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I want to know what to call this type of picture: Is there a specific name, so that I could search these kind of images (that is images with a white human). Any help would be appreciated.
I'm going nuts here. I'll try to be straight to the point. I'm using Photoshop CC and have this dark background image for a poster with some text info. Sentences in white, three infos in purple, which I already chose from the web color palete. The thing is, I need to use this poster for the web, I've saved it, tried and checked and rechecked it all, and everytime the purple text is all blurry and pixelated when uploading on Facebook. The white text is ok. I didn't want to put all text in white and have it solved by that, it seems to me it will look too boring for this design. So, I'm looking forward to any tips or possible solutions I might not have tried to get this text unblurred and unpixelated! Here it goes: the file mode is set s-rgb, 72dpi, all like it should be I'm saving it as png-8 through the save for web option, have tried png-24, gif, with and without transparency, 256 colors, 128 colors, checked and unchecked include color profile, selective, perceptive... As Facebook compresses in jpg, I've saved the file as png and then as jpg to see if there was some sort of magic to happen, it just got worse of course. I've tried all anti-aliasing options and none I've tried small (120k), medium(700k) and large(2m) file sizes, they all have the blurry pixelated outcome on the purple text when uploaded to Facebook. Resized the images through the save for web dialog and the resize from the image menu When I try a lighter hue of purple, the blurry gets better, still don't find it good enough and didn't want light colors for this. I've tried many purpleish and magentaish for the record I've tried different font types, no change I've even put white rectangles to background the purple text to see if it would work better, and the answer is no, it doesn't Tracking, fractional widths on, off, all tried out Some examples of the text on fb: So, what am I missing? What else can I try? Is it just an irreparable FB issue? I'm not an Illustrator or any other graphic/image editing software user, but if there is any that could help me with that... I'm becoming a fan.
Using Photoshop I have converted a photograph into a sketch/line drawing, I achieved this in photoshop by: Making image greyscale Duplicating image then inverting it Applying a color(colour) dodge Applying a gaussian blur (level 8) Here is the effect, as you can see there are undesired effects on the cats face, where the fur is dark, I've discovered that because the area is not all pure black, and different variations of black. How can I fix the image before applying the effects to prevent such artefacts from accruing? original: New:
I created smiley for happy, sad and neutral event. Any suggestion for sarcasm? Here is the image for above three expression: Can someone suggest an icon for sarcasm?
I have a blog where I've been posting recipes and pictures for the last 6 months or so. I'd like to turn these into a cookbook. I was thinking about sticking everything in a .doc and printing it at home (it's only for a friend). Is there an easy way to do this. In a perfect world there'd be a magic app which had a choice of layouts and dedicated space on each page for the recipe name, cooking time, serving size and directions etc. I realise though that I might need to edit some parts in Photoshop. It would be a huge help if there were somewhere to get background images for the pages (I quite like quirky hand-drawn coloured backgrounds.
Say there are hundreds of unnamed layers in an Illustrator artboard. How do you just click one of those objects and reveal what layer it is on? And change to that layer?
I see that others have more options for the Layers Panel, such as the ability to change color. My layers panel Options for Selected contains only: Lock. Hide. How do I restore the correct functionality?
Please forgive the open-ended title. My actual question, I think, is a bit more specific and suited for this site but it is rather difficult to articulate my need in one simple sentence. Quick background-- I've recently had a minor shift in my career. I need to manage a website for a non-profit and since it will be rather graphical, I need to start learning how to extensively use image editing software. On a beginner-level, I've used PhotoShop in the past because that was what was available to me. I can use it but I'll be honest... I've always hated PhotoShop and reached for alternative editors when given the opportunity to use something else. To me, it's just not as intuitive as many other tools that I've used and, let's face it, it's expensive compared to many of the alternatives. My specific question is, is PhotoShop such a massive, de-facto industry standard that should I not realistically consider using another tool if I ever want to find competent volunteers (or future employees) that will need to manage our image assets? I know that their are a ton of PhotoShop alternative but, other than GIMP, most people have never heard of any of them. If I prefer to steer clear of PhotoShop for our needs, is this going to cause a problem in the future regarding finding competent workers that could take over my work, or are the other top-used image editing tools in enough use that I should be able to find competent workers that are familiar with these tools? I will choose to use PhotoShop if I have to in order to remain relevant. However, that will only be out of begrudged necessity. Any advisement would be appreciated. NOTE Please note that this IS NOT a direct request for PhotoShop alternatives. Instead, I just want to know that if I do go with something else for my personal work, will I be causing a bigger problem in the future when I need to hand over my work to someone else who is hopefully more capable than myself.
