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So I have a client right now which is asking me to include a second logo on the website's header. I am no graphic designer but I feel this is so wrong. The second logo is for one of the projects the company has. Background. The company is into palm oil extraction and exportation. As of 2015 they need to be compliant wi...
I wanted to do a curve like the image bellow with Illustrator CS6. The problem is that I get corners all the time and even adding some anchor points I get my rectangle unaligned. What is the best way of achieving a smooth curve after a line? This comes from a rectangle and I didn't want to use rounded corners. How I wa...
I can't figure out how to break a path's subpaths into separate, individual paths in Photoshop CC. Everything I find online suggests there is an Object menu (?) but I'm either too stupid to locate it, or it's not in Photoshop CC. I can't locate the information in Adobe's online documentation either. Is this not poss...
A new T-shirt business would like to use my design for which I did not register a copyright officially but as far as I understand, under the international law, as the original creator of the content, I will be the copyright owner. So how will the process of licensing the design to the business be like(for a percentage ...
Coming from a mobile development background, I have recently decided to learn how to design for mobile apps. I am not yet decided which tool I should use. I don't hold much knowledge in Illustrator and Photoshop - but am trying to create a screen design using Photoshop. I was under the impression that version CS6 suppo...
I have a black shape like this: That red rectangle is not part of my shape. I just draw it so that divides my shape visually into two parts. I would like to only scale "the part of my shape inside red rectangle" horizontally (I do not want to scale "the part of the shape outside rectangle" horizontally). How can I do ...
I'm trying to turn those wings/canards/engines into different objects, so they won't be affected by the smoothing I'll do later on. PS: don't mind that little glitch on the wing, that only happened due to the view "pos". PS 2: Any comments on my fighter jet? (any obs or suggestions)
I had designed one app for IPhone 5 and 6 and now I want to make the same app design for IPhone 6+ so what can be the resolution of its assets? Currently I had done following things in Photoshop. IPhone 5 or less: Icon Size= 55X55 (x) IPhone 6: Icon Size= 110X110 (2x) IPhone 6+: Icon Size= 165X165 (3x) Still I am fac...
What I want is to import an SWF file into Illustrator. I prefer doing that with an exchange open source tool, if there is.
I am designing something with a lot of color, but it's made as a background for a ticket, so it has to be lighter. However, when I lighten the colors, a lot of them turn into pastel colors and that's not the desired effect of my client. I tried explaining that any color will get a pastel-look if you make it transparent...
I have a question about spacing The blue leaves - opposite the words 'Blue Tree Logistics', should I add more blue leaves to make the curve longer? Should the word 'Blur Tree Logistics' be moved further away from the main image?
My client has asked me to create a leaflet which is a pastiche of a well known fast food chain. It wouldn't be derogatory or mention the restaurant by name but would probably use similar colours / fonts to evoke the brand. The client is in an unrelated industry but they see the way they bundle their products as compara...
I want to change the color of the surface of a sofa like this to white without losing the uneven surface and wrinkles. How should I do that using Photoshop?
I need to make bump-map for objects like shirts or sofa that I could apply new patterns to it so how should convert the following shirt into this: ? How can I make bump-map for this? Thanks
I have a document with several text frames with content merged from a CSV. Sometimes the content is too big for the frame. I want the text to scale appropriately so that the content remains on one line and fits in the frame width-wise. I don't want the frame to resize. Is this possible?
I'm designing a poster (for the web) advertising a Friday the 13th vodka party.The party's theme is Friday the 13th / Test your luck on Friday the 13th. I've come up with the below so far, but I'm thinking it doesn't make clear the Friday the 13th theme. Stack: Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC Do you think the theme is cl...
I'm exporting some elements out of photoshop CC 2014 using the new 'extract assets', witch is very handy because i can just select the layer i want and export it. I export the white logo as a png. When i then try to import it in indesign CC 2014, the image converts to black and white and not transparant ( i can see it ...
How do I disable or hide the pink background on missing fonts? I do not care that the fonts are missing. I do not want to install the fonts. I do not want to replace the fonts in the file; I want to keep the fonts the same even though I have opened the file on a computer that does not have these fonts installed.
