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When I try to change the color after tracing a JPEG image in Illustrator and expanding it, it becomes gray. I have tried lots of color changes but the result is always the same. Why can't I change the color to anything other than gray, on an image I've traced in Adobe Illustrator? How can I change the traced image's color?
I am asking if someone know any tutorial or tools that help me design characters like this in the following image (see the men in the header?): and thank you so much.
I am working in Illustrator CC with a CMYK file that has lines stroked with black at an opacity of 10%. When I save this image to a .pdf, the strokes turn pure black instead of being transparent. Why is this happening?
I have a simple question that should be easy to fix but for the life of me can not figure it out. Is there a way to have Inkscape automatically open last used dialog boxes such as "Align and Distribute", "Fill and Stroke" and others? This seems like it should be a easy switch somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it.
I create colored pencil art and I'm very confused about the whole thing of resolution: A professional print provider is doing the photo shoot of my artwork, and I was just handed an image that is 72 dpi, but the picture is very large. I thought it should be 300 dpi so I could save it into the various sizes I need for mags or printing or submission for shows. What is the correct way to do this? When I shoot my art myself just for my own use I resize the images to 72 dpi and they then look quite small, the right size for posting on my blog but the 72 dpi image he sent me as mentioned was very large at 72 dpi. Some advice here please and thank you. I am new at this and the question was answered but I did not understand a word of it. Could someone please explain this process in layman's terms please?
I was playing a kerning game where the goal is to see if you can kern a word by eye and then compare your kerning with that of the designer. I was doing... ok. Until I got to: I kerned is as such: Not perfect, but not horrible. The 'correct' kerning was: A comparison; blue being the 'correct' kerning: I can see that I could have made the 'Xyl' tighter, but why is there so much space in the 'one'? It seems that there's a gap there. Even when typing "Xylophone" I see the gap from the kerning. What's the reason for this spacing? Why did the designer choose to create these kerning pairs?
When I convert from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop as you know colors change saturation and maybe some hue. So basically what the title asks, does it matter when I adjust the colors and saturation via hue/saturation layer? Or can I fix the colors in RGB or in CMYK and it doesn't matter?
I looks similar to impact but not quite. I've spent like 2 hours searching and I'm stumped.
I'm wondering if there is a tool or simple method that will allow me to turn a simple pencil/pen sketch into something like the two images below. I received these in a newsletter from a Kickstarter project and wondering how someone would go about making them.
so my manufacturer was nice enough to give me die-lines in illustrator, but i want to use them as cutmarks/die-lines in InDesign, mainly to keep learning InDesign. I imagine there's a pretty simple way to do this? Would love someone to point the way. Thank you!
What fonts support the widest range of characters? (Like Helvetica Neue LT W1G) Need to work on an a website present in 25+ countries, and I'm looking for something I can use as a webfont. Update: To make things even worse, it needs to have subpixel hinting so that it doesn't look like crap on Windows.
Most websites uses a scheme of bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and maybe even diamond to rank service plans they may provide. In my website design, I want to the users to have a dot next to the username (like badges on stackoverflow) that specify what plan the user is on (so gold for gold members). How can I represent silver, platinum and diamond, all which look 'grayish', in a small area that measures 6px by 6px (as it is on SO, but maybe a little bigger is OK too)? Bonus: Is there a better alternative to the metal + diamond scheme of ranking?
I am learning seamless pattern creation in Illustrator CS6. I've created some repeated pattern and divide it by rectangle using the Object-Path-Divide objects below menu. Unexpectedly, there is some dislocation of the cut shapes relatively to background which was used as a cutter - I've copied the background rectangle and put it above the all elements (without fill or stroke). Look at the picture. Is it my fault or it should be some bug within AI? UPD1 The machine is MacBookPro and coordinates of the rectangle are as 160.466 px - could it be related to alignment issue/grid?
OghmaOsiris asked how would one decide on what is the proper kerning, "Kerning: My Xylophone is off key" and since I have started the transition of designing in the browser I was curious to know how would someone adjust the kerning?
Making masking rectangle for the pattern in Illustrator I should insert the central coordinates of shapes in 4 angles of the pattern and I have coordinates numbers like 45.401px, however when I insert this number only 45.4 px is saved and in resultant Divide Objects Below command for pattern I get non perfect margins and thus the pattern does not match. How can I solve the issue? Align to pixel grid is switched off.... look at the pic upd I follow this tutorial, so don't be critical about logics etc. Also, pay attention to this sentence: when I take a number like 34.301 px and insert it as coordinate to Transform item and reopen Transform - I see that coordinate as 34.3 and not 34.301.
