The Ink Spot

Anuj Kaithwas

01:28

hi

clearly perspective and color selections isn't my best part :3

there is a lot to be done here

I just want to know what is missing and what needs improvement. Also the color scheme sucks here

please put your professional opinions! :D

Bakabaka

07:18

@AnujKaithwas Hello Anuj, welcome to the general GDSE chat. We have a separate room for critique chat, where people will be eager to give you feedback on your work.

Ryan

12:34

Morning all

Gramps

13:02

sup

Ryan

@Gramps hey what was that about last week?

okay but as far as me, I didn't call anyone a name did I? I mean I may have and forgotten but I try to stay civil on here :\

Gramps

NO you didnt

Ryan

alright, sounds fun. good work again Lone Ranger

anyhow, have a good weekend?

Gramps

and that is not tolerated and too much like child like behavior.. nor will I allow anyone that is a member here to feel threatened or deal with that

ya it went by to quickly

mostly testing the new CC InDesign 14

Ryan

Were there any changes? I read some of the change logs, all I noticed on CC 14 is better Webkit Integration and some other font stuff

Gramps

13:11

do anything fun this weekend?

Ryan

got drunk on Friday, got drunk on Saturday, and lifted more weight than I've ever even attempted on Sunday. Almost blacked out trying.

you can delete anything you'd like to

Gramps

wanted to ask first before..

Ryan

i mean im not sure WHY you wanted to delete it. But sure you got your reasons

Gramps

what are your thoughts about removing critiques from here and asking them to go to the other chat?

Ryan

really I think so often we're not discussing anything graphic design related in here that a critique would be welcome

but if people would rather keep it separate then I would keep all of them separate.

Gramps

13:18

oh did US when the soccer games?

Ryan

13:32

Nope we lost. I don't watch it but thats what the internet tells me

Hey Gramps, let me get your opinion, I want to mark one of these correct but they're all great so having trouble figuring out which is the most useful:

6

Q: Is there a way to create gradations between two given weights of a particular font?

Was doing some reading and came across this which I found very insightful: Weight This is the difference between bold typefaces or versions of a typeface, and regular typefaces or versions of a typeface, as shown here by the difference between Arial Black and Arial. As with many ...

typography

@Joojaa answer does work, I tried it. But WillAdams being a low rep member might be encouraged to answer more and he was the first to mention Multiple Master Fonts :\

Gramps

Ill read it later and let you know

JohnB

14:05

howdy folks

Ryan

14:16

hey hey look who showed up

how have you been @JohnB ?

JohnB

crushingly busy

dove into After Effects last week to help out a friend with a video project, you use it right @Ryan? Or do you just stick with Premiere?

Bakabaka

hey all

Ryan

@JohnB I use both. AE for graphics, Premier for the composition

JohnB

Hey Baka

Ryan

Heya Vic, good BBQ?

JohnB

14:19

@Ryan I worked with both, but I think I like AE better

Bakabaka

@JohnB Hi John, good to see you here again

@Ryan hehe, it was... ok.

food was good :)

Ryan

@JohnB AE is definitely more fun and interesting for us graphic designers. I wish I had desk space at home and the money to get a setup to learn more. Now that my macbook is fixed I might invest in Apple Motion but its not nearly the same.

JohnB

@Ryan It felt very "natural" to me, kinda like "oh, this is Illustrator but for video" which was nice

then I got to Premiere and struggled a bit hehe

Bakabaka

@Ryan read you had a good weekend? :)

Ryan

@JohnB you're better then me, or you're animation must be real different than mine. Its taking me a while to figure out how to achieve what I want in AE but I'm getting better with each video.

I spent much of last week making an animated bar graph in there

@Bakabaka I had a great weekend

JohnB

14:23

@Ryan nah I was just doing extremely simple animations that could have been done in Premiere anyway

Ryan

@JohnB if you know the answer to this I'll be a very happy guy

0

Q: When making a Gradient Ramp can the Start/Stop be relative to the object?

When making a Gradient Ramp in After Effects is there a convenient way for it to be tied to the object its applied to. I'm sure with Expressions I could somehow Pickwhip it together and adjust the code, but is there any check box or something more efficient? It's a bit tedious when I make a Grad...

adobe-after-effects

Bakabaka

@JohnB is there end at the light of the tunnel?

JohnB

@Bakabaka hopefully at the end of this week, still stuff to do spilled over from last

and I participated in a hackathon all weekend which allowed about 2 hours of sleep, so now I feel like a zombie

Bakabaka

stores his brains in a safe place

so next week this site has 2 mods again? ;)

JohnB

maybe, it might be Gramps' turn to disapear for a while though

anyone following the World Cup at all?