I was just playing around with InDesign and XML when I noticed a hidden (nonprinting) character in my document. It consists of four dots, composing a rectangle: (The nonprinting character above the h) What does it mean? Note that the text containing this hidden character is part of an XML structure that I imported int...
I'd like to export a graphic as SVG, and it contains text that has a 3D Rotate effect applied to it. Saving as SVG this expands my text to outlines :( I'd like it instead to output <text> with actual 3D transformations applied to it, something like this: <text id="Textu" style="-webkit-transform: matrix3d(0.7784, -0....
Im designing a logo and need some symbols to represent twins or 2. Thank you
I have an image of a sink. I want to change the color of the sink to a specific RGB color, how do I do that?
I created an interactive .pdf in Indesign, but I want to ad an option to let the user attach a file that he or she has on his computer. Is that possible?
I am trying to create a build-your-own type of color picker based upon the brochure image below: Basically I want to create a color changer that will allow a user to select each different stripe/section of the boat and then choose from the available color patterns, where the selected area will immediately change to th...
Let's say I have an image like this: and I want to make a map or something that would allow me to apply different patterns to make images like the following: .So I have a map and I could easily apply pattern to make images with different patterns. How should I make that map ? Thanks
I use the Multiexporter script (blog article explanation, github link) for bulk exports of PNGs or PDFs from many artboards. It usually works fine, but sometimes it refuses to co-operate, with a message like: Will export 0 of 10 artboards ...even though there are plenty of artboards with content on them. There's no c...
I have a 900x900 pixel canvas . I placed a png in a new layer . The width of the png image overflows the canvas . Ofcourse the overflow of the image is hidden because it is out of the canvas , but i don't want that to happen . I just want the png image to fit the canvas without showing the overflow when i select the la...
I've been trying to create an image showing mitoxantrone (a chemo drug) intercalating DNA, as part of this I've had to combine two structures -- a DNA strand with the molecule found therein and the molecule up-close and in detail at the side of it. The DNA strand had to be rotated using Paint.NET (as GIMP had similar p...
I'm working with an artist to create a comic, which will be printed eventually, but which is currently being serialized online. The artist is working in CMYK in Photoshop, on the theory that it's better to convert CMYK to RGB than vice versa, and we'll need both. We'd like to generate a master PDF file for each page wh...
I'm trying to replicate the background pattern of this image in Illustrator CC but am not having much success. I tried the star tool, but it didn't look right. Updated When I select all the lines and click divide on the pathfinder panel, they disappear. See below.
what are the thing needed for doing illustator sketup I MEAN LIKE LAPTOP OR COMPUTER AND MOSTLY I SEE THE PAD USED BY MOST OF THE DESINGER WHAT IS THAT AND WAHT IS PURPOSE OF THE PAD THAT IS USED FOR SKETCUP IN ILLUSTRATOR ?????? SORRY IF THIS IS SILLY QUESTION
I have a local business of photography in Chennai India. The name is "Khaleel Photography" I like to create a logo for my portfolio representing the word "Khaleel" and also indicates camera in it. am trying it out in Photoshop. am not getting any good idea. If any logo designer or experts can give me a idea to create ...
Note the oldest answer was referring to my graph prior to this last edit. It was a great answer, please don't discount it due to my edit. I want to display how much study I have done, and how many pages I have completed throughout the week, broken up by day, and I have done so as shown below: I have had people tell ...
I am working on a platform, which should create from an inDesign file a low and high-res pdf, a png and maybe a new indesign file with the new data. These steps are in my mind. User logins or create a new login with his personal data, for example: firstname, lastname, address, telephone and web. There is an indesign f...
I've been reading up on Google's Material Design, and as I'm reading up on Style, they keep mentioning primary 500 colors (as well as any other number ranging from 50, which is almost white, to 900), but what does this mean? I'd love to try my hand at creating my own "Material inspired" color swatches, but as the namin...
How can I fill this type of gradient in a circle? This is my sample:
Is there a way to organize your open files in different workspaces? I want to have the same setup, but different files like Firefox workspaces. For example, choose "sign in" workspace and have 3 tabs for sign in pages, choose "create account" workspace and have 5 tabs for create account pages etc. Thanks!
I'm working on a technical paper in which there a lot of architecture diagrams, and I'm presently using pencil/dia tools to draw these images. The problem with these images is, the text is not sharp in the final output (png). Can anyone suggest some tools for creating images of relatively higher quality? Edit: My arch...
