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I have brought a PNG file off the Etsy website, and I want to add text on top of it, but once I added text it all distorts and it is very bad quality, but in another instance it did not and the image was fine. Any ideas as to why?
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How to export a specific length and width of my work in illustrator?
I made a background asset that's longer than the stage and I don't know how to export it properly.
This is how it looks like in Illustrator,
when I export it in jpg file as is, I get this,
the result I wanted is this,
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I've been looking through the site recommendations and other people's posts requesting beginner's design books but have yet to find anything that meets my specific tastes.
I'm not looking to make complicated killer graphics with illustrator, I'm not looking to learn general design theory, and im not looking for tutoria... |
There is a .psd
layout & it has different text types in .png. How to recognize which font types used in it?
myfonts.com does not help.
Any help is appreciated!
Add photo with fonts, what are they?
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Hi im new sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a logo made up using the pen tool and blob brush tool and have all the thicknesses right however when i try re-sizing the whole logo the line thicknesses all change. I was wondering how i could fix this?
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Ok, I've used illustrator before and I've become very comfortable with it. It gives me smooth strokes and converts my artwork to vector.
Now, I've just started using Photoshop CS6. But I have one problem — any stroke or shape I draw in Photoshop doesn't look vector, instead it looks rasterized! I can see individual pix... |
I'm trying to design a website using the Material Design guidelines.
I've a navbar/headerbar with the logo of my website and some icons.
The background color is transparent, showing the background image, when the scroll position is on top of the page.
When the scroll position is almost 400px, it is dark grey (it fades ... |
At the bottom-right of the cover of this book, it shows the Illustrator's name like this:
I found a similar font to this called ITC Anima Black, and it looks like this:
Unfortunately, this font isn't free. Is there a similar font to this for web use that is free?
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I am creating a graphical game which will be deployed on both mobile and desktop platforms, and across many cultures/languages. When the user sees a screen where there's an opportunity for in app purchase, I want to darken the whole screen and overlay with a "Purchase" button. I won't show the price here, hitting the... |
I want to create a vector curve that is symmetric in the top and the bottom. For example, in this baseball icon (How to draw a baseball in Pixelmator?), if I try to write the vector as suggested by the accepted answer, I end up in writing the vector curve by hand - which means the curve can never be symmetrical between... |
There's an image effect I want to recreate. Heres the image (SLIGHTLY NSFW): Image
I can roughly recreate the effect, but I don't like it as much. My steps are:
The Original
Step 1: Duplicate, desaturate, smart blur (edges only), blend mode
Step 2: Fiddle with curves
And in the end, I can play around with colors. Unf... |
What I want to do is shown here at 0:52, unfortunatelly there is no explanation in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fh-9Ajs0ck
The author applies additive style to a square to acquire a square of 10x10 squares, then resizes all of them by resizing the initial one and gets multiple smaller squares with a marg... |
I am trying to make a distort effect in illustrator. I use the white arrow, the direct selection tool, I cannot get it to work.
I get an error message:
"the selection contains objects which can't be distorted"
Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Top Objects
Included https://www.flickr.com/photos/124549715@N04/
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I already asked here a question about font types, which are used in PSD layout, but I have another problem: How to measure all distances between objects if in .psd these objects have .png format? I need to do this layout in HTML, So when I start to work, I encountered this kind of problem. Any help is appreciated, Than... |
Typically a back-end engineer, I'm venturing into the world of vector design, trying not to hurt myself on the way.
I'm aware that I'm struggling to size things, with my home brewed typography style guide:
I am trying to combine these fonts with a graphic style which should be rather precise, see below:
It seems no ... |
I have a package design made. I can change that design based on the specific package format that company may have. However, I can't find any company online that produces this kind of services, and ships internationally.
Can I have your advice on this please?
Where can I look at?
Update - This specific package need, is... |
I made an svg in Illustrator, but now I want to use it in a website/app but it's a huge size (around 10 MB) how can I decrease the size of it? My illustrator file is pretty big but that because I have some tracing elements underneath. The file also has a big artboard, but when I save should I delete my tracing elements... |
I feel like this particular example has a lot of good elements. I think visually the colors work well. I like the logo design. I like the home page. But I am struggling with how to layout the rest of the site beyond that. So I am looking for a few suggestion of how I can bring this design together so I can finish the c... |
What background or how can I improve design of my website?
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I'm used to design a small icon / graphic art, rather than
the big size of A3 paper.
