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How is it possible to determine the fonts used by text in PDF and TIFF files?
I just want some basic, clean-looking CSS styles to apply to a site of mine that's a web application with lots of forms and tables. Anyone have a theme or a set of CSS or a site I can look at to find examples? Also would like some decent printable stylesheets.
Possible Duplicate: Tips and sources for programmers who must or want to learn graphic design. I am a programmer, though I am quite interested in visual design, interaction design and usability. What is a good source, perhaps a book or online guide on the subject of Graphic Design for the web? It would preferably be...
How should one modulate white space within an image, poster, or a logo? Some people say that there should be a certain amount of white space available within an image to make it appealing, while others say that white space should not be used. What would be the best option to control the white space? Are there any gu...
Adobe Bridge was installed by default when I installed Adobe CS5. What is Adobe Bridge used for, and how can it be integrated within a designer's workflow? What I know about it is that it is basically a file manager, which is somewhat redundant to me because Finder or Windows Explorer can be used to manage my files.
There are some common tasks in almost every graphic designer's workflow that are made immensely easy by the Internet, but are often clumsy to handle through traditional channels like E-Mail. Therefore, my question is: Does anybody know good web applications that serve the graphic designer's workflow? Installable or hos...
I have been using Adobe Illustrator to sketch and draw with my Wacom Tablet, I've gotten pretty good with it. But I'm having trouble figuring out how do I turn those sketches into a real Illustrating. This Illustration is what I wish I can do. From Sketch, to Line-Art, then to a colorful, detailed Illustration. Calvin...
If I want to vectorise or trace in images that I have sketched, should I use Illustrator and use the pen tool to vectorise it, or use Photoshop and use the brushes to draw it (To imitate pen drawing)?
Are wordmark logos more effective, or brandmark logos? We see companies like Coca-Cola or Google who are doing fine with very effective wordmark logos, while companies like Apple rely quite a lot on their logos initially. (I remember reading an article talking about how the glowing Apple logo on the back of the Apple ...
I am looking for a texture pattern for an image that is similar to the one Path.com uses: https://www.path.com/images/about/bg.gif I want a similar image pattern so i can use it as a background for my website. It will be helpful if i can find a way to create it too. Thanks
I'm a student who's into graphic design. I try to make everything I turn in look nice, and usually succeed. One of the only times I feel stuck with a design that I don't like is when I have to double-space an essay. This traps white space, and makes navigating the report a little harder because a reader's eye passes ri...
I've been a designer for 6 months, having previously had a 1st class honours degree in Graphic Communication. My issue is that I am a Very good designer, but I work too slow. It's beginning to drive a rift between myself and the creative director who desperately wants me to work quicker. I've always been a workaholic e...
I know this is a graphic design forum and not a legal forum, but I'm guessing that some of you may have encountered this issue. I would like to market a plug-in for graphic design software that produces images that are "in the style of" a well-known, still-living illustrator. Would that be an infringment of the illustr...
In a web application that I'm building, I'm going to need several disabled buttons. I already have the enabled buttons and I want to know what the best and easiest way of creating a disabled version of that button. For example, when a user clicks the login button, I want to disable the button to show that the click h...
I usually have to export my InDesign file into an eps, then convert it to PNG in illustrator. Does anyone know an easier way?
I recently had a conversation with a friend about the design of an installer application. I pointed out that its visual flow was confusing. It led my eyes from the left to the right and then up to the top and then back down to the bottom left and finally across to the right. He responded that he doesn't think visual fl...
I'm very interested in learning web development and have learned some basics regarding HTML and CSS a few years back from W3Schools, but I never learned how to develop websites that are up to today's standards, i.e. free-flowing sites without the use of tables to govern the design of the site. What are some good resour...
What are the best free or open source font editing/creation tools available for free on the Windows platform?
I would like to create a rectangle that looks like it's made from a flat piece of shiny, polished black plastic. The kind of glossy surface that attracts fingerprints on modern electronics products - something like this: I've made a couple of attempts using a solid black background with a white overlay with reduced op...
