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I want to keep all my books in ID, including my imported graphics. Can I bring all my CDR files into AI?
I'm trying to make a 4 panel graphic presentation for one of those table-top convention displays so I made a new file with the right resolutions, bleeds etc set. I also made it 4 artboards in 4 columns like seen in the image below with the proper spacing etc. My question is, how do I save each artboard as individual ...
I made a Logotype for my client, who is designing a casual leather fashion. I know that a similar question was asked allready, but I have to add something more, because this logotype goes not only for Online or ATL, but on materials as well, like : label, so it is going to be: 1.embroidered 2.embossed ( on leather) ...
I want to make specific part of a path wider. Width tool (cs5) gives me unwanted results on the rest of the path. Brushes do not offer control for bulge positions on long swirly paths. Even calligraphy brushes. (I do not want "ribbons"). How people digitally make SPECIFIC lines for calligraphic fonts and swooshes? How...
A group of programmers and designers are making a Trading Card Game (TCG). I work mostly on creative material. The Java game client is using JavaFX for GUI and we are looking to use primarily vector-based images, as the art for the TCG will be mostly comic book style. We are looking to select a file type that is compa...
When attempting to build a mobile app and decide its visual design, means colours, shapes, etc, should we design the Icon first which is going to lead the look and feel of the app or should we design the visual for the app first and finally the according icon?
I have a project which needs to be done in Pantone 18-2140 Carbaret color and I have no idea how to find it in illustrator. I went through all color books :( I would really appreciate your help. Thank you, Marta
Latin fonts that imitate the appearance of other scripts have been around for a while. Here are a few examples: (Link), imitates Devanagari (Link), imitates Kufic Arabic (Link), imitates Katakana This, then, brings me directly to my question: Does the reverse exist, i.e. is there a non-Latin (e.g. Arabic) font that...
I have drawn this in illustrator: It's just a circle and a hand drawn line with the paint brush tool on top of each other. How do I go about filling in on of the two halves with a color?
How I can add an anchor point for each intersected selected paths in illustrator automatically? I know smart Guide and add anchor point tool can do the job but it will add just one anchor in the front path only. If I use pathfinder outline or the scissors my paths get cut and I have to re-join them again one by one.
I have a shape derived from the letter i: Each of the blue “waves” and the two orange crosslinks are a path, the dot is a circle. I want to make the shape derived from a script i instead, following roughly a curve like this one below the dot: I tried using Pattern along path, but it ended up doing strange distortion...
I have a customer who says their engineering dept needs a logo done in AutoCad to give him the detail he needs. He says importing an illustrator .dxf file doesn't give him the "quality" that he needs? Has anyone run into this?
All I want is the Illustrator equivalent of what right-click -> Perspective does in Photoshop. Normally I would just use the Free Transform Tool, but it doesn't appear to let me do it with an imported raster image like it does so nicely on a vector. I also don't need the Perspective Grid to snap to or anything like tha...
I am trying to make a calendar, so I have downloaded a simple calendar template (InDesign Markup Document) which has 12 pages for each month The 12 pages contains just text for each month with all the days on and the master contains the grid that the days go into. I want to be able to copy everything on the page includ...
What are the best practices people follow in respect to images on larger viewports? What size browser should we design for? Meaning how do we deal with high resolution monitors and what % of users have large screens? How can we best deal with the height of hero images, as we really need to decide which screen resolut...
Sorry for the question. I am new to graphic design. I am a developer. I just bought an icon bundle for iOS & Android applications. I found that the colors are only black & while. The icons come with some formats such as PNG, PSD. I just want to modify icons colors. I only used Windows Mspaint application before. Can s...
I always have this problem. I want to use the pen tool due to it's curves to draw beautiful vector curves. But I also sometimes want to draw a new path from a specific anchor point. When I try, it "blows" the curve out. Sorry I'm not very good at explaining. Here is my example. I'm trying to recreate the shape you see ...
I've seen this font on facebook and have been looking for this kind of font for a long time. I've tried using online services to identify the font name but none of them could provide a correct answer.
I created this leaf shape by drawing two circles on the same layer using the "intersect shape areas" setting. The leaf "shape" is still treated as two circles - photoshop just shows the portion where the 2 circles are intersecting. Is there a way to turn that intersection into a actual single shape? Like this (drawn q...
