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8:39 AM

@Ryan that answer is pure genius... they had a problem, they solved it...

too bad it's not an answer to the Q

Hello there :)

good mornin Alin

I just wanted to leave it here so that someone could delete/close the following question:

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Q: Photoshop increase brush size shortcut

I currently wish to use the shortcut to increase or decrease brush size in Photoshop by selecting a brush and option clicking then dragging to the left or right. This brings up a red brush preview and the hardness can be adjusted by moving up and down with the mouse. For some reason this functio...

adobe-photoshop

good morning PieBie, how's it going

I don't think that question should actually be here, it's only one google search away (with the title Google Result ) from an exact answer therefore this shows not even the slightest effort. It looks like he put more effort in writing the question than actually looking for an answer.

@Alin you're right. flag it. mods will take a look.

flagged it already :)

Before leaving it here :D

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10:40 AM

waves at the lurkers

hi!

11:25 AM

@Vincent [wave]

11:41 AM

hello

Yopp.

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12:49 PM

@Vincent did you mean to remove the screenshot from that Illustrator font Q?

Nevermind lol

@CAI I didn't :)

but thanks for the heads-up

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Q: Measuring values of a colour that is hue chroma lightness of the colour using photoshop.?

How do i know (measure) the values of a colour that is hue,chroma,lightness at a selected point or part of a picture using photoshop.? please do help me...

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Q: How to calculate other colors with the same perceived lightness as a given gray value?

This is related to a question I asked on tex.stackexchange, which has a color aspect. The result of that question is the following image: I have drawn a series of gray squares on the left, with a red branch departing to the right. The goal is to have different red squares with a different satur...

color color-theory color-spaces

That's a dupe right?

And morning all

hey Ryan

by the titles, no.

the top question is just a poor beginner who does not know the existence of the eyedropper tool :)

1:08 PM

hmm not sure if we have a question about that then

hey ryan

1:32 PM

hi @johnp

@CAI thanks for the input on the Meta Q restating what was said here. Perhaps a full revision with friendlier and guidelines similar to what user answered is in order to clarify and ease up the tone a bit. Now to just find the time to write it or convince someone else to

Amazing resn.co.nz/threaded

1:51 PM

Terrified

If by terrified you mean amazing lol

yeah in a ptsd sort of way :v

oh I did take photo of tripod closed for you

user image

not sure if you can really grasp scale from that photo but its pretty compact for traveling with

ah nice, looks very compact

you try it out yet?

not really just used it a little in my apartment just to get familiar with it. was going to go do a shoot tomorrow but now I'm not even sure

there's a rally/protest tomorrow that I might try going to. If so I'll go handheld though

2:10 PM

happy friday

aye happy Friday Matt

hey @Darth! You too

glad to see user's answer on meta. I was bought to step in, still debating though

2:24 PM

has anyone ever played with file permissions?

yeah

Have you ever tried scripting for font encryption from InDesign?

nope

ive basically made things Read Only and Read-Write and uh oh back in the day on windows let me think

ya that's a different approach to detecting encryption

trying to figure what site it would be better suited for

C:*.* /s +a h

if I remember right, its been years since I did that

2:28 PM

@Ryan That... takes me back

attrib +h comes to mind :D

hides everything on the C. I used that regularly in college instead of passwording my desktop

@Vincent yeah that sounds more accurate

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Q: Is there a way to do a perfect background removal on hair?

Is there a way to do a perfect die cut on a person's hair or on dog's fur or others like difficult hair styles? Similar to this:

adobe-photoshop background-removal

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Q: Techniques for cutting out hair accurately

I use the Pen Tool for 90% of the situations where I need to cut someone or something from a photo but sometimes it gets tricky, especially when it comes to hair. Let's take the following image for example: Pen Tool - don't even think about it, it would take years to do an accurate cut so yo...

adobe-photoshop photo-editing selections background-removal

Which one do we keep?

I thought Ryan's answer was pretty good the other night

So do I. But I don't want to lose the accepted answer on the oldie

@joojaa I updated this into a question that fits our guidelines if you want to make your comment into an answer for her graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/68005/…

2:44 PM

I think there are more than just those two though

@Ryan that could go here no? 3dprinting.stackexchange.com

@Darth_Vader I think 3D Printing SE is for actual 3D Printing like 3D Models.

lol.. no, it appears to be for everything revolving around 3D printing based on past reviews of the Q&As

I guess more important - is it off topic here?

she's asking for the name of a technique or style, so it's basically style-identification no?

which we were discussing burninating...

