texts: Image loses transparency when added to another image

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Please keep in mind that I have no idea what I’m doing with image editing.

I have a watermark that I want to add to images, but it loses it’s transparency when I try to stick it on a picture.  I’ve tried the watermark as RGB and as greyscale.  I read through the GIMP discussion site and found an answers that gave three possible methods (here), but I still couldn’t get it to work.  (I didn’t understand the “Channels dialog” part of the second and third methods, and for the first method, I couldn't get the floating selection anchored in the mask.)

This can't be a hard thing to do — I feel like there’s something very basic that I’m just missing.

Below are the images that I'm using.

The image that I want to watermark:

The watermark with transparent background:

Same as above, with transparency pattern added for visibility:

Result:


texts: How to create a realistic shadow like in this image below? Super Realistic one

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I want to create a realistic shadow effect to my products like in this image.

Original:

The problem is I can't understand the process of creating this kind of shadow from layer structure. The layer structure of the original shadow looks like this and the actual shadow layer shown below it.

Layer structure and layer itself:

layer behind the notebook

I managed to create my version by looking at the shadow.

My Shadow on Notebook:

Can someone tell me how to achieve this shadow to any product in front view or perspective?


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When I'm drawing, I filled in a section and some of the fill is not staying in the shape.

Is there any way I can edit the fill so it stays in between the red lines?


texts: I have to create a word template for a client from an InDesign document and they want to use a word system font (instead of the fonts I used). Does anyone know a good alternative to "Publico" and "Graphic" (or where I could find such information)?


texts: Big Sans-Serif From Aaron Draplin's Presentation

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Any idea what the big sans-serif is that Aaron Draplin uses for some presentations (in the picture I'm talking about the "GRAPHIC TREASURES"/"AMERICAN UNDERBELLY" font).

WhatTheFont wasn't able to identify it. Thanks!


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I have been watching a Lynda.com course on Illustrator CC 2015 by Justin Seeley, https://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-tutorials/Illustrator-CC-Essential-Training-2015/370378-2.html  In Chapter 5 > "Modifying existing shapes and paths", he discusses using the Pen Tool to bend lines.

Basically, he draws a shape (say a rectangle), chooses the Pen Tool, hovers over a segment, holds down the Option/Alt Key, then clicks and drags the segment which causes it to bend. However, when I try, Illustrator only creates flat direction handles, not a bend. Can anyone figure out this discrepancy?

Yes, I'm using CC 2015, too. Thank you.

Edit: screen cap below


texts: Illustrator: cannot fill transparent areas without compromising strokes using Live Paint

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I've read a number of posts about this and am unsure of how to proceed.

I received an AI file that contains the following:

Here it is unselected:

However, when I group these paths/shapes and copy the element to another document, the "white" areas within the figure are not filled but are transparent.

When I try to use the Live Paint Bucket of course I CAN fill these blank spaces between the paths with white, but when I activate the tool it discards the various stroke settings which means that I lose the "fake fill" details (look at the foot to see what I mean).

Is there a simple way to address this issue? To maintain the "stroke fills" AND to fill the transparent areas with white?

Many thanks in advance!


texts: Why does Indesign repeat the same photo on its own, over and over?

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I'm making a wedding photo book, with deferent photos of course.

When I open the file with Indesign, some of the photos seem to have repeated themselves. I don't know if its because they are all on one layer or because they have the same name.

I first edit them on Photoshop and save them as the same name.

Can anyone tell me why a photo would repeat itself automatically?


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I would like to know if this is correct to use a background bokeh style, and combine it with content flat design?

Something like:


texts: Having trouble cutting the path out from the above image. I managed to cut the outside with a layer mask, but when i do that now for this it crops just that area. Do I need to invert it somehow?


texts: In Photoshop, how can I open up a view (in the same window) with another zoom level?

texts: When drawing pixel art in Photoshop, I like to have the zoom level really high.  Is there a way to also have a regular-level zoom (or perhaps an outer zoom) in another part of the window, so that I can see how the regular zoom will look as I work?


texts: I'm trying to duplicate layers from a doc A4 to a A3 doc, but it resizes the layers. If a layer is 100x100, in the new is 200x200 or so. Is there a way to duplicate layer keeping its original size in the new doc?


texts: Should I expand the appearance of my gradients before printing?

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I know that I should create outlines on all the text I'm using before printing to ensure that any unique typefaces get printed correctly, and I see that there are options to also expand gradient appearances.

Should I be expanding these before printing?

What advantages would this have if any?


texts: Remove conflicting polygons and restore original

texts: I'm a newbie to Maya and downloaded a model to play with. I think the surface  I have is a Mesh that I performed a bunch of operations on and messed up. Is there anyway I can restore this to a simple rectangle? If I can't, is there a way to make a new rectangle with the exact same size and location?


texts: Free for commercial font like windows metro

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I need a "free for commercial use" font that looks like the font used in Windows Metro.

It will be used for display on website, both titles and text. With bold and 'slim' version.

Do you know of something like that?


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How can you set multiple layers equal distance between them in Photoshop in a given distance?

I know you can do the math and manually set the x axis value for each of them, but I am looking for a simpler solution and, more importantly, faster.

Example:

Input - 5 rectangles 150x150 px size; distance between the grids 1000 px:

Do something set equal distance between rectangles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Result:


texts: InDesign – Overprinting white at a Guangzhou printshop

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I'm just about to send a CD-booklet 134mmX122mm (34pp)for print in a Guangzhou printshop – and the language barrier makes it a bit difficult to get all points across; I'm wondering about what I need to explain about the overprinting. Every page of the book is slightly yellow-toned (A-master yellow-toned) with white background, greyscale illustrations on every page.

When overprint preview is on, greyscale illustrations blend with the yellow pages like they're supposed to, removing the white background of the illustrations.

How can I make sure that overprinting behaves in this way when they print the booklet? The obvious solution, I guess, would be to print on yellow toned stock paper, but since there are full-color images on some pages – that won't be possible. How can I make sure that the printers overprint the white correctly? Does anyone have any experience with this?


texts: Fonts used on cover of this textbook series (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

texts: I'm wondering what fonts are used on the cover of this textbook series: https://n1.sdlcdn.com/imgs/d/w/2/Algebraic-Geometry-SDL803985763-1-cda65.jpg. The author/title seem to be maybe in Arial, "Springer" is maybe in Times(?), and I'm at a loss for what the series name up top is in. (WhatTheFont didn't give anything definite for that one, and for the others gave lots of very similar results. Also, the first two I've eyeballed but would like to be sure on since it's important to me to get as close a match as possible.) Thanks!


texts: Illustrator: How to exclude textured strokes (Chalkboard effect)

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I'm trying to create a lettering with chalkboard effect in order to print it on a chalkboard mug.
However, most tutorials I found for Adobe Illustrator recommend applying a textured stroke to the text. (One of the charcoal effect brushes)

Now I would like to exclude the stroke (with texture) from the text itself. However, I can't really figure out how to do that without throwing away the charcoal texture as well.

Here's an example: The red part should be excluded from the text. Using a certain color is not an option since we don't know the exact background color and we're only allowed to use 2 colors.

Thank you!


texts: Rendering Video in 3ds Max 9 Custom 1280x720 didn't come out 16:9

texts: Ok I tried a few times rendering my 3d animation to video custom 1280x720, image aspect 1.778 pixel aspect 0.9. So far when you see it as it renders it appears to look fine, but after all the rendering was done and viewed the video on VLC it wasn't even the right size, it was 720x480 and the width appeared squeezed and didn't even fit right as 16:9. Did I do something wrong? I can't figure out why that happens, can anyone help?


texts: InDesign: Pasting shapes from one file to another makes shape change dimensions

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Let's say I am designing two posters in InDesign. Both posters (the page size under File > Document Setup) are 36 inches wide, but they have different heights.

On one poster, I have a simple rectangle that is roughly 202p by 15p. It spans almost the whole 36 inch width of the page.

I copy and paste the rectangle from one file to another (also in InDesign). When I paste it, the height, color, and other attributes stay the same, but the width is reduced to 7p6!

Does anyone have any idea why copying and pasting a shape from one InDesign file to another would result in just the width being reduced so considerably? Thank you in advance.

Poster 1: 36in by 36in page size

Poster 2: 36in wide by 72in high page size; zoomed in


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I am designing an app for multiple screen sizes in Android and I have been researching a lot on how the sizes should be kept. Until now I have been able to understand that for multiple sizes such as ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi we need to give elements for all of them. But I am confused on this issue:

Suppose I make a design on 6 inch screen with 480 dpi to make the elements look crisp ans clear. If I need the same design I'll change the dpi value to 160 if I want to design for a 3 inch phone. So if I decrease the dpi my resolution also decreases, right?

And what if I want the resolution to be same but the value of dpi to decrease or increase. How do I do that? (I know how to do it in Photoshop but I tried and checked it hardly make a difference)

Can two different resolutions fit one screen size with different dpi values, as done in retina displays? How does it happen ?


texts: Do I have to license Google Design Guidelines to implement them as best practices?

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I really like google's approach  in design, it's clean and simple.I want to use their guidelines in one of my up coming projects (which is quite a big one).

what is the legal status for using google's design guidelines in your application design? under what licence are they released ?!


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Any way or macro available for converting RGB TO CMYK mode for fill and outline at single click. I have to follow this steps Edit -> find and replace -> replace object -> replace a color model or palette -> find a color model -> (change which color model) Then click on replace color to fill -> finish
Same process i have to follow for the outlines if i have. Any quick way or macro. Suggestion or help. Thanks


texts: Moving a shape with a gradient overlay means the color of the shape changes (moving across the overlay)

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I have quite a simple problem but after much searching I can find how to do it.