Why is there such a difference in the editing view & save preview views? I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6 for Mac OS X. Color Settings: North America General Purpose 2 Profile: sRGB Export Format: PNG-24
Please take a look at the image below. I am trying to find out if there's a "rule/pattern", even something that can be put down in math form, to the selection of a two-color gradient. The required outcome is something that looks like it's made "of the same color" but smooth. So, naturally going from RED to BLUE is distinctively a two color gradient. Suppose I pick the initial color -- how "far" on the RGB scale should the second color be in order for users to consider it "the same color", but in a different tone that creates the illusion of a smooth and interesting gradient background? If I map the two colors shown uses on a 2-axis color map, will the "vector" created between the two points representing the colors be measure of how I should be picking a second color? ...or perhaps is everything just "Eyeball it, change until the results are pleasing"? This is how the gradient looks on an iOS app. It's nice, and smooth.
Can (Adobe) Illustrator set default layer thumbnail size? Every new document, I need to click "Panel options..." to change layer's thumbnail size bigger.
I've placed an EPS file (File A) inside another EPS file (File B) and now need to completely break this link so that the artwork of File A becomes 100% editable part of File B. I've tried embedding it via Save As when saving FileB and that seems to keep the link to FileA active. I do not want File A to be linked in any way and need the artwork of File A to be on same layer as the artwork of File B so that I can edit all artwork together. I also do not want to have any links shown in the Illustrator links panel. Please let me know how/if this can be accomplished? Thank you!
My friend shoot a photo with a DIY White Backdrop, and I want to cut the tea box with the shadow. Is there any technique to dicut it? I'm hoping to get a result similar to these: I was also wondering what's the easiest way to color (color tone) photo like those.
I am slightly confused as to why the properties panel changes suddenly (as far as I know) when using shapes in Photoshop CC. This is the normal properties panel when working with shapes Then I sometimes get this On the first image, I can see that I could toggle between the two views (masks and live shape). However On this second image I only see the mask tab. Is there a way to get the normal tab back. Or somehow prevent this from happening. Thanks
Where can I find books / references / inspirations to learn the principles behind these graphic patterns? It's often seen in luxury or heritage style products, as well as the us dollar sign. What is the art or graphic design style called? I understand that this may be a mix of various styles, but is there an overlapping or overall name for this art style? Specific examples include Simon Frouw's work as they all seem to fall under this category: https://www.behance.net/simonfrouws http://cargocollective.com/simonfrouws/Spier-Sparkling-Wine More examples: Looking at them they just look elegant and old-school luxurious with all the intricate details that looks hand crafted. From looking at the various examples I gathered there seems to be elements or art deco geometric patterns, halftone engravings styles, monograms, and heritage crests I'm probably the most interested in the beautiful decorative geometric & illustrative or graphic design patterns as seen in the background. What's the principle behind these designs? What's it called and where can I learn to make them?
I am designing and doing the layout for our senior year newspaper. I want this to look as professional as I can get it. I feel like somthing is off with the design but I can not put my finger on what. In advance Thank you! Here is the newspaper: More examples in this link.
I'm working on a dieline for a box and I was wondering how I could make the fold lines. Do I just make the stroke dashed? I'm using rectangles to create my dieline. How do I select just one side of the rectangle to make my fold line? Every time I select one side the whole rectangle gets selected.
I will sometimes encounter a font centered within an element, however upon checking the alignment, I will see that it is aligned left. Clicking the "center text" button in photoshop shifts the text layer left. Is there anyway to assign the "center text" property without having the text layer shift?
hello I want to create a road line in illustrator like in this picture. The line must be the same or like this. I want to make it with holes and give the line an effect like an asphalt line.
I'm learning Illustrator CC and right now I'm trying out the various tools in the Pathfinder window, and how they allow me to create shapes. Something that confuses me, is that they seem to be somehow similar, if not redundant. Examples: Minus Front vs Minus Back Intersect vs Crop Unite vs Merge I feel like if I understood the difference between those tools, I'm a good deal closer to understanding Illustrator in general. Could someone explain to me: What is the difference between Intersect and Crop? Why is Minus Front in Shape Modes while Minus Back is in Pathfinders, if they are essentially the same tool? (Except that the who-cuts-who is reversed)
The black part of this image is the outline of the State of Georgia, and the orange part is a line that is meant to have the effect of orbiting the state. I would like to make this illusion, but I don't know how to get the tail end that is meant to look like it is going behind the black outline of the State. What do I do, because playing around in Illustrator CS6, I can only get the entire orbital behind the state, not just the two tail ends. Thanks
I've changed background color to blue, and put a circle on it. I also changed the color of the inner part of the circle to white. Now I want to depict seams on it... how can I draw the seams? I can accept that the seam is just the curved line - i.e. I don't need the dashed line or the "real" seam, which is a collection of small horizontal lines, since I don't like the idea of spending another 10 or even 20 hours just learning about how to draw a "real" seam. Here's the image that I intended to depict, though since I don't know how to depict it in a computational way, I just overlaid a circle on the original circle and erased the redundant part with an eraser by hand, and finally duplicated it and transposed the duplicated line. But since the hand-written curve is quite awful, I want to make the curve look more fluent. [Update]
So I can increase the size of the blob brush and eraser tool with [ and ], but the same shortcut doesn't seem to work consistently with the brush tool. It works with the three small "standard" brushes, as well as the calligraphic brushes. It doesn't show an increased stroke size, but the brush itself is affected. It doesn't work at all with Watercolor brushes. Is there a reason for this or is this simply a bug? Is there another way to quickly adjust brush sizes for all brushes other than changing the value in the command bar manually each time? In Photoshop it can be done by Alt-Right Click-Drag, but in Illustrator this seems to be something else entirely (creating a closed shape I think).