So then When i tried to use A3 as the Paper Size with resolution of 300 dpi.
The file size is bigger in Photoshop compared to the file size in CorelDraw.
Is there any calculation that we need to use
for achieving a smaller size for des... |
I am creating a print advert artwork for a magazine on illustrator cs6. However, I'm having problems with one .eps logo on the artwork which disappears once I export the artwork as a jpeg. What could be causing this particular logo not to show once I export the artwork as a jpeg, yet the 2 others are showing?
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I was looking for a description of what kind of style these images are:
How can I replicate this style and also would I be better use Photoshop or Illustrator for it?
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This is something very basic, but annoys me since ever. Using the brush tool (B), I can click at point "A", then shift+click at point "B". A line is drawn from "A" to "B". Simple and effective - I use this a lot to fine-tune layer masks.
If I undo, line is undone, but point "A" is not. Unfortunately, I cannot shift+cli... |
Every time I use an effect or a modifying function ("Extrude and Bevel" or "Split into grid" for example) I have to check "Preview". I always want preview to be enabled.
Is there a way to get Illustrator to have preview enabled by default?
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I teach a very basic Intro to Graphic Design course using the Adobe Suite. In the section on photo retouching we talk about the clone stamp, healing brush, spot heal, and content-aware fill tools. In the past I've talked about the strengths and weaknesses of each one, but the problem I'm running into is that the spot h... |
I am creating texture maps for my oblique perspective RPG...
I am able to create the front aspect fine, but run into issues with the side/45 degree angle texturing.
I don't want to have to redraw the texture each time for the side view, so to be efficient I just transformed and skewed the front texture to be at a 45 de... |
I want to create some signs on canvas that have varying words in them for several gifts; different sizes, vertical, horizontal. Ideally, I want to be able to change the words within the text box and then the words would automatically adjust (if one word is five letters and the replacement word is eight letters) so tha... |
I am working in photoshop, and I am trying to create a texture to use as a background image.
Ideally, I could make the text on this page disappear and be left with a blank page.
My attempt so far (again be nice haha, I'm more into the code-side of things than design):
You can see that I've taken a small sample (from ... |
I am trying to apply a pattern piece of vector artwork which is from one image to another image.
The original image has the following:
it has a clip group - with a clipping path and a artwork splatter layer - which contains a splatter set of artwork seen - which extends far beyond the faded purple rectangular outline ... |
In C4D, looks fine.:
In Keyshot (after importing .obj from C4D), all the geometry is 'generalized' and garbled... what gives? Notice the "s" now has not cavity, and "Tire Shop" is really bad.
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Photoshop gives a lot of power for web designers using smart objects. I can create re-usable elements like buttons, drop downs etc. using smart objects and sue them across a project. Later if I need to make a change, I can only edit that smart object and the change will show everywhere I have used that smart object. Ca... |
I have designed a dragon but it isn't completely round so I am thinking to use it on brush definition and add this dragon on a circle stroke. It should be easy if the dragon were straight but it isn't.
Is it possible to use this on a stroke?
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I'm a new user on graphic design stack exchange, I will try to earn some point, here is my first answer :
I've got some difficulty to show/hide the grid with shortcut. Everything that I need to access via F button like here F7+apple doesn't work. Don't you have any idea on :
- How to make my own short cut ?
- How to ac... |
Consider the following matrix used for reflection.
| 0 -1 |
| -1 0 |
This matrix produces the reflection across y=-x according to
[B] = [T]×[A] where T is the above Transformation Matrix. Things are clear till now. Then I was introduced to rotation and taught that every reflection is some sort of rotation... |
Any idea on how to Design Printable stuff for different cars. I mean branding a complete car by designing stickers which are than pasted on a car. The main problem is that how can we get the measurements of different things like doors of the car etc...
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How to open a large Illustrator file (eg. 120 in x 48 in) saved in Illustrator. Then, how to open the same file to actual size in Photoshop?
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I want to make a simple gradient in GIMP. The left edge and right edge should be white, the middle 100% transparent. The rate of change shouldn't be linear, I want the transparent part to be much wider than the left and right parts, giving the impression of the edges of the picture fading away when placed on a white ba... |
How to import custom keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator CC? Does it work with Edit > My Parameter > Import or is there something else?
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I'm building a website in which the people upload videos and photos. It is more about people's life than fine art photography, kind of an electronic album. I have to design my logo. How can I represent this idea as an iconic logo? I know it is very important to capture the meaning of the company / website into the logo... |
I' quite new to Inkscape and came across something that I don't quite understand.