Basically, I have a folder of shapes and a Gradient Overlay applied to the folder to apply to all shapes. This looks all well and good but if I then move the shapes folder anywhere else on the page the shapes' color changes. This makes me think the shapes are moving but the Gradient Overlay isn't so they are basically moving to a different place on the gradient and changing color.

I don't want this to happen, I just want to move the shapes folder to the other side of the image but keep the same colors. I tried doing "Create Layer" but that creates a massive rectangle for the gradient overlay that makes transforms hard to do on the shapes (the shapes take up much less space than the gradient overlay layer in the transform rectangle). And turning the folder into a smart object did very strange things to the gradient overlay.

Does anyone know a way to keep the colors the same as I move the shapes folder?

Thanks for your time.


texts: Resizing text in illustrator, 5 to 6 point (some characters hidden?)

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I have selected text and increased its size, eg, 5 to 6 point. Then part of text is missing.

The picture shows Porcupine. The letter 'e' is hidden after the size increase. I do not know how to fix it? Any suggestions?


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I am preparing a poster and I am doing it the first time in my life using Powerpoint. As shown below I have written all my sections around the actual template to format them later on. I saved the file and when I went back I cannot edit or move the text boxes. I can move the pictures with no problem though! There is a solid outline around the text boxes instead of the dotted one in normal case.

This is what options I have when I select any of the text boxes:

It's as if Powerpoint treats them as images. Can something be done here? Or do I need to do it all again?


texts: What font family is this Art Nouveau / Jugendstil letter "A" from?

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For the time being I have only this image of A. Can you tell me what the name of this font is?

Explaining that a certain answer that easily comes to mind does not work:

I tried to use WhatTheFont on the example. (see http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/). It was somewhat complicated to even find out whether it could work or not, I describe it here, because it not like "anybody could just try".

It took some workarounds to have it even try to recognize the font.
With the workarounds, the recognition was running, but found nothing similar.

As it did not separate the letters at first step, I separated one manually in GIMP:

But still, it did not recognize it as a single letter, but two, based on the gap on the left side.

So I covered that gap:

Now the recognition started just fine, but the resulting list of similar fonts did not show anything interesting (you could try with the last image).

EDIT: The letter A in question may be flipped, so if you are looking for the source then you might try to using this image as well -


texts: I am trying to make a cookbook in honor of my recently deceased mother. I have a bunch of her recipes and a couple are her actual hand writing with detailed instructions. I’m hoping to somehow replicate her writing for all the recipes (possibly into a font I could simply re-type?). I am not tech savvy. Can this be done? If I were to try to find someone more “computer intelligent” what industry of job title would I even search?  Sorry very new and just wanting to make something special. Any and all guidance is greatly appreciated.


texts: What software is used to create these kinds of infographics and checklists?

texts: What software is generally used to create these kinds of infographics or checklists? What do you guys use?


texts: Prevent Photoshop from masking Adjustment Layers by default

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Is there a way to prevent Photoshop from including a mask with each Adjustment Layer I add (unless I have an active selection)?
More times than not, I don't use a mask on an Adjustment Layer. But when I do, it's something I created - from a selection, a path, or a mask rendered with 3D software that I paste in. If I didn't have anything selected, I don't know why Ps would want to create a blank (solid white) mask with the Adjustment Layer. It doesn't change the look, but adds more pixel data, increasing file size. It also makes it harder to distinguish the layers I actually did create masks for, from the ones to which Ps just added them by default. Adding a mask later if desired takes just 1 click, but removing an unwanted mask requires 2.
So I am constantly R-Clicking on these masks and deleting them almost every time I add an Adjustment Layer. It's hindering my efficiency. Just a second or two here and there, but it starts to add up.
And come to think of it, it's not only Adjustment Layers that come with such unwanted masks, but Solid Color Fill Layers too.

Is there a way to change this behavior so that masks will only be added when a new layer is added while an area is selected?
Thanks


texts: Illustrator Bounding Box not correcty showing up (set to contur)

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I've got a problem in Illustrator with the bounding box, I've already searched the whole web but i can't find a fix for this!
Is there a way to set the bounding box always to the path, not the contur ? I know there is probably a simple solution to this, but i really can't seem to find it.

This is really annoying, i hope you can help me out with this!


texts: How to keep text formatting when updating 'Linked' txt files in InDesign?

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With the option of 'Create Links When Placing Text and Spreadsheet Files' enabled in InDesign, is it possible having a txt file (plain text) that is continuously updated outside InDesign to keep the formatting inside InDesign?

In InDesign, whenever I update the Link of the text box all formatting is lost.


texts: Export Illustrator layers to Photoshop Smart Objects

texts: I'm trying to export the layers of my illustrator document into photoshop, but the only way to do so is one by one copy and pasting...are there any ways to mass export these layers while still preserving them as smart objects?


texts: Why won't Photoshop limit TAC to 300% when using the ISO Coated v2 300% profile

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I have limited hands-on experience in color management (even though I've read quite a bit) and now I have the opportunity to send some posters for offset printing to an online printing company that ask for 8-bit CMYK TIFF files. For these they supply the ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) profile and ask for a coverage of 300% max.

I created an empty Photoshop document in CMYK with the above profile, but now that I've finished my composition, checking with the eyedropper tool, I realize that the ink coverage exceeds in many places 300% (mostly where the black line-art is).

Isn't this particular profile supposed to be limiting the coverage at 300%?
What did I do/understand wrong? What can I do at this point?


texts: Fontlab Studio 5 rendering Low Case 0 as a solid circle?

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I have a strange problem and I have tried all sorts suggestions from the net but nothing works.

I am using:
Photoshop 2018
Illustrator 2018
Fontlab Studio 5
Windows.

I am working on a font that I have created but when I Copy & paste the letter "o" into Fontlab Studio the center of the "o" is not rendered (see image).

Here is how I created the font.

Created the each letter in Photoshop.
Width: 331 px
Height: 300 px
Resolution: 300 px/inch

Used quick selection tool to find the edges of the character then create Work Path. I then export work path to Illustrator.

2.
Opened the Work Path from Photoshop in Illustrator and selected "Make Compound Path".
I then copied the character to my art board and resized it to fit my font guidelines.

Ctrl C to copy the font and then in Fontlab open the character "o" Glyph and Ctrl V to paste my font into the Glyph.

Then I Generate the font, install it within Windows and test it within my program of choice.

But.. No matter what I do I get the same result, a black circle not a letter "o"?


texts: The grid system of the brochure for Die Neue Typographie

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This is page 35 from the book Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type. In this page author give us an example of the brochure for Die Neue Typographie.
I can't understand how this grid system comes out? They mentioned there are two same width column overlapped and they have created a narrower column, but I can't see how they overlap, the overlay didn't show it.


texts: How to insert direct current symbol in adobe illustrator?

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Does anyone know how to insert the direct current symbol (⎓) in Adobe Illustrator please? I copy and paste the character into a text frame but it becomes a cross square which cannot be displayed correctly. I switched to a number of different font types but no luck. I also tried to insert a symbol from Adobe Illustrator but cannot find any.
Thank you very much!


texts: How do I use the "rectangular marquee" with the "patch tool" in Adobe Photoshop

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In Photoshop, I want to use the patch tool but I want to select the area with a rectangular marquee instead of a lasso. How do I do this?
Google searches show how to use the marquee tool OR the patch tool. (sigh)


texts: Photoshop slices not working properly (only see one when exporting)

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I think this screenshot is self-explanatory.

Shouldn't I see all of the created slices when I export for the web? Instead, I just see one! Could it be that the file have a very high resolution (4k x 3k)?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I tried to save anyway and it works! It gives me all my slices in separate files. Why then I see only one in the export window? Not so much of an issue now, btw...


texts: Can't release guides in illustrator CC (2015)

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I'm trying to delete a guide and I can't seem to figure out how. I did a Google search and found that I have to select the guide, right click and select release guide. However, it doesn't show

My guides are not locked either. And when I go to View > Guides > Release Guides, I can't do that either.


texts: The image gets blurred after zoom or scale action in GIMP. How to get clear image?

texts: Since I am a beginner, I don’t have much knowledge of designing tools. I am trying to resize the image using GIMP but it gets blurred. Please tell me how to get clear image after resize?


texts: I am still pretty new to figma, so I am still learning. I have a shape (rectangle shape) that is all white. I am trying to "fill" half of the shape with a yellow color. Does anyone know how to go about this?


texts: Single path overlapping? I shoelace design

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I'm trying to make something similar to this in Inkscape:

I tried making a path then using object to path. But that didn't work.
So then I tried using the pen tool from clipboard... Still didn't work right.

Is there a better or faster way then making separate objects?


texts: GIMP editor, how to set selection and trim image for production?

texts: Using GIMP editor for Microsoft Windows. I have scanned an image and need to  prepare the file for printing and the print file size/dimensions should be 88.5 x 57 mm: How can I set a rectangular selection to these dimensions and trim the image?


texts: Matching 'fake' in Photoshop - lighting on overlay

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This started as just a bit of a joke when my partner this morning accidentally said,
"Shall we watch Boris Gump tonight?"
When I'd stopped laughing I stole ermm… borrowed some imagery from the interwebz to make up 'that picture' from the movie.

I quickly tidied up some extraneous 'noise' & people from the background, as it was going to conflict with my added title, & also poor Tom's head got similar treatment.

I got a pic of the alluded-to politician, facing approximately the same way, so head, shoulders, neck twist ought to match up. Some drastic resizing, a mask & some edge feathering & I plonked him in place.

A hopeless lighting match, of course, but beggars can't be choosers.
All to do now was to try to get the picture quality & lighting to match. Boris's head was a great deal sharper overall than the movie frame.
I re-shaped the lighting to try better match the rear sun & front soft light fill with airbrush, dodge & burn, colour-matched to the best of my ability & softened both Boris & background until they are an almost match for overall 'image quality'.
An hour or so later I had this. It's kind of OK but it's not really that convincing.

