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I need to design a box packaging and need help with color management of the work - formats and combinations. My company printer doesn't print correctly. Should I just look at the print out and see if I like it then go back for similar Pantone color and convert to CMYK for print? Whar are the common guidelines and rule...
In Adobe Illustrator I've changed the paint brush style to something else, (this happens with stroke size too) but the moment I start trying to paint the settings revert back to what they were before I started. Why is it doing this? How are you supposed to change the stroke/style of the brush if it keeps reverting back...
Which is the best way to show how a website differs on various devices for responsive web deisgn such as the screenshots found here
I think the question I am asking is the following: Is there a way to apply Paragraph styles on a conditional basis (until they encounter a specific character or word) or, if that is not possible, is it possible to create line breaks after character styles? This is the problem I am trying to solve: I am using InDesign'...
how do I create a gradient fill in InDesign where both ends have zero opacity to the fill but the middle is 100% opaque? For example a box over a black background has a fill that is transparent to start and then is 100% white in the center and then transparent on the other end.
I've seen in some questions (Fonts for technical reports and What font types are good for a technical document?) that there are many answers to the "what types of font should I use". Since there is no school template nor policy for thesis writing, I'm thinking about using something like this (which is heavily influence...
My file is CMYK, but it has a Link to an RGB PSD file as a transparency mask. The file renders properly in illustrator (the preview), but whenever I try to export to any other format, the colors are messed up. When I converted the RGB PSD file (transparency mask) to CMYK within Illustrator, I was able to replicate the ...
I created a logo in illustrator and after much experimentation, settled with a design which the client approved. The problem is, some shapes have a transparency of 60% which looks amazing on white but I need to clean this up before sending final files to the client. Question: How do I get an accurate solid colour val...
Let's say I have a parent Rectangle layer, and 3 children Circle layers. What properties do I need to set in order to have the circles be forced within the boundaries of the parent so that when I want to position them inside the Rectangle, they don't leak outside the parent? In case it matters, I'm using Photoshop CS...
Say I create an arrow with drop shadow and I want to save it and re-use it in another PSD file. Is there a way to save the arrow in Photoshop to do this?
I have drawn an image in Illustrator and am working on drawing a second and unrelated image. Part of the new project requires another clip-art image I drew previously. I "placed" the older image into my current project, but it is showing up as one unified object and I would like to erase part of it. Is there some way ...
I'm not really sure what else to call it, but my goal basically is to create various locations on a map and have them connect with a curved progress bar-like line. Like this: I'm familiar with the pen tool and how to make curved lines, but I'm not really sure how to go from a curved line to the picture above.
Why is it that graphic designers more often use an Apple Mac? I am studying graphic design and I am hoping to do some freelance work in my spare time. I have a unit in my studies to discover why Macs are used so much in the graphic design industry. I also want to purchase a MacBook Pro to start off with, but my brother...
When I save PNG images for the web in Photoshop, its getting blurred on edges. I want to use these PNGs in mobile websites: Any solution to this?
How Do I make something similar to following image in Photoshop? (Click to see larger) I thought of creating a curved shape by pen and then apply the tiled pattern to it but not sure how to create the pattern and spherical effect. I need the whole shape and its inside pattern vector. Thanks
I am trying to create mockup for my business card design but when I paste the design in the smart object layer and save it, the design only gets the effect of the template but the design do not go into the place it should go. It appears as simple rectangle with the effects. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I tried ...
I'm trying to find a font similar to Casablanca Book Condensed which you can test drive. What I'm trying to find to match the 'S': Ultimately I'm looking for something free but the cheaper the better. I've tried to look through Google Fonts but didn't find anything that matched what I was looking for. Any suggestio...
I am a student of graphics, and was looking for some inspirational logos and came across these, they look beautiful and I tried to make one myself but failed. How can anyone make such perfect logos? with exact same width and height exact distance. What are these logos called? Is there any tutorial online? Can someone p...
Would this be considered plagiarism? I have made the LiveBulb logo 3 days ago, I made it all from scratch. Starting at sketches and completely refined it using grids in Illustrator. Luka Balic immediately mailed me when he saw my logo on Dribbble, I was so polite to put it off of my account for the time being, but I ...
First of all, is it a good idea to ask a potential client for a ballpark budget they are thinking to work with? I just don’t want to meet with somebody who has a very low budget, and who could be surprised during our first meeting that I’m not the cheapest guy in town. So what do you think my first step should be when ...
I love SE Community, and I love badges, it has something similar with Xbox achievements. I used to play a game called Gears of War 3, it has a cool system called Ribbons. Basically you played this game and you got ribbons for your performance at every single battle. Here are some examples. So I was thinking, if we cou...
