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For a project involving a client-supplied map (clip below) I need to be able to turn colored layers on and off. The client, however, supplied a flat image and vector outlines for the color regions, apparently all they can find. This is not the same as a layered image of course. Is there some way I could remove the colors (and glow effects at boundaries) shown below while preserving the topography, and then reapply them using the vectors? Or do I need to go back to the client and ask them to keep digging for assets? Thank you.
I am a beginner user of Illustrator and I like it a lot. I also like to make concept maps like this one: I was wondering if there is a possibility to easily create and modify concept maps ? The problem is that if I draw this diagram in Illustrator: and then I move the rectangle on the left then the line stays where it is : What I would like is that the rectangles are associated to the endpoints of the lines so that when I move the left rectangle then the line moves with it like this: I wonder if accomplishing such a simple task with such a powerful vector drawing application as Illustrator is possible or not ? I would hope it is possible but maybe I just don't know how. Could someone please help me out with this ?
Let's say I have View 1 as shown below. Now, I zoom into part of View 1 and then arrive to View 2. I am doing some fine editing and then I want to go back to exactly View 1. Then I notice that I still need some fine editing so I want to go back exactly to View 2. Is there a shortcut/command for switching between View 1 and View 2 ? Sort of like an undo/redo zoom functionality ? I am not talking about the New View/Edit Views functionality, I am looking for something simpler and quicker than that. View 1 before zooming: View 2 after zooming in to a portion of View 1:
What is the name of this tech-ish, uppercase font that NER*D uses for their logo? Hi I was just wondering what font style this is. If you could help me it would be great appreciated! Thanks!
I'm a pianist, composer, and teacher, and I'm building a website to promote myself. I want the site to convey both a sense of elegance and old-world discipline, but also sleek modernity. I was going to ask the wonderful experts here what fonts I should try to use, but I realized that's a very subjective question that would probably get closed, so instead I'm asking if there have ever been studies done that have tried to understand how people react to and perceive different fonts (or color schemes, or just any design element I suppose. It's all useful). Has there ever been work like that done? Are there people out there figuring out exactly what font to use to get people to think you're cutting edge or hard-working? Or have these remained simply subjective design choices?
I've been looking into complementary colors and appealing color schemes, and I couldn't find any which suggested that this shade of yellow would look good with this shade of red. However, the picture below from Tarantino's Death Proof looks amazing (to my taste...). What is the principal that ties these two colors together? And if possible, I would love to see more examples to demonstrate it.
I found this plugin SpecKing that looks like it's just about exactly what I'm looking for, I haven't tried it out yet though because I was hoping to find a free, maybe even open source alternative.. Does anyone know of any open-source and/or free Photoshop plugins similar to this one? I'm looking to extend the functionality of the measure tool so as to actually display annotated measurements of the measured distances for convenient reference.. like a blueprint basically.
I'm doing a tutorial, and I noticed my timeline is quite different from the one in the video: This is mine: This is the tutorial's: The first problem is that I can't find the Add Videos button in my timeline. The second is that when I import videos from the top bar File, the videos become layers instead of whole videos. I hope someone can tell me what's wrong with my Photoshop!
I have been stacking up on books for logo design and scouting dribbble fairly intensely. I read (and loved) David Airey's book Logo Design Love, but what I am really looking for at this stage is a book that in lays down the principles for minimal logo design covered in this mini course. Any recommendations? edit: I have been studying illustration and creative drawing, but in the course, you can see that shapes are used to create space/negative space, and learning the mechanics of that technique is what I'm looking for from a book. edit 2: Reading some of the comments/reviews from this thread as well as of the Mini course's review thread, what I'm looking for insight specifically on is logo gridding. Apologies for not being clearer sooner.
I would like to use the swipe down icon: from Control Center of iOS 7 : in my iOS 7 app to indicate that you can swipe down this pop up : How can I get this icon. Am I allowed to use this icon anyway (I do iOS app) Thanks in advance.
I will probably get some downvotes for this since I asked a similar question here: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/29362/cs-graduate-starting-out-in-graphics-design-what-are-the-main-principles-of-de and it was closed down. The answers/comments I had in that question where mostly concerning UI designing which is NOT what I am looking for. The title was a bit deceiving. In the linked question, I had an answer that stated I should I read Visual Grammar by Christian LeBorg, which I have just finished. The other links where mostly concerned with UI design which is not what I am looking for. What would be a next good book I should read that focuses on design/print media? I am looking to learn the basic principles behind designing such print media. I am NOT talking about print requirements(print bleeds, DPI settings etc), I am mostly concerned about "Principles of Design"-style books. EDIT: Thanks for all the answers so far, I'm sure most of them are really nice. I can't accept an answer until I have read some of the books here which I plan to do, I have lots of free time on my hands. For now I am reading Universal Principles of Design
I have created multiple objects, while testing I applied a drop shadow style on one object and its looking very good. Now I want to apply the same style to all other objects (around 20). Is there any way like global color to create a style once and apply to other objects with single click automatically? Or I have to apply that drop shadow effect on each object one by one manually?
