Split (1)

train · 96.4k rows

instruction stringlengths 18 28.6k
I was browsing around on linotype.com when I came across Fairfield which I instantly fell in love with. I would seriously like to use Fairfield for almost everything I do (quite a bit of writing, not much design work) but I'm worried about the legibility. To my eyes, Fairfield is no worse than many other common serif ...
anyone know of javascript version of layout program like QuarkXpress? this would be browser-based tool that would have all the powerful and WYSIWYG accessible design and control tools like QuarkXpress I've found some portions of the functions written in javascript, but not an entire package. My searches of open source ...
I am a web designer, using grids in web design is pretty easy. I would really like to try and design 2d illustrations, though I am not good at drawing. Recently I keep coming across drawings (like the one bellow) what show the use of a grid. These kind of grids seem to be "made up". For example, with the grid bellow, y...
A New Top Bar for Stack Exchange says, The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s really black. Jin points out that technically it’s not quite black: it’s #212121. In its CSS I see, background: #2f2f2f; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); Why not "really black": why is "not quite black" better? Similarly, for the res...
Someone can help me to identify this font used in the groups of FIFA world cup brazil 2014 Thanks.
I would like to create a irregular shape in CSS like one below . I want to avoid putting image as background completely . Please help me in this regard..Thanks Bijeesh
I'm working with Illustrator to make some icons. I use grid with step = 1px and after I scale/rotate shape elements I want them to automatically align to the grid. I know CS4+ has such an option in transform settings, but I have only CS2 at hand and I was hoping that there's some other way of aligning selected points t...
I have a question about pixels. I made a background for a poster for a party. Put i think when i make the picture larger you will see a lot of pixels. Can someone help me to fix this? If you can help me it would be wonderful! I made this in photoshop cs6. thx jenten
I know that I should create outlines on all the text I'm using before printing to ensure that any unique typefaces get printed correctly, and I see that there are options to also expand gradient appearances. Should I be expanding these before printing? What advantages would this have if any?
I recently came across this beautiful artwork (image bellow) and there is a youtube video on how the artist made it. The beautiful thing was that the image is nothing specific, it looks like a heart but that was not intended. I tried paying more attention to my own doodles but I feel that there must be some guideline...
Creating a new file in Illustrator I should always press Command+R and Command+' to enable rulers and grid. Is there any way to show them automatically on opening or to save them ON in a workspace/template (I've tried but with no success). Illustrator version is CS6 Thanks.
I have been studying graphic design, illustration, color theory, etc, for the better part of 2 years now, including going on PDSTutsPlus, and it strikes me that higher level designers use multiple layers in Photoshop for example, of the same text layer, while beginners try to cram all their text effects on one layer an...
I am making a logo for a company that is an Ltd. - does the Ltd. need to appear in the Logo itself? The logo is a combination of text with a graphic worked in beneath it.
I want to give a workflow presentation, to my boss at my office, I don't wanna do old ppt style preso, I was thinking (since I'm out of making ppt) for a long time, are there any cloud services or web 2.0 technologies that I can use to put my idea across more effectively and fast. Earlier I worked in visio, but the sty...
I'm really impressed with the artwork in Braid so I'd like to learn how to do similar stuff in Photoshop. I have tried around with the brushes but haven't quite figured out how to get the same strokes. Which brushes are suitable and where can I find them? Here are some examples of the artwork: Braid Title Screen Braid...
I'm trying to use the selection tool to cut a logo from a image, without success. The darker parts in the bottom of the logo is a big problem because of the main background color. In addition, the selection tool fails on the border around "2015" also. Is there any way to improve this process? Now i'm just using standar...
Is it possible to export a PSD photoshop file to PDF keeping the layers like in here? I tried saving as PDF and checked 'layers', but it doesn't work.
So i am trying to edit an icon pack that has an index lock on it. I know to unlock it you go to image > mode > rgb color. However doing this drastically reduces the image quality. Apologies the icon above is white (on a white background)! The original is a .PNG and the saved edited version is a PNG. The original fi...
I'm trying to create a mask with a nondestructive gradient. So far I have managed to create my shape in a smart object and the masking gradient in another smart object. My mask looks like this: The image that I'm trying to mask looks like this: By setting my image over this gradient smart object, I was able to produc...
I have a left-aligned lettering made of two words that is displayed on two lines. The two words are quite different in length (4 vs 7) and I was wondering if you could point me to the best way to handle this situation: should I try to condense one or enlarge the other or is it ok if the two words are different? What is...
