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Premise: In a 2-point perspective, the two vanishing points dictate the angle of the lines parallel to the respective axes they represent, say X and Y, while the third axis, say Z, is perpendicular/orthogonal to the horizon line, i.e., the line connecting the two vanishing points. Problem: When I am drawing a two point...
I am new to graphic design. I have an icon (attached). The border color of the icon is quite different with its inner color. My question is: There is any tools that I can use to quick modify border color to new color. The new border color should be the color inner icon but a little bit lighter. Thank you!
I've drawn an irregular shape in illustrator and I want to know what its area is then I want to compare it between another shape How could I calculate its area in Illustrator (CS6 or CC)?
I have received a PSD that has a semi transparent image in it. I know the image is semitransparent because I see the Photoshop checkered background behind it. When I look at the layers I see one layer and the fill and opacity of that layer is 100%. When I use the color picker / eye dropper tool the color it finds does...
I have a folder of pictures that are JPEGs. I am wondering if there is a automated way to sort out the ones that are photographs and ones that are pure graphics. I am open to different software options.
I've tried multiple tutorials and even asked the designer — (his response: "If you want it perfect you will have to create it in adobe illustrator and import it into photoshop. In the case of the two examples of my work you sent I actually kept it in Photoshop but i retraced it using the pen tool. You might also be wo...
I have designed an image which will be used as a button in an android app. Since it is a button, the state of the image has to be changed when the user clicks on the image to give it a "pressed" effect. How do you impart such an effect? Which tools should would be easy for this?
Attached you see my current design of a 3 column dashboard. How can I improve this design in a more "flatter" way? Be warned that I am no designer, so if you have links to tutorials that would also be great. I am eager to learn this :) 1st column: general info 2nd column: Not done backlog items grouped by their finis...
On first image yow can see an icon, a line is selected in Adobe Illustrator. On second image you can see the image after Save for Web .. was pressed. I do not need anti-aliasing, extra strip between gray and black spaces. How can I turn off anti-aliasing in Illustrator? UPDATE I am now confused, it seems that pictur...
What font is this? It must be very common, it is used in Visual Studio quite often and feels very familiar.
I'm working on a school project about a fake campus bike rental company and I'm trying to create mockups of everything but I can't seem to find any customizable bicycle templates or mockup photoshop files of any bike racks. If anyone knows where I can find some, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time....
I know that each time a .jpg file is saved, it is compressed and loses quality. Is the same true for .png files?
I'm trying to data merge multiple records on a page. The single record per page works fine. But when I try for multiple records through the master page I get this: Why is InDesign displaying the field name instead the values I expect, when I try to data merge on a master page?
A graphic' worth a million words : The red-circled wave (and associated layer) is Illustrator-made. The other waves were made in Photoshop just to support my problem : this is what I try to achieve in Illustrator. How can I automatically generate a certain number of copies from one layer (e.g. the wave) and again auto...
In Inkscape I have drawn a square and then applied Drop Shadow filter to it. How could I please get rid of the appeared top and left space? I need to have the top-left corner of the yellow square at the point 0, 0 - so that I could resize the document size to just the square and the shadow (then I would export it as b...
In Inkscape I am editing an SVG file (please click the Raw button to download; copyright CC-BY-SA by Denelson83). I have defined a grid of 15 x 15 for the whole document and toggled the Snap bounding box corners button on the right. I am trying to move everything to the left and to the top - so that the drawn black gri...
I would like to create a header for a webpage with a logo (with transparency from a psd/ tiff) some typography and an overall transparent background In InDesign, typography options are ideal for my purpose and I can place everything I like as accurately as I wish, but I struggle when it comes to saving my result w...
Starting from an image like this one, how do I resize and transform it into something a label printer can use? That means a black and white bmp about 1/3 of this size. The best result I have so far are with an online converter but this image became a smudge. I use 2" x 4" autoadhesive labels, and I need to reduce ima...
So, I've been doing a lot of text work lately which requires expanding the active text layers into paths so I can adjust things with more precision. Now, I'm wondering if there's any actual difference between the two functions that do this, namely "Expand", or the "Create Outlines". I've tested them both and they seem...
I am trying to increase the spacing between letters in a word in Inkscape (version 0.48) by using horizontal kerning. I am not able to select the entire word and apply the kerning value at once. I need to do it for each word in the letter. Is there a way to adjust the spacing for all the letters in the word at once?
