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I use Layer Styles a lot, unfortunately with bigger projects it's really annoying that they take so much space in Layers list (even if their parent is not expanded as like in the picture below).
Is it possible to hide "Effects" for all the folders / layers or, what would be even cooler, to indicate having them with som... |
When saving my work in Illustrator, I always have to click OK in some "Illustrator Options" screen. Is there a way to bypass/remove/deactivate this screen? That would save me thousands of clicks per year.
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Is there an easy way to copy and paste a color? I keep having to remember the RGB values and it's kind of a pain...
For example, if I make a circle shape and set it's color to 123 44 5, can I somehow copy that value and paste it onto a triangle shape I make in a different file?
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I'm running Maya 2013 student edition on Mac and 'Input' is missing. I'm following a tutorial in which i can see where it should be.
I've seen a lot of answers to this being "turn on Construction History" but I have tried that, and it doesn't work. Creating objects before and after, restarting Maya each time. Theres al... |
I'm looking for a little advice, hopefully somebody can offer me some.
I currently work in Marketing/Graphic Design.I do not have a degree in Graphic Design, but a degree in Advertising (which was very design heavy) so I came out of university with good design skills. In my current job, I do very basic things such as m... |
I recently figured out how to save each layer as a separate file in photoshop.
I do this when editing a gif image.
Now, however, i have a layer below (layer 0) and a layer on top(72) and i want those two layers to be included in all the other layers from 1-71 when they are each saved as a separate file.
For example if... |
I have created a logo in Illustrator.
In which file format / document settings should I save it so I can use it for creating a card in InDesign (print) and for placing it in a website?
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I may be way out of league asking this question but is there a way to get the linear length of a letter or words. That is, if you were to take the word "super" and measured the outside border of the letters you'd get a measurement. Is there something out there that would tell me this measurement if I give the font a... |
Yeah hi, I was wondering how I could get my images to look like they were shown on 90's TV or were recorded to a VHS and ripped into a digital file. Examples shown below.
I'd like to utalize this effect for a flyer/gigposter I'm making.
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Can anyone tell me the name of this font? Or similar fonts?
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I need to import data into a table in InDesign (CS6).
But i keep getting the same value in every single cell, what am i doing wrong?
1). I start by making a .csv file in OpenOffice with some test data
2). I created a table in Indesign CS6 and selected the .csv file generated by OpenOffice and started filling the tabl... |
Is it possible to duplicate lines of text with GREP? Here is exactly what I would like to do; I have a list of letters and numbers that looks like this:
R1H3BOA2HA4
R1H3BOA2H4
R1H2H3BO4
And I need it to be like this:
R1H3BOA2HA4=R1+H3+BOA2+HA4
R1H3BOA2H4=R1+H3+BOA2+H4
R1H2H3BO4=R1+H2+H3+BO4
So basically I would lik... |
The only thing I could think of was saying: "Scroll to see full menu" above. What are some other ways people are doing it?
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I am using scripting in Photoshop to process jpg files that are uploaded through a website. I occasionally get images that are rotated differently when you open them in Photoshop vs. Windows Previewer (or any other basic graphics program). And today I just came across one that was rotated 90 degrees and mirrored horiz... |
How do you make the formula to make divisions in a grid given a ratio? For example
2÷3.
I like the tool gridappset.com, but I would prefer to do the math myself and experiment with the results.
Any insight on this would be great, thanks.
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There is a lot of copycatting out in the world, and it's a constant legal battle fought in higher courts.
For us ants on the ground, grinding away in smaller capacities with little or no permanent legal support, how can we look at a design and say “Hey, that's a copy of my design!”?
Looking at these questionable examp... |
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to the use of gradients in graphic design.
One argument seems to be that it is not a very clean or appealing design, not to mention that it is more trouble than it is worth, because it needs to work on both dark and light backgrounds or a greater range of colours,... |
I'm making my portfolio site and I need to showcase my design layouts (magazines, advertisements, newspapers) and would like to know how can I do this to look professional? Do I need to search for some kind of PSD mockups and put them there? Do I need to upload those layout PDF files for perfect quality? What's the rig... |
I have a png that I need to resize to different sizes. Would it work for me to paste it in illustrator, use its auto vectorizing tool to vectorize it, and then resize it?
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What techniques are out there that allow you to create a gradient like the ones pictured above? Is this a product of a specific brush set? Or is there some type of Noise Manipulation / Gradient Pattern going on in this image?
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I applied a Nested style in paragraph style. But then I want to change the nested style and couldn't find how to edit or delete this nested style.
