please help.


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I've been tasked with designing a viral campaign with limited budget. I've not worked on such things before, so I don't really have any idea on how to handle this task.

What exactly makes a campaign go viral? Is it possible to make something cheap and be sure that it goes viral? How would a designer judge how "viral" their work is?

Here's the background to my specific case. I'm working in an internet agency. Actually as a webdesigner, but I bet most of you experience the same problems as I do: we frequently get "abused" to do things we're not really supposed to do. I don't have a huge problem with that, but I think I kind of like don't know how to handle this task I got one or two weeks ago:

We're desperately searching coders who're able to code PHP, MySQL and so on and it turns out to be quite difficult to find someone at the moment. We've already spent a lot of time and money on finding some new team members but it turns out, it ain't really easy to find people over platforms like monster.com.

To give you some more information: my company is based in Munich, Germany.

My task is it to create a campaign (no matter if online or offline) which should go viral within a short time. Still they don't want to spend a huge amount of money which makes it quite hard for me to find an idea that actually goes viral, is "cheap" and attracts the targeted group. I really want to help the company, so that we find some new coders, but I really don't have any idea on how to handle this task.


texts: I have a 100 page graphic novel in Indesign and I need to apply an adjustment of the Brightness and Contrast of every image in the file to accommodate the quirks of a particular printer. This is an output function. I do not want to edit the original images just to accommodate this particular printer. I want to tell Indesign 'adjust the contract of all images x amount' for example. Is this possible?


texts: What is the name of the design style where triangles are drawn in a way that gives a sense of dimension and depth?

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So I have seen this type of graphic design used in several places. Here is an example:

The exact pattern I am pointing to is how the triangles are drawn in a way that gives a sense of dimension and depth. Here is another example:

Is there a specific name for this design method?


texts: Which format to provide a report template to a client?

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I have this report template we made fo a client. Keeping in mind the client specifically asked for it to be editable, I did a relatively simple design, yet with some nice details to make it appear a bit more interesting.

However, now I'm struggling with the format to deliver. I was thinking of Word, but page numbering is tricky since I did some nice pagination element which I think is impossible to achieve in MS Word. Client says they could use EPS, but the problem I see is they won't have automatic pagination like you can have in Word (I admit I rarely use it, so I'm quite ignorant on everything Word). Client specifically mentioned they can't edit PDF files, and obviously InDesign is a no go for the client.

Is there a format I can use that the user can edit? Or an option to make custom pagination work on Word, like applying "CSS like" styles? I think not, but maybe I'm missing something obvious


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I've had some background mostly in pixel-based graphics and web design. However, I've never came across SVGs. A Google search for this problem convinced me that the answer might be to use SVG for the first time!

What I'm trying to do is to create an animation from the drawing of text. So far, I found this and it looks pretty good, but the animated path is just a line, not text.

Is it even possible to create svg paths for text?

Can svg text be animated?

Are there any other ideas or approaches to this?


texts: Transpose image in photoshop (without flip)

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How can I transpose this initial image

to this final image in photoshop ?

I've tried in vain using grids (and copy/paste one by one), but all of that is going approximate and is not precise. And flipping inverts the numbers laterally.

Thanks.

[Edit]
It is strange that people started with solutions (or rather lack of it) and started giving negative points. More context: I paid for this poster https://gum.co/Prime-Climb-Hundreds-Chart and my little kid is used to reading numbers in a transposed way. The distance between the circles is uneven. So, I could not find a way to have different grid spacing  vertically and horizontally. Finally, I managed it. I selected each row, free transformed it by 90 degrees. Then, took each circle and then rotated it by 90 degrees. Repeated manual work, but it works.


texts: Fastest way to evenly distribute a sequence of text within a row of lines

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Suppose I have this sequence of text: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

And this row of lines:

How do I accomplish this in Adobe Illustrator in the fastest way?


texts: Design & OCD: Are there any exercises/methods to avoid over-analysis in a design project?

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Suffering from OCD can sometimes have implications in evaluating a design project: i.e. Over analysis, over-revision, etc. Forensic attention to detail is usually expected of design projects. So how can a project be viewed/framed more realistically for people with OCD?

Are there any exercises/methods of evaluating work in a more practical way, in order to avoid over-analysis? When is work "good enough"? Sometimes a project brief isn't specific enough to help in this way.


