/sqt/ Stupid Questions Thread

>>254593
STUPID questions? Ah, now you're in MY territory...

NOICE logo, btw

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>>254593
It's been a while since the last /sqt/ worked.
hope!

>>254614
>NOICE logo, btw
that's a template senpai
>pic related

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I'll start then. My autism is triggered by the related picture. Is IL's logo the same for you too? I understand that Acrobat, Bridge and the Extension Manager are different things, but why can't it be consistent?

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>>254632
If I'm not mistaken, the "packaged" icons are for the installers and the regular ones (acrobat, Ai, Br in your pick) are the actual apps.
Mine look all the same
>shitty pic related

>>254634
Wow, I'm and idiot. Thank you for the swift reply.

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How hard would it be to do this style of art with different faces?

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Im making a grid made of triangles. And as you can see, the paths are pointing out (marked red) at the end of the path, crossing over each other.
When I expand the paths, it stays that way.

How do I fix this?

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>>254670
Wrong reference picture.

Here is my problem more detaljed

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>>254664
That depends on how experienced you are.

You'll have to trace the pictures into various layers (the cap, the hair, mouth etc), then colourize using gradient and different opacity modes.

Its not so hard, but it'll take some time

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>>254674
>>254674

You may be better off drawing the faces on actual paper, then scanning and colourize it.

>>254674


>Blending modes*

>>254671
play with the strokes options (click the word stroke) or expand the paths duplicate and use shape builder shift+m on the paths you want to keep.
protip: group them and use envelope distort by mesh)

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Hi good people of /gd/. I would like to ask:

For economic reasons, I was forced to be in a family plan and was gifted a sony experia z3+ (z4 for JP users). I was seeing some themes and would like to know...In the sony page, they have a theme creator and I've been seeing around but can't find what I would like to know which is if there is a way to change certain icons to stuff that you would normally download from the internet like this. Is this possible? I just want to change the home, apps and phone button

>>254593
Aright I'll post it here;

I'm a 2nd year communications student and while I'm trying to steer into /gd/ through internship and relevant minors, I still have a zero noteworthy portfolio.
How do I build it up? Do fictional (re)designs or go out and do some local work?

>>254706
Perhaps you should ask this on /g/, anon.

>>254706
just install a 3rd party launcher, they let you replace the icons to whichever you like.

Apex Launcher and Nova Launcher are the most popular ones.

>>254706
>>254720
This.
I use one called Themer which let's you do pretty much anything and never had a problem with it.

I saw a nice Dell 27" 1080p ips glossy monitor the other day for $300 at Best Buy. Is it worth it for design work? I kinda heard 1080p monitors are on their way out for digital work.

>>254737
IPS is all you need to look for. 4k is a meme, don't fall for it. 1080p is good enough.

Hey i got a quick question, im an amateur to photoshop. Since I live in a hood city, I was thinking about getting with local rappers n shit to make mixtape covers for them. How much should I price it? I was thinking about categorizing the pricing.EX. Black&White for X amount of dollars and Full color for X amount of dollars.

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>>254904
>I don't understand the way you are trying to price your work
I use 3 simple rules:
>How much $ I'm willling to do it for
>Is it some kind of specialized gig that not any other christian can do?
>who is my client and how much do they plan to invest on it? 3

fares are relative depending on where you are located....

>>254904
>hood city
im this fag >>254913
3rd world for lfe
still make a living of /gd/ and mostly AV stuff.

>Whichs reminds me... why is there no >>>>/av/ board?

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Question in pic. Asking for a friend.

>>255305
https://youtu.be/XxoHtbwRw-k?t=41s

Where can I download GuideGuide for CC2015?

>>254709
Both. Set challenges for yourself that capture what you know and show it to people. The more technically sound the better. Use it to get work. The cycle feeds itself

>>254593
>>254624
What's the name of the style these images are in?

>>254671
Change your line style, the corners are creating this issue.

For this particular artistic style I found it easiest to build the grid in Photoshop using shift+click with the brush tool, export the finished grid and then build my gradient shapes in Illustrator. The align tool is your friend for matching up all of the points.

>>254709
Practice. Practice. Practice. Your portfolio should be varied and show your level of experience and for fucks sake keep it professional... no titties, dicks or swastikas in interviews.

>>255448
80s neon, I guess? Googling that retrieves a ton of results.

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>>254614
>>254624
>>255448
>>255460

The name of that template is 80s retro tipography effect. I've uploaded it for you here familia

>http://www.mediafire.com/download/av84wdj1pww43il/80s_Retro_Typography_Effect.rar

>>254676
Where can I get some good textures like that for my illustrations, I've never really used texturing before but I want to start to do it. Cant seem to find any good stocks though

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hello senpaitachi, Photoshop question
how do I reduce contrast to make a photo look soft and add "dusty athmosphere" kinda like this, which options should I fiddle with (levels, curves, something else)?

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How could they let this happen? Wouldn't a high level sporting organization have better quality control?

>>255538
i'd guess gaussian blur is used as well as slight desaturation
a similar effect could be achieved with inverted high pass filter

>>255545
>Uruguay
There's your answer.

>>255550
thank you

Any good guide sites for making graphic designs of a internet webstore?

Does it help to have drawing experience to be a competent graphic designer? Is it useless if I have no talent in drawing? Are any of you guys self taught?

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>>255842
it helps a lot. but anyone can learn to drawn within weeks dude.just lurk on /ic/ books threads, beginners thread, etc.

Anyone got any tips on improving sketching abilities? I'm really lost without a ruler..

>>255897
A nice excercise is to open a movie, click on some random place in the timeline and try to sketch it the best you can in 1 minute, then jump to another random still frame from the movie and repeat.
When you grab a second movie, shorten the sketch time to 45 seconds, then 30 seconds.
First ones will be terrible but after a while you will start recognizing the important lines, the ones that tell the whole thing, it surely helped me to improve my sketches.

>>255897
i've got this books from /ic/:
Koos Eissen & Roselien Steur - Sketching The Basics
Koos Eissen & Roselien Steur - Sketching
Nenad Pavel - The Industrial Designer's Guide to Sketching
Sarah Simblet - Sketchbook For The Artist
Thomas Wang - Pencil Sketching
Karl Christian Heuser - Freehand Drawing & Sketching
Julia Rothman - Draw In - A Peek Into 44 Inspiring Sketchbooks
Erik Olofsson - Design Sketching
CreatureBox - Sketchbook Collection Vol.I
Arthur L. Guptill - Sketching And Rendering In Pencil

>>255919
Awesome tip, thank you.

>>255728
What do you mean, anon?

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Can someone tell me what font this is? Thanks.

