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I designed this "LUCENTICITY" logo 2 days ago. I swear it was my idea. I chose the design after many sketches.
Today I was browsing the old featured logos on LogoPond and was shocked to come across this similar "NOS" logo. (It was added July 14th, 2006.)
What should I do now? Change my design? My client has already f... |
I would like to improve my design skills. My main focus is web development and even though my coding skills need to be improved upon a lot, right now, design is where I feel like I lack the most.
I do have quite thorough knowledge of photoshop, I learned most of it during retouching my photos or when I occasionally cre... |
I have a darkish blue color #3c5c7c. I need a medium blue color to go with it.
I know there are tools like www.colllor.com that can show me shades/tints of a selected color. But what I want is to select another blue color that offers some contrast to #3c5c7c but also "looks" like the two colors go well together.
For ... |
On the left is how it is rendered in Chrome, and on the right is how it is rendered in Safari. The color in Safari is what I am trying to nail, as determined by Photoshop's eyedropper tool, so it's rather peculiar to see it render differently when displayed on Chrome.
Any help will be very much appreciated, thank you!
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I have a laser printer, and I wish to print onto plastic sheets for creating boxes to hold playing cards. How would one go about the printing process, or is it even possible? What plastic should I use?
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When I open illustrator and move it to my secondary monitor in Mavericks and try and open anything... for example a new document, it will appear in my laptop screen as opposed to my second monitor. Is there any way for me to make windows open in the screen that is actively running the program or do I just have to drag ... |
I'm using GIMP to do the editing in the png file I've shown below. On selecting one of the arrows and trying to paint it red, the colour just does not turn red. It stays grey. I'm just unable to make any changes to it.
I'm a newbie to using GIMP, so do let me know if it has something to do with the layers or channel... |
I have a bunch of SVG files that were created by MagicDraw. In these files, I have several font definitions, e.g.,
<text x="152" space="preserve" font-size="11" y="376.958"
clip-path="url(#clipPath2)" stroke="none">
MyClassName</text>
So it is clearly defined that the font size should be 11px. However, when I op... |
I have a few questions regarding trendy super-large photo headers. I've seen them called "hero" images, but just so we're clear, I'm talking about designs like this one:
A large photo is used as a background-image with background-size: cover. Text is overlaid. And this layout is responsive:
Implementing this desig... |
I have these product thumbnails / images on our website that I want to look better. I especially want to improve the situation with the white space at the top.
Ideally all products would have pictures that are "whitened" (e.g. the 2nd image below, the table) but we don't have the resources to do that for all pictures.
... |
Basically what I am looking for is a light version of this icon-font: http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/elegant-icon-font
Anyone know where I can find something like that? Freebie or not. :)
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I have a template (for multiple pages in a brochure) which includes a block of text (squarish, fixed dimensions per each page with a border), which describes a program. How do I deal with the variable length of text in the block?
My mind tells me that I should keep the leading the same between lines, but sometimes almo... |
I would like to know which font is this:
It's used in the World Cup 2014, in the England jersey. I have searched in http://www.whatfontis.com/ as well as in What The Font but couldn't find a match.
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I am trying to create a color theme to my website using adobe kuler. I am really new to that app and confusing how to create a theme there.
This is my main color - #53001e
Can any body tell me what are the other colors that might be match to this main color?
Thank You.
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Hi i just modified a text into paths and curved some paths, i attach an svg of my work.
Now i just would like to add stroke to the object so that i can make bold the text, but as you can see , trying adding some stroke, causes some paths to not get the same stroke.
Just try in inkscape to add stroke to this SVG and you... |
I have a client who wants to use a font on his bookcover called Frosty, which is quite irregular and has "snowflakes" scattered around the letters. I cannot find who has this licensed. It is not on MyFonts. Any suggestions about other places to look? I've googled myself silly.
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If I have 5 similar elements, say circles or text boxes in a row is there any way to quickly move the selection to the next item similar to being able to tab through browser windows? If not, is there a way to just 'tab' through all items on the artboard without using the mouse?
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Get your selection > Save to channel > Set channel as selection
How do you use things like pen, paintbrush, fill, exc. at this point?
When I go to use them they are in my edit history but I don't see it making changes to the picture.
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I am in InDesign and I want to align all the text vertically but am not sure how to do it, it wont let me space or tab because of the bullets.I just want to move the lines under the bulleted line and not affect the whole paragraph?
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So I'm just starting to learn Adobe InDesign. The tutorials tell me to prepare my images and convert them from RGB to CMYK for print..
