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What is a good way of creating a bulk load of buttons using photoshop CS5? They are all the same background, and size, but different overlay text.
Please bear in mind I am new to PS but have an understanding of some of the basics like layers and the toolbox tools.
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I have a Photoshop file with a lot of groups inside and inside those groups even more groups. To get to a layer that I want is a looong way, and after that it's even longer to collapse back so I can get to another layer. I was wondering if there is a way to collapse and expand all groups at once?
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I'm setting up graphic designs that will be printed in mainland China. Some layers of the image are just there to show print instructions, and should never be printed.
What's Chinese for "Layer" as in Photoshop layer?
Google translate thinks the translation of "Do not print this layer" is:
不打印這一層
But we all know it oft... |
I have very strange problem with Photoshop CS4 and CS5 on Windows XP and Windows 7.
I've Installed all necessery fonts for template that I receive from graphic designer.
This fonts was Sansation and Sansation Light.
In Windows all fonts are installed sucessfully. I see the fonts in photoshop but when I try to open the ... |
Is there a quick way to convert Quark files into Indesign without having Quark?
I have InDesign CS4 and need to make changes to a Quark file.
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Hey this might be a bit of a tricky one!
I have designed the wireframes for an application which will work out expenditures on a weekly monthly and yearly basis.
The first screen is for input, with 4 fields:
A simple text box to input the name for the item bought/bills.
A drop-down box to pick from categories to find... |
I use Windows 7. I calibrated my monitor with ColorMunki and use this profile as my default monitor profile. It looks great as I see the difference between non-calibrated and calibrated. Colors and contrast are awesome now.
I use Photoshop to design prints on T-shirts. I work in the RGB Color Mode in 8 bit and soft p... |
A friend of mine had a poster made for his business. Here is a segment of it:
I can't tell for sure, but I think the angle of the logo is not quite right... (I don't mean any pun with the business's name)
This leads me to an underlining question: are there angles that are aesthetically preferred?
Are some angles eas... |
I have to daily work with PSDs of iPhone Apps. These PSDs contains App designs like buttons, texts, background images, etc.
I have to extract images of each elements from these PSDs and convert it to PNG images.
I would like to know if there is any efficient way to extract images from PSD files.
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I'm looking at some software that does a DPI check based on an upload of an images. It checks the resolution of the image against the specified DPI (300) and MMH (44x88). Does anyone know what MMH stands for?
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If the content is split into several sections, and each section has a header, should I put border below or above the header?
The “border below” approach seems prevalent (see Google, Wikipedia) but “border above” seems to work better as a separator. Which is the way to go?
Border Above
Border Below
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I'm in the process of redesigning my website, and I've selected Bebas Neue as a font for my logo and major features (navigation etc), but due to its blocky nature and the fact that it's 100% capitals, it's not really good to use as body copy.
Here's a link to Bebas
I guess I just need to find something that would work ... |
How well has Scalable Vector Graphics worked for print?
I need to programmatically generate graphics for inclusion in print documents. It seems there are only two serious contenders for a target file format, EPS and SVG.
As a programmer, SVG looks easier to work with, but it doesn't appear to have been accepted by the ... |
I should mention i don't know the first thing about designing smartphones apps.
I hired a freelancer to create a mockup for a smartphone (Android/iPhone) app for me, and I was wondering if I'll be able to use some of the art he'll create in the final app, or are the apps using a different technology/format?
Edit (added... |
I am designing a Banner Flex of big size. 6mx8ft. I built this using illustrator, as it has specific tools for vector graphics. Such big document size cannot be created on illustrator or any other adobe product. SO i created a document size on ratio of 1:10. Now when I am trying to export it, either the image will be r... |
I'm making a business card in Photoshop and it needs to be in CMYK mode. Now, I'm using a logo on it that I previously made for the client in RGB mode and when I put it into the CMYK mode business card design it desaturates it a little. I'm trying to get my head around whether or not it will print how it looks on my sc... |
Is it possible to print only the outline preview (View > Preview) of an artboard? Taking a screenshot and printing is not an option for me.
