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I've been wondering about the settings used for "Save As (.png)" option available in Photoshop. Does it save the highest quality, largest size as a default setting and how does it differ from PNG-24 and PNG-8 in "Save for Web"? Let me know if I can be more detailed in my question.
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Is it possible to produce an arc shape with given start and sweep angle?
(Using Sketch 3.0 by bohemian.coding)
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I'm creating a graphic for a website. When trying it out, I realized it was a bit blurry.
I asked a graphic designer the reason it was blurry, and she had stated the graphic may need to be larger, and to try the width at 1000 pixels.
How can I set a custom size for my artboard, to a specific number of pixels in Adobe... |
I just exported a shape from photoshop as a path and then filled it in illustrator. I now want to save the shape as an svg, or eps but I don't want to save all the excess whitespace around the object. I want it to be cropped to the dimensions of the object and not the artboard. How can I do this in Adobe Illustrator cs... |
Free Vectors graphics are really popular these days... the thing is that there are a bunch of site with lot of graphics which you don't know if you can trust. I've seen a lot of stolen and pirate stuff from paid microstock in those free sites. My question is which are the most trusted/reliable sites out there.
Thanks a... |
Is it possible to export an Illustrator file off our MAC (CS6) and send to PC (Adobe CC) and package all the fonts to go with the artwork to avoid installing missing fonts one by one?
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Although layers are visible, some are not exporting. There seems to be no consistency with this, from artboard to artboard.
In this case, I cannot see "mBTC" or "VIRES IN NUMERIS"
I'm totally stumped.
Here is a download of the project, I apologize for the size http://ge.tt/7My7izf1/v/0
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I have a series of shape layers that I am using to create a logo.
These shape layers are not directly above or below each other. Instead, they are spaced out between a series of other shape layers. I can't move these layers, nor can I move the layers above or below them (because the design's structure won't let me do ... |
I am doing a knowledge transfer at my work to give the incoming designer all of my design assets and direction in an easily digestible format.
How would I organize my color palettes in a logical format for cross application (adobe swatch exchange) use for an incoming designer?
Should I break it into primary brand color... |
I switched computers and I need a Photoshop action I used on the previous computer. None of the instructions I found online helped so far. :(
I call the action on the old computer (Windows 7, Photoshop CS5.1) from this screen (File > Scripts > Image Processor). It's named "Logo pe poze".
I exported and imported the C:... |
I'm looking for some advice on how to render a classical concert program listing on a web site. I can define the composer & title using either <dl> or <table> tags:
<table style="width:100%">
<tr><td class="composer">Benjamin Britten</td>
<td class="song">Rejoice in the Lamb</td></tr>
<tr><td class="composer">J.S.... |
i have been facing this problem many times. When ever i save any high resolution image in PDF format, the pictures in the image gets pixelated and the text or any shape remains unpixelated. But whan i view the same image as .jpeg it looks perfect with all the details. The image is fitting to screen of PDF only at 500%,... |
I'm sort of hacking the interface of Wunderlist (To-do app) and originally all tasks backgrounds are 0% transparant, slightly gray coloured. I'm trying to change the opacity of each. Luckily, Wunderlist uses images for their UI.
However, when I change the opacity of the image and copy it to the resources folder of the... |
I'm currently playing around in Illustrator and I would like to know the best way to recreate this pattern from a Samsung wallpaper (or similar) so that I can colour it how I like.
The main problem I'm having is positioning the triangles between each other. Is there a better way to place then flush against each other ... |
For several years now, I've been trying to get my hands on the BA Math Font from micropress. But I can't find anyone who has it, or who is willing to sell it to me (including the original authors). And the online ordering form at the referenced website doesn't do anything -- I've tried it. As far as I can tell, this... |
In a very short descriptive text I want to indicate that a user has to open several cascading/nested sections in a menu structure. At the moment I use the > character to indicate the structure. But is there a better looking character/icon/symbol available?
I only have the default typeset for an iOS device available:
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I am looking for alternative fonts to use on a web site that are similar to DINPro Bold, Light and Medium.
They don't have to be free fonts, but can be through a service such as TypeKit or Fonts.com.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I have not used Adobe Illustrator much, so please excuse me if this is obvious.
I'm trying to import a photoshop mockup of a logo into illustrator so I can finish it as a vector image. The problem is when I go to file.. place, and select the photoshop document, it doesn't preserve the layers. There will be a "layer 1"... |
I have a problem with rigging in maya. I have a skeleton that I smooth bound to the model. The normal position of the legs are this:
But when I move the controller on the left foot, the skin on the right leg moves along with it.
