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when applying inner stroke from layer style panel if you reduce stroke opacity it instead of revealing the layer its on as it becomes transparent it actually hides the layer. What can i do to not hide they layer just blend with when i reduce the opacity of stroke.
I need to edit a picture and convert all single pixels mantaining hue and saturation but changing brightness to 50. Is there anyone who knows how to achieve this result on Photoshop or with any other tool? Thanks in advance.
I created an object style to apply to pasted images in my document. The object style has a 6 point white stroke. I then applied this object style to two images and the size of the stroke is visually different. I'm not resizing the images after applying the stroke. This is the result of applying the style after sizing the images. This is a visual representation of my problem: How can the same weight stroke be a different size?
I have an animated gif with transparent background, and I want to add a background image to all layers: How can I achieve it without adding it to every layer individually?
Sorry if this has been done before. I just got Creative Cloud, have worked on older versions of Photoshop before. Every time I try to do anything vector based in Ps CC, be it Text, Pen Tool or creating simple Shapes, Ps shows them pixellated and as if they were rasterised whilst showing it as Shape layer, with option to rasterise still selectable. With type, anti-aliasing is on. Am running Illustrator too and there is no problem with my screen representing vector based shapes crisp and clear. When I print text from Ps, it comes out pixellated. When I save it out as e.g. jpg, it is blurry and pixellated. Help please! Is there something in Ps like the Pixel Preview Setting in Illustrator that I may have switched on accidentally without knowing?
I create designs and then export to PDF and give them to the printers, but what I would like to do is to put our company logo on there, but not in the printable area. I know I can put the file name etc around it but is there a way to put a logo too? If not, is there a way to put my company name/author name without changing the file name? Regards, Eoin
I have a simple question. I was reading this tutorial. And I couldn't get the effect as expected. After some experiments I found that when I merge two shapes and apply stroke only its outline gets a stroke. For example I draw 2 rectangles and merged them. This is what I got: I would like to have stroke also inside the shape. How to do this? EDIT: This is what I got doing above tutorial What is expected: My path options:
Per a similar question asked, Can I Put my logo on an outputted PDF?, I was familiar with the Acrobat process to create watermarks. However, I was curious if you created a non-printable layer within InDesign (and we have a question on creating non-printable layers in InDesign, How do I make non-printable template instructions in InDesign?) will that non printable layer still export to a .pdf file and will the .pdf file in Acrobat preserve the non-printable layer? I find it hard to test this based on the printer settings but I dont want to test this on a plate maker. On an Epson printer it appears to work but I am curious to know if anyone has experienced this when plate making or during a burn for a screen.
Apologies if this has been asked already specifically, I couldn't find it if it has. My question, is in Illustrator is there a way/option/trick to for example select multiple blocks of Text and make them evenly spaced Horizontally within the area of the artboard? I know with a Path you can split it into a Grid, but what about something like Text elements? Thanks for any insight.
I have an PNG image like this with a transparent background: How can I change the image color to white, and keep the transparent background in GIMP? The desired result is a white silhouette on a transparent background.
For my blog, I would like to create something like this logo: However, where the text on the image above is white, I would like to have a transparent hole instead, so that the background of the page would show through. How could I create something like that in GIMP?
I want to create a flow chart once in Powerpoint, then reuse and/or crop it in multiple slides. Then, I want any changes I make to be propagated across all slides so I don't have to copy/paste many times. The reason I want to do this is to create context with different components of the flow chart, but be able to modify the chart in one place and have it apply on the other slides. Is this possible to do? note: I'm in Powerpoint for Mac 2011.
Here's my original logo image: I want to create a diagonal cut effect as in the following : What I'm currently doing is the following : I'm making the illusion that the image is cut but using a rectangle (which is shown in red here but normally would be with white borders) that is rotated. Now, when I export the image in illustrator, I get the first image result. However, my problem is that this works well on a white background but does not on any other background since we clearly see the rectangle in white on a black background per say. How can I manage to cut the edge of the rectangles to produce the desired effect without using a big rectangle that would be shown on a color background.
Is there a Photoshop or Illustrator action or a set of brushes that can help me achieve this image style and feeling in my drawings / photos? cartoon image http://thatstupidkid.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/REMOTE-04-Escape-9-5.png
Monospaced fonts are used mainly for code editors and other special purposes and not usually for normal web pages, like an online newspaper for instance. I ponder however with the idea to do this and would like to know: Can a monospaced font be used successfully to deliver information (not art work)? Or is the idea just 100% wrong?