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I'm working on a full color piece in Illustrator which has a few large black and grey areas.
I'd like the black to be a rich black. I was thinking c30 m30 y30 k100. What is the best ways to match my gray areas?
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I am creating a favicon via Inkscape using "icon_16x16". I would like to put a border around the image and fill it in with another color. I have attempted to use the "square and rectangle" tool but soon found that I did not like the stroke size.
Is there any way I can adjust the width of the stoke?
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I know very little about typography. What are the differences in terms of OpenType vs. TrueType?
I do know that they are types of formats to render fonts (correct me if I'm wrong).
Are there limitations between OpenType and TrueType?
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I have some drinking mugs that can hold artwork in the liner. I have just the mugs, not any pre-printed art. The artwork template (here is the PDF) states
After submission of artwork, art will be arched 12 % for curvature.
I understand that is to compensate for the tapered shape of the mug - I assume this will chang... |
I'm creating a booklet on teaching programming through examples and exercises. What's the best software for writing the pages? It'll be code examples, exercise questions and some diagrams.
I'm new to designing and writing an instructional booklet. Would Adobe's InDesign or QuarkXPress be appropriate for this kind of... |
I have imported an image into fireworks but I cannot remember where it came from. I need to find the original in order to rescale the image. Is there a way to determine the original path.
ps. Cannot undo as the document was made 4 months ago.
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Is there a way to save one brush at a time to a library in Illustrator CS5?
So far as I've figured out so far, you can clear all-but-one of the brushes out of the default library, load the last version of the library you want to save to, and then save over the old library with the new brush added.
Is there some way bur... |
I have a PSD file with one layer. When I try to save as JPEG it doesn't show JPEG and other formats as an option. It only displays a limited set of formats (5) including Photoshop.
When I manually create another PSD file I am able to save it in any format I like. I think it's something with palette or layers.
What can ... |
I would like to create two-dimensional projections of three-dimensional geometrical objects. The drawings should be in a vector format, SVG or PDF, which can be imported by Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator. On Wikipedia, I found the following examples (original SVG, CC-SA):
Those are isometric projections. A wireframe ve... |
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Tips and sources for beginning designers
For some time now I have been strugling with my inability to create my own web designs. I am a pretty decent coder but I always have trouble when I have to create the interface designs.
I would like to try and learn to design my own websites
Can someone w... |
I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my template:
The original image is
Why doesn't it look good when it's made into a transparent PNG? Could I have better luck m... |
I have been looking for a good monospace font in order to meet the criteria of a client.
One I found that I think has suitable qualities is OCR-B.
However, as near as I can tell, it only comes in "regular" form, no bold or italics.
Is this because its roots as an optically recognizable font precluded variants?
Or is it... |
I am trying to find a very good monospace sans serif font to meet the requirements of a client.
However, despite there being a number of them out there, such as Deja Vu, Droid Sans Mono, Cousine, Liberation, and so on... it seems to be they all look basically the same. The differences between them are so subtle that on... |
I have a source file for an icon. It has a base layer which is the icon background, and a number of layer folders, each of which contains layers for each individual icon. There are 20 or so of these folders. To save the icon set, I need to:
Make the base layer visible, and hide all other layers
Show the folder of the ... |
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What programs can be used to make animations?
I saw this stack exchange and thought it'd be the perfect place to finally ask this.
Basically, with Flash I use to make little stick figure animations. However, since then, I've lost the (pirated) copy of Flash 7 I had and really don't want to cough... |
I re-branded our organization a couple years ago and created what I thought were very "easy to use" Word templates for things like letterhead, forms, and long documents. As well intentioned as my co-workers may be, they're not very Word savvy and/or think they are creative geniuses and usually end up destroying the ver... |
I have a graphic prepared in Adobe Illustrator that I need to export to a PNG file used in an iPad application. The default value of Raster Effect resolution parameter is 72 ppi, on the other hand iPad spec says that its screen has 132 ppi.
