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I have a letter, which I converted into a wire frame, now I want to change the colour of wireframe, but no reliable option found so far.
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I'm new to Illustrator and now I want to create a rounded rectangle with 10px 0px 10px 0px radius for corner, how can I do that?
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I am working in Illustrator CC, but my printer needs the files saved back to ai version 6. Doing this embeds the effects, such as drop shadows.
Is there a way to work around this other than keep 2 files?
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I'm currently creating a multi-language "Mountain Rescue Casualty Card". It's basically a card (a4paper front and back) which tells the first aid rescuer where someone is hurt after an accident.
Now my version is based upon a few previous versions. But the problem lies in the human figure. The previous versions are a s... |
We are exporting content from our CMS into InDesign via RTF. All content has style names applied automatically, including italics which has an italic character style. italic has the Font Style set to "Italic".
This works great, except one of our paragraph styles (intro) sets Font Style to "Italic" as well. In these cas... |
Do you know how can I apply this kind of noise effect? (image attached)
Seems like it somehow needs some gradients for that to have the effect, any help would be really appreciated, thank you!
(Illustration is not mine)
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Calling all Web Designers :)
I am starting to make a website for a small business in my hometown and it will be my first proper project. I have made sites in the past, which I have done for leisure. I am fluent in HTML and CSS. I have got the clients requirements and what he wants on the website etc. I am stuck on what... |
I've been using Illustrator CS6 for months and previous versions for years. I don't consider myself a novice by any stretch, but this is driving me NUTS.
Up until probably 3 weeks ago, I've been able to very easily switch the active artboard in Illustrator without needing to switch to the artboard tool. Just start work... |
I created a clipping mask out of an image 3125x1042:
this:
to this:
Unfortunately, when I save the image as PNG and JPEG, It still retains the size of the original image. 3125x1042.
How do I get rid of the excess size to bring the image down to the exact size of the oval which is 151x150
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I am helping a client/friend with a website design.
He is a conceptual thinker. Yet his ideas are always inspirational but not practical.
He is always wanting a different direction after I show him my design.
He wants something new and refreshing. He doesn't like the website out there because it's too commercial. I th... |
I have some text that has the OpenType swash feature applied. I'd like to turn it off, but I can't, as the swash option is greyed out. How do I turn off swash when swash is greyed out?
What I'm using:
Photoshop CS4
Minion Pro typeface (which includes both swash and non-swash characters)
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How to create an animation of my webdesign so the client can see the interactivity in the page (including popups, tooltips...) instead of seeing a set of still images? I used to make this task using after effects. Is there another way to do that?
Thanks.
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At this moment I have found only one enlightening discussion on the best practices of choosing of plotting symbols for scientific plots. It is in the book
Cleveland W.S. The Elements of Graphing Data (1985).
in the chapter "Superposed Plotting Symbols". From that short discussion I extract three main requirements for... |
designers, In Photoshop i tried lot of times to make this layer style but i didn't. could anyone please tell me how can i do that. please have a look this URL
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I was trying to replicate the following icon from Apple as a practice. I like the gradient effect but it seem to be shared by all the circles and the base. And there is also a opacity change, where all the circle has transparency, while the base has a gradient in opacity.
I tried the following to replicate it. Having... |
Adobe illustrator does not have L*a*b* color, and I'm trying to create a color palette for my company, and I want to know which of the 3 values Illlustrator uses will give the most consistent color. I'm assuming HSV is most consistent, and will translate to L*a*b* more accurately than RGB or CMYK, but I may be wrong.
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When setting tabs in Adobe Illustrator CS6, when I apply a leader to a tab, then add another tab, it puts that leader on the new tab but removes it from the original tab. Is there a way to leave the leaders where I put them?
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How do I find whether or not spot colors have been used in a PDF?
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Photoshop and other image editing applications possess sophisticated engines and algorithms which allow one to increase the resolution of an image via interpolation.
Are there any hard and fast rules about when you should and shouldn't do this? Does your ability to upsample sucessfully (as in the image won't look bad)... |
i have an app called sketchbook pro on android..when i try to blend colors it adds up to dark murky black brown..Which is opposite to white.
I want to know why i am getting black, and what can i do.
Side Stuff:
Also, opacity doesn't work. Opacity works as flow..instead of opacity. And opacity affects each repeating c... |
I'm rather new to Inkscape (always worked with photoshop/gimp) so please excuse my ignorance here.
I'm trying to accomplish the following. I have an object that needs to have a certain part in the center of it removed. Like for example the inside circle in this image.
