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I have an AI file that contains several linked files, all sorts of psd and image files. The problem is I don't have access to any of them, which is okay since I don't need the files to complete my job. So, Illustrator always shows this message upon opening the file, asking to ignore or replace the files. Trying to repl...
I have created a logo with pen tool in Illustrator but between lines (where they intersect with each other) there is a gap where it gets the color of the background. Something like this: (Black color is the background color) - As you can see where the paths join each other there is a kinda dotted black line. I Grouped ...
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator, and currently I'm trying to cut a letter off by an object. In the following I am going to explain what I mean: I have drawn a rectangle. I have written some text. I positioned the text over the rectangle, so that parts of the text are inside of the rectangle, parts of it are outside. Wha...
I'm trying to change the "3" to a gradient, but when I click the gradient icon it just goes black and the gradient settings to not take effect. I tried going to object > expand but that didn't do anything. Here are screenshots. Selecting the fill works. Selecting the gradient does not work.
I need to illustrate a pack that rolls down 3 time at the top and can only use black and white and no words. I'm using Adobe Illustrator because it has to be vector art. End result will be screen printed. Here is what I currently have. Just not really feeling I'm getting the point across. You can see a bigger version ...
I really like this stained glass effect on this font and want to recreate it. Please let me know. Thanks!
A simple example would be a map of the United States. If I want to overlay the state name, capital city, and population in their proper location on the map...is there a way I can use data merge to fill this in automatically? My only guess is to do the data merge in separate document in a standard block layout (state, c...
So you can have a look at that picture, in that picture, the middle men's face is half bright and half of normal colour. How to do that effect using photoshop? Please anyone if you know please elaborate in a step by step manner. What is this effect named as?
We're rebuilding an online platform for online commerce and are thus contemplating hiding the product menu (represented as a tree, usually with a depth of three or so) and only making it appear on mouseover someplace that attracts the user's attention. Naturally, we could just have it say "Products" in plain text, but ...
The French passport background (and maybe other country one's) is a map with a very subtle red-grey centered linear color gradient. It's also crossed by many wave-formed lines. I'm looking for tips in order to create a similar background with my city map. Above a detail of what I'm talking about, but it's not exactly t...
I am trying to create a realistic shrub/bush. My goal is draw one similar to as shown in pic below: Here is what i have done. I am using pen tool to draw a basic bush with green colour and then dark green shapes for lower region to show shade and light green shapes to show sunlight. But not able to make it look as rea...
I have a poster that I want to print in A0 size. For technical reasons, the output PDF file unfortunately is currently not in A0 size. How can I print this poster in A0? Should I first convert it to A0 somehow before sending it to the printer (which I don't know how) or I can just send the file to the printer and the...
So I am pretty much desperate by now. I am a web developer and -designer, but I don't use Illustrator. I just don't need it at all. The file that I got from the graphic designer contains two artboards with several icons spread all over these. I need to export every single icon as SVG. So I selected every object, clicke...
I sometimes find myself using Gimp the way I would use paper. For example, I want to use blue ink size 1.4, anthracite 2-px pencil and size 20 eraser, to recreate the look of a school notebook. I don't want to use three shades of blue when I have selected the ink, or to vary the size of the pencil. But switching betwe...
I made a pretty simple checkerboard in inkscape. It is just many boxes that have an outline that is 1 px thick. They overlap by 1 pixels so all lines are one pixel thick and not two. I did this on a 256x256 canvas. Now I want to export this thing. In the exporting options I chose 256x256 for bitmap size so that it is j...
I've read a bunch of blog posts and stuff on web design, but don't have any formal education or experience/training. In experimenting with my first website, I've found that having 3 colors works best. At first I tried just black and white, but that didn't look good. Then I added a color (blue nav bar), and it still loo...
I'm translating a document in Adobe InDesign. There is a sort of rule that make the word "Action" italic every time I type it in. Where can I modify that rule? I need to add a similar rule for the translation of "Action".
I'm aware that there is an international standard on how to display date-time, ISO 8601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601). But we all know that it's not that common. Maybe it is in engineering, but certainly not in design or everyday life. I've seen quite a few ways to display time and one of those uses ' to deno...
Is it possible to produce pdf files with InDesign that have interactive images on them? For example, the initial appearance of the image is black/white but once the mouse touches it, it changes to a colour image. Is this possible?