I have used a point constraint on the controller for the IK handle on the leg. I have tri... |
I am looking at redesigning the logo, giving it a more modern feel, easier on the eye.
'Bashkohem' means to join, meet, link up together. The website is a social network for ethnic Albanians.
Current used Logo (1): Kosovo map (white) with Albania map (red).
"The Albanian flag is depicted by an eagle with two heads o... |
I've noticed that I often use the words "artist" and "designer" in the same context. It seems to me that every designer can be an artist, but not every artist is a designer.
I wasn't sure though, so I had a look at the definition of design, by Google:
de·sign
noun
a plan or drawing produced to show the look and func... |
As said in the title I need to know how to make it so a shape does not show outside its stroke in Illustrator.
As you can see in the image. The black shape, which is a circle, is going outside of its stroke. How can I make it so it does not do that?
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I have a photo of someone's profile. I have used the Lasso tool to select the sillouhette of this person. I would like to apply a gradient to everything in the photo (the bckgd) leaving the person themselves unaffected by the gradient. I press m after I select the person with the Lasso tool, and now there is a bunch of... |
I want to learn the RGB (or others like hex, CMYK or HSL) details of a color on a website. Say the background of this very website. I want to recreate that color using the code or a graphics software.
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I'm creating a game and animating my hero image using sprite sheets, but I can't seem to manage creating the walk cycle animation - the output is a weird animation that looks like the hero is just shaking its legs.
Note that the "hero's legs" are made up of 3 pixels each, that are upscaled twice.
[Here is the sprite sh... |
I just got a freelance project to design the UI for a website. Can someone tell me what layout (dimension) is used to design a website front end in Photoshop? What are the basic dimensions used?
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Since Eye drop tool coping all the properties from one object to another and I Don't want this in some cases.
Does any one knows how to copy only selected property form one object to another in illustrator.
For example:
Object A has a fill color + outline. And I want to to copy Fill color (only) and not the outline ... |
I make to-do lists at work on post its for things I have to do.
e.g.
Make the software more usable.
Change radioboxes to checkboxes.
Refactor code.
Commit and merge with master branch.
Now I have completed the 2nd task and have striked it through or I make a tick mark on it. Next I want to do the 3rd and 4th task. I ... |
Can i know how to check the license of the Baskerville True Type font that is available on my laptop running Mac OS.
Is the Baskerville.ttc font free to use commercially ?
If not can i still use the font for creating the logo for a website?
I saw a similar query for chancery font on stackexchange, but i just wanted to ... |
Below is an icon comprised of two images. The top image has a 1px transparent stroke "knocking out" the layer below. This is fine as an .ai file.
However when I save as .svg the stroke has disappeared.
Is there any way of saving an .svg file and keeping the transparent stroke masking the layer below?
Thanks.
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This is a painted sign I found and I really like the font. I cannot identify this font. I have tried several of the sites where I can upload a picture but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Identify this sans-serif font anyone?
Thank you.
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I've searched in vain for at method for changing a footer logo dependent on page number. I want a different image on every other even page but as I am already using a number of master pages to different chapters for the book, I want to be able to vary the footer without having to apply different master pages.
Could usi... |
This one is a big one
I have a Photoshop document that has 8 Layers in it. I need to create a way to use those 8 layers and create certain combinations depending on the rules below...
Example:
{1,2,3} {1,2,4} {1,2,5} {1,2,6} {1,2,7} {1,2,8} {1,3,4} {1,3,5} {1,3,6} {1,3,7} {1,3,8} {1,4,5} {1,4,6} {1,4,7} {1,4,8} {1,5,6}... |
I need to create something like this, and I don't know how to! How can I create "orbiting" circles around a sphere similar to the symbol for an atom?
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Recently when I Save for Web my preview image appears scaled 50% and pixelated.
However the saved image appears fine.
Is there a setting I inadvertently changed?
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I want to purchase it to use in a commercial logo.
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If I made an advertisement for printing in CMYK mode but I need to upload that file as JPEG online for client, should I use RGB?
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This is best explained in picture. Here is the master as set up:
Here is the spread before I add a new page:
And then here's what happens after I try to add a new page (noticed the super-imposed text near the bottom of the image):
I have to add to this document as is and I don't know how to continue without ruining ... |
If you know about Data Merge, you know most people have trouble with styles or with actual entries. Here, I'm having trouble with the layout itself. The document I'm working on will shift down and to the right when created a Multiple-Entries layout, instead of sticking to the upper-left as expected.
Aside from the plac... |
I'm having a problem lining up the text in my columns. The frames themselves are set to align top.
