texts: FontForge: Change the aspect ratio of an existing font

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I have found a font I really like to program with, but it is too tall.

I would like to scale the height of the font to 80% (or alternatively scale the width of the font to 125% if that might work better).

This is what I have tried:

Open the TTF file
Edit > Select > Select All
Element > Transformations > Transform
Scale Y to 80%, leave X at 100%

After doing this, it looks like it has worked: the glyphs in the editor now have the aspect ratio I want.

So I proceed:

Element > Font Info
Change the three font name fields
When recommended to "Change XUID?", accept
File > Generate Fonts to save a new TTF

But when I try to use the new font in an application (e.g. GVim or Konsole) it looks exactly like it did before!

What can I do to make the new aspect ratio stick?


texts: What is the rule of thumb for a rag being acceptable

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I have some copy that I am setting as ragged-right, but I am trying to set it in the cleanest possible way without egregious rags while also avoiding creating orphans. With the current text, it seems I am stuck in between a rock and a hard place. When I try to avoid the large dip in the text length, I get an orphan at the end, but when I try to get rid of the orphan I get a rag. I am currently following the following guide:
http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/rags-widows-orphans
as I am an neophyte. The Author suggests that you solve for rags by manually creating the line breaks, which is what I have been doing. I don't know if this small problem merits messing with column width or font-size, which both seem last resort options. Is there some process or algorithm which designers use to make the cleanest ragged right text that I am unaware of, which could get me out of my current situation?

Or maybe one of the above is professionally acceptable, but I wouldn't know as I don't know the guidelines.


texts: What quotation marks to use if quoting other language?

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I am writing a thesis in the Swedish language, where convention for quotations is to use right  quotes or guillemets: " " or » »

But what when I quote e.g. an English source…

  The Church has always emphasized the “public” character of its own liturgy.

or German …

  Diese Bewegung von ,,unten" nach ,,oben" ist weiterhin deutlich spürbar.

Should I keep the quotation marks from the original source in the quoted text or change quotation marks according to the convention used in the rest of my text?

The second example above would then be rendered like this in my Swedish manuscript:

  Glaser skriver att: "Diese Bewegung von ,,unten" nach ,,oben" ist weiterhin deutlich spürbar."

or

  Glaser skriver att:”Diese Bewegung von ‘unten‘ nach ‘oben‘ ist weiterhin deutlich spürbar.”


texts: I have a hp officejet6500Aplus and  my grandson wants to do a project on the family tree. He has drawn his story and now wants to print on go clear laminate / transparent so he can project his story on the wall.  Ive tried the transparent sheets but they come out wet. Would laminate or even an acetone sheet bd bdtter? Your help is appreciated .


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I am working on redesigning my website and iterating through fivesecondtests.

The overall feedback is improving but no matter what I change, several people have mentionned that my designs look "dated". "Not modern". "Use modern fonts".

  What are "modern fonts"?
  Technically, Calibri, Cambria, etc. are "modern fonts", but I hardly ever see those online. What fonts are considered "modern" in the context of web design?

  What are the characteristics of a "modern design"? Conversely what
  are the tell tale signs of a "dated" design?

For reference, here is the latest iteration of my design. Does it still look "dated"? If so, what elements give that impression?

I think I am starting to get a better idea of what "modern web design" is:

No or light gradients
Sans serif typefaces
Light drop shadows
Good page hierarchy / directing visitor's attention

Is there anything else that makes a design look "modern"?

I have implemented the most of the recommendations in the answers, and I feel it has improved the design a lot. (Never mind the logo - will figure that one out later)

Am I still stuck in the past? Or am I finally getting somewhere?

Implementing all recommendations, this is what I get:

It's obviously much better, but is it up to modern standards yet? If not, can it get there without changing massively the layout?

The learning process never ends, does it? Assume that the central menu has a lava effect and that hopefully I can get a decent photo of myself shot to replace that one.

Looking at the various versions, I can see the design improving by leaps and bounds. Not sure how much further it needs to improve to reach professional standards, but it's certainly moving in the right direction.

Thanks a lot to all of you. I am impressed by the quality of the advice and how specific and actionable most recommendations have been so far.


texts: How to enumerate images on A4 print for multiple pages on Phtoshop?

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I have to print some labels on an A4 paper. These labels need to be enumerated with iteration for multiple prints. About 8 labels per page, and more than 10-15 pages, depending on the requirement.

I searched online and found that postscript allows some script functionality at the time of print. I tried reading some postscript examples, but couldn't find any valid example to suggest an example of what I'm trying to achieve.

Although I know some javascript, and maybe there's a script for this in the jsx Extended Script somehow.

Example:
o

n.event.print(){
smartobject_label(all){ .          //all the smartobjects (labels)
for(i=0;i<=all.length;i++){
smartobject_label(this).object(number_object.text).text=i+1;
                                          //(i+1)=starting from 1;
                       }
                   }
}

That's mostly all.

Thanks!


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I need to change all text in all the stories in an indd file from "Adobe Paragraph Composer" to "Adobe World-ready Paragraph Composer".

Can it be done through UI or I have to use scripts. In the latter case, how do you set scope to all stories and change the paragraph composer?


texts: Get black value of color of text Illustrator Scripting VB

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I am trying to determine the value of the black in each text item in an illustrator document. I have managed to successfully run the count words script and alter it to apply a tint and a new color to each bit of text. Now I need to alter the tint based on its existing black value. Here is my attempt so far.

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

If (appRef.Documents.Count = 0) Then
    Set docRef = appRef.Documents.Add
Else
    Set docRef = appRef.ActiveDocument
End If

If (docRef.TextFrames.Count = 0) Then
    Set textArt = docRef.TextFrames.Add
    textArt.Position = Array(100, 425)
    textArt.Contents = "Illustrator Scripting"
    textArt.TextRange.CharacterAttributes.Size = 48
End If

spotName = "CreateSpotSwatch"

' Create CMYKColor
Set cmykColor = CreateObject("Illustrator.CMYKColor")
cmykColor.Cyan = 0
cmykColor.Magenta = 0
cmykColor.Yellow = 0
cmykColor.Black = 100

' Create Spot
Set Spot = docRef.Spots.Add
Spot.Color = cmykColor
Spot.ColorType = 2 ' aiSpot
Spot.Name = spotName

For Each textArt In docRef.TextFrames

    Set spotColor = CreateObject("Illustrator.SpotColor")
    Set textArtRange = textArt.TextRange

    Set color = textArtRange.CharacterAttributes.strokeColor.Black
    spotColor.Tint = color ' This should be the value of the black
    spotColor.Spot = Spot

    textArtRange.CharacterAttributes.strokeColor = spotColor
Next

Also happy to do this in Java if need be.


texts: Batch crop and center photos by trimming whitespace

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Processing large amounts of product images shot on white backdrops is very time consuming and seems like the perfect job for an app/script, but I cannot see anything available that can do this.
If I were able to create a photoshop script it would (presuming a bunch of layers as smart objects)

Create a rectangular selection around the object in the image using a simple luminance threshold value to determine what is object and what is backdrop.

Scale and centre the image so that this bounding box fills the canvas, with a user definable amount of padding.

The image dimensions need to remain constant for all images (or at least the aspect ratio)
(I don't want to 'straighten' anything)
I've attempted to make a start at this with extend script, but I can't see any way to achieve step 1.
Is anyone aware of an existing app or script that can achieve this?


texts: Improve the readability of a scanned map

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I have an old scanned map showing data from a 1980 survey. The map is in a PNG format. The original data has been lost over time and this is the only surviving image from the survey. Few regions on the map have been faded out and not readable.

My ultimate goal is to redraw this image in Illustrator. Is there any way to improve the readability of this map ?

Any input will be really helpful.


texts: 3d warp effect to place SVG text convincingly on a cylinder

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I'm placing some dynamic text in a web application/ to 'fit' on this cylinder. I'm changing the SVG  node to add the custom text - and I'm looking for a way to 'warp' it - so that it feels like it's a bit more real. It's imperative that whatever I use translates to web / and also keeps the aspect ratio so that it can match the image. I've been trying every combination of the 'warp' option / so - maybe there's something in the 3D area I can use. Does anything come to mind?

I know that I can use canvas or WebGL - but my question is about how I can use illustrator and SVG to get this looking nice.


texts: How do I set Extras to be off by default when I start up Photoshop 7?

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I don't know what setting changed, but every time I start up Photoshop 7 for Windows, View → Extras is checked, and a grid overlay appears on the image pane.

I'd like to set the default to View → Extras being unchecked / unticked when I start Photoshop.

There does not appear to be an obvious way to set this configuration within the application.

How can I make Photoshop 7 not show extras when I start up the program?


texts: Adding text in picture header without losing readability but not drawing too much attention

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I am working on a design with a big picture header.

This picture displays the subject of the website and on it is an accompanying text and a "conversion area" a form that starts a process.

Now I have fiddled around a bit with several options. But I tend not to get the result desired.

I am worried that if I place the text "here" that if I add a black translucent panel I will lose the attention grabbing effect of the conversion area. The "text here" will become readable but won't have the effect desired.

Keeping the "text here" white does work but is pretty much unreadable.

Now what are my options? Is there anyone with an idea how to solve this?

*edit : except for the fact that my Question has been answered. I would still like to explain why my question is different. At first, my question is about web-design. Not graphical editing in an image. Second it is about selling point promotion. Leaving the conversion factor in tact. The two examples below gave me a pretty good indication of what to try.

The solution in the given question as duplicate are very different to what suited my needs.


texts: Preparing a 19th Century Printed Engraving for Halftone Printing Today. I "Descreened" in Photoshop. Thoughts?

