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I am using GIMP. And I want to design a very basic banner to be printed 3m long. The design is as simple as it could be : it consists of one logo that I have in pdf format (was designed by a professional graphic designer), and a bit of text.
I believe this is a very easy task that would take 10 min to complete for someone who knows.
It should be in 300dpi res.
If I open a new file with 3m long dimensions and a 300 dpi res. the file will be a few GB big, and GIMP refuses to work with such a big file. (may not be the right way of doing)
Do you know how to get started with that ?

Thanks in advance for the valuable tips !


texts: Can After Effects be used for website prototyping?

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I know one designer that is a motion graphics guy first, then a UI designer. Recently, produced a website design entirely in After Effects and got my thinking whether that approach can be a viable alternative to Photoshop or Illustrator for UI designs.

The design he produced was very simply so it doesn't show me what AE is really capable of in regard to more complex UIs. Has anyone used AE to create a relatively complex UI mockup before? What are the pros and cons of using this approach vs Illustrator/Photoshop? (Aside from the obvious benefits of video transitions, I mean specifically in regard to creating static pages, is it very difficult to create complex UIs?)


texts: When I Place A PDF, It Does Not Show The Correct Artboard Size (Doesn't account for the empty white artboard)

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The white box is showing what the art board size is when I open the PDF in illustrator (To edit). Yet when I go to place the PDF in a new document, the size changes. It is not saving he white/blank space on the art board, and just saving it to the art that's in the file. It's an illustrator setting, because when I open it in acrobat, it shows the white space included.

My last step in pre flight is throwing it in a new doc to make sure the sizing is correct, and there's no hidden layers that show up for print.

The obvious solution is to just add a white box in my art file, but I would like to know a fix that doesn't include that.


texts: Can't get graphical .ttf font to work in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop on the Mac

texts: I'm trying to use the Keyrune 'font', basically just .ttf of all magic sets. It's built as web font, but is .ttf and is being 'seen' by both PS and AI, as the typeface shows up in the autocomplete dropdown. However, when I try and select them, it fails to select. The Keyrune type does NOT show up in the drop down picklist, which is also strange. (Clearly, something isn't working, but just not sure what.)


texts: Setting the Graduated Filter Color Back to Default

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Using Adobe Camera Raw 9.1.1 in CS6.

I was playing with the Graduated Filter and set its color field.

How do I set it back to no color? I am not able to find any way to have it back to its original value, it seems that now I am forced to use a color unless I am willing to delete all the development settings.


texts: How can I fix the edges of foreground objects pasted onto a new background?

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How can I cut out a foreground object, e.g. a person, from one picture and superimpose it onto a new background without making the edges look bad?

The problem I've come across is that if I have for example a white background and a dark blue object, there are some pixels at the edge of the object that are various lighter blue shades.  If it were a black background instead, those pixels should be darker shades of blue instead of lighter; how can I change them appropriately when I want to replace the background?  It's not too hard to fix this when I just have two colours, but what about when the imaged is varied, like with a photo of a person outdoors?  I've tried blurring the edges of the object into the background, which is not awful but the edges don't look crisp enough.

I use Photoshop CS5 if there's a specific PS way of doing this.


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I tried to convert a model drawing to vector format (dxf) automatically with programs such as CorelDRAW, AutoCAD, etc. but it fails due to gray tones near to black lines.

I thought if I used Photoshop to try and remove the grays on picture and try auto convert again, maybe the conversion would work. Could anyone help me on this issue? Moreover, any recommendations for a tool that will successfully convert this drawing?

Example image (Google Drive)


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Repeating the last selection can be useful. For example:

Sometimes you apply changes to several selected objects simultaneously. To properly appreciate the result and avoid clutter, it is necessary to temporarily deselect, and then select again if further changes are needed.

Sometimes you apply changes to a selection and accidentally click on the background or something else, hence losing the selection. If the selection were really complicated you should have created a group for it, but if it is just a few objects you may feel that it is not appropriate to create a group.

Is there a way to recover or repeat the last selection in Inkscape? I have seen a couple of threads on other forums such as this one and this one that seem to indicate that it is not possible, but they are a decade old, so new features may have been added since then.


texts: techniques/methods/utilities/exercises to practise typography principles

texts: I am a beginner interested in learning typography. What kind of tools are available that would help me layout/experiment easily with various design principles. For example, this site i found immensely useful to learn and practice kerning. Just wondering if there are any other such online/offline tools similar to above.


texts: Optical Resolution vs. Print Quality When Scanning Art for Traditional Offset Printing

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I'm new to this side of things - a writer who's venturing into self publishing. My illustrator, also a newbie, will be providing me the original artwork, but I need to figure out how best to achieve a professional output for traditional printing.

My illustrator is producing watercolor art on fine grain cold press watercolor paper. She's using 18x24 paper, though the illustrations are only 17.25 x 11.25 (which is an 8.5 x 11 children's book, inclusive of the bleed).

My question relates to scanning the illustrations for layout in InDesign. While I need this to be as cost effective as possible, I do not want to sacrifice quality. The end product must look professionally printed - crisp, clear, etc.

Through my research, it seems that 300 DPI is the standard recommendation for 4-color, offset print-ready files; and 300 PPI scanned at 100% scale equates to 300 DPI.

So here's my confusion. I'm looking at an Epson flatbed scanner that would so nearly accommodate the size of the illustrations that I think I can make it work without multiple scans (it accommodates 17.2 x 12.2), BUT the scanner has a maximum optical DPI resolution of 2400 x 4800. Am I correct in thinking the math works like this:

11.25" (height of illustration) x 300 DPI = 3375
17.25" (width of illustration) x 300 DPI = 5175

Which equates to 3375 x 5175 needed resolution which exceeds the 2400 x 4800 maximum optical resolution of the scanner? Or said differently, this scanner is only capable of scanning an image of my size at a little more than 200 DPI instead of the needed 300 DPI, and therefore the print quality will be subpar?

I may be completely confused and I hope I am, because this scanner appears to be the best available at the $3k price range which already pushes the boundary of my budget. Beyond that, things jump to $6k and more.

The scanner I'm looking at is the Epson Expression 12000XL Graphic Arts Scanner. Given my described circumstances, would anyone be able to:

Tell me if my concern is valid regarding the Epson scanner, or correct me if I'm mistaken in my understanding and it should get the job done well for my purpose.
Make a recommendation for a different scanner or alternative method for obtaining the quality I need for traditional, offset printing. I know there are services which will scan large-format art for a fee ($70 per illustration seems to be the going rate); but that would ultimately cost the same as buying the scanner, and having it would pay off with the next book if it can produce the needed quality.

Sorry for the long question, but huge appreciation for anyone's help!!

Thank you!


texts: What monitor is a good choice for graphic design?

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Hi guys illustrators and designers.
I curious what monitor is good for graphic design (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign...)?
What screen resolution you recommend? What brand and how many inches the diagonal?


texts: How to make GREP match everything between two markers, regardless the Forced Line Brake occurance

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I'm wondering if it's possible to make GREP "jump over" the Forced Line Brake (FLB), while he is searching for particular keyword.

I have a text frame containing multiple Companies described by three categories:

    1. Company's Name
    2. Website
    3. Short Description.

Every category is marked in the text by it's marker (a keyword) on the beginning of it:

    MARKER1 Dreamworks Studios [FLB]
    MARKER2 www_dreamworks_xxx/info/info [FLB]
    MARKER3 company that produces movies [PR]
    MARKER1 Coca-Cola Company [FLB]
    MARKER2 www_cocacola_xxx/info/info [FLB]
    MARKER3 company that produces drinks [PR]
    ...etc.

Now, each of those three categories should have separate CHARACTER STYLE applied with use of GREP. I want GREP to search trough the text till he finds specific marker and to apply desired STYLE to everything... untill the next marker:

    everything between MARKER1 and MARKER2 should get STYLE1
    everything between MARKER2 and MARKER3 should get STYLE2
    everything between MARKER3 and MARKER1 should get STYLE3

And that's quite easy... untill I have to use more FLB-s between markers:

    MARKER1 Dreamworks [FLB]
    Studios [FLB]
    MARKER2 www_dreamworks_xxx/ [FLB]
    info/info [FLB]
    MARKER3 company that[FLB]
    produces [FLB]
    movies [PR]
    ...etc.

When the text looks like above, all my concepts for GREP sentences fail. I stumbled here upon this useful sentence, which is good if the text looks like in the first example (without multiple FLB-s between markers), or if used with only one style and one category. Here is how I'm using it to apply STYLE1 to the part of text of first category:

Apply:
    STYLE1
to Text:
    ^.*?((MARKER2)|$)

But when I use similar sentence with next category (changing only the marker) it doesn't work properly. because of those additional FLB-s.

So I repeat my question: is it possible to make GREP "jump over" the Forced Line Brake (FLB), when it is searching for particular keyword?


texts: Can someone help me interpret these poster requirement for a conference? Phrases like 'bleed', 'please outline all fonts'

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The requirements are in this picture.

  Final Size : 24" x 32" (yellow)
  Artwork Safe area: green
  Bleed: 24.25" x 32.25" (pink)

  Save final print ready file as PDF-x1a with crop and bleed
  Please outline all fonts
  Color mode: CMYK
  all color must be CMYK build
  no spot color, no pantone

  Any images should be at least 150 dpi
  ideal 300 dpi for print quality

I am not sure what they mean by 'bleed', and also what they mean by 'Save Final Print Ready File as pdf-x 1 a with crops and bleed' ? I am also not sure what they mean by 'please outline all fonts'.

I googled the color mode, and it seems like something a print shop would know about, as well as the dpi requirements.


texts: Does anyone know how can i do the effect of R? I use any adobe tools. Please see attachment


texts: Saving Animated GIF With Transparency (Photoshop)

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I am trying to save an animated GIF, but for some reason areas that are more transparent than others (e.g. the grey shadow) don't come out with opacity, they become fully grey when saved.

