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I'm building an app in a hurry, and we're starting the process in InDesign. I won't go into the crazy technicalities that led to this need, but I need to flow text over two pages as if they were the same page. Here's a screenshot of what I mean: Obviously I can do this just by stretching a text frame across the two pages - but when I try to flow text through the pages on a grander scale using a master page with that text box, the pre-existing margins interfere and act as unwanted text boxes. I can't find a way to remove them, or make them stretch across two pages in the same way the text frame can. Has anyone got a solution, or is this going to be an arduous case of stretching a frame across every single spread in the document? Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
I created a series of semi-circle paths in Illustrator and linked them together using the Threaded Text function. Using the Type on a Path options, I was able to flip the direction of the text to the order I'd like. But I would like to flip the order of the path, all together. Right now, the type begins at the outside of the circle and works its way inwards. I want the type to start on the inside of the circle and work its way outwards. How would I accomplish this? Here's what my path looks like: Again, I want the type to start at the top of the rings, not at the bottom. Thanks!
I have been provided an .ai file containing icons for a website project (hundreds of the things). The file consists of all the icons on a single layer each, filling the space of a single artboard for the entire project (see below). I need to arrange all of these icons into a sprite formation whereby each icon has 6 different color variations. So if there are 100 icons, the sprite image would be 100px x 6px artboard sizes big. From there, I can resize the entire artboard if the client ever needs the sprites at a different size. The only way I can currently think of doing it is displaying each layer one by one, save it as a web image (transparent .png), import into Photoshop and manually arrange into the sprite layout (using color overlay for the different colors). However, this is going to take hours. There must be a more automated way to achieve this since every icon is the exact same size (if you include the artboard behind it). Many thanks for your help.
Is there a way to force photshop to change its display mode ? I work with psd files that sometimes get very large(who doesn't) and at times I run out of resources(memory, processing power) on my device. It takes ages just to nudge a group sometimes that is why I am looking for a display performance reduction to free up resources. Is there a way to reduce the quality of the preview simmilar to Adobe Illustrator (View > Outline)
Does anyone have an idea of how to do this: Corel Draw Clone Tool YouTube Demo in Inkscape? I'm very familiar with Corel Draw and Adobe Creative Suite, but at my new job they are cheap and I'm stuck with Inkscape. I've been trying to figure it out for a while now and can't find any documentation on a tool similar to this.
I have a file in Photoshop CS5 that has a photo on a layer that is cropped with a clipping mask (just a black rectangle). In Photoshop the image appears correctly but when I save as a PDF and open that in Adobe Reader or Apple Preview it shows a thin border around the image. I've tried saving it as PDF 1.7 and X-4:2008 instead of the default versions but that didn't affect it. How do I prevent an outline around my image when I export to PDF?
I m not very good with photoshop but I m trying to create a very simple shape with line tool, but cannot do it. I m using line tool to draw this and line tool works perfect when I draw lines vertically or horizontally, however when I try to draw something in some other direction it becomes blurry. And this is my photoshop settings. I have checked and unchecked Anti-alias but nothing works How do draw smooth line? Any Help Thanks.
I'm trying to export rendered object from Cinema 4D into Adobe Illustrator. This is what I see in my render view of Cinema 4D: This is what I see when opening exported .ai file in AI: As you see object arrangement on the right side is totally screwed up. I've tried to turn off Layers option during export. This text is created using Extrude NURBS if that makes any difference. How to fix it?
I want to create 3D text with Adobe Illustrator which have camera depth of field. Simple 3D bevel/extrude effect gives me this: Now I want to add some camera lense perspective effect, but not sure how to do this... Update: Example is 3D text
My company is in a small town and there are not any graphic designers but we have enough business in the town and the surrounding area to support us. But because of the small town nature some business owners do not know all the laws. And since I am starting this from a career in architecture I am not quite clear on copyrights. So here is my problem. I created a sign that has an oval with scrolls and flowers in different colors on a field of turquoise. The client did not want to spend the money on a logo design so I said that I will just retain the rights so that she would have to come to me for the approval to use the logo on anything else. So anyway everything seems to be fine, I do her business cards and now all of a sudden I see a sign at the street. I quoted her on this job figuring in using the logo. Apparently this company did for much less and you can tell by the quality. But here is my problem. She had a jpeg that I allowed her to have so she could create her own fliers and I was ok with that since it would not have made me much if any money. Well I am looking at the sign that the other person did and all that was done is they made a longer oval since this sign is more rectangle and used a different font. And put this over the design that I did. To me this is copyright infringement since the client did not want to buy all the rights. But who do I address? The client or the person that did the sign?
