texts: Sketch Only Apply Shadow To Outside Edge of Element

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I have an element in sketch that has a lot of intersections in the middle of it - when I try to apply a shadow to this element, the shadows become visible in the middle where the intersections are, in addition to the border.

If you look at the image, you can see what I mean - the purchase 'button' is made via an intersection, because I want to preserve the background's gradient. However, I don't want the shadow visible here - just on the edges of the white box.

Is there any way to get this to happen?

I was playing with masking a little bit, but I have several elements like this purchase button - masking them all and re-organizing the layers is a lot of work and I was wondering if there was an easier way.

Thanks!


texts: Select pixels brighter than X in a BW photo in Photoshop

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I would like to select areas which are brighter than X (X is determined visually).

Select -> Color range -> Highlights selects very bright areas, but it has no adjustments and it doesn't include some brighter midtones.

Select -> Color range -> Sampled Colors doesn't work on black and white photo at all.

Is there another method?


texts: Appropriate substitute for Montserrat italic

texts: I'm looking for an appropriate (free) substitute for Montserrat italic. Now I'm using Noto Sans italic, but it doesn't look really good:


texts: What font was used in this image please?

texts: I would really appreciate help identifying the font used in this image please?


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In Photoshop CC we can export an image and also export the @2x @3x etc. This is obviously assuming that the original was made at the @1x size.

Is it possible to say what the original is and export the others? For instance can I create my asset as @3x and then export choose to create the @2x and @1x? Downsizing rather than upscaling?


texts: How do I create a partially transparent overlapping "Stain Glass" effect with shapes in Photoshop?

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I like the repeated shape, with color "overlap" but I do not know what to call this, or how to create something similar in Photoshop.

How do I create this effect in Photoshop?


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I saw this font on a YouTube video and love it, would be perfect for something I am working on at the moment but no online services can work out what it is.

Online services have trouble with the detached areas and can't track them properly, I'm hoping someone here will be able to tell me what it is, or know of something very similar with those types of sleek, sharp cuts in.


texts: I have tried torn edges amongst other filters in the photoshop gallery however I can not achieve the inconsistent degraded edges as seen on the poster. Is this manually done?


texts: Font with two variants: one where every character is an underscore and a usual one

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I currently have a few workbooks published for my students that have fill in the blanks portions.

For example,

  The sampling method is first ____________ sampling to choose a random street and then _____________ because you sample every other house. We can define a random variable X to be ___________________.

The blanks are the type in white font style. In Word I can update the font style to red with three clicks (I use Update STYLE to match selection). I then provide a PDF version with the answers in filled in.

  The sampling method is first cluster sampling to choose a random street and then systematic because you sample every other house. We can define a random variable X to be “The number of houses that are white.” Then X=21.

This works but I would prefer underscores instead of blank space.

Question

Is there a font with two variants; the usual version and a version where every character and space is replaced by an underscore (_), but still has the same spacing and line breaks? Changing between the variants should not change the word placement on the page. Or: Is there a way for me to easily create such a variant?

I know of many other teachers who make similar workbooks by manually entering thousands of instances of underscores, which takes to long. This could really help us.


texts: How to go about "writing up" a legal contract for clients

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I'm asking this question because of this one and also for previous people I've seen ask similar Q's.

As a fairly new designer who doesn't really have much freelance work under my belt (just the odd small bit here and there for friends). I don't want to get stuck in a potentially awkward situation with a future client when I end up doing larger amounts of work with no means of defense if they start trying to ask for extra, such as editable files.

I'd like to have some form of contract I can send them before hand which states everything I am offering and what they are paying for.

I know this varies a lot from person to person but is there a standard to writing up a contract and how much protection does it offer?

Basically can I just write up a page of info in word and send that to a client for them to agree on and that's enough upon their approval? or is there another method that is more protective for the designer?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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A group of programmers and designers are making a Trading Card Game (TCG). I work mostly on creative material. The Java game client is using JavaFX for GUI and we are looking to use primarily vector-based images, as the art for the TCG will be mostly comic book style.

We are looking to select a file type that is compatible with JavaFX and Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Illustrator). Concerns are in part storage size within the application, and scalability across platforms, including HTML-based websites. Would SVG be a good choice? Why, or why not?

Here is a screenshot of the SVG options we have available through Adobe Suite:


texts: How do I convert a black/white image so that the it has a transparency gradient (White=opaque/Black=transparent/Grey=Everything in between.)

texts: I have a logo image which I need to make transparent for my web page.  I need the black parts of the image to be transparent while the white is opaque and the greys are of various levels of transparency depending on each pixel's luminosity.


texts: Pasted vector from Illustrator into Fontlab not true to Key Dimensions despite being set in both programs?

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I'm trying to learn basic font design using Photoshop 2018 to design the font, Illustrator 2018 to convert the raster into a vector and then size my font accordingly, and then copy and paste into Fontlab Studio 5.

From everything I have been able to read on the various forums and tutorials the Vector font design I have just pasted into fontlab should now line up exactly with the guides I previously entered in Key Dimensions but it does not.

No matter what I do the pasted font design shows in the Fontlab glyph as 1000 pts high regardless of the size I set it to in Illustrator.

Using a capitol X as an example, The bottom is set on my baseline and aligned to the left of the artboard. The top right is set to the X Height guide which is set at 533 pts. The corresponding key dimensions within Fontlab are set exactly the same so they should match up exactly.

To copy my design from Illustrator into fontlab I select my design in illustrator and Ctrl + C (copy), go to Fontlab, open whatever glyph I wish to paste into and Ctrl + V (paste).

However when I copy and paste from Illustrator into the X glyph in Fontlab the font design is pasted as 1000 pts. No matter what settings I change or whatever I try the result is the same and I am just getting more and more frustrated so if anyone could point out what I am doing wrong I would be very grateful.

These are all of my settings.

I'm on Windows 7 64 bit

In Illustrator I have the following guides set:

Bassline = 0 pt

X Height = 533 pts

Capitol Height = 742 pts

D sender = -218 pts

A sender = 782 pts

Left & right zero is set to the left bottom pixel of the font design on the artboard.

Artboard Size 1000 pts.

I create my font character design and convert it to a vector with a black fill aligned to the left hand side of the artboard and transformed to the appropriate height.

In Fontlab 5 I open a new font file and make the following settings.
File > Font Info > Metrics and Dimensions > Fonts UPM Size = 1000

File > Font Info > Metrics and Dimensions > Key Dimensions:

Bassline = 0 pt

X Height = 533 pts

Capitol Height = 742 pts

D sender = -218 pts

A sender = 782


texts: How can I make a the lighter colors of a greyscale image transparent?

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I would like to achieve in Photoshop this type of transparency effect (higher transparency values on the brighter areas of the image):

How can I do this?


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Hi guys can anyone find out what font this is, or something similar?
Bold, rounded serif font.

(ps - 'N's are distorted because this was taken off a t-shirt.)


texts: How to show that action is happening in a distant past in a manga or comic?

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I wanted to know how can I show that an action/scene is happening in distant past.

My story takes places during two different time periods. The present is the main timeline, but I want to add small segments of past into it. Its something like this: present, past, present, past, and so on.
The main characters have never experienced these scenes, nor do they know about them, but I want to include them to deepen the lore of my world and the story overall.


texts: Semi-Opaque Graphics Appear Black When Saved to PDF from Adobe Illustrator

texts: I am working in Illustrator CC with a CMYK file that has lines stroked with black at an opacity of 10%. When I save this image to a .pdf, the strokes turn pure black instead of being transparent. Why is this happening?


texts: Is there a trend away from left aligned web site designs?

texts: Most web sites that I see are centered, and I'm wondering if there's some sort of unwritten (or written) trend away or against left aligned sites?


texts: How do I change the color of a png image in GIMP?

texts: I have a png image that I'm using with GIMP that is only one color. I would like to change this color to a different color. Is there an easy way of doing this?


texts: Recommended tools for digital art & paintings

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I like digital art and paintings. I want to create my own.

Which software/tools do I need to accomplish this?


texts: How to add a bleed around an irregular shaped object with a full bleed photo in Illustrator?

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I'm trying to add a bleed to this object in Illustrator, and I'm not quite sure how to make it work. This is the item I'm trying to send to a printer:

Everything should be full bleed, including the the photograph. I was thinking of just extending the light green part using offset path, but then the photo wouldn't be full bleed. Also, how do I show the printer which part is the bleed? Thanks


texts: Any way to account for ascender/descender in Sketch?

texts: When working with text, sometimes I want to align based on the top or bottom pixel of the text. However, Sketch includes the ascender and descender for spacing operations, checking distance from other layers, etc. Is there a way to just use what is actually rendered?


texts: How do I determine exposure time for a silkscreen?

texts: I'm trying to expose a silkscreen with photo-emulsion. I have an LED light (90 w) that is equivalent to a 450W - 500W incandescent light. The light is mounted 18" from the screen. I'm trying to determine the exposure time. Any ideas on how to calculate this? (I don't have a step wedge or extra screen).


texts: I'm manually creating a sprite sheet using Photoshop and many of the graphic elements have drop shadows applied. Given that fact, it's tough at times to see where the drop shadows begin and end. I don't want to set my guides too close and cut off parts of the shadow. Anyone have any tips on how they go about handling this issue?


texts: How to substract front shapes with a Bevel & Emboss effect and get a inner sharp edge instead of a round one

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first off my apologies for my poor english.
I'm tying to learn a better way to recreate automatically this square frame shown on the left of this picture (1) so I can use it for irregular shapes in the future (3). Notice that inner and outer corners of the frame are straight (2).

