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I'm looking for a monospace font which has a lot of the unicode glyphs. In particular I'm interested in the speaker symbols, code points 1F507 to 1F50A.
I know that I can keep aspect ratio when scaling images by pressing the Ctrl key. But I really don't like this default. Is there a way to modify inkscape, to make scale and keeping aspect ratio the default? I created an issue: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1375
I received few PSDs from a designer who are using windows. The font is Open Sans, I already have it on my mac. I opened the PSDs, and clicked in the text layer: ..after that I edited the text, and the font changed, it seems smaller (it's still opensans, but different) I downloaded the font from fontsquirrel.com. Do you know guys how to fix the issue?
I'll preface by saying that I am not a graphic designer, so this question might be staggeringly obvious... I have several 100+ page PDFs that consist only of tables of text, and I am trying to change the font of all of the text in the entire document; however, this is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. I can only "Select All" of the text on a single page, which means that I would have to repeat this process for each page thousands of times to convert the entire document. I understand that Acrobat is not a word processor, but I have to imagine that there is a better way to do this. As far as I can find, the native "Actions" macros in Acrobat don't have this functionality, and Mac Automator struggles with the task. Suggestions? (To give some context, I'm ultimately trying to parse/serialize the data in these PDF tables into JSON for use in a Python program by converting from PDF->XLSX->CSV->JSON. The PDFs use a strange font, so when I use the Acrobat XI Pro "Export to Excel" feature, the text is read with awkward spacing ["Lo rem i ps um" rather than "Lorem impsum"], but when I change the font to simple Arial, it reads correctly. Other methods like simple copy/paste or the Python PDF Miner module also misread the spacing. I am working on OS X 10.9 and have access to Acrobat XI Pro and Adobe CS6, as well as basic programming familiarity, if you have any novel solutions that achieve this same goal.)
As a made up example, say I have a client who really wants a pastel blue paper but a color print on top of the paper. She knows there's going to be discoloration, but still wants me to go ahead and design something for her. What methods can I use either in the software I use (photoshop, indesign or illustrator), or when initially planning out the design can I implement where as I can get an accurate representation of how the final piece will look once printed? Another example: If the paper the customer chooses for printing is off white (or almost ivory) how could I adjust the current color scheme of a design to print more accurately than if I was printing on brilliant white paper?
To make things clear: This question is about drawing pixel by pixel of what will be the skin of a game character. I want to create a skin for the player character of a game (Starmade) but it already features shadowing. The problem then is that I can't draw shadows as I usually would. I need to add "deepness" to the drawing without relying too much on shadows (maybe pillow shading?) or even without shadows, I just need deepness, how can I achieve that? Here is a picture of the default skin for reference: Note: Shadows sometimes fill only a part of the affected side. What are my options?
I would like to know what font this is, or the name of a similar font.
On my screen in cinema 4D I see this - Which is the low poly effect I want. But when I render it in the picture viewer and exported result, looks like this - Is there a setting to turn the lines off? Thanks in advance.
I need some graphic design advice on finding a quotable piece of information regarding the use of "highlighting" text on signage, which I hope you can help me with. I'm in a dispute with my local council about a parking sign where they have put some vital information about the charging period which the have "highlighted" on a sign with a generally white background by using black text on a grey background. Common sense tells me that this low contrast combination of black text on a grey background is not a "highlighting" strategy, but rather obscures the text instead. Unfortunately my local council has no common sense, so I need to justify my "crackpot" theory with a reference to some respected source, such as a typographical text book or learned paper. Can anyone point me in the direction of such a reference I could quote in my defence? Many thanks in anticipation of your support. Folks, Thanks for your answers and apologies to those of you who think my question is more legal than graphic. I'm new to the site and have no intention of offending anyone or breaking the rules. I have posted a picture on iCloud of the sign: https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A3JtdOXmJK6Eto The picture was taken at night, so the obscuring effect of the grey background is even worse in my opinion. Would you think that the "evening charges apply" text is readily visible? I will go take a picture in daylight and try to get an accurate idea of the grey level, to use the "Arthur and Passini" contrast calculation kindly referenced by Yisela. Many thanks again for your input and help, it's very much appreciated by me. Paul
I’ve created a repeat square that uses rasterised vector illustrations, the reason being that placing all the illustrations without rasterising into a repeat square will make the file massive (1gb +) to the point of unworkable. When I started this project, I thought it’d be smart and more efficient if I were to vectorise these illustrations so I could easily change colours and assign PMS shades to it if need be, but what I’ve ended up creating are very large files (around 500-700mb each) that are slow to save and work with as the files use a lot of custom watercolour and bristle brushes that use transparency. SO, using raster images for the repeat square has been working fine for me until recently, when a digital fabric printer asked me to send them an unflattened file so they can make sure the colour matches a PMS swatch! I’m panicking and wishing I'd created these illustrations in PS. I wonder if, without rasterising, there is anything I can do to the bristle and watercolour brush strokes that will lighten the file size??? Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!