I am trying to export artboards as PNGs from an AI file. I have a bunch of artboards created, but when I try to export the file and use the artboards, the export dialog only recognizes four artboards. I've googled and searched all around and I can't seem to find any record of anyone else having this same problem. See ...
I often have a situation where I get a foreground image with a background color like this: I want to display this without the white background, so I set the blend mode to Darken: But now I want to color all the black pixels blue, and I can't figure out how to do this. If I set a Color Overlay style, it overlays the ...
I have a logo which has a symbol and some text. The stroke on the text is about 15px, so nice and fat. When I use it as an SVG image in a page, it works fine, except that when I increase the size, the letters in the text start to bleed in to each other. I changed the text objects to paths, and grouped the whole thing,...
I would like to create a (preferably conformal, but not necessary) curved grid like this: {Dead, unrecoverable image was here (not in Wayback Machine, and original image domain is now a parked malware site)} trying to match the outline of a curve I have: Kind of like the lines on an athletics track, but a grid. How ...
I work on a platform where users post requests and other users are connected with them, so they come and solve the first users' problems. Pretty much like a freelancing website. I need an appropriate icon for making a request - like.. a clock would be for fastness. My question is what characteristics would fit the case...
Please, can any one Identify this font?
Is there any way to create real font set from the vector shapes created in Illustrator CS6? I have a set of the vector shapes - 26 letters of English alphabet, I can copy every letter to make title etc, but I wanted to create a real font to type on keyboard as usual.
Ever since I found designs that has this warped shadow effect I couldn't stop trying it out and see if I could do it. I've already done my research and I can't seem to get it perfectly. I'm trying to achieve this: I'm trying to achieve that shadow effect below the large image. It's on the green background. But so far ...
Is there anyway to make it softer? Everything else in the shot is crisp, but you can see the pixels of the inner glow pretty easily.
I'm a design newbie trying to make a logo for a video game I wrote. The game is centred around robots, so I wanted to make the logo a circuit board. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend either software, or a library of images, which can aid in making this? Something that would have a good selection of plugs, chips, ja...
I'm trying to speed up my workflow by making vector points move in the opposite direction simultaneously when I have two highlighted. For instance, below I highlight the top and bottom of the arrow so they will move at the same time, except I want the bottom point to come up when I'm moving the top point down. Right no...
I'm running into an issue trying to join two different size lines together. I am trying to join them together but when I join them it changes the Stroke Weight of one of the lines instead of just joining them while maintaining their original Stroke Weights. How do I join two different size lines without it changing the...
Aligning vertical centers: Aligning horizontal centers: How to align the boxes so that the space between them would be equal?
I had a look at Adobe Fireworks used in combination with "Dreamweaver" to upload a .html prototype on an internal server. It seemed to work pretty well. Plus is well integrated with the Adobe suite that allows to create new images quickly using Photoshop and Illustrator. There are tons of other rapid prototyping softwa...
I'm using Illustrator CS5 on OSX. I run into this strange behavior and I can't figure out why it happens (and stop it from happening). This is what I do: Draw a rectangle Effect > Warp > Arc Set to -6 OK Effect > Stylize > Round corners Set to 6px OK Then, I take the corner (shift pressed) and resize the shape, mak...
I'm a beginner in 3DS Max and I want to start/improve my modelling skill!!! Any ideas for some objects that are both easy and use many modifier and technics? Thanks and have a good day!
Given a background color, what is the best way to determine if I should use black or white for the foreground color? For example, could I use a formula based on the HSB values of the color? It's for an app in which the background color is dynamic.
I've tried this applescript code for Illustrator CS6: tell application "Adobe Illustrator" make document with properties {name:"anyName"} end tell but couldn't affect the name of newly created doc. I do can create layers with any name I want, but the document itself not. Is it 100% impossible?
I am looking for a way to reproduce this gradient using css: Is it possible? I don't know how the png gradient has been done.
I’m looking for a way to reproduce a similar effect in Photoshop. Is there a filter that can produce this?
Just starting out in Illustrator and I want to make a shape such as this: The way I have done it is like this: Make a rectangle Move 2 corner anchor points Add anchor points on either side Move the recently added anchor points inward/outward Remove path (because I don't want some points curved) and Effect-> ...
