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I am having trouble with the pen tool. It was working just fine until it didn't want to fill the path. I don't know what I did to have this kind of problem. I'm currently using Photoshop CS6 and I mostly use the pen and brush tool for the illustrations. After I created the path, I right click and try to fill the path. It didn't do anything. I try to find the "add to path" effect, but I couldn't find it. Please, I need help.
Can anyone help me to identify the font used for most of the headings and body text on www.stripe.com I am hoping it's a font which is available via Typekit or Google Fonts! Thanks, James
In previous versions it used to be under Select > Similar layers but I can't find it anymore.
My goal is to learn this kind of graphs that represent articulation points / biconnected components and now I am trying to learn it but every time I try to colour a half circle it colours the whole circle. So how can I colour segments of circle like the above?
So I'm pretty noobish when it comes to Illustrator, but I can't tell what I'm doing wrong here. I've got this pattern brush on a path, and the path has some Width Points set on it, but I can't select Width Points as the source for the scale of the brush. Every menu item is greyed out, which okay, I don't have a tablet plugged in so I get why I can't use pressure etc. but I don't understand why it won't let me use Width Points. (This is CS6, btw).
Ok I tried a few times rendering my 3d animation to video custom 1280x720, image aspect 1.778 pixel aspect 0.9. So far when you see it as it renders it appears to look fine, but after all the rendering was done and viewed the video on VLC it wasn't even the right size, it was 720x480 and the width appeared squeezed and didn't even fit right as 16:9. Did I do something wrong? I can't figure out why that happens, can anyone help?
I rasterized a logo (plus made other changes I can't quite remember), a few days ago and ever since then my logo is jagged and distorted. Even though I didn't save whatever effect I applied, all my artwork now doesn't look as it should. Here's how it looks now and here's how it looked then. I've deleted the AIPrefs file, the whole CS5 settings folder and it's not anti aliasing or pixel preview. Is there another way to completely restore it to factory defaults? Whatever change I made the other day seems to be affecting everything since. Any ideas appreciated
I want to get the icons behind the top icon, how can I get them visible? I am using Macbook Air without a mouse.
I want a logo that really jumps out at you. I am much less interested in brand identity etc. I just want it to be memorable. It also has to be the centerpiece around which I will "wrap" my trucks. Every designer I have received samples from just doesn't seem to deliver on what I'm looking for. They all do variants of the same and none of them seem to hear me and take big risks. I don't want to tell them what I want as I am not a designer. How can I encourage them to really push the boundaries and produce a colorful, humorous, memorable logo? What can I say or do?
How could I make a curvilinear perspective with Gimp? I've found out making a linear perspective, but not curvilinear. My guess was that there were any way to move the single points in the grid, and not just the endpoints.
After several Google searches and searching the forum, I'm looking for simple, lightweight and easy way to create a clear glass overlay. I've attached an image that shows the clarity. It's easy to do in CSS but I can't figure out how to do it in Photoshop.
Each slice can have different optimize settings, however overlapping objects can't be exported to separate files using slices. Exporting layers solves this problem nicely, however it uses the Document's optimize settings. I'd like one object to be exported as a GIF, another as PNG32 for example. Is there some way of attaching optimize settings to layers?
I've been trying to describe this effect on google and got no useful results. Seems like its a mix between a tint via the overlay and the offset? Here is another example, but the effect seems less pronounced.
I have a report made in InDesign that needs to go to several different types of recipients (e.g. study participants, advisory board, and other powers-than be). The report everyone gets is the same, except page 1, which is a cover letter. Each cover letter using data merge to create a letter for each recipient. There are 3 different cover letters, one for each type of recipient: Letter1.indd (20 different letters using data merge) Letter2.indd (10 different letters using data merge) Letter3.indd (10 different letters using data merge) Report.indd (The actually report that needs to be combined with each cover letter) So basically, I need to do a data merge on each letter, and each of those letters need to be combined with the report itself. The result would be 40 PDF files, each with a unique letter. If all the letters were the same basic text, that would be easy--but there are 3 different letters. The options I've found so far are: Merge the letters into separate PDF files, create a PDF of the report, and combine all of them one-at-a-time using Acroat Place Report.indd into each cover letter. The problem is that the report is 80+ pages and InDesign requires you to place every single page by hand. The report also gets updated every 6 months. Use a Book. I haven't figured out how to get the data merge part to work with a book though. So far, the only viable solution is #1. I'll waste an hour or two combining documents, but it'll work. I'd like to find a cleaner way (and faster) way to accomplish this task though.