My .psd file has a resolution of 6m x 3m @ 150 DPI. This makes it 35433px x 5906px in size. Photoshop CS6 saves the file as .tiff or .psb only. When I first import into Illustrator I get an error that the file is not readable but I have tried many options. Last one is not supported by AI. So I'm puzzled... is there a way to link large images into Illustrator?
Here is my dilemma. For a while now I have had some ideas kicking around in the back of my mind for a web cartoon. I would like to try to put the idea into reality, but I run into one tiny little problem. I can't draw. At all. I've tried, I took classes - at the end I managed a decent stick figure. It's pathetic. Surely in the age of technology there must be a program out there that can help. I know there are websites that will give you access to their image libraries and such to create cartoons with but they also put wording in their terms of service that make anything you create using their service, theirs. Not what I want. The program doesn't have to be point and click simple, I can learn a complex program - just don't make me draw by hand!
I'm trying to create a custom shape overlay in the navigation bar similar to the example below. I'm struggling with trying to create the radius around the bottom edges. I'm not too great with the pen tool, I find it hard to create the 'bend' of the shape. What is the best way to create this shape?
I have this graphics in Illustrator. I would like to remove the portions of the globe outside the outlined path and I want the remaining earth and the space inside the path as two separate regions. Can this be done?
I am trying to fix some issues I have with Photoshop as a web developer creating graphics for web. I'm using Photoshop CC/14 and have previously used Fireworks. I have a "button" layer on top of a lot of background layers. The button has a feathered border. How do I easily export the graphics for this button without all the background layers and instead a transparent background? I could hide all the background layers and then create a layer slice which then is easy to export. But hiding all the background layers every time I need to do that seems stupid. What's the smart and brilliant way to do this I have overlooked? alternatively just explain how you normally do it?
The title pretty much says it all. Looking for pros/cons, and situations where it should / shouldn't be used.
I clipped a bunch of lines into the shape of a triangle, using the clip function in Inkscape. I now want to change the color of the remaining triangle which is composed of lines. I have tried all sorts, but nothing works. How can I do this? I want to change the color of the entire group/ clipped image. The underlying lines are grouped together if that makes any difference. I see talk about the clip process being non-destructive - I don't really mind if it is and that helps this process. Cheers David
Pressing Ctrl+f in the layer window shows a popup in the same window. It looks like a search dialog but it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to search for layers by name in inkscape ?
This is really close to what Photoshop edit > transform > warp does but in there you have four lines diving whole thing in section which messes up the whole thing... I want to be able to do transform like below, very much needed! But not able to do it in Photoshop. What i want to do is this -> When i click lets say a photo, a box with 4 corners appears and each corner has handles coming out of it at its right and left as i move those it curves the section between the two points. As you can see this is exactly how vector/shape box would act: four corners with handles you can adjust to shape the line adjacent to it on either side. I would be able to do this with warp option if there was a way to not have 9 sub sections, is there a way to adjust grids in warp tool. So i can have only one section that way changing handles would have effect on whole picture and not on just sections near to it.
More than occasionally if I am tasked with creating a website from scratch, it seems doable right up until I begin working on it. Then it feels like a mountain of work that is bigger than I can measure. As a designer, I am often left with parts that are not graphic design, such as: Preparing designs for coding Coding them Figuring out what the business needs: who are the customers, what's the industry standard, what's the competition doing, what are its main strong points What is doable Architecture of site for best speed, SEO, maintenance, and expansion Just the notion that I'll be coding the entire project brings my creativity from level 500 to 20. On top of these, time constraints make it clear that it's not in fact a feasible project. I feel like a one man army all the time. What are your strategies for handling tasks that are not only about where to put content and how to style, present, and share content, but to also determine what the content should be? I am interested in your workflow when you go about developing a website from the ground up and any advice ranging from research to execution.
I draw by hand (fashion drawings), scan the drawing, import it in Illustrator. Then I use Image Tracing and Live Paint to colour my drawings. How can I easily draw shadows on the clothes and the skin? You will find an example below. I "Live Painted" the zones and I would like now to add shadows (on the clothes and on the skin) as if I would have a source of light coming from upper right. Thank you for reading. Edit after answer: I chose to add additional shapes (strokes) as follow:
I'm creating a logo where I have applied a stamp effect to the text and boundary. How can I make the stamp effect become permanent without needing to have the 'art' underneath masked by the opacity mask? Is it even necessary? I'm concerned that people opening the file in the future could easily change the logo, accidentally or on purpose.
I use the term from time to time and i just cant get my head around it why is it called branding 'collateral' - in my mind collateral is something you put up as a security, usually in conjunction to a loan ect. Is there something ive missed here ?
