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For example, if I need to export a 32×32 PNG and a 64×64 PNG, what size should my control vector file be? The main reason I ask this is that I recently did an iPhone app icon and I needed to export to 57×57, 114×114, 29×29, 58×58, 72×72, 50×50 and 512×512. I used a vector file that was 512×512. All the exported PNGs came out looking good except 29×29. It was a circular icon and the circle border on the 29×29 came out fuzzy. Does this usually happen when you size a big vector file down to a small PNG? How would one handle that situation? Originally I thought that it didn't matter because it's a vector file.
checkout this image: How can I achieve a round rectangle like that with a transparent cropped image at the center? I can't find a good way for EDIT
What do you folks use as a general rule of thumb for flowing text around embedded images? I know everyone's got different preferences in addition to standard rules; is there any time when you will place an image in line with text (i.e., with no text flow on either side) instead of allowing text to flow on one side or the other? Obviously there are times when you're going to want the image apart from the text flow for design purposes. The examples I've run into recently involve laying out HTML newsletters (which are fairly narrow - less than 600 px so they fit into the crappy little window Outlook gives you, and then it's split further into a 2/3 + 1/3 vertical arrangement) and a brochure laid out with similar narrow vertical columns. With a vertical area this narrow it's sometimes difficult to get recognizable images (none are larger than 250 px wide) and text without it looking like you're getting "crumbs" of text. Addendum: I know there are, in fact, times when you'd want the opposite - if I were laying out one of E.E. Cummings' poems alongside a series of images, for instance, I would probably have zero issues with fragments of text alongside images since that could create a different flow / feel. This question doesn't have to do with that - I'm looking for other folks' preferences with more vanilla layout - magazine layouts with large images, web pages with narrow columns, etc.
My human brain has a certain sensation of how "bright" a color is. More formally there is Lightness: Human vision has a nonlinear perceptual response to brightness: a source having a luminance only 18% of a reference luminance appears about half as bright. The perceptual response to luminance is called Lightness. It is denoted L* and is defined by the CIE as a modified cube root of luminance: Lab is one color model where colors with the same Lightness should appear to have the same "bright-ish-ness". Except when i look at a color picker showing colors with the same L, they don't appear equally "bright" to me: Maybe it's limited to my brain, and other's don't see it, but when i look at that color swatch some i see lines separating darker areas from lighter ones: What accounts for this variation in Lightness? is it just me? is it because my monitor is not color calibrated with Photoshop's sRGB? is it a limitation of a trisimululus color representation (i.e. red+green+blue) used by LCD monitors? is it a limitation of the Lab color model? is it a limitation of the XYZ color model? Why is it that colors that should have the same Lightness have different apparent brightness?
Can I generate something similar using only Photoshop? Or should I be sourcing a wood texture and process that? Is there any standard advice on the processing of wood textures?
It seems I may be exploring video editing sooner than later. While my skill level with video would certainly classify me as a novice, I like to invest in tools which allow me to grow. I know about Final Cut, Premier, After Effect, etc. I am considering upgrading from one of Adobe's Premium Suites to the Master Collection to get these tools. That seems like a natural progression. But I want to ensure it's one of the better directions to follow. After all, if Final Cut is better, why bother with Adobe. Or even if both the Master Collection AND FinalCut have benefit I'm willing to go that route as well. For the most part I'll simply be resizing, cropping, and compressing existing files to start. Eventually I will move into clipping and inserting titles, splashes, etc. I'm well versed with Photoshop and Illustrator and can easily use those as support software provided the video software will allow the integration. I'm currently using a wide variety of the smaller shareware or freeware apps such as VisualHub (discontinued) and Handbrake along with QuickTime Pro. Also rendering via Photoshop Extended to some degree. I tried iMovie a couple times but it was far too limited in many cases and I wasn't attempting anything I'd call "advanced". I'm assuming any high-end editing package can produce compressed .mp4 or mpeg2 files much better. And from there I can easily deal with the Adobe Media Encoder to convert for Flash/HTML5 use if needed. I'm primarily interested in using recorded footage to create digital assets which could then be multi-purposed for various physical or digital delivery. Running Mac OS So I'm looking for any recommendations from experience video designers on what software helps them get their job done faster/easier. It's not so much about cost as it is about product reliability and functionality. Additional If there are any third-party plug ins or add-ons which you find you simply "can't live without" for video editing, please share those as well.
If I have more then only a layer in AI and I want to apply different PS effects to every layer, how can I do it? Do I need to copy/paste every layer to PS separately?
I am trying to recreate the effect on the bottom of this photograph, where it reads "Back from the Darkness". I have the text figured out as far as transforming it to match the perspective. But it's the black gradient that's giving me trouble. I've tried to use a transparent to black gradient, but I keep getting what appears to be white in the middle of the fading. Is there a tutorial for a similar effect that you can direct me to, because I've been trying everything I can find without success. I'm using Photoshop CS5 64-bit. (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8UfcOt8jt5w/TbuGinIug7I/AAAAAAAABaU/yDhwwgtPPp8/s1600/Noel-albumcover2.jpg) Edit Here is what I'm trying to do. The original picture has that bit of texture there. This one just appears like the gradient is too smooth, and it looks gray, rather than just black on the picture.