Now, I like to do rapid development and I kinda don't like spending too much time in preparations, i even usually just copy+paste images from one program to another (fireworks mostly).
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I'm struggling to make this scene to show the textures in the viewport, it was imported from this COLLADA file, and it renders ok in mental ray.
Activating textures (key 6) in the view port won't work, I think it is because it has three UV sets, the first one (map1) show the PNG texture but has no UV geometry, while th... |
Hello, can anyone tell me why are the colors from picture disappeared? How can I bring them back? Thanks!
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I am not a professional designer (not a designer at all), but some time ago I found this image from the logotype bundle:
I would like a professional advice: is it a Photoshop? And, if yes, where can I find a tutorial or lesson on how to do something similar?
I do not actually ask for the place I can find the lesson, ... |
I'm one day into learning how to use Illustrator (though I've got some experience with paths in Photoshop, from 5 years back). I want to take a simple, rectangular path and put tabs on the sides so that each rectangle fits together kind of like puzzle pieces.
There must be a nice, easy way to do this but I can't fig... |
I have been trying to find out what font or typeface has a specific shaped letter A, and it has been bugging the hell out of me, maybe you can help.
I've only seen this in 2 places. One, on a really old book my uncle has on Israel, and the other in the logo for Vernon, New Jersey's Action Park... erm... accident park.... |
i was going to make a simple logo using Helvetica Neue font since i see it in my Mac fonts list (default fonts includes Helvetica Neue tho)
BUt i'm wondering, can i make an svg brand logo as well as use helvetica neue font on the brand website?
I will not host the font on server just wondering if buying the Mac the def... |
I made several styles of the same font family. How can I make one that translates it into a series of dots? (Resulting in a (round-)dot trace font)
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This image size is just 21.8 KB without lack of quality. Why is that? How is it done?
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How to change color of multiple text or vector objects at once in Adobe Photoshop?
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Experiencing some weird behaviour in Photoshop CS5 on a Mac (Mavericks). I've tried resetting all tools, restarting Photoshop and made sure the image is RGB mode (8-bit) but the color picker won't color-pick correctly from external images, websites, pdfs etc.
It works ok within the current document i.e. I can color pic... |
I'm planning to use the symbols from the Box Drawing group of characters to draw paths and mazes and such.
However, due to font substitution, even in monospace they may not be monospaced because they may have been subbed with a font of a different width.
This is mostly a problem when it comes to empty space. Normally I... |
I'm having an issue exporting some icons from sketch to .png files.
The layers is are 144 x 144 but when I try exporting them I get a 152 x 152 size .png file.
I have enabled the trim transparent pixels option but nothing is changed.
Thank you for your help
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https://www.behance.net/gallery/17399911/Dimense
I've been trying to find a way to create layouts like this for a while, and now that I have the time to try, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to do this? Where do I start in trying to create images like this, especially like the second image in the link provided.
I am ... |
I am completely new to designs and illustrator. I am designing a scientific poster, so I want to create a curved line on the left of the poster where the left of the line is filled with a background and the poster is to it's left.
I got a picture with the background I want and I created a "frame" which I want to use to... |
Inside GIMP, Colors -> Levels
Click on the "Pick gray point" eyedropper (the middle eyedropper) and then click on a pixel in the image.
Then go change to the Red/Green/Blue channels and you'll see that the gamma (middle triangle) is set to a float for each RGB channel.
What's the math behind this? Like if I know the RG... |
I am using Illustrator CC to create an 18in x 24in poster. I have a one inch white border around the image. When I export the file for the client to proof it, the border is gone and the image is cropped to the first place there is color. It is not exporting the entire artboard. Why is this happening?
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How is resolution connected to ppi and dpi units?
In the context of editing photos, resolution is a measurement of the output quality of an image. DPI and PPI because that is what you will be dealing with most often when printing photographs.
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I'm working as an UX designer for a startup studio that develop internet products and web services.
So, i started 3 months ago, my boss's strategy is to develop some experiments and then collect people's registration and feedback to see if they like them or not. If people are interested then we'll keep developing.
My ... |
Just to say, I'm not about to make a pitch on this site for work. I assume that is probably against the rules of the site and respect that.
I just wondered if anyone has good ideas though on where to go on the internet to find good graphic designers that specialise in interface design.
