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is there a way to render a scene with wireframe blending effect in 3DS Max? Like this or something similar to this effect - Something like this is possible using blender Is 3DS Max capable of it?
Can anyone help me identify the font used in this Felix Gonzales-Torres work? (The numbers in the clock) http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81074 Thanks a lot! Simen.
I made this line work in Manga Studio, and transferred it to Photoshop CS6. I tried the pen tool, but it just doesn't look as good as I would've hoped. Are there any better ways to go about getting this general shape in Photoshop? Plugin or Vanilla? [edit] keep in mind, i'm not a digital artist; this line work was ...
I'm creating a website and I'm in the branding and styling stage where I'm picking a color scheme, font combinations, etc. I want to create a very basic Style Guide to show to my clients for reviewing. It is a general site and a general style guide works. Could anyone please recommend a Style Guide template that can be...
I have a document that seems to have the Snap To Grid option replaced with Snap To Pixel. I'm sure that Snap To Pixel can also be quite useful, but right now I want to snap to a larger grid. Does anyone know what setting I might have adjusted to change the drop down options? My first thought was the checkbox Align New ...
Can anyone help identify what kind of filter / treatment via photoshop was done to this photo? Or is it some kind of lighting treatment? Or perhaps some kind of color grading was done to it? I really dig the porcelain / almost illustration/painting feel this has. It's got a nice juxtaposition of warmth with cool (warm...
For Illustrator, is there a easy way to have copies of an object reference back to the original? For example, if I changed the color of the original then all the copies' color will change also.
I'm trying to open a PDF file with 7 pages and need to adjust each page in Illustrator CS6. How do I open the PDF file in one single AI files with all artboards within it?
How do I find which layers has a specific font family in a PSD with many layers, groups and several different font families?
Is there a way to do a perfect die cut on a person's hair or on dog's fur or others like difficult hair styles? Similar to this:
I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro and i have like 100+ .pdf files which i need to add security settings to them. I saw tutorials for Acrobat X Pro but nothing for 9 Pro. Is there any way to do this Automatically instead one file at a time? Thank you
In Gimp, there is a convolution matrix tool which lets the user define his own convolution matrix, and then see the result on the image. I am writing software for image classification, and I need to do the opposite: play around with image modification parameters using the standard user interface, and if I get something...
Does anyone know what is the name of the font used on the latest Twitter Android app. Here are screenshots of the app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twitter.android&hl=en Thank you !
In "Ming-Jun Lai, Larry L. Schumaker. Spline Functions on Triangulations. Cambridge University Press, 2007, p.64", the author plotted a surface and it's corresponded control net: For my thesis, i need to plot the same thing. How can i plot an object like this? A shape with it's control net and control point. My platf...
as the question says... I want to fix a soft body on selected points so when the physics kicks in it should behave as natural as possible. Progress: When i create a point selection tag end drop the object and the selection tag in a fixed connector B object field its starts good and than starts dancing and deforming in...
I have got some hundreds of pictures of different shapes. For example one is 600x600, another is 307x600, the third is 600x400, the fourth is 500x300. What I need to turn them all into 600x600 (or 610x610 perhaps to add some reasonable padding) files placing the original pictures into centers of the new pictures (rathe...
Often I save lots of versions of the same image with different dimensions so I usually include them in filename. It pisses me off to go and check dimensions for every document before saving it so I'd love to automate this. I need a script that gets document dimensions and copies them to clipboard in 000x000 format so I...
So I have this path that looks like this: And I want it to look like this: Is there a way to do this without redrawing the path?
Why do black shapes end up having a faint outline around them? Will there be any consequences to this when I print? Is there any way to avoid this? Thanks.
Is there a way to tell InDesign via GREP to apply a Character Style to the first paragraph of a text box before a carriage return? Not a forced line break. A carriage return. Thank you
I was wondering if anyone might know what this font is. I've searched Google fonts, Typekit and tried Whatthefont, but can not seem to find it. If someone might know what font this is I would greatly appreciate it. Points to look at: The n is pretty unique as the second leg drops down lower than the first. The g is ...
I'm trying to digitally print a shrink wrap label that will have some pretty small font on it. (The overall size of the label is 81mm x 84mm) Preferably, different sections of copy on the label would be distinguished in various shades of grey. The printer I am working with is worried that by not printing all the copy i...
