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I have few questions on this subject. The problem is that when you select a layer and put 2 strokes of brush you have to hit "step backward" twice in order to delete them both (you can't use undo since it will redo the first stroke you delete) and the currently selected layer changes to the last selected layer, not the one where the brush strokes were applied.
The problem is described here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWe8cDGiQo&feature=youtu.be
So are my questions :
Why "undo" doesn't change layer selection and "step backward" does ?
Why can't you display "layer selection changes" in the history ?
Why adobe doesn't get spammed about this problem ?
How in the world adobe developpers are not annoyed themselves by this problem when they use their own product ?
Edit : Okay fair enough. First reports of this problem are dated from year 2008 it's a shame they don't intend to fix it.
To get a around you can use this script
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3580711/StepBackwardSmart.jsx, put it in "photoshopdirectory/presets/scripts" then launch photoshop and go to "edit>shortcuts", under "file>scripts" assign CTRL+ALT+Z to the script "StepbackwardSmart". Then you can step backward and the layer you are working on stays selected.
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Is it possible to write script in some language which would generate vectors for me automatically in the way I want? In Corel Draw of course.
I have 30 basic images and I want to make a spritesheet with them, but I have to go over 30 times doing the same thing which is boring thing to do.
Check the images below:
Let just say I have to create spritesheets like these in the images but from numbers 10 to 40. So you would have to do 30 time copy paste etc...
How would go about doing it in Corel Draw?
Is this a question for StackOverflow?
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Please advise me how to use Gimp to create a tile for a word game like below:
I can see 2 rectangles with rounded corners - the outer one and then the one on the top.
Is the smaller rectangle filled with a linear gradient, where alpha changes from 1.0 on the top to the smaller value on the bottom?
How to create the "inner shadow" in the larger rectangle?
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I am a high school student with an interest for drawing tablets for some hobby. I went to check on a store that sell Intuos, a sales representative (or something) of Wacom told me that most students buy the medium sized tablets. Even the staff said that since it is always bought the supplies of the medium size are a lot more than the small size.
I am on a tight budget (which is why I am buying the Intuos), and the small size seems small to me (when my hands are open, my thumb and my pinky would reach the sides). But then, why would Wacom sell the Manga variant in small? Is the staff just saying that so I would buy the more expensive one?
I have enough savings from my small allowance to buy the small size right now, should I wait for another month so that I can buy the medium size?
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All I need for my website is just a text and a shape beside the text or over it,
I googled a lot but there were no simple answers, using illustrator is just an overkill.
For example, company named "SomeX", writing the name "Some" inserting a shape, representing a big "X" symbol beside it or over the text. I Know it would be terrible design, I'm not selling it, it's just for personal demonstration while I'm working.
Are there any methods or software to achieve this simply? Write the text, add the symbol and drag it anywhere, and export the PNG.
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How can I find a character "-" at the end of the line in Adobe InDesign? I do not want to be at the end of the sentence/paragraph, but the line.
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How can I simply make the background fade a bit while typing WITHOUT affecting the text opacity?. Without fading if you type over the top of the image it is hard to read. The reason I have not faded the image is I want it to looks strong, and then fade when typing.
Css:
.search-block #s {
background: #FFF url(../folder/images/logo.png) no-repeat top center;
background-size: contain;
width: 300px;
color: #000;
opacity: 1;
background-position: right 50px top;
}
.search-block #s:focus {
color:#000;
//opacity: 0.5; //if this is set the field fades like i want but is dark and not white like i want
}
.search-block .search-button {
background: #2F2F2F;
opacity: 1;
border-right: none;
}
HTML:
<div class="search-block">
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="...">
<button class="search-button" type="submit" value="..."></button>
<input type="text" id="s" name="s" value="..." />
</form>
</div>
Edit a varient of @Hynes solution:
I didn't add in the transitions here just to show base css that got it working perfectly:
.search-block {
display: block;
position: relative;
}
.search-block:after {
background: #FFF url(../folder/images/logo.png) no-repeat top center;
background-size: contain;
background-position: right 50px top;
color: #000;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
content: "";
}
.search-block #s {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);
width: 300px;
color: #000;
opacity: 1;
}
.search-block:hover #s {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
color: #000;
}
.search-block #s:focus {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8);
color: #000;
}
.search-block .search-button {
background: #2F2F2F;
opacity: 1;
border-right: none;
}
.search-block:hover .search-button{
color: #FFF;
opacity: 1;
}
Here is the fiddle to the original solution: Fiddle
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The CSS specification (among several others) establish that, when selecting a font, the font-weight may be described using numerical descriptors ranging from 100 to 900 at 100 increments, where 400 is reserved for the "regular" weight and 700 for "bold" (this article contains an example of a mapping).
Are these numbers assigned merely conventionally or is there some sort of (at least theoretical) numerical relation between, say, stem thickness and advance width which controls the numerical descriptor that a font "ought" to receive (regardless of whether that relation is respected in any particular font)?
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I'm don't have any Graphic Design background. I'm a programmer.
Recently, I tried to port my holo light themed app, to holo dark themed app.
For holo dark themed, the dark grey background being use is coded
#ff4c4c4c
I realize, under dark grey background, it is difficult to make "shinning" (Sorry. I don't know the exact word. "shinning" means for instance, #ffff0000) green & red character to be read.
