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be honest, does 4chan need a ui update?
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>>460699
It'd have to revolve around images, replies, and bumps
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Idk maybe but I like this one
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>>460699
Yes, desperately so. Problem is, any visual update will be bad. That's why we won't see any in the next decade.
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Write your own CSS for it if you want. Site's fine.
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no

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Can you please help me to identify this font? I already tried different pages, but I did not find an exact match with the short middle stroke of the E/F and the straight-down R. Thank you a lot!
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the closest I could find is Neue Haas Grotesk 25 thin

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[Resources List Model] Icons memory budget set to 100MB.
thanks substance
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>>460695
Subscription based slop.
I miss the old substance before it was sold to Adobe.
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>>460701
u can buy it off steam

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which one makes more sense, the text says "image caption"
sorry if wrong board
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The one on the right...
Both columns have two pics each with a caption above and one below that are potentially confusing ....but with the left hand column you have to look through all three pics and all the captions before getting enough context to really know which caption is for which pic.

With the RH side column you know for sure when you look at the first pic that the captions describe the pic above them.
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>>460690
this + it's an established pattern, file explorers etc all use the bottom-label pattern so better to stick to that when making potentially ambiguous design
if this is for display, see if you can add some sort of interactivity or animation when they appear that helps segment the hierarchy

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Is there /gd/ equivalent to /ic/'s Draw Bridgman Twice? Perhaps a book filled with classic logo and designs, that I can recreate to learn graphic design?

Btw it looks like the fandom wiki is unmaintained?
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>>460479
This by Julius Wiedeman.
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>>460665
How about non-logo graphic designs? Any good book that collects classic and legendary graphic designs?

I'm selling this account because my system is incompatible with AVX2. I'm very disappointed, so I'm offering it at half price.

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Should I learn Photoshop or Illustrator first?
I know both are practically essential, but which is better to learn first?
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>>459694
illustrator is for typographic layouts and painstakingly vectorizing/constructing things (drawn in photoshop) more so than freehand drawing, unless you mean like in a sense of technical drawing, schematics etc.
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>>459488
PS first, but make sure to learn the pen tool in it.

Then start learning Illustrator.
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>>459488
In school we learned Photoshop before Illustrator and after Illustrator we learned InDesign. I'm pretty sure there's a reason we learned them in this order, I just cannot express it as well as my instructors would.
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>>459488
They are very , very different. As in: it doesn't matter which one you learn first.

Unless you know what you're trying to do, the. You should start with the best tool for your case.
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>>459488
Those are different applications with different approaches and use cases. It really depends on your goals.

Photoshop works best with pixels and has its strength in image editing.
Illustrator is a vector-based program and is used to create scalable graphics.

If you are diving into graphic design in general and have no specific task in mind yet, I'd suggest to start with Photoshop first, because it also has some vector features and is more versatile overall.

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How's GIMP 3.0?
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>>460471
does gimp also bloat my PC with 20+ background tasks running at all time?
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>>459970
Might be a dumb question, but what is stopping GIMP from just copying Photoshop's layout, UI, features, etc. completely? Can't be related to copyright if it's free and open source, right?
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>>460476
Yeah I used to think some features were out of reach because of Adobe patents or something but then Photopea came out and has a bunch of Ps features that Affinity/GIMP/Pixelmator still don't have despite being a web app with less than half the dev time.
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>>460476
In terms of UI, nothing. There's even a patch made by the community called "PhotoGIMP" that completely remodels the Gimp UI to look like Photoshop, and some other things like shortcuts
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I'm a newbie. I'm just trying to quickly edit images with a white background to a transparent one. I've done the free select tool and traced an image before (copy and paste to new image) but that takes way too much time. Fuzzy select is often perfect to select what I want to delete. I've tried following some tutorials with where they say to make an alpha channel and then select+delete but the image I export still has a white background. I got something to work by making that alpha channel, deleting the white, using a rectangular select and copy + pasting-as-new-image, but I imagine that there a way that is simple and doesn't require making a new image.

