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So this may sound like an easy question, but it is not. In webdesign we often use rectangular or square shapes to represent backgrounds for sidebars etc. These need to be pixel perfect so that when it goes into HTML cut up the correct dimensions are preserved. When drawing a rectangular shape it will often snap/move on...
Many documents (especially older ones) use what looks like a curly brace { to join multiple elements together. Here's an example of this to illustrate programming code, and here's a thread about doing this in TeX. This can even be done directly in posts on math.SE: an answer using these braces. What's the best way to...
Why are conversions from a smaller colorspace to a "larger" one often lossy? How can a smaller gamut have colors that cannot be represented in a larger (overlapping) gamut?
For starters to be clear, I'm looking to manipulate canvas size. Not image size. I want to create an action to automatically increase the width and height of my canvas in Photoshop to a specific size when necessary. I only want this to happen if my canvas is less than that specified size. For example: Let's say my canv...
I created a .psd artwork on a t-shirt that has several "sponsor logos" on it sized at around 1x1inch each. I created the file at actual size with 300dpi. I then got an email back from the printer saying that the logos have to be vector in order for the design not to come out extremely pixelated and blurry. Here was her...
In web design we often have a number of elements in a design that are the same across multiple pages and designs. Typically this might be the website navigation menu and some side bar elements. In this question I am terming these objects. I want to have a set of common objects that I use in multiple PSDs. When one of t...
I have a large selection in a separate layer, which, when dragged to where I want it to sit, partly moves outside the canvas. I would like to be able to see the part outside the canvas instead of it being cropped in the view. I'm sure I've seen it done somehow, but I couldn't find it. I'm using CS4 on Win7, if that mat...
I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators who don't have Photoshop but I can't find any library that supports layers. I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround. Let's say I ...
Not everyone has the possibility to use graphics tablets. I myself have one, but is in no way comparable to the precision that I have when drawing on paper (and even fewer are those who can afford professional graphic tablets like the Cintiq). The question: how is it possible to illustrate and animate on paper without ...
Possible Duplicate: How to create this 3-columns fluid layout? I'm new to HTML/CSS and I'm having a hell of a time getting things to lay out like I'd expect them to! It would be really helpful if there was a gallery of very simple HTML example that covered a lot of common cases. For instance: How do I get a liqui...
I'm looking for a way to manage all of my design assets on my Mac. I've been accumulating stuff like templates, graphics, vectors, textures, stock images etc for a while, and the amount of stuff that I have on my computer is very difficult to sort through when I am looking for something. Is there any program out there ...
Possible Duplicate: Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select? Is there a chart or something which shows you which color goes with with color? For e.g. If I pick Blue, it will tell me that "Blue will go well with Yellow"...something like that? How do go about choosing right col...
I am using Photoshop CS5 on Mac. I prefer to use "Full screen mode with menu bar" rather than "Standard screen mode". Is there a way to have Photoshop remember my favorite screen mode settings and use them as defaults?
Looking to create a 100 images that would have their appropriate numbers written on them. Since I`ll be most likely making changes to the template in the future I figured it would be better to automate it somehow. Is there a simple solution to this problem?
I created a shape (not a path) in PS, but forgot to close the shape by clicking on the first point after drawing it with the pen tool. How do I close the shape after I've moved on and forgot? It looks fine without closing it, but I can't create new points on the last line segment since it was never closed.
How would I overlay a graphic (a logo in this case) on a t-shirt and make it look like it's really there, not just superimposed (wrinkles, lines, etc?) I don't have photoshop or any adobe software, unfortunately, so a GIMP solution would be best.
I am more of a web developer than a web designer so I would appreciate it if I can get some tips on how to improve http://tinyurl.com/7my6g6m 's design/looks and other secondary pages on this site. Always easy to see that it isn't right, but it is harder to make design changes that improve it. Client wants to keep the...
You used to be able to do this by right clicking on the psd, and it would only show you the names of the layers under your cursor. Now it shoes all layers, even those that are not under your cursor. I've been away from regular Photoshop usage for a while, so I'm wondering if there is another way to do this.. I've add...
I am trying to create a wire mesh (the format should be POWERVR POD, but I if there is a way to convert from another format to this it's fine). However, all I have are images of the object. Is there any way to create a wire mesh from several images?
