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i was going to make a simple logo using Helvetica Neue font since i see it in my Mac fonts list (default fonts includes Helvetica Neue tho)

BUt i'm wondering, can i make an svg brand logo as well as use helvetica neue font on the brand website?

I will not host the font on server just wondering if buying the Mac the default fonts can be used for logo and branding :)

thanks any help appriciated


texts: How do I vary pen intensity more with my Wacom pen in Photoshop?

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I have a Wacom Intuos with a Wacom pro pen with 4096 levels of sensitivity. I've always had trouble making my lines' intensity vary. What am I missing here? I know there's supposed to be a graph where I can adjust this in the Wacom Desktop center, but I can't find it. Is my Wacom tablet just incapable of supporting that much line intensity? (I'd imagine the settings were in Photoshop, not tied to my pen or the tablet, so I've been very confused.)

I want my lines to look like the ones in this video at 2:04. Here's how my lines look:

Thanks.


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Is there a "best-pattern" for responsive banners?

I see this one all over the place:

...in fact, I haven't seen much else on responsive websites.

Essentially, the common theme seems to be a faded image behind centered text.

Is there a reason other text positions, imagery, and other elements aren't commonly used on responsive pages? This design seems a bit dry.

Some examples:
nest.com
sofi.com
apple.com


texts: What is the difference between brightness and luminance? (HSB vs. LAB)

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I've been trying to understand the difference between the brightness or value component (as part of HSB/HSV) and the luminance component (as part of LAB).

I've read this short article on xrite which claims that luminance is objectively measurable, while brightness is subjective.

From what I understand from the article, since luminance is measurable in candela/square meter, it's possible to get consistency across monitors that are properly calibrated. While brightness is measured in % and differs from monitor to monitor, so 70% brightness would be different across monitors, even if they were calibrated.

That said, is this the only difference? Specifically, do they have different effects on colors?


texts: What methods can I use to create balance and consistency between a group of differing logos?

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A regular challenge that I face is balancing two (or more) logos. Whether they need to be equal or one needs to be given priority. Some logos however might be squares, others rectangles, circles, etc...

As a quick sample I snagged a nice high resolution photo from Unsplash and pretend its going to be an advertisement that needs to show some footwear brand logos on it. In this case I used Adidas and Saucony.

This is certainly not balanced even though they're height is the same:

Likewise this is not balanced even though they're width is the same:

So then the question becomes when are they in balance, is this balance:

Maybe a little more adjustment, is this balance:

And in these examples I'm only working with two Black Logos. Factor in color and it can get even more difficult to balance. Another issue being when there's tiny text as part of the logo.

So the question is, other than estimating / eye-balling it, what tips, methods or even tools are there to balance different sized logos?


texts: How to dynamically display object properties in a textbox in Indesign?

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Im wondering if there is a way in Indesign CC to get object properties and display them in a text box. In particular the height of a box in pixels.

So, if the height of a box changes from 800px to 1200px another textbox, one that I can keep somewhere else for reference, will update that information as I change the height of the box during the design process.

Thanks.


texts: Illustrator's Art Brush image that I made appears on its side and not upright which is the direction I gave it

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in Illustrator, I made a character that stands upright appearing to wave its hand. I then made it into an art brush with the following criteria's; Scale proportionately, Direction: Up and Colorization: Tint. It worked perfectly except I forgot to put a fill in one of the sections of the character, so I re-did the art brush following the same criteria (specifically "Direction: Up") and now it appears on its side (Direction: Left) when I make a path that goes upwards.
Does anyone know why it's doing that and how can I stop it. I know within the art brush panel I can change the direction, the vertical & horizontal flip etc. but that doesn't help it from happening again. I am hoping to find out the reason it happens so I can avoid it from occurring again.
thank you so much.


texts: Printing magazine as PSD instead of PDF?

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I have produced a multi-page magazine (32-40 pages long). For years I have been publishing it at a local printing business near me. They prefer a high quality PDF file to produce the magazine. It has always printed well and looked nice. I now have the opportunity to produce a version of it in India. The printer there says they prefer a PSD file because they say it prints better... and will convert my PDF to a PSD to make this happen.

This makes little sense to me:

Is PSD better for publication printing than PDF?
Would converting the "inferior" file format to PSD "increase" print quality?


texts: How to display a grid of images that have different aspect ratios?

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If I have a grid of images, let's say political cartoons, that have differing aspect ratios and cannot be cropped, how can I display them in a grid or even linear fashion?

My current solution is linear, top to bottom, but the images really call for a grid layout of some sort.

Thoughts?


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I want to achieve "HATTERAS VILLAGE" logo's like look in my "High Maintenance" logo. Especially the colors of fishes and those water splashes. How can i do this in Photoshop effectively?

I've attached "HATTERAS VILLAGE" and "High Maintenance" logos here.

Any suggestions or techniques?
Thanks


texts: Please help identify this sans-serif font

texts: What sans-serif font is this? Notice that the "S" goes thin at the top end.


texts: What color should be given to the ripple feedback?

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One of the major feature of Material Design in the touch feedback that you get on touching widgets. I want to know how should I go about selecting the ripple color? For example, I have a custom button with a blackbackground and white text. What should be my ripple color? How does android assign a ripple color to its default widgets?
Example 2 - Suppose I have an image which changes dynamically (downloaded). How can I set the ripple color for that image?

Possible solution? - I tried to increase the brightness (B from HSB) of the background color and setting this new color to be the ripple color. It seems to be working. Is it a good way of deciding the ripple color?


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I'm creating a brand, and I used a color as the primary color.

When I went on to create a paper for print with that color, I copied the HEX value into Illustrator with CMYK mode and the color looks way off.

I know this is because of the difference in the color spectrum, and they can't be the same, but it looks too much different, it looks like other brand. Here's what I mean.

As you can see, the color gets converted to the second one, that looks more like Facebook than the color of my brand.

I'm aware of the color spaces and that some colors will look more different than other ones when used in CMYK.

My question is, will it look fine when I print it or will it look like the second one?

I have the following options:

Print it anyway, hope it looks OK
Use another CMYK color that looks more like mine
Change the color to one that looks more similar in CMYK.

I'm kind of newbie with print so any help would be appreciated, thanks!


texts: How to study for Adobe Photoshop ACE exam?

texts: I'm planing to take the Adobe Photoshop ACE certification. I would like to know if is there any specific material and what is the recommended approach to study for the exam?


texts: Is there a name for this kind of design?

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Some more examples, taken from the Jira website:

I'm seeing this design alot lately, and I was wondering if there's a name for it.


texts: Where Can I Find Blend Mode Math Accurate to Photoshop?

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Most results from Google offer equations/formulas for blend modes that aren't reproducible in Photoshop, especially those that involve division such as Color Burn and Color Dodge. For example, RGB(255,0,0) with Color Burn over RGB (0,0,255) is supposed to yield RGB(0,0,0) according to this website, but in fact it yields RGB(0,0,255). The only place where I've found accurate formulas is this Gimp website, but it lacks a lot of blend modes.

Where can I find blend mode formulas that are accurate for Photoshop?


texts: How to achieve special effect with layers in Paint.NET?

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I am more a developer and not a graphic designer, and because I really don't do this kind of stuff often (more like once in two years or so) I don't want spend a lot of money on tools i'm not going to use regularly. So my graphics program is Paint.NET, and so far it could do everything I wanted, and I'm pretty sure it can do what I want, but I just don't know how. ;-)

So here's the question:

I want a transparent image (so far no Problem).
On this image should be a gradient line from white to black back to white (also not a problem).
Above this line should be a text. So far no problem too.

Now the tricky part: This text should be filled with a gradient going from gray on top to almost white on the bottom.

I can't fill text with a gradient directly, and all my approaches with different layers ended up in overlapping the transparent background (which is needed).

So what are the steps to create this gradient filled text with Paint.NET (I really think it requires layers, but I don't know how to stack and configure the effects on them)?


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I'm trying to follow Google material design guidelines.
I use the same settings for text color but the text is hard to read because in the examples they have an almost white background.
http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html

  The standard alpha value for text on a white background is 87%
  (#000000). Secondary text, which is lower in the visual hierarchy,
  should have an alpha value of 54% (#000000).  Text hints for
  users, like those in text fields and labels, have an even lower visual
  prominence and should have an alpha value of 26% (#000000).

My background color is #efefef and  the color of label text is black with 26% opacity so it's hard to read. Do you have any suggestion on how to adjust the color of text (maybe a general rule) so I can use this background.


texts: Resize (enlarge) an image without resampling (in favor of quality loss)?

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How to resize an image or selection without resampling the pixels? I have some pixel art that I want to enlarge without losing the hard, non-anti-aliased, pixel edges. In other words, 1px should become 4px of the same color— fake big pixels. Is there any way to achieve this procedurally?

Example (of what I don't want):

before resize:

after resize:

Open to other tools/methods beyond photoshop, thanks in advance.


texts: Fixed width character subset in proportional fonts?

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In many proportional fonts, numerals (i.e. 0123456789) have identical width to facilitate vertical alignment.  My question is simple: are there any characters that conventionally share the exact same width as these ten?  For example, I've found one font where the '=' character is the same width as the numerals:

0000000000

1111111111

2222222222

3333333333

4444444444

5555555555

6666666666

7777777777

8888888888

9999999999

========== <- sometimes same as numerals

mmmmmmmmmm <- nearly always wider

llllllllll <- nearly always narrower


texts: How can i get used text details like font-family,font-size,font-weight etc from a psd file in gimp


texts: Photoshop's "Actual Pixels" display wrong

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In 12 years of using Photoshop I've never seen an issue like this.

I have a picture. When I choose Vɪᴇᴡ ▶ Aᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ Pɪxᴇʟs the image is displaying incorrectly on my monitor. On the left is what my image looks like (zoomed up by a factor of 4 using nearest-neighbor). On the right is a screenshot of what it looks like when displayed at "Actual Size" (also zoomed up).

