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I'm creating a magazine in Indesign and have pdf ads that I imported and placed all throughout the magazine. The pdf ads are crisp and clear in their original format, but when I place them in Indesign, they're super blurry. I tried converting the pdf ads to a bunch of different formats (jpeg's, png's, etc), then placed... |
I am new to Adobe Illustrator and I have a logo image which I need to use in 5 or 6 different sizes. The logo image was created in Adobe Illustrator, but when I try to save the image to PNG or JPEG what should have been simple turns out to be very complicated.
I understand that Adobe Illustrator wants to treat the ima... |
In Fontographer 5, when I want to generate font files, it asks me do I want to "Keep glyph names as they are" or make glyph names "PDF-compatible".
What does the "PDF-compatible glyph name" mean really?
Do I need this for distribution?
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I was wondering if someone could advise me on pricing for a website design.
I'm redesigning a blog/travel site for an individual. The site is about 8 pages plus some modules, etc. I'm also redesigning their logo. I've already spent about a week doing it, maybe 3 hours per day and I'm still not halfway finished (ki... |
I have a blog and i would like to ask anyone CSS savvy for advice on some changes.
http://fornuftfu.se/category/blogg/
Better Typography for the blog articles
Is the design too dull? Would a background image be good, and in that case what?
Thanks!
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I'm using images from 3d.sk to do some character modeling but I'm having trouble setting up the front image in Photoshop. The model's head in the photosgraph is turned slightly to the side. I tried messing around with lens correction but didn't really know what I was doing. How can I fix this image to make it better fo... |
Any way to change the background color of a text box without all the workarounds such as placing another shape behind the text.
I need to have a textbox filled with the color of 249, 249, 249 and a stroke of 204, 204, 204 which will be 1px. I also need to have the text kept at a distance of 5px from all four sides from... |
When I place images in Illustrator CS5, I face the following problems.
I have a AI-CS5.1 file which is 902 KB in size.
I have a image file in JPG format which is 618 KB in size. The
File is 1600 X 1200 and at 180 dpi. Adobe Photoshop "Image Size"
shows it at 5.49M "Pixel Dimensions".
When I place the file in ... |
The title doesn't explain my problem as accurately as I'd like, but there's just no other way I can word it.
I'm using Photoshop CS5. I made a group of layers at the bottom of my image that all have gradients and drop shadows applied without global lighting of any sort.
I copied the whole group and placed the layers a... |
I have 5 layers in a group in Photoshop that represent five states of an app screen. Only one would be shown at a time. Is there a way to get Photoshop so that it only solo's one of the five in the group, but leave unchanged other layers outside the group? In other words, if I try to solo one of them, any other ones cu... |
I'm looking for a tool to make dashboards or reporting mockups.
The idea here is to present several presentation possibilities to executives who know which metrics and KPIs they want to see, but have no idea about how they want to see them.
An ideal solution for me would be web-based.
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I've been reading about colour theory and want to understand how it relates to rainbow palettes like the attached, also a palette type commonly used by the designer Paul Smith as his signature.
How are the colours related? I have a suspicion they are being mixed from a main set to get all the varieties?
How would I go... |
A font vendor who shall remain nameless sold me a webfont under the premise that all modern browsers would support switching the old style figures to lining figures without any trouble. Well, by "all modern browsers" then meant Firefox only. Now that I've paid for it, they can't get it to work either.
The font is great... |
I have a paragraph that is drop capped and begins with the word 'U.K.' Currently, the CSS (cascading style sheet) standard for Web browsers is to include the period following the 'U' in the drop cap, so 'U.' would be in the larger, dropped font, while 'K.' would appear normal. Is this implementation in line with curren... |
I started working as a freelance graphic designer and I have many fonts installed from the era when I was just doing stuff for entertainment and learning. I don't want to use these fonts for my clients work not at the beginning of this carrier at least, so I moved to only free to use fonts and resources. The thing is t... |
I'm launching a company and currently working on the website. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/HKbIK
As I'm not a professional webdesigner your comments / feedback / suggestions of improvements would be very welcome!
It's a 'parralax' style design with several large, striking high-resolution background images, overlaid ... |
I'm having trouble with getting exact locations and sizes when creating background graphics for my buttons. I can never get a clean x pixels by y pixels - it always ends up having a couple decimal places. This happens for the both the size and location of the shape.
I have snapping on, but it doesn't seem to be workin... |
I configured my font's kerning for every possible letter combination in Fontographer 5 and when I preview it from there, everything is as it should be, but when I generate the font files (TTF and OTF) and try using it in a word processor, there is no kerning at all.