I have some images with a transparent background like this: So, when applying it somewhere it looks like that: And all i want to is add a frame around it to looks like that : So, how can i do that ?
I will try to explain my problem in few words. I have an image representing a person. Thanks to my code I manage to compute the background subtraction and have the resulting shape of the person in HSV color space. Unfortunately, I have some noise (as you can see in the image below) and I should properly choose the HSV ...
I applied a radial blur of size 10 to an image and have since realised it looks awful. Is there any way I can reverse the radial blur effect I applied in photoshop?
Photoshop, Illustrator and similar graphic design software are in general bad at kerning. Why does the computer find it so hard that we need to manually go through headlines and text just to get it right?
Ive got about 15 folders (groups) in a .psd file each folder has multiple layers, together each folder makes one retouched and editted image, im aware of the export layers to files script, but is there a way to export each folder as a file ?
I want Photoshop to render fonts like a browser. TypeKit is being used on the web site, but the default kerning/letter spacing is different between the two. Can I use exactly the font Typekit is generating or in some other way achieve parity between the two?
I want to create a simple repeating gradient for a Gradient Overlay effect in Photoshop. I had to manually create this: Is there an easier way to make a repeating pattern by designing a small one then extrapolating from it? If there is no way to design a gradient like this in the Gradient Editor, is there a way to s...
I made a custom shape using the 'custom shape' tool in photoshop. I want to convert this to a path so that I can delete certain points from the shape and make a new shape. How do I do that?
I have many computer-synthesized GIF pictures which have different backgrounds but the same sprite on foreground. I would like to extract this sprite using Adobe Photoshop CS3 without having to do a laborious task manually pixel-by-pixel. Could you suggest some techniques to do so?
Is it possible to cut a square in half without it forming triangles? I want a to dissect a square into "4 corners" and I find the line tool is inaccurate. Here is the effect I was trying to achieve: I wanted to cut a square out of another square to create corners like this, but the corners were closing paths and maki...
Working on a legacy .NET web application we have the following issue: graphical themes are made of hundred png files. When it comes to create a new theme (ie. same icons but new set of colors), we take each png file and change its HUE using paint.net. It a very long process with poor results (images are pixelated, tran...
I'm trying to convert a bunch of company logos to one single color (not just black and white). It's for a website I'm working on, for the "We support those products" type of thing. Here's what I'm starting with: What I did so far: Desaturate via Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate Convert to grayscale via Image -> M...
I have a rather interesting issue. I have columns in my web app that look similar to these guys: I've been able to slice them up and build these guys out...but now I have an added requirement of "recoloring" the columns (as these guys might need to be in a variety of colors). Rather than updating the assets each a...
Every time I design a new site, I use the same kind of nav bar. As thickish border at the top of the screen, single color, with menu links inside. I try to make it a little crisper by adding an inset box shadow at the bottom, but all my nav bars still look really dull! What kind of affects can I add to spice them up a...
In my opinion, raster graphics (GIF, PNG) is used much more that vector graphics on the web. I am wondering why? Wouldn't vector graphics be more suitable for web pages design (i.e. buttons design, custom borders etc.)? One answer which I have found, is that browsers support PNG and GIF more widely than, for example SV...
I have been given a logo from a client that they want me to 'extract' or 'cut' the text out of and use just the text with a transparent background to fit with the design ethos of their marketing. I'm using Photoshop CS6 and have tried using channels, magic wand and eraser but I can't get clean edges on the text. I'm p...
I have a reference image of the effect that I am trying to achieve using SVG. In Photoshop the effect can be achieved by using 100% opacity with the blending mode set to 'multiply' The colors have hex values of: red: #EA312F, blue: #3A5BA6 and overlapping area: #35111F I have tried a number of approaches using SVG fil...
I work at a fairly large not-for-profit arts/cultural organization that hosts diverse activities from children's art camps to family cultural events and contemporary art/performance. We use Trade Gothic as our in house font on almost all things and are looking to refresh the brand. Any suggestions on typefaces that wou...
I have this image of a heart: favorite.svg and this image of a back arrow: back.svg I would like to modify the line width of the back arrow to match the line width of the heart. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this in illustrator?
This is technically not a graphic design question, but it is technically not not a graphic design question either, so here I go. I have a set of MRI scans of my head. They are 5mm slices in x,y,z (or if you prefer med-speak: saggital, coronal, axial). (I also have some sets in 1.5mm slices, but they are incomplete. I....