What setting could possibly be causing this?

Photoshop CS4 on Windows 7x64, on a machine with multiple graphics cards by NVIDIA.


texts: Change color for only specific assets in Adobe XD

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Let's say one is designing an app and there are two assets, a navigation bar and a tab bar, on multiple screens, that happen to initially use the color Black.

I have watched several instructional videos that explain how in Adobe XD one can change the color by, say, adding the Black color as a color asset and then editing said color asset.

But, let's say one only wants to change the color asset Black on the navigation bar assets only? So far, when I change the color in the color asset, XD indiscriminately changes the color of ANY asset that happens to have that color.


texts: How do I achieve this "Out of Sync"/mis-registration fill style in Adobe Illustrator?

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What is an easy way to achieve this "Out of Sync" Color Fill style?

I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6 and I think there is an easy way to do this with the way Illustrator is set up, but I'm not sure how.


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I've got a question about Material Design assets.

In my work I'm supposed to do visualisation of a simple web app. My core tool is Illustrator and the requirement for this site is to be consistent with Material Design. I've seen only icons available for download directly on material design site. But is there any way to get DEFAULT buttons, checkboxes (vectorized ofc) etc.?


texts: Opening a .jpg with Fireworks so that the canvas fits

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Is it possible to open a .jpg in Fireworks so that the canvas size will automatically fit it?

At the moment I have to get the dimensions of the image, create a canvas of this size and then drag the image into it. It's just one of those little annoying things, but it all adds up...!


texts: Wacom Tablet - Photoshop stop brush size changing

texts: In photoshop I'd like to be able to use my wacom to draw straight lines by the click-shift-click method but the brush size changes from large to very small as it would it was pressure related. Has anyone found at solution for this problem?


texts: Help straightening out intelligent scissor lines in GIMP

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I am new to GIMP, I'm trying to trace around an object with the intelligent scissor tool and cut out an object from its background. The scissor points aren't coming out right though, and when I try to adjust them they don't go where I want them to. This creates jagged edges and I would like to fix this.

I have tried to hold shift while using the tool to disable autosnap, but they still won't move where I want them to. It seems like there is a simple way to move the nodes anywhere without having to worry about auto-snap.

Thanks!

Here is an example - I would like to straighten the line out here


texts: How to make this effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?

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I think it is AI, correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance


texts: Automatically apply different fonts based on text/symbol

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I'm working on layout for a 300-page trilingual “coffee table” style textbook, and one of the languages uses a glottal stop symbol which the chosen body text font can't handle. This means that for every instance of this symbol, the font must change to TNR and then back to the font of the main body text.

I sincerely hope there a way I can automate this, perhaps with styles. At the moment I'm using a find-replace to change the fonts individually and semi-manually, which is tedious and accident-prone.

Is there a tool or method in InDesign which will automatically recognize a particular symbol and change its font whenever that symbol appears?


texts: Turn transform selection box to selection in Photoshop - Selecting Shadow problem

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In a PSD i'm working with there's an image on one layer, and a shadow on another layer. Selecting the shadow doesn't select all of the gradient.

So when I select both layers and click Control-T both layers get selected with the transform selection box. This goes all around the shadow and image perfectly. How can I now turn this transform selection line/box/selection to a standard selection so I can copy the shadow and image.

Hope that's explained clearly. I tried creating a smart object and selecting it but only the image is selected not the shadow.

Would really appreciate some help, thanks


texts: How do I set eyedropper settings using Photoshop ExtendScript (Javascript)?

texts: Is there a way to set Photoshop's eyedropper settings (sample size, sample, show sample ring) in a script? Or, failing that, use the script to find out what the current settings are? Thanks.


texts: Programmatically creating radiating rows of dots

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I want to create a speaker hole pattern like this:

But I'm not sure where to start. Can this be achieved without laborious positioning in Illustrator or similar software?


texts: Different sizes/dimensions on export & save as web in Illustrator CS5

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I have a file which is 1020px X 200px Artboard/Document dimensions and the drawings coves the whole artboard as follows.

When I "Export" the file as "png" (File>Export) it's dimensions change to 4250px X 458px as follows.

However when I use "Save for Web & Devices" (File>Save for Web & Devices" and save as "png" it's dimensions remain the same i.e., 1020px X 100px as follows.

Any idea why this is happening? Files are saved with similiar options viz. png-24 format, clip to artboard, save as background, interlaced, rgb color profile.


texts: How to export .pdf from numbers without background

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I'm looking for a way to export a spread I made in Apple's Numbers program to a .pdf without adding a background. Is it possible to export only the cells?

I'll be importing them into InDesign so it can't be a .csv or .xlsx document.

Since I'll have to do over 200 of them, it would be awesome if someone has a solution to this so the aligning can be automatic.


texts: Do you use colour lasers for proof printing?

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I own an EPSON Stylus Photo RX640 printer which prints really good on special paper media, but is rather poor when it comes to normal (>75%) printing on plain papers. Beside that it's also quite expensive because cartridges are very expensive compared to others.

I'm considering buying a colour laser printer that should keep printing costs down on the long run. but I don't know what to expect in terms of print quality? Can a reasonably priced (less than 500€) colour laser be used for close to proof printing? Do you maybe use one? Which one and what would you change to make it better?

What would you buy if you had to buy again?

Can colour lasers print on special media like glossy papers and similar? Is the effect any good at all?


texts: How to retain pixel dimensions when exporting to PNG in Illustrator

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In Adobe Illustrator, I'm creating for a screen size of 800px X 480px but while exporting to png/jpeg my file size gets changed to 3333px X 2000px. I don't know what's happening? Whatever the file size I create, it exports to these dimensions (3333px x 2000px).

Is there any solution?


texts: Inkscape: Trying to change the pattern fill but node tool only affects the path of the object being filled

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Very new to Inkscape. I have a shape that I traced, roughly heart shaped like a locket. I want to fill it with pink and black stripes, but the patterns only offered black and transparent stripes, so I duplicated the shape and filled the lower one with pink. Then I filled the higher with the stripe pattern. The stripes came up a little off center. I have to put a keyhole in the center of the heart, and the stripes will conflict with it. Also, if possible I'd like to make a pink and black pattern but that's less important.
The instructions say to use the Node tool to adjust the position, scale, and rotation of the fill pattern. This is the first time I'm attempting such a thing. The problem is that when I use the Node tool, the nodes of the heart shape are active and I can't affect the stripes at all. What am I doing wrong?


texts: How to snap end points of straight lines to form connected triangles?

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I'm trying to create connected triangles in inkscape. Similar to how the header of https://blender.stackexchange.com/ looks like:

except that I only want triangles and no fill, just strokes.

I picked the Draw Bezier curves and straight lines (shift + F6) tool and set the mode to Create a sequence of straight line segments. Despite several snap option being enabled, nothing snapped. The tool neither snapped to points of the currently drawn path (except the first point) nor did it snap to any previously drawn path. The result looks wrong because the lines do not meet at exactly the same positions.

How can I draw straight lines that will snap to other lines at their end points?

Ideally, I would be able to draw a single line, between two points. (not many as the bezier tool does) I would specify starting and end point of that line by clicking and both would snap to nearby existing points I previously placed if applicable.


texts: How would I do about filling in this hole?

texts: I want to fill in that little space in the bottom right-hand corner, but every time I use something like the pen or paint it creates it in a new layer, which when using the stroke feature, completely messes it up. How do I fill this gap?


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Is there a way to do this circular resize of a pattern in photoshop (flat image) ?
(I only want to resize the green disk, without changing the size of the interior white disk and without losing details of the green disk, just flatting them)


texts: Photoshop: How do you nudge multiple times and still count as a single action?

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This is something that was driving me mad and just now figure I could ask here.

In previous versions of Photoshop, I could nudge elements by hitting Shift+Arrow and the whole nudging counted as a single action in history state. If I paused, then it would add another action to history, but only then.

Now, in Photoshop CC, each time I hit the arrow key, it counts as a new history state. So, if I hit the arrow key 100 times, I have to go back 100 states in history, which is crazy. See capture below:

I tried looking at different options to no avail. Maybe I'm too dumb, but really can't find it, and it would be amazing to get it back to what it was (hopefully they didn't kill this feature)

So... is it possible to group all these actions in a single one?


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I want to create a bunch of arcs by creating circles and then dividing those circles' perimeters into arcs by intersecting them with another shape.

However when I do this I end up with a shape not a path. How could I go about dividing circles by another shape so that I'm only left with paths, not shapes with internal area?

Eg this is what I am left with after dividing a circle with another shape:

Whereas I just wanted to be left with the outside path as an arc, not the moon-like shape that I currently have.

PS I'm very new to Illustrator so please go easy on me :)


texts: Program for image kaleidoscope/mirror effect similar to Adobe Capture Pattern Trap

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I've been looking for a program to do some graphic design work with that is similar to Adobe Capture Pattern Trap.
The main things i'm looking for are high resolution file saves and mirror/reflect/kaleidoscope tools to create interesting patterns for print.

My computer (Surface Pro 4) is lagging way too much even after optimising and using an external hd to use AI or Psd effectively. The MirrorMe plugin by Astute Graphics is perfect if only my system could allow it!

Picsart mirror distort function is also another great example, yet again the resolution of the saved file is just far too small even in png.
I am running Windows 10.


texts: Wordmark or brandmark logos - Which are more effective?

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Are wordmark logos more effective, or brandmark logos? We see companies like Coca-Cola or Google who are doing fine with very effective wordmark logos, while companies like Apple rely quite a lot on their logos initially.

(I remember reading an article talking about how the glowing Apple logo on the back of the Apple laptops was one of the most important forms of advertising for Macs initially when they weren't as popular as now.)


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Is there a keyboard shortcut to change the typeface?