I have a rectangular shape and I added an "extension area" to it with several line segments and closed it back to the rectangle. Specifically, I clicked on an anchor point off a corner of the rectangle drew several line segments off this point and connecting each by the anchor point of each segment. I drew and closed ...
I want to cut an object using second object how can I acheive it? In the above image you can see 2 objects one is circle having 2px stroke and no fill, second is rectangle having white fill but no stroke. I want to cut circle based on rectangle to make it something like this Using your solutions I am getting object l...
I'm currently designing a poster, and when I view the design in Illustrator my Ben-Day dotted images are heavily distorted in their color and spatial appearance. I really like this. Is there a way I could (possibly in Photoshop) recreate these distortions so they end up in my exported pdf? This is how the poster looks ...
When I open a PNG in Illustrator CC and save it as SVG, once I open the SVG on the browsers I found out that the Photo has been shrinked. Can you tell me the reason and if there is a solution for that or not ? Thanks in advance, Waleed
I have Photoshop CS6 and in the timeline panel's menu there's an option called optimize animation and it has two options: Bounding Box Redundant Pixel Removal I searched in the internet and Photoshop help but I didn't understand anything about them :\| I'm not English so I'm sorry if I have any mistakes
I am trying to save out 24 rasterized layers to icon format. Is there a script to do this? I have tried greenfish but it does not let me set a custom size 100x100 I have also tried batching as png to irfanview then using irfan view to convert png to ico but the transparency does not save out clearly. Anyone have a wor...
I have used a drawing tablet before in order to draw stuff onto Photoshop, but I did find it quite awkward and strange looking at my monitor, while paying no attention to the tablet itself. I mean, when drawing on a piece of paper, most would focus on the paper and their hand, rather than looking elsewhere. So my quest...
Most of my work I perform on MacBookPro, but also I have a retina-iPad device which I never use for any type of graphic design, thus I am looking for solution to the underuse of this costly device. My question is: What actual design related tasks do you perform on iPads? I am interested in actual usage and not in theor...
Has anyone seen a study on how users react to logos that contain alive things like birds vs just geometric shapes or really anything else? I assume everyone will grow to love a mascot more then just a circle, but I need evidence.
I've been trying to wireframe my designs for apps, but keep getting frustrated with the limited ability and poor usability of the software I've used (Balsamiq, Pencil, Prototyper). Do you have any suggestions for free software that is up to date with buttons/elements for Android and iOS?
I am trying to create scala logo in HTML however could not find the font for the logo. Can someone help me with it.
I have a linear sequence of many same-sized rectangles. e.g. [----] (space) [-------] (space) [--] (space) [---] (space) [----------] I need all of the edges to be touching. e.g. [----][-------][--][---][----------] Of course, I can manually select sequential pairs of rectangles and use Align & Dist...
Because of the recent Web accessibility Law in my region, I need to ensure I'm designing with an appropriate contrast ratio. WCAG says the value of this ratio is 4.5:1 http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html How do I figure this out in in Photoshop and Illustrator?
I am having problems vectoring art work for floor tiles. I vector the image in Photoshop then I save it as a Photoshop file and move it over to Illustrator. For these vector images the need to be able to be stretched or shrunk but still keep a straight line. not pixalated. What am I doing wrong? This is one of the imag...
I need a way to get at the dimensions of a Photoshop layer with their layer effects. All methods I can find (such as command/control-clicking the layer thumbnail) only select the base layer and never include their effects. Is there a way to select/marquee the Photoshop layer plus its effects (without manually adjusting...
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator have options to preview what artwork will look like to people with red/green colour blindness (protanopia and duteranopia). How reliable are these previews? For example, I produced the images below using Photoshop's colour blindness simulation. The red and green tiles are still somewhat ...
I have a file that was originally created in CorelDrawX5 as both a dwg and pdf. I have opened both in Illustrator CS6 and they work fine. I then saved it as an eps and ai for my supplier to work from, they have Illustrator 10 so I made sure it was compatible to work with ver 10. However when my supplier opens it all ...
I am trying to do a new website and there are 3 key points to it (Easy, fast, secured). I have already been thinking of using icons for those 3 words but I am not so sure yet. The site that I am doing is for a car loan company and I am open to any suggestions you guys might come up with. I still like the icons idea tha...
Is there a way to make an animation of an entire Illustrator project from start to finish? I don't want to screen capture movie (as if it were a tutorial), nor do I want "my current view" of the progress (e.g. no zooming in and out). Rather, the animation should be of the whole artboard as the art gets created, step-b...