When I save it, it turns out like this:

These are my settings when trying to save:


texts: How to preserve a curve when using the "rounded corners" effect on my shape?

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I am trying to round the corners of a custom shape, but it is just straightening the original curves out.

Note: This is in Illustrator CS5

Here is the shape before the effect:

The 3 "corners should be rounded".

Here is what happens when I use the effect:

How can I preserve the curves, and just round the actual corners?


texts: Are there any specific composition rules for web design?

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Are there any composition rules specific to web design, or that are otherwise elevated in importance in the context of web design?

There are probably some aspects of composition that would be more or less important depending on the medium, and since my primary space is web pages, I'm curious if there are certain compositional rules that would be of greater importance for web design.


texts: How do I make a set of images exactly the same hue/darkness as a sample image?

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I have two textures of the same section of straight road - one darker and yellower, but a low resolution, and the other is the correct resolution but much too light.

I need to be able to exactly match the high-res image's darkness & hue to the lower resolution image, and then apply the exact same action to four other (light, high-res) images of the different road intersections and curves.

All five high-res images need to seamlessly match each other and an image that the low resolution image already matches. I can't simply match them to that image because it is effected by an un-measurable light source, so I have to match them to the low-res image.

(I'd prefer a way of doing this in Krita but I have old Photoshop and I'd use whatever other software you recommend if its free.)

in uploading theses images i must state that i did not create them, the originals are by curiousb and the darker image is by rensim

these are the colour differences when i use photoshop's match colour

since the difference is quite noticeable is there any automated way to reduce the difference or must it be done manually?

thank you!


texts: Is iPad Pro with Pencil the best route to take for drawing custom icons?

texts: I'm looking to make the investment in a drawing tablet. I've looked into Intuos, but have never played with it. I played with the ipad pro and pencil and really loved it. What are some of your experiences with either product?


texts: Minimum set of assets to cover all screen sizes, densities, and orientations on Android

texts: I'm working on an Android project, and we have a splash screen where the user logs in that has a background image that takes up the entire screen. What is the minimum set of assets needed for this? The documentation suggests to provide different bitmap drawables for different screen densities, and to use size and density-specific resources. We also allow portrait and landscape orientation, so my designer gave me 18 bitmaps to cover large, normal, and xlarge screens each with portrait and landscape bitmaps in each (mdpi, hdpi, and xhdpi) density. This seems a bit excessive to me. Any suggestions?


texts: I created a logo in photoshop for my website but my marketing manager want a cdr file. So I want to know is there any simple method to convert a psd file into cdr file?


texts: Finding Illustrator CC Color Swatches Being used

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I'm going crazy over this one. I have been trying to locate color swatches being used in a Illustrator CC file. Through this process of elimination I have tried multiple search and locate options. However, the swatches still appear in my Swatches Panel when I choose the option for  Add Used Colors.

Convert the color swatches over to Spot and using the Separations Preview.
Here I can turn on and off the color to locate where the color is being used.
Create a simple shape with the fill and stroke using this swatch. Then using the Select -> Same -> Fill Color -or- Select -> Same -> Stroke Color.

Through this process I have located the colors, which are builds of Black in CMYK, and converted them to the color standard of a Rich CMYK Black that I need. But now there is no indicator that shows me where these "Hidden" colors are being used. Anyone have other tricks that might help me locate these colors?Here is a Screenshot of my swatches and the CMYK value colors are the ones that i cannot find being used in any shape or font.
Thanks in advance.


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This is the result i'd like to have:

So it's a text, with a rectangle exactly the size of the text, than translating up for 50% of the text height and to the right with 50% of the first letter width.

I achieved this in Photoshop by creating the text outline, duplicate the rectangle, delete the text outline from one of the rectangles (1), than selecting the outline of the other rectangle (2) and delete it from the text. And at last deleting rectangle (2).

Many steps for something which, to me seems, should be much easier.

Can anybody point me in the right direction to which would be a much easier workflow? I guess Illustrator would be the right tool for the job, I found something about pathfinder but didn't get the above result.

Thanks in advance.


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I am looking for fonts with "square" letters, by which I mean fonts with both the same width and height.
For example:
% we have a percentage here. To be square it should be wider, possibly with a "fatter" midline.


texts: Creating playing table background with greenish rays coming from the middle

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Could anybody please advise steps in Adobe Illustrator for creating a greenish background with "rays" emitting from its middle?

I.e. which tool to use for creating the rays?
How to create the "inner" shadow on the rectangular border?
Which tool to create the lighter spot in the middle

I wonder how to approach this in Adobe Illustrator, because I need a vector output - an .fxg file for my Flash game. I. e. I can not use Photoshop or Gimp here.

Thank you for any hints/directions


texts: Batch convert fill and stroke colour of a set of icons

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I have a set of icons which are black and white. I want to try and make it shades of blue. Example is given below

I have set stroke and fill colours to it manually using Inkscape. Will it be possible to do the same for a no. of icons ( around 300 in a folder ) ? I use alpha 156 for transparency in fill colour. Even a CLI tool will do. I tried IcoMoon, but not sure how to do it even though it has some option to change colours.


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Do you know why this horizontal line appears at the top of this headline text? It shows in Illustrator and when saved as JPG, and in some PDF viewers.

This is a single click text line (not a text box). The font is Bodoni 72, size 130 pt. I'm using Illustrator CC on the latest Mac OS.


texts: How would I add an outline / border around this image?

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I have a vector of a few unicorns that is currently on a blue background:

I want to put them on a white background, but when I do that, the unicorns lose their shape because they are white and don't have an outline:

How would I add a border / outline to them without having to draw it myself?

I'm looking for methods related to Photoshop, Sketch, or Illustrator.


texts: InDesign corrupts imported excel-files. Win/Mac issue with character sets

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I'm on a Mac, working on an InDesign file. I get some XSLX files with numbers in them, and when I place them into my document, all spaces are replaced with an 'Ê'. I'm thinking this is some issue with character sets, but I'm unable to fix it.

There seems to be no option to save an XSLX file to another character set from Excel. I tried to import my file to Google Sheets, and export it again (this should set the character set to UTF-8), but then InDesign wont allow me to place it in my document at all.

Any ideas?


texts: Inkscape merges consecutive straight segments in one when importing from EPS

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I am trying to import the following EPS file in Inkscape (version 0.91 on Debian sid):

%!PS-Adobe EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0.000000 0.000000 850.393701 566.929134
newpath
42.519685039370 73.646254810015 moveto
127.559055118110 73.646254810015 lineto
212.598425196850 73.646254810015 lineto
297.637795275591 73.646254810015 lineto
382.677165354331 73.646254810015 lineto
467.716535433071 73.646254810015 lineto
552.755905511811 73.646254810015 lineto
637.795275590551 73.646254810015 lineto
722.834645669291 73.646254810015 lineto
807.874015748032 73.646254810015 lineto
1.014173 setlinewidth
0.0 0.0 0.0 setrgbcolor
stroke

As you can see, this EPS describes a straight line, although it is broken in many intermediate points. After importing I would like to see handles corresponding to all the intermediate points, but Inkscape automatically simplifies them and just retains the initial and final handles.

Is there anyway to obtain the behavior I would like to have?

EDIT One workaround I have is to randomize a little the points, enough so that Inkscape does not detect the resulting line as straight, but not too much so the difference is not visible. I would like to find a better way.


texts: Why two documents with same dimension but different resolution has different view size in photoshop?

texts: please look at these pictures. i couldn't figure out, why this happens?


texts: Photoshop tracking and kerning: what do the number values mean?

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Working on a site design where I'm trying to translate a tracking value of "100" to the CSS letter-spacing property.

When I specify a tracking value of "100", what am I saying? Definitely doesn't seem like percent or pixels.

I tend to eyeball to get what I want, but I'd rather run a conversion and not have to think about it if that's possible.


texts: Font or technique needed to recreate newspaper article from 1873

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I work for an animal shelter that traces its history back to 1873.  With the help of the local library, my colleagues and I were able to find the original newspaper article that discussed the initial organizing meeting.  The microfilm image is not very legible.  You can view the image here:

We would like to reproduce this clipping in our marketing materials, and we may want to turn it into a plaque for display in our lobby.  Rather than trying to tweak the article using digital re-touching, I am interested in the possibility of re-typing it from scratch.  But I still want it to look authentic (in other words, the font should not be too "crisp" -- it should still look like an old newspaper article).  Ideally, the font should closely resemble the actual font used in the original article.

There is no budget for this project, so I basically have to do it myself.  I'm not a graphic artist.  If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful.  Thanks so much.


texts: Sketch: multiple text styles in one textbox

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In Sketch, is there a way I can have two styles of text applied to one text box?
E.g. let's say I have a style of BODY in a text box, and then want a few words of it (not all of it) underlined. I'd like it to have a BODY / UNDERLINED style applied to only the underlined words, and then simply BODY applied to the rest of the text.
But it seems I can only have one style applied to each text box. Meaning I have to just manually underline certain words if I want them underlined, but then when I update the BODY style it clears the underline and I have to set it again.


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I'm trying to setup a large presentation spread with 4 panels. They will be hung next to each other so it's important that I see all of them next to each other while I design the layout.

Facing pages allows you to see 2 pages next to each other. Is there some way to get the same effect with more than 2 pages?


texts: Proper term for "Visual Nutrition" in English?

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In Arabic, we have the phrase "التغذية البصرية" which literally means "Visual Nutrition".

In Arabic, it means basically to develop an artistic eye by looking into other people's graphic designs (or art in general), hence kind of reach a saturated status of art visualizing to be able to produce better art or just simply learn from the others (e.g. browsing through Behance and Dribbble in the case of graphic design).

