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I need help for making this circular shape in Adobe Illustrator. I assume it is basically just making circle shapes over and over again using the strokes and putting it inside each other over and over again? Is there a better method to create this circular pattern?
I've got a PDF with checkboxes that the user can interact with however I cannot find a way to hide the checkbox frames for when the client views the document later: Is there a way to hide the boxes' "frames"? Adjust some property? "Flatten" / convert the PDF to some other format? Cover the frame with a layer? Another ...
I did not want to get to the endless war of dark-on-light vs light-on-dark, but recently I discovered something interesting: while light-on-dark text is still less tiring for my eyes (and I also personally prefer it more), dark-on-light seemed to do better on holding my attention on the content of the text; in other wo...
I have a transparent layer with a ball for example, no effects, filters or anything like that. When I duplicate the layer with alt+click, it looks like it is applying a sharpen filter and that effect multiplies with every duplicate layer I create. So after 150 copies of the same layer the last one is completely pixelat...
I was hoping someone could help me with some research I'm doing. I'm looking into what fonts are available cross-platform. Not only Mac/Windows, but iOS and Android as well. I'm interested in the most current versions of these platforms (so OS X Mavericks, Windows 8, iOS 7,etc…) And specifically, of these cross plat...
I want to export a document to a postscript file in InDesign CS5. How can I set the page size for the document? Sadly, the option is disabled in my preferences window. Here is a screenshot of a Russian copy of a program: Any help would be appreciated.
How do I place a picture in Photoshop without creating a canvas. If I open a new document in Photoshop, I am prompted to open a new canvas, but when I place the image unto the new canvas and try to save it as a .jpeg file for instance, whatever whitespace there is around the picture is also saved in the new .jpeg file....
I am using Illustrator to apply a custom pattern brush on the path of a circle to create and image like so: But I can't get my shape to repeat across the circle line properly and overlap itself, I end up with something like this: I can get the overlap to work if I use a Scatter Brush but then I don't get the rotation...
I have a number of images in a Fireworks document. When I select them they have a blue outline which tells me exactly how big the image is (they contain transparency). How can I see this outline without actually selecting the images? I want to see how large all the images are and be able to move them one by one.
These two images are pause-buttons for a program. The first one shows the button in its default state and the second one when it is being focused on. I am wondering how the person, who made these buttons, did the focus effect? I looked all over the Internet but couldn't find a tutorial or a hint on how to do somethi...
Why are all my materials with light? How to make it dark?
NOTE: I'm a systems administrator, not a graphic designer, so I'm a total n00b when it comes to image manipulation. That being said, I thought this would be the best forum to ask this question: I am setting up a terminal server farm where the desktop shows our corporate branded background image. The problem is that th...
How can I make the fuzzy select global in GIMP, so that it selects all of a certain color and not just contiguous regions? For example, if I drew multiple red squiggles, how could I easily select them all?
I have a particle array emitting from an orb rising out of "goop" that I want to twist as they emit, to where it forms a tornado like effect around the object. How can the PArray be modified to do so? Thanks
I have a simple rectangle with a couple effects: distort, rounded corners. I'd now like to add some anchor points and adjust the path of this object. How can I get the path to wrap around the rounded, distorted rectangle instead of the original box?
I've added a stroke to a rasterised image (Edit -> Stroke). Now, how do I select the stroke so I can copy it into a new layer and delete the current layer, leaving me with just the outline of the image? I'm using Photoshop CC on a Mac.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to print saddle stitch booklet from Book File? I know how to do it from normal Indesign file. However, book file is different since there are so many different indesign files. Any idea?
Can anybody please tell me what typeface this is in the image? I need it for a logo that I'm going to be making.
Orthographic view. I select object A and rotate view it by viewcube. It is rotated relative to the center of object A - it is what I need. Then I select object B and try to rotate view, but it is rotated relative to the center of coordinates and I can't see my object, I should to use Zoom Extens button. How to fix poin...
For example if I draw a oval and then want to paint part of it into different color, how can I connect edge points of my new path with oval?
I have a white line. When I switch from basic to dashed line 1.1, the line turns gray. Paintbucketing the line just makes it a basic line again. Based on all the settings I'm aware of, the line should be white, but it seems to arbitrarily change to a gray color when I choose any other type of line that isn't basic. T...