Am I doing something wrong?
How can I fix this? ... |
I recently got my application in the google play store, but I have an issue with how the 'Feature Graphic' is being displayed.
Here is the original (@ 72 DPI (Screen RES) - Saved for Web - PNG8):
Here is the Google-Play-resized version:
(The image is linked to my application, for demonstration. Google refers to the ... |
There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding font "licensing" and "permissions". Isn't the license to design with it what we are purchasing when buying the font? For basic commercial design work, what further "permissions" are needed? Are we expected to draw up a contract, send additional fees? With whom/To whom? I... |
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What's the pixel dimensions of a powerpoint slide for Open Office / Libre Office Impress?
I need to create a PowerPoint presentation template that will be used in several different monitors/projectors. Are there any advices on how should I treat my template's graphics/design? Should I have two fi... |
How can i get a small version of my logo? Like a favicon. I tryed but it results blurry!
Which is the best way to get my logo really small? Do you have any tutorial for this?
Thanks
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What is the best color profile to start with in Illustrator when designing a Logo that will be used for web and for print? Do you need to work on them in two different files, one with CMYK profile and one with RGB? Currently I need to send my client's logo to be printed, but I need to make sure that my color profiles a... |
I'm trying to create shooting target-style single-color images from digital pictures of animals. Once I've lifted the image from the background, what are ways I could turn it into a simple line drawing?
I would be satisfied with something that got me edges even if I had clean up within them.
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I was wondering if there is a way to alter the color of the Smart object that has been inputted into Photoshop. Basically, I have a series of glyphs that need to be altered so they have new hexadecimal's. Is there an easy way to do this? There doesn't seem to be any Photoshop functions available?
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If I am working with Bitmaps in fireworks their data behaves independently of the document area, in other words I can move a bitmap in and out of the canvas without losing any of its data. This gives me room to play about with part of the bitmap in visible areas.
But as soon as I crop the document, it crops all bitma... |
Here is an example to explain what I mean:
Text created in Gimp:
Text created in html/CSS code:
font: 60px "anchor-web-1","anchor-web-2", 'Impact', sans-serif;
font-weight: 900;
Why do html/css texts appear so "pixelated" compared to texts from photoshop or gimp?
And is there a way to have better result and still u... |
I'm new to the web designing stuff, so I bought a template. I want to change some text in my header. It is saved as a png image. I opened the PSD file in photoshop and changed the text.
I then moved that layer to a new file and saved it as a transparent file.
The resulting file is not displayed at the same size i... |
Despite trying various colour profiles across Illustrator and CS5 I seem to keep running into save for web, export and screen-grabs (used as a more accurate last resort) issues where the colours I'm designing in output dramatically differently on each.
Obviously showing clients work, where the colours are far removed f... |
I have a bitmap which I want to crop (using a vector) with rounded corners I can't because I need 2 or more paths? How can I do this?
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I have this message in Acrobat Distiller when trying to PDF a booklet from Indesign CS5: Acrobat Distiller 9.5.1 Started: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 10:22 AM Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101 CID support library initialization completed.
Error in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX4 20... |
Currently I'm practising some pixelart drawing for games. But when I do anti-aliasing for lines, I don't know whether I should draw them by hand or just tick anti-aliasing box in photoshop. Could you please help me pointing out the differences between those two and advantages for drawing by hand?
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Does Adobe Illustrator have a feature to warp a group of shapes similar to Photoshop's Edit>transform>warp?
So far I've tried the reshape tool seems to only work on individual shapes?
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Our computer is used by several people and somehow the rectangle marquee tool lost its square corners and now only shows rounded corners.
How to change the marquee tool back to the square corners?
Anyone know that answer?
Thanks.
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I've been using Illustrator's Data-Driven Graphics, for one of my projects. But dread using command-line programing to populate all the fields. Is there a GUI app to manage, edit and save Adobe Illustrator compatible xml files?
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I found this nice tutorial that explains how to convert a movie file to a .gif in Photoshop. Is there an analogous process in Illustrator?
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This is a pretty popular background pattern in web/graphic design and I'd love to find different but similar variations of it. What would I search for to find such patterns?
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We have various other parts of the business who want to view Photoshop designs that make use of layer comps but don't have Photoshop. The expense of a Photoshop license just for this is not justifiable. This leaves a tedious task of exporting JPGs each time the Photoshops are updated (I know there is a script but it's ... |
I have a file in Adobe Illustrator CS5 (AI-CS5) which I open in CorelDRAW X6 (CD-X6) because it has to go to commercial printers which only accept CD-X6 files. The problem is that when I open the file in CD-X6, my text alignment including the character spacing and word spacing goes wrong. In the above image which is AI... |
Pattern:
Link to pattern.