What is the correct respective terminology in English?


texts: How to create/draw this text box shape in Photoshop?

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How to make this kind of shape in photoshop? text split in slash and add color.

I know its basic stuff but I have no idea. Last time PS used was like 4 years back. Please help.. I am using Photoshop CC. Thank you.

EDIT : LOL


texts: Command line interface-based way to desaturate and posterize an image?

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This is by far my most common task, and I'd say I've wasted about 1000 mouse clicks on it in my raster-based program.

Because it's so common for me to start off desaturating an image and then posterizing it, I'd like to write a shell script that does the same, that way I can process an entire directory automagically and simply get on with my work... There are only so many hours in the day. If I can make my computer do all the mouse clicks for me, go away and drink a few cups of coffee while it does so, then come back to it, that's infinitely better for me.

So how can I accomplish these two tasks using the CLI?


texts: How can I export AI file to various sizes?

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I'm currently designing some prints in Illustrator. For example, I have a design on an artboard of 11 in x 14 in, 300 dpi and I can easily export it to jpeg/png.

But I want to take this print and scale it to different other sizes (16 in x 20 in, 20 in x 30 in, 8 in x 10 in etc) and then export it. To accomplish this, I currently have an Illustrator template with artboards of different sizes. I copy the design and paste and re-scale it on all those artboards. But I don't think this is to efficient. Can you please let me know if there an easier way?

I can use both Illustrator and Photoshop.

Thanks,
Alex


texts: How to recreate this color overlay backlight effect circle layer?

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A relative of mine created a logo which has a backlight effect behind it.

He is much better at Photoshop than I, and I only know a few of the basics.

Here is the PSD file of my image, with only the background layer (I believe) and the backlight-effect layer: https://goo.gl/XNJ8AK

And here is a view of the image:

If you look at the top, you can see that the top of the backlight-effect circle has been cut off (I edited this image by making both the canvas and the 'base' layer (i.e. background colour layer) bigger to show you what effect saving the original image with a smaller canvas size has done to the backlight-effect circle).

I tried to mimic the properties of the backlight-effect circle layer (called 'light copy' in the aforementioned PSD file), by adding the 'fx' - 'Color Overlay' effect to a newly-created layer, and modifying the settings so that they were the exact same as the original backlight-effect circle layer. Of course, the layer was invisible (yes the 'eye' icon was visible next to the layer name). I'm not surprised as, when I tried making the mimic layer, I never drew a circle or used the brush tool or anything like that.

I want to fix the backlight-effect circle so that the top isn't cut off, AND I want the properties to be the exact same (as the layers that make up the logo go over it, and it acts as a perfect backlight effect).

Is there any way to identify how the layer was made? I don't want to know how to make a 'similar' effect - I need to know how to either simply fix the original layer or duplicate it with the exact same size, color, opacity, hardnes, etc. as the original one but with the top part intact.

What I don't understand is, if I click on the 'Color Overlay' fx effect's eye (to hide it from visibility), the backlight-effect disappears. But how do you make a circle shape in a 'Colour Overlay' fx effect? Shouldn't the 'Color Overlay' setting just change the colour of the backlight if it's made invisible (i.e. if you click on the eye) and not make it completely disappear?

Anyway, I'd be very grateful if anyone would be willing to take a look at the PSD file and either show me how to fix the original layer (so the top isn't cut off) or how to recreate the layer with the exact same properties. Because I don't even know what to search for on how to fix this! (I tried following a YouTube tutorial on how to create a backlight-effect circle but it didn't instruct me to use the 'fx' - 'Color Overlay' effect - it told me to use the brush tool instead?).


texts: GIMP fill gif canvas background with image background

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Normally people would want to make the gif background transparent.

But how to fill all the cavas background with the "grey-like color" background of the image and apply to all 90+ layers? I have downloaded and included the "interleave layers" but unable to make it work.


texts: Why is tonos (sometimes) rendered different from oxia?

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Crosspost from Latin SE.

When polytonic Greek was abandoned, they for some reason chose to design the tonos (modern Greek, right in the image) different from the oxia (Ancient Greek, left in the image). In most fonts, there is verily no difference at all, but in some (I would assume those with a longer tradition, such as Garamond), the difference is quite pronounced; as demonstrated in ‘What is the difference between the accent on q and the accent on semicolon?’ (Latin SE), the Ancient Greek accents mirror each other, whilst the tonos has a steeper angle than the ancient oxia.
We have had a conversation in comments and chat on Latin SE, and although modern Greek is off-topic (on Latin SE), unless in relation to Ancient Greek, this question was deemed on-topic due to it concerning the transition from Ancient to Modern Greek. This question was therefore originally posted on Latin SE, and from the conversations in chat, I was recommended to crosspost this to a different SE that might be better qualified to answer my question. Though being on-topic on Latin SE, it is considered unlikely to get an answer, due to the question’s topic being on the side of the expertise found there.
Thus, my question is focused on the development from Ancient to modern Greek. I am especially considering the transition from Ancient to modern Greek grammar and typography, leading to the questions: Why are these symbols different from each other? How did the oxia develop into the tonos?


texts: How to print a large Photoshop file (.psb)?

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I want to print a large document, a PSB file of 3.21 Go. But I want that document to be 270x305 cm and 300 dpi. The problem is that my printer want a file in the EPS format and that Photoshop don't allow me to save my PSB file to an EPS format.

Do you have any suggestions on how to solve this problem ?

Thanks in advance for your responses!


texts: Should you use both a Wordmark and a Lettermark Logo together at the same time?

texts: Is it bad design to use BOTH a company wordmark (pictures to the right) and a Lettermark (pictured to the left) at the same time in a header of a website or app? or on a businesss card? or ever?


texts: I am designing a logo for teespring... I have used Microsoft Word for font, then exported word to PDF, which I have then saved on my Sony Xperia. I then take a screenshot of the PDF (as it is open on Adobe Acrobat on my phone). I now have a PNG image that I can save on my computer, crop and use on teespring. Will this PNG image support CMYK and if not, how will this effect the quality of the print?


texts: Can RGB screen color exist in real physical world?

texts: For example the bright royal blue color; R0 G10 B220, HEX: #000ae1. I know this color cannot be printed nor painted. But can this blue color exist in the real world other than on a digital screen? For example the aurora in the sky, or a rainbow in the sky?


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I am trying to copy this poster

strictly for learning. I do not plan to use it in any way whatsoever.

Te graveyard image used is this one here at:

My major problem is with how to obtain the misty, dark bluish sky in the background.
Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

My attempt:


texts: How to use two instances of image to make an image overall wider?

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I am working on a print size of 72" x 24". My image that I would like to use is about 18" x 18" at 300 dpi. I am afraid just resizing the image will result in to much loss of quality to stretch to fit 72" wide. Plus it's not in an ideal ratio compared to the print piece.

The image is darker in color with grass towards the bottom. What is a good method to take two instances of the image and overlap them to create a wider image? I tried the merge photo automation, but it just keeps putting the two images on top of each other, not using the image size by side.

What other methods can I try to merge two instances of the same photo together to create a wider image?

Thanks.


texts: How do I make screenshots look good when printed in CMYK?

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When printing screenshots alongside black text, black areas of the screenshot look a washed out "muddy dark grey" and "washed out".

What causes this and can I improve the black color area?


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I've never done a storyboard/visual user story for a new app/software program before, so how would I do that? Or what are the key elements?

Basically, I need to create a storyboard of how it would affect the user's daily life.


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I have made a path in Photoshop and I created a shape. The shape has a dashed stroke. I want to paint every dash in an other color. How can I do that?

I tried changing the stroke color but I can only set or 1 color or a gradient. But I would like to change every 50px or so in an other color. Can someone tell me how to do that? Can I paint them, or should I create a new layer?

Thanks!


texts: How to create an 'impression' effect in Illustrator

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I am wondering how to create an impression effect in illustrator.  If you take a look at the attached jpg, I am hoping to make this cloud look as if it has been impressed upon the magenta background.  What I am thinking is an inverse drop shadow if it is possible, but any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


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In Adobe Acrobat, you can process a document using the "Create Links from URLs" function to automatically detect email and web links in a pdf file and make them live links.

I want to do the same thing for phone numbers.
You can manually tag phone numbers using the tel: code. (tel:+000000000). and they will be active links when viewed from a smartphone. (click the link to initiate a phone call)

I am looking for a script or third party plug-in that can automatically detect phone numbers and tag them. Has anyone run across anything that might do this?

This is probably not a design question, but someone here must have run into this before.


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I have no experience with Tiff files so I am hopeful you will forgive me.
I am interested in trying to enlarge a print to canvas. The current Tiff file is 8205 x 5426px (27.4" X 18.3" @ 300 dpi).
Is there enough data in this file to double its size, 54.8" x 36.6"?
If so, once the dimensions have been added, would I simply save it in Photoshop as a Tiff file?
I have access to a Canon Pro 6000s 60" printer. My experience has been limited to smaller images so any guidance is appreciated.


texts: How to convert a handwritten text on chalkboard to a vector?

texts: I'm pretty much a graphic-design noob. I want to take this equation from this image (I want this handwriting) and convert it into a vector image. How do I go about doing that?


texts: Is it possible to have Thick white ink for printers?

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Is the White ink that is available in the market are all transparent ink?
I want a a opaque (thick) white ink for printing. is that possible?


texts: Can I sell my own pics with added overlays that are not mine?

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I am a stock photographer and just bought a huge pack of photo overlays and backgrounds and more from inkydeals.com to use in Photoshop. Can I use those overlays, brushes and effects on the pictures I took and then sell these pictures? I would think that it would be ok to use the brushes and maybe overlays (rose petals or snowflakes falling) but what about backgrounds?

There are several skies and sunsets available as well as artsy light effects/bokehs/watercolor backgrounds and so on. Can I use them too?