I press control-T which brings up the character selector which is nice. Then I press tab and it hides all the menus instead of going to the next field in the character selector :(


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I want to re-size the bounding box for an existing block of text.  I found that by holding down the CTRL key on Windows, it will let you scale the text block, but I just want to resize the bounds of the text not scale it.

I've already looked at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-75d7a.html which describes out to SCALE the text as noted above.


texts: Outlining photo content (like a colouring book)

texts: I am trying to make a full color photo into just a black outline to be printed and colored in by hand, basically just making coloring pages off of full color photos. I just installed gimp, but cannot figure it out. If there is a better program to use, I would gladly use it. Any help would be welcomed.


texts: Absolutely change saturation of multiple objects to uniform amount in Illustrator

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I need to change only the saturation level of multiple objects in Illustrator to a uniform value.

Basically, I'm creating a design which uses only brightness derivations to contrast items from each other. I'm using the eye dropper tool to copy the color from one item to another, but as I move from item to item, the saturation slowly increments upward, probably due to rounding errors on Illustrator's end. For example, if I use the eyedropper tool to copy the color from one shape to the next, to the next, repeatedly, say, 50 times, the saturation level will be, say, 40 for the first shape yet because of repeatedly incrementing up slightly, the last shape's saturation level will be something like 50. I need to take all these shapes and change their saturation level back down to 40.

Is that possible in Illustrator? The recolor artwork tool does not seem to be able to handle cases like this.


texts: What is the term for the big background that the canvas lies on in Photoshop?

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The title says it all.

What is the dark part that extends beyond the image called?


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I'm looking forward to getting a logo created for my company.

My partners and I have distinct views should we use CamelCase in the logo or not. For example:

boffr vs bOffr

This made me wonder: when one should use CamelCase in a logo and when not?


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When I create a new document, everything is showed in Points not in mm despite that I have configured Illustrator to use mm instead of inches:

How can I change that ?


texts: Logo design - Finding a good mix between the metaphor and legibility

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I'm currently designing a logo for a friend's new business. I'm much more of a UI/UX designer than a logo designer (also a very bad drawer!), so I'm struggling.

The company name is 'Corellia', it's a reference to the Han Solo's birth planet in Star Wars (My friend is fan of Star Wars) mixed with a reference to the technology he loves to work with, aka '.Net Core'.

I searched a bit for inspiration and I tried something I really enjoyed. Here it is:

I love it because it mixes the two metaphors of it's company. The C/O looks like a planet and its moon passing by, while also illustrating the 'core' of the letter C. Also, the font is a bit Star Wars-like, as a bonus.

However, when we showed it to lambda people, they were not seeing the C and all wondered why it is called 'Orellia'.

So I was wondering, how would you find the balance between the metaphor and the legibility of the logo?

If I design the C to be less circular, it breaks the planet/moon.
I could also get the C/O out of the logo and write the Corellia word next to it or beneath it, but I feel it lacks concision and efficiency.

SOLUTION

First of all, thanks to all of you for your critiques and help provided, it was really great !

Time being a constraint, I could'nt afford to try every one of your solutions. However, I tried to upvote every solution that helped me.

For the record, here's the final logo delivered:

So I focused on the C which was the letter people were not seeing. I moved it on the left and also went for slenting edges. So it looks more like a C and the O is no more as obstructive.

The metaphor is a bit less obvious, but the client (my friend) is happy with it.


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(I'm not entirely sure this is Graphic Design worthy, but since screen printing is a favorite medium of graphic designers for posters and the like and is certainly one of the popular commercial printing methods for the work we do, I hope it is valid...)

My question, broadly: what does one need to set up screen printing at home?

More specifically, can it be done without the need of a power washer (and, ideally, avoid the nastier chemicals)?

The big hurdle to doing this at home, from what I see, is that back when I did this in a studio, I needed a power washer to clean out the emulsion to prep the screen for the next template. As much as I love excuses to get new power tools, the fact that I currently reside in an apartment means it's probably not a practical option.

Are there ways to now burn screens and clean them for reuse without needing the power washing step (or using nasty chemicals) to clean the screens?

The Japanese Gocco screen printing kit product seemed popular, but appears to be now out of production. Speedball sells some kits, but I don't see what makes them DIY (is the emulsion a different type that doesn't require the power washing?)

Is anyone doing in-home/personal screen printing with a rig they like that a) doesn't use a ton of home-unfriendly chemicals and b) doesn't require a power-washer?


texts: How to know the size of a particular layer in Krita?

texts: I have a Krita file with a layer on it. I want to know the size of it. How can I achieve this?


texts: How do you animate the height of a path in SMIL? attributeName="height" doesn't seem to work

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I've been trying to animate a simple path (i.e. circle) with

<animate attributeName="height" values="100;0" dur="1s" begin="0s"/>

...this works if I slap it onto a shape (e.g. rect), but fails on a path.

Without using another custom path, is there any way to simply adjust the dimensions of a path using SMIL only?

EDIT: I'm looking for absolute values, not tweaking percentages like skew in animateTransform does.


texts: What's up with the inconsistent drop shadow when exported from CorelDRAW X5?

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I am expecting to export images from my CorelDRAW project and see them exactly as they appear in CorelDRAW. However this is not what I am getting...
Dropped Shadows appear a lot more prominent when exported; jpeg for web, prepress pdf, etc. Any export yields the same anomaly.
In fact, even when the image is rendered for export in the Export Dialog, the shadow already looks more pronounced then it should be.
Actually, I noticed some drop shadow appearance color changing over complex backgrounds; black becomes grey, etc.
Is there a setting I am missing?  Any ideas?


texts: How do I globally choose a fill color/gradient for my shapes?

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The question suggested me this answer:
How to select a global fill color for shapes

However I want to achieve this using CS6, and I remember that time ago I have opened a sample .PSD file with a color switcher, it allowed me to select a fill color for all the underlying shapes (fill) color.


texts: Export each folder as a jpg (or other) in Photoshop

texts: Ive got about 15 folders (groups) in a .psd file each folder has multiple layers, together each folder makes one retouched and editted image, im aware of the export layers to files script, but is there a way to export each folder as a file ?


texts: Typesetting acceptance of spacing slashes?

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In UI design, one often has to work in the confines of limited space and/or simply try to reduce overly excessive descriptions and such.

Often, this results in using slashes a lot. This/that type of thing.

I've been asked in the past to add spaces to each side of a slash to give it some 'breathing' room and while at first this seemed wrong, I've also grown to prefer it as an option.

An example:

Download/Print PDF

vs.

Download / Print PDF

Some questions:

Do you prefer one over the other (and why?)
Is the spaced-slash acceptable? Am I committing a typographic faux pas?

Ideally, one would kern/letterspace the slash and not use whole spaces, but in the context of web dev, it's likely that rarely will out content folks and/or developers spend time on that detail, so am proposing the spaced option. It also offers the added benefit of being more likely to wrap properly if need be.


texts: Fade layers in from edge of the screen (but not the whole image)

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I have three layers:

1) fade foreground (currently a black and white gradient)
2) foreground (contains roads, buildings, vehicles etc)
3) background gradient

What I am trying to is fade in the foreground layers from the edge of the screen from 0% transparency (black in the gradient), to the white part of the gradient (100% transparency).

The layers in the foreground span across multiple artboards, so ideally I'd like to do this without having to flatten the layers so I can just have this part of the image transparent.

I know how to achieve this in Photoshop but am unsure in Illustrator. Any assistance would be gratefully received.


texts: How to ignore Indesign links (keep original locations unchanged)

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I had an indesign file created at my workplace and wanted to work from home for a day so I packaged the file and put it on dropbox.
When I was at home I opened the file and did not relink the graphics because I wanted them to keep the original link location from my workplace.
When I saved the file and reopened at work all the links were missing and I had to relink every single one which were in multiple folder locations on the server.
My questions is, is there any way I can open an Indesign file on a different computer and work on layout without messing with the links and their original link locations?


texts: How to improve communications skills and find mentors for designers?

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My wife works as a graphic designer. English is a second language for her. She speaks and reads English pretty well but sometimes gets lost in the nuances and cultural references that are second nature to fluent, lifelong native speakers.

In her job, she often has to explain and/or defend her ideas and decisions to critical and  nitpicky people up and down the org chart. Some folks are easier to deal with than others but she often has difficulty with strong personalities and headstrong folks who love to debate and argue. In dealing with these people and in group meetings or decision-making to get consensus, she often finds herself giving in and getting rolled over by headstrong and opinionated personalities and unable to effectively defend her ideas or get her perspective across especially if she disagrees with them.

This has resulted in her losing self-esteem and feeling as if she is not respected by her colleagues. Engaging effectively with in-house or external clients, of course, is a must for graphic or other type of designer. I imagine that until she deals effectively with this issue, that she will continue to experience dissatisfaction and not feel respected no matter what job she has.

I’ve urged her in the past to take English language classes or even try public speaking clubs like Toastmasters. I have a feeling that is not what she needs. But I am stumped as far as what resources graphic and other designers can tap into to improve their communication skills in having effective conversations and interactions with clients and colleagues.

NOTE: My wife and I are raising a seven year old. That means funds, time and opportunity for quiet reflection and alone time are in short supply. But we do live in the Washington DC Metro area so I imagine there might be plenty of resources we might have access to and don’t even know about. We just need to be pointed to the right direction.

One idea I have is perhaps she can get a mentorship relationship with a more senior designer who is very strong in the area she would like to improve upon. But how do designers find mentors?


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An amateur graphic designer here. I was told to redesign a reddit app icon on playstore and he told me to apply the Google's new design scheme that was leaked a few days ago (The first illustration shows the mockup that I made based on the leaked overhaul icons from Google)
So currently the second image shows the reddit icon that I was working on with it. It is like a paper with a 'vertical' looking page on the left and the developer told me to make it colorful and apply all the Google's trademark colors. Unfortunately, I'm still not satisfied on how it is looking right now as if it is not like the one on Google's new design scheme so right now, I would kindly like to have some suggestions and feedback on how can I improve the reddit icon by placing the right shadows or right color combinations, others will be of course appreciated and welcome. Thanks alot!