Anyone knows? Thanks
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Does anybody know about a nice climate diagram visualization, incorporating more information than the example on Wikipedia:
For example also data like, snowfall, humidity, hail, fog, thunder and so on ..
I appreciate any pointers!
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I got to thinking......
Years ago, when you became Adobe Certified, Adobe mailed you a package. In that package was a nice foil embossed certificate, a small Adobe-branded notebook (great quality) and few other little items. It was a really nice way to say "Thank you" or "Congratulations" from Adobe.
Nowadays, you rece... |
Command (Cntrl) and = gives zoom in, in Adobe Illustrator.
Is there a way to set it so that it zooms to the selected object rather than the centre of the screen?
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I have the original .ai files as I paid a graphic artist to do these logos. I uploaded a .gif export of the files only to see that they have a white border:
If I don't have AI/PS can I use something like GIMP or Inkscape to remove that with the AI file?
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I have a day job in graphic design, but I'm looking to start doing some freelance on the side. I have a couple of questions/concerns...
1-All my work on my portfolio site would be work I created at my day job. Does this look bad to a client?
2-My day job is with a well known organization, should I mention who I work fo... |
I'm learning web design. When I design a page I ask my friends to tell me their opinions about it and I always get the same answer: it's dull and boring. They say my designs are nice but very dull, static and boring. I always get this answer. Then I tried to Google this with the query "responsive design" and I found th... |
My understanding is that pixels are an abstract unit of measurement. They have no tangible size until rendered on a display (or paper).
This leads me to believe that I should create icons on displays that are of a lower resolution (a non-Retina display) than the target display (an iPhone 5). A 120x120-pixel icon is mu... |
In InDesign you can insert a glyph by double clicking on it in the glyph palette window. What I would like to do is insert multiple glyphs or all the glyphs of a font at once without having to always double click on each glyph.
Is it possible? Thank you for the help.
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What is normally covered in a brand style guide that is not included in a standard design style guide in the context of traditional and digital production? Does the brand style guide only cover the use of company/brand logos and colours/fonts? It seems like often an agency will be tasked with creating the brand style g... |
Is it poor judgement to preserve photoshop editing capabilities if creating a PDF for a client? I'm wondering if it comes across as unprofessional or whether it might be a courtesy to save the document this way.
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I have tried to look online for an answer but I don't seem to be able to find what I am looking for. Here is my questions:
What is used to create maps like this:
and like this:
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/brochures/ctaSystemMapBrochure.pdf
My goal is to augment already existing map with a few extra elements... |
When the site isn't as wide as the screen is the sides are filled with something that doesn't grab attention or better leads all the attention to what's in center, the website.
However, personally i have always just filled it with monotone darkish black color. I'd like to know what are some other creative ways to deal ... |
I mainly studied Illustrator to use it in T-Shirt custom design.
Now, I have this problem. According to the tutorials that I see. When working on print jobs, I should use
CMYK mode rather than RGB.
I am just having trouble utilizing blending mode in CMYK transparency panel. They sometimes dont look so well
especiall... |
I just notice it now as I am new to Illustrator.
When I am in RGB mode, blending transparency seems to be easier as mode such as Screen, Multiply or Overlay looks good naturally.
If I switch the document mode to CMYK then the image is getting messed up.
I'd like to know, if CMYK is not ideal for blending options?
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I'm looking for the typical fonts appearing in classical music scores, like the ones here:
where you can see some Allegretto, and also a leggiero, some numbers too, and mf.
And also, what fonts are those used in software like Sibelius, Encore... that looks like Real Book's handwritten font?
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I tried to search the Internet for a definition but I didn't find much. So, what is the definition of font size? For instance, what makes a 10 pixel font a 10 pixel font?
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I'm new to Photoshop. I have an image, where I have drawn a shape and filled that shape with a white colour. How can I now make the rest of the image be black?
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Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of HTML emails. And, like the web before it, the inbox has officially gone mobile—with over 50 percent of email opens occurring on mobile devices.
So can email really be responsive considering how Email HTML Suck?
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Is there any way that I can place a watermark on the right bottom of multiple images, no matter what dimension the images are? I have tried using Photoshop Scripts > image processor, but it works only for images of same dimension. I want to put watermark on multiple images of different dimensions. This is the output i ... |
I have some artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC that I want to use to create a voronoi diagram from.
