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I have just started documenting a purchasing, warehousing, billing, sales, and accounting application - a real monster! It is being deployed to multiple sites and is modified for each site. This means the UI changes for each deployment, so new screen grabs have to be re-taken. As the same screen is referenced in multip...
I usually create figures using something like Matlab or Python; then I use Illustrator for final touch-ups and things. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the colorbars when I open my figures in CS3 (ancient, I know...) My colormaps come from colorbrewer2.org. For example, I'm trying to use a divergent, 11-class s...
This is a very minor thing but very annoying. I am using Adobe Illustrator CC (Windows 7 station) to create cosmetic labels. They have, of course, a lot of copy. The copy is set on area type boxes. They are not linked. They are all isolated boxes. Sometimes I need to copy and paste some portion of the text from one box...
I like the repeated shape, with color "overlap" but I do not know what to call this, or how to create something similar in Photoshop. How do I create this effect in Photoshop?
Can anyone confirm that OCR-A is a sans-serif font? Are the OCR-A capital letters considered to be block-form? Thank you.
I have several circles that are set at type none color and 0.01 black stroke. They're all currently in paths (except two I made into compound paths). I want to know how to remove the stroke from the areas where the shapes overlap. Here is an image: I want it to look like what's on the right. What I've done so far: I ...
I am creating a portfolio website for a college class and my homepage content contains a Welcome, About and Contact paragraph. What are several icons I could use that appropriately represent the Welcome and About sections?
Look at this picture: All the squares are filled with solid color without any gradient, but at the borders between the colors we see as if gradients were used. In the past I tried to create similar image by using gradients, but with the time realised that optical illusion gives me the opportunity to create the pictur...
For the time being I have only this image of A. Can you tell me what the name of this font is? Explaining that a certain answer that easily comes to mind does not work: I tried to use WhatTheFont on the example. (see http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/). It was somewhat complicated to even find out whether it could wo...
tl;dr What is the best way to use value-based fees for design projects? What would the "value" be? I see that a lot of designers use time-based pricing (hourly, daily, etc.) Time-based pricing is horrible, for the following reasons: There's a conflict of interest between you and the client. The longer the work takes, ...
Where can I find resources on how to create a visual guideline across multiple products, eg. apps. Example; If a company wants to do 20 apps, and they should have a visual guideline across all 20 apps. The functionality ect in each app is completely different, but the style is the same. Where can I find resources on ho...
Hello All, is there an easy way to grab an image (or a shape I cut out with GIMP Free Select tool) and then just write text over it and let it fill the shape? I have tried searching for it but no tutorial really seems to resemble my idea. What is my best option? Thank you.
My students are creating 2D artwork of characters for integration in a video game. I'm unhappy with the results, because the bodies are "wrong", but I can't really help them out because I'm worse than them at painting people. Is there any simple tool, like the wooden figures of oil painters, that we could use to positi...
I need to draw a paper plane for my game. I have pretty much PS experience but still have problems with easy tasks. It must be totally 2d , so most examples that can be found on the internet are inappropriate. And all my own works look primitively(at best). Any advices or examples?
I've been playing around with some gradients on a site I'm developing, and I'm really interested in the psychology or other meaning behind why certain colors appear more attractive than others. Here's the site right now: The gradients there look quite natural to the design. But if I start mixing and matching, I end u...
Is there a way to set the default colors of the lines and points in line graphs in Illustrator CS 5? I'm having to create 75+ line graphs and it would be nice to have the colors default to my settings rather than having to recolor the lines and points every time.
I have a bunch of lines that go behind the layer of a mountain that I have created and I would like to cut them out. Proving to be impossible right now with the pathfinder tool. Any suggestions?
I have two layer with the same smart object. If I edit the smart object, both layers are updated (nice!) I copy these layers to another file (by dragging them) In the new file, both smart object are unlinked! If I edit one, the other will not change. How can I copy the smart objects to a new file so that they rema...
I needs to look like it looks here with three different pics for screen printing. Is there any way to do this quickly or do I have to do it manually?
I'm new to the graphic design section of SE, this being my first question here, but not new to graphic or web design. I am in the process of making a free website for a new local eSports bar. The basic layout is there, but the logo looks out of place. (please note none of the grahpics were made by me and are currently...
Trying to come up with a undelete icon, the best ideas I've come up with so far are an upside down wastebin with rubbish underneath it. It is going to be placed on a user profile page that lists user content serving to specify what content has been deleted and likely providing a link to undelete that content.
