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I have a problem with some paths when I increment Offset path tool on it. In some cases the offset I create looks like this:

I can't really find out what's the problem with this path (red line). On some of paths in my document it works fine but for others it looks like this.


texts: How do I create a granite / stone effect using Photoshop?

texts:
This might be weird but I want to PS the four cats...

into something like the four presidents on Mount Rushmore...

I haven't touched PS for a long time, would appreciate some hints here.


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I have a small table of values like this:

Food     Count   Color
Pumpkin  345     #DB3236
Cabbage  193     ?
Pepper   89      ?
Beetroot 96      ?
Potato   62      ?
Lettuce  35      ?
Carrot   26      ?
Tomato   25      ?
Banana   22      ?
Apple    22      #FADBDB

I want to calculate a color gradient between #DB3236 and #FADBDB based on the COUNT values.

For example "Pumpkin" = 345 and has the strongest color, and "Apple" = 22 which is the weakest color. Even though "Potato" is in the middle of my table it only has a Count value of 62 which means it will be quite weak on the color gradient scale.

I'm not great with numbers so I'm really struggling how to figure this out.

How do I create the color gradient for the other foods on my table?


texts: I designed a game that makes my eyes tired

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I try making a game where you draw physic lines and need to deliver a ball to the exit. I created several levels and found that I cant play it. My eyes get tired and hurt after 10 minutes.

Maybe the problem is bad colors combinations or  bad background or in something else? Or maybe the problem is in my eyes? I am not designer and need your help and suggestions.

Attached images of 2 levels.


texts: Any UI library for iOS and Android (Illustrator)?

texts: I'm developing monochromatic Wireframe and the full color demo of my App UI for iOS and Android. I'm using Illustrator. Is there any UI library for me to use? (ex. the default switch, table view, text field, button, etc.)


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I've got this picture I'm making as a joke for my friends and I to 'ave a giggle about, and I've run into a snag.

His hand does not work with the ledge, probably because it wasn't originally a ledge:

I'de like to puppet the hand or something to straigten it out so it is spread out on the surface, not crunched like it is. I've tried using puppet editing, but whenever I use that it always seems like his finger is skinny and boney by then end. I don't know quite what to do.

Link to the .PSD


texts: How to do a prototype print of a business card

texts: I'm a newbie in the freelancer world. I started creating logos and business cards and I show it to my customers. Well, I always face a problem how to present my work in a professional and a nice way. I need to know how to do a prototype print of a business card. Same as the image here, please tell me all the details I need to present it same as the image, I don't mean the work of the business card, I'm asking about the presentation itself.


texts: How do I create a bezier curve in illustrator with known values

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I want to create a Bézier curve in Illustrator so I can import it into Cinema 4D. Now my problem is, I have got a Bézier curve with just the coordinates of my points and I want to draw this in Illustrator. How do I do that?

Coordinates are:
(5,0)
(3,0.5)
(0,1)
(-2,1)
(-3.5,1)
(-5,0.5)
(-5,0)


texts: colors change when copying and pasting from image to new photoshop document

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I am trying to cut/copy a selection from a photo I took of a watercolor, but when i copy it (cmd-c and cmd-shift-c) into a new layer the lighter part in the yellow, pink and green turn really grey. I've tried edit>convert to profile and messed around with that, and I've also tried to make the new documents in CMYK Color and RGB Color. nothing seems to work. I've attached an image of the two documents arranged vertically. the pallet on top is the pasted result and the image on the bottom is the photo I took. I did adjust the image contrast, vibrance and brightness a bit.

Thank you so much.


texts: Photoshop: Convert image with alpha channel to transparency?

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I have a .dds texture which has R, G, B, and Alpha channels. The Alpha channel stores the transparency info. I have this file open in Photoshop.

I want to convert this to a .png file.

What's the best way to go about doing this?


texts: Images appear darker on the top part of my image and lighter on the bottom

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The title doesn't explain my problem as accurately as I'd like, but there's just no other way I can word it.

I'm using Photoshop CS5. I made a group of layers at the bottom of my image that all have gradients and drop shadows applied without global lighting of any sort.

I copied the whole group and placed the layers at the top of my image, but the layers on the top all appear to be darker shades of purple than the set on the bottom. It's hard to notice in the photo, but if you turn your brightness all the way up and really look at it, you'll notice the difference.

The funny thing is, I placed the top set directly next to the bottom to see if they were different, but seeing as I copied and pasted them, sure enough, they are exactly the same.

This literally makes no sense to me and if anyone has any insights, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's imperative that these sets are the exact same shades, or it won't doesn't look right with the true background. I didn't include the true background in the photo because it's still noticeable even with a black background.


texts: How can I convert my raster design to vector for print?

texts: I am self taught on Photoshop CS6 and my problem is that I typeset fonts for a logo and sent them to the printer for stationary printing.  However, they ask me for a vector file not bitmap.  How do I convert my artwork and fonts to vector from a raster design?


texts: Photoshop cs6 unintentional cropping problem

texts: Elements in photoshop cs6 are being cropped if placed outside the canvas borders. So when I drag that layer elsewhere, the rest of the element is gone. Is there any way to stop this happening and to retain the entire element beyond the canvas borders?


texts: How to vertically center text in a box in Illustrator CS5

texts: How do I vertically center text in a box in Illustrator CS5? I cannot find a way to do that; in InDesign, it's a click away!


texts: How to customize the shapes when rasterizing photos

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I want to be able to rasterize photos yet define the exact size and shape of the dots being used.
The closest I get to my desired result is using bitmap → 50% Threeshold in photoshop. The problem with this approach i twofold:

I can't change the shape of the positive values
I can't put vertical and horizontal space between the shapes
I have little control over the actual size (in mm) of the dots.

The following screenshot should better visualize what I’m trying to do:

Top: Original Image
Middle: Photoshop → 50% Threshhold
Bottom: Desired result

Thank you for your help
Much appreciated!
Best
PS: If there's a way to achieve the same with vectors, that would be even better


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I'm not sure whether this question is suitable for this forum or not, but I'm going to give it a try anyway. If it's not, can someone please point me to the right direction? Thanks.

The Story:
My mom loves cross-stitching. She is subscribed to multiple communities(?) on Pinterest. She wants to recreate a couple of the images she finds but they always have lines from the cross stitching. I would like to help her by editing the existing images, so the don't have the cross-stitching lines.

If you zoom into the image you can see that the colors are not hi-def at all. I have tried reverse image-searching but I haven't been able to find anything.

Now my question is:
How do I remove the cross-stitching effect on the image. Don't worry, i'm not asking anyone to do this for me. I would just like to find out how I can remove the effect.

EDIT
Good news! I'm starting to answer my own question.
I've removed the white and black border around the image and devided the image width (and height) by the width of 1 stitch (which was 3 pixels, on this image).
But I still have more colors than desired, which was expected.

More questions
How do I get rid of the extra colors on the edge of the segments?


texts: How can I make the text from an image transparent?

texts: How do I make the white text in the middle transparent. I can easily make a transparent layer and remove the white background from the overall image, but how to I do the text, its too small to individual click and remove each letter.I've got Photoshop and G.I.M.P


texts: Why can't I arrange layers in illustrator?

texts: I'm working on a design with layered text. I want to have a word on top of another and when I select the layer and go to arrange > bring to front it won't do it. I've tried sending the rest of the layers to the back but the design stays as if I've done nothing. I am not sure if it's a settings thing or if i'm doing something wrong.


texts: Remove white part of every color to make lighter parts more transparent

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My problem is so general, and there are version-dependent plug-ins for the problem not working with my version. I also found workarounds that are not the correct solutions.

I would to convert my image's white to transparency, i.e. decompose gray to black and transparent. It would be correct if I could use the saturation value of the pixel from the HSB (de)composition, make every pixel's saturation to 100% from it's original s(x,y) value, and add a 100% - s(x,y) transparency to the pixel.

As the mentioned and many other workaround suggest, using the image itself as an alpha channel is not a solution. E.g. if the pixel is 20% white and 80% gray, and you apply a 20% transparency, then the pixel will look look like 80% - 0.8*0.2 = 56% black instead of 80%.

Another stackexchange question on turning white to transparent is similar to my problem but as I understand, it does not cover my problem. In case if I'm wrong I'd appriciate if someone enlight me how to apply that for my scenario.


texts: Step Backward shortcut doesn't work after upgrading to Photoshop CC 2018

texts: I have upgraded my Photoshop CC 2017 to the 2018 version. Since, pressing alt+ctrl+z doesn't do anything. It works only when manually clicking Edit » Step Backward. How to fix it?


texts: I'm trying to export a spread but it is not working

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I am trying to export a two page spread in indesign to png so i can put it in a mockup in photoshop. However whenever I export it, it justs exports the first cover page.

Edit: Heres a picture

Edit 2: Here's the pages box


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I have purchased a set of icons.

In the package there are five files that contain all the icons, assembled on a regular grid in different file formats.

The file formats are .ai, .eps, .pdf, .png, .psd.

I need the icons to use in an android application I'm writing. I need around twenty of them at different resolutions (32x32, 48x48, 64x64 & 96x96), in .png format.

The only way I know to extract the single icons is to do it by hand, but it would be a tedious and error-prone way.

Is there an automatic method, or a better way of getting the icons out of the files, at the various resolution I need?

What software will I need?

Ps.
The icons i need to obtain have the following format:

sample android icon

As you can see, the icon is centered in a 64x64 bitmap. I have colored red the transparent part of the image to make it more visible.


texts: Inkscape: How to export the grid to PDF?

texts: When saving an Inkscape graphics as a PDF, I also want to save the grid. How can I do this? If I just export to PDF, the grid is not saved.


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So I just started learning Photoshop a few weeks ago. I have ran into an issue while creating text layers. I have 2 small issues that I can honestly not really figure out, and I have tried figuring it out on Google for an hour and all the topics/answers are irrelevant.

