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I have searched for an answer to this and found tidbits here: workflow for print publishing childrens book but it didn't answer my question fully. My question is how do you usually divide the work when creating an image in Illustrator that will be finalized in Photoshop? do you finish as much as possible in Illustrat...
How do I fix a font with a problematic kerning pair. The problematic pair is capital T preceded by a space, when set in Helvetica Neue 55, and with kerning set to 'Metrics', using InDesign. The automatic kerning preceding the 'T' will change from (0) to (-125) resulting in the word space almost disappearing. Typical s...
In order to color grade my image in same sense of a reference photo, I'd like to approximate my image with the pixel colors from the photo, but on different places. Is this possible?
I have no previous knowledge in graphics at all. I decided to re-create our company logo using adobe illustrator since that's what everyone said would be best. I would use this logo on Microsoft Office and Word Perfect Documents that I would later print to Adobe PDF. I have messed around with several options but haven'...
I work for a magazine and every so often we get ads (PDF format) that run through the pre-flight process with no errors. I will export a PDF with the ads out of InDesign and these boxes appear. This does not show up when we go to print, but we have an online edition which has the boxes. Does anyone know what causes thi...
Does anyone know a shortcut to select a layer in photoshop, open up a new file that automatically is the correct size, or even has the element in it without having to drag in a new document and then crop it to size or guess the size? For example I made a design comp of a website I"m making. I want to copy the logo laye...
I can't find what font is on the following picture: Can you help?
designers, I would like to ask You, where could I find patterns - backgrounds to download it it is possible for free - for businness cards, posters, logos, etc.? I mean, when I create some design and want to place it/put it like in real environment: for example: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/holistic-care-...
When working with logo designer, what is the correct model of communication in helping designer to envision what you want and improving chances of delivering what I have in mind? Do I "direct" the designer to what I feel should be on logo or just fill out questionnaire with information what my business does, demographi...
Hello fellow designers. I have to make a banner promoting a mobile application. The banner size is 80x200 cm. So, normal screenshots of the application screens will be too small. There are too many screenshots to trace all of them in illustrator, and the "Image trace" function won't work because there is a lot of text...
eCommerce websites are known at least to me for their average product images but there are exceptions like images of green tea product below which I wanted to get you opinion about: This is one beautiful product but is this photo or manipulated image? I mean does it look too good to be real? I was thinking it's produc...
I have a photoshop psd file, with a font. I want to replace the particular font of a particular layer with a different font. I have the different font downloaded and installed on my windows machine. What do i do to change the font of the particular layer?
I've read many articles on how to adjust Artboard width and height settings in Adobe Illustrator, but have not found a single article on how to adjust the width and height for the background document layer that Artboards sit on. A single Artboard may be 1000px by 1000px, but I can still scroll for miles left and right ...
I would appreciate if someone could tell me what fonts are used on Kinfolk magazine, more specifically: Cover Title Font & Secondary Title The font that is used in the articles within the magazine I would appreciate if you can saw the sizes of these fonts respectively as well. Thank You. Note: I have also attached tw...
I've designed a handful of web apps now and I seem to be just as confused about document widths as I was before I ever started. I've made the mistake of mocking it up at 1920 wide and jamming it full of content. For over a decade I designed countless centered websites at a fixed width that was very easy to determine. ...
I must say im not designer im programmer im building simple game for my kids in this game i need to create many sets of english letters icons like this ones im attaching. now im doing it using Inkscape . and its very hard work to create 26 letters each time . is there any tool or way to design the first letter icon...
I am working on an app that displays various colors for kids to choose from. So, we'll have a red, a blue, a yellow, etc. These are not real objects, just a small image (like the one attached) that represents a color. They are all 600x600px squares. I have been asked to include one for Silver, one for Gold, and one...
I created a vector object from a drawing. But after I added the color, it will not change. I added it as a layer into my logo anyways. Now trying to change the color there but will not work. After I press enter, nothing changes. Can you please tell me what I am not doing here. Screenshots appreciated.
Can someone tell me what font was used for the text in the scroll banner at the bottom of the image? Thanks!
I am fairly new to designing and almost self taught, so please excuse me if my question is downright stupid. I have found that when I design a web page in photoshop, my font size is very small and unreadable unless the document is zoomed up at 100%. But if I look at other people's work, their fonts are readable even at...
Good day all. My question is quite simple, I've been making designs for many years, I have a good library of designs, but most of them were unused due to the fact that when a client ask me a design I always proposed at least 3 solutions. Now I'm full of designs that will never been used and I would like to give them so...