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>art is now for gays
It’s over
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>>460596
>just ignore the warning signs
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>>460588
>now
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>>460592
>They're just waving thousands of ideologically charged flags, why do you call it an invasion?
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>Noooo a random homo put a sticker on a sign its all overrrrrr
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>>460588
Supa fag

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What do you guys think of my 4chan video essay thumbnail?
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>>459751
–Bigger "HE LIED"
–No need for the arrow
–Too much text, just use the "All posts should pertain to video games." and "Don't post off-topic garbage". You need it to be readable in small sizes because every faggot uses a fucking cellphone. If you have to choose just one phrase, use the first one.
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>>459751
pretty good
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>>459751
More red arrows so we know where the focal point is! [spoiler] "he lied" is sufficient; the red arrow is overkill [/spoiler]
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>>460248
Anon, I doubt OP is still looking for feedback.
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>>459751
I hope you get 10 views and 5 dislikes.

I made this poster for an event at my school, I want to get into graphic design so please tell me what's bad or good. :)
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wmaf forever.
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>>460502
I like it its funny
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>>460502
The next Adrian Frutiger in the making
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You should try making it look like an old tobacco ad and then add a cancer warning on it like wow edgy bro
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>>460502
this looks like shitpost i like it. but please dont left name field empty because were supposed to be anonymous

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I was working on this for months upon end, but haven’t touched it since adjusting the colors, I literally cannot top this. I’m contemplating whether or not I should hire a graphic designer, what are your thoughts? it’s a play on Red Man Chewing Tobacco.
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would be cool if you'd stop spamming your awful picture.

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Hey, guys.
I'm creating poster PDFs for a client in Illustrator.
The photos he's providing are very different in style and their source.
I've come up with an idea to create a transparent gradient rectangle (like a little filter) with a blending mode (hard light) and put it on all the photos to make them visually more consistent and on-brand.

Problem is, I'm not sure what is the best way to get high quality print results.
Should I just keep the rectangles on top of the photos in Illustrator and export as PDF as I usually do?
Should I put the rectangles/filters on the photos in photoshop and export them as pngs or even cmyk tiffs for use in illustrator?
If tiffs - what settings? I'm in EU, tho I should probably ask the print shop at this point?
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Forgot to mention, the gradient is made of 4 points of color. I'm not on my computer right now so can't post excact info about the gradient rectangle.

But it's colorful, transparent (20-40% transparency) and has a blending/transparency mode - I think hard light, but might be something else too.
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That overlay is a common technique to keep images consistant. If you use a filter in photoshop just set the mode to cmyk to get an accurate preview.
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when in doubt (and with vectors + transparencies + old print shop tech) flatten and export as 300dpi jpegs or tiffs. and yeah, check it in cmyk (change your illustrator color space to cmyk and it'll dull the colours to try and simulate the change).

You can do it all in illustrator with artboards and export the artboards. But personally I also worry about banding in the printing gradients, so I add some noise to it. Usually in photoshop where I have more control.

If you're going full autism, best build might be a PSD asset or PNG you've made at 100% physical height + 300dpi in Photoshop. Place that in a layer in illustrator. Put artwork underneath.

Once you do it that way you don't even have to use illustrator really. You can automate with Photoshop actions, or do a data merge in inDesign to crank out 100s of those puppies.

The big thing I would want to avoid is vector + funky blend mode layer shennanigans.
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>>460602
Thank you so much for the detailed answer, kind anon.

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Top noch art straight out of the Netherlands. Stranger things happening in a art of war. The cobra meats a lion in a slang. A chupacobra is find in a capital city of the brave hobbits of the shire.
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Bad boys 4 life
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The architect
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Thug life we lived
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Foxxxwild
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Machavelli the prince, sun tzu the art of war

who the hell designed the 4chan banners, they are so simple yet so fun

share some of your favorites
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>>458356
these are kool
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Where's the full image for this?

https://s.4cdn.org/image/contest_banners/74f99a50c7b3c41c466a0b061f0dea3814bcb22c.gif
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>>459442
bump
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>>452295
damn you're right
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check this out lol


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