texts: Tools for Brainstorming/Mind-Mapping Ideas

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I'm looking for a list of mind-map/brainstorming software that are easy to use, intuitive and practically applicable across a wide range of projects.

Thus far I have been using IHMC CmapTools software, which is pretty good in most cases but not quite right for some. I'm looking for alternative programs similar to this, that may be better suited to other projects.

Please suggest some brainstorming and mind-mapping software that you have found useful, and if you wish to, give a brief description of what makes it useful.

Preferably open-source and Windows compatible, though this list is for everyone so feel free to suggest software for other operating systems, and include paid software if it's suitable.


texts: How can I separate colors by layer in Illustrator?

texts: I did a three-color Live Trace, and output the colors to swatches. Now I'd like to assign each of these three (spot) colors to their own layer. I'm sure this is super easy, and I'm just over-looking something, but I could find no obvious command, nor could I drag the swatches to the layers palette. Some googling brought me to this site, although not to an answer. How do I do this? Thanks!


texts: How can I prevent layer effects from overwriting when merging layers?

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Often when I apply some effects to layers, and I merge them, the ones with effects have their blending mode messed up. They act as if all of their layer blending mode became normal and then merged. But I think sometimes it doesn't happen.

What can I do to prevent this?


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We are currently developing a website which uses the Māori language (from New Zealand): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language
For correct pronunciation the written form of Māori uses macrons - horizontal lines over vowels to signify a long vowel.
Our issue is that most web fonts seem to revert macron characters to some sort of default, which looks terrible. Here's how the (assumed) defaulting behaviour appears in a Māori saying:

I'm hoping there's a list somewhere of web fonts that correctly support Māori macrons, but I have been unable to find it via Google.
Does a list exist, or is there an easy way of working out what web fonts will work with Māori macrons?


texts: A problem with unwanted edges cropping in Inkscape

texts: I am designing a logo for fun and while working with this semicircle I have noticed a strange effect. As soon as I move the semicircle out of the rectangular frame, its edges get cropped. When I delete the rectangle, the same effect occurs. Does anyone know how to fix this? (The rectangle around the semicircle is not the page border. It is just a rectangle with no infill I created to make the exporting easier)


texts: How would you create this "dissolved overlay" effect so that the text is one with image and vice versa?

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I tried googling this one out, but no luck.
I can't wrap my head around this effect. It must be combination of liquify, noise, dissolve mixing, texture mapping maybe? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.


texts: Photoshop and browser: how to get the colors right?

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Ok, I'm designing for the web and I had different colors in Photoshop (Windows) and Chrome, so I started searching and found contradicting tips and I have no idea of what should I do now.

Windows

What should I set my monitor (Dell 2209WA) ICC profile to? sRGB IEC61966-2.1? Dell 2209WA? sRGB virtual device model profile?

Photoshop

What should I set my RGB working space to? (Edit->Color Settings) sRGB IEC61966-2.1? Monitor RGB?
Should I use Proof Colors? in which setting? sRGB or Monitor RGB?
Should I check "Embed Color Profile"? and what about Convert to sRGB? which setting in "Preview"? Monitor color or Internet Standard RGB?

Right now I have sRGB in my color profile, both in Windows and Photoshop, and the checkboxes disabled when saving for the web. The colors are right when I export, but I see them wrong in Photoshop, unless I set the Proof Colors to Monitor RGB every time I open a document, which is quite annoying to be honest.


texts: How would I go about vectorizing this image?

texts: I'm working on vectorizing (in Illustrator CS6) the atrocity below. I've finished almost everything except for the teeth. What is the best way to vectorize the mouth and teeth? Should each grey tooth be its own shape, or is there a better way to draw all the black outlines?


texts: Is there a Windows PC equivalent to the OS X DigitalColor Meter?

texts: Is there a Windows PC equivalent to the color picker app found on Mac OS X called DigitalColor Meter?


texts: Monitor calibrated and new profile generated but now Adobe InDesign colours look bad

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I just calibrated both my monitors using DisplayCal & Spyder5 - I am very happy with colours of the monitors. However, when I load Adobe InDesign CC my reds look awful. (Left is my choosing red - Right is the same red when in the document)

How can fix this? I have been searching all over - I tried changing profiles and even that didn't work.

Without a fix, all my previous InDesign Documents now look dull.

I just tried (R:255 G:0 B:0) in Adobe Photoshop and it looks a normal red, unlike the red in InDesign.

Thanks


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I've been searching for a way to get the average color of a raster image, to use in a vector grid in front of it to create a mosaic effect - the "Object > Create Object Mosaic..." menu option does not provide enough flexibility to get the effect I want.

Basically, I'd like to do this: http://vectorboom.com/load/tutorials/effects/polygonal_vector_mosaic/3-1-0-305

It seems like Scriptographer would have been PERFECT for what I'm trying to do, but it is only supported up to CS5, and I'm on CC. I've looked into Paper.js (the sort of...evolution of Scriptographer), but cannot figure out how to implement it into Illustrator.

Does anyone know how to use Paper.js with Illustrator? And, more specifically, has anyone had any success with Paper.js in creating an effect similar to the one I posted above?


texts: What is a good technique for binding a saddle stitch booklet with a hard-ish cover?

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I'm working on a small saddle stitched booklet. The concept involves a relatively hard-ish, see-through cover. The first time around, I simply folded a sheet of polypropylene and sewed everything together. This way the finished product doesn't stay completely closed/flat.

Is there a way I could execute this that would result in a more elegant product; one that stays closed? I'm thinking something where I sew the pages together, then make and/or attach the harder cover somehow differently. How might I accomplish my goal?


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Inside GIMP, Colors -> Levels
Click on the "Pick gray point" eyedropper (the middle eyedropper) and then click on a pixel in the image.
Then go change to the Red/Green/Blue channels and you'll see that the gamma (middle triangle) is set to a float for each RGB channel.

What's the math behind this? Like if I know the RGB values of a pixel how do I calculate to get these 3 gamma numbers myself.

I want to write a script-fu that sets levels based on black/white/gray points.
black and white points are straight forward, but this gray point deals with gamma and that's what's stopping me.

Thanks in advance!


texts: How do I set the opacity of a selection?

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I have a weird issue. I made a selection using various methods. However, no matter what I do, that selection has some kind of opacity. Even if I right click -> fill and select black, it simply will not fill it out with #000000 and 100% opacity.

Here's what I have tried:

Take the selection on top of a 100% black background, then Ctrl+C and paste it somewhere
Paste ^ into a new layer, set the color overlay to #000000 and 100% opacity
Right click -> Fill 100% black

Here's what it looks like:

As you can see, it's clearly not 100% black. More like 75% black.

How can I fix this? It's really annoying.


texts: Replacing non consecutive pages from one (InDesign exported) pdf file to another

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From single document in InDesign I export 2 pdf files.

First pdf file contains all pages as grayscale, second pdf document contains only colour pages. Color pages pdf document carries information about page numbers.

How can I automatically replace relevant grayscale pages in first PDF document with respective colour pages from second PDF document?

Example:

1st exported PDF document has 100 grayscale pages.
2nd PDF document has color pages i.e.: 5,8,52,68,90.

I want to put these color pages from second PDF document into the first PDF document at once, by replacing the respective grayscale pages in it.


texts: join tool does not extend the paths and join them where they intersect

texts: I think my problem has a very simple solution but I couldn't find it. My join tool can trim excess parts of a path but it does not extend the paths and join them where they intersect. What am I missing?


texts: Isometric color shading rule for pixel art

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Lets say I have a cube in an isometric pixel art with the 'normal' color #ff0000 (red) and I want to shade remaining sides, is there a rule for selecting the top (brighter red) color and the darker color?

I guess I want to know if there is a formula for calculating the color values, and also what side is most used to be darker, left or right?


texts: Wacom Tablet With Monitor 16:9 vs 16:10 aspect ratio

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I understand that the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium has an active area with a ratio of 16:10.  Depending on settings, this can scale across an entire monitor of a different ratio.

Is there a significant difference between using the tablet with a 16:9 monitor vs a 16:10?  Will the shape of my drawings be smushed or stretched if the aspect ratio of the monitor is not the same as the tablet's?

I tried a friend's Wacom Intuos Pro Medium and had a very hard time accurately placing my hand to aim at a particular place on the screen.  Is that something that goes away with time, or is it because of the aspect ratio, or something else?


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Has anyone got some fool-proof settings for exporting SVG files from illustrator for WPF environment dev buttons?

Specifically, I'm being told by the developers the icons with a gradient  are creating a URL reference within the doc, the syntax appears correct but it won't read the URL gradient reference or ignores it.


texts: Inkscape/Fusion360: Convert paths with thickness into outlines

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I have an svg file which is a template for a piece of armor. It is made up of centerlines with a certain thickness and is intended to be printed and used as a guide to manually cut or engrave the black areas on foam.

I am trying to use this template with a 3d printer, but when importing the svg to either Blender or Fusion 360 all I get is the centerlines as edges and loose the thickness. To be able to engrave the 3d model I would need to have the outlines of the thickness of the lines.

Is there a way to convert the centerlines to outlines? I could trace it by hand but it is an intricate design and would take a long time.

Thanks!


texts: Why PDF file from InDesign shows different dimensions after export?

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The size shown in inches in PDF is significantly different from the InDesign settings in mm. I am worried there are some scaling settings that I missed. I didn't set anything specific though. Exported as PDF for print with bleeds.
Hovering at the bottom left in Acrobat" shows same size as "Properties->Description" and same as "Print Production->Preflight->Page Information" for PDF:

And here is InDesign Document Setup of the file before export:

asap


texts: Making a gradient out of a custom swatch

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I have a pattern made and saved as a swatch.  I would like to have this pattern fade from full opacity on the left to full transparency on the right.  However, I can't pull up my swatch in the gradient panel so how can
I create this effect? Thanks!


