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I have some GIF files that are not observing transparency when I load them in .NET, via System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(). However, I have a some others that do. When I have a look at the color palette, the ones that do work have argb(0,255,255,255) and the ones that don't work have argb(0,0,0,0). Is it possible to chang...
I wonder if anybody knows a decent solution to manage Fonts over dropbox. I use FontExplorer Pro. And tried to do something with Symlinks. It's a complete mess. Does anybody know if other apps like Suitcase Fusion work better than FontExplorer with dropbox?
I'm trying to produce the effect in the below image: I'd preferably like to do this with Photoshop or Illustrator. How can this be accomplished?
I'm trying to re-organize a project that has gotten a lot of objects stuck in the wrong layers. For some reason when I select a group of objects and try to move them to another artboard my paste in place command does not move them to the new layer I select. If I try a standard paste operation and choose to re-align the...
Here's what I'd like to do. textLayer.textItem.position[0] = 200; I would expect this to change the x-coordinate of the text box to 200px from the canvas origin. The value does not get assigned. Anybody know what I'm missing?
If you were to hire a graphic designer to pretty up your web pages, would you hire him/her if the person has no experience in JavaScript but has a very good understanding of HTML and CSS? How important is it for a graphic designer to understand web technologies for him/her to be able to perform effectively at their jo...
I am trying to create a horizontal layout list of items for a promotional poster. It is much like a music festival line-up poster. After each list item I need a custom bullet or separator. After the last item on a line the separator needs to be skipped. This is true also for each item that stands alone on a line. I kno...
I am trying to achieve this noisy background behind the cards. How can I recreate this effect?
I would like to replicate the antialiasing made by my browser in photoshop. Look at this picture: It is 500% image of standard 13px Arial #464646 font. First line is screenshot from browser(chrome), other lines are some of the antialiasing options from PS. Notice the color change on the first line. Does it have somethi...
We have a base design for a web site which includes different control and thier placement which is mostly constant. Every time we get a new requirement, what we have to do is copy the old design and just change the skin (Font Color, Font Style, Background, ForeColor etc). Problem is that we get new design in PSD and t...
I have checked in many like sites but could not get a proper answer. The given image is the logo of Nicholls Colonels, which is a baseball team.
I'm listening to the new song by Boards of Canada, and looking at the fine artwork. –Avant Garde, that's a nice one, I think to myself. But when I try it out on the poster I'm working on I notice a slight difference from the cover artwork The M and W has got an even thickness as opposed to the traditional Avant Garde...
I am trying to recreate this effect (see photo) from the HipMunk Android app and I am having some issues as the shadow is coming out other sides on the shape. I just want the shadow out of the right side. Let me know. Thanks!
I am getting a product label printed and the printer is asking that the text in the PSD file to be identified as PMS colors. I renamed the title of the layers to the specific color (e.g. Pantone 116) but I guess that is not enough. Below is the message sent by the printer. "The text is still being called out as 4 colo...
A friend of mine is in need of some graphic design work. I'm trying to explain to him that his make-me-something-like-X-but-different-approach is not a very good way to communicate his needs. We tried to write down some of the specifics that a graphic designer would need in order to limit the back & forth of "not getti...
After loading a large group of vector (*.ai) files, I tried individually going through to change each one's color (they're basic, monochrome vectors). After pasting the hex value into the object's fill-color, the object will change color - but the document name will not show a star, indicating it hasn't been saved. Fur...
I have a logo which I want to scale to a larger size. I started by setting up my artboard to the size I wanted it, then I grouped all the logo paths/objects which are in one layer and opened the transform window to input the desired size with constrain proportions on. Unfortunately this hasn't worked as expected, and...
Since the output is web, RGB is choosen, but is there any difference between "Monitor RGB..." and "sRGB..."? In Photoshop, they are both under color settings > working spaces > RGB
I have a branding logo saved as a PSD Photoshop file. I'm exporting it to the PNG format with relevant size, but the exported PNG image has a thin white border around the logo. How can I remove this border to have only the transparent logo image?
I am looking for a way to convert an image into a flat-shaded polygonal mesh. This consists of two steps: Creating the mesh (manually), overlaying an existing image. Shading the mesh (automatically) automatically according to the colors contained within the image. This should give a look similar to a flat-shaded low-...