I made two simple paths. I tried filling them both, but as it appears, one of the two paths has double lines. This causes the fill to have an effect more similar to a stroke.
This is my "normal" path.
And this is the path in question.... |
I'm making business cards in photoshop and want to have multiple variations of the same "base". For example let's assume we have something like this:
We want this to be our Master File.
Child files would be able to for example edit the colour of a pane or edit the IMAGE. But when the position of something is changed i... |
I have requirement for an intro to youtube channel (comedy), and idea is to make fun of HBO intro in a way that out of white noise instead of 'HBO' youtube comedy channel name would appear. How do you think HBO did this effect with white noise? What would be the easiest way to achieve this?
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How can I add a plain black line in an image in Gimp in specific pixel coordinates for example between (10,15)->(300,116)?
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I'm trying to figure out what font this is in this image:
Do you think it's georgia or something else?
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I would like to have some kind of creative job role while I teach myself graphic design.
I currently work in a factory on an assembly line that has nothing to do with what I'm studying. So I've recently sent off my CV asking for printing jobs as print design is something I like to study the most but unfortunately no j... |
I have never really had the ability to draw, but I've also never taken a formal drawing class. I am interested in graphic design and doing advertisements. Do you need strong drawing skills to major in graphic design?
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How would you combine a vertical grid and horizontal grid with matching width & heights with perfect curved lines?
Example:
I'm trying to find a method that would be salable for 100, 1000, etc grids.
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I'm new to graphic design.
What I'm interested in is how do I capture the edges of say flower and transform them into a simple logo?
How to do this in Gimp? How to do this in Photoshop?
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I'm trying to lift the right side of my text, so it is similar to text in this logo:
I've tried different kinds of warps, but can't find the right one. Maybe I should be looking at another effect?
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I have watched quite a few animations by RSA Animate on YouTube and have found many of them very informative. Here is one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
I am trying to emulate a style of their animation in my presentation. While I don't intend to make my presentation an animation, I would like to ... |
I have drawn an image which I then scanned into the computer and saved as a png.
I just want to make the lines smooth on the image. The image is a logo
Any help is much appreciated. I am using GIMP 2.8
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I have searched for an answer to this and found tidbits here: workflow for print publishing childrens book but it didn't answer my question fully.
My question is how do you usually divide the work when creating an image in Illustrator that will be finalized in Photoshop?
do you finish as much as possible in Illustrat... |
How do I fix a font with a problematic kerning pair.
The problematic pair is capital T preceded by a space, when set in Helvetica Neue 55, and with kerning set to 'Metrics', using InDesign. The automatic kerning preceding the 'T' will change from (0) to (-125) resulting in the word space almost disappearing.
Typical s... |
In order to color grade my image in same sense of a reference photo, I'd like to approximate my image with the pixel colors from the photo, but on different places. Is this possible?
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I have no previous knowledge in graphics at all. I decided to re-create our company logo using adobe illustrator since that's what everyone said would be best. I would use this logo on Microsoft Office and Word Perfect Documents that I would later print to Adobe PDF. I have messed around with several options but haven'... |
I work for a magazine and every so often we get ads (PDF format) that run through the pre-flight process with no errors. I will export a PDF with the ads out of InDesign and these boxes appear. This does not show up when we go to print, but we have an online edition which has the boxes. Does anyone know what causes thi... |
Does anyone know a shortcut to select a layer in photoshop, open up a new file that automatically is the correct size, or even has the element in it without having to drag in a new document and then crop it to size or guess the size?
For example I made a design comp of a website I"m making. I want to copy the logo laye... |
I can't find what font is on the following picture:
Can you help?
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designers,
I would like to ask You, where could I find patterns - backgrounds to download it it is possible for free - for businness cards, posters, logos, etc.? I mean, when I create some design and want to place it/put it like in real environment:
for example: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/holistic-care-... |
When working with logo designer, what is the correct model of communication in helping designer to envision what you want and improving chances of delivering what I have in mind?
Do I "direct" the designer to what I feel should be on logo or just fill out questionnaire with information what my business does, demographi... |
Hello fellow designers.
I have to make a banner promoting a mobile application. The banner size is 80x200 cm.
So, normal screenshots of the application screens will be too small. There are too many screenshots to trace all of them in illustrator, and the "Image trace" function won't work because there is a lot of text... |
eCommerce websites are known at least to me for their average product images but there are exceptions like images of green tea product below which I wanted to get you opinion about:
This is one beautiful product but is this photo or manipulated image? I mean does it look too good to be real? I was thinking it's produc... |
I have a photoshop psd file, with a font.
