texts: How to make clipart out of my watercolor paintings

texts: I'm trying to figure out how to make clip art out of my watercolor drawings. For example, I have a watercolor drawing of a pumpkin scanned onto my computer, and I need to know how to make the paper that is included in the scan transparent, so that I can use just the pumpkin image for designing cards, posters, calendars, etc. I want to make it into clip art. I know that Photoshop can do this, and probably Illustrator as well, but I want to know if GIMP or Photoshop Elements or any other program can also do this. Thank you so much!


texts: Why are colors shifting when converting from CMYK to RGB in Photoshop?

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I have an image that is CMYK and I have tried to convert it to RGB so that I can edit the colour of the image. However it won't let me work in 32 bit and asks me to convert the image to 16 or 8 bit to be able to use the paint bucket tool.

If I use it without doing this I get a different colour to the colour I wish the image to be.


texts: Photoshop: Move selection without moving pixels

texts: How do you move the selection in photoshop (marching ants) without moveing any part(pixels) of the selected layer?


texts: Do any image file formats efficiently compress video-game-style "tilemaps"?

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I'm working on an art asset for a webpage that's made up of a few 8x8-pixel "tiles", repeated and arranged in different configurations. Sort of like a level in a video game:

Ideally, I'd like this image to be really big, like 3140x2160, so that I can include enough stuff to fill even a really big monitor without looking like it's repeating. But I don't want the filesize to be huge. Are there any popular image formats that can compress images like this efficiently by storing each tile only once and reusing it? (I heard JPEG uses 8x8 blocks -- would that help here?) Or do I need to make some kind of custom SVG/HTML/CSS code?


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Is there a way to render an object together with double wire-frames in 3DS Max?

Wire-frame 1 - The original geometry of the model - which on the render will curve by following the shape of the model
Wire-frame 2 - The geometry that is created by the turbo-smooth modifier that will remain straight.

It is quite useful for showing the topology together with the deformation of the geometry.

Something like this -

Is something like that possible to make in 3DS Max?

Update -

Note - the wire-frame to be equal, relative to the object or relative to the screen. By that I mean - the edges to be with equal thickness.

Is something like that possible to do?


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I have two files with same dimensions and I want to save my vector file to web SVG. Problem is that this file size is more than generate the same file to PNG for web.

I think that I'm exporting settings of the SVG correctly.

The PNG file have this dimensions: 700x500px:

The SVG file have similar dimensions: 755,245x485,663px:

I´m saving the SVG files with this settings (only spanish, sorry):

Why the SVG file size is more than PNG file size?

LINK TO PNG FILE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmncderyprnablk/sample.png?dl=0

LINK TO SVG FILE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfp5mpjgyuwibf7/sample.svg?dl=0


texts: Share paragraph styles between PSD files?

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I created paragraph style in one PSD file. After that I saved it to default styles and loaded it into another PSD file.

How can I synchronize changes at all documents after updating just in one of them?

I am using Photoshop CC.


texts: SWF file smaller than the PNG's within it?

texts: I don't understand how this is possible. I made this banner based on the design of another one. I've been struggling getting decent quality. I notice the quality is pretty good in the one I'm copying. I decompiled and saw that the images alone are 125kb. This is bizarre because the total size of the swf is only 45kb. What the hell is going on here?


texts: Recomendations of Word-to-PDF with high quality and keeping hyperlinks?

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I want to save a Word (2016) as a PDF but keeping the native high quality of images and text hyperlinks. Currently I am able to do only one of those at once: I can retain hyperlinks if I use the default word-to-PDF save from Microsoft Word, but the image quality is not good at all; or I can use PDF printers like Nitro Reader or PDFcreator who allow me to keep a really good image quality but do not retain hyperlinks.

Does anyone know a way to maximize image quality for the default PDF saver? If not, someone knows about a PDF printer that also saves hyperlinks embedded in the text?


texts: Font organizer that uses crowdsourcing to tag?

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I use FontAgent (7.1.2) for font management and I like it but I have a lot of fonts and organizing them is a nightmare. I've set up folders for my favorites and started creating others like "handwriting" or "ornaments" but it's not helpful enough since I don't have time to go through all of them or keep it up to date. FontAgent offers Smart Sets but (from what I can tell) you make Smart Sets for bold fonts or monospace but it wouldn't help with script fonts or even sans serif.

Is there a font manager that uses tags or meta data from other sources to help organize fonts?

Thanks!


texts: Material Design: Should the status bar look different from the action bar?

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I have often noticed that the status bar is a little darker than the action bar, is it a material design rule or a choice of the designer?

Image's author: CommonsWare, from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39822787/what-are-the-different-bars-status-bar-action-bar-navigation-bar-tool-bar-et


texts: How do I cut the line segments in the photo below at a 45 degree angle?

texts: The red segments are my guides and I want to 'cut away' the line segments on the outside of the red guides. Thanks for any help!


texts: Right amount of black for striped background

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I am creating a PDF document that has a table with pyjama stripes. The grey stripes are defined using RGB with equal amounts of each colour.

I'm want to make the stripes light enough so that you can write on a printed copy with a #2 pencil and easily read the text, yet dark enough so that the tables rows are easy to follow, both on screen and in print.

The PDF document will be printed on a wide variety of computer printers, but probably mostly on laser printers.

I've benchmarked the PDF on a Konica Minolta bizhub C550 printer and a Dell lcd screen and and 0.9 (=10% black) seems to be about right.

Now to my question:

At what blackness level will some computer printers print white instead of grey?

(I am aware that this question does not have an absolute answer, but your experiance and real-life examples are appreciated)

Side note (for extra credit):

I also have some other grey areas in my PDF. I noticed that as I reduced the blackness of the pyjama stripes the other grey areas became darker in the printed copy. I have verified that this is not just an optical illusion by cutting out the other grey areas and placing them next to each other. Why does this happen?

Edit (in response to JohnB's comment):

The choice of RGB over CMYK is a random one. If CMYK will result in better results I wouldn't mind switching. If you recommend a CMYK setting please be aware that I would rather not use the colour trays of printers that have separate trays for black.


texts: How find colors with certain value (blackness level) in Photoshop

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I'm learning digital painting in Photoshop, beginner level. I start with a composition in grey-scale, Let's say it is a mountain landscape in perspective with darkest object closest to viewer (a tree on a cliff) and lighter grey the further off into the horizon objects are (mountains).

Now I want to start applying color but preserve the values from the grey-scale sketch. I have a black & white adjustment layer on top of my drawing that I toggle to check that the values remain the same as I start applying color. Let's say I want the foreground to be green and red. How do I find greens and reds with the same value (amount of black) as in my grey scale concept drawing? Currently I just test out colors by handpicking them from a swatch palette and viewing them through the b/w adjustment layer, but there must be a more systematic way (I hope) to generate swatches from a value. Any advice or pointers in the right direction are highly appreciated.

(I'm using Photoshop CS4).


texts: Export iOS Icon Sizes in Affinity Designer

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Although Affinity Designer has the extremely useful @1x, @2x and @3x export, I'm wondering if there's a way to export in the variety of sizes that are required for an iOS icon?

I found a concise grid of needed sizes here, which i'll reproduce in list format:

1024x1024
180x180
152x152
120x120
87x87
80x80
76x76
58x58
57x57
40x40
29x29

That's 11 different icon sizes!

I did find the whole Export Persona with slice configuration concept to be excellent, especially since you can apply slices to individual layers (say, for the normal and pressed versions of a button).  Is there some way to use this same tool, perhaps, to do specific sizes of exports?


texts: How to change the colour of all objects to a shade of maroon in inkscape

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I'm very new to inkscape and I am trying to change the colour of a vector graphic I downloaded. Below is a a screenshot of my window:

All of these bubbles are in shades of green. I want to keep the same pattern and transparency and change all these to a shade of red or maroon. Is this possible while maintaining the same look of what I have in green.

I searched online and I found that there is a change colour option in the extensions menu, but that is not producing the desired effect, it picks up only one shade of green and changes it to red while losing the transparency I have in green, see screenshot below of failed change colour option:

Some guidance here would be greatly appreciated.

update:

Based on @Billy's directions, this is what I get:

This is where I got this design from, if that is any help: https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/197319-modern-abstract-green-and-blue-circles-business-trifold-brochure


texts: What is the font used for this grading system?

texts: Yes, these are my grades, but I am actually going to use this font for my blog.  I'm not very good with my fonts yet, which is why I came here.  I have tried Helvetica and Arial, but it was neither of those.


texts: Resizing Text/Shape/Anything With and Action in Photoshop CC 2018

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i am trying to create an action in Photoshop CC 2018 that will allow me to batch resize a piece of text to a specific spot on the canvas.

I have my PSD with all of my necessary layers in, i have then used variable data to spit out multiple PSD's with my desired text changes, i am now trying to make each piece of text (regardless of size) scale to the same position and size.

I am able to get the action to work on the document i am working on but as soon as i run the action across a batch of files it seems to completely ignore the transform x/y that i have specified. i have tried it with.

The text box
Converting to a smart object
Converting to a shape

All produce the same effect, ultimately all i am wanting to do is say Here's a rectangle area, fit this layer to said area but, it seems like such a basic function that is missing from PS and i cant for the life of me figure it out, First time posting on stack exchange, sorry if the formatting of this article is poor,thanks in advance.


texts: Free image for the "grab" cursor for IE11

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I am looking at this question and its answers, and it seems the only legitimate way to implement a grab cursor in IE11 is to use an image like this:

 cursor: url(images/grab.cur);

Browsing the internet I don't find any such images for which I can be 100% sure that they are free to use without any obligations.