After several try-n-error, I manage to discover 2 color codes :
#ffdb3344 - red
#ff6baa7f - green
Both color I found that
Easy to read
Pastel style, which gives Elegant, Harmony, Comfortable feeling.
Yet. The color (especially red) might look nice under my device, but they might not so easy to read in other devices with other display quality.
I was wondering,
Is there any red & green, which is suitable to be placed in grey background #ff4c4c4c, has greater tolerance to look "nice" (Easy to read, Pastel style, which gives Elegant, Harmony, Comfortable feeling) under variety of display quality?
Is there any systematic way to choose such color, instead of try-n-error?
Update
By using wonderful tool http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/ introduced by @Yisela, I was able to produce something like the following (By try-n-error method). It looks better right? :)
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I am working on a shipping label that is incidental to a database system I am responsible for supporting. The client has very specific requirements, calling for Helvetica Medium Condensed and Helvetica Bold Condensed (you can see the document here, Section 5).
When I do a web search for "Helvetica Condensed Medium", I see one identical result in the Adobe store and a bunch of references to "Neue 67" variant of Helvetica, which, as I understand, is not identical.
But when I view that Adobe link, there is no apparent way to actually purchase that font. (No "add to cart" button, etc.) And, when I attempt to search the Adobe site using their built-in search, I don't see any results that directly correspond to "Medium Condensed".
Is there another "common" name for these fonts?
When I attempt to browse fonts in the Adobe store alphabetically, I also do not see any fonts that clearly correspond to Helv. Cond. Medium or Helv. Cond. Bold. (Not clearly to me, at least.) Furthermore, the ones that seem closest are all bundled into packs of multiple fonts. Assuming I could find the specific fonts I want, is there no way to buy individual fonts?
I thought I might have better results on the Linotype site but the issues (other than the bundling) are basically the same -- they don't appear to sell the exact specific font, and I'm not exactly sure what "format" I'll be getting.
... Which is a concern because ... to top it all off, I am not even certain our label printer (Zebra Z4M) is compatible with any non-TrueType fonts, other than those provided by the manufacturer, and they do not appear to offer the fonts we require. So, I think to be safest I need TTF versions of these fonts. Do they even exist?
Am I even going about this the right way? I wound up at the Adobe site first because of their apparent dominance of search results, but if there is a better alternative (i.e. more canonical, less expensive, simpler, or all of the above), I would like to hear about it.
After all this, I have my doubts that the original specification is even precisely valid. But now is the time to "do the best we can", not the time to argue that point.
Yeah, did I mention they want this operational for tomorrow? ;D
Any advice toward meeting that goal would be sincerely appreciated. I know there are several questions here, but I'm expecting that the right answers to the important ones will obviate some of the lesser ones.
Thank you!
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I need to work with this file for a school project I have.
Currently I am trying to make roads. I saw that the roads in the original image will work fine with what I am working on, so I am tried coping them, but then found out Illustrator won't select the path.
When I click with the select on a path, it ends up selecting the entire image.
At first I though that was because the image was grouped, but there is no option to ungroup it. Using the direct select tool is a no go as well, since I would have to manually select every anchor in a road and at that point, I might as well just trace it.
I would really love an answer as to how I can select a whole path with out selecting the rest of the image. Or at the very least, an explanation as to why this is.
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I'm web-developer and i decided to create my portfolio. So I need to create all my websites as images in perspective like on the following example.
I have knowledge of Photoshop, but I cant create what I need with good quality so please help.
If it is done in other software and not in Photoshop, please give me the name of that software.
I need not only the perspective angles, but i also want good quality of images.
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One of the strategies I employ when using the Pen Tool in Illustrator to trace something is to use as few nodes as possible to make the curves as smooth as possible. I'm often surprised by what curve variations can be managed between a mere two nodes, and on the other hand occasional come across seemingly simply curve segments that require three or more nodes to trace properly. As a somewhat scientifically minded person, I find myself wanting to "know" just what's going on...
I wondering whether any experienced tracers out there have a kind of mental checklist for when they need to drop another node, or whether anyone has a good summary of it from a maths point of view?
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I don't know how to call this but how to make a monochrome like the one on bottom.
The exclusion (white), but originally it doesn't overlap.
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I'm having some serious trouble understanding one aspect of responsive design. I understand almost all of the basics but one thing that is troubling me is setting up correct grids in Photoshop for various break points. From what I can gather, a responsive design will scale down your grid as the device width decreases. This means that it's not just a case of removing a few columns and your grid is back in proportion.
At the moment the only thing I can think of doing to duplicate a responsive grid is to scale down the document in Photoshop and that will then keep the relationships between the columns, gutters and margins. I've looked at how other people do it and nobody seems to do it this way. I was looking on YouTube and found this chap — he seems to just use the same grid but smaller parts of it instead of resizing the grid completely to match the break point. Can anybody shed some light on this?
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I need two symbols:
Passed the Lesson
Mastered the Lesson (earned maximum extra credit)
CRITERIA
Universal
Clear that Mastered is "superior to Passed"
Maybe there's nothing better than what I've got.
What I've considered:
Top choice is Silver Star (passed) and Gold Star (Mastered)
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I have a graphic CS5 eps here that draws a honeycomb lattice. But I have a problem: When I selected it, I found that there is a border around it as shown in
But I only want the honeycomb lattice part. I tried lasso tool in adobe illustrator to select the honeycomb, but it turns out I can't get rid of the border being selected.