I think its more of just not knowing the correct terminology

2:53 PM

I hate style-id questions like ryan hates font, lol

I'd personally oppose letting Trogdor do his thing style-identification

I say close it. She wanted the name of it, she got it. And it's easily googleable (first result for red and blue glasses is Wikipedia page an Anaglyph 3D)

@PieBie I somewhat agree with this but like I think Ive told him before if it answers the question leave it as an answer not a comment

Sidebar for an unrelated work question: If you say the word "Read" aloud as in "You'll want to look through the log file for the word Read" do you say it like Reed or like Red?

'Reed'

2:57 PM

same

@PieBie I do think it is a valid question and should not be lcosed

now what if the exact phrase is "You'll want to look through the log file for anything that is not Read or in the case of stand-alone mode Entered"

still Reed or then Red?

i read it as "red" lol

ok, but then @joojaa really needs to make his comment into a decent answer about Anaglyph 3D

@Ryan 'red'

read with the ed is like a past participle thing isn't it?

3:01 PM

^^ aye

yes it is

@Ryan 'Red'

just booked Paddy's weekend for 8 in Galway, yay

Today's annoyance: people posting valid answers as comments instead of answers :P

oh, right! of course :D

3:02 PM

@PieBie St. Patrick's Day

@Vincent I'm guilty of this alot :P Mostly out of self-doubt

Them John be Irish :P

guys relax on Joojaa he posted his comment as a valid comment. I edited the question to fit our criteria and pinged him in chat to let him know so he could make it an answer

yes Galway is like the most Irishy place in Ireland

I dont know why you all are flippin out that his is a comment currently

3:03 PM

@johnp please, dont :) Both doubt yourself and post answers in the comments. Oh, I am guilty myself, too. But now that I'm seeing it a lot, I see how annoying it is. It reallyt hurts Q answer rate. b/c the Asker gets their answer, but doesn't mark the correct Answer, and possibly leaves

@Ryan that's a different Q :) I'm not even talking about @joojaa

5 mins ago, by PieBie

ok, but then @joojaa really needs to make his comment into a decent answer about Anaglyph 3D

I see what ya mean. I'll try and answer more from now on lol

if people are talking about a different question I'm not sure any of you are on the same page

Eh, I must be blind

I am reviewing the CV queue and seeing a lot more of them

You've probably noticed but my rep is low, I guess I'm more of a reader

3:05 PM

no offense meant to the jobless Fin

@Ryan yeah, I kinda missed you already pinged him, sry

I was half thinking of setting up a room explicitly for illustration but I dunno if it's necessary?

Just feels slightly off topic here

be nice to have a stop measure until the arts and crafts stack is live :3

it's not as if the room is overflowing with activity 'round the clock :)

lol that's what I thought...wouldn't like to spam you guys with random shiz lol

well... If you make a separate room, you may wilt from loneliness

all attempts at secondary rooms have died quick deaths so far. Try, by all means, though :)

3:09 PM

My heart died in the winter wind, I'll adjust :v

lol

There's no problem at all in trying. If a room is inactive for long enough, it'll freeze and it takes a mod to thaw it. If it has been ice aged for long enough, it'll just disappear

...into the abyss?

Lol I may set it up later when I'm available to chat

consumed by one of the many maws of Chtulhu

their tongues be anointed :P

my firefox dictionary extension does not recognize the entity of which you speak

well you're all welcome to pop in anytime you like, byob though

hehe reminded me of Tekken 2...that takes me back

btw I have to say ello.co has really turned into a nice designer network, you should try it out

there isn't a trove of the same old projects being reposted again and again

Yes but the original question was different and i was not answering that?

3:23 PM

@joojaa yeah people missed that I edited it heavily

20 mins ago, by Ryan

guys relax on Joojaa he posted his comment as a valid comment. I edited the question to fit our criteria and pinged him in chat to let him know so he could make it an answer

and mornin Joojaa

hey @joojaa

3:35 PM

I've been up since 3am, this is terrible

:(

I go to bed at 3am and wake up at 7

o_O

I'd.... die

we all die a little on the inside

welcome to my world @Ryan muahaha

i like to think of it in the same noble way as soldiers of the world wars

they were trained to survive on little sleep

3:39 PM

they slept whenever they got the chance

when in actual fact i could be designing a promo poster for a dodgy competition

Have any of you noticed the Google celebration of 30 years of Zelda already?

