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Possible Duplicate: Exporting layers in Photoshop I have a psd file with 30-40 layers. I would like to export these into PNG files, since I need the transparent background. I have tried some scripts out there and the File ⇒ Scripts &rArr Export... (which outputs only in jpeg), but the results are not how I would like. I want it to export each layer using just that layer's visible height+width for the PNG output. When I export a website PSD to PNG file, the logo PNG image size should be like 80x80px, and not the big 1200x800 (which is full website/size of the psd) where it hides the rest and leaves big white/transparent pixels. See the image under, this is NOT how I wish it: I only want the layer itself, which is the pink colored text, to be in the output png file. Hope you understand what I am looking for to do.
I see so many people presenting their designs/portfolio on device screens, like a macbook pro or imac or even iphone. I'm also seeing program developers and others do so who I presume aren't specifically talented in graphic design, so I was wondering if anyone knows of a website/template people are using? I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult to do from scratch, but if such a template exists it would be helpful. Examples:
I need a small application to measure pixels on screen. So far I've been using Pixel Window and I like it a lot, its small, its very simple to use and overall its a very handy app. But I'm looking for something simmilar that has a grid on it, something that I can customize, like an 5x5px grid or 10x10px etc, or with the option to add a 960 over it, something like what GridFox does in Firefox but in the same app as the pixel measurement tool. What do you use to measure pixels on screen(on websites for example, or in different UI of apps etc)
I have a black rectangle, and I want it to look like a stencil, with "cut-out" text in the centre. In this image, I have converted both objects to paths and used the boolean difference tool: (I'm not allowed to post images yet, so imagine a black rectangle with transparent text in the centre.) This works, but it's destructive; I can't edit the text anymore. To be completely clear, given a gradient, a rectangle in front of that, and text in front of that, I want to set the text to "transparent" and see not the rectangle, not the gradient, but transparency/nothingness. I want the transparency to override any other colour behind it; I want the result I had above, but non-destructive; if I were to put another object below the rectangle there, I don't want to see that object, I want to see transparency.
Suppose I have some phone and some Wacom drawing board (I have actually many Wacom boards so suppose any of them). I do not want to plug the Wacom board into my computer but to plug it to my phone (which can be what-ever). Does there exist some phone with which I could fast draw things and then fast upload pictures to Internet? I find irritating that I need to use Laptop / Phone / Wacom -board to upload fast sketches to internet.
I just got a pre-interview questionnaire for potentially a new job. On it I have to rank certain skills like creativity, attention to detail, photo manipulation.... one of them says "Scaling" Before I email the woman asking what "Scaling" means I thought I'd ask and see if there's some obvious thing I'm overlooking as to what in the world this would mean. It's an Environmental Graphic Design position. Maybe this means making physical scale models? Just working with an architectural or engineering scale? Using vectors so the type and design can scale? Anyone know if in Environmental Graphic Design firms there's some specific task they refer to as 'Scaling'?
I use the print booklet feature in Adobe InDesign to print little booklets. I actually then slice the booklet down the middle to have convenient half-size pages printed front and backside. Works great. Problem now is we've segmented or documents to make an InDesign book and it no longer gives us the option to print booklets. How can I print booklets like that with just a PDF file. I was really surprised Adobe Acrobat not only didn't have a print booklet feature, but it also doesn't have any mechanism whatsoever to print front and back of pages with 2-up! There must be a PDF reader that can do this or extension to acrobat, right?
I have a "Name" field on many worksheet pages which I want automatically filled in with a particular student's name when printing. I know in InDesign I can just create a master page that those worksheet pages use and fill in the name of the student there. I'd like to have a PDF of the worksheet pages where I just enter the name in the PDF viewer instead of having to do this through InDesign. Is this possible?
I need to find a tutorial (or just be pointed in the right direction) into learning how to make a design in Illustrator that is contoured. I'm basically trying to make a design for a cup. Here's the template I've been given: I've got images and text that I want to put on it but it would appear that I need to curve the images to make it work on this template. What is it that I need to learn? I'm not very familiar with this kind of design and just need to read up on it. Thanks.
I have some experience with Flash/Gimp/Photoshop, but now I have to edit an FXG file (an asset for a Flex app) in Adobe Illustrator and can't do even the two basic things, shown in the screenshot below: I need to double the size of the clubs symbol in the middle while maintaining its central alignment I need to change the indices in the corners (by different text) but I can't even select the clubs symbol or the indices! Whenever I click and drag - I select and move everything. Do I need to break apart like in Flash editor? Can't find it in the Adobe Illustrator menu. UPDATE: Thank you Scott, this has worked after the Ungroup. I wonder though, why can't I select anything in the layers window (I realized after some time that there are indeed several layers already). I click on a layer, but nothing is selected. I'm asking, because I want to place the new text symmetrically.
I have half-US Letter (8.5" x 5.5") documents I print out in booklet form from Adobe InDesign CS5.5 on a Brother 9970CDW color laser. Works great. Problem is InDesign doesn't allow you to print booklets from InDesign book files (why not?!). So I have to export to PDF and then print the booklet from Acrobat. Then the issue is I get slightly bigger margins all around (with slightly scaled down pages) for some reason. I've tried fiddling with every setting I could think of to get rid of those margins... It's clearly not the printer's issue of having too big of margins as this prints fine from within InDesign. The Brother printer is able to print pretty close to the edges (closer than I need).