Does anyone know an image for "grab" cursor that is definitely free and without any obligations?


texts: Redreaw borders of shapes/Split shape into selected grid/Halftoning with triangles

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It's been months I have been trying to find an answer to this, maybe it has been asked before but I was not able to find the answer. I would like to redraw given shapes' borders based onto a triangular grid. The new shape's border points would be on the closest intersection of points of the grid itself, and its lines would always follow the grid's lines. There would be of course loss of definition, but that is the actual purpose of the task.  It would be close to break the shape(s) into its constituting triangles, but they would be merged into a another shape. It would be good if I could actually keep both versions (with merged triangles and not) I found an online program (https://halftonepro.com/app) that does a similar thing to what I am trying to achieve.
I have looked at pages about halftoning, Voronoi, FEM and BEM mesh refinement, but I could not find it.
Any help is really appreciated.


texts: Too many anchor points in Illustrator artwork

texts: Does anybody have a great suggestion to make a piece of artwork with too many points more functional in Illustrator? We have tried making the artwork a brush, a symbol, etc., but replicating the artwork (trees, bushes) a few hundred times in the layout piece makes for an enormous, dysfunctional file. See jpg to help explain what I mean.


texts: I have some SVG images which contain clipPath elements. I am working in an environment that doesn't render clipPath elements. What tool or software can I use to apply the clipPath to the SVG geometry so that the output file is visually equivalent but contains no instances of clipPath?


texts: Is there a way to calculate the max. character length that fits inside a textbox?

texts: This question is not related to specific design software but I'm designing an app in Sketch. Our client will provide all the content but they need to know the maximum character length of certain textboxes (e.g. titles in a cell). Is there a way to calculate this?


texts: What's the more conservative way of saving images from PDF files?

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I'm going to use a PDF example for my question. I'll also use a large image, so I can express my doubts better (so, I'm already sorry for the image size).

Above you can see the image as it should be. I've obtained it clicking with the "Take a Snapshot" tool whithin Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Here's another page example:

Now, whenever I try to export these PDF pages as images (using the built-in file -> export -> as image), I get these results (I've exported them in PNG):

As you can see, two effect are observed:

The vector images (made in Adobe Illustrator) got distorted and messy;
There is a significant loss of quality, both for the unmatched vector and the texts (it got all crackled up and pixelated).

My main goal (it should be clear now from the images) is using these as slides for my drawing tablet. The thing is, I cannot believe that there is no built-in function on Adobe Acrobat (or some other application some of you may suggest) that would do the same I've done with the "Snapshot" tool. With it (and afterwards opening Photoshop and saving the image as PNG) I get satisfactory results. Otherwise I can't (and I don't want to use the "Snapshot" feature, since it can't massively do it with all the pages at once, I'd have to mechanically do it page by page; that, I don't want to).
So, could you help me with this specific step?


texts: Font of titles of "The Outer Limits" series

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Which font is used in "The Outer Limits" (1995 TV series)? I mean this for the titles, actors and so on, as in included picture.
As one can see from my profile, I know mainly TeX fonts, but this one is extremely beautiful for me.


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I've been using InDesign for a long time, always doing everything "the right way", that means images always in CMYK and never in PNG... but, I am working on a project involving around 400 images given to me in PNG with transparency.
My question is simple, since this material is supposed to be press printed, would it be ok if I use the PNG images as links in InDesign or would you recommend re-saving all of them as TIFF and changing the color mode to CMYK?


texts: How do I format a URL image link in my tab-delimited data file to data merge with InDesign templates?

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I have a data merge file I created in Excel that I export as a comma-delimited text file to import into an InDesign template.

Traditionally, I have imported images from a networked drive by setting up my spreadsheet in this way:

last_name, @image

Smith, Users:user:networked_drive:associates:headshot:smith-john.jpg

This works great, but I now want to be able to pull an image from a web link and I have no idea how to format the @image field to properly insert an image from a web link into an image frame in the InDesign template. My Google searching and StackExchange searches are coming up dry so far.

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: PT Serif alternative with old-style figures and ligatures

texts: I am looking for a free alternative to PT Serif that supports old style number figures, good kerning, and some optional ligatures. I intend to use for personal usage in an academic blog.


texts:
I am trying to blur a layer on a Gimp photo. It's a pink layer called 'Capa 1'. I have tried inverting the layer, and feathering however it hasn't worked.

I need to blur the edges so they are not sharp on the website I need it for: https://takanodan.net

This is the file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl07vppnvdf50hs/headerimage.xcf?dl=0

Anyone help me and guide me through? Can't figure it out.

Thanks!


texts: Copyright ownership: paid by hour vs. paid by project

texts:
I am a freelance web designer. I am working out a contract with a client to revamp an existing site and freshen the design.

In my contract I have some language which I adapted from the AIGA boilerplate about copyright. The gist is this:

I am developing a design for Client. I will create three comp
designs. Client chooses one and we revise it until Client is
happy with it. Three rounds of revisions are included; anything after
that is paid by the hour on top of the original estimate.
I own the copyright to all the designs. When Client submits the
final payment for the entire website, Client owns the copyright
to the finished site and its design.
If Client cancels the project before it's finished, I retain the
copyright to the unfinished, revised chosen design, unless we specifically agree that I will sell it to him.
I estimate the site will cost $X. I submit invoices at various
milestones in the project. I keep track of my work hourly, and Client
pays for the work I've done (that is, if I estimate the job will cost
$X because it will take me Y hours, and it takes me Y + 3, I will
charge for three more hours of my time; if it takes Y - three, I will
charge for three hours less).

The client came back with revisions about copyright, saying he thinks that he owns the copyright to all the comps "because it's my site."

I asked a non-designer friend who's a reasonably high corporate muckety-muck, and he thinks that the copyright hinges on how I'm being paid:

If I'm setting up the contract as hourly, then it is "work-for-hire" (even though I don't have that anywhere in the contract) and Client owns all the copyright to all three comps. If I'm setting up the contract as "work for project" (Client pays $X for finished website, however many hours it takes), then I would own the comp copyrights.

This doesn't make sense to me. Why would Client get the rights to two (or more) designs which he isn't using? If we agreed that he was going to pay for all three designs, that's fine, but two of them he didn't like. Why should he get to keep them and use them with some other designer?

Does basing my fee on hours worked somehow make this job "work for hire"? Does "hourly work for hire" somehow change copyright?

(ETA Client and I are both in the U.S.)


texts: Isolate a Collection of Thin Lines from a Photograph

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Question

I have a photograph (shown below - quality reduced to meet upload size limit) of a paraglider with an inflated wing. I would like to extract the paraglider, wing, and the many thin lines (approximately 2-5px wide in most places) between the two for use in another composition. The paraglider and wing themselves are simple enough matters, but how can I select/reproduce the lines while minimizing my selection of the sky?

Background

Ignoring the region where the lines are in front of trees/ocean (but bonus points if your answer covers these regions!), my thoughts were to use color selections to cut out chunks of the sky - and this works in some capacity, but seems messy - there's lots of semi-transparent remnants that I have to remove and clean up by hand.

I've also tried using a black-to-white gradient layer on top of the image with an overlay or soft-light blending mode in order to normalize the lens-flare, then amping up the contrast to really give the lines definition, producing decently consistent black silhouettes that I feel may be good foundation for a mask - but I still struggle to isolate even the thin black silhouettes from the background.

My final thought is to hand-trace each line with vectors and either use the resulting path for a selection, or stroke it and play with blending in the new composition to reproduce the lines from scratch. Normally this would be my first course of action for encountering such a problem, but I was hoping there might be less time-intensive techniques that I'm unaware of!

Solution

As per the comments and Kurtis Beavers' answer below, I ended up tracing each line by hand, adjusting a contrast layer to make the lines stand out against the background of the region I was tracing as needed. My final vector-path took about three hours to produce, primarily owed to the lack of contrast between the lines and the wing itself - they become essentially invisible, and required some guess-work to approximate:

The lines' anchor points on the wing aren't entirely accurate, but it was more than sufficient for my proceeding composition.


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In Adobe Illustartor CS5, you can select/click, hold the mouse, and drag the Vertical ruler to make a vertical Guide (Cyan Color by default). The same can be done with the Horizontal ruler to make a horizontal guide.

The Preferences panel shows this for Smart Guides. I don't know if it's related or not.

In the following image, I have both horizontal and vertical guides. I also have a line segment placed at a angle. How would I go about creating a guide at that angle just like the other two guides. That is, a guide which is not vertical or horizintal but at a angle like the line segment.


texts: move tool in Photoshop CC version 19.1 vs Photoshop CS6

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In my company we just upgraded our Photoshop CS6, which I used for the last 6 years, to the newest Version of Photoshop CC.

I think it's quite the same, as a casual user that only does a bit of Webdesign and photo manipulation in it, I can't seem to find many differences

One difference however is driving me a bit crazy. In CS6 I could select a few layers, select the move tool and move all layers by left clicking inside my workspace and drag things around. When I do this in CC, everything gets deselected except the layer where my mouse lands on when I left click, and only this layer gets moved when I drag it around.

Same goes for folders which have a few layers in it. In CS6 I could select the folder layer and drag things around. now it also selects the layer in the folder I land on and only moves this one.

Can I somehow make CC behave like CS6 in this case, or do I have to adapt to the changes?


texts: How can I make arbitrary shadows on vector like this?

texts: So as the title says, how can i make arbitrary shadows on vector like this without some colored vector on which that shadow will be put?


texts: How to extract the current settings for any Photoshop tool via ExtendScript or ActionScript?

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I'm looking to find the settings for various options for different tools in Photoshop.

This post hinted at the answer:  https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/113421

It said:

  To get a current setting of an eyedropper (switch to eyedropper first
  using Joonas' selectTool()):

//returns 0 for Point Sample, 1 for 3x3, etc
function getCurrentEyedropperSetting() {
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putProperty(stringIDToTypeID("property"), stringIDToTypeID("tool"));
ref.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("application"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum"));
return executeActionGet(ref).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("currentToolOptions")).getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("eyeDropperSample"));
};

But how would one know the correct stringID ("eyeDropperSample" in this case)  for a certain tool option in order to extract its value?