So How can I select the honeycomb without the border?
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I am trying to design the graphics used in a tiled map. For example, by using a tiled map editor, you can load the tileset you designed to make maps.
What kind of tools do you recommend for making them? Are there any techniques I can use in order to design really nice graphics for maps?
I am kind of new to this area, really appreciate your advise and experience sharing.
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I'm looking into investing in a tablet.
One of the "features" that differentiate between a high end and a med/low end tablet seems to be tilt and rotation sensing.
I can see the the tilt function being useful for shading, and the rotation function being useful in painting. However, for people who don't have that functionality, how do you overcome the limitation?
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What are the main performance issues in svg? Out of filters, gradients , blurs, text rendering , clipping, transformations , etc, what takes the most resources to render?
In particular, is it faster to replace transformations by modifying coordinate values directly (i.e. "bake" transformations)?
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I know that in CS6, you can save as CS5. But right now, I'm at school on the computers in my design class. I have a file that I made at home in CS6, but I need to open it on my school's computers that have CS5. How can I do this?
If I can't do this, can anyone do it for me? Thanks!
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What sans-serif font is this? Notice that the "S" goes thin at the top end.
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I've been told that this company has paid others $40/hr. This would be my first work at a professional level. They've already seen my portfolio, and love my work- and have had trouble finding someone they like.
Soooo... they like me, my work, etc. But I am very new at this, so I feel like I should offer $30/$35 to start. What do you all have to say about this?
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I'm having a little trouble I hope it's easily solvable in Inkscape... Sorry if it's something simple I'm missing, I'm relatively new to it, and google/searching here hasn't done quite the trick.
I have a couple of drawings saved up that I'd like to do several different versions. This one is the most simple, but what works for it should work for the rest.
Is there any fast way to auto join everything to make the fill option work? Some parts even give me "not a closed area" when I try to use bucket fill on it...
I've gone as far as to export it as bitmap so I could vectorize it, but I still need to use bucket fill on top of that since auto-vectorization creates 2 line-less paths filled with black as a "line".
Thanks for your time!
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I often find myself trying to determine which colour is the "complementary" one of (or would nicely fit with) two colours imposed by the client brand. At times, only one colour is imposed, and I want to find two colours that would fit it.
Is there a quick and easy way to figure it out?
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Please help me, I have been looking through Photoshop for an hour like an idiot, I just installed this plugin and I can't find it where it is. Where would it be located?
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I am in the process of creating some infographics for some design thinking methods. I need to translate sometimes complex (but with common themes) ideas into visuals.
To put it a different way, why does it, when you see an arrow pointing right, indicate that you should go or look right?
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How to get the width and height of text bounding box in Photoshop using ExtendScript
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I am having some trouble designing the following web page. I somehow do not like the way the big photos are presented in the project. Can anyone suggest an idea how to improve the general look of this images block..? Would be great.
I guess, this question can be answered, not just discussed, for example by giving some inspiration projects or giving specific design hints.
The 2nd image is smaller because it was cropped for the screenshot.
I like big images which are place this way. Sliders are boring. Look e.g. here: http://www.spotify.com, they have also big pictures and it looks great.
It is not easy to say, what I exactly don't like. It is the general look. Maybe because the pictures are not so good and professional and I am looking for a better way to present them.
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I read a tutorial and tried to create a grain effect on a rectangle. I created a rectangle, put a gradient on it and then via the Effects Gallery applied the grain effect, with an Intensity: 74 and Contrast: 50, and Grain mode: Sprinkles.
This resulted in an appearance that DOES NOT resemble the one in the tutorial. The gradient is not grainy, but rather full of pixels, as you can see in the screenshot:
I am desperate. How come the effect doesn't look grainy? Is there something wrong with the settings in my Illustrator? I am a webdesign newbie and would be very happy if anyone could help me out.
For your info, this is the tutorial I am referring to: http://vectips.com/tutorials/create-grainy-textures/
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I have inadvertently created an illustration with the align new objects to pixel grid turned on (not sure why it was on, I did not know or ever turn it on) and want to now scale the image. When I turned it off, I scale and it is still affecting the illustration.
So I copy and pasted it into a new document (Making sure that the option was turned of when I created the new document), and it is still affecting the illustration.
How can I scale this object without it being affected by this option?
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I cannot import images into Illustrator CS6. Dragging in doesn't work. "Place" command doesn't work. Any ideas? I have uninstalled and re-installed.
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I need to create an A5 booklet (by folding A4 sheets), and the only tool at my disposal at the moment is Photoshop, since I haven't got InDesign on the machine that I'm working on right now.
What's the best way to set up a booklet in Photoshop?
Thanks
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Anyone have any idea what app is used in the lunatik touch pen promo materials?
This one:
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I want to recreate the text of a logo I have.
It had black half way down the text and then yellow for the other half.
How do I create text with a different colour on each half in Adobe Illustrator?
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Thinking about starting up a small clothing company with the symbol below:
But after surfing the web I discovered Nike's undefeated symbol.
Will my design cause copyright issues? How dissimilar should mine be to avoid issues?
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I want to develop a simple 2D quest and for doing that i need a tilepack for modern city. I googled for some sites with tileas, but I don't found anything interesting (all that I found is a few common tilepacks).
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Where is the best place to find free animated gifs?
I have tried googling 'free animated gifs' but the sites that come up offer just useless gifs such as balloons or something in that direction. I'm looking for web design gifs such as a loading bar etc.
