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I am designing a 1:1 height-to-width circular graphic to be printed on a mug. However, when printed on the mug, the graphic looks noticeably squished and oval-shaped as a result of the mug's curvature. This applies to any situation where a graphic is wrapped around part of a cylindrical shape. Should I squish the desig...
I am working on a health startup and was thinking of building some character unique to my startup as zocdoc does to explain itself. Will a sketch doctor seem derivative? PS: My site would be frequented by mid to old aged users.
I need to communicate a instruction about a technique converting a company name into a logo. I don't want to show real world examples. Because it needs to be obvious that the person following the instruction can do the same to his company name and logo. I'm searching for a placeholder like 'John Doe', 'www.example.tld'...
I have a lots of scanned handwritten lecture notes (PDFormat) and I want to improve their readability (I have uploaded an example). In particular I'd like to remove the "squares" on the back. I would appreciate any advice you may have. Thanks in advance.
I was working for several hours on a multilayer Photoshop CS 5 file when my computer crashed. When I try to open the file, I can see the preview image of it: But then get this message: I've tried the following to fix it: REMO PSD Repair tool: Failed Opening the PSD as XML to see if I can fix the corruption: Failed ...
I am designing some banners and graphics for a client's website and I am finding it hard to find clean bright colours. I am using Adobe Indesign on an imac. I am saving all as jpegs in RGB. The worst is the bar of orange I have on her site (and also the blue) They end out coming darker and muted. I am looking for a bri...
Many modern websites feature very thin fonts whereas – I think – on posters it is not as commonly used. I was just wondering why thin webfonts are so popular. Does it have a reason? And since thin fonts are not as striking and bold as bold fonts, what purpose does it serve in spite of "it looks good"? Thanks for your a...
How can I create my own Action using Photoshop? Can anyone guide me with a simple example?
I have googled this and found a number of answers and videos which all say that this can be done by setting the brush size slider in the brushes panel or brush editor panel. I'm either clicking on the wrong thing or doing something strange as I don't seem to have the same options available to me. At least setting all t...
We recently had an incident were we lost some work in an InDesign file, although InDesign by default autosaves every minute. The issue we had is that when the program was closed it prompted us to either: cancel, save or don't save. By mistake we clicked don't save. What seems to happen if you do this is that InDesign w...
I created a logo for my husbands business in Photoshop and he loves it! I understand that logos though need to be created in Illustrator in order to be resized with out loosing it's quality. Can I still create the same exact logo in illustrator with the same filters and effects I did in the original photoshop version...
I try to adapt No Paper policy in my workflow. I'm a student of EECS and most of my daily job is doing some research and designing mathematical algorithms, Communication Networks, Math, Ideas,.... I've free myself from pen and paper except when I like (or need) to quickly draw some sketch about an idea/concept on the p...
Given a flat object in Illustrator, how can I scale it along the X or Y axis so that it stretches in an exponential fashion? That means that the center barely is stretched, but the outer extents stretch much more? I know there are some warp effects, but those seem to affect both axes.
I included my design thinking in the picture above; I would greatly appreciate any comments or questions about my process and final result. The objective is to create an identity for a forward-thinking consultant and speaker. He wanted a Geometric, shape based logo.
I make and self-publish computer games for sale at comic fairs in Japan. This is not a professional activity, and as such my budget is very limited. When I make covers, CDs, posters, or other printed material, I make my own designs, test them on my mid-high end home printer, and then send them to printing companies to ...
I want to darken a PNG image in GIMP. I open it and choose Colors \| Brightness-Contrast. The application responds with the error message - "brightness-contrast does not operate on indexed layers". How can I darken the image?
I have a Facebook icon PNG that I want to edit to create a sprite. But the image is distorted upon opening. Saving it gives the same distorted image. Result of opening in PS CS4 v 11.02
I just want to ask for some resources and as to how I could implement such in Photoshop: I saw this image online in a website: https://www.zirtual.com/ and it's just simple as it looks but I was wondering on how I could implement a similar one in Photoshop? Normal Drop Shadow doesn't work though. [Newb here]
How to save Multiple pages as a single Portable Document Format document in Photoshop.
I have my image on the artboard and have clicked Object > Artboards > Fit to artboard bounds. When I save an SVG I get extra whitespace at the bottom, how can I just save whats in the artboard? I have even selected just the 'artboard 1' in the save options, still whitespace. Here is what am I talking about
I have this PDF. It's a simple grid created in Pixelmator with lines every 500 pixels. I want to use it as a template for drawing over a Wacom tablet. For some reason, no matter what I do, print preview won't display the full grid. I've tried changing scaling, etc to no avail. The image is 2880 x 1800 (the resolution o...
