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I am using Gimp 2.8 for Mac OS X, and I would like to change the default text size from 18 pt to 36 pt, so that I don't have to highlight the text and manually change every time I create a new text box. Even after selecting "Save tool options on exit" from the Preferences menu, the font size still goes back to 18 point... |
The font is really blurry.
I don't know how to fix it.
Does anyone know? Please help me!
I tried everything and none of them worked.
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I'm trying to insert an image in to an ellipse shape layer, I need to hide the overflowing parts around the circle/ellipse.
How do I insert an image in to a circular selection and hide the parts that are outside the ellipse using Photoshop?
Essentially, I want to put a normal image in to a circular object, creating a r... |
Why is it that when I save a file that has many, many layers to a PDF without layers as a copy that the file size is larger than flattening the layers and then saving the file as a copy to PDF? 19Mb vs. 5Mb?? Wouldn't saving a file without layers be the same as flattening the layers and then saving the file?? Can anyon... |
Does anyone now how in inkscape how to pull things sort of inward? As an example, I am trying to take the following image (source) and pull the yellow teeth more towards the middle so text can fit in.
Sample image:
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If I have a simple shape like this one in Inkscape
how can I make one segment vertical or horizontal to get to this result?
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I have a closed path. The corner where I started and ended the path looks like this:
When I do Object > Path > Outline Stroke, that corner is not perfectly outlined. Sometimes I can see the details.
This is how the anchor points look:
Looks like the path wasn't broken. I would like the start and end do not notice. I... |
I was trying to make my own custom shapes in Photoshop, so I first started out with an ellipse. I saw that all the shapes had pixelated edges. I went to turn Anti-Aliasing on in the marquee tool but it was grayed out. I couldn't select it.
I didn't touch Photoshop for a while, but now after 1 or 2 months this happened.... |
I'm inexperienced with Photoshop/GIMP and was hoping someone could tell me how to create a realistic (or as realistic as possible) shadow between a wall and a floor as a background image for a web page, to give the impression of a room for a more three-dimensional effect (either Photoshop or GIMP is fine).
The image is... |
I'm looking for a web safe font that looks like this:
Of course I can find tons of fonts which look like this that are available, but they are not web safe. I need a common font (e.g.Arial, Times New Roman, etc.) because I intend to use the font for my website, for headings.
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I am trying to use the predefined gradient styles where i found one design and applied it.
Look at the below image.
Could anyone suggest me why there is a difference between the preview and the real image?
(The black border internally)
The question is simple. Why there's a difference between the preview and the actual... |
I really like this texture:
There's a million similar to it on Subtle Patterns, but they're all white, grey or black for the most part. How would I take one of those and make it a dark blue, like in that image? Or a dark green?
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I have a photoshop file with over a hundred layers. Each of these layers have white backgrounds. I need to remove all of these #FFFFFF pixels automatically. I'm not worried about the actual content being deleted or anything. None of the content contains any pure white pixels.
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Im looking to convert a full colour vector image into pretty much a line drawing with no fill. I use illustrator CS6. I have tried the Edit> Edit Colours> Recolour Artwork. However, when I'm done it still fills in the drawings where a colours were filled previously. deleting the colours inside isnt possible as the vect... |
Help me please to find this twisted font.
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I have created an application that produces CMYK documents. They print well in "Microsoft Xps document writer" and are still in CMYK and carry the exact color values I've designed in my application.
When I repeat the printing into Adobe Pdf, the CMYK values change. This is unwanted behavior, I want my exact color value... |
I need to print a brochure on a CMYK heidelberg CPC printing machine.
The design house has asked me this: "We'll need to know that/if you are using a specific profile for uncoated paper. Right now the pictures have FOGRA29 embedded for uncoated paper. Is that okay for you?"
I actually don't know what this means... I d... |
Can anybody help me figure out what font used in this image? I had tried using myfonts.com as well as whatfontis.com but couldn't get the exact font.
Ubuntu font and FF Dax are close, but not correct.
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I have an image with several text layers on top of each other. Because they are rotated, they all have the same 'boundary box'.
I want to edit several of the text layers, but when I click on the text, it selects the wrong layer. Even if I actually click on the letters I want to edit (so not on the text of the wrong la... |
Take the following image, for example:
I'd like to represent the lineart not as a black-filled, closed object, but as a network of Bézier curves connected at odd places, with various and varying stroke widths between them. When I manipulate a curve that has other curves connected to it on its arc (not just at its end... |
I have recently just created a template, and I would like to show it on my site that it is responsive & fluid. I would like to take a few screenshots of my site, and display them on multiple devices such as PC, iPad, iPhone, etc.
