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I'm a entry-level graphic designer. My skills in Illustrator and Indesign are pretty strong but my skills in Photoshop are not great and I have no drawing skills either. Will this affect my career?
What is the best way to use images with halftone patterns in Indesign? I'm working on a book in which all the images will have an halftone effect. I'm applying the halftone filter in Photoshop but, when I resize the pictures in Indesign, I'm afraid that the halftone pattern will not scale up. What can I do? What is the...
I remember a few years ago I watched or read a tutorial that showed me how I can use the clone stamp tool with a static source point. What I mean is that the source we indicate with the alt button should stay only on one place while we copy this to other areas of our subject/canvas. How can I make the source that I se...
I am looking for a free web compatible (e.g. should be possible to use with CSS3) Venetian style typeface. Any idea if there exists one. That would be ideally a typeface looking similar to Adobe Jensen Pro
I have 100 layers that I want to export with a specific master layer as the background. Any JSX scripts out there for CS6? thanks!
Long time lurker, first time poster! Your tips are really valuable and have taught me what I know till now about GREP, thank you! I have a tricky text to style and I am having some issues, and need your help. Example text: 2012 Some product name name, State $50 This is a very impressive young pinot, with tremendous fre...
Is there a program or what is the best way to organize graphics and your artwork? Right now everything is saved on my desktop and I need to get a server I think but not sure what is the best way to go. I will be designing a lot of different things and need to know where to save my stuff and downloading graphics is also...
Real simple question. Hope you have something to offer. How can I get the full potential of Illustrator through manipulating it programmatically. Is there some kind of add on or hidden feature? Let's say, for example, I've got a bunch (like a thousand) of vertical line segments of fixed length, and I want the bottoms t...
I want to check something I don't quite understand with the size/quality properties of an image. OK, as much as I understand, the size of an image you create in Photoshop, for example, will determine what rectangular area of screen pixels it takes. And the resolution determines what will be the area of the smallest edi...
Please help me identifying this font.
How do I join these 2 shapes together, and then remove the line in the roof? keeping the 2 shapes nicely joined so I can easily round corners. Seems very tricky!
I need to "rotate" colors depending on a certain dependency, how do I calculate this? I'm using no program, just working with a bitmap in C# For example: Every pixel, which is R:193,G:0,B:0 has to become R:0,G60,B:90 Now every other color needs to be switched in relation. 193/0/0 has a neighbor pixel with 205/48/48, w...
I'm a newbie and can't figure out what font is being used in the image below. Please help.
I would like to optimize images for web but in batches. I have set up and use an Action Action>Awesome Images>Optimized Awesome Images. The problem lies when I go to a new set of images that I want to optimize and use the Action. Action>Bodacious Images>Optimized Awesome Images Ideally, I would like to use the Batch ...
I have an A5 2 fold template. Mathematically it should mesasure 444mm wide (3 x 148 by 210mm height or 3 x A5 paper) but I have set it to be 441mm as one of the sides (of A5) will be folded into the middle and 3mm allows it to do so without bulging, hope you're with me. The whole doc has 3 columns - 2 which are 148 (A5...
I'm trying to emulate this type of stroke: So far, I've only been able to pen over the stroke and try to Minus it off (though I'm a rookie and still don't understand the whole pathfinder tool completely), but it's tedious and I'm not that great at it. Suggestions?
Do you know / can you recommend good practices in choosing a color palette for a theme ? As you might have guessed, I am not a professional in the graphic field, I do coding and from time to time I have to do some graphic work for which I'd like it to be pleasant/efficient to the eye but this proved to be incredibly ha...
For both landscape and Portrait, if there's a difference.
I am designing a t-shirt based off of the keep calm and carry on poster. I want to use Avenir Next because it comes with my machine and is similar to the original font used in the poster. If I outline the text and give it to him as a PDF can he legally print it on t-shirts and sell them commercially?
So here is the idea. To have a Folder on a Server containing Word Documents for all our books and Materials. Turn These Documents into Data Streams that are linked to InDesign Documents. Allow Proofers and Editors Access to Add and Update these Documents. So that when a Designer opens an In Design Document it syncs wit...
See below image, then read on... Previously this circle was 76 pixels diameter. I changed it to 64 by manually entering it into the W: container, then tabbed, expecting 64 to appear in the H: container. But no... I got this odd number. Why? How do I get it back to not doing stupid things like this? It used to be acc...
