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Oct 28 |
answered | How to replicate this effect in Photoshop |
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Oct 28 |
answered | 1px Transparent Border around image after resize in photoshop |
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Oct 27 |
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How to troubleshoot a design that doesn't “feel” right? and BTW, it is probably your margins are too small ;) |
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Oct 27 |
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How to troubleshoot a design that doesn't “feel” right? the mirror things sounds crazy but it works. One technique I learned in fine art school is to use a reducing lens (the opposite of a magnifying glass). This reduces paintings to miniature format and you can only see the big movements. The computer equivalent is to zoom way out and turn off all your guides etc. |
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Oct 27 |
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How to replicate this effect in Photoshop so... is this a cell-phone snapshot of an embossed gold-foil logo from their letterhead, or what? |
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Oct 20 |
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Is there a way to tell InDesign not to break words in a Paragraph? (hyphenation) regarding tips and tricks: you can adjust character spacing (tracking) on phrases and partial paragraphs to spread out or contract areas of white space. Sometimes this is required to get rid of "widows" and "orphans," but it is also useful to get rid of "rivers." There is no reason that a paragraph needs to have the uniform tracking. The key is to set yourself limits though, because too much or too little tracking quickly becomes obvious to even the most oblivious reader. |
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Oct 18 |
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Is there a way to tell InDesign not to break words in a Paragraph? (hyphenation) I have frequently used justified text without hyphens and without hideous rivers. Rivers can be dealt with, but it requires a lot of local adjustment. |
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Oct 14 |
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Indesign: how to style a paragraph so that it will occupy no vertical space in the document flow (similar to “float” in css) One thing that is important: is it true that each line has a hard return (i.e. the enter key has been pressed)? |
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Oct 13 |
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Indesign: how to style a paragraph so that it will occupy no vertical space in the document flow (similar to “float” in css) The term you are looking for is an anchored or in-line object. I don't know the specifics, because in the documents of this sort which I have worked with, I have chosen to place such items manually in separate boxes. I think what you are trying to do is most likely the correct way: the line # do not really belong nested within the content of the poetry, so you want to anchor a separate text box, but you also want the line numbers to follow the text when or if it reflows due to changes in typesize etc. |
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Oct 11 |
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Is scaling an image by 200% the same as doubling dpi/ppi? As DA01 implies: for computer images, inches don't exist except as a suggestion to the software. The inches only come into play the moment the image is shown on a screen or printed on paper. If I take a 100x100px image and change it's ppi/dpi number, it is still 100x100px. Some software will assume you want to change the pixel dimensions instead, which may or may not be helpful: if you add pixels, they are faked. You can play with this a little: photoshop if you copy the height in px, double the dpi and then reset the height to its original px, the file size stays exactly the same. |
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Oct 11 |
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What's a good (and easy) way to show that a screenshot is a screenshot? With classy, context is everything. A 5px border is a classy K-car, a drop shadow is a classy sports car, and 1px border is classy luxury sedan. |
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Oct 11 |
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Any ideas on how to fill a blank sidebar? I agree. If you want to "fix" the white space, move half of the column width to the right side (i.e. center the content column). |
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Oct 5 |
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Looking for the best PDF editor or plugin for InDesign you can place the pages in indesign, lock them, and then overlay new text boxes, however, if you have been hired to do this by the company responsible for the book, surely you can get the source files |
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Oct 4 |
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“Change this design to a quarter page, from a half” - page layout reduction but keep content I had a meeting with a client & I grabbed a "rough" to show him some folds. ONLY the folds. The rough had the pre-production text he sent me which HE TOLD ME was far from finished and would be changed definitely for sure 100%. I dropped it in with some images he gave me to see if I could make it work in the allotted space or if we needed to change size and get new quotes etc. If it wasn't a drop-everything and run out the door meeting, I would have made a blank dummy. I told him 2 times before handing him the item to ignore all content. I told him two more times as he started marking it up. |
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Oct 4 |
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Is unsolicited design a form of spec work? without looking at your sources, I would guess that the primary difference is in who initiated the contact: spec work would be a job initiated by the client (without promise of acceptance and payment), whereas hustling would be spec work initiated by the designer. |
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Oct 4 |
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Childish logo, sober and professional website: how to? comic-sans-like fonts is potentially OK, but it sounds like you mean "poorly designed and amateur" (??) |
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Oct 4 |
answered | “Change this design to a quarter page, from a half” - page layout reduction but keep content |
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Oct 4 |
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“Change this design to a quarter page, from a half” - page layout reduction but keep content I would not show it to the boss. My experience is that one of two things will happen: a) the squashed redesign will be printed or; b) the poor quality will impact the boss' opinion of the employee. There is NOTHING you can say to deflect either of these things with an inexperienced-with-design process individual: they always hear your caveats, but they don't seem to apprehend that you are providing drafts suitable for a single aspect or part of discussion. |
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Oct 4 |
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“Change this design to a quarter page, from a half” - page layout reduction but keep content I am reminded of the 1st year illustration assignment where we picked product, worked up some 8 x 10 ish sized renderings and then had to resize it to 1/3 page column. |
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Sep 29 |
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Need png optimisation/compression advice apropos to what DA01 says in his answer, ( optipng.sourceforge.net/pngtech/optipng.html ) is a nice discussion of the topic which includes a list of programs. |
