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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 compression has created some artifacts as well. I've already tried "reduce noise" filter in a hundred different ways and, while somewhat helpful, does not produce the effect I'm looking for. Is there some way to convert, normalize, or blend all of these different shades of red to a single "red" color? Likewise for the blacks and whites. I don't want 35 different shades of light gray around the edges of the my image. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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 PSD files) When designing graphic for a website / application with multiple pages/screens, the designer will work with layers for each screen, and layers for each object in that screen. The question would be, is it normal to ask for the design in a single PSD file? or it is better to ask for it in multiple PSD (one for each page?) it makes sense to ask for it in multiple so you can keep the slicing information for each screen, or maybe you can store multiple sets of slices in the same PSD for different sets of layers? What is the standard for receiving a design? I am pretty much asking from a customer perspective how to get the most out of the design I am buying and what to ask for so I can make small adjustments myself if required.
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 this at all possible in Photoshop? I know how to do this to create a "permanent" outline, so no need to explain that - I just wonder if I can set up the layers in such a way that the font is not "set in stone". Perhaps this isn't quite what Photoshop is designed for - which software would you recommend that better captures the "history of features" paradigm, where I can go back and change the decisions made at the very start of the design?
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 Emboss and Drop Shadow to the stroke, so I convert the layer on the right to Smart Object and apply the effects. Note that it's now a Smart Object inside a Smart Object. But, if I now edit the text layer, the change doesn't propagate to the nested Smart Object anymore. There are now two text layers which can be edited independently: Can I somehow create nested Smart Objects while sharing the content inside the deepest object with other objects, so that my text editing propagates to all objects regardless of how deeply I wrapped them into other Smart Objects?
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 browser)
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 side elements). I was wondering if there is a particular way of approaching this with regard to UML, or something similar. Pretty platform agnostic, but with a preference for visio.
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. Example, one effect popular with photographers is to copy the image into a second layer, set its blending mode to overlay or soft light etc., then apply a blur to it. This somewhat smoothens the image. But it also changes its appearance into a glowy kind of look (which is the aim, usually). I want a treatment that will fake the appearance of a higher-res smooth image without too many side-effects. Any tricks of this kind that anyone knows of?
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 give a "3D" effect to the images so they have perspective? Thanks.
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 I cannot replicate. Can someone help give me some guidance on the best way to create realistic looking gold effects in PS. Note: I do not have a screenshot. I am looking for general instructions that are a little more than gradient overlay.
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, device to device at the office, the color reproduction varied greatly. I have a DoubleSight DS-2700dw at home, which is an S-PVA display, but it's not exactly "high end". The original had 3 stuck subpixels and died within a year of purchase, and the replacement also has at least as many dead subpixels, as well as other problems (such as a cracked stand and requiring multiple restarts and a series of well-timed key presses to actually start working). So a $300 monitor calibration system feels a bit pointless. All of the solutions I've looked at seemed to be targeted at photographers (even moreso the cheaper units) and print design. But I also didn't really know how to choose between the different models. I'd rather not go on price alone, given that, if it's worth investing in, I'd rather invest in a professional grade calibration system that will serve me well than an entry-level solution that won't give me the full benefits of display calibration. So what differentiates the various color calibration units? Will all professional grade systems pretty much serve you equally well except when used in high end photography or dealing with ultra wide gamut displays? Does it really make sense to even invest in a hardware color calibrator if you're primarily doing web design? What features are consider "must haves" when shopping for display calibrators? What else does someone new to display calibration need to know?
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 edit-ability, I get a notice that some Containers have been flattened. This generally translates into the whole document being flattened and I have little options for working with the layers in Photoshop. Is there a more effective way to preserve the layers and edit-ability in Photoshop? Thanks!
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 cloud procedurals but just can't get it 'spun' enough looking. Any suggestions? Edit: As requested, here's one of the attempts I had. I think by persisting in piecing together sections like this and tweaking transparencies and straightening out the major strands might give me a believable enough image. But always keen to learn of novel solutions.
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' layers and paths? Any rationale appreciated.
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 24x24px or 32x32px in Photoshop? I haven't been able to find any good tutorial for newbies online. Thanks
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 just repositioning it downward. I tried selecting based on guides.. and every time the selection did not line up. I can fix this with CSS, but I would much rather have the images be starting at the same point, and wondering what the best way to achieve this is! I'm pretty sure the problem must be with subpixels and how they are selected, or it could be related to the border of the image being transparent and photoshop dropping the transparent pixels when the selection is copied. I just need to know how photo-shop handles these situations and what options I have to make a reliable workflow for getting properly sized and positioned images saved out.