How can I show speed in this example? I don't have any vector programs, I'm working in Photoshop. Any advice will be helpful.
So I recently got this theme and I have been modifying it to fit my needs for the application and I came across a piece of design in which I am unsure about. I have a table which contains bans, these bans have a lot of data attached to them for instance Player's GUID, Admin's Ingame Name, etc. along with the ban entrie...
Can anyone think of an icon that represents delivered fully assembled? Only requirement is no tools. Client has said no to tools or screws etc, as he thinks it leads people to think you might need them. Current icon below.
I use actions regularly. Sometimes I just need to resize a bunch of images to a certain size, and will never use that action again. So I create an action, use it and then delete it, or let it rot in the actions dialogue. Is there a way to make some changes to an image, and then apply to all open images without having t...
I'm thinking on a logo for my personal site that is tech/dev oriented and I've been curious about the use of brackets/braces/parentheses in logos. Most of these special characters have a lot of different meanings depending on the language or context, so I was wondering if there are known general meanings. Some examples...
I have 2 different objects in Illustrator CS6. They are both their own layer. They both consist of several paths which are filled with a gradient made to resemble gold. My problem is that of one the object's colors suddenly seemed washed out. I don't remember what I did exactly. For example, a black stroke seems dark g...
I have some layers in a PSD that are named "@bounds". I'd like to create an action that will either show or hide any layers in the doc that match that layer name. Is this something that can be done through Actions?
I am really in to this kind of art style: http://www.hannesjohannes.com/ It heavily features lines and dots to create textures and shading. Is there a specific name for that kind of style? The image below is a really good example of what I am talking about, note the dots around the edges.
Typekit offers fonts in a variety of types / suffixes: Std Display Extended Condensed Pro Caption Subhead Wide Black And often these are combined. For example, https://typekit.com/fonts/kepler-std has a number of these. Although I can make a good guess / visual check of these, What do each mean? When should each be...
I am looking for a method to fill multiple colours to different letters in a word without removing the outline / expanding the type?
Is there a way to prepare a PDF file in any of the programs in the Adobe Creative Suit, making a part of it change with input from the user? For example, you make an invitation template. You make the "name" variable. Save it as PDF. The person who gets the PDF can just enter a name in a field, and the invitation would ...
I'd like to place a custom icon on either side of my section headings similar to this hastily-made mockup. I could just place them as images, but every time that subheading moves, I'll have to move each of them manually. Is there a way to place an image into the document flow so that they would stay attached to the su...
What is the font type in this image? It was created by a co-worker that is no longer at my company.
This could a very broad question, so bear with it. I was going through an article about Cleveland Indians and realized that the Logo for the team is racially insensitive. What is the general view in the graphic design community about designing an icon which could be racially sensitive? Does this view apply to other se...
I'm very interested in animation however I only have a little bit experience in Flash Pro. I would like to start from Blender and how to make easy models then go higher and higher. Is there any book from which I can start from? I know there are many tutorials on YouTube such as this one but I prefer some solid book wh...
I'm working on a set of ads designed to have a social media sort of feel. Generally, these ads have a header and a sub-header on a stock image. The brand has a specific header and body font that must be used on all Powerpoint presentations and websites, but I'm wondering if it's terrible branding-wise if I use differen...
I have 4 buttons (playback buttons) and 4 pre-selected music-track (song) buttons. Actually the content is not important. The screen will always be on like a GPS application. There will be 2 different set of colors for day and night. It is easier to find colors for usage while the user is stationary and nothing is movi...
I am using Photoshop CS4 Version 11.0.2. I make an action called Resize to 388px. I record the action as follows: Start Recording Image Image Size Adjust size of image down to 388px. File Save for web and devices I choose JPEG Low I check Optimized Hit Save Direct the save to the "Resized to 388px For Web" folder. Sa...
I’m looking to automate data merge to create multiple PDFs per row of data (each PDF would have 10 pages) and with each PDF being named uniquely based on a column in the data. Specs: InDesign document with multiple pages (10 pages). CSV with 100 people. I want to have a PDF for each person (100 pdfs). Each PDF will be...
I am looking for a particular px size (WxH) image that would be the best dimensions to use if you wanted to call a single image that could be called as the background image for a mobile device using either portrait or landscape. Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to display a background image under these circumst...