I want put my site logo over a t-shirt. I've successfully done so with a white t-shirt by following this video tutorial. With a black shirt, I have a problem with the multiply blend mode. Here is a screenshot for a white t-shirt: And here is one for a black t-shirt How can I place a logo over a black t-shirt?
I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug I should report, or whether it's normal behaviour. (I don't think it is normal, but would appreciate others' thoughts) I've created a simple triangle path on Inkscape, but when I drag handles to adjust a line's curves, nothing at all happens to the stroke of the shape - that's the black line in the image below. The red line shows the path's outline when I enable the 'Show path outline (without path effects)' setting, which does reflect what I've been doing with the handles. So, my question is.... is there any scenario in which this should happen in Inkscape? Or is it just being crackers?
How do I get the following shadow effect pls? In my image, I tried to add shadows and increased the size of the shadows. No avail. :( I want to get the shadow/smoky effect that is present in the borders of the red and green portions. I think I can somehow get the drop shadow effect of the Christmas trees. Even the green portion has a smoky shadow effect. Would love to reproduce the effect.
I have a client who runs a fairly traditional transport business; no thrills, creativity or fun about it. Until recently, he has been using a combination of Bookman Old Style Bold for headings with Comic Sans MS for main content on all internal and external documentation. I have tried to explain in a neutral manner (without offending) that his ongoing clients expect a level of professionalism that Comic Sans just does not represent, despite that he has often stuck to his guns. As the person who makes most of the new documents, I have sort of forced him to change over a long period by simply using Bookman Old Style alone, and avoiding the topic of font when discussing the work. This is not exactly kosher in my opinion, as I'm making a decision for him. How can I explain the reasons for using or not using a font, in a clear and concise manner? How do you describe the effect that a font will have? Are there a set of broad categories that you can use to describe fonts (and maybe their personalities)?
When I export to PDF from InDesign, the text appear thick & clumpsy in the resulting file. They look correct in InDesign, they look correct if I print from InDesign but when I export (PDF/X-1 or any other preset) they get darker and loose their elegance. I can get around the problem by outlining all text before exporting, but that feels like '98 all over again and I'm working on a 70 page catalogue so I'd rather not as I would also loose the 'copy & pastability'. Did anyone come across this problem?
I used inkscape to grab an image out of a pdf. After doing so, I found out the only way it would actually save was to save it to .svg. I then tried saving the svg to eps/pdf/wmf/emf... etc basically every format I can think of, and they are all just blank pages. I even tried opening it in chrome, which it does, but when i click print (to send it to a pdf printer), the page is just a big black box. I'm uploading the .svg at the link below, i'm wondering if its some transparency problem but I have no idea how to fix it.. http://d-h.st/eXQ <- link to .svg file edit: new link to SVG http://www.filedropper.com/drawing-2 As a note I'm trying ot get this into eps to use in a LaTex document.. Thanks!
I have always looked for a tool that can create videos like these (see second section, the overview) These tools are normally used on the videos for startups, and if I'm not wrong, the graphics shown are all SVGs. I'm preferably looking for an Open Source program. What software is used to make videos/animations with SVGs?
This is a follow-up question of this one: What page numbering conventions are there for front matters (prelims) of books? If I were to use roman numbers, should they be in small or capital letters? I've seen this changes when using babel in spanish or english with LaTeX, but I'm not sure if this is because of a graphic design guidelines.
There is a package in LaTeX called lettrine, which allows you to use a drop cap. You can check an example here I want to know how many lines of space should I give it for a one column technical document. According to my friend designers, it's usually a rule to do everything by 3, so I did: But for some reason I began to think that maybe the S is just too big (because of the "Chapter 1" and "Introduction"). So I also went with 2 lines: Which one should I prefer? Latest version
Is there an easy way to drag deselect layers using auto-select? I often use drag select to select layers, but often this ends up select other layers that happen to partially overlap. I'd like to be able to drag over these extra layers and deselect them. Thanks,
I want to draw some icebergs in Gimp or Photoshop. In Gimp I tried Path Tool, and then I tried to fill in the colors with Bucket Fill, but this gave me a very bad result. So my question is if anyone can help me, either in Photoshop or Gimp, to get started?
cambrianvacation.co.uk/safeside The Safeside logo is saved as PNG-24 in Photoshop CS6, but there is some degradation in old versions of IE and Safari / Windows. The size of the image in Photoshop is close to the actual size on the site, th quality I've saved it at is high, it needs to be a PNG as I need the transparency. Does anyone know why it degrades in these browsers, everywhere lese it looks great. Ant:-)
I've been working on an invitation and I want to use a gold shimmer paper to print on. My printer suggested I subtract everything I want to show as gold on the background. 1st picture shown is my design. I need to get everything that is gold looking to be subtracted from the black background. My problem is, every time I try and use Pathfinder - Minus front, I'm left with what would be the "fill" of my outer paths subtracted. See second image. How do i go about getting all of my line paths to be subtracted without this happening?