I need to find the x / y coordinates for each layer in my psd. I've searched through the help file and online, but I can't find the answer.
I want to deepen my knowledge in typography, more specifically, web typography. I'm looking for good information for this purpose, but I'm not finding anything good. I see many people talking badly about some fonts, then I go to another site and these same fonts are recommended. It seems that people talk about fonts l...
I want to use glyphs in my text with keyboard shortcuts. Say an endmark, instead of placing it through the glyphs panel I want to use my keyboard.
I need to find the x / y positions for each layer. I've googled but I can't find the answer.
There has been a lot spoken about user experience design for interactive products and services, but is there some standard or guideline to capturing user feedback for non-interactive products that has a significant visual design element to it? I think the difficulty is how to evaluate the different elements of design t...
I've been playing around editing textures for some video game objects. I recently discovered that I could use "Merge Down" to put a 2D image over the 3D object and translate that to the texture. My problem is, this would only add the image to the part of the object I am looking at when merging down. I am looking for a ...
What font is used in this logo? I'd love to have this logo or a similar one. Thanks!
I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically calculate transparent image from set of non-transparent ones. No manual work with individual pixels or manual setting of opacities. Many times I need to export images from "image editors" which are not supporting transparent backgrounds (example: PowerPoint). I can still...
What's the conversion between InDesign's point measurement (as used in leading and text size etc) and millimetres? What's the pt : mm ratio? I've seen sources suggesting that a point is 1/72 of an inch, and an inch is 25.4mm, so in theory a point would be 0.3528mm and a millimetre would be 2.8346 pts, but I'd like som...
in my c#-application, I use an RGB to HSV (and back) converter for changing a specified color-spectrum to another. In the actual case: rgb1=5,122,255 to rgb2=22,165,220 similar colors to rgb1 will be changed to the related color, by saving the HSV-difference between hsv1 and hsv2 and aplying these to every similar colo...
So when double clicking a word to select it, Photoshop likes to select the space after that word. Is there any way to prevent this? Sounds so simple, but it means having to select and drag to highlight to make an accurate selection, when it should make sense to select the word I'm double clicking.
I frequently create mock-ups with free-use icon sets. I've begun to see many designers offer "Premium" commercial licenced sets of Social Media icons. I'm wondering: Is it even possible to make an IP (Intellectual Property) claim on branded logos redrawn in an icon set? My guess is no... but I've never run into the is...
Is there a special character marker for Total Pages? I can use a marker on my master page for current page where it will say A, but if I want it to say A of 3 (3 being the total number of pages) is there a marker to count all the pages in your document? I know I could type 3 in there but if I add pages I have to go ba...
I am curious to know if there is a PDF version that is preferred by most printing studios? I remember being told that PDF/X1a is the format to use when preparing design/artwork for print. But, I don't actually know why, if it is true, or what the other standards are used for.
I'm working on building my own blogging website from the ground up, or at least that's what I assume that's what it will turn into at this point. So far what I have built is fairly basic but one thing concerns me. I have an "Add Post" button that is inline with/on top of other posts but seems to blend into the flow of ...
I'd like to align one object to the nodes of another object. In the screenshot below, I'd like to horizontally align the text below to the axis marker that's represented by the two selected nodes above. I could duplicate the axis, select all nodes that don't belong to that small vertical line, delete them, do the alig...
Icons are usually needed in a variety of sizes, so I don't understand why I always hear/see everyone using Photoshop for their icons. Probably I'm exposing my PS ignorance with this question, but aren't Photoshop images of fixed size and you have to redraw them to change it? As opposed to an Illustrator project where i...
I am currently working on a print media project that requires a 300 DPI minimum for all images. I thought I had to discard a bunch of photos that were 180 DPI at their default resolution. However, I recently realized that you could set the Pixels/Inch in Adobe PS under Image->Image Size. So I tried seeing if I could se...
I know this happens in indesign where i would create a 3"x3" object and when i add a stroke it becomes 3.0139x3.0139. I know the shape is still the same, but is there a way i can disable this and have it still read 3x3?
I'm finishing a project, and I was thinking to use a font that I liked a lot, but it is paid; I don't mind to pay, because it is not very expensive, and I think it's worth it. On the font website says, "You may use the fonts to create Web Pages" and "Bariol font can be used with @ font-face". So I'm in doubt, if I can ...
