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I've reviewed all of the android design documentation, but I am still a little confused on how I should setup my Photoshop file if I am making an app for just the Kindle Fire. It's 1024x600 with 160 DPI. Should my new Photoshop fle mirror the resolution and DPI of the device?
I'm working on a web site and want to create a bounding-shadow effect around the whole site, like in the image below. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've tried inner-shadow but it doesn't quite do it, since the shadow in my example isn't consistent. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
I need some way of making text (more specifically, the chorus for a song for a graphic arts project) be fitted to the outline of a silhouette. The effect I wish to achieve is much like this piece of shape poetry: Does anyone have recommendations on software (preferably for the Mac OS), web app or website that can gene...
I have a layer in Photoshop that I'd like to use as a layer mask, is this at all possible? It's a black & white layer with some gradients that I would like to apply to another layer that's a solid color, but I can't figure out how to just edit a layer mask to copy and paste the image in. P.S. I have Adobe CS5
So I've been going through some iOS designs and love the features you see in bar gradients. More specifically the textures are to die for - but I'm still fairly new to mobile design stuff. I'm wondering if anybody can help out with a method for creating textures or the repeating string/lace pattern found in this exampl...
I am a beginner computer artist. I am just learning Photoshop and Illustrator, but I am planning to do a logo/web site design with both. I want to draw a logo for an application. I can draw a simple logo like this one: I want to add a 3d effect to a logo, so that the result looks similar to this (effect-wise): Pleas...
I'm more comfortable with resizing/cropping images in Paint.NET. My wife needs to submit a portrait for something and the requirements are a 3x5 300 DPI JPG or TIFF in CMYK. I can handle the size and resolution, but I have no clue how to save an image as CMYK. I'm clueless enough that I don't even know if "save image a...
I've got an image I'd like to use as the border on a DVD label, which I'm creating in InDesign. The effect would be like the "Type on a path", but with an image instead - preferrably repeated until it comes to the end of the path (or full circle, in this case). How can this be achieved? I tried doing a "Polar coordinat...
Lets say a game designer is going to create a new character for his game and now needs to draw the character using an art style that is a smooth (not pixel art) style. What would be the best way for the game designer to draw his character and get it into the game? Im asking this because I really have been wanting to cr...
Background information: I'm working on an Android game for which I need to pick colours. But, I want the answer to this to be general to ANY kind of graphic design. How do I choose between using a monochromatic, complementary, or triad colour scheme? I'm going to assume this is not for print, so that cost is not a fact...
I've got a simple image slider on this site I'm doing. You can click through images, but I wanted it to really pop so I added a graphic element over top of the images to give some depth, like a folder piece of paper laying not he screen. I've worked on this for a while, and (I'm no graphic designer, but) I think it's b...
I'm developing a Mac PDF application and I'm at the tedious step to study a proper fancy logo. Is it ok to use the well known Adobe symbol of PDF inside my logo? Do you know another symbol that is used to represent a PDF application? Should I stick with just the PDF word without any symbol avoiding any legal problem?
much obliged to any tips. There are a few fonts here, mostly looking for the "Joy" one.
So I have a JPEG with a white background and want to make it a transparent GIF without walk around job and without Photoshop also. So is there a way to create a transparent GIF image from usual JPEG with white font? I think I need to walk around the image contour copy as transparent and then save as GIF? But can I do i...
Except for manually removing redundant anchor points that gets added when unifying two or more objects, is there a quicker operation to wipe in-between anchor points? EDIT: To complement Lollero's answer below, here's the setting to automatically remove redundant points from Pathfinder operations (as embarrasingly si...
I'm a Web Designer and when I open some PSD files in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) I get these messages pop-up before to open PSD. My fellow designer use Photoshop on Mac OSX. Error 1 Some text layers contain fonts that are missing. These layers will need to have the missing fonts replaced before they can be used for...
There are plenty of online tutorials, that can teach one to use Photoshop or adobe Illustrator. I don't know how to draw, but want to develop that skill, threfore I am looking for a good video tutorial or a book that can teach me. An important aspect is that it has to teach me how to know what to draw, from the physic...
I'm using Photoshop and I'm trying to create a multi-colored background image similar to the one found at http://www.xtorrent.com (the full URL is http://d2aqrl5xrc2ptj.cloudfront.net/images/Main1.jpg). Does anyone know a good way of doing this? Thanks!
