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I've got a line art drawing of a dragon that I'm trying to color. I don't necessarily care if I use Illustrator, Photoshop, or Sketchbook Pro; I'm just trying to figure out the best way to color the drawing. I created the line art image in Illustrator. I know to use live paint and live paint bucket for contained lines...
This is my best attempt at painting so far. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I can pinpoint a line on the chin that doesn't look good or is a little unrealistic. The thing is, I can see many things I'm not happy with and also I think it still looks unfinished. Now, I could spend 4 hours wandering where...
This is a Photoshop question. I created a rectangle in a layer. Then I copied it and moved it until it touched the first one along an edge. I would like to be able to stroke each rectangle individually. However, when I select one path and then stroke it, the stroke goes around the outside of the two rectangles toget...
I need to add extended characters (š,č,ř,ž,ě) to a font. I can do this in Photoshop, but can you please recommend me a program that has this functionality + can save it as a font that I can use on the web? Thanks and sorry for a dumb question.
I'm a programmer, not a designer. I'm handy with a graphics program as long as it doesn't require artistic abilities. However, I'm not sure about the correct terminology. I'm working with Adobe Illustrator 9. I have several files, provided by client, that I need to prepare for use in a PHP PDF creator (TCPDF). I'm savi...
I have an email template that's done in Photoshop for a weekly newsletter. It's sliced up and the only parts that stay the same are the header and the footers, the height of the email is always different. What would be the best way to just change the middle part when creating a new email, leaving the top and the botto...
I'm working on a calendar. I have a grid of rectangle shapes that outline the days. I'm trying to make a different adjustment layer for each day applied to a background. It's basically working fine. But once I create the adjustment layer, the region it applies to is fixed -- because I used the shape as a selection....
I created this letterhead for a client in Illustrator and it got approved. It now needs to get converted to a Word document for internal usage. What's the best way to make this conversion?
We've got a large indesign file that several people are dipping in and out of on several machines, to do this we've got the indd file and the /images folder that it references in a shared Dropbox folder. This all works fine, BUT all the image links are broken, when i look at the paths for the links they are using the ...
Is tracing/vectorizing furniture (everything in my home) for commercial use in violation of copyright? How can designers make arrows, buttons, tiles, etc. that maybe accidentally copied? I have button ideas but I worry I maybe accidentally copy.
I am looking to design many unique study cards, with text and some images on the front and back, to be printed on a professional digital press. Right now, I have the material in a table, with one row per card to be printed. My question is: what tool can I use to convert a long list of source material into mostly-laid-o...
In Gimp, how can I multiply the value of every pixel in a grayscale image by a constant value? For example, multiply each pixel by 2.
I'm a graphic artist digital and print/front-end designer and developer. Recently I was approached by a friend to design cover art for his book. He had informed me he couldn't offer me a payment but would offer credit towards my work within his book. I don't mind doing the work as a favor however I wanted to ask for ro...
I am using Apple Pages to write a user guide and would like to insert screenshots of my app. Inserting the screenshots is no problem. How can I annotate the screen shots like Apple did it in the iPhone user guide on page 8, which is basically drawing a line to specific regions of the screenshot and putting some text a...
I saw a video of a Morgan Freeman Finger Painting on YouTube. Could this be a real video showing how someone actually created that painting? I think it's fake. I think he started with a photo, then kept mucking it up with finger painting until you end up with a blank screen, basically making this video in reverse. Edi...
I've only ever done 3D work for educational purposes. Now I need to do some for work and not sure what exactly constitutes commercial in this realm. We manufacture two pieces of architectural equipment. If we model the equipment to put in the Google SketchUp Warehouse so architects/contractors have free access to them ...
I am new to the use of the Rectangular Grid Tool and I created an 8-bit style background using it and the LivePaint Bucket. I'm afraid that some how, some of the lines of the grid were colored and are now showing through the image. I had the grid stroke set to none, so I'm not really sure how this happened. Allow me to...
I apologize if the title of the question isn't terribly clear, I'm struggling with finding terminology that is adequate. Essentially, what I am trying to do is create a rectangle that looks like a piece of old paper that has torn edges at the top and the bottom, as though it was torn off a roll. Here's how I've tried t...
We're creating a set of user manuals with different versions. In some versions, not all the pages should be included. For instance, in version A, everything should be included. In version B, pages 6 to 8, 11 to 15 would not be included. In version C, pages 4 to 5, 16 to 20 would not be included. And so on. One way is t...
I am importing a DWG into Adobe Illustrator, saving it there as a .AI, copying by Ctrl + C to Photoshop, inserting it by selecting Smart Object in the Box that appears but... instead of giving me a Smart Object linked to Illustrator I end up with a Vector Smart Object that opens a new tab in Photoshop. Where do I make ...
