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Is it possible to delete part of one of Pixelmator's premade shapes? I tried cropping part of the shape, but that just creates a new window where the cropped portion is shown on the canvas and the rest of the shape is offscreen. Before Intermediary After What I want
You have arrived on this page because you are clearly curious about underlying fundamentals that you can incorporate into your thought process when designing. According to many that came before us, there are key principles that can be considered when creating an effective design. In the following answers, you will find...
As a follow-up to my question Is there a way to expand linked EPS file placed inside another EPS file in Illustrator? I am now trying to create an action to select and embed external file(s) placed in an Illustrator file. Is this possible?
I'm in love with the fonts used on the sides of Indian Railway cars. Is this just a hand-painted Gill Sans, or is this a custom font? For one thing the R's look slightly different.
An amateur graphic designer here. I was told to redesign a reddit app icon on playstore and he told me to apply the Google's new design scheme that was leaked a few days ago (The first illustration shows the mockup that I made based on the leaked overhaul icons from Google) So currently the second image shows the reddi...
I have a PSD file which contains many Layers and each layer contains either some image or text. i want to crop the selection Area from that psd file..while doing that, it throwing an error please explain how to resolve this issue
I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop cs3, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د.
I download Image from an Internet and want to open this jpeg Image in Photoshop but I got an errorCould not complete your request because of a problem parsing the JPEG Data.
In Adobe Illustrator I have an Icon that has dimensions of 200px by 200px. When I export it to a PNG file though,the PNG file is 834px by 834px. Any suggestions to keep the icon at 200 by 200 pixels?
Basically just a quick question from a newbie to Photoshop, recently i've been finding that my text on photoshop amongst other items in my designs were ending up blurry as a result of my retina display on my Macbook Pro, I have subsequently changed to the pixels per inch on the image to 227 pixels per inch (the exact P...
I received a graphic in a presentation with equally weighted items in it. Their order did not match my expectation, so I started to wonder why that would be. Finally I figured out that I was reading them in text reading direction and that order did not match the order in which the text explained them. Therefore my ques...
I would like to take the menu image, below, and superimpose it on top of the screen in the image below it, so it looks like the person is looking at that on their screen. Is this easily done in Photoshop, or is it a bad idea for a beginner-intermediate to try?? I would assume it requires some kind of mesh that can cha...
Does someone know the font type of the text "pocket edition" in the Minecraft Pocket Edition logo pictured here?
I don't have a lot of examples of "Look at me, I drew all the letters!" typography. But here is one, and I'm happy with the overall sketch and like everything but the first two letters. I dislike the A and the way that the A and the T join. Sure I could tinker around and try to fix it myself. But since there are me...
My designer is working on a flat design for a gaming portal for World of Warcraft. We want to use icons for a sub-menu and figured using icons directly from the game would be best from a user perspective. The problem is that the icons are all 3d. Here's an example: We'd like the menu to look like it's a part of the f...
I was just wondering if anyone could find this font for me.
Here is the definition which I read from the net source 1st is Midtone: Situated between the darkest tone (Black), and the brightest tone (White). For a 24 bit colour image, this occurs when Red = Green = Blue = 128. and the other is Tones created by dots between 30% and 70% of coverage and Midtone also refers...
I have multiple layers with rectangle shapes on each, i want to apply same color to every shape at once. Can anyone share a tip? Thanks,
I want to apply a gradient effect and have it look like in this image.
I have a stock photo, it's original size is 5616 × 3744 px. I would like to change its size to be used for my web design in photoshop - to size 1600 x 600. I do not want to crop the image because I would loose some picture content - if I crop e.g. the top half. I tried to use in Photoshop Image - Image size function, ...
I am currently producing a new edition of an old book of mine; this new book will incorporate code samples from several different computing environments. What I want to know is: what is the best way to differentiate the different environments in your document? I can of course say so in the text: This is how it's done ...
I am currently creating a Crystal report, but having difficulty on how to align certain columns. I have a Social Security, employee_name, Check Number and Amount. I understand that the amounts should be right aligned so the decimals line up, but how should the Social Security column be aligned? I understand it is a '...
