texts: Sketch: different pages saved as different files?

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When designing web pages in Sketch... what is the standard way to deal with different pages?

So say if I design a homepage in one file, do I create a new file for, say, an 'about' page? Or would a designer typically have all pages saved in one file but across different artboards?


texts: GIMP: Toggle show/hide all non print extras

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In GIMP, is there a way to quickly toggle all visible guides, grids, selection boxes, etc that are cluttering the display? I'm hoping there's something that's one key stroke instead of the way I currently do it which is to toggle 3-4 different things through the View menu every time I want a clean preview of my work.

In Photoshop it's View -> Show -> None/All [source]


texts: Photoshop: How to use a non-white background as the basis for semitransparent layers in PNG8 export?

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PNG8 is a great compressed format when we don't really need semi-transparency.  Often an asset will have semi-transparency data that we're happy to lose in the export process, however Photoshop defaults a white background behind the semi-transparent pixels.  This causes problems if the png is not going to be displayed on a white page:

 Shows up as:

Where it would be convenient to export something like:

Is there a way to base the computed color of the semi-transparent pixels off a value other than white?


texts: Looking for font where 6 is very different from upside-down 9

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This question is the opposite of what was asked here: Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look the same upside down as right side up?

I'm searching for fonts where the numbers 6 and 9 are very different, i.e. can be easily identified even when upside down.

In most fonts I've checked 6 and upside-down 9 are visually similar, and 9 and upside-down 6 are similar too.

In a Mac, the font Desdemona have some curly parts on the 6 that makes it different from the 9.

Any other suggestions?

I want to use it in a dice game design where I can't use pips for numbers and I don't want to add small marks to point to the bottom part of the digits.

thanks
Rafael


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I'm looking for a way to convert several paths into one shape (purple outline image). I don't want the space within the lines to become a filled shape. I just want the paths themselves, the 'outline' of the hand created by the paths to be a shape.

This is so I can place the path 'shape' outline on top of a solid (see green image) and then use the pathfinder tool to minus front from back, and leave the green shape with the path lines cut out of it.

Is there a way to turn several paths into a shape? Or a different way to go about this for the desired effect?

I've included a third image as an example. The outline around the hand has been cut away, to render details and allow the background colour to show through.


texts: How to get rid of pixelated edges in Illustrator

texts: I've created a triangular grid using smart guides and everything looks ok in outline mode.  However when I try to copy and paste to photoshop I continue to get these relic 1px lines at the margins of the triangles. Would love to know how I can get rid of these. They also appear when I export as raster from Illustrator.


texts: How to not let drop shadows darken each other out

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I'm looking for a technique to avoid drop shadows on individual elements darkening each other out (multiplying the effect of the drop shadow).

This is an image showing the undesired effect I'm talking about (also enlarged at the bottom of the image). I want the drop shadow on the white surface to be the same whether the shadow is from one of the elements or both "on top of each other".

Anyone know how to achieve this fairly easily?


texts: How can I recreate this holographic iridescent water effect in Photoshop?

texts: I have been trying to create this effect in photoshop for months now and I am starting to lose hope if anyone has any tips on how to create this effect or where I can find more resources that would be great :)


texts: Linear color modification in photo and video editing

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I have a specific, rather obvious method of modify colors in an image in my mind, but can't find the tools in common graphic programs such as Gimp or Photoshop to do it with.

Color space can be thought of as a three-dimensional vector space, with one natural base being red, green and blue.

For each pair of color triplets there is exactly one linear map from the first triplet to the second triplet of colors. (If the color triplets consist of colors with distinct hues anyway.)

Now I'd like to have that linear transformation, defined by those six colors, applied to each pixel in my image.

Can Gimp, Photoshop or any other known tool do that?

Is there a common buzzword for that kind of operation?

PS: For the benefit of others, Joojaas answer can also be implemented in Gimp by doing:

Colors -> Components -> Decompose
Image -> Mode -> RGB
Then arrange add the multiplication layers like Joojaa described so that it looks like this:
Change the solid color layer type to multiply and the group ones to addition.


texts: Illustrator fill not aligned with path/strokes not smooth

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Fill colour doesn't line up with the path on curves in an object.

Steps:

draw line with pen tool
apply stroke
outline stroke
fill and path don't line up

Same thing happens if I create the whole shape (i.e. without first having it as a stroke and outlining it).

Stumped by this one. Any help is much appreciated!


texts: Sketch convert all symbols to the same color

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In Sketch, is there a way to do a batch convert process on symbols? Is that the right approach to take for something like this -

How do you convert all symbol colors to the same color - such as white?


texts: Drawing with transparency in Illustrator

texts: I am using Illustrator CS6. I would like to set the pencil tool to draw all shapes as 50% opacity without having to change each shape individually after drawing. Can I do that and how?


texts: How to give texture to a Photoshop 3D extrusion

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I have a figure on which I applied the 3D extrude filter in Photoshop. Now I'd like to add some colour and texture to this figure (see below).

Ideally, I would like my figure to be similar to the image below. However, whatever I try, the extruded part remains black. How can I change the color of the extruded part and add some texture to it?

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texts: InDesign script to print .indd into .pdf

texts: As the title says we were discussing scripting processes and we noticed this has not been asked nor do I know if it can be done.  Can you create an InDesign script that will take all .indd files and print/export them to .pdf?


texts: Creating new document in Photoshop CC using mm dimensions

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Hopefully someone can shed some simple light on a question I've have had for a while regarding image size in Photoshop CC!

When you create a document at let's say for example 91mm x 61mm

Why is it that when you've created your document, that the image dimensions in mm are never exactly what you created initially (as shown below in the screenshots.) Is it to do with the resolution not dividing exactly or something?

Thanks :)


texts: How is this visual effect called, how to do it in photoshop?

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How is it called when the carvings on a wooden or metallic surface are filled with ink while the relief is left uncover or painted resembling a shiny material. Beside, is there a common technique to accomplish this effect in Photoshop?

Edit

Looking for photoshop-antique-text-tutorial (thanks to Scott for his answer) I found this tutorial that closely resembles the effect I want to accomplish, but I need to change the sharp Bevel & Emboss effect for a smooth transition and maybe an outer glow that darken the regions surrounding the relief.


texts: Blend tool not working on converted objects from Photoshop

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This is an ultra novice question from an ultra novice person.

I created three overlapping vector paths in Photoshop then applied gradients to them. When I opened the PSD file in Illustrator, I chose "Convert Layers to Objects" then OK. Now, when I choose any two paths in Illustrator, click the blend tool and click on the paths so I can blend their gradients, nothing blends. The paths retain their colors.

What seems to be wrong here and what can I do so I can blend the gradients of the paths?


texts: Illustrator CC 2018: How to create the gradient of the beam?

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I am trying to create the yellow gradient of the beam.

So, far I have unsuccessfully tried it as

So, I am thinking whether this can be achieved through gradient or blend.


texts: Designing Graphics For .NET Apps Resolution

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What resolution (in pixels/inch) should I use when designing graphics for a standard Windows Forms .NET application?

I am using Adobe Creative Suites to design the graphics.  I will be using the System.Drawing.Graphics class in .NET to draw the graphics on the screen.


texts: My InDesign PDF is larger than what I set my document as?

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So I'm trying to upload a PDF to Blurb.ca, and it only accepts the file if it's within the dimensions it requires (21x26 cm). I have my file set to 20x25 cm (which is the final booklet size) with a bleed of 0.5 cm up and down, and 1 cm on the inside and outside of the spread. But for whatever reason, the PDF is consistently exporting a bit more than that. Here's the feedback Blurb has given me:

Attached:
cover.pdf (8.46 in x 10.43 in / 21.48 cm x 26.48 cm)
research2.pdf (9.24 in x 10.82 in / 23.48 cm x 27.48 cm)

But the original sizes are:
cover.pdf (20 x 25 cm single page, bleed of 0.5 cm all round)
research.pdf (20 x 25 cm spreads, 0.5 cm up/down and 1 cm on the inside and outside)

I don't mind sending a file with a little more bleed, but it goes through the uploader, so it won't work unless it recognizes that exact file size. I did want to keep it in InDesign to keep the printers' marks and export it as an X-3 file, as the site requests. Any ideas as to why this is happening?


texts: Is there a way to crop 3D on paint 3D? If there's not, is there other friendly software to do it and then import it to paint 3D?


texts: Applying grain to colors or gradients without rasterizing

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I have been thinking about this for years and figured that today is the right time to actually ask someone about this: is it possible to apply grain to colors or gradients in Illustrator or InDesign without having to rasterize the affected object?

Why I am asking: we have a simple color gradient header in our documents - light blue to darker blue. Adding some subtle grain to this would make it look noticably better. However, if the grain would need to be rasterized, the size of the resulting document (PDF) would start to jump by the megabytes just because of this, which I really want to avoid.

Examples:

InDesign, simple A4 document, 25% of the page covered by the gradient (made in Illustrator) without noise: 7 kB PDF
The same document, same gradient, with the noise effect applied: 2.5 MB PDF

The examples above are using the print quality present in Distiller. Using the preset for the smallest file size does reduce the size of the PDF, but the results are really ugly and definitely far from anything we could use in business.

This would naturally be solvable if there would be some property of the colors in the gradient that would define their noisiness - so that the noise would be computed instead of rasterized. I have seen something similar for example in Affinity Designer. Is something like this possible within the Adobe ecosystem?


texts: Adobe Illustrator - Eraser tool resizes my Calligraphic Pressure Brush!

texts: I recently got the Adobe Illustrator Software and have been enjoying it. My main problem is that when I use a Calligraphic Pressure Brush with 3pt Variety and try to erase the line, the line shrinks from its original size. I have searched and searched online to see if anyone else has found this and no luck. I tried using the path eraser tool for a good while but it is really tedious and annoying. If you need a video Example of what is occurring I can whip it up and share it.


texts: Vector images not printing well in illustrator, what am I missing?