I am trying to create my first medium-sized poster in Photoshop, to print at 300ppi on A3. I need to bring together a collage of small files but I am worried that I will inadvertently expand one of the images beyond the 300ppi mark, so it looks blurry. In particular I am using iPhone and Android screenhots and I want the text to appear sharp. Can you advise - is there something like the pre-flight tool in InDesign for checking resolutions of individual components?
I am working in Photoshop. I have a black icon on a transparent background that I would like to "invert"--I would like to make the transparent areas white, and the black areas transparent. By following along with this tutorial I managed to mask my image and turn the black areas transparent and the previously transparent areas to white, preserving the semitransparent pixels. I would like to now set the black pixels to white, but when I use "Invert" it inverts the fully black pixels to white, but the semitransparent gray pixels remain gray. How can I invert the semitransparent pixels as well? I want them to be white-transparent instead of black-transparent.
I'm trying to create an 6-sided star shape with the polygon tool.selecting star in Polygon Options, This is not a problem, but if I want fixed radius there is a option for giving values for radius...i want it to be adjustable in canvas by click and drag to Adjust the radius of the star..i am not getting wheather there is any option for Click and drag to adjust radius star using Polygon tool..... Is there an option which I have to adjust? i want this star act to be custom shape?
I am a developer not a designer, thus am not particularly familiar with photoshop, and may subsequently get some of my terms incorrect. I have a PSD that contains several layers outlining the design of a website. One of the layers is a cropped jpeg. The jpeg has also had some filters added to it... I would like to export this layer, however, I need it in as high resolution as possible. I do not want it the same size as the layer appears in my psd, I need it the same size as it appear when I double click on it, whilst also maintaining the filters and croppings... Is this possible or do I have to export the full size image and then apply the filters and cropping myself?
I need to know how can I do a professional Floral Swirl Pattern using Illustrator. I know I can find many vector-based custom shapes already made, but I need to create it from scratch. I need to do something like this. So my questions are: I need to know which tools should I use in illustrator, I know I need a brush, what else? Do I need a graphic tablet to do it? One of my problem is each time I try to draw the main pivot using the brush by the mouse, it comes out so ugly not smooth like when you draw using a pen.
There are plenty tutorials online on how to create 3D red/cyan anaglyphs from existing photos in Photoshop or similar software. However, I'm wondering if it is possible to draw a 3D image by hand on for example a whiteboard using markers. My plan is to tape together a red and blue marker and draw with it using the same rotation/inclination of the marker across the drawing. Will this give a 3D effect when viewed through red/cyan glasses? Or is the 3D anaglyph method more complex than just offsetting red and cyan lines?
I am reading into Illustrator a PDF output from R (grid graphics I believe) in which the circles show as boxes with crosses inside them. These pictures illustrate: In OSX Preview: In Illustrator: Any idea why this is happening, and how to work around it? The following Illustrator message pops up when opening the file, which may be significant.
I made an image in Illustrator with the pen tool and stuff and now it's kinda transparent. When I click the opacity however, it says that it's 100% on both the layer and the path. I have other layers that look perfectly fine, and if I multiply this layer then the opacity increases. I'm not sure what the problem is. Transparency window and appearance windows say 100%. Also, I discovered that when I take a path from the layer and put it on a different layer, the opacity works fine. Here's a capture: You will see 2 objects and a lion cartoon, the lion cartoon was imported from google chrome, so the orange object on the right is on the lions layer, and the orange object on the left is on the layer where I created it. Hope the picture explains something XD
I've drawn a rectangle with rounded corners and I want to use it as a text box. But if I choose area type tool and click the rectangle, the rectangle will disappear. I can't set the stroke because it's for the texts themselves. So how to display the text box? Thank you.
So I bought this business card template that comes as a PSD file with the U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 CMYK profile. I edited it in Photoshop and then found out the printer company: wants CMYK colour mode and uses FOGRA39 as the profile. says fonts must be converted into paths / curves or embedded completely. suggests to send PDF/ X-standard (PDF/ X3-standard or PDF/ X1a-standard). So now I am unsure what to do so colors on the card look as close as these on screen: Convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39 Rasterize > Flatten > convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39 Save as PDF using FOGRA39 directly Also I believe Photoshop uses vector fonts, thus I assume it is better NOT to rasterize them, so when saved to PDF they look great at any magnification? Would that work if the printer company doesn't have the font? I mean is this what they mean by "embedded completely" Thank you.