The images below show examples of how the text will display eventually if the frame is lengthened enough.
I've removed any and all paragraph breaks, and just have slight spacing after. I even tried disabling all spacing, ... |
I'm creating a graphic with a hand holding a phone, but I don't want to show any hand of race(black/white). I've seen once google use a a non-realistic hand and gray-scaling a hand looks even more awkward. Suggestions?
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I am currently working with a photo that is placed in an InDesign document.I currently have a directional feather applied to the image but the edges are still visible. I would like to feather the edge so that the background color smoothly transitions into the photograph. When I open the image up in Photoshop, I select ... |
I have a board full of inputs, and need holes in the box behind them.
How can I do these all at once instead of multiple boolean operations?
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Is there a good web font you ever used that renders perfectly in all browsers (all browsers compatible with @font-face)?
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Doing some design for 3D and developers need PNGs with RGBA8 for transparency. I am not even sure if this is possible with png. When I look at channels I see no alpha channel but there is alpha on the png, which is very confusing.
My flow is usually through generator, so I name layers fileName.png32 so it does full alp... |
I'm modifying a template to suit my own needs. While I've been fairly successful overall, I've been struggling with the pricing section.
Specifically:
I picked the colors because they were complimentary to the background, but they don't seem to be readable. What process can I use to pick colors that blend well, but ... |
I've created a vector image in Illustrator. I would like to import it into InDesign and use it as bullets.
I googled it but they just mention pasting it on to the clipboard and they don't explain how to do that.
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"Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal"
This is the most famous version of the concept described by so many great artists, yet, as a designer/artist, I'm not sure how I would explain it.
The general concept can be traced back to many great artists throughout recent history:
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets st... |
I´m looking for any fonts with integrated circuit aspect, similar to this image:
Or if that's not possible, could you tell me if there is a font that looks like old computers? Like in this image:
--------------------------- edited after Yisela´s answer
I like the first of Yisela, but I prefer any similar to this:
-... |
I would like to know the difference between Wireframes and Mockups. I'm hoping to gain a simple understanding of the difference or to definitively know that both are the same.
I googled it but I couldn't understand what exactly the difference is, I would appreciate it if someone could explain it to me concisely.
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I am editing a game board for a word game, based on a "CC BY SA"-licensed SVG file by Denelson83:
When I click at a colored square and then press ctrl+D I can see the original colored square - as you can see at the above screenshot.
Editing that original object will change all its copies at the game board, which is ve... |
Question nr.1 - Every time I complete a job in indesign, I need to package it. I do it manually, but is there a way to do it automatic?
Question nr.2 - Is there a possibility to create .inx file from CC indesign? Now I make .idml from CC version, then open it on CS4 and only then convert to CS3.
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I have created an image in MS Word using the Shapes tools, so on my hands is a .docx (or at best .pdf) file. Now I have to have an .eps file from the contents. I tried converting the .pdf to .eps but quality was severely reduced.
Is there any way or software to take this file and save it as .eps?
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I am programmer and I have an idea for a mobile app. I wanted to learn more about UI design and how to provide a better experience for the app user.
Are there any courses (preferably free) or books that I can learn design from?
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I know the setting Edit > Preferences > General > Check "Scale stroke & effects".
But this setting is changing outline setting for all objects in illustrator. Does anybody know setting for only selected objects? I am CorelDraw user previously and this is very easy to do in CorelDraw.
Thanks in advance.
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Please help me in designing the review and critique of this page
I am a programmer, and a designer gave me an image of a webpage. I made it and everything is OK, but I don't like this template's folders and article icon design.
and this is my template:
This is picture of folder icon:
and This is article icon:
Whe... |
I have a document of 27 pages. I've used the same paragraph styles for all of them. When I export it to a PDF, the text on some of the pages look stroked although I haven't used a stroke. I took a print out and they look the same but when I look at the PDF files the difference is visible. How do I fix this?
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I work at an agency mostly focused in software development however sometimes a microsite is accessory to one of our solutions and we need to build it.
I'm trying to define the process for creating these websites but I don't know in which order each task is commonly done and specially I'm trying to figure out at which p... |
I've saved a two-colour Illustrator graphic as a jpeg, 600px width. Then opened it in Photoshop, where it opened at a width of 1270px. Easily rectified, I know, but why would Photoshop open a file from sister software inaccurately? Isn't compatibility supposed to be the whole point of the Creative Suite?
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I'm looking to have a decently sized run (anywhere from 100-1000, depending on cost) of stickers made using my company's logo. My standard sources for vinyl stickers don't seem to have options for cut vinyl stickers, so I'm looking for a new source.
