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I have an image of 90x122 pixels i want to resize it to make it 512x512 pixels but the image loses it quality Is there any way of doing this without losing the quality?.
I have a book ready for printing. But, of course, it was done in RGB. In fact, I stretched the RGB gamut beyond its normal range in order to make it more painterly etc. When I saw it converted to CMYK, I almost passed out. All the great colors I had achieved in RGB had been dulled and "grayed". It was a great disappointment even after infinite tweaking of the CMYK colors in a futile attempt to get them back to match the original RGB colors. Worst of all was the color blue. No matter what I did in CMYK to restore this very important color, all I got was a gray-blue. Is it possible in this remarkable age of technology that there is no printing press that can print a book directly from RGB?
I have a two-spot job that uses a Pantone Blue C and a Pantone Black C. I need to create various tints of the black spot, but I don't really like using Pantone blacks for tints. From a production standpoint, would it matter if I substituted Black C for a CMYK 100% K value (process black)?
I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in a taxicab geometry. An example would be this picture, an image from a flash game called "Traitor": It is a distinct art style which I've seen it popped up in different places, so I'm sure there's a name to it. I've tried to find it by keywords like "fractal art", but no luck.
Can someone tell me why i cannot add a stroke to the selected path? I have opened the file multiple times/copied and pasted the paths and tried to change the color and weight of the stroke. I believe this has to do with the circle being filled in. in the layer selection. illustrator says its adding a stroke but nothing shows up.
Does anyone know what this font is? I have already tried using whatthefont Var1. Originally posted by topic starter. Var2. The are differences between the images, however they may be result of scaling or other image manipulations.
Some layer effects and styles in Photoshop have pixel settings. The problem appears when you want to scale your design. For example, in Bevel and Emboss you are able to set the Size and Soften. The former is limited to 250px and the latter to 16px. To scale and preserve my design I need to set values greater than the Photoshop limits. Is it possible to do that? Any workaround? Moving to Illustrator is not a solution, since some Photoshop effects that I'm using are not present in Illustrator.
Sometimes, when I'm drawing a vector path with the pen tool, I need to drag the line further than I have screen space, and this makes the screen scroll down, which makes me lose focus on what I'm looking at. Is there a keyboard shortcut or some way to prevent the screen from automatically scrolling downward (or whatever direction) and just allow me to drag it as far as I want?
I was going to try to do the line art of one of my drawings on adobe illustrator, but when i open the file the brushes are not there. There's only the basic brush and i can't reduce its size. I've tried to open the image in various formats, but it didn't work. How can i solve this?
I have 550+ fonts installed in my Windows 7, which is annoying, because they all are appear in Adobe Illustrator font's menue. Its really difficult to find appropriate fonts when it needed, also i am scared to add new fonts. Is there any safe way to delete redundant fonts and group new fonts (may be as folders)? Thank you.
Alright I am thinking of designing this site for xyz need or customers. Now when i am thinking...ideas that pop up in my mind are about lot of things, which are not necessarily related to graphic design immediately. Ideas cover from new features, animations, inquiries/theories, user interaction, website layout...to everything else. Basically ideas are born from new insights that i gain as i go deep into the goal. I could just write them, but some are just too simple to be written down. But i know i will rediscover them like 4 times more because i'll also forget them. Whereas others require more thinking but if i think about them i'll definitely lose the mood that i am in for doing what i am doing now. And it may very well all amount to procrastination. So it got me wondering is there any tool, strategy, workflow, tips, or anything else that helps in profiting from these ideas. Tools like that let me store ideas by features double click them to see extra details. Workflow...like stop every now and then review what you have done..write down things that you think you ought to further research or think about. Also dot down new features that seem very helpful and natural by user's point of view. or keep notebook/(notepad open) near by to write down whatever is in your mind then later when done go over them.. or one other way would be store ideas but don't implement them but think of them features that you would like to have implemented in next version. I guess my goal would be to not waste brain cycles, minimize amount of revisions, and mainly not lose brain gems.
I have been doing web design for a couple of years now. I am trying to design it on paper but am not the best at it. Could you please give me some advise on how to blueprint it? How can I create wireframe-like mockups of a website on paper with a pencil or pen?
Once I have drawn the shape, per below, how do I simply lengthen the line? If I try via Transform Controls, it will also increase the width of the line (i.e. It transforms the whole shape as I drag diagonally upwards). How do I just make the line longer? Thanks.
I am using a font (custom made)for a title- which never posed any problem in other programs (illustrator, powerpoint, etc) - and it is acting very odly. See for yourself: It gives me this huge space above it. And it doesn't do that when I change the font... I am very confused :-s
i had tried to find this font in many web pages but couldn't find the exact font.So please can somebody help me to find this font.
I'm an amateur graphic designer. I've been doing work for local companies and initiatives for just over a year now. I recently got a job designing for a pretty big client (by my standards). They wanted me to sign over ALL of my rights. I asked for portfolio rights (only the right to display it in my portfolio as a work that I contributed to). The representative said that I could put it in my portfolio, but I asked that they put it in the contract. It's been two weeks and I haven't even received a reply denying my request. Was my request unfair? Should I just send in a signed version of their contract, apologize for an unreasonable request and cut my losses?