I'm trying to create a block of text with formatting and I want to surround it with a border. I've tried the Flow into frame feature, but that removes formatting (I would like line breaks, spaces, bold, etc...). Right now, I'm manually drawing a rectangle around it and aligning it (using the align and distribute functi...
I have a path with a black fill that has two curves that meet at a point. I also have a vertical line that connects the beaks of both curves. How can I combine them so the right white triangle disappears and is replaced with black?)
I have an embedded image on an AI file. The image was originally a Photoshop file. I linked it, embedded it, turned it into grey-scale, I set its colour to 100% K (black). The black and white character is the embedded image. The background is a flat PMS ink. The character should be printed using only black (K), not u...
I want to select the circles in the image that are in the bottom left corner. Imagine I have 100 circles, so doing it manually is impractical. Is there a way to select objects using something else than a square marquee? I tried using the lasso tool, but I can't always grab the four points that make up each circle (the...
On the "what's new in Illustrator" there are some new features, but on my MacBook Pro the features 1 and 2 do not work. Could some one check them for me - do you have them working? Is there any way to enable these features? In Illustrator CC, there are enhancements to guides: Double-clicking on a ruler (Ctrl/Cmd + R)...
I am searching for an easy way to create (in vector) something like this: essentially I would like to create lines starting for example: black 5pt, white 5pt, black 4pt, white 4pt, etc... all the way down to .001pt WITHOUT having to create each line individually. any ideas or easy ways to do this would be greatly ap...
I need to know what are the essential things that one web designer must have on his/her portfolios or things that really make a difference...the following is what i think is a good starting point. but would like to get confirmation and further tips and examples of professional portfolio also some general idea of new tr...
I have three vector circles drawn in illustrator. I want to clip off sections creating gaps in each and animate them together but at different speeds rotating on the Z. The problem is when sections are cut out of a circle, the center point of that circle changes. I need the common center point for the three to rotate a...
In a way to meet the Shutterstock guidelines I need to convert my Illustrator ai vector files to EPS 10 format. This conversion can create rasterised elements in an EPS10 files. Shutterstock does not accept vector files which contain raster elements, so the question is - How can I know if the converted file has any ras...
I am a bit of a newbie with using pantones and the pantone color guide. I am currently working on a branding project where we will have print material in both pantone and cmyk, and also on screen rgb colors. I would like these colours to match as closely as possible. I used the Pantone color Manager program to help me ...
The current framework I use to design webpages currently doesn't do anything to optimize images across different devices. As I see it, their are four types: mobile, tablet, desktop PC and large desktop PC to make things simple, the last three can be considered as one unit and mobile devices as a separate entity (I unde...
Using InDesign CS6, I regularly create booklets of anywhere from 8, 12, 16 to 32 pages for offset printing. For this I typically use the Print Booklet module, set to create a PDF file at Press Resolution. Occasionally I have a single or double-sided insert for which I generate a separate PDF, using the Export to PDF m...
I am trying to create a button for my website using Photoshop's rectangle shape tool. I want to add a border only on top of the button. How will get that effect?
Is it possible to create a multi-page PDF using Adobe Illustrator with various elements on a page linked to other pages in same PDF? The purpose is, we want to output semi-interactive prototypes with Illustrator. EDIT on receiving a possible duplicate: My question is about creating links that point to different pages i...
I've got pretty simple problem. I've created logo in 3 variations on 3 A4 format artboards. I want to crop them, to get rid of loads of white space around logo, and secondly i'd like to save it with transparent background. Thanks in advance. PS. I can't find any resources of best practices when saving logo in different...
Has anyone have an ideao if there is a way to remove the lines like the attached picture ? These are so called 'scatter' lines on a T.E.M. slide, made by a microtome.
Image 1 is what i had first, obviously a bèta version of the design as this bar with buttons still needs to be designed / given layout. Image 2 is my attempt at (re)designing it. Image 3 is to explain further what i need, this bar will be used to display both a status, and display some buttons, this is why i started to...
I'm having a weird behavior when trying to move a selected rectangle or polygon in a layer. I do the next: 1. Select layer. I want to move the shine that belongs to the brillos y manchas layer: 2. Select rectangle or polygon. The selection is the small polygon. 3. Then I try to move the selection: but it's not move...
I have read several guides on how to achieve the Long Shadow effect using Illustrator, I tried both using the Transform Effect and Blend Modes, however I fail achieve it using both. When I try using the Transform effect, I get all copies of the fill simply duplicated with no continuity, like so: When I try using blend...
