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I have to design a Presentation Folder Design and print it. I have never done one before, I googled a bit and found some templates with a great tutorial above them : http://www.proactivepr.org/presentation-folder-printing.shtml I am wondering if anyone knows of more unique PDF templates for presentation folders. I need the templates for the cut lines/curves (the lines the cutter follows to cut the folders shape, if you don't get what I mean watch the tutorial) part of the presentation folder, not the visual design. Ah, and preferably free ones... And if you have done one before(a presentation folder) please feel free to share any tips from the design process to the printing part... Thank you!
I work on Photoshop for over 4 years for web design and user interface purposes but I'm thinking of starting learning Illustrator because most of design jobs now require illustrator skills beside Photoshop. The problem is that I suck at drawing and I'm wondering what kind of stuff can I craft in illustrator in this situation, and what benefits I can get from using it? otherwise, does it require any drawing skills? should I start learning or not?
I'm wondering if there is supposed to be a white space between the number and the € sign. 100€ or 100 €
I'm working on a project that often needs small (16x16, rarely 32x32), simple, bespoke icons (either made from scratch or as slight modifications of other icons). Working on a Windows box, I end up using--of all things--MS Paint, because it lets me edit pixels individually. But this is approximately like carving the icon out of a block of stone. What tools do you use? What makes them good for icon creation? How much do they cost?
I've got a ExtendScript that only works with paths and I've got a compound path, so how can I convert my compound path into a path?
I'm going to have to spring for one or more tablets (iPad, Tab, whatever) for testing ePubs, digital magazine ads, site rendering, etc. Because I don't have the consumer nature and also because I'd like to get the best return on investment, I'm interested if any of these devices is also productively usable in a design workflow. One could throw a portfolio onto a tablet for client presentations, of course, and Adobe has published an app that allows touch control of Photoshop, which might have potential. It may be a year or two early to ask this question, but does anyone here have personal experience incorporating a tablet device into their web or general graphic work, whether in the studio or on the road? If so, did it prove useful?
I am doing this booklet for some chairs and I have a problem. The problem is that I have small images, but the booklet is intended for A4 print. I will post 2 images to explain my problem. What I would like to do: But I can't do this, as to do this I have to enlarge the image and it would look bad when I print it... What I can do with the image at it's actual size without enlarging it: Do you have any suggestions on how to crop the image at its actual size so that it looks better without modifying the crop area ? The idea is that the crop area is aligned with the copy on the right hand side. It starts at the top of the page to align with the title, and it ends at the end of the description text(the text in the column under the title). Any suggestions are welcome ! (getting a larger image is the only solution, of course, but sadly there is no larger image) What would you do ?
In this image, I want to keep the drop shadow, but not the white background.
I know you can have the whole image turn grayscale: Image → Mode → Grayscale What if I only want to make specific layers grayscale? There's gotta be an easier way than pulling out the layers you want to turn grayscale to a new image, grayscaling, and then pasting them back in.
I have a collection of a few hundred png images, each are different dimensions. I want to be able to resize them all to the same dimensions, preferably keeping the aspect ratio intact. Is it possible to write a script to automate this? Any pointers in the right direction or advice would be more than welcome as I am not sure where to start. I have Photoshop and Illustrator. Thanks.
I have CS3 on one computer and CS 5 on another. On CS3 my dynamic brush options have a section called 'Other Dynamics' that allows me to change jitter opacity, but my CS5 does not have that option in the same area. Does CS5 not have 'Other Dynamics' for brushes or is it just somewhere else? Thanks
I know how to add a frame to a single photo in Photoshop, but I don't know an easy way to choose multiple photos and apply the same type of frame to all of them. Can anyone suggest a method please?
I am looking for 'kids friendly' graphic program that has quite nice UI, not scary for kids. They are playing Counter Strike all time. I think that repaint CS models texture can learn them something useful.
A programmer myself, I find it hard to make certain seemingly simple design decisions. Currently I'm sketching a signup form for a website, and I want to keep the design really simple. There are several sections in the form, which I decided to be best separated by horizontal lines: However I'm really not sure about: widths of the text fields widths of the separators I think it's best to keep the width consistent for at least elements of the same type (see above). Is this a common practice? Should I also align separators with the fields, or maybe with the header? Are there any commonly accepted recommendations on this?
