texts: Illustrator clipping mask with multiple images within the mask?

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I have a file that I'm working with that someone else put together. It has about 20 images on it. Each one has a clipping mask on it. When I turn the clipping mask off, about 50 images are really there for each image. This has made for a huge file because each one of those 20 images really has a huge imported file with the 50 images in it. If I turn off the clipping masks, I have 1000 images so I can't get it to the printer.

Is there any way of getting rid of the additional images without reimporting them by themselves? I don't have the original file to do so. I could pull them into Photoshop and do it that way but is there a way to delete the ones not needed in Illustrator. All 50 are part of the same imported image, just clipped to show them by themselves.


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I have an animated gif banner 125x125 that needs to be < 10 KB. I started at 60 KB and my best efforts (remove all animation, reduce number of frames) resulted in 28 KB.

Any ideas how to make it < 10 KB? I've tried numerous web tools and apps but nothing seems to help without totally destroying the image quality.


texts: Scale multiple object while keeping text size

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Whenever I scale multiple object, text size always gets scaled instead of only the text area.

Is there a way to preserve text size while rescaling multiple objects or groups?

For instance, I have one text area and a rectangle and I want to scale them both simultaneously. If I select one and ctrl-click the other and scale, then text gets squashed. If I only select the text and scale, then behavior is correct and only text area is scaled.


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I am trying to grab an SVG from a browsertool (pgadmin4). However, I end up with an SVG that renders incorrectly. The generated graphic uses SVG "icons" by referencing external files. While this works nicely in the browser, all the colored pixels of these embedded SVGs are rendered 100% black. (After I fixed the links to point to the right files. As can be seen the shapes are correct).

Here is the image from the browser:

And here what I get in inkscape:

Questions:

How can I get my extracted image to render correctly?
Is there a tool to automatically embed the linked SVGs, so I have a single file to pass on? (I have inkscape installed but anything that works would help)

Minimal example

Example source of an svg:

 <svg height="200" version="1.1" width="150" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><desc>Created with Snap</desc><defs></defs><g><g><image xlink:href="misc/static/explain/img/ex_scan.svg" preserveAspectRatio="none" x="50" y="50" width="50" height="50"></image><text x="80" y="120" style="font-size: 15px; text-anchor: middle;"><tspan>public.customer</tspan></text></g></g></svg>

Human readable formatting:

<svg height="200" version="1.1" width="150" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <desc>Created with Snap</desc>
  <defs></defs>
  <g>
    <g>
      <image xlink:href="misc/static/explain/img/ex_scan.svg" preserveAspectRatio="none" x="50" y="50" width="50" height="50"></image>
      <text x="80" y="120" style="font-size: 15px; text-anchor: middle;">
        <tspan>public.customer</tspan>
      </text>
    </g>
  </g>
</svg>

The image linked by the example image comes from pgadmin4 and can be found here.


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Anyone know how to do this? have tried everything I know of.

Thanks


texts: How to make a reference book easy to navigate?

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I am assembling a reference book which has short entries arranged alphabetically. It also has a deep section hierarchy, e.g.:

A
    Am
        Amtrak
    An
        animals
            bears
            penguins
        Anime
        Animation

The book is quite large and readers might often need to flip between pages. I find it too difficult to navigate. Many books of this type have letters cut into the edge of the pages, so if one looks near the margins, they can quickly see which page they are at and how to easily get to other pages, but cutting the pages in this manner is not an option at my printer.

I would like to enable readers to be able to easily see which page they are currently on, where the current page fits within the chapter-section hierarchy, and how they can easily jump to their next desired page. What is a good way to do this?


texts: How do you pixilate a simple image in Photoshop CS6?

texts: I have a basic logo that I would like to see with various sized pixels. I tried just shrinking the image and then zooming in but the reduction created reduced opacity pixels along the edges. I would like all the pixels to be solid.


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I'm trying to recover and old document from my grandfather's stuff. It's pages from a family book.

So I scanned the page then inserted it in Inkscape and I inverted the colors so the black ink became white and all other stuff became black. Then I started to fill the white spaces with red color and i used freehand drawing lines to disconnect the words from the noise in the paper.

Now when Im trying to select all and make the red as black color the stroke becomes filled with black! Is there any way to delete all strokes and keep the words safe?

Here's an image to showcase my issue:

1: when I ended filling
2: the final goal I want to reach
3: what's happening for me when I select all and fill with black

note :
This is only one word. Nr. 1 I did manually by selecting each red and fill it to black. I can't do that to the whole book.


texts: How to open an After Effects cc project in AE cs6?

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I'm using after effect cc and I want to open the project on another computer using cs6. I collected the files (file> dependencies > collect file )
but the project didn't work on cs6

How to open the project on another computer running cs6 or earlier versions like cs5 or cs4?


texts: Is there a way to render text in photoshop as vector - for retina mbp?

texts: I installed new photoshop, and working on iPhone and Android apps looks nice (for android at least on xhdpi and hdpi, mdpi and ldpi require zooming in) but when working on website layout i get frustrated to zoom in to 200% in order to see the page as it is online and see text all pixelated. Is there an way to render shapes and text as vector, to keep it sharp regardless of zoom level?


texts: How to prevent having to redraw lines in Illustrator

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I do a lot of artwork in Illustrator, and am pretty experienced.
However I find myself having redraw lines often with each new level of detail, for instance adding shadows to a complex object - I have to redraw the lines where it meets the edge.

As I see it there are two ways to overcome this:

Redraw the edge of the object manually, or...
copy the lines from the layer beneath

Both of which are a bit annoying to do, and often imperfect..
Perhaps I'm missing something simple - can I do something such as attach the end points to the edge of the object and have Illustrator fill in the colour? As it is it will automatically draw a straight line from each end point.


texts: How to replicate an "aged tapestry" fill effect?

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I am using adobe illustrator and trying to capture a certain aged aesthetic in the fill of my svg shapes. Here is my inspiration below from an old tapestry. I'm only interested in the background, so we can ignore the floral pattern:

The closest I got to that background was by drawing a square, then:

select square >> swatches >> swatch libraries menu >> gradients >> metals

From here I was able to use the eye dropper to replicate the color palette well enough, but I seemed to have lost the "aged" component of the fill:

Question

I take the point that my needs are vast, because svg is working in crisp vector space and yet I want an aged tapestry fill like the inspiration. To keep things realistic, I am not looking to replicate at the pixel level, as Joonas pointed out, the SVG would be too complicated. But I still can't help but wonder, is there a way to achieve a convincing aged fill without coming across as overtly modern in terms of aesthetics? I'm trying to find a happy medium between the inspiration and my pure gradient; hopefully this kind of compromise would be palatable to the SVG format.


texts: What would be a cool yet simple way to style an "!" with just CSS?

texts: I want to create a cool looking yet simple exclamation mark with just CSS. Anyone have any cool ideas?


texts: Tapered/sloped text effect in Illustrator (NOT skew or perspective)

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I'm not too sure how to describe the effect that I'm going for or what it is even called.  Thus, I'm having some trouble finding any help through Google.

I want to accomplish something like this "SLOPED" text below, but have the bottoms of the letters follow the slope as well instead of being horizontal.

I have tried using the free transform tool, skewing, and using perspective, but I don't like the effect they are resulting in.  All of the tools that I just mentioned result in the appearance of the word being angled away from the viewer (perspective).  I want more of this style effect, whereas the letters are not skewed horizontally, but scaled evenly along a path that I lay out.

What is the name of this text effect?  Can anyone point me in the right direction to a tutorial or know how to accomplish this themselves?

I know that I could go through and do this letter by letter, but I was really hoping to find an easier method.

EDIT
I have removed many elements of my design and quickly threw some sample text in it, but this should give you an idea of what I am trying to accomplish.  I want a mixture of the above and below effects.


texts: InDesign TOC character styles grabbed from body text

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This has been asked before, but I've seen no answers: how do I give my inDesign TOC different character styles than those they have in the text of the document?

I have created a TOC from designated paragraph styles, but the resulting TOC is in the big giant text used for my chapter headings, and I want to use font more appropriate for the table.

I thought this was what the "Style < Entry Style" pull-down menu was for; I have created separate "TOC" styles to use as the "Entry style," but I'm not sure what that does, because nothing looks like the TOC style I entered. I've also changed the "Basic Character" settings in the original Chapter Heading paragraph style to be what I'd want for the TOC, but this made no difference (and oddly, it didn't change the character style of the Chapter Headings in the text?).

Furthermore, when I manually override the default character styles in the TOC by highlighting and selecting my desired character style, it just reverts back to the undesired default as soon as I change anything.

Frustrating. Please help me get my TOC in the desired font!


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I'm using a smart object at two places (in the same file), and I need them to be linked, so that if I edit the content of one, the changes are applied on the other.

And it's working fine… until I use one of these smart objects inside another smart object. From the moment I create this third smart object, the link is broken, and the content doesn't update anymore.

One workaround is to use an external file imported as a link, but is there a way not to break the link in the first place?

EDIT

Screenshot of my layers to clarify:

The complete artwork: "hex" and "bg" are both in the main picture and in the "bg copy" smart object, but the link is broken…

Here's the content of the 3rd smart object (the one called "bg copy" in the previous capture).


texts: Gray values different between grayscale and RGB color modes?

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I'm trying to understand the different numbers I get when I convert an image from grayscale to RGB or vice versa. I'm only working with grayscale values at the moment as I'm working on a heightmap but I'll likely need the ability to add colors later.

I don't understand why 67% in grayscale goes to 42% in RGB. Shouldn't it be 33%? Is one of these color modes non-linear, and if so, is there a way I can make it linear?

I need to be able create a 25% gray and know that that's a quarter of my available altitude.


texts: Change contrast/colors, etc to multiple selected images

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I have a simple request, but can't seem to find the answer online.

