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I tried checking style guides and online articles but couldn't find any reference to the following: When the heading or subheading looks visually different from the body text (either font-size, -weight or -family) is it always better to leave out a colon after the heading? Usually in unformatted text I use a colon to s...
I'd like to identify the font used in this: I tried searching it in what the font, identifont and fonts by sight, to no luck. If anyone knows the name or any other services I could try, I'd appreciate it.
I am having problems with graphical errors when i export from illustrator The problem is small border along the right side of the export, the colors of the line varies from export to export. first image is the exported image second is it zoomed in to reveal the issues on the right border Have anyone experienced some...
I've been asked to replace the font we use on the web and mobile apps with Proxima Nova. I wanted to ask the community if any of you know if Promima Nova is a web safe font?. Thanks.
This morning my mouse pointer in Illustrator either shows hands in which case I can select nothing or shows a pointer with a black square which has weird effects when I select stuff. How can I disable these modes please?
Clarifications I need the picture for my website, that is, it'll be for online purposes. I'll be using PNG because I need transparency. [EDIT] I need a "JOIN" written on a monochromatic sketch-like picture. Question Suppose I need a 300x200 blip-type of image. I can design on an exact 300x200 paper, but if I rather ...
Not that good at GIMP, but I'm having an issue. I'm trying to copy from a transparent image to another, however it only copies the part that's not transparent. How can I make it also select and copy the part that is transparent, because I have half-opaque pixels there which it's not copying.
How could I make something like this? I know how to place text inside a shape but not this. Could it be vector and scalable? Thanks
I would like to purchase the same font the Windows Phone Phonly app uses. Anybody has idea what font is it? Update: I tried font identification services such as WhatTheFont and had no success.
I am working for my client creating his stationary printing, he wish to have the same font used in this image. I was tired searching the font, so I seek your expertise to find the font in the attached image. thanks a lot in advance.
There are various colour schemes that said to be in harmony, like the ones you find on Adobe Kuler and Colour Lovers. One can choose if it pleases her mind. But what if I have some words, or, better, concepts that I want to express by colours? Is there a general theory of translating abstract concepts or even emotions ...
I've got an image I'm trying to remove the background from and I'm not really sure how that would be done with Sketch. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
As displayed above, I need to warp one part of a smart object one way, and another part a different way. Any way to do this?
Illustator has a nice effect on it pencil tool : curve auto-correction. When you draw line, it automatically correct your hand, making it more neat and round. Sadly, I don't see this option on the photoshop pencil tool. And well, I can't /don't want use Illustrator for several reasons, including the fact it's not reall...
I was on reddit and saw a picture with a font that I liked on it. If anyone can help me identify it, I would appreciate it greatly.
Hi Graphic Design People, I am trying to put together a comic book to print, whose pages I have saved as flattened tif (of course I have the layered files too in case I need to modify anything). It's very long, close to 300 pages. I looked at many vids and tuts about how to place images, but the best suggestion I seem...
Hello Graphic Designers, Thank you for this helpful board. I have this weird color related print related question. My situation is, I am doing some layout changes of a bitmap black and white comic book. However, I found that I could not modify the bitmap pages unless I made them into color, at least greyscale. I didn't...
When ever I write something in Arabic or Persian in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 the word do not appear on the screen? But I can see the word which I have written in layer names.
I'm new to Photoshop and was wondering how to achieve this sort of cartoon effect. I looked everywhere, youtube, blogs and stuff but still non were close to what I'm looking for. Look at the picture for clarity: image from deviantart.com I tried the following but didn't get what I was looking for: Made a duplicate lay...
I am trying to create a new color for a drawer icon in AS. The stock one has margin to the right that I would like to preserve since it keeps the actionbar icon from sitting on top of it. When I create a new drawer icon in PS and then generate the .png all the transparency is excluded. I think I'm failing to understa...
I need to generate a PMS swatch chart for all current PMS colors to do print tests off large format printers. We have old charts but need a current one. I am hoping there is a way to generate this chart in Illustrator CC without having to manually make one
I am designing a logo for a client. I've given her a few ideas and she wants to take 3 of them and work on them herself with her sister. We have a contract and she'll pay me so that's not the issue. I don't want her compromising my design! How do I share my feelings without being condescending? Thanks.
