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I want to change the "line height" of a font, that is the space between lines when the font is typed. I'd like to increase the space. (I need to use several fonts font in a text app with a fixed (non editable) line spacing).
I'm not very experienced with fonts. I do have Fontographer, and I tried several things like c... |
I have a text in a image file, that says "Forward". How can I with the same layout/pattern/structure create an additional text "Rewind". So I have two similar texts? Thanks!
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I am creating a practical guide book with images. I am currently using Scrivener which is writing software for the edit stage. I need to include images into the text, but I will then pass over my draft to a layout designer to layout out the project in Indesign. Should I bother putting full size images into Scrivener, o... |
I'm making a custom keyboard and want it to look nice, and like Apple's, without actually copying pixels. I did a bunch of work on creating keys and the background, only to be amazed once again by Apple's genius when comparing my keyboard with the standard iOS keyboard.
I'm sure many of you have seen the optical illusi... |
I suppose in older times typographers had to redraw the entire character set, but I'd guess there's some good heuristics to make a character bolder/lighter in software and then make some manual adjustments.
Is there currently any kind of software that assists with this task?
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Can I create a 3d model from pictures that are available on the internet and put it into a small animation and post it on YouTube? For example I want to create a 3d model of a car from images found on the internet and then put it into animation of crashing it then posting it on Youtube. Is this illegal? Will it violate... |
I'm not a designer but I'm learning how to implement an efficient design on a website. How do we decide on the grid used, as far as I can grasp, 3x3 boxes looks good to me. But as I keep reading, i noticed there are many more grid variations such as 12x12, 16x16. If so, where will the "focus" point lie in the website? ... |
I am making a book with some of my photography. I have not been blessed with the best camera in the world so my images range between 1100px squared to 2000px squared. The print size per image will be approximately 7 inches (17cm). Now for my 1100px images, I will need a DPI of 150 max, however for my 2000px images I co... |
I'm looking for creative ways to add imperfections or flaws to my vector graphics in order to make them appear more like hand drawn sketches. I'm working with Inkscape so tips that work here are very welcome but I don't want to limit the question to it.
Here are options that I commonly use:
Actually drawing objects wi... |
I'm struggling to make the below shape in illustrator:
Rounded corner rectangles are easy but I'm not sure how to round the sides easily as well. I would want these shapes to be easy to re-size ideally. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?
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I'm currently scanning a few documents at the moment and have highlighted several parts of the text.
My scanner doesn't pick up the highlighted text very well and the highlighted areas are very faint.
Is it possible to use Photoshop to enhance the colour of the highlight?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm debating which colors to use for my website. We've been trying to find the right colors for the logo and graphics of the site, and struggling with trying to pick between the light and dark blue.
What would be the advantages to one or the other?
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I am designing an application that requires between 100 - 200 icons / vector art of everyday objects - grandma, banana, boat, etc.
The resource that I've found that is closest to my needs is The Noun Project but, preferably, I would like something with a bit more color.
Are there any similar resources for this purpose?... |
I have an image 8x8 pixels as below; this is the image as I see in Adobe Illustrator CS6:
Each gray shade in upper left and lower right corners is 4x2 pixels. I would like to save this image as I see it with "Save for Web", but when I save it as PNG-24 with no anti-aliasing I get the below image:
Obviously it is very... |
I am trying to identify several fonts but hitting a brick wall.
Can anyone help me identify these fonts please?
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How to lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6?
I would like to lock those properties in each page in Indesign. Sometimes the designers get wrong and drag and drop the text frame without noticing.
Then we have to remove the page and create again. If this is not done when I update the master will not ... |
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator and I wanted to accomplish this task. How do I remove the inner lines in my drawings? I tried with all the pathfinders effect but it keeps removing my tangent lines (the lines connecting both my circles).
It works like a charm as I followed the selected's answer guide:
Here it is.
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These two fonts are a pain to identify because of the formatting (one is partially masked) and the other is on a background that makes it hard to identify. There are two different images for the 2nd logo (cobaty)
Any idea what these fonts are?