I did this first frame with two layers one ontop of the other. The one on top had a white fill and was slightly smaller in size, the one below was red (with a red fill too) with a Bevel & Emboss effect. Putting the smaller white fill layer on top would conceal the layer below except from its bevel border, creating the illusion of an empty frame. This, however, only works for rectangular shapes.
So next I thought I'd could try to combine paths to get the frame shape (4).
But then, when I applied the Bevel & Emboss effect to the whole layer, the result I got was (5). You can see the inner corner of the bevel is rounded (6). And keeps round no matter how much I change the size of the inner path.
I kept playing with different Path Operations like Substract Front Shape and Exclude Overlapping Shape but got same result every time.

How can one substract front shapes with a Bevel & Emboss effect and get a inner sharp edge like in (2) instead of a round inner corner like in (6)?
Thank you for your time!


texts: How to fill an ellipse with a Turbulence pattern in inkscape?

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How do I add the Turbulence filter to an ellipse in inkscape?
I create an ellipse shape.

I select the ellipse and go to the Filter Editor.  I create a new filter and add the turbulence filter and enable the filter.  Instead of giving me an ellipse with turbulence I just see a rectangle with turbulence.

By contrast if I use a Gaussian Blur it appears to give my ellipse a blur as desired.

Why does this happen and how can I fill an ellipse with the turbulence pattern?


texts: Photoshop: Mask of variable threshold value

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I have an idea which I don't know how to realize using Photoshop. I'm a newbie to computer graphics and so what I want to do may sound bizarre. I haven't found any useful answer even after browsing the Internet for months.

PROBLEM: I have color photos of documents (black text on white background) taken in poor conditions (lighting etc.). I want to convert them to black and white. However, simply using the Threshold option won't do because some areas are too light while some other are too dark — in both cases, the text is invisible after applying Threshold.

MY SOLUTION: If there were a possibility to apply different Threshold value to different parts of the image, you could make all text visible after conversion to black and white. Of course, one can slice the image into many layers but this is cumbersome and tedious. Instead, I'm thinking of creating a layer, which would drive the Threshold algorithm in the following way: the darker a pixel on that layer, the higher the Threshold value for that particular pixel (applied to the Background layer of course). Somewhat like a mask…

Anyone has any idea how to do that in Photoshop CS6?

Thank you.


texts: What font is used in the following picture? (Very similar to OCR-B)

texts: The online font detector applets offered that the following font is OCR-B. But the number 8 of OCR-B is not same as picture. Is there another font similar to OCR-B? (The font has been extracted from book barcode see this book cover by zooming on)


texts: How to create a clean, straight drop shadow?

texts: I've been messing around in Photoshop trying to re-create this nice effect. Does anyone know how to achieve a straight shadow like this?


texts: does illustrator or photoshop change the dpi, ppi or alpha when using transparency?

texts: I was enjoying the use of different transparency settings in both programs and was wondering if the simulated transparency would have any effect on the use of the images in different production environments(web and print)?


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I'm interested in possibly studying graphic design while I work full-time. I already have a BA in Business and a MS in Software Engineering, but have not taken any art or design courses because the other stuff was "practical".

As a kid I would draw quite a bit and make things. I find that I enjoy creating UI mockups along with my programming work. I understand building software and websites from a programming standpoint, but, when I've had the opportunity to do a bit of design, I've enjoyed it but feel that I lack understanding on how to make a product look great and lack understanding of UX principles. I'm interested in improving my knowledge and abilities in design for websites and mobile apps, layout fundamentals, typography and making fonts, art history and drawing.

I know there are tons of books and sites devoted to these topics, and I have been reading many of them, but I would like more of a comprehensive approach to learning that includes fundamental theory and critique. Are there any online programs that you would recommend?

I've seen that SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) offers a BA, and Academy of Art offers both an AA and BFA. Are these decent programs? Are there any others I should look at that are not too "degree mill-ish"?

Also, would you recommend I take a few fundamental courses ad hoc then apply for a MA or MFA degree since I already have a Bachelors? Alternately, should I simply go for some kind of certificate since I already have a bunch of school?


texts: How to create dropshadow on layer with alpha transparency in GIMP?

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I'm working on a project consisting of a background image with several layers on top of it. Each of the layers consists of an image with alpha transparency, such that only part of each layer is visible. How do I create a dropshadow around the visible portion of each layer?
I've tried following the instructions in the GIMP documentation, but the procedure described there never actually creates a dropshadow. So either I'm doing something wrong, or the instructions aren't meant for the situation I describe. Any suggestions?
Example: How to create a dropshadow from the black-and-white photograph (a layer with alpha transparency) that extends out over the green background?


texts: High pass photoshop filters skips the edges of the histogram?

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In this Natalia Taffarel presentation, she explains that photoshop high-pass filter "skips the edges" of the histogram and that for creating an accurate high-pass filter we have to apply -50 contrast legacy on the image before applying the H-P filter.

I made two copies of the image and apply 10 gaussian blur in the first and in the second I applied -50 contras legacy and then a 10 H-P filter. If what Natalia says is correct, the two layers have to neutralize one another and create the original image again. I set the opacity of the upper layer to 50 and the resulting image lacks a lot of contrast.

Can someone share some insight on the subject?

Here you can see the Natalia explanation. It starts in 23.05

https://fstoppers.com/post-production/professional-retoucher-natalia-taffarel-shows-us-her-techniques-and-workflow-4773


texts: Can I legally use the Office icons in a website?

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Can I legally use Microsoft Office icons in designing my site?

For example:


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I have a PDF form with calculations that I just created and I intend on using it as an order form. I created it in Excel then brought it into Acrobat Pro DC (Mac OS) to create the form. Its just a simple table that totals the number of units, multiplies it by the price/unit and generates a subtotal.

It looks and functions beautifully in Acrobat. After I save it as a PDF and open it in Preview, none of my calculations seem to exist. Because I will be sending this to customers it is important that the document functions correctly regardless of the user's PDF viewer.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get the calculations to stick? Preview has no JavaScript preference and from what I could tell from Acrobat's save options the only option is to discard Java. Below are two screenshots - the first being Acrobat and the second being Preview.

Thank you in advance!


texts: InDesign: image gets cropped when i try to move it around

texts: New to InDesign. When I place an image in Indesign and try to move it on the page I lose whatever part of the image to the direction I move it. Like it disappears behind a clipping mask. How do I move the photo and not have parts disappearing on me?


texts: How to charge if design will be mass produced for sale

texts: How would you charge if you're tasked to do a book design (images and text provided) that will be mass produced for sale. Or anything that will be mass produced in general. Do you charge a flat fee or a percentage?


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I'm creating an app and I am trying to create some icons for it. I made the icon in AI, changed the color of the icon in Fireworks, and then resized the icon to the exact size I needed in Photoshop. The end result of all of this gives me this icon, which includes some nice jagged edges (that I don't want of course)

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong in my steps?


texts: Inkscape 0.91: Scaling several objects while keeping their original location

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This is something I can do with  Illustrator, and that I would like to reproduce with Inkscape 0.91:
I want to scale up several identical objects and I want these objects to remain exactly at the same initial place. When I scale up a selection of objects, they move to the proportion of the scale I indicated, in the larger box of the selection, this is not what I want.


texts: inkscape - combine svg elements into combined path

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I have a hexagon based on one common side, repeated. The single side is a <g>roup of a <path /> and transformed <use />.

I want to fill the inside of this virtual hexagon, but am unable to.

Indeed the hexagon is many <use /> tags grouped and transformed, so this not working right-off-the-bat makes sense. I have tried doing a path union with all objects selected, and have tried using the Combine path feature.  However, in either case, the path entities in the object explorer remain independent, and filling any object still fills individual path segments, not the net hex shape as a whole.

Below you can see the many objects:

Even after trying to exec "Combine path", filling still looks like:

What I'm after is to be able to combine those paths, and fill with a raster image:

I have a few helpful references:

inkscape svg, as shown above
raw web svg output, from which above svg is derived
my fun little tessellation app, which inspired this problem :)

Any tips or tricks would be much appreciated.


texts: I design catalogues. Some colours of my pallete used for small size fonts being printed look somehow dirty and not really solid & crisp (especially on a coloured background). Is there any way how to choose a better colour or tweak an existing once? For example this one: C-11 M-46 Y-97 K-37


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I know multiple programs that calculate colours based on a percentage. I really love when colours are displayed this way as they seem to fade in a non-luminous dull way that is really indicative of a less bold style.

I am just wondering if anyone knows how these new faded colours are calculated based on a starting colour (RGB255 code) and how I might calculate these colours myself?

I am in particular looking for a good faded green that would look good when displayed as minor contours and I feel knowing this process may help me find one. (If you have a suggestion for a colour, please share!)


texts: How do I round the edges of this logo in illustrator?

texts: This is an example logo. I have the original AI file, but I want to update it such that it has has rounded edges. I also want to round the look of the arrow, but I don't know how to do any of this.


texts: What artboard sizes are acceptable when using 960 grid system

texts: I have trouble understanding this one thing while learning illustrator as a web design tool. Basically, I have to create 3 artboards- for mobile, tablet and monitor, but most teachers use different sizes for the mobile. What sizes are accepted in the business when using 960 grid system?


texts: Style compound paths in svg as one entity

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I'm using AI to create .svg files. The text is generated as multiple compound paths. I want to render all of the compound paths as if they are one.

Help greatly appreciated.


texts: How to fine-tune the position of a point in SketchUp LayOut?

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I created multiple curves for doing drawing with picture match (Btw, Use LayOut do picture match is much easier than SketchUp).

