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I'm creating a very simple logo with text and just one Smart Object leaf.
I want to create an .eps file so my client can print without any trouble.
The thing is, the Smart Object is a leaf that originated from a Photoshop Website template and it has 5 effects on it.
My question is this: How can I export the Smart Ob... |
What is the ideal color mode to design in photoshop cross platform/ multi device product design? Default seems to be 8 bit mode, however 16 bit mode seems to hold more color information. What are the pros and cons?
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I downloaded some psd to show my mockups, but it looks like the text is going to be blurred when I put anything inside the distorted smart objects.
How to avoid this problem?
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I'm trying to design a search box for products searching and I can't seem to think of how to represent search for products. My client wants his website to look like this http://www.hipmunk.com/. I'm just following his orders and now I'm trying to think of an icon to represent products. I'd be glad to hear any suggestio... |
I'm an ebook publisher trying to include 10 color illustrations inside an ebook. It's not a fixed layout ebook but a reflowable ebook (i.e., an epub).
Graphic example here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjnagle/sets/72157641718117054/ (Sort of low resolution -- but this should give you an idea about what they look li... |
I've been trying to compare this font, with an online photo editor called pixlr but no luck.
What is the name of the font on this picture? It's a little bit transparent, it has a metro word.
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Basically my question is how to make this like the image that I uploaded. I know that you need to pick a shapes, and a picture of what whatever you would like to form into. Where can I buy or download that illustrator script?
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I am developing a word game for iOS and would like to use an SVG file as the gaming board.
The SVG file (author: Denelson83, Wikimedia Commons) is almost perfect for my game - except that I would like to use 1-lined texts (like "3W", "2L", etc.) instead of the 2-lined texts in the original.
So I click a colored square ... |
I am creating a web app and I have got several questions about its appearance, first here's a "screenshot" (just a test with Pixelmator):
The element in the center is a flashcard, the arrows on the right and on the left let the user browse the cards.
Do you think that the flashcard looks like a card? How can I impr... |
How can I draw a tick in my image on Pixelmator? I'm now creating my iOS app icon with 1,024 x 1,024 pixels, and have put a background rectangle to cover the whole picture, and on it draw a circle and filled it with white. Now want to draw those ticks like in Safari app...
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I want to design something like this:
It has been established in previous answers that these are doodle graphics.
Some ways to make them manually are seen on here and here.
How can I make one or more doodles, select the group and randomly spray them on a canvas with a few skewed orientations?
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How did they create this very subtle 3D vector effect in Illustrator?
Link
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In Illustrator how can I merge this roof vector to the background of the square?
roof and square
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There exists a fair amount of references online on how to create mood boards using various online services. I'm looking to create a mood board that has a visual hierarchy, incorporated's colors, shapes and images.
However, I have not been able to find a good tutorial for Illustrator. There plenty for Photoshop. Any th... |
I'm using Illustrator CS6 and find that browsing through all the swatch libraries is not very user-friendly. I have to load every library individually.
As the library names are not really helpful (for me at least) it takes some time to find the right one.
Is there a way to browse all the libraries visually without relo... |
When I think of Indesign and editing/ type setting, I use character and paragraph styles. These functions are extraordinarily useful when you get into formatting/adjusting styles over many pages etc.
Is there a way to do this in illustrator with objects? For example, I have a number of abstract shapes that are compris... |
I like to make graphics for apps. I generally start with Illustrator and move to Photoshop for some little finishing touches. I then save all of the assets as .png files to be used by the developer. (This is a process to say the least, especially with all of the resolutions required for Android)
Now, Slicy exports PSD ... |
Say for instance I have pressed Print Screen and cut the following image:
Now I wish to scale this down to about 338 width and 338 px height. However when I do this in Paint (I know, noob program) I get the following result:
Which looks somewhat compressed and ugly.
So my question is: How would you go around doing st... |
I'm making a manual for a web-based app. I take screenshots and put them into
adobe illustrator and they lose their quality extremely fast when zooming in.
Is there any way I can take high resolution or vector based screenshots that don't loose image quality when zoomed in? This seems to be only a problem with Illustr... |
When I try to align various layers in GIMP 2.8, sometimes the align tool selects the entire image, not the layer I clicked on.
It doesn't matter how many times I try, and closing/reopening doesn't solve the problem. I've not yet discovered any regularities, it just seems to happen at random regardless of layer content... |
I just learned about both global process color swatches and spot color swatches (which are inherently global) in Adobe Illustrator.
My question: What is the difference between the two?