I have designed a web page that looks like this: I'm not a designer, and neither is my boss but he has asked me to design and code a web page. I'm happy with the header (and it's good inspiration :D), but my boss has forced me to place this ugly backbone graphic next to the the navigation buttons, and I have to have it. So I did it, I tried to tell him that people don't love it and it's ugly navigation - but he says it has to be like that! My problem is that I haven't any idea how to style the heading/content title to be aesthetically pleasing and make it stand out and draw attention. I'm thinking maybe a cartoon bubble will be good? Maybe just an arrow? What would be good and easy for a beginner to create? Additionally, I'm trying to figure out what font and style will make the text look good and easy to read? My main question is, what effect and image could I use for the heading background, and how can I style it to stand out better? I'm thinking maybe place it in it's own container with a border around it, and style the text with an inset shadow? Maybe something like: or Please could you suggest ways for me to make the heading stand out better and make the text more readable.
In previous Photoshop versions, we were able to move freely anchor points in the document but in Photoshop CC, by default, anchor points follow the pixel grid. I found how to disable it (visually) but the magnetism is always present. So my question is: How to disable pixel grid magnetism? Edit: magnetism options are all disabled
This is a redesign of my website: As you can see, its largely a work in progress; I'm trying to do a flat user interface design. I can tell you now that I am in no way a designer or UI/UX expert. I'm a developer; traditionally useless at design, but giving it my best shot. You can see on the main content that there are three links, under the title 'Latest blog posts'; I have made them the same shade of red as my header, but I'm not sure that it looks right, is it OK? Should it be more contrasting? Should it be the standard blue? How can I make it obvious that they are click-able links? All suggestions are welcome.
i am working with an image in Photoshop and applied grid but now I want to save that image with the grid. Is there any procedure to save images with a grid?
I got a simlar problem as this one. How do I do this if I'm using a image as the background? After I tracing and expanding the image I'll use the way described above, the one with "This is text". This doesn't work. I mean it does kind of work put the text is diveded into many little pieces. Very hard to work with. It there any other way while doing this with an image as the background?
I'm designing a color scheme for a web application with a data dashboard. I want the graphs and data visualizations to have a default color palette with distinct colors that maximize the ease of seeing relationships in the data. The app will display a very wide variety of data sets, many of which will require a large number of colors. I'd like to pick at least 50 default colors. Is there any application like Kuler where you can see color swatches next to each other and you can also pick a lot of different colors? Kuler limits you to 5.
I have a fairly dated site that uses Trebuchet MS font in Latin and Cyrillic scripts. If I understand correctly, once (a decade ago) this font was available on like 95-99% of computers used for web browsing and it was ok to use it - nowadays myriads of devices (namely, Android, iOS, Linux-based devices) don't have it. In theory, it could be downloaded from Microsoft website and installed on per-computer basis, but it's not possible to redistribute it, i.e. make a web font from it. I want to update that site and use a downloadable web font - preferably a free one. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Trebuchet MS?
I need to set up аn empty space around inline icon in Indesign. Something like margins in HTML. Their sizes will not depend on an icon size. Also I think of negative margins. Also, I can't move inline (anchored) object outside upper boundary of textframe without baseline shift. Solutions? Here is the problem: Still no luck! It seems to me I have explored everything both in Text Wrap panel and in Anchored Object Options menu.
we are having problems trying to come up with a graph that would show the current and the estimated value, while maintaining the simplicity of the graph and still making it clear at first sight what is estimated and what is current. Here are some graph types we tried before(don't mind the changing graphic style, we've settled on the flat, boxy style for now), from newest to oldest. I kind of like the newest the best, the problem is when estimated becomes bigger than current, it'd have to switch colors and it could be confusing. The second is not bad either, but having them under each other adds to complexity. What's worth noting is that the hero of the graph should be the estimated part, current got a graph of its own up above and it's here just for the context, so you can see the difference between current and estimated.. Which one do you think is the best, or do you have any other idea, perhaps something completely different(like only showing the difference or something), how to process this?
I need to image trace some images that are in a custom pattern I made so that I can recolor the pattern. The images were placed there and linked in a previous Illustrator session. When I'm in the pattern editing view and I select the image, ImageTrace itself is not greyed out in the Object menu, but all of the options beneath it are. How can I get Illustrator to let me turn these images into vectors?
I have made a template in Illustrator CS5 as an .ait file. Now I am wondering if it is possible to couple a certain workspace (Drawing, Painting, Like Freehand, etc.) to this template such that that workspace is used when the template is opened.
I received this beautiful email from Skillshare and thought that their white space was done well. Below is the bottom of that email which has the copy. The top has an image, part of which is encased in this grey box of which the screen shot shows. How can this be mathematically calculated, or could it just be trial and error?
