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I've got a grunge texture JPEG that I downloaded from Premium Pixels that looks like this: and a text layer on a black background. I want to blend or overlay the image file to create a worn-out, distressed, grunge texture effect on the text layer. So far I've tried applying the image to my text layer as a clipping mas...
In a large company environment client projects are delegated to teams. That said, if your team is completing a website for a client and you happen to run across a large design and code issue but your team leader chooses to ignore it, how should you handle this? It would affect the whole team if it wasn't addressed so...
I have frequently found that Helvetica appears as a missing font when I open a PS file, I have Helvetica on my system so is there a way to readdress the missing fonts of a PS file to another font? Normally I do this manually... but it will be better to have something more automatic... It appers that "Helvetica" font d...
For example in these images, what are the 'dirty spots' brushes applied to them called? I am newbie in PS and trying to figure it out.
I zoom a lot and need to move the current viewport...is there a way to move it with mouse wheel click like in other programs? Currently I must go to the scrolling bars for adjusting X and Y view. Thanks!
I am very familiar with template creation for Coreldraw but I have never done this before in Illustrator nor did I see the question from a search. How do you properly create a template and where should you place it to work well in Illustrator with the command ShiftCtrlN? If I save the file as an .ait will it save it ...
I've been given an Illustrator assignment where I have a number of 100mm x 100mm squares in which I have to design using just shapes, and black and white colour, something corresponding to a descriptive word such as 'tumble', 'condensed', 'bold' or 'momentum', using fundamental design principles such as contrast, size,...
I have 100,000 identically-sized, but unique, PNG/JPG images which I want to automatically layout onto A4 sheets which can then be exported as print-ready PDFs. So assuming I can fit 8 of these images per page in a 4x2 grid, I'm looking to input my 100,000 images and output 12,500 PDFs. I'm a programmer so I could prob...
Im trying to get type to sit on a path, so far ive been able to get it to work but when i try and get the type to sit the right way round (ie. not upside down) it sits on the inside of the path, which is on the wrong side of the circle (as the first image below). I could align the circle by eye, but im sure there must...
I have a client inquiring about the following image having the gears rotate constantly, and also have mouse over interaction shown by the one gear and text being darker. How would one go about doing this without Flash?
I am not able to preview SVG files in Adobe Bridge since CS2 version. Has Adobe removed this feature or am I missing something? I'm using both Windows and Mac, version CC and CS6.
1) When I am copying a logotype from one Illustrator document to another the colours are changing slightly. Anybody know why this could be? I am noticing that the CMYK values are also changing, so it is not only how it looks like. The "old" document is created in cs5 and I am now working in cs6. Maybe it could have to...
I want to create a noise effect using Adobe Illustrator. Inside the hexagonal shape there is some kind of texture effect, I don't know what the name of this effect is: How can I create such an effect in Adobe Illustrator? or is it created using Photoshop?
I'm trying to figure out the name for, or a collection of, the kinds of images that "fade-into" a solid color. For example, twitter has this image: This allows them to add a background image that doesn't have a large file size, and then they set the background color of the website to be the color of the bottom of the ...
I prepared a square and a triangle in Gimp but I am unable to get a shadow around it. I want it exactly like the image below. I tried with filter --> lights and shadow --> Drop shadow but it casts a shadow on one side only. In addition on one side there is too much shadow. I was unable to make a shadow on all sides (i...
I would need to measure the quality of a printed material in an offset printing procedure. There is any kind of points per square inch or something similar? I cannot find any kind of information regarding the quality of offset printing, that's why I'm questioning this here. Thanks for your time, (:
What is the industry standard term for a set of color guidelines for a brand identity? Logo Usage Guidelines Brand Identity Guidelines Something else? Edit: As Scott mentioned "whatever works". There does not seem to be any strict term, however searching for "brand guideline", "brand guide", or "brand style guide" ap...
I love Illustrator for graphic design, but for tablet drawing it's a real pain. Why? You can't rotate the artboard like you do in Photoshop. When drawing on real paper it's very natural for me to rotate the paper for making lines in certain directions. When using the pen, you can't see what you are drawing until the s...
I'm creating a wi-fi icon in Photoshop, using three circles and subtracted paths. Now I need to remove the subtracted area and combine the three shape layers into one shape layer without rasterizing. This is what I want to do: How can I do it?
I'm trying to find the name of this highlighted image element to look for similar vector icons. I tried to search by "link", but can't find anything like it. How can I recreate this shape using a program like Inkscape or similar?