I have an gif Image like example and I want to make its background transparent from white. I am an learner of Photoshop so please describe steps to do it. Currently I was trying to edit each and every layer of this image but its really tough to go through all the layers and I am sure there is an easier way for it
Hi Everyone I am working with a client and he wants me to design handwritten typefaces. I tried it with mouse but it is hard to do with mouse. Any idea of how do you do such task?
I have this png header image with transparency that is quite large 2500x1236, but only 343KB. I don't need or want it that big, so I throw it in PS and crop it down to 1666x444 and save for web, png24 tranparency, and the new, much smaller image, comes out of Ps at 585KB. WTH? How could the file size nearly double w...
I'm new in graphic design and am learning type design now. I'm learning about kerning now and it all makes sense except I'm wondering why the kerning wouldn't be built into the font style already. I've read that the foundry can spend months or even years on a font design. Thanks for help in advance.
I use Snagit to capture screenshots on my PC and saw the picture below that has a magnifying glass effect on it. I tried to recreate it on Snagit but the magnify options are pretty basic and I don't like the output. How can I achieve this rather easily without too much complex photo editing? It would be counter produc...
My website is about gardening and vegetables etc. So I decided to make the background and the tabs have a green color so it looks natural and organic. But then I realized that all my images are green because they're vegetables! Now I can't use green as the majority of my color scheme because it blends in with most of t...
I have a web-page for devices(smartphones/tablets). I have used media queries to make it responsive and have used rem units for all measurements. I have set default html/body font-size:62.5% and then calculated all other rem units. Also for each breakpoint i have a set of css. But it seems that the font size and other ...
Okay so first of all I am a developer and I donot have much idea about designing and all. Now it so happens that I have to fix design inconsistencies of the table that I have attatched below. I would be glad to see suggestions. Also that hover (the black one) looks extremely odd . What colour should I make it? P.S. t...
In Photoshop, I can't figure out as to why this happens. I painted with a soft round brush at 100% opacity with the color set to white and grey on a new layer. I duplicated the layer and then I put the duplicated layer inside a group. Next I set the blend mode to Color Dodge for the original layer and again set the Co...
i really love this kind of style for logos. These are simple yet catchy. I would really like to design these logos but whenever Ii try, I fail to give effect and outlining like the attached logos(mascot and complete logo). Can anybody tell me how can i give these effect and outlining(in illustrator or CorelDraw)? NOTE...
I am trying to create an action in Photoshop cs6 to Batch Change image background to white. I’ve attached a few samples of the JPEGs to change. If you can show the techniques for this,it would be much appreciated Thanks for your time. John Horsehide jacket ! Chinese dress
So I created a simple hexagon using the polygon tool. When applying a 30° (360 / 6 / 2) rotation (to change its orientation) the anchor points are off by something what looks like a floating point rounding error. So my question is, how do I rotate objects perfectly, so that the anchor points align with the grid again? ...
when I add 6 pages in Indesign they create a multi-page spread, 8 pages in a row, instead of adding 3 new 2-page spreads. how do I create 2-page spreads?
I'm trying to rescale a map based on a log scale (so the first inch is about a mile, the second inch is two miles, the third is four miles, etc.). To complicate things, I would like this to be radial, starting from a point in the center. (Basically, I'm trying to show detail close to the center while covering a larger ...
What would be the most efficient/concise way to create a SVG file with 6 segments? I'd like to create the SVG by hand and not pre-calculate the points with some kind of software - if possible. I think using a path like this would be a start <path d="M 200,200 l 150,0 a150,150 0 0,0 -37,-97 z" fill="red" stroke="black"...
As I said in the title, I need to find a tool which allows people who don't use any "design software" to create some simple data graphics like bar charts and pie charts that are easy to modify. It can be online or not, free or not, for web or print to be included in PDF documents. I started to take a look to Google Cha...
I really wanted to get this kind of foggy sort of glowing texture, with also the noise. And it seems it got a little bit of gradient in it's side. I've been tweaking the gradient maps with noise effect and couldn't seem to get that look. I've been trying to edit a layer that consists of fog textures from a brush I've d...
For "political" reasons I used MS PowerPoint to create a scientific poster. Scientific means mainly having formulas, plots(they could be images), text and images. Although I would prefer to use LaTeX, I realize that it's not the most convenient way when someone has to do corrections on the fly. Therefore I am a bit con...
