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I set up in Illustrator > File > Document Setup .. black color as shown here I try to create white / colorful (but not back to be able to see) rectangles over the black background. So I've set some colors. But I can not see rectangles on the canvas. How able to see rectangle over black background? UPDATE Here are th...
I'm using Sketch 3 to make a horizontal subtraction composed by four ovals out of a rectangle. See images: Problem is though that the rectangle is still in "one piece". I can't simply delete the upper part half of it, something I'm used to do previously with Illustrator. Here instead I get some sort of masking betw...
Is it acceptable to center–align Arabic text and if so, is there anything I should take care of in this regard?
I'm so stuck and can't find an answer anywhere! Which printer is the best for printing greeting cards and stationery? I don't want to outsource as I'd like full control over colours, fonts etc. So a home printer that will ensure that my graphics don't fade. I print onto a thick, matte, slightly textured paper. Thank yo...
I write large techincal documents and I am in search of a font for them. These documents sometimes need to be written in Russian, so the font should contain cyrillic letters. I have discoverd JAF Bernini Sans and it is really gorgeous, but unfortunatelly doesn't support cyrillic. Could anyone suggest something similar ...
Ive got an image of a dial that i need to rotate i need to line this up with some other items that are not on a horizontal line. What id like to do is be able to draw a guide line for reference but i can only seem to be able to draw vertical and horizontal guide lines, any idea how i can draw diagonal guide lines ?
I'm attempting to remove (or cut) a portion out of a shape. The result of my operations are that the removed portion automatically is given the same border as the other shape before the "cut". Here are the steps that I took to achieve this: Create a number (42) Define Stroke with width 3px Path -> Stroke to Path Def...
I need to shape text into a volleyball "word" graphic. I have my volleyball (which is actually just individual arcs) and I have my text. I have been using the envelope distort-make with top object, but this is not yeilding the results I had hoped---any ideas how to achieve this task?
I've inherited a PNG file that I'd like to edit. It contains graphics and text elements. I've tried to select different elements (such as text box) but nothing will activate. Can anyone help. I do have the file if someone would like to take a look at it.
I explain the situation : I have objects in background and circles in front. I would like to select all objects in background that are contained in those circles area. The pathfinder will not work, because I need to select the complete objects and not just the anchor points contained in circles area. As in the screensh...
Problem / Question: I designed a logo for a little project I just began contributing on, but there's a problem: The F was unbalanced, meaning there was no way I could use this logo on rectangular button or shape. Ultimately the balance makes it a poorly designed logo. I've been working for hours to balance this thing,...
So i made this logo in Photoshop: https://p1.picsto.re/1nrtg.jpg Is there any chance to do it in Illustrator? What i need is the "shiny glass" effect i made the rest already: https://p1.picsto.re/kerdes1.jpg the white shine part is almost okay (i can deal with it if i can't do the same) but the black shadow part is a...
I'm trying to apply multiple colours in a single photography. The effect that i want is like this one: I've been playing with standard gradients, big brushes, opacities and saturations, but none of them give me this great colours overlayed to the image. Does somebody know any tutorial to do it? Thanks in advance.
How to design a golden spiral flower like this one?
Please help me find it, that would be great. I already tried WhatTheFont, but it didn't actually bring up the font I needed. Thanks chirag
I'm trying to draw a squigly line exactly like the one in the picture to be used as in illustration featuring Styrofoam peanuts. I've tried the pen tool (with my amateurish skills) and I've even tried using an S from a cool font but it wasn't quite right. Is there a way to do this well with the pen tool, or another tec...
Since I do not have and do not use Windows, I in fact, does not have Photoshop Im wondering if its possible to design a book cover using Gimp only? Or maybe there is another useful tool \|I could use to design a book cover? I know very little about graphics (I prefer programming and networks), I draw only on a paper, b...
I am trying to come up with a good design for a pair of icons that will be placed above a list of tags which filter a list of items. Basically the tags that are ticked can search using "and" or using "or" so you can find all items that have "tagA OR tagB" or you can search for all items with "tagA AND tagB". ...
In Illustrator it's easy to convert a 2 bezier handle anchor point into a end point (containing no handles) with the anchor point tool - as I did in my attached image: Is it possible to convert that end point (containing no beizer handles) back to a 2 beizer handle point (like it was to start with)?