(Excuse the leopard print.) I know how to create o... |
Hi everyone, please help me: which font is used in this logo? Thanks in advance.
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Any idea how make this image vertical seamless..I tried lot in ps..but no result..
or..tell me..where can I found this type of images(one side designed and seamless)?
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I was searching this for a while, but didn't find a proper answer. Does anybody know how to rename multiple selected layers at the same time? Any help will be appreciated. Thanx!
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How can I set auto page numbering in CorelDraw. I know there is some macro to do this. But how do I do it for range of pages.
Say I do not need page numbering for a Brochure cover and back pages. All the inner pages should have numbering. I'm using CorelDraw X4. Any ideas ?
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here is the situation: i have some large source photos that i am applying adjustment layers to in Photoshop, then incorporating into Illustrator files.
i would like Photoshop to only save the info about what adjustments are applied and not store the source image data in the psd file, which i should think would result i... |
I use Bridge for my workflow but I always have to right click > Reveal in Finder to zip a folder. There is no option to do so when I right click in Bridge, as there is in the Finder window. Am I missing something? Thanks!
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On the compact disk I received for Adobe Web Premium Creative Suite version 5.5, there was only a German version of the tools.
Is it possible to uninstall the CS and use the English version, which I can download here with my license key, or is it bound to a specific language?
I have a student license on Windows 7 (32) ... |
I'm working on a catalog layout and have all product information is a csv file. I'm using data merge to import this into Indesign so that my paragraph and character styles stay intact.
Other people will be editing the csv file on a regular basis so ideally, I would like to link all of my text in Indesign to the csv fi... |
I want to look up tutotirals for a few things but dont even know what to search for. What is the correct way to describe the following?
The bar that is collected by the top of the screen and follows you after you start scrolling down
This style of full screen website where there are static/absolute positioned images t... |
I've chosen to use circles as a graphic element because they relate beautifully to the geometric form of Century Gothic.
That could be a justification for a design choice, and it would make sense, I think. I e you are being consistent, basing your design choices on already existing elements.
That's all fine and dandy... |
I am working as an in-house graphic designer under the marketing team. I am not sure if the culture in my company is the norm in other companies.
There are only 2 graphic designers in the print area. We outsource our main launch model photos, and product photos to another small agency.
Here are some things that worry... |
The original image I do have is the one on the top of this screenshot, I would like it to have a black background. The problem as you can see below is the loss of clarity whenever it has a dark background.
Long story: I need that image to appear as a tile of a menu in a website (http://www.sharpmix.com/) that has a wh... |
If I convert 100% green and blue to grayscale, the blue one becomes about twice as dark.
I can see that green looks brighter, but I also want to understand reason behind it.
Looking at colors in rgb model:
pure blue = 0 red 0 green 255 blue
pure green = 0 red 255 green 0 blue
So why is pure green brighter than pure... |
I'm having issues with Photoshop CC (CS6), when I create a any type of document Photoshop seems to have a little Inner Shadow on the left and right sections of the template/image.
I though it might of just been something there for the editing part but when I save the project as any type of image (jpg, png, exc.) it st... |
I have a rounded rectangle with corner radius that completely covered the sides. See below:
I want to bend this so it is wrapping a circle. I can't seem to do it without messing with the caps.
I tried making this a brush and apply it to a stroke, here is the result:
Notice the caps are deformed.
Any idea?
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How can I clip the image to change from this:
To something like this (edited it with a drawing brush):
Like how clipping mask work on Photoshop. I tried every pathfinder option on Illustrator and there's no result i want.
Basically I want all objects that will be only visible inside the black circle and nothing goes ... |
I am trying to find sites that can create one(or two)-off stickers/vinyls that are transparent. From what I am getting is that it may not be profitable enough to make it worth the company's time but if they did one-off batches (multiple client) would it not be possible to be worthwhile?
I was looking at http://www.stic... |
I guess you know very well that be able to search for references you need to exactly know what is what, or what it is called or at least keywords that are related to a subject.
Here is the image:
I remember seeing a google (a google product / or service) site that incorporate this kind of style, but with "moving wires... |
I've added the lei to the dog and it just seems wrong because the dog is cartoony and the lei is realistic, it contrasts too much. how do i fix this?
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I've tried several scripts and they all appear broken or do not work properly.
I need a method to export objects with the object names as their file names – like tree.jpg or location.png.
The only solution I've found thus far is Layer Exporter. However, this option trims the edges of the images and does not support @2... |
I need to depict a bunch of layers of an image similar to this:
What is this style called? Is there any photoshop plugins that can automatically create this kind of view?