I have an Illustrator EPS file which has a number of shapes that are set to multiply and overlay modes. I am also using a number of masks. Is there a way to export this art in SVG format and keep all the visuals intact? As per this WIKI page I think it should be possible. I've tried saving my EPS as SVG several times with various options but am unable to get the alpha channels to render properly some of my vector shapes get rasterized as well.
I have been trying for hours to make this kind of shadow in Photoshop (the red one). Can somebody help me? Notice that there is a gap between the font and the shadow.
How do I remove the shadow in this photo? I tried fuzzy select on my actual image, the object has grey elements that make it difficult to distinguish properly. I can do by parts, but the real background also is grained due to the photo quality, and I don't know what operation to use to impose similar grain on the removed region.
I have the following design with gradient : The gradient is 348px long, linear, starts with #F7F7F7 and ends with white #FFFFFF. I need to know what gradient color should I put as a starting point if I want my gradient to be not 348px, but 270px (shown by red line) with keeping to the original design. Is that possible?
I need to resize the Illustrator's swatch palette icons which are too small on my Mac. How can I do that? Once I saw a PC with huge icons and I realized that I could do the same on my Mac.
Is there anyway to re adjust the path? I tried & tried but completely failed
I am working on a web application that sends print data to a newspaper system - we do not actually load and store font information we just create an approximation of the article to be printed. I am having a terrible time matching lineage for aGarmond 10 pt. Does anyone know is there anywhere I can find relative font widths for AGaramond (the proportion of the letters to each other) ? Like 'M'=1, and 'l' is .75? Thanks
I'm trying to mock up some ads for the London underground, and I'm having trouble warping the image to the interior of the tube shape. There are various guides to warping labels to cylinder exteriors etc but I cant find anything regarding warping images to the interior shape. I want to add an ad over where the current ones are, but I'm having trouble getting the perspective to look right. The image I intend to use for the mockups is this one: And here's where I'm at so far: I think I've got the skew right, I just need it to look "curved" so it looks like it's pasted to the wall. The idea is that it will be kind of experiential so the entire wall and roof of the tube will be covered.
I'm trying to find a way to distort artwork to emulate those crazy chalk art pieces you see all the time, like this: I know how it's done: ...but I'm wondering if there is an Illustrator or Photoshop plugin available to apply the distortion for me. Currently, I do the distortions manually with Mesh Envelope, but it's tedious. There has to be an easier way. Any ideas? EDIT: Here is one of the recent real life projects I did that used this sort of technique, but calculated manually, stair by stair: Here is the desired view point: And here is an off angle view point:
Let's say I have created a layer on a black-and-white image with a layer mask to colorize some parts (for example skin). I am able to change this with Colorize and change to any color. But how do I use another image of color of skin (as reference)? Is there a way to select a portion of skin on the color image and apply it to my layer with a mask that I painted so that my masked layer looks just like the skin color of the color image (the reference image)? I am trying to follow this tutorial, but instead of colorize I want to select a colored image (or portion of colored image) as a color reference. That way it's more realistic. Or does there exist a GIMP plug-in that will allow me to change dark grey values to take on darker tones of a selected area of colored image and brighter grey values to take on tones brighter tones of a selected area of a colored image? I wanted to try colorizing a black-and-white photo after seeing this post.