I'm not sure I'm using the right language, but I'm stumped on how to google for this. Basically, I want to take a layer containing multiple objects, duplicate it, and apply effects to it. I have to do this four times, but what I really need is to have the original be linked to these new duplicates. If I shift the size...
I have created an artboard with some shapes overlay on each other. I want create a png export from the red one.(its actual size is 111*111) but when I drag and drop the red layer to the finder, its dimension is 232 × 311. it includes transparent pixels. how can I export the layer with its exact size? I don't want to u...
I have a drawing using Adobe Ideas app in iPad, then export it to PDF to open it with Inkscape. It is a vector image since I can enlarge it as much as I want. However the width of the stroke too big when I enlarge so I want to reduce it. When I double click on it, the result appears as the picture below and I don't kno...
Is there a formulaic system to adjust the color of the text on the black background below to compensate for simultaneous contrast and make it be perceived as the same color a the text on the white background? I'd rather not trust my eyes/monitor and thought maybe there was a standard formula like "reduce saturation by...
I have problem with printing from Adobe photoshop. When I try to print some colour or grayscale image, the DPI on the paper is very bad, but when I convert the same image into black & white mode, DPI is correct on the paper. It is even more weird because printed images have high resolution - about 4000x3000. (And I pri...
I'm a web guy trying to be a print guy. Help. I'm pretty OK with Illustrator, but setting up a vector to get printed - they rarely ever look as crisp and clear as I expect them too. I followed the guides listed at the particular print house I submitted my work too, but the print job was ... blurry and smudged and disa...
need some help identifying this font, I've tried online id but no luck... thanks here:
I'm trying to batch apply one specific Distort Effect to several different AI files at the same time. These are the settings for the Distort Effect I'm trying to apply: Distort / Tweak with the following settings: Horizontal = 5% Vertical = 4% Relative (checked) Modify: Anchor Points (checked) ‘In’ Control Points (c...
I need to send some professional/commercial e-mails, my design currently look like this: Helvetica is very widely used in printing, and according to Wikipedia: Miedinger and Hoffmann set out to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of ...
So I've been trying to create a long shadow effect in Inkscape using an SVG image. As you can see, I've been able to do this with a shape. But haven't found a way to do so with an SVG image. What I'd normally do is select both paths and choose Extensions>Generate from path>Interpolate, but of course, in my experience...
I'm using InDesign to create a manual containing slides and lines beside the slides to write notes. All the text boxes are linked and I want the spacing to be automatic. Is there a way to select my graphic frame (where I insert the slide pictures), and my lines for text and create an object style?
When I insert a page or pagination changes within my book, the headers\footers set in my masters center on the spread. The error does not occur when I insert a page that does not have a text box for the main content of my page. When I reapply my master an error pops up that the page size of my doc has changed from the ...
The 2 intersecting planes are the result of drawing a line from a top vertex to a bottom vertex. I am attempting to avoid these planes being drawn. I only want the line. When I select face style -> wireframe, the planes are not seen but are still there when another face style option is selected. My current work around...
Is there any support for emoji in illustrator or photoshop, and if so how do I access it? If not, why and when can we make this happen.
I have created a simple ellipse and then from one end to the other created a path using the pen tool that intersects this ellipse. I now want to divide the ellipse into two shapes using the path, however no matter what I do I can't get this to work. I am trying to use the pathfinder - divide tool, but when I apply this...
I am new to indesign. I always did all my print in Photoshop, which I know for multiple pages isn't the best route. What I want to do is start using inDesign but had one question: Can I create all my page graphics in a .psd file separated out in folders to use with indesign? For instance in one psd file I had 3 folders...
First off, some context: I am a second-semester senior in a graphic design program and will be graduated for most the the project described below. I have worked in an agency before as the main designer on a similar non-profit identity + web package, but this is the first time I will be doing it completely on my own. My...
He everyone, I am currently working on a project which requires me to shift the mentioned asset(in the pic) to the center of the canvas and crop the image to 120X120 px. The current image has the size of 300X300 px.There are around 300 image sequences that I need to do the same to. Was planning to run a batch process ...
I've tried whatthefont.com and the usual suspects but am having a hard time identifying this serif typeface;
If you take this image: Is it possible to make a gradient in Illustrator that follows that path? I made something similar (just not with a single path, but with the pen tool) and I want to have the gradient follow the shape, but instead it just goes either linear (top to bottom) or radial (from the inside out). I wa...
