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What are some good collaborative sketching/drawing services or applications?
Personally I'm looking for something that'll work as a graphical version of google docs, similar to flockdraw or ziteboard with decent tools for sketching, support for text and large canvases, as well as the ability to embed pictures and possibly gifs, ideally free/open-source or self-hosted.
But feel free to share other related tools, anything you think is good.
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>>454260
the free ones i’ve used are Magma, Malmal/HelloPaint, and Drawpile. i believe they all allow public and private boards with varying graphic tools but Magma seems the most encompassing. if it’s for like corporate purposes there’s stuff like microsoft whiteboard as well
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>>454260
opencanvas if its still around

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Is there an easy way to replicate the image degredation from repeatedly copying/faxing a document? Ideally this would be for PDF files, but any format would be better than nothing.
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>>453902
>downsizing would actually help you achieve degradation


>i guess i'm not really understanding what the issue is

No shit, it works in in exactly the opposite way; reducing the size of an image is how line art and other images are cleaned up and an integral part of the process of creating art for print media back in the day.

Easiest way to imitate copy/fax machine degradation digitally is to mess with light values, contrast, exposure, etc , since most photocopying artifacts and distortions are the result of the actual photographic part of the process and strong light was what allowed them to reject all but text and other deliberate markings....every generation was slightly overexposed and the contrast boosted so details like fine lines, dots and sharp corners would gradually melt away.
At the same time, if you adjusted the machine darker to pickup those details any small dark areas, erased pencil lines and even the shadows of paper texture would get reproduced, and subsequent attempts to lighten them back out by re- copying with higher contrast wouldn't get all of them, leaving characteristic splotchiness.
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each time the ink prints it’s not a digital process nor is the scanning it’s analog to digital in the scan and digital to analog in the printing
so you would find the physics of the scanning process then simulate it and same for the printing, simulate the analog printing
with those 2 filters it’s an iterative process for each and the number of iterations increases the effect of scanning then printing, taking the output and repeating the process

That’s how you would make an accurate fx or plugin or whatever but you can just jank it using photoshit
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Try the app "LOWER" w the yellow icon :P
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>>453663
Yes.
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>>454315
Just to be clear, xerography is not an inherently digital process and doesn't use ink...it uses an electrically charged drum or belt to selectively attract a dry powder toner to desired print areas, that is then thermally fused to the paper printing substrate.

It's more analogous to how powder coating works than printing and the less than precise nature of how it translates the source image to a static charge as well as the resolution available with the mechanical properties of the toner are part of what gives it its characteristic look and generational loss of detail and artifacting.

The fact that xerography *isn't* digital is part of why it can be difficult to replicate convincingly using digital technology and digitally created files that tend to pixelate and show other obviously digital artifacts when deliberately degraded in a digital process.

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Is it even possible to incorporate rainbows into your designs in 2024 without it being a political reference?
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>>454326
Get lost tranny
Kys
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>>454355
here we can witness the ginormous brain power of the average channer: his vocabulary is composed of only "faggot","kys","tranny","nigger" and "reddit" and yet he has the cognitive capabilities to come shit up boards every fucking day without fail.
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>>454227
Yeah but don't use roygbiv or whatever the pride people use
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>>454363
Not interested
LGBT can burn in an iron cage. People hate you.
Die, faggots.
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>>454318
>Why do /pol/fags keep coming here and shitting this board up
there's a few regulars that I would imagine have some inclination for graphic design, but they obsess 24/7 over /pol/shit, so they literally can't differentiate the two topics in their rotting mind

then they have the monthly (?) discord "raids" where they try to recruit/"redpill" normies from other boards

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Is there a set of rules to generate Nine-Fold Script characters from Small Seal Script characters?
Or is it completely up to the artist?
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Bump even though I don't know what this means, do I need to research this?
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>>452993
Morę or less the latter. They are a bit similar to Royal Monograms and to signatures. A styilised set of words. And that nine fold script has been chosen because it's easier to carve out a rectangular symbol.

Does anyone have a crack for the adobe softwares? Out of college now and I really don't have the spare money to pay for the softwares I need. I need Illustrator, Photoshop, Aftereffects, Indesign, and a couple others.
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>>454217
Yeah man just pay $60 to cancel your plan
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>>454229
Stop being poor.
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>>441058
Go to the r/piracy reddit, visit the megathread, go from there.
You'll find anything you want.
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>>454230
stfu you fucking rich boy
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>>453492
look up gen p on reddit and follow all of their directions very closely.

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Can you fix it? Show me what you got /gd/
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for reference
i'll post my spinoff later
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Maybe this is one helpful aswell.
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Standardise it and use the same bird holding a calendar icon.
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>>453782
What’s with this minimal color palette bullshit?
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>noooo this icon needs to be a rembrandt level illustration even though it'll get absolutely decimated into a pile of ugly noise at the size i actually see icons at!!!!


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Do I have the right to use 4chan's gradient background (along with a similar color theme) for a website ?
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no, 4chan actually has gradients copyrighted
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And what if I slightly change the colors of the gradient ?
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>>454252
no, 4chan actually has gradients with slightly changed colors copyrighted
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>>454237
That's what we call a human color. Only the Jews are permitted to have this tone mark their bodies. We're in hell.

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>>454005
not sure how well it'd work but couldn't you use layered shattered glass/crumpled paper textures of differing opacity? it looks like it's just a bunch of random geometric shapes layered to look more complicated than they really are.
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>>453964
this is my absolute favorite cover from them, wishing they could pull something like this again
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>>448899
Thats bullshit! look at this artpiece i found, believe it or not this is from 2019, at first glance this looks like something out of the early 2000s, so its absolutely possible to replicate it but you have a good point even if its not 100% accurate to the aesthetics of the 2000s it would be 100 times better as long as corporate memphis fucking dies
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>>454248
this is fire

a fine art album for print?

