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I need to print a document that renders to a web browser on a wide format printer (Canon TA-20). The document is long and narrow. I need to print multiple copies at once side-by-side (see simplified image below). Is there a way to do this without altering the HTML to render each element of the highly complex document m...
(Although 'opinion' certainly may be in play here, there seem to be some consistent best practices about color usage on the web, and this question is about how to handle the scenario where violations of those best practices are inescapable). The web app im building has to use a corporate color scheme. As for corporate ...
I'm essentially seeking a "crash course" or explanation in any web building changes over the past few years - best practices, new methods, new pitfalls, etc. It's been a number of years since I built out a full web site. Most of the time, I'll construct a home page and secondary page, then that's passed off to a clien...
I have an SVG that's meant to be a responsive web button: After some trial and error, I've noticed it doesn't look great at extreme widths: the vertical borders get thinner and thicker as the viewport shrinks and grows, respectively. I thought I could solve this with border-image-slice, but as you can see in that link...
So I'm trying to make my text shorter (less height), but transforming it won't do since it would warp the curvature of the text as well. Example:
I am able to perform reveal the background image just like is explained in this post. However, I can still see some of the foreground image. Instead of completely hiding the foreground and revealing the background it seems as if I'm just changing the opacity. The opacities are all at their default 100% so why is the ba...
Can anyone help me identify the font used for 'Cinderella'. I can't seem to place it. Thanks!
I have a 60-page (i.e., 30-sheet) book (to be more specific, a photobook). I'd like to create a video showing the book with its pages turning one by one (e.g., ~10 sec per sheet or so, then turning to the next sheet). How can I create such a video? One could serve the book as an interactive webpage where readers can fl...
I have a 60-page (i.e., 30-sheet) book (to be more specific, a photobook), in JPG format. I'd like to serve the book as an interactive webpage where readers can flip pages, with some page flipping effect. How can I create such an interactive book?
I need to take a full RGB image, and turn it into image that is optimized for a specific 512 color palette that I already have(I've been hired to make graphics for a Sega Mega Drive game). I can't use GIMP, because that for some reason has hard limit of 256 colors on palettization. I do not actually care about image be...
I am early in my experience with creating digital art. I've found a lot of Photoshop brushes that help me get the look and feel that I want for specific design elements, as well as brushes for grass, trees, and hair. Can I create a Photoshop brush for something like landscape design? For example, a set of brushes that ...
Created a clipping mask using a smart object. I was wondering if I wanted to add or subtract to the clipping mask would I have to rasterise it first?
am learing Illustrator and this is in learing purpose. I try to draw one product in vector. Almost done but am not shure how to make this rounded shadows to be like on photo? Check screenshot. On left side is my work. Maybie this is not good apporch for professionals but am beginer.
I would like to resize my layer without having to click the Transform Controls (the resize handles on the corners) When using the move tool, once you do click the transform control, you can resize and reposition the layer by typing in values into X, Y, Width, and Height in toolbar. How can I access that resize toolbar ...
While setting headings for a book I ran into a typesetting issue where I would love to get some hints and different point of views from the creative folks out there. I am setting a "book" that has the following TOC. Note that each major heading 1 has one heading 2 and each of the heading 2s have 2x heading 3. 1 Duis...
Searching for name of effect I want to design posters and I have stumbled upon this effect often, but I don't know what it is called. Thus I haven't been able to look for tutorials. I am not talking about the colors or the ripped paper but the way the image has been transformed into dots of either of the two colors. I ...
I sometimes update the underlying file outside Photoshop: Existing guides in Photoshop are then lost by default. How can I keep the existing guides when the underlying file is updated in Photoshop?
This is a working script which do the same job as it would if you hit tab File>Export>Quick Export As (PNG/JPG). There are 4 artboards and 7 layers in document. I need export 4 arboards. Result: all 4 artboards are exported as PNG into folder. Code export works like all in one. No loop is needed (for var i=0...,i++) ...
I'm working on something containing compound paths with text inside them akin to this example: I want to try out a few different fonts, styles and sizes for this text, but it appears that with every change I make to the text, I need to re-outline it and recreate the compound path. This process is rather laborious and ...
I have recently discovered Pitch and on their website https://pitch.com they are using a lot of 3D assets blended into the 2D slide designs. I've seen this style of corporate design at several other brands before, but as I am still quite new to 3D design, I do not really know what to even search for to be able to repro...
With some fonts in InDesign (in this case, HEX Franklin), the PDFs that are exported show weird rendering issues (see screenshot). I tried reading up on this, but couldn't find a clear answer as to why this is happening, or what to do about it. InDesign itself displays the type correctly. My findings so far This seem...
