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I have two .indd files, one with a typical chapter text and the other with references in alphabetical order. I want to include a specific name to reference my references (instead of a Paragraph number or the whole Paragraph text), so I create a Hyperlink destination with Text Anchor = "Socrates, 5 a.c.". Then I go to the text and place a cross reference, I choose the reference in the other .indd file and use the "Text Anchor Name" to be displayed. For some strange reason, I get displayed an empty reference [], and even in the Hyperlinks window, the cross reference name is empty. I can see the : symbol on the reference, marking that there is a hyperlink destination there. And for some reason, sometimes I edit the anchor and save straight away and then everything works and it is displayed correctly. But sometimes I cannot make it work no matter what I try... What can be the reason? === EDIT: The two files will be part of the same book of course. In case my explanation is not clear: I am just putting a cross reference from one file to the other. But when I place the reference (Anchor Text) te text is empty. I am using Indesign CS4 if it is of any importance. === EDIT 2: I can put cross references between files, this is not a problem. I have done it many times and it works perfectly. The only problem is when I "display" the reference. If I use the option "Paragraph Number" or "Paragraph Text" or any other, it works fine. When I use "Anchor Text" it prints nothing. === EDIT 3: I haven't used the book command, but the files are not in a book yet and it is not actually what I need. What I want is to put a cross reference (as I have done with sections, figures, etc) but instead of printing the "Paragraph Number", which works fine, printing the "Anchor Text" which prints a blank space - even though I have created a "Hyperlink Destination" and create an Anchor Text Name. So this is what I have done: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030649 but the Anchor Text is not showed (however it shows the Pararaph Text, Paragraph Number or any other option I select) === EDIT 4: Yes, the Definition originally showed "<txtAnchrName />" and I change it to: <txtAnchrName /> === EDIT 5: This image can help to see what it is happening. The link is actually there. I can print Paragraph Name, Paragraph Text, Page number.. anything. Except the Text Anchor Name, which appears empty. However, if I edit the hyperlink destinations I can see it there. If I hold on the link as suggested in a comment I get: "name_of_the_file.indd Page:10 Text Anchor Name Source text:14" === EDIT 6: For some reason I have found something that seems to work (most of the time, but not always): 1. I highlight the text in the references.indd (f ex "Socrates") and add the hyperlink. 2. I insert the cross reference in chapter.indd, with text anchor and it shows empty. 3. I go back to references, place the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph (without highlighting anything), edit the hyperlink, left marked "set to current..." and Save. 4. Go back to chapter and I see the cross reference panel alerts with the yellow "!" that there was a change. Update and ready. This tedious process works most of the times but not always.
I saw this image and loved the shadow effect and assumed it is made on Photoshop. It reminds me of old airbrush like in art deco posters. It is not even and it looks maybe like a brush tool setting (maybe spatter?). Can someone tell me if there is a relatively simple way of doing this on Photoshop CS6, as I am a beginner? Thanks
I created a png with a 10% opacity in photoshop. It looks perfect on my laptop and phone. However when I checked it on another person's monitor you could barely see the image. Then when I checked it on my tablet you could not see the image at all. I guess it has something to do with the settings of the monitors? I dont know where to start debugging this. Any direction would be appreciated. In the above image you can clearly see the faded girl. On some monitors and my tablet she doesnt show.
Is there a way to export large multi-layered Illustrator file to Photoshop? When I export with preserve layers and text edit-ability, the complex layers are flattened. I've reorganized my layers to have simple groupings but that's time consuming. Is there a more effective way of doing this? Or script to automate it?
I'm sorry if this is a noob question. I use photoshop a lot, but not illustrator. Do you draw these manually? or is there a filter for this? Do you use a separate software like 3d studio max or mathematica?
I need to make a sprite. I was instructed to make one layer an editable layer and another layer that is a flattened bitmap layer. Any instructions on how to do this would be appreciated.
I am looking to create a site for a musician so some eye catching logo for their band is in order. I want to just do a script type, calligraphy type, if you will, version of the band name. I'm fairly good with Photoshop, but I haven't done anything like this and can't find any tutorials. I'm probably not wording the question correctly, so the picture below is an example of what i'm trying to achieve. It's not just a font, it's like calligraphy on a computer. Any ideas on how to do something like this? Like I said, I may not be typing in the right search terms to find what I want so if this has been asked or a tutorial is out there, if you could kindly point me to that, I would be very grateful. Thanks!
I'm using Walkway bold on a project, and am looking for some nice fonts for the titles. Walkway is sort of formal and stylistic to me, and nostalgic of the 1920's. I'm looking for fonts that go well with it for a crowd funding website.
I'm really not much of a graphic designer at all (programmer) but I have dabbled in some image editing using GIMP and Inkscape. Here's my situation: I have a nice, sharp image of my logo as an SVG file in Inkscape. However, when I try exporting it as a smaller raster image (PNG) the picture loses quality and becomes blurry. I've tried changing settings and whatnot, but I've been unsuccessful in saving sharp, smaller images. Here's the logo SVG file in question: Here's a link to the same image exported as a smaller png: Any help would be much appreciated.
I have this image which I wish to mask out the propellers properly. I thought maybe Refine Edge would do the work but it didn't success. I would like to know what kind of tools I probably should use in order to achieve this.