The title really says it all. I mean, is there a particular reasons for which logos have to appear at the upper-left corner and not, say, in the upper-centre? Example: all Stack Exchange sites, Google, Yahoo...
I'm working on a comp provided by a designer. It's an Illustrator file. My normal workflow is I copy (to the clipboard) a visual element from Illustrator and paste it into Photoshop. This allows me to work on and prepare the element I need to turn into a PNG for use on the web. The first day, elements I copied to Photo...
How do you recreate the effect as seen in this picture through Photoshop? I'm talking about the grainy texture... I tried using noise filter and played with layer blends, but the result is less than what I'd expected it to be like: I've been sitting up all night trying to figure this out and all I can think now is "G...
I'm looking for the right word to use on my resume, that will be understood by the broadest possible range of people and won't look like I'm over-selling my skills (or under-selling them either). I'm a freelancer who's done a lot of copyediting and ~2 years of newspaper page design. I totally enjoyed the design part a...
I saw a symbol like this, and didn't know what it was called or what existing associations it might have: It seems like a pretty easy question to answer by looking in a symbol dictionary or an online "similar images" search. I figured it was probably a wingding or a webding. But nothing showed up. The closest thing...
My idea is to achieve something similar to this: Let's say that I have 2 mesh: 1 cube 1 character I want to cover all the body part of my character or a particular region with this cube duplicated as much as is necessary: how can I do that?
I'm working with Photoshop for a few years now, but I've always had this problem that I didn't really understand or found a proper sollution for, I just found some work arounds... When you create a shape in Photoshop(especially circles,rounded rectangles...curves..etc), sometimes, especially after you transform it, the...
Hi I'm working on my own portfolio, and so I'd like to have some icons for technologies that I work with. So does anyone know of free icon sets that include css, php, c#, html5 and other web technology icons?
By default, duplicating a layer into a new document used to set the document size to the pixel dimensions of whatever object you were copying. However, something happened to my settings that now makes the dimensions the same as the canvas it originated from. Do you guys have any idea how to revert these settings to wha...
I would like to make relative links to pictures in an Inkscape file. So when I move the project files (images and the Inkscape master), I wouldn't have to relink the images. What is the proper way to do this?
It's the sad, pixelated little icon that appears when Google Chrome doesn't shut down correctly. Given a, say, off white on dark gray pixel image to use in a design, how would I get the edges of the pixels to have a shadow as in the frowny face above, in GIMP?
I'm trying to create an action that will move a layer around the canvas. The problem is that my image won't always be the same size and neither will my canvas. If I record a transform and move my image to X:0px by Y:0px, Photoshop will record that the image moved (as an example) -54px to the left and -20px to the top. ...
I'm designing a business card which contains quite a lot of information. Some of the type is small. Is there a preffered text anti-aliasing setting when doing something like this? Currently my type is set to crisp. If it makes any difference the typeface is Gotham Medium at 24px (300dpi) Thanks
Is it possible to create a diagram in one of the adobe products, whereby next to each shape there is a label displaying the size of the shape. for example if i draw a 100x500 box it displays this number automatically and it changes when i re-size the shape.
I have a certificate that I am designing. Excuse the inconsistent text alignment. At the bottom, I have two logos. The red one is about twice as tall and half as long as the blue one. I am attempting to align them in the bottom corners in an aesthetically pleasing way. Currently, their bottom corners are aligned to th...
I'd like to expand my use of fonts in my web designs. I know that there are a variety of services available like Google Web Fonts to include fonts onto my site, but I would also like to be able to use those fonts in high-fidelity design mockups made with either Fireworks or Photoshop. Is there an easy way to import web...
I am making a billboard with this dimensions : 2.19m x 6.09m However, indesign's maximum document size is 5486.4 mm (5.48m) How do I increase this document size or is the another way to handle this problem?
I am looking for "built in" software solutions for Illustrator CS2-5 preferably. I am trying to create these isometric illustrations for a web app. Right now I've manually set up a grid in Adobe Illustrator and doing the drawings based on this grid — but I've got no guides, no snap and stuff like that… The end result s...
I created a project in Photoshop that contains text, fully aware that Illustrator would have been the proper way, but I am a photographer and my skills lie within Photoshop so that is what I went with. My issue is that I basically took a screenshot of a website, made changes to some of the elements, then want to scale...