For example, I'm looking to get the "Range" setting of the Burn tool.  I've selected my Burn tool and tried replacing "eyeDropperSample" with:

"range"

"burnRange"

"burnToolRange"

And they all result in execution errors for the script.

ScriptListener doesn't provide any clue as to what the correct StringID would be either as changing the mode doesn't generate any entry in ScriptListener.

Sort of a mystery to me at this point.  Is there a list of StringIDs somewhere that I could search through to find the correct one for the Burn tool Range?   Or is there a way to get Photoshop to tell me the correct StringID?


texts: .eps good quality and fast-loading vector images

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I am writing a paper using PDFLaTeX. In this paper I insert few .eps pictures I export from ArcMap. These images have been exported in format .eps with a dpi of 600.

My problem is that when I build the .pdf and go to the pages with these .eps images, the pdf requires almost one second to display the image and then show the text surrounding it. Furthermore, this resulting pdf, containing 6 .eps images, 15 pages and a few raster images, is 50,000 kB, which seems a lot to me.

I suppose the problem is due to the excessive weight of the .eps images (which ranges according to what I am exporting in ArcMap, some of them are few MB, others also hundreds of MB), therefore my question is: what should I use as export dpi to have a lighter and faster-loading pdf avoiding quality loss in my images?


texts: How to copy a character from Font Book on Max OS X Lion?

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I'll like to use a symbol font character  (upper right in the image, Glyph 5081). How can I copy the character from the Font Book and paste to another app?

UPDATE: I can find the character at left, but not the one at right:


texts:
I'm trying to make a pin icon, like a map pin.

I have a V shape as a path at the bottom, and a circle object above it, that has been trimmed.

How can I join these two together? If I use the unite tool it just deletes the V path.

The image above shows the paths - I have moved the circle bit up a touch for clarity.

Thanks!


texts: Bounding boxes appear away from object in Illustrator

texts:
While using Illustrator today, I came across a problem where the bounding box for an object is significantly offset. The bounding box always appears to the right and below of the obejct, but how far it's offset seems to differ (sometimes far off the canvas). I've attached an image below to illustrate.

I managed to find 1 instance of this happening on the Adobe forums, but the proposed fix didn't work for me.

I've tried resetting the bounding box, saving my document and closing illustrator as well as creating a new document. The version of Illustrator I'm using is CC 2017.


texts: How to place an anchor point exactly between two others in Photoshop CC?

texts:
In such a situation,
how can you center the middle point?


texts: Is there an HTML/CSS version of the StarCraft 2 Menu buttons?

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I am building a webapp and I want to modify one of the StarCraft menu buttons to add them to my webapp, (StarCraft is a Blizzard Entertainment Game). This is an example photo of one of the menu pages from the game from which I would love to recreate the OK button in HTML/CSS:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dwr5Xa6wVRU/maxresdefault.jpg

Unfortunately, I cannot find a website that has code for such buttons. Is there a place where I can find HTML and CSS code that create the OK button from the above photo?

Thank you very much


texts: Is the Kaneiwa font freeware and can be used commercially?

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I'm creating a logo design for a franchise I'm developing. To start it'll probably just be a webcomic, but eventually I'd like to take it commercially. I'd only use it in the logo, but I believe it still counts as commercial usage.

Originally I went with a different font, but it was too hard to read. After looking around a while, I found a font called Kaneiwa:

http://www.fontspace.com/family-font-mart/kaneiwa

It looked impressive, and the site says its free to use commercially, so I figured it'd be fine. That's when I found this:

http://www.dafont.com/kaneiwa-alp.font

Unlike on font space, this one says free for PERSONAL use. I didn't think it was too big of a deal, though, I'd just contact the author and have him sort it out. Except that his email address is invalid, his website is gone, and I can't find any other method of communication.

I've found this font listed all across the internet. Some sites say its free for personal use, others say its flat-out freeware. Does anyone know what it ACTUALLY is? I'd really like to use it, but I don't want to get into legal trouble by doing so. I haven't found another font that would make a good replacement yet.

If anyone can help clarify this to me that would be great.


texts: What is the best method of cutting out different "sections" out of a human body vector

texts:
I am designing an app in which patients can click on a part of their body they have injured.
The image above is an old, raster image that I won't be using, but hopefully gives an idea of what I want to achieve. I'd like to divide the body into different sections. The developer will need the individual vector pieces of the body so that it can become highlighted when clicked.
What is the best method to do this within illustrator, especially taking into consideration that both sides of the body need to be symmetrical, and the developer needs each piece separtely in vector format?
I was thinking of using the pen tool to draw the shape I need, and then use the divide option. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Adding background color to textbox in Illustrator CC

texts:
I have found a number of solutions to adding color to a text box in earlier versions of Illustrator, but they don't seem to work in the current version.

When I use the Direct Selection tool to select the text box, it activates the "path" in the appearance panel and allows me to set a stroke and fill for that path, but the stroke and fill aren't actually applied to the selected text box.

In this picture you can see that I have selected the text box, and my appearance panel gives me the options to set the stroke and fill for the path (and it looks like Type is in a layer above the path)

When I deselect the text box, the text box has not changed appearance at all, however my default path attributes now seem to match the attributes that I just set in the appearance section.

Default fill and stroke attributes have now changed to the settings from the appearance panel.

For now, I will use the clunky option of grouping my text box with a filled rectangle below it, but it seems that earlier versions of Illustrator allowed the better option (like you can do in InDesign).  Did they really remove it in this version?


texts: Correct Spot Healing Brush imperfections and tattoo

texts:
(this is on adobe photoshop )
I wanted to modify this pic

However, after deleting the stars, I got this

As you can see there are some black marks... what should i do to get rid of them ?
thx all


texts: Can I export from pdf through Photoshop and back to pdf and keep the color values the same?

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I've been sent a pdf which contains text, vector shapes and rasterised images. I would like to take a small area of that pdf, which contains all of these, run that area though Photoshop so I can use a custom photoshop filter on it, and then take the resulting image and put it back in the original pdf.

I can open the pdf in Photoshop. That requires the whole thing to be rasterised. I can specify RBG or CMYK at that stage, and I open it in RGB-8 Adobe-1998 in Photoshop. I crop the image down to just the area I want to change. I then need to save that image out in a format that Acrobat (which I'm using to put the pdf back together) can recognise. Acrobat doesn't seem to like .psd images. However I save the image out of Photoshop, I struggle to get the same color values when I eventually insert it back into my pdf. Color values shift by more than I'd expect, despite everything having embedded profiles.

Is there a workflow that will allow me to rasterise part of a composite pdf, run it through Photoshop, and then embed that rasterised image back in the original pdf, without getting uncontrollable color shifts? I don't mind the odd 1 or 2 shift in 8-bit color value, but I'm getting much more than that. I don't have any control over the color representation of the original pdf but I can set the Photoshop up any way I want. I'm also not restricted to Acrobat. But I do need a controlled and predictable workflow.


texts: Adobe InDesign transfer form field data within a document

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I'm trying to find a solution to the following:

I have an interactive pdf form, created in InDesign CC and need to reuse a field form data again in the same document. In another words, what the user enters once needs to be used more times automatically.

Can someone help please?


texts: Sketchup: Hide all elements above a certain height

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I have just received an architectural plan of a home as a SketchUp file:

I would like to view the furniture and inner room settings in first floor, but the ceiling and second floor are hiding them.

I have tried removing the elements from the model (as can be seen in the furthest model), but it's tedious, and they can't be restored quickly.

Is there a way to quickly hide all elements above a certain height (for example, 2 meters above the ground level)?


texts: How to produce difficult variant of Taegeuk symbol? (see images)

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The Republic of Korea (or, "South Korea") has a Taegeuk at the centre (essentially, a blue and red yin and yang symbol). This design is derived from the flag of the Korean Empire (used between 1882 and 1910), shown by the following two images:

I know how to produce a regular 'yin-yang' symbol (a circle with two circles with diameters half as long), but I don't know how to make this spiral variant myself. Is there a way to do this, so that the lobes are equal in area and shape, and they tessellate to form a perfect circle? I'm using Adobe Illustrator, so answers applicable to this appreciated.

Thanks.


texts: Selecting all lines in an Illustrator document

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I have about 50+ artboards in my Illustrator file with a lot of lines on them. All lines are currently 0.7px thick. I want all lines to be 2px thick.

How do I select all the lines (and not other elements) in the file?


texts: I understand bleed and trim, but why is there another zone which isn't safe for text?

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One thing makes sense to me: Current mass-printing techniques don't allow us to:

Print to the page in perfect alignment
Trim the page in perfect alignment.

So that explains why we keep important things out of the bleed and trim zones. The printers tells you:

bleed area, meaning "this is the maximum area which is not safe due to the paper misalignment."
trim area, meaning "this is the maximum area which is not safe due to blade misalignment."

But then, beyond that, there's a third zone (see yellow zone below) which our printer gives us, "safe text" which is further in than bleed and trim, it's as if there is a third margin for error where it isn't safe for text to be printed. Why is this? What is the third margin of error which is accounted for by keeping text outside of this third zone (shown in yellow below)?


texts: I underpriced a prior job, how should I tell my client that I'm charging significantly more for new work?

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I made a mistake last year by underpricing an illustration work. What should I do now that the client is back with new requests?

The client has contacted me to ask for new work, without mentioning a price.

I need a polite way to tell him that I could do the job, but he should expect the price to be at least three times what he paid last time.

(I'm not trying to increase my prices in general. It was just a mistake to agree on such a low budget last time. It was done partly because I support the client's activity, partly because that kind of visibility was quite valuable for me at the time.)

In principle, I could just refuse the job. On the other hand, it makes sense for the client to have the new work done by me in order to keep a consistent style.