You see I want to know how this split inbetween the text is achieved like how it slants. Also does anyone know what the font to this is? It's really cool, or does anyone have any fonts that are similar to this? Thanks guys!
I'm making a logo in PS which is gonna go on a website. It is supposed to be just the logo and the main background of the webpage. But when I either save in .png or .gif format I get a small white border around the image. This is the settings I used for PNG: And this is the settings I used for .gif format: When I saved as a .png file not only was the border there, but some of the logo was in a really bad quality. Appreciate any help.
See the below image of a keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad X41. What is the font used for labeling the keys? Note that the font is used on many, if not all, ThinkPad keyboards. However, I am not sure about that, and that's the reason why I stayed specific to the X41 keyboard. Image at full resolution: https://i.stack.imgur.com/z4kd4.png
For example, if I complete a drawing of Ryu from street fighter or Naruto is it legal to sell it online?
I ran the below image through What the Font without any luck. Can someone help me identify what font this is, or a very close substitute? Note: The effect on the font may be the font or may be styling. I can replicate the styling if I can get the font correct.
I'm working on a movie script. I'm having some issues with my indents... All the spoken text is outlined to the left, but I want the name of the speakers to be in front of this paragraph. The name of the speaker and the text itself are in the same text field. It should look like this: Because I can't make a paragraph style and apply it only to the name of the speaker I have to come up with something else.. How can I move a single word a bit backwards, and keep the rest of the paragraph outlined on the indent I chose? Hope someone can help me..
Can I draw this graph using Inkscape? I am new to this image editor and I have read the guidelines but it still seems hard to do. Can you please help me to draw an identical graph that also includes the symbols?
As we want to reprint our old T-Shirts from the student representatives, but we have to change something - and we don't know anymore the font, which was used. No automatic service was able to detect the font, especially the y does not match. The font looks like this:
I'm working on a small project to add the note names to one of my guitar fretboards. Right now I've got all the note names laid out in a simple grid but I can't for the life of me figure out how to distort the grid to fit the neck- the neck is wider at the bottom than at the top. I've tried using the free transform tool on the group of note names but for some reason it is not giving me independent control of the corners. I tried rasterizing the group thinking that would do the trick, but no luck. Here is a screenshot of the grid so you can get a feel for what I'm saying (the black lines mark the desired width, it is a very slight distortion). Any help or advice would be great- Thanks!
I am searching for a way to draw a Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) on Illustrator. Essentially, a GBM looks like a random wiggly line: Thanks for your inputs!
I have found that the Patch Tool is really useful for certain healing situations, but I can't stand that it is only freehand drawn. Is there a way to use a click-move-click-move-click selection method (like to polygonal lasso tool)? I'm using CS6.
I'm fairly new to designing. As of now, I have this design: Click image for full resolution As you can see there is a small link in the upper right corner (Upload Prenda Link). When clicked, it toggles the an uploading div to look like this: Click image for full resolution and vice versa.. The link itself looks like the user will not be able to see it immediately or he/she may overlook it while using the web page. How can I call attention to this link so it will not be overlooked?
Hello guys i am learning illustrator, my question is this type of image http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-129229757/stock-vector-modern-spiral-infographics-options-banner-vector-illustration-can-be-used-for-workflow-layout.html?src=rLOI0N-oEQllQwlV1mhO1A-1-0 Can it be done only in Illustrator? It doesn't looks like a typical vector, but I saw shutterstock sell it like a vector. If no what are the tools? What workflow is used for it? Thanks and sorry for my bad english :)
Here is the problem: Two element. Instagram and Flickr. They both show 4 images then the user has to click on Load more to load the next 4 images. I think it would be pretty annoying for the user to click the load more button every time. Can you think of another, more efficient way to present this?
I am attempting to either "revive" or find a particular font for a project, but seeing as I found it in an old book, I have only been able to find a few examples of its usage. Using the examples below, would any of you happen to know the name for it or point me to some other books or documents where it was used? As a clue, I found it in a book published in Geelong, Australia in the late 1800's. I use Photoshop to remove characters from the texts, so more examples are really all I need. Thanks!
I have about 280 Illustrator .ai files that I need to convert into .png files with a finished size of 500px x 500px. All of them aren't squared, so those that are, for example rectangular, need to be centered in the image and the background needs to be transparent. Is there an easier way to do this because I wouldn't like to spend time converting them manually.