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When I click in the Appearance menu to color a stroke or a fill, it pops up a library of swatches. I can't figure out how to get that to show a different swatch library. I have a saved library, I can even made it pop up in a different window, but I don't know how to make it show up in that specific window when I want t... |
What I have is a folder full of about 100 images of various sizes and shapes spread across various sub-folders. I need to blank out all these images ( or ideally replace them with some subtle pattern ) while keeping the pixel sizes, names and folder structure. Is there any software that anyone knows of that can batch p... |
I'm creating symbols using custom brush packs that I downloaded. Most of these brushes have many different colors in them ("textures"), not just a single one. My question is how to dismiss these colors and, using the outlines of the brush strokes, fill that brush stroke/shape with a single color instead.
I know this ca... |
I had this question popping out while viewing some ISO standards such as ISO 9142.
I searched a little but couldn't find an explicit ISO standard that is specifically for Computer Icons.
So, has one such standard been published? or a similar recognized one?.
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How was the following design made? It's very beautiful, and I'm trying to recreate it on my own. When I'm done, I'd like to have a "correct answer" to check my answer against.
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Anyone know of some tutorials or walk-throughs on how to animate 3D rotated/transformed text in Flash Professional CS6?
I cant seem to find any. (Googled)
I am trying to make an animation of some extruded rotating text.
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Example:
This seems to be a problem with using JPEG. My questions are:
How to remove the grey areas around the text? What filter/process in GIMP/ImageMagick or other free image editing/scripting mediums would you recommend?
What would be a programmatic approach to cleaning an image like this? E.g. converting it to... |
I have a logo consisting of a group of paths and smart objects, so I want them to stay editable.
Layers:
Now all these are white in color. Behind them is transparency. I want to color all the layers at once, while keeping them editable.
I tried blending modes with layers above them, but all results either did not col... |
I have a lot of tables that designers have to adjust slightly to fit the content. This takes a large amount of time in our process and I would like to know if there is anyway to skip this? Perhaps a custom script?
If not, could you suggest what I should do? How would I go about creating my own script to auto-fit the co... |
Is there any software that allows to draw block diagrams
like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Windows_2000_architecture.png
or like this:
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Always when I try to copy-paste something from Fireworks to Photoshop it gets a white background.
So often I end up saving the part I need as a seperate png-file with transparent background and then load that file into photoshop. But surely there is another way, isn't there ?
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What would call the style used in the Space Needle themed lock screen in Windows 8, and how would you reproduce that style?
I'm in the early stages of learning Windows 8 and preparing to roll it out at the small college where I work. One thing I noticed early is the new Space Needle themed lock screen. Sure, there are ... |
I asked the closed https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/16602/how-can-or-should-i-design-my-personal-and-professional-sites, and one of the comments was that if the commenter stumbled upon any of my sites, that commenter would conclude I knew nothing about design.
So can I ask resources, whether available ... |
I am designing a banner which will be printed at 7ft x 4ft.
I am using Photoshop CS4. The images are not vectors. The original poster artwork has been done at 300 ppi for A4 printing. I was hoping to re-size the canvas of the poster (after saving as a new file) to keep the 300 ppi resolution but working on a small... |
Here is the problem. I am doing this work for a company. They wanted me to clean 138 jpeg files and give them back.
I opened a psd and put all the files in it. I cleaned all of them. At last, i created 2 effects. 1 Brightness/contrast and 1 curves. They are at the top of the layers.
Then i tried "File>Scripts>Export ... |
I created a custom shape with custom pattern with the following steps:
Drawing the border lines with Path Tool
Making a closed shape by Selection from Path
Selecting the closed shape with Magic Wand
Filling the closed shape with solid color or pattern by Bucket Fill Tool
Now I want to re-design the shape by moving t... |
I'm a programmer doing a client project, and I'm trying to write an app that will do this (the photograph of the woman) to user-uploaded images. I think it's some combination of Sepia and some other filters, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any ideas?