I will shortly be building a we... |
What is the most efficient way to add X amount of blank canvas to the top of a bunch of images? I'm sure there's a program capable of doing a batch process somewhere. But so far all I've found is batch programs that will resize all canvases to the same size; I don't want that, as in this case all images are different d... |
Cutting out a shape is rendering totally differently to a shape with shape above, even though the paths are identical. Any ideas why this may be happening?
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This is a question mainly about design packages such as Adobe Creative Suite -- Is there another "create suite" style package out there that rivals Adobe CS?
I know there are programs such as GIMP or Corel Draw that are good alternative to Photoshop/Illustrator, but are there any actual "whole" packages out there like ... |
I've used image trace to turn a .png file into a vector image but some of the colors in the sky background look kind of off. Is there a way that I can blend the shades of blue in the sky so that it doesn't look weird?
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I saved an image of an iPhone from Google and when I opened it in Photoshop, it had ruler marks set in place around the phone. I've never seen or even heard of such a thing before. I thought it was my doing at first but I re-opened the image again and the ruler marks were back.
How is it possible to embed ruler marks i... |
When I'm creating a document, I always split each section and each paragraph style in an individual text box. Mainly so I'm able to edit each item individually.
However, my question: Is it recommended to combine each into one text box spread over multiple pages, having both headers and body text in the same text box o... |
How do change the behaviour of a mask in Inkscape such that it either moves with the objects it is masking, or not.
It seems to switch between the two at random at the moment. Also, how can I select the mask itself?
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I have a large print job. The design is sized at 36" by 72" with 1" bleed. The printer is asking that I set the file at 10% scale. How do I do that???
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Imagine you have a panorama photo, stitched together from multiple pics, and it's already been merged into one JPEG. Each pic had a slightly different brightness/color/tone. So you can see obvious lines between the stitched images where the colors don't match.
Is there a way to correct this semi-automatically, in any ... |
The problem:
I downloaded a free font called Voyager from a Behance user and installed it to my computer. I used the font in Photoshop to create a .psd file and everything worked as expected.
The next day, problems arose when I tried to edit the .psd. The font shows up and PS does not give me any missing font errors. I... |
I'm trying to subtract two shapes in Sketch 3.0.3. One outer oval and one inner oval, with the inner one being a partially cut out oval shape (shown in green).
This is before:
And this is after subtracting the two shapes as selected in the sidebar:
The result I expect is for the green shape to be subtracted. Instead ... |
I'm trying to align my main object to the center of the artboard while retaining the spacing of the objects. Whats the best way to do this?
Basically I want the yellow box to be centered and the greenish star to keep its relationship to the box off to the right. I know I can center the parent object but I want the cen... |
I found this image long time ago, even if I search with the google images search I could not find the creator to ask him/her how this was created.
I do not think it was created manually. It looks like some sort of processing was done via software.
If you know of any software or some way to create the similar vector im... |
been trying to get a handle on this bleed thing.. and i kinda get it, but for the most part it talks about making sure there are no white-outs at the edges of your printed document after it's been cut out to your size specification.
Now I kinda understand this easy, but what I'm wondering is if for example i'm printing... |
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode One has a very cool illustration for the cover artwork:
I initially would say its art style is "noir" but when I did a Google Images search for "noir art" it came up with images that had some similar elements, but they were not very similar to the style above:
Is there a name ... |
I need to change this text to (Reference Details:) in same font style and size.
But i cant able to find the font style.I'm using adobe Photoshop cs 4. Can anyone help me?
Full size sample here.
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I'm new at packaging design.
How does the process begins?
What things are required for this?
What are some things that I should ask from client?
I'm not asking for any engineering process, just asking for graphic designing perspective.
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I've been sent a number of CMYK tiff images for some custom processing in Photoshop. These are expensively-shot images (Hasselblad digital body, full studio setup, already processed in Photoshop CC) for expensive glossy magazines. They come from an experienced, professional photography shop. Yet, the tiff files includ... |
I'm creating two catalogues with some overlapping parts so I'm working with two different .indd files. First catalogue (35 pages in total, excluding cover and back) is all ready and page numbering is in place. Now I need to setup the page numbering for the second catalogue so that the first page in the file starts wit... |
I've created PDF files with Photoshop, then combined them to create a 16 page PDF. Photoshop's colour profile is set to SWOP (Newsprint), with Total Ink Limit set to 235%.
The file will be printed and needs to be in PDF X/1-a format. Using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, I tried Preflighting the file to get it into the correct ... |
I've created PDF files with Photoshop, then combined them to create a 16 page PDF. Photoshop's colour profile is set to SWOP (Newsprint), with Total Ink Limit set to 235%.