I'm working on a calendar app that lets you toggle your vacation days. There's a feature for choosing which of those days count only half. Usage: The user toggles some days, those days turn orange. The user can then click a button "choose half days". When clicking, the whole page fades, except for the orange days. You are now in a mode where any click on the orange days adds stripes to indicate they only count half. Any other clicks returns to the previous mode. If you want to try it, go to the app, toggle a few days, the click the button labelled "½ Tage wählen" beside the lower-right link to 2014. I've been using jQuery Tools for the exposé effect. For technical reasons, I cannot continue to use it. And thinking about it, it might not be the ideal solution for turning orange days into half days (the "mode" thing is bothering me). So, my question is: Are there other/better ways to make clickable areas on a page stand out to indicate which areas should be clicked?
This font looks like a "thin" Open Sans, how they do it? Or maybe it's a different font?
I drew paths thinking i was drawing a shape but later realized it is only a path. Now i could create a temporary shape like a box and paste this in and delete the box path. But just as there is a option to convert path to selection, is there an option to convert the selected path into shape?
Cropping .svg files on the command line is simple: $ inkscape --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose *.svg I need to do the opposite. I want to fit the drawing into a 64 x 64 points canvas (already set in all .svg files). Unfortunately Inkscape doesn't provide a FitDrawingToCanvas command. Moreover, the fitting should keep the aspect ratio of the drawing. If it matters: I'm using Ubuntu raring.
I'm designing a web template in Photoshop and I need to create a style which looks like a pie with cut pieces. How could I create it using Photoshop CS3 tools? Or it can only created in Illustrator? Any extra advice on how to create pie graphics in Illustrator or Photoshop will be greatly appreciated. need to show the circle like cut pieces like pie chat now i created this in Photoshop
Is it possible to paint only inside a stroke on illustrator? what i actually want to do is paint the same stroke with different colors in diferent segments of it but i can't do it... Also... I've seen some tutorials that include editing a gradient but that would be very complicated and so would be to make a new stroke over this one, I just hope theres an easyer way XD Edit per comment: thats cool but not really what im looking for, what i want is lets say my stroke has the shape of a burger i want part of i to be bread color and part of it to be meat color... not one stroke over the other... i want something like this, imagine the jelly worm is my stroke:
I want to recreate the following image at a much higher resolution, so it will be suitable for printing in large. I have found a place where I can purchase a high-resolution version of the ice cream cone, as well as (a good imitation of) the font. The only difficult (to me) part of putting the image together is recolouring the stock photo to match the ice cream in the smaller image as closely as possible. I somehow want to keep the small-scale detail of the higher resolution image while preserving the colour of the smaller image. I was hoping someone here could explain to me how to do this. The only software I have on hand is Gimp, so I would prefer to do it there. If doing this is for some reason next to impossible in Gimp and very easy in (some recent-ish version of) Photoshop, I might be able to get access to a computer with Photoshop for a few hours, but that would be much less practical for me. (ETA: To be clear, I have permission from the creator of the image to do this.)
I'm trying to find a good font that pairs well with a logo that uses 'Kursivschrift.' While I'm not a fan of the font due to the excessive amount of kerning required to make it work, it is the main logogtype. Here's the idea: I want to find two fonts, or a good family, that fit the look of Kursivschrift (I think a Sans-serif and Serif would give the most versatility) so that I don't have to use Kursivschrift as a headline font, it can just be the logotype. At least one of the fonts chosen has to be used with the logotype as a tagline of sorts. If it helps at all... I've been playing around with URW Grotesk and its sister URW Antiqua (just not sure about the choice):
I've been looking at lots of the Motion Graphics on Behance lately and i'm wondering what program and how these people make these animations? Some examples: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Think-With-Google/11204911 http://www.behance.net/gallery/Vector-experiments/9710159 Any help would help a ton. I'm sure lots other people would want this as well.
Is it possible to create a custom keyboard shortcut in Adobe Illustrator CS6 on OS X 10.8.5 to align and/or distribute objects (center/left/right/etc)? I know I can open the Align window, but I would like to apply the alignment with a shortcut. Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts doesn't provide an option and it isn't clear to me how, if possible, to write my own in a keyboard shortcut file (e.g. /Users/user/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS6 Settings/en_US/custom.kys).