Can you help me identify this font
So my application can position text added inside an object for it to be inside, on top, on the bottom or left / right to the object. Example: So the options are to be hidden inside a button (which is represented with an icon). When the button is clicked it will show the options center, top, bottom, left and right. Wh...
I would like delete parts of the shape with the path. Its 4am, and I have deadline to meet, and I am really stuck. I am adding a picture so you can understand what i am jibbering about. I would like the result to be like it is in the top picture, so it works on any color background, not only white (or background with...
There's a great TEDxExeter talk by a colleague of mine, Simon Peyton-Jones, about the recent advances in the English lower school 'computer science' curriculum. Like all of his slide decks he uses Comic Sans throughout. Depressingly, though inevitably, one of the YouTube commenters berates him for the font choice, sta...
I really have no idea with graphic design, but I was just wondering. Comic sans is a very popular font for home-made signs to print out and tape to a door or something: Sadly, it looks terrible (and I haven't even installed it on my OS). However, things like that always seem to look terrible (to me), regardless of the...
I have a floor tile texture I want to use in my bathroom Sketchup/Unity model (it's a photo I've taken of the actual tile). I have tried these two tutorials and neither of them reduces the uneven brightness and they also remove a lot of detail from the texture. http://library.creativecow.net/articles/polevoy_george/te...
I'm drawing maps in Illustrator. Our way of depicting divided highways is parallel lines with a fill. Here is an example: The way I did this was a 1 point yellow stroke, command c, command f, send to back, explained stroke to 2 points and make black. These are a pain to make and edit. I'm wondering if there's a way t...
So i am making mock ups for website, and i want to show some text. I want to use some font that make it look like it's a text but not really anything readable. Like a cursive line with personality that looks like it is something written from distance in real life but you have to come close to read it but it somewhat co...
I embedded a jpg in my main picture and edit it (smart object). I edit the sky and need transparency background. But when I try save the smart object I got error. See the Screenshot. I read in an article about 1 year ago, that was a bug in cs6?
I made a color chart by using the eyedropper to get colors from another file. When I go to get the CMYK values it only gives me a percentage. The Document Color Mode was RGB - changing it to CMYK didn't help. edit answer found: Was expecting CMYK values to be like RGB values, non-percentage numbers.
I am trying to use Sketch 3 to create some SVG icons. One of the big reasons I am using SVG icons is the ability to have multiple color however to do that, the SVG must be multiple shapes. The issues I am running into is that I can seem to snap together so I always end up with something like this: Is there anyway in...
I want to design a magazine at the standard magazine size of 8.375 x 10.875. Does that mean I start with an 8.5 x 11 letter size in InDesign for each page? Or do I design in InDesign as 8.375 x 10.875? I'm asking this to printers in town and they can't answer, or I'm not confident they know what I'm talking about. I've...
I have a document that uses 5 different colors for text, on a white background. blue green brown red black (or any shade of gray) I need to adjust the colors so the text has the best visibility against the white background and each color is easily distinguishable from the others. I found some problems: If the colors...
i made the following image: lowest layer: solid black middle layer: some white brush painting highest layer: solid red with Overlay mode this gives me a nice glowing effect, which i would like to export to transparent PNG. but when i set the black layer to invisble the glow is gone.
I'm giving my sister a hand with a bunch of graphics for her thesis. She's dealing with 20 survey responses from a bunch of companies, and one of the natural things to do is look for correlation between answers. Given that the survey was not the best ever (you gotta work with what you have, and she didn't make the surv...
I am making this logo and I'm trying to get my colorful block image throughout my 3d text instead of just on the front of it. Anyone know of a way to do that? help pleaasse!
I was working on an animated GIF image and found out some really heavy noise issues that results into heavy grains that is kind of like disturbing the motion sequence. The animated GIF image was all done on Photoshop, I manually created each of the 1200+ frames to make them, the result was just really disappointing, i...
When I place a multipage pdf file into InDesign CC, the pages go outside of my document settings, making this function useless. What do I have to do to make the placed pdf pages go within my document settings, which in this case is 11 in. Length X 8.5 in. width, .5 in. margins on all sides, with two columns per page....
So I'm trying to save a bunch of images that I've edited with added adjustments (exposure, colour lookup, level, brightness). I know the method for this is File >> Scripts >> Export layers to files BUT when I do that, it doesn't save the images WITH the added adjustments, just the original image itself. Please help m...
I can draw rectangle using pen tool. Is there any way to draw a hypotenuse while drawing rectangle without manually doing it using line tool?