There are several helvetica alternative questions here, but they don't do the trick. Rounded corners helvetica has letters that are slightly slimmer than regular helvetica and it has rounded tips instead of square shaped tips at line ends. I've been trying to find alternative for web (i need to generate web fonts but a...
What is the best file type to use in mobile apps? I am developing an iphone app and I am using images with the same frame as the views with 72 dpis in a format file .png but when the detail is more complex (rounded corners or little dots in a circle) the images get very blurry. Can anyone advise me?
How can I edit a photo so it ends up looking likje a sketch? Example:
What are some good applications and tools that graphic designers can use to work with WPF interfaces?
Thanks to the help of various people here, I've just about nailed this script for InDesign that I'm working on. There's only one other bit that, while not 100% necessary, I would love to be able to see if ExtendScript can do it. The documents that the script will be running on have a frame which contains a linked EPS ...
I've looked around for a good desktop rig to suit a 2K budget computer focused on graphic design/ rendering capabilities, but I'm have trouble finding exactly the type of setup that I'm looking for. If anyone is a hardware guru and has a great understanding of how to extract the very best GPU power and Display quality...
Is it possible to create something like the image below in illustrator? I know in Photoshop it would be a case of rasterizing font and cutting the text and shifting it around but Photoshop is vector based and it can't be done like that. How would you go about achieving a similar effect in illustrator?
I saw some jaw-dropping designs at Dribble and Behance. Can someone give the idea about tool kits required to make such beautiful things ? Are there actually competitive free alternatives available ? I have been using GIMP, but not able to figure out if it actually possible to make such good designs with it. Edit: I ...
I'm a web developer mainly working in front end developing. My main fields are HTML5, CSS3 and Flash ActionScript 3.0. Here in Iran, teamwork means nothing for most of the people, but I think it's the most important aspect of our work, especially in web design. I have poor skills in graphic design and UI design. I alw...
I saw a similar question has been asked but did not have a good answer. I want to recreate the gradient on the screenshot I attached. I couldn't figure out this hard gradient effect. I have tried doing the hard gradient using an angle gradient but there was no fade between the white and the grey. I ended up just dupli...
Edit to clarify Thank you for the existing answers. I am afraid that you misunderstood my question. I don't want to create mockups (I have some, but they are not suited for my current purpose). I want a tool (possibly something as simple as a freely available CSS theme) which will make my existing, functioning half-fin...
I'm not sure if this is the right forum but there doesn't seem to be a dedicated typography forum. I'm looking for high-resolution scans from pages of Arrighi's La Operina, which is a classic manual for calligraphy and for the 'chancery italic' approach to pre-printing-press typography. I'm aware of an on line resource...
Is there any transform, which "looks" at any region of a picture and then compares it with neighbor region, and if two regions are similarly colored, then unifies two regions in one and colors it with average color. Finally, this transform will distinguish "paper" from "writing" on it. It will color with constant value...
In 12 years of using Photoshop I've never seen an issue like this. I have a picture. When I choose Vɪᴇᴡ ▶ Aᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ Pɪxᴇʟs the image is displaying incorrectly on my monitor. On the left is what my image looks like (zoomed up by a factor of 4 using nearest-neighbor). On the right is a screenshot of what it looks like when ...
I need to remove the horizontal bar of an A char so it looks like a V upside down. What I did is: I opened Illustrator and typed the character A, then I clicked "create outlines". Then I joined bottom left anchor point of the horizontal bar with the top left one and did the same with the other side. That removes the ho...
Grid Diary is a popular diary app on App Store. I love its font but don't what it is. Any ideas? WhatTheFont cannot give a precise answer because the text is too small.
Are there open-source fonts visually similar to FF Fago or Neo Sans Intel (used on intel.com website and also Intel manuals (small example))?
Please look at the below image: As you can see, the right side of the image looks blurry. I've tried to use blurry filter and eraser with 0% hardness but doesn't work :( How can I achieve this efffect?
I have several smart objects I want to duplicate and preserve the layer style. However, when I modify one of the objects it also changes every copied smart object to match the modified one. Is there a way to use the shortcut Ctrl+J and another shortcut to remove the link so each smart object will have its own editabl...
So I'm creating an entirely responsive website, with the aim of using as few media queries and magic numbers as possible. I've found after a number of attempts, that using the content to create the layout is by far the best course of action. My client requested an image slideshow/carousel to be prominently visible on t...