This might be a bit farfetched for Photoshop, but I was wondering if there was the possibility of creating an action to make 42 rectangles by sourcing the colour from 42 swatches in the Swatches Library. So let's say we have three swatches in our Swatches Library (red, blue, green), would you be able to create an actio...
I'm using PSP 7 (I know it's old, but it serves my purposes). I am resizing a bunch of images. PNG images with alpha transparency load with black backgrounds when I first open them. I have little experience with masks. I learned that I can do Masks > Load From Alpha Channel to see the transparent areas. After loading t...
The white rectangle that contains the typography is a Smart Object that was skewed with Edit > Transform > Perspective. The problem is that when the it's skewed and then resized (smaller) the text begin to look pixelate and it doesn't work very well, especially for letter with the oval, like e, r, etc. Is there a way ...
When can you use an underlined superscript "o"? I know that it is used for numero № Can it be used for company? C°
I don't know what setting changed, but every time I start up Photoshop 7 for Windows, View → Extras is checked, and a grid overlay appears on the image pane. I'd like to set the default to View → Extras being unchecked / unticked when I start Photoshop. There does not appear to be an obvious way to set this configurat...
I want to try and make a photomanipulation of a woman to look like a character from an anime (Konan from Naruto shippuden). For refference, see the photo. I am quite capable of handling photoshop (on a hobby-level) but I don't know how to make the paper-effect without placing and manipulating every single piece of pape...
I am not a photoshop expert, but have used it quite a bit over the years. I thought what I am about to describe below was a doable task using select and transform selection So here is the problem..... I have a multilayered PSD file. I just increased the canvas size by 30px to the right. Then I selected the bottom layer...
Selecting multiple objects in MS Word is very easy. You just drag along the page and all the objects such as pictures are automatically selected. Is there the same way in Photoshop?
I constantly create square background which I should adjust to artboard size. Almost every time I miss one or two pixels (Retina is good for that), so I looked for one-click feature "click object to artboard size" and didn't find it. Probably there is a faster way instead of inserting exact parameters of the artboard ...
Is it possible to use the color range selection tool for a single layer? Right now it samples colors from all the layers to make the selection, so to select a color range in a specific layer, I have to make all the other layers invisible and then use the color range tool, which is really annoying. Any shortcuts?
I have been using Sketchbook Mobile on an android phone a little bit and, being an android (me and the device), I have located the single save file the program allows and make backups of that file on my external sd card so that I can revisit the drawing should I desire. Does anyone know what file storage format this pr...
I need some advice/opinions on the attached logo and what my designer should have done to make it scaleable. It looks fine at high resolution and zoomed in over 400% in AI, but at 100% and less the speech bubble is pixelated and loses definition. Here on the test site for example it looks like a dark pixelated mass wi...
I was browsing around on linotype.com when I came across Fairfield which I instantly fell in love with. I would seriously like to use Fairfield for almost everything I do (quite a bit of writing, not much design work) but I'm worried about the legibility. To my eyes, Fairfield is no worse than many other common serif ...
anyone know of javascript version of layout program like QuarkXpress? this would be browser-based tool that would have all the powerful and WYSIWYG accessible design and control tools like QuarkXpress I've found some portions of the functions written in javascript, but not an entire package. My searches of open source ...
I am a web designer, using grids in web design is pretty easy. I would really like to try and design 2d illustrations, though I am not good at drawing. Recently I keep coming across drawings (like the one bellow) what show the use of a grid. These kind of grids seem to be "made up". For example, with the grid bellow, y...
A New Top Bar for Stack Exchange says, The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s really black. Jin points out that technically it’s not quite black: it’s #212121. In its CSS I see, background: #2f2f2f; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); Why not "really black": why is "not quite black" better? Similarly, for the res...
Someone can help me to identify this font used in the groups of FIFA world cup brazil 2014 Thanks.
I would like to create a irregular shape in CSS like one below . I want to avoid putting image as background completely . Please help me in this regard..Thanks Bijeesh
I'm working with Illustrator to make some icons. I use grid with step = 1px and after I scale/rotate shape elements I want them to automatically align to the grid. I know CS4+ has such an option in transform settings, but I have only CS2 at hand and I was hoping that there's some other way of aligning selected points t...
I have a question about pixels. I made a background for a poster for a party. Put i think when i make the picture larger you will see a lot of pixels. Can someone help me to fix this? If you can help me it would be wonderful! I made this in photoshop cs6. thx jenten
I know that I should create outlines on all the text I'm using before printing to ensure that any unique typefaces get printed correctly, and I see that there are options to also expand gradient appearances. Should I be expanding these before printing? What advantages would this have if any?