Is there a way or a feature or a modifier in 3DS Max like the "Turbo-smooth" modifier that would preserve the shape of an object on other subdivision levels after making changes to it on a high subdivision level? Here is what I mean - Level 4 - Level 2 - Note - The polycount to be reduced like a "Turbosmooth...
I have some text. I changed it to outline. Drew a rectangle on it. Selected all and then pathfinder->minus front. I got a weird result. How can get my desired effect in this way?
I print marketing regularly at my job, and everything is sent to us as PDFs. The problem is, the color profile is always set to RGB, and the resulting prints look terrible and don't match the colors of prints sent to us. If I convert the PDF to CMYK, it prints perfectly. The problem is, I can't use Photoshop at work (t...
I've got lots items in the layers panel that I need to group, re-arrange, re-name etc and it'd be nice to be able to do it all with just keyboard. What shortcuts, or keys can I use? I did google (cursorily) but I needed an authoritative answer.
I have a lot of images on a page, a gallery. I want the images to stay sharp, so I don't do any browser scaling, I use the original dimensions of the image. However, this works only when the browser zoom level is 100% . When I increase or decrease the zoom level, the quality of the images decrease. Some clients actua...
Is there a way to do this? I want to create radial lines outwards. A ripple filter creates circles within circles, but I would like lines coming out from the central point. A good example of what I want to achieve would be the alternate flag of Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan#mediaviewer/File:Naval_E...
I want to make my good quality photos look like photos scanned from old newspaper. Maybe halftone in high resolution? Or just find an old laser printer and scanner? Here is few examples what i mean:
I created a bunch of files using Adobe Creative Cloud, saved files in both .ai and .eps, but have since decided switch to AI CS6. I am able to open the .ai file versions without a problem, but when I attempt to open the .eps versions, I get a legacy error message. How can I get the .eps files to open? This is the mess...
Really want to know what font this is: I've tried using whatfontis.com and myfonts.com. The closest I have found is these two: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/megamistudios/semiautonomous-subunit-clade/ http://www.whatfontis.com/Chapeaux-Noirs-NF-nicksfonts.font?text=vanitydrwsblo
I use Sketch 3 but why does it not allow me to move the created path object to another location by dragging and dropping it? I can grab any objects such as oval or rectangle but I cannot grab objects created using path in the first place. Why does it not allow me to grab it and move it to another location? I'm pretty f...
I have been trying to convert an illustrator file to a 3D model for a few hours now, but I keep coming across the same errors. I am using Maya, but I wouldn't mind using 3DS Max if it would fix my problem. This is my path in Maya: I have selected the main part of Australia and gone to Edit Curves -> Open/Close Curves ...
I was trying to vectorize a .png. I found a utility (which is incorporated into InkScape), the potrace. If any of you knows how to use potrace, kindly teach me the right way to get sharp output. Consider this input (png). To use potrace, the picture must be in bitmap format. So I converted it by using imagemagick. con...
I have a PNG file with text scattered over the image. I want to remove the dark fill in the letters leaving just an outline for use in a laser printer. What's the best way to go about achieving this (preferably using Paint.NET)? Example image shown below -
I'm relatively new to solidworks and am looking to export my work in the highest possible quality for inclusion in a report (which will ultimately be a PDF). My understanding is that Solidworks is based on vectors and hence, it should be possible to save one-view of the assembly as a vector image file (pdf, eps etc). ...
Please forgive me if this questions sounds a little off, but I'm struggling to understand it let alone explain to you. When setting up a document in InDesign, I want all of my columns and grids to be within relationship with one another. To do this I understand that everything should be based on my leading value. For ...
Hello all the awesome designers out there, I would like to create a texture design like this carpet in the photo (see arrow) Any suggestions on how I could achieve creating that texture+color in the photoshop? Maybe doing it section by section? So far I have something like this... It doesn't look quite right. Any id...
I used pencil tool, but almost lines are jagged. I checked anti-aliased art work in preference setting, but it can't solve the problem. and I will use the picture for web. (700px * 344px) It is okay in 6400% view, but the lines are jagged in 100% view. Any idea to solve the problem?
Did Apple create an entirely new typeface for the Apple Watch? Did they customize something existing? To me it looks like it was inspired by DIN and given a very tall x-height, but I see influence from Roboto in there as well.
I was attempting to create 2d low poly art in Illustrator, but I ended up liking the wireframe version more. The problem however is that the individual paths have a thick stroke, the outline of the path breaks the outline of the logo itself. This is what it currently looks like: This is what I want it to look like: I...
