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My intent with the document I've created in Adobe Illustrator was to save one as an original and one as a copy with a few different characteristics. Accidentally, I saved both with the changed characteristics. How can I revert one back to the original?
My layer list is very big and sometimes when I duplicate a layer, I need to move it far away but I have to bring it near the edge to activate the slow autoscroll. It would be far more convenient if I could scroll with the mouse wheel while grabbing something. Is there a way to do it?
I've looked at the pairings with other HFJ fonts like Sentinel, Chronicle, and Mercury, and while I prefer Sentinel over the other two, I'm not quite ready to commit to it. Does anyone have any suggestions, or any advice on how to go about exploring possibilities? I'm not particularly experienced in this. (This will m...
I've installed several versions of a font (standard, bold, bold-italic, etc). But when I use them in MS Office or OpenOffice, they appear as separate fonts, and using bold/italic style modifiers gives the simulated version. How can I instruct the programs or the OS that the alternative variants are the proper bold/ital...
I am currently studying computer sciences and I don't have any design school here to go to after I complete my degree and going abroad can take some time. I am very interested in learning and adopting graphic design as a career. I think many of other people face this issue too. I have been in this field for 3 years an...
I want to create something like the attached photo, but with other letters and shapes. does anyone know how to do this?
I created a diagonal stripe image in Photoshop, just dragging the lines an "equal" distance from each other for a blueprint website design. I knew it would be much more complicated to recreate this diagonal texture in a seamless manner: Perhaps there are tools to do this easily in Illustrator, but I'm limited to PS CS...
Is there a website or tool that will allow me to choose a group of equally separated list of 10 colours from pastel green to pastel red to be used as the background colour in the cells of a table?
I am a web-developer and am starting a new project. First step is designing the site. In the past, I have used 960 grid system but I was wondering if this is still the standard pretty much? Is there something better now that suits the responsive craze?
So I'm developing a site, and as examples I went to many major companies sites ( Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Imgur, Pandora, Microsoft, StackOverflow, YamahaMotorsports ), as well as some smaller, but still well known in the industry, websites ( Knapheide Mfg., Linetec, Apogee and a couple others ) The trend seems to be a ...
I am trying to copy & 'paste in place' layers from Illustrator into Photoshop, however they never align correctly. I have checked artboard and canvas size are the same and also same color mode. Still it will not align. Can anyone offer advice? How can I check all transparency is off (this may be the problem). I am a ...
Is there a way to lock the zoom and the scroll bars in Krita so that they do not jump around, changing position and magnification, when I am not using the magnifying tool? I am using a wacom tablet with Ubuntu 14.04 and the latest version of Krita. The issue is that often I will touch the empty grey space behind the ...
I'm having trouble being able to articulate the correct sizes for text and other visual elements to our iOS developers. I understand that when building an app they don't use PX as a unit of measurement, but PTs. I design my comps using static PSDs at 640x1136. I've looked around at various blogs and most people are say...
I have created a design in CorelDraw. While publishing it to PDF, it gets washed out. That might be due to some color management issue. Now, when I'm create the same design in InDesign the PDF generates exact color and quality. How can I be sure that this PDF generated from InDesign will print to paper as it is shown...
Can I use the google map icon on my website, if I link to google maps?
How to remove or change the background color of an animated GIF image? I would like to remove the background color from the attached image.
I found some beautiful hi-res images online and want to print them just to frame and hang in my home. The images came from personal websites of photographers or news sites like AP. Is this legal?
I have a layer with a mask that was handed to me by a designer, and I wish to change the colours of it, but I'm having difficulty. Here it is, along with the thumbnail - ...If you look closely, you can see that something else was done to this layer, so there's actually a faded image in the background. I'd like to ret...
I'm trying to post an image over a solid filled title header in the master slide layout in power point.
I've modified a script I found for Illustrator to allow me to convert multiple folders full of EPS files to transparent PNGs and it does a fantastic job. The part where I'm stumped is in finding out how to convert all white (#ffffff) to transparency before saving it as a PNG file. Note/edit: The script already removes...
I'm trying to create an illustrated map for a friend's wedding. Most map tutorials I can find are for technical maps and I would like to find a resource with tips and tricks for designing more illustrative, design maps. Examples below:
I'm not too sure how to describe the effect that I'm going for or what it is even called. Thus, I'm having some trouble finding any help through Google. I want to accomplish something like this "SLOPED" text below, but have the bottoms of the letters follow the slope as well instead of being horizontal. I have trie...