If I resize canvas from menu, then the size of larger objects not change. I.e. they still have some portions existing outside of canvas. Meanwhile, if I do crop with interactive tool, I loose outside data. Is it possible to change canvas as if I do cropping, i.e. with the same visual instruments, but without loosing da...
How can I create a solar flares effect using GIMP or Inkscape? Something like this image: Edit: first of all thanks for all the great comments and suggestions. My initial idea was to create the image based on real surface features of the sun, as seen in this image. My steps were sun disk: create circle, create gran...
The classical way to open a file is not followed in Gimp. There is no browse button, nor there is a textbox where one can paste the path to the file. I do not edit images everyday and I always have to loose half an hour to be able to open a simple file. So here are my questions: How to open a file in Gimp the fast way...
There is smooth mode (3 on keyboard if I'm correct) to show objects 'smooth' in the viewport, but when I render it, there is no smoothing. What should I do in order to get a smooth render? I've tried to look for tools for smoothing, but was unable to find anything. In 3ds max I could achieve it by applying the modifie...
I make custom cursors for Tumblr blogs and this was a request, but I can't seem to figure out how to make all but the words transparent; even the spaces in the loops need to be transparent:
Ive got a website ive mocked up in PS ive got a range of background options which are individual layers in a folder called Backgrounds. I want to export copies of the website but each time change the background so i have website with background 1.png website with background 2.png website with background 3.png .. etc ...
I'm making this icon with a base vector and white strokes with variable profiles (right image) and I wanted to unify them as a single object, so I expanded the strokes and used Pathfinder's difference (left image) They appear identical, and they should, I guess... But when I zoom out, the one I used pathfinding look l...
Hi, i want to draw this shape but using rounded rectangle tool. Do you have any idea?
This isn't just a nagging question. It's to help designers (such as myself) to understand the importance of paid for fonts. This question is mainly based on my curiosity to why we should pay for fonts (not meaning we should get them for free) when there are a vast number of adequate fonts out there on the interwebs! ...
I recently started studying Illustrator and I just would like to ask how can I do a pattern similar to the image below I am looking at the STAR, and I just would like to ask how to create that effects from small to big. And it seems that it is on a path. I only rely on using the net for teaching myself so I do not ha...
As per my knowledge nowadays there's a trend going with flat design. That's cool. These are the things people associate with flat design Simple Clean Colourful Modern Trendy Easy to use Perceived as more honest Modern appearance There are also some arguments against flat design There is little or no need for illustr...
In Illustrator I'm trying to create quite a simple shape but I don't know the simplest way of going about it. I have created a Sine wave using the Sine Curve script by Sato Hiroyuki. I have doubled it and flipped it to create this "wave band" image and I want to know how I cant get it (if possible) to follow the path o...
In many fonts I come across, I see that the glyph uppercase i - I is same as lowercase l. Why is it so? Why don't font designers add a differentiating factor between the two glyphs? This specially creates a problem with the word 'Ill'. Whether to read it roman 3 or short for 'I will'. Extra I am asking this because I ...
Is Wasco Sans font by Jim Wasco available as a web font?
This question has come about as a follow on from @Scott's "How do you break out of current creative mind sets?" I work in a (smallish) company that produces all it's in house content such as email newsletters, web image (banners, flyers etc) and I am the only person that does these jobs. As it is a company that sells I...
Update: Scroll to the bottom for a before-and-after. I'm designing something for my school in Photoshop, and our mascot is a knight. This is the current design: Yeah, I know. It's in desperate need of a redesign. I want to do flat design, but I'm just starting out with it so I'm still trying to learn the tricks. So, h...
I'm using a layer mask to remove sections of the "sushi" image to leave the tablet and phone images, but I can only do this with the brush tool, right? I'm wondering how to do this most efficiently because the border between the "sushi" image and the tablet and phone is definitely not a straight line. What's the best...
I know it is a simple question, but I failed to google it, or the answer is simply "no". A "coming soon" site is a page that keeps on the domain while the actual page is developed. There are examples of it on hongkiat, and those pages can be done on wordpress with ultimate coming soon page plugin. Is there any proper w...