How can I convey a concept like this:

  I'm afraid I can't take the commission at the same conditions as last year. The price you paid last year doesn't reflect neither the market standards nor my fees. I can reconsider it if you're willing to pay at least three time as much.

with the right balance between dignity and politeness?


texts: indesign script - output textframe onto active document

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In my indesign document i have around 250 pages, each of which contain 1 table (1 per page). What i am trying to do is:

Get the value of the top row of each table
Retrieve the first letter of the cell contents
create a textframe on each page to output that letter

Here is my code so far:

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var myTable = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
alert(myTable.length)//no. of tables in a document

for(var i=0; i<myTable.length; i++)  {
var textFrame = doc.pages[0].textFrames.add();
var string = myTable[i].contents;
textFrame.properties =
{

    geometricBounds : [ 0,0,100,100 ],
    strokeWidth : 0,
    fillColor : "None",
    contents : string

};
}

As this is a glossary, the letters will be A,B,C,D..

For example, table 1 the first row contains the string "Another", so on this page a textframe on the top left corner will say the letter A

UPDATE:
Get the first letter from each table

var myTable = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
alert(myTable.length)//no. of tables in a document

for(var i=0; i<myTable.length; i++)
{
        var string = myTable[i].contents[0][0];
        alert(string);
}


texts: InDesign text to table makes table data transposed

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I copy and paste a table from Microsoft Word into InDesign and select Text to Table.
However, the resulting table is transposed diagonally.
A solution may be to use Excel to transpose the data first. If I open Excel and right-click > paste special > there is no Transpose option.
I am using Microsoft Office for Mac.
Previous Text to Table conversions from the same Word doc have been fine.
Is there a native method for transposing tables in InDesign?
If not, can you suggest some ideas for how to avoid the table being transposed after Text to Table please?
Help appreciated.


texts: Photoshop Layer Selection larger than object

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New designer here,
I'm having trouble with a certain layer in Photoshop CS6.
The image "transform controls" or the resizing box around the layer/ Selected area is much larger than the object while there is nothing there.

How can I Make the resizing box smaller without shrinking the image.

I've provided a screenshot


texts: 3d studio max scattering with grouped object

texts: Hello all. I want to play with scattering around my main shape and fill it with the object on the left. However 3d studio max does not recognize it as one object. I have already grouped my objects but when I try to scatter, my hemisphere is filled only with one of the 4 parts of my object. I turned my objects into poly and mesh and tried attach the others, but the central curves turn into straight lines. I would appreciate any help.


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This is a programmer looking for suggestions. I'm tasked with designing a logo in red and green accent colors, as well as incorporating a star shape in the design.
I've made sure to make it clear that I'm not a graphic designer, they still wanted to get something.

I don't like stars in general and knew it'd give me trouble. I've googled some star logos, and to no surprise they all look meh. As for the colors, I think green on red is a stupid choice especially for a medical company. This whole thing is giving me trouble and I'm out of ideas at what to come up with.

Anything I should be aware of concerning red and green colors?


texts: Remove vertical lines in table in coreldraw

texts: I'm creating a sign up list in coreldraw, it's a table with 3 columns and 15 rows. How do I remove the vertical lines in the table while keeping only the horizontal lines?


texts: How to snap an object over another object

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Hi I'm using Adobe Illustrator can someone please help me, I'm trying to snap an object to the edge of another object. But instead its snapping a few pixels away. I also tried using "Snap to Point" but no use. The white object has to place along with the edge of beneath object.But snaps away.

Even at max zoom(6400%) I can't place the object. In second image the blue line is where I am trying to place white object.

Is there anything to do with preferences setting. If so please help me.

  I have also looked
  How to rotate and snap an object into a desired position? [Illustrator]
  but its not helping me out


texts: Why isn't SVG widely used-supported on the web?

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In my opinion, raster graphics (GIF, PNG) is used much more that vector graphics on the web. I am wondering why? Wouldn't vector graphics be more suitable for web pages design (i.e. buttons design, custom borders etc.)?

One answer which I have found, is that browsers support PNG and GIF more widely than, for example SVG. But again a question arises - why do browsers support raster graphics better? What are the reasons for it?

Currently, vector graphics is not usually considered when designing a website. See this question.

So, my question: why is raster graphics used more and supported better even in cases when vector graphics seems to be more suitable?


texts: Shortcut key for 2 columns in a text box

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I am looking for a shortcut key for columns in text boxes. I know that there is probably not one and that I would have to create it, but I don't know what you would call it in the shortcut menu.

I also know that I can go to text frame options to change the columns, but I want to click one button and have two columns. Is this possible. I use two or three columns A LOT! I would love to have a shortcut key for this.


texts: How to 'power clip' images into an object in Illustrator

texts: I've been working with Corel Draw previously and now i use Illustrator more.Still getting used to some of their features though. I want to insert an image into a circle I've drawn but i don't know how to go about it.It is called power clipping in Corel. Any answers would be appreciated.


texts: how to create a dotted line at a specific location in photoshop

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I created this:

As you can see there is a fine line in this picture that is slightly darker than the rest (this will indicate the folding line in the end). I created it by making a rectangle with the Marquee Tool, then I clicked on Image > Adjustments > Exposure and then I set the Gamma Correction to 0.55.
I want exactly this line as a dotted line and at a very specific place (specific coordinates) and specific height.
I managed to get the height correctly by carefully drawing. I'm struggling with the specific coordinates, I tried changing the y coordinate in the Canvas property on the right, but that actually cut out the rectangle and pasted it at a different location, similar to the selection tool in paint.
Additionally, I don't know how to turn this rectangle into a dotted line.
How can I achieve this?
I also have Illustrator if that is easier.
Edit: What's important is that I can set the exposure of the line so that it "blends" in with the background


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Is there a way to create a sphere shaped paragraph in powerpoint 2013.
Something like this


texts: Mysterious line next to shape after saving for web in Illustrator

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So I have got the .ai file from our designer and I have to save it to a specific size to then be used on a website.

I have aligned all shapes to pixel raster (not sure if this is required) and I have changed the reference point to left-top (in order to avoid blur).
When saving for web I choose Optimize Art and I save it as a transparent PNG-24.

Now, why is there a mysterious, vague line next to one shape? When I look at it in Illustrator, that same line is visible, but when I zoom in you can see that the shape is perfect without the mysterious line.
In case it might help, the line is there from bottom to 50% of the shape (vertically), everything else is perfectly sharp.

What am I doing wrong?
I hope I used the correct terms, as my Illustrator is in a different language.


texts: InDesign: which export settings for printing an A5 booklet

texts: Getting a 48-page booklet professionally printed. The printing company states we should export as PDF (x1 a 2001) with fonts converted to outlines, but is that necessary? Also should it be exported in pages or spreads?


texts: Svg sprite from Illustrator (with separate viewBox for each element)?

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Is there a way to export an .svg sprite directly from Illustrator, with a separate viewBox for each element?

I am only able get one viewBox for the whole set of icons, even when each of them is on its own artboard.


texts: AI - tracing / vectorizing a multi-tone irregular shape

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Normally when I want to vectorize an image (if it's not overly complicated) I use the approach:

Object->Image Trace->Make and Expand

However that did not work for this particular image:

Put simply, there is too much going on; between all the gradients and negative space Image Trace is not cut out for this kind of task. I concede that my needs are vast, I know this is probably asking much of any design software. I'm beginning to fear that I might not have another choice other than painstakingly drawing hundreds of individual lines and points?

Question

Is there a simple(ish) way to capture the yin-yang, teardrop shapes? Gradient is not a must.


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The area selected in the illustrator script does not have a bottom center line. What could be the problem.

var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
var aSel = aDoc.selection;
var len = 10;
var line = null;
for (i=0; i<=aSel.length-1; i++)
{
    var pI = new Array (2);
    pI[0] = aSel[i].left + aSel[i].width/2,0;
    pI[1] = aSel[i].top - aSel[i].height/2,0;

    line = aDoc.pathItems.add();
    line.setEntirePath ( new Array( new Array ( pI[0], pI[1] ), new Array( pI[0]+len, pI[1]+len )));

    line.pathPoints[1].rightDirection = new Array( pI[0]+len, pI[1]+len);
    //line.pathPoints[1].anchor = new Array( pI[0]+len*1.2, pI[1]+len*0.8);

    line.rotate(45-i, true, true, true, true, Transformation.BOTTOMLEFT);

    line.filled = false;
    line.stroked = true;
    line.strokeWidth = 1;
    line.strokeColor = aDoc.swatches[1].color;
}


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I'd like to use this image on a web site.

What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background.

I used Gimp to convert the image to .png, but how do I proceed now?


texts: Designing printed items with a hairline border

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I came across these business cards on a blog, what i cant work out is how did they manage to print the cards with such a fine hairline white board close to the edge.

Normaly when you'd print something like this you'd spec a bleed and the idea of that is that the bleed will get cut off, but because they are cut on mass the cut mark can differ up to a couple of a mill from card to card.

How did they manage to do this while leaving such a fine, and also even border all around the card ?

I could image doing this were you'd spec a white border to the bleed and it would come back with the white on only 2 sides out of the 4..


texts: How to turn a simple but not very crisp raster shape into a path

texts: I have a photo of a block print design I'd like to turn into a path in photoshop. What is the best way to extract the design and turn it into a path so I can make it a vector shape?


texts: Instructions to give a print designer looking to use non-system fonts for websites

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So we often run into print designers who choose all these crazy fonts that don't look good for the web.

As a backend web programmer, what do I tell print designers to help them select non-system fonts that will render well via CSS3 on the web?  What is the checklist of requirements?

Or perhaps someone can show me some good blogs on this subject?