I was trying to work myself through a few tutorials today, but I have noticed something odd: Here's a nice rubber stamp effect tutorial with two circles and text. The tutorial's text instructs you to cover the "stamp" with the calligraphic tool like the images shows and then apply Intersection to the paths. The res...
To be more specific, is it acceptable to have two different typefaces used for headers? One will be used for web content and the other for print or more static content where the type won't be at the mercy of someone else's font collection. And along these lines, is it acceptable to use two very similar typefaces for th...
I started working on my own designs to sell and had someone come and asked me if I could put a classic Winnie the Pooh image in my design. I am selling the whole piece to this customer, but can I sell it to them if I put the Winnie the Pooh image on the poster? I was going to purchase the image on Etsy but I know that...
Is there a way to save an Illustrator file as pdf without the canvas? Somehow, when I save as pdf I always end up having the "whole" canvas saved with it. In contrary, when I export to, lets say png, I only get the actual drawn object. Is there a possibility to save as pdf, because it will be a vector graphic instead o...
is there a built-in filter or extension in Inkscape to create a similar fold/3D effect? I mean the appearance simulating a foldout leaflet/brochure. Thanks for any hints!
What font is used in the following image? The original image URL is https://www.flickr.com/photos/parisinfourmonths/8581256343/in/set-72157632102589845. I'm also open to any recommendations of fonts that might play nicely in it.
I have been trying to create a favicon for my website for sometime and I cannot get it to be crisp. It is a simple Favicon. This is the best I could make it, The W will not be crisp. Is this favicon good enough for web standards? How can I improve it?
I have an image taken of a room directly at a sunny window. When I adjust the image brightness and contrast the window turns white. Is it possible use the wand to select the the portion of the image I don't want to be affected by the brightness/contrast treatment? I am I approaching this wrong way altogether? Thanks
How can I get the picture in the background and add a blur to it so it looks like the example ones? I have tested blur in one of my designs, and it's looks bad x) I wonder if it's the color of the font or if I need to add something else. My image: My examples:
I've been trying to make pretty much exactly this crystal: http://wallpapersus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/abstract-crystal-digital-art-3d.jpg Now, the only thing I've used is Photoshop CS5, and it doesn't seem to be quite capable for that sort of work. I'm by no means a 3D artist either. Still, I'm willing to pick...
For a project involving a client-supplied map (clip below) I need to be able to turn colored layers on and off. The client, however, supplied a flat image and vector outlines for the color regions, apparently all they can find. This is not the same as a layered image of course. Is there some way I could remove the co...
I am a beginner user of Illustrator and I like it a lot. I also like to make concept maps like this one: I was wondering if there is a possibility to easily create and modify concept maps ? The problem is that if I draw this diagram in Illustrator: and then I move the rectangle on the left then the line stays where...
Let's say I have View 1 as shown below. Now, I zoom into part of View 1 and then arrive to View 2. I am doing some fine editing and then I want to go back to exactly View 1. Then I notice that I still need some fine editing so I want to go back exactly to View 2. Is there a shortcut/command for switching between View 1...
What is the name of this tech-ish, uppercase font that NER*D uses for their logo? Hi I was just wondering what font style this is. If you could help me it would be great appreciated! Thanks!
I'm a pianist, composer, and teacher, and I'm building a website to promote myself. I want the site to convey both a sense of elegance and old-world discipline, but also sleek modernity. I was going to ask the wonderful experts here what fonts I should try to use, but I realized that's a very subjective question that w...
I've been looking into complementary colors and appealing color schemes, and I couldn't find any which suggested that this shade of yellow would look good with this shade of red. However, the picture below from Tarantino's Death Proof looks amazing (to my taste...). What is the principal that ties these two colors to...
I found this plugin SpecKing that looks like it's just about exactly what I'm looking for, I haven't tried it out yet though because I was hoping to find a free, maybe even open source alternative.. Does anyone know of any open-source and/or free Photoshop plugins similar to this one? I'm looking to extend the function...
I'm doing a tutorial, and I noticed my timeline is quite different from the one in the video: This is mine: This is the tutorial's: The first problem is that I can't find the Add Videos button in my timeline. The second is that when I import videos from the top bar File, the videos become layers instead of whole vid...
I have been stacking up on books for logo design and scouting dribbble fairly intensely. I read (and loved) David Airey's book Logo Design Love, but what I am really looking for at this stage is a book that in lays down the principles for minimal logo design covered in this mini course. Any recommendations? edit: I hav...