Why is the combination of Blue/Green/Yellow/Red squares or letters such a popular scheme used in many logos of tech companies? The popular examples being the Windows Flag icon, Google logo and the Google Chrome logo, CMake logo (triangle), Ebay logo etc..
When I use the move tool (when I move some object in the layer) I don't have the borders (dotted rectangle) around the moving object like here in this picture: How can I turn borders on so every time I start to move the object they appear? This is in my Photoshop no dotted lines around the object when I move it.
I did about an hour's work on a Smart Object (an image I had placed in a file). I saved the smart image and closed it, but the changes did not appear on the original. I opened the Smart Object again, and it opened without any of the changes I had just made. Some further research seems to suggest that this is because the original file was a .jpg, so when I saved my modified the file and saved it as a psd all my changes were lost, since Photoshop only checks the original .jpg for changes. Is there a way of recovering my work? What is the location of the Temporary Items directory?
I'm trying to figure out what is the font that the word 'BEST' is. If anybody has any idea that would be helpful. I've tried font recognition, but not coming back with any results. Thanks in advance!
I am designing new business cards for employees and many of them have several credentials after their name. To make them all "fit" do I bring the entire name and credential line down a point or can I just make the credentials a point smaller? Is there a rule to this?
I imported an image to Inkscape. Now I'd like to select all those regions that have the same (or to a certain degree similar) color. From this selection I'd like to draw a path (to which I can add a border or background color). I'd like to generate an object, that has the exact dimensions as a certain region in an Image. How can I do this with Inkscape? I couldn't find one of the functions above, but I'm sure there in a easy way to do this. EDIT: The answer by Takkat looked quite promising. Unfortunately, although I turned off all smothening options, the paths do not follow the colours precisely: Before: After: The same things are happening, when I use other scan-modes. I couldn't find an option that follows the border of the enlarged pixels,...
I'm trying to refine my ability to emulate a technique I see quite often on Dribbble and throughout the internet really. I think in some cases this is done via actual printing (letterpress, engraving etc) but it seems likely that this is often just executed digitally as well. A few examples are here: the maroon arrowhead area: Artist: Matthew Genitempo the shadow in the chief's neck / ear area: Artist: Patrick Moore Basically it's a way to emulate an uneven ink density that would come from printing a large run with a stamp or plate that is running dry. I'm assuming that this is achieved through some combination of texture scans and layer filters, but I'd love to find a tutorial of some sort. Of course, I've gone through some tutorials that pop up via a quick Google search but they usually utilize grain and noise filters and just end up looking way wayyy less convincing than the above examples.
I am creating an educational app that looks similar to an iPhone app using the default web stack composed of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. I am wondering if it would be more user friendly/motivational to have awards like Apprentice/Expert or awards like Ruby/Diamond/Gold/Silver/Platinum based on the amount of practicing they have done ? I am also making iOS homescreen icons for these awards because they are displayed on a web page that looks like the iPhone homescreen, so which would be more practical and would be easier to understand ? I just want to know what would would transfer a better motivational/inspirational effect, as this website is aimed at kids/teens.
How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap? What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one.
Does anyone wanna share opinion on THIN fonts being used in mobile apps or even in websites? Is it the new trend. In early stages of iOS7 beta releases Sir Jonny Ive's team used Helvetia 45 Light but not to be found anymore. Wht happened? Did accessibility centric designers cornered them?
I want to copy a layer 77 times. How can I do this quickly to avoid repetitive work?
In the technical documentation of my application I want to split up the modules in different layers, e.g. (starting from the top): Reporting layer Business logic layer Volatile data layer Basic data layer Database layer A global image of the application will show all these layers, but I want specific documentation pages to also refer to the same colors. I want to have a separate color for each of the layers, sufficiently different to make it clear in separate documentation files what we are talking about (based on the color), but still enough pleasing to the eye so that the global image doesn't look ugly. The color scheme is not going to be used as a global color scheme throughout a web site, but just to indicate the different layers. Any suggestions?
most of the collab tools for drawing that I've seen so far cost too much, and lack features. GIMP does everything that I want, but unfortunately I don't know of a way to draw with 2 or more people over the internet. is there a plugin that will accomplish this?
Let's say I've made a custom brush in Illustrator (this example is stripped down, but it's enough to get the point across): The stroke starts at the bottom and loops around. There are two intersections, and if you're following the stroke, the layering is as you'd expect: Each intersection will have the newer part of the stroke go over the older part. But what if I wanted to alter the order of the stroke? I created an example of what I want to do below by outlining the stroke and adding drop shadows for emphasis: At the first intersection, the stroke goes over itself, but at the second intersection it goes underneath. Is it possible to achieve this without outlining the stroke first? If not, does other software allow for something like this? As an ancillary question, are there any known rules to how the layering works? Sometimes I've altered a curve and the order flips...very confusing.
Lately I've been noticing that I tend to draw while hunched over, with my face as close as possible to the page. I've been wondering if it's better to sit up straight, although when I do that, I can't see details as well (even when I'm wearing my glasses). Does it matter whether you hunch forward or sit up straight?
