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I'm converting a vector drawing from Bohemian Sketch to Adobe Illustrator so that I can export eps and svg, etc. When I copy and paste from Sketch I get a bunch of clipping paths instead of objects. Any advice on how to get those to be editable vector elements quickly? .. there are hundreds of them.
Is there a special place where to be this kind of section? I have a task to integrate a "feedback box" and I have no idea... Thanks!
Is it just me, or does the text on the Bootstrap buttons hard to read: I feel that the text is way too small for the size of the button and the letters are too close to each other, making them blend together. Is this just me? Are there general principles for choosing fonts and it's size inside the buttons? Bootstrap i...
I am producing a new application icon for a query menus and I would critique about this icon: The aim of this icon is to represent the group of dishes, like in a folder tree found in many operating systems.
I am new to Illustrator so wondering if there is anyone who can help me. I have 195 flags of the world, each one a separate object. I would like to place them all in a rectangle in a neat and organised way. I have been placing them individually and nudging, but I think there is a short cut or 'Proper way'! Can anyone o...
How do I remake this image? I want to make the gray, green and blue part. It basically is a slightly altered rounded rectangle. I was wondering how to make it fit the curve of the circle perfectly.
I have a gif file with a round logo on top of transparent background. The border around the round item needs to be antialiased. I have tried selecting with the fuzzy wand as well as with border: 2px, but either case I'm not able to choose Color to Alpha nor Blur Gaussian Blur as suggested in many tutorials. I have also...
I would like to learn how to achieve this effect where the only color used to represent an image is blue (or any color, for that matter). It seems useful for printing processes where only one color can be used (i.e. Risograph or screenprinting). Thanks for your time.
I've done a Google search and I can't seem to find whether this is possible or not. Is it possible to move multiple folders' masks at the same time? Say in the image below, all the folders' masks are exactly the same. Instead of de-linking each mask and then moving it a set amount in a particular direction 8 times, is ...
I can't figure out how to equalize the first image so it plays perfectly with the second. I've tried everything. It doesnt seem to involve saturation but rather something with exposure/gamma. I can't seem to find the exact trick however to equalize it well. This is the image with full contrast. Still seems too "satur...
I'm trying to distress a font. I have created outlines on the text, then using brush, drew a line of charcoal brush. Select All, Expand Appearance, Pathfinder minus. It works but only the first letter of the text is left on the page.
I'm looking for a font with deliberately ambiguous Latin characters. i.e. where symbols like O0, 8B, Il1, 5S, 2Z, 6b, 9g, are either identical or visually indistinct. Certain fonts like Arial have some degree of ambiguity - but I can't find a font which is specifically designed to have as many homographs as possible.
Is it possible to convert the shadow of a element to a path and then flatten it in sketch 3?
Someone I know occasionally asks my help when incorporating contributed material into an A5 booklet she edits and produces for a small local annual event. The booklet is essentially a programme for an event that incorporates adverts for sponsors of the event. The ads are quarter-page, half-page or full-page. Generall...
Im building a new wordpress website and need some input. The question is - should i use lower or uppercase - serif or sans-serif for my post titles, widget titles and menu items? Which is the best in terms of readability and focusing of each / important section? Here are some examples: Post Title Example / Serif Post ...
So I am editing a .png file from a website that I am working on. I downloaded the image (.png) and it has a yellow/green color in one of the objects. This color is important because it matches with the rest of the website's color scheme. However, when I made my edits and saved as a new file, the green color was noticea...
I'm using the latest version of Adobe Illustrator CC. I'm on a PC running Win 8.1 with Classic Shell. How do I copy a color from one object to another? It's a word, (text converted to path). I've read a few answers here and on other forums but things were left out... or their method just didn't work for me, or I jus...
Are the above softwares actually helpful in any practical way while applying for a job in big companies as a ui/ux designer?
Is it possible to create a simple sphere using CSS? I'm thinking of something like a 3D sphere.
I need to output A3 PDF sheets with multiple A4 pages from Indesign CS5 (So an editor can mark up by hand, the order of many small text based labels for an exhibition). Tried making a postscript but my Acrobat just distilled straight back into A4 single page PDF.... same result as exporting as a PDF from InDesign.... T...