I've read this help page, but they didn’t say how to fine-tune a axis of the curve.
It always sticks to grid or some alignment auxiliary line, I cannot do my work with this.


texts: What is the biomechanical motion to draw a straight vertical line?

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To draw a straight horizontal line I basically pin my elbow and then move across the page from left to right. Easy. I can hit my marks consistently and everything is good.

Vertical lines however I really struggle with.

What is the arm and wrist movement I should be striving for to get better straight vertical lines?


texts: Simple tool for cropping and scaling images

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I am wondering if there is a simple and quick tool for cropping and scaling images.

For example, if when creating a web page for an online store, you might need a set of images for each product. Lets say you need half a dozen images each of a certain size. Is there a tool that would allow you to quickly create such a set of images (ie, you drag in each image, pan and zoom, then export). Ideally, you would be able to define the image set, by specifying the dimensions of each image as a template that could be used again.


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I have a logo which has a symbol and some text.  The stroke on the text is about 15px, so nice and fat.
When I use it as an SVG image in a page, it works fine, except that when I increase the size, the letters in the text start to bleed in to each other.
I changed the text objects to paths, and grouped the whole thing, and now it works fine at all sizes in the web page, except that the font seems to be damaged.  Here's an example:

The font is Ubuntu.  Notice that the letters T, A and E have corners cut out.  What am I doing wrong?


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I have a noob question (I guess).

I'm trying, with Photoshop CS6, to make what I call modular elements for web layouts.

I mean : when I make a header for a website, I would use the same source for all the layouts of this project. So I want to have a header.psd source in include it in every layout I will create for this project.

Then, if I need to modify the header, I just have to go in header.psd and modify it. The modifications will be effective on all the layouts which actually use header.psd as source.

Pretty much the same as in web development : including file in another (e.g. with PHP).

The thing is : smart objects don't do that (if I group some layers into a smart object, then modify this smart object, the modification will only be effective on the document where I created the smart object).

Is it possible with PS CS6? how ?


texts: Critique: how to show validation message in a tabular form

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So basically my page looks as follows:

It has a table (table 1)

What I have to do is show a validation message which contains the following information in a tabular form (table 2) :

  Source Bank|Destination Bank|Amount|Created By|Status|Group 1|Group 2

  xyz     | abc            | 1202 | ttt      | Fali |   ✔   |   X

The table to be shown in the validation (table 2) can contain any number of rows and should be shown above the original table (table 1) and its design should be consistent with the design of the original table (table 1).

Please give me some suggestions regarding how and where to show the table 2


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I used Fira Sans font (free Google font) and got this:

Manual kerns are clear, although if I add 0.01 px of Horizontal kerning to "r" then it looks like it should. There is no such problem with other fonts in Inkscape as well as no problem with this font in other apps.


texts: How do I make a text cut in half effect?

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Hello everyone, I was scrolling through a feed on IG and found this really great text that I would like to manipulate and try on my own. Except, I have tried a couple different ways, and I just can't get as clean lines between the top half and bottom half of the text. Can anyone help me with this?

Rod


texts: Display 3D wireframe over 2D texture on Photoshop?

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I have a .obj file with a 3D object and a .tga one with the texture. If I open the .obj in Photoshop and load the .tga as diffuse texture, everything looks fine, but I am having some hard time editing the texture, Specially finding the edge borders.

What I would like to have is, the lines I can see when choosing the "Wireframe" preset on the 3D scene, I would like to see them as a plain 2D over the .tga texture, so I would know where each edge of the 3D object is corresponding to the texture.

Is there any way to do this?


texts: Polygon merge/combine with multiple line paths

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I'm trying to follow this tutorial (https://www.tutpad.com/tut/how-to-create-a-polygonal-background-in-adobe-illustrator) to create my own low poly background, except I can't seem to properly group the paths and use the direct selection tool to make the polygon irregular like shown in the tutorial.

The tutorial says to create the lines using the pen tool from the corners of the polygon to its center. Then it says to group everything and you when use the direct selection tool, you can change the shape which makes it easier to manipulate the triangles. However, this doesn't work for me, and at this point I don't think it's possible. The lines share anchor points and I thought there would be a way to sorta tell illustrator to combine it with the polygon instead of having it as separate paths.

Can you even have those paths combined and be able to move a single anchor point which will essentially warp the rest of the shape?

Using Illustrator CC 2017 on Windows.

EDIT: I couldn't figure out a better way to explain it in the title, so if this does get answered, it'd be helpful if you could suggest a better title.


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How to evaluate a good web design. Is there any pre-defined ways to measure someones Design.
I understand the Analytics can be used to evaluate, still looking for any other open solutions.
For instance a new design can have Flat Design or Material design but is this what say that the Design is good.


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We have to display intervalls to the user to choose from:

less than 1250, 1250 to 5000, 5000 to 10000, 10000 to 50000, 50000 to 100000 and over 100000

I thaught of something like this

      1250   5000     10000    50000   100000
---()---|---()---|-----()-----|---()-----|---()-----|---()--

(): being radio buttons

I am not sure that it's intuitive enough ? And on mobiles I will have to shrink the space between intervalls and/or alternate the labels up and down.

Do you have some ideas for this ?

Thanks in advance


texts: I am looking for icon ideas on how to represent a smoothing quality. The icon will be used for a tool that will smooth out points on a jagged curve.


texts: How to input 'Registered Trademark' Glyph in Inkscape?

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I went to: Text → Glyphs →  and found the symbol. However, I can't get it from the window box to the artboard.

I've searched Google & YouTube, but cannot find the answer. How do I type in the Registered ® symbol in Inkscape?


texts: Select dots on image and modify the color of some of them

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I make a dotted map just like the one on the image below. I am using Illustrator and Photoshop.

How can I select and re-color some of the dots on this image?


texts: How to make a lens with zoomed effect in Photoshop

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How do I go about creating this effect in Photoshop cs6?

Don't forget to mark this question as useful :)


texts: How to extract brush names from ABR format

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I recently received a set of ABR brushes (link may not work for everyone) that I would like to use in Corel Painter 2019. The Corel Painter import works insofar as that the brushes show up, but no names do (and on the site I got the brushes from, they say that the brushes do have names). I've found references to AbrMate and AbrViewer, but neither import this format. Once I upgraded Gimp 2.10.18 (2.10.8 didn't recognize the file format, claiming it was "File format 10", it imports the brushes, but again without names. Having a brush named "Evanart-concept-art-57" doesn't help me much.

There was a time when these file formats could be looked up on the internet, but I'm failing to find any documentation of this one. Does anyone know of a tool, or a source for the current file format?


texts: How can I make my Photoshop text appear like it does on the web?

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Do I really have to design everything in Photoshop with anti-aliasing set to "none"?  I'm sure there is a better way.

I'd like to have a setting so that when picking a basic web-safe (such as Tahoma) in Photoshop so I can see what it will actually look like when on the web.

For example: The difference between Tahoma with anti-aliasing set to "crisp" in Photoshop and how it renders in Firefox is major.  It looks nice and smooth in Photoshop and looks like crap on the web.

Is there a anti-aliasing choice that is best to start with (that has the most similar outcome) when planning to have the content live on the web?


texts: Adding "Duplicate Group" to Photoshop Action

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I have created a Photoshop action which:

Duplicates the current image.
Merges all visible layers.
Removes hidden layers.
Rearranges parts of image.
Adds the layer to a group.
Displays user interface to "Duplicate Layer Group" back to the original image. (Using action "Insert Menu Item...")
Closes the image without saving.

This is working but I would like to automatically duplicate the layer group back to the original image without having to select it from a drop-down box.

See Video: http://youtu.be/VFRj33zHIlY

Is there a way to do this? perhaps by adding a script or something?


texts: How to make vector templates from CSS frameworks?

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I am planning in creating a Illustrator/Sketch vector based template for the CSS framework UiKit. And I wonder how to do that.

My first thought was to print to PDF and dissect it from there, but then the print styles get to work. And it would be way too much work to remove all print related styles with FF's element inspector.

So my only other idea would be to make screenshots of the page and redraw it in Illustrator, using an overlay tool such as GluePrint (Mac) or Image Overlay Utility (Win).

I also tried to use Inkscape's CSS via its XML inspector, but it obviously does not support a lot of the required CSS.


texts: Trying to get CMYK look in RGB profile, it is possible? This is not RGB to CMYK problem

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this is my first time here.

I work for a magazine that is online and in print. We have the problem that the online versions are much more vibrant than the printed versions, and we have received some complaints for that. I know that it is not possible to match the CMYK to an RGB, so I consider presenting online the look of the CMYK profile in RGB mode in order to have similarities between the online version and the printed version. Is it possible to obtain the RGB look of the CMYK profile?

I have tryed to convert CMYK to RGB and booth pictures look diffentelly, and that is not what i'm expecting.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Best regards,
Mariano


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I have a floor tile texture I want to use in my bathroom Sketchup/Unity model (Its a photo I've taken of the actual tile).

I have tried these two tutorials and none of them reduces the uneven brightness and they also remove alot of detail from the texture

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/polevoy_george/texture_tiling.php
http://www.3drender.com/light/EqTutorial/tiling.htm

This is my texture

If i offset the image you can clearly see the problem

Do you guys have any ideas on how to attack the problem?

I found this tutorial, http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131482/the_power_of_the_high_pass_filter.php

And I experimented some more with high pass filter only, I got this result which im pretty happy with

Looks like this in Unity (Needs alot of work on lighting)

Update: I tried Keavon's method when I was working on this, revisted the method and got this result. below is the high pass filter method for comparison


texts: Should I increase the price for a recurring client?