I'm getting an error when I view my illustrator doc. error on line 33308 at column 20: Namespace prefix inkscape for connector-curvature on path is not defined My illustrator document is pretty basic except it uses a custom font. I don't know how to begin to solve this error. Any troubleshooting tips/ideas?
Hello! I'm looking for the name this font! Any ideas?
I recently bought a Wacom tablet for someone I know as she is interested in getting into the digital design industry. She's mainly just been doodling some drawings in Photoshop with it at the moment, but she wants to start adding colour to the drawings. However, she told me that due to the brush strokes the lines are not completely connected (for example if she draws a circle as a face, there are gaps in some places). What method do people use to get around this, and to start adding colour? Thanks!
I've been tasked with designing a viral campaign with limited budget. I've not worked on such things before, so I don't really have any idea on how to handle this task. What exactly makes a campaign go viral? Is it possible to make something cheap and be sure that it goes viral? How would a designer judge how "viral" their work is? Here's the background to my specific case. I'm working in an internet agency. Actually as a webdesigner, but I bet most of you experience the same problems as I do: we frequently get "abused" to do things we're not really supposed to do. I don't have a huge problem with that, but I think I kind of like don't know how to handle this task I got one or two weeks ago: We're desperately searching coders who're able to code PHP, MySQL and so on and it turns out to be quite difficult to find someone at the moment. We've already spent a lot of time and money on finding some new team members but it turns out, it ain't really easy to find people over platforms like monster.com. To give you some more information: my company is based in Munich, Germany. My task is it to create a campaign (no matter if online or offline) which should go viral within a short time. Still they don't want to spend a huge amount of money which makes it quite hard for me to find an idea that actually goes viral, is "cheap" and attracts the targeted group. I really want to help the company, so that we find some new coders, but I really don't have any idea on how to handle this task.
Not sure exactly how to describe this, but here goes... I have some key/value pairs that I want to display separated by a colon: Name : Some Person Description : A description that can span multiple lines Department : D1 The values will be imported from XML at some point. The description value can be short, but also long enough to break into multiple lines. Important is that I don't know how long the description will be up front. How can I make the description to align with the colons? At this moment this is what I get: Name : Some Person Description : A description that can span multiple lines Department : D1 I'm using Adobe InDesign CS6.
I've been messing around with Pencil2D to create simple, keyframe animations, and although it works nicely, I can see how if you have an animation which is a combination of lots of independent animations (as I'm sure most animations are!) then you'd have difficulty creating that in software as simple as Pencil2D. I don't know how professional animators handle this, but I would have thought that it would make sense to create each of the independent animations separately, and then be able to import them in to the main animation and position each one freely and set their own frame rates. I was wondering what software is available (preferably free, but trialware would be OK) that would allow you to combine several independent animations, whilst still in their original, vector format, onto a single canvas that then forms the final animation (which will be a standard video that can be uploaded to online video services)? I don't think that a standard video compositor would work because I want to be able to zoom in and out of my animations while retaining fidelity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! I'm working in Windows, but have access to Linux if needs be. Thanks,
Can you tell me which font is used for the logo of this web site? How can I create my logo using the same font and same pattern? What 's the font used for the capital text?
I am looking for help with creating spherical map similar to provided in picture: the 6 parts spherical map image setup (bent): I want to put together a promotional balloon vinyl,and I want to print on advertising material and thus put together a balloon, when put together to be whole advertisement. My problem is, write logo like this in the figure that, when cut dlove and merge into the sphere of painting merge and be whole
I make a dotted map just like the one on the image below. I am using Illustrator and Photoshop. How can I select and re-color some of the dots on this image?
I'm teaching my child, who is 5, how to write and I wondered if it would be a bad idea to teach the foundations of typography and if any skills or techniques exist for children that can help show them how to progress in typography and writing skills? So far I have come up with: The anatomy but I'm having to make it into a game because I don't want to bore her: The different types of font styles.
One of my pages has a single image taking up some space on the page. The rest of the space (the space not occupied by the image), should be transparent: that is, whenever I send it to the printing service, the base color of the selected paper should be visible, without any ink being printed on it (not even white - the paper will have a base color/texture that I do not want to print over) Currently exporting the page to a png file creates an image with my original image on a white background, since that is what the background in scribus is set to. I do not want this: I want the image to be on a transparent background. I have taken a look in all possible menu options and I have been unable to find where can I set the background color, which currently seems to be white. I do not know if it is possible to set the background color of a page, and in case it is possible, if it is possible to set it to transparent. How can I achieve this in scribus?
I am pretty new to Photoshop and am trying to do 2 things. I'm pretty sure this is the right site for this question. How do I horizontally and vertically center a Layer, or Text or an Image on the canvas, and how do I give Text a multi colored gradient, as shown in the picture below?