Does anybody know of a good tool or generator that allows me to create sprites, save the sprite set and be able to update the css sheet if i add new icons to the icon set? What i mean is this: Currently i have 100 icons. They all need to be made into sprites. Once they go into production, the CSS cannot change (meaning they have to stay in exactly the same location every time). However, I will be expected to update the icon set when I am required to add more. Does anyone know of anything that exists like this? I've tried a Photoshop extension (I cannot recall the name) that makes sprites from the layers in my photoshop file, but sadly it just didn't work and I kept hitting errors (presumably because I may have too many images that need to be turned into sprites). Any help is much much appreciated.
While surfing through some portfolio sites, I encountered something interesting. It was a portfolio site created by Robbie Manson. If you see the below image, you can see the dash line '-' between the navigation and the introduction of Robbie Manson. This is not the only time I see this kind of design, where simple dash line or dot that looks meaningless occupies the space. What is the effect of this kind of design?
I created paragraph style in one PSD file. After that I saved it to default styles and loaded it into another PSD file. How can I synchronize changes at all documents after updating just in one of them? I am using Photoshop CC.
I am new to Photoshop, please go easy if my question is unclear. I am trying to prepare an icon in Photoshop and I happened to see this. So I want a similar graphic but I want the each color area to be sightly smaller than the previous one (i.e., the outer line should be the circle as a whole but the inner side these should be slightly small from the previous one). I want to make the colors look more shiny (gradient) and icon itself look somewhat elevated (not like flat). So far I did it spending one day like below. But it was not at all fruitful. Though I could reach somewhat what I wanted, the overall shape is not good. When I integrated in the mobile app, it looks very ugly with poor clarity. :( To try creating this, I have drawn a circle with blue color, and later on copied the layer and decreased the new layer's circle a bit with Ctrl + T and filled it with green color and so on, later deleting the unwanted areas with pen tool. As you can see, the circles I have drawn are bent and blurry.
I seem to have a strange problem. In InDesign, in the master page (right side / odd numbered pages) I have a simple graphic, but when I delete it using ctrl+shift+click Delete, another one is automatically generated. If I do the same on the left side, it's all fine. For now I have just turned the colour to page colour (white). Anyone know if there is a solution to this or is it just a glitch? All my other files are fine.
Is there a way to hide the pasteboard in Illustrator CS5 so I only see whats in the Artboard area?
I am trying to use an android star icon (.png) and color it in red. Basic, right? Well. I did the color change after some research (just download Gimp 2) from an iOS icon because it has the ideal size 64*64 but it resulted in small legs drooling from the star lowest spikes once displayed on the Android device. So now I am fighting to do the same from an Android icon (a little smaller but why not?). So far I have achieved a nice result. BUT it is pink not the deep red I wanted and obtained before. So we figured it was due to an existing transparency of the star. We tried to add layer to change it, inverse layering, copy paste it, color the result but nothing, the results are always pink. To resume : from iOS icon : color perfect but strange shaping effects versus from android icon : shape perfect (even if smaller) but color pinky or transparent How can I "remove" the transparency that might be in the initial .png ? Edit : I just try drawing stars with Inkscape, the result is not okay :D I have the same small "legs" :( Edit : Several picture of my different test : Test 1 : android icon re-colored with still the transparency --> pink color as a result. Test 2 : I follow your advice and get this : Test 3 : I tried to use anti aliasing filter but there is little difference : My work blocks imgur so I cannot see if all uploaded ok.
I would like to print a Polaroid like image that is 336x407 mm big. What size is that in pixel and what PPI should I use?
I'm a bit concerned as my outputted PDF from InDesign CS5 looks different on Mac. This has happened a few times. It seems as though sometimes the Mac does not draw the new version of the PDF, which I have always assumed is because of a Solid State Drive (SSD). I'm not 100% sure this is correct, but I guess I can rename a document to find out. Does anyone know of any other reason as to why this may happen? Sometimes it seems as though parts of the PDF update but other parts don't. Sometimes when I export from Illustrator CS5 it shows all of the layers even the turned off layers. I'm really concerned that one day a printer will print it in an odd condition.
I have a huge grid of icons that need to be positioned so that I can write sprites out of them after I'm done. Right now, I have so many layers, it'd take me forever to click on each one individually and specify the coordinates exactly. Is there an easy way or a script that allows me to specify in pixels how far apart each icon should be from one another both horizontally and vertically (thereby creating a nice little grid for me with solid values without decimals) ?
The programs that I am mainly interested in is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator (create vector art), Adobe Flash (for animation), Adobe Premiere Pro (edit video), Adobe After Effects (VFX/motion graphics), Adobe Dreamweaver (code HTML/CSS). But can boil down to a video editing software, graphics software and photo editing software. I understand alternatives such as Inkscape is like Illustrator, Blender is a good substitute for Adobe Flash. Notepad++ for Dreamweaver but if you haven't noticed, these programs are from different companies. What I do appreciate about Adobe is under the master collection, I get all these programs, but I don't appreciate the price (because I can't afford) or the subscription model (I like to buy once and forget) they now have. I have searched online and can't find something that packs in programs such as Adobe, even if it's just a photo editing software and vector software. I found Corel Draw, but I'm so confused if they provide a master collection (collection of their software for a price) that will satisfy my needs. Is there an alternative to Adobe Creative Suite for designers/enthusiast?
I am starting out with Maya and just moved my object up to reveal a mystery grey wireframe which I can't work out what it is at all. It appears I can't select or interact with it at all. I have been playing predominantly with UV Maps, potential cause? What is it? And how can I hide/remove it?