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Here's an XCU detail of the original:

And here's my finished version:

Using guidance at link below:
Descreening in Photoshop


texts: Where to get free high quality maps (vector)

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So I search for a long time, but couldn't find anything...

So basically I'm searching for high quality maps to create something similar like:

https://www.mapiful.com
https://www.mujumaps.com

The map is based on Openstreetmaps, but I don't know where to get high quality images or vector data to create a similar map


texts:
I'm building a website. For part of this website I want to have a picture that has rounded corners.

If I insert the picture normally then it will remain rectangular- the rounded corners being ugly white corners around the image that show up really obviously against the web page's background.

I could of course use some simple css and do border-radius: x;.

But this is graphic design, not web design. I'm wondering whether it is possible to do something within my graphics program to create truly transparent corners?

Following the cheat route of simply painting the corners the colour of my background is also not an option (assume I have a gaudy multi coloured background where the position of the image is open to change).

Unfortunately I only have illustrator and not photoshop which may limit my options here but I do wonder whether it is possible at all?


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Is there a way to skew text in Scribus?

I know there is Item > Transform > Transform > Skewing, but this only skews the text frame, not the actual text within it.

Another idea is to transform the text to a path first, but i want to avoid that.


texts:
When I zoom with my Macbook's trackpad by pinch gesture, elements get blurry because of decimal zoom level like "169,11%".

Is there a way to change zoom steps to use only integers?


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How do small office or agencies use share resources, client files, and so forth effectively to collaborate? Do they use local network attached storage, Dropbox, Google Drive, or something else?

I am from South Africa and our internet is not very fast, so I am specifically looking for a local storage or network attached network attached storage (NAS) workflow.

How do you do it? What is the most popular way to do so?


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I have this file where my background layer has a gradient overlay. When I try to crop a different layer I want my background to remain the same as it was before cropping it. Instead the gradient overlay changes accordingly to my crop. I wonder if there is a way around this or should I merge my layers, so the background doesn't move?

I'm using Photoshop CS6


texts: How can I curve a logo on a path without distorting it too much

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I've encountered a problem and I'm hoping there is going to be a quick fix involved, and that I wont have to redraw this logo:

The client wants to create a logo that curves on a tire like this:

I know about the type on path tool, but this is a custom font. Is there a way to turn this into a font and would that make it distort correctly?


texts: How to convert color images to black & white in GIMP?

texts: I've a color image and want to print on my black and white printer. So, How do I convert it to black & white using GIMP?


texts: how to set PhotoShop CS5 to Free Transform images by default

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I recently had to perform a format/reload on my box due to a HDD failure and after reinstalling CS5 I am noticing different behavior than before.  In the past when I pasted an image into Photoshop (or simply selected the layer) it would automatically put the Free Transform box around the image allowing me to immediately manipulate the image.  Now for some reason it does not and I have to either select "free Transform" or press Ctrl+T to get the Free Transform box to appear.  Is there a setting I am missing that would allow me to set this default behavior back?  I have looked an looked and am coming up empty handed.

I am running CS5 Extended V12.0.4 x64 on a Windows 7 machine.


texts: how can I create this gradient in photoshop?

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I want to create a radar like the one bellow,
where the gradient goes darker and darker clockwise.
in the left it is totally transparent, while in the right it goes to 60%.

I tried to add linear gradients, to overlap more of them to create a similar effect, but it just doesn't look good enough. How would you do it?


texts: Illustrator pdf-export options not available

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since updating my OS to Catalina a quite important option within Illustrator CC2015 is greyed out. I can't "convert colors (keep numbers)" as it is constantly greyed out, no matter the document.
I suppose that has something to do with missing elements within my library or settings. But which
Thanks for your help!


texts: how to make the original picture transparent to draw over the destination picture the missing lines

texts: I've just converted a colored picture with Akvis Draw into a sketcked picture. Now,what I want to do is to draw the missing lines by hand,closing perfectly the figure. The next step will be the automatic coloring of the empty space with a click using Windows Paint (or another similar tool). But,to do that I need to make the original picture a little transparent because I want to draw over the destination picture being able to see the original picture that's behind. In this way I can easily close the missing lines. Which kind of tecnique and tool do you suggest to use ? thanks.


texts: Change the artboard dimensions unit of measurement in Illustrator?

texts: In Adobe illustrator CC 2015 can I change the artboard dimensions unit of measurement? For example I buy a file online and the dimensions of the artboard are in px and I need it in mm.


texts: Using object to select other objects, Illustrator

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This question appears to be asking what I am asking, but the accepted (and only) answer does not seem to address the OP's (or my) question.

Is there a way to use one object or group of objects to select all objects that they overlap?

I believe I was able to find a complicated but workable method for a project ~3 years ago, but now can't figure it out.

Situation:
- Field of repeated objects A (an expanded pattern)
- Object B on top, larger than the component parts of A

Goal:
- Fill object B with complete instances of object A. Essentially a pattern fill but without any parts of the pattern cut in half
- Perhaps by select all objects A that overlap in any way with B, inverting selection and deleting


texts: What is the proper term for printed book sides?

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In german we call it »Schnittverzierungen«. There are different kinds of them, the most common one is »Farbschnitt«, where all sides are colored.

Here are some examples:

Source

Source


texts: Inkscape radial gradient center color visibly different from specified stop color

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I use Radial Gradient in Inkscape.
PROBLEM: Color at center of radiant is much darker than defined stop color, as shown by red arrow:

How comes?
How can I make the color at the center to be the one I want?

I thought it was just fading too fast, so I added an intermediate stop with the same color, but as you can see it is really a different color.


texts: What are the historical origins of Helvetica?

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This issue of a typeface's heritage is of particular interest when attempting to pair faces. The nuances of related faces tend to harmonize well, whether that relation is grounded in history or the type designer. Since Helvetica is one of the most widely used faces of all time, there is value in understanding it better. It also has many visually similar kin who might tangentially benefit from this answer.

So, where did Helvetica come from? Most of us know that the design team consisted of Max Miedinger (executing) and Eduard Hoffmann (directing) at the Haas Type Foundry in Switzerland. But what was their inspiration/model? What era were they trying to envoke, if any.

Most importantly, was there a predecessor to their inspiration that might provide a better understanding of this family? Can historical reference inform a richer use of this ubiquitous typeface?

For the purposes of this question, let's consider Helvetica and Helvetica Neue as the same family. I know there are notable differences but I don't think they are of importance to this topic.


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I just saved an .ai file as a .pdf and opened it afterwards to check size and quality. This is when I noticed the saved file was lower in both color and resolution, than the original .ai file.

After some resaving and playing with settings, I decided to open the file in Google Chrome. This shows the file in full-res and with the right colors.

The question now is: Why does it do this in Preview on Mac OS X? What is the factor that kills resolution and color? Is there a fix for Preview, or should I start using a different PDF-viewer?

See the following file for an example of quality difference (Preview > Illustrator > Chrome)

Link to high-res image


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I have a shape consisting of three anchor points. Now I want to delete one anchor point leaving the space between the two adjacent anchor points empty. So I follow the tried old Illustrator approach, but what happens instead is that when I press Backspace to delete the anchor point the point is removed but the shape border continues now instead between two of the three remaining anchor points (the same thing that would happen if you click an anchor point holding Alt in Illustrator).

I realize this may be a tad hard to follow, so here's what happens in images:

And here is a manipulated image of what I would like should happen:

Do we have any Sketch 3 guru here who know how to achieve this?


texts: Using Illustrator CC one layer shape out of multiple paths

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I have a shape created in Photoshop (one layer)
I copy the shape to illustrator (selecting compound path)and it shows each element as a separate path.
I would like to generate a font icon so I need one path for the selected shape.
I have tried the Phathfinder --> unite - still get separated paths.
Please help me to find the way for generating one path shape.


texts: How do I neatly flow website link texts across multiple lines?

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In the above picture, you can see a huge gap between "Source:" and the website link text, even though I have only put a single space there. I would like the text to flow nicely. I have tried adding discretionary hyphens directly after "en-us/" and after "library/" because those would be nice text breaking points. However, this doesn't work at all. The only thing that seems to work, is to simply remove the space, in which case you get the following:

This is less than ideal as now there is no room at all. This problem occurs in multiple places in my document, is there a way to fix this so the text flows neatly across multiple lines?

For your information, the text is size 9 Corbel and the text boxes are 58mm wide.


texts: What kind of character/personality is expressed by fonts that mix capitals and lowercase letters?

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I'm trying to guage the purpose of using fonts that have random capitals where there should be lowercase letters.

The question came about simply because I was looking at a design like the one I'm describing, and started to wonder what they're trying to express with such a seemingly random design feature.

Is it fun? Maybe childish?

Could there be any other reason for choosing a font like this?

I am aware that there is no correct answer to this, but maybe someone can offer a little insight.

Here's the design that sparked this question, specifically the word 'CrunCHY':


texts: How can I visually represent the concept of "planning"?

texts: Trying to create a logo. The customer provides assistance to homeless people by giving them resources and access to providers for help. The word planning is in their name.


texts: Is there a best way to convert an image from colour to black&white?

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This is a simple question but it doesn't seem to be here.

My question: Is there a better way to convert a colour image into a B&W (in photoshop) one than just changing the 'mode' of the image? By 'better' I mean 2 things: non-destructive and also the ability to have more control over the results (the brightness, contrast etc.)


texts: Move text content automatically to correct place when changing page order in InDesign

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I designed a multi-page booklet with three columns per page. In the master pages I defined one text box with a width of one column, and one text box with a width of two columns. The single-column text box is placed on the outside, i.e. the general layout looks like

I II II I

in a two-page view. When adding text afterwards, I use those pre-defined boxes by unlocking them and filling them with text.
Now, when adding a new page before that, the pages are shifted, but the text stays at the same side, resulting in a layout like

I II I II
II I

while I would like to keep the layout to

I II II I
I II

Putting the boxes back to where they belong takes a lot of work, especially if multiple pages are added later during processing.
Thus, is there a way to tell InDesign to keep the layout, and flip positions, i.e. moving the single-column box to the outside again?


texts: How can I automatically determine fonts used in an image or PDF?

texts: How is it possible to determine the fonts used by text in PDF and TIFF files?


texts:
I am trying to create some blobs that flow into each other and take up the entire artboard (kind of like this image but not as much lines as shapes similar to my attempt below).