I am a UX designer and am in the process of visual design for a website for my company. I've been looking around for typefaces which convey adaptability, relevance, security, and innovation (but also some degree of nostalgia). These are all traits that the site's primary persona wants. Here is what I'm trying to ac...
I have set up two different spreads as Master pages and I have to alternate between them as I add new pages I want the spreads to alternate A-B-A-B, cycling through about 200 pages. Is there a quicker way to do this, than manually dragging?
I am making a Diary in InDesign with a week to a page set up, I want to create a start date and have the variable text cycle through the rest automatically like page numbers? How would I do this?
See this image: http://soranootoshimono.wikia.com/wiki/File:46456845235358656364.png To me it look soft like some sort of low-pass filter but I also can see sharp edge of the image. I'm curious what make it look softer than others. And if you can make one from a normal image I also want to know how can you do that?
How can I make existing icons flat? I tried to find any tutorial about this, but there is almost none. Is there anyone that knows about this stuff? For example: to this
I have an object, it is a t-shirt which is black. I want to get this t-shirt but brown. I can't just fill it because it is a photo, not homogenous color. It is the pure shape of it, not square -> So I tried to make a brown square, and then clip->set when I had both selected. I get only white space, not brown t-shirt. ...
I have a 300dpi image and when I place the image onto the document, indesign does not place the original image dimensions. Instead, it places the an image with much smaller dimensions. For instance, if the original dimension of a 200dpi image was 7 inches by 5 then idesign will rescale it to say 4 inches by 2 inches. ...
I am a front-end web developer and I like design a lot, as matter of fact - lately, I am focusing more on UX/UI design to create top-notch products for my clients. Coming from coding background, I find myself struggling a bit with design patterns and creativity for new concepts. Some clients come to me and simply just ...
I have downloaded font and saw this video. Here author show, how to use all glyphs in Illustrator. But how to use it in Photoshop? I tried to find symbols in Fonts.app, copy it and paste to photoshop but it appear as square with cross. Help please :)
I am new to illustrator and am struggling to find answer anywhere to this seemingly simple task... I am trying to align 3 narrow vertical rectangles inside a larger rectangle ( I am making a Trash Can Icon) I am trying to use the align tools but have yet to manage to get these 3 rectangles to distribute equally inside...
I am freelancer graphic designer and I have got skills by learning some tutorials and some videos. I have got some experience in designing logos and brand identities but I always feel that some pieces of puzzle are missing. I want to study Graphic Designing, Web Designing, App Designing etc... I have seen a site named ...
I am recently working on an InDesign template, however when I export the template as PDF the contents of the page reach to the far left of the page. I want to leave some gap on the left side, center the content, whichever be best for printing and spiral binding. How can this be done without individually moving all el...
I'm looking for an elegant and not-too-busy italic font to pair with Impressum bold headline. See options I've tried already. Most seem to be too light, or too busy. All ideas welcome! Thanks!
Are there any good presentation software/websites besides Microsoft Powerpoint that are Free Simple to use Doesn't require sign up Thanks.
I have a pretty basic digital drawing, using a wood texture. The problem I have is the texture has highlights on one side that don't match the rest of the wood. I have tried just putting a brown color over them with 20% opacity, messing around with HSL, but I don't know anything about levels or stuff. Here is the image...
PROBLEM: I need free images for my application. They are intended for controls ( main window / buttons / treeview icons ... ). MY EFFORTS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM: Searching through Internet, I was able to find many sites with "free" icons. They are all licensed somehow ( GPL , Creative Commons and so on... ), but I know n...
I have a movie on my phone about 5 minutes long. After about 2 minutes, the movie is upside down. How can I fix this without affecting the whole video? I would like to turn the video sideways after 2 minutes.
I have a compound path consisting of 5 shapes. I have a radial gradient which spans across all of them. Now I'd like to release the compound path because I need to export each of these shapes individually. However, when I do release the compound path, the radial gradient is applied to each of them separately. How can I...
I have a script that batch processes images, adding a radial blur on the blue channel. What I want to do is change the radial blur's origin or centre point in each successive image. Is there a way of scripting this? At the moment for the first image, when I recorded the action, i placed the centre point manually, pho...
I have a shape, say, a rectangle and it has a fill color. I want to add text on top of that shape, but when I click with the text tool on top of the rectangle, the shape will lose its fill and the shape has turned into some "text bounding box". I don't want this, I want the shape to stay the way it is and I want the te...