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So when I do printer alignment tests I get excellent fine lines as seen below. But when I draw perfectly horizontal lines with the pen tool in illustrator they look horrible and very low quality. I think I have the settings right in Illustrator but obviously i'm missing something. Document is 300dpi, resolution is set to high, and ideas?

EDIT: Upon doing a little more research I discovered this was most likely due to my paintbrush lines not being vector. So my question is, how do I make these paintbrush lines vector so they print better?


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I'm wondering if it's possible to create an interactive pdf from an existing file.

Basically I have a Catalog/Pricelist with over 1000 items. What I want to achieve is to create page that would serve as an order form.
So a dealer or client can write item number and pdf will match the number with it's price.

I know that with interactive pdf I can do simple math but is it possible to use it as a simply "find & place" function?


texts: Olivetti history and/or coffee table book

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I'm a big style fan of the company Olivetti, I mainly know them for their typewriters (Lettera 22 and 32 are my favorites) but doing a little more research I found some amazing print ads ( https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/olivetti-form-and-function-ica-310516 ).

As far as I can google search, there hasn't been a book about the company and it's design influences (in my ideal world it would be a big coffee table books with full page reproductions of those ads). My question: Does such a book exist? Has their ever been an Olivetti book covering their history and design styling/attitudes?


texts: batch/macro processing and optimizing jpeg quality with a filesize constraint (max 500kb)

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We are using a macro that we then batch run to modify images. It works fine except for the element where we try and save the jpeg image in the best quality under 500 kb. This option used to exist under save to web (deprecated) then options (right top) and then save to fit file size (see image example below, sorry it's in Dutch, version 2015.1.2 20160113.r.355)

This is our batch/macro

batch: take a input path and process all files also in subdirectories
macro: trim all
macro: resize all image, but only if the image is larger than 1200px (high)
macro: save images to JPG (convert)
macro: and save as the best quality jpeg fitting under 500k

All is working. Only I am having problems with the jpeg size/quality fitting function in step 5: it seems photoshop is not recognizing this as a 'step' in the macro.

question: How can I do the above for all image (bullet points) mainly step 5 where I try to save the best jpeg quality possible within a file size constraint (max 500kb)?

Even via a script or trick or tool. This last step is very important.

Any help appreciated


texts: I was just wondering if it was possible to have smooth lines in photoshop the same way it is in flash where when you draw a figure it will automatically change the lines you made into smoothened shapes, I would like to know if this is possible with photoshop and how you would do so. Thank you.


texts: Adobe Illustrator CC Transparent inside vector

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So i have trace a logo using pen tool the problem is the logo has a hole inside that I need it to be transparent. Here is the look of the image link

now I need to make the white inside the logo transparent but when I change the fill to none the look will be this

what should I do about this? I just started with Illustrator.


texts: Link to svg file so that my other design file update automatically when those svgs change

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I have an illustrator file where I design my icons, each on an artboard, and then export the result as svg files.

I have another file for doing mockups of screens, where I would need to use the svg icons I designed. I can of course copy paste those, but I would have to update them manually whenever I change the design of one of my svg icons.

I'm looking for a way so that I can just link to an svg file, and when this file gets updated, it'll be automatically changed in my mockup ai file.

I could only do it with images, but I wasn't able to do that with svgs.


texts: Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image?

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I am planning to make a game, where I give the user an anime related image and they have to guess where its from.

However, most of the images, specially from popular anime are easy to use on Google reverse search to find and pin point the anime.

I've tried to see if I could make so it would not recognize the image but unhappily my tricks were not good enough.

Original image:

Grey-scale with horizontal flip:

Watermarking:

Puzzling the image with grey-scale:

Grey-scale with horizontal and vertical flip worked for this image but doesn't always work:

Also the above mentioned methods are rather easy for people to guess the anime.

I would like to know if there any good trick, that I could use on my images to make so it would not work on reverse search engines and yet not be so overcomplicated that I can implement on my program.

For example grey-scale, cropping, flipping are rather easy things to achieve in C#.


texts: What is the proper way to illustrate/design in Illustrator without running into copyright issues?

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For example, let's say I wanted to "illustrate" a certain type of car in Illustrator. The easiest and fastest way would be to find a picture of that car on google, let's say, and trace it with the pen tool. But I know you can run into copyright issues, so would it be best to draw it myself from the picture and then bring it in Illustrator and trace my drawing?

Just free handing straight in Illustrator can be hard for me. But sometimes I find it easier to just trace a picture (I found on google for example) so that the outline is exactly how it is supposed to look.

So what would be the correct/better way to go about this?


texts: How to set Geometric Constraints or Coincidences in Illustrator?

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I'm  sorry if the title's phrasing is weird, I really don't know how to call what I want to do and English isn't my native language.

What I want is that the red circle satisfies this criteria:

It's is tangent to both blue paths, and
Its center is along the green path.

I want to know if there's a tool I can use, a way I can script this, or a plugin out there that can help me.

I'm sorry if this is a trivial question, but I need help.


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I made a brochure for my internship this summer using the brochure template illustrator already has available.

Now, I am having trouble printing the document. I have the settings as US letter borderless and it is set to print double sided.

When it prints the front of the brochure cuts off an inch from the right side of the front page. The inside of the brochure is absolutely fine there isn't anything cut off at all.

I'm just feeling a little lost on what I can change so it prints correctly. I've tried fitting the images to 98% instead of 100% of the page. That didn't work, and also I have tried printing from other printers but they still have the same problem.

Any ideas? Thanks!


texts: Incrementally pixilized video game faces from a real face

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My input is a photo of a real face: png with greenscreen background.
My intended output is a (late 90's) video-game looking characterization of that face.
I also want to save a few of the intermediate steps to show the transition.
This is similar to what I want to achieve, but the intermediate steps seem a bit abrupt; I'm aiming for something a bit smoother.

Question
How can I generate a pixel-sparse, somewhat convincing representation of a real face using built-in photoshop features?
Note: My sketching/digital sketching is poor, so I must rely on automated features. However, it would be acceptable if I have to put in a few cosmetic touches by hand for the final result.


texts: I know how to put a shadow or outer glow around the document, but I can't figure out how to get those rounded edges. I guess it's not even a shadow, so more specifically, how do I create this rounded outer glow on a rectangular image?


texts: How to make a logo where a letter is made of particles of varying sizes?

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How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from http://www.graphicdesigninspiration.net/2012/08/15/70-awesome-logo-designs-for-your-inspiration/?

It is a large number circles of different, varying sizes, which form the shape of a text character.


texts: Rotate an object smoothly in Photoshop CS6

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i am currently using Photoshop CS6 and there is no "create video animation" option in timeline tab.

I have only one option to create animation via "create frame animation".

I want to rotate a horoscope wheel to make a gif format file.

Please help me, how to rotate smoothly (without any jerk)  via frame by frame animation in short time/ short method.


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I'm trying to create a logo from an image that I want to be one color where the white space is transparent. How can I convert it so that there is only one true color (black) where the edges aren't pixelated with gray and white pixels as well? I tried converting it to Grayscale, flattening it, using Adjustment Layers, but I can't convert it to a single color.
I used to be able to accomplish this with PhotoShop, but I don't recall the specific steps that I took to make it work. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the full version of Photoshop to be able to try and replicate the process. I have Affinity Photo and a trial version of Photoshop Elements as far as available software. The attached image shows two versions of the same image: the original is on the left and the one on the right shows how bad it looks when I try to add color in the transparent sections.
(Disclaimer: my apologies for any terminology that I misused above; Pretty sure that's why I'm having problems finding a solution!)


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I've been trying to decide on a file format to save a multitude of "master" images for a game project. The final product will be vector images. I would like to have the master copies of the images saved in a format that saves layers and all other important pieces of data for editor-side modifications later if needed.

I've been trying to decide between the PSD format or Illustrator's AI format. The most important fact I need to know about the PSD format here that I don't already know to make an informed decision is whether the PSD format saves path data. If it does is there any reason that would make it inferior to the AI format in regards to the manner in which it does?


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I'm having a hard time creating this shape. Could anyone guide me as to what shapes I could use to create the shapes within the circle.

Thanks so much!


texts: How can I fill in/color a transparent vector path in AI CS6

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Thank you for taking the time.
I'm actually new to AI and I'm having a trouble filling in a vector path that's transparent on the inside. I have attached a pictuare of the shape that I want to fill in, I tried changing the color from the fill box, but the border color changed instead of the inside.


texts: How to find or create a brush like this?

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I need a brush like this. I use Freepik for resources. But I can't find similar brush. When I search grunge brushes, I see results but those are kind of vector look. But the one in this photo looks like a torn paper and realistic photo.

Is there any quick way to create this in Photoshop or is there any keyword to find such results online?


texts: Client wants to use more than one design concept presented

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A design contract stated that work done would be for the cost of (1) final presentation folder design. Upon presenting three concepts to the client for consideration (concept 1&2 being similar and concept 3 being significantly different), they've decided they now want to use both concepts 1 & 3 to have two different folders.

I am trying to determine how I should charge for the license to use this additional design (#3) that is significantly different from concept 1. Just because concept 3 took me less time to create since it was based off some similarities to concept 1 shouldn't meant that its value is strictly based on those hours since the client will have double the benefit of a second folder for their marketing.

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this matter.


texts: How to remove strange banding from PNG export with radial gradient

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I'm using Illustrator CC 2014 and have a radial gradient that looks smooth in edit, but gets really weird bands when I export or Save to Web (any format, all settings).