In Inkscape I used the star tool along with the randomization parameter to create shapes seen below. This is somewhat adequate, but I'd like to have the shapes flow into/around each other more than the layered look you see here.

I can get access to Illustrator if I need to.

Is there a way to better make them flow into each other?


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I work with artboards a lot, both in Photoshop and in Illustrator. I love them, particularly when creating multiple sizes of the same artwork.
I also love smart guides. Unfortunately, they don't seem to love each other. When I work with multiple artboards the smart guides align to objects placed on other artboards, sometimes aligning to objects 4 artboards over.

Is there a way (or even a workaround) to limit smart guides to the current/active artboard? I found this question in a post on the adobe forum from 5 years ago, but no solution.


texts: How to colorize a layer with semi transparent borders to a specific color in GIMP?

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I have an white icon that needs to be colorized to a specific color. How do I do it in GIMP?

Keep in mind that it has semi transparent borders and transparent background, so using the bucket or selections is a no-go.

Also, I would appreciate if someone could extend the answer to "how to paint something that's has transparent borders without tools that use thresholds?", as this has been a question to me for a long time, and I really hate non seamless alternatives, like thresholds and feathering.

This is the icon: http://i.stack.imgur.com/4yMhn.png


texts: How to remove all the Pink Numbers That Show Up When Using Move Tool On Type & Vector Graphics

texts: Hello I was trying to change the size of shape layer and type but a bunch of numbers keep showing up that's really getting on nerves. Im not sure what to call all of these numbers. If anyone has any idea remove all of the numbers seen on the screenshot below please let me know. Thank you!


texts: Why does Illustrator changes the color of an object when I copy it and paste it in another Illustrator document?

texts: As the title say, I've got this issue with Illustrator. I'm working on a CMYK document and if I copy and paste an object to another CMYK document, the colors of the object changes in an "unsaturated" version of the same color.


texts: I found these wonderful typographic maps on Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/SilkeSpingies?section_id=15207850&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1) where city names are placed in the correct location, and font size is based on population size. She has maps of Korea in Korean, Japan in Japanese,  Thailand in Thai, etc. Because of this,  I don't think it is completely done by hand. I would like to make maps like these for other countries. What would be the easiest way to go about this?


texts: Making high resolution figure for publication

texts:
I have figure in my paper and the journal requested the figure to be in the following characters:
Width = 8.5 inches OR Width= 7791px
Height = 11 inches OR Height = 4724px
Pixels/Centimeter = 300 (DPI) (minimum)
All figure should be in vector scale
I used chemdraw to make the figure and them converted to TIFF. Then by using photoshop I made the resolution 300 dpi and the dimentions as requested (8.5 * 11 inches).
When I sent the figure to the journal they said it is blurry and you need to improve it by asking professional graphic designers.
So, I am very grateful if one can help.
Regards


texts: How do I do a mask in Illustrator like Photoshop where both layers show?

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For example, I want to draw a teal circle with part of an orange circle on it.

When I select them both and choose "make clipping mask", it gives me the correct orange part, but the teal part is now invisible:

Here is what happens in Photoshop and what I'm trying to achieve in Illustrator:


texts:
Tried every, Merge Down, move it, different image, uninstalling. Dont know what else to do.
Heres a little vid.
https://streamable.com/er09oz


texts: How do you know which Licence is needed to use image in your app?

texts: I have created a mobile application and I am using few graphic wallpapers in that. App is free but I am getting some revenue from Google Ads. Can anyone tell me under which licence I can download and use the images for that app.


texts: Dynamic 3D model rendering with physics using known keypoints position

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(A bit of background: I am a C++ engineer with 0 graphical design experience)

I have a following task:

Capture a 3D keypoints position from live actor using multi-camera
motion capture technique
Adjust the position and skeleton of a 3D character model
Apply necessary environment physics (hair physics or actor
interacting with virtual object)
Render the final result (with green-screen support)

Capturing is not a real-time thing in my case (I capture and save at 60 FPS, but can only process ~2 FPS for accurate estimation, so all the processing is done after actor recording)

I have step 1 complete and it provides me a set of ~100 3d points position (it is running in a C++ application so I can export it to any format I want) including body and face tracking. But I am not sure which tools are good to use for other 3 steps. The concept is that the final render may have a green-screen as a background so I can post-process it as I like (or reuse the render without rendering the scene multiple times)

The scenes are not overly complex (up to 100k polygons total) so I don't expect the rednering to be overly demanding. As for the character 3D model I decided to go with FBX models, but I would like to hear an opinion about what is good for all other objects in the scene which I am not manually animating

I am not really restricted by the tool selection but I am restricted in knowledge in what is good for what. I tried using bs framework (C++ library) which lets me do some basic model bone adjustments but all the cool rendering effects and physics (especially) is left to me and I am not really looking forward doing this logic since I am 100% other tools provide such functionality out-of-the-box.

From my research it may be a good idea to go with Unreal or Unity but since I have no experience with both I am still looking for some advice.

Bonus points if the tools you advise will have a capability to do real-time rendering (once I go from ~2 FPS to ~20 FPS for motion capture processing) so it can be streamed to some content platform (Twitch, YouTube, etc), the current hardware I use is 8th gen Intel i7 and RTX2060, but will be upgrading depending on the requirements


texts: Can I stylize the trademark symbol to match logo design?

texts: I need to know if the trademark (™) symbol has to remain fairly generic in styling, or can it by made to match the style of a logo?


texts: Adobe InDesign: how can I get the CMYK code from a color that I have saved in RGB in the swatches?

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I'm making a work for school and I have to put together color palettes for some pictures. I also want to indicate the RGB and the CMYK code but when I get a color from a picture with the Eyedropper Tool I only get the RGB. I assume it is so because the picture is in RGB mode.

How can I get in a fast way the correspondent CMYK code for that specific color? (In fact I see default colors in the swatches above mine that are in CMYK...maybe there's a way to switch easily from RGB to CMYK inside the swatches..)


texts: How would I make the letters rose gold colored?

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I have a pink napkin with letters that are rose gold colored:

The problem is that the letters look too golden and not pink enough. If I try taking pictures of the napkin with better lighting, the pink napkin gets overexposed.

I tried using the strategy taught here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpO2VNPJzw but I can't seem to find the right pink using just the Hue / Saturation method.

This is the color I'm looking for:

Is there a good method for changing the color to another color?


texts: Indesign: Javascript to access the New Hyperlink panel

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I want to create what is hopefully a simple javascript action that I can assign to a keyboard shortcut to save me clicking the same steps over and over.
Basically, I want to highlight my text, then have a script run that will open the dialog box for "New Hyperlink Destination"
I'm not sure about the InDesign DOM so if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks


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simple as that, but i dont find any options!!!

I dont want to preserve image. i just want to remove handles from a node to get sharp corners with no curves.

Click+Ctrl creates handle on node, but there is no option to remove it (Ctrl+Z in that case works but not a real answer.)


texts: Automating the reizing of different size images to a 300px by 200px image size

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I have various size images, some tall and wide others wide and tall, all with different image dimensions.

Is there a platform where I can dump all these images and they will be resized to fit into a 300px x 200px image box with a white or transparant background.

I think i used Imagemagic a few years ago but not sure if this feature is now part of image manipulation software as standard now or whether this can be done online using a service Dropbox with LFTTT or something similar.


texts: What are some good resources for learning calligraphy?

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I'm not known for my good penmanship, but I would like to be able to make these hand lettered pieces that have become really popular in the past few years.

I know that calligraphy can be a learned artform, but all I see in forms of learning are these 'kits' at Barnes & Noble and other bookstores that I don't really trust to teach me anything.

Are there resources out there for me? Or is it pretty much a "practice makes perfect" type of learning where it comes to me only by (literal) wrote memory?

(Also, I know that anything takes practice to learn, that's not my question, lol. I'm not looking for "quick and easy" resources, but actual books/sites that people who do professional calligraphy or the like would use or have used when they were learning.)


texts: Best way to resize book in different size?

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I have some 120 pages 2-colour books (with line diagrams and some grayscale pictures) designed in Coreldraw and Indesign in a specific size (8.5" x 11"). I have to now redesign the book in a smaller size (7.25" x 9.5") with no change in the content.

Can you please guide me what would be the recommended way to do this in less time?

I was thinking of exporting each individual page in TIF and them importing and resizing in the new document. Will that affect printing quality? One problem with this approach would be that I cannot edit the content of the book later. Anything else that I am missing out?

Thanks a lot


texts: Access to all glyphs from OTF font in Photoshop CS6 (Mac OS)

texts: I have downloaded font and saw this video. Here author show, how to use all glyphs in Illustrator. But how to use it in Photoshop? I tried to find symbols in Fonts.app, copy it and paste to photoshop but it appear as square with cross. Help please :)


texts: Inkscape - easy way to make a lace design?

texts: Was playing around with designing clothes on Inkscape, and was wondering if you are able to make lace? I've already tried to make lace with the Bezier Curve, but every time I try it looks awful. Any easier ways?