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I can't find Pantone Process Magenta C in illustrator's color books. I can find Process Yellow C, Process Blue C and Process Black C, but the magenta is missing. I have the color books updated.

Does anyone have an answer or direct me to one?

Edit:  Let me elaborate on what I'm trying to accomplish. I am doing a project that will be printed in flexography with pantones. As there will be photos to be printed, I will need to choose the spot colours that best match the CMYK colours, so the final result doesn't diverge much to an offset printing.


texts: I have a logo design that contains gradient which I want to be printed on a metallic silver paper. Should I add a white plate with white gradient behind the logo but I am afraid white area will show through the gradient. Will it be fine if I just use the logo with gradient without white plate? But according to my knowledge every colored area except black should have a white plate behind it when printing over metallic silver. So I have two concerns, If I don't use white plate behind logo it might not get printed properly or If I use white gradient plate behind it might show white area instead of metallic silver paper. If you say I can use my logo that contains gradient without white plate and it will be printed fine over metallic silver, my problem will be solved.


texts: How to reshape a flow from a Sankey Diagram svg?

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I'm producing a few sankey diagrams for a publication. I'm using R for stats and data visualization but finish it all off in Inkscape.
There is a particular case where I can't adjust the height / spacing programatically in R due to package limitations, and I want to do it manually in Inkspace as the file can be saved as svg.
I can select each flow separately and reshape it, but cannot figure out how to move a bit down the two red flows on the left hand side so they stay in the same place on the right hand side and retain their heights and don't overlap with other flows.
Is there a clever way to do this properly?
Link to my R question if that provides more clarity in terms of what I'm trying to achieve: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67012794/how-to-adjust-height-and-spacing-in-a-sankey-diagram-in-r-ggforce


texts: How can I combine and fill these lines In Sketch?

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I have a few orange lines that I have drawn in sketch. I would like to combine them into one shape and use something like a "paint bucket" tool to fill the whole object with the light sand color.

I saw this question (Sketch: Adding color fill between connected objects.) with a similar issue, but the solution of using Union + Flatten doesn't work for me. When I try to combine the lines with the Union tool it creates all these extra unwanted lines:

Does anyone know why it is adding all these additional lines and how I can simply combine the lines into one shape and fill it?


texts: How do I set a Photoshop image to just pure black and white, no grayscale?

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i'd been googling for answers for this, all guides point me to make it grayscale, but actually it is still not enough, it still allows non-black(gray gradient). What I want is

Suppose I ended up having this image: a perfectly round circle done via ellipse tool and stroke path

Then I want to make sure if a pixel is not white then make it black. So what I want should be like this:

I ended up learning the use of sharpen but it still not works, it just make the gray more black PLUS it adds more feather so even sharpen fails me to accomplish this.

Hope somebody can help and guide me how to do this. Thanks~


texts: How do you avoid license problems when using fonts in published works? (US Law)

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As I understand it, if I create a font and give you a copy, that doesn't give you the right to publish a billboard/flyer/book/etc using my font. There is an additional license required. Many fonts provide that license, but also many don't, including fonts included with popular software.

How do you ensure you aren't violating a font artist/foundry's rights when using their fonts?

EDIT: Answers relevant to US law are preferred. Information about other countries would not be unhelpful, though.


texts: Transparent/See Through Text in Photoshop CS5

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I would like take this and add an image such that:

it is only seen behind the white text as if the letters are transparent and the
black
background
also remains, so the image appears behind both, the white text and background and only visible through the text. What is the series of steps to accomplish this if I have the black as a background layer, the "EE"s as a text layer and an image as a separate layer. Or what is the alternative set up, please provide the steps, I am not an advanced user.
EDIT: I do have some experience with the selection tool, but I have no idea how to use it in this context.


texts: How to achieve this border button effect? (Photoshop)

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Im trying to replicate this border button effect (the gradients, fill color and shadows; forget about the icon) but I don't know where to start

Can you give me a way to replicate it straight away or some advices?

Sorry about the quality

Thanks in advance!


texts: Illustrator stroke preview for pencil while drawing like paintbrush

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When using the paintbrush tool you get to see a preview of the stroke while drawing. The pencil brush only shows the center line rather than the whole stroke that's being drawn, but I would like to see it while drawing the same way paint brush displays it.

Before you tell me to just use the paintbrush, I prefer a pencil mainly because it defaults to basic lines rather than the non-uniform calligraphy brushes. If I could use the paintbrush as basic stroke I would just do that but instead, I have to go in afterward with lines selected and change them to basic which is kind of a hassle when you want to work fast and across layers.


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I see a lot of graphic designer showing their work with really creative and professional mock-ups. Most of the websites I look have few good mock-up such as: http://graphicburger.com/

Do you know any website with really high quality, high resolution, creative mock-ups for showing my work?


texts: I am a client and my work is being delegated without informing me

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I am a client who posted on Linkedin a request if somebody would be interested in designing a thesis cover for me. I had a few responses and decided to go with a person who offered me the following (after some discussion).

A concept within 24 hours, unlimited revisions and payment at the end before receiving the final files. We agreed I would determine whether to accept this offer based on the concept. I'm not tied to any agreement so far.

Now I learned that that person listed my request and all the requirements that I gave on a freelance website. Where everybody can submit a proposal and the winner receives the listed reward. The reward (payment) for the winning concept would be 1/10th of what I would pay him.

I am not sure what to make of this. I "hired" him based on his portfolio but he delegates my work to others without telling me. And the fact he only offers 1/10th of what he would earn, though this is for a concept and not the final work I suppose. And there is no formal agreement, we agreed I would accept his offer based on the concept he would give me. So I can still say no and he would've lost the money he paid the freelancer.

What am I to make of this situation?

Edit: I don't mind work being delegated. But I do expect that person to have a network of professionals he/she works with. Asking random freelancers on a website to do the work is something I could have done myself.


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I've noticed than when I select more than one object, then click on one of the selected object a wide selection border is set on the clicked item.
eg:

What does it mean? What are the implications?


texts: Vertically center text on line with inline graphic in Scribus

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I would like to embed a picture inside a text frame in Scribus, I think Scribus calls them inline graphics.

Unfortunately, the picture exceeds the height of the line, so Scribus increases the spacing to the previous line. I want Scribus to increase the spacing only by half of the needed height, getting the remaining space from the next line, just like LaTeX does. In LaTeX, the text is in the center of the line, in Scribus the text is on the bottom.

A picture says more than a thousand words.

This is what I have:

This is what I want:

Any advice is greatly appreciated.


texts: Inkscape - Mapping the transform scale onto the path of SVG

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I have this big vector (SVG) graphic which is not to scale. I want to scale it to size. However, doing so in Inkscape applies transform-scale on the paths parent group. What I want is for the path values to be updated instead of the scale being applied to the whole group.

As an example, the element has values as such:

`M240,399.1c0,221.3,179.6,399.1,399.1,399.1s399.1-177.8,399.1-399.1S860.4,0,639.1,0  S240,179.6,240,399.1`

However, if this same path was 'to scale', it would probably be something similar to below:

M2.321,6.432 c0,0.231,1.021....etc

So, how can I scale the vector graphic in Inkscape so that the transformation is applied to the individual paths instead of the parent group.


texts: Images resize when exporting them to SVG from Illustrator

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lately I have been encountering a frustrating problem about keeping quality of images from Illustrator (v14.0.0) to Microsoft Word (2016). I created a mixture between PNG images, vectors and texts in illustrator. When I try to keep its quality I fail miserably: either something moves or the quality drops.

My first approach was to export the images to SVG and then insert them into word. When I do so the initial PNGs I cropped change in size (justa  little bit bigger, enough to mess everything up). This screenshot shows the original image from illustrator:

And this is the result of exporting it to SVG:

As you can see, the quality is almost the same, except for a small drop, but the images changed in size. Neither changing the artboard's size nor the text to outlines solved the problem.
The configuration while exporting to SVG is the following (I'm sorry for it not being in english):

In case it helps, when I changed the SVG profile to "SVG Basic 1.1" it did keep the images in place, but the quality dropped drastically. Searching for solutions I found that copy-pasting from illustrator to word works wonders and keeps the quality, but still some dashed lines suddenly turn into solid ones among other minor details. Is there a way to export to SVG without the images changing and keeping the native quality?


texts: Creating an Abstract Background in Photoshop

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I've been trying to create an abstract pink background similar to this one:

I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it. How are those wavy looking lines created?

Thanks.


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I'm wondering if it's possible to create some custom fields of metadata to be saved with final art in Illustrator.

My goal was to enclose data such as type of screen, def. of screen, angle used, color name, order of impression.

Is it possible?

Here's more or less what i had in mind...

Thanks in advance ! And thanks for the tips on the use of this tool as well.


texts: Can anyone copyright or trademark a punctuation or alphabetical symbol (grapheme) or only a font, typography or typeface which contains it?

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I have this doubt after read about the registered (trademarked or copyrighted, I don't know exactly) SarcMark infamous symbol for mark sarcasm in texts.

Anyone can register a symbol or the idea of the shape of a symbol (grapheme) or only can be registered a concrete typography of it (glyph in a concrete typeface)?

This symbol (grapheme) is registered as a symbol in a font (typeface), but could I create my own font which contains this same symbol (grapheme) in a different glyph form (although both forms were very similar)?

