morning

Hola

@JohnB you're alive!

@Matt_2.0 halfway, laptop died so I'm using a backup PC until the computer man comes to fix it

miserable!

sure.. you threw it against the wall ;)

this computer is Windows XP, so yeah this is a blast

someones xmas gift this year:

sup @Scott

where is everyone today?

alo!

hi!

how's it going?

good you!

good, lots of work

happy Hump day.. oh wait.. pre-friday to you huh?

Im on a sugar coma the next few days!

yep, but only half past eight :)

wait. is it Friday yet?

I wish

damnit!

ha ha my competitors coming to me for input.. epic!

always nice when that happens :)

You know what's really creepy?

client is unaware too

what?

The fact that you found the lounge pants I wear every day... just CREEPY!

well we were tapped into your computer O_O

yeah Yisela sees everything

man its a sign the US is messed up when you call about consolidating your student loans and they say they cant do anything because you are not behind.. wow.

Yeah.. THey started cracking down on loans in 2000 or there abouts. :) I went like 20 years without paying them.. then I got the call.. You pay or we take it.So I paid :)

I just dont get rewarding and only help people that have messed up. that just blows my mind.. oh sorry.. you are doing the right thing and we cant help you..

that's government

rant over.. you read the lawsuit over breaking bad?

graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/21162/… do you understand this question?

Didn't know there was a lawsuit Matt

@Yisela yes... by "Dimensions" they want to use only the area covered by pixels on a layer not in the document. Basically they want to use the layer minus transparency to position things.

At least I think that's what it means

hey you see I posted the paper question?

latest folly.... Design this for me.... Okay anything branding I should be aware of? Who's the audience?.... "Just do what you think is best"......initial draft sent for approval.. "This Looks Great!"... minor typographic changes (no comment on layout)..... 2 days later.... "Oh, here's our branding guidelines, but you don't have to follow them exactly. And the target audience is XXX.".... rework design.... sigh

Yeah I see it.. but it's going to take some planning on wording before I respond. I've been slacking on work a bit today and am trying to get caught up.

latest of mine: "I need an animation", ok, "should be simple, polished, modern", uhm alright. Sent him one I made, answer "no, that's not what I want. I want this: freeplantillas.com/plantilla-gratis/plantilla-web/301.htm "

@Yisela totally possible with scripting, not sure how to answer without basically writing the script for them, though

oh theres john

almost the whole party now

\o/

I posted an answer somewhere that does something similar but doesn't "stamp" the image

@Scott but.. Dont take this bad.. isnt it partially your fault that you didnt ge that area signed off on?

@JohnB wow... thats some time right there

Matt... I asked. If I get no response other than "Just do what you feel is best" it's not my fault.

well, answer could just say: You can't do it with actions. You'll need a script (and references to how scripts work).

@Scott shoot.. I would have stopped and required a spec. But than thats just me

I guess my mind set would rather be do it with the full detail or not do it at all.. because there is always something else to work on.

It's a print piece, there generally aren't any "spec" to flesh out. I ask for branding and target audience guideline along with any other "Concept" related information. If they don't share it, they don't share it.

@Scott do you charge for the edits?

yup. Pricing always assume 1 round of "design" alterations

my laptop lives again, so now you guys are stuck with me again

@JohnB sure.. you threw it at the wall!!

ok, now that they fixed it under warranty, I can admit to what really happened...

;)

please 5th plead 5th!

oh by the way.. I love GiGi's cupcakes business model.. best model Ive seen in awhile

^ yesterday

wha.

the last bit is the important part

when my warranty expired

undefned NaN

:)

I was going to give a smartass remark like "What does that translate to on the Gregorian Calendar?"

where's @eric

but he corrected himself too quickly

his freelance ran out?

yeah he was done Tuesday

@JohnB no does that mean finite waranty?

good question! Apparently it means my warranty expires Sept 30th

boy talk about pushing the warranty arent we?

haha yeah, guess I should renew that

we going to have a halloween design contest? who posts the best costume?

