texts: GIMP: find midpoint / arbitrary division between two points

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How do I find the middle, or n/th division or percentage of distance between two arbitrary points in GIMP?

Like, I have an object / a line of arbitrary length / two guides, placed in arbitrary place of the image. I want to place an object/marker/guide/whatever right in the middle of it, or precisely at 1/3 of it, and I want to do it with a bit of precision, not "by eye".

Is there any easier way than finding the pixel locations of the ends of the line and calculating proportions in a calculator on the side, or using Thales Theorem to "construct" the point?

(the one I found: draw a line the full distance on a separate layer, then use the "scale" tool to scale it by given percentage... but it feels extremely clunky)


texts: Table of contents spacing between text and dotted line in 'Tab' - paragraph styles

texts: I added dotted lines to my table of contents using the tab section in my assigned paragraph style. I want to determine the space between the text and the dotted line as well as the space between the dotted line and the number. I am not sure how to adjust this in paragraph styles.


texts: Is Photoshop in use for print posters with high quality of text objects?

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When creating a poster in Photoshop with 300 dpi settings and export to high res PDF, text do not look crisp enough (after rasterizing text objects). Will it look good after print?
Or should text objects remain not rasterized?

UPD Zoom in PDF view 600%, but compare artwork elements with rasterized text


texts: How can I create a larger page-size copy of a PDF document?

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I have a PDF/X4 printer ready file for an A3 poster, and have had already printed 2500 copies at a commercial digital print shop in Europe. Went very well.

Now I want to have some A0 plastic tarps (heavy duty outdoor banners) printed at an African print shop.

I could just ask the printer "please upscale in your pre-production" but I have been to that place a few times in the past (am in Europe personally right now) and I do not trust their in-house communications between order-intake and production-shop.

So I would love to prepare them a full size A0 order file. Resolution is no issue, as their Epson printer for plastic sheets only does 300 dpi and our photos are well good enough.

So is there a tool (preferably inside Adobe Acrobat) to upscale or downscale PDFs; not in file-size but in page-size? And to make the entire content "fit" the new page size of course.

I have done virtual re-printing with some free tools but I doubt that all the X4 details remain undamaged (where needed) or get properly adjusted (where needed) to the new page size A0. Thank you.


texts: What is the best way to create a product catalogue in Adobe InDesign CC?

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Our client has a product range of ~1700 products separated into 7 categories. We want to make sure that we start artworking the catalogue using the most efficient methods.

Assuming that each product will have a different Name, Photo, Size, Material, Price and Product Code, how should we go about getting this information into InDesign so we don't have to manually copy and paste the information across for each of the 1700 products?

Ideally, we'd like to design a few page layouts and use these along with an automation feature to populate the catalog.

Should it be an XML import, a CSV data merge or a 3rd party plugin such as https://www.65bit.com/software/easycatalog/ ?

Thank you!


texts: I have a specific perspective transformation that I want to apply to an image. How can I enter the matrix values manually in GIMP instead of playing around with stretching the image until the numbers come out right (which is virtually impossible)?


texts: What is the shortcut to move a layer fitting in a transparent canvas?

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When I open an image, convert the background into a moveable layer. Then I move it around. But how I can quickly move the layer to fit exactly with the canvas?

Thanks for your help.

http://cl.ly/image/3P2k0M1q1C2R/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-04%20at%203.03.24%20PM.png


texts: Is there a standard naming convention for design phases?

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Is there a standard naming convention for design phases, as in rounds of revisions, that’s not just Concept 1, Concept 2, etc.?

I know that my agency uses Concept Phase, then Copy Layout, then Keyline 1, 2, 3, etc., but I feel like those don’t make sense when I’m communicating the current phase of work when I submit it to clients.

Example: "Here are the changes you requested from the last keyline phase. We are now moving into Keyline 2 with any further revisions."


texts: Is there an application that will take a string, like my company name, and produce a comparison of that string in many different typefaces?


texts: Count different colors in a pixelated picture

texts: I need the easiest way to be able to count the different colors in a pixelated picture that I have. So you understand what I'm talking about. If you look up counted cross stitch you'll see it comes with a pixelated picture on a graph. Each square is a different color. Well I need an app that I can upload my picture and it'll tell me how much I have for each color.  Is there anything like that


texts: What shade of light grey can be seen on 99% of monitors?

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I'm working from a design where the grey shade F0F0F0 is used as a subtle contrast on list items to lift them from the pure white background, eg:

I have a two monitor setup, and on one monitor, I can see the grey background of the cards, on the other I can't. The problem monitor has no built in or driver based hue/saturation/gamma settings. Playing with contrast and brightness doesn't help
My guess is there is some percentage of users who have a similar monitor, and even more who could configure their monitor but simply don't know that they should, or how to do it.
Now the solution would be to darken the grey - but I want to find the sweet spot where as many users as possible can see the grey without making it too dark to be subtle on well calibrated monitors.
Has anyone dealt with this before and have some suggestions - or are there any statistics on safe shades of grey to use on the web.

Here is a blog post talking about the same problem

EDIT
I came across the material design color palette. Looking at the grey scale they provide, I see that 50, 100 and 200 look the same on my bad monitor, but the difference between 200 and 300 is noticeable yet subtle on both the calibrated and bad monitor :
Is this the case on anyone else's monitor?
Then maybe using a light grey(200) as background instead of white, with a darker grey for items(300). It would be a minimal change for correctly calibrated monitors, but may improve the design's visibility for the average monitor.


texts: Creating a 2D coiled spring along a circular path

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Looking to create a perfect coiled spring similar to this image, but with less numbers of coils (below image having 8):

How would I go about creating an image like this with 4, 6 or 10 coils, shaped in a circular shape? Thank you in advance.


texts: CorelDRAW Font List shortcut not working

texts: I have added a shortcut for Font List(Ctrl+shift+F) but it won't work unless opening Options (Ctrl+Alt+F)  and closing it, after that i can select my text and use the shortcut to change the font


texts: How to create editable text with effects

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I need help to know by steps how to create the same as the attached snapshot. It's done in Adobe Illustrator (Strokes, fills and effects from the appearance box), I manage to create editable transparent text with the 2 white strokes inside and outside the text.
What I couldn't do is how to create the white depth (the white depth with scratches) and avoiding to show the depth inside or behind the transparent text


texts: Problem with opacity after saving as PNG-8 or GIF from Photoshop

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I am a web developer and I have a problem with the opacity of a photo after saving as a PNG or GIF. I have an image with a transparent background with a layer with less than 1% opacity. After saving it loses the opacity and shows a solid background.

Below is how my image appears before and after saving:

I want something like the upper image but the result is like the lower image.


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How do I delete part of the circle path in the picture provided?. I want the red outlined part to be deleted without having the curve change. I've tried to do this by selecting the two anchor points (where the line meets the curve and the bottom of the curve but it deletes the whole arc. I want the top arc and line connected.

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm still having trouble with this. As I said I can't place the anchor point where the line already intersects as there is already an anchor there. If I select both anchor point or either one on their own with the direct selection tool it will select the whole arc. I'm not sure exactly where I'm going wrong here. Sorry.

The 3rd picture show what happens when I select the bottom anchor with the DS tool on it's own. It will select the whole arc rather than stopping at the anchor at the intersection of the line and arc. Any ideas?

Thanks.


texts: Is there a "generate CSS/HTML" feature or plugin in Sketch app

texts: I have found a script that does exactly that (generates CSS and HTML for the layers and offers an option of exporting those in % values) and cuts the work for the web-dev in half for Photoshop. Now I am curious if anybody has come across/up with a plugin or can point me to a native feature like that for Sketch app. The absence of such is making my transition to Sketch reaaally painful. Or being new to Sketch I am just missing something ideologically different about the way Sketch works with CSS and HTML.


texts: Is there a guide out there for printing and selling T-shirts?

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I'm looking for some advice on printing and selling tshirts.  Is there a tutorial somewhere out there for designers who have created a design and want to make and sell shirts?

I know a couple of local printers that I could use, but I'm interested in the pros and cons of using local printers versus online services that would handle payment processing, printing, shipments, etc.

I hope this is an okay place to ask this question.  It isn't technically a graphic design question, and I know there isn't a correct answer, but I'm hoping someone can point me to a nice guide out there somewhere that covers all the bases of making and selling shirts.


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I've rotated multiple texts with the transform tool in Photoshop by an arbitrary angle.
Now, I need to reset that rotation, and have the text straight. I am not able to do it by hand, its always somehow rotated and its not precise.

Is there an automatic way to do it? something like "reset transformation" or along that lines? What is the fastest way to reset those strings?


texts: How to change the color sliders to a color wheel like picker on Photoshop?

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I've checked all the options and I can't seem to change the sliders into a wheel (or rather a square) and being super new to Photoshop I don't know how to do it and couldn't even phrase it properly to look it up on Google.

What I'm trying to say is that, I can't seem to get my Color window to look like the regular color wheel that one would normally use on Photoshop, mine only goes from one range of a slider to another and I've checked that little list thing and those are still just sliders.


texts: I scanned some sketches and changes some colours in photoshop,then I saved the image as a psd file on my desktop.The problem now is that I want to use them in inDesign and when I insert them they have huge pixels.In photoshop they were ok and I even changed the 'display performance' to high resolution.What is the problem? (sorry for my english :D)


texts: What program should I use for animated vector style graphics for an iOS game

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I'm starting to design a game for iOS and I want to use a style similar to the image below:

The game will have a few animations for the player, what program can I use to do that? I couldn't find a way to make animations like that in Illustrator, maybe I overlooked them. Any way to do it?


texts: How to remove a smaller rectangular part from another bigger rectangle shape layer

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How can I remove a smaller rectangular part from another bigger rectangle shape layer in Adobe Photoshop?