I often use the 'trace bitmap' function in Inkscape to create a vector image from a raster image. However, on larger or more complicated bitmaps, the program completely freezes. GUIs being what they are, I know that a command-line based approach would suit the task. So what's a good way to do that?
For wall-sized graphics and large banners (e.g. 3m × 5m), what is an acceptable PPI for print? As I understand it 300 ppi is the typical for 'small' artworks (esp. for clean text resolution). However, for small artworks, the audience usually engages at a much closer distance. Therefore, in the interests of keeping a bi...
I own an EPSON Stylus Photo RX640 printer which prints really good on special paper media, but is rather poor when it comes to normal (>75%) printing on plain papers. Beside that it's also quite expensive because cartridges are very expensive compared to others. I'm considering buying a colour laser printer that should...
I think I know what Actions does in Photoshop, but I never generally used it. I know someone who automated a work process of applying filters and effects using it, but I never touched it. What's your favourite workflow using Actions?
A client told me they want something with more a design software feel rather than web 2.0 feel, particularly something with a dark colour scheme. So now I am looking for some examples to show to him. I do not use many different types of software, so I am just looking for something that looks nice so i can understand wh...
I've took some photographs at a photoshoot last week. The lighting conditions weren't right for the shoot (my fault entirely) and the camera we used was a compact. Unfortunately this means that the photograph is quite grainy. Anyone know a good Photoshop (or similar) technique to improve this?
Where do you get you design critics for your project, particularly on web design? A friend had suggested to me a website where people critique and give suggestion on your website. But I forgot the name of the website. I'm looking for both free and paid solutions. A free solution I can think of is to call your friends ...
I am slicing images from an AI file. How can I save the sliced images in PNG format? The only option I am given is JPG.
I am following a Photoshop tutorial for designing web pages. And after I used the slice tool, I could not delete the following 01 slice. The View->Clear Slices is grey, and right clicking the slice shows grey delete slice option. After promoting this auto-slice into user-slice, the delete slice option is accessible, bu...
How do you figure out the size of a text box in Photoshop?
I need to import other picture file to an existing psd in Photoshop frequently. However, I do only know one complicated way to do this: Open the file with Photoshop. Windows->Float All in Windows With Move select the imported file and drag it to the psd file with mouse. This method require floating all in windows. ...
How do I create 1 pixel grids with differing colours on my own? For example this 960px_12_col_grid:
Where do you guys get your inspiration for type and how do you decide the right typeface for your projects?
I really need to know what kind of texture this is can someone please help?
I've noticed that most custom fonts include a license.txt file that requests some amount of money for a commercial license. I am interested in whether it is also necessary to license OS (Mac/Windows) included fonts for commercial use. As a side question, is font theft an issue in the industry?
I've been using Photoshop for many years now and because of my experience I was asked to teach Photoshop on a one-off basis to a class of 20. These people are beginners and have likely never even opened Photoshop before. Therein lies my problem, I have no idea WHAT to teach. I suppose my experience in Graphic Design ha...
If I'm designing a website from scratch and I intend to slice it and code it up in Adobe Dreamweaver later, should I create the design of the website in Illustrator or Photoshop? Why?
In what situations am I required to license fonts from its original creator? For example, if I design a poster or a card for personal use and I use a font I have downloaded online or have paid for the use of it, do I have to license the font? What if I am using the font for commercial purposes? (Websites, phone apps, ...
For example, in this tutorial, how could the author know which color to choose for creating a navigation bar? Why did he/she know that the gradient from #d0d0d0 to #f9f9f9 would generate the following effect? Where did these magic color code #xxxxx come from? Is there any principle, or is it only dependent on the exp...
This is by far my most common task, and I'd say I've wasted about 1000 mouse clicks on it in my raster-based program. Because it's so common for me to start off desaturating an image and then posterizing it, I'd like to write a shell script that does the same, that way I can process an entire directory automagically an...