I mixed some very halloweeny orange ink today, can I just cover myself in that

oh man that would be epic

that's supposed to be PMS Orange 021 C, and behind it....I'm not sure

parsonsdesign3.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/…

"Take the Halloween Type Challenge"

I used an egg beater electric mixer to mix it, very professional operation I have going here

@Yisela great idea!

@JohnB that red is P192

could be, but it was supposed to come out as a base color

it's not bright enough to be Rhodamine Red

more power

so you are screen printing

yeah, this weekend

100ct 2/1

er 1/1

1 color 2 sided

wait... 1 color 2 sided but you mixing two colors???

playing arnt you, lol

haha yup

you should buy an automatic press

and a warehouse to put it in?

replace your warehouse workers with it

I'm sure they'd love that

thought you said they didnt do anything

I'm also not their boss, so it's not my problem if they don't do anything!

I'm outta here, adios!

well..

would it be bad to build a company on all used equipment... lol

howdy

hi Dominic!

sup @Dominic

how's it going?

good, good

you?

I'm good :)

what dyu think:

looking good!

gotta clean up my answer aswell

(cleaning comments)

Think I found a way to break the site lol

put a huge image inside a few >>>>> quote boxes and it pushes the image out of bounds

cool!!

you could notify it

how? and you could just pass on the screenshot

says it all really

It might just hide it when I save though, can't know without saving it like that

if someone says "dog" and refers to a "dog" what is it.. not a cat right... example of my meeting

someone answered the script question: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/21162/…

@Dominic would there be a way to fix this?

what happens when you have a very big image? it resizes right?

I thought it did but it wasn't when I was doing that

Only way I can think of is more prevention than fix

overflow hidden should do the trick.. Providing that the right column is above the main column in z index and isn't transparent background

Actually wrong lol

That's with overflow visible

Overflow hidden alone should do it

well... it should automatically stop you from trying to add a million quotes

I brought it up in the mods room, and the general answer was: you shouldn't use quotes in that way

alllllright

all my posts will now use quotes that way ):

Maybe don't allow images inside quotes

haha

Doesn't work in code blocks so do same with quote blocks

I'm going to create a 1024x500px "signature" image, wrap it in 40 blockquotes... and be certain to add it to every answer I have.

Basically... I think John and Yisela have it too easy :)

hahaha

Hahaa while you do that I'll post some questions about gardening and landscape design :P

signatures are sort of not allowed anyway, maybe we can even suspend you for repeating the offence

Should keep em on their toes

ooo suspension... is there a badge for that?

haha, there should be!

I don't think I've suspended more than 2 people ever... just evil spammers

.. and a silver for 50 times.. and a gold for permanent ban

The ultimate badge

Hey Dominic, just thought this would be a better place to discuss than in the comments...

Yeah :)

And while I agree with what you're doing I just don't think that particular place is good for it, since if I'm reading a question and it has part of an answer in it, it throws me off a bit "like why is he asking if he knows"

I was going for a tutorial sort of question as all of the materials are there

Maybe you can lead your question with "Not only does this technique work for text but also for.. everything else" -- since your answer is at the top and accepted people would be almost just as likely to see it there as in the question

Because when you're reading the question, and the note says "The methods for achieving this.." well -- what methods? It's a question, it's asking for methods, not reviewing them.

That's all I'm saying.

besides that the question has a serious problem in itself that the files are hosted on dropbox and the poster could remove them at any future date and the question (and by extension your answer) become obsolete.

So if we're trying to future-proof the question we should approach it froma slightly different angle, in my opinion.

I agree with the drop box part certainly, I was thinking of moving the file to my drop box as I won't delete it

Do you think it will still be picked up for those buzzwords if they're in the answer instead though?

When the user types a question

Maybe @Yisela can weigh in

let me take another look at the question

For reference, it's this one: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/19555/…

about the files, we can probably drop the dropbox (heh) and add the texture image instead

Yeah. Eliminating dropbox completely is best.

What about the PSD?