Are there any online tools/services that allows me to upload an image, and it frames it wi... |
I have created both animated gif files with Photoshop CS5.1 (combining single frames; gif 128 with dithering) and FFMPEG via command line (converting a .mov file to a .gif file; -pix_fmt rgb24).
Photoshop's output resembles the original images much more than FFMPEG does in terms of colors. What is the reason for this? ... |
I'm a new enthusiast of web programming/development. Recently I started lectures and started studying to learn web development. I don't know if this forum is the right place to find help, but I wish to learn enough to be able to achieve designs like this.
Could you recommend me some adequate resources?
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How can I distort a shape so that it looks like it's drawn on the side of a cylinder? I.e. vertical lines should stay the same (just moving up or down depending on the location), and horizontal lines should become ellipse arcs.
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I have two path shapes. They overlap in some places and do not overlap in other places.
I want to create new layers for every place where the existing shapes overlap and new layers for every where they do not.
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While creating a form in .pdf format it occurred to me that I did not know or see where to get stats on what the average human pt or px size is for writing. Typically I would just design what appeared to look good for the design and I didn't find anything after my search. Could the average pixel size be typically wha... |
I'm trying to create a rectangle with two rounded corners and two pointy corners. I should be able to accomplish this by deselecting the "make all settings the same" icon in the Corner Options window, but for some reason, this icon is locked, and I can't seem to figure out how to unlock it (no, clicking on it doesn't w... |
If I turn on grid inside symbol, then it has no relation with symbol's coordinates and it's registration point, which is at zero. So I can't use snap-to-grid function correctly.
How to fix/overcome?
UPDATE
Extra sample:
A -- zero coordinate location
B -- grid line location
C -- snap to grid effect doesn't allow to po... |
I have complex symbol, which can (imaginary) exist in different states.
For example, in treeview control node can be either expanded or collapsed, which means different indication.
I want to have one symbol/prototype, but multiple instances of it in different states.
Is it possible in Illustrator?
UPDATE
Rephrasing th... |
I'm looking for a font similar or identical to this one:
I search with "what is the font?" but I could not find anyone.
The most similar that I found was:
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Plastic_Beach.htm
but the uppercase are lowercase but bigger.
Underwater and Underwater love are more different.
Thanks in advance ... |
I have searched for this question here but I did not see anything in regards to paper. I ask this question because some have chosen different types of paper when illustrating and I do not understand why. The majority of people would typically choose matte paper but there are some benefits to choosing glossy paper suc... |
When I create a new CMYK color for my document, the color’s values change when I edit it back, as you can see in this animation (sorry for the bad quality):
For example:
65,00% becomes 65,10%
40,00% -> 40,00%
30,00% -> 30,20%
5,00% -> 5,10%
How can I solve this and have the right value applied?
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I'm wondering if there is a way to setup an Action in CS6 that would be able to determine the dimensions of an image or layer?
Ultimately, I'd like to create a watermark essentially which would stamp the image with its own dimensions.
Any help appreciated.
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I need a thick spray of dots. I have tried both the Symbol spray tool and the paint brush to create a spray effect but a tight one. I'm not looking for scatter so much as a "pile-on" effect. Neither tool really works because with the symbol sprayer the dots seem to avoid each other and spread instead of thickening and ... |
I need to keep the logo/ text the same colour as shown. The problem is that part of the logo is the same colour as the background it's going to be placed on.
I'm running out of ideas to try and show the logo without disrupting the logo itself. I've tried adding drop shadow to it, tried a large chunky white style border... |
I'm making a simple template to laser cut. The laser cutter acts as a printer and you choose the power, speed, etc. for each colour that is in the document. I only want to cut, so I only have RGB red lines at 0.001 pt thickness. Or at least that was the plan. One of the shapes in my template has come out a different re... |
Is there a way to take a sub-object of a group and resize it, then have the rest of the group follow along with the transformation?
To illustrate my problem:
I have these three groups on the first line of this image, all squares but with different things also included in the group. I'd like the groups resized so that t... |
I have align to pixels turned on for new objects, but an image I placed earlier is not aligned to pixels, though it's exactly 1440 x 900. How do I set Illustrator so that when I move this image object, it will always snap to a round number?
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I have a text which I outlined and broke into individual objects.