I have this two-sided layout that I need to print. The way my project is structured (a party flyer), the front page must be rotated 180° when printing, and the back page must stay as-is (or the other way around, it does not matter). How can I rotate a page 180° in Scribus? Ideally I would just rotate when printing, but if there is no such option, I could rotate the page in the document after doing my editting. I have found just the option of mirroring horizontally/vertically the pages, but I think that applies to all pages, not to a single one.
In Illustrator I used the Type on path tool and typed a word on a black drawn line. I have change the style of the brush the line is using and now I want to change the color of the line. The text and the line seem to have been merged into a single object and when I change the color of the selected object, only the font color changes, the line does not change. If I move the text, the line moves with it. They seem to be one object but the text paints separately from the line. How do I paint the line? I have replicated the results in the screenshot below. Top picture: Created text on a line. Changed the brush stroke of the text, which added the effect visible in the bottom. Bottom picture: Changed the color of the stroke, which only edits the font stroke, not the brush that is now visible.
I am designibg a banner 6' by 4' at what resolution should an image 2' by 3.5' I would like to use be?
If I have a text that I want to have the same color as an object I can't select the text and then use the eyedropper tool to get the color from a (for example) rectangle. The text will get the Fill correctly, but the text will still be black. This is because the Characters layer is above the Fill layer in Appearance. How can I use the eyedropper to change color on text? I should add that the eyedropper works sometimes, but not all the time. Sometimes the fill ends upp under "Characters", thus the fill color isn't shown.
I would like to know what font this is, or the name of a similar font. I've already tried with font from an image recognition services and also sites with step by step font identification. It's not a typical serif or sans-serif font, so no luck so far. I've decided that it's easier to use one of the similar fonts and to customize it for the final result. Thanks everybody for your help.
I have a 5760px x 3840px image with a filesize of1.14MB. I would like to reduce its filesize to 200KB without altering its dimensions. How can I do this in Photoshop?
I have a friend who is a jewelry designer that works for a small jewelry shop and she mentioned to me that her boss is looking for someone to edit some images of the staff, not sure how many exactly, may be about 10? Basically He want's their images edited to look "sketchy". I think he only wants the images edited and sent back as he will use them for a magazine. Going on the basis that there are about 10 images to edit of the staff, how much should I charge for such a task? I've been through University and now work as a full time graphic designer (just over one year) doing in house work so I've never really done freelance work and have no idea what to charge. I don't want want to mention a price that's too high and I lose out on the work but at the same time I don't want to be under paid for my work. I know there won't be a set in stone answer for this but a rough price range so I don't get ripped off. (in pounds sterling)
I've come here seeking for a bit of design help or advice on how I could possibly improve the following: Like the title says, I'm having a website banner with multiple text displayed on different images as backgrounds. Now, since most of the images are dark, I've set the font color as white. But even then, some of the text is not very readable on a couple of images like: Since I'm working with CSS, I've tried different options such as: Adding Text Shadows: CSS: text-shadow: 3px 3px 0px #000; Also tried, creating a semi-transparent box around the text: Demo I feel the box one looks out of place. I've created a fiddle for anyone who knows CSS. If not, please feel free to advice me based on your imagination alone. PS: You could also advice on using a different font if that would help it stand out better.
I would like to add a proper screenshot to an iPhone product image to create an ad for an iOS 7 app. Apple provides such product images as .psd files for Photoshop, however I only have Gimp 2.8.10 (for OS X) available. When viewed in GIMP, the product image contains two layers: one for the whole device, the other for its screen. Adding the raw screenshot to the product image is simple enough: "Open as Layers ..." plus "Scale Layer". However, I am also supposed to hide my actual (screen-captured) status bar in favor of Apple's generic version (it has a full battery icon, etc). Apple's App Store Marketing Guidelines state that "status bar options are provided on different layers within the Smart Object layer" but GIMP apparently does not render these finer details in the .psd file (and I am also unfamiliar with these concepts). So my question is this: can I use GIMP to combine my screenshot with the product image template such that a generic status bar in the template becomes visible without "brute" copy/paste, i.e. by following a procedure analog to the one prescribed for Photoshop? What would be the right steps?
i didn't really use Illustrator before, but i'm having troubles with some basic things such as aligning shapes together accurately. I'm using this auto-snap feature to align things but it's never really pixel-accurate as shown in the screenshots: Whenever i try to resize the shape so that it fits the edges of the circle it snaps back as shown in the screenshot. Don't get me wrong, i just want to have the shape the same size as the outter circle.
Hello graphic design exchange. I have a question about creative commons and its mix usage for printed materials. As you know there are lots of websites offering free vectors for commercial uses. In my case, it is freepik.com. It says it allows commercial usage if we attribute them. My question is how can we attribute on printed materials like business cards? For example I design some business cards for my freelance customers and want to use some brush or shape from one element. Maybe I use lots of background elements seperately. How can I attribute on business card for example? For example a web banner, how can we attribute? or a smaller project a logo and I like a shape vector and want to use by mixing other elements, how can I attribute these types of designs? edit: this question marked as a duplicate, but I have different situation. On a magazine, there can be a copyright, on a poster, there can be a little statement, but on a business card design? For example floral vector backgrounds from a cc licensed file?