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I want to kinda difference colors on a layer but the difference should be "positive", ie. orange and orange should be white rather than black. Here's a picture of what I mean:

Before:

After:

I created this by using two text layers but I would like to only use one. Is this possible?


texts: Compass "ticks" around a circle in Illustrator

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Forgive me if I do not have the correct terms as my graphic design skills (and compass parts knowledge) are limited at best, but I am trying to create a compass in Illustrator as part of a game UI asset with the ticks that go completely around a circle, representing 360 degrees,  similar to what is seen in the image below.
What I have attempted so far is creating a 2 lines with spaces between them, and using Object > Blend > Make, in which I can create 360 ticks easy. However, I am having difficulties in getting the lines to completely encircle... the circle when I use Replace Spline. That, and the tick-lines go off in wonky directions rather than running perpendicular to the circle line. I have also tried using Envelope Warp (Arc) on the 360 lines I created, but it doesn't complete a full circle.
Can anyone lead me in the right direction in figuring out how to achieve what I am trying to accomplish? (Bonus points for ensuring 360 ticks are spaced evenly throughout the circle). Thanks kindly.


texts: How do I easily replicate this pattern digitally (Photoshop preffered)? It's on an endpaper from an accounting book from ~1920s.


texts: Method / Software for Creating Images based on Dynamically Updatable Templates?

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So, for example, I want to create 2 ADS but the text and the photo featured will be different between the two.
How can I create the same design using something like a template that can also be updated and implement the changes across them?

Example

My Data

copy-1: Geometry
copy-2: Craft
image-1: geometry.jpg
image-2: craft.jpg

Desired Result

I don't know if there is a UX/UI tool that can do that or if a more 'programmatic' approach can be implemented (like CSS).

images credits:

https://www.pexels.com/photo/geometric-decoration-5836/ by Kaboompics .com
https://www.pexels.com/photo/art-materials-arts-close-up-color-369449/ by George Becker


texts: How can I create this simple stroke image effect in photoshop?

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Here is the following image effect I am going for:

It is a stroked version of the image, and I was wondering how I can achieve this effect?  Preferably in Adobe Photoshop.


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Whenever I'm designing a website I usually choose my font sizes on intuition. However I would like to start using typographic scales in my designs to create more consistency throughout all pages. But I feel they're rather constraining then helping me.

For example my Home page has a lot of different headings so I use a lot of different font sizes. I have created a scale that suits this page for the most parts. But when I'm designing the Single Post page which is just one column with many paragraphs of text I like to use a font size which is off this scale.

I have tried creating a scale for my Home page and then adjust the Single page to this scale and vice versa but there are always items which are too small or too big to my taste.

So how strictly do you have to apply typographic scales in your designs? How do you use a scale which fits the needs of different kind of pages?


texts: GUI Based Workflow Tracking Solutions for Designers

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I have been interested in finding a way to track my progress and tasks for client work with a visually engaging workflow program, that isn't like a git-hub style solution.

I'm looking for a program that is visually interactive, with simple tools for managing it rather than a terminal based, command line software.

Upon a search I did see a similar question here but it was quite old and the answers appear to be geared towards a git-hub mentality.

What graphic user interface based software exists that would help me track my workflow effectively?

I'm looking for both online web apps and offline local software solutions.


texts: Illustrator Cs4 Align Multiple Items To Multiple Artboards

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This question seems like it must've been asked already, but I can't find it.

In Illustrator CS4, imagine I have 16 artboards, each with a GroupItem/PathItem placed on them.  None of them are aligned.  I would like to select all objects, and then align each object relative to it's respective artboard.  Like - align to artboard, but each one is getting aligned to a different artboard.

Short of writing a script, I can't see a way to do this, but it seems like a thing that Adobe would've included this.

Any help?


texts: Principle: layers flipped when importing from sketch

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I have the problem, that certain layers in principle are flipped after I imported from sketch.

In Sketch:

Outcome in Principle

What do I have to do in Sketch to prevent this from happening? I used "transform > flip horizontal" in sketch to flip those layers in the first place, so there might be a correlation here ... maybe someone has experienced this himself and has a solution.


texts: Is it standard to save Photoshop Editing capabilities for PDF?

texts: Is it poor judgement to preserve photoshop editing capabilities if creating a PDF for a client? I'm wondering if it comes across as unprofessional or whether it might be a courtesy to save the document this way.


texts: How can I create interactive animations without Flash?

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I have a client inquiring about the following image having the gears rotate constantly, and also have mouse over interaction shown by the one gear and text being darker.

How would one go about doing this without Flash?


texts: Which raster image format is better for digitally displaying images when there is no transparency; JPEG or PNG?

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I'm trying to determine which format is better to use when there is no transparency in an image. More importantly though, I'm trying to figure out when it's better to use one over the other.

From what I understand, JPEG essentially tricks the human eye into filling in the gaps by limiting the information to just enough that the details still appear to be the same image at specific sizes.

JPEG is probably best for detailed images.

All I can confidently state about PNG, is that it is a lossless file format that supports transparency.

I have been looking them up, but there is a whole host of information that I have to read through, and then read deeper to make sure I understand. I can't find a particularly good description either. So hopefully I can get a good answer here.

When should I use PNG over JPEG?
When should I use JPEG over PNG?
What are the strengths of each format, from a graphic designers point of view?


texts: How to turn a path with straight lines into a curved path automatically in Illustrator?

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I know how to do this manually, but I need an automatic way (either a script or just a command in Illustrator).

Here's a line like the one I mean. Notice how it's all made of straight lines (The blue dots are the anchor points):

How can I turn this into a true curve easily?

Note that I have all of Adobe Creative Cloud at my disposal, so if there is a tool in Fireworks, Photoshop, or anything else that can help, it is still relevant.


texts: What typeface was used for the titles of early Venetian Jewish books?

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For some time, I've been looking for a typeface like the one pictured below.

The font above was used in some of the earliest Jewish presses in Venice. As it is not a Latin alphabet typeface, none of the tools I usually use, such as WhatTheFont do not work. I know that it has been recreated, as I have seen it in the prayerbook used by the Italian Synagogue in Jerusalem.

Where can I find this font?


texts: How can I create TRON-like glowing effects in Illustrator?

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I am trying to use Illustrator (CS3) to recreate the Tron neon-glow visual style in graphics I plan to use on a website. This page is an excellent example of what I'm trying to do: http://www.disney.co.uk/tron/html/legacy/synopsis.html

I'm having major problems. I have lines/paths that I'm trying to recreate the glow with, but nothing I do seems to work exactly as I want it. I tried "Outer Glow" and "Gausian Blur," but I cannot recreate the same rich, brilliant blue glow you see in Tron and their website above...everything winds up looking very dull, no matter how I try to adjust/lighten the color. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated...thanks!


texts: How to bypass "Illustrator Options" screen when saving a document in Illustrator?

texts: When saving my work in Illustrator, I always have to click OK in some "Illustrator Options" screen. Is there a way to bypass/remove/deactivate this screen? That would save me thousands of clicks per year.


texts: Select all objects with the same color in Illustrator

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I have an .ai file of a label. It has various shades of green in its design. I want to replace all objects with that color and change it to a new color.

So if I pick #d0d0d0 and want to replace it with #f0f0f0, I pick an area of the first color, and it changes all #d0d0d0 in the document to #f0f0f0?


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I've been working on a siddur, or Jewish prayerbook, in InDesign. However, all of my training has been in the "document", creation within InDesign, which is to say, I can make perfectly decent layouts, but I don't know how to string everything together.

I did attempt to compile a "book" with the files which I already had, however the result was that I lost all of my RTL formatting and needed to completely redo it.
How do I compile an RTL "book" in InDesign?


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I really liked this font and I would like to find out which font it is, and if there is a closer version to it that is free or available on gfont.

I've tried a font identification site, but it never identified anything I even tried to cut a single letter of the above to try to no avail.


texts: Organizing Boxes Into Shape of Letter with Inkscape?

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Suppose we have 100 small square shape paths.  We want to turn these into the shape of the letter E.  Is there a plugin or extension or technique in Inkscape that allows us to do this?

I'm thinking approximately create a 100 small somewhat randomized boxes using the clone tool and then mask a letter of them....


texts: Google Cardboard Design Lab - design style

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What method was used to generate this look? I am particularly referring to the "tessellation" (?) that got them the triangled / polygon look and feel to the scenes.

Credit goes to UsTwo and the demos they created for Google Cardboard. I am interested in the look they achieved, both static and animated, ideally. What software and design principles should I be looking into?


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Here's a simple image I took from pixabay, in a video about compositing, (I'm using blender's compositor here, but the general principle should apply), the author said, "in this image, there's more tinge of yellow, so to get rid of more yellow , we increase the saturation (Hue was yellow-ish) of this white level"

Which is basically increasing the amount of yellow: This is my example of how it was done, since I cannot include the author's original tut's image:

Before:

After:

You can see that the yellow tone does come down.

But, I'm not quite understanding this principle and how does this analogy apply for the black level i.e. What if we set the RGB value for the Black level to be something yellow, how does it alter the image? (I mean I could see it in the compositor but I'd like to know the theory)


texts: What's the best approach when designing website/app UI icons in Photoshop?

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As the title says, I would like to know what's best to approach when inserting/using an icon when designing website/app UI. Should I insert it as a “smart object”, font-based icon, or vector mask?

I've looked at tons of websites in terms of UI design and how sharp/pixel perfect their designs are, mainly regarding the use of icons, and sadly believe most of them are rasterized! Even though most are using SVGs, they are still not as sharp as you would expect them to be and always tend to have pixelated and blurry edges.

For example, take a look at this;

I've realised this is true with many sites and not just eBay!
This is true regardless whether they use font-based icons or SVG icons.