Can anyone help me with this problem: I am having problem with Right-to-Left writing with the Old Turkic font. Turkish is written with extended Latin letters left-to-right but: Old Turkic is a Turkish variation which is written Right-to-Left, defined in Unicode Standard 5.2 Range 10C00-10C4F (Central Asian Languages gr...
I need to apply shadow to an overarching border, however so far I've created the shadow with CSS, and since the overarching border is formed by two boxes, the shadow overlaps. My solution to this is to cover up the overlapping part with an image that looks like a seamless blend, however I'm not sure how the shadows sh...
In GIMP, you can (in various modes) draw a constrained straight line which will "snap" the line you're drawing to the nearest 15 degree angle, making it easy to draw lines in a precise direction. For example, in paintbrush mode, you do this by clicking one point, releasing, holding shift+ctrl, then moving the cursor t...
I have read on a number of blogs that the seams that you see in Illustrator from applying a pattern to an object is due to anti-aliasing and that if you print from Illustrator that it will print fine. My concern is that when I save my work to PDF the seam shows up there as well. I don't want a client to see the seam an...
I made a bar graph in Illustrator using Pattern Swatches for the diagonal stripes: In Illustrator, this looks perfect and saves as a vector. However, this graph is going to be published, and apparently Pattern Swatches are problematic for some types of publishing (sometimes the pattern simply drops out, or fills solid...
I'm involved with a project that needs a few icons to represent some categories. Some of them aren't that difficult to represent graphically, however I'm having a hard time thinking of how time is represented graphically. Specifically, I need two simple icons to represent both past and future. I tried looking up other ...
Using Photoshop I want to mimic what moz.com does with their product tour. I have a screen shot of my website and I want change the perspective to look like this: http://moz.com/products/tour What's the best method for this to maintain a legible version of my screenshot? Thanks.
I was curious to know if there is a way to or a script available within InDesign (any solution alternative is preferred) that I can batch check spelling and grammatical errors with either .indd or .pdf files. Some areas I would like to check are: Case errors: aNd Case structure: AND should be and spelling: Bannana ...
I have been interested in finding a way to track my progress and tasks for client work with a visually engaging workflow program, that isn't like a git-hub style solution. I'm looking for a program that is visually interactive, with simple tools for managing it rather than a terminal based, command line software. Upon ...
I want to understand how the icons used in Study room' whiteboard were inserted. To see what I mean, navigate to the site, click Create button and then Join button on the animation. If you observe closely the tip of the brush, pen etc changes based on the color selected: From the google developer kit, I don't see any...
I'm trying to understand Adobe Illustrator's color conversion method between RGB/HSB and CMYK. I'm pretty sure they use ICC profiles to do the conversion, and they make a bunch of ICC profiles available for download (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680). I can't match the conversion using a co...
I'm designing a business card for a client, and they have asked to use a geometric repeating pattern as a background on part of the card. Initially I thought of placing the pattern flush against the edges of the card, but I'm not sure if its possible to guarantee that the edges of the pattern will line up. I can exten...
I am currently using the Entypo icon pack for the design of my website. Unfortunately it's missing some icons I want. I am willing to create them but I'm afraid to create inconsistencies because I have a very limited knowledge in icon design. How can I prevent inconsistencies when designing new icons for a pack?
I am trying to make some sort of space scene in Photoshop. I want a light source in it; since the standard lens flare filter is a bit cliché, I decided to put in a photograph of the Sun I just made. I have seen someone doing this in a video, but I can't find it again. How can I blend this picture of the Sun in a space ...
Many people told me doing gestures is great as a learning tool, gives you the pencil mileage, feeling for shape, form and proportion, and so on. I started doing them, basing my tries on this, this and this video among others. I've actually found doing gesture drawings fun and helpful - I'm seeing improvement! I began ...
Today I was following a tutorial using PS CS6 on the internet and it asked that a layer be added and Layer Style > Gradient Overlay be used, which would later become a background. I'm not a big user of the fx button in the layer panel, I admit. But, I didn't think it was so utterly confusing. I simply created a new ...
Photoshop CS5 comes with a feature called Puppet Warp. I find it specially useful for a certain animation I'm making. Normally, I duplicate the layer, use puppet warp, done. Then duplicate again, and so on... This is a bit frustrating because I have to re-create the pins for every frame (and you can't undo when you mov...
I am trying to resize this image: The image is 73x44 and I would like to resize it down to 53x32. First, I tried using Photoshop CS6 with different resampling algorithms using the Image size dialog: Bicubic automatic: Bicubic: Bilinear: Nearest neighbor: They all look pretty bad, especially that the border on the ...
