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The background color of my website is a light gray. I have a stock image with a white background that I would like to blend with my background. So I picked a small rectangle of the background and pasted it as a new layer in Photoshop. Then I added a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to the stock image below. I moved...
I have created an Arc using Pen Tool in a new layer. I want to fill and the convert it into a shape for further manipulation. I tried "Ctrl + left click" on layer to select the stroke as well as invert select, to select shape/stroke outline, nothing happened. I'm entirely new to Photoshop CS5 and graphic design. Your g...
How do i prevent this.. Whenever i group layers and try to move them around only the layer my mouse is clicking moves. What's the point of grouping then? I know it worked in cs5. Is my photoshop bugged?
I am part of Silex Labs non profit organization, and one of our mission is to bridge the gap between designers and developers. An important question is how to motivate designers to get involved in FOSS (free and open source software). As a developer I can say that I am really happy to be part of the FOSS movement beca...
I really hope someone can help! In the past few months I have been having issues with the colors on my jpg files, originating from Photoshop (not sure if this has anything to do with it). When uploading the images online, the colors and contrast are majorly affected. Please see the attached image 1, versus the image t...
I'm currently designing a website for a place that uses a large circular logo. Their logo contains an image as well as text. The problem I'm running into is fitting this logo into the web design while still keeping the text in the logo readable, but not taking up a huge amount of screen real estate. Circular logos are ...
I have created a composite shape in Pixelmator: it is a circle with rays around (=sun icon) - all in one layer as shapes elements. Let's say I should transform some rays by rotating them into precise angle. My problem is I cannot realise how to select subelements in that layer - sometimes I have success, sometimes I d...
I have some problems printing rich black, and I´ve spent days trying to find a solution on the internet, but there is just too much information... I´d happily spend weeks and months learning all about printing, but I "unfortunately" have to print an artwork asap, so all help will be greatly appreciated! I use an adjust...
I want to create a T-shirt to commemorate the tenth edition of a gaming convention and I had the idea to have the names of all the games that were played during the convention form a big roman numeral X. I'm looking for a free program, app or plugin that allows me to insert chunks of text (the names of the games) and a...
When making mockups for Responsive Web Design projects, should I separate them by Page or by Screen Size? What are the pros and cons of the following: Page based: All the home page mockups in all different screen sizes Screen-size based: All the pages for width <= 960px I'm using Balsamiq Mockups to make mockups and ...
There is a highly ranked designer in DesignCrowd that posts dozens of web designs each day, with so much variations on each one. What I want to know is: Would this require using templates, and then customizing them? (Would that even we allowed on websites like this?) Could he be starting them from scratch? (Doubt it) ...
I'm somewhat new to GIMP and I was hoping to take a logo like this: And to change the colors of the background and font as someone did here: Except I'd like to do it with different colors. Is there a simple way to do this?
I've been trying to do this for a few days now and have not gotten the results I need. I'm not sure I'm using the correct terminology in the title, if not, please feel free to correct me, and I'll update it. I want to go from this: to this (i've sampled an area of the transparency to show the k value in case that help...
I'm looking for a software tool to slice an image into smaller ones. It will be a part of a much bigger project so the effort to export the output should be minimal. It doesn't matter if the initial setup takes time but making a change into the scene and taking an export will be something that we would be doing regular...
I want to use a CC-BY-SA image in a printed newsletter. What is the most succinct and unobtrusive way I can comply with the license? It would really clutter up my design to slap the creator's name, the title of the work, the type of license, the URL where I got the file, AND the URL of the license either on the image i...
So at work I have been converting a lot of PSDs to web. When I need say a background image of a box I hide everything else hide all the text and content inside of said box, select, copy merge etc. Then I need to go back to my PSD for the next item, except now everything is hidden and it's a giant frustration to try to ...
In InDesign, I know that I can break a text box into columns pretty easily by selecting it and playing with these options: I also know that I can set up the margins and columns and then use linked text boxes to do columns: However, neither of these do what I want to do, and I haven't really found a really elegant sol...
When I click on the little settings wheel in my brush panel there are various brushes listed on the bottom. 'Basic Brushes', 'Dry Media Brushes' and so on. I'd like to put brushes that I download or create in sets like these to so I can easily find and manage them. How do I do this? I tried to search on google but I co...
I find that when using Photoshop CS6, the type cursor will have a dotted square around it (rather than a dotted circle) when hovering over a shape layer. How will clicking and typing be any different than if I were to click and type outside of the shape layer? Thank you.