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Is there a way to make an Illustrator script run over all files in a certain folder and perform operations on these?
I am using CS5 on mac.
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I made a poster, for my own use, that uses a few lines from a well known song and I liked the outcome so much I'd like to share it. However, I'm not sure if taking part of a copyrighted material and displaying it in another way would be a derivative work. By changing the medium and not having a direct 1:1 representatio... |
What is the best way to find an open source alternative to a commercial font? I was thinking as some service as alternativeto.net or a whatthefont.com that would spit out fonts that are similar to the one uploaded.
For example: What is the open source font that looks most similar to Scala Sans? (see picture) What would... |
There are many fractal generation softwares such as the free Xaos and Fractal Architect 2. I normally use Mathematica to generate fractals and process them later with editing tool but this time have to work with an art project where things must be perfect.
We are creating a large indoor print over the facade that will... |
Using Photoshop CS6, I have a PNG with some transparencies with soft edges.
I need to clone a semi-transparent area, but when I do that I always end up overlapping the original image, losing the original transparency.
An analog procedure is to create a transparent square/rectangle starting with just a transparent tria... |
I'm working in a very complex Photoshop document with many folders. I'm quite shortcut-savvy and use the square brackets + control and alt keys to select layers, reorder them, etc.
What would make my life much easier is if I could collapse folders using keyboard shortcut instead of collapsing them by clicking on the di... |
Imagine this scenario:
User A opens the book
User B opens the book and make important changes
User B saves the book
User A closes the indesign and it's asked if wants to save the changes to the book
Chooses YES
In this case all the changes of User B are lost!
But Indesign "tells us" to never open the document outside... |
I've made a document on inDesign CS5 on OSX containing a section typeset in Palatino small caps. These appear fine when viewing the exported PDF on a Mac however on a Windows computer some of the letters do not render properly.
This is how it appears on my computer and others running OSX.
I'm sorry this is the only im... |
I would like to achieve an effect in Photoshop that involves airbrushing flames, similar to what is done in this video:
However, I can't figure out a way to mask the canvas from part of the brush (basically what he does with the stencil). Any tips on how to do this? Sorry if it's obvious, but I'm pretty new to the so... |
I created a curving arrow shape that starts wide at the bottom and thins out near the top where the point is. I also created a brick pattern swatch but when I apply it to the shape it appears like the pattern is overlaid instead of like a real road where the bricks follow the shape and narrows near the most distant poi... |
I just created a big web application, and I need a way to present it. I want to allow people to visualize the amount and complexity of code I coded ("wow this is a giant bunch of code" and "wow this code is sooo complex(independent of the fact that complex code is bad quality)"), but in a style readable for those not f... |
I've been making my templates by just saving a psd file but that brings up the problem that I might save over the template on accident.
When I go to File> I don't see a "Save as Template" option. Is it somewhere else?
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I am trying to draw freehand ovals and circles. I'm not having too much difficulty with circles, but ovals are are more challenging.
As you can see in the photo below the ovals are irregular, and not real ovals. The circles I can "flesh out" correcting irregularities, but not the ovals.
What can I do to improve my abil... |
I have this big PSD file (300MB) which I need to somehow, export each layer as a web format (PNG for example) to fit them in a HTML. The only thing I found in PS is in the Scripts menu, the Export Layers to File option, but it takes forever and it doesn't even save all layers. I also like them to be exported in a direc... |
I've just started with graphic design, and I want to put some of the stuff I'm doing up on a Tumblr blog. I'm also taking some classes and doing a Certificate Program at MCAD soon, and want to form good habits as I'm starting out.
What considerations should I be taking in regards to copyright? Should I use a watermark... |
First, let me preface by saying i've read through James Maivald's Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, but i'm still really confused.