I've tried using http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ but to no avail. Does anyone know what font the text "Wholesome & Earth-Friendly" is? This is from the Farmer's Market Volusion Template (http://farmersmarket-demo.volusion.com/).
When watching a GIF, the image seems to be crisp, as the animation is moving along quite quickly. If you were to analyze the GIF frame by frame, you'd notice that each image is rather blurry. I'm wondering if it is possible to combine frames near to each other using some kind of filtering in Photoshop to produce one clear still image?
This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill over a picture. I often find myself doing this to highlight an area of a screenshot when posting an image to StackOverflow or sending an email to IT support. In Adobe Fireworks it is pretty easy: Select the ellipse tool Set the fill to transparent Set the pen to red Draw the ellipse It is straightforward following the same steps in Microsoft Paint. But in Adobe Photoshop the ellipse tool seems to only have one colour I could draw the solid red ellipse and then draw another slightly smaller ellipse to mask out the central region but that seems too long-winded for what must be a commonplace simple task. What is the speedy lightweight way to call out an area of a picture by plonking a solid bordered ellipse with a transparent fill on it in Photoshop?
What standards do we need to follow while testing aesthetic conditions of a program? Is there any particular set of rules/standards to follow? That is, if we are writing test cases for a program, what do we need to keep in mind for testing? This is difficult because everyone has their own aesthetic sense.
I've put some nice effects on a layer in Photoshop, and the effect is repeated across several layers. Now, I have to cut it up for the web, and I want to be efficient with how I display the effect. For example, I had an outer glow for a quiz game I had to use for a bunch of images, and could be switched on/off. So instead of exporting each image with/without, I can just export it separately and use it/not on each image. How do you separate the layer from its effects, so you can export only the effects?
I am redesigning a dental blog. So the focus is obviously content, they can read related news, download technical documents, watch videos, etc. So I wanted the design to be subtle. But the header I immediately wanted to grab their attention. Using Yellow to draw attention to the main selling point about the main product. But it almost looks like there is too much attention there with that yellow and a little red. How can I calculate how much color contrast would be ideal? And should I perhaps put some dark background behind the header that expands full width?
Even if I pick objects like two different kind of trees, when I am ready to paint them on the landscape it does not paint them, instead it paints the landscape as long as I press the brush. I tried picking the objects but still the problem remains. The final result is painting the landscape with trees.
I know there are tutorials that make able to bend a line or either create a new line, that is circled, but I really have a specific line, and I need to have it bend in half circle. I found similiar effect on a game, and I was wondering if there was possibility to replicate it on GIMP.
I have a black turtle tank (black wood) and I want to simulate what it would look like if we painted the wood a different color. Original photo below My attempt at doing it below Any tips on how to do this?
I'm looking for some method for automating the localization process for an InDesign document. Basically, I want to be able to take the contents of the file, translate it into a few other languages (using machine translation) then rebuild the document that many times with all the formatting maintained. The document is already using things like threaded master frames anchored objects to keep the graphics in-line with the text, so the length changing shouldn't be an issue. I'm not sure how to maintain the paragraph and character styles though.
We have had a few questions in regards to design trends and how to break out of bad design work habits but I was curious to know if there is a terminology or process for the design environment such as: Paint has been considered to provide a mood. The right odor or scent can relax the body. Lighting How can one create a great mood work environment for designers?
I need to open 30 images in a single file as multiple layers. I went to File > open > select 30 images > open and it was opening 30 files in different windows. I had to use the Drag And Drop method for 30 files to make all the images appear in one file with multiple layers. So my question is there any way to open multiple images in in single Photoshop file as Layers?
I'm trying to create a typographic logo using Adobe Illustrator, I'm trying to make a scribble effect and I know how to do it, no problem of doing that, it's very easy. My problem is that the scribble effect becomes so dense that it looks more like plain text with 100% fill. Please can you help of best practice of how to do a scribble in white color, so it appears nice and professional? if you need an example I'm trying to do something like this logo:
I am having some difficulties trying to delete the space where I created a simple '+' icon. Here are some images for reference. I hope this explains what I am trying to accomplish. Sorry for not using technical terms, I do not know them! Thanks!
I have a client who wants a design for a web app. He told me that he would like "a large sidebar menu on the left" and gave MailChimp's new design as an example. We both agreed that what the client wanted was a responsive design and a similar look and feel of MailChimp. The client's current site is using bootstrap and is under the 960px grid. I've made designs to fit for 960px grid before, but this is my first time adding a vertical menu. How would I go about this? I'm not sure if I should be incorporating the menu width to the 960px width. For example, if the menu is 200px wide, should I use the 760px as the main content div? Or should I be designing the main content div as 960px and create the menu outside of the 960px width? And if you are in a teaching mood, I would love a quick analysis of how MailChimp did their layout. Like, structurally, how it is set up.
