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I am wanting to get a design printed on cotton laminate. Is it possible to get non-pantone colours printed? Everyone I've spoken to so far says yes but then says maybe not. I can't get a straight answer. You help would be much appreciated!
I am saving with these settings: And ending up with weird transparent line artifacts: The ai file does not have this, and the path has nothing near the place where the lines are showing: From what I can tell it has to do with rendering the gradient as it appears the line is showing across a color band location, but who knows. How can I prevent this from happening? UPDATE I tried saving with a layer underneath it and the same problem occurred, but in a different spot?!?!
I've been struggling to do something that would seem pretty basic: In Inkscape, how can I resize the document and its content (i.e. drawings) at the same time? A little bit of context: I want to resize a fairly large number of SVG documents from The Noun Project (they are typically 100x100px docs) without having to explicitly resize the actual drawings. N.B: If there's a command line solution, I can work with that too!
I have a content box in photoshop with the background color #bc0018 with a 65% opacity and 50% fill. I am able to translate the backgroundcolor and opacity part to this, but without the 50% fill the backgroundcolor looks different. .content-box { background-color: rgba(188, 0, 24, 0.65); } Any suggestions on also getting the proper "fill" in CSS? EDIT I did just divide the opacity by half and it appears to achieve the same effect as a 50% fill. Still, I would love to hear how other people do this? I definitely don't want to create an image just for this. .content-box { background-color: rgba(188, 0, 24, 0.325); } Thanks!
Not sure if "path" is the right term here... I'm trying to change the color of the outline in Illustrator when using the pen tool. My border is set to black and the background of the artboard is white however the guide or outline is yellow. How can I change this yellow color?
I am a freelance web designer. I am working out a contract with a client to revamp an existing site and freshen the design. In my contract I have some language which I adapted from the AIGA boilerplate about copyright. The gist is this: I am developing a design for Client. I will create three comp designs. Client chooses one and we revise it until Client is happy with it. Three rounds of revisions are included; anything after that is paid by the hour on top of the original estimate. I own the copyright to all the designs. When Client submits the final payment for the entire website, Client owns the copyright to the finished site and its design. If Client cancels the project before it's finished, I retain the copyright to the unfinished, revised chosen design, unless we specifically agree that I will sell it to him. I estimate the site will cost $X. I submit invoices at various milestones in the project. I keep track of my work hourly, and Client pays for the work I've done (that is, if I estimate the job will cost $X because it will take me Y hours, and it takes me Y + 3, I will charge for three more hours of my time; if it takes Y - three, I will charge for three hours less). The client came back with revisions about copyright, saying he thinks that he owns the copyright to all the comps "because it's my site." I asked a non-designer friend who's a reasonably high corporate muckety-muck, and he thinks that the copyright hinges on how I'm being paid: If I'm setting up the contract as hourly, then it is "work-for-hire" (even though I don't have that anywhere in the contract) and Client owns all the copyright to all three comps. If I'm setting up the contract as "work for project" (Client pays $X for finished website, however many hours it takes), then I would own the comp copyrights. This doesn't make sense to me. Why would Client get the rights to two (or more) designs which he isn't using? If we agreed that he was going to pay for all three designs, that's fine, but two of them he didn't like. Why should he get to keep them and use them with some other designer? Does basing my fee on hours worked somehow make this job "work for hire"? Does "hourly work for hire" somehow change copyright? (ETA Client and I are both in the U.S.)
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. But I can't figure out how to highlight text or have certain text within a text frame have a different background. I know I can anchor a text frame inline within a text frame. But then I have to size it just right, which is a real pain when I'm constantly changing the text too. UPDATE: is there really no way to highlight text in InDesign? Seems crazy. By the way, I'm using the latest InDesign CS5.5.
I've created a document using OpenOffice / LibreOffce with a black background and PNG images which have some transparency. I exported that document to PDF and printed it. The black which comes from the background looks matte whereas the black which comes from the images looks glossy. Q: How can I make sure my entire document will render the same once printed?
Possible Duplicate: Tips and sources for beginning designers I am interested in user centred design. I practice web design, but I think the design process in general is useful from all fields. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a interesting look at the design process. Possible implementation strategies.
We have Turkish text that we have to layout Universe 65 Bold. This works for most letters, but not for ğ and a few others. In Universe LT 45 Light it works. Now, I went into Word to check out the characterset and neither Bold nor Light actually contains this letter. It is in Arial or in Times. So we came up with the assumption, that it is a ligature. And we did enable and disable Ligatures in InDesign for that section, but no change. Now we run out of ideas? What are we doing wrong or what did we miss? How can I create a character like this in InDesign for a new Font?
I have a picture of a ball which is rounded as usually balls are, and I'd like to create quickly some text and place it on the ball. The result should create a feeling that there is really a label on the ball which copies a surface of the ball. The ball on the picture is not a good example. The text should create a little 3D effect. Another example is tea pot or glass where you can place a label. I don't want to create a text from an image because it would be slow process, I would prefer the text tool or similar quick way of creating text, because I need to append text to many similar images.