You can see what a voronoi diagram looks like here:
Link
I would like to use the points on my paths to seed the diagram. I have found a tool that uses an old Illustrator extension called Scriptographer, unfortunately Scri... |
I'm sure you've seen Dribbblers upload animated mockups of their designs.
Here's an example:
I can create mockups on Photoshop and even apply simple Tween Animations to them but I can never get my GIFs to look like the example here.
What are Dribbblers using to create these animations?
Notice that the animations a... |
I have square layer, containing a circular image surrounded by white, and I need to envelope distort just the circle into a polygon shape. When I do Envelope Distort > Make with Top Object, however, the whole square shape of the image -- including the white "corners" -- is included in the distort.
Before and after (act... |
This is a picture I took yesterday:
The sky is a bit too washed out for me so I'd like to crank down the luminance of the blue. Camera Raw makes a valiant effort but the crane trusses and other incidentally blue things end up looking...off:
I opened it as a smart object in PS CS6 to try and mask out the sky but the ... |
I've created some navigation images for use on a website and they appear blurry only in IE9 browser and above. The font is arial and the size is 100 x 14 with 12 pt font. I've tried making the image 200 x 24 pixels and resizing on the web to 100 x 14 to no avail. I've tried using crisp and no anti-alias but still blur... |
Here's a decent example of what I'm trying to do - a print version of something like this:
I need to pick-and-choose which crossroads and street labels to show, add custom icons, plot the actual race route, and of course modify the color scheme. I'm trying to avoid spending hours and hours of manually tracing roads wi... |
I recently bought a laptop to take out to appointments. I use a set palette of about 400 colors. How can I find the file and copy that to my laptop without recreating each color?
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I have Adobe Creative Cloud and am switching to a newer Mac. CC says it's saving my preferences (workspace and shortcuts included) but when I sync my settings nothing happens!
I've read that the workspace is saved as an .xml file and should be accessible in my preferences folder (User/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesig... |
I have a manual here, designed in Arial font. Arial has to be changed to a serif font. At this moment I've chosen Garamond. But now the number of pages increases. Of course it isn't possible to stop that. But I like to minimize that.
So my question is: Which serif font do you tip me? I've heard the hint for the Times (... |
I'm a entry-level graphic designer. My skills in Illustrator and Indesign are pretty strong but my skills in Photoshop are not great and I have no drawing skills either. Will this affect my career?
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What is the best way to use images with halftone patterns in Indesign?
I'm working on a book in which all the images will have an halftone effect.
I'm applying the halftone filter in Photoshop but, when I resize the pictures in Indesign, I'm afraid that the halftone pattern will not scale up.
What can I do?
What is the... |
I remember a few years ago I watched or read a tutorial that showed me how I can use the clone stamp tool with a static source point.
What I mean is that the source we indicate with the alt button should stay only on one place while we copy this to other areas of our subject/canvas.
How can I make the source that I se... |
I am looking for a free web compatible (e.g. should be possible to use with CSS3) Venetian style typeface. Any idea if there exists one.
That would be ideally a typeface looking similar to Adobe Jensen Pro
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I have 100 layers that I want to export with a specific master layer as the background.
Any JSX scripts out there for CS6?
thanks!
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Long time lurker, first time poster!
Your tips are really valuable and have taught me what I know till now about GREP, thank you!
I have a tricky text to style and I am having some issues, and need your help.
Example text:
2012 Some product name name, State $50
This is a very impressive young pinot, with tremendous fre... |
Is there a program or what is the best way to organize graphics and your artwork? Right now everything is saved on my desktop and I need to get a server I think but not sure what is the best way to go. I will be designing a lot of different things and need to know where to save my stuff and downloading graphics is also... |
Real simple question. Hope you have something to offer. How can I get the full potential of Illustrator through manipulating it programmatically. Is there some kind of add on or hidden feature? Let's say, for example, I've got a bunch (like a thousand) of vertical line segments of fixed length, and I want the bottoms t... |
I want to check something I don't quite understand with the size/quality properties of an image.
OK, as much as I understand, the size of an image you create in Photoshop, for example, will determine what rectangular area of screen pixels it takes.
And the resolution determines what will be the area of the smallest edi... |
Please help me identifying this font.
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How do I join these 2 shapes together, and then remove the line in the roof? keeping the 2 shapes nicely joined so I can easily round corners. Seems very tricky!
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I need to "rotate" colors depending on a certain dependency, how do I calculate this?
I'm using no program, just working with a bitmap in C#
For example:
Every pixel, which is R:193,G:0,B:0 has to become R:0,G60,B:90
Now every other color needs to be switched in relation.