I need to get path of a letter of some font which is transformed to curves. I have a 512x512 px canvas with 350x350 px letter for example "R" in the middle. I need to export somehow a coordinates of points of Bezier curves. So I have that canvas with coordinates from 0,0 to 511,511 and some shape in it. But, when I sav...
my experience with wireframing or low fidelity prototyping tools is pretty bad. All of the tools is used seemed extremly time-consuming and limited in terms of creating. You always have a fixed set of elements to choose from, fixed layouts and always a drag & drop system which makes it really slow. Furthermore I coul...
I'm drawing using Inkscape on Linux. At the end I'll save the file as PDF and the figure will be used in many kinds of reports, so I'll insert the PDF file (in LaTeX) with different dimensions. Suppose that the original draw is 10cm x 10cm (the paper size on PDF info). If I had drawn a curve with line width 2pt and aft...
I have a PDF with a character that looks roughly like a backwards g and is typed using the WP font (it is a "k" in that symbolic font). When I export the text this gets logically switched to a k. I believe using alternate fonts for special characters was common before the expanded Unicode character set was established?...
I will find myself often resizing art boards in illustrator when Im designing websites (if a page needs to be longer or shorter) and wanted to know if there is a way to trim away transparent pixels on an art board just like in photoshop. Right now I just use the art board tool to resize it manually but if theres a quic...
Disclaimer: I'm fairly new at this, I haven't gone to school for it or anything, I'm just trying to teach myself this stuff as I go along, one piece at a time, so please, to the greatest extent possible, explain everything like I'm 5. So I'm using Adobe InDesign CS5.5 to try to put together a PDF… it's a book I'm wanti...
Before Transform: During Transform: After Transform: As the images above show, when trying to use the Transform tool to rotate a layer the pixels in the end-result are in different positions from the preview. This also happens during other Transform actions, but rotate is the most obvious. Is there a setting that wo...
UPDATED: ProKeys updated with new layout is available. You can check it out. Thank you! I did a recent redesign of ProKeys so as to minimize its space taking snippets. I changed this: Old layout (ignore the arrows and all; but notice only two snippets are shown at once) to this: New layout: Now it saves a lot of sp...
Hi everyone, I am working on an illustration project and came across this style of illustration. It has the effect of Airbrush/Noise on the edges. I have no idea if this kind of style has a specific name to it. Also, is there a way that I can achieve the same style in my illustration(brushes, etc.) Thanks in advance M...
I`m searching for solution how to arc these flags into this shape in adobe illustrator Thanks for solution.
I used "Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold" in a logo project. Now I need to deliver the original files including the font to my client. The font was free but not licensed. If necessary I will buy it before sending files but I'm confused: which license should I use for the logo? Is the desktop version (5 computer usable) sa...
I can't find out what font is this: I have used this awesome service where you upload a picture and it tells you what's the font is, but I don't agree. The 'a' is different. Here is the result. And here is an screenshot of the font's this service proposed:
For example, if I try to change the color of a text object it only updates the color of the text when I release mouse button. Similarly, when I am changing the opacity, it updates the new graphic only after I release mouse button. This is quite annoying when I am just trying to find the right color/value and don't wan...
With Google's Material Design style, most user interaction (tapping, pressing, etc.) creates a ripple from that point. The ripple is an expanding disc that's clipped by the widget (ignore the shadow): Google's demos never mention what should happen when you tap a button with an existing ripple; their Polymer library s...
I found this piece of script offer by a solution on exactly what I try to do here. But I have no idea and can find no related info about this jsx script. I wonder where should I put it or use it in Adobe Photoshop CS6? I tried to use the script with Script->browse and double click on the file named script.jsx where I p...
So I've made this open type hourglass, which I am happy with in terms of graphical style and realism, but the key feature is the skeleton inside of it. I have failed to make the skeleton match (in any sense of the word) the rest of the hourglass. Without Skeleton: With Skeleton: As you can see, the skeleton looks...
I have taken some images of food on a plate, and I know the image is not dead in the center. How can I crop the image so that the plate is in the center? Thanks
I do in-house graphic design for a retail store. We outsource the production of our short catalog-flyers, roughly ten facing pages and two covers. Among my duties is to maintain the ecommerce side of the retail store, from designing the marketing to implementing the code and data entry for the products. We use the home...
Could someone please tell me which font is used in this image? UPD (Ilan: better background + other letters)
After Windows 8 came out all spoke about "Metro UI" and later about the "Flat design". Now, after Android Lollipop came out all speak about "Material design". Can somebody explain the difference between "Material design" and "Flat style"?
