Workflow describes the process of a task, the steps required to go from start to finish. This term is not limited to design, but in the design world it can be applied to different processes, from creating a logo to digitally retouching a batch of photos. Workflow is often a subjective topic, ...
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Switching to GIMP from CS5.5. Is it feasible?
I've recently moved to linux from Windows7. The only program I can't do without is photoshop. I make a lot of banner ads and small landing page creatives.
My question, is it realistic to switch and ...
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What is the best way to design for a group where multiple people have equal input?
I am building a website for a student organization. Although I'm a novice at graphic design, I can do basic sites (bootstrap is a lifesaver) and am moreso of a pro when it comes to development.
The ...
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Photoshop action to export icon resources for OS X app?
Is there a photoshop action for exporting a 1024x1024 canvas as all the required icon resources for a OS X app?
Seems like something the design community would have made, but I can't find anything so ...
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The way it's supposed to work with books in a team in InDesign is not coherent, then how to properly work?
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
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How do deal with frontend developers remotely
This is more a question for the web designer guys.
I'm just wondering how you guys deal with sending designs to your frontend developers? Or do you just do it yourself?
What is your process for ...
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Tools to put into place for designing for yourself
I know I am my worst enemy from critique to execution. I ask this question because I wanted to know any good ways to stop myself from going on and on in my own work. I have several ideas and things ...
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Learning WordPress for designers does a framework help?
I ask this question because it is in relation to Scott's thread here. I understand we have a WordPress stack exchange but I wanted to know before I dive into WordPress how designers have approached ...
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Recommended workflow for previewing a PSD (Win) in an iPhone
I'm looking for an app that would allow me to simply view my PSD on my iphone as I'm creating it. Something like this exists for Mac (LiveView and Skala Preview), but I can't find anything similar for ...
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What is the best way to setup the document for this kind of layout? Or an alternative layout [closed]
This is a catalog that contains the following items for each group: a header, image and table section;
Those are the rules
A: an article in the table might refer 1 or more models in the images
B: ...
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How much effort should I put in to optimizing (cutting up) images for the web?
I often get designs from our artists which contain large complicated images that can be turned into a background-color, some tiling, and overlaid smaller images. The problem is, doing this often takes ...
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Endnotes in InDesign: Closest thing to a pain-free, flexible workflow?
It's an age-old complaint: up to and including CS6, InDesign supports footnotes, but not endnotes. Documents, books, reports etc aren't going to stop needing endnotes because Adobe don't support them. ...
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How to guide the workflow in a collaboration? How to not kill the other’s motivation?
While working together, how can I discuss my ideas and objections without killing the other person’s motivation?
I want to do a design project with a friend, for study purposes, but I experienced ...
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Mobile First and RWD workflow and how to interact with client
Our agency's workflow for creating a website normally consists of:
discuss content-design with client
we create wireframes (with optional, depending on client, approval)
we create one or more pixel ...
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Recommendations on how to synchronize Photoshop actions, swatches, etc. across computers
Is there any convenient way to synchronize Photoshop settings like keyboard shortcuts, actions, swatches, custom layer sytles, etc.. across several computers, preferably in an automated way?
So far, ...
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Dreamweaver Uploading
When we work on websites, sometimes the PSD files save in the HTML/Images folder of the project. We usually upload HTML folder to the server through Dreamweaver. Is there a way we can tell Dreamweaver ...
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Version Control for Designers / Alternative to Version Cue
I've just been searching around the net for version control that has some support for graphic/Photoshop files. We're currently using BitBucket which is free and unlimited when it comes to file size ...
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Downsampling images when they are produced, or in the final document?
I work with documents mixing text and bitmap images, for which the final format is a PDF file. Most of the times, I produce my own graphics, which means that I have a choice of:
Creating all bitmap ...
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after effects workflow for popup roulette numbers
I'm using After Effects to create png sequences for roulette's winning numbers.
First I create a sample animation with effects and transforms (8 frames).
Next I create timeline with colored numbers ...
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How do I keep file sizes down when editing PDFs?
I have a set of white label PDF forms that I need to brand for our company. The initial document is 6 pages, 316KB, and already has a full set of fillable fields. In a perfect world, I just open up ...
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Delivering a graphic design to a customer
I work as a photographer but recently I've been working on stretching my skills and took on a project to create a graphic design for a non-profit. The designs are complete and the organization was ...
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Gimp: export XCF as a list of commands?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process.
The GIMP ...
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Bulk download or Web service offering brand logos
I have a rather long list of global brands (about 2000) for which I would like to download a brand logo. I was wondering if there is a way to automate this process, since I know that this list will ...
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Efficient use of Illustrator's export File Dialogue
When I File > Export using Artboards from Illustrator the (OSX)file dialogue is always pointing at the directory where the Illustrator document is located. If I need to export to a different directory ...
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The role of the designer in content – should he have one and how big should it be?
I'm a designer, not a marketer, and not a writer (at least not professionally). A lot of the work I do involves working with material in a field that can be above my head. Because of that, I'm content ...
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Can more than one designers work together?
I've been wondering if it really works successfully to have one graphic design made by two or more designers!
I tried few times, but I end up with a design that is not good enough! Even though we are ...
