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Could anyone tell me what this font is on the following images? It looks like Courier but it is not.
I think I'm posting this question in the proper SE site, as it pertains more to designers than programmers. I developed an iOS app with a programmer (I'm the artist), and we're using Helvetica Neue. The problem is with the kerning - some letter pairs are spaced poorly ingame. It's definitely obeying the kerning table f...
I'm looking for some opinions on how to approach an interesting problem I've encounted. I dabble in UX/graphic design, specifically for the web. Mostly static sites. I do this all on my own time as a side business and it's something that I would like to go in to full time. By day, I'm a software engineer for a compa...
I'm looking for some software that will allow me to create an animation of a given image being drawn in real time. For example, I have a jpeg. It's a picture of my pet dog, and I want some software that will create an animation (flash/gif/avi) of the image, but not the image fading in, rather, the image being drawn sec...
I was curious as to which combinations of serif and sans-serif fonts are preferable to use that are compatible with most browsers. While I am aware that with the introduction of CSS3 importing custom fonts is a great solution, I was wondering, as a back-up, which combination would be good to use? Is there even a good/...
I'm a programmer, not a designer, but I am trying to learn design as it would be very helpful. I am following a tutorial on PSD\|TUTS+ and it doesn't specify the resolution I should be working with. My progress so far does look a little less defined then the screen-shots, so I am wondering if I should be working at a re...
Possible Duplicate: Where are some good places to find free stock images? Are there good central locations for icons / buttons / ui elements? There are a number of great font databases online, good stock image sellers, and even a good number of blogs that point to good designs / themes / templates... but icons / ui ...
Possible Duplicate: Picking colors that don't clash. What are some good resources for getting colour schemes/palettes for your designs? I usually mix/make them myself but sometimes I need quite a lot of colours to select from, and in that case, it extends the project time by quite a lot.
I am trying to make an arrow that will stand out against any background. I know there are ways to make transparent and semi-transparent images. I was wondering if there is a way to make a layer that actually inverts the background (something like a mask I think). So when I place the image over some other graphic, the s...
Is there any way to fully import a saved colour palette into Illustrator? I once saved a colour palette from one project and wanted to import the colours for use in another project, but I found that the imported colour palette was separate from the second project.
Let's say that I want to design a website to sell photographs of landscape, wildlife, or general interest subjects. What tips, elements, etc. should be incorporated into the design to make it successful? Assume that traffic somehow makes it to the front page of the site, but everything else it up to the site to sell th...
I'm working on a web-based app that's similar to a control panel, with lots of different settings and features to configure. The challenge is making it easy for users to find what they want without making the interface too cluttered. Could anyone recommend layouts, UI elements or design patterns that work well for this...
I know Adobe's solutions are more advanced, but, as professionals, do you think you would survive (against competition) using GIMP and/or Inkscape instead of Photoshop and/or Illustrator for your actual work? Would it be worth it or would it actually complicate your work? I am specially interested to see if there is a...
I am looking for a tool that I can give it an image filled with different fonts and it will give me their font type. I know of this tool: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Thing with this application is that it demands each font to be uploaded separately. This for my sorrow is not feasible for me.
I went around the web, reading articles about business card mistakes, and here is a full list of them: Don't use cheap materials/techniques or attempt to print your own. Don't use metal business cards. They won't get through airport security. (Is that true?) Don't use a big font for the address and contact info. Do...
For someone who has worked in the professional publishing industry, I rely on InDesign and Photoshop for creating professional documents, even if they're as simple as a business card. Sometimes I don't have the luxury of working with these expensive programs, however, so I look for alternatives that can get the job don...
I am new to the designing/programming world so I am sure the issue is easy to solve. I am trying to add the moz-box-shadow effect to my header. But as soon as I add that component, the header which is taking up space horizontally shortens up. I want the header to be like Twitter's, where they use a shadow effect. #head...
Would using an external hard drive (Normal, non-SSD, 5400RPM) as a scratch disk in Adobe Illustrator help with the performance/speed of rendering? When I work with large canvases, Illustrator starts to become sluggish. Even though I have 4GB of RAM, this still happens.
Question If you have a PSD file that consists of one main mask (masking all other layers), isn't there an easy way to save just the masked area as an image? Background So I have a photograph I've edited in photoshop, mostly cropping things and moving them around. As a final step, I created a rectangular mask to crop e...
For example, I'd like to have a color called "text-color" or one called "content-box-color". How can I save a color like this and then assign it to an element?
I am looking to start digitizing my work by re-drafting it from sketch books. This question is less about specs and hardware and more about the feel of the media, both in terms of mechanical pencils/micro-point rollerballs (my two primary media which I will be replicating) and the computer hardware. This is specificall...
What is a portfolio, and what should it consist of? Please include details such as the format, use of, number of items, types of items, etc.
How do I colour each individual ribbon like the finished preview for these brushes? From DeviantArt:
I'm designing a name overlay for a series of videos and I'm curious how long of a name I should budget for without knowing what ones might come my way. As it's for a video it should be reasonably large, so I can't just make it tiny. If there's something ridiculously long, I could go and scale it, but the lesser the b...