I am not a designer, just an average man with no business in graphic design. But sometimes I see two colors in an ad or in the clothing shop and I can say that they are a perfect match. As if they have the same strength. My question is how, using some computer program, transform e.g. red color into green color of the same strength? (so they match)
When using Adobe InDesign, you Pages panel shows you all the pages of your document. But sometimes those pages look similar from the thumbnails (see printscreen below) and you can't really tell which page holds which content. I would like to write a 1 word memo near each page, making clear whats what. Example of words next to the page numbers, like: Cover , Prologue and Concept . Is there a way to write such memos next to the page numbers? (without altering the page numbers, sections etc)
This is something it will be useful for several things now that I started "photoshoping" - so I made some lines with the pen tool, then right clicked with the 'direct selection' and then 'stroke path' to paint the lines. Now, this lines are closed, they make a shape, if I paint the inside with the bucket tool it creates white spaces inbetween the border and the filling! How does one fill properly in photoshop?
I know that in movies they use green screens or similar to be able to edit out the background from shots. But what is the name of a piece of equipment or setup I need in order to take a picture of say an apple and be able to crop out everything else except for the apple? In other words, I want to create transparent background photos of regular objects. Image source
Me and my buddies have a small design studio going on here at our office. We always work from the network when working on any of our Adobe files. Our server is on Windows 2012 Standard with 9TB storage space RAID 50. It's got shadow copy turned on and backup on top of that. It's been working for the last 2 years and has saved us a bunch of times when we accidentally delete files or overwritten the wrong version, we use shadow copy to restore instantly. However, lately our Illustrator files have been getting bigger and our linked PSD files even bigger to a point we are working on 1GB of total file size between all the linked PSD files, some are 300MB, others are 200MB, 1 might be 500MB. The problem we have run into lately is that out Adobe Illustrator is running to a slow crawl, to the point where you can't move anything every 1 minute. This does the same when we work with InDesign using linked images that are big. We also know that if we embed the images, then we do not get the slowdown or crawling feel. If we use the linked images with our entire project on our local c: drive or local hard-drive then it runs normal as well. So what do other design firms do? Especially magazine publishers? a) do I need to switch to Mac desktop and Mac server using the Unix network protocol (would that fix the linked images on the network issue)? b) get 10GB network cards and switches and hope that it would work faster? c) do other big design firms use other third party software such as Xinet (North Plains) or something similar to that in terms of a digital asset management system (and would it solve the whole linked images issue over the network)? d) or is there another workflow I am totally unaware of? Adobe Support Claims: no support with any files worked over the network. Recommended workflow - do all your projects in your local hard-drive, then copy to server after project is finished. (Is this why adobe Cue server was abandoned after 2 releases). I am looking for any help which is greatly appreciated.
I am making my own cards to sell, however, I would like to use some graphics and or backgrounds once in a while without having to make them all the time. Where is the best place to buy graphics, images and backgrounds for a low cost that I can use in some of my cards that I will be selling? Sometimes I just need to add one image or graphic and would like to purchase some but not sure where I can get them so that I can use them in a card that I will sell.
The Big Question What is the best (possibly a software application) to create Documents (e.g PDF Brochures, Business Portfolios, Annual Reports etc)so that a client can edit the text content? My Problem I have a client who often needs me to make small content changes to brochures - as his company grows and gains new clients, products etc he wants these in the orginal documents. He is a good client so I don't want to tell him to just bugger off, but it seems to be a waste of my time and his to have me edit a paragraph and title. Issues Software I don't really want to tell him to buy indesign and Id rather not wrangle with word Simplicity I don't want to have to spend an entire afternoon helping him learn something Ideally he will be able to click change a header (keep fonts, pt sizes, etc... the same) and edit content areas.
I am trying to find a way to make global color changes in a single place. I found another question that describes this well... Is it possible to have global color swatches or color styles in Photoshop?. Per the answers to that post/question, Photoshop CS5 does not support "global swatches". So, my new question is... Are there any plugins for Photoshop CS5 that enable "global swatch" type functionality or in some other way achieve the objective outlined in the question linked above?
We are attempting to re-skin a third-party application. One modification is to change the background color of a toolbar. However, there are images on the tool bar that have anti-aliased edges to blend into the existing background color. How can I modify those images to blend with a different background color? I only have access to the current image files. I do not have the presumed multi-layer file that was created to do the blending. Here is the original image. It blends into a light blue background. We want to blend it with a dark blue background.
I am trying to recreate this artwork in Photoshop. I am not sure how to create the lines moving toward the tool nor how to create the lighter color around the tool. How would I do this?
I designed a link button in Illustrator, much like the ask question button here. Since I am new to all this, I have difficulties creating just the perfect shape every time, so I want to save that button as a symbol or graphic style so that the next time I can just click on it and change the text length. How do I save as a symbol or graphic style?