I converted a 256px ico file to a 256px png so I could edit it in Photoshop. The problem I'm having is once I'm done in Photoshop, I save the png image, go to IcoFX and convert the 256px png to a ico file, but it shrinks the ico image down to 32px. Why is this?
I recently came to know that photoshop doesn't give much clarity on resizing as it saves on rectangle pixels and even my work was wasted due to that even, because whatever images I prepared, they look ugly on mobile devices. So, I started working with illustrator and thought to practice some icons. Have tried to prepare this icon, but failed because I am unable to achieve that bevel look instead of flat look and even I am getting outlines on shapes as shown below . Can someone please tell me how to achieve this kind of accentuating look and bubble type even? I don't need the twisting end, but trying to achieve the triangle end as in my pic. Trying to achieve this: I know this would have copyright issues. But I am not using it. Just want to practice. My result:
I wanted to put the text inside the triangle path. I tried but the text is not guite readable. I want something like on picture I provided.
Im using Gimp to resize images. When using a high res image normally 4500 x 2994 i usually need to shrink this image to 325 x 130 pixels. As you can imagine i loose the shiny, glossy and high res quality oof the image. Ive tried to save the image as .bmp and then resize it, this has made a slight difference but not a considerable change. What else can i do to ensure i retain the hi-res quality of the image? Thanks to anyone who helps.
I was wondering how you would create something like this: Source: orlybeauty.com As you can see, there is a shadow in the bottom left, which gets lighter as you move diagonally to the top right. There is also a fleck of white added, which is very easy to apply. I had a go myself, using a linear gradient, with about 75% opacity either side and nothing in the centre. It didn't work!
I am trying to create the effect posted in this image. How can this can be created?
I want to give the middle full opacity but let the border effect that is already existing.
What is this technique called: http://dribbble.com/shots/260469-Squirrel-Construct See how the image is the result of overlapping many circles to create the final drawing. Parts of the circles overlap with each other to form the desired figures. Here is another example: http://dribbble.com/shots/904051-Puffin Do you know any good tutorial for learning this technique? I've been searching, but since I don't know what the technique is called, I've had no luck at all.
I hope someone can help me. I am creating packaging for a client, and I decided to create the file bigger than the die line. So the dieline lets say is 11x9.5 inches and I just scaled the vector dieline bigger in my photoshop file to be able to work on a bigger canvas. I did this because i was editing alot of illustration drawings and wanted to be able to copy and paste them into different projects in the future without losing quality. I figured once I would be done with the project I could always change the size of the document and image to the correct size for the client. So now it's done, but I have alot of problems! When I change the image size, alot of the effects, strokes and gradients are changing from the original design! I tried to create the whole layer into a smart object but the gradient mask I created also changed from the original design. The client wants the file in the 11.5x9 cm plus a 1/8 inch bleed format, and currently my design looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxvf2fyak77mu7s/Screenshot%202013-11-29%2018.28.31.png Can someone please help on how to get this document scaled down? I would really appreciate it!
I've designed a perspective view in which i show off my business card design. To make it realistic I want to use lightning conditions effectively. In some Cards I they use beautiful frosted glossy reflections. here I'm giving you a link of an image. You will then understand what I need to know. Check Out this: http://uflix.co.in/reflection.png UPDATE: Currently I use Photoshop CS6 and here is what I've done till now: http://uflix.co.in/my-reflection.png I need perfect visual appeal to my cards' design.
I'm creating a booklet in QuarkXpress and I have it set up for automatic pagination, but on some of the pages I want to make my own pagination (move to next column or next page). I used to be able to use the shortcut of cmd+option+return and it would do this. Now this doesn't seem to work. Is there another way without having to put in a number of returns or shortening my text box?
I would like to convert a scanned signature to a vector file. Specifically, I'd like to obtain a clean, small SVG, like Barack Obama's signature on Wikipedia. It consists solely of paths with no fill and a black stroke of width 1.4. Here is an example scanned signature. I've tried the tracing functionality built into Inkscape 0.48 and Illustrator CS6 but was only able to obtain paths with anchors at the boundaries, plus fill and no stroke. Needless to say, the resulting SVG is not clean (path has varying width) and it's size is roughly four times that of the Obama signature. Do any tools exist that can decently trace a scanned signature/line art as strokes, not as paths? If not, how would I go about creating the strokes manually with the pen tool in Illustrator?
I've got a line art drawing of a dragon that I'm trying to color. I don't necessarily care if I use Illustrator, Photoshop, or Sketchbook Pro; I'm just trying to figure out the best way to color the drawing. I created the line art image in Illustrator. I know to use live paint and live paint bucket for contained lines, but how do I easily 'fill' in areas, like the fur on the chest, that isn't a fillable object? I know how to do it the painful way, i.e. duplicate the lines, complete them to create a closed container, and then fill that container...but ugh, takes forever. -----EDIT----New Information---- So probably the coloring I'm looking for is 'cel shading' style: Artist: Raijin-Pooch Also, the line art was done in two stages. In the first step I used (accidentally) a calligraphy brush that, when I turned on live paint, dumped out to simple line art. I then had to do a bunch of touch-ups, and those were done with a line art brush, so they're thicker. Hence the 'poor' quality. I'm certainly open to suggestions--I'm new to the digital illustration world. I've got a ton of experience with PS/AI, just not in this particular space!