I am submitting art to be offset printed on aerosol cans and plastic tubes. It uses 2 PMS colours. One plate is a 100% flood. The other one is a linear gradient from 0% to 100%. The gradient is to be overprinted on the 100% flood. The maximum density will be 200%. This is the way the boxes are printed, and it looks gre...
I have a number of small icons all of which fit into a 32x32 pixel png with transparent backgrounds. I wish to create a single large png which contains each of these icons in a 10x10 grid. I create a new image in PS which is 320x320px, and set a grid with 32px spacing, then turn on snap to grid. I then open one of my ...
I have been trying hard to get the same serif font that seems to be the standard my professors use to write lecture notes and research papers. Does anyone know what exactly it is? Ive tried Times New Roman but can't make it look similar to this, TNR is much thicker! Please help
I'm fairly new to InDesign for complex documents (in a past life I used it for magazine layout, but I'm now typesetting a 300 page book using it) and have probably made a rookie error. My main body text Master Page uses a Primary Text Frame which was linked across the spread. I pasted 90,000 words into it and it automa...
After I Arc a Path using the Warp tool to the desired Arc size radius etc. I then want to rotate the arc so that it is inverted. However when I flip or rotate it 180 degrees, the Arc returns to the original shape even thought the Original Rectangle path has rotated. Is there a way to do this so that the Arc stays locke...
I noticed that in the more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator the program liberally assumes that I want to convert my lines into text paths-- meaning that any time I am even in the vicinity of a line while using the text tool instead of letting me click on an open area and start typing it assumes that a closeby path ...
Is there are general rules to align right-aligned elements on the page? Look at these screenshots: At this screenshot the search icon and the link are aligned to the right border of the "box", while the table column header and the checkboxes are aligned with some padding from the "box". At this screenshot I had align...
I develop sites in different CMS, wordpress, magento etc. I wanted to know, if slicing is more easy than creating everything in child theme, as there are a lot of margins, and padding involved, and peope like to see a website in pixel perfect.So isn't slicing much more convenient than writing whole css/html? I prefer t...
I want to bend some text around a circle. I can just write the text on a path, but I want to keep the side that's not ON the path in a straight line. For example, look at these chalk letterings. The top of this one is a straight line, the bottom is curved: And on this one, the top is curved, and the bottom is straight...
I'm new to InDesign and am working on a catalogue for my company. I'd like each catalogue chapter to have a different colour scheme - e.g. chapter 1 uses blues, chapter 2 uses reds, etc. I've designed master pages, so is there a way to use those masters for my pages while changing the colour swatches used? That is to...
Can someone uncover the design process behind social network visualisations such as http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com – and how those interconnecting Béziers are generated?
I wonder if there is any shortcut on keyboard to prevent snapping slices while re-sizing. I am talking about slices and they are jumping not by pixel, but by distance to nearest slice edge. I've tried to disable pixel alignment on slice which had no effect at all. I'm using Illustrator CS6.
This is a group of elements in Illustrator. I need to make the whole object less bright. One option is to go through each element in the group and alter the color. Another way is to make a rectangle above it with a certain transparency, but then I lose the objects alpha, which is not desirable. I wonder if there is an ...
I would like to stroke a path with 45 degree diagonal lines that are set a fixed distance of of 0.125 inches to each other. I'd also like the diagonals not to distort on curves- in other words, I want the diagonals to remain straight line segments that are parallel to the tangent of a curve at a any point. I hope this...
How much should I consider about copyright? Taking a animal photo from zoo and upload to microstock: -> will this call copyright problem? Tracing the zoo photo convert to "vector art": -> copyright problem? Tracing the zoo photo for similarly drawing as "digital painting": -> copyright problem? Is there a book about ...
How can I merge a semicircle with two parallel lines? I want to have the leftmost point of the semicircle to bind with the leftmost line in the illustration below, and I'd like the rightmost point of the semicircle to be bound to the rightmost line simultaneously: I'm using Illustrator (16.0.3).
How can one save a 2D part--that is, as connected paths--in Illustrator so that it can be "read" by AutoCAD?