193/0/0 has a neighbor pixel with 205/48/48, w... |
I'm a newbie and can't figure out what font is being used in the image below. Please help.
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I would like to optimize images for web but in batches. I have set up and use an Action Action>Awesome Images>Optimized Awesome Images.
The problem lies when I go to a new set of images that I want to optimize and use the Action.
Action>Bodacious Images>Optimized Awesome Images
Ideally, I would like to use the Batch ... |
I have an A5 2 fold template. Mathematically it should mesasure 444mm wide (3 x 148 by 210mm height or 3 x A5 paper) but I have set it to be 441mm as one of the sides (of A5) will be folded into the middle and 3mm allows it to do so without bulging, hope you're with me. The whole doc has 3 columns - 2 which are 148 (A5... |
I'm trying to emulate this type of stroke:
So far, I've only been able to pen over the stroke and try to Minus it off (though I'm a rookie and still don't understand the whole pathfinder tool completely), but it's tedious and I'm not that great at it.
Suggestions?
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Do you know / can you recommend good practices in choosing a color palette for a theme ?
As you might have guessed, I am not a professional in the graphic field, I do coding and from time to time I have to do some graphic work for which I'd like it to be pleasant/efficient to the eye but this proved to be incredibly ha... |
For both landscape and Portrait, if there's a difference.
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I am designing a t-shirt based off of the keep calm and carry on poster. I want to use Avenir Next because it comes with my machine and is similar to the original font used in the poster.
If I outline the text and give it to him as a PDF can he legally print it on t-shirts and sell them commercially?
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So here is the idea.
To have a Folder on a Server containing Word Documents for all our books and Materials. Turn These Documents into Data Streams that are linked to InDesign Documents. Allow Proofers and Editors Access to Add and Update these Documents. So that when a Designer opens an In Design Document it syncs wit... |
See below image, then read on...
Previously this circle was 76 pixels diameter.
I changed it to 64 by manually entering it into the W: container, then tabbed, expecting 64 to appear in the H: container.
But no... I got this odd number.
Why?
How do I get it back to not doing stupid things like this?
It used to be acc... |
I need to find the x / y coordinates for each layer in my psd. I've searched through the help file and online, but I can't find the answer.
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I want to deepen my knowledge in typography, more specifically, web typography.
I'm looking for good information for this purpose, but I'm not finding anything good.
I see many people talking badly about some fonts, then I go to another site and these same fonts are recommended. It seems that people talk about fonts l... |
I want to use glyphs in my text with keyboard shortcuts.
Say an endmark, instead of placing it through the glyphs panel I want to use my keyboard.
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I need to find the x / y positions for each layer. I've googled but I can't find the answer.
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There has been a lot spoken about user experience design for interactive products and services, but is there some standard or guideline to capturing user feedback for non-interactive products that has a significant visual design element to it?
I think the difficulty is how to evaluate the different elements of design t... |
I've been playing around editing textures for some video game objects. I recently discovered that I could use "Merge Down" to put a 2D image over the 3D object and translate that to the texture. My problem is, this would only add the image to the part of the object I am looking at when merging down. I am looking for a ... |
What font is used in this logo? I'd love to have this logo or a similar one.
Thanks!
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I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically calculate transparent image from set of non-transparent ones. No manual work with individual pixels or manual setting of opacities.
Many times I need to export images from "image editors" which are not supporting transparent backgrounds (example: PowerPoint). I can still... |
What's the conversion between InDesign's point measurement (as used in leading and text size etc) and millimetres? What's the pt : mm ratio?
I've seen sources suggesting that a point is 1/72 of an inch, and an inch is 25.4mm, so in theory a point would be 0.3528mm and a millimetre would be 2.8346 pts, but I'd like som... |
in my c#-application, I use an RGB to HSV (and back) converter for changing a specified color-spectrum to another. In the actual case:
rgb1=5,122,255 to rgb2=22,165,220
similar colors to rgb1 will be changed to the related color, by saving the HSV-difference between hsv1 and hsv2 and aplying these to every similar colo... |
So when double clicking a word to select it, Photoshop likes to select the space after that word. Is there any way to prevent this? Sounds so simple, but it means having to select and drag to highlight to make an accurate selection, when it should make sense to select the word I'm double clicking.
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I frequently create mock-ups with free-use icon sets. I've begun to see many designers offer "Premium" commercial licenced sets of Social Media icons.
I'm wondering:
Is it even possible to make an IP (Intellectual Property) claim on branded logos redrawn in an icon set?