I obviously won't resell just the background image, but I could shoot, lets say, a setting on white background and put it on one of the backgrounds that I bought.

I don't want to get into any legal trouble!


texts: Illustrator: how to embed fonts in SVG file

texts: Is there a way to embed a font in an SVG file from Adobe Illustrator, or do I need to convert the fonts to outlines prior to exporting?


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I have drawn two spiro curves in Inkscape. Both have the same endpoint, but when zooming in on the connection between these two curves, it does not look fine:

Note the gap between both curves. What I finally want to have is this (simulated using paint):

Getting both curves red is not the problem, but note the rounded edge that I want to have. How can I get this rounded edge? Thanks!


texts: Adding one emoji to custom font in FontLab 7

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I created a custom font, and it properly supports all the characters I've added.
I want to add one emoji to use as a placeholder for a signature, as this font is a gift.
I'll be using . When I try to name a glyph this in FontLab 7, it automatically changes the name to wrappedPresent, and correctly gives it the unicode pointer of U+1F381.
After exporting and installing the font, and restarting Photoshop (or WordPad, also tried it there), I'm unable to use this character.
When I paste the character there, WordPad changes to a system font. When I paste the character in photoshop, nothing renders, as Photoshop does when there's no data for that character in the selected font..


texts: Normalizing hematoxylin and eosin-stained histology images

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This is a medically related question...Most pathology slides are stained with hematoxylin (blue) and eosin (red). However, every lab does it differently. I would like to take a bunch of images from various sources and get the staining properties to all be about the same--with some automatable process, since I have 100's of images to deal with.

Any theories?

Thanks,

r


texts: Font similar to base of OldConstructedCaps without the drafter's construction lines

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I'm trying to find a way to more easily mask the actual letter area of the OldConstructedCaps font so that I can change the color of the construction lines after rasterizing the text (eg black letter with light gray construction lines.

A font similar to the letter portion only of that would be the easiest that I can think of but cannot find one. It's similar to times new Román, but "rounder" over all and a bit thicker (but not as thick as the bold varíen). Has serif that I would like to keep sharp.

Alternatively, a suggestion on a way to mask it sufficiently without spending hours selecting individual pixels. I've tried various uses of expand, contract and smooth on the selection of the character but am unsatisfied with the results I am achieving.

Just incase my upload here didn't work, here's an example of the font I'm trying to modify: B https://imgur.com/gallery/V1PIOD2


texts: Positioning a DIV before the previous DIV

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I'm  not savvy when it comes to HTML/CSS.

I use Typepad for my blog, and that limits me a lot.

There are four divs.

I need "beta" to appear on the type right of the page, to the right of "nav" and before "alpha".

The link to the live site is here: http://sarajchipps.com/

Your help is greatly appreciated.


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I'm trying to create interweaving Spiderman 3 movie inspired black costume texture as seen here   1:25-1:27   https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=h87zZ_0AneU

I'm trying to create high quality pattern wallpaper from this. I have created pattern with gradient and applied it with Cross weave script in photoshop but result is no way near to what I'm trying to achieve I need more organic look.

This is pattern that I have created

Any tips how can I approach this task will be welcomed . Thank you.


texts: Designing a webpage for cake customization

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I am developing the website of a bakery where the client wants to offer different customization options for the various layers of a cake, namely, frosting, filling, etc.

The design that i came up with is :

Here, the image of the cake on the left represents the flavor of the layers chosen by the user by clicking on the various options on the right.

For different combination of options on the right, one gets different combination of colors on the left:

However, the design seems very unnatural and clunky to me and I was hoping to receive some suggestions on how I can improve the design.


texts: Copy & Paste in place from Illustrator to Photoshop - Not aligning

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I am trying to copy & 'paste in place' layers from Illustrator into Photoshop, however they never align correctly.

I have checked artboard and canvas size are the same and also same color mode. Still it will not align.

Can anyone offer advice? How can I check all transparency is off (this may be the problem). I am a complete novise to illustrator and Photoshop so I really don't know much about it. Always a learning curve!


texts: How Do I Set The Width Of Area Type In Illustrator?

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Once I have created Area Type, how do I adjust its width? Pulling on the handles allows me to resize it without distorting the text, but doesn't allow for fine-grained control. Typing a value into the transform palette gives me fine-grained control but caused distortion of the text.

How can I set a new width (by typing) and without distorting the text?


texts: A3 indesign file, wanting to export to A4 PDF how?

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I'm sure this can be done, just cant figure out how. I'm needing to export my portfolio as a pdf but my indesign document is a3, i see no option to chose the size.

Any help?

Thanks


texts: How to move individual layers using onion skin when rotoscoping with video layers in photoshop?

texts: I am using a video layer to animate frame-by-frame over a video. Because the video shifts over a little, the rotoscope is not a perfect loop, so I would like to move the shifting frames over one-by-one. I have turned on onion skins to do this, however, when I use the move tool to move my selected contents the contents of the frame are selected but the onion skin disappears, so I can't see the past or next frame so that I know where to move it to.


texts: How to know which second typeface should be used, given a contextual typeface?

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When searching for how to "italicize" a word in an italic context, I come up with an idea that changing the typeface is the solution that still convey the psychological effect that an italic-in-roman word normally does.

For example:

But how do I know which typeface should be used, given a contextual typeface? My choice of Arial in the example is merely because I feel it's right, not really based on any explanation. What knowledge of typography that I'm missing that can explain this phenomenon?


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The splash screen at the moment for my application is far from catching, but I'm no graphic designer and apart from the fact it looks bland and boring, I can't really work out what I need to do in order to make it look more appealing and modern.

I've tried to change the background to an image, but that seems to make it look quite busy - and I've tried changing the font and position of the logo but I've never been able to come up with much better.

Any ideas? And also in general, what principles should be followed in order to create a good splash screen? I've found articles about designing various other things such as icons, logos and so on but never found anything referencing splash screens in particular.


texts: Principles of composition: how to lay out images in text?

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What are some guiding design principles for laying out images in several paragraphs of text on a webpage?

In my particular case, there are two columns of text, and the images are proportioned and oriented like upright golden rectangles. They're roughly a third of a column in width. And they're just illustrative, as in a magazine; they're not figures that are referenced by the text:


texts: Adobe InDesign: everything looks pixelated

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I've just bought a new monitor as the old one was dying. It's an AOC Q3279VWFD8 and I've a NVIDIA Quadro 600 Graphics card.

InDesign displayed perfectly on the old monitor, but since plugging in the new monitor everything looks very pixelated. The window comes up much bigger than for Illustrator and PhotoShop (as is the little logo thingy that displays as it's loading) so I guess it's something to do with that. Illustrtaor and Photoshop can be enmarged to fill the screen without loss of sharpness. Even the menu text in InDesign is larger.

Anti-aliasing is enabled in InDesign.

Display performance is set to high quality in InDesign.

I have downloaded the requisite driver under the PC's Monitor Settings.

I've assigned 'High Performance' under the Graphics Specs of Graphics Settings under Windows Settings/Display.

In the NVIDIA control panel/Manage 3D Settings, the settings are shown as in the screen shot:


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I have a problem with file size. I have a iMac 27 5k with Retina, so I decided to create layouts @2x. If I want to create 1200px width graphic, I create 2400px in Photoshop - better view quality for me during projecting.

I have iMac 2015 Late with 16GB RAM, 3,5Ghz, 2GB Graphic, 256GB SSD and I notice that if I spend a lot of time on one .psd file, I start feel lags during scroll, selection, etc.

I also notice that .psd file which has 80mb, after opening in File info menu I see 1,2GB!...

Could you explain me what should I do? Is my workflow bad? I try to delete unneccesary layers, etc.

Look at screen, thanks for answers.


texts: How to re-create letters using pieces of photographies

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I wanted to make something like the AwolNation Megalithic Symphony's album cover with the cliffs made into letters.

So far I've gotten no where mainly because when I try and use the pen tool and make a mountain picture into part of a letter it looks super ugly. How would you go about making this? Example: 1) Finding a cliff picture 2) Pen-ing the character 3) etc.


texts: UI Mockup and wireframing tool for Mac OS X app UI's

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I'm looking to get some input from experienced designers, since my main job revolves around coding and not so much designing...

What good tools are out there that one can use to mockup some os x style interfaces? Something more modern would be preferable, not a tool that was the bees knees back in 2006 or something.

Also if it's a mac app, then even better. Thanks in advance!


texts: What is the lightest shade of grey you can use for a background colour that is still discernible from plain white?

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I am advocating for the use of a grey background instead of the traditional white background colour for a couple of reasons (mainly to do with reducing the glare from reading on certain devices and also to highlight active fields for pages with lots of form input), but it seems like people have a preference for white background because it is 'standard'.

I am wondering if there's any way to determine the shade of grey that you can use which is light enough to mimic the cleanness of the plain white colour, but still provide enough contrast that it can be distinguished when juxtaposed to a plain white screen element (e.g. input field).


texts: Copyright + Licensing questions around a redesign of a design I already sell

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I had a potential client reach out to me recently wanting me to make modifications to a planner that I designed and sell on my website so she can turn around and sell it to her audience.

I'm having challenges around:

is this a good idea to even do - to have someone else selling
something similar to what I'm already selling? She will be adding elements that are specific to her audience (she sells beauty products and I don't) but a lot of it will be the same or very similar.
How much would I charge for this? Would it be a simple design fee or would I want to include royalties as well?
How would copyright and licensing work since more than half would be my original design with less than half her additions but my design?

I'm struggling with even wanting to take this project on. I don't do design full time for others. I'm more about designing things (such as planners) and selling them online.

While dealing with this, I had another person reach out to me wanting to use one of my homebuyer checklists that I sell online for all of her real estate clients. I only charge $5 for the checklists (it's a download) but specify it's for personal use only and not to be distrubuted. What would be the best way to approach this one?