If I can, what are the real scope and aim of the registration of that symbol (glyph)? Ethical and Aesthetically, it is fair to register a symbol which is pretended to be used in communication and language, which is a fundamental part of the patrimony of the entire Mankind? What if Greeks, in order to pay his debts, decide to register their alphabet, language and word roots? I think it's absolutly ridiculous!


texts: Create equally spaced circles around a sphere object

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I'm attempting to create a similar graph to this one. Is there a specific way in illustrator to equally space the circles around a center circle?

What I've done is created the center circle, then a larger circle that overlaps it (with opacity 50% or so), then lined the outer circles around the edge of the large circle.  The issue is they aren't equally spaced apart, maybe another hour of playing with it they will be, but is there a better way to do this?


texts: Photoshop script to fit artboard on screen

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I am here because I did not find solution.
Problem:

I have 3 artboards.
I need a script (or action) to "fit artboard on screen" or zoom in specific artboard.
There is a option in top menu panel/View/Fit artboard on screen. It works well when I use it with mouse click.

But:

When I try to record the Action:

Click on use Insert Menu Item: Fit artboard on screen, press OK
Nothing is recorded in the action

I also tried to click the menu item at View > Fit artboard on screen, but there is still nothing added to action panel during recording.
The last thing I tried was to use the Scripting listener plugin but it didn't output working code for this action.
I can record View > Fit on screen as an Action, which fots all 3 artboards on screen and I need to focus/zoom in/fit on screen just one artboard.

This is code for action "Fit on screen". How could it be edited for "Fit artboard on screen"? Or is there another way to get my problem solved? Thank you all!
    var desc12 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
        var ref3 = new ActionReference();
        var idMn = charIDToTypeID( "Mn  " );
        var idMnIt = charIDToTypeID( "MnIt" );
        var idFtOn = charIDToTypeID( "FtOn" );
        ref3.putEnumerated( idMn, idMnIt, idFtOn );
    desc12.putReference( idnull, ref3 );
executeAction( idslct, desc12, DialogModes.NO );


texts: How to create a static/grainy animation effect?

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I don't know what to call this but this kind of grain/static (almost like an old TV) showed up when I created a low quality gif of an animation- see the sky and little particle bits emitting: https://dribbble.com/shots/5297810-Dystopian-game-preview-low-res

How would you create this in AfterEffects over a static image?


texts: How can I create woodcut illustration in Illustrator and/or Photoshop?

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Are these illustrations done manually by hand or in Illustrator?
Is there a easier way to reproduce these kind of illustrations?

More examples here.


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George here
I have a problem with illustrator ... I accidently draw something with the paintbrush istead of doing it with the blob brush. Now my problem is that i wanted it to be a shape like line but now it has a path and i don't know how to or if I can make it without a path without the need of drawing it again...
 Thank you for your time and I appreciate it if you respond.


texts: Selecting Object using Left Mouse Click copies Object in Imported PDF in Inkscape

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I am working in Inkscape with a graph that was created as a PDF, and I want to edit some of the lines.

The problem is that every time I click on an object, it creates a copy. I cannot do anything with the original object, including I cannot delete it.

This is driving me crazy.

How do I get Inkscape back so that when I select an object using a left mouse click, it just selects the object, so I can work with it as it appears on the screen.

Selecting all and copying to a new blank file does not solve the problem.

Thank you for your help. I have never had this problem before with Inkscape.

PDF Version of Graph
SVG Version of Graph (non-plain version)

I am trying to change the line style on the green dashed line, and the green markers.


texts: Opening Paint Shop Pro files in Photoshop

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My colleague has Paint Shop Pro X2, I have Photoshop.  He tried saving a PSD version of a multi-layer image in PSP but, when I open the file in Photoshop, there's only a single background layer - the result of all the layers merged together.

I've tried a couple of plug-ins for for Photoshop that allows .pspimage files to be opened, but they just didn't work.

Is there a way he can save a single file that I can open in Photoshop, but with all the layers preserved?


texts: Size/resolution error from Illustrator to InDesign

texts: I have a file in Illustrator that I'm trying to place in InDesign. The final size in InDesign needs to be 585 x 295 pixels. No matter what I do, it will not place it at that size, hi res, cmyk. The original Illustrator file is cmyk, and I exported it so that the dimensions are correct. But once placed in InDesign, while it says in the link details the file is correct, it looks MUCH smaller in the file. I've tried placing directly from Illustrator, changing resolution in Photoshop, but nothing works. Could someone please help me figure this out? Thank you!


texts: How to change shape of soft edges in MS PowerPoint?

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In Microsoft PowerPoint (2016), you can add a soft (fading) edge to pictures via the Picture Effects menu. This adds a circular perimeter around rectangular/square pictures with a fading edge.

There's a set of Soft Edge Options... to play around with to change the size of the soft edge. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to modify the "shape" of the soft edge around such a rectangular image.

I understand that the picture effect tool is not applying a circle per se and is simply reacting to the edges available. However, I'm wondering if there is some way to modify the soft edge approach so that I can acheive more of a rounded rectangle type of soft edge effect.

In other words, make the soft edges less crcular and instead apply a faded look to just the corners...

 (Just a quick MS paint job for reference)


texts: Shape in Illustrator so it can be editable in PowerPoint

texts: How to save a shape in Illustrator so it can be editable in PowerPoint 2016 (MAC OS). I should be able to recolour and it has to scalable on re-sizing.


texts: I need to snap and center two rotated rectangles. I see only  View-> Snap to Grid and View->Snap to Point. I suppose none of them are that useful for me. How can I snap the two rectangles together while centered relative to each other?


texts: How to change a 2D logo to an Angle in Illustrator or Photoshop

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How can I take the first logo and Slant it to an angle in Illustrator or Photoshop?

Please look at the image below:


texts: How can I ensure that my design works for colorblind people?

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How can I ensure that my designs work for colorblind people?
Whether for web or print...
My teachers always said that red and black don't mix well, but how can I know for sure?

Are there do's & dont's? Or tools that I can use?


texts: I’ve always seen that Japanese font used for caption, and I have no luck finding it

texts: It’s been months of searching, every site containing Japanese font don’t have it. It’s used in anime and anime movies, but today I saw it in a tv show.


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I work with multiple brands, creating eDMs, flyers and posters.
To be able to maintain Brand Integrity across all my media, I need to often refer to the CMYK or RGB charts given in each brand's color guidelines.

Instead of creating individual swatches to import once I start a project, I was thinking I could create vector squares of the color palette, and export it as a medium-quality PNG to import into Ai for me to use the color-dropper on elements that then require these brand colors.

What I haven't been able to find out online, is if I do this, will the colors change if I eye-drop from a PNG?

Bear in mind that this is all before printing/exporting into JPEG or PDF.


texts: Different CMYK output on different printers

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I'm currently doing some graphic design for a client. We are trying to get the same color that he had on his last flyers. The old printer gave us the CMYK color C 71.25,      M 12.54,      Y 0,      K 0

Unfortunately, Illustrator doesn't take two decimals after the dot, so it's really unclear what color it's going to be.

We got it printed with a different printing company, but the colors are just not the same. So is there a chance that the same colors look different when printed by different printer companies?


texts: Save right panels / tab groups settings to a file

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Every now and then, I probably do a wrong action or wrong keyboard shortcut and I lose the organization of the Photoshop right panel, that I spent some time setting up.

How can I save/export this "right panel layout" to a file so that I can restore it in a few seconds if:

I do a wrong action that messes with these panels
I reinstall Photoshop on another computer later and I want to reimport my right panel setup

?

I mean the organization of tab groups: Info/Brushes/Properties, Layers/History/Character, etc.


texts: Illustrator: How do I create a clipping mask with 2 paths?

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I'm trying to create a clipping mask to ensure a shape doesn't spill over outside of the containing shape. Here's the image I am working on:

I would like the L shape to remain inside the blue box. I will later add a little animation which requires the L shape to be larger.

Here is how I am attempting to do this:

Select both of the paths
Object > Clipping Mask > Make

But this doesn't produce the desired results. Instead the blue background shape disappears.

Any advice on how to do this?


texts: bad resolution of illustrator file in after effect

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I've created an illustrator file then import it in after effect, but when import it i got bad resolution
How can get good resolution :(
Thanks


texts: How to create the faded look that is achieved on this poster in Illustrator

texts: How can I achieve the faded transparency look that appears throughout this poster?


texts: What is the name of this type of shadow?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Photoshop curved Shadow

I've seen these a lot recently and I want to learn how to create them in Photoshop!
Here's the image I'm talking about:


texts: When/why is an "o" superscripted and underlined?

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When can you use an underlined superscript "o"? I know that it is used for numero

№

Can it be used for company?

C°


texts: Can I legally use fonts for my personal business if I'm using an adobe subscription my job has provided for me?

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I do graphic work at my job, and they supply me with a Creative Cloud membership. If I start my own business, can I legally use fonts provided by adobe even though my job is the one providing me the membership?

In other words, do I legally have the right to use the fonts commercially if my personal business is not connected with the company I work for?


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Apologies if this has been answered before, but after searching I still cannot find a solution.

What could be causing the following issue?

Notice how the fills are not staying true toe the outline.  I have looked into similar issues like "align to pixel grid" and others but none has fixed the problem.  The issue is magnified especially when you scale them down to very small sizes.


texts: How to do material design effects in GIMP

texts: I have been trying like crazy to get the material design shadowing right. Below is the image I created using GIMP. I have the drop shadow, but I think it kind-of needs to go all around the circles and darker at the bottom, right?


texts: Speed up making zoom areas on screenshots in GIMP

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I am creating in Gimp effect that is shown on below picture:

The way that I am doing it is:

Make circle selection
Copy paste what is below on new layer
Grow selection
Add layer and fill it with white
shrink selection and delete
Drop shadow
Scale bottom, original layer to be a little smaller.