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If I've had a client since my first years of career, and he remained a recurring client for 3 years, is it fine if I increase this year's quotation (accounting for inflation and a "seniority rate" of about 5%)?

Should I explain the changes when I send my quotation?


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I'm working on a project in which I need to blend a gold color into black, but the part I'm trying to use a gradient on is curved.

When I do a gradient, the bottom of this curve that I want to be black is gold, because it's right below the starting point of the gradient.

So I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so the gradient follows a path down and transitions that way rather than a linear way.


texts: An opensource equivalent to Photoshop that has Lasso and Warp tools?

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Using Photoshop, I can edit the image by using the lasso tool and warp tool, but Photoshop is not open source, I need an open source software to edit the image by using the same tools.

I tried GIMP but there is no warp tool in that. Can you please suggest some open source software with lasso and warp tool?


texts: Best serif web font for wide variety of scripts/glyphs

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I'm developing a site with mixed content in a bunch of different scripts, mainly Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew. There's also content in languages such as Lithuanian with an interesting variety of diacritics.

Whilst working on the design (in an extremely amateurish fashion) I was hoping to find a serif font for the main headings to compliment the sans serif base font. The Adelle font, as used by sites like the BFI looked great, but it appears to be exceedingly expensive. The vaguely similar (and free) Bitter font looks decent in Latin but seems to have no support for alternative scripts.

Roboto Slab does support Cyrillic (at least) but diacritics look very dodgy.

To be honest, certain diacritics seem to look bad in almost everything I've tried except the standard Nimbus Sans that is the default for my CSS framework. (I do not like its standard serif font - Liberation Serif - at all.)

My question is essentially: is there a good Adelle-like serif font with nice consistent support for a lot of glyphs?


texts: How to animate the triangles within a hexagon in 3d Max?

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Basically I have created this structure

and what I would like to do now is to animate the triangles within each hexagon so that they will open up like this.

If anyone has any idea on how I could do this, please let me know.

Thank you so much!


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I have seen a lot of very different tutorials about how to remove blue lines from a scanned drawing. So I ask myself what is the best way in term of simplicity and quality to do this in Photoshop (CS3 and above).

And also, is the choice of the blue color really the best, or there are other better colors in order to obtain a clean final drawing with the sole black lines?


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I will try to ask this question as best I can, but the problem is a challenging one.

I have a text box that one part of my script will change the text in. I want to code a boolean variable to check if that text fits on one line or not.

Ex.

 ___________________
|This returns true  |
|                   |
|___________________|

but

 ___________________
|This longer version|
|returns false      |
|___________________|

Character count won't work since I'm not using a monospaced font. Any ideas?


texts: Linked SVG vector images in SVG files rendered like low resolution bitmaps

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I created a simple SVG file in Inkscape as a test, just with a black triangle.

I duplicated that.

I edited the first file and put an

<svg:image xlink:href="b.svg" width=20 height=20 x=10 y=10 />

element in. The 2nd file is rendered but blurry:

I'd understand if I had linked a raster image and rendered it too large, but this is an svg file!

Is there a way to stop Inkscape doing this (i.e. am I missing some important attribute or such) or is this a bug/poor implementation?

Here's the main SVG file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
   version="1.1"
   viewBox="0 0 30 30"
   height="30mm"
   width="30mm">
  <g
     id="layer1">
    <path
       id="path1795"
       d="M 0,10 10,0 v 10 z"
       style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:0.264583px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1" />
    <image
       xlink:href="b.svg"
       id="image3039"
       x="10"
       y="10"
       width="20"
       height="20" />
  </g>
</svg>

(the other one is the same without the <svg:image> tag)


texts: I'm trying to send a file for a label as a PDF and the text is white. Is there a way that I can make the art board transparent so that she can see it without me saving it for web?


texts: Actual size, fit screen, fill screen icon ideas

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Not finding Windows Photo Viewer sufficient enough, I'm coding my own image viewer.

I'll be adding buttons which will perform the following functions:

actual size (no zoom)
fit screen (fit the greater side (w or h) inside screen)
fill screen (fit the lesser side (w or h) inside screen)
full screen

I need icon designs for these buttons. Full Screen icons are common and usually similar to this:

a screenshot from my app

What I'm wondering is what kind of design can be used to represent other zoom modes: actual size, fit screen, and fill screen?

Photoshop has these buttons, but they have texts inside of them. I rather use icons.

Do you know any software that uses icons for these modes? If there are not any common/formal icon designs for these, what are your suggestions?


texts: How to modify basic paragraph in Photoshop CS6?

texts: After pressing OK button new paragraph rule created. But I need to modify basic paragraph.


texts: Is there an ISO or similar recognized standard for Icons?

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I had this question popping out while viewing some ISO standards such as ISO 9142.

I searched a little but couldn't find an explicit ISO standard that is specifically for Computer Icons.

So, has one such standard been published? or a similar recognized one?.


texts: Looking for an elegant icon-set similar to Glyphish or Glyphicons, but colorful

texts: Does anybody know a decent and modern icon-set similar to Glyphicons that is colourful?


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should be a simple thing but can find the way to rotate text in z axe in illustrator ? I dont want to make it a 3d text just rotate it on the Z axe to make it fit in perpective (one word on the left black line and second word on right black line)

Tks


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sorry I am a new guy here and in illustrator, I am gonna make a low opacity and blur object that effects on every object behind itself.
like below finally


texts: Can I use a famous or "patented" color on my projects?

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Can I use on my layouts a color that is patented by a company?

Let's say that a company logo uses the CMYK value 45 10 26 5 and they've patented that color to be used only and exclusively by them. If my industry activity is different from the company whose color is "patented", can I apply that same color on my logo and graphic materials without any problem?

A real example for that stuff is the discussion around the famous "Tiffany Blue" color patented by Tiffany & Co., according to their press agency, a color to be used exclusively on their packages or gift boxes for the Tiffany's products.

As this is a subject not often discussed, I wanted to know what you think about it.

Thanks for helping!


texts: Any font pairing sites outside of Google?

texts: I love how Google fonts allows you to pair fonts for great eye candy when designing but after time I have gotten tired of just seeing what Google suggests.  I wanted to know if anyone has scene any other sites that have a wider spectrum of font pairing other than Google?


texts: Merging adjustment layers with each layer below individually

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How can I apply and merge one adjustment layer to each layer below it separately? (Each individual layer should be merged with the adjustment layer, but still be it's own layer)

I don't want to merge all the layers.
I don't want to create a smart object.
I don't want to copy the adjustments to each layer and merge them individually.

Why I need it:  I am creating an illustration of a room, each layer is a piece of furniture, I want to change the allover light and I want to paint on on the layers using the color picker.


texts: (Hypothetical?) character: Vertically stacked apostrophe and comma?

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Edit for clarity: I have never seen this character, but it seems like it would exist. But without knowing what to call it, I don't know how to look up if it actually does exist. So, to me it's hypothetical, but I want to know if it's actual, and if so what it's called.

I have been searching in vain for a (hypothetical?) typographical character: an apostrophe above a comma (as shown in the picture). What is this character called, and do you know of any uses?

(Please let me know if this is not the correct StackExchange for this question).

For now I'm going to represent it with � (the "replacement character", U+FFFD), because I don't know whether it exists in Unicode, or what it is called.

Below I have attached an image of the text dog� the in Times New Roman. To create the character � I overlaid the text dog’ and the text dog, on each other in Microsoft Paint.

What is this character called?

What I've tried so far:

I tried running that character through a reverse.photo search, and it turned up nothing.

So I tried duckduckgoing "semidemicolon" and got a bunch of stuff about Finnegan's Wake (including in a thesis project), because of this line:

notes of admiration! See the signs of suspicion! Count the hemi-
semidemicolons! Screamer caps and invented gommas, quoites
puntlost, forced to farce! The pipette will say anything at all for

Much closer was this College Humor visual gag about the hemi-demi-semi-colon](http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6872071/8-new-and-necessary-punctuation-marks#item-4) (which appears to be two semicolons vertically offset slightly):

The closest I found was another joke, but this one in a photocopied report from 1970 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Computer Science, available at archive.org: Twinkle : a syntax language for a translator writing system. The joke is:

  Since the semicomma and the demisemicolon do not yet exist, it was
  decided that clauses and other such ensembles, which are intended as
  single syntactic entities, be enclosed in square brackets.

That gave me the idea to search for semicomma, but alas that is just some music thing.

If this character doesn't have a name, and it works like fossils where since I found it I get to name it, I'm naming it demisemicolon or stacked commas.


texts: Adobe Illustrator Does Not Allow Me to Snap to Pixel

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Illustrator CS5 on Windows 7.

I have an artboard where I keep trying to move anchors onto even-pixel points and they keep moving back to odd numbers.

E.g. I have these two anchor points on a path:

x: 999.33 px y: 0.5 px
x: 1075.25 px y: 0.5 px

I can drag the 1st anchor pretty much wherever I want. When I drag the 2nd anchor, it seems to stick, but as soon as I let go of the mouse button it snaps back, and so does the 1st anchor!

How do I fix this insane behavior? I tried aligning the artboard it's on perfectly to the overall grid, but that didn't help.


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Basically, I downloaded Google fonts, that do not have bold/italic variants. I can make them bold/italic with css, but I also have to use the .ttf file (which is only normal) in ffmpeg. There is no option to set the bold/italic or any other style without having the dedicated .ttf file for it installed.

Is there an easy way to generate a bold/italic .ttf file from a regular one like browsers do it?


