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Problem I have a image with five separate icons i wish to separate and reposition. How would i achieve this? Would i use layers? and if so how do i put each icon into a layer. (REPHRASED QUESTION) i'm not really sure layers is the approach i need. But i wish to separate this png into 6 blocks each containing the different logos shown. I then would like to be able to move them around at will until i'm happy with their position and export Image
I'd like to take the fantasy world map I created to the next level as a way of buffing my illustrator skills and portfolio. Currently, it's a flat political map like this map of Canada for example. I'd like to add terrain contours to make it more interesting, like what was used in this map here to show the relative depths of the water: This is obviously not done by hand. What software or data processing tool would be used to generate it and export it to illustrator? (I realize this hovers on the fence between this Stack Exchange and the GIS one. If this isn't the place, then I'll ask it there)
I saw a similar question asked, but mine is more precise in what I am looking for. Is there any (free) software or free web based software I can use for the following purpose: I want to be able to create images. I tried using pixlr and it's not as advanced as the software (or web based software) that I am looking for. I'm not talking about simply adding or modifying images with photoshop, which is fine for most things. But, I want to be able to easily create something from scratch. I find software like photoshop impossible to deal with in terms of actually creating images. The reality is that it does not possess the advanced power that images created with other professional software offer (I would presume). I don't think I could achieve something as nice as this image using photoshop. Basically, I am looking for a software that allows that possibility but that gives you the ease of doing so. For someone with limited knowledge of design. I am not a Graphic Designer, I am a Web Integrator. The reality is that I need tools to facilitate professional design work. I'm not looking for opinions per se, but websites that offer either this type of software for download or directly have it in their web browser. To be clearer upon what I am actually looking for, imagine the following: you see an ad beautifully created with professional graphic design software. I want to emulate that work of art that you see. Imagine this specific picture, clearly this is not a real person, but rather it has been created from scratch, with the background that surrounds him. That is the type of software I need to get my hands on. Worst comes to worst, a paid one (but I would rather avoid that).
I'm working on some business cards in Photoshop and I come understand it's not the best medium for print since it's not vector based like Illustrator. I want to avoid the edges of my font from coming out "fuzzy" so of course I'm considering moving the design over to Illustrator but, it's definitely not my strong suite. Is there anyway I can keep my design as a photoshop file and have it print out "crisp"? Or Is there a simple way to move it over in Illustrator and make everything vector based? Btw: the designs are not graphic intense, more typography and shapes.
I'd like to be able to, in this example, darken a portion of a text based on a path I draw, without seeing the path. I've tried variations of opacity and clipping masks without a good success. Attached some screenshots of a simple example. First I have two objects.. One way to get close to desired effect is to set opacity of path and make it black. But then at this point I'd like to only see the text.
I am teaching graphic design/multimedia at the college level as well as freelancing on the side. We've been discussing among colleagues and wondering what is expected on average for graphic designers and web designers (considering they will all be taking the same classes but some might be more web-inclined). It's not easy to determine how much design vs. how much coding should be included in the classes. I've posted a similar question on LinkedIn before but I would like as much data as I can get so we can take action about what we should focus on. I've observed wild variations ranging from : just understanding some concepts of web layouts, to being able to update an existing web site to being able, to build the whole website with PHP/MySQL included and javascript/jQuery. Often wondering if the companies who asked for everything ever found proper candidates or just tried their luck. What is your experience on this? Please mention if you consider yourself a graphic designer or a Web designer. EDIT: Our program is a 3-year graphic design program including 4 classes of Web design. We are not a multimedia program per say. I should also add that where I am located, students may stop their learning at the college level or go about to do a BA in graphic design (another 3 years) that is much more oriented towards creation. More precisely, I am looking for answers about what are reasonable market expectations for entry-level graphic designers vs. entry-level web designers?
When I move cursor on an anchor point, Illustrator shows me the coordinates of the anchor. But how can I find the [x, y] coordinates of the handles (in red circles)?
I need to make a diagram for completion-review-revision-approval process of technical drawings. The diagram needs to show both the process milestones (completion-review-revision-approval) and also their schedule distributed on weeks. However I cannot imagine graphically how can I show both the milestones and the schedule. For example, there are 3 drawings lets say: Drawing A will be - completed between Week 1-3 - reviewed between Week 3-4 - revision between Week 4-5 - Approved on Week 6 Drawing B will be completed between Week 1-4 reviewed between Week 4-5 revision between Week 5-6 Approved on Week 7 Drawing C will be completed between Week 3-5 viewed between Week 5-6 revision between Week 6-7 Approved on Week 8 As you can understand, the milestone dates of drawings are distributed into the weeks and intersecting with each other. For example, while the revision of Drawing B is going on, Drawing A is already approved. Normally we show these process with Gantt chart but I am looking for alternative cool ideas. I hope explanation of my question is clear to you. Thanks.