When should I use a spot color and when should I use a global process color?
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I am redrawing the character on the following picture via Illustrator:
Regarding the stripes on the shirt, I already tried to create it by creating a white and a blue linie and using it as a fill, but this doesn't allow me to adjust the stripes to the shape of the character's body.
So my question is how to professiona... |
I have some Illustrator art, and it's too complex (it has too many objects in it). It's too hard for the hardware to render it.
How can I convert all those objects into one to make it lighter?
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I need to perform via applescript some action on all items inside the Illustrator document apart of groups.
When I set my counter as
"repeat with i from (count page items of current document) to 1 by -1"
should I subtract the number of groups inside the document?
In other words are groups included in "page items"?
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I just purchased a font and now they are saying I need to go to Illustrator and go to my "glyphs" to get the "extras" of the font.... well I dont have Illustrator... nor do I know wth glyphs are?!
Anyone know if ps6 has glyphs? the font is purchased was: https://creativemarket.com/L_Worthington/12122-Charcuterie-Cursi... |
Is there a fairly simple way to divide a circle into equal parts using Adobe Illustrator CC?
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I have several text elements that I would like to resize at the same time, but I can only seem to select and change them one by one. This is tough because I need to select, change, deselect, reselect, etc, which is a lot of unnecessary mouse clicking.
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A question about using adobe illustrator cs6...
Basically I want to be able to put images I’ve drawn (simple outline drawings.) in to illustrator, having scanned them on to my desktop, turn them in to vectors so as to be able to resize them to any scale, and then once I have scaled several different images, bring them ... |
I am working on a character and the mouth looks like this so far:
My problem: The upper and lower teeth booth go beyond the black part. My goal is to neaten the mouth up so that it has a linear form and no parts stick out into the brown part as the teeth do now.
My idea was to take the black shape, copy it in front a... |
I've been a graphic artist since 2002. Since then, I've had a difficult time finding paying clients to the point that I changed careers. However, I missed working as a graphic artist and got back into it recently. However, I've encountered the same challenges this time around.
I'm wondering how and where can I find pa... |
We all know today the devices have different ppi. Traditionally a pixel is a point, which is 1/72 an inch. But today, iPhones have 326 pixel per inch why the point should remain the same for typography practice (12 pt is readable on a desktop monitor but would be too small for iPhone, instead we need 54 to 55 pt on the... |
I have been working on using Blender Cycles to bake textures but it renders very slowly so I have to render at low resolutions. This is fine for the indirect diffuse lighting but really makes a mess of high resolution/high frequency textures.
To deal with this, I would like to only use Cycles to bake a low-res diffus... |
I have a multi-page document set up on logically ordered layers (background, photos, type, etc. in ascending order, so type on top). On some pages, text wrap works perfectly! On other pages, the text wrap will flat-out not work. One of the following will happen:
If I set the text up, drop in placeholder text, it show... |
I want to replace the blue part of the image with red. I've tried this using a combination of the Magic Wand tool and the Paint Bucket but that doesn't work well.
Can somebody please help me out?
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I have never done this before so bear with me.
I am a Graphic Designer who started a business 3 years ago with a woman. We created and designed the whole 'program' together. Since the inception of this business, I have been titled as "Co-Founder". Because I was the Co-Founder and had no money to put into the business I... |
I am using Adobe CS6 and have been using the "Export" function within InDesign for many years. I am tired of creating brochures in "Printer's Spreads":
[Blank Page]
[8,1]
[2,7]
[6,3]
[4,5]
I want to create the brochures in "Designer's Spreads":
[Page 1]
[2,3]
[4,5]
[6,7]
[8]
I know InDesign has an option "Print Booklet... |
I have Illustrator CS6 and want to install some common plugin. This plugin needs Extension Manager installed.
How can I detect if Extension Manager exists on my Mac?
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Can someone please help me identify this font?
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I have never - technically - bought a font for personal use (I can state that in shame, all the fonts I've bought were for clients or came with software I own). It's now time to spend some gold coins on nice typography, and I was wondering if there are foundries that offer font packs or bundles.
I imagine the bundle to... |
In my case, I am planning to design how a website looks; I am a bit of a newbie. I'd love to learn :)
Are there any books that I can refer to?
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I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth.
How exactly would one design this video signal? I don't want the viewer to think the beam is a laser beam, and I don't want it to look like a particle beam, or a light beam from a UFO, etc.
How would yo... |
Is there a way to duplicate layers in Photoshop, similar to Illustrator?