Problem 1: I want to merge my text layer onto my other layers so it treats it as one whole layer and not a layer and text layer. I do not require the text to be editable anymore since I have finished it. Right now I am stuck with this

And what I want is the text layer ($312.87 USD) to be merged onto layer 2 and have 1 layer instead of two.

Problem 2: I want to be able to copy/paste the text layer ($312.87 USD) to another Photoshop project I have open which I cannot currently do. When I am on the text layer and try ctrl + c and then do ctrl + v on my other project, it doesn't paste the text. And I am guessing that if I can figure out how to merge the text onto the layer below it (Layer 2) then I could easily copy and paste it.


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I was watching this video in which a brush is used to make a sort of "bump" to make mountains. Which brush is it? How can I make the same 3d effect?

https://youtu.be/uR4faVCRc6U?t=2m9s


texts: Converting SVG to EMF without loss of data

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I have downloaded several SVG files and need to convert them to EMF format ( Enhanced Meta File ). I have used Inkscape's Save as to save it as .emf but loss of data occurred ( I was warned by Inkscape too that this might occur when I was closing the document ).

Is there a way to convert SVG to ENF without loss of conversion?

I am newbie, please take this into consideration when answering.

Thank you for your time and help. Best regards.


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I am kind of new to wireframing, so I might have the wrong conceptions here, but I would like to create a flowchart showing how different wireframes of an app are related to each other. The thing is, it is getting quite messy:

as you might be able to tell it already is quite messy and I am still missing some connections ...

Is there a better way to depict the relation of wireframes (maybe flowcharts are out and theres something cooler) or are there some other tricks to it, like only showing certain cases (buying something, getting information on X, logging in, etc.) and therefore reducing the number of connections that are relevant for a particular case?

Thanks in advance! :)


texts: "Export to Zeplin" Feature Not Showing Up on Adobe XD in Windows 10

texts: I have designed a landing page with Adobe XD. Now, I need to convert it to HTML5. So, I would like to use Zeplin. But "Export to Zeplin" feature is not showing up on Adobe XD. However, it is working perfectly on Adobe Photoshop. How can I fix the issue?


texts: Self-Host Google Fonts PlayFair Display on Windows

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I purchased the No Sidebar Pro theme for WordPress from StudioPress. I want to self-host the fonts rather than using Google Fonts for privacy reasons. I downloaded the .ttf files from the Google Fonts GitHub repo, and then I used the FontSquirrel generator to create the variety of formats for performance/cross-platform compatibility. FontSquirrel seems to create files for PlayFair Display that render crooked on Windows, however. To see what I mean, see the screenshot below.

Alternatively, I downloaded the latest files from the PlayFair Display GitHub repo. These, while rendering properly (not crooked) on Windows, seem to be a newer version of the font that render smaller than the current Google Fonts version of PlayFair Display.

The only solution I can think of to use that would render PlayFair Display correctly on Windows is to use the .ttf from the Google Fonts repo no matter what browser/platform is accessing my site. I'd really prefer to get woff2 and woff working, however.

I suppose I could tweak the stylsheet to bump up the font-size of the files from the PlayFair Display repo to try to match the Google Fonts size, but I am trying to avoid hacky workarounds and modifying the child theme more than I have to.

Is there any way to download all of the font formats from Google Fonts directly (not using FontSquirrel to convert)? Are there any other ideas that you have for rendering self-hosted PlayFair Display properly?


texts: How can I build up 'structured knowledge' of the space of significant font families?

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I'm not a graphic designer by trade, and my design work has been limited to posters and flyers for social activism, as well as scientific on-screen presentations and a couple of conference posters.

One of the issues I always struggle with is the choice of font families (individual or in combination) for those kinds of materials. I have a relatively large (in my opinion) set of font files on my PC - over 4,000 of them; and even if they're only, say, 1,000 families - that's still a huge number. I know very well that a lot of them are weird joke fonts, a lot are really variants of each other which are not represented as such for whatever technical/historical reasons; a lot are Hebrew and a few are Arabic rather than Latin or multi-script (my native language is Hebrew) - but that still leaves something like 300-500 font families. And what that means is that I do endless scrolling and estimating which font seems to look the part - where most options are entirely irrelevant.

Now, I've noticed that people who are well-versed with type design don't "go over a list" in their heads - they tell you things like "Oh, if I want a very legible sans-serif than take Frutiger; or Open Sans if you need it to be free." Or "Oh, this looks like Trade Gothic Bold Extended" (i.e. they can "reverse-lookup" an appearance to a font family name).

I know I'm not going to be a typography expert, but how can I build up a sort of a structured or categorized knowledge of the 'sea' of font families - available to me or generally noteworthy ones? I mean, other than simply Google and reading some article for every one of the families I have installed, and hoping that it sticks?


texts: How to bind the endpoint of a line to a rectangle/circle in Illustrator?

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I am a beginner user of Illustrator and I like it a lot. I also like to make concept maps like this one:

I was wondering if there is a possibility to easily create and modify concept maps ?

The problem is that if I draw this diagram in Illustrator:

and then I move the rectangle on the left then the line stays where it is :

What I would like is that the rectangles are associated to the endpoints of the lines so that when I move the left rectangle then the line moves with it like this:

I wonder if accomplishing such a simple task with such a powerful vector drawing application as Illustrator is possible or not ? I would hope it is possible but maybe I just don't know how. Could someone please help me out with this ?


texts: Is there a way to add keyboard shortcuts to the "Colors" menu?

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I'd like to add keyboard shortcuts for Colors>Curves and Colors>Levels, which I use frequently. The "Colors" menu doesn't appear in under Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts that I can see.
Is there any way to do this? New to Gimp.
EDIT: Now I see that these commands show up "Filters" in the keyboard shortcuts area. Not intuitive, but it works.
Thanks for looking.


texts: How to align a shape to stick to another in AE?

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I'm new to After Effects but I did some work with Photoshop in the past.

I'm trying to create a diamond with AE (and make a gif later so it rotates).
To be super clear - I'm trying to convert the image below into 3D:

I'm sitting here for 12 hours and trying to perform some basic operations in 3D and I'm totally stuck. For now I have two shapes in my composition, a simple rectangle and a polygon (polygon to make things easier):

I'm trying to align the triangle to the polygon somehow in a 'smart' way, not by moving the x/y/z position by 1/10 of the pixel each time, rotating the camera and checking if it fits.

Is there any tool in Adobe AE which will help me do this?
I just need to fit the triangle's basis to one of the polygon's edges so it matches perfectly like this:


texts: How are these full-text images/designs made?

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I've seen a few of these around and I love the effect.

I'm a developer, but proficient with basic Photoshop. I've played around with masking an area and entering the text within but it never formats right, so I assume this is done very carefully by hand or there's a better way?

I've also seen images of this style but inverted (the text makes up the image content, not the background).

Thanks if anyone can give some insight in advance!

Edit: To clarify, the image is made up completely of text lines. Formatting/coloring creates the actual image within this massive block of text.

Edit 2: Updated with another closeup example. You can see how the text actually wraps the full page, yet breaks to give space for the design before continuing.


texts: How to change the background color of the outer canvas in Illustrator

texts: Is there a way to change the colour of this gray area? I would like it to be white. I like to use this area as a mood board, so it helps if I am working with the same background colour.


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What is the internal precision used by Adobe Illustrator? Or put another way, what internal representation does Illustrator use to store coordinate data?

Try this (I'm using CS6):

Zoom in as close as Illustrator allows (6400% in CS6).
Draw a circle.
Resize the circle to 0.001 × 0.001 pt.
Resize the circle to 10 × 10 pt.

Here's what I get when I do that:

This is obviously an extreme example, but I have experienced similar distortions in more realistic scenarios when objects have gone through extensive editing. To avoid this, I have had to resort in some cases to working at an enlarged scale and only resizing my artwork to final size at the very end.

Clearly, Illustrator's internal precision is not infinite. It appears that coordinates are ultimately rounded to an integer at some small scale (I assume some fraction of a point), such that rounding errors can accumulate, eventually culminating in visible distortion.

Can anyone shed some light on this?


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I'm trying to create documentation that will use the same files for the online content as the PDF content. The biggest challenge has been getting the images a suitable size and quality for both. I found a solution that was working - get the photo elements of the images saved as JPG and compressed via ImageOptim. Then add the elements to lines and text in an Illustrator file and save as SVG. This was working fine for all of the images, but then suddenly went wrong. When I compared the code of the good SVGs vs the bad, the key difference was:

In the good, it has:

viewBox="0 0 516.9 246" style="enable-background:new 0 0 516.9 246;"     xml:space="preserve

In the bad, it has:

viewBox="0 0 516.9 246" enable-background="new 0 0 516.9 246" xml:space="preserve"

So it seems to be something to do with that style= part going wrong. Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a workaround? I've tried adding it in manually, but it doesn't seem to work.

I have reported it to Adobe and they are looking into it. They recommended I use export to SVG instead, but the file size is too big when i do that (4 times larger at least).

Any suggestions? (I'm not a graphic designer by the way).


texts: Choosing RGB color in Illustrator (when only CMYK sliders are visible)

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I'm making a simple template to laser cut. The laser cutter acts as a printer and you choose the power, speed, etc. for each colour that is in the document. I only want to cut, so I only have RGB red lines at 0.001 pt thickness. Or at least that was the plan. One of the shapes in my template has come out a different red (the swatches were CMYK despite the document colour mode being RGB). I would now like to select all the paths in the document and make them all RGB red. However, when I open the colour panel from the dock the sliders are CMYK, again this is despite the document colour mode being RGB:

How do I change all the paths to be RGB red?

How do I stop Illustrator offering me CMYK options and swatches and offering RGB instead?


texts: Adobe PDF error when printing. What's STACK?