@Vincent win

user image

@johnb when you get source files such as fonts do you check to see if they are encrypted?

3:50 PM

never

should I?

Im trying to find a way how but unsure where to place the question

Are fonts sometimes encrypted and sometimes not? I don't know anything about the file formats

fonts get encrypted when they are exported from InDesign. Clients feel that it's ok because, as they see it, they are providing the font but they actually areant.

4:03 PM

@johnp take a macro shot of a red marble or maybe even a red bouncy ball and then do the rest digitally. Might be able to take a regular photo of a red bowling ball too

if you do it with a bowling ball you could probably drip red paint onto it so that that part is real as well then just rotate 90 and add the model

thats how it looks like it was done to me

hmm never thought of that... I was gunna take some stop motion paint splatters...i guess what i want to do is use the highlights of the form beneath to show on the paint above. to make it more realistic...it's easy done but takes a long time the way id usually do it

ah now i get what you mean!

i may do that with the inside and outside of a bowl to get the contours

thanks @Ryan

you should make that an actual question on the site. Think its a pretty good one

and not software support which is always nice

seconded!

I may do so when I get to that stage of the illy...surprised it wasn't asked already

not sure how to phrase it...i would like to create a specular highlight to paint/create on top of the paint based on the highlights/form beneath...but make it specular, as in hard light

I meant how might the overall graphic be made

4:10 PM

that beat.. so addicting: youtube.com/watch?v=XhgAzDpuD2Y

i know, i guess this is another question im asking. This was an actual shot but I would like to create that highlight on the paint that wraps around like this bottle image showstudio.com/img/blocks/3201-3400/3392_320c.jpg?1377013277

aside from painting the highlight myself, it would be nice to borrow the highlight from a persons head - make it more glossy and blend it above the paint splatter layer...dunno if im making sense

i could use blend if actually to make the head highlights harder/glossy

also to add to the hair:

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Q: How to remove a green/blue screen background using Photoshop CS5?

Using Photoshop CS5, i'm trying to fully remove background of a picture being shot behind a blue screen. To do this, i am using Color Range method (from Menu > Selection). It works ok for most parts of the picture but other for some having transparency (like hairs), there is still some glowing bl...

adobe-photoshop transparency cs5 background-removal

should we just create a hair tag, lol

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Q: Scale for Billboard Dimensions

I am working on creating a billboard that is 14' x 48'. I was told to build my working document with a scale of 1/4" = 1'. So, what is the best way to convert 14' x 48' down using this scale. I just want to make sure my document is the correct size. Thanks!

The question makes perfect sense... but the logic behind the question doesn't to me

4:39 PM

@AndrewH yay wasn't sure if youve been in chat to be pinged

your answer makes a lot more sense. There's gotta be something either typo from her contact or in her wording or something right?

this is going to bug me all day until someone either tells me why im making a careless mistake and wrong or clarifies it >.<

need the neighborhood engineer

5:04 PM

have a great weekend y'all, I'm out for pizza and a movie with the missus...

@PieBie have phun!

@PieBie you too! enjoy a slice for me!

bubye

man now I want pizza..

i want sleep

5:18 PM

well if we are really going to say what we want, I want a beach, 6 pack of beer and a pizza..

I can't say in a public chat room what I really want

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haha

i just want my brother to go home so i can dance alone in the kitchen

you can dance if you want to

I want to wish you all a good weekend, peepz.

see you on Monday

later man

5:34 PM

cya soon

5:50 PM

@Ryan That is a really small scale to be working with. I assumed that they only wanted a 25% scale reduction...

@AndrewH yeah your answer makes more sense

How could you compensate for such an enlargement when going to print? Would convert to a really high DPI image?