First of all, let say to you I'm pretty new to Maya, and I just started to texturing. My question is, everytime I move or resize an UV, every other adjacent UV in the plane get's distorted. So I'm asking if there is a way to turn this "feature" off As Johnatan asked here is the image http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/546/y1og.png This happens with every transform, like rotation and moving as well... Thank you for your time
So, I'm trying to create a repeat pattern of a Balloon illustration I've done in Adobe Illustrator. I've got the singular file (balloon.ai), which weighs in at around 700MB. Now I'm trying to create the repeat of this pattern on a separate Artboard which will repeat these balloons, 30 balloons per repeat square to be precise. What would be the best way to import these separate balloons into the repeat square once (as they're the same file) without affecting the weight of the file and performance of Illustrator? So, in essence, is there a way to import that balloon.ai file and only have it use up 700MB on the page rather than 30x700MB by the time I've placed 30 balloons? I can't rasterize the files as the printer needs the raw file. Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The question is very simple, and it surprises me I couldn't readily find the solution by googling: I want to reduce the depth of field of a photo in Photoshop. I expected to find something that allows to convert the sharpness of any given area to a smooth mask, so that I can then play with the curves of that mask... but nothing. I only found a "focus peaking" action that uses the high pass filter (very poorly) and tutorials on how to select the foreground image with the lasso -__-''' What I was hoping for is something that allows me to smoothly simulate a real f/2.8 when the picture was shot at f/5.6. Which means that a binary selection (in focus/out of focus) is no good; I need a smooth mask that allows me to multiply the already existing blur.
I was told that full bleed laser printers do not exist because the toner is too messy. Today, I stumbled upon this video (it's in Dutch, sorry) that claims to do full bleed high volume printing. I couldn't tell if it was a laser printer or not but usually these printers are (or am I wrong?) This model is a little too large for what we are doing (approximately 4000 color / 5000 black per month). On the smaller models I don't see this "full bleed" feature. Have I been fooled into believing the salesman about full bleed and laser printers? Or are they using oversize paper and cutting it in the finisher (or something else)? Also, this business printer market is quite opaque for an outsider like me, is there any transparent comparison source (website or mag) for this niche?
I have adobe photoshop 6.0 and am trying to design a logo for a website that I will be creating shortly. I drew out my logo and the only issue that I am having right now is that the edges of the shape look pixelated. What I start with was a basic shape that had a white background and I selected it all with the select tool and filled in a colour. I also cut the shape out from the white background, so now there is no background present, just the shape of the logo. But the edges are pixelated and not nice and smooth and clear. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? Thanks
Is it possible to take text that has been distorted using an envelope and copy and paste it into another file maintaining the shape? When I hit command+C command+V I am getting a grey fill in the shape of the envelope but no text. I am new to Illustrator and have been trying to figure this out (or find an answer online) for the past few hours. While I am at it, is it possible to edit said text once it has already been distorted?
I'm trying to create a repeat square out of six pretty heavy (100MB-700MB) Illustrator illustrations. When all six files are placed they weigh in at around 1GB. I need around 30 of these files placed on the page to complete my repeat square, but this is near-impossible for my computer (iMac 2011 16GB 2.7GHz i5) and Illustrator to handle without crashing. Is there anything I can do or turn off to help performance or rendering in Illustrator. I'm using Symbols to reference these files so there's only one instance of each file, but I'm still having issues. Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks in advance! P.S. I can't raster the files because the printer needs the .ai file.
I seem to know how to make a tile-able/repeat pattern in Photoshop easily enough, but I'm wondering if there are any great tools available specifically for pattern tile design. It would be a great feature to be able to see how the pattern tiles as I edit it.
I'm tinkering with a small booklet that contains an ancient Buddhist sutta text and modern commentary, interweaved in a form of reading monologue: some sutta text, some commentary, more sutta text, and so forth. For the sutta text I thought to use Caslon (link) but can't quite come up with a font for the modern commentary. Something light and sans-serif, perhaps, even italic? If not Caslon and a light sans-serif, then what other pairings would make sense? Somehow I'm not drawn to using normal/bold combination of the same font though. EDIT After I've accepted Andrew Leach's answer, I started poking around FontShop for a while. I quite like the proposal of using the same family in serif/sans, and for example Milo (link) seems to make for a legible reading type. The old sutta text set in Milo Serif Medium: and descriptive commentary in the lighter and more modern looking Milo Light Italic: In that case, should I use size variations of Milo Light Italic for headings? There won't be any more than chapter headings. What about table of content, and opening pages?
I'm busy on a WordPress site and have come to the stage to add the finishing touch, being the favicon. I'm primarily a developer so graphics and icons aren't my strongest point. What are the best practices when creating a favicon (in terms of sizes etc, I already have the design)? I'd like to accommodate for every possible device, be it mobile, tablets, retina displays etc. Also I don't want it ending up blurry so I need to know what pixel density to use and everything. If there are some Mac apps or online tools that will do this for you (and do it properly) that would be great as well. Otherwise I know how to find my way around Illustrator and Photoshop.