I was totally new to graphic design and the best I could do was resize images in MS Paint or use Word 2010. Than I discovered Adobe Illustartor as I needed to make a logo and Letter Head. After breaking my head against my monitor (does not hurt any more) and learning it for 2 weeks, I became sufficiently good enough (if I can be excused to say that) and designed the logo and letterhead. Now it has to go to print. The problem is that all the commercial printers and the people who use them, HERE use CorelDRAW and not only that but also older versions from 9 to 15. They refuse to take Adobe Illustrator files or even CorelDRAW files above version 12 such as v15 or X5. They refuse to work with PDF files also. No Word 2010 files either. Simply and Only CorelDRAW files of version 9 to 12. The Adobe Illustrator CS5 does not have options of saving the files in ".cdr" format. And when I import or open the ".ai" file in CorelDRAW X5, many things happen. Color changes of text as well as objects. Some objects do not get displayed. Alignment and positioning gets changed, and many others. I have taken some steps after reading on the net to make it easier for CorelDRAW X5 to import the ".ai" files. And also tried many things. These include, but are not limited to.. Uncheck/disable the "compression" when saving the file in AI-CS5. Uncheck/disable the "Embed ICC Prile" when saving in AI-CS5. Convert all text to outlines. Saving in "SVG", "PDF" all different versions. Saving in older AI-CS5 Legacy versions. Exporting the file from AI-CS5 in different file formats. Importing the file from CD-X5. Working in RGB Color Mode. ... And many more. Please note that I can not be expected to fresh learn CD-X5 and abandon AI-CS5 and design from the begining, if that is a "sole" answer. Also my design is simple enough. Attached are 2 pics. One of the logo and the other of the letterhead. Just 3 rounded rectangles filled with 2 color gradients and vectors of animals with styles applied to those animals and with text at the bottom. (can't post images, need 10+ rep for that) The Logo http://oi44.tinypic.com/ieqs0m.jpg The LetterHead http://oi41.tinypic.com/1zzj03s.jpg Please further note (yes! I know, you have heard that many times) that although I was successful in designing (the asthetic beauty of the design is another matter), I am still new to designing. So Color Theroy or Font theroy have not made past me. And I wonder what's the point of having a standard of "SVG" If these so called "Vector Editing Applications" can not handle the files uniformly? I guess my question is how to either Export/Save/Save As/Place the file from AI-CS5 to CD-X5 Import/Open/Open As/Place the file in CS-X5 from AI-CS5 Without changes being made to it. My objective to to hand over a print ready file to the printing guys. Thanks in Advance.
I have two layers L1 and L2. I want to make layer L3 to copy L1 and L2 every time when they modifed. L3 may contains some filtering and every time when I modify L1 or L2 my L3 must recopy modified layer and reassign it's filtering to new image. How to make it in photoshop CS 5?
The weirdest thing is happening. My coworker noticed his blinking text cursor doesn't appear anymore, no matter where he selects/creates text. Even weirder? I'm editing his file now and I'm having the same problem. A bit of googling seems to show that I should trash my settings file but I'm afraid i'll lose all my custom settings. Has anybody experienced this before? Thanks.
As all Illustrator users know, there is a hard limit on the size you can export a PNG file. I'm curious if anyone knows the maximum limit on this, and if it differs depending on the DPI of the exported PNG file. For my immediate needs I am interested in a 300 DPI export, but curious what the dimension limit is for 72, 150 if it's dependent on the DPI.
Wikipedia has an extensive set of anatomy SVGs, but I can't highlight different organs or parts dynamically, because there are no source files with layers I can manipulate in Photoshop or GIMP. How can I edit an .SVG file?
I'm currently in the process of making a design for a web application. Although I'm very interested in design, I'm actually a programmer, and I don't have a lot of experience with design. That's why I came here. I have the following set up: (click for original) The menu on the left has a small hover effect, where the text turns white and gets a very light gray-ish background color. I tried my best with the limited knowledge I have, but I just have the feeling something isn't right (and it feels too plain).. I paid special attention so that everything is in an "invisible grid" (e.g. there is a line flowing down from the logo to the left menu-bar). I also tried my best to match the colors (the red and green are required by the customer). But I'm having trouble matching colors with the green.. Could you provide me with tips (any tips IMHO that would benefit the design)? I'm willing to upload the css and html if required! Thanks for the help :) UPDATE: This is what it looks like now: (click for original)
When I place a few objects one over another, each with different colors and transparencies, so that they all overlap somewhere, how would I measure the color on this overlapping area? Similar to the way the eyedropper in photoshop would just give me the color of the pixel he is hovering. Is this possible without ridiculous detours? All I could imagine is making a screenshot pasting it and measuring from there - but this kind of the definition of a ridiculous detour...
Is there a way to handle views in Illustrator like "Layer Comps" in Photoshop? For me it's important that I can export all those views e.g. as jpg/png/pdf (like Photoshop script "Layer Comps to Files"). I know Views and Artboards but I think it's not exactly what I'm looking for.
For a project, I will need to design several 8x8 tiles and assemble them in a 256*224 frame. My problem is that once I have all the 8px x 8px tiles, I can't figure how to easily access/assemble them without involving a LOT of file opening, copying, pasting, closing, etc. Is there a more convenient way to do this? Ideally, I would have a panel with all my tiles, and would just have to move them on my canvas. And even more ideally, it would work with Photoshop (but I'm open to using another software too, if necessary).
Mohawk College in Ontario, CA just opened a very nice design center which includes packaging machinery for the students to learn, it is a part of their graphic design program. http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/ It got me wondering if there's any programs in the United States with a similar program and facilities. Does anyone know of one?