Thats what I was wondering too if maybe they said 1/4 scale and she took it to mean 1/4" = 1'

or if they made a typo or she made a typo

1 hour later…

7:02 PM

I'd appreciate further input on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/68015/23061 between Simon and I

from what I'm reading you two are saying the exact same thing in different ways

well except in the comments part. the comments are all over the place

nice that you both downvoted each other (assuming here, we have no visual on that)

looking at the title alone I would say yes

there's tones of sources on it - elements of type- style, spatial frequencies

like the waves of a music recording, visual stimuli needs to be coherent and distinct in order to be understood

@ZachSaucier blog.justanotherfoundry.com/2014/06/…

bold type needs to be spaced widely accordingly

not sure how that fits into the web side of things, but that's how it should be on the surface

I'm pretty sure Simon and @ZachSaucier are saying the same things in two different ways. Simon is saying markup wise you don't bold it, design wise you do whatever you want. Zach is saying, design wise you do whatever you want and isnt mentioning markup.

markup semantics argument then?

Thats how I read these answers at least

7:10 PM

yeah i agree with zach

web markup semantics and typography...it reminds me of office bureaucracy lol

I actually think I agree more with Simon

just set the type right and forget the rest

i didnt read it to be honest :v but i would value type overall

@AlexanderSolonik greetings

Alexander Solonik

@Ryan good day

anyone here uses AI ?

yep

7:16 PM

my tired brain is confused by that q also

Alexander Solonik

will share a file buddy

if its possible for you to have a look locally

i have one question

and thats

how to get the font size in pixels

we.tl/lUcFumvUGf

its would be of great help

i am new to AI

this designer has designed the site in AI instead of PS , and its a bit difficult for me to get the convertion right !

uh this is more complex and a matter of resolution

Alexander Solonik

Oic

@Ryan My point was that he primarily talked about semantics which is irrelevant to the question :P

Alexander Solonik

how do i get the font size in pixels ?

7:21 PM

I agree with Simon on the semantics of it - it should be done in CSS and not HTML. That's not the question though

Alexander Solonik

possible ?

I disagree that its irrelevant. I don't think the question is worded well but semantics is absolutely relevant

but I have to go cover our shipping department, be back in a few

Ill try to explain then, not taht Im necessarily right

so what is the debate between Simon and Zach?

Does semantics matter if you bold just the word or if you bold the word and the spaces around the word.

@AlexanderSolonik please ask it on the site and tell us what ypu've tried

7:25 PM

@AndrewH not much, but yes a little. Should keep the spaces outside in markup languages like HTML

based on reading Simons answer he is saying <bold>foo</bold> <bold>bar</bold> is proper when it isnt

Updated my answer a little

and actually everyone is incorrect in it doesn't matter, some devices ignore the space and cause issues that require an entity to be entered at the ending span

@Darth_Vader it's a design question :P

still, as stated in the past when the design can effect the output it should also be taken into account. So when others read it, it's wrong

@ZachSaucier that argument is the equivalent of saying I used crappy toothpicks to build a structure and its there but because its not structurally safe its ok to do that as long as its there.

7:39 PM

Can we get the comments cleaned up on it in any case? They have gotten to be a little rambly

we will have the Q&A has died down

I left my answer anyways

Alexander Solonik

Thanks

off topic: what's a palindrome :v

ive been looking up techniques for naming things for branding, etc and came across this collection of...words

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/senile-felines#.fjV1OEZYD
I'm enjoying them far more than I should

"noun
noun: palindrome; plural noun: palindromes

a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g. madam or nurses run.

tacocat @johnp

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

7:50 PM

Regarding the bold spaces question.. Your all answering a different question, the OP specifically said in comments that the markup was irrelevant, he's asking about the design implications. Nothing to do with markup.

Naomi, did I moan Is my favourite i think

Just saying :p

why the downvote?

wasn't me

Might edit that comment to not say "implantation" :)

Ill just delete it, no reason arguing, I'll just keep billing what I do when people ask me why their stuff doesnt work on a device

cant educate people that dont take consideration on what the target end result is

7:58 PM

I think it's still helpful

Can't think of any good names for the illustration room

@ZachSaucier edited

@johnp how about "The Illustration Room"

No, i'm joking.. I'm terrible at naming things

haha I was going to but as all other rooms fail to keep going, it might be worth thinking of a good 'un

me too, the Dali Llama doesn't even make sense

and is probably non PC

8:13 PM

are we making another room?

was thinking about it earlier...dunno if I should or not? I dont wanna spam you guys about illustration stuff...feels a little off topic here?

or maybe it's just all the software related questions that the stack gets

if you want by all means, could use some design stuff here

@johnp I'd like to see more of it

I am only on here to learn about stuff I have little to no experience with

cool, well if it gets frozen we can just delete it then. with all the commits to the proposed arts and crafts stack i thought a few people might find it useful

until the new stack gets the go ahead

For questions like this 3D one should we use custom OT reasons to close (being 3D)?