The difficulty is that I'm a little unsure what the process is called.... |
Scope
This is a question about looks in a written document. I has nothing to do with LaTeX, although I create my documents with that. Is this the right site then?
Current state
I write lab reports and other documents where I have to include a lot of images and tables. Those are usually floating within the text and are ... |
I am a GIMP beginner and have successfully created images with my desired transparencies in GIMP. However, I have problems with and can't seem to understand the ins-and-outs of image and canvas sizes.
I have multiple images that I exported from another software program at 8.5x11 (US letter). I create a new image canv... |
Whenever I design a website, I think it's useful to not only show screen captures but also coding abilities.
Unfortunately, most of the time, clients end up editing websites themselves and if they're not paying me for maintenance, the site will lose some of its appeal which doesn't make me too fond of inserting URLs i... |
The logo I currently have is similar to the one below.
It has 2 colors of the same hue, with different brightnesses. I'm attempting to put the logo on a Windows app, with the design calling for a colored background and a white icon. I don't want it to have a white background and look out of place on any user's Start s... |
I'm a developer trying to strengthen my design skills. The problem lies with my expertise being in code versus design. So my question is, when creating a theme to sell, and the focus is the functionality and features of the theme - are the graphics in a theme (whether it's Tumblr/WordPress etc.) all created by the pers... |
I edit product photos that quite often involve camouflage patterns and multiple colors. I use quick selection, then modify the edges where need be with lasso tools, to remove the background (well, to make a new layer with only the subject).
Problem is, often I hold CTRL when I intended to hold SHFT, and wind up adding ... |
I am currently trying out typing on a path and I seem not to do what I want.
Is there an option where I could retain the path itself? I notice that typing on a path removes the path in preview mode. This is so that I could have a circular text with a circular path in it.
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I have been working on a 3D .obj file in Photoshop.
Now that I have the texture finished, I want to render a showcase image. I want the object to lay on it's side on the ground.
I've tried using the menu option 3D > Snap object to ground plane; but that just snaps the object to the ground using the current position.
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I am having trouble aligning my objects and I just rely on my eye to have them aligned. What I really want is to have the three "red" intersection to be equal in size
Please see image below.
I wanted the three circles to intersect at some point but I am not sure if they do intersect equally.
Here's what I did.
I alig... |
I've an image with width 540 and height 255. I need this image to put in a website. So, that i want this image with width 347 and height 346. I tried with STOIK smart image resize tool, but it's give expected result. How can i do it?
Thanks in advance
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Wanted to find a way to get this script, but after I Google'd this, it seems that it's not so easy to find. Can anyone help me with this? I need a script that makes a folder with job name and in the folder creates .indd, .inx, .pdf files that links and embeds fonts.
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I want the document in the screenshot below to export as PDF on a single A3 paper format with crop marks.
So all 6 pages have to fit on a single page, A3 print size.
Right now I am only able to get it exported as 6 individual pages.
How can I place my pages so that all 6 pages fit on to one A3 page in a PDF?
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I am new in design, and recently I have been given a task where I have to create images like the ones present on dropbox.com home page.
I am not sure what is the correct way of creating those images.I suppose they are called doodles.
Can they be created using Photoshop/Illustrator or will I have to use the method wher... |
I have photographed some pages of a book for reading. This is much faster than scanning and you don't have to carry the heavy books. However, the photographed books are not as nice: curved, skewed, and shadowed, as opposed to the much flatter, cleaner scanned books. Especially when you're trying to print them out.
Goog... |
I am making a Photoshop file with a lot of slices some for iOS, some for Android and other formats. I need to create an action that saves only certain slices to the users desktop in a folder depending on what action they use.
I can do this and it works fine on my desktop but if I send the action to someone else they g... |
I want to make 3D animation films. Not as hi-fi as Disney and Pixar of course, but as close to them as an indie animator can get.
I'm good (not enviable, just plain good) at drawing things on paper but I haven't really delved into digital art much.
Is there any correlation between the two?
Do I need to hone my drawin... |
I have a file with multiple artboards of varying sizes.
When I print to PDF, I usually get just the size of the first artboard, the rest are either cropped or have a white border around them.
Any solution to getting all the artboards to PDF at the correct size?
How can I print all of my differently sized artboards to ... |
I'm really exited about the copy css feature. It helps me, a web developer, to get most of the font styles, gradients and rounded corners out of a psd in no time.
I have however an problem. Sometimes, designers instead of increasing the font size by incrementing the font size, they start a transform by cmd+clicking on ... |
I've created a custom made bullet and used the indyfont script to set up the export but I'm not able to click on the the OTF export button. I'm not sure what to do.