I'm working on vertical rhythm right now for my website. It's hard / impossible with images of unknown size. There's a javascript plugin that helps with keeping vertical rhythm by resizing the images. http://daneden.me/baseline/ My problem with the plugin is that I think the plugin makes the site look worse (check thei...
I'm currently working on a project to make a metal part. I have designed a 2D plan and I was wondering if there was a software out there that would enable me to transform my 2D plan into a 3D model. This way I could have a better look to what I've designed. I know Autocad has this capability, Alias I guess, and Solidwo...
I just saw a mailbox zero inbox icon and thought it was cool! I am wondering: what is the technique to create this artwork? Mask with an image? I am looking for a keyword to google it. Example:
I'm trying to vectorize this Gray's anatomy diagram from the Wikimedia commons: (Yeah, I know. Kind of an awkward image, but I'm a medical student studying Urology and we need good medical diagrams too.) I'm trying to find a way to replicate the spongy texture in the image in the least painful way possible. I've look...
I'm working on a design with layered text. I want to have a word on top of another and when I select the layer and go to arrange > bring to front it won't do it. I've tried sending the rest of the layers to the back but the design stays as if I've done nothing. I am not sure if it's a settings thing or if i'm doing som...
I want to create a simple circular progress animation with either Adobe After Effect or Adobe Flash or any other software that you may suggest. Something like this: Assuming that the graphic assets are available and I only want the filling animation. I guess that I need some masking technique to create the filling mot...
Just like in Paint, how can I do a "transparent selection"? For example, if red is the background color and I select a part of an image with red in it, I want my selection to consider the the red to be transparent. Or equivalently : How can I change a specific color inside a selection to transparent?
What is the corner radius of the windows in Mac OS X? I kind of like to have stuff right on the dot and it'll bug me until I find out.
I want to make a website that people come and type a sentence and I make a poster out of it, print it, and send it to them. I was thinking of exporting as PDF (as recommended in this SO question). I know I can make a box with html divs and color it and put some web font, but I wonder: How do I go from HTML to TIFF? ( ...
I am trying to reduce the pixels of an image for the web, but it looks very bad (for exam). 3200X1200 pixels is the original size of the image, but I would like to convert it to 530x411 for my web page. If I do it with image size options it looks very bad. Please, give me some ideas.
I have some vector objects created in Inkscape and I am exporting them to a png files. I am using the exported images in another program. The problem is, that even though the initial object is on transparent background, the resulting png has a thin white border around it which looks just terrible. I have read somewher...
Im looking for tutorials about designing characters/mascots with illustrator in a specific style viewable below. I liked this design style but the actual original tutorial page is no longer online (links to http://dinglifeblog.com/?p=219 don't work). Image Viewable here I have searched in google for 'icon character d...
I have an image which has a layer mask so that the image fades to transparent. However when I try to export the image (Save for Web) as a PNG the layer mask is lost. What am I doing wrong? Can this be done? Cheers
Short question: I have SVG files with CMYK colours, specified as according to the SVG specs. I want to get this into a design program - any design program - to finalise the design and prepare it to print. However, I can't find anything that actually pays attention to the CMYK colours in the SVG (not Illustrator or Inks...
As far as I understand, converting input files to DNG is reasonable for Raw files only. Or is there any benefit if I convert jpgs to dng?
I have a 15.6" touchscreen laptop and I would like to be able to use the touchscreen in Photoshop. It works fine in Illustrator but for some reason Adobe didn't make Photoshop compatible with touch screens. Does anyone know a way to make Photoshop CS6 work with touchscreen monitors? It's so frustrating not being able t...
Can any of my graphics designer friends explain HSB to me? I know it's hue/saturation/brightness and I know what those three do (for the most part)... I understand the algorithm of creating colors behind RGB, but what about HSB? The hue is just the colors radial position on the color wheel right? But what do saturatio...
I am using Photoshop CS6. I have 40 images that have a transparent background open. I would like to apply a layer (a fill with gradient) to each of the 40 images without having to manually select Duplicate Layer (because I can only select one document at at time as a destination). Any advice?
I'm working on a website redesign project. I will need to present a few different mockups to the client for review. I want to make sure the client can see everything in context. I don't want to assume that the client has the right software. Maybe even add some comments, questions, or background on the design direction....
I've been without Photoshop on my laptop for a few months and have been working with Microsoft Paint on some UI mock-ups. Now that I have Photoshop (CS6) on my laptop the colors are completely different. Even if I screenshot the mock-up with Paint open on my desktop (with the layout visible) and then try to paste that ...