8:20 PM

ha.. we have so much 3D questions coming through I think its a little late.

I dont even see the reason in the 3D area51 purposal after the amount of 3D questions we are getting

@Darth_Vader Exactly :P

Huh, didn't see the new answer to the meta post

Scott has quite a lengthy reply

@Darth_Vader I'll vote to leave open unless blatantly off topic then

Was Scott suspended for that post/comments alone or was there something removed?

We don't discuss moderation actions related to individual users, however, due to the recent show of concern we can say that this was not because of a sarcastic comment but rather an ongoing issue for which multiple warnings were issued. If he wants to discuss why after the cooldown is up, he's welcome to

Gotcha - so past actions included

I hope there wasn't any removed, terrible post. Scott seems like a reasonable guy for the most part. Contributes a lot as well

We don't discuss moderation actions related to individual users

8:35 PM

@ZachSaucier hope there wasn't any what removed?

posts from him directed at you guys that was worse than what remains

oh gotcha

Do suspended users gain rep while suspended? I know it doesn't show, but is it added after the suspension is no longer in effect?

The feedback from everyone has been very helpful, we'd like to incorporate everyone's voices and concerns and refit the post to accurately reflect how the community thinks the problem needs to be handled. Hang tight for that

I think I've seen that asked before and I think the answer is no

> At the end of this timed suspension period, your reputation will be recalculated, and your account will resume as normal. (source)

8:43 PM

I assume that means they gain the rep

it does sound like that

> At the end of the suspension period
Earned rep is re-instated. This may be different from the rep value at the start of the suspension because your posts may have been upvoted, downvoted or deleted during the suspension period, and some of your votes may have been invalidated.

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A: My account has been temporarily suspended; what does that mean?

When an account is suspended The account will be locked at 1 reputation. The user page will have a visual indication that the account is in timed suspension. It will also include a brief explanation of why the account was suspended, and for how long. The account holder will be unable to ask, an...

For future reference, I searched "[faq] suspension" on Meta Stack Exchange.

Thanks!

makes sense, accounting for suspensions in the rep calculation would be more effort than necessary

@JohnB depends how they did it

8:54 PM

Alright I left my answer. I'm really feelin sleep deprived so not sure how coherenet it is but gave it my effort

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A: Should the spaces around bold text be made bold too?

Alright, I think I understand now and this is an interesting though complicated question which is why the answers are all over the place. Hopefully in my infinite wisdom (read: sleep deprived mind) I can clarify Markup, HTML, LaTeX --- these do matter but now how you're currently thinking about ...

@ZachSaucier heavily dependent on caching until a periodical "rep audit" in which the rep calculation script is re-run to catch any errors. That's about as much as I know

Right. Their current implementation it'd be difficult to change

there's a "recalculate rep" button somewhere that you can force the script to run but I forget where

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A: Trigger a rep recalc any time a post is deleted/undeleted or question migrated.

A full reputation recalc is expensive business, even if it is only to affect a handful of users. Also it is kind of jarring to randomly feel like you are losing/gaining rep for no obvious reason. It is very side effecty as it may cause rep to be lost or gained for unrelated posts. That said, th...

some insight

@JohnB graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/reputation

Bottom of that page.

Wait, no.

[dives back into Stack]

that's where I thought it was, did they remove it maybe?

area51.stackexchange.com/reputation

Still there on A51 which is running a dusty version of SE. They either moved it or removed it

9:03 PM

you know we could just ask some other SE mods if you all really want to find out. might be less amusing though

but the thrill of the hunt!

My Google-fu is failing me!

I'm running across some very old and oblique references to plans to remove it.

But nothing actually about removing it yet.

Got it!

golfclap

> As of December 2013, there is no "Trigger Reputation Recalc" button anymore. Recalc is performed automatically only, in case of reputation inconsistency that does not resolve itself please file a new bug report. (source)

nice find

9:11 PM

That "recalc" abbreviation was throwing me off.

(Silly me, it's right there on the button.)

bahahahahaha i love you all

good night

ttfn

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11:54 PM

I appear and everyone disappears.. hmm

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