I stumbled upon a background image with transparency I have never seen before (image below). When placed as a background-image on web, it mantains the set background-color and only adds some "noise" to it. When you place a one-color 8-bit png picture with transparency over it, the foreground picture is perfectly visible - only a little "noise" added. It is also very small (<300 kB) compared to a duplicate PNG images I tried to create from scratch (>1.5 MB) How can you achieve something like that? I've tried (Photoshop): using a plastre wall texture image and save it as a 30% visible layer -> picture in the foreground is perfectly visible, but it won't maintain the background color set by css. using a plastre wall brush + grey color and paint transparent background with 50% brush transparency -> background color from css is maintained, but the picture in foreground is not visible for some colors.
Is there a name for a set of figures which fit into the x-height (or thereabouts) in a typeface? Lining figures explicitly do not: While old-style figures have ascenders and descenders: In the old-style figures, the 1, 2, 3, and 0 fit in the x-height. Is there a name for a set of figures which also contains the rest of the digits inside of the x-height? If so, which typefaces include such figures? If not, what is the best method for getting a reasonable representation of such figures?
I have no experience regarding Graphic Design, so this is kind of a intro question. If I have a font I'd like to identify, but cannot describe the details/semantics of it, how would I explain it? For example, some people here describe fonts as "x". What would it mean for a font to be "x"? Are there "categories" that fonts are typically organized in?
How can you set multiple layers equal distance between them in Photoshop in a given distance? I know you can do the math and manually set the x axis value for each of them, but I am looking for a simpler solution and, more importantly, faster. Example: Input - 5 rectangles 150x150 px size; distance between the grids 1000 px: Do something set equal distance between rectangles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Result:
I want to copy a circle and re-size it at the same time, then do Ctrl+D several times to imitate the behavior and end up having circles with increasing diameter. I don't want it to scale the new circle by the same fixed %, ending up with a sort of logarithmic growth related to the original circle. What I'd need to do is to have a linear growth, so that the increasing in the radius is linear. Not sure if I explained it correctly, any doubt let me know!
I auto traced an image and am trying to change the color of all the black lines and sections to brown, but some of the lines I can't change with the Paint Bucket tool (because it fills in a large section of white instead). Is there a way I can change these lines' color? If not, what should I do differently when applying Live Trace so that such lines don't exist?
I'm trying to create a flyer, using InDesign CS6, for which the content is imported from XML, but I'm struggling... This is my InDesign template: I've tagged the individual text elements I need to replace and the text frame is tagged Specifications. My XML looks like this: What I would expect is that the FlagState, TradingArea, etc. tags are replaced by the XML content on import. However, what I end up with is all my descriptions and titles gone, and additional tabs inserted in their place: I've tried al sorts of import options, all to no avail :( For this example this are the options used: Questions: Am I doing something wrong -- am I missing something? Is what I am trying to do possible at all using InDesign? All input is appreciated!
I was wondering why some of the SVG Filters found in Illustrator are automatically converted to PNG when I export the entire file to SVG. I don't want any hidden PNG files because of scalability. To put it differently: Why do some of the effects I create get rasterised, even though I'm working in a vector application with a vector file format?
I was wondering if anyone knows how to avoid vector created patterns (from Illustrator) looking terrible (a sort of harsh, jagged looking moire pattern) when viewing a saved pdf in Acrobat. If you view the same pdf in a web browser it looks fine. I create a lot of downloadable pdf:s and often people will choose to view them in Acrobat. I have seen pdf:s with beautiful smooth vector patterns so I know it can be done, just don't know how to do it. I would be extremely grateful for advise on this. I wanted to attach my pdf so you can see for yourselves but couldn't find an option to do so... Thanks
I have tried everything I can think of, but when I reduce resolution of graphics, keeping the same dimensions, it has no effect on the size of the file. This makes no sense. I prepare graphics for the web and so I often want to drop some weight by lowering the resolution of an image from, say, 300 ppi to 72 ppi. It would seem, intuitively, that this would lower the size of the file. Yet, when I do it, the file size stays the same. Is there something I'm missing? I've tried with resampling on and off, to no avail.
I have just started documenting a purchasing, warehousing, billing, sales, and accounting application - a real monster! It is being deployed to multiple sites and is modified for each site. This means the UI changes for each deployment, so new screen grabs have to be re-taken. As the same screen is referenced in multiple documents, I am currently looking at HelpNDoc, as it links one image to multiple documents. This is great - retake one screen grab and it updates in multiple documents. However, any formatting on the image (arrows etc) is lost. Also, HelpNDoc doesn't allow a huge amount of formatting in the Word and PDF outputs. This means that any HelpNDoc generated file would have to be Word-ed after generation. Is there a tool which Allows links to an image or an image library Also enables publication-ready formatting Maybe Framemaker?