Additional Note:
The biggest problem has been that these print designers make things that look amazing in photoshop.  But as soon as we implement their designs into a website, they are not satisfied with how inconsistent and unpolished it looks depending on the browser and operating system you're using.  Some fonts do a better job than another.  What is the science behind selecting a font that works well across all browsers and operating systems?


texts: Merging low res thumbnail with high res image with wrong colours

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My phone's camera app crashed from time to time when taking photos and now some of the resulting JPEGs have weird colours. I think some of the details got lost so there's probably no way to fix them, but I noticed the thumbnail in the EXIF data has the right colours and was thinking they might be mergeable.

I tried blending the colours from the thumbnail with the full-sized image using Photoshop, but couldn't get good results (I'm not that great with Photoshop).

Does anybody know a proper way or an alternative way to fix the full res image colours?

Photo: (note, this one has been resized in order to keep it under the 2MB limit)

Thumbnail extracted from EXIF:


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How can I left align text in multiple paragraphs with full justify from Horizontal alignment. the attached image refer to the challenge I am currently facing.

Please help with expertise comments to solve the challenge.


texts: Affinity Designer - how can I preserve a stroke cap when I Expand Stroke?

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I am accustomed to Inkscape, where I haven't had this problem. Is there a way to do this in Affinity?
I start with this:

and then this:

makes this:


texts: How do you scale a vector image to equal a measurement in inches?

texts: I need to send a vector file to a textile laser cutter. The image size is 521 pixels, and I'm hoping to create a motif that equals 18.75 inches.


texts: Paragraph Styles with Character Style for Bullets

texts:
I've created a Paragraph Style which uses a Character style for the bullet (Zaph Dingbat Solid Block).

The Character Style changes horizontal scale to 150% and adding a 50% skew. After applying the Paragraph Style the bullet does not have the Character Style applied. But when using the Character Style outside of the Paragraph Style the style changes.

I'm applying the Character Style through the bullets and numbering panel. I'm NOT manually applying it to the bullets.


texts: Can I use the eyedropper when "Recoloring Artwork" on illustrator?

texts:
I use Illustrator CC. And I use the recolor artwork option from the "Edit > Edit colors" menu.

Is there a way to choose the color I switch to with the eyedropper tool?


texts: Direct Select Anchor Point and Continue Path

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Good day,
I'm having a spot of trouble with Illustrator CS6, and I hope you all can help.
I cannot seem to Direct Select an endpoint on a deselected/inactive path, switch to Pen, and then continue the path. All I seem to be able to so is select the point with the Pen tool to continue the path--but, in doing so I lose one of the handles on the point (like it changes to a corner point). What I want to be able to do (like I can do in Fireworks 2003 and CS6) is direct select the point and be able to carry on with the Pen tool as if I was still making the original path. Instead, when I Direct Select the point and switch to the Pen Tool the cursor shows up as Pen* (which means it wants to make a new path). And Pen/ continues the point but deletes one of the handles.
How can I select the point and just have a plain Pen cursor that will continue where I left off with both handles preserved?
Thanks


texts: What are the radii for the new iOS 7 icons?

texts: What are the radii and sizes for the new iOS 7 icons?


texts: What quality of canvas should i use to print?

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I'm very new at graphic art, actually this is my first canvas so i didn't really check the size and quality of my canvas before starting my drawing. And honestly i would'nt know how, these numbers are all like chinese to me... In the end, i really like it and i would like to print it. But how should i set the canvas to print it on a 32×45 cm (so roughly 12.60×17.72") poster?
And is there a way to do so without starting my drawing all over again? (Really hope so, took me a hell of a time to do this. Lol)
I think my curent settings are at 830 x 1000px 72dpi.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Can photoshop make good icons or illustrator is better right or is there some good plugins for photoshop templates or icon scripts?


texts: How can I fill the empty gap between two parts of my photoshop document

texts: I have a website page in photoshop. In the middle I deleted an element and I want the empty space between the top and bottom of the document to be closed. So the top and bottom part merge into one document again. How can this be done?


texts: Computer recommendations for magazine layout?

texts: We have been using Mac Pro computers and are being asked to consider mini or iMacs.


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I design a 32 pages (excluding cover and back) A5 (A4 folded to center) booklet.

While designing, I put page 1-2 in one A4 landscape format artboard, 3-4 in another, 5-6 in another, and so on.

When I sent it to print, they want me to re arrange because according to them for each printed page, page 1 should have page 32 on the other half. Page 2 should have page 31 on the other half. and so on.

I use illustrator in this booklet. Most of the artboard contains linked image that span from page1-page2.

Is there any quick way to cut and transfer half of artboard to another to rearrange the pages?

Any idea what would be the quickest way to do this?

Thanks


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I've been trying to replicate a spray paint text effect in photoshop with hardly any luck. I downloaded multiple spray paint brushes/assets, the problem, however, is whenever you resize the brush to make it small enough to fit the text, the spray paint noise detail get lost and it looks like a regular soft brush.

I tried other methods as well like using distort/add noise/filter gallery but it doesn't look like the result I want.

Here's the ref image:

Here's my result.... :'(

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


texts: In Illustrator can I prevent a calligraphy brush stroke from changing when rotated

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In Illustrator, using a calligraphy brush with a ~45 degree angle, I drew a path that looks good in my illustration.
Now I would like to rotate that path to use it in a different orientation, but exactly as it looks now.
When I do this rotation, though, the stroke changes due to it being a Calligraphy brush.
Is there a way to 'disconnect' or 'freeze' the calligraphy aspect so the stroke can be rotated without changing?


texts: Minus Front on brush stroke over outline text

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so I'm having a bit of a strange issue - I'm trying to use Pathfinder > Minus Front on some text that I converted to outlines. There are 3 separate brush strokes that I Expanded then grouped together. I also grouped the converted text. However, when I run the Minus Front, it removes everything onscreen except the first letter. It has the brush texture removed as intended, except I'm missing all following letters.

What am I doing wrong?


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I would like to achieve an effect in Photoshop that involves airbrushing flames, similar to what is done in this video:

However, I can't figure out a way to mask the canvas from part of the brush (basically what he does with the stencil). Any tips on how to do this?  Sorry if it's obvious, but I'm pretty new to the software!


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I have some paths generated outside of Illustrator; these are actually straight lines, but somehow ended up becoming fairly complex paths.

I'm hoping to:

get the simplest outline (i.e., remove those triangles)
if possible, convert the paths back into line segments.

I looked at a few posts. This one provided an incredibly smart solution that I was able to follow along, but the resulting line was turning back and forward, because of the "triangles":


texts: Why do these angles look weird in my logo?

texts:
The angles on top of the roof are looking weird. It should portray an abstract house.
Can anyone tell me how I can fix this problem? It should be geometrically correct.

Click for full resolution


texts:
Google Fonts has a font called Slabo 27px – 27px is part of the font name because the font is made for that specific size.

Do you know what’s the point of this?

The font seems the same to me at 16, 26, 27, 28, 32 px etc.

Setting it at 27 px doesn’t add or remove to the rendering quality of the font. I’d understand if it was pixel font where each vector-box needs to be a screen pixel yet that is not the case here.

I tried to Google it to no avail. The author doesn’t say much about it either.


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I make posters as a hobby, and usually use exclusively Adobe Illustrator. However, I'm working on a project that also requires Photoshop.

My question is, how should I prepare the finished poster for print?

In Illustrator it's easy when you can set the bleeds when creating the file and save the finished product as a PDF with crop marks, but what is the common practice in the graphic design industry for situations like this? Should I somehow bring the project into Indesign in order to get a PDF? If so, what is the best way to do this?


texts: Transparency Issues in Illustrator - Vector Image

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So I created what I thought was a vector image in Illustrator. I'm completely new to this and still learning how to use the program. Whenever I save it as an EPS, there's white space around the image. I think it has something to do with the blue box around the image, but I can't get just the text and image to save. There's always white space.

Here's what it looks like in Illustrator:

Another image:

If you need the file, I can share that, too.

Any help would be appreciated!


texts: How to batch resize canvas of multiple files placing the original pictures in the centers?

texts: I have got some hundreds of pictures of different shapes. For example one is 600x600, another is 307x600, the third is 600x400, the fourth is 500x300. What I need to turn them all into 600x600 (or 610x610 perhaps to add some reasonable padding) files placing the original pictures into centers of the new pictures (rather than scaling them or placing them near the edges). The only application I know capable of this is Paint.Net but it features (AFAIK) no automation facilities so processing hundreds images is nasty. Any way to do this in batch? Windows and Linux solutions welcome. An opportunity to specify the colour (including an option of PNG empty colour) to fill the canvas space added is highly desirable.


texts: Scripting Artboard Export with specific bit depths

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I'm working on setting up a reusable template for some PNG avatars. Unfortunately, the different avatars have specific export requirements. Currently I'm using Save for Web to achieve these specific export requirements. Unfortunately this process is slow as it means I have to have each avatar in a separate file and can't utilize artboards which would be much faster for designing and modifying.

Here are the specific requirements for my exports:

I'm wondering if its possible to set up these files in artboards, and then use a script that exports the artboards with all of their proper settings. I'm familiar with iterating through artboards in scripts in a  general sense, but not familiar with exporting with scripts and don't know the limitations therein.


texts: GIMP, cannot fill a circle on a background layer

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The canvas for my image is a rectangle no bigger than the original image.  I want to put a circular background with the image.  I've tried two ways:

I create another layer, resize it large enough for a bounding circle, and use selector to draw an ellipse.  However, I can't get the paint bucket to fill the circle (it only fills to the extent of the original image - as shown in the image here).
I resize the existing layer and use selector to draw an ellipse.  I can't get the paint bucket to fill the circle here either (same problem).

Here's an image with both a second layer and a resized original layer.  How do I get the paint fill tool to add colour to the four segments of this circle so that I can get a full-circular background?

This answer seems to address the issue.  Annoying GIMP issue (fill bucket with a circle-slash icon on the cursor).  However, the solution presented here is not working for me.


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I really love grids and guides. I tend to follow and break them at cases to create visual interest.

I'm trying to create grids for a 8.5" x 11" document. What must one look for when creating harmonious guides?