Is there a way to rotate the canvas in illustrator 90 degrees? It's pdf format. I've tried the Artboard tool (Ctrl/Command + O) I found an answer regarding this: Illustrator opens PDFs rotated 90 degrees. Why, and how do I deal with it? Is this still the case? Do i have to use adobe acrobat / reader to rotate it? Is it possible to rotate it in illustrator CS6?
I'm trying to find this font or something similar as its really perfect for what I'm needing.. I'm looking for a cursive font, clear and italic many thanks! James
I was wondering if someone could tell me what font this is? This was a coupon Starbucks sent out a few weeks ago for the Caramel Flan Latte. I'm looking for the "Let's Get Together" lettering. Thanks!
I have a floorplan diagram which consists of over 100 different paths and compound paths. I need to combine all of these elements into a single shape layer. I have tried selecting all of them and using both the "Unite" and "Merge" options in the Pathfinder window. This didn't work. I have also tried "Make Compound Shape." Not only does this not create a single shape layer, it also messes up the drawing by creating blocks of color where there were none before. I have even tried a hack workaround by copying all of these paths and compound paths in Illustrator, pasting them into Photoshop, and creating a single shape layer out that, which I could then copy back into Illustrator. The trouble is, as soon as I click "combine," Photoshop freezes and crashes. I guess the shape just has too many points for it to handle. It's too large a file. What can I do to create a single shape layer?
When i try to add stroke (800px) for a elipse tool to a blue gradient background, I am getting grey out, Image which i have attached will explain things more clearly. I just need that stroke to be a background of blue box, and need to remove grey out
I'm trying to create a set of 6 text colours that are to be used on both white and dark purple (42185D) backgrounds (on a web page), and still meet accessibility standards (AA). Are there any tools or guidance that could help? Not a professional graphic designer so any help appreciated.
Photoshop has a 'custom vector shape' tool, allowing me to draw all kinds of stock shapes like stars, hearts and whatnot without having to do so myself with the pen tool. Is there a similar possibility in InDesign? I'll want to use the resulting shape as a frame. I'm looking for an easy solution that my InDesign 101 class can follow and use without having to resort to either Photoshop or Illustrator.
I have a blog which contains information about design/ research methods. I want to improve the UX and make the information more useful and importantly actionable. What steps can I take to achieve this? This is the site: designmethodsandprocesses.co.uk I have tried: editing the content, applying some styling to the home page for selection of techniques, adding a search bar, using bootstrap to allow for reading on mobile.
I'm looking for an optimal typeface for report tables that will contain many columns (the reason for condensed). The reason for monospace is that these reports will contain a lot of numbers and we would like them to be aligned across all the rows. The reason i need it to be open-source is that we will show these reports inside a web application, so it would be embedded as a web font (@font-face). I saw Anka Coder but I don't like its 0. Update: I finally settled for Open Sans Condensed Light, which has monospaced numbers, so it's good enough for my use case. Thanks everyone for your input!
I am looking for some tutorial for this kind of graphic design - I don't know what to call this, but the logo is looking like it is printed on paper does anyone know how this is done ?
Is there a way to create an export action in Illustrator where each time the action is run, it asks for a location to export to? I work on multiple projects where the exported JPEGs need to go into their different respective project folders, having a step in the export action where I could specify the exact location would simplify the process for me.
I have a transparent layer, like this one (please notice transparency at the center of the image): How would you fill the layer with a color like it was done here: It is important to fill these semi-transparent areas. Brushes and buckets are not an option.
I'm trying to make something similar to this in illustrator using the 3D feature. What I'm strugling with is getting the border to be raised relative to the base of the tray. I start off with a stroked rectangle like this: and end up with something like this after I do Effect -> 3D -> Extrude and bevel: But as you can see, the border is on the same level as the green area in middle (i.e. its all flat). How do I make it so that the border is raised above the central green area Also is it possible to get the borders to be rounded like in the first image? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
I cannot find any option to change the default white background of the layers panel thumbnails in Illustrator CS6, thus all white objects are invisible and I cannot quickly work on them. I've found related questions via Google, but from 2009 and without solution, so probably, someone at present time knows how to deal with this issue?
How can I create this sort of parallelogram in Illustrator ?