Shall I change resolution from 72 ppi to 132 ppi before exporting PNG file?
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I am a photoshop user who is looking for a free alternative.
Gimp is usually the answer. When looking for downloads I stumbled upon 'gimpshop', a gimp distro that is layout for the convenience of photoshoppers.
But is it equally good as Gimp?
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The following situation baffled me slightly: after preparing a pdf in a different program I wanted to make sure that an embeded image in the pdf file had the right dpi, yet I found no way in adobe acrobat pro to inspect the file/image dpi.
Can that be, or am I missing where this feature is hidden?
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I'm not particularly experienced in graphic design, so maybe there's an easy way to do this that I just haven't noticed, but...
I have a layered PNG image in Gimp. It's a complex shape (a photo of a real-world object) with transparency throughout the image (having carefully and painstakingly erased background parts fr... |
I am the tech lead on a new consumer product for the Asian market (mainland china, HK, et al). We are looking for a graphic designer to take responsibility for both the product design and overall look of the brand. Before we commit to anyone, we'd like to take a look at some rough ideas they might have for the product.... |
Could someone recommend me an easy to use tool for greying-out some images (icons) ?.
In an Android application I am doing I have a set of full color icons that I want to use in a tab bar, but I want only the icon at the selected tab to be in color, and the other ones should be shown greyed-out. Then I am looking for a... |
I'm trying to either make the inner margin in a text box smaller, or align the text on the bottom of the text box in fireworks. (by text box, I mean the box surrounding a text element).
With the extra space beneath the text, I can't place the text box close enough to the element beneath it without the two boxes overlap... |
I am preparing to print a book and need to select dimensions for the paper and the the top and side margins.
I have seen this article about page construction, which describes various antique methods, but I am not sure if any of the ratios would suite a novel.
What variables should I consider when selecting these measur... |
Starting yesterday, Illustrator has been refusing to let me set a line weight under 1pt. If I set a lower one, the line snaps back to 1pt weight.
This is crippling to my work: The art is being output to a laser cutter. 0.01pt lines are how you signal "cuts" for the printer driver. Heavier weight lines are treated as "e... |
This is something that I stumble over occasionally. I have an image that was clearly created using some form of blending / alpha channel magic, usually for things like smooth edges.
For example:
There is a blend between the white arrow and the orange background, but alpha information is not included in the PNG for thi... |
I'm a programmer and I'm really used to the Courier New font. I am quite picky about it - I find other fonts (including other monospace fonts) ugly in comparison.
However, now I have to work on some code that includes Unicode strings, and Courier New does not have full support for Unicode.
Could someone recommend a (mo... |
I am working on android Samsung tablet so it was sport 16bit depth images. so i want to need properly convert 8dit depth to 16bit depth.
I was also trying these but when i was convert to 8bit to covert to 16bit then i was check it be 48bit
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I have a passport picture in which the background is light brown. I need to change that background to white. Is there anyway I can do that using Inkscape or any free tools?
Here is the picture:
If anyone can change the background to white for me than that would be great!
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This is the original image and I want to move the text to the right of the image:
But I failed, I tried to resize the canvas but then when I move the text the layer gets invisible when put on the resized canvas area:
I'm sure I'm just doing it wrong with GIMP and I wonder if you can help me to achieve the result?
Tha... |
Like the title describes. My profession is NOT graphic design. On the other hand, I occasionally work with those who are and would benefit from being able to better see things from their perspective.
Where should I go? What should I focus on as I try to brush up on concepts?
Thank you,
-b
PS: I am not looking for this ... |
I need to print a photo in large scale 3x3m. What size a photo should be, what pixel dimension? What resolution do I need to avoid pixelization?
Also what format of file should it be ? PDF?
This photo will stand in a shop window.
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I've got a rounded rectangle, I want to make it wider without distorting the corners round-ness, however when I just change the size of the shape, it distorts the corner's shape.