I have a logo that incorporates the shape of Idaho. The client would like some relief to be added to look like mountain terrain, in the mountainous parts of the state. I have no idea how to create such a thing. I'm using Illustrator CS5. Any tips, tricks, or tutorials out there? Anything will help, I'm not finding anyt...
How would I create a rainbow like background like this in pixelmator?
I've had a new client request a web site in 2 weeks. Not only I already find that pretty quick but I'm totally loaded so I charged a rush fee that I was comfortable with. I wrote the rush fee in my quote and figured that it would remind them to plan ahead of time for the next project. However, I also see there are down...
I am an illustrator newbie. I have 2 shapes: rectangle and triangle. I want to delete the left and the right part of the triangle(just like the image)...Any idea? It s probably easy for you!
I am creating a logo for which I need circles to create the illusion of depth. The attached image shows the sort of effect I am trying to replicate. What would be the best way to do this in Photoshop (or Illustrator)? I have tried to create the effect manually. However, it would be time consuming to draw all the circl...
I have made a simple tab UI with 3 possible buttons, left, center and right. The first thing I wanted to do was to simply make one big tab (which includes the left and right and center parts in itself), and copy it 3 times and add a mask to each of them, so only the desired part of the tab will be shown....than I renam...
After you all helped me in my previous post with the handwritten text, helping me to erase the parchmnt and leave the text, I need help now with the next step. Please forgive me if this is simple stuff, I'm new to Photoshop and looked through different posts here but I didn't find what I'm looking for. So basically, I ...
I know I can scale by pulling on the handles with the Select and transform tool. Or similarly, rotate them by first clicking to toggle the handles. But how do I shear an image? Clicking again toggles the handles back to scaling mode.
I am trying to get into Fibonacci/Golden Ratio logos for some university work however I'm fairly new to Illustrator. I've used Photoshop for about 8 years and Sketch v3 since it was released. However, I can't work out how people create these logos. I'm trying to work out how for example you can go from a hexagon with p...
I have a rectangle that should be snapping to the lines of the other rectangles on my artboard, but it keeps overshooting the mark. Can anyone advise on how to get it to snap the other objects lines correctly? Ai version: CC2014. OS Mac: 10.9.5.
Im creating an app icon for my iOS app, but there is no option for me to save my file as a .png file. The only format for app icons is a .png file. Does anybody know how to solve this?
I just had an idea and not sure if its possible. Can toggling the Paint Brush be done with a keyboard button instead of the mouse? Say I hold the B key down with my off-hand while drawing using the mouse in my good hand. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how?
Hello I want to rotate a picture in gimp but I want the axis to be at the end of the picture. Kind of like a picture being a knife in a folding knife. I want to be able to rotate a picture like that. Anyone know how to? Cheers. Look at the picture ( I want to rotate the photo from the white point) meaning I want it to ...
I am looking for a way, preferably one that can be triggered via keyboard shortcut, to both toggle the current layer to visible/hidden and to be able to toggle a specifically-named layer visible/hidden. What I am aiming for with the specifically-named layer visibility toggle is to turn the template layer visible/hidden...
I'm using Illustrator CC, and I'd like to link some sub-shapes to a master such that modifying the master also moves the sub-shapes. Context: Octopus tentacles. I've got shapes for each tentacle with relatively sparse points. The details (suckers, edge detail, etc.) are separate shapes. I'd like to be able to modify...
Hi i want to curve my logo-text vector around A circle, like this: With this (my logo): But my logo is a premade vector, not text file, so each letter is its own SHAPE/Path or whatever you call it. So i want to arrange it around a circle perfectly like the powerhouse logo how could i do this? thanks in advance
Okay, I am trying to make a curved line in PhotoShop. Probably sounds pretty Easy. Just playing around, I managed to make this: I don't remember how I did it though. I know I used the line tool. See how it fades out in the middle? I don't like that. I want it to be solid all the way through. What is a better way to com...
I am novice to photoshop and working on converting PSD to * HTML*. I learned that you can select a layer and Ctrl + A, and copy-paste to create a new image equal to the size of layer. I also learned that you can copy by Ctrl + left mouse click, and copy-paste. However I noticed that the second method is not good for co...
can anybody tell how do they animate the mobile UI/design to showcase their work.I have used Photoshop but the GIF quality sucks, i wonder what would be the best way to get the desire result please see the link for example. Thanks Gif Animation
I have some HTML in a text and I would like to apply a character style to the HTML tags: <p>This is some <strong>HTML</strong> I want to use.</p> I want to only change the tag name, not the < or >. In other words, I want to change the style of the p but not the enclosing <>. Normally, I would use: \<(.*?)\> to capture...