I have created a few actions to add border and guide marks on images. Depending on the border required, a different action button is used. Part of these actions are canvas size changes, image flips, etc. Every time an action gets called, each of these steps (flips, canvas size changes) gets animated on screen. Is it ...
In Adobe Illustrator CS5, is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines? This is the effect I'm aiming to create: I have created my grid and now I want my brush to align or snap to the guidelines, it is possible? Now this is want I really want to do: This the effect I want to create using the pressure of my pen ...
I've been sent a ui design which includes a header menu, wrapped in rounded corners, whereas the following content element is wrapped in square corners. Also every other primary content wrapper for widgets, sidebars etc are all squared corners. I've always thought this was a huge design no-no, but the designers are qu...
I have kuler installed, was using it just fine, then I just change from the move tool to the crop tool and back again. Now kuler window is just blank. How can I activate it? Thanks
I created an invitation card of double the A4 size with 72 dpi in photoshop. I intend to share it via phone. However when seen in actual size, it gets blurred. I tried same with 300dpi also. What should be properties of image so that it should not get blurred irrespective of the screen size, when seen at the original...
When I'm working in CorelDraw and my paper size is A4 (it's shows in the left upper corner) I keep the size of my poster into the limits of my borders/paper. Meanwhile, I have nothing changed in the settings and I go to export my .cdr file : it is not centered in the paper as you can see ... when im going to print t...
Is anyone aware of any resources for Icon design etymology, or the history of icon design? I'm talking about icons like Wi-Fi/Ethernet/Bluetooth status indicators, add, save, and similar simple images explaining actions or status. Like you might find in the Glyphicon set, for example. We're working on a project and tr...
I have been trying to create a logo design, and I've come across an issue that seems very simple but has so far been very puzzling. Basically the logo that I am designing has intersecting squares; where every second square is 100% opaque and the rest are 65% opaque. My issue is that I want the borders of each square to...
I'm trying to fit a texture inside this shape but the main thing is that I want it to continue on both sides of A and B from the bottom center, I dont want the texture to continue under the black parts of A and B then continue on the other side. In other words I want the texture to automatically fit the shape in a cont...
I'm trying to smooth out the edges of a low res jpeg download after I take it in to live trace and use the b&w preset. Is there a better way than using the anchor point tool?
I have a weird thing happening with this font. It's Avenir. I've used it in the past with no issues, but this one seems to pop up once in awhile. The issue if not obvious is that some letters appear larger than the others. The 'C" and the 'G' for example. Any ideas? I'm using a Macbook Pro
I have an image of 90x122 pixels i want to resize it to make it 512x512 pixels but the image loses it quality Is there any way of doing this without losing the quality?.
I have a book ready for printing. But, of course, it was done in RGB. In fact, I stretched the RGB gamut beyond its normal range in order to make it more painterly etc. When I saw it converted to CMYK, I almost passed out. All the great colors I had achieved in RGB had been dulled and "grayed". It was a great disappoin...
I have a two-spot job that uses a Pantone Blue C and a Pantone Black C. I need to create various tints of the black spot, but I don't really like using Pantone blacks for tints. From a production standpoint, would it matter if I substituted Black C for a CMYK 100% K value (process black)?
I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in a taxicab geometry. An example would be this picture, an image from a flash game called "Traitor": It is a distinct art style which I've seen it popped up in different places, so I'm sure ther...
Can someone tell me why i cannot add a stroke to the selected path? I have opened the file multiple times/copied and pasted the paths and tried to change the color and weight of the stroke. I believe this has to do with the circle being filled in. in the layer selection. illustrator says its adding a stroke but noth...
Does anyone know what this font is? I have already tried using whatthefont Var1. Originally posted by topic starter. Var2. The are differences between the images, however they may be result of scaling or other image manipulations.
Some layer effects and styles in Photoshop have pixel settings. The problem appears when you want to scale your design. For example, in Bevel and Emboss you are able to set the Size and Soften. The former is limited to 250px and the latter to 16px. To scale and preserve my design I need to set values greater than the P...
Sometimes, when I'm drawing a vector path with the pen tool, I need to drag the line further than I have screen space, and this makes the screen scroll down, which makes me lose focus on what I'm looking at. Is there a keyboard shortcut or some way to prevent the screen from automatically scrolling downward (or whatev...
I was going to try to do the line art of one of my drawings on adobe illustrator, but when i open the file the brushes are not there. There's only the basic brush and i can't reduce its size. I've tried to open the image in various formats, but it didn't work. How can i solve this?
