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What is/are the font/s used on this T-shirt? I've tried WhatTheFont!, but so far without definite success. UPDATE In practical terms, I am looking for the actual (or a similar) font that is available on OS X.
Help me I dont know what this font is. I have tried using What the font and other programs. I believe its a older PC or Windows font but not sure. Can't find it. DM
I would like to turn this image into just a simple black outline. Like this simple hand drawn example below, but more precise.
I am using powerpoint slides (from Microsoft only) for use with poetry presentation on my website. I often wonder if it is fair use of powerpoint presentation slides. Please guide me in this regard. Another related question of mine would be the use of pictures of William Shakespeare (created in the 19th century) in a ...
I'm a graphic design student in the middle of creating book covers. I'm trying to find an action or at least a tutorial on how to do the effect done in the red. Does anyone know what this is called? I've tried "scroll", "scrollwork", and "engraving" but it did not turn up any results.
I am given a lot (about 300) of single, different size jewelry as .jpg images (necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, etc). I am asked to create and place a vector image of a metering scale (as the one below) next to each one of them. The issues are: Should I create the vector (metering scale) in photoshop or illustr...
Wikipedia says this about font weight: The weight of a particular font is the thickness of the character outlines relative to their height. Seeing this from the point of a mathematician, the outline is by definition a zero-width closed path. It also does not specify whose character's outline(s) is/are meant. If one l...
I am trying to make a poster 800x600 pixels in InDesign. When I open a new document I set the increments to pixels and then set the page size of the new document to 800 x 600 pixels. I then design the poster on the 800x600 document. Once completed I go to file, export, change the format to Jpeg and then save the file. ...
Is there a way to export style sheets from InDesign 5.5? Even a list of style sheets that can be printed or exported to Word will be okay.
I'm laying out a book. Images are in color. I want the book to be in black and white, with images using halftone patterns. Are there any export options to obtain this output?
Please take a look at this screenshot: What you see here are two shapes in Illustrator, both on a different layer. They are overlapped by a third shape, a blue box with 50% opacity. Why are the lines of the top shape darker than the one on the bottom? It's a total mystery to me, I have got to have missed some setting ...
I know that Illustrator and Photoshop both do a great job of showing you how far you have moved an object, in relation to its original position. As it is, InDesign displays the object's coordinates and that is all. Is there a way to display the delta values? I'm sick of doing this mentally, especially because ID can...
When I look at some CSS style for a web page, I typically first look at styling the <html> and <body> tags and then I look at other sub-elements. The styling of <html> and <body> tags is quite confusing by many web designers and I haven't find out some guidelines clarifying this topic. So I'm creating this question: W...
So, I'm trying to set up a rather strict grid system and wondering what the "rules" for dealing with the gutter and the baseline. Should they have the same value?
So, I've set up this baseline that works like a charm for the body copy. What are the rules for headlines? Usually if the leading of the headline is following the baseline it usually is looks too tight.
I've attempted (as a test) to make a circle with a bar going through it. The bar should go under one side of the circle and over the other. I've done this by splitting the circle into two objects, however there are visible seams where the split was done, even though the paths match up exactly. Also, the shadow under t...
I came acorss this picture online, but i'm not sure how to achieve it, its not overlay right? I think.
The resize tool just don't appear. When I try to resize, it only turn out that I only move my text box. Is there something wrong with my software?
I want to arrange a stack of images by their primary color/s - or another, aesthetic way by involving an algorithm, rather than my own poor judgement. Is there a tool for doing so? These are Photoshop CS4 layers, so a plugin solution would be great, but anything is appreciated :)
I'm trying to create a single image from using different single images I already have. I'm creating a new A4 document, but, when I try to open one of the images I want to add, it's smaller than the original one. How can I open them as new layers and keeping their original size?
I'm currently dealing with a problem of image quality for my website background image. I have a big blurred background image I'd like to use but would like it to be as small as possible in size for the website. To have it in it's highest quality (png), it's about 200kb. I can get it down to about 100kb as JPG but the q...
everyone.. please help me identify font name of below attach image. Which use is of font's name in this attach image's text. Advance thanks
I am wondering if it's possible to have works from Photoshop or Illustrator made from online tutorials, into your portfolio? If some work's design can be changed a bit, can it be counted like mine?
InDesign displays [registration], 100% of each ink colour, as a swatch in the swatches palette. It's impossible to remove the swatch. Why is this? I have never had the need to actually use [registration] in my works, as far as I know it's only ever used to create printer's marks, and that's done by InDesign when expor...