What's the best way to achieve an effect like this cover? I was thinking to basically start with random grayscale rectangles, a layer of thinner rectangles set to multiply, and then somehow warp it? Does anybody have a way to warp it and have it not look stupid and/or simply a more efficient way?
I have had a logo design done for me and uploaded to my soon-to-be live website- http://www.samirhussein-starter.com.temp.livebooks.com/ - however on this site is looks fuzzy. It looks much better on my blog: http://www.samirhusseinblog.com/ . It also looks fine in the finished version they sent to me. The company who ...
I'm customizing the design of a receipt and one of the font uses this image as a text How could I write a word using that same style and font with corel draw 13? Thanks for your help!
I have a big file with hundreds of images and texts. I need to export all the texts in order to send them to the translator. I know I can do it with the variables, but its still a long process because I have to select every single text box and create a text variable with an univocal name out of that. Does anyone know i...
I'm trying to cut a group of layers into two pieces, but I don't want a clear cut but the pieces should overlap and have a gradient-like border. Can I do this with a opacity-mask? Every time I export them as png there is an area in the overlap that has alpha < 100%, even though the two layers should add up to 100%. Exa...
How can I convert an RGB color into a real life color? If I mix equal amounts of red, green and blue paint together in real life, I will never achieve a white color, in the way you do when setting the maximum values for them in RGB (#FFF), and I'd be hard pressed to get an exact shade of grey. Looking at an RGB code, ...
Hi all! I've been trying to recreate the gradients inside the two coloured shapes in this logo. I've tried using gradients, hand drawing them with brushes, inner glow and a whole bunch of other stuff. I must be doing something wrong. Any advice out there? Thanks
I'm making a TOC for a catalog and must list items that appear on multiple pages. Right now it displays as: Widget 123 Other Widget 111 Widget 456 Other Widget 789 Widget 999 etc. I'm trying to create it to appear: Widget 123, 456,789 Other Widget 111, 999 etc. ALL suggestions gratefully appreciated!
I always find myself in a dilemma about whether to choose rounded corners or square corners, for both applications UI & web design. As I read in a couple of articles choose one style of corners and stick to it throughout the project. I am new into interface designing.
I apologize if this has been asked before, but I don't really know what to search for. The issue is that I'm designing a "shield" emblem for my company, and I've done that by creating one half with the curves I like, then copy/pasting and mirroring it on the vertical axis. I brought the second side together with the fi...
Is it ok for designers to not organize PSDs before giving them to developers? If not, how do you prepare your PSDs for developers? I'm asking, from the perspective of a developer.. the designers I work with always provide me with PSDs that are huge. Layers are scattered all over the place, and I spend hours sifting t...
I am learning graphic design. I know Illustrator is for vectors and Photoshop is raster images. When it is enlarged in Photoshop you can see the individual pixels and raster results. So Illustrator is widely used in Billboards nowadays. But a question comes to my mind. I always see some edited image or photo used in t...
I was wondering if the Pantone color on my photoshop does reflect the true pantone color when it print. I am currently working on rendering a packaging image that has pantone color. Other graphic designer suggest I could just use the Pantone color in photoshop to mimic the actual print out color. I am not sure about t...
I have the following issue whereby I wanted to draw a tree with overlapping paths (so I could edit individual branches in the future) but when I overlap the path, it cuts the fill out: How do you stop this? so that the white path tree fills regardless of overlapping paths?
I have a document with dozens of artboards. I would like to copy a single artboard into a new document, preserving its content and dimensions. What's the easiest way to do this?
I need to do the avatars of my team work. And i like this one but i really don't know what kind of arte is this.. I hope you can help me. Thanks..
I am using Indesign CC to make a newsletter from a template/grandfathered document. It has a 2 column design with images and captions etc. to go with the main text which has headings within it. For some reason at the bottom of the text boxes it flows over to the next column/page but leaves a gap big enough for 3 or 4 ...
I am using adobe Photoshop CS5, I am transforming my picture into black and white via "Calculations" and then i apply "Shadows and Highlights" filter. It actually looks very good in Photoshop but it loses its original quality upon saving, slightly but noticeable. Why? I am using high mode while saving in JPEG.
I just was wondering what font is used for the window descriptions, such as crisps & snacks, refresh and revive, its a very nice handwriting style font. Thanks for your help.
I need an ID photo with a white background (that's studio type) but my best shot is only a self-portrait photograph. I need instructions to replace the out-of-focus background with white, and canvas the left & right sides to make it square. Here is the top source of the picture which is more clearer: https://scontent-b...