>>256009
Pick a new one, that's ugly

>>256010
Sorry. I'm new to this whole thing. What's a readable font that gives off the same type of feel, but isn't ugly?

A stupid question thread? Nice.

I've always wondered, should I give rastered images more faith? I ask cause I kind of like illustrating, but I find it mind numbingly annoying to trace the drawing in illustrator to make it vector. It doesn't even end up looking the same. I feel like it loses the character built from the media used to produce it. It feels digital and in some ways I don't like that.

So, for something like an illustration, is a raster okay or is it frowned upon? When would it be acceptable?

>>254593
whats the name of this template

>>256020
some kind of artwork can only be rasterized (ps and such).
unless you are planing on plotting a building or something, 4k resolution should be more than enough (at 300dpi if you are planning on printing it).

>>254593
This is the first /sqt/ *slash* /qtddtot/ thread we have had in a while.
Good job OP!

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>>256030
Just read through the thread dude...
>>255471

In a style guide, do you list 'white' as well, if for instance the logo is composed of blue, red, white?

What do you guys do in your downtime? to sort of refresh yourself from becoming stale?

>>255995
Like how to make banners and such..
Learning from scratch

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In Illustrator everything is smooth.
I've exported it as PNG.
Picture related is maximum zoom in.
I thought that PNGs don't do this.
What have done wrong?

>>256454

PNG is another raster format. Its claim to fame is the transparent background, far superior to GIF.

You may be thinking of an SVG file, a vector format, which can be infinitely enlarged with no loss of quality.

>>256458
Thank you for the quick reply.

>>256454

All pngs do that to some degree when scaled or zoomed in on. Can't really avoid it, though you make it less pronounced by increasing image resolution, if you want to keep it a png, of course.

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Being the stupid fuck I am, I decided "lol i'll do a mural in my living room" and went ahead and bought 3 containers of paint (orange, brown and blue, all a bit darker than in pic related).

>pic related is what I sketched out in PS.
>Haven't painted shit yet because I don't like my design

Could any kind anons with a more flexible creative spirit fix me up with some minimalistic line design?
I'll attach the blank wall pic in a reply.

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>>256576
Ladies and gentleman, a wall that is just as blank as my imagination

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i need your help, guys.
here's a picture with some texture - the thing is i need to make a pattern from it and i have no idea how is that supposed to be done.
any help appreciated

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>>256579
There ya go m8.
I'll attach you some steps so that youll know how to fix your stuff next time.

Btw any ideas for the wall thingy I asked about?

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>>256582
When a pattern keeps repeating, every corner of your picture neighbors the other 3. So in order to "patternise" a picture, you have to
>split it into 4 pieces
>flip pieces around so that 1234 becomes 4312
>merge 4 pieces
>clone stamp so the shit looks pristine

Since your pic has an overlaid gradient, it's not that good for a pattern. So crop either the right or left side and follow aforementioned steps.

>>256576
>>256577
Looking at your place I think you should save up and buy better furniture before you think about painting up the walls in a style that doesn't match anything you have in the room.

>>256587
>implying everything isn't already bought and awaiting to be assembled after I finish with the wall.

Don't be such a sour cupcake.

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>>256586
wow, even steps :)
by "making a pattern" i meant making a square project and defining a pattern, you know, not just stamping it
what does "merge 4 pieces" mean tho ? i'm kinda stuck on this one
i just thought about clone stamping the whole thing and it seems like not a desperate idea.
thanks for your wonderful advice though

>>256595
You can download >>256582 and copy and paste it end to end. "merge 4 pieces" means that after you switched them around, you just merge the 4 layers back into one layer so that you can begin clone stamping whatever abomination turned out in the middle section because of the flipping.

>>256595
as for "making a pattern" i'm sure google has you covered if you search for "define new pattern photoshop" or something like that.

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>>256597
now i get it all, thanks
at first i thought i had to do this

>>256421
Basically you just open a new document of the desired size and do whatever you want inside. Is there something you want to replicate? Because you can have a thousand different banners, each with its own style.

>>254593
Hey /gd/

It's been a while but I need your help once again.
I have been making a website and I currently need some tips about how to make a form in it. Simple html won't do, it has to be php with smtp validation or something (I don't know shit about php) and it needs to send the mail directly from the website to the mail in question, kinda like a "leave your opinion here" thing.

It needs to have the following fields:
Name
Surname
Mail
Comment/Text

Thank you in advance for your help.

I think I'm having a problem of thinking that I should be able to create quality work in less than an hour. This mentality is giving me a hard time in my classes since I need a lot of permutation to get the design right, but I'm having hard time cranking out different designs and always end up using the first one that I created...looks like I'll be a fail designer

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>>256670
why 1 hour? couldn't you try 3 hours instead and try to reduce 10 mins each time you work on a new project?
i was having trouble too until i watch a saigmeister talk and he said something like "i would do it also even if i wouldn't be paid for it". and other thing that help me was watching this guys vids:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkFyasFN9Fw
if someone with that bad taste can make it as a gd'er, why couldn't we.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuOmTQdFjA
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZp-H9g_jeY
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMVWSUeeg8A

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What font is this? I decided to make a mousepad and it intrigued me.

>>256682
>watch a saigmeister talk
My niggah!
This is good advice for whatever, always refreshing.

hey guys can somebody remind the name of that guy who has designed hundreds of logos? I'm pretty sure its european and somebody made a site dedicated to him.

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>>256943
Stefan Kanchev? Wim Crouwel? Burton Krame?

>>256947
Thanks!

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I'm doing a project for my graphic design class, where we have to create a poster for a hypothetical event ( this event is a real thing I think, but still). We had to create a hybrid image to use in the poster.

Right now I'm trying to lay out some of the text, and I'm having trouble getting the date of the event to look good in a way with the main title block. I'm going to move the whole thing down a bit as well (maybe).
As far as the content of the image itself, feel free to critique that as well. For the most part it's kind of modular, but any big changes to the subject will take quite a bit of time to actually render (so I'd like to avoid that).
Backgrounds and the like are fair game though.
To be honest, I still think it looks kind of pedestrian. I don't really know what to do to really make it look great. I'm planning on adding some textured overlay to the text, and maybe image, but I don't know if that's enough.
I feel like I might be polishing a turd, but it's too late to go back now.

If you have any suggestions I'd be glad to hear. I'm not asking for you to do my project for me, just some tips on how to get the date looking good mainly.

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>>256959
idk seems too sharp maybe blend it more (make it look more "hand-made/organic"). usually they put the type at the very center and the font sizes were quite big.
< pic related. i was just reading this.

>>256959
i love the idea of the filmcowboy. it just looks a bit too clean. maybe give it some brushwork with ps like some grunge on the hat and poncho.
also this >>256961

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How is this done? 2D? 3D? After effects (what effects to use)?