The reason I ask is because I (feel) as if I'm making the same sequences of clicks between two shapes and I get several different blends each time. Example attached below. Thanks for your time.
I need to convert all fonts in a PSD file (CS6) to outlines for printing preparation. Unfortunately, fonts aren't just in text objects; there are a lot of Smart Objects and some of them may have text in them. Is there anyway to find out if there are any font references in the entire file? One thing I have tried is to save the file as PDF, then open it in Acrobat, choose Properties, and see if there are any embedded fonts. I don't know if that's enough of a guarantee though.
A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out how to convert RGB files to CMYK mode. I was viewing hundreds of tutorials and I can remember that most of them taught me to change the color mode from the Convert to Profile options and now I'mm having trouble whenever I drag an image into the canvass I'm working with, this message pops up. Please tell me how to fix this cause it never showed before when I was working with Photoshop.
I used a couple of online services but couldn't manage to identify the font in the well known George Costanza Human Fund holiday card: I'd like to know the font used for the "To celebrate the holiday season, a charitable..." part.
How can one scale both a rectangle and a circle--both being selected--so that the circle is scaled appropriately according to what I want to specify the rectangle's width to be?
What is the name for the long dashes that sometimes replace the inner letters of a name in older printed texts, and what is their purpose? Image source: Wikimedia Commons
I'm pretty new to Photoshop. I would like to change the color of this object on my .png image: But anyway I try, it becomes this fuzzy with the new color: How can I change it's color to stay in it's original shape?
How to make a transparent 'png' image from black (not transparent) to nothing (absolutely transparent) in GIMP smoothly? As result, this image on the red image gives the image from black via dark red to red? This is an example (but not of good quality, I'd like to know how to make this image properly):
I have an image that I need to enlarge to 84" wide and 72" tall. How can I do this with as little to no pixelation? Is it possible to do this in Corel Photo-Paint X6?
What is the official name of this image ? It is often found on the side of a panel widget for dragging. Is it named "gripper"? A Google search doesn't return a lot of results for "gripper icon".
Is there a way in Sketch to expand a shape? For example, let's say I have an outline of something. I'd like to expand that outline to be a solid shape so I can apply boolean operations to it with other shapes. Is that possible?
I really enjoy editing vector graphics. Typically I use Inkscape for editing vectors because Illustrator seems to throw so many errors when reading the files. I understand that an SVG is basically specialized XML and that it is an open format for vectors. I am curious if anyone understand why Illustrator has so many problems using .svgs? Is it just that Illustrator doesn't do well parsing the XML or does Adobe not to support open formats?
What is the legal perspective of using specific fonts for your company logo? Which fonts CAN you use in your logo?
It's possible to vary in multiple channels, i.e. color, shape, angle, size, etc... AND there are multiple degrees of difference within each channel. So if you have more than a few items in a design, there are so many different possible combinations. For example, some items could only differ in size(in a particular difference in size), while some items can be different in color and shape(in particular difference of hue/sat/value and angles). While design books and courses give you vague principles and leave it up to a designer's intuition, I figured there must be some more systematized and detailed guidelines based on recent cognitive and neuroscience research.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 and for some reason the grid is not aligned 1 pixel by 1 pixel on my 20 pixel by 20 pixel image. I've tried everything and it still doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. here are my settings: Guides,grids and slices : views: p.s: I'm new to photoshop
We've got a load of images linked into an InDesign document which are linked like this: user/documents/project-name/images/batch2/image1.png The actual images are sub-filed like this images/batch1, images/batch2 etc. These batch files contain the actual image files usually a mixture of .jpg and .png There a several hundred batches - we use this file structure to make it easier to navigate when outside of InDesign (by the way they are not actually called "batch", they have numbers which are relevant internally to people working on the project). Im aware that if i update one image in a batch folder, the rest of the ones in the folder will update, but this won´t help the other batch folders. So is there a way the project-name in the path changes BUT the rest of the path stays the same? So that I can just update all linked images to use the new path without having to relink every image or every folder?