My selected layout is 110px x 110px on which I have drawn a rectangle of 106px x 104px. Now I want to remove a 100px x 70px rectangle from the top 17px. The result would be another rectangle of 100px x 70px in the removed section with different effects.


texts: How to make part of image transparent including all layers

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I have an image with many layers. I want to define part of it as transparent.

Is there a mask layer which makes all the layers under it transparent or something similar?


texts: How to remove the background of an SVG with Adobe Illustrator?

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I found a royalty free SVG image on the net. I'm experimenting with web design using SVG. The problem I'm having is that the SVG background is white.

How do I delete / remove the white background, using Adobe Illustrator?


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I am working with the "real.dat" data found on the following site:

http://www.rit.edu/cos/colorscience/rc_munsell_renotation.php

However, the data is missing the central column of gray values where Chroma equals zero. Does anyone know where I can find those values?

Thanks.


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I have Photoshop CS6 and in the timeline panel's menu there's an option called optimize animation and it has two options:
Bounding Box
Redundant Pixel Removal
I searched in the internet and Photoshop help but I didn't understand anything about them :|
I'm not English so I'm sorry if I have any mistakes


texts: Separate Image Differences on almost identical images

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I am usually proficient in Photoshop but this one is really stumping me. I have two almost identical images and I need to separate the differences onto a new transparent layer for overlaying with other similar images. For example

Here is the original image

Here is the image with the small changes (red dots)

I need the red dots alone, on a new layer with a transparent background so I can overlay them with other maps. Any help?


texts: Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette/color scheme around colors I select?

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No matter how nice the composition, flow, and lines of my design are, if I am not copying directly from nature, I have a very difficult time picking a decent color scheme.  It either looks too drab, or too garish.

Is there a good resource that will help me to choose a color scheme that has 2 or 3 colors, and the colors do not clash?

I'm not looking for specific colors or color schemes.  What I need is a resource that will help me choose a color (or colors) that go nicely with, or provide a good accent to, whatever main color I am working with on the design.


texts: How to OTF export the font I created in Indyfont?

texts: I've created a custom made bullet and used the indyfont script to set up the export but I'm not able to click on the the OTF export button. I'm not sure what to do.


texts: I used the path tool to select these segments but now there is a one pixel wide alpha line between them, what's the proper way to do this?


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I have a similar question to this one, however, I'm looking for something that works on photos and text alike (basically, anything, and not just letters/characters/text).

I'm looking for a function inside Photoshop that transforms an image into the main outlines of all the shapes present in the original image. Sort of like a "chalk outline" function/feature that (likely) uses contrast between two surfaces/textures/colors/etc. and that can figure out how to trace/stencil everything in the image. Ideally this would convert the image to black + white, with a white background and black outlines of all the shapes present in the image.

Does Photoshop have anything like this?


texts: How to create an (over)spray effect (in gimp)?

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How to create an overspray effect?

I tried fading out the selection and fill it with one color on a background layer and tried different brushes and tools, but without luck. It's mainly to geht the spray painted look at all.

Thanks.

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After:

Edit to clean up the question


texts: Why does InDesign search not begin at beginning?

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I am using a script to copy sequential lines from an input text file into an InDesign document. I have used the script a number of times with no problems.

var fi = new File("C:/Documents/input.txt")     //Change to the path of your input file
if(!fi.exists)
{
     alert("Input file does not exist")
     exit()
}
fi.open("r");
var data = fi.read() .split('\n')
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "†"
var res = app.selection[0].parentStory.findGrep(true)  //when set to 'false', replace starts from end of input file
data = data.slice(0, res.length)
while(a = res.shift())
{
     a.contents = data.pop()
}
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

I am currently working on a file with thousands of footnotes each with the dummy text "†" in the note. I would like to sequentially replace each dummy placeholder with a line from an input file.

The problem is,  no matter what I do, the script starts at footnote 18. So, input-line-1 maps to footnote 18, not footnote 1 and so the whole copy and paste is out of sequence.

How can this behaviour be fixed?

I have tried the following:

delete first frame of story, create  new text frame, then re-thread (has the effect of assigning new ID to text frame)
delete first footnote, then replace again (which did have the effect
of searches within InDesign starting from the first footnote, but
not so when using the script)
saving a copy of the document and then trying again with the copied document.
I have tried a version of the script which uses "var res = app.selection[0].parentStory.findGrep(true)" in line 11 and one that uses "var res = app.documents[0].findGrep(true)"
I have tried starting the script with my cursor in different positions: in the story, in the footnote, nothing selected

So, how can I get a search in InDesign to begin at the beginning (i.e. from footnote 1, not footnote 18?)

The script uses a GREP search. Would a plain text search work better?

Thank you!


texts: Newbie needing help with making a vector

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Hey guys. Newbie here trying to make a logo for my company. I’ve made the logo on photoshop, got it into Inkscape and am trying to get a vector image. Any time I try...I get all these layers that show on the outline of my image. I just want it to vector as I have it on the original screen if that makes sense. (I feel like it’s a very simple image and this should be so hard) If anyone could help me I would be truly grateful. Thank you.
Marlee


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I have a Color scheme for an app lets say I'm using the colors from this swatch http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/1746892. I am about to create another app and I'd like all of the apps created by my workshop to have the same aesthetic just different colors. I would like a way to create a "twin" of this kuler color scheme you can see that the colors are positioned relative to each other in this image, If you rotated this you would have a totally different color scheme but the same Hue & Saturation as the original scheme.

Is there any resource out there that would let me take a set of HEX color codes and allow me to create different schemes that are aesthetically pleasing next to the original?


texts: In Photoshop you can add Dither to Gradients. I understand what dither is but when I apply dither to my gradient I can see no difference. What exactly does dither do?


texts: How to resize design 4500*5400 px in Illustrator CS6?

texts: I need to resize my shirt design 4500x5400 but I can't. When I set the size 4500*5400 px in Illustrator and save as png it show beyond my size. I'm really worried please anyone is here to help me how to exact resize and will show  4500*5400 png after save the image?


texts: How can I create this pixel effect in Illustrator?

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I need to create this pixel square effect in Illustrator:

I tried to make perspective grid, put squares and blend them.

My problem includes two main points:

I can't make distance from smallest to biggest from horizon;
My squares turn in perspective but I need them to stand straight.


texts: How can you end a pattern along a path with a fractional pattern?

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In Inkscape, it's possible to set a pattern along a path. There are four options for the pattern copies:

Single
Single, stretched
Repeated
Repeated, stretched

I wish to use the repeated option, but want the pattern to continue right to the end of the path, ending on a fractional pattern when necessary. Is there a way to do this in Inkscape?
In my case, I'm trying to draw a railway line using a pattern given in the left top of the figure, together with the red path shown in the rest of the figure. Gaps occur between lines when there's less than full pattern width distance - I want to avoid these gaps.


texts: I am currently running Inkscape 0.92 on my Windows 10 machine. Is there a way from within the interface to update InkScape? or do I have to manually download and install each and every version that comes out?


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Does anyone have any examples of live websites with round headers? Similar to this: http://www.nasty-creatures.com/

I'm working on something for a client and have come up with a design with a round header, however I need some different examples of live sites so that I can see how they're built. I've scoured the web and can't find any decent examples.

If anyone can steer me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it!


texts: I want to draw those 4 layers in illustrator without overlapping. I want a perfect aligning between them

texts: is there any way I can draw these layers accurately without having a space or even overlap between them? it is for laser cutting purposes, I used pen to draw every layer, but the pen doesn't provide accurate drawing of these layers, as they are either overlapping in the outline mode or not aligned perfectly, so they create voids or white lines, causing problems in saving as pdf.


texts: How to create an editable pixellated stroke

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How can I make a stroke look pixellated like this in Photoshop CS6?

I'm talking about the sign's border specifically (not the text). Ideally I don't want to have to manually draw the pixels, so it's repeatable at different sizes.


texts: How do I draw a curved 3D line in Inkscape?

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I want to have a curved 3D line like so:

As you can see the behind of the line has a dark yellow/orange color, and the front side has a blue color, also the line is curved on the Z axis, how do I achieve this in Inkscape? How do I make a line thats curved on the Z axis and then color the front and behind respectively?

I know how to make a 2D curved line using the ellipse tool, but how do I draw a line like this?


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I'm trying to re-create a hard inner shadow effect in illustrator, similar to the effect on the text in the Kit Kat logo:

Heres another good example:

Heres my attempt at re-creating it:

Mine seems like it needs some refinement, after a hours of trying this is the closest I could get and I'm still not quite happy with it. It seems like such a basic effect, but I think my brain is short circuiting.

Does anyone have a better technique to achieve this kind of effect? One of my main concerns is getting it to work across a variety of fonts.

Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to convert a graph into an object in Illustrator CC?

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I've made a graph in Illustrator and I want to convert it to objects to make styling easier, I cannot seem to find anything that would do that.

How would I convert it?


texts: Punctuation space after number in footnotes

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I'm working on a journal in which there is a lot of footnotes. (17 articles, aprox 30 pages each with at least 30 footnotes).
I use superscript nested style to make the number of every footnote in footer superscript, but I wonder if there is a way in which I can add a space after footnote number and before text (so I don't have to do it manually). Punctuation space would suit me well, but I'm not very good with grep styles so I don't know how exactly to formulate it so it works.


texts: After purchasing fonts, what further "permissions" are necessary to use them in commercial design work?

texts: There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding font "licensing" and "permissions". Isn't the license to design with it what we are purchasing when buying the font? For basic commercial design work, what further "permissions" are needed? Are we expected to draw up a contract, send additional fees? With whom/To whom? If so, why isn't the fee schedule for basic usage clearly set forth at the time of purchase? There seems to be an across-the-board lack of clarity about this by font providers. And there is this big looming spectre of possible future lawsuits hovering over design work, a bit unfairly, I believe. The rules and requirements need to be spelled out clearly so that designers who are trying to be honest don't have to jump through hoops to get basic information, and don't have to worry about unexpectedly getting socked with some horrible fines at a future date.


texts: How can I increase my jpg from 72 dpi to 150 dpi and not have the printable size shrink?

