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I'm trying to replicate the visual effect of this product box: How is this created? What type of materials should I use?
I want to create a steering wheel, similiar to this: So I have started with the outer circle and given it a wide stroke, I am now on the middle bit. I have the following: Can someone please tell me how I can move that bottom-right circle to be in the exact position on the left across the guide I have running through ...
I noticed PHP.net changed the font used to show code examples. Does someone know what this font is? Updated: I've set my text editor to use Fira Mono as someone kindly pointed out but still why does it not look like the above?
I really like google's approach in design, it's clean and simple.I want to use their guidelines in one of my up coming projects (which is quite a big one). what is the legal status for using google's design guidelines in your application design? under what licence are they released ?!
I was wondering if there was a way to autosize a drawn out textbox to fit the height of the text in PS. Something similar to inDesign where if you double-click the bottom-center draggable point of the textbox it adjusts accordingly.
When printing material that will include photos it is best to use Lc and Lm (Light Cyan and Light Magenta) to aid in the quality of the print. The description from Wiki says: CcMmYK, sometimes referred to as CMYKLcLm or CMYKcm, is a six color printing process used in some inkjet printers optimized for photo print...
I am unfamiliar with Illustrator and have created graphics in Photoshop I need to export/save as vector graphics. Can I open a PS file in Illustrator and save or export the image as a vector graphic? If so, what is the file type? This would be for creating images for heat press printing on shirts and a vector graphic i...
Since updating to Creative Cloud, Photoshop 2014, guidelines have started appearing. In trying to screenshot it I figured out it occurs when pressing the Ctrl key on an editable layer. However, I'm not sure all of the features (new I presume) and don't see it in the Keyboard Shortcut listings to change. Does anyone kno...
My company uses the Univers font as its official typeface and I'm looking for a good Web-safe alternative. The options are limited, but typefaces are really my weak point and I can't tell which ones are more like it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers To me Arial looks like my best bet, but there may be subtle diff...
I have created a few icons of 64px x 64px on one canvas in Illustrator CS6. Now I need each of the icons to be in .png file format. So I created a new document in Illustrator with 64px x 64px dimensions and copy paste one of the previously created icons. Now when I want to save it as f .png file format it does not rema...
The answer here: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/35128/2611 got me thinking about how illuminated letters were designed. There's a lot of resources out there discussing illuminated texts including the materials and paints used. Less talked about is the actual design process they would have used though. Today,...
The logo i've created looks horrible on the screen. The edges are blurry, far from crisp. Here is some text in the logo To me this looks far from professional. I did this logo in Adobe Illustrator, the font is Ubuntu, size 32pt. When saving for web, i've tried art optimized and type optimized. The document is 72dp...
I want to create a mask that only displays a region of the masked layer, most of which is transparent. But the current result is I get a ton of black pixels. How do I achieve the transparency of the black areas within the mask? Here's the layer situation within PS.
I am working on a logo design project and stuck at a place. I have used some strokes in logo so problem is, strokes size isn't changing when I am resizing an object. Stroke size is 3pt and when I am decreasing size of object with stroke then stroke's size is still 3pt so it is looking bold when decreasing size and thi...
I would like to know which font license I should buy for use in a company logo? I am going to use the logo in my web application, in advertisements and everywhere the company logo appears.
I created this logo in Illustrator (I am not a graphic designer, so be nice =]) and have used the "Save for Web" feature. I saved the file below as a PNG (24 for true color) and selected optimize for text (optimize for graphics made some of the image a little fuzzy and not as crisp). It looks great and as expected wh...
I'm trying to export certain graphics from an Illustrator file. I'm selecting the object, fitting the artboard to the selected artwork, and saving for web & devices, PNG-24 format. When I look at the art in Illustrator, it is properly capturing the artwork, but when I look at the outputted file, I am losing a few pixel...
I want to take a rectangular image in Sketch and give it a circle/radius style. For example:
First, I want to make it very clear that I am a newbie in the graphic design field and I have no idea of how things are done. I am more a programmer than a designer. I have been making a Google Chrome extension, but in it they say that the app icon provided should be: The actual icon size should be 96x96 (for square i...
I uploaded a file to a market place but it got rejected. They sent me messages for some modifications and the one modification they want is to close opened paths. How can I find open paths or their numbers? i.e. how many paths are opened I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6.
I have Photoshop CS6, but I don't have Illustrator. Can I export shape layers to SVG, perhaps using a plugin?