Thank you so much. I've only done web design contracts in the past or worked in marketing designing for clients that way. All this copyright and licensing stuff is new to me (although I've buried myself in research).


texts: Creating advanced Healthbar Texture for Game UI

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I'm pretty new to this all, especially Game UI Design and I would like to know how to create a realy good looking Healthbar.

I should perhaps mention that, since I'm so new to this, I don't have Photoshop or any of the other paid Tools!

Here is an example from DeviantArt where somebody created a Bar like I would like to.


texts: Indesign script to apply paragraph style to alternating paragraphs

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I have an Indesign document with the following structure:

  paragraph 1 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  paragraph 2 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  paragraph 3 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  paragraph 4 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  paragraph 5 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  . . . and so on...

Now I need to leave the first paragraph as is but apply paragraph styles to all the subsequent paragraphs in the following pattern:

  paragraph 2: style A

  paragraph 3: style B

  paragraph 4: style A

  paragraph 5: style B

  . . . and so on (alternating pattern)...

I know this can be automated using scripts and I also know a bit of programming in general (JavaScript) but I have no idea how to go about doing this in Indesign. Any suggestion?


texts: In Inkscape, resize both the document and its content at the same time

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I've been struggling to do something that would seem pretty basic:

In Inkscape, how can I resize the document and its content (i.e. drawings) at the same time?

A little bit of context: I want to resize a fairly large number of SVG documents from The Noun Project (they are typically 100x100px docs) without having to explicitly resize the actual drawings.

N.B: If there's a command line solution, I can work with that too!


texts: Can I get 'Clone Source' values with a script in Photoshop?

texts: Is it possible to get values of this panel with a script in Photoshop? I tried to use xbytor's Getter.jsx but it didn't register any changes in these fields.


texts: What tools would Monks use when DESIGNING a large illuminated letter or pattern?

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The answer here: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/35128/2611 got me thinking about how illuminated letters were designed.

There's a lot of resources out there discussing illuminated texts including the materials and paints used.

Less talked about is the actual design process they would have used though. Today, most would struggle with rulers, protractors, and french curves / flexible curves to make such details. How then did the artist (often monks) create these ornate pieces? Were they experts at free-hand more like a modern day graffiti artist? Did they use protractors and rulers?

What process and tools were used for the actual design phase of these historical pieces?

Example:


texts: Key out white of embedded image in Illustrator

texts: I have an Illustrator document with a number of images embedded. The images are all illustrations on a white background. I need to remove the white so that the art behind shows through. I know there are a variety of ways to do this in Photoshop, but is there a way to do it in Illustrator?


texts: Folder to put fonts for Illustrator CS6 without having to install fonts in system

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I remember there used to be a folder I could just put fonts in and they would work for Adobe InDesign. I thought it was a folder called fonts in the same directory the InDesign document was. I tried that for an Illustrator file. I created a folder next to the Illustrator file called fonts and put my fonts in there. But Illustrator doesn't see the fonts.

I don't want to install the fonts on the system. Is there a simple folder I can put fonts into? Ideally the folder is next to the Illustrator file itself so that I can simply zip up the file and fonts folder and send it to people.


texts: Changing text from 2-lines to 1-line - how to center the text field in a square again?

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I am developing a word game for iOS and would like to use an SVG file as the gaming board.

The SVG file (author: Denelson83, Wikimedia Commons) is almost perfect for my game - except that I would like to use 1-lined texts (like "3W", "2L", etc.) instead of the 2-lined texts in the original.

So I click a colored square that I'd like to change and then press SHIFT-D to jump to the original group.

Then I change the 2-lined text to a 1-lined text (in the screenshot below it is "3W" in the red square):

My question is: how to center-align (both vertically and horizontally) the text again?

Or as alternative: make the text field fill its parent at 100% width and height?

UPDATE:

I've found the Alignment dialog, but what to select there?

Clicking the 3rd icon in the 1st and 2nd row doesn't change anything:


texts: Is there a way to make my files editable for a client without InDesign?

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A client needs me to design a brochure for her. The problem is that she wants to edit and change the text and maybe also change some of the pictures herself.

However, she doesn't have any of the Adobe software or the knowledge to use these.

Is there any alternative?


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Can anyone tell me why my export from illustrator is so low res? It's 490 px wide so I thought it should still be sharp. Any ideas?

Below is the export with save for type enabled. See it ruins the type and doesn't improve the rez.


texts: Visual active state for coloured tree navigation

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I'm trying to design a node tree/navigation, which uses colours to denote the types of the tree node (which I thought was a useful pattern) and am struggling to find a way to show the active node because of the use of the colours.

This is for a web application that must support IE8+ amongst other modern browsers.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This is the tree:


texts: Sketchup How To Create Two Rectangles and Stack Them on Each Other Without Being Sticky and Distorting and Locking Together?

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DESCRIPTION:

I'm new to Sketchup and I'm following the Lynda.com SketchUp 2015 Essential Training tutorial. But I've run into what to me seems like it would be a "fundamental" issue that would have been addressed myriads of times - aligning and stacking newly created simple shapes (like rectangles) and retaining their independently functioning ability. For instance, if I create one rectangle, then create another smaller rectangle within the first (which is handy because Sketchp snaps to the bottom rectangle easily) with the same origin, when trying to move the top rectangle it appears to "stick" to the bottom rectangle and distort it, while the top rectange keeps its dimensions and shape perfectly. Unfortunately, the closest I can find to anyone addressing this issue gives a possible "solution" as either making the top rectange a group or an object, but doesn't explain why.

SPECS:

SketchUp Pro 2015
Windows 10, 64-bit

THINGS I TRIED THAT DIDN'T WORK

Making top rectangle into a "group"
Making top rectangle into a "component"
Creating top rectangle directly on bottom rectangle
Creating top rectangle off to the side somewhere, then using move tool to move it onto the bottom rectangle. This seemed promising, but the two rectangles would not align properly, possibly an issue with "snapping and hidden geometry" ... ok, but WHAT hidden geometry? I only have the two shapes and I just created them!
Making the rectangles on two different layers to isolate them from each other. No-go. The shapes are still sticky even though they are on different "layers" and even if the layers are hidden (doesn't appear to work like layers in Photoshop or even a CAD program). :(

OTHER USEFUL INFO:

I have experience in CAD programs, building vector-based images in EasyCad and TurboCad. Unfortunately, bother products are extinct in 2015. Too bad. All I really want to do is type in my dimensions and make a 2D exploded box model of a room in a house so that I can print it, cut it out, and fold it together and thereby make a paper 3D model of said room. I was able to do this easily in TurboCad, but last year the best I could find in a web search was that I should try to use SketchUp. SketchUp seems like a fun and great program to use, if I could just get past this fundamental hurdle. I recognize that a big part of why I was not able to find a solution through my own research may be jargon-related, as in I'm not asking the right question.

I'm also open to using other programs, if anyone can offer a simple, free, type in your measurements tool that I can print the result.

Any help is appreciated. I'm a newbie at posting about Sketchup, so please let me know if this is not in the right forum, or if you require more details. I have included screenshots to help illustrate the issue as well.

Thanks again.

SCREENSHOTS

(Small rectangle is created on top of bottom shape:)

Small rectangle is created on top of bottom shape http://www.ehepperle.com/sites/ehw/kbd/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ehScreenshot_2016.01.16_sketchup_katsHouseOffice_01.png

(When moving small rectangle, it keeps its shape but distorts the bottom shape:)

When moving small rectangle, it keeps its shape but distorts the bottom shape http://www.ehepperle.com/sites/ehw/kbd/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ehScreenshot_2016.01.16_sketchup_katsHouseOffice_02.png

(Result of creating top rectangle off to the side, then trying to move on top of the bottom one: Not properly aligned!)

Result of creating top rectangle off to the side, then trying to move on top of the bottom one: Not properly aligned! http://www.ehepperle.com/sites/ehw/kbd/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ehScreenshot_2016.01.16_sketchup_katsHouseOffice_04.png


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I am trying to determine the how much line spacing to set for the amount of kern used in photoshop. I can eye-ball the spacing but does anyone know the exact ratio between the two. ex. Set text kern to 50 in photoshop = 1 em line-spacing.

Thanks!


texts: Is it legally OK to increase the weight of say a Times font by 10% and publish a book in the modified font?

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Say I am using Microsoft Word 2003 on Windows 10 Pro. Windows or perhaps Word (I am not sure which, but in any case they both originate from Microsoft) came bundled with several fonts in the Times type family. Although I have not actually found a copy of the licence, I suspect Microsoft allows me to

use Word to write documents in Times
"print" them as .pdfs, and
send them to whoever I like (i.e. "publish" them).

My question is this: is it OK if I

open a Times .ttf file in FontForge
modify it by increasing the weight by say 10%
print out some .pdfs, and then
publish a book using those .pdfs (either an e-book put together from those .pdfs, or a hardcopy book that uses them as the camera-ready copy)

...just so long as I don't embed the modified font in any software I distribute or indeed make it available to anybody in .ttf or any other kind of standalone form? Just to be even clearer: the idea is that no copy of the modified font will ever leave the laptop that I have licences to run Windows and Word on, except for the backup I will keep on a flash drive.


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When drawing with Photoshop's Pen Tool, the pen drawing looked very pixelated and not smooth:

Is it supposed to look like that? If not, what can I do to fix it?


texts: Aesthetic rules for sizing items in grid cells

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(TL;DR: How big should the black boxes be in the grid below?)

I have a grid of cells containing a rectangular shaped image (it's actually the same image repeated). The ratio of the image width/height is not the same as the grid cells, so the spacing is wider horizontally than vertically (see image below). The grid fills the page horizontally then there's some header+footer content above/below.