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I have to print some banners that will be 2'x3'.  They will have different company logos on them sized as large as I can to fit on the banner, with 3 lines of text  below.

The problem is many of my sponsors do not have high resolution logos, they are asking me to use web images or scan in a business card or letterhead.

How can I resize a jpg larger without losing quality?

I need them to be at least 150dpi, but then be able to size them large enough for the banners.

I have Fireworks, and all the programs in Adobe Design Suite C5 - there has got to be a way :(


texts: What effect do gradient fills have on the eye?

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There are many baseline rules in web design (and design in general) around how the use of color, shape, line-quality, and font. These rules typically have some grounding in the way the brain perceives these things in relation to each other.

Can anyone point me to a good resource explaining how to use gradient fills (linear and radial)? How they affect the eye, contrast with overlaid fonts, affect the perception of color, dominance, etc?

Resources don't need to be targeted at web-design, as it probably applies to any screen-based graphical design, if not print design as well.


texts: Is it possible to have a lower/higher quality of Pantone inks and what influences it?

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When you're using Pantone colours in some prints or in my case packaging design  - will you get the same level of quality ink in different printer shops?

How do they get their supply, does it all come from one and mighty Pantone or are there some alternatives on the market that you can buy cheaper?

What else could influence the quality and longevity of the inks (and in what way)?


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I want to divide a circle into 5 equal segments such that each segment will be on it's own layer. In general I want to create a loading animation that would consist of 5 images with number of visible segments increasing in each of them.

So far I've managed to draw a segmented circle following this question:
How do I divide a circle into equal parts like a pie chart with Adobe Illustrator? but I have no idea how to split segments into layers.


texts: I need to generate parallel lines with gap of 18px in Pixelmator for the purpose of baseline. Is there any quick way like transform in Illustrator or pattern in PS? Is it possible to generate guides such way?


texts: Are there some standard sizes when it comes to square page layouts?

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I am designing this luxury product catalogue and I was thinking to make the pages square so it would somehow be a little more unique and stuff...

The way I have it set up now is 8in x 8in(about 20cm x 20cm). So it kind of fits on an A4 page width.

Is that good? Is there such a thing as standard sizes when it comes to square page layouts ? Or is it ok as long as it fits whitin a standard(A5/A4/A3/A2/B5 etc) ?

Im thinking to make it as easy as posible for the printers...


texts: How do you add color to objects that don't close on illustrator. I'm trying to fill in the pathways with color in illustrator. I know that you can use the Live Paint to add color to objects that are closed.


texts: Hard font identification problem: Design of Everyday Things

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I recently disovered the existence of this design stackexchange, reviving my hope to maybe resolve a font identification problem that I had a long while back, but that I was never able to solve (or actually, get the internet to solve, because I myself do not really know a lot about fonts..) (So yes, BTW, I did try, I would think, pretty much all font identification sites online, at least at the time.)

The font in question is the one featured in the image below, which is a little assembly of screenshots taken, as the book is partly online on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/1452654123). I recommend the book, by the way :)

I find the font, and in particular its italics, to be quite beautiful—if a bit strange. I highlighted some of my key delights of its italics in the image:

how unnaturally large the capitals look in comparison to the lowercase letters, because the latter are so horizontally compressed into one another;
specifically how rigidly parallel/straight the capital M is, which seems to contradict typographic principles, but which I actually quite love;
the ff/fi ligatures;
not a delight, but maybe a clue as to its origin: the horrible kerning in "don't".

Does anybody have a clue which font this might be? And why it is so peculiar, or maybe just why I might think it is peculiar?


texts: How can I add a dashed border to any shape?

texts: What methods are there to accomplish this effect?


texts: Are these trim or bleed lines? And How can I add them to a design?

texts: So basically, I've made a set of playing cards for a client and he said the printer wants to add 3mm bleed lines to the cards like  .. However these don't look like bleed lines to me?(the pink line) Aren't bleeds on the outside of the image not inner? I'm guessing they're trim lines.. I've been looking for tutorials everywhere on how to add them with no luck.


texts: How can I write in other languages in Photoshop?

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In other languages, alphabets can combine characters into symbols. I don't know if Photoshop can do that. Is there a clean way to do it, or a special plugin (preferably free)?. Maybe there is some hackish way like opening 3 programs and then writing in one, clearing in 2nd and then pasting in 3rd.

I mean Photoshop is used in other non english countries. What do they do? Or Adobe doesn't care about them?


texts: What is the name of the old manual sizing tool for measuring photos, to be used in offset printing?

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Years ago, before computers took over, I worked with a photo cropping tool; I hope someone can tell me its name.
The gizmo I used was for sizing photos so they could be used in offset printing. They were never sliced physically. I marked them with a grease pen.
It was made of a soft metal, and it was in an open accordion shape, so it expanded and contracted. When opened up, it looked like a bunch of lower-case x's like so:
                 xxxxxxxx
There were numbers on it corresponding to inches that you used to gauge how big you wanted the photo to be so you could size things.
I have hunted for a picture but can't find one. Any help is much appreciated.
Does anyone know the name of the tool I have described?


texts: Looking for font based on E shape used on French ID Card

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I'm looking for a font where the 'E' is similar to this (note the middle stick)

Any suggestion ?

Edit:

It's not OCR_B, as OCR_B is only used in MRZ section.

Source of the font: French ID Card


texts: Are there rules to use either Roman numerals or Arabic?

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I would like to know if there are any rules regarding the use of either the roman or the arabic numerals.

I am currently writing a relatively important document, and I am not sure which one to choose.

Moreover, is it acceptable to use both?

I. Title
  I.1 subtitle
    I.1.1 ...

II. Another title


texts: What type of animation should I use in this case? Flash, frame by frame or other?

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Good day!
I'm making a game where I need a sprite animation. It's a pretty simple animation but I need to decide what kind of specialist I need to hire to make the animation for me.

This is the sample of the object that I want to animate. I need the core of the object to shoot beams and the shell of the object to be like a blobby-blob, changing its shape constantly, morphing new appendages.

The artist that draw me this sample could make a frame by frame animation. But I wander - may be there is a better way to do that? May be there are some applications that does exactly what I need without all the unnecessary job? I would be thankful for advice!


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I don't think I had this issue in CS3. In CS6, say I have a stroke of 1.25pt for a straight line, when I save it for web, the stroke will be the same as 1pt instead. I tested and going up to 1.37pt has the same effect. I feel like other strokes are averaging out to other values too, making it difficult to make lines look slightly thicker. Anyone familiar with this issue or know how to fix it?

Align to pixel grid is OFF both for new documents and for the objects. And the only reason I noticed this issue was because I edited a graphic from 5 years ago that I did in CS3 and noticed the lines looked wrong. New documents have the same issue.

It's as if Illustrator is forcing align to pixel grid when saving for web. I can even see the 1.25pt lines look normal for a split second in save for web preview and then changing to 1pt.

Edit: I've added screenshots to try to show what's going on. The first picture is what I see on the artboard. The second picture is what I see in Save for Web preview, which is how it looks after saving. Export and Save for Office seem to work fine, it's just Save for Web that's messed up.

Edit2: I'm using Windows 10 64-bit.


texts: How can I erase content outside the canvas in Photoshop?

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It isn't a big problem but if there is any way to do it than it would be great.
I want to erase the image but its remaining part is outside the canvas in Photoshop and can't erase it. It is in perfect position and don't want to move it.

Is there any way to erase it?


texts: How to make the background of a gif image transparent

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I guess there would be two ways to do this:
1. Select all layers and then use Magic Eraser to make bg color transparent(I tried this and photoshop doesn't allow you to erase bg from multiple layers at the same time)
2. Make one of the layers the Background Layer and then all other layers background would be the same color as the Background Layer.
The point at the second option is I don't know how to change the background color picker to "Transparent"?
Perhaps there are other ways to Make gif image's background transparent and I didn't mention; I'll be appreciate that if you say how to do this.


texts: how do I get the PLceMultipePagePdf script to centre the pages on the art board when its populating? right now when I use the script I have to go in and manually align each page


texts: Change weight of font while maintaining local formatting in InDesign

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I have a large block of text that is set to "book" with local italics throughout being set to "book italic."

I'd like to increase the weight of the whole works: with the stuff currently set at "book" changed to "medium," and the stuff set to "book italic" set to "medium italic."

I can't think of a way to do this that doesn't involve going through the text by hand and individually selecting all of the italicized bits. Is there a way that I can just highlight the whole works and tell InDesign to change the "base" bits to "medium" and the italicized bits to "medium italic?"


texts: Use Multiple Versions of Same Linked Smart Object Without Increase in File Size?

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If I create an empty .psd and save it, it is 461 KB.

Let's say I have a jpeg that is 20.2 MB. If I add it as a linked smart object, the .psd filesize jumps to 124MB. I don't really understand why the filesize has jumped so much given that the file is only linked, but I assume it has something to with generating a preview etc.

What I really don't understand is why, if I now duplicate the linked smart object, the file size increases greatly each time I do so.

2 instances of same linked smart object 225 MB
3 instances of same linked smart object 320 MB
4 instances of same linked smart object 416 MB

This carries on, with each new instance adding around 95 MB to the .psd. In this case with a relatively small file this increase isn't so important, but with much larger files this really bloats the file-size of the .psd.

Given that they are 1. all linked smart objects and 2. all the same linked smart objects, this doesn't make sense to me.

