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If one had a story that was as yet undefined but wanted to work out the economics of a manga publication - how would one go about it? How does one get to top artists (any artist, otherwise)? Are there any costs associated with contacting accomplished manga artists? Where would one get access to manga artists in gener...
Does anyone know what this font is or a similar font to this? please please help
Using Adobe Illustrator CS6, I drew a line and clicked the "Dashed Line" option in the stroke palette. When I change the length of the dashed line, by grabbing an endpoint and moving it or clipping it, the size of the gaps and dashes in the line change. I don't want that to happen. I checked the various boxes in the Tr...
If it wasn't clear, "style" in this context refers to changes in the CSS, so things like font-size, font-style, background color, etc. I have a very simple and minimalistic icon at the moment with 3 ampersands with increasing font sizes and boldness, but feel that there are probably better representations.
i want to design a style, which is classic one and we saw them in movies and old games. I don't know what exactly it is called but i have draw a sketch of it. Thank you.
Could you explain to me, how I can draw a shape like the one in the following image? How can I cut any part of circle to get such 4 shapes with Adobe Illustrator?
I am programming an Application that manages a Database. The User can add Items to the List or modify them. These Items should be colored. The Background ios white, and the currently selected Item is Blue (Standard Windows 7 Colors). Those are "immutable". What Colors are nice for Changed and Added? At the moment I hav...
I have a world map in Illustrator with a layer for each individual country. I want to copy and paste all layers into photoshop so that I can edit the colour blend for each individual country. I do not want to copy and paste 200 times to get 200 shape layers. Can I copy then another way so i can edit each country indivi...
Why can't I select the replace spine option? This option is non-action for me? Thanks!
Can anyone identify the happy birthday font? Whatthefont's closest match is Lithos Pro, but it's not.
When using Adobe Illustrator, how do I preview my changes when I'm using the color picker to change the color of an element? Picking the color of an element is dependent on what's around it, so I'd like to see my color changes as I'm making them rather than having to click apply every time I'd like to see my work. *Bon...
This is how it should be (PS CS6) This is how it is (PS CC) Seems to be some kind of issue with some kind of measurements?
Hello I am having problems with aligning shape to center of text. I know how to align text to center of the shape. Every time I pick shape + text It'll align text to the shape and not shape to the text. What should i do? Thanks
I need help to create a circular diagram in Illustrator like this. I need precisely to represent a percentage. How to do that ? Thank you.
I'm looking to create a simple user manual for a device, something like in image 1. Image 1: Example taken from Kinde quickstart. What I'd like to know is if it's possible to create such technical illustrations as in the manual from photos through Photoshop, or if it would be such a hassle, that's it's easier to have ...
So to change a layers opacity value using the keyboard you would use the numeric keys. But being how close it is in proximity you would think there would be something similar for change a layer's fill. Any way to do this?
If I use a CC -by -sa licensed picture (modified by cropping and text overlay) on my website, what part of my website does the "contagious" nature of the license affect? Do I need to license the modified picture under CC -by-sa? (probably yes) Do I need to license the page/post text used with the picture under CC -by-...
I have got a project of Book Cover design. The client is telling me that book cover should be print ready and ready to upload on Create Space. I know if design is in CMYK color mode, means it is print ready so no problem with this. Create Space allows only 300dpi resolution cover design so my question is; What image si...
I'm trying to guage the purpose of using fonts that have random capitals where there should be lowercase letters. The question came about simply because I was looking at a design like the one I'm describing, and started to wonder what they're trying to express with such a seemingly random design feature. Is it fun? Ma...
I have the chance to set up the branding for a friend's start up business. We're not looking at actual logos just yet, just trying to work out a voice, look and feel for the business - map out what their values and identity are. I've done workshops for customer needs and business needs but don't know any for helping wi...
I importet a PS composition to Adobe After Effects and have trouble achiving to following effect. I have a rendered Text Layer that I want to use to mask a gaussian blur effect. The final effect should be that only the area within the Letters is blurred and nothing else (also with the sharp corners of the letters shape...
I have a project that requires the use of really valuable ink - particularly GOLD ink (made with real gold and a water based adhesive - very fine and smooth in texture), in order to get a near perfect print I'm planning on using an ink jet printer. The print will be on soft-type paper and occasionally greeting card lik...