I'm trying to cut out sections of a circle / circumference. The way that I've been doing it is by creating new nodes on the path and then cutting the path at that point. However, to make the cuts I then have to drag the circle freehand and it moves out of shape. How can I get around that? Ideally, what I'm looking for ...
Newbie to photoshop. Any ideas on how to give this image a more 3-D effect? The purpose of the diamond is for art for a game.
I'm working on designing some badges and am looking for a nice, condensed, but readable font. I usually use Helvetica-Condensed, but for this project I need type that is smaller than 9pt. Helvetica has the disadvantages of very closed letters, very static, similar forms, and very tight spacing. Does anyone have any r...
What are some guiding design principles for laying out images in several paragraphs of text on a webpage? In my particular case, there are two columns of text, and the images are proportioned and oriented like upright golden rectangles. They're roughly a third of a column in width. And they're just illustrative, as in ...
I'm trying to design a couple of graphics and a header image for my website . I came across the "Bones" website and really liked their style of graphics for the clouds and background sky. The website can be viewed here Can anyone tell me if this type of styling has a name, or any resources out there that can show how ...
Can someone please tell me what font is being used in this image of an address?
I have been designing Web and Mobile UI for a while and I have found many resources on pre-designed GUIs on the internet. Is there any way in Photoshop where I can save these GUI and to use it on new projects by clicking and dropping it?
I was wondering which format is most appropriate to save for print and digital applications? I was originally taught to save as TIFF for print. When I save out a still from Cinema 4D (R13), the TIFF file is always considerably larger than the PSD file format. When I try to closely inspect the images side-by-side, I se...
I want to create this effect (the second one) using the first one as a source, ultimately to create the last one. I'm trying to learn some stuff, following a tutorial but the guy is using a tool that's no longer in Photoshop (he's using CS 3). Is there any other way I can do this? His original instructions. Open smoo...
Our company does its own in-house design which is fairly new for the company. We are wanting to now purchase a second licence for Photoshop. Which version of Photoshop is best for company design work and what capabilities should the PC have in terms of graphic card, etc? I'm afraid our IT department is not very clue...
Can anyone can identify the font used for each section title, i.e. "Paranormal," "Conspiracy," "Quackery," etc. in this graphic, titled "An Organized Collection of Irrational Nonsense":
I'm fairly good at getting stuff to work nicely as I come from a coding background, but I'm lacking in the design/visual department. I'm building a website for a friend and one of the things he wants is a footer at the bottom of every page with a few useful links in. Anyway when the page has a fair amount of content on...
I'm working on creating completely custom icons with AI and essentially exporting them out as an individual svg icons to be used in our app development. I have been experimenting with different ways to effortlessly layout and export icons from working artboards within AI but not finding it comfortable. The way I'm doi...
I'm trying to make a render where the straight wire-frame is rendered together with the curved - Is there a way to render freestyle lines in 3DS Max and combine them with a wire-frame material so that I get a result like that?
Is Inkscape good for creating 8bit graphic for mobile games? If not, what's better? I'm looking for a fully legal program, I know how to use Gimp but there's no vector graphic option.
I'm using Illustrator CS6 to create several black/white figures. Since the printing agency requires "well" prepared figures, I want to ensure that all figures are in grayscale, or in other words, that no black stroke is an RGB or CMYK black, but a grayscale = 100 black :-) Is there a way to achieve this globally and ch...
Is this something that's possible? "Use a mask" is disabled over a group of vectors. Example:
So I want to make a 3d system of gears. Like working gears, with math and everything :) and for ease of use, I can just make the master gear rotate smoothly by 360 degrees over a period of X seconds. But the thing is, from what I can tell, real gears don't rotate constantly and smoothly. Slow them down and you can easi...
I created a path: Inside that path I created several more paths: and group those on separate layer. Inside paths doesn’t have any fill but have a stroke of 1. Since I want that stroke to be open (or transparent. I don’t know the exact term, I want the stroke line to show the color beneath), I selected the stroke and...
I am a beginner in Photoshop, so I need some help. Can anyone please tell me how to replace rgb or hsb of a certain region? I need to convert image 1 as the image 2 so that the veins look like in image 1. I am using photoshop cs6. I am a beginner so please describe the full process. Please help and thanks in advance.