I am attempting to do a logo where the phrase starts at the top of a spiral and continues throughout the spiral decreasing in size until the very middle of the spiral. Tried the Spiral tool but not close enough and manually decreased font every three characters but the spiral did not continue to the very middle. I t...
Is there a good practice to follow when creating a design in Photoshop so that it's easy to change colors later on? For example, if it's possible to create a color swatch where I reference a color slot in my swatch instead of the color code. So PS would know that in that layer I'm using the color slot #3 from my swatch...
I used the Roboto font for my projects in Photoshop. I donwloaded from here http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html . I unistalled the old Roboto and installed the new version of Roboto font which you can see here http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html#typography-roboto-noto With t...
We have a piece of artwork (~21 x 30 cm) originally scanned at 300 dpi Should we rescan it at another resolution if it is going to be printed on a poster of 1 x 2,5 m ? Thanks in advance
I am designing an app for Android and as you may know that Android uses 6 different density buckets from LDPI to XXXHDPI. Is there a way to save multiple outputs of different sizes from one design using either Photoshop, Illustrator, or another software? If not will I have to resize it 6 times or is there an easy way?...
New to InDesign and working on book that is mostly text. Trying to design master page with two empty text frames with different character and paragraph properties that are somehow connected/related so that when master is applied to a page and content is put in the upper 'quotes' frame resizes to fit text keeping its u...
I would like to be able to lengthen arrows between cells in this without changing their direction colour width dimensions of their heads (Just adding to the length of the arrows) Source How would I achieve this in Inkscape?
I'm doing class project that is a four-page, seven-image document with very little text. The project must be submitted as a PDF under 300 KB. However, when I export the document under the smallest file size preset and with the compression rates down to 72 dpi, I get a PDF that is 612 KB. All my classmates are able to g...
How can I convert an object layer to an ordinary layer in Illustrator? In the illustration below ... how do I drag the Path object, which is the sun, from its layer to a new separated layer? Of course I can do it by making a new layer and copy and paste in place. However, in my case this process will be a headache. Bes...
So, basically, I have a website where I want to put animated christmas lights, nothing to complex. Note: Don't mind the watermarks, they are just in case... I made the static image in png first: Static image: All ok with that, it display correctly in the website Then, I tried animating it to gif, in photoshop, and the...
When exporting slices in Photoshop through the Save For Web... dialog, PS automatically names as the input_filename + _XX + .png. So for example: myfile_01.png, myfile_02.png etc. It is also possible to manually input a filename for a slice; which will then override this numbering system. My question is: how can I get ...
I'm fairly expert in Photoshop but a total novice in Illustrator. I need to do an infographic and I have a suspicion that Illustrator is what a real designer would use, but I don't really know why I think that, since Photoshop does vectors pretty well and I'm not sure what Illustrator adds to this. (I'm not saying it d...
I created a logo in Illustrator CC and after I 'Save for Web' using PNG-24 with a transparent background and put it in my website html there is a thin white stroke around the logo. This is definitely not a html problem but an issue with exporting with illustrator. I definitely have not got a white border on the image i...
Thanks for taking the time to have a look at my logo. I'll provide a little background info first. Brand and logo info This is the first iteration of the logo. The concept is for a personal development site (blog, code snippets, portfolio). The name of the site is Divergent Code. The desired effect is the look of squ...
When I try to save an image with illustrator it only saves a part of the picture. So only the part of the picture that fits on the actual page gets so and everything that hangs off of the page just gets cut off. How can I change this setting?
I took two pictures with my iPhone, one during the day and one at night. How do I make it such that the two images look like they were taken at the same time of day? Is there a compare two images feature? Or do I need to match some value(s) on each image?
I want to make a 3D looking text that would in fact be 2 2D layers. Here's what I want to make - I duped the layer 2 times and moved the second layer a little lower, then used Blend, recolored and put the original layer on top: But here's the culprit: Is there a way to avoid using the Blend command and fixing the cur...
I have a flat design (well, it's supposed to be), but these black and white lines between the shapes are so annoying... [no stroke] take a look: See these lines between two overlapping rectangles? How can I fix it? (I created this with Photoshop, but there is the same problem using Paint.net and Adobe Illustrator) Is...
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC, and have cropped part of some image, and have saved a .ps version of such crop. I have another image, for which I want to make the crop with exact size and location of the first crop. How can I go about that in Adobe Photoshop CC?
I'd like to be able to convert this pathway (1) to SVG in a way that I can then edit (e.g., adding a legend to the diagram and edit some of the hyperlinks in the diagram). I have tried saving it as PNG (e.g., by right-clicking the pathway [in Chrome] and clicking, "Save image as...") and then using Inkscape to save thi...