I downloaded this pattern from the internet but all the included patterns show as blank tiles in preset manager. Any tips on how to get these to show? (I have successfully loaded other patterns before by pasting in the patterns folder, so not sure why this one is not working).
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Any advice on how to create the shadow effect in the attached image would be much appreciated!
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I am currently doing some work for one of my sites, for which among other things I am designing a logo. The logo partly consists of a few squares, which are aligned directly next to each other and should have a distance of 1px between them.
My question is, how can I keep the distance of 1px between the squares when re... |
I need to resize images to given width/length, but when I do this in photoshop my images come out warped looking. What should I do?
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I'm new to Adobe Illustrator, but I have used extensively Inkscape. While I recognize that Illustrator is vastly superior in many fronts, I feel a bit of a lag due to the need to use three or four different tools for creating and editing paths. I also find the handles extremely small.
So, I would like to ask for tips... |
I want to make some photos of someone who does not really exist, but I don't know where should I start.
Initially I wanted to make a 3D head model by FaceGen Modeller and take renders of that to use in Photoshop, but even FaceGen can't make photos as realistic as I want. Is there any program that generates super-realis... |
I have what is apparently called an equirectangular projection of the world. I can use the 3D functionality of Photoshop to use this as a texture for a globe, by creating a sphere mesh; or I can use "CC Sphere" in After Effects etc. This is great.
I now want to attach (flat) objects to the surface of that sphere (imagi... |
I am creating a vexel portrait in Illustrator. For the shading areas I am using a 5% opacity for each shape that I draw w/ the pen tool. But I find that I have to set the opacity back to 5% for each shape that I draw. How can I avoid doing this and just 5% opacity for all of the shapes. Note: I don't want to set 5% opa... |
I am making a logo in photoshop and want to add this old spotted vintage type of filter. Can anyone let me know how? Specifically the light dots on the black:
I'm using photoshop CS4
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I have a group of 6 images that are masked in even-sized rectangles. I'd like those rectangles to be evenly distributed along the outside of the bottom half of a circle. Whats the best way to handle this in Adobe Illustrator?
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I'm completely new on a Mac. I would like a pointer as to how to visualize a preview of a given headline in as many fonts as possible from those installed on the system. What I need to accomplish is twofold:
1) Discover which fonts are installed on the system.
2) Look how my headlines looks in ALL of the fonts, spendin... |
What is the font used in this image?
It is too squat to be Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, or any of the other typical non-serif fonts, and the image isn't crisp enough for me to make any headway on Identifont.
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Does anybody know a font on Google Fonts that is very similar to Helvetica Neue?
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I have seen a bit about leveraging the Golden Ratio in traditional web design applications, however I've not found much in the way of thoughts on utilizing it within fluid desktop application design. That is to say, when given an application that has potentially infinite possibilities in resize, how does one go about ... |
Hi can anyone help my confusion?
I'm preparing artwork for some billboards - 96 sheets (overall size 12192mm x 3048mm). The specs say to produce artwork at a 10th of the size = 1219.2mm x 304.8mm.
HOWEVER the only DPI mentioned on the specs is 400 DPI which to me seems rather large for billboards - http://www.hi-rezz.c... |
I'm an Illustrator Novice (I'm more experienced with Photoshop) but I need to create a vector version of our company logo.
The logo looks fine in Illustrator and if I export a png version it looks fine too:
However, when I save the .ai file as a PDF, I get this weird ghost text behind the other text and the shadows ar... |
Is there a way to export my artwork as PDF so that it has a transparent background? Something like exporting objects only... whenever I try to save my .ai as pdf, it always comes with a full white background. If I try to save as eps, I get a chunky white background (where it has white rectangles behind the artwork only... |
This will sound astronomically simple, and you will indeed wonder how is it possible that I've never learned it. But: How do I quickly edit a vector mask in CS2?
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I have created an image in Inkscape, it will be a label for a product so I needed it to bee of just the right size when it prints out. Now I have the core in vector drawing but I wanted to add some background, and that was a bitmap image (jpeg in fact). Now, on the screen it looks just perfect, but when I print it the ... |
I'm working on a website and the client want this font to be used for the logo:
But he has no idea what the font is and the guys who created his old design are no longer in business. So if anyone knows the name of this font it would help me a lot. Thanks for the patience as this is a bit of a dull question.
UPDATE: Th... |
I have a lot of .gif images which can be viewed by e.g. IrfanView, but not opened in photoshop. Photoshop says it can't interpret the file format module (I'm using it in German, so I don't know the exact english error message).
