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New to photoshop so bear with me... I have a scanned image that, ideally, should be just three colors: red, black, and white. The original was a pen an ink drawing and the act of scanning added all sorts of slight color variations. To make things worse, the image was saved as a .jpg before it was sent to me, so the co...
I hope its okay to ask this around here, was not sure where such a question would fit. I am not a Graphic Designer, but a mere programmer :) I do have basic knowledge of operating Photoshop (watched a VTC once). Recently I started working with local designers and I have a question about the product they provide. (the P...
I'd like to create a 5px wide outline for some text in Photoshop, with one caveat: if I change the font of the original text, or the exact wording, the outline must change too. I'd like to style this outline using all the conventional features of Blending Options. This includes things like emboss, outer glow, etc. Is t...
Anyone know what is the below font name ?
I have created a text layer, converted it to a Smart Object, and duplicated the Smart Object twice. I then applied Stroke blending option to both copies and set their Fill to zero: At this point, if I edit the text in one Smart Object, the change also applies to the other two - which is fantastic: Now I want to apply...
This is my current approach, only the shadow moves. http://tinkerbin.com/uekpe227 This is a second approach, both the shadow and the letters move. http://tinkerbin.com/LjiGDKa7 And in the last approach the shadow does not move. http://tinkerbin.com/ZDvUj6Pi (Tip: hover over them to see the effect, you need a modern bro...
Does illustrator have the equivalent of an "Add" blend mode? This would mean that (R=0, G=128, B=255) + (R=255, G=128, B=0) = white
How can a web site be diagrammed to show different database elements, web UI elements, and different web pages in relation to each other (all are part of the same web site)? Essentially I want to be able to show the structure of the site, but not just the web elements (including the database elements, and other server...
I want to enlarge an image to a bigger size. This will cause pixelation. So I want to apply some treatment to it in Photoshop that will suppress some of this pixelation. Of course I cannot generate new pixel information, only smoothen it etc. so that the pixelation is not so much apparent in full views and prints. Exam...
I need to show a group of a dozen or so movie posters in an interesting way in one graphic using Photoshop CS5. I've rotated them and added drop shadows/borders to all. How do I add a cloud background? These are high-res images and the canvas is about 6000 px wide, so a raster image probably won't work. Also, can you ...
How do you make a realistic looking Gold in Photoshop? I have tried using Layer Styles and using Gradient Overlay > Metallic Styles > Gold but at best that looks just okay and many time not the best. I have not found a tutorial that shows decent looking gold in PS. I know it can be done because I have seen it done yet...
Recently I've begun giving more thought to display calibration. I'd previously ignored this practice largely because: I worked with really cheap monitors at work. I work mostly with web graphics, and there's really no way to know how the end user's monitor will be calibrated. Just going from computer to computer, devi...
I am a web developer and I convert design elements from Photoshop to html. Sometimes I receive the designs in Illustrator. I like to export the Illustrator files to Photoshop so they are easier to work with. However, when I export from Illustrator to Photoshop, even if I select the option to preserve layers and text ed...
Does anyone know if this is a famous font? I would really like to know the name of it.
Can anyone explain how to move the star, so it is 64 pixels above the text and howto align the star horizontally with the text? When I use the Fuzzy Select tool on the black pixels, it only selects the outline of the star. I use GIMP instead of Photoshop, if that makes a difference.
I'm trying to create a 2d texture like that shown below that I can use to similarly 'shrink wrap' objects in 3d software so they look like they've been captured by a spider. I know I've seen some synthetic material like this, but can't think of what it is. I've tried creating the texture from lightning and difference ...
All the icons i am designing for iPad & iPhone applications are looking good on my PC. But the same is looking blurred on any iPad or iPhone. Can any one please help/suggest something, is there anything I am doing wrong while designing in Photoshop
I am trying to find the size of the image that was used as a banner on this website: http://www.deadmau5.com/. I have tried looking at the source but I have not found information nor a link to the image. I need the exact dimensions of the image. I also would like to know how you found it.
I would like to know how to create this shadow effect in photoshop. I know how to make shadow in photoshop but don't know how to make this fading shadow on the left and right side in the image.
I'm just getting used to Photoshop and I can't figure out why all my fonts look blurry.
I applied drop shadow to a layer. Then I created a new layer and tried to apply an inner shadow to it. Turns out, that changing the angle on the new layer also effects the angle of the other layer' drop shadow! The two layers are not linked in any way. Here is a screenshot: Any help is much appreciated.