I'm designing a one page website and trying different typography combinations for the headings and subheadings. I eventually chose what you see below. I'm using Open Sans for the heading and Lato Light for the subheading I chose those fonts because they have similar proportions. Could you please share your thoughts o...
I'm working with a tall, narrow document in Photoshop, and I'm using a trackpad. Is there any way I can lock horizontal scrolling so that when I use my trackpad to scroll, it only moves up/down?
I have an Adobe Illustrator file (.ai) I made with Illustrator CC (2014 edition). I want to use it to automatically generate many graphics using information from a database. The following are (fictional) examples to illustrate my question. The Template Graphic The graphic is very simple. It contains a dark blue rectang...
I have a color #840608 somewhere on my web page and it is coded as #840608 by HTML and it displays as #840608 by all browsers plus it is recognized as #840608 by screen analyzing utilities. Now in Photoshop I am creating image, and make rectangle there. I am painting this rectangle with #840608 color. It is displayed a...
Here is the fragment of red area, which is said by Illustrator as being #840608 (upper green marker). But actually, as reported by screen inspecting application, the color is #9C0D01 (lower gree marker). Later, when I starting to export image for web, the color is becoming #B70F00 Finally it becomes #9B0203 in we bro...
I'm working on a new brand identity for my software company, and after some research we've reached a consensus that Fontsmith's Hackney (http://www.fontsmith.com/fonts/fs-hackney.cfm) could work well for us. It has a technical look which I hope will give technical papers credibility and authority, but it's also nice ...
Using InDesign CC, is there a way to make two or more threaded frames have different paragraph styles applied to them? What I need is to paste a text on the first frame, and when text flows to the next threaded frame, it should get a different style applied to it (in my specific case, the color and typeface need to cha...
I went to: Text → Glyphs → and found the symbol. However, I can't get it from the window box to the artboard. I've searched Google & YouTube, but cannot find the answer. How do I type in the Registered ‎® symbol in Inkscape?
I'm having this weird issue where I received PSDs to work on, and I'm on a Mac if that has anything to do with it, and I've eye-dropped colors here and there from the darkest pixel whenever the designers haven't used a hex value and opted for opacity instead since I need the hex for web development. Now these same PSD...
I can't insert umlauts or a sharp s in Acrobat after I created the form with InDesign CS6. Does anyone a similar problem / can help me with this? I suppose it has to do something with UTF-8 encoding but I have no idea where to look at. I'd be thankful for any tips with Acrobat or InDesign Edit: Alright, I found a (not...
I've started to use Smart Objects because you only have to edit them once to modify all instances of the object. I have run into a problem though. I want to add replaceable text to a Smart Object so that individual instances of this object can set their own text. It reminds me of how PowerPoint's slide masters work: th...
I have some vector shapes with a white fill and a 0.3pt white stroke. What I want to do is expand the shape to the extent of the outside edge of the stroke. To put it in kind of visual terms, what I'd want to see in the image above is the blue selection line on the border between the white and the pink. I hope I've ex...
Today's OpenType fonts have a lot of features included like: kerning, capital spacing, ligatures, old style figures and stylistic sets. I miss these features a lot. Is there a way to select those features in Inkscape? Does anybody know if they are accessible, or at least planed?
I have a problem when I'm exporting a .png file in Sketch 2. I have an icon with the background color of #8FBE00 but when I'm exporting it as a .png file the background color is #8EC003. I have absolutely no idea what's going on, I've never encountered this problem when working with Sketch before. I'm no Sketch expert ...
Like many people, I have hundreds of fonts installed in my library. Is there any way to set fonts available on a per document basis for Adobe apps (or any other apps for that matter)?
In the latest version of Adobe Illustrator, I am working on some icons, and want to change the color of one. The green one I'm happy with. The doc color and the fold color go well together. But, what if I want to change the color to yellow, how can I figure out what the fold color would be on the yellow so that it mat...
Could someone provide a fine crafted footage of how to animate only part of the image? Let's say we have a image 1366x500 showing some device mockup and we only want to animate the screen of that device which would be smth around 80x30px. The image will go then for a website background. Would be even better to add a hy...
In particular, how do I translate CMYK 90C 85M 80Y 63K to a Pantone color?
This might be an idiotic question and I'll take my chances. I'm an amateur Indesigner (but am a power user). I would like to align a frame on a different page on a different spread (could even be on the same spread, just on the flip-side page of it). But my ruler shows 58p something for the left hand side of one frame...
I have a vector file that gets pixelated when i apply the "plastic wrap" effect. What can I do?