Many Chinese fonts seem to use other fonts for the Latin text. For e.g., Adobe Song Std uses a light version of Minion Pro. What Latin fonts are used in Apple's Chinese fonts, such as STFangsong, STKaiti, STSong, STHeiti, and STXihei? As best as I can tell, STFangsong, STKaiti, and STSong all share the same Latin font.
when designing iphone icons,but in general designing something that is bigger or smaller than my screen size, I have problems in understanding how far can I go with using smaller/larger fonts (and drawings) so that everything is clear and fully readable when it is seen by the user at 100% its size. Is there any trick? or something I should know?
I have a small project that I need help with. I am working on an online survey for a client of mine; which consist of 10 odd pages of questions as well as free text entry on some of the questions. Some of the questions requires number input which then converted into charts (bar graphs etc.) Survey is done as a web app (using .NET and C# and MySQL) and resulting data converted into XML format in order to generate a report based on the answers that the members provide. Currently data is imported into MSWord and report is generated as .docx file. Client is not happy with the presentation of the word so I suggested that we can use InDesign to have a better look/feel of the report, using the same XML structure. There are 1000+ members that need to take this survey, which means that report has to be generated for each client individually (different answers, different inputs, branding and so on.) I understand the basics of generating a book from XML to InDesign but I can't figure out how can I apply this workflow into producing 1000+ different copies. (with one click if possible!) Do I need to have 1000+ InDesign documents with SAME XML structure but DIFFERENT branding (different heading colours etc.) or is there a way to generate the reports (in PDF) in a more efficient way. I'll be happy to answer if you have any questions or need clarification. Any suggestions welcome Thanks
I have an image made up of "pixel blocks" of size 2x2 (so that each block is made up of four pixels of the same color). How can I scale the image by a factor of 2 in each direction so as to reduce each 2x2 block to a single pixel (1x1), without any type of smoothing? My preferred graphics tool is GIMP, but I obviously accept answers based on any tool! /Andreas
I exported a Flash video (.flv) to jpeg sequence. All 450 frames are in a folder, and now I'd like to stitch them all together so the result is one super long image. For example, instead of 450 images, each 320x240px, I want one image which is 144000x240px. Is there a Photoshop option to do this or another software tool I can use?
Are there any internationally recognized journals on contemporary graphic design? For example, where can I find critiques, reviews, and argued opinions of designers like David Carson or Uwe Loesch?
I found this amazing font that i want to use for my application. It is called "Marcelle" and it's available on almost any font website. Some say it's free, others say it's "free for personal use". Since i want to use this font commercially, is there any way for me to buy it, or can i just go ahead and use it?
My main difficulty is not laser-printing a large golden image, for example of a wedding ring. But I just can't get small fonts to have a metallic effect. The program I use is Corel Draw. I tried all sorts of metallic gold images and power-clipped to my fonts. The laser-printout shows shades of white, yellow and brown but doesn't look golden. I'm using "white Kraft paper" It's a heavy type of paper with one shiny side. I'd be grateful for any tips.
I am struggling so hard trying to do a simple thing. I've drawn a rectangle with a stroke of 1 pt. I basically want to make that rectangle taper on the end by grabbing the corner anchor points of that rectangle and pulling them in close to each other (on one side). Every time I grab them, it moves the whole rectangle. I've tried the 'convert anchor point' tool but every time I choose the tool, the anchor points disappear so I have nothing to grab. I've tried the 'add anchor point' tool and clicked in the stroke to artifically add one and then grab it but that doesn't work either. When you draw a rectangle in Illustrator, do the four corners act the same as anchor points if you drew a shape with the pen tool? I've Googled this but nobody seems to have a concise answer for what I'm looking for. Thanks for the help.
In Fireworks and for an image similar to this: what's the best way to horizontally distribute objects in their parent container so that they have equal margins? The same effect can be achieved with margin:auto in CSS.
Is it possible to remove on side of a stroke on a rectangle? Let's say you have a rectangle with a stroke all the way around it and I want one end of the rectangle to be 'open' and take the stroke off. I've tried searching but there doesn't seem to be a concise explanation if it can actually be done. I know I can make clipping masks and minus front and all that but I was wondering if there's a simple solution. Let me know if you need more details. Thanks.
In Illustrator I have this strange problem on the top bar: the font style panel and the opacity's one are overlapping so that I have to make impressive mouse moves to have one of them selected. Why this problem??
Possible Duplicate: Why can't Photoshop properly open this PNG? If I save this PNG file on my machine locally: And then open this file in Photoshop (CS5 12.0.4 x64 on Windows 7) it doesn't seem to preserve colours as expected. It seems that this is an 8-bit indexed colour PNG image, but even though Photoshop should preserve it. Browsers display it without a problem, so does the Image preview in Windows... How do I open this file in Photoshop, so it will look as it should? Note #1: To see the invalid file representation in Photshop, just save upper image and open it in Photoshop. Then locate the "movie" icon in the first row, that just renders black... Note #2: icons courtesy of Glyphicons. All licensing and usage should be consulted via their website. Same icons are used in Twitter Bootstrap library.