How can I do this? Do I need to just remake the shape in ActionScript dynamically?
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I'm attempting to create a path in Inkscape and use those coordinates in another program where only positive (4th Quadrant) coordinates are accepted.
Is there an exportable Inkscape format that will save the coordinates of a path defined by an object, whereas all of the coordinates are positive?
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I purchased some stock images for a website I'm building (I'm a programmer, with relatively no design experience at all). The issue at hand is, like most stock images, the images I purchased are on white canvases. I need the images on transparent backgrounds.
I googled for the process on picking out an image from the b... |
A printer is asking for a 300 dpi jpeg. I have set the image size to the correct printing size but what resolution do I set the ppi in photoshopCS2 to for 300 dpi. Also when saving a jpeg there is a box at the bottom saying Size which is 56.6 Kbps do I need to change this as it doesn't seem to change the image size?
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I always want to open a new document with the same size, resolution, colourmode etc. Photoshop annoyingly defaults to the clipboard etc. Is there any way to make the New dialog always open with my defaults?
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I have made my CV using Photoshop CS5.1 (3 separate files) and need to convert it to a single PDF file. I've done it before using a free download but can't remember what it was...does anybody know? Or is there another way this can be done?
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When designing a UI for a mobile web application (non native) that is expected to run on iPhone, Android and possibly more platforms, what should be the baseline?
Would you design it based on iPhone standards? Android Standards? Or just select your own look and feel ?
How for example would you display a system message... |
I am designing e-books for iPad & Android tablets. The problem is I have very little options to add animated effects to my e-book when doing it on InDesign (which is a must for me, as the e-books I'm designing are based on paper books/magazines that were previously designed for printing).
I am looking for one of the fo... |
Creating new layers automatically assigns random layer colors in the Layers Panel.
Is there any workaround for having new layers assigned the same color (e.g. Red)?
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I am speaking about the drop-in effect around the round edges. I like the fact that the actual theme seems to be a bit further back and the border is closer to the viewer.
I can gather that a portion of this must be using an inner shadow with black color. Is this correct? How can I search this? I have spent quite a w... |
I have created an 8 page brochure with InDesign and exported a PDF for my print guy. At the moment the pages are exported as:
1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8
But for print he'd like them formatted like this:
8-1, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5
How can I achieve that in InDesign (while keeping automated page numbering) or during the export process?... |
I have to do some prototyping for an iPad app, and just realized why I was having so much trouble: this is an iPad app. I am used to design website pages/templates, computer interfaces, etc.. I have my usability rules, I know when and how to apply them, but these don't work on an iPad, mainly because it is not a comput... |
I do some caricature, cartoons and illustrations, as hobby. I believe that I am okay'ish with pen and paper, but recently decided to go digital.
Given my budget, and a quick assessment of needs and reviews of various graphic tablets, I am thinking of ordering the Wacom Bamboo One CTE 660 Pen Tablet which as per specs i... |
How do I disable the automatic update of text layers when I open a .psd document?
The problem is that when I open big .psd files, this update lasts very long and wastes me a lot of time.
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I am wondering if there is a name attributed to this type of old poster / burlesque / carnival style (lots of ink lines).
Here is an example: http://ink-n-iron.com/
Their header has a lot of close together ink lines, while the typography is very carnival / old style / wanted-poster like.
I am wanting to find more mate... |
This is not a "what font is this" question, but rather a question about how to search for fonts.
I usually have an idea of what I want the font to convey, but have trouble finding a font corresponding to the feeling I want. Dafont's classification is really helpful, but I wondered if there was a place with something "m... |
Nothing too complex. I need a few custom paragraph styles, and here and there a graph or diagram will be interspersed with the text.
I've looked at Scribus, and it seemed suited for my needs... only it runs quite slow, and it's crashed once. I fear it will start crashing / slugging on me halfway through my work. It's ... |
I'm a freelance graphic designer, so mostly, my pricing and what not is pretty casual and I don't work 24/7 as I have other things to take care of, so when I quote someone, I figure out how long it will take me roughly and also take into account how difficult it might be. I give them the price, get a deposit and start ... |
How would I create a border with a pattern, be it some celtic knots or gem-like pieces, that could be used as a border in websites or ebooks?