Look at iMac mockups on this page. Quality of skewed screenshots placed in the mockups are poor. Seems like photoshop knows too little about super-sampling. I know how to render a 3d model in 3dsmax with good supersampling, but it's a much more tedious work. How can I make screenshots look good in photoshop? 3D layers? Maybe vanishing point? Smart-objects seem to be rendered poorly, very bad supersampling I mean.
Can anyone tell me how I can use Thai strings on Mac OSX in Photoshop? More than 45 different languages, including all the Asian languages, seem to render just fine. I can also render Thai in other programs, like Word and Excel and Chrome. Photoshop can even render thai characters correctly in the "Layer" palette. It just cannot render Thai characters on the canvas. Any tips on how to get this to work? Thanks!
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking in the Channel Box and the Attribute Editor for the Start and End Sweep for a Nurbs Sphere I created. I can't seem to find it. Channel Box, I can't scroll down, there are no more options. Attribute Editor: Can't seem to find it here either
I am currently working on images that have a neon color. The client has given me this color information : Volt = 71R , Black = OOA Can anyone please explain what this information means? Thankyou for your time! A
I'm at a new job so I'm not sure if this is a Firefox issue or hyperlink issue. Haven't experienced it before. I created a few hyperlinks (three spots for our company website, two for company email) as part of a catalog created in InDesign. Did PDF export and ticked to include hyperlinks. If Mozilla Firefox is running then all of the links work. Website opens in new tabs, email opens in Thunderbird (what we're using here). However, if I close Firefox then it freezes up and crashes Acrobat. Anyone know what might be causing this?
I've being doing some research regarding how to present a good quality technical document (to be more specific, a PhD Thesis). It seems to me there is some consensus regarding the fonts (as described in What font types are good for a technical document? and Fonts for technical reports), which makes me very happy because I really like when standards are around. So, since my thesis is in biomedical engineering, I've come to two conclusions: to use Times New Roman and to set the main font at 12pt (most of my readers are over 40 years old). Now what I need to know as one of the most general characteristics is what the text block should be. I've read some Tschichold's guidelines, and it can be summarized like this: textwidth=0.66666667\paperwidth,% inner=0.123\paperwidth,% (inner margin) textheight=0.666666667\paperheight,% bottom=0.22222222\paperheight,% headheight=1em,% (Look here for a graphical description) Now, it seems that is somewhat The Standard (although yesterday I was in a bookstore and I didn't see any book following Tschichold's scheme) for writing books, but is it OK to assume this should be the layout for a technical document? If not, what other set of rules can I follow?
I need to create a large amount of network/it diagrams for a client but I don't want to draw them all from scratch. Is there any where I can buy some really nice icons of servers / routers / phones etc. Isometric, 3d or flat is fine.
I am using Inkscape to create some wireframes/click throughs. I would like a way toggle the visibility of groups/sets of layers. For example, lets say I define the following sets: Group 1 - Layer1 (hidden), Layer2 (visible), layer3 (hidden) Group 2 - Layer1 (visible), Layer2 (hidden), layer3 (visible) Then, I could switch between the two groups and would not have to update the states of the layers individually.
I have been working for a while with Illustrator CC, and suddenly this strange behavior. Every time I create a new shape, Illustrator locates it at the back of the layer instead of the top. This is very annoying. How can I revert this behavior?
I am trying to create an image and added a Gradient Overlay style as seen below. I ended up with the following image (A part of image). Looking at the area circled in black, you can see a jagged curve. This is not as designed and occurs when I add the Gradient Overlay layer style. Can someone suggest how to get a smooth curve, without this jagged structure, when using the Gradient Overlay layer style? Edit: Image without gradient fill (without zooming) See the above two images. The left one is the actual one and the black line in the right image is the area where you need to look into. You can see zigzagged border over there.
I am working on a 3 fold a4 brochure in indesign cs4. I found a template with all the guides and margins but it is only for one side of the paper. Since the folded parts are not of equal width, I will need to flip the spread to have the correct dimensions for the back side. Is there a way to do this? Or is there any other way to carry all the margin and guide info to the back side? Thanks.
Hi someone can help to identify this font, it is used in HBO subtitles in spanish. Thanks
I'm writing scripts to automate some things and I would like to make it easier to identify what commands and functions a user is executing. Something like a plugin that monitors and then stores that information in a database or file would seem ideal. Does this exist or is this possible in the Photoshop and Illustrator scripting environments?