MIGRATED FROM ASK UBUNTU I have several JPG designs of a website I'm developing. I did a pure HTML website and then did a full webpage screenshot for the design part. Now the client is asking for the PSD files, is there any way I can convert the JPG designs to PSD in GIMP or any other software? I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't have a running copy of Photoshop. EDIT Is there any way I can slice up the JPG into the individual layers? For confidentiality reasons, I can't upload the actual designs but here is a sample from creative market:
Is there any way to create a text variable that has a date in the future calculated from today's date? What I need is: Todays date + 1 month. I know you can have text variables with the output or modification date but I haven't been able to find a way of doing "math" on a variable.
Is there a way to determine how large a specific Photoshop layer or group is in terms of bytes?
I'm trying to do some basic stuff. I have a psd file with plenty of layers. Just one of the is the background and all the rest are objects above the background (each one separated in one different layer). I want to export this to files. So I used the 'Export layers to files' option, which worked just fine and trimmed the layers to its boundaries as I wanted. The only problem is that now I have to go layer by layer to check its object absolute position in the background and make a list (I'm using this for programming purposes). What I'd like to have, which shouldn't be so difficult, is the coordinates of the trimmed layer in the whole background. Is there a way to obtain this programmatically? Thanks in advance, Martín
I have to make artwork for a banner that is 123'' X 194''. I am not sure what size to make the page I am creating the artwork on in Photoshop. It obviously doesn't let me make it that big. Do I need to make it into CM or MM? Thanks in advance
How can I obtain this vector effect in Illustrator? Is there a name for this kind of effect? Please, help!
I have a group of merged shapes. How can I make a double stroke in Photoshop? I'm using Photoshop CC
Illustrator CS6's "direct selection" tool allows you to draw a rectangle which selects select objects that overlap or are contained in the selection rectangle. But what if I want to only select objects which are fully contained in the rectangle, without including other objects that are not fully contained in that rectangle? For example, if I have 10 small red circles on top of a large background gradient, how can I select only the circles without the background gradient?
Is it possible to create with custom shape tool, but from the opposite direction While dragging? photoshop CS5 Thank you Yod
My client sent the print PDF I provided him with to a print studio. They replied that the black CMYK profile is set to 100/100/100/100 and they need it in 64/55/53/100. How do I fix that? I'm designing in Photoshop and exporting with Bleeds in Illustrator.
What I'm trying to achieve is something like one of these segments There's any way to do it without rasterizing the shape?
I am trying to use Illustrator (CS3) to recreate the Tron neon-glow visual style in graphics I plan to use on a website. This page is an excellent example of what I'm trying to do: http://www.disney.co.uk/tron/html/legacy/synopsis.html I'm having major problems. I have lines/paths that I'm trying to recreate the glow with, but nothing I do seems to work exactly as I want it. I tried "Outer Glow" and "Gausian Blur," but I cannot recreate the same rich, brilliant blue glow you see in Tron and their website above...everything winds up looking very dull, no matter how I try to adjust/lighten the color. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated...thanks!
Below is Illustrator's "Recolor Artwork" window. I've chosen to recolour (yes, I'm British) using one of my swatch groups. Notice that the first source colour is replaced with the first swatch group colour which is near black and which I don't particularly want. I want to manually choose another swatch but can't seem to figure out how... I've tried every combination I can find in the dialog and the most immediate solution I've found is to enter the swatches numbers in the sliders. There's a "randomise" swatch order button so I would think there must also be a way to choose them manually.
When using the pathfinder to exclude overlapping shapes from another shape, the base shape will inherit the visual fx applied to the overlapping shapes. How can I prevent the "bottom" (base) shape from having the same vfx? Steps to reproduce: Draw a large random shape with corners using the pen tool Draw a small rectangle contained within the blob Add Appearance > Stylize > Rounded Corners to the rectangle Use Pathfinder > Exclude with both shapes selected Note that the blob/splat inherits the rounded corners vfx How can I keep the rounded corners on the rectangle, but lose them on my "random shape"?
Photoshop changes the place during typing. When I try to type ”17. March 2014”, it write "March 2014 .17" I can't explain well, so I made a video. http://monosaal.com/wtf.mov Does somebody know how I get Photoshop back to normal? I uninstalled and installed it back, but it still doesn't work. SOLVED THE ISSUE I talked to the tech support and I set my Photoshop back to default settings. Find the Photoshop Settings folder in ~/library/Preferences and then rename it. Open Photoshop and everything is set to default.