I'm a director of a nonprofit, and I've been working on a letterhead for my group that we can use. Nearly a decade ago, we had an actual graphic designer draw up a branding guide for us that we try to abide by, but I'm being stumped by the requirement that our logo not go at the top of the page (as dictated on p12). ...
I am trying to add page numbers to a glossary I am making. While i am getting the page numbers to appear. I now am trying to make it so the page numbering will start on page 2, rather than the cover page, and will start with the number 1. But each time I try to do it, the layout gets rearranged like so- If I try to m...
I've always wanted to know how to do this-- basically seperate the flat base color of an image, and save it with transparency to .PNG. The only method I can think of is with selection tools and that gives a really bad result (not the same).
Is it possible to reference two anchor texts hyperlinks for the same paragraph in Indesign? I can create two different anchor texts for the same paragraph. However, when inserting the cross-reference, only one seems available. I would prefer to avoid complex scripting solutions. EDIT: To make it clear, Document B has ...
Due to the gradients and effects on the font I can't use any service like WhatTheFont or WhatFontIs. Any font that looks alike is welcome. Thank you in advance ;) Note: Sorry for the black boxes, apparently the text was NSFW
I would like to take an image and create ripple effects on it, similar to the (poor quality) background in this YouTube video. Is there any free software out there for this purpose? Or ways to do it in GIMP? Or, possibly, an idea of what would need to be done using a programming language?
I'm an engineering undergrad and in a typical biodata format, my biodata easily runs into two pages. I have been trying to make a one-page biodata but looks too congested to me (and a lot of other people). How can I better organize the stuff? I appreciate your answers. Thank you ^^
Do you guys think a letter (like Vine, tumblr, Facebook, Vimeo) is a better representation of a brand/app than an icon (like SnapChat, Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox)?
I have created 6 different pencil pre-sets with different diameters. What I want is to be able to cycle up and down from one pre-set to the next, preferably with a keyboard shortcut. How do I set this up? I tried using "increase brush size more" but that only increases by 10, and on larger diameters I want more than 10...
I'm trying to work with this photo in Illustrator CC, but there is this black box in the center of the page. I tried ignoring it but when I save my image, it only saved whats in the black box....yet I can't seem to decrease the size to just the box. I'm sure there is a very simple reason for this but I can't figure it ...
How to make a selection of the flare that was added by Lens Flare filter in Photoshop CC 2014? Is there an automated way to do it? I want to be able to mask the flare and tint it with blue
Which design better uses space and is more appealing? I'm new to this community so please if this is the wrong place to ask this type of question direct me to the correct one. Thanks. Design 1: Design 2:
I have just started design for mobile apps. My question is: in the beginning of the design process I have so many ideas, but I am not able to decide which one visually looks great... Designing all ideas that came up is very time consuming method. Any suggestions to a good method?
I've divided an artwork into a bunch of artboards and now I need to move the contents of the artboards around, resize them and such. Is this possible? Whenever I try, it either moves just the artboard boundaries, or if 'Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard' is switched on, it moves everything in the whole artwork, as oppose...
When I drag my selected object it displays the following error: Can't move the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area.
I'm looking to snag some open source image from this collection on Flickr and print them on a 3in x 5in sheet in notebooks like this: I know the resolution is much lower than it needs to be (72dpi vs 300?) but are there any strategies I can use to lessen the pixelation effect? One thing I was thinking about was making...
I never thought there is a difference where I start creating a rectangle in Illustrator. However I've just realised that if I start from Left-Upper corner I create "outer corner style", and when I start from Left-Lower corner I create "inner corner style" rectangle. There is no any visible difference between these tw...
Where I work we have images of products that we manufacture stored in CMYK GraCol 2006 format. We are starting to sell products manufactured by outside companies now and those companies are sending me pictures of their products. The product images they are sending are carrying color profiles. The images will be used ...
Hi i Have a group of 2pt lines, and above it I have a circle. I want to make a Circle out of the lines, heres a rough paint drawing of what i mean: how Can I cut the lines, so they form a circle like this, and anything outside of the circle is chopped off? Thanks
The image is in color with a white background. I want to make the image white with a colored background. I want to switch the colors (make image white and background the color of the current image. I also want to cut out (delete) the bottom part of the image. Is it plausible to do in Illustrator cs6 or should I just us...