I want to change the colors of each of these green tiles to red.

When I selected all images, my Image > Adjustments tab is grey'ed out.

I know I can do this if I just merge layers, but I'd like to keep them separate.


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I'm making a Java-based program for Windows 7 and I want my application to have a nice logo in the taskbar of windows. I have made a nice logo (in my opinion) but it´s hard to tell what it´s supposed to be once I run the program.

Feels like I´ve tried every possible resolution, nothing looks good. Is there a basic hint or tips that I should know about?

Right know im using 2048X2048 but everything looks like a blobb.

Any ide?


texts: Is there a good reason to use a grey background on a presentation?

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The tech company I work with has recently gotten a new branding. Part of this is of course PowerPoint templates. These templates feature a grey-ish background on all slides.

Before stubbornly removing this grey background in favor for plain white, I would like to check if there are actually good reasons for a grey background.

As far as I can see, the disadvantages are:

All my technical drawings are saved with a white background by default, so I have to remove that background (luckily, in PowerPoint this is relatively easy)
It's more difficult to have greyed out details in images, because the grey has to be exactly right (too dark and it looks like black, too light and it becomes the same color as the background). In general, the contrast on all slides is reduced.
A darker design has the potential to make an audience sleepier - especially if the venue has chosen to turn the light off for the presentation.

The only advantage I can see is that grey may be easier on the eyes. Are there any other good reasons to keep a grey background?


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Is there any way to control the colours used in an illustrator chart dynamically?

For example, I know I can make a pie chart and use the Direct Selection tool to change the colours of the slices, but is there any way of specifying the colours in the same way as the ratio is specified.

Essentially I need a way to do:

0.5 #FF0000
0.2 #00FF00
0.3 #0000FF

And have the chart update the colours.


texts: How can I paste into a layer with a layer mask?

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I download an iPhone mockup PSD and it looks like this:

As you can see, there is a placeholder layer at the top that says "YOUR ART HERE". I'm not sure what to do though. The mask works: I can only draw on that layer within the boundaries of the mask. But when I try to paste my app's screenshot into that layer, a new layer is created. How can I paste into this layer with the mask? I have tried merging the pasted layer down, but that destroys the mask or the layer.


texts: Converting a Customer's designs in Powerpoint into InDesign

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My client would like a catalogue designed using PDFs that they already have. These PDFs have been exported for web use so I don't believe they will be good enough quality for print.

I have asked if they have the original design files, which they have provided in a powerpoint. Is there any way of importing the files into InDesign? Or will it be a case of trying to match the style and creating the pages from scratch in InDesign?

I'm fairly new to professional design, any pointers would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How can I output a list of coordinates for a grouped set of primitives in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: Say I have a large set of random points or circles in illustrator.  I select and group them.  How can I output a list of their coordinates (i.e. centerpoints) on the page?


texts: How can I rotate (twist) a particle field in 3D Studio Max?

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I have a particle array emitting from an orb rising out of "goop" that I want to twist as they emit, to where it forms a tornado like effect around the object.

How can the PArray be modified to do so?
Thanks


texts: How to access objects from a SVG image in Tupi

texts: Given a SVG image file imported to a Tupi project, is it possible to edit the objects that this image contains (change their position, color, etc)?


texts: Is there a standard name for a crossed rectangle placeholder?

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In DTP type applications, a rectangle with a pair of diagonal lines from corner to corner is used as a placeholder to signify blank space awaiting content, or not rendered.

Example:

Is there a name for this element?


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I want to introduce an image (left) to a shape
(right).

I mean you would have to deform the image so that it enters the whole shape. I know it can be with liquify or warp, but I would like to know if there is any software that does it automatically.


texts: What's the practical difference between a 'glyph' and a 'character'?

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I saw this question on the Typography site proposal and it bugged me that I didn't know the answer. I'd always treated 'glyph' and 'character' as interchangable.

After reading an explanation on the Unicode Character Encoding Model page, my understanding is roughly this:

Characters are defined by their meaning in language, glyphs, by
their appearance. So, the ligature for aesthetically combining fi
is one glyph, but two characters.

So, my belief is (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the practical difference would be:

Text parsers that aren't interested in the aestetics of text will read glyphs as their respective characters. So:

If you were to copy and paste text containing glyphs into a plain text editor, the glyphs would be converted to their respective characters (a ﬁ  ligature glyph would become f and i)
Any well made automated system based on text parsing (e.g. search engine crawlers, screen readers, spell checkers) would interpret the glyphs as their respective characters.
One character can have many glyphs or glyph sets. I want to say one glyph can only have one character, but this clearly isn't right as there's an example on the linked article of 3 glyphs and glyph sets that seem to each correspond to a character and set of characters. I don't quite see how this could work: surely that means there will be inconsistency or ambiguity in how those glyphs are interpreted, varying by interpretter? (or does it vary by language, or by font?)
While glyph browsers (e.g. the one in Illustrator) contain the full glyph set of a font, character maps (e.g. the Windows character map) only contain characters, not glyphs that are multiple characters like ligatures (something I'd not noticed before)

I feel like I'm nearly there but I've clearly misunderstood something somewhere along the line: not just the "One glyph multiple characters" thing, but also, copying and pasting behaviour with ligatures isn't quite what I expected:

Copy the ligature ﬁ from Illustrator to this input box: pastes as fi (two characters) as expected.
Paste in the HTML code for it (&#64257;) - displays as the ligature when not in a code block (ﬁ - which in this font doesn't look much like a ligature, but you'll see is one if you try to select just half of it), and the code when in a code block (&#64257;), as expected.
Copy and paste the rendered non-code-block ligature back into the input box: pastes as the ligature character, and renders as the ligature regardless of whether it's in a code block or not (ﬁ and ﬁ). Likewise words containing it: ﬁt misﬁts (&#64257;t mis&#64257;ts) pastes as ﬁt misﬁts (ﬁt misﬁts). Maybe it depends on whether the place it's being pasted understands the encoding used?

How far wrong is my understanding of this? Can someone put me right: stating a clear definition of the difference between glyphs and characters (if mine is wrong or can be improved), and give clearer/more accurate examples than mine of what that means in practice?


texts: Failing to draw round circles in Fontforge

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I'm using Fontforge to design a typeface, but I have a problem: I cannot draw round circles! :(

I click the circle tool, then draw the circle in the usual fashion (holding down Shift to get a circle, rather than an ellipse) – but as soon as I let go of the left mouse button, the circle changes and wind up looking all irregular, like this:

Background: I'm working by expanding the GNU FreeSans font (a Truetype font) to which I'm adding glyphs for my own writing system. If I open a new project in Fontforge, drawing circles works just fine.

I'm thinking this has something to do with the fact that PostScript fonts use cubic Bézier curves, while Truetype uses quadratic? (Though this is only a guess on my part.)

According to the "Help > About…" menu, I'm using the following version of Fontforge:

git hash: b9149c13e...
Version: 00:15 UTC 31-Jul-2017


texts: Should my navigation bar start as transparent then become opaque on scroll?

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Android has this UI behaviour: The navigation bar is transparent at first, with only the back button. But as the screen is scrolled up, the navigation bar becomes opaque, and the title fades in (on translate to position).

iOS has a different native behaviour. The navigation bar is shown as opaque/translucent at first. At the screen is scrolled up, the navigation bar could auto hide.

As an iOS designer, which behaviour should I stick to? Is it okay to adopt an Android behaviour?

My use case is a screen browsing a movie details - trailer, synopsis, showtimes, etc.


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Ho to blur the image, with as much less effort as possible, so the blur wraps around the edges

I want to blur HDRI maps


texts: how to change creative font in web design

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I have created a newsletter in html & inline css.

When I change my font, it will change to the new font on my system. But when I open another system, the font has not changed.

How can I make sure it changes on all systems?


texts: How do you get a gimp plugin/script to appear in menu

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I am using Gimp 2.8.16 on Ubuntu

I am following the tutorial here

I have created the script hello_world.py and saved it to

~/.gimp-2.8/scripts.hello_world.py

I restart Gimp, but there is no sign of the message in any menu.

Where am I going wrong?


texts: Anamorphic Perspective in Illustrator or Photoshop?

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I'm trying to find a way to distort artwork to emulate those crazy chalk art pieces you see all the time, like this:

I know how it's done:

...but I'm wondering if there is an Illustrator or Photoshop plugin available to apply the distortion for me.

Currently, I do the distortions manually with Mesh Envelope, but it's tedious. There has to be an easier way. Any ideas?

  EDIT: Here is one of the recent real life projects I did that used this sort of technique, but calculated manually, stair by stair:

  Here is the desired view point:

  And here is an off angle view point:


texts: How can I assess whether I'm proper web designer?

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I was an Amature web designer before 3 years. Though I don't have proper knowledge in designing I want to become a web designer and I called myself as designer.

Though I didn't attended any design colleges I have a very strong passion towards. I read lot of design books and practised designing continuously. In these 3 years of time I learnt lot of things and I designed few websites.

I have a strong knowledge in HTML, CSS and Jquery.

I learnt basics of designing, different ways of selecting colors and what they communicate, typography basics, layouts, grids, how to make design choices and even more.

I feel very confident now, that I can proudly say "I'm a web designer".

Since I don't have any proper training and everything I learnt is self taught I just want to assess how good I am and am I eligible to be a web designer?

This is one of my recent designed page for sample.

This is my new logo which I asked for critique review recently. I used proper design principles and Workflow in order to do all these things.

I know that there are lot of things to learn and experience matters to become an expert. As a beginner am I doing good? and am I eligible to be a web designer? Is there any way to assess my skills?


texts: How to see the size of your current selection box in Illustrator?

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When making a selection in Photoshop, you get the dimensions of your selection as a tooltip (at least in CC), and it's displayed in the info-box (Window > Info) when enabled. I often use this to measure elements or especially distances between elements.