Is there a way to 'erase lines' in Illustrator similar to the way it's done in Adobe Flash? The clearest example is around 06:40 of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2Y3DKHiJg Basically in Flash you have eraser mode that you can change to just erase parts of the stroke of an object. Is that possible in Illustrator? I want to essentially do what the guy does in that video. Put two objects on top of each other and then erase the stroke to create the impression of one shape. I have faked it with clipping masks, etc. but I thought this could be an easier solution if it's possible.
Possible Duplicate: What price should I charge for design services? I'm a computer science undergraduate and have recently successfully applied for a web-design job but have a few questions. Before a contract is drawn up I have a discussion scheduled to discuss salary and other details, but I'm not really sure how much to ask for? I'm 18 I'm currently in full-time study so will be working part-time, therefore paid by hour - roughly 10-15 hours a week The majority of the work will be graphic design with PHP/ASP coding every now and again. My main reason for this job is to gain some real-world experience in the hope of actually getting a decent, related, job when I graduate. They want me to officially start work after Easter but however they also want me to work on a small re-design over the Easter holidays (that's fine with me) in order to understand the company better, start to get familiar with their processes and show them what I'm capable of. However, they want me to quote for this but again, not sure what to charge. I've done websites for friends/friends of friends in the past but charged fairly low rates(£50-£100 for some fairly advanced stuff, i.e. Paypal IPN etc). The website I must re-design is a fairly simple, static, website with just a few pages.
I often make objects in Illustrator, and then bring them into Photoshop to use them as a mask, by selecting the pixels of the layer, and then applying it as a mask to another. The downside to this is that whenever I change the smart object, I need to repeat this process. Is there a way to apply a smart object as a mask to a layer, and keep it as a smart object?
As a graphic designer, I do website designs, but not the development. Someone asked me today if I know about Typekit, and I hadn't heard of it so I googled it, and it seemed pretty much like a paid for version of Google Web Fonts; which I occasionally use. I don't know the technical, developer reasons for using one or the other, but I don't want my client buying something when he could have just used something else for free, and got the same sort of results. So, my question is, is one better than the other? Or are there good and bad points to both?
I'm designing a website at the moment. The client's corporate colour is PANTONE Black 2C (made up of 70% Black and 30% Yellow). Now, when printed it comes out very dark but with a hint of yellow. Though, on screen it's considerably lighter and is actually quite a horrible colour. I understand the reasons why it's lighter on screen, but obviously, I can't build the website with the same colours because it's not very nice and doesn't reflect the company colours in the correct way (despite it being the identical colour). Does anyone know how to match the final printed colour to an on-screen colour in this way? Aside from photographing the printed material and eye-dropping it in Photoshop...
I am designing a program for a play that is set in the early twentieth century (circa 1911) Austria and it focuses on the upper class. What are some historically relevant fonts and design elements that such a program can include?
What seems to be the most popular resolution that wallpaper comes in for desktop wallpaper? I am a digital artist so I want people to download my wallpaper. What resolution should I offer it in to encourage that? I'm not just making wallpaper for desktops, I'm also trying to fit it in small devices like smartphones and other devices. I'm not just focusing on a particular device indeed I want for all device (which has a screen and are wallpaper capable). Please tell me exact number of wallpaper that I will have to make.
When I print or "Print Booklet" in Adobe InDesign, I don't see any options about printing full duplex (both sides of the paper). I'm using a Mac with a Brother MFC-J6910DW printer. Does Adobe InDesign not support full duplex printing?
Indesign CS5.5 (v7.5.2) Is there an automated method to simply remove all overset text in a text frame? I don't want it hidden by a smaller frame. I want it gone. I spend so much time simply removing pages of overset text it would be helpful if there was a command such as "Remove overset text" or "Truncate text from here". Thanks!
Can Photoshop pattern files be used so that the colours in the pattern are changed? If so, can you tell me how I do this with this pattern file in Photoshop Elements and/or Adobe Fireworks? (I don't have Adobe Photoshop). I'd like to change the colour to hot pink pattern on a black background, for instance.
Is there a hot key combination that will prompt "Save for Web & Devices.." interface for the clipboard content?
So I learned Adobe Illustrator CS5 (Say 10%). I have these two files which I downloaded from the net. They are patterns files for animals skins. The first file is named "Animals_skins.ai" and is taken from Link To Page and can be downloaded from the same page Link To Download and has 10 Animal Skins patterns. When I Open the file directly in Adobe Illustrator CS5, I get the contents of the file as well as they are added directly to the "Swatches Panel" on the left. When I hover over the individual boxes/Thumbnails/rectangles in the Swatches Panel with the mouse, I get the titles like "Jagur" or "Tiger" telling me the name of the patterns. The same is the Case when I load the file using the "Open Swatch Libary" > "Other Libary" and browse to the file and open it. Works perfectly. I can apply the patterns to any shapes and it works like a charm. The Second file is named "skins.ai" and is taken from Like To Page and can be dowloaded from the same page Link to Download and has 35 Skins Patterns. When I Open the file directly in Adobe Illustartor CS5, I get the contents of the file showing me the patterns. However they are not added to the "Swatches Panel" directly as the first file does. Insted I get some other colors in the swacthes panel and when I hover over the individual boxes/Thumbnails/rectangles in the Swacthes Panel with the mose, I DON'T get the titles. The same is the case when I load the file using the "Open Swatch Libary" > "Other Libary" and brose to the file and open it. Does not work. I CAN't apply the patterns to any sahpes. Even If I select the patterns from the main windows by clicking, selecting and draging to the swatches panle and add there. When I apply the same to any shape it applies them but it's all messed up and lines appear around the single/individual pattern if the shape to which it is being applied is big enough. Can't figure it out that why the first file works and the second files does not. I am new to Illustartor (How many times you have heard that?) and any solution would greatly aid me in my learning process. I need the patterns for a logo design. I have another 3rd file which has Cow Patterns and it behaves exactly the same way as the second file. Opening it shows me the pattern in the main window but it does not get added to the swatches panle either by adding it using the mose or opening it using the browse libary method. Thanks in Advance
There is this options box shown when saving a PNG image from Adobe Photoshop. I always choose 'None'. What does the 'Interlaced' option do?