I'm designing a website in Illustrator, and want to make multiple pages in one file using multiple artboards. So some elements need to be copied from page to page. I want to keep those elements in the same respective layer.
So I've edited a photo in Photoshop and I try to save it as a JPEG, only it doesn’t give me all the options for formats; no PNG or anything. Why is this? Anyone have any suggestions or know any possible fix for this?
I'm trying to make text on a colored map more legible. Ideally I would add an outline around the text with the same general color as that part of the map, for a subtle blend. What's the best way to do this? Really hard cases are text boxes that span two different colors, and I'm prepared for manual work on those, but I'd like to find a faster way to quickly give text over a single-color area an outline that helps it blend with the background (I don't mind picking that color manually). Thanks.
In Photoshop we have "Save Extra JPEG" in Script Event Manager which saves a jpg automatically with the psd file. Do we have something similar in Illustrator?
This is the first time I will create the design for an app that will work on mobile - both for iPad and Android. Do I have to create 3 different PSDs for all 3 viewport sizes? or can I create 1 PSD design for mobile and then change either the resolution or width/height via the image size panel in Photoshop to scale my design for the other 2 viewport sizes? Some time ago, I read that one needs to design PSD for iPhone and can use same PSD file to slice the assets for Android devices too, i.e. mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi.
I'm a programmer doing a client project, and I'm trying to write an app that will do this effect to user-uploaded images. I think it's some combination of Find edges, Blur and some other filters, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any ideas? Original: Result:
I am just beginning to learn about fonts and typography so pardon if my question seems naive. I really like the look of Futura Bold for titles in a powerpoint presentation I'm making but the unequal spaces between letters is bothering me. Is there a sans serif font with equal spacing to replace Futura(preferably in the same gemoetric style)?
Colors below seem to share some kind of "tone" together. For example, colors like this or this seem too bright to fit into this group. What exactly makes this "tone"? I want some technical information, so that if I want to add purple to this group or create a different group of colors, I can find the exact HTML color codes I need. Screenshot taken from here
I have a full colour PSD image file which I want to convert to a format that can be easily shared on the web. The current size is of the PSD is around 7MB. I want to reduce the file size to something around 70kb without losing quality. What is the best format and best method to do this? I tried to achieve this file size reduction with Photoshop tools. Saving as a JPEG and setting the quality to high gives me a file of 110kb This is too big, and with a lower quality level gives me unacceptable results. I know there are plenty of other methods to reduce the file size, can you share your experience on this issue?
I'm working on a website for a friend of mine. It's a very minimalistic webdesign and right now I'm using a dark grey-ish background. However if found pictures like this: http://www.puurkleur.com/afbeeldingen/gallery/Spatula_Stuhhi_01.jpg http://www.puurkleur.com/afbeeldingen/gallery/la_casa_dei_sogni_01.jpg I want to create a similar effect to use for the background, instead of just the one color grey. I like the 1st link most, it's not just 1 color, but not too contrasting and it's subtle. I'm not experienced with photoshop, I tried to find some tutorials but I can't find none that matches the effect I want to achieve. (probably because I don't know the terms is should google on) I tried playing around with gradient and the brush tool, but it's not even close to what I want to achieve. Does anybody know what photoshop techniques should be used to create similar effects? If I know that I could google more specific and probably I will be able to find some good tutorials. Thanks in advance.
I'm looking to hire one (or more) designers to create materials that we can use for several software development projects. What's a good way for me to think about this work, and some good strategies I can use when interviewing the potential designers? We're specifically looking to hire designers which sit in a good place as far as creativity and technical skills - the two primary priorities for us are: ability to consistently quickly come up with good, original, creative ideas ability to quickly turn said ideas into assets we can use (bonus) ability to outsource/manage outsourced work to other, lower cost people, as appropriate (ie, know when and how to hire someone, at relatively low cost, on, say elance to do the technical/easily outsourced parts of the design work) That said, I'm open to suggestions that are more general than just for our specific goals
I made only 1 arrow visible at a time on the PSD but the 2 arrows stay faded but visible when I export as you can see: Here is my PSD file.
I am exporting my image from AI as html and would like it to stay centered on the canvas as the browser changes size. I heard that you can add attributes to the layer by changing the name of the layer. How do I do that and can you suggest a link that gives a list of attributes?