What's this design style used by so many new websites called? If anyone wants to edit this post to use a different link feel free. I'm just wondering how the CSS and such works for websites that have scrolling 'frames' like this. I heard that this sort of thing is often done in Wordpress. Full disclosure: I know n...
I wonder if there's any way to have a group of objects, and resizing that group but letting the type be unaffected, where the resize simply adjusts the type bounding box but not the type style? What I'd expect is a setting allowing me to resize the group where the text simply wraps in the new bounding box. Here are ima...
I have a PDF file and when I turn it into an Illustrator CS5 file, the image breaks into pieces and there are spaces between the pieces. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
I downloaded an icon in png format. Now I try to resize it to 20x20 pixels using Photoshop CS5. This causes it to become fuzzy, as shown in Photoshop's navigator. I want to use the smaller image for a website. How can I make the reduced image have the same quality as the original I downloaded? Here is a screenshot of ...
I have a work I should adjust according to the uneven surface. I need to print the mockup on A4 printer, i.e. the result is the glued A4 pages where each of the page is a separate part of the image. In other words, I have no printer of sufficient size and want to joint separate A4 pages into one large paper. I never pe...
I was working on a design in Adobe Illustrator and I've sent the .ai file to the printer. But she says that she don't have the fonts, that I used, installed on her computer. Now she also doesn't know how to install the fonts in her computer (I've tried to explain her but she just don't getting it). Now is there any wa...
I have an image that was taken using a negative color filter long ago, but now I need the normal picture, is there a way to get a good quality of that picture with the actual colors? The current software I am using is GIMP.
I designed a package for a client. I did the design under a dieline. This means that there are still red lines around the design. Should I send this file to my client or should I clear the dieline before sending the file?
I have created the design of a website in InDesign (big mistake, I know...). The developer wants to have my layers in a Photoshop format. I do not want to start everything from the beginning. What can I do? Thanks a lot in advance !
After quite a lot of search attempts I failed to find a pattern which we can fill in background so as to generate the background as shown in the graphic below. I'm not sure if its a pattern or a wallpaper created from scratch. If its a pattern, where can I find one and what keyword shall I google.
I'm designing a manual with the font Akzidenz Grotesk as the main body font. I am looking for some nice bullet characters but what are some fonts that provide good bullet characters?
I should convert mono-colored seamless pattern to colored one. The problem is -instead of masking, the shapes were cut at the perimeter and expanded, thus using live paint is impossible. I look for a simple way to "re"-create an area enclosed by cut edges, i.e. connect 2 points to "close" the area and to color it. For...
I'm creating a report about my latest internship in InDesign where some of my work will fill empty pages. I'm creating various web designs and all of those pages don't have the same ratio as the paper itself, which results in white empty space at both sides. Let's look at this example from my current document. The pro...
I have Roland ColorCAMM PC-60. I'd like to use this thing to cut vinyl. I've spent whole day searching for any free plotting software but the best I've come across was EasySIGN which has way more features I don't need (I use Illustrator to prepare data) for way higher price (I cannot afford). Is there really nothing fr...
Problem: When I place an entire Word document that includes text and image, the images do not respect the margins and resize automatically, so I have to manually resize them. Desired Solution(s): I would like the images to respect the margin width when placing an entire Word document. Alternatively, I would like a w...
I have some experience with CAD, inventor and things like that. I would really love if there were a graphics program that can draw with dimensioning so that I can get precise lines/angles etc. Then output to photoshop pen lines or something like that. Does there exist anything like this?
Hopefully there is a way to do this in Sketch-- that is what I use :) But does Illustrator or anything out there, natively or with a plugin, allow for a designer to simultaneously view a normal size and a zoomed-in version of an icon? I find myself switching back and forth a hundred times.
I recently had an experience with a client that was a bit messy, and now they don't want to pay for the work I did. They needed some presentation decks, one of which needed to be editable (text to go on top of graphics) in PowerPoint. I told them that I do not work in PowerPoint as a graphic designer, what I can do is...
I have been looking at many of the questions asked about similar fonts or alternate fonts that can be used in place of a more expensive or popular one. One of the interesting things to look at is when you overlay one set of font over another and seeing where the differences are. I was wondering if there is some guideli...
I'm trying to make 16x16 icons in line style with Adobe Illustrator and when I export to .PNG, lines are extremely low quality and pixelated. Here's examples: Here's what it looks like in Illustrator: I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Is there something I need to know? Thanks!
I'm using magic wand to separate the background and foreground (an apple in the example). The goal is to get a binary image, with white pixels standing for the foreground. The problem here is the foreground layer is not pure white. Photoshop is always "matting" the edges such that quite a few pixels become something li...