I do a lot of work with Illustrator, but I've never been super happy with how my work looks on our website. I've tried various techniques - saving from Illustrator, and opening in Photoshop and saving - but I'm still missing something. Ed. The logo was only ever supplied as AI. I get the same slightly fuzzy result whet...
Could anyone tell me how to create the tartan design shown in the attached file? Im using Illustrator CS6
Hey everyone I've seen this letter and now I can't remember where and how it was, or just an image or animated-kind of font, I need this image hi-res or the vector file of this, or somethnig close to it.
Can anyone tell me the name of the design style used for these types of designs? If there is a name for them, even. They're text heavy with different typography on just about every line and a sort of controlled chaos. I'm trying to find a good set of examples online but it's not Googling well and this isn't my area of...
Occasionally a science journal asks authors to submit figures as CMYK (JPG or TIFF) for publication. When I have done this in the past, the colors in the figures end up looking very muted and washed out - even when published in print format. What I don't understand is that these same journals have published articles fr...
I have several PSDs, each PSD represents a page that makes up a small A6 magazine. Now firstly, I wanted to ask, do I send the individual PSD files to be printed? If so, what file type is best? (With CMYK) If not, what should I do? Should I combine them into one InDesign document? (Coulnd't find a way to import the PSD...
A client has permission to show movies in a big screen for the public (nonprofit). I was asked to design a flyer to promote the showing. They want me to show the movie poster and make flyers with the information. Since it is a non-profit event, am I allowed to use the movie poster in my flyer? If not, am I at least ab...
I'm watching a tutorial in which the instructor is cycling through blend modes for a pattern overlay and the shape layer instantly updates with whichever blend mode he has selected. I have read that this might only be possible on a PC and not a Mac - can anyone confirm whether that is true, and if not, the necessary sh...
I just drew one black rectangle. I then changed the foreground colour to red and drew a second one on a new layer, but this remained black. I had to go into the fill options and change it to the red colour I desired, but I'm wondering why it was not enough simply to change the foreground colour before drawing the new s...
I want to replicate the style of this logo: I'm using AI and this is what I have tried so far: 1) Create text, 2) Create polygon shape 3) Envelope Distort This is the result: As you can see the text is curved. Is there a way to re-create the "rectangular" effect of the original logo? Thank you in advance
I've exported tens (if not hundreds) of PDFs with InDesign and I've never experienced this problem. It's pretty weird... The problem is that grey boxes appear around some objects. Next to that, the image quality is very good in Apple Preview, but it's pretty bad in Adobe Acrobat X and Adobe Reader 11. What happens: Al...
We get a lot of questions in regards to what should my file spec be, what should I do with X and Y, how should I do my black etc. etc. and a large majority of the time we suggest to ask the printer which is an accurate assumption. Even though I think this is an accurate answer I think we should have a question that wo...
i have an issue with the vector shape in the background in an illustrator file, it appears differently on my client's pc. That's how it appears to me (the good one): and that's how it appears to the client: The vector shape in the background has transparency 50% and luminosity blending over the orange gradient color....
I have two layers; one with a gradient style on it directly, and one inside a group with the exact same gradient style applied. However, the gradient's range is the entire canvas, instead of the bounds of the shape(s) inside it. Here's a picture: Is there anyway to constrain the bounds of the gradient to the shapes in...
When I use an Illustrator script using visible bounds or selection size on clipped art, the script sees the original size of the clipped art as the groups's size instead of its visible (clipped) size. Lets say I have a 150mm x 200mm image and I am using a clipping mask to clip out a 100mm x 100mm part. So now I see a r...
I know nothing of graphic design. I've started developing for Android, and I want my interface to be beautiful, and for that I know it needs to be designed by hand, but I also know that means knowing how to do design work. Is Illustrator the right program to start learning? Is that used for this? To my surprise I actua...
How can i achieve this effect in photoshop? is it hand drawn in illustrator or can it be done using a couple of filters and gradients in photoshop ? I found that picture while going through this page. http://www.digitalartserved.com/gallery/Various-Illustrations-2013/10068071
What's the name of the font used in the new iOS 7 note app?
I'm looking for quick, yet professional looking ways of making text stand out on a photos which don't really have nice bland areas to put text. Something which would take an experienced photoshopper 5 minutes or less to do. I found the image below as an example, but the text shadowing technique usually looks pretty ama...