I'm really an amateur in graphics. However, I've already got the essences of raster and vector graphics. Now my question is how vector graphics are created and viewed. More specific, how do designers see the great advantages of "vector" over "raster" when they are creating their designs on a "raster" screen, and also how viewers get those advantages when viewing designs on a "raster" screen with "raster" file types and "raster" viewing programs. Is there a mechanism of vector designs to "be alive" in the "raster" cyber-world? Are vector drawing and viewing programs required for anyone who wants to step in the vector-world? Thanks in advance!
I have been given the photo below and I would like to know if there is a quick and dirty way to make the background more white. Because everything has a slightly yellow cast, using curves doesn't really work. Are there any other tricks I could try short of cutting the 5 items out, placing them on a white background and filling in the shadows manually?
Is it possible to make a square pattern gradient coloured background that resizes as a webpage grows downwards? A square pattern, dark color - light color - dark color etc and as it goes up it gets ligther (gradient vertically) and, the important thing here, how to make the pattern increase as needed, because I don't know much about photoshop but as far as I know I have to choose the dimensions of a project 900x500(«height) however, the height grows as I add stuff to the div container... (the gradient would also have to redo or something) Is this done in HTML/CSS or a photoshop setting? Or I have to make a big background and make it appear as user scrolls down?
How to Separate Every number into images from This Snake Ladder Using Photoshop Like in this photo, number 1 box image, number 2 box image... and so on upto 100
I want to make a basic square pattern background in Photoshop. However, I'm a real newbie at it. My plans are to make a 70x70 pixel square and divide it into 4 squares - each one with 35 pixels. Then paint 2 of one color, and 2 of the same but lighter color. How do I split it in half, vertically and horizontally? And when painting how to I block the other squares to not affect them?
I am new to Illustrator with little prior digital art experience. I am in art sign trade and am required to produce artwork (artboard) shapes, types, and lines to an exact area size (say, +/- 1/8 in. or 4 mm). For example, when I print specifying a 5" × 24" artboard, it prints out about 15% smaller on tiled pages using US-letter inkjet printer. How to create print output to nominally exact sizes? Your help would be the most welcome.
One of the most cited things I've found online is to create final advertisements in InDesign to send publishing companies because it will result in better text quality. Is this just for high end publications or when is this relevant? No publication I've ever worked for or submitted to needs the high end despite many asking. The "Media Kit" will say to submit with text files and whatnot but if I contact the actual graphic designer, the first thing they're going to do is flatten it to put into the publication. Is this just archaic language and thought? When is it actually important to create a final advertisement in InDesign? It seems very silly to me to create an ad in Photoshop / Illustrator and then rebuild it from the elements in InDesign for the final .PDF when I've yet to come across any print shop or publishing house that isn't going to flatten it anyways.
How do you change the default font used in GIMP 2.8 on Windows 7? The default font seems to be Sans Bold (which is used in a lot of applications that originated from Linux). I am not referring to the Text tool, but the font used by the UI. Any help?
I'm using a medium blue color for a large navbar at the top of a website home page. The logo and nav links are white/very light blue. I don't know if the navbar blue should be solid or have a gradient, and I don't know if it should have a drop shadow on the bottom (below the navbar is white color background). Are there any best practices for navbar effects?
I'm kinda new to Photoshop and in a tutorial for Pin-up photography is was told to enter 'Filters gallery', but it is unavailable and I don't really know why. I have a picture which I want to edit. Before that I made two layers by separating background from the rest of content and then I changed the layer with background to smart object and tried to access this Filter Gallery
What I mean by "stencilled" artwork is cartoonish glyphs for the background of a graphic, visible on this app page for Things or in the background of this graphic the Ember app page in the top banner. More than willing to pay, just haven't come across something like this.
I know that my question is could already be asked, but I can't find a clear answer. I'm new to Indesign (i'm coming from webdesign), and I have to create a catalog. Each page contains the photo of a product and the description. To generate my indesign file, i've used data merging, and it works ok, in a way. The only thing I'm not able to do, it's to have: on the left page: the photo on left side and text on the right side on the right page: the photo on the right side and text on left. It is possible without paying for plugin like easy catalog? Should I use XML ? What's the easiest way to do this? I've tried to check/uncheck the "facing page" option, before and after data merging, but the pages are always the same. Note : I'm using Indesign CS3, perhaps a more recent version has this possibility? Thanks, PS: sorry for my english...
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS5 on a Mac, and I need to make the SK in the circle-shape transparent. I should be able to see the background behind the logo - through the SK. I bet it's super simple, but I haven't been able to find anything on Google, since I didn't know what to search for. Thanks in advance!