I have a huge number of shapes and need to add an outside stroke to almost all of them. So I am trying to create an action for it. The trouble I'm having is that the stroke should always have the same color as the color of the shape I'm putting the stroke on. At the moment I can only figure out how to do the action so ...
Anybody know of any free webfonts visually similar to the new sans-serif Circular from Lineto that's being used at the new Airbnb site? http://lineto.com/The+Fonts/Font+Categories/Text+Fonts/Circular/Book/About+this+Font/
I designed a logo with a CMYK of C:60, M:0 ,Y:50, K:0. On my PC (Windows 8) it appears teal, which is the color that the client wanted. When I sent it to her, it appeared like a very bright lime green, and the same happened at the printer. I don't know if this problem is from my Adobe suit or my PC colors. I checked t...
I'm trying to make a little logo to put as a watermark on my pictures, and perhaps to put it in a website. Since it's personal, I had the idea to use my initials (C and B) to form the shape of a camera, to make it personal and distinctive. This is my first attempt (bear with me, I'm really new to design and do it just ...
I am trying to make the letters of my text look like they are "electrified" with jagged edges. How would I do that?? I've tried making my text an object and then doing the "envelope" thing but that didn't seem to offer any way to do this.
I'm currently putting together a CD cover, and haven't been working that much with printing, so CMYK tends to confuse me a bit. I'm going to place a logo inside a frame in InDesign. I added the exact same background color to the logo in Photoshop, as the background color of my InDesign document. Still the background in...
Are there specific web font guidelines to use in Photoshop files for web design? I am having issues with line spacing and fonts not showing correctly in HTML.
I am creating few icons with Drop shadow blending option in Photoshop. Then I save the icon as PNG with Transparency as 'chekced' and Matte as 'None'. The shadow looks fine on desktop but when my developer places those icons in his app, and runs on android device, all the shadows show as solid white border instead of t...
I just want to ask which software is best or which software is mostly used on these 2D animations. Example 1, example 2, example 3 I know that Flash is commonly used, but I just don't like Flash much, so I am looking for alternatives.
I am creating a wine portfolio in InDesign and have been given an Excel .doc file with various columns filled with data (name, description, country of origin) and want to know the quickest way to import all these, without them being in a table. Then I need to be able to apply paragraph and character styles to it, as th...
I have an opportunity with an author, but I want to see if I can even deliver first, if I were to take it. The author needs her current black and white drawings to be in color for a book she is putting online. The images for the children's book are scanned jpeg files of actual artwork. Her book art reminds me of stuff ...
I tried checking style guides and online articles but couldn't find any reference to the following: When the heading or subheading looks visually different from the body text (either font-size, -weight or -family) is it always better to leave out a colon after the heading? Usually in unformatted text I use a colon to s...
I'd like to identify the font used in this: I tried searching it in what the font, identifont and fonts by sight, to no luck. If anyone knows the name or any other services I could try, I'd appreciate it.
I am having problems with graphical errors when i export from illustrator The problem is small border along the right side of the export, the colors of the line varies from export to export. first image is the exported image second is it zoomed in to reveal the issues on the right border Have anyone experienced some...
I've been asked to replace the font we use on the web and mobile apps with Proxima Nova. I wanted to ask the community if any of you know if Promima Nova is a web safe font?. Thanks.
This morning my mouse pointer in Illustrator either shows hands in which case I can select nothing or shows a pointer with a black square which has weird effects when I select stuff. How can I disable these modes please?
Clarifications I need the picture for my website, that is, it'll be for online purposes. I'll be using PNG because I need transparency. [EDIT] I need a "JOIN" written on a monochromatic sketch-like picture. Question Suppose I need a 300x200 blip-type of image. I can design on an exact 300x200 paper, but if I rather ...
Not that good at GIMP, but I'm having an issue. I'm trying to copy from a transparent image to another, however it only copies the part that's not transparent. How can I make it also select and copy the part that is transparent, because I have half-opaque pixels there which it's not copying.
How could I make something like this? I know how to place text inside a shape but not this. Could it be vector and scalable? Thanks
I would like to purchase the same font the Windows Phone Phonly app uses. Anybody has idea what font is it? Update: I tried font identification services such as WhatTheFont and had no success.