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 different. (There's a "heads" and "tails" side to each token.) To make these line up properly, I'm thinking I need to measure from the RIGHT side of the page rather than the left for the back side of the sheet. So if one token is inset 0.1" from the left on the front art, it needs to be inset 0.1" - exactly - from the right on the back art. How do I measure from the right side of the page like this?
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 or registration, 100% width seems far too wide. Who is going to have a password that requires an input 700px wide? However, when I make narrower inputs, the remaining 200-300px gap to the right just feels awkward, especially when there is full-width content either above or below it. Imagine that the following form is part of StackExchange with the current layout and width: This gap feels awkward----------------------------------------------------------^ Does anyone else encounter this? How do you solve it elegantly?
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 text/fonts. (Well, I guess that could be a subjective topic, but it's irrelevant to the discussion – let's just stay true to the fact; sometimes you prefer one or the other, and often (here's the gist of the whole thing) you prefer both schemes treating their intended elements, respectively, right? I often have to export two versions; one _art_opt.png and one _type_opt.png when making e.g. a logotype. Then, I have to place both rendered images on two layers in Photoshop, cutting off the Art Optimized portion from the Type area, and vice versa. Just in order to get what I was looking for in the first place: OPTIMIZED art … in other words, "art" rendered Art Optimized and text rendered Type Optimized. Factor in that I often make various different sizes; transparent versions and opaque versions; saved in various formats … and you have some SERIOUS™ time waste right there. And so, the question I just wonder, is there any method of having art elements treated with Art Optimized rendition and text elements treated as Type Optimized – all in the same go? Below is an example showing how the logo mark appears good in one optimization (art) and the logo text appears better in the other optimization (type), in which I'd have to save two files and bring them into Photoshop to manually mix the good parts together :
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 use a 3D tool (and presumably, convert the logo to a 3D model)?
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 better sense for what's considered 'elaborate' and not. Again, keep in mind that we assume that these treatments makes good sense in terms of representing the identity. Question relates to the 'tipping point', where you'd say, this ain't worth it, even if it helps better present the brand identity – i.e. where do the technical/practical consequences of (which particular) treatments overshadow any advantages of a more favorable identity representation? Please restrict the answers to Illustrator. Examples of the treatments I'm referring to Might be things like Inner Glow, Drop Shadow, SVG filters, miscellaneous blending modes – you name it. Examples of consequences I'm referring to Might be display incompabilities, software incompabilities (notorious or not), printing problems (printshops commonly rejecting certain mixtures), RIP issues and basically, what have you. Background This question is not about justifying effects and 'elaborate' treatments. It's about situations where you'd find such to be favorable, but where you'll have to consider their technical implications. Comments such as this, is what made me curious to open this question thread (this is not directed to you personally, Scott) : "I don't use effect on logos. I design flat shapes for logos" …
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 case it's not possible, I am hoping that someone might have a suggestion for an alternative font that might look / feel like Noteworthy. WhatTheFont returned with a few suggestions (e.g. Nobel Cond Light, Wasabi Thin, Xeilo Condense), which unfortunately don't quite work well. Edit: To be clear, I need more help to find another font that has a similar look / feel to Noteworthy.
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 objects" the outside rectangle is also selected, but I did not select it with my mouse! It is selected "automatically"?! Is this a bug or a feature? If it is a feature, where can I disable it :-) They are not grouped, I use the mouse ("draw" a rectangle around the objects to select them; no shift key, no lasso, no wand)
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 choosing multiple points with shift and moving them together but again this also means doing it for each corner so therefore, 4 times. Is there an easier method? Such as stating the size I want and having it reshaped accordingly with corners intact. That's what I wonder. I'm using Photoshop. How can I resize a rounded rectangle vector mask and keep the rounded corners at their correct relative measurements?
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 licenses. So I'm asking for a software that enables a tablet's touch screen to be used as an display/pen-input for Photoshop/other-design-programs as they run on my PC's resources; not using the tablet for anything but displaying what the GPU outputs, and inputting from the pen. If you can also recommend specific tablets within this range, please do. It should be Android. But Windows 8 also looks promising and I'll be using Windows (8 too) on my PC so maybe higher compatibility? Pressure sensitivity is a must. Precision should be high. Of course that all depends on your knowing a particular tablet model that works, or a workaround that works for a model or a series.
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 seems to be using the North America General Purpose color profile. How can I make the jpeg look the same color as in photoshop? Can I convert the file? I hope I don't have to redo it! Thanks
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)? This resume took quite a while to design and I'm not really that keen on redoing it.
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 sort of thing. I've seen a state change to the cursor but I think this would be too subtle for this particular project. Does anyone have any resources or ideas about how to clearly communicate to a user that a specific page object is draggable?