I use a 'Round Rectangle Tool' to create navigation bar (for website).. How to remove two rounded corners at the bottom? Once it has been removed then I can apply some style from blending options. For example:
On mac, I have many more fonts on my computer than I use daily. Is there a way to control which ones appear on Illustrator etc.'s menus? I see that I can use Font Book to 'disable' the fonts. Is that the only way or is there a more Illustrator specific way to do it? I guess I don't know that I want to disable the fonts system wide but do something more fine grained. Thoughts?
I'm having an issue with Illustrator CS5 that I've seen mentioned in many, many forums, but I haven't found an answer that has fixed my problem. When I use Save for Web & Devices... to create a png, it comes out in nice beautiful colors. When I use Export... or Save Selected Slices... to create a png, it comes out in very dull colors. It seems to affect all the colors, but here's an example: Good red: (created with Save for Web & Devices) Bad red: (created with Save Selected Slices... and identical to those created with Export...) Also, in the dull versions the black becomes a dark gray. Here's some info about my setup: The document is set to RGB, not CMYK. I have Appearance of Black set to Display All Blacks as Rich Black and Output All Blacks as Rich Black. In the color settings, my working space RGB is set to sRGB. In Assign Profile... I have tried all three of the options: Don't color manage, Working RGB, and some of the other profiles. They all produce the same dull results when I export. I wouldn't think this would matter, but I'm using Windows 7. The difference in color is obvious on both my laptop screen and my nice large external monitor. I've gone through various color calibration tools and instructions, and that has changed nothing. Finally, here's something interesting that may help with troubleshooting: While I was exporting this with all the different settings, at one point I decided to paste two of the exported pngs into Illustrator so I could put them right next to each other and compare the colors. To my surprise, the dull exported pngs appear bright and normal when they are pasted into Illustrator. If you can help shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it. Soon I will need to be exporting some slices, and I need the colors to come out right at that time. Thanks! Update: As suspected, the document was created in Adobe RGB (by someone else, not me). Here's an informative article that explains why my colors were coming out dull in detail: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm
I use 'Round Rectangle Tool' to create a rounded rectangle shape. I want to apply dark gray border on the right and bottom of a rectangle shape (layer). What is the solution to do this? I have tried to play around with Stroke (Position: Inside) from Blending option but no luck.
I'm looking for a font that reminds of a captcha without being too difficult to read. It has to be available from google web fonts though. Does anyone have any good tips? Edit: It doesn't have to have a real captcha functionality. I'm making a game where a font like this would fit very well. So basically, a font that reminds the user of a captcha, without being exhaustive to read over long periods. And available on google-fonts.
Colleagues have been asked to convert a large pdf archive (about 150,000 items) to ePub and Mobi (keeping the pdfs, too, of course). I ran a few newish ones through Calibre to find the pain points: TOCs need deletion and recreation, tables dissolve into lines of text, extra line spaces become flush left periods. And of course the older pdfs are images, so there's no point to the conversion. Might as well retype... If they do need to figure out how to do this after reporting all of the issues, I wonder if there are any known ways to automate any of the tasks involved. If each document needs individualized editing, the project looks to me like it will take years. Anyone interested? BTW, I'm the only designer in the group; the others are archivists, data processors. So only I use InDesign (OS X); they use Windows 7 (I believe) and MS Office. No XML pros either as far as I know.
I have Mrs Eaves premium font. Its the same font which is used in WordPress Logo. Can i use it in my logo?. What is premium font mean?. Do i have to purchase license for each website's logo?
I just downloaded the adobe edge preview a few hours ago. I can't seem to find the options for easing effects on transitions on the timeline. I click the transition, but the properties panel just stays like this: I'm trying to follow this guide: http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-slick-animations-adobe-edge I don't know what I'm doing wrong! Thanks guys.
In an image like the one below, the graphics are organized very neatly. The mugs are aligned horizontally and vertically, the text below is centered with the mug, as well as the text in the mug itself... Anyway, with what software is all this done? I know this is probably very simple, but I have no clue...
At my web shop we have been studying Content Strategy to implement it and raise the business value of our web development service/product. Upon modelling our business process I stumbled upon what seems to be the parallel equivalent of CS: Design Strategy. Now, we've been able to understand CS thanks to Colleen Jones' "Clout" and Christina Halvorson's "Content Strategy for The Web", so I'm wondering if there are any prominent books/ultimate-references for Design Strategy.