Is there any way to have multiple versions of the same smart object or linked smart object in a psd without ballooning the file-size of the .psd?


texts: Predefined SVG paths for character forms

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In order to avoid to align more than 100 circles manually I'd like to automatically align them on a path which has the form of a character. Can I find predefined paths somewhere for those characters?  Paths would be different for all sorts of fonts, so I'm looking for a well known one or a generic way to produce the paths from an arbitrary font.

EDIT: I'd like to write my SVG in a text editor.


texts: How can I create a tile perfect fitting seamless pattern tile of an irregular watercolor photo shape that overlaps on the tops part in Photoshop?

texts: I need to create a sort of brick by column perfect fit SEAMLESS PATTERN TILE of this watercolor image of mine for a print.The round part above goes on top in the tiling, vertically speaking and on the sides they fit right next to each other without empty spaces. Horizonatly the column (brick by column) should start a bit on the half of the column above and then again half above...please see reference below. The pattern tile should be a square lets say of 30x30 cms, therefore there should like 10 motifs apron horizontal (this can vary, is just to give an idea)


texts: Dimensions for manual cover & spine. I have them in inches

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I have a front and back manual 11" X 10" and the spine is 11" X 1 5/8ths" inches I'm thinking 600 dpi?  Does anyone know then what I say is the size I need?  I would appreciate it.

Would it different if made in photoshop as opposed to being made in adobe, or power point?  Just trying to educate myself so I'm asking for the correct thing!


texts: What font is this? 1920's, 1930's, Art Deco, Italian, but simple

texts: Looking for a match or similar font to the text on these signs. Particularly the "D" on the middle sign and "R" on the right most sign -- how they're fatter on the bottom of the curve. Any ideas appreciated.


texts: I created a logo and part of the logo used transparency and then put a black background, part of the logo disappears..can someone help me pls

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So, I created a logo and part of the logo used transparency and then put a black background, part of the logo disappears..
The circles outside, i put transparency > multiply, then a put black background disapears.
...so can you help me please?


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I'm trying to print double side pages with my laser printer, I noticed that when I run my paper 2 times in the printer, the paper becomes kinda grey and not as white as it was... I read online that when the toner is fused on paper the temperature in the fuser assembly is about 427 °C, could it be that reason or my drum is damaged?

I also tried to print dots in one single paper 10 times just to see the results and it became darker the more I print on it.


texts: Baskerville (True Type Font) - commercial usage?

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Can i know how to check the license of the Baskerville True Type font that is available on my laptop running Mac OS.
Is the Baskerville.ttc font free to use commercially ?

If not can i still use the font for creating the logo for a website?

I saw a similar query for chancery font on stackexchange, but i just wanted to be sure on this..

Can I commercially use a logo that was made using URW Chancery L?


texts: font similar to Fight-this with polish characters

texts: I'm looking for a font similar to Fight-this with Polish characters (Latin).


texts: Illustrator exporting strange artifacts with Visio objects

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I created a PDF file via Microsoft Visio (a scalable diagramming tool). Later on I decided to make some changes. Visio kinda' sucks, so I decided to swap over and modify it with Adobe Illustrator where it was trivial to blow it up to A3 size and make some necessary changes. The PDF objects are scalable, so there was no loss in resolution, etc. So that was great. I exported in various formats, and all was well. Other revisions were made at different times, but most recently, I can't seem to export the final image without these strange graphical artifacts appearing in the resulting files image.

I'll upload an example when I get the chance, but they're little white and grey squares with a kind of cascading staircase pattern if you look closely.

I don't believe I've done anything differently, but I can't seem to get rid of them. They're not displayed in the image within Illustrator, only in the resulting files. There seems to be one for each Visio object. Any idea what they are, or how to suppress them?


texts: What is the typography of the original coexist symbol?

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The coexist symbol has become more or less widespread. I'd like to know:

Which is the font used by the original designer: Piotr Mlodozeniec?

I'm surprised that an icon has become popularized only after being changed from the original.


texts: Why does this bronze color look so wrong?

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I'm making a site where you can earn badges: bronze, silver and gold. The bronze color doesn't seem right.

Bronze: #B9600D

Silver: #C0C0C0

Gold: #FACC34

Does it look weird to anyone else? Or, just me?


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Does anyone knows a good course for depth and shadows in illustrator?
I'm searching for an online course for making the character more realistic
The left one is how i bought the photo and the right one is how I made it look like, I'm searching for a course to improve my skills and to do more complicated stuff, I'd appreciate it if anyone could send me the link of the course.
Thanks all for your time.


texts: What tool can I use to create professional and nice charts and tables without any design skill?

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As I said in the title, I need to find a tool which allows people who don't use any "design software" to create some simple data graphics like bar charts and pie charts that are easy to modify. It can be online or not, free or not, for web or print to be included in PDF documents.

I started to take a look to Google Charts, what do you think about it ?

Thank you very much. It's my first question on this website, I hope i did it well.


texts: Is there any way to auto-align gradient stops along the length of a gradient in the same manner that objects can be distributed with relation to the page?


texts: Sketch 3 exported png size different from layer

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I'm having an issue exporting some icons from sketch to .png files.

The layers is are 144 x 144 but when I try exporting them I get a 152 x 152 size .png file.

I have enabled the trim transparent pixels option but nothing is changed.

Thank you for your help


texts: How to remove edges from eliptical tool selection?

texts: You cannot see it when it's on a white background, but Can someone tell me how I can erase the boarder from this image in Gimp? I want it to be a perfect circle. I'm going to be using this with a colored background.


texts: Y axis' negative direction seems confused in Illustrator. How can I fix it?

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Hi !

When I pull a line from ruler up on the Y axis, Illustrator shows negative value for the line which should be reverse in fact. What I know is, top and right side must be positive for Y axis. I don't understand why it keeps doing this. Heelp!


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I'm trying to create an image with text that has one font on the left side, and another on right, but instead of just changing the font in the middle of the text, I want it to morph smoothly. My question is, if it is possible to do so, without manual changing every letter to look properly, using tools such as Inkscape, Adobe AE or other similar tools?

(For example: text "Hello World" has the letter "h" in "hello" written using Arial Black, while "d" in "World" is written with Trajan Pro, while every letter in between has properties of both fonts, such that on the right it looks like deformed Arial etc., to the left where text is written using deformed Trajan)


texts: How do I let the user know a menu will appear on touch slide?

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If I have an hamburguer icon on mobile devices, how do I let the user know a menu will appear on touch slide instead of clicking the icon?
Is there any visual trick both for the touch slide left and for the touch slide right?
I leave very basic images for the example:


texts: Steps between Wireframe / UI design for web development

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Based on my sketch/wireframe prepared for a UI designer (links below):

Link: http://postimg.org/image/npt5zlvu7/

1) Would I be able to approach a UI designer with the wireframe/sketch above?

2) What are the concerns that I should have between wireframe -> UI design -> front-end development?

Thanks


texts: Creating a custom grid for a logo in Illustrator

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I always wondered how to create a those custom grids like you can see on David Pache's works (http://dribbble.com/helveticbrands) and Igor Duibanov.

I found out how to create a tangent to a circle  from a certain point but I can't find how to draw a tangent that will cross through 2 circles like here:

I'm really in love with this topic but I can't understand how to work like this, I tried but I failed and didn't come even close.


texts: photoshop render fibers and export as transparent background png

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so I rendered fibres. really light ones. take a look

I want the fibres to stay and everything around them to be transparent
tried a bunch of things like changing levels, exposure, contrast etc
but even then i cant seem to export it as a transparent png where fibres stay while the area around them becomes transparent

do I need to use something other than photoshop for this?
or am I missing something here.

thanks a bunch
love y'all


texts: How to create a symbol for LaTeX using Inkscape by working on font character

texts: My purpose is to create the two characters for the imaginary unit i and for the Napier number e as seen below. Now, the aim is to do this in the Latin Modern Roman Italic font. So in Inkscape, I type the e in the correct font, but then I cannot figure out how could I place that white stripes that run all along the border of the letter. Any suggestion? Also, once the symbol is created, how do I make it become a symbol form LaTeX?


texts: What are Google Webfonts or Typekit alternatives to Avenir Next Pro?

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I'm looking for fonts, available from Google Webfonts (ideally) or Typekit, that would look similar to Avenir Next Pro, specifically, Bold and Demi:

Any similar-looking fonts, with good cross-browser rendering?


texts: Someone know where we can find or style name of this typefaces with slanted e?


texts: Illustrator: Text shown not to have a fill has a fill

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I have two text objects in my Illustrator file that look the same, but their Appearance properties are showing up differently and I don't know why.

Here they are, with their Appearance properties:

Text 1 is shown to have a black fill, and this makes sense because if I remove it I am left with just the thick white outline. Nothing mysterious here.

Text 2 is shown to have no fill, yet you can clearly see from the screenshot that it is black just the same. It shows "Graphic Style 7", which leads me to believe this lack of a fill may have been inherited from a Graphic Style, but there are currently no Appearance properties showing that indicate what was inherited. And regardless of where the Appearance properties came from, there is still no explanation for why a black fill is showing where no fill is supposed to be.

Have I overlooked something? I would love an explanation for this discrepancy. Thanks.


texts: How do i properly make .tif in CMYK for printing?

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I created a banner that my boss wants to print out. The printing company needs the image in CMYK and as for format, I wanted to use .tif . I have never used that one before or prepared banner for print. Anyway, I sent the prepared-for-print image to my boss and when he opened it, the colors were reversed. He used a program called IrfanView.
I checked everything on my side, as well as downloaded the banner to another computer and everything seems to be fine. I am terribly scared that the print will turn out reverse as well. It is my first official graphic job.
So I want to know if there is any mistake on my side and how to export .tif in CMYK in Photoshop properly, so the colors are okay. If I should save layers, too or without them is okay, or there is something called ICC profile I used without even knowing what that thing is... I am confused. And panicking, please help.


texts: How to properly fill color inside a shape in inkscape

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I have created a complex shape using Bézier curves, and now I want to fill the color specifically inside the shape. Basically, shape has two segments.