Gramps

14:33

US from what I understand has tied

JohnB

sorry @Baka but I voted for Chili in my pool for today's match D:

Bakabaka

@JohnB honestly, I don't care much

Gramps

and sup johnb

JohnB

hey hey

Bakabaka

the earlier the Dutch team gets eliminated, the happier I am

and sry

Gramps

14:35

go dutch, lol

JohnB

haha lot's of commotion over there I'm sure

Bakabaka

soccer is to the Dutch as baseball is to you guys

Ryan

boring?

Gramps

john how are those hackathons? We have a local meetup just started on those

JohnB

I've done a few, they can be fun

Gramps

14:40

are you guys using perl?

Bakabaka

@Ryan lol

no, as in, everyone and their little brother has an opinion, and saying you don't like it is... unwise

JohnB

nope, Ruby on Rails

I got tweeted in picture form during the presentation:

Another 1st time GIS team at #PhillyEcoCamp! MyPark community alerts & events http://t.co/twSCG8wkbL

Tweeted by azavea on June 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM

Bakabaka

that's... rather blurry. not a professional camera I'd say.

Gramps

phone

JohnB

haha definitely not

this one is only slightly less blurry but you'll have to open PS and fiddle with the levels if you want to see my beautiful face twitter.com/timwis/status/480800909904318464

Bakabaka

14:44

lol

Gramps

so my US chaps you guys celebrate the 4th?

Ryan

hell ya!

Murcah!

hahaha

JohnB

15:06

Good grief... i.imgur.com/HBqs3zd.png

Bakabaka

@JohnB that's nothing compared to the math you guys use in basketball or AF :P

Random O'Reilly

16:40

oho! look at the beautiful little creature I met today

Gramps

16:56

that thing poisonous?

id say yes..

Random O'Reilly

no

utterly harmless; i believe you call it european grass snake

we only have three snakes up here, only one is poisonous - and that is very mild

this little dude, about 50-70 cm long, curled around the legs of my deckchair

i get very excited about meeting wild things...

Gramps

17:12

we have some good ole nasty snakes down here in the south

Random O'Reilly

i bet

Gramps

pretty:

Random O'Reilly

gorgeous..

Stack Exchange

17:28

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Q: When can we get other "Other StackExchange" options in Close Votes?

We've discussed this at length, now that we've been out of beta for a while, are we going to get new options for the "This question belongs on another site in the stack.exchange.com network" close option? We have Tech-Support as SuperUser but otherwise only Meta available. Would be really nice t...

feature-request

Ryan

heyo

Gramps

sup

ok migration have to be asked to be moved over.

If the moderator from that site wants it theres a tool we use to send it over.

but we technically dont have to ask but we do encase they know the question has been asked before and because it is polite

Ryan

But this doesn't migrate does it? Doesn't it just leave a default comment, "Your question appears off-topic because it belongs on n.stackexchange.com"

Gramps

thats because we havent sent it over. There is somewhat of a quality level you have to keep in mind.

Ryan

Or could we at least get the "blatantly off-topic" one? A lot of times I find myself editing the off-topic reason from "because it is about..." to just read, "because it is not about graphic design." Which seems to be that blatantly off-topic reason some se sites have

though if we could use a less hostile phrase than "blatantly off-topic" i'd certainly be cool with that

Gramps

17:35

Just like our scope for asking questions has to be within a certain degree its the same for other sites, example: critique questions.. If the question that is asked on our site wouldnt have to be edited much and we think it would be a great fit on another site we will ask. BUT like the email question it falls under Super AND stack

Ryan

But again --- does votes to close as belonging on another stack actually migrate it?

Doesn't it just leave a comment encouraging the person who posted it that it would be better off somewhere else?

Gramps

NO

MODs migrate the question

yes it leaves a comment that it belongs to another stack site. IF a mod triggers it to go it will go, but again, we ask before doing so

that make sense?

@scott I saw the Hercules we talked about and I want my two hours back, lol

Ryan

okay then what do you think about the blatantly off topic reason?

Gramps

we could edit it but ask in meta, I dont remember if we can add another close reason.. If you have a good case by all means ask.

Scott

@Gramps "Hercules" or "the Legend of Hercules" -- seen the latter, it was bad.

Haven't seen "Hercules"

Gramps

17:43

the one with the off cast

Scott

I saw Neighbors... decent (not for kids)

That must have been "Legend" and yeah it was bad :)

Gramps

I saw how to train your dragon 2 and was shocked it was more grown up

Scott

I actually liked the first one of that

Thought it was laced with adult humor \

That's what makes those movies good.. jokes the kids just don't notice and get :)

So.... client last week was upset that I dont' give away my InDesign files. I created a sales piece for them and they wanted changes to the order form, but wanted to make them themselves.

