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I'd like to have a layer mask in Gimp that includes some text. I currently have a method of achieving this, but it's a little more crude than I'd like. In this image, the top text is a simple text layer sitting over a plain blue background. The bottom text is the result of the following procedure: Create a plain backg...
I have created a website that i would like to add to my portfolio, but i'm having a hard time getting high quality screenshots of the full site. I tried to save the website as PDF, but that was full of errors, other online services cant recreate the images and so on. I've also just tried to take regular screenshots on ...
I have around 15,000 JPG files that need to be watermarked. Is there any way to process these images en masse and add a watermark? The images may be different sizes, I want the watermark placed in the center of the images.
I a working on a number of projects that I will design and frame along with a bunch of greeting cards. What is the best printer to buy for printing greeting cards? I was looking at the Epson Stylus Photo 1400 Inkjet Printer. Is an inkjet or laser printer better? I've read a lot of pros and cons on each. I'm looking fo...
I would like to transform colors in the attached image (and other hundreds) defined by the following rule: 1) the lightest blue became the light green (exactly like as in the upper right color sample rectangle), 2) and the darkest blue became the dark green (exactly like as in the bottom right color sample) I've tri...
There is russian book, The Publisher’s and Author’s Handbook by Arkady Miltchin and Ludmila Tcheltsova which is well-known and considered the best comprehensive guide to typography and writing of text in Russian (formatting, margins, font sizes and so on). You can get the idea if you peek my link (even though everythin...
Is there a way to create a sphere shaped paragraph in powerpoint 2013. Something like this
I'm new to graphic design and the more I read about licensed fonts, the more confused I get. I've understood about downloading fonts from the internet, but my question is about the fonts that come up with Microsoft/Windows and Adobe CS5 upon buying the software and installing it on my computer. Since I bought the softw...
Can I make just the background of a picture semi-transparent while leaving the two people opaque? I have tried many things, but it keeps making the entire background completely transparent. Please help. Trying to make an anniversary gift for hubby.
We are designing a magazine using InDesign. Our Setup: 1 InDesign Document (we cal it the Ladder) that binds all below mentioned document into the Magazine. A lot of Single Page InDesign Documents. A few Double Spread (2 pages next to each other, facing) InDesign Documents. Using a new InDesign (We use CS6), it is po...
Is there a way to find out whether a font is authentic or fake? Font files both online and on my machine are often of unclear origin, yet I'd like to be sure that I paid for the fonts that are commercially available and that I have a genuine original. Is there a way to check the authenticity of a font file? I am intere...
I am trying to add a dashed line border around a coupon I've made using CS6. I tried adding a shape (rectangle) with the dashed Stroke option but the rectangle shape covers my coupon. Can I make everything but the dashed border transparent? Or is there a better way to accomplish this? I am new to Photoshop and will ne...
I'm currently discovering Sketch 3, and I stumbled on a problem for which I can't seem to find a solution! Coming from Photoshop, to add guide lines to my document, I went to click and drag from the rulers on the left side and top of the document. But in Sketch that actually just drags the rulers around. Which could be...
I tried to ask this question in another group, but got a hint this group might be more appropriate. I just wrote a little tool to check luminance contrast (WCAG) on a web page. Testing this I was surprised to see that a lot of sites (for example Facebook) uses contrast as low as 2.7 where the recommended contrast is 4....
I'm using a lot of 3D rotated images, especially in mockups. I've always noticed that text become slightly less clear when they're rotated. I've always accepted this, since I thought there was no way to render text in such way that the type remains perfectly clear. However, a friend of mine attended me that this proble...
FYI I'm in Australia so laws will probably differ to that in America. I'm curious however as there are heaps of great typographical designs of quotes...but is it illegal to make profits off your design selling them as prints etc? Or would it be ok to add the author's name as part of the design?
There's a wonderful property in CSS called clear that prevents floating objects from appearing adjacent to something else. InDesign allows floating objects, but I can't figure out what sort of paragraph style settings to use to prevent objects from floating next to a paragraph. I have an anchored object floating to th...
I am not much of a typography expert. Unfortunately the word 'one' is very common so Google/Bing return no reasonable results. Common examples include: Francois One, Fjalla One, Days One, etc.
Please show me how I can achieve below effect for text: Those random ink spray spots, shapes are basically transparent so it will show the color of whatever the background is (black in this case). Thanks for your help.
