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Graphic Design Animation Automation Batch Processing

06/17/19

How to remove every second frame from an animated gif?

I have a folder full of videos that I want to convert to an animated gifs. ffmpeg/avconv does a bad job of doing it directly, so I instead convert the video to a gif by first outputting each frame... more

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Graphic Design Adobe Photoshop Text Layers

06/17/19

How to change the font style of all text layers in a single PSD file?

My client has a change of heart and wanted to go from Roboto to Helvetica Neue. Is there a way to change the font style of all text layers automatically instead of the painful way one layer at a... more

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Graphic Design Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation Design

06/17/19

What's the pixel dimensions of a presentation slide for Open Office / Libre Office Impress?

What's the dimensions of a presentation slide in pixels? I'm having a hard time trying to get it right. I keep guessing and checking and it's taking too long. I googled some results and they're a... more

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Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator Artboard

06/05/19

Can you re-number the order of artboards in Illustrator CS4?

I use illustrator with multiple artboards to design website layouts. Often I start at the beginning (what I think is the beginning at the time) and get 15 pages deep. Then I realize that I need to... more

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Graphic Design Business Copyright Website Design

06/05/19

Charging an Intellectual Property transfer fee for design work?

So, you've finished a design job (eg. a logo design) and the client asks for your IP surrounding the logo, eg copyright, original artwork files, notes, sketches, all of that stuff that went into... more

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Graphic Design Color Website Design Web Safe

05/29/19

Are "web-safe" colors still important?

Years ago, it was always strongly recommended that web designers should only use web-safe colors. Have studies been done to see if this is still the case? If so, what's the answer?Does anyone know... more

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Graphic Design History Maps

05/29/19

Before computers, how did cartographers draw roads with perfectly parallel sides?

If you're drawing a road on a map, and that road happens to be straight, it's easy to draw its two sides parallel: you just move the ruler. But most roads twist and turn, and drawing their sides... more

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Graphic Design Tools Hardware Illustration

05/29/19

Are graphics tablets worth it?

I've always felt curious about graphics tablets, but I've never even used one. Most people I know either give up or love them. I'm not a big illustrator myself, but I do the occasional doodle and... more

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Graphic Design Hardware Designers Mac

05/29/19

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?... more

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Graphic Design Windows Android Software Recommendation

05/29/19

Alternative for Sketch on Windows?

I recently came across a tool called "Sketch", which is great for designing apps and other responsive layouts, and has great resources as well. For now, it's only available for Mac though. What... more

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Graphic Design Adobe Photoshop Windows Android

05/29/19

Any way to use an Android tablet as a cheap touch-screen (display + pointer-input-device) for Photoshop?

Is there a way (a hack; a commercial app; etc...) which enables me to use any of the available <300$ tablets as a pen-input device to my PC? And specifically in Photoshop?Wacom's offerings are... more

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Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator Vector Software Recommendation

05/29/19

Alternative to Adobe Illustrator?

Can you recommend a good alternative to Adobe Illustrator? I am learning vector based graphic design, but I am not ready to make such a large investment as to purchase a copy of Adobe Illustrator.... more

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Graphic Design Legal Stock Images Licensing

05/13/19

How to protect against third-party claims when using free stock images?

Today's royalty-free Stock image sites are relatively open, meaning that theoretically, anybody can submit any kind of content, including copyright-protected content created by others.It's even... more

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Graphic Design Typography

05/12/19

Full Send Nelk Font

Does anybody know NELK’s “full send” font?

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Graphic Design Image Processing

05/12/19

How can I visibly alter an image while maintaining the same classification result?

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Graphic Design Computer Programming Python

05/12/19

Write a program to implement the DBSCAN algorithm using python. Graphically visualise the cluster outputs with each cluster points given in different colours.

The input will be a chameleon data set. And also check the quality measure using Homogenity and seperation

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Graphic Design Font Recommendation

05/12/19

Font where O is very distinct from zero?

I'm working on a project that has a a convoluted acronym with an O in it. In addition to being difficult to remember, it's very easy to mistake the O for a zero since it's not a word and it already... more

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Graphic Design Font Size

05/12/19

What does the size of the font translate to exactly?

I have a 40 pixel font that I'm trying to translate into custom images. I'm trying to match the size of the image exactly, but I'm having some problems getting exactly the right size. Basically,... more

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Graphic Design Image Processing

05/12/19

What is photo manipulation?

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Graphic Design Software Recommendation Font Design Fontlab Studio

05/12/19

Is there any open-source alternative to Fontlab out there?

I used to work with Fontlab Studio to design and compile my fonts. Years have passed and my former Fontlab install vanished into the voids of a crashing harddisk.Now that I'm gaining interest in... more

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Graphic Design Image Processing

05/12/19

What are different types of image file formats?

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Graphic Design Color Print Design Cmyk

05/11/19

How do I make screenshots look good when printed in CMYK?

When printing screenshots alongside black text, black areas of the screenshot look a <del>washed out</del> *"muddy dark grey"* and *"washed out"*. What causes this and can I improve the... more

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Graphic Design Website Design Font Size Typography

05/10/19

What are standard ratios for typography on the web?

In laying out a web design, I often try to make sure that my typography is proportional and consistent. However, I haven't been able to find any definitive articles or resources on what ratios and... more

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Graphic Design Image Processing

05/09/19

How do I make a normal JPEG image into a poster print?

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Graphic Design Tables Reference Request Layout

05/09/19

Why should lines be avoided in tables?

I read some books about typography and design. They all recommended to avoid lines in tables, and instead to make use of spacing. I found that reasonable and adhered henceforth to those... more

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