>>257006
probably a 3d engine was used. ask >>>/3/
on AE it would be a nightmare.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEnr0fJkQY8

>>256714
looks like a less shitty cooper black

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>>256959
>>256961
>>256991

I don't know if it's worth a bump updating, but I finished adding the text that was required to the image.
For fun I tried to make it look like how the western flyers are like (>>256961 ). I thought the teacher would be kind of against it, but he really liked it.

Next I'm going to get some overlays on the text to have it look weathered and ink like. I've never done this kind of thing in Illustrator though.
Would I need vector overlays, or can I use regular images?

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>>257164
some of the above text needs to be way bigger. and that style usually have tons of noise. (protip: never use 100% white/black it's not natural)
>Would I need vector overlays, or can I use regular images?
it depends on what you can get. for a higher quality you should aim vector but those usually aren't free (and your design is already too crisp/sharp) maybe try searching for paper, grunge, and water damage/stain textures on google. usually you want to do the overlay effects on photoshop so you can modify them (curves, levels, masking, etc) i find awful to do all that on illustrator.
anyways here's some fonts
>http://www.fontspace.com/livin-hell/carnivalee-freakshow
>http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/misprinted/le-king/
>http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hvdfonts/shelton-slab/
>http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hvdfonts/brandon-printed/

>>256011
I'm not the guy that you're talking to but, I go to fontsinuse to get a better grasp on how to properly choose fonts. that might help

>>256011
roboto my senpai
www.dafont.com/roboto.font

Can anybody give my some insights on Augmented Reality graphic design? Thanks :)

Just discovered /gd/, should i go to GD school? I've been working at a dead end job for the past 6 years. My 'talent' or 'gift' is drawing but i stopped at secondary school. Should i do it now at 24/25?

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>>257337
no. that's the last thing you should do. pick something else and do gd on the side.

>>257338
Well i did get some bullshit diploma in 'Digital Marketing'by the DMI but writing isn't my forte. Is a portafolio much more strong than a degree?

>>257341
yes. but contacts/networking is key nowadays.

>>257338
Since when the fuck is economics "low tier"?

>>257367
Ignore meme images.

>>257338
>Economics
>Low tier

Nigga STEM jobs don't make you all that much money. If you're good at it, having an Econ degree will make you shit loads more.

I don't know why everyone on 4chan thinks that STEM is the be all and end all of high paying jobs. They're like 50-150k a year usually, unless you're phenomenal at what you do and highly specialized. The arts makes significantly more if you're good at it.

>Music being shit tier.

Yeah man, tell that to Kanye, and professional producers.

>>257429
OP here, I'll be 25 later this year and I've had people telling me to pursue a career in art all my life. Last year I became interested in advertising as a career through Mad Men. I absolutely had no idea of the process which ads go through. After some research, i took up a course in Digital Marketing since it's sort of the new form of advertising. Now I'm faced with the decision to continue either in GD or Marketing. You're young man, just try it out, it might work out or it might not.

I have a business card in my hand. I'd like the logo to be recreate in a high quality .psd format.

I was thinking someone on /gd/ could do it. Happy to pay $20 for the job. Should I start a thread?

>>257438
try
>https://forums.digitalpoint.com/forums/design-contests.94/

Does /gd/ have a starter guide? All I can find in the wikia are names of books. I'm trying to start out, watched a couple of lessons on Lynda.com.

How do I create a working font once I have all my glyphs done in Illustrator?

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Hey everyone!
So I have been wanting to pursue CG for sometime now and I'm really interested in making models. I have downloaded auto desk 3ds max and I haven't gotten to the sticky yet. But my main question is what is the technique/cinematography that is used in movies and video games where the camera goes through the 3D model and sweeps around it? Such as the Deadpool movie intro And the Marvel vs Capcom 3 intro. Also pic related.

>>257482
It's called a dolly shot because in traditional cinematography this thing is accomplished by moving the camera through the scene, usually on a track setup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_shot

>>257472
it depends of the software you have for making fonts try FontForge (open source) Birdfont (free) or Glyphs, RoboFont.
>>257482
>>>/3/

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I've been trying to give a gif a background image.

Initially, I just imported the gif into GIMP as a layer on top of the background, moved the frames to the right position and saved it as a gif file. I was under the impression this would simply keep the background behind the frames as the gif moved, but it ended up just being a still image in a gif file.

What should I do instead?

Pic related is the background.

>>255545
1930 dude, that was the first world cup and considered unofficial at the time, only a handful of countries joined
Association Football has come a very long way since then

>>257553
after effects keying/tracking export as gif.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWe0P8O3KE

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how do i fix this? whenever i try to use the brush it forces me to use the charcoal brush

Could anyone give me recommended specs for a laptop or computer I'd be using for /gd/ and /ic/ related activities? I haven't bought a computer in ten years.

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So for the most part, I'm finished with the poster for my GD class.
I've been putting it off, but the professor isn't too crazy about the background to the image, and neither am I to be honest.

Only problem is that I'm having trouble finding images large enough to be used, or at least at 300 dpi.
Because of the way I had to render out the cowboy, the entire image is 7200x5400 px, which should end up to 300dpi when I go to print (at least I think).
Any ideas on where to find applicable images to use?

Ideally I'm going to go print it tomorrow.
It's going to be printed at 24"x18" and mounted on foamcore.
I'm going to office depot, not really sure how well they print. I'm not sure if they accept print marks or how I should go about doing it, but I guess I'll figure it out.

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who was that one graphic designer who does designs like pic related. he did art for a vodka bottle i think and there where time lapses of him doing it there was a thread on here a while ago about him

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>>257735
< ?

>>257714
Stop pirating software.

>>257787
>Joe_White.jpg
>"Who is the graphic designer that made this???"

You're an intelligent person.

>>257787
yeah it was this guy
>>257795
different people

So I've been working only with GIMP until now, which worked pretty well for working with photos.
The goto programs for everything here seem to be Illustrator and PS.

Is there a way of getting older, non-cloud versions for a reasonable price without pirating them?

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Aright so I'm trying to remake this messy/grainy gradient I saw in some artwork by memory.
Problem is I don't wanna leave Illustrator because glorious vector graphics, but the most satisfactory result I got was from Photoshop's Gradient Tool with a Dissolve blending mode.
Plus when I remake this shit in Illustrator the Grain texture doesn't scale accordingly.

Does anyone have any more examples of this kind of grainy gradient style or tips on how to remake it in Illustrator?

>>257816
Try googling adobe used licenses, but avoid scams.

>>257835
Make it all in Illustrator, sans-gradient.

Then, wait for it, finish it up in PS.