Fairly new to AI, certainly to scripting. I'm trying to recreate this poster: The problem I'm having is that I want to automate the creation of the large amount of circles. I want to record an action that I can apply to a shape (in this case a circle) to do the following: copy the shape paste it on the exact same place move the object 2 px up and 2 px left increase the size of the object with 4 px. I found the moving part, but increasing the size with a certain amount of px seems impossible. The action records the scaling as a percentage, resulting in increasingly bigger distances between the circles. Is there a way to record an action that that makes every copy move by the same amount of pixels? Thanks
I need to make a t-shirt with a one color design that is EASY as a .png. But the shirt company wants it as a vectored .eps file. I tried sending them an import of the .png but that wasn't good enough. All I need is a red square with transparent text and a logo: a one color stencil that includes text and the logo. But I am finding it near impossible to create with Inkscape. I can't seem to get the transparent text to cut out (erase?) from the red background square. If it's transparent, then all I see is a red square. If I make the text and logo black or white, it looks fine, but I need a ONE color design with the color of the t-shirt showing through the transparent parts. Can anyone help me with a simple tutorial for this? I'm quite versed in GIMP but haven't done a ton with Inkscape. I just need to make text and the logo and have it erase from the red background, rather than being a layer on top. Hope this makes sense. Thank you for any help!!! :-)
What is the font used in these diagrams? I tried searching, but can't find exact one. www.identifont.com gives me "Chalfont Light" as a result, but this is not the font used in diagrams.
Does anyone have any idea on what font this is? Seen at http://snowballsummit.webflow.com
Does anyone have any idea on what font this is? If there is more than 1 font, please identify that for me! Many Thanks, SparkzWeb
Please excuse my complete ignorance of the correct terms, but I have a set of 120mm blocks of content which I want to be cut out after printing. I can only print on A4 paper so I can cram two of each per A4 sheet. The elements don't have a border of their own but I was hoping to be able to apply crop marks like can be applied to the page as a whole (on each corner.) Is there a method to calculate and insert said marks on to my printed document without having to use an entire sheet of paper per item? I would even settle for the correct terminology to use in my searches. I'm using Scribus for the document creation and printing, I don't have access to any other package.
I am very new at photoshop and I am not sure if I have chosen the correct title for the question but I'll give you an example so hopefully that will do it. So basically I am trying to blend one image into another and I've used mask and everything to cut edges but it still doesn't look very authentic and I would like to know if there is a way to paint the image in colours similar to those of the background so that it blends easily. This is what I have for the moment: I would like for the image on top to be brownish like the old paper on the background instead of gray. Is that possible? Thanks in advance!
I am looking for icons to represent data types in a tree (e.g: string, number, date, array, object etc.). Are there any open source/commercial icon sets for this purpose? All my Google search keys return generic results.
I have been using Photoshop/Illustrator for about 6 years or so now. I never really learned from official resources, nor did I attend a course which would have taught me how to use the Creative Suite appropriately. But it bugs me more often than not, so I finally want to learn how to achieve the following: I am an Interface designer and sometimes in interfaces it happens that views repeat throughout the application (like the cells of a custom table for example). I would like to learn how to "link" layers either in the same document, or externally. I know it is possible because I have often seen it in other people's psd files, like product mockups where you can change the content's layer and as soon as you save it, it will update all interface elements that use this 'linked' layer. I would be grateful if somebody could shed some light on this topic.
I want to manipulate a photo so that the number of colours is reduced significantly (to say 15-50 colours which I would specify the number). I would like those colours to be automatically optimised for the photo in question. (As a bonus, it would be great if the result could be manipulated in interesting ways so that if the boundaries of the colours were traced onto paper, then filled in by good-old-fashioned paint, the result would look more natural, or interesting - anything other than pixellated basically. (For example, plain dithered pixels would be impossible to paint by hand) I would like free (open source) software to do this. I have searched for GIMP plugins but I have not found anything. I don't think GIMP implements custom/optimal quantization out of the box. In the past I remember seeing some android apps which did quantisation plus the bonus features, but I suspect they had resolution limitations among others - last but not least, it was only available on a phone, and PC (Windows) would definitely be preferable. Any ideas welcome!
I'm creating a physical portfolio for an interview. I've bought a portfolio binder/case. I was wondering on what kind of paper should I take the print outs of my work? For example, would it be fine if I used the regular paper? Like an A4 size or should I use a matte or glossed paper for my work? My work includes posters, brochures, business cards etc.
I would like for the content of a Web page to follow the color scheme of the user's system. For example, if they are using a GTK- or QT-based Web browser, the background of the Web site would match the color of the background color in GTK or QT applications. Is there a way to set the color scheme of the Web page to match the user's system color scheme?
I am a beginner in Inkscape. I want to create an image similar to Yury's diagram: This is what I tried so far: I created a circle, selected it and went to Edit > Clone > Create tiled clones. I searched under "symmetry" but didn't find a rotation of 22.5 degrees (which is the rotation required to create the above image) - only 60 degrees. I went to "Rotation" and set the "per row" rotation to 22.5 degrees, but only got a grid of 5-by-5 circles (probably each circle was rotated in place). What should I do now?