How can I recreate the oddly curved line effect seen in the famous Woolmark logo in Adobe Illustrator? Thanks in advance. tor.
I'm working on vectorizing (in Illustrator CS6) the atrocity below. I've finished almost everything except for the teeth. What is the best way to vectorize the mouth and teeth? Should each grey tooth be its own shape, or is there a better way to draw all the black outlines?
I need to reduce a PDF form's size to at least 500 KB from 1,117 KB. A client gave me this form already created and they just have to use Calibri as a company standard. I am aware that Calibri is not a standard PDF font and that Acrobat will embed the entire font file and all of its variables in the document. Also the...
I am about to finish designing logo. I use two fonts. One I already bought, but the other... I need just one letter from this font but it is not free. Do I need to buy the entire font?
I am trying to create a linear gradient with a transparent edge. I am hoping to use blending options in photoshop, so that I can fine-tune my results. The issue is, that it seems I would have to use blending modes to get my results. The issue with blending modes is that they introduce a transparency effect (multiply)....
Frutiger was released in 1976, this means that more than 30 years have passed, which usually means that copyright should have expired by now on the font. I'm not sure what the law is concerning this font. It's a historically very important font, used in public signage everywhere. I'm referencing: https://en.wikipedia.o...
We have quite a few questions about some web design trends in particular, but I was wondering if you could help me put together a quick reference to what the main web design trends and breakthroughs have been. I am not looking for a comprehensive list of each trend organized for example by time, I'm thinking more in t...
Is there a a way with GIMP editor to crop a big picture into several small equal sized pictures? So when all those small pictures connected in order would make a big picture.
I have been trying to draw/paint human faces from photos (in Painter). To my big surprise the result closely follows the photo but because of the different medium and/or the oily/watery/greasy "material" I get results that just do not capture the essence of the person. The photo does capture what I want to express. And...
This is an ultra novice question from an ultra novice person. I created three overlapping vector paths in Photoshop then applied gradients to them. When I opened the PSD file in Illustrator, I chose "Convert Layers to Objects" then OK. Now, when I choose any two paths in Illustrator, click the blend tool and click on t...
I'd like to see if I can find a free font(s) similar to the font(s) listed below. I think the originals were probably hand painted, but I have no doubt that there are free fonts out there that are similar. Any thoughts? Ideally, I'd like one font that is similar to "The Adventures OF" and one font that it is similar to...
Currently I have a round layer which I would like to convert to elliptic layer. Like on the image How can I do this? If I select Free Transform and try to pull the circle, it will grow to width as well. I want to have the same width but just to make it longer preserving round shape on the bottom.
does anyone have any suggestions for a font and type treatment that says "safe, secure data?" to me, the 'safe' part means big, bulky, with perhaps a steel sheen, impenetrable. however, the 'data' part means a more elegant styling. i have had difficulty finding such a font. i have a large font catalog and nothing seems...
Does anybody know what that elongated sans-serif font is used for the word CAPITAL? I'm sure I've used it before I just can't remember what it was. Any help is appreciated! Thanks! :)
I drew a "blob" or a sketch and then colored it with a linear gradient. I then selected the eye-dropper tool and picked that same gradient. After having the gradient set as my fill color I attempt to draw and add to the blob but it does not add to the existing image. Instead the previous color is drawn (not the gradien...
I am trying to achieve a deliberate line boil effect in a pose-by-pose animation. Similar, for example, to the effect achieved in Dr Katz (I know this particular example was done with software rather than by hand). My process is currently: hand draw a pose trace second version of pose (with some deliberate tracing bad...
In Adobe Illustrator, if we create a graphic figure with multiple related objects, we may want them move dependently. Let me show you a case: I created a figure with 3 circles and 2 segments, the 2 segments connected the 3 circles on their centers. When I moved one of the circles, saying the middle, what I wanted was ...
This question is a crosspost from Stack Overflow because of its predominantly graphical nature and the fact that I think that a primarily graphically oriented community may [be able to] provide advice and insight that the community that frequent Stack Overflow may not be aware of or experienced with/in. Having said thi...
If you have an Indesign document you can place for example PNG's, PSD's, Ai artboards, etc in element place holders in the document. I wonder however if there's any way to also place Photoshop layer comps? It would be very useful since I have one Photoshop document depicting visuals with different states. However expor...