I am editing a web mockup in Photoshop. I have underlined text in the character window to represent a hyperlink. The default underline for my Arial 11 pt text appears to be two pixels tall and I would like to reduce the underline height to one pixel. Is it possible to reduce the height of the default text underline or...
been trying to work this out from Google links but getting no where. I haven't used Adobe illustrator for a while to custom draw anything, but have a client needing a pattern like this one: Essentially lines fanning out, going thin to thick with the same spacing. I had them all the same distance and thickness arcing ...
It has happened with me lot of times while I am working in Photoshop and suddenly stops, when I reopen my computer I see that .PSD file is corrupted and can't open it anymore. What a waste of time. The big problem is that there is no way to repair a corrupted .PSD file. How to prevent .PSD file from being corrupted?
My work is looking to create illustrations depicting our organisation's different processes and events occurring annually. I could create this in illustrator, but I would rather use some sort of specialised software to create this due to the need for updates every now and then (and to reduce the need for my help in cre...
I'm doing maps of how much solar energy is received by the ground surface over Europe, using matplotlib. So I'm obviously plotting sequential data. I'm doing a filled contour map. I have monthly as well as yearly maps for ~35 years and since my aim is to be able to visually compare between all of them, I want to devise...
I have some business cards(made in indesign) with different numbers/pages, from 1 to 400 ,on them...I would like to know, if there is a way to arrange somehow the pages, so when i print them, they can come arranged and ready for cut, without me arranging them afterall. they have to come 3 x 6 cards(18) on an A3 ark. so...
I'm designing a window graphic for a newsagents (what covers the actual window with and advertises what they sell, booze etc), now I've got the sizing, 180cm Height x 170cm width so at first I made .ai document, I started on the design and it was all fine till I imported a really high resolution stock image and illust...
I've been searching for an image that contains all possible rbg colors, but I simply cannot find one. I'm starting to think that's it's impossible, since what I'm looking requires 3 dimensions. I tried looking for things like "color wheel" or "hsv color" but I have been unable to find exactly what I'm looking for. Is i...
Similar to Illustrator, is there something like CMD + 3 that would let me hide selected layers?
In Adobe Photoshop I like like to draw straight lines by clicking on one end point with the brush tool and then shift clicking on the other end. This gives me a nice straight line, but it fades out towards the first end point. Attached is an example. Is there a way to avoid this fade?
When creating mockups for marketing material, what is the legality of using real products to demonstrate the use of your application? Examples for any given application: Google chrome with a website inside The iPhone with an app inside An Apple monitor with an app inside Sublime text with some (freely usable) code in ...
When drawing paths, I can easily constrain the next point to 45° increments by holding Shift. How do I hold these same angles when modifying existing paths? I want to ensure lines that appear level are actually level, and cannot think of a way to do it. Thanks.
A design contract stated that work done would be for the cost of (1) final presentation folder design. Upon presenting three concepts to the client for consideration (concept 1&2 being similar and concept 3 being significantly different), they've decided they now want to use both concepts 1 & 3 to have two different fo...
I am looking for an easy way to create in Illustrator vintage style corners like on the picture provided. I have some technical ideas, but they are time consuming, there should be an easier way I believe.
I'm trying to make a shape. I have successfully created the shape but when i try to add a stroke it moves my anchor points and the stoke becomes non symmetric around the joining part. Have any ideas why is that? the image on the left is without the stroke and the right with the stroke added. as you can see the "bridge...
I'm wondering whether it's possible to get vinyl with metallic gold colour on the adhesive side? Let me explain why on the adhesive side. My application I would like to design a kitchen worktop glass backsplash with some Klimt-inspired vector graphics. I would like to combine frosted glass-like look with gold (Klimt wa...
I used Photoshop CS6 to crop a photo and I don't see any way to save the image. Where is there a save button?
I am trying to create something i like to call pseudo rotation in space. Given multiple objects created in illustrator, each representing the same thing (e.g. a triangle) of different sizes arranged into a circle (so that some of them seem more distant than the others, I would like to "rotate" them i.e resize and move ...
We have a folder with around 4000 PDF files in it. We are merging these and arranging them 2 up to print on SRA3. The issue we have hit is that some of the PDF files only contain 3 pages, some contain 4. This throws our setup out when we are trying to arrange them 2 up. We need to combine them, and somehow tell the sof...