I often face this problem when starting a new design in Photoshop and then coding it. For example sometimes I find smart objects are sharper than font-based icons and sometimes even vector masks. I don't know what exactly causes this problem or why. Even if you resize them in Illustrator, it still happens and it always ends up NOT snapping into the right pixel. The same goes for font-based icons.

They never end up being sharp enough unless you create it with the pen tool, just as I did for the example above. But that's not always possible as not all the shapes/icons are easy to be redrawn or to be corrected that easily using the pen tool.

So what's the solution to this and how do you personally approach this when designing an UI when it comes to icons?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Rendering clipped/mask SVG files in Scribus/InDesign

texts: Scribus can't do this, so I'm wondering first of all if InDesign can. If not, are there any other ways to modify the shape of an object which would render it in one or both of these programs?


texts: Resizing content in InDesign vs. Photoshop

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I've put together a book full of different types of images: raster, vector, and mixed. Everything is placed with their original dimensions and fit to frames.

Do I need to resize all the placed images to the dimension they are in the document using Photoshop?

What effect on quality/file size is there by leaving images resized to their frames in InDesign vs. setting it to a specific dimension in Photoshop?

What is actually happening when an image is resized with the frame handles in InDesign?

Does the size of placed files affect the file size of an exported pdf, or does this rely on whatever compression settings are used?


texts: How to make only my first letter of my first paragraph Drop Cap without changing all next paragraphs with drop caps?

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I am struggling with Drop Caps and character styles. When I try to make my 1st letter of my 1st paragraph in my body text style Drop Cap, all other paragraphs a beginning with Drop Cap.
How can I do it only for the 1st letter, maybe with character and nested styles?


texts: What is the best way to represent show and hide in icons?

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I have a web page that has a list of columns of information.  All columns have names and then some of the columns have items in them.   I want to have an icon to represent

Hide all empty columns
Showing all columns

All of the icons i see for hide look like "delete" so i want to see if there are any representations of "hide" icons that don't look like delete.

And for "show" the only thing i see is an eye graphic which doesn't seem very intuitive to me.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good "hide" and "show" icons?


texts: Create an adjacent rectangle while extruding the wall

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I want to create an adjacent rectangle while expanding other rectangle's wall. Lets say this is our first draw

I want  to expand its right side while keeping the wall, just like that

how I can accomplish this?


texts: Creating a multi-coloured SVG that can be changed to a single colour based off metadata values - clipping masks?

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I'm creating a business dashboard. The software I'm using can display SVGs that can change in colour depending on criteria set by the user, which it does by modifying the fill of whichever object in the SVG has it's metadata ID value set as "shape1" as shown below:

In this example the black circle will change colour. But I'm trying to use this feature with images with multiple colours, for example the flag, which I would set to all white if that country wasn't selected by the user. I've tried using an SVG image and setting the ID value of the root group of the objects, and also using an imported png for the flag instead and changing image ID. I also tried adding a "fill" attribute to the flag image/group for which didn't work.

However, I did manage to accidentally create an SVG composed of 2 different coloured shapes which can become one block colour in the dashboard software as I desired. I think it was down to the "fill-rule" style attribute:

Here the black circle changes as expected and applies the changes to the rectangle too.
Is there any way I can get this to work with more complex shapes / non-svg images like the flag?
Thanks in advance!


texts: Cutting out custom shapes in Affinity Designer behaves oddly

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Something weird happens when I try to subtract a Curves layer from a Curve layer.

What should I do to cut out the guy from the rectangle?


texts: How to get my designer to feedback my idea?

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I am a client of a designer. This is our first project/job for each party, and he is willing to do the design for me for free as long as I'm listed as his client on his site. So far so good, I'm happy with what he does. I guess he is a kind person.

I know our limits. He's fairly new with the business world and agrees to work for free to me. The point is, I want him to challenge my idea more. Every time he gives me his ideas, I give my feedback, and I really expect to have feedback on my feedback. I know that after all, he is doing the design for me, and if I say "I don't care what your idea is, just do it as I told you", then his job is to do it as I told him. However, I will never say that. I am aware that I have a lot of ignorance in designing. I believe that if we use rational, we will ultimately reach a consensus. I wonder that the lack of his feedback means that we have a consensus, or just he is doing what I want without making a feedback.

How do I get his feedback? How to get him to challenge my idea?


texts: How would you represent "changes" in an icon?

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I've come across a challenge. I need to design an icon representing "changes". Well actually two closely related icons, both representing "changes" but distinguishable from each other:

"Change tracking" - the process itself, the ability to view change history.
"See what happened while you were away" - a summarized overview of changes made by others since last logon.

What associations do you guys have that are the closest to these meanings?


texts: Cannot use sponge tool on a 50% gray layer

texts: I was working with the sponge tool. To use it non-destructively, I created another new layer with a fill of 50% gray and blending mode overlay. But when I brush over any area of the image , there seems to be no effect.Can someone explain why is this happening ?.  The sponge tool works perfectly fine on the original layer.


texts: Pros and cons of running a freelance design business from home

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When running a small (as in, one person) freelance graphic design business full-time, what are the pros and cons of working from home?

I'm just wondering if anyone has experience running a studio from home, or renting a space, and can suggest whether one setup is better than the other, and why.

Factors that I'm imagining would come into play include:

Cost of renting a space
Appearance to clients (working from home potentially unprofessional)
Exposure to other designers and their work
Interruptions/distractions
Networking opportunities

Having never done worked for myself full-time before, I'm keen to hear others' experiences.


texts: InDesign loading and saving joboptions file results in different files

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I received a .joboptions file from the printer, but I noticed when I load the file, then (without changing anything) save it as a different joboptions file, the files are different.
Here is a diff of the two files. Do any of these settings make a difference? If so, what? Am I safe to proceed using this slightly different file, since I presume behind the scenes that's how the file from the printer is being interpreted by InDesign?
Original loaded file:
/CalRGBProfile (eciRGB v2 ICCv4)
/DestinationProfileSelector /UseName
/PDFXOutputIntentProfileSelector /UseName

Saved file:
/CalRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
/DestinationProfileSelector /WorkingCMYK
/PDFXOutputIntentProfileSelector /WorkingCMYK


texts: How can I test and apply certain changes to all documents in a book file?

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I have a book file with around 75 documents amounting to 1927 pages. All of these documents contain the same paragraph style 'Body'.

My first question is:

How can I "test" a change in 'Body' to all the documents in the book file? For example, I want to change font size from 8 to 9. How do I tell InDesign to try this change on all the documents and then calculate the total amount of pages I would get without actually applying the change?

My second question:

After I'm satisfied with the test, how can I then apply the changes to all the documents in the book file?

My end goal is to change all the Body text to font size 9 but also to reduce the total amount of pages to 1850 or fewer. Therefore, I have to find a way to compensate. What I wanted to do was: increasing the size of the text box on each page (reducing the margins).

This bring me to my third question:

Can I change the size of the text box on the master page in such a way that it will increase accordingly on every normal page without erasing the text in it? If so, can I then test this change on all the documents (question 1 but for text box size) to see how many pages I'd end up with and then apply the changes (question 2)?

Thanks in advance for your answer and I apologise if anything is unclear. Please ask me to clarify anything if needed to formulate an answer.

Edit: I've found a way to GREP all of the changes except editing textbox size. I can open all of the documents in the book file at once and then CTRL+F a change (for example changing paragraph style to a bigger font size) and search through all the opened documents. I'll still have to find a way to edit text boxes in this manner.


texts: How do you store and organize design assets, like temporarily free downloads, that you get for for later use?

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I'm a graphic design student who has done some paid work in a small way. I've figured out some basic asset management about organizing client files. What I haven't figured out is how to store assets for future use. For example, I'm always seeing assets that blogs or sites like Creative Market etc offer for free download for a short time. I don't have a system for storing these assets for the future, in a way that:

I will be able to remember it when I need it (ie storing all my assets in some kind of way that is easy to browse).
I can track what the usage rights are
I can track in what projects I've used an asset.


texts: Gimp - single operation to crop and resize to fit to specific size

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This solution is already done in Photoshop:

I set result image specific size.
Select crop area (in this case crop area rectangle have a proportional resizing ratio to result image size).
Make crop and get result image with specific size.

This is useful to create, for example, thumbnails with manual selected area by single operation.

Now i try do same in Gimp. Is that possible with single operation?


texts: Changing the default master page applied when creating a new page

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I have an InDesign document with two different page layouts, and two different master pages for each layout.

When I click "Create new page" in the Pages Panel, it defaults to applying the "B" Master to the new page. I would like it to default to apply the "A" Master to the new page when I click on the "Create new page" button.

I'm able to change what Master page is used after I create the page but this bogs down my work flow as I'm mostly using the "A" Master page, and the "B" master page is rarely used.

I feel like this should be an obvious option/setting but I can't find it for the life of me. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!


texts: Looking for Myriad Pro Extra Light used by Apple

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I believe that an extra-light or Thin version of Adobe's Myriad typeface exists, because Apple's been using it on their website.

Here's Myriad Pro Light and Extra Light/Thin used on the iPad Mini page:

So where do I find it? I can't seem to buy it anywhere. Any help?


texts: How can I avoid seeing exceptional color stains

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Using CS5

Hello
  I edit a file in PSD and save it as PDF (for laser cutting)
In this file there are only three colors.
Who receives the file, says he sees more colors alone of the three colors I created.
I will note that the exceptional color stains are very small sizes and are color transitions.
How can I avoid seeing other colors, so that only the three original colors.

By the way the meantime I tried some changes saving the file as:
  In COMPATIBILY changed in the list of ACROBAT 8.
In COMPRESSION: In OPTIONS changed to DO NOT DOWNSAMPLE
COMPRESSION to NONE (or ZIP)
In addition I have also sent RGB and CMYK.
I even made FLATTEN before saving to PDF.