Here's how it looks in Illustrators artboard (just the top):

And here's how it looks after export!?

Notice the two light bands? How do I stop this?


texts: Illustrator PNG w/ transparency Export - White Outline in Web when not 100%?

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I created a vector graphic in Illustrator CC and used "Save for Web" to create a transparent PNG of it. When rendered on my site, though, it adds a faint light outline around the gray circle in the included sample screenshot. Notice, though, that it only appears if the image is changed in size (made its container smaller, so the image scaled down).

Image at 100%, no white outline - nice and crisp:

Image scaled down to 95% (or any % besides 100), artifact outline that makes it look blurry:

I've never had this issue before and have tried adjusting the artboard to whole px amounts, removed the color profile, changed the raster transparency settings, switched between cmyk and rgb color modes, unchecked convert to sRGB, and a multitude of other tweaks I'm forgetting at the moment, but this is pretty frustrating and I'm hoping this wonderful community can provide some insight.


texts: Create flair around fonts without pen tablet?

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Without using a pen tablet, what’s a good alternative way in Photoshop or Illustrator to create variable width flair around fonts like a lettering artist would?:

Examples:

I don’t have the drawing ability or hardware to draw it by hand (probably the ideal method). I do however have access to similar looking fonts, and would just like to know a way to accomplish similar-looking lines around my letters: variable width wavy underlines and lines w curlyques at the ends, drawn in ‘sparkles’, etc. Can someone point me to a good plugin, or school me on specific pen techniques that would work decently?

On that note, what’s the correct design term for this ‘flair’ around the letters that I’m referring to?


texts: Showing videos in website design mockups

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As most people do, before going in and coding the HTML/CSS of a site, I usually like to create the design in an application such as Photoshop (and for recent projects, Affinity Designer) and then export the design as an image so that I can send it to the client and confirm they like the design.

I want to show that a design has a video background, and I'm not quite sure how I'd do this. I would just put a still from the video in the design, but then it isn't clear that it's a video and not an image, so I'd need to explain to them that it's a video, and they would need to be able to visualize it as a video.

I was thinking that perhaps I could somehow embed the video into the document and export it as a video, and just place that video in a HTML page so that it occupies the full width & they can scroll down it. This doesn't feel like a very good solution to me, especially since most design programs do not support this. However, I can't think of any better ideas on how to present it.

What are some good ways to present a design which has a video background as a key element in the design to the client, without having to code the whole website and (potentially) having to scrap it all?

(Answers which work with Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Designer are preferred)


texts: Creating a Brand Book - Resolution difference between Retina/non Retina

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I am currently working on a brand book in Illustrator for a client and I have issues with the sizes (font size, resolution, etc.). What document settings do I have to use on my retina Macbook to make this document correct for all displays?

I created a Din A4 document and added a 85px Text. The text is so big and the document so small. Why is that? Shouldn't it be Din A4 size, if I view it at 100%?

I think I have some issue in general understanding how to work with a retina display.

I appreciate any help!


texts: The changes requested by the client look terrible, what can I put in my portfolio?

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So for a while now I've been lerning web design / web development, done a few small projects for classes (I'm a student), read up on the subject, watched videos and so on. I'm now somewhat familiar with design principles and I'm able to build a clean, good-looking, responsive website.
So recently I had a chance to build my first 'real' website. It was for a choir which a relative of mine is involved in, so I offered to do it for free.

So I build a nice website, felt pretty confident about my design and showed it to my clients. They said it looks great and such, but asked me to do tons of 'tiny' changes, like changing the background-color, the font-size of certain elements and so on. Worst of all, instead of using one of the Logos I created they decided to go with something one of them drew, which rips off the Logos of not one, but two major companies, is terribly bloated and looks horrifying alltogether. (Later, I asked a friend of mine who is a trained designer who agreed that my original suggestions looked better by far).

So the problem is, I was really hoping to start building a portfolio with the Logos and website I created. But after all the changes I implemented (tried to explain to them why those were bad ideas, but they wouldn't have it), the website looks really awful and is not something I want to have listed as my work. So, how can I go about adding my original site and the Logo I created to my portfolio? I have saved my original design in a seperate git branch, so I can go back there, take some screenshots or even mirror the original site to a server.

Should I link to the live website and mention the changes that I didn't have control over, along with some screenshots? Or should I replace the pictures and copy they supplied with dummy text/pics and upload the page to a subdomain of my own server (and link to it in my portfolio)? Or is there a better way? Also, how can I do that in a way that the clients won't feel that I'm treating them dismissive or condescending (as in 'stupid clients had stupid ideas so here's my ingenious original design')?
On a related note, should I bundle the website and Logo design in one portfolio-entry or seperate them?


texts: Adobe Illustrator: How to fill in colors between lines?

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I am making a 3D letter and I want to fill in some parts to give it a 3D look. So far I have used black lines to make it but I want to fill in-between the lines.

Can someone show me what to do?


texts: I am doing a catalog layout in indesign using xml. Is there a special character in xml for column break similar to &#09; for tab characters or are column break characters just an Indesign feature?


texts: In Illustrator, can a symbol 'knockout' a path?

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I have an illustrator document with hundreds of these shields setup as a symbol. They are placed on top of paths and they look like this:

I'm trying to get to a place where the white fill of the symbol 'knocks out' the path behind it to get something like this:

Right now the only way I know how to accomplish this is to manually chop the line behind the symbol on both sides. I've tried to group the objects, different blending modes on the white fill, and the 'Knockout Group' option on the fill, but haven't been able to get the desired effect. Any ideas out there on how to accomplish this en masse?

Thanks!


texts: How and when to transition from pro-bono to paid work, and how to ask to be paid?

texts: Its common for new designers to take on volunteer/unpaid projects for the purpose of building a portfolio, practicing new skills, or developing a client base. When the designer has reached a certain level of proficiency and would like to discuss compensation with the same clients that were receiving free work, what is an appropriate approach?


texts: How do I create a fuzzy fade-out-to-transparent blur effect on the background of an image in PhotoShop

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So I have an image like this:

I created a layer mask, and painted with a large feathery brush on the mask to remove the background as best as I could, and then ran it through a plugin, result in this:

It is far from the "background removal" effect I was hoping for, more along the lines of this:

My question for this one is fairly narrow. How do I create a sort of pseudo-radial gradient, basically a fade-out "flow map" around the subject of the photo? Sort of like this:

The darker black rays extending from the subject in the center symbolizes the "gaussian gradient" effect I am trying to achieve.

Basically, I know how I can create a linear and a radial gradient. So I would create several masks at different angles using a linear gradient. But that seems like kind of a hack. Is there no way to simply draw around the subject of the photo with some tool, and have it use that lasso as the starting point for a gradient, to which the gradient would flow outwards from each normal vector from the border of the lasso (sort of thing). How can I accomplish something like this? If I am way off base, which direction would be a more suitable one to try?

I tried this to (a) remove the background on one layer, then lower the transparency to 50% on the first layer (of the whole image), then combine the layers. Doing that gave me a janky cutout of the subject, whereas I would prefer a more fadeout approach, so not sure how to do that yet. But the result is slightly better since now the background is more removed.

I tried this only to get a slightly better result:

But I don't know how to get the masking just perfect, nor how to have the background sort of feather-fade out.

Perhaps this is what I want.

I also tried this, but didn't seem to get very good results. Maybe it takes practice, would be good to know. Here's what that looked like:

This is helpful. Here's what it's like with a blurred oval vignette to transparency.

Edit
Here's what I did, please let me know how to do it better.

Duplicated background image layer.
In duplicated layer, drew around it with the magic tool. Just enough to roughly cover the subjects.
Select > Modify > Expand, by like 40px, to expand the selection so it was definitely outside of the subject roughly.
Right click, "select and mask", and then feathered the selection a little bit so it didn't form a sharp border.
Copied the second layer into a third layer.
Reselect the 3rd layer's lasso.
Extend it outward by like an inch, so it covered a much more blobby area around the subject.
Feathered that and decreased opacity further. Made sure it blended with the other layers.
Low opacity on the original full background image.

End result was something like this:

Then it turned into this:

Still not that great. I would like for it to have the qualities:

Only really show the main subjects clearly. So maybe I need to better select these out.
Create a curve like an exponential fade-out from the subject to the background, so there is a smooth transition from subject to background. That was the hardest part. I would like for the background to start of relatively faint next to the subjects, then fade out broadly so it forms like a vignette, yet isn't overpowering. The main this is how to do the boundary between the subject and the background initially, so it doesn't chop or form a line. I need a blur curve controller or something, I don't know.

If anyone knows how to improve this please let me know. Thank you.

Still not that great :/


texts: Porting designs from Illustrator to Figma (SVG)

texts: I need to use some logos and other elements I've created on Illustrator in Figma. I know that you can save an entire project on Illustrator as SVG but how to pick certain elements, say shapes and logos etc. and just export those as SVG's? So not the whole project, just certain individual elements here and there.


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When I create a new CMYK color for my document, the color’s values change when I edit it back, as you can see in this animation (sorry for the bad quality):

For example:

65,00% becomes 65,10%
40,00%   ->    40,00%
30,00%   ->    30,20%
5,00%    ->    5,10%

How can I solve this and have the right value applied?


texts:
Sorry guys,
I have a printing problem, both with PDF and with preview. I'm not able print in full scale my document, even if I check if the file has the right size and if I did not set margins. It seems so. Printing comes out as in this pic:

What am I doing wrong?
I am on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and I used Illustrator CS6


texts: What is the difference between CMYK and RGB? Are there other color spaces I should know?

texts: I'm a photographer, who dabbles in graphic design from time to time as well. What are the differences between the various color spaces?


texts: How to hide what's behind an object in a non destructive way / give it an "invisibility cloak"

texts:
is there a way to design a linked graphic in Illustrator with some kind of invisibility cloak in the layers.