So I had a designer on 99Designs create a logo for me, it is Vector and he generated the Logo size you can see on my website here: sandiegosoftware.net I understand that my browser, OS and resolution of my monitor can effect the look but it just doesn't look very crisp to me. He seems like a good designer, is there any...
I routinely copy and paste text from Acrobat to any number of other Adobe CC applications (Illustrator, PS, InDesign). When I do this, it creates line breaks where they were visually represented on the pdf, meaning when pasted into a new doc there is no flow to the text. Is there a way in any of the programs to clear ...
I want to set Stained Glass Texture on the part of my painting ,but when I use this texture and Set the cell size , color of some parts are white , can I do something that these parts become transparent ? or what color I want? I added Image that shown my problem :
How the shape is colored? How to use gradient in this shape? thanks
I notice that in every book I have always start a new chapter in an odd page and it leads me to wonder why. I have some written work that's about 40 pages long and 7 chapters; should I follow that rule? If I do, the reader will definitely see blank pages before the start of a new chapter occasionally. Why do new chapt...
I want to design an instruction manual to be read on an iPhone and maybe Android devices. I know that the iPhone screen width is 320 pixels. What would the best page size be? What is the best height? The book would probably be read via iBooks.
I'm pretty new to CorelDraw, coming from a background of Photoshop. Now I'm designing a Brochure which needs to be done in CorelDraw and exported to PDF for printing. I believe the press only prints in CMYK color mode. While I publishing the CorelDraw design to PDF the colors the washing out. I think I'm missing some ...
Rappacy is a company that makes custom Rap songs to their clients, so the main principles on the logo would be: SOUND: Represented by the headphones and the microphone CREATION: Represented by the “sound wave” that intentionally resembles an ECG wave or “heartbeat” to get the idea of the birth of a new song ACCESSIBLE...
I am looking for a review for a logo that is going to be shipped with a project of mine. I wanted to keep it simple and clean, with a high level of appeal so that no one will really dislike the design of it. Specifically: Should I implement more color into the design? Is the hexagon a suitable drop-back? Should I eve...
So in photoshop if I have a picture of a head, and I want to make a line from the top of the head to the bottom of the head, how do I display the middle of that line? The ruler tool doesn't have an option to mark the center. Is there any program that has that simple option? I just want to draw a line and have it mark t...
I have an image with green background, lets say #5F7642. I need to add small text in red color over that background. The problem is, usual red colors pretty much fade in with the background. I need some version of red, which will stand out as much as possible. Is there some better way than just trial and error to find ...
I am trying to make a binary image. I want more than just the look of the image to be black/white, but I want the actual file to be a binary file. Every pixel should be either black, or white. I don't just want a monochrome image. I can't have varying shades of gray, every pixel needs to be black or white. Is this pos...
I am looking for the name of the font in the picture. Any idea will be highly appreciated. Btw, I have closely observed and matched it with Times New Roman but its not that(Some of the serifs do not match). Feel free to verify anyway. Also, its a high res image so you can take a really closer look.
I'm using Adobe Photoshop. I noticed that there are other questions similar to this one. However, the reason I'm posting my question is, when I followed the instructions in the other question about removing the background from a signature, it was not working for me on this document. I needed to select several times f...
I am a programmer and I have printing code that draws grid on the paper. Grid has 4 columns, and they have equal horizontal length. Height of the cell is one tenth of the paper size and is fixed. Total number of rows is unknown but I know for a fact that there will be at least one row, and that cells will have fixed d...
I have a bunch of artboards set up that I need to edit, but the labels are all overlapping making it impossible to know what's going on. How do I hide them? Edit: I've hidden the blue dots with View > Hide Edges, but can't find where to hide the grey labels.
I was given a Photoshop file to use as a basis for creating a website. There are many layers in the Photoshop file, however the footer is 1 layer. It looks as if it was created and merged together. The footer is a background image with text and logos on top of it. I'm not sure how I can slice this up since it is just ...
I am trying to get a long string of 1's and 0's to line break within a simple rectangular path created in Photoshop CS6 (Extended 13.0.1 64Bit). However, when I reach an unknown number of characters ALL of them disappear! Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? Steps to recreate: Create a new canvas 600...
Pantone Coated vs Uncoated indicates how one ink (say Pantone 200) will shown on glossy vs non-glossy paper. What I'm really interested in though, is to get a consistent color accross many surfaces. Say my company logo, is defined to use Pantone 200C. Now I want to print that logo on uncoated paper - which color should...