So I created a layout for a website a while back and now am getting back to the project. The issue is I have a small logo designed and I am trying to recreate the logo at a much larger resolution. The issue is I needed a spade (of hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) for the logo and ended up using a text spade. It's a special character (♠) and as such a lot of fonts don't include it. So I am getting a little error in the list of layers: I feel like in the past whenever this happened I would click on it to select the layer the font drop down would show "[Font Name]" instead of "Font Name" where the square brackets would represent that the font wasn't found — maybe I'm crazy but I feel like I've had that happen before. In this case the font is showing "Lucida Sans" which is a font that lacks the spade character. When I try to edit the text I get this error: … and when I click OK the spade disappears and shows that default Windows square for character not found. Is there any way for me to figure out what font was originally used?
I am using clipping masks to cut PNG images in illustrator (purely because I don't know how to do it in photoshop) and I was wondering if it was possible to take away the white space that is created from the real image itself. Thanks...
I am working on a piece where typography is the main design element. However, I can't seem to get the inspiration I need in order to come up with something I like. It would be helpful to me if I had a place that I could go (online) to see examples of good design and typography that match the kind of work that I am trying to do. Specifically, I'm trying to imitate old letterpress and woodblock type prints. I'm not really involved in the graphic design community, so I may not be aware of online resources that exist already. Do you have any sites that you could recommend?
I may be asking for too much but...I'm trying to find fonts that look in the style of letterpress and/or woodblock type printing. I'm only a graphic designer in my free time, and am just working on a personal project, so I'm on a budget (free if at all possible). Google is littered with links to sites with thousands of ugly, free fonts. I'm afraid the selection of fonts that I'm trying to find are not as prevalent as many of the other fonts available. Where might I be able to find affordable, letterpress type fonts?
I recently read some articles about the importance of good vertical rhythm/using a baseline grid for good typography in web design. I decided to try using a baseline grid, like the 960 grid pictured below, as the background image for a web design/WordPress theme I am currently working on. I am finding it very difficult to get everything lined up properly within the grid. I managed to get everything within the vertical grid at the default text-size(16px), but as I start messing with the size of headings, adding images, etc, items do not always stay aligned properly on the grid. I would like to know how to improve my typography using vertical rhythm. Does anybody have any tips or techniques I should use?
Can anyone name this font? source: http://www.shopify.com
How can I align layers side-by-side and crop them automatically in Photoshop CS5? Example:
Is it possible to start a gradient (in a layer mask) from, for example, a bent shape. So that the "fade" itself will not be straight but rather a bit curved. I hope the question is understandable, English is not my native language, especially not Photoshop English.
I have a logo from which I want to make an animated gif so that it looks like a gleaming object (the effect of light flashing across it - not sure whether I am explaining myself well). I have a feeling this should be possible with ImageMagick wizardry (in fact I am certain it is), but I lack the know-how and searching the internet has not turned up any examples of what I am looking for.
I am looking for a short, concise resource that will help me better choose and use typefaces. I think the ideal resource would have a thoughtfully chosen list of about a dozen of the most important typefaces. Along with this, it would include basic instructions on how to use these typefaces.
I made a SWF with some png's, but I didn't realize that shrinking the png's would make the graphics look shotty. I want to have straight non-pixelated lines, so I updated the png's with a smaller size. Now, is there a quick way to revert the graphics to their original sizes? Or do I have to create the SWF all over again?
I am looking for an oblique, slanted font that suggest motion/speed/sports but in a very subtle way. What I was thinking of is something like any font in italic mode but instead of the text leaning on the right side it should lean the opposite way. I hope you understand what I mean. Suggestions ? something like this only better :D :
My colleague has Paint Shop Pro X2, I have Photoshop. He tried saving a PSD version of a multi-layer image in PSP but, when I open the file in Photoshop, there's only a single background layer - the result of all the layers merged together. I've tried a couple of plug-ins for for Photoshop that allows .pspimage files to be opened, but they just didn't work. Is there a way he can save a single file that I can open in Photoshop, but with all the layers preserved?