I would like to paste a picture to a new blank picture with a puzzle shape on it so that I can create a puzzle piece, but I have forgotten how to do it. I sort of remember that you will have to start a new file, put a puzzle shape on it, then click Select All on the picture and then Copy then bring it to the blank fil...
I'd like to get InDesign to insert the first few digits of a filename automatically in a document created from a template. Our filenames are in this format: XXXXX_Name1_Name2_Name3.indd The Xs before the underscore represent the job number. It can be wither 4 or 5 digits. I know InDesign can automatically place the en...
We have a number of product brochures that we print internally in booklet format using a Ricoh MP C4503 Multi-functional copier. Our document creation process is to create the document in Adobe InDesign 6 export out to PDF and send the final PDF to print. The document is using the Google Font OpenSans. However when we ...
I'm trying to obtain this kind of effect in Photoshop but can't get it exactly. Things I have tried: First I made a oval shape with white color; Then I gave it a Gaussian blur effect; Then I made that layer soft light. But I couldn't replicate the effect. Can anyone help with this? Am I headed in the right directio...
I have a SVG file with a shape that has a pattern fill. Can I replace the pattern fill with just a solid fill color in Illustrator?
On my LinkedIn profile page (under the Summary), uploaded pdfs look blurry. Individually, when selected, the quality is fine. Files are created in InDesign CS5 using Adobe preset "High Quality Print", following recommendation by Adobe. LinkedIn tech support says the issue is that the pdfs are not of high quality but is...
I'd like to make this logo small enough to use on a Facebook profile photo which is 160 × 160 px. Will I have to redesign it to 160 × 160px?
I have sometimes seen that when the 'half title' page of a book (the page that goes before the title page) is left in blank (which is one of the possible alternatives), a message such as 'This page is intentionally left blank' is included in that page, in the PDF version of the book. Do you agree with this practice? Do...
I got a PSD file from a designer. I want to get the icons and logos as SVG files, so I started to cut them out, and create a new PSD file for each of them. When I want to generate a SVG file, I am just getting a question-mark: So, I cannot be the only person who has this need of creating SVG images out of a PSD file. ...
The white color objects are now not visible outside the artboard. It wasn't like this before, it occurred after changing the artboard background from document setup. Is there any way to change the artboard color without making the white objects turn invisible?
For example, if two grayscale images, one with a intensity and the other with b intensity, are added the resultant image should be of a + b intensity.
The startup web dev shop I work for is maturing and all the design/branding decisions that were thrown together early on are being reconsidered (logo, typeface, colors, ect...) for a big rebranding. One of the things I'm dealing with now is choosing a new typeface. Does anyone have tips on how to present this to the te...
I read this question and it was very helpful, only when I use the options as described in Takkat's answer my image still comes out wrong. This PNG is the image I'm attempting to convert to vector. It's 16px originally, so this is zoomed in: The left is the original, the right is what it looks like after I press OK - I...
I am playing around with website design and am having trouble letting a user know a specific item in the list is special / important / requires attention. I have tried increasing the size of the item, but this does not scale well onto smaller devices (such as phones). Anyone have any suggestions or know of a website/bl...
Not sure if this question is ok to ask here, but i did notice that you could tag illustrator so i give it a try. Im following a tutorial where the tutor creates a ellipse on a layer and then creates a smaller ellipse on another layer. He then cuts the smaller layer from the larger in such a way so that the larger gets ...
This poster I made for our multicultural womens evening. It should represent femininity, multi-cultural and be an eye-catcher to get many women to our event. I know the colors are commonly used for multi-cultural identity, but it does not matter, because the most important that it is seen and recognized! And please let...
It's now second time I need this so I'm posting it as a question: When a layer has alpha channel, some pixels may be transparent. I want to totally forget about the transparency. That means, render the original color as full color. You can "remove alpha channel" in GIMP, but it doesn't do what I actually need. Look at ...
Somehow I must have accidentally changed a setting somewhere and now my Photoshop brushes which are supposed to have grayscale detail are now showing up like 2-bit bitmaps. Not sure if that's the best way to describe it, but here's a screen shot: You can see the brush selected is supposed to have a gradation falloff b...
Wondering... Should I first make sure the font I selected for English supports Chinese characters as well, or after selecting any font for English then search for other font for Chinese that matches somehow with the first one? Would it be the same for mobile apps?
See the background in this website. How do I achieve this effect ?