I work at a retail print shop and use photoshop often to print documents. I've noticed ever since we upgraded to CS6, PS will save the print settings between unrelated files. Eg: I set the print settings to print 30 copies from a certain tray in our printer and grayscale. I quit the program. Then the next time I open a completely different customer file, hit print, the same settings (number of copies and all) are still set to print that document. This seems like a good idea, but it makes for a lot of wasted paper when we are expecting to hit print and it go to the default settings. I'm using a Windows 7 installed PC, if that makes any difference.
I'm a newbie with computer graphics and I'd like to learn what "light baking" means. I've heard of this term but never understood it completely. Can someone explain this to me in plain English (possibly with some images)?
I am designing UI for an application which is going to be available for both Android and iPhone. While for android, slicing/chopping up the UI elements is pretty much simple and straight forward, we have to resize the UI elements for ldpi, mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi. i.e., 36X36, 42X42, 72X72 and 96X96 respectively. However, am not sure about resizing the UI elements for iPhone. I read somewhere that we have to resize the UI elements in @x and @2x sizes and also I've read we need to change the ppi of the UI elements as well, like 163ppi and 326ppi. So, I am confused between: 1) By resizing image.png @x and @2x 2) By changing the image.png's 163ppi and 326ppi versions. Which one is the appropriate way?
I've created a piece of 3D terrain and converted it to Wavefront OBJ. It is 64 x 24 x 64 units in size. Is there a quick way to split the terrain mesh into 8 x 24 x 8 sections? I don't want to render them all at one time. Thanks!!
I've searched and found advice to use a GIMP layers dialogue in e.g. How do you get transparent colour on Gimp? However, in my version of GIMP (2.6.8 for Mac), Layers doesn't seem to be set up to display a dialogue. I've seen it in previous versions but hunted and not found anything under the Layers menu that will bring up the Layers dialogue. How, in the present version of GIMP, can I set the opacity image-wide to 30% or 70%?
Is there a list of ALL commercially available fonts? Ideally, this list indexed by font name, foundry, font CDN (i.e., Typekit or Google Fonts) and type of license. With >5K fonts now in circulation, it's gotten very difficult to know what's expected from the use of a given font.
by which softwares this picture was created? any guess by which software this water is drawn?
I have several JPG files (satellite images) that I need to have curves or levels (not auto!) added to them using shell scripting (cronjobs). Does anyone know of any tool for that? Maybe GIMP?
I was watching BBC Click today, and they showed this website where there was a picture that, when zoomed in, it does not get hazy. You actually zoom straight into another picture, and this just goes on and on. It is like a sort of infinite zooming. Could anyone tell me the name of this and even a place on the net where i can see this.
I really like the look of this screenshot on Dribbble: And I'd like to employ a similar navigation for both desktop and mobile devices. I’m looking for a similar UI set – large (X) to close out a pop up box, for example –. Is this a current trend or is it custom? In the same project I really like the glassy/blurred out backgrounds that they are using for the mockups. My application is different, but the look and feel would apply to my project. Is there a certain search term that I could use for that background style and super-thin icon UI?
I recently had to convert some PDF files to SVG, and did this by opening the PDF in Illustrator, and saving out to SVG. The issue was that when Illustrator opened the pdf, many (but not all) text objects would be broken up into different text objects. For instance, the word "policy" wouldn't be one text object, but rather several text objects, "po", "l", "icy". There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. How can I prevent this from happening?
When you make a colour partly transparent, it lightens (assuming it's on a white background), naturally. I would like to counter this behaviour by "darkening" a colour, so that when I make it transparent, when on a white background, the end result is the same as the original colour. Basically, I would like to compensate the effect of transparency. And I have no idea of how I would do that. I've tried playing with some numbers in the colour's parameters, but I haven't been able to find what I should do. This might be hard to understand in words alone, so I've made a visual explanation of what I would like to achieve. What I want to achieve is the highest square. Oh, before a clever one tells me to simply do what I did on that image, of course the example was faked by cutting a piece of transparent orange to put over the area where the "stick" overlaps with a solid-coloured square. Of course, that solution can't be applied to more irregular or changing shapes, and won't handle the white areas of a picture. In case it's important, what I'm trying to make with this is a web design in Adobe Illustrator, which would of course eventually end up being made out of HTML and CSS.