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I'm receiving a mysterious error when printing a .PDF. The exact message it prints out (wrong linebreaks) is:

    ERROR: undefinedresult  OFFENDING COMMAND: itransform

    STACK:

    2380.1
    3366.1

I've already accepted the error and offending command specifications are too general to be of any help. What I'm wondering about is the STACK details. What is it? Could it give any help whatsoever?


texts: How can I control the dots (and gaps) on a stroke in Illustrator?

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I'm trying to recreate the attached image, and I'm hitting a wall that seems like a no brainer, but I just can't figure it out!

I need to have a dotted line with a set number of dots (29 to be exact) that vary in size (largest to smallest) and that spaces out evenly. I know how to control the number, I know that I can use the width tool, or a width profile to control the sizes, but every time I do all the correct steps, I can't get them to space out, the dots just kind of stack up on each other.

Help? Thoughts?


texts: Should UI elements all use the theme color?

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In the image below,the buttons at the bottom are used to skip forward/backward exactly one frame each tap. The slider lets the user scrub through the video in a "faster" way.

From a UI perspective - should the buttons be in the theme color, which is also used for the 'Next'. Or should they be white? What is your recommendation and why?

Click the image for a full version.


texts: Does anyone know what this waxy coating on a post card is called?

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I am trying to ask a print broker for a quote on some postcards but I don't know what the name of this coating is. This postcard gets attached to a lanyard and the coating looks great and avoids it tearing at the hole punch. I did a scan so you can see the finish.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: A printer friend has just suggested that it is a matte laminate. Once I get the postcards I will update if it was correct.


texts: Can I include / reference external scripts and libraries within my Adobe Illustrator .jsx script?

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We're writing a bunch of .jsx scripts, and in each one I have to mock out some functions so I can use things like Array.map() and String.trim(), but I don't want to have to include that code at the top of every script.

Is there a way to "include" / reference other scripts or libraries inside of a .jsx script file?


texts: Difference between "Done" and "Cancel" in Export for Web

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In both Illustrator and Photoshop, the Export for Web window has three options at the bottom:

Done, Cancel and Save

Save will save the image for Web with the settings that you have selected.

However, Done and Cancel seem to do exactly the same thing: close the window without performing any saving action.

Why are there two options that seem to do the same thing?


texts: Services and resources for creating Android icon(s)

texts: What services/resources, paid or otherwise, are available to android developers who want an icon designed for their mobile app?


texts: How can graphic designers contribute to Open Source projects?

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I want to participate in Open Source projects, but I cannot code (that well. Or.. at all).

I would love to contribute to GitHub projects, but as a designer I'm not sure what's the best way to do this (I mention GitHub because it makes it really easy to find stuff which is already happening, but any platform would apply).

What's the place of a graphic designer in the Open Source world, or what are some good practises when deciding to join a project of these characteristics?


texts: Aligning the baseline grid to guides and margins in InDesign

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When I create a grid using the "Create Guides" feature in InDesign (I want rows, columns and margins), I can not figure out how to align the baseline grid with the guides.

Is there a mathematical equation to figure out how to do it?

For example, if I have a letter sized page with 3 rows and 3 columns with a gutter on 1p and 1p margins, how do I create a baseline grid that conforms to this grid system that I created?


texts: How can I tell illustrator to paste a copied pixel-perfect item in a pixel-perfect manner?

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My issue is that I have created a pixel-perfect shape. I copy it and I paste it into the same document, and it's pixel-perfectness is destroyed:

You can see that it was pasted at a very odd pixel value. Snap to pixel and Snap to point are enabled. Also all pixel snapping options are active:

Sure, in this example I can simply click on "Align selected art to pixels", but often I have more complex items, where clicking this button changes the shape.

In earlier Illustrator versions this was not an issue: Pasting always created pixel perfect results. At some point in time this seems to have changed or I am missing a setting.


texts: stroke of multiple color vs single color

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I am working on a project where i need to draw several trees and  plethora of leaves of multiple colors.

As it is a time consuming approach so i set an action where the action is set to change stroke into fill.
Workflow was fine as long as stroke color were same.

But as am mixing several color leaf  this action is not working anymore. Manually i have to change each stroke into fill.

And if i apply magic wand some other portion of trees get selected.

Why the action is not working  for multiple color strokes??


texts: Desktop wallpaper idea that's at the same time visual interesting and bland

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I'm an IT guy rather than an artist of any kind. I work at a small college, and we're deploying new PCs to our classrooms.  As part of this, I want to build a desktop wallpaper to include with the machines by default, to help with branding for the college and the rollout and to create a consistent look across our classrooms.

Here's the kicker: many of our classrooms use smart boards, a kind of interactive whiteboard.  I need to come up with something that's both visually interesting enough to avoid looking empty and barren, but bare and light enough to still serve well as a white board, such that you can draw over it without the background taking away from the real content displayed above it. My color palette is essentially white and very light grey or yellow.

Any ideas?


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I'm struggling to find its name online. It's a line chart but each point of the two series are joined, as the combination of both of them is what defines each datum:

Thanks.


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I'm using Photoshop CS6 and for some reason the grid is not aligned 1 pixel by 1 pixel on my 20 pixel by 20 pixel image. I've tried everything and it still doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

here are my settings:

Guides,grids and slices

:

views:

p.s: I'm new to photoshop


texts: possible way to remove square thing in my picture?

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ok so I found this image and want to change its color

but when I tried to change its color, this happened

I did everything, I blurred it (surface and smart blur), I reduced the noise and still nothing
can anyone tell me what is the problem and also help me out on it


texts: Is this aesthetic done by hand or by editing photographs?

texts: And if so, how would it be done? I'd especially love to learn how the noise/texturing is done as well!


texts: How do you change a logo to monochrome in Photoshop CS6?

texts:
On many websites I see a list Customers they have and their logos where they have all been changed to some kind of grayscale.

Logos example

More logos with different background

I understand it's not simply changing Image > Mode > Grayscale

Any tutorials, action scripts that I can use?


texts: How to create dashed lines/arrows in Illustrator

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I'm looking for help on how to create the dashed lines and arrows in the example below.

In this example you can see the arrows, which follow a curved path, yet, the stripes remain in perfect "parallel" order. I did not manage to figure out how to do this in Illustrator myself. I created a pattern with parallel stripes, but as soon as there is a curve you can imagine what happens, it gets distorted/tries to fill out/maintain the pattern which does not produce the intended result at all.

Is there actually an easy way to do this? Or do I have to Move/Copy/Rotate "every single line" individually? Here is a quick example of how it looks right now in my file, I would very much want to get the result in the example.


texts: how to remove shoes from an image of a character and leave barefoot in photoshop cs6 or cs2?

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for example I have a image of a character displayed in photoshop and I see only the shoes and from there I will want to remove to show the feet
will tool history brush do this?


texts: What's the point of converting RGB images to CMYK TIF/TIFF before placing them in InDesign?

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Currently we receive CMYK TIF/TIFF images of photographs from our design agency (who get them from the photographer). Our in-house designers then place them in InDesign for posters and magazines, or convert them to RGB to be used on the website or in newsletters or presentations.

I'm wondering what's the point of taking a photograph, then converting it to a CMYK TIF/TIFF (with HUGE filesize) before placing it in InDesign, and maybe converting it back to RGB for screen-use?
I mean, the photograph is RGB anyway, and InDesign can use colour profiles too. So, if InDesign is assigned the correct profile (from the printing press) why convert the images to CMYK beforehand? Wouldn't it be a much wiser choice to save the retouched images as PNG (which is lossless)? The print designer would then place the image in InDesign and then, when the document is done, export to CMYK using the correct profile. Whereas the web designer would take the image, resize it into the correct format and save it as a JPG.

Advantages:

Immensely reduced file sizes
One conversion less
On-screen viewing can be done by anyone without them getting off colours because their viewer doesn't support CMYK
8-bit transparency

Also, I'm not entirely sure if our design agency actually uses the press profile our printers use because the agency is in a completely different country.

Am I missing something crucial here?


texts: So I've got a file with loads of simple objects. This will later be used to cut out these shapes out of plastic. So, using the material optimally is of outmost importance. I was wondering if there is any script or plugin that could automaticly arrange the objects within the artboard so they could fit best.


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I have a group of merged shapes. How can I make a double stroke in Photoshop?

I'm using Photoshop CC


texts: Fusion of transparent layer on to existing layer

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I have a layer with multiple shapes and colors, and I would like to manipulate the layer esaily by changing the intensity of the colors.

I know this can be easily achieved by an extra layer of the same shape silhouette and by selecting a color and changing the opacity. But that extra layer seems somewhat unprofessional. And because my layer has so many shapes, paths and colors... it is simply too tedious to replace each and every color.

So, can it be done without an extra transparency layer?


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First off, I am new to illustrator so may be going at this the wrong way.

I have a design that involves multiple paths that form a web like structure in a circle. I would like to have the color of the web into three equal parts and color them.

I have divided the circle up using the polar grid tool. I would like to create a color mask from this for all layers below but I don't seem to be able to do that. Alternatively, I though i could turn the polar grid into a selection and then just color all the paths below using that.

The problem is that some of the web cross over the paths created by the polar grid so they would have to be half one color and half another.

I hope I have explained myself okay.


texts: Customer relations - How to manage customers when the 'urgent job' keeps changing?

texts: I have been getting quite a few customers now who come in for urgent design work. To accommodate this their job sheet is pushed ahead and we go out of our way to rush it to meet their deadlines. The customers then come back and forth for weeks with alterations to the design and the 'urgent' deadline keeps getting pushed out and changed. Do you have any advice on how to manage this, as I feel it is a bit of a sneaky tactic of the impatient customers to jump the cue.


texts: how can I remove additional points in below image quickly and improve quality of existing dash lines?

texts: Hi I want to improve the quality of this simple figure for my thesis. Can someone help me for removing additional points in this image and improve line and dashed-line Quality in this figure. Thanks.


texts: I have printed an image with my ink jet printer, an now I want to add some foil on it, for this I need to print on top of it with a toner, however when I put the image on my laser printer it is never printing on the desired areas, there's always misalignment of 0.5/1 cm.. how can I fix this ? is there any printer that can print ink and toner at same time ? or is there any other solution to add toner ? I tried the toner pen but it wasn't a good, the best results are from a laser printer. I don't wanna do the toner on another paper and then cut it and pasted to my original paper... I want to do both on same paper. any solution ?


texts: How can I remove the unwanted background from a scanned handwritten signature?