I don't know what is this kind of paper call (1cm x 1cm grid) but I am trying to find this kind of paper in A4. (After searching google for 2 hours) What is the name for a graph / grid paper is where the lines are dashed? P.S. I'm trying to practice my graphic designing class if anyone know where I can download it would be great. :)
I'm just wondering if anyone has insight in to what governed Rand's typographic layouts. It seems like they were often instinctual and not based on any grid system. I'm thinking of things like the El Producto ads "I fell like the Champ with an..." and others I've posted below. What would you even call this off kilter typographic style? It always seems very unique to me but I always find my tendency is to line things up nicely. I've attached an image of what I had arrived at for one of the festivals I was designing for. There are other elements that frame the piece depending on the vehicle it's being used for but these are the basic elements. Feedback is welcomed.
I was wondering, if you could help me with something in Photoshop. I want to bend an image, as it will be used for a border on the site, however I cannot find any guides (Maybe because the keywords I use matches for different guides). I tried to use Warp tool but unfortunately this tool makes more a mess, maybe because I don't understand that tool. I also tried the Shear filter, but this doesn't give the result I was looking for. If you can help me or point out a guide that explains this, then please :) I have attached an image that explains how I want it. Thanks for the answers, however I ended up with remaking the texture myself, even if it costs some time, I ended up discarding the bended images as it did not fit onto the project as I hoped. Thanks again, I do keep these tutorials from you as they might come in handy later :)
How do I separate the dot from a lower case "i" so I can re-color just the dot? I want the straight part black and the dot red.
I am doing an Android app, actually re-disigning it, because the previous design was terrible. I'm not a designer, neither the guy who did the first version, we're both developers, but I do like the good designs in the apps I develop, the previous guy just didn't care. I am doing a flat design, but I don't know what to put on the background. It has to be yellow, and I don't completely like the shade so I'd like to do something to it. Before it was with this color: #ffc400 And now I put a little gradient from sides to center with : startColor: #fdce00 centerColor: #fff400 endColor: #fdce00 Is it right for a flat design? I think it could be better, but I don't like the previous plain color background. Any ideas?
I am trying to edit an image I found online of a character. It was cropped, meaning it had a completely transparent background. So only the character was visible. I'd post the image, but I don't think it's appropriate to post here. It's like this, though. Only the image of the clover is visible, it basically has no background. It's hard to see since the sites background is white, put if you are confused as to what I am talking about, go to another website with a non white backgrounds (such as imgur) and put the image there to see what I'm talking about. Anyway, whenever I paste the image from the internet to Photoshop, it ignores the transparency and gives it a black background with weird artifacting around the character. However, when I instead paste the image to Paint.net, the transparent background is preserved. So I decided I would just paste into Paint.net then into Photo shop, but that STILL doesn't work. When I paste an image with a transparent background to Photoshop from Paint.net, it's background is replaced with a white one. I can't even magic wand away to white or black, because it makes the image look weird after removing it. If someone can please help me with this, or at least tell me why this is happening, it would very appreciated.
For weeks, I have been trying to achieve how to make this. I know how to do the gradients and the fonts and everything else EXCEPT for the zigzag circle. I only use Photoshop to design as I am really not good with Illustrator. Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
I am currently working on our company's design guidelines (which is much needed). At the moment I am puzzling on how to use set-up the logo's spacing. Generally using the height of the first letter as our measurement is acceptable, which is normally a capital and also a sans-serif. Our logo, which is a by-product of the design-by-committee days, uses a serif type-face. So my question is: Should I include the serifs in the spacing measurement? Without serifs in spacing: With serifs in spacing:
I have the following registration form: Since response from server may not come for about 3 seconds, I need to let user know that the request is being processed. What visual element could I use to do that?
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6. I can get you pictures if you need but here goes. I had a logo that I cut in half by removing anchor points, leaving me with just the left side. Then I selected all the anchor points along what will be the new center line using the Direct Selection tool. Then I tried to align the anchor points in a perfect vertical line using the Horizontal Align Right option in the Align tab. Then, I selected the entire path. Went to the Appearance tab, clicked Layer and then applied a Distort & Transform > Transform using the X Reflect. Everything worked beautifully except I have this very fine white line down the center of the image now. How do I get rid of it?
I am interested in becoming a creative director, but I have learned that it is not a job you can simply get straight out of college. Is it possible to become an art director and make your way up to creative director over time? If so, this is the route I'd like to take.
I've created a new car guide magazine, similar to this example. However, I cannot get the image to fit exactly to the page size, in my case 222 x 291 mm ( width x height) and it ends up looking squashed and stretched when I did 'Fit content to frame'. I can get images to work in InDesign, using the Place command, no issues there, but getting it sized right is the issue. I have tried Photoshop, and am wondering, is this the solution, resize images in Photoshop before using Place command to insert image into InDesign document? This is my image I am using for the background: Image here. I have got the text on my page and front cover advert working well (PDF embedded in page), it's just getting the background to work which is the issue. I would appreciate any help on this.
I Am a beginner in Photoshop. I don't exactly know the name of the thing I have highlighted in the above image. How to make such contents on a background image? Do mention if it can be done using any other tools. Thanks in advance.