For example, how do I italicize the font Impact (Regular) in Illustrator CS 6? I can't find the italicize option in the character panel window.
I have designed a shape in Illustrator and I'm exporting this to PNG, however, some random, white line appears in the exported PNG. I've tried exporting it to different formats (BMP, PDF) and no other file format exports it with a white line. I have shut off all layers, so it's only the bottom layer that's visible in t...
How do I horizontally distribute text in Illustrator so that it has equal spacing between the words? When I use the horizontal distribution tool it doesn't give equal spacing between words.
I made this design in photoshop so basically its on rasterize format, A month later my client want it again but this time it has to be on vector format because it will be print on various colored shirts. what I did was open it on illustrator and used image trace with high fidelity and expand it, Now what I want is to r...
I have a square box, that I need to create a dual lined border of differing widths. I've selected the shape and then done a 10px stroke inside. Now I want to add a 2nd rectangle of 5px width that is 5px inside the outer stroke on all sides. For clarity, this is one 10px line around the full edge of the background shape...
I picked up this "like" icon from iconfinder.com. Originally it was in black. I adjusted it to orange. To help the user, I'd like to have it be "hollow" (i.e. just a border - transparent in the middle) before they click it (i.e. before they "like" something) and solid like this after they click it. I can do the co...
I can't believe that I couldn't even find somebody asking this question. I just signed-up to stackexchange to ask this... I know I can change the default appearance of objects in Illustrator. But is it possible to change the default stroke alignment from "center" to "inside" or "outside"? I'm using CS6. Thanks a lot i...
Anyone know how to align 2 shapes using two points or one of the shapes side/path in Illustrator? I know there has to be an easy way to rotate two shapes and make sure their points align perfectly without doing it manually. Any ideas? As an example, if I have a triangle and I need a second triangle of the same size to ...
I am doing a mobile demo for the Ipad that we are demoing in Safari. I am using icons to get away from having to scale my images 3x. Problem is that any icons that I am using that are smaller than 20px are blurry on screen until you zoom in. Anyone else experience this problem and know what the fix is? FYI I saved thes...
I am building an icon that has a brick wall. So I set the grid lines at certain distances so I could draw the lines between the bricks. Seemed simple enough to then just connect with the line segment tool. But when I zoomed in, the line was not being drawn exactly where I wanted it to be. It was not only away from ce...
I decided that converting my pixel images to vector through Inkscape was a lot of work and it couldn't convert 16px images without being resized first. So I figured out I could use the "Create Object Mosaic" feature in Illustrator, it does exactly what I want.. The only problem is that it creates a 16x16 grid no matter...
I am not a designer, I am a physicist. Back in 2005, I made a guide for students about how to measure cosmic rays, for a lab class I was teaching. Now I am redesigning it and would like to ask for the opinion of design experts. I want to keep it simple but eye catching, since physics documents tend to be boring and una...
As a graphic designer which Pantone flip book should I purchase? I'm in a unique Master's program that isn't going to be teaching any color or print process, for whatever reason, even though most of us are making career changes and come from very different art backgrounds. My Pantone experience was with fabric. I am po...
It's kinda weird. I'm unable to figure out why 'Align' tool is not working on my Illustrator. If it's of help; i'm on Yosemite with CC 2014 latest release. PS: I'm using Mac for past 2 days only, so not much sure about things. Possibly i'm doing something wrong. Would really appreciate some quick help. Thanks
Getting to grips with Affinity Designer by drawing a simple 16x16 pixel favicon, I've ended up with 5 pixel layers. I'm looking for a "flatten" function to squash them back into a single layer but I not having any luck finding one - all the layer combination functions appear to be non-destructive. There must be a way,...
Should Illustrator be set to CMYK or RGB mode when using Pantone colors? Thanks in advance!
I am fairly new at graphic design and I have just finished creating a logo and marketing materials for a client. I only intended for the images to be used for marketing and advertising of their business, but I'm wondering what kind of rights I have if they randomly decide to try and sell products with the logo. Is the...
Got a font that I want to do a custom subset for on the Web - picking contextual alternates and discarding unneeded characters to help keep the file size down. FontSquirrel has a great generator, but a lot of the fonts come with this notification: The license for this font is the SIL OFL license. This license does not...
So I've been using Illustrator for 6 years, and thought I knew everything about the pathfinder feature. Today I tried to use the merge pathfinder tool on some outlined text, and have gotten a 'neatly' merged object, and not the final object I wanted. Take a look at the pictures, and tell me how to stop it from happenin...