I face a great challenge in knowing what exactly bleed should I use in my document with A4 and another in A5. Actually, this will help me to guide printers on what should they suppose to crop.
This is purely a hypothetical question. But let's say a large corporation or company was using a font family that was not free to use commercially and the font was published by a high-end font foundry. More detail on font use: in their logo, stationary and across all printed and digital media. What could actually happe...
I’m new to working with grids and tri folds, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out? As you well know when creating a tri fold, the fold in panel width becomes a different size than the other two panels. And from some templates I’ve downloaded or looked at online they have made one panel smaller than the other...
I'd like to know what the difference is between click on the Minus Front option in the Pathfinder palette and Alt+click.
When I update a shape in my Illustrator smart object, the object moves in my Photoshop document. This is very annoying; after every update I make in the design, I have to reposition the smart object again. Is there a way to prevent the smart object layer from moving? Can I lock it? Or is there a way to setup the linked...
I know there are two options for knockouts: deep and shallow. However, I want something sort of in between. I'm creating a UI, so there are a lot of a elements/layers going on and I like to keep them all organized on groups. However, that messes up how layers knockout each other (understandably). I don't want to use kn...
I've just been approached to create some t-shirt designs for a tech company and I was just wondering whether I should expect anything from them besides their logo? As an example, If they had a specific typeface they would want on the t-shirt would they have to supply me with that typeface?
I am new to Photoshop trying to design a web page and I was wondering is there any way to assign a "z-index" like feature from CSS to a layer to control overlapping between my images?
Given the image below, that contains some graphic elements, which design style do you think that best describes the image? Can I say that the design used is Victorian? Or is it baroque? Art-deco maybe? Please help, not very good at art unfortunately... Thank you!
We are printing some photos to be mounted for the office and I am assuming it has something to do with the photos being printed on rolls instead of sheets? This was his reply when we asked for his pricing.
Both Photoshop (layer shapes) and Illustrator (vectors) are terrible at making crisp Android assets when I save out. Can anyone lend a hand how to make crisp items at multiple sizes without doing it by hand? Here are the methods I've tried: Using XXXHDPI in Illustrator, Save for Web down to all the other small sizes. ...
Hello everyone! Quick & dirty question. I'm a junior designer - not used to knowing fonts off by heart yet. I need to figure out the names of the two fonts used here, or their closest counterparts. Any insight is appreciated!
I am responsible for creating and maintaining a medium-sized (50 or so) and growing library of product/portfolio/informational flyers. Many of these flyers must include boilerplate information, like patent and regulatory notices. I realized today (many years too late!) that there must be a way for me to make this chang...
I'm trying to re-create a hard inner shadow effect in illustrator, similar to the effect on the text in the Kit Kat logo: Heres another good example: Heres my attempt at re-creating it: Mine seems like it needs some refinement, after a hours of trying this is the closest I could get and I'm still not quite happy wit...
I'm a programmer, with really bad aesthetic feeling. Please sorry if I use not specific terminology, I'm not a graphic designer. I'd like to automatically generate a variable size cool combination that can be neat. I know that there are some rules to do it but I have specific contains. For instance I have a triangular ...
I'm trying to modify this image (with Gimp) to make the droplets on the surface where H905 is written stand out as much as possible, and everything else to stand out as little as possible. Would anyone have any tips? At the moment, I have this: the operations I have performed are: Colours, Colour Balance: -> ...
How can I make this logo I created fit into a square? Aesthetically, I just can't get it to look right. I had originally designed it to be used as a banner, but now the organization wants to use it as their Facebook profile picture. Any ideas? Edit: This is what I have tried, if anyone has any feedback that would be a...
Is there a font that displays the entire image of each and every one of the 52 English alphabet shapes ➝ and ➝ above (on) the baseline? Clarification: Examples of shapes that are rejected due to baseline overflow: Some users had stated that this is not possible. But it is possible. I've thought of at least two ...
Assuming I have a cube drawn in two-point perspective (or even three-point). I'd like to draw a sphere inside the cube such that it touches all sides. A sphere becomes a circle on paper. How do I find the center? How do I find the radius? I thought at least finding the center would be trivial (drawing the diagonals)...
I'll use cartoon or cartoon-like images in my site. In my some articles I'll have more than 1 images that is related to the content. After finding the suitable images I want these images to match by means of colors and density of light they use. So, for example there are 2 images below: My favorite one is the upper o...

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