I want to replace the particular font of a particular layer with a different font.
I have the different font downloaded and installed on my windows machine.
What do i do to change the font of the particular layer?
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I've read many articles on how to adjust Artboard width and height settings in Adobe Illustrator, but have not found a single article on how to adjust the width and height for the background document layer that Artboards sit on.
A single Artboard may be 1000px by 1000px, but I can still scroll for miles left and right ... |
I would appreciate if someone could tell me what fonts are used on Kinfolk magazine, more specifically:
Cover Title Font & Secondary Title
The font that is used in the articles within the magazine
I would appreciate if you can saw the sizes of these fonts respectively as well. Thank You.
Note: I have also attached tw... |
I've designed a handful of web apps now and I seem to be just as confused about document widths as I was before I ever started. I've made the mistake of mocking it up at 1920 wide and jamming it full of content.
For over a decade I designed countless centered websites at a fixed width that was very easy to determine. ... |
I must say im not designer im programmer im building simple game for my kids
in this game i need to create many sets of english letters icons like this ones im attaching.
now im doing it using Inkscape . and its very hard work to create 26 letters
each time .
is there any tool or way to design the first letter icon... |
I am working on an app that displays various colors for kids to choose from. So, we'll have a red, a blue, a yellow, etc. These are not real objects, just a small image (like the one attached) that represents a color.
They are all 600x600px squares.
I have been asked to include one for Silver, one for Gold, and one... |
I created a vector object from a drawing. But after I added the color, it will not change. I added it as a layer into my logo anyways. Now trying to change the color there but will not work.
After I press enter, nothing changes. Can you please tell me what I am not doing here. Screenshots appreciated.
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Can someone tell me what font was used for the text in the scroll banner at the bottom of the image?
Thanks!
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I am fairly new to designing and almost self taught, so please excuse me if my question is downright stupid.
I have found that when I design a web page in photoshop, my font size is very small and unreadable unless the document is zoomed up at 100%. But if I look at other people's work, their fonts are readable even at... |
Good day all.
My question is quite simple, I've been making designs for many years, I have a good library of designs, but most of them were unused due to the fact that when a client ask me a design I always proposed at least 3 solutions.
Now I'm full of designs that will never been used and I would like to give them so... |
Can you help me identify this font
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So my application can position text added inside an object for it to be inside, on top, on the bottom or left / right to the object.
Example:
So the options are to be hidden inside a button (which is represented with an icon). When the button is clicked it will show the options center, top, bottom, left and right.
Wh... |
I would like delete parts of the shape with the path.
Its 4am, and I have deadline to meet, and I am really stuck.
I am adding a picture so you can understand what i am jibbering about.
I would like the result to be like it is in the top picture, so it works on any color background, not only white (or background with... |
There's a great TEDxExeter talk by a colleague of mine, Simon Peyton-Jones, about the recent advances in the English lower school 'computer science' curriculum. Like all of his slide decks he uses Comic Sans throughout. Depressingly, though inevitably, one of the YouTube commenters berates him for the font choice, sta... |
I really have no idea with graphic design, but I was just wondering.
Comic sans is a very popular font for home-made signs to print out and tape to a door or something:
Sadly, it looks terrible (and I haven't even installed it on my OS). However, things like that always seem to look terrible (to me), regardless of the... |
I have a floor tile texture I want to use in my bathroom Sketchup/Unity model (it's a photo I've taken of the actual tile).
I have tried these two tutorials and neither of them reduces the uneven brightness and they also remove a lot of detail from the texture.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/polevoy_george/te... |
I'm drawing maps in Illustrator. Our way of depicting divided highways is parallel lines with a fill. Here is an example:
The way I did this was a 1 point yellow stroke, command c, command f, send to back, explained stroke to 2 points and make black.
These are a pain to make and edit. I'm wondering if there's a way t... |
So i am making mock ups for website, and i want to show some text. I want to use some font that make it look like it's a text but not really anything readable. Like a cursive line with personality that looks like it is something written from distance in real life but you have to come close to read it but it somewhat co... |
I embedded a jpg in my main picture and edit it (smart object). I edit the sky and need transparency background. But when I try save the smart object I got error. See the Screenshot. I read in an article about 1 year ago, that was a bug in cs6?