Thank you


texts: How are the spaces done in France for ? ! : ; « » in a real-life work-flow?

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I have learnt what the spaces need to be in front of ? ! ; » and after « in French texts, namely thin spaces (1/8em). I got that from this question and its answers:
Principles of Typography for different languages

Now we also need to make sure that those thin spaces behave like non-breaking narrow space. There is a code point in Unicode for this purpose (U+202F) but it is 1/3 of a normal space (U+0020) and it is missing from many of our working typefaces.

So I wonder how this is done in France please. We are producing our documents in Scribus (very latest 1.5.3svn with the new text engine). But if there are French users who can share how they do this in InDesign it might help us, if we manage to adapt the work-flow to Scribus.

Edit: Sorry, seems my question was unclear: I am not asking about what lay people are doing but was talking to the main audience of "Graphic Design" here. We are interested to make our printed documents the same quality as contemporary professional output in France. We want a narrow space with punctuation and we want to avoid orphan-like punctuation at the beginning of a line. We know what we want; the question is how do designers produce those nice results in France? Does everybody write their own scripts? Are there some tools we have missed? :tidE

Do you use scripts? Do you have the 1/8em thin space on your keyboards? How to you guarantee that the punctuation glyphs do not jump to the next line? Do you get your fonts tweaked by the manufacturers?

We are producing French texts for paper and for websites, but we are in West Africa, so we cannot just ask next door. Our budgets is also very limited, so please answer more than just "pay for an InDesign licence and activate option 4711". We cannot pay, but we would gladly investigate option 4711, if it does exist for that purpose. Thank you.

Update 2017_06_14: Since no user shared real-life experience from typesetting in France, I have ordered two books from France. There are still stuck/lost in the mail (I am working in Africa). I have not forgotten to mark a final answer but am waiting to see what the documents can add for an answer.


texts: Minus Front producing unexpected results when zoomed out

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I'm working on a product packaging design that will be printed in 1 pantone color. I added vector shading overtop in white and then knocked that out of the artwork with Minus Front.

When zoomed out, I lose a lot of the detail in the shading and it looks like a totally different piece. But the original with the white vector objects on top retains the detail zoomed in or out. See comparison below.

Another comparison zoomed in:

The point is, both of these are identical when zoomed all the way in, but when zoomed out, I lose detail from the knocked out version, even when it's printed. I need the final product to look like the version on the left, but with the white knocked out.


texts: Proper set up for using Indesign, exporting to PDF, and then data merging PDF

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I've been doing some preliminary research regarding data merging.

I have a client requesting layouts of essentially sales package components.

His current workflow is to use Word to data merge with Outlook then self-print the package pieces. The design of the pieces is, well, poor. So he wants better design. The trick is he doesn't have Indesign (not a surprise) and I don't expect him to get Indesign. And I refuse to use Microsoft Word for layout. I've already tried to dissuade him a bit explaining that if what he's doing is working, why complicate and change things.However, he's persistent.

So a bit of research tells me I can use Acrobat forms to data merge with an Excel file. This may work. But I'm having some difficulty configuring things in Indesign (using CS5.5 but can use CS6 or CC if needed).

I can easily designate form fields in Indesign by using underscores. Acrobat then will automatically read the underscores as a form field.

The problem occurs when I want the layout to be a bit dynamic. I want a form field to adjust to fit it's contained text and eliminate any underscores. Without underscores Acrobat doesn't see form fields. I can manually place fields in Acrobat, but this requires me to leave a big open space in the Indesign layout.

Are there any tips, links, or other information you can provide which can explain how to use dynamic form fields in Acrobat (if that is possible), and how to best configure an Indesign file for PDF Form output?

I have a suspicion that I am not going to be able to get the dynamic text flow from PDFs which he's getting from Word, or which I could achieve via data merge within Indesign. I do not want to be responsible for his data-merge though. I just want to configure things so he can do it without Indesign.


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I have asked a design company for a quote for a website design. They have asked me if I would like the graphics in PSD format or cut up graphics.

I am assuming that the PSD format is an image of a whole page (i.e. a mockup/design) and the cut-up graphics will be images for each graphic (icons, buttons, etc.).

Is my assumption correct? Which would be better? I need site designs (for the unique pages) plus all of the relevant artwork (icons, etc. - note I will do the menus in CSS). So should I ask for PSD's of the pages plus 'cut up graphics' where relevant?


texts: How to rotate a shape around a custom center point using the transformation effect in the appearance panel in Illustrator

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How to rotate a shape around a custom center point using the appearance panel transform effect in Illustrator.

let's say I have a shape I want to rotate it incrementally around a specific center outside the reference point locator , and that center point is anywhere in the artboard. But with the transform effect in the appearance panel.

What I did and fail is a Move transformation over the shape and rotate the result with another added transformation, but I got nothing. I got the same result as if I rotate it without moving it from its original place.

What I need is to determine a center outside the shape I want to rotate and incrementally rotate it using the appearance transform effect in Illustrator. like the hereunder screenshot:

To be more clearer

My question focus on using transformation effect in the ((appearance)) panel ... not the rugualr rotation command.


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I have recently started getting to grips with Adobe Xd, which seems great. I am creating a mobile app prototype and I am stuck with one problem.

It might be a very basic question but how do you enable page scroll on a screen?


texts: How do I insert a smiley face in InDesign?

texts: This seems simple but I need to insert a black-and-white smily face similiar to this image. Are there any glyphs like this on the Mac. I got this from Microsoft Word it automatically does it when you type :)


texts: How do I design Photoshop, then go back into illustrator to make some of the icons SVG?

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I'm used to making sprites – but read that SVG is the way to go. I'm creating a mockup for client and would like to show the custom icons made in Photoshop and now need to bring them back into illustrator for SVG conversion.

I imagine there's a better workflow and I'm searching for some tips and techniques.


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Is there some sort of secret way I don't know about to easily identify related shades of a Pantone colour (i.e. lighter / darker within the same colour) ?
The underlying use is creating a theme palette, and so I'm looking at defining both colours and shades within those "core" colours.


texts: Indesign question regarding "placed" objects

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As a total newb, I am more than sure that I'm the problem...  I'm trying to place five pieces of b/w original artwork into a document.  I've resized all images to a similar size.
After placing them in the new document, I see that they have lost resolution and appear blurry.
Is this a function of having re-sized them (in photoshop) or is there something I should be doing in Indesign to correct them?


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I have a large sign that is 8'x4'. The PSD file uses only text and shape layers, that's it. The file size is 1GB though. Is there any reason why the file size is so large?

I do have many layers, most of them hidden, but they are all text or shapes. I also have an embedded smart object, but the smart object consists of all text and shapes as well.


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Terminal font behavior is different from other fonts.

For example, here is a screenshot of terminal font glyphs. Why does it have limited glyphs and is not showing Unicode codepoints?

Is there any relation between terminal font and codepage 437, because when I move the cursor to a specific font it shows codepoint value of page 437.


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I'm looking to design a "twist" effect for a lanyard design, where colour 1 "twists" into colour 2.  Is this possible in Photoshop?

My background is in photography, not graphic design: I've had a dabble using the warp tool, but can't get anything like this.  I'm not quite sure at all how to draw the requisite curves. Even a line drawing would help, allowing me to make the requisite selections.
Thanks in advance...


texts: Practical differences between Powerpoint and Google Slides with respect to providing text to read

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I'm interested in making a presentation in either Google Slides or Powerpoint and I'm trying to decide between them.

The topic is "How to learn Computer Science With Me," (I'm a tutor) and will include ideas about learning theory (pedagogic theory). I expect the narration to last about 5 minutes.

But the presentation will be as much visual as possible. The overall type of presentation is, "show slides with visual clues, and put most of the content into the narrated words." The design will be casual. I'm not a designer and I'll do it myself.

I'm interested in having the option of providing a version without narration. Rather, the words would appear in-between slides, or would be handed out as a separate document.

I've never created an important presentation before, so I'm trying to decide between Powerpoint and Google Sheets. I have questions about practical differences.

If I follow this plan of providing two versions-- a video with narration, or a set of slides with accompanying text -- what practical effect does that have on the following issues:

First, for the non-narrated presentation:

how would the viewer view the non-narrated presentation?
Would they look at a PDF? Is there free software to let them view it more like a slideshow, with buttons to click forward and back?
Do some ways of viewing it make more sense in terms of helping the user interact with the document easily and understand it in the way I intend?
Can the non-narrated version be put on a website easily?

Second, for the narrated version:

how would I turn the narrated presentation into a video with the slides timed to narration?
how easy is this with each program, or are there any differences at all?


texts: How to center text in a small section of art board in Illustrator?

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I have a text I wish to center, but rather than the whole art board, I want to center it to the half of the art board. That is to say I have split the art board in two, and I wish to center the text in one of these halves.

Is this possible with a click or a setting?


texts: Illustrator: Asset exports creates artifacts

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I have an illustrator document with lots of assets which will be transported to InDesign. It's a library of drawings that initially come from CAD.
Each one is grouped and added to the asset export panel. When exported (SVG) many (most) images have some "artifacts" in them. These can be extra points, extra lines, extra writing far away from the main image. These later appear on the asset export panel (usually after they have been exported already).
It's very annoying because I'm setting it up to get ID to update automatically and the problem means I have to edit each frame individually.
I am absolutely certain these extra things are not in the original selection or the original group. If it's of any relevance many assets are on more than one layer.
How does this happen? Does this happen to anyone else? Is export asset just buggy?
Should I just create many artbords and export those?
Thanks for any help, it's driving me nuts.


texts: How do I make a good quality drawing look like a low quality screenshot from 90's TV in PS?

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Yeah hi, I was wondering how I could get my images to look like they were shown on 90's TV or were recorded to a VHS and ripped into a digital file. Examples shown below.