I'm not much of a graphic artist, but I try to learn how to do new things. I learned how to use the Extrude & Bevel to create a 3D effect. I like the result. But I'm using the resulting graphic on a web page. What I would like to do is be able to control the color through CSS. I was thinking maybe create some kind of transparent 3D mask (overlay?) that I can put on top a flat DIV of the same size & shape. This would allow me to change the DIV color and maintain the 3D look. Doable? If you can tell me how, or point me to a tutorial, I'd much appreciate it.
I'm using Illustrator to create a presentation and I use images of part of my screen. I basically take a screenshot (actually I use Snagit to only copy a part of my screen, but I don't think that is relevant) and paste it into illustrator. I was expecting the raster image to be paste at the native resolution of the picture, but for some reason, illustrator always scale it to make it 96 PPI. I could just redial the correct numbers in and it would be fine, but I have a large amount of pictures to paste and this is inefficient. Is there a way to change the default pasted image PPI to 72, which is no scaling?
I am following Apple's iTunes connect guide (as of today 13th November 2013) for designing an image. At page 239 of their guide I am confused on the following: Background artwork must be at least 3200 pixels in width and 600 pixels in height with a minimum resolution of 72 dpi, in the RGB color space, and in the PSD format. How can I make sure (measure?) that all the layers of the PSD file have a minimum resolution of 72 dpi? In other terms, how can I verify that the file does not contain layers that had been created by scaling lower resolution images and then setting the overall file resolution to 72 dpi ?
I have exported a fireworks .fw.png file to a .png and a .css file. I have lost the .fw.png files and the .css file has 200+ objects. Is there anyway to recreate the slices from the CSS code?
I have just received some business cards that I ordered to a local copy shop (not a printing house). The result is acceptable, but it doesn't look very professional. It is 87x54.5 mm, while the standard size is 85x55 mm. As I am not a graphic design professional, I ask you guys to help me identify the printing practises that drove to these mediocre results: 1. Front view: Notice the spiky color borders. 2. Rear view: Notice the cutting irregularity and misalignment. 3. Printing detail 1: Notice the blue and red inks on the borders. 4. Printing detail 2: Notice the blue and red inks on the borders. 5. Printing detail 3: Notice the yellow ink inside the letters. 6. Printing detail 5: Notice that, when zoomed out, there's a visible yellow diagonal line between red and green. 7. Cutting detail 1: Notice the ripped edges. Do you think this is inkjet or laser printed? What do you recommend me to take care of next time? I used two files (front and back of the business card): 85x55 mm, TIFF, CMYK and 300 dpi. You can optionally download them: http://odelrio.com/docs/business_card/card_front.tif http://odelrio.com/docs/business_card/card_back.tif
Is there a site/software that can aid in the design of an image that shows a Mac/PC with my product/screenshot displayed. I once found a site that enabled you to upload an image, choose a type of device (eg. Mac), then produced an image of that Mac with your image on the screen, but have lost the link. Thanks in advance.
I've been doing a lot of research and reading on how to better myself with typography and one issue I would like to improve is pairing fonts. However, all the articles I have read discuss that fonts have a personality but I do not know how or what is used to determine their personality. Is the personality subjective and individual interpretation based? What key elements of a font are considered when indicating the personality? Is there a tool available? Does a font's personalty change for each style or is there a common base?
I am creating a catalog in InDesign and I am using the “book” feature because I have different files to create my catalog all into one. I am trying to create bookmarks, so that when I PDF the book, they will show up in Acrobat. My problem is that you can only bookmark each file separately and not as a whole book. I want my bookmarks to be for the whole book and to be in alphabetical order. IS IT POSSIBLE to determine the order to put the bookmarks in?
I'm designing box art for a card game but I've never really designed packages before. The layout, I think, is really simple to create, but I don't know how much room to give to let the cards slide in ant out relatively easily and to have the game instructions not too tight. the dimensions of the cards are business card size (3.5" x 2") and stacked two piles high to make the box a little thinner. So I have the front measuring 3.5"x4". I measured out the height of the two stacks to be about .78". Is there some standard or suggested measurements when making this type of packaging and how much room to give?
I tried doing some pixel art, used the Rectangular Grid Tool, used Live Paint to create the art and then I expanded it from Object>Live Paint>Expand. I'm using 2 colors, black and red. My problem is that when I'm trying to resize this expanded art work as a group it ads one line of gray-white-red pixels. Click image for full resolution Any ideas?
I'm making a wedding photo book, with deferent photos of course. When I open the file with Indesign, some of the photos seem to have repeated themselves. I don't know if its because they are all on one layer or because they have the same name. I first edit them on Photoshop and save them as the same name. Can anyone tell me why a photo would repeat itself automatically?