I am looking to covert an HTML page to a PDF and wanted to have some expert advice. The sample of the HTML page is here
Gmail (for instance) shows this dotted widget next to the email items to hint that you can drag'n'drop them. Is there a generally recognized name for this? Grab bar? Handle? (this sounds too generic)
I'm trying to use the anchor point of an image, that is large two entire pages, to anchor it at the text that it is in the precedent pages, like in this image. The problem is that when I try to do that, the image goes to that page, as a background to the text. How can I do to anchor the image but mantain it in the pos...
Ok so I designed a 106 page cookbook that is going to be spiral bounded. I created my InDesign document with a 3mm bleed and facing pages. On some pages there is an image that is stretched between two spreads, and some full bleed images. My question now is how do I export this to PDF to send it to the printers. Thanks ...
I need a tool or a method letting me align two text areas based on a specific line in one textarea to the other. in my case I have a headline in on texearea and need to align the rest normal text line with the first line in the second textarea as show in the attached file. so how can I Keep lines text lines align toget...
How do I create an 8x8 square brush, with no smoothing in GIMP? Do I actually have to create a custom brush? You'd think that the pencil brush would work but the size seemingly doesn't line up with the actual dimensions of the square it makes. I.e. The pixel brush at size 11 is a 9x9 square? What? Size 10 is 7x7 so it...
I would like to get jpg, png, or similar file that contains blue diamond pattern similar to the one in the following picture: Also, I would like to know if such pattern is pattented, ir protected in some other way, that would stop me from using it. I appreciate your time spent on this issue.
I have a rather large (5 by 1 meters) banner and I'd like to see an specific section of it in real size. I know I can tile the document on the print dialog on InDesign to be able to print it in real size in (many) A4 sheets. Can I specify one page of the automatic tile to be printed? How? Thanks!
I'm trying to arrange some names. I changed them out before posting using generatedata.com but the real ones are in alphabetical order from left to right each row. I'm trying to figure out how to get the "columns" evenly spaced, as you can see the right column has extraneous space on the right side of it. I'd like in t...
Was trying to install Bebas (5 weights)from here: http://fontfabric.com/bebas-neue/, but only Thin Light and Bold show up when I open Photoshop. Is there something that I have to configure to show all 5 weights? Thank you.
How can I add a border of 100px to all sides of a jpg that is made up of the perimeter pixels stretched out and blurred? e.g. the border to the left of the image is just columns 1-3 stretched horizontally and blurred together?
Substrate by Jared Tarbell is a procedural art work in the Processing language that I'm discovering again. Here is a screenshot of the program's execution on my computer: The program uses a .gif resource file for the colors(scaled up jpeg here): I would like to know what this palette "is made of" in terms of color - ...
Adobe Illustrator CS6 After setting the document dimension and bleed, I realised that the default white artboard won't go into the bleed region (5mm), and that remains as grey. So, almost out of OCD, I made a pure white shape stretching towards all the bleed borders and set it in it's own locked layer, like a white bas...
It is same editable poly, How to connect this 2 parts into solid geometry
Currently, Photoshop allows us to Paste a second image into a previous one and then re-size it manually using Free Transform. I would like to know if there is any method or software that allows us to automate this process. Just draw a selection area on an image, click on the selected area, select an image file and hav...
I have created 9 images with 2500x1500 resolution using illustrator and saved it as png for my game, it shows 10-20kb each of them but while the game is running they are 100mb in ram , I know that png of 10-20kb is compressed png but 100mb for 9 images is really big so how can I make that png images smaller (file size...
I am wondering whether quotes need to be included in text positioning. See example below: Is this correct? Or should the quotes be disregarded when positioning the text? What's the best way to align a highlighted quote in an article, in relation to the positioning of the body text?
Can anyone help me identify the font used in this logo?
In fireworks, I can select parts of an image to keep at a lower compression (85) when exporting, leaving the rest of the image to be compressed at the higher setting (60). I cannot find that option in Photoshop CC 2014, but have found some articles that use Photoshop 6 to export such a jpeg. How does one create an imag...
I came across a LaTeX package called pst-slpe. It is part of the PSTricks bundle for generating ps graphics in LaTeX. A particular type or gradient, called radslope (or radslopes) is defined in this pst-slpe, which looks like: For some reason, I need to realize this in AI. It has to be vector graphics so PS is out of ...
am trying to create a brochure in Photoshop. But how do you get such a folded effect i.e. when I want to show the brochure to someone else as a preview, I want to make it look as if it's folded (like in the image below): (image courtesy: http://maxcdn.photoshoplady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/design-a-proper-folded...