I'd like to utalize this effect for a flyer/gigposter I'm making.


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I have this image

But I need to edit part of it, the problem is that photoshop is not importing half of the frames.

I mean, when I import the image into the animation bar, it show only the first 4 seconds of animation, the part when "FAST MIGRATION" text appear is not showing at all, instead I keep seeing a snapshot of the last frame before that one, until the whole animation resets. Here's an example:

Here's what happening:

http://youtu.be/GUfNUxVM7V0?hd=1

Any idea how to solve this?? It's pretty weird, I can't realize what's going on


texts: How can I beat the browser when it comes to reducing image size?

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Can't get my head around this. I tried several ways to reduce the pixel size of a logo in Gimp. However, the browser (either safari, firefox or chrome on my iMac) is always amazingly better reducing the logo to the size I specify in the html. Is it really so difficult to beat the browser?

For your information: My base file is an .eps. For Gimp to be able to read the file I converted the format to .tif and .png. I need the intermediate step of Gimp because I need to make the background of the image transparent.


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hey guys have a look at the footer interface below ,

its a bit unique because the footer has a white background and then each heading had a unique color (orange , blue , green , pink) , obviously the colors serve as the heightlight colors and the focus is brought to the footer headings .

now what i'd like to know is ,

what would these colors be classified as ? , i mean specific to this footer , what can the heading colors (orange , blue , green , pink) be classified as ?

for example there are hot colors , rainbow colors , cool colors etc , so what are these set of colors used on the footer ? do they have some kind of a classification ? i was just wondering and curious.


texts: Can I join a midpoint of a line with an endpoint of another in Inkscape?

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Suppose I have two boxes joined by an arrow, as the picture shows:

I would like to be able to move each one of the boxes independently in such a way that the arrow is still joining them in exactly the same position (mid points of the sides). I have been exploring the "join nodes" tools but I have not been able to succeed in that.

A similar question can be found here, however, it has been asked for Adobe Illustrator, and not for Inkscape. Anyway, according to the answers there it seems this is a limitation of the format itself, but I just wanted to be sure.


texts: How can I prevent Gimp from automatically changing colors of a .png?

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So I am editing a .png file from a website that I am working on. I downloaded the image (.png) and it has a yellow/green color in one of the objects. This color is important because it matches with the rest of the website's color scheme.

However, when I made my edits and saved as a new file, the green color was noticeably different.

I wondered if it was my fault on accident, so I opened the original file and saved it to a different name without editing or touching any part of the image. Yet still the color was noticeably different again.

    Original Color: rgb(141, 184, 73)
  Color After Save: rgb(127, 190, 65)

Is there any way to prevent this from happening in Gimp?


texts: How do I create png image masks in photoshop?

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I noticed teespring.com uses a png that's prepped a certain way so that it acts as a mask inside its web application. Here's what the image looks like when I open it in photoshop:

But, here's what it looks like rendered inside its web application:

How is this masking effect achieved in photoshop?

Here's the actual image for reference:


texts: Open Source alternative to "Campton" font

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I'm searching for an open source alternative to Campton (Light and Bold) from http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/rene-bieder/campton/.

Does anybody know if there is for example a google font that looks like Campton? Searching and comparing over 700 fonts would be pretty bad.

Or is there even a service which can identify similar open source fonts to commercial fonts?


texts: How to apply a filter to a layer and its mask at the same time (in a single pass)?

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I have a layer with a mask and I'd like to modify the contents of both using a filter (e.g. Filters -> Distorts -> IWarp). The problem is that I can only edit one of them at a time and reapplying that filter is not obvious, as in case of the aforementioned filter (and likely many others) the menu item Filters -> Repeat "filter name" simply displays the configuration window for that filter and the desired changes for all of the parameters have to be reintroduced manually.

In my scenario, the mask defines the visible shape of an object, that is, in essence, just a bunch of pixels. I'd like to distort the shape and the pixels within it in the same manner, but I can't seem to find a solution to match the layer and its mask after applying the filter.

I suppose it might be impossible to achieve this directly in a single pass, but what other choices do I have in this scenario?


texts: What are some differences between Scribus and Indesign?

texts: I recently heard that scribus is a good free alternative option to Indesign. I recently opened Scribus up, and none of it makes any sense, and it doesn't look like it'd be a good fit for what I want to do. What are some pros and cons for each?


texts: How to Overlay [Selected] Glyph Outlines from Separate Fonts for Comparison?

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Both FontLab Studio and Fontographer have a Blend feature, which can produce decent results when working with fonts which are visually as well as structurally similar, to save time creating new weights or widths by averaging others together.  This process is called interpolation.

However, that won't wouldn't work for me with what I have in mind.  At least not in the traditional sense or any way I'm used to. The fonts I will be working with will often not share compatible outlines (which is rather the point) and besides, I don't want the computer to make awkward choices that require artistic insight: I'd like to decide which aspects of each to keep, scrap, or change.

I only bring it up because when one blends a light font and a bold font, for example, and arrive at a medium font:  the glyph preview looks solid, but up close one can see where the two glyphs overlapped, like overlaying two pieces of tracing paper. I know Fontographer has the option to print each selected-glyph scaled to the size of a sheet of paper.   I want to know if there is a way to do this but with one glyph from two fonts on each page. Short of manually creating a layered Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign document for every glyph pair!

If anyone knows of a way to accomplish this or  anything like it, in any application whatsoever, I am not picky!  I just want a time-saving solution.

wouldn't help me as my examples have drastically different (incompatible) outlines


texts: Efficient methods to clean up vector art

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I have this artwork I was sent for a product and I need to clean up the lines and all these overlapping lines.

I can't get the client to go back to the designer for new art so I'm stuck with what I've got which is a lovely Compound Path.

Manually I COULD go through, delete points, rejoin open paths, and go on for an eternity but I'm looking for methods that would be quicker.

Here's what I'm working with.

The end product will be colored to several pallets and then printed, and made into products etc.

I'm looking for NON-PLUGIN alternative methods. I know Astute Graphics has some wonderful tools but I'm looking for cost-effective methods.


texts: Sequence diagram ideas for review, revision, and approval process

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I need to make a diagram for completion-review-revision-approval process of technical drawings. The diagram needs to show both the process milestones (completion-review-revision-approval) and also their schedule distributed on weeks.

However I cannot imagine graphically how can I show both the milestones and the schedule.

For example, there are 3 drawings lets say:

Drawing A will be
- completed between Week 1-3
- reviewed between Week 3-4
- revision between Week 4-5
- Approved on Week 6

Drawing B will be

completed between Week 1-4
reviewed between Week 4-5
revision between Week 5-6
Approved on Week 7

Drawing C will be

completed between Week 3-5
viewed between Week 5-6
revision between Week 6-7
Approved on Week 8

As you can understand, the milestone dates of drawings are distributed into the weeks and intersecting with each other. For example, while the revision of Drawing B is going on, Drawing A is already approved.

Normally we show these process with Gantt chart but I am looking for alternative cool ideas.

I hope explanation of my question is clear to you.

Thanks.


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I'm noticing a trend for last few months in UI section. The components have either pastel colours or very contrasting coulours, hard shadow (no blur), dark outlines, hand-drawn type icons. The whole look gives subtle wireframe feeling. Figma, Scrimba, and Notion have used these in past. Does this trend /style have a name? I tried searching for retro wireframe style, but it was not that.
Examples:
https://projector.com/home

https://dribbble.com/shots/9099886-Subscription-UI
https://www.figma.com/community/file/833515051385038928
Lastly, this website is not exactly like the above examples, has a lots of retro elements, but it's close. https://www.flowmingo.co/


texts: Dividing a canvas into regions with photoshop?

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I'm working on a CD foldup for a friend and it's a tri-folded 12cm by 36cm sheet printed on both sides. It creates six 12cm by 12cm pages, but I'm not sure how to work on it in photoshop. Should I create two different documents, both 12cm by 36cm, one for each side, or a single 24cm by 36cm to have every page on it?

I currently have the first page as a single 12cm by 12cm document because I didn't want to run into the other page at all.

Is there any way I can have a large canvas but confine myself to part of it? Something more reliable than just a selection please.


texts: Can anyone tell me how I create this effect in Photoshop or Illustrator please?

texts: Can anyone tell me how I create this Linocut effect to a photo in Photoshop or Illustrator please?


texts: Unable to move one group to different group

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I am working on one of the app UI project where I need to move one group to different group in illustrator.Reference screen shot is added.

However when I want to move this group to another group, for some reason I am unable to do it.

Basically I want to move contextmenu group to address-2 group but illustrator shows disabled state while moving.Even I can't ungroup contextmenu.

Can anyone help what I m doing wrong?
What does small triangle in right top of contextmenu indicate?


texts: Animated slides conversion into static PDF

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For all of you, people who make ppt slides with animations like:

Showing bullet points one by one
Showing images one by one or zooming a plot
Showing a border on an active element
Internal navigation / menu / link to another slide
Transitions between slides

Is there a tool that can convert the ppt to PDF and keep each animation in a separate slide, for example?

I know you can create animated slides with LaTeX Beamer that convert nicely to PDF, I have made some of those, but I also have some ppt files that I want to convert to PDF.

This is what I have tried so far:

Slideshare, however not only it doesn't support animations, but internal navigation doesn't work, and the fonts are all messed up.
PDFcreator, the quality is quite superior in comparison, but it doesn't support the animations neither. As Slideshare, it will just put one image over the other. Also, it doesn't support transparency (for example, a text box with a semitransparent bg over an image)
LaTeX Beamer, already mentioned, but I would prefer to avoid typing these ppts content and animations into LaTeX just so that the animations are displayed correctly in PDF.

