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Mar 19 |
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What font can I use for a Japanese book? The original version of this got answered already - What font can I use for a Japanese book? - so now this has been migrated back here, it's a duplicate of that one... (hopefully we're a bit more co-ordinated now than we were in 2011...) |
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Mar 16 |
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Run Illustrator script on multiple files @horatio sounds like a good alternate answer |
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Mar 15 |
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How to improve angle and proportion perception? +1 a good way to get that objective eye faster is to look at it in a way that inhibits recognition - for example, look at a mirror image / flip horizontal or vertical, or run it through a dramatic filter (blurring your vision or stepping back is sometimes enough). It's worked if you're hit by a "woah" moment of 1,000 imperfections jumping off the page at you at once such that you can't believe you didn't notice them before |
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Mar 15 |
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How to improve angle and proportion perception? +1 having no fear or reluctance to just casually start again (keeping the earlier version, but to compare and learn from it) is a really important part of the discipline. As is, more generally, bring passionate about a piece of work without becoming attached to any particular version. |
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Mar 14 |
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How is this coffee stained design done? Also, add steps to leave the photo out in the sun for 7-8 years so that it's faded but not too faded, near a source of humidity so it's slightly wrinkled but not too wrinkled... Sounds like a labour-intensive process to do to every photo every app user uploads ;-) would need a very unusual business model to be profitable... |
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Mar 14 |
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How is this coffee stained design done? @graphicsman (s)he's not asking for programming help, as this isn't a programming Q&A site. They're asking us about what needs to happen, generally, to make a photo look like that (then, they will go and figure out how to program a similar process in whatever they choose to use). |
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Mar 14 |
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Is there an ISO or similar recognized standard for Icons? You can browse them at iso.org/obp/ui/#home and tick 'Graphical symbols'. You have to enter a search term, but if you just want to browse by category, terms like 'for' and 'to' match most of them... |
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Mar 14 |
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Is using a portion of quoted text on a poster a derivative work? Hi afterlame, can you pick out a couple of key quotes from that link and edit them into your answer? Otherwise the answer becomes meaningless if the external site changes, moves or goes down. We have a rule on these sites that answers shouldn't just depend on a link. Thanks! |
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Mar 14 |
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How is this coffee stained design done? If you increase the contrast without first reducing the colour saturation, then depending on how it's done you might find that areas with relatively lighter hues like greens end up too light and areas with relatively darker hues like reds end up too dark (or it might make no difference, or have the opposite effect, it depends on how the contrast is done: it's something to play with and see what comes out better) |
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Mar 14 |
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How is this coffee stained design done? +1 I'd suggest maybe reducing saturation before increasing contrast but other than that looks good to me |
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Mar 14 |
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How to become an `awesome-UI' creator like Dribbblers? Also it's pretty much 3 questions in one: you could ask (if they haven't been asked already) "Does Photoshop have significant benefits over Fireworks for UI design?", "What [fireworks/photoshop] techniques are essential for a UI designer?" (make sure you give clear criteria so it's not just opinion-polling) and something like "What is it about these related UI designs on Dribbble that makes them so good?" (be clear about what you mean by "so good") |
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Mar 14 |
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How is this coffee stained design done? To clarify: you're asking for the names of the effects that have been applied to that photo - including the colouring, texture, high-contrast, etc? (So that you can then go and find out how to make them work in automated image processors like imagemagick?) |
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Mar 13 |
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How can I learn website/webpage design As for the less than friendly response you've received (sorry about that!), it'll help if you can whittle down what you're doing to specific types of problem that can be answered in a page. This is a question that is more often answered in whole book, or even whole shelves of books! And your other question seemed to be at the very start of problem-solving. Ideally, the point to seek help from strangers is more like "I'm trying to do X and Y, but no matter what I do, Z doesn't work - here's what I've tried". |
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Mar 13 |
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How can I learn website/webpage design Not wanting to pile on, but you might find the answers and discussion to these questions useful: How would I know how good a designer I am? has many tips on self-appraisal and spotting areas needing improvement, and Why do people keep telling me my site looks awful? has a pile of tips many of which are widely relevant. |
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Mar 13 |
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Indesign auto column width size for table based on the data containing? Not that I'm aware of within InDesign but I've seen a thread on Adobe forums linking to a book on InDesign scripting that apparently includes a script that does this. I have no idea if it actually works, if there's a better place to find the script, if it still works in CS6, etc - but that might help. |
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Mar 11 |
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How can I use design to teach history to 8th graders? This sounds more like a question more about what web apps can be used in teaching than about design. You might get more answers at webapps.stackexchange.com especially on the functionality side of things (e.g. enabling kids to create and post things about a topic). I'd recommend posting there with a clear outline of the kind of things you want to enable the kids to do and issues you have with the things you've tried to show prior research. |
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Mar 8 |
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How can I prevent layer effects from overwriting when merging layers? I find that isolating the layers to be merged, then select all and Copy merged works better than merging or flattening layers when they have layer styles applied - might help, I'm sure there's probably a better way though. |
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Mar 7 |
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Shape gets distorted when adding stroke in Illustrator CS6 Curious... maybe post a screengrab of the shape's Appearance window with and without the stroke, again to see if anything unusual is there? Also, does the same thing happen if you repeat those steps creating a new shape? If it does, try varying the steps and seeing which are essential for it to occur. |
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Mar 7 |
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Make InDesign not re-hyphenate an already hyphenated word Genius! I don't understand why this doesn't have 1,000 upvotes. One question though: I could only get this to work by applying the 'No language' to both the first and second segments. Even if I set the 'No language' style to inherit 'no break' and explicitly turn 'no break' off, the hyphen always came out as 'Mixed' character style (being subject to both rules) and it refused to break at the hyphen. 'No language' on both works great, however. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? |
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Mar 6 |
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Shape gets distorted when adding stroke in Illustrator CS6 The only thing I can think of is, try turning align to pixel grid off. It sometimes has odd side effects. If that doesn't help, if you post the exact steps you're taking to add and remove the stroke, people might be able to spot something unusual. |