I need to get an image (optimal would be pdf/tiff but png will work, too) from my svg file. The svg is relatively small (cca 300 kB). What I need is an image in resolution cca 10000x5000px in 60+ dpi. When I use Inkscape and try to export the image of the desired size, it takes forever and it sometimes crashes. I have 4GB RAM... Is there some workaround for this problem? Thanks for any tips.
I'm attempting to make a transparent logo that uses a smoke effect. I used the tutorial found here to do so: Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent However, I am having issues as the image continues to have a faint white background, although it's not entirely opaque. I can't figure out how to get rid of this, and I found that if I did the same steps but with the smoke in black, it turned out to have a dark hue to it. Any suggestions on how I can get rid of this? Even if there is a better means right from the beginning. Below is the image I started with: Any ideas would be much appreciated!
I would like to create some GIF animations to help explain some concepts on a website. This (from Wikipedia) is a good example of the sort of style I would like to use: This animation appears to have been made using a custom PHP program and libraries. Is there a tool which can create similar animations without the need for explicit programming? Perhaps a tool which can generate an animation based on a list of descriptions, each having a simple meaning such as "rotate this item 180 degrees over 5 seconds"?
My client requests something like the title described. I do not agree the initial idea though. As they insist on doing in this way, I had to come here to ask for some help. Let's put the question like this: how would you approach designing an outdoor banner that advertises (for example) suits, work uniforms, and children's clothes? Normally design starts with the question: "what is the purpose to show to audience?" - but here, there are three very different audiences. How can I go about coming up with ideas that do three very different things?
I know there are some alternatives for Helvetica Neue for web usage, but i want to ask, if it is legal to use Helvetica Neue on some commercial website.
The font named Times New Roman is trademarked by Monotype, but the font is licensed to Microsoft (perhaps to others too?). These two fonts (MS TNR & Mo TNR) are clearly different in their coverage. Version 6.85 of MS TNR (bundled with Windows 8.1) contains according to BabelMap 4,098 glyphs, whereas Mo TNR according to their own website has only 631 glyphs. But with respect to the glyphs they actually share, are these two fonts any different at all?
I'm trying to create something similar to this example: What tool should I use, or is it just squares and circles attached together? Great if you know a tutorial for this effect.
I'd like to have precise control over a gradient fill. From Expression Studio I'm used to the gradient tool annotator to automatically snap to a grid. By default, the Adobe Illustrator gradient annotator happily ignore the "Snap to Grid" setting in the View menu. Do I need to toggle a special option to make the gradient annotator respect the grid? Any help is very much appreciated. edit A screenshot as requested:
I'm just asking if that's possible to have ~116 simply drawn signs that can be related -since it's already proved that humans are more quick in writing linked alphabets in the same word-, easy for handwriting, and learning. In fact, those alphabet I wanna create are sets of 4 forms for each letter. for example: Edit: I'm working on a project where I need to make letters for the real sounds not the alphabet, i.e. New simple signs for representing The English Phonetics, Instead of having /fəˈnɛtɪks/ we can write it -by hand also- as : All I'm asking for is, is that even possible?
I'm a graphic designer usually do logo and banner design work. I recently got a work from my client to make PSD's for the website. So i want to ask that what exactly he will be expecting from me? I don't have a strong knowledge of html/css.
Thanks in advance for your help! I have been asked to fix a customer supplied ad targeted for CMYK newsprint. It is a .psd doc. The printer has asked that the file be supplied with the background image, which is separating as rich black, be created in 100% K as it is offsetting, and will offer better registration, etc. This would not be a problem except there is a two color build yellow logo mark and type on the file. When I bring in the background image as a grayscale file and flatten the file, the grayscale background image reverts to separating into cmyk again! Is there a trick in photoshop to maintain the one channel K background and still have the color logo and type on an upper layer separate as such? Thanks! Lisa
I'm using adobe illustrator, and I'm trying to get the text to orient from left to right(counterclockwise) and not upside down but I cannot get it to do that on the path I've created. Im pretty beginner with illustrator, any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you
just in case someone is able to recognize this, if not, doesn't really matter. I was browsing the web, came across a photo depicting an interesting font (RAMLÖSA, lower left corner). I like the placement of the umlaut on Ö. Sorry, I guess there is no higher resolution and the MyFonts.com identifier was not very successful either.
I want to make a bunch of dashes that are 10 pixels long horizontally, 5 pixels long vertically, and separated by 20 pixels. Is there any way to do this easily in GIMP? I was looking at slice, but that seems to output the image into a bunch of files. I just want to be able to make a uniform dash without having to manually draw a line pixel by pixel. I want it to look something like this:
Please someone can helpme to identify these two fonts? I have tried many different websites without success.
Illustrator has a less known feature to hide artboard and background. I accidentally activated this with some keyboard shortcut. How do I go back to the normal view?