Depending on how I save the file (specifically with layers or not) seems to affect both the colour and the file size. Do layers have any effect on p... |
Is Illustrator really the most suited tool to draw a (fairly simple) map from scratch and print it on a flyer? Are there any other tools or apps out there that might make this task easier?
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I took an arial photo with a Gopro hero3 12mp, and I'm going to to print it at 90cm x 60cm. I'd like to know how it will look like before I print it.
I know about the print size option in Photoshop but that doesn't make sense to me.
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I have a series of images with a 1px border included in the picture. I need to get rid of that border. The logical route seemed to be Select > All and then Select > Modify > Contract... by 1 px. Unfortunately, when all pixels in a layer are selected, Photoshop (CS6 in my case) greys out all Select > Modify option but B... |
Hey I'm trying to duplicate an image that has been titled (a specific name) into a PSD and keep the image title (a specific name).
I have a few titled images that need to be a certain size and effects. So I created a PSD with all the effects and the size I need. I want to duplicate the titled images into the PSD and t... |
I wonder if there is a similar tool to Skala Preview (it is for live preview of photoshop work on your iPhone via Wifi) to test my web design (index.html and its assets folder) onto mobile phones (iPhone, Android and WinPhone). I need to check that viewport, mediaqueries and other design questions are working as expect... |
As an experiment, I made three fill layers in Photoshop: one red (#ff0000), one green (#00ff00) and one blue (#0000ff). I set each layer to 33% opacity.
I thought they would blend together to make white (or something close), but they made a murky blue colour.
Can someone help me understand why?
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When I select an object its path gets highlighted in its respective color, and this made me wonder, if it is possible to highlight/show all objects paths in some way without them being selected.
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How do I choose the colors for a logo in order that it can be used on both black and white mediums? Should I use two different color schemes? Are there other methods of making a single logo which works well in all situations without changing its colors?
A single-color logo (for example, green) which would work well on ... |
When arranging elements on my PowerPoint slides, I have one slide where I would like to use the pencil grayscale effect found under artistic effects. While I can use this for pictures, I cannot use it for shapes that I created in PowerPoint. Is there any way to replicate artistic effects on shapes without exporting the... |
In Photoshop, there are several ways to convert an image into black & white. For example:
Image > Adjustments > Desaturate;
Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and set the Saturation to 0;
Adding a completely black layer on top with the Saturation blend mode.
For 1. and 2. the outcome is identical, but 3. yields som... |
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC, where I have coloured some objects with white, and want to set all the remaining part of the image to black.
I have used the Paint Bucket Tool, but since the objects that I coloured are ellipses, when I use that tool, I find that the ellipses start to have irregular shapes as I'm colouring... |
I am trying to make a full color photo into just a black outline to be printed and colored in by hand, basically just making coloring pages off of full color photos. I just installed gimp, but cannot figure it out. If there is a better program to use, I would gladly use it. Any help would be welcomed.
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I am making a flyer on Illustrator. It has a grey background 0,0,0,30 is the CMYK value. When I export to any format or even in RGB the grey seems to have a red hue to it.
How do i get a realistic transfer of the colours im working in when exporting?
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When working with an image in photoshop which has a transparent background, pressing CTRL + A to select all, then CTRL + C to copy all, the selection only includes pixels that aren't fully transparent.
When working with an image which has a fully transparent border, the selection ends up being smaller than the image y... |
I have a set of colors on a webpage where one color is the main one:
#864062 <-- main color
#853f61
#925071
#541c38
#64304A
#eac9d7
Now I would like to derive similar color scheme for any arbitrary main color.
My idea was to:
Convert all colors to decimal notation (r, g, b)
Calculate ratio of individual components f... |
This is going based on the fact that apart from my University work, I don't have a great deal of freelance work to fill a portfolio so I can't really choose to leave stuff out.
I've heard people say before that you shouldn't finalise a design for a client based on what pleases you aesthetically but what the client want... |
I need to find the font from wich it was taken the F
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Like the one shown on the RSVP design. Thank you.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/194569646371938464/
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I've noticed that in Photoshop, when using the transform tool the shape actually loses quality.
Zoomed-in result using the transform tool:
Zoomed-in result using the shape menu toolbar:
What's the reason for this behavior? And is it possible to get the transform tool to have the same result as the Shape menu toolbar... |
Hi I'm wondering if someone can help me. What bleed should I add to a banner that is 5 meters x 1.3 meters? Any help is much appreciated.