(This is probably more a "copyright" question than anything, but I have not found an appropriate StackExchange site for this kind of question.) Why are fonts like Akzidenz-Grotesk, that were made way back in 19th century (Akzidenz-Grotesk was made in 1896), still copyrighted and not in the public domain?
I need to know the color-values of a certain pixel in a PNG including the alpha value. But if I use pixelmator's color picker, the alpha value is not available. Where can I find that information?
I'm just about to export a brochure for printing in InDesign (CS4) What is the correct way to export the document so that the fonts used throughout will display properly at the printers. I have used create outlines in the past, but just read that using create outlines is unsuitable particularly for body text. Thanks.
When I export Illustrator artwork as a png file, I get a one pixel grey border at the top and left edges. There is no background object, but I export (Save for Web and Devices) with matte white background and no transparency. I also tried with a white background object, with it snapped to the artboard and also larger than the artboard by 10 pixels in each direction. I still got the lines at the top and left of the exported image. I also tried making a new file, with the artboard in pixel units, and selected the option to have objects snap to pixel grid, and then copying and pasting the artwork from the original file. I still got the lines.
I have a friend who has like 250 hyperlinked flowcharts. He wants to put them into a web app. The thing is, it needs to be simple HTML. There are some websites out there for flowchart HTML, but the HTML they produce is a mess. He is not a programmer type. He wants to work in a GUI, not with text files. I'm wondering if there is a tool out there that would give us a chance of accomplishing this. Basically, it would let us define templates like "yellow hyperlinked flowchart box" and "arc-shaped arrow between two boxes", then he could put building blocks like that together to form his flowcharts. He has also tried making the flowcharts in PowerPoint, then exporting. Again, the HTML is a mess, and it uses a lot of images, which is bad.
This is one of those obscure questions, but I had built an animation in Photoshop and I'm using a spot channel. When I "export to video" it loses the color that I had specified: Here's my example:
I'm a computer engineer on a small development team that specializes in designing mobile apps. We're all coders, and we're starting to realize that we need at least one or two qualified designers on our team to help draft and create our user interfaces, icons, etc. In order to avoid hiring additional employees, my company offered to pay for formal graphic design training/classes. I was selected as the main candidate because I have a more artistic background than my coworkers, however I have limited graphic design experience. I've used Photoshop for several years on little hobby projects, but I have almost no experience with Illustrator and Fireworks (or any other vector graphics editors). Assuming I have the potential to be a good UI designer (let me know if this is a flawed assumption), what is the best way for the company to spend its money? Should it invest in a formal training program? Should I enroll in courses? Should the company just buy me a book and let me teach myself? Also, the company stated that it is willing to send me to "the best of the best", so I'm assuming cost isn't an issue as long as its cheaper than hiring new employees. So what is the best of the best? In a nutshell: I'm a programmer. My company wants me to be a graphic designer, too. Assuming I meet the creative requirements, what's the most effective way to achieve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have a number of equality sized square images and would like to distribute them evenly in a grid on the same image. How does one do this using Photoshop CS4? I'm trying to create a sprite. The images will have styles (borders, shadows) applied to them so using an external site isn't feasible.
I am trying to design a logo that makes the color blend as on the image beneath. How do I do that? Any design guides or tips you can give me? http://www.colourlovers.com/business/trends/branding/7880/Papeterie_Haute-Ville_Logo
The F-Shaped pattern is a pattern found in an eye-tracking study as the primary areas people glance over when reading a website. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Is this something we as graphic designers should consider not only in web but in all mediums? If so do we give priority placement to our content for maximum benefit to our end-users or to advertisers/sponsors for maximum revenue?
Hi i'd like to achieve this final result with those letters made out of thin lines..How do I achieve that? I want to use the Myriad font. I know about the replace spine method but does it work for my purpose? thanks
I would like to know how to disable smoothing for layer styles in Photoshop so that edges get jaggy. For example, I create a text layer and disable smoothing in the toolbar. Now, when I go to Layer Styles and enable Contour, while the text itself remains unsmoothed, the outside of the contour is smoothed. How can I disable that?
I'm about to hire a freelancer to create a logo for my IT consulting company. My personal thoughts: The logo will be vector based as I might need to use it at different sizes. It should look good in color as well as in black and white. I'll give the artist as much freedom as possible, as I think the result will improve. Antialiasing should be done using different levels of transparancy. So that I may use my logo on different colored backgrounds. Some questions: Which vector based file format should I choose? I work exclusively in GNU/Linux and use free software. Should I ask for a color and a black and white version? The alternative is just to ask for a color version and just turn it into black and white myself, or let the printer driver take care of it. How would you recommend I structure the project until delivery. I don't want to be unreasonable and I want the artist to have as much freedom as possible. Still it would be nice to get a few rough choices (maybe done using stencil or another quick way) fairly early in the project. Should I provide 2-3 backgrounds which the logo should look good against? Or maybe just say that it should look against white and black backgrounds. Anything else I should think of?