I have a logo in SVG format that I am using on a UI Prototype I'm creating using HTML5. I created the SVG using Inkscape. Today I noticed the logo's font-weight has changed, and I can't seem to change it back. I've been using this logo for months without an issue. I'm not sure if newly added CSS could be changing it, b...
I am trying to draw some electromechanic components in SVG format files. In the example below, you can see the symbol for one of these components in which I have filled the squares with a linear pattern. I have tried to do this with MS Visio and with Adobe Illustrator: In MS Visio, the pattern is shown in the exporte...
I am pasting a jpeg from photoshop into Illustrator CS6, say 5 inches wide. When I used Illustraor CS4, it would come in at exactly the physical size you copied from PSD. Now it gets pasted in .ai CS6 huge. Then I have to reduce to fit my page. What's different?
I'm trying to automate assets generation with batch file processing and few actions applied to each file. Everything is fine, except I need to run "Extract Assets" command from new 14.1 CC and when I do so in "Record action" mode – nothing happens. Extract Assets (unlike Safe For Web, that work fine!) just ignored. An...
After you've made the background transparent, color selected the background and inverted the selection to outline all the character sprites: Is there a shortcut or some quicker method/program/tool to turn each sprite into an individual selection and then turn each selection into an individual layer? If not with GIMP, a...
I have to create and a large number of icons (multiple sizes and colors of a couple hundred icons). Sizes can range pretty drastically (largest at 256x256px, smallest at 14x14px) so I also have to be able to be able to have really nice sharp vector-like shapes at the larger sizes and pixel-perfect icons at the smallest...
I have been trying to work with using iconography for the status of a booking, which allow my app users to pay now or pay later. After they have selected from these options, they are presented with a list of bookings, which the "Paid" or "Pay Later" details are a part. As there are more important details displayed on t...
I'm a student in textile design but I do a lot of my work in photoshop and Illustrator for textiles. In my course we have a fabric printer, however everyone only prints their fabric in meters and not in the shapes of patterns. I wanted to know if there was a way I could draw up a dress/skirt/shirt pattern exactly on Il...
How can I get a sharp and quality print with the right color settings? I use a windows version of Photoshop CS6. I get my colors looking nice on the laptop but after print, the colors either appear dull or not exactly the colors I saw when designing.
i've been trying to do this for hours but so far i haven't made any progress. I have a site with a few animations in it, some will be activated on click and some on hover. something similar to the animation found in this site : http://www.pixelwrapped.com/ the cat tail is reponsive as in when you scale the broswer it s...
I want to display an image and have the pixels big and clearly visible. As it's common to display scaled image with some form of smooth filtering, the best option is to scale up the image resolution without interpolation (i.e. nearest). I have quite a few and need automation, hence ImageMagick. I'm certain I've done th...
When i scale down a logo in an illustrator files ( i expanded all the effects and appearances) i get some weird artefacts, the curves get distorted. Is their any way around this ? Because exporting the logo and importing it as PNG seems a bit dumb for print.
I've been trying to find an icon that represents a Pokémon moves list for an app I'm developing, mind you this is an Android app and the icon will go directly to the ActionBar on a opaque background so it will have to be completely white and really simple, I've thought of a boxing glove of some sort or crossing swords,...
I am trying to create an elbow connector between two boxes on a flow chart. for some reason I am not having success. Whenever I use the Pen tool to create the points it automatically creates a line joining the first and last points of the connector. Imagine a line connecting the two arrow heads on the example shown he...
I need exactly 87x87px resolution after I expected SVG, but I do not how how in Adobe Illustrator.
How can I determine the exact size to export art for use in slides of Google Presentations without having to re-size once I bring them in to Presentation? I would like to create the original art at the same size as what I will use in Google Presentation so that I don't have to duplicate my efforts. I went into page set...
We recently created a new logo and every time we paste/place the logo in Photoshop, we get a strange 1px line between two shapes in the logo, going vertically through the middle. So here's the 612px x 612px Illustrator Export And here's the exact same shape copied, and pasted into a 612px x 612px Photoshop document. ...
What file format (ex: GIF, mov, etc) should my graphics artist/fledgling animator use to create the logo sequence for my new movie production company, please? I submitted a storyboard of .png images to him to animate.
I've seen quite alot of these the best way to make a pattern like this I found was to make a blurry image with a buch of colors (similarly to this image blurred @50px or so) get that into illustrator, have your pattern in a live paint group in illustrator and then just toggle between the eyedropper and the live paint ...
I'm working on a web page design, I have the content as a list view of upcoming events with some details about each event (time/location/description....etc) with 2 links at the top of the list to change between upcoming and past events. That's pretty much all what the page contains beside the menu and the logo at the t...