I am making very simple images that requires extreme precision. I would like to draw black boxes that have a width of 0.59266662mm, but illustrator rounds to 0.5927mm. I need this precision because the printer I'm using has very fine dots with of a width of 0.04233333m. So I need to print bars that have a width of whol...
Can anyone help me identify the font used in the Seth Thomas logo? I recon the S and the T has been subject to some modifications, but the rest of the letters seem to be a spesific typeface? Thanks so much! Simen.
I just purchased a group pack of umbrella silhouette vectors. They came in .jpg file, .eps file, and .png file. I only need one of these vectors. I am having trouble selecting just one in the PNG. I attempted right-click and un-group, but the option was not there. How can I select one vector if the software isn't giv...
I have adoped an Adobe Illustrator document that I need to work with. The changes I need to make were just some very basic text changes (or so I thought). It turns out that every letter/intricate shape is it's own object. This in itself isn't a problem, I would usually just select the shapes for the letters that I want...
I have an image that looks like a read out of an EKG wavy line. It's in .EPS format and I have placed it in an Illustrator .AI file I am creating. I want to make the wavy line thicker looking but I cannot figure out how to do it. I tried increasing the stroke size from 1 to 2 but then at the start of every path a we...
I have an Illustrator file that contains several animation frames for a game. Every frame is a single group and they are all on the same layer. How can I quickly export all these groups, each to a separate PNG file?
I am learning sketch 3. I need to create new guides. Smart guides can't help me in sketch 3. Is there a way to do this? Thank you very much!
It seems that the standard way of doing point lists is to respect the right margin and indent the left margin. I wonder if there are any good reasons except for tradition for not indenting the right side as well. I can think of at least two reasons for why I would want to do it: I like symmetry When having figures tha...
I'm illustrating a portrait for someone (male), and they have asked that I draw attention away from their mouth for their own personal reasons. Having spent some time thinking about it, the only way I can think of to do this without altering their facial features, is to draw in a beard. Now, I know it depends on the ...
I am new to Illustrator, I have been a Photoshop user for years. Im trying to combine a rectangle and eclipse shape. The issue I am having is that the rectangle doesn't seem to line up properly with the ellipse. It's hard to explain so I have screenshots: This is what I'm after (it is a lowercase b) with my issues high...
I have this: I've been searching for tutorials online on how to change the colour of part of a shape/text, but I have not found anything and I also do not know what this particular method is called. I tried using the various variants from the Combine Path menu (which I have used before to create various shapes), but i...
I work in a b2b business and everyone here is on Windows PCs. A co-worker is pushing to move the design department from Windows to Mac. I worked on a Mac about 15 years ago when I worked for an advertising agency, but since then have worked on Windows because the companies I've work for have been all Windows. What are ...
Sorry if my title is a big vague. I'm fairly new to Illustrator and and still trying to figure out how things work. I have a few paths that I'm looking to layer, one on top of the other. From bottom to top I would have 1) a filled circle, 2) a transparent, outlined phoenix, 3) a filled city silhouette, 4) a transparent...
The goal is to export automatically every frame of the 5*6 grid in a new folder with 30 single files.
Can someone help identify what font is used for the content in the FIFA app? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fifa-official-app/id756904853?mt=8 Thank you so much in advance!! Edit Thank you JohnB and Vicent for all your comments. By "content", I mean the content, eg., the team name, time, scores, etc (sorry, I don't ha...
I'm designing a window poster for shop, I'm working on this in illustrator and I'm trying to achieve this clean red to black gradient or feathered effect shown here, A few things are confusing me, why does this banding effect or lined appearance show up on the image, also I can't seem to get the red and black to fad...
I have found this very nice 3d model of a city : http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/paris-33983.html However the model is very big and has lots of streets, buildings etc. whereas I only need a small part of it. 3-4 blocks are enough for me, and I want to remove the rest of the model. How can I do that? I cannot select with mous...
So I have a lower resolution photo and a high resolution scan from a magazine that both picture the same thing. However, the scanned image is faded, has text, is not fully in color (parts are in gray) and is not just very good quality. Where as, the low resolution photo is fully colored, very bright and no text or anyt...