When I try to open an svg file with Illustrator, Illustrator defaults to whatever artboard size was last used when a file was open. As such, the svg, if not the same size as the previous artboard, is then placed and auto-resized into that artboard. Is there a workaround for this that does not involve opening a fake document with the artboard size of the svg, then closing that doc and File > Open the actual svg? Note: I do not want to save the svg from Illustrator with the "preserve Illustrator editing capabilities" in the save as svg dialog. You can test this with any svg, but here's a super simple one that is 320 x 240: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 17.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) --> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 320 240" enable-background="new 0 0 320 240" xml:space="preserve"> <rect width="320" height="240"/> <text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 98.6523 133)" fill="#FFFFFF" font-family="'ArialMT'" font-size="48">Why?</text> </svg>
It seems like Gimp is not rotating correctly. I have two duplicate layers of this GIF: It looks like this: I click the rotate tools, click one of the layers, and choose 90 degrees. It looks like this: Then I click the rotate button to apply the rotation, and I see this: The rotation is off. Does anyone know what is happening here?
I have a file with about 500 layers, and I need to replace a color in all of them. I looked through different solutions here and elsewhere, and they all suggested using an adjustment layer or something similar. This doesn't help much - the layers are used for animation so it would break everything. The best I could come up with is export layers to files, run a batch on those files, and load them back in. However, 15 minutes later it only managed me to export 3 frames out of 500. Is this some kind of a joke? The whole gif is 300kb and imagemagick managed to export it in a fraction of a second, though I'm not happy with what it did to transparency. Update: ffmpeg did the exporting just fine, now I'm trying to get photoshop to replace color. I select a gray color #e1e1e1, click on the result, and type in the required color #f2f6f8. It suggests hue -160, sat +30, lightness +8, which does pretty much nothing at all. How is it possible that when I specify the result color I need, it fails to figure out how to do the replacement? I ended up using a short piece of code to do the color conversion (because I had a png library at hand) and imagemagick to convert it back to gif. So much for the almighty photoshop, failed me at all 3 steps.
I'm trying to save two different versions of a certain SVG using Illustrator. The sole difference between the two versions is that a certain text element's tracking attribute was set. It seems though that Illustrator is completely ignoring the new attribute (the two resulting SVG files are almost the same - there are some negligible position differences) which in effect causes the resulting SVG to display incorrectly. The relevant text element is saved as a single element in which case I assume the tracking (letter-spacing in SVG) is most relevant (as opposed to outputting the text by wrapping each character in a in which case the tspan's position could be used to implement the tracking implicitly). Am I missing something in regards to saving as SVG from Illustrator? Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks
So basically, I want to edit my image (which was designed by a close friend of mine) to change my glasses from white color, to black instead. I've tried editing the hue/saturation but failed to achieve the effect. I want to learn how to do it in Photoshop. Your kind advice would be greatly appreciated :) Still relatively new to the program and learning. Much thanks!
I am curious as to why when I scale things the general shape changes. The flag in the middle is what I originally started with, and either side is the distorted result of rescaling it. I have read previous answers and tried: unchecking align to pixel grid upon start-up of new document and then with the flag shape selected; checking 'scale strokes and effects'. Any ideas? Here is another example of where this has happened, both lines and rectangle shapes have changed (harder to see): And here is what is checked/unchecked: I am completely lost... been searching for an answer but nothing. Thank you!
I would like to animate a set of text, like this http://www.doctorhugo.org/e-poetry/shewalks.gif as in the the gif i create should consist of text I choose. Are there any tools for that? How would I approach it in HTML5/canvas?
I have a timer running on a video overlay in a mobile application. The font used throughout the app is GothamNarrow-Book. While it looks nice, it is distracting to see the running timer constantly changing its width. Here is a sample of what the font looks like: I'm open to all suggestions.
Assume I have an icon on a pure white background in a PNG image. The icon is a solid color, with edges anti-aliased, so they are blended with white. I need to delete the white background so that the non-content is transparent. How can I get the anti-aliased edges to blend from the fill color to transparent, instead of white? There is a similar question on the site, but this is actually a different case: dealing with solid colors, and anti-aliasing of just the edges, not reblending entire portions of the image. I don't think the answer from the other question applies. I can't reasonably apply a gradient to just the one-pixel edge of an icon. There aren't enough pixels. Also, this method doesn't scale well when the icon edges are irregular (like a Twitter bird). Perhaps the question is whether it's possible to de-antialias an icon, knowing the foreground and background colors exactly, and to re-antialias it on a transparent background.
In an imaging app I'm working on, I want to enable the user to apply a blur filter to the image. Bit creating an icon for that filter isn't easy. Should I Draw a white circle and just apply a blur to that and take that image as icon? I'm not too happy with making a modern UI icon that hasn't straight lines and curves, but blurry outsides Similar to 1., but make one half of the circle without blur and separate them with a line (similar to an average sign Make a circle / image with an very curved, unclear outline, but all of the image in the same color (white) so I don't have to apply a blur to the image itself which seems like violating the modern UI design princibles Any help (or reference to some documentation) is appreciated.