I'd like to simulate materials like gems, gold/silver, dark metal, stone, marble, parchment... Needs to fit into a fantasy theme.
To clarify what I mean, two pictures.
1) The con... |
Inspired by the great answers from this question, what are things you would include in a graphic design job contract?
Are there items or conditions you would have in a freelance contract that aren't necessary if you're in a larger firm, and vice versa?
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I have a Color scheme for an app lets say I'm using the colors from this swatch http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/1746892. I am about to create another app and I'd like all of the apps created by my workshop to have the same aesthetic just different colors. I would like a way to create a "twin" of this kuler color scheme... |
My printer has requested that a batch of graphic files be lightened by 5% to compensate for darkening that happens when the print is laminated.
That would have been easy, until I asked, "What about the true black. If we're lightening everything so details still show up in the shadows, presumably we want the darkest st... |
I am trying to create new horizontal and vertical guides lines in Photoshop using:
View > New Guide > Vertical (this is for vertical guide line)
View > New Guide > Horizontal (this is for horizontal guide line)
Is there a quicker way to create these?
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After photoshop started and once it get focus, I can move stylus to low part of the screen. But if I switch to other app's windows, stylus can be moved to full screen.
I found a similar case on yotube, but with gimp, it can work although looks like wierd, and can be worked around by hide mouse cusor. The video is Issue... |
When I set transparency to a shape, it applies both to the fill color and the stroke color.
What if I need a semi-transparent fill color, but keep the stroke opaque?
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My website here:
http://www.papdevis.fr/
is very, very (x 14) "sober", i.e. there's the less menus I could do.
If you click on a region, same thing: there's the less menus I could do:
Mes devis | Recherche avancée | Offres et demandes | Offres uniquement | Demandes uniquement
which means:
My quotes | Advanced sear... |
There's a trick I've seen other graphic designers do wehre they'll highlight a block of text, and then seemingly down-arrow through their whole list of fonts, seeing how it looks on that text block, 'til they find one that looks right. Yet when I try to emulate, it doesn't work for me: I have to manually click the Font... |
My displacement filter is simply broken. I made the simplest possible grid for a test subject, and then a displacement filter which is solid 50% grey. This should, as a displacement map, do absolutely nothing. But when I apply it, it produces the transformation shown below. It's moving the lines around, fading then... |
I want to show a menu with indented items on top of a black background. I tried a lot of colors but can't find the right ones.
I'm using css property text-shadow:
text-shadow: 1px 1px #191919 , -1px -1px #444;
Here is a screenshot for a better understanding:
I'm not satisfied and I'm pretty sure that there is better.... |
I have received some psd files but need to modify the texts.
But I do not have Photoshop. I have Gimp but could not managed to edit the text part.
Is there a way to edit text of a PSD file without Photoshop?
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When saving for the web, Photoshop lets you set some default Output Settings for the filename. Some of these options include the documents name, today's date, and the various slice names. I would like to get some other dynamic info added automatically when saving. Like the total dimensions(WxH) of the canvas,or the col... |
When you ask Facebook for code to put a "Like" button on your website, you are given a choice of these typefaces: arial, lucida grande, segoe ui, tahoma, trebuchet ms, and verdana. Given that they are all pretty similar, what are some considerations in choosing among them? Recommendations?
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Is there a way to customize the default canvas size in Inkscape?
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When you highlight/select a text it highlights it in Black. Can I change it from Black highlight to a different color?
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My client is requesting SVG files (saving as an SVG would require me to build the icon in Illustrator), but I have always designed icons in Photoshop (importing vector art from Illustrator, and placing as smart object, + applying layers styles)—I find that Photoshop allows for greater flexibility in layering effects (f... |
Is there a way to reset the skew or perspective effect applied to a smart object?