Is it possible to convert a PostScript file to SVG? Based on an answer in Tex.SE, I tried to use inkscape: inkscape test.ps --export-inkscape-svg=test.svg This indeed produced an SVG file, but changed the font and removed the spacing between letters. As a minimal working example, I created a PostScript file that includes text only (although my original files contains both text and graphics). The following image shows the PostScript file (top) and the resulting SVG file (bottom): What is the correct way to convert PS to SVG?
I am trying to make this texture inside the penguin shape like this Now i know i can use a clip mask like this But i want to make it so the texture doesn't fall out of the shape, so the object follows the small patterns it now does this is there anny way i can make this possible ? Really hope someone can explain this to me. The shapes are all vectors like
Any other designers have suggestions on how/where to find photography on luxury fashion designers? I'm looking for legitimate licensing. I know the main sites like Shutterstock, iStock, and Getty Images. Where do you go about finding more industry specific photographs though? A lot of the stock sites by nature focus on broad topics and subjects for mass appeal. Should I just try to find a professional fashion photographer that might be able to license me out some of his unpublished pieces - where would I even begin finding that?
I have an AI file that contains several linked files, all sorts of psd and image files. The problem is I don't have access to any of them, which is okay since I don't need the files to complete my job. So, Illustrator always shows this message upon opening the file, asking to ignore or replace the files. Trying to replace each file is a no go, since there are too many and the names are dubious. So my question is: Can I clean all the linked file references some way? The file size is also very big for what it contains, maybe cleaning these nonexistent linked file references will chop the file size as well.
I have created a logo with pen tool in Illustrator but between lines (where they intersect with each other) there is a gap where it gets the color of the background. Something like this: (Black color is the background color) - As you can see where the paths join each other there is a kinda dotted black line. I Grouped them but still the same. I converted to jpeg just to be sure it is not only shown like that but same effect. NOTE: I want to export that logo as SVG file type and use it in the WEB. I tried some solutions given like anti-aliasing in preferences or art optimize when saving for optimization. But still I have same problem. I want to get that logo in SVG and put it on the web where it will display clean without those strange gaps. How can i get rid of this?
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator, and currently I'm trying to cut a letter off by an object. In the following I am going to explain what I mean: I have drawn a rectangle. I have written some text. I positioned the text over the rectangle, so that parts of the text are inside of the rectangle, parts of it are outside. What I now want to achieve is to cut off every part of the text that is outside the rectangle. Please note that I do not want to subtract the text from the rectangle - the text (at least the part which is inside) shall still be there. How could I accomplish this task?
I'm trying to change the "3" to a gradient, but when I click the gradient icon it just goes black and the gradient settings to not take effect. I tried going to object > expand but that didn't do anything. Here are screenshots. Selecting the fill works. Selecting the gradient does not work.
I need to illustrate a pack that rolls down 3 time at the top and can only use black and white and no words. I'm using Adobe Illustrator because it has to be vector art. End result will be screen printed. Here is what I currently have. Just not really feeling I'm getting the point across. You can see a bigger version of this image here It's a bag that you fill up with water and roll down the top 3 times and clip to seal the water in. The clips have to be a specific color. Every thing else has to be black and white. Can anyone else think of a better way to illustrate this process? UPDATE I ended up taking the dotted line advice and tried to make the water fill process separate from the fold down instructions. Here are the final results: You can see a bigger version of this image here Thanks for all the help!
I really like this stained glass effect on this font and want to recreate it. Please let me know. Thanks!
A simple example would be a map of the United States. If I want to overlay the state name, capital city, and population in their proper location on the map...is there a way I can use data merge to fill this in automatically? My only guess is to do the data merge in separate document in a standard block layout (state, city, population), then place each of these frames in the corresponding locations on the map. But if I were ever to update the population, I would have to re-place each frame. What I would like to do is be able to tell indesign where to place each subsequent record on the same page, similar to text overflow. Or even better, have indesign place information from the data merge based on keywords I manually enter in the appropriate location- for example, when it sees the state name (manually entered); the capital city and population would then be automated based on that state name query. Any ideas?
So you can have a look at that picture, in that picture, the middle men's face is half bright and half of normal colour. How to do that effect using photoshop? Please anyone if you know please elaborate in a step by step manner. What is this effect named as?
We're rebuilding an online platform for online commerce and are thus contemplating hiding the product menu (represented as a tree, usually with a depth of three or so) and only making it appear on mouseover someplace that attracts the user's attention. Naturally, we could just have it say "Products" in plain text, but a graphical icon would be a better fit with our overall design (a looking glass for product search, a shopping cart for check-out, etc.) The icon should preferably be pretty self-explanatory even if it's rather small. Perhaps as small as 16x16. I'm not a GUI designer, but rather a dev working closely to the visual design team. And my thinking is we might want to go with what I can only describe as "a binary tree structure with right angles" (I'm not good with the graphicy stuff), while others have put forth more mundande objects, such as actual trees, or stars.
The French passport background (and maybe other country one's) is a map with a very subtle red-grey centered linear color gradient. It's also crossed by many wave-formed lines. I'm looking for tips in order to create a similar background with my city map. Above a detail of what I'm talking about, but it's not exactly that: passport are made for not being photocopied. Maybe you can have a look of yours.