I have a symbol which is clipped. When I place the symbol into document, I can't adjust the size of clipped object. In fact transform shows me unclipped bounding box. Above on the left side screenshot you see the example of such symbol. However, if I break the link to symbol(right side screenshot), then bounding box is clipped to object and I can easily set new size. How can I represent my symbol clipped without breaking link?
What is the best way to convert a file from freehand to Illustrator CS6? I tried different methods: Illustrator 7: Go to an old computer open the freehand file and export as Illustrator 7. Then go to the new computer open Illustrator CS6 and open the Illustrator 7 file. It works but things are moved and I need hours to put everything in order. Illustrator CS4 or Illustrator CS5: Go to the old computer, open Illustrator CS4 or CS5. Go to file > open and go to the Freehand file. I can open the Freehand but everything are moved. EPS: Go to the old computer open the freehand file and export as .eps. Everything is in place but the colors change. Even when the colors are in the same Pantone number, the perception in the screen is really different. I do not understand why? PDF: Go to the old computer open the freehand file and export as .pdf. Then open the .pdf with Illustrator CS6. Everything is in place the colors in the screen are the same but I loose the information of the number of Pantone of each color. I need hours to restore-update old files. Do you know any better method or a way to solve the problems of the commented methods?
I'm searching for some techniques that offer similarities to the new Apple blurred gradient backgrounds. One of my clients is requesting a similar look to the new iOS, while I have some blurry photo graphic backgrounds they failed to capture the subtleties of the new OS. The blending tool can create some very stylized gradients, however my lack of talent/expertise makes the majority of my attempts look messy. Any links fellow creators? iOS 7 Color Stack
I am following a tutorial in which the author has asked to draw a 70px x 70px circle using the ellipse tool, but i can't figure out how can I draw a circle with exact dimensions in Photoshop.
When I apply a gradient to a shape layer, the gradient is always applied as a rectangle. e.g. The red rectangle implies the edges of the gradient. What I'm after is for the gradient to be applied in a way that uses the shape layer for the edges... so the same value will be applied evenly to the left side of the shape and then spread evenly to the right. Is this possible? Thanks
Using Photoshop, I can edit the image by using the lasso tool and warp tool, but Photoshop is not open source, I need an open source software to edit the image by using the same tools. I tried GIMP but there is no warp tool in that. Can you please suggest some open source software with lasso and warp tool?
I'm a graphic designer and front-end web developer. I was recently approached to design and build a simple brochure website for a language school to showcase their courses. The school is currently having a custom piece of software developed to aid students during the learning process. The client is now talking about using the same design style for their software. This means I'll be designing an additional UI (fields, buttons etc). Would you advise I charge an annual license fee for the design + my time for the actual design work? The language school will rely on the software for each module. I'm used to designing simple portfolio websites, so your advice would be greatly appreciated before I provide a quote. Thanks :)
Hi my client has given me a load of images for the site I'm building for him, they are going in a Javascript Image Nivo Slider Banner at the top, the size of the banner is 720px x 200px but the images aren't. I can crop the images, but I wonder if there is a way to resize them and change the proportion without destroying the quality, or due to the nature of how pixels work is this not possible? I would like to be able to turn them into wide angle images and work from there. I have Photoshop CS6 Ext.
I've used a clipping mask to obtain the top ribbon, but I was wondering how I could get the same effect with the bottom ribbon, where the ribbon is filled in with the horizontal lines. Thanks in advance, Michael
How can I achieve this with Fireworks? Or what is the exact name of this technique, so I can Google it?
I have an old Freehand file and it has a rectangle with the Pantone 187 CVC. I use 2 different ways to update with multiple versions of Illustrator: I export the Freehand file as an .eps file and open it with Illustrator CS6. I select the rectangle, I go to the swatches panel and effectively see it is 187 CVC. I double click the icon of the Pantone color and it gives me spot color C:0; M:90,98; Y:72,16; K:23,53. I export the Freehand file as an Illustrator 7 file. I open the Illustrator 7 file with Illustrator CS6. I select the rectangle, I go to the swatches panel and it is a Pantone 187 CVC but it has a very different aspect compared to the other file from the original .eps. So I double click the icon in the swatches panel and it gives me spot color: C:27,11; M:100; Y:81,03; K:27,24 (If I go to an Illustrator CS4 or CS5 and I open the Freehand It gives me the same color situations). How is it possible that the same Pantone in the same versions of Illustrator (CS6) gives different CMYK values and clear screen differences? What process of conversion can I trust?