I found this on itunes radio and want to know how this was achieved like how the triangle was made. I have come up with this so far in photoshop
The Background Layer is locked. I duplicated the file to Background Copy. Go to chop the Background Copy. The locked background changes and no longer is locked. Please help me reset my settings where the background layer stays locked at all times?
I'm looking to start offering letterhead designs to clients. I could of course handle the design and printing side of things no problem, but how do my clients go about setting up their documents so that it doesn't print over the parts of the letterhead design? Would I also need to provide them with an MS Word template ...
I need to design some aide memoir cards for a martial arts club, to help people learn the forms (kata - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata). These are to consist of a series of stick men in the various positions of the forms. There a are a lot of variations, so I want to make it as simple as possible. Ideally I want...
I'm primarily a gimp user, but I want something to blur an image similarly to the way a lens would blur an out of focus background. AFAIK this is essentially a circular blur/convolution (assuming circular aperture and ignoring diffraction). The operation is very straight forward, but I've been searching for a while and...
I have a rectangle art-board. I am trying to place 3 identical vector graphics in different colors onto the board. I want them to be scaled, spaced apart evenly. I can't seem to find the rescale function where I can enter exact dimensions that I want. I know you can drag to scale via toolbar icon but this doesn't fit m...
I'm having difficulty replacing the colors in an existing image with colors from a new swatch of colors. I've tried the following : Magic wand and fill Color replacement tool Image -> Adjustments -> Replace color The latter just wouldn't let me select the color I wanted to replace with I had to fiddle with hue/satur...
I created a model of a reception desk in 3DSMax. To light it, I'm using a target light positioned behind the camera angled toward the scene, and one free directional light with the same specs. The problem is, I'm not getting any shadows in my scene when I render them. I want natural shadows to appear on objects that ar...
I'm creating a layout design for a client's website, but I'm not sure how to tell if I have web licensing. How can I tell? Are the pre-installed fonts web safe?
When I open the following image in Photoshop (CS5): This is how it appears, and how it saves: For some reason, the aliasing is ignored and the edges become completely jagged. Can anyone explain why this would be happening, and how to avoid it? Update: Seems this is the issue it stems from: Why can't Photoshop properl...
I created a logo using an M & C from Moonhouse font. I modified them letters to suit their brand, but the basic shape is still recognizable. The company name is in Goodtimes font, to indicate that the company is modern and is moving towards the future with it's technology. They want their tagline underneath the compan...
Good Design Is Innovative: The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself. - Dieter Rams In...
I'm currently working on a pure drag and drop part of my applications UI. There are certain tools the user can drop the items into, to do certain things (Remove, rename, move) Are there any good 'standard' ways of visualizing that a field is droppable?
I am in the process of creating a wedding website for somebody and I am trying to match some of the accent colors to a fabric swatch that will be used for the bridesmaids dresses. I'm having a heck of a time getting the color on the screen to match what's actually on the swatch. So far, I tried just picking a color fro...
I am new to photoshop. I want the action to pause , then I want a user to be able to select his own path via a selection tool, and then the rest of the action should run. How is this achievable?
I am able to import and apply patterns to objects, but I don't know how to adjust the colour of the patterns. How does one tint a pattern in Inkscape?
I'm working with Maya for a uni course and still really green with it. I've got (what is probably) a fairly simple issue. So apologies if this is really basic. Basically we've been building a character in Maya, and in a separate file, we've been building a unicycle for said character to ride. However, when I import th...
Im trying to save icons out to SVG format, one at a time, but from one document. what i mean is, i have all my icons laid out in one document, and once i am ready to save them, i will move the icon i need to save to the artboard, hide everything else and save to .svg. The problem is that opening the .svg file reveals t...
I am using photoshop cs4 currently, but I have photoshop cc at home. I want to know if there was a way to transfer the animation I've worked on the smart object to the original project.
How do you change stroke thickness of rules within the same paragraph of your paragraph styles section? I noticed extra rules were created below text, how do you get rid of the extra ones in paragraph styles?
I made a poster in AIllustrator for a scientific conference and was told by the printer to outline it before converting to pdf for printing. I was looking through the outlined and regular pdf and it appears that the outlined pdf has font that looks thicker in places and less well reproduced. For example, notice the hea...
I've been using the Split Toning functionality of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw for some time now -- you can see the effect in this video. How would I go about performing adjustments like these in the core of photoshop? Note: I don't want to do this on a grayscale image, I want to adjust the hues of the shadows and hi...