I have 550+ fonts installed in my Windows 7, which is annoying, because they all are appear in Adobe Illustrator font's menue. Its really difficult to find appropriate fonts when it needed, also i am scared to add new fonts. Is there any safe way to delete redundant fonts and group new fonts (may be as folders)? Thank ...
Alright I am thinking of designing this site for xyz need or customers. Now when i am thinking...ideas that pop up in my mind are about lot of things, which are not necessarily related to graphic design immediately. Ideas cover from new features, animations, inquiries/theories, user interaction, website layout...to eve...
I have been doing web design for a couple of years now. I am trying to design it on paper but am not the best at it. Could you please give me some advise on how to blueprint it? How can I create wireframe-like mockups of a website on paper with a pencil or pen?
Once I have drawn the shape, per below, how do I simply lengthen the line? If I try via Transform Controls, it will also increase the width of the line (i.e. It transforms the whole shape as I drag diagonally upwards). How do I just make the line longer? Thanks.
I am using a font (custom made)for a title- which never posed any problem in other programs (illustrator, powerpoint, etc) - and it is acting very odly. See for yourself: It gives me this huge space above it. And it doesn't do that when I change the font... I am very confused :-s
i had tried to find this font in many web pages but couldn't find the exact font.So please can somebody help me to find this font.
I'm an amateur graphic designer. I've been doing work for local companies and initiatives for just over a year now. I recently got a job designing for a pretty big client (by my standards). They wanted me to sign over ALL of my rights. I asked for portfolio rights (only the right to display it in my portfolio as a wor...
I'm getting an error when I view my illustrator doc. error on line 33308 at column 20: Namespace prefix inkscape for connector-curvature on path is not defined My illustrator document is pretty basic except it uses a custom font. I don't know how to begin to solve this error. Any troubleshooting tips/ideas?
Hello! I'm looking for the name this font! Any ideas?
I recently bought a Wacom tablet for someone I know as she is interested in getting into the digital design industry. She's mainly just been doodling some drawings in Photoshop with it at the moment, but she wants to start adding colour to the drawings. However, she told me that due to the brush strokes the lines are n...
I've been tasked with designing a viral campaign with limited budget. I've not worked on such things before, so I don't really have any idea on how to handle this task. What exactly makes a campaign go viral? Is it possible to make something cheap and be sure that it goes viral? How would a designer judge how "viral" t...
Not sure exactly how to describe this, but here goes... I have some key/value pairs that I want to display separated by a colon: Name : Some Person Description : A description that can span multiple lines Department : D1 The values will be imported from XML at some point. The description value c...
I've been messing around with Pencil2D to create simple, keyframe animations, and although it works nicely, I can see how if you have an animation which is a combination of lots of independent animations (as I'm sure most animations are!) then you'd have difficulty creating that in software as simple as Pencil2D. I don...
Can you tell me which font is used for the logo of this web site? How can I create my logo using the same font and same pattern? What 's the font used for the capital text?
I am looking for help with creating spherical map similar to provided in picture: the 6 parts spherical map image setup (bent): I want to put together a promotional balloon vinyl,and I want to print on advertising material and thus put together a balloon, when put together to be whole advertisement. My problem is, wri...
I make a dotted map just like the one on the image below. I am using Illustrator and Photoshop. How can I select and re-color some of the dots on this image?
I'm teaching my child, who is 5, how to write and I wondered if it would be a bad idea to teach the foundations of typography and if any skills or techniques exist for children that can help show them how to progress in typography and writing skills? So far I have come up with: The anatomy but I'm having to make it ...
One of my pages has a single image taking up some space on the page. The rest of the space (the space not occupied by the image), should be transparent: that is, whenever I send it to the printing service, the base color of the selected paper should be visible, without any ink being printed on it (not even white - the ...
I am pretty new to Photoshop and am trying to do 2 things. I'm pretty sure this is the right site for this question. How do I horizontally and vertically center a Layer, or Text or an Image on the canvas, and how do I give Text a multi colored gradient, as shown in the picture below?
I have this two-sided layout that I need to print. The way my project is structured (a party flyer), the front page must be rotated 180° when printing, and the back page must stay as-is (or the other way around, it does not matter). How can I rotate a page 180° in Scribus? Ideally I would just rotate when printing, but...
In Illustrator I used the Type on path tool and typed a word on a black drawn line. I have change the style of the brush the line is using and now I want to change the color of the line. The text and the line seem to have been merged into a single object and when I change the color of the selected object, only the fo...