I'm designing a brochure for the first time. I did everything in Photoshop because I'm much more comfortable with it. But to refine the last layout details, put everything together, and deliver final product to client/printer, I need inDesign. My question is: what is the best moment for importing Photoshop work into in...
Cant think of any ideas for this. Currently im using a pencil icon to add a new post to my cms, but i need an icon that will show how many posts a blog has. The pencil icon doesnt scale down well enough for what im doing. Any other suggestions? Craig. e.g. The icon currently being used:
Hey does anyone know how you can get this increasingly popular door shade technique that helps objects look 3d. (Im talking about the way the object with arrows pointed to it is made of of 2 shades of grey on the pixel scale to look rough)
I've had an amazing client for the past three years who I've done regular graphic design work for - mostly product promotions (print & web), product brochures, posters and point of sale. She is now trying to sell her business (which I'm gutted about!) and has asked me to put together a presentation of all the marketin...
What is the name of the art style with wacky space alien characters? I've seen the style in many places over time but a good example which I can provide is the illustrations in the Area 51 StackExchange site. Here are some examples:
How can I create these types of gradient images in Illustrator?
I want to create animation of meteor 's moving in sky , this meteor has fire , for its flame/fire i draw a fire and then use particle , but now I can't control completely whole fire : fire must be exit from one whole on the meteor in frame 0 all thing is correct as you can see in this picture: in the frame 6 meteor m...
I've got two paths with really big strokes. I'd like to combine them in a way that the strokes line up, and I can avoid having to outline the strokes and end up with a lot of paths to manage. Specifically the top left area the strokes don't line up. Any ideas? EDIT/UPDATE: Thanks for answers everybody. Just for further...
I'm an UI Designer and I've just got my Retina MBP. Currently, I design on the retina screen until I get an ext. one, so everything I design is 200% bigger than on normal screens. For example, if I want a button that's 120 x 36 px on normal screens, I have to make it 240 x 72 on the retina. Everything looks awesome, bu...
Is it against Apple policy / guidelines to create a custom button that links to the App Store, or does it have to be the official App Store Badge?
My inDesign document has the exact same dimensions as my layered Photoshop one. In Photoshop, I hid all layers except background and imported that, as a Photoshop file, into inDesign. No problem here. But then, still in Photoshop, I hid everything except a small image, I cropped the Photoshop doc to fit that image size...
I am not a professional designer, meaning: I have not studied Graphic Design at university or similar. I wanted to, but the numerous clauses didn't allow it. On the other hand, I'm actually doing graphic design since the age of 15. And, compared to what I see from other people with a comparable background, I'm doing qu...
Given values a and b in the appropriate color space, does perceptual psychology provide an algorithm to determine which is cooler and which is warmer? Even better, is it possible to determine how much warmer the warmer color is? [Edit] To resolve confusion, understand that there are two kinds of "color temperature": ...
I'm a UX designer specializing in interaction design and information architecture, but I'm looking to deepen my knowledge in visual design and color theory. I'm currently working on a new portfolio site. Several users who tested this site's prototype said that blue and orange by themselves didn't convey the sort of e...
I'm lost here. 2 hours down the drain trying to figure this out. This is what's happening: I'm trying to map text to a flag shape for a client's logo. I've followed the steps outlined here for an idea of what to do. Pretty much every other post I've looked at says essentially the same thing as that tutorial. My problem...
When selecting and moving one anchor point, it moves freely. But selecting multiple points of the same shape and moving them - it snaps to pixel grid. Anyone know how to disable that and have them move freely? Thanks!
I want to give a logo to an open-source Github project. I can use git, but I don't know the etiquette of pushing stuff. Especially if it's not code. Also, what licenses are possible? Where can I give myself credit? Thanks.
You'll have to bear with me, I'm going to struggle describing what I mean. I'm creating a chart that looks something like this: Except that my numbers aren't integers. So, in that first line for instance, I'd have a number like 2.4 and I would want that person in the image to be 40% one color and 60% the other color a...
I have many designs prepared for print (CMYK), but now I need to present them on a projector. As projectors go, I know most of them have weak contrast, and many of my colors wouldn't be as accented as I would like them to be. Therefore, I want to do some batch process on all the vector graphics (PDF) to increase satura...