Using CS5 Hello I edit a file in PSD and save it as PDF (for laser cutting) In this file there are only three colors. Who receives the file, says he sees more colors alone of the three colors I created. I will note that the exceptional color stains are very small sizes and are color transitions. How can I avoid seeing other colors, so that only the three original colors. By the way the meantime I tried some changes saving the file as: In COMPATIBILY changed in the list of ACROBAT 8. In COMPRESSION: In OPTIONS changed to DO NOT DOWNSAMPLE COMPRESSION to NONE (or ZIP) In addition I have also sent RGB and CMYK. I even made FLATTEN before saving to PDF. Thank you
Is it possible to 'animate in' a modifier? Elaboration: I want a cube to behave as a regular cube for, say, 10 frames, and only after 10 frames should a cloth modifier fade into the cube. This means for 10 frames the cube will behave as if there are no modifiers on it, then after 10 frames the cloth modifier will fade in on the cube and simulate normally as a cloth object would thereafter. Any help will be appreciated, and any links would be a great help.
I searched the font sites but failed to find similar.
So I choose the type tool and key in 2 words. I want to change the the 2nd word to a different color. I select the second word and change its color on the Options bar. The following strangeness happens: the 2nd word changes color to what i just picked. Then it automatically gets highlighted and disappears completely, as thought you deleted it on purpose. Is there a setting or something thats making it do that?? Please help. This is making my type edits a nightmare.
I'm doing some isometric drawing in Illustrator, and moving my objects around on 0°, 30° and 60° constrained angles. I keep having to go to preferences (Control + K) to change the constrain angle depending on how and where I'm moving something around. Is there a quicker way to handle this?
I'm trying to design a logo, and would like to fit the name of the product inside a shape. In this case, the shape is a closed path in the shape of a smile. Any ideas how I might achieve that? Basically, the top of the letters should follow the path along top of the smile, and the bottom of the letters should follow the path along the bottom of the smile - with the size, shape, shear (etc.) of the letters adjusted accordingly. I've tried both manually manipulating the outlines of text (once converted to an outline) to try and fit the shape, and using the fit to path. Neither of these really worked, and I was hoping that there was a better 'automated' solution that would produce better results than me trying to do it by hand. I'm currently using iDraw on the Mac to do the design (so SVG for those unfamiliar with it).
I'm looking for an option to have two instances of the same image/file next to each other (dual view), so that I can edit one of them and see the difference between the original file and the edited one. However, I can't find it, not by looking around my self nor by Googling for it. There is one dual-view option (Window > Arrange > New window for <filename>), but any changes applied are applied to both, so this isn't what I'm looking for. I doubt such an important function wouldn't be part of Adobe Photoshop... Does it exist or not? How can I find it? The only way to achieve what I want right now, or at least as far as I can think of, is to make a copy of the original file and open it next to the file I'm going to edit.
I'm a web designer with few years of experience, done lots of various projects. I've got some straight graphic design experience as well, but never been expanding some territories. People who like my designs often ask for other things, like logo design for example. As far as i can easly find out a concept i find a big gap that comes from my lack of decent drawing skills. So, the question is, is there any systematic way, or some great course, that helps learning drawing? I usually find out a simple answer - just draw stuff, but as I'm very busy man, i can save around 20-30 minutes a day to practice, but i could really use some path, that would help me working out on my technical skills. Thanks
I have several layers using drop shadow that is suppose to have different angles. But whenever I change or add a drop shadow all others gets changed too, to the same angle. Is this a bug or is there an option to stop this very annoying behavior?
I was wondering if anyone has experienced this. When I test print a design from Photoshop, my printer output something closer to the colors on screen. However, when I print the same design from InDesign, using the same printer, somehow the colors change - darker....hue change a little bit. Does anyone have any idea why this happens? I don't understand because it's printed from the same printer and it's the same file. Why does this occur?
I am considering my options and interested in becoming a graphic designer, however i often hear its a stressful job due to deadlines and pressure to deliver. Is this the case?
I'm looking for a simple icon to represent vibration. It can't be too similar to the sound icon because I'm going to put it right below a sound icon (the speaker shape). I was thinking something with waves but I'm not too sure. Maybe you guys would have some ideas?
Hi all am having set of icons as sprites for and in retina displays the icons are looks like very blur i read some documents for retina display use image as 200%(using photoshop) now the question is how do i change the whole sprite as retina supported image by saving whole sprite as 200% ah or by selecting separate layer and change it as 200% then save it as sprite ah guide me. this is how i use sprite for retina and normal for normal screen .logo { background:url('../images/big-icons.png'); background-position: -241px -289px; width: 217px; height: 69px; } .footer-logo { background:url('../images/big-icons.png'); background-position: -239px -359px; width: 217px; height: 69px; } for retina @media (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), (min-resolution: 192dpi) { .logo{ background:url('../images/big-icons@2x.png'); background-size: 200px 100px; background-position: -375px 0; width: 434px; height: 138px; } .footer-logo{ background:url('../images/big-icons@2x.png'); background-position: -375px -158px; width: 434px; height: 138px; } } the images are repeated in retina display..how i write sprite style for retina display..
