The Ink Spot

Ryan

01:52

>:( Doesn't want to post the new 60 second tutorial to IG. Just reprocessed it at a lower bit rate and still doesn't to publish

Getting frustrating

Vincent

09:43

@Luc could be a misclick ;)

Meta Graphic Design

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Q: Declined off-topic flag for migrated question

I have flagged this question as off-topic http://law.stackexchange.com/questions/11589/celebrity-images-for-non-commercial-purposes which, as you can see, was migrated to law.SE. My flag was declined; the question is obviously off-topic, or it wouldn't be migrated to another site. Why was this ...

Luciano

10:02

@Vincent oh alrigh

Vincent

Just a guess--I didn't handle the flag. Or at least, I don't recall doing so

Luciano

I'm gonna stop flagging for a while - I got flagbanned again, with 4 declined flags on the last 7 days... I don't even remember flagging that much lately.

Vincent

awh

Luciano

a second thing I'm noticing since yesterday: I reviewed a bunch of questions, now "edit" is greyed out. Is there a limit of edits per hour/day?

didn't wanna bother you with this, but seems rather odd, and I'm not sure if it's related to something else

Vincent

hm, 'banned from editing' would be new to me, but I wouldn't put it beyond the system

but maybe there's too many of your edit in the queue? Let me approve a few

Luciano

10:15

Doesn't seem like a ban, because it's just greyed out, I can't edit questions. Also the fact that it happened yesterday, then worked again. Could be the queue

Vincent

just approved some, does that work?

Luciano

it does! How many do I have pending?

Vincent

You had 5 pending

so apparently you can't have more than that.

another reason to try and reach 2000 asap :P

Luciano

can't reach 2k if I keep downvoting stuff :P We need better questions :D

Vincent

touché :)

johnp

10:29

I should reach 2k by 2020

Vincent

by extrapolation of current trends? :P

johnp

I just enjoy chat mainly and reading xD

yes haha

Vincent

one day you will have that brilliant 100+ question

johnp

to be fair, when i do answer i usually do extensive tutorials lol

Vincent

When I look at the plot on your profile it's more like you will reach 2000 on 20:20 :P

Luciano

10:30

hahaha

Vincent

looks nigh exponential to me

johnp

this makes me sad lol

not really though

Vincent

hey @johnp

johnp

is it warm where you are @Vincent It's the hottest day of the year here

i put ice cubes in the dog bowl a minute ago and they're already melted

Vincent

Tomorrow will be

today is 30ish C, tomorrow will be 34 locally

johnp

10:33

i have spf on even though im inside

Vincent

spf?

johnp

though it's really for anti-aging tbh xD

Vincent

googles ah ok

johnp

sun protection

Vincent

tsk. you don't need that yet :P

johnp

10:34

haha nah...usually i dont care...just work has ruined my eyes lately

Vincent

:/

johnp

thinking of getting Gunnar glasses though I can't tell if they're a scam or not

Vincent

how did work 'ruin' your eyes?

johnp

just staring at a screen for long periods

drawing...

Vincent

I mean I've been doing computer work for the last 20 years and all that happened is that I've shifted a -1 more

johnp

10:37

im a sensitive soul

Vincent

hehe

as if I'm such a rock :P

johnp

lol

Luciano

I was biking to work today with sunglasses on, it was so bright I still had to squint

Vincent

I remember something similar to those glasses back from the 90s

Back when more and more people were doing screen work all day

afraid of radiation and all

they turned out to be a scam

but then again, I'm old and cynical :P

johnp

haha remember those awful fly-trap looking monitor covers

Vincent

10:43

yup

Luciano

at some point those evolved to be a dark glass screen cover, which definitely looked better

Vincent

oh yeah, I remember a few of my colleagues at the credit card office had those

sorry, I'm a skeptic. I'm also septic. :P

johnp

I'm also a skeptic

i have a bag of frozen broccoli on my laptop now

not good

Luciano

o_O

johnp

haha yeah...

the fan isn't strong enough in hot weather

Vincent

10:48

oof, I can imagine

is secretly glad he's back on a desktop

johnp

due a clean again too. i may invest in a cooling mat

considering i dont work anywhere exotic, i dont think id miss much if i move to desktop