How to make rulers and grid show the same coordinates and units? Currently it shows absolute delirium for me:
I have this photo album with two layers, layouted in InDesign (CS6): On the first layer I have all the graphic elements (the gras and the yellow elements) On the second layer are portraits (the pixelated profile pictures that you can see below) I want to print the album with all the graphic elements and print the portraits separately on stickers – just as in the old Panini collection albums. My question is: How can I efficiently export all the portraits on layer 2 into separate images? Do I have to select all of them individually and export them manually? Or is there a faster way to do so, e.g. with the use of a script?
I have a document with multiple sections that has a table of contents (TOC) at the beginning, which includes h1-h3 styles for the whole document. I want to create a sub TOC for a single section that includes the h1-h3 styles in that section only. In other words: I want to create another level of contents within each existing contents section. Is this possible without having to create new heading styles for the specific section? How can I create multiple contents tables within an existing contents table in InDesign?
How to make a "Graphics Interchange Format" as Transparent in Photoshop or any other tool ?
What design principles can be used to achieve simplicity without diminishing the ability of the user to use an interface efficiently for complex tasks? Specifically, I'm wondering which key design principles I can use to achieve more with less. Principles that allow a designer to cover complex interface features with simplified, minimalist, design.
I notice that sites and software with less superficial value (less style, inspiration, or simply "neat-ness") often succeed far above their fantastically, well-designed counterparts. Is the style, creativity, & inspiration side of interface design not equally important compared to the content, efficiency, & productivity side of interface development? In other words, if the buttons are where they should be and I can understand everything that's going on, is it not important to focus on additional fancy style? Examples: Reddit vs Digg Reddit: Known globally to look terrible, used monthly by 112 million unique users. Digg: Looks great, used monthly by 20 million unique users. Windows 7 vs OSX Windows 7: Looks alright, but known more for efficiency and compatibility than beautiful, smooth design. 500 million licenses sold. OSX: Looks fantastic, performs and interacts smoothly, but 'natively' incompatible with most of the world's desktop software. 50 million copies sold.
I've heard it said that a designer should almost always use subtle, simplistic style in the design of a typical user interface. Is that really the case? For example, Windows 8 is very bright / loud, and it seems to be popular, but that doesn't necessarily go beyond the current trends. I'm looking for an example of subtlety being a valuable aspect in all GUI design, rather than just a feature of preference. As it is, it seems that the balance between GUI subtlety and vibrancy can be ignore or upheld without any consequence beyond the world's current user preference. What are some of the pros & cons of using subtle style for user-interface design vs those of using bright, loud styling? Is there an inherent value in GUI color subtlety, or is it's value based purely on user preference?
I don't know if this is the right place but I am looking for a software through which I can show some comments/text on image. You know the bubble text that we show on images to describe something!? So basically I have a home page site design on which I want to place bubble text to describe different elements. I have used such software before but don't remember its name so came here.
Some examples I have in mind are: The next America, Pew Research A game of Sharks, The New York Times Recalling a Vision of the Future, The New York Times How would you create something like this with minimal effort? Is there a tool or a template? What I particularly don't want to do is to hack away in HTML/CSS, Javascript, or jQuery. If there was only something a bit higher level so I could concentrate on the content while getting such results...
My family does light artistic stuff for fun - almost exclusively drawn with mechanical pencil. This isn't fine art - no vine charcoal sketches of bowls of fruit, it is just for fun. We would like to transition from doing some of it for fun to generating graphics appropriate for use on sites like cafepress. But there is a huge gap between a pencil line drawing and a usable digital image. So my very ignorant question is about taking line-artwork designed in pencil, and getting a good digital image out of as the end result, under the constraints of an extremely tight budget. The problem points we are having include: Scanning Scanned images always seem to suffer from the scan of the blank parts of the paper being an uneven gray with specks and a milky way of flaws instead of an even white. Scanning also suffers from highly uneven lighting (exacerbated by cheap paper probably, but likely a problem with expensive paper too) so that one can wash out actual lines as one tries to simply make the blank paper in the scan look white. The scanner also picks up all sorts of erasure (of which we often have many) as the paper is deformed slightly and this causes the line to become visible in the scan. A section an eraser passed over can smear graphite in a way that is nearly invisible on paper, but become prominent when the contrast of the scan is increased to match the contrast of screen graphics. The low contrast of a pencil also makes it easy to fool oneself into thinking a line looks a lot cleaner that it really does. I have photographed some papers at random in the past. This still leaves one a good distance from the perfect uniformity in the background one has in digital imagery, though it may be a better approach than scanning. Current Route Currently we scan the drawing. Then pull it into a layer in photoshop elements (we do have a dated copy of that) or something like inkscape and essentially recreate it painstakingly by tracing into new layers, but this is very tedious. Question My question is: What is the best way to bridge the gap from a physical image to a clean looking digital image, particularly if the physical image was designed in pencil? Pencil is our main medium, but some of us are decent at inking a drawing. I am wondering whether inking with french curves as aids might be the standard solution(??). In the world of those who do stuff like this professionally, what are the standard approaches to this? How is it approached on an extremely restrictive budget? P.S. An expensive tablet that can be used for drawing digitally is outside of the budget. A cheap one has so little resolution that it is useless.