It is not very complicated but takes a while.
Do you know any tool (may be paid but please no photoshop expensive) or method that can speed up this process?

Or maybe there is a way in Gimp that can easily automate this task?

Thanks


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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select?

Can anyone recommend a good tool / website for finding color matches for a certain color I specify?

Until now I've been using the Photoshop's opacity / overlay blend mode to get more color variatians, but I don't think this is the way to do it :D

I think http://www.colorblender.com/ is a good example of what I'm looking for, but I want something better


texts: How do students practice using fonts when they can't afford them?

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So far all the research I've gathered points me to:

1) get pirated ones depending on who you know

2) free fonts-enough said

3) system fonts that you will be scrutinised for being amateurish?

How is a student expected to progress in the art of choosing and combining typefaces when we can't realistically afford type families or don't know anyone with pirates fonts to give away?

Will we be judged for using system fonts because we don't have access to professional ones - down to who you know and how much money you have?


texts: How to create a global style? (like drop shadow)

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I have created multiple objects, while testing I applied a drop shadow style on one object and its looking very good. Now I want to apply the same style to all other objects (around 20). Is there any way like global color to create a style once and apply to other objects with single click automatically?

Or I have to apply that drop shadow effect on each object one by one manually?


texts: Is there a way in Adobe Creative Suite to "share palettes/swatches" across programs?

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I use a mixture of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to produce the vast amount of printed media I design at my current position and I find myself faced with copy/pasting color values from one program to another almost all the time, I have tried to find a quicker way but have been unsuccessful. I use a program called Colorpic to copy and store my most used colors, but still, it's not the same as being able to select it from the swatches palette in Adobe CS.

So the main meat of the question is:

Can I share my colors/swatches between InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator and if so, how?


texts: Is it frowned upon as a designer if you don't use "top" software?

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This question crosses my mind from time to time as I am a Windows user and have often thought about going down the cheaper route by using a Linux based OS such as Ubuntu and getting free software that can do the jobs I need just as well.

As a user of the Adobe Creative Suite, I've always wondered if other designers/clients look down on you as a designer and also look down on the quality of your work if you don't use, let's say Photoshop and used GIMP instead, or Inkscape instead of Illustrator?

I may just be naive about this whole question and there could be many well respected designers out there that choose to use the free alternatives instead of the "top" software and get the work done just as well.

So basically, is it possible to establish yourself as a respected designer if you choose to use the free alternatives but create the same final quality of product?


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I am looking for a font or image with woodblock style blocks that I can type in. Like children's blocks similar to the ones in this picture:

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Any ideas where I can find some?


texts: What is the difference between a path and a stroke?

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Is a path the set of points from a to b?  And is the stroke the "definition" (i.e. the color, shape, etc.) of the path?

And, how can you have a path with no stroke?  Is this only because it is a computer drawing program?  In the real world you can't have a path without a stroke can you?

If it matters, I am using Inkscape.


texts: Two different colors in an Illustrator stroke / line

texts: I have this shape and I want to keep the left part black (exactly from the middle) while having the right part grey. Is this possible? If I don't join the lines, I don't get the sharp end that I want. If I do, I can't have two different colours.


texts: Is there a way to save an Illustrator file to a Tagged PDF file.  I need to make the PDF 508 compliant and it would be faster if the conversion added the tags.


texts: In GIMP, how do I use an image as a color reference to colorize a black-and-white photo?

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Let's say I have created a layer on a black-and-white image with a layer mask to colorize some parts (for example skin). I am able to change this with Colorize and change to any color.

But how do I use another image of color of skin (as reference)?
Is there a way to select a portion of skin on the color image and apply it to my layer with a mask that I painted so that my masked layer looks just like the skin color of the color image (the reference image)?

I am trying to follow this tutorial, but instead of colorize I want to select a colored image (or portion of colored image) as a color reference. That way it's more realistic.

Or does there exist a GIMP plug-in that will allow me to change dark grey values to take on darker tones of a selected area of colored image and brighter grey values to take on tones brighter tones of a selected area of a colored image?

I wanted to try colorizing a black-and-white photo after seeing this post.


texts: Affinity Designer Question about Joining Nodes

texts: Beginner.  I need to join the nodes in a drawing in Affinity Designer.  Whenever I select the entire drawing and click join nodes, random lines appear all over the drawing.  Any idea how to solve?


texts: Changing image file size. same resolution, same format, no resampling

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I studied and think I got a good grasp on the relationship between image resolution, DPI\LPI\PPI, and the difference between re-sampling or not. The only thing I can't understand is what I read (including on the Adobe website) about how in PS (and in general), you don't have the option to choose the file-size. This will be determined based on the other settings you chose (all the above, plus output format and other settings).

So my question is about 3-rd party software, specifically the Microsoft Power Tool "picture resizer" and I'll clarify...

I took an original image. File size is 16MB. Here are the specs:

I used the power tool to convert it to the same dimensions:

The result SEEMS to be the same quality, both to the eye AND in "image size" settings in PS (see comparison screenshots bellow) but the new file-size is now 2.42MB! (Both are jpg).

This is not possible in PS to export the same dimensions, with the same DPI, to the same format and to get an %84.88 decrease in file-size reduction.

So yes, there is definitely some algorithm in play here but obviously, the reduction in file size must mean that some file information was deleted, which I assume would be pixel information (compression), so how is it that the quality seems to stay the same? Is this just an illusion? If both files were now printed in the same size (30x80 cm), would they print in the same quality?

Comparison screenshots in PS:


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I am trying to create a .png texture. In PS, the texture has two layers. One with Linear Burn and another with Soft Light. I want to merge them and save as .png to apply on different images later without using any blending mode.

But whatever I try, the final saved .png file has no transparency and looks different from the original PS file in general.

Is there any solution to create a mask in .png like this?


texts: how to edit shape edge overlap in illustrator (laser cutting spec in .ai)

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I have the following in a .ai file.
What I have (and how I did it):

create some blue lines (cutting path denoted by BLUE)
create polygon stroke, outline stroke (area engraving denoted by BLACK)
use shape builder tool, attempt to remove overlap
notice that there is still overlap

What I want:

simulated removal of overlap (by "moving to back")


texts: How was the following design made? It's very beautiful, and I'm trying to recreate it on my own. When I'm done, I'd like to have a "correct answer" to check my answer against.


texts: Can't enter 'Filters gallery' in Photoshop

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I'm kinda new to Photoshop and in a tutorial for Pin-up photography is was told to enter 'Filters gallery', but it is unavailable and I don't really know why.

I have a picture which I want to edit. Before that I made two layers by separating background from the rest of content and then I changed the layer with background to smart object and tried to access this Filter Gallery


texts: Photoshop: how to change the saturation retaining hue and brightness?

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I would like to to change the saturation of all the color of an image to a fixed amount retaining the original hue and brightness.

One could think that this is easily achieved by the sautration blending mode. In fact you can read on the web tutorials things like this:

  The Saturation blending mode applies the saturation of the blend color to the base image while retaining the hue and luminance of the base image.

But this is actually false as far as I can see. If I use a 100% saturation blend color the resulting color will not have 100% saturation and the resulting saturation will also depend on the brightness of the blending color.

So what is the "saturation" mode doing?
Is there a way to change the saturation of the color of an image to a given desired amount (retaining original hue and brightness)?


texts: What do you call the parallax-like effect when panning or zooming still photos, and how is it done?

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Many commercials and documentaries use a technique where a still photograph is panned or zoomed, and a parallax-like effect is applied.  When zooming, some figures scale differently from others and a 3D effect is simulated.

What is this effect called, and how is it done?

Edit: I'm looking for the extra effect that's added beyond panning/zooming a still photograph that seems to allow you to see what was behind some objects.  Or sometimes objects more in the foreground will become larger than before, covering up more of the objects behind them than before.


texts: Unable save psd after save pdf in Photoshop CC 2015

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I finish my design eg." design.psd" and save it as a psd file. After that I save to a pdf file, "design.pdf".

I modify the psd contents and again, use save as a psd, overwrite the previous "design.psd". It can successfully save to psd file but as I check the file, the psd file only has the flatterned pdf content, only one layer, even has no other layer, group, images..

How do I just save as a psd file simply...


texts: How do I write this math symbol in Sketch 3?

texts: How do I write any math symbol in Sketch 3? I want to write them in "text" if I can. If I can't, what else can I do besides of insert pictures?  Here are the pictures attached.


texts: Making two un-touching parts of an SVG the same layer

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I have an online application that handles SVG's. It allows the users to drag and drop them and it also has a colour changing system so the user can change the colour of specific elements of the svg. The system will change each part of the SVG in sequence. So lets say I have the cherry here for example.

Currently the stalk is regarded as one piece which is perfect but the application picks up the two cherries separately so the user will have to change each cherry colour individually. If they were touching this wouldn't be a problem as it would be all the one shape/layer. In essence I'm basically asking is it possible to "join" "layers" of an SVG without them touching so they are picked up as one shape?


texts: Can someone help me identify this Japanese font?