I would like to know if there is a standard size I can follow when designing smiley icons.
My document size is US Legal paper size (14 X 8.5 inches). I've chosen that setting under the page setup. In the viewer window, I can see that there are what seems to be preset margins, and my design content does not fit in those margins. What are the margin inches, so I may design within them? Or is there a way to man...
This is the News page of my firs adaptive website. The full height is shown (the scroll-down part is also included). The terracotta sections on the horizontal line are for placing news feed images, and I want to hide that section on the mobile-adapted version. Is it possible or it may cost additional work for the de...
In InDesign using the "Allow Document Pages to Shuffle" allows for more than 2 pages to be next to each other. I want to do the same, but I want the pages vertically. I am creating a vertical invitation with many panels, and I want each panel to be in a different page. How do I do that? Thank you, Virginia
I have a map of a floor with offices in it in Illustrator, and I need to add to each office drawn an ID to work with it in JavaScript. But the names of the offices have numbers and/or special characters, such "()" and "+" (i.e. "360 (IVO+IMR+IEC)"),and when I save it as a SVG file, the IDs looks like "id='_x33_60__x28_...
I've tried to make a filter in Illustrator so that it looks like the filter used in the Yosemite menu-bar. I can't seem to get it quite right. Here's an image of the menu-bar, for those of you not familiar with Yosemite. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be highly appreciated.
I am a UI team lead. I detected that the topic of "how do you want the graphics?" is a very hot topic in my company. And I find myself always giving the same explanation. I would like to give like a "checklist" for the PMs and the designers we work with to make the work more efficient and fun. Currently there's this...
Is there a way to raise space between words? (not characters or lines). I frequently want to make navigation buttons for web design and so far i always add manually multiple spaces between words (like 15 spaces, and counting every single one)
I am a GIMP user and I would like to create a flash animated image from PNG in order to preserve the colour quality that otherwise gif fails to deliver. I've searched the web but I am having problems since I cannot find a step by step "tutorial" how to install the script/plug in.
Using Sketch 3 want to export an icon, the icons themselves are 24x24 but they sit within an area of 32x32. I've figured out how to do it by combining two different layers one 24x24 and the other 32x32 but it's a tedious process. I need to do this for every single icon. Is there a faster workflow?
I want to recreate this image in illustrator. I'm looking to create two tone 3-d colors with a variety of different fonts.
I have a drawing with hundreds of shapes like in the attached AI file: Objects with detached dots in it. I used live trace to vectorize it. Now I need to colour all objects, specifically the background of the round shape in one color and each dot within in different colours. Right now when I choose the inner space col...
I have a sofa. The blue area is what I want to make a 3d model from. I want to make a UV map from it and apply a texture on it. To do so, I think first I need to make a 3d model from this area. Am I right? If so, how can I make a 3d model from it? If I'm wrong, could you tell me what the steps are and how it's done?
When I open an image, convert the background into a moveable layer. Then I move it around. But how I can quickly move the layer to fit exactly with the canvas? Thanks for your help. http://cl.ly/image/3P2k0M1q1C2R/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-04%20at%203.03.24%20PM.png
I have tried using noise/blue etc. to create a similar effect. It looks similar but not quite as graduated. I'm interested in hearing about different approaches!
In this image, look at the text. Can you see a dark yellow border of the light yellow text? Can someone please tell me how to add that?
In this photo: Behind the bird bit there is a 'modern' type of shadow used in advertising. What is it called?
I wanted to know if there's a quicker process to achieve this effect in Illustrator or Photoshop. What I did, I created a single curved edge and copied it along the sides of the heart. I was wondering if there's a plugin or a filter that mimic this effect.
I like the effect on the images used on this Spotify page, and out of curiosity I'm trying to replicate it in Illustrator. It's not a simple multiply mask, and seems a more involved than the kind of duotone I can do in inDesign.
I've been spending more time in InDesign's paragraph styles I've found where a document can be created with set styles and used as a template but Im trying to figure out how I can review that InDesign document's styles when I get them from a colleague. I've found lately only after manual review of the style that when I...
