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I´m looking for any fonts with integrated circuit aspect, similar to this image:
Or if that's not possible, could you tell me if there is a font that looks like old computers? Like in this image:
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I like the first of Yisela, but I prefer any similar to this:
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I would like to know the difference between Wireframes and Mockups. I'm hoping to gain a simple understanding of the difference or to definitively know that both are the same.
I googled it but I couldn't understand what exactly the difference is, I would appreciate it if someone could explain it to me concisely.
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I am editing a game board for a word game, based on a "CC BY SA"-licensed SVG file by Denelson83:
When I click at a colored square and then press ctrl+D I can see the original colored square - as you can see at the above screenshot.
Editing that original object will change all its copies at the game board, which is ve... |
Question nr.1 - Every time I complete a job in indesign, I need to package it. I do it manually, but is there a way to do it automatic?
Question nr.2 - Is there a possibility to create .inx file from CC indesign? Now I make .idml from CC version, then open it on CS4 and only then convert to CS3.
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I have created an image in MS Word using the Shapes tools, so on my hands is a .docx (or at best .pdf) file. Now I have to have an .eps file from the contents. I tried converting the .pdf to .eps but quality was severely reduced.
Is there any way or software to take this file and save it as .eps?
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I am programmer and I have an idea for a mobile app. I wanted to learn more about UI design and how to provide a better experience for the app user.
Are there any courses (preferably free) or books that I can learn design from?
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I know the setting Edit > Preferences > General > Check "Scale stroke & effects".
But this setting is changing outline setting for all objects in illustrator. Does anybody know setting for only selected objects? I am CorelDraw user previously and this is very easy to do in CorelDraw.
Thanks in advance.
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Please help me in designing the review and critique of this page
I am a programmer, and a designer gave me an image of a webpage. I made it and everything is OK, but I don't like this template's folders and article icon design.
and this is my template:
This is picture of folder icon:
and This is article icon:
Whe... |
I have a document of 27 pages. I've used the same paragraph styles for all of them. When I export it to a PDF, the text on some of the pages look stroked although I haven't used a stroke. I took a print out and they look the same but when I look at the PDF files the difference is visible. How do I fix this?
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I work at an agency mostly focused in software development however sometimes a microsite is accessory to one of our solutions and we need to build it.
I'm trying to define the process for creating these websites but I don't know in which order each task is commonly done and specially I'm trying to figure out at which p... |
I've saved a two-colour Illustrator graphic as a jpeg, 600px width. Then opened it in Photoshop, where it opened at a width of 1270px. Easily rectified, I know, but why would Photoshop open a file from sister software inaccurately? Isn't compatibility supposed to be the whole point of the Creative Suite?
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I'm looking to have a decently sized run (anywhere from 100-1000, depending on cost) of stickers made using my company's logo. My standard sources for vinyl stickers don't seem to have options for cut vinyl stickers, so I'm looking for a new source.
The difficulty is that I'm a little unsure what the process is called.... |
Scope
This is a question about looks in a written document. I has nothing to do with LaTeX, although I create my documents with that. Is this the right site then?
Current state
I write lab reports and other documents where I have to include a lot of images and tables. Those are usually floating within the text and are ... |
I am a GIMP beginner and have successfully created images with my desired transparencies in GIMP. However, I have problems with and can't seem to understand the ins-and-outs of image and canvas sizes.
I have multiple images that I exported from another software program at 8.5x11 (US letter). I create a new image canv... |
Whenever I design a website, I think it's useful to not only show screen captures but also coding abilities.
Unfortunately, most of the time, clients end up editing websites themselves and if they're not paying me for maintenance, the site will lose some of its appeal which doesn't make me too fond of inserting URLs i... |
The logo I currently have is similar to the one below.
It has 2 colors of the same hue, with different brightnesses. I'm attempting to put the logo on a Windows app, with the design calling for a colored background and a white icon. I don't want it to have a white background and look out of place on any user's Start s... |
I'm a developer trying to strengthen my design skills. The problem lies with my expertise being in code versus design. So my question is, when creating a theme to sell, and the focus is the functionality and features of the theme - are the graphics in a theme (whether it's Tumblr/WordPress etc.) all created by the pers... |
I edit product photos that quite often involve camouflage patterns and multiple colors. I use quick selection, then modify the edges where need be with lasso tools, to remove the background (well, to make a new layer with only the subject).
Problem is, often I hold CTRL when I intended to hold SHFT, and wind up adding ... |
I am currently trying out typing on a path and I seem not to do what I want.
Is there an option where I could retain the path itself? I notice that typing on a path removes the path in preview mode. This is so that I could have a circular text with a circular path in it.