Helvetica has always looked horrible in Illustrator CS4+ on my Mac, including all OS versions, regardless of size or units. Below are screenshots of Helvetica at 12px, 24px, and 36px. Is there a way to counteract this? Other fonts look great, but Helvetica (Neue or otherwise) always looks horrible, as if subpixel rendering is off.
I'm going to apply to graduate programs this year and Slideroom seems to be the preferred choice for portfolios. I'm wondering about what to put in it and what I'm even able to put in it. Do I design a nice .pdf in InDesign and then upload it as single pages? Should those pages be of just the end product or should process by shown? Do I upload just my finished pieces individually? Do you just caption the pieces with some sort of built-in system or should captions be designed as parts of the uploaded piece?
I have a logo in PS but I'm having a small issue. I see this small blur at the bottom of my logo text which i cant seem to get rid of. Zoomed in: can you see that small blur at the bottom of the text? Its not very visible on some of the characters but more visible on others. I have tried removing the stroke and the drop shadow, changing the text to crisp,smooth,sharp and all the others but the issue still remains. Its not the font, because its happening with all fonts. does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
I am a computer science student hosting a programming contest at our college. We need to design a nice brochure for the contest. I don't have any idea hot to create such a thing. All I know is how to edit my photos in Gimp (low level editing; I even don't know about professional tools). I wonder if someone would help me (with no knowledge of designing) design a good brochure. I know Gimp (Cropping, adding layers, increasing brightness etc... )
I am looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great. Any recommendations?
Does anyone know of a good pixel-like, retro video game font that is web-safe? I am having trouble finding one. Thanks
I'm in the process of redesigning a web app with a very simple layout, set mostly by text (similar to Google in both aesthetics and functionality). Do you know any examples of web apps with such attributes (i.e. Google.com)? Please note: I'm looking for examples of text-based layouts in web apps, not "regular" websites.
I was wondering if there is a way to view a preview in the icon of the photoshop files in windows 7(simmilar to the preview of a jpeg file for example) instead of the photoshop file default blue icon. I guess the only way is to use Adobe Bridge isn't it ? Thank you. EDIT: Windows 64bit version
Possible Duplicate: How to modify the corner radius on rounded rectangle in Illustrator? can't seem to manupulate the rounded rectangle on Adobe Illustrator... forgot the shortcut! Any help??
I often must create a favicon for a fairly complex image, that when it gets down to 16x16, looks weird or blurry. I have been trying with one image, reduced with bicubic-sharp in Photoshop and adding varying widths of stroke, making it slightly larger or smaller, to try and make it so the borders line up more with the pixel borders when reduced (it's a logo with 3 curved parallel lines that looks odd when two are mostly crisp and one is a bit blurry). I wonder if there are any methods or online tools for optimizing this size reduction, sizing and positioning the base image best to maximize the detail that's preserved?
(This is a deliberately broad question. A correct answer would be a set of considerations with a strong experience-based rationale) I've been invited to put some of my designs forward for publication in a showcase book ("for free!" they enthusiastically said, as if the publishers aren't benefiting by getting free content...). I'm early in my career and so it seems like a win-win deal and some welcome positive exposure. But since I've not been in this position before, I'm wondering if there are questions I should be asking or criteria I should be insisting on that I haven't thought of. At its most general, this question is: from your experience, what considerations and questions should a designer have when having their work showcased commercially by a third party? Some of the specific questions I have are, how concerned about things like copyright should I be? (I did check to make sure I wasn't signing away rights but I'm no expert here) Is it something people include on CVs and resumes, or is it not that big a deal? Is it common for designers to pay to be included in showcase books, as the publishers seemed keen to imply? And under what circumstances (if any) should a designer expect royalites from the publisher? But chances are these questions themselves are misguided. Ultimately my question is: is showcasing by a third party really a win-win situation for a designer, as it seems to be to me, or are there serious considerations (and if so what are they)? (or is it not really a big deal and I'm thinking too much?)
I am a graphic designer who provided spec work for a client. I worked on a flyer and I gave them 2 options. They went with one, paid for it. Now they have another project and would like to use the other preliminary draft from the last project. I gave them a quote (seeing as I would have to purchase photo under my license and adjust layout for text, etc.) The client decided they didn't want to pay for me to do the work, they just wanted to pay me for the use of the photo. Due to licensing restrictions, I am not able to re-sell the copyright. This photo, however is a concept that I came up with. Should I turn over the link where they can find this image so that the client can purchase and let them use how they would like? I feel as they are wanting to use my design idea to make something similar without paying me. What is the correct, professional way to handle?