I know, that color of the background and of the text should have enough contrast to each other. That rule in mind, blue (#0000ff) text on red (#ff0000) background should be fine. But I get the feeling that's not good. What should be considered, for choosing colors for text and background? Does it change anything, if th...
Most web sites that I see are centered, and I'm wondering if there's some sort of unwritten (or written) trend away or against left aligned sites?
As the title implies, I have drawn a rounded rectangle with a larger radius in Photoshop. Now I want to reduce its radius. Is this possible without deleting it?
Excuse me for being totally uninformed, but it usually seems like creative types of people i.e. graphics designers prefer Macs over PCs for accomplishing their tasks. I was wondering, why is this? Is it because the software is designed specifically for Macs only?
I've heard there are a number of slight differences between these two similar fonts, is one better than the other for different contexts?
You can easily set default units in Photoshop preferences, but they doesn't seem to have any effect on free transform (⌘T on the Mac), which always start with percentage as unit. I'm aware that you can change units with a right click on the text, but it will be back to percent when you restart Photoshop. Is it possible...
How can I save a bitmap layer in fireworks? I tried using the export feature, but it exported everything except the bitmap background layer. Also, how do I save a slice in png format, and which is the best format for using with web?
I've just purchased a calibrator (Eye One Display 2) to calibrate my two screens, because the difference of colours between them was huge. Now that I've calibrated them, the colours are almost identical. However, now I have a problem with Photoshop that I didn't have before (or at least I didn't have realized). I usual...
Usually those three things tend not to go together and I'm struggling to come up with concepts that combine all three. Any ideas? This will help me with research on an identity project I have coming up. Any contributions will be helpful.
I am quite curious.. I already have seen it elsewere and I like it.
I really like the brushed black & white font used during the intro to HBO's 24/7 series. Any guesses as to what it might be? EDIT: In response to Phil's answer, 'Impact' isn't quite it. Notice the 'C' and 'S' characters, how the Impact curves are squared off, whereas the 24 7 font curves are more rounded:
How do I pick the center point for a radial gradient that has been applied via layer effect to a shape? It's defaulting to the center of my shape but I want the gradient's center point to be near the top of my shape instead. Anyone? Pics http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1220621/stackxchange1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1220621/...
I'd like to use something similar-but-different for my poster project. I've already ruled out: Arial Avant Garde/Futura - too geometric Frutiger - too humanist /'friendly' I guess I'm looking for something that will be a close match in most of its shapes but will have enough points of difference to make people (OK, o...
What is minimalism in graphic design and how can one apply this concept to a design? I keep seeing the term minimalist design while reading graphic-related websites and magazines, but I'm not so sure on the specifics. Could someone explain this?
Photoshop CS5 doesn't seem to natively support saving image as APNG even tho few of the major browsers already support it. Are there any export plugins or such available for Photoshop?
What's a good color to go with a black and white design, if there will only be one color on the site? I've tried using color palettes but they're not very helpful, because if the first two colors are black and white, the third will be a shade of gray. What sort of principle should I use to choose a color?
Are there any composition rules specific to web design, or that are otherwise elevated in importance in the context of web design? There are probably some aspects of composition that would be more or less important depending on the medium, and since my primary space is web pages, I'm curious if there are certain compos...
I am software developer on a legacy web application project. We have a menu bar whose buttons are a combination of an icon and some descriptive text. I am currently adding a new feature, and it requires a new button. Here is a sample button that I'm using as a guide: Can anyone help identify the font used in that grap...
We're working on a magazine in Adobe InDesign. Is there a way to include the text content dynamically, so that a person who doesn't have InDesign can edit the text and the edits will automatically be reflected in the source file?
As per the title. What are the dimensions of a business card that fits in a wallet? (i believe it is a global standard?) Bonus marks if you can give the history behind how it arrived at that dimension.
How do you create the effect in photoshop to make shapes appear to shoot out from the center of an image, a bit like light rays. Radial blur with zoom seems to blur both out from the center and towards to the center (the effect you would see if you were moving in relation to an object). This is close but ultimately isn...