I'm getting a message from PageSpeed Insights that recommends to compress some png images. E.g: If compressing .../logo.png without loosing information, you would save 1.014 B (12% redcuction). However, I've compressed the image with "Save for web" option and with the maximum compression. Tried to compress more times...
In the add contact dialog, I am suppose to add a button/link that will take the user to a view that shows the saved phone contacts. I know that the Show Phone Contacts >> view pretty much sucks here for my required purpose but I have no idea what else to do with it.
I have a scientific document and I'm about to presentate it. Many instructions and guildlines help me to make a perfect document or a presentation, but I want to go further: make a perfect presentation with both of them. My question is do you need to keep the consistency between them? Which one you will keep and which ...
Above is the concept behind the logo. And below is the description of what company does. Plus in the description I am keeping the icon left align to enforce movement towards the right a bit more. How can I improve it or is it OK to go with? This is a large scale company, so do point out anything that can create a pro...
I couldn't find this on my own. Using InDesign CC, I have set up 17 masters and +100 pages on a document. Hovering over a page will tell me which master it has applied to it. Ideally, the converse would be great, but hovering over a master doesn't tell me anything. How can I quickly find out which pages have a certain...
I would like to know if it is possible to draw a line in corel draw with variable width. I need to draw a line which is 1 px at the beginning and then grows progressively to 3 px at the end. The line is a very difficult curve and I really can't figure out a way to do it. I really hope this can be done. Thanks for your ...
I want to crop just the image not transparent around of that , but these pieces are too small , By which tools you crop carefully instead of using hand cropping ? I added a picture to show my problem
I don't have Photoshop. I have PSD file with a lot of components. The only site I found for convert it to components is Zamzar but it doesn't allow me to download all the components at once and the other sites/software only give me the full PNG. Is there a better website or software for this?
I'm in the process of doing layout for a trifold aimed at the elderly population in my town, and I'm looking for some recommendations from folks who have experience laying similar materials out for a similar audience. Before everyone jumps on me and says that not all the elderly have visual acuity problems, let me say ...
I'll try to keep this as simple as I can. I'm just about to pen over a sketch on A4 paper but my intention is to print it on a shirt about A3 size. It's also a design which doesn't look very well when vectored and my intention is to colour it in Photoshop. I've done some practice scans and expanded the black outline a...
My intent with the document I've created in Adobe Illustrator was to save one as an original and one as a copy with a few different characteristics. Accidentally, I saved both with the changed characteristics. How can I revert one back to the original?
My layer list is very big and sometimes when I duplicate a layer, I need to move it far away but I have to bring it near the edge to activate the slow autoscroll. It would be far more convenient if I could scroll with the mouse wheel while grabbing something. Is there a way to do it?
I've looked at the pairings with other HFJ fonts like Sentinel, Chronicle, and Mercury, and while I prefer Sentinel over the other two, I'm not quite ready to commit to it. Does anyone have any suggestions, or any advice on how to go about exploring possibilities? I'm not particularly experienced in this. (This will m...
I've installed several versions of a font (standard, bold, bold-italic, etc). But when I use them in MS Office or OpenOffice, they appear as separate fonts, and using bold/italic style modifiers gives the simulated version. How can I instruct the programs or the OS that the alternative variants are the proper bold/ital...
I am currently studying computer sciences and I don't have any design school here to go to after I complete my degree and going abroad can take some time. I am very interested in learning and adopting graphic design as a career. I think many of other people face this issue too. I have been in this field for 3 years an...
I want to create something like the attached photo, but with other letters and shapes. does anyone know how to do this?
I created a diagonal stripe image in Photoshop, just dragging the lines an "equal" distance from each other for a blueprint website design. I knew it would be much more complicated to recreate this diagonal texture in a seamless manner: Perhaps there are tools to do this easily in Illustrator, but I'm limited to PS CS...
Is there a website or tool that will allow me to choose a group of equally separated list of 10 colours from pastel green to pastel red to be used as the background colour in the cells of a table?
I am a web-developer and am starting a new project. First step is designing the site. In the past, I have used 960 grid system but I was wondering if this is still the standard pretty much? Is there something better now that suits the responsive craze?
So I'm developing a site, and as examples I went to many major companies sites ( Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Imgur, Pandora, Microsoft, StackOverflow, YamahaMotorsports ), as well as some smaller, but still well known in the industry, websites ( Knapheide Mfg., Linetec, Apogee and a couple others ) The trend seems to be a ...