Is there a plugin that gives you a poser (human figure) to play with in Adobe Illustrator, sort of like the perspective grid tool but with an actual human you can rig and move the camera around? Like Poser or MakeHuman Complicated POVs on the human body take a long time to master! :( If I could rig a character in the position I want it will look realistic and I can draw on top of it, then remove it. Like this but with controls to alter the position and POV.
I've been trying to obtain an animation like this one from PHDComics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kCtiOS_F_M Does anybody have a good idea of how to achieve it? or at least on which program is this artist (Jorge Cham) doing the illustration? (Paint, Ai, Ps...?) What I've done so far is doing the illustration on Ai, record the screen and then make the film play faster by about 2000-2500%. But I think Ai is not what I need, coloring becomes complicated. I tried to contact him without success and I also google it a lot of times, look at interviews etc. He only says he uses a graphic tablet. Any help is appreciated. Regards.
Any ideas on what font this is? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/KotakuLogo.jpg
Can you create illustrations (see below) with indesign? I would like to create this content and offer PDF brochures to visitors and make it look much better. However, I am not sure if this is possible and how to do it. I'd like to find out free tools to do that those small book-looking illustrations. Something like upload a cover and then it puts it on a digital book. Like those websites which promote only one book and you can see different illustrations of the cover and so on. In order to promote brochures, PDF files, ebooks, and so on. I mean an ebook cover which is shown as a small illustration from the side angle so it looks nice. Not actually the ebook itself, just the cover and make it look like a real book, presentable from a side angle. Was wondering about Abobe Indesign but would like to find out free tools to do that. Something like upload a cover and then it puts it on a digital book. Something like that. Like those website which promote only one book and you can see different illustrations of the cover and so on. –
I am searching a free tool to create Landing Page Buttons, cool designs, social media call-to-action tools, graphics like below - for beginners. I have it difficult finding free tools. Could you recommend me a few and if you believe that one particular paid tool is really great, which one would be worth it? Would like to create those things for my clients as an additional service! OR
Is there a font where the capital E has no vertical bar? I got the idea from the font used in the movie Elysium, but I think it only appears in the credits. Any help is appreciated. Best, Loque
I had today some surprising experience in converting svg to pdf using inkscape. I am preparing drawings for laser cutter. for laser cutting, the drawing should be passed as pdf and the line stroke should be 0.001m (1µm) or less. I can set this in inkscape easily. but when exporting, the pdf "looks" empty and cannot be printed. this is in fact not completely true. here are some observations I made : - file has normal weight (compared to the one with 1mm - see below) - nothing can be seen from acrobat reader - as I sent my file along using gmail, google apps pdf previewer displayed properly the drawing (with very fairly line) I could fix the problem by exporting the drawing to pdf with 1mm line stroke and then use libre office pdf editing capabilities to get the line stroke back at 1µm and saving it back to pdf. there might not be big differences in how the pdf is written by both apliccations. could there be some rounding effect (in inkscape) at the end, this is not handy, and I am wondering why is that. any idea on this ? have I missed something in the pdf export ?
After drawing a segmented circle in Adobe Illustrator using the Polar Grid Tool, how do you make each of the segments into individual layers that arent connected to the whole circle?
As the title mentions I need to create a pie of sorts using Adobe Illustrator. It seems like it would be easy using the Polar Grid Tool but I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to make each 'piece' of the pie be into its own independant object/layer/etc. I need each piece to be independantly editible for color/content/text/etc. Please help an AI noob....
I have an image with a gradient that goes from fully opaque to fully transparent. I was given this by a customer who doesn't have the original PSD file. All I need to do is make the file more transparent so the opaque part is semi-opaque and so the entire thing really is more transparent than it used to be. If it's a layered PSD I know how to do that but can't figure out how to get the layers back.
And how does one do this? An example where the lines are intersecting the letterforms:
Is it possible to import a batch of .png files into a PSD, such that each imported .png is in a separate layer?
For example, there are 2 layers: an iPhone mockup an app icon upper left of the mockup screen When I want to export the app icon as a .png file, now I: copy the icon layer to a new PSD use the mouse to drag the icon to center change canvas to 57 x 57 further arrange the icon position export Is there a way to quickly clone a layer and center it?