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Been working on an icon for a blog called Bitcrate which focuses on tech/media stuff. First off, what I have so far:
I didn't want to do some rehash of playing off computer 'bits' but thought the motif of the crate actually having been 'bitten'would be interesting-- the two ellipses protruding on the left are meant to be hinges or flaps that you might see on a crate, albeit a little more bent.
So two questions:
1) How would you improve the core image? Do I need to tweak some of the anchor points/handles?
2) To you, is the concept even good or DOA?
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I'm trying to recreate this image with help of a Rectangle Tool (U) and masks as it was suggested in chat room, but so far I was able to do it by adding three rectangles, where two of them were turned a bit for lower cuts. Still due to stroke on main triangle I was unable to get exactly same shape as on image above.
Could anyone provide maybe an article or link to a tutorial.
PS. Obviously I could just cut those parts off. I'm more interested in masks usage to achieve that.
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Without dropping $200 - $500 for a Pantone book that I don't plan to use very often, is there a better option to get one?
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My render is distorted for some reason. The preview looks good trough. Using trapcode, filters etc. but separated into compositions.
The entire render looks like this... Some hints ?
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Does anyone know of a quick way to create drop shadows that cast lighter from inside corners and heavier from protrusions?
Link
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This is an odd request and something I've never had to worry about in Illustrator until now. I'm building out a logo that will be printed on a shirt. Instead of having a solid black border around the vector hand, the client wants the black border to be "transparent" so when it is placed on top of a pattern, you see the pattern background. I have an example below of what I'm trying to accomplish.
The second photo I mocked up in Photoshop to show what I'm trying to do. It's very easy to select the border path in Photoshop and simply wipe it out. Does Illustrator have a "transparent" fill option in the Path area? Selecting a color and dropping the transparent percentage didn't do the trick.
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I've just completed a Bachelor's in Web Design & Development and have been casting a wide net for employment opportunities, including internships, paid and unpaid. I was contacted by one company (offering an unpaid opportunity) that is getting started and needs to build a launch site. In order to select the proper candidate, they've asked that I submit design mockups for what will ultimately be a very visual and animation-heavy site.
What is raising some alarms for me is that the more I dig into the internship, this just sounds like free labor. If my mockups are selected as the best (I'm up against two other candidates), I will come on as the sole designer/developer of their site. Based on the site they gave me to review as an example of what they are looking for, this is going to be a lot of work, and is frankly a bit beyond my skill set. When I applied, I assumed that there would be an established developer to assist with the project and help me build my skills (as I always thought some part of internships includes on-the-job training, since normally it would be supplementing/replacing an academic course).
Is this typical of an internship with an up-and-coming company, with the possibility of future full-time work? Or is this just spec work, a way to get a free website? I've never had an internship, so don't feel qualified to judge.
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I received an image with colored lines that I need to include in a report.
However, the image will be scaled down and the lines will be thin making it hard to see what color they are (especially in print).
This is a sample of the image. It doesn't make sense on its own, but it's just to show what my source image is.
Can I somehow increase the thickness of these lines? Somehow make them bleed to the surrounding area in their original colour?
The latter aspect is important so a glow (of one colour) is not going to cut it.
If other software is more suitable to do this, please do share. Photoshop was just my first idea.
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I am developing a word game for iOS and would like to use an SVG file as the gaming board.
The SVG file (author: Denelson83, Wikimedia Commons) is almost perfect for my game - except for displaced colored squares.
My question is:
How could I please copy such a colored square (is it a Group?), then paste it and move the new square to a new spot - but still keep it aligned to the grid?
As an Inkscape newbie I have already found out, that I can jump to the "original" with Shift-D.
And I can hold CTRL key to move objects horizontally or vertically.
But I still don't understand how to keep the moved square aligned to the grid (which also seems to be in a separate layer - so how did the author manage to keep all squares aligned to the grid?)
And also I can't find some view/dialog/toolbar, which would show me the coordinates of the object being dragged by me (I only see the coordinates of the mouse pointer at the bottom right). If I could see/change those coordinates, then I could (in a tiresome way) calculate and set the coordinates for the new squares...
UPDATE:
I've toggled Snap to grid and also enabled showing the grid:
but the square doesn't snap to the grid when I drag it.
And also the grid is too small and I can't find how to make its cells broader.
UPDATE 2:
I have found where to set the grid size (15 x 15) and offset:
But while the grid looks ok now and snaps too - it snaps in the wrong places as shown below.
Why doesn't the grid snap at the square's borders?
Is this maybe a bug in Inkscape? How to workaround it please?
UPDATE 3: I've received an offline advice to hold ALT while dragging a square
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I just want to know how to skew only one corner of the object specially a none square object using Selection Tool (V) or Direct Selection Tool (A). I just want the letter A look like its fell. Please help. thanks
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In InDesign, how would I get a word to move up to the line above as I have a large
space open in that line?
Thanks, Suzanne
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I'm creating a very simple logo with text and just one Smart Object leaf.
I want to create an .eps file so my client can print without any trouble.
The thing is, the Smart Object is a leaf that originated from a Photoshop Website template and it has 5 effects on it.
My question is this: How can I export the Smart Object from Photoshop to Illustrator without losing the vector data?
