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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 ...
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 ex...
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 ...
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 ch...
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'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 do...
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 as...
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 lit...
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 (i...
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 cust...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ridicu...
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? Ideal...
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...
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 Illus...
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 m...
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...
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 ...
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 light...
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...
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 h...
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 O...
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...
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 v...
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 r...
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 o...
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...
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' "...
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 ge...
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 ...
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 ...
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 me...
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 rea...
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...
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 sti...
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 poin...
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...
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'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 followi...
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 Tr...
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 on...
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 remo...
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 s...
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...
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...
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...
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 w...
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 th...
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...
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 Fe...
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...
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 ...
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 + extensi...
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 parti...
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 the...
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 Gradi...
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 othe...
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...
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 P...
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 speci...
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...
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, h...
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 ...
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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