Without that its much less useful to noobies

moving the note to the answer might be a good idea too, since it applies more to the technique than to the question (my opinion)

well, the PSD is a text layer with a texture applied to it, I think we can assume people will know how to do that

It's a clipping mask to be fair

but that can be explained.

or we can leave it, as there's no harm to having it, but I'd definitely add the texture or a version of it

It was a clipping mask but I released that for my method

Then it's even less necessary.

Future visitors care more on how to do it from scratch, not from the OP's PSD.

Is there any possibility of setting up a GD drop box?

administrating it might be a problem, and we can't guarantee it'll be up forever

But then you might get the even more basic questions for getting to that stage in the PSD

we had a similar discussion a while ago, about linking to PSDs

The question didn't start with a PSd, asking how to fix the PSD. The PSd was added in response to certain answers.

and the general consensus was that questions shouldn't depend on files

of course we are a GD site, but questions should be clear by themselves

so in this case, any texture would do, what we need to explain is how to apply it

I agree with that as well. The less file dependency the better.

If the question is what it originally was "How do I apply a texture to this text"

then a good answer could explain the process from scratch

without the PSD

And since you negated the work OP did in the PSD anyway, it's not a big change.

I just think both the question and answer rely too heavily on this dropbox file/.

Just my two cents. :p

Maybe we could replace the PSD with a: "1. A text layer"

(and image of the texture added)

can't get simpler than that

I'd agree there, that just means I need a whole lot more screenshots for my answer

Not really.

Your answer would get shorter if anything.

Since you explain removing the clipping mask and upping opacity

And if taking it out of the question, I should remove my PSD from the answer for consistency

Your answer is simply applying various blending modes, right?

(Plus some extra stuff at the end)

Maybe we are trying to turn this too much into a wiki question, when all answers are too specific to the case this guy brought

plus a curves layer, outer bevel and slight blur

one thing I'd consider, @Dominic, is adding a short description of what you are using at the beginning of your answer

(and remove the Yisela part, yours is on top so no need for it)

I think I'll go with a JohnB type answer

with small screenshots for each little bit

I don't want you to get discouraged by the changes, you did a great job trying to make the question a reference one

I always find them very descriptive and helpful

Yeah, I didn't mean to come off in any negative way.

My primary concern was just the edit made into the original question.

funny as I was writing it you came along @JohnB

But the file issue is a larger issue.

I think files should be secondary to the actual question/answer. An answer shouldn't need to rely on an external file to be right, nor should a question need to rely on an external file to be a good question.

what did I do

sup @Johannes!

maybe we can replace the psd with a picture of the OP's result, the light gray one

Hey @JohnB. First time in chat :p

"this is what I want, this is what I have"

ooooo INITIATION!!!

let's throw some eggs at him and make him wear the sombrero of shame

I don't think having a PSD is wrong.

@Yisela Yh I was thinking that before, it's just the images are so big and take up so much space

But it shouldn't be holding the answer/question up.

they break up the flow of the question

we make them smaller

Dominic, you can also have smaller images that link to bigger images

another JohnB technique

how'd you do it!?

been wondering if I could for ages

A lot of the time I'll surround an image with the brackets and have it go off to the source

[![enter image description][1]][1]

that syntax works.

does it reduce/enlarge it to a generic size?

the image won't change size, but it'll like to the full res.

I'm not sure about making something smaller.

So how can I shrink it in code if possible mods?

two images I think

So I still need to manually shrink etc?

I can make those and you can modify your answer

if you want

Is there a way to shrink images?

you can shrink if you use an img tag instead

ooooo

<img src="blah" width="100">

I did not know that

I feel resourceful

would you use src?

Shweet

my day is complete

yes

Why did I ask that.

facepalm

haha

don't forget an alt tag for fully valid html!

I wonder what the OP would think if he saw all this discussion

What are we discussing?

alt isn't needed in HTML5 anymore is it?

it is

OP WOULD BE SO HAPPY

last time I checked at least

we're dedicating so much time to them.

hopefully it saves a lot of time in future

when OPs don't ask as many doops of this