I have text in 2 columns in a text box. There are large gaps inbetween some of the words in one area of a column. There is one space before and after each word. What could account or this?
I'm looking to recreate this effect in Photoshop by giving a shadow only to the corners of the rectangle (in this case a sticky note):
If you use an Illustrator action on a selection, it applies it to that selection as a whole. Illustrator actions can be applied as 'batches', but this means batches of files, not batches of objects. Is there a way to apply an action to each object in turn (like Transform Each does), not the whole selection?
Is there a way to change the colour of this gray area? I would like it to be white. I like to use this area as a mood board, so it helps if I am working with the same background colour.
I'm trying to create a presentation that requires me highlighting sections in each photo. I mean having the rest of the image in a kind of transparent form but the section of interest should be very clear and emphasized so that the audience are drawn to that particular section of the image while still having the freedo...
In preparation for an upcoming project, I've been looking over a lot of different sites for high end perfumes and/or high fashion. Noticed that most of them (at least the perfume ones) have almost the same look and feel. I like the sparseness and simplicity of them, but the color schemes drive me nuts. I'm wondering i...
What are the radii and sizes for the new iOS 7 icons?
Currently, I'm looking for designer to help me in designing some flat icons, with such style (flat, minimalist, simple, clean, like these ones). Sometimes, I came across some amazing logo works by other designers. I love those works as well. I was wondering, are "flat icon design" and "logo design" comprised of the sam...
I'm going to be printing from inDesign onto a borderless printer. I want images that bleed over from one page onto the next to continue without a gap. The document is too long to use vertical page spreads (max 10 pages) and tiling isn't working (inDesign puts in a gap with a crop mark and slug info even though I've unc...
I have experience only with Adobe Photoshop, but I'm looking for something easy to use, a program that will let me focus on the design process and testing many concepts without having to do a lot of "craft" work/clicking. Are there any templates available on the Net that I could use?
I'm working on a project that will mail out access codes. Yes, using physical snail mail. The recipient needs to be able read the code and accurately type it into a web form. The codes consist of seven characters including upper case A-Z, lower case a-z, and digits 0-9. My question is how to communicate exact character...
(Completely rewritten version.) I'm a writer doing a book for an overseas publisher. My deliverables for them are .doc files for the text and .png files for the graphics. I have no control over print production processes. The publisher tells me that my .png files are "too light" and will cause problems during printing....
I want to use one of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 programs to create an image sprite of all the small icons and images on my webpages. I've done it a number of times before in Photoshop but can't quite get every icon to be at the exact coordinates I intend them to be at. The last method I used was to explicitly define t...
I have this site Site Link where I use gradients on the background. When you for example switch between site "Leistungen" & "Referenzen" you will see that the background darkness from the gradients on the top is getting darker or brighter (when switching between the two pages) because of the different heights of the t...
I'm in the process of replacing a lot of flash content with anything other than flash. Most of it's simple animated diagrams such as the one below: Rather than write javascript each time an image like this appears and risk one of several content writers, who aren't developers and could easily be confused, overwhelmed,...
first question here so hopefully it's okay. I've searched for how to do this everywhere online but I couldn't find anything. I'm using flash CS6 and I have a shape. I want to animate it so that only one anchor point moves in the animation, not the entire shape. I have absolutely no idea how to do this, any help would b...
As the title says we were discussing scripting processes and we noticed this has not been asked nor do I know if it can be done. Can you create an InDesign script that will take all .indd files and print/export them to .pdf?
I have these two fonts and I would like help identifying each one please. 1st font 2nd font
I work on some detailed graphics. I would like to have two windows of the same file open at once, one zoomed in and the other at 100%. This is easy. But what I can't figure out is how to remove ALL "stuff" from the 100% I don't want any guides, rulers, Bounding Boxes handles or such only my pixles. This works in PS usi...
I have several paragraphs with the same style. I'd like to auto-add new line before the first paragraph and new line after last paragraph of the same style. How can I do this? Thanks in advance. N.B. The necessary case – it should be the same style 'cause it will be processed via Markdown.
I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6 to create small images (like icons) for my app so I need pixel precision. How can I avoid X, Y, W and H properties to have decimals? Can I configure 0 decimals for this properties on my document? If I use the textboxes with this properties it does right, it increases pixel by pixel, but...