When I watch time lapses of Photoshop (and the like) artwork, I always ask myself why they paint a huge area over the picture over and over again (like layers). As reference watch the first seconds in this video. The artist paints a large chunk of black over the picture (the fine black drawing itself is always on top). Is this to provide more contrast? Is this like a backup? Painting a big area implies that the layers beyond are finished? Later the black is overpainted again. Since I am not a painter/drawer/designer etc, I have no clue what this is supposed to do/help with. I used paint to make some signatures in discussion boards but those where only patterns and filter.
I'm trying to use a Gaussian blur on an image, but I don't want it to effect the edges of the image. How can I do this? I'm using Adobe Fireworks. Here's the image I am using: And here's what I did: See how the Gaussian blur effects the edges? I don't want that. I'm trying to create an effect like this:
I have this letterhead title in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, in which I set the English to Small Caps (that is, the first letter is a big capital, the rest are small). Now, in Hebrew, the letters are generally squarish, so they're kind of like small caps already (although there's no equivalent of the large cap). In Arabic, however, many/most letters are at half-height (e.g. و and د), while other rise well above the x-height, e.g. ال which denotes a definite article. But ال is not like a big cap at all, and the rest of my text looks so low(ly) compared to the English small caps. What do I do? Notes: Here is an example of Arabic in boxed letter-forms. It's not what I would be looking for, but does illustrate how Arabic type is amenable to many (acceptable) kinds of stretching, shaping and manipulation. Suggestions such as "Do something entirely different than small caps" are not entirely irrelevant, but I would rather stick to my original whim. I can't just have the script in every language be set in a different style altogether, consistent only with the custom for titles in that language.
We are trying to create a web page with a full-size background. The following pages are our inspiration: http://www.august.com.au/ http://www.levehytter.no/ http://danielfiller.com/ We have created a page with some striking images of our own, but they always seem flat, lifeless and don't give the copy any chance to stand-out. There seems to be some common qualities of the images that work that we can't put our fingers on. What are the qualities of images, or techniques used on those images, that would allow them to be used more effectively as a full-screen web page background?
Are these illustrations done manually by hand or in Illustrator? Is there a easier way to reproduce these kind of illustrations? More examples here.
I'm an aspiring logo designer so I'm doing some research. Apple's logo, according to all the "evolution of the Apple logo" photos, shows their current logo as being a 3d type Grey gradient logo. So that's their official one, but where do they actually use that at? In everything I see from their website to ads they are either using solid grey or monochrome. I heard that its OK to use gradients in logos now as long as they are relatively simple. Looking at the Skype design document it says use the gradient logo for screen use and the solid color logo for print use. Is this standard practice for logos with gradients?
I'm building a newsletter in InDesign and have some company photos of people's faces. What file type should I use to place them in my InDesign file? JPEG TIFF EPS PSD
I'm created an InDesign file using CS5. Where do I find the option to have my hyperlinks open in a new browser window? When I create the PDF from InDesign and post the PDF on my web site the links work, but open in the same browser window.
We run a restaurant and we package our product in 3x2x8 2mil poly bags. For 4 years we've printed labels and stuck them on the bags, but I'd like to see if there's a way to print the information straight onto the bags. Are there companies that do this? We order the bags from Uline, so if they wanted to get the bags straight from them, and resell it to us with the printing done on them, that would be fine.
In GIMP, after adding a layer mask, and editing, is there a way (or even a plugin) to let you view the layer mask right on the canvas? I know that you can see a miniature copy of the layer mask in the Layer Dialog on the side (right next to the miniature copy of the layer), but I want to know if you can just view it? (I suppose alternatively, I could do a greyscale layer and copy that layer onto the mask, but I was more interested in if there was an easy one-click method to make this happen.)
What font is used in this logo? I'd love to have this or a similar one.
(The next level from Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application) How can I combine multiple pngs of different sizes into a single ico? I want the 256x256 and 128x128 versions to look the same, but 32x32 and 64x64 to be from a different file. How can I do this on a mac?
The edges in the above image are very pixelized and I need to smoothen them out. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
when I was at design college 2013 we were told (for educational purposes) that we could use images from the net (only photographs) to incorporate into designs for posters, collages, magazine covers, etc, and that we obviously could not make any money from these designs, but that we could use them in our portfolio. Is this true or false? I now have an FB page and, as a recent graduate, want to put up some of these designs on my page. But is that copyright, or is it permissible as an example for work I've done, so long as no money is being made from it? Do I need to state that photography wasn't original? (I'm not even sure now where I got them from!) I usually put a copyright label on my posted works to cover myself, but if the above described is permissible, then do I need to not use that copyright label as its not completely original? (because I have used some photographs from the net which have then been rearranged/edited/etc etc and incorporated into a design). Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
What is the default size of printable PDF of photography magazine in In Design? I like to make photography magazine for online as well as print. I want to know is there any standard size photography magazine in In Design.