The Photoshop relative colormetric conversion seems to be inconsistent. I'm converting from Adobe RGB to sRGB. Settings are as follows: I open the same file twice and run the same conversion. The results are different. Not enough to be noticeable to the naked eye, but enough to have different pixel values. Summary: I ...
I love kinetic typography, and the latest video by David Guetta, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO9THtRWb2s uses it in an interesting way. Instead of just using text as a 2D element, they've made text a part of the environment. Could you guys please help me out with the various fonts w/ typefaces used in this here? ...
Framemaker will let you configure a paragraph style to run on after the finish of the paragraph. This is good for hanging paragraphs where the first line is really a subheading, Excuse the monospaced text, but something like: .Heading: Lorem ipsum dolor . blah blah blah blah . blah wibble blarg Heading is a...
I am pasting text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (as seen in the screenshot). I'm not sure how to turn off hyphenation for this paragraph, or is it bad practice to leave it on?
I've made my first logo in Fireworks) and it looks ok at full size but when scaled down it looks pretty bad. Is it common for designers to make separate versions for smaller sizes?
i have this image in photoshop below, and i am trying to figure out a way to get rid of all of the white parts of this image and replace with the same blue color that is there. I have tried: Hue / Saturation Replace Color Tool and neither seems to give me what I want. Is there anyway to do a replace of the white stre...
I can hobble my way around Illustrator, but I'm far from a pro, so please bear with me here. For most of my work in Illustrator, I use basic shapes. I draw a rectangle; move around the anchors; subtract a circle from the middle; etc. When I'm done, I've got a drawing made up of lots of individual shapes (objects) tha...
I have a pack of rectangular pictures (some landscape, some portrait) but I need them to be square. I know how to use imagemagick for resizing and converting. Some of the pictures are wider, some of them higher; but I really don't know how can I make my pictures square in bulk? Any help/ideas for my issue?
You know how Excel has the function "Autofit," where you select a whole row or a whole column and it resizes the entire thing to the height or depth of the largest content item? I want to do that in an InDesign table, but with one click. (I know I can drag the column out until the overflow box goes away, but I want to ...
In Illustrator CS 5.1, I would like to manually type in the points for handles on an anchor point, as I need to be more exact than moving them with my mouse. How can I do this?
As the title says: How can I create a custom brush that allows me to use "hardness" settings? As far as I've come searching the net, I haven't found any tutorial or how-to.
When cutting(deleting) a selection with a feather it completely deletes all that is inside the selection and creates the feather with gradually increasing opacity outside the selection line. On the other hand when the cut selection is pasted (e.g. to a different layer) it has the feather effect applied inside the selec...
We're working with Photoshop CS5 on Mac (OSX Lion) and would like to see the colors on the Mac exactly like they will look on the iPhone. Does anybody know what color profiles we should use and how to set them correctly? Or is there any other trick? I googled quite a lot and tried several suggestions but none of the se...
I was asked a website redesign with two requirements: Inspired by Google Plus (clean, minimal, a lot of "white" space) Switchable between a White version and a Black version Here's my problem: The white version looks great and modern, but, no matter what I do, the black version resembles a 10-15 years old cheap webs...
The function "perspective" looks like a 3*3-matrix with sine och cosines and is it translation, scaling, rotation, some combination or other? How does it work? Is "perspective" the real proper name since it seems more like a rotation combined with a scaling? Thanks for any pointer about the function "perspective" where...
I'm looking for an icon to convey results. There seems to be a lot of them online, but the vast majority of them fits the concept of financial results. I'm looking for one that will fit in with sports results.
I have a illustrator file with base shapes for a icon i'm creating and I want to go to photoshop now. The task is simple: Start a new photoshop document with all the Illustrator's shapes as vector masks in photoshop. How can I do that? Is there a simple way? There's a lot of shapes, and i don't want to drag and drop ea...
I need to show service availability for a service catalogue I am putting together. I want to do this as economically (in terms of real estate) as possible. For example, a service may be available: 5am-9am - Emergency Support 9am - 5pm - Core hours 5pm - 9pm - Emergency Support Was thinking of something like a timeline,...
I have a question that comes a bit unconventional and I apologize if it is a little off topic, We need to buy computers (laptops because we have many power outages in Mexico) for web designers and programmers. In all fairness, I wonder if the following configurations can work in good conditions: Web Designer Web desig...
I want to change the origin of a radial gradient in Inkscape (so that it's not in the centre of the shape, but off to one side). How do I do this?
