Questions tagged [mac]
Questions about designing with or for the Apple Mac; a series of models of desktop and laptop computers developed by Apple, Inc. Ask anything about design that's specifically relevant to an Apple Mac computer.
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Why are Apple Macs used so much in the graphic design industry?
Why is it that graphic designers more often use an Apple Mac? I am studying graphic design and I am hoping to do some freelance work in my spare time. I have a unit in my studies to discover why Macs ...
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How to view webfont files (ttf, woff, woff2, eot) on a mac?
Does anyone know how to view webfont file formats (ttf, woff, woff2, eot) on a Mac?
I've been sent some files and would like to view them so I can make sure all the formats are correct.
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How can I force a guide to snap pixels whilst being dragged?
When I drag my mouse through a ruler to create a new guide, I want this guide to move pixel by pixel so that when I leave it, it will have snapped to a side of a pixel instead of staying in the middle....
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Are Macs preferable to PCs for handling graphics software?
Excuse me for being totally uninformed, but it usually seems like creative types of people i.e. graphics designers prefer Macs over PCs for accomplishing their tasks. I was wondering, why is this? Is ...
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What are the best mac applications for developing pixel art?
I would like to create pixel art graphics for an iPhone game on my mac, and I'm wondering what are some good programs I should look into.
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Color differences between Mac and Windows, How to set color profile scheme on Windows to get same colors of Mac?
I'm developer; I use Windows but my designer uses Mac. Whenever he sends a graphic file to me (.psd and .ai files) the colors show differently on Mac and Windows, even if I take the color code from ...
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Why are Apple products so common in mockups?
Inspired by this question:
Why are Apple Macs used so much in the graphic design industry?
While browsing through the web trying to find device mockups for my website,
I realized that about 90% of ...
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How to determine what quality a JPG was saved as?
When saving JPG images with Pixelmator or Photoshop, I select a quality from the scale 1–100 that gives optimum file-size.
Later on, I sometimes take these images and crop them a little more (not ...
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CS5 export layers as files with NO number sequence
I am using cs5 layers to modify and then exporting layers as files. While saving CS5 automatically adds some number sequence at the end thereby modifying my original filename.
It automatically ...
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Lower-cost alternative to Photoshop
Maybe once a month I need Photoshop. Since it is rare, the cost seems like a disproportionate amount of money to spend by my startup.
I think the tasks I need to achieve when I'm converting a ...
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Only exporting one artboard in Photoshop
I started using artboards in Photoshop, they are great for making banner sets. However, I've just had to change something in only 1 of my banners.
If I use 'File > Export as...' it only gives me the ...
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How to determine correct font name between OSX and Windows with Adobe "Find Font"
In Adobe Illustrator CC 2017,
Edit: To everyone else who is experiencing this problem. It appears to
be a really bad bug. Please upvote the issue on the link below so Adobe can be aware and fix
this ...
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Temporary keyboard shortcuts stopped working- illustrator/photoshop CS5 (mac)
I use temporary keyboard shortcuts for navigating my work area...
e.g.:
Hold down Space to get hand tool
Hold down Space + Cmd / Space + Cmd+Option to get zoom in/out tool
All of a sudden these no ...
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Is there a way to access Mac system fonts in Photoshop?
I am mocking up a Mac App interface on El Capitan and would like to use the San Francisco system font. However the San Francisco font doesn't appear in Photoshop's font menu. Is there a way to access ...
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What to do with these errors when I open a PSD file in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) while PSD is made by Photoshop (Mac OSX)
I'm a Web Designer and when I open some PSD files in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) I get these messages pop-up before to open PSD. My fellow designer use Photoshop on Mac OSX.
Error 1
Some text ...
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UI Mockup and wireframing tool for Mac OS X app UI's [closed]
I'm looking to get some input from experienced designers, since my main job revolves around coding and not so much designing...
What good tools are out there that one can use to mockup some os x ...
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Fully Importing A Saved Colour Palette In Illustrator?
Is there any way to fully import a saved colour palette into Illustrator? I once saved a colour palette from one project and wanted to import the colours for use in another project, but I found that ...
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How to determine the "native" size of a bitmapped font?
I have a couple of bitmapped fonts in the form of *.dfont files. I would like to find out the "native" size(s) for these fonts. By "native" I mean the sizes (in points) of the bitmaps themselves, ...
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What are some of the benefits of having a Mac vs a Windows PC in a design environment?
I work in a b2b business and everyone here is on Windows PCs. A co-worker is pushing to move the design department from Windows to Mac. I worked on a Mac about 15 years ago when I worked for an ...
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Is Optima Roman or Optima Medium the Optima.ttc found in Mac OS X?
I'm currently working with a relatively small event run by volunteers and we want to be consistent across our publications. Currently we use Optima for the body text in our publications, but it's ...
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Lightweight psd viewer with layer support
I'm looking for a lightweight psd viewer that allows me to turn on/off layers.
I currently work at a web-design firm and at some points in the project lifetime we need to compare the resulting ...
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How does one reset Illustrator CS6 on Mac?
My Illustrator is acting a bit buggy; more precisely, no selection is actually visible. Selected text isn't highlighted, looking for an anchor is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and finding a ...
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How can I create vector illustration of mathematical and organic chemical formulas?
I am using Macbook Air, OS X 10.9.2. I want to create vector illustration of mathematical and organic formulas, so I can use those vector illustrations for T-shirts.
Examples:
How can I do that on ...
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Plugin for color blindness?
Is there a plugin for any of the Adobe apps or in general that adjust on-screen colors for custom color blindness deficiencies?