I use illustrator a lot and I'm always exporting PDFs. Since the PDF is a "save as" rather than an export, I end up editing the PDF and saving out. This causes version conflicts. Could I just work in PDF? What would be lost if I never used the ai format?
Warning: Total photoshop newb! I recently got a cool image of my fiancee and I holding hands and showing off her engagment ring. The backdrop is the beach: I tried to trace an image using a combo of the laso and magic wand tools to select my target. Then I used that to pull out the target as another layer. I then pas...
I've applied the 'Oil Paint' Smart Filter to a layer in Photoshop CS6. I'd like to animate the filter's 'Angular Direction' from 0 to 360 degrees but I the keyframes in the "Style" lane of the Timeline don't seem to work for this. Is there a quick way to achieve this effect? I have limited knowledge of scripting / bat...
I was going through a few website designs and I really liked this pointed corner drop shadow: How can I add similar shadow effect using The Gimp or simple CSS?
I'm trying to create a grid that supports 2:1 and 1:1 units. I cannot figure out if this can be done or is even mathematically possible without compromising the 1:1 or 2:1 unit. The grid will be 1024px wide. Using the 1:1 unit as a base for columns, ideally there are six columns. The height should support at least two...
I am looking for stats or polls that show what viewers like in a website design. I have seen stats about what browsers are commonly used, but I have not run across any statistics or polls to answer the following: Age demographic on what devices they use. Results on what they dislike in a site. Is responsive site desig...
I was using Wunderlist, and I was wonderling what the texture is that is used in the sidebar, as shown in this image: Image courtesy of ifrick.ch. Click image for full size It looks like some sort of fabric, but I'm not quite sure.
This is a pattern I've seen used in multiple places and I've always loved it: This site also uses it as a background texture, as well as this one. It's sort of like a fingerprint/wood texture. I want to make something similar and I've considered drawing it out and throwing it in illustrator or something, but is there ...
I have a graphics style that has the following attributes: Stoke: None Fill: None 3D Extrude and Bevel: Applied [] Opacity: Default [] Actually, this links to countless irrelevant parameters I want to do is apply the 3D Extrude and Bevel to multiple paths at once. By highlighting the paths and clicking on th...
I just wanted to know that is there is any font named "Flower Power" that looks like this: Are the two files available for download at the above mentioned page (.eps and .ai) fonts? Can I convert them to .ttf format? This is my very first question at GraphicDesign.
For a website project, I need to find a good looking web-font that fits the following parameters: it must be a "slab serif" it must be "monospace" Keeping my question short and simple: Which monospaced "slab serif" fonts can be recommended?
I want to use this element in a larger resolution poster: I tried using Photoshop's free transform, but I lost too much quality. How can I create this shape?
I have a curved path generated with the line tool followed by the Zig Zag filter to which I'd like to snap a shape I've drawn. I would like it that the shape can be dragged only along the line (like a carriage on a train track), and that the shape be rotated as it's dragged to be tangental to the curvature of the path....
Right, sorry if the pictures are a bit small, but look at the group on the right where I'm previewing a 3D effect. Notice how there are three turquoise stripes running along it. (You can look at the 2D version) Basically, I change the extrude depth from 50pt to 30pt and for no reason at all, the middle turquoise shape...
I'm new here so please bear with me... I've gone through search results but i couldn't find quite what i was looking for. for easier understanding, i shall explain my goal and hopefully you shall understand what exactly I'm trying to achieve. I want to create an animated video of an exercise, e.g someone doing crunches...
I want this glyph to resemble a sort of elongated ^ shape (it was originally an accented A... Á). I've deleted its vertical bar, but now it's completely filled in with black as you can see. How can I just join those three points to form a ^? Thanks
I used to work with Fontlab Studio to design and compile my fonts. Years have passed and my former Fontlab install vanished into the voids of a crashing harddisk. Now that I'm gaining interest in font-design again, I used and abused the usual search engines, but I have not managed to find any free or open-source softwa...
I would like to be able to pan an image while I'm seeing 100% of the image, but Photoshop doesn't allow me to do. Do you know any workarounds? I'm using Windows.
I have read about techniques such as "Spot Healing", "Content Aware Fill-In" and "Reconstruct" that are able to regenerate parts of an image based on the patterns in the rest of the image. How could I apply them to extend an image while filling the extended portion with a pattern that exists in an image? Specifically, ...
If I had the time, I would go through each and every photo to make sure that the dimensions and quality are pixel perfect. However, I'm in a time crunch, and need to make the couple hundred photos that are 4320 x 3240 into 950x630. now I could- 1. Upload them into WordPress, uses native image reducing components and J...