I have a set of playing cards in FXG format serving as asset for a Flex card game. However the indices of the cards are in English language: A, K, Q, J and my game is in a different language. My question is - how can I replace the indices in a clever way, i.e. so that the new indices are aligned symmetrically and I don't have to spend hours rotating and aligning them? Below is a screenshot of what I have, the indices are on separate layers already and I can select them by clicking the "circles" in the layers menu: For the screenshot above: I need to replace the both "A"s by my own indices.
Let's say I have a document which is 30 inches by 30 inches. My printer is 11x17. I need to print tiles. Let's also say that the printer is attached to a computer which doesn't have InDesign, but does have Acrobat, so I need to export my fie to a PDF in order to print to the printer. How do I get a PDF which is made of tiles? I can use the Print function to print tiles, manually or automatically. I can Export to PDF. But I can't figure out how to Print to PDF or save my print job as a PDF and have it come up as tiles. (I tried using the Save As PDF option and the PDF which was generated couldn't be opened; my Mac kept spitting back an error.) Is there a way to do this from InDesign, or do I have to create a PDF with four identical pages and create tiles manually by cropping in Acrobat?
I was jotting down some notes for a future project, sketching some simple icons for functionality etc, but all I could come up with for an icon to represent 'edit' was a pencil. The pencil seems to have become pretty universal in icon design, but I think it's pretty outdated and it's not clear enough from a distance (it just looks like a diagonal line). For 'add', we have the universal '+' sign, and for delete we have 'X' or '-'. I feel like we (the world) needs something similar for 'Edit'. I saw the similar post on here about the 'Save' icon not being a disk, and found it really fascinating. But what about the pencil? I've been thinking about this now for a few days, but I can't think of anything. Can anyone else?
In designing many new student worksheets and their corresponding answer sheets, we frequently have to modify them. The problem then is there are mismatches, a student will hand in an older worksheet and we have a newer answer sheet to grade it against. What I want is a version number on each page in a document. So when that page is modified, its version number is increased as well. Is there a way in Adobe InDesign to do this automatically? I don't care about the versioning scheme, only that we can check against the above kinds of mismatches.
When I design some stock or investment related things, I found that China is different from country like US. In US, red color represent a negative trend, and green represent a positive one. In the contrast, China use the red to represent the positive, and green for the negative. What else company have the same color schema like China? Thanks.
I have an oval shape with a stroke and no fill. I'm trying to erase part of the shape as have something lying on top of the shape and i don't want them touching. I have tried using the eraser tool but it keep pushing the line away. Can anyone help with this at all? Thanks in advance.
I have a shape thus: In Illustrator, this design is composed of a load of paths with a heavy stroke applied, and no fill. How can I obtain the path describing the white area? Note: I drew this in Illustrator but coloured it in Photoshop for clarity
How and where - (in what application Photoshop, Corel or something else) can I make a 3D design that looks like the illustrations, for example? Images from Logopond.com Thanks in advance. Best regards
I need to export multiple objects from Illustrator to individual .png files. The objects are different in size. I know this is easily done from Inkscape, but Illustrator seems to produce nicer images. What is the routine to do it?
I have a poster which I have made, it is basically lots of java code and looks like a wall of text. I want to add syntax highlighting to this so that the code is more readable. I know that I can create styles and then apply them by selecting the text and adding the desired style, however there is so much code in the poster that I want t automate/batch this process. Is there either a plugin I can use that will add the syntax highlighting or is there a way to add styles globally so that it adds the style to every instance of a certain character? If anyone can think of a different way to achieve this using a different piece of software then please share :)
When I have my tablet plugged in, "Step Backwards" and "Undo" stop functioning normally. I have CS5 Extended 12.1 64-bit and OS X 10.7.3 with a Wacom Intuos PTZ-630. Suppose I draw 3 discrete strokes with the stylus. If I hit "Step Backwards", I would expect the most recent stroke to immediately disappear. But it doesn't. However, as soon as I do anything (such as press the stylus tip to start drawing again), the stroke disappears! If I hit "Step Backwards" again, that stroke and the preceding stroke seem to disappear simultaneously. Clicking & dragging the window for the image "counts" in terms of causing a screen update. So if I hit "Step Backwards", nothing will happen, but then as soon as I move the window even one pixel by clicking & dragging the top bar, it will take effect. Hitting "F" to go into full-screen mode makes the problem go away. Both full-screen modes (there's one when you hit "F" the first time, and another when you hit it again) fix it. Anyone experienced an issue like this?
How could one use the Gimp to easily transform a map with many colors into a map where each country is fully colored in a single unique color. I used the Color > Threshold option to get a b&w image, then filled the country-borders with more black pixels where they were missing, and erased the black pixels inside a country's territory, before using the fill tool to fill each country with its own color. That's very tedious and long work, and probably someone has a better idea, which they'll be happy to share with me ;)
I converted the letter "Z" to a path. Now I want to make the Z extra bold. The corners should stay sharp. I don't want to make the letter bigger, I want it to be more bold. Any hints?
