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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 based on some solid theory, not just collection of how-tos and tips and tricks.
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 guidelines regarding the use of white space in design?
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 hosted doesn't matter, it would be interesting to know about both worlds. Workflow management: Sending sketches to clients without clogging inboxes and sending dozens of cc's Gathering and documenting the client's feedback to the sketches Asset management: Archiving and labeling finished work Archiving and labeling common design elements Archiving and labeling third-party work used (Stock images, fonts) and their license agreements Optionally: Making all this stuff available to the client through a secure login I have, for example, used WordPress blogs to interact with clients in the past - every sketch being a blog post, and clients giving their feedback in comments. That is a fairly limited method, though - it would be nice to learn about more specialized products. What are some good products that provide a solution for all or part of these tasks? I know there are full-blown agency solutions for every imaginable budget, but I'm more interested in the lower price range and Open Source solutions.
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 Huang linked to me a very good Video Tutorial, I am wondering if there are anymore tutorials, or Guides [Video or Not] that is like that, or if any Artists on here that can give out a tip or two to help me out. I look at the designs on Dribbble and I get so inspired by them, but I have no idea where to start.
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 laptops was one of the most important forms of advertising for Macs initially when they weren't as popular as now.)
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 right over intentional white space. What advice do you have on how to make double spacing less annoying?Much appreciated!
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 even in university, I put in 110% all the time, really work my ass off, but I'm still not fast enough to complete projects quickly, my work is good, but it's not efficient. Do you guys have any tips to help me speed up?
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 illustrator's intellectual property? And more specifically, would I run into problems if I were to include the illustrator's name in the official description of the plug-in -- something like, "Create photos in the style of So-and-So"?
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 has been registered. I have paint and paint .net and if I had no other option I could use a friend's photo-shop. Here's an example of one of the buttons: Can someone tell me the quickest, easiest way to create a disabled greyscale version of a button like this?
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 flow is especially important to graphic design. Does having a clear direction and flow between elements matter in graphic design or is unimportant compared to other aspects?
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 resources that I can start with?
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 opacity, but it doesn't look very good, so clearly I'm missing something. I'm looking for guidance on techniques to achieve this effect convincingly (I will be using the GIMP for what it's worth).
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 bitmap file down to a reasonable size, can you get away with a much-reduced PPI for a large format/banner print?
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 keep printing costs down on the long run. but I don't know what to expect in terms of print quality? Can a reasonably priced (less than 500€) colour laser be used for close to proof printing? Do you maybe use one? Which one and what would you change to make it better? What would you buy if you had to buy again? Can colour lasers print on special media like glossy papers and similar? Is the effect any good at all?
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 what he likes or doesn't like. The only one I've thought of is the dark colour in Adobe Bridge, but I was wondering if there is other software that tends to be on the dark grey side? Please include a screenshot of the software example. The most interesting one that I found is Final Cut Pro Server. I would appreciate if you have some other software designs to suggest. I am focusing on the visual, not so much the UI, as it is a matter of taste not functionality.
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 and let them comment on your design. The downside of it is, not all of them are professional.
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, but after deleting the promoted user-slice, I get back the auto-slice. How do I manage to delete this slice? I am using Photoshop CS5.
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. Are there any other better method to import picture file in Photoshop CS5? Thanks.
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 has taught me specific ways to use the program, i.e. doing cutouts, improving compositions etc, but I'm not sure I can fill a day's session with what I use it for. Can anybody suggest what they would teach if they were to do a similar session to mine? What would you consider to be the basics. [I know this question is slightly subjective, however it is very constructive for me to see the answers and it will help me a great deal]
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 experience? Thanks.
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 and simply get on with my work... There are only so many hours in the day. If I can make my computer do all the mouse clicks for me, go away and drink a few cups of coffee while it does so, then come back to it, that's infinitely better for me. So how can I accomplish these two tasks using the CLI?
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 the background actually is a color gradient?
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 to change this behaviour? Can I have it automatically set to pixel from the start?
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 usually design things for the web, not for printing, so I have it set to use sRGB color profile. Anytime I wanted to export, for instance, a button for a website, I used save for web, as PNG, and there was no difference between what I saw on the browser and what I saw on Photoshop. Now, it's all different. If I open the image on Chrome and Firefox, the image looks the same on both browsers, but differently from what I see on Photoshop. However, if I activate the "proof colors" option in Photoshop, then the colors match the ones from Chrome and Firefox. This is what I'm talking about: Obviously a solution would be to always activate Proof Colors, but I'm sure there must be another option. How can I do it?
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/stackxchange2.jpg
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, other designers) wonder what I've used. e.g. a single story 'a' or distinctly different 'g'. Please include a visual example if possible, and include some reasons why each font would be a good choice; I'm after a smallish number of well-thought-out suggestions, and definitely not a bare list. For Bounty I (Ryan, whom is editing this) asked what is meant by dated. This was the response, Michael Lai gave me: There have been questions about free alternatives to Helvetica and also similar fonts to Helvetica Neue, but the answers were based on available fonts from at least a couple years ago and I would like to know if there have been changes or new fonts since. Also, it is best to get a visual comparison between fonts if possible (e.g. by overlaying them over one another).