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Quick copy text in Photoshop Text layer
Is there a way to copy all the text within a Photoshop text layer without having to "open" the layer.
I'm hoping there's a way that I can just select the layer and then have some shortcut that copies ...
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How to manage game graphics projects [closed]
We are a recent game development startup company & have created a team of 7 graphics designers with a background in fine arts. We are right now in process of creating a multilevel game for iOS ...
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iOS App Icon design - the rounded corners issue
The problem:
The anti-aliased rounded corners of my app icons show, due to the transparency, some pixels of the underlying background.
My quick solution:
Instead of exporting with "intact" corners I ...
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Best workflow for icon design: Start big, or start small?
When designing icons that need to be delivered at several sizes, do you start at the smaller size, then scale up to the bigger sizes? Or do you start big and scale down?
There's several advantages to ...
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Best way to send layouts with editable text to writers/editors who don't have design software
Here's a common design workflow problem, probably most relevant to in-house designers, but also to agencies who have a lot of non-design writing or research staff, or freelancers who work with ...
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Increase image resolution without increasing the image dimension on export
I'm trying to increase the PPI of my logo using Adobe Illustrator, but when I export it the image dimensions that should be 131x31 increase to 268×64. How can I fix it?
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Best workflow for pdf to ePub processing and editing (large project)
Colleagues have been asked to convert a large pdf archive (about 150,000 items) to ePub and Mobi (keeping the pdfs, too, of course).
I ran a few newish ones through Calibre to find the pain points: ...
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Illustrator: locking a single object – what's the quickest/most efficient way to re-unlock only that object again?
I find my workflow for temporarily locking/unlocking single objects to be very awkward. I often refrain from this operation since the process of re-unlocking only that, one, particular object at a ...
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What are the best online collaborative tools? [closed]
What are the best on-line tools, software or web-apps that you can use to collaborate with your team and clients?
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How to set different color to guides(Ai,Ps,Id,Fw)?
I've been working on this file with a lot of guides(in Illustrator) and at some Point I was wondering is there a way to give different color to guides ? Like the gutter guides to be black, the main ...
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Are working outlines, like the ones shown inside, a product of the workflow or added, manually, for presentational purposes?
I've seen a few images like this one, they fascinate me, but what I wonder is whether the geometric 'work-lines' are a product of the workflow (hidden masks, etc) or added, manually, for ...
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Photoshop vs. Illustrator for Icon Development
My client is requesting SVG files (saving as an SVG would require me to build the icon in Illustrator), but I have always designed icons in Photoshop (importing vector art from Illustrator, and ...
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advice on workflow and people needed for an app
I'm looking for some advice on workflow and what people I'll need to put together an app for tablets and smartphones.
There are 3 questions down the bottom of this post.
There are 2 apps planned -- ...
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Looking for equipment recomendations [closed]
Is it OK to mention specific brand names on this list? If so, I have a couple of questions or requests for recommendations.
I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive and portable desktop printer that ...
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How to describe/talk like a designer?
I am a front end web developer. I tend to mostly deal with code but do, from time to time, have the opportunity to create graphics. I notice the designers I work with are able to talk in great detail ...
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How to troubleshoot a design that doesn't “feel” right?
I'm a new designer (sort of) and I'm wondering how you guys fix a design that just doesn't feel quite right. When you've been working on a design for a while, you can get the feeling that one of many ...
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Workstation recommendations for designers?
I have a question that comes a bit unconventional and I apologize if it is a little off topic,
We need to buy computers (laptops because we have many power outages in Mexico) for web designers and ...
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Illustrator: Quick way of removing redundant anchor points after unifying shapes?
Except for manually removing redundant anchor points that gets added when unifying two or more objects, is there a quicker operation to wipe in-between anchor points?
EDIT: To complement ...
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Vectors: How do you deal with background 'spill' on overlapping edges?
When covering one vector shape with another; if the edges overlap, the background shape's color is used as a (distasteful looking) pseudo-anti-alias effect on the foreground shape's edge, instead of ...
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iOS, Android, etc., tablet devices in a design workflow?
I'm going to have to spring for one or more tablets (iPad, Tab, whatever) for testing ePubs, digital magazine ads, site rendering, etc. Because I don't have the consumer nature and also because I'd ...
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Should I store work files on my local drive or an external one?
When I worked in small design studios, I was always trained to keep my work files on an external hard drive, and never store them on the computer hard drive. One of my design friends asked why I ...
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Possible to restore multiple windows (of the same document) between sessions in Photoshop?
Is it possible to restore multiple windows of the same document between sessions?
In other words:
Open a document.
Select Window > Arrange > New Window for …document's name ( ^ ⌥ ⌘ N on Mac )
Close ...
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How to go ahead in web design?
I am having a hard time learning web design. I read several books and I know a bit of how to do things. I also like to study with firebug how the "big guys" made their web sites. But when I try to ...
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How can I best provide feedback to my designer
What's kosher when providing feedback to your designer? Are there best practices? If he's making a mockup of an iPhone dashboard should I tell him that I'd prefer the icons be monochromatic, or that ...
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Solutions for a comic production workflow?
I am looking for suggestions on a convenient solution for the following workflow.
Scan a hand-drawn panel
Fix and retouch drawing errors (using a small set of simple brushes)
Separate elements ...