I usually create figures using something like Matlab or Python; then I use Illustrator for final touch-ups and things. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the colorbars when I open my figures in CS3 (ancient, I know...) My colormaps come from colorbrewer2.org. For example, I'm trying to use a divergent, 11-class scheme expressed in RGB values. It's a simple red-yellow-blue scheme that looks quite nice with my data. Unfortunately, when I open my figure in Illustrator, the colorbar is a wreck: As you can probably tell, I don't really know what I'm doing in Illustrator! I only use it to create simple schematics or make small changes to figures. What's weird is that the colors in my figure look fine; it's just the colorbar that is messed up. How can I fix my colorbar? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
This is a very minor thing but very annoying. I am using Adobe Illustrator CC (Windows 7 station) to create cosmetic labels. They have, of course, a lot of copy. The copy is set on area type boxes. They are not linked. They are all isolated boxes. Sometimes I need to copy and paste some portion of the text from one box to another. I do this the most basic way: I highlight a section of the text (a word), copy it (Ctr-C) and paste it in a different box (Ctr-V). Most of the time (with very few exceptions that I have not been able to replicate) I find that not only the word I highlighted gets copied, but the text from ALL the area types. The text I highlighted gets copied as well and added, at the end of the FULL text. The same thing happens if I copy the text and paste it on a word editors (Notepad). For example, I have this label: Suppose I highlight the word "NEED" on the second area type box and copy it (Ctr-C). Then I open a Notepad (or draw another text area, or use any other word editing application) and paste the copied text (Ctr-V). This is what I get. Abc Defghlk sdsdsdsd dsfsdf sdfsdf fderereLOREM IPSUMSOME TEXT I NEED SOMEWHERE ELSE MORE LOREM IPSUMNEED Notice the word NEED at the end, repeated. So I have learnt to live with this: copy, paste, delete the text I don't need and keep the last portion. But it is very annoying. Anyone knows what is the reason for this behaviour?
I like the repeated shape, with color "overlap" but I do not know what to call this, or how to create something similar in Photoshop. How do I create this effect in Photoshop?
Can anyone confirm that OCR-A is a sans-serif font? Are the OCR-A capital letters considered to be block-form? Thank you.
I have several circles that are set at type none color and 0.01 black stroke. They're all currently in paths (except two I made into compound paths). I want to know how to remove the stroke from the areas where the shapes overlap. Here is an image: I want it to look like what's on the right. What I've done so far: I can get somewhere if I select the two hollow circles which are currently 4 separate paths and make them into a compound path on exclude, but it still looks like the image on the left. I tried removing the anchors, but that does something completely different since those two circles are then broken up into a total of 7 pieces at the intersection points.
I am creating a portfolio website for a college class and my homepage content contains a Welcome, About and Contact paragraph. What are several icons I could use that appropriately represent the Welcome and About sections?
Look at this picture: All the squares are filled with solid color without any gradient, but at the borders between the colors we see as if gradients were used. In the past I tried to create similar image by using gradients, but with the time realised that optical illusion gives me the opportunity to create the picture with solid colors without gradients. I am looking for the name of this phenomenon. Tried to find the name but only "optical illusion" came to results.
For the time being I have only this image of A. Can you tell me what the name of this font is? Explaining that a certain answer that easily comes to mind does not work: I tried to use WhatTheFont on the example. (see http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/). It was somewhat complicated to even find out whether it could work or not, I describe it here, because it not like "anybody could just try". It took some workarounds to have it even try to recognize the font. With the workarounds, the recognition was running, but found nothing similar. As it did not separate the letters at first step, I separated one manually in GIMP: But still, it did not recognize it as a single letter, but two, based on the gap on the left side. So I covered that gap: Now the recognition started just fine, but the resulting list of similar fonts did not show anything interesting (you could try with the last image). EDIT: The letter A in question may be flipped, so if you are looking for the source then you might try to using this image as well -
tl;dr What is the best way to use value-based fees for design projects? What would the "value" be? I see that a lot of designers use time-based pricing (hourly, daily, etc.) Time-based pricing is horrible, for the following reasons: There's a conflict of interest between you and the client. The longer the work takes, the more you earn and the more the client loses. So it's unethical. When you set an hourly fee, you set a limit to what you can earn, as you have limited time. Say you set 100,000$ as your goal for the year, who knows you can't earn double, or triple that? It's difficult to justify a price after you are done. What if you finish the project, and it takes you much more than you calculated, and the client refuses to pay? Second option, putting fixed prices to specific tasks is better, but still not really good, for the following reasons: When you set a fixed price to tasks like business card design, website design, etc., it might be completely different from one client to another, and you will still be charging the same. It's difficult to justify costs to clients when you show your services as commodities. Best way to price things, most of the time, is to use value-based pricing, because: You will be able to justify much higher fees to the client, if you show them the tangible benefits they will be getting. It's ethical, as you base your fees on the value you are offering to the client. If they are expected to earn 10$ from your services, you can charge them 1$, and they will be happy with an ROI of 1 to 10. Sky's the limit. But I'm wondering what the best way is when you are using value-based fees for design work. For example, when you are doing consulting, you can see that a 10% improvement in "Operation A" can offer the client 1 million dollars in revenue. So you can charge the client 100,000$. With design work, the ROI is not tangible enough. How would you justify your fees to the client, and what would be the "values" you are going to be offering? What exactly do I mean with "value-based fees"? I think "value-based fees" have a different meaning in design community. What I mean is this: There's a school of thought saying "your fees should be based on the tangible and intangible values the client will get." A tangible value could be direct increase in revenue. An intangible value could be offering a service no one else can offer, or increasing employee morale. But I'm having a difficult time thinking of values the client will get in design projects. For example, one thing I can think of is showing the client how much a client with professional logos earn more. Let's say there's a research saying that "companies that have professional logos earn 10% more". You can use that research to say that the client will get an average of 10% experience in revenue and you can get 10% off of that. Though the difficult thing is, design is pretty much subjective. So what is a "professional logo"? Or which logo is better? All these things make value based pricing difficult, as it's easier to use value based pricing with tangible things, which design seems not to be.