When I have a photo with a mask in Photoshop, I want to be able to edit this mask with a brush, e.g. I want to remove the sky from the photo. But as far as I know, I can only view the mask or the photo, but not both. I would like to be able to view them both, so that the mask is an "overlay" of the photo. How can I do that? I hope that was clear...
In illustrator, if you want to take a blend between two objects with a specified number of steps and give it a perspective-like effect - changing the curve of the blend from linear to non-linear so the blend has different density at different points - it's pretty straightforward. You add a spine to the blend and edit the spine until you are happy with it. (to add an editable spine, an easy way is to plonk a line or shape on top of the blend, select it and the blend, then Object > Blend > Replace Spine) However, this method does not always work well when the shapes you a blending have a common centre. For example, in A below, manipulating the spine requires pushing the blend out in a direction, like in B. Using this technique, the blend has to be lopsided, and can't be neatly centred and symmetrical like C (which I made for this examples via the tedious process of expanding the blend then resizing each line by hand). How can you create an effect like C from a blend like A? I'll accept methods that are not based on blend, so long as, like editing a blend's spine, they can be editted, tweaked and adjusted conveniently after they are applied. Edit: After asking, it occurred to me that the blend tool spine alone will never be the right tool for this task since it controls only the positions of the intermediary shapes, while what I'm trying to do requires changing their sizes. So treat the blend spine thing as an illustrative example of the idea only - an answer is not likely to involve that technique. I imagine there is probably a good answer that involves envelope distorts, but I'm not having much luck making the details work.
I'd like to know if this is possible with Photoshop CS4 : Select an item with Ctrl+T (on windows). Crop it directly, without selecting the item manually. It is possible?
I need to generate parallel lines with gap of 18px in Pixelmator for the purpose of baseline. Is there any quick way like transform in Illustrator or pattern in PS? Is it possible to generate guides such way?
I'm using a Brother MFC-J6910DW inkjet. On my PC it's easy enough to print full bleed, there's a borderless option in the printer dialog. I can't find any such option on the Mac. Am I not able to print to the edges in Adobe InDesign or Acrobat? UPDATE: Apparently in Adobe InDesign you print by selecting the paper type with "(borderless)" next to the paper type you want (every supported paper type has 2 versions, 1 with and 1 without (borderless)). Acrobat doesn't print full bleed, but Mac OS X's built-in preview tool has the same paper type option as Adobe InDesign.
The strangest Photoshop problem I've ever had just came up... I all of a sudden cannot right click, click and drag, use modifier keys (I can push B for brush, but can't say Ctrl-O for open) or long click (I cannot select the secondary tools such as switching between the paint bucket and gradient tools). I tried deleting my user prefs (had to do it manually because modifier keys aren't working so no Ctrl-Alt-Shift), and that works for literally a few seconds and then the problem reappears. I can't recall doing anything strange to trigger the error; I was using the program just fine and suddenly I couldn't do anything I needed to. I'm having no issues with other software, even other Adobe software. I'm running CS5.5 on Windows 7 Pro. Has anyone encountered this problem before?
I'm using Pixelmator instead of Photoshop. The problem is there are no books on learning Pixelmator. Is there a book that teaches design techniques that is not centered around Photoshop? Where can I read about "layers" "masking" and the like without needing Photoshop?
I am frequently working to create background textures in Photoshop to be used on the web. Unfortunately I usually have to guess, or just use freebies from other websites. I would like to build my own textures in Photoshop and check if they tile properly before exporting the image. Is there a way to do this quickly? I remember a method using offset, but I'm not familiar with the tools. Below are a couple example background tiles so you can see what I'm talking about:
So Apple recently had a countdown to their 1 billionth app download and it used a rolodex flipping type of effect. This actually turned out to be running on a sprite image which is composed of different flipping "states", then jQuery quickly moves through these animations for each new download. I'm desperately trying to create a similar effect in Photoshop that I can use for a small web application. I can find tons of clock PSD freebies to work with, but I'm unsure of how to go about skewing the images to create the flip-like effect. Ultimately the goal is to create a large sprite image containing all of the different number states. The scaled version I included above is the closest I can find to what I'm looking to build - also included it below as a direct image. I would appreciate any help on this! It seems that using a background sprite is the easiest way to duplicate this effect on a webpage. So I'm just stuck at physically creating these different "states" of animated flipping.
How do I find the middle, or n/th division or percentage of distance between two arbitrary points in GIMP? Like, I have an object / a line of arbitrary length / two guides, placed in arbitrary place of the image. I want to place an object/marker/guide/whatever right in the middle of it, or precisely at 1/3 of it, and I want to do it with a bit of precision, not "by eye". Is there any easier way than finding the pixel locations of the ends of the line and calculating proportions in a calculator on the side, or using Thales Theorem to "construct" the point? (the one I found: draw a line the full distance on a separate layer, then use the "scale" tool to scale it by given percentage... but it feels extremely clunky)
I want to convert an image to this style using Photoshop: How do I add the border made of clouds? Does this style have a name?