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I have been working on a 3D .obj file in Photoshop.
Now that I have the texture finished, I want to render a showcase image. I want the object to lay on it's side on the ground.
I've tried using the menu option 3D > Snap object to ground plane; but that just snaps the object to the ground using the current position.
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I am having trouble aligning my objects and I just rely on my eye to have them aligned. What I really want is to have the three "red" intersection to be equal in size
Please see image below.
I wanted the three circles to intersect at some point but I am not sure if they do intersect equally.
Here's what I did.
I alig... |
I've an image with width 540 and height 255. I need this image to put in a website. So, that i want this image with width 347 and height 346. I tried with STOIK smart image resize tool, but it's give expected result. How can i do it?
Thanks in advance
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Wanted to find a way to get this script, but after I Google'd this, it seems that it's not so easy to find. Can anyone help me with this? I need a script that makes a folder with job name and in the folder creates .indd, .inx, .pdf files that links and embeds fonts.
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I want the document in the screenshot below to export as PDF on a single A3 paper format with crop marks.
So all 6 pages have to fit on a single page, A3 print size.
Right now I am only able to get it exported as 6 individual pages.
How can I place my pages so that all 6 pages fit on to one A3 page in a PDF?
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I am new in design, and recently I have been given a task where I have to create images like the ones present on dropbox.com home page.
I am not sure what is the correct way of creating those images.I suppose they are called doodles.
Can they be created using Photoshop/Illustrator or will I have to use the method wher... |
I have photographed some pages of a book for reading. This is much faster than scanning and you don't have to carry the heavy books. However, the photographed books are not as nice: curved, skewed, and shadowed, as opposed to the much flatter, cleaner scanned books. Especially when you're trying to print them out.
Goog... |
I am making a Photoshop file with a lot of slices some for iOS, some for Android and other formats. I need to create an action that saves only certain slices to the users desktop in a folder depending on what action they use.
I can do this and it works fine on my desktop but if I send the action to someone else they g... |
I want to make 3D animation films. Not as hi-fi as Disney and Pixar of course, but as close to them as an indie animator can get.
I'm good (not enviable, just plain good) at drawing things on paper but I haven't really delved into digital art much.
Is there any correlation between the two?
Do I need to hone my drawin... |
I have a file with multiple artboards of varying sizes.
When I print to PDF, I usually get just the size of the first artboard, the rest are either cropped or have a white border around them.
Any solution to getting all the artboards to PDF at the correct size?
How can I print all of my differently sized artboards to ... |
I'm really exited about the copy css feature. It helps me, a web developer, to get most of the font styles, gradients and rounded corners out of a psd in no time.
I have however an problem. Sometimes, designers instead of increasing the font size by incrementing the font size, they start a transform by cmd+clicking on ... |
I've created a custom made bullet and used the indyfont script to set up the export but I'm not able to click on the the OTF export button. I'm not sure what to do.
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I read many books on Android for Kindle, and most of them display in a nice, unobtrusive way. This is a screenshot of my last book:
But the book I am currently reading has a very strange typography. It is not just that the justified text gives it bad kerning, and not just the giant line spacing (both screenshots are ... |
I was confused how a cursor might look to not be considered ugly or standard. I do like how cursors in games look and I am fine with them but when I create a cursor for myself there is something that doesn't fit. Is there a standard workflow or process to creating elegant cursor that are not standard?
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I just created a simple object with custom brush as a stroke.
Is there a way to divide that stroke in a way that I can choose where the new brush ends and another starts - still surrounding the complete object?
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Was doing some reading and came across this which I found very insightful:
Weight
This is the difference between bold typefaces or versions of a typeface, and regular typefaces or versions of a typeface, as shown here by the difference between Arial Black and Arial.
As with many of the features to be discusse... |
I created a DVD Menu Design and need to export each page as a .pdf. When I do so the design is distorted horizontally. Specifically, it isn't as wide as the canvas is in Photoshop.
The results are the same if I export to .jpg. If I export to .png it is correct, however converting the pages to .pdf reproduces the issue.... |
I want to draw this shape in Inkscape:
The line coming from the side needs to be aligned to exactly the middle of the edge, coming out at a right angle.
It must also be part of the rectangle object, so that when I alter the color or width of the line, I don't have to do it separately for either object (the line and t... |
Making a parallax site is something I've always wanted to try and am now getting into. I understand that they range in complexity and so, for sites more on the advanced side with several layers to create depth or imitate story-telling an animation, what do Designers typically use to help envision that sort of process r... |
I have the following:
where the text "Panning" is on one layer, and the rectangular grey mask that covers it is on a different layer. I was wondering, is it possible that I can somehow apply the grey mask to just the text area, and not have the excess mask surrounding it?