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I've searched on google and font sites. The closest I found was [ Soukou Mincho ], but it's not quite the same. Help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Traced back the page I screenshotted image from: https://realkana.com/hiragana/ (Bottom box, second font)

U̶P̶D̶A̶T̶E̶:̶ ̶A̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶w̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶J̶a̶p̶a̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶I̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶a̶n̶k̶s̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶.̶ ̶F̶o̶n̶t̶: もじくみ仮名
♦ WELP. At a closer inspection, they're different. [paste wrysmile.jpg here]


texts: How do you create this concentric Circle pattern?

texts: I came across this really cool concentric texture created on this image and wanted to recreate it. I have tried creating a brush preset to get this effect but that does not come out anywhere near as fine. Someone please help. How do I create this concentric circle pattern effect on the gradient?


texts: Program to create easy to edit document template

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I'm looking for a program that I can use to create a document template that looks great and information (text/ images) can easily be pasted into the document by people who have little to no design skills.
Someone suggested Acrobat but I'm not sure about it...

I am wondering if Word would be the best option. It will be tricky and fiddly but it allows me in create text boxes for the client to easily input their information.

If anyone has any suggestions for programs/ software or any tips that would be very much appreciated!


texts: InDesign: shift baseline by percentage amount

texts: I know I can enter horizontal and vertical scales as percentages, but the baseline can only be entered by points. Is there any way to go around this with a percentage value?


texts: Usage of Google’s Material Design Paper examples?

texts: I do not clearly understand what Paper (https://www.google.com/design/spec/layout/principles.html) in Google Material Design is. What is the difference between Paper and Card? Actually, I understand what Card is, and where and how to use it. But Paper has almost the same characteristics. I can create Paper's seams using Cards. What for is Paper introduced? Could you give same examples of Paper usage and when to use one over the other?


texts: Illustrator: color differences between AI and PDF (profile?)

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I have an .ai document, this is my working document. ! want to export it to PDF (to be portable but still vector), the problem is the color are all messed up and seem washed out (in spite the fact I included the color profile):

If I export it as PNG the colors are correct:

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How can I do to have a PDF with the colors I want?


texts: What feelings does my logo design invoke

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I am a software developer, setting up a new company called mascot to sell my services. I don't really have design skills, but needed to make me a logo, so came up with this luck waving cat to be my mascot logo. I am hoping it's friendly, fun and professional looking, but historically have been a bit off the mark on all counts, so wanted to check with the community what kind of reaction this logo invokes.

p.s. if this is not the right forum to ask this kind of question, can someone point me to the right place to do so?

update:

Thanks everyone for such awersome feedback - I tried to take it all on board, and had a go at a second iteration. No colours, more considered shape, more friendly, based on hand drawn sketch.

I am not sure how to get feedback from you guys on the iteration, is this question locked for comment now it is on hold? I would love to know what folk think about cat mark two, especially with regards to original criteria: fun, friendly, professional

update two:

Ok, how about a much more geometric approach to the original idea?


texts: export cmyk vector to rgb jpeg or cmyk tif for usage in Indesign

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We make vector patterns in Illustrator CMYK, which from there are used for prepress. But I need to export these patterns as a picture to be used in Indesign. Until now I exported these as tiffs CMYK, but now I am doubting what is the best way to go?
Export as jpegs in RGB, or CMYK? Or stick to the tiffs in cmyk?


texts: Simple way to create this 3-D pixel effect in GIMP?

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It's the sad, pixelated little icon that appears when Google Chrome doesn't shut down correctly.

Given a, say, off white on dark gray pixel image to use in a design, how would I get the edges of the pixels to have a shadow as in the frowny face above, in GIMP?


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When combining graphic elements in an .ai file, these elements being large bitmap images (TIFF, PSD, PNG,...), I regularly use rasterize to reduce these images separately in size (and thus reducing file size) and thus make working with them a lot easier and faster.

However, when I try to rasterize multiple objects at once, these objects are always grouped in one big rasterized object.  Is there a way they remain separate objects?


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I'm designing the UI for a financial application. I'd usually do high-fidelity mockups using Photoshop and send them to the developers. What I have noticed is that the text in the actual product looks different from my mockups, but they are in fact the same font. The left image is the hi-fi mockup, using Arial. The right image is the actual product, also in Arial. I tried all the different anti-aliasing options, but none gets me close to the image on the right.

Most websites/web apps I see don't have this problem. I wonder how they do it?


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In an application I'm writing, I need to take a glyph's path from an SVG font and scale it to a particular size, which is specified in millimetres. I take the 'd' path property from the SVG font, scale it by applying a scale factor to the coordinates of the path, and then use it as a regular path in the SVG I'm generating. (For my application I cannot use 'matrix', 'height', 'width' or any other built-in scaling methods; the path coordinates must reflect the exact final dimension and scale). The mechanics of applying a scale the path is not a problem; I just need to figure out the correct scaling factor to apply.

The SVG font provides 'unit-per-em' that is either 2048 or 1000. I know that 'em' is a relative unit of measurement and that 'mm' is an absolute unit, and I'm fairly certain that the conversion can be made. It'd be helpful if someone could explain the detail of such conversion, or indicate if what I'm trying to do doesn't make sense.

Some context: the SVG file I'm generating with my (Python) software is then converted into a coordinate file (Gerber) that is used to physically manufacture an object. All the elements in both files need to represent exact dimensions  without any other scaling or transforms.


texts: How can I remove all blurs from text in multiple PNGs at once?

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Look at the picture above, it has many shapes similar black and some of it got mixed with the white background. I want to fix this and make it simply black.

For your information, this is a zoomed-in of a just one page, the entire thing is 604 pages, and all the texts (or letters) of all the pages have same issue.

Is there any program that fixes all of them at once (i.e. make it the color pure with no added shape, or almost pure)?

Note that the text is made of multiple colors, meaning that some letters are in orange, other in purple, other in blue, etc.

I mainly use GIMP for photo editing, but if there's ANY other program that can do this, then I'm fine with switching.


texts: Photoshop CS6 white around transparent image

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When I save for web or save my PSD in general to make it a PNG, when I upload it to my computer desktop background or into movvie maker, it has a white background around it.

Screenshots:

Before Save: http://prntscr.com/6tfmuk

After Save/Convert to PNG: http://prntscr.com/6tfm8r

Any suggestions?


texts: Combining and Layering Transparent Shapes in Illustrator

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Sorry if my title is a big vague. I'm fairly new to Illustrator and and still trying to figure out how things work.

I have a few paths that I'm looking to layer, one on top of the other. From bottom to top I would have 1) a filled circle, 2) a transparent, outlined phoenix, 3) a filled city silhouette, 4) a transparent, stroked, city silhouette. But when I say transparent, I mean that it goes straight to a transparent background, not that it shows the objects below it.

Here is a picture of what I'm talking about:

So I want to make "What I want", but in Illustrator rather than Photoshop. I think two things that would allow me to do this are: 1) knowing how to combine two paths into one, and 2) knowing how to make a transparent fill that acts like a regular fill (it covers the layers below and can be used with clipping masks), just with "transparent background" as the fill value.

Or if there's another way to accomplish what I'm trying to do, I'd be happy to hear that too.


texts: How to crop part of the image between guide lines?

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I have few photoshop files with blue guide lines like on this picture below. I want to quickly save only one part of the picture that is between these guides, in the middle. What is best way to do this?

I usually need to use rectangular marquee tool and make selection by following on these lines, but it's hard to find edges and perfectly match them to the blue line. Is there better way to do this?


texts: How to get outlines for Arc object after using Envelope Distort in Illustrator?

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I need to arc a vector logo in illustrator so it matches a curve. But I need the outlines. I don't want a "mesh" as one object, because it goes to plotter to plot on vinyl.

I used Envelope Distort > Make with Warp > Arc. It does what I need but I get the "mesh" not the outlines.

How do I get outlines after using an Envelope Distort on something?


texts: Inkscape: order of drag-and-dropped images

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Win10, I'm selecting a bunch of images in Explorer.
I drag-N-drop them into inkscape. The images are imported one on top of the other.
I'm selecting all of them using a simple square selection (or ctrl+a).
Align and distribute> remove overlaps. The images are sorted in a row, but their order is random.

How do I sort them alphabetically (according to the source image file names)?
I tried to change the file timestamps to follow alphabetical order, but inkscape still sorted them randomly.


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I just recently found out how fun is drawing. For years I was just amazed by the artworks people did. Recently just because I couldn't find too much free vectors for my infographics and also didn't want to pay stock vector sites tons of money; I decided to learn illustrator and now aside from creating my own icons I can also draw nice pictures.

But there is a question that boggles my mind. In recent future I also want to invest sketching and going deeper to create artworks. When I check for Illustrator artworks or freehand drawing videos all of them are nearly cartoon based figures. But when I look at photoshop and sketchbook artwork they are magnificent.

Is this happening because illustrator is harder to draw that kind of artworks or what?

I am asking this because I want to invest my time according to answer of this question to which software I should go deep into.

I am talking about artworks like this (the ones I like but drawn in photoshop):

source: http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/imgs/new/digital-photoshop-ad-enel.jpg
http://pre03.deviantart.net/85a9/th/pre/f/2010/058/2/b/dragon_riders_by_moonworker1.jpg


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I'm reworking an old raster logo to the vector format. There is a part of the logo where the curve widens in one place and then comes back to normal width.

How can I make this happen in Inkscape? I've tried some path effects like spiro spline or BSpline but the outcome was a mess.


texts: How to portray "confidence" and "reliability" in a brochure

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I have to design a brochure for a client. I don't understand much of brand identity, but my client says his brochure should reflect the following:

Professional
It should not be the flavour of the month
Must inspire confidence
Must reflect the strength of the team
"Our corporate promise is: Reliable Energy". Therefore, it should inspire reliability.

My question is, while designing, what are the things that I need to keep in mind so that I adhere to what he have asked for?

I understand that the design should be simple, with standard colour and fonts. Apart from that, how can I make the brochure reflect the list above? How do you translate this in terms of design?


texts: Cropping multiple images in Photoshops to add logo

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I am working on a research project at the moment that requires me to use photoshop.