Is there a way to set up Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign CS5 with default file information? What I want to do is set it so that I am the author of all of my work by default without having to change it in the "file information" panel each time. Thanks in advance. Eoin
Good evening, I have a question about the exportation of a file made in Indesign that I need to print. I hope you can help me. I have to precise that short time ago I used Freehand for projects as catalogs with many pages. In that case, to export a file that I had to print I had to transform necessarily every image present in the file in TIF at 300dpi and I had to adjust the measure of every single picture (percentage of resizing). My question is: Is this the process that I have to adopt also when I work with Indesign? Moreover, If I want to design a catalog or a project similar to a magazine, is it right to realize it with pages placed side by side? If it is the right way, is it necessary to make the edging of 3mm also in the borders of bookbinding? Otherwise, is it an option that is made automatically during the exportation in pdf? I hope that I have exposed properly my doubts. Sorry for my poor English… Thank you very much for your kind help! Serena
I'm doing some design work for a company. I did a letterhead for them a while ago, and now I'm designing some forms that they will be providing to clientele to fill out. These are forms that will be printed and handed out in person to prospective clients to be filled out and returned on the spot. Should these forms that I am designing be on the letterhead? Or is the letterhead pretty much for just letters. Is there some kind of "standard practice" for what a letterhead should be used for? I ask because the letterhead takes up a bit of the page space, and I'll have to be economical with the form if I intend to put it on the letterhead.
I guess this is a really simple quest but I couldn't find the answer in Google. I make a rectangular selection, right click, then choose "Make Work Path". so I have a rectangular path Then click T icon (for text), type something in the path. It wraps the text nicely. Also adding dashes as word-breaks etc. so I have text inside the path. But one problem is, I want to modify the path (say, make it wider but shorter). I can select the path and transform it, but the text remains the same. How can I transform the path, and also the text in it, so that the text wraps to the new path accordingly ? What I currently do is, create the new path, type the text again. Which can cost a lot of time for so many small changes. So I really want to find a way to change the path, that is wrapping the text, without changing the text itself. Thanks for any help !
I have a shape layer that is a circle, and I want to add a shape layer to the center of it, but for that shape to be transparent and you can see through both layers. How can I do this?
I am wondering which is the symbol used to denote line breaks in Microsoft Word. It can be visualized with the following steps: In MS Word, open empty document. Press SHIFT + ENTER to insert a line break. Press CTRL + SHIFT + 8 to show the formatting symbols in the editor. Here is a picture of the symbol: The closest I can find in the Unicode tables is the Carriage return symbol (↵), but it doesn't look the same in any of the fonts installed on my machine.
One of my colleague had created a signature for the company using Adobe Illustrator. Now the head of our company wants clickable links to be present in the signature so that one should be able to click on the links and forwarded to the desired destination like email id, website, telephone, etc. The signature presently created is an pdf and jpeg format. How can we add clickable links to the signature?
I have no Photoshop experience. I am a developer and I am trying to create an outline of a circle, but it always looks pixelated. I have attached my attempt: Can someone please help or point me to a good tutorial? It's driving me crazy, the example was me doing it with canvas to take a screenshot and then using the wand to cut it out. How can I create one with just Photoshop? Thanks.
Is there any analogue of CSS rule white-space: nowrap in Adobe Indesign? I know that happens because in Indesign the text can be placed in any arbitrary shape, not only rectangular as it goes in HTML. Typesetting engine is looking for a string that have enough width to fit a word. And if this shape can't fit big word then such a word will be shifted to next text frame, even if a frame does not exist. The question is how to disable such behavior?
http://www.paladinstudios.com/wp-content/themes/paladin/images/arthur.png Sub Question 1:- Can I create this in GIMP? Sub Question 2:- Please also list down tools which can be used to create 3D characters like this and then I can take snaps of the character from different angles, like profile view, back view, top down view and at any custom angle.
When we slice an image in Photoshop for an emailer and save out as slices with links how do you avoid a shift in the slices on the emailer once it has sent. For example; I want to create links to youtube video's on a design with a coloured background. When I do this all the elements shift and create horrible white spaces as well as cut up the text. How do I stop this from happening?
In PS CS6, I am trying to create an action to copy a text layer from one document to another document to sit in the same location. Document size are same each other. I couldn't find a way how to insert that copy command into the action. Any advice would be appreciated.
I work for a medical journal, and we use InDesign C5. I am wondering if there is a way to "teach" InDesign how to correctly hyphenate medical jargon at the end of a paragraph line. Obviously, our journal prints a lot of unusual words, such as ischemia, translateral, psuedomeningioma, and a host of other neurosurgical terms which I can't spell, ha ha. InDesign sometimes hyphenates these words incorrectly at the end of a paragraph line; for example, we often see translateral broken as tran-slateral, instead of trans-lateral. It can be fixed manually, but this is a time suck and sometimes we miss them. Is there a way to get InDesign to break these words correctly? Would adding a medical dictionary solve the problem? We are English US, btw.