This may be a very basic question for this forum but here goes. I am beginning to create masks for sandcarving using UV film and I need to use B&W vector line art to be able to print a clear film with blacks dense enough to block the UV light during exposure. My images are in JPG, BMP, GIF, etc and I need to convert them to vector line art. I downloaded a copy of Inkscape which the film manufacturer said will work but this level of graphics is new to me. I only want to do simple B&W so I do not need the full art experience, anyone have any simple reccomendations? Thanks in advance.
I've opened up some TIFF graphics in Photoshop CS4. When going to Image -> Mode, they all show "Grayscale" and "8 bits per channel" checked. But when looking at the tabs, some show "Gray/8", and others show "Gray/8#". What's the difference?
The size of the poster I am making in InDesign keeps getting adjusted as I work on it. When I changed its width from 60 inches wide to 55 inches wide using Document Setup, it made that change but also scrunched the contents of my poster together, maintaining my margins (I guess). Is there a way to mimic Illustrator's Edit Artboard tool in InDesign where I easily modify the document size without it messing up my content?
So, I have my layers and when I go to File > Add Slices For Selection to slice the images and then export. They are coming out with the wrong size, if you take the star, it has a width of 40px on the sheet but when I export it the total width of the image is 60px or so. Is there a away to make the images export and stay the size I set on the canvas?
In Gimp (preferrably) or Photoshop, how would you please draw such a board for a word game? I wonder how to: Draw a grid with equidistant lines for a 15 x 15 board? In the colored rectangles - how to put the strings "3L", "3W", etc. (missing in the above image) - so that they are really in the middle?
Im using Gimp 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 13.10 (64-bit) Not all the time, but randomly, Gimp chooses not to stroke a path correctly. Here is a "before and after stroke" picture (it's a close-up) : What is wrong with my Gimp / options? Why does this happen?
Anyone have clever solutions for drop-shadows from InDesign that are being uploaded in .pdf to a website? I've just learned that the new Firefox built-in reader doesn't support it, known issue (Mozilla Support showing issue). I tried PDF/X-1a which fixed the shadow issue but one of the more complex sections gets thin white boxes around objects. Same thing when I just opened the PDF and did a Print to PDF. Only other thing I can think of is opening each page in photoshop, flattening, and combining which obviously isn't ideal for text quality or workflow. This is only an 8 page document so I could do it. Thought maybe one of you knows a solution.
I am on Ubuntu and trying to learn Inkscape. When I draw a line with the 'pen tool', if a line self-intersects there is a white space in the intersection. How do I avoid that? Is there some setting for it?
I'm trying to fit a flat, straight-forward image into the slightly angled iPhone below. I don't know the difference between perspective, warp, skew, etc. and I'm not sure which tool I should use to achieve this effect. I've tried to use wrap and while it seems like I'm on track, it just doesn't look right. Thanks! Here is the image of the iPhone I'm trying to put the image inside of:
I just can't make pure blue (R=0,G=0,B=255) circle. It says "out of gamut warning". If I press "fix" or something, it makes color black but not blue. I don't need this "service". How to bother out such things as "gamuts" and that similar staff? I want each object be the color I want, not somebody regard as "correct".
I'm trying to have a crack at designing a simple business card using a logo which was created for me. I've run into a problem.. I had a logo made which looks pretty standard. Not sure what font is being used here. The standard size was quite large, to fit onto the business card I needed to shrink it. One for the front and one for the back, take a look at how it has turned out. I've gone from Gattaca to Guitar Hero. Any ideas how to fix this? The middle version I dont mind. It's a bit funky, by the third variation is a bit too much.. Thanks!
I've made some random text in photoshop. I want to make that text look like mirror image, like in picture below: But the problem that I'm facing is, that I'm using pattern overlay effect on my primary text. And if I transform this text to vertical image, there is a whole new color applied to that mirrored text. Please take a look what I mean: So my question is: How do I apply same pattern color as the first layer? So my mirror image will be exactly the same as original image (except flipped vertical)
To learn the fundamentals of interface design, I am trying to replicate some better known app interfaces. The 'flatter' layout of many iOS7 applications makes it relatively straightforward. However the toughest part by far has been the icons. Deconstructing other PSDs available online, I have been able to reproduce the icons in Photoshop. Most often they seem to use the shape tools (rounded rectangle, line tool etc.) to mimic the shape, then merge them using Layer > Combine Shapes. This works well for mimicry, but I suspect it is not really suitable for creation. The problem with this method is that it's difficult to get the icons pixel perfect. Also if the icon shape is complex, it requires a silly number of shapes to create the overall effect. I don't necessarily need a step-by-step guide or link to tutorials. Just a pointer in the direction of which tools / programs are best suited for this job. What's the jist of the workflow? Many, many thanks in advance.