This is my best attempt at painting so far. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I can pinpoint a line on the chin that doesn't look good or is a little unrealistic. The thing is, I can see many things I'm not happy with and also I think it still looks unfinished. Now, I could spend 4 hours wandering where the problems are but it'd be far more helpful to me if anyone could pinpoint the faults and provide some advice to improve them. I meant for the light source to be a spotlight that is a little bit(?) far away. Any advice about how the lighting (shadows and highlights) could be improved would also help me a great deal. My main question though, is how can I make this painting look more realistic? The first image is how it looked when I posted the question, and the second is how it looks now. 1.2.
This is a Photoshop question. I created a rectangle in a layer. Then I copied it and moved it until it touched the first one along an edge. I would like to be able to stroke each rectangle individually. However, when I select one path and then stroke it, the stroke goes around the outside of the two rectangles together, and the edge along which they touch is not stroked. How can I stroke each independently?
I need to add extended characters (š,č,ř,ž,ě) to a font. I can do this in Photoshop, but can you please recommend me a program that has this functionality + can save it as a font that I can use on the web? Thanks and sorry for a dumb question.
I'm a programmer, not a designer. I'm handy with a graphics program as long as it doesn't require artistic abilities. However, I'm not sure about the correct terminology. I'm working with Adobe Illustrator 9. I have several files, provided by client, that I need to prepare for use in a PHP PDF creator (TCPDF). I'm saving as version 3 .ai files. One of the files has a line through the text. The text has been converted to outlines. The line is a stroke with no fill. A clipping mask is used to hide any excess line. Here is what it should look like. And this is what it looks like inside the PDF that TCPDF created. Apparently, TCPDF doesn't understand the clipping mask. TCPDF supports up to version 8, but that makes a bigger file. I tried version 8, just to see, and get the same results. So how do I convert this to individual paths that TCPDF can understand? I could do it manually by cutting the line into pieces, outlining the stroke, and then adjusting the shape to fit the letters. But is there an easier way? In this case, it probably wouldn't be too hard. But I am going to have to prepare a variety of graphics and will likely run into some more complicated masks.
I have an email template that's done in Photoshop for a weekly newsletter. It's sliced up and the only parts that stay the same are the header and the footers, the height of the email is always different. What would be the best way to just change the middle part when creating a new email, leaving the top and the bottom as an asset? Should they just sit in separate PSD files and then be combined after it's saved to HTML?
I'm working on a calendar. I have a grid of rectangle shapes that outline the days. I'm trying to make a different adjustment layer for each day applied to a background. It's basically working fine. But once I create the adjustment layer, the region it applies to is fixed -- because I used the shape as a selection. I'd like to be able to create a layer with a vector shape on it that has an adjustment associated with it that I can move around. Here is what I'm doing now: Select the rectangle shape (day) I want. Go to paths palette and convert to selection. Go back to layers palette, select the background layer, create new adjustment layer, and do the adjustment. What would be cool is if I decide I want to move that day box around, I still could. Edit What I would like to have is a vector defined region where an adjustment layer applies. For instance, suppose I have an image on one layer. I have an empty rectangle on another layer. I want to apply an adjustment ONLY where the vector is. This is because I want to have ANOTHER rectangle with a DIFFERENT adjustment. Suppose one rectangle enhances reds and the other greens, I would like to be able to move them around.
I created this letterhead for a client in Illustrator and it got approved. It now needs to get converted to a Word document for internal usage. What's the best way to make this conversion?
We've got a large indesign file that several people are dipping in and out of on several machines, to do this we've got the indd file and the /images folder that it references in a shared Dropbox folder. This all works fine, BUT all the image links are broken, when i look at the paths for the links they are using the absolute paths so they are something like this User/sam/Dropbox/lorem/images/image.jpg But on other peoples machines they A) have a different name so their path looks like this User/John.. or they dont have their Dropbox folder in their user root directory. Seeing as the indd file also resides in the /lorem folder is there a way to get indesign to use relative paths to the images so instead of that long absolute string it would be something like /images/image.jpg We are using indesign CC - v.2015.1
Is tracing/vectorizing furniture (everything in my home) for commercial use in violation of copyright? How can designers make arrows, buttons, tiles, etc. that maybe accidentally copied? I have button ideas but I worry I maybe accidentally copy.
I am looking to design many unique study cards, with text and some images on the front and back, to be printed on a professional digital press. Right now, I have the material in a table, with one row per card to be printed. My question is: what tool can I use to convert a long list of source material into mostly-laid-out cards? I may have to do some manual tweaking, but is there some tool to bulk-import these card lists into a layout document? Note that this is a different problem than a mail merge or greeting-card run, because each of the cards I am making is unique, in a set of about 1000. I don't want the same card 1000 times; rather, I want to bulk-import many unique cards and then adjust by hand.
In Gimp, how can I multiply the value of every pixel in a grayscale image by a constant value? For example, multiply each pixel by 2.
I'm a graphic artist digital and print/front-end designer and developer. Recently I was approached by a friend to design cover art for his book. He had informed me he couldn't offer me a payment but would offer credit towards my work within his book. I don't mind doing the work as a favor however I wanted to ask for royalties on books sold. As I am new to licensing artwork i'm not sure what to charge for royalties or what steps I need to take to protect my artwork. Any advice or information on how to proceed within this dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
I am using Apple Pages to write a user guide and would like to insert screenshots of my app. Inserting the screenshots is no problem. How can I annotate the screen shots like Apple did it in the iPhone user guide on page 8, which is basically drawing a line to specific regions of the screenshot and putting some text at the end of the line? Is this even possible directly in Apple Pages or would I need to add the lines and annotation text using another program?
