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Hyphenation on many line breaks
Sometimes, word processors screw up hyphenation by hyphenating a series of consecutive lines. This just happened to me in a spectacular way:
What's most annoying in the above case is ...
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If I reference a medical textbook or website for hand drawing bones is that considered copyright infringement?
I can't quite figure this one out. I am not copying a custom piece of work, I am copying something that is available in nature, bones. I am also not tracing it, I am drawing by hand using them as a ...
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Simplest set of inks that could print the RGB gamut?
Artist Tauba Auberbach produced this recently:
It's called RGB Colourspace Atlas, and is a physical, printed book of what it implies is the whole RGB colour space.
Is there an existing ...
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How do I embed Google Web Fonts into an SVG?
I'm new to SVGs, and just made my first decent graphic in Illustrator. I've embedded it into a page (using the ) with the GWF script for the Ubuntu font in the tag, but as it turns out, the Ubuntu ...
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How can I easily create a shape with a specific pixel width and height in Photoshop?
So this may sound like an easy question, but it is not.
In webdesign we often use rectangular or square shapes to represent backgrounds for sidebars etc. These need to be pixel perfect so that when ...
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Creating a list of favourite fonts in Photoshop
I do a lot of design work, and I'm constantly using different fonts. Therefore I've built up a list of over 200 fonts in my directory.
Is there a way in Photoshop of creating a favourites short list ...
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Illustrator 3D Extrude Pipe Elbow
I'm trying to create a 3D extrude of an ABS pipe elbow like this:
Large image.
Although it can be solid, isn't necessary for a hollow pipe.
I created a doughnut from two ellipses (one deleted ...
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Difference between “Bamboo Pen & Touch” and “Intuos4”
I'we been trying to compare the two tablets mentioned in the title.
So far, my results are:
Intuos4 is professional wheras Bamboo is for home use.
Intuos4 has 2048 levels of pressure while Bamboo ...
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How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign
I've got a font, which doesn't have polish diacritic chars which I need. I'm trying to construct them, by merging two glyphs - a letter and ogonek or acute accent, which are provided by my font.
I ...
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How to fade a line out in photoshop
I have 1 RGB layer; the background. Its background is white. There is a solid line on this image. I wish to fade its left end out to white. How can I do this please?
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Photoshop showing low quality graphics
I have a strange problem in Photoshop. I had this background image that I had downloaded from a website to try and recreate something like it. After I downloaded it and opened it up it all looked ...
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In What Situations Am I Required to License Fonts From Its Original Creator?
In what situations am I required to license fonts from its original creator? For example, if I design a poster or a card for personal use and I use a font I have downloaded online or have paid for the ...
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What are common non-traditional Graphic Design requests, and how to handle them?
Naturally you would expect that a graphic designer is proficient in logo, print and web graphics, but what else do clients commonly request? (Web, email, motion graphics, 3D animation etc...)
I've ...
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How to distribute an equal amount of space between each object in Photoshop?
I'm using "Distribute Horizontal Centers" in Photoshop, but it might be the wrong tool for the job. I'm guessing Photoshop will be distributing the CENTER of each text object and aligning that, so ...
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Identifying HTML colour codes placed in one pixel
How many colours at once can one pixel contain?
Is there a tool that can represent this pixel in a form of HTML colour codes? (And if there are many colours in this pixel, can this tool show the ...
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What do you call these infographic icons?
What do you call these simple, basic types of graphic elements that are used in infographic commercials, and the like? They are vector based, look like pixel art, but have smooth edges, and are ...
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How do you create custom scripts for automation in Photoshop?
I have been recording custom actions to perform various automations, though I am starting to require greater control which would be better implemented using some form of scripting (if this can indeed ...
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Does anyone know a good pixel font 7px tall?
I'm looking for a pixel font which I'll use later on to convert/use on an lcd type of display and the maximum height is 7px.
I've started by checking out dafont's bitmap fonts, but it takes quite a ...
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How to get bokeh images to use in web design?
I'm looking for online resources, image libraries, Photoshop actions, tools, or any other means of getting or designing bokeh images (those highly blurred pictures, with colorful circles) for use as ...
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When creating PDF from an image, what determines the screen dimensions when viewed at 100%?
I would like to use pdf for ease of use and annotations when creating previews of my screen designs. However, no matter how I create my pdf, I can't seem to figure out what determines the 100% view of ...
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How to vertically center text in a box in Illustrator CS5
How do I vertically center text in a box in Illustrator CS5? I cannot find a way to do that; in InDesign, it's a click away!
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Right-aligned tabbing not working as expected in InDesign
Working on creating a table of contents. It's right aligned, and since the page numbers go into double digits, I wanted to have a tab in between the page number and the page title so I know that the ...
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What are great fonts for information-heavy data tables?
I'm designing a web application which has lots of data tables with business information both as numbers (sales, hours etc) and text (product names, region names etc).
What fonts are great for dense ...
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Multiple objects spaced evenly around a circle
I have a project where I am taking 6 different images and placing them on a circle. All of the images have duplicates (anywhere between 3 of the same image to 24). In total, I need the circle to have ...
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Highlighting text in Adobe InDesign
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. ...
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How do I expand a folder of layers in Photoshop Elements?