I recently came across this beautiful artwork (image bellow) and there is a youtube video on how the artist made it. The beautiful thing was that the image is nothing specific, it looks like a heart but that was not intended. I tried paying more attention to my own doodles but I feel that there must be some guideline...
Creating a new file in Illustrator I should always press Command+R and Command+' to enable rulers and grid. Is there any way to show them automatically on opening or to save them ON in a workspace/template (I've tried but with no success). Illustrator version is CS6 Thanks.
I have been studying graphic design, illustration, color theory, etc, for the better part of 2 years now, including going on PDSTutsPlus, and it strikes me that higher level designers use multiple layers in Photoshop for example, of the same text layer, while beginners try to cram all their text effects on one layer an...
I am making a logo for a company that is an Ltd. - does the Ltd. need to appear in the Logo itself? The logo is a combination of text with a graphic worked in beneath it.
I want to give a workflow presentation, to my boss at my office, I don't wanna do old ppt style preso, I was thinking (since I'm out of making ppt) for a long time, are there any cloud services or web 2.0 technologies that I can use to put my idea across more effectively and fast. Earlier I worked in visio, but the sty...
I'm really impressed with the artwork in Braid so I'd like to learn how to do similar stuff in Photoshop. I have tried around with the brushes but haven't quite figured out how to get the same strokes. Which brushes are suitable and where can I find them? Here are some examples of the artwork: Braid Title Screen Braid...
I'm trying to use the selection tool to cut a logo from a image, without success. The darker parts in the bottom of the logo is a big problem because of the main background color. In addition, the selection tool fails on the border around "2015" also. Is there any way to improve this process? Now i'm just using standar...
Is it possible to export a PSD photoshop file to PDF keeping the layers like in here? I tried saving as PDF and checked 'layers', but it doesn't work.
So i am trying to edit an icon pack that has an index lock on it. I know to unlock it you go to image > mode > rgb color. However doing this drastically reduces the image quality. Apologies the icon above is white (on a white background)! The original is a .PNG and the saved edited version is a PNG. The original fi...
I'm trying to create a mask with a nondestructive gradient. So far I have managed to create my shape in a smart object and the masking gradient in another smart object. My mask looks like this: The image that I'm trying to mask looks like this: By setting my image over this gradient smart object, I was able to produc...
I have a left-aligned lettering made of two words that is displayed on two lines. The two words are quite different in length (4 vs 7) and I was wondering if you could point me to the best way to handle this situation: should I try to condense one or enlarge the other or is it ok if the two words are different? What is...
I have some images with a transparent background like this: So, when applying it somewhere it looks like that: And all i want to is add a frame around it to looks like that : So, how can i do that ?
I will try to explain my problem in few words. I have an image representing a person. Thanks to my code I manage to compute the background subtraction and have the resulting shape of the person in HSV color space. Unfortunately, I have some noise (as you can see in the image below) and I should properly choose the HSV ...
I applied a radial blur of size 10 to an image and have since realised it looks awful. Is there any way I can reverse the radial blur effect I applied in photoshop?
Photoshop, Illustrator and similar graphic design software are in general bad at kerning. Why does the computer find it so hard that we need to manually go through headlines and text just to get it right?
Ive got about 15 folders (groups) in a .psd file each folder has multiple layers, together each folder makes one retouched and editted image, im aware of the export layers to files script, but is there a way to export each folder as a file ?
I want Photoshop to render fonts like a browser. TypeKit is being used on the web site, but the default kerning/letter spacing is different between the two. Can I use exactly the font Typekit is generating or in some other way achieve parity between the two?
I want to create a simple repeating gradient for a Gradient Overlay effect in Photoshop. I had to manually create this: Is there an easier way to make a repeating pattern by designing a small one then extrapolating from it? If there is no way to design a gradient like this in the Gradient Editor, is there a way to s...
I made a custom shape using the 'custom shape' tool in photoshop. I want to convert this to a path so that I can delete certain points from the shape and make a new shape. How do I do that?
I have many computer-synthesized GIF pictures which have different backgrounds but the same sprite on foreground. I would like to extract this sprite using Adobe Photoshop CS3 without having to do a laborious task manually pixel-by-pixel. Could you suggest some techniques to do so?
Is it possible to cut a square in half without it forming triangles? I want a to dissect a square into "4 corners" and I find the line tool is inaccurate. Here is the effect I was trying to achieve: I wanted to cut a square out of another square to create corners like this, but the corners were closing paths and maki...
Working on a legacy .NET web application we have the following issue: graphical themes are made of hundred png files. When it comes to create a new theme (ie. same icons but new set of colors), we take each png file and change its HUE using paint.net. It a very long process with poor results (images are pixelated, tran...