In Photoshop & Illustrator you can use the select tool and press the alt key to move and duplicate a layer. But in Illustrator after I duplicate the layer I can press Ctrl D to keep duplicating the layers in a equal distance apart.
Indesign can al... |
I am running Photoshop CC on Mac OSX 10.9.1.
Today I opened one of my PSD files this morning and all of a sudden, these artifacts appear in some layers that have some effects on smart objects (but not limited too).
Is this something someone experience? can this be fixed for this file? I tried fixing it myself but new o... |
I have been seeing a major trend in these types of fonts, the bold cursive ones. I have been going through many and so far I have found Pacifico an Honey Script. I have tried using font identification websites but they don't seem to be able to find the letters in cursive fonts.
An example is the Dunked logo. Of the top... |
Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar?
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I use Adobe's Creative Cloud to generally resize images...but I came across a strange use case. I want to resize a graphic of mine...but not using a standard scaling formula. I want to resize my image pixel by pixel through some pixel scale factor. So, if my image has one pixel, and I resize it by a scale factor of two... |
I'm designing a box and I was wondering how I could place my graphics and text on it. I was curious about the printing process involved in getting the design on the box I built. I googled "how to build a box", "how to design a box". It just shows me how to build boxes using paper and how to create the design in Illus... |
I'm trying to duplicate and scale a rectangle I created with arc corners to create a series of thinner lines inside. The problem is when I start scaling the lines the arcs don't equally line up with the larger outer arc. I held shift+alt down to scale uniformly toward the center, didn't work. I tried using the "Scal... |
This problem keeps coming up again and again. I have tried to use the Dither checkbox in a Layer Effect in Photoshop CS6+ but that doesnt always work so well.
And applying a grain effect or noise effect just looks horrible sometimes.
It might be that I am not doing this correctly so would love feedback or leads to onli... |
Do I have to do something "special" to get the Color -> Color to alpha menu option to work in GIMP? I am trying to convert a background color on a GIF image to transparent by converting the background color to an alpha channel but the Color to Alpha menu option is not selectable.
I've gone through the GIMP documentatio... |
As a graphic designer I have found it always very interesting that how designs made in past look very outdated, unfit, out of place, underwhelming and just wrong. Even though i know it's true designs/trends of today WILL become the old ones in near future. But why...what is it about us or designs that makes them like t... |
I want to know what to call this type of picture:
Is there a specific name, so that I could search these kind of images (that is images with a white human).
Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm going nuts here. I'll try to be straight to the point.
I'm using Photoshop CC and have this dark background image for a poster with some text info. Sentences in white, three infos in purple, which I already chose from the web color palete.
The thing is, I need to use this poster for the web, I've saved it, tried an... |
Using Photoshop I have converted a photograph into a sketch/line drawing, I achieved this in photoshop by:
Making image greyscale
Duplicating image then inverting it
Applying a color(colour) dodge
Applying a gaussian blur (level 8)
Here is the effect, as you can see there are undesired effects on the cats face, where... |
I created smiley for happy, sad and neutral event. Any suggestion for sarcasm?
Here is the image for above three expression:
Can someone suggest an icon for sarcasm?
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I have a blog where I've been posting recipes and pictures for the last 6 months or so. I'd like to turn these into a cookbook.
I was thinking about sticking everything in a .doc and printing it at home (it's only for a friend). Is there an easy way to do this.
In a perfect world there'd be a magic app which had a ch... |
Say there are hundreds of unnamed layers in an Illustrator artboard. How do you just click one of those objects and reveal what layer it is on? And change to that layer?
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I see that others have more options for the Layers Panel, such as the ability to change color.
My layers panel Options for Selected contains only:
Lock. Hide.
How do I restore the correct functionality?
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Please forgive the open-ended title. My actual question, I think, is a bit more specific and suited for this site but it is rather difficult to articulate my need in one simple sentence.
Quick background-- I've recently had a minor shift in my career. I need to manage a website for a non-profit and since it will be r... |
Why is there such a difference in the editing view & save preview views? I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6 for Mac OS X.
Color Settings: North America General Purpose 2
Profile: sRGB
Export Format: PNG-24
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Please take a look at the image below. I am trying to find out if there's a "rule/pattern", even something that can be put down in math form, to the selection of a two-color gradient. The required outcome is something that looks like it's made "of the same color" but smooth. So, naturally going from RED to BLUE is dist... |
Can (Adobe) Illustrator set default layer thumbnail size?
Every new document, I need to click "Panel options..." to change layer's thumbnail size bigger.