I have ten different images that are all screen grabs from google maps. I would like to crop all the images to remove any google elements such as logo, areial view in the corner.

I know how to use the crop tool but am just wondering how to make sure they are all same size - or cropped the same amount? as i would like to add some text to each image after cropping - these 'new' images will then be printed 6 X 4 size.

Any help would be great!


texts: Looking for lively sans-serif fonts with relatively short x-heights

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I’m looking for a sans-serif font that I can pair with Bembo Book.

I’ve tried quite a few so far, and it’s pretty clear that the sans-serif needs to have a cap height to x-height ratio similar to Bembo Book (otherwise it just looks ungainly by comparison), and a vaguely calligraphic influence too, or at least some contrast between thick and thin lines (otherwise it colours the page differently, and looks quite stark.)

I can’t find any sans-serif that satisfies both those requirements. Does any exist? It can be a paid font.


texts: Material visibility when rotating viewport

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I set the material for unity-chan (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/unity-chan-model-18705)

When I set the eye material and rotate the viewport, the eye material disappear. How to make it always visible?

I can change viewport 2.0 option > transparent algorithm to "depth peeling", it will fix material disappear in Maya, but when I export my maya project to FBX and use FBX in unity editor, this bug still exist.


texts: How to do line optical illusion art effects?

texts: I was wondering how I can do this type of optical illusion. Is it done manually or is there a quicker way to do it. Thanks ahead of time.


texts: Style identification – landscape graphics using single monochrome layers of the same tone

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I really enjoy these images, I know the second one is from a game, I'm just hoping someone can tell me what these types of art might be categorized as so I could get more into them. Thanks.

Sources of Images 1, 2


texts: Illustrator: Editing a custom graphic style

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I created an additive graphic style that includes a few effects, and applied this style to a few objects.

Now I'd like to make a change to this style and apply the change to all objects. For example, instead of an outer glow of 1px (which was in the original graphic style) I would like to change it to 5px and apply to all the styled objects.

Is it possible to edit a graphic style? If not, how would you perform this task?


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I have my result screen from some kind of quiz.

It has image with heart and text at the center. (I think this is the only place)

The question is how to place these pink action buttons. Firstly thought to place it in one line but then understand that better in UX way would place new tests at the top as action.

And now it looks like it has too much elements on the screen so I better place new tests at the bottom or not?


texts: I would like to get rid of the pink outline (path tracing) and white lines in the image below

texts: This image was a png which i filled in colour and edited its outline using Inkscape. However, once it's complete i could see that the outline pink in colour can be seen even after i filled with blue colour and there also some white lines that can be seen.


texts: What is the best way to increase a selected area over another area in a image using photoshop

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I am a beginner in Photoshop & trying to learn the following thing:
i want modify the below image

I want to increase following selected area over another area (yellow colored enclosed area) in a image using Photoshop:

in doing do i found following problems:

I can't select the custom area, so i enclosed it by yellow color
Can't correctly maintain the angle & other geometric balance

So whats best way to do this by maintaining correct angle & pixel perfect.
please suggest me Photoshop instructions. I want to learn it by myself.
Thank you very much


texts: Fix horizontal spacing between characters

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I have a SVG file. It was opened in Inkscape from a PDF file, if that matters. The SVG contains left aligned text which I need to make right aligned.
Easy enough, I use the text tool, click onto the text and make it right aligned. But then, this happens:

The characters of the word "Outlook" and "Meeting" overlap. It looks a bit like kerning is broken.
Each text is one text element only and it does not have additional spaces. But, I notice a diamond when being in text edit mode:

What can I do to fix that?
I have tried:

re-writing all text. This works, but I don't want to do that, since I could introduce typos or similar.

This is Inkscape 1.0.2-2 from 2021-01-15


texts: How to quantify my experience as a designer on my résumé?

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I am a graphic designer, and I worked in France in two companies for eight years, before I have the eight years experience I worked before as a freelance graphic designer for three years.

Now, my questions:

I just moved to United States and am confused about what I put on my résumé exactly. Do they count eight years and three years freelancing, which is eleven years as experience, or do they only count on-site experience working with companies?
Secondly, let's say they don't count freelancing period! which I have eight years of experience on site with companies. Do I call myselfa senior graphic designer or mid-level graphic designer on my résumé? Some people they told me I have seniority, but I don't want to apply on senior positions because am still not confident with my English, and I also have a French accent.


texts: Merge 2 random images from different directories

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I have 2 folders which contain different number of image files, I want photoshop to combine them randomly using batch.
The first folder is Backgrounds which holds all the backgrounds, and the second folder is Data which holds all the images, I want photoshop to run over all the images inside Data and paste them over a random background image from Backgrounds folder.
The Backgrounds folder holds only 20 images of background and the Data folder holds over 2000 images.
How can I do that?


texts: I'm trying to create a dotted line, but the path is showing up like it has additional anchor points where there are none. How do I fix this?


texts: How to fix light edges on resized PNGs from Illustrator?

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How do you prevent a transparent PNG-24 image from getting light edges when resized without having to force them out using the Webkit Optimize Contrast CSS rule?

Clarification: Resizing the image in Chrome results in lighter colored lines inside the letters and shapes near the edges. Those light edges are making the image jagged rather than sharp when sized down to 200px x 50px from its original 350px x 90px size.

Here is a better screenshot of the problem:

(Original image was made using Save for Web on Illustrator)


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I'm quite new to cinema 4D. I want to make a square with this texture on.

I've tried to make a pyramid and to use the cloner tool, but.. just can't make it work.

Anyone who can tell me how it's done? Or maybe can give me a nice tutorial?

Tried making a cloned pyramid and placed them (roate and moove) so it looks like i want it, but the cube isn't a part of that.. and dont even know if I placed them the right way..

Thx


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How do you choose between a small and a medium Wacom Intuos graphics tablet?

I'm a high school student who is extremely intrigued, curious, and enamoured with the idea of using a graphics tablet for art. My parents are more than willing to buy me the medium size if it assists me in my art journey. In fact, they're forcing me, well, guiding me towards choosing the medium over the small. I'm perfectly happy with the small size though. Actually, I'd be absolutely ecstatic if I received the small graphics tablet.

I'm leaning towards the small because of practicality, portability, and price, and, it seems like buying a smaller size with a smaller price is a smaller commitment. My parents want me to disregard the sizeable price difference between them though when deciding which one I really want or which one would be best suited for my needs.

The small Wacom Intuos Art graphics tablet (152x95 mm, 14 440 mm squared)
- Officeworks: $126
- JB Hi-Fi: $148

The medium Wacom Intuos Art graphics tablet (215.9x134 mm, 28 930.6 mm squared)
- Officeworks: $209
- JB Hi-Fi: $288


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I wrote the business name of my client's using a font for a design I created.
The client wants me to send him "that" - the name of his business in "that type of fancy/cool" font - as a logo to him. In other words he thinks it is a logo.

What should I say and how should I approach this situation, knowing that what he is requesting is not a logo? It's simply just a type of font... What he is  requesting would fall under me sending him the type of font name/file.. but in my personal opinion I don't think that should be done due to purchasing fee's restrictions and such.

I should state that the font is free to use for personal use only. The purchased version is for commercial use, which I did purchase.

I would appreciate any recommendations on how to address these types of issues when clients request such things. Thanks in advance.


texts: Googlefonts: Change font only for just one character throughout the website

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I don't know how this happened, but every instance of the ampersand is in one specific font and style on my website (something like Times Roman italic). My site is all about ampersands, so this is most appropriate. But I have no idea how all the ampersands got replaced with just one font and style. I'm using a couple Googlefonts for most of the text, but the ampersand is from one particular font no matter where it appears.

You'll see it at http://amperart.com

Months ago it appeared all of a sudden as a fancy, curly ampersand (like Garamond Italic) everywhere on the site, which was really cool so I just left it -- "if it ain't broke don't fix it" -- but now it's just a roman slanted ampersand. I would like to get the other one back, since the fanciness is appropriate. Of course, I'm also just curious how just one character can be changed to a particular font and style throughout a website. (The size adjusts to the surrounding type size.)

Really baffled on this one. Have searched everywhere else. You people are the greatest. (I'm I typographer from the days of pying - "spilling" for the kids who never heard the term - hand-set type all over the shop floor, but when it gets "pied" in a website I'm lost.)

Thanks & thanks again.


texts: How do I send a file I've created in InDesign to someone else, so they can open it up in InDesign and work with the file too?

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I'm kind of in a pickle and took on a project involving indesign/illustrator. It's been a long time since I was really familiar with InDesign so I feel a bit overwhelmed right now and as though I've overestimated my design abilities.

I need to design a label from scratch, that copies the original label, so that it will be editable and we can alter the info such as prices, etc.

It will likely require Illustrator to create the shapes, but ultimately I want a file in Indesign that I can send to my project manager so he can add in the information himself and alter as needed. The shapes seem to be quite simple aside from several icons I'll need to somehow create so do I need to use both programs or will just InDesign be sufficient?

What's the best way to do this? If he does have InDesign installed as well, and also in the case that he does not? Is creating an editable PDF adviseable?
How can I send the file I've created so that he too can open it in InDesign and edit it himself? I.E. in which format does the file need to be for him to edit it (if he has access to InDesign) and if he does not?

My question is probably simple to answer but I've been searching and searching online and finding really different answers so I just wanted someone to clarify and let me know what is best in this situation.

Thank you.


texts: Is there a way to 'fill' an incomplete sketch

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When using the brush tool, what's the best way to 'fill' and sketch style image in adobe illustrator?