Please keep in mind that I have no idea what I’m doing with image editing. I have a watermark that I want to add to images, but it loses it’s transparency when I try to stick it on a picture. I’ve tried the watermark as RGB and as greyscale. I read through the GIMP discussion site and found an answers that gave three possible methods (here), but I still couldn’t get it to work. (I didn’t understand the “Channels dialog” part of the second and third methods, and for the first method, I couldn't get the floating selection anchored in the mask.) This can't be a hard thing to do — I feel like there’s something very basic that I’m just missing. Below are the images that I'm using. The image that I want to watermark: The watermark with transparent background: Same as above, with transparency pattern added for visibility: Result:
I don't like tshirts whose logos melt when you iron them, or crack if you put them in the dryer for too long. What do you call the printing process where the logo becomes part of the shirt itself, and is less susceptible to damage?
I want RGB colors to be displayed in the shape color panel, but instead the CMYK colors are displayed. Did not find any way to change it... but obviously there should be one. Or probably the colors are RGB and just the label are converted CMYKs? Could you clarify the issue? AI CS6
I'd like to find the font that was used on the cover of this edition of the book. Any ideas? I know other editions use other fonts.
For example, if I've got a path with a 3px border, I'd like it to snap to the edge of the border and not to the path its self? Here's a square which has the path snap to the guides instead of the square's border:
The goal Choose a good color combo for my alert message for a dark background. The scenario This is what I have now: Borders/font color: #e84e4f Alert background-color: #9c2b2e Body background color: #d2cece The problem I don't know... I just think that colors aren't good enough for the scenario. Of course, it depends of my context, but I think the reds are too heavy, painful and shocking for humans' eyes - don't you think the same? I need some other harmonious color to indicate validation errors that fits well the background. Suggestions?
I've been thinking of publishing graphic design instructional books and tutorials for non-designers. But I'm concerned that this could negatively impact my business. However, I really like paying it forward and enabling people do be self-sufficient. At the same time, I have to make a living.
I have no idea at all, first of all, of image internal composition and color modes. That said, I have a very strange problem. These are the pictures: Well, the ORIGINAL is more colorful in Firefox, but the second is like powered off (I dont know english word for that). It looks like the yellow-orange at the left center is changed. I needed to slow the size from 1mb to about 300k, so I opened the original with Fireworks and Photoshop (ps is the second link) with the same results. This is not a life matter, I am just curious why this happens. If you go to http://tracker.fusiondev.com.ar and look at wrapper div with Firebug u will be able to change the background URL to the original.jpg and see what I am talking about. Thanks! EDIT: If you open both URLs in Firefox u will see the change inmediatly.
Good Evening, I would like to have my text width stretching automatically to its Text frame in InDesign CS6. (I want the text adapting to the frame and not the frame adapting to the text) So the text will have the same width even if it is a bit stretched. Is it something we can do ?
I am new to Graphics design. I want to learn a graphics design software in order to develop a game. I chose Gimp as it was free and i followed few tutorials. Most tutorials accomplished the goal without explaining low level concepts such as different blend modes, color terms such as threshold, levels, etc. Where can I find detailed explanations about these? If possible provide free resources. Thanks.
When I put text over an image and then save as a jpeg using the File -> Save for Web defaults I always end up seeing noise in the text even though it's 100% opacity.. This a a screen shot of what I see in Photoshop: And this is a screen shot of the jpeg after saving. I think the noise I'm describing is most visible in the "A" and the left diagonal of the "Y". It's not on an edge/corner so I don't think it's an anti-aliasing issue. Is there anyway to prevent this?
I would like to include a similar picture in my bachelor's thesis. I am looking for tips on how to make this (or in general) diagram(s) more beautiful. Can you recommend programs for creating such diagrams? Preferably free and runs under Linux.
I'm looking to get some input from experienced designers, since my main job revolves around coding and not so much designing... What good tools are out there that one can use to mockup some os x style interfaces? Something more modern would be preferable, not a tool that was the bees knees back in 2006 or something. Also if it's a mac app, then even better. Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to reproduce this: I have sort of got it by redrawing with the pen but it isn't what I think I should be doing and it isn't as smooth. I think I can do better by trying to learn to bend these shapes properly. Can someone point in to the correct steps?