Let me explain.
Let's say I want to reuse a sketch like this

Where in fact, the rectangle fill color is transparent, and I don't really want to have a purple fill color for the ellipse, but I want it to hide the path of the rectangle.

Then, I want to be able to reuse it on some backgrounds like this:

In order to reach the final result

The thing is: I don't want the ellipse to really be purple in the image that I save in my Illustrator Cloud library, I just want it to adapt its color to whatever is beneath the rectangle layer

That way, if I have an orange background, I want to immediately (without modification of the link) reach the following result

instead of this (my current achievement)

Is it possible without embedding the image nor destroying the shapes?
Really, as if the ellipse was acting as an invisibility cloak for the rectangle.


texts: Gimp - How do I make a selection transparent

texts:
I am using GIMP.

This seems like such a simple thing, yet I just can't get it to work.

I did "color to alpha" on a selection, but it only made it partially transparent, very annoying.

So I have selected the area again, I just want to make it totally 100% transparent.

How to do?


texts:
I'm formatting a music program that mixes English and Chinese.  I read a tip that suggested using the Chinese font in the style definition and then using a “GREP style” for switching to an English font (and rules) over characters in the range of those characters.

Great idea!

Note that I already am adept with regular expressions in Perl 5, and I'm also knowledgeable about Unicode including how it's organized.

Everything I find via Google on InDesign GREP Style is a basic tutorial about regular expression and dead simple to anyone who already knows Perl etc.  I've not seen anything about how InDesign 11.1.0.122 on Windows is using the regexp, which I assume is some particular way…

Note that the expression stops at the last space in the paragraph, and is not applied to the last word.  A work-around is to add extra space at the end, but that's wrong for centered text.

The expression /[$a-$b]+/ when $a and $b include all ASCII characters will not stop at a space, and even if it did (e.g. some other kind of whitespace character), the stuff after it would be consecutive letters in that range, too.

So what exactly is InDesign doing with the expression, and more to the point why does it not work as stated?

(Once I get it working at all, I can improve upon it if InDesign knows the codes for Unicode properties, rather than stating a range of absolute code point values.)


texts: How can I better represent a cross-cutting component in an ERD

texts: I am creating an ERD for a training roadmap as shown below. The soft skills component is cross-cutting in all levels. Is that the best way to represent it?


texts: What should interaction between a UI Designer and a front end developer look like?

texts:
How should I write the guidelines for the design (colors, dimensions .etc) for the front end developer to use?

At the moment I just create an overlay on top of my design and write notes in that overlay.

How do you do it?

Thank you!


texts:
There is a .psd
layout & it has different text types in .png. How to recognize which font types used in it?
myfonts.com does not help.
Any help is appreciated!
Add photo with fonts, what are they?


texts: How to achieve 2 chosen hue colour separation profile?

texts:
I'm really into the ColorLibrary colour separation profiles e.g. http://colorlibrary.ch/#blue-yellow

I wanted to use the blue and yellow one in a offset printed 2 colour book project, but as a student I don't have 40chf spare to purchase one. Does anyone has any ideas about how I would be able to achieve this effect myself? Tried googling but might be using the wrong terms. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.


texts:
I've recently invested in a 4k monitor, which is brilliant and all, especially for image editing, however I'm finding it a bit frustrating trying to mockup websites due to the difference in resolution.

Is there a way to compensate for the difference in DPI? At present a full 1920x1080 document is 1/4 the size of my screen. I also find myself making things larger to compensate, meaning my work comes out looking silly and oversized when viewed on a standard HD monitor.

I know it wouldn't make too much difference at the front end stage if built using % widths and rem etc, but for client mockups it's not really suitable to start the front end build before signing off on the design.


texts:
When getting an InDesign file ready for print I knwo that images should be:
1. CMYK
2. at least 300 dpi
3.preferably .tiffs

But if the files are less than 300dpi but due to the size of the images on the page the 'effective dpi' is more than 300. Is that ok to send to print?
Or do I still have to convert to 300 pdi which would make the effective dpi much greater?

Thanks


texts: What do you call the first paragraph in a layout where its bigger and made to stand out?

texts:
So you often see the first paragraph, for example of an about us page, where the first paragraph has a larger font and just kind of gives an enticing bit of information to read further. Anybody know what these are called? thanks.

Heard it referred to once as an exciter, but not sure if that's just something the person made up or not..

edit: added image.


texts: How do I improve the visual design of my scientific schematic figures?

texts: When writing a manuscript, I generally feel like my plots follow a good balance of visibility and informational portrayal. Once in a awhile, I need to create a figure where something is shown "schematically". Though drawn in Inkscape or Illustrator, these drawings often look like word art. Is there a way to improve the visual design of simple scientific schematic figures like the one shown below?


texts: Where can I open Adobe Illustrator files

texts:
I ordered a logo and I received AI file. I do not own Adobe Illustrator and it makes no sense for me to buy it as I am not a designer.

I can export it using online services which suites most of my needs. But I would like to do trivial modifications like scaling, cropping etc. Is there any free (budget) software where I can do such tasks with AI file?

I have already found this similar question: How to edit/export ai file without Illustrator


texts: How to design a single site for two target markets

texts:
I have a client that operates an electronics recycling/disposition company. Broadly speaking, they have two target markets and I would like to figure out how to structure the site so that I can target both with minimal confusion. I will explain the issue in more detail below.

The first market is small to medium sized businesses. The clients in this market typically have used electronics (computers, TVs, printers, phones, batteries, etc.) that they want to dispose of as cheaply as possible. My client serves these clients by picking up the electronics for free and breaking them down for parts. The main needs for this type of client are convenience (pick up is easy to arrange and does not require any involvement of their employees) and low cost. Essentially, they want to get rid of their electronics quickly and at minimal expense.

The second market is larger corporate clients. The clients in this market typically require secure data destruction, and asset management and disposition (wiping computers/phones, refurbishing them and re-selling them). The main needs for this type of client are ensuring that their data is safely destroyed (secure data destruction) and that their assets provide them with a small return when they are re-sold (asset management and disposition).

There might be some overlap between these markets (a small company who needs their hard drives securely destroyed) but for the most part, the service offerings are clearly delineated by target market.

My main concern is ensuring that clients that arrive from organic search understand what service is targeted towards them. For instance, I do not want a small business client to see data destruction services and think that is overkill for them. On the other hand, I do not want a large corporate client seeing that their electronics are being picked up for free and immediately start wondering what is going to happen to their secure data.

Any help in figuring out how to best structure both the home page and other pages of the site would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


texts: PSD mockup template not getting design in place

texts:
I am trying to create mockup for my business card design but when I paste the design in the smart object layer and save it, the design only gets the effect of the template but the design do not go into the place it should go. It appears as simple rectangle with the effects.

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I tried 2 - 3 different template but getting same problem. Please help me guys

This is how the mockup should look

This is the result I get when I edit the Smart Object layer with my design


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I am just getting into UI design. I have a site I am working with right now whose primary color is #ffb606(yellow). All of my CTA's are yellow with white text. I need to change the CTA color but I am not sure if I should go with a more reddish-orange that is in our logo. Or should I choose something completely different?

Any help is appreciated. (screenshots below)


texts: Illustrator alignment with styled element doesn't work properly

texts:
I'm creating a template on Illustrator CS6 but I'm not able to align elements properly when one of them have a style.

In this case, I have a rectangle with a dropshadow effect and when I try to align the text in the middle of the box, it's considering the whole height including the shadow.

The image below illustrate the problem, the text on the left (has the correct alignment position) was aligned without style and the text on the right was aligned with a dropshadow style.

It never happened to me before and I don't know what could be the cause of this problem.


texts: .dds File Loses Color When Viewed in Layers

texts:
I have three .dss photo files from a video game that are textures. A lot of the separate maps (diffuse/specular/normal) are on different layers of these photos so I need some layers individually to use them. I'm using these textures in conjunction with Blender 3D.

When the .dss files are not changed they contain color. Viewing one with Blender only showed the Alpha layer, but it was in color. After opening these files in Gimp and proceeding to decompose them (Color > Components > Decompose) to RGBA, all the layers were available. But when viewing the .dss layers individually there was no color and saving them to .png kept the lack of color. How do I keep the color intact when accessing separate layers?


texts:
I have a 507mm x 510.5mm metal sheet that I want to put a design onto. The design is rather complicated and I have no talent so painting is not an option. I'm looking for something similar to what this guy has done on the side panel of his computer case:

BUT I want the image to cover the entire panel and I don't want to pay through the nose for it. What options are there for doing this? I don't mind printing onto plastics or paper and then laminating it or something "hacky" like that. Which techniques and tricks are the cheapest and have the best results? Please comment anything you can think of.


texts: Brush tool that only moves points in Illustrator?

texts:
Is there a tool similar to the warp tool but only to move points without smoothing lines? The nearest example would be the soft vertex selection tool found in 3D programs.

A shape is modified within the brush area without smoothing lines just repositioning the affected points thus straight lines remain being straight.

Is there a tool or a plugin for this?


texts: How to design a survey/questionnaire to evaluate user appeal of a visual design?

texts:
There has been a lot spoken about user experience design for interactive products and services, but is there some standard or guideline to capturing user feedback for non-interactive products that has a significant visual design element to it?

I think the difficulty is how to evaluate the different elements of design that contribute to the aesthetic appeal/quality, so the indirect way to measure this is to understand what the users think. Has anyone tried to create some systematic way to evaluate this?