I am looking for a typeface, no make that more than one typeface in which numbers look nice and appealing. I want to use these typefaces when designing vouchers and stuff like that, I get a lot of work in that area, and I’m stuck with Georgia. The typeface will be used on price tags, vouchers and discount offers for generic products on shops with no brand guidelines whatsoever, your average mall local shops, mom & pop type of shops that don’t know what a brand is and don’t want to know. They just want numbers that look good. The text 5% needs to look that good that you “want it now” just by itself, with no other tricks. For more than a year now I’ve been using Georgia for that, I kinda got bored of it and I’m on the look for a new typeface. Georgia (for those that don't know it):
There are benefits to showing a pdf download both as a spread and a single page. Which should I take into account—the view-ability on smaller computer screens or the design appeal of showing them as spreads?
Possible Duplicate: Can I manage the fonts that appear on Illustrator's Type drop down My image menu in illustrator is messed up. There are double spaces some places, and fonts in <> that I don't even want. It's visually offensive. Is there a way to neaten it up and make it more legible?
In Photoshop you can set the brush dynamics to Fade, which causes the brush to get smaller and smaller as you paint. But sometimes I'd like the brush to start out small and get larger as I paint. Is there any way to do this?
We all know the default Photoshop drop shadow: I know that ideal is subjective, but I have a hard time producing anything that doesn't seem nearly as crude as this does. A drop shadow that is more "ideal" is one like this: I love how the drop shadow is sharp and defined (almost black) up close to the object, but has a large spread. I suspect it might be achievable with contours, but I don't know well how to utilize them. This is a quick effort: And these settings don't work well at all on text. Anyone have any better advice? How do I produce a drop shadow that isn't as crude-looking as the default? Using what techniques can I achieve drop shadows like in the example image?
Take a look at, for example. apple.com and nike.com. These are two extremely sucessful companies that on their webpages displays their logos but no necessarily their name. That is, when going to apple.com, the name "Apple" isn't displayed anywhere. The same thing goes for nike.com (although the contens of the submenus are a different matter). Now, is there any theory behind this choice? Are people distracted if both the name and the logo are shown?
I want to make the stroke to the left (the green part counts): All I can come up with is a pattern stroke to the right, but as you can see it is just not right. Every second corner will not align nicely, which makes sense, of course, but how could I tackle this?
I'm using Photoshop CS4 and have a project where I'm using a layer/section of brushed chrome and another adjacent layer/section in charcoal carbon fiber (pattern) background. On the CF layer, I'm adding a text layer which is in color. If I start the project in RGB mode, it prints out with a purple cast on both the metal and the CF. If I switch to a Greyscale mode it prints out fine, but now I can't use the red colored text which was created in RGB mode. How do I add RGB elements (layers) to my Greyscale layered image?
I work on my school's yearbook and I have about 15 images that I have to place on two pages, and I can't find a creative way to place them. I can't post the images here because of security reasons; are there any templates that could be of use or any tips? This is off topic but I could argue that only placing a few really good images could be better than placing like 10 okay ish ones...
This would be quite simple but I can't see to do it. I have a shape/object (shape 1) and another shape object (shape 2). Shape one has fill and a stroke (1px black). Shape 2 has a fill but no stroke. Shape 1 is bigger than shape 2 and shape 2 sits on top of shape 1 in such as way that some part of shape 2 is on shape 1 and the rest part of shape 2 is outside shape 1. How would I go about "cutting" the shape 2 and delete that part of the shape 2 that is outside shape 1 and leave me only the part of shape 2 that is inside the shape 1 in such a way that the stoke of shape 1 is visible.
I have some complex technical drawings that are in Illustrator CS5 that I got from a pdf. I need to be able to fill each with a gradient to look as if there is a light source. When I select and make live paint, there are many objects in the one drawing so it does not fill with the gradient as I need it. There is still more than one object when I expand it. I've tried some other things without success. An example of one technical drawing with box of the gradient that I need to fill with is at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69750361/gradient-tech-drawing.ai Help is appreciated.
Let's say I have a square, rectangle, or circle. By default, the center point of will be positioned exactly in the middle. It is so because the binding box is same as the shape. It can be viewed by the Attributes Panel and clicking "Show Center". I also have some shapes which are irregular. If I look at the center point, it is positioned in the middle but the middle is relative to the bounding box of that shape. How would I go about selecting and editing the center point in such a way that it sits exactly in the center, horizontal and vertical relative to the shape and not the bounding box. In the below image, on the top there is a square, rectangle, and circle. The center point is exactly in the center. Below that there is a chicken, cow, and fish. The center point are not in the middle.