I'm doing front-end dev, so this question comes from that perspective. When I receive a .psd I manually go through each font in the design, click on it, then use the character panel to get the font, color, size, kerning, etc. Sometimes, I get a design that uses several different fonts (4+) with many variations of the same font (size, color, weight, etc.). This is pretty tedious work... Is there anyway that Photoshop can export a list of all the used fonts and their variations? For example, a list like: Arial bold 16px black Arial regular 14px black Arial regular 14px blue Oswald 32px rgb(13,74,56) ... Any suggestions for this? Further, if there is a plugin of sorts that will just lay this information over the elements that would be fantastic! Thanks.
Salutations! I have remarkably little experience in graphic design, and I'm running into a tools problem; I am not sure what I can use to get the effect I want. To wit, I am working on mocking up some cards for use in an RPG. Right now, they look like this: I would like to place some text in the white areas on this card. However, since there are quite a few different cards I am mocking up, I would like to do so in a consistent manner, preferably one that does not involve me having to count pixels to make sure each line of text is appropriately lined up. (If it was only the one card, I'd just wing it) I've experience using Windows 7 Paint and Paint.net, but as near as I can determine, neither of these programs has the tools to handle such a case consistently. Can anyone offer some advice or point me in the right direction? P.S. I am aware that there is a "nuclear option", as it were, which would be to write a program and PDF-creation library to dynamically and generically create each card with the input text / colors (I've done something similar at my job), but I think that's overkill at this point, and I'd rather devote time to other things if I can help it.
like on this train how do you remove the decorative lines?
If you visit apple's little subpage for the upcoming Mac Pro (http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/), they are using a wonderfully thin yet crisp and legible font for all the title (all rendered as image files). Any idea what the font family is? Ive run it through whatthefont, but the results and close but no cigar.. Thank you!
How to make a burn effect in photoshop ? Is this effect created using a plugin in photoshop ?? or with any other software ?? please see the picture.
I'm new to Illustrator and I'm clearly doing something not quite right. In Microsoft Paint I'm used to using my prodigious skill to produce color swirls like this: Which are made by scrawling around with a brush or pencil and then just using the bucket to fill in the sections. So I'm trying to carry that over to Illustrator by swirling around with the Paintbrush tool B and then trying to fill it with the Live Paint Bucket K. And it doesn't work very well at all. I'm clearly not understanding how to use these tools. What am I doing wrong? I know it will work if I use the pen, kind of, but why doesn't it work with the brush? Why isn't there a simple bucket fill tool?
I want the borders to stay fixed in Inkscape when I'm resizing an object. I found these buttons in Inkscape v0.48.3.1, but they don't seem to work. Is there any other settings that I should turn on? These are the buttons that should control that: EDIT The answer below should be valid, but for some reason this doesn't work for me as I mentioned in the question already. It's probably a bug or there's some additional settings which prevent the normal behavior.
Is there any way to create a table of contents for the catalog I am designing in Corel Draw X6 ?
A little help with creating an action. I'm trying to crop a bunch of photos and apply some filters to them. The problem is I want to crop each photo differently. Is it possible to stop the action and let user to make a selection and continue playing action automatically?
I have a multi-page PDF created with 7 Artboards in Adobe Illustrator CS6. The problem is the PDF file created is too large (40MB). The pages (artboards) have the same exact high-res raster graphic as a background, but with different vector graphics on top of them. I'm sure the PDF file size could be smaller if Illustrator didn't include that raster 7 times, but only ONCE and referenced it. Can this be accomplished somehow? Forcing Illustrator to not write the same raster data to file 7 times, but only once... P.S. I'd like to keep it one single PDF file for easy distribution. Exporting an SVG + PNG folder wouldn't be a satisfactory solution, but if there's no other way, let me know.
I have created a colour gradient I wish to use, but when I go to Blending Options > Gradient Overlay it applies the gradient but only in black and white (suddenly my colours are only grey/black/white. I've checked the settings by going to Image > Mode > RGB and that is fine. I've also checked the colour settings under Edit > Colour settings > SRGB so I am at a loss as to why it keeps doing this. Does anyone know what I need to do?
In my short experience with graphic design I've seen design go from bevel & emboss to all flat designs. People always hop onto these design trends with no hesitation. Anyways, I have a few questions about this topic: 1) What creates a design trend? One person? A large company re-branding? 2) Should you always try and stick with the newest trend? Or can you stick with the old things? 3) What looks like it could be the next design trend? I've seen some low poly art and, in my opinion, it looks like it could be way bigger than it is now.