When opening the file in a text editor, it starts with gif89a. I guess it has something to d... |
I needed to move something so I copied it and pasted it to its new location and now where I have pasted it there is a selection pane that will not go away.
I've tried to move the pane and tried the "Select All" function (Ctrl + A) to no avail.
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There's this thin orange-ish outline around the text. I am talking about the ultra thin color around my text, you can clearly see it on the @ character, there's a "stroke" around it, though I'm 100% certain it is not a stroke.
I'm guessing it is Illustrator's way of telling me that text color should not go with that ba... |
I'm trying to create something that looks like this:
I can do the blue lines easily enough but I can't seem to get the grey 'circular diamonds' right.
No matter what I do, be it a diamond shape cloned and rotated around a circular guide (first example) or a circle with zigzag applied then cloned and rotated a bit (sec... |
Is it possible to past in place on one (selected) artboard instead of all artboards?
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I have been using the 3d features in Photoshop CS6 Extended and I love all of the materials that are included and that you can download from Adobe's website. However, I have been trying to find some additional materials and I'm wondering if anyone has created some, or if someone out there knows where I could find some.... |
What I'd like to know is where in history the idea of having a bold variant of a typeface came about.
I suspect that back in Garamond/Caslon's time there would not have been any bold version of their type, even though modern Garamond and Caslon fonts tend to include bold variants. But I have failed to find out whether... |
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What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
I'm trying to figure out why my fonts in a PSD are not telling me the accurate pixel height.
I set up a new document at 72pixels/inch, I have rulers and type set to pixels, RGB and 8bit. When I type some text in my font/character panels tell me... |
I have this image that I got from slidesjs.com
It looks awesome when used as a frame, but I want to "elongate" it. Steps on how to accomplish this? I know it looks like a simple shadow, but the bottom shadow is darker. This is similar to this image:
Maybe someone has a link to a tutorial? I'm really focused on the fr... |
I made a typeface that I would like to sell non-exclusively on several online stores. I have been searching and found a few nice outlets so far.
What are the font shops you know of? Where do you sell your typefaces?
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What is the industry term for this effect?
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I bought a psd file that has lots of buttons - each button is a layer group.
What's a good way to split the file so that each button is it's own file - with its layers intact. I know how to turn off layers, but the resulting file has too large a Canvas size..(as well as being too big..)
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In the colour selection I have been searching for a transparent option, but I can't find one. How can I do it?
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I'm an iOS developer and I'd like to learn how to use the tools in Fireworks correctly for app design. I feel very uncomfortable with slicing, rulers, guides, and resizing for retina. I know these can be very powerful tools when used correctly. I feel like it takes me much longer than it should to get most things done ... |
I would like to take a picture and mold it in the shape of a 2D heart.
Here is an example picture:
http://i.minus.com/ibgfLNPvp6jCLt.png
I hope to accomplish a heart shape using this picture and have the blues ends meet at the bottom tip of the heart.
Edit:
Because everyone seems to be so stuck on my idea behind wh... |
I want to use an image in different screen resolutions with fading and the same background color. In a website, the image will not scale, but the background will. Something like this:
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Like many classic fonts, there are several different cuts of Gill Sans by various publishers. Monotype distribute it as 'Gill Sans MT', and Adobe and ITC have their own versions.
Which version is the version that is distributed on a Mac? I can't find any authoritative answer or clues in the font files themselves. All I... |
I'm a first time GIMP user. I have an image that contains a design that'd I like to copy on to a transparent background. therefore, I started tracing the design using the paint/pencil tool. now that i'm finished, i want to the design that i created by tracing into another layer that is transparent. how would i go about... |
In InDesign if I have a paragraph style and every time I use that style I want a "colored" box behind it justified to the column width. How would you suggest doing this? Currently it's been done manually with predefined "boxes" for 1-Line, 2-Line & 3-Line depending on how long the heading is. There has got to be a way ... |
I have a roundrect button that I want to contain within another roundrect. The containing roundrect should always be 1px away from the button.
If I make the radius on the container too small then the corners have a larger gap around them.
Is there a good "rule of thumb" that I can use to figure out what the radius shou... |
I want to change the text in the image below without modifying the background.
I tried cutting the text and filling the gap with a new one, but it doesn't look nice. Is there a simpler way?
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Really not sure how to explain what I'm looking for, just know it exist.
For example, dimensions might include time, volatility, space, distance, density, etc. -- basically any measurement that's able to be tied to another measurement.