I'm in the process of printing a book. I would like to use lay-flat binding. What are the following two types of lay-flat binding called? Lay-flat binding type 1: Lay-flat binding type 2 Please ignore the paper types (glossy in the example of lay-flat binding type 1, and matte in the example of lay-flat binding typ...
I'm working with a couple of different images/files simultaneously, switching in between them. Using a grid for measurements is fairly important (or at the very least extremely useful). However, to adjust the grid, I always have to go open Edit->Preference->Grid and remember the measurements (which for now is done by j...
I want to create a PDF for a customer in which each page has a different shape than a quadrangle. It should be a PDF-file without a background (also no grid or no white background). In the end each site should look like a PNG file but it has to be a multiple paged PDF. I tried a view things but nothing really worked. I...
I have been watching a tutorial using the pen tool to create an illustration. What I have for the most part done is create paths that overlap and then using the shape builder tool get rid of the overlapping path. Sometimes I find using the shapebuilder tool creates a lot of extra points. The method in the tutorial is t...
I've been on a search for a while now but I can't figure out the term for this design element. I'm not even really sure what to look up. I tried going through terms associated with typography but no dice. You find it used a lot in vintage texts like newspaper ads and wanted posters where identical symbols would be used...
I created a dxf from a group of layers in QGIS, and brought this into AutoCad 2023 and saved as a DWG. Every layer shows black on the model view but is red under layer properties. When I try to change the colour of the layers they remain black. Am I missing something obvious?
I haven't used ExtendScript for a while. Now I got a new laptop and just updated to the latest indesign-version CC2023. I wanted to debug an indesign-script so I had to set ExtendScript up again. I noticed there is a new version and my launch.json didn't work anymore. I updated the launch.json to "version": "0.2.0", "c...
Using the latest version of Inkscape in Windows 10, I am trying to copy vector geometry from my drawing out into a powerpoint presentation. I have accepted that no technology exists yet to exchange vector data between applications (horrifyingly), but even with the rasterised image, my arrow headed lines have all arrowh...
When copying geometry from Inkscape for pasting into a word processor, how or where is the rasterisation done and where is the resolution set?
So I'm designing an Odia font based on old letterpress types from early 1900s. Matching Latin isnt exactly necessary but would be nice to have. Those old books used a variety of Latin types but I believe this one is keeping well with the classic looks. Another requirement is font should ideally be OFL licensed so I ca...
How were images even prepared for printing before Adobe? What was the printing process? I really seem to be missing what they were doing between the Gutenberg press and the Adobe software when it comes to images...
I am creating a logo and have drawn a motif with the pen tool and - as far as I'm aware - the path is closed as I'm able to fill it with colour. However, on closer inspection, the fill colour is not sticking to the path as the boundary, in fact it's either filling outside the path or within it. The motif was initially ...
Good morning all, I'm an Australian firefighter at one of the oldest fire stations in the country. We have some tiles with a unique, hand-painted image that is only found in our station. I would like to take this pattern and print it on a shirt for fundraising purposes. I've attached the photo of the image. How would I...
What software can I use to draw similar circle schemes? The radius increase should be fixed for each subsequent circle. All 'X' should be aligned diametrically and be rotated to fit orientation.
I'm learning graphic design and, for practice, I'm making an app. I noticed my color choice of these buttons look off, although I'm unsure why. Also the proportions, but I'll take care of that later. Could you provide a critique of why these colors don't seem to go well?
I am using the new version of inkscape (1.2) on a MacBook Pro, and when I try to make lines or shapes I am unable to see the fill or stroke that I adjust. I can adjust the stroke thickness to whatever value I want, along with the stroke colour or fill colour, but I do not see any of the colour appearing. When changing ...
(Disclaimer: I don't understand well color models.) For a document, to be typeset thanks to LaTeX, I have: a “dark” color (DC for short): CMYK(1,.60,.10,0), a “light” color (LC for short): CMYK(1,.35,0,0), many other colors derived from these two ones (e.g. one of them is a mixture of DC at 65% and white at 35%). Now...
In GIMP I dont these see borders. The same when I export jpg or png. Only PDF give me these ugly borders. I have selected area with the select tool, then I clicked right mouse button->edit->fill with fg color. There are probably borders of these filled layers. But it's visible only after export in PDF.
When in need to draw an illustration in 2d or even 3d, one can use a mark-up language like svg or pgf. Both produce vector based illustrations, they are good and can produce very nice results. One shortcoming of such vector based languages is the absence of ray tracing. And when in need to draw an object of a more comp...