Which font is used in "The Outer Limits" (1995 TV series)? I mean this for the titles, actors and so on, as in included picture. As one can see from my profile, I know mainly TeX fonts, but this one is extremely beautiful for me.
is there a Pantone book that shows tint values eg. 20% or 40% of 021c? I have looked far and wide for a Pantone Tint Selector which I seem to recall was available many years ago but now I can't seem to find it. How do you get around this problem of tint values?
we have created an interactive PDF in InDesign CC for a client with rollovers on various charts, that display extra information when rolled over. Now obviously the rollovers are meaningless on touch based devices, but we have found that the chart underneath is also not being displayed. Here it is viewed in Adobe Acrob...
All values of RGB should be unique and distinguishable, meaning there are truly 256256256 colors. In HSL, however, if L=0 then H and S can be anything, but you still get the same color (black). Similarly, if S=0 then H doesn't matter, as you'll get some shade of pure grey. So it seems that the HSL model offers at ...
I manage IT for my company and generally try to stay out of our designer's way. We are an eCommerce company, and our designers spend a lot of time shooting, cropping, and cleaning images for display of products on our website, so heavy use of Photoshop. We also make product demo videos, so we rely on Premier as well as...
I want to create a ripple effect. I have an existing smart object with a black/transparent "ripple" effect. I want to turn this into a refraction effect so that you don't see the black/transparent effect, but you instead see the image below it refracted and bulging, like you would see in a water ripple.
How to fill radial array elements with gradient like this: No idea how to make it happen automatically, rather than element by element.
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC. How can I move a handle without pivoting it, so that I can change only the length of the handle, but not its angle? I only found one way to do something similar, which is to drag the path between two anchors – but this moves the corresponding handles on both the anchors. Is there a way t...
In 3ds max, I need to reset the model matrix without changing the position of all vertices. Does anyone know how to do this? EDIT: I didn't know that the model matrix was called a "pivot".
I am looking for the easiest and quickest option to apply blue and white (or green and white) to an image. Basically, I would like to have a shade of another color instead of gray scale in black and white effect.
I'm sure there's some tools available. Other than hand designing browser windows, other programs and export transparent wireframes? Has anyone made browser windows themselves with illustrator or Photoshop? If so, did you follow a strict workflow or abstract Windows from Balsamiq?
I am writing a game application and I was planning to use the Geometria typeface for small bits of text in all-caps (such as RESTART, NEXT LEVEL and so on). It looked just perfect but then I realized that I had misread the license and I am not allowed to do this without paying a license fee. Can someone suggest a free...
I'm using illustrator, and had many artboards set up. As I was creating more, I noticed that there is a bigger square in which all of the artboards reside. What is it? How do I make it bigger/smaller? Here is an image to illustrate.
I need to get the name of the font used in this image: The guy who did the logo just took an existing image of the "UTOPIA" writing and slanted it to fit the cubes, so he doesn't know which font it is. I'm pretty sure the guy who did the original writing told me the font name somewhere in the past but I can't contact ...
As I understand it, if I create a font and give you a copy, that doesn't give you the right to publish a billboard/flyer/book/etc using my font. There is an additional license required. Many fonts provide that license, but also many don't, including fonts included with popular software. How do you ensure you aren't vio...
I'm working with animation timeline in Photoshop CS6. I would like to have a small circle layer expand / increase in size, but on the Layer-Timeline panel, these are the only options available: Position Opacity Style Vector Mask Position Vector Mask Enable How can I make a layer increase in size during my animation?
Fireworks used to have System Anti-Alias in the options, why is it not there anymore? Does anyone have a solution for it? I found these interesting links but no solution The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing How Adobe ruined Fireworks CS4/CS5 And the only one with a partial solution (but not working fine for me) Sim...
I'm preparing a proposal for a Japanese company and have been asked to create a sign. I've been asked (by an American) to use a Japan-esque type of some sort on the signage. I would like to respect cultural sensitivity by making sure we're not going to offend. Any ideas?
I am a graphic designer hoping for some legal advice. A client of mine owns a small company that makes equipment repairs solely for a larger equipment manufacturer. My client’s company name also includes this manufacturer’s name in it. For example “Location (manufacturer) repairs”. Currently my client’s logo inclu...
Let's say I have 100 photos in a folder. On the first one, I would like to change the Hue to -180, and save it. On the second one, I would like to change the Hue to -170. On the third one, I would like to change the Hue to -160, and so on. Is there a way to batch process with a different value each time?
What is the font used for the phrase "For the game. For the world." in the picture below ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was wondering if anyone knows which font is used in the titles of the TV series "Masters of Sex". I have come across this sans serif font before, almost always in a 60's office setting. It looks like some sort of Futura spin-off (?) and I particularly like the lowered middle bar of the capital 'E'. Any help would be ...