Does anyone know anything about this symbol? A name or meaning? Something religious? I took the picture of the symbol in Hohensalzburg Castle in Austria. I can not find anything about it. I'm mainly interested because it seems quite beautiful by having these eight symmetry lines. I'm also publishing the picture as public domain and would like to know the name for that. Thank you.
I'm designing a card game and my friend (who is a graphic designer and works at a commercial printing establishment) told me to keep in mind the thinness of my lines when sending the docs to print. An example of one of the graphics she was concerned about (the front box art): (sized at 3.5" x 4" when printed) The background of the lines are at a .5pt stroke thickness in Illustrator and print fine when I print from a digital printer. I've never had any experience with offset printing yet. Would my graphic be too difficult to get good results? Should I find a different solution for the background?
I found the paper format of Lecture Notes in Computer Science proceedings issued by Springer very nice. I tried to find out what is it, but I wasn't able to find it in Wiki list of paper sizes. The book size is 236mm x 155mm (9.3in x 6.1in) after binding. I think it's 236mm x 157mm (9.3in x 6.2in) before binding since that would make a 3:2 ratio. I would like to know whether this paper size is recognized under any name/code. (I basically ask because I wouldn't like to use a fairly non-standard paper size. However, part of me is quite curious about it as well.)
I'm editing an image for print and I've got it all set up how I want in Photoshop (cs5), but when I go to File > Save as > Jpeg (quality 12, Baseline standard) the colours all seem duller and there seems to be a 'fog' over the image. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it but the image is A2 at 300dpi, any ideas why this is happening and how to prevent it? I've attached a screenshot of the problem below, on the left is the image in Photoshop, and on the right is the 'foggy' image when exported as a jpeg. I've also found that if I set the image > mode > RGB (it was CMYK before) the problem goes away.. but I'm printing this on a printer that specifies CMYK.. so I've half solved the problem, any idea how to get this to export correctly in CMYK?
I have two paragraph styles defined in my InDesign document: Heading1 has the space after set at .75 inches and Heading2 has space before set at .5 inches. In only one spot in my document does the Heading2 come right after Heading1, and a 1.25 inch space is created between them. I only want a .75 inch space between these headings-- in other words I don't want the space after and space before added together-- I want them to collapse into the value of the larger "space" (.75 inches). Is there a setting or trick to get those "spaces" to collapse, kind of like how margins collapse in CSS?
As you can see in the picture above. I can't fully fill the hair with color, why is that?
From my understanding, The SVGZ is a compressed file type of an SVG. I love using SVG images and have had a lot of experience with them. All of the times I used them I have never had a graphic that went over a few hundred kilobytes. I use SVG for responsive graphics while making responsive websites. I also use them since my favorite design style is vector based graphics. My strongest design strength is illustrator, especially when it comes to graphic design. The other reason I would use an SVG graphic is due to the ease of animating certain elements of the graphic, like arms, legs, etc. Especially background elements, like a city to span across the entire page while I animate some flickering of lights and so on. If the file is compressed, would it lose the SVG code so I couldn't animate it? Is there any reason I should use an SVGZ over just an SVG? Update Well I decided to just make an SVG and SVGZ to see how they acted with the web since I found out my works ancient CS3 can save SVGZ! After testing I ran into a very unexpected problem with the SVGZ file type. (Tested on Chrome, Firefox, and IE) If you go to the direct URL of the image you get an error. I am assuming you can't access the SVG code on these files types but after making a fiddle it doesn't even seem to display the image. Are these useless for the web? .svg .svgz JSFIDDLE
There's a name for this, and I even found a web site that helps you create such things for web sites, but I can't find or remember either. The element is on both sides of "Season 2014" :
I was trying something like infographic design, typographic design...but I can't find lots of examples or tutorials, and it's weird because I've seen them everywhere!! With those headers and ornaments... If you know where to find these designs or how they're actually called, if they are called something, that would be great! Thank you!
I am putting a text heavy book together, 6in x 9in paper size. (Perhaps related are this and this link.) Now I look for good font pairings (nice examples are here) and margin settings and line spacing that works well. My current settings are 0.8in top/bottom margin, and then 0.8in inner and 1in outer margin; line spacing 1.3. What are recommended approaches here, how can I set up visually pleasing pages? EDIT: I would like to have a clean and simple feel to the book, while the text is readable comfortably. Almost leaning towards sans fonts although I'm not too sure if that makes for good reading comfort. EDIT: After posting this question and receiving heaps of good comments, I started reading the book "Elements of Typographic Style" which gives answers to pretty much any question this thread raised, directly or indirectly. I'll post whatever typefaces and page settings I chose later...