EDIT: no.3 the final icon that I made according to @Bakabaka suggestions :)


texts: Why do some Pantone colours have actual names?

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UPDATE: Pantone have replied to my question directly, the answer is below

It stands to reason that no one would want to attempt to name all the Pantone colours (as opposed to referencing them by code).

So why then do some have actual names like "Royal blue", "Serenity", "Cool Grey"? What makes these colours special and deserving of a name?

Right now I am looking for a deep wine red, and when I go back to the client, I think it's so much more convincing to tell them "I suggest we go with Pantone "Red Bud", than if I were to call it "19-1850-TCX"!

However my favourite red thus far only has a colour code (1955 C). No corresponding name :(

Can anyone offer some background on how it came to be this way, and bonus points if anyone knows any reference sites where they only list the "named" colours!


texts: How do I get Sketch shapes to scale in template?

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I am using a template to make iOS app icons, see file at link below. Some of the shapes on the Symbols page scale correctly when applied to the Templates page (ears, head). However, the two curved lines I am using for the mouth do not.

How can I fix this?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8oqb0xojd90ro02/application-icons.sketch?dl=0


texts: Moving up the typography scale from mobile to desktop

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I have a typography scale for mobile devices with a baseline of 23px and a base font size of 16px.

I want to increase the scale and line height for tablets and then desktop but in increments that keep the scale intact. What's the formula for doing this? Are there any good/bad ways to do it?


texts: How do I change the color of a monochrome image with some transparency?

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I have this image:

and I want to change it so it looks gray instead of black. My problem is that it has some anti-aliasing, so there are some half-transparent and/or gray pixels on some borders. If I select everything that's black and change it to gray, those pixels end up being much darker than what they should be. And if I was trying to switch to another color, like red, it wouldn't work at all.

This is something I find myself needing quite often, so I'd like to learn how to do it. What's the conceptual way of doing it? and/or how do I do it with Pixelmator?


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This should be pretty simple (famous last words).  I want to make a custom wax seal for our wedding invitations.  We're both DND nerds, and so we'd like to start with an SVG of a D20, and replace the 20 with our last initial. Starting with something like this:

We will likely choose to remove the numbers on the outside, to make the design cleaner.  My concern is that as it is, the initial will look too small if I have it as the same size as the 20 is in this image.
What I'd like to do is some kind of distortion on it in Inkscape or similar, as if you were looking at it through a fisheye lens.  I want the center triangle to grow, while the overall size of the image does not.  So the edges are shrunk and the middle is expanded.  I'm not really sure how to go about this.  Any ideas?


texts: Convert random bezier Curves to 45°/90° angeled curves

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Is it possible to automatically create a curve that looks exactly the same while converting its anchor points and bezier curves in a way so that the curve handle are all in 90°/45° positions afterwards?

In this example i rotated a curve and by hand set new anchor point and curves handles.
1.) Is there a tool for that ?
2.) If there is no tool, is there a mathematical basis to do this?
Thx Guys !


texts: How Can I Acheieve This Coloring Effect on Photos

texts: this photo has a really nice effect to it but I'm not sure how I could acheieve the same effect on multiple different photos.


texts: What is the correct font for Android section headlines?

texts: The Roboto spec book shows "Black Small Caps" but it's not included in the font package. Fallback is using Black in uppercase - not ideal.


texts: Illustrator Divide Objects Below Modifies Objects in Locked Group

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I am using Illustrator CS5. As I completed portions of a complex drawing, I grouped the completed objects then locked and hid the group while I worked on other sections. Later, when applying Divide Objects Below in the same layer, the objects in the LOCKED and HIDDEN group are also cut (or "divided") if they were below the "cutting" object.

Is this supposed to happen? It is very repeatable: create a new layer. Draw some rectangles with no stroke (just fill). Select them, then control-G to group, then lock the group and hide it using the Layers panel (there is no "eyeball" but there is a padlock). Now draw then select another shape, say a rectangle that overlaps where the other objects are (even though you can't see them). Click Object->Path->Divide Objects Below. Show then unlock the hidden group and voila! the rectangles were cut by the operation.

Either I don't understand what Locking and Hiding is supposed to do, or there is a bug in Illustrator, or someone thinks this is an intuitive way for the operator to behave.

Anyone?


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I've created some art in GIMP for a t-shirt printing. The printers want 300dpi (don't know how to convert to that from pixels!).

My print is currently 1186 × 849 pixels / 16.488 × 11.803 inches.

I would like to increase the size and also depixelate the edges of the image, which I've seen might be impossible without redrawing in a vector program.

However most of the graphic is a photo that has been de-saturated to bring out the blacks/whites, so the I guess the photo quality is the issue here? Here's the artwork:

If anyone has any tips on depixelating/increasing image size in this case, that'd be a great help :)

Thanks


texts: How can I recolor this render with a good skin tone?

texts: How can I recolor this 3d render with a good skin tone in photoshop cc? I tried but it was not convincing.


texts: Inkscape, select many paths for stroke to path

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Inkscape 0.92, with the option to upgrade to 1.01 if that contains a fix
How do I select many paths for stroke to path. I know I can shift select multiple paths, but I'm working towards a design that will have way too many paths to shift-click select.
Say I have an svg file of a snowflake as generated by https://www.misha.studio/snowflaker/ that is a set of paths with a thick stroke. I'd like to select all strokes in one go to perform stroke to path. Simply selecting the object then stroke-to-path does nothing. Nor does entering the group and drag selecting multiple sub-elements, nor Select All. Using the node tool to drag then stroke-to-path doesn't work either.


texts: Can I print large photo on canvas (72''x20''), but also have high resolution (300dpi) and all that in rather small file size?

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Is there a way to have all those 3 things together? Large/high quality/small file size.
Because I need to send this file to an office which have rather old computer system (don't ask) to print it. But they all-ways ask me 300dpi document and this time canvas size is really big, but I'm afraid that they will not be able to even open it. So is there a way to get it smallish? Smaller than 3gb (that's what I have now).
Thanks.
P.S: Photoshop won't even let me save the file in jpg or pdf (I usually use those). Only large formats...


texts: Is there a plugin to save/load button states?

texts: I have many override settings in my button symbol. I want to customize button with these settings and save the state to use after. I am pretty shore I saw this kind of plugin some time ago but I can't find it know.


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Sorry for my English.

I'd like to load an action to photoshop cs4 with JavaScript but nowhere can I find this function.

This function doesn't work:

app.loadAction( new File( 'E:/Folder/Actions/My-template-action.atn' ) );.

When I use this function, Photoshop displays the following error:

Error 24: app.loadAction is not a function.

Please tell me how to do this?


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When you create a photo with your camera, the image stores the camera orientation.

(https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html)

I'm trying to find an app that will show these flags.

There are many articles about the apps that can rotate images for you, according to these flags, but I need to simply see them.

I already tried Adobe Bridge CS6, IrfanView and Exif Pilot.


texts: How competitive is the Illustration field?

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20-ish years ago, I graduated with a fine art degree and became an art teacher, but now (for reasons I don't particularly want to go into here), I no longer wish to teach. Ideally, I would like to break into the illustration profession, but don't know how realistic this is.

I realise that, first and foremost, it is necessary to build a portfolio, but beyond this, things get rather vague. I have read various articles on the subject, and most tend to say something along the lines of what Emma Block says here:

  There is no standard career path to becoming an illustrator. To be honest, it's a bit of a weird career ... I can't tell you how to become a successful freelance illustrator, but I can tell you what I've learnt so far.

Needless to say, there are many questions left unaswered, the most crucial of all being, is it worth it? I realise that only I can answer this, but I would like to be a little better informed before I make my decision.

There are some branches of illustration that don't interest me (infographics, technical drawing, etc.). I lean more towards children's / book / editorial illustration. However, the publishing industry has clearly been in decline since the digital revolution, and will continue to be. How has that affected these areas of illustration in terms of competition / career sustainability?  Comparatively, how competitive is this field?


texts: Importing InDesign layers into After Effects

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I'm building a webpage layout in Indesign, and my client wants me to make an animated demo of it. I can do this in After Effects, but I don't want to recreate the entire site in AE.

Is there a way I can import all my layers from Indesign directly into After Effects?


texts: How can I export this .ai file to SVG while maintaining full shape

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I have the following hand drawn .ai file that I would like to convert to SVG for 3d printing with tinkercad.

when I save as SVG however there is some clipping done to the paths and it turns out like:

with that file exported as SVG then, the 3d print preview comes out as follows:

How can I correctly export the original .ai file so that the 3d print would be one solid piece that is just a 3d version of the original stroke path?


texts: How to reinforce intuitive design decisions?

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I am not a professional designer, meaning: I have not studied Graphic Design at university or similar. I wanted to, but the numerous clauses didn't allow it.

On the other hand, I'm actually doing graphic design since the age of 15. And, compared to what I see from other people with a comparable background, I'm doing quite well.

My problem: while I can usually feel that things have to be placed, styled, laid out, typed or colored in a specific way, I have absolutely no clue why.

What would be the best way for people like me to learn the reasons behind the intuitive decisions I make?

Since this is a rather unwanted opinion-based question in general, the following points are supposed to make it a nice StackExchange-compliant question:

I can only learn in my free time. Do not suggest full time studies like going to university. (I have to work in parallel to earn money to feed my kids, right?)
I prefer learning at random speed, e.g. repeat things if I didn't understand it. And maybe do nothing for a period of 3 weeks because I'm on a business trip.
Cheap or gratis learning is preferred.
I think there is already a list of good design books somewhere else, so skip that.
Other than books, the type of learning doesn't really matter.
In the end of the learning phase, I should be able to tell my colleagues the reasons why I change things, e.g.