I have an XML document that looks like:
<foo>
<bar>
<one>1234</one>
<two>5678</two>
<three>9101112</three>
</bar>
(multiple more bar elements)
</foo>
In an ideal world, I w... |
I just read on an article about designing for iPhone retina display that you can keep the 2x images in the same document and use a Photoshop Action to scale up the 1x to see how the larger version will look. Other than creating a separate canvas, I'm not sure how this could be done? Would the action be designed to scal... |
When exporting a document from InDesign CS6 to PDF, is it possible to set the "initial view" of the PDF, so that the PDF opens up in "two up" (side-by-side) format by default?
I can do this in Acrobat. Can it be done directly in InDesign?
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I am attempting to clean up the below vector image at the bottom, since the pixellation is not very sharp. However, I am told that I will need to rasterize it in order to adjust the pixels. So my questions are:
1) Should shape layers or vector images not have exact pixel dimensions rather than this fuzziness? and,
2)... |
I have a shape path that contains two shapes within it. I want to merge two anchor points from - note that the two anchors are on different paths on the same shape. Here is an image.
Is it possible?
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I don't really use Illustrator, but as the techy I am I help someone who does use it regularly - not a techy at all.
The problem is I've installed her CS6 because of the 64 bit support, but she has to deliver those files to people who still uses CS5. So it's started to be a problem for her to remember changing format t... |
I'm trying to create a favicon in Photoshop CS5 by painting individual pixels. I've tried using the square brushes but for some reason each square brush preset has one rounded corner in the bottom right. The hardness settings are 100% and also greyed out.
How can I get the square brushes to go back to being perfectly ... |
I come from a Computer Science background and i'm used to write my reports/documents in LaTeX.
They look great and things like Hyphenation and kerning (using microspace package) are automatically treated. It looks way better than WYSIWYG editors like Word.
I asked a Designer if he knew LaTeX and he didn't even heard ab... |
I've been using Photoshop CS3 for several years. All of a sudden today, I could not apply a gradient to a layer mask. Nothing happens. I was, however, able to use a brush on the mask.
Click layer mask button.
Choose gradient tool.
Click and drag on the layer.
Screen capture: http://youtu.be/iUefbJr5cxU?sc
Screenshot:... |
(I already asked the question on graphicdesign but people redirected me here. I guess there are people with that kind of expertise here.)
I have a PDF book to be translated in Japanese, and what wondering which fonts to use. My main languages are French and English and I have no experience with asian fonts. I would no... |
If careful, reading, understanding, and form can be improved when mixing fonts carefully. For example, using carefully matched sans-serif fonts for titles with serif-fonts for text can achieve a unique and engaging design.
I was wondering if this same effect can be achieved by mixing Kaku/Maru fonts with Mincho fonts. ... |
I am trying to figure out what the standard grid layout is for ios6 and possibly android. I use photoshop cs6 and recently sketch 2. What dimensions should I set?
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I have a screen shot image for my app. What I am trying to do is insert it into a nice image of the actual device.
So I downloaded this image:
but I am clueless about how I can cut out just the front-facing ipad image, and place my screenshot instead of its screenshot.
Could someone please explain the process?
Thank y... |
I am working on this image:
And I need to get rid of that gray background, and resize the image itself. Right now if I try to resize the image, is says it is pixels: 3285 by 2000.
Thanks!
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How can you create watercolor-esc transparencies, varying levels of depth of color and also creating imperfections, like these two images bellow? (both by Elisa Webler)
I've tried taking a vector drawing, adding transparency to the shapes and adding noise over the top, but it doesn't get the same look, it looks much fl... |
I was trying to clean up the bottom of this bitmap bookmark by replacing blurry (i.e. Between black and the main grey color) pixels with the main grey color of the bokmarks.
I selected paint brush, then used the eye dropper tool to select the main grey color. When I subsequently tried to change the foreground color to ... |
I am trying to align a text layer to the vector mask directly below it - the top two elements displayed in the Layers Panel in the below image.
For some reason, with both layers selected - although the align tools become active - clicking on any of them does not produce any result.