I'm looking for an easy to learn layout program that allows me to create alternating page layouts. MS Word does NOT seem to have this feature (argh!). By simplest I mean lowest learning curve. This is subjective, I know, but anything easier than QuarkXpress or InDesign would be wonderful. Of course, if no such beast ex...
I'm already working with an artboard, but i need two more, how can I add additional artboards to my document in Illustrator?
This is probably asked already, but I couldn't find a sufficient answer, so hopefully you guys can! When creating things such as corporate identities, I always save both the workfile (PSD/AI/INDD) and a PDF version aswell, for others to view. However, having to click to save to both extensions for each file and each r...
I am not a professional designer however I need to make a few shapes like the ones shown above for my college presentation. I would like to ask how I can create shapes like these ?
Not sure how the community will feel about this question but its one that I've been wondering more and more about every time I see yet another movie do this. It has to do with design trends so let's see how this goes. I'm talking about the bar at the top, usually black, with the name of the film in it throughout the en...
I'd just like to create a simple white border around this picture, without shrinking it. I tried creating a new layer and expanding it beyond the borders of the original layer. At first, I was unable to resize as it was transparent and I was told "no pixels selected." So, I filled the layer with white, put it in fron...
I am not so familiar with Photoshop and would like to ask for help with something that is probably quite easy for many people, I have tried searching around without any exact help to what I want. What I want to create is the following (without the text and no yellow background color) If anyone know how to do it or to ...
I hope that anybody of you could be able to solve my Problem. I'm using Photoshop CS6 and would like to get only the filename prefix I specify. If I try using the Export Layers to Files command, I get the prefix I created, like 'S03_', but then there is another prefix automatically added like '0001'. Also, if I have th...
Is there a Script for exporting .jpg files from Flash CS6? Another possible solution would be to add an extra button to Export directly to overjump by going to something like File > Export > Export Image and saving to a location.
On the mac you simply pressed cmd and when you clicked, and Photoshop would select the layer beneath your cursor. However, pressing ctrl and clicking, or pressing Alt and clicking doesn't do the same thing in Windows. What key combination do I need to fast-select layers in Windows? Thanks
Those vector shapes have the same stroke configuration, and on the pointy end there's only 1node. So why this happens?
Is there a way to keep very long footnotes from filling the page? I know you can put in frame breaks manually or setup a paragraph style that limits to one paragraph per page, but neither of those are really viable solutions.
I graduated from college with a degree in math-computer science and have been working in the subd/cad industry for 1 year. My company attends siggraph every year and after going this year, I was fascinated by a demonstration that created a creature using zbrush. Seeing the demo made me want to dabble in the field of 3d...
Is there any way to get the x/y position of the origin of a paragraph text box via Javascript, excluding use of the Photoshop UI? This image shows my predicament; what I need vs what the Photoshop Javascript is giving me: The .bounds property gives the coordinates of the actual text content, as shown in the image by t...
Considering that it is an application that uses vectors which can scale to any size because they're mathematically calculated, why can I only zoom to a certain level and what is the deciding factor? Is it based on my hardware? Is it based on limitations of the software? What can I do, if anything, to be able to zoom in...
I got a psd from one designer, I got the gotham font that he used but when I open the file to edit the logo and replace the current content with my own content nothing happens, another layer gets created. If I select the original layer the fonts get selected...I noticed that there is a shape icon. How can I work with t...
I've been trying for the past week to find what is the font on google android emulator... : But couldnt find any matches. Any help please?
We usually see this kind of avatars in math forums! But I don't know what they are called. What is the name of such art? Also, is there any tool for generating these random shapes?
I can hold and drag each individual layer on timeline to increase its duration but it's such a pain. Is there a workaround to change (increase) all layers on timeline to have the same duration?
I am looking for someone to explain how to achieve a subtle gradient in adobe illustrator like the one in this icon. much thanks.
During web development it's only really necessary to chop, crop, extract layers and save as PNGs, etc. A web developer will only use a tiny fraction of a tool like Photoshop. Photoshop as a tool for a graphic designer is essential, but is there a simpler tool that satisfies the requirements of someone who is converting...
I frequently create labels that follow the same format: white text on a 75% opaque black background, with 10px of margin around the text. Currently, I have to manually build these labels, which takes a lot of work. In one method, I write the text, figure out its height and width, then create a separate rectangle and pl...
Do you know of any plugin that best fills the page with as much copies of an object as it can? I don't care about orientation (they can be vertical and/or horizontal as well), and it would be a plus to specify in any way a minimum spacing between copies, for cutting purposes. Some time ago I asked how to create Symbols...