This article discusses some of the principles of visual design, and I can see elements of it being adopted for a survey or questionnaire focusing on each aspect of:

Consistency: Do you notice things that don't fit well together?
Alignment: Do things feel nice and neatly grouped?
Proximity: Do things feel logically grouped together?
Contrast: Are things easily noticeable and easy to read?
Hierarchy: Are things in the order that you would expect to find them?

Update: I saw this paper that goes into some detail about the study of website design appeal which I think some people might find interesting. It points out some general trends between different demographics that are worth noting:

females liked colorful websites more, and colorless websites
less, than males.
both genders reached their peak appeal at a similar low to moderate complexity level, but females disliked simple websites more.
adults aged 41 years and above liked websites with a higher colorfulness
and complexity than younger age groups.
negative correlation between education level and colorfulness,
as well as between education level and complexity. Independent
of age, highly educated users prefer less complex
and less colorful websites than others.
a user’s geographical location is an additional factor influencing
appeal.


texts: Vector file showing up with embedded image

texts:
So I recently did some logo design work for a friend of a friend and just sent him a collection of image files, with each design available as a basic JPG, a transparent PNG, and an AI vector file. I just used Photoshop's Export > Paths to Illustrator function to create the AI files since I don't actually have Illustrator, and this method has always worked in the past.

My client and his printer sent me a message alerting me to the fact that all the vector files were showing up really small (as in less than a KB) and were strangely empty. I went back and double checked all of them, and they were all showing up as having file sizes that seemed appropriate given the contents. I'd originally sent all the files in a .zip folder so I got to wondering if the compression had done something weird to them -- I re-sent all of the AI files as individual attachments and they were properly preserved this time. However, I received another message from the printer:

  These do show up this time, however they come in as a vector file with an embedded image. Maybe try these exported as a PDF and an EPS file to see how those work.

I've since exported all the files as EPS and Photoshop PDFs, and apparently there's still a problem. However, I'm wondering what he meant by "vector with an embedded image." If I can fix that somehow, I might be able to resolve this whole issue without any further steps.

When I originally saved those AI files, I merely opened the transparent PNG in PS then exported from there. Could that be part of the problem? If I were to copy and paste the image from the PNG onto a fresh PS canvas and then export from there, would that solve the problem?

I'm still waiting to hear back regarding what exactly the problem with the EPS and PDF files is, but fixing the AI files directly just strikes me as being a simpler solution. I've just created a lot of AI files with the PS Export > Paths to Illustrator function in the past and have never had any problems, so I'm kind of at a loss as to what's wrong.

UPDATE: I just heard back re: the EPS and PDF problem, and he said the files contain JPG material and are raster, not vector. I'm kind of thinking "Well duh, but you're also the one who told me to try those formats." So that was basically no help.


texts: White text disappearing when printed from Illustrator

texts:
I am trying to print something that has a black background, but white text. It has a few different text squares.

Every time I try to print, one of the three text boxes disappears. I can see it on my print preview and on my artboard, but it will not print.

I’ve had this issue before where I would have to mess with the layers and send things to the front or back, but this is not the case.

I have done everything I could possibly think of. When I move one of the text boxes to the front and then the other two disappear when I print. If I move the other two text boxes to the front, or even try to group all three text boxes and one or two, respectively, just disappear when I print my page.

It’s not an issue of checking the attributes menu; I’ve done all that.


texts: Convert PNG/JPEG/PDF map to SVG for laser cutting

texts:
I am trying to convert a PDF map into SVG to then send it out to the laser cutter.
I have been using the Image Trace tool with the "technical drawing" presets (and a bit of tweaking), which give more or less the result I want. None the less, there is a lot of cleaning required after this step: there are lines overlapping each other, breaks in the lines, etc. (see pictures below)
So I was wondering if there is another tool, or set of procedures than can cleanly convert a PDF or JPEG or other pixel based map into SVG.

The goal is to then automate these steps so that virtually any map can be processed.

Here are pictures of 1) the original file, 2) how it looks after Image Trace, 3) how it looks after manually cleaning it, and how it should be more or less for laser cutting:

EDIT: I think the key in this project is really to have good files to start with. The US Census site has a bunch of maps (including Congressional District) in various formats.
Mike Bostock provides a very useful tutorial for converting shapefiles (.shp) to SVG, and even more. Just Google "Command-Line Cartography".


texts: How do you replace pixel color on all channels including alpha in GIMP?

texts:
I'm trying to edit a simple theme icon, which has full RGB colors and variable transparency in different places.

I also know what color and alpha values specific pixels should have, and want to set them to these values easily from whatever other values they have currently.

Most obvious way to do that seem to be using Pencil (N key) tool, setting size of it to 1px, set color and opacity value, then click on a pixel to "replace" with this color/alpha values.

This does not do what I described above however, as color is mixed with the color that was already set for that pixel, and not replaced at all.

For example, if I pick half-transparent black color, and layer pixel was semi-transparent black already, clicking on it will add both shades together and produce darker color in that pixel than what I selected and what was there already, while desired result is for it to have exact color/opacity values that I picked on the toolbar, regardless of hue/shade that was there previously.

Another easy demonstration can be clicking on same pixel multiple times with 50% opacity selected - desired result would be same color/opacity after first click, but actual result is pixel getting more opaque after each subsequent click.

Workaround can be using other separate tool like eraser to remove exising pixel channel values (make it fully transparent) and then place color/alpha I want there with a single click, but this is very inefficient if I want to adjust color/opacity of many pixels like that.

I understand that GIMP might not be the best tool to do such precise manipulations, but would still want to know how to do this efficiently with it, if possible.
Also note that I want layer/image to have transparency, and control its value along with RGB color channels, so discarding it for easy color manipulation is not useful here.

Image to demonstrate what I'd like to do and get (left to right):

Initial state of layer and selected tools (left)
Desired result (middle)
Actual result (right)

Is there a tool/mode/plugin/settings in GIMP that'd allow to do this easily (ideally with just a click after picking RGB+A values for pixel), as shown in the image?


texts: Copy & paste artwork with editable text from Adobe Illustrator to InDesign?

texts:
I can't believe it: when pasting some diagram drawing with text from Illustrator to InDesign, text is not completely editable and becomes broken.

I would like to adjust text in InDesign brochure composing, or edit it before finalizing later.

What's the options here?


texts:
I'm in storyboard hell. I have to place about 400 separate images in sequence on a huge board in photoshop. So I have a 20,000 px by 10,000 px board and a load of layers which have been imported in the correct sequence, I really really want to find a nice way of distributing the layers edge to edge left-to-right then cascading downwards on my canvas.

Can anyone think of a way to avoid me having to do this manually for hours (and imagine if I have to remove or reorganize some in future ... sickening)


texts: How do I create a puff / bump / bent effect in Photoshop?

texts:
I am sorry for effect naming(!) but i couldn't decide the what is correct one for it, but you can see the example image below.

What is the most effective way to achieve this result with CS5?
Thanks.

Example Image


texts: delay playing animated gif in PowerPoint

texts: I have an animated gif that plays once (no loop). In PowerPoint, I want it to play when it appears on the slide, on a click.  Right now, it seems to play before it appears.  Is there a way to delay playing it until it appears?


texts: What is a good size for category box on web site?

texts:
I'm designing a web site which has a large number of categories. On one particular page each category will be displayed with a photo, light description and a a list of subcategories or products.

Here's the completely design-less version. I'm about to start working on a shaded box of some kind to wrap this up in as well as the layout inside said box. Each of these category boxes will be floated right so that as many will fit on a user's screen as possible. I would like for three to appear at minimum.

I am not half the graphic designer I am web developer, can you offer any suggestions - especially on sizing but style is very welcome.


texts: Dribbble Freebies - Okay to use for commercial purposes?

texts: I haven't seen any info on this. There are a lot of .PDS and .AI files that are given away on Dribbble by the creators, but no one seems to state how they can be used.  Does anyone know if it's okay to use these for commercial purposes?


texts: How to change mind about taking on a freelance project

texts:
I currently met a man that was my car sharing driver who asked if I did business card design and I said I did and that is something I could help with and gave him my card.

THEN we talked about his project and long story short this guy sounds like he has so many ideas of what he wants, has a super small budget and wants to do things his way and not by the streamlined process I have. Just a nightmare. Car ride ended, he has my card and called me to help.

While I realize now that I should not have said I could help before getting to know him more, I am still stuck wanting to run but I did say I could help. No money exchanged yet, no contracts signed or anything.

Exactly how do I tell him that I changed my mind? I can't exactly say "This money isn't worth my sanity".

Thanks in advance!


texts: Using photographs successfully in large format prints

texts:
Apologies if this is a bit of a newbie question.

I have been asked by my client to design a tent, the type you use at trade shows etc.
They want to have lots of photographs on the tent.  The photographs are extremely high quality but the tent printer is asking for everything to be vectorized.
I believe the only way I can do that is to 'image trace' these photographs in illustrator.  This looks pretty good when not zoomed in but my client does not like the way it looks when it is 'actual size'.
Is there any way I can give the client what they want without compromising the look of the photographs? I feel like I'm missing something really obvious, but I've been working on this problem for days and I'm not getting anywhere.
Any help in the right direction would be much appreciated!
Thank you.


texts: Resize image over "orbit" with Photoshop

texts:
I'm using photoshop CC 2015 and I'd like to "resize" a music score line around an object in an orbit fashion (perhaps not completely horizontal, diagonal would be better), I'll give you an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish with my mad paint sk1llz

The object is already in place, but I have no idea how to resize a music score line that way.