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I am quite new to design. I found a PSD kit for the iPhone 6 but the developer mentioned that it is in vector so i should not have any problem changing the size for the iPhone 6 Plus. The problem is in the kit they are segregated by the different views (profiles, signin, sign-up etc.). Per view there are like 5 artboards, 9 artboards etc.

So my question is how I can change the size of only one artboard?


texts: Can't change the stroke width for a symbol object in inkscape

texts: I have inserted a flowchart object using: Object -> Symbol. I can not change the stroke width as I usually do from the fill and stroke. Even when I try to make the stroke width to 0, it has not effect in that symbol. The problem is illustrated here:


texts: CMYK values keep changing in RGB/8 colormode, CS6

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EDit: The Image is in RGB mode and it needs to be saved as an PNG!

I need to change the CMYK values of a logo to C:16%, M:100%, Y:79%, K:5%.

But after I confirm these values, no matter what method I use to change the color, I get these values: C:17%, M:99%, Y:79%, K:5%.

The Hex stays consistent at #be0438.

Can I somehow force the CMYK to not change (my client won't accept the work if it's not the correct CMYK)?


texts: I want Photoshop to show the exact Height and Width(in pixels) of an item position when I drag it to move. It must be shown right on my canvas. Also need to be shown the lines that align text(or item) with the center or another item. Where can I activate this function from? Pics attached. Thanks in advance


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I have designed a background image in inkscape. But I used the wrong colour in the whole image or at least that's not feels good to me. So, in my website, I use filter: hue-rotate(60deg) to make it appear the right colour I want. But as filter the original image is a bit slower, I have decided to hue-rotate that in inkscape, but I can't find the option.
In case of rastered images like jpg, png, webp, ppm, etc. GIMP and other editors can do that well.
So how do I rotate the hue of an object to 60 degrees?


texts: How to add blur / round corners to only white rectangle layers

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I want to add a blur or rounded rectangle to only the white rectangle layers, which are behind the text.

Trying rounded rectangle with the layer selected, only modifies the main layer.

I have tried using a Layer Mask (white), putting the mask to selection, and applying the filter to the mask, then apply the mask... Is Layer Mask = White the wrong option?

Applying the Layer Mask does not work; it just shows the original layer.

When I apply the rounded rectangle to the mask, it rounds the mask, but on apply, it doesn't change the actual Layer.

Is there any way that I can crop to Layer Mask?

Any tips for a frustrated noob? I've tried following these tutorials, without success:
How to apply a filter to a layer and its mask at the same time (in a single pass)?


texts: Cannot remove extra steps from Illustrator action

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I am new to Adobe Illustrator.

I created a few actions by recording. Somewhy when I record the action Reflect in vertical, AI adds strange parameters Origin DX and Origin DY with some values. So when I use this action, my object together with reflecting jumps far away, which is very uncomfortable. I want to reflect on the same place.

But I cannot delete these Origin DX and Origin DY by clicking the trash icon, it does nothing. And I tried to record this action again several times, it always adds Origin DX and Origin DY. How can I avoid them or delete them?

Illustrator CC.


texts: Demystifying printers capabilities in drawing continuous colors

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It is known that the printers quality is given by their DPI specification (and not only). Reading out what DPI means and how it is applied to printers, a question arise in my mind. If printers do many dots on the paper, it is possible to print overlapped dots in order to achieve solid continuous colors?

The practical meaning for this question: Let's say that I want to print an UV mask using an inkjet printer, but in the end it will have some holes in the lines provided, so the final product will have bad artifacts.


texts: Create an isometric projection of a Landscape image

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I have an image of my college, how can I convert this image to an isometric projection like effect using Gimp or Inkscape.

Source Image:

Desired Effect:


texts: What are the differences between the Wacom Intuos 3 and 4 graphics tablets?

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For the Wacom Intuos graphics tablet, are there significant functional differences between the current model (4) and the previous model?

Does the newer one have additional features or design improvements?


texts: What software can open older Jasc PSP 9 files?

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I'm a long time (but occasional) user of PSP 9, and while it still does everything I need, I can no longer find any support, either paid or peer, for my once-a-year questions.

I have no problem buying a more supported package, but I'd like to be able to open or at least convert my existing library of files. I don't 'do' photo work, so something that's aimed mostly at retouching or color grading is not favored.

Do I have any good options? I'd prefer to buy rather than rent, if you know what I mean (-:

Of course, a fine alternative would be to find out that people here can answer PSP 9 questions!


texts: IP rights company - 3 PL designer (no contract)

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We have been working with a designer from the very beginning of our company. She created us the logo and did products design as well.

After a year of first collaboration, we asked her to redesign our portfolio of products (not big changes). She accepted.

The problem is that now when she has to deliver the new work she is talking about IP rights. We really do not know which IP rights is she refering since we do not have any signed contract with her (she never requested it). Moreover, we have been using the logo, products design... in many events and places.

Since we have no contract does she have any right to claim for IP rights (if yes which ones)?

p.d. we are based in Japan. she sent us all the original files (.ai)

Thanks in advance,


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In short, I want to do the exact opposite of this question:
Is it possible to "invert" an SVG file? Not the colours, but the actual areas/paths?.

I have a monochrome SVG image that is a solid-color square with a transparent section cut out of it.  It's not my work, so I don't have the original source data for this image.

I do not have (and cannot afford) Adobe Illustrator or any other paid graphical editing software, so either Inkscape or some other free SVG editing program will have to be used.

I need the existing paths of this SVG image to be "inverted" so that the transparent areas are filled, and the colored areas are turned transparent (or removed entirely).

I am aware that the most common method of doing this involves masks, but I need this SVG image to be easy for someone else (who isn't a graphic designer) to edit later. Unless there is a way to merge the visual effect of a mask into the paths themselves, I am therefore stuck avoiding masks like the plague.

So: is there a way to invert the fill areas of an SVG file without using masks, and if so, can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to do so?

Thank you.


texts: How to make visual interface in photoshop script?

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I'm wondering how to build visual interface for users using Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit.

What I mean is like Windows Forms application in Visual Studio, where we can have textbox, checkbox etc so that user can input data from that windows.

Is there such feature in ESTK, or if not is there any reference how to make one?

Thanks in advance!


texts: I have a designed a model in Cinema4D. That I need to export in USDZ format to use in 3D warehouse app of Shopify. But I can find no working way of converting may design to USDZ from my Windows PC. I found no working converter on the internet. Can anyone please help me with this ?


texts: Why does colour fade on packaging (light cardboard boxes) if not exposed to sunlight or any direct light/heat?

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We designed the packaging for premium skincare boxes using light Pantone colours (two are pastels, one is just light soild) + soft touch matte coating.
After just two months of sitting on the shelves in retail the colours faded on the boxes. The client said they were never exposed to direct sunlight or under any lamps or similar - and I believe them because we have those same boxes in our office - so they went straight from the printers to the shelf in our office never exposed to anything but air, and the same thing happened.

The printers said that this just happens with these very light colours and there's nothing to do about it but change colours.
Now they are arranging with our client that the boxes should be printed again but with darker colours, and they want me to choose new colours so this wouldnt happen..
Would that even solve the problem?

Why did this happen in the first place?
Is there a chance we would have the same problem with darker colours (how much darker would they have to be?)?
Is this about the type of coating or the type of cardboard (High Point 295g)? Would protective transparent foil over the products solve the problem?

Later today the printers also mentioned they will try to dry the colours a few more days before coating (they dried them all for a day before the matte soft touch coating)

Thank you

EDIT: I am attaching an illustration of what happened on one box :


texts: How to make a transparent image a non transparent one?

texts: I am a newbie to Photoshop and I have a PSD file that contains a transparent button. Now I want to duplicate that button and move it to somewhere else. When I moved it I realized that the button is transparent, and the place where I move it, has another color, so the effect is that original button changes its color in destination place. Now I want to make it nontransparent. How I can do that?


texts: Make the same grayscale image appear in different colours in InDesign

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I have seen an old InDesign file link to the same tiff image but have it in different colours just by applying those colours on the object's frame within InDesign. The tiff file itself was a 8-bit grayscale image when I opened it in Photoshop.

I am unable to replicate this result by creating fresh files. Does anyone know about this?


texts: Is scaling an image by 200% the same as doubling dpi/ppi?

texts: I am sure this is a simple question, but the answers I have received from people are never simple. I am trying to apply an answer to this question for scaling images for the iOS Retina display.


texts: Illustrator - prepare logo with blur effect

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My client wish was a logo with blur effect (as TATE Modern for example). Now I need to prepare all kind of files to deliver with small CI.
The issue is, that logo doesn't scale properly.
So the question is: should I change all blured element with "Expand Appearance" or "Rasterize" or leave blur as it is (last - I don't think so)?

thanks for help!


texts: Recommendation for 2 column gutter width

texts: Hi just looking for a recommendation for standard gutter width for a 2 column layout on an A4 page. The point size is 10pt the margins are 12.7mm (the default InDesign setting) I thought this would be easy to google but apparently not I guess its too specific a question


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I'm trying to use Gimp to export a small line-style icon with a transparent background. It looks good in Gimp (black icon on the checkerboard of transparency), but the image disappears when exported as .png or .gif - it comes out with a totally transparent image file! .jpg of the same image works, but I lose the transparency.

I've tried other images, and it works fine. This is the fairly standard black circle with an 'i' in the middle.


texts: Illustrator - How to align different sections of text

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I am creating a coffee shop menu. How can I achieve proper alignment? I have tried using the Tab key but this doesn't create uniformity. Rough example below.
I have spent soo much time trying to work this out, any help would be massively appreciated.


texts: How to shade region under a mathematical curve?