So, I've got a Fixed Layout ePub. It was created in InDesign and published using Aquafadas publishing tools. I'm trying to figure out how to do text popups or quick footnote referencing on Kindle/Amazon/non-epub devices. I don't care how to do it, just trying to find ANY way to do it. I need to be able to test it on my...
In text editors, html, etc. the default mode of sub title spacing seems to quite equal. Why is that? To clarify, we have an end paragraph of a subsection and a new subsection with title and opening paragraph. Looking like this: p1 h3 p2 Now the spacing between p1 and h3, and, h3 and p2 is usually by default equal or n...
Is there a name to refer to this kind of (computer) drawing style: which resembles a little bit the style of the Portal 2 trailer?
I am in need of a font with numbers that look like this: Does anyone know of a font with numbers like these?
I have an image about 1000 by 600px. In Photoshop CS5 I could set the pixel width of the line to say, 3 px and drag the mouse from point A to B to create the line. Now, in CS6with the vector system, I cannot set the WEIGHT of the line to less that .35mm. I cannot create a thin line!! Grrrr
I have an illustrator file (actually it's a map) which has lines, polygons and some patterns. I would like to scale the stroke width of all lines (also lines inside patterns) by 80% without altering the patterns or the size of the objects. When using the Scale tool I must chose one of "transform objects" and "transform...
I am working on a web UI design and using adobe-photoshop. I have to make complete UI to show what exactly a screen would look after different interactions. Say, the following is the basic layout of the design, with four sections A, B, C and D. Now I have some 10 interactions and so 10 different files in which I'm sh...
I have a PDF with 20-30 pages. I want to print them but with different numbers of copies for each page. Right now I'm using Acrobat Reader. I know I can do this manually by selecting the page in the thumbnail list and chose number of copies. But I want to do it automatically, something like this: 112, 27, 3*15 Maybe...
I'm a bit of a newbie when confronted with photoshop and Fireworks etc, I much prefer drawing mountains in paint. However, I've a wonderful idea for a site navigation element but I'm having difficulties. I have the original image and an image the size and shape of a jigsaw piece. I need to make the original image the s...
I'm trying to perform an image-trace on a bitmap artwork. The vector result will then be cut into glass, and I need to have exactly 60 colors, since we only have 60 colors of glass. Is there a way to set up Illustrator to image-trace a limited palette of 60 colors? I've found the slider in CS6 that ranges from 2-30, bu...
I am looking at the design of a website http://www.froont.com and they seem to generate the logo text using SVG. I am totally unable to understand how to generate logo text this way? Help is appreciated in understanding whats going on here? Here is the what I see in the HTML source. ...
While designing a web site layout in Photoshop, on a 960 grid, sometimes we want to put some extra guides to use along with our main guides. Is there a way to give a separate color to some individual Guides?
Is it possible to make a .jpeg photo larger without losing "quality"? I have a photo that is 450px x 750px and would like to make it 3 times bigger for web not print? I've been told that Illustrator is the tool to make it happen and I have Illustrator CS6.
I have designed a Flyer using Photoshop. First with RGB colors, but I want to change them to CMYK. I use black, white and two pantone colors. Black is used for the text and there is the problem. I select the text, CtrlA, and select the color window in the option bar on top. I have unchecked the Only Web Colors checkbox...
can someone tell me how to get the corners and lines from one image changed so that they look as comic like as in picture 2?
I'm wondering if there's any tool or method that I can use to determine where the midpoint is between any two objects in Illustrator. To give a simple example, say I have a simple rectangle at the top of my artboard, and another at the bottom. How can I find the exact centre of the area between those two objects? Add...
How do I make this picture white on transparent background and keep it's semitransparent parts - (Background is already transparent).
I'm from programmer background. I would like to mimic the color scheme used in most Google Android app such as GMail, Google Analytic, to use them in my own app. Those color looks Elegant Harmony Comfortable I was wondering, usually, for a designer, how does they generate such color scheme?
I wanted to make something like the AwolNation Megalithic Symphony's album cover with the cliffs made into letters. So far I've gotten no where mainly because when I try and use the pen tool and make a mountain picture into part of a letter it looks super ugly. How would you go about making this? Example: 1) Finding a...
I'm working with a team on an app that deals with events(conventions, meetups, weddings, etc) and travel. The closest competitor would be Epilogger. One section in this app is called Activity(ies). The content in here is fairly identical with Facebook's News Feed, or any other social media's content feed. Its basically...