"don't use red here, because it means danger"
"don't use more than 3 different fonts, because ..."
"make the distance equal, because ..."

Today my reason is "because it looks ugly", but people don't feel so comfortable with that explanation.

What solution am I thinking of?

It's an online training
It displays designs and I need to answer what I would change
The website tells me whether I'm correct. Like a game maybe.
The website tells me the reason why it's correct and offers a link to read the theoretical background.  (Beginner mode)
In the next step I have to give the reason as well. (next level)

I'm not sure if something like this (or better) exists. And since I'm a non-native English speaker, I have no idea what search terms I would need to use to find such a thing.


texts: Where is the straightening tool that allows ~4 guide lines?

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After numerous queries involving various combinations of "straighten perspective guides transform photoshop adobe" I've come across many new ways to change the perspective of an image but I can't find the tool I used to use.
I'm looking for a tool that allows you to draw multiple straight lines on your image, and then it warps the image to make those lines horizontal or vertical. It is, quite simply, a multi-line version of Photoshop's straighten tool under crop.
I believe this tool was in Photoshop, but maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps it was in the Camera Raw Filter? As of the 2020 update, though, it seems there is no crop tool in Camera Raw Filter?
If the tool was, indeed, in Camera Raw Filter, has it moved elsewhere?
There are many perspective tools in Photoshop but for a very linear image this seems by far the easiest.


texts: Inkscape: How to force a text or other shape to fill the interior of a closed path?

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See those red shapes. I want to crunch text BWT into the red area so that the text is still readable but deformed so that the red area is filled.
I have tried to use the black stroke-only version of the red shape as a bounding box (=a path effect) but it only makes a rectangular blob around the BWT without affecting its form.
Path effect Bounding Box maybe is not the right way or I do not understand how to use it. Any idea how do it right?


texts: Make adobe Photoshop CC color picker palette bigger

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I'm having trouble with picking and testing colors on the image because the color palette is too small for my laptop display.
Is there a way I can make color palette's window bigger?

Thanks, Ričards.


texts: How do I make it so my website footer is always at the bottom of the page (but not sticky)?

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I'm fairly good at getting stuff to work nicely as I come from a coding background, but I'm lacking in the design/visual department. I'm building a website for a friend and one of the things he wants is a footer at the bottom of every page with a few useful links in. Anyway when the page has a fair amount of content on it looks fine, always at the bottom of the page, but when there isn't that much on the page it appears where the content stops and cuts the page up, with a big unsightly gap underneath.

I tried looking for a few tutorials but the ones I did find either were for sticky footers which always stayed on the screen, or were poorly explained (in my opinion).

I've tried using min-height but then if the window is taller than min height I still get the unsightly gap. Is there a 'right' way to do this?


texts: How to handle requests for revisions after final files have been submitted?

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Recently I have a customer who keeps asking for revisions. The design has been finalized and the final files have all been submitted to them.
Yet, after some time, they contacted me for revisions on the final files again.

How do you usually handle case like this? Do you apply an extra charge for the revision or do you willingly make the revisions for free? Any consideration?


texts: Why are my colours blending like this in Photoshop?

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I've been using Photoshop for about a year for digital art and design for various projects. However, there is one problem with the colours.
Every time I paint using a dark colour on the canvas and then a light colour over it, it makes the light colour neon. To make things worse, if I paint directly on the background layer, the colours become lighter despite my opacity being 100% on the layers, the brushes, etc.
To stop this from happening, I've been creating new layers every colour but that makes it exceptionally difficult to blend. Is there something obvious I'm missing?


texts: How to place a set of object following a path in inkscape?

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I have a set of 5 objects and I like to place them following a circled path, however, my attempts were wrong.

This is what I have

And this is what I want

Note that the objects are rotated in function of their position on the circle.

I have already converted the big circle to a path using path > objet to path


texts: Pattern filled background is not exporting to SVG

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I am trying to draw some electromechanic components in SVG format files.

In the example below, you can see the symbol for one of these components in which I have filled the squares with a linear pattern.

I have tried to do this with MS Visio and with Adobe Illustrator:

In MS Visio, the pattern is shown in the exported SVG but they are not real vectorial lines, but bitmap. So when I zoom in the image the result is very ugly.
In the other hand, in Illustrator, the pattern is complety obviated during the exporting process as you can see in the image.

I understand that I can solve this issue by drawing the pattern by myself, but since the lines are not vertical neither horizontal it is not easy to work with them (distribute proportionally, adjust it to the borders of the squares ...).

Any suggestion?

Thanks


texts: Photoshop CS6 displaying incorrect glyphs

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So I've downloaded a google font known as 'Didact Gothic' from Google Fonts. It works perfectly when embedded in a website. However, Photoshop CS6 does something really odd to the 'w' glyph:

The .ttf file completely fine:

And it even works in Pages:

So what on Earth is going on? The rogue 'w' in photoshop appears to be from a different font called Mistral, I think. Bizarre. Any and all help appreciated.


texts: How do you make random 'diamond' design in Photoshop?

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How do you create random diamond, crystal design like this ad on Photoshop? Could anybody please teach me and also identify what's the proper name for design like this call? Thanks a lot!

^Check out the picture design that I'm talking about here. Thanks!


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I have to send out of InDesign 50 versions of the same ad, everything is the same in each of these 50 ads except for one small key number down the bottom in a textbox that changes for each instance.

Is there a way to export one instance from InDesign 50 times but use a CSV or something similar to determine the numbers?


texts: Exported photoshop image is 'darker/ stronger' when viewed on mobile

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I noticed that the colors of the exported image from photoshop, when viewed from mobile, is 'stronger' or 'darker' but are retained when viewed on a computer/ laptop.
I'm unable to send a screenshot of the 'stronger' image since, when sent on the laptop I'm working on, becomes normal.
I tried recreating it still.
This is how it looks like on laptop:

While this is how it looks on mobile:

How do I ensure that the colors are the same or at least, almost the same?


texts: MediBang: Browse through multiple pages after selecting a page

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In MediBang Paint Pro, how do open the next page that I created while starting a new project?
when I choose the Draw Manga option in the mini window that appears after opening MediBang, it lets me choose the number of pages.

Then when I click on OK, it shows the list of pages.

But the problem is that after selecting one of the pages, I don't how to go to the next page. I can't find the option for it.
Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to create Kinetic Typography effect with PhotoshopCS5 and AE4?

texts: I am saying this because, I don't have Illustrator, so I want to know with what I can create Kinetic Typographics


texts: Illustrator assumes I want to type on a path-- can that be changed?

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I noticed that in the more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator the program liberally assumes that I want to convert my lines into text paths-- meaning that any time I am even in the vicinity of a line while using the text tool instead of letting me click on an open area and start typing it assumes that a closeby path is what I want to contain my text. It is annoying.

I couldn't find anything in the preferences to modify the range of what it considers something I want to type on. Is there a way to do that?


texts: How to store paper medium (not size) in a PDF?

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Our documents are intended to be printed on a pre-printed form that our printer has set up as different paper medium. Forgetting to chose that is obviously rather annoying, but changing the printer's default medium would just invert the problem for the equally present non-form printouts.

In order to alleviate this, is there any way to have the PDF contain information on the required (or preferred) paper medium (in addition to the unchanged size)?

edit It seems at least in PostScript3, there exists Page Device Parameters which apparently can be used to achieve this, but as of yet I don't have a clue how to do this and whether this can be used in PDF as well. But I'm not stuck with PDF, hints on how to obtain a PS file using this via InDesign are as well welcome.


texts: Can someone explain the exact behavior of add/subtract/intersect/invert for alpha channels in photoshop?

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Suppose I have two different single pixel (ie 1x1 pixel) alpha channels.

The channels are called A and B.

Since everything is grayscale, I will normalize my alpha channel values to between 0 and 1, 0 being completely black and 1 being completely white.

I would like a formula that tells me the result when I subtract B from A (On a mac, this is Cmd+Click A and then Option+Cmd+Click B and then create a new alpha channel and paint bucket in 100% white). Let the result be denoted A - B.

Similarly, I would also like a formula that tells me the result when I add B to A (using shift+cmd+click on a mac). Let this be denoted A+B.

I would also like a formula that tells me the result when I intersect A and B (shift+option+cmd+click on a mac). Let this be denoted A cap B.

I would also like a formula that tells me the result when I invert A (Cmd+I on a mac). Let this be denoted Inv(A).

I'm using the latest version of photoshop.

Here are some examples to show that this is not what one might think:

Suppose A = 1 and B = 0.5. Then A - B = 0.66666 = 2/3. Why???

Suppose A = 0.5, then Inv(A) = 0.66666 = 2/3. Why?????

Suppose A = 0.25, then Inv(A) = 0.86. Why????

Suppose A = 0.5, then A cap A = 0.24. Why?????

Suppose A = 0.5, then (A cap A) cap A = 0.1  Whyyyyyyy?

Is there a reference where this is all explained?


texts: Why is color burn not affecting a white channel?

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I am experiencing an unexpected behavior with the color burn blending mode in Adobe Photoshop CS 5 (and CS 6).

My understanding of the blending mode is the following (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/blending-modes.html):

  Color Burn: Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the blend color by increasing the contrast between the two. Blending with white produces no change.

I have the following setup:

Top layer, completely black (#000000), set to Color Burn blending mode
Bottom layer, completely white (#FFFFFF)

My expected result is to get a completely black color (#000000). My actual result is a completely white color (#FFFFFF).

However, when I change the bottom layer ever so slighty, e.g. to a value of nearly white such as #FEFFFF (254, 255, 255 in RGB), then I get the expected result of a completely knocket out channel (#00FFFF).