I'm just learning how to trace images with the pen tool in Illustrator -how do you trace when you have lines protruding from the whole (a line that offshoots) or when you have two objects which need to be flush with each other? Is there a strategy for tracing a complex image with different shapes, such as a person wear...
In Illustrator, if you want to fill in areas surrounded by multiple line segments, you can first select all the line segments and use Live Paint Bucket (K) to fill the color. However, if you want to change the opacity of the area, you may find the borders also become transparent, like this: My question is, is there any...
I am drawing a figure which shows several tetrahedrons in Illustrator. I have drawn all the line segments and connected them at the endpoints. Now the figure has been like this. Now I want to fill the areas surrounded by the line segments. I did this as follows: first selected 3 line segments, join them and fill the co...
What would be the best way to subtract the radial (shape 1) lines from the grey ellipse (ellipse 1) so that the background image (ios7 wallpaper) would be visible as a "notch" effect and so the background image remains visible in the centers as well? Tutorial from http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/flat-design-cou...
I've been using CS 5.1 at work and it will show lines (green and sometimes pink) when it is snapping to other object's alignments. I use 5.5 at home and layers will still snap to others, but they will not show the line guides, unlike Illustrator that always shows the green lines. My question is, how would I turn on tho...
I have a .svg file with many different paths. I know I can select all black parts by using Ctrl + F and searching in the style attribute. I combined all black paths to one. But I want to remove all black parts from the image. Making them transparent doesn't work, because e.g. the a of waten is filled with red behind th...
When making a selection in Photoshop, you get the dimensions of your selection as a tooltip (at least in CC), and it's displayed in the info-box (Window > Info) when enabled. I often use this to measure elements or especially distances between elements. Is it possible to enable these dimensions in Illustrator's info-...
Spotify recently rolled out their some design changes with darker design and new font for their desktop application (version 0.9.8). Can someone tell me what font are they using, and if there is a similar alternative on google?
I need help on how to create this text effect in Illustrator CS6. The free transform is not working, the bulge, envelope, and arch are not giving the same effect.
I'd like to have a layer mask in Gimp that includes some text. I currently have a method of achieving this, but it's a little more crude than I'd like. In this image, the top text is a simple text layer sitting over a plain blue background. The bottom text is the result of the following procedure: Create a plain backg...
I have created a website that i would like to add to my portfolio, but i'm having a hard time getting high quality screenshots of the full site. I tried to save the website as PDF, but that was full of errors, other online services cant recreate the images and so on. I've also just tried to take regular screenshots on ...
I have around 15,000 JPG files that need to be watermarked. Is there any way to process these images en masse and add a watermark? The images may be different sizes, I want the watermark placed in the center of the images.
I a working on a number of projects that I will design and frame along with a bunch of greeting cards. What is the best printer to buy for printing greeting cards? I was looking at the Epson Stylus Photo 1400 Inkjet Printer. Is an inkjet or laser printer better? I've read a lot of pros and cons on each. I'm looking fo...
I would like to transform colors in the attached image (and other hundreds) defined by the following rule: 1) the lightest blue became the light green (exactly like as in the upper right color sample rectangle), 2) and the darkest blue became the dark green (exactly like as in the bottom right color sample) I've tri...
There is russian book, The Publisher’s and Author’s Handbook by Arkady Miltchin and Ludmila Tcheltsova which is well-known and considered the best comprehensive guide to typography and writing of text in Russian (formatting, margins, font sizes and so on). You can get the idea if you peek my link (even though everythin...
Is there a way to create a sphere shaped paragraph in powerpoint 2013. Something like this
I'm new to graphic design and the more I read about licensed fonts, the more confused I get. I've understood about downloading fonts from the internet, but my question is about the fonts that come up with Microsoft/Windows and Adobe CS5 upon buying the software and installing it on my computer. Since I bought the softw...
Can I make just the background of a picture semi-transparent while leaving the two people opaque? I have tried many things, but it keeps making the entire background completely transparent. Please help. Trying to make an anniversary gift for hubby.
We are designing a magazine using InDesign. Our Setup: 1 InDesign Document (we cal it the Ladder) that binds all below mentioned document into the Magazine. A lot of Single Page InDesign Documents. A few Double Spread (2 pages next to each other, facing) InDesign Documents. Using a new InDesign (We use CS6), it is po...
Is there a way to find out whether a font is authentic or fake? Font files both online and on my machine are often of unclear origin, yet I'd like to be sure that I paid for the fonts that are commercially available and that I have a genuine original. Is there a way to check the authenticity of a font file? I am intere...