Possible Duplicate: Scale drawings in Illustrator, maintain proportions of line weights and effects When you minimize large vectors that contain outlines & text to a small vector the stroke & size does adapt to the new size. Is there a way to overcome this, or fix the final result? Also when I make the vector smaller and try to manually fix stroke I am giving 1 pt, is it optimal to go under 1 pt.? Original
I am preparing a textbook for use at my school. Eventually, I might hand-draw all of the illustrations, but in the meantime, I will use photographs. Some of these photographs will fill 1/3 of the page. To save as much money as possible, I will use the campus print center to make copies of the book. They have black and white photocopy machines. Unfortunately, the print center claims that it is very difficult to photocopy photographs. They demonstrated this with a page and showed that the photos were almost entirely illegible, and the process used too much ink. How can I prepare all of my photographs, such that they will still have a consistent and legible appearance when photocopied? I have found that lithographs, such as this illustration of Wimel Poort will photocopy just fine and they still retain a lot of detail. Is there some way to prepare the photograph to have a similar texture?
I need to create a report like FBI reports for people background. can anyone give me a link to such a paper so I can design it or give me its template? Thanks
I'm in the process of putting a site together. I have very limited knowledge regarding Photoshop (but I am trying!!). The site is being built to display some images of mine. I'm a photographer by day, programmer by night. The portrait images do not take up the entire width of the screen. I therefore need a nice background gradient for them. As you can see here, the background color is currently a blank -> grey gradient. I'm asking you now, quite simply, what color would look best on this site? If you have any other suggestions, such as, "you should change the sidebar color", I'm completely open to that as well. However, my main questions is regarding the background color to be used.
I have an image with many layers. I want to define part of it as transparent. Is there a mask layer which makes all the layers under it transparent or something similar?
I have a bunch of third-party client logos in clashing colours. I would like to convert them to elegantly matching grayscale. What I'm after is a set of identical grayscale images of the kind seen frequently on "our clients" pages, like this one. Does anyone know an easy way to turn them into greyscale logos, all in exactly the same shade of grey? (I'm a programmer, so can handle a technical solution, but unfortunately know very little about graphic design.) I'd like to do this using either Gimp, or even better, a web service designed to do just this :) Thanks for your help.
I want to create a Image of a brush stroke with a perfect alpha channel, but using the tools in the Selection menu doesn't result in a too perfect result. Since it's also possible to paint in the alpha channel, is it possible to paint onto a layer and onto the alpha channel at the same time, so it creates a perfect selection? or am I just doing something wrong when trying to create an alpha channel of a little more complex brush strokes? thanks
Is there any way to change dynamic offset size other than using the handle? I'd like to be able to create uniform dynamic 5px outside of the original shape for multiple. I'm looking for something similar to the Offset Path dialog box in illustrator.
I have an Illustrator CS5 file with several artboards. Each artboard is named. I can export this document to a multi-page PDF but the pages appear numbered when viewed in Acrobat. I can renumber and rename the pages in Acrobat, and I can even write a script that can go in and add the proper objects to the PDF file after the fact to facilitate the naming. However, I'd like to avoid needing a script if possible since I have to pass this process off to another designer who isn't as technical. Does vanilla Illustrator have any way to export a multi-page PDF with the pages named after the artboards?
When I choose Select > Modify > Border and select a 1px border - the border I get is anti-aliased, hence if I fill my selection a 3px border is affected. Is there a way to select a 1px aliased border?
I have a site (no CMS platform) that has a list with links. The list consists of 14 links, each referring to a pdf file. If someone wants to read the content of these files, they must follow a certain path. For example, to be able to understand what the 7th link/pdf says, they have to have read the 1st, then the 3rd and then go to the 7th. The same goes for the other links, too. My problem is how to present the list so as to instruct the reader in the path they have to follow, and how to present this in a nice and clear way? A clear way to present and for them to navigate through the files? jquery, diagram software with images instead of text, anything you have to propose. thank you
I've created a bunch of layer slices. However I need a way of hiding the background layers to make the images based on the layers have a transparent background when saved. As i'm doing it now, I need to hide the background layers every time before selecting save for web. Is there an easier way?
I have a blog on blogspot.com - mentioning this so you may know I don't really have a lot of font options! Anyway - In my blog, I want the body font to be Georgia. What should be the Header font with it? I like georgia so much that I could very well choose it for the headers as well; but I want a sans font for that purpose. I have tried Verdana, but that looks somewhat boring along with Georgia. Any suggestions?
The Instagram logo pulls off this effect nicely to create a cracked brown-leather look. How can I create this texture? (regardless of the color) Instagram logo:
To do some Generative Art I know Nodebox is based off Python and Processing is based off Java. Is there a Generative Art platform using Ruby that is as visually stimulating as Nodebox or Processing? I see Graphviz but it is more for structural data analysis and diagramming, as per its 'About' and 'Theory' sections then for Generative Art. Is there a Generative Art platform available in Ruby that is still being supported?
Say I wanted to create a photorealistic (or as near as possible) volumetric cloud in the shape of a space shuttle (or any complex object I guess), can anyone recommend a particular set of tools/method to do this?