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Can someone tell me what software I would use to create personalised prints where the words form a shape like a heart, or a babies pram or a rocket ship?
I've tried looking for myself but I don't know where to start. Thanks
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As a web designer I hate one particular thing about Photoshop:
Is it possible to force PS CS6 to turn decimal pixels EVERYWHERE off?
I've been lurking around GD for a while now and nothing seems to work, as I don't even see Pixel Preview option anywhere. Also Edit\Preferences\Guides, Grids & Slices and setting Guideli... |
I have thousands of JPG graphics and want to trace them automatically to vector SVG files with a batch function in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5.
All graphics looks something like that:
My problem is, I have only Adobe Photoshop (CS5), Illustrator (CS4) and Bridge (CS5) on my machine. Is there any way to do it with this s... |
I have a serious problem. I want to change the weight of multiple lines but when I try do that the distance between them disapears and overlap. In straight lines that doesn´t happens, but in diagonal lines this happens always!!! Please can annyone help me please??!!!
Thank You
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I have been given the responsibility of doing a very simple Photoshop edit for a long distance friend's website: putting an image inside of text. They have asked me to use one of their photos to put inside the text.
I'm new to graphic design (not schooled) so I just want to cover my bases. The photo they gave me is re... |
How do I make the picture of right hand side from left hand side. I'm using Photoshop CS4. I tried some bevel and emboss but couldn't get the exact effect. Could someone assist me ?
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I know how to use the Illustrator recolor tool, but this part really throws me for a loop.
How do I keep the order of the swatches in the recolor "assign" window in the same order as I've set them up in the "swatches" window?
For example, I have 2 swatch groups "Pastel" and "Dark". I want to always recolor the current... |
I am using rectangles filled with patterns to create the walls of a room. I have transformed the rectangles, to simulate perspective, but the patterns do not reflect these transformations - they remain constant.
The method I am using:
I create a rectangle and then fill it with a pattern.
Then, I choose Object > Enve... |
Im sorry if the title is somehow misleading or false, but i dont know how to express it accurately.
Lets say you have a picture of a old railway. After a few meters the railway changes its direction, but the first part or the bottom of the picture goes straigt. Now i want to take this part of the straight forward goind... |
I'm looking for an application/tool to easily create a mock GUI. This GUI will be used by users to control home devices remotely. They can login to a website or use an application to view/control devices. The GUI should look good, but nothing very fancy. It should have checkboxes, lists, radio buttons etc.
The importan... |
The skewer looks a lot worse than it actually tasted (juicy and tender). In photoshop, what are some methods to make this look more appetizing?
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I am creating a series of trees in Photoshop, using paths. My plan is to complete the first tree, and then edit the same path for the other trees. I have already created 2 trees in this manner, but modifying the path is extremely tedious, mainly because there is no undo button for selections.
I am looking for a way to ... |
So I have a logo which is grouped objects, what I am trying to do is allow other users to open the .ai file and copy the logo and use it, but not allow them to ungroup it or make any changes in each layer.
I guess locking is not the way to go, will applying a clip mask help as a workaround?
Thanks!
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Perhaps many of you have heard of the Photoshop extension called "Genuine Fractals" that can enlarge a bitmap (JPEG) picture without making it look worse.
Are there any alternatives? Ideally free or cheap 32-bit Windows and Linux applications are preferred but I'd like to know about any alternatives, including web-base... |
I'm trying to import a .psd file into illustrator without showing the background. I have one layer in photoshop, showing only the transparent image. I've saved it as .psd, and .png files.
But whenever I open the .psd in Illustrator, it opens with a white background. Is there something I'm missing?
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This morning on twitter there was a tweet with the text "click on this picture".
When picture is clicked, it's opened in wider viewer, but looks completely different.
I tried to analyze this picture in ACDSee, and I also tried uploading on Facebook, but it's happening only when embedded on twitter.
I don't have much k... |
I'm really new using illustrator (to be honnest, it's only been two days).
When I try to open eps files, there is a big blank border appearing around the image I've opened. I really don't know if it's normal but is there a way to open them without that blank page behind my image ?
I thought it would be fine when savin... |
As you see below, I've made a shape and I added round corners to it from Effect > Stylize > Round Corners, but now I want to bring it back to its original shape so I can make the edges less rounded.
Is there a way to clear the effect? I've tried Object > Path > Clean Up but it doesn't do anything.