I saw a video of a Morgan Freeman Finger Painting on YouTube. Could this be a real video showing how someone actually created that painting? I think it's fake. I think he started with a photo, then kept mucking it up with finger painting until you end up with a blank screen, basically making this video in reverse. Edit: Original photo of Morgan Freeman
I've only ever done 3D work for educational purposes. Now I need to do some for work and not sure what exactly constitutes commercial in this realm. We manufacture two pieces of architectural equipment. If we model the equipment to put in the Google SketchUp Warehouse so architects/contractors have free access to them is that considered commercial use? This is the TOS from SketchUp Make (the new name for the free version): Trimble Navigation Limited and/or its affiliates ("Trimble") gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the executable version of the Software for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial use means: you may not sell, rent, lease or lend the output of the Software or the Services. If you are a for-profit organization of any kind, or an employee of a for-profit organization using the Software or Services in that capacity, you are engaged in commercial activity; therefore, in order to use the Software and Services, you must purchase a SketchUp Pro license. I'm certainly not selling, renting or leasing any output. I have no idea what "lend the output" means. Is giving away an object for free considered "lending?"
I am new to the use of the Rectangular Grid Tool and I created an 8-bit style background using it and the LivePaint Bucket. I'm afraid that some how, some of the lines of the grid were colored and are now showing through the image. I had the grid stroke set to none, so I'm not really sure how this happened. Allow me to show you: As you can imagine, this was not desired effect. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you.
I apologize if the title of the question isn't terribly clear, I'm struggling with finding terminology that is adequate. Essentially, what I am trying to do is create a rectangle that looks like a piece of old paper that has torn edges at the top and the bottom, as though it was torn off a roll. Here's how I've tried to accomplish this: I created a rectangle I placed an "old paper" image behind the rectangle I created an image mask with the rectangle and image I hand drew a line with the pencil and used the wrinkle tool to make it jagged; I drew the line such that it crosses the entire width of the visible rectangle and it sometimes breaks the top edge of the rectangle as well I'm using Pathfinder's "Minus Front" What ends up happening, I think, is that the image mask is deleted and I'm left with a jagged line and an image. How can I get the effect I'm going for? (In case it's important, I need the final object to be one object so I that I can duplicated it and create a drop shadow.)
We're creating a set of user manuals with different versions. In some versions, not all the pages should be included. For instance, in version A, everything should be included. In version B, pages 6 to 8, 11 to 15 would not be included. In version C, pages 4 to 5, 16 to 20 would not be included. And so on. One way is to create completely separate INDD files, but updates would be problematic if there are pages that are common across the versions because it would mean duplicated effort. On the other hand, creating only one document would mean that we need to type the page numbers manually for each version whenever we export the PDFs. It is error prone and also time consuming. Is there a feature that could help streamline this process?
I am importing a DWG into Adobe Illustrator, saving it there as a .AI, copying by Ctrl + C to Photoshop, inserting it by selecting Smart Object in the Box that appears but... instead of giving me a Smart Object linked to Illustrator I end up with a Vector Smart Object that opens a new tab in Photoshop. Where do I make the mistake? Thanks a lot, Sara
I'm trying to create a block of text with formatting and I want to surround it with a border. I've tried the Flow into frame feature, but that removes formatting (I would like line breaks, spaces, bold, etc...). Right now, I'm manually drawing a rectangle around it and aligning it (using the align and distribute functions). Is there a way to automate this and produce consistent results? My current technique does not guarantee even spacing from the border to the text of multiple boxes like these.
I have a path with a black fill that has two curves that meet at a point. I also have a vertical line that connects the beaks of both curves. How can I combine them so the right white triangle disappears and is replaced with black?)
I have an embedded image on an AI file. The image was originally a Photoshop file. I linked it, embedded it, turned it into grey-scale, I set its colour to 100% K (black). The black and white character is the embedded image. The background is a flat PMS ink. The character should be printed using only black (K), not using white ink as well. The white area should be knocked out from the blue. If the black ink is not overprinted on the blue, its fur will look weird. It is too thin to be knocked out from the blue. I cannot set the whole image to overprint (or multiply), because then the white area would disappear. I also Edit->Edit Colours->Overprint Black but I get the message "None of the selected objects are painted the specified percentage of black" Is there a way to indicate that ONLY the black of the embedded image should overprint?
I want to select the circles in the image that are in the bottom left corner. Imagine I have 100 circles, so doing it manually is impractical. Is there a way to select objects using something else than a square marquee? I tried using the lasso tool, but I can't always grab the four points that make up each circle (the longest diagonal is partially selected). Is there a way to expand a partial selection of a path to select the entire object?