Is it possible to enable these dimensions in Illustrator's info-box?


texts: Multiple sets of radio buttons on the same Artboard

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Can we have multiple radio buttons sets on the SAME artboard?
Example:

Buy a bicycle
Sell a bicycle

Condition

New
Used

If the user chooses "Sell a bicycle" and then he chooses "New" and then he changed his mind and chooses "Used", then he chooses "Buy a bicycle", etc... How can we save the last chosen option in a set without losing the last chosen option in the other set?


texts: Renaissance type: what is the name of the long swash at the end of a line?

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In scans of early printed books which use an italic type, I've sometimes seen an alternate letter form used at the end of a line where some extra space needs to be filled up. This alternate form ends with a long baseline swash to fill up the extra space. I can't find an example of this from an actual book, but these alternate characters look like this "m" from a sample of Cancelleresca Bastarda:

Is there a more specific name for this type of swash, which is more for filling up space than for ornamentation, which can extend a long distance when necessary, and which sticks to the baseline more than a decorative swash would?


texts: How to edit pdf files in Photoshop without bloating the file size?

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I have a pdf file of size 266KB which I open with Photoshop, crop out the boundaries and save it back again. The new file size is 7.96MB!

Since all I did was a crop, I did not expect the file size to increase. How can I save the pdf file so that the file size does not blow up like this?


texts: How do you cut out the centre of an image, bringing the edges closer together?

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I need to cut a large number of columns out of a PNG image. The area I want to remove is in the centre of the image; I therefore want the left and right edges to be closer together after the cut.

I can't find an obvious way of doing this in Gimp or Photoshop CS5 (I am very much a beginner). I would really like a tool which lets me say "cut out 100 columns, starting 4 pixels from the left". Any suggestions?


texts: make background transparent in Adobe Photoshop

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I have a simple image of a dragonfly that I downloaded from Adobe stock. I would like to place this image on another image of a pond, but the dragonfly image has a white background.

Some tutorial videos I have found online provide following steps to make a background transparent.
- Copy background layer of image with white background
- select this new layer
- use Magic Wand tool to select white background
- hit Delete

I have done this and it does not work. I still have a white background on the dragonfly image.

I need to learn how to get these white backgrounds off of images. It comes up over and over in my work.

Any help appreciated, thanks.


texts: Adding replaceable text to Smart Objects

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I've started to use Smart Objects because you only have to edit them once to modify all instances of the object. I have run into a problem though. I want to add replaceable text to a Smart Object so that individual instances of this object can set their own text. It reminds me of how PowerPoint's slide masters work: the general layout is set globally, but the content can be modified on the slide itself.

Is this possible using Smart Objects? If not, is there a better way to do it? Here's a screenshot that illustrates my current situation.

I want to be able to edit certain parts of these objects so that I can make something like this with one Smart Object:


texts: I know this happens in indesign where i would create a 3"x3" object and when i add a stroke it becomes 3.0139x3.0139. I know the shape is still the same, but is there a way i can disable this and have it still read 3x3?


texts: Arabic website - design for right to left languages

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I am working on a website in multiple languages, one of them is Arabic. Which makes things more fun ..

As you know, in arabic and other similar languages the text goes the other way, from right to left.. I am wondering what are the basics to consider when starting such a design?

What should I worry about that is specific to right to left languages ?

What would be some standard fonts to work with?
(something like Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif but for arabic languages ..)

Where can I get information about users that use this as an everyday browsing experience?

If you know, examples of clean, modern looking arab websites would be great.
All I can find is old and very confusing designs(I do not speak Arabic).

Any other advice, guidelines and helpfull information is welcome :) Thank you


texts: How do I charge to create a business card template for multiple people to use

texts: I created a business card design for a company and they need the cards for the Owner and GM. Should I charge for two designs or one if I'm changing name, contact info, etc.?


texts: Only keep parts of an object that is inside another

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Here we have the bottom of a tree like object.
How do I only keep the part of the dark brown object that is inside the light brown one without affecting the light brown object?


texts: Some sites have some Unicode characters show in multi-color without apparent CSS in Chrome V8 and FF: how is this done?

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See for example:  http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Individually_Named_Characters  where the two 'alien' Unicode characters appear in green color(s), at least in latest Chrome and FireFox.

The same page section is all black&white in MSIE Edge - nothing alien green there.

CSS/Page inspection doesn't produce any obvious suspects in answering how this is pulled off, so if anyone can give a hint (or two) how to reproduce this?

  The obvious google searches delivered zip, nada, zilch so either my google fu is sleeping in the gutter or ... anyway, cannot find how this was done using my usual methods.


texts: Annoying compound path Appearance vfx inheritance behavior

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When using the pathfinder to exclude overlapping shapes from another shape, the base shape will inherit the visual fx applied to the overlapping shapes. How can I prevent the "bottom" (base) shape from having the same vfx?

Steps to reproduce:

  Draw a large random shape with corners using the pen tool
  Draw a small rectangle contained within the blob
  Add Appearance > Stylize > Rounded Corners to the rectangle
  Use Pathfinder > Exclude with both shapes selected
  Note that the blob/splat inherits the rounded corners vfx

How can I keep the rounded corners on the rectangle, but lose them on my "random shape"?


texts: How to move or transform mask except layer which we will add a mask to?

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I added mask to the layer:

Then I want move or scale\transform it:

But any attempt leads to the fact that the mask is transformed simultaneously with the layer:

But I need:

I redraw mask to to fit the result with scale, move and flip.


texts: How to create the drop shadow "We are Mozilla" effect?

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The text "We are Mozilla" on this page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ seems to have something of a "white" drop shadow effect that makes it seem embedded onto the page, somewhat.

How can we recreate that effect in GIMP/inkscape preferably? Even photoshop/illustrator technique would do.


texts: Making the auto select layer check box a keyboard hot key

texts: I find myself clicking on the auto select layer check box an egregious amount during the day. I was wondering if someone knew how to make it a hot key as that would save me quite a bit of time.


texts: What software was used for this video with zooming text transitions over landscapes?

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I came across this fascinating youtube video. It zooms and pans around various landscape scenes, with flying text coming in and out of focus. Does anyone know what software they used for this?

I'm naive in this area, so any suggestions or ideas will be deeply appreciated.


texts: A RAW image placed in a Photoshop Document doesn't pick up changes

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I have just noticed that if you place a RAW image in a PSD(CS6), then tweak the RAW image using Camera RAW, the changes are not picked up by the PSD.

I always try and keep my PSDs as open to change as possible and placing is a big part of this. Usually I place an image in a PSD, then if I edit the image outside the PSD, the changes are picked up in the PSD.

With RAW this doesn't seem to happen. I have the following file-structure:

 -- someFolder
    -- somePSD
    -- someRAWFile
    -- someRAWFIleXMP

What I'm doing:

I drag the RAW File into the PSD.
I open the RAW File and tweak it.
Photoshop does not reflect the changes
I drag the RAWFile into the PSD
I then have the same placed RAW File with the changes reflected as well as the old placed RAWFile without them.

So even though both placed images are the same image, they reflect the RAW File at the time it was placed, not at its current state which is surely the whole point of placing a file. It seems that the image is encoded with the RAW settings at the time it is imported, but these are never updated.

What am I missing? Is this a bug or is there no point placing a RAW file?

[Note: Please could someone with enough rep add 'RAW' as a tag as it's inexplicably missing]


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I'm trying to create a piece of beveled text.  Here's what I'm doing:

Create the text in a layer.
Apply the bump map filter with the text layer selected, using the text layer as the AUX channel.
Nothing happens. :(

So...what am I doing wrong?

I tried adding a gaussian blur effect before applying the bump map, but that didn't seem to help.  It's especially strange since I seemed to be able to make it work correctly a little while ago.


texts: How can I make this kind of underline in Adobe illustrator?

texts: Today I found this underline on the internet and I am wondering if anyone of you can tell me how to recreate it in Adobe illustrator


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simple issue or maybe really complex. another day of alignment issues that I can't wrap my head around.
Here's the stages (accompanied by images):
I have finalized one half of my logo design

I create a grid

I duplicate the object and flip it 180degrees horizontally, then I duplicate the grid

I align the central points of the object to the grid.

The object doesn't align to the other one.

Question is why?
Second question is can I even make it symmetrical?
Third question is do I need to and would a professional graphic designer of the likes of Massimo Vignelli have done this process in another way?
please help, brain is burning out and I really need your professional expertise.


texts: Photos are grainy when imported in illustrator?

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So I got some raw pictures from a client for some business cards, they all look grainy when imported to illustrator

I tried to edit the pictures and export them to JPG, but they still look grainy in illustrator.

Here are the meta info


texts: Is it possible for me to get an interactive PDF with high resolution images, yet a small file size? I'm talking under 5mb

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I am trying to create a digital portfolio of my work that I can email to employers. I want the images to be high resolution so my work is not viewed blurry and you can see some of the details in the projects.

However, I want to include some interactive elements such as app animations and website animations in the portfolio that will play as you get to those pages in the PDF.

I have created many versions successfully, however the file sizes are 60-80mb. Too large to email. I have gotten the file size under 5 mb but with very blurry images.

Can anyone advise me on how to achieve 49 pages of quality res images with some added interactivity with a file size at least 5-10mb.


texts: How much consistency should I keep throughout writing (document) and presentating (slides)?

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I have a scientific document and I'm about to presentate it. Many instructions and guildlines help me to make a perfect document or a presentation, but I want to go further: make a perfect presentation with both of them. My question is do you need to keep the consistency between them? Which one you will keep and which one not?
Here is the cover and the first page of my document:

Choice 1: Keep its structure and font color:

Choice 2: Change its structure but keep the font color:

Choice 3: Change everything:

I haven't tried to change the font, but I think this font (bold Arial) is OK. Because this is a scientific paper, the title must keep every information, I can't shorten it anymore.
Also, because many people ask me if I need to follow some scienctific guildline, I will say that I am free to create my style, as long as it keeps the contain as a scientific paper.