I'm wondering what the best way to insert a photo of someone "through" the center of a vector shape would be in Illustrator CC. I've done this in the past through a variety of shape building techniques, but the gradient I'm using this time is throwing me off. Essentially, I have cropped photos of both people pictured,...
This is the centerfold map in a booklet printed for the homeless. The numbers represent the page number that the information on each service provider is also found. We are limited to black and green for two color printing. It looks too busy and we would love other ideas on how do label a map like this. Thoughts?
I am planning to make a scientific poster with the comic style. The idea is inspired of the comic poster from Michael Barton's blog: Everything is fine. However I kinda feel that this font is not very suitable for poster, by which the viewers stand from a distance. On the opposite side, if I decide to use a more forma...
I have an image but on the top of the image there just isn't enough room to make it applicable for my desired application. Therefore I would like to extend the pattern that is clearly visible in the background. The pattern and image are the following: I tried using the content aware filter and this gives me the follow...
I am the graphic designer and sole prepress person for a small quick print shop. I often come across issues with a file to be printed and cannot make the needed changes or compensations as they arise due to the file hand-off from the clients' designer. For example, we use EFI Fiery Command Workstation to print our jobs...
i'm in the process of making a graphic novel together with a scriptwriter. We're both at our first attempt in making a graphic novel although we are not new in drawing (me) and scripting (him). This is the first time that i have to deal with a "flashback" situation without explicitly stating FLASHBACK (or whatever kind...
I'm having a custom deck of cards printed using images of varying resolutions. The card printer asks that all images be at 300dpi, the industry standard for printing. Certain images that I've uploaded have triggered a "low resolution" warning in the printer's interface. The source images are typically much larger than ...
Im no pro with Illustrator, but I can work my way through it pretty well. I was working on some type today, and every time I click on an object to place it somewhere,when I get to my destination, the object is shaky. I have to move it back and forth a few times to get it in place. I'll place it where it should be, and...
I have a PNG image with transparency. It is an icon of single color and I want to change its color. What I have done so far is, Select the area I want, either by Fuzzy select or the color select tool. Color with the bucket fill. However I get rough edges, not blended with the transparent background. How can I achieve...
I am trying to achieve the exact effect as on the image above, starting from a screenshot. Any links to similar PS tutorials would be of great help.
In Adobe Illustrator CC (latest version) I often find myself copy/pasting artwork from one file to another. The problem is the artwork in one file is often larger than the destination Artboard, so I have to zoom out, re-size, then move back onto Artboard ... etc. Is there a way I can 'smart paste' by telling illustrato...
I'm using Adobe Illustrator to produce the UI designs for a complex web app and I need pixel accuracy. However, Illustrator seems to be a bit of a pain when it comes to pixel accuracy as its not doing what I want it to do right now, and so I'm looking for some assistance. To break it down into an example, I have simple...
What's the border color paradigm in terms of color schemes and background color? Some borders look nice on some backgrounds. Is there a rule of thumb when choosing div's border colors in respect to parent div color? Can you advise me on what to consider when choosing a colour for an elements border?
In Adobe Acrobat, you can process a document using the "Create Links from URLs" function to automatically detect email and web links in a pdf file and make them live links. I want to do the same thing for phone numbers. You can manually tag phone numbers using the tel: code. (tel:+000000000). and they will be active li...
I'm trying to convert a letter "A" to a shape using the Type -> Create Outline function. However, the converted shape does not maintain the straight lines in the letter. Here is the original letter (before outline) and zoomed in to the bottom right corner. After being outlined, it looks like this If you look closely...
I have a 1920x1080 PSD with many layers (close to a 100) of emeded assets that I need to extract at 66.67% (scaling down to a standard 1280x720). Is there a way to add a custom size on export? (all is offered is the 0.25x, 0.33x, 0.5, etc...) In addition! Is there a way to add JPEG (quality 75%) AND PNG (with Transpare...
I am creating a logo using the acronym HSSC (High School Student Council). Here is the current logo. My question is: What is the best/proper arrangement of letters in this type of logo to read "H S S C" most naturally? We were debating between the current arrangement, on the basis of its clockwise orientation, or ...
As a Blender user for 2 years, I'm very comftoble with its workflow and I found modeling in 3DS Max a bit of a slower process than Blender. For example, Extruding in Blender can be done by hitting "E" with a selected polygon and the new polygon follows the cursor in the direction of the axis specified by a shortcut. Th...
I'm using fat, rounded strokes to create objects with rounded corners. I've been combining, using Union, an unstroked version of my object with the results of 'Stroke to Path' but it seems like there must be a quicker way. What's the most direct way to go from A to B? EDIT: Sorry, forgot to mention this question applie...