This way the affected designer can design seeing the colors clearly and ...
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Placing Keynote 6.0 elements into Illustrator CS5
I upgraded to OS 10.9 and Keynote 6.0. In the previous version of Keynote, I was able to easily paste charts into Illustrator CS5 as vector objects, of which the elements could be independently ...
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Copying the position of a slice or slices from one PSD file to another one
I hope I'm on the correct site to ask this question, because I'm new here.
Is there a way to copy the position of a slice from a PSD file to another PSD file.
If I select the Slice Select Tool and ...
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InDesign relink Index Markers
Working with Indesign Creative Cloud 2017, I've run into an issue. I was delivered files and the supplied IDML file has about 150 Index entries that I need to relink in the content. When I export ...
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Which sizes should I deliver icons in? (Desktop, not web)
It's the first time I am designing some icons for use on a desktop, but I have now come to the point where I have to export them as .ico.
My question: How do I deliver, hand in the icons to the ...
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Right color balance MAC vs Windows
I've designed a web page on a Mac computer. When testing it on windows in appears with something like 20% less saturation. The page is public, for the web, so the final user may have any kind of ...
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Remove text from black and white photo
How do I remove the text from this image please?
I have tried using clone tool but it is very messy. I have Gimp on a Mac.
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How to copy a character from Font Book on Max OS X Lion?
I'll like to use a symbol font character (upper right in the image, Glyph 5081). How can I copy the character from the Font Book and paste to another app?
UPDATE: I can find the character at left, ...
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Capture clean Retina screenshot of web page without post production
How can I take a screenshot of a web page on a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) that:
Is at a reproducible size
Looks sharp on Retina displays
Without any browser chrome / accouterments showing
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Select all layers within marquee tool
I want to select multiple layers within a marquee selection.
For example, I want to select, copy and paste the tan background and black squiggle which are on two separate layers:
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Macbook Pro Retina Photoshop Pixelated Results?
I'm a web designer, and my old (non retina) Macbook, Photoshop used to produce clear images and text both in Photoshop and out of Photoshop when the final images had been saved as a png or jpg.
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How do I make everything appear on one screen in Mavericks [closed]
When I open illustrator and move it to my secondary monitor in Mavericks and try and open anything... for example a new document, it will appear in my laptop screen as opposed to my second monitor. Is ...
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Can't get graphical .ttf font to work in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop on the Mac
I'm trying to use the Keyrune 'font', basically just .ttf of all magic sets. It's built as web font, but is .ttf and is being 'seen' by both PS and AI, as the typeface shows up in the autocomplete ...
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Anti-Aliasing turned off in Photoshop?
I was trying to make my own custom shapes in Photoshop, so I first started out with an ellipse. I saw that all the shapes had pixelated edges. I went to turn Anti-Aliasing on in the marquee tool but ...
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Why is OS X using my 32px@2x icon instead of scaling down the 128px icon? [closed]
I'm making a custom folder icon similar to the ones in the Home folder (Pictures, Documents, etc).
To do so, I extracted the images from the .icns of the blank folder icon and photoshopped my own ...
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Quality loss when PDF opened in Preview
I just saved an .ai file as a .pdf and opened it afterwards to check size and quality. This is when I noticed the saved file was lower in both color and resolution, than the original .ai file.
After ...
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CMYK color difference from Windows to Mac
When I open an InDesign file and edit a linked PSD by changing the color mode CMYK, I see a difference from my Windows PC to my Mac.
The other day I made a CMYK version of an PSD on a Mac and put it ...
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Radius of Mac OS X Windows?
What is the corner radius of the windows in Mac OS X? I kind of like to have stuff right on the dot and it'll bug me until I find out.
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Illustrator CS4: when I select an object with the Selection tool, and try and move it, it copies it instead [closed]
This is in a file originally created in version and installation of Illustrator CS4.
I have a simple text item with one character in it. Alternately, I pick a drawn element, doesn't matter.
I have ...
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How to convert videos to .GIF without photoshop on Mac
So, I want to make an animated profile picture for myself, but, I don't want to use other applications or 3 party software to convert it because of privacy reasons. Also, I don't have a windows ...
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Photoshop -- inaccurate 1 pixel brush/pencil
I've seen a lot of stuff about this, but everything I've tried has not helped my problem.
I made a custom 1 px brush using the marquee tool (seems like the default 1px pencil should also work fine ...
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Using text and numbers in a vector image using Photoshop?
I'm not here to debate if which program is better, I have only one, since Inkscape no longer works on OS X without some tweaking. I am using Photoshop.
I have a vector image I have been working on, ...
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Font management tools for Mac
It's been a few years since I've visited this topic, one which has been one of Apples biggest issues since OS9.
Font management. I have been using Font Explorer however I've never been very impressed ...
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How to preview installed fonts?
I'm completely new on a Mac. I would like a pointer as to how to visualize a preview of a given headline in as many fonts as possible from those installed on the system. What I need to accomplish is ...
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Macosx and Helvetica license
i was going to make a simple logo using Helvetica Neue font since i see it in my Mac fonts list (default fonts includes Helvetica Neue tho)
BUt i'm wondering, can i make an svg brand logo as well as ...
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Font conversion from (unknown file type - maybe .pfa) with .afm
I have been given a font that has a .afm file with another file that doesn't actually have a file type. I'm unsure what the file type is meant to be but, on my Mac, when it installs it, it can read ...
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Any program to create/edit Adobe Illustrator xml easily?
I've been using Illustrator's Data-Driven Graphics, for one of my projects. But dread using command-line programing to populate all the fields. Is there a GUI app to manage, edit and save Adobe ...
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