My question is, are there aesthetic rules governing positioning these images? For example:

How much spacing should be around the images? Should I try to use the Rule of Thirds and make the images 2/3 the size of the cell?
should I create a wider margin around the edge of the grid, because the padding between two cells is double that around the outer edge?

Thanks in advance!


texts: I want to make a pattern to etch on a table with a laser. What I want to do is start by generating a repeating pattern and then bend it in a way that makes it look like it's going in and out of the page. Something like the background of this pic but 100% original. If you can tell me what software to use and give me the steps I'd appreciate it.


texts: How do you show the handles of paths (bezier curves) in Gimp?

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I click many times on a point of a path in Gimp, and no handles show up... how do I make them appear?

(I'm using Fedora 16.)


texts: What is the technical term for a replacement character if a font does not have a representation

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If a font does not have a representation for a particular character, it usually uses some kind of square or a icon with a question mark.
As far as I know, there is a more specific term that "replacement character", at least in German.

Does anybody know this term?


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Okay, so let's give a example of what I want.
We got a white ball with black lines. I want for example a flag in it.
When I drag or paste the image of that flag in it, it goes up to the whole page and covers the other.

How do I prevent this and have a flag into a ball with eyes on the flag.
I searched it up and found it nowhere. I searched really good.

Picture without flag

Picture with flag but it stacks up :(

Solution didn't work.


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I am pretty new to graphic design world & obviously Inkscape too. I just need to draw a simple circle with dots in Inkscape. I have tried all the options in the stroke style section, but wasn't successful. I have searched online about this, but found only a workable solution here. But I think that is complicated solution to do just this simple job. Is there any other easier way to draw a simple circle with dots? I really hope there is something.

Thanks in advance.


texts: gradient exposure from center to all directions

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I have a picture, where there are underexposed parts in the outer areas. To achieve, that the outer are gradually more exposed, I would like to create a new exposure layer with a two-folded mask:

A selection of the frame areas, that are affected by the exposure (simply by a rectangular selection and inversion)
A gradient selection that over-exposes the area the more, the farther it is away from the center of the picture.

Question: How can I achieve the second part of the masking?


texts: How to figure out whats the width and height of a text box in Photoshop?

texts: How do you figure out the size of a text box in Photoshop?


texts: Can you design print material with the intent to use LC and LM?

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When printing material that will include photos it is best to use Lc and Lm (Light Cyan and Light Magenta) to aid in the quality of the print.  The description from Wiki says:

  CcMmYK, sometimes referred to as CMYKLcLm or CMYKcm, is a six color
  printing process used in some inkjet printers optimized for photo
  printing. It extends the customary four color CMYK process, which
  stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (black), by adding light cyan
  (lower case c) and light magenta (lower case m). The light cyan and
  light magenta inks are essentially a washed out version of the cyan
  and magenta inks.

and it indicates the advatanges are:

  The most noticeable result of using light cyan and light magenta inks
  is the removal of a distinct and harsh halftoning dot appearance that
  appears in prints that use light shades of cyan or magenta on the pure
  CMYK ink configuration. Usually when printing a dark color the printer
  will saturate the area with colored ink dots, but will use fewer ink
  dots to create the effect of a light color. The result is hard to
  notice with Yellow because the human retina is not as sensitive to
  yellow as other colors. However, the individual cyan and magenta ink
  dots will stand out in a sparse pattern due to their darker color
  against a white background; the result is undesirable when it is
  noticed.

but my questions are:

How can one use this advantage when designing in Illustrator or InDesign?
Can a document's setup be extended to include Lc and Lm?
Can you calibrate your settings for Lc and Lm?


texts: I have a text (see picture below) on a page that has been tilted some 45 degrees and then expanded down in a cylindrical fashion to form a 3D effect. I would like to ask you for help to identify how this 3D effect on the text was made. Please suggest a method to recreate it.


texts: 3-d reconstruction (z-stack) of individual eps files (each of them a slice along the xy plane)?

texts:
I would like to create a z-stack of several individual eps files, each of them being actually a slice along the xy-plane..

What is the easiest way to do this and the easiest software to use (preferrably a freeware one)?

Thank you in advance,
AV

p.s: In particular, I am interested in knowing to perform a 3-d reconstruction on a single image, using individual already pre-acquired images where each individual one is an xy slice...


texts: Why is OS X using my 32px@2x icon instead of scaling down the 128px icon?

texts:
I'm making a custom folder icon similar to the ones in the Home folder (Pictures, Documents, etc).

To do so, I extracted the images from the .icns of the blank folder icon and photoshopped my own graphic onto them. I followed Apple's guidelines for icon sizing. I then packaged all the images into an .icns using Terminal.

Now here's the problem: When I put my icon next to one of the home folder icons (with icon size set at 64 x 64 in Finder), it doesn't match. For my icon, OS X is displaying the 32@2x icon. But for its own icons, OS X is displaying a scaled down 128px icon. If I re-export my custom icns without the 32@2x size (so OS X is forced to use the 128 instead), it looks fine.

Here is a screenshot. The difference between 32@2x and 128 scaled down is subtle but definitely there.


texts: Is there a way to automatically separate a folder of images based on whether they're photographic or line-art graphics?

texts:
I have a folder of pictures that are JPEGs.

I am wondering if there is a automated way to sort out the ones that are photographs and ones that are pure graphics.

I am open to different software options.


texts: Is it possible to open the same files every time Photoshop CC Opens?

texts: I work with the same number of templates pretty much every day and I'd like to find a way to have those files automatically open as soon as Photoshop opens. I only know that if you close PS, it will try to open recovery version of that file, but I'm looking to open the most up-to-date versions. I was wondering if Windows would open shortcuts to those files if I stuck them in the Startup folder as an alternative.


texts: Why are designs not done with a perfectly aligned grid and layout?

texts:
Why do so many designs have the grid and layout misaligned:

Instead of having the Grid and Layout aligned:

The majority of projects I have downloaded from sketch resources website, don't even use a grid/layout, and if they do it is not aligned.


texts: Why RGB98 printing from photoshop and PDF makes different results?

texts:
I am having a printing issue between photoshop and print from PDF.

In Photoshop, I print an RGB file with the Adobe RGB (98) profile

I tried to make a PDF file from Photoshop with the same configuration,
embedding the Adobe RGB (98) profile

When I print with my Epson Pro 9890, I configure both prints with
Adobe RGB 98. In photoshop il let the printer manage colors

However, the prints are different, especially the greens come out
totally different. Why?

Is there a way to save my Photoshop print configuration in the PDF?


texts: Illustrator moves objects using "transform again" with scale

texts:
Have several copies of the same object moved around to different areas in the artboard.
Decide you want to scale them all by 75%.
Select the first object, do the scale.
Select the next object, press Command + D.
The object is scaled, but moved in position relative to the original object. Not on top, but near it.

How can I stop this behavior? Using Command + D is a great shortcut, but it defeats the purpose if I have to move objects around again. Perhaps there is a setting I'm missing?

Note: this only occurs using Transform->Scale for me. On the others it will work correctly.


texts:
I have some colors on paper whose specified color formats differ from the well-known web color formats. They begin with a letter of color then numbers which specify contrast like R143 R111 R100. R letter specify Red and others are same like G111 and Y121 are green and yellow

What is the name of this format? How can I translate it into well-known color formats?


texts: How can i save my icon with 8 bit 32 bit color

texts: Please any one can tell me how to save my icon which made by AI and apen it in the work area in PS to save it but i cant save it with 32 bit color this is the pic which i should do like they say


texts: Adjust font size reltive to another font size in InDesign

texts:
Is it possible in InDesign to globally adjust the size of font A relative to the size of another font B so that given the same "Font Size" they have always the same height of their lowercase letters?

I know that in CSS there is a property font-size-adjust that makes this possible, but is there anything like that in InDesign?

It could look like specifing a multiplier for a font that is automatically allowed for when changing "Font Size".


texts: What font is used in this image, please?

texts:
I downloaded this font in another pc, but i don't remember the name. Please, help me to find.

From http://ohnath.tumblr.com/


texts: What techniques would you use for drawing rice grains in Photoshop?


texts: What characteristics make a graph look professional?

texts:
I'm documenting a technical/scientific project, in which I'm needing an extensive amount of graphs to represent the data.

I would like this graphs to be as clear and representative as possible. Of course the priority is using properly the data and choose the most appropriate medium (meaning for instance bar plot against scatter plot).

But from a design perspective, what elements are important to make sure that the graphs are high quality and look professional?

I'm aware of the fact that they should be preferrably (if not mandatorily) vector images rather than rasters, and that the markings shouldn't be such to hide details of the represented data. But other than that?


texts: What are beginner’s books on typography?

texts: Hum, for some reason I would like to buy myself a book about typography. I have a lot of interest in this field, and already have some knowledge learnt from reading Typophile now and then, among other online sources. I would like to consolidate my knowledge with a book about typography, possibly a mix of theoretical considerations and examples (I quite like the balance achieved, for example, in the Tufte books).


texts: Horizontally/Vertically Straightening a Shape in Illustrator

texts: Let's say I have a shape that I rotated at an awkward angle of let's say 34°. I close the document, return a few hours later, and want to straighten the it back to its original 90° or 0° angle. The problem is I don't remember the angle I originally rotated it at. Shift + Rotating nor resetting its bounding box does the trick. Any shortcuts/options I'm overlooking here? For example how would I rotate this quadrilateral so that it sits horizontally straight and looks like a box.


texts: How to export font names as web font names in Adobe Illustrator CC

texts:
I'm trying to see if there's a quick and dirty way to export Adobe Illustrator files as SVGS that use the web font names on my company's website instead of the system font names on my machine. Is there a basis script that can do this?