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I want to show the effect of threshold on FAR and FRR( basically the region under a curve with when the x-range is bounded ). To do that I need to do something like this!!  image

If the threshold is changed so does the values. I have to illustrate similar concepts and so have to draw a lot of similar curves and do some basic effects(  using colour ) on the curve. Now this is not exactly a mathematical function. Also
it is not much useful to plot these values after gathering data. Is there some graphic tool( possibly free ) that I can use to draw this type of general graphs. Is there a way or do I need to write code( python matplot/octave ) to do this?


texts: How to decide output printing quality and material for an image?

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Ths is my first question on this site.

I need help, I have modified version of this attached sample photo from the movie promesthus.

I want to print it and put it as a wallpaper on my room wall. I'm undecided about

Size for printing w.r.t dimension too large size selection may explode pixel unevenly.
Quality panaflex or glossy etc. Seeing the attach refer pic is there any recommendation on which it should be printed as?

I'm asking such because this is a costly affair and I want to do right the first time.

Thanks


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Is there a tool to convert 302 PNG images to SVG?
I know how to do it one by one using Inkscape, but I need a tool to convert the 302 image at once.


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Looking to make a banner image for a website and I've tried to recreate these two images using a few different gradient patterns but I can't seem to get close enough to the referenced images. Both are using the same background image but with slightly different overlay and gradient styles. Not concerned about the line work in the images just the overlays and how to achieve this, almost identically if possible.

One of the colors in use as far as I can tell is #0f6f7b

Any help on this would be appreciated. TIA


texts: Illustrator: apply clipping mask to group

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Here's the problem I have:

I have a large group of objects that I want to apply a clipping mask to. The large group of objects are in different colours, so I can't make them a compound path. But there doesn't seem to be a way to apply a single clipping mask to them because you can only apply a clipping mask to 1 object, not a group of objects. So what do I do in this situation? See below for illustration of what I mean (simplified, this is not what I actually have, each flower is supposed to have different colour).


texts: Getting saddle-stitched booklets printed (cheaply)

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I have a booklet designed for an amateur performance event.  It's 12 pages saddle-stitched (stapled), 6 impressions on 3 sheets of paper.  It's a small need for 500 copies, somI expect it will use copy-shop technology rather than an offset press.

When I make such a booklet at home, the "print booklet" is a special feature.  A rendered PDF shows spreads as the reader sees it.

Meanwhile, only two impressions are to be printed in color: the outside cover (pgs 8,1 on one impression) and the center (pgs 4,5 where the spread is the same as the print layout).

Question 1) can I expect the print shop to take the normal readable PDF and lay out the pages on the sheets? I expect this is a print-time task.

Q2) I expect it's best if images are converted to greyscale at print-time, so I don't have to guess at the print characteristics (gamma, dot gain).  Or, will this throw them for a loop?

It's complicated by the need to print two sides on one (more expensive) printer and the rest on a grey printer.  I'm worried that the auto layout and booklet print is all-or-nothing, and I should be prepared to handle things.  (It's a "cheap" place.)

My understanding is that I would normally have InDesign render a PDF file with the "for Print" preset, which includes bleed and crop marks.  It somehow is encoded as metadata so if the printer doesn't use oversized pages it will print the right stuff, and on overised pages it shows physical marks for the trim step.

What's the reality?  Anything else I need to know?


texts: What are the fonts used for this WWII Jolly Roger sign?

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Can anybody help me identify the fonts used here?

The sign is WWII, circa 1943 if that helps. I've been digging around for hours and I can't seem to get it.

Tried matching heavy on what the font - nothing is really close.


texts: InDesign export problem: identical PDFs from same InDesign file have very different output file sizes

texts: I have a file in InDesign with two layers, each with a different version of the same graphic. The graphics in each layer are png files and they are basically exactly the same image except that one has lettering in English and the other has lettering in Spanish. The file size of each png is almost exactly the same (a few kb of difference between them). I want to create a PDF for each language, however one of the exported PDFs is twice the file size of the other and I cannot for the life of me understand why! The only difference between the two PDFs is the png image, but the original pngs have basically the same file size. So I cannot figure out why there is such a big difference in output file size between the two PDFs, generated from the same InDesign file! I export each PDF with exactly the same settings. I have tried clearing the cache, restarting, but it is same problem every time I export the two pdfs. Can anyone shed any light on what might be causing this? Thanks!


texts: Why are my placed images all squatty in Photoshop?

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Just updated my Photoshop CC to 2017.

Now I'm trying to make an image by placing some equipment on a specific canvas size (440x240px).

When I choose the image to place, it gets placed in Photoshop with skewed dimensions.

So, after struggling with this, I've just been manually adjusting each placed image. (Below is what this example should look like).

And then, once I hit enter to actually place the image, the resolution drops. I have my file set up with 300 ppi specified and I've worked with placed imagery a lot. Usually it gains resolution after I place it.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way?

Maybe I should just revert to the old version...


texts: How can I use data to drive my design decisions as an artistic designer?

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There are many outlets available to designers to acquire data and drive design decisions.

With the rise of AI in the realm of marketing automation and analysis how can individual designers make use of data to improve their design decisions?

Specifically on the more artistic side of design. Should I be posting to Pinterest or Instagram and just seeing which gets the best responses or are there other more efficient means? And as I'm not very business savvy how much data should I look for before I even drive conclusions from them?

Please be sure to cite any research you may have on the subject as part of your answer.


texts: Photoshop: Change Text Box Position Coordinates Via Script

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Here's what I'd like to do.

textLayer.textItem.position[0] = 200;

I would expect this to change the x-coordinate of the text box to 200px from the canvas origin. The value does not get assigned. Anybody know what I'm missing?


texts: Photoshop: Trouble copying and pasting layers to another file

texts: I would have two layers selected from "Regular Rects.psd", hit CMD + C, and click on the canvas for the destination psd file. When I paste it, it shows the two rectangles in the destination PSD file but the layers are not appearing in the layers panel. Could you someone explain to me the proper way to copy and paste layers to different files in Photoshop?


texts: Everytime I copy and paste a vector from adobe illustrator to adobe animate my animate layer then gets changed to a random name repetitively?

texts: So what happens is that I copy and paste the vector image from my adobe illustrator file to adobe animate, them the layer in adobe animate then changes its name to the same name every single time, even on a different computer, so this could be because I'm using the same account but the layer keeps changing its name to "flash0_ai". Any way to stop this?


texts: How to quantify the distance between two colors?

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I am working on an app that helps the user create data visualizations. Long story short, I need it to be able to tell when two colors will be in high contrast with one another or not, so that it can assign similar/dfferent colors to similar/different values.

The first idea I tried to treat the RGB numbers that determine a color as coordinates in space, measure the distance and use that number as a "numeric way of expressing contrast". However, after some testing, I think this method overestimates differences between dark colors while it underestimates those between lighter ones. For example, according to this procedure, (128, 128, 128) is the mean point between black (0,0,0) and white (255,255,255), but at least to my eyes, (128,128,128) appears way closer to black than to white.

So, my question is, is there a way to translate contrast between two colors into a number?


texts: Copying workspaces for Adobe CC between operating systems

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My department is running the CC2020 editions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign on MacOS. Next month we're supposedly going to be switcing to Windows in our department, and we would like to be able to move our workspaces and settings to the new machines with as little hassle as possible.

Is there a way we can copy the settings folders for these apps from the Mac and move them to the PC? Even if there's some fiddling and folder restructuring involved, this would be greatly preferable to exporting what few settings we are able to and then taking screenshots for everything else.


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My client wants me to teach them how to do basic editing in InDesign.

This is after, against my better judgement, I had agreed to give them the source files of the documents I created in favor of continuing the business relationship smoothly.

What would you do? Charge a large fee for teaching them, or decline and say google it ?

By the way, this client was an overall very good one, but their budget is up in the air and I'm not sure if I will get more work from them this year.


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There is a strange thing, when I upload a gif to a Behance project: it appears perfectly at the preview, but goes wrong after publishing. It seems, Behance makes some kind of compression during publishing, however the published gifs have bigger size, then the original ones.

The original one:

and after publishing:

Can you please help me solving this?


texts: Photoshop cc, how to create a layer in exactly rectangle size?

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after drawing a rectangle, photoshop CC create a new layer containing it. However, the layer size is the canvas size, not the rectangle size, showing as following image.

However, I want my new layer size is equal to the rectangle. like the following one:

how can I change my new layer size ?


texts: How to create a brush same as the real pen tip in illustrator?

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I have a graphic tablet and I need to create two brushes for calligraphy in Adobe illustrator. So I need to create the following brushes:

A brush gives the same font of the a real pen such as Uni-ball rollerball Eye 0.7m.
A brush gives the same font of copperplate nib (Brause EF66).

Example


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I am very new to Illustrator. Could you help me with following question:
Creating a gradient with a Screen-overlay type (near opacity selection) makes your radial gradient a glow pattern, removing the black circle around it.

But when saving to SVG the black circle appears.

How do I get rid of it ?


texts: How to create isometric effect in Photoshop

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I want to add an image to Photoshop and make it look as if it is lying down/isometric as in the attached image. I can achieve the effect using the Transform tool but without being able to add precise numbers it feels very random to me and I get slightly different results every time I do it.

Anyone know the best/simplest way to achieve this.


texts: Can you change the opacity of a white image without getting a gray result?

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I'm sort of hacking the interface of Wunderlist (To-do app) and originally all tasks backgrounds are 0% transparant, slightly gray coloured. I'm trying to change the opacity of each. Luckily, Wunderlist uses images for their UI.

However, when I change the opacity of the image and copy it to the resources folder of the app, it's gray in the app..