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How do you get a shape like this (excuse the hand drawing but it gives you a visual):

Width: 7 inches

Height: 5.1 inches from the middle, but as it goes to the left and right it ends at 2.75"

How to setup and get this shape?

Thank you and please excuse my absolute lack of knowledge.


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I'm working in Illustrator CS4, and when I save from EPS to SVG I get these messages:

Foreign artworks are expanded (I see this error when I save to SVG)
clipping will be lost on roundtrip (And I see this one when I open the SVG I saved)

This SVG opens fine in illustrator, but some of its parts disappear in Firefox.

What does this clip path mean and how can I fix it?


texts: How to determine a matching color code from a physical sample?

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I need to make a restaurant menu design that matches restaurant wallpapers. For some reason my client cannot get color codes used in wallpaper, but he provided me with a sample. (see below)

How can I get the correct color codes from the wallpaper? (someone mentioned that there are scanners for this purpose, but I could not find any information regarding that)

Let me know if this question should be in another site.


texts: How to handle multiple page design projects in Photoshop

texts: Recently we have moved from using Fireworks to using Photoshop for mocking op website designs. As I've been used to Fireworks for doing this, I'm running into some issues organising my mockups. Where in Fireworks there are pages and states to organize your design, I'm only aware of layer comps in Photoshop. However, it doesn't seem like a very smart idea to handle completely different pages in a design with layer comps. What is the most efficient way to handle multiple pages and, regarding repeating elements, can you use smart objects across files and change them once and have them update across your designs?


texts: Inkscape failed to load an exported file (Windows EMF) from ArcMap

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I created a street annotation feature class in ArcMap, then exported it to an EMF.

When I add a layer in Inkscape and try to import the EMF, I get the message: "Failed to load the requested file \gisfile\GISstaff\Jared\Projects\Attractions Layer\Highway Labels.emf".

I've already created a bunch of Inkscape layers using imported EMFs. As far as I know, I have exported and imported in the same way. This is the first time it failed.

Any ideas what may be the problem?


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I've come across a strange issue with the Lato font. It seems to be rendering very strangely, but only when you're zoomed in close or if the font is large.

Here is a screenshot of the font in illustrator when zoomed out

And here i have zoomed in to 100%

If i enter outline view using Command+Y, the error isn't there

Unless of course i Create Outlines (Shift+Command+O)

I've re downloaded the font and I'm still getting the same issue. Seems to be an adobe issue as I'm having no trouble with the font in Word for example.

Might be a long shot but I'd like to know if anyone has come across anything similar, and if so what did you do?

Any help appreciated.


texts: about locking the transparent pixels in photoshop

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previously, what I've asked is here. now, if it is assumed that there are no pixels and I am selecting no pixels but an area, why "lock transparent pixels" command from the layers panel for the selected layer, prevents painting the layer with brush tool etc. inside as well as outside the selection?
after filling the selected area with color the "image>trim" command trims the transparent pixels around it but if the selection is not filled then the output of the command doesn't show any difference.
another question arises after all this consideration : what is the difference among "empty area (in my words "empty pixels")","transparent pixels", "filled pixels"?


texts: Adobe Photoshop CC - Different colors issue

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I have 2 PSD files opened and I am trying to pick colour from one layer and set it to another but then when I apply this colour to new layer it's a bit different.

Even when I switch between 2 PSD files I have different pallet colour in left side tool bar.

The left picture is when I pick colour in firs PSD, and the right picture show colour when I just switch between PSD.

This is the video that demonstrate a problem: http://screencast.com/t/5DlDxPcN92xA

But if you see from image greens colours are different.


texts: In InDesign, is it possible to hide the Web Content loading icon?

texts: I am using web content layouts to make sure my animations are shown on the iPad. If I display the magazine on an iPad, I can see a loading icon on opening the page, right before the animation starts. Is it possible to remove this loading icon?


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I have a text I transformed into outlines and now I would like to squeeze some characters (an "O" and a "D" specifically), so that they become less rounded, more rectangular. If I try to resize them, the path becomes thinner, but what I want to do is to squeeze them AND keep the path width the same.

Is there any way to achieve this, other than cutting the paths, move them in the desired position and turn them into a compound path again?

I am using Illustrator CS5.


texts: Can I use material design for both Android and iOS?