I am trying to create a realistic shrub/bush. My goal is draw one similar to as shown in pic below: Here is what i have done. I am using pen tool to draw a basic bush with green colour and then dark green shapes for lower region to show shade and light green shapes to show sunlight. But not able to make it look as realistic as shown in pic.
I have a poster that I want to print in A0 size. For technical reasons, the output PDF file unfortunately is currently not in A0 size. How can I print this poster in A0? Should I first convert it to A0 somehow before sending it to the printer (which I don't know how) or I can just send the file to the printer and there just simply select the A0 option in the printing menu and the printer would take care of it? I have used LaTeX to make the poster. Thanks
So I am pretty much desperate by now. I am a web developer and -designer, but I don't use Illustrator. I just don't need it at all. The file that I got from the graphic designer contains two artboards with several icons spread all over these. I need to export every single icon as SVG. So I selected every object, clicked Object > Artboards > Fit to Selected Art and exported that. I was a little worried because the SVG Code I got from that was very bloated and had so many paths defined in it, that I couldn't add classes to it without having to fear that I am doing something wrong. When I opened the exported svg to look if I did something wrong, the whole icon, wrapped by the artboard borders was there, with all the other icons below a grey overlay (!!!). So all the other paths were actually in every single SVG file. I tried everything but it just doesn't work. I cant go in 50 files to delete all the code. Any solutions?
I sometimes find myself using Gimp the way I would use paper. For example, I want to use blue ink size 1.4, anthracite 2-px pencil and size 20 eraser, to recreate the look of a school notebook. I don't want to use three shades of blue when I have selected the ink, or to vary the size of the pencil. But switching between these three is tedious. I have to choose the tool, the foreground color and the size. It is still rather easy when switching between ink and pencil. But the size of the pencil setting stays selected when I turn to eraser. And in other circumstances, if I want a thin half-opaque red brush and a sated thick green brush, I have to change everything when going from the one to the other, than change back when I need the first one again. Is there a way to save a combination of these settings, so that tool, brush tip, size, color and opacity are preselected and I have a palette I can use to switch between them with a single click? (I don't mean the predefined brushes, they only switch "tips" for the same tool). While I have used Gimp enough to be quite certain that there is no such on-board functionality, maybe somebody knows a plugin which adds it?
I made a pretty simple checkerboard in inkscape. It is just many boxes that have an outline that is 1 px thick. They overlap by 1 pixels so all lines are one pixel thick and not two. I did this on a 256x256 canvas. Now I want to export this thing. In the exporting options I chose 256x256 for bitmap size so that it is just a one to one copy of the inkscape file. However, when I export it, only some lines are crisp and black and only one pixels thick. Others are two pixels thick and are dark-grey. I suppose this is some clever function of inkscape that makes things look nicer usually. But I don't want this, I really want my svg converted to a png one to one. How can I achieve this? Thank you for your answers, Tony
I've read a bunch of blog posts and stuff on web design, but don't have any formal education or experience/training. In experimenting with my first website, I've found that having 3 colors works best. At first I tried just black and white, but that didn't look good. Then I added a color (blue nav bar), and it still looked like it needed more. Then I added a second color, and that looked much better, even when it was just a small element like a button or something. Finally, adding a third also had a notable benefit. Beyond that, the marginal value of colors drops off considerably, and even might become negative. Is there a consensus about this? If so, what is it? Also, is there some sort of reason for this? (I know it's hard to articulate why some things are aesthetically pleasing, so I wouldn't think so, but I'd still like to here theories!)
I'm translating a document in Adobe InDesign. There is a sort of rule that make the word "Action" italic every time I type it in. Where can I modify that rule? I need to add a similar rule for the translation of "Action".
I'm aware that there is an international standard on how to display date-time, ISO 8601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601). But we all know that it's not that common. Maybe it is in engineering, but certainly not in design or everyday life. I've seen quite a few ways to display time and one of those uses ' to denote minutes and '' to denote seconds. (Like in John Cage's 4′33″) I may be wrong but it seems obvious that this is "inspired" by notation for angles. Therefor I'm wondering wether it's ok to use ° (degree) symbol to denote hours. What do you think? e.g. 1°35' (for one hour and thirty five minutes) Additional information: I plan to use it to denote short time spans, durations. e.g. "It will take about 2°15' to finish X."
Is it possible to produce pdf files with InDesign that have interactive images on them? For example, the initial appearance of the image is black/white but once the mouse touches it, it changes to a colour image. Is this possible?
I am trying to export artboards as PNGs from an AI file. I have a bunch of artboards created, but when I try to export the file and use the artboards, the export dialog only recognizes four artboards. I've googled and searched all around and I can't seem to find any record of anyone else having this same problem. See these examples: However, when I try to export I get a dialog allowing me the option to only export 4: If I try to change the range to something like "1-8", it still only saves artboards 1-4. This same thing is happening when I try to save as a pdf, or any other thing in AI that uses the artboards. It only returns 4. I've tried restarting AI, restarting my computer, but it still does the same thing. I have Illustrator CS6, not the Creative Cloud, I have the single license, one time fee version. Anyone ever run into this issue? It's driving me crazy. Thanks for your help!