Can someone shed some light on how to do this?


texts: I can't figure out how to break a path's subpaths into separate, individual paths in Photoshop CC.  Everything I find online suggests there is an Object menu (?) but I'm either too stupid to locate it, or it's not in Photoshop CC.  I can't locate the information in Adobe's online documentation either.  Is this not possible in CC?


texts: photoshop or gimp color / light correction guidelines for a newbie

texts:
I would like to learn basic color / tone / light corrections for editing my car photos which are either over / low exposed; or blueish (due to heavy cloudy days)

For this purpose I can use either photoshop or gimp.. I will appreciate if you can provide quick, and easy guidelines (either step by step procedures or youtube videos)..

Thanks in advance.


texts: Gimp fuzzy selector selection not being removed on delete

texts: I've done this precise thing before, but for some reason after selecting with the fuzzy selector the portion of the image I want to remove and hitting the delete key, it's not being removed.. Am I in some kind of weird mode? I am able to copy the selection but not cut it. I can fill it but erase it.. Any ideas?


texts: Do designers use different color palettes for web and print design?

texts:
I'm designing a brand for a startup company, (new to freelancing) and I'm trying to make my color choices suitable for printed documents as well as displaying them on web.

Using Illustrator (doc in CMYK mode). When I choose good CMYK colors, the out of web color warning shows up, when I click on it, it corrects it to unsuitable color.

So, how do professional designers deal with this?

Do they provide a different color palette for each of CMYK, RGB and Pantone?
(that will probably look similar but not the same)

Is it better to start with pantone colors and then convert them to RGB (for web) and CMYK (for print)?


texts:
So I had a designer on 99Designs create a logo for me, it is Vector and he generated the Logo size you can see on my website here: sandiegosoftware.net

I understand that my browser, OS and resolution of my monitor can effect the look but it just doesn't look very crisp to me. He seems like a good designer, is there any areas, such as anti-aliasing that he could improve upon?


texts: How to adjust Miter Joints to look pointy?

texts:
I would like to make the edges of the figure became pointed, similar to that of another figure.

I set Stroke Style to Miter Join, but that didn't work.

Any solution for this?


texts: How to give a realistic 3D perspective to a 2D oval shape with zig zag effect pattern

texts:
Hello all,
I am a illustrator noob who's trying to punch above it's weight too soon.
I am trying to draw an oval park which has an oval fence around it. The fence should follow the motive you can see below.

So I drew two oval shapes and applied a zig-zag effect on the one I wanted to turn into the fence. I get the pattern I am looking for (very simplified, it's material design!), but then I can't get the perspective right!

I envelop distort it, which gives me the right dimensions at the top and at the bottom of the fence, but the left and right edges should be more "squeezed" to look more tridimensional from the "bird-eye" view I went for.

Do you have suggestions for a more appropriate way of working with this?


texts: Is it necessary for me to have an email address in lower case

texts:
I'm designing a flyer which has an email address on it.

Is it necessary for me to have the email address in lower case?

Or can I have it in upper case to put more emphasis?

I did my research on the net but all results seem to relate to the email addresses itself, not as it may appear on a flyer.

My client doesn't seem to like the idea of having it in upper case.


texts: How can you get decorative dots or dashes between links in the sitemap hierarchy, using either CSS or images?

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In the footer of my clients site, I want to give the users total clarity about where things are on the website so that they can quickly navigate there.

So I will implement what looks like a nested set of links. In plain text, it should look like this.  but just the blue dashes. I lined out in pen to separate the list items.

The code is below showing the selection of the last list item. But how would you either add dots using only CSS or using CSS to insert an image before it?

This is what I have so far and the accompanying code. In my example, the  in the footer became a block element, but it was supposed to be inline, so disregard that because it will be fixed. I was going to add color to the dashes, but does not seem like the best option after experimentation. I was going to add pipes and dashes |----


texts: How can I extend the background of an image?

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I have purchased this stock image:

I wish to extend the pebble background substantially, to fill the image around 4x wider, keeping the same height.

So far I've tried:

Using PS CS5 content-aware filler, though whilst it starts out ok as you extend it a little bit, it begins to repeat the exact same background giving an extremely unnatural and badly edited look as you extend further.
Using the Clone tool and Spot healing after stretching and cut-pasting various bits, after an hour of fiddling it becomes uncertain whether the image is getting better or worse and using this method will take forever and a day.

There must be a combination of the thousands of tools in Photoshop or CS5 that will help me do this much faster.

Any suggestion, blogs, guides or tutorials for this are welcome and appreciated.


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I would like to add a spot varnish to a giclee print. To be clear: I don't want to varnish the whole page, but add a designed layer of shapes which are varnished on top of the the giclee. This is for a series of short runs (~10 per run), so I need to keep the costs down.

I have spoken to a large number of printers here in the UK who have all said that this isn't something they do. Beyond this, none have been helpful as to why they can't do it or where someone might do it.

Does anyone have any experience doing this? Is it possible. If not why not?


texts: City map making (cartography) with GIMP.

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Does anyone know of good city specific (although I would be interested in others as well) plug-ins for fantasy role playing game map making using GIMP?

I am more looking at macro-scale (so whole city and a little of country side) rather than a tactical map.

Edit: I should have asked for brushes: Deviant art has a plethora of brushes that can be used for this.


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I have a green background picture with some shadows. I would like to use it as a mask so I can place it on background with any color (e.g. red or pink) and get the same style of shadows.

I tried converting it to grayscale and changing opacity to 20%, but this resulted in a lot darker image.

I am using this on a webpage where admin can set template color. Then I am using something like this in CSS:

background: #557d0d url("img/background.png") center center;

Using Gimp 2.8.6 on Ubuntu.


texts: What is this style of text-as-image called?

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I'm seeing a trend (especially on pinterest) of these posters where the image and subject is the text. THe text itself isn't really that important either, it's mainly the typefaces used and composition.

Does this style have a name to it? Is it just called text-as-image?


texts: color stuck in grayscale in Adobe Illustrator

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I'm trying to apply colors to parts of font.

The problem is with the letter 'p' here

I converted the letter to a vector shape with 'Create Outlines' and then cut it using the knife. I just can't get rid of the grayscale there.

For the letter 'a' I made a clipping mask, but the overlay is not accurate so I don't want to use that method.


texts: Is there an easy and cheap way to print qr codes on post-it notes?

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Is there an easy and cheap way to print small quantities of qr codes on post-it notes?
Would need only a few post-its with same qr code, but overall quantity might be a 100 a day.


texts: Recording an action to define pattern CS3

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I am trying to write an action in Photoshop CS3 to turn a bunch of images into patterns by running a batch. I was able to record an action to get this done, but they all have the same name as the image I used to first record the action. How can I get the newly created pattern to maintain it's name from the source file?

The steps I took once I created that action set are:
Open
Define pattern
Close

The close command isn't really working either, but I got around that when I ran the batch by selecting the "Override Action Open Command"


texts: Why an unsaved asterisk appears after saving for web?

texts: This isn't a make-or-break type of problem, just a curiosity that has bugged me for a long time. Mainly in Illustrator, but I believe photoshop as well, when I take a currently saved document and use the "save for web" feature to export a jpeg, an asterisk then appears next to the file name on the tab at the top, representing that the file needs to be saved again. Can anyone tell me why? It doesn't seem as though anything could be changed in the artwork itself. I usually command+z back a step to get rid of the asterisk, but if I save again it also gets rid of the asterisk and there seems to be no difference between the two approaches. Just a curiosity. Thanks!


texts: Palette of at least 10 hues with 4 lightness levels (by perceived appearance)

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For a user interface I need at least 10 distinctive perceived hues, to get a palette with these criteria:

The palette should have at least 10 hues and 4 lightness levels for each hue (dark, medium-dark, medium-light, light).
Each of the hues should have the same perceived distance to the next one.
Each of the hues should have high saturation (i.e.: brown shouldn't be an option, since it's a desaturated orange). Grey, white or black aren't options either.
Each lightness level should be perceived as the same across all of the hues (ie: dark_blue should be as dark as dark_yellow).
If each hue can be easily named, that would be a nice addition (i.e.: red, orange, yellow, etc.).
Dark and medium-dark lightness should have good contrast with white
Light and medium-light lightness should have good contrast with black

I have made this test, which is far from what I need (i.e. yellow and gold are closer than turquoise and blue), but it can give an idea of what I'm looking for:

Is there a palette that fits these criteria?
If not, is there a way to achieve this or something similar to this?

Edit: Changed the question from "12 colors palette" to "At least 10 colors" since I don't need specifically 12.


texts: Illustrator Vector Graphics Appearing Pixellated

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This has been puzzling me for a few days now, and I asked a graphic designer I knew before trying here and haven't been able to solve it yet. It's quite weird so please bear with me for a bit.

I am using Adobe Illustrator to create a logo, and I have something that can potentially work. I have used only the pen tool with strokes (no fill), but the issue is, when I view the logo at 100%, it looks pixellated! I know vectors should not even be able to appear pixellated, but they are. Here is the screenshot from AI, without exporting to anything:

That was just done using the snipping tool within Windows, and it's at 100% zoom.

I have anti-aliasing turned on from Edit > Preferences > General, and the document resolution is at 300 ppi (I get the same result with 72 ppi).

Could anyone help me with this?

If relevant: Using CS6, and have a 24 inch Dell U2412M at 1920x1200 resolution. I do have a 21.6" Samsung at 1680x1050 and I get the same result there as well. Let me know if you need any other settings, or if you would like the file, I'd be happy to provide it to be able to solve this problem.