At first, I selected the shape and then filled it with a color, but the color came out of the shape. How can I remove the outer part of color fill on the right side of the shape.


texts: What is the name of this surreal/minimalist style?

texts: I want to study some tutorials on in this style and would like to know exactly what it's called.


texts: How do I individually separate the shapes on this sandal design?

texts: I have made the outline for a shoe and i wish to separate the top tongue rectangle from the sole of the shoe. I am not sure how to individually separate each intersection of the shape.


texts: automatically adding a sequence of characters

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Is there any way of adding specific sequences of characters at the start and/or end of every instance of a determined paragraph style?

I could do this using Grep find & replace, but then the text would be 'fixed'.

What I'm searching for is a way to emulate adding content using ::before and ::after pseudo-elements in CSS...


texts: Do digital fonts have true optical sizes?

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In metal type, the matrices were designed in different weights, sizes and styles.
Each single matrice was designed and cut individually to look right at the intended size (e.g. by thinning or thickening lines).
It was not simply a scaled version of a “mother font”:
a 24 pt letter scaled down to half its size would not look like the 12 pt letter of that type (and it would probably look a little malformed).
Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura write about this.

Leap in time to the digital era:
I understand that there are formats which store information about a letter as a “shape of pixels” (bitmap, which makes letters blurry in too large sizes), and there are formats which store that information as a vector function (OpenType, which makes the font scalable).

When writing on a computer, it is possible to choose between a plethora of sizes (even fractions like 10.5 pt).
I assume that these are scaled sizes, which means that if you took a print of a 24 pt letter and scaled it down to 12 pt, it would look exactly like the letter that was originally printed in 12 pt.

If they work that way, neither of these two formats take into account what I described in the first paragraph.

Does modern digital typography address this, and if so, how?


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I'm more of a software guy than a designer, but I've done some design in the past and got talked into doing a print job for a charity.

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a utility to make a printable map from a Google Map? I suspect someone has built an interface somewhere that lets you create a map with markers and icons, and can be easily output to a printable format (PDF or whatever)?

Thanks for any ideas


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I think I've accidentally ticked some option for the Rectangular Marquee tool. If I drag a selection over a part of an object and then hold in Alt to duplicate that selection, the selection snaps to the coloured pixels and removes the pixels that are white (not part of the object).
It's snapping to the pixels in the selection and not including my original selection.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Shaun


texts: Create two tone image from existing, same size, just marking regions, using GIMP

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I'm sure this is easy; I just don't know the words to find it on the google.

I have an image. I want to create a new image of the same size. Some of the new image will be white. Some will be black. No other colours. I want to use the polygon selection tool on the original image to mark out the area that should be white. Everything outside that region should be black.

I can get as far as marking out the polygon with the selection tool. Then, I thrash around with tools and search engines, trying to find a way to do what I want.

Can someone put me out of my misery?

Edit: By request, a sample of the final output. There used to be a whole lot of other things here. I drew a polygon over a bit of it, filled the polygon in with one colour (black), and filled in the rest with a different colour (white).

Solid colour. Inside the polygon one colour. Outside the polygon a different colour. I create the polygon by drawing it onto an existing image; the existing image dictates the shape of the polygon, and also dictates the size of the new image (i.e. exactly the same). Not greyscale. Inside the polygon one colour. Outside the polygon a different colour. Every pixel in the image will be one of only two colours.


texts: How to split objects to new layer in a image automatically in Photoshop?

texts: I want to create a layer for each animal in the below image. my approach is by lasso tool selecting each animal then cut and paste it. This cause new layer is created. I want to know that is there any option in Photoshop to do it automatically?


texts: Help identifying a style consisting of only basic shapes, like Flat design but more rudimentary

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Recently, I have been seeing more and more examples of some kind of design style consisting only of rudimentary basic shapes, leaving out as much detail as possible. It's been used for many things, but mostly to illustrate UI.

The following examples could be classified as flat design, but I'm feeling it's not just that. Maybe it's a sub-style or kindred style? Can anyone help me put a name to this style? Maybe Flat Design Blocked? Or Flat without details?

Some examples:

Treehouse shows this a lot

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Also Adobe has been using this style as of late in some of their help docs

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texts: Adding frames/borders to images in Adobe

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So I use Lightroom very frequently to edit and export images. I do nightclub photography often and have been asked to put a frame around my photos. Obviously a creative frame, not just a white or black one. So id like to design a frame basically and then be able to batch all photos with the same frame. Now my question is : what program would be the best to do this with? I need 100+ images done with the same frame.

Thanks


texts: What points should we take into consideration when choosing a web font?

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I want to deepen my knowledge in typography, more specifically, web typography.

I'm looking for good information for this purpose, but I'm not finding anything good.

I see many people talking badly about some fonts, then I go to another site and these same fonts are recommended. It seems that people talk about fonts like a personal choice, and not for "technical" reasons.

So, I'm a bit confused. The choice of typography seems very important to me, and not just in the sense of being pretty or not.

Does anyone out there know a good website where I can start to study the families of fonts that are recommended for web, and what points we should have in consideration to choose a web font?


texts: Perceptual colour space as working space

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We know from after images that violet-yellow, blue-orange and green-magenta are perceptual complementaries.

When I am designing I would like a hue wheel that reflects these perceptual complementaries. So yellow would be at 90° (instead of 60°) opposite violet at 270°. And when a field of orange at 50% opacity is layered over blue the product would be grey.

Is this possible? I have tried changing colour modes in photoshop but the Hue slider/wheel always seems to be the same. Do I need to change the working space? If so what do I need to change it to?

Just to be clear this isn't a question about the differences between rgb and cmyk. I would like to have a hue wheel that represents the perceptual complementaries and for blend modes to work based on perceptual complenetaries.


texts: Change Background Color of Text Box in Illustrator CS5

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Any way to change the background color of a text box without all the workarounds such as placing another shape behind the text.

I need to have a textbox filled with color of 249, 249, 249 and a stroke of 204, 204, 204 which will be 1px. I also need to have the text keep a distance of 5px from all four sides from the stroke internally.

Currently I am doing this by having a rectangle of size say 300px X 500px, giving it a fill of 249, 249, 249 and stroke of 1px of color 204, 204, 204. Than I add a Text Box by using the Type Tool and draging to to "draw" a box of 290px X 490px and placing it in the middle of the above rectangle so that I get 5px distance from all four sides.

It does what I want but it's not elegant. Any better way to do this?


texts: Are there any tutorials on how to add details to textures?

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I'm trying to add detail to this texture like making the lips more realistic but I'm not sure how I can achieve it.

Can I merge another image onto lips or would that mess with the texture.

Edit: I am using Photoshop CC 2018


texts: Where to get a 3D human face model as .obj file

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Related to this SO question, I got an idea to go for an unique 3D human face model which fits all the the human faces.

1) Where can I get a ready made human head model? I have seen some tools like Blender where I could create it, but it seems to require a big effort. Sites like turbosquid don't seem to have these unique face models.

2) Is there anywhere I can use candide in ios to render a 3D face?


texts: Which secondary whitespace character should I use for my seven-segment font?

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Background Information

I'm working on creating a semi-monospaced font that will mimic a seven-segment display. There are many existing fonts for this purpose, but none of them quite fit my needs.

The intended use of this font is for a few different web applications to mimic the appearance of a clock. The sample below is an example of how I'd like to use it.

In order to simulate the blinking colon, I would like to continually toggle the text between the following states:

08:54
08 54

The problem

Since seven-segment fonts are typically monospaced fonts, the space character is the same width of one of the digits. As you can see in the graphic above, the colon is much thinner than the digits, so I cannot just use a standard space (U+0020).

Here is a live JSFiddle example. As a placeholder for testing, I've just used the thin space, but I'm not sure that's the best choice semantically since there are many whitespace characters available to select from. Which one should I use for this purpose?


texts: Multiple Panorama Automation in Photoshop

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My workflow contains creating multiple panoramas in Photoshop one by one. I have multiple folders, each with jpegs that have to be combined into a panorama and saved with a PSD extention.

Photoshop does a good job at producing the panorama, but I waste a lot of time in intervening at the repetitive steps of selecting folders and its contents, opening them in the panorama box and selecting the required panorama options (which includes checking reposition and unchecking blend images together) before photoshop does its photo-merging magic. Also, I waste time in the save dialogue box to save each image after the panorama is generated.

I wanted to know if there's a script that can automate this entire task. So that I provide the parent folder (which has the folders of photos that needed to be stitched) and leave the computer for hours as it processes the photomerge and saving the resultant PSD files without me having to sit next to it. I have a feeling that this is possible because all steps are repetitive.

Old forums have solutions to many similar issues, with wizards creating scripts for the same, but none of the links work now.


texts: Transparency is lost in illustrator CS6 when I use image trace. Help!

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so I'm pretty new to illustrator so sorry if this is obvious - but, I'm having troubles with the transparency of a flower image.

I placed the image of the flower which has no background from a saved photoshop file (psd) and then image traced in illustrator. But I can't now seem to overlay it on itself without the back ground, and also every time I transform, it re-renders the image.


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I'm new at packaging design.

How does the process begins?
What things are required for this?
What are some things that I should ask from client?

I'm not asking for any engineering process, just asking for graphic designing perspective.


texts: How do I automate placing footnote references in specific places?

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I'm working on a book and I have to format a lot of .pdf text in InDesign as part of the book. A lot of formatting problems can be fixed using GREP. However, I don't think it's possible to use GREP to input footnote references in specific places.