Setting the warp setting in free transform from custom to none shows no effect.
Otherwise I have to export 50 smart Objects by hand :(
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How to make an inner shadow around a page in Photoshop CS2?
How do I get this effect where the edge is darkened?
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I have no formal (and precious little informal) graphic design training.
Fairly famous Computer Science person Dr. Donald Knuth long ago developed a font description system called Metafont. In and of itself that's not very interesting, but a thing about Metafont was that fonts could be described such that the productio... |
I've created a PDF pricelist for my photography clients, and it looks great as a PDF. However, I wanted to upload it to my blogsite as an image for visual impact.
The steps I took are:
Imported PDF into CS5. Options I chose are Anti-aliased, Resolution 300, Mode RGB, Bit Depth 16.
I changed the image size to 920 pix... |
I'm having some trouble creating a PDF with Photoshop.
The client wants the final file to be "a PDF at 300 dpi".
I have an image (3300 x 2550 pixels @ 300 dpi) in Photoshop. (11" x 8.5" canvas)
It seems that no matter which method or setting, my PDF is always saved at 72 dpi because the PDF ends up at 792 x 612 pixels... |
I remove all the columns I don't want visible by right-clicking the column headers and deselecting the column from the list. But when I switch to a different directory of images all the columns are back. They've even reverted in the directory I removed them from...
How do i make my changes stick?
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I have .tiff. Part of the .tiff is a bar code. My printer is insisting the bar code be converted to 100%K - CMYK "pure black". (Their words)
A couple obstacles:
The Bar Code has been scaled up. Since it got resampled in that
process, the edges aren't pure black anymore. Just selecting the
black area by color is trick... |
Following on from this question: TTF and other "modern" font systems, and font size differences
Higher quality fonts contain hinting information, which in short better fits glyph boundaries to a raster grid.
It's commonly used on screen where it reduces anti-aliasing.
But is hinting information used at all by any print... |
Any idea how to achieve this exact text effect?
Does this kind of text effect have a name? I know the moonlight text effect and since I'm new to Photoshop, I do not understand what blending effect settings need to be applied to text.
Detailed instructions on above text effect are highly appreciated.
I would also app... |
I have a background image with linear transparency applied on the top of my image. I would like to replicate the same transparency on the bottom of the image. How can I do this?
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Having trouble getting Inkscape to export PDFs cleanly and there don't seem to be many helpful resources out there. In particular, transparencies are difficult - sometimes the transparency will disappear and sometimes it'll be made into a solid block.
I've fiddled with the save-as-PDF settings in Inkscape and I've prin... |
When I try to open this image in PS (CS5) I get red rectangles around the parts of the image that are not transparent.
If I copy the image and paste it in PS I get the contents of the image, as seen via the browser, but with a built in black background (not transparent, as it really is)
What is wrong with this image?! ... |
On a publication that I work on I run into a problem where hyphenated words are hyphenated again at the end of a line. (Here's an example: self-sufficent would end up self-suffi-cent) Is there a way to change the hyphenation settings so that this will not happen?
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Maybe once a month I need Photoshop. Since it is rare, the cost seems like a disproportionate amount of money to spend by my startup.
I think the tasks I need to achieve when I'm converting a design to HTML/CSS/images are:
opening a PSD that a graphic designer sent me
crop some images out of it, generally picking up... |
The task I'm trying to achieve with Pixelmator is opening up a PSD and quickly (because I generally have to do it a lot) crop a piece of the image but also removing layers that I don't want in the finished picture.
This is for making little pictures out of PSD created by graphic designers to be later used in web appli... |
I am trying to import a PDF into illustrator, the problem is that the PDF is a highly complex 3D diagram.
I don't know from which software the PDF was genarated. I know that the original file format was vc3(I think its for CAD stuff).
I am doing this on a Laptop(Processor: Intel Core Duo CPU T6570 @ 2.10Ghz with 4GB ... |
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