Is there a way to retrieve the file in illustrator that just been accidentally replaced? is there some sort of history? The application was closed after it was replaced so there's no way i can undo it.
I have created large vector drawings for A0 printing - each file has thousands of vectors at different transparencies. The largest file is 270mb when saved as an editable pdf. I have not compressed any / changed any of the editable layers. At present it is a raw editable illustrator pdf file! (excuse my terminology) T...
I am doing tilemapping for a game. I originally went with a bright, vivid style but now want to tone it down into a more realistic style. I spent a lot of time making a nice grass tile, but as you can see, it clearly doesn't match the darker colors in the tree that I'm going for: Following this tutorial on hues, inste...
I am using Adobe illustrator Cs5.1 on Mac. I am having trouble making with font size. In short, I will select two blocks of text and set them as the same font and the same size. However, they appear completely different sizes. Horizontal scale and vertical scale are both set at 100%. Problem exists with multiple fonts....
For example, say I create a new layer, change my brush to solid black, but to 50% opacity, then draw some artwork. Then after the artwork is drawn, I realize it's too light and want to increase (darken) the artwork's to say 75% (so it's darker), or 100% (so actually appears solid black). How can this be done? Just to b...
I was wondering if anybody knew how to stop two different paths from connecting when they meet at the same point in Illustrator while using the pen tool. It's quite the annoyance when they do it when you don't want them to. The only way I know of avoiding the problem is making the other point then using the selection ...
I was trying to draw some pixel are amd first thing is to try a circle via stroke path with miter set to 0, anti-alias off, 1 px line. Here is what I get in Gimp. Part of the circle are ok, others are not (red arrow points to them). Any suggestions? Thanks.
I am able to rotate a group of selected anchor points of a shape-- either by picking or clicking and dragging on selected anchor points using the direct selection tool then rotate it by using the Rotate Tool. Is there a way to adjust the size of the selected anchor points?
When used a "turbosmooth" modifier with "edged faces" pressed on, there is a feature called "Isoline display", which ignores all other edges but those from the original geometry and at the same time they adjusting to the shape of the edges of the turbosmooth modifier. - However, when work in "Editable poly" with the ...
I need to create a banner that is 18 feet wide by 2.5 feet high. What would be the best way to go about planning this as it is going to be made in Illustrator and every element will be a vector. Would my best bet be to create the document in its native size and then scale it down in Illustrator to keep the ratio but re...
I am from programming background but I want to do graduation in graphic design. I'd like to know about the colleges which provide this facility in the US so that I can take admission over there. If there is any graphics designer who can suggest me a good college in the US where I can go and learn the concept of graphic...
I wanted to know what the name was of this type of images? I am basically asking for the name of the style that these were done in?
I’d like to know what you guys think about the logo below, there is some debate about the feathers of the tail, they are supposed to evoke an organic feeling, but others say they seem carelessly made. Should the shape of the feathers be more like the shape of the body (simpler curves and appeareance) or stay the way th...
How do I create this tile in Photoshop. I tried Bevel and Emboss as well as Inner Shadow but the result is nowhere near like this.
Is there a way to allow overrides for a specific element on a master page? Right now it seems I can only 'Override All Master Page Items' from the drop down menu.
This may border on the 'too technical' side of graphic design but I'll give it a try. We have a contract with a printer who requires a barcode on the interior and cover of our books so that they can match the two together at the printing block. Our clients find the barcode unsightly (dare I say ghastly) when they are...
It isn't a big problem but if there is any way to do it than it would be great. I want to erase the image but its remaining part is outside the canvas in Photoshop and can't erase it. It is in perfect position and don't want to move it. Is there any way to erase it?
I'm building a webpage layout in Indesign, and my client wants me to make an animated demo of it. I can do this in After Effects, but I don't want to recreate the entire site in AE. Is there a way I can import all my layers from Indesign directly into After Effects?
We offer vinyl decals for many devices. To show what a design looks like on a device, we have to create a main layer of the device, having the place of where the skin would fit cut out for our background layer images to slide behind. We have 2,000+ designs to offer for each device, so this takes time. After we line up...