I am working with a freelancer to produce some 3D models of our products. He has been sending me renderings which for the most part is fine, but I'd now like to receive a model that I can rotate around in a scene or more accurately, rotate the camera around. I don't have nor am I willing to purchase a 3D max license. I'm looking for a free 3D viewer - no editing capabilities needed. I just need to orbit the camera. The CAD world as the STP format and it's plethora of free viewers available. I looked into 3D Max to STP and it doesn't sound like a promising option due to the nature of the model construction methods. What would you suggest I use to accomplish my goal? I did some googling but it's all a little over my head. I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction.
I've scanned in some maps, and I'm regularly adding little touches here and there to each map in Photoshop. Each map has a few Ps layers and is not vector. For all the annotations, I'm using Illustrator, because it's better for the job with its typography tools. In Ps, I can drag some graphics/layers in from Ai and it becomes a single 'vector smart object' so whenever I want to edit that graphic, it opens in Ai and updates in Ps when I save. How do I have the equivalent of this in Illustrator? I have a multilayered graphic which I want to keep opening and editing in Ps but still keep at the exact same size and position in the Ai document (to keep the annotations accurate)?
So I have the following image: I created three spheres, placed them in a cloner and applied the twist deformer. I then repeated this for the opposite side. Essentially the helix structure in the middle is made of two chains. The repeating unit in my cloner is the three spheres to the left of the helix. The problem is when I apply the twist deformer it distorts my spheres to the point they are not spheres any more. How I can apply the twist deformer on my cloner but keep the shape of my spheres.
I am a newbie to Designing. I have followed this tutorial, but I want to modify the output, I don't want so many circles. I want less number of circles placed randomly and also the sizes should be different. How can I do this in Photoshop?
I have 20 multiple images in different layers withon a Photoshop file. I want to apply one clipping mask for all the layers. I grouped all layers and tried but the clipping mask option is disabled. How can I apply one clipping mask to multiple layers?
How can I create a wood text effect such as this logo using Photoshop CS6?
I've recently made a new website and I'm using a template. See this image (link): The file extention is .php. Can anyone explain this? NOTE: When an image is posted here, stackexchange creates it's own location to store it. If you're right clicking and saving the pic in the question, you'll get a .jpg. But, right click on the picture here. Here are screenshots of what happens when I try to save it:
How to create a shadow like this one? Can anybody help me creating a shadow like shown under menu of the image? I'm using Photoshop and is aware of tools but don't know the technique to make it? Thanks
I have multiple objects that I would like to all have the same color. That way, when I change the color of the 'master' object, all the rest would also change. I am sure this is straightforward, but I am struggling to find the answer.
Situation: I have two or more objects, I want to align one to the other (say top border). Problem: Sometimes the align feature aligns the "wrong" object, that is to say, I want it to align object B to object A, yet it aligns object A to object B instead. I've been baffled by this for a while now, there seems to be no apparent logic on how to select which one is the leading object. I select them in the layers panel using CTRL, but no matter what I select first, it always aligns by the same logic.
Lets say i create a new document of 800px x 800px and I take the cursor on a particular point in the document. How would I know which pixel this cursor is at this moment?
I need to make (actually re-creating) a diagram for a repeating process consisting of 5 steps. Here's how it might look with two arrows: I need to do basically the same thing with 5 arrows, different colors, and the arrowheads not sticking out... essentially a donut shape. The arrows also contain text, but that's not a big deal since I can flatten each arrow if the solution involves handling them as separate objects. I've already tried making the arrows in a straight line and making an art brush, but AI gives me an error saying "The selected artwork contains an element that cannot be made into an art brush." ??? I removed the text just to make sure that wasn't it, but the error still happened. I also tried making a donut from 2 circles, making compound path, and using the knife to divide into sections... made a nightmare mess out of that. It's nearly impossible to cut a straight line that isn't exactly horizontal, perpendicular, or the exact in between of those. It looks so simple! Am I just being obtuse? :p
I have scanned a pen and ink drawing and I'm trying get rid of the variations in ink color. The black ink appears as black and different shades of grey, the blue as different shades of blue etc. How do I turn each field of ink into a single solid color?
I've been interested in creating Geometric Polygonal art illustrations, i.e. making polygons and shapes with different color shading represent a face, or an object, see this set of examples. How are they achieved? Is there some script for Illustrator which alters the image adding the shapes according to the colors or shades? How would I transform a normal image of Marilyn Monroe for example, to a polygonal illustration of her?

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