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I have come across this guide, that makes spread numbering possible.

However, this method relies on autoflowing text and it doesn't work for me. My project has 13 intricate master pages laid out on 200 spreads. The thought of starting from scratch for the autoflow's sake makes me uncomfortable.

Is there another way?


texts: How can I prevent InDesign from blurring my fonts when exporting to .png?

texts: I have created a new InDesign document and typed some text on it in Times New Roman. I then exported the page to .png at 72ppi. However, the text on the exported .png is blurry. How can I fix this please? Open the attached image and view at actual size to see the blur. I am using the latest InDesign on a Mac.


texts: Cover with color an area between two figures (layers)?

texts: I'm trying to show that part and be able to color it, but I don't know how is it possible to do it in Adobe Illustrator.


texts: How to make sure the clipping in a .svg created with Inkscape are imported well in Illustrator

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I received a .svg design made with Inkscape and I need to convert it to .ai to send it to a printer. But when opened with Illustrator, lots of features were changed.
Most notably, some of the masks ("clipping" as Inkscape calls them) are not taken into account, (objects that should be cropped were suddenly not) although strangely some of the objects were cropped properly.
I also spotted a few issues with the texts, too, but this is easily fixed.
I tried to have the file exported to .pdf instead of .svg and convert that one to .ai in Illustrator, but unfortunately this came with its own set of visual bugs and completely messed up the layers.
So, my questions:
1- Is there an easy way to fix the file, either on the Illustrator or the Inkscape side? Make sure the cropping is properly imported?
2- If there is no easy fix, what are the good practices that can be put in place so that .svg exported from Inkscape are imported in Illustrator without changes? For example, converting texts in vectors is a good way to make sure it doesn't change between the two programs. Same with convertir contour into shapes.


texts: How do I change the perspective of a 3d cylinder in Photoshop?

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I have produced a 3d cylinder in Photoshop.  I would like to save it as a jpeg, and place it over a mug mock up.  However the perspective of the cylinder and mug mock up are both different.

Thanks


texts: Illustrator - how to snap line to line without magnification?

texts: While using shape-builder tool I always have this problem with lines looking like they fit together perfectly but in fact they're not. Is there a way to snap line to line without zooming so far?


texts: GIMP: How do I "step to previous frame" in Animation Playback?

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GIMP has the tool Animation Playback (found under Filters/Animation) to help with creating animations. When creating an animation, it is very useful to be able to manually "scrub" through the frames. The tool has a button Step that allows you to step one frame forward. However, a button to step one frame backward is missing.

Now I had a look at the source code of the Animation Playback tool. What I was hoping to find was whether such a "step backwards one frame" feature exists, and how we are meant to use it. And yes such a feature does exist! And it has a keyboard shortcut: d key according to the source code. However, the keyboard shortcut does not seem to work =(! The interesting thing is that all keyboard shortcuts for the tool which are combined with the Ctrl key work. For example:

Ctrl+L to "speed_up"
Ctrl+J to "speed_down"
Ctrl+K to "speed_reset"

But those without the Ctrl modifier don't work:

d to "step-back" (step back one frame)
f to "step" (step forward one frame)

TLDR: the tool supports the ability to step back one frame, but how can I use it?

Here is the code snippet for reference:

static GtkUIManager *
ui_manager_new (GtkWidget *window)
{
  static GtkActionEntry actions[] =
  {
    { "step-back", "media-skip-backward",
      N_("Step _back"), "d", N_("Step back to previous frame"),
      G_CALLBACK (step_back_callback) },

    { "step", "media-skip-forward",
      N_("_Step"), "f", N_("Step to next frame"),
      G_CALLBACK (step_callback) },

    { "rewind", "media-seek-backward",
      NULL, NULL, N_("Rewind the animation"),
      G_CALLBACK (rewind_callback) },

    { "refresh", GIMP_ICON_VIEW_REFRESH,
      NULL, "<control>R", N_("Reload the image"),
      G_CALLBACK (refresh_callback) },

    { "help", "help-browser",
      NULL, NULL, NULL,
      G_CALLBACK (help_callback) },

    { "close", "window-close",
      NULL, "<control>W", NULL,
      G_CALLBACK (close_callback)
    },
    {
      "quit", "application-quit",
      NULL, "<control>Q", NULL,
      G_CALLBACK (close_callback)
    },
    {
      "speed-up", NULL,
      N_("Faster"), "<control>L", N_("Increase the speed of the animation"),
      G_CALLBACK (speed_up_callback)
    },
    {
      "speed-down", NULL,
      N_("Slower"), "<control>J", N_("Decrease the speed of the animation"),
      G_CALLBACK (speed_down_callback)
    },
    {
      "speed-reset", NULL,
      N_("Reset speed"), "<control>K", N_("Reset the speed of the animation"),
      G_CALLBACK (speed_reset_callback)
    }
  };


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I'm wondering if there's a tool out there that can be used to measure all the elements of a web page. I find Chrome's element inspector very handy, and I'm curious if there is a tool that would enable me to measure each element of a web page at once. I tried using Instant Wireframe but that seems to be broken. Does anyone know of any other design tools that may help? For any browser...

Example:


texts: Is it possible to have varied stroke widths around the same object in Illustrator?

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I'm working in Illustrator CS5 and was wondering Is it possible to have varied stroke widths around the same object?

For example a square would have the right side at 1pt and the top side at 3pt the left side at 2pt and the bottom at 4pt.

I don't want objects overlapping each other, I mean one object with varied sized strokes.

I don't know if this is possible to achieve with the stoke width tool but I was hoping to have all the lines (the stroke) uniformed, instead of some parts thin and some parts thicker?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.


texts: Trouble making a clipping mask in Photoshop

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I have the following set up:

I would like to make a clipping mask out of all of the objects above the "Text" layer (so that all of the stuff from the above layers is only applied to the letters), however I am struggling. For one, when I go to ungroup "Group 1" it changes the complexion of the graphics and makes it darker for some reason. Also, when I merge the layers above "text" I get the following:

Anyone know how to accomplish this?


texts: I am importing SVG-vector image to Illustrator and manually fix them. There are many bounding box (like art box) which will removed and after that there is many empty group exists. How to clean them? Is there way to automatically clean up empty groups in Illustrator?


texts: Matching the font in a scanned doc with the font's character map and doing an OCR (kind of)

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Hopefully I am understandable and don't sound impractical when I ask the above question. To elaborate: I have some scanned documents and the font used in those documents(images) is FrenchScript MT Std Regular. I installed that font on my sys. Now I was wondering if it's possible to use the character map of that particular font and match each individual character in the image (the scanned image is just plain text, no images, no paragraphs or no formatting) with font characters and place the matching letters just above the character in the image.

Want to do it in MS word or any other text editors where after the characters are placed above the image, it can be deleted from the background and the document can be saved. It's another type of OCR I guess. How can it be done? Attaching the image to help you understand the scenario.


texts: Program to make these kinds of 3D liquid acid graphics?

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I've been searching almost two years and still don't have answer. I would like to know what program could be used for graphic work like this. These crazy, trippy, 3D objects, sometimes combined with simple de-formatted fonts.

Can anyone recommend a software for this type of graphic?


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I'm quite new to printing graphics. I understand why crop marks are used when printing, and on the face of it, they seem quite straight-forward to use. However, when I went to trim a document I have printed using the crop marks that were added (using Illustrator), I came across an issue that has me confused.

Take the example above. If I was to trim the top of the document, using the two horizontal crop marks, then I would also remove the two vertical crop marks indicating the left and right edges of the final document. As a result, when I go to trim say the left-hand side of the document, there is no crop mark to use as a guide at the top.

My question therefore is: how is a document trimmed using crop marks such that when a cut is made in one direction (eg. horizontally) the crop marks necessary for trimming the document in the other direction (eg. vertically) are not removed? Or is there something else I am missing?


texts: How to make Background of Image Invisible?

texts: SO I need it to be simple way of telling of another way of make the background of the image clear, because I use the magic want tool (fuzzy select tool) and tried to make the background clear, it just make it white and not transparent so is there an alternative way to make the background of the image clear?


texts: How to make the background of an image with shadows blend in

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Background

I manage an e-commerce app where we expect merchants to submit their own images, these images appear on our mobile app.

In order to maintain proportions, I send the merchants this instruction:

The idea is to have avoid this situation where the merchant sends us something like this

and it appears on the app like this

Question

In the case the merchant sends something like this (with a white background with shadows):

simply expanding the image and copying the color won't work, as it will look like this:

is there a plugin/way to address this shadow issue to make the background blend in? I use sketch primarily, but open to using photoshop etc.


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I have duplicated an object. In the attached screenshot, this object is outlined with a dashed white line.

I would now like to use the Eraser to delete a part of that object.
However, GIMP doesn't allow this.
When I hover over the selected object, the cursor turns into a stop sign.

How could I delete a part of the object?

Thank you!


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I'm a researcher in cryptography and regularly read and write acedemic papers which are, to say the least, not objects of great beauty.
Recently I've noticed that the guideline not to use more than two or maybe three fonts in a document is regularly flouted and wonder how much this has to do with it.

Here's an example of mine (content is of course irrelevant):

The done thing seems to be to have different fonts for different categories of things:

Serif for body text, same in bold for headings, italics for emphasis.
Sans-Serif or monospace for algorithm names (the "KeyGen" etc. in the example).
Italics (but in a slightly different font I think) for inline math.
sans-serif, bold or small caps for names of security notions (small caps in the example above).
"blackboard bold", "calligraphic",  "fraktur" etc. (the different options available in LaTeX) for different classes of things like collections of algorithms, participants in a protocol.
and so on ...