How was this animation created? Can someone give an example how to create animation like this one? Is it possible to achieve animation like this one using canvas and logo in .svg format? Is this some kind of masking effect on canvas or what...? Preview logo animation visiting apple official website.
I'm building a t-shirt website and I want to be all legal and stuff. I want to offer the customers interesting designs, like the ones from threadless.com or zazzle.com. So the question would be... where and how do I buy designs that I can later sell on my website? I know there are interesting sites like designcrowd wh...
To avoid printing single letters at varying sizes and measuring how far away I can see it from a distance is there a formula for determining what size font for a particular read distance? Is it better to take the midpoint between the ascender line and x-height or to go purely off of the x-height (since going purely off...
I have a document that was saved as a InDesign 7.2. Now I have version 6.0, and I was wondering if there is any way to open it or convert it online to a 7.2 document and/or PDF.
Hi I am new to illustrator and created an image that uses "Skia-Regular" font. But when I save that image in .svg format, it changes the font type. And when I open the .svg format file in browser the font is completely different. Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong. I have opened the .svg file in notepad++ ...
I have the image below with the red lightning effect a single layer. What I'd like to do is make the red transparent, but maintain pixel brightness, so that I can then overlay it on a red canvas, or blue canvas, etc etc. How can I keep the pixel brightness in this way? Currently, with it all transparent, it looks lik...
I have a document with images. I need the best quality/size ratio. Now I use the "save for web" feature from photoshop because it allows exactly that. When I place my images in indesign it looks great, and I sure know my images are small, but when I export I can't seem to choose "retain existing compression", so it wa...
When I change a shape's border radius after editing the vector points, it snaps back to the original shape. Any ideas?
I have a photoshop file with many layers. I would like to put one layer on top where I can draw transparency, so that full white (or black) is rendered as 100% alpha, so it subtracts all the layers underneath. Is there a combination of blending modes, opacity settings, mask settings that can achieve this result?
Everytime I need to use font awesome in photoshop, I'll always copy an icon from website and paste in photoshop. I can print it into pdf and copy into illustrator as vector but I want them as photoshop custom shape set. I've copied whole text into photoshop but then I need to split layers to each icon in each layer and...
I'm putting together a brochure for a job spec, and want to put a table with "Desirable" or "Essential" attributes on it. Not sure what to go with for the icons for Essential / Desirable though. It's for a teaching post so needs to be relatively sober/sensible, but want to go with something more interesting than just E...
For some reason after working with a shape for a little while, the transform the points (corners, edges, whatever) get out of alignment. Notice below in the rectangle in the middle.
It feels like this should be a Photoshop feature (every point in a layer is either present or "absent", right?), but I can't seem to locate it. Suppose I have the usual many-many layers, and they're reasonably well-organized, but I need to be sure which layer a given object occupies, without knowing the layer beforehan...
I'm trying to create something with 3D, never used this feature before. I'm trying to change the grey surface to a gradient. How can it be done? This is what I'm looking at Thanks
Often, I want to write text over a background image. If the background image is bright, I use a dark color for the text, and vice versa. But, often the image has both dark and bright parts. So a dark text is unreadable on the dark parts, and a bright text is unreadable on the bright parts. I currently use one of severa...
So in the picture below, you can see on the left (object A) and on the right (object B). I'm wanting to vertically center object A on the left of object B. Since object A is a weird shape, Illustrator puts the center accordingly to the bounding rectangle around it instead of the objects shape itself. So when I go to ve...
I'm fairly new to Illustrator. I bought a vector graphic of a wolf for this logo I designed (see screenshot with purple on white logo). It looks good when it is quite large, but if I scale down the logo then my wolf doesn't look as good anymore - you can barely see his eye and somehow his fur looks a bit too bulky and...
What is the design style called where they create form with simple shapes, usually triangles like they have done with the ground in the Chrome Maze Experiment Or like the images below:
I need to export a Photoshop swatch file to a human-readable document with RGB, HSB, HEX values and the name of the swatch. Is there any tool which can export swatches to this kind of a document?
I often find this kind of table to present a font, showing a sample of characters, the name of the font, a word (random?), and the alphabet. There's a lot of them in the Wikipedia page about the Vox-ATypI classification. Has it a specific name? Is is standardized somehow? Are there templates available (yes I'm being ...