It still doesn't quite sit right to me.
It might be fine for your average Facebook post, but I feel there's more that I could have done.
Is there something I missed, or am I biased because I know it's "photoshopped" & keep directly comparing to the original? Or is this just 'the best you can hope for' from such disparate image sources?
Of course, the more I look at it, the more I'm bothered by such as the front soft light pushing Forrest's shadow to camera left, even though the sun is low & back left...
My original images are larger than this & the above are just screen shots from Ps, but I think the overall look is preserved to demonstrate the issue.
The work was done in the last Ps CC 2020 Mac (not looked at 2021 yet).
After comments
I pushed the lighting harder left & removed some additional distractions behind the feathering. Better but still missing something.
gif of before/after lighting changes.

New composite.


texts: free software supported both ligatures and color fonts

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I would like to prepare educational materials for children. Exactly what I mean is charts with alphabet letters and pictures. Such boards could be printed or shown as a multimedia presentation. The ideal solution for Windows would seem to be Power Point or OO Impress. Unfortunately, they do not support color fonts and ligatures, which I care about the most. Is there any multimedia presentation software that supports both ligatures and color fonts? I can also make these charts in programs like QuarkXpress or Illustrator and then somehow solve the problem of efficient transfer of the charts to PowerPoint. My question is: does anyone know any free software I could use in my project? I mean the programs for:
 - raster and vector graphics
 - multimedia presentations
supported ligatures and color fonts.
I am not limited to Windows and offline solutions.


texts: Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to render glass convincingly?

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Rendering design prototypes for many materials can become easy once you learn to predict how the material will behave in given lighting conditions.

However highly reflective and transparent materials are much harder to predict – glass, in particular. That said, I notice many marker visuals for perfume bottles and glass products online that have been rendered very well without a reference (see Fig. 1-3). This leads me to believe that glass can be understood well enough to create convincing design constructions & prototypes if one knows how.

Are there any rules to help me understand how light behaves on glass objects?

i.e. How do shadows & highlights behave on glass? How can I anticipate the shape of reflections on a glass object? Does convex or concave glass effect how shadows/highlights/reflections are formed respectively? It seems that light is hardest to predict where glass is thicker, or where curves & edges occur.

I would like to be able to draft glass design prototypes that are more convincing, without the limitation of existing glass references.

I've included some examples below which demonstrate glass prototyping very effectively. These were designed by Sangwon Seok & Begüm Tomruk (see references & links below).

Image References:

Sangwon Seok, (2014), Product Sketch [ONLINE]. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/product-sketch/14568139 [Accessed 5 September 2016].
Sangwon Seok, (2016), Product Sketch [ONLINE]. Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BFV65usOEp8/ [Accessed 5 September 2016].
Begüm Tomruk, (2011), I.D. Sketching & Marker Rendering [ONLINE]. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/1176939/ID-Sketching-Marker-Rendering [Accessed 5 September 2016].*


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I have imported several tags to import an image using the following code:

<link href="C:\Users\39875\Pictures\Screenpresso\test.png"></link>

However the created the image is quite large. I have resized the image to make it smaller but it does not actually resize it.

Is there a way of setting the image size in the xml?


texts: Should line art in Illustrator be drawn at 100% zoom?

texts: I'm doing line art for a sketch that I already created in Photoshop. When I imported the drawing into Illustrator and zoomed it to 100%, I noticed that it was a lot smaller than how it appeared in Photoshop. I did the lines for one of the characters so far while zoomed in to about 200% since 100% made it difficult to see all the little details. However, when I zoomed back out, the lines appeared thick and jumbled together. You can see what I mean below. Am I supposed to do the line art while the document is zoomed at 100%? How am I supposed to see all the smaller details? Basically, I want the Illustrator lines to look almost identical to the Photoshop lines.


texts: GIMP: How to make path tool snap to whole pixels?

texts: By default GIMP path tool uses one decimal point when setting nodes. Is it possible to make nodes snap to whole pixels (For example, make a node at 64.3 snap to 64.0)?


texts: I was once told that if you want a stroke to print, it cannot be lower than a certain weight. I would like to know a) if this is true b) if so, does it it apply to both offset and digital printing and c) what the minimum printing stroke weight is in mm.


texts: How do I get this Technical Details in my design

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I have been searching for methods to get a similar result where I can show the client the technical nuisances of my design.

I am trying to locate a script that would allow me to show the dimensions and angles of cut in my design in Illustrator.

I am aware of this option from Adam but it does not have the functions as show in the image.

Thank you for your help and advice.


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I'm hoping that this is the right place to ask, but I've just started out with Adobe Illustrator CS6 and I'm having some 'beginner' issues.

If you look at the following:

See, I can only erase the parts that seem blue here, but the black parts can't even be erased? It seems like there is some partial layering going on here, but I can't really figure out what? I would just like to make one sketch and have a single layer for that sketch. This is how the layers are:

Would someone happen to know how to solve this?

EDIT

EDIT2


texts: Print resolution when Photoshop shows pixels per inch not dpi

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I am about to send some sketches which I have scanned and and tidied up in Photoshop.  My scans were 300dpi at the scanner.  I've checked by docs and they all say 300 pixels per inch.

Here's an example:

I tend to work for web, so don't do print stuff.

Am I on the right track?  Are the files big enough for print?  Please excuse my novice-ness.

Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to make "paragraph" the default text format in Dreamweaver

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I often add rows to tables in Dreamweaver once a day and then add text to these.

it is annoying to always have to change the text format to paragraph, is there a way to make paragraph the default format for all text?


texts: What system do you use to name your logos?

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I'm in a corporate marketing department that has LOADS of logos for our main brand and all of our sub brands, departments, divisions, etc. The logos are typically the family name and the sub division under it (SMITH Brokerage, SMITH Administrative Services, SMITH Benefits... The name has been changed to protect the innocent). They can be either horizontal or vertical.

Now, I'm not here to argue that there are too many logos or brands (dozens)... There are, but this is what I have to work with.

The main logo is composed of 3 PMS colors, there is a 4 Color version, 1 PMS 343 version, 1 PMS 124 version, a black version, a KO version, etc. All developed for a variety of mediums, different color backgrounds, promotional items, etc. All of the sub brands follow the same pattern and primary elements.

So, how to organize them? How to name them? Do you have a cool way of naming your logos so that they are easy to find and use? Would you mind sharing? What I am trying to clean up is 30+ years of organic growth and tons of logos. It's a mess!!

Thanks!
-M


texts: How to change a white shade to a different white shade?

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I have a question concerning the different shades of white. This is a picture of one of my sketches drawn on an A4 paper scanned to my Macbook. I wanted to resize the image so that it fits on a larger horizontal frame, so I pasted the original scan onto a white background that I had created in photoshop.
To my surprise, when I uploaded it to my website and look at it on a window pc, it clearly shows two different shades of white, with the original A4 area looking grey/blueish.
So I opened it in photoshop again and sampled the color and get the result below:

The white shade sampled from the circle 1 shows to be from the red section, while the white shade sampled from the circle 2 shows to be from the blue section of the color spectrum.

And the third screenshot is when I change the layer to multiply, and apply a solid color layer underneath, then it clearly shows that the layer 0 has two different shades of white on it.

My question is, can I replace the color of the "blue" white area with the white shade from the red "white" area?

Thank you in advance.


texts: Use Photoshop alpha channel as input to filter value

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We all know (or at least I hope we do) that in Photoshop, alpha channels are very powerful tools for creating a variety of complex effects by interpreting the greyscale value as a value from 0-255, which gets used to determine transparency/opacity (in a layer mask, for instance), or % of selection (in an alpha channel).

But has anyone come up with a way to use the alpha value as the input value for each pixel of a filter, eg: Gaussian Blur, or Mosaic? For example, an alpha value of 50 might mean a 50 pixel blur, or a Mosaic value of 50 pixels... this would allow truly variable filters... curious if anyone knows of a plugin, script or other technique that would make this possible?


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I enjoy messing around with 3DS Max, and I've always had my way without too many tutorials, as I do pretty much everything in modelling by intuition, and use tutorials for things like effects, materials, and etc.

There's one thing that, despite having attempted more than one, I haven't gotten any close to an even cartunistic version of: A car.

Maybe it's because I don't know how structurally detailed a 3D car model has to be, or I just don't have a clue about how sectioned the outer surfaces can be, but I always end up with this unmanageable model when I try creating a 3D car from imagination.

So I guess I will have to learn by doing what I do best to learn: get a couple of good complete ones, and break them down, studying them.

It would be interesting if I could have 3D models of the cars I have access to (physically), as I'd be able to check it by myself, and compare how the creator has translated each part to a 3d object.

Can you provide me with a link or something to which I can have access to a large number of 3D car models for studying purposes ?

Thank you!


texts: Creating a US map of license plates with Photoshop

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I've recently returned from a vacation in the US, in which I managed to photograph the license plates of 41 out of 50 states, with the intent of taking a wireframe map of the US, and super-imposing it with all the license plates, so that the area of each state of the map will be filled with its respective license plates (if there is none such, the state should be filled with an arbitrary color).
I found a map online, and cleared the internals of each state with the magic eraser tool (using PS 2015CC).
I have each license plate in a different JPG file, so I reckon I'll need a layer for each such plate.

How do I create a shape on the map layer for each state, and "cookie-cut" its outline from the respective license plate image layer?


texts: Is it bad practice to use non-brand fonts in ads?

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I'm working on a set of ads designed to have a social media sort of feel. Generally, these ads have a header and a sub-header on a stock image. The brand has a specific header and body font that must be used on all Powerpoint presentations and websites, but I'm wondering if it's terrible branding-wise if I use different fonts that lend themselves better to the graphic feel of the stock image?