My questions are:

The above example looks a bit chaotic to me. Is it mainly the number of fonts, or am I missing any other key design principle (like not using fonts that go well together or bad spacing)?
Is there any point from a design perspective in using different fonts in a techinical or academic document to denote different categories of things or would it be better to just to use the same font for all?
The argument for "one font per category" seems to be something like making it easier for the reader to recognise at a glancce what kind of thing I'm referring to - is there any justification for this? Or a better way to achieve the same?
I've read this GD topic, any more pointers to how I can make my academic papers look better?


texts: Update prototype links across all symbols in Adobe XD

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I am currently designing a brochure website using Adobe Experience Design.

I have converted my navigation header into a symbol so that the aesthetic can be easily changed and updated across all the different pages in my website design. Whenever a change is made, I can right click and select 'Update All Symbols', which will apply any changes across all instances of the symbol.

This does not seem to work in the same way for Prototype links. When I add a prototype link (i.e. link an element so in the prototype preview, it links to another page) and click 'Update All Symbols', the links do not change on the other pages.

The current site has 6 or so links in the navigation symbol, and 20+ pages. I do not want to manually create the prototype links across all the pages as this would be a very tedious exercise.

Is there a way to update prototype links across a symbol?


texts: If I rasterize a vector, then make it a vector again, will quality be lost?

texts: In other words, is quality lost when transferring assets from Photoshop to Illustrator, and back and forth?


texts: How to read missing typeface name in Sketch?

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How can i read a full name of the missing font:

UPDATE FOR Kevin Sina
Here's the window you were talking about:


texts: How to make a vector outline of select items?

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I want to make a laser cut map of the world. I downloaded a vector file from the link below. I want to cut out the continents and islands but only etch the countries and states.

My dilemma is that there is no continent layer. I thought maybe I could create a mask of the countries of the continents but it's not working like I thought it would, I am a newbie.

tl;dr How do I make a vector outline of JUST the continents and islands?

https://freevectormaps.com/world-maps/WRLD-EPS-01-0014


texts: How to create the illusion of depth with repeating patterns?

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How do I create perspective with repeating patterns? I am very much a beginner level, as noted by my first attempt to create a illustration in illustrator. However, my attempt has provided me with various questions and obstacles on how to achieve the  Hand-drawn illustration.

For instance, in the picture below – there is repeating previously design pattern. What technique could be used to create depth?

The end result should yield a perspective similar to this live trace.  This may be off topic so please let me know how far or nebulous this question appears.


texts: Is it allowed to use the Great Seal of the United States in a commerical design?

texts: Is it legal to use the eagle from the Great Seal of the United States (as shown on the dollar bill) as part of a commercial design in a book? I am also changing the "e pluribus unum" to a slogan.


texts: How to make a hanging icicle brush or graphic style in Illustrator CC?

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I purchased a set of graphic styles for Illustrator. The set contains a style that applies a hanging icicle brush to any object, so that icicles appear to be hanging from any horizontal line of an object.

I've decided I'd like to make my own icicle brush or style, rather than using a prefabbed one. However, I cannot figure out out to get an effect only to apply to the horizontal parts of an object, as the prefabbed one does.

I've tried making a pattern brush, but that inverts the icicles so that the "bottom" horizontal pattern points upward and into the object, rather than hanging from it. The pattern brush also creates the pattern on the vertical sides of objects, with the icicles pointing into the object. This is not my desired behavior.

How do I create a brush or style that creates hanging icicles from horizontal lines of a path, not on the vertical lines, and still hangs from the bottom of the object rather than pointing upward and into it?

Example below... I want the sort of stylized icicles I created for the 2nd example (not pink obviously, color changed to stand out against white for the example.. but I want the icicles to hang rather than point to the center of the object.


texts: Noise on GIF exported from After Effects

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I've run into this issue more than once and haven't figured it out yet - I made a few projects in Adobe After Effects then exported GIFs through Adobe Media Encoder, and they turned out looking like this:

or this:

What are those dots and how can I remove them?
Let me know if I need to provide more information.

Thanks!!!


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I received FOGRA 39 color mode Illustrator design file (art work) and how could i open it on Illustrator.
Is there any special Color mode to activate in Illustrator?
Currently  i am working in U.S Web Coated (SWOP) V2 mode.
Please Help...
CK


texts: PDF presentation, storing multiple proportions

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I've prepared a presentation in InDesign, that's supposed to be seen on very different screens. I'd like this presentation to look the best, despite the proportions of screen that it's beeing seen on.

So, in my example, two screens: 4:3 and 16:9. Is there a way to prepare a smart scalable PDF file, that would fit to full screen?


texts: Did something on illustrator cc... can't remember what I did! How do I get this result?

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I drew lines using the line segment tool. . Then i did ?SOMETHING? by accident and this (the pink) was the result. Anyone able to tell me how to do this again?

I've attached a small section as an example.

Help please!


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A friend of mine had a poster made for his business. Here is a segment of it:

I can't tell for sure, but I think the angle of the logo is not quite right... (I don't mean any pun with the business's name)

This leads me to an underlining question: are there angles that are aesthetically preferred?
Are some angles easy on the eye while others look a bit "off"?


texts: Preserve blend mode effect when underneath layers are disabled? (Photoshop)

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So I'm working with this image:

And I'm hoping to achieve an effect with it similar to what was done on this website http://www.digitalhands.net/, where independent image layers respond to mouse movements creating a sense of depth to the overall picture.

To do that I would have to break my image into several different layers. I'm not just not sure if that would be possible whilst still maintaining the original look of it, because a number of layers, particularly the music notes and their auras, heavily rely on blending modes like screen and color dodge, to achieve their glow. On top of that I make use of the "blend if"/"underlying layer" slider on many layers as well. If I try to disable the layers below them the blend modes lose their effect, but that's the only way I would be able to break the image down into the appropriate individual pieces.

Is there any possible way to break this image down in the way I'm aiming for? Most of the examples I've seen don't really work for what I'm ultimately trying to achieve with the depth effect. It may just be that the image is too complex for that.

Thanks


texts: What is the state of cross platform web safe fonts in 2011?

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You can see the traditional cross platform system fonts like Arial and these , but in 2011 with Leopard/Lion and Vista/7, surely there are a load more fonts we can use reliably?

Thanks!


texts: How do you indicate visually that a shower is for women?

texts:
When you see toilet signs, they look more or less like this:

It is clear who can enter either of them.

Now, say you are designing the signs for showers and you want to distinguish between the ones for men and the ones for women. How would you do it?

Considering the women (and the men) have showers without clothes, the dress-shape-for-women is not valid. What can be painted to clearly indicate the difference without any kind of text?

I found this one but it is still a bit creepy:


texts: What is this overlay tile effect called, and how do I do it in photoshop?

texts: Does anyone know what the common name of this overlay effect is.  Can you recommend any tutorials on how to do this effect in photoshop?


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Inkscape has the simplify tool, which removes some nodes along the path and makes it smooth. Is there something like simplify, but which instead makes the path more edgy? The path is traced bitmap, so doing so by hand is impossible.

For comparison, this is a bitmap traced and post-processed as vector (probably in Photoshop and then Illustrator), which keeps the edges of the color patches and gives it some energy:

while this is my attempt (with a different image) to produce similar effect in Inkscape, where, however, every smoothing from the trace leads to rounded corners and theresult feels blunt:

Ideas?


texts: Is it fair to use accent colors to borders in material design?

texts: I'm trying to create a widget styles in dashboard design.is it fair to use accent colors to borders instead of background color.when i try to use as bachground color it doesnt compliment the other colors such as header(#3AA9DD) and side menu(#2a3d50) any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks for the help.


texts: As a graphic designer, should I use my personal name or create a business name/branding?

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For a designer who begins doing freelance or start (or renaming) his/her own business, there's usually that critical decision that must be made:

Should I use my own name or have a business name for my services?

In the past, I've been discouraged in using my own name so I chose a "cool" name instead for my business. But I'm about to move in another region where I need to either renew or change my business name if I want to.

In my case, my clients know me well and both names are already a bit everywhere online; in fact they often prefer to use my website domain name instead of my business name, so the business name needs to be changed anyway. I don't have the kind of John Smith name so I'm quite easy to find, and I like both my name and biz name!

Right now I offer all sort of graphic design services but mainly branding, packaging and marketing. I also started this year signing contracts as an agent for illustrators that I publish, and plan to sell more giant format digital art of my own as well. And that's what I plan to expand in the next 10 years and get a bit less "technical" and more artistic. That's a bit why I was wondering if my short business name could fit or if I should simply use my own name as branding.

I remember how "the choice of name" was a big topic among designer friends who were also starting their company 15 years ago, and I'm quite sure the question is still relevant for new designers today. The difference is that I was surrounded with designers who didn't have any experience themselves and I feel I would get very different feedback today from a community of designers like this one.

Some arguments I've heard against using personal name is:

It's too "ego", artsy or self-centered
"What if you hire employees?"
You're not a popular designer yet
It's lame, not original

And the pros for business names:

It's more distinctive
It's better if you plan to work in team
It makes you look more like a serious business

Is there any more benefits in using your personal name as a designer or a business name instead? Or a mix of both?

Since design is very close to art and craft, I wonder if I shouldn't have the "Picasso" mindset for this; if it wasn't design, I guess the decision wouldn't be as difficult.


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recently I've noticed a style used in design that I'm really interested in and really curious about. That being a soft grain in some of the otherwise flat design styles that are being used.

Some examples of this might be some of Google's design, or, this example that I found.