I am trying to do an opacity mask and it is driving me crazy. Bascially I have a layer of ice. It's four different pictures of ice overlapping each other so it looks like a whole bunch of ice. I want to have it fade in from both sides (left and right) until it is completely opaque in the middle. I've select all of the pictures and chosen 'Make Opacity Mask' from the Transparency Panel and it disappears but then I don't know how to manipulate the opacity. In the Transparency panel it doesn't show a picture of what I'm working with so I can't simply click next to it to create the opacity mask like I've seen in tutorials. I've also tried to overlay a rectangle over the objects, choose them all then try 'Make Opacity Mask' but that didn't work either. Any ideas? Thanks.
Possible Duplicate: How to resize icon sets in Photoshop? I want to get a solution for a question that has been in my mind for a long time. For the past 2 years, several times I was assigned to do some job involving low resolution images. Such as icon making, favicon making etc. These files have very low resolution like 16*16 px, 32*32px or maybe upto 100px. I used Photoshop and Illustrator for creating such graphics. It looks fine and perfect in high resolution, but when I try to decrease the size to required low resoution, the images have noticeable defects in clarity. I was surprised to see low resolution images in other websites with better clarity and wondering, How is that possible? Hope stack will solve my problem.
I'm working on this simple A4 landscape poster basically saying "adobe.com/" (newline) "indesign" with big letters in the middle of the page, and a small lipsum footer at the bottom. But I'm having a hard time coming up with a nice grid for it. Preferably this grid should follow the golden ratio as closely as possible. At The Complex Grid I got as far as finding the number of lines I needed. 4 lines would be perfect - lines 2 and 3 could contain my text, and lines 1 and 4 could form the surrounding space. But {4-(2-1)}/2 didn't add up - only {5-(2-1)}/2 did - and I have no idea how to make it work with 5 lines. What to do? http://home.no/dwaynie/poster.indd The thing is, this poster is gonna be hung up at a public space where the design standards are very high, I don't want anybody to go "ooh look, he doesn't know how to use grids". Especially not Wim Crouwel, who is known to frequent around these parts.
I have an array of lines that each have a stroke: Now I want each individual line to have a "wavy" effect like this: How would go about something like this? - I've had no luck with the Warp > Wave effect.
How could I recreate the background and the effect on the ribbons, borders, and "Other" text in this screenshot from Apple's GameCenter app? To me, the background looks a little glittery, but also a bit like felt, while the other parts look kind of like they have been painted on, with some of the texture coming through. I am using Gimp, but can usually follow basic Photshop tutorials pretty well, if they don't rely too much on effects Gimp doesn't support. Screenshot: Larger image here.
I'd like to use this image on a web site. What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background. I used Gimp to convert the image to .png, but how do I proceed now?
For example, I've imported a logo from Illustrator into Blender. I want to extrude the paths, but guess what? Blender refuses to do so. The "e" key only translates my shape, not extrudes it. My selection options aren't there either, so if I want to switch to line selection, or face selection, I'm out of luck. Why does Blender treat imported points differently than native points? And is there a way to convert them? Thanks!
I wonder if its possible to change the color of a pattern overlay in Photoshop? I googled a lot but couldn't find anything useful. So I have a layer with pattern overlay, but I also want to use color overlay so I can set a color for the pattern. Thanks
Ok, I'm really interested in hearing the feedback of others on this one. I work in a company with a number of marketing managers (as I've stated in a couple of other posts)... And we have FINALLY hired a new designer for me to work with. Yay, no more 70+ hour weeks. But to get to the point of my question. Sometimes MMs will design their own ads/flyers, etc. and then come to me (now us) to make it print-ready (yeah I know...lol). Or, they will come to me with a magazine or brochure they like from some random company and ask me to create the exact same thing. Which brings me to the point. One of the marketing managers asked us to create a brochure that looked identical to a children's foundation brochure. We work in the construction industry and even though the brochure is very well designed, I really don't believe a brochure with giant twinkling stars and cartoon style fonts are best for our company. Unfortunately I couldn't attend the initial meeting, so I didn't have any input before the other designer started working on it. I came back to my desk and there she is standing over his shoulder telling him how great she thinks it looks, and I'm quietly banging my head on the desk. It's not that the brochure he is creating now isn't pretty; quite the opposite, it looks great … It just doesn't match the branding of our company IN ANY WAY! The first thing that goes through my head, when I see the brochure, is: "Where the Wild Things Are" meets McDonald's. (Again, construction industry!) And to be honest, pretty much all the marketing managers I work with are like this. They see something "pretty" and don't care that it's completely inappropriate for the company. I try to explain my point and still, I always get back the same "what do you mean, it looks so pretty" response. Is it me? Am I wrong? Is pretty good enough? Am I being too critical? I'm beginning to feel like such a nay sayer because every time someone comes to us with their own idea, I keep shouting back "BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE COMPANY'S BRANDING?!?!?" Anyway, sorry for such a long post and if it sounds too much like one giant rant … I swear, if someone comes to me with a flyer for a club opening and says "Can you make my ad look like this", I am going to walk out the door.