Through a process of elimination I ... |
I am attempting to align the horizontal centers of background box here with the bookmark icon and associated text (all three are on separate layers).
The problem I'm having is that when I select all layers and click Align Horizontal Centers, the icon and text shift left to align with the box, whereas I would like the ... |
After pressing OK button new paragraph rule created. But I need to modify basic paragraph.
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I'm about to create an A4 business brochure magazine style of 8 pages and i was wondering how to setup my document.
I have two options. 1 would be creating an A4 document, facing pages with proper margins and bleeds with page numbers on the left page and right page on my A master.The problem with this option is that in... |
Is there a way to select an inner border in Select Inverse?
Here is one example
I need to select the border pointed by the red arrow. With the basic select inverse both borders pointed by the blue and red arrow are selected.
Thanks
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I just downloaded the icons from http://www.entypo.com
Say I want to just get the lightning bolt icon, how do I get that specifically from the PSD file, and since it's vectored, at the resolution I want?
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I'm sorry I could not name this question any better -- if anybody knows of a better term to refer to this by, please let me know. I'd be happy to edit my question.
At any rate, I have a design problem i'm trying to solve for and need some help in terms of resources, sites i could use for inspiration, etc.
I have 10 ite... |
I'm trying to find ways to make images more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the image screen/print). For my project, I want to display digital images on an electronic display in daylight, but I am generally curious about techniques/tricks for enhancing visibility in daylight for both digital a... |
Related to this SO question, I got an idea to go for an unique 3D human face model which fits all the the human faces.
1) Where can I get a ready made human head model? I have seen some tools like Blender where I could create it, but it seems to require a big effort. Sites like turbosquid don't seem to have these uniq... |
I've seen the response here, but the built-in script is excruciatingly slow (I let it sit for 3 hours before giving up) and the custom one in the response thinks there's only one layer (and only exports one PNG). What are my options?
EDIT: I actually want to save each layer to a separate PNG, not export the current vis... |
I'm looking to create a vector (ideally) illustration with an abstract sea, much like this (not the dolphins or sun):
How can I go about this using free tools such as Inkscape?
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A site I'm creating is a directory which sorts and displays information for about 300 businesses which are part of a specific business partnership/network.
The site is meant to provide information to consumers, so i want it to seem professional, but I'm foreseeing a lack of pictures to work with and wondering how one c... |
I figured out that there are possibly more than one methods to convert RGB to CMYK.
Using Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Mac) the color conversion is completely different as the conversion via Wolfram Alpha. I used the simple cyan (CMYK 1,0,0,0). I already know that most computer displays use RGB to outline the color and I can... |
I'm all new at Graphic Design, so correct me if you can. I found this graphic picture today from Earth Hour's website for 2012:
I really want some fonts that looks a bit like them. Someone having a clue which family they are in? And maybe know about some similar fonts? Appreciate any thoughts and ideas.
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I'm building a website for a client. I look at it and it just doesn't look cool. It gets the job done, which all of the websites I've built get the job done. But I don't think I've ever built anything that looks cool.
I follow the basic structure of a websites I've seen online, but I wouldn't compare it to a Zappos or... |
I have beeen working on a website design into a psd format , the file size reached around 300 megabytes.... So is my PSD file as intial design reaching this size is terrible !
I need to end up with fast loading page , Right now is should be loading in 80sec @ 65kbps
any hints or fixing guides will assure me and i would... |
I always have a difficult time choosing color schemes and I think I often end up overloading my designs with color because there's "just something missing." Today I realized that part of the problem is that I often overlook using black and white as a choice. I use Kuler and Color Scheme Designer a lot (and have used va... |
I'm having issues with artwork I would like to use for my website. Unfortunately, the artwork I have came included with a white background behind it. I realize I can manually remove the white background using tools like the Magic Wand in Photoshop, but I've found that the edges of the artwork lose their sharpness. Is t... |
I have a website, www.xphoenix.co.in. Before, it's homepage had too much text but no pics, news feed, countdown timers, etc. Actually it's for our team participating in the F1 in Schools competition and other team members said that www.xphoenix.co.in/home.php is a bit boring. So I updated it, but still think something ... |
I am trying to get a series of shapes (rectangles) to follow a path (sine wave) that I made with the pen tool, but I have no clue how to do that or if it is possible.