I am designibg a banner 6' by 4' at what resolution should an image 2' by 3.5' I would like to use be?
If I have a text that I want to have the same color as an object I can't select the text and then use the eyedropper tool to get the color from a (for example) rectangle. The text will get the Fill correctly, but the text will still be black. This is because the Characters layer is above the Fill layer in Appearance. H...
I would like to know what font this is, or the name of a similar font. I've already tried with font from an image recognition services and also sites with step by step font identification. It's not a typical serif or sans-serif font, so no luck so far. I've decided that it's easier to use one of the similar fonts and...
I have a 5760px x 3840px image with a filesize of1.14MB. I would like to reduce its filesize to 200KB without altering its dimensions. How can I do this in Photoshop?
I have a friend who is a jewelry designer that works for a small jewelry shop and she mentioned to me that her boss is looking for someone to edit some images of the staff, not sure how many exactly, may be about 10? Basically He want's their images edited to look "sketchy". I think he only wants the images edited and ...
I've come here seeking for a bit of design help or advice on how I could possibly improve the following: Like the title says, I'm having a website banner with multiple text displayed on different images as backgrounds. Now, since most of the images are dark, I've set the font color as white. But even then, some of the ...
I would like to add a proper screenshot to an iPhone product image to create an ad for an iOS 7 app. Apple provides such product images as *.psd files for Photoshop, however I only have Gimp 2.8.10 (for OS X) available. When viewed in GIMP, the product image contains two layers: one for the whole device, the other for ...
i didn't really use Illustrator before, but i'm having troubles with some basic things such as aligning shapes together accurately. I'm using this auto-snap feature to align things but it's never really pixel-accurate as shown in the screenshots: Whenever i try to resize the shape so that it fits the edges of the circ...
Hello graphic design exchange. I have a question about creative commons and its mix usage for printed materials. As you know there are lots of websites offering free vectors for commercial uses. In my case, it is freepik.com. It says it allows commercial usage if we attribute them. My question is how can we attribute o...
I stumbled upon a background image with transparency I have never seen before (image below). When placed as a background-image on web, it mantains the set background-color and only adds some "noise" to it. When you place a one-color 8-bit png picture with transparency over it, the foreground picture is perfectly vis...
Is there a name for a set of figures which fit into the x-height (or thereabouts) in a typeface? Lining figures explicitly do not: While old-style figures have ascenders and descenders: In the old-style figures, the 1, 2, 3, and 0 fit in the x-height. Is there a name for a set of figures which also contains the rest ...
I have no experience regarding Graphic Design, so this is kind of a intro question. If I have a font I'd like to identify, but cannot describe the details/semantics of it, how would I explain it? For example, some people here describe fonts as "x". What would it mean for a font to be "x"? Are there "categories" that ...
How can you set multiple layers equal distance between them in Photoshop in a given distance? I know you can do the math and manually set the x axis value for each of them, but I am looking for a simpler solution and, more importantly, faster. Example: Input - 5 rectangles 150x150 px size; distance between the grids ...
I want to copy a circle and re-size it at the same time, then do Ctrl+D several times to imitate the behavior and end up having circles with increasing diameter. I don't want it to scale the new circle by the same fixed %, ending up with a sort of logarithmic growth related to the original circle. What I'd need to do ...
I auto traced an image and am trying to change the color of all the black lines and sections to brown, but some of the lines I can't change with the Paint Bucket tool (because it fills in a large section of white instead). Is there a way I can change these lines' color? If not, what should I do differently when applyi...
I'm trying to create a flyer, using InDesign CS6, for which the content is imported from XML, but I'm struggling... This is my InDesign template: I've tagged the individual text elements I need to replace and the text frame is tagged Specifications. My XML looks like this: What I would expect is that the FlagState, T...
I was wondering why some of the SVG Filters found in Illustrator are automatically converted to PNG when I export the entire file to SVG. I don't want any hidden PNG files because of scalability. To put it differently: Why do some of the effects I create get rasterised, even though I'm working in a vector application w...
I was wondering if anyone knows how to avoid vector created patterns (from Illustrator) looking terrible (a sort of harsh, jagged looking moire pattern) when viewing a saved pdf in Acrobat. If you view the same pdf in a web browser it looks fine. I create a lot of downloadable pdf:s and often people will choose to view...
I have tried everything I can think of, but when I reduce resolution of graphics, keeping the same dimensions, it has no effect on the size of the file. This makes no sense. I prepare graphics for the web and so I often want to drop some weight by lowering the resolution of an image from, say, 300 ppi to 72 ppi. It wou...

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