I want to fit this text into as tight a space as possible without overlapping, rotating or moving the letters around. The text doesn't need to be readable, it just needs to use the least amount of material as possible. How can I do something like this? ... |
My print has got a plain dark grey background CMYK of 0, 0, 0, 90. This has just been rejected from the printers because 'it was black space and not CMYK'.. Not fully understanding this I decided to combine small amount of the other inks perhaps CMKY 30, 22, 22, 80 to create the dark grey. My problem now is that I hav... |
I am trying to add the following 3D image as background to the content of a wordpress website:
Click for full resolution
Website
I would like the header part to stay the same size on all pages, the same goes for the footer. But as the body changes from page to page, i would like it to change accordingly but still fit ... |
How can I make a stroke look pixellated like this in Photoshop CS6?
I'm talking about the sign's border specifically (not the text). Ideally I don't want to have to manually draw the pixels, so it's repeatable at different sizes.
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When opening a new image from a PNG file in Illustrator as the background for my artboard to trace over I am not able to select any color swatches the only available options are [none] and [registration].
I have black and white available for gradients but thats it. I have checked the color settings and they are set to ... |
Resize controls are hidden for paragraph text box in Photoshop and I can't figure out how to get them to display. Usually I double click the text layer and they appear, but not anymore.
Any ideas?
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I am aware this type of thing is probably very general knowledge, but after reading some tutorials I can't seem to get things right. I am a programmer, but have been tasked with some minor UI tweaks.
I have this caret as shown below, but it was much too small, so I used free transform and enlarged it by 200%. Now, it l... |
I am trying to figure out why JPEG compression causes noise in the red spectrum that is larger and fuzzier in regards to, say, the blue spectrum. I've seen this question and I am not looking for a workaround; I just want to know why red is prone to more distortion during compression.
This behavior is highly visible in... |
Just trying to follow the document upload specs for one of the web's largest online printers and bleed has confused me.
Their instructions are shown at the bottom of the diagram which shows close ups of their Illustrator template. (My doc will be in InDesign which they don't have a template for.)
Ignoring heights, thei... |
Is there any border pattern version to the website http://subtlepatterns.com/?
What I mean is that these patterns are usually used not as backgrounds but just as a border or divider between two sections. Although I can use some from Subtle Patterns, they're more geared to be used as backgrounds and not as a one line pa... |
I'm new to designing graphics for clients, I normally did things just for myself or for friends when they needed something done and I had a free minute. I've also worked at a retail store that does "desktop publishing" and offered a 24 hr turnaround guarantee.
Because of this, I've become accustomed to working really f... |
I am creating a directional sign for an apartment building "Units 1-5 (arrow right) Units 6-10 (arrow up)". If I make the arrows the same weight as the text they do not stand out very well. Is it bad form to make the arrows a heavier weight?
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Is there a way to change the color picker to emulate illustrator or photoshop's color picker?
I can never figure out how to get to the color I want in InDesign. I always have to go to the other programs and pick the color then use the RGB/CMYK values.
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I'm running a company that needs design work from time to time. Things like business cards, web design, marketing materials, etc. We probably have about 20 hours a month of design work on average.
What are good resources for finding designers? Where do designers look for clients? I've tried my network to no avail. Sho... |
The requirement is to scale a design from a 100ppi, 4inch display up to a 400ppi, 4 inch display. The design should scale such that a 40px X 40px button dimension has the same physical size across any pixel density display. Does this mean we should design using physical dimensions such as inch/cm rather than pixels?
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I try elliptical marquee tool in Photoshop. But it goes either vertical or horizontal. And when I try to rotate it afterwards it rotates with what's in it. I need to make a diagonal elliptical selection of my subject for a motion blur effect. Is there an option for it?
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If I place a 10" X 6.7" 72 ppi .jpg into InDesign and scale the image down to about 3" X 2", does the ppi change for that image?
And how can I tell?
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I have designed an icon (using the Mac app Sketch). They are 24x24 pixels and their size is 3 Kb.
But I've seen icons with the same resolution and size between 300-400 bytes. Why is this, and how can I make my icons smaller?
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When I delete a shape, I am left with a colored background, and this background has the color of the foreground color. And this colored background covers everything else that is in the other layers below.
Also when I delete the shape, it asks me if I want to delete the vector mask. Is a shape the same as a vector mask... |
I've been learning InDesign, got all the basics now, but now Ive moved onto learning about how to put adverts together. (http://www.slideshare.net/AleaseMichelle/creating-an-magazine-ad-with-adobe-indesign is what I used on how to create adverts).
My question is on InDesign and putting together adverts; how many magazi... |
I am trying to make the same color fill layer (if correct term) to the attached image so rendering color of a graphic element is simpler without the color overlay effect.
If I click the solid color button placed at the bottom of the layer window it gives me a new layer with a color fill but it's not masked.
Added
Wha... |
With marquee tool selection, I can go to Edit -> Stroke to render outline style.
If I wanna do the same with vector shape tool, Stroke option is disabled and by default it fills the whole selection. Is there a way I can use Stroke with vector shape tool?