I would like to use the swipe down icon: from Control Center of iOS 7 : in my iOS 7 app to indicate that you can swipe down this pop up : How can I get this icon. Am I allowed to use this icon anyway (I do iOS app) Thanks in advance.
I will probably get some downvotes for this since I asked a similar question here: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/29362/cs-graduate-starting-out-in-graphics-design-what-are-the-main-principles-of-de and it was closed down. The answers/comments I had in that question where mostly concerning UI designi...
I have created multiple objects, while testing I applied a drop shadow style on one object and its looking very good. Now I want to apply the same style to all other objects (around 20). Is there any way like global color to create a style once and apply to other objects with single click automatically? Or I have to ap...
I am not a designer, just an average man with no business in graphic design. But sometimes I see two colors in an ad or in the clothing shop and I can say that they are a perfect match. As if they have the same strength. My question is how, using some computer program, transform e.g. red color into green color of the s...
When using Adobe InDesign, you Pages panel shows you all the pages of your document. But sometimes those pages look similar from the thumbnails (see printscreen below) and you can't really tell which page holds which content. I would like to write a 1 word memo near each page, making clear whats what. Example of words ...
This is something it will be useful for several things now that I started "photoshoping" - so I made some lines with the pen tool, then right clicked with the 'direct selection' and then 'stroke path' to paint the lines. Now, this lines are closed, they make a shape, if I paint the inside with the bucket tool it creat...
I know that in movies they use green screens or similar to be able to edit out the background from shots. But what is the name of a piece of equipment or setup I need in order to take a picture of say an apple and be able to crop out everything else except for the apple? In other words, I want to create transparent bac...
Me and my buddies have a small design studio going on here at our office. We always work from the network when working on any of our Adobe files. Our server is on Windows 2012 Standard with 9TB storage space RAID 50. It's got shadow copy turned on and backup on top of that. It's been working for the last 2 years and ha...
I am making my own cards to sell, however, I would like to use some graphics and or backgrounds once in a while without having to make them all the time. Where is the best place to buy graphics, images and backgrounds for a low cost that I can use in some of my cards that I will be selling? Sometimes I just need to a...
The Big Question What is the best (possibly a software application) to create Documents (e.g PDF Brochures, Business Portfolios, Annual Reports etc)so that a client can edit the text content? My Problem I have a client who often needs me to make small content changes to brochures - as his company grows and gains new cl...
I am trying to find a way to make global color changes in a single place. I found another question that describes this well... Is it possible to have global color swatches or color styles in Photoshop?. Per the answers to that post/question, Photoshop CS5 does not support "global swatches". So, my new question is......
We are attempting to re-skin a third-party application. One modification is to change the background color of a toolbar. However, there are images on the tool bar that have anti-aliased edges to blend into the existing background color. How can I modify those images to blend with a different background color? I onl...
I am trying to recreate this artwork in Photoshop. I am not sure how to create the lines moving toward the tool nor how to create the lighter color around the tool. How would I do this?
I designed a link button in Illustrator, much like the ask question button here. Since I am new to all this, I have difficulties creating just the perfect shape every time, so I want to save that button as a symbol or graphic style so that the next time I can just click on it and change the text length. How do I save a...
I need to get an image (optimal would be pdf/tiff but png will work, too) from my svg file. The svg is relatively small (cca 300 kB). What I need is an image in resolution cca 10000x5000px in 60+ dpi. When I use Inkscape and try to export the image of the desired size, it takes forever and it sometimes crashes. I have ...
I'm attempting to make a transparent logo that uses a smoke effect. I used the tutorial found here to do so: Photoshop CS5: Setting a black background to transparent However, I am having issues as the image continues to have a faint white background, although it's not entirely opaque. I can't figure out how to get rid ...
I would like to create some GIF animations to help explain some concepts on a website. This (from Wikipedia) is a good example of the sort of style I would like to use: This animation appears to have been made using a custom PHP program and libraries. Is there a tool which can create similar animations without the nee...
My client requests something like the title described. I do not agree the initial idea though. As they insist on doing in this way, I had to come here to ask for some help. Let's put the question like this: how would you approach designing an outdoor banner that advertises (for example) suits, work uniforms, and child...
I know there are some alternatives for Helvetica Neue for web usage, but i want to ask, if it is legal to use Helvetica Neue on some commercial website.