I've drawn a path with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. I did some other work, but now I want to extend the path with more points. How can I continue drawing the path where if I click off of the path, it generates a new anchor point and connects it? I know I could keep adding more points along the existing path using...
Is it possible, to disable appearance of pixel grid, when selecting pixels (e.g. use of region selection, magic wand, lasso and other selection tools)? I'm work with pixel art, and I always turn this grid to off, and when want to move region of pixels, that grid appears, which not very comfortable (especially when need...
Sometimes when I click on an anchor point with the anchor selection tool, and then move my mouse, the entire shape will move. Other times, just the anchor will move. How do you choose between moving the entire path or just the anchor point with the anchor selection tool?
I want to color sketches in Photoshop, but when I prepared the sketch (using Levels, Hue, and other modifications) to turn it into workable line art, some details were missing. I think it depends on how you draw your sketch. What are important steps for drawing a sketch (with pen or pencil) that is to be colored in Pho...
I'm going to cast my own bathroom countertop in concrete. We are trying to match the floor tiles in black level, so I did three samples, each with a double amount of pigment than the last. Of course it didn't match. The big big one is the target. You can use white pigment if you need to make it more less dark. Of cour...
I am a beginner at photoshop and am going a bit crazy here: I have a flowchart and am trying to use the slicing tool to include URLs into my flowchart image. However, when I optimize it for the web and export as a jpeg I don't get my image but 6 slices of the image in one folder. Is there any way to export as the same ...
It is quite hard to explain in words so I will show screenshots of what i would like. This is a screenshot of what happens when I drag with the pen tool. This is what I would like to happen. Is there a shortcut to drag out only the first handle?
I'm creating a UI animation for a phone. I've got it so the menu transitions slowly moves in from the side. However as you can see the menu can be seen coming in from outside of the screen like the image below. How can I make it so the layer can only be seen within the green rectangle, so I can keep the same transition...
I created a scene in Maya in which I created my enviroment (flour, walls etc). In another scene I designed my character and I hooked up it's rig. Now I am looking for a way to export my character from one scene and import him in to another one. I did a google search and all I could find was exporting for blender, expo...
I would like to ask for a general advice on how to use Inkscape to create a "sprite sheet" of letters and numbers. I am developing a Scrabble-like word game and initially was planning to display the letters and values on the letter tiles programmatically: Unfortunately, while it seemed to work at the emulator (see abo...
I have a geology map where I have to outline lines of different styles (dotted, or solid), and eventually I have to fill arbitrary enclosure of these lines (so e.g., sometimes I need to fill a shape enclosed partly by solid and partly by dotted lines), what would be the best way to do this in inkscape? I'm thinking of ...
I drew a splinter with multiple lines and joined them. Now I'm trying to add white as the background color with the paint bucket but it changes my brush line effect. Help ...
I am curious to know how those "customize -random product-" objects are built. I assume some sort of flash is involved. There are many websites that allow you to customize shoes, shirts etc, and when you choose an option, it changes the product as you continue through the creation process. What is that being built with...
I'm trying to do some research into these types of logos but I can't find anything of use on Google using the buzzwords - 'Cross logo', 'X logo', 'X with text around logo'. Is there a certain name for this design?
I own a PNG (640x1136), that I want to resize in order to fit all the smartphone screens. I have Photoshop and illustrator. I opened Photoshop, right-clicked on the PNG, and select "Edit Contents", that opens Illustrator. However, the work space (in Illustrator) is totally blank, no trace of my SplashScreen mo...
I have a rotating 3d image on a transparent background psd. How do I render/output it in Photoshop CC to keep the transparent background as a set of 32bit pngs to create a video?
I'm working on cutting up a web design template and this has bugged me for years. On my psd file I have a bunch of layers and I want to crop out the arrow icon without anything in the background making it transparent when used on a site. I usually just guess and hide layers until I find the correct one. It would be gr...
Is there a way to create text bullets in illustrator? I'm trying to mimic or recreate something done in PowerPoint. I think I know how to manually create the character (•), but was hoping there was another way of doing this.
I want to rearrange the below text to read "Split Screen" instead of "Screen Split". How do I do that in Photoshop?
I initially drew a picture in Illustrator at 700 x 1270 pixels at 300 ppi. Unfortunately when converting...the pixels come out at 2915 X 5289 because of the 300 ppi. This is waaaay too big for the project I am working on. We need the pixels to be EXACTLY 700 X 1270. 72 ppi does not have this pixel conversion issue. I w...