I'm making something in Adobe Illustrator CS6 that has a stroke with 'charcoal - feather' as brush definition. This gives the shape a asymmetrical, sketchy/smudgy look. To improve the look of the shape, I made a copy of the original, pasted it next to the first, and altered the second one to see which result I like bet...
I am sort of new to graphic design and need some help on how to recreate this "screen" or "mesh" looking effect for a T-shirt. I have tried setting this area to gray, using color halftone, and setting the transparency to multiply and it comes close, but the dots seem a little too spread apart and pixelated on Ai. Aft...
I am working on some textures for 3D .obj files in photoshop cs6 extended. The objects look pretty pixelated and low quality, but when I move the object mesh, or scene, or camera, it instantly renders 100% in the best quality. How can I make the object look in hq all the time and not just when moving it? I tried ctrl+s...
On my portfolio site at http://samnorris.co.nz I have an animated .gif image - the astronaut with the heading underneath: "Protecting the galaxy one pixel at a time"... I'm not sure if it's just me and my monitor or not, and it is only very, very subtle but I can notice the background texture is not blending very well ...
I want to use font in image "attached" but don't know what is it's name so that I can search over internet. Tell me if anybody knows the answer.
What would be the right icon for a toolbar button that triggers the following functionality in a spreadsheet application? Toggle the visibility of all columns of the current sheet that currently don't contain any data (i.e. that are completely empty except for their column header). Background: The user might have a r...
Some fonts come with different optical sizes. A few Adobe fonts have different optical sizes that are recommended for 6–8 point text, 9–14 point, 14–24, and 24+ points. I am designing an A1 poster, which is will not be read from such close a distance as regular text. Most, if not all, text will be set larger than 24 po...
So I used a normal screenshot (630x1136) from an iPhone and I dropped into the PSD file. I tried so many ways but the image on the phone looks pixelated. Do you know how do I make make look good? So, I'm working on some Key Visual for a Landing Page which the dimensions are: 450x3000px (so the image that you see exten...
I'm creating my first game using the Unity game engine. I plan to target 1920x1080px; but my laptop resolution is 1366x768px. If I create the vector image on my 1366x786px screen, will the output be different or of less quality when it's displayed on a 1920x1080px screen?
I have designed a logo in Adobe CS5.1 Illustrator using the ellipse tool to create shapes, filled with colour and then added my type. The file is saved as .ai. Is it automatically a vector image?
I need to find the font for these names so I can tell my tattoo artist. I found one called 'Ancient German Gothic' but that only looked similar. I can't find the right one where the J's have the curve, the H has a little branch like thing on the top, the S's are like the S's. Anyone know the font?
I have a bunch of files named "lorem1@2x.png, lorem2@2x.png, lorem3@2x.png... ...lorem11@2x.png" When I try to batch process them, they start at the 10th file, then goes on to the 11th, looping around back to the first file. Why is it doing this and how can I ensure the correct processing order?
I'm coping with a huge problem at the moment, concerning screen resolution. As i'm a college student the only tools i have for developing the game i'm making is open source software and a laptop running windows with a 1366x768 resolution. I recently found out that it's best to develop your game on a 1920x1080 resolutio...
I downloaded this font in another pc, but i don't remember the name. Please, help me to find. From http://ohnath.tumblr.com/
A friend of mine gave me an InDesign file which has A-Master page that has two elements on it, but when I try to copy the whole page, it only copies the elements that were added afterwards. The background and the two elements on master page seem to be locked. As I press shift+command and click on the elements to unlock...
As you can see in the image below, my curved lines inside the circle are not so "pixel perfect" like the outer circle, what can I do? I did these curved lines using Path Finder: triangle + circle + 3 lines. Is there a better way to achieve this effect?
As I build out a user interface in photoshop, how can I assign colors to elements (mainly vector shapes but also text, etc) in a way that I can then create themes and then toggle through them? In other words, a blue theme that uses different shades of blue and then one click toggle to a red theme where all the elements...
I want to create effect similar to below image in illustrator..How can i do it.. I think i can make it through pathfinder but i am unable to produce
I'm looking for typefaces that have a lot of discretionary ligatures, more specifically a serif or calligraphic font of the fancy/classical sort. I am already aware of: Mrs. Eaves DTL Fleischmann Hoefler Text Requiem Am I missing any big names?

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