In Photoshop Elements, how do I expand a layer group to see the layers inside? I mean "Register form" or "login form" in the following screenshot:
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Is there no such thing as OCR-B font in bold?
I have been looking for a good monospace font in order to meet the criteria of a client.
One I found that I think has suitable qualities is OCR-B.
However, as near as I can tell, it only comes in ...
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Technical Name for Removal of Image Background
Can someone remind me what the technical name is for the removal of a background froma still image?
Our photographer told me years ago, but I've since forgotten and it gets embarrassing!
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Can I transform an image's location in a Photoshop action so that it's relative to the canvas and NOT the image?
I'm trying to create an action that will move a layer around the canvas. The problem is that my image won't always be the same size and neither will my canvas. If I record a transform and move my ...
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How do I slice drop shadows in photoshop when there is another layer underneath?
I have a layout of a webpage and I would like to know how to save for web all the user selected slices. However, in some particular slices I would like to only slice from one or two layers, but keep ...
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Tools for *lossy* PNG compression?
I'm trying more and more to get by sans PhotoShop for my personal/freelance work. I do primarily web work these days and don't do enough side gigs to justify keeping up with the Creative Suite beast.
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What icon fits “navigation”?
I just thought about the this: We have dozens of well known icons for nearly each and everything. All those icons normally are inside some sort of "navigation" (bar/menu/etc.). But what's the icon for ...
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How do I make dotted borders in Photoshop?
How do I make dotted borders around my custom layer. Now I have a simple rectangle that I want to have with a dotted line (dash 1px, gap 6px). How can I do that?
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Design Critique/Feedback Websites
After quite a lot of searching, I haven't really find that many websites focused on design critique, where you could just upload your work and get some responses.
One of the biggest sites oriented on ...
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How can I print vinyl stickers without using laminate?
I would like to use a consumer grade inkjet printer (entry to mid grade) to print on self-adhesive vinyl. These labels would be for outside use, so the ink could not simply sit on the surface of the ...
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Graphic Design Pricing [closed]
I have a client that wants me to create some designs to promote their book. I have done work for them before, but having a hard time trying to come up with a price for this project. The project ...
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Vectors or 300 dpi TIFFs for printing?
I have worked with CreateSpace before and used AI vector images on the cover and interior PDF of a book, but the images all printed pixelated. After complaining, CreateSpace told me to only use 300 ...
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Name this ultra-bold geometric display font with triangular letter shapes (W and F)
Can anybody tell what is the name of this font?
I checked in WhatTheFont but it didn't show any results.
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What is the GUI style called that is commonly used in sci-fi media?
What do you call the style, trend or design commonly used by bodies mentioned in the title? I always see these designs in sci-fi movies and dashboards used by FBI or CIA. Do you know any toolkit using ...
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What printing technique can I use to print a poster that is too vibrant to print using screen printing?
I've got a poster design that I wish to print. But provided that poster has multiple colors that won't go good for a screen print (further, I would like to restrict screen printing to t-shirts), is ...
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How can I write in other languages in Photoshop?
In other languages, alphabets can combine characters into symbols. I don't know if Photoshop can do that. Is there a clean way to do it, or a special plugin (preferably free)?. Maybe there is some ...
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Illustrator Vector Graphics Appearing Pixellated
This has been puzzling me for a few days now, and I asked a graphic designer I knew before trying here and haven't been able to solve it yet. It's quite weird so please bear with me for a bit.
I am ...
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Footnote/Endnote reference characters before or after an ellipsis?
I was checking guidance on where to put footnote or endnote reference characters relative to punctuation and found a really clear answer for everything except an ellipsis.
It's pretty unlikely and ...
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Which Photoshop features are affected by different DPI or PPI tags?
A Photoshop document‘s physical size, pixel density (DPI/PPI) and pixel dimensions are all linked.
Bitmap images contain bitmap data, which are a specific size (pixel dimensions). They also contain a ...
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Photoshop: how to create buttons that look “subtly pushed”?
Any ideas how can I create "subtly pushed" buttons like the "Active filter" buttons in the following screenshot?
The mockup is from here.
UPDATE: Here's what I have got so far:
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Is there an icon set of cartoonish faces?
Commercial or free. Something similar like these:
http://dribbble.com/shots/482481-3d-Face
http://dribbble.com/shots/121074-Face-Process
http://dribbble.com/shots/685520-Face-Replace-iOS-Icon
I ...
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Beginning with drawing
I want to begin with drawing but I have literally no experience. I wonder if there are high quality video tutorials, like www.digitaltutors.com just for drawing?
I want to start with hard surface ...
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Use an artboard as a template, exporting multiple versions with an image swap?
I have an artboard with a card design and I have an image that have to change one hundred times inside that. It´s an image that changes the meaning of the card, but it will always have the same width ...
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How to edit an animated gif in gimp to include transparency?
I have an ajax spinner which unfortunately has a white background in the corners. I want to remove the white and make it transparent using GIMP. How can I go about doing that? I tried opening it in ...
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Where would I find a high quality version of a wooden floor like this?
It is to be used for background on a website. I like it exactly the way it is except that the image quality is not good enough. Looking for quality that will look good on a Retina screen. Must be able ...