Thanks.
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I am new to designing and had got work for creating a live wallpaper using some animation characters in movies like Rio,Finding Nemo etc. How can use the images of that i find in google for this purpose.And also what kind of copyright permission i need to get ?
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How would one pick or select all of a single color within Photoshop, Paint.NET, or The Gimp?
The objective is to edit everything with that color afterwards, such as by brushing over it with another color. So if I were to select a certain red hue of an apple, then brushed it over with pink, only all of the parts of the... |
I have the following set up:
I would like to make a clipping mask out of all of the objects above the "Text" layer (so that all of the stuff from the above layers is only applied to the letters), however I am struggling. For one, when I go to ungroup "Group 1" it changes the complexion of the graphics and makes it dar... |
I'm sure this can be done, just cant figure out how. I'm needing to export my portfolio as a pdf but my indesign document is a3, i see no option to chose the size.
Any help?
Thanks
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I am creating a seven wedge citrus fruit cross section. Is there a trick to getting all the wedges evenly separated? Or do I have to drive myself crazy doing it manually?
I got this far by using a circle and a seven point start shape as a guide.
Thanks for any help!
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I was having a question between this gif and my work:
Is it possible to get the better quality of dithering of colors on the first gif to my work? Btw, I did this on Ps via frame animations with the default profile of:
-Selective
-Diffusion
-Uncheck transparency
-Uncheck interlaced
-Check convert to sRGB
-Colors: 256
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Hi all does anybody know how to break text in words or letters. So that they can be editable individually as text not Path ?
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This is my first freelance work. Can somebody tell me that on what basis should I fix my rates for this home page design coz I am not able to decide. The client wanted in green and red combination. I have designed the whole UI in photoshop. Logo is also designed by me. Please give reviews and feedback. Should i fix my ... |
I like very much this kind of images, with code or with handwriting...
Could you guide me how to do this kind of images?
In two parts:
How can I create the text with a warped perspective?
How can I create the multi-layered, glassy effect of the background?
Thank You.
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I am new to this forum and am looking for some advice on a PC specification which I will be using to re-skill with Adobe CS6.
I have played about with Adobe in the past as a web designer but I want to become more proficient with the product.
I know the debate about which is better (mac vs pc) is still ongoing but I p... |
It is practically impossible to edit a white illustration on the default white artboard background.
Hiding the artboard makes the whole work area receive the artboard's white color.
So, is there a way to change the color of the artboard in Illustrator CC?
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In Illustrator CS4 I have a scatter graph with four data sets. Now I want to use dashed and dotted patterns. However the dashes are not distributed uniformly over a plot.
Click here to see a PDF
This is due to a plot consisting of multiple separate line segments instead of connected line segments. In CS5 these line se... |
I use Layer Styles a lot, unfortunately with bigger projects it's really annoying that they take so much space in Layers list (even if their parent is not expanded as like in the picture below).
Is it possible to hide "Effects" for all the folders / layers or, what would be even cooler, to indicate having them with som... |
When saving my work in Illustrator, I always have to click OK in some "Illustrator Options" screen. Is there a way to bypass/remove/deactivate this screen? That would save me thousands of clicks per year.
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Is there an easy way to copy and paste a color? I keep having to remember the RGB values and it's kind of a pain...
For example, if I make a circle shape and set it's color to 123 44 5, can I somehow copy that value and paste it onto a triangle shape I make in a different file?
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I'm running Maya 2013 student edition on Mac and 'Input' is missing. I'm following a tutorial in which i can see where it should be.
I've seen a lot of answers to this being "turn on Construction History" but I have tried that, and it doesn't work. Creating objects before and after, restarting Maya each time. Theres al... |
I'm looking for a little advice, hopefully somebody can offer me some.
I currently work in Marketing/Graphic Design.I do not have a degree in Graphic Design, but a degree in Advertising (which was very design heavy) so I came out of university with good design skills. In my current job, I do very basic things such as m... |
I recently figured out how to save each layer as a separate file in photoshop.
I do this when editing a gif image.
Now, however, i have a layer below (layer 0) and a layer on top(72) and i want those two layers to be included in all the other layers from 1-71 when they are each saved as a separate file.
For example if... |
I have created a logo in Illustrator.
In which file format / document settings should I save it so I can use it for creating a card in InDesign (print) and for placing it in a website?
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I may be way out of league asking this question but is there a way to get the linear length of a letter or words. That is, if you were to take the word "super" and measured the outside border of the letters you'd get a measurement. Is there something out there that would tell me this measurement if I give the font a... |
Yeah hi, I was wondering how I could get my images to look like they were shown on 90's TV or were recorded to a VHS and ripped into a digital file. Examples shown below.