I'm looking for a lightweight psd viewer that allows me to turn on/off layers. I currently work at a web-design firm and at some points in the project lifetime we need to compare the resulting website with the layout designed by our graphics team. These layouts are in a single PSD with each part/component of the layout...
What techniques would you use for drawing rice grains in Photoshop?
How does one draw a tile with diagonal lines that can be seamlessly tiled with Photoshop?
How do I draw "Rays" emitting from an object in an image in Photoshop? Example from http://www.pxleyes.com
I'm trying to do some basic design in Microsoft Expression Design 4 (this is the best design tool I have available to me; suggestions welcome), and I'm trying to export slices by selecting a bunch of objects and using the right-click context menu to create a slice from the selection. Slices created like this always ha...
This is in a file originally created in version and installation of Illustrator CS4. I have a simple text item with one character in it. Alternately, I pick a drawn element, doesn't matter. I have the Selection Tool, i.e. the all black arrow. I'm not touching the keyboard. I click on the object (selected or unselected,...
Greetings designers. I've done enough googling to know that there are other people looking for this color table, but I can't find it for the life of me. I'm close to trying to write a script to scrape this off wikipedia but thought I'd ask here first. Has anyone found a table of NCAA Division 1 school colors? Ideal f...
How would I convert a photograph or pattern to use only colors from a palette I give it? Is this possible in Photoshop? I think Pic2Color used to do something like this but it's offline...
My question is should I start with paper to learn to draw or learn to digitally draw with Photoshop or Illustrator or any image manipulation application. I am thinking of using a book or some other accompanying material (if you have any recommendations). I am thinking of this book. If I do learn to draw digitally (or d...
Does a keyboard shortcut for creating a New Swatch in the Colour Palette window in Illustrator exist? I've been assembling over hundreds of new swatches today, and it has been especially tedious to click through the application... Any tricks or tips that you guys use to accelerate this process?
I know this sounds a stupid question, black is black right? Wrong: It's black right? so why are the CMYK Values so far away from black?
I have a set of icons as a custom font and am using them in place of an image sprite. The issue is the icons alias terribly at low sizes; i.e. the size that they are meant to be in the majority of cases (around 24 x 24). It is an SVG file, so they scale up nicely when the user increases browser text-size, but for the m...
I have a decent sized set of data - 500,000 records, each representing an event. The fields are: date time who did the event what the event was (there will be say 5-10 type of events) where the event was (there will be 20 or so locations for an event) 'other things' there are about 500-1000 events per day My ultimate...
I'm trying to somehow set InDesign object style for images that I add into text frame directly so they flow along with text when I edit content. My document is of technical nature so it has a single text frame per page. It's more of technical document really. This are my requirements: images need to break text block a...
Apparently Illustrator and Photoshop uses different colour settings - Illustrator uses RGB and Photoshop uses some hex/HTML-like colour system with a combination of letters and numbers. Is there any way of 'translating' a RGB colour swatch to Photoshop easily?
What are the rules concerning incorporating stock image elements into a website branding or logo? From what I understand, IStockPhoto.com doesn't allow it. Are there any stock images sites that do? Is there a specific licensing option required? Please note- I'm not talking about adopting a stock image as a logo str...
Possible Duplicate: How do I get started with Adobe Illustrator What are some good websites/tutorials/videos that will get me started with basic workflow concepts? I am not looking for "how to draw X", but general concept tutorials, although specific examples are not a problem as long as they teach general concepts....
What is Adobe InDesign used for as opposed to Photoshop or Illustrator?
Adobe Flash was initially a graphics program, but with the growth of the Flash platform and the rise in popularity of Flash games on the web, is Flash still relevant as graphics tool? Why? (I'm not looking for a description of Flash. I know what it is.)
Can Pixelmator handle Photoshop layer styles? How compatible is Pixelmator with the rest of Photoshop and the other Adobe graphics programs?
How do I add a stroke to a layer in GIMP?
Is there an industry term for a ribbon wrapping the corner of a design element? I'm going to be referring to this a lot in the near future, and it would be great if I could call it something more intelligent than "The corner ribbon thingy" One example of what I'm talking about is on the site: http://www.brasseriegerar...