Looking at the colours in this logo, it is clear that the colours match each other. How do I find an orange and purple that match the same colour scheme? I suppose the colour in the 'R' is yellow?
It may very well be a subjective question, but, is it a good habit not to rename <Group> and <Compound Path> layers? My main hesitation of doing so is that I loose track of what it is. Once renamed, is there a way to easily differentiate grouped objects (e.g., initially-named <Group> or <Compund path>) from 'normal' la...
When looking online for icons to use on my websites, I often find very well designed free icon sets. However, often these icon sets are only available on a single size - for instance the icon set http://designdeck.co.uk/a/1245) only comes in a 48x48px size. What would be the best approach to resize this icon set to 24x...
I have been having a heck of a time with photoshop trying to export some layers which have transparent edges but need to line up (top, repeating-middle and bottom images for a faux rounded corner situation). They keep on ending up one pixel off... I tried setting up slices, I tried using the same selection marquee and ...
I have a pair of graphic files representing punch-out cardstock tokens in a board game, one to be printed on the front side of the sheet, and one on the back. The back of the page needs to be an EXACT mirror image of the front, so far as the placement of the pieces goes, although what art goes on each piece is differen...
When I put a form into a main content area, I often find it looks awkward. In a typical content area of between 600-700px (like on this site), how wide should your form fields be? Contact forms or forms like this site do well with 100% width because they are expecting a fair amount of content, but for forms like login ...
When exporting for web in Illustrator, there's the ever familiar Art Optimized and Type Optimized rendition schemes (apart from None). Both schemes have their own perks on different types of elements. Unsurprisingly, Art Optimized excels for anything but text, whereas Type Optimized is often a lot better at rendering t...
I have made a flat 2D design in Illustrator that I want to change the viewer's perspective on. So where it is currently being viewed head-on or top-down, I'd like to skew the projected viewing angle to something less than 90 degrees (and off to a side while I'm at it). Is this possible in Illustrator or do I need to us...
I know it's possible to export to 256 colours and to change colour mode to 256 colours, flattening the image. But I'd like to be able to setup the image to work only in 256 like you can set it up to work in RGB or HEX. Pretty sure this used to be possible, but can't figure out how to do it in PS5. Thanks
I know it has to be a bit larger, but can I get quality laser print paper to go in a commodity printer? (I have a bizhub C360.) If so, what size should I get?
I'd like to recreate the effect used in this picture. How can I do this in Photoshop?
Explanation (*Justified meaning they favorably add to the identity and aesthetics; i.e. we're assuming that they make perfect sense in a structural meaning.) I'm looking for technically specific examples pertaining to particular treatments; less theory on aesthetics. Reason for my question is that I wish to get a bette...
I am trying to use Noteworthy font (available on Mac OS X 10.7.2) for my web application. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it on MyFonts nor typekit; I mentioned these two sites just because so far they have a pretty good font selection and easy to integrate. Do you know where / how I can use this font for the web? In c...
I'm using Illustrator CS5.1 and started a new document in RGB mode. When I change the color mode to CMYK under File > Document Color Mode > CMYK Color, the Color window in my workspace doesn't change from RGB to CMYK mode. I can change the RGB levels using the Color window but I want to change CMYK levels.
I have a non-filled rectangle with some border color. "Inside" this rectangle I have some other objects (the type of the objects doesn't matter for my problem, it could be text, other rectangles, ...). Between those "inside objects" and my outer rectangle there's a lot of space. Sometimes when I select the "inside obje...
Let's say that I have a vector mask of 200px-w 150px-h rectangle with 8 px curved corners. If I want to resize this to 100px-w 100px-h without changing the size-ratio of round corners, how do I do it without moving the each and every point of the vector one by one with pentool and re-align it with hand? BTW I know cho...
Is there a way (a hack; a commercial app; etc...) which enables me to use any of the available <300$ tablets as a pen-input device to my PC? And specifically in Photoshop? Wacom's offerings are out of my reach and the school wouldn't get me something they couldn't get back in a perfect state which means only software l...
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect. However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I open the jpeg in Photoshop the colors are correct again. Think this is something to do with the color profile? Photoshop ...
I have a resume that was designed on a Mac, which came with Hoefler Text pre-installed. I no longer have access to the Mac, but I need to edit the resume (done in Open Office Draw). It's not really an option to purchase the font. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Hoefler Text (read: looks as similar as possible)...