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Is there any option to save a file only in .jpg file format in Photoshop CS6? Actually I don't want to take any scrolling to indicate JPG mode when I'm going to save or save as an image.
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Hello there,
I have been working on a game lately and have little experience with photoshop. As I am doing animation of the frame in photoshop which has been fine I have all of a sudden come across a massive problem. All of a sudden when I rotate things while animating. (In this case an arm) the pixels get all messed ... |
I am looking for a font to use on a small (75x55mm) LCD display. The display supports 5 bit grey scale, so anti-aliasing is possible. Unfortunately it is only about 80ppi and standard anti-aliasing like below doesn't look very good:
I am using Paint.NET, perhaps another app would give me greater control over the anti-... |
I am looking for a Chinese font that would give the page the same look and feel as the Lato font does for Latin and Cyrilic languages.
Anybody a suggestion where to look how to start?
Thank you
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I have a design where the header and footer are 1170px wide. (Standard Twitter Bootstrap 12 column container size.)
I have been reading about the ideal width for good readability and discovered that the content width should not be more than 600-700px wide. The problem I am facing is this-
Except for the blog which has ... |
What font type is being used on the following page for "lunch", a logo for a Meatless theme?
http://themes.meatless.io/lunch/index.php
I've been trying to match it and haven't been able to find something similar.
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I have a series of rectangles I'd like to line up one right behind another - in other words, I'd like to have one "in front" of one object, which needs to be "in front" on another object, etc. etc.
I'm essentially looking to distribute these in a "front / back" arrangement so when I apply a shadow effect to them I end... |
I haven't seen any info on this. There are a lot of .PDS and .AI files that are given away on Dribbble by the creators, but no one seems to state how they can be used. Does anyone know if it's okay to use these for commercial purposes?
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Can one use the rectangular marquee tool in photoshop and specify a size based on the custom "measurement scale" specified in the "Analysis" tool. I want to use it exactly like using the ruler tool when the "use measurement scale" box is checked. Thank you
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A client is asking to include a tagline in the header of their website, they are a premium agency. I lean away from this because what ever I do to try to include it, seems to take away from the premium feel of the site.
Do I just need to try harder or is this an established design pattern in websites that infers the t... |
Is there anyway to make Adobe Illustrator not scale up the stroke when I zoom in? Basically I want Illustrator to scale the strokes incorrectly so a 1px stroke will still actually look like a 1px on my screen even when I zoom in 500%.
If there's no way to make Illustrator do this then is there some other piece of softw... |
In an application I'm writing, I need to take a glyph's path from an SVG font and scale it to a particular size, which is specified in millimetres. I take the 'd' path property from the SVG font, scale it by applying a scale factor to the coordinates of the path, and then use it as a regular path in the SVG I'm generat... |
I'm in the early years of an aspiring web/graphic designer. The two main intentions behind creating this website were:
To get some practice
Use it as an online portfolio while hunting for jobs (Where I plan to learn more)
Here's the link to my website
http://projectilepixels.com/
I'm currently at a stage where I'm no... |
I plan to hire a graphic designer to design the cover and a few internal graphics for a book I wrote. Suppose the designer then finds some other artist's work, copy and pastes the graphics, and sells it to me, without my awareness. Would I be held liable?
If geography is important, assume for the US.
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What is this style called? I want to recreate this effect on a photo myself. Also, does anyone have tips on how to accomplish this?
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I am launching an online stationery business whereby I design stationery for clients who can print the products in their home or at a printers (My remote locate means that I am unable to offer the printing part at an affordable price). I have most of the suites designed already and decided to run a test print from my o... |
How do I make a text look like this?
This is a logo with a white text and a reflection of it, which I can do. I was wondering how to make the grey shadow that looks like an ellipse over the first half part of the text (which also covers the reflection below the text). I tried to cover the text with a grey ellipse aft... |
Disclaimer: This is my first real time using Gimp, so I apologize if this is a basic question.
I'm trying to blend the colors of my pixels together based on the neighboring pixels. For example, consider the following 9 pixels.
0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
Suppose that each number represents a value in a color channel. I'm lookin... |
I want to go for industrial design. Learning computer aided design and rendering is the main aim of learning these softwares. Should I do AutoCAD first or 3D max ?
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Using Gimp 2.8.4
I am developing an animation for a game in gimp. The game does not require a gif animation - I load individual images as frames, usually pngs, and animate them in the game engine. The animation frames depend highly on transparency, and when I preview the animation using Filters -> Animation -> Playback... |
WACOM Intuos Pro is my first graphics tablet and in week or two nib become sharp, like pencil.