Are there well-known brands that do use multiple fonts in their ads? If anyone could provide some examples that would be fantastic. A few Google searches haven't led to anything much but I'm not sure what search terms to use, either.

Any and all advice appreciated, thanks!


texts: Export Photoshop swatch sheet to a human-readable document

texts: I need to export a Photoshop swatch file to a human-readable document with RGB, HSB, HEX values and the name of the swatch. Is there any tool which can export swatches to this kind of a document?


texts: Is there a version control software tool that works on Windows?

texts: I'm working with a team that uses Windows, Axure & Illustrator.  I was hoping that I could find some sort of tool similar to Kactus or Abstract for version control, but I can't seem to find anything for Windows or for Adobe Illustrator.  Does anybody have any suggestions?


texts: Is there a way to export the 'glow effect' from an image to .svg code?

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When I export an image of a loader I make to .svg code the glow effect doesn't appear later in the implementation (when we add it in the project's html/css).

I see everything else but not the glow effect I added. Actually, the image also changes a little bit when we see it on the screen. Any ideas?


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I'm new to photoshop, and in my layers panel the icons that show you what your layer looks like disappeared, they just show a brush instead:

I don't know how to get it back. I tried resetting my workspace but that didn't work.


texts: Iphone: Scaling images down for smaller iphone3 and iphone4

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I am completing some design work on my application. Following a few people saying it is best to design for the iphone5 (4inch) screen first I have completed a page design for the retina. The image has then been sliced (cut up) as required for the iphone.

In terms of scaling down for the iphone3/4, is it best just to load the image in photoshop and  use Edit > Image Size... to bring the size down, or create a new image the correct size and scale all the layers down using Ctrl + T and shift to transform?


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What font is used in the following image?

The original image URL is https://www.flickr.com/photos/parisinfourmonths/8581256343/in/set-72157632102589845.

I'm also open to any recommendations of fonts that might play nicely in it.


texts: What is the foreground colour in Photoshop

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I was working with a file in Photoshop.

First, I turned it to Black and white.

Now I wanted to make her lips red, for which my instructor used the brush tool with the foreground colour as black, which painted her lips red.

My question is why weren't her lips painted black instead of red when the foreground colour is black ?


texts: Help/docs for using Inkscape for SVG icon font creation

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I was deliriously happy to find this blog post about using Inkscape and one or another online converter to create web font kits. My interest is specifically in icon fonts.

While that article was helpful (and extremely so), I still have a lot of questions about the SVG font editor in Inkscape 0.48.2 (I think it was added in 0.47).  For example, it's not at all clear how to orient characters with a baseline (if that's even possible).

The InkScape docs suggest editing the font with FontForge, but I have no FontForge experience and attempts at getting some have consistently ended in a Segmentation Fault within a few mouse clicks :-)  If there are ways of doing this in Inkscape, that'd be ideal.

So are there any useful guides for this process available? (Or other, better tools?)

Note — I am not a trained graphics designer by any means, but I'm OK with Inkscape in general.

Edit

So I've been fooling with this for a while and it's just really mystifying. Because what I'm making is an icon font, what I really want, in the end, is for a display: inline box with 1em height and width and line-height to exactly contain a glyph that fills the nominal font horizontal square size (the "horiz-adv-x" attribute on the SVG <font> tag).  If I make a test glyph that's got four boxes pushed to the corners of the nominal 1024x1024 font square (the size of the Inkspace artboard that I've got set up), then the resulting TTF font, when I style it like that, extends up out of the box. (edit — that's not actually true; I was using a "line-height" greater than 1em and that threw me off; see below)

I realize that there has to be some allowance made for descenders, but I have not been able to figure out how to account for that when creating a set of glyphs in Inkscape. That is, I can by experimentation try to determine exactly how much to shift my glyph out of the artboard downwards, but it's frustrating and it seems unpredictable. In fact it's not clear at all how the font conversion code even finds out from the SVG font definition what the baseline should be.

Edit again

OK so what I've been able to determine clearly is that a 1em by 1em glyph (where the em size is derived from the SVG <font-face> tag and its "units-per-em" attribute), after conversion to a .ttf font file, is drawn a little bit above the baseline as was determined by the author of the blog post I linked above. How far above, and why? I don't know. Adjusting the "horiz-origin-y" attribute in the SVG code has no apparent effect (and I don't have any reason to think it should; I was just fooling with it). Shifting the SVG path down out of the canvas (having the effect of changing the drawing commands such that the coordinates are negative for portions below the canvas) will definitely adjust the glyph; it's the particulars of how exactly that's all measured that I'm trying to determine, I guess. If I knew, then it'd be pretty easy to set up an Inkscape template with guides for the limits of glyphs and where the baseline is (again, like in the blog post, but more than just the baseline).

One cool thing I did learn is that the "horiz-adv-x" attribute on <glyph> tags does have an effect, and specifically that using a value of zero allows a glyph to be placed in a line of text such that the next glyph will exactly overlay.  That's neat, because it means it's possible to use separate icon "parts" to construct multi-colored icons from an icon font! With the assistance of something like Lettering.js that could be very powerful and flexible. (Somebody else blogged about a similar approach using positioning, which would also work fine.)


texts: How to export videos with transparent background from Keynote app?

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I'm pretty new to Keynote app and I've created a series of animated presentations I'd like to export as video with a transparent background. I'm using its latest update version 6.5.3, so far the most recent one. Perhaps I'm missing something, but it turns out I simply can't find which settings to tweak in order to do that.

Bellow are the actual version's export as Quicktime video options, it seems there's no option to include transparency. By choosing the "Custom" option only allows to set a custom crop size for the video.

In older versions an option to include transparency was available.

My slideshow presentation was created using only one slide with the background color set to 0%, this seems not to help as it results on a video with plain black background after export.

Any help appreciated.


texts: Web sites can contain JPEG, GIF,PNG, SVG format graphics. Which ones should be used, and when?


texts: Ways to practice design as a student without a subject or project

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I am studying design in school but I want to make things outside of class. Only problem is that I cannot think of anything to design. I want to practice designing UI for games but how do I design a UI for something that doesn't exist?

I really just want to put a lot of hours into practicing but I almost find that impossible without a client and a problem to solve. I just can't come up with a game and design a UI for it when it's not a real thing. Any advise would help a lot!


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I created a circle with an ellipse tool and used node tool to slice pizza shape within it. Now each time I create a new circle I have this "puncture" (even when I open a new file).

I would like to know how to make Inkscape treat this entity as a whole circle again.


texts: How to export asset at different densities for Android platform (mdpi hdpi xhdpi xxhdpi xxhdpi)

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I am exporting image for Android as per title, and read somewhere that one can start at a base density, then just scale the asset and export as PNGs following this formula

mdpi = ~160dpi = 1×, or 100%
hdpi = ~240dpi = 1.5×, or 150%
xhdpi = ~320dpi = 2×, or 200%
xxhdpi = ~480dpi = 3×, or 300%
xxxhdpi = ~640dpi = 4×, or 400%

anyone here that has done this that can confirm or elucidate?

Thanks


texts: illustrator actions - live trace settings

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I'm trying to set a macro to batch vectorize png to svg vectors, but i'm stuck at the Live Trace action. Illustrator will only use the default preset, how can overwrite the default preset OR create an action using a custom preset ?

i use illustrator CS6


texts: How to rearrange hexagons to perfectly snap to each other in Illustrator?

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first time user here, just created an account. I am making a board game and I'm in the printing phase. I have made some .svg hexagons to act as tiles for the game and now I need to put them on an artboard and get them printed and cut. However, I am encountering a very frustrating issue in Illustrator (CS6). I place the first hex, the second one snaps perfectly underneath it, but when I go for the third ne, to the side, to place it in between the first 2, it doesn't snap in place and is always a bit aschew.
I tried grabbing it by the anchor point and that sort of works, but apparently not all the time. I tried holding shift down and it doesn't even want to get close to the first 2 hexes. I am desperate and obviously have no clue what I'm doing. But I'm not currently in a position to pay someone to do it for me, so I'm just looking for advice.
I also read somewhere that it can't actually be done and if I try to make a grid it will always be a bit weird here and there, which sounds like bogus to me.
And here's the thing. In order to print it, I need the borders to snap perfectly in place, but also to delete one of them. Normally I'd try with 3 lines at 120 degrees from each other, but I already have the hexagons as individual graphic files, with drawings on them and everything, so that's not really an option at this point.
In conclusion, sorry for the long text, I'm panicky. I need to place a lot of hexagons on one artboard, then click on a magic button that rearranges all of them from all over the place to perfectly snap to each other and forming a grid. Can that be done? I feel like it should be really simple but I'm just missing something.
Please help and thanks in advance!
ArK


texts: What should I charge for designing (no coding): Ecommerce Website, User back end, Admin backend, Landing page & Mobile app?

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I have to design (not code) the following pages for a company, they have some wireframes of the main pages, how much should I charge for:

Design the marketing landing page
Design the ecommerce store pages (store,user settings,checkout, etc)
Design the user back end pages (user profile, dashboard, store stats, user store, payouts, etc)
Design the admin backend pages (manage users, manage payout, moderation, reward programs, etc)
The companion mobile app UI.

Thank you.


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What options do I have to draw mathematical objects?

I know I can use Inkscape to draw parametric curves, but what about polygons? Or, vector fields?

Whenever I Google this, I find things like tons of software that generate fractals or Geogebra. So, I cannot find what I am actually looking for.

One option, of course, is to draw it like one would draw anything else in Illustrator or Inkscape. Is there any other, more efficient, option?


texts: How do I print text from Photoshop without artifacts?

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I created a project in Photoshop that contains text, fully aware that Illustrator would have been the proper way, but I am a photographer and my skills lie within Photoshop so that is what I went with.