I am currently looking for a method to automatically copy text from one position onto another. Let me try to explain this a little bit better: I have created a quick survey form in InDesign where I have an area for "Customer Name" - what I would like to achieve now is that the customer name that I enter will also automatically be used in the footer, e.g. Proposal made for 'Customer Name' Is there any simple trick to get this done? Some expert advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
I have a photo of a block print design I'd like to turn into a path in photoshop. What is the best way to extract the design and turn it into a path so I can make it a vector shape?
My question is simple so feel free to give me any kind of suggestion. I want to study as a Designer and I'm expecially oriented in Web Design. I don't have any graphical studies in my carrier and now I'm a Computer Engineer student. I really want to know were to begin my studies in this fascinating world so I will really appreciate your suggestions on "where to start". Thanks all for your time. Best regards, Luca
"Pixel" always confuses me whenever I do web banner work. I use CorelDraw x5 for my work. I usually prefer to use inches rather than pixels as inches are much intuitive for me. But when I do an "Inch to Pixel" conversion, i get confused. In CorelDraw: 1 inch = 300px. At AuctionRepair.com: 1 inch = 75 pixels. At UnitConversion.org: 1 inch = 96 pixels. Now my client is asking for 1900x1200px banner. How should I do the conversion?
I am trying to convert a pixel layer (in this case, the shape is some kind of parabolic line) into a path in Photoshop. I tried using the Pen tool and drawing path directly on the shape but no matter how precise I am, it's impossible to create that shape. I'm relatively new to Photoshop so I need help.
I want to make game graphics that are smooth not pixelated, kinda like vector graphics and I will need to use them in iOS games. I am not that experienced in creating graphics so I looked here and no question are the same with mine so I decided to ask here. What tools or techniques can you suggest for making vector: buttons, backgrounds, moving animations etc. Also, how do you make it retina? I know a little Illustrator but I can learn if there are tutorials. Thanks.
What is the easiest tool and way to make moving animations that can be used in iOS games? If there are tutorials, I can also learn. I also want it to be vector or retina. Something like hd. Thanks.
Update Since asking this question, I've come to a better understanding of how question scope should be defined (more precisely than this question's original version), so I'll better define the scope herein. Nuances in Interface Design Somewhere in my question, Do Interfaces Really Need to Look Good?, a user expressed vivid appreciation for the nuances of graphic design, expressing their importance. I didn't agree so much with the importance of such subtle features in graphic design, so I posed this question. Are the nuances of graphic design important? In user interface design, I've heard artists stress that the "smaller things" are actually of equal importance with the "general features", or at least, very important. General Definition of Nuances The smaller things are the subtle features, the nuances of an interface's design. The effects of light touch, going unnoticed without close inspection but contributing to the page in a collective way. I personally love to pay attention to finer detail; I think subtle detail collectively makes a design unique and adds finesse. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a very important aspect of interface design. Example Facebook: While Facebook's design is beautiful, crisp, and, in my personal opinion, good-looking, all of the visual features that I see are very obvious, each serving a specific purpose. I don't see anything that goes unnoticed at the first glance. Every feature seems to be an important aspect of the page's layout and functionality, not a supporting detail that adds unnoticed finesse to the design. Twitter: Twitter, on the other hand, shows a handful of interface design nuances. Subtle outlines, the subtlety through which the twitter icon is engraved (top, center), faint clouds in the background, as well as a few other non-functional, decorative features of subtlety in mobile versions of the interface. Many of the features seem to provide subtle, decorative value to the interface's design without directly contributing to the its functionality in an obvious way. The (Updated) Question is: Can these nuances add value to any design, or are they simply a personal taste decision?
I'm working for the first time on "PSD to HTML" job for a client(i usually do logos and banner work). As this is my first time, i'm quite confused about "What should exactly be in the PSD file". Should it have a complete look of the website? or just the structure of the site? Should i add photos,logo,icons and all that stuff with separate layers in the PSD? Kindly help me about this confusion. Thanks in advance :-)
I'm trying to find this font - have wasted a few hours now - and any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!
Please some one can help me to identify this font? Is used on panini sticker's I tried with many differents font identifiers tool.
I have been trying to achieve a text effect similar to this "Hobbit-Inspired" text but I keep getting this strange faceting that I can't seem to get rid of. I'm fairly new to InDesign (CS5) and am not sure how to modify settings to fix this. Initially I thought it was just how the preview in the document looked, but it looked like this when I did a test print as well. Here are my settings and a piece of what the faceting looks like:
I am trying to follow specs for iTunes app graphic. The requirements state: 72ppi, rgb,flattended, NO transparency High qualtiy PNG plus 8-bit alpha. Everything I read about alpha is WITH transparency. How do I meet their specs?