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I'm trying to teach myself video-editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 and After Effects CC 2015 because I want to get into making small videos and eventually editing my own short films. Thing is, I am a complete beginner and a numpty.

I humbly request any web or torrentable courses or youtube series that just teach you everything from scratch, for dummies. If I have to rely on trial and error I'm going to punch myself to death.

I beg you all, and I offer a cute ferret nose.

>>257835
do in photoshop then image trace it

Not sure where else to post this. Don't think /tv/ or /g/ would be able to help me out.

How do you get started in a career as an editor? I've gotten pretty good at using AE and Premiere over the years and I'm pretty confident I could get done whatever anyone needed. Or do you need a degree to get a foot in the door?

>>257848
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>>257879
Checked it out. It's great but FAR too advanced. I literally just spent 4 hours trying to do a black and white effect and a picture fade in in AE. I'd rather focus on Premiere for now.

>>257881
they have a beginner tutorial i think. thats where i learned after effects and once you know that you can basically just learn premiere by messing around

>>257883
Ah , my bad then. Just found it. Thank you. Anything else for either AE or Premiere? The beginner tutorials are for an earlier version, hope I can get by.

>>257884
um look up keyframe tutorials and chroma key/cc tutorials on youtube. from there just fuck around with it and watch more specific tutorials. just dont use audio in after effects it fuckes up

>>257885
But how are you supposed to edit a piece without audio? Do you edit the footage in Premiere to prep it, use After Effects for any SFX you need, then throw it in Premiere again to edit/match up audio? Seems very roundabout.

>>257886
im saying dont put any extra sound effects or music in using after effects especially mp3 but keep the audio that is with the footage

>>257887
I see, alright then. Can do that afterwards. Interfacing between the two blew my mind, so pointlessly obtuse and difficult. But hey, I'll do my best. I'm a beginner, can't expect to understand all this shit when you're starting from scratch and don't even know most of the jargon.

Thanks breh. Really appreciate it.

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I don't like making logos, does a Digital designer (not a print designer) have to make logos as part of the job?

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>After effects memory usage

Picking up after effects again, I know video editing takes uses a lot of RAM but I've only got a 6 second clip of 3 images moving across screen and it's using over 5GB. What am I doing wrong, is it the preview settings or something?

>>254706
/w/ have the best phone theme threads, /g/ have them too but they're shit.
I have a Z2, get Nova launcher and KLWP

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>>257955
i doubt it ae usually takes around 1 gb for simple stuff. try watching this
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3vb_NV-Q0
>>257931
>does a Digital designer (not a print designer) have to make logos
digital designer? well, usually yes. unless you don't mind rejecting clients (bad for your rep) or if you're already working in a studio doing something specific (e.g. advertising, illustrations, motion graphics, etc.)..

>>257962
>i doubt it ae usually takes around 1 gb for simple stuff. try watching this
Thanks, it's much better now

>>257962
Another stupid question, I'm playing with after effects and premiere, I've exported a file from after effects as h.264 rgb and a separate h.264 alpha video, how do I combine them in premiere so that the alpha acts as an alpha and anything that's black on the alpha video makes that part of the rgb video transparent?

>>257966
are you on a mac? usually i combine files in after effects, but try:

- render as video for windows
- No compression
- RGB+Alpha

another option:

add your comp to the render queue (be sure to have no background layer) and use QuickTime as the output format. Select a codec like Animation or PNG and be sure to change the depth to RGB + Alpha. This option is not available for all codecs.

>>257982
Okay, I've got it to work by exporting it as an avi with rgb + alpha, but the file size is 1gb for a 6 second clip, I know this is because of compression differences in the codecs, but to save space (a lot of it), how do I combine the two separate video files of the h.264 in premiere?

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>>258058
Export it as a single h264 with RGB+Alpha.
It won't let you do so directly.
Choose to export it as Quicktime with RGB+Alpha and then change the codec (not the preset) to h264.
You will have one small video with a separate Alpha Channel.

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>>258063
Is this what you mean? Changing the codec in the format options removes the option to select rgb + alpha

>>258066
Not sure if it's what you meant but I tried quicktime format, animation codec and it has rgba and small file size

>>258066
You may have to render it through the Enconder (Ctrl+Shift+M)

>>258072
Quicktime animation has nice quality. Glad you solved it

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made my first ever thing a few minutes ago, why are some parts filled in blue, and some white?

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>>258247

fixed it

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>>255536
You make them
Some prefer into photoshop, some in illustrator but it's harder.
This guy will show you a good method:
methodandcraft.com/videos/custom-vector-textures-in-illustrator (pic related)

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ID this font please?

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>After effects
So setting keyframes at one point and another will animate it from 0% opacity at say frame 0 to 100% at frame 50 smoothly

But what if I want to toggle something on in one frame? There's
opacity 0 - frame 0
opacity 0 - frame 49
opacity 100 - frame 50
using keyframes, or there's resizing the bar associated with the file in the timeline. Is there a right way to do this?

Is CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 a good program to own? Apparently I can get it dirt cheap.

What are differences to the adobe environment and what can't you do with it?

>>258451
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTGViL5v8cA

>>256351
yes. but you should use the Pantone book to reference colors, not "red" or "sky blue"

How do I paste ascii art into photoshop without it loosing its form?

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New to this any way I can make this look better?

I'm using photoshop to make a simple wallpaper out of a laptop hardware maintenance manual and I need to make the linework a solid color so I can properly change the colors.

How can I target just the lines so that the black pixels and the pixels closest to those in color?
I need to do this because a color change makes the lines spotty since it doesn't target all the linework I need it to.

>>258819
it depends on what this is going to be used for.

>>258859
It's gonna be used as favicon and icon for social media accounts

>>258468
Thanks!

What's the best way to obtain free, decent stock photos besides sxc.hu and taking them yourself?

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So I'm doing an animation in Illustrator for my college class (yes, it has to be Illustrator) but the problem is phantom frames. The animation was originally 400 frames but I cut it down to 200 to save time. Finished the animation and exported as a .swf by converting layers to frames, but after frame 200 it keeps playing frame 200 for 200 more frames as if frames 201-400 were still they. well. they aren't. So I need help finding out how to get rid of these phantom frames.

The gif is the animation and frame 200 is when it fades to red, so basically it stays red for 200 extra frames and it should only be red for 1 frame.

Each layer has only 1 sub layer (checked em' all myself)

>>258858
>How can I target just the lines so that the black pixels and the pixels closest to those in color?

wat

>>258819
make the arrow smaller

Guys I'm trying to start learning blender and photoshop so I can make cosmetics for the dota 2 steam workshop. Right now I'm just interested but I'm wondering if there's a way to make money off of 3D modeling. Is it something that pays if you do it as a past time?