I'm designing a clothing brand logo and it uses a 3D children's toy block. We've looked at other clothing logos but none are in 3D. Is it ok to use a 3D object in a clothing brand logo?
I'm a software developer, not a designer, I usually have designs provided by my clients before the work begins. It seems the designers always want to provide the designs in .psd file format, is this a good (industry standard) practice? The designs in question are for either websites or desktop/mobile software applicati...
How can I achieve this sort of pattern? I presume from these sample images I found from a poster made by Laurient Durieux, it is made using illustrator. Or am I wrong? Is there a proper way to do it? This is the texture I'm trying to achieve:
My set up is: Mac, running 10.6.8, using CS5 & Powerpoint 2011 Wondered if anyone can help. I've drawn a load of flat icons in Illustrator as a client wants to use them in their powerpoint presentation. Each icon has be "united" using the pathfinder tool so it's just one object, I have to place a transparent box behind...
Im new to Illustrator and have found the clipping mask is not so easy compared to Phtoshop. Could any one tell me how i can make this line texture a clipping mask over the circle?
I am new to Adobe Illustrator. I created a simple image with a shape and some text and wanted to create a vector image. So I basically created the shape and the text. Then right-clicked and selected "Create Outlines" from the drop-down menu, which did create outlines. Then I went ahead to export the image as a .png fi...
I have made small HTML5 games and I use Inkscape to make the sprites. But I'm curious to know how sprites and graphics for high end desktop games like NFS and Call Of Duty made. Any answer or pointer for further reading is appreciated.
I'd like to select a number of layers within the layers panel. Usually this is done by manually CMD + Clicking / Shift + Clicking the layers. To increase speed and productive though I prefer to say clear from the mouse. Is there a way this can be done without my hands leaving the keyboard?
Previously I might have used Photoshop's warp tool to wrap a label around a bottle but it's hard to get perfect results in this way. I'd love a more consistent method so I tried experimenting with Illustrator's 3d extrude and mapping a symbol over the top but so far, results are not exactly as good as they could be. He...
What this is for is that, i have a lot of scanned documents with passport size photos in each of them. The photos are aligned randomly. I need to separate them out. What i currently do is make selection using polygonal marquee tool, then use Free Transform to straighten it out and later crop, resize and save the pp pho...
Question I'm looking for fonts, available from Google Webfonts or Typekit, that would look similar to Avenir. Background I'm building a site using Squarespace My friend told me to use Avenir for headings and shorter texts. Any of these three: Avenir 85 Heavy Avenir 65 Medium Avenir 55 Roman Squarespace does not ha...
Whether print or digital media, what is the name of this element? On the main page layout, there is a small, not too obtrusive element with text inside. Usually a circle. It's not a callout because it's not referring to anything specifically on the main layout. Here are two examples. See top right hand corner.
I work for a large university, and we're trying to come up with some ideas for our drop-down menus, which are fairly standard, not too fancy. The university has their main site, and many sub-sites, each of which has its own set of menu links. Besides the domain name and theming, these are essentially all separate site...
I have a small old personal logo the biggest would be around (update:: 88x88 original:: ~100x100 pixels (before it starts to look pixelated) so everyone is telling me to convert it to a vector in illustrator but I was wondering how can I keep the same shape (its a old simple cutout) to become a smooth lets say 500x500...
I need to print a short booklet via InDesign and my document is ready. However, I'm unsure if the printer I'm gonna print on (tomorrow) is capable of printing both sides. So I'm wondering: Is double-sided printing a requirement to print a booklet? I guess single-sided will work just as good, but not completely sure
I am really struggling to create a white translucent background for text on top of an image with GIMP. Pottery Barn Kids (http://www.potterybarnkids.com/) has one example of what I am trying to achieve, shown below for future reference: (Note the text along the left side – GIRL ROOMS, BOY ROOMS etc.) Can anyone point ...
I don't know it should be asked here or on freelancing. Designing a webpage and do coding for webpage both are different tasks and need different skills. I have seen some coders saying that we can convert your psd into webpage. I also have seen some clients asking for web design and then they would ask for coding from ...
I'm hoping this is the best community for this - Whilst not directly graphical, I'm thinking it is related to a print option in Adobe Acrobat, but, I can't seem to find it. I have a bunch of bank statements that have rather a large margin on the left in order to be hole punched and added to a ring binder. I unfortunate...