A simple example would be a triangle that is sketched with the brush tool trying to create a more stylised look then just using a shape e.g so slightly jagged edges. In an instance where this sketch doesn't form a complete shape how would you go about filling in this path? I've thought of a couple of approaches but not sure if they're correct. I'm trying to create some sketches but the overall goal is they can't be fully transparent, even if they are just black and white but I also don't want a fully filled in background.

Use the background colour of the image to create a join that does fill the path.
Create a rough shape path using the pen tool under the sketch a filling this the desired colour.

what's the usual workflow for this?

The other issue is that this is being imported from Adobe Draw, so the path, is a set of different brush strokes to being with. Here's a contrived example of a stick man face. The idea being the face is a flesh color, the eye and different color and then the square box would represent the document where the background should be plain. I know in reality a stick figure could be drawn using shapes, but the real image is a trace of a sketch where the style has the incomplete lines.

thanks


texts: What is a good icon for expressing sarcasm?

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I created smiley for happy, sad and neutral event. Any suggestion for sarcasm?

Here is the image for above three expression:

Can someone suggest an icon for sarcasm?


texts: If a logo implies movement, should that movement be mirrored to match the movement of a vehicle it's placed on?

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I've designed a nice logo for a company's charity food-drive campaign that incorporates a tilt and some speed lines to imply forward (rightward) movement. I matched the tilt of the art to the italic font I used for the logo text.

The client wants a vehicle wrap incorporating this logo.

Is it more important to preserve the original form of the logo for consistency/memorability, or should I make a variant where the direction of travel is reversed, so the logo is moving forward in the same direction as the vehicle on both sides?

I would be reflecting the lean-angle of the text too, which hurts my soul a little, but doesn't look too warped.


texts: Is there any name for this type of illustration?

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I was wondering if there is a name to refer to these type of illustrations? I'm particularly referring to the rounded-corner lines being used extensively to construct other elements of the illustration.

Source

Source

Source


texts: What's the name for a "multi page scrolling webpage?"

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A lot of tech companies have a websites with the following UI features:

a homepage containing several discrete "slides" stacked vertically
you can scroll vertically through the slides
or, (in some cases) you can use the navigation bar at the top to jump to a specific slide

I'm interested in finding templates for this type of website. But, I don't know what to search for. Is there a name for web designs that have these features?

Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about:

https://keen.io

http://www.clarifai.com

https://www.metamind.io

http://tiffzhang.com/startup <--- anything from the startup website generator


texts: I would like to have a simple split like this in Scribus. Is there any way to do that? Note that the real shape I need to cut is more complicate than that.


texts: Illustrator losing most recent handle when I continue path after editing previous handles

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In Illustrator, when creating a path (such as for lettering), how do you go back and adjust handles of anchor points before the current on, and then continue from where you left off without losing the most recent handle?

He manages to do it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbtJM1Zuks


texts: How much should I charge for my Logo design work?

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I just designed a logo for a new company starting out in London. Four young people who recently graduated from university. Unfortunately I didnt set a price with them before i designed the logo. Very stupid of me...but it was my first freelance job.
I am asking for £200 for 5 hours of work. They now came back that they dont have the money and the max. they will pay is £100 or they wont use the Logo.

I recently graduated as welll...so I dont know a lot about freelance prices. Should I except this? Is that a fair price? I have no idea....


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I am trying to obtain this effect of layered structure on the series of spheres that I have drawn. But skewing and rotating the spheres aren't resulting in the desired effect. Any hint on how do I go about doing this?
Thank you

Skewing and rotation is resulting in distortion of the spheres
I tried your suggestion. Also tried to add a bit extra by using isometric grid. The result though doesn't exactly has the 3D feel.


texts: How do I slice drop shadows in photoshop when there is another layer underneath?

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I have a layout of a webpage and I would like to know how to save for web all the user selected slices. However, in some particular slices I would like to only slice from one or two layers, but keep the background transparent.

Is this even possible?

If not I would have to hide all my under layers in order to save those png... not really practical at all..

Thanks for your help


texts: What are examples of web apps with clean, text-based layouts?

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I'm in the process of redesigning a web app with a very simple layout, set mostly by text (similar to Google in both aesthetics and functionality). Do you know any examples of web apps with such attributes (i.e. Google.com)?

Please note: I'm looking for examples of text-based layouts in web apps, not "regular" websites.


texts: Can I copy an artboard with link in Illustrator?

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I am trying to create a card, and wish to duplicate it multiple times on a page, while keeping the copies in sync with the source artboard.  The idea is like copy with link in Word or Excel.

Is this possible in Illustrator?  Or, is there a workaround?

I looked at Symbol, but it seems to be useful only for simple objects, not the whole artboard.  However, my artboard is fairly simple, just a bunch of texts.

If this can be done somehow, I will then import variables to create a total of 6000 some cards.  But, this is a separate issue, just a consideration for solving the current issue.


texts: What software can i use to make hand drawn visuals for Word/Powerpoint?

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What software can I use for creating handwritten notes/visuals/graphs to put into Word or Powerpoint docs?  I don't want to use live trace in Illustrator because I don't think I need something so complex.

Are there any easy solutions? I have a Mac if that makes a difference.


texts: Any guide or rule for the importance of information in map-like mobile application design?

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A side question to this one. Is there any guide-set or set of rules to judge which information is more important than other when designing a map-like mobile application?

When using Google Maps in driving guidance mode, I:

see a totally useless (from my perspective) information -- street name -- nearly all the time,
don't see an absolutely crucial information -- ETA -- until the very end.

Here are some examples.

190 meters till possible turn and no ETA:

Less than 150 meters and still nothing:

Only forty meters for a decision and still no ETA:

Last "capture", ETA appears when you're already in the process of turning:

Either I am missing something totally obvious (and would really appreciate an explanation here) or the whole ETA functionality has a purely wrong design. From the decision-making perspective I don't need street name at all, but I do need ETA on all the alternatives.

In mobile Google Maps this is made exactly opposite -- unimportant, useless information (street name) very often covers most important one (ETA).

Is there any specific reasoning, guide or rule set:

in general -- to decide which information is more/less important and thus must be shown above/beyond some other information in mobile apps design,
in this particular example -- that justify current mobile Google Maps design.


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I typed out text in 14pt.  I then typed another letter in 131pt out.  I was hoping to have my 14pt text wrap around the 131pt character...but to no avail!  I clicked on both items (and my 131pt. letter was above the layer for the other text) and clicked on "Text Wrap > Make".  Nothing happens.
Am i not doing this correctly?  I even tried to follow a tutorial...it seems so obvious and simple...yet might this be a bug in CS6?!


texts: What digitizer stylus would most naturally replicate the range of touch between a mechanical pencil and a Uniball micro-point?

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I am looking to start digitizing my work by re-drafting it from sketch books. This question is less about specs and hardware and more about the feel of the media, both in terms of mechanical pencils/micro-point rollerballs (my two primary media which I will be replicating) and the computer hardware.

This is specifically about digitizers as opposed to tablets solutions.


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I want to get a darker tone to my app screens and I want to set a user instructions icons on the front. Like here:

I am not getting the same effect. I have tried like for two hours. I have changed the opacity and transparency. Could some expert guide me on how to get the same effect as the above image? The image that I have worked on is this.


texts: how do I import a vector path from Inkscape into Gimp?

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I'd like to take an SVG clipart, pull out particular paths from it, and bring them into Gimp and use them to create selections and/or to stroke.  Nothing I've tried seems to work -- even though Gimp seems to be able to import SVG paths, it doesn't seem to work from files from Inskcape or the SVG's before bringing them into Inkscape.

Is there any trick to it?


texts: Color a glyph in a font using FontForge or similar

texts: I have a woff font and I would like to make the glyph ✓ green, is it possibile using FontForge or other programs?


texts: PowerPoint: Proceed to next slide on click, regardless of the ongoing animations in the current slide

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What I currently have can be seen in this video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxYxBmy8_iA3akhNdzBhOGJCSXc/view?usp=sharing

In the video you can see that I need to click twice in order to get to the second slide (white background): once to end the ongoing animation and a second time to transition to the next slide.

The animation setup can be seen here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxYxBmy8_iA3QmNNejhKUkRtd3c/view?usp=sharing

I have an entrance "fly-in" animation for both texts. After that I have a path animation for each of them. These path animations start after the previous and last 16 seconds.

What I want to have:

I'd like to be able to transition to the second slide with one singe mouse click, regardless of the state of the text animation.


texts: Printing a drop shadow gradient transition to transparent in CMYK

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I am attempting to print an image of a bowl of food with a drop shadow that gradually transitions to transparent on a white background. The shadow renders beautifully within Adobe Illustrator, but when my printer sends me a proof, the shadow appears with very hard edges (see screenshots below).

The printer has told me that this 'hard edge' phenomenon is unavoidable due to the CMYK process. The outermost edge of the shadow is set to C=1, M=1, Y=1, K=0, and the printer is unable to print tones lighter than that — leading to a hard shadow cutoff.

Is my printer's advice correct? Is there anything I can do to work around this so that the shadow appears more natural in the printed version? It's hard for me to believe that there's no way to do this, as I've seen many printed gradients before (e.g., packaging in a grocery store where the product casts a shadow).

UPDATE: For those with similar issues — I received a hard proof from my printer and the problem was gone. I think that since my monitor is so sensitive, it was showing as a hard line cutoff, but in physical print the hard line is negligible / does not show. So this ended up being a non-issue!

Image rendered on my monitor:

Screenshot from PDF proof from my printer:


texts: I know the margin around the icon is usually listed in dp (for Android at least), but let's say on a 1080p phone, does anyone know the pixel margins that would be (left edge of the screen on the left and to the bottom of the status bar on top? I'm in Sketch and it looks to be around 40ish pixels?