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I've been doing freelance design on the side for about four years now and I've finally developed a hefty portfolio and enough confidence to fully commit myself to this trade, however I've been applying for several in-house jobs for the past few months and haven't turned up with anything but one interview. I'm assuming that it is because I don't have a graphic design degree, since the last interview I went to seemed to really like me until they asked about my certification and education background (I pursued a finance degree before I dropped out). Can I really not get an in-house job if I don't have a degree? If that's not the case what should I be doing to ensure or at least increase the chances of landing a job?

>>254593
Brilliant choice of aesthetic for the image. Really draws the attention of the "how can I achieve this 80s look" crowd.

I need help.

I am currently attending community college on a grant that allows me to go tuition free. I have the chance to take a 'communication design' major, and seek out an associates degree through a what is basically a graphic design program that is designed for people looking to get the credentials and experience to get a job right after they finish in two years.

The other option is to continue doing my (absolutely bullshit) general education courses, and transfer to a 4 year university where I would be taking a 2 year graphic design program, but have to pay for it.

I honestly don't know what to do. I would imagine the universities program would be better, right? But isn't graphic design mostly self taught anyway? Would I learn more if I did the community college program and just teach myself on the side? Would being able to get a job sooner and put me in a situation with real world experience help me learn and grow more than a university program would?

Is there even any credibility difference between a community college program versus a high end university program?

>>259091
>isn't graphic design mostly self taught anyway?
This is incorrect

i know two people studying graphic design, the one is a guy the other is a girl
what are the chances of finding work in this field anyways? i heard its crazy saturated.
i come from 3dcg and its saturated as well

How do you create the effect of OP's pic?

>>259339
read through the thread man...
>>254624
>>255471

>>259335
The girl will get a job regardless because she's a girl.

The guy will probably get a job, if he's good.

This is the world we live in.

>>259348
How is that a bad thing?

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which looks best?
also critique accepted

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How were these sort of designs done?

>>259386
3's my favourite. But it all depends on how it looks compared to the other letters if there are any.

>>259390
painting/printmaking for the fox, then collage, then typography printed on top

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>>259393
This is kind of what I'm going for.
I'm really just experimenting with using interchangeable parts for all the glyphs

>>259396
Thanks!

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how much do you make freelance photoshop
is this even a thing

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>>259386

>>259402
>Freelance photoshop
?
If you can make a website/logo you can make a decent amount. I negotiate up to 1.5k AUSD, also you're not going to make money unless you know how to at least sell yourself. Thank fuck in Australia there's always a builder/landscaper that wants a professional looking website/business card.

>>259404
so do you talk to them face to face? is making portfolio and giving google ads dumb?

>>259379
>How is that a bad thing?

You lose a job to someone significantly less skilled at design than you, just because they're a girl.

You now don't have money, because the girl has had everything handed to her, because she's a girl.

It's a skewed system. It skews different ways in different instances, but it happens. I imagine in more professional settings it doesn't happen as much, but in anything socially oriented or otherwise, it does.

>inb4 I'm a bitter ass
I know.

>>259406
"bitter" is not the word I would have used, friend.
starts with an A

>>259403
is this a suggestion, critique or what?

>>259405
Google ads?

Everyones freelance experience is different, I got reoccurring gigs because my partners uncle is a builder. This lead to more jobs, word spreads so on and so forth.

I also work full time as a in house graphic designer for a company. It's working two jobs, one you're definately going to get money but it's not creatively stimulating the other you gotta be driven and build your clientele up.

>>259409
suggestion at heart

>>259407
Ass ass?

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font, please

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Im trying to make a lightning effect in a PNG with transparency. Problem is all lightning generation tutorials I find are for creating lighning effect against black backdrop - here's a blue tint effect that does not work if overlayed over non-black background. I know that black BG can be removed IN photoshop with Screen type blending, but that only works against an image, not a transparent layer.

Im also aware that GZDoom has an additive overlay mode that does the same thing, but I want to further work with this texture outside of Doom and Photoshop, and I need proper transparency with it's Lighting effect. Most advices Ive heard have to do with cropping out image as is with /some/ transparency info, but that transparency is being backdropped, again, against black, and it becomes apparent if it is viewed against lighter colors - like red on the right of the image, while I want it to drop into proper, non-blackened transparency.

>>259396
>>259400
What kind of printmaking though? And how does it combine with the painting?

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how do i achieve the grainy effects like on the texts and the photos of the basketball players?

>>259451
Looks like photocopying to me, but super high contrast.

>>259452
Thank you!

what's a program similar to paint for mac?

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How can I make this look like aged cardboard?

I'm using gimp and I can't seem to find a way to add texture to a color.

>>254664
Whoever made this did a silly job on the names. Why is Kendrick just Kendrick instead of k-dot when everyone has random nicknames theyve used before. Who the fuck calls Tyler 'Wolf Haley' besides himself

Off topic but it bugged me

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>>259561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30nG0suDad0

>>254671
Reduce the meter limit on your stroke

Should I use inDesign for business cards?

>>259653
indesign is usually for making layouts for books, magazines, newspapers, etc. imo, photoshop or illustrator should work fine but if you are going to take the design somewhere for printing maybe you should make a pdf aswell (just in case).

>>259419
Double

>>254593
nah

>>257006
I think hat's live2D senpai.

I've been making advertisement posters for a fundraiser at the shop I work for but this year my boss wants flyers to drop off at some schools and businesses. I used to just get my stuff printed at Staples for the stores in our region but they want 1000 flyers, 2 on 500 sheets.

Is there a recommended company/website for bulk printing or should I look into a local printing company? I'm very new to this.

>>259741
Why would you print non-locally?
At least where I live, all cheap print-shops are located near architecture schools, maybe you can start searching over those.

What's your preferred powerpoint slide template?
All the ones I find are an eyesore, and using simple as a search term only gives me more overly designed garbage.

>>259983
>powerpoint
not even once

>>259983
mine's called after effects.

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I don't have a Photoshop and don't know how to use it anyway. I tried to use Paint but it looks really bad and kills HD-Look. Can someone please change colors to attached picture

Background: 490A3D
Big Totoro: F8CA00
Medium Totoro: E97F02
Small Totoro (and the birds?): 8A9B0F

Thanks /gd/ you are the best, someday ill suck your cock. Or I can install gentoo for you.

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>>260052
Pic for reference:

>>259921
Yeah I was thinking about asking my co-worker because he's attending a tech school that might let him use the printers. I just dislike that my boss gets these ideas and I'm the one who has to do it all with almost no compensation.

>>260052
This was really a stupid question.
>>>/wsr/

>>260055
Everybody knows nobody visits request boards, this is my the only chance.