Is is possible to skip numbers in a numbered bullet list? So for example it begins 1-10 and the next 10 are skipped so the next bullet is 21. I can see that you can pick the starting number but I don't know how to pick a custom order. Thank you.
Background I found myself struggling with “amnesia” and asking myself: “How the hell did I do it?” Six months ago I’ve created some work using some effects. I remember that I achieved a very interesting effect by accidentally clicking some option by mistake. Now, I have no idea about the particular effect, but my quest...
one of the new features in AI CC 2014 is path handles ignoring any grid. However, when one wants to construct C2-contious joins between separate objects, precise control over the handle position is needed. I do a lot of icon and sprite art, and there it is imperative that curves from different objects flow exactly the ...
I do not have Photoshop installed on my own local machine unfortunately, but would like to know if Photoshop can export an image file to a PNG and retain the separate layers for a different program such as Paint.net?
What is an easy way to achieve this "Out of Sync" Color Fill style? I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6 and I think there is an easy way to do this with the way Illustrator is set up, but I'm not sure how.
I'd like to change the white-to-black gradient to one with the colors in the rectangles on the top left. How can I drag these colors onto the gradient?
I was just wondering, i have never used After Effects and I have no idea how big the animations actually are in terms of KB/MB size. I want to create a simple typographic animation, with music behind, that would last 10-15sec. Simple text, Simple animation. What would be the rough weight of such animation ? Is there ...
I'm want create photo-effect like this I'm guess it 2 layer blend or mask with the subject(woman) and forest but how I re-create it in Photoshop Thanks
I made an infographic in Adobe Illustrator, and saved it as a .svg file. But then when I tried to open it in the Google Chrome browser, some of the fonts and some italicized fonts were not even italicized. Why is this happening and what is the solution? It was 600*1100 pixels because I had read somewhere that it is a g...
I wanted to use different funny mouse cursor pointer to my commercial website project. Is there any website providing this mouse pointer images for free or for low price? If not how can i create a mouse cursor images myself. I guess its extension is .cur I have little knowledge of photoshop and gimp tool. Can i create ...
I have downloaded several SVG files and need to convert them to EMF format ( Enhanced Meta File ). I have used Inkscape's Save as to save it as .emf but loss of data occurred ( I was warned by Inkscape too that this might occur when I was closing the document ). Is there a way to convert SVG to ENF without loss of conv...
I would like to convert a photo into Ascii art. I want to reproduce the effect shown here: http://purtyy.com/?/web/darevancouver/ What's the best way of doing this? I have tried some of the online Photo-to-Ascii services, but the outputted images are too big, so the text is too tiny. The services I have tried are: http...
Is it possible [in Photoshop] to make overset text flow into an adjacent column, once the first text box is full? ex. I have two three columns [A,B and C] and a surplus of copy. Once column A is full, I want excess copy to populate column B. If column B becomes full, I would like column C to be populated with any remai...
I created a 25 page pdf with acrobat from 25 png files approx 65mb each. They are 11x17 @ 300dpi so quite large. When combining files I made sure to choose the large format for print but pdf size is only 15mb - only approx 100th the size of the 25 files. On screen the pdf looks ok, but I'm just wondering how this is...
You can use "Indent to here" / "Hanging Indent" in InDesign by Command-Backslash. Is there a way to do this in Illustrator without having to Tab to Indent or press the spacebar a few times? This is what I'm looking for: This was done in Illustrator. Because both the 2nd and 3rd bullet points are longer, it goes to the...
I have given 14 pt font size in photoshop cs6 but its looking bigger than that.whats going on?
So I have to design 3 billboards and this is pretty much my first time doing it where it goes to print. I'm used to designing small scale stuff so this task is a bit daunting. I would just like to know how much bleed I should allow for a billboard of say 9 metres by 6 metres and also at which sizes and dpi I should be ...
I'm trying to make an index with page references. I want the word "cat" to be in the index and point to all the pages where the word "cat" is. So far so good. But I also want the same word "cat" to point to pages with the word "cats". I know you can make a cross reference, but as far is I know, I would get in my index:...
I need to design some graphics to be used on the web, and I need to use some fonts in those graphics. I am new to this. I read a few articles about the differences between desktop fonts and web fonts. But I am not clear about this: Shall I simply download some web fonts and use them in the graphics, just like I use de...
I want to clarify a small issue with Shear Tool, because I feel there is a common rule I miss. I created a rectangle and applied Rounded Effect. At this stage I did not expanded appearance. Next, I applied Shear Tool as you can see on the picture: you can see the bounds of the applied shear tool, however there are no r...

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