I have been enjoying designing in illustrator a lot but while designing a home for landscape i found it difficult to get precise perspective for 'Home'. So the question is how to get perspective to look precise /right in illustrator cs4(below cs5 version). CS5 has got perspective grid but i don't have one.
I am having a simple issue from import SVG path to Fontello: 'id.svg' contains multiple paths/shapes. Please, make them a compound path, and try import again. So, I have this vector: What I really tried: 1) Search on Google ! 2) Unite paths in Pathfinder 3) Join Paths in Object > Path > Join The Results 1) Teach me ...
See the underline continues after each word before a line-break? How can I automatically remove that underlined whitespace?
It's not hard to make gradient lighting like this using Photoshop: But I want to make the lighter part as a point in the center, with gradient along radials. How to do it?
I am designing an app icon for an industry-specific business app that does primarily job management. The name is very likely to be called "JobCheck", which may become a part of a collection, or suite, of apps (ie., FinancialCheck, EquipmentCheck, etc.). I am aware of the overuse of the checkmark symbol, and would very ...
I am wondering: After I rotate an element in Illustrator to an un-even angle, is there a simple way to rotate it back to an even angle later? Whenever I try to get a shape back to 0 degrees or 90 degrees, it always seems to be off by a smidgen. Any solution?
I'm currently using Fireworks for image manipulation and preparation, and I do the following tasks: Resizing the canvas Rearranging components, i.e. cutting bits out and putting them elsewhere Resizing components Exporting as PNG32 (an efficient PNG32 export algorithm is essential). Note this should support alpha tran...
is there a popular website where I can order an interface design for an application to a fixed price or make an auction style request? Maybe something where I can browse the previous work of that designer? Thanks
This is the last time I ask the question about Applescript - I see that this topic is unpopular since none of my questions has been answered. Probably I'm on the wrong way, but scripting for Illustrator seems to be very interesting and useful. I found the way to set the color of a layer to RGB color - set color of curr...
I am designer with 8+ years of experience in Designing websites. I am currently facing a down phase in my design skills. It seems like my design skills are going nowhere. It seems like I have to make my transition from a amateur designer to more of a Pro. So can anyone please suggest to me how I can practice to become ...
I have made this sketch with MS Visio which looks like it is handdrawn with a pencil: How can I achieve this with inkscape?
I've always run into this issue, and diving into it a bit more today, I can't seem to figure out 'HOW' to stop the PS6 vanishing tool from pixelating my website mock-ups! I often mock-up web screenshots on devices for my portfolio and clients. (Perspective monitors, smartphone devices etc.) and I typically use the van...
After I put a drop shadow on text, then save -> exit -> reopen, I cannot edit the text. When I click on the Type Tool Icon and then click on the number, it just shows the paths. Any suggestions? Then when I reopen the doc, it converts the text to an outline. Note: File was handed off from a previous designer and is...
Is there some kind of test equivalent to what the FizzBuzz test is for developers, for graphic designers? That is, a short and simple question/task that can be asked/assigned just to determine whether a candidate has the basic skills needed to be worth considering at all.
I want to slice this element: So it's only, for example, 20 x 20 px. I can't do this normally; if I slice this image, and repeat it then I do not have a beautiful background. How can I slice it so, that in future, when I put this as a background in CSS it looks like it is a big image, without any repeating?
When I go Create New Layer => Convert to Smart Object => Double click on Smart Object thumbnail it opens in Photoshop as a .psb, but I would like it to open in Illustrator. How do I get all my Photoshop smart objects to open in Illustrator? I'm using PS & AI CC. The Adobe docs just say you can open in either of them. ...
I am looking to create an interactive image of a machine. I will be taking incremental photos of it rotationally at two different distances from the machine (approx. 20ft and 5ft away). Once I have all the images taken I will process them for exposure and whatnot. At this point I will just assume that they will be "...
I love the site Emblemetric but I've read everything on there since it's not updated so often. Where can I find other resources dedicated to metrics and analyzing logo trends?
There are tons of sites out there with free graphics. You can find a bunch of these sites through freepik.com. It seems that 99% of these graphics use the CC Attribution 3.0 license. I'm wondering what the deal really is with these graphics, and the sites they are hosted on and their licences. I can understand if you a...
I'm working on a game project which is based on a Kids daily activities and games. It needs obviously some cute graphics for which kids get interested in. Since I'm working on a low-budget, I need a very cost effective yet a beautiful solution for art-style. I cannot allow my budget to have art style exploration as it ...