Where can I find resources on how to create a visual guideline across multiple products, eg. apps. Example; If a company wants to do 20 apps, and they should have a visual guideline across all 20 apps. The functionality ect in each app is completely different, but the style is the same. Where can I find resources on how to get started with creating such a guideline? What does it take and whats the does and don'ts?
Hello All, is there an easy way to grab an image (or a shape I cut out with GIMP Free Select tool) and then just write text over it and let it fill the shape? I have tried searching for it but no tutorial really seems to resemble my idea. What is my best option? Thank you.
My students are creating 2D artwork of characters for integration in a video game. I'm unhappy with the results, because the bodies are "wrong", but I can't really help them out because I'm worse than them at painting people. Is there any simple tool, like the wooden figures of oil painters, that we could use to position a 3D puppet in the proper position, render that in a rough picture, and compare to the 2D creation to "see" the issues?
I need to draw a paper plane for my game. I have pretty much PS experience but still have problems with easy tasks. It must be totally 2d , so most examples that can be found on the internet are inappropriate. And all my own works look primitively(at best). Any advices or examples?
I've been playing around with some gradients on a site I'm developing, and I'm really interested in the psychology or other meaning behind why certain colors appear more attractive than others. Here's the site right now: The gradients there look quite natural to the design. But if I start mixing and matching, I end up with this: I can't seem to find another decent gradient that looks "natural". I'm wondering what the psychology is behind how we perceive these mixes of colors... is there some kind of rule to find colors that go well together in a gradient? I imagine it depends on the kind of feel you're going for. I appreciate any and all input!
Is there a way to set the default colors of the lines and points in line graphs in Illustrator CS 5? I'm having to create 75+ line graphs and it would be nice to have the colors default to my settings rather than having to recolor the lines and points every time.
I have a bunch of lines that go behind the layer of a mountain that I have created and I would like to cut them out. Proving to be impossible right now with the pathfinder tool. Any suggestions?
I have two layer with the same smart object. If I edit the smart object, both layers are updated (nice!) I copy these layers to another file (by dragging them) In the new file, both smart object are unlinked! If I edit one, the other will not change. How can I copy the smart objects to a new file so that they remain linked?
I needs to look like it looks here with three different pics for screen printing. Is there any way to do this quickly or do I have to do it manually?
I'm new to the graphic design section of SE, this being my first question here, but not new to graphic or web design. I am in the process of making a free website for a new local eSports bar. The basic layout is there, but the logo looks out of place. (please note none of the grahpics were made by me and are currently just placeholders) The website uses media queries and there are 4 different size layouts based on width: Very Large: 1051px + Large: 751px - 1050px Medium: 461px - 750px Small: Less than 460 In my opinion, the logo looks perfectly in place on the "small" layout, but looks terribly out of place on the other three. My Question: What can I do to tie my logo into the larger layouts so that it doesn't look as if it's just sitting there? (Resize browser width to see different layouts) Website: http://pvp.comeze.com/
Trying to come up with a undelete icon, the best ideas I've come up with so far are an upside down wastebin with rubbish underneath it. It is going to be placed on a user profile page that lists user content serving to specify what content has been deleted and likely providing a link to undelete that content.
How can I show speed in this example? I don't have any vector programs, I'm working in Photoshop. Any advice will be helpful.
So I recently got this theme and I have been modifying it to fit my needs for the application and I came across a piece of design in which I am unsure about. I have a table which contains bans, these bans have a lot of data attached to them for instance Player's GUID, Admin's Ingame Name, etc. along with the ban entries. I wanted to know...where can I display this extra data. There's not enough data to display on another page along with the fact that the data should be easily accessible as well as fast to get to. In the image below you can see that I had this idea: You click on a ban entry, it expands downwards exposing some extra data however I don't know to display this data so it fits with the rest of the theme. Please halp! Link to full image
Can anyone think of an icon that represents delivered fully assembled? Only requirement is no tools. Client has said no to tools or screws etc, as he thinks it leads people to think you might need them. Current icon below.
I use actions regularly. Sometimes I just need to resize a bunch of images to a certain size, and will never use that action again. So I create an action, use it and then delete it, or let it rot in the actions dialogue. Is there a way to make some changes to an image, and then apply to all open images without having to explicitly create an action?