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 the 'Hand Tool' icon. In seemingly random fashion, it does any of these two things: A (happens most of the time): It flickers for about ¼ sec (gets selected, then de-selected, just before the Layer Style dialog opens). -or- B. For as long as the Layer Style dialog is open, the Hand Tool stays 'selected'. But when exiting the dialog you get back whatever tool you were using before.
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: \|-------\|. The two \| \| at each end should me moved automatically, whenever I scale the line.
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 draw it by hand.
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 try to get the duplicate points on top of each other by hand. How do I do this?
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 exact - that is, they don't quite match the text, clipping edges, and not using smooth lines. I was able to export earlier in the week. To the best of my recollection, I just opened my document in Photoshop, and went to File ⇒ Export Paths to Illustrator, clicked OK a few times, and had my document in Illustrator. This doesn't seem to be working now. What exactly could I be doing wrong? Is there anyway to make the paths created in Photoshop be more precise?
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 point me in the direction to create my own.
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 illustrations done yet. So as far as I understand, the workflow to create these apps would be something like this: Stage 1: Write the book Stage 2: Create illustrations for each page Stage 3: Create some animation and interactivity in the illustrations Stage 4: an app developer, maybe working with a graphic designer, puts the app together and makes it available in the apps store 3 questions: Is that the right workflow? Stages 2 and 3 -- are these stages usually done by 2 separate people: an illustrator creating the illustrations and an animator adding animation and interactivity? Or would often one person do both illustration and animation? Am I missing anything from that workflow? Thanks :)
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 posters and paste them? Can I paste only fragments of them? Should I? What is the suitable balance between text and pictures? Any help is highly appreciated.
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 just specific to billing, in case we decide to treat other info in a similar way. I've come up with a circle with a pie piece cut out of it, and one with the piece filled in in green, but looking for other ideas.... (Note: this is a B2B web app that will be primarily used by experienced users. Also, the icon won't be the only indicator.)
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 find one with a guy getting his hair washed. I found this: http://www.inmagine.com/hana011/hana011071-photo but, $300 for 1 photo? That's crazy. I had assumed that I'd be able to find salon 'collections' available, similar to how you can find graphic design 'collections' of buttons/backgrounds and other types of resources. But I am starting to learn I may be wrong, and this seems like it is going to be much more difficult / financially burdening than I anticipated. Free sites like www.sxc.hu are not high quality enough models. (masculine, etc), and have little to none in a Salon type setting. 'Royalty Free' sites like istockphoto or shutterstock are pretty pricy, especially for subscriptions ($200/month?) Perhaps I am experiencing culture shock and do not understand this environment. If this is the case, if you can link to a good article describing the culture of stock photography as it relates as a resource to graphic design, I'd be very grateful. If there's a secret I've been missing out on, please share. If I should just steal images off google search, because the event of legal action against the small salon business I'm doing work for is highly unlikely, I'd love to hear your explanation. Thanks
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 examples that I've found: "ct", "ck", "ch". I'm new so I can't directly post an image, but you can view the example here: Calibri Font Issue
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 option back again? Now in CS5 the width and height loose this information and go to 100%, why this has been removed? does exists some way to keep this option back?
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 the transform height at 30px and it comes out at 31px high. It has skipped 32px!!!
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) adding a 4th layer with an original image but desaturating it just a bit. I tried this idea but couldn't replicate the effect, so I want see if any of you have better ideas. Note: I don't care about the horizontal lines shown on the pic, just to get the faded effect or those 3 colors. Alright so I got it going. On the "Layers" pane I selected the "Channels" tab. Selected each color channel and shift the image just a bit. Thank you @Lèse majesté. For some reason this didn't work last night I had an error saying that channels could not me moved but thanks to your answer i tried once again and now it works. I tried to post a sample of what i made but i dont't have 10 reputation points to do it.
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 smart object" remains in perfect proportion while the width of the entire smart object has been changed. If I select a particular tag ans press ctrl+t, the smart object immediately changes to it's original size and any re-sizing will result in distorting the proportion. If I go inside the smart object and make any change and update it, the entire tags will revert to its original size. What I want to know is, How do you resize a smart object keeping aspect ratio of only certain elements within the smart object intact? As you can see the same is being done in the attached file. This'll give me tremendous advantage while designing buttons of different sizes and being able to control the design from within only one smart object.
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 Mechanical Engineering M.S.) No professional experience as graphical designer I am conscious that my skills are too low to be decently used in a professional context So what I would like is a way to find short requests, of the kind "I want a banner for my website, with this, this and this", or "a loading screen for my mobile game", and so on. This would allow me to improve my skills, and also build a portfolio, which is something I am really lacking right now. Alternatively, since people doing stuff for free could be harmful for actual professional people, would there be a place asking for small requests against small fees? Again, I am more trying to build experience than to build money. Thanks!