I need to design a vinyl for Seat Ibiza Coupe (2009). I have already found this site: the-blueprints.com but I think it is too expensive for a vector. Is there any site that has free or unexpensive vectors or blueprints of cars? I am actually looking for something like this:
I want to add that white lines on the project, but don't want that line to be visible on the printed element. How can I do that? Working in CMYK in Adobe CS6.
How do you do this in Photoshop? I am using Photoshop cc and Illustrator and I am in the process of learning. Can anyone teach me how to do that text effect shown in the picture? thanks!
My website is going to include a lot of graphics, drawn by myself. The display of the illustrations will be similar to that of theoatmeal.com (some illustration reuse will be present, but not as much as in most comics and the drawings will not be in boxes but simply appropriately placed on the page). I'm having a hard time deciding between the resizability of vector vs. the intricacies and ease of Sketchbook drawings. The way I see it, at the end of the day, my final graphic is going to lose quality when it's resized in a browser no matter what. However, this may make development a little bit harder. For one, I lose the ability to re-use a lot of graphics and make minor changes to them. But I already have my main canvas laid out in illustrator, so I know in relation to that, the size that my drawings should be - this should result in little need to resize. Ideally, if I could draw the skeleton of my illustrations in vector, then add detail(like shading) in Sketchbook, that is what I would most prefer. Does anyone know any limitations to this? For those with experience, what do you do/suggest?
I wanted to create a set of layer comps but ran into a problem when trying to toggle the visibility of layers within a smart object. Let's say I have a document with smart object. I want 1/5 layers visible for each of my 5 layer comps (each layer having its own comp). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way I can get both the original document and smart object to work together in terms of displaying the desired smart object layers. One possible reason is that they work independently from each other (psd & psb). Its almost like they are two separate (yet connected) documents but with two different layer comp panels. Is there a workaround for this?
While in the stages of a bid, quote, or proposal I was curious how should a designer communicate "price is negotiable" in a professional manner instead of stating the simple fact. I know it's sometimes good to be blunt but I feel it is unprofessional and a possible sign of "oh he will take low pay" or "he needs work".
How can I erase the text that is not generated in Pixelmator? In the following image, what I like to do is erase the black status bar text (carrier, Wi-Fi symbol, time, and battery icon) on the top of the screen. However, I cannot use the eraser tool because it's basically impossible to use the exactly same color as the navigation bar on the screen, and if it's not the exact same color, the resultant image is quite ugly on which everyone can easily recognize there were some texts there before being erased. So is it feasible to erase the text as if it's not there in the first place?
Is it feasible to divide any layer in Pixelmator and then merge them again? I would like to convert this image (640 x 1136) to 640 x 960, but have to convert it without touching on the navigation and tab bar on the top and bottom of the screen. So I came up with an idea of first dividing the screen, and on one of the divided layer, cut 640 x 196 image, and then merge them again in order to archive 640 x 960 by only tinkering the white part. However, it looks like it's impossible to divide the layer in Pixelmator - actually, the slice tool is only for the use of Web. So how can I get 640 x 960 image?
Is there a way to print / export a indesign file as a pdf or other but first annotate any images with the file source ie. user/documents/images.. etc so that whens its printed / exported it will say what the source is for each image by the side / ontop of the image.
I am creating a logo and I am using Pantone 638U in Illustrator. I know Pantone has to be premixed but I just wanted to test print on my printer in CMYK. So I converted it to cmyk which is C83 M0 Y10 K0. My document is in CMYK mode and I am using View > proof colors. Here is a photo of what result I am getting. The left is on screen and the right is (approximately) the printed result.
I am rather newbish at modeling and noob at texturing. For a few weeks I have been trying to make some buildings inspired from Oblivion (the scify movie) and perhaps Elysium. What happens is, I start modeling, and at one point or another it gets crappy. At the end I am unhappy with the result, mostly because I would need reference images, not concept art. What would help me loads would be some models in this nature, preferably textures, so I can study them and form a mental process on how to create new things of this nature. Thank you!
I'm working on an mobile phone game, and don't have the luxury of being able to use vector graphics. I'd like the game to be playable on a wide range of devices from 2560x1600 tablets to 320x240 phones. Ideally I want a single set of graphical assets for all resolutions. Vector data is not supported on a wide range of mobile devices, that's why I'm limited. As a general rule, I'll be creating everything for a high end device and be scaling down when the game loads which gives me basic linear filtering. Are there any particular guidelines I should follow when creating scalable graphics? Fonts are a particular headache. I've noticed that smoother fonts with soft edges seem to scale a better than sharp fonts. These are the kinds of tips that I'm after.