I know how to do this with photoshop, but is there an easy way in illustrator to just delete this specific(marked in blue) line of pixels, while in pixel preview?
I need a database to upload my artwork so they can be shared between myself, another designer and manufacturer. I'd like some suggestions of different services used within the designing community. I'd like to be able to upload the file and be able to label colors. I want all info right in front of me when I pull up th...
I am preparing a PDF for use on black-and-white e-readers. Most of the pages will contain illustrations. I noticed that, on black-and-write e-readers, the graphics do not look very good, so perhaps I do not need to put high-quality graphics into the file prior to exporting the PDF. Is there any method for optimally pre...
I am currently using custom spacing for a design that I am working on. But further discussion with an app developer, I was told that custom font spacing would not be possible. I just want to confirm if there are fonts similar to the Lobster font, with a default spacing larger than Lobster. Many thanks in advance, Maya...
With Inkscape, I drew two rectangles, one with CYMK 20/100/0/0 and the other with 2/56/0/43. Since those two colors are different in the CMYK color space, I expected them to print in different colors. Yet, a (at least my) printer prints both rectangles in the same color (at least in my eye). So, why is my assumption wr...
I'd like to find out how I can create a map similar to these: especially for web design project (in psd file). Do you know how to get that kind of maps? I suppose it can be something like http://snazzymaps.com/ but I'm not sure. Hope you could help me a bit.
In my psd from designer I have a background like in the red rectangle. This pattern doesn't show up in any Photoshop patterns. (maybe it's inner psd container) How could I fetch a small rectangle from Photoshop and use it as a css background, having it repeat seamlessly without any bugs or borders etc.? How do I fetch...
I'm using Photoshop CC. I've created a GIF animation with a text, circles etc etc. This text (and other items) is showing fine in Photoshop, but, when I do "Save for web" and open the GIF, the text become not clear at the end of the animation, like the image above: The problem seems to be related to the background col...
I need some help in finding some application(iOS/system) where I can view my Photoshop file in real time on my iPOD(5th gen). I have tried Adobe Edge Inspect. Is there a better alternative? If viewing a Photoshop file is not possible, then maybe a PNG. Thanks, Mayank
I have made a shape and did 'Stroke Path' to paint it with the brush. I want to make the shape a dashed line so I set the Shape Dynamics and the Angle Jitter to 'Direction'. When I paint the shape, this is the result: The blue middle line should be following the path. How can I do that? It should be something like th...
I would like to create a border only on one side of a rectangle. That border would have that modern zigzag stroke that is present on so many websites. Just like on this photo : I've tried creating a triangle and adding it as a brush (pattern brush to be more precise). However, it didn't work out well because the tria...
I am using photoshop to design a t shirt.. As for the photo to look like reality I have taken a picture of a t shirt which has wrinkles. Now when I keep my Image(design) on the tshirt, it is looking like that I have kept a design. But I want the design to adjust in a way that it will adjust according to the wrinkles. I...
I have a 70-page InDesign document - a product catalog - that has been made with "Intent: Web" and dimensions 1600 x 900 pixels. The main target for the document is screen, but we do also want to print a few copies. When the PDF is exported, the size is set to 564,4 x 317,5 millimeters. We want to print at roughly A4 ...
Please tell me how do I get rid of redundant lines in illustrator? I covered them up using a clipping mask, but when I go into Outline Mode I can still see/modify them. I'd like to get rid of them.
I have made a path in Photoshop and I created a shape. The shape has a dashed stroke. I want to paint every dash in an other color. How can I do that? I tried changing the stroke color but I can only set or 1 color or a gradient. But I would like to change every 50px or so in an other color. Can someone tell me how to ...
Here's my problem: I'm using Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 and I'm trying to scale a grouped object uniformly or proportionately but the shapes that make up the object move out of place. Here's what I'm looking at: Before Scaling After Scaling The chicken coop is made up of individual triangles. I have grouped them and ...
I am a beginner level graphic designer using primarily GIMP, but getting into PScc. For now, I'm creating primarily for print on demand products (you know the stuff), but I'm working at learning how to design logos as well. Here's my question: It seems as if for designing logos in PScc my best option is to choose point...
I'm really interested in doing design work from other computers throughout my day. Instead of installing programs and fonts onto each location's computer, I was wondering if I could do all of this from an external harddrive? I'm also working on some computers that have limited access. I wonder what kinds of things I ...
I have a client that only has hard copies (business card and letterhead) of their logo. It's pretty simple, but I would like try to match the font as closely as I can. Here is an image of their business card logo. Any help is appreciated!