Created business card from template. But now blue borders appear on the page too. How do I remove them from psd?
I'm trying to drag a paragraph style onto the 'create new style' icon in the paragraph styles panel in order to duplicate the style, but the cursor changes to a circle with a slash through it, signifying this cannot be done. I know that a new style can be duplicated in this way, and I'm wondering what might be causing this behavior. (I'm also not able to drag the style onto the trash for the same reason.)
Possible Duplicate: How can I identify what font was used in a Photoshop layer when the font is not installed on my computer? I have a psd file and i want to edit a text from a particular layer. The problem is this message "the following fonts are missing for text layer..." warning that a substitution will occur. What can i do about it? How can i edit the text? My initial problem was to find out what font was used there with photoshop. Is there another way?(besides the edit text tool) I use photoshop cs3 extended (version 10). Thanks!
I'm a programmer for a website. Because the site looked kind of naff, we paid a graphics designer to do us a new design. He has just sent me sample images (.jpgs) and the .psd files they were generated from. In implementing the design in css, I want to work from the .psd files, as they are lossless. However, when I open them in GIMP, they look different to the sample images. For instance, the buttons don't have the gradients + shadows like they do on the sample image. Is this because the designer sent me backups from halfway through production, by mistake? Or do you think it is because GIMP can't open .psd files correctly? I don't have photoshop, so trying to open the files in that program is not an option.
I have nothing to do with design, because I don't know how to mix two colors. Some time ago, I've read about some tools which are used in the creation of interfaces for application and web pages. In that article were mentioned some tools, and one of them was a free firefox add-on. I'm not looking specifically for that add-on, but the idea is that those types of applications aren't very advanced in order to be used by professionals in the design field. Do you have any idea about what I'm talking about? Can you name some of those applications?
I like to draw, and I've drawn this yesterday: Large image. I want to make this a T-Shirt, so I need to make this drawing a vector. I want to make it different, not the regular vector-drawn shape. Do you know where I can find some inspiration and tutorials on how to actually make this an awesome T-shirt?
Take for example this file. I would like to make it as easily as possible for someone to grab it and change the hue from red to any other color, quickly and without losing the luminosity variation applied by the original gradient. I desaturated the endpoints of the gradient then inserted a color overlay fx. After that I tried different variations of layer modes on this fx and also on the other 3, but it didnt produce the same result... Is this even possible?
Have you any good examples where content on a web page doesn't look boxed in everywhere? edit examples of what I want to avoid:
I'm looking for some sort of service, tool or application – even manual techniques – where you can digitally mix/blend 3 or more colors (i.e. not 2 as in most applications out there) and get the results in HEX/RGB/CMYK/CIELAB, etc. Immensely thankful for any tips! Question background (no necessary read) One of the main reasons I'm looking for an accurate way of doing this, is for the application of sampling colors from an image when building e.g. color identities. Most color sampling tools tend to be pixel precise, so in order to get the right color (among various nearby candiate pixels), you need to have a lot of patience. Even then, the exact color you're after may not be there – yet it's there, so to speak. (Yep, I know it might be superficial.) Anyway, what I use to do in those situations, is to sample one color that is close to what I want, and another close ditto, then mix them both and settle for the middle (superficially 'correct') color. My problem is that I often wish I could mix a bunch of colors (≥3), to get more accurate blends, finding that perfect blend in-between. That's one situation where I have a need for this, but there's another case (probably even more important): At some point I begin to arrive on a final scheme (during which I might have some 10 colors remaining, which still needs to be reduced to about 2–4 colors). In this situation I often find it a useful method to consolidate, or abstract multiple (similar) colors into single ones (especially if they originate from the same source of element, or if they appear as shades of the same color). Again, it would be great if I could just throw 'em in a 'blender' and move on.