Both of them have a bit of grain, and although I know how to use Photoshop's noise filter and all, I was wondering if there was a routine way to go about this, or if anyone had any comments or thoughts on what to do or what not to do. Thanks!


texts: Cutting lines and text evenly on puzzles (Illustrator)

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Trying to cut lines and text so when two puzzles are separated these lines and text are cut in a correct way. How to do it the shortest way?

Upadating post:

I followed your advice but when I try to separate this picture and have this square on top selected I get this message:
"The filter can't make this operation because more than one object is selected"


texts: How can I make the alpha in a layer proportional to the darkness?

texts: I have a layer that I want to merge and I want the dark colors in the layer to have more weight. How can I make it so that black pixels are 100% opacity, white pixels are 0%, and #7F7F7F pixels are 50%? I tried adjusting color curves, but that doesn't seem to be what I want.


texts: Photoshop action 'select forward layer' has 'without make visible' attached by default. Can I change this?

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I'm trying to make an action that makes a change, then moves up a layer, making it visible in the process. However, when I use the Alt + ] or Alt + [ shortcuts, it only cycles visible layers. When I look at the actions that I've recorded, I can see that it says "Without Make Visible." I don't see a way of changing that, nor can I find the shortcut in the menu.

Any ideas short of scripting this out manually?

(using Windows 10, Photoshop CC 2017)


texts: Are flat icon and logo design considered inside the same set of skills?

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Currently, I'm looking for designer to help me in designing some flat icons, with such style (flat, minimalist, simple, clean, like these ones).

Sometimes, I came across some amazing logo works by other designers. I love those works as well.

I was wondering, are "flat icon design" and "logo design" comprised of the same set of skills? If a designer can design an amazingly great logos, can I assume he will be able to design an amazingly great flat icons as well?


texts: How to join separate shapes in Adobe Illustrator

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Ok, so this might seem a simple enough task to anyone, but I'm really struggling.

I have 50-60 of these patterns. All made up from a number of paths (these are not joined in anyway and have gaps in between them at some points.

I basically need my end result to be one complete outline of the shape which I can fill in with a colour, the end result being something like this:

What's the easiest way to achieve this?

My first attempt took my almost 20 minutes,
I had to first join the paths where they meet 1by1 (Nightmare)
Then removing the paths from insdie the shape one by one (Nightmare)
Then creating a compound path
Filling in the shape with a colour black

This is what happens when I try the Ctrl + J to join just the outside paths:

I have used Join tool, but this is a huge task as there is probably 40-50 gaps between the paths. im trying to avoid this...


texts: How can I combine multiple Overlay layers into a single one?

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Here I have a simple image of a cat:

I add a new layer on top of it and near its mouth area I add a small circle and apply gaussian blur to it, and set the mode of the layer to overlay to create this(I used this merely for demonstration):

Now, suppose that I wanted the same effect more intense and that I duplicated the same circle layer two times, to create this: (all of them in overlay mode)

Now, How do I keep the effect of the three overlay layers but make them only one single layer? If I merge them down, the effect goes away:

How can I do this in GIMP?

EDIT: Just for the clarification for other folks whom I directed to this post, another reason to want to do this is when we create a layer mask for the above layer with overlay we may have to copy and paste the layer mask to every overlay layer and making edits to layer masks even troublesome.


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I am fairly new to Photoshop. I want to make an octagon without the top side and put a straight line through the top. So imagine a power symbol but shaped like an octagon. I tried using the pen tool to make the octagon, but it looked very crooked.

I then tried making a shape layer and adding an octagon, rasterized the layer so that I could edit it, and then rubbed the top side out bit it still looks a bit weird. I think there must be a easier way to do this. I do have access to other programs like Illustrator but would like to see if it is possible in Photoshop first.

I have put a screenshot in to show you what I am attempting to do.

Thanks for your time and help! I really do appreciate it.


texts: Error while trying to save a smart object with a transparency mask

texts: I embedded a jpg in my main picture and edit it (smart object). I edit the sky and need transparency background. But when I try save the smart object I got error. See the Screenshot. I read in an article about 1 year ago, that was a bug in cs6?


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I want to remove the crossed out line in the image, i.e the top line of the rectangle, while keeping the circle intact.
Using merge remove the bottom half of the circle as well, which I dont want.


texts: I want to draw a line with a dashed stroke in Photoshop CC. However, the result below has two stroke stacked on top of another and not aligning.


texts: How can I efficiently make several hundred signs for a plant sale?

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This is my first StackExchange question ever, yay!

First I will describe how I made the signs last year:

I started with a spreadsheet of plant names and prices, as well as a folder of images (one for each plant). I created a PowerPoint slide (with dimensions that would allow two signs to fit on one standard sheet of paper, with a gap for laminating and cutting... I put boxes on the slide for the two text items) and then duplicated it for each sign. I spent many hours copy/pasting each plant name, price, and image into each slide, and re-sizing the images to fit. Finally, I exported it to a PDF and printed two-to-a-sheet.

My question is: How can I do this more efficiently? If I should use anything besides Microsoft Office, I would prefer software that is free (as in beer).

EDIT: I just found out that I have access to MS Publisher, and it looks like that will be much easier than trying to force MS Word to work with pictures.


texts: How to create a transparent stroke in Illustrator

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I'm trying to reproduce the iPhone battery symbol. It has a gap between the fill and the stroke. I successfully managed to do it with the appearance palette, as you can see below:

It works well if the background is white. However, once i put an image as a background...

I want the gap to be transparent, rather than white.

How can I do that?


texts: Is there a way to mass delete text without deleting the text frames in Indesign?

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I'm trying to delete text in non-linked text frames without having to individually click inside each one, select all, and delete.

Is there a faster way of doing this?


texts: What is the best way to export imposed PDFs from InDesign?

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The only way to export imposed PDFs directly from InDesign is through print booklet. But that only exports a .ps file, which has to be processed in Distiller.

Adobe recommends to create PDFs directly from InDesign, instead of using Distiller whenever possible.

  That having been said, Adobe does not endorse or encourage use of PDF
  creation via distillation of PostScript from InDesign, Illustrator, or
  Photoshop. PDF created by export from InDesign or saving as PDF from
  Illustrator and Photoshop is much higher quality PDF, maintaining live
  transparency, color management, optional tagging, etc. PostScript
  generated by these programs is optimized strictly for direct printing
  to PostScript printers or RIPs, not for PDF generation!

  — source

So I would prefer to skip the detour through Distiller. Is there any clever way to do that, or do I have to rely on plugins? If yes; which are the best / most commonly used ones?


texts: How to get fore-edge printing on indesign?

texts: I need to get print like this. How to get it in indesign?


texts: Why is the fill inverted and leaking in my shape

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I'm using Illustrator and drawing using the paint brush tool for the first time. And now I'm trying to fill the shape, but I'm not getting expected behaviour. And would like to understand why this is happening and how to resolve it.
Without fill I drew this shape:

Now I fill it:

Why is the shape inside the strokes not getting filled. Also why is the fill occurring outside of the strokes as well?


texts: Should an organization have more than one design system?

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Design Systems are very popular in organizations right now. They typically are used for a consistent component library across products in an organization. I've read that cross-disciplinary teams can benefit from the design system. However I cannot find actionable examples of a marketing team benefitting much from a design system.
Some design systems touch on voice & tone, typography, color but the components that are used for the product typically wouldn't be all that beneficial for digital marketing ads. The Button component for an app isn't always applicable to marketing materials.
Similarly, I imagine outside of colors, typography, principles etc. design components for the products aren't the same for the company's website. However, you could make an argument to build a different component library for the website. Sure it may use some similar components but I typically have experienced websites are distinct from their products. Example: An email input sign up isn't always the same input as the input field found in a product.
When reviewing Google Material's design system on textfields I went to gmail.com on a Desktop browser to do a search and their textfields were actually different from the textfields in their guidelines. The Google Material textfields have curved edges and can be filled our outlined. Their outline has borders on all 4 sides. Gmail.com on a browser has a bottom border only for their search form. Which I think looks better for a browser based form. This has me wondering if another design system would be typical?
So is a whole other system that borrows from another system typical in an organization? Or does one design system typically cover instances across not just product but marketing and web? I imagine at the very least a different component library may be necessary but I've never seen this I'm unsure what is common and I'm looking to hear from anyone with experience to give this clarification.


texts: Inkscape unable to add the same stroke width to all paths

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Hi i just modified a text into paths and curved some paths, i attach an svg of my work.

Now i just would like to add stroke to the object so that i can make bold the text, but as you can see , trying adding some stroke, causes some paths to not get the same stroke.

Just try in inkscape to add stroke to this SVG and you will see the problem is clear :(

Any help appriciated! thanks

SVG: http://www.mediafire.com/download/3f8998s8s86yyi9/relt.svg


texts: How to convert visual cuts into real broken paths in Sketch?

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I have a graphic which originally comes from Adobe Illustrator, currently in Sketch but I could also use in Affinity Designer or even Figma.

Note that I would like to get the final cut version back into Sketch because I have a couple of animation tools that use Sketch as a source. Or, possibly, just raw SVG if ShapeShifter turns out to be as good as it looks.

The illusion of cut paths you see below is because there are three shapes drawn on top of the paths of the filled fingerprint.

Colouring the lines of the "Envelope"

As I want to animate the shape, I would like to actually cut the paths where they appear to be cut by the overlaid negative envelope.

So far the only ideas I've come up with which seem workable are very brute force:

Export as SVG and manually edit the SVG file to create new paths with those end points, then re-import and tidy up
Redraw a series of paths over the top of each fragment.

I have read the Cutting paths with paths in Sketch.app question but they are not dealing with independent paths to this degree and the layer operations didn't help - I ended up with additional whitespace on top

The Sketch Scissors tool also seems to break the image as soon as I try it, it is not an intuitive snip the path tool.