I often have a situation where I get a foreground image with a background color like this: I want to display this without the white background, so I set the blend mode to Darken: But now I want to color all the black pixels blue, and I can't figure out how to do this. If I set a Color Overlay style, it overlays the entire rectangle with blue. (I've tried just masking out the white, but it's very hard to get a clean mask because of the aliasing at the boundary between light and dark.) So, is there a way to work with just the pixels that are visible given the layer blend mode?
I have a logo which has a symbol and some text. The stroke on the text is about 15px, so nice and fat. When I use it as an SVG image in a page, it works fine, except that when I increase the size, the letters in the text start to bleed in to each other. I changed the text objects to paths, and grouped the whole thing, and now it works fine at all sizes in the web page, except that the font seems to be damaged. Here's an example: The font is Ubuntu. Notice that the letters T, A and E have corners cut out. What am I doing wrong?
I would like to create a (preferably conformal, but not necessary) curved grid like this: {Dead, unrecoverable image was here (not in Wayback Machine, and original image domain is now a parked malware site)} trying to match the outline of a curve I have: Kind of like the lines on an athletics track, but a grid. How can I do this? Any program is fine.
I work on a platform where users post requests and other users are connected with them, so they come and solve the first users' problems. Pretty much like a freelancing website. I need an appropriate icon for making a request - like.. a clock would be for fastness. My question is what characteristics would fit the case. Any advice, please?
Please, can any one Identify this font?
Is there any way to create real font set from the vector shapes created in Illustrator CS6? I have a set of the vector shapes - 26 letters of English alphabet, I can copy every letter to make title etc, but I wanted to create a real font to type on keyboard as usual.
Ever since I found designs that has this warped shadow effect I couldn't stop trying it out and see if I could do it. I've already done my research and I can't seem to get it perfectly. I'm trying to achieve this: I'm trying to achieve that shadow effect below the large image. It's on the green background. But so far this is what I came up with: I don't think it's the same as the first image. Well, it's not really the same cause the shadow on the first picture is on a green background but I'm saying, it's really not perfect like the first one. Please tell me how to make this perfectly. I know there are a lot of ways to achieve this but I am really running out of ideas. I already tried every method I know of. I already checked the said "duplicate". It's quite not the same as what I'm trying to achieve. I wanna achieve the first image's shadow PERFECTLY not similarly. I've already gotten it similarly now I wanna achieve it perfectly. Here's more of what I came up with: Okay, so this question is about modifying curved shadows to simulate a bulge that lifts high enough for some light scatter to soften the middle of the shadow. - user568458 ^ that is exactly the problem. Thank you for pointing it out for me user568458 An update: It's still not perfect but this is what I came up with trying what user568458's suggestion.
Is there anyway to make it softer? Everything else in the shot is crisp, but you can see the pixels of the inner glow pretty easily.
I'm a design newbie trying to make a logo for a video game I wrote. The game is centred around robots, so I wanted to make the logo a circuit board. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend either software, or a library of images, which can aid in making this? Something that would have a good selection of plugs, chips, jacks, wires/lines, etc. I'm sure it's possible to design something like this using vector art in Inkscape, but I was hoping that there was an easier way to get something quasi-realistic looking. EDIT: Some more details. I'm looking for something more like this as opposed to a curcuit diagram. i.e. I want the green plastic board with the lines of circuits running through, with places to plug in stuff and the black chips with legs for integrated circuits. I've tried using Fritzing, which exported to SVG, but was more for generating schematics rather than nice-looking images. The images it does use are CC licensed with an attribution requirement I'd like to avoid in my main logo (though if I'm desparate I might use them). I've searched wikimedia commons, but haven't found much. I am definitely extremely new and inexperienced and ignorant, so advice for where to start would be nice.
I'm trying to speed up my workflow by making vector points move in the opposite direction simultaneously when I have two highlighted. For instance, below I highlight the top and bottom of the arrow so they will move at the same time, except I want the bottom point to come up when I'm moving the top point down. Right now, they just move up together or down together. So if point 1 is at Y:20 and point 2 is at Y:10, I want them both to go to Y:15 if I move point 1 down 5 pixels. What it currently does What I want it to do
I'm running into an issue trying to join two different size lines together. I am trying to join them together but when I join them it changes the Stroke Weight of one of the lines instead of just joining them while maintaining their original Stroke Weights. How do I join two different size lines without it changing the stroke weight?
Aligning vertical centers: Aligning horizontal centers: How to align the boxes so that the space between them would be equal?