Luciano

I'm not-so-secretly glad my office doesn't get direct sunlight, that helps a lot

Vincent

^^

Hm, I did frequent a flexspace that's housed in a wharf cellar. Awfully fresh and welcoming in these conditions

...but my laptop has, for most intents and purposes, died.

johnp

lol

i ordered a cooler just now and cancelled

im getting more financially savvy, it seems

Vincent

with age... ;P

Luciano

11:01

:)

johnp

¬_¬ hit me where it hurts

lol

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Vincent

lol

Good stuff, valuable tricks @Ryan

Thanks for the great answer @Cai

johnp

11:22

Melania Trump's google-fu isn't great...

Ryan

@Vincent thanks for watching! Thinking about putting the 60 second tutorials up on YouTube when I have time as well to supplement the longer ones

Vincent

12:10

@johnp nor is her taste in men

Ryan

12:42

morning all

Vincent

o/

Luciano

\o

Ryan

O))___CRAYOLA____))>

wait wait, we're professionals

O))_________PRISMACOLOR__________))_))>

Vincent

lol

Then I'd say go oldskool

O))__________Rotring__________))__))>

Luciano

gotta love the Rotrings

johnp

13:05

O))__________Mars Lumograph__________))__))>
O))__________General's__________))__))>
pour moi

Vincent

never heard of either D:

Ryan

I've herd of of Mars Lumograph. Never heard of Rotring or Generals

Vincent

Rotring is a German brand

Ryan

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Q: Removing a part of image and overlaying that part with another portion of image

In the image below I want to remove the bottom-right wall and overlay the deleted portion with the sky above. Basically I want to make a Material Design like wallpaper (I'm gonna edit it after that to complete the look). I like to make it look real like we do for small portions with Healing Brush...

adobe-photoshop photo-editing google-material-design

johnp

Mars is made by Staedtler which is german...highly recommend them...very soft

Ryan

13:08

Am I the only one that thinks its "Unclear What You're Asking"

johnp

General's is american, i had to import them

Vincent

@Ryan nope

can't make heads nor tails from that

Ryan

gray, some sort of wall, and what looks like a piece of cardboard

can someone provide me with a tutorial

o.O

Vincent

I added a comt

johnp

lol i deciphered it a little until he mentioned material design

it's like bible heuristics...very interesting

Vincent

13:12

@Luciano Still +2 per edit? That way, you might make 20:20 :P

Ryan

@johnp start color tutorials but for now only on my instagram: instagram.com/p/BIClGEdgJ95/?taken-by=ryanfromgdse

I'll elaborate more on colors and color theories throughout the week and then end with a written tutorial as well

Vincent

^^ recommended!

johnp

ah lovely thanks @Ryan :) without looking at it just yet, what way do u sample? (as pictures are made up of so many dots etc... is it necessary to blur the image first to get a proper sample?

Ryan

the eye dropper tool can be set to a pixel range

johnp

oh it's a quicky video, ill have a look

Ryan

13:16

Depending on the resolution of the image you can just set the eye dropper to 3x3, 5x5, or 11x11

@Vincent thanks. Curious - was that a tool you knew existed?

johnp

I knew it existed though I never really used it. I assumed it was some sort of analysis tool

Luciano

@Vincent +2 per edit, -1 per downvote... 2 steps forward, 1 backwards - I don't think I can make it by 20:20 :)

@Ryan great tut! I knew the eyedropper pixel range, I've used at some point when I wanted to get an average color from a region

Ryan

13:34

@Luciano thank you

Vincent

@Ryan nope

Photoshop is not my expertise, I'm living inside of Illustrator these days. Photoshop is a tool, Illustrator is my way of living :P

Ryan

So when are you going to make some illustrator tutorials :D

Vincent

someday :)

Ryan

You don't ever illustrate inside of Photoshop? Always with vectors?