I am trying to add a dashed line border around a coupon I've made using CS6. I tried adding a shape (rectangle) with the dashed Stroke option but the rectangle shape covers my coupon. Can I make everything but the dashed border transparent? Or is there a better way to accomplish this? I am new to Photoshop and will ne...
I'm currently discovering Sketch 3, and I stumbled on a problem for which I can't seem to find a solution! Coming from Photoshop, to add guide lines to my document, I went to click and drag from the rulers on the left side and top of the document. But in Sketch that actually just drags the rulers around. Which could be...
I tried to ask this question in another group, but got a hint this group might be more appropriate. I just wrote a little tool to check luminance contrast (WCAG) on a web page. Testing this I was surprised to see that a lot of sites (for example Facebook) uses contrast as low as 2.7 where the recommended contrast is 4....
I'm using a lot of 3D rotated images, especially in mockups. I've always noticed that text become slightly less clear when they're rotated. I've always accepted this, since I thought there was no way to render text in such way that the type remains perfectly clear. However, a friend of mine attended me that this proble...
FYI I'm in Australia so laws will probably differ to that in America. I'm curious however as there are heaps of great typographical designs of quotes...but is it illegal to make profits off your design selling them as prints etc? Or would it be ok to add the author's name as part of the design?
There's a wonderful property in CSS called clear that prevents floating objects from appearing adjacent to something else. InDesign allows floating objects, but I can't figure out what sort of paragraph style settings to use to prevent objects from floating next to a paragraph. I have an anchored object floating to th...
I am not much of a typography expert. Unfortunately the word 'one' is very common so Google/Bing return no reasonable results. Common examples include: Francois One, Fjalla One, Days One, etc.
Please show me how I can achieve below effect for text: Those random ink spray spots, shapes are basically transparent so it will show the color of whatever the background is (black in this case). Thanks for your help.
I'm designing a brochure for the first time. I did everything in Photoshop because I'm much more comfortable with it. But to refine the last layout details, put everything together, and deliver final product to client/printer, I need inDesign. My question is: what is the best moment for importing Photoshop work into in...
Cant think of any ideas for this. Currently im using a pencil icon to add a new post to my cms, but i need an icon that will show how many posts a blog has. The pencil icon doesnt scale down well enough for what im doing. Any other suggestions? Craig. e.g. The icon currently being used:
Hey does anyone know how you can get this increasingly popular door shade technique that helps objects look 3d. (Im talking about the way the object with arrows pointed to it is made of of 2 shades of grey on the pixel scale to look rough)
I've had an amazing client for the past three years who I've done regular graphic design work for - mostly product promotions (print & web), product brochures, posters and point of sale. She is now trying to sell her business (which I'm gutted about!) and has asked me to put together a presentation of all the marketin...
What is the name of the art style with wacky space alien characters? I've seen the style in many places over time but a good example which I can provide is the illustrations in the Area 51 StackExchange site. Here are some examples:
How can I create these types of gradient images in Illustrator?
I want to create animation of meteor 's moving in sky , this meteor has fire , for its flame/fire i draw a fire and then use particle , but now I can't control completely whole fire : fire must be exit from one whole on the meteor in frame 0 all thing is correct as you can see in this picture: in the frame 6 meteor m...
I've got two paths with really big strokes. I'd like to combine them in a way that the strokes line up, and I can avoid having to outline the strokes and end up with a lot of paths to manage. Specifically the top left area the strokes don't line up. Any ideas? EDIT/UPDATE: Thanks for answers everybody. Just for further...
I'm an UI Designer and I've just got my Retina MBP. Currently, I design on the retina screen until I get an ext. one, so everything I design is 200% bigger than on normal screens. For example, if I want a button that's 120 x 36 px on normal screens, I have to make it 240 x 72 on the retina. Everything looks awesome, bu...
Is it against Apple policy / guidelines to create a custom button that links to the App Store, or does it have to be the official App Store Badge?
My inDesign document has the exact same dimensions as my layered Photoshop one. In Photoshop, I hid all layers except background and imported that, as a Photoshop file, into inDesign. No problem here. But then, still in Photoshop, I hid everything except a small image, I cropped the Photoshop doc to fit that image size...
I am not a professional designer, meaning: I have not studied Graphic Design at university or similar. I wanted to, but the numerous clauses didn't allow it. On the other hand, I'm actually doing graphic design since the age of 15. And, compared to what I see from other people with a comparable background, I'm doing qu...
Given values a and b in the appropriate color space, does perceptual psychology provide an algorithm to determine which is cooler and which is warmer? Even better, is it possible to determine how much warmer the warmer color is? [Edit] To resolve confusion, understand that there are two kinds of "color temperature": ...