Years ago as part of a school project to create a calendar, I made several retro patterns in Illustrator to use as backgrounds. I did all this by hand because I wasn't super familiar with Illustrator at the time, and creating patterns isn't something they teach you in classes. Anyways, I now have more experience with t...
What is the purpose of this adjustment? Why should I use it over just converting to grayscale?
I created this isometric grid, via the SSR method described in this tutorial. However, when drawing a rectangle, and copy-dragging it the 'rectangles' do not align. When drawing a straight line i see that the grid is not perfect vertically although i followed every step; 1: create grid (1000/1000 pixels, 30 collunms 3...
I am developing a web page for web based application, i am new to web design, so forgive if i have asked very basic question. i want to create icons and embed into my existing png image file. i have attached sample image below and circle the icon which i want. so i want to know how to embed the icons into the image, i...
I have a repeated image in my .psd file. I have a map that contains street numbers and i need to automatically remove all numbers. I am looking for a photoshop tool to remove each number. Is there such a tool? This is how the map looks like and i would like to highlight one number, say 4, and then remove all 4's from ...
So I have this strange Illustrator issue and I'm not sure if it's a bug or a "feature"... I'm using the latest version of Illustrator CC. I have rather thin grey rectangle: If a zoom in and want to resize the rectangle (using the Selection tool) and make it taller I just pull the handle down like this: and it works a...
The closest fonts I've found are Redensek and Kroeger, but they are not the one in the image. I'm looking for the font for "WINNER" and "OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT". I tried several font-identification services. Nothing came up.
I have created a design in Photoshop on 1170px grid. When I tried to convert to HTML I released that everything looks very big. Is there any short method to resize all fonts and images with some % in Photoshop without effecting resolution.
I was curious what is the process/ workflow for a web project. Specifically if you as a designer created a mockup in a (.psd or .ai), and you need to hand it of to the developer. Do you annotate the whole document like what is the... (font size, color codes, etc.) Or what other methods do you use, considering it could ...
Text items in my project are measured with pixels as I need it to be, but shapes - only in points, even though there are "Pixels" selected in Preferences->Units. In other project files everything's okay.
I need identify this font (or similar) (please only free-fonts, google fonts will be preciated). Similar fonts will be also upvoted because really helps me too. Thanks in advance.
this has been bothering me for a while and I can't be the only one. Somehow, I haven't found anything researching. So I create a very simple inDesign document for a letterhead, with standard margins. Like this: And I export it as .pdf with pretty standard settings. (No bleed, no printer marks). It looks just fine when...
When you open a folder the icon should appear with the text and link "No documents yet. Try creating a new document." I used an empty folder icon and another version with a document icon. The client doesn't like it. What is a meaningful icon to place to indicate a folder is empty?
How can you export the (x,y) coordinates of a layer with the rest of CSS properties? I can't export position values even placing them at 0,0
I am looking for software that will let me draw a very simple design and then convert it into different sizes and rotations without losing resolution. The goal is to lay a number of these out into a pattern. I'm not sure if I need to go for something as sophisticated as Illustrator. Will you kindly make some suggestion...
I don't get it, how do you search with multiple tags on Behance? For example say I want to search for "menu" as in interactive menu. The first result returns menus for restaurants so I enter the search term "interactive" in the search field and it replaces my first term "menu" with "interactive". Now I'm searching for ...
I have a text and white paths above it. I need to 'crop' the text with the paths... Similar to the "punch" of adobe fireworks. How I do this? thanks
I'm working on a project where I want to add a gradient over the bottom of a picture so it fades to the background. However, when I save the file to PDF, the gradient gets a grey color, not the black I selected. When I save as PNG, it doesn't change the color. Should I change something in my settings somewhere? I've t...
I have a style guide that says I shouldn't use specific color in keyline design, What does that mean? EDIT: The style guide defines colors, which are okay to use with keyline design, and some colors that are not.
I hope this is the right place. Tried Area52 for "printing" but that site is not launched yet. I have a "non sticky" situation where I need to be able to stick a model number down of a product to farming equipment but that must come off relatively easily when that product is upgraded. At the moment they are using vinyl...
I would like to know exact or similar font that is used for "316i", "318is", "325" or similar, in the following pictures of 1980s and 1990s e30 BMWs: I tried various web searches, including searching BMW enthusiast forums, but no luck so far.