I have a picture containing lot of noise (see example below). Using photoshop CS5, is there any way to remove/or minimize these artefacts ? I know this is possible in sound editors (like Goldwave) : you select a small sample of the sound containing only noise, and then apply a "noise reduction" effect, it will remove anything in the sound that contains same frequencies as sample selected. It is not perfect since its also remove some other usefull information in the sound but results are generally very good. I am looking for the same functionality but for pictures. It should allow me to select some region in picture containing mostly noise (a black / very dark area) and then based on this region, the plugin effect should remove any noise on the picture with same frequencies/pattern. I think some cameras have same possibility : you take a picture of a black background (thus containing only noise), then real pictures. using the picture containing only noise, the camera automatically remove artefacts in real pictures. If not possible in Photoshop CS5, any other tool doing that would also be nice. Note : i know about Filter > Noise > Reduce noise but it is not what i want. EDIT : thanks all for your suggestions, after searching a lot, i have found one tool that does it : NeatImage. This was perfectly what I was looking for and made miracles. During some googling sessions I have also try some other and find Noise Ninja and Noiseware to be nice tools. I will try some of your suggestions when i will have time.
How do I create a semi-transparent layer to place over an image, such as the center of the background on amarestoudemire.com/ (Direct link to background) I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS5.5.
I am working on a web page that displays some music note names such as "B", "Bb" (B flat), or C# (C sharp). For a better readability I would prefer to display the correct flat and sharp symbols. It seems that the standard sans-serif fonts such as Arial or Helvetica do not support these symbols, which leads me to the conclusion that I need to find a web font that looks similar to the widespread sans-serifs (Arial, Helvetica) and in addition has these two symbols. Q1: Do you know of any such web font? Q2: Or was I completely mistaken and the Arial and Helvetica actually do support musical notation symbols, and they happen to be in the same position for both of these fonts?
When I create new states for the page - the master is gone. It appears only on the first state and not on the others. Is that how it works or am I missing something? (CS5, ver 11.1, Windows 7)
There are many baseline rules in web design (and design in general) around how the use of color, shape, line-quality, and font. These rules typically have some grounding in the way the brain perceives these things in relation to each other. Can anyone point me to a good resource explaining how to use gradient fills (linear and radial)? How they affect the eye, contrast with overlaid fonts, affect the perception of color, dominance, etc? Resources don't need to be targeted at web-design, as it probably applies to any screen-based graphical design, if not print design as well.
Hi i just swapped from a pc to a mac and feel a bit lost cause I cant find many of the shortcuts i was getting used to. -I can't scale an object uniform just by clicking on its bounding box and shift+dragging in/out. -I can't duplicate an object by alt+clicking and dragging How should I do that?should I edit the shortcuts preferences?
I have a lot of text layers (I'm rendering up a keyboard). Is there any way to change the anti-aliasing setting on all of the layers at once?
Here is what I'm trying to do on the border of a photo. How can I do this in photoshop? Thanks,
I have used the Vectormagic.com -hxck i.e. copy-pasting to get quantified and nice-looking pictures fast but doing this is too slow with overwhelming amount of pictures. My friend is mocking that this thing cannot be done quickly with offline -tools but I feel the story is different, it probably requires some expertise to use the tools such as bitmap-trace in Inkscape correctly. For simplicity, suppose you have some simple comic character with 10 colors, background transparent and alpha-channel added. How can you improve the quality? Inkscape uses the term quantification with bitmap-trace but I cannot yet understand what is actually happening under the cover when Vectormagic.com does the trick and makes the photo looking good. Please, explain. And special plus if you can provide reproducible commands, look potrace/autotrace are commandline tools eventually. Perhaps related https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/7798/9379
I frequently use predominately black masks on gradient or fill layers to show a shape with a color that I can choose later. However, when I transform the layer, the extension color is white- i.e. opaque. This leaves filled areas around the image where photoshop had to create more mask. Anyway I can set this to fill new areas with black i.e. transparent?
I have a graphic that looks like a stamp created in Fireworks, it is mainly made of Paths that have custom stroke types on them, the problem is that I want to expand the custom Stroke so that I have a Path around the grungy stroke, Have a look at the screenshot to understand better, as you can see the Stroke type in my case is set to Bristle, have a look:
I was just wondering if anyone could place a font for me? I need it for a font-face on a website. What font is used for "Good food compliments great beer" text? Thanks in advance.
Here's a common design workflow problem, probably most relevant to in-house designers, but also to agencies who have a lot of non-design writing or research staff, or freelancers who work with in-house writers. Many designers encounter it and have a way of dealing with it: I'm interested in what our collective design experience can come up with for the best way to deal with it. Here's the problem: I'm making a text-and-images layout, and I need to send early drafts to writers for copy editing. These writers don't have design software and never will: buying it in isn't an option. Assume they have MS Office, and that maybe one person in the office has Acrobat but they can't access it easily. (In my case, these people are writers and research experts, there are loads of them, and copy writing and editing for designs is a small portion of what they do) The copy editing is somewhat dependant on the layout: the writers need to be able to see the flow of the page to see how each chunk fits in, and how much space they have for each chunk. I'm thinking of cases like infographics and diagrams with detailed labels where the text, imagery and layout go hand-in-hand, rather than cases like books or magazine layouts where we'd just say "give the designer between XXX and YYY words and trust them". The layout at this stage doesn't need to be exact on their end, but they need to be able to get an idea of it. It doesn't matter if what they send back to me is a bit of a mess visually, I'll just be extracting and using their editted text So, what are the best methods for giving people an editable rough approximation of a layout? Any answer should ideally be better than my current method - which is to email around PDFs showing the rough layout alongside flat Word documents with the text, hoping that the writers will understand and respect the layout and understand how much space they have... They rarely do... and since copy writing and editing for designs is a small portion of what they do, this is not likely to change. Ideally, it should be less clunky and time-consuming than creating a separate PDF form and re-creating every text box as an input element to create a sort-of editable PDF, or, re-creating an approximation of the layout by hand in something like Word. I'll accept answers starting with any common design software. In my case it's mostly Illustrator, but tricks that work starting with designs in InDesign, Photoshop, Corel, Inkcape etc are all relevant.
