Graphic Design Weekly Newsletter - Friday, February 27, 2015

Top new questions this week: What do you call this type of top down, not really 3D, perspective? It's not isometric, it's not one point, maybe top down? I want to Google it and don't know how. Thanks illustration perspective   asked by Manuel Paulo 12 votes answered by Zach Saucier 19 votes Is it possible to "invert" an SVG file? Not the colours, but the actual areas/paths? I have an SVG file, and I want to create the opposite of it. It's a monochrome icon, and I want a version where the logo is transparent and the rest of the rectangle is filled paths. In theory it ... inkscape svg   asked by Codemonkey 12 votes answered by Sean Madsen 21 votes Why are fonts more expensive when used in games? I'm a video game developer who loves fonts. I noticed that fonts are often more expensive when they are bought to be used in games. For example, a font called Daft Brush on HypeForType is sold for ... games font-licensing buying   asked by lvictorino 11 votes answered by joojaa 14 votes How to explain "achieving good Usability" I have a quite hard task right now: I need to explain agencies and graphic designers, how to design a usable website concept and visual design. The goal is to give designers a ... website-design best-practice usability teaching   asked by FrankL 6 votes answered by Voxwoman 3 votes How to design a generic icon symbolizing a brand (McDonalds, Apple, etc..)? How would a generic brand-icon look? The icon will be used in a web application that has "Brand" as an object, and the "Brand" could be "McDonalds", "Apple", "BMW" or any other company/brand. Right ... icon illustration web-applications   asked by user3449608 5 votes answered by user568458 4 votes Is it okay to use Font Awesome's social media icons? Font-Awesome provides logos for social media brands like facebook. According to Facebooks brand guidelines using those seem to not be allowed: [Don't] Use any icons, images or trademarks to ... legal   asked by Alex 5 votes answered by Vincent 4 votes Re-creating Illustrator drop shadow in CorelDRAW X5 A bit of background: I am a technical writer who as a result of corporate restructuring has become the "illustrator" for our Technical Publications department (we previoulsy had the services of a ... adobe-illustrator corel-draw drop-shadow   asked by RoobyDooby 4 votes answered by RoobyDooby 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: 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 ... adobe-photoshop cs6 transparency background background-removal   asked by geotheory 32 votes answered by John 40 votes Reduce file size without losing quality I would like to save files in Photoshop but keep them as small as possible. I use Save for Web (and Devices) and save as a JPEG. Here are the settings I used: I really do not want to lower the ... adobe-photoshop images image-quality save   asked by Lynda 8 votes answered by thebodzio 12 votes Can you answer this? Copying an excel multi line cell into an Indesign table I'm creating a booklet with indesign and I am trying to copy data from an excel spreadsheet into an indesign table. I was given an excel spread sheet with the a list of peoples names, their titles and ... adobe-indesign tables   asked by melsu 2 votes

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