I'm trying to recreate this: I know it could be easily done manually, but I'm wondering if anyone has come across a tutorial or knows how to create this automatically with actions in Photoshop? I want to be able to select a number of photos and be able to create something similar automatically. If anyone knows anywa...
I'm using adobe Photoshop CS6 my question : Sometimes my hand is just too fast that i accidentally press "escape" and i go back to the usual screen view, i want to stay in full screen mode without having too worry if i press escape too much. Any way to solve this?
What is the font used in this logo? I tried many places and could not find a match
I wanna know this font used by FIFA in some events. I have also posted at dafont.
I have a PDF (exported from CAD) that I am working with in Illustrator CS5. Lines in the PDF are made of triangles, and I would like to convert the lines to be a single stroked path. What is the best way to do that using Illustrator?
I want to construct a correct cube in three-point perspective (not eyeball it). Assuming I have a horizon line, the three vanishing points and one edge of the cube (line a), how do I know how long the other edges (lines b and c) must be?
I've been trying to lay out my type on a baseline grid. The head of my department always wants me to add more leading between my headings and body copy. I've attached two images to illustrate what I mean. I create the left column but am told to adjust it to look like the right column. Is proper to give more leading to ...
I am trying to achieve, for lack of a better term, a speckled shading in Photoshop. I'm not getting the right effect using noise (even with a gaussian blur) or setting the layer to dissolve. Here are a couple of good examples of what I'm referring to (they are not exactly the same, but they seem to employ a similar st...
After following many tutorials about pattern making using pattern maker and brush pattern in Illustrator and then offset in Photoshop, I couldn't make the below image into a usable seamless pattern :( It is the complexity of the "wave" shape that makes it difficult to achieve; most other tutorials and questions here in...
I have a simple cropped picture of a cornet (my gravatar, actually). However, it is many tiny scratches that it has accumulated over the years (it's 50+ years old). Anyway, because the photo was taken with a flash, they are showing up as tiny white specks all over. What is the best way to remove them and still maintain...
I'm a beginning freelancer and I have a client that wants character concepts (napkin sketches) then finished card art. He also wants a 3D figure of the character to create playable tokens. So he will need an STL file for 3D printing. My concern is with pricing. I am new at this and pricing is where I have no experien...
I saved my .psd file as .pdf to - well - see a pdf version of it. I think I might have unchecked the thing that keeps it editable and keeps the layers. Is this revertable? Can I get my psd file back? I kept working on the .psd file but it's nowhere to be found. Thanks in advance
I have a PNG file that looks fuzzy when I view it in any browser. However, opening the very same file in Photoshop, making no changes, it looks perfectly sharp. Why does this PNG look different when there is no difference in the file? Is there a setting in my browser that could be making the file look fuzzy, or a set...
Please help me identify the font with the unique capital A. Update: This font is also believed to have been used for the Stranger Things title sequence
I opened a .jpg file that only contains one channel, whenever I try to add another image to the file, the other image also turns gray. Why is this happening?
As an example, is there an easy way to crop away the o's in the Google logo using Gimp? The result should then be "Ggle" with a smaller image width than the original because the o's are missing.
I have removed the white background on a child's crayon drawing of a butterfly. I want to layer it over a coloured background on a poster but the edges of the butterfly are very ragged. How do I soften the edges of the butterfly so the line separating the background from the butterfly is clear and sharp? I want to ...
I'm pretty new to making graphics for a specific platform but not to graphic design in general. I have a logo I made using Illustrator and had scaled it accordingly by using the Save to Web feature of Illustrator and then added it to a canvas in Fireworks. In Fireworks the icon looks really crisp, even when I view it ...
I remember drawing this tea bag with the pen tool. I then made some coloured rectangles around it, played around with the shape builder tool (if I recall correctly) to get the coloured shapes to stick around the tea bag. Then I accidentally removed the tea bag, and now I would really like to know how to easily re-crea...
What are some places or areas where one could donate graphic design services for the greater good? I don't really mean local not for profit organization, but more on a regional, national, or global scale. Local non-profits are often a specialized thing for a specialized (not always "needy" group). I know I could hit my...
So let me explain the issue. Say I have layers A-Z I select layers A, B, F, R for example, make a change to those layers, but then I go back to doing other things so I deselect those layers. Is there anyway I could have saved that selection of layers, so that I could then comeback later and make more adjustments to the...

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.