I had a look at Adobe Fireworks used in combination with "Dreamweaver" to upload a .html prototype on an internal server. It seemed to work pretty well. Plus is well integrated with the Adobe suite that allows to create new images quickly using Photoshop and Illustrator. There are tons of other rapid prototyping software but the use of the Adobe suite seems predominant in AAA companies. Which other advantages and features does it have that other (e.g. http://uxpin.com/) software don't have? Is there any other tool that has more features or advantages compared to the Adobe suite?
I'm using Illustrator CS5 on OSX. I run into this strange behavior and I can't figure out why it happens (and stop it from happening). This is what I do: Draw a rectangle Effect > Warp > Arc Set to -6 OK Effect > Stylize > Round corners Set to 6px OK Then, I take the corner (shift pressed) and resize the shape, making it smaller. Then at a certain point the shapes deforms.
I'm a beginner in 3DS Max and I want to start/improve my modelling skill!!! Any ideas for some objects that are both easy and use many modifier and technics? Thanks and have a good day!
Given a background color, what is the best way to determine if I should use black or white for the foreground color? For example, could I use a formula based on the HSB values of the color? It's for an app in which the background color is dynamic.
I've tried this applescript code for Illustrator CS6: tell application "Adobe Illustrator" make document with properties {name:"anyName"} end tell but couldn't affect the name of newly created doc. I do can create layers with any name I want, but the document itself not. Is it 100% impossible?
I am looking for a way to reproduce this gradient using css: Is it possible? I don't know how the png gradient has been done.
I’m looking for a way to reproduce a similar effect in Photoshop. Is there a filter that can produce this?
Just starting out in Illustrator and I want to make a shape such as this: The way I have done it is like this: Make a rectangle Move 2 corner anchor points Add anchor points on either side Move the recently added anchor points inward/outward Remove path (because I don't want some points curved) and Effect-> Stylise-> Rounded Now, when I go to remove the top anchor as a path, it removes the whole side. Is there a better way of doing this?
How was this animation created? Can someone give an example how to create animation like this one? Is it possible to achieve animation like this one using canvas and logo in .svg format? Is this some kind of masking effect on canvas or what...? Preview logo animation visiting apple official website.
I'm building a t-shirt website and I want to be all legal and stuff. I want to offer the customers interesting designs, like the ones from threadless.com or zazzle.com. So the question would be... where and how do I buy designs that I can later sell on my website? I know there are interesting sites like designcrowd where you can get nice designs for your ideas, but what I really want is existing designs that I can sell on my website.
To avoid printing single letters at varying sizes and measuring how far away I can see it from a distance is there a formula for determining what size font for a particular read distance? Is it better to take the midpoint between the ascender line and x-height or to go purely off of the x-height (since going purely off the ascender line could leave lowercase letters difficult to read)? How does vertical height play into this? Would I need to then figure the hypotenuse distance instead of a straight distance? For example if I'm shooting for a 20' read distance but the sign is to be placed about 30' up should I use a distance of 35' instead of 20'? I'm shooting for a 20' read distance for the headline and then possibly a 10' read distance for additional content depending on how it all fits on the active area.
I have a document that was saved as a InDesign 7.2. Now I have version 6.0, and I was wondering if there is any way to open it or convert it online to a 7.2 document and/or PDF.
Hi I am new to illustrator and created an image that uses "Skia-Regular" font. But when I save that image in .svg format, it changes the font type. And when I open the .svg format file in browser the font is completely different. Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong. I have opened the .svg file in notepad++ as well and it says font-family="'Skia-Regular' as well bu still the font is not Skia Regular.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Image is also attached for reference
I have the image below with the red lightning effect a single layer. What I'd like to do is make the red transparent, but maintain pixel brightness, so that I can then overlay it on a red canvas, or blue canvas, etc etc. How can I keep the pixel brightness in this way? Currently, with it all transparent, it looks like this: http://renx.st0rm.net/test.php?color=FF0000
I have a document with images. I need the best quality/size ratio. Now I use the "save for web" feature from photoshop because it allows exactly that. When I place my images in indesign it looks great, and I sure know my images are small, but when I export I can't seem to choose "retain existing compression", so it wants to recode my already lossy png/jpg's to jpg again which really isn't helpful. Any solutions?
When I change a shape's border radius after editing the vector points, it snaps back to the original shape. Any ideas?
I have a photoshop file with many layers. I would like to put one layer on top where I can draw transparency, so that full white (or black) is rendered as 100% alpha, so it subtracts all the layers underneath. Is there a combination of blending modes, opacity settings, mask settings that can achieve this result?
Everytime I need to use font awesome in photoshop, I'll always copy an icon from website and paste in photoshop. I can print it into pdf and copy into illustrator as vector but I want them as photoshop custom shape set. I've copied whole text into photoshop but then I need to split layers to each icon in each layer and this will take a long time. How can I convert them all into .csh file?
I'm putting together a brochure for a job spec, and want to put a table with "Desirable" or "Essential" attributes on it. Not sure what to go with for the icons for Essential / Desirable though. It's for a teaching post so needs to be relatively sober/sensible, but want to go with something more interesting than just Es and Ds.

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