I work as follows: I open a .pdf file in Google docs, then I copy paste the text from Google docs to InDesign. The problem arises with a text such as the following:

  In het algemeen geldt dat degene die beslist over de doeleinden en de inzet van een camera als verantwoordelijke wordt aangemerkt.4 Er kunnen meerdere verantwoordelijken zijn.5 In sommige gevallen is wettelijk bepaald wie als verantwoordelijke wordt aangemerkt.6

The original footnote references are reverted to plain text (numbers) and it is very time-consuming to delete the number, insert a footnote reference and then paste the footnote information at the bottom of the page.

If it were possible, I could just open GREP, then in the 'Find what' box I could put "\.\d" (assuming the footnote number doesn't exceed 9) and change it to a footnote reference. Is there an easy way to do this with InDesign scripting? I don't mind copy-pasting the footnote information, I think that would be very hard to automate given the random position of footnote information in the text. I would just like a way to automate inserting the footnote reference in the body text. I have no programming experience unfortunately so any help would be very much appreciated.


texts: Is it possible to add more y-axis labels when making a graph in Illustrator?

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I'm trying to use Illustrator to recreate a line graph I was given. The problem I'm having is that when I use the graph tool in Illustrator, I can't seem to find any option for increasing the number of divisions on the Y-axis.

This is the original:

And this is what I have so far in Illustrator (I haven't ungrouped it to start the actual design yet):

What I want to do is increase the number of labels on the Y-axis so that they're more similar to the original. I know I can ungroup and manually add the labels, but I'd much rather it be done procedurally to minimize human error.


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Is there a font where the capital E has no vertical bar?  I got the idea from the font used in the movie Elysium, but I think it only appears in the credits.

Any help is appreciated.

Best,
Loque


texts: How to create text clipping mask with Adobe XD?

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How can I create text clipping masks with Adobe XD? I know you can do this with images, but how about with text?

I know this is possible to do with other Adobe software, but I'd prefer not to install anything else right now.

Example:

Thanks!


texts: What does "art will be arched 12%" and how do I do it in Photoshop (or other)?

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I have some drinking mugs that can hold artwork in the liner. I have just the mugs, not any pre-printed art. The artwork template (here is the PDF) states

  After submission of artwork, art will be arched 12 % for curvature.

I understand that is to compensate for the tapered shape of the mug - I assume this will change the art into a trapezoidal shape.  What does the 12% mean? Is it the ratio of the width at the top and the bottom (i.e. the bottom is 88% the length of the top) or something else?

Using Photoshop or something similar (I have access to Photoshop and Corel Painter Essentials), how can this be accomplished?


texts: Which algorithm has been used in photoshop for RGB to CMYK convertion for an image?

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I have been facing a problem during conversion in RGB image to CMYK image. I know that the color gamut of these color space are not same. I would like to request you ,could you able to provide the basis algorithm of RGB to CMYK color space, so that I would able understand the conversion process, which will really helpful for my work.
Thanking you.
With Regards
I.Das


texts: What kind of illustration and how I can achieve this "effect"?

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I've seen this kind of illustrations around the web, mostly on dribble, and I love them but the problem here is that I don't know how to achieve this effect, I tried with photoshop and illustrator but I can't figure it out.

The only clue is its possible name, line art.

Thanks.


texts: Will the Radeon HD 7670M + 7670M Dual Graphics Work Well With Photoshop CS5?

texts: I have just recently purchased the HP Pavilion M6 15.6" Laptop - Silver (AMD A10-4600M / 1TB HDD / 8GB RAM / Windows 8). This laptop has a AMD Radeon HD 7670M + 7670M Dual Graphics.I am having some troubles with my photoshop CS5. The grey screen when opening a new file keeps flickering between a checkerboard backround and the grey backround. Does this have anything to do with the graphics card if so what graphics card should I upgrade to. Or is it just simply windows 8?


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What is the name of the font or the similar font of the text on the attached photo.
I found it on a paper and I liked it and want to have it in my computer.


texts: How do I achieve this smoky shadow effect in Photoshop?

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How do I get the following shadow effect pls? In my image, I tried to add shadows and increased the size of the shadows. No avail. :(

I want to get the shadow/smoky effect that is present in the borders of the red and green portions. I think I can somehow get the drop shadow effect of the Christmas trees. Even the green portion has a smoky shadow effect. Would love to reproduce the effect.


texts: Batch resize in photoshop to specific size

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I'm running a CS5 photoshop droplet to try and resize images dropped in to resize to the following:

300px wide @ 72dpi. The height can be arbitrary depending on image dimensions.

The images I'm inputting could be various sizes/DPI and so not everything is equal.

The problem I'm having is that the due to the size being in relation to DPI I can't change DPI and Width at the same time. The batch I used basically made them at 300px wide but spat it out at 300DPI (I fed in a 300DPI picture).

I tried running two sets of resize actions but that didn't work and neither did the save for web option (i resized to 300px and hoped for an outputted file would default to 72DPI but it didn't.

Any ideas?
Cheers,
C


texts: How can I use “Save For Web” in a Batch Action and save new files in their original files folder using Photoshop CS?

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Let me explain the title a little further. What I have is a series of PDF files in a series of folders --

Parent Folder
  -Child Folder
     --PDF file
     --PDF file
  -Child Folder
     --PDF file
     --PDF file

What I want to do is open each of those PDFs in Photoshop, and then Save For Web as a jpeg with a series of options (i.e. Blur: 0.192, Quality: 35, etc).
I've already created an action that opens a file as PDF generic with a specific resolution and height, and then an export action of Using: Save For Web, Operation: Save, etc.

Unfortunately, to complete the creation of the Action, I needed to save the file, and the "Export" action now has a path ("In: T:..."). What I want to do is run that Action I created; when doing so it processes all the PDFs and creates JPEGs just fine, but all the files are saving to the same folder that I saved the file to when I created the action. This is a problem as there are non-unique filenames here and there, and what I need is for each of these files to save to the subfolders in which their PDF counterpart lives.

Was I wrong in choosing to do the "Export" in the action? Any help or guidance is extremely appreciated.

NOTE: I am using Photoshop CS 1, I do not have the option to use any of the more recent versions.


texts: How to modify the corner radius on rounded rectangle in Illustrator?

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I always ended up just creating a new rounded rectangle if the existing one don't work. Is there a way to modify the corner radius without having to create a new shape?

I know I can modify the bezier handle manually one-by-one, but I can't figure out how to do this in a more accurate way for all 4 corners.


texts: How can I color grade like Liam Wong's Tokyo Night series?

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I found this image that has a similar color grading to Liam Wong's Tokyo Nights series though it isn't actually his, and I'm curious as to how the effect may have been achieved.

It's obvious the image has gone through a heck of a lot of post processing as I'm sure the original photo was not lit originally using pink and blue light.

I'm thinking they could of achieved this effect a few different ways possibly by playing around with the color mixer, color balances, gradient maps, painting in colour and fiddling around with blend modes?
What do you think? How is it done?


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Good day guys,
i have to something like this,
any idea how is this picture made ?
so it looks like negative i did invert it in photoshop but the bright side of his face was blue, so there been negative effect and smting been used to change his face to blue before nagative or smting that changed his face to normal skin color after negative ? what can it be ? what do you guys think ? THANKS ! for help.


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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I get started with Adobe Illustrator

What are some good websites/tutorials/videos that will get me started with basic workflow concepts? I am not looking for "how to draw X", but general concept tutorials, although specific examples are not a problem as long as they teach general concepts.


texts: How to export a file in Adobe Illustrator and still have it be a vector?

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I am new to Adobe Illustrator. I created a simple image with a shape and some text and wanted to create a vector image. So I basically created the shape and the text. Then right-clicked and selected "Create Outlines" from the drop-down menu, which did create outlines.

Then I went ahead to export the image as a .png file. It was saved. But the problem is that when i open it with Windows Photo Viewer and increase its size, it becomes pixelated. So what should I do to make it a vector?


texts: Drawing in Perspective: Fit sphere into cube

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Assuming I have a cube drawn in two-point perspective (or even three-point).

I'd like to draw a sphere inside the cube such that it touches all sides.

A sphere becomes a circle on paper.

How do I find the center?
How do I find the radius?

I thought at least finding the center would be trivial (drawing the diagonals) but I'm no longer so sure this gives the right result.

Just to clarify, this is a pen & paper question. Rulers are ok, computers are not.


texts: I'd like to incorporate a texture similar to this album cover for a project I'm working on. Any suggestions of good starting points/tutorials to check out? I'm used to using photoshop, illustrator, sketch and photography so anything incorporating those tools is best.


texts: How to "unwind" text or shapes that aren't paths?

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Alright, I have a logo that is just a word typed out in a font:

And I want to do something where the type "draws itself" or unwinds in, like this (wait for the end):

I know how to use trim paths with curves imported from illustrator, and I can make text in Aftereffects into outlines. But I dont know how to accomplish the "unwinding/drawn in" effect with just type.

The above example has type that is the same width all the way around so it can be a path, but this is not. How can I accomplish this?


texts: What program to use to make very large pixel design (10800pixels) for print?

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I am, by no means, a graphic designer but I'm pretty good with software programs as a whole and have managed to bungle my way through some projects. Today I've been asked to adjust some artwork to be printed on a silk scarf. The manufacturer requires the art to be 10800px x 2400px ! The software I'm using on my Chromebook says the upper limit is 4500px.

Am I missing something only a novice like me might not understand?


texts: Is it possible to create a modern-looking design with a dark theme?

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I was asked a website redesign with two requirements:

Inspired by Google Plus (clean, minimal, a lot of "white" space)
Switchable between a White version and a Black version

Here's my problem:  The white version looks great and modern, but, no matter what I do, the black version resembles a 10-15 years old cheap website.