The font named Times New Roman is trademarked by Monotype, but the font is licensed to Microsoft (perhaps to others too?). These two fonts (MS TNR & Mo TNR) are clearly different in their coverage. Version 6.85 of MS TNR (bundled with Windows 8.1) contains according to BabelMap 4,098 glyphs, whereas Mo TNR according to...
I'm trying to create something similar to this example: What tool should I use, or is it just squares and circles attached together? Great if you know a tutorial for this effect.
I'd like to have precise control over a gradient fill. From Expression Studio I'm used to the gradient tool annotator to automatically snap to a grid. By default, the Adobe Illustrator gradient annotator happily ignore the "Snap to Grid" setting in the View menu. Do I need to toggle a special option to make the gradien...
I'm just asking if that's possible to have ~116 simply drawn signs that can be related -since it's already proved that humans are more quick in writing linked alphabets in the same word-, easy for handwriting, and learning. In fact, those alphabet I wanna create are sets of 4 forms for each letter. for example: Edit...
I'm a graphic designer usually do logo and banner design work. I recently got a work from my client to make PSD's for the website. So i want to ask that what exactly he will be expecting from me? I don't have a strong knowledge of html/css.
Thanks in advance for your help! I have been asked to fix a customer supplied ad targeted for CMYK newsprint. It is a .psd doc. The printer has asked that the file be supplied with the background image, which is separating as rich black, be created in 100% K as it is offsetting, and will offer better registration, etc....
I'm using adobe illustrator, and I'm trying to get the text to orient from left to right(counterclockwise) and not upside down but I cannot get it to do that on the path I've created. Im pretty beginner with illustrator, any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you
just in case someone is able to recognize this, if not, doesn't really matter. I was browsing the web, came across a photo depicting an interesting font (RAMLÖSA, lower left corner). I like the placement of the umlaut on Ö. Sorry, I guess there is no higher resolution and the MyFonts.com identifier was not very success...
I want to make a bunch of dashes that are 10 pixels long horizontally, 5 pixels long vertically, and separated by 20 pixels. Is there any way to do this easily in GIMP? I was looking at slice, but that seems to output the image into a bunch of files. I just want to be able to make a uniform dash without having to manua...
Please someone can helpme to identify these two fonts? I have tried many different websites without success.
Illustrator has a less known feature to hide artboard and background. I accidentally activated this with some keyboard shortcut. How do I go back to the normal view?
How to make rulers and grid show the same coordinates and units? Currently it shows absolute delirium for me:
I have this photo album with two layers, layouted in InDesign (CS6): On the first layer I have all the graphic elements (the gras and the yellow elements) On the second layer are portraits (the pixelated profile pictures that you can see below) I want to print the album with all the graphic elements and print the por...
I have a document with multiple sections that has a table of contents (TOC) at the beginning, which includes h1-h3 styles for the whole document. I want to create a sub TOC for a single section that includes the h1-h3 styles in that section only. In other words: I want to create another level of contents within each ex...
How to make a "Graphics Interchange Format" as Transparent in Photoshop or any other tool ?
What design principles can be used to achieve simplicity without diminishing the ability of the user to use an interface efficiently for complex tasks? Specifically, I'm wondering which key design principles I can use to achieve more with less. Principles that allow a designer to cover complex interface features with s...
I notice that sites and software with less superficial value (less style, inspiration, or simply "neat-ness") often succeed far above their fantastically, well-designed counterparts. Is the style, creativity, & inspiration side of interface design not equally important compared to the content, efficiency, & productivit...
I've heard it said that a designer should almost always use subtle, simplistic style in the design of a typical user interface. Is that really the case? For example, Windows 8 is very bright / loud, and it seems to be popular, but that doesn't necessarily go beyond the current trends. I'm looking for an example of su...
I don't know if this is the right place but I am looking for a software through which I can show some comments/text on image. You know the bubble text that we show on images to describe something!? So basically I have a home page site design on which I want to place bubble text to describe different elements. I have us...
Some examples I have in mind are: The next America, Pew Research A game of Sharks, The New York Times Recalling a Vision of the Future, The New York Times How would you create something like this with minimal effort? Is there a tool or a template? What I particularly don't want to do is to hack away in HTML/CSS, Java...
My family does light artistic stuff for fun - almost exclusively drawn with mechanical pencil. This isn't fine art - no vine charcoal sketches of bowls of fruit, it is just for fun. We would like to transition from doing some of it for fun to generating graphics appropriate for use on sites like cafepress. But there is...

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