I am trying to copy & 'paste in place' layers from Illustrator into Photoshop, however they never align correctly. I have checked artboard and canvas size are the same and also same color mode. Still it will not align. Can anyone offer advice? How can I check all transparency is off (this may be the problem). I am a ...
Is there a way to lock the zoom and the scroll bars in Krita so that they do not jump around, changing position and magnification, when I am not using the magnifying tool? I am using a wacom tablet with Ubuntu 14.04 and the latest version of Krita. The issue is that often I will touch the empty grey space behind the ...
I'm having trouble being able to articulate the correct sizes for text and other visual elements to our iOS developers. I understand that when building an app they don't use PX as a unit of measurement, but PTs. I design my comps using static PSDs at 640x1136. I've looked around at various blogs and most people are say...
I have created a design in CorelDraw. While publishing it to PDF, it gets washed out. That might be due to some color management issue. Now, when I'm create the same design in InDesign the PDF generates exact color and quality. How can I be sure that this PDF generated from InDesign will print to paper as it is shown...
Can I use the google map icon on my website, if I link to google maps?
How to remove or change the background color of an animated GIF image? I would like to remove the background color from the attached image.
I found some beautiful hi-res images online and want to print them just to frame and hang in my home. The images came from personal websites of photographers or news sites like AP. Is this legal?
I have a layer with a mask that was handed to me by a designer, and I wish to change the colours of it, but I'm having difficulty. Here it is, along with the thumbnail - ...If you look closely, you can see that something else was done to this layer, so there's actually a faded image in the background. I'd like to ret...
I'm trying to post an image over a solid filled title header in the master slide layout in power point.
I've modified a script I found for Illustrator to allow me to convert multiple folders full of EPS files to transparent PNGs and it does a fantastic job. The part where I'm stumped is in finding out how to convert all white (#ffffff) to transparency before saving it as a PNG file. Note/edit: The script already removes...
I'm trying to create an illustrated map for a friend's wedding. Most map tutorials I can find are for technical maps and I would like to find a resource with tips and tricks for designing more illustrative, design maps. Examples below:
I'm not too sure how to describe the effect that I'm going for or what it is even called. Thus, I'm having some trouble finding any help through Google. I want to accomplish something like this "SLOPED" text below, but have the bottoms of the letters follow the slope as well instead of being horizontal. I have trie...
I have a logo that incorporates the shape of Idaho. The client would like some relief to be added to look like mountain terrain, in the mountainous parts of the state. I have no idea how to create such a thing. I'm using Illustrator CS5. Any tips, tricks, or tutorials out there? Anything will help, I'm not finding anyt...
How would I create a rainbow like background like this in pixelmator?
I've had a new client request a web site in 2 weeks. Not only I already find that pretty quick but I'm totally loaded so I charged a rush fee that I was comfortable with. I wrote the rush fee in my quote and figured that it would remind them to plan ahead of time for the next project. However, I also see there are down...
I am an illustrator newbie. I have 2 shapes: rectangle and triangle. I want to delete the left and the right part of the triangle(just like the image)...Any idea? It s probably easy for you!
I am creating a logo for which I need circles to create the illusion of depth. The attached image shows the sort of effect I am trying to replicate. What would be the best way to do this in Photoshop (or Illustrator)? I have tried to create the effect manually. However, it would be time consuming to draw all the circl...
I have made a simple tab UI with 3 possible buttons, left, center and right. The first thing I wanted to do was to simply make one big tab (which includes the left and right and center parts in itself), and copy it 3 times and add a mask to each of them, so only the desired part of the tab will be shown....than I renam...
After you all helped me in my previous post with the handwritten text, helping me to erase the parchmnt and leave the text, I need help now with the next step. Please forgive me if this is simple stuff, I'm new to Photoshop and looked through different posts here but I didn't find what I'm looking for. So basically, I ...
I know I can scale by pulling on the handles with the Select and transform tool. Or similarly, rotate them by first clicking to toggle the handles. But how do I shear an image? Clicking again toggles the handles back to scaling mode.
I am trying to get into Fibonacci/Golden Ratio logos for some university work however I'm fairly new to Illustrator. I've used Photoshop for about 8 years and Sketch v3 since it was released. However, I can't work out how people create these logos. I'm trying to work out how for example you can go from a hexagon with p...