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I am currently designing an application for Android and iOS. I like Google's Material Design and use of colors.

Can I use the same style and look & fill for iOS apps except the navigation system of iOS? Or are there any specific points for iOS like material design has for Android?


texts: How to create text stroke outline with offset for an enclosed bubble effect?

texts: i'm trying to achieve the text effect in the image attached ("It's My Baby Shower"). I've tried to use Object > Path > Offset Stroke as you can see in the ("I am a baby") text but the overlapping strokes in the middle cannot be removed. How do I create text stroke outline with offset for an enclosed bubble effect? Appreciate your help.


texts: How to edit/export ai file without Illustrator

texts: I bought some ai files from fotolia, but I cannot afford Adobe Illustrator. How can I edit/export these ai files without Illustrator. What I really need to do is to make slight changes on the ai file, and export to png/jpg. Is there any free/cheaper alternatives that can work with ai files?


texts: How can I move portions with the puppet tool while minimizing distortion within those subsections?

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Let's say I have a photo of a face and I want to move say the lips or the eye. It's important to maintain the shape of that part but a little bit of distortion in the surrounding areas -- the nose, the chin, the cheeks, the forehead -- would be acceptable.

I've tried using puppet warp for this, but find that its hard to move one part as an entity without ruining its shape. Is there a similar tool that lets me draw a rectangle or a polygon and move all pixels within the area in unison?

This is in Photoshop CS6.


texts: Adding a black-white mask image as an alpha channel to other image

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I have a BMP image without an alpha channel.
For a game texture, I would like to add a "mask map" which is a black / white image which tells which regions should be transparent.

To do this, I first opened the BMP image and added a new channel to it and called it Alpha.

Then I opened the mask image, pressed Ctrl A to select everything and copied it.

Then back to the RGB image, I de-ticked the eyes for each channel except the Alpha channel.

Then I pasted the copied image.

However, I don't see any change in the resulting image when I enable the eyes of each channel.

How could I achieve this in the proper way?

Thank you.


texts: How is this overlay and texture change on an e-commerce site achieved?

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In this site, in the customization section, how is the fabric selection applied to the clothing?

Which technology are they using?

Being in the fashion and retail sector, I am interested in knowing their methodology.


texts: A photo in public domain enhanced by software, does that affect copyright?

texts: I want to include public domain photos in a history book. If I use 3rd party software to enhance the image - does the software company own the rights of the altered image?


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I have an image which contains a text. I don't know the text font. Is there any way to find the text font from an image using GIMP?

I need to know what font is used in this text image.


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Is there a way to lock the zoom and the scroll bars in Krita so that they do not jump around, changing position and magnification, when I am not using the magnifying tool?

I am using a wacom tablet with Ubuntu 14.04 and the latest version of Krita.

The issue is that often I will touch the empty grey space behind the image and Krita will do one of 4 things:

change the zoom (ex: jump to 100% if I was at 50%)
change the actual pixel size of my page (ex: 800 x 800 -> 2146 x 1049 or some random px)
nothing (which is what I would hope for)
or, worst of all, Krita will jump way over to the side of the page so that my document is no longer in view.  I will then move my mouse to the scroll bar at the bottom to move it back, but doing this will cause the vertical scroll bar to follow my mouse to the bottom and scroll all the way down (now a sliver of my doc is at the top in the center). I will then try to correct the view with the vertical scroll bar, but doing this will drag the horizontal bottom bar all the way to the right!  This happens 5-10 times in a row until suddenly it stops.

I don't know if it is a bug, an incompatibility with wacom or ubuntu, or if it is just the way Krita is supposed to work. I also disable my touchpad when using wacom so it is not that.

Any suggestions?


texts: Gimp: How to create a selection from file in Python

texts: I am using Gimp's non-interactive mode, since I want to process a big number of images and their masks. For every image file, I have a mask image file, which consists of 1 and 0s (1 means the pixel should be selected). How do I select those in Python? I am looking at the reference here. What I see is that there is a function called gimp_selection_load, which loads the selection from a channel. However, I don't know how to convert the mask image to a channel. I tried reading it with gimp_file_load and then gimp_image_get_channels, but there are no channels found in the mask image. What am I doing wrong?


texts: Export a design for Print Usage, preserving the vector

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I am designing a Banner Flex of big size. 6mx8ft. I built this using illustrator, as it has specific tools for vector graphics. Such big document size cannot be created on illustrator or any other adobe product. SO i created a document size on ratio of 1:10. Now when I am trying to export it, either the image will be rasterised which would kill the vector part or another send the source. And if i send them the source file, it has a big risk of being abused. So i need a solution for this.