Pretty basic concept. I have a large object, and only want a sub-section of said object. In PS I would just use rectangle tool to select the area I want and click copy, however in Illustrator I don't see this same type of functionality. What would be the easiest way to do this? Example. I have a picture of a snowman, a...
I have a logo that I need to recreate. But I am unable to find out the fonts used in the logo. This is a logo for fire cracker company.
I am new to graphics field I would like apply cross and checked pattern with in selected image area in Photoshop and I don't have any ready cross and checked patterns. Anyone can share the procedure to create and apply cross and checked pattern in image using photoshop cs5
How do i create a larger or smaller stroke using the pen tool in adobe photoshop?
Aloha all, I'm working in InDesign CS5.5 on a master plan document. I want the final document to be 11x8.5 landscape with facing pages, spiral bound to allow document to lay flat with full bleed. I have set up the document with legal size paper 14x8.5 so I can have full bleed and the printer personnel can cut to size. ...
I'm putting together a short rule book and I thought I'd try out Scribus. The problem I'm running in is trying to apply style to short selections of text within a text frame. Basically, I want to apply a "character style" to a section of text to override the default "paragraph style". I've created a named style call...
I am self taught on Photoshop CS6 and my problem is that I typeset fonts for a logo and sent them to the printer for stationary printing. However, they ask me for a vector file not bitmap. How do I convert my artwork and fonts to vector from a raster design?
So I just bought a new notebook and I'm wondering why Photoshop runs so slow on it. On easy, small files it's fast but on layouts that have a lot of layers & all that it's incredibly slow. The laptop has an i7-3632QM with 8 logical cores, 8GB's of RAM at 1600 MHz and an 8750M GPU and a 750GB WD 5400RPM HDD. Do I need m...
I have brought a PNG file off the Etsy website, and I want to add text on top of it, but once I added text it all distorts and it is very bad quality, but in another instance it did not and the image was fine. Any ideas as to why?
How to export a specific length and width of my work in illustrator? I made a background asset that's longer than the stage and I don't know how to export it properly. This is how it looks like in Illustrator, when I export it in jpg file as is, I get this, the result I wanted is this,
I've been looking through the site recommendations and other people's posts requesting beginner's design books but have yet to find anything that meets my specific tastes. I'm not looking to make complicated killer graphics with illustrator, I'm not looking to learn general design theory, and im not looking for tutoria...
There is a .psd layout & it has different text types in .png. How to recognize which font types used in it? myfonts.com does not help. Any help is appreciated! Add photo with fonts, what are they?
Hi im new sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a logo made up using the pen tool and blob brush tool and have all the thicknesses right however when i try re-sizing the whole logo the line thicknesses all change. I was wondering how i could fix this?
Ok, I've used illustrator before and I've become very comfortable with it. It gives me smooth strokes and converts my artwork to vector. Now, I've just started using Photoshop CS6. But I have one problem — any stroke or shape I draw in Photoshop doesn't look vector, instead it looks rasterized! I can see individual pix...
I'm trying to design a website using the Material Design guidelines. I've a navbar/headerbar with the logo of my website and some icons. The background color is transparent, showing the background image, when the scroll position is on top of the page. When the scroll position is almost 400px, it is dark grey (it fades ...
At the bottom-right of the cover of this book, it shows the Illustrator's name like this: I found a similar font to this called ITC Anima Black, and it looks like this: Unfortunately, this font isn't free. Is there a similar font to this for web use that is free?
I am creating a graphical game which will be deployed on both mobile and desktop platforms, and across many cultures/languages. When the user sees a screen where there's an opportunity for in app purchase, I want to darken the whole screen and overlay with a "Purchase" button. I won't show the price here, hitting the...
I want to create a vector curve that is symmetric in the top and the bottom. For example, in this baseball icon (How to draw a baseball in Pixelmator?), if I try to write the vector as suggested by the accepted answer, I end up in writing the vector curve by hand - which means the curve can never be symmetrical between...
There's an image effect I want to recreate. Heres the image (SLIGHTLY NSFW): Image I can roughly recreate the effect, but I don't like it as much. My steps are: The Original Step 1: Duplicate, desaturate, smart blur (edges only), blend mode Step 2: Fiddle with curves And in the end, I can play around with colors. Unf...