I'm thinking on a logo for my personal site that is tech/dev oriented and I've been curious about the use of brackets/braces/parentheses in logos. Most of these special characters have a lot of different meanings depending on the language or context, so I was wondering if there are known general meanings. Some examples and my thoughts: <brand> // HTML/web related? </brand> // HTML/web related (but different from no slash)? [brand] // typography/design? (brand) // math? modern? {brand} // CSS or web related? Any help or sources I can look at is greatly appreciated. The subjectiveness of this question and my lack of knowledge in the area makes Googling for information rather difficult. Update Here are a bunch of examples I found at random. Some are known companies, some are stock art. (source: cloudfront.net) That last one is extra clever because the symbols make a speaker and sound wave.
I have 2 different objects in Illustrator CS6. They are both their own layer. They both consist of several paths which are filled with a gradient made to resemble gold. My problem is that of one the object's colors suddenly seemed washed out. I don't remember what I did exactly. For example, a black stroke seems dark gray, almost as if it was transparent, and a gold gradient fill also seems like if all the colors that make up the gradient were a lighter shade. I double checked and yes, the colors are identical in both objects, and the document color setting is CMKY. Also, the opacity levels are identical in both (100%). Is there any setting that would cause this? It almost looks as if when you get an object in isolation mode, the rest of the non-isolated objects become a bit washed out and transparent, but not to that point, a little bit less. In other words, the object with washed out colors looks like the other objects that are not in isolation mode, but nothing is in isolation mode! I hope this makes sense. Any ideas?
I have some layers in a PSD that are named "@bounds". I'd like to create an action that will either show or hide any layers in the doc that match that layer name. Is this something that can be done through Actions?
I am really in to this kind of art style: http://www.hannesjohannes.com/ It heavily features lines and dots to create textures and shading. Is there a specific name for that kind of style? The image below is a really good example of what I am talking about, note the dots around the edges.
Typekit offers fonts in a variety of types / suffixes: Std Display Extended Condensed Pro Caption Subhead Wide Black And often these are combined. For example, https://typekit.com/fonts/kepler-std has a number of these. Although I can make a good guess / visual check of these, What do each mean? When should each be used, and why? "Display" is the one that I am particularly unclear on. And feel free to edit the question if there are types I have missed.
I am looking for a method to fill multiple colours to different letters in a word without removing the outline / expanding the type?
Is there a way to prepare a PDF file in any of the programs in the Adobe Creative Suit, making a part of it change with input from the user? For example, you make an invitation template. You make the "name" variable. Save it as PDF. The person who gets the PDF can just enter a name in a field, and the invitation would be addressed to that person. So when you are designing it, you don't need to know the names, you just create a template.
I'd like to place a custom icon on either side of my section headings similar to this hastily-made mockup. I could just place them as images, but every time that subheading moves, I'll have to move each of them manually. Is there a way to place an image into the document flow so that they would stay attached to the subheading? Ideally this would be something I could set up as a paragraph style and use over and over, but I'm not going to dream that big just yet.\ Thanks very much for any advice.
What is the font type in this image? It was created by a co-worker that is no longer at my company.
This could a very broad question, so bear with it. I was going through an article about Cleveland Indians and realized that the Logo for the team is racially insensitive. What is the general view in the graphic design community about designing an icon which could be racially sensitive? Does this view apply to other sensitive areas like sexual orientation? -- Update: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/sports/baseball/cleveland-indians-chief-wahoo-logo.html
I'm very interested in animation however I only have a little bit experience in Flash Pro. I would like to start from Blender and how to make easy models then go higher and higher. Is there any book from which I can start from? I know there are many tutorials on YouTube such as this one but I prefer some solid book which will explain everything from the basics.
I'm working on a set of ads designed to have a social media sort of feel. Generally, these ads have a header and a sub-header on a stock image. The brand has a specific header and body font that must be used on all Powerpoint presentations and websites, but I'm wondering if it's terrible branding-wise if I use different fonts that lend themselves better to the graphic feel of the stock image? Are there well-known brands that do use multiple fonts in their ads? If anyone could provide some examples that would be fantastic. A few Google searches haven't led to anything much but I'm not sure what search terms to use, either. Any and all advice appreciated, thanks!