Thanks.


texts: Run actions without graphic interface, Illustrator

texts: Is it possible to run an Illustrator (or Photoshop) action without running the processes for displaying it? I assume this would speed up the performance—or maybe this is minimal.


texts:
I have noticed that the PC version of Photoshop CS5 appears to exhibit a loss in quality whenever an image is opened or when image data copied to the clipboard is pasted onto a canvas.  However, it's not really lossy because saving the image as PNG and opening it in another photo editor such as Paint reveals that the quality, in fact, did not change.

See the first image below for a demonstration of this false appearance of quality loss where I created a brand new Photoshop document and repeatedly hit ALT+PrintScreen to copy the window to clipboard and then CTRL+V to paste it into the canvas.  Doing this several times reveals the undeniable fact that Photoshop is doing something to the image as soon as it enters the document.

The second image is a result of doing the same thing in Paint.  As you can see, each copy of the window is as pixel-crisp as the original.

I know this quality loss is not inherent in Photoshop itself because I can draw wavy lines with the 1x1 pencil tool and I can see every aliased pixel.

Does anyone know what is causing this?  Is there a setting that I can change somewhere so that images appear exactly as they really are?


texts: How can a print have a resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi?

texts:
While reading about the CANON PIXMA MG5150 printer (http://www.canon.de/printers/inkjet/pixma/pixma_mg5150/), there was a stated print resolution of  9600 x 2400 dpi. How is this value meant here, since I always thought even professional printers only print 300 dpi.

Of course they could just mean resolution without dpi, which would make sense, but why do they then write about dpi?

Thank you,
Gabriel/Gabkano


texts:
I've got a document where I want to add margin notes that display the page number of other relevant sections.
I've been trying to accomplish this using the Insert > Marks > Anchor Mark to mark the sections I want to refer to and then Insert > Marks > Reference to Mark for the reference.
Unfortunately what I'm finding is that this creates two objects - an Anchor object (which seems to always refer to the page where that chapter starts and not the page where the anchor mark was placed) and a "Marks to Anchors" object that refers to an different (and incorrect) page.
The first looks like it's using the first text frame in the linked chain of text frames. I haven't yet been able to suss out how the latter is deriving its page number.
What's the correct way to do cross-referencing using marks in Scribus?


texts:
I cannot see the object moving or resizing in real time. Like in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWEJoGHpPo

I see the object move along with the cursor when she is moving the object. In my inkscape, all I see is a blue box when resizing and moving (the object moves but I cannot see it in real time like the video above:


texts: Exported small .png image from Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 is Pixelated

texts:
I exported a .png image from Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 to use as a logo on my website. It is quite large (1241px x 1346px) and it is slowing the site down dramatically. It needs to be around 100px x 105px, but when I export it from Illustrator in this size it is completely pixelated.

I have resized the artboard, with a 2px border and as far as I can tell I am doing everything I normally do to export a .png image from Illustrator.

I would be most grateful if someone could advise me on this as it driving me to distraction.

Thanks in advance,
nigel


texts: How to script a popup box before closing a document - InDesign

texts:
I have used javascript to script before, using an eventlistener to say

app.addEventListener( "beforeClose" , [function]);
function [functionname]()

etc...

What I need is a way to tell InDesign 'before closing the document, show a message box that say "did you proof your page?".

Which can then be OK'd and will continue the close process.

Does anyone have an idea how this could be done, or any alternatives that can produce the same effect?


texts: How to include images in my book to hand over to the designer

texts: I am creating a practical guide book with images. I am currently using Scrivener which is writing software for the edit stage. I need to include images into the text, but I will then pass over my draft to a layout designer to layout out the project in Indesign. Should I bother putting full size images into Scrivener, or should I just put placeholders in and then hand over the full size images to the designer?


texts: General rules for figure/table placement in books?

texts:
I would like to know whether there are any general rules for the dimensions and placement of figures and tables in books. For example, if you first refer to a figure in the middle of a page, is it best to place the figure there, i.e., in the middle of a page, or at the top or bottom of the page?

I realize that this is probably a matter of taste. (Personally, I think that it usually looks better if they are placed at the top or at the bottom.) I'm less interested in personal opinions (though they are welcome, too), but in general rules that have been developed over the centuries by book designers similar to the general rules about page and type block dimensions by Tschichold in The Form of the Book and about fonts by Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style.


texts:
I am trying to organize my client folders and one of them is stationery.

I am hoping to hear some advice on what you think stationery includes. Would it be only business cards, letterheads, and envelopes, or also labels, stickers, pocket folders, notepads, etc.?

And how about e-signatures, flyers and brochures? Would that be separate from stationery?


texts: How can I achieve the "bent paper" effect in photoshop?

texts:
I've seen design elements on webpages that contain a "bent paper" effect. In other words, it looks like the paper is shaped in an arch, based on the visual perception of the shadow.

How do I achieve this?

EDIT:

I found an image:


texts: How to make circular segment deliberately in Adobe Illustrator?

texts:
If I draw curve using the pencil tool, some pairs of nodes appear to be constrained as if connected by a circular curve. Such pairs of nodes are then accompanied by "center marks". When I drag this center mark, the curve radius is adjusted, making bezier handles change:

Is it possible to constrain two nodes this way deliberately, like the following two nodes, which don't have center indicator:

Here is an example where I want to add a control point


texts: how to export auto-aligned layers at the same canvas size while still preserving their auto-alignment

texts:
I'm trying to create an animation from daily photos of the same person, with fixed alignment on their face (always in the same position).

I create a layer for each photo, apply auto-align, and the results are perfect.

But when I export each layer, the resulting image loses this auto-alignment.  Each image has a different canvas size (which means the non-photoshop software I'm using to convert n images into an animation, no longer has fixed alignment on the face).

I tried changing the canvas size of each layer image prior to export, making every image's canvas size the same.  But doing so effectively undoes the work of the auto-alignment.

Is there a way to export the auto-aligned layer images while preserving their distribution?  Or just go straight from auto-aligned layers to animated sequence?

Thank you (very new to all this)


texts: Creating a color theme using adobe kular

texts:
I am trying to create a color theme to my website using adobe kuler. I am really new to that app and confusing how to create a theme there.

This is my main color - #53001e

Can any body tell me what are the other colors that might be match to this main color?

Thank You.


texts: How to automatically batch export with name+subgroupname in Photoshop CC

texts:
I have a PSD file which the designer draws textures for a game character.

This file has group folders such as hair, eye etc.

In each group there are other group folders named with numbers such as 1,2,3... which keep each item's line and color layers.

So this is how it looks:

I want to make an action which changes the color of a color layer (line layer will remain the same) in each subfolder and then export the subfolder (together with the line layer and color layer) into a .png file, and automate the batch exportation of each item in a folder with the naming convention used [topLevelGroupName][subGroupName][colorName]".png"

So it can export files such as: "eye1yellow.png" "eye1pink.png" "eye2yellow.png" "eye2pink.png" etc..


texts: Photoshop CS6 GIF not showing transition

texts:
Ive made a GIF image in Photoshop CS6.

The gif is made up of three pictures that a fade animation.

This works fine when i run the gif within photoshop (the actual program) but when i save for web the transitions don't show, it simply just changes the images (with no transition).

Does anyone know why this is happening and what i can do to get the wanted effect?

Please tell me if you need more information


texts: How to create the following arrow in Inkscape?

texts:
I would like to create the following arrow in Inkscape and wonder about the best way to do this:

Should I create all the different lines independently and then merge them together or is there an easier way? The problem with this approach would be that there might then be small gaps or the angles are not consistent etc.


texts:
I'd like to make videos similar to a Youtube channel named Kings and Generals. Most of effects needed are object animation on a map.
If possible, there is a preference for Open Source software, for budget reason, plus the need of features are basic :D

Thank you!

Sample video


texts: Adobe Photoshop CS6: Where did 'preserve transparency' go?

texts:
I haven't been heavily using PhotoShop for a few years and now need to get some work done in CS6 and for the life of me, I can't find the setting for paintbrushes to 'preserve transparency' when painting on a layer.

Is this feature still there somewhere? Perhaps hidden or renamed?


texts: Saving Photoshop master/working files in PDF, not PSD

texts: A friend of mine uses PDF as the default format for saving Photshop files. For both master and working documents. He never saves anything as a PSD. Is this good practice?


texts: How should I design a left-right UI where the left is smaller?

texts:
This is the current design:

Where should I position the left-top element so this UI is more balanced?


texts: Easy to turn off "preliminary" indicators?

texts:
Coming up to a final preview, the PDF was still reduced in image dpi, had simulated greyscale, and was without bleed and printer marks.  Worried that someone would down-the-line confuse it with the final print-quality file, I added a "preview - do not print" banner.  The text was placed on several pages but moved and sized differently to not obscure stuff to-be-proofed while still being conspicuous.

How can I arrange to turn these off easily, with one setting and not going through to find them one-by-one?

It's not on a master page because they are different (and not on every page, and there may be more than one master page).  I see InDesign has layers, but each page has a separate setting.  I see something called "tags" but have no idea what that feature does.

Is there a good way to do this?


texts: How to draw mathematical diagrams in Inkscape

texts:
Mathematician here trying to create some diagrams for my undergraduate thesis. I'
Long story short, I'd like to be able to create something like this.

I'm trying to work with inkscape and want to be able to export it into a latex file.

Any helpful tips for a complete beginner? I'm especially puzzled by how to get the angles for my vectors right and all the correct fonts.


texts: Open source software to reduce colours to custom optimised palette (quantize) (for paint-by-numbers)

texts:
I want to manipulate a photo so that the number of colours is reduced significantly (to say 15-50 colours which I would specify the number). I would like those colours to be automatically optimised for the photo in question.

(As a bonus, it would be great if the result could be manipulated in interesting ways so that if the boundaries of the colours were traced onto paper, then filled in by good-old-fashioned paint, the result would look more natural, or interesting - anything other than pixellated basically. (For example, plain dithered pixels would be impossible to paint by hand)

I would like free (open source) software to do this. I have searched for GIMP plugins but I have not found anything. I don't think GIMP implements custom/optimal quantization out of the box.