When setting the stroke-width of a line, the stroke width appears to change in Inkscape (okay.. good). However I believe the amount that it changes is not actually equal to the value set. For example, when changing the stroke-width, I can see the outline of the stroke changing (blue lines) and they are grossly outside ...
I want to create a shape like this in MS Office. But in order to find out how to do that, I need to know the name of the shape. Does anyone know what it's called?
Is it possible to create subscripts in superscripts, e.g., “10a1”? (The expression with LaTeX would be 10^{a_{1}})
My understanding is that the Hue blend mode is supposed to use the hue from the top layer, and the saturation and brightness from the bottom layer. I placed a red in the bottom layer. RGB = (255, 0, 0), HSB = (0°, 100%, 100%) I placed a blue in the top layer. RGB = (0, 255, 255), HSB = (180°, 100%, 100%) The resulti...
Is there any way to find a similar color code when reducing the opacity of any color? For example:
I hope that all is well. I am trying to make a gradient that looks like the following in illustrator. Notice that the gradient on the O is non linear, and thus, I am having a hard time doing this. Please advise. Thank you in advance!
I'm trying to make a triangle where all the sides are curved outward, like a Reuleaux triangle, but the sides must be of a specific length. The length must be measured along the curve, not from end to end in a straight line, and the shape must be a specific vertical height. Is there a way to do this, including using an...
When I use Rectangular Marquee Tool on a zoomed image and move the pointer out of the child window frame, the window starts scrolling. Vertical scrolling speed is just fine, but horizontal scrolling is a waaaay slower. Did someone else notice that or it's just my system (CS6 on Win7)? Is there a setting, maybe some ani...
I attempted to paste a vector and/or image file on Photoshop as a smart object, when editing the image, it does not update on Illustrator. Is there a way around this?
I have an imported picture, which I want to punch rectangular holes in. Trying many options from Youtube or the Adobe website don't seem to work. When I try to use a Compound Path, for example, it states that the picture is not a path or it was brushed on. Help or advice is appreciated. (I am using Adobe Illustrator) I...
I am interested what is the total area of a book page that is occupied by text. Basically, how much ink do I need to spend to print a page with text. I have experimented with different fonts like Bodoni, Helvetica and PT Serif: And also PT Sans and PT Sans Extra Condensed: Bodoni is a "modern" font, so it looks less ...
I've found some licensed image that I want to reproduce in Inkscape (without backgrounds) but I'm a novice and I would want to get them to make some scientific illustrations. Can you show the faster way to get them in inkscape?
I have about 3000 frames with icons currently on my Figma page. It looks like this: I want to have them ordered in a grid. So instead of this: X X X X I want it to become this: X X X X Auto-layout unfortunately only works in one direction. How do I achieve this?
I'm trying to create a pixelart picture and I'm having problems with background. I need to do this effect: Is a gradient but I think is not created with Aseprite Gradient Tool. And in PS I don't know how to do it.
I am creating some icons in Ai and want to resize the designed shapes. But the problem is I have stroke shapes, and when I am resizing, it changes its stroke size. The way I knows is Expand the shapes, by going Object > Path > Outline Stroke In the preference enable the Scale strokes and effect setting But both ca...
I made a polygon shape in illustrator through stroke options and made it into a dotted line shape. I've applied some transform controls and want to expand the whole shape into individual dots. But whenever i expand the shape, it changes the stroke into fill which prevents me to further expanding the shape. Any one expe...
Right here is an interesting one. For a project I need each pixel of existing pixel art on an individual layer. There are potentially hundreds of images so i cant just copy, paste to new layer for every pixel in every image Is there a way it can be scripted to go though an image and save every pixel as a new layer???
I am kind of confused about something. why there are two opacities in photoshop? are they same? or different? thank you.
Why doesn't the properties panel in my design software show all the options for shapes? I was following a video tutorial on creating rounded corners, but I noticed that the panel offers more options for rectangles compared to polygons. I specifically want to create pointy stars, but I'm unable to find the supposed sett...
I need to insert a facing pages PDF document into a single pages PDF document, is it possible to do this and keep the structure of both? This means that the result should be one document in which you first see single pages, then you transition to facing pages and then you go back to see single pages. Not shure if it's...
I am a beginner logo designer, I started creating some fake logos. I have to spend lots of hours finding the correct position for my logos. For example, In the "DPT Shipping Solutions Logo," I am stuck to get the best layout. I created the logo mark successfully but adding the slogan in the correct position has been a ...