I have a problem when I get a PDF from a designer and I have to chop it up in Photoshop and place it in InDesign and then re-export it. When it goes to print, it prints all the text in registration black. I've tried several options such as: preferences, advanced type, appearance of black, export all blacks accuratel...
PaintShop Pro 9 offered vector layers and raster layers, and it has been a handy tool for web design and drawing objects. While I'm somewhat proficient in it, the program has its limitations, and I'm thinking about moving to Photoshop. Are there any "gotchas" to be aware of, besides what could be a steep learning curve...
(Illustrator CS5) I have a design that will be printed on a line printer. Possible are up to 7 colors, or a 4-color process with 3 line colors. I'm currently sticking to PMS only (only 5 PMS colors used), and use screens to achieve certain effects. In the composition, I have a group of many different shapes, all stacke...
I have Adobe Illustrator 5 on Mac. Everything was normal before but now some document level transformation settings have changed. Arrow keys don't work as they should. When I move selected object right it moves up and same different behavior for other keys. When I write text it's by default 90 degrees. Any idea which o...
I want to buy my wife a Wacom in order to help her with her illustrations. I have been readin over the internet about various models. Among those Intuos4 and Bamboo looks good. However, I have seen people reporting that the nibs wear out real quick which will be a problem for me as I dont live in US, hence cant get rep...
I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet with Adobe Illustrator CS5 and I want to use the touch ring to zoom in and out. I can't find the setting in Illustrator that needs to change to enable that feature. Any troubleshooting tips? For what it's worth, I'm using Windows 7, on an Acer laptop. It also seems to work using other prog...
In Illustrator CS5 when I select Scale from the Transform menu it reverts to Free Transform and I have to select it again to get Scale. Anyone else have that problem?
I want to know which font is used on this hoodie:
I am having problems with some illustrator files (I'm a developer more than a graphic designer). Basically, I can't seem to get around two things. Firstly, I have an illustrator file in which some of the components are located at non-integer values... Is there a way to force illustrator to lock to 1 point, without hav...
In my application there is the requirement of the image with the rounded shape. I am new to use Photoshop so I want to know how it is possible to create the rounded shape of any existing image ? The image is below: Please give me the steps to create it as I am new to Photoshop.
Look this pic: The font looks wrong, it shouldn't have black background with alpha letters, i had no idea what happened to this font system. The font is Arial, the size is 80 pixel and the anti-alias method is "None" The other anti-alias method like crisp, smooth and strong worked very well, but i prefer alias font....
Whenever I save slices in Photoshop, I always have to change Slices from "All Slices" to "Selected Slices" – is there a way to make "Selected Slices" the default setting?
I'm starting with a logo design and want to know what tools are available that an quickly compare different fonts. Take the word "Google" for example how can i quickly compare how it appears using different fonts such as Helvetica, Calibri, San Serif etc? I looked at Typetester but that website can only compare 3 font...
I'm looking for recommendations for software to help manage my large collection of purchased icons and other image assets. I'm sure there must be software of the sort I'm looking for, but I haven't found anything really suitable yet. I'm looking for something that runs on Windows and is reasonably priced (say no more t...
I've figured out how to fill a rectangle object with a bitmap pattern: File->Import. To import the pattern file Then, select the pattern and do Objects->Pattern->Objects To Pattern And finally, selecting the rectangle object, go to the "Fill and Stroke" panel and choose the new pattern The problem is, it doesn't work...
I would like to do a non-color gradient, but am not sure how. For example applying a blur filter in gradient. I.e., imagine the left side of the gradient fill area would be "normal", and as you go right, it would be more and more blury. I'm exemplifying with "blur", but I need to achieve this with other kinds of filte...
I'm using Photoshop CS4 and I need to create a .cur image. The actual process of doing so is simple enough but I cannot find the necessary Photoshop CS4 plug-in to do so. Can anybody help me either find the plug-in or show me how to create the .cur file without it?
I often see business card printers asking for the customer to specify whether it's a portrait or landscape design. Is there any difference in the print process or notable difference by printing a portrait oriented design rotated 90º in a landscape format - if a printer doesn't give you the option to specify that it's a...
Have been googling my eyes out, besides marketing blabla I couldn't find good information at all... There are several graphic tablet producers: Wacom Aiptek Genius etc... Of course Wacom is the best. But they are also pretty expensive. Wacoms Intuos4 supports tilt (Bamboo does not). I am looking for a cheaper alterna...