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I need to upload my signature in a PDF document, but I do not know how to edit the background of this image.

I wish to remove the bluish-tint background, and make it pure white.

Can anyone help me with this, please?


texts: How to replicate monitor pixel effect similar to this picture?

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------------Problem----------------
Took a close up photo of a computer monitor and would like to replicate the effect in inkscape but am not sure how - my attempts are not working.

-------------What I did--------------
I took a black canvas and made a grid, filled it with circles leaving very small gaps for lines to be formed.
Then I used "object to path" I got the grid I want but it's flat.. I want it in perspective.
I made a rectangle in perspective.. and used "perspective" in "extensions" while having both the rectangle and the grid selected.
I got a dialogue box says "working on perspective please wait" I waited for a few minutes, the dialogue box disappeared and nothing has changes w/r to the grid and rectangle


texts: Is it necessary to be good at drawing, to develop good 3D digital design skills for modeling and animation?

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I want to make 3D animation films. Not as hi-fi as Disney and Pixar of course, but as close to them as an indie animator can get.

I'm good (not enviable, just plain good) at drawing things on paper but I haven't really delved into digital art much.

Is there any correlation between the two?

Do I need to hone my drawing skills further before going digital or can I just dive right into the digital world?


texts: Is it a bad idea to use a different type of paper as continuation paper?

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I'm doing an identity design for a friend who doesn't have a particularly large budget, so he wants to spend as little as possible on printing.

The first page will need to be printed at a printing shop because it has a full bleed header, but the consecutive pages consist only of the text and the footer with no header.

Would it be noticeable if the first page was good quality paper but for the rest we used slightly different paper? I wouldn't use anything which is too different in thickness. However, apart from thickness will the different textures, textured first and smooth rest, be noticeable?

I ordered a sample kit from the printer so I could see how different it'd be, does anyone have any experience with this?


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I'm trying to draw a simple line in Illustrator starting from an anchor, but it just won't work. Illustrator offset the end result for no apparent reason.

In this figure you see that the new line is not aligning with the end anchor. I draw the line vertically and the offset happens. I checked the settings and I have Smart Guides turned on, both snap to grid and snap to point are turned off. What am I doing wrong?


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I'm designing the net of a cube that can be laser cut such that it fits together seamlessly. I know this can be done, and I've seen a couple of examples on the net.

I have made the net with a jig saw pattern, with the depth of the 'jigs' being exactly equal to the depth of the material, which is a 1.6mm acrylic plastic.

I just need someone to confirm for me that this net actually will fit together perfectly. It's the joins of three adjacent faces that are the problematic areas. The rest of it can sort of be done on autopilot, as you can see from the .AI I have linked to on my dropbox. I struggle desperately to visualize 3D objects, but thus far lack the mental capacity to do so.

Would it be best to model this in Sketchup or something? Loathe to spend a bit of money only to find I've botched the design in some way.

It will hopefully be fairly intuitive from my .AI how this all fits together - just like you would normally expect a cube net to.

Viewing the file with 1.6mm grids might help make it make more sense.

Thanks very much

Here is the file.


texts: How to cut of designs from SVG in Adobe Illustrator

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I have artboards that has some part of designs out of it, when I export my artboard as SVG and also click Use Artboards

yet those extra parts will be included exported file.

Any suggestion how to cut of those extra parts so they not be included exported file?


texts: I have a black and white image, a scanned signature, where I want to change the colour of the black lines to blue (or red or something else). How do I do this? Preferably with freeware (I have Mac, Win7 and Linux, I prefer the Mac).


texts: Drawing a curve / radius on a oval radius shape in Sketchup

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I'm trying to achieve what the image shows.

The 4 corners need to be rounded.

How to do this on a flat surface and on a surface already drawn like the attached, specially.


texts: Is it possible to get rid of auto-formatting of margins around a textbox?

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I'm trying to move the smaller text that appears at the bottom closer to the top, larger textbox. The problem is when I try to move it close enough, pink lines appear, the next margin increment jumps from 0.00 to 0.11 (no in-between margins), instead of in 0.014 increments (0.00 to 0.014, 0.014 to 0.028, etc.) Photoshop usually allows.

Is there anyway to get rid of the autoformatting that occurs here, so that I could put the smaller textbox in a margin somewhere in between the first picture and the second picture (margin value between 0.00 to 0.11)?

Margin from first picture and second picture is the smallest increment possible.


texts: If I make a design in RGB mode and then change it to CMYK how will it look when it's printed?

texts: I'm making a business card in Photoshop and it needs to be in CMYK mode. Now, I'm using a logo on it that I previously made for the client in RGB mode and when I put it into the CMYK mode business card design it desaturates it a little. I'm trying to get my head around whether or not it will print how it looks on my screen (ie desaturated) or how it looks when it's in RGB mode? Because, the colours aren't accurate in CMYK mode so if that's exactly how it will look when printed I will need to adjust the colours to look like they do in RGB mode. Sorry if that doesn't make sense - usually I only design logos and I've never run into this problem before.


texts: When saving image for Web, outlines change

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I have an imagemap with a click and mouseover function on several areas.
I edited and saved the images in Photoshop with the option "Save for web". I used PNG-8 with 256 Colors.
Performing the mouseover, the image changes. All the outlines of the forest etc. seem to be moving when I move the mouse over the mapped areas. Also the headline changes (a lot actually)
A partly working example is here http://fonag.org.ec/inicio/material-didadico.html
Hover over the "hidden" highlighted stuff behind the trees on the very right side (cyan and green).

Any ideas why that is and even better, suggestions how to avoid this? Since I have an imageflip, I want to overlay the images exactly without any movement.


texts: How to create a printable 2-page CV in Photoshop

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I typed my cv in a word processor. It is 2 pages long. I have also created a photoshop design using the A4 dimensions.

I have noticed that not only do I need two pages but also it would help the design in the canvas was slightly bigger.

Can you recommend me what canvas sizes are most appropriate for a photoshoped cv, and also how would I go about exporting two pages into pdf - do I create two photoshop files and somehow join them as one pdf?


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How do you join paths in Inkscape?

For instance, use paths to draw a trapezoid. I would like to join the opposite corners with a 5th and a 6th line, so that each of the 4 nodes has three lines connecting it. How to do this?


texts: How do I contract a selection of all pixels in Photoshop?

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I have a series of images with a 1px border included in the picture. I need to get rid of that border. The logical route seemed to be Select > All and then Select > Modify > Contract... by 1 px. Unfortunately, when all pixels in a layer are selected, Photoshop (CS6 in my case) greys out all Select > Modify option but Border.... This seems to be an ancient 'bug', introduced in Ps CS3.

How can I work around this 'bug', preferably in a way that allows me to automate the process in an action?


texts: Import SVG so that each path is on a different layer in Animate CC

texts: I am trying to import and SVG to the Stage in Adobe Animate CC so that each path/element of the SVG on a separate layer, as described on the official Adobe help pages.  When I select "Import each path to different layer", all paths are always still brought in on a single layer. Has anyone experienced this? What am I doing wrong?


texts: Why does resizing a jpeg from bigger to smaller make it blurry?

texts: I am resizing an image from 3000x810 to something smaller 900x243 but this makes the image blurry.  I am curious why this is happening.  I understand why making an image larger results in a blurry/pixelated look but not sure why this is happens when getting smaller.


texts: Opacity problem over white object in Illustrator

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I have a problem. I'm working with an object at 50% opacity. When it's over the artboard itself the color looks great, but when I put a white object behind it I get this weird color that doesn't look accurate.

This happens with every object and only in CMYK. I'm pretty sure this never happened to me before so maybe I changed something in the settings or I don't know.

Does anyone have any idea?


texts: How to change which anchor point on a path is the "starting anchor"?

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I'm trying to do some animations for my website with SVG images that I saved in Illustrator. I'm running into the issue that the animation is starting from the wrong part of the path, and I'd like to set the "start" of the path to a different anchor. I've searched and searched and I'm not sure that there's a way to do this without redrawing the path. It's a closed path so I can't just hit reverse.

Is there some option in Illustrator to select an anchor on a closed path and make it the "first" anchor on a closed path?


texts: Photoshop: a steady stream of water coming out of showerhead with pressure

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I have been asked to edit an image of a showerhead, where the water looks in pic below
(i.e. a photo taken in very high shutter speed where the water flowing from the shower head looks like individual droplets):

Pic 1
HOW DO I TRANSORM THE PIC ABOVE TO THE PIC BELOW???
Pic 2
Now it looks like a steady stream of water coming out with pressure.This is my aim.
I also have a pic of a showerhead with no water coming out of it. Can i alter it to look like Pic 2?


texts: How to convert RGB colors into CMYK (real paint colors)?

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How can I convert an RGB color into a real life color?

If I mix equal amounts of red, green and blue paint together in real life, I will never achieve a white color, in the way you do when setting the maximum values for them in RGB (#FFF), and I'd be hard pressed to get an exact shade of grey.

Looking at an RGB code, how can I know what proportions to mix the colors in to get the same with real paint?

Is RGB to CMYK conversion the answer?

To put it another way:

How can I mix real paint colors together to achieve the same color that I've got on my screen in RGB?


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Can someone help me create a spiral (helix) similar to the one shown in the image? How might this be done except from drawing the curves perfectly by hand?