A painter asked me to design a book containing approx 120 paintings.
Their sizes and ratios are quite haphazard, and some of them are good enough to take up a 2-page spread alone, while others are kind of rough and should be small in the book.

Please share your experience and tips on this kind of project.
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This really, really, really depends on the theme.

Work backwards for any big project; what is the desired END result?

Is it to make people feel good, arouse them, give them ideas, fascinate, depress them... or is it just a case of "This is my art hurrr!" which should probably be framed as a personal journey, character exploration, or a social bridge to make the artist new friends and connections?

Lay out accordingly. Easier said than done though.

Make it more of a story type book if it's a collection that'll allow it. If not, weave the art pieces together using colours, sizes, shapes, places, objects to induce the desired effects in the end viewer.

Classic childrens pictoral books can be good at doing this kind of thing if you need some ideas.
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>>454170
Thank you for the wonderful reply.
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>>454191
i think its meager advice

this is not a 'what the reader feels' job

its a 'present the artist properly' job

id get some art books you like, have a talk with the artist. or look at a lot of art books, look at the artists work and have a vision of how to present it and make some sample pages for them to fall in love with.

do you know a lot about art or design?
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>>454194
I'll come back in a little bit with some more details about how I've been putting this book together, maybe some pages in progress, and some specific questions about the process.
Actually I've so far done pretty much every thing you've suggested (orienting towards the reader's experience, creating a thematic journey, studying various similar/related albums), which is encouraging.
I have some background in art myself, but this is my first time doing a project like this.

It's great to be able to discuss this with you!

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Hi, Ive been into graphic design for a while, and I really feel like I wanna start doing my own thing instead of just admiring others pieces, where do I start? What book is best to read for the fundamentals? How should I actually build my own style? Anything helps, maybe its not the best place to ask idk, but I feel like some of you guys got a good grip of whats good and not. :)
(piece by Visual bleed)
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>>453732
sticky
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>>453732
besides learning fundamentals, reading books and so on (which is incredibly important), the best way to start doing your own thing is...by starting to actually do something. it doesn't matter what, and your first pieces are most likely going to look like shit, but just like any other skill on this planet, the more you do it, the better you'll get at it

good luck!
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>>453764
Are there any resources on the fundamentals which you can recommend?

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I don't know if this goes here but idk, roast me gentle, i am new in this
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>>453164
If you hadn't told me what it was supposed to say, I would have no clue what it was saying. Take this idea completely back to the drawing board. I think utilizing Roman columns is cool but not how it was used here. Good luck.
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>>453164
The lettering is kind of cool, quirky and odd but still mostly legible...but the placement of "Roma" works totally against it making sense and is just too much.

The capital O works too even though it's a different typeface but the U isn't really helping things .... I would suggest laying it all out straight in a single line and then tweaking individual elements you think *really* need to be weirder
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>>453168
thnk for the tips ;)
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>>453164
ass
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>>453164
This sucks but you clearly have the vision and tools to make something beautiful. Keep at it

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WTF, I love AI now
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>>453815
good lord every living system needs both, structure/replication and adaptability/creativity. it is so obviously prevalent in *anything*, that we could call it a law of nature at this point.
so just stop glorifying either of them, when clearly the correct amount of them both is beneficial and even a requirement....
judging things by some principle is stupid and even obstructive. either you know for a certain instance what decision leads to what outcome or you don't. there is no free lunch.

do you hope your simple, reactionary 'things are black and white' shit helps with improving anything?! ANYTHING?
are you just trying to congratulate yourself and the nifty little agenda you believe in?
because I doubt anybody will change their mind after reading it...

honestly just stfu.
no matter whether you are 'le right wing or le left wing'. nobody cares about your thoughtless burps. why not keep them for yourself?
>yeah, deluded, I know. but hey, one is allowed to have dreams, no?
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>>453816
if incels are allowed to post boring racist shit on this board, then I'm definitely allowed to post my own opinion.

>there is no free lunch.
there is though, that's the whole point. we have enough resources on the planet to feed, clothe and shelter all of humanity.

but go on and try to defend billionaires, although they would gladly sell you, your mom and your entire family for a measly .0001% increase of their wealth
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>>453818
you are allowed to do anything! but how is my opinion questioning that?
I just think your reaction doesn't change anything for the better.
it just deepens the issue we are having....

no free lunch is referring to a mathematical fact (no free lunch theorem).
basically it says there are no shortcuts. no 'easy principles' to apply for intelligent decision making.
instead good solutions need a lot of thought, a lot of energy, a lot of work.
call it computational irreducibility. call it a sisyphean principle.
either way. acting as if a simple pattern is enough to understand anything is plain wrong.
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>>453805
it's there to manage your subscription.
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>>453820
talking in circles and making no point

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before/after thread i guess
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>>452788
I think they will both work equally as well.
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Stop inflating your job.
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>>452648
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>>453217
why did the fat go down in % and what happened to vitamins A and C?
this is basically another product
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>>454152
what happened is that i ate em

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What do you think of this style and design?
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>>454011
I think it's lovely but the person who made it could really use a hug
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ts>>454041
maybe a bit of a foot rub and tummy kiss too
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>>454129
that sounds lovely! I wanna have that too!
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>>454131
you get a toe kiss too


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