I would like to do some simple pattern or polygon fills in Gimp, e.g. to represent different regions in a map without resorting to colors or grayscale tones. Some nice examples of what I seek are represented in this figure: http://mapserver.org/_images/pattern-symbol-complex.png (namely, diagonal lines, dots, simple shapes, etc.) Gimp has a pattern fill tool with lots of "fancy" patterns which, it seems, are too complex and specific to be actually useful. There are only two patterns which resemble the ones I want (black and white horizontal stripes). (By the way, I find it very hard to find such patterns in almost every editor I've seen. Even Excel 2007), which had pattern fills, removed this feature recently.) Is there an easy way to add such patterns to Gimp?
If I take a screenshot and paste it into InDesign it completely destroys the quality. Yet when I print screen and paste it into Word, the image is resized to the page and the quality is kept. What is wrong?
I'm having some difficulty find an icon or solution to differentiate operation in the same table, but with different origin. In my table I have operation imported from a central system and others created manually by the user. The ones imported are partial editable, the manually created are fully editable. I need to add some visual information and a tooltip to help the user differentiate each one. I've tried this icon But Isn't ok, this seems that only that row is editable, but the others are also editable, but only partial.
I am building a flashcard web application and I want to give to the users the possibility to ask some help (mnemonics) to remember of something. I'd like have a little icon that would represent in the best way possible "I need help to remember this". The icon size will be very small, like the star in the screenshot : Also like the star, there will be only the shape won't be filled (to avoid reading distraction), so that's why I would need a very simple, representative shape. I thought to a lifesaver, but at such a small size we don't really understand what it is. I also thought to a question mark but I think that it's too general. Have you got any idea ?
I need to know what i'm doing wrong. i'm making a catalog that needs 4 images per page. as so. i know i can't do that with facing pages so i separated the two pages and created individual file for each page. i'm running in to a problem when trying to generate mulitple records per page, from the tutorials and other forum posts i've read i SHOULD be setting it up right... but its not working. here is the set up that i THINK i'm doing right. data merge options. as you can see, its only generating 1 record per page... i need 4. since i have over 500 records that i don't want to do by hand.
I'm curious as to what type of colors would be good to use based on these categories High school College Military Corporate Business Charities Thanks!
I'm trying to create this halftone effect in Inkscape but I'm not able to produce it. All I'm able to do is create a small circle and clone it to produce simple halftone. But how do I do this?
I'm building a music application which can create a mix of songs to play for you. What icon can I use to represent this feature?
I just downloaded a set of Glypish icons, however I'm not sure how to scale them up using Pixelmator (my only graphics editor). They give a .psd file with each image as a separate layer...
In Illustrator, I am trying to make my text bolder by adding a stroke to it. The stroke is the same color as the text, but when saving as SVG, the stroke is considered separate from it, adding unnecessary code. Is it possible somehow to make a letter with a stroke only one object? Thank you very much.
This hair should be easy to extract, because of strong contrast, but from some reason it's not for me. Here is the original Here is my result using quick selection tool And here my best using Refine Edge feature Any help ? I'm using Photoshop cs5 extended.
I've found multiple tutorials on how to take a shape and turn it into a silhouette, but full black sometimes lacks expression. I was wondering what was the best way of preserving highlights with Photoshop to create an image like the one below.
I created a small flyer and placed four flyers on one DIN A4 page. But it seems to be impossible to distribute the four text frames correctly. In order to be able to cut the flyers the width between the text frames must be twice of the width between the outer border and the frames. When I distribute the text frames with Scribus the width between the frames is the same as the width between the frames and the border. How can I distribute correctly to be able to cut the flyers?
Just today I learned that there is such a thing as the Pantone Color of the Year. Wikipedia says that the color of each year is used by ... consumer-oriented companies ... to help guide their designs and planning for future products. I was wondering if the Color of the Year is also used in graphic design. Did anybody encounter a job where the client requested to use the COTY in the design explicitly? Or are there guidelines in companies where the COTY is mentioned as part of their corporate identity?
I downloaded this very awesome set of iOS7 GUI components to use for building mockups for apps, found here: http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone/. I'm working in Illustrator but the file is a PSD. I'm running both Ps and Ai simultaneously, and when I drag a component from the PSD into my Ai file, the transparency becomes white. To be clear, I am literally dragging and dropping from Ps into Ai using the Move Tool which generally works. What am I doing wrong here? Thank you!