I often get PSD assets that have layers with blending modes that end up blending them into a background layer. I'm trying to figure out of there is any way to cleanly extract these layers from the background, ending up with a transparent background, but keeping the color effects that were created by blending onto, say, a blue background? Hopefully that's clear... A very simplified example: blue background take a white brush and paint a line on a higher layer set this layer to Overlay You end up with a light-blue streak with blurred edges. I ultimately want an image that has this same light-blue color but blends to transparent instead of blue. Obviously real-life examples are much more complicated, but hopefully this explains what I'm trying to do :)
I have a group of paths and a rectangle like so: I am trying to cut a hole in the rectangle using the group of paths, I have managed to do this in Photoshop just fine but I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to illustrator. Something like this: Any help would be appreciated, step by step instructions would be even better!
Looking for a match or similar font to the text on these signs. Particularly the "D" on the middle sign and "R" on the right most sign -- how they're fatter on the bottom of the curve. Any ideas appreciated.
If you take pictures and the aperture settings are not ideal, you will see a light shadow in the corners. Example: This effect is a sign of bad quality, but is also often used as a design element in movies, pictures and so on - how is it called? I want to use it, but I have no clue how it's called.
I just wonder if there exists a tutorial for photoshop which I could follow to draw those shining lines especially with the glitter like effect on the right side. (you can see what I mean in this site: example Just click on the navigation to see different line effects / colors...) From what I could see maybe I would need kind of a glitter brush set? Well, on the other hand I found a few but not describing what kind of blend modes needed to archive a similiar effect...
I'd like to create the effect of a zig-zagged line at the bottom (or top, or any edge) of a rectangle. I also want to use this image on a web page, thus I think I should do it such that I can repeat it via CSS. I don't know if I've used a correct term or not, so please correct me. Is this effect called zig-zag? How can I create it in Photoshop (not Illustrator)?
Is there such a thing? A search engine where you're able to upload an image with a logo, and you get results of sites that are using that logo :) I tried Googles image search: http://www.google.com/imghp (click on the camera, then upload image), but the results are pretty poor.
I'm not sure how to know which space I need to set a document in Adobe Illustrator CS5 when I want to create a six-sided DIN A4 folder-flyer. Is there a template somewhere out there that I can use? Or how can I configure the document so that the flyer will be I want to create this flyer and let it get printed by a printing shop, and we've only got Illustrator in our company - and I didn't work with Illustrator too much before. I hope this Stackexchange site can help me even if I don't have much experience with CS5.
What consumer-usable tools exist for font creation? Ideally I'd like an OSS solution, but inexpensive commercial offerings are viable, too.
The colors of my Photoshop canvas are not the same as my Save-to-Web output. For example, #0000FF: I know there is something set wrong in the color profiles, but I can't figure out what is is. The document is: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 My settings are: RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
I am creating this text box in InDesign CS5 and on the last row of a paragraph I get a bigger leading for no reason. If I select the text and check the leading setting it is the same for all rows in the text box but it just doesnt look right... it happend to me multiple times... and I don't know how to get rid of it... even if I write a diffrent text the error leading still remains... annoying bug... Do you know of a way to fix it ? Have a look at the picture to understand what I mean:
My question is where I can find logo elements like the one above with similar colors? Also, what is the font used?
I do a lot of artwork in Illustrator, and am pretty experienced. However I find myself having redraw lines often with each new level of detail, for instance adding shadows to a complex object - I have to redraw the lines where it meets the edge. As I see it there are two ways to overcome this: Redraw the edge of the object manually, or... copy the lines from the layer beneath Both of which are a bit annoying to do, and often imperfect.. Perhaps I'm missing something simple - can I do something such as attach the end points to the edge of the object and have Illustrator fill in the colour? As it is it will automatically draw a straight line from each end point.
I have a large set of png images I am trying to compress and I would like some advice from all of the graphics experts out there :) on the best method to do this. I have access to both a Mac and Windows machine and would like the compressed images to be as small as possible without losing any quality (). From what I have read it seems that PNGSLIM is the best way for me to go (http://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/?p=7), has anyone used this before and would you recommend it? Or should I just use PNGCRUSH? Looking forward to learning from your wisdom. UPDATE: When I tried to download PNGSLIM my virus checkerflagged it up as a dangerous file??