It seems like i have the proclivity to have too many guides where i'm not very flexible.


texts: Why my Photoshop CS3 brushes options doesn't have the "diameter by pressure"?

texts:
The above image shows the lines without pressure and with pressure. I'm newbie, and looks like my photoshop CS3 don't have the "without pressure" option. Follows a printscreen of the brushes options:

Any idea how to enable the "with pressure" line? Does it exist in Photoshop CS3?


texts: How to draw a non-defect transparent line?

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Gimp is pretty good to draw a straight lines. It is easy as 1) set first point with left click and 2) set second point with shift+left click:

But when I set opaque to 30-70%, small defect is appeared - first dot is overlaid on my line:

How do I deal with this?
One another example of this trouble is:

instead of something like this:


texts: Projecting a path to form a curved 3d side wall in Inkscape?

texts: I'm reviewing this 3d pie chart inkscape tutorial and was curious whether there is a way to project the side walls using something like an extrude effect?  Here's a demo that creates two surfaces and then uses the extrude extension to generate the side walls..  Is there something like this for curved surfaces?


texts:
How to select color range in CorelDraw?

I want to select a specific colored object and delete it.

I don't need to replace the color, just specify the color I need, highlight it and delete it.

Is there any option?

Thanks.


texts: Extra horizontal line after adding type to image using Pathfinder Unite in Illustrator

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I am trying to make the path of the letters in 'hanwell' trim to/flush with the edges of the bridge illustration, so that the letters only appear in the gaps between the bridge pillars.

I have drawn a bridge using the pen tool and shapes, all parts of it are all on the same layer.

On a new layer I then expanded the type, selected both the type and the bridge, and clicked 'unite' on the Pathfinder Panel.

This nearly did what I wanted, but a strange horizontal line appeared, ruining it. Can anyone explain where this line has come from and how I can get rid of it?

To try and figure where this infuriating line was coming from, I tried getting rid of the text, selecting just the bridge and clicking unite, and it appeared again, which suggests to me that the problem is something to do with the bridge illustration and not the text.

As per the suggestion from a kind helper, I have also included what I get if I press show outlines (before I press unite) - strangely the rogue line doesn't show up.


texts: Can someone help me to achieve this result in Photoshop Cs6?

texts: I want  to make this buttons too look shiny like in the image


texts: Joining Paths Without Endpoints Workaround

texts:
I'm new to illustrator and having difficulty mastering some fundamentals.  Recently, while trying to create a cartoonish "neon tubing" look, I..

Used a round brush to draw some letters (black fill, no stroke)
Used Path > Outline Stroke to create evenly spaced overlapping lines and switched to no fill, black stroke.
Selectively deleted portions of the path to create a 3D effect like this:

My next step would be to create a fill to give this object a color, but of course after my deletions this is no longer a single path that can fill properly.  It always looks like this:

I have had no success joining components (I get the "endpoints error message") and all of my other attempted workarounds have failed.  I would really like to be able to add effects like inner glow and to offset these specific paths inward to create shading and other textures. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.


texts: How to change blacks to 100% black in Illustrator?

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I've been stuck with this problem for a few days and I just can't seem to figure it out, hopefully someone can help!

I did a job where I edited a brochure, the original design files were destroyed and all that was left were the final PDFS. I made the edits on PSD, I deleted the old text and placed a new text layer on top. I changed some of the text but most of it stayed as it was before. I saved the files as PDFS and sent them to the printer.

The printer asked me to change all back to 100% black (C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=100), I changed the color on all the edits I made to 100% black but the old text is at C=75 M=68 Y=67 K=90.

I tried opening it on Illustrator and changed the appearance of black but nothing happened. I figured maybe the changes would be seen when I exported the files, but that was not the case. I exported the file and checked the black again, nothing happened.

I'm I missing a step here? I have been reading online but none of the forums help. I don't want to change to grayscale because the document also has colors in it. I attempted to change on Acrobat but that was a big fail as well.

is there any way I can change the black to 100%!? I really don't want to re-do the whole brochure, I am sure there is a way around this I just can't seem to figure it out.

here is one of the pages if you want to take a stab at it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4ary3bldm3vtio/4_33.pdf?dl=0

Please HELP!


texts: Sketch: As a symbol, adding text will resize the text block height

texts: I have an article block as a symbol in sketch. It contains an image, headline and paragraph. When using the symbol in my canvas, I'd like to change the title, but once it drops to two lines, it will cover the paragraph. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? I tried using the resize tool, but I might be doing it wrong.


texts: What font is used on the ThinkPad X41 keyboard?

texts:
See the below image of a keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad X41. What is the font
used for labeling the keys?

Note that the font is used on many, if not all, ThinkPad keyboards. However, I
am not sure about that, and that's the reason why I stayed specific to the X41
keyboard.

Image at full resolution: http://i.stack.imgur.com/z4kd4.png


texts: What is a good CLI-based bitmap tracing method?

texts: I often use the 'trace bitmap' function in Inkscape to create a vector image from a raster image. However, on larger or more complicated bitmaps, the program completely freezes. GUIs being what they are, I know that a command-line based approach would suit the task. So what's a good way to do that?


texts: How to provide label for montage by text file

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I use Ubuntu 14.0.4. We can use this command of ImageMagick to label each image by it's name:

montage -label '%t' -size 512x512 "./img/*.*[120x90]" -geometry +5+5 photo.png

I want to label images by list of strings, which is written in a text file. Docs say:

  -label name

  assign a label to an image.

  Use this option to assign a specific label to the image ...
  If the first character of string is @, the image label is read from a
  file titled by the remaining characters in the string. Labels in a
  file are literal, no embedded formatting characters are recognized.

But I could not use a file to provide label. I use a command like this:

montage -label @un.txt -size 512x512 "./img/*.*[120x90]" -geometry +5+5 photo.png

Above, un.txt is the name of text file in ./img/ path. This is a sample result:

In result, all images labeled by string @un.txt instead of content of un.txt. Also I get this error in terminal:

  montage.im6: improper image header `./img/un.txt' @
  error/txt.c/ReadTXTImage/429

If I move un.txt to the current (.) directory and run above command again, I will get this image (there is no label) and below error:

  montage.im6: not authorized `@un.txt' @
  error/property.c/InterpretImageProperties/2959.


texts:
I'm trying to make a bumper sticker where a lacrosse stick overlaps a letter that has some transparent parts, as shown in the picture (which looks like a png but the actual file is a vector). How can I get it so that the stick part is not showing in the transparent parts of the letter?

I am running Illustrator CC :)


texts: Make path that have same space between each other inner triangle

texts:
I have created triangle, I want to create lines inner it. I successfully created some lines, but the space between other line is not same (sometimes further sometimes closer).

Lets look below image that I have created on Photoshop

That I want ask, How to create a collection of blue line (path) in above example with same space between each other? It's there tool in Illustrator to make 4 or 6 line with same space? thanks in advance


texts: Illustrator, Copy & Scale to create repeating pattern

texts: I'm trying to create a repeating pattern of objects that scale and rotate to create something similar to the peacock design within the circle in this Alphonse Mucha Illustration, Is there any way to automate or duplicate transforms to acheive this?


texts: Clickable stickers sticking out of a notebook

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I'm trying to make clickable buttons that look like they're stickers sticking out of a notebook. Here's how it looks like:

What's the best way to do this? Should each of them be PNG images with transparent backgrounds? That would work only if I rotated the images and made them small, but I'm afraid to use CSS3 for image rotation since that might not be supported in older browsers like IE5.

Also, how do I make the menu button that is on the left clickable as whole (I mean, not just the text)? Should I use an image that is positioned using position: absolute; ?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Import/export clipping path only from Photoshop?

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I'm working with another designer and we exchange PSD's where we both create clipping masks for objects in the photograph.

As the files are quite big, I was wondering if there is a way to only exchange the clipping masks? That way we don't have to shuffle the big files back and forth.

I have looked online for an answer - but couldn't find one.


texts: Creating flexible text boxes in Illustrator

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I'm going to be making images that include hundreds of lines of text of varying lengths, each of which will have the same "background", with the exception of the length of the background, which will need to be relative to the length of the text. I want to not have to manually fit text to a box each time.

The second twist is that I want the background to be reduced opacity, but I want the text to be 100% opacity.

So the text will always be the same size and solid white, over a (say) 80% opacity orange background. The "padding" (inset?) on all four sides of the text the text will be constant relative to the text. All that will change is the overall width of the text string, consistent with the overall width of the "box".

I have reviewed these two answers

How to fit text box size to text?

and

Change Background Color of Text Box in Illustrator CS5

which would seem to address this but don't quite. I am using Illustrator CS6.


texts: Distort circle so it looks like it is on a 3D surface (Illustrator CC)

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Below is a diagram I have made in Illustrator CC:

How can I skew the shaded circle so that it looks like it is placed on the surface of the dashed shape?


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I have over 500 images that I've collected online, but the issue is that they are all different sizes.

I am trying to standardize them to 500px by 500px to put as thumbnails on my blog, I was wondering if anyone knew a fast way to do this. I will keep the background white, but I just need the images to be resized and centered so it fits in a 500 by 500px canvas.

Would love some tips!


texts: How do most graphic designers handle their branding mockups? Templates or DIY?

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I'm curious about how you handle your branding mockups for final delivery on a job. Putting logos or branding assets on 3D, real-world objects to demonstrate its use and final application, as well as to suggest the mood and tone of the brand.
Do you source these images from templates and stock websites? If so, which ones? Do you take your own photos or make your own mockup material libraries? If so, what is your process?
I'm particularly interested in some of these 3D modeled and rendered posters / fabrics that are trending in graphic design right now. In terms of complexity, it looks to me as though some of these styles can be achieved very simply in blender, on a beginner level, with just a few fabric physics, which is something that I would like to try myself but I'm struggling to find a decent tutorial close to what I'd want to achieve.
If you create your own 3D branding mockups in blender, are there any particular tutorials that you've found to be helpful?


texts: What are the rules on using colon, dash, or space as separators?