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I read many books on Android for Kindle, and most of them display in a nice, unobtrusive way. This is a screenshot of my last book:
But the book I am currently reading has a very strange typography. It is not just that the justified text gives it bad kerning, and not just the giant line spacing (both screenshots are ... |
I was confused how a cursor might look to not be considered ugly or standard. I do like how cursors in games look and I am fine with them but when I create a cursor for myself there is something that doesn't fit. Is there a standard workflow or process to creating elegant cursor that are not standard?
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I just created a simple object with custom brush as a stroke.
Is there a way to divide that stroke in a way that I can choose where the new brush ends and another starts - still surrounding the complete object?
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Was doing some reading and came across this which I found very insightful:
Weight
This is the difference between bold typefaces or versions of a typeface, and regular typefaces or versions of a typeface, as shown here by the difference between Arial Black and Arial.
As with many of the features to be discusse... |
I created a DVD Menu Design and need to export each page as a .pdf. When I do so the design is distorted horizontally. Specifically, it isn't as wide as the canvas is in Photoshop.
The results are the same if I export to .jpg. If I export to .png it is correct, however converting the pages to .pdf reproduces the issue.... |
I want to draw this shape in Inkscape:
The line coming from the side needs to be aligned to exactly the middle of the edge, coming out at a right angle.
It must also be part of the rectangle object, so that when I alter the color or width of the line, I don't have to do it separately for either object (the line and t... |
Making a parallax site is something I've always wanted to try and am now getting into. I understand that they range in complexity and so, for sites more on the advanced side with several layers to create depth or imitate story-telling an animation, what do Designers typically use to help envision that sort of process r... |
I have the following:
where the text "Panning" is on one layer, and the rectangular grey mask that covers it is on a different layer. I was wondering, is it possible that I can somehow apply the grey mask to just the text area, and not have the excess mask surrounding it?
Thanks.
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I am new to designing and had got work for creating a live wallpaper using some animation characters in movies like Rio,Finding Nemo etc. How can use the images of that i find in google for this purpose.And also what kind of copyright permission i need to get ?
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How would one pick or select all of a single color within Photoshop, Paint.NET, or The Gimp?
The objective is to edit everything with that color afterwards, such as by brushing over it with another color. So if I were to select a certain red hue of an apple, then brushed it over with pink, only all of the parts of the... |
I have the following set up:
I would like to make a clipping mask out of all of the objects above the "Text" layer (so that all of the stuff from the above layers is only applied to the letters), however I am struggling. For one, when I go to ungroup "Group 1" it changes the complexion of the graphics and makes it dar... |
I'm sure this can be done, just cant figure out how. I'm needing to export my portfolio as a pdf but my indesign document is a3, i see no option to chose the size.
Any help?
Thanks
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I am creating a seven wedge citrus fruit cross section. Is there a trick to getting all the wedges evenly separated? Or do I have to drive myself crazy doing it manually?
I got this far by using a circle and a seven point start shape as a guide.
Thanks for any help!
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I was having a question between this gif and my work:
Is it possible to get the better quality of dithering of colors on the first gif to my work? Btw, I did this on Ps via frame animations with the default profile of:
-Selective
-Diffusion
-Uncheck transparency
-Uncheck interlaced
-Check convert to sRGB
-Colors: 256
... |
Hi all does anybody know how to break text in words or letters. So that they can be editable individually as text not Path ?
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This is my first freelance work. Can somebody tell me that on what basis should I fix my rates for this home page design coz I am not able to decide. The client wanted in green and red combination. I have designed the whole UI in photoshop. Logo is also designed by me. Please give reviews and feedback. Should i fix my ... |
I like very much this kind of images, with code or with handwriting...
Could you guide me how to do this kind of images?
In two parts:
How can I create the text with a warped perspective?
How can I create the multi-layered, glassy effect of the background?
Thank You.
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I am new to this forum and am looking for some advice on a PC specification which I will be using to re-skill with Adobe CS6.
I have played about with Adobe in the past as a web designer but I want to become more proficient with the product.
I know the debate about which is better (mac vs pc) is still ongoing but I p... |
It is practically impossible to edit a white illustration on the default white artboard background.
Hiding the artboard makes the whole work area receive the artboard's white color.
So, is there a way to change the color of the artboard in Illustrator CC?
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In Illustrator CS4 I have a scatter graph with four data sets. Now I want to use dashed and dotted patterns. However the dashes are not distributed uniformly over a plot.
Click here to see a PDF
This is due to a plot consisting of multiple separate line segments instead of connected line segments. In CS5 these line se... |
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