I've recently spent a lot of time creating a logo for my website using basic text layers with blending options in Photoshop CS5. I'm aware that because all of my layers are text, I should be able to (theoretically) resize everything inside photoshop and get a good image. This isn't quite the case as the blending options need to be adjusted after a resize - however a resize is certainly possible using a little effort. I am now trying to find an easy way to convert all of these simple text layers with blending options (which are simply just gradient overlays and shadows) to a vector format (something I can play with in Illustrator). I want it in this format simply so that I can have a version which can be dynamically sized and look "exactly" the same (whereas in Photoshop when resizing, the human element of adjusting blending values makes things look a little different). How can I go about doing this?
When covering one vector shape with another; if the edges overlap, the background shape's color is used as a (distasteful looking) pseudo-anti-alias effect on the foreground shape's edge, instead of having the foreground shape's color blend in with the color of whatever is outside both shapes. (Wow, I'm not sure if I made any sense describing this.) I can cope with this happening within Illustrator, but why does it have to happen in any exported vector formats as well? For instance, when rendering logos in .EPS format, how do you deal with this annoying phenomenon? Is there any way to circumvent it without having to manually offset (trap?) the background object's edge so as not to get this undesired effect? Choosing "Save for Web" in Illustratos seems to always render perfect results. But somehow (maybe someone can explain the technical reason) vector formats won't regard the behind-object to be entirely covered by the frontmost object (i.e. disregard the lower object's edge), but instead insist on "spilling" in its color onto the edge of the frontmost object. To wrap it up: I'm mainly looking for advice/approaches when dealing with this, especially within context of logotype crafting, where deliverables may often be requested in .EPS format, apart from normal bitmap formats. EDIT: one thing I find interesting is that when doing "Save for Web" and switching between Art Optimized and Type Optimized, the latter will also exhibit this undesired phenomenon.
I've got 280 .eps files with QR-codes that I data merge into InDesign. However, I need to change the black color into the company color. I can't find a way of doing this in InDesign directly, so I'm trying with Illustrator instead. Sadly, I can't seem to create an action which does this for me. The files do not contain the required swatch, and I cannot get swatch loading to be recorded when I create an action, so when I try applying the color, I get an error "cannot find swatch". What are my options? I don't really care how it's done, I just need to replace the black color with a specified Pantone.
Mike Monteiro frequently rails against spec work in his show, Let’s Make Mistakes. In a recent episode, he invited venture capitalist Chris Sacca whereupon they agreed that designers aren’t “hustling” enough. Monteiro and Sacca defined “hustling” as offering unsolicited design work as a means of obtaining further work. The difference, they continued, was that “spec work” is solicited and “hustling” is not. The NO!SPEC campaign hints at a similar distinction but not clearly. Is unsolicited design a form of spec work?
I'm working on a directory type of page where I will have your typical "A B C D E ..." alphabet posted on top so people can jump down to listings starting with their letter of choice. The alphabet just looks really boring and I'm looking for ideas or solutions to how i can make it look better. I'm open to any solutions ranging from graphic design changes, fonts, jquery plugins, etc Thank you.
I have this image that have been damaged by JPG, and would very much like to restore it, as if it had never been compressed with JPG. Can someone help me with this? I assume I need to fill with similar colours to get the sharp edges back?
I have this image below: and I am trying to figure out a way to remove all of the colored dots from the image. Are there any techniques that anyone would suggest to be able to remove this from the image so I just have a regular striped base to this image? I am using photoshop 7
I usually build grey-ish government type applications but lately I've been try my hand at some iPhone and iPad work. It looks like graphic design plays a large part in these systems. I'm wondering if there is any one product which has the bigger community, or is the most frequently used. E.g. I don't want to spend hours learning Photoshop and then learn that 80% of designers use Adobe Illustrator.
I'm working with a psd in PS in CMYK mode. After exporting a standard "High Quality Print" PDF, there is noticeable overall desaturation in the exported PDF. Why, if I am working in CMYK, and exporting in CMYK, is there a change? I currently have "No Color Conversion" selected, should I convert it to something?