I know the steps for how to draw a surface in perspective using two vanishing points. I mean, I know how to draw a box, a pyramid, and a cone. Now I got into a situation where I need to draw the following: Can anyone give me an explanation? Or a reference to a book? I know Ernest Norling's "Perspective Made Easy", but...
I've been trying to use GIMP's foreground select tool to make cut-outs, but I've had something along the following lines thrice in the last two days, losing hours of work: I start the foreground select tool. I make a rough outline, preview the mask, and start refining the foreground / background specification in plac...
The font is called Anton and the S needs to be stretched to a large page, I already tried illustrator and indesign but can't figured it out...
In other words, I want to use different letters when it's under 20pt, which are optimized for smaller rendering. Is this possible with a TTF font?
I have a large amount of 1024x1024 images that are mostly transparent pixels. I need to crop these images to the smallest possible centered square that includes all pixels. In other words: I need to trim the canvas equally, on all sides, until I run into a non-transparent pixel. Example 1: The 1024x1024 image is comple...
Basically I want to mix halftoned spot colors in the way you do CMYK, but with any combination of spot colors of my choice. Photoshop has an almost-good-enough way of doing this with image>mode>indexed color, where you can specify a limited set of colors and each pixel can only take on one of those colors. You can sepa...
I want to cut the overlapping hands and legs from the circle but want to keep the head part. Any idea on how to do this? This is my second day on Illustrator, sorry if the questions sounds kinda dumb.
How can I sign a document only using GIMP such that it looks like it was printed to actual paper, signed with a blue ballpoint pen, and then scanned again. I was sent an important document and, for legal reasons, I was asked to sign it. I don't own a printer, and this document has sensitive data on it that could be use...
I have this image text which I was able to obtain from a low resolution jpg and then cleaned it out to this point, but now as can be seen in the pic it does not look smooth. I can't find the words I should use to google this and find out how to make the writing look more smoother. Whenever I search for smoothen, Google...
I am working on marquetry, where I use a laser cutter. I'd like to use Inkscape in a mode similar to ArcMap's cut polygon. In ArcMap, I can create property lines (think new subdivision) with an existing shape (property boundary) that gets cut using the Cut Polygon tool. Very simple, you select the larger shape, then...
I am trying to prepare semantic segmentation masks out of photoshop images. I'd like to have pixel-perfect solid colour masks (in machine learning segmentation sense) for different parts of the image. Here's the example I'm working on: I select the area to be labelled and fill it with a solid colour. The problem is on...
We have redesigned our product labels for our supplement brand and want to know from professional graphic designers and print savvy individuals if most product labels you see in retail stores use pantone or CMYK? The pantone will give us the consistency, but the CMYK may give us a bit more flexibility in color choice a...
After googling and learning (and much frustration) that Adobe canceled the Flash Prfessional Animation tools especially the CS5.5 version in which I still work, my issue is the following: (Leaving aside the rendering qulaity and solutions), I use the CS 5.5 for my animations since I have my animation heroes (4 months o...
Hey I am trying to scale and duplicate a circle placed at equal spaces Please help as I am an Illustrator beginner. Thanks
I have an image that has a stain right across it. I think that I could remove it by (a) using the stain in the border to calculate a colour difference between the stained and unstained area (b) freehand select the stained area of the picture (c) subtract the colour difference from it. But I don't know exactly how to d...
I have 2 separate layers for the original eye background i called eyes-outline and another layer for my new eyes i called white-eyes. It's obvious that they are separate layers as in the left image I have white-eyes invisible and on the right image I have eyes-outline invisible. But when I have white-eyes selected and...
I have a low resolution image of a person and I was able to manage to increase the resolution of the image by manually improving all the features. But I'm now stuck on how to get that exact look on the face. How do I get exactly those Chinese eyes? As you can see the original image has a distinct look and I'm certain i...
I have a rectangle shape with no fill and no outline and one line of a text. I want to clip this text by the shape. If the shape has no fill, the text will disappear. If the shape has white fill, I will lost a content under this shaped text. How to get around this? UPDATE: I need transparent shape, not white. White ba...
I am editing a photograph which I've masked out the woman from the background but she has a pinkish hue on the edge of her hair. I am not sure what the best way to go about selecting the hair as I only want the pinkish parts. I am assuming I would need to create some kind of mask of just that section of hair but on ano...
I'm simulating a page being turned in a book. I'm using After Effects. An illustrator file is imported into After Effects and that file contains a few layers. One layer represents a page and another layer represents the rest of the book. The problem I have faced is that when the page/layer is turned the "back" of the p...