On the "what's new in Illustrator" there are some new features, but on my MacBook Pro the features 1 and 2 do not work. Could some one check them for me - do you have them working? Is there any way to enable these features? In Illustrator CC, there are enhancements to guides: Double-clicking on a ruler (Ctrl/Cmd + R) creates a guide at that specific location on the ruler. When you hold Shift and then double-click a specific location on a ruler, the guide created at the point automatically snaps to the closest division (mark) on the ruler. Create horizontal and vertical Guides in one action. Here’s how: At the top-left corner of the Illustrator window, left-click the intersection of the Rulers, press Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac), and drag the mouse pointer to any location in the Illustrator window. The mouse pointer becomes cross hairs to indicate where a horizontal and vertical guide can be created. Release the mouse pointer to create the Guides.
I am searching for an easy way to create (in vector) something like this: essentially I would like to create lines starting for example: black 5pt, white 5pt, black 4pt, white 4pt, etc... all the way down to .001pt WITHOUT having to create each line individually. any ideas or easy ways to do this would be greatly appreciated.
I need to know what are the essential things that one web designer must have on his/her portfolios or things that really make a difference...the following is what i think is a good starting point. but would like to get confirmation and further tips and examples of professional portfolio also some general idea of new trends that are in for portfolios. I know it should show some focus toward certain niche. Have best examples and not like 50 pieces. Blog to show off other skills, and that he/she is keeping up with trends. Site Works on tablets. Look very well designed, especially if you are a designer. Give example of workflow and results. Preferably has worked out with one or two clients who have gotten great results. A way to quickly engage and get response. An outlet to network with other designers/developers. List of other designers/developers that you recommend and that they recommend you back. what else?
I have three vector circles drawn in illustrator. I want to clip off sections creating gaps in each and animate them together but at different speeds rotating on the Z. The problem is when sections are cut out of a circle, the center point of that circle changes. I need the common center point for the three to rotate around. How can I do this?
In a way to meet the Shutterstock guidelines I need to convert my Illustrator ai vector files to EPS 10 format. This conversion can create rasterised elements in an EPS10 files. Shutterstock does not accept vector files which contain raster elements, so the question is - How can I know if the converted file has any raster elements and how can I treat the issue if there are raster elements. I use gradient tool in a source ai file.
I am a bit of a newbie with using pantones and the pantone color guide. I am currently working on a branding project where we will have print material in both pantone and cmyk, and also on screen rgb colors. I would like these colours to match as closely as possible. I used the Pantone color Manager program to help me find the cmyk and rgb references from my chosen pantone colors. My problem is that there seems to be large discrepancies between the colors when going from the pantone to cmyk to rgb. Here is an example, the grey pantone 431U is slightly blue which I like and of course want to preserve but when I use the cmyk reference it looks way more blue on screen when both of them are side by side. I looked online for other convertors and I found other references that seem closer on screen then the one found in the Color Manager program. I am a bit confused and I would like to know the best way to achieve the right colors, as I won't be able to test print with the printer. Thanks Fred
The current framework I use to design webpages currently doesn't do anything to optimize images across different devices. As I see it, their are four types: mobile, tablet, desktop PC and large desktop PC to make things simple, the last three can be considered as one unit and mobile devices as a separate entity (I understand that they are not the same and shouldn't be considered in the same breath). Dimensioning is the issue I'm having. If we consider a graphic for the header that will take up 100% of the width and be a height of 500px how is that graphic best translated down to a smaller device (iPhone 5 for argument's sake)?
Using InDesign CS6, I regularly create booklets of anywhere from 8, 12, 16 to 32 pages for offset printing. For this I typically use the Print Booklet module, set to create a PDF file at Press Resolution. Occasionally I have a single or double-sided insert for which I generate a separate PDF, using the Export to PDF module, with the same Press Resolution setting. I noticed that these 'single page' PDFs look markedly different than the PDFs created with the Print Booklet function - which are far superior in terms of contrast. To make things even stranger, the Print Booklet function generates files that are significantly smaller than the Export function PDF files. My workaround has been to create a 4-page "booklet" with the same material on each of the pages, and then delete the superfluous pages from this booklet. This does not make any sense. Any suggestions, anybody?
I am trying to create a button for my website using Photoshop's rectangle shape tool. I want to add a border only on top of the button. How will get that effect?
Is it possible to create a multi-page PDF using Adobe Illustrator with various elements on a page linked to other pages in same PDF? The purpose is, we want to output semi-interactive prototypes with Illustrator. EDIT on receiving a possible duplicate: My question is about creating links that point to different pages in the same file, not an Internet address. (something like #page3)
I've got pretty simple problem. I've created logo in 3 variations on 3 A4 format artboards. I want to crop them, to get rid of loads of white space around logo, and secondly i'd like to save it with transparent background. Thanks in advance. PS. I can't find any resources of best practices when saving logo in different formats.
Has anyone have an ideao if there is a way to remove the lines like the attached picture ? These are so called 'scatter' lines on a T.E.M. slide, made by a microtome.
Image 1 is what i had first, obviously a bèta version of the design as this bar with buttons still needs to be designed / given layout. Image 2 is my attempt at (re)designing it. Image 3 is to explain further what i need, this bar will be used to display both a status, and display some buttons, this is why i started to align buttons on the right side of the bar, adding also a tabbed menu there. Now problem is i really want to make this look neat, but i'm new to designing and have no idea how to make this work, as you can see obviously image 2 isn't really good for a finished product. Any tips, visual design examples, redesigns, anything? would be greatly appreciated!