I'm using the text tool, I type some text but it types in all white. I go to highlight the text and change the color to black, at the top of the screen on the toolbar, and the color won't change. I'm just poking around with everything that even looks like I could change the color and it's still white.
The logo will be embroidered. How many colors should you use in your design? Does the cost go up significantly for more colors? What exactly is stitch count? What format should the file be saved in so it is "embroider" ready?
I'm looking for a tutorial to create wavy flowing threads. Like this: I'm open to tutorials in Photoshop, GIMP, or any freeware image manipulation program. We have a copy of PS. I'm not sure if another graphic app is in the budget.
I have the PSD designs for my website and now want to create the site using these designs. I am not very good with css though I know HTML, javascript well. Is there any tool, site, software that can help me create an html and a css by drag-drop of controls. I tried understanding the use of Blueprint CSS framework but c...
Many commercials and documentaries use a technique where a still photograph is panned or zoomed, and a parallax-like effect is applied. When zooming, some figures scale differently from others and a 3D effect is simulated. What is this effect called, and how is it done? Edit: I'm looking for the extra effect that's ad...
I'm creating a custom PDF catalog by grabbing pages from other companies PDFs (I do have permission to do so) but I'm having problems though because I do not have the same fonts installed on my machines. Adobe Illustrator substitutes the missing fonts, however the sizes are way off. I've found font substitutions that ...
I have a two page PDF, page 1 is business card front, page 2 is business card back. I want to print 9 copies of page 1 on sheet 1, then print 9 copies of page 2 on sheet two (duplex printing prints it on the back of page 1). So, how can I print page 1 9 up, and page 2 9 up without manually making 9 copies?
Anyone have ideas other than heart shapes?
I have a word in a text layer in photoshop. I want each character to be on a separate layer, how can I do that?
My dad one day decided to write a children's book, and my wife illustrated it. However, we've had some difficulties in putting the illustrations into a book format. What kinds of things should one consider when designing the layout for a children's book?
I need some fontphiles! Which font is being used for the restaurant name? Any ideas? I'm sorry the image is so small, it's the best one I could fine. Apologies if this is not the right SE to ask this on. Thanks so much!
When I go to print a pdf file with "Adobe PDF printer", I get the following error: cannot complete command because read or write access has been denied. This very strange error only appears if I change the paper size in the PPD settings. If I leave the default A4 size the PDF is generated without any problem. When th...
i'd like to know if there are resources or background knowledge on the new tendency to smooth the lines/outlines and add gradients and shadows to information graphics. For example, on the new version of Microsoft Office for OSX, the default graphs show smooth lines, shadows and gradients everywhere (a pain to manage in...
I'm working on a project that's 11"x17" tall, has the bottom 1/5th reserved for the logo/calendar elements and the top 4/5ths for some sort of collage-esque image. Basically, I have six photos I need to somehow stylistically position in the top 4/5ths. Most of the photos are vertically-oriented and all are essentially ...
How could I make textures similar to the ground textures in this game: http://www.teagames.com/games/funkytruck3/play.php Im making something similar but I am totally new to making any game graphics... Even one single "rock" from the ground in the example would probably be enoguh for me because I could rotate it in ran...
I have a strange problem in Photoshop. I had this background image that I had downloaded from a website to try and recreate something like it. After I downloaded it and opened it up it all looked fine. Then the other day when I wanted to start working on my project Photoshop was showing the image in very low quality wh...
Is it required for people to go to design schools to become a Graphic Designer? I've heard many cases where they have started from scratch without previous education in design and are doing fine as freelancers/working in studios. Would it be better to go to a design school to become a Graphic Designer? How much leverag...
Using Gimp, I am working on a sprite image made of lots of icons, each on a separate layer. I would like to check that there is no overlap by displaying the outline of all layers. There is an option "Show Layer Boundary" but it only shows the outline of the layer currently selected (and I can select only one layer at a...

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