I use Illustrator CS6 to create a 3D pie chart. For this, I first create a "normal" pie chart and apply an extrude filter. Even though the results looks great in Illustrator, I get some white artifacts in the exported PDF (see screenshot). I tried with and without Object > Expand appearance and also with and without st...
I am almost in the final step of the design of a social network application, I am just not sure what would be the best font type for that type of applications, instead of using the system font type.
I want to warp a string of text into a u-shape where only the top is bent but the bottom stays flat. Like this logo but assuming the bottom remained flat and only the top went from big to small back to big. Think of it as an arc-upper text warp but instead of a hump at the top its flipped upside down to a smile shape....
I made two gif images to describe what really my problem is. Anyway on the first image, I've drew shapes individually and combined them all to make this logo. Unfortunately, its shape deforms whenever I try to resize it :-/ but I wonder why the messaging shape (the second image) does not deforms no matter how I resize ...
I am working with some large tiff files with fairly complex clipping paths, and have written a script to convert the paths to a selection, invert that selection and delete pixels in order to downsample and save a PNG with transparent background for the web. If the number of points in the clipping path is greater than ...
I am developing a flyer that will be distributed as a PDF, and our requirement is that it be "Section 508" compliant, that is, readable by a screen reader. I am trying to add alt tags to meet this requirement, but when I go to Object -> Object Export Options and click on the Alt Text tab, the Alt Text Source pull-down ...
I've created a Pie Chart Using Illustrator CS6 using Chart tool. ... and the "Group Selection Tool" to pick single pie chart elements and move them around. All pie chart elements are within one layer and grouped together. Now I want do the movement automatically. In other words, I want to equally "explode" the Pie Cha...
Lets say I have a bunch of text that needs to be italic. Throughout my text, italics are represented as: _word_ _any_ _car_ And so on... I want to find these, and replace them with word, car, any, and the like. I was able to find one word with this expression. \_.+\_ I'm new to inDesign, but I am familiar with using R...
We are working on a mobile game that will run on iOS and Android devices. The graphic theme has been designed during the first steps of the development by a single person. Now he's no more an active part of our team (he was enrolled exclusively for this purpose, for a shorter amount of time, and now he's focusing on ot...
I needed to remove something from my picture of computer on the table and restore the structure of the table when the object is no longer there. I have accomplished already removing the object and filling it with a structure using Quick Select tool, then Edit > Fill > Content Aware. My problem is that now the picture i...
It looks like this: link. Anybody know of any alternative, commercial licensed fonts that are simplistic and semi-serifed? Thanks! EDIT (partial picture of the font) -
I want to create some 8-Bit artwork using gimp. Is it possible to open a larger, higher resolution image and have it transparently in the background while drawing the 8 bit representation of say, bacon on a layer that is a different resolution but scaled to fit over the background image? If that is not possible in Gimp...
My InDesign document is 195 mm x 280 mm, has a 4mm bleed, 0mm slug and 10mm margin. My client specified: Size: 195 x 280 + 4 mm bleed. Cropmarks should be used. What does that mean? Should I draw lines where the bleed edges are?
Is it possible to delete part of one of Pixelmator's premade shapes? I tried cropping part of the shape, but that just creates a new window where the cropped portion is shown on the canvas and the rest of the shape is offscreen. Before Intermediary After What I want
You have arrived on this page because you are clearly curious about underlying fundamentals that you can incorporate into your thought process when designing. According to many that came before us, there are key principles that can be considered when creating an effective design. In the following answers, you will find...
As a follow-up to my question Is there a way to expand linked EPS file placed inside another EPS file in Illustrator? I am now trying to create an action to select and embed external file(s) placed in an Illustrator file. Is this possible?
I'm in love with the fonts used on the sides of Indian Railway cars. Is this just a hand-painted Gill Sans, or is this a custom font? For one thing the R's look slightly different.
An amateur graphic designer here. I was told to redesign a reddit app icon on playstore and he told me to apply the Google's new design scheme that was leaked a few days ago (The first illustration shows the mockup that I made based on the leaked overhaul icons from Google) So currently the second image shows the reddi...
I have a PSD file which contains many Layers and each layer contains either some image or text. i want to crop the selection Area from that psd file..while doing that, it throwing an error please explain how to resolve this issue
I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop cs3, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د.
I download Image from an Internet and want to open this jpeg Image in Photoshop but I got an errorCould not complete your request because of a problem parsing the JPEG Data.