When the documentation says blending with white produces no change, I expect that to mean the top layer (i.e. the blend layer)?

Why is this blending mode not "enabled" when a channel in the base layer is completely white?

The following picture shows the exemplified results (in CS5):

NOTE: Interestingly this same issue is happening with color dodge (if you invert all references of white to black, and vice versa. Whenever a channel in the color dodge base layer is slightly above 0, the blending mode kicks in.

Edit

This also happens if the top-layer is different from zero, e.g. #040404.

According to the available algorithms I've looked at online the corner case is only when the top-layer is totally black, but these algorithms then use the top-layer (and not the bottom-layer) as a result.

Example:

if b = 0 then
  result := 0
else begin
  c := 255 - (((255-a) SHL 8) DIV b);
  if c < 0 then result := 0 else result := c;
end;

Where a is the base layer (bottom layer) and b is the blend layer (top layer).

(See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5919663/how-does-photoshop-blend-two-images-together or http://www.pegtop.net/delphi/articles/blendmodes/burn.htm)

Since the same behavior is experienced when the top layer is different from zero, it seems like PS has a special case for a base channel value of 255. This is most likely due to an arbitrary decision by Adobe that is not reflected in other algorithms.


texts: Billboard design for 10ft width * 5 ft height size ... what is actual down scaling size in illustrator to prevent system hang

texts: to design 10ft * 5ft  banner of actual size  what is the exact process for down scaling illustrator and raster images in photoshop  please guide me i am new


texts: Determining the usage of a character style in InDesign

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While working on a book layout on InDesign (2019 version), I've made some experiments with character styles. Thus, I've created an empty character style in order to use it for marking the part of a chapter title that should appear in the automated running header (thanks to a text variable).
Then I have changed my mind and don't use that trick anymore. However, when I try to delete the now unused character style, the app asks me what I want to substitute it with, as if it was still used somewhere in the file.
I have checked everywhere:

GREP styles
nested styles
"based on" feature in other styles
text variables

but cannot find any reference to this style I want to delete.

Does anyone have any idea on where else I could look for it?


texts: Outline fonts with opaque white centers?

texts: The outline fonts I'm finding define the black areas and their centers are empty, leaving the background colors to come through. I need a black outline with a white opaque center that overlays the background, preferably in the Arial family (or similar). Do such two-tone fonts exist?


texts: Impossible to export photo embedded in artboard in Illustrator

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I am trying to export several illustrations spread on 6 Artboards of different sizes (composite of vectors and raster images) for web ads in Illustrator CC 2019 v.23.

Whenever I export my artboards (and however I do it, Export for Screens or Save for Web alike), the photo part of the illustration exports very badly:

I've tried exporting at 4x and then scaling down but even then I have a similar problem:

In the Artboard, the photo looks fine (source image is 5k x 4k pixels, and the problems happens with a 1800px version of the image too):

Setting are set as such:

At this point I'm so frustrated and angry at Illustrator's countless bugs that I'm close to just make a screenshot and call it a day.
Unless if I'm missing something super obvious... Am I doing anything wrong?


texts: How can one design (a deathstar) on a sphere?

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I'm trying to design a death star like image in 10 gores to be printed out as stickers and be applied on a perfect sphere.

I first tried to design a simple flat deathstar image:

And use a program that crops the image into 10 gores:

As you can see, if one would stick these gores on a sphere the image would be totally distorted, this can especially be seen on the circle but is present all over the image.

How can I design a image like the second image which is not distorted?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Why do colors output differently when I print within InDesign compared to printing within Photoshop?

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I was wondering if anyone has experienced this.

When I test print a design from Photoshop, my printer output something closer to the colors on screen.

However, when I print the same design from InDesign, using the same printer, somehow the colors change - darker....hue change a little bit.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

I don't understand because it's printed from the same printer and it's the same file.

Why does this occur?


texts: Transparent stroke overlap in Illustrator

texts: I'm trying to do a semi-transparent stroke on a path. When 2 different paths overlap (right) the area where they cross is darker, as expected. But if it a single path there is no such area (left). Any way I can get the single path to show overlap like the two separate paths?


texts: Save text/quote as an image fonts copyrights?

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I have made a free Android app where you can write a poem, quote or any text and then save it as image and then you can share it where you want on the web. In my app you have the options to choose different fonts.

But I want to include fonts like Helvicta Nue, Consolas, and Arial, But as I have read, theese requires that you buy them for commercial(licens) use. But I already have them in my Windows system.

The licens isn't clear about using it in a free app where the font/text is then saved as an image. What is your say about my situation?


texts: Do I need to license fonts included with my OS?

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I've noticed that most custom fonts include a license.txt file that requests some amount of money for a commercial license.

I am interested in whether it is also necessary to license OS (Mac/Windows) included fonts for commercial use.  As a side question, is font theft an issue in the industry?


texts: Is there a way to insert `conditional logic` into Photoshop's Batch Automation?

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I am currently trying to optimize a folder full of images for the web, using Photoshop.  Given the volume of images, I am opting to use the Automate > Batch method.

As well as changing the image quality and file format, I would like to reduce all images over 2500px by 2500px to 900px by 900px.  Unfortunately, there are some images, in the same folder, which are below 900px by 900px.  Of which, I do not want their image sizes to be altered.

As such, is there a way to implement some kind of condition logic that allows the Automate > Batch feature to reduce all images over 2500px by 2500px to 900px by 900px whilst ignoring all images below 900px by 900px?


texts: How do I get text/words to roll over into the next line, leaving the current line unjustified?

texts: How do I get text/words on a page to flow into the next line, mid-word without Pages (Mac) automatically justifying?


texts: Scripting Photoshop: path has too many points to be converted to selection?

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I am working with some large tiff files with fairly complex clipping paths, and have written a script to convert the paths to a selection, invert that selection and delete pixels in order to downsample and save a PNG with transparent background for the web.

If the number of points in the clipping path is greater than 1000, Photoshop will stop with an "Illegal Argument" message and will not make the selection. Choosing "Make Selection" manually from the path palette works fine, and works almost instantly. The problem is especially frustrating since the manual selection is made so easily.

Does anyone know how to allow more points or override this limit?

Thanks


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This question is for those who use Blender together with Gimp for post-processing, texturing, etc.

How to work in Gimp 2.10.8 as if you were working in Nuke or Blender Compositor? I'll explain:

In Nuke or Blender, I have the possibility to linearize the input data (if these are sRGB), how can I do this in Gimp?
In both Blender and Nuke, I can turn on and off the sRGB LUT that is applied in display, is there something like that in Gimp?
Gimp now works at 32bit float, but are the calculations done linearly or are there limitations?
In the output phase, how can I then return to sRGB by applying the LUT in the data?


texts: Achieve this effect: Glowing outline of a photograph

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There's an image effect I want to recreate. Heres the image (SLIGHTLY NSFW): Image

I can roughly recreate the effect, but I don't like it as much. My steps are:

The Original

Step 1: Duplicate, desaturate, smart blur (edges only), blend mode

Step 2: Fiddle with curves

And in the end, I can play around with colors. Unfortunately, I seem to have saved the picture incorrectly, however, not too much changes anyway.

Done

So now I'm reasonably happy with it, but...

Problems

...but the edges are still very thin and I cant find a very good way to make them stronger. Also, in the image I want to recreate, there is a strong white glow on thicker lines - not so in my version. Here, the color is just 'shining trough'.

Any ideas on how to improve this?

Thank you very much for the feedback.


texts: Is there a fast way to correct color differences in Photoshop CS6

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I'm using Photoshop CS6 and I just photographed about 50 different high polish objects.

Is there any way to correct the color and reflection in an easy way? the only way i know would be the copy-stamp and mend-tool (I hope they're called that in english, i just translated it from german)

with those tools it's a very expensive task. is there any tool which could make my life easier?

Here's a not yet corrected picture

here's what it should look like in the end (similar)

Some more example pictures:


texts: Should I read the tutorials or actually do it?

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I am an intermediate graphic designer that uses Photoshop, I've created many pieces that I am very proud of and can stare at it all day long. Alright, let's get to the points.

Many people that use Photoshop, regardless of their skills, always want to learn something new in the program. The most obvious and probably reliable is tutorials, on Tuts+ and sites like that.

Well, I have a question: should I actually do step by step in the tutorials or just reading it to know what they are doing? If I actually do it step by step, it would be time consuming, and if I read it, I can still learn the material and read more tutorials in a short period of time.

But, there's that saying, if you do it, you will remember it more. I'm kind of in the middle right now, and when I read a tutorial and found a cool effect, I try to replicate that effect and that effect only in photoshop for future use.

Any thoughts?


texts: PS - Save for Web - PNG24 not full transparent in Browser

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i tried to export my photoshop mockup file as PNG-24 with transparency, but it doesn't work. Here are some Screenshots what looks like:

Preview in Chrome

Not full transparent, why? and how can i solve this?
And another question... How can i improve the file size with PNG-24? 2MB is too big. But when i use PNG-8 the keyboard and mouse shadow looks like too blurry...

Thanks for your help


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I have selected four vertices of a path, forming a subpath.

How do I get a copy of that subpath (having four vertices)?

CtrlC, CtrlV

copies the whole path (21 vertices).


texts: Recommended size for chrome extension popup

texts: What from the perspective of UX should be ideal size of chrome extension popup window for an extension which will allow users to add the visited site to their bookmark collect and then add tags or a new folder to their added bookmark


texts: How to create a uniformly distributed dashed plot in a scatter graph in Adobe Illustrator CS4

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In Illustrator CS4 I have a scatter graph with four data sets. Now I want to use dashed and dotted patterns. However the dashes are not distributed uniformly over a plot.

Click here to see a PDF

This is due to a plot consisting of multiple separate line segments instead of connected line segments. In CS5 these line segments are supposedly easily joined by simply selecting the plot and press Ctrl + J.