I achieved the desired result, but very painstakingly by drawing everything from hand. See the pictures below. To specify my question: Is there a simpler way to draw a shape similar to this?


texts: Combining serif and sans serif font with matching x-height

texts: I have a simple web page which uses a serif font and a sans serif font; both are set with font-family: serif and font-family: sans-serif respectively. With these settings I would expect that a well thought out web browser would by default use a serif font and a sans serif font with matching x-heights. However, on Windows 10 I observe that in Chrome, Firefox and Opera the default sans serif font has a larger x-height than the default serif font. This makes the sans serif font look larger than the serif font. What font settings do I need to make sure the x-heights match?


texts: 1 letter used - do I need to buy the entire font?

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I am about to finish designing logo. I use two fonts. One I already bought, but the other... I need just one letter from this font but it is not free.

Do I need to buy the entire font?


texts: Join paths of a live paint group - illustrator

texts: Hi I am trying to join two paths in a live paint group. I am not sure whether this is possible or if I have to undo the live paint and ungroup it. I am a bit confused still with groups in illustrator and when the command+join works and when it doesn't. I have images below for reference, I also did a screenshot of the layers panel with the two paths named "join" inside the live paint group.


texts: Table in Indesign not exactly a table inside text frame. What is it?

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I am designing a catalog using several elements from another one. BUT what looks like a table is not a table exactly. It's a text frame, it looks like it's all text frame with tabs which it's not practical at all. Is there a way of creating this in InDesign that it's not a tab? In the image below you can see what I mean. For example if I press "Enter" on Example 1, it's going to behave just like in a text frame "example 1" is going to create another line (and under "N. de Art." column).

The reason I don't use tabs is that the catalog is around 300 pages. Using tabs is not very time effective nor practical.

PS: I verified if it's columns inside the text frame, but it's not. I really hope who whoever did this file didn't used the TAB key for hundreds of tables.


texts: Photoshop CS6: color window like color picker

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How can I set my Color window to look/act like the Color Picker as does Goro Fujita on his streams?

I know about adding keyboard shortcuts or the interactive color wheel/strip with ALT+SHIFT+Right Click. I would like to emulate this set up, but haven't found a way.


texts: How do I create a cursor (.cur) image file in Photoshop CS4?

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I'm using Photoshop CS4 and I need to create a .cur image.  The actual process of doing so is simple enough but I cannot find the necessary Photoshop CS4 plug-in to do so.

Can anybody help me either find the plug-in or show me how to create the .cur file without it?


texts: Is it possible to rasterize a text layer in Photoshop CC where each letter gets its own layer?


texts: How to create an image that is just shading and transparency?

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In photoshop I created this image that is supposed to represent the folds of a curtain:

I, however, only want the shading aspect of this so that I can export that to a PNG and display it over any color on the Web.

So my question then is how do I get only the shading part of this image into a PNG?


texts: Fix edge intersections between upper face and front when drawing a cube axonometrically?

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I am trying to remove the extra edge (meaning that it "overflows") when I am trying to draw the upper face of a cube. As you can see, it does not perfectly align with the side of the cube:

Is there any way I can achieve this, if I want the thickness to remain the same and the base of the parallelogram to be the same length as one side of the square?


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I'm new to Inkscape and I'd like some advice to recreate the image below. The image was created on MS paint but the quality is poor when inserted into a Latex document.

I am having problems creating the blue rings. In my approach, I make two ellipses, resize them to fit the box and then add colour. The issue is that I am unable to delete some of the intersecting lines to create the hollow 3D effect seen in the original picture.

I attach the original and my attampt on Inkscape.

Thanks in advance!


texts: How to achieve this disappearing effect?

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Please look at the below image:

As you can see, the right side of the image looks blurry. I've tried to use blurry filter and eraser with 0% hardness but doesn't work :( How can I achieve this efffect?


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I was asked to mimic the following using RMagick (which uses ImagMagick within the Ruby programming languages) applied to photos.

Anyone know
a) were these likely originally photos, or were they hand drawn?
b) if they were photos, how are these effects created?  I'm thinking it's something like posterize and some sketch filter, along with a texture that gets overlayed on a white background, and then finally the coffee stains are applied.


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I want to fill a selection in gimp with one color and only that color. No color mixing between neighbor pixels. How can I do that?

When I fill a selection, gimp does it like in the image below on the left side. I want a result shown on the right side.


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Hi Everyone
I am working with a client and he wants me to design handwritten typefaces. I tried it with mouse but it is hard to do with mouse. Any idea of how do you do such task?


texts: Term for upward slant of horizontals in a typeface

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I've noticed that in a lot of typefaces simulating upright hand lettering, the horizontal strokes slant upward.
In Comic Sans and Comic Neue, this slant is especially visible on the crossbars of lowercase e and uppercase A and H.
So does the H in the logo of the Holiday Inn hotel chain.
Apple Casual shows the effect in more horizontals, as do Dom Casual, Wastrel, Blambot Casual, Segoe Print, and Tekton.
In the Apache/August family (trade names include Apache URW, Cochise, Disney Print, Jester, Stanley, and Toledo), nearly everything horizontal has a 10% grade or 6 degree skew, including glyph baselines.
The upward slope tendency also appears in ''kaishuu'', or Japanese "regular" script.

Is there a typographic term for this phenomenon in general?


texts: Gimp: How to despeckle old scanned document

texts: The sample image below was overly dotted with block spots. How are the spots removed (or at least reduced) using Gimp, please? I have tried the Despeckle filter but it seems to have no effect on the image.


texts: How to maintain the colours of my design when printing

texts: I have taken a long time to design my own business card in Photoshop. However, the colours are much darker and all wrong (sometimes too blue, sometimes too pink) when they are printed by the printers. I have tried several printers and nobody seems to be able to get it right. The colours are accurate on my surface pro3 as I am told that this has a high percentage of accuracy. Can someone please help?


texts: How to copy, move, and delete shapes in Krita

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I want to make a "drawing" of ellipses.  Doing it by hand is far beyond my ability so I'll use a program.  I chose Krita at random.  I've spent an hour reading manuals and watching tutorials and am none the wiser.
I need to be able to

copy and paste the shapes.
move the shapes around
select and delete shapes I don't want.

When I try to copy and paste a shape there is no apparent result.
It would be nice to be able to change the color of a shape but I can live without it.
If some other program is better I'll use that.


texts: How to create repeating circular dotted effect in Photoshop

texts: How can the circular dotted effect be easily applied to the edge of a rectangle in Photoshop? I tried using the lasso tool on a rectangle I create but couldn't get even spacing.


texts: Who own the rights to images that are generated by math formulas?

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How is the copyright determined for  images that are derived from math formulas?

Examples:

Equal-step gradient graph:

color wheel graph of sin(1/z):

Who own the rights to images like these?


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I have N images in foldes with the same dimensions (HxW).
Is there any software that can resize all images to the configured size (for example proportionally reduce size of the pic by X) and build a one image - grid of this images? Maybe only build a grid from images without resize?

For example - i have 20 images 900*300, after give the folder with images as input to the software i'll get one image:
3000*200 (2 rows, 10 colums of images 300*100).


texts: Why is the blue in my AI file black in my PDF file?

texts: I created a RSVP card for a friend and in the AI file the color is NAVY Blue but when I save as a PDF and attach it on the email it is black. Does anyone know a solution?


texts: Drawing attention to this banner by using color

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I am working on a banner for a startup to be displayed at events.

However, I am struggling with supporting colours at the moment.

The entire thing looks very dark, and I wonder if it does the job of drawing the audience in, or will it just be ignored by passers-by.

Any feedback on how I can alter the colour scheme to make it bright while keeping the main brand color of #191c4c? I feel like the man in the middle should be a bit brighter, but I'm not sure what alterations to make.


texts: GIMP Plugin change the type based on category selection

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**Cat =  ["Ford","Toyota","Vauxhall"]
with open('D:\\tmp\\menu\\Baseline\\catyp\\' + cat.selected , 'r') as fdict2use:
        data1 = fdict2use.read().replace('\n', ',')
p16 = data1.split(",")
Typ = p16**

How can I get the selection from dropdown and use that to open the right file and add the required types.


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When reading in some American university text books (the first example that comes to my mind being Young and Freedman's University Physics), I notice how much it uses sans-serif all over the place, for headers, figure captions, graphics, etc., practically everywhere except the main text. The design is so complex that there is no doubt in my mind that a professional designer has been involved. Yet what strikes me is how ugly I actually think it looks; having to go in and out of "sans mode" all the time (as well as adjusting to different text sizes, fonts, shapes, weights, text colours, and background colours, for that matter) simply disturbs my eye. I cannot remember the last time I even used sans fonts myself.

Can someone provide me with a good design-based reason why, when typesetting a book with main text in serif, using sans occasionally is a good idea? As a book designer, which positive effects would you say that using sans can have? (Because, sorry, but I find them hard to see.)


texts: Why doesn't my bright blue in in RGB match when I convert to CMYK?

texts: I can't apply selected color in CMYK mode but can apply RGB mode.


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I have a black shape like this:

That red rectangle is not part of my shape. I just draw it so that divides my shape visually into two parts. I would like to only scale "the part of my shape inside red rectangle" horizontally (I do not want to scale "the part of the shape outside rectangle" horizontally). How can I do this in illustrator?


texts: How to design an address book in adobe indesign?

texts: Someone asked me to design an address book for him in Indesign. I have no idea of how to do it to be ready for printing and cutting. Is there a special way or a tool to do it, or it's like creating a shape with pen tool?


texts: Like many people, I have hundreds of fonts installed in my library.  Is there any way to set fonts available on a per document basis for Adobe apps (or any other apps for that matter)?