What would be the best practice for printing text based work from Illustrator, such as a poster? This is aimed at the final print quality of my workk. I am creating an advertisement which will be about A4 size to go into a newspaper. Would it be best to Create Outline all the text in the advert before I send the files ...
I have a program that generates thousands of vector points (just coordinates), the format is not fixed, but it could be something like this: (2.4785\|77.01) (78.8\|9.88) (45.33\|0.2) I am able to format/convert this coordinates any way necessary. My question is: How can I import these coordinate data into Illustrator as ...
I'm having trouble when I add a symbol into the main timeline. It can be seen on the main timeline even when I have a playback command trigger set halfway along. I have one already playing from the start, and I want to add the second symbol and pay this one when the first one finishes. I have set the playback command ...
I did some research to figure out what icons exist for decision support, and which of those represents the decision support the best. I didn't find any suitable icons, because I think they don't represent the "support" aspect, and are not widely used: the user can not understand what the icon means. These two seem to b...
I noticed there is not so many dark apps on the app store. With few exceptions such as Spotify, it makes me wonder. On the other hand, Android seems to embrace dark colors a bit more. Is there any specific danger in designing dark UI such as the one below that I am working on? Thank you.
I want to learn how to create stylish Graphic User Interfaces for android applications beyond the common style of the google apps itself. if some one has some documents i can read to give applications that particular style. for example i like a lot the style of the QuizUp app, i would like to learn more about how they ...
we have a PDF file with our company logo and header etc - and I'm trying to export to insert into Word. Using Adobe Acrobat, I save it to a jpeg, using highest quality and DPI600. The file is around 1.2MB (still too large for my liking!) but the logo and text are very slightly jaggy. At 300dpi, its very jaggy. Is this ...
There's a gallery of The Best Advestment Advice of All Time where all of the portraits have the same effect applied. What would that be called, and how can I do something similar using Adobe Photoshop? For example:
I'm new to photoshop. I'm trying to replace an image on a website and I need to slice it to be exactly the 202px wide and 170px high. The slice also needs to be positioned at exactly 100px from top and 70px from the left relative to another image on the PSD. Is there a way for me to set up my slice tool/overlay so th...
I want to achieve something like a bullet and then a number: Recommendation 1-1: Foo I'd like to have deep control over the bullet. I've tried a variety of mechanisms including: Drop caps Nested styles Underlining There is a bullet character available in the (automatic) numbering option but I can't seem to customi...
I've created a very, very short video displaying my problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobFes92_Fg&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 Its a pretty succinct issue. Photoshop's patch tool is pretty awesome, until I release the mouse button and it smudges nearby pixels into my selected-to-be-patched area. Wanting to know how I c...
I've been sent an inDesign document with many pages. Format: A4 landscape. Most of the pages are double (two landscape A4 pages one next to the other) but some are triple (three A4 pages one next to the other). I don't quite understand why some pages are triple and other double, but my problem is this: when exporting t...
As we see on the screenshot above, After Effects CC 2014 by default only applies the mask to the original layer, instead of final blurred image, resulting at a fuzz edge phenomenon when rending layers. I like to know how we can mask the final image with effects applied. My current solution is to put another layer on t...
In Gimp, the canvas can be moved by positioning the cursor over the canvas, holding down SPACE and then moving the cursor. But, how can I move the canvas by a single pixel?
What font is used in the following image?
I have an inDesign document in which certain fonts don't work (size equal to zero for PC fonts). Is there a way to have these fonts automatically replaced by other fonts of my choice? If so, can I also choose some settings such as letter-spacing and size in order for the new fonts to resemble the most the missing ones?...
I have a strange problem with Illustrator. The company I am working with has a stock hex colour - #0074aa (1). According to online conversion sites, this hex code translates to the CMYK of: C: 100 M: 31.6 Y: 0 K: 33.4 When I add these CMYK values to Illustrator as a colour swatch, these translate to a slightly da...
I need some help on how to create good looking vectorized images of these kinds of themes: I work a lot with LaTeX when it comes to typesetting so I have some basic experience with Tikz. However I feel that if I need to make complicated images like the ones above I find myself a bit lost. I would very much apprecia...