Today I get an email... 'Please insert the attahced order form PDf into the sales piece, etc."

Well the PDFs are not PDF/X-1a compliant, there are no marks, no bleeds, and they are undersized.

Gramps

ha

Ryan

0

Q: Should we have a "Blatantly off-topic close reason?"

Many stack exchange websites have a close reason, "Blatantly off-topic" UX: English: Money / Finance: We don't have this though. Was there a particular reason why we seem to be in the minority of SE sites that don't have (actually the only one I've seen)? If not I think we should add it...

feature-request

Gramps

17:47

I think Im going to start charging new users to ask questions... Sometimes the lack of effort and search just mind blows me

Ryan

its been really bad the last few days

Gramps

im sorry Im doing the best I can

Ryan

..wasn't blaming you :\

Gramps

I decided not to close so many even though I know they should be.. I find if a few have voted on them and then I come back and close it isnt so bad BUT if I just close it, boy, some complain

Scott

There's no way to combat laziness.. it's inherent in most people :)

Gramps

17:51

that moment in life when your child's teacher calls and tell you your child decided to play hair stylist with another child's hair.... and these were child proof scissors!

Scott

well.. she didn't cut the other child did she? :)

Gramps

only her hair..

Scott

Good for her! :) Make your mark early I say.

Line 'em up... let cut the whole class. They'll look like a cohesive team :) Besides.. that girls hair was already bad. :)

Gramps

ha ha

Stack Exchange

0

Q: Should we have a "Blatantly off-topic close reason?"

Many stack exchange websites have a close reason, "Blatantly off-topic" UX: English: Money / Finance: We don't have this though. Was there a particular reason why we seem to be in the minority of SE sites that don't have (actually the only one I've seen)? If not I think we should add it...

feature-request

Scott

18:08

Oh Matte, also saw Rush (boring), Animal (good horror flick), A Million Way to Die in the West (good if you like McFarlane humor), and Blood Ties (good crime drama).

Ryan

I want to see Million Ways to Die, looks funny

Gramps

jump street 22

Scott

It's full of Family Guy-style jokes

Ryan

Well its no South Park but thats okay

Gramps

you guys like south park?

Ryan

18:19

i do

I'd say South Park > Futurama > Family Guy and somewhere way in the distance is Simpsons which shouldn't even be compared like it is, because Simpson's is a sitcom not a pure comedy

Gramps

I am sooooo burned out on all of those

Ryan

ooh but Boondocks get in the discussion somewhere

Scott

I like anything with subtle undertones of snide humor.... so yeah South Park is good, but it's more about listening to it than watching it. Family guy has always been a bit too obvious for me. Furutama was good. Never been a Simpsons watcher.

Hey.. either of you guys got any clue how to isolate audio static on a cable coaxial line?

Ryan

uh not sure what you mean? I have a vague idea of how to isolate static in Adobe Audition :\

Gramps

I hear by apoint Ryan as a mod... lol

Scott

18:30

oops, unplugged modem :)

Gramps

how and why did you do that?

Scott

I've got a low level popcorn sound on my cable line.. think I may have found it though.. loose connection at the UPS

Becuase I was messing with the UPS and accientally pulled it too far out :)

Gramps

electrical and cat cables too close

Scott

So now.. I need to pull out the entire des and isolate the cable and power lines better.... which is fine. I've got a new UPS coming this week and will need to rewire.

It's not CAT though.. it's cable coax

the CAT is fine

I think I found it though with that loose connection.

Seems better right now.

Ryan

@gramps what? are you serious? is the workload too much with Yisela and JohnB busy?

Scott

18:33

It's really only prominent when I watch stuff ont eh home theater int eh otehr room where the subwoofer makes that low level poppign really noticable.

Gramps

@Ryan nah Im fine

building a desk has really made my brain hurt

Scott

Where are they anyway.. they are jsut like real life politicians.. get elected then run off :)

Ryan

yea you are

Gramps

might just buy one its so annoying trying to find butcher block

Scott

Coudl go with bamboo teragren.com/products_countertops_traditional.html

Gramps

18:36

its more expensive

Scott

And lumber liquidators wasn't good?

lumberliquidators.com/ll/s/countertops

Gramps

no the company that sold the butcher block top I needed burned themselfs down

Scott

Grizzly?

Gramps

so the 30" x 72" piece I wanted wont be in till about Sept

grizzly was double

Scott

oh, ouch

Gramps

18:38

ya and Ikea was large in freight

Scott

Could get cheap formica until September

Gramps

Ill just roll what I have till then

lumber has 24 x 8ft but I dont know about rolling 24"

Scott

Or build it with just MDF tops so you have a basic pattern and everything ready to swap the MDF with butcher block when it's in.