I have photo of a person and a texture. I'd like paint this body with this texture. How can I do it in photoshop? An example : http://www.ibackgroundz.com/pics/d/o/download-body-painting-24-wallpaper-a-e-ibackgroundz.com.jpg Basically I want to know how to apply a texture over body.
I'm working on a web project where a user will be able to edit the ordering of a list. I'd like to update the visuals for the items that are draggable so that there is a a clear indication of each of the elements that are in fact draggable. I'm having trouble trying to nail down any standards that may exist for this ...
Does anyone else see this? Is there a reason why this happens or is it a bug? (Photoshop CS5.1 on OS X 10.7.2, not sure if this happens in previous Photoshop or OS X versions.) Steps to reproduce: 1. Click on 'Add a layer style' button in the Layers palette and pick anything. 2. When releasing the mouse button, watch t...
In illustrator CS 2 you can use effects to add an arrow end to a line, which moves with the line if it is dragged or scaled, very useful :-) Is it possible to create my own arrow effects? For example I'd like to draw a small vertical line at the end and the beginning of my "original" line... something like this: \|-----...
I have gradient button that generated by 2 colors:#0880A9, #066383.(blue). I want to create button with red gradient that have same ratio as my blue gradient. How should i do this calculation? (please if you ca also reference to good articles about that issue) Thanks, Yosef
Using gimp 2.6.11 on Windows. How do I create a rectangle with a trapezoid bottom? I understand to make shapes I should make a selection and then stroke it, but how do I make a selection of this shape? This is what I'm after: I want the length and angles of the corresponding sides to match so I don't want to just d...
I'm using the pen tool in CS5 to draw shapes, and I'm getting more comfortable with it, but one thing I'd really like to be able to do is add to a path. For example, if I draw a circle, I'd like to be able to bisect it with the pen tool and have two distinct paths emerge without having to draw two separate paths and t...
I'm looking for a decent tablet to use for my hobby drawing. So I need something that is a decent replacement for pen and paper and has a good life time (minimum 2 years). I was interested in Wacom's Intuos 4 but heard it's nibs spend too easily.
I am currently trying to export a few layers from Photoshop to Illustrator. However whenever I try and export, I get a blank ai document. I've also tried creating paths from my text (this is just text), and then exporting that to Illustrator. This works, however the paths that are generated in Photoshop aren't quite ex...
I'm developing a web application for our company that uses MapQuest and we are trying to plot different items on the map. The default MapQuest icon is a purple circle, we need to use different coloured push pins for different groups of POI's. Is there any site I might find icons that I may freely use or could someone p...
I have a selection I want to enlarge using nearest neighbour. I don't want to scale the whole image, just a selection. Is this possible?
I'm looking for some advice on workflow and what people I'll need to put together an app for tablets and smartphones. There are 3 questions down the bottom of this post. There are 2 apps planned -- both are kids' storybooks. One exists already as a printed book, with psd files. The other is 90% written and has no illus...
I was asked to create a poster about posters for a conference poster session. The poster topic is about "unpublished" posters created by Soviet artists during 1985-1991s. I'm completely new to this job. My part is only to arrange text blocks and figures. So, a few questions arise: Can I scan/make photos of these pos...
When users create widgets in my system, they can leave the billing info incomplete till later. (They eventually have to fill it in unless the requirement get's overridden by a manager.) I need an icon to show in the list of widgets for the incomplete ones and for the overridden ones. Ideally, it would be general, not j...
I apologize in advance if this may be off topic (I'm new here so I am not quite sure) But I have sifted through many Stock Photography resources and I have found very little to none, reasonably priced / free stock photo images of masculine men being groomed / or smiling with nice haircuts. For example, I am trying to f...
I have designed a UI for the iPhone 4S. What will be the application appearance be if I use the same images and UI for the iPhone3? If I run the same application in iPhone3 and iPhone 4S, what will be the outcome?
I have a very instersting issue with Photoshop CS4 and the Calibri typeface that I was hoping somebody would be able to help with. Certain characters when typed next to each other produce an odd effect that shows them connected, but when typed separately or with other characters they look fine. See below for the examp...
I've been used to resize Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2 without loose information on the original size of the object. In CS2 If I resize the object from 100% to 98% in width + height resize fields and I want to adjust it back to 100% it's simple because the fields keeps the resized percent. Is it possible to set this o...
I'm copying and pasting an Illustrator CS3 vector graphic into Photoshop CS3. I need it to be exactly 32px high, so I enter "32px" in the transform settings. To my chagrin, the final image comes out to be 33px high. So I try locking the transform height at 31px and it still comes out at 33px high. Then I try to lock t...