I am trying to select by color in Gimp this image: but when I select by the foreground color, also the antialiased pixels in the border are selected. How to select only the foreground color in Gimp? Thanks
I made this effect in Illustrator using the line tool, Zig Zag tool and then expanding the line to a path. I want the top line of the 'E' to join perfectly with the line in the 't'. I have almost got it but it looks weird still. I want it to look as smooth as possible. Thanks, Peter
I've developed several designs for military units over the past few years for one particular store on a military installation which is a not for profit entity. Most of the designs were developed for collector coins and t-shirts which involve military units. My company used to provide many items for this client. Now ...
I would like to make a ring that has a faint inner glow ala this image: I've tried first creating a circle, then applying a layer mask with a radial gradient from pure black to pure white, but that only achieves a linear gradient from center to edge, whereas this appears to be purely transparent right up to the edge ...
I have a pre-made document and I want to remove a line (same length, same stroke, same color) from every page. Is there a quick way to do this aside from deleting manually?
I'd like to crop several images to a specific size. Previously, I would set the size in the crop tool and happily run through a few images and have them all crop to the same specific size. Now it seems Photoshop wants to crop to a ratio of the specific dimensions. The final output is technically correct in that it's th...
I want to make a picture where I have a lot of image elements that will repeat--e.g., stick figures in certain body positions. I'd like to be able to create a library of these image elements by drawing them or importing them as JPG/PNG/etc. and be able to select them and drag them from the library onto my main image. ...
I noticed that the left half of Dropbox's homepage includes an animation (a fairly slow-paced one), with: gradually-revealed complex drawing, such as a "handwriting" animation cross-compatibility across a bunch of browsers that I tested fast loading time When I right-click and try to open it in a new tab, it opens a ...
It's been a few months since I've done any modeling in 3DS Max 2010. When I went to create an object, I noticed something funky about the definition for Length/Width/Height parameters on the right... I am honestly confused by this. If I remember correctly: Length should coordinate with the X-axis. Width should coordi...
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When exporting to PDF, I wish to eliminate entirely the bleed area. Is it possible to do so in inDesign?
I have scanned some text, and I need to add a name in matching type and style. I have tried, but it's not as jagged as the scan, and doesn't look the same. How do I make the added type match the scanned text? Please see the image for a comparison of the scan and what I've added.
So I made an event card in Illustrator and then exported it, but the PNG file Illustrator has created has some grey lines at the top, the bottom, the right and the left of the card. I uploaded the event card on Facebook to see if they are still there, but they are, and I don't know what are those lines. Could you guys ...
After receiving some great advice here, I set out to create my first diagrams! I am trying to recreate this type of image in Inkscape: Inkscape was suggested as a good starting point and it's free, otherwise there is really no particular reason I am using it. So far I have used Matplotlib in python to create some of...
In one page of my inDesign document, there's a pink rectangle. I created a text element and moved this element on this rectangle. No matter how hard I try to send this pink rectangle to back (arrange > send to back) and bring the text element to the front (arrange > bring to front), the rectangle stays above and hides...
There's this double rectangle centered on my focused artboard. how can i remove it? screenshot:
I am not sure whether this is the correct site for this question. The model comes from Physics, the data comes from computational physics, the plot is made with LaTeX but my question is about the presentation and layout of it all. You can click on all images to get a vector PDF. I have data points that depend on two p...
I have a company logo in vector repeated multiple times to make a pattern/background. I want to apply a halftone to it, but to do so I need to make all the repeated vectors into one single vector. I have tried all of the pathfinder options with no luck and making a compound path messes up the logo (fills in the hole in...
I am interested in how to achieve this coffee cream/powder effect using Photoshop. I have spent quite some time trying to figure this out, but wasn't successful. Using a clipping mask to apply texture works on very simple logos or text, but not on photos or anything that requires detail.
I am trying to make a quick start guide similar to those that come in product packaging. They are usually made of one large sheet folded many times to make pages/panels of about 4"x5" or so and when you unfold them they're not easy to fold back to original setup. What is this 12-16 page folding setup called, and are ...
It's usually done when there are a bunch of objects in a photograph and it's hard to identify them or refer to a specific one without confusion. For instance, I've seen this done with jigsaw puzzles that have a certain theme, and on the back, there's an outline illustration that has numbers on it that correspond to a n...
I am currently updating an old document that I don't recall how I created the first time around. What I would like to do is to take the size and position of an existing object that underwent a free transform when it was placed in the document originally, and perform the same transformation on the new object I am now ad...