I'm creating a model of a road to use in Unity. The edges need to be able to tile so I can link multiple parts together. I made a UV map and edited it in Gimp. I used the seamless filter in gimp to make the top part of the road seamless, however I'm still getting a line on the very edge. Any ideas on how I can make a better texture for this? Unity Blender
I have a navigation menu with some buttons, that looks a bit like this (NOTE: Each button has a distinctive icon that differentiate it from the rest, I didn't add them to the mockup but they are similar to Wins8 icons): Some users have reported accidentally clicking Sign instead of Send, something that is just inadmissible. I'm now considering ways to differentiate the buttons more. One option is to move Sign to the right. The other, (probably adding to moving it) to change its color: Is position good enough differentiation? Or should I consider using color as well? Adding a new color to this navigation has some impact in the overall palette and look, so it has a price I'd have to pay.
I have a data which contains the number times users visits a page and the time of day the visit occurs. I would like to display this data visually but I don't know what is the best representation of the data. I am thinking perhaps a pie chart where each slice represents the amount of times a link is clicked. Another option is to display the data as a bar chart where each bar height is dependent on the number of times a link is clicked. Are there other options that I am not aware of, possibly including the time the link was clicked?
I'm using Inkscape to convert an svg to eps. But when I save the svg as eps and open the eps using Gsview, the image is not placed at the center of the page, and even some parts of it are out of view. How can I save to eps in a way that end up with the image placed at the center of the page?
I'm using the pencil tool with a 1 px brush. I'm trying to fill in some pixels, but in the pictures below there are certain pixels I cannot fill in. If I use the pencil tool on them, nothing happens. I thought the pencil tool was to get precision. Why can't I fill in the pixels in the picture below? Also, the pencil tool when it does work, most of the time never places in the pixel in the right spot. If my mouse is hovering over the pixel that I want to fill, and left-click to apply, the pixel below or diagonal to the cursor is filled in! What is up with that?
I was looking at 3D printers and I wanted to know the maximum achievable resolution in 3D printers that use the extrusion method (NOT the 3D laser printers). Some manufacturers claim a 20 Micron resolution, with a 0.4 mm extrusion nozzle. I wonder if there are commercially available printers that can do better than that. 1 micron or maybe something in the nano scale?
With the Variables window in Illustrator you can make something a bit like a data-merge document with lots of variants for different records (InDesign’s data merge is usually better, but I have to use Illustrator for this, for other features that are in Illustrator and not in InDesign). After setting these up, you get an Illustrator document with a drop-down menu in the Variables window that lets you switch between different many variants on a template. How do I turn this into lots of static files (or a static file with lots of artboards), similar to the Create merged document option in InDesign? Some handy links on Illustrator variables / dynamic documents: Adobe help page Video tutorial (someone asks my question in the comments, but there's no answer) Tutorial by Creative Mac Example. Say, you’ve done the following steps in Illustrator, creating a dynamic document with variants: Create a chart with the graph tool, put some data in it. Open Variables window, select the chart, click Make Graph Dynamic and create a new graph variable. Capture data set from the variables flyout menu. Save variable library as XML. Put data in the XML – e.g. for testing you could just open the XML in a plain text editor, find the chunk from <v:sampleDataSet to </v:sampleDataSet>, and copy and paste it a few times, varying the data values and dataSetName. Reload the new XML variable library from the variables flyout menu. You now have a drop-down menu that lets you switch the chart between each data set you created. Let’s say there were 1,000 variants. How would you turn this into a directory of 1,000 separate files (any format: PDF or AI are both fine) with filenames based on the data set name, without manually switching and doing Save as each time? I'd have thought there would be an option, like InDesign Data-Merge’s Create merged document, but I can’t find one anywhere. Failing that, I'm sure that Actions should be able to do this, but I can't figure out how. If not Actions, maybe a script can do it. Or if that’s not possible directly, is there a way to make one mega-file with an artboard for each data set (which can then be split into separate files)?
Me and my friend are kinda struggling a lot. We have a "overlay" PDF file containing a PNG bitmap image (no vectors). We use this PDF for automatic montages in PDFlib together with generic photos to create another print PDF. This PDF is printed afterwards. However, the source overlay PDF seems to have issues with transparency. On screen, everything looks ok, even the PDFlib output PDF looks alright, but after printing the document out, there are artefacts clearly visible on the transparent part of the overlay PDF. Other parts on the photo do not have any artifact issues, except these transparent ones. Is there a way to prevent these artifacts from appearing? Now, as I said, we put a PNG image into inDesign and export it to PDF (v1.6) afterwards. I will attach 2 images of, one is before the actual printing (no artifacts visible at all) and the other one is scanned picture of the printed document. Artifacts are clearly visible in that one. (Sorry for the crappy scanner quality that darkened the photo, but it will do. It looks exactly like the input, except the artifacts.)