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Most people make logo by creating an image for it. I don't want that since I don't know Photoshop and I may make it ugly.
Can logos be made just by using a font rather than creating a logo image?
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Our team has been struggling to figure why a shadow/light is rendered with high quality and something rendered in low quality (pixalite).
Example of good light map (shadow of sofa on the wall and floor)
Example of bad light map (shadow on ceiling is completely pixalite)
We are using a 3D party plugin (flare3d exporte... |
I have an EPS file containing a load of icons. Is there any way I can export each individual shape in the file to a PNG? It's difficult to work with a number of EPS files because I don't see thumbnails in explorer. I have both Illustrator and Photoshop.
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I am creating a PDF document that has a table with pyjama stripes. The grey stripes are defined using RGB with equal amounts of each colour.
I'm want to make the stripes light enough so that you can write on a printed copy with a #2 pencil and easily read the text, yet dark enough so that the tables rows are easy to fo... |
I have to create a 400 page book with the measurements height: 16cm by 24cm in Adobe InDesign. It is intended for publishing, but what are the bleed and margin measurements I need to follow so that it can be printed correctly?
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I'm having a very strange problem with Illustrator CS5. When I'm doing non-destructive actions, such as eye-dropper or selecting and dragging, the points in my compound object are shifting around.
The only thing that I did between those two halves of the picture was an eye-dropper tool. What on earth is happening?
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I've been sent a pdf which contains text, vector shapes and rasterised images. I would like to take a small area of that pdf, which contains all of these, run that area though Photoshop so I can use a custom photoshop filter on it, and then take the resulting image and put it back in the original pdf.
I can open the pd... |
It is very, very common in textbooks and publications of that ilk to locate a figure (or even two) at the top of the page that contains the figure reference text (e.g., “See Figure 39.2”). If layout is such that the figure and its reference do not fit on the same page, the figure “floats” to a following page (the close... |
This has been bugging me for some time and i'm not sure how to approach it. I've attempted several times. I'm trying to create the lines similar to the compositions in the picture shown:
PS - If anyone could identify the designer who made these I would appreciate it.
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I have object 1 which obscures object 2 which obscures object 3 which obscures object 4.
Object 1
Object 2
Object 3
Object 4
I know I can ctrl + alt + click to select contiguous objects in the stack, but I want objects 1 and 3 selected, excluding 2 and 4.
Is there a way to quickly ach... |
This question might be kind of stupid... but I am looking into creating multiple websites featuring a couple different fonts from Typekit and other places.
I was just wondering... if I have a font on my computer that doesn't say "Non-commercial use only" or something like that can I put it on web without a problem?
Th... |
If I can get an image in any size I want (for FREE), but only ONE size/format of each image, would it be wise of me to get it in the largest vector/scalable (eps) size? Wondering if it's an issue at all when converting to other formats or downsizing. Seems that I would be wise to get it in the largest size possible the... |
I'm an ios developer and created an app which allows the user to add different texts and reposition them.
I would like to provide my users with a premium feature which is a font pack. I'm looking for a few free fonts that I could embed in my app and require payment for them.
What kind of license am I looking for?
Do yo... |
I have Photoshop CS3 on a Windows 7 32bit machine with onboard / integrated Q45/Q43 chipset graphics.
I have a problem where it seems any Photoshop element; shapes, text and the like do not align themselves properly to my 1px grid.
This is a screenshot. I am fully zoomed in on a square shape.
As you can see, it doesn'... |
New to Illustrator, and perhaps I am misunderstanding the purpose of a "swatch".
e.g. My understanding was that if you were doing a 4-color design, and one of those "colors" corresponded to some sort of ink out of RGB/CMYK space (maybe a metallic paint of some kind), the strokes and fills would be tied to the swatch in... |
Can someone either point me to a tutorial on how to do this or tell me how? I'm working on an illustration of headphones and I need to make it look as thought the wire coming out of the headphones is sitting on a table and the light source is above and casting the shadow slightly to the left.I did the below test but it... |
For example, in this picture (ignore the logo):
I love how the background is cute and made up of small, simple images. Where can I find resources like this background, or how can I recreate it?
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I have battled a situation in the past from when I have an idea for a website I would design it. A few years back I decided to apply for some companies that were starting out in web development and posted they were seeking designers. So I created a portfolio tailored to each employer and my understanding of a good por... |
If you design a piece for print. It gets reproduced several times over the course of a few years. Then the client doesn't return for any work for a few more years. And suddenly you are contacted asking for native files (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). As the client puts it, "We just want to be able to make minor cha... |
Up till now, my main shading technique with traditional media was to use graphite and charcoal pencils and smudge it a lot.