So I am making an animation in Poser 9. I am have a keyframe at the beginning of the animation and at the end of the animation for the feet. The feet literally have the same values at the end and beginning. For some reason poser decides to make the feet go all over the place and then back to normal between the start an...
I want to bring my Photoshop swatch library into Illustrator. I've tried saving swatches for exchange and then opening them in a New Swatch Library in Illustrator, but the colors become corrupted.
I want to work as a designer of videogame characters and backgrounds, but I don't know if there is such a job, or what it is called (illustration, graphic design, concept design?). I am about to go to college, but I don't know what I need to learn or study to do this job. Is there a specific major or subject that is go...
Why doesn't the gradient tool appear over the object I've applied it to in Illustrator CS6? I have to click and hold down to adjust the size of the gradient on an object or just use the gradient window. But now I am unable to edit the perimeters of a radial gradient like I use to do in CS5. In CS5 the bar would stay vi...
I'm creating a book in indesign cs5. I'm using a table to do a 2 column layout. When I set the block of copy to no break to get rid of all the hyphens in the cell, the type disappears. I try dragging the cell bigger but the type never shows up. I think a setting somewhere must be check causing problems. I've seen this ...
Is it possible to start with a stock photo and wind up with an artistic rendering of that image? An example will depict what I'm trying to do See the image of the cornet player wearing the straw boater. Suppose I had a photo image of that cornet player in some suitable format. Is it possible to convert via some suita...
I come from the land of game programming and a very logically oriented mind with a bit of a dulled experience. I have experience manipulating images in Photoshop, doing tasks like slicing and tracing but nothing like creating things from scratch. Where can someone with my sort of background learn to create vector (or ...
I have over 600 JPG images, and I need to apply the same action to all of them and then have them saved to a new folder. I tried batch, but after each image it brings up the JPG options dialog asking me to choose compression and what not. I want it to just save it automatically. How can I do this? Note: I already tried...
I want to be able to create the triangular pixelation effect depicted in the following image. I've been successful with the technique detailed here--and it's nice--but It is not quite the effect I am after. Any suggestions?
I have been trying to search a way out to convert polar panorama to cylindrical panorama. But I couldn't get anything on it. So, I would like to ask if is it possible to do so? Thanks
My problem is so general, and there are version-dependent plug-ins for the problem not working with my version. I also found workarounds that are not the correct solutions. I would to convert my image's white to transparency, i.e. decompose gray to black and transparent. It would be correct if I could use the saturatio...
I have a very large poster that is 98" by 90" and I would like to know some good tips for making edits to the file I tried to make it a smart object and then decrease the image size, only to increase it later. This method works of when handling most of the layers and functions (laggy but managable) But when transform...
I've been practicing front-end web design for almost 4 months now (and by that I mean design, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). I've found that I excel in terms of writing code and markup, but my design skills aren't really up to par. How would you suggest I get an eye for designing nice interfaces? Have any of you ever been...
How can I color picker for the gradient tool to sample a color? It seems the color picker does not work like photoshop does where you can pick a color from the existing canvas, but have to know either the exact hex ect? Example here, is I am trying to pick a color for the gradient tool, the picker does not show up when...
I have decided to self-publish some short stories I wrote years ago. I understand the importance of a good cover. I have known for years that "Don't judge a book by its cover" does not work in the real world. I don't have a big budget but I have access to stock photos. I have some skills in manipulating them to look d...
This comes up a lot, so I'm wondering if there's a proper way to do this. Sometimes I want to create an object by placing two objects next to each other, for example, when drawing an arrow (or a snowman, or a stack of boxes or a shelf of books, etc): As you can see, it's somewhat difficult to make these perfect, which...
This question is asked with FontForge in mind, but I'm sure that if I get the terminology right then it would help me. Here's my screenshot: See how in this font, you can hold the mouse down and view alternates? In this case it's variants for sub and superscripts and such, but with some fonts you get three or four dif...
I'd like to know how many font sizes can you use for a website. Someone said to me it's better not to use more than 3 different font sizes (e.g. 16px for heading, 11px for text and 13 px for smaller headlines). Is it a good or bad idea to use more than 3 font sizes per webpage (e.g. 4)? I just ask because I'm consideri...
I'm looking for a list of mind-map/brainstorming software that are easy to use, intuitive and practically applicable across a wide range of projects. Thus far I have been using IHMC CmapTools software, which is pretty good in most cases but not quite right for some. I'm looking for alternative programs similar to this...

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