My issue is that I basically took a screenshot of a website, made changes to some of the elements, then want to scale this to print out on a standard 8.5x11 sheet. The screenshot that I took was 996px x 1584px at a resolution of 72.

How do I best export this to print without degradation of quality or artifacts around the text? I first tried to export it to print to PDF, and set it to scale image to fit page. This produced artifacts around much of the text.

Here is an example:

Here is an example of the output:


texts: Extract a transparent object from two images, with and without the object

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If I have two images, one with a transparent object overlay and one without but that are otherwise identical, how can I extract the transparent object?

Example: given the first two squares, how can I get the last one?


texts: Why can I no longer drag image files from Lightroom Classic straight to an open Photoshop Document?

texts: I recently moved from a Mac to a PC at work. Formerly, on my Mac I was able to drag an image straight from Lightroom to an open InDesign or Photoshop file. I am finding now, on the pc that I am unable to do this. Is there some fix for this or will I have to alter my workflow?


texts: How do I work with architectural scales in Inkscape?

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I want to make a floor plan in Inkscape, but cannot see how to set up the units.

The measurements are in inches. However, if I set the display units to inches, then the page is only 8.5 x 11 inches wide. The house is hundreds of inches wide.

I need to work in inches to enter the floor plan, but I need the drawing to fit on a piece of paper. How do I set up the units to do that?


texts: How to animate a rising sun in Adobe Illustrator CC?

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I need to animate a simple rising sun behind a horizon - aprox. 20 frames. Look at this quick drawing.

I need each frame outputted to a vector file because it's going to be used in a book for a flipping effect.

How would you practically approach this?

I thought about making the sun to a symbol and place each movement in separate layers? But a timeline would be nice and definitely make things much easier for testing the flow.

Is there a way to go from e.g. Adobe Animate to vector files?


texts: line tool photoshop not getting the dotted propertie

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I'm trying to change a line created with the line tool into a dotted line but I can't find the property for that. I've tried resetting the line tool but I still don't get the option. At the moment it looks like this.

Instead of this


texts: Specific name of "line in taxicab geometry" art style wanted

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I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in a taxicab geometry. An example would be this picture, an image from a flash game called "Traitor":

It is a distinct art style which I've seen it popped up in different places, so I'm sure there's a name to it. I've tried to find it by keywords like "fractal art", but no luck.


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I've an issue I've been struggelig with a while now. I've made a logo with Illustrator CC 2015 for my new website. The issue is that on most Windows computers, the logo looks unsharp, while on Macs it looks perfect. I suspected first it has something to do with DPI, though I'm not sure as it more seems like some kind of scaling issue maybe in Windows?

You can check it out at: http://preview.apexsolutions.no/beta/

On Mac the logo looks sharp and everything, while on Windows it's more unsharp almost smudged. I've played around with the Export settings of Illustrator, it's currently exported as Type Optimized and Interlaced. Interlaced seemed to help a bit, but not enough. Exported on my Mac instead of Windows did no difference.

I thought maybe the thickness of the font was the issue, but I tested a bit thicker version and it still gives the same problem. I even tried just do a simple HTML IMG, and same issue occurs, so it doesn't seem to be something in the website code either.

So now I'm stuck and not sure what I should check or do in order to solve this issue. Any help would be greatly appericiated! :)


texts: What is the term for the lines that let you resize dialogs?

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I'm looking for a term for these 'lines' that often appear on the bottom right corner in dialogs. Is there an official term for this?

Screenshot:


texts: Photoshop curves problem (image goes black)

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I want to adjust the colors of a image but when I want to select the white part of my image with the curves function of Photoshop my image goes to totally black. Does anyone ever had the same problem and how can I fix this?

I follow this little tutorial so that are exactly the steps that I am taking (only with another image)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nzc82SCrzA

Thanks!


texts: Would Using An External Hard Drive As Scratch Disk in Illustrator Help?

texts: Would using an external hard drive (Normal, non-SSD, 5400RPM) as a scratch disk in Adobe Illustrator help with the performance/speed of rendering? When I work with large canvases, Illustrator starts to become sluggish. Even though I have 4GB of RAM, this still happens.


texts: How to record an action to center the content of a layer?

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For example, there are 2 layers:

an iPhone mockup
an app icon upper left of the mockup screen

When I want to export the app icon as a .png file, now I:

copy the icon layer to a new PSD
use the mouse to drag the icon to center
change canvas to 57 x 57
further arrange the icon position
export

Is there a way to quickly clone a layer and center it?


texts: Replicating fading/tearing effect in GIMP

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For a project we decided to use a freely available icon set that we could download. However it is now apparant that not all the icons that we need are present in this set and we need to add them ourselves – in the same style.

My question is, what filters do I need to apply to our basic shapes to create the same fading/tearing/wind to replicate effects such as these?

http://hkl.renebokhorst.com/editor/img/blue/blue-document-icon-256.png http://hkl.renebokhorst.com/editor/img/blue/blue-folder-icon-256.png http://hkl.renebokhorst.com/editor/img/blue/blue-home-icon-256.png http://hkl.renebokhorst.com/editor/img/blue/blue-star-icon-256.png

The only tool I am allowed to use is Gimp 2.8.14.


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I simply love the idea of making concept art, and Id like to know, what skillsets are most important for someone who is trying to find a job in the industry or do some freelance work.

Whats most important and how can I work on it? Im not thinking only in technique terms, like "you need to be good at making texture overlays" or "every good concept artist should work on his crosshatching and shading techniques", but also a broader sense, like "you need to be flexible and able to mimic someone else's style, to fit into the existing style of the product youre working on. If you are to design some new items for World of Warcraft, you have to make sure they fit the existing ones". Or maybe its somethign completely different, like "you have to know how to market your work and get people to check out your portfolio"?

Those are only examples, Im hoping to hear a lot more from people who actually work in the industry. Any advice on how to improve would also be welcome. How can I work on those crucial skillsets? To follow my own example - how can I practice being flexible?


texts: What's the name of this flat illustration style?

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I want to buy some stock photos like the ones below. What is this design called?

I don't even know how to start searching...


texts: Optimum workflow for re-sizing content in InDesign

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I am curious of the workflow that designers have when using InDesign, specifically with placing and re-sizing images while remaining flexible for content whose dimensions can change.

I am creating a portfolio with a variety of mixed content: raster, vector, raster mixed with vector. When starting I was unsure of the final dimensions of the content so I placed everything in the document with their original dimensions either as tiffs, pdfs, psd, or ai files. I've come to a point where I have an idea of what the dimensions of content should be but unsure when is the time in the process to re-size all the content to specific print dimensions. I want to remain flexible in case I need to create an alternate layout or something in the design needs to be a new dimension.

Questions:

What is occurring when content in a frame is being re-sized within InDesign?

2.What effect on output (besides large file size) is there if large content is placed and re-sized only in InDesign?

Do raster files (placed as .psd files) need to be re-sized in Photoshop, or does re-sizing in Indesign retain maximum quality?
Do vector files (placed as .ai files) need to be resized in Illustrator, or does re-sizing in Indesign retain maximum quality?
After content is placed, when should it be properly (using photoshop) re-sized?
What happens if properly re-sized content needs to be changed to another dimension?
How do you plan work using liquid/alternative layouts?

I hope this makes sense. I can clarify if necessary.
Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: How to select a bunch of points of a path for removal in GIMP?

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I created a path with a lot of points.  I then duplicated the path so that I can attempt separating them into two smaller paths.
Is there a way to select a bunch of the points as a group to perform an operation on them such as removal?  Or am I forced having to delete each point separately, one at a time.  I would think that the former is a fairly obvious feature because the latter is such a big hassle.
Edit
Sorry, forgot to mention that the path consists of two strokes and I want to separate the strokes from each other.


texts: Why does Photoshop change the position of my PNG when creating a GIF?

texts: I'm trying to create a GIF using PNGs I made in Illustrator. Each of them have the same position and size but when I export it to Photoshop, the image position changes per frame. How do I fix this?


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Is there is way that I can get codepoints of WOFF2 files (typically Google fonts like this Material Icons font https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/materialicons/v54/flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNc.woff2)
They don't even update their github resource, and some lists of codepoints contributed by users are outdated.


texts: What is the script font used by our engraving machine?

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Can someone help me identify this script font?

I've tried using WhatTheFont, Identifont, WhatFontIs, FontSpring and Adobe Font Match. No luck.

The font I'm trying to identify is used for an engraving machine at my place of work. We offer engraving on some of our products and would like to identify the font so I can create a web application to show previews of how the engraving will look on our products.


texts: One file with multiple linked files to one photoshop file

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I would like to create one psd file that has multiple layers containing a different piece of artwork, that is linked to another psd file containing multiple layers and each of those layers is linked to the layers in the first psd file.

For instance I have 5 dvd covers and 5 spines in one psd file. In the other psd file I have the artwork in layers for those covers and spines and these need to be easily swapped out.

Whats the simplest way of setting this up? I am more of an after effects person which if anyone knows, this process is very simple using precomps.


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I'm looking for a font like Zamenhof for a project I'm working on, but would prefer not to have to purchase the font.

Anyone know of a similar typeface?


texts: Do I charge my first client before or after the design is complete?

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This is my first serious client and their first design experience. I am designing a Logo and a business card for them. We haven't discussed price yet and I haven't started on their design either, so i'm wondering when I should charge them? Before I begin or after?

Also, How should I charge them if it's the first design experience for the both of us? More specifically , should I charge them based on the time it takes to design or a flat fee?


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Let me just start with saying I am really a beginner printing wise :)

Client wants a logo to be screen printed on apparel. For the time being he will print it on vinyl and later he will do some screen printing.
Logo has gold circle and green icon inside the circle.