I am working for my client creating his stationary printing, he wish to have the same font used in this image. I was tired searching the font, so I seek your expertise to find the font in the attached image. thanks a lot in advance.
There are various colour schemes that said to be in harmony, like the ones you find on Adobe Kuler and Colour Lovers. One can choose if it pleases her mind. But what if I have some words, or, better, concepts that I want to express by colours? Is there a general theory of translating abstract concepts or even emotions ...
I've got an image I'm trying to remove the background from and I'm not really sure how that would be done with Sketch. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
As displayed above, I need to warp one part of a smart object one way, and another part a different way. Any way to do this?
Illustator has a nice effect on it pencil tool : curve auto-correction. When you draw line, it automatically correct your hand, making it more neat and round. Sadly, I don't see this option on the photoshop pencil tool. And well, I can't /don't want use Illustrator for several reasons, including the fact it's not reall...
I was on reddit and saw a picture with a font that I liked on it. If anyone can help me identify it, I would appreciate it greatly.
Hi Graphic Design People, I am trying to put together a comic book to print, whose pages I have saved as flattened tif (of course I have the layered files too in case I need to modify anything). It's very long, close to 300 pages. I looked at many vids and tuts about how to place images, but the best suggestion I seem...
Hello Graphic Designers, Thank you for this helpful board. I have this weird color related print related question. My situation is, I am doing some layout changes of a bitmap black and white comic book. However, I found that I could not modify the bitmap pages unless I made them into color, at least greyscale. I didn't...
When ever I write something in Arabic or Persian in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 the word do not appear on the screen? But I can see the word which I have written in layer names.
I'm new to Photoshop and was wondering how to achieve this sort of cartoon effect. I looked everywhere, youtube, blogs and stuff but still non were close to what I'm looking for. Look at the picture for clarity: image from deviantart.com I tried the following but didn't get what I was looking for: Made a duplicate lay...
I am trying to create a new color for a drawer icon in AS. The stock one has margin to the right that I would like to preserve since it keeps the actionbar icon from sitting on top of it. When I create a new drawer icon in PS and then generate the .png all the transparency is excluded. I think I'm failing to understa...
I need to generate a PMS swatch chart for all current PMS colors to do print tests off large format printers. We have old charts but need a current one. I am hoping there is a way to generate this chart in Illustrator CC without having to manually make one
I am designing a logo for a client. I've given her a few ideas and she wants to take 3 of them and work on them herself with her sister. We have a contract and she'll pay me so that's not the issue. I don't want her compromising my design! How do I share my feelings without being condescending? Thanks.
Is there a way to retrieve the file in illustrator that just been accidentally replaced? is there some sort of history? The application was closed after it was replaced so there's no way i can undo it.
I have created large vector drawings for A0 printing - each file has thousands of vectors at different transparencies. The largest file is 270mb when saved as an editable pdf. I have not compressed any / changed any of the editable layers. At present it is a raw editable illustrator pdf file! (excuse my terminology) T...
I am doing tilemapping for a game. I originally went with a bright, vivid style but now want to tone it down into a more realistic style. I spent a lot of time making a nice grass tile, but as you can see, it clearly doesn't match the darker colors in the tree that I'm going for: Following this tutorial on hues, inste...
I am using Adobe illustrator Cs5.1 on Mac. I am having trouble making with font size. In short, I will select two blocks of text and set them as the same font and the same size. However, they appear completely different sizes. Horizontal scale and vertical scale are both set at 100%. Problem exists with multiple fonts....
For example, say I create a new layer, change my brush to solid black, but to 50% opacity, then draw some artwork. Then after the artwork is drawn, I realize it's too light and want to increase (darken) the artwork's to say 75% (so it's darker), or 100% (so actually appears solid black). How can this be done? Just to b...
I was wondering if anybody knew how to stop two different paths from connecting when they meet at the same point in Illustrator while using the pen tool. It's quite the annoyance when they do it when you don't want them to. The only way I know of avoiding the problem is making the other point then using the selection ...
I was trying to draw some pixel are amd first thing is to try a circle via stroke path with miter set to 0, anti-alias off, 1 px line. Here is what I get in Gimp. Part of the circle are ok, others are not (red arrow points to them). Any suggestions? Thanks.