My objective is to create a shape which is exactly 5cm in width and 4cm in height. I start off with a Artboard which is 1000px wide by 1000px in height. I do my drawings in such a way that there is a 5px gab from top, bottom, left and right. So my drawing is actually 990px wide (1000 - (5+5))X 990px Height (1000 - (5+5)). Finalizing the drawing, I see that there is some space at the bottom which is empty. So I resize the artboard to 830px in height. Now my Artboard is 1000px wide and 830px in height while my drawing is 990px wide and 820px in height with 5px on each side (top, bottom, left, right). The drawings is centred both horizontal and vertically relative to the Artboard. All shapes in the drawings are given sizes as per the size of the drawing. (Hope I am making sense). Now I copy the drawing (Not the Artboard & and not by using place or import, but copy & paste) to a new document, change the UNITS from pixels to cm, and resize the drawing to a width of 5cm while Locking the aspect ratio in the Tranform Panel. I get the final drawing with the dimensions of 5cm in width and 4.124cm in height. (Thank you for bearing with me for so long). My question is, what pixels I start with in the first place (Not perefered to do like that) OR resize the Artboard later (Perefered) in such a manner that: There is always 5px gap from top, bottom, left and right between the drawing and artboard. On resizing the drawing, the aspect ratio is always maintained of value 1:1. For example if it is 5cm in width, resizing it will result in 4cm in height, or if it is 2cm in width, it will have a height of 1cm when resized. I could offcouse disslect the "maintain/lock aspect ratio" in the Transform Panel and than change the height to 4cm. But that messes up the drawing. Thanks in advance. (Have setup 300 resoultion)
I'm trying to save a jpg image but it's getting a bit blurred. I have it nicely in my image editor, but saving the image is not giving the quality I need, even with max quality defined. If I save it as png, I get it with the sharpness I need. Is there a way to overcome the loss of sharpness due to jpeg's compression? I really need it to be a jpg file. You can check a sample of the image before and after here. As you can see, the orange is changing and the edges are not so sharp. I start with a very high res jpg, change some colors, resize it, and save as jpg. If I save if first as png and then as jpg, still gets the same effect.
I'd like to directly set (i.e. type in actual coordinates of) the position of my layer in the image, like you can with the selection box: (Not the size, but that would also be cool) Is this possible? Thanks
I would like to double the size of this image without causing any pixelization. Can you please let me know how can it be done? Thanks!
Is it possible to get the paramaters used at any point of the history? Say I used the color balance tool, is it possible to view from the history the settings I used when applying it? (Photoshop must store this information if it can revert and reapply it right?) I am using Photoshop CS4, thanks.
In Adobe Illustartor CS5, you can select/click, hold the mouse, and drag the Vertical ruler to make a vertical Guide (Cyan Color by default). The same can be done with the Horizontal ruler to make a horizontal guide. The Preferences panel shows this for Smart Guides. I don't know if it's related or not. In the following image, I have both horizontal and vertical guides. I also have a line segment placed at a angle. How would I go about creating a guide at that angle just like the other two guides. That is, a guide which is not vertical or horizintal but at a angle like the line segment.
I create a rectangle of size 200px X 200px. Select it, double click the rotate tool and rotate it at 45 degrees. This causes the rectangle to chage size and become 282.842px X 282.842px. How can I turnoff/disable this behavious maybe using the Preferences, or do I have to change it back to 200px X 200px by using the Tranform Panle.
How would I manipulate only a single stroke of a rectangle while leaving the strokes unchanged? For example, if I have a line and use effects > Distort & Transform > ZigZag, the line changes to a wave. How would I select only the top path/stroke/line of the rectangle and apply the same effects of ZigZag to that line only? I tried to play with it but it changes all the lines as well as the top. I also tried the scissors tool, cut the path, apply the effect and rejoin them. It works but when I rejoin them, again all the lines gets converted to zigzag.
In the image below, I have two texts. Both are point text as opposed to area text. The top text has a horizontal line nearly at the bottom. I think it's called leading in font theroy but I am not sure. The bottom text has been converted to outlines and thus the leading is not there. How do I get the same effect of removing the leading line without changing it to outline because once it's outlined, I think it can not be edited any more. Not atleast the way the text above, the one which has not been convereted to outlines, can be done. Is there anyway to do that? The reason I am asking is because once outlined, the bounding box size changes exactly to the containing elements and its easier to align it relative to other object (using the "align to key object" in the tranform panel). While in the case of non-outlined text, the aligning is not pixel perfect as it takes the leading space into account. Also as can been seen in the top text, there is some space between the bottom line and the characters "g" and "y".
I am using Flash CS5 to make a slideshow of images: 4-5 images that fade, transitioning into the other. I would like to make it so that the corners of the entire slideshow are rounded and transparent. I want to do this on the slideshow level as opposed to just editing the images themselves so that this slideshow can serve as a template where any images can be dropped into it. The person that worked at this position before me made some templates with rounded corners, but I cannot figure out how to duplicate how he did it. As far as I can tell, he merely made a layer on top of all of the other layers and filled in the area he wanted to be transparent with white. When I do the same it doesn't work, so there must be a step I am missing.
Is there a shortcut for switching between doge and burn in Photoshop? When working with photo manipulations you often work with both but I've never known of a way to switch quickly between the two.
I have noticed people here frequently talking about "Illustrator(s)" and illustration. I have no idea what 'illustrator' means in this sense! What is an illustrator? How is an illustrator different to a designer?
I am tasked with creating a vector based print work. And I'm very new to print design. Is it a good idea to include raster photography inside my vector image? It seems to destroy the whole point of "infinite scalability". How do I create something that can be scalable, so as to be used on large outdoor banners and such? Thanks for your help! I'm quite lost. :(
I need to create a "fake" 3D effect for some raster image, like this one below: do you know how I can achieve this in Photoshop (CS5) or Illustrator? Thanks.