I know the long way is to basically recreate the Smart Object from scratch in Illustrator and just add in the text (which has nothing fancy on it), but I don't have enough billable time to work with to go that route. Is this even possible? I'm using Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. Thanks!
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What is the ideal color mode to design in photoshop cross platform/ multi device product design? Default seems to be 8 bit mode, however 16 bit mode seems to hold more color information. What are the pros and cons?
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I downloaded some psd to show my mockups, but it looks like the text is going to be blurred when I put anything inside the distorted smart objects.
How to avoid this problem?
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I'm trying to design a search box for products searching and I can't seem to think of how to represent search for products. My client wants his website to look like this http://www.hipmunk.com/. I'm just following his orders and now I'm trying to think of an icon to represent products. I'd be glad to hear any suggestions from you all! Thanks!
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I'm an ebook publisher trying to include 10 color illustrations inside an ebook. It's not a fixed layout ebook but a reflowable ebook (i.e., an epub).
Graphic example here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjnagle/sets/72157641718117054/ (Sort of low resolution -- but this should give you an idea about what they look like -- the text refers to the story title).
I'm working with a talented artist who is good at drawing but doesn't really know much or anything about graphic formats. She has limited experience using graphics software. Ironically although I have absolutely no artistic talent, I'm more comfortable than she is about using graphics software -- especially to do a specific task. I'm pretty good at using gimp.
She has given me some images in high quality jpg formats. Possibly she could rescan the images -- although I already have 300 dpi of everything. Ideally I'd like these interior images to scale on the fly and to separate the text information from the graphic itself. The software on the major tablets are starting to support svg images, and one of the problems with these 10 images is that they incorporate text and images together (They are chapter headings). I need an image which will adjust well to low resolution and high resolution devices.
I see that inkscape has tools for turning raster images into vectors (using trace bitmap for example). My aim is to create faithful images (perhaps cropping out the text and overlaying text in Inkscape). My questions:
Can Inkscape do this adequately well?
How complex a task would this be for someone who is good at software but not necessarily an artist?
Do you have any general suggestions about doing this or have any URL's to recommend. (My main goal is fidelity to the original image).
Some more characteristics of the original artwork:
Lots of whitespace. The image rectangle will occupy about a third of the tablet page. About 2/3 of the drawing is curvy line drawings using a black pen. However, in the center there's a half-circle containing a color sketch with a filled color background that sometimes is fairly intricate and has impressionistic brush strokes. This color sketch is trying to depict a scene
from the book.
I'm trying to figure out whether it's worth the effort to convert the image to vector, or whether I should just leave it as a jpg and remove the text from it (which is fairly easy to do because it's underneath the image itself and completely separate from it). Leaving them as JPGs is easier and the ebook software all supports that, but it doesn't future-proof or scale images well --you usually have to specify a specific image dimension.
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I've been trying to compare this font, with an online photo editor called pixlr but no luck.
What is the name of the font on this picture? It's a little bit transparent, it has a metro word.
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Basically my question is how to make this like the image that I uploaded. I know that you need to pick a shapes, and a picture of what whatever you would like to form into. Where can I buy or download that illustrator script?
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I am developing a word game for iOS and would like to use an SVG file as the gaming board.
The SVG file (author: Denelson83, Wikimedia Commons) is almost perfect for my game - except that I would like to use 1-lined texts (like "3W", "2L", etc.) instead of the 2-lined texts in the original.
So I click a colored square that I'd like to change and then press SHIFT-D to jump to the original group.
Then I change the 2-lined text to a 1-lined text (in the screenshot below it is "3W" in the red square):
My question is: how to center-align (both vertically and horizontally) the text again?
Or as alternative: make the text field fill its parent at 100% width and height?
UPDATE:
I've found the Alignment dialog, but what to select there?
Clicking the 3rd icon in the 1st and 2nd row doesn't change anything:
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I am creating a web app and I have got several questions about its appearance, first here's a "screenshot" (just a test with Pixelmator):
The element in the center is a flashcard, the arrows on the right and on the left let the user browse the cards.
Do you think that the flashcard looks like a card? How can I improve the "card feeling" while keeping the appearance as simple as possible?
Do you think that it's a good idea to keep the arrows white? Or should I use the same black than the other elements on the top? (I have chosen a white color because I think that these arrows are more linked to the card than the other elements, is it right to do that ?)
What do you think about the fact that I am not using the same font for the card and for the UI? I am doing that because I think that a serif font is more appropriate and that It helps to distinguish the text of the content. And also because I think that it might help the user to remember of the word more easily.
UPDATE (here is a new version, I followed the advice of Jenna and now the cards are displayed as a stack, and also added a letterpress effect to the words on the cards):
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How can I draw a tick in my image on Pixelmator? I'm now creating my iOS app icon with 1,024 x 1,024 pixels, and have put a background rectangle to cover the whole picture, and on it draw a circle and filled it with white. Now want to draw those ticks like in Safari app...
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I want to design something like this:
It has been established in previous answers that these are doodle graphics.
Some ways to make them manually are seen on here and here.
How can I make one or more doodles, select the group and randomly spray them on a canvas with a few skewed orientations?
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How did they create this very subtle 3D vector effect in Illustrator?
Link
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In Illustrator how can I merge this roof vector to the background of the square?
roof and square
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There exists a fair amount of references online on how to create mood boards using various online services. I'm looking to create a mood board that has a visual hierarchy, incorporated's colors, shapes and images.