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Could someone please tell me which fonts are used in 1st and 2nd row of below image?

Thanks!


texts: Do Stats or polls exist for the preferred style of website design?

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I am looking for stats or polls that show what viewers like in a website design. I have seen stats about what browsers are commonly used, but I have not run across any statistics or polls to answer the following:

Age demographic on what devices they use.
Results on what they dislike in a site.
Is responsive site design becoming a standard for all ages.
What elements are required in a responsive site.
What age demographic do you consider for responsive.
Devices commonly used to view a site based on age.

Any hints?


texts: How can I create multiple designs from one set of texts?

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I run multiple newsletters under different names and logos. I’m trying to share the same information graphically on a few of them. I’ve designed each graphic with placeholder text. I’m looking for a way to replace all the text at once on each graphic. They each have different fonts, sizes, and weights which I don’t want to lose.
For example, one is mostly green with large text and another is orange with smaller text. I have about 15 of these. Is it possible to type it once somewhere (like on a spreadsheet) and it will auto-update all the text on all the designs?
Thank you for any help you can provide!


texts: Is it possible to scale using nearest neighbour with the transform tool?

texts: I have a selection I want to enlarge using nearest neighbour. I don't want to scale the whole image, just a selection. Is this possible?


texts: Is there any way to convert a semi transparent object to a vector using live trace or any other feature in Illustrator? (For instance, a simple cloud)


texts: Difference between Microsoft Publisher, online editors like Ribbet and Photoshop while preparing business cards

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While designing business cards, I wonder why one should use applications like Photoshop when it is easier to use online editors like Ribbet or Microsoft Publisher. I prepared business card using Microsoft Publisher

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ojy1_hme1is/V3K4GDND9SI/AAAAAAAABPQ/BFaobRVIwoEis8TJOa-nJCnC328rjFCBgCK4B/s1600/RBVisitingCard.jpg) and Ribbet (https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=260x10000:format=jpg/path/s0ca43f569d2c6db0/image/ic4cd46f6fc08196e/version/1469454670/image.jpg). Is there way to improve image quality through using other applications like Photoshop? In other words, what the limitations are of using Microsoft Publisher, Ribbet if any over Photoshop while preparing business cards.


texts: How can i make a vector from really small jpgs

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i have really really small jpg images, and i want to know how can i make a vector in AI. They are like 31mm W and 14 H.

Thank you so much, guys :)


texts: Illustrator: Extra anchor points after divide 2 objects - unnecessary extra objects

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Can anybody help me with the following problem, please?
When I made a round object and put another round object on it they were perfectly fit together, but after I used Divide tool it gave extra anchor points to them and created unneccessary paths.
I tried the tool on more types of objects, but I only have problems when it includes round objects.
So far I have not faced this kind of problem and I don't know how to fix it.
To let you know the problem better, I am attaching some pictures.
This is how my object looks like before and after using Divide tool:

EDIT after answer:
Thank you for your help.
Maybe I do something wrong, but when I put the two objects on each other they look perfectly aligned even with 3600% zoom in. The two objects are the same as I created the green one with Minus front from the red one.
And when I put a 3rd object on them which completely overlaps them, de Divide tool still creates extras.
So this is how my shapes looked before using the tool:

This is how it looks after:

And when I put the 3rd object on them, this is what I got(before and after):

When I make the upper object bigger it works correctly, but my problem is that I need both (in this case green and red), just need to cut out something from them (blue).


texts: Illustrator mouse pointer with square or hands

texts: This morning my mouse pointer in Illustrator either shows hands in which case I can select nothing or shows a pointer with a black square which has weird effects when I select stuff. How can I disable these modes please?


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Hi friends today i have a problem with an indesign book i'm designing: the text that flow into some pages do not fill up page text frames completely.
I don't know if the issue is from my formatting or other options.
I have tried several text frame and character formatting option to no avail.
In the screen shot you can see that the text frame completes all the lines on one page while on the next page (the right hand side) there's a blank line at the bottom and there's no line break.


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i wanted to draw the same as in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04OAU4LFHSM

At 5:03 she uses the "expand" button but for me its disabled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvl0V7tmGM

Has anyone an idea what the problem could be?

windows 7 64
newest adobe illustrator


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I'm looking for some method for automating the localization process for an InDesign document.

Basically, I want to be able to take the contents of the file, translate it into a few other languages (using machine translation) then rebuild the document that many times with all the formatting maintained. The document is already using things like threaded master frames anchored objects to keep the graphics in-line with the text, so the length changing shouldn't be an issue. I'm not sure how to maintain the paragraph and character styles though.


texts: Which is the inverse operation to ''Expand'?

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I am new to Illustrator and can't figure out how to make a single object from many paths and shapes.

I used Image trace to trace a black&white image (settings: abutting, create fills and ignore white option selected). After this, I expanded the object and then I changed black colour to another. Now I want to make the drawing as it was before I expanded it. I tried to use compound and pathfinder but it didn't worked, or maybe I didn't use these functions correctly.

Hope somebody can help me with this.

After image trace :

After expand:

After recolour:

After I used Unite from Pathfinder(the other options from pathfinder don't work too):

Best regards,

Daniel


texts: InDesign - create a table of contents using a different character style for entry names

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Is it possible for InDesign's table of contents to use different character styles from the actual text elements used to build the table of contents?

For instance, I want my table of contents to use formatting that is different from the actual title pages and page names used in my document.

Pic related...obviously the text for the entry names is enormous and should instead look like the page numbers.


texts: Some fonts in Inkscape don't display in Inkscape

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I've noticed that some fonts don't display properly in Inkscape (0.92.3). Take Lato for example (downloaded from fontsquirrel). It contains 9 different weights (excluding Italics). Some display fine, some don't.

I've noticed that the ones that don't in the Text and Font selector box have a CSS style of " weight=XXX". If they have italics in the name, the italics works, but not the weight.

I've done some research and it seems related to bug 167353, but that's fixed, at least for those without the " weight=".

I opened the font in fontforge to see if I could find where the weight= is coming from, but there is nothing under the font info.

Questions:

1) Is this a new bug in Inkscape, or in the font?

2) Is there a way to edit the font to change the " weight=XXX" to something else? Maybe that is the problem???


texts: My opaque illustration saved file turns partially transparent

texts: I made this picture of isometric sand castle that uses gradient and when I save this image, the saved image, irrespective of the format, is transparent in some areas. There is a hue of some sort. The entire image is not this way only parts of it. The image is opaque and not intended to be transparent at all, I have used transparency on the gradients, if that means anything. There is no significant difference I can find on objects that appear as they should and objects that have become transparent. Oh and the objects all have their outlines, there is just no fill appearing.


texts: What's the name of this staggered portfolio style?

texts:
I've been trying to figure out the name of this portfolio style. Is it as simple as Staggered?

I'm attempting to do something similar, but I have no idea what the style is called. I've searched for staggered, but no satisfactory results.


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I'm using InDesing CS4.

Is there a way to setup text frames to start at the end of thread and flow upwards?

This is how I want it to look/work.  Each box will represent a text frame on a page:

If I add a new line:

Edit:
This data gets filled in by an automated app.  So re sizing, or adding frame-breaks not really an option.


texts: Changing B/W flat image to another color

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I just made a prom-shirt of my class.
Here's how it looks:

Am I able to change the black color of these into another color, like blue "in a single click"
Thank you in advance :)


texts:
In InDesign, I want to make button with two states, just like on the example:

The normal state is a circle, so if I move the mouse over it, an info box pops up. That is a nice feature in an interactive PDF presentation where you want to inform somebody about something.

Now here is the problem:

If I move my cursor next to the circle, the button changes it's state to Rollover.
(The white box shows the bounding area of the objects.)

Is it possible to restrict the Rollover area to the circle, so the info box shows up only when you move the mouse over the circle?


texts: Is there someway to make a scalable frame or nine-patch within inkscape?

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I don't mean that I want to create nine-patch pngs for use somewhere else.

I'd like to create text-frames with corner ornaments that are not scaled in either direction when the whole frame is scaled, i.e. something like a nine-patch for use within Inkscape.

A nine-patch is a scalable frame divided into nine pieces in a 3x3 grid (like a game of noughts and crosses).  Some ornamental frame is drawn in the eight outer cells of the grid, while the center cell contains the content.  When a nine-patch is scaled only the central content cell changes size.  The outer cells remain the same scale and the "frame" is not distorted.

The reason I'd like nine-patches in inkscape is that it would allow me to create flowcharts I can share with people (with lots of nine-patch frames).  Ideally they would be able to scale the frames without getting too involved in the art side and layout.


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Thanks in advance.


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I am trying to make circular lighting effect as shown in this pics

I was thinking of using a gradient tool to make a straight line with dark blue and light blue colors. Then I was thinking of converting that line into a circle. That's where I am stuck at. I cannot make a line into a circle. I have googled it and polar coordinates filter just doesn't work. I am using adobe photoshop CSS

Does anyone know how they will approach this problem?


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Before I formatted my Mac, I'm sure I had Ps set up so that, when I zoomed, it didn't change the size of the window that my document was in.
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I'm working on an ecommerce site and I am trying to figure out at which resolution to save product images.

We usually go for 72DPI but I believe now we should be using PPI, but also that to account for retina displays we need to save two versions of the image; if we want the largest zoom size to be e.g. 300x300px, there needs to be a 600x600px version so it's not blurry on retina.

Does that mean we need to host two versions or one big one which is downsized for non-retina, and if so, does that affect the speed of the website?

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