I've been assigned to design an icon (or logo) for our API (Application Programming Interface). In programming, an API allows programmers/developers to access, or "hook into" functionality located on another system or platform. In this case, our API checks a small amount of text (1-3 lines) against a master list with c...
I have a artwork from PS (non-vector) that I imported into an Illustrator document. At 100% view in Illustrator, it is perfectly sharp. Is that enough for printing?
What are some common mistakes to avoid while designing? I know color, text and images play a major part in designing, but there are so many other things that we need to take care of! I don't know those other things but I know there are so many... Many times we get the end result with mistakes (minor-major-visible-hidde...
I'm trying to scale a simple rectangular shape in Photoshop to 48x48px. I've added some effects to it (Stroke, Drop shadow etc.) but Photoshop doesn't include those when I'm scaling. So a shape scaled to 48x48px in reality becomes something like 51x49px because of the shadow. Is there a way to scale a shape including i...
In Adobe Fireworks CS5 how to make a pictogram style icon like this one: Or more precisely, how to get the overlapping stroke/outline of the star atop the bottle without using a stroke filter?
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Possible Duplicate: Sunken look in photoshop? I saw this effect for input box in ''checkmycolours'' site, it seems really beautiful, but i don't know how to create engraved box. so if someone know how to create this kind of effect please help me. http://www.checkmycolours.com/img/input.jpg
This isn't about web design but about interface design in general. Is better to code Interface Mockups or "draw" them in a graphics program, like GIMP, Photoshop, etc.?
I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of it in newly sized boxes? Thanks beforehand.
A friend of my is a Flash designer and animator, and uses tools like Adobe Flash CS5. She want's to learn to do similar work in HTML5. What tools and tutorials are available (free or commercial) to help her make the transition, using the skills she already possesses?
I would like to know how can I change color of RGBA image when alpha channel will be unchanged for each pixel. If I use Paint Box Tool it will set alpha channel for all pixels to constant value. Look at picture:
In Illustrator CS5 is there a way to combine all the paths with the same color into the same group?
Can someone remind me what the technical name is for the removal of a background from a still image? Our photographer told me years ago, but I've since forgotten and it gets embarrassing!
I have a sketch on paper that I would like to send to someone via email. What can I do to send it to them without changing the size of it and will still allow for them to print it back onto paper? Would this all be easier if I just sent it through the local post?
It's gone, which is a real shame, I should've made more use of it. Where's the best place to go to get free ampersands that I can then embed using @font-face in CSS?
I'm looking for a tool where I can quickly annotate my Photoshop/Illustrator designs with the distances in pixels between different elements and / or the edges, so I can then transform the layout into code without having to switch between programs and measure distances all day. I've been searching Google for a while, w...
I'm designing a website for a client for which I need to redesign his (same) logo based up on the scanned letter head. I'm not that good at identifying fonts. Can anyone kindly tell what might this font might be? EDIT: I tried automated font identification but it no fruitful result.
I just started my first high school graphic design class a couple months ago, and now I'm using Illustrator to make a logo for my software company. Info on my company: I develop applications for smart phones, sometimes games, and tools for other developers to use I try to give users the power of complexity in a simple...
if you accidently make a document in proof setup 'working CMYK' is there any easy way to convert the document to RGB without the colours getting washed out?
Say I have an image that had it's brightness adjusted. I also have a small portion of the original unmodified image like this: Is there a way in Photoshop CS5 to have the image's brightness un-modified by telling it to match the post-adjustment pixels to their pre-adjustment color then using the same adjustments appl...
When I create a shape that overlaps with itself, the part that overlaps is subtracted. How can I prevent this ? EDIT: Here are pics with step by step and full screenshots: Step1 - the path starts to overlap itself: http://imageshack.us/f/62/screenshot20111219at102.png/ Step2 - I close the path: http://imageshack.us/f/...
Possible Duplicate: In Photoshop, how can I open up a view (in the same window) with another zoom level? I'm working on small 16x16px icons. I'm usually zoomed right in working pixel by pixel. It would be hugely useful to have a 'live preview' at 100% scale, so I don't have to manually zoom in and out all the time t...