Currently what I want to do is like pick some Pantone green for an icon, use PMS 871 C for a gold circle, make bleed and margin and send away as PDF.

Questions:

Can I just use CMYK instead of Pantone?
Can object on object (green on gold in this case) cause some issues
when printing, I should be aware of?
So printing some CMYK gradient would just turn out terrible?
Also in any case I understood that for screen printing I would
have to do color separation in Illustrator?


texts: Illustrator help: My white image border is not appearing in saved .png or .tiff files

texts: I am using Illustrator CC to create an 18in x 24in poster. I have a one inch white border around the image. When I export the file for the client to proof it, the border is gone and the image is cropped to the first place there is color. It is not exporting the entire artboard. Why is this happening?


texts: Import spreadsheet cell values into Scribus

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I'm trying to design some name tags in Scribus and have a list of names and departments that I'd like to automatically import Scribus, creating a new name tag (i.e. a new page with the same design) for each data point. Is there a way to do that with an LibreOffice Calc Spreadsheet and Scribus 1.4.4?

Additionally, is it possible to set the attributes of frames (like background color) on each page according to a certain integer and/or boolean value of the according data point?

Many thanks in advance!


texts: Creating a blurred ios 7 notification drawer style background

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I'm new to sketch 3 and I really want to create that blurry background you have over the icons when you pull it down. I've followed a tutorial for blur in Sketch 3 but I didn't achieve exactly what I wanted.

This is my result:

But I would like to achieve this:

My result makes the icons stand out, but I want them to be more blurry. How can I accomplish this?

thanks!

Sincerely,
Erik


texts: I have an rasterized text image. Can i convert it into text file?

texts: I rasterized my complete text file and then adjusted accordingly. Now I want to restore these images into text files. Is it possible any way?


texts: How to export Photoshop file to Illustrator

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I have created a graphics in Photoshop CS6 and I saves it in .eps file format, and when I opened it in the Illustrator CC it is not recognizing any element more over if I zoom in the graphics is become blur. One more issue that when I open .eps file in Illustrator I found all my Photoshop layered are merged together.

I know Photoshop generate Raster image where as Illustrator generate Vector image, but Encapsulated PostScript files (.eps) is supported by both the tools so it should work?

So I want to know how to create/save a graphics in Photoshop and open it in Illustrator to do any other editing or changes.

Please Note: I'm just a beginner in this 2 tools.


texts: Image Fourier Decomposition to save many images?

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I wish to divide an image into 256 separate fourier layers and do some complex processing on them for an experiment and add them together again.

Can i do it in photoshop or gimp or is there a program that would batch process an image by fourier transform and save all the resulting images to disk?

Please: I am sure someone overly serious will say "this question should be on "recommend me a program forum" because it is not relevant to graphics design forum" which would clearly be dogmatic as generalists dont do that kind of image processing.


texts: How to animate an adjustment layer in photoshop cc 2015?

texts: I'm trying to animate the levels of a threshold adjustment layer to go smoothly from 1-255 and back again. I have the timeline open but can't even seem to get it to change from one keyframe to another and every tutorial is too complicated to understand. Any help? Thanks


texts: What is the best way to place three square figures on one page?

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Two or four figures (images) on one page is fine, but I find it really difficult to design a Letter-sized or A4-sized page with three figures, especially when all three figures have square aspect ratios. Are there any elegant solutions for this?

For example, here is a layout I came up with recently:

Note that there is no text here, so all that whitespace makes the page even more inelegant. Placing figures in a row (or a column) makes them even smaller and the whitespace even more troubling. Unfortunately, this situation seems to occur quite often in technical page design.

I wonder if others have suggestions that could help improve how this page looks. Thanks!


texts: Offline billing software for freelancers

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The billing/invoicing/time-tracking software I use, iBiz, is no longer being supported by its manufacturer. I am a freelancer, so I need software which allows me to:

Track time on jobs
Track tasks on jobs
Automatically fill in a rate for a task (not all tasks are the same
hourly rate)
Add notes about a job
Put in flat-rate items
Organize clients, preferably by allowing me to have more than one
point of contact in a company
Generate invoices
Record payments and log them against invoices
Customize the invoices with a logo
Generate earnings reports for tax season

Cost is not an enormous issue, although I'd rather not spend several thousand dollars.

I do not want something online or cloud-based. I want something I can buy, once, and download, once, and which works offline. I do not want to pay a subscription fee. I do not want something which is a web app, because if the company disappears, so do all my records.

What are your suggestions? What experience have you had with the software, and why would you recommend for/against it?

I am in the U.S. working on a Mac, so the software must be Mac-compatible.


texts: How to make borders of images equal in InDesign?

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I'm throwing together a newsletter in InDesign that requires linking JPG images. It looks fine in InDesign but when I export the image to Adobe reader the borders on my images change so that one side is darker/thicker than the rest of the sides. I hope that makes sense. I need all my borders to match.

I've tried replacing the images, making the images bigger/smaller, basically the side that has the thicker border just jumps to a different side with any change that I've tried so far.


texts: How can I represent "fast" or "Fastest" in a logo? Any successful examples?

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I am doing rebranding of a company that provides internet through fiber-optic cables.

I want to portray "FAST", "fiber optics" and "connectivity" in that logo.
In all my initial sketches, I  have catered the later two but not the first.

If you can provide link to your own or any other work which represents this then it will be highly helpful.

Much Thanks.


texts: bookmarking group of vertices in 3ds max (for easily select)

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I want to make group of vertices for easily select vertices,like "add selected vertices to group" in blender
I want to bookmark Vertex groups in3dsmax ,like this : (this is define in blender ,I have no idea what it called in 3dsmax.

  Vertex groups identify sub-components of a mesh, like the legs of a
  chair or the hinges of a door. By “bookmarking” such regions in vertex
  groups you can easily select and work on them in isolation without
  having to create separate objects.

so i'm asking for similar method in 3dsmax.
Please tell me how to do it
Thanks alot


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I have designed a TCG game with roughly 500 card created.
I have a card frame made, and would like to use these to create a PDF of each card.
Is there a way to automate this so i can make any changes and quickly generate the cards again?

Software:

Windows 8 x64

Photoshop cs5

MS office and google docs

I am willing to download free or trial software to do this job.


texts: Pathfinder not working well in Illustrator cc

texts: I am having an issue with the pathfinder tool in Illustrator CC. Every time I use minus front this happens (see image below). As you can see, it does not detract exactly to the path/curve. Is there a setting I am missing? why is this happening?


texts: How to design a simple (text and a shape logo) for a website

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All I need for my website is just a text and a shape beside the text or over it,
I googled a lot but there were no simple answers, using illustrator is just an overkill.

For example, company named "SomeX", writing the name "Some" inserting a shape, representing a big "X" symbol beside it or over the text. I Know it would be terrible design, I'm not selling it, it's just for personal demonstration while I'm working.

Are there any methods or software to achieve this simply? Write the text, add the symbol and drag it anywhere, and export the PNG.


texts: How do I make a color background transparent?

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How I can make color transparent in Photoshop?
For example, I have picture of smoke, and I want to make background color (which is black) transparent. How?


texts: InDesign: Can I automate Master Page assignment to multiple, non-contiguous, pages without using page numbers?

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I need to replace a couple existing master pages with other existing master pages. I am familiar with how to replace master pages in general.
I have Master Pages - A, B, C, D, E, F.
I need to replace all occurrences of Master-F with Master-B and all occurrences of Master-E with Master-D. Document is several hundred pages in length. Document pages with these master assignments are non-contiguous. So, for example, I need to change the master assignment for page 4, 8, 10, 22, 40, 43, ~, 130, 190, 340, 347, etc.

I realize I can merely copy/paste contents between masters, or apply one master to another. (However, I want to keep existing masters as they are. Creating a new mater won't be of use.)

I realize I can drag/drop a master on a document page to replace the master.

I realize I can use Apply Master Page to... to apply a master page based upon document page numbers. The field to enter pages doesn't seem to accept something such as D-Master or D: as a viable input. (I've tried many variations.)

Factoring each and every page number for replacement would take as much time as manually drag/dropping masters. I can do all this manually, but I'd love something more automated.
Web searching hasn't presented anything of use. Often merely detailing the basics of theory and operations where Master pages are concerned. But, perhaps my web searching has been poor?
Is there an automated method of replacing all instances of one master page with another master page?
i.e. All Master-F assignments to Master-B assignments regardless of document page numbers? Sort of like Find <> Replace, but with master page assignments only?
It had occurred to me that there may be a default script for such a thing, but based upon the script file names, I'm not seeing any default script for this specifically. I may be simply missing it though.
(I am using InDesign CS6, but have access to more recent versions if that's mandatory, Prefer CS6 though.)


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For webshop purposes I would like to allow users to change product colors.

Let's take the next example...This is the product that consists of three other products where every product should be recolorable. So, I quess, I should create SVG element and change the fill of every product shown on image, via CSS.

Thus, I thought I should create the image that consists of 6 layers, 2 for each product, as shown below. The below layer containing the original image and the overlay in Hue blend mode with some color.

Note: the selected colors should be as realistic as possible.

Then, every time user choose the new color, the svg element fill attribute changes.

So, how to achieve this? When it's done in the way described above, svg doesn't contain the elements for both layer, neither I can change the color of one of them

The exporting looks like this:

The color is not realistic and the svg takes only second layer. What it be better if using Illustrator?


texts: Most discernible text colors on printed white paper

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For a paper I am writing, I need to annotate pieces of text with a color. Apart from black, I need four easily discernible colors of which one should be blue(ish) and one should be red(ish).
The text will be printed on white paper.

It is not a requirement that these colors are harmonious or "pretty" (but it is a pre of course). Whatever colors I pick, there is always one with bad contrast on the white background, or one that is difficult to discern from another color.