What would be a good accent color for espresso furniture with black and white damask design on linen?
Does anyone know the name of this font, or the name of the style/category where I could look for similar ones?
Hello I am Android Developer, working on android application. I require to make all drawables for all density for my android app. Is there any standard ratio I should keep for that and any tool for that. Any idea ?
I'm having difficulties with a really basic concept in Inkscape. How do I fill an enclosed path that has a line going into it? I've combined the original two paths to form one path, but filling it doesn't actually fill it. The only way I can seem to get it to work are hacks like adding a background object filled with t...
I'm saving an Illustrator CS6 file as a PDF. The file has a transparent background, however when exported as a PDF and dropped into InDesign the file has a white background. I've tried saving the file as different types of PDF but nothing has worked. This is a recent problem that I've not had an issue with until the pa...
My website has a background color of #EEEEEE (238,238,238). I have an image with a light grey background I want to blend with this background. In Photoshop I used brightness adjustment to get (238,238,238). But when I put the image on my site it shows as #EEEDEE, so it doesn't blend nicely, and the difference is visibl...
I'm trying to find out whether or not the font Avenir can be used for logo design when a desktop license is purchased. I'm finding it difficult to interpret the EULA. http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?lid=1444 Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Recently I've been using the Type on a Path tool quite frequently in Illustrator and it frustrates me every time I want to use a circle path to place type on, as I want the text centered at the top of the circle but I always have to center the text myself and try to guess by eye if it's dead center. Is there a way to a...
I am simply drawing a shape using the shape layer tool, however no matter how many shapes I draw, when zoomed in there is always anti-aliasing I know I can select fill pixels and then switch off anti-aliasing however I need to work with the shape layer tool for scaling. Any help would be great.
As the title says, I'm having trouble finding out where the document info panel in Illustrator is.
What is the non-retina/retina resolution of iPhone5 in pixels. (Double or half of 640px x 1136px screen size)? Is the retina 640px x 1136px or is that the non-retina?
Does the functionality exist to have a persistent set of character and paragraph styles that's available on an application level as opposed to document level? I know that styles can be imported from other InDesign files. I make a lot of material based on the same design template, and I end up with slightly different ve...
I'm designing an planner (agenda) book for my school. I'm doing flat design, but it seems a bit boring to me. What can I do to spice it up? Updated Image: Removed the drop shadows.
How can I create a photo wall effect similar to this with Photoshop CS6? I tried with Warp, but it looks so bad and it's nowhere near comparsion. I also tried with Edit->Transform->Perspective, but then it looked more like this and not what I wanted. I'm also trying it on a smaller image (800x415) and I have lots of...
I tried searching for some answers before posting this but since my situation is so unique my questions were never completely cleared up. So about a year ago I was approached by a member of a fraternity to design an original t shirt graphic that would include their letters, colors, and symbols (such as a specific bird...
Years ago, before computers took over, I worked with a photo cropping tool; I hope someone can tell me its name. The gizmo I used was for sizing photos so they could be used in offset printing. They were never sliced physically. I marked them with a grease pen. It was made of a soft metal, and it was in an open accordi...
I'm trying to redo this logo in Illustrator. There is no larger image size than what I've found and I can't use live trace on it. So I'm redo-ing it with the pen tool and was just wondering what's the font used in this logo:
I am a programmer, design is not my forte. I attempted to create a design and am stuck on where to continue to with colors, location of pieces, text choice etc. Here is the website so far: Design (for some reason the text in the banner changed) It is supposed to look like so: Some questions: What could I do to make i...
Can someone please show me how to bend text and rectangle behind it as one unit?
I am tearing my hair out on this one, albeit I am fairly new to Illustrator I have researched the best way to export art of particular dimensions for the web, and this appears to be the best way. It's worked fantastic in the past, but I am now embarking on resizing this image at a range of different dimensions, and I'v...
I'm working on a Android app project where i use Malayalam fonts (ML-TT-Revathi, ML-TT-Karthika, ML-TT-Ayilyam) and i need to know whether i need a license to use those fonts. All the fonts i use were found free on the web but each one is customized and have glyphs missing or represented by different unicode symbols. I...
