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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 li...
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 w...
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 t...
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 dest...
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 ...
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 ...
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 b...
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 ente...
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...
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 chang...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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 w...
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 sc...
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 po...
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 do...
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 coun...
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 ...
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 t...
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 ty...
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 deleti...
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 ...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 co...
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 (li...
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 shortc...
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...
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 ne...
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 ...
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 e...
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...
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 usuall...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 resi...
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 n...
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 illustrat...
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 mockup...
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 call...
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...
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. Th...
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 u...
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, wh...
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 fo...
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 .but...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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 bloc...
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 blu...
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, i...
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 ...
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, ...
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,...
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 bac...
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 t...
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 effec...
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 th...
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 ha...
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 sketche...
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 the...
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 ...
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. So...

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