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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 ca...
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 t...
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 i...
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 Collecti...
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 ...
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? ...
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...
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 ...
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 to...
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 b...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 wonder...
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 comp...
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 co...
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 dis...
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 improv...
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 re...
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 proc...
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...
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 ...
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 th...
(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 conte...
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 lice...
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 smalle...
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 ...
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 backgr...
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 e...
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 sel...
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 af...
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 an...
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 pur...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 throug...
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...
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 MM...
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 / ...
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 informa...
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 nee...
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 wh...
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...
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 c...
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...
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 exampl...
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 cont...
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 multip...
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 slidesh...
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 particu...
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...
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...
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 si...
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 acce...
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 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 ...
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 w...
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.

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