I'm trying to convert a bunch of company logos to one single color (not just black and white). It's for a website I'm working on, for the "We support those products" type of thing. Here's what I'm starting with: What I did so far: Desaturate via Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate Convert to grayscale via Image -> M...
I have a rather interesting issue. I have columns in my web app that look similar to these guys: I've been able to slice them up and build these guys out...but now I have an added requirement of "recoloring" the columns (as these guys might need to be in a variety of colors). Rather than updating the assets each a...
Every time I design a new site, I use the same kind of nav bar. As thickish border at the top of the screen, single color, with menu links inside. I try to make it a little crisper by adding an inset box shadow at the bottom, but all my nav bars still look really dull! What kind of affects can I add to spice them up a...
In my opinion, raster graphics (GIF, PNG) is used much more that vector graphics on the web. I am wondering why? Wouldn't vector graphics be more suitable for web pages design (i.e. buttons design, custom borders etc.)? One answer which I have found, is that browsers support PNG and GIF more widely than, for example SV...
I have been given a logo from a client that they want me to 'extract' or 'cut' the text out of and use just the text with a transparent background to fit with the design ethos of their marketing. I'm using Photoshop CS6 and have tried using channels, magic wand and eraser but I can't get clean edges on the text. I'm p...
I have a reference image of the effect that I am trying to achieve using SVG. In Photoshop the effect can be achieved by using 100% opacity with the blending mode set to 'multiply' The colors have hex values of: red: #EA312F, blue: #3A5BA6 and overlapping area: #35111F I have tried a number of approaches using SVG fil...
I work at a fairly large not-for-profit arts/cultural organization that hosts diverse activities from children's art camps to family cultural events and contemporary art/performance. We use Trade Gothic as our in house font on almost all things and are looking to refresh the brand. Any suggestions on typefaces that wou...
I have this image of a heart: favorite.svg and this image of a back arrow: back.svg I would like to modify the line width of the back arrow to match the line width of the heart. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this in illustrator?
This is technically not a graphic design question, but it is technically not not a graphic design question either, so here I go. I have a set of MRI scans of my head. They are 5mm slices in x,y,z (or if you prefer med-speak: saggital, coronal, axial). (I also have some sets in 1.5mm slices, but they are incomplete. I....
I am submitting art to be offset printed on aerosol cans and plastic tubes. It uses 2 PMS colours. One plate is a 100% flood. The other one is a linear gradient from 0% to 100%. The gradient is to be overprinted on the 100% flood. The maximum density will be 200%. This is the way the boxes are printed, and it looks gre...
I have a number of small icons all of which fit into a 32x32 pixel png with transparent backgrounds. I wish to create a single large png which contains each of these icons in a 10x10 grid. I create a new image in PS which is 320x320px, and set a grid with 32px spacing, then turn on snap to grid. I then open one of my ...
I have been trying hard to get the same serif font that seems to be the standard my professors use to write lecture notes and research papers. Does anyone know what exactly it is? Ive tried Times New Roman but can't make it look similar to this, TNR is much thicker! Please help
I'm fairly new to InDesign for complex documents (in a past life I used it for magazine layout, but I'm now typesetting a 300 page book using it) and have probably made a rookie error. My main body text Master Page uses a Primary Text Frame which was linked across the spread. I pasted 90,000 words into it and it automa...
After I Arc a Path using the Warp tool to the desired Arc size radius etc. I then want to rotate the arc so that it is inverted. However when I flip or rotate it 180 degrees, the Arc returns to the original shape even thought the Original Rectangle path has rotated. Is there a way to do this so that the Arc stays locke...
I noticed that in the more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator the program liberally assumes that I want to convert my lines into text paths-- meaning that any time I am even in the vicinity of a line while using the text tool instead of letting me click on an open area and start typing it assumes that a closeby path ...
Is there are general rules to align right-aligned elements on the page? Look at these screenshots: At this screenshot the search icon and the link are aligned to the right border of the "box", while the table column header and the checkboxes are aligned with some padding from the "box". At this screenshot I had align...
I develop sites in different CMS, wordpress, magento etc. I wanted to know, if slicing is more easy than creating everything in child theme, as there are a lot of margins, and padding involved, and peope like to see a website in pixel perfect.So isn't slicing much more convenient than writing whole css/html? I prefer t...
I want to bend some text around a circle. I can just write the text on a path, but I want to keep the side that's not ON the path in a straight line. For example, look at these chalk letterings. The top of this one is a straight line, the bottom is curved: And on this one, the top is curved, and the bottom is straight...

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