My guess is no... but I've never run into the is... |
Is there a special character marker for Total Pages? I can use a marker on my master page for current page where it will say A, but if I want it to say A of 3 (3 being the total number of pages) is there a marker to count all the pages in your document?
I know I could type 3 in there but if I add pages I have to go ba... |
I am curious to know if there is a PDF version that is preferred by most printing studios? I remember being told that PDF/X1a is the format to use when preparing design/artwork for print.
But, I don't actually know why, if it is true, or what the other standards are used for.
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I'm working on building my own blogging website from the ground up, or at least that's what I assume that's what it will turn into at this point.
So far what I have built is fairly basic but one thing concerns me. I have an "Add Post" button that is inline with/on top of other posts but seems to blend into the flow of ... |
I'd like to align one object to the nodes of another object. In the screenshot below, I'd like to horizontally align the text below to the axis marker that's represented by the two selected nodes above.
I could duplicate the axis, select all nodes that don't belong to that small vertical line, delete them, do the alig... |
Icons are usually needed in a variety of sizes, so I don't understand why I always hear/see everyone using Photoshop for their icons. Probably I'm exposing my PS ignorance with this question, but aren't Photoshop images of fixed size and you have to redraw them to change it?
As opposed to an Illustrator project where i... |
I am currently working on a print media project that requires a 300 DPI minimum for all images. I thought I had to discard a bunch of photos that were 180 DPI at their default resolution. However, I recently realized that you could set the Pixels/Inch in Adobe PS under Image->Image Size. So I tried seeing if I could se... |
I know this happens in indesign where i would create a 3"x3" object and when i add a stroke it becomes 3.0139x3.0139. I know the shape is still the same, but is there a way i can disable this and have it still read 3x3?
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I'm finishing a project, and I was thinking to use a font that I liked a lot, but it is paid; I don't mind to pay, because it is not very expensive, and I think it's worth it.
On the font website says, "You may use the fonts to create Web Pages" and "Bariol font can be used with @ font-face".
So I'm in doubt, if I can ... |
I have an gif Image like example
and I want to make its background transparent from white.
I am an learner of Photoshop so please describe steps to do it.
Currently I was trying to edit each and every layer of this image but its really tough to go through all the layers and I am sure there is an easier way for it
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Hi Everyone
I am working with a client and he wants me to design handwritten typefaces. I tried it with mouse but it is hard to do with mouse. Any idea of how do you do such task?
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I have this png header image with transparency that is quite large 2500x1236, but only 343KB. I don't need or want it that big, so I throw it in PS and crop it down to 1666x444 and save for web, png24 tranparency, and the new, much smaller image, comes out of Ps at 585KB. WTH? How could the file size nearly double w... |
I'm new in graphic design and am learning type design now. I'm learning about kerning now and it all makes sense except I'm wondering why the kerning wouldn't be built into the font style already. I've read that the foundry can spend months or even years on a font design.
Thanks for help in advance.
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I use Snagit to capture screenshots on my PC and saw the picture below that has a magnifying glass effect on it. I tried to recreate it on Snagit but the magnify options are pretty basic and I don't like the output.
How can I achieve this rather easily without too much complex photo editing? It would be counter produc... |
My website is about gardening and vegetables etc. So I decided to make the background and the tabs have a green color so it looks natural and organic.
But then I realized that all my images are green because they're vegetables!
Now I can't use green as the majority of my color scheme because it blends in with most of t... |
I have a web-page for devices(smartphones/tablets).
I have used media queries to make it responsive and have used rem units for all measurements.
I have set default html/body font-size:62.5% and then calculated all other rem units.
Also for each breakpoint i have a set of css.
But it seems that the font size and other ... |
Okay so first of all I am a developer and I donot have much idea about designing and all. Now it so happens that I have to fix design inconsistencies of the table that I have attatched below.
I would be glad to see suggestions.
Also that hover (the black one) looks extremely odd . What colour should I make it?
P.S. t... |
In Photoshop, I can't figure out as to why this happens.
I painted with a soft round brush at 100% opacity with the color set to white and grey on a new layer.
I duplicated the layer and then I put the duplicated layer inside a group.
Next I set the blend mode to Color Dodge for the original layer and again set the Co... |
i really love this kind of style for logos. These are simple yet catchy. I would really like to design these logos but whenever Ii try, I fail to give effect and outlining like the attached logos(mascot and complete logo). Can anybody tell me how can i give these effect and outlining(in illustrator or CorelDraw)?
NOTE... |
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