I suspect the real problem is that the sinuous paths are not a series of curving lines but are made up from Shapes. Maybe the answer is not to use Sketch at all but a different tool (Figma?) with a different model of paths?

thanks, Andy


texts: How to represent a screenshot on multiple devices without using third-party branding

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The company I work for wants to release a brochure and they want to demonstrate that our app works on PC (web-based app) as well as on a smart phone. They used to have a designer who used a picture of an iPhone and screenshots of the app including the browser (Firefox).

I'm not keen on showing browser UI, especially because our users use various browsers (from IE6 to Google Chrome).

We thought about showing a PC screen but this leads to other issues and it just doesn't fit within our current style.

My idea is to design a very simple browser UI + a smart phone using our current style - what do you guys think?

Can you think of a different way to present the screenshots in multiple devices?


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I've been 'graphic designing' (I guess) for not so long. I quickly became interested in typography (still am)
I saw some of kurzgesagts videos and saw some really good typography. I tried to recreate it. And I did. I made some things I'm happy with.

I made a few recolours of these,  but my friends told me (and I agree) that this is getting repetitive and I should diversify.
I am now stuck thinking what to to do. I remember I just saw the text on kurzgesagts video (check his video on string theory time stamps 0:30 and 2:30) and I just recreated it because I was inspired. But what do I do now?
I want to get better at typography, but I have no idea where to start. (Also I use Paint.net because I cant invest money into software like Illustrator)
I am very confused.


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What are the tools used to create the instructions and arrows in such images?
Which one is the font?


texts: Should I seek explicit permission to place a logo into an image sprite with other logos?

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I'm currently trying to get permission to place various clients logos on a website, should I also ask for permission to place their logos into a image sprite together with other logos?

My reasons for concern stem a little deeper, because the various different clients could loosely be considered as competitors and the clients themselves may share that sentiment. The clients are all luxury retail outlets based in the UK, that's the most I can say. I have never heard of them being considered as competitors of each other, but I am aware that they have overlapping interests.

Additionally, by asking for permission to do this, I may bring something to their attention that they otherwise wouldn't have cared about.

On the flip side, a sprite sheet is just a technical means to an end, and no affiliations will be insinuated in their use together.

So will they have grounds to cause a stink if I don't inform them that I'm using their logo in this way, even after they've granted me permission to use it?

I know there aren't any/many lawyers here, I'm looking for a logical solution.


texts: What kind of interview questions should one expect at their first design job interview?

texts: If you were interviewing for your first graphic design position, what kind of questions should you expect?  The posting is fairly vague, aside from the assumption of basic design skills.


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I have a sticky situation and I'm not quite sure how to deal with it.

As part of branding a company for a friend/client I have created some cartoon type characters (as well a logo, fonts, colours, feel and all the other branding stuff). Now this is a good friend so I'm not necessarily concerned about losing business but he's involved someone else to do some facebook marketing. This third party wants all the individual assets.

I'm doing all this work at a reasonable rate and would like to retain control of the artwork used.

As this is a friend I have offered to create backgrounds for the ads for free when ordinarily I would be negotiating a better rate for handing over the constituent parts of my design work.

The third party is pressing for the parts so I would welcome any input on how to proceed and what my expectations should be.

Thanks.


texts: What's the name of an outward-linebased circle patter

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I need to reproduce this figure, ideally using SVG so I tried looking for online tutorials to re-create it using illustrator but I couldn't find anything remotely matching my needs, most likely because I didn't really know what to look for as a the name of this thread shows ... I don't really know what this kind of figure would be called.

Is there a general name ? If not, how would you describe it to help find an appropriate tutorial or maybe even point me directly to one describing the process to design something similar ?


texts: InDesign: How to make auto-updating page-in-page teachers' guide?

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I'm making materials to teach children how to read, and the two main products are

A primer book so children can follow a lesson, and
A teachers' guide that includes a preview of the corresponding page from the student primer surrounded by explanations and directions for that lesson.

Here's an example:

I've designed a template for the student primer, and I'm ready to start the teachers' guide. What workflow can I use so that the lesson preview in the teachers' guide will automatically update when I change the student primer?

I don't want to have to copy/paste or recreate pages from the student primer in the teachers' guide.


texts: Which kind of gradient should I use on a gauge

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So I have this gauge in an iOS app that has a linear gradient from left to right on on arc inside of it like this

That works well when I only need the gradient to stop in the middle, but when I want to shift the gradient back a little bit, as you can see, it bleeds the upper green part into to the lower part of the dial since it's only linear and those sections overlap.

My question is this:

Which kind of gradient should I use that would rotate colors around a circle?

I know it's not radial, because that would have the same color on the axis in which I am drawing it on.


texts: Combine blurred still frames from GIF to form crisp still

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When watching a GIF, the image seems to be crisp, as the animation is moving along quite quickly.  If you were to analyze the GIF frame by frame, you'd notice that each image is rather blurry.

I'm wondering if it is possible to combine frames near to each other using some kind of filtering in Photoshop to produce one clear still image?


texts: Text graphic - artistic play on repeated words

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I am trying to think of a cool way to visualize this quote from Fight Club:

  You know how they say 'you only hurt the ones you love?' Yeah, well
  the inverse is also true.

So the way I'm interpreting this is with the following two sentences:

You only hurt the ones you love.
Only the ones you love hurt you.

Using these two sentences I'd like to create a visual that shows both sentences but doesn't repeat too many words. So I want to find some way to make both sentences clear with only minimal repetition.

My attempt is like this:

Question

Is this graphic intuitive with my goal? I'm concerned that the 2nd sentence isn't so clear since you have to omit "hurt" in order for it to read correctly.  I'd also be keen to see if anyone has other ways to tackle this.


texts: How would I create this "dot shading" effect

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I really like the shading in-between waves, and was wondering if there's an easy way to create a similar effect in Illustrator.

https://dribbble.com/shots/1933245-Blake-2


texts: Remove graph/grid background from a ECG-like readout in inkscape/ImageJ

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I have this graph below, which shows a readout for an experiment on a graph background like this;

I would like to remove this graph background, leaving just the black line, so that it is formatted like this;

I tried to do this in powerpoint using the 'remove background' option, thinking that powerpoint would be able to distinguish the black line from the red and white background, but no. I have fumbled about with different options in inkscape and imagej, but am not really sure what to do. I don't have access to adobe softwares, so if answers could apply to inkscape/imagej, that would be greatly appreciated.


texts: InDesign changing colors of vector after exporting to PDF?

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I'm designing a document in InDesign where there is a vector image. To make the background seem continuous, I pulled a rectangle (sent it the backmost) and copied the color of the vector using the eyedropper tool into the rectangle. In short, I wanted the background color of the vector to be continuous with the whole document.

It worked great even on InDesign preview, but after exporting to PDF, there's a change. Could anyone pls help as to why this is happening and how to prevent it happen. Because, it would look ugly to have a border show up, which I was trying to conceal.

In InDesign,

In PDF,

Theres a slight difference in color in the right half in the lower image, if you could appreciate. That is my concern


texts: Designing GUI for mobile apps working in bright sunlight environment

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I'm going to create GUI for a mobile app that will work in bright sunlight environment (inside a car so it will not be fully exposed to sunlight) and the usability and visibility of certain GUI elements are the most important factors.

What are some tips for creating such UI? What colors should I use?


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Illustrator CC has a wonderful new export window... that doesn't work. You can select different aspects like resolutions, width, height, scale, etc. However even though I have 300ppi selected and my document is setup to be in high res mode, any PNG files I export it always exports at a bit depth of 32 and not 300...

Why is this?


texts: Can i view hidden data in an adobe acrobat pdf file?

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I have an adobe acrobat pdf file.

I have adobe acrobat pro dc.

Does acrobat pdf have hidden information / metadata? If so, how do I view it?


texts: Place psd file into Illustrator without losing quality

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I want import a psd file into Illustrator without losing quality.

I have a 300dpi image at Photoshop with height 60 cm, as you can see below.

(You can see a smooth "D")

I create an Illustrator document with height 100cm and "Raster Effects: 300 ppi".

But when I "File/Place" the .psd file i get the below result.

The photo in Illustrator loss quality.
Why this happens?

How can I place psd file into Illustrator with best quality?

Thank you.


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I am currently making a popover in Photoshop. I managed to do the main part using the rounded rectangular tool but not the triangle part:

Is there a recommend way in Photoshop to do this triangle ?

EDIT

I have seen this post which is the closest to what i want but :

I don't want round corner
I want a stroke on the triangle but not on the basis


texts: How can I ensure that a .pdf file I sent to a publisher has the same layout as on my computer?

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I have next to no knowledge about typesetting, just the usual office skills. Some weeks ago, our team wrote a scientific paper, and after it was accepted at a conference, I handled the submission of the camera ready version to the publishers. It didn't run smooth - although the automatic upload system accepted the file as guideline compatible, on 11.03. I was contacted with the information that it didn't adhere to guidelines. I submitted a new version, and only received an automatic acknowledgement.

Today, I was informed that there is "a lost line" below the copyright block of the paper. I looked into my file and saw that the last line of the copyright block had its bottom clipped. I repaired that and sent it to the publishers, telling them that I didn't find a "lost line", and repaired what I had found. They sent me the file they fetched from the upload system. I compared them, and found that both files looked very different. The text was higher on their file, there was indeed a line below the copyright block, and the title of the paper looked smudged.

I am absolutely sure that the file I am looking at is the one I uploaded. It is the only pdf I created of the paper in the week of 11.03. (I checked the Recycle Bin too). So either their .pdf viewer or the upload system must have changed the look of the file. Does anybody have any idea what can have happened, and, more important, how can I prevent it the next time?