I made previous work (as a beginner) in Illustrator CS6 and now when I select the rectangle tool it is by default oblique. Also, I would like to reset the rectangle to its orginal alignement/direction (zero degree). Thanks in advance for your help,
I want to duplicate an entire artboard with all the artworks within it to another location in Illustrator CC, and I think it can be done by pressing ⌥ and dropping and dragging. However, when I tried it, the resultant artwork is only made up by the entire white background, and all the artworks within the original artbo...
I'm working on a PSD mockup for a website. I'm really getting hard time searching the right images for slider and related stuff. I looked through stock images and they are expensive! What is the solution for this? What do you people get your picture for your project? Thanks
In follow up to this question: Critique: Tritium software logo design. For reviewing the website code (performance, bugs, related user experience), please visit the sister question on Code Review. I am looking for a review of the design for my Tritium website (source code). Specifically: One goal of the website was ...
I followed this tutorial on GIMP to make an image transparent. Here is a snippet of the original image opened inside Windows Image Viewer (so the grey background is part of Windows Image Viewer, I wanted the white background to show up which was hard to notice if I had just uploaded the original image here rather than ...
Which color should I use to indicate higher intensity, frequency etc.? I mean, most of the the graphs I've seen use red to indicate high values (intensity, frequency, height) and purple to indicate lower values. Shouldn't it be the opposite considering red has a longer wavelength and purple has a shorter wavelength? Sh...
I'm not really sure how to ask this in words, but I used to use a program along time ago that would change one solid color into multiple variations. Say I have a solid red square, but I want it to be more textured, by varying the colors inside the square. See this picture. So what I am asking is, is there a method or...
What is the correct way to set type units in HTML? Stuff like 2km Do I just put the unit right after the value as above? Or is there a special short space? If so how do I prevent a line break between value and unit? How about combined units like 3Ah where A stands for Ampere and h for hours does anything special go bet...
I'm a beginner digital painter and am looking for ways to make my process more fluid. Ideally I'd like a plugin that lets me change: Hue Saturation Brightness Brush size Brush opacity Brush hardness By having a key for each that I hold, and then click and drag on my Wacom tablet. I know that size and hardness can alr...
I am a Java programmer who likes to create own programs/web pages/games which look nice. I am not a front-end guy even though I am willing to dedicated effort to produce good looking apps with original design. My focus is in areas of smaller web & mobile apps and games with custom graphics. Here I am mostly addressing...
I'm working with people over the internet to scan and document collectible cards. We each have different scanners, so a challenge we're facing is accurately syncing the colors between them. We have each purchased an R1 color target from http://www.targets.coloraid.de/. I generated ICC profiles using the target scans an...
How can I create a pie chart with 8 equal wedges which I can name tag outside the circle? Charts will not let me make the design I want.
Can you tell me which two fonts are used in this image?
Comparisons between "serif fonts" and "sans-serif fonts" generally compare Times-Roman or Times New Roman against Helvetica or Arial. The presence of serifs on the former and lack of them on the latter, however, is not the most noticeable difference. A more significant difference is the fact that the former fonts are...
I'm using Adobe InDesign (CC 2014) to layout a photo book. I've created a frame, and placed an image inside it. I want to resize the image and drag it around to frame it nicely. I know that you can select Direct Selection Tool and resize the image by dragging the box handles, or by changing the size on the toolbar. Is ...
I'm trying to freeze transforms in Maya, for an object that has animated children, but is not animated itself. (Explanation will follow in detail) First of all, is this possible? Because it should be, so my intuition tells. My hierarchy is like this : ParentObject - ChildObject ChildObject has animations, however Par...
I'm currently teaching myself design and have been asked to create a molecular cloud similar to that in the attached image. I'm seeking advice on how one might obtain a similar result/effect in Photoshop. Thanks in advance.
When using professional markers (like Letraset Promarker or Copic markers), is there a risk of having ink from one colour stain or dirty another marker when drawing over it? For example, if I draw a red area, and then draw over it with a light beige, could the beige pen pick up some of the red, and then draw a pinkish ...
Google's material design specifications have sets of colour palettes: Starting with a base primary colour, which they designate as "500", they then have a range of incremental steps of shade, brighter and darker, to create a range of about 10 colours. The lightest is designated "50", and is near white, and the darkest...