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Question from the GIMP novice:
I received a jpg image which shall be used as a logo. Here's a part of it:

I'd like to have the background transparent, but the letters filled white. I was able to make the whole thing transparent spending some time with GIMP - to demonstrate it, I put it on a yellow background:

I can also fill the inside of the letters by

selecting the outlines of the letters with the magic wand
inverting selection
de-selecting what I don't need (i.e. the rest of the image)
fine adjusting the selection by manually adding/removing pixels and/or groups of pixels to make the whole thing smoother
filling the selection with white color

I feel there should be an easier way, but my Google resarch didn't help. Can you? Are there more comfortable tools than GIMP for this?


texts: Different size JPGs for Smart TV slide show

texts: I have created a document in InDesign with images and some text. I have then printed to PDF and then saved the PDF as JPG files. When I connect my USB to the Smart TV all the jpgs are different sizes and have various different borders. Why is this? Please help?


texts: I'd like to create the effect of ink running similar to how it's been used in the example below. But I'd like to do it in vector. Anybody got some great brushes that might work?


texts: How to animate vector art designed in Inkscape?

texts: I want to create an animation this way: let's say, I create a circle with multiple nodes in Inkscape, maybe save it as .svg, then edit it, and save it as another file. Now I want to place both of these vectors in an animating software, leaving some frames between them, press render and an animation is created, the software filling the frames between 1st and 2nd vector. Is there a software that does this?


texts: Help with bad importing of Wikipedia SVGs into CorelDRAW X7

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I have a found several issues when importing SVG files found on Wikipedia to CorelDRAW X7. Whenever I import one, there are many artifacts or glitches.

Examples are:
Map of the German Empire within Europe, circa 1914 where the German Empire is missing, and UK is moved southwards

Coat of arms of the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown where several elements expand past the image, even pas the visible field.

On their own the SVGs are rendered correctly in Internet Explorer or even in the online SVG Editor.

I look forward as to what may be the cause and the solution to my problem.


texts: How to make a Photoshop droplet export PNG into the folder where source PSD is located in

texts: I am looking for a way a Photoshop droplet could export PNG from a PSD file into the folder of that PSD file. I plan to create a droplet I could drop PSD files in and the droplet would 'convert' those PSD into PNG and save those PNG in the folders where the PSD are located in. Thank you in advance!


texts: Hide contents of clipping mask layer in photoshop

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Is there a way to hide the contents of a clipping mask in photoshop? I don't want the clipping mask to show through in areas where the clipped layer is transparent.

Images might make it clear.

My layer setup:

Without clipping mask:

With clipping mask:

Desired result:

I know I can manually adjust the clipping mask to cover only the areas that the pattern covers, but that is too much effort since the pattern consists of a lot of layers and is quite irregular. Is there another way to simply make the clipping mask never show its own contents?


texts: What software do you use for making moodboards? Is Illustrator the best option? Has anyone got any other methods or ideas about making moodboards? Specifically from found digital images and photography.


texts: Best Image Compression process for jpg web images?

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Let's say I have a 1 mb JPG image file that I need to make a minor edit to and re-save.
For the editing, I can use photshop or gimp.
For compression, I can use photoshop, gimp, and any of those online tools such as tinyjpg, jpegmini, etc.
I'm wondering what is the best process to save and compress a JPG edited in photoshop/gimp for the web to preserve the most amount of quality while lowering the filesize to a reasonable size (which in my opinion would probably be around 200kb or lower for a 1mb jpg image)?
For example, am I better off saving/compressing the JPG image in Gimp/photoshop at the highest quality number that doesn't cause an actual increase over the original jpg filesize -- which would be about 95+ in GIMP and 100 in Photoshop) and then running the image afterwards through an presumably more optimized/lossless compression tool like TinyJPG, or is it better to simply reduce the image to a quality number that creates the desired filesize I want in Photoshop/Gimp?
In other words, is it more efficient to save a JPG image in Gimp/Photoshop to your desired filesize or to save the JPG file at a maximum quality setting in GIMP/Photoshop and to then run it through an online tool that is presumably better at compression-optimzation than Gimp/Photoshop?
The latter seems like it would be the better option, but I know every time you tamper with a JPG you get degradation, so that extra step of using an online tool might actually be the worse option.


texts: Is there an easy way to extend lines off the side of the shape, with perfectly the same angle as the edge of the shape. Without having to zoom in as far as possible and just eye it. I feel like there has to be an easy way to do this, but I can't figure it out.


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Trying to make a GIF in Photoshop CC here, but having some problems over the quality of the color in some images.

When I have 100% dithering, some dark pixels appear in a green area over this logo:

But when I reduce the dithering, even just to 99%, the dark pixels disappear:

The thing is, when I reduce the dithering to 99%, the quality of color in the other pictures I used gets compromised.

I guess what I'm asking is if there's a way to have 100% dithering without the dark pixels appearing in the logo.

Can someone help, please?


texts: Would using a side menu in my portfolio page be a design faux pas?

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I'm a full-stack developer, creating a portfolio page with node and react. I'm using a side menu that has some pretty cool features, and I think it looks great. I want the page itself to have a minimalist look to it, which is why I chose the side menu.
However, I was wondering if using a side menu would be tedious, and in this case not very functional? And whether an employer may frown upon it. I included some images (site is far from complete, but the menu is finished) to help with an opinion.
Any input greatly appreciated!


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I have a drawing with about 500 Layers structured with sublayers.
Is there a way to search for a specific Layer ?


texts: Horizontally centering left aligned text visually on multiple pages

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I am working on a book of poems. I need to make sure that the (left aligned) text running within each page is centred on the longest line. As far as I am aware there is no mechanism for doing this automatically in InDesign and besides, the optical centre will always be different from the actual centre.

So I need to manually add an indent to every page to indent the text until it feels centred on the page. My problem is that some of the stanzas/paragraphs run between two pages which each need different indentation. I can only apply indent to a whole paragraph, meaning it will affect the beginning of the paragraph on one page and the end on another. If the second page requires a different indent this means the end of the paragraph that has run over from the previous page will indented correctly for the previous page and not the current page or vice-versa.

Is there any sensible solution to this problem?

In the following example, the paragraph in red runs over both pages, but each page requires a different left offset.


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I am wondering if anyone knows of any online courses centred around brand design/the design process that are reviewed by instructors?

There are plenty of these for product designers, concept artists, animators, 3D artists, but I can't find anything like this for graphic designers.

Examples of what I'm looking for would be CGMA, CG Spectrum, Think Tank online, etc. But for graphic design.

The only examples I'm aware of is Shillington, but that's in person only, and UAL online courses but they seem quite limited.


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I try to create a SVG containing a an arrow which is supposed to have the color RGBA 00000086 so it is not completely opaque. Unfortunately, it looks like this:

If I set the color (both contour and filling) to RGBA 000000ff, everything looks fine (black). Of course I can tweak the opacity of the whole object, however this does not seem like a neat solution to me...


texts: How can I set two shapes to the same color in GIMP?

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I have two shapes. The color of the first shape is #C6C6C6 and the color of the second shape is #3F3F3F. I want to set same color for these shapes. I tried all options in the Colors menu, but every time, the colors are different. How can I set them to the same color?

I am using GIMP 2.8.20.


texts: Is there anything wrong with using foreign language typeface in English?

texts: I'm working on a CV design and came across Gulim, which is a Korean typeface. I like the way it renders Roman characters as well. Is there anything wrong with using typefaces designed for foreign alphabets with the Roman alphabet?


texts: What is a good high-quality alternative for the Bell MT font?

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I'm trying to create a logo in Photoshop using Bell MT font, but I'm finding that the edges are too sharp, making it look rather low in quality. Any suggestions for higher quality fonts that are similar in style?
Below is a sample of the font currently being used:


texts: How do I set Inkscape-pdf-export to "fill viewport"

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I have an A4 (210x297 mm) svg in Inkscape.
When I export & open the pdf in Chrome, it isn't sized to fit the window -
it appears way too big and needs to be scrolled.
How would you advise me to fix/workaround this?
I want to avoid using a smaller size, so the pdf displays well on all screens.
Thanks!


texts: Is there a good way to work with Indesign justification settings?

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I don't find it very intuitive, and I haven't found a clear guide online as yet.
I end up "playing" with Word Spacing until I get to an approximation of what I need.
I only ever modify Word Spacing and Letter Spacing.
For Letter Spacing I always use -5% minimum and +5% maximum,
For Word Spacing it is a crapshoot between 10% minimum and 200% maximum and many varying numbers in between.
It's a pain, it takes ages, and I'm sure I can't be doing this correctly.. Does anyone have any pointers how this is best acheived? Many thanks if so.


texts: Create rounded button with inset edge, gradient and inset text with Gimp

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This is my first attempt at seriously using Gimp. I am more of a front end developer slash developer myself and I have only used Gimp or Photoshop for very basic stuff such as removing backgrounds, cropping. So this the first time I want to do more and as I am planning on ditching PS I am trying to work with Gimp.
Please see attached image

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It shows simple rounded buttons with nice inner shades and a beveled background as well as inlaid text. How in Gimp do I:

Create this shade gradient effect on the button?
Do the inlaid/embossed inset text effect?
Make the button background with the inset lines?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Update

Checking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1K3L7RdbKw for engraved text (engraved = embossed)


texts: Why does my CMYK file have crazy neon colors?

texts: I am new to Illustrator but made a very cool file with photos & text to print as 11x14 poster.  A JPEG file is needed to bring to the printer (using Costco which usually works fine).  But when I get to the printing kiosk & open the file, it's appearance looks posterized with crazy neon colors. It's not even close to the colors of the original file. The color is set at CMYK & I'm choosing highest quality (10) in the save options.  The .jpeg file looks fine when opened on my iPhone or another computer.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


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Is there any way to erase or trim the hidden portions of a vector in Photoshop?

It's easy to do with raster graphics - select the layer, select the part of the image outside of the canvas, and delete it. But I'd like to do something similar for vectors (smart objects) in an effort to reduce file size and make my projects easier to work with.

Anyone know?

Thanks!


texts: Imaging tool to slice a scene into smaller images

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I'm looking for a software tool to slice an image into smaller ones. It will be a part of a much bigger project so the effort to export the output should be minimal. It doesn't matter if the initial setup takes time but making a change into the scene and taking an export will be something that we would be doing regularly so it should be doable with minimal effort.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for in the tool.