I'd like to know how to make an android style loading icon in Illustrator. Can anyone help? It doesn't have to spin, i'd just like to know how to create the opacity on the circular object. This is the one i'm talking about:
We want to prepare a book for electronic publishing on iPad by using InDesign. Hence in the InDesign's Document Setup we entered as intent 'Digital Publishing' and as page size 2048px X 1536px. We took a photo output from a Canon 5D Mk III and processed in Photoshop CC and imported it (by Place) in InDesign eiter via T...
I have a layer which is completely filled with a color to which i am changing the opacity value to say some 80%. Is it possible to get the color code of the layer with the reduced opacity? To put it more simple, i want to know what color will 80% of #555555 be. Any possible ways in photoshop or in any other softwares...
I am working with the latest version of Adobe Illustrator. I have the following: I would like to cup the shape at the following location, so that I create a flat document icon that is folded in one corner: How I can achieve this? The knife tool doesn't do straight lines! Even though I press Ctrl / Shift / Alt .. etc ...
I have a contour object, and I would like to delete a part of it (a line). So I converted the object to a path, selected the Edit paths by nodes tool and deleted the unwanted nodes, now I have the contour but I'm still left with a bezier connecting the next two nodes. I tried to delete that connection, but when I selec...
I created this letterhead design in Illustrator and I have to give it to the client now, as a usable file in Microsoft Word... I don't really know Microsoft Word, so I need a step by step detailed clarification if it is possible!!!
I would like to change my font in Aptana to this font, but i don't know what font family internet explorer source is using. Regards.
I'm trying to adjust a little detail on a project, but when I'm zooming to get closer to the model, I kinda "get inside" the model, like I was too closer and I can't adjust anything at all... Is there a way to adjust the zoom level? EDIT
I am working on some artwork to use in my web project and I am using the latest version of Adobe Illustrator. When I go to File > Save for Web I get the following: As you can see the Art-board space around my artwork also shows! Is there a way I can tell illustrator that I'm only interested in saving the artwork? Any ...
I was wondering if there's a way in Illustrator CC to export artworks containing multiple artboards, to multiple single-paged .pdf files, as Illustrator already does for images like .jpg files. EDIT: The plugin @Gramps mentioned is a valuable solution for those who don't need a precise control over PDF settings. From w...
I wonder where drop caps should be used. So far, I only see them in column of newspaper. Are there any cases which drop caps shouldn't be used, like in scientific papers or brochures?
I have some questions about preparing the final magazine file for print. I'm making a magazine in InDesign CC and I need it to make using ISO coated v2 ECI. Every picture in magazine before I place it in layout I converted it in Photoshop from RGB to CMYK (ISO coated v2 ECI), some pictures are .jpg and some are .psd. ...
...or if I just want to showcase my ideas for existing companies with not-so-great logos, can I put that in my portfolio? or even fictitious companies, is that okay to build up on portfolio?
I am just getting started with adobe illustrator CS5 bulding logos. I often see people presenting it as mockups on walls, business cards or more than one logo which can be navigated through. How do it do that using Adobe illustrator or I need Photoshop ? Regards Vishy
So I have some designs that I'm trying to get print ready. They're all 1 to 2 colors and were designed in Photoshop at 8 inches x 8 inches and 300 dpi. I didn't realize, but the designs actually need to be 11 inches x 11 inches and 300 dpi for the print. As a result, I'm trying to pick up Adobe Illustrator and make the...
This is an opinion question that I go back and forth on every time I start a new project. In most cases, I am designing a website that has some sort of "article" element, whether it be a blog post, event listing, etc. Something that uses a template for multiple bits of the same type of content. I'm sure this is not unf...
I made a logo by taking a screenshot and saving it as a .PNG file. The edges on the logo are not as smooth as, say, the Google logo on Google.com. How can I make the edges smooth?
I made a rookie error and accidentally saved about 20 images in Photoshop as .jpg files rather than .png files. Is there a quick way I can convert all these files to a .png format at once rather than individually?
I'm trying to create a rubber stamp effect on a logo and am following this tutorial that has me use a combination of Live Trace and Pathfinder to accomplish the effect. Here's my interpretation of what the author is suggesting: Live Trace on a complicated texture (e.g. zoom in picture of stone or concrete); delete t...

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