I am able to rotate a group of selected anchor points of a shape-- either by picking or clicking and dragging on selected anchor points using the direct selection tool then rotate it by using the Rotate Tool. Is there a way to adjust the size of the selected anchor points?
When used a "turbosmooth" modifier with "edged faces" pressed on, there is a feature called "Isoline display", which ignores all other edges but those from the original geometry and at the same time they adjusting to the shape of the edges of the turbosmooth modifier. - However, when work in "Editable poly" with the ...
I need to create a banner that is 18 feet wide by 2.5 feet high. What would be the best way to go about planning this as it is going to be made in Illustrator and every element will be a vector. Would my best bet be to create the document in its native size and then scale it down in Illustrator to keep the ratio but re...
I am from programming background but I want to do graduation in graphic design. I'd like to know about the colleges which provide this facility in the US so that I can take admission over there. If there is any graphics designer who can suggest me a good college in the US where I can go and learn the concept of graphic...
I wanted to know what the name was of this type of images? I am basically asking for the name of the style that these were done in?
I’d like to know what you guys think about the logo below, there is some debate about the feathers of the tail, they are supposed to evoke an organic feeling, but others say they seem carelessly made. Should the shape of the feathers be more like the shape of the body (simpler curves and appeareance) or stay the way th...
How do I create this tile in Photoshop. I tried Bevel and Emboss as well as Inner Shadow but the result is nowhere near like this.
Is there a way to allow overrides for a specific element on a master page? Right now it seems I can only 'Override All Master Page Items' from the drop down menu.
This may border on the 'too technical' side of graphic design but I'll give it a try. We have a contract with a printer who requires a barcode on the interior and cover of our books so that they can match the two together at the printing block. Our clients find the barcode unsightly (dare I say ghastly) when they are...
It isn't a big problem but if there is any way to do it than it would be great. I want to erase the image but its remaining part is outside the canvas in Photoshop and can't erase it. It is in perfect position and don't want to move it. Is there any way to erase it?
I'm building a webpage layout in Indesign, and my client wants me to make an animated demo of it. I can do this in After Effects, but I don't want to recreate the entire site in AE. Is there a way I can import all my layers from Indesign directly into After Effects?
We offer vinyl decals for many devices. To show what a design looks like on a device, we have to create a main layer of the device, having the place of where the skin would fit cut out for our background layer images to slide behind. We have 2,000+ designs to offer for each device, so this takes time. After we line up...
Pretty basic concept. I have a large object, and only want a sub-section of said object. In PS I would just use rectangle tool to select the area I want and click copy, however in Illustrator I don't see this same type of functionality. What would be the easiest way to do this? Example. I have a picture of a snowman, a...
I have a logo that I need to recreate. But I am unable to find out the fonts used in the logo. This is a logo for fire cracker company.
I am new to graphics field I would like apply cross and checked pattern with in selected image area in Photoshop and I don't have any ready cross and checked patterns. Anyone can share the procedure to create and apply cross and checked pattern in image using photoshop cs5
How do i create a larger or smaller stroke using the pen tool in adobe photoshop?
Aloha all, I'm working in InDesign CS5.5 on a master plan document. I want the final document to be 11x8.5 landscape with facing pages, spiral bound to allow document to lay flat with full bleed. I have set up the document with legal size paper 14x8.5 so I can have full bleed and the printer personnel can cut to size. ...
I'm putting together a short rule book and I thought I'd try out Scribus. The problem I'm running in is trying to apply style to short selections of text within a text frame. Basically, I want to apply a "character style" to a section of text to override the default "paragraph style". I've created a named style call...
I am self taught on Photoshop CS6 and my problem is that I typeset fonts for a logo and sent them to the printer for stationary printing. However, they ask me for a vector file not bitmap. How do I convert my artwork and fonts to vector from a raster design?
So I just bought a new notebook and I'm wondering why Photoshop runs so slow on it. On easy, small files it's fast but on layouts that have a lot of layers & all that it's incredibly slow. The laptop has an i7-3632QM with 8 logical cores, 8GB's of RAM at 1600 MHz and an 8750M GPU and a 750GB WD 5400RPM HDD. Do I need m...

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