So I've seen this pattern in the background and banners of websites, but I don't know what it's called. I want to see more examples, and learn how to do it myself (Using CS2). This website has a example of what I'm talking about in it's seemless background: http://projectmgame.com/en/
I am working on choosing layouts and shapes of page components for a large educational web application containing more than 100 variety of web pages. I am currently trying with flat layouts and trying to keep minimum components so that each page look simple and easy to use. The bigger blocks displaying Theory Subjects and the smaller ones as labs (blocks count might vary). I have designed similar sketches for the entire application. But i want to make sure where to leave space which can be used later effectively to display advanced features. Basic Features are as follows. Question Answer Section File access/upload section Blog Post Section Time Table Section Note making Section Login/Register Section Home Page Events Section Exams and Results Departmental Notice section and many more pages Also the above page types are used by students, faculty, department, management belonging to an institute on regular basis. Please suggest best practices for defining layouts and shape of components for each category. Thanks in Advance.
I have a portfolio design in Photoshop, and I when I save that as an image file format, it gets compressed and low quality if I try to import it in Acrobat. I just want to export from PSD as an image and then import to Acrobat to create a PDF from that image(s). Am I doing this wrong? Is there any other way to create a PDF from images?
In PS Cs6, there is option to give stroke gradient and it can be aligned with layer however i can't find a way to move it any other way. I want to, let's say drag gradient.
When I resize a shape in Photoshop CS6, its stroke's width remains the same size as it was in its original width. It could be desirable depending on a situation, but most of the time it's not. In fact, it beats the purpose of vector; same shape/look at all sizes. In illustrator you can expand the stroke so this problem doesn't happen. So is there a way to make stroke's width dependent on the size of the shape?
I use Inkscape: Imagine I have a shape like an O which is a path. Or better said: Two paths, one for the outer boundary and another for the inner boundary. But it is one object (one path??). If I change the fill color, then the color of the O changes, e.g. to orange. Now what I want to do is to get the inner boundary path and connect it to another circular path that is inside the O. I want to connect it in a way to be able to fill it with a color, e.g. pink. The result would be an O, which is orange and inside of that, but connected to the O’s inner boundary, a pink thingy (e.g. another O). How can I achive that? I mean, how can I reuse the inner path of the O? Is it possible without manually selecting all the nodes?
I upgraded to OS 10.9 and Keynote 6.0. In the previous version of Keynote, I was able to easily paste charts into Illustrator CS5 as vector objects, of which the elements could be independently manipulated by releasing the clipping mask. However, with Keynote 6.0, the same charts paste into Illustrator as .tiff files. Text alone pastes fine, but if I try to paste text and a Keynote shape, for example, the two elements are placed into Illustrator as one .tiff file. I am unable to open a Keynote slide from within Illustrator, so I don't know what would happen in that case. Is there a way to force a vector object placement in Illustrator? Or is this a Keynote-side copying issue?
For example a flame who looks like a flame Or a typography snow who looks like snow Do you know the name of this exercice ?
I'm a newbie to designing things in Inkscape. I'm developing a website, in which the tabbed content will have icons. Some of the icons I designed, I see, aren't uniformly 32px x 32px, when I set the X-axis width to 32px. I want all my icons to be 32px x 32px, because all the sites I've been studying, use 32px x 32px and the benefit I see in that is uniformity, and that it's a W3C standard or something. Anyways, here's my icon: How can I resize it to 32px x 32px without the malforming weirdness? TBH, I tried setting the dimensions manually without preserving the original aspect ratio, but still the thing wouldn't be 32px x 32px exactly.
I made my old site logo in Gimp, it's basically white text surrounded by a black boundary that follows the contour of the text. I can describe this viscerally but there is probably a descriptive name for this effect. In Gimp I made it using this: Type white text Layer -> Transparency -> Add alpha to selection Then I would increase the size by 3 or 4 pixels Then create a new transparent layer underneath the text layer And then fill this layer with black I've got hold of Adobe Illustrator to redesign my logo, and I'm having trouble replicating this effect - I was wondering if anyone had an answer?
Is there an easy way to make n guide lines such that each one is x pixels from the previous one, other than manually entering a newly calculated x or y value for each line?
Using Photoshop CS5, i'm trying to fully remove background of a picture being shot behind a blue screen. To do this, i am using Color Range method (from Menu > Selection). It works ok for most parts of the picture but other for some having transparency (like hairs), there is still some glowing blue around it. Here is the original image : Here is what i get, using Color Range. If i increase the Fuzziness, the hairs tends to disappear completely, which is not what i want. Here is what I want to achieve : Is there other techniques to remove that blue background ? (and thus avoiding the blue glow around the image ?)