So, basically I'm looking for a info-graph that measures 4 or 5 different measuremen... |
I'm using a font called Nashville. I want to outline only the most outside of the paths. If I try to use the outline tool, it outlines all of the small holes in the font, too. I want to fill in the holes in the font and then outline the most outside paths.
Somehow I got this to work on on block of text, but can't remem... |
I want to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator to make hair strands for a vexel portrait. I have to make hundreds of strands. The problem is that I would like to use the pen tool to make two anchor points (to make a strand of hair) without having to select the selection tool after each strand to make a new one.
Here'... |
I'm a graphic designer for city government. I know all the pertinent Adobe programs (Ps, Ai, Id, Fw, Dw). We have a budget for training and conferences. I'm considering a subscription to lynda.com and Drupal training. Other than that what would you consider to be the most important new software or resources?
Thanks in ... |
I can't seem to get the color values/names correct so that I can get a Letter Press Effect on the text
To create the appearance of text that has been stamped, choose a text colour that is darker than the background, and then create a 1px text shadow with a 1px blur and offset it down 1px. Make the text-shadow slightly... |
Ok, so I have been looking at a lot of logos recently, all done by graphic designers. And in the majority of them, the only thing they have is a name or some "basic" text. I thought the idea behind a logo was to catch the eye of passers by and the attention of prospective clients. So again, here's my question: Why are ... |
I suck at illustrator, so this is a huge leap in my ability. I'm trying to draw a radio tower, but I want everything in the vector to be as perfect as possible. I want some waves to come off of the radio tower. I'm trying to use the pen tool and then fix it up with the direct selection tool, but I just can't get it to ... |
In Paint.NET I'd like to change the color of an icon by using the fill tool, but I want to preserve the alpha-channel of the pixels. There's the same question for Photoshop, but I can't find a solution for Paint.NET.
Before fill:
After fill:
As you can see, the semi-transparent pixels lose their alpha-cannel value. I... |
We know from after images that violet-yellow, blue-orange and green-magenta are perceptual complementaries.
When I am designing I would like a hue wheel that reflects these perceptual complementaries. So yellow would be at 90° (instead of 60°) opposite violet at 270°. And when a field of orange at 50% opacity is layere... |
I tried this with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. When I have a black background, and a white brush with an opacity of 1%, the color should get brighter if I click onto the same spot over and over again. It does that, but only until the color is #d5d5d5. No matter how often I click onto an area with that color (or a bright... |
I recently launched radiolivechicago.com and my background image looks weird when it is all of the sudden cut off.
I've been hacking around in PS and followed this tutorial to create my faded image.
However, I can't figure out how to save it like previously (64KB jpeg) with a black background and a nice fade?
When I s... |
First, let me emphasize that while I am asking a question about preference, I am looking for objective reasons to prefer one answer over another. I am not interested in your personal, subjective opinion on which is better. I have no formal design training, so I don't know if there might any practical reason to prefer... |
I've used an arrow like this:
➜
...in lots of programs - on the web in WordPress, in MSWord, even TextEdit.
But when I paste the arrow into an inDesign document, it's not recognised.
Is this arrow character not usable in inDesign?
How do I get an arrow character in an inDesign doc?
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Is there a way to import a text file into Quark in such a way so that if there are any spelling errors that are fixed in Quark they will also be updated in the original imported text file?
Kind of like the way one can link an Excel file in a Word document.
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I have am image which is 1920px X 1200px. How would I make it small in such a way that it turns into a 960px X 200px exactly.
If I do it without the option of "Constraint Proportions" checked in PS, It stretches horizontally and looks very bad. If I use the option and make it 960px wide, the height becomes 600px. Again... |
My artboard size is 48 x 48, but when I "Save for web and device", the created png file is auto cropped to the size of the art inside (40 x 50 in my case), just like the "export" option. Could you please help me find a way to fix it?
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In this website, there is this texture...
Can you tell me the name of this texture and if there is an online generator?
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Using Pixelmator, quite often I need to draw a shape and then select everything around that shape to apply a filter or change hue/contrast. Is there an easy way to select everything around a shape, specially when the shape is not a rectangle.
For example, in this blog post, I created a red rectangle with round edges:
h... |
I can get this effect very easily in Photoshop using the stroke layer style and making it a shape burst gradient, but I want to be able to do it in illustrator so the stroke around the text can be a separate editable path. Is it possible to do this in illustrator?
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One time I had some images for buttons for users to click on, and they looked bright and sharp on a Mac's Preview app, and on some other graphics apps on the PC, but when it was displayed on Chrome on a Mac, the color became dull. Someone suggested it was due to "color profile" in the image, but is there a way to remo... |
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