>>260056
1. Download Gimp
2. Adjust the tolerance of the paint bucket until you dont "kill HD-look" anymore
3.???
4. Profit

>>254670
Select your lines, and in the menu where you can select your stroke with, there is also an option to have your stroke width on the inside of your shape

Ok, so I'm going to college for Graphic Design and i'm in my last year now.
Today I got a call from the Marine Corp asking me to consider joining them and all that and asking really weird personal questions.. Does anyone have experience in the Marine Corps graphic design field... I feel like it's a scam and I can't find much about how it is and if it's something worth doing.

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What type of red would you describe this as, in terms of shade? Because there's a lot of shades of red with specific names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_red

How to get into pretty cartography (not functional like the road maps you find)? First draw up map by hand & then digitalize?

Or use vectors?

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>>260449
I don't really give a shit about color names
btw that's between red and magenta (like pic related shows)

pic related is made with
http://colorschemedesigner.com/csd-3.5/

if you really want to find colors' names try this
http://www.pantone.com/color-finder?from=topNav

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>>260464
I also did the search on the pantone's website for you

I think the closest ones are "rose red" and "virtual pink"

Is it a good idea to pursue a career of graphic design or should I do it as a secondary thing?

What is a better aspect ratio for a book cover, 3:4 or 5:7?

>>260474
The same aspect ratio and dimensions of the book's inner pages ;^)

>>260467
Depends what country you live in.

UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, American then yes.

Anywhere else then no.

>>260476
> why yes for those countries? Don't often see /gd/ jobs here in lelgium desu

>>259419
Guys! Please!

Is there a way to randomly distribute a bunch of objects in Illustrator? I'm making a space-themed poster and want to place the stars randomly instead of by hand.

Before you ask, I tried doing it by hand but I'm never satisfied with the results. It never seems random enough.

>>256959
That font doesn't work at small sizes. Your letter spacing is also way too far.

In illustrator no but if in photoshop make a new layer and fill with black convert to smart object then go to noise and monochromatic and also add a gassian blur.

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When designing some decade themed invitation, they always have a retrospective feel to them.
They don't really look like an invitation that was made by someone living in that decade but more like a horrible heap of clichés and stereotypes.

Do any of you know if there's a kind of gallery or database of the development and style of invitations or birthdaycards or anything similar over the decades?

Or should i just look at the style of old newspapers and advertisments?

>>260052
>>260053
horrible choice of colours
also
>thinking the pattern on totoros fur are birds

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How do I get gud in font combination? Any books or articles that you guys recommend? I'm currently making my dad's wedding invitation. It's no big deal, that's why I didn't tell him to hired a professional. I just want something to put in my portfolio. Pic related is what I'm currently trying out.

>>260796
you can google font combinations.

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im trying to put some stuff together but i cant name the art styles to look up examples

one is the 1950s art style that usually had thin lines connecting shapes with solid colors. Often seen in the background of tv sets or when text was displayed on tvs, in those info demonstrations of new kitchen technology or what it would be like in the future, and much of it was shown in Ren n Stimpy...
pic kinda related.


next is this kinda "world explorer" theme. I know theres a name for it.. Usually its a very warm motif; imagery of a room with lots of dark wood furniture and bookshelves, globes, sextons, telescopes, maps, pith helmets, african safari equipment sitting next a statue from india and mask from japan.. just shit from all over. The at-home library of an archaeologist or big game hunter..

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>>260846
>1950s art style that usually had thin lines connecting shapes with solid colors
that's called Saul Bass / American Modernism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM3McG4-LE

the second kinds sounds like Frank Lloyd Wright arcihtecture. or some Paleontologist Trophy / Library / Study Room

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>>260849

I'm having a poster printed. It's a collage of detailed and brightly colored and detailed images. It's going on my wall without a frame.

Should I go matte or glossy?

Anyone know of any good logo catalog sites?

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>>260864

https://www.logolounge.com/
i haven't seen any good ones but there's some books that have thousands of logos for example Rockport - Logo Lounge, i think it has more than 9 books each book containing over 2,000 logos
>LogoLounge has become an indispensable tool for logo research, discussion, inspiration, reference
others:
Yasaburo Kuwayama - Trade Marks & Symbols Vols.I & II
Rockport - Letterhead Logo Design Vols 1-?
Sumio Hasegawa & Shigeji Kobayashi - A Collection of Trademarks & Logotypes in Japan

>>260868
Thanks.

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>>260849
thanks

saul bass/american modernism isnt exactly the right thing. Sucks cuz since i dont know the term, its hard to find examples..
Heres something of it in a sense.. pic is from ren n stimpy.. ignore the product.. Its that styling of the lines and those star things.. This style.

as for the frank lloyd wright, not it. Im talkin something earlier in origin.. The motif is from the 1910s/20s-ish..

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I'm having trouble making my Illustrator file the correct size when I export to PNG for Photoshop. I made the AI file 1080x1920 pts when I created it and the artboard tool backs this up, but when I export there is an additional pixel width of transparency on the left side and bottom. Photoshop insists the file is 1081x1921 px.

How can I fix this and make it the right size?

Have a 13" Macbook Pro Retina, have never really drawn or been the creative type however I kind of wanted to try design my own personal twist on the icons I have in my dock to give my Macbook a more personal feel.

I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good quality yet not too expensive drawing devices. Would use it for the occasional draw when I'm feeling creative but would also come in handy when I'm trying to help people out with Math/anything over Skype (screen sharing) so my handwriting isn't so fucked because I'm trying to write out equations, etc. using a trackpad/shitty mouse. Would also come in handy for transferring notes I've made in class into nicer looking PDF's or just any sort electronic notes I can keep on my computer.

I know some people use bamboo sort of track pad looking things for this but I really have no experience in the area and don't want to rip myself off by buying the wrong thing(s).

Any help would be lovely, ty in advance.

>>260697
Custom satter brush. Google that shit senpai.

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>>254593
Kind of long, sorry.

Hi guys,

I have a problem. I am new to graphic design, and generally any kind of image editing, so I might not know specific terms. I have a couple of images I was working on in paint.net, and I moved parts(selections) of the image, which would in turn move the selection, but also leave a checkered space where the image used to be. I was fine with this, and I thought it looked pretty cool in context with my image. When I exported the image from paint.net, I was able to view it in my windows photo viewer, but the checkered spaces where black. I was fine with that too, until I opened it up in a different photo viewer. Instead of being black, the spaces were now white. I had designed the image with the thought in mind that the spaces would be black. Now they were white, and the image looked like crap. So my question for you guys is:

Is there a way that I can convert these checkered/black/white spaces into universally black?

I tried to be as concise and clear as possible.
Please help.