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Say I have the following layout:
----Left Component--Central Component--Right Component---

The parent component has a fixed width. I'd like Figma to auto-resize the width of left component and the right component based on available space, that is, the parent's width minus the central component's width. In CSS, I can achieve this via the flex-grow property.
Is there an equivalent in Figma?


texts: What can symbolize both beauty and relaxation?

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I am looking for a symbol that suggests beauty, and connotes relaxation as well.

The context is that I am making an icon for a spa and salon finder service. At the beginning it seemed like a rich topic with a lot of potential symbols. However after some research, it seems like beauty and relaxation form a spectrum, upon which various symbols lie on one side or the other.

The usual suspects are nature (floral - lotus), (bird - peacock, swan), (other - butterfly) but I feel each of these lean too much in one direction (towards beauty) or the other (towards relaxation).

What is your thought and research process when it comes to a situation like this?


texts: In Adobe XD how to cancel hover state as soon as the mouse removed from the component's child-trigger and not the component itself?

texts: If a component has multiple elements, the triggered hover state of child A seems to remain active until the mouse is removed from the scope of the entire component (its boundary), not just from that child.


texts: How to make a proper character design requisition?

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I'm a game developer looking for artists to make concept art for my game characters/world and character design. (Yes, I'll pay them. No 'free advertising :D' stuff. This doesn't pay bills).

The thing is, I really don't know HOW to. I've got some contacts already but I don't have a 'how-to' to make the requisition.
How do I ask for it? What do I send? Should I send reference images for 'something like that'? What kind of information would be nice to have when you are being asked for this?

I know that personality and background, both for the character and the scenario is a must, but what else should I send?

How would you, as an artist, like to receive such a requisition and in what format, with what content/things asked?


texts: I have an Illustrator file and I can save as PDF, but need to reduce the size of the resulting PDF. What's the best way to achieve that?


texts: How do I change a color from a swatch library and actually change all the objects that have that color applied in the document?

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Is there a way to create a swatch library, apply different colors from that swatches library to a lot of objects (e.g. a red swatch to 30 objects, a lime swatch to 170 objects, etc.) and after, If I want to change the red to dark red without selecting layers/groups, just by changing the colors directly from the swatches window?

Example:

I apply different colors from a custom swatch library to a lot of objects. I should be able to edit the Cyan (selected) swatch to Black?

And after I change the Cyan color to black directly in the swatch window (?). This way I don't need to look for the

This is just a simple example, I have documents with more colors than this, I want a fast way to change the swatches colors for the whole document layers/objects without looking in the layers window for groups and objects and selecting them individually.


texts: Is there a way to match the size of each layer in Photoshop? For instance, there are two layers: a background layer and a top layer. The background layer is 1280x760. The top layer has only one 84x84 brush stroke, so the size of the layer is 84x84. If the top layer was to be exported to match the same size as the background layer, it'd be scaled up. Is there a way to export a layer with all the transparent areas so that the layer is of a certain size and all elements on the layer maintain their original sizes?


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I really don't understand these color separation channels for screen printing

Here are all Channels. You can see RGB and I dont understand what they are channels  2-305-process   ?


texts: How can I draw a rectangle that has a single concave face?

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I wanted to draw this using Photoshop:

However as you can see the dark green rectangle is not a perfect rectangle. It's rounded at the bottom but I don't know how to do this.

I drew a normal rectangle then subtracted an ellipse from it, but I wanted to know if that's the correct way to do things or not... Subtracting forms with Photoshop CS6 isn't precise, or I used it wrong. I looked on the web and didn't find anything.


texts: Illustrator CC: Pixel perfect align Symbols and linked Documents

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I am just trying to align created Symbols or linked docs in Illustrator to pixel. For some reason the "align to pixel"-option does apply to everything besides linked docs and symbols. Is there any work arround or do I have to adjust the position everytime I reposition my Symbols or linked docs?

Thanks in Advance


texts: Is it possible to resize images without losing resolution by breaking the image into it's component colours and scaling them instead of the raw image

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Lately, I've been trying to increase the quality of some of my images. I discovered rather quickly however that you can't fundamentally improve the quality of an image and that this was a common issue when scaling pictures.

I understand that this issue is born out of the fact that a computer doesn't know what's actually happening in a picture i.e. A man holding up three or two fingers and therefore scaling makes the picture appear blurry.

So I was wondering whether there was a software that could break down images into separate colour layers, for example, an image of a fox being broken down into separate maps of orange, dark orange, darker orange and white. Once the image had been broken into these layers, could you then scale them in unison so that the image doesn't blur? This method allows the image to scale while remembering a colour maps shape and colour value.

Is this a known method and will it work?


texts: I already asked here a question about font types, which are used in PSD layout, but I have another problem: How to measure all distances between objects if in .psd these objects have .png format? I need to do this layout in HTML, So when I start to work, I encountered this kind of problem. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!


texts: Why does moving the station point change the COV but not if you move the picture plane?

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To my limited knowledge I understand that moving the station point further away from the picture plane results in having a bigger cone of vision. If I have a flashlight and move a couple of steps back from the picture plane the circle of light from the flashlight will expand, just like the cone of vision.

However I have read that moving just the picture plane wont affect the cone of vision and I cant understand why?

Edit: I am curious about the size/scale of the cone of vision, not necessarily the angle


texts: Can anyone tell me why this object in illustrator is changing over other colors depending on PDF output?

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This illustrator object is in CMYK, in a CMYK document, at a Normal / 100% transparency setting. When the file is exported in High Quality Print it displays correctly on screen, but prints similarly to the way the x1a PDF shows digitally.

Here is the file! https://send.firefox.com/download/6e9ca3b08f/#RQgQP12g5V9kj02k9GvpNA

x1a PDF (Top) vs High Quality Print PDF (Bottom):


texts: Scattered Fade In for Dotted Font in After Effects

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For a single word in a font composed of many dots, I want to create a simple 10-second animation in which each of the dots will fade-in and in a random order, to eventually compose the original word.

Here is a picture of the font:

What's the simplest way of doing that? Thanks!

Using AE 2018 CC.


texts: How do I turn off anti-aliasing while drawing shapes in Photoshop?

texts: Whenever I create a square shape at 100% zoom, I get perfectly sharp edges. However, once I zoom in at any amount, drawing a perfect square (without anti-aliasing) is very difficult. Is there a way I can turn this off?


texts: What's this design style used by so many new websites called?  If anyone wants to edit this post to use a different link feel free.  I'm just wondering how the CSS and such works for websites that have scrolling 'frames' like this.  I heard that this sort of thing is often done in Wordpress.  Full disclosure:  I know next to nothing about web development.


texts: Distinguishing images made using different software from metadata

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I am interested if it is possible to distinguish the software used to make an image from its metadata. For example, using imagemagick, a command-line tool, I can see that one specific image was made using Adobe ImageReady:

In general however, software like Illustrator or Sketch do not by default include this explicit information in their metadata. So I am looking for a clever way to infer (of course never with absolute certainty) the software program used to export. For example, perhaps Sketch metadata automatically reports interlace method, but Illustrator only does so if you change the default option in export.


texts: Print in Acrobat with Color Profile and Relative or Perceptual intent

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I'm used to print regularly with Photoshop and custom icc color profiles, relative or perceptual intent and/or black point compensation so I'm pretty aware of that kind of settings.

I tried to follow the same approach with Acrobat, but it seems that I can't achieve the same results.

Acrobat has a different color settings window:

I can find the Color Profile but there's no question about rendering intent, and black point compensation.

I tried by picking my custom icc and disabling treat grays as k-only grays and preserve black settings, because I'm printing with desktop printer treated as RGB device.

The output result is far from the one I could get with Photoshop and correct settings, so I guess that there's something off in my print settings in Acrobat.

A different approach could have been convert everything to the destination profile before preparing the pdf but I would like to know how to do it in realtime like with Photoshop instead preparing a less portable pdf suited only for the print job with a certain printer.


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I'm not an expert in photoshop, but I noticed the active area of the stamp tool is much smaller than the circle.

I'm not sure what I have changed (possibly by mistake) and do not see any options to reset to the default brush.


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I need to know if it's possible to find the weight (diameter) of all lines/drawings in a psd file.

Since silk screen printing dosen't allow me to print smaller lines/paths/drawings than 0,6mm i need a preview to see waht would't be printed.


texts: GREP style for three digit code NOT followed by specific characters

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I'm trying to set up a GREP style that will style a 3 digit code (example 789) but not apply that style when the code is followed by the characters ct.

So the style would apply to the 100 in "100 Halo" but not to the 120 in "120 ct"


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When I choose Select > Modify > Border and select a 1px border - the border I get is anti-aliased, hence if I fill my selection a 3px border is affected.

Is there a way to select a 1px aliased border?


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I'm trying to find an icon pack that is designed as strokes only, not fills. As in, when I open it in Illustrator, I should be able to change the stroke weight and color, not the fill color.
I have a decent pack of like 1000 icons that are designed this way, but trying to find more that work with my client materials. Is this a figment of my imagination? Every icon pack I download (tried envato elements, Flaticon, freepik, Dribbble...everywhere) I open the files and the icons that look like lineal-only are really filled shapes.
What keywords should I be using? Why can't I find this? I need to be able to just select all icons in my doc and give them a consistent stroke weight.
I'm working in Illustrator and InDesign. Also, I can't find the source of my current line-only pack.


texts: Best resolutions for display on the web for high resolution image?

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I have a RAW image taken with a Canon 5D, so the image's resolution is 5,616 × 3,744.

I am going to display a different resolution of the image depending upon the requesting user's display. I'm utilizing this library ( https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill )

The RAW image is imported into Lightroom.

For each of the following display criteria, what should I be exporting the image as in terms of resolutions, pixels per inch, etc?