However, I have not been able to find a good tutorial for Illustrator. There plenty for Photoshop. Any thoughts or recommendations on the proper methodology?
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I'm using Illustrator CS6 and find that browsing through all the swatch libraries is not very user-friendly. I have to load every library individually.
As the library names are not really helpful (for me at least) it takes some time to find the right one.
Is there a way to browse all the libraries visually without reloading every single one? Any plug-in, web-app or script is welcome, as long as it can give a quick overview of all the available swatch libraries.
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When I think of Indesign and editing/ type setting, I use character and paragraph styles. These functions are extraordinarily useful when you get into formatting/adjusting styles over many pages etc.
Is there a way to do this in illustrator with objects? For example, I have a number of abstract shapes that are comprised of multiple objects of different colors. I want to change all the shapes that are red to green for example without having to select each individually.
Here's what I know and what I don't know. I know I could use symbols if the "symbols" where the same and edit the one symbol to change the rest etc. I also cannot group the objects due to the position within the rest of the composition.
Question: What is the most efficient way to change multiple shapes at once that are not grouped and are not symbols?
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I like to make graphics for apps. I generally start with Illustrator and move to Photoshop for some little finishing touches. I then save all of the assets as .png files to be used by the developer. (This is a process to say the least, especially with all of the resolutions required for Android)
Now, Slicy exports PSD elements as assets for your website or app, you just rename your layer groups once and let Slicy do everything else. Cut&Slice me does similar but for Windows.
Do other designers use this software or similar? If so, why? If not, why?
Slicy website
Cut&Slice me website
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Say for instance I have pressed Print Screen and cut the following image:
Now I wish to scale this down to about 338 width and 338 px height. However when I do this in Paint (I know, noob program) I get the following result:
Which looks somewhat compressed and ugly.
So my question is: How would you go around doing stuff like this? Are there any free programs that can help you?
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I'm making a manual for a web-based app. I take screenshots and put them into
adobe illustrator and they lose their quality extremely fast when zooming in.
Is there any way I can take high resolution or vector based screenshots that don't loose image quality when zoomed in? This seems to be only a problem with Illustrator, with Photoshop when I zoom in it gets slightly fuzzy but that's it.
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When I try to align various layers in GIMP 2.8, sometimes the align tool selects the entire image, not the layer I clicked on.
It doesn't matter how many times I try, and closing/reopening doesn't solve the problem. I've not yet discovered any regularities, it just seems to happen at random regardless of layer contents, size or position. It even happens with layers I'd previously aligned without issue.
Why does GIMP do this? Can it be fixed?
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I just learned about both global process color swatches and spot color swatches (which are inherently global) in Adobe Illustrator.
My question: What is the difference between the two?
When should I use a spot color and when should I use a global process color?
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I am redrawing the character on the following picture via Illustrator:
Regarding the stripes on the shirt, I already tried to create it by creating a white and a blue linie and using it as a fill, but this doesn't allow me to adjust the stripes to the shape of the character's body.
So my question is how to professionally create the shirt pattern so that the stripes adjust to the body shape. I am a newbie in Illustrator and would be very happy about a step-by-step explanation...
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I have some Illustrator art, and it's too complex (it has too many objects in it). It's too hard for the hardware to render it.
How can I convert all those objects into one to make it lighter?
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I need to perform via applescript some action on all items inside the Illustrator document apart of groups.
When I set my counter as
"repeat with i from (count page items of current document) to 1 by -1"
should I subtract the number of groups inside the document?
In other words are groups included in "page items"?
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I just purchased a font and now they are saying I need to go to Illustrator and go to my "glyphs" to get the "extras" of the font.... well I dont have Illustrator... nor do I know wth glyphs are?!
Anyone know if ps6 has glyphs? the font is purchased was: https://creativemarket.com/L_Worthington/12122-Charcuterie-Cursive
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Is there a fairly simple way to divide a circle into equal parts using Adobe Illustrator CC?
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I have several text elements that I would like to resize at the same time, but I can only seem to select and change them one by one. This is tough because I need to select, change, deselect, reselect, etc, which is a lot of unnecessary mouse clicking.
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A question about using adobe illustrator cs6...
Basically I want to be able to put images I’ve drawn (simple outline drawings.) in to illustrator, having scanned them on to my desktop, turn them in to vectors so as to be able to resize them to any scale, and then once I have scaled several different images, bring them on to one screen to create a composite image.
I’m sure this is very simple if you know how, but I haven’t the slightest clue when i comes to illustrator!
Any help would be amazing.
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I am working on a character and the mouth looks like this so far:
My problem: The upper and lower teeth booth go beyond the black part. My goal is to neaten the mouth up so that it has a linear form and no parts stick out into the brown part as the teeth do now.
My idea was to take the black shape, copy it in front and somehow to achieve that all parts outside the shape's form vanish. I just want to neat up the mouth. But I haven't found out how to do this. Any ideas?
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I've been a graphic artist since 2002. Since then, I've had a difficult time finding paying clients to the point that I changed careers. However, I missed working as a graphic artist and got back into it recently. However, I've encountered the same challenges this time around.
I'm wondering how and where can I find paying clients online? I've tried Craigslist, DeviantArt, eLance, etc. I'm wondering which sites other designers have successfully found paying clients on.
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We all know today the devices have different ppi. Traditionally a pixel is a point, which is 1/72 an inch. But today, iPhones have 326 pixel per inch why the point should remain the same for typography practice (12 pt is readable on a desktop monitor but would be too small for iPhone, instead we need 54 to 55 pt on the art board).