I am confused with what colour profiles I should be using where, as when I upload any of my designs online or try emailing them over to clients sometimes they are fine, but a lot of the time they show up fluorescent or oddly coloured:
What's the font name used in the Geographic Information Systems.SE logo?
I'll make a point to be as detailed as I can with this. My company does sublimation printing for retail items. To make sure items are correctly identified on the production table, each item has to have a barcode added to it, along with its file name - which has to be mirrored since our printing software mirrors images ...
I have an image that is a 3x5 photo. We need to resize it to 12x15 and still need it to retain most, if not all, of it's image quality. I do not have access to Photoshop, so I use Paint.NET. From what I've personally experienced, when re-sizing an image, I always lose quality. In this case, it's a very specific imag...
I'm currently working on versions of a logo that has some gradients. CMYK looks fine but I'm getting poor results with PMS. I would normally fix this by building a mixed ink in Indesign but it doesn't seem possible in Illustrator. I also tried putting the lightest color solid on the bottom layer and putting the gradien...
I tried to look for it but I end up with no matching results :( Anyone know what font is used in this logo?
I'm trying to remove blue skies with clouds quickly from many images. I've used gimp's Color Selection Tool, which selects the sky but not the clouds. Since all clouds are in the sky, if I could expand the selection to encompass everything within the area, I'd be done. Does gimp have a tool for this? Additionally, it w...
I need your expert advice. My goal is to use pattern overlay correctly on a seat image. I googled for several options and I tried a couple tutorials. So far, the Filter \| Distort \| Displace seems likely the answer. However, is there a better way to wrap the pattern over the seat seamlessly that it looks like the origin...
Can you please suggest a font(free for commercial use) that supports all the ISO 4217 symbols?
With F9F9F9 background: Original: I thought my blog looked a little bit boring with a plain old white background, so I tried it with #F9F9F9 and #FCFCFC. I'm not really sure whether I like it. Would you consider it a positive or a negative addition to my blog? It is primarily text-based, and the background affects pr...
I have been trying to do this. I have the word "Panther" and what I want is to stretch the letter "P" only to extend it and cover the other letter. Here's what I am trying to accomplish. {I use paint so I just sketch it sorry} I tried doing this but I am unsuccessful. Create the text. Convert the outline. 3.a I trie...
I am trying to design a restaurant menu, I've decided to go with Photoshop (would you suggest something else?) but I can't find a way to work with objects (or maybe models, I don't know the proper way to call this feature, I am thinking objects as in object oriented programming) My problem is: let's say that I wanted t...
There are some sans-serif fonts where serifs are used sporadically: My questions are: Are these considered real serifs, i.e. will typeface designers call them serifs or are there other names? Is there a name for the phenomenon, meaning using "serifs" in sans-serif" fonts? Can I filter to find these "mix" fonts by us...
Does the Sketch app provide something like a "resize artboard to content" command? If yes, where can I find it?
We are building a site which will include actions related to bank accounts and banking in general. We need a good font that conveys a feeling of security and credibility. It's preferred that the font will be widely supported in all websites, but not mandatory. Any suggestions ?
How could I recreate this gradient washed out effect in PS?
I'm looking to create fruit's texture, specifically a lemon's, in the form of a textured image that is otherwise transparent. This is because I want to be able to use it as an overlay layer on elements in my browser. Here's an example of the type of texture I'm trying to create, minus the yellow I was able to find ho...
I'm currently working on naming a product, and I have a list of names. Some are okay, some aren't, but I know at some point I have to close the list, pick a couple that sound good, and present them to the team members as the available choices for the next round. I've experienced this sort of thing with logo designs as...
It's something like a script type of font. I tried to use the myfont font finder but it didn't recognize its cursive like font :( Anyone knows?
In a recent project in Illustrator I was creating freeform paths to place text on them. Since the design was freeform I kept running into a problem where I would create a path, place the text on it, then realize that the text didn't fully fit on the path or the path needed to be tweaked slightly to make the text look ...