Is there any configuration on Photoshop to make color picker use capital letter?
I am using Photoshop to do detailed work that requires navigating around a 5000 x 5000 (or so) image to look at individual pixels, where I know the row and column index of the pixels in question. Currently, I am using the Navigator to jump to approximately the correct location, and then scrolling (or using the hand) to bring the desired pixel into view. However, better would be a command that would place a given pixel (with a certain row, column index) into view. This also has the advantage that the pixel will always be centered. Is it possible to do this with Photoshop? Thanks.
I am running a web site design service for local small business owner. I want avoid legal issues on the images I use. Usually, the images found on Flickr are forbidden for commercial use. Where would be a normal channel to get pictures for commercial use with minimal cost? How can I validate that the picture I used has no legal risk?
I'm trying to increase the PPI of my logo using Adobe Illustrator, but when I export it the image dimensions that should be 131x31 increase to 268×64. How can I fix it?
Possible Duplicate: How to hire a graphic designer? I am a recent software engineer graduate and am interested in building a web service app for portfolio reasons. I would require a graphic designer to successfully build this web service, however I do not have a budget. Is there any good website where I can find a web designer that may be interested in enhancing their portfolio by building an app together with a web developer? Thanks.
I am a fan of DIY stuff and have recently seen these cardboard safari which looks pretty nice. I would like to try to do some of those myself but haven't found good cut out resources around and my own attempts never turn to be good looking (I suppose you a proper designer to know which lines are important or not for the model). I might as well have to buy those, but that is not exactly "diy" then... But then again, I reckon these and more models would be fairly straight forward for someone into 3D. Does anyone knows where could I find those in around the interwebs :)?
Much as I loathe Microsquish's Word, it does allow you to insert into a header or footer the automated text "Page X of Y." When using InDesign, it's easy to set up the "Page X" part on a master page. But is there any placeholder character for the Y? That is, it will count the number of pages in the document, either in an absolute or a relative-to-the-section fashion? Every now and again I narrowly miss sending out something with a footer which reads "Page 4 of 3," and I would love to know if there's some way around that.
I am reasonably experience developer on photoshop and it has spoiled me to no extent. I am searching for a graphic tool on fedora which is simple to generate images that I would like to use on my android apps. I have tried my hand with Gimp and it seems to have huge learning curve. Is there any photoshop like app in Fedora which can help ?
I'm making a portfolio website, but I have a short first name, but a long last name! Wxxx - first name Vxx Dxx Dxxxxxxxx - last name I've started with a logo with just my first name or something like VVDD, but I'm not convinced - I think nobody will remember me with those initials. And full-written my name is too long to put it in a header. Anyone some ideas on how to sell yourself with a long name..?
I have the following image that is displayed in along similar images. Each image links to a tourism brochure. I've been tasked into adding a new brochure with its own image. Each image features some drop shadow effect that I need to reproduce on the new image, but I do not know what drop shadow settings has been used to create the original drop shadow. What steps are required to obtain the data needed to reproduce the drop shadow? I need to know the original color, radius and blur. Is it possible or should I just try trial and error?
I have an action in Photoshop: Set Background Black & White Make adjustment layer Set Current adjustment layer Then I go to File->Automate->Batch and set it to output to a folder with Override action 'save as' commands unchecked (though tried with it checked) and File Naming as photo + 2 Digit Serial Number + extension. When I run it, it prompts me with a save-as dialog box with every file, which defeats a good chunk of the whole purpose. Am I missing a setting to have it automatically save these images?
In the character map, after selecting some very large fonts, sometimes I find some characters which, if typed after another character, will appear above or below the first character. What is the common name to describe such a character? Where can I find a list of commonly available characters of this sort? I am particularly interested in finding a character which creates a small, downward arrow which can be placed underneath other letters.
I have a PNG image which contains the header, footer, and content from an existing web site. My client wants to make a new page using the existing design. I've got PNG files from them which I need to use to make a mockup which reflects the changes they've shown to me. When I create an HTML mock up page, referencing their supplied PNG, without first creating a PSD file, the client tells me that is not the professional way. They tell me I should first alter the PSD, then convert that to HTML. I haven't used Photoshop in a long time. I need to know what exactly needs to be done to complete this work. I've already spent a lot of time on it and I'm running late. Does anyone have any idea how I may be able to do this faster and more efficiently? Please tell me how to start working with Photoshop. How can I finish this work and make it perfect? When I work on the PSD files and compare it to their existing work, my work is not as good as theirs. I have no graphic design experience or sense. In past I just write html, css, and JavaScript from the PSD. I am not very experience with Photoshop. Can someone teach me how to get better hand with Photoshop for web-layout design. [I thing After rewrite my post I am better able to show what I am looking for. @Ryan, their is nothing like permission need here. I check myself that all-pages come from a site's different section and that's their official site.] Thanks
I am versed in exporting all visible layers in Fireworks to separate files. What I would like to is one notch more sophisticated - I'd like to include one or more of these layers in each and every exported layer. For example, if I had layers like this: - Smiley Face - Sad Face - Shocked Face - ... - Purple Gradient (<-- common background layer) I'd like to end up with a set of files that is named for each layer except "Purple Gradient", and I'd like the purple gradient to be visible behind each exported layer.