Right now when I draw with my pen tablet, the width of each stroke is pretty much identical, unless I comically push hard or release slowly. But in videos such as this it seems effortless for the artist to have beautiful, varying widths. How is this accomplished?
I'm using Photoshop CS6 to make a label and I need to convert all layers to InDesign CS4. I've never done this...is it possible?
I'm trying to identify the fonts used in the attached images. I suspect that the Japanese sample is a Dynacomware font, but I don't see a match on FontShop. I think it’s been discontinued by the company or something. I have no idea about the chinese sample. Does anybody know what they are? Actual Japanese Text: ネズミどものにおいは確かに不快で強烈だったが、その食欲のすさまじさには比べるべくもなかった。
I have made an action that resizes an image to 30%. How can I set that value to 40%, preferably without having to make a new action? I have highlighted the area that I would like to change:
I'm looking to solve a workflow issue; editing a selected layer's text without having to go back to the mouse each time. You can change the selected layer via keyboard shortcuts, so if you could also enter editing mode through the keyboard you could quickly shift through items to edit them. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or alternative method) that can be used to quickly enter text editing mode of a selected text layer?
In Illustrator, CS5 is there any way to keep the tool options window open or viewable when using the blob brush/eraser tools? It's a pain in the butt when you havg to change the direction or shape of the brush tip with every stroke!
I am using web content layouts to make sure my animations are shown on the iPad. If I display the magazine on an iPad, I can see a loading icon on opening the page, right before the animation starts. Is it possible to remove this loading icon?
Suppose I need to draw a grid in Photoshop, each square being the same size, and a certain amount of pixels tall and wide, and the grid lines having a certain pixel width. Like this: Currently I do this by drawing one square, copy+pasting+moving+merging it a few times to create one row, copy/pasting that a few times to create more rows above each other. It works, but feels very clumsy, I'm sure there ought to be a more efficient way to do this? What are some efficient methods for creating a grid of equally sized squares?
I just stumbled across this really neat font. Can anyone identify it? I'm referring to the text that says "360° OF SUCCESS"
I'm hoping you guys can help. I've been using photoshop for donkeys years, but the one difficulty I have is cutting out products in a professional way. I decided to take the underlying photo on a black background because the product is white. I have attempted inverting the black, magic wand, AND quick selection tool but just can't get a nice result. I know the quality of the image isn't great, but my DSLR is pretty old now. Hope you guys can offer some advice. https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQkyp.jpg
I have searched far and wide for this, and cannot figure it out. I create and run an action, but I want the action to save the image with the original name + two custom letters. Original image is called IMG_3232.jpg I want the after-action (resize) image called IMG_3232aW.jpg So of course the whole idea of creating an action is to run this on lots of images, and they all should get the "IMG_xxxxaW.jpg marker. Any pointers much appreciated. Displaying my ignorance: it seems to me it will not accept aW as addition to unique file name. It seems to insist I add a running, unique addition - which is what I do not want.
I have a photo that I want to pixelate. I don't want to apply the filter over the whole image, just the left half. Now comes the tricky part: I want the filter to be very coarse (i.e. big pixels) near the left edge and gradually go to finer pixels towards the middle of the photo and transition smoothly to the unfiltered half. Is there a fairly easy way to do this?
I have a transperent image image1.png that is383 x 133 px, and another background image image2.gif that is 430 x 128 px. I opened both of images in two separate tabs in Photoshop. Then I copied the image from the first tab and pasted it over the background image in the second tab. The first image automatically sits in the middle of the second image. But when I save it and include it in my html page, the combined image looks blurred. What am I doing wrong? is there another way to combine two images?
I am working on a logo for a sock business. My current result is: As you may notice the proportions of the abstracted sock are quite awful. Do you have an idea what I could do to make this better? PS: If there are other recommendations don't be shy :)
For example, in this album cover: Is the text "imposed" over the image? What is the right word for placing one layer of design on top of another?
I'm a programmer, trying to create a good looking portfolio for myself. I have very little knowledge about graphic design, so please forgive me if I'm asking too broad questions. I want to learn ways to convert a regular image, to a background image. What I mean is, If I find a beautiful image (say this one), it does not always go as a background. It has so many lines, colour changes etc, that the text on it cannot be read easily. So I try to blur it, darken it, decrease saturation etc. But it simply does not look good. I've seen people adding some "stripes" or "grids" on top of images, so they serve better as background images. Is there a name for such technique? Or is it up to me with trial and error in Photoshop ? Thanks for any help!