I'm trying to come up with a new logo for my tireshop, and I'm trying to create a tire in Photoshop. I really like the outline of this one: How is a circle outline like this created? I know how to create a star with flat corners, but that just don't cut it. How can i make a custom circle outline?
I've been trying to get this effect in Photoshop. I thought about creating 3 semi-transparent layers with the same image and having the images slightly unaligned (to give that ghost or faded trace). Then changing the hue in blue, red and yellow (one for each color shown on the picture) and for the natural colors (face)...
So I am familiar with the align toolbar, and am attempting to get two objects to align centrally. The problem is that one of the objects is where I want it to be placed, and I want the other object to centre itself against this object. How would I go about keeping one element static and aligning another to it?
What is the fastest way by which I can save a group of layers as a single .png file with empty spaces around the group of layers trimmed. I know I can run a script to export every single layer to a .png file, but can I set it to extract only selected layers and save them in one .png file?
I came across a very interesting psd file today. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56753740/tag-cloud.psd (original source http://www.premiumpixels.com/) The file contains a lot of tags with different widths all created from the same smart object. The interesting part is that "the small design with the hole on the left of each s...
I need to know which font is used (or another similar one) for the UEFA Euro 2012 Logo? UEFA Euro 2012
What's that font below "jak ja widzę swoje pismo"? Edit: as two people already got confused - I know the font of header, it's quite obvious it's Comic Sans to everyone who used computer for more than calc. I'm asking about font of the text below comic sans, the one signed with by "W. A. Peterson".
I am in UI design, and currently looking for jobs, and realized that photoshop skills, and being able to create your designs yourself was a big plus for potential jobs. I have some photoshop skills that I learned along the years, but: No actual degree in graphic design (far from it actually: psychology B.S. and Mechan...
I am trying to create icons for the UI of my website to represent key concepts of my trade such as "translation services", "languages", "translation tools"... and I am having a hard time to come up with good ideas. So, I went and looked at some existing pictures on Google Images and Stock photo to find inspiration. M...
Is there any tool in CorelDraw X4/X5 that allows to change the outline like you can do in Illustrator?
I have some jpg images and I need for each of them to have a transparent background. I have GIMP as a graphic tool. I need to put them in a web page and I need to see just the main element and have a transparent background.
Possible Duplicate: How to create a batch job, numbering images (writing text on them) from 1 to 100 in Photoshop? I have an image and I'm adding number to it as a Type layer with some blending options selected. As a result I need to have some flattened image like png or jpeg etc… The problem is that I need to make...
This question has 2 parts: How can I create the background of this image in Photoshop? How can I make it tile-able? By the way, are there any sites that show off tile-able backgrounds that have a "concrete" type look, or something similar to the image above?
I have a path as seen in this screenshot: After "release compound path", I have multiple path segments superimposed on each other: Ho can I make one path from several paths?
Sometimes, in Photoshop, my rulers are off centre: In this case I have the Move Tool selected, I've just placed the image of the pin. It always seems to go away after a while, but I haven't worked out what causes the rulers to snap back to where they should be ([0,0] at top left corner). Changing layers/tools doesn't,...
I'm starting out as a technical writer, and want to present my written material as best as possible to the customers. Are there any "bibles" or introductory books on graphic design that I could benefit from reading? I don't have the time to go in depth, I just want something like "the ten most common mistakes" people c...
I'm addicted to using the X, Y, W, and H parameters in the upper right of the window in Illustrator . It makes precision layouts, resizes, and measurements trivially easy. I understand you can get precision placement in Photoshop by putting a horizontal and vertical guide exactly where you want an object to snap to, bu...
I want to create a new icon for my application according to the new Android Design Guidelines. Is there any way to get my 2D silhouette and automatically extrude it to create the 3D effect?
I always ended up just creating a new rounded rectangle if the existing one don't work. Is there a way to modify the corner radius without having to create a new shape? I know I can modify the bezier handle manually one-by-one, but I can't figure out how to do this in a more accurate way for all 4 corners.
I'm planning to make an icon to represent SVG. I know there are official logos, but I never saw them until I looked for them, and I don't believe many designers associate SVG to these logos. My icon design would be based upon the idea that (if the viewer ever worked with an SVG) he/she would associate the concept of an...
I have an iOS layout designed for Retina, which means it's double the resolution of the older devices. To create standard-resolution PNGs, I would need to scale down the design by 50%. Problem is, I have a lot of vector paths and scaling the image to 50% causes them to land inbetween two pixels. The result is blurry ...