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I made a color chart by using the eyedropper to get colors from another file. When I go to get the CMYK values it only gives me a percentage. The Document Color Mode was RGB - changing it to CMYK didn't help.
edit answer found: Was expecting CMYK values to be like RGB values, non-percentage numbers.
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I am trying to use Sketch 3 to create some SVG icons. One of the big reasons I am using SVG icons is the ability to have multiple color however to do that, the SVG must be multiple shapes. The issues I am running into is that I can seem to snap together so I always end up with something like this:
Is there anyway in... |
I want to design a magazine at the standard magazine size of 8.375 x 10.875. Does that mean I start with an 8.5 x 11 letter size in InDesign for each page? Or do I design in InDesign as 8.375 x 10.875? I'm asking this to printers in town and they can't answer, or I'm not confident they know what I'm talking about. I've... |
I have a document that uses 5 different colors for text, on a white background.
blue
green
brown
red
black (or any shade of gray)
I need to adjust the colors so the text has the best visibility against the white background and each color is easily distinguishable from the others.
I found some problems:
If the colors... |
i made the following image:
lowest layer: solid black
middle layer: some white brush painting
highest layer: solid red with Overlay mode
this gives me a nice glowing effect, which i would like to export to transparent PNG.
but when i set the black layer to invisble the glow is gone.
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I'm giving my sister a hand with a bunch of graphics for her thesis. She's dealing with 20 survey responses from a bunch of companies, and one of the natural things to do is look for correlation between answers.
Given that the survey was not the best ever (you gotta work with what you have, and she didn't make the surv... |
I am making this logo and I'm trying to get my colorful block image throughout my 3d text instead of just on the front of it. Anyone know of a way to do that? help pleaasse!
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I was working on an animated GIF image and found out some really heavy noise issues that results into heavy grains that is kind of like disturbing the motion sequence.
The animated GIF image was all done on Photoshop, I manually created each of the 1200+ frames to make them, the result was just really disappointing, i... |
When I place a multipage pdf file into InDesign CC, the pages go outside of my document settings, making this function useless. What do I have to do to make the placed pdf pages go within my document settings, which in this case is 11 in. Length X 8.5 in. width, .5 in. margins on all sides, with two columns per page.... |
So I'm trying to save a bunch of images that I've edited with added adjustments (exposure, colour lookup, level, brightness).
I know the method for this is
File >> Scripts >> Export layers to files
BUT when I do that, it doesn't save the images WITH the added adjustments, just the original image itself.
Please help m... |
I can draw rectangle using pen tool. Is there any way to draw a hypotenuse while drawing rectangle without manually doing it using line tool?
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Is there a way or a feature or a modifier in 3DS Max like the "Turbo-smooth" modifier that would preserve the shape of an object on other subdivision levels after making changes to it on a high subdivision level? Here is what I mean -
Level 4 -
Level 2 -
Note - The polycount to be reduced like a "Turbosmooth... |
I have some text. I changed it to outline. Drew a rectangle on it. Selected all and then pathfinder->minus front. I got a weird result. How can get my desired effect in this way?
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I print marketing regularly at my job, and everything is sent to us as PDFs. The problem is, the color profile is always set to RGB, and the resulting prints look terrible and don't match the colors of prints sent to us. If I convert the PDF to CMYK, it prints perfectly. The problem is, I can't use Photoshop at work (t... |
I've got lots items in the layers panel that I need to group, re-arrange, re-name etc and it'd be nice to be able to do it all with just keyboard. What shortcuts, or keys can I use?
I did google (cursorily) but I needed an authoritative answer.
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I have a lot of images on a page, a gallery. I want the images to stay sharp, so I don't do any browser scaling, I use the original dimensions of the image.
However, this works only when the browser zoom level is 100% . When I increase or decrease the zoom level, the quality of the images decrease.
Some clients actua... |
Is there a way to do this?
I want to create radial lines outwards. A ripple filter creates circles within circles, but I would like lines coming out from the central point.
A good example of what I want to achieve would be the alternate flag of Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan#mediaviewer/File:Naval_E... |
I want to make my good quality photos look like photos scanned from old newspaper. Maybe halftone in high resolution? Or just find an old laser printer and scanner?
Here is few examples what i mean:
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I created a bunch of files using Adobe Creative Cloud, saved files in both .ai and .eps, but have since decided switch to AI CS6.
I am able to open the .ai file versions without a problem, but when I attempt to open the .eps versions, I get a legacy error message. How can I get the .eps files to open? This is the mess... |
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