I drew this using Bezier tool in Inkskape. Saved as svg format. When oppened in browser I got the corner deformed (see the second picture)
I realized this when using the Photshop generated A4 sized image as a Word template. Word tells me the image is larger than A4 and I verified this using an online tool as well. I selected the Photoshop preset A4 layout sized 8.268"x11.693" at 300 resolution. However, the saved image is 25.83"x36.54" (or 2480px x 2508px...
I have created a document with facing pages. It’s for a foldable flyer with four flyer-pages in total, each in A5 format. The printer shop does the folding for me, but expects the input document to consist of two document-pages with a bleeding of 2mm; on the first document-page shall be the outer flyer-pages (so back a...
In Inkscape, when I have the following: If I remove the red node, the neighboring nodes magically get handles, I guess because Inkscape tries to keep the appearance with fewer nodes, resulting in this: What I want instead is for the two nodes to stay as corner nodes with no handles, just like this: I can obviously a...
How why do I not find the color of this text in the right side?
I'm doing something kinda silly where I actually do need all ~16mil RGB colors. I do know how to do them separately, one by one, but I can imagine that taking quite a long time to do it manually. This is what I have done manually so far: I'm hoping I don't have to continue doing this. If there is a source where I can ...
I am new to graphic design, and can't figure this out. I am making a "Meet the team" page for a small business's website. On the page will be staff portraits. I can edit out the original background of each employee portrait, and can edit in a clean, solid-color circle easily enough. But I'd like to use the same circ...
Is there a way to rasterize the Inkscape editor view for low res to emulate bitmap graphics? E.g. an 8px text on a 32x32px page is shown perfectly vector-y ;-) If a "pixelate" filter effect could be used, it would need to align to the pixel grid.
I have some irregular polygons defined by points whose coordinates depend on a variable r, for example: x = if(1 / sqrt(10) <= r < 1 / sqrt(5)) { -2 r² + r sqrt(1 - r²) - sqrt(2 r⁴ - r² + 2 r sqrt(1 - r²) (2 - 2 r²) - 1) + 2 } else if(r < 1 / sqrt(10)) { (2 (5 - r²) + r sqrt(5 - r²)) / 5 } y ...
I am wondering if there is a function in InDesign if you have multiple pages in one document to place into the file it can have them loaded? Just like when you multi-select different files to place and it has them loaded to place on the cursor. At the moment I am just clicking to the page in the import options and plac...
Not sure if this is the right place to post this type of question. Please let me know if not and if you have suggestions for where this might be a better fit. I am creating a figure which represents four data points over time for each analysis. Each analysis has four variables: scenario, μ, ME and EEA. The first has 3 ...
I'm using Photoshop on an image of a horse, trying to paste the image into another background. The selection has leftover green from grass in the original background, especially around the horse's tail. I'm trying to use Select->Color Range, but it either errors, "No Pixels Selected" or I'm unable to do anything with...
The reason is that I want to move them anchored together, from within the opacity mask.
I know this title is impossible to understand, sorry about that... Here's the actual shape I'm working on: So, I wish that the rightmost points of the 4 horizontal rectangles (circled in dark green) to be aligned to the rightmost point of the vertical rectangle (circled in magenta), while the 4 horizontal rectangles c...
This question is related to adobe illustrator. As you know, the software allows the user to add a grid that helps to draw in perspective (the Perspective Grid Tool). I drew a rectangle with its anchors exactly on the corners of the grid. Now I decided that I want to change the location of the vanishing point or change ...
Is there a way to reset, or position the cyan anchor(not sure what its called) in the exactly in the middle of an object when using the reflect tool? I know if I click on what I assume to be the centre it will reflect from there but was wondering if theres a more accurate way to do it? Its not defaulting to the centre ...
I am very new in Photoshop. I drew one 400 px x 400 px square. Now I want to cut that from corner to corner so that I get two triangles. How can I do it? It must fit within that 400 px by 400 px. No gap can be there. What I did was I took 400 px x400 px square. Then took pen tool to draw one triangle inside it. copy th...
I am using a font I like in a program that doesn't have access to all opentype features so I get no choice as to how numerals are displayed. By default they are old style where I'd rather them appear lining and (ideally) tabular Can I use font-forge to apply the 'lnum' substitution lookup by default or apply them direc...
I use a Wacom tablet for sketching (diagraming), and I am looking for a software that can aid in that with recognizing and converting hand drawn shapes in real time. Example in Office (ink to shape feature):

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