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Jan 14 |
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How to Take the Edge Off Mandatory Double-Spacing typo |
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Jan 14 |
answered | How to Take the Edge Off Mandatory Double-Spacing |
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Jan 14 |
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How to find a texture for a background image for website? Are you asking for a list of sites where you can download any kind of texture backgrounds? Or are you asking us to find you a background texture like the one you posted? The first question can be answered by googling "background textures" or going to any stock art site. The second isn't appropriate for this site. |
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Jan 14 |
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Illustrator or Photoshop for Vectorising/Tracing in Print Images? It's up to you as the artist to decide what effect you want to go for (to imitate a pen drawing or to have a clean vector art look). Both have their merits. Illustrator can also imitate hand-drawn images, but it's not as realistic as you could do in Photoshop, Painter, or similar programs. |
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Jan 13 |
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How to create Illustrations and Art from Sketches in Adobe Illustrator @Pekka: Are you talking about something like Illustrator's live paint/trace feature? If so, what other ones have you had good results with? |
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Jan 13 |
answered | Wordmark or brandmark logos - Which are more effective? |
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Jan 13 |
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What web graphics formats to use? If you're going to choose a single format, then that's definitely what I'd go with. But for photos, you really should consider using JPEG. At high quality settings the compression artifacts are usually imperceptible in most photos, and the resulting file is still smaller than a PNG--even more so if you use multi-pass compression. The size difference can be quite significant. |
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Jan 13 |
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What web graphics formats to use? You can use indexed colors with PNG as well. So there's no reason to use GIF at all, unless you're dealing with some old browsers or want to use an animated GIF. |
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Jan 13 |
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How to get dashed line in Photoshop? @Dkuntz2: That's a good reason not to use the pencil tool. Unless you're doing pixel art, you usually want there to be antialiasing. This is especially true if your dashed line isn't straight horizontal or vertical. |
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Jan 13 |
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What is the single most influential book every designer should read? fix link |
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Jan 13 |
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How to create Illustrations and Art from Sketches in Adobe Illustrator Trippy: Here's a basic linework tutorial: vimeo.com/12166921 . As for mesh gradients, you can probably find some good tutorials on tutsplus: vector.tutsplus.com |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? added 110 characters in body |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? expand on alternate meaning for "roman"; added 41 characters in body |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? added 360 characters in body |
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Jan 13 |
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How to create Illustrations and Art from Sketches in Adobe Illustrator Based on what you say you already know, my advice is to learn how to use mesh gradients. That's the one skill that really separates advanced vector artists from amateurs (well, that and line work quality). |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? add reference to bracketed serifs |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? I'd also add that the two meanings are often blended together (such is the case with Roman square capitals), which is probably truer to the original usage. So I guess, technically, neither usage is correct. Here's some more interesting reading: contextualstudies.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/… |
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Jan 13 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? @Charles: I'm not sure that's true. There are strong indications that the term "roman" has been used to refer to classic serif typefaces by professional typographers for a long time. It's not just a misuse by people who are ignorant. It's a reference to 9th century neo-caroline miniscule based on Roman-style chiseled type (e.g. found on Trajan's Column). It's also the basis of the term Roman square capitals. For more info see: tcnj.edu/~miranda/classes/web/type.html |
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Jan 12 |
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Free alternative to Comic life? This question seems more appropriate for superuser as Comic Life is more of an entertainment application ("for kids and big kids") than something a serious graphic designer would use (even to make comics). Professional comics aren't made from photos, and they're usually done in something like Illustrator/Photoshop or Manga Studio. |
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Jan 12 |
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How are Serif and Sans-serif fonts different, and when should one use one over the other? @Charles: There are 2 uses of the word "roman" in typography, see: desktoppub.about.com/cs/basic/g/roman.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_type |