I recently made some graphs in Illustrator CS6 to insert into a MS Word document. I created my original images using the Print profile with PPI set to 300. I used the "Save for Microsoft Office" option to export the images for Word. Why does this option create a PNG file (with a resolution of 150) as opposed to using, say, TIFF or EPSF format? I'm just curious.
Can anyone help me to identify this font? It's used in TCM subtitles for Latin-American TV. Thanks so much...
Trying to practice better on my typographic logos I wanted to challenge myself in creating a distorted text logo but I was unaware if any practices exist when considering pre-existing fonts in regards to Serif VS Sans-Serif. So my questions are as followed: Are there any stroke considerations when distorting the bowl? Is there a degree of bend to consider when distorting the Ascender for a Serif or Sans-Serif? Is it harder to distort a Serif because of the Bracket, Ear, and Terminal? Should an eye be rotated, resized, or just depends on the font? Is there an amount of leading you shouldn't exceed? Is there an amount of X-height you should consider for the first letter in the word? Should you consider a baseline when distorting? Examples:
I created a cucumber model model (my first model) in 3DS Max 14. I used object paint to paint the bumps on the cucumber and user proboolean to attach the bumps to the cucumber. i am working with the default international unit and the cucumber is about 4 in length (I want to work in a 1:1 scale with a game engine). After all the modifiers i flattened the model out and it is just an editable poly. when I start to paint it looks like this: When i just move the paint brush over some weird areas (they are all highlighted), I get wierd painting all over the cucumber: What am I doing wrong? Is it the scale? Is it the object paint? Also can someone tell me a quick (auto) way to make the intersection areas of the bumps quad friendly?
I've merged some pictures into panorama and it looks like a rainbow. See my below picture: I wonder if there is a photoshop tool which allows me to draw/indicate a curved path and then have the tool automatically adjust the image until the path is a straight horizontal line.
I have a big image 5100px x 7000px. I have made the background transparent, and I am satisfied with the result: the parts of the image which I wanted to keep are there, and the white background is gone. But I am sure there are some pixels, here and there, that are lost in the huge transparent background: pixels which where not pure white, but that anyway should be removed. I can not see them when zooming to see the full image, so I would have to zoom in and scroll around the image to find those unwanted pixels manually. This is very inconvenient, because my screen is not very big, and it will take too much effort to find those lost pixels. Is there a better way? Is there a way of telling gimp: "show me where are the isolated pixels"?
I'm looking for a technique to avoid drop shadows on individual elements darkening each other out (multiplying the effect of the drop shadow). This is an image showing the undesired effect I'm talking about (also enlarged at the bottom of the image). I want the drop shadow on the white surface to be the same whether the shadow is from one of the elements or both "on top of each other". Anyone know how to achieve this fairly easily?
How do I find out the exact size of a graphic or image after it has a clipping mask applied in Illustrator? When you just select the image or do Ctrl+A it shows the entire image size(including the masked unwanted portion) in the transform palette and I just need the final dimensions of the image. Can anyone suggest how I can find out what the masked image size is?
I am getting crazy with these two things and after some days of getting nothing from Web search and experimentation I come to you. I am using Indesign CS4 and cannot get to do these two things: 1) Format a list for my chapters this way: Chaper X Title So in the paragraph style - Bullets and Numbering - Numbering style - Number I have: Chapter ^#, which makes: Chapter X Title But I CANNOT find anywhere how to input a "\n" after. 2) Indent all paragraphs (that is easy) except the first one as in: Section 1 1st paragraph Blablablabla Blablablabla 2nd paragraph Blablablabla blablablablabla 3rd paragraph blablablablabla Figure X 1st paragraph Blablablabla Blablablabla 2nd paragraph Blablablabla blablablablabla Subsection X.x 1st paragraph Blablablabla Blablablabla 2nd paragraph Blablablabla blablablablabla I get the indentation right but it is also apply to the 1st line too. I am not sure how to use GREP to do this or if there is a better way. I'd like to do it automatically without having to assign a different paragraph style every first paragraph.
In color spaces we have the regular solid colors like solid red (#FF0000), solid green, solid blue, etc. ... Then when we add about 50% white ontop of it, it becomes a "pastel" color space... What about the opposite, if I add 50% black it gets just a dark and a pastel gets light... What are these called? What is the antonym of a pastel color space? Thanks! God bless!
Client in question found a public domain icon they really want to use as their logo (instead of having one designed, I know, I know). Is this legal?