I'm trying to create an iPhone wallpaper from an image. (iPhone 4, retina display) I've already found the resolution, which is 640 x 960, but the problem is that when I export the image out of Pixelmator (Mac alternative of Photoshop – similar to GIMP), the image looks fine, but the text that I've put is very blurry / pixellated. I've increased DPI to 320, but the text still looks terrible. What am I doing wrong?
I'm looking for specific ranges of colors here. I want the range (in Hexa or RGB) for warm colors and cool colors, active and passive colors for exemple: Warm color from #DD6421 to #FF0000 (random colors here), etc. I couldn't find this kind of information on my friend, Google. So, if someone knows this kind of information... it would be great. Also, I don't know if I can ask this kind of question here but, how do I "calculate" color type: primary palet, secondary palet, etc. and calculate color relationship like: complementary, double complementary, etc... I don't know this is a good site for that, but any help is appreciated. I'm trying to collect as much information as I can. Thank you all
I'd like to create a scaleable multi-resolution web effect similar to iBooks and started by building on this tutorial. The problem is with the background image: As you can see it has two masks on it that give it that special effect: What I want to do is create a background that will fit any resolution, for this I need a tileable version of the image background and a translucent PNG mask image which I can scale on top of that tileable image to give a similar effect. I have no idea how to convert the mask layers above into a simple raster that I can save as a standalone PNG file. I tried replicating the look using a translucent radial gradient but didn't get anywhere. Without the mask the image looks like this which is allot less compelling: Any tips on how to easily make a texture tileable will also be appreciated but I can probably manage this myself. Thanks.
I don't need to know the artistic style but instead the style name for single page application like webpages. They have dynamic height and width with no scrolling.
I am attempting to create 3D text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 in OSX using the 3D Extrude and Bevel effect. The problem is that if I only rotate the text on one axis, in this case the X axis and then give it perspective, the resulting object is missing a few of the faces of the 3d object. This results in some incorrect white space. Is there any way to correct or work around this bug to achieve the desired effect?
When reviewing logo concepts submitted from designers, I want to ask them to include a single-color gray version, like something that would be stamped in a background. Is there a name for this in the graphic design world?
I click many times on a point of a path in Gimp, and no handles show up... how do I make them appear? (I'm using Fedora 16.)
What's the best color printer (any technology) that can do full-bleed printing so that I don't have to print 8.5x11's on bigger paper and then cut? Affordable ink/toner is important. UPDATE: If someone has an LED or laser printer that can do borderless (aka full-bleed) printing, please let me know. In the meantime, I bought a Brother MFC-J6910DW inkjet all-in-one printer. It's truly amazing so far. The only issue is it won't do both full duplex (front and back) printing and borderless at the same time. And it won't do full duplex on paper other than plain paper. It seems to have the most affordable ink on the inkjet market.
I really don't know if this is allowed here, but I am going to give this a shot. Here is my web development portfolio. I am not a designer, but I thought it was pretty good looking. I want to know if this design is boring and probably shouldn't be shown to prospect employers or is it "enough" for a web developer? Any critics/advice/suggestions? Again, first post, not sure what is allowed here.
What software can I use to combine multiple transparent png and icon files into one transparent iconset? Example:
I'm creating a web page which has an inherent link to smart phones, and therefore I would like to mimic the design of the iOS and/or Android platform in the website. In the case of the iOS platform, this means that all website content appears as it would appear on an iPhone or iPad. It has the blue title bar, the gray header which indicates signal strength and battery (of course, the battery indicator does not make much sense on the website). In the case of the Android platform, this means that the buttons appear in the same gray/green design as on any Android device. I'm not yet sure about the details, but I hope you get the direction I want to take. My question is: Am I infringing some copyright? Specifically, does Apple object to websites which are using parts of the iOS UI design? I mean, the web site's purpose and content is strongly linked to iPhones and such.
I am working on a design in which i want to show a snippet of code of html on a page which is skewed, but when I adjust the text according to that it's distorted and does not look like the part of the page. This is what I have so far:
I am looking to apply an adjustment layer to just three layers like so: ADJ_LAYER_1 - IMAGE_1 - IMAGE_2 - IMAGE_3 ADJ_LAYER_2 - BG All I can manage is to apply ADJ_LAYER_1 to either only LAYER_1 or ALL layers below. I have tried ALT clicking on the layer-dividers but that creates clipping masks between for example IMAGE_1 AND IMAGE_2 and screws things up. So, is it possible to clip an adjustment layer to SOME layers?
I have a long word document that I need to import inside InDesign cs5..I really dont want to place every single page by hand and I was wondering if I could somehow automate this process! thanks Luca
I'm trying to break myself into making my own graphics for websites and I've come to my first roadblock. I need to make the commonly used icon that resembles >> in photoshop. The problem is that I'm not able to just draw the four lines it would take with the line tool well enough by hand, and need a precise way to control the starting point of the line, its length, its endpoint, and other aspects of it after I've created it. Is there a way to do this in photoshop CS5?