I'd like to utalize this effect for a flyer/gigposter I'm making.
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Can anyone tell me the name of this font? Or similar fonts?
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I need to import data into a table in InDesign (CS6).
But i keep getting the same value in every single cell, what am i doing wrong?
1). I start by making a .csv file in OpenOffice with some test data
2). I created a table in Indesign CS6 and selected the .csv file generated by OpenOffice and started filling the tabl... |
Is it possible to duplicate lines of text with GREP? Here is exactly what I would like to do; I have a list of letters and numbers that looks like this:
R1H3BOA2HA4
R1H3BOA2H4
R1H2H3BO4
And I need it to be like this:
R1H3BOA2HA4=R1+H3+BOA2+HA4
R1H3BOA2H4=R1+H3+BOA2+H4
R1H2H3BO4=R1+H2+H3+BO4
So basically I would lik... |
The only thing I could think of was saying: "Scroll to see full menu" above. What are some other ways people are doing it?
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I am using scripting in Photoshop to process jpg files that are uploaded through a website. I occasionally get images that are rotated differently when you open them in Photoshop vs. Windows Previewer (or any other basic graphics program). And today I just came across one that was rotated 90 degrees and mirrored horiz... |
How do you make the formula to make divisions in a grid given a ratio? For example
2÷3.
I like the tool gridappset.com, but I would prefer to do the math myself and experiment with the results.
Any insight on this would be great, thanks.
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There is a lot of copycatting out in the world, and it's a constant legal battle fought in higher courts.
For us ants on the ground, grinding away in smaller capacities with little or no permanent legal support, how can we look at a design and say “Hey, that's a copy of my design!”?
Looking at these questionable examp... |
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to the use of gradients in graphic design.
One argument seems to be that it is not a very clean or appealing design, not to mention that it is more trouble than it is worth, because it needs to work on both dark and light backgrounds or a greater range of colours,... |
I'm making my portfolio site and I need to showcase my design layouts (magazines, advertisements, newspapers) and would like to know how can I do this to look professional? Do I need to search for some kind of PSD mockups and put them there? Do I need to upload those layout PDF files for perfect quality? What's the rig... |
I have a png that I need to resize to different sizes. Would it work for me to paste it in illustrator, use its auto vectorizing tool to vectorize it, and then resize it?
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What techniques are out there that allow you to create a gradient like the ones pictured above? Is this a product of a specific brush set? Or is there some type of Noise Manipulation / Gradient Pattern going on in this image?
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I applied a Nested style in paragraph style. But then I want to change the nested style and couldn't find how to edit or delete this nested style.
Anyone knows? Thanks
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Does anybody know about a nice climate diagram visualization, incorporating more information than the example on Wikipedia:
For example also data like, snowfall, humidity, hail, fog, thunder and so on ..
I appreciate any pointers!
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I got to thinking......
Years ago, when you became Adobe Certified, Adobe mailed you a package. In that package was a nice foil embossed certificate, a small Adobe-branded notebook (great quality) and few other little items. It was a really nice way to say "Thank you" or "Congratulations" from Adobe.
Nowadays, you rece... |
Command (Cntrl) and = gives zoom in, in Adobe Illustrator.
Is there a way to set it so that it zooms to the selected object rather than the centre of the screen?
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I have the original .ai files as I paid a graphic artist to do these logos. I uploaded a .gif export of the files only to see that they have a white border:
If I don't have AI/PS can I use something like GIMP or Inkscape to remove that with the AI file?
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I have a day job in graphic design, but I'm looking to start doing some freelance on the side. I have a couple of questions/concerns...
1-All my work on my portfolio site would be work I created at my day job. Does this look bad to a client?
2-My day job is with a well known organization, should I mention who I work fo... |
I'm learning web design. When I design a page I ask my friends to tell me their opinions about it and I always get the same answer: it's dull and boring. They say my designs are nice but very dull, static and boring. I always get this answer. Then I tried to Google this with the query "responsive design" and I found th... |
My understanding is that pixels are an abstract unit of measurement. They have no tangible size until rendered on a display (or paper).
This leads me to believe that I should create icons on displays that are of a lower resolution (a non-Retina display) than the target display (an iPhone 5). A 120x120-pixel icon is mu... |
In InDesign you can insert a glyph by double clicking on it in the glyph palette window. What I would like to do is insert multiple glyphs or all the glyphs of a font at once without having to always double click on each glyph.
Is it possible? Thank you for the help.