In the past I remember seeing some android apps which did quantisation plus the bonus features, but I suspect they had resolution limitations among others - last but not least, it was only available on a phone, and PC (Windows) would definitely be preferable.

Any ideas welcome!


texts: What Do You Ask From Your Graphical Designer for Your Iphone Apps?

texts:
What exactly do you ask for from your graphical designer for your iphone apps?

I asked my designer exact measurements of images in Photoshop, which turned out to be not such great idea because I need to ask for new images to support the new iphone 5, and if I want add ad-support I'd need new images as well.

What do you ask from your graphical designer to avoid these common scenarios?

I talked with my graphical designer and she said that it's possible to make high resolution images - higher than let's say bigger than iphone's 5 resolution, which is 1136x640. Then I  could scale down the images size using Photoshop/GIMP as needed.

Another solution was to create the image in Illustrator, which from what I could understand, one can always change the resolution without altering image quality.


texts: Why is there so much emphasis on the text of a logo and not the catchyness of the logo itself?

texts:
Ok, so I have been looking at a lot of logos recently, all done by graphic designers. And in the majority of them, the only thing they have is a name or some "basic" text. I thought the idea behind a logo was to catch the eye of passers by and the attention of prospective clients. So again, here's my question: Why are the majority of logos just plain text or a spin off of plain text (stylised writing), with little or no imagery or picture base to catch the eye of people?
They all seam to be the same and very "simple". I am just wondering why this is the case in almost all the logos I see.


texts: Make an index where "cat" also refers to "cats"

texts:
I'm trying to make an index with page references. I want the word "cat" to be in the index and point to all the pages where the word "cat" is. So far so good. But I also want the same word "cat" to point to pages with the word "cats". I know you can make a cross reference, but as far is I know, I would get in my index:

Cat 2, 3, 7
Cats see Cat

I want the index to show:

Cat 2, 3, 4, 7

where page 7 only contains te word "cats", not "cat".

How do I do this?


texts: How do I combine 2 compound paths without breaking them into small pieces?

texts: I have two compound paths.   If i use pathfinder > unite, it combines them but it fills everything with one color. If i use pathfinder > merge, it gets the job done but in the layers it slices up the artwork in into many small pieces. How can i merge so that 2 compound paths turn into one path?  Or at the very least not slice them up into million pieces?


texts: How to use Vector Layers on Website or App?

texts:
I had downloaded an app UI kit from Themeforest, it contains various .psd files like Sign in Page, chart, chat, weather, forms etc.. I want to use the components present in .psd file like gear icon, button or chart design but they are not available as images but probably as vector shapes.

As you can see, there are a couple of shapes, how to export them so I can use them on website or app?


texts: Extracting background from PDF with 100s of sublayers

texts:
A colleague of mine sent me a design in .PDF format (first time seeing a design in such a format), Adobe Illustrator was able to recognize the vector paths inside the file, but I am having a hard time removing its background color.

I have tried saving it as EPS and PNG--hoping it would just save the paths that I have selected, but the background remains. I have gone through the sub-layers (there are literally hundreds) but none of them appear to be the white background--so I am guessing the background is a composite of several sub-layers.

Is there an easy way to extract the white background and just preserve the paths that make up the design? Illustrator already recognizes them as a number of sub-layers.


texts: scale by specific dimensions - illustrator transform effect

texts:
Is there a way to use transform effect to scale to a specific measurement instead of percentage?

I have ran into this thread
but it talks about the "transform each" tool and not the transform effect

for example -

here is an example of a wanted result

you can see that the distance between the stars is fixed

here is an example of a the same thing using transform effect

you can see that the distance between the stars is getting shorter


texts: Can you convert a neon RGB color to CMYK for printing?

texts:
I have a logo that was done with RGB colors, now I have to work with this logo to do something for printing purpuses, the problem is that in the RGB version of the logo I have a shade of green I cannot reproduce with CMYK... How do I do it?

I googled up a bit and found some CMYK values that would create a simmilar green, close enough, the problem is when I put those values in Illustratot(%C %M %Y %K) I don't get the color I am supposed to... what am I missing ?

I have an image to illustrate my problem :

The green I want to create in CMYK is the first green, when I put those values there I get the second green you see there, when I print this image will I get something close to the first green ? ...And this is simply how you view it on screen, a bit darked and washed up ? pom pomm pom pommmmmm

EDIT:

If I open up my logo in Photoshop and go to View > Gamut Warning the green part of my logo shows up in grey, to ged rid of the grey I lower the saturation, the problem is lowering the saturation ruins my nice bright neon green...

EDIT2:

If anyone around here printed neon green, how did you do it ?

I found on some forum someone saying that Pantone 802 C will print neon green, I looked it up, selected it and on screen it looks worse than my second green in the sample image... and anyway, putting a pantone color in a PDF that will be printed on a regular simple printer is any good  ?

[The material the logo will be printed on will be downloaded by various users over the internet in PDF format and will be printed by various home normal hobby printers, so I will not have the control over that at all, I just want a green that will print neon/led green or something closer on a regular hobby printer, not in some fancy color lab/printer. Its imposible isn't it ?]


texts: Software recommendations for magazine layout?

texts:
I use Word now but I would like to find a better software for laying out a magazine.

In this magazine, I would like to create columns (2 or 3 depending on the page), insert image on 1, 2 or 3 columns (like in a newspaper), independent frames on 1, 2 or 3 columns with text inside, a header and a footer different for the left or right page, etc.


texts: Inkscape - "Exclusion" reverts "break apart" and puts all nodes to one path

texts:
I have a hand-drawn shapes, in fact, a hand-written text.
I wanted to make it bolder so I used the technique of adding a 1 mm stroke, and then converted the stroke to path. That "removed" the fill and left me with the the outline. I wanted the fill so I created a Union with a copied original.
This, for some reason, created shapes which had the inner spaces filled, and an additional path that was basically the inner space, but also filled.

I could select the two shapes and do a Difference. This din't work with multiple shapes because of how Diff works. But Exclusion worked.
I could choose all of the shapes and do Exclusion and got the result I wanted.

However, the result was a single path. The clearly separated shapes (words) were all in a single path. I wasn't aware this is possible - I thought a path is a single shape, perhaps mangled so that it crosses itself, but how can it make separate shapes? I didn't check SVG representation but the Objects window was showing just a single path.

1) How can I separate items in such path? I have tried "Break apart". But that gave me again the state when the inner spaces were filled. I couldn't select individual shapes because it always chose just the bounding box of all the shapes.

2) Is it possible to simplify (automate) the process of widening the shapes? I.e. the same effect as if you add a stroke which is the same as fill. I have noticed it's quite common practice in daily graphical work.


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Greetings from a beginner! I am part of a team trying to restore a 1930's newspaper comic strip for possible publication. We have to use newspaper scans, and the text is often very messy. It has to be retyped, in a font as close to this sample as possible. Several fonts have been used during the span of this comic, this being the most readable.

Can anyone point me to a suitable font? Scandinavian alphabets (å, ä, ö) are needed. The font doesn't have to be free. I understand that the exact font can't be found on digital form, and the sample here is distorted.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/comiccl.jpg/


texts:
I have a Pantone colour that is supposedly the same, but seems to be showing up differently from 3 different sources.

The colour itself is Pantone 333 C

InDesign

Printing company (PDF proof from previous job)

Pantone website

These all show up looking completely differently onscreen and it makes me wonder if I'm using the correct colour (the colour has been specified by a client).

Should I just not worry about it and just go ahead with it?

Also, why does the Pantone website refer to it as PANTONE 333 CP instead of Pantone 333 C?


texts: How to create unique regions by intersecting closed paths in Inkscape

texts:
Let's say I have a circle (A) with diameter slightly larger than the sides of a square (B), and A & B are aligned center-on-center. As these overlap, they will produce 9 separate regions. Is there any way to intersect the two curves/paths to produce these 9 independent regions/closed-paths such that I can fill/color each of the 9 regions independently?

I see in this link how to cut paths to color each stroke/line independently:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/90075/split-an-svg-based-on-intersecting-lines. But I'm interested in FILLING each region separately. Do I have to cut all the paths, and then manually create closed paths/regions from the newly cut paths, clicking on vertex-after-vertex, or is there a faster/better way?

EDIT:

I tried @Billy Kerr's excellent answer on some slightly more complicated shapes, (B-Spline Paths), and found that as per his suggestion I needed to convert the B-Splines to Bezier paths, using Path + Object to Path and now it works great!


texts:
I have a Inkscape Project with about 100 Layers. Every Layer has the same shape ( with others beside that are different ). Now I would like to exchange the shape with a new one.
So far I did this by hand -> selecting every layer, delete the shape and paste the new shape.

Is there any trick to do this more effectively ? Can I paste a shape to more then one layer at the same time?


texts: Photoshop CC2019 auto-update all linked smart objects including nested ones

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I have Photoshop CC2019 PSD document containing several smart objects that contains other smart objects that contains other smart objects. Some of these have linked layers. Normally, such images are not updated automatically (which is extremely annoying, Adobe!) but you have to manually update each of them once the linked image content has changed.

There is a .jsx script file named "Update All Modified Content.jsx" which auto-updates linked layers (PNG image in my case) but only if the smart object is in the top most document - that is no nested smart objects with linked layers are updated automatically.

My question is: does anyone know how to update the content of the above mentioned .jsx file so that it would auto-update all linked images across all the smart objects in PSD document including nested ones?

For those who care or would be willing to help updating the code here it is:

// Update all modified content
var idplacedLayerUpdateAllModified = stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerUpdateAllModified" );
executeAction( idplacedLayerUpdateAllModified, undefined, DialogModes.NO );


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