It works fine on charcoal-heavy drawings, but charcoal has its own pros and cons - it's messy, it needs a "preservative" sprayed over it, I cant really carry it around for quick sketches, while a... |
Recently I have been trying to learn some new media, and ink is one of them. I love what some people can do with it, both modern comicbook artists and old masters. I would love to achieve effects similar to what Durer did, for example like this:
I cant really find any useful info on how to do that. The youtube videos ... |
I currently have two icons I am using for list items in an application. Accept, represented by a check mark, and reject, represented by and X mark. I need to add a third icon for dismiss. Dismiss or cancel are commonly represented by and X mark as well. The context of the app and colors make it clear what the first two... |
I can't for the life of me find a way to tell Illustrator to save the files that I have currently open and reopen them after I restart. Am I missing an obvious setting?
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If I run a script, is there a way to run it again without doing File|Scripts|My_script?
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I have created a bitmap from a vector image. After editing a while, I wanted to scrap the idea and return to the vector image, but my undos have run out.
Is there any way to get the vector back?
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question from a non-graphic designer here.
All the examples I have seen at saving slices as separate images rely on using "Save for Web". What if I want to do the same when saving for printing?
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question from a non-graphic designer here who doesn't fully get the whole 'resolution' thing.
From what I understand, Inkscape saves all embedded images as 90dpi. However for printing, 300 dpi is typically recommended.
If I add a 300dpi image to an Inkscape document, it will appear much bigger than its correct size as ... |
With the intent of easily updating elements across several pages I am using the content collector tool to place linked objects.
I am finding it unpractical to precisely position several collected elements on new pages at their original coordinates.
Question 1:
Is there a way to place several collected elements and main... |
The the psd file is a clean cut. Looks great (1)
Still looks good when brought into Illustrator (2)
But then as a PDF this ugly black line appears around the edges of the psd file (3)
Any ideas what causes this because it looks really bad sending this to the client?
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I've spent years drawing vector art in Flash, and recently decided to move to Illustrator (because that's really what I should have been using all along).
The trouble is, Flash art is strangely difficult to import into Illustrator. As recently as CS6, the easiest way that I found was to open the FLA in Flash, export it... |
If I create a 8.5x11in file in Photoshop, it works out to 612x792. If I want to create a resume in Illustrator or another program like Sketch by Bohemian Coding should I use that size? Or would it be wiser to use a different one (such as a doubled version of that)?
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Today I have the problem to slice a map from illustrator CS6 to HTML.
For example i have a map with many states like this
map states
Because I want to make the mouse hover to each state so that i need the area code from HTML to identity each state.
Firstly, I export the map states picture to one image (map.png) -> uplo... |
Let's say I'm building a personal blog / portfolio site and I'm looking for design inspiration.
So here is an example of a website design concept that is protected by creative-commons-no-derivatives.
Let's say I love design elements contained in this design concept such as the header.
Does actually creating the HTML m... |
I have this image:
and I want to change it so it looks gray instead of black. My problem is that it has some anti-aliasing, so there are some half-transparent and/or gray pixels on some borders. If I select everything that's black and change it to gray, those pixels end up being much darker than what they should be. A... |
I'm writing a script to automate scene states. I using graphic styles to change appearance. How do I get object's graphicStyle? Is there a way to have a collection of objects of chosen style?
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Does anyone know what is the difference between transparency and overprint?
In other words: if I print 100% cyan and then 100% magenta with 50% opacity, how is it different from printing 100% cyan and then 50% magenta with overprint?
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I've been building a document in InDesign, and want to collect my text into color-coded boxes and sidebars.
My technique so far: Make a text box. Make a colored rectangle. Size them like I want, drag the text box onto the rectangle and group them.
The problem comes when the text grows or shrinks, and I need to resize ... |
I have two shapes on two different layers. I want to crop the only the part of image only according to the shape on layer 1. I want to keep part of shape on layer 2 which is in the layer1 shape area and want to remove all area outside the shape1.
Please see the following image for better understanding:
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I've been using Photoshop proper for quite a while, but have just recently started working with the 3d aspect.
I have some tileable 2d images as source (human skin) and some importable 3d models with uv maps (human body). What i want to do is paint the 2d onto the 3d but not in a 1:1 size ratio. If I just plonk a text... |
SnapSeed is a great little iOS photo editing app. Along with brightness and contrast, it has the ability to alter "ambiance" which does a great job of lightening up shadows while still keeping a nice deep black.
Does anyone know the best way to achieve this using Photoshop? Would it be through the use of curves? Or... |
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