Can anyone help me to identify the font of these letters? It is a light sans-serif typeface.
Which is better experience in responsive design.. To create all containers with % and em units OR use pixels for main containers and % for content (adaptive)? Thanks
Is there a culturally-universal symbol to represent religion or a place of worship? I would like to avoid having an icon containing multiple religious symbols because that opens up a whole mess of problems and which symbols to show would depend a lot on the cultural of the viewer.
I have programming background with some experience with image manipulation via GIMP and Fireworks. As working with image manipulators is part of my work sometimes I decided to improve my knowledge in this area. However, when I try looking for something like GIMP tutorial what I am able to find are only some tutorials with how to do this logo and that image, how to apply filter and so on. What I would need is some decent tutorial explaining the basic graphics concepts like layers, channels and so on so I can see what is happening behind the tools used in GIMP. What should I be looking for? What are possible resources to learn these thigns?
I have these two icons: Image without a tick sign Image with a tick sign I want to add a tick sign on the top image which is without a tick sign. I am a developer extremely novice in graphic design. Could anybody guide me to do that in the simplest possible way?
What is this font? Here is the link to the pdf file: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.0070.pdf Is this the Egizio URW font??
I'm creating a website of a friend of mine. He really likes the font "Century Gothic". Now I'm having hard time figuring out what is legal to use and what not etc. I tried googling it but the more I google the more complex and less clear the issue becomes to me. So I've got two questions. Can I use the font on the website using the @font-family rule? Like I found on a website like this: font-family: "Century Gothic","Apple Gothic",AppleGothic,"URW Gothic L","Avant Garde",Futura,sans-serif; If the answer if 1 is 'no' would it still be legal to use the font in photoshop for the name logo, export it as an image and use the image on the website? Sorry if I could find the answer myself, but I really couldn't make any sense of it, especially for question 2. Thanks in advance!
Adobe Indesign CS6. Take a look on this image: How to remove shadow under blue shape? I can't clear effects on this object:
I need a repeatable diagonal line pattern, but I'm not quite sure how to achieve this. I made the stripe 3px wide, then transparent spacing 6px wide, then rotated the canvas 10° (which is what I need). How can I make this into a tileable pattern? So I followed the second answer in the duplicate question and ended up with what I needed.
I am trying to figure out what font inspired this old Pierre Balmain logo and I'm having trouble finding this font. Can anyone help?
I have always wondered: where should the first page number start? I know the front matter is typically in lower case roman numbers, whereas the mainmatter is with arabic ones. The mainmatter starts the count ---i.e., page 1--- with Chapter 1; but I have no idea where the frontmatter should begging the counter. For example, in a PhD thesis typically there is a page with the title, a quote, an abstract, a dedicatory, table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of acronyms. So, two questions: 1) What should be the order of things for the frontmatter 2) What should be numbered in the front matter, and what shouldn't count as part of it?
I have been downloading google fonts for the last few months and not been aware of any issues. They normally work fine. However, today I downloaded 3 more - I am using suitcase to manage these fonts and all my other applications are seeing the fonts fine BUT Illustrator CS6 is only seeing one of them. The fonts in question are Cuprum and Philosopher I have tried using skyfonts - not worked - read some helpful post on this site and tried: Mac OS Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts - not worked. Read someone else who did this /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Fonts - not worked for me. I have repaired the disk permissions on my mac and turned it off for half an hour. I have created fonts folders and put the fonts in every combination of application support / Application fonts/ Illustrator CS6 folder etc etc etc and both Mac OS Library and User Library and then re started illustrator and restarted the mac but NOTHING IS WORKING TO MAKE ILLUSTRATOR SEE THESE TWO FONTS. I am an experienced (20 years) graphic designer using an Apple mac and this has me comnpletely stumped. At the moment I am having to type the text in Indesign, create outlines and copy and paste to illustrator. I don't use in design often so don't know my way around it, and have never had this problem with other google fonts before. Help please...... if you can PS - I have also now run the apple script to clear the font caches - deleted all instnaces of the font from the whole sysstem run the script again restarted and re-installed and guess what - still not seeing these fonts in Illustrator. Suitcase displays them as Open source but In design puts a TrueType icon. UPDATE: 24 hours later - Problem solved - After reading some info on another forum relating to an Indesign font issue. Illustrator is putting the fonts in a separate section at the bottom of the font list, and I did not see them. Not sure why, as all other apps list alphabetically (I have never had this before). After giving up defeated, my spirits are soaring now. - Hope this is helpful to others.