I want to configure a PC which should be used mainly for working with AutoCAD and Autodesk 3ds Max 2013/2014. I'm searching for the best value for the price graphics card. On the internet all forums and benchmarks are mainly for Geforce Quadro series for such kind of work, but they are too expensive for me. So I'm wo...
designing some van livery and have been provided with a template file (screenshot) however, the car's outline has been created with numerous paths / lines and I'm struggling to create one outline to create a clipping mask from. Unless I'm doing it wrong, I've tried to unite paths / join / outline stroke / make compound...
How can I create an action that increases the canvas size by a specified number of pixels? I want to batch process a number of files of unknown size to add a consistent white border around each one, without affecting the scaling/cropping of the original picture. In other words, if the original picture is 200px x 350px...
I'm trying to edit a text based image in Illustrator CC but parts of the text are not allowing me to edit or even select them. even clicking Select All doesn't work. has anyone had this problem? any solutions?
I'm using after effect cc and I want to open the project on another computer using cs6. I collected the files (file> dependencies > collect file ) but the project didn't work on cs6 How to open the project on another computer running cs6 or earlier versions like cs5 or cs4?
It seems that Corel Draw just fully ignores this variant having these justification options: None Left Right Center Full Justify Force Justify Full Justify could have had the desired option of Left or Right bottom line alignment, but I don't find it anywhere. Does Corel really align the bottom line only to the left?
If my document only uses pantone colors does this mean it is ready for 4 color printing?
So I'll have to create a few presentations and I'm not sure what software I want to use. I distinctly dislike the Microsoft Office programs; I have used LibreOffice Impress before, but it wasn't my cup of tea as well. I refuse to use Prezi for ... religous reasons, I guess °^° I wanted to try using InDesign for my pres...
I am trying to make some stuff from Illustrator, with using remove once color to setting up alpha mode. I created example from Photoshop like that: Any Idea? Edit 1: Recolor Art is useless, no option for mode alpha. Edit 2: Must be any algorithm, if one object is full filled with one white, then this object will be 1...
I have created a rectangle with Photoshop CS6. Now I want to alter its width and height by pixels, is that possible? I know I can create the rectangle by clicking and choosing its width and height, but how to change it later? On the Info panel I can see the dimensions in pixels but I cannot change them.
There is an insane amount of confusion between linear and non linear response to color mappings, it depends on the drivers, the software, the hardware, the settings in your applications, what kind of algorithms are being implemented and probably and infinite set of other things. Assuming that I can open an image or I'm...
so I'm working with Adobe Illustrator, and I'm trying to have a rectangle pass through the center, and also snap to two points. Basically, I want the marked (with the black lines) corner of the purple rectangle to be snapped to the top left corner of the right red rectangle. I also want the center of the purple rectan...
It's the first time I am designing some icons for use on a desktop, but I have now come to the point where I have to export them as .ico. My question: How do I deliver, hand in the icons to the customer? I have no trouble exporting to .ico, but what sizes should I deliver? Do OSs resize automatically and should I just ...
I am using Indesign CC to create a book on HTML programming. I have used TextFrames to add blocks of code and markup. When I generate an ePub out of it, the code blocks and markup are generated without indentation. Everything is left aligned. However when I export the textframe as an image, the markup comes with indent...
So I downloaded this image to use in a Christmas flyer I'm making... ... but I really want to swap the colours around (to save on ink). So is there a way I can make what's red white, and what's white red?
I downloaded this file from Wikimedia Commons (1) but there's a heap of the picture that doesn't fit on the document page and I'd like to know I can cut what doesn't fit on the page off so that it no longer appears in the SVG. Here is a screenshot illustrating what I mean.
I have a shaded area in InDesign that is translucent and you can see the drawing area beneath it on the screen, but the pdf created from InDesign it's completely opaque and the drawing area beneath is no visible.
Is it possible to view the golden ratio guide lines in Photoshop without using the crop tool? I'd like to use the guides for aligning objects, not cropping.
I have some text that I converted to outlines in sketch. Now I'd like to cut out some circles from the text, so that it looks like somebody has taken a bite out of it. When I select the circle and the text and click subtract, this creates a very odd result. Am I doing something wrong? As you can see it worked on the l...
Any ideas on the font used for the text "Hearthstone" not the "Heroes of Warcraft" part?
I have to put up a 1mb image. The image is currently at 1.01 Mb. How can i tell photoshop to drop quality enough to put it under the 1Mb mark? Using save for web drastically reduces the image quality. Is there someway to tell photoshop "just make it small enough"?

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