Vincent

I try to do as much of my work in vector, yes. I use photoshop for finishing like colour correction, and exporting in the right sizes and formats

but illustrating in Photoshop is raaaare

rarely I use it for the 3D or animation tools

Ryan

13:40

morning John the OG

Vincent

I did make some. This is a photoshop piece

instagram.com/p/BEdQVbmC86D/?taken-by=bakabakadesign

Ryan

ooh looks like geometric foil. i like it

Vincent

thx

Darth_Vader

sup

Vincent

hey @Darth

not much. it's hot here. With you?

Luciano

13:51

sup @joojaa @Darth_Vader

joojaa

Have we stumbled on the reason why HR seems like a failure to most people.

Vincent

lol

Luciano

it's the department that usually understands people the least

joojaa

I was once asked to rate my CAD skill in Creo from 1-5 and i answered:

Ryan

@joojaa HR at least in the United States is basically, "These are the requirements we have to do for legal purposes. We have to cover ourselves and prevent lawsuits."

joojaa

13:53

6. Your skill categorisation does not even begin to describe my skill

Ryan

hahahaha

when they asked me on 1-10 I rated myself all 9's and said there's always more to learn

Luciano

lol

joojaa

I was also asked do i know how to use Microsoft office and i told them 0. And added that granted i probably know more than most people but it would undervalue my other skills. Basically i never use office unless asked to solve somebody elses office problem.

Zach Saucier

14:15

numeric scales for skills is one of the stupidest ways of judging actual skill

@Luciano I know how you feel. Though it's more like 1 upvote, 7 downvotes for me

Ryan

?

Zach Saucier

stackoverflow.com/users/2065702/zach-saucier?tab=reputation

Luciano

eh yours is not going that bad

Zach Saucier

only because I get too depressed CVing and downvoting everything so I never spend time there :P

all those upvotes are on old posts

Luciano

I suppose you could still make it by 20:20 :D

Zach Saucier

14:25

haha

Look at the +3 rep day xD

Ryan

make it to what by 2020?

I need more coffee, oooh look coffee

Luciano

it's the joke of the day: how long till one can get 2k rep at the current pace

@Vincent developed an algorithm to calculate rep increase speed :P

Zach Saucier

look up your rep from a year ago and divide it by 365

Ryan

just make a question about Pokemon Go and you'll have 2000 points by the end of the month

3

Zach Saucier

ez

Luciano

14:40

I'll find a design-related question with Pokemon in it - should we already create a PokemonGo tag? :P

Zach Saucier

I hope not

Ryan

@Luciano yes

How many different ways are people going to ask how to remove white backgrounds

Luciano

everyday a new one, apparently

Vincent

Hm. Is there a way to make multiple swatches global in Illustrator?

except for opening and checking each of them, that is

Ryan

if you make it a question I'll answer you :P

Vincent

14:53

meh. It's another software Q, so I thought I'd ask it here first

Ryan

sort Swatches by Kind. Shift select all the ones with the global and then uncheck it at once

ones that are global have the little white corner on them

Should this be my next 60 second tutorial? :D

oh wait you want to make them. Well same thing, select them all at once

Vincent

Ah, great. I didn't see the 'swatch options' icon appear at the bottom of the palette

johnp

how to remove a pokemon from a white background would be nice @Luciano

Ryan

@johnp I hate you

johnp

hehe

i have so much sun cream on, i am the white background today

shameth on thee trying to remove me

Vincent

14:58

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Q: Is there a quick way to make multiple Illustrator swatches global?

Global swatches are my friends. Being able to open a swatch in Illustrator, change its colour values and have my art change along is invaluable. I know I can change a swatch to global by opening the swatch and checking the 'Global' box: How do I do this for multiple swatches at once?

adobe-illustrator swatches

@johnp lol

want to have a go at it @Ryan or shall I answer myself? :)

Ryan

I already closed Illustrator so no screenshots for you

Vincent

@Ryan I don't see the 'swatch options' in the dropdown menu, but it's an icon on the bottom of the palette. Might be version / OS differences

Ryan

reopening

Vincent

leave it, I'm blind

:$

Ryan

done

Darth_Vader

15:04

@joojaa you play with converting a txt file to a doc file?

joojaa

Ive done that sometimes. Its easier of you convert to RTF though. And by doc do you mean doc or docx

@Darth_Vader sure, you need to do that?