Consider the following image as my scene:

The two white and blue boxes show the output slices that I'm expecting to have as exported files. The white one contains the gate and the blue one its shadow. The tricky part is that I'm expecting to have them like this:

Which means that the background picture is invisible in the exported files. I have the gate and its shadow in separate layers so I can easily produce the desired output (as above) manually but I'm looking to a tool to do that for me automatically (as I might be exporting this a thousand times).

Perhaps I can set which layer is visible in each slice! I mean that would be great.

Does anyone know such a tool? Inside or outside of Photoshop?


texts: InDesign XML import -- am I missing something?

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I'm trying to create a flyer, using InDesign CS6, for which the content is imported from XML, but I'm struggling...

This is my InDesign template:

I've tagged the individual text elements I need to replace and the text frame is tagged Specifications. My XML looks like this:

What I would expect is that the FlagState, TradingArea, etc. tags are replaced by the XML content on import. However, what I end up with is all my descriptions and titles gone, and additional tabs inserted in their place:

I've tried al sorts of import options, all to no avail :( For this example this are the options used:

Questions:

Am I doing something wrong -- am I missing something?
Is what I am trying to do possible at all using InDesign?

All input is appreciated!


texts: Tool for UI Designer where you can see distances between elements

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I am creating tons of pixel-perfect views for static websites. My front-end developers losses their times figuring out distances between related divs, images, etc (using Paint).

What I want to achieve is to automate this process and generate an output file when you can easily see those distances just like in CAD software.

Sketch has great Measure plugin which I am using so far:

but while my views are getting more and more complex, it's so time-consuming to be up-to-date with all the widths and spacings.


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I am creating a seven wedge citrus fruit cross section. Is there a trick to getting all the wedges evenly separated? Or do I have to drive myself crazy doing it manually?

I got this far by using a circle and a seven point start shape as a guide.

Thanks for any help!


texts: How would I recreate this horizontal line in Photoshop?

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I've seen variations of this idea... in HTML, the <hr /> tag creates a horizontal line that can be used as a spacing tool to separate headings, blocks of content, etc... I'd like to create such a line using Photoshop and have it look like this...

Click image for full resolution

How would I do this in Photoshop? Are there tutorials dedicated to this?


texts: My text turns bold when editing it in Photoshop

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When I edit text in Photoshop it seems to add an extra bit of weight around the characters - it goes back to normal when I'm not directly editing text.

What's going on here?

Click for full resolution


texts: Why does illustrator invert my images when i export as CMYK?

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I have this problem on Ai-cc, whenever I export-export as.. eventhough my document is in CMYK and on the final step I export as CMYK my image's result is that the colours are inverted. I have to export as RGB so i can get a normal looking image. I dont know why this happens, as on my other pc in Ai CS6 I dont have this problem. I dont know if its a color profile the problem or smth, Im not an expert on Ai, I just do the designs :p I haven't change any settings also.
When I open the image in Ps though, it looks normal!

Maybe its a windows photo-viewer problem?!

Can anyone pleaseee help?


texts: How can I make a raster layer show in a custom pixel pattern (bricks), where each pixel (brick) is one colour? (see picture)

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In this picture, you can see that each brick has chosen a colour based on the most prominent colour value of the picture. I'm interested in painting a picture on a brick wall, but having the bricks only be one colour each.
I think the desired effect would be better if the bricks chose not the most prominent colour of the picture, but the average colour.


texts: Software I can replicate this notebook with

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I am looking for a way to practise and replicate this notebook. I am looking forward for a transparent png, but transparency is not that important.

Any software or tutorial relevant to this will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!


texts: How to improve performance with multiple duplicated objects?

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I am creating an image in Illustrator that has a cornfield in the background. To make it, I created a cob of corn and some leaves and then rearranged these items and duplicated them over and over again. It has slowed my computer down to the point where it's near impossible to continue to work on the drawing.

Is there a way to "flatten" the corn field components into one image? I know there's a way to flatten layers into one, but obviously I don't want to do that to the entire drawing.

I've tried Googling, but all I see is stuff about flattening the entire drawing.


texts: When converting RGB to CMYK colour changes in print output

texts: I am designing a poster in pink colour in RGB mode. The printing person ask me a CMYK file. I changed the mode to CMYK and send it to them, but when output comes the colour totally changes, it turns into purple from pink. What can I do?


texts: Adobe InDesign black text being detected by printer as colour when exported to .pdf file

texts: I print a small bulletin with 12 pages, the first is in colour, the rest is b&W text. When I export to .pdf the .pdf file is interpreted by the printer as black created by all the colours, not the straight black. Is there a way of exporting so that the black text stays black and is not printed as a colour page?


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I am teaching remotely sketch, but one of my mentees says that he cant use the alignment tools, they always appear greyed out even when he already selected multiple shapes. Any idea what is causing this? Have anybody experience something like this before?
Here is a screenshot of how it looks on his end.


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Is it possible to see a map in adobe illustrator with zoom rendering? What I want to do is use google maps or OSM or any other map as a reference background for a map I am trying to create in illustrator.

I have found vector maps from openvectormaps.com, but these are still vector images-the only difference between a raster image and this is it doesn't get pixelated.. I want to render maps as they zoom, like we can do in GIS software.


texts: Scripted solution to penetrating meshes (Maya)

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I have thousands of human meshes that are wearing garment meshes (some with looser garments and others with tighter garments). The problem is that the garments are penetrating the human mesh in certain areas. I found this https://manual.reallusion.com/Character_Creator/ENU/1/08_Cloth/Conforming_Clothing.htm to be a helpful solution to the problem. Essentially, the garment vertices are popped out manually so that they do not penetrate the human mesh. Unfortunately, this manual process is impractical for my large data set.

Is there a way I could script this in Maya using Python or MEL? For instance, is it possible to do the following: if garment vertex in human mesh than pop out vertex?


texts: Is a 100x100 px image with 100 ppi equal to a 71x71 px with 50ppi?

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This should be obvious but the content out there on the web is confusing.

I'm trying to understand the role ppi plays when saving an image.

So if I have an image with rows of 1000 pixels, is it the same resolution if there's 100 ppi as when there's 300 ppi? Or is the 300 ppi higher resolution, since the pixels are more packed together?

Or on the other hand, are there more total pixels when there are 300 ppi or is that like asking if a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold?

I'd really appreciate some help clarifying.


texts: consolas font splits words at the end of a line

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I am using a code editor called RStudio. It can produce a .docx output of the code that looks fairly nice for publishing. However the .docx document uses the consolas font. In Word, it splits words at the end of a line.
So it may do something like this

For consistency, we should choose whe
ther to write W1 first or to write X first.

I can't figure out how to fix this in Word. Does anyone have a suggestion? I tried changing the font but that does not fix the problem.
 I checked for line-breaks and it does not seem to have them because when I put the insertion bar to the left of the t as suggested and press backspace the e disappears


texts: Illustrator file size PDF vs JPEG export

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I've come across a weird behavior regarding the output file size when exporting/saving files from Illustrator CC.

I have an image with several bitmaps (i.e. raster images/photographs) where I added some annotations, markings, paths, etc. The photograph occupies the whole artboard (which is set to my desired output size), vector features are therefor only on top of the photographs.

Now when I export this as JPEG the file turns out to be around 10 MB large. However, if I save the image as PDF and select JPEG compression, the image only turns out to be 3.5 MB large.

How can that be? Quality should be the same, detail is set to 300 dpi in both cases. I thought if the PDF embeds the JPEG, it should be more or less the same size, and adding PDF container overhead, the PDF should rather be bigger than the JPEG. How can one explain the ~60% smaller file size?


texts: The colour of my RGB document changed drasticly when converted to CMYK in Illustrator

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I have been supplied with some graphics for a large format print. The graphic is vibrant red on rich black overlayed with all kinds of gradients.

When I convert the artwork from RGB to CMYK the red colour in the design which interacts with transparency is drastically washed out while other reds remain vibrant.

Is there a way of optimising the colour transposition to retain certain colours? Am I missing out a stage of the colour profile change?


texts: Illustrator - Add drop shadow over a specific element

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Is there a way to add drop shadow to an element such that the shadow only appears over another element and not anything else?

It would also be okay if shadow appears on other elements but not on empty canvas. I've searched everywhere for it but didn't find anything relevant.


texts: How to create 3D wireframe graphic models on Illustrator

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I’ve some questions that I’ve been trying to solve for awhile and was hoping for some help.
I’ve trying to create 3D wireframe models similar to the attached examples on Illustrator.
Anyone has any method to create them with accuracy and precision?
I have tried the 3D function in illustrator but it does not allow me to control the number of rings or space between each ring.
I would like to be able to control the number and degree of repeat in the model.
Any help would be appreciated!
If there is a better and easier software to use, recommendations are more than welcomed!
Thank you


texts: How would you edit a photo to get a darkened face (See examples)

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How would you edit an photo to get a darkened face?
It's hard to explain, but how would you get this edit in photoshop?
Photo 1
Photo 2

Well here's the image i'm editing:


texts: Figma: Which other files use a component?

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In Figma, I'm cleaning up my files, and I'm interested in deleting a deprecated library. How can I find out which other files use a component or a library?
For a given file, I know that I can view which libraries it's using in the Assets panel. I'm asking about the opposite direction. Is there a way to do it from within the library, or do I have to open up every one of my team's files to check if its using that library?


texts: Math fonts available for Mac CS4 systems?

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Any leads on the names of serif and sanserif fonts that have comprehensive character sets necessary for advanced math equations and math expressions?

The lead received has been very helpful in clarifying what I need to typeset math, although it looks like I may need to learn how to use a very complicated, specialized font that is much more expensive than the average font family, and would also require knowing a lot more about math than I do. The booklet I am producing is not solid advanced math. It is a description of conference presentations for distribution to teachers and mathematicians, mostly editorial manuscript with equations and expressions lightly scattered throughout, and with occasional heavily mathematical passages.
     For now, I will follow-up on the the suggestions, Lucida, Stix, Euler, Minion math, Cambria and Latin Modern, and create more complex expressions in Photoshop of Illustrator, then embed them into the text. Any other ideas that might streamline the process?


texts: shapes disappearing when repeat tile is made

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repeat tile issue
I've attached a video of an issue I am having with vector/path/shapes disappearing when I make a repeat tile. Its confusing I feel to explain so the video would help to clarify my process.