I'm having a weird behavior when trying to move a selected rectangle or polygon in a layer. I do the next: 1. Select layer. I want to move the shine that belongs to the brillos y manchas layer: 2. Select rectangle or polygon. The selection is the small polygon. 3. Then I try to move the selection: but it's not moved. The first that came into my head is that the shine didn't belong to that layer, but it does. Any idea on what I am doing wrong?
I have read several guides on how to achieve the Long Shadow effect using Illustrator, I tried both using the Transform Effect and Blend Modes, however I fail achieve it using both. When I try using the Transform effect, I get all copies of the fill simply duplicated with no continuity, like so: When I try using blend modes, here what I get: An example of what I'm trying to achieve:
This might be a bit farfetched for Photoshop, but I was wondering if there was the possibility of creating an action to make 42 rectangles by sourcing the colour from 42 swatches in the Swatches Library. So let's say we have three swatches in our Swatches Library (red, blue, green), would you be able to create an action that created three rectangles in those three colours? Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks!
I'm using PSP 7 (I know it's old, but it serves my purposes). I am resizing a bunch of images. PNG images with alpha transparency load with black backgrounds when I first open them. I have little experience with masks. I learned that I can do Masks > Load From Alpha Channel to see the transparent areas. After loading the alpha channel, I resize the image. Usually, this works fine. However, sometimes the edges look a bit gray - kind of like if I made a transparent GIF on a gray background. For the record, the box for Resize all layers is checked. If I uncheck that, the edges are black after resize. Also, the original images are already PNG-24 (16 million colors). Here is the original viewed at 8x zoom (scaled in the browser to fit): And here it is after reszing viewed at 8x zoom: And here is the resized image viewed at 1x zoom: It's probably not that noticeable to a lot of people, but the top edge does not look smooth to me. Is there an easy way to fix this? Do I need to resize the mask separately? The last one I had like this was a white circle. So I just cropped out the edges and added a white circle behind it. This one is a little harder.
The white rectangle that contains the typography is a Smart Object that was skewed with Edit > Transform > Perspective. The problem is that when the it's skewed and then resized (smaller) the text begin to look pixelate and it doesn't work very well, especially for letter with the oval, like e, r, etc. Is there a way to make the text more sharp? I've already tried to change to Crisp, Sharp, Strong and Smooth but the result is the same. EDIT: Here the same Smart Object resized at two different sizes.
When can you use an underlined superscript "o"? I know that it is used for numero № Can it be used for company? C°
I don't know what setting changed, but every time I start up Photoshop 7 for Windows, View → Extras is checked, and a grid overlay appears on the image pane. I'd like to set the default to View → Extras being unchecked / unticked when I start Photoshop. There does not appear to be an obvious way to set this configuration within the application. How can I make Photoshop 7 not show extras when I start up the program?
I want to try and make a photomanipulation of a woman to look like a character from an anime (Konan from Naruto shippuden). For refference, see the photo. I am quite capable of handling photoshop (on a hobby-level) but I don't know how to make the paper-effect without placing and manipulating every single piece of paper. I tried this tutorial: http://design.creativefan.com/create-a-stunning-3d-liquid-explosion-artwork/ but i couldn't sort out the 3d studio max bit. To sum up, I'd like this kind of effect only using photoshop. Can anyone help me?
I am not a photoshop expert, but have used it quite a bit over the years. I thought what I am about to describe below was a doable task using select and transform selection So here is the problem..... I have a multilayered PSD file. I just increased the canvas size by 30px to the right. Then I selected the bottom layer which is a blue gradient graphic meant for the background of the image. Then I selected the right side of the bottom layer just described. Next I clicked on select and picked Transform Selection. Then I pulled the Transform selection to the right to stretch blue gradient into the empty canvas I created, but it does not pull anything but empty pixels. Am I doing something wrong? I could have sworn I did this with CS3, but I just got CC and I noticed the settings are a little different in some places, but not much.
Selecting multiple objects in MS Word is very easy. You just drag along the page and all the objects such as pictures are automatically selected. Is there the same way in Photoshop?
I constantly create square background which I should adjust to artboard size. Almost every time I miss one or two pixels (Retina is good for that), so I looked for one-click feature "click object to artboard size" and didn't find it. Probably there is a faster way instead of inserting exact parameters of the artboard to the square dimensions? Illustrator CS6. Thanks.
Is it possible to use the color range selection tool for a single layer? Right now it samples colors from all the layers to make the selection, so to select a color range in a specific layer, I have to make all the other layers invisible and then use the color range tool, which is really annoying. Any shortcuts?
I have been using Sketchbook Mobile on an android phone a little bit and, being an android (me and the device), I have located the single save file the program allows and make backups of that file on my external sd card so that I can revisit the drawing should I desire. Does anyone know what file storage format this program uses? (named "sketch" with no extension; supports layers)
I need some advice/opinions on the attached logo and what my designer should have done to make it scaleable. It looks fine at high resolution and zoomed in over 400% in AI, but at 100% and less the speech bubble is pixelated and loses definition. Here on the test site for example it looks like a dark pixelated mass with no colour detail as it has here. As we need it for the header, it's obviously a problem which he doesn't seem to see (or pretends not to) as he says it scales fine. I've attached the favicon he did too which looks awful next to the twitter logo. My questions are: is the speech bubble colour and definition shown in the larger version something that could likely be achieved at the size we need it for the header, approx. 200px? If not, what should he do about it? Any ideas or opinions appreciated.