So this is the picture, can someone please tell me what the fonts used in this picture are? Thanks -W
I want to create a tool bar with the following items: Browse Templates New document Copy Paste Cut Fill Save Undo / Redo Line Color I've been looking everywhere for a free icon set with the above. The icon sets I keep finding were social media icon sets, weather icon sets or people icon sets. The relevant icons I fou...
So basically my page looks as follows: It has a table (table 1) What I have to do is show a validation message which contains the following information in a tabular form (table 2) : Source Bank|Destination Bank|Amount|Created By|Status|Group 1|Group 2 xyz | abc | 1202 | ttt | Fali | ✔ | X T...
How can I change visibility of multiple selected objects (let say paths) at once? Is there any shortcut for this? Thank you
I'm not a designer nor a graphics artis. But I wonder, are there any basic rules that can be applied to make for example diagrams or small illustrations look modern/flat/whatever you would call it. For example, I have this diagram: Which obviously is not flat since it has shadows. If I remove shadows and gradients, i...
I have a path, for example, looking like this: I want to break it into separate points, no need to keep bezier curves data, just simple points. Is there a way to do it in Illustrator?
In Adobe Illustrator How do I divide two overlapping shapes into individual parts so the overlap area is a shape and the non overlap areas are two shapes. So I end up with three shapes that can each stand alone and be colored individually?
I have a problem with background color in Illustrator CS6. So i set up a desired color for background in document setup, but then i can`t see any white color within my document (i assume that white is transaprent). Any advice how can i fix this?
I'm a freelance graphic artist. I'm designing book covers and the book covers require stock images. I want to get stock images legally and have a couple of questions. Do I need to buy the stock images if only the client will see or use my design, or do I need to buy them before designing the book cover? These are some ...
For all of you, people who make ppt slides with animations like: Showing bullet points one by one Showing images one by one or zooming a plot Showing a border on an active element Internal navigation / menu / link to another slide Transitions between slides Is there a tool that can convert the ppt to PDF and keep eac...
I traced an image in image trace, (Illustrator CS6) it is on its own layer and now I can't select it. I've tried with the select tool, the direct select tool, magic wand, lasso to fill it with a different color but nothing works. I can't drag the eyedropper into it with the color from the fill box, nothing. Do I need...
How would you go about deleting or straightening one anchor point handle, while keeping the opposite handle intact?
What font type is used for this logo?
What is the font used in the inco mobile logo the blue one
What's is the point in buying graphic design programs like Adobe Photoshop, when I (using a cracked Photoshop) can tell people I work with Gimp? Nobody is going to check my PC. What is the danger? Besides the viruses, can I go to prison for that?
There is getActiveArtboardIndex and setActiveArtboardIndex, I can get the Artboard object with getByName. But how do I set active artboard by name? Or at least get index from the Artboard object?
Here's how it looks like: http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-sel-gauss.html It automatically blurs blurred parts of image, but preserving crisp edges and contrast. Is it available in Photoshop?
For an assignment I would like to show the steps that I took on my pc (with print screens) in PowerPoint. I will show these timeline print screens scaled down but when I upscale them back they become vague and unclear. Is there a way when I enlarge them back at a larger size that they are of good quality again?
I was browsing the Strava challenges page and noticed the following design: I like the way the chevron design has a color masking effect on the circles. I imagine illustrator would be a better software choice due to its superior vector tools, but how would one achieve this effect in Photoshop?
I'm trying to recover and old document from my grandfather's stuff. It's pages from a family book. So I scanned the page then inserted it in Inkscape and I inverted the colors so the black ink became white and all other stuff became black. Then I started to fill the white spaces with red color and i used freehand drawi...
In the firm I work for, they have file naming system. It always has 5 sections as in the examples below: File Name: YYMMDD_PROJECT NUMBER_PROJECT NAME_FILE NAME_initials.ext 140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_INFO_ne.doc 140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_MAIN ENTRANCE_ne.jpg 140527_207_AL MURR VILLA_PROPOSED SECTION EAST VIEW_ne.jpg In ...
I’ve been working with Illustrator CC 2014 on a floor map for a ~400 rooms building. To allow visitors to find rooms more quickly, I wanted to generate a series of images with highlighted rooms. The rooms are mostly rectangles with their object name corresponding with their room number. In short, I need some sort of pr...