Is there any strategy that lets you choose appropriate colors for this (a premade solution is also welcome of course)?


texts: Activate window when hovering Adobe app on second monitor

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I have a two monitor setup. I run Photoshop maximized on screen 1 and InDesign maximized on screen 2.
When I copy from indesign to photoshop, I have to activate the photoshop window with the first click, othervise i paste the content back to indesign, in spite of hovering the photoshop window on screen 1.
I tried multiple software or the windows function "activate window by hover", but it only works on windows folders, it does not work on adobe apps.
Do you have / use any solution?
Thanks

What I do:
Copy image by ctrl+c in indesign on monitor 2, hover mouse over photoshop on monitor 1, hit ctrl+v

What happens:
Image is pasted into indesign, because photoshop window wasn´t activated

What I have to do to make it work:
Copy image by ctrl+c in indesign on monitor 2, hover mouse over photoshop on monitor 1, click into the photoshop window, hit ctrl+v

How it should work / What I want:
Copy image by ctrl+c in indesign on monitor 2, hover mouse over photoshop on monitor 1, hit ctrl+v, image is pasted into photoshop without need of additional mouseclick.


texts: Inkscape Changing Color of the Whole Object

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I have made a bubble in Inkscape. The bubble comprises of a circle and an eclipse inside the circle. The bubble has gradient effects and is red in color.

Now, I want to change the color of the whole object to green. Is there an easy way to do that?


texts: How to make certain area transparent in Illustrator

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I have a rectangle with a grid pattern as fill:

Now I want the white part to be transparent so I can add a background image to it. I didn't find a way to do it. I know if you are in Photoshop you can use the quick selection tool but I am in Illustrator. So how do you do it in Illustrator? Thanks


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I try to use Photoshop 3D function, but I fail.
I import a simple cube.obj file, but when I try to paint to it, whatever I draw to front side, it will be added on all other 5 sides too. How can I use this 3d paint feature if I wanna paint all sides differently?
Thanks,
Mue114


texts: Same view, different hex codes. Which one is true?

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I'm working on Yandex social media covers and the problem is the yellow. First of all, this is my color profile (same with the project owner)

And the code given to me is #fedc4a. But when I export file via save for web and open it in photoshop, with eyedropper it looks #ffdc4a.

There is no difference while comparing them but code looks false. What's the problem?

I'm adding a psd which shows the colors (i can't post it as jpg because it changes the values again).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7mlalqesliioxjo/differences.psd?dl=0

Thanks in advance.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcuts for the fixed size marquee in Photoshop?

texts: I use the rectangular marquee tool a lot, specially the fixed size option, is there a shortcut to swap the width and height of it? Also is there a shortcut to apply new dimensions?


texts: What book should I buy for a 12 year old that wants to learn graphic design?

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My cousin-nephew is 12 years old. He doesn't quite understand what the term Graphic design means at the yet, but he's been having a play in Photoshop and Illustrator and copied some design concepts from other places he has seen on the web. He learns very fast. He expressed interest in buying a book so he can become a good graphic designer. His teachers have been a bit of a letdown so far.

Should i buy him a book that teaches him about graphic design, or one that teaches him how to use Photoshop/Illustrator better? (to be fair, he's not too bad at using the software tools)

If so, which book should i buy for him?


texts: inkscape strange rectangular around each object

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I'm creating this image with inkscape and never had this problem before. As you can see, a rectangle appears around each object. I don't understand why. How can I remove them?

I have tried to do filters -> remove filters ...


texts: How large are the icons on the left and right side of the navigation bar for iOS 7 on iPhone 5?

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Can anyone advise how large are the icons usually on the left and right side of the navigation bar?

See this (the cog wheel and info icon).

I read from the iOS human design guidelines it's 44 x 44 pt? Because the confusing thing is Apple is using pts instead of px, so the question is, how large should I make it in Photoshop? 44 pt = 44 px?

To make it more confusing, with the Retina displays, I assume multiply everything by 2?

My brain is getting cooked right now. I'm designing the mockup for iPhone 5 screen size.


texts: Ad layout for programs - Illustrator or InDesign

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today I'm looking for some advice from folks who have laid out event programs.

In this case, the client (a local nonprofit) has a famous keynote speaker at their event, and have solicited donations from local businesses. Each donation over a certain level = a full page ad in the program for the event. Most of them are "Congratulations to  on your anniversary", etc. with a company logo sitting somewhere (the businesses that send in their own camera-ready artwork will just have them dropped into place).

I'm going to be laying each ad out in a template so they look consistent; my question to the GD crowd is, "Should I lay the template out in Illustrator and bring each ad individually in to InDesign or should I create a template page for an ad in InDesign and lay each ad out in InDesign?"

Based on your experience, what are the pros and cons of each approach? Obviously it would be easier to lay each ad out in Illustrator (that's what it's there for) but I lose a certain amount of flexibility once I hit InDesign (the program will ultimately be laid out in InDesign).


texts: I'm brand-new to graphic design and this website; I hear graphic design is a nice field for those who want to be creative, but want to get some good freelance experience before I would go for a GD degree (I'm currently going for my Associate's in Computer Science). I've heard of an app called "Canva" where you can create PNGs, JPGs, etc. for social media. I've already created some flyers with this app, but I'm not sure if this is TRUE graphic design. So is it?


texts: Illustrator: "the selection contains objects which can't be distorted"-error

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I am trying to make a distort effect in illustrator. I use the white arrow, the direct selection tool, I cannot get it to work.

I get an error message:

"the selection contains objects which can't be distorted"

Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Top Objects

Included https://www.flickr.com/photos/124549715@N04/


texts: Resizing canvas inside a smart object in a mockup

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I have alot of mockups that are to be used for mass production; running scripts and all to place designs.

So my problem is when I resize the canvas inside a smart object to fit to a frame/guide layer I have made the whole "Your design here" smart object gets ruined, it enlarges and somewhat ruins the mesh warp.

Reason for having the layer guide is all the designs are in that ratio, so when I run the scripts it fits perfectly.


texts: Photoshop: skin color change with gradient

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as you can see above I have two images. I need to change women face skin color with a gradient which is on the left. Maybe you can recommend some technique to do it? The only important thing is that I need to keep all face shadows, contours and lines the same. I hope to get a similar result like with a "Color replacement tool".
Thanks!


texts: Issues with creating a hi-res Large Icon for Android notifications in Jelly Bean

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I am attempting to create beautiful hi-res graphics for Android notifications, but am running into some issues. In Jelly Bean, there is a new place for large icons (see the notification design guidelines here) on the left side of the notification banner (see below #2 Large icon):

All of the stock Android icons are beautiful and hi-res, but unfortunately the icons I have been creating in illustrator/photoshop do not look as crisp on the hi-res display.

My files are 96 x 96px, but I am concerned that this isn't the right size for hi-res icons, and I haven't found any good info anywhere regarding the best sizing for these.

Any help is greatly appreciated!


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I am not really happy with the way I've designed these tiles . And I'm short of ideas. Can anybody have ideas on how I could make the section look better? In general with the presentation of the tiles, color, shape and background.

Background of the image:

This is a homepage of an application that shows the reports
    and dashboard (Pdf ) of their department. Divided in 2 sections. selecting a tile on the top changes the set of files in the bottom part.
The create new allows the user to create a folder/ tile for themselves by selecting appropriate filter options.
The folders are added horizontally as
    and when they are created.


texts: Align 2 layers in PS by similar "points"

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I have two different photos from the same place. One is old from the 80's and the new one from the current time.

What I'm trying to achieve is to fit the photos over each other.
I'd like to align the new photo to have the portrayed object at the exactly same place as from the 80's. I have no idea what kind of lenses, films or cameras was used years in the old photo.

The Auto-align layers doesn't work in Photoshop as the photos are too different so for now I'm using free transform and the wrap feature which is useful but not great.

I would like to select a couple of points from layer X (the old photo) and assign these to other points in a second layer (the new photo). Then hit some magic button and witchcraft will happen.

New photo:

Old photo:

Thanks for any help and cheers!


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I have visited a page discussing the calculations required to rotate an image for tiling purposes. I am still very stuck.
I've even tried using the automated tool inside the G'MIC plugin in GIMP.

This is the single bucket I am starting with:

This is the result I'm trying to achieve:

I need the buckets to line up when tiled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Why do the ending anchor points appear disconnected after I apply a brush to a single stroke in Illustrator?

texts: I would like to know a solution or workaround to avoid having the stroke appear disconnected after applying a brushstroke. Please see before and after applying a brush to stroke. I have already tried the alt/option method of connecting the path as well as "join" to make the connection; however, when applying the brushstroke, there is still a "pinch" along the path. Is the tapered brush stroke part of the problem? Or is there a better way to achieve a more seamless result when using an art brush? Thank you!


texts: Missing objects when saving .svg as .pdf with Inkscape

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I am using Inkscape.

I have the following .svg file (here):

When I choose Save as copy and .pdf, I get the following (also in previous link):

I tried grouping, ungrouping and moving layers, the bottom left figure still does not appear. It is a .png figure, not vector, but that has worked in the past with our examples... Why does it not appear in the pdf?


texts: How can I resize the color thumbnails in Illustrator's swatch panel?

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I need to resize the Illustrator's swatch palette icons which are too small on my Mac. How can I do that?

Once I saw a PC with huge icons and I realized that I could do the same on my Mac.


texts: How did Pink get associated with feminine beauty to begin with?

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Women's History Month began this week, and gender equality is booming more than ever. Many brands are attempting to show support. Some of those same companies however are facing backlash over their design decisions. One of the largest points of contention often seems to be the use of the color Pink (of various intensities).