Hopefully won't be too vague a question or specific, but understand that it might be. I rarely touch design work, but my employer has asked me to take an A4 page advert (PDF) for a client and "simply" resize it in to an A5 advert. To me this sounds like practically a complete redesign as in my eyes there won't be any way to re-fit A4's worth of information in to half the space. Do you have any tips for this kind of task? Seems a ridiculous thing to ask; but I'm struggling to think how to go about doing it short of redesigning the whole thing; and even then there won't be enough space for all the information!
There are plenty medieval gothic fonts with latin characters, but I can’t find one with cyrillic characters. Can you recommend some?
A new customer asked me to design a new website for the company, but the company logo is somehow childish (think comic-sans like fonts). Redesigning the logo is a no-go. I'm not sure how to make the design work to mix this logo with a sober, corporate design for the website. Do you have any ideas or samples of people doing the same?
I'm curious to know if anyone knows of any effective techniques for finding the center line of a curved object. In the screenshot below you'll see a crude version of what I mean. Is there any way to get that line to perfectly trace the center, or is it easiest to just eyeball it? Photoshop or Illustrator techniques are acceptable.
I have a PSD designed around 1920 pixel i.e the canvas is 1920 pixel wide by 1110 pixel height. My question is, when slicing: Do I slice it the way it is? or Change the image size to a lesser width which will basically change the canvas size hence my target screen resolution Thanks
I found this really cool text, and would like to use the style but for a different word. How can I do it in GIMP or pixlr.com?
So I made one path, then another. Opened Blend, set to Specified Steps, and then applied it to the paths. With straight paths, all was well. But with curved ones, I have large white patches where Blend did not fill anything in. Is this a common problem? Thank you
Does anyone know about a good(free would be great) PDF editor? I am trying to edit/translate an "Instructions Manual" PDF for a certain product. I need to edit the text in the PDF in order to translate it to another language. The only workaround I found is to open the PDF in Illustrator(page by page). But I'm sure there is another way. I am looking to purchase some software to do this if I cannot find a great free product. I found a plugin for InDesign that allows me to import PDFs, do you know about it? Have you tried it ? Is it working for InDesign CS5? Does it Import all the pages in the PDF ? Is it free? can you provide a link to it please. If not... Would Adobe Acrobat Pro do the job ? What is the best PDF editor you know of ?
I'm trying to select a layer so I can run select > modify, but the modify option is never enabled. Here's a screenshot: (Oh, and I'm a complete noob to photoshop ... obviously)
Is there an application that will take a string, like my company name, and produce a comparison of that string in many different typefaces?
I have this really "great" task of creating something in Illustrator that shouldn't be normally done with Illustrator...I am no gonna go into details about that, im just saying so no one starts blah blah-ing about this should not be done in Illustrator. The problem is that I am creating an instruction booklet and I have a lot of pages with numbered lists, on those numbered lists I want the numbers to be in the same text box as the information that is being listed, but I can't figure it out how to make the text align with the line before, not with the number. Is there a way to do this in Illustrator? Maybe with Paragraph Styles ? Have a look at the pic to understand better what I mean, In the first circle is what I get and in the second circle is something close to what I want but I did it manually by adding extra spaces on the second line of text.
I have around 200 hundred PNG small images and I would like to convert all of them into JPG with a black background. I usually do these kind of batch work with FastStone Image Viewer but there are no option for background color. Can you suggest me a method and a program that I can use to achieve that result?
What is the font used on this logo or any similar to it?
I'm very new to Adobe Illustrator, and having problems with the pen tool. I have a path created that is a single straight line. (appears as a light blue line, with anchor points at both ends, within a blue bounding box) This path is very precisely created exactly where I need it, relative to another object. I have been unable to assign it "ink", so it only appears as the light blue path, but doesn't actually appear in my graphic. I believe I need to assign a "stroke" to it, but have been unable. In my experiments with the Pen tool, it seems paths only get a stroke / ink when they have at least 3 points, and represent a closed path. Is this right? If so, how can I "color" the line-segment I've created. (note: precise placement is important, not just an approximate position via the mouse)
I have a 40 pixel font that I'm trying to translate into custom images. I'm trying to match the size of the image exactly, but I'm having some problems getting exactly the right size. Basically, what it comes down to is this. When a font says it is size X (12, for instance), what does this physically mean?