I'm trying to identify a font of which I don't even have an image, only a very distinct memory. I remember it having seen used in technical charts of about the 1950s / 1960s, e.g. diagrams describing the NASA satellite and moon missions. It is sans-serif, all caps, or actually more all small-caps since the letters tend towards a square aspect ratio more typical of small letters. The letters have a very clean appearance with no ornaments, none or almost no variation in line width, straight line ends, and a clear rhythm (without being monospaced). The weight is medium to bold. Does anyone have an idea what I'm talking about? Update: Thanks to JennaDesign who found an image containing the font: What I was thinking of is the font used in the bold labels in the lower part of the image in all small-caps, "mission", "edition", "date". Comparing with the title of the document "flight plan", it appears now as if the other labels are actually the small letters of a small caps font, whose large letters are used in the title. Does someone know what this font is?
I'm designing a logo inspired by the MDN logo. My logo (inside the green zone) has nothing to do with the "dinosaur" logo of Mozilla. So the question is about the frame and the arrangement of the letters (IJK in my case). Is it plagiarism if my logo looks similar to an existing one?
I am working on an invitation for print and have been coming up short with a good way to incorporate text into the piece. Here is the background I am working with: What I am trying to do is place text into the "free" space below the seal, but I haven't been able to find any good examples for incorporating text into a background with dots like this. I tried simply carving out a space for the text, but that looked too unnatural. I also tried placing another seal/ribbon to contain the text, but that cluttered the page too much and I really want the focal point to be the seal. The text will be a quote/verse that is meant to compliment the rest of the piece. Does anybody have any suggestions or examples where text has been worked into a pattern like this? Are there any standards or general guidelines for something along these lines? Thank you!
I have an image of a map of a certain region, and I want to show the map divided to about 1000 small pieces. This should be a metaphor of dividing the region to many small land-plots. I need two types of division: A vertical division - all division lines are vertical but with randomly varying intervals. An arbitrary division - irregular division lines, that should give the impression of an anarchic (not planned) division of the land. I looked for smashing effects in gimp, but found effects of broken glass, which does not fit in this context (it is not glass that is broken here, it is land). I also found some tutorials that require me to draw the smashing lines myself, which is a lot of work since there are many pieces here. I am looking for an automatic way to create random, irregular division lines. Thanks!
I would like to draw a sequence of about 100 vertical lines, with random intervals. Is this possible with gimp?
I'm trying to learn modeling in Maya at Digital-tutors and I'm stuck at one point. I'm modeling an aircraft and made half of it and then mirror imaged. In the tutorial there is no problem, but with mine there is a line at the center of the plane and when I do some changes like extrude, that line is opening.
Steps to Recreate: Create a Rectangle without a fill but with a stroke (Empty rectangle) Select "Smart Guides" & "Snap To Point" from the View Menu. Select the "Line Segment" tool from the toolbar and draw two diagonal lines joining the opposite points of the Rectangle (Make sure the anchor points get snapped to the pointer) You will get a similar image. Now select everything you've drawn, and select "Divide" option in the "Pathfinder" toolbar, in-order to separate the shape into 4 segments. But now you'll also be getting the following artifacts on the four corners resulting due to the corner anchor points not being joined. If you now use the "Direct Selection" tool and drag one corner point outwards, you'll see it has been correctly divided into 4 smaller shapes, but I would like the overlapping points to be joined in four corners. Note: If I try to join them by selecting all the points in 1 corner, it complains about them not being on the same shape, which is also correct since I used "Divide". Question: My question is, how to I join these points that are perfectly overlapped, but when they belong to different paths? Additional Information: I've already tried the "Average" -> "Join" workaround. Still get the same error. "To join, you must select two open endpoints. If they are not on the same path, they cannot be on text paths nor inside graphs, and if both of them are grouped, they must be in the same group."
I'm doing layout design, pro bono stuff for my uni, and I haven't done much designing lately. But back when I did my high school newspaper I remember what I was told: your pictures must be in .tiff format. Now why is .tiff so favored by print? As a person who is not professionally involved in graphic design, I would say that it's the resolution that counts (the bigger the better, since that way I don't loose the quality when resizing). Because what good will a 400x400 tiff image be if I need it to be 10x10 cm big? In the end it would still be pixelated, right? So what's so special about .tiff? Because the color information?