Is there a way I can make my dark theme still evoke a modern feel?


texts: How to distort text in InDesign CC 2018?

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I created a file that's 205mm W x 290mm H, and one of the adverts on the page (179 mm W x 124 mm H) has a logo similar to this in terms of being bent:

except in Antique Olive Nord font and slightly wider than that logo, plus no yellow E underneath.

How can I do that sort of effect? Currently I do not have Illustrator.

I do however, have Photoshop, an older CS6 version, would it be better to create the logo in Photoshop and is there a way to do it in that program as an alternative?

I am using Adobe InDesign CC 2018 on Mac OS Sierra.

I would gladly appreciate any advice on doing this; tried doing some Google-ing on text effects, but aren't certain with this.


texts: Why can't I change MyPaint Brush Tool's mode?

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Please see the red underline. Am I correct that Mode is faded out?
Why? I must change it.


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I am working on a software project where I need to display only the shades of the primary colors. Using RGB, how would the shades of any color be defined? For example, with higher values of green (255), red and blue has to have values with difference of more than 100(r,b can't be bigger than 155)? (If that made sense).

What is the boundary where the lightest green changes to something else?


texts: How export all icons from a Sketch file for iOS

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I have a sketch prototyp file and want to export all icons with different size for iOS/Xcode. How should I do?
I only know how to export an icon/image with different size, but no idea what about for all icons or images. Maybe Sketch does not support this function?


texts: Recently I've wanted to get into making a pop-up book for kids and upon my research I've seen it mentioned the pre-production process starting with a paper engineer. Since this question wasn't on the site and I think it falls under the production process I thought it might be an interesting question. What is a paper engineer?


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I have a slight of a problem here.

This is the logo I would like to convert from 2d to 3d

After that I followed all the instructions as per described in the following link :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-3D-print-from-a-2D-drawing/#step2

However as I opened my file in OpenSCAD, the "P" and "e" were not hollowed out :

Please help a student out here. It is my very first time posting here and also using Inkscape and OpenSCAD.

Thank you very much for all the help.

Good day


texts: I'm having an issue whereby text that is in italics (font verb light italic) becomes pixelated. I thought this was an issue with the way illustrator displayed it but seems to follow on into the exports as well. How can I solve this?


texts: How can I create a random pixelated pattern?

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I was wondering how I'd go about just taking a couple of specific colors, then having something make a random pixelated picture with those colors.

I was wanting to take the colors from my current avatar and use those colors to make a banner. I tried taking my avatar, making it a PS Pattern, but when I applied the pattern, it looked too repetitive. I want the colors to be randomly placed.


texts: Defining a resolution in Indesign XML Import for an image

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I import an xml file into InDesign. It contains images.

<Image href="file:///path/to/file.jpg"></Image>

This will load the image into the document, but it will be import with 72px/inch (DPI).

Is it possible to define the resolution in the tag OR width+height like in HTML?


texts: Why does breaking apart an object give an additional shape?

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I have this very simple SVG icon below:

Now what i do from here is i click on path -> object to path , Now i click on Break apart and what i get is the following:

Why am i getting this entire black layer in inkscape ? I am not quite understanding this ? can somebody please explain what is happening here ?

Thank you.


texts: How to paste text in Inkscape without creating a new text block?

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In a text block in Inkscape I select some text, copy it, move up the box, and paste it. But it pastes a text box into or over my existing box - it doesn't actually paste the text into the box I'm in.
How do I do that please?


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I have two layers. Layer one has the background image (some landscape) and layer two is colored. Layer two is above and I insert a text on top of layer two and merge it with layer two and then set text to transparent so I see the background layer.

The problem is the character edges are not sharp. Is there a way to get sharp edges for the text?


texts: GIF animation skipping immediately to last frame

texts: I was making a GIF animation with GIMP.  When I tried to play it back, though, it skipped directly from my first frame to the final frame and missed all the others.  Is this a glitch in GIMP, or am I doing something wrong?


texts: "Some text layers contain fonts that are missing" when opening PSD files in Photoshop

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I am browsing sample brochure templates at this website. The templates are available in PSD format.

To open PSD files, I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop CS6. But whenever I double-click a PSD file, I get the following message:

Some text layers contain fonts that are missing. These layers will need to have the missing fonts replaced before they can be used for vector based output.

I am new to Photoshop; does this message mean that the available PSD file has some issue or am I not opening the files the right way ? I need to edit these templates as-is using the fonts shown.


texts: How can I view the entire layer in Photoshop, even if part of the layer has been dragged outside the edge of the canvas?

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I have a large selection in a separate layer, which, when dragged to where I want it to sit, partly moves outside the canvas. I would like to be able to see the part outside the canvas instead of it being cropped in the view. I'm sure I've seen it done somehow, but I couldn't find it.

I'm using CS4 on Win7, if that matters

Thanks


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Hi all I was just wondering if I could make a selection on multiple layers and cut or copy the selection.
I have a earth globe that I have copied 5 times and have change the designs for each. I need to break up the globe in the same areas could I break up all 5 layers at once without repeating the process 5 times ? I don't need to blend or adjust just cut or copy selected layer
Thanks!


texts: Why Adobe illustrator expand appearances creates double path?

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I need convert 3D rotate effect to shape in Ai.

after effect, i try to convert it by Object > Expand appearances

but final shape has double path!
I just need one shape, How can i Achive it ?


texts: Are physical units for web design a good idea?

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Coming from a design time pre-digital and musing over the 'pixel' would a physical measurement such as a cm work in web design at some point? Do all devices have a designated ppi (pixel per inch) value?

I know you have ems, rems, %, etc but is a cm such a bad idea? Devices do exist in the physical world after all.


texts: Do my potential customers need to understand the "meaning" of a logo, or just recognize it?

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I'm trying to come up with a logo for a web devlopment freelance company called Two-Bit Studios. The logo concept that I came up with involves a 1 and 0 combined to make a lowercase 'b'.

To me as a developer, this makes sense in many ways.

"bits" are just binary digits with the only options of 1 or 0.
The binary representation for two is '10'
The 1 and 0 makes a lowercase 'b' which is the symbol for 'bit' (as well as the first letter, for extra clarity).

However, most of the people I'd be doing development work probably wouldn't know any of that, they'll probably just see a stylized 'b' which is a pretty insignificant part of "two-bit". Would this lead to a lot of misunderstanding or is the recognition of the logo more important.

(Note: I'm not a designer I'll be sending off my concept to someone more talented to greatly refine it, I'm just supplying the idea, this question is just about the concept of the logo).


texts: Best way to edit photos for image heavy eBooks, with only iPages or preview tools, without the size jumping up and making the PDF massive?

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I am an interior designer creating PDF e-books using lots of images. I have hundreds of before & after photos but most of them need editing — mostly cropping, brightening, sharpening etc. I can make the images work, but my iPages document ends up huge (I then reduce file size when I save as a PDF but it is still big). The last one crashed my computer :0.
What the best way to edit my photos with only iPages or preview tools, without the image size jumping up and making the PDF massive?
Any advice would be welcome! But please talk to me like I'm a 10yr old, ha-ha.
Thanks in advance.
Gill


texts: Photoshop: Smoke with semi-transparent background?

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I'm attempting to make a transparent logo that uses a smoke effect. I used the tutorial found here to do so: Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent

However, I am having issues as the image continues to have a faint white background, although it's not entirely opaque. I can't figure out how to get rid of this, and I found that if I did the same steps but with the smoke in black, it turned out to have a dark hue to it.

Any suggestions on how I can get rid of this? Even if there is a better means right from the beginning. Below is the image I started with:

Any ideas would be much appreciated!


texts: Method for Wrapping Around a Design into a Book Cover form?

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Is there any method for wrapping a design into a book cover form (3D-like)?
I mean wrapping a single rectangular design to cover & spine & back.

I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS5.


texts: What is the name of the font in this "Calypso Cocktail" logo?

texts: I want to recreate this logo and I need the name of the font.


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I am in the process of trying to understand how high pixel density displays handle images.  Here is what I think I have figured out so far

a. A 2x image is effectively a 1x image but with 4 (2 x 2) times the number of pixels
b. A hiPiD display works by effectively reducing the "physical" size of a pixel - so the same size of physical screen shows up sharper because it is showing more pixels
c. When a 1x image is displayed on a hiPiD display the available pixels are effectively stretched out making the image appear "blocky"
d. To cater for both 1x and 2x screens you start by creating an image intended for 2x screens at 72dpi or more. Then create the 1x version by simply scaling the image down 50%

That last statement is related to how I would do things with Paint.NET.

I suspect that at least some of the statements above are partially or  wholly incorrect.  I'd be much obliged to anyone who might be able to clarify matters.


texts: Script to create heat map in InDesign 5.0 PC?

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I have a table with digits. I want to change the percentage of the fill of each cell to this digit.
Example:


texts: Converting anti-aliased to alised image in gimp

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I took a screen-shot of an image and want to edit it, but I am having a problem with edges, that it is ant-aliased. How can I remove anti-aliasing from that image??
I am using GIMP editor.
Thanks in advance.


texts: What size canvas should logos be designed on?

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When designing a logo is there a minimum size canvas that should be used to keep quality when it is enlarged or when reduced?

Obviously the dimensions of a canvas depend on the shape of the logo, but is there a sugested size?


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I've already finished my path but in the end I saw one flaw that need to be edited. How to display the tiny white button / points that allows me to edit the path?

*Refer red circled flaw below, there are a few points somewhere there, how to call it out? Thanks.