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What is normally covered in a brand style guide that is not included in a standard design style guide in the context of traditional and digital production? Does the brand style guide only cover the use of company/brand logos and colours/fonts? It seems like often an agency will be tasked with creating the brand style g... |
Is it poor judgement to preserve photoshop editing capabilities if creating a PDF for a client? I'm wondering if it comes across as unprofessional or whether it might be a courtesy to save the document this way.
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I have tried to look online for an answer but I don't seem to be able to find what I am looking for. Here is my questions:
What is used to create maps like this:
and like this:
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/brochures/ctaSystemMapBrochure.pdf
My goal is to augment already existing map with a few extra elements... |
When the site isn't as wide as the screen is the sides are filled with something that doesn't grab attention or better leads all the attention to what's in center, the website.
However, personally i have always just filled it with monotone darkish black color. I'd like to know what are some other creative ways to deal ... |
I mainly studied Illustrator to use it in T-Shirt custom design.
Now, I have this problem. According to the tutorials that I see. When working on print jobs, I should use
CMYK mode rather than RGB.
I am just having trouble utilizing blending mode in CMYK transparency panel. They sometimes dont look so well
especiall... |
I just notice it now as I am new to Illustrator.
When I am in RGB mode, blending transparency seems to be easier as mode such as Screen, Multiply or Overlay looks good naturally.
If I switch the document mode to CMYK then the image is getting messed up.
I'd like to know, if CMYK is not ideal for blending options?
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I'm looking for the typical fonts appearing in classical music scores, like the ones here:
where you can see some Allegretto, and also a leggiero, some numbers too, and mf.
And also, what fonts are those used in software like Sibelius, Encore... that looks like Real Book's handwritten font?
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I tried to search the Internet for a definition but I didn't find much. So, what is the definition of font size? For instance, what makes a 10 pixel font a 10 pixel font?
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I'm new to Photoshop. I have an image, where I have drawn a shape and filled that shape with a white colour. How can I now make the rest of the image be black?
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Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of HTML emails. And, like the web before it, the inbox has officially gone mobile—with over 50 percent of email opens occurring on mobile devices.
So can email really be responsive considering how Email HTML Suck?
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Is there any way that I can place a watermark on the right bottom of multiple images, no matter what dimension the images are? I have tried using Photoshop Scripts > image processor, but it works only for images of same dimension. I want to put watermark on multiple images of different dimensions. This is the output i ... |
I have some artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC that I want to use to create a voronoi diagram from.
You can see what a voronoi diagram looks like here:
Link
I would like to use the points on my paths to seed the diagram. I have found a tool that uses an old Illustrator extension called Scriptographer, unfortunately Scri... |
I'm sure you've seen Dribbblers upload animated mockups of their designs.
Here's an example:
I can create mockups on Photoshop and even apply simple Tween Animations to them but I can never get my GIFs to look like the example here.
What are Dribbblers using to create these animations?
Notice that the animations a... |
I have square layer, containing a circular image surrounded by white, and I need to envelope distort just the circle into a polygon shape. When I do Envelope Distort > Make with Top Object, however, the whole square shape of the image -- including the white "corners" -- is included in the distort.
Before and after (act... |
This is a picture I took yesterday:
The sky is a bit too washed out for me so I'd like to crank down the luminance of the blue. Camera Raw makes a valiant effort but the crane trusses and other incidentally blue things end up looking...off:
I opened it as a smart object in PS CS6 to try and mask out the sky but the ... |
I've created some navigation images for use on a website and they appear blurry only in IE9 browser and above. The font is arial and the size is 100 x 14 with 12 pt font. I've tried making the image 200 x 24 pixels and resizing on the web to 100 x 14 to no avail. I've tried using crisp and no anti-alias but still blur... |
Here's a decent example of what I'm trying to do - a print version of something like this:
I need to pick-and-choose which crossroads and street labels to show, add custom icons, plot the actual race route, and of course modify the color scheme. I'm trying to avoid spending hours and hours of manually tracing roads wi... |
I recently bought a laptop to take out to appointments. I use a set palette of about 400 colors. How can I find the file and copy that to my laptop without recreating each color?
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I have Adobe Creative Cloud and am switching to a newer Mac. CC says it's saving my preferences (workspace and shortcuts included) but when I sync my settings nothing happens!
I've read that the workspace is saved as an .xml file and should be accessible in my preferences folder (User/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesig... |
I have a manual here, designed in Arial font. Arial has to be changed to a serif font. At this moment I've chosen Garamond. But now the number of pages increases. Of course it isn't possible to stop that. But I like to minimize that.
So my question is: Which serif font do you tip me? I've heard the hint for the Times (... |
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