I apologize if this question has been answered already, I'm not experienced with Photoshop and not sure what to search for. I'm using CS4. I have a grid made up of different layers, basically like a checkers or chess board, where each square is a different layer. I've decided to change the color of some of the squares....
How can I make this logo in Photoshop? Please teach me how its possible, or give me a hint what to search for to find tutorials for similar results. Thank you.
I am basically looking for a software (free for students) to have mechanical 3D features (extrude, fillet, etc) and very basic animation capabilities (like different positions for a membrane to open an close a valve). It should be capable to export to other formats like jpg or pdf. For example Autodesk 123Design is go...
Which "effect" is a greater visual indicator for a line which looks to be travelling into the screen? A color gradient, or greater to narrower width (starting at full width on the bottom and narrowing as the top approaches)?
As a Freelance Production Artist, are clients entitled to native files? My now ex-client gave me images to edit for their website and marketing g and are now requesting all the PSD's so they can have for further editing.
If I try to draw a grid in Inkscape, there are two different options: Extensions -> Render -> Grid Extensions -> Render -> Kartesian Grid But both of them use pixel-metric(?). Is it possible to use other metrics (e.g. millimeter). As a workaround, I converted pixel->millimeter, but it didn't work. There is always an ...
I want to color an object in Photoshop and I would like it to look like the tree in this image, with darker edges. I know I can do this manually with the brush tool, but is there an even quicker and easier way of achiving this effect? Thanks in advance! Nena
Basically, I'm a programmer and I'm pretty new to graphics design, and I don't have much knowledge of the keywords used by the graphic design community. That's why I'm facing problem in googling this out. I've an image like this:- As we can see that there is only one color in it. How can I convert this icon into a red...
I'm trying to redraw a diagram, and I'm having difficulty recreating the base spiral: I need to make the concentric spiral part. Can you help me?
Is there a way to hide the contents of a clipping mask in photoshop? I don't want the clipping mask to show through in areas where the clipped layer is transparent. Images might make it clear. My layer setup: Without clipping mask: With clipping mask: Desired result: I know I can manually adjust the clipping mask t...
I need to find a font just like Lato font that includes a Latin Extended version. I like Lato but it doesn’t include characters from Latin Extended and so I can’t type ş, ğ etc. Here's an example screenshot: I’m using this font for my web-site project.
I have an object that has been rotated and attached to another. I now want to detach this object and rotate it so that it is straight again. The object consists of multiple boxes so surely there is a way to rotate it so that one of the faces is straight along the z axis? Is this possible?
How do I draw a simple rectangle with no fill in Inkscape? To my knowledge, the "Stroke style" doesn't give me this option.
When I do any kind of point editing with Inkscape, I will have an object (A) and delete one of the points hoping to get C, but instead I get B. I understand why this happens, it's so curves can be made more optimal, but very often I don't want my handle types to change. It is tedious enough making sure points are no-ha...
Is there a way in Inkscape to set the boundaries of the svg file the way they would be set if you export as a bitmap? I want that there's no whitespace above, beneath, right or left of the object that I select.
I am learning on a PSD file, the final picture like below, I really want to know how to make such a shadow effect. I hidden all the above layer, and the shadow layer is this: Does anyone know how to do it?? I have this question for days, I asked in other place, but nobody answer my question.
What considerations do I have to think about when I choose whether to set line spacing at 90%, 100%, 110% or 120% when I design a diagram? Is there research about the effects that different line spacing has on the user?
I'm not actually a font designer. I'm a web developer who's using Glyphicons, a library of icons encoded as glyphs within a font. I'm using them in Bootstrap 3 and they're really great because they scale to any size and can be set to any color, making them really flexible for web design. Anyway, the icons within Glyp...
I have 15 years of notes (2 sided) on very random scraps of paper. I would like to photograph or scan them and create a collage type book where the b page is the back side similarly arranged (angles, etc.). Any suggestions about the best way (scan or photograph) or a good program that could make mirroring the b page s...
I've got a font called Lato, and I need to add the characters İ, Ğ, ğ, Ş and ş. How can I do this? 1st photo is the original. 2nd photo is the same font that I upgraded:
I have a 700Kb JPEG file (white cardboard texture) that I'm using as a background on a website. A file this large takes too long to load for snappy page hits. I don't need the full resolution, a reduction in image quality is fine, but I do need to keep the JPEG the same size (to fill the entire screen). What would be...