Im currently using mac os and the font for illustrator is set to Helvetica. However, my colleague uses Windows and he doesn't have Helvetica. Will my design consisting of Helvetica font change when my colleague views it?
I am working with a logo that is using ChunkFive Roman. What's the standard web design practices regarding this? Is it good design to use the same font as my logo for primary headers?
Often, when making simple 3D models, one can intuitively create their 2D version and then just somehow turn this version in 3D model. In my case, I'm trying to make ant egg model and this is my 2D curve: The rings are illustrating the rotation I want to achieve to get the 3D model - almost cylindric egg. How can I do ...
This doesn't seem complex, and I'm not a beginner but can't figure it out or find answer online. I want to be able to trim a series of lines to fit in a complex shape (lay the shape over a group of stroked paths and trim them so only segments that are within the shape remain). I want actual truncated line segments left...
I am hoping to create a simple logo for a new website using Gimp. I am working with two images and a short line of text. I have the following images: The map will be the background/filler of the logo The sun will be the final outline/shape of the logo, filled with the map pattern. Basically, I want the map image cu...
My company is trying to slowly move towards digital and we are in the process of learning Adobe Muse as a stepping stone to more legitimate web practices. One issue we continue to encounter is our images moving when we export the site. The photos are usually in a text box with a text wrap applied. My questions: Why d...
My column-spanning-paragraph breaks the desired text flow. This illustration probably makes it clear. How can I force the text to flow from left-top to bottom to right-top to bottom? The page is ONE text-frame. I would like to keep it this way since it makes it easy to keep the different elements aligned when I insert...
The problem I use pst-solides3d (part of pstricks bundle for LaTeX) to generate the following surface. The surface is not a mesh, but a collection of disjoint quadrilateral patches, each with a uniform color. The overall effect looks like a gradient effect, but it is not true smooth gradient (if you consider 3D render...
how can I align some text in any text area vertically? so I can align a label vertically and Horizontally in any text area, as if i align the text in a table cell.
I work with Photoshop and there's one effect I've seen that I can't manage to copy. The effect I'm looking for is the shiny effect in the next image: I looked online for shine effects but they never look like this one, usually they are made by lens flare but it's just not the same. Thanks ahead :)
In preview the Ai files shows black. If I open the Ai file the colors are displayed correctly but in a PDF they are totally black. Does anyone know what's going on?
I am using Inkscape and Gimp to create assets for a word game and am looking for an advice from more experienced users of these great tools. In Inkscape I have created a stripe with 26 letters and their values: The stripe is comfortable to edit - I have enabled grid snapping there and also I can always revisit the SVG...
Here's my image: I'm wondering if it's possible to automatically change all the images to using a color scheme close to #489fdc. I've tried making changes in Paint.NET and Photoshop, but haven't had any luck. Does anyone have experience with doing this? I only have the .png version and not a .psd - otherwise this wo...
I cannot see most of the fonts in Illustrator CS5, I just installed Yosemite OS last night and this morning the font menu isn't working.
I need to have a banner printed for a back lit header on a shelving unit in a retail store with the following dimensions 2’-11" x 1’-0", how many DPI would you recommend printing at? Thanks in advance for your assistance.
when I want to save a illustrator cs5 document to print after i export it as png but when I am ready to export it previews the document and it's not a full page size, it shows the document in the middle and a while outline or background. I need my document to print in the entire page. Please help thanks
what I try to achieve is a succession of circles smaller in smaller from one position to another. I first draw a big circle (right on the picture) and duplicate it, translate it to the left and resize it smaller, then I repeat the action manually. But I want it to be automatic. However in Illustrator if you use the "re...
I am using pattern in illustrator in separated layer of course and some text areas and line texts in another layer... when I save the file to a PDF format I got a very bad result as seen as the attached file is. it seems that every single object in the artwork takes a stroke. the area box takes a very tiny stroke as we...
I want to use Bebas Neue in my commercial html5-based game for mobile devices. My game mechanics implies the use of letters as sprites. The fact that this game is html5-based game means, that I'll put the whole font in the application distributive. But Dharma Type EULA imposes some restrictions: You may not redistr...
Given two different image types: A regular pattern (e.g. https://i.stack.imgur.com/EAEao.jpg) A plain image, that doesnt repeat (e.g. https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUpai.jpg) to 1) How do you extract the smallest existing pattern in the image I currently crop it, save it and check in the browser if it repeats correctly...