In Photoshop, I've got in my character menu Horizontal and Vertical scaling. In Illustrator I don't have it, but I need it. I know I can stretch the entire text-box in AI to simulate character scaling, but that doesn't apply to the following cases: How do I scale one character horizontally or vertically (but not both) ...
Well, Let me put it this way, I had a PC on which I use to do all my designing work. It was like a home for me, I had all fonts installed, Layer styles saved, Swatches, and many more things. But recently I bought another PC and now I was wondering if there is a way to export every Photoshop stuff I had on my old PC to ...
In Photoshop, I am trying to align the baseline, x height, and cap height of some text to a curve, but I'd like to keep the vertical orientation of the letters strait up and down, and not let the curve influence their vertical orientation. Here is an example of the effect I'm trying to replicate: The part that says "M...
I created a logo with some wooden texture in it. I'd like to get rid of the texture and fill it with a different color. I'm not sure what to do. I am able to change the color but the texture remains.
I have seen many designer's work (logos, websites, brochures, animations, infographics, business cards, scenery, illustrations). Most are average but some stand out. Their work just takes you. You can't help but admire the quality of it and right decisions that were made. Even though you are in field of graphic design ...
I am the graphic designer of a game and I want to recreate the look of these images (I mean the characters, not the 2.5 scene). My questions are: Does this character style (no legs or arms) have a specific name? How can I create characters in this style?
What is the general name for these images with lots of icons and small items sketched (or outlined), they are quite popular these days. Evernote and Whatsapp for example uses them: http://pocketyourshop.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/evernote.png http://cdn9.staztic.com/app/a/2063/2063485/whatsapp-wallpaper-pack-4-724187-...
This is a medically related question...Most pathology slides are stained with hematoxylin (blue) and eosin (red). However, every lab does it differently. I would like to take a bunch of images from various sources and get the staining properties to all be about the same--with some automatable process, since I have 100'...
I've just been using some UI templates and in some cases, the 'bounding box' for transformations is huge compared to the actual object in it. For example, I have a little 'back arrow' shape probably 40px wide, but the transformation box is more than 1000 wide and high. How do I 'clip' or crop it (for want of a better...
I have got a very simple logo in jpg format. The logo is mostly text, think something like "ABC inc." with a very simple styilized shape which merges A, B and C preceding the text. Only two "pure" colors are used. This logo is used everywhere, resized for every occasion, with an evident degradation of quality. I think ...
I created two documents with same pixel dimensions (1280x768). Document 1: 72ppi Document 2: 300ppi When I saved both in .png, they have the same size on the hard disk. Why do I need PPI? Why can't I just use pixels?
I have a scan of an old children's book that contains both graphics and text. I want to revive the book for my children, while preserving as much as possible from the original layout and illustrations. I have a very limited experience in this field. I thought of using Photoshop, which I have used in the past for other ...
I've been working with 960 layout for years – but was wondering if there are other grid systems that are strongly supported by the design and development community and also have blank or starter pages to work with.
I would like to do something that seems simple, but I can't find anything on the web. Does anyone know of a way to take a font and generate a spline that follows the center of the font's stroke? I have the Adobe creative suite.
I am colourblind, which makes choosing the colours of my website very hard (often I choose colours that appeal to me, yet look awful to everyone else). I have recently begun a new website (image below), and I chose these colours for it. Now, to me, it looks really nice, but to everyone else who has seen it, it looks r...
I'm modifying an existing animated GIF using GIMP. For some reason, GIMP opens it as an RGB file. But after doing a color analysis it told me there are only 255 colours. That's just right! However, when I do turn on indexed mode, it generates a new palette which degrades the image. Even with all the blending/dithering ...
I have purchased this stock image: I wish to extend the pebble background substantially, to fill the image around 4x wider, keeping the same height. So far I've tried: Using PS CS5 content-aware filler, though whilst it starts out ok as you extend it a little bit, it begins to repeat the exact same background giving...
I've been using Photoshop CS3 for quite some time in my work, but this one has really bugged me. When I have created a vector shape with the Pen tool, as I want to move those anchor points precisely to a specific point I sometimes need to snap it using some guidelines. But the anchor points don't seem to snap to any gu...
I'm trying to figure out how to create an engraved look in CorelDraw This type of effect is called "Inner Shadow" in PhotoShop. Here's an example: Create an “pressed in” look Step-by-step instructions would be GREATLY appreciated.

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