I am about to launch a beer app on Facebook, and while it's a minor detail, I am deciding between two ways to display the photo: Option 1: http://cl.ly/082D0I3A1u0S0W0S1x2w Padding is less than the body text, but a little edge remains so it's clear that this is all one post. The advantage of this may be the variety ...
I have to design this e-mail newsletters. Some with just simple holiday cards and some more complex with offers and other stuff(images, text content etc. etc...) I am wondering if there is a safe standard width to work at ? Thanks
Say I have a color like #7B0D40. Are there any tools out there to output the nearest human-understandable word for that color? (Like #7B0D40 ~= Magenta?) I know there's ways to search the words used in CSS to describe explicit hex values for example, but I'd love to be able to take out an organically selected color an...
I am designing a business card, and was using DIN Black as a title font. I was thinking of putting the contact information in Georgia, underneath. Anyone have any experience working with DIN Black as a title font?
I have a PDF book to be translated in Japanese, and what wondering which fonts to use. My main languages are French and English and I have no experience with asian fonts. I would not be able to say if a font is OK for reading a Japanese book or not. For example, in English or French books (Latin-alphabet typography...
As all the big sites have been updating their style recently, I've noticed this effect on a few sites and I'm wondering how they do it. Its like this normal gradient effect, with this pattern, abbit similar to a dissolving effect, but not quite that... JSFIDDLE: Its on the top menu bar on this site: http://jsfiddle.net...
Here is my problem. I have a clear Globe that is a Christmas ornament. It has a little abscrat nativity scene inside. All is good, my issue comes in when I attempt to add a reflection to the outside of the orb. It looks very fake, How would I go about adding a transparent reflection that helps the globe take shape to i...
We built a game for facebook http://apps.facebook.com/jibrjabr that uses images created in illustrator and exported as gif. This is a high res version of one of the achievements as it appears on the achievements page When you "Brag to your friends", FB will place a statement on your wall that includes a image scaled f...
I have an image that is CMYK and I have tried to convert it to RGB so that I can edit the colour of the image. However it won't let me work in 32 bit and asks me to convert the image to 16 or 8 bit to be able to use the paint bucket tool. If I use it without doing this I get a different colour to the colour I wish the ...
I'm trying to replicate the label of the water bottle shown here: I would like to recreate it in Illustrator. I've tried a few different methods with mixed results, none of which are really a match for the ripple style of the label itself. The closest I've come is using offset path to create the radial pattern and put...
I find manually collecting fonts to be a tedious, detail oriented job, is there a plug in or script or something that has thumbs up to do this tedious job for me?
Where could I find free PostScript Type 1 fonts? Nowadays, the font are either TrueType or OpenType format. There are few Type 1 fonts. Thanks.
I created this (partial) logo at least 3 years ago. I'm a programmer, not a designer, so when the site was complete all the image files were handed off to an actual designer. The designer has left the company, and no one can find the image files. They now want to create new materials using the same font, but I have no ...
I'm trying to get an image to look similar to this photo: I'd guess they took a picture of the monitor with a regular camera. But I'm more interested to know what effects / filters they used to get the blur and texture. Any suggestions would be appreciated
I need to place an icon next to an email address to indicate that the email address is NOT a member of a given mailing list. This could be abstracted as: What icon best indicates that the entity it is associated with is NOT a member of a given group? In my case, I'm going to use an envelope icon to indicate that an ema...
I'm writing an article on my site about the advantages of new web technologies, among others HTML5, CSS3 and SVGs, one of the advantages of the latter being the ability to select text in what is otherwise effectively an image. I'm new to SVGs, and just made my first decent graphic in Illustrator. I've embedded it into...
I have a line drawing of a brass instrument: and I'd like to give it a glossy brass-like texture. What tools could I use on Photoshop CS5? I tried filling it with gradients, and then adding a bevel, but it didn't look right... Any suggestions?
It looks like an avant garde, but with small differencies on the edges. Do you have any clue if there is a font specific or it is a variation done by human hand?
What can I try to make my animted .gif image smaller? It was created in adobe flash and converted into .gif after, however it's still way too big, it's 3mb and I need it under 1mb. What can I try?
I'm trying to create an 8-sided shape with the polygon tool. This is not a problem, but if I want smooth corners for my shape and I check the option "smooth corners" its too smooth - its basical a circle. Is there an "smoothness" option which I have to adjust?

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