Random O'Reilly

ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/70273799

Scott

Of course.. my biggest downfall with projects is I like to finish them and have a very hard time letting something sit half-done for any period of time

Gramps

18:40

well there is another option Ive debated but I will have to sand it down and poly it

I was going to take 2" thick and get some pipe clamps and make my own but I dont have a wood planer so I wood just use an oribital and sand the seems smooth

going to glue and screw it together but ive heard of some issues I could run into if the edges arent smooth

Scott

well if youwant the butcher block and are going to get it eventually, you really just need a temporary surface to use.

Gramps

ya I thought about 2 3/4" mdf butted together but knowing myself Ill paint it....

if its not painted it will produce dust no matter what

Scott

true and with MDF there's a splinter issue if you dont' do something

Gramps

yes I have a router for corners

Scott

well yeah, but I mean just the general surface.

Gramps

18:46

I would just finish the MDF and roll with it.

for all the pipes and fittings this runs 340: simplifiedbuilding.com/store/table-frame-kit-z.html

Scott

Or you could just do some nice 2x8's and butt them together with like a 1/2" MDF sheet on the underside.

see I couldn't use that. I need an L shape with the corner open.

Gramps

@Scott thought about that and use a tool that is commonly used for building frames

@Ryan what version of after efects? graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/33793/…

Ryan

@gramps started in CC now in CC 2014

Gramps

ha I asked a beta question.... cant let Ryan ask them all today

Stack Exchange

19:15

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Q: Should we add the tag CC-2014?

Since the new update of CC per the release I was curious if we should add cc-2014 or creative-cloud-2014 to co exist with our tag structure.. We currently have for Adobe: cs3 cs4 cs5 cs6 creative-cloud

discussion

Ilan

Hi everybody

Gramps

greetings

Ilan

19:40

Does adobe stopped to updated AiCS6?

anybody?

someone?

Ryan

Dont know @Ilan

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Q: Convert envelope distort to shape

I have a path that I've distorted using an envelope distort in Illustrator. I want the distorted shape to become the actual path. How do I achieve this? Ie., right now my envelope looks like this: How do I get the area in blue (the vector outlines) to match the shape of the area in black (t...

adobe-illustrator vector

I know I saw a very similar question to that one recently. Before I answer this one, does anyone recall so we can mark it duplicate instead

nevermind, found it

Ilan

it is duplicate

scott answered

Ryan

19:57

yes i marked it duplicate to the question @Ilan you're welcome to do the same so we can actually close it

Ilan

ok

nop

did not closed

Ryan

takes 5 votes or a moderator vote

Scott

20:22

responsive email design.... sucks.

Ilan

@Scott

hi!

Scott

Hi Ilan

Ilan

Do you think AiCS6 support stopped?

I mean updates etc?

Scott

yes. Unless there's a security issue, there won't be any further updates to CS6.

Ilan

I cannot believe

Scott

20:25

Adobe only fixes security holes in older software

Why? Adobe wants you to subscribe. CS6 breaks that.

Ilan

I paid full price just 8mo ago

Scott

well you bought it a year and a half after it was released.

Ilan

have no words

Scott

CS6 is still rock solid here though> I use it most of the time.

Ilan

yep

but new features in CC are attractive

:(

Scott

20:31

yeah.. but CC is a subscription only.. got to climb into Adobe's pocket to use it.

Ilan

arhghhhh

Ilan

20:47

@Scott a small Q

can I set the size of blob brush to less than 1 point?

Scott

not sure... I don't think so.

Bleeding Fingers

ting-tong

in UX Chat, 1 min ago, by Ben Brocka

@BleedingFingers seems more like a Graphic Design question, presumably it's something to do with print or form design I guess

in UX Chat, yesterday, by Bleeding Fingers

in this document, there are plus sign on all four corners of the page

any idea?

Ilan

i think these signs have no any sence

$)

Gramps

site down for others??

Bleeding Fingers

nope

Gramps

20:55

sorry man stackexchange is offline for me right now

Scott

21:41

@BleedingFingers no clue what question those comments refer to. No way to tell i fit is indeed a graphic design question or not.

@Gramps it was for me shortly as well.

@BleedingFingers ahh I see it now.. had to back up from your links.

The + signs are one of two things... A) simple design elements which have no functional purpose other than to look interesting or 2) tick marks for registration and auto-form scanning. The + signs may ensure the scanner rotates the scan so it's correctly aligned and centered.

DA.

22:49

I believe scott is correct with #2. They're likely registration marks for high-speed scanning equipment.

My guess is that they are there to 'calibrate' the size of the document, as printing and re-scanning may have changed the original output size

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