Also there is little scratches on tablet surface. I afraid there will be more of them and they will influence tablet's work.
Is it normal nibs become sharp so fast, and little scratches appear so quickly? It was completely n... |
I am new to graphic designing and I am told to find out bright green color. I am attaching an image of a bright green I found. I want to know whether I am right or wrong, and if I am wrong, what will then be a bright green?
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Before, one could select all text layers by selecting any text layer then Select> Similar layers
is this gone is cs6? (see img below)
If so, how can I do this now?
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In the book HTML and CSS, I came across the following quote:
The web browsers on most desktop computers display images at a resolution of 72 pixels per inch (ppi).
So is it really useless to create an image larger than 72 ppi if the browser will only render it at 72 ppi? After all, the larger the file, the slower it... |
I am looking for a way to graphically represent a collection of art without showing any particular piece of art because they all vary in style and to not exclude or embrace any particular style in the representation of the entire collection. I researched art icons to only find cheesy clip arts. I considered abstraction... |
I'm running a CS5 photoshop droplet to try and resize images dropped in to resize to the following:
300px wide @ 72dpi. The height can be arbitrary depending on image dimensions.
The images I'm inputting could be various sizes/DPI and so not everything is equal.
The problem I'm having is that the due to the size being... |
I found a couple useful threads on this forum with respect to the issues posed by (displaying) images in email signatures-- here, for example-- and I've searched all over the web, but still have not found a good solution that sufficiently addresses the problem. A client of mine would simply like his company's logo incl... |
Can anyone tell me which font is used on the card below?
Thank you very much!
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I need to generate a guilloche border for certificate of authenticity (CoA) to be at the edge of the CoA. I'm talking here about the infinite curve that makes the certificate look "legit".
I'm planning on creating such a curve with a plotter with ball pen in it. That would ensure the curve is always a little bit unique... |
On many websites I see a list Customers they have and their logos where they have all been changed to some kind of grayscale.
Logos example
More logos with different background
I understand it's not simply changing Image > Mode > Grayscale
Any tutorials, action scripts that I can use?
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Just like most of us, I regularly face the client desire to 'make the logo bigger'. Especially in web designs, clients want to inflate their logos to ridiculous sizes.
How do I effectively counter this suggestion? I know it's almost never a good idea. I usually point out that most succesful websites have their logos d... |
I'm working on a design that's to be printed. The size of the item is 1/3 of a standard letter page. I would like to be able to work on it in Illustrator only once without the copy and paste at the end. It's very tedious to make any kind of change.
Moreover, the printed result has to be multisided so ideally I would li... |
I used the following setup
to take two pictures of the supermoon yesterday. One with the moon properly exposed:
and one with the wooden puppet properly exposed (but the moon blown out):
I tried combining these two pictures in Photoshop CS6 using roughly the following steps:
Add the two images as layers
In the image... |
I had a few random lines on my illustrator file so i Decided to delete them.
Now: When I open this file on illustrator, the lines are gone - perfect.
But when I saved this exact file as a PDF, then opened the PDF separately from illustrator these lines were back.
I went back to the original AI file to discover the line... |
OK, so I've got InDesign CS6.
Works well, all Fonts normally work, they're installed in Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts.
Apart from Helvetica, that is. It doesn't show up in the Fonts list if it's not in the Fonts folder of InDesign CS6, and even then, when it is in the fonts folder, only Helvetica is listed, d... |
I have a rectangle (4-node path) filled with a gradient which I now want to bend along its vertical axis in such a way that it resembles the curvature of another Bezier curve that bends in two places. The linear gradient axis should, at every point of the new non-rectangular path, be perpendicular to the Bezier curve (... |
Photoshop CC allows exporting CSS. When I try this with a gradient layer, the whole thing is basically an image. I was thinking it would produce complex CSS for the gradient.
Is this a limitation of Photoshop CC or is there a way to get the actual CSS needed to create the gradient.
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I have the original image and filtered image.
Original:
Filtered:
Difference:
These images are from pixiv WHICH IS NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=43697578
It look like a linear FIR filter which mean blurred image = original image perform convolution with some wi... |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Can anyone comment how the below is acheived?
1) the sliding image album in the homepage
2) Shadow behind thumbnails in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/
If it is just custom CSS or is there any accelerators that I can use for making good looking pages like above in a short time?
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The font used on the Sci-Fi stack exchange site is pretty cool looking. Is this an available font, or was it most likely created just for that site?
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