If you were asked to represent "invincible" or "winning without fighting" in pictures, how would you do it?
I'm trying to find examples of beautifully designed step-by-step tutorials. As different layouts as possible, to feed my imagination so I can build on that. I'm particularly interested in page formats and layout grids. And of course great design. Just a mockup of step images with accompanying text is the usual standard...
What services/resources, paid or otherwise, are available to android developers who want an icon designed for their mobile app?
I took on a graphic design job recently and I quoted the client for 36 hours of work. About half way through the project the client got stalled out because of upper management's indecision and because of that, many little changes started being made to the project. I am now up to almost 80 hours on the project and fores...
Is there a way to copy text style(font, weight, etc) in Photoshop?
I've just done two animations in Photoshop, each the same size, same number of frames. The second animation has a transparent background. Is it possible to merge the two by overlaying the second onto the first?
How would you recommend to proceed to learn css? Is there a great book, or online tutorial?
I'm preparing a cover image for a publication for a scientific journal. Instead of being scientifically rigourous, this kind of image could be more artistic and catch the reader's eye while conveying the main scientific idea proposed in the article. I'm looking for a way to show some electrons (which I'll represent by ...
I tried smart edge detection, but that is not working. Is there an automated way to outline this so i don't have to do it manually? I have Photoshop CS5.
I have this image: Is there any way to get rid of the red background (make it transparent) yet keep all the glow effects? So far I've only been able to remove the pure-red parts of the image, yet that leaves a red-glow fringe. So wherever there's red, I want it to be transparent, but wherever there's shadow-glow, I wa...
How do you use the Magic Wand Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5? Apparently it changed from CS3 (And CS4.). Before, when you use the Magic Wand to select certain parts of the area, it would 'update live' and show the parts of the image that you are selecting. Now, this is delayed and the changes to the areas that you add or ...
I have been asked to design some advertising to print on tear-drop street signage similar to this: My question is; are there things to keep in mind when designing for this medium as opposed to other more fixed signage? My guess is many of the considerations will be similar for other flag-type signage.
I'm reasonably familiar with design trends and movements of architecture and, to a lesser extent, art; and i've been interested that many of the asthetic considerations and philosophies loosly lumped as 'modernism' in those fields are often branded 'minimalism' when it comes to graphic design. I also find it interestin...
I'm a web designer and I find myself a bit stuck because of lack of creativity. Do you have any advice, maybe some books or whatever to find some creativity again? Thank you.
Is there a way to make all layers visible in Photoshop? Is there a quick way to do this, for example, short key or script?
I am wondering where to even begin to find a place that could print something durable like a 13' x 30' banner to go on the side of a building. Is this even possible? Is a vinyl banner the best option? What medium should I choose to cover the side of a 2 story building?
I usually find inspiration from many CSS Galleries, But I don't have an idea of how I can keep organized all those nice creations for inspiration. I've tried to make some bookmarks in Chrome but I don't like this idea much. I'd prefer to have atleast a small thumbnail for a fast preview. Do you have any idea? Thanks.
What font is used in this logo? Editor's note: while this was their logo at the time this question was written, bit.ly have since adopted a new logo.
I'm designing a chart right now, that will slowly have more items added to it. I'd like to create an list/order of colors for the items, that will be most usable for the color blind to differentiate between each item. Any ideas how/where to start?
I'm a developer, I'm not a graphic designer. But there's one question that bugs me every since I've noticed it some years ago. Anti-aliasing is a method for removing the sharpiness from high contrast divisions, such as character edges and geometric forms, if there's someone who doesn't know. When you get an anti-aliase...
I have some stock vector files from istock that I'd like to use as the starting point for a logo. I'd like to stress I wouldn't be using the original image in the logo - but using as a starting point to develop a new piece of work. The license agreement states that you can't use the file as a logo - but what about work...
I use a mixture of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to produce the vast amount of printed media I design at my current position and I find myself faced with copy/pasting color values from one program to another almost all the time, I have tried to find a quicker way but have been unsuccessful. I use a program called...
How do I edit multiple layers in Photoshop at once? Highlighting them all or selecting them selectively while holding shift does not work (for example, when applying Layer Options effects to layers).
I have an InDesign document which is filled from the data in a CSV using data mrege. The csv has columns for name, phone, email etc, but some of the data in the csv isn't filled in as it is not all necessary so when InDesign gets to that record it leaves it blank. So far so good, but I have my document setup like this:...
I need to crop this .jpeg image: in Photoshop CS2 to a vertical 1px image so I can repeatedly render it horizontally to create the full gradients that are dynamically sized. Do you know how I could do this?
Discretionary ligatures are non-standard ligatures such as: st and ct in Atlantica LF font Are they purely visual or is there any other reasoning to back it up? Psychological? Letter-press related? (Did they even exist in times of letterpress printing?) Related article on Upper & Lower Case Magazine say these are "… m...