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From the image, you can see how they separate 'Step 2' and 'Substitute' with what looks like an en space but for 'Hint' they use a colon instead.

Here they use an en dash to separate the two parts of the heading.

Are there any rules on this, or is it mostly subjective?

Thanks in advance.


texts:
How I make outer border of selection in GIMP ?
I tried stroke selection, but the half of the border  covers the selection area and half is out  of the selected area.  I want the border to be completeley out of the selected area.


texts: Drawback of using your logo for animations

texts:
I am considering using an animation during which my company’s logo morphs and changes color (company colors).
I’m not sure if it is good for your image and brand recognition.
What are potential problems I should consider in this respect?

Context

Our logo has 'music' in it's name. For the animation the word music changes to a number of genres until it finishes on 'music' (like the logo) to show a diversity in music genres used in our company.


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I'm looking for the smallest Cyrillic font I can find, something similar in size to the SMALL FONTS font found in windows (around 7px)

It's for a retro looking russian videogame so must be clean pixels and no aliasing or anything

Any suggestions?


texts: What's this font used for Astrology & Crystals' logo?

texts: I need to know what font is this. Thanks so much!


texts:
I created this "template" to create minimal logo with the Shape Builder Tool.
But when I try to merge yellow field AI always also marks all of the red fields including the yellow field.
Do you guys know how to just choose the yellow field?
Sorry for this newbie question - started yesterday with learning AI.

Many thanks in advance!


texts: Active Adobe Font Not Showing Up In Illustrator - Why?

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I have activated the font "Good Headline Pro Bold" in Adobe Fonts:

But when I'm working in Illustrator, I search for that type in the character panel, and nothing shows up:

Clicking on "Add Fonts From Typekit" takes me back to Adobe Fonts, where I'm able to confirm that the font in question has been activated:

I've tried to activate some other Adobe fonts, but they are also not showing up in Illustrator:

Any suggestions? Thanks!


texts: How to edit Inkscape measure text for small measures?

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Here's an example: open Inkscape 0.91, draw a line about 10+ pixels in lenght, and use the Extensions / Visualize Path / Measure Path ... :

Set the font to 5 px here; and note the text box of measure tool shows only "13", whereas the lenght (from the W box above) is 13.385 px.

If you say OK to this, and select the text box:

If you select it with normal pointer, it says below "Text on path [truncated]" (see also Inkscape - Dev - NEW: truncated text indication); if you switch to the text tool as on the image, you get a red outline, and if you open the XML editor, you can see that the full text is actually "13.38 px", but only "13" is shown, because the text is, well, truncated.

So my question is - how can I get this text box to show the entire text? It is namely NOT a frame, and there are not ANY properties in the XML that allow for the changing of the box size - so I cannot edit the size of this text box?!


texts: How do you decide the text direction when written in vertical direction?

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Every other design for social media, I face this problem. I discussed this in room also. I came to know that different countries have different views. They also gave examples about book spine. Which I couldn't understand very well.

Now I know it can be opinion based. But I also know this is a genuine problem. If this weren't a graphic design problem, I would never be so much confused about every other design. I often face this problem.
Does it depends totally on Designers choice (what he likes)? Does it depend on size of text or number of words? Does it depend on side (left / right / top / bottom) of the design?
So for a particular design, how can one decide that keeping top to bottom or bottom to top will be better? For example, how do I decide which approach I should finalize for this design?
Also, book spine text direction is relevant to this topic?
Few examples:
England cricket page uses top to bottom approach for logo and some text:

TONI&GUY page uses it bottom to top:


texts: InDesign - booklet printing multiple duplexed spreads on a single page

texts:
I'm working on a booklet that is 3x5". I'd like to be able to print two two-page spreads per letter-size sheet of paper, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in InDesign.
Is this even possible? I'm mostly wanting to conserve paper.


texts: What are logos of these kind called? (Logos with a well defined square or rectangle)

texts: Below are some logos with a well defined square or rectangle. What are logos of these kind called?


texts: Free, screen-suited roman font to match Unifraktur Maguntia

texts:
I am currently creating a documentation for UnifrakturMaguntia, a font on which I worked in the last years in my freetime. This documentation will be rendered in two versions, one that is primarily set in blackletter and one that is primarily set in a roman font. In particular for the latter, I need a matching roman font.

This roman font must:

look good alongside UnifrakturMaguntia, in particular when used in the same line (see examples below). In particular, neither font should be overly prominent when immersed in the other due to having more or less type colour or strongly different proportions;
be suitable for screen rendering, so most likely a sans serif or slab serif;
be free, so others can build upon my work without having to purchase a font;
contain the characters Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü, ß und ſ (long s);¹
have at least two of the following:

an italic or slanted style (or be passable in faux italics);
a bold style (or, if the matching style is already bold: have an even bolder style);
small caps

It would be nice if the font also:

has a monospace variant;
contains », «, –, ’ and an appropriate narrow space;¹
supports most characters from Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended A;
supports Greek.

¹ An alternative would be if the font is designed and licensed such that I can easily add these characters myself.

I browsed Fontsquirrrel and some other resources and the biggest problem with most fonts matching the hard criteria was that they had no matching proportions or clearly had less colour (but of course I may have missed or misjudged some fonts). My favourite choice so far is Yanone Kaffesatz, which I use in the following examples but which almost fails criterion 5 and fails or partially fails criteria 6 to 9. Also it is somewhat too narrow for my taste. (Still, I do not consider it a bad choice given my constraints.)

To give you a rough idea how things are going to look like, here are two examples with Yanone Kaffeesatz (click the images for full resolution):

(I am aware that there are some unresolved issues with these examples, which I am going to tackle when I will have decided upon the font.)


texts:
Does anyone know how to create corner-aligned dashed lines in Inkscape?
I am looking for a similar feature that exists in Adobe Illustrator (see
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs5/creating-corneraligned-dashed-lines/)
I am not able to find this feature or a workaround in Inkscape version 0.91.
Thank you in advance,
Andries


texts: What is the best way to bring svg's from Photoshop to web using @font-face?


texts: Often I hear the term overline. What is an overline and what is its function and style in typography?


texts: InDesign: How to import frame breaks with XML?

texts:
I use linked XML to import content for my book into my InDesign document. It's one text flow across multiple pages, and certain content deserves to have its own frame (e.g., pull quotes, images, exercises, and captions).

I imagine I could get the correct pieces of text to flow into the correct frames with line breaks, but I don't want to manually insert line breaks after import. How can I include InDesign frame breaks into my XML document?


texts: Placing an object on top of other object showing background object color

texts:
I am placing an object and placing it on top of other object using Align and Distribute but the other object background color is appearing as a stroke.

Image one is showing two objects.


texts: Specific problem in texturing of a realistic 3d earth model

texts:
Why am I HERE?

I want to ask very much specific question about a problem I faced while making a realistic earth model in Cinema 4D. There are dozens of tutorials available on this topic in youtube and other sites. But all of them neither satisfied me nor solved my problem. I think you guys can help me.

What is the problem?

In the real images of earth taken from the space, the edge of the earth appears to be very much diffused and one cannot find any sharp boundary (may be it depends upon exposure of the camera). See the image below.

Now in all the tutorials (I have seen) they failed to make such a diffused edge having no boundary between earth's land and the atmospheric glow. So ,how their earth looks like, is the following:

Next I tried hard to make the edge diffused but I failed and this is my problem. So, where I have ended is as following:

What do I want?

I want somebody to help me to make the edge diffused as real. Please tell me how to do that?

Note: I have used three materials as texture for earth, cloud and atmosphere on three different sphere of increasing radius. Then "object glow", "glow" and "color correction" is also used. Any other technique will also be appreciated. More, my version of Cinema 4D is R 16 studio.

Caution: I have asked this question before to some other people. They have suggested me to use photo-shop to make the diffusion. But I am creating a 3D model and wish to animate it. Therefore, photoshopping will not help me!


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I am going to use an image for my header which should to transparent..i thought of using PNG but a bit worried about its transparency issues .. So is there any solution?

Its a two image header where a transparent image is placed over a normal image ..

We have a site layout used for 4 different clients.. So i use different style sheets  ..

So in the style sheet i should add the logo of the client (which should be a transparent image) But right now in my computer i do not have any transparent issues.. but i read this article
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm

and a bit worried about it's performance ..


texts: What is the difference between wireframes and mockups?

texts:
I would like to know the difference between Wireframes and Mockups. I'm hoping to gain a simple understanding of the difference or to definitively know that both are the same.

I googled it but I couldn't understand what exactly the difference is, I would appreciate it if someone could explain it to me concisely.


texts: Photoshop wrong displaying Roboto font style

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I used the Roboto font for my projects in Photoshop.
I donwloaded from here http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html .
I unistalled the old Roboto and installed the new version of Roboto font which you can see here http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html#typography-roboto-noto
With this new version Roboto Regular is the same as Roboto Black. I mean it's exactly the same. Is this a Font bug or Photoshop bug or maybe Windows 8 installed the font wrong ?

Other Roboto Styles are displayed as expected.

Photoshop version 2014.2.1


texts: GREP InDesign, can I move a word to the beginning of a paragraph?

texts:
Is there a way to move an entire specific word at the beginning of the sentence it belongs to? Let's say I want words contained within brackets to be repositioned.

At the moment I have something like this:

WordOne wordtwo wordthree wordsfour [targetWord] otherWord otherword.

I would like it to become:

[targetWord] WordOne wordtwo wordthree wordsfour otherWord otherword.

I know how to identify the word within brackets, but I was wondering if there is a way to move it.


texts: Change default program "edit original" on Illustrator

texts:
How can I change the default program for edit original linked file?