In Adobe Illustrator I have an Icon that has dimensions of 200px by 200px. When I export it to a PNG file though,the PNG file is 834px by 834px. Any suggestions to keep the icon at 200 by 200 pixels?
Basically just a quick question from a newbie to Photoshop, recently i've been finding that my text on photoshop amongst other items in my designs were ending up blurry as a result of my retina display on my Macbook Pro, I have subsequently changed to the pixels per inch on the image to 227 pixels per inch (the exact P...
I received a graphic in a presentation with equally weighted items in it. Their order did not match my expectation, so I started to wonder why that would be. Finally I figured out that I was reading them in text reading direction and that order did not match the order in which the text explained them. Therefore my ques...
I would like to take the menu image, below, and superimpose it on top of the screen in the image below it, so it looks like the person is looking at that on their screen. Is this easily done in Photoshop, or is it a bad idea for a beginner-intermediate to try?? I would assume it requires some kind of mesh that can cha...
Does someone know the font type of the text "pocket edition" in the Minecraft Pocket Edition logo pictured here?
I don't have a lot of examples of "Look at me, I drew all the letters!" typography. But here is one, and I'm happy with the overall sketch and like everything but the first two letters. I dislike the A and the way that the A and the T join. Sure I could tinker around and try to fix it myself. But since there are me...
My designer is working on a flat design for a gaming portal for World of Warcraft. We want to use icons for a sub-menu and figured using icons directly from the game would be best from a user perspective. The problem is that the icons are all 3d. Here's an example: We'd like the menu to look like it's a part of the f...
I was just wondering if anyone could find this font for me.
Here is the definition which I read from the net source 1st is Midtone: Situated between the darkest tone (Black), and the brightest tone (White). For a 24 bit colour image, this occurs when Red = Green = Blue = 128. and the other is Tones created by dots between 30% and 70% of coverage and Midtone also refers...
I have multiple layers with rectangle shapes on each, i want to apply same color to every shape at once. Can anyone share a tip? Thanks,
I want to apply a gradient effect and have it look like in this image.
I have a stock photo, it's original size is 5616 × 3744 px. I would like to change its size to be used for my web design in photoshop - to size 1600 x 600. I do not want to crop the image because I would loose some picture content - if I crop e.g. the top half. I tried to use in Photoshop Image - Image size function, ...
I am currently producing a new edition of an old book of mine; this new book will incorporate code samples from several different computing environments. What I want to know is: what is the best way to differentiate the different environments in your document? I can of course say so in the text: This is how it's done ...
I am currently creating a Crystal report, but having difficulty on how to align certain columns. I have a Social Security, employee_name, Check Number and Amount. I understand that the amounts should be right aligned so the decimals line up, but how should the Social Security column be aligned? I understand it is a '...
If I resize canvas from menu, then the size of larger objects not change. I.e. they still have some portions existing outside of canvas. Meanwhile, if I do crop with interactive tool, I loose outside data. Is it possible to change canvas as if I do cropping, i.e. with the same visual instruments, but without loosing da...
How can I create a solar flares effect using GIMP or Inkscape? Something like this image: Edit: first of all thanks for all the great comments and suggestions. My initial idea was to create the image based on real surface features of the sun, as seen in this image. My steps were sun disk: create circle, create gran...
The classical way to open a file is not followed in Gimp. There is no browse button, nor there is a textbox where one can paste the path to the file. I do not edit images everyday and I always have to loose half an hour to be able to open a simple file. So here are my questions: How to open a file in Gimp the fast way...
There is smooth mode (3 on keyboard if I'm correct) to show objects 'smooth' in the viewport, but when I render it, there is no smoothing. What should I do in order to get a smooth render? I've tried to look for tools for smoothing, but was unable to find anything. In 3ds max I could achieve it by applying the modifie...
I make custom cursors for Tumblr blogs and this was a request, but I can't seem to figure out how to make all but the words transparent; even the spaces in the loops need to be transparent:
Ive got a website ive mocked up in PS ive got a range of background options which are individual layers in a folder called Backgrounds. I want to export copies of the website but each time change the background so i have website with background 1.png website with background 2.png website with background 3.png .. etc ...