It's no secret that Pink has long been associated with feminine beauty. The question is from a purely historical standpoint where did this originate from. What are some of the oldest and most significant representations of Pink in this way?


texts: One gradient across multiple layers (compound path unites layers) illustrator

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I know how to put a gradient across multiple shapes in Illustrator using compound path - however, in this specific case I have layers with other parts that need to show in front of each other - and using compound path unites those layers in front or behind (as one layer).

To show what I mean see image. I've drawn 3 cubes. I want one face to have one gradient. A single gradient on each is shown top right. Bottom left is what I want to achieve (that gradient stretched across all three) but crucially I need the blocks and layers still in order shown in the top right or top left set.

Important: I cannot CUT into/out these shapes because they will be part of an animation that shows the 3-sides of the cube, appearing one by one, moving into place.

My guess (but I don't know how to...) is make the compound layer as I have, then some keep that gradient as I release the compound layer, then reorder those layers back to where they were. Hopefully someone will know.


texts: Status icon for verification, claimed and both combined

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I'm currently working on a web app, which has different kinds of status. It can either be nothing, claimed, verified or claimed and verified.

This is the current version for status "verified". I'm wondering which is the best solution to show the different status types as icons within the corner by changing the icon or color. What's the appropriate icon to show "claimed"? Or should I use different colours and badge shapes?

I was wondering if that's a possible solution:

The shape of claimed is part of the combined status and also the shape of verified is in the final shape. Also petrol is the company color, so the combination of blue and green is petrol. Would it make sense?

Really appreciate your feedback and input :)


texts: Make color transparent and keep the same visual color

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I have this color #EEF1F3. I need an element to have this color as the background color. In this case I need the color to be opaque by a ratio of 5% (opacity: 0.05). But I don't know how to turn this color darker to create an then make it opaque and then the result should be the exact same color.

I have tried to use color hex and pinetools. But it doesn't seem the results are keeping their rbg ratio (the result comes off way less blue).

In web development (perhaps also in most graphical dev. tools) You need the base color from which you make opaque to end up with your resulting color.

This is with a white background (#FFF)

I am guessing the goal is too find a darker color with the same rgb ratio

But how much darker?

Any tools or calculations for this? How should I go about it?


texts: Align edges: How to choose which element aligns and which one stays?

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Situation: I have two or more objects, I want to align one to the other (say top border).

Problem: Sometimes the align feature aligns the "wrong" object, that is to say, I want it to align object B to object A, yet it aligns object A to object B instead.

I've been baffled by this for a while now, there seems to be no apparent logic on how to select which one is the leading object. I select them in the layers panel using CTRL, but no matter what I select first, it always aligns by the same logic.


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This seems to happen most of the time, but more visible when you are importing as smart objects in Photoshop and resizing down. In the attached image you can see where the aliasing is getting really bad in the top right where I blew up what I see when I zoom in. Is there a way to avoid this kind of aliasing?

You can see when its large, the bad aliasing is obfuscated because of the size, but its very noticeable as you get smaller.

also, I have narrowed it down to the use of inner glow, it seems this is what causes it.


texts: How can I Rotate and scale at the same time (both together) in Illustrator?

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In Corel Draw when you double-click on objects and press shift key, you can do rotate and scale both together. and if you repeat this action you can make some parametric design.
how can I do this function in illustrator?


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i'm very new to MAYA [version-2013] .i need to create 3d threaded rod for mechanical simulation .i found nicely modeled 3d  nail and i know i can take a rod by removing head of the nail so i want to know how to cut nail to remove head section.i was following tutorials ,videos about 12 hours .still i didn't able to remove head.i want to know how to cut and remove head part of nail.

this is preview of nail


texts: Using line tool in Sketchup 8 creates planes when I'm expecting just a line?

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The 2 intersecting planes are the result of drawing a line from a top vertex to a bottom vertex.
I am attempting to avoid these planes being drawn.
I only want the line.
When I select face style -> wireframe, the planes are not seen but are still there when another face style option is selected.
My current work around has been to go through and delete the sections of the planes.


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What Are the Pros & Cons of Using SVG for Web Graphics?

Q: SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) are becoming a popular choice for web graphics. What are the main pros & cons of using them today when designing web graphics?

Are they now a better choice to design with? Are there still security concerns? Are there any new contenders that do a better job? Do new processors and GPU render them better without performance issues?

Note: I have done the usual Google searches and use SVGs myself. The purpose of this question is to find better and more up-to-date answers than Google provided, to have real-time and dynamic feedback from answers and to see if I can find those amazing facts I just never knew, which is often the case from the amazing and knowledgable people on here.


texts: advice on workflow and people needed for an app

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I'm looking for some advice on workflow and what people I'll need to put together an app for tablets and smartphones.

There are 3 questions down the bottom of this post.

There are 2 apps planned -- both are kids' storybooks. One exists already as a printed book, with psd files. The other is 90% written and has no illustrations done yet.

So as far as I understand, the workflow to create these apps would be something like this:

Stage 1: Write the book

Stage 2: Create illustrations for each page

Stage 3: Create some animation and interactivity in the illustrations

Stage 4: an app developer, maybe working with a graphic designer, puts the app together and makes it available in the apps store

3 questions:

Is that the right workflow?
Stages 2 and 3 -- are these stages usually done by 2 separate people: an illustrator creating the illustrations and an animator adding animation and interactivity? Or would often one person do both illustration and animation?
Am I missing anything from that workflow?

Thanks :)


texts: Adobe Illustrator: Save-forWeb-jpeg looking different

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When saving my artwork as a .jpeg (using the Save-for-Web-option) the saved file looks different than the artwork inside Illustrator. Specifically, the order of some of the layers seems to have been changed, for no apparent reason. The images below show what is happening.
Has anyone else encountered this issue and can tell me what excatly is going on here?

Artwork inside Adobe Illustrator:

Artwork after having been saved as .jpeg:


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I have thousands of JPG graphics and want to trace them automatically to vector SVG files with a batch function in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5.

All graphics looks something like that:

My problem is, I have only Adobe Photoshop (CS5), Illustrator (CS4) and Bridge (CS5) on my machine. Is there any way to do it with this software?

I tried to make actions in Illustrator.

I changed the [Default] preset with my desired options: Object -> Live Trace -> Tracing options. Here I changed the options to this and saved as [Default]:

I started to record my action: Object -> Live Trace -> Make. But by doing this, Illustrator choose the "Custom" preset, so I didnt get my desired options. Like you can see, the "Miminal area" is set to 2px (in "Custom" mode it is 20px).

So, is there any way to do stuff like that with Illustrator or should I use any other software (if possible free)?

At the end I want to save the file as SVG.

Thank you


texts: Restore snap-to-grid behaviour for path handles in AI CC 2014

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one of the new features in AI CC 2014 is path handles ignoring any grid. However, when one wants to construct C2-contious joins between separate objects, precise control over the handle position is needed. I do a lot of icon and sprite art, and there it is imperative that curves from different objects flow exactly the same to create a smooth transition between individual pieces.

How can one restore the ability of handles to snap to the grid like in previous versions of AI?


texts: Ivy League typeface/font family - Origins and legit sourcing?

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I'm a novice relative to typeface/font family sourcing. A client's style guide specifies the Ivy League typeface. I've spent an unsuccessful hour in online research trying to find the entire font family for purchase, for free, or some combination (i.e., a one-stop shopping site that I can trust).

That hasn't worked, so I also tried searching based on who owns/developed/invented the typeface and came up with confusing results.

Pointers to the Ivy League typeface origins, where to get it, or both are greatly appreciated.


texts: Finding intermediate colours between two xyY colour points

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I am working in an application where I need to know the intermediate points between two xy coordinates in CIE 1931 colour space.

In the picture below we can see that a linear transition (straight line) between A and B will go through a series of other colours, and I am struggling to find a mathematical way of describing the transitions between A and B in order to get intermediate points.

Any ideas?


texts: Would a minimalist collage still be a collage?

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There is a collage making competition In my school. I want to make a collage using minimal design principles. Will such a collage even be considered a collage? Because all of the collages I have encountered are extremely unordered with pictures and data seemingly placed at random. The theme is world health day.

Definition of collage:

  a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.


texts: Illustrator CC: no snap when drawing polygon

texts: Using the polygon tool, the mouse cursor isn't able to snap to any guide or center point of existing paths and objects. The other drawing tools seem to snap correcty.


texts: Adobe Illustrator: How to create a clipping mask

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I have this logo I am working on. I have 2 questions:

1) I have a white circle behind the 4. I'd like to use that circle as a clipping mask for the 4 so that the 4 fits perfectly within that white circle. How can I do this?

2) After that, if I wanted to paint the 5 areas in white (between blue and green) each a different color, how can I isolate those areas to paint?

Thanks!


texts: How can I temporarily represent a high res image with a box in Illustrator?

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I have multiple complicated vector images in a document with multiple artboards. Zooming and moving around can sometimes cause Illustrator to stall for a few seconds. I'd like to temporarily hide the high res images to decrease load on memory and make it easier for Illustrator to do things, but I'd like to have the images replaced by gray boxes or some indicator that an object is still there.
Is this possible? When I use the actual "Hide" function it seems to simply remove the objects visually.


texts: how to take off all the white space from a page in photoshop?

texts: cause i want to change the color of some black lines by locking the layer and coloring just the lines but since it's one page even the white space get colored. don't you guys have an easy way to do that beside wand and eraser. (cause i might have this probleme for all my images and i think it's annoying to use wand every time)


texts: Color only erased parts of layer with locked transparent pixels in Photoshop

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So I made a layer that has white contents, then clicked "Lock transparent pixels"
I then proceeded to use the eraser to remove some of the white areas which is to be replaces with a different color.

What I didn't realize is that erasing on a layer locked like that replaces the erased parts with a gray color and doesn't actually make it transparent. Now how can I select this gray erased area to replace it with a diff. color?