The plotting capabilities of MATLAB leave much to be desired. Right now the python matplotlib library has my attention, but I wanted to ask those of you on Graphic Design if you had any other suggestions for data visualization tools before deciding to dive deep into the world of SciPy/Numpy/matplotlib. Most desired f...
I have to design flyers for someone, which will be printed in black and white (low budget thing). My problem is, I am used to design with colors, to use colors to direct the focus, to emphasize important points, balance the overall design, etc.. and I have no idea how to do without colors. I have tried to just use tone...
I want to draw an animated signature. The way that I draw it it's to cover it manually with a mask layer and keyframe each frame. There is a more efficient way?
Is it okay to vectorize this image to make a poster out of it even though the image is not Creative Commons or anything like that? I'm not using any part of the image directly and only going to use it as a guide to make my own SVG version. This is the image: Here is original Image. It says that it is CC licensed but t...
I've had at least two art teachers tell me that black does not naturally occur in nature, so using pure black makes your designs look synthetic. I do not understand this. Aren't the following black things natural? Asian hair The darkness Panther's fur
I'm trying to create a flash animation of a wing flapping using three keyframes. The first keyframe is at frame 1. I then created a second keyframe at frame 5 by pressing F6, and then I created another keyframe at frame 10 by pressing F6. At frame 5, I rotated the wing so that it is going up. Frame 10 is the same as fr...
I often add rows to tables in Dreamweaver once a day and then add text to these. it is annoying to always have to change the text format to paragraph, is there a way to make paragraph the default format for all text?
When I use InDesign the text box automaticly selects Times New roman as the typeface. can I change this so it automaticly selects my brands typeface.
I'm working on a game and want a burn-down timer which is a circular fuse, burning down (erasing itself) over 100 frames (3.6 degrees each.) How can I generate these frames with software instead of having to hand-draw them. Assume access to all Adobe and free products.
How do I chop out regions of a bitmap in Illustrator, revealing the transparency beneath? I'm starting with a raster graphic imported from Photoshop. The goal is to cut off a precisely-measured triangular section at each corner of the image. My intuition is to use the pen tool to mark out the exact area I want to cut o...
I design emoticons, and often I need to resize things. However, this usually needs to be done without anti-aliasing. I can't find anywhere to do this. It's kind of backward, as it's actually harder for a program to use anti-aliasing than not. It also means I need to spend lots of time hand-pixelling everything twice as...
I'm just beginning to use Illustrator and am pretty well versed in Photoshop. In Photoshop, you can hit Shift + (the macro for the tool) and it'll scroll through the subtools. For example, you can hold Shift and hit E a couple times and it will scroll through the Eraser tools. This doesn't work the same in Illustrator...
When designing a logo is there a minimum size canvas that should be used to keep quality when it is enlarged or when reduced? Obviously the dimensions of a canvas depend on the shape of the logo, but is there a sugested size?
I often come across elements of color which look very natural and realistic despite there being only one solid color (not in a pixel-exact way, but rather in the perceived sense). When I try to reproduce the effect, for example by filling with one color and not putting any other effects, the color looks bland and borin...
This is a font that a client would like to use on his site that I'm designing. Can someone help me determine what the font is? Here is a logo with the font I am looking for:
I'm building an MS Word template for my reports. I am not sure what to use for fonts. I see lots of reports from clients and others using Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Calibri, Cambrai, and Trebuchet MS. I personally like Trebuchet for tables and charts but do not fancy it for wording in a report. What ar...
I want to make similar videos like these guys. I therefore have to draw some stickman and make them animate somehow. My Questions: How to draw stickmen. No, really, how? What to watch out for when drawing? Draw on paper or draw in photoshop and print? If paper, which type of pen to use? Are there any good tutori...
I need to do a pie chart with exact 1/3 chunks. Obviously it's easy to do a quarter circle - just cut the circle in half and then cut that half in half. But how would I do 1/3 circle?
I downloaded a PSD from http://iconsweets.com/ The PSD has several icons, each on its own layer. I think they use linked layer masks or something, but I can't figure out how to copy just one icon to use it in a new file. How do I copy one icon/layer including the styles so that I can easily change the color of it?
I am designing a mobile site for an existing website that was made in early 2000's. The existing logo uses a bold version of Bodini with smaller text which uses a thin sans serif typeface. The existing site uses Georgia for body text. The tone/mood of the website is elegant and deals with quality food products. The mai...

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