BTW, pic related is/should be predominately black. I do have some white spaces in the pic, but that was intentional, and not a result of any selection moving.

In firefox, on 4tune, the mentioned checkered spaces are transparent.

recommended drawing board(usb)?

>>261427
is drawing board needed or can a pen-mouse be as good for a beginner? max $300

>>261427
>>261433
I don't know what you mean by pen-mouse but the wacom intuos series are reliable and cheap.
Mine has yet to dissapoint me and it's been several years since we are together.

What are some good documentaries about graphic design? Anything, from illustration to typography.

>>261039
Edit > Trim, select "transparent pixels" and that's it.

>>261399
I never used paint.net but it looks pretty similar to photoshop.
The checkered spaces mean that that section is transparent. If you want to preserve that transparency, export the image as a .png. If you want the transparent sections to be black, create a new layer, fill it with black using the bucket tool or whatever tool you want, and then move that new layer to the bottom of the layers panel.

>>261468
there's some videos on lynda about the history of graphic design and there's also the doc Helvetica about fonts but other than those i haven't seen any. however there's plenty about arts so might want to want to look for those here's a /ic/ thread:
>https://warosu.org/ic/thread/2301384

i recommend Why Beauty Matters, Future by Design, The Secret of Drawing, Manben, Exit Through the Gift Shop and anything by Gary Hustwit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW0UZ50_zN4

>>261480
thanks. it worked.

>>254593
what are the fonts and where can I obtain them without using $$$

>>254593
>>254624
>>255471

Could you possibly upload the two fonts used in that effect?

Been searching for a while and cant find them.

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>>261740
>Been searching for a while
No you weren't.
It's literally the first result you get when you google the font names.
>http://www.dafont.com/molot.font
>http://www.fonts2u.com/alako-bold.font

>>261779
Cheers, anyway I didn't know the name of the fonts so I was looking at where the design was hosted in hopes of finding the names of the fonts.

>>254593
This is probably the thread to do this in. How would I learn to do stuff like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMuGrbr2Weo&feature=youtu.be

Any websites that specifically collect/catalog Album art? Preferably with a setting that organizes by date.

>>261805
>How would I learn to do stuff like this?
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

Is manga studio a good alternative to illustrator?
If not, what is?

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Somebody know the name of the font that spells "Modum"? Gives me a nice nostalgia vibe.

Is there a sophisticated way to create ellipse graphics like top left and/or right? I want to make the circles of the rough sketch below like that and be able to customize the thickness change. Is it vector graphics or simply black ellipses in photoshop punched through with white ellipses?

(first time posting, sorry if I'm incomprehensible...)

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>>261990
forgot file

Are there any /gd/ approved tutorial sites/ youtubers? I know tutplus and lynda are pretty well known, but there are 200+ pages of tutorials. How do you sift through all the bullshit?

>>261999
I really like Phlearn.

wow this is really full of shit

so for this template in the thread. how do you apply the extrusion to the text, like could someone just show me how to use the template?

Hey /gd/

I want to start making videos with clips taken from movies with either music or sound files playing over the top.

What is the most basic and easy-to-use program for doing this?

Also what's the easiest way of cropping like 15 seconds worth of film from a movie without downloading it?

I'm downloading Windows Movie Maker 6 right now.

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>>262224
>What is the most basic and easy-to-use program for doing this?
Premiere is easy and good.

>what's the easiest way of cropping like 15 seconds worth of film from a movie without downloading it?
What? You mean from stream or something?

>>262207
Thanks for such a relevant post

>>262115
>how to use the template?
You are aware that there's a help.pdf file in there right?
If you can't solve it with that maybe you are not meant to use it in the first place.

Using photoshop and I have a 600dpi 16bit CMYK file that I want to save for printing.

Every time I save the file though (as tiff, not using any compression), the background loses some of the detail it has. Is there any way to fix this>

>>262336
Also, my 300dpi tiff files turn out ~8mb, the 600dpi ones are 55mb. What?

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>>254593
is there a good program for batch resizing all images in a folder to a certain size?

>>262603
Lightroom

>>262608
>have to pay monthly if i want to batch resize images
surely there is something foss and free? How is adobe getting away with a monopoly like this?

Im dumping out work for an entry level GD position at my university. Would it be inappropriate to use stock photography in a portfolio? (The work in question is stock photography + typography ontop + slight modifications)

>>262616
Same anon again >

What's a good way to show off typography skills? Making bullshit flyers?

>>262617
a book, duh

art book obviously, not like a Shakespeare play

unless you think you can pull off a Shakespeare play

>>262603
You can also set-up an action in Photoshop to do so
>can't really escape from adobe

>>261878
Bad Motherfucker Wallet Font

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how can i make that pre-perforated texture in Photoshop ? i want to put that texture in a picture but i dont know how to make it realistic.
Thanks!"!

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>>262696
>grab pic related and put it in Ps
>make your artwork fit the blotter
>put the blotter texture layer on top and change blending mode till it looks good (guess it's either multiply, overlay or soft light)

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>>262696
Make a single pixel dotted line
Bevel & emboss, outer bevel, adjust to your scale, don't make it too big or too dark/strong
lower the fill opacity to make the line less harsh
There is your perfirated marks

But it will always look a little fake so as >>262704
said, grab yourself a stock photo of it, set the layer style to multiply or whatever else works best, mess with the levels to get it looking right.

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Hi. Basic Inkscape and GIMP bitch here. I’m not desperate for money but where should I go to make HOWEVER SMALL BUT VERY EASY money from my skill?

I simply want to know that, if I ever go broke in life, I can earn lunch money (my country doesn’t offer any social security to single men like me) by doing basic Inkscape and GIMP tasks as often as I want.

Here’s sample of my skills. Am I doing it right?

>Copypasta source: >>>/s8s/res/3393.html#4483

>>260476
>>260652
Interesting. Why those countries? Why not China, Spain and America?

>>262603 >>262609
>is there a good program for batch resizing all images in a folder to a certain size?
1. XnView (option Batch Process) or nview (command)
2. G’MIC (command)
3. Never considered it before but FFmpeg (command).
4. Linux people and PHP people use Image Magick.

XnView can also batch rename files in all sort of ways.

>>254593

Ooh stupid questions thread, my place to be...

Question: I want to start designing logos in Illustrator, but for the life of me can't figure out the Pen Tool for drawing. Are there any "crash course" tutorials on how to design logos professionally?

Also, do I really need a drawing tablet (Wacom, etc.) to design? I've been handy with a mouse and Photoshop for years but vector drawing seems so hard without the grasp of the pen tool.