On windows you could use com and do it in word directly.

python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Darth_Vader

yes, docx

got it, mac textutil for the win

Ryan

15:24

@Vincent please use Blend If

Vincent

@Ryan also a possibility. Feel free to add your own answer :)

Ryan

I thought the community would close it as a dupe

Vincent

I do think it's a dupe, but I could't find it quickly

If you find it, feel free to close :)

Ryan

me neither thats why I was hoping the minions would lol

Vincent

minions? That's @Darth :P

sigh. language barriers can be so frustrating

-2

Q: convert to pdf tangle with greek and english characters

i have a problem with acrobat dc when convert to adobe pdf an email from outlook which email contains greek fonts. tangle with greek and english characters see image file

fonts text pdf adobe-acrobat

Luciano

15:32

so many duplicates for the transparency question... I found this one: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/32180/…

Vincent

@Luciano that one at least has a great answer

Luciano

that's what I thought. Unfortunately I can't flag it today, I'm grounded :)

Vincent

I will hammer

Luciano

awesome thanks

Vincent

Can't Touch This

orrr. maybe this one... which the site suggest when I close for dupe DX

78

Q: Replacing whiteness with transparency in CS6

I want to replace the whiteness in pixels with transparency in the same way as described in this question - i.e. for lighter pixels to be made proportionally as transparent. All solutions found via google are based on magic wand or other methods that do not work for my needs. I'm sure there used...

adobe-photoshop cs6 transparency background background-removal

Ryan

15:37

Consider: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…

Just look at those View Counts

Every tutorial I do should be how to remove background with slightly different wording as an ongoing joke

Vincent

I went for the second one in that list

you should just name any tut you do 'Background removal'

or at least SEO for that

Ryan

that first one has 700,000 views

Luciano

but the first one is for gimp

Vincent

16:18

Oh my. Arqade has already 666 questions tagged pokemon-go

Ryan

I went to take photos on Sunday evening... where I went was flooded with Pokemon Go players

hahahaha one of the speechwriter's for Melania Trump put a rick roll in her speech. That's awesome

vox.com/2016/7/19/12221654/melania-trump-rickroll

Melania Trump's RNC RICKROLL

►

Ryan

19:54

@Vincent @JohnB @Darth_Vader how do we want to deal with this:

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A: Can Anyone suggest free font similar to Don Citarella Gothic

Glad you like my font. Message me and I'll just sent it to you, no charge.

On the one hand - its not an answer. On the other hand - the font creator took time to respond. Perhaps we can make it into an answer?

actually, is it already an answer?

Darth_Vader

I would remove it as an answer and convert it to a comment or delete it since OP says he got it

Ryan

doesnt it answer the question though?

"Whats a free font similar to Don Citarella Gothic?" --- "Here's Don Citarella Gothic, now for free"

Darth_Vader

um, no.. How does him telling the OP he will give it to them for free help anyone else that looks at that question, for a similar font?

unless you want to ask him if everyone gets it for free then ok, lol

Ryan

thats what im typing right now lol

also going to ask him if he referenced any other free fonts that might further answer the question

Darth_Vader

@Ryan there ya go and good idea

Ryan

20:02

it happens from time to time

if only it happened more for work and less for unpaid moderation things :\

or more for work and same amount for unpaid moderation things even. that be cool too

PieBie

@Darth_Vader convert it to a comment would be my idea also

that's why I flagged it in the first place

How do we know it's actually Don Citarella though and not some scammer/spammer?

Darth_Vader

@PieBie lol.. it's a trap!

PieBie

Hah!

Ryan

@PieBie that would be the most random and elaborate attempt to scam/spam ever

PieBie

@Ryan neither, I've seen weirder

or maybe they're just trolling

the internet is a silly place, much like Camelot

Ryan

20:11

its not Piebie. His profile checks out

johnp

20:37

my computer had some class of meltdown without warning :(

must back up all the things

new antivirus seems to be the cause...only to be expected lol

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