I am trying to determine the how much line spacing to set for the amount of kern used in photoshop. I can eye-ball the spacing but does anyone know the exact ratio between the two. ex. Set text kern to 50 in photoshop = 1 em line-spacing. Thanks!
I want to create a mosaic from a set of photos I already have that will give me another photo. So a set of architecture photos that will give me a big photo of it's creator (the architect). The result for me would be a big print, at least one meter (40") across. Ideally, each tile would be discernible, so you could say: that's a bridge. I thought it would be easy (or easier), but it's not. I'm using MacOSaiX (a program for doing this), but I'm not limited to a Mac, so Windows software is okay too. The problems that I'm having the larger picture is not as obvious as I'd like it to be, the set of photos has to be quite large, the portrait of the architect has few different colors (skin, hair, shirt and background) and these are usually not present in photos (you don't see green architecture that often :)). I have thought of going with black and white, or maybe coloring a subset of photos to match individual colors, but this would take lots of time. Any tips? Is there better program? Any tips to automate some of the subtasks? Other tips?
Notice the texture in this image: I'm trying to create that effect. How would you recommend doing so? I could easily overlay a pattern/texture but I don't want it to be uniform. You can see in the image that the effect is heavier on the right side. Thanks in advance for any advice!
I am sorry for effect naming(!) but i couldn't decide the what is correct one for it, but you can see the example image below. What is the most effective way to achieve this result with CS5? Thanks. Example Image
I want to print 4 din-a6 postcards on a din-a4 paper. How would you do this with inkscape? The postcard should be duplex. I could calculate it myself, but I guess there is a tool, since this is a common task Thank you.
I'm working on a mockup of a jQuery slider which can be found here. Now, I'm not the best graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, and I can't seem to be able to get a realistic looking shadow. What I want is for the phone to appear as if it's standing on its side, but all of my attempts in Photoshop usually result in the phone looking like it's floating at a weird angle. What I've tried so far (and failed at): Added an elipse near the bottom of the phone and blurred it. This sorta worked but just doesn't look right. Added a rectangle and did the same as the previous bullet, but this looked worse. Tried using a drop shadow layer effect. This looked horrible. Can anyone give me some suggestions?
I found ascii document with 3d data. It was said: ascii text file of point cloud with RGB / I values Here you can see part of document: 0.805, 10.301, -1.860, 165, 66, 65, 66 0.806, 10.311, -1.859, 157, 66, 65, 74 0.820, 10.298, -1.859, 209, 66, 65, 74 I did not found help on this format and cannot understand what is I values. Is there such a term "RGB / I values" in color theory?
I have had this issue for quite a while, and have found no info to help me. Also, the issue doesn't always show up. What is happening is when I select something with the marquee tool, the selection doesn't start at the position I click. It's usually a few pixels off. It also does this with the ruler tool. I'll click at a point to start measuring and the ruler starts at a completely different spot. Really annoying! Anyone else have this problem and/or know a way to fix it. I'm using Photoshop CS4 btw. Thanks!
First of all I am not a designer but a developer, please bear with me if this an amateurish question. I am looking to get some graphics done for a mobile app. I want to get vector graphics done so that it is scalable to different size for different purposes (app store, the phone, web etc.). Generally speaking does it take more time to do it in Illustrator than on Photoshop? Do I have to account for more time if I require it to be done on Illustrator?
I got a bunch of PSD and Illustrator files and my boss wants that ability to edit the information in the files without having to ask me to do it. This would be more like editing just the text, there would be no need to edit the graphical elements. Is that a way to convert these file to PowerPoint?
I'm trying to add some outlined text to a product logo. I've got paint shop pro which can produce outlined text, with a variable outline line width. My images are 512x512, 114x114 and 57x57. I also have access to an old version adobe photoshop v6. I've finally picked two colours which work together. However when I resize my large image it anti-aliases into a mess. I've tried the middle size with not much better results. Also at the smaller size, looks very pixelated. I figure there must be a technique to this. Can anyone advise me what's the best approach?
Using google images you can find any image you want these days, even high resolution. The question is how do I know what I can use image wise in the graphic design work assuming that the graphic work is for non profit use? For example, I want to use Garfield comic strip, a portrait of Mark Twain, a book cover of some novel. Are any of these things restricted or can I use them without seeking permissions? And do I have to even seek for permission? Any help or good read is highly appreciated.