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 compositional rules that would be of greater importance for web design.
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 graphic? Thanks!
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't the effect i'm after (attached image of the radial blur effect:)
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 in a separate layer. Due to this the file-size catapults to +100Mb sizes sometimes which is no problem for the graphics team with their workstations ... but for us developers ... What i'm looking for is a way to open this psd and toggle some layers without actually firing up photoshop and loading the file. I have netbeans, firefox, chrome and several other apps running simultaneously and when firing up photoshop and loading the 100Mb file the system almost grinds to a halt. Edit: I'm using OSX
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 have 2px of transparency at the extremes of the vertical axis. How do I get my slices to have the exact dimensions of the selections used to create them?
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, doesn't matter), and drag, the cursor changes to the copy object version, and it copies the object. But I want to move it. Illustrator knows properly what mode my keys are in, it does the right thing if I type in option-e e to get an é.
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 format has columns for primary and secondary colors with hex codes. I apologize if this isn't an appropriate forum for this question, please let me know.
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 do graphic design to be more precise) does that translate or least help in drawing in the real world? Also if I learn to draw with pen and paper does that improve your Photoshop or Illustrator skills? Lastly if you have learned Photoshop and then started to draw in paper did you notice or feel a difference in your designs? I am interested in practicing graphic design and feel that I should learn to draw as well. Not just for graphic design but for pleasure as well.
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 majority of users - viewing the site at default size - the icons render poorly. What techniques are there to prevent this from happening?
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 fantasy would be to have a video pegged at a certain time-scale - it's just short of 2 years of data, so make the video (for discussion) 2 minutes, each minute is a year, and so on. Each location would be shown as a circle of a certain size that would grow as events 'happened' at those locations. An even kinkier version of this fantasy is where each circle is a pie-chart and the pie-segments grow/shrink based on the type of event at each location. Are there some ready-made tools, or open source libraries for python, or a web site that anyone would recommend? Is this the kind of thing you hire someone at some large rate to do for you?
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 apart, so text won't flow over/around them images need to centrally aligned in the text frame regardless of their width images have to move with text (hence they are pasted into) images have a description that must never break to next page images have to align to the last baseline gridline just above description so description always appears it's positioned exactly the same space after image (upper margin will therefore vary but should be at least one leading high) - By last baseline I mean if an images occupies few line-heights (leadings), bottom of the image frame should align exactly with the last line and not somewhere in between. I'm heaving great difficulty creating my object style to accomplish this. The main problem being positioning images exactly on the last baseline grid.
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 straight up- just using it as an element in a larger logo or brand design. What I want to know is if there's any leeway there, or if logos must always be original art from the ground up. Thanks-
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.brasseriegerard.co.uk/ The right-hand div has three elements which it rotates through. The first element has a red 'New' ribbon wrapping the corner of it. Thank you!
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 could not gather much out of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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 added beyond panning/zooming a still photograph that seems to allow you to see what was behind some objects. Or sometimes objects more in the foreground will become larger than before, covering up more of the objects behind them than before.
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 work great, however I can't find a way to automate this when I open the file. For each page, I have to go to Type > Find Font, and manually pick. Is there any way to automate this otherwise there is a lot of tedious work that needs to be done manually.
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 the error comes to light I need to delete the fhprefs.txt file. I tried to put somenthing like "whatever" in the export preferences of freehand, but that did not solved the problem.
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 illustrator, but otherwise attractive). Those graphics are no more graphically simple (few colors, sharp contrasts), but perhaps visually simple (visual perception) ? There's some connection with cognitive studies of visual perception, but i'd like to know if some graphical design experience, empirism, books or web resources are talking about this, thanks :) ---- edit My question is about documentation and resources supporting this tendancy. Explanation and support of this change of style, if you want to use this point of view. I'm trying to explain the reasons of this change, and looking for scientific or empiristic answers. For example, are those graphics more readable ? More aesthetic ? Or simply there because it's now possible to add those fancy gradients, shadows and smooth outlines (with software and hardware progress) ?
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 photos of models with mixed-colour backgrounds (I.e., a pain in the butt to mask out). The initial idea was to erase part of each images background so that it's kind of a collage -- but the further I get into this, the worse it's looking. Does anybody have any suggestions for either: a. Fitting a lot of vertical images into a a space coherently b. Making photo collages look at all professional Thank you!
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 random directions. I have photoshop cs5 and gimp.
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 where it added noise and pixelated the image. I tried creating a new document and made a standard radial gradient, but noticed that the same thing happened. It added a lot of noise to the edges of the image (Almost like the Dissolve blending mode would) and the newly created image appears at a very low quality. I'm not sure what to do. I've tried opening up the file at work, and there is nothing to see there. (Same version of Photoshop CS5). Here is an image of the gradient I tried to create:
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 leverage would it give you if you went to one?
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 time. Is there a way to show the outline of all layers, or to select multiple layers at once?

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