My default is another program (MS Paint), I want to change it to Photoshop, how can I change this?


texts: Photoshop CC: Text and shape layers with same opacity, fill, blending and color render with different brightness

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Anyone knows why two different layers (a shape and a text) with the same opacity (54%), fill (100%), blending (normal) and color (#000) render with different brightness?

See following example:

The corresponding PSD file can be download here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqetx9cnxy2ok7p/TEST.psd?dl=0

I have noticed that it is actually the text layer which renders wrong - so when grouping the text layer and setting the opacity of the the group to 54% it renders correctly.

May it just be a bug or do I miss something here?

UPDATE:

I was finally able to file a bug report at photoshop.com - so if you have the same problem feel free to vote it up:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/text-and-shape-layers-with-same-opacity-fill-blending-and-color-render-with-different-brightness?rfm=1

Let's see what Adobe says...

UPDATE:

As already mentioned in the comments Chris Cox from Adobe replied:

  Not a bug - it's because text is blended using a different gamma in order to make the antialiasing look better.
  You can disable that in the color settings.

So to "fix" this issue:

Open "Color Settings" Dialog
Uncheck "Blend Text Colors Using Gamma" Checkbox (Sorry, screenshot only available in german)

See comment from @ACEkin for an english translation. English screenshot from @ACEkin below:


texts: How to manually swap/combine faces without auto blend layers?

texts:
I am trying to make some editing involving anime characters.
The problem is that whenever I try to use auto blend layers, my entire composition gets destroyed.
Color getting all over the place (as you see in the following images).
Before auto blend:

After auto blend:

I tried searching online for face swaps or merge tutorial but every single one of them is using auto blend layers function, which I would like to avoid since every time I use it with anime the entire picture gets ruined.
How can I achieve this without using auto blend? And why is auto blend acting like that in the first place?


texts: Exporting reflowable Content from InDesign

texts:
I know I can create interactive and fluid alternate layouts in InDesign but can I export that as a single document using InDesign's online publisher and still be able to resize the browser to show different screen sizes like you can do with any responsive website or export from Muse?

Every example I see online of "Online Publisher", people only show the interactivity but don't' show the content responding as the browser gets resized. Is it even something it can do?


texts: How to correctly implement a color scheme

texts:
Let me begin this question by saying outright that I don't consider myself a designer! I'm a developer and my strengths do not lie in design but I am in a situation at the moment where I need to design a site and I have a number of different possible color schemes that I'd like to try out.

I've tried this before but ran into a number of problems - namely which color to put where!

So for example I've picked out this scheme as one of my possible color schemes but how do I know which color should go where? For someone who is seasoned in doing so it may be obvious but is there a formula or method that can be followed in implementing a color scheme?

EDIT: Also, once I've chosen my color scheme which usually seems to consist of 5 colors - can I, or am I expected to, implement different shades of those colors if required? Or does this decrease the integrity of the scheme?

It's issues like this that leave me confused about color scheme implementation.


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Kulu is a company that makes rolling papers. I was looking for a high res image of their logo and when I realized I couldn't find one I was gearing up to re-create it but became interested in what the type they used was. I'm also interested in any similar fonts as I suspect this may be custom.

I tried using identifont but because there are only 3 letters in the brand name it wasn't conclusive. The same goes for Whatthefont, as the image is so lo-res it's not picking up the letterforms. I tried Serif search too, but again a lack of letters doesnt lend to making this search easy.


texts: A keyboard shortcut for changing the Fill percentage in Photoshop

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I was wondering if there is a shortcut for changing the fill percentage in Photoshop. I know the shortcut to changing the opacity is pressing the numeric keys on the keyboard. Is there something similar for Fill also? Or is there a section in the Keyboard shortcuts , where I can create a new shortcut?

Thanks


texts: Pathfinder not accomplishing my task in Illustrator

texts:
I am trying to make a speech bubble. My attempt consists of a rectangle and then using the pen tool to establish three points. They are not filled and only have a border.

Here is what I have:

This is what I'm actually shooting for:

I don't see why the pathfinder tool can't remove that one line. Does anyone have any ideas, or am I going about this the wrong. I've worked with Photoshop for about two years, but only worked with Illustrator for a few weeks.


texts: Where to find good examples of typography for inspiration?

texts:
I am working on a piece where typography is the main design element. However, I can't seem to get the inspiration I need in order to come up with something I like. It would be helpful to me if I had a place that I could go (online) to see examples of good design and typography that match the kind of work that I am trying to do.

Specifically, I'm trying to imitate old letterpress and woodblock type prints. I'm not really involved in the graphic design community, so I may not be aware of online resources that exist already. Do you have any sites that you could recommend?


texts: How do I go about finding a font that says "safe, secure data"?

texts:
does anyone have any suggestions for a font and type treatment that says "safe, secure data?"

to me, the 'safe' part means big, bulky, with perhaps a steel sheen, impenetrable.
however, the 'data' part means a more elegant styling. i have had difficulty finding such a font. i have a large font catalog and nothing seems to fit. i've also tried searching design sites for new fonts, but still haven't found anything that seems to fit.

i would appreciate any suggestions, thank you.


texts: What font is used for Cherished Lockets' logo?

texts:
Anyone recognise the Font from Cherished Lockets? I found this logo on Behance but not sure where exactly.

I have tried Identification tools and it didn't work because I have too little characters.


texts: How to move up and down the layers panel in Photoshop using the keyboard on Scandinavian or German layout?

texts:
On a U.S. keyboard, you use the Option/Alt+[ or ] keys to move up and down layers.

My problems is that the brackets on the Scandinavian keyboard are located on the 8 and 9 number keys and do not work with the same short cuts.


texts: Open type sans serif fonts with true small caps

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I am designing the front cover page for my book in Adobe Illustrator. I would like to have a nice sans serif font for my main title. I chose Lucida Sans (font style = Demibold Roman). However, I have discovered that the small caps (SC) are only simulated and the first larger glyph looks much thicker. Doing a search on fake/simulated SC vs true SC I now understand that this font does not have true SC e.g. by looking at glyphs from Type menue.

My question is, can I download an open type Lucida Sans or similar that would have true SC? Even better I'd like to have a look at all san serif fonts that have true SC and choose the best one (out of the freely available ones - I don't want to pay for a font). A quick Google search reveals a bunch of sites to download Open Type fonts, but I don't see search function to specify sans serif + true small caps. Any suggestions appreciated!


texts: Why can't I display all glyphs in some fonts?

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Why some glyphs are not working from some fonts? They are showing "No Unicode" in the Glyphs panel and I can't access them. I tried also to edit the font and add codes for the glyphs I want, but this method is not working.

Anybody do know how to fix this? I'm using Illustrator CS6 LS6. Thank you in advance.


texts: How to manage the font size between retina and the normal design

texts: I am mocking up a one page website using sketch in macbook pro retina with the resolution of 1440width and 5120height. I see everything perfect once my design is done, but when I start coding the html and css with my thunderbolt I see the font sizes are bigger than the one I am seeing in my retina display. So what would be the better solution to have a better design in normal window and as well as retina window. I use 1x and 2x images for retina and normal window but I am not pretty sure about font sizes. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: What do I need to start creating professional drawings?

texts: What tools or software or devices are neccessary to create proffesional drawings for games for example? How to draw something and be able to use it on PC?


texts: What could be problem, when exporting to pdf from gimp

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When exporting a file from gimp to pdf format, to include in publication, the items show up with a gray border on left and right, much shorter than full-scale.
I’ve checked the dimensions on pages that imported fine, which was 1080x1920 and verified that this info is the same.  I’ve used the export to pdf function. It does not seem to be exporting properly.  Any tips would be great.  Thanks


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Referring to this svg:
There are 5 squiggles. Supposed I wanted to select one of them and the copy and paste it elsewhere. How do I do this? I've ungrouped it all but that doesn't seem to do anything.


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So I'm trying to figure out how to add a curved little highlight to the right of this rounded rectangle. I have a highlight underneath (in it light green), but I can not for the life of me create one to sit beside this rounded rectangle.

I tried to draw it with the pen tool, but it looks "off" I tried to use the shape builder but that just gives me a semi circle. When I add the stroke, it obviously strokes the full object.

Any ideas?? I'm using AI CC.


texts: Regular panoramic photo to iPhone panoramic

texts: How I can change the format or the register of a panoramic photo made in Photoshop to a iPhone panoramic photo, this is because the new feature of Facebook admit only that ones


texts: How can I evoke the style of Impressionism in a web design?

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Design of almost all sites on the web is sharp. How can I create a good web page where tabs, buttons, and other UI elements mimic the style of impressionism?

I find common themes of impressionism to be small brush strokes, open composition, depiction of light as opposed to usual web graphics.

Do you think is it possible to connect these two?
Do you have any ideas how to do that?
Or maybe someone did it before and you know page like that?

I'll appreciate each opinion, idea, link or photo.


texts: Why not use pure black (#000) and pure white (#FFF)?

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A New Top Bar for Stack Exchange says,

The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s really black*.
* Jin points out that technically it’s not quite black: it’s #212121.

In its CSS I see,
background: #2f2f2f;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);

Why not "really black": why is "not quite black" better?
Similarly, for the rest of the background I see something like,
background: #fdfdfd

Why not pure white?
I'm not asking about StackExchange specifically -- what I mean is, is this a good general rule for any/all web sites: when the design spec seems to ask for black or white, should I use almost black and white instead of really black and white?
Does this 'rule' apply to any other colors too (what is the rule, exactly)?
Is the rule device-dependent?


texts: How would I recreate this effect using blending modes in Photoshop?


texts: inkscape) remove part of object which is outside of another object

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I have two circles.
One small blue circle and one big pink circle.

Blue circle intersects the pink circle like the image

I want remove just the part of blue ball which is outside of pink ball. I tried to select both two balls and do difference but it also removes the part of blue ball which is inside of pink ball