I need some help understanding the relationship between coated and uncoated Pantone colors. From what I've read online, the coated formula (say 200 C) is for printing on coated (glossy) stock, and the uncoated variant (200 U) is for uncoated (non-glossy) stock. This would lead me to believe that the colors are formulat...
I'm trying to determine which format is better to use when there is no transparency in an image. More importantly though, I'm trying to figure out when it's better to use one over the other. From what I understand, JPEG essentially tricks the human eye into filling in the gaps by limiting the information to just enough...
I am trying to identify the following font but have come to a dead end. The closest I have been able to get are: ITC Century Handtooled ITC Garamond Handtooled Volume Walburn Tooled Walburn Tooled Caps but none of these are quite right (note the S and the E). I have adjusted the image to make it a bit more readable....
This is a typeface I recognize from late-70s / 80s advertising and would love to get my hands on it.
I'm looking to design a modern website for a C++/Javascript library. While I have several ideas in mind I wanted to know what are some good design strategies for representing source code documentation. Particularly, I'm looking for some modern examples of great looking and easy to follow source code docs around the web...
I am looking for an appealing way to showcase some of my existing software online. I noticed that a current trend is to show the software running on multiple devices, like this: Does everyone who uses this design pattern really photograph their own images, or is there somewhere I can find pictures such as this, and d...
What software products can a graphic designer work with? What do you like about these programs? Which do you prefer working with?
I'm trying to set up an action that creates versatile text-containing SVG files which can be used in various places including Wikimedia Commons. The only problem is, Wikimedia Commons only supports a narrow set of copyright-free fonts: of which the most widespread are fonts like DejaVu and Liberation which people are v...
I am trying to run a box-type theme for my homepage/FAQ. However right now the boxes just make the page look terrible. Could someone please offer me some example sites that use boxes/blocks for information, or suggest some different color palette's for me to use? I primarily program so I am not very strong in visual d...
Why don't brushes that I import into Illustrator save in the library? I'll open a new file and they won't be there any more. Is there a way to make them stay in there permanently?
I'm making a responsive site and my logo loses quality when I'm opening the site on mobile (iPhone, Android) http://kadmos.li/web/ji/stck.html My logo size is 266x68px and I'm not resizing it on any responsive size. When I'm opening this link on desktop browser, the logo doesn't change in quality, but when I'm opening ...
When I record actions, I put in the pixel size I want it to save as (1000x1000) for web export. For some reason, it will only replay this action and resize based on a scaling percentage. Is there a way to fix this without having to edit scripts? I tried changing preferences for units to pixels, but that didn't work. Pl...
Ive been having a conversation with some one who starts lists like this :- so in context it would be My List :- Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Ive always written it as : so it would be My List : Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Is there any correct way to do this or do they mean different things ?
I have two shape paths and I want to combine them into a single path, but after trying all options in the pathfinder tab, I haven't achieved the desired result. All of them just delete the line. Here're the shapes. And these are their layers. How do I combine them into a single path so that I could align, move and re...
I'm trying to create a map for Risk. I found an image scouring the Internet that fits what I want perfectly, except instead of having borders, each province is just a different color. I would like to add borders to each province. (The first image in this album is what I am describing here). So, using GIMP, I tried goi...
A quick question for any gurus out there :-) Suppose I have a simple picture with a red circle, a blue square and a green triangle. The background is yellow. Those are the only 4 colors involved. Is there are a program out there that can read in the picture and split it into 4 layers, based on color? If I were to hide...
I have just started learning Adobe After Effects, and I couldn't find how to do this : I have a character which looks like walking on a black background. So I want to move the background (or the camera?) to make the walk look realistic. How can I do that? I can think of a way but I'm not sure : I will prepare a ver...
I have created a very complex map in Illustrator. I am trying to cut out smaller areas of the map for use in other SketchUp. Neither pathfinder nor Divide Below gives me predicted results. I turn off layers I don't need, then flatten the whole thing which gets rid of alot of stuff. The resulting file is not that compl...
First post here! What I'm trying to accomplish looks fairly simple but so far I've had no luck in finding a way to accomplish it. Essentially I want to create custom stroke caps (or strke profiles if necessary) that will allow me to create strokes with a shallow rounded end or an angled end as shown below Is this even...
I want to use this design on a shirt but can not figure out how to just have the dots clip to the shape without having a fill color. So basically I want the fill color gone and the dot pattern to still exist.