How to do this or what is best way to do so?


texts: Is there any easy way to convert shapes in Powerpoint to adobe illustrator so they are editable?

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I have 40 figures which I generated largely in powerpoint (text boxes, lines, etc all from the program in addition to copy pasted images). Is there any way to convert these files to an illustrator format so that each item (line, text box etc) is editable, resizeable and moveable in illustrator? My colleague wants to fine tune them for a paper and only works in illustrator. I'd prefer to avoid copy pasting each item for each figure to a new illustrator file.
Thanks,
Ellen


texts: Which two letters to use to show the most typographic concepts?

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I’m putting letters on a typographic grid complemented by a chart to show and name typographic concepts.
The list of terms shouldn’t be exhaustive, but should contain the most important ones, e.g.:

the different lines (baseline, midline etc.)
open and closed counters
ascenders and descenders
different heights and widths

I don’t have enough space for a full-fledged »Hamburgefonstiv«: two letters is all I get.

Which combination (majuscules or minuscules) can I use that embodies the most typographic concepts?

An example for Chinese text (without numbering) I already finished (inspired by Zippel 2011, ISBN 978-3-87439-818-3):


texts: How to intersect a selection and a path in Photoshop

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It used to be I could make a selection with Marquee Tool, then make a path with Pen Tool, then  in Paths hit “Load Path as a selection” - and the selection and the path would intersect as a new selection.
This doesn’t work for me anymore, tried “add to selection”, “subtract from selection”, this gives either just the path as selection or subtracts the path from the selection.

Path Tool does a strange thing.  When the path is turned into selection, the selection is inversed, i.e. I make a triangular path, turn it into a selection and expect the inside of the triangular shape will be active, instead it is the outside of the triangular shape that is active.  This is opposite of what I was used to.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, any help?


texts: I've designed a logo with RGB colour gradients. How do I find the exact CMYK or Pantone colours for print?

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I have designed a logo with a gradient of 3 RGB colours.  I'm liking the colours for digital but now I want to duplicate the logo with CMYK colours for print. What is the best way to do this? Is it to pick the CMYK colours, print them out and see if they look similar to the screen? Also, should I use Pantone colours instead of CMYK colours if I can? I've picked some pantone colours, 806C, 2655C and 299C but when I print on my rubbish printer at home they come out dull. Im guessing this is just my printer as those pantone colours are meant to be quite vibrant!
I'm hoping to get this printed at a professional printers for t-shirts, business cards, leaflets etc.
Any help much appreciated. thanks,
See colour gradient below.


texts: Since the last Photoshop update, I have a white border around my workspace. I found this very annoying. Do you know how to remove it?


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So I am trying to combine 2 gifs in gimp but my issue is that when editing and exporting both gifs separately they are fine, but when I try to be put them together and exported as 1 then It has issues like the 2nd gif loses it's original colors and there's green dots everywhere and the color distorts.

Gif 1

Gif 1: https://imgur.com/444P2QT

Gif 2: https://imgur.com/a5gmIdX

Issue: https://imgur.com/aU83RPX


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If there's a semibold weight, why isn't there a semiitalic slope?

For example, if a font has a regular slant of 0 degrees and an italic slant of about 18 degrees, the semiitalic slant would be about 9 degrees:


texts: What is an effective process to control versions in Abstract?

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I'm currently looking at introducing Abstract version control to our team.

I'm keen to know how people manage a large amount of files in it (in Active and in Archive). We have a team of designers, so you can imagine this generates a large amount of Sketch files when we work on various projects.

What do people do to manage the amount of files in it especially if it is alot, and how do they cope if they need to go back to one in a long list of files?


texts: Slicing a square into four equal rectangles in inkscape?

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I tried creating a square, turning it into a path (Path > Object to Path) and then placing four rectangles over it that are also paths and doing path > division.

But the square does not divide into four rectangles.  Thoughts?


texts: I've seen this effect on several sites, basically it's just a simple background with a bunch of dots, and I'd like to use this for a background for something but I don't know where to start!