This is bad because if I design for multiple devices, I have to change the typography across the art-boards to match similar visual outcomes. Photoshop has provided solution to this issue a long time ago. I wonder if there is some hack we can do to accomplish the same solution in Illustrator.
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I have been working on using Blender Cycles to bake textures but it renders very slowly so I have to render at low resolutions. This is fine for the indirect diffuse lighting but really makes a mess of high resolution/high frequency textures.
To deal with this, I would like to only use Cycles to bake a low-res diffuse texture and then scale it up to match the high-res base texture and combine them using GIMP.
Unfortunately, none of the simple default layer combining methods work very well for this. Darken, and Multiply work well enough for the brightness but ruin the color.
I assume that I will have to use several layers in combination with different settings to achieve this but I'm not sure where to start.
Here are some textures. I'd like to combine the first two textures in a way that achieves the results shown in images #3 and #4.
(i) a basic colored procedural texture baked with no lighting(Blender Internal).
(ii) a texture baked with Cycles diffuse lighting only
(iii) a texture baked with both of the above(this is what I'm hoping to avoid), I would like to use GIMP to get this result using textures (i) and (ii).
(iv) The final scene with lighting baked in using the textures that were baked the same as image #3.
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I have a multi-page document set up on logically ordered layers (background, photos, type, etc. in ascending order, so type on top). On some pages, text wrap works perfectly! On other pages, the text wrap will flat-out not work. One of the following will happen:
If I set the text up, drop in placeholder text, it shows. I add a photo, it shows as under the type. When I attempt to text wrap it, the text disappears, but the photo shows, as does the outline of the text box.
If I drag the same photo and text outside that particular page, the text magically appears and is wrapped correctly. If I drag it back into the appropriate page, the text disappears as mentioned above.
If I go to Object/Text Frame Options and check mark the box, "Ignore Text Wrap", the type disappears. If I uncheck the box, the type appears again but runs across the photo.
Worst case scenario, "Ignore Text Wrap" undoes ALL the correct text wraps that already exist in the rest of the document. I have tried copying/pasting a 'good' set of photo + text wrap into a new page to only have it undo the text wrap on ALL pages. (Thank goodness for Ctrl+Z!)
I've been searching for a solution for 2 weeks to no avail. Any clues out there? No threaded text exists at this point (one problem at at time, oy!), no hidden objects, nothing overly complicated.
I sure hope someone has an answer. Thank you in advance.
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I want to replace the blue part of the image with red. I've tried this using a combination of the Magic Wand tool and the Paint Bucket but that doesn't work well.
Can somebody please help me out?
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I have never done this before so bear with me.
I am a Graphic Designer who started a business 3 years ago with a woman. We created and designed the whole 'program' together. Since the inception of this business, I have been titled as "Co-Founder". Because I was the Co-Founder and had no money to put into the business I did all design work (including and not limited to: photography, logos, pamphlets, business cards, posters and basically everything we needed for this business I was doing) for pretty much nothing. I had been paid in the first year or so, but a very minimal amount.
Long story short, it's gotten nasty and she is now trying to say I am not the co-founder and that all design work is hers (design work was done under the impression that I was co-founder). However, I have never signed over any IP to her, and she has not paid me in 2 years for design work. I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me? Who really owns this work, and if it became legal - am I the owner of said design?
Is there any links that I can send her to educate her on this subject?
EDIT:
No contract, and I live in Canada. Ive been trying to make up some conditions and protect myself within the business, and want to say that If she doesn't meet my requirements that I will take my stuff and leave, but I need to make sure I'm actually able to do so. This is worst case scenario ... I have never wanted this to happen, and never thought it would. Thats why no contract was made up.
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I am using Adobe CS6 and have been using the "Export" function within InDesign for many years. I am tired of creating brochures in "Printer's Spreads":
[Blank Page]
[8,1]
[2,7]
[6,3]
[4,5]
I want to create the brochures in "Designer's Spreads":
[Page 1]
[2,3]
[4,5]
[6,7]
[8]
I know InDesign has an option "Print Booklet" that lets you create in "Designer's Spreads" and export the PDF in "Printer's Spreads".
The Problem
Whenever I export using "Print Booklet", I always get these thin outlines of background objects on my PDFs. I do not get these when I do a standard "Export" which is what I have been using the past few years.
I've verified as best I can that I am using the same options and Adobe PDF Presets when exporting PDFs (ex: Smallest File Size, High Quality Print). I've checked all the print settings under "Print Booklet" including (Print Booklet -> Print Settings -> Setup -> Adobe PDF (Preferences))
Question
What are these lines and how do I get rid of them?
Including an image to help show what I am talking about:
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I have Illustrator CS6 and want to install some common plugin. This plugin needs Extension Manager installed.
How can I detect if Extension Manager exists on my Mac?
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Can someone please help me identify this font?
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I have never - technically - bought a font for personal use (I can state that in shame, all the fonts I've bought were for clients or came with software I own). It's now time to spend some gold coins on nice typography, and I was wondering if there are foundries that offer font packs or bundles.
I imagine the bundle to be something like: Popular font + Less popular but quite nice font + 3 or 4 little ones. I would even prefer acquiring less known fonts, like these beautiful Canadian ones. And while some classics are good, I'd bend more towards new fonts (designed in the last 3-5 years).