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I am creating my first book file in InDesign CS6. It's not technically a book (with chapters and a TOC) but rather a collection of files that share the same style sheets.
Will there be any issues migrating from CS6 to CC?
Are there any other big issues I need to be aware of?
Thanks!
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Just installed Illustrator CC. Coming from PS, I would really like to see a 'transparent' background in my layers. In PS, you see a checkered background when no pixels are present in the canvas -- would love the same in Illustrator but it defaults to white and I can't seem to figure out how to disable it. Help apprecia... |
When using MS Word is an absolute requirement to create a long text document, I usually suggest the following to any given user:
Flush-left since MS Word doesn't allow the kind of hyphenation/justification adjustments that would eliminate rivers for fully justified text.
I believe the current font size default is 11 p... |
Well, let me mention that is not my design, but my designers. He started it 3 days ago and I was wondering what the community thinks about it.
HERE
Here are two screen shots joined together to include the full homepage;
I would also like to get some opinions on whether the work is original or not because when I got m... |
I've wanted to know this for quite a long time and I've finally decided to ask - does anyone know the name of the font (or a very similar font) that is used in the Thunderbirds movie (2004). I've included an image below. Thanks
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This is the new app of Google for the world-cup:
https://www.google.com/trends/worldcup
What program is Google using to design these drawings? Or what's the name of that type of design so I can try to learn it?
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Yes, these are my grades, but I am actually going to use this font for my blog. I'm not very good with my fonts yet, which is why I came here. I have tried Helvetica and Arial, but it was neither of those.
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I am not trying to wrap text around a semi-circle but form a semi-circle with text.
Basically the font will gradually increase from left to middle and then decrease from middle to right.
Can photoshop or gimp be used for doing this?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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I was given this image to work with:
http://safaviehhome.com/promotional/test2.jpg
The client is happy with everything but would like the floral pattern/bush to fill in the O
What is the best way to do this in Photoshop CC? Thanks.
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I have sent a file to a client which was saved in CMYK colors. They opened the file and the colors are nothing like the original design. Any ideas what is happening here? Any help is much appreciated.
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I remember, during college (2008), my web design professor made a point to keep all images' file size at/below 40K (didn't matter what the dimensions). I have made an effort to do so ever since, especially with mobile optimization being so important.
But now, with broadband and LTE/4G speed internet, larger data plans.... |
Is there a way to find and change uppercase letters of a certain character style and change them to lowercase within InDesign?
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The problem that I have here is that the value of the dark curved shape is being changed once I'm putting a white shape behind/below it. The curved shape is marked above as 'Clip Group' the white shape below is 'Path'.
The curved shape itself is transparent in some places.
On the right side of the shape, there is no ... |
How can I change the color of the dot part (in this case, the dot is the triangle) on "i" letter with Illustrator?
I have done the Create Outlines but I can only change the I color as a whole.
I'm still noob in Illustrator so I need your help to enlighten me.
Thanks
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I tried designing a small 32px x 32px pixel file in Photoshop CS6 to make a favicon for my website. But saving it as an .ico file makes it an unprocessable image and could not be used. But when I designed the same using paint and saved it as an .ico file there in paint, the image worked. Can I know why? Thanks in advan... |
I'm looking for a way to take single-hue images and turn their brightness into opacity in Photoshop.
At the simplest, say you have a flat green circle on a white background (as an already saved file). I want to turn the aliased edges where the pixels are a lighter green into pixels of the same value as the center of t... |
I try to solve some "enigmatic" issue with the Pathfinder panel used along Alt/Option button as Ai suggests -
The help explains as follows -
Apply a Pathfinder effect using the Pathfinder panel Select the
objects to which you want to apply the effect. To apply a Pathfinder
effect to a group or layer, target the group... |
Is there a setting in illustrator that will make all of my colors, in all new projects, RGB? I'm not really sure why it often ends up as grayscale. I only use RGB for web assets and having to change if for small shapes all the time makes me sad.
Show me the magic setting please!
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I require a 10ft x 10ft banner. My printer asked HI-resolution .jpeg file in actual size (1:1), but when I make the .jpeg file, pop up show I get an error of insufficient memory.
How much memory is required to make a hi-resolution (300 dpi) .jpeg file of 120 x 120 illustration
I read the answer, but not satisfied.
I m... |
Text layers in Photoshop will auto-update the layer name with the text content of the layer unless you manually edit the layer name in the layers panel. Then it retains the manually entered layer name. How would one go about restoring this auto-updating of the layer name to a layer whose name has been manually edited?
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