I have a "rotation" issue with Illustrator. I've rotated some shape which has no horizontal component which I could align to guide, so I have no idea how to rotate the shape back to 0 degrees. In the case of multiple shapes (I've rotated letters) I have a problem to align them back. Any suggestions to solve the problem? AI CS6
I'm trying to change the pattern color from a very light gray to a dark blue. I've used the color blending mode, but the result is a washed out color. Is there anything I can do to have a dark color result? Here is a sample of what I'm trying to achieve Thanks.
To get straight to the point, this is causing trouble: The menu on top (work news about media) is a dropdown menu. The problem is that it has a white background, and the page is also white, and the text colors match too. This results in a weird, disconcerting and un-esthetic effect when the drop down rolls down over the page contents. The design is minimalist, uses only two colors and not many elements. This dropdown looks real good on a non-white background, such as on this page. So, we're pondering ways of separating it from the background. A border is an obvious solution, another pondered solution is reducing the opacity of the whole page when the dropdown is activated. Is there any other way? Edit: Removed the original link because the design is being updated. Will keep you updated...
So what I'm trying to do is make 23 circles in the same style as the image below, but in two concentric rings instead of one big one. The circles should be the same size and also arranged in a gradient. I know I could just "brute force it" and make them in the obvious way, but I'm trying to learn more about using Illustrator effectively and wanted a more Illustrator-y way of doing it that utilizes the tools and methods provided in the software. Specifically I'm interested in how you, the experienced Illustrator user, would do the job. You don't have to explain it in painful detail, just enough that someone (who knows how to Google) could reasonably reproduce it. Thanks! Note: This question previously was asking about Photoshop, but I learned from comments that Illustrator is more appropriate for the task.
I have a web application that shows a lot of information that is rather mundane. The information is related to data types that are hierarchical in nature, so there is some design around that in terms of listing nests of information under one another that are under each other in the hierarchy. I also have tons of lists of information that are stored in tables that allow users to manually search through them and sort them to find what they are looking for. I don't know how to display all this information. How can I present these groups that are nested under different data structures?
I have a small Problem that occurs from time to time. Sometimes, when I copy things or when I put an object from the symbol library on my page, the whole file gets messed up. The screenshot shows it. I make the graphic on the right, Illustrator the ones on the left. I have pixel snapping checked. Is there a way to tell Illustrator to align everything to pixels no matter what?
What is the font used in code editor in the Elysium movie? See here if the image link broke.
I want to align a textfield to the top left of a box, as per how the Grid Systems cover looks: The round letters in the headlines should overhang slightly. I am able to get quite close by using: Preferences > General > Use Preview Bounds and: Effect > [Illustrator Effects] Path > Outline Object The results of this are: However, it's not where I want it, I want to align the top-left anchor of the "I" to the red box, rather than the bounding box of all the characters (due to the round letters). How do I align a single letter within a live text path / object, so that the top left of the letter is anchored to the top left of the bounding box?
I'm looking for an icon that will clearly identify the "shopping cart" for an apparel store. A shopping bag? A Cart? Is there any other specific icon? If we go further, do you think it is better to display an icon? only text (bag / cart?) or both?
For school, I have to create a logo for a fictitious company I create. The company name I have been given is "Smash" or "Smash Games". It is supposed to be a gaming company similar to Activision or Electronic Arts. I had a couple ideas, but I cannot seem to properly incorporate them, and I'm not really "proud" of these designs either. I am fairly certain I want to include a fist somewhere in the logo, but this is not completely necessary. I need help brainstorming some clever ideas for my logo before I create it. I would really love your creative minds. I will post my (BAD (I cannot draw/sketch for my life)) sketches below.
I selected Crop tool and selected the area to crop but it is actually hiding the remaining area. After selecting i clicked delete radio button but that also not working as expected. I need to crop a part of the shape, my shape is a rounded rectangle..I need to get a rectangle whose two corners are rounded where other two will be square. So i thought of cropping from half rounded rectangle. Is there any other way to crop?
My work has been using CS3 for far to long so I finally got them to upgrade to the CC suite. This has been great but I only have one problem. I can't remember how to change the default PS layer to be transparent! I made this change to my mac at home about 2 years ago and just can't remember where the setting is stored at. This is how the default layer looks, This is how I want the default layer to be, Anyone know how to change this setting? Every time I Google it I get how to apply opacity which is far from what I was looking for.