I'm the type of person who's between a programmer (because I enjoy it) and a designer (because I have a sense for it). I've been designing various websites in the past years and while they've been far from the ugly 90's type of sites, they've never been as “polished”, or cool or “wow” as designers' sites out there. Some people have zero sense for design, I have some that lets me realise when a design is good or bad. But in either cases I don't know why it's good or bad. It's only recently that I realised that the thing I was missing was design theory, the rules of aesthetics. I tried to use some of them (golden number, 2/3, contrast, alignment, complementary colours) in the site below, but I'm not totally satisfied with the result, especially with the menu's appearance, the header and also the “immersion” (I wanted to get rid of the flatness). N.B. the logo is fake just like the text, but is similar to the real one. In brief: what can I do to give a nice polished look to this site ? The live site. (best viewed not in IE)
I am a web designer. I do not use/own any adobe products... except for watching flash videos online of course. I currently use gimp 2.6 for my graphic needs. It's free and I know how to use it. The thing is, it seems that there are 10 times as many resources for Photoshop as there are for gimp. Even though I have a good knowledge of gimp my graphical design talents aren't that great. Do you think I should purchase adobe Photoshop? What about their other products? Do you recommend any books, blogs websites, etc. to help me acquire better graphic/web design skills? Please speak from experience, and thanks in advance!
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and I like the system screen grab tool. By default when you grab an entire window it will put a bit of a shadow / gradient below it, with transparency, using a PNG image - which I think is pretty nice. However, if you capture a region of the screen, for example from a web page, the edges are flat and it can be difficult to tell it apart from the rest of the website, especially if it looks similar to the elements that are already there. So my question is this - what's an easy, classy, way to show that an image is not in fact part of a website? I think a 5 pixel black border would probably do it, but that's not classy. I like the subtle gradient that OS X does, but is that appropriate for all screenshots, and would that be easy to create? I'd truly love it if there was a script I could use to apply the transformation without having to open photoshop itself, but that's not a requirement for an acceptable answer. ^ example of the problem I'm talking about
I have just finished building a new web page in HTML 5 and using a jQuery slider effect to horizontally scroll across the web pages. Now I need to design a background at 8000x1000px so it all "flows and connects" perfectly between each seperate background image. To do this, I need to divide this large 8000px image into 4 separate 2000px background files. How can I create 4 images from 1 source file using Illustrator (currently using CS3) that will stitch seamlessly?
I have Gimp and Photoshop, so any of the two could be useful to me. I have an image, I would like to use it to create a cloud pattern that uses the borders of the image, this is, an image of clouds that to some extent have the original shapes of the borders in the original image. AFAIK clouds can be rendered in both, Gimp and Photoshop, but those are random clouds, not based on an image, which is what I want to do. I do also have pictures of clouds in case that helps.
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders. Could you please share actions in either photoshop or gimp, thanks.
What drawing style are the esurance characters? Actually, more specifically what drawing style is this Gorilla?
I would like to have some suggestions on how to fill my sidebar empty space on a feed aggregator. One solution may be advertising, but for now advertising is not acceptable in the page. A second solution might be to increase the width of the right side. This makes the page hard to read. A third solution may be to show something like "top posts" but it makes the whole page a mess. Articles on the left, articles on the right. For now I have a small graphic at the top of it saying "we need your opinions" because it is a new website. Thank you for any suggestions.
Is it possible to apply things like brightness/contrast or hue saturation or even filters to more than one layer at a time in Gimp?
Possible Duplicate: Designing A Website from Scratch – Illustrator or Photoshop? Would you recommend Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator for a professional freelance web designer on a somewhat-low budget with a small but growing client base?
How can I access the thousands of font files on my Mac without "installing" them and thereby slowing the machine to a crawl?
I've been trying to find a font management tool that is free, but all solutions are comercial. Is there a good font management tool that is free?