There are 3 overlay effects available in Photoshop as layer styles: Color, Gradient and Pattern. The problem: these effects come in a strictly fixed order! Is it possible to make a translucent Gradient Overlay over a Color Overlay using only layer styles? Or a Multiply Pattern and Color Overlays?
I started reading The Elements of Typographic Style and found the term "letterfit". I'm unsure as to what it means. It doesn't appear in the glossary of terms of the book. Is it related to kerning?
In my .psd file I have many layers, and within those layers are many Smart Objects. These Smart Objects also have their own set of layers that I would like exported as well when I choose the Export layers to files script, but alas they do not. Anyone have any solutions for this problem? Thanks! Addendum for clarificati...
I've seen a few css frameworks add margin-bottom to heading elements in addition to a large line-height. Example from here. h1 { font-size: 46px; line-height: 50px; margin-bottom: 14px;} h2 { font-size: 35px; line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 10px; } h3 { font-size: 28px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 8px; } h4...
I am going to write some guides and I'd like to start to make some beautiful illustrations/pictures. This kind of pictures are often seen in product manuals I think. How can I make my own? Is there any software which can do this? Or online web tools... Thanks a lot! Here is the example picture.
I know the instructions exist. I have tried them repeatedly and they simply don't make sense. Can someone explain the steps a little better? (Reading down the list of comments, I'm not the only confused person. The last comment on the page was a second attempt at explaining the process, and I'm still not getting the cu...
Seems to have a kind of 70s look to it. Or at least that's what it reminds me of. I am talking about the bit in italics of course. Thanks very much.
Sylfaen as originally designed had a full set of International Phonetic Alphabet characters, and they appear in a paper on the designers' website. But the version that was free with Windows XP — the only one I've actually used — did not include those characters. Have they ever been released in any form?
there are many examples of text-shadow effects on the web but only for very large text or particular background/foreground colours. I've tried creating an engraved effect or a 3D effect (I really like this one) but I never got something that looked conclusive and I think it has to do with the size of the text because y...
Photoshop and Illustrator compared, both expose nearly the same possibilities to create icons except that Illustrator uses a vector based system. In which situations is which product more reasonable and when should I prefer Illustrator over Photoshop or vice versa?
I'm building some "8-bit" style sprites in Photoshop, and using the pen tool so that I can scale them for different resolutions. The problem is that they are coming out anti-aliased, which I don't want. Is there a way to turn off anti-aliasing with the Photoshop pen tool? Thanks
I like the idea behind http://contrastrebellion.com/, and plan to implement that on my websites. However, I'm a developer, not designer. I read a lot about the subject -where I must build the combination- but wonder where I can find great looking and proven combinations with dark & light backgrounds. I try looking at s...
I am trying to find out, but I am having a hard time. I would like to know what the font type used to create the logo at http://stripe.com is? Does anyone happen to know?
How do I set the fill of a rectangle to be 50% opacity, but keep the stroke at full opacity? The transparency panel controls both fill and stroke. I want to set them independently.
I'm trying to reproduce this customer's logo which they made years ago. I supposed to reproduce it in Photoshop but I can't get the effect right. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've recently exported an image from Microsoft Expression Design to a .psd format, but when I open the exported .psd & attempt to create a new font layer, any font I choose will be italicized but only slightly. I'm positive that my font style is not set to be italicized, and when I select Italic the font will become v...
I'm a new designer (sort of) and I'm wondering how you guys fix a design that just doesn't feel quite right. When you've been working on a design for a while, you can get the feeling that one of many things are wrong but you are too close to spot it. I'm sure it varies from design to design but is there a checklist of...
I'm not sure what setting or anything has caused this, but when I resize an image in Image > Image Size, the resized image gets semi-transparent 1px border! There seem no obvious settings to cause something like this. It does'nt seem to do it 100% of the time, I notice it more when I'm cutting up a design and paste ima...
In Photoshop the skew tool allows you to move each corner of the object being skewed independently. Is there an equivalent in Illustrator? Envelope distort seems overkill and harder to achieve the same result.
I've seen this on many websites as a background but I can't seem to find a name for it or I can't seem to create it myself. If someone has done this, it would help a lot if you can give me some details.
How is the copyright determined for images that are derived from math formulas? Examples: Equal-step gradient graph: color wheel graph of sin(1/z): Who own the rights to images like these?