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. My designs are done from scratch, they are clearly different from the originals, but they were inspired by it. For instance, seeing a set of regular dices show up in a "translation" search inspired me to do this: I am pretty sure that's Ok. On the other end, my new years wishes card: is somewhat based on this wish card design. I am in two minds on that one. Is it different enough? I haven't sent it yet, and will most likely buy the rights just to be sure before I use mine, but it definitely raises the question of finding the right limit between inspiration and copyright infringement. Is it at all acceptable to look at other people's creations on the subject before doing your own take on it? If not, where do you find the inspiration for your designs? If you consider it OK to look at existing works on the Web for inspiration, how do you draw the line between "finding inspiration" and "illegal copy"?
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 99 images like this, each with the different number (1, 2, …, 99). Can it be automated somehow (and saved in some folder with filenames like (1.png, 2.png, …)? It's a killer job to repeatedly change some text & save the image almost 100 times. Any replies will be awesome!
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, nor does opening the rulers preferences panel. Why does this happen? How can I revert the rulers back when it does?
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 can make in design to help making 80% of the material in the world look much better.
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, but there are countless disadvantages to that method. Are the writable XYWH fields hidden somewhere in Photoshop as well? Or is there another way to put something at an exact spot, resize it to an exact size, or read off its exact dimensions as easily?
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 "Inkscape document" to SVG, by borrowing a few items from its logo: So my question is, if you use/used SVG, would you associate Inkscape to SVG? Or maybe you used another tool, and an "Inkscape document" wouldn't ring a bell to you?
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 borders all over the place. So the question: What do I do to resize the document to 50% while keeping all the vector paths on pixel bounds?
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 features: --Vector output --Graphics produced programmatically, not using a GUI Bonus points for anything that handles Ternary plots out-of-the-box.
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 tones of grey instead of several colors, but it still feels like playing with one color, and I am not going anywhere. Even small pieces of one color would totally change my life, but it is not a possibility. I am pretty sure there is a way to make a good design even with only grey shades, and more talented people are able to do it, but I just don't know about it. Where can I look for inspiration? Are there applicable principles for this kind of design? Thanks!
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 the original NatGeo one isn't, I don't think. I don't plan to make money off it or anything, I just want a nice poster and the quality of the original isn't that good.
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 frame 1. frame 1: frame 5: frame 10: I right clicked on a frame between frames 5 and 10 and then clicked the first option, "Create Motion Tween"; I then performed the same action on a frame between frames 1 and 5. When I preview or test the movie, there is no transition between the frames. From frame 1 to 5, there is supposed to be a transition of the wing flapping up. From frame 5 to 10, there is supposed to be a transition of the wing flapping downwards to its initial position. Instead, when I test the movie, the wing remains still until frame 5 and instantly goes to its "wing up state" and when it gets to frame 10, instantly goes to its "wing down state". Here is what the timeline looks like after I've made the changes mentioned above: I'm using Flash CS4 to make the animation but the tutorial I'm following is using Flash CS3. I know I can use other methods to create the motion tween but I want to know why the method I'm using isn't working.
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 out, then hit the delete button and watch everything within the path bounds vanish back to transparency. And that's the goal. But it doesn't seem to work. Hitting delete, once I've laid out the path with the pen tool, has no effect. Using the eraser tool inside the path has no effect. I don't see a way to convert the path to a selection.
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 large. I'd especially prefer a way that this can be done within Photoshop CS3, though it's not required.
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 and I can't seem to find the macro on Google. Anybody know how to do this? Thanks.
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 boring. Mainly what effects are used to make colors look more natural? I am aware some use subtle radial gradients and noise. Are there others?
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 are your suggestions for fonts to be used in technical engineering reports? Add to that, what would you suggest the proper font-spacing, size, paragraph and line spacings for that font should be?
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 tutorials on this? Thank you very much for reading :) Note: your free to laugh :D
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 main colour palette is black, grey, and white. I am new to design and excited about the challenge of typography, though I am finding it hard to get a good typeface scheme. I want an elegant (fairly neutral) sans-serif typeface that works well with a bold Bodini style heading, and also plays well with Georgia style body text? I am also looking for alternatives to Georgia for body text. Reading articles there are lots of great tips and best practises but I am still struggling to make sense of all of the typefaces out there and make a good match. Has anyone got any suggestions on what typefaces might be a good match? or what process they use for choosing typefaces and typeface combinations? EDIT: I should also add that I am using web-fonts, and preferably free ones!

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