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I've placed an EPS file (File A) inside another EPS file (File B) and now need to completely break this link so that the artwork of File A becomes 100% editable part of File B.
I've tried embedding it via Save As when saving FileB and that seems to keep the link to FileA active.
I do not want File A to be linked in any... |
My friend shoot a photo with a DIY White Backdrop, and I want to cut the tea box with the shadow.
Is there any technique to dicut it?
I'm hoping to get a result similar to these:
I was also wondering what's the easiest way to color (color tone) photo like those.
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I am slightly confused as to why the properties panel changes suddenly (as far as I know) when using shapes in Photoshop CC.
This is the normal properties panel when working with shapes
Then I sometimes get this
On the first image, I can see that I could toggle between the two views (masks and live shape). However On... |
Where can I find books / references / inspirations to learn the principles behind these graphic patterns?
It's often seen in luxury or heritage style products, as well as the us dollar sign. What is the art or graphic design style called? I understand that this may be a mix of various styles, but is there an overlappin... |
I am designing and doing the layout for our senior year newspaper. I want this to look as professional as I can get it. I feel like somthing is off with the design but I can not put my finger on what.
In advance Thank you!
Here is the newspaper:
More examples in this link.
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I'm working on a dieline for a box and I was wondering how I could make the fold lines.
Do I just make the stroke dashed?
I'm using rectangles to create my dieline. How do I select just one side of the rectangle to make my fold line? Every time I select one side the whole rectangle gets selected.
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I will sometimes encounter a font centered within an element, however upon checking the alignment, I will see that it is aligned left. Clicking the "center text" button in photoshop shifts the text layer left. Is there anyway to assign the "center text" property without having the text layer shift?
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hello I want to create a road line in illustrator like in this picture. The line must be the same or like this.
I want to make it with holes and give the line an effect like an asphalt line.
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I'm learning Illustrator CC and right now I'm trying out the various tools in the Pathfinder window, and how they allow me to create shapes. Something that confuses me, is that they seem to be somehow similar, if not redundant. Examples:
Minus Front vs Minus Back
Intersect vs Crop
Unite vs Merge
I feel like if I unde... |
The black part of this image is the outline of the State of Georgia, and the orange part is a line that is meant to have the effect of orbiting the state.
I would like to make this illusion, but I don't know how to get the tail end that is meant to look like it is going behind the black outline of the State.
What do ... |
I've changed background color to blue, and put a circle on it. I also changed the color of the inner part of the circle to white. Now I want to depict seams on it... how can I draw the seams?
I can accept that the seam is just the curved line - i.e. I don't need the dashed line or the "real" seam, which is a collection... |
So I can increase the size of the blob brush and eraser tool with [ and ], but the same shortcut doesn't seem to work consistently with the brush tool. It works with the three small "standard" brushes, as well as the calligraphic brushes. It doesn't show an increased stroke size, but the brush itself is affected.
It do... |
I have an Illustrator EPS file which has a number of shapes that are set to multiply and overlay modes. I am also using a number of masks. Is there a way to export this art in SVG format and keep all the visuals intact?
As per this WIKI page I think it should be possible.
I've tried saving my EPS as SVG several times w... |
I have been trying for hours to make this kind of shadow in Photoshop (the red one). Can somebody help me? Notice that there is a gap between the font and the shadow.
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How do I remove the shadow in this photo?
I tried fuzzy select on my actual image, the object has grey elements that make it difficult to distinguish properly. I can do by parts, but the real background also is grained due to the photo quality, and I don't know what operation to use to impose similar grain on the remo... |
I have the following design with gradient
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The gradient is 348px long, linear, starts with #F7F7F7 and ends with white #FFFFFF. I need to know what gradient color should I put as a starting point if I want my gradient to be not 348px, but 270px (shown by red line) with keeping to the original design. Is that possible?... |
I need to resize the Illustrator's swatch palette icons which are too small on my Mac. How can I do that?
Once I saw a PC with huge icons and I realized that I could do the same on my Mac.
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Is there anyway to re adjust the path? I tried & tried but completely failed
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I am working on a web application that sends print data to a newspaper system - we do not actually load and store font information we just create an approximation of the article to be printed. I am having a terrible time matching lineage for aGarmond 10 pt.
Does anyone know is there anywhere I can find relative font w... |
I'm trying to mock up some ads for the London underground, and I'm having trouble warping the image to the interior of the tube shape.
There are various guides to warping labels to cylinder exteriors etc but I cant find anything regarding warping images to the interior shape.