I have this image: that I would like to make into a nice OS X icon. One that would go in the safaritoolbar or on an iphone. Problem is that they don't use PNG they only look at the shaded parts, so if I try to use that, the whole elephant is pitch black, I don't want that, I want a it to resemble this picture just in ...
You can see this is very faint image (below), only one pixel tall. The demo can be 100 px tall. How can I achieve this affect in Photoshop or Paint.net? I would like the main inner area to be 800px wide. Here is the Actual website where it is used in the background. Edit: Alan, this is what I get after you advice. Thi...
Is design mostly faux, unreal, partly based on illusion which combines different elements and combines into one beautiful piece, which is not scalable but give a nice look to the eye. Consider these images when answering the question. First Image. This second image which gives an illusion of if the edges are lift, I d...
I have this image that I edited to make into a background so that it repeats. It is a scan of a tablecloth. I have been trying to get it to be yellow in Photoshop for over an hour, but every time I try to change something related to color, it only changes the lighter parts of the image. Ideally, I would like the bla...
I was curious how could TechTalkz copyright images as follows (notice the © sign at the top left corner): More examples at: techtalkz From what I know, the copyright holder of these images should be Microsoft™ since they are images of a windows screen. So, does TechTalkz really own the copyright of these images?
The resolution of the iPhone 4/4s is 960x640 and the the iPhone 3gs is 480x320. How does one go about designing web pages for mobile devices with all sorts of different resolutions? Do the mobile browsers treat pixels differently?
Any ideas how to start making a customized city map (one example below). I'm fairly good in using Illustrator and Inkscape but I'm unsure what an optimal workflow would be.
I need to transform my PSD logo to Illustrator, so I will re-design it there. The purpose of it is that I will print it on business cards. On Photoshop using the Marquee Tool I create a white Elliptical and then holding Control I click on the text layer, select inverse and clear. What is this effect called, and how can...
I have an .ai document, this is my working document. ! want to export it to PDF (to be portable but still vector), the problem is the color are all messed up and seem washed out (in spite the fact I included the color profile): If I export it as PNG the colors are correct: . How can I do to have a PDF with the colors ...
I guess many webmasters create layouts in Photoshop before coding, my layouts are full of different elements, buttons, icons, headers etc. When I need to save a icon, I'm selecting it on layers list, right clicking, Duplicate, New, and here we are... The newly created tab with my icon has dimensions of the whole layout...
I have recently scattered through the portfolio of a designer named Nicolas Girard, and noticed this fascinating typography art: I looked through the entire web and in every Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials site I know and tried to find an explanation to something somewhat similar to this text effect but I could no...
I am working on a completely new blog from scratch. New logo, branding, house style, everything needs to be done. Now the logo that is designed for the website has 3 colors, brown, green and black. You can think of a tree with leaves. Now on the blog itself, I do not really want to use those colors, it makes the site l...
We keep having meetings about the design, the layout hasn't changed it's just nitpicking about colors and textures etc. and nobody has any actually constructive criticism. Nothings really changing, just shifting things around CONSTANTLY, how do you tell your client to shut up and let you do your job?
I mocked this up with copy and eraser using this banners library. What Illustrator tool, technique would I use to stitch the pieces of the banner together to create one smooth flowing sheen? In other words, I want to fill in the gaps and connect the pieces together smoothly.
I can't tell if I would need to start by creating a physical paper cutout or if I could do it completely in Photoshop. I am not sure how to approach this, so any suggestions of tutorials or Youtube videos would be a great help.
I'm making a Java-based program for Windows 7 and I want my application to have a nice logo in the taskbar of windows. I have made a nice logo (in my opinion) but it´s hard to tell what it´s supposed to be once I run the program. Feels like I´ve tried every possible resolution, nothing looks good. Is there a basic hin...
I'm looking for the font 1:30 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhgyp0KNQQ: The Adam Tensta text is in a font that I think is used in the old game Street Fighter, but I'm not sure, and I can't find it or something even close to download. Do I need to create it myself? Or is there a font out there like this...
I want to load a palette file (.pal) to images which i have opened. as images are huge i cant do it manually. can any one suggest me to do this.
This question is a bit complicated to sum up in the title. I know there are a few technologies when it comes to digitizing your drawings. Tablets like Intuos and Bamboo Smartpens like Livescribe Echo My gripe with graphics tablets is the hand eye coordination because I want to look where I am drawing. On the other ha...