>>262869
You are OK without a wacom for logo design.
The pen tool takes some time to get used to but you will need to learn how to use it properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0t7_X8QH0A

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How do I ink and color lineart in photoshop?

my friend drew something that I want to color
far left is the version he sent me
middle is my first attempt
right is my current attempt

both attempts look like shit to me but this is my first ever attempt at something like this.

and before you ask yes I asked him to scan it or give me the original so I could scan it but he never did

>>262869
>Also, do I really need a drawing tablet (Wacom, etc.) to design?
No, a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 tablet is sufficient.
Bonus: it will double as a supercomputer.

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Does anyone know of a cheap web hosting + domain service? I need it for my portfolio website. I only have pictures and some text that estimate around 20mb.

>>263068
Square space?
Wordpress?

>>263074
I don't want to create a website, i'm already done with the design. I just need a place to host that also offers domain. Most websites i've looked into offer more than i really need. I just need php support and a few gb of space. Hostgator is the cheapest at 2.78/mo.

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>>263075
Is this a good deal? It feels a little scammy with a year 3 binding. The other hosts go for about 3$/mo.

>>262982
>>262935

Thanks guys/gals.

>>263081

I used to work for HostGator so I can tell you that you would probably want to go with the Baby plan. Sure it's 3 years at $3.98/mo but for essentially $1 more you get unlimited domains on there instead of being tied to 1 domain. Comes in handy in the long run IMO. Also, I'd let you in on a secret but don't trust those other $3 hosts you see elsewhere (Hint: you're paying the same people for less-than-average service with other hosts).

>>263093
Well i did some research and i found out that HostGator had a lot of negative reviews. Which comes stems from the company being purchased by IEG. A company that pays away the competition.

Anyway i found an alternative, it's possible to host your site via dropbox for free, which kind of solved my problem. The only downside is that the site remains static. So i can't have an integrated email field.

How exactly does one design a logo for a radio station that doesn't look stupid. They want to start branding as they don't currently really have any. Most radio stations just say their name and frequency in some shitty font, I want to have both of those included in the design but not make it look like shit.

>>263104

If the radio station name means something for most people, you can draw / create an illustration.

Anyhow, the key here is to not choose a shitty font — unlike others, right?

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There’s a transparent sub-pixel gap around raster images in Inkscape.

You can see it on pic related. The background peeks through at the joint edge that connects two perfectly aligned raster images.

How do I get rid of it?

It’s even narrower in Chrome, and fortunately it doesn’t scale. But it’s still there.

When will 4chan allow SVG files
and why not?

>>263104
I would probably look at the theme of the radio and what kind of entertainment they provide. So something like a radio tower, the frequency of the channel (maybe even as a name), signals, i hope you catch the drift.

If you can somehow implement the frequency with the name that would be the best.

>>263149
>>263165

They're a student radio, so their staff and shows and content all rotate every few years, they don't really have much of an identity other than being the university's radio station.

I was thinking maybe something along the lines of a radio tower, but it's such an overdone and oddly shaped design that i was a bit wary of it. I tend towards trying for designs that are more square overall, just for ease of implementation (especially since I'm not going to be there to constantly guide there hands with branding and most people working there are going to be journalism majors).

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>>263169

tried throwing something together, not entirely sure how i feel about it at the moment

>>263162
but anon, svg files are allowed as pdf files.

>>263174
generic sas fuck, could be worse though

I only made $7500 for 2015, as a consultant/freelancer (i do web design/web hosting) and I have my 1099-MISC file for that $7500.

I don't have any LLC or corporation on my name, and I was finishing up my tax papers, and i got to thinking "did I really need to file taxes?"

>>263189
that's the thing that I'm stuck on tho: is it fine that it's really generic because the station is generic and doesn't really have an identity, or is it not fine because I should really do better than this?

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Where the heck do I start with making a resume and a portfolio? All my my actual employed jobs have been like, in food and retail. I'm a student, so I feel like I don't have a lot of experience.
Also, im not confident that the work i've been doing in school would cut it professionally, since I've had to change my designs around to fit what my professors want so Id get good grades on projects
I feel stuck trying to get hired

>>263161
So nobody else using Inkscape in /gd/?
Is it only for faggots?

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>>263189
1. Are you sure you didn’t mistake 4chan for the unpronounceable chan? Because I’ve never seen anyone posting PDF here.
2. Does 4chan generate RGBA thumbnails of posted PDFs, same as PNGs? Or only a file icon?

>>263234
3. Oh, I see now... That’s awesome.
4. Since when?
5. Does PDF work on all boards?

Didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, and I feel like this is the appropriate board to ask:

Anyone here work in Advertising/Marketing in the Creative side? Thinking of going to a three-year college program for "Advertising/Marketing Communications Management" that's apparently 50/50 split between creative and business courses. I feel like this would give me a better shot at a job than say, strictly a Graphic Design program.

Thoughts?

FWIW, the actual program I'm considering is this: http://www.algonquincollege.com/mediaanddesign/program/advertising/

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How do you do stuff like this with type? Software or a scanner or both?

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>>263288
you can do that on Illustrator with the Warp Tool

>>263196
>he doesnt know about tax code 861

>>263341
That looks like shit. The best way to do this is print out your text and gently pull it over a scanner bed.

Then you can tidy up/trace it in illustrator.

Second best thing would be to use the wave tool in photoshop on a smart layer to retain vector workflow.

Just got into graphic design. Read the sticky. Which program is good for starting if I want to draw vector and bitmap image?

>>263534
Try reading the sticky again you pleb.

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>>263234
>>263189
>but anon, svg files are allowed as pdf files.
I just tried to post this vector screenshot on /pol/.
Result?

>Error: Corrupted file or unsupported file type.

Had to post a huge PNG file instead.
Obviously without any text selection capacity.
Retarded.

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How can I achieve something like this?

>>263174
It's not pretty, but it does work.
If you could mesh the elements together in a simpler form i could dig it.
Just a suggestion, try building the pillar with the letters and the radio signal + beacon with the frequency.

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Is there a way to create random gaps in the outline like that without doing it manually?

>>264450
No.

>>263225
Been there.

The only advice I can give is, make some self iniciated projects you are passionate about. Invest some time and effort and make them good.

Look for customers you'd love to work for.

Seek direct contact to potentioal customers or parners. For example check out an app you downloaded. Do you see some potentioal but with a better overall design and a few changes it would be much better? Ask the developer.

Do some pretentious projects like a packaging for some hypothetical product etc.

Sounds trivial, I know. Yet the formula is simple. If you don't have work you are confident about, make some.

And don't judge Your old work too hard. Most agencies know that work in art school is not always top notch.

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>>262846
Guess who answered my question?

Not anons.

An ad banner on 4chan has answered my question.

https://archive.is/asA6E
via https://archive.is/i6Cgy