Any recommendations on what's the best way(s) to buy these font bundles? My gold coins are quite limited, I must say. The use I want to give them is mostly personal projects (graphic experiments).
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In my case, I am planning to design how a website looks; I am a bit of a newbie. I'd love to learn :)
Are there any books that I can refer to?
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I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth.
How exactly would one design this video signal? I don't want the viewer to think the beam is a laser beam, and I don't want it to look like a particle beam, or a light beam from a UFO, etc.
How would you draw/illustrate a beam or streak that conveys to the user that it can't be seen by the naked eye, yet, it illustrates that data is being transmitted?
Also, if anyone knows of a Photoshop tutorial out there that I could follow to create it, that would be great! Thanks for your time.
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Is there a way to duplicate layers in Photoshop, similar to Illustrator?
In Photoshop & Illustrator you can use the select tool and press the alt key to move and duplicate a layer. But in Illustrator after I duplicate the layer I can press Ctrl D to keep duplicating the layers in a equal distance apart.
Indesign can also do this by pressing Shift, Ctrl, Alt & D at the same time.
As far as I know Photoshop can not do this.
Does anyone know if this can be done in Photoshop?
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I am running Photoshop CC on Mac OSX 10.9.1.
Today I opened one of my PSD files this morning and all of a sudden, these artifacts appear in some layers that have some effects on smart objects (but not limited too).
Is this something someone experience? can this be fixed for this file? I tried fixing it myself but new ones appeared.
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I have been seeing a major trend in these types of fonts, the bold cursive ones. I have been going through many and so far I have found Pacifico an Honey Script. I have tried using font identification websites but they don't seem to be able to find the letters in cursive fonts.
An example is the Dunked logo. Of the top of my head I can't think of any more examples. I know the dunked logo isn't Pacifico or Honey Script. I have a feeling people are using the same few fonts as each other.
Can anyone tell me what font this is and similar ones fitting the rounded bold cursive style?
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Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar?
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I use Adobe's Creative Cloud to generally resize images...but I came across a strange use case. I want to resize a graphic of mine...but not using a standard scaling formula. I want to resize my image pixel by pixel through some pixel scale factor. So, if my image has one pixel, and I resize it by a scale factor of two, I would expect one pixel to take up four pixels, and so forth. But when I try to double the scaling on an image in Adobe Fireworks, for example, the image compensates some pixels to a different color. So how can I achieve a pixel scaling effect like this?
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I'm designing a box and I was wondering how I could place my graphics and text on it. I was curious about the printing process involved in getting the design on the box I built. I googled "how to build a box", "how to design a box". It just shows me how to build boxes using paper and how to create the design in Illustrator/Indesign. It doesn't speak about the printing process involved. Is it something you can do at home ( using your own printer)? I'm using bristol paper to make the box.
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I'm trying to duplicate and scale a rectangle I created with arc corners to create a series of thinner lines inside. The problem is when I start scaling the lines the arcs don't equally line up with the larger outer arc. I held shift+alt down to scale uniformly toward the center, didn't work. I tried using the "Scale Stroke & Effects" option in the transform dialog but that didn't help. Any idea how to do this without having to create this multiple times?
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This problem keeps coming up again and again. I have tried to use the Dither checkbox in a Layer Effect in Photoshop CS6+ but that doesnt always work so well.
And applying a grain effect or noise effect just looks horrible sometimes.
It might be that I am not doing this correctly so would love feedback or leads to online tutorials that really solve this issue.
NOTE: I am preparing graphics strictly for web — so need to make gradients smooth in all displays including Apple Thunderbolt Displays, iPhone, iPad and even crappy monitors with low color gamuts.
Thanks
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Do I have to do something "special" to get the Color -> Color to alpha menu option to work in GIMP? I am trying to convert a background color on a GIF image to transparent by converting the background color to an alpha channel but the Color to Alpha menu option is not selectable.
I've gone through the GIMP documentation and it looks pretty simple :-) I must be missing something rather obvious here!
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As a graphic designer I have found it always very interesting that how designs made in past look very outdated, unfit, out of place, underwhelming and just wrong. Even though i know it's true designs/trends of today WILL become the old ones in near future. But why...what is it about us or designs that makes them like that to us.
So far I have thought of several things maybe it's one of these or mixture....
Newer designs/trends are in fact an Improvement? or ..
Novelty of newer designs hasn't just worn off? So in comparison they look better.
Old designs are beautiful it's just they functionally hard for us as we are accustomed to other forms of retrieving message.
But the thing that bothers me is that if most/some designs' newer version looks better just because it's better related to current era, achievements, and technical capabilities, then why does it appear that designs have improved in all last 10 iterations per decade. If my view is subjective to previous and newer design..then why do designs of era in which i don't live in or lived in appear progressively getting better.
For that i have also happen to have some things in my mind...
I am shortsighted in a way that most designs i get to see today are on digital media and digital media has been technologically challenged in its abilities so That means there is "Good Design" for the most part.
There is Good Design and recently good UI, public representation, marketing is becoming a more of a priority...seriously most sites in past looked liked they were meant to be used by desperate people.
They were just designed bad without consideration of aesthetics..I say that because some art looks just amazing even if it was made 2000 years ago..some things just do look beautiful.
So do old art/designs/logo/typography look repulsive subjectively or they objectively are inferior?
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