(min-width: 400px)
(min-width: 400px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0)
(min-width: 800px)
(min-width: 800px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0)
(min-width: 1000px)
(min-width: 1000px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0)

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I curve a vector line in Fireworks?

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I've been using Fireworks for a long time, but mostly for basic edits and web exports. I want to do more with it. I'm just trying to create a vector version of the Dribbble logo entirely in Fireworks, but I can't seem to figure out how to curve a line. I tried the Freeform and Reshape Area tools, but they just yank out the line from the middle, instead of curving the whole line. I want to know how I can bend the line as if it was a thin metal strip.

I have achieved similar results before, but to do that, I would draw another circle on top of the main circle and then perform a union, punch or interesect or a combination of those to get what I want. I'm pretty sure that's not the way to do go about it.

I'm more of a Fireworks and CorelDRAW person than a Photoshop and Illustrator person.

Update: I read up and figured out that holding down 2 (or the right arrow) while clicking on a path using the Reshape Area tool lets me adjust the diameter of the selection circle, so I made that as big as the ball and achieved the following result:

Progress, but still a long way to go. As you can see, the path seems to have been broken down into a hundred points, causing the curve to look more the coastline of a beach on a world map. How do I get a perfect curve?

Actually.. if you look at the picture again, the curve almost looks hand-drawn now. :-(


texts: Is there a resource that can analyze image files and provide measure of luminence, saturation etc. automatically?

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I know that several of these values can be derived through photoshop, but it seems like it would need to be done manually for each image file.

What I'm interested in is a resource that I can give several image files (~300) and get measures of things like mean luminance, colour balance etc., in an automated fashion.

As a followup, you can maybe tell that I don't have a clear vision in mind of which measures I would like to get of the images. I'm curious what is out there? I'm interested in any variables that capture aspects of the image: luminance, symmetry, saturation, colour balance etc. I'd love to hear about any others that you'd recommend. Of course as a caveat, these should be easy to extract, using an automated process like I mentioned.


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I'm looking a way or tool to divide a spline or path in equal parts, or, what is the same, equidistant points (anchors).

This is a very common question, but i haven't found an answer. Also, is pretty simple to do by a script, but there's none. Is possible that i haven't searched well, but i'll be glad if someone knows the solution to this.

Autocad has a command (DIVIDE) to do what i ask:

http://goo.gl/swh2uj

http://goo.gl/ymfUK3

Thanks!


texts: How can I delete this mysterious line in Indesign?

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I received an Indesign document I need to work on. There is a line on the same layer as the text that I cannot delete:

The line stays in the same place within the text box and does not flow with the text.

I have checked for:
 - paragraph rules
 - paragraph borders
 - underline
 - locked objects
 - master pages

What could this be? How can I delete it?


texts: Best way to export a vector logo from Illustrator to Photoshop for printing?

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I have a vector logo (eps-file) that needs to be exported to an A4-flyer created in Photoshop for printing (as a PDF).

What is the best way to export the logo to Photoshop at the appropriate size while keeping it nice and crisp?

I tried to export it as a PNG, but if you zoom into the document the logo is not very sharp compared to the text in Photoshop.

I also tried a smart object, which gives better results, but it is still not convincing.

What is the best way to handle this?


texts: Preview text size change in Photoshop CC 2018

texts: In Photoshop, since time began, when you selected text and then used the arrow keys on your keyboard you could see dynamically the text change on screen as you increased and decreased the point size. For some reason, that only the developers of Photoshop can explain, that feature has been turned off in CC 2018. Is there any way to turn that back on?


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I'm trying to optimize an animated GIF size. I read that one technique is to reduce duplicate frames (still frames with no movement) to one, and combining their time.

So for instance, in my animation, from image 12 to image 33 there is no movement,
I shift select frames 12-33, but I don't find the merge button, is there any?

What it should do is combine frames 12-33 into a single one, and add their
respective time (instead of me doing it manually, because there will be more than one still moment in the animation...), which in this case, where every image has a 0.3s duration, should create a combined image with a (33 - 12 + 1) * 0.03 = 0.6 seconds duration.


texts: Straight edges for oblique shape in Adobe CC

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I need to draw oblique shapes in Ai CC, when I use Rectangle tool, then Transform it, edges become pixelated. And those become unclear after saving it as image. Can anyone prompt better way to draw shapes? :(

Want to achive the result something like this shape https://gyazo.com/c67f3987bba6a465d7fd4f3771e9ecc4

my shape is this
https://gyazo.com/a6f27c35b07c81b488d6e3eeb65cc611

in PIXEL PREVIEW mode it's like this
https://gyazo.com/15ff67282cd51479f94bed5af749a3b5


texts: Inkscape: How to resize an image without causing image to shift/change

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I'm attempting to make an image on Inkscape bigger and even though I'v grouped the different parts, when I resize it all of the parts shift. I'm new to Inkscape and might be missing something!

Heres after I make it bigger, the outlines of the lakes shift for some reason

Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: I have this small pixel art as example. Is there a way to make it bigger without it getting blurry or fuzzy in Photoshop?


texts: How to align textboxed on left and right sides

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I want to create a shirt design using the same message like this shirt:

Therefor I need to align both text box edges and the edges of both red blocks. I tried to do this in GIMP, however only centering the text is not solving my issue. Is there a source for templates to create such designs on GIMP? I couldn't find anything searching the web.

Sub questions: What is the name of this basic design? I couldn't find a name of if online. But I know that this is a very traditional design.

Note: I'm new to GIMP, so maybe this is easy to solve and a newbie issue.
Thank you in advance!


texts: Many successful web startups have blue branding: is this a reflection of something?

texts: Looking at the first page of the most successful Web-based startups of the last 10 years (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), we see the extensive usage of the color blue. In terms of the graphic design, is there any technical meaning behind the color blue (e.g., social interaction, trust, 'coolness')?; or is it just a coincidence?


texts: How to have multiple layers of an embedded smart object?

texts: I have used photoshop templates where you place an image in a embedded smart object, save and then the changes are applied in the file. The image placed in the embedded smart object has multiple layers of the same design amongst different groups in the templates I have used. How is this possible? do you just duplicate the layer and each one is update when altering the separate embedded file?


texts: Client wants to use my designs on multiple websites - Do I charge extra?

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I'm a freelancing screen designer and a client (a small agency) asked me, if I could design a landing page template which they can use on multiple clients websites from the same niche (real estate).
We usually have a fixed price for the designs, but in this case I'm not sure whether I should charge extra for the multiple usage of the template or just stick to the original price and let them do whatever they want with it.
Has anyone had a similar request before and could tell me how you handled it?


texts: How do I turn off anti-aliasing while drawing shapes in Photoshop CC?

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This question is asked here: How do I turn off anti-aliasing while drawing shapes in Photoshop?

And it has an answer from almost a decade ago. Photoshop has changed a lot then.

How do you do this in Photoshop CC?


texts: What's the difference between saving a vector as .AI and saving as .EPS

texts: Is there any benefit to saving as an .ai file?  I know that .eps files can be opened in many programs, but .ai files, I think, would only be opened in Illustrator.  Should I bother saving in an .ai format?


texts: Where can I find a recently installed Photoshop plugin?

texts: Please help me, I have been looking through Photoshop for an hour like an idiot, I just installed this plugin and I can't find it where it is. Where would it be located?


texts: How to bend shapes into letters in illustrator

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I'm trying to reproduce this:

I have sort of got it by redrawing with the pen but it isn't what I think I should be doing and it isn't as smooth. I think I can do better by trying to learn to bend these shapes properly.

Can someone point in to the correct steps?


texts: In photoshop, is there a way to inverse the effect of brush pressure opacity?

texts: If this is possible, then I could have a brush stroke, with brush pressure size turned on, that starts out small and at full opacity and then becomes larger with less opacity as pressure is increased.


texts: Why does my Photoshop brush have weird tapering compared to other apps like Krita

texts: In this image, the left-hand side is me doing standard strokes in Krita with a Wacom CTH-690, compared to doing strokes with the standard brush in Photoshop. Why are the ends of my strokes in Ps not natural-looking like in Krita?


texts: Why is my circle uneven when i rotate it

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Ok, so I'm kinda new to Photoshop (I have CC )so this is probably stupid question, but when I create a circle (I always make it even; the one i have now has W:680px and H is the same size) and use PS shapes and put them around the circle, and then rotate the circle with the shapes, it gets kinda uneven at the end after 360°, but it's still ok. But the moment i use my own things around the edge and try to rotate the circle, it gets horribly off the path only after 90°. I made quick examples (ignore how horrible it looks haha). So, I used exactly the same circle as i used with the custom shapes (rotating was ok with it then), only I put different things that i found somewhere else, around the edge. So here goes the first frame:

...and this is what happens after I rotate it only 90°:

and it is even worse after 180° :( I don't know what to do. Why is rotating with custom shapes ok, but when I use the same circle, only with shapes from the net or self made, it get so horribly of the path? I'm sorry this is so long but it's bugging me. And also sorry for my English.


texts: How to set the stroke of the embedded image in Inkscape?

texts: I just need to highlight embedded images on a white background, so I tried to set the stroke of the embedded images, but the Fill And Stroke option does nothing. How can I achieve this for a group of many images when drawing a rectangle manually around each of them takes too much time?


texts: Is company permission necessary for changing the color of a logo?

texts:
I am designing a series of landing pages for a company I work. There are a number of other company's logos included and the design would look much better if the logos were grayed out. From looking at each company's brand guidelines, I see that most allow for this apart from a few, but my managers insist that company permission is necessary for this.

Is this true?

If not, what's the best way to argue for this?

i.e. the argument that this is a fairly common practice doesn't seem to stick