I am finding this question particular hard to word, so please bear with me. I have a particular vector object that is irregularly shaped (in this case, it is an "r" that I traced with the pen tool), and I want to create another object that is a certain radius out from the original object... Here's an image to illustrate: The solid-stroke "R" is the original object, and the dotted-stroke "R" is my desired object. Any way in Illustrator to derive this?
I'm interested in possibly studying graphic design while I work full-time. I already have a BA in Business and a MS in Software Engineering, but have not taken any art or design courses because the other stuff was "practical". As a kid I would draw quite a bit and make things. I find that I enjoy creating UI mockups along with my programming work. I understand building software and websites from a programming standpoint, but, when I've had the opportunity to do a bit of design, I've enjoyed it but feel that I lack understanding on how to make a product look great and lack understanding of UX principles. I'm interested in improving my knowledge and abilities in design for websites and mobile apps, layout fundamentals, typography and making fonts, art history and drawing. I know there are tons of books and sites devoted to these topics, and I have been reading many of them, but I would like more of a comprehensive approach to learning that includes fundamental theory and critique. Are there any online programs that you would recommend? I've seen that SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) offers a BA, and Academy of Art offers both an AA and BFA. Are these decent programs? Are there any others I should look at that are not too "degree mill-ish"? Also, would you recommend I take a few fundamental courses ad hoc then apply for a MA or MFA degree since I already have a Bachelors? Alternately, should I simply go for some kind of certificate since I already have a bunch of school?
I have a screenshot where I want only a part of the pasted image, and I want to turn the white that's in it transparent. First I need to crop the pasted image. I have selected the layer and a rectangle which I want. I can't seem to find the option that crops the current layer to the current selection. What's this called?
I'm curious what font is used for the word "TYPE" in the poster below. Any Ideas? I already tried such services as WhatTheFont and What Font is, but I still couldn't identify the exact font. Any free alternative would also suffice. I also like this font, but it's not cheep. :( I'm going for a "Western Style" Slab Serif font. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! http://friendsoftype.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/monstersoftype_06.jpg
I know I can do multiple iterations of the same Smart Object within the SAME document and have it change all instances, but what about Smart Objects placed across DIFFERENT documents? That would be awesome. I ask because I’m designing an iPhone app and it uses the same modules over and over across different screens. There are dozens of screens and each time I needs to change a button or text field in a module, I need to fix it one at a time in each file. Sucks!
I have a PSD where the design contains a text layer. I want to generate a version of the image for each name in a text file and lay out the results 6-up on a page for printing without any scaling or loss of quality (each image is 9mm square). There may be 100s of images so ideally I would like to automate this. I'm using Photoshop CS (1) at the moment but I'm happy to invest in a more up-to-date version if it does what I need. It looks like this is possibly achievable with data-merge in CS3 but I'm not sure how to then do the layout (Picture Package seems close to what I want but still requires manually choosing each image to use in the layout, a least in CS). I've heard that InDesign might be the right solution but I don't want to buy it unless it solves the problem! Can anybody suggest a solution in Photoshop or any other software that fits the bill?
I have a brand new computer with Photoshop CS 5.5 64bit installed on Win 7 Pro 64bit and my graphics drivers are up to date. When I open photoshop and I click on a file menu drop down (e.g. File) and I move the mouse to hover over "Edit", the Edit menu doesn't drop down. That's not a big deal, but annoying. However, when I create a new file, I cannot use the drag select tool as it wont register my clicks on the canvas screen. I cannot right click and I cannot resize the canvas. I've spent the last few hours trying to troubleshoot this including reinstalling Photoshop, running the 32bit and 64 bit versions, deleted preferences, uninstalled DisplayFusion, ran in compatibility mode, had a graphics programmer remote in and disabled openGL. None of those things have worked. Adobe forum: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4352886 The strange thing is that it works perfect once every twenty or so times I try it. Any ideas? Reinstalling Windows (this is a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro) is the absolute last resort. Cheers -- Update -- I couldn't answer my own question but the problem was that I had synergy running as a service on the computer. Stopping it made Photoshop work. Reference: http://synergy-foss.org/tracker/issues/467
I've got three copies of a vector in pure Cyan Magenta and Yellow colors. I wish to overlap them so that they merge to give a chromatic aberration effect letting a blackish color where they merge.
...in photoshop, and like the one in photoshop I know how to make the gradients, but how do I make the colors precise? Like showing all colors in the hue bar or getting a perfect black-to-transparent gradient. This color picker image would then be used in javascript...
Can anyone name the font used in the three images below? I know they are from poor angles but hopefully someone can name it. Also if someone with more than 10 rep points could repost them as pictures, that would be a big help. I have a third image but I cant post it for the same reason. Thanks in advance. I have found Dragon EF that seems quite close, but am still open to suggestions. Here is my attempt, but the K and W don't quite measure up:
I am saving 3 different file sizes of PNG's (1" x 2", 2" x 3", 3" x 4"). When I place them all in Indesign or MS Word they are all the same size. All of them show up in their folder as different sizes. Why is this?