I want to add an ad over where the current... |
I'm trying to find a way to distort artwork to emulate those crazy chalk art pieces you see all the time, like this:
I know how it's done:
...but I'm wondering if there is an Illustrator or Photoshop plugin available to apply the distortion for me.
Currently, I do the distortions manually with Mesh Envelope, but it's... |
Let's say I have created a layer on a black-and-white image with a layer mask to colorize some parts (for example skin). I am able to change this with Colorize and change to any color.
But how do I use another image of color of skin (as reference)?
Is there a way to select a portion of skin on the color image and apply... |
When I try to open an svg file with Illustrator, Illustrator defaults to whatever artboard size was last used when a file was open. As such, the svg, if not the same size as the previous artboard, is then placed and auto-resized into that artboard.
Is there a workaround for this that does not involve opening a fake do... |
It seems like Gimp is not rotating correctly.
I have two duplicate layers of this GIF:
It looks like this:
I click the rotate tools, click one of the layers, and choose 90 degrees. It looks like this:
Then I click the rotate button to apply the rotation, and I see this:
The rotation is off. Does anyone know what is... |
I have a file with about 500 layers, and I need to replace a color in all of them. I looked through different solutions here and elsewhere, and they all suggested using an adjustment layer or something similar. This doesn't help much - the layers are used for animation so it would break everything.
The best I could com... |
I'm trying to save two different versions of a certain SVG using Illustrator.
The sole difference between the two versions is that a certain text element's tracking attribute was set.
It seems though that Illustrator is completely ignoring the new attribute (the two resulting SVG files are almost the same - there are s... |
So basically, I want to edit my image (which was designed by a close friend of mine) to change my glasses from white color, to black instead. I've tried editing the hue/saturation but failed to achieve the effect.
I want to learn how to do it in Photoshop. Your kind advice would be greatly appreciated :) Still relati... |
I am curious as to why when I scale things the general shape changes. The flag in the middle is what I originally started with, and either side is the distorted result of rescaling it.
I have read previous answers and tried: unchecking align to pixel grid upon start-up of new document and then with the flag shape sel... |
I would like to animate a set of text, like this http://www.doctorhugo.org/e-poetry/shewalks.gif
as in the the gif i create should consist of text I choose. Are there any tools for that? How would I approach it in HTML5/canvas?
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I have a timer running on a video overlay in a mobile application. The font used throughout the app is GothamNarrow-Book.
While it looks nice, it is distracting to see the running timer constantly changing its width. Here is a sample of what the font looks like:
I'm open to all suggestions.
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Assume I have an icon on a pure white background in a PNG image. The icon is a solid color, with edges anti-aliased, so they are blended with white. I need to delete the white background so that the non-content is transparent. How can I get the anti-aliased edges to blend from the fill color to transparent, instead of ... |
In an imaging app I'm working on, I want to enable the user to apply a blur filter to the image. Bit creating an icon for that filter isn't easy. Should I
Draw a white circle and just apply a blur to that and take that image as icon? I'm not too happy with making a modern UI icon that hasn't straight lines and curves,... |
When I watch time lapses of Photoshop (and the like) artwork, I always ask myself why they paint a huge area over the picture over and over again (like layers).
As reference watch the first seconds in this video.
The artist paints a large chunk of black over the picture (the fine black drawing itself is always on top).... |
I'm trying to use a Gaussian blur on an image, but I don't want it to effect the edges of the image. How can I do this? I'm using Adobe Fireworks.
Here's the image I am using:
And here's what I did:
See how the Gaussian blur effects the edges? I don't want that.
I'm trying to create an effect like this:
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I have this letterhead title in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, in which I set the English to Small Caps (that is, the first letter is a big capital, the rest are small). Now, in Hebrew, the letters are generally squarish, so they're kind of like small caps already (although there's no equivalent of the large cap). In Ara... |
We are trying to create a web page with a full-size background. The following pages are our inspiration:
http://www.august.com.au/
http://www.levehytter.no/
http://danielfiller.com/
We have created a page with some striking images of our own, but they always seem flat, lifeless and don't give the copy any chance to s... |
Are these illustrations done manually by hand or in Illustrator?
Is there a easier way to reproduce these kind of illustrations?
More examples here.
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I'm an aspiring logo designer so I'm doing some research.
Apple's logo, according to all the "evolution of the Apple logo" photos, shows their current logo as being a 3d type Grey gradient logo. So that's their official one, but where do they actually use that at? In everything I see from their website to ads they are... |
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