I have tried warping a rectangle into the sine wave path, but it takes many different warped rectangles and it isn't smooth.
I thought this process migh... |
What I am trying to do is to move a PNG of semi-transparent gradient above another PNG of a box in it within a video editor. So imagine the first gradient slowly moving to the left on top of the box, but the problem that I have run into is that once these layers are outside of Photoshop they don't seem to interact anym... |
The image
The layer panel
The yellow top rect is the layer with vector mask, the one with full gradient is the shape layer. They are both applied a gradient overlay, but the layer with mask does not have any effect.
I've also tried to check or uncheck the Align With Layer, the result is still same.
Could anyone e... |
I am trying to figure out the most efficient method for editing raw scanned documents so they look best at 72PPI when published on a website. I have an example here which is from a 600DPI source scan. I have already applied a Gaussian Blur onto both images.
This 1st graphic is resized using Image -> Image Size... where... |
I have a simple animation built in Adobe Edge Animate. It works great on Desktops with decent speed but it is slow to load and jerky on any other computers and mobile devices.
Are there any tips to improving performance with Adobe Edge Animate across devices for a quicker loading, smoother experience?
Here is what I h... |
I'm having a trouble cropping at all sizes when using W x H x Resolution. For example, I choose 500px as W and H, and then 300ppi for resolution- and then I have to wait. And I mean WAIT ALL DAY. The progess bar just stops at a certain point.
Do I have something set wrong?
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I'm having some trouble on Illustrator CS4.
I'm creating a metro map and am having trouble with items taking too much of a jump when I nudge them with the arrow keys. I've been through other threads and couldn't find a specific answer to my problem. I've deselected all the obvious grid options etc.
As you can see from ... |
I'm currently working in illustrator CS5 creating 2d game art for iphone, and I'm just wondering about the best way to save the art to still keep the quality but have low memory.
In save for web and devices, I choose .png, but I don't know if I need PNG24 or PNG8
Is there any other way after I save my files this way ... |
In terms of tips, are there any good resources or things to keep in mind with things like font and typography? Any "ideal" or happy medium sizes to keep in mind?
I'm working on a project where the UI is heavily data-populated. I'm attempting to take a large amount of data and translate it into a UI comp (to hand off ... |
I have been making a 2d game art for iphone in illustrator CS5, and buttons and background elements which use gradients and some textured effects are saved in .png.
I noticed using these effects dramatically increase the file size. Is there any way to reduce it?
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I need to save an image from Illustrator at 150 LPI (lines per inch) for a printing vendor. How do I do this?
Bonus Question : Reccomended file format? (JPEG, TIFF, etc)
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I want to chop up an image into blocks of lets say 10x10px (the size is arbitrary). The blocks can only have one color and therefore it is allowed that the image will be slightly changed (its the intention that the blocks are visible).
How is this process called? Is there software or a web service that automates this?
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I am new to Illustrator and vectorizing Logos. I need to vectorize this logo
My questions are: how can I find out the two font types and colors? What will be the best way to vectorize this Logo 1:1 in Illustrator? Because I am new to Illustrator it will be helpful if you tell me how to do it.
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I think this is a pretty simple request, but how can i get it so that when i select a colour on my image using the eyedropper that is goes to my clipboard without me having to open up the dialogue box and coping it.
I'll be using this in photoshop and fireworks.
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I am currently creating a book layout with inline code and code-blocks.
For those code parts, i would like to add a background-color. It should handle code similar to the way it is displayed on StackExchange.
Codeblocks
As there is no option in paragraph-styles, that would add a background, I tried to use paragraph rul... |
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