Ok, so I've been using Illustrator for years, and this is something I haven't gotten around to figure out.. In my line of work, I need to be precise with my lettering. If I want a text height of 20mm, that's what I expect to get when I type 20mm in the Text Size box. But when I outline the text to check, it's only 15mm...
I'm designing a vinyl decal to cover the whole back window of a Jeep Cherokee. I got the dimensions from corner to corner, but when it was printed there was a massive 'rainbow' curvature of everything, apparently due to the window having a sort of outward bow to it (which may or may not be greater at the bottom than it...
I have created a 3d object in Photoshop which I have animated in a simple, 2-second sequence. [Figure 1.1] I want to export this as a video with transparency/alpha. However, when I try to run the exported render, all that plays is a black screen. This baffled me a little bit and, while tweaking settings around, I ended...
I've three parts of a newspaper clipping saved in JPEG format that I wish to join together in a vertical alignment. The sample can be downloaded referenced by the following link: http://www.datafilehost.com/d/58021f79 Which of Adobe's products can I use to achieve that? Photoshop? InDesign? Illustrator?
i have really really small jpg images, and i want to know how can i make a vector in AI. They are like 31mm W and 14 H. Thank you so much, guys :)
I am trying to make a logo, which contains two words one above each other, and one big letter in the front of both. How do I separate the letters, and place them in an order I want , and change the size and color for some only? Thank you
I want to know the exact uses of linking layers in Photoshop CC. Can we use it to update multiple layers in one go? For example, if I link several text layers, and want to change the font details of all of them, can I do them at once when they are linked?
I'm a newbie in creating font icons from .svg. I created some icons in Photoshop (.psd), and now I want to copy all of them to Illustrator to create an .svg file but I don't know how to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
I've been using Photoshop to do visual designs of apps from wireframes until now and it has gone pretty well. But there's a trend these days to do the visuals also in Illustrator use multiple artboards and stuff. Are there any resources/tutorials/templates for making visual designs for iOS in AI?
I have already tried doing with Drop Shadow settings and i could only produce a black smudged shadow, not the spotted one. Look at this text. Can you see that spotted shadow behind the text? I want to know how to do that. Is it related with brushes? Or something in the drop shadow? Or maybe something else? Please Help...
I would like to batch render 1000 models using Maya. I have set up a Maya scene and I need to render these models one-by-one with the same scene I am thinking of writing a MEL script that does the following thing: (1) Load a model obj (2) Render it (3) Replace the current obj by the next obj, render it and repeat Can s...
Whenever I use larger documents with multiple layers I always run into the problem of not having enough colors to label my layers. Is there a way to get more colors for these labels? I've searched high and low for a way or maybe a plugin but it appears there aren't any. Am I the only one with this problem? Or is there ...
Related Question: How can I replicate this pattern in Illustrator? Look at the background of this image, the dual-color one. What is this kind of background called and how can I recreate it?
I am working on a website in multiple languages, one of them is Arabic. Which makes things more fun .. As you know, in arabic and other similar languages the text goes the other way, from right to left.. I am wondering what are the basics to consider when starting such a design? What should I worry about that is specif...
Every now and then I am called on to design a booklet of some sort (reader, dissertation, etc), and I am always tempted to use color for subtle highlights until I am reminded of the difference between printing black and white and full colour. What I would like to do is to print booklets (around 200 of them, of 100 to 3...
How should I write the guidelines for the design (colors, dimensions .etc) for the front end developer to use? At the moment I just create an overlay on top of my design and write notes in that overlay. How do you do it? Thank you!
I am looking for a way to scale/transform a Photoshop layer using the keyboard only. Similar to the way this is handled in InDesign would be ideal, with a dedicated keyboard shortcut I can assign (such as Command + , and Command + . in InDesign for Mac, if I recall the shortcut correctly). One possible workaround solut...
How can I copy effects from layer A in document A to layer B in document B without having to copy the entire layer?
Can I just take a photo of my sketch to work on it further in Illustrator rather than scanning it? Is scanning necessary even if what you want to create is a rough black and white illustration/comic?
Are there are standard dimensions for a coming soon page? I tried to google it and search for an answer on here but I didn't find any satisfactory answers. I mostly saw the dimensions recommended to be 1000x700px so that's what I'm currently using, but still there's space left on each side. Or am I doing it wrong? Th...