How can I retouch photos of supernova veils to remove the smallest stars of the picture? The goal is to allow the viewer to focus on the central nebula remains pattern, without too many stars artifacts. Two examples are: My first idea was to use Adobe Photoshop for Blending Options > Blend if... and adjust levels, but if I raise the lower luminosity threshold to discard of less luminous pixels, I discard too the aura of the luminous items. I had no more chance with curves, but I have no real intuition or knowledge about how to efficiently use curves to achieve this result. This question isn't limited to a particular software, if a software is more efficient for this task than Adobe Photoshop, the answer seems interesting too. (*) Description: This Spitzer image transforms a dark cloud into a silky translucent veil, revealing the stellar winds from an otherwise hidden newborn star called HH46-IR. Spitzer's remarkable capacity to peer through cosmic dust allowed it to unveil this never-before-seen star.
the animation: http://vimeo.com/17535548 it's very much painted but it's 3dish...were all frames painted or some 3d software is capable of producing it... Animation does look very fluid. I am interested in learning to animate however not sure about which style to learn ... A still from the video from the creators' site:
How can I blend colors together with different blend modes in inkscape? I can't seem to find any options for controlling the method for blending colors. For example, how could I make something like this: In Inkscape using blend modes?
I have a graphic tablet and I need to create two brushes for calligraphy in Adobe illustrator. So I need to create the following brushes: A brush gives the same font of the a real pen such as Uni-ball rollerball Eye 0.7m. A brush gives the same font of copperplate nib (Brause EF66). Example
First, I don't know much about creating fonts. I work with a childrens book author and want to create a font from her handwriting. This means that I have to have more then one character per letter and use them at random. I've found ways of creating a font from your handwriting (googled) – but not that has this capability. Anyone with ideas?? Thanks!
How do you use the duplicate brush in Krita. I've got an X but can't seem to get further. The manual is not very comprehensive.
I have been creating my CV with Photoshop for several years now. I've heard and seen it myself, that this is not the right tool at all to design a résumé. I never used the other tools from the Adobe suite, but I'm thinking of InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks. From previous experience, I have identified these requirements, I need: to define a structure/skeleton from the beginning; to draw squares, rectangles, shadings just like on Photoshop; to easily use percentages to divide my document; to move one part of the document and to see the other one follow. For example, I move down the header, so all the rest below will move down as well; to manage text alignments easily; to use lists; to perfectly align blocks; to output a very light PDF file. Which software will best satisfy the needs I have listed above? Which software would you recommend to me for creating a curriculum vitae?
I know Google image search is not a free-for-all to grab any image needed. However, many, many, many clients don't grasp this concept and often request or send images they'd like to use in a design or product which are clearly a violation of copyrights. I recently had a client send an image to me which, frankly, seemed too well done and too specific for the client to be sending. My thought was, based on the clients business, it was doubtful they paid someone to create the illustration depicted in the image the sent. So, I did a little reverse Google image searching and found the original, which actually won an award for illustration a few years ago. I immediately knew the image was a violation of copyrights and threw it away. I expressed the violation to the client only to be met with "Do a Google image search for 'XXX XXX XXX' and you'll see everyone is using it. Please use the image." When designing a piece and a client requests the use of an image they "found", and it is clear it's a violation of copyrights, what should a designer do? I realize this is a legal question but... Can the designer include a clause in a contract to protect themselves from liability due to these requests? Is this effective? In some cases, clients are fully aware that they may be infringing. However, in their words... "The worse that can happen is we get a 'cease and desist' letter. We'll remove it then." My ethics cringe at this. How should this be approached?
I use pen tool to draw around of shapes in my sketch in illustrator , during drawing I do wrong and the path is closed , I want to continue from one point of this path but I don't know how do it by pen here is a picture of my probelm
I am interested in creating a presentation that is based on a shrunken view of a large system flow. Each area of the flow, in turn, I'd like to zoom in on, explain in detail, then zoom out back to the overall image (wash, rinse, repeat). So my question is bifurcated: I don't think Microsoft PPT or open-source analogs can do this well, but if they can, I'd sure love to know: what's the technique? Or, if I am right and they aren't the tool for this job, what other tools are out there that can do this?
The user is allowed to enter an address. After that he is (next to other information) shown the direct airline distance to that place. I just can't come up with an icon that fulfills following: this is not a routing distance this is the direct flying connection this has nothing to do with airplanes takes up very small space Any ideas would be appreciated. EDIT: I'm sorry if this came off wrong. I really expected there to already be an icon for this, but I can't find one. Also I don't want to have anybody do my work for me. I'm just stuck, because I can't come up with something clever for this disambiguation.