When I create a grid in Gimp (a 32x32px grid with 0x0px offset), the distance between the top edge of the image, and the first grid line, is 31 pixels, almost like the grid starts one pixel above the canvas. The same goes for the left edge. However, after enabling Snap to Grid, pasted images (with sizes that are multiples of 32x32px) snap to the "correct" grid positions, as if the grid started at the first pixel of the canvas. The drawn grid and the snapping grid do not align. Also, the snapping is dependent on the zoom factor (and maybe on the size of the image being snapped, I'm not sure). Is this correct behavior? Is this changeable? I'm using Gimp 2.6.11 on Windows (both 7 and XP). Image how it looks:
i'm testing how far i can go with interactive epub format ebook.I've just added two buttons (prev and next) and 3 overlapping pictures to make a mini-slideshow. I've tested this on my pc with the preview panel and everything is working. Whenever I try to export in epub format and open this book with calibre the slideshow is not working. Any idea? thanks Luca
High Value Added Manufacturing is a manufacturing model whereby the sale price of the end product is considerably higher than the production cost. And I have no idea where to begin representing this diagrammatically. I need something that's not immediately 'chart-like' because that wouldn't fit very well in the particular presentation format. I'm totally stuck for ideas; can you guys help?
I'm very new to Illustrator. Having used Photoshop all my life, vector art is something very new to me. I have this company logo in EPS format. I want to use AI to resize the image to a certain pixel size in order to fit properly on a website. I've only drawn some trees and landscape using AI, doing this has me totally lost. Any help would be appreciated.
From what I understand, the SVG Translate transformation offsets the coordinates by a given X and a given Y. So if drawing something at (80,100) and applying a translate(-10,-10) would draw the object at (70,90). That being said, I have an SVG file that has a page width of 744 by 1052. One of the groups tag applies a transformation of translate(-5774.2676,3117.0866). What I'm trying to understand is how this is not completely off the entire page (which it isn't). Can someone help me to figure this out?
I have some saved layer styles. When I apply them to my document it changes the settings of the style. For instance - The Saved Style has a Stroke of 5. Yet when I apply the style it applies with a stroke of 17. Why are the settings changing? I am using PS CS5.
I know PSE does not have layer styles like PS does. However within the content panel you have preset options which are in fact layer styles you just cannot edit them as in PS. Now I have PS and a friend has PSE. Can I save my layer styles and import them into PSE for him to use as he would like?
So I was working and everything was ok until a PC crashed which made me re-install windows and adobe products. Until then my gradients were perfect, but now as I try to make one they are full of huge stripes as if I were on a 256 color display from 15 years ago... I have tried probably everything. I saw things about similar problems on the internet but they all were about the printing job and I have issues on the display. I am using a Samsung SyncMaster SA300 on 1920x1080 res, full HD over the HDMI. Software Adobe CS 5.5 products (mainly Illustrator) Any suggestions?
I'm using a Mac (Snow Leopard) and have been given a file in FFIL format which I need to convert to ttf or otf so that I can use it to generate @font-face fonts. I also have the font as postscript type 1, again without a file extension (get info shows that it is type1). There are online generators but these do not accept the files I have as they do not have file extensions (I am definitely displaying all file extensions on my mac - finder preference). I would prefer an open source / free solution.
I would like to create pixel art graphics for an iPhone game on my mac, and I'm wondering what are some good programs I should look into.
I have a stop motion animation of about 35 seconds in duration (~150 frames). The resolution is quite large at around 900px x 450px. What is the best format to play this looping on my website? I think my options are either .gif, standard .swf, or convert it into a movie .swf. What is the recommended approach to this? I want the images to have a high fidelity and I was hoping to not use flash due to Apple incompatibility.
I am not trying to merge every layer and flatten the image. Instead I'm looking for a faster alternative to right-clicking every layer and converting to smart object, then rasterizing the layer. Or an alternative to the About.com suggestion, but applied to every later. Turns out using the menu option Layer > Rasterize > All layers does not flatten layer effects, and that's exactly what I'm looking for.
I'm working on a software project which requires some 3D models. We hired a freelance modeler and she just delivered the first model in Collada format. For now, I just want to see what it looks like (rendering will come later). I have tried: Collada import plugin for Caligari trueSpace, by "Clintonman" This one never worked. I followed the instructions for installation, but when I try to use it, it pops up an error message. Googling for the message didn't come up with anything. Ballistic3D Collada model viewer I can run this one, but when I open up the model, nothing appears. No errors or anything appear in the application log. colladaAirViewer, by Anthony Scavarelli I was able to install and run this one. When I try to load the model, it starts churning away, using 100% of CPU and 500MB of memory, but after 15 minutes, the model still doesn't appear. colladaAirViewer is telling me that the model has 143104 triangles. Is it strange to have such a large number? Perhaps this is why it is taking so long to draw. Can anyone recommend a better (free) model viewer, which works with Collada files?
I'm trying to increase the resolution of images containing lots of rasterized circle and ellipse parts, is there any algorithm that kind of detects these and uses a mathematical model to rescale them? Currently to me hqx looks best, but it's not specifically designed for this I think.