This is however not possible in CS4, which gives the message To join, you must select two open endpoints. If they are not on ....

Connecting all these line segments manually would be too laborious. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Can someone show me how to obtain a uniformly distributed dashed plot in a scatter graph with Adobe Illustrator CS4?


texts: Should I go back to school for graphic design?

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I graduated college several years ago with a degree in English, and have been working in various creative positions in marketing departments since then. My current job is a kind of catch-all web content position--on a weekly basis I do everything from writing copy to making graphics to writing HTML and CSS for web pages, and design tasks have turned out to be my favorite work. Recently, my boss asked for navigational icons for the site, so I taught myself to use Illustrator and made a set of icons of which I am very proud. I am excited by all the design-related skills I've been picking up on the job, and I'd love to pursue a more focused graphic design career going forward.

My question is this: do I need a degree in graphic design to be considered for positions in this field? I feel confident in my ability to put together a portfolio and communicate the value of my experience to employers, but I'm worried that hiring managers will discard my applications without looking when they see that I don't have any kind of art degree or education. At the same time, I would much rather be working and learning on the job than accumulating student debt at this point in my life. If any of you have experience or suggestions for what direction I should pursue, I would appreciate the wisdom!


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I have this image which is the result of a layer on a solid color green surface.

How can I extract these highlights & shadows to a seperate (combined) highlight + shadow layer and reproduce these highlights / shadows on another surface?
Can I somehow pick the color green and substract it from the image.
I have photoshop available.


texts: Creating Etched style illustration in Illustrator from scanned drawing

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I'm having an illustrator create an etched look with pen on Bristol, scanned high res and vectorized in Illustrator. I'm having problems with lines closing up when scaled down.

Click the image for full resolution.

Works fine at 5", but scaling to 35% of that closes everything up and it's not printable. We're trying to work backwards figuring out scalable pen widths, but hardly any detail is holding after trace action in AI.

I've tried every setting and combination thereof. I even downloaded a program mentioned above, watched all the tutorials and realized it only worked well on AI paths, as in drawn in AI. Scans, come in as shapes after trace so, thinning paths doesn't work.

The artwork must be solid black for screenprinting on bottle.

How do I make the traced artwork scale better? Is there a way to either convert traced shapes to paths or automatically 'thin out' paths when scaling down?


texts: Gradient style for each shape in one layer

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I am seeking how to apply an Overlay Gradient style on a layer containing multiple shapes, in a way that each shape has his own gradient (not sharing the layer style to the merged shapes).

For now, I'm getting a global gradient style applied for this layer where each shape are part of the whole gradient style.

Hope it's understandable.

Thank you.


texts: Is there an equation to easily convert a color to its matching color in another hue?

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I am trying to design a site with a couple color schemes. I am looking for a way to make color schemes that match mathematically.

For example, I know that #FF0000 matches perfectly with #00FF00 and #0000FF. Is there some kind of equation to get, for example, the yellow version of #509cc0? I also have the RGB values and the HSL values on hand.


texts: Which UI treament of a large photo is more successful?

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I am about to launch a beer app on Facebook, and while it's a minor detail, I am deciding between two ways to display the photo:

Option 1:

  http://cl.ly/082D0I3A1u0S0W0S1x2w

Padding is less than the body text, but a little edge remains so it's clear that this is all one post. The advantage of this may be the variety it creates, and the nice large size for a photo?

Option 2:

  http://cl.ly/3R0M261p2Z2V0x0F211b

Padding is the same on the photo as the rest of the content, resulting in more breathing room between each post in the feed.


texts: What's the best way to create custom grid lines in Photoshop?

texts: Is there a way to quickly define a baseline grid on photoshop using the guides tool? For example, if I want to create a 24px vertical rhythm, can I do this quickly on PS?


texts: How do I use Save for Web to output a single image, when using a multi slice document?

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I often have a sliced Photoshop document (because I use it to build my HTML), but sometimes I really need to save a preview of the whole project for the web, to use like a thumbnail for example.
Is there a way to use Save for Web to output a single image when using a multi slice document?
I know I can duplicate no a new document but I would feel more comfortable using only my original document.


texts: Can I convert text boxes saved in a PSD file to be editable once opened in InDesign?

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I have created a PSD file which has a large amount of text boxes.
I then placed that file in an InDesign document and now I am required to make all the text editable.
Is there a quick way of solving this or do i need to physically re-write or copy and paste the text in InDesign?


texts: Is it possible to flip a spread horizontally in indesign cs4?

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I am working on a 3 fold a4 brochure in indesign cs4. I found a template with all the guides and margins but it is only for one side of the paper. Since the folded parts are not of equal width, I will need to flip the spread to have the correct dimensions for the back side.

Is there a way to do this? Or is there any other way to carry all the margin and guide info to  the back side?

Thanks.


texts: What’s the right character for an apostrophe?

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Many times I encounter the so called "typewriter apostrophe" (Unicode character U+0027 and HTML symbol &apos;) to represent an apostrophe:

But on the other hand, the "right single quotation mark" (Unicode character U+2019 and HTML symbol &rsquo;) is also used instead:

I wonder now, which of them is the right one and should be used in typography?

Note: The sans-serif typeface Arial was used in both examples.


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I have saved my vector logo as .SVG file from adobe illustrator. But when i upload it on my website it is pixelated. The size of the logo which i want on my logo is (125px by 125px) but i am unable to get a crisp logo on pc screenl. But on mobile it is very crisp.

The image attached is the header of my website.


texts: Photoshop : How to convert Text to outline vector?

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In photoshop : How do I convert a a type layer into a vector outline (Just like in Illustrator)?

For the final purpose of copying this and pasting into Adobe Animate CC.


texts: What is the difference between Poly Art and Cubism?

texts: I have had some people tell me that Poly art isn't really an art style. They also refer to it as Cubism. The reason for my question is why do they call it Cubism when Picasso for my understanding of it only worked in 3D.


texts: Modifiable progress bar symbol in Sketch

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I'm trying to create modifiable progress bar symbols in Sketch. Those are rectangular and circle one on the picture below:

To modify that rectangle so it would suit different percentages I created separate progress bar symbols to nest in the main one like so:

I don't think this is the only way of modifying progress bar. A while ago I saw a tutorial how one guy regulated progress length bar using text override. He somehow linked mask to the text field. Thus, he could regulate the length of the progress bar with the amount of text symbols typed in the override. I can't find the example and forgot how he did that.

How can I create one progress bar symbol and modify progress bar without creating additional symbols for each percentage?


texts: Critique and redesign: Change template for a philosophical website

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Please help me in designing the review and critique of this page

I am a programmer, and a designer gave me an image of a webpage. I made it and everything is OK, but I don't like this template's folders and article icon design.

and this is my template:

This is picture of folder icon:

and This is article icon:

When a user clicks on the folder icon, the website shows the sub folder of that folder, like all operating systems

I think the icons (folder icon, article icon) should be designed as Philosophical and islimi(Arabesque).

A screenshot of the page when I click on the folder icons is shown below (sub folder):

all of the folders have some sub folders too.

  and please suggest me a good color for folder icon and article icon to have contrast with template


texts: What are some design strategies to make a 'dull' colour palette feel more vibrant?

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Given a set of colours in a branding/style guideline that have a very dull look & feel (dark blue, light grey, dark grey and black) and no alternatives as secondary colour, what are some possible design strategies that will make the website design look more bright and vibrant?

The reason for asking this question is because at the moment the branding strategy is being worked on at the moment, and there are conflicting opinions about the best way to make the brand more modern while still sticking to the existing standards. So I haven't tried to come up with any designs yet and didn't want to disclose more information so as to keep the client information private.

The argument for sticking to the original colour palette is to align with existing brand hierarchy, while the argument for either changing or extending the colour palette is because the colours that I have indicated are difficult to use for creating a bright and modern look & feel.

The question is not about exact implementation details, but some of the strategies of creating different look & feel using existing colour palettes rather than using complementary secondary colour palettes.

So one thing I thought of might be instead of using the primary colours for branding and make them very distinct, use them in more subtle ways like highlights and accents, but I can't think of anything else.

The colour palette at the moment consists of:

Dark blue #113184
Bright blue #1179D2
Dark grey #777777
Light grey #333333
Black #000000

Of course, there's nothing stopping you using white as the background or highlight colour.


texts: Can you hide layers from the layer panel in Photoshop?

texts: I want to create a template in Photoshop and hide certain layers from the layer panel so they cannot be edited. Is this possible?


texts: Is there a quick way to draw a curved line with thickness that changes in Illustrator?

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I am curious to see if there's a quick way to draw a curved line with thickness that changes in illustrator, like this sample:

Also, is there a way to apply this to an outlined stroke?

Thanks!


texts: How do I keep the gaussian blur with the same size and outline when downsizing?

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I applied a gaussian blur to the shape on the left and when I try to downsize it to 24 px wide, the gaussian blur creates a "circle" around it (as shown on the shape on the right) rather than just the outline of the shape. How do I prevent that from happening?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to create halftone image with same space and same size dots in Illustrator?

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Hi how do you make something like this in Illustrator?

The dots have the same size and the space between them is fixed.

I tried halftone function but its not the effect I am looking for.

Thanks!


texts: Krita: How to make a particular layer appear (be visible) from a particular frame onwards?

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I am using Krita 4.2.6 on Linux / Ubuntu and making an animation.

I have a layer, on which there is a .png image. This layer should be invisible in the first 30 frames of my animation.
How can I make it visible from the 30-th frame onwards only?


texts: Why does Photoshop outputs such huge PDFs?