- The result after my edits

Originally, the task bars look all as white, slightly gray as in the original image above

I'm currently looking for a way to have white, slightly (60%) opaque bars instead of the gray ones in the screenshot above. If possible, even whiter than in the second (original) image.

I've tried simply changing the transparant layer value and also messing with the channels, but all result in the gray bars as below.

Who got some suggestions? Thanks!


texts: How to Force Update of All InDesign Links (Even Ones It Thinks Are Current)?

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I'm working on an InDesign document that makes extensive use of linked Illustrator graphics. Many of these Illustrator graphics themselves make use of placed png images.

The problem I've run into is that if I update a png for one of the Illustrator graphics, InDesign doesn't pick up the associated change (because the .ai file doesn't think it has changed either). The only way to get the updates to cascade through is to open the .ai file, make and undo a trivial change, and then save.

Is there a way that I can tell InDesign to thoroughly update all links, regardless of whether the file stamp says a file has changed or not?


texts: Photoshop: how can I see both the mask and the masked contents?

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When I have a photo with a mask in Photoshop, I want to be able to edit this mask with a brush, e.g. I want to remove the sky from the photo. But as far as I know, I can only view the mask or the photo, but not both. I would like to be able to view them both, so that the mask is an "overlay" of the photo. How can I do that?

I hope that was clear...


texts: Photoshop: show more precision in 32-bit info window

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In Photoshop CC 2018, working in 32-bit mode, if I set the Info window to display RGB values using 32-bit (0-1), it only shows three decimal places of precision, which means there are only 1000 possible values displayed.  But a 32-bit file can contain over 4 trillion values, so how can I see more decimal points?  For example, if I draw a gradient with a very small range of gray, then as I drag my cursor over it, watching the info window, I see coarse steps, and it does not accurately display the value of each pixel.

I realize that I could switch it to 16-bit values, so then it will show 32768 values, which is better, but still not enough.


texts: How can I make a circle segment in Photoshop?

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What I'm trying to achieve is something like one of these segments

There's any way to do it without rasterizing the shape?


texts: Shadows from illustrator to photoshop and vice versa

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I'm working on the design of a new app. Ideally I could swap from illustrator to photoshop and vice versa since each has its advantages. This works out very well (I use shapes / vectors) except for one thing. Shadows!
When I export to psd, the element with shadows from illustrator become images, not shapes. When importing the psd from photoshop, the shadowed elements become images (to trace).
Anyone who knows a proper solution to this?


texts: What is happening to my colorbar when I open Illustrator?

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I usually create figures using something like Matlab or Python; then I use Illustrator for final touch-ups and things.  Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the colorbars when I open my figures in CS3 (ancient, I know...)

My colormaps come from colorbrewer2.org.  For example, I'm trying to use a divergent, 11-class scheme expressed in RGB values.  It's a simple red-yellow-blue scheme that looks quite nice with my data.  Unfortunately, when I open my figure in Illustrator, the colorbar is a wreck:

As you can probably tell, I don't really know what I'm doing in Illustrator!  I only use it to create simple schematics or make small changes to figures.  What's weird is that the colors in my figure look fine; it's just the colorbar that is messed up.  How can I fix my colorbar?  Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.


texts: How to get best print results from Illustrator?

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I'm printing a large poster through a full color inkjet plotter.

What is the best format to export a design from illustrator for print, that will result in the best quality and lowest file size?

Thanks.


texts: How can I use a clipping mask on a pen tool?

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I used the pen tool to make a basic graphic in foreground. Then created a background using the blend tool with three different colors.

source1

Then with both objects I made a clipping masks and it looks like this.

source 2

Instead of the clipping mask occurring on the line it is somehow being created in between the lines. This problem seems basic but for some reason I can't figure out the problem.


texts: Making anchor points visible all the time

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Now I am working on compound paths and I need to remove all the redundant anchor points: so I press - and click some of them, but other ones are constantly disappearing, so I should click on V and click the path and  - again, which is very disturbing.

Is there any way to make ALL the anchor points visible ALL the times? I don't speak about Cmd+H of course.


texts: 3-D software options for product renderings

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Need some help choosing 3-D software for our graphic design team. We need to produce simple, yet realistic renderings of labeled candles for presentations. We also produce plan-o-grams for customers that show a variety of product on shelves. Our current renderings are done with the 3-D tool in illustrator and leave a lot to be desired. We are all proficient in Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop. Would like to keep cost low, below ~$700/license if possible.

We have looked into Rhino but are wondering if there are any that we have missed. Any ideas??


texts: Illustrator clipping mask on blended lines

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I am newbie to Illustrator, just started out like a few weeks ago and was hoping someone could help me with this.

I wanted to do a clipping mask over few blends and its kinda not working out...

This is how I want my artwork to look like.

And this is how it looks.

When I add the background. Over here I am hiding the back part using a shape filled with white.
My question is how to make a clipping mask to hide the parts which are in the back, meaning the left hand part ?


texts: Image is pixelating when scaled down only on older monitors

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I'm having a weird issue that when some images are scaled down they start pixelating only on older monitors. (I'm guessing newer ones are Retina). I would expect this behavior when scaling up but down I would expect it to look better.

** Full-Size Image**

Scaled-Down Image

I am scaling down on a webpage using css (width: 200px; height: auto).

On one monitor I did notice the issue when scaling down just in Mac Preview. On another old monitor, I didn't see it on Mac Preview but only on the webpage.

The one thing I am noticing is that the images look like they may have been photoshopped and vectors may have been used in it.  I did try Saving for Web but that did not help.  Also, if I zoom in on my browser the image looks good.


texts: Can I have vertically aligned subscript and superscript with Word or LibreOffice?

texts: The Arithmetical Hierarchy is an example where one in mathematics uses aligned subscripts and superscripts. When writing in Latex I e.g. write $\Pi^1_1$ to talk about a certain class of formulas. How can I achieve this in Word or LibreOffice?


texts: align text to curve but keep vertical orientation of letters

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In Photoshop, I am trying to align the baseline, x height, and cap height of some text to a curve, but I'd like to keep the vertical orientation of the letters strait up and down, and not let the curve influence their vertical orientation. Here is an example of the effect I'm trying to replicate:

The part that says "McKeesport and Youghiogheny" has exactly the effect I'm trying to achieve. However when I use the "type on path tool" in photoshop, it changes the orientation of the letters so they are not strait up and down. If anyone know a way to do this please let me know! I would appreciate it. Thanks!


texts: What are the specs for material design icon?

texts: I would like to draw an app launcher icon with Inkscape but the official guide seems to miss some specs. In my understanding, to design a material design icon I just need to put some shapes together with different layers, and add drop shadow and long shadow for them respectively so they will have different elevations. However I can't find the specs for drop shadow and long shadow described in svg. Could anyone tell me the best specs that obey the guidelines?


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What is the process for creating edm: is it design in say Indesign or Photoshop and export to an HTML file then import to platform (i.e. MailChimp)? Do you need to know code? Is it considered professional to just use the template inside MailChimp for example.

I can imagine there are many ways to do this but one good for a newbie would be good.


texts: What are the symmetry-in-pair symbols usually appear in Wingdings fonts?

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For example, in Wingdings font:

What are the symbols in boxes used for?

I have checked the wiki pages of Wingdings, List of symbols, Ampersand and Unicode/List of useful symbols, but I can't find what I want.


texts: How to scale shape without moving the connecting point

texts: I want to resize the small petals shapes to fit into the bigger petals without moving the tip of the small petals.


texts: What is the difference between Adobe TypeKit & Adobe Edge Web Fonts?

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I has originally planend to use Myriad Pro on my website, but found this was a paid font from Adobe Typekit.

I have settled for Droid Sans which is pretty similar, I was going to use Google Font plugin on Wordpress. But I see Adobe Edge Web Fonts have Droid Sans and a stack of other fonts for what appears to be free? Is this right?


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I'm trying to make a color chart for someone that would be four thumbnails across and four thumbnails down. Now, this seems simple, but there is too much math and calculator work to try and get this to work. Ideally, I'd love to account some gutters/margins, but I just can't figure it out. I found this article from 2006 that seemed perfect, until I couldn't find the option listed there.

http://layersmagazine.com/quick-distribute-those-ruler-guides.html

EXAMPLE (Not evenly distributed):

Does anyone else know how to do this?


texts: How do I deal with line spacing when a single descender is getting in the way?

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I'm making a sign for my kids' school, and am having trouble with one detail. The primary text is "Walking School Bus Stop". This, the school name, and a whimsical graphic all go into a 3:4 aspect ratio design. (This will be an actual metal sign placed on the street.)

The complication really all comes from the fact that "school bus" is properly two words. Because of this, it really reads better if the lines are broken like so:

Walking
School Bus
Stop

Because "Bus Stop" is also a familiar phrase, with a different break, it looks like we're talking about a "Walking School", when, really, it's the normal sort of elementary school that happens to have a program where we encourage kids and parents to walk instead of driving.

And, that, in turn, means that in the font I've chosen, the letter g drops down to get in the way of the B. Like this:

Which really irritates me visually. If I increase the line spacing, it seems too spaced (and I have to reduce the text size), which is not desirable.

What are good solutions here? It looks just fine if the text is all right-aligned — the g tucks down nicely over the u and s — but given the aspect ratio constraint it's hard to balance that and the other elements.

Font is Coolvetica. (Be glad it's not Comic Sans.) And it looks awful in all-caps, so that solution would really be "find another font", which isn't ideal.

What else could I do?


texts: Illustrator CC - Can't set angle of a line segment to include a decimal?

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So I'm trying to set the angle of a line to 26,56 degrees in order to create an isometric grid, however when I do this within the line tool, it defaults to a horizonal 360 degrees instead.