SVG is also a vector graphics file format but I've never been requested for resolution choice when using Matlab or Inkscape. EPS however has these options. Why? If both are vector graphics formats, neither should need it, correct? Edit: Here is the request from inkscape for saving .eps files under resolution for raster...
Hello to all the graphic design professionals out there, I was wondering if you could share your experience on color printing on plastic bottles. (like this material) I am struggling because I chose a Pantone color (586C) design and went with two different print vendors. The result was that, the color came out diffe...
I have an AI file, which contains a logo, but if I want to convert the file into pdf format, it selects only a part of the logo (in the middle of the logo graphics there is a white box), what do I have to do to get the whole logo into the "white box", so when I save it as a pdf file the whole logo would get saved not o...
I have an imagemap with a click and mouseover function on several areas. I edited and saved the images in Photoshop with the option "Save for web". I used PNG-8 with 256 Colors. Performing the mouseover, the image changes. All the outlines of the forest etc. seem to be moving when I move the mouse over the mapped areas...
So I need to make some panels for one of those 4-panel stand-up convention displays and the template specs they gave me are clear about the bleed/trim and basic stuff, but it says "Resolution must be 100-120ppi" which has me confused. My question is, where can I set it to 120ppi in Illustrator since the only raster eff...
How do I create mockup templates for Logo design using Inkscape? I don't have Photoshop where mockup template can be created very easily. I have created a logo and I want to use this mock up as a base for my logo. I hope this image gives an idea what I meant. Is there any chance of doing it, as many mockups available...
What is the way to asign a text on a specific word and hide/show the text when clicking on that word in Microsoft Office Word? Much like working in Windows with folders -
I would like to have a simple split like this in Scribus. Is there any way to do that? Note that the real shape I need to cut is more complicate than that.
I am exporting SVG from illustrator and the text with special characters is falling apart with special characters. Is there a way to do this correctly? This is what it should look like This is what the SVG looks like Any Tips?
I'm making an icon for an Android app I'm developing. Android comes with icons for a lot of things, but I had to make my own to symbolize vibration being off. I'm using the same color, and when I look at them side by side on my computer they look the same. When I look at them on the phone, though, my icon looks more wa...
After Effects and other Mac only tools are popular among designers for prototyping animations of mobile apps. I wanted to know if there's anyone here who uses Blender for prototyping? If you do use could you tell me your workflow and experience with it?
I am going to develop a website in Tamil language using Photoshop and I wish to use open-sans font family to my website(Tamil language site), I already installed open-sans font family in my system but it not working on Tamil language text
I need to batch replace the white background on several thousand images. Is there a better way of doing this aside from setting up an action, selecting the white background and filling in colour?
When I export to PDF from InDesign I keep getting this error message: "This font could not be embedded due to licensing...The PDF will not be created if the glyphs cannot be represented." Yet the PDF still get created and nothing looks different. Is this because I have the fonts installed on my machine? I don't wanna s...
Im trying to colour replace the highlighted areas in the screen shot below, but when i use the colour replacement tool it dosnt seem to be able to colour these areas, any ideas ? Ive also attached the full image below for reference
This low poly tutorial made using illustrator shows how the artist rapidly uses eyedropper and pen tool to draw and fill triangles. You can see that he ain't adjusting the triangles and still can make perfectly adjacent triangles, what do you think is he doing?, including keyboard shortcuts.
I have auto traced a photograph in illustrator - its got thousands of vectors once I expand it and illustrator has converted each of them to a filled colour - I want to now trace the edges of them with a grungy brush but using the underlying fill colour. Where in illustrator can I stroke or outline these fills using th...
Ok, So this might be somewhat "subjective" but I am looking for some ideas. I want to represent distance as a bar graph (kind of) that gets "fuller" the closer the people are. The farther they are, the less full the bar graph if you will. I'm not sure how I would represent that. I have created this graphic to show you ...
I have .bmp of some text that needs to be vectorized, when I use image trace it comes out horrible and doesn't look like the text. If I knew what font they used I would just use the font and vector it. I'm working with just this low res image of text and they want it vector. Using the pen tool to draw each letter will ...
What would be a good format to share editable graphics for the web with a community of professionals that uses different editing software? Most users will need to translate and adjust only. The type of graphics are banners, social media graphics, illustrations and logos. SVG renders reasonably well in current browsers ...

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