I am wondering about name of this typeface
I have a large PSD which has approaching 100 top level groups. They're label designs, all of which are similar but with varying colours/patterns/text/images for the different parts of the label. Opening this PSD is taking longer and longer. Is there a way I can (relatively) quickly split the file into multiple PSDs, ea...
A few years ago I made a website for a client. It was arranged informally, there was no contract. Since that time his business has grown along with the website and I'm also involved regularly in various work for him. Mostly we have gotten along okay, we do almost all communication by email. The only thing that's been a...
I've been tackling this for a little while and to no avail. I am doing a letter head template with areas for the user to click on and start typing their letter. I've done it in an interactive PDF format but i want to take a step further to make it more user friendly. I want to have non-printing instructions to be able...
I can draw pretty cute thing that in my imagination would look good in vector format. But I'm just plain frustrated whenever I need to work with Adobe Illustrator and transfer my thoughts on digital 'paper'. Lines break when I click 'unite' in pathfinder, proportions are out from original, I need to deal with kinda dif...
I have a lot of AI files that are on a main computer. When I try to access them from my other computer all the links within the file are broken. Is there a specific way of saving an AI file so that the links work over a network?
it used to be that I was able to extract all assets from a layer in a PSD, by right-clicking that layer in Photoshop and choosing "Extract Assets". This would bring up a view showing all the assets in that layer, and let me configure certain aspects of the process, such as what file type i would like the extracted asse...
How to make flat design like this? I want to make from my photos
I want to put photos of 3 celebrity sportsmen on the cover of an eBook that I intend to self-publish on amazon and other stores, and I wonder if images that are returned by Google image search with license (under 'search tools') labelled as "for reuse" or "for reuse with modification" are fair game? Can I just use them...
I have two layers, Layer A and Layer B, both of them have transparent areas. I need to merge A into B so that the destination has the non-transparent pixels of A and transparent pixels where the same layer A has transparent pixels. In other words, I want to draw my layer A into B but make pixels in B that correspond to...
I'm dealing with an issue in Illustrator CC that I haven't come across before. I've been supplied a file that I need to work with as a vector. In Illustrator itself if I hit "Crtl + Y" and go into outline mode I can see the outline of the shape but all the detail inside of it is missing. I also can't seem to select tha...
I am using text for a printed document that will have English and then Spanish translation of the English. What is the best font combination?
I've been looking on the internet and can't find a matrix filter example that would yield a blur like in the following image: (source: gimp.org) Maybe I'm not searching for the correct keywords. I've found Gaussian blur matrixes and linear blur matrixes, but no circular. Therefore my question: What matrix would give a...
Every time I want to place an image near another in inkscape, is trying to position it close to one of its corner. I could avoid this using the Shift key, but how can I disable that feature so I don't need to press the shift key which is annoying.
Does anyone know how to create a fingerprint pattern in Illustrator?
I would like to know how to color change a stroke in Illustrator or Photoshop like the Q in the picture:
I am trying to create a custom image overlay on leaflet.js. For sake of learning something new, I am trying to lay over the co-ordinates on a 3D-looking map. For example (the map inside the red rectangle): So, far I have tried the perspective tool and 3D edge extension on inkscape, which are giving a bit of hacky...
I have a pie chart created using Illustrator CC's Pie Graph Tool: I want to separate the slices to create a gap in-between. I see that this has been asked and answered before, but the answer causes a loss to each slice's stroke (gray becomes white): Is there a way to add the dark gray stroke back onto the slices? I...
I have a speed reading meter on my site that I want to open on all possible devices. What is a good, standard size that will work for all devices, without using media queries?
As you can see in this image, I want to select those colors and use them in gradient effects. Right now, I first select one color and copy the hex code, then paste it in the gradient. Can I directly select colors on selected point in the gradient slider?
I have a grey scale image, with transparency. How can I convert this to one solid specific color, and preserve its edges/transparency? As an example of what I'm trying to achieve:
I would like to create a similar effect to this image in Photoshop. The aim is that the background and the effect colours can be changed as needed. I only need the projection part of it, I don't need the cirlce at the bottom. I mostly use vector programs and I'm not really good at Photoshop. I've tried to use the mesh ...

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