The file was created with Microsoft Word 2007, converted to pdf with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (using the Print -> Select printer -> Adobe PDF function). I used the standard options, only changed to embed the fonts used. In the following examples, the left-hand image is the one the publishers had, the right-hand image is the one I had uploaded. Both are pdf files (so the difference didn't happen during conversion from doc to pdf). Note that the text position is different too, the line which appears below the copyright block (which is on the bottom of the left column) in their version appears somewhere in the second paragraph in the right column in my version. It almost looks as if the font in their version is smaller. But the total length of both papers is the same, 8 full pages.


texts: InDesign: how to edit table text, cells and rows all at once?

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My client created his book using Microsoft Word. He's sent me the file and I've placed it into InDesign in order to make it look beautiful and more pleasing to read. Everything went on well, except for the tables.
Since it's a book with a lot of pages and tables, I was wondering if there's a way to work around this issue without having to set every row, cell size, and font manually. All the errors below are from overset text in the tables.


texts: Small, anti-aliased fonts for an LCD display

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I am looking for a font to use on a small (75x55mm) LCD display. The display supports 5 bit grey scale, so anti-aliasing is possible. Unfortunately it is only about 80ppi and standard anti-aliasing like below doesn't look very good:

I am using Paint.NET, perhaps another app would give me greater control over the anti-aliasing. There are some limitations to the font rendering I can do because it is an embedded system, so for example no per-character kerning or on-the-fly rendering/anti-aliasing.

I was hoping to find an anti-aliased bitmap font suited to industrial LCD displays. Something that is designed to look good at around 10-12 pixels high. Serif or sans-serif, either is fine. Back in the day when most operating systems used bitmap fonts there were some nice ones for the Amiga and Mac OS, but I can't find them now.

Just to clarify, the font sample above looks bad because it doesn't stick the pixel grid of the LCD. It is probably fine on an RGB LCD seem from a greater distance, but on industrial LCDs you can see that the vertical lines of the letters are blurred. The C looks okay, but the H, I, J, K, L, M and N all look a bit blurred.


texts: How do I progress my design aesthetic beyond the linear minimalist style i use for everything?

texts: I love the clean style but I feel like whenever I'm given a design project I research and I see all of these templates with these cool diagonals and curves. I want to utilize the style but I feel like I am stealing. The line between stealing and be inspired by is a very grey area to me. So I panic and create a grid and produce another linear design. I just want to be able to produce a different look expand my creative range. I've included a link below.


texts: I'm creating a simple top down 2D game from scratch.  Problem is, I also have to make all of the sprites for it.  Now, I'm decent at graphic design but I have a hard time keeping everything with a single theme.  What can I do to make sure my sprites are consistent in theme and appearance?


texts: What's name of this font which I can't find on what the font?

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Quick question, I couldn't find the name of this font even on WhatTheFont.

Here's an image:

Thanks in advance!


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I exposed the board under the sun at 2 pm for 12 min, it got slightly overexposed I think as washing the not exposed part was a bit struggling.

But when I started to print through it for the first try some part of the layout didn't print well. So I thought the ink might a little thick for it so I made it a little thin with thinner, but after that the ink was flowing through it, made the whole board a mess.

I am using a oil based plastic paint.

Where am I going wrong?

Here's a picture of the board on the second try.

Here's the picture of the screen


texts: Why does this poster look off, like it's lacking something to focus on?

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I'm new at graphic design so any help would be very appreciated.

Higher-up didn't provide that much info to work with, which is why it looks sparse, but I keep looking at it and feeling like it is missing something.

It feels like there isn't something to focus your eye on for some reason. Is there anything that I am not seeing here, or should I just scrap this and start anew?

Here is the poster: http://min.us/lKLagKkgJVGBY


texts: Warp/shrink text only if too big for text area in Illustrator

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I'm creating a multilingual PDF in Illustrator with variables and would like to use single line text area boxes to control type. However, in some languages, the text will be very long. Can I set a specific font size for the text area, and then if the text exceeds its box, have it warp, shrink, or decrease tracking to fit? I do not want it to wrap to a new line.

I'm using ExtendScript to try to do this in many steps and keep running into limitations. In order to get the width of the actual text, I'm converting it to point type using convertAreaObjectToPointObject() which does work when the text is smaller than its box. If it overflows, the method always clips just like its GUI equivalent under Type > Convert to Point Type.

Extending the area type width programmatically before converting to point to avoid clipping using .width stretches the type instead of its containing box. Is there another method I should use which simulates grabbing the area type expansion edge?


texts: How to make a rounded edged art board in Adobe Illustrator?

texts: I am trying to create a save the date invitation. The bride wants the invitations to have rounded edges of about .5 inches. Is this something I can do to the art board itself, or do I just create a rounded edge rectangle, put my art on that, and specify to the printers how to cut the art?


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So I've tried using a graphics tablet for the first time... I am left-handed. This isn't really an issue, when using normal mouse, as I use my right hand and with the left hand I use the keyboard shortcuts.

However, this is now impossible, as I use my left hand for drawing.

I am pretty sure, there are left-handed tablet users out there - how do you go around this ?

My only viable option would be not to use the keyboard at all (i.e. only when absolutely necessary) and program the most frequent shortcuts into the wacom tablet itself.
Although it won't be optimal by any means.


texts: What are the screen resolution possibilities when targeting pc/mac

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I'm coping with a huge problem at the moment, concerning screen resolution. As i'm a college student the only tools i have for developing the game i'm making is open source software and a laptop running windows with a 1366x768 resolution.

I recently found out that it's best to develop your game on a 1920x1080 resolution since it's common.

Now wondering if there is some sort of workaround since i dont have acces to a screen that has that resolution or higher and my sprites will probably blurr when displayed on such resolution.


texts: Anyone know how I can add basic web form controls to my Assets library in Fireworks?

texts: It has shapes and styles for shapes and things like that, but what I want is to quickly throw some basic form controls like radio buttons, input boxes, list boxes, drop downs, etc. for prototyping and the like, how can I get these into Fireworks? Maybe someone has a .zip file of them somewhere? Or perhaps I'm going to have to draw them manually... hopefully not.


texts: Tiling in InDesign: See guides where the page will be cut?

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I am using InDesign (for the first time) to create a big scientific poster that will be printed on several A3 sheets.

To achieve this, I am intending to use the automatic "tiling" function that can be checked upon printing in ID. However, when designing my poster, I would like to know where the cuts between the pages will be. I want to place my pictures so that they are not being cut by printing on two pages.

Is this possible to achieve?


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Is it possible to modify object with texture generated by filter on it to make this texture follow modification?

Simply changing path gives me this efect:

As you see the square has changed, but texture is static. I need to reach this (made with GIMP):

The second one has now bended the texture. Is it even possible to do this without non-vector image and if so, how to do it?


texts: Gradient Overlay alignment disturbed while exporting artboard to files as JPGs in Photoshop CC

texts: Trying to export artboards as JPGs using Files>>Exports>>Artboard_to_Files. But the gradient overlay alignment is changed when exported. Also, I can't rasterize layer styles as it's applied to the group. Kindly suggest to me the best possible option.


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I'm currently working on a pure drag and drop part of my applications UI.

There are certain tools the user can drop the items into, to do certain things (Remove, rename, move)

Are there any good 'standard' ways of visualizing that a field is droppable?


texts: SVG images showing up blurry in Safari in any size smaller than 20 px

texts: I am doing a mobile demo for the Ipad that we are demoing in Safari. I am using icons to get away from having to scale my images 3x. Problem is that any icons that I am using that are smaller than 20px are blurry on screen until you zoom in. Anyone else experience this problem and know what the fix is? FYI I saved these images out in Illustrator


texts: How to convert a square SVG to all-size ICO?

texts: I've drawn an icon in InkScape and would like to export it to an ICO file that would include sprites for all the reasonable resolutions (16x16, 32x32, ... 256x256 etc). How can this be done (without using huge and expensive software like Photoshop, CorelDraw etc)?


texts: Switching to the Existing Path When Drawing the New One Over It by Curvature tool in Illustrator

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Why when I use curvature tool and click on top of existing path, it not continues my current path but switches to this existing path?

Here is the illustration, not working example, just to show what I mean:

I try to continue the path over the existing one...

...but I cannot, Illustrator switches to this path!

I wasn't able to find the answer anywhere. The Pen tool working good: it's possible to make path on top of the existing one. So I have no problems when work with straight lines. But when creating the curved lines, as most designs and artworks have such parts, the Curvature tool is much more easy and useful. Except this extremely annoying problem.

The only solution I've found so far, is the creating new layer for the new path, and locking the layer where the existing path is. After that, I can use Curvature tool over the path, as I just cannot select it. But obviously, it's the complicated and time-consuming method.

May be the community can suggest the easy one? I believe Adobe predicted such problem and provided the option to disable the path switching when using Curvature tool.

Thank you!


texts: Adobe Illustrator CC - How do I erase part of image

texts: How do I get rid of the excess picture outside of the circle? When I use the eraser tool, once I release the left mouse button the picture comes back.


texts: Wireframing tool to design a website idea

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I have nothing to do with design, because I don't know how to mix two colors. Some time ago, I've read about some tools which are used in the creation of interfaces for application and web pages.

In that article were mentioned some tools, and one of them was a free firefox add-on. I'm not looking specifically for that add-on, but the idea is that those types of applications aren't very advanced in order to be used by professionals in the design field.

Do you have any idea about what I'm talking about? Can you name some of those applications?


texts: When will quality be lost when increasing design size % or size wise?

texts: I want to at least double design size from 6in to 6in to about 12in by 12in. I am using a raster program and ttf fonts which the max size is 2000 pt = 6in by 6in. Can it be done in the raster program without losing too much quality -using it for print on demand products such as t-shirts. I tried a vector program, but it did not work.


texts: Wrong size while exporting png from Illustrator?

texts: I made a file size 320*370, however they become 321*370 while I export them into png?? Things happen to every files unless there is only one artboard in the file. Always 1 px more from what I originally set. Any idea how can this be fixed?