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I am volunteering at a non-profit, and creating a document for an upcoming event. One of the pages will resemble a 'blueprint' like theme that contains instructions for people to follow. I want it to look more or less like this:

I want to create that 'grid' like effect, but most of the articles I've found searching around talk about messing with the alignment grid of the document itself. The one I want to create would be:

Only visible on that page, nowhere else
Not used for alignment purposes at all, I only want the grid-like appearance

In other words, purely an artistic effect, not used for functionality or alignment. What's the best way to achieve this in InDesign?

Thank you!


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What would be the best image format for printing images or designs created with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator or to print images form a digital camera?

If I have the option of exporting different image formats (tiff, jpeg, jpeg2000, bmp, png, etc) which one would be preferred to produce high quality prints?


texts: Why does a JPEGs file size increase after cropping and saving for web in Photoshop?

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When I save my image for the web in Adobe Photoshop, the produced jpeg is larger than the original jpeg file. The only alteration done to the image is cropping.

How is this possible? I am saving the jpeg at 30 quality.


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I'm struggling with the merging or joining of two paths.
I have two paths, the red and the black one, when I join them with the join tool it ends up looking like on the second image.
Can anyone explain to me why this is happening and what would be the better way to create such a path?


texts: How to correctly choose protrusion for letters and hanging punctuation?

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A small preamble: (mostly technical, can be skipped) I am a mathematician and prepare my documents with LaTeX. The documents made in LaTeX usually have very distinctive look because of the CM font (I hate it), widows/orphans, double spaces after fullstop and some other things that are purely unprofessional.

The one package to solve some of the issues is microtype, which among other features makes hanging punctuation and character protrusion available. The protrusion is set by giving two numbers: the promille of the character width it should be protruded on the left/right margin, e. g. A={1000,500} means that the letter "A" would be fully protruded if a line starts with it, and by half if a line ends with it.

The question itself: how should I choose the amount of protrusion for characters? Here are some stupid, to show the functionality, examples:

A is not protruded, C by 20%, apostroph and (by 100%, and <<
 by 50%.

In particular, I would like to know if

serifs should be protruded (on both sides?):

letters with round shapes should be protruded (on both sides?):

brackets and quotation marks should be protruded:

punctuation should hang on the right side:

But I want to know also some general tactics for correct settings.


texts: How do you make a justified background color for a paragraph style in InDesign?

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In InDesign if I have a paragraph style and every time I use that style I want a "colored" box behind it justified to the column width. How would you suggest doing this? Currently it's been done manually with predefined "boxes" for 1-Line, 2-Line & 3-Line depending on how long the heading is. There has got to be a way to automate this though. Perhaps using some sort of programmatic style sheet?

All I could find was this "Highlighting an Entire Paragraph with Color" which wouldn't work because the headings are centered but we want the background color to be the full column width.

Ideally, with a dynamic "height" so that it can be say 4pt above and below the text as well. Almost like padding would be if I were doing this on a website.


texts: With photoshop timeline animation, how to I animate a large number of layers moving together (linked)?

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I'm working on the animation of a user interface mock-up for demonstration, and I want to move essentially the entire interface at the same time. I simply link the folders containing all of the layers (hundreds of layers, a complex interface) and drag one, and the whole interface moves. But where I'm confused, is how to tell each layer that it needs to animate that movement? It seems to me that I'll actually have to go to every individual element in the entire interface via the timeline menu and manually turn on position animation on each one.

Timeline animation is the only option, a frame animation isn't viable with the length and complexity of the animation (having to render all of those frames for each change, and not being able to edit / modify / tweak the animation efficiently); I need to do it with timeline.

So I need to do this manually for every single layer I want to move? Or is there some sort of trick I can use to speed this up?

I'm using CS5.1


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I need to synthesize the following line-like patterns, where neighboring strokes always have similar directions

Are there any brilliant ideas, how I can create this without making each individual stroke by hand? I can create a brush that mimics the pen that was used and I guess after this, I should create a pattern brush from this.

Can someone give me hand here?


texts: How could I use Indesign's find by grep feature to find and format words between to underscores?

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Lets say I have a bunch of text that needs to be italic. Throughout my text, italics are represented as:

_word_
_any_
_car_

And so on...

I want to find these, and replace them with word, car, any, and the like.