I have a rectangle that should be snapping to the lines of the other rectangles on my artboard, but it keeps overshooting the mark. Can anyone advise on how to get it to snap the other objects lines correctly? Ai version: CC2014. OS Mac: 10.9.5.
Im creating an app icon for my iOS app, but there is no option for me to save my file as a .png file. The only format for app icons is a .png file. Does anybody know how to solve this?
I just had an idea and not sure if its possible. Can toggling the Paint Brush be done with a keyboard button instead of the mouse? Say I hold the B key down with my off-hand while drawing using the mouse in my good hand. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how?
Hello I want to rotate a picture in gimp but I want the axis to be at the end of the picture. Kind of like a picture being a knife in a folding knife. I want to be able to rotate a picture like that. Anyone know how to? Cheers. Look at the picture ( I want to rotate the photo from the white point) meaning I want it to ...
I am looking for a way, preferably one that can be triggered via keyboard shortcut, to both toggle the current layer to visible/hidden and to be able to toggle a specifically-named layer visible/hidden. What I am aiming for with the specifically-named layer visibility toggle is to turn the template layer visible/hidden...
I'm using Illustrator CC, and I'd like to link some sub-shapes to a master such that modifying the master also moves the sub-shapes. Context: Octopus tentacles. I've got shapes for each tentacle with relatively sparse points. The details (suckers, edge detail, etc.) are separate shapes. I'd like to be able to modify...
Hi i want to curve my logo-text vector around A circle, like this: With this (my logo): But my logo is a premade vector, not text file, so each letter is its own SHAPE/Path or whatever you call it. So i want to arrange it around a circle perfectly like the powerhouse logo how could i do this? thanks in advance
Okay, I am trying to make a curved line in PhotoShop. Probably sounds pretty Easy. Just playing around, I managed to make this: I don't remember how I did it though. I know I used the line tool. See how it fades out in the middle? I don't like that. I want it to be solid all the way through. What is a better way to com...
I am novice to photoshop and working on converting PSD to * HTML*. I learned that you can select a layer and Ctrl + A, and copy-paste to create a new image equal to the size of layer. I also learned that you can copy by Ctrl + left mouse click, and copy-paste. However I noticed that the second method is not good for co...
can anybody tell how do they animate the mobile UI/design to showcase their work.I have used Photoshop but the GIF quality sucks, i wonder what would be the best way to get the desire result please see the link for example. Thanks Gif Animation
I have some HTML in a text and I would like to apply a character style to the HTML tags: <p>This is some <strong>HTML</strong> I want to use.</p> I want to only change the tag name, not the < or >. In other words, I want to change the style of the p but not the enclosing <>. Normally, I would use: \<(.*?)\> to capture...
I'm a director of a nonprofit, and I've been working on a letterhead for my group that we can use. Nearly a decade ago, we had an actual graphic designer draw up a branding guide for us that we try to abide by, but I'm being stumped by the requirement that our logo not go at the top of the page (as dictated on p12). ...
I am trying to add page numbers to a glossary I am making. While i am getting the page numbers to appear. I now am trying to make it so the page numbering will start on page 2, rather than the cover page, and will start with the number 1. But each time I try to do it, the layout gets rearranged like so- If I try to m...
I've always wanted to know how to do this-- basically seperate the flat base color of an image, and save it with transparency to .PNG. The only method I can think of is with selection tools and that gives a really bad result (not the same).
Is it possible to reference two anchor texts hyperlinks for the same paragraph in Indesign? I can create two different anchor texts for the same paragraph. However, when inserting the cross-reference, only one seems available. I would prefer to avoid complex scripting solutions. EDIT: To make it clear, Document B has ...
Due to the gradients and effects on the font I can't use any service like WhatTheFont or WhatFontIs. Any font that looks alike is welcome. Thank you in advance ;) Note: Sorry for the black boxes, apparently the text was NSFW
I would like to take an image and create ripple effects on it, similar to the (poor quality) background in this YouTube video. Is there any free software out there for this purpose? Or ways to do it in GIMP? Or, possibly, an idea of what would need to be done using a programming language?
I'm an engineering undergrad and in a typical biodata format, my biodata easily runs into two pages. I have been trying to make a one-page biodata but looks too congested to me (and a lot of other people). How can I better organize the stuff? I appreciate your answers. Thank you ^^