I have a sprite that add a couple of images added. I'm not sure if it is the case of the positioning of the actually images in the sprite or just a case of inexperience on my part. If you go to the jsfiddle you will see how the hover jitters a bit: http://jsfiddle.net/willtx/j7RM3/ I would like it to hover like the others do. Thanks so much!
Does anyone know if it is possible to add a note to an Illustrator project, the way you can with the note tool in Photoshop? Currently, I've created a new layer, and set it to not print, but not super efficient.
I need to know the type of fonts used in this logo. I have searched in google from my known list but not find any of them useful.
Ho to blur the image, with as much less effort as possible, so the blur wraps around the edges I want to blur HDRI maps
Wikipedia defines counter then gives examples. Then it proceeds to give examples of open counter without having given any definition of it: In typography, a counter or aperture is the area of typeface anatomy that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). Letters containing closed counters include A, B, D, O, P, Q, R, a, b, d, e, g, o, p, and q. Letters containing open counters include c, f, h, i, s etc. So, what is the proper definition of open counter? To illustrate, could you give a handful examples of characters that contain no open counters? Is it synonymous with aperture? Fonts and Encodings, O’Reilly 2007 says on page 4: The counter, which is the inner part of a letter, for example, the space inside an 'o' and 'O', a 'D', etc. The counter of an 'e' is commonly called an eye. When the letter is open at one end, as is the case with 'n' we speak instead of an aperture. I have drawn my interpretation of open counter in green below, is it correct?
So I estimated a job for a new client. 3 concepts, 1 logo, 1 revision. I gave them 4 to get a feel for their style. They liked none and drew their own. I executed that one plus another original concept that I hoped they'd go for. They like both and want both. How do I re-estimate this job if I got the second logo through my work for the first one?
I am currently designing the UI for my first Android app. Android (obviously) lets you design any and every element in your app using XML. On any elements where you leave the "default" (holo) theme on, will that element appear different on different devices. Certain widgets (such as the spinner) match my theme perfectly but I was curious as to whether they will appear different on different versions of Android. I am designing for Android 4.4.2.
Basically I want to learn how to use the kerning, spacing, ligatures to make it more legible. If any one knows any tutorials or guide available online please let me know. thank you.
What would be the simplest way to distort a text (or image) as in the captchas we see online. Formerly I would model a wavy 3D surface, apply the text/image as a texture and render it. There must be a better way ...
This is the current design: Where should I position the left-top element so this UI is more balanced?
We have to display intervalls to the user to choose from: less than 1250, 1250 to 5000, 5000 to 10000, 10000 to 50000, 50000 to 100000 and over 100000 I thaught of something like this 1250 5000 10000 50000 100000 ---()---\|---()---\|-----()-----\|---()-----\|---()-----\|---()-- (): being radio buttons I am not sure that it's intuitive enough ? And on mobiles I will have to shrink the space between intervalls and/or alternate the labels up and down. Do you have some ideas for this ? Thanks in advance
I'm having issues exporting graphics with some of my lines disappearing. I'm a complete novice to illustrator, so sorry if this is something really basic. The image should look like this: Unfortunately, it is exporting like this: Thanks if you are able to help! Ps. I noticed it does the same thing if I open the flattener preview.
I am interested in generating crystal structure images for my own research. I came across very cool and professional graphics: Can someone please suggest some software to produce similar graphics (including the shadows behind the atoms)? I should have contacted the owner directly, but I could not find any contact details on the website.
This is what I need to design. Is there an automatic way or just manual? thx
I am seeking how to apply an Overlay Gradient style on a layer containing multiple shapes, in a way that each shape has his own gradient (not sharing the layer style to the merged shapes). For now, I'm getting a global gradient style applied for this layer where each shape are part of the whole gradient style. Hope it's understandable. Thank you.
Accidentally pressed something like ⌘ 5, and it must have changed the color channels. I made sure they are visible now, but the red is acting up. If I make the rectangle bright red it works, but a shade darker/lighter and the rectangle turns grey. Similarly, the red in my image is gone as if has just outlined things in red (should have red background with white text). What should I do?
How can I get rid of these 3 PMS channels, without flattening it and losing the transparency? Thanks All!
I'm making an animated GIF using layers in GIMP. I have an image of an equation that I want to put on the same place in each frame. I tried opening the equation in GIMP, and then copy and pasting it into my layers, moving it to the location I want using the mouse, and then anchoring it. However, it only appears on one layer and hence on one frame. I can manually repeat for each frame but then I can't get it to the exact same place in every frame. Is there a better way to do this, i.e. anchor a floating selection to all layers at once?
I've placed File B (a circle with a gradient fill) inside File A (simple blue background). When I embed File B the gradient is not treated as a regular fill - instead it gets a weird double mask around it (see attached) Is there a way to embed and expand a file with a gradient inside of it in such a way that the gradient is preserved as a regular fill?