I have a problem with my CSS code. Buttons look differently in IE7 and FF Here are my buttons: Here is my code: .list-common-wrapper .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled] .button-background, #id-chart-editor-active-event .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled] .button-background, .three-lists .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled] .button-background { background: url("../images/button/btn_var_bg.gif") no-repeat scroll left -120px transparent; color: #777777; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } list.css (line 122) .list-common-wrapper .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal .button-background, #id-chart-editor-active-event .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal .button-background, #id-profile-editor-move-attributes-buttons .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal .button-background { color: #333333; cursor: pointer; } list.css (line 132) .button-unfixed-normal .button-background { background: url("../images/button/btn_var_bg.gif") no-repeat scroll left 0 transparent; display: block; padding: 2px 8px 4px 12px; } button.css (line 111) Inherited froma.button-unfixed-def # .list-common-wrapper .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled], #id-chart-editor-active-event .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled], #id-profile-editor-move-attributes-buttons .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled] { color: #777777; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } list.css (line 142) .list-common-wrapper .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-def { font-size: 12px; line-height: 130%; } list.css (line 163) .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal { color: #333333; text-decoration: none; } button.css (line 104) .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-def { cursor: default; font-size: 12px; line-height: 130%; } button.css (line 93) a { color: #175DB5; text-decoration: underline; } It shows that the color #777777 is displayed differently in IE7 and FF (look at the arrow):
Historically, or in current common usage, are there any typography symbols which have the meaning "see page" or "refer to page", which can be placed near the page number?
I am using Inkscape to create .svg vector files. I wanted to convert it to .eps so that I could use it in Latex (unable to use .svg in Latex). Please recommend a free software to convert .svg to .eps. Update: I did google for the question, but the closest answer I got was this SuperUser question: Converting between EPS and SVG format I was hoping for a better answer. I was unable to install GS on my Windows 7 machine. Currently I email images to my friend who converts it on Ubuntu.
tried the site what the font with no luck. I am looking for a font (Free since for one time use in a title) that has this leaning "A". I know the font is a popular one as I've seen it in many designs as of late. Here is an example of a similar font found in an image online. If anyone has any ideas what font this or one similar please let me know Thanks in advance
I am assembling a reference book which has short entries arranged alphabetically. It also has a deep section hierarchy, e.g.: A Am Amtrak An animals bears penguins Anime Animation The book is quite large and readers might often need to flip between pages. I find it too difficult to navigate. Many books of this type have letters cut into the edge of the pages, so if one looks near the margins, they can quickly see which page they are at and how to easily get to other pages, but cutting the pages in this manner is not an option at my printer. I would like to enable readers to be able to easily see which page they are currently on, where the current page fits within the chapter-section hierarchy, and how they can easily jump to their next desired page. What is a good way to do this?
I need a websafe alternative to DIN font. It needs to be free for commercial use. Anyone know of a good one?
I created a simple circle drawing in Inkscape. Then I exported the drawing as png. When I resize the image in IrfanView and save it as png then a thin white border appears around the circle. You can see the difference between both images here: Original image Image after IrfanView Why does saving with IrfanView put a white border around circle?
Why do some fonts make the I,l,1 characters look identical? There are fonts where they don't just look similar - they are the same exact pixel locations. Why were they ever created? I'm guessing this goes back to something historically, for example printing presses where you had to manually possition all the lead blocks for each page. So if you had many characters that could all use the same block then it was a saving instead of needing 3 sets of blocks for 3 characters, maybe you could get away with 2. Does anyone know for sure?
How would I go about replicating the following pattern in Photoshop, with a different background color than this gray one? Of course, it would be best if the pattern could be on its separate layer, so it can be compatible with any background color. I've tried using the pen/pencil tools to draw some lines and then blurring them and reducing the opacity, but it never looks quite like this. How can I reproduce this pattern with a background colour of my choice?
I'm working with a graphic designer to create some iPhone interface elements, but I'm not a graphics designer myself. So I do not really know how to describe what I'm looking for. I'm afraid of over-doing fancy effects, so I have a few questions: What effects does an iPhone button typically have? Is it a drop shadow, inner glow, etc? Which ones are most appropriate for a "workhorse" button - the one that will be used frequently versus the one that is merely an option button? I'm going to include a couple panels that slide on/off screen. Do such panels in general have edge effects applied to them to make them blend in better? If so, what is the name of such effects, is it drop shadow, bevel, etc? What is the name of effect that may smooth the transition between two rectangular views: one is dark gray, another is black. I'm thinking of a fade-like effect where over 5 pixels or so the colors blend together. How is such effect called? Is it appropriate to use linear gradients within interface elements? If so, how much of a color difference is not "too much". For example is white to dark gray ok, or should it be subtler - light gray to dark gray? Thank you for any input or keywords that would help me research this topic better!
I have an EPS file with some shape. A good example would be the Twitter EPS files: https://twitter.com/about/resources/logos How can I import an EPS vector shape into my Photoshop CS4, without rasterizing it? I want to get the vector shape into a shape layer.
I'm following this guide because I want to learn some icon design in PS, and I have the CS6 beta. I believe the author is using Photoshop CS5, while I'm on CS6 beta right now. At this part in a guide I'm following: I don't see these options in CS6. How do I replicate them? This is my toolbar for the shape tool:
I passed the ACE exams for InDesign and Photoshop a few months ago, but I am stumbling on how to get practical experience. I have a couple of years of news page design, and a very small number of non-newspaper work samples. I'm a mid-career professional and have spent most of my time editing. I'd be very happy to do some jobs for free to beef up my portfolio, but I've had lousy luck finding any. Unfortunately, most of my editing clients are not design-friendly so I'm not having much luck with referrals that way. Any suggestions would be very welcome! How can I gain practical graphic design experience, without an existing network of clients?