What I want to do is shown here at 0:52, unfortunatelly there is no explanation in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fh-9Ajs0ck The author applies additive style to a square to acquire a square of 10x10 squares, then resizes all of them by resizing the initial one and gets multiple smaller squares with a marg...
I am trying to make a distort effect in illustrator. I use the white arrow, the direct selection tool, I cannot get it to work. I get an error message: "the selection contains objects which can't be distorted" Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Top Objects Included https://www.flickr.com/photos/124549715@N04/
I already asked here a question about font types, which are used in PSD layout, but I have another problem: How to measure all distances between objects if in .psd these objects have .png format? I need to do this layout in HTML, So when I start to work, I encountered this kind of problem. Any help is appreciated, Than...
Typically a back-end engineer, I'm venturing into the world of vector design, trying not to hurt myself on the way. I'm aware that I'm struggling to size things, with my home brewed typography style guide: I am trying to combine these fonts with a graphic style which should be rather precise, see below: It seems no ...
I have a package design made. I can change that design based on the specific package format that company may have. However, I can't find any company online that produces this kind of services, and ships internationally. Can I have your advice on this please? Where can I look at? Update - This specific package need, is...
I made an svg in Illustrator, but now I want to use it in a website/app but it's a huge size (around 10 MB) how can I decrease the size of it? My illustrator file is pretty big but that because I have some tracing elements underneath. The file also has a big artboard, but when I save should I delete my tracing elements...
I feel like this particular example has a lot of good elements. I think visually the colors work well. I like the logo design. I like the home page. But I am struggling with how to layout the rest of the site beyond that. So I am looking for a few suggestion of how I can bring this design together so I can finish the c...
What background or how can I improve design of my website?
I'm used to design a small icon / graphic art, rather than the big size of A3 paper. So then When i tried to use A3 as the Paper Size with resolution of 300 dpi. The file size is bigger in Photoshop compared to the file size in CorelDraw. Is there any calculation that we need to use for achieving a smaller size for des...
I am creating a print advert artwork for a magazine on illustrator cs6. However, I'm having problems with one .eps logo on the artwork which disappears once I export the artwork as a jpeg. What could be causing this particular logo not to show once I export the artwork as a jpeg, yet the 2 others are showing?
I was looking for a description of what kind of style these images are: How can I replicate this style and also would I be better use Photoshop or Illustrator for it?
This is something very basic, but annoys me since ever. Using the brush tool (B), I can click at point "A", then shift+click at point "B". A line is drawn from "A" to "B". Simple and effective - I use this a lot to fine-tune layer masks. If I undo, line is undone, but point "A" is not. Unfortunately, I cannot shift+cli...
Every time I use an effect or a modifying function ("Extrude and Bevel" or "Split into grid" for example) I have to check "Preview". I always want preview to be enabled. Is there a way to get Illustrator to have preview enabled by default?
I teach a very basic Intro to Graphic Design course using the Adobe Suite. In the section on photo retouching we talk about the clone stamp, healing brush, spot heal, and content-aware fill tools. In the past I've talked about the strengths and weaknesses of each one, but the problem I'm running into is that the spot h...
I am creating texture maps for my oblique perspective RPG... I am able to create the front aspect fine, but run into issues with the side/45 degree angle texturing. I don't want to have to redraw the texture each time for the side view, so to be efficient I just transformed and skewed the front texture to be at a 45 de...
I want to create some signs on canvas that have varying words in them for several gifts; different sizes, vertical, horizontal. Ideally, I want to be able to change the words within the text box and then the words would automatically adjust (if one word is five letters and the replacement word is eight letters) so tha...
I am working in photoshop, and I am trying to create a texture to use as a background image. Ideally, I could make the text on this page disappear and be left with a blank page. My attempt so far (again be nice haha, I'm more into the code-side of things than design): You can see that I've taken a small sample (from ...
I am trying to apply a pattern piece of vector artwork which is from one image to another image. The original image has the following: it has a clip group - with a clipping path and a artwork splatter layer - which contains a splatter set of artwork seen - which extends far beyond the faded purple rectangular outline ...