I am working on a CMS with the feature to 'follow' and also the option to see stats. There are 2 buttons, and the stats value becomes 1.2k etc after it reaches over 1000. I have added some icons, and trying to keep the design flat and simple but something doesn't feel right. Im going to try making the icons smaller, but other than that, any ideas? Perhaps icon on the right? EDIT, I am going to run a test where by I remove the text and simply have the heart and the stats button. I'll have a tool top when hovering, and it might also make things more consistent when the media queries kick in.
In photoshop elements (or any other program really), is there a way to batch "distort" a bunch of images? Lets say I have multiple images (all 500 by 500 pixels) and I want to distort them all to a certain shape,....is there a way to do that? thank you
When I am designing a mockup in Photoshop CC (a website for example), I typically have each element of the website on an individual layer. This is both for production of creating the assets for development and ease of use within photoshop (editing the actual mockup). When it comes time to create the assets for production, I would copy them, create a new file, paste and save them as needed. However, is this actually efficient and it begs the question of what are other ways of accomplishing this task. What are efficient workflows for exporting assets from a design mockup in Photoshop CC that are different from previous versions of photoshop. Are there plugins that can assist and are there downsides? Sometimes plugins are not as controllable as manually control for example. Here are some I can think of with consideration of transparencies etc: As mentioned above, Copy the layer, open a new file, paste and save Ctrl Click the layer tile, crop, save, Undo the crop (not generally "safe") Convert the layer into a smart object, open it, save Others?
I would like to keep the patterns I have created in Illustrator CS6 in a handy file. Currently, I just make an object, apply the pattern, and copy/paste the object to transfer the pattern to a different file, but would like to save all of the patterns so that I can just load them all at once. Is the Save Swatch Library as ASE the best way to do this? I want to be sure I can share these patterns with others.
I have an Image in size 20"*30". I wanted to get it printed on canvas but it is pixelated, I got some ideas that applying "LOMO" effects or Grains on the image can help avoid pixelation and image can be printed comfortably. I could not get any such solution, do we have any such solution or any other Effect too which can help for the same?
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I have an app that I am planning on releasing to app store. I'm trying to decide how to price the app. And I was thinking that aesthetically perhaps there is a number that is most appealing ? Perhaps users don;t consciously think of this when buying an app and all they are concerned with is the actual price. I've read that .99 versus 1 is makes a big difference when consumers are deciding wether or not to purchase. Or maybe I am just over thinking this and should just go with what I feel its worth.
On my CV I have added png icons and resized them When export as pdf these icons lose resolution/quality How do I fix this? See below.
I have a question for you guys... :) I have Pantone Colors in my photoshop files. However, I am also using Indesign to do final composing and exporting of the design. I was wondering what is the best way to export file from Indesign to ensure Pantone colors in Pantone is embedded. Any setting I need to check?? Thank you L.
I am running into a lot of problem on Design my artwork in photoshop in RGB. Then convert to CMYK in PDF format. Then when I print it with print company, Colors are not always right. I am not really sure what is the "good & correct" way out there. Because my artwork has texture & transparency. My workflow--> create artwork in photoshop in RGB After approved by boss, I try to find pantone colors that is close to my print out and switch to Pantone. Does this sound wrong to any of you ? It's seems so complicated but I have to ensure certain color is right. Any better suggestion? Lori
Do I need to use the logo colors at all? If yes how do I create a palette using it? How do I decide which colors to use how much and where?
I like to draw every now and then and I guess, the results are OK for a computer scientist. Schematics like the eye on the left are sometimes needed in scientific publications and when you use freely available images for that, you (i) have to check the copyright and (ii) you never find something which contains exactly what you want with the right labels and details. Additionally, I like to do things by myself and I'm always amazed by people drawing things like this professionally like here or here. I own a heavily underused Wacom Intuos 5M and I have the Creative Suite CS6. I would really like to either digitally ink or completely redraw my sketches with Illustrator, but I'm simply overwhelmed by the pure mass of available tutorials, videos and documentation. For instance, there seem to be completely different approaches to ink drawings, where there is one newer approach (?) and an old-established method. And I don't even know whether it is not better to build something like an eye from geometrical primitives like circles and curves instead of sketching and inking it. In short, a situation where you can easily follow the wrong path as a beginner and waste time or loose interest. Question: Is there a preferred approach and are there tutorials/videos/documentation that experienced users would highly recommend for the purpose I described? Additionally, I would like to know why there are different inking methods and which one is recommended for what purpose?

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