I thought this could have been to do with the line snapping to the grid (although I'm making this with points not pixels) and I've turned off the alignment of objects, but the issue still persists. My version of Illustrator doesn't include the option to uncheck this box either when creating a new document, and while I've found a work around I'm doubting whether that's even the problem now!

Any ideas would be most welcome, I've used Photoshop and InDesign a tonne, but Illustrator I'm not as familiar with.


texts: How to put a new background behind black text that already has a white background?

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After you all helped me in my previous post with the handwritten text, helping me to erase the parchmnt and leave the text, I need help now with the next step. Please forgive me if this is simple stuff, I'm new to Photoshop and looked through different posts here but I didn't find what I'm looking for.

So basically, I want to put a scanned picture of parchment behind the text, so that it looks like it was written on this new piece of parchment. What's the best way to do this, without needing to select each and every letter of the text?

This is the black text on a white background:


texts: PDF files appear at obscure preview sizes when opened in Reader

texts: I will combine files into a single PDF and email to client. When the end user opens the PDF in Acrobat Reader, it displays at obscure preview size like 309%. The user then has to hit the minus key in the menu bar to see the PDF. Is there a setting when saving the PDF to have it open at 100% in reader?


texts: I am working on this lineart as sort of a logo for my tshirt company. I was wondering how exactly to clean up the edges and smooth them out?i would just like it to look like a classic clean lineart that i could fill and color. It was originally a pencil drawing that was scanned and darkened using the stroke selection in gimp. This is my first experience creating my own lineart. I have colored and filled others multiple times


texts: Why do most comics have uppercase text in their balloons?

texts: While it's well known in design that lowercase is easier to read.


texts: How to make a color appear the same on different backgrounds?

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Background on color perception:

Due to the nature of the human eye and visual processing by the brain, there's an optical illusion that the same color will look different depending on the background.

It is known as the contrast effect, illustrated below — center rectangles are identical:

 Source: Wikimedia

An illustration (and report) by NASA makes the effect of the background's color even more obvious:

 Source: NASA Color Usage Research Lab

(Note how the two upper-most colors in the second image appear the same, but are actually completely different.)

What about web design?

My question pertains to web design, specifically in this case, the color of link text on different backgrounds.

For a given color of text, how can one find the complementary color to make it appear the same on a certain background?

Let's take a look at an example for this question:

Consider my example below, with yellow text #FFF000 on the following backgrounds:

white #FFFFFF,
black #000000,
and grey #555555.

As expected, doesn't look the same at all. (View and download .PSD file here.)

How can we make it look the same on all three? Clearly, the text on the white background needs to be a darker yellow, and the one on the grey needs hue/tone adjustments. (The surrounding text will also affect it — but that's likely harder to account for.)

Can this perfect color somehow be calculated, based on the Hex, RGB or another system? That's where the crux of this question lies, as it would be much more efficient than manually approximating.


texts: selecting vector path only from the current layer in photoshop

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does anyone know if it is possible to "shield" other layers from path selection?
for example lets say I have 3 layers with different vector shapes in each one that overlap eachother in some points. if I click on layer 3 I want to edit the vector in layer 3 only and i don't want photoshop to select and move to vectors from layers below it.


texts: Is it legally safe to create a vector illustration of a celebrity photo for commercial use?

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I want to take a photo someone else captured of a celebrity, then use illustrator to manually illustrate a vector of that celebrity, adding my own artistic touch.

The main goal is to be artistic, not technically accurate.

Is it legally safe to use that illustration commercially?

Does it help if I distort the image so it doesn't look like the original photo, (while still keeping the celebrity's face identifiable)?

I've seen many businesses do this - some even take photos outright without altering them at all. I just find it hard to believe they all got permission, or that they are all just cheating.

Thank you.


texts: (Discussion) How could I build on Barbara Kruger's style/aesthetics, alter it/add on it, making it a style of its "own"?

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I've been a huge of Barbara Kruger's works for a long time, and as someone who also really loves archive, conceptual art (with bold captions), typo (meshed with graphic imagery to give it a new meaning/reinterpret it), I always wondered how I could build on Barbara Kruger's influence and style and maybe tweak some stuff (maybe through change of color, effects, addition of layers...) to make a new style of its own that built on the previous one. As I know the power of internet can be strong and ideas can flow out from all sides, I'm open to discussing about it and see how art inflows can go! :)

See attached a representative picture of her form of art.


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Let’s say I want to make guidelines for using a plus symbol inside of icons in an icon set.

For example, I have a “New” icon which is a rectangle with a plus inside of it. I also have a “Copy” icon which consists of 2 smaller rectangles in a stacked style with a plus icon in the top right rectangle.

If the plus symbols were the exact same size in both of these cases, it would look “off” because the rectangle:plus ratio is different. How do you come up with dimensions for the plus symbol in this case?


texts: I want to warp text in a custom shape but I don't want it to be distorted

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In the logo I'm making, there is a circle which has text wrapped around it on the upper half. I used the warp tool but it distorts the text and doesn't give the desired effect.

I can't use the type on path tool because that is not the effect I want.

I want the individual letters to be straight and the only way I can think of doing that is to mannually edit each letter to sit around the circle. I was wondering if there was another, more efficient way to fo that.


texts: Is there a specific name for a concentric dots pattern in a circle?

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There are examples of it in many industrial products, like the radio speaker below (the circle pattern in the top left corner):

1959 Portable Transistor Radio and Phonograph (model TP 1) (MOMA Collection) Dieter Rams


texts: After Effects animation - text rotating with CC Cylinder

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I'm new to this site and to After Effects. Could somebody point me to a tutorial, to show me how to create the rotating text below (just nabbed this gif from a previous question that somebody posted)

Any help would be much appreciated!


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I work with Photoshop and there's one effect I've seen that I can't manage to copy. The effect I'm looking for is the shiny effect in the next image:

I looked online for shine effects but they never look like this one, usually they are made by lens flare but it's just not the same.

Thanks ahead :)


texts: How to soften edges of an image in Adobe Photoshop?

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I have an image like this one:

I want to control the edges in order to gradually blend them, like this:

Is there a function to do that in Adobe Photoshop?
Thanks!


texts: How to show preview thumbnail for Illustrator files in Windows Explorer?

texts: How can I make Windows Explorer use preview thumbnails for Illustrator files (*.ai) like Corel files currently do so that my files are easier to identify?


texts: Creating a Cyrillic font with OSX Glyphs.app fails when made web safe

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I have a full Latin alphanumeric font made and am attempting to add Cyrillic characters to the mix.

I am using OSX Glyphs.app.

I am able to make the Cyrillic characters and export the font as an .OTF. I can boot in to Illustrator or any other application and access the Cyrillic characters without fault.

However, when I try to convert my font to web safe fonts via http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator, All characters other than my Cyrillic characters work properly. For example: I have tried using И, &#1048;, and &#x418; to no effect.

On the left is Cyrillic Ii and on the right is Latin N. The font has been saved with Cyrillic Ii merely being a mirrored N. All of this works fine in apps, but fails on web.

Can anyone think of a reason for this?


texts: Crop an image based on another image dimensions in Photoshop CS6

texts: I have got two images one is a PNG having some part transparent for rounded corners and a curved top. It is used in a slideshow. I have got another image in JPEG format which needs to fit in these dimensions including the transparent edges. Can someone please help in getting this done?


texts: What's the smallest set of web font formats that covers all browsers?

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I'm looking to use a web font that was only published in TTF. I'll need to convert it to other formats, and I'd prefer to reduce the amount of file conversion I need to do (partly so I don't need to test so many formats...).

What's the smallest set of web font formats that covers all major browsers?

Obviously including stock mobile and tablet (Android, iOS, Windows Mobile) browsers, and very common browsers on these platforms (though 3rd party mobile browsers usually aren't the problem).


texts: How would I change the grey shadowy part of this image to white?

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I have this image:

I'm trying to:

1) cut out the napkin

2) make the white more pure

This is what I've done so far using the magic wand to select, white point and curve adjustments

As you can see, the edges of the napkin are overexposed, while the center is still grey-ish.

If I keep using curves to try and fix the grey center, it will make the edges even more exposed in the process. How would I make just the grey part more white?


texts: Change multiple png sprite file color to another color

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I have a sprite of 100 png files. This sprite file contains two colors only. Grey and blue.
Which software or application would someone recommend where i can rapidly change the two colors of these png files to another colors?
I have to perform this tasks multiple times in a week for a month. Just to get verification from personnels.

I tried importing into GIMP, using layer. But, i do not see any function in GIMP where it allow me to convert the colors when all layers are visible. I still have to select them one by one.

Also, keep in mind. after changing the colors, i would like to have a separate 100 png files. Not all merge into a gif.

Really hope to hear from gurus!


texts: What are the particularities of printing by sublimation compared to offset?

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I'm working on a kiosk project where the fabric will be printed by sublimation. I know the process is totally different from offset but is the outcome similar? Do I have to watch out for things like:

Different color gamut
Certain colors difficult to render properly (like oranges in CMYK)
Kind of halftones being used

I did a white mug recently that used a gradient from grey to white (light drop shadow). There was a bit of a discrepency between the white at the end of the gradient and the white of the mug (the white on the gradient seemed cooler and the white from the mug was warmer). Is that a common issues in sublimation?


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So, I see these two posters on Pinterest and I was really wondering about how such vaporous, grainy looks were achieved. I thought maybe scanning then working on the scan in Photoshop ? I have no idea. If anyone could help me do the same aesthetic, it would be lovely.
Thank you really much!