My Eyedropper has suddenly started changing all samples to white. No matter what area of an image I click it samples white, this is regardless of sample size or modifier keys. If I manually select a color with the Color Picker, and then sample an area of the image with the Eyedropper, same result, white. All of my other tools are working correctly. I tried resetting the tools, I verified my documents settings are correct, I restarted Photoshop, restarted the computer...nothing. Any ideas?
I have to change the size of multiple text labels in a plot, but I want to keep the labels in exactly the same position. The vertical center of each label is now aligned with a tick in the plot. If I just increase the font size, the size increases with respect to the baseline of the text. This produces a misalignment of the vertical center of the text with respect to the ticks. To solve the problem I could create outlines of each label, but I would like to preserve editability, so this is not the solution I'm looking for.
I am having trouble finding a nice white cotton paper texture. It is very common in printwork. This will be for commercial work. Also, how would I go about creating the texture myself? i.e, buy cotton paper and just take a photo?
What's the font used here? (source: slashgear.com)
I am a web developer. What happens is that the Client sends a PSD (Photoshop designs) to the company. Then the designer needs to create a HTML page from the PSDs What happen every time is that the designer does not create the HTML with same fonts ie the boldness goes away and the font does not look similar as per the PSD means the quality is too degraded. And the designer can convince my seniors that this is not possible i.e. The same font size, boldness cannot be achieved in the html while conversion Can you please specify is it really true? or the designer is just fooling the developers. I am really sorry if this question is not correct is this website
I have a number of layers in a Photoshop document. I want to find out what a specific layer's width and height is. How do I do that?
I have been seeing a lot of these buttons lately. I think it's a recent trend. I would just like to know the name for it so I can explore them further. In this sprite image, the buttons on the bottom with that bottom border is the style I am referring to:
I have been given an impossible task: Take a picture image (jpg) at 1422 x 1067 px with 100 dpi and scale it to 86400 x 29376 px (that's equivalent to 34ft x 100ft or 30.5 meters x 10.36 meters) Unfortunately there are times when a boss requests the impossible from their employee. This is one of those times. More specifically it was requested that "there be no pixelation (at a viewing distance of 2 feet (0.6 meters)." The easy (and right) answer is: It can't be done. But that doesn't mean you can't make the best of an awful situation. So what I'm looking for are techniques, or software solutions that specialize in this sort of huge scaling. I have heard of something in the past that blows up and image using circles. Granted, it doesn't look great from close up but from a greater viewing distance it looks more held together (like pointillism). I don't think there is a clear answer, which is why I was hesitant asking here. So I was wondering if this could be transformed into a wiki, because I'm sure I'm not the first or last to be looking up information regarding this sort of scaling.
Is there any software which can convert a photograph to a black-and-white outline containing tiny numbers stating which color to give each area?
Is there any way to convert a semi transparent object to a vector using live trace or any other feature in Illustrator? (For instance, a simple cloud)
I have a lot of symbols that use gradients which end up slowing down performance. Is there any way to disable illustrator from rendering items when they are turned off? It seems that even when I make them not visible illustrator still runs slowly which is why I believe it still does massive amounts of calculations even when they're turned off.
This may be an odd question. I can't bring up an example now that I'm looking for it, but often, I have seen software displayed on a Mac monitor on a site in a screenshot. When you click on the monitor the screenshot enlarges so you can get a better look. This can be replicated by some photoshop and some JavaScript, however, I was wondering if this is a common widget. Thank you for your help.
I have been reading, and following tutorials for about 8 hours now. My head hurts. I'm frustrated and it's late :) What I originally did with great success was have the color green and put a layer over that with clouds and made it transparent so that the solid green color wasn't so solid. I had an idea.... why can't I have a background color specified in my CSS say "green" or "Red" and then have a picture as a background so the color shows through. This way, I can use the same image, and change the underlying color at my whim on my website. And since it's just a pattern ( I used clouds under filter?) but I don't know how to make this work - if it will work. I tried a gradient with foreground color to transparency but I don't think that will give me the correct results because I'm specifying a color. To be honest - I don't even know if it's possible to do on the website. If I specify a background color and THEN specify a background image - won't the second one take precidence and the underlying color not be drawn at all? In short - what I would like to do is... make a kind of parchment paper like you would buy in the store... the cloud pattern does that fine for me. I am hoping that I can just specify a background color and have it bleed through the repeating PNG image on top of it. I was thinking about this - i don't know if it's possible... i had an idea after I wrote this - to make the image "soft" and "fluffy" like parchment paper different parts of the "clouds" would have different levels of transparency wouldn't they? The edge of the cloud would be barely transparent and the center of the cloud would be totally transparent... Maybe this isn't possible... Any tips please? Is this possible? Thank you for your time!
How would I go about making a simple, tiling texture with Acorn for Mac? Is there a tool, or a function or something I can't find, or can it not be done with such a simple application? If you know of a way to do this in Photoshop, there's a good chance it will work in Acorn.
The title really says it all. I want to design a poster for my home. But here's my question, if I lay out the text in photoshop, save it and then print it - will the text look pixelated? Or sharp enough like how in posters text normally does?
In Photoshop, when you change the canvas size, is there a way to move the anchor point using only the keyboard? cmd+alt+c opens the Canvas Size dialog, and I can tab to the dimension fields and change the values by typing new ones. But can I move the anchor location (defaults to centre) without touching my mouse?

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