With GIMP, it is possible to select and copy a region of the image to the clipboard, and then use this region as the brush for the Airbrush tool. However, the size of the 'painted' region, is controlled by the Airbrush size, and will scale (I believe) the region in the clipboard to match this. Other than setting the size manually by eye, is there a way to make the Airbrush 'spray' a region with a size identical to the original?
Are there notable attempts to redesign the spreadsheet, as a number-heavy GUI which requires hours of painful concentration? As of today, the mainstream spreadsheet applications still use the same basic screen design as in 1980s: a large collection of small uniform cells, some of which have data. Excel indeed allows resizing the columns and building different fonts, but basically it is still the same. Hundreds of millions of office workers worldwide have to stare into ugly uniform screens for hours, trying to find what they need. I suppose most take it for granted, but I wonder if anyone recently tried redesigning the entire paradigm.
If i have two images and one image is 7360 × 4912 and the other 3888 × 2592 and i downscale them both to 3000 px width - does either of the image get downsample differently or would one of them need more or less sharpening?
I often have the task of making the background of product images pure white. While preserving the best possible image quality, what is the quickest way to adjust colors such that the background becomes pure white (AKA each corner is 255,255,255)? For example given this image: If I fiddle with levels I can make it into:
How can I add more white color to a Gimp layer? What about adding other colors to it?
Can anyone give me some feedback on these logos - I have been asked by a client to design a logo for a lingerie maker whose name in portuguese is "Virgem Lingerie", and means the same as virgin lingerie in English. Please tell me which logos you think is best and worst and why. How can I improve on the best and on the worst design?
I could select the four blue rectangles with just drawing one selection box using the selection tool (V) around them if the green box would not be below it. However, now I have to click on each blue box to select them individually. Here is the question : Is there a way to make the selection tool (V) work such that it only selects objects which it fully encloses ? In that way the green box would not be selected if I only draw the selection rectangle around the four blue boxes but I do not make the selection rectangle large enough to fully enclose the green box itself. This is the standard way how ZoomNotes does selection on iPad (in case some of you are familiar with that very nice piece of software). Here are some related and outdated posts but they don't really seem to offer solution. This forum discussion seems to suggest some complicated scripting solution. Is that the only way to do this simple thing ?
I have a CSV file with one line per SKU and a column "Qty" specifying the quantity of each SKU in a large shipment of products. To clear customs in the country I'm in, I now need to stick one label per box, so I need to set up a process for printing X labels per SKU, with X corresponding to the value of column "Qty" for each respective SKU in the CSV (the quantities vary greatly). Getting one label per SKU is no problem through data merge but how could I get the number of labels for each SKU from a column in the CSV?
I am trying to subtract a rectangle from a triangle. While the process does seem to complete successfully, the result is not exactly what I expected. I know other users have had similar issues but I couldn't find any that corresponds to my problem. From the image, I need to be able to select only the remaining trapezoid, but If I try to, The whole triangle gets selected. To help you resolve my issue, I will write the exact steps I took: Create a polygon using polygon tool [Properties set to 'Shape' and 'New layer'] Select rectangle tool [Properties set to 'Shape' and 'Subtract Front Shape'] Create the rectangle Use Direct Selection Tool to select the remaining trapezoid I am relatively new to Photoshop, so I apologize in advance for making any beginner mistakes or not understanding how specific tools work.
For a particular project, I've got to come up with a set of a ten small one-color icons meant to represent certain feelings. However, these icons must not be emoticons, or faces, of people for that matter. While it doesn't sound like much, I find it to be way more difficult than I thought. Here are the feelings and my ideas of icons to represent them: Loving \|\| This one is obvious. Angry \|\| Lightning bolt Surprised \|\| Gift - wrapped up present? Happy \|\| Flower or sun Scared \|\| Spider? Disgusted \|\| No real idea. Poop? Confident \|\| Sunglasses? Sad \|\| Tears Amused \|\| No real idea. Unimpressed \|\| That's the toughest of them all. A tumbleweed might do the trick, but there's no way I could draw a recognizable one in 32x32px. Any thoughts or ideas on the subject would be greatly appreciated! Advice on corresponding icons packs, if any, are also welcome. Thanks!
I'm looking to start making book covers for myself and a few friends, and I am wondering what software to use. I have Photoshop and GIMP for the manipulation aspect, but what about the rest?