Doesn't mean to ripped off. I know how to create morphing between images but does anyone know how to make the animated wavy effects showcase here?
To begin with, I'm a programmer -- not a graphic designer, so I'm not very good at making pleasing looking images. But I want some that at least look decent enough for version 1 of my video app, and I came up with a bunch of logos for it. I have one here: Here is another: I've been bugging my friends for feedback, and they seem to think the images are too cartoony looking. I don't really know how to fix this, so I welcome suggestions from the professionals! EDIT I followed some of your all's recommendations. The new image is: I redid the star from scratch entirely. My friends really like the new look of it. I'm still not sure about the blue border though. I've been messing around with it for 3 hours and can't get something that "clicks" for me. Oh, and I remember where my idea for the icon came from. I originally had just a star, but that seemed too generic, so my buddy suggested making it like a Hollywood star, and those stars have a little camera in them.
I'm using Gimp and I need to save a tiff file with a "Group 4 Fax" compression. I've followed the instructions to have that option enabled on the "Save as Tiff" dialog (see bottom of the linked page), but the option still appears grayed out... Any idea what I may be doing wrong?
I need the center of the letter A in Illustrator to be transparent so you can see the background underneath. Same with letter D, B, O, P, R. I imported a vector version of a word, and I am able to select the letter but if I click delete button it deletes the whole word.
I know SCAMPER & Ideo cards, but I'm curious if there are any other important techniques/methodologies one must not miss. I'm particularly interested in those that you would resort to use for a client's project.
What are the best tools for producing infographics - attractive displays that combine graphs, diagrams and text to convey a lot of information succinctly. I'm interested in both web-viewable content and posters for printing. Specifically, I'm asking: What combinations of tools are used (eg, one tool for making graphs, another for assembling graphs and text into the final infographic)? Are any vector graphic tools (eg, Illustrator) particularly more or less suited to the task than others? Are there any online tools which are useful in the assembly process? (As an example of the kind of thing I'm interested in making [but on much more modest scale], http://xkcd.com/980/)
I have some old photographs that I have scanned. While the image of the person is clear, the background has several blurs and is not a perfect black as one would desire. Is there a way to detect the person's image alone as a separate object, thereby isolating it from the background? That way, I could get rid of all background noise. What is the technical jargon for this process? I searched for 'Object detection', but that leads me to engineering papers! Could someone point me to useful videos using Lightroom in this regard?
I search a good looking font which has small empty space, means the characters are full and nearly quadratic. Or in other words, if you draw a rectangle or quadre around a letter, nearly 80 % should be filled with the character, only small empty space. The best i got so far is Frutiger Ultra bold, but it still wastes too much space. Letterspacing can be altered so its not priority.
I'm trying to create a 'chain' like pattern that arcs round using the blend tool in Illustrator cs5. This is what I get (the straight chain is the one I would like to replicate). The blend tool insists on 'warping' the chain links if I put them on a curved spine. I'm not really sure how else I could achieve this effect. Can someone point me in the right direction?
when i save an image in Photoshop as a PNG-24 with trans on, does PS actually convert that to PNG-32 but not tell me about it?
I have a bunch of metadata embedded into my images in a custom xmp namespace that I've defined. Unfortunately, Bridge does not search the metadata by default when I perform a search. Instead, I have to open up the find window and explicitly tell it to include all metadata fields in its search in order for it to work the way I want it to. Is there a way to make this the default behavior?
I need to find a font that looks like the lettering on a movie sign. I will be using a background to give the lines in the background. Now I need to find a font that looks like the text on the sign. Are there any fonts that give the diagonal "and" and "the" like in the first two pictures? Does that diagonal type have a proper name to Google?
could anyone suggest me a new way to represent the icon "Add New" without using any form of plus symbol. For example, say Add New Quiz. How could I represent this as an icon without using any form of "+" (plus) symbol - http://bit.ly/JHSa4X or "shopping cart" symbol - http://bit.ly/JLWzTC Ideas/Mockups/Rough sketches greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance :)
Sorry if my question is silly :-( I'm trying to create my personal website, but I am stuck with the graphics. I tried to create pictures myself but it was too hard, so now I want to use a prepared package. What I want are some pictures like the ones below. Can anyone give the name of this style or a way of creating them? I took the second one from newspaper :-)
I'm taking this website as an example: BuddyMiller.com Is that border that looks like a nice persian rug, surrounding the page, something I would get from a template online (I've been searching for hours and can't find anything remotely close) and if so could you point me to some website which has these type of page border templates (not bad-looking clip-art, but nice like this). Or is this something I can do in Photoshop, and if so how would it be done or is there a good tutorial out there you can point me to?
Does anyone know where I can get an Adobe Illustrator CS5 template for Google AdWords? There is one on the web through Adobe but it's the old sizes (which are off by just a couple pixels) and it's optimized for CS4. I am also posting this in the Graphic Design Stack Exchange (wasn't sure which it really belonged in. Sorry if this is the wrong forum.) Thanks.

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