I'm making this icon with a base vector and white strokes with variable profiles (right image) and I wanted to unify them as a single object, so I expanded the strokes and used Pathfinder's difference (left image) They appear identical, and they should, I guess... But when I zoom out, the one I used pathfinding look l...
Hi, i want to draw this shape but using rounded rectangle tool. Do you have any idea?
This isn't just a nagging question. It's to help designers (such as myself) to understand the importance of paid for fonts. This question is mainly based on my curiosity to why we should pay for fonts (not meaning we should get them for free) when there are a vast number of adequate fonts out there on the interwebs! ...
I recently started studying Illustrator and I just would like to ask how can I do a pattern similar to the image below I am looking at the STAR, and I just would like to ask how to create that effects from small to big. And it seems that it is on a path. I only rely on using the net for teaching myself so I do not ha...
As per my knowledge nowadays there's a trend going with flat design. That's cool. These are the things people associate with flat design Simple Clean Colourful Modern Trendy Easy to use Perceived as more honest Modern appearance There are also some arguments against flat design There is little or no need for illustr...
In Illustrator I'm trying to create quite a simple shape but I don't know the simplest way of going about it. I have created a Sine wave using the Sine Curve script by Sato Hiroyuki. I have doubled it and flipped it to create this "wave band" image and I want to know how I cant get it (if possible) to follow the path o...
In many fonts I come across, I see that the glyph uppercase i - I is same as lowercase l. Why is it so? Why don't font designers add a differentiating factor between the two glyphs? This specially creates a problem with the word 'Ill'. Whether to read it roman 3 or short for 'I will'. Extra I am asking this because I ...
Is Wasco Sans font by Jim Wasco available as a web font?
This question has come about as a follow on from @Scott's "How do you break out of current creative mind sets?" I work in a (smallish) company that produces all it's in house content such as email newsletters, web image (banners, flyers etc) and I am the only person that does these jobs. As it is a company that sells I...
Update: Scroll to the bottom for a before-and-after. I'm designing something for my school in Photoshop, and our mascot is a knight. This is the current design: Yeah, I know. It's in desperate need of a redesign. I want to do flat design, but I'm just starting out with it so I'm still trying to learn the tricks. So, h...
I'm using a layer mask to remove sections of the "sushi" image to leave the tablet and phone images, but I can only do this with the brush tool, right? I'm wondering how to do this most efficiently because the border between the "sushi" image and the tablet and phone is definitely not a straight line. What's the best...
I know it is a simple question, but I failed to google it, or the answer is simply "no". A "coming soon" site is a page that keeps on the domain while the actual page is developed. There are examples of it on hongkiat, and those pages can be done on wordpress with ultimate coming soon page plugin. Is there any proper w...
What would be a good accent color for espresso furniture with black and white damask design on linen?
Does anyone know the name of this font, or the name of the style/category where I could look for similar ones?
Hello I am Android Developer, working on android application. I require to make all drawables for all density for my android app. Is there any standard ratio I should keep for that and any tool for that. Any idea ?
I'm having difficulties with a really basic concept in Inkscape. How do I fill an enclosed path that has a line going into it? I've combined the original two paths to form one path, but filling it doesn't actually fill it. The only way I can seem to get it to work are hacks like adding a background object filled with t...
I'm saving an Illustrator CS6 file as a PDF. The file has a transparent background, however when exported as a PDF and dropped into InDesign the file has a white background. I've tried saving the file as different types of PDF but nothing has worked. This is a recent problem that I've not had an issue with until the pa...
My website has a background color of #EEEEEE (238,238,238). I have an image with a light grey background I want to blend with this background. In Photoshop I used brightness adjustment to get (238,238,238). But when I put the image on my site it shows as #EEEDEE, so it doesn't blend nicely, and the difference is visibl...
I'm trying to find out whether or not the font Avenir can be used for logo design when a desktop license is purchased. I'm finding it difficult to interpret the EULA. http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?lid=1444 Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Recently I've been using the Type on a Path tool quite frequently in Illustrator and it frustrates me every time I want to use a circle path to place type on, as I want the text centered at the top of the circle but I always have to center the text myself and try to guess by eye if it's dead center. Is there a way to a...
I am simply drawing a shape using the shape layer tool, however no matter how many shapes I draw, when zoomed in there is always anti-aliasing I know I can select fill pixels and then switch off anti-aliasing however I need to work with the shape layer tool for scaling. Any help would be great.

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