I'm using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac. I'm constantly getting this error when I try to save a PSD: Could not save "file-name.psd" because the file is already in use or was left open. I have to end up saving the file with a 1 appended and then delete/rename. Any one have some idea how to get around this?
I don't use Photoshop or Word all that much but, when I do, I end up sifting through the zillion fonts on my system (installed via various programs) to find the right font for the text I want to put into an image or document. As I sift through the list and I find the fonts I like for the current context, I write down ...
I have a web page that has a list of columns of information. All columns have names and then some of the columns have items in them. I want to have an icon to represent Hide all empty columns Showing all columns All of the icons i see for hide look like "delete" so i want to see if there are any representations of...
I want a easy-to-use, drag and drop based website design/development IDE for frameworks like bootstrap, foundation, etc...
I wold like to get into the design industry and would like to work my way up to a creative director role. I have also considered art director. What entry level jobs would you recommend to get there and what career path should follow? I am am keen to work in a team, perhaps with brand management and advertising over di...
In Illustrator I can't align an object with a stroke with an object without a stroke. It keeps popping over out of alignment. How can I stop it from popping over?
I have created one circle in illustrator but the circle quality if not perfect: Why is the quality of the border so low?
I've looked quite a bit for resources demonstrating how to fake spot varnishes and print finition in general (embossing, foil, flocking, etc.) on real mockups (i.e. no Photoshop). I would exclude binding from this since it's a huge topic by itself. I did find some videos for hand embossing on YouTube, mostly from the s...
I want to snap and or merge the lines to the circles in order for me to create a rounded slash \ type design.
Please help me understand how OS X Mavericks renders colors (or else how the Digital Color Meter app reports them). Following Bjango's advice on Photoshop color configuration for OS X, I found my way to this this tutorial on OS X color management, which included this PNG image which offers a grid of supposedly pure col...
I am facing a difficulty making a circular shape in Illustrator. When I duplicate a given shape in circular design and make as many duplicates as required, the last object stands out. I have tried arranging the shape to go backward and the next objects come forwards. But to no avail. Please help.
What is the best way to explain to a client that their logo is incredibly poor and amateurish when they seem to like it? They want to spend a fair bit of time and money developing new products,designs and marketing but their current logo is a real obstacle in making them look professional. I have tried substituting the...
I work for a printing company, and our webshop is missing icons/images for our products. So, I've finally convinced my bossman to buy a pack, but we really can't find any... here are a few examples of icon packs we're looking for. http://www.printdeal.be/nl/producten/overzicht http://www.zwartopwit.be/shop/all <== this...
I have this shape made up of lines (see left side of image). Why is it that when I resize it to a smaller size, it becomes slightly transparent (see right side of image)? Changing it to a smart object has no effect. Duplicating the resized one multiple times makes it appear opaque (as it should), but merging all the du...
Is there anyway to break up a polygon into paths? Actually what I want to do is to change the colour and dash of certain sides of the polygon, but that seems like the straight forward way. I can't seem to make this work. I know I could draw the polygon from scratch but that seems tedious given that there exists a polyg...
I am a one-day veteran at Inkscape, making some avatars/profile-pics, and also a complete nitwit concerning graphic design. I want to end up with 1024x1024 and 2048x2048 png files. Although I guessed my way through, and most things seem to work out, I am still wondering about some of the settings. In particular, I am s...
I am working on different documents to create a Book. I have managed to fix all references, figures, numbering, etc But I do not know how to solve the following problem with appendixes: I have 3 chapters: Chapter 1, 2 and 3. I have 2 Appendixes: Appendix A and B. The numbering works fine when I mix them all, but I have...
Let say I have 3 shapes in illustrator: A, B and C. I would like A to overlap B, B to overlap C and C to overlap A. How can I do that?
Sorry for the confusing title. What I did was scan 3-4 photos at a time and then crop those photos into new layers per scan and then I combined them all into one .psd file. So what I have now are several differently sized images on a larger canvas. This leaves extra white space when I run the Layers -> Files script. So...
I have two images A and B which are similar in many regions. I want to create an image C so that B = C on top of A where C should be as transparent as possible. on top of is the normal layer superposition. So C is some kind of difference between A and B. If A and B are identical, then C is totally transparent. If A an...

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