I'm looking for a way to convert a notepad (multiple pages of hand-written text) into a PDF or other e-book type file format (DjVu?) that would preserve existing typography as well as allow searching and selecting texts. One more difficulty with it is a fact that pages I have got some hand-painted graphs on them, which would also require preserving in output format (these can be pure graphics) I got scanner and some OCR to make an initial run through it if required, but if there's and all-in one solution that can take scanned pages and convert them to ebook - it'd be great. Looking for suggestions what I can use :)
This is my first topic, so go easy on me. :D I got a customer who wants me to design her job application. I want to design it with Adobe illustrator and set up the text with indesign. However the client does not own copies of these programs, which then leads me to the question: How should I export the final product for my client, so that it is easy to edit in the future. Either for Microsoft office, or maybe by some easy freeware program? Any ideas?
My question is extremely weird, so please don't down vote before read it all. I'm a programmer enthusiastic and a graphic/web designer. 6 months ago, I came across an extremely annoying huge wall in my job: I make simple corrections to mistakes that seem to be a waste of my work experience (even if inDesign applies that curved red line - that silly red line that also shows if is there a word that is needed there): I can simple make a book in 4hours with money formula: 3hours +/- to design it and 1 hour to read it all searching for language mistakes --> the problem is just 1 hour is not enough to read it all, I deeply fear that all of text that I've simple read has a tinny mistake, and let's do it again --> the time passes and I start to think in all of my other works that are delaying a lot. Should I be expected as a graphic designer to proof read an entire book? I dunno if this site can be used for a discussion purposes (truly sorry if not), but I need to know what is your experiences and what do you all do in this situation?
Is there a tool similar to the warp tool but only to move points without smoothing lines? The nearest example would be the soft vertex selection tool found in 3D programs. A shape is modified within the brush area without smoothing lines just repositioning the affected points thus straight lines remain being straight. Is there a tool or a plugin for this?
I tried to find the font via whatthefont and whatfontis tools, to no avail. Can anyone identify this font: The font is Linhof's Technika camera's logo, if that helps. Not even sure if it is a font or just a logotype. Thanks for any help!
The Problem: I am working on a project and I wanted to add super fine print (words and graphics). When I say small I am not referring to 7pt type at 300dpi business card small. I am referring to something you would see on security items or the small graphics/words that appear on currencies etc. The Question: The question is would a 1pt word on a 600ppi document translate if printed on a printer that could print at 600dpi. Does this scale even lower at higher resolutions.
Everyone knows that as people get older their vision deteriorates. At 20 years old, few have trouble seeing and reading 8 or 9pt type in print or 10-11px type on the web. However, the older an audience gets the larger type needs to be, and the more leading needs to be adjusted, for them to read comfortably. Knowing the target audience's average age helps to design pieces appropriately with this in mind. What are good type settings to use in print for an audience 20-40 years old? What about web type sizes? What are good type settings to use in print for an audience 40-60 years old? What about web type sizes? What about above 60 years old? Are serif/sans serif a factor with age or is readability more universal where this is concerned?
I'm looking to define a website layout that's fairly common on a lot of websites but can never get the right word. The design is composed of generally a header banner (like StackExchange/Facebook/Twitter), a full width image, then seperate sections in a long-scroll. It's almost like an info-graphic on the web. Here's a few examples: http://inky.com/ http://www.psd2html.com/
I'm having an issue with combining/merging 3 separately coloured shapes into one. My goal is to create one shape (The letter C) while keeping the separate colour segments. (None of the shapes overlap as you can see in the photo) I eventually want to use Illustrator CC's "Live Corner" function to round the edges of the entire outline of this multi-coloured shape. Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, Aaron
I'd like to know if what I do is the correct process for what I want to achieve. I created some paths to draw the strokes of an illustration (a helmet). As these strokes are paths, and they can't be merged together, so I decided to use the expand function of illustrator. This way, I could merge all the paths and have something clean. The only 'issue' is the fact when I use this function, it generates a lot of useless anchors points. I want to also mention that I used the 'width tool' on these paths, to give some thickness at some places before expanding. I mention this because I noticed it doesn't create as many extra anchors points when I expand without using the widthtool. I tryed to use as well the simplify tool but that doesn't give nice result. So finally, is there a good workflow to expand paths? Should I have managed this differently? Here is a picture to show you what I mean: The color of the helmet is given by a simple shape placed behind the stroke. Once again, as a 'noob' with illustrator I'm not sure I did it well.
I am looking for online resources (no books please) that provide general rules and guidelines for web graphic design. I am pretty good at scripting (as far as HTML, JavaScript, and PHP are concerned), but have a serious lack of design skills. I need to know what looks good, and why. It is important that I know why it looks good so I can use that knowledge in future projects. I understand a lot of design is up to the individual, but I would like to think there must be some general universal rules as far as graphical aesthetics go. Thanks

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