I was able to find one word with this expression. \_.+\_

I'm new to inDesign, but I am familiar with using Regular Expressions within Ruby. Ideally, I would like to remove the underscores and format them as Italic at once, using a style.


texts: How can I create a tight spiral shape? (Archimedean spiral)

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I'm trying to create something similar to this example:

What tool should I use, or is it just squares and circles attached together?
Great if you know a tutorial for this effect.


texts: Can we really prevent others from reproducing our layout proposals to our clients?

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How can we prevent others (printing press) from reproducing our designs/layouts after we submitted our soft copy to our clients?

Until now, I only submitted hard copies, provided that we can easily submit via email the soft copy.


texts: Is it possible to print directly on a plastic stand up pouch?

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I am about to start my roasted coffee company an intend to package the coffee in a plastic stand up pouch. I am working on my design, but would prefer to print the design directly on the bag itself.

Is it possible to print on a plastic bag without damaging the zip lock or sticking the inside of the bag together?


texts: Positioning an object relative to another object at a certain distance

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I'm trying to place four circles inside a rectangle, all with the same margin from the corner edges and although I can do this using guides or some calculations, I was wondering if there is a better way of doing this.

For example, can I select one of the circles and set it 20mm away from the bottom-corner edges of the rectangle, simply by choosing the edge line and entering the distance in an input field?


texts: Turn shape into individual paths - Illustrator

texts: Is it possible in Illustrator to automatically cut a shape of points so each segmented line is separated?


texts: How to make a .PNG that shows one image on a black background and a different image on a white background?

texts: This image was put up by the NHL on Twitter. In the feed this is the image, when you click on it, a different one pops up. When you open it in Photoshop, the whites are very bold and the greys/blacks are pretty transparent. I was wondering how this is done.


texts: How to filter images by titles in Lightroom library

texts: The custom filter panel for Lightroom library does not seem to have an option to filter pictures by "title" - I can only see "date", "file type", "camera", etc. Is there any way I can filter my own collection through the metadata that are not already specified in the panel?


texts: How do I bring back sharp edges on a Rounded Corner object in illustrator CS6?

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As you see below, I've made a shape and I added round corners to it from Effect > Stylize > Round Corners, but now I want to bring it back to its original shape so I can make the edges less rounded.

Is there a way to clear the effect? I've tried Object > Path > Clean Up but it doesn't do anything.


texts: Learning how to design a webpage from code, with examples in CSS3, Python, etc

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Possible Duplicate:
  Tips and sources for beginning designers

I am now completing my first website written in Python. I started learning front-end development languages such as JavaScript and CSS.

I also want to do learn how to execute the whole design layout by myself. I have very little experience in graphical design. I have made some designs 5 years ago.

Here's an example of my first one:

Where can I find resources for learning web design?


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I'm trying to make a 4 panel graphic presentation for one of those table-top convention displays so I made a new file with the right resolutions, bleeds etc set.

I also made it 4 artboards in 4 columns like seen in the image below with the proper spacing etc.

My question is, how do I save each artboard as individual files? When I try the slice tool I can't seem to just select a whole artboard and save all of it, do I have to flatten the layers or something? What am I missing?


texts: File format for a portfolio for a job application

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I am a college student and aspiring graphic designer. Currently I'm trying to apply for some simple low-level graphic design positions at my college and local businesses. Of course, along with a resumé, I need to provide a portfolio of my graphic design work.

My question is how do I format this? I'm not talking about how the portfolio looks aesthetically, but how I am supposed to provide it? Do I literally just include a large image file containing an organized mass of what I've created? A pdf file of the same? Perhaps a link to a website showcasing my work? I suppose this varies from company to company, but is there a standardized (or at least most common) way that portfolios are shared? Perhaps this is a silly question to ask but I don't feel like I understand enough to ask a better worded question.


texts: How can I set exact pixel or percent for color-stop position on gradients?

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I've created a rectangle and in its filling options I chose gradient:

Now my rectangle has gradient fill, but how can I set it to an exact value?
My rectangle is 100px wide, and I need 10% (10px) of gradient. I.e: from left to right until 90% it will stay solid black, and between 90-100% gradient effect will applied.
I can move the slider for color-stop, but can't set it exact (I'd like to enter the values). How can I do this?
This is my goal: having a solid black rectangle with exactly 10% gradient at the right side:

(This is my current one, where gradient is not exactly set to 10%)