I am trying to avoid using a background image (or any image-based solution) to effectively create this: Note: the red arrow is just pointing at the border in question. The arrow should not be included in your answer. How can I create this irregularly-shaped border with pure CSS (no images)? If images are unavoidable, the most concise and readable answer will get upvoted and accepted.
I seem to have lost the ability to adjust the size jitter - I keep getting just the size/hardness view.
I want a typography logo for an application. If I use free fonts for that, can I just use them directly without mentioning the creator of the free font, or without linking the page where I download them? Or do I have to?
How do I create a white drop shadow in Photoshop? The shadow disappears when I change the colour to #ffffff. Steps I have tried to produce a drop shadow: Assuming you have two layers (as shown in the image below). Right click on the top layer (in the layers window). Select Blending Options. In the Layer Style popup, select Drop Shadow (on the left). In the Drop Shadow settings change the colour to #FFFFFF. Click Ok twice. You will notice that the shadow has disappeared. Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask if I didn't explain it right or if there is any ambiguity. Thanks in advance for the help.
I've seen this kind of illustrations around the web, mostly on dribble, and I love them but the problem here is that I don't know how to achieve this effect, I tried with photoshop and illustrator but I can't figure it out. The only clue is its possible name, line art. Thanks.
I need to create a vectorized version of my local city skyline. If I use multiple artists photos as reference, is there any copyright concerns? I realize just taking one photographers work and tracing it would be against copyright law, but can I use multiple photos as reference? If I pull a mountain range from one photo and a building from another, is there an issue? Do I need to take my own reference photos? Does anyone "own" the skyline of a city, or the lines of a mountain range?
Anyone know the name of an app where you can overlay the design mocks on the developed testing screens? I downloaded an iphone app like this before, but forgot what it was. It’s hard to for the developer to match the code to the image exactly, so it’d be greatly helpful for find it again.
I use Corel to produce hpgl files that feed a CNC wire cutter. If I want the CNC to cut a different shape at each end it will do it but only if the files for each end have the same number of nodes. How do I define the number of nodes on one curve and the exact same number of nodes on another curve in order that my CNC will be happy.
I'm using Illustrator CS6 on OS X. When choosing View -> Actual Size, the displayed elements are smaller on the screen than their actual size, say in centimetres. How can I "calibrate" Illustrator to my screen's resolution (dpi) so that it can display objects at life size when using 100% zoom? (Acrobat does have a DPI setting in its preferences, and I assume Illustrator must have it too. But I cannot find it.) Edit: To clarify, if I put a ruler next to the screen, and also turn on the ruler in the document, I want them to match up when selecting View -> Actual Size.
When I am searching for designers, I find that an important skill is "layout" in the old DTP sense. The ability to position things on a page in a logical, attractive fashion. Do the kids these days still call that "layout"?
As for the title, is there a trackball with pressure feature for brushes in Photoshop? Many years ago I used a trackball in CAD/CAM software and now I'd like to use it in Photoshop retouching but I'love the pressure feature of a tablet. Edit: maybe is the wrong place to ask, but I just want to know if there is a trackball compatible with the configurations "shape dynamics 'or' color dynamics" for pressure-sensitive brushes in Photoshop as with graphic-tablets. Excuse my broken English, but more than that I can not explain ;)
I'm 22 years old guy, from european country. I'm software engineer according to my diploma. I'm coding for 2 years now, i know few programming languages (ruby, objective-c, javascript, python), but last few months i started to do small tests with composing different vids (e.g. placing 3d animated objects into real world). I'm familiar with 3d modelling software such as 3dsmax and maya. After looking through different vfx studios, the problem is experience. they all want me to have 10+ years of exp in everything, which is impossible at the moment. What should i do in this case? Should i keep doing what am i doing with software coding stuff, or should i more focus on vfx, and start maybe freelancing? Any advice is welcome. P.S. this might be wrong hub for this kind of questions
Is there a better way in Photoshop to convert a black & white image into color other than just selecting the area and fill with color?
I have a table with digits. I want to change the percentage of the fill of each cell to this digit. Example:
I want to draw some square tiles on wall in illustrator , so i must create grid on wall , Is creating grid by line segment tool correct? how to color squares created between lines? here is a picture of my problem
I have some placed files in an Illustrator document, linked to the originals. When the originals are changed, Illustrator updates the placed versions. However, it keeps them at the same physical size (in centimetres), even if the size of the original was changed. Is it possible to get Illustrator to keep the same scaling factor instead? If e.g. the placed file was scaled to 250% after importing, is it possible to keep it at the same scale even if the page size of the file was changed? I found how to do this in InDesign. Is there a solution in Illustrator?

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