I'm in the process of an identity design for an online magazine and I've come up with what I feel is appropriate logotype, and a heading/body copy pair that I also think work well. But when treating the logo as the top-level heading and looking at the overall hierarchy of the page, the logotype and headings don't pair ...
A ninepatch, for those unfamiliar, is described here. In a nutshell, you can take an image and put a few pixels on the outermost pixels to represent which areas should stretch and not stretch when they're used on UI widgets of varying sizes. That's great if the program you're working with knows how to understand a nine...
I'm looking either for a software or for a clipart library to create a top down plan view of a flat. But that should not be simply schematic, but actually look nice with shading and color and so on. Something like this: It could be actually even more detailed with nice textures and so on. Anyone can recommend a dedica...
i have a problem with using Google fonts - Coda, the font looks not rendered (without sharp) . I cant understand if its something connected to Windows or Browser type. Im using mac so it looks great. But some users see it really bad and unreadable. Is anybody can help me? Thanks Vika
I have a psd that consists of around 50 layers and would like to export each layer into pngs. I have tried the Export Layers as Files script in PS CS5, selecting the PNG format. I need all exported images to have the same dimensions. However, the script automaticallyremoves all the transparent background pixels that su...
Just installed the Adobe Illustrator CS5 (never used it before, only Photoshop) and wondering why any of tool menus does not bring out by right mouse click as it is in Photoshop. I've tried all ways I know like keyboard shortcut T, CTRL+T for the tool but popup menu does not brings out. I imagine that this could be cow...
I am wanting to create text that looks like the following image:
Sorry for the lame question, but I can't figure out what font is used in image below?
Does photoshop have a way to edit a style in the styles menu, and re-apply it across the whole document? InDesign handles this nicely, and saves a lot of time with indecisive clients. Basically I would like to be able to mockup a website, and define H1 , H2 etc.. styles, and then go back, change the attributes (such as...
I have a set of vector icons which I need to save as PNG images in 3 sizes (16,32,48). I'm confused as the best way to go about this to produce the best quality results. Either I can save each one individually at each size from within illustrator or I produce the largest size from illustrator (48x48) and then simply re...
I have to make bubble-like "holes" in a number of layers (just coloured rectangles). I have the bubble in a separate layer also. In Photoshop I'd do: select bubble with the magic wand select layer I need to make hole in move selection if needed and press 'delete' However in FW when I select a layer (2) it gets automa...
I usually draw buttons using shape (filled layer and shape clipping mask) and couple of layer effects. I'd like to apply Hue adjustment to it to customize button color. The problem is when I select "Create clipping mask" on adjustment layer (so it affects only single layer) it doesn't apply to layer effects (gradient o...
I want to fit the artboard to selected art (two text boxes) - the text boxes are larger than the text inside them - how do I fit (shrink) them to wrap tightly around my text? Illustrator version - CS5
I'm working on a tile-based game, and I'd like to have diagonal lines for (32x32) tiles. The problem is, whenever you tile them, they look like this: How do I make it seamlessly tile?
I have to design some certificates, something that kinda looks like this, only better I have no clue... were to start? Two script fonts on the same design seems a bit too much, but I am trying to make a visual difference between the title of the certificate and the rest of the copy... any suggestions? What looks good ...
Using Adobe Illustrator CS3 I usually create a simplest drop shadow by duplicating duplicating the object, moving to background, changing the background color and shifting by few pixels. This works fine in simplest cases, but the drawback is that I have two copies of this object which I have to maintain. How to create ...
Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?
I'm using Illustrator CS2 to create some graphics. In one of my graphics I'd like to use a "3D" arrow lying on the ground as shown in the following example: I want to draw arrows just like in the image shown. Best thing would be an effect "3D arrow" so I can scale it afterwards without adapting it... How can I do this...
Hi I would like to get an overview of existing UI desktop or online application, which may have a specialization towards user interaction modeling and mobile device interfaces. I guess there are some applications out there which suit that constraints, but I just do not find them. So please share your experience, which...
What are the tools used to create the instructions and arrows in such images? Which one is the font?
I've noticed than when I select more than one object, then click on one of the selected object a wide selection border is set on the clicked item. eg: What does it mean? What are the implications?
The title says it all. I have a document with embedded pictures at various resolutions (300dpi, 220dpi, ...) and I'd like to export them to their original size (in pixels). A simple copy-and-paste into photoshop doesn't work... what to do?

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