I'm currently writing my thesis and I have come up with old thesis that have an end mark at the last chapter. It usually is a small centered sign. So, my question: should I use it? is it a normal practice? ---Please bear in mind that there is nothing about it in my school's requirements, so anything is possible. ...extra question: Do you happen to know what end marks are better for a technical document, i.e., a PhD Thesis? EDIT: Here is the last page of Lev Bishop's PhD thesis so you can see what I'm talking about. (Full thesis here: http://www.levbishop.org/thesis/Bishop-thesis.pdf)
I wanted my son to color some brain template. I will put this into front of my thesis (on visualization of diffusion MRI tractrography data of the human brain), as book cover. How can I put this in even fancier context? Employing some shadows? Where? I just want to look this a bit more professional embedded, without altering it too much. Thanks for your suggestions and ideas. I have the outline as separate image: Edit: The coloring is not science related and totally fun I want to preserve sketchyness Edit 2: Message: The reasons why I want to put this on top of my thesis are twofold. On the first side: Everyone can do science. Science is fun, creative and unexpected. On the other side: I want to devote this work to my son, which missed me a lot during these days of writing it. Edit 3: Thanks to all suggestions. What do you think about this? Edit 3: Originally I scanned it like this. The neon colors were due to How I tried to remove paper background... I think I need to rescan it with proper coloring, as this example is cut off on top...
I just got a new Macbook Pro with Retina and I'm confused about how to attack my PSD's. If I'm designing a site which has 14px font size, should I be creating it at 28px in Photoshop to see what it will look like in CSS on a standard display? Or if my website should have a 60px tall header, should I make it 120px in Photoshop? I guess I'm confused because the CSS stays the same, but I'm wondering if I should be doubling up on everything in Photoshop to get what it would look like in CSS on a non-retina display?
I am trying to identify the font in the logo for Night Club: Any idea is appreciated.
I just got a new Macbook Pro with Retina and I'm confused about how to attack my PSD's. If I'm designing a site which has 14px font size, should I be settings it to 28px in Photoshop to get what it will look like in CSS? Or if my website should have a 60px tall header, should I make it 120px in Photoshop? I guess I'm confused because the CSS stays the same, but should I be doubling up on everything in Photoshop to get what it would look like in CSS?
I recently had the good fortune to inherit a very small form factor computer (Mac Mini). I've hooked it up to the TV in our living room with an all-in-one keyboard/trackpad combo, and it's working well. While TV is not too small, it's not overly large either, and I'm not happy with my ability to read normal text on the screen from the couch or recliner. To help with this, I've already done several of the usual tricks for increasing the visibility of items from across the room, including increasing font size as much as I feel like is safe without breaking user interface elements. Now I want to see if I can increase readability by changing the font face. Can anyone recommend a good, highly-readable font face? I know of several that were designed specifically with print and signage in mind, but screens have different challenges than signs and print (i.e. limited resolution, pixel grid, different lighting conditions). The machine in question is dual booting OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1 (Living room PCs seem to be the one place I've found so far where the "Metro" visual style really shines), so fonts for both kinds of systems are welcome.
I'd like to ask you how you manage with presenting webdesign. Usually, I send a jpg file/files to client directly to the mail, but this isn't the best approach. In most cases it does the job, but I've experienced some cases that didn't. Let's say I've set up a design 1980px wide. The width is important because client can see all the background that shows up, but the actual design is 960px wide. The problem is that in 90% cases client opens the image in the default OS image browser and the image is scaled to fit view. Moreover, if my client has for example 1440px wide screen the 1980px scales to 1440px and the 960px is only 690px. As we know if the image is scaled we cannot see all the details because image browser antyaliasing image and all the sharpen details will gone. What if my client opens the same design in 1280px wide screen or narrower? It gets worse. Second problem is the order of images. I've had this situation couple of times, I've sent three images with different design approaches and my mail software orders alphabetical, while my clients mail order attachments by (for example) modification time. In the result, client calls me and say "The first design is best. I'd like to choose this one." The problem is, I've no idea which is the first one in his mail. It's confusing, right? The solution could be to place an image on the web, write couple lines of html and CSS code and send a link. But this approach also has some pitfalls. Let's say I wrote the code. The width of img must be 1980px: img { width: 1980px; } and in fact it has. But there is another problem. When client opens up the browser and the resolution of his display is less then 1920px the image starts from left and ends up somewhere in the middle. This is because there is a horizontal scrollbar, but its default position is the left, not center. Ok, so I can use some javascript to extort the proper position but the situation turns up to be ridiculous. It's like using a machine gun for an ant. The fact is all those situations might happen and in the matter of fact, I've experienced it couple of times. The best option would be to show an image in its original size centered with possibility to move left/right. Any clues, ideas, tools? :)
I've been using Inkscape, but the origin is at the bottom left corner, and I can't seem to change it to the top left corner. GIMP's origin is at top left corner, but GIMP is not a vector drawing program. So, my question is, is there a vector program that set the origin of the canvas at top left corner of screen? Edits (for clarification) Thanks for the comments and answers, apparently, I did not clarify my purpose of wanting such an application. I am currently making real-time animations by using an animation engine, written by someone else, which uses (0,0) at the top left corner of the screen. I don't mind doing mental manipulations from Inkscape on a small number of vector objects, but I am dealing with a lot of objects that need to be animated externally which require me to supply coordinate system that differs from Inkscape.

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