I'm a UX designer specializing in interaction design and information architecture, but I'm looking to deepen my knowledge in visual design and color theory. I'm currently working on a new portfolio site. Several users who tested this site's prototype said that blue and orange by themselves didn't convey the sort of e...
I'm lost here. 2 hours down the drain trying to figure this out. This is what's happening: I'm trying to map text to a flag shape for a client's logo. I've followed the steps outlined here for an idea of what to do. Pretty much every other post I've looked at says essentially the same thing as that tutorial. My problem...
When selecting and moving one anchor point, it moves freely. But selecting multiple points of the same shape and moving them - it snaps to pixel grid. Anyone know how to disable that and have them move freely? Thanks!
I want to give a logo to an open-source Github project. I can use git, but I don't know the etiquette of pushing stuff. Especially if it's not code. Also, what licenses are possible? Where can I give myself credit? Thanks.
You'll have to bear with me, I'm going to struggle describing what I mean. I'm creating a chart that looks something like this: Except that my numbers aren't integers. So, in that first line for instance, I'd have a number like 2.4 and I would want that person in the image to be 40% one color and 60% the other color a...
I have many designs prepared for print (CMYK), but now I need to present them on a projector. As projectors go, I know most of them have weak contrast, and many of my colors wouldn't be as accented as I would like them to be. Therefore, I want to do some batch process on all the vector graphics (PDF) to increase satura...
I use Illustrator CS6 to create a 3D pie chart. For this, I first create a "normal" pie chart and apply an extrude filter. Even though the results looks great in Illustrator, I get some white artifacts in the exported PDF (see screenshot). I tried with and without Object > Expand appearance and also with and without st...
I am almost in the final step of the design of a social network application, I am just not sure what would be the best font type for that type of applications, instead of using the system font type.
I want to warp a string of text into a u-shape where only the top is bent but the bottom stays flat. Like this logo but assuming the bottom remained flat and only the top went from big to small back to big. Think of it as an arc-upper text warp but instead of a hump at the top its flipped upside down to a smile shape....
I made two gif images to describe what really my problem is. Anyway on the first image, I've drew shapes individually and combined them all to make this logo. Unfortunately, its shape deforms whenever I try to resize it :-/ but I wonder why the messaging shape (the second image) does not deforms no matter how I resize ...
I am working with some large tiff files with fairly complex clipping paths, and have written a script to convert the paths to a selection, invert that selection and delete pixels in order to downsample and save a PNG with transparent background for the web. If the number of points in the clipping path is greater than ...
I am developing a flyer that will be distributed as a PDF, and our requirement is that it be "Section 508" compliant, that is, readable by a screen reader. I am trying to add alt tags to meet this requirement, but when I go to Object -> Object Export Options and click on the Alt Text tab, the Alt Text Source pull-down ...
I've created a Pie Chart Using Illustrator CS6 using Chart tool. ... and the "Group Selection Tool" to pick single pie chart elements and move them around. All pie chart elements are within one layer and grouped together. Now I want do the movement automatically. In other words, I want to equally "explode" the Pie Cha...
Lets say I have a bunch of text that needs to be italic. Throughout my text, italics are represented as: _word_ _any_ _car_ And so on... I want to find these, and replace them with word, car, any, and the like. I was able to find one word with this expression. \_.+\_ I'm new to inDesign, but I am familiar with using R...
We are working on a mobile game that will run on iOS and Android devices. The graphic theme has been designed during the first steps of the development by a single person. Now he's no more an active part of our team (he was enrolled exclusively for this purpose, for a shorter amount of time, and now he's focusing on ot...
I needed to remove something from my picture of computer on the table and restore the structure of the table when the object is no longer there. I have accomplished already removing the object and filling it with a structure using Quick Select tool, then Edit > Fill > Content Aware. My problem is that now the picture i...
It looks like this: link. Anybody know of any alternative, commercial licensed fonts that are simplistic and semi-serifed? Thanks! EDIT (partial picture of the font) -
I want to create some 8-Bit artwork using gimp. Is it possible to open a larger, higher resolution image and have it transparently in the background while drawing the 8 bit representation of say, bacon on a layer that is a different resolution but scaled to fit over the background image? If that is not possible in Gimp...
My InDesign document is 195 mm x 280 mm, has a 4mm bleed, 0mm slug and 10mm margin. My client specified: Size: 195 x 280 + 4 mm bleed. Cropmarks should be used. What does that mean? Should I draw lines where the bleed edges are?

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