I have 4 buttons (playback buttons) and 4 pre-selected music-track (song) buttons. Actually the content is not important. The screen will always be on like a GPS application. There will be 2 different set of colors for day and night. It is easier to find colors for usage while the user is stationary and nothing is moving. However while in car, it both must not attract the eye (so not distract the driver) and also must be visible and quickly separable enough. I am not a graphic designer and I have no experience and tested-knowledge for best set of colors to use in this situation. I do not ask directly which colors to use, but I ask what kind of colors to use or is there a site or application that has color-sets for this kind of usage? (somehow like "kuler")
I am using Photoshop CS4 Version 11.0.2. I make an action called Resize to 388px. I record the action as follows: Start Recording Image Image Size Adjust size of image down to 388px. File Save for web and devices I choose JPEG Low I check Optimized Hit Save Direct the save to the "Resized to 388px For Web" folder. Save the file in the "Resized to 388px For Web" folder. Stop recording The size of the resulting jpeg file is 8k and the file dimensions are 388x388 When I run it in batch, the resulting file dimensions are correct, but the file size is much larger at 209k which is the same as when I simply change the file size and use "Save As" manually. Here is How I run the batch: File Automate Batch Source Folder Choose (Choose my source folder) Check off Suppress File Open Options dialogs and Suppress Color Profile Warnings. Destination Choose (Choose my destination folder) ok. Can you explain what I am doing wrong or is this the normal result. Thanks, Bruce
I’m looking to automate data merge to create multiple PDFs per row of data (each PDF would have 10 pages) and with each PDF being named uniquely based on a column in the data. Specs: InDesign document with multiple pages (10 pages). CSV with 100 people. I want to have a PDF for each person (100 pdfs). Each PDF will be a 10 page document for that person. Filename for each PDF should contain a single person’s name; to know which PDF to send to which person (report_john_doe.pdf). Roadblocks I’m hitting: Data Merge that generates multiple InDesign docs; great but how do I automate them to then export to PDF + uniquely name the file based on a row/columns from the CSV? Data Merge to Export PDF; this creates one PDF with every person in it. Software: InDesign CS6 Acrobat Pro I’ve searched around on the forums but it has been a bear to figure it out. Old scripts, 404 pages, certain functionality missing, and no step by step walkthrough to figure out how to use said script. Found this script but not sure how to set it up + use it.... ? http://forums.adobe.com/message/5551746#5551746 What’s the best path to automate this via a combination of Data Merge, Scripts, Actions as necessary? Thanks for any help! E
I am looking for a particular px size (WxH) image that would be the best dimensions to use if you wanted to call a single image that could be called as the background image for a mobile device using either portrait or landscape. Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to display a background image under these circumstances?
I was trying to work myself through a few tutorials today, but I have noticed something odd: Here's a nice rubber stamp effect tutorial with two circles and text. The tutorial's text instructs you to cover the "stamp" with the calligraphic tool like the images shows and then apply Intersection to the paths. The result should look like indicated, only chips and chunks should be removed from the original stamp. But wait a minute, if you would apply intersection to the stamp which is almost covered with the calligraphic tool's ink, wouldn't that remove almost everything if you apply Intersection? Am I missing something or tutorials just don't seem to be legit these days? UPDATE: I kind of figured out something, applying Intersection is right, but I have some problems when the tutorial says convert the circles and the text to path. After that no path operations seem to work. If I just leave the circles and the text without converting them to paths, the effects do apply. UPDATE 2: OK, there was actually nothing particularly wrong with the tutorial I linked to in the description, you just need to know about Ungrouping [Ctrl] + [U] which comes in handy when you want to create a Union. :)
To be more specific, is it acceptable to have two different typefaces used for headers? One will be used for web content and the other for print or more static content where the type won't be at the mercy of someone else's font collection. And along these lines, is it acceptable to use two very similar typefaces for these two cases or would it be a dilution of brand identity?
I started working on my own designs to sell and had someone come and asked me if I could put a classic Winnie the Pooh image in my design. I am selling the whole piece to this customer, but can I sell it to them if I put the Winnie the Pooh image on the poster? I was going to purchase the image on Etsy but I know that it's copyrighted so I'm not sure if I'm able to do that.
Is there a way to save an Illustrator file as pdf without the canvas? Somehow, when I save as pdf I always end up having the "whole" canvas saved with it. In contrary, when I export to, lets say png, I only get the actual drawn object. Is there a possibility to save as pdf, because it will be a vector graphic instead of pixel, with only drawn object?
is there a built-in filter or extension in Inkscape to create a similar fold/3D effect? I mean the appearance simulating a foldout leaflet/brochure. Thanks for any hints!
What font is used in the following image? The original image URL is https://www.flickr.com/photos/parisinfourmonths/8581256343/in/set-72157632102589845. I'm also open to any recommendations of fonts that might play nicely in it.
I have been trying to create a favicon for my website for sometime and I cannot get it to be crisp. It is a simple Favicon. This is the best I could make it, The W will not be crisp. Is this favicon good enough for web standards? How can I improve it?
I have an image taken of a room directly at a sunny window. When I adjust the image brightness and contrast the window turns white. Is it possible use the wand to select the the portion of the image I don't want to be affected by the brightness/contrast treatment? I am I approaching this wrong way altogether? Thanks
How can I get the picture in the background and add a blur to it so it looks like the example ones? I have tested blur in one of my designs, and it's looks bad x) I wonder if it's the color of the font or if I need to add something else. My image: My examples:
I've been trying to make pretty much exactly this crystal: http://wallpapersus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/abstract-crystal-digital-art-3d.jpg Now, the only thing I've used is Photoshop CS5, and it doesn't seem to be quite capable for that sort of work. I'm by no means a 3D artist either. Still, I'm willing to pick up some 3D software to achieve this. What are the bare basics I require to render this sort of image? What software should I be using, if my main and only interest is on rendering something like that? I've made simple models before, but never something with this sort of crystalline effect.

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