Rephrasing my question for clarity. I have a navigation bar that I've created from a Shape that has a border and a gradient. How can I use Generate Assets, or Extract Assets to get 2nd end caps and a repeating 1px-wide vertical slice for both 1x and 2x resolution? i.e. from the Shape I want to end up with end-cap-lef...
I have a water droplet I've designed using a mesh and a gradient for a glare spot. However, I need to make it as easy as possible to swap the base color of the droplet. I need to export for versions in dozens of colors - but I'm not clear on the best way to do this. Rather than duplicating the layer and editing all co...
I am trying to redesign my site however I am a developer and have no real UX experience beyond a VT 1300 course. I have chosen a color from my logo and created a complementary color scheme using color.adobe.com however my site just doesn't look "right". Here is a mockup done in Photoshop I just don't think it is worki...
I am a newbie on Illustrator and am trying to produce an image that contains a paper that is divided/torn to, say 3, pieces. I don't want to rather throw torn pieces (similar to torn paper effect available on the net) but show the sliced pieces separated from each other on the same image. For now I am just trying to ge...
I have to make an e-book that contains code snippets. I am using GREP to select all code tags (bounded by <> — triangular brackets), and apply a custom style to them. The RegEx I have developed: http://regexr.com/39puq Works fine online. However, it does not work in InDesign. I've attached an image (see the difference ...
I have a project where I need to extract Vector Smart Objects as SVGs to use on a website. I'd like to make a single file with these SVGs - it looks like IcoMoon.io will do this for you. I've extracted each Vector Smart Object layer as an svg (right+click layer, export asset) and then uploaded the files to icomoon. T...
I was searching for serif fonts on Google Fonts and happened across Marcellus. However, if I were shown it out of any context, I'd call it a sans-serif font. I can see small hits of what might be called serifs, but on most characters it just seems like a tapered-out stroke. Is Marcellus considered serif, sans-serif, o...
"Chibi" or "super deformed" (SD) is a "cartoonish" art style that involves making characters two to three heads tall. One example of a well-known work that consistently uses a chibi art style is the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, as well as its animated adaptations. I understand a couple uses of the chibi style...
Ok so I got this huge document, about 1.5 x 1.2 metters and because I was working a little bit fast the aligning of some elements wasn't pixel perfect but is more or less accurate. Now that I've finished setting all this elements I want to align them so they are all placed correctly. The problem I'm experiencing now i...
I use CorelDraw for creating wireframe layouts for iOS app UI. For this I need to set up a rectangle as following, to act as screen boundary: Size in pixels: 640 x 1136px Size when unit changed to millimeters: 51.7 x 90.4mm This can help realistic pixel-level control, and at the same time printing on a paper in actual ...
With the new size and resolution of the iPhone 6+', including the different (CSS) pixel ratio (Retina HD: 3:1), I was wondering if the navigation bar height has changed. Is it still 88px and thus the content area has grown, or has it adapted and does it have (in ratio) the same height, thus 132px in height? Or.. Anyway...
My daughter loves drawing - using pencil. She wants to be a Graphic Designer - mainly for video games area. We got her a drawing tablet, but she is more comfortable using the pencil. I have not idea if GD is the best thing for her, &/or how I can help her. Are there any events, seminars, she could attend to? She i...
In Photoshop CC, the pen tool contains the shape layers option. where can i find that shape layers option in Photoshop CS6? Everytime i do shape fill, it wont allow me to subtract front shape. so, how do we find the shape layers option for the pen tool?
I was working on a file and Illustrator suddenly crashed, just wondered if the data gets saved somewhere. Any tips?
I recently found an amazing fractal image that apart from his beauty it fascinated me for the texture present in the petals: The problems is that after days trying with the wave filter (and some other techniques) applied to some lines, I realized that is impossible for me to imitate the neon-like effect. I have made c...
I'm in the process of building a custom logotype, drawing each character using a combination of the shapes, the pathfinder and the pen tool and I am currently crafting the 'B' character. I would like to know if there is a way to take any 2-point curve (a curve created from two handles) and quickly turn it into a perfec...
A pharma client of mine who I do artwork and packaging design for has asked for all .ai files to be given to them for compliance with ISO 9001 manual. Is this normal? I ask because I don't have a contract with this company and even though they technically own the artwork they paid for I'd be afraid they would be handin...
I just saved an .ai file as a .pdf and opened it afterwards to check size and quality. This is when I noticed the saved file was lower in both color and resolution, than the original .ai file. After some resaving and playing with settings, I decided to open the file in Google Chrome. This shows the file in full-res and...