In C4D, looks fine.: In Keyshot (after importing .obj from C4D), all the geometry is 'generalized' and garbled... what gives? Notice the "s" now has not cavity, and "Tire Shop" is really bad.
Photoshop gives a lot of power for web designers using smart objects. I can create re-usable elements like buttons, drop downs etc. using smart objects and sue them across a project. Later if I need to make a change, I can only edit that smart object and the change will show everywhere I have used that smart object. Ca...
I have designed a dragon but it isn't completely round so I am thinking to use it on brush definition and add this dragon on a circle stroke. It should be easy if the dragon were straight but it isn't. Is it possible to use this on a stroke?
I'm a new user on graphic design stack exchange, I will try to earn some point, here is my first answer : I've got some difficulty to show/hide the grid with shortcut. Everything that I need to access via F button like here F7+apple doesn't work. Don't you have any idea on : - How to make my own short cut ? - How to ac...
Consider the following matrix used for reflection. \| 0 -1 \| \| -1 0 \| This matrix produces the reflection across y=-x according to [B] = [T]×[A] where T is the above Transformation Matrix. Things are clear till now. Then I was introduced to rotation and taught that every reflection is some sort of rotation...
Any idea on how to Design Printable stuff for different cars. I mean branding a complete car by designing stickers which are than pasted on a car. The main problem is that how can we get the measurements of different things like doors of the car etc...
How to open a large Illustrator file (eg. 120 in x 48 in) saved in Illustrator. Then, how to open the same file to actual size in Photoshop?
I want to make a simple gradient in GIMP. The left edge and right edge should be white, the middle 100% transparent. The rate of change shouldn't be linear, I want the transparent part to be much wider than the left and right parts, giving the impression of the edges of the picture fading away when placed on a white ba...
How to import custom keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator CC? Does it work with Edit > My Parameter > Import or is there something else?
I'm building a website in which the people upload videos and photos. It is more about people's life than fine art photography, kind of an electronic album. I have to design my logo. How can I represent this idea as an iconic logo? I know it is very important to capture the meaning of the company / website into the logo...
I' quite new to Inkscape and came across something that I don't quite understand. I made two simple paths. I tried filling them both, but as it appears, one of the two paths has double lines. This causes the fill to have an effect more similar to a stroke. This is my "normal" path. And this is the path in question....
I'm making business cards in photoshop and want to have multiple variations of the same "base". For example let's assume we have something like this: We want this to be our Master File. Child files would be able to for example edit the colour of a pane or edit the IMAGE. But when the position of something is changed i...
I have requirement for an intro to youtube channel (comedy), and idea is to make fun of HBO intro in a way that out of white noise instead of 'HBO' youtube comedy channel name would appear. How do you think HBO did this effect with white noise? What would be the easiest way to achieve this?
How can I add a plain black line in an image in Gimp in specific pixel coordinates for example between (10,15)->(300,116)?
I'm trying to figure out what font this is in this image: Do you think it's georgia or something else?
I would like to have some kind of creative job role while I teach myself graphic design. I currently work in a factory on an assembly line that has nothing to do with what I'm studying. So I've recently sent off my CV asking for printing jobs as print design is something I like to study the most but unfortunately no j...
I have never really had the ability to draw, but I've also never taken a formal drawing class. I am interested in graphic design and doing advertisements. Do you need strong drawing skills to major in graphic design?
How would you combine a vertical grid and horizontal grid with matching width & heights with perfect curved lines? Example: I'm trying to find a method that would be salable for 100, 1000, etc grids.
I'm new to graphic design. What I'm interested in is how do I capture the edges of say flower and transform them into a simple logo? How to do this in Gimp? How to do this in Photoshop?
I'm trying to lift the right side of my text, so it is similar to text in this logo: I've tried different kinds of warps, but can't find the right one. Maybe I should be looking at another effect?
I have watched quite a few animations by RSA Animate on YouTube and have found many of them very informative. Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc I am trying to emulate a style of their animation in my presentation. While I don't intend to make my presentation an animation, I would like to ...
I have drawn an image which I then scanned into the computer and saved as a png. I just want to make the lines smooth on the image. The image is a logo Any help is much appreciated. I am using GIMP 2.8

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