I know the print industry isn't probably changing as much as the web stuff nowadays but Im just wondering were do print graphic designers get their inspiration, latest news and that kind of stuff. Are you designing for print? What websites/blogs/online stuff( including social media like twitter profiles,g+,facebook etc) do you follow ? One example, I love the COLORS magazine, not specifically for print, but just for great photos and inspiration http://www.colorsmagazine.com/magazines You?
I am sure this is a simple question, but the answers I have received from people are never simple. I am trying to apply an answer to this question for scaling images for the iOS Retina display.
I'm looking to identify the font used in the logo found here: I tried several online tools without luck.
Everyone is saying that flash design is dead for websites. Besides the issue of compatibility with "iDevices", why else should flash be kicked out the designer's door?
I started work on an Android-based trivia-like game. You basically pick a topic (eg. volcanoes) and get a random set of 10 questions out of a bigger pool. I'm really struggling to pick a colour scheme, and also, to pick a style or theme to use -- every choice seems arbitrary at this point. I do have a "company" site and colour scheme, but I doubt if that would be the right choice here. How do I decide which theme/style/colour-scheme to use?
I would like to add a link to an external website to a set of PDF files - Ultimately each file would have this link in the upper left hand corner. Is there a way to automate this, much like the automation Photoshop offers? I looked through the batch processing and I didn't have any luck finding what I am trying to do. Has anyone ever tried doing this?
I am designing this luxury product catalogue and I was thinking to make the pages square so it would somehow be a little more unique and stuff... The way I have it set up now is 8in x 8in(about 20cm x 20cm). So it kind of fits on an A4 page width. Is that good? Is there such a thing as standard sizes when it comes to square page layouts ? Or is it ok as long as it fits whitin a standard(A5/A4/A3/A2/B5 etc) ? Im thinking to make it as easy as posible for the printers...
A common problem: Designer has spotted a delicious font being used on/offline, but there are no references what is the name of the font. The designer either gets unsatisfactory results from automatic identification services or is unable to provide a digital image of the font. Question is: How our sad designer should describe the font being used in order to get satisfactory results from vast font databases such as myfonts.com or fonts.com? Is there a good checklist that could be followed? Where in the font I should look at? What defines and categorises the font? How the graphic design professionals/enthusiasts provide answers to font identification questions at here or at other crowdsourcing sites (e.g. Typophile) — is it something else than just memorising a few hundred typefaces? Multiple sub-questions, but all revolve around the same issue: how to manually identify an unknown font?
I have an animated gif banner 125x125 that needs to be < 10 KB. I started at 60 KB and my best efforts (remove all animation, reduce number of frames) resulted in 28 KB. Any ideas how to make it < 10 KB? I've tried numerous web tools and apps but nothing seems to help without totally destroying the image quality.
in indesign, I have a paragraph style line number and another style body text when a paragraph of style body text is preceded by a paragraph of style line number, I would like to style that body text paragraph differently (like 0 space before) How can I do that?
I am laying out a book that has line numbers on every fifth line. I want it to look like this: line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text ... In my opinion the line number does not belong to the same line with the poem. So it is a paragraph. Then what I have is this: line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text ... What I did is: I gave some left indent to all the text I gave some space before to the paragraph style of text lines I gave no space before, no left indent and a negative baseline shift to the line numbers so i ended up with this: line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text line # text line text line text line text line text text line text line text line text line text ... Although this seems to work, there remains a space between every fifth line. and I feel there should be a better / more elegant way to do this. Any ideas?
I have a paragraph with a rather large line height (38pt), and I need the very last character to be positioned lower than the other characters. Is there a good way to do this without resorting to creating a new text block?
In Microsoft Word, for paragraph formatting, you have this option: "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style" Is there a similar feature in InDesign? Note: this question is also related with this question and this question.
Ok I've been using the Gradient Mesh tool of late, and am pretty happy with it, it's a great tool! On one of my pieces however I need to restructure the mesh, and so I delete a line using Alt+Click (with mesh tool selected), but the points created by that line remain - causing the line to be bent. How do I delete a line as well as the points created by that line? Here is a screenshot of what I mean: Screenshot My cursor is on one such point, and I can't find a way to remove it!

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