I know that a similar questions were asked, but I did not see any answer that solves the issue - Can we reset the rulers to show us ticks values every 10 point and not those that can be divided by 6? I failed to adjust rulers to grid no matter what I performed (double click in the left upper corner or zeroing via dragging to any desired point. Sometimes I need the rulers and grid to match... The main part of question - Can we match grid lines and rulers perfectly as grids are just continues of rulers ticks? Illustrator CS6. Any new solution? What I miss? UPDATE after the answer by Scott - now it is near to be perfect
I am trying to make a simple "Q" logo in gimp. Instead of just typing the character "Q" in big font I am trying to make it using "Ellipse tool". However, I don't know how to make the borders of the ellipse circle bold or hollow. Can someone show me how to do this? This is what I'm trying to accomplish (a circle with only its boundary in color rather than the entire circle colored) When I try to do this using ellipse tool this is what I get:
When i submit my designs (logo, business card, etc) in any contest, it doesn't give sharp look instead of others. My design looks like a little blur while submitting to the contest. I made designs in Adobe Illustrator CS-5. How could i get sharpness in my design so the contest holder could inspire with my creativity?
I have Photoshop CS5 extended. Since yesterday, pressing D the foreground color is white and the background black. Pressing the switch icon or X the colors switch. I need the default foreground color to be black and the background color white, as was the case before yesterday. I tried to solve this by searching for relevant settings in the preferences, however without any success.
Currently I am using a clip art image of two dice as a 'random' button: However, it doesn't fit the Android look and feel at all. How would I best represent 'randomness' in a button?
There are many free fonts, but they often don't include letters with diacritics such as Ă, Â, Ș, etc. Placing those marks by hand in a large text that keeps changing can be a pain. Is there a way to add such extra glyphs to font in Illustrator - basically some copies of existing characters, with accents or other diacritical marks? Or do you know any tricks to make the process easier?
Is there a way to do this without it changing the shape of the graphics? I just used the method suggested on this post and it worked however it distorted some of the images. I have 5 images which are military emblems in the shape of circles and 5 stars. It distorted all the circle graphics. Also, the graphics are already vector images if this matters. I am a rookie to Illustrator so all help is appreciated. This is how they go using the rotate method on this other post: The images need to be straight up and not distorted.
How can I set a script that applies an alpha channel for each layer in the PSD file? An action makes it for one layer only. I`d like to have an ability to automate it for a bunch of layers.
Our application helps creating invoices and allows to insert an item into an invoice that represents a service performed by a craftsman. A typical service could be paperhanging or installing insulation. One idea was to use some kind of tool as icon like , however, I believe this is inappropriate because we have similar icons representing application modules that actually deal with tools/equipment. Another idea is using a shirt icon like (we'd create an icon that looks more like a work suit though), but I'm not quite confident with this concept, it doesn't imply manual work being done to my eyes. Any suggestions? It should be possible to design a recognizable version in 16x16 px too.
I've created a tennis racket in Illustrator CS6 and i want to make the text only visible on the lines of the net. I tried to use a copy of the net as clipping mask for the text, but the result was'nt so good, because the black of the underlying lines was still lightly visible. Even when the mask and the net was perfectly aligned. Is there an easier way as a mask?
I've been working on an application that works as a remote control for a media player, over the web. The remote itself is an application that runs in your web browser, on your phone or on your tablet that allows you to control the playlist, playback and library management of a media player. My logo idea for it was to merge the Wi-Fi icon with a compact disc, and below is the render: I've been spending far too long staring at this now, and I think that it works quite well as a concept. However I feel that the colours could be chosen better, but I did receive comments that it looked a little like Spotify's icon when green. Any critiques? After reviewing suggestions, I have come up with this: Any additional critique?
When trying to apply a 3D filter to some text in Illustrator CS6 the panels of the shape breakup and overlap. A warning message stating "Bevel self-intersection may have occurred" is displayed in 3D extrude and bevel box. I am not doing anything complicated, simply rotating the text slightly. What causes this and what is the best way to avoid it?
I created a template for an 8-page monthly print publication and created the publication for print each month for 7 happy years. The client hired a new PR person who suddenly let me go and demanded my source files. I'm wondering if I can make it a tax-deductible donation to them since they are a non-profit and what amount I could claim for this on my taxes? I estimate that I spent about 10 hours creating the template and averaged 6-10 hours per month putting together the publication.
I am in the process of making a web page and I have a "thanks to" section which shows the logotypes of different organizations. The customer wants these logos to be monochromatic; as in white background and dark gray logos (not shaded). However, one of these organizations is an embassy and they use the national flag as their logo. The flag in question is Taiwan's, but It seems that we are going to need to incorporate some other flags as well. So, how would you design a monochromatic flag in this case? Thank you for your time.
Is there a way to create object, character, and paragraph styles (etc.) in Fireworks, the same way that one creates styles in InDesign? There must be a way as this is a commonly needed function, but I cannot seem to find it in the Window dropdown. Thanks for your ideas.

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