I have a large number of elements (triangles) that together make up a bigger object. Each triangle has a slightly different fill color and no edge color. A part of the surface is shown below: The problem is that although zooming in to 6400% still doesn't show any disconnection or overlap (see below), the thin edge lin...
I'm working on a project that needs to draw pictures of human lips. I just wonder if there is a program to draw a human face (or simply lips). Thank you so much.
Is it possible to open a .jpg in Fireworks so that the canvas size will automatically fit it? At the moment I have to get the dimensions of the image, create a canvas of this size and then drag the image into it. It's just one of those little annoying things, but it all adds up...!
How can I change color of this vector in Illustrator? Each triangle is different. I want it to be in other color tones like brown, grey etc.
I'm a complete novice to Photoshop CC and I feel like I'm missing something very obvious, but I can't find the answer. I want to re-size my 1024 x 748 image to 1024 x 768. When I look online, it simply refers me to the "Constrain Proportions" option box to accomplish this - for example, like in this pic: However, whe...
The program for which I'm creating svg doesn't display text that I create in Inkscape where Inkscape saves the text as flowRoot. When does Inkscape choose to use svg:flowRoot? Is there a way to tell it to convert a field with svg:flowRoot into svg:text?
I am trying to identify what looks like a regular typeface for client. This is from their logo, which they only have as an image. I also included the full image, but I am not sure if the "J" is from the font or custom.
Is there a way to preserve multiple spaces in HTML export?
I have this source in Adobe Flash CS6 (AS3). var loader:Loader =new Loader(); imageViewer_mc.addChild(loader); loader.x=65; loader.y=50; loader.load(new URLRequest("image.jpg")); image.jpg size is 200px X 400px and viewing nice in pages. But when I replace it with 600px X 1200px Image, It doesn't have previous si...
Here is a video with the bug. Resizing text with the bounding box can't be restored by character styles. No matter what you do, you have to create a new point/paragraph text and start all over again and never, ever resize it with the bounding box, which is really annoying. Any idea how to reset the font-size if you use...
I know it depends on the device but I am having a hard time locating GUI element sizes in regards to browsers, keyboards, etc. etc. for Apple and Android devices. I have searched through Apple's developer documentation but nothing related to size and I am new to Android design so I am unfamiliar with any documentation...
After using only free fonts I am now considering using paying fonts for a client of mine. But I realize that although free fonts can be tested at will on one's website, that's not possible with paying fonts. So how do people deal with this problem? There will be countless cases where a font looks good on the font's sit...
I'm working on some site banners that need updating and I'm having a few issues with dimensions. My internet screen is set to 'view actual size', so it's not zoomed in and my images/slices are always saved at 72ppi (not that it matters much for online?). When i screen grab one of the existing banners from the website,...
I'm a little new to illustrator. I designed a little logo in illustrator that comprises of several layers. Now because I have some of this layers interact with each other different using the blend mode, the image looks alright when I'm working on it in illustrator. However saving it is a different story, my blending mo...
I want to replace the whiteness in pixels with transparency in the same way as described in this question - i.e. for lighter pixels to be made proportionally as transparent. All solutions found via google are based on magic wand or other methods that do not work for my needs. I'm sure there used to be a way to do this...
I have traced object which contains lots of polygons. Something like this: What I want is to outline this object similar to stroke, with solid color. How to create a simple object which is actually outline of my object?
If I use a cap on a line, usually so I can make an arrow, it is always black despite the stroke color. Is this a bug or am I not understanding something?
Inkscape can do that, but I've been told Illustrator is not able to export nested layers (sublayers) with attribute display="none". Is this true? If so, how can I have all my hidden sublayers be exported as svg elements with display="none"?
I'm trying to create a droplet for batch image processing that will put a border of 2 px all around, add 30 px to the top, then within that top space place some text that will automatically scale to the size of the pic, and center it. I've got all except the text added to an action, but fighting with the text issue: it...
I have the following shape and text which I'm trying to lay on the shape. I certainly tried to put text on ground plane (not illustrated in screenshot), but I'm not able to get exactly the perspective matching to my shape's plane. Is perspective a right tool for this if yes, how to lay down my text?
How can I get a paint colorblock effect on the edges similar to what is on the edges of the red portion of Saul Bass's One Two Three poster? I have two layers, one is a background that is white. The second layer (above the background layer) has a rectangle selection that is filled with color. I would like the edges of ...

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