I have searched SO and didn't find a satisfactory answer to deal with animations. What do you use?

Cheers!


texts: Vectr: How to create a circular arc with rounded edges

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I'm trying to make a curved arc with rounded edges using Vectr. I can get it to work with perfectly circular arcs by adding a circle to the end

However, when I try with an arc made from an oval, it doesn't come out quite right.

Does anyone know how to do this in Vectr (or is Vectr just not up to the task)?


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Didn't expected to get stuck with it, however it is seems to be a problem.

Is there any publicly available standard icons set for windows 10 applications design? (Something like here for material https://material.io/icons/)


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I'm trying to install this plugin on GIMP 2.8 on Windows 10. I've followed the instructions and copied the scripts on my plugins folder but I can't find the plugins or the Sprite Sheet menu.

I've tried to find it on the Plug-in browser, without success.

Is there any compatibility issues? What did I do wrong?

EDIT: I've reinstalled GIMP and now works properly and, finally, I can find my plugin. I have no idea what caused this problem.


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I have two files with (among other things) a logo is placed.
When saving the file for web (JPG, PNG,..) the logo is not visible, it's as if that specific layer is just hidden.

What could be wrong with the layer or path? When saving it as PDF, it's still visible.

This is how the file looks like in Illustrator:

In the export dialog, I chose JPG and "use artboards". As you can see the "V" dissapears:


texts: How to select a specific color in Photoshop CS2?

texts: I'm trying to reduce colors from million to 7 exact colors. It's a fabric design, so I want to separate greens from the other colors. However, when I want to pick greens, other different colored pixels that belong to motifs are getting included in the selection area.


texts: Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?

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Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality ? Like this:

I've watched this tutorial :  but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.

Is there a way to make a better one (as close as the example above) ?


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What icon should I use for clearing all values from textboxes, selectors etc in my form on aspx website.

I don't want to use the reload button icon, because I'm not going to do postback I will just clear all the values. I've seen icon like brush to indicate cleaning but I don't think that indicates that it will clear all.

I want to make sure to indicate that it will clear all the text boxes etc in my form not just one.

Is it possible to do this without adding a text "ALL"?


texts: Layers intersecting each other with 3D Layer (after effects)

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I have two layers, one for red bar, and another for the photograph. The red bar is above the photograph, but when i animate with 3D Layer, both layers intersect each other.

The photograph is going up, red bar is going down. My problem is this intersection (yellow arrow).

How can i put the photograph always behind the red bar and avoid this intersection?

My suggestion: I cut the photograph, but the result is not satisfactory. Is there another way?

Thank you!


texts: How to make the cropping edges hard - no automatic feathering wanted!

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I've got a problem which is driving me mad on PS CS6. If I have a selection and inverse that selection and delete it, I get a feathered edge of 1 or 2 pixels on my remaining image. I want a hard crisp edge with no feathering.

The same thing happens if I take a selection which already has a feathered edge (which I want to get rid of). If I take this object, contract the selection (past the bounds of the feathering), then inverse selection and delete. The remaining image still ends up with a feathered edge.

Why is it, when I'm deleting apparently hard selected edges, that they are feathering on me?

The same thing seems to happen regardless of whether the selection was made with the marquee tool, ctrl selecting the layer thumbnail or using magic wand tool.

Any help with this would be most appreciated, Cheers!


texts: Are there contrasting onion skin colors that you use?

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I'm working on an app and I have two images. One is the reference image and the other is the image produced in production (it's the layout created in HTML if you must know).

To make sure that my production layout is accurate I'm setting the background of the production layout to the reference image. This way I can see how far off I am and make adjustments.

The problem I'm having is that it's hard to tell the two images apart as you'll see.

Here's a screen shot:

Here is red as a background tint:

Color is set to black and opacity is half:

I was going to make a script to colorize the reference image in red but if the image already contained a lot of red that won't work. So my question is, if I had to pick two colors that will work as background colors what would I use? I hope this makes sense.

PS Also, could someone create the tag "onion-skinning"?


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There was a recent question discussing dotted overlays/dithering patterns on images, and I wanted to explore the method. I set it up so it was one black pixel, one blank, one black, etc. After duplicating it to cover the page, I found that it created what I can best describe as monitor flicker, or maybe banding? Something's happening on my screen. Here's a screenshot; see if it does the same to you!

What causes this, and how can I minimize it? I found that using other colors helped, but I'd much rather understand why than pick colors and hope it works. I know that monitors are very different from each other, so I'd like to know that if I get it right on my screen, it'll be right on other screens.


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I have a motion tween on a symbol where the symbol moves into the scene horizontally, waits awhile, and then moves vertically. In the image below, you can see the animation motion graphed for the tween when it has no easing:

However, I'd like to have the horizontal and vertical movements eased a little bit for a better visual effect. So I click the 'Add Ease' button and add a Simple ease. All of the sudden now, the timing of the motion is way off! Notice how the vertical movement happens much before it should actually happen in the second image (as pointed to by the yellow arrow):

What's the best way to deal with this issue? The ease should apply to the segments with motion but not to the segments without motion. I'd rather not have to break this up into multiple tweens, but if necessary that's an option.


texts: how to bring part of a layer to the top layer?

texts: I want to bring the point of the crown in front of the heart while leaving the rest behind.


texts: How to preserve a drop shadow and outline when clipping?

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I’m trying to make an icon of the Australian flag overlayed onto a map of Australia for an Android app at work, but I cannot figure out how to get the drop shadow and outline to be clipped too.

Making the mask changes the colour of my drop shadow, and I lose the outline.

Here’s what it’s currently coming out as: notice the blue drop shadow and no white outline.

For reference, here’s an icon I did in a similar style. Notice how it has a black drop shadow and white outline.

How can I preserve the white outline and black drop shadow of my image when I apply the mask?


texts: Should I use anti-aliasing built-in function in photoshop for pixel art?

texts: Currently I'm practising some pixelart drawing for games. But when I do anti-aliasing for lines, I don't know whether I should draw them by hand or just tick anti-aliasing box in photoshop. Could you please help me pointing out the differences between those two and advantages for drawing by hand?


texts: What computer subsystem is responsible for font kerning?

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Kerning - adjustment of the space between two specific letters.

I am just wondering what computer subsystem is responsible for font kerning.  Is it font engine? Or it is quality of specific font?

If it is quality of specific font, can you please give me the names of most known fonts which uses a kerning?


texts: a have a novice question, I want to make this kanji vector as a cut out on the vector it is on top of, meaning I don't want to simply make it white I want it to be a "cut" so I can see the background behind it. Thanks!


texts: black-transparent graded rectangle for Web turns black-white when on Website Editor

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I have saved for Web in PNG 24 and checked the transparency box - it does normally work with transparent background, but with a transparent graded shape it doesn't work. What's wrong there?

This is my shape in PS - clearly the upper half is transparent

And this is what my shape looks like, when trying to save for web. It turns intransparent! Even though its PNG 24 and transparency checked.


texts: Is it possible to create a symbol for underline link so when the text changes the line width changes as well?


texts: Gimp make top half of photo lighter, and bottom half darker

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I have a need to show things more dark or "dreary" at the bottom part/half of the stairway, and more light at the top.  At the top I don't care about the stair colors so much, I want the sun to be even brighter.   So ideally I have "dark weather" at the bottom of the stairs, and even "brighter weather" at the top.  Are you able to tell me how to do this, and/or modify the image.

Thanks


texts: Photoshop Mug image wrap using replace content

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Looking for a way to have a warp example image on a stock mug photo/image but able to change out the example image using replace content. Hoping not to warp each example image but a preset template.

Here are some images. I do not have access to post both mug images. The art will wrap around both front and back of the mug image (two different photo shots).


texts: I have always heard the word value used to describe the lightness of a color. Does luminosity refer to the same thing?


texts: Why does the whole Layer fill in when i try to fill in a section on Gimp?

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I'm trying to do this texture for imvu but everytime I try to fill in this one section it fills in the whole layer can you please help me?

(this is before i pressed cntrl ,)

this is after I pressed Cntrl ,

(this is after I pressed Cntrl ,)

I just want to know why it keeps doing this. The first time i did it, it worked out well but now it keeps on doing this I just want to know what i'm doing wrong.


texts: How to EXPORT/ SAVE transparency for web use from InDesign?

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I would like to create a header for a webpage with

a logo (with transparency from a psd/ tiff)
some typography and
an overall transparent background

In InDesign, typography options are ideal for my purpose and I can place everything I like as accurately as I wish, but I struggle when it comes to

saving my result with transparency and
in a format that will be accepted by my content management system (wp), such as png.

InDesign seems to lack an option (for WEB/ Interactive intent), that will keep the transparency instead of filling my work's background with WHITE.

Am I doing something wrong here? Or would I have to go back, rasterize my result in photoshop again, re-select everything and use Photoshop's save-as-png option?!

That seems stupid and a lot of effort to me, there must be another way. Can you help me?

Thanks!


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I want to fill this shape with a gradient, but because it's divided it won't fill it completely, leaving a gap between subshapes.
How can I join these subshapes? I can't use pathfinder because it will just create another stroke between subshapes, but won't fill the gap.
Fill tool doesn't really work here: It fills the gap, but if I try to divide this shape once again, the fill color will just vanish.


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texts: and when i am dividing a path using pathfinder tool its getting divided but its seems there is a dotted line between two path How to solve these thing. and yes i didnt use strock here.


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texts: What programs can I use to create an animation for web?

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I have never created animations, but I want to make one for my website's home page. Basically what I have is an image where each chakra of human body is shown with its name. I want to show how the energy level moves in the body, from lowest chakra to top most chakra, changing the colors of the energy as they level up to a different chakra.

Which software can I use to make this animation?