I want some arrows point to one specific point. Like this: How can I make it so the arrows point in one direction? I tried selecting every arrowhead with the direct selection tool, then via shift an anchor point to which I want to align (created as a temporary object) and then specified the distance in the align menu....
I would like to use the overlay effect used on the screenshot(s) below. I've tried experimenting with several Blending modes but keep missing the mark. I'm sure this has a very easy answer but I'm having trouble recreating the effect on my own. Here are a few more images for further context: Thanks in advance for...
I am trying to put simple arrows along a path. What I have done so far: using the Bezier tool, I created a straight line and made the endmarker into an arrowhead. Next, I used the Path effect editor to put the arrow along the path and using the "repeated" option, I obtained multiple arrows along the path. It works wo...
I have inserted hyperlinks in Photoshop slices, and now I want to export the file as PDF, with clickable images. When I Save as PDF, hyperlinks are gone and images are not clickable. How can I do it?
I have a circle-like path in Sketch. How can I now see if it's really a circle (i.e it was created with the Oval tool) or if it's just a path with the shape of a circle. They look the same and all the settings are the same, but when I export them to an SVG file the circle will be translated to a circle-tag and the path...
It's extremely common on websites to see solid colors spanning some portion of the top and bottom of the website, much like can be seen on some of the stack sites. Stackoverflow is a good example, it even has the significantly expanded bottom that also seems common. It's a simple feature and surely doesn't have a grea...
I am trying to create a template for a wedding card with multiple color options.The design uses 4 colors in a custom swatch palette. Is it possible for me to load a 'new 4-swatch palette' to replace the 'active 4 swatches', and change the colors in the document? Thanks Ng
Could anybody tell me what font is used in my attached image or maybe suggest something similar to it?
I have a green background picture with some shadows. I would like to use it as a mask so I can place it on background with any color (e.g. red or pink) and get the same style of shadows. I tried converting it to grayscale and changing opacity to 20%, but this resulted in a lot darker image. I am using this on a webpage...
I have a .obj file with a 3D object and a .tga one with the texture. If I open the .obj in Photoshop and load the .tga as diffuse texture, everything looks fine, but I am having some hard time editing the texture, Specially finding the edge borders. What I would like to have is, the lines I can see when choosing the "W...
I have traced a logo from a jpeg in illustrator. It is two colours - black and blue. When it was made it ended up with an extra blue shape outlining the some of the black. Is there a way to add the blue shape to the black rather than just recolouring it all to the black? I'm relatively new to Illustrator.
I have to save my images as png-8, 300ppp, with Photoshop CS6 and always works good. But today, the same image yesterday was 250kb, today is 1.1MB, without making any change. Can somebody help me, please? I work on Mac. Thanks for your help.
Benchmarkemail uses a nice font for the logo. I've already tried with several image to font services but no one is accurate. The url is: http://www.benchmarkemail.com/
A little intro: Graphic Design isn't really my thing and the last time I did design was back in 2007... until today that we need to brand our new wedding videography studio. Because of budget constraints, I had to try my hand again to pencil in a logo (will go through the trouble of relearning Illustrator later on). A...
I'm a robotics engineer who just joined the world of video animations, I just finished my first project and I have no idea if I charged the fair amount for it. I would like to know how to put prices on this kind of work, is it per hour worked on it? is it per type of animations made? or how? This is the video I just ma...
Can any one find me what font is used here . I searched for it everywhere but cant find it .
I am about to print some artworks that I have designed on an 18in x 24in document. That is the size of the original artwork, which shouldn't be much of a problem to print since it's the standard size for posters. Parallelly, I want to print a reduced-size version of the artwork, maintaining the original aspect ratio 0....
I created color dodge effect in Illustrator, and now I want to save two png files, one for background and one for color dodge effect, but when I do it it has a black background. How can it be done? This is what my images looks like (full image on right, colour-dodge-only image on left): The software we are using to...
I have been infatuated with this artist style of color, drawing and use of subtle textures. http://1212m.tumblr.com/post/49348782338 So I ended up drawing this derpy little thing from Final Fantasy using the pen tool in illustrator and converting it to a live paint object. Ok! Making some progress here. The one issu...

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