I'm cutting CSS and facing a problem, if I try to change the line-height, padding, margin of any of the last 2 items of the menu, other items will be affected. Here is the screenshot of my current menu: And this is what I wish my menu to look like. You can have a look at the code I wrote on JsFiddle. How can I make ...
I made horizontal-supposed lines using line tool and holding Shift key. But it seems like my lines are not completely horizontal. I am attaching the capture of what I see. This becomes more obvious when I zoom in.
My name is Kaitav Sapre and I am an independent home studio music producer. I am having a new logo designed for myself, but I am unsure about the type of logo I should consider getting designed, and what direction I should go with this. By 'type of logo' I mean, should I go with a symbol/icon with my name, or should I...
I've read various threads on how one can change the opacity values of stroke and fill individually by going to the Appearance panel. Unfortunately I cannot do that and I'mm stuck. As you can see in the picture, when I'm selecting the yellow triangle and going in the Appearance panel, I get a fill and stroke option, but...
I'm slightly new at AI. This is a new issue that I began to see today. It appears that the grid is not 100% Horizontal/Vertical with the ruler. So my objects are snapping to those angles.. reflecting and rotating are affected. I browsed through my preferences but I could use some direction with this fix. Thanks!
I'm working on an e-commerce site and one problem I face is having to deal with furniture vendors and the way they shoot their photos. Some shoot products photos up close and others from far back. This prevents the category pages from looking uniform. As an example (both are 250 x 250): http://safaviehhome.com/promoti...
I am creating a web page base on adobe photoshop file. There are tons of images that vary in dimensions and spacing. Is there a way to view the dimensions of each element in px or em? Is there a way to view the spacing between elements in px or em? Here is an example from Google Sketchup, but of course I want do thi...
When I export a document using PDF Bleed Marks printer options, and set bleed and slug to the document settings, crop marks appear in the correct location, however crop out the actual bleed colour. When I turn off bleed marks (but use document bleed settings), the bleed colour appears, though obviously with no marks....
I am curious what's your favourite fix or option for using photoshop on a retina screen like a macbook pro 13' like mine. I'm quite upset with this computer as it is a pain to do web design in, because as you may now, the photoshop canvas looks very very small at 100%. For example a canvas of 1280x2000 px at 72dpi , is...
I'm printing a tradeshow flyer and was wondering what type of paper I should print it on. I don't want anything glossy so I'm trying to decide on the following: 100# text weight matte 80# cover 80# matte What is the difference between the types above? And how can I make a decision?
I'm looking for a good heading typeface to pair with Numbus Sans Light body copy. I tried a few modern and transitional serifs but I didn't really like them. I think Futura PT Heavy would look good, but this is a violation of the "pair serifs with sans-serif" rule. Do font pairs like this contrast enough to work well...
I'd like to know what is the exact resolution and density of not yet launched Moto 360 smartwatch. I did some research and some sites say it is 320 x 320 but it looks much higher in the promotional videos.
Title pretty much says it all, but the problem is simple. Say I have a logo imported from illustrator or whatever. I make it a symbol, and then I use it in one place in my design. Looks great. But there's trouble - I also want a smaller version of that logo somewhere else in the design. So, I Insert > Symbol > My Crumm...
Can anyone help me with this? How should I get brushes for photoshop that replicate smears of beauty cream? (ageing creme, etc for product shots)
I've developed a logo for a web and app-based music service. I'm pretty happy with the shape of the icon, it's very close to what I envisaged before making it. However, I can't seem to find a comfortable placement for it next to the name and slogan. I'm hoping you guys can show me a way to place it, with a good reason ...
I've literally just started using Photoshop tonight because I want to edit my mum into a photo of Michael Buble for a photocake. All was going well, I managed to cut out my mum and layer her over another photo, but I wanted to make another. This time however, instead of having the transparent grey boxed background (mea...
What does it mean to colour separate the artwork for T-Shirt printing? It is normally suggested to use Pantone colours for T-Shirt printing. Is it the Pantone Coated or the Pantone Uncoated? The Uncoated one has more subtle colours and we can't choose brighter shades if the design requires that. What is more appropria...
Can anyone please tell me what this greyscale vector style is called and how can I achieve it? Source I was informed I should put my image in Photoshop and adjust the levels and run the cutout filter before live tracing in AI. I cant get this to turn out right though. The image above is a super bad 5 minute live tra...

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