The above image is the repeat tile I was working on. There are three tables in total within the repeat tile - its a hexagon shape. There is one table aligned to the top centre of the tile. To save this tile I 'created new pattern' and named it.

This is what the tile looks like as a pattern. I have used the appearance panel to give it a pink fill background. Note the table that was top centre of the tile now has the fries and cup shape/vector missing. It was visible when I saved the tile but for some reason it disappears once the pattern is made. I am perplexed.


texts: Illustrator - warp according shape without resizing font size

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I have a label to do and it's curved. How can I put text/images on it in a way to follow the blue shape?

Thanks


texts: Can I "donate" source files to non-profit for tax deduction?

texts: I created a template for an 8-page monthly print publication and created the publication for print each month for 7 happy years. The client hired a new PR person who suddenly let me go and demanded my source files. I'm wondering if I can make it a tax-deductible donation to them since they are a non-profit and what amount I could claim for this on my taxes? I estimate that I spent about 10 hours creating the template and averaged 6-10 hours per month putting together the publication.


texts: How can I determine how much bleed to use?

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I'm starting to do designs meant for printing, but I'm fairly new to this medium so I don't really understand how bleed works and how much bleed should I specify for:

Business cards
Large format prints (42 inches and bigger)
Magazines

Should I extend the design into the bleed areas?


texts: Inkscape custom pattern - scaling and adjusting issue (or bug)?

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So I created this custom pattern #2548 like shown below, and applied the pattern to a plain circle.

Instantly when applying the pattern to the circle, it is applied like five times bigger than it was created. Why is that, and how can I apply a custom pattern in its original size as it has been created to shapes?
Also, when I create a pattern this way and then try to adjust its size or angle with the Node Tool, why is it that the adjusting nodes appear like half a meter off the page?

Is this a bug?
Explanations or help much appreciated.
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Inkscape version is 1.1-dev (78e9eb4, 2020-12-04)
Here's the Inkscape file
https://ufile.io/vacf0gnu


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I am using illustrator cs6.
I am making a transit map for bus stops. I want to make sure that all the stop names are at the same distance from the stop symbol across the map, or at least on one route.
I can align all the stop names vertically or horizontally, but how to do it when the route is diagonal?

I have attached an img of what I am trying to do:

I want to align all the stop names to the stops so that each stop name is the same distance from its respective stop

thanks!


texts: What causes pixelation, blurred graphics on a web banner?

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in the attached image, you can see pixlelation/distortion mainly on the red and blue text and red boxes. What causes this and how can I fix it?

Thanks


texts: Get difference between two images as transparent image in GIMP

texts:
I have two images A and B which are similar in many regions.

I want to create an image C so that

B = C on top of A

where C should be as transparent as possible. on top of is the normal layer superposition.

So C is some kind of difference between A and B. If A and B are identical, then C is totally transparent. If A and B are very different, then their C would be nearly identical to B.


texts: Is there a tool that fills an area by its surrounding borders?

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By example:

Is there a tool or a way to fill the white X shape so that the colors and patterns around it will blend into it as automatically as possible?

I.e., I want to remove the X as close to the picture as possible.

I'm working with GIMP, but I welcome answers in any software.

I know of the clone tool, but it's tedius. A pattern isn't good, since it needs to be adjusted by the colors and shades of the nearby pixels.


texts: What is duochrome/duotone called when it had more than 2 colors?

texts: I know that there is monochromatic and duochromatic, but what is it called when you have more than two colors in a picture? Like if you had a picture made of only 4 colors?


texts: "placed" Photoshop images in Illustrator - blurry when saved as .pdf?

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I've edited some images in Photoshop to be used in a .pdf I'm creating in Illustrator.
In PS, the images looked great and were saved with the following settings: .jpg/CMYK/Image Options: 10/Maximum. I "placed" them into the Illustrator file, everything still looked great, but when I exported the whole file as .pdf, the images came out slightly blurry.
I've used standard, High Quality Print, and Press Quality settings- didn't notice much of a difference between them.

Any ideas on how to have crisp, clean images in the .pdf?


texts: How do I combine separate shapes for contiguous gradient fill in illustrator

texts: I wanted the rainbow gradient to extend to the "'s".. and not filled as separate shape. I've tried everyone of the pathfinder options and refilled.. but the same results (or just plain did not work)


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Last year I used a 1% Gaussian Blur for a photo project.
Today I'd like to recreate the same blur effect in a non-destructive way, with the Smart Blur function.

However I'm struggling to find the appropriate Radius, Threshold and Mode settings to approach the 1% Gaussian Blur.

Does anyone know how to convert Gaussian Blur settings to Smart Blur?
Or which Threshold and Mode the smart one uses?


texts: What program makes clean plain SVG files from Inkscape?

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I have SVG images with Inkscape attributes that fail epubcheck and Google validation.

When I try to save them as plain SVG, the invalid "inkscape:XXX:" elements remain.

What program on what platform can load in the Inkscape SVG and save them as clean plain SVG?

Thanks!


texts: Optimizing a background image for an A0-sized poster

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I am working on a poster that will be printed on an A0-sized canvas cloth. The background image of the poster is this public domain Indy farmland.

On top of the background, I put several panes with white background and black text.

I heard that when printing on a canvas, the background image might interfere with the texture of the canvas and look unclear. Is there a way to manipulate the image so that it looks good as a large background image?

EDIT: To see what I mean by "looks good", look at the image in a very large zoom-in. You can see stains of a reddish color inside the squares. This is not visible in the original image, but it will be visible when printing on an AO-size poster. Is there a way to clean the image of these stains?


texts: Photoshop: how to create this glitché effect?

texts: This effect is from Glitché iOS app. I tried various methods from dissolve (move RGB layers, copying many layers of one pic), distortion filters and still don't get something close to these pictures.


texts: AIGA and others have a slew of contracts that can be used by graphic designers with their clients. But where can I find a contract that designers can use when they want to outsource projects to other designers?


texts: What are the function of EM and EN spaces?

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I know the EM is bound to the current font size, I know EN means the half of an EM in measure, the first is called a mutton, the second a nut, awesome.
I know a EM and EN spaces are  the equivalent in space of an EM and EN measure. So far, so good.

That said I am wondering what are the specific functions of EM and EN spaces?


texts: I would like to create nine-patch images for mobile and web. How can I do this in Gimp? Is there any plugin for creating nine-patch images in Gimp ?


texts: How to select the difference of two layers in Photoshop?

texts: In the image below, there are two circles drawn in two layers. The second circle overlaps some part of the first circle. Now how can I select the only the area of first circle so that it keeps the overlapping area of second circle?


texts: How do I extend an image by adding blur to sides?

texts: I need to make an image 1080 x 1920. But when I do, the image looks very distorted. Is there a way I can extend an image by adding this blur to the sides of it? Also, does anyone know what this is called? I use Gimp as my primary editor. Any feedback would be appreciated


texts: How would you rate this logo-concept for a fiber optic Internet company and how can I improve it?

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Above is the concept behind the logo. And below is the description of what company does.

Plus in the description I am keeping the icon left align to enforce movement towards the right a bit more.

How can I improve it or is it OK to go with?
This is a large scale company, so do point out anything that can create a problem in future.


texts: illustrator shortcut - reset zoom to fit artboard

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I Sometimes over zoom.

When using CTRL + space + mouse-drag it gives me a zoom box but sometimes i pick a small box and zooms in too much.

Is there any shortcut to reset current artboard to fit my screen?

My workaround to zoom out is to do (multiple times) - CTRL + ALT + space + click


texts: Where can I order a 36 foot by 18 foot canvas print?

texts: I have an illustrator vector artwork which I would like printed onto a 36x18 foot canvas.  None of the online canvas websites support anything near this size.  What are my options?


texts: Is there any negative adverse effect to optimizing images for retina screens, if the images aren't exactly double size?

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For example: Say I have an image that is going to be displayed at 1000px wide.

I want to optimize my site for retina displays, but the largest resolution image I have to put here is only 1900pixel wide.

Is there any unwanted visual effect to scaling down the image by unusual percentages? eg. A 1900pixel wide image being displayed at 1000px wide on a retina device, instead of a 2000pixel wide image.


texts: How can I design a simple logo without any prior skill in graphic design?

texts: I want to create a simple logo, but I have no skills or experience in graphic design. Although I'm familiar with GIMP, I'm not sure how to get started. A text-logo would suffice, but it should be individual and not too ugly. Any advice?


texts: InDesign/Powerpoint to JPEG for 50" widescreen monitor viewing

texts: I'm trying to export a file (either InDesign or PowerPoint) that can be exported to a JPEG to be viewed on a 50" widescreen monitor off of a thumb drive.  There is no computer attached, it is a smart TV.  I have changed the export resolution in powerpoint and the final image still gets extremely degraded and pixelated.  And I have created the largest format in InDesign and exported but coming back with the same results.  Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!


texts: Making multiple / nested clipping masks in Adobe Illustrator

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I'm trying to turn this:

into this:

Put into words, I want the map to be the clipping mask of the lines. And then, I want the circle to be the clipping mask of that other clipping mask. I want to mask a mask. Note the blue outline map is a map duplicate in another layer, since clipping masks cannot clip something and at the same time have a stroke applied.

Illustrator doesn't allow multiple clipping masks as far as I know. So what I'm doing right now is:

Ungroup every shape in the map, then select them all and turn them into a compound shape.
Paste the lines on top of the map, select both, right click -> make clipping mask.
Export both a "with lines" and a "without lines" versions, mask in Photoshop.

Is there any way to do this directly in Adobe Illustrator?