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I just saw this and it didn't answer my question, so I started a new thread rather than dig the old one.
I am making a document in Photoshop. The psd file is about 8MB in size, contains 1 (one) photo and 4 (four) icons. The rest is text and only text. And despite that, the output PDF weighs > 13MB and takes loads of time to display.
I made sure it isn't exported as an image, because all of the text in the output PDF is selectable. The only images are the photos and icons I mentionned above.
I tried rendering it as a high quality picture, which weighs ONLY 1MB (this is incredible compared to the PDF size), and perform OCR on it with Acrobat. But then the text just gets all crappy, pixelized and ugly.

I just don't know what to do, I can't send a 14MB document that takes over 5 minutes tu display properly. Do you know how to fix this ?
Thank you in advance.


texts: I am preparing a document to send to print. I was asked to add bleed. Is it necessary for a no background document?  The image on the design will not go all the way to the edge.  Or should I add a white background layer and add the bleed to that?


texts: How can I create nice looking subtle buttons in Photoshop?

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Can you give me some hints for recreate these two buttons?

Which effects are applied? Thanks!


texts: When I import an Inkscape file into Scribus the text is always vectorized. Is there a way to import editable text into Scribus from Inkscape?


texts: I'm working in Photoshop CC. When I go to save my graphic as a tiff the save transparency check box isn't active. What am I doing wrong? How do I make the checkbox active?


texts: How to resize a small image in Photoshop to a large image with smooth gradients and without noise?

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I'm looking for software, namely a Photoshop plugin, or any other software that would integrate with Photoshop on macOS to quickly and easily upscale small low-res images to much larger images with the highest resulting quality, that is with maximally smooth gradients while preserving edges and avoiding visual noise.

One plugin capable of this that is only available on Windows is Redfield Perfectum, which is btw an extremely old piece of software. The third image below was made with Redfield Perfectum.

If there's absolutely no Photoshop software available for this on Mac, please let me know if it's possible to achieve this effect with standard Photoshop features.


texts: Can I scale illustrator files up when printing?

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I'm a student in textile design but I do a lot of my work in photoshop and Illustrator for textiles. In my course we have a fabric printer, however everyone only prints their fabric in meters and not in the shapes of patterns.

I wanted to know if there was a way I could draw up a dress/skirt/shirt pattern exactly on Illustrator/Photoshop place my design on it and it would print out exactly. In other words could I scale Illustrator to a life size fabric pattern?


texts: Indesign - Paste Inline Image Resized to Frame Width

texts: I'm inserting large inline images into my text flow, which it then breaks the flow and disappears. Is there a way to have it automatically resize to fit the text frame's boundaries?


texts: Exporting designs for professional magazine printing?

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I have several PSDs, each PSD represents a page that makes up a small A6 magazine.

Now firstly, I wanted to ask, do I send the individual PSD files to be printed?

If so, what file type is best? (With CMYK)

If not, what should I do? Should I combine them into one InDesign document? (Coulnd't find a way to import the PSD into inDesign)

Help would be greatly appreciated.


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I've created a page using Inkscape and I exported it to PDF. The image has about 5 layers. The image is fine when I open it using preview - I can see all of the layers.

However when I upload the image (I need to get it on Google Drive) for some reason it loses all but one layer. I tried merging the layers using the paste in place option, however the images on the page become really low-res! The same happens when I export to PNG.

Is there any way I can export this page to a PDF with only one layer? So far, grouping the images hasn't worked either.

I'm a beginner so I have no idea what to do and I have wasted so much time trying to figure this out!
Thanks in advance.


texts: How do these Acrobat fixups differ: 'Convert' vs 'Map' vs 'Map spot and process' colors?

texts: Please see this screenshot from Acrobat DC, and explain like I'm 5.


texts: InDesign: fix wrapping for vertically centered text

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See the following screenshot of my current document:

As you can see, there's a graphic frame in the top right that has text wrap enabled. The text in the text box follows that nicely (as you can see in the headline).

Still, even the centered text in the paragraph below the headline is wrapped, although they are short enough. That way, the text looks odd with the second centered paragraph below, since they are not aligned to the same center.

Is there a way to have centered text ignore the text wrap, unless it is absolutely neccessary (e.g. the lines get too long)?


texts: Removing text from an image in a rough but quick fashion

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I often find myself in a situation where I'd like to check how an image would look like without the text embedded in it. I'm not interested in a neat result, just something rough but super quick and easy.

Is there a plugin or something to achieve just that?


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I am learning GIMP since I've started to print my t-shirts.

My question is how can I keep the colors of an image after Maximize RGB?

For example for an image with a rainbow, I am taking out the background then save the image in Maximize RGB. Colors become more red and blue, but I want to keep original colors.


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Is there any way to add a new page to my work in Illustrator ?

I've seen these buttons on the bottom:

I guess they are for the pages ?

thanks


texts: Tamil fonts not properly rendering Illustrator CC

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I have this in MS Word (which I copied from google transliterator)

And when I paste it in illustrator, it get

I could paste the same anywhere else, such as Notepad, Web, and many other apps and get it perfectly rendered:

I searched in google and got to know about the language options

but I changed those options and found no difference except that I get a few extra options Insert Aki (Left), Insert Aki (Right) and Tsume, and playing with those options is not helping...!

And I have tried with multiple fonts: the ones that only support Tamil such as Akarathi and dual encoded fonts like Nirmala UI, SaiIndira, etc.,

  I get problems only when pasted inside Illustrator

How do I get them rendered properly?

EDIT: I have also tried as discussed in Adobe Forums. Converted to PDF and opened it in illustrator. And many chars get converted to lines (expanded and not editable)...!


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If a site has several short, simple, web-based animations what software would be the best to create them in? (Best in terms of (i) how quickly the animations can be made; (ii) how big the animation files are.) In particular, I am referring to my site Socratease

If you click on any of the modules, you will soon notice that there are animations that accompany most learning screens. The animations are there to make the content engaging. The animations have mostly been done with Adobe Animate and Illustrator. It gets published as an HTML5 Canvas element, and the Javascript file is stored as a separate file. When the webpage loads, it loads the JS file and renders the animation.
We had to resort to Canvas because gifs didn't have good enough quality, for that file size. And mp4s don't auto-load on certain browsers. I would very much appreciate it if I get help with the following:

This method seems like a bit of a hack: exporting to canvas, etc. I don't think it is very standard. Are there any long-term challenges I should be aware of? There are currently a few dozen animations, and my initial impression is that I think this system is scalable.
Apart from Animate, I could also use After Effects. People I have spoken to seem to be more familiar with AE than with Animate. But, when I try to export an AE animation as a canvas element, the files are quite large in size, sometimes up to 5 times as large. As most screens of mine will have animations, the file size is a big issue. For such simple animations, is AE a bit of an overkill?
If the current architecture is the optimal one, are there other things I can do to optimise the animations? Any non-default settings I can choose while publishing, etc that would reduce the file size, or render using less processing power?


texts: Why is azure used instead of teal as cyan in color mixing?

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Why does azure make a better cyan than teal for color mixing?

On the HSV spectrum, cyan sits at 180 degrees, which is bright teal, whereas most printer inks and best primary blues for painting and sketching seem to sit between 190 and 205 degrees on HSV.

If teal is literally cyan, and azure is not quite cyan, shouldn't it make a better cyan than azure since it absorbs red more purely than azure does (and therefore allow finer control in subtractive color mixing)?

Azure seems so popular for cyan that the "new color theory" painters on youtube seem to almost always point to an azure: cerulean (often called brilliant blue), phthalo blue, or prussian blue when they refer to cyan, none of which are really "cyan" in my eyes.

Why does azure seem so much better at mixing than teal (a true shade of cyan)?


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I have 2 product designs for the plastic enclosure of a cyber-security device that protects your smart home devices from hackers.

Users interact with the device with an app and the typical product world is a living room cabinet or desk.

Which of these two designs better conveys security and protection? Which one would you rather own?

Round

Wave


texts: I have a client who keeps asking for quotations but never follows through

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I'm fairly new to freelancing and have an issue that I'm not sure how to tackle.

I'm still struggling to get paid work so every potential job is very important, however I've had so many time wasters. One of whom has got in touch with me several times over the past few months, always asking for a quotation on a different project. She will only speak to me face-to-face and talks for ages, but never actually follows through and commissions me for any work.

She's got in touch yet again saying she wants to discuss an upcoming project with me. I'm starting to get fed up with wasting my time for no financial payoff but not sure what to say to her as I don't want to be rude/ruin my reputation, and part of me keeps thinking maybe she is serious this time.

Any advice much appreciated!

Thank you


texts: How to create frames from layers in Photoshop extended?

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Is there a way to automatically create frames from layers in a Photoshop document?

Bridge lets you open several images into one Photoshop document as layers, now I would like to get these layers loaded into the animation window (one frame per layer) without having to create frames one by one.

If you know of a better workflow in photoshop for putting together photos for a timelapse animation would also be helpful.


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is this graphic rendered in 3d or created by Photoshop using bevel and other things..?
if with bevel then how can i add curved in effect?


texts: Print deep blacks in CMYK photo magazine

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I am very much a novice when it comes to working with printing and colour values and I am using InDesign for the first time.

I am working on an all black and white photographic magazine, which will naturally be printed with CMYK colours. I have added black and white photos exported from Adobe Lightroom with an sRGB colour profile.

For regular objects added to ID I have made a new colour swatch for rich blacks. However I've noticed the blacks on the photos and the objects with rich black (70,50,30,100) look rather dull when "Proof Colours" is selected. Especially since I will print on matte paper, I am losing a lot of deep blacks.

FYI, I have set the appearance of black on screen as 'Accurately', as well as printing/exporting as 'Accurately'.

Any way I can achieve a richer black mag?

EDIT
Reworded my question:

I know rich blacks are possible, as long as one adds some CMY to 100% K. This is easily done when adding regular shapes in InDesign by setting a new colour swatch. These blacks are richer than the blacks I am getting in my photos. I am suspecting the photos are only using K values, and none of the CMY. Would it be possible to get these rich blacks the same way as when one adds rich blacks to any shapes added in InDesign?