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I have several images anchored in my text flow, and I'd like to annotate these images with some arrows. The problem is that the drawing tools (line, pencil, etc) not anchor to the image. So when the text changes, the image moves up or down and the arrows remain in place.
How can I anchor these arrows to the image, so they move as well?


texts: how to make text not pixelate when zooming in sketch

texts: I'm an illustrator guy who has just moved to sketch.. I noticed that when i type on sketch and zoom in, the text gets pixelated (which is weird considering that it's supposed to be a vector graphic). How do I prevent that and make it behave like illustrator?


texts: Transparent web icons on dark backgrounds have white outline and look low quality

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I usually make my images transparent using an internet online tool like LunaPic (Images like member ranks, buttons etc.)

The thing is that on light backgrounds they are looking fine but on dark ones (like black) they're not looking sharp.

Example on light gray background:

Example on dark background:

I don't have Photoshop.

Is there something I can do to fix it?


texts: If I double the size of the image and at the same time halve the DPI setting, does the quality stay the same?

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I know this is very likely been asked before, but I don't know if it's the words or phrases I'm using or what but I can't find it. If it was resolved before, please just point me in the right direction.

I have to print a 20cm x 20cm image at 150dpi but the one I took with my camera is 10x10 at 300 dpi. (I'm using rounded numbers to make the example simpler)

Can I increase the size while sacrificing dpi and retain the same amount the quality?
Is there a formular to calculate how much I can increase size per N dpi sacrificed?
Can I do this in Photoshop?

Thanks


texts: Illustrator : how do I see the sequence of transformations that are applied to an object?

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In Illustrator, I have this object (text in my case) on which some shearing, rotation, probably scaling has been applied. I'd like to look at these transformations and modify or reset one or more of them?
I suppose I would find this in the Appearance window but it's not there...


texts: How to find out more about the colour theory design of warning signs and labels?

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For a project, I have found that I wish to learn about the color theory of warning signs and labels, specifically those that use colors across a spectrum that indicate an increasing intensity or different expected approach of some kind such as the DEFCON alert states and the "safety square".

However, I have found myself in the bit of the familiar issue of wanting to know more on a topic but not knowing the proper search terms to use to find out more on that topic. Not really knowing what else to do, I've come here.

So for that matter, I am asking: what kind of resources can I use to find out more about the color theory of warning signs, labels, alert states, etc.?


texts: Which Avenir Next typefaces are most versatile?

texts: Having a limited budget, which 2-3 out of the 24 Avenir Next typefaces are most useful for web design?


texts: Every time I try to create a new layer in Illustrator the new layer appears below the old layer instead of the other way round. I want to know why and how I can fix this.


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I'm having an issue figuring out how I can make the lines of this image more defined and clear.

I need them to all have the same thickness and color, all vectorized.

I am using illustrator, I can use Photoshop if needed.


texts: Is it possible to render readable screen type at a size of 3px?

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I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size of the text is 8 pixels which is very big . I want to have a label with text size 3. and I do not want the label to be blurred. It should be at least readable .
Can anyone help me regarding this ?


texts: How can I prevent anti-aliasing in Photoshop shapes and smart objects?

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I am simply drawing a shape using the shape layer tool, however no matter how many shapes I draw, when zoomed in there is always anti-aliasing

I know I can select fill pixels and then switch off anti-aliasing however I need to work with the shape layer tool for scaling. Any help would be great.


texts: Figuring out the Ligatures/Kernings of a Font

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There are ways to measure text in the browser, taking into account the font size. However, you could get a performance improvement if you only measure the different characters, and then you combine the characters into words. For example, measure the letters f and o, and then use the measurements to compute the measurement of foo. The problem is, foo is not equal to f + o + o (in the browser), as seen here:

var c = document.createElement('canvas')
var s = c.getContext('2d')
c.font = '400 normal 12px Arial'
var a = s.measureText('f').width
var b = s.measureText('o').width
var x = a + b + b
var y = s.measureText('foo').width
console.log(x) //=> 14.0662841796875
console.log(y) //=> 14.143630981445312

So basically:

f + o + o = 14.07
foo       = 14.14

So foo is slightly longer than f + o + o. I am wondering if there is any way to figure this out in advance. That is, for a given font, if there is a way to know, when letters are combined, what the final size will be, without just measuring the whole string of text as one chunk.

I think this is because of ligatures or kerning which I am not too familiar with. But maybe there is a way to get a list of all the ligatures/kernings for a particular font, which will tell you the ratio of "compression" or "space" it removes or adds to letters in certain combinations.

Wondering if anything like this exists, or if it is at all possible. Not exactly sure I am pinpointing the problem (i.e. that it is related to kerning/ligatures), but assuming it is the problem, wondering how to get a list of the ligatures/kerning for a font, so I can do the measurements in advance. Maybe it is somehow encoded in the font eot or ttf or related files, or maybe there is a list on some website. If it's not the problem, then wondering what the problem is and how one might get the data to solve it.


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I’ve been studying Truetype fonts and hinting.

Knowing the difference between raster and vector graphics I’m wondering: Why is hinting still necessary? Aren’t there rendering engines for vector fonts?

Why do I still need to do hinting (which is a slow, boring and prone to imprecision process) for a font?


texts: How do I copy a specific shape on to a different layer's layer mask?

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I have heart shape, below, that is on a separate layer to the two lungs. How do I take this shape and use it as a layer mask on the two lungs?

I have created the layer mask on the lungs layer, but I'm not sure how to copy the shape over. It's bitmap, but I'd also be interested to know how to do it for a vector shape also.


texts: Blending modes across different compositions in After Effects

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It seems that the blending mode that I set to multiply on the shape layer of a composition in After Effects is not interacting with the composition directly beneath it on the master composition.

The Beech Tween 24 frame comp has a shadow layer at the bottom of it set to multiply. It appears that the layer is just coming in as normal. Eg it doesnt interact with the Mountains and Sky comp.

Is there any way to make this happen?


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I am building a strategy game in 2.5D, similar to Age of Empires, but will be a bugs war instead of humans.

I am in the process of building animation, I hired a graphic designer and UI developer, the game will be built using HTML5. I have a graphic designer to build the animation in graphic designer and the UI developer will take this PSD work and convert it to HTML5/CSS3 animation.

As the game will be in 2.5D, then the characters movement animation is expected to be from different view (right/left/back/front/diagonal-left(back/front)/diagonal-right(back/front) as in Age of Empires. So, animation of walking, fighting, resource gathering, initiate modes should address all this views.

What I want is to correctly define the structure of drawing the character in Photoshop or Illustrator so it simplify the animation process for the UI developer.

So far, I have animation built on photoshop for right/left view for a bug walking, each part of character body has it's own body, and the graphic designer build multiple frames to create the animation in prototype.

What I see is that the amount of work to produce a walking animated photoshop design is huge/time-consuming. And now I also need the character graphics in different view (front/back .. etc), and that means lots and lots of layers.

Is this the only solution I can go with to build the animation? Or there is other solution? I was thinking of building 3D bug animation that can be rotated in different views and axes and UI developer is free then to generate images from the view they want, but I am not graphic designer and I don't know if this a valid solution.

Any idea?


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I have a vector graphics that's quite strange: when I open the file in Illustrator, every single element (line, surface) is enclosed in a frame. Also, there is a part that is not visible but it's still there. The problem is that the file is huge, and I was wondering if there is a way to reduce its size, for example, but just keeping only the visible parts. But selecting only the visible parts is a journey in itself, so any advice is greatly appreciated.
This is a screenshot of the file:


texts: Inkscape; transfer gradient names between documents

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For a webinterface i am designing icons in Inkscape. These icons all use the same colorsetting and gradient. Then, when designing the mockups i copy the the icons to a new document using copy + paste. Everything gets transfered well except for the name of the gradient.

When i want to change the color setting of the website, i need to change every single gradient or assign the 'default' to the icon. When having 20+ icons per mockup this is a time consuming task.

Is there a way to transfer the gradients of the icons between documents whithout loosing the name?
Or, is there a way to batch-replace gradients of the icons in the new document?


texts: Overlapping layers with different colour hues in Photoshop

texts: This is apparently merged from a few pictures taken in different parts of day, but let's say I have just one photo and want to apply different hue tiers to it - how can I do it in Photoshop?


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I need 3 circles aligned straight. I draw a circle using Ellipse tool. When I draw a second circle, I either draw it in the same layer or I draw it in a new layer.

The problem I am facing when I draw the circle in a same layer. I make a change to one circle, that change is also applied to the other circle (I don't want this). However, I can align the circles in a straight line.

If I draw the second circle on a new layer, I can make changes to both circles separately, however, now I cannot align these circles on a straight line, align option is grayed out.


texts: Curve that is used as text guide for round text is open path. Is it problem for stocks?

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On my vector I created rounded text. For this I used Ellipse tool to create circle, the with scissors cut it in two halfs on diameter.

Then every half of circle was used as guide for text. It is invisible, but it is still detected as not closed path. Example of situation is shown on image below (path is actually invisible, I'm just using Outline). I can't remove this open path because in this case text will be removed as well. And I can't close it manually either.

Questions:

How do you think, can such path be a problem when image will be checked by stock editors?
If so - how to close this path correctly?

Thank you for help.


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Hello,
Can you give me an identification of this font? Which font is that?
I've looked through Blambot / Whatfontis / WhatTheFont / Identifont but haven't got any of its name.
Thanks for helping out with that.

I've seen this font in Gaia webcomic here: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/comics/2015-02-03-breaking-all-barriers-043.jpg


texts: Script to update linked files before exporting using Photoshop's Image Processing

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Related to this treat:
Auto-updating linked smart objects in files that were closed at the moment of the update

I have linked smart objects in 24 PSD files.

Is there a script I can use with the "Image Processing" function that checks if there has been any changes to the smart objects in the PSD files and first updates the file then saves that file as a JPG? Can this be done by a script instead of manualy opening each PSD file?