I want to do this: The bin just above I think this tool is well designed for this purpose : But after few hours of trying, i still don't know how I can tighten the bottom to make it look like a bin : I guess there are many ways to achieve this, how would one go to easily do it ?
When trying to resize a text box in Photoshop, it is stretching my type instead of just making the box larger. It is a text box and not a bounding box. It just started doing this out of the blue. How can I fix this?
I have a noob question (I guess). I'm trying, with Photoshop CS6, to make what I call modular elements for web layouts. I mean : when I make a header for a website, I would use the same source for all the layouts of this project. So I want to have a header.psd source in include it in every layout I will create for this...
I've noticed that many posters, advertisements, etc -- as well as many fonts -- use the lowercase letter "a" as shown in "figure 1". However, I've always hand-written it as what it looks like in "figure 2". Over the last few weeks, I've noticed that I almost never seen the second version in application. It doesn't seem...
How do I just drop shadow on stroke like the rectangle in the picture?
Looking for the font used on the John Demos Architects logo. I can't seem to locate it on my own and could really use some help. Really love the monospace characters from this font. Any help would be appreciated.
What would be the average value of font height vs font width? If we consider common fonts, do they tend to follow a certain ratio for the height vs the width of each glyph? Is there a standard value or a reasonable average? Or is there no pattern to this?
I'm designing a favicon in Illustrator and I'd like to see what it would look like in pixels at 128px and 16px as I'm working on it. Is this possible? Edit Found the answer - posted below.
In the Buttons page of Google's Material Design online handbook, touch/click ripples are only mentioned in the "Buttons in motion" section, as an example video with no explanatory text. Here, the ripples shown are dark. In their Polymer elements demo for paper buttons, both light- and dark-background elements are demoe...
I'm a novice Photoshop user... obviously... I've created a wine glass ring image using a brush, on a transparent background in Photoshop. I saved this file as a PSD. When I try to place this image in InDesign, even with the transparency option checked, it still appears with a white background. Do I need to convert t...
I'd like to create a circle with rings of equal area (as opposed to rings of equal thickness). The inner ring ends up being a filled circle, and there are two extra rings, for a total of three(3).Here is what I have, which doesn't satisfy the constraint, but just to give an idea: I selected, filled, shrink, filled, sh...
I've inherited an InDesign file and I'm new to the software. I need to send an exported PDF to print a 30"x40" poster from this InDesign file. The InDesign file was designed as a simple flyer, at 8.5"x11". How do I upscale this file so I can export it as a PDF to print this poster? Or can I use the file as is and simp...
I'm new to designing interfaces as my focus was mainly on icons. I would like to know how I could improve the typography experience on the design below. Mainly the heading and the paragraph.
There are two ways of laying out numerals in a font: lining figures and text or oldstyle figures. The Former has the height of a capital letter while the latter have varying heights and blend in with lowercase text. I am designing slides that must adhere to a brand style guide. The guide stipulates that headers are in ...
I have pst-solides3d generated an ellipse. For some reason, the ellipse does not appear to be a single path in Illustrator, but rather multiple disjoint line segments. See below. I have exaggerated the stroke to show the disjointedness. However, these line segments are perfectly aligned. If I choose two vertices I am ...
I am teaching myself the very basics of design using Affinity Designer - and I haven't been able to figure out how to create a single shape from multiple vectors. For instance, if I am creating a basic outline of a car and need to start and stop lines - when I use the join lines tool it doesn't join two unrelated line...
Sorry if this has been asked, i googled for quite a bit and i actually couldnt find much of anything about pixel preview. I'm trying to open a couple hundred files in illustrator at once, and using a keyboard shortcut to fit artboard to the artwork. It runs just fine surprisingly even if it eats up 8-10+ gb of memory;...
There's probably a really simple answer but I can't work it out. If I use the pen tool to make an anchor point somewhere along a line, how do I get that anchor point into the exact centre of said line?
When I zoom with my Macbook's trackpad by pinch gesture, elements get blurry because of decimal zoom level like "169,11%". Is there a way to change zoom steps to use only integers?
Surprise when I saved my pictograms for the Web (from Illustrator): They are strictly not as clean as expected => totally blurred. Here's an example from my Retina smartphone: And the initial .ai file: The difference is obvious... Reading over the web, I read that Retina screens expect each element to be built at ...

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