There's a question on this site already about choosing good color palettes when designing for color-blind users. My question is different — it's about working with colors for an audience with normal color vision. My boss is color blind. He often wants to generate full color charts and other graphics. When he does this,...
I was hoping I would find some people in the industry that could help me decide what's the best price to charge to design (in this case) business cards. What are standard prices for professional designers? From a firm point of view? From a freelancer? I don't want to overcharge clients but I don't want to ruin the indu...
I think it would be great for div's/img's to get some of the functionality that "layers" have in photoshop. Right now, using .png's, div's/img's/etc.'s have their RGB and alpha values. If you have a 50% transparent layer on top of an 100% opaque layer, the resulting color is a 50/50 blend. Similarly, if you have a 10...
In indesign 5, I have created several A4 pages after another. However the ruler stretches over the three pages, see picture below, and I would rather see them "restarting" at every page, i.e. ever page should have its own ruler. Is this possible?
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I was wondering there were any helpful guidelines and/or tips for designing logos with multiple fonts. It seems to be a dangerous area to enter into, but can lead to some great results. Often times fonts blend too much, or they are too different. Here is an example of a multi-font logo:
I am making a menu for an indie game and I'm not quite satisfied with my results. The menu itself needs two text fields (one to enter your username and the other for your password) and two buttons. (“log in” and “register”) I also need to have a button which brings up the credits and a button that brings up the setting...
Photoshop automatically adds a vector mask whenever I use shape tool.how do I stop it from adding vector masks?
Image's blend mode is set as multiply and it is showing the effect correctly in Adobe Fireworks. However, when overlapping the same image with another, separate image in the browser, the effect looks different.
I've used Photoshop to design (more or less) every website I've made in the past 9 or 10 years. I hear people going on about Fireworks saying that it's excellent for web design and prototyping. When Adobe took over Macromedia, I was surprised that Fireworks survived so there must be something great about it to keep it ...
It has shapes and styles for shapes and things like that, but what I want is to quickly throw some basic form controls like radio buttons, input boxes, list boxes, drop downs, etc. for prototyping and the like, how can I get these into Fireworks? Maybe someone has a .zip file of them somewhere? Or perhaps I'm going to ...
I have a G and an arrow. I want the arrow to act as the horizontal portion of the G. I have it lined up but when I apply effects I want then to act in one. For example If I apply a 3d effect I want the arrow and the G to go 3d and look like one object not two. how do I combine the G and the arrow (created on a path) in...
I am developing a website that emphasizes a lot on CSS. I wish to pre-inform everyone that I am not a professional with the task. The problem I face designing the UI is that Gecko and Webkit browsers tend to respond to a CSS in the same manner, whereas, IE's response is ridiculous. Is there any reset that can aid me in...
How many of you use or have used Digimarc? (It's kind of embedded, human–imperceptible watermark for your creation such as wallpaper, images and artwork.) If anyone has used it (Digimarc watermark), can you please suggest how to use Digimarc with Photoshop? Is it okay to consider copyright for my own creations? Unfortu...
This is a famous web comic about a common experience in web design: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell It's based on the author's personal experiences and describes a typical / caricature client from hell who treats the designer as: a mouse cursor inside a graphics program which the client can control by spea...
I recently got a lot of offset printing jobs and with them the ability to choose options that were not available to me before. So the Problem is that I generally have to make a presentation of the design to the client. Normally I would make a render in 3d or present the design as a flat image and that's it. Since the ...
I have a web design in photoshop but it is too long. I'd like to remove a horizontal section from the middle. Can this be done?
Alright, I have a logo I am working on of a penguin. I am fairly decent with the pen tool, and have already created most of the face (eye left/right and beak) in separate layers in Illustrator CS5. All of the elements have a nice border thickness on them as well. I was going to draw the head (which surrounds the other ...
I am looking for alternatives to hand-lettering a Comic. One attractive alternative would be building a custom font. (I'll be asking about details on that in a separate question.) However, I would like add variation to the characters in order to make it feel more natural. Meaning that a character would have to have sev...
I'm sure it rings a bell when I say that you learn more about design when you actually try to do it, and then getting quality feedback (critiques) of your work. I'm trying to figure out what would be a good sequence of simple projects that can be completed in a few hours per week. For example: Design a basic logo Desi...
I'm trying to export a layer in fireworks to an image file. When I go to file>export and select layer, it exports everything to one file (no different from saving a fireworks image). How do I accomplish this easily? What I'm doing now is create a new image, copy the layer and save it.
For example: a 1.8m banner with a solid red background and white text. How would a printshop go about printing this? Surely they don't use a liter of red ink.
Is it possible to find the dimensions of an imported document in Illustrator? For example, if you drag a SVG into Illustrator (On Mac)/open a pre-made SVG, it doesn't necessarily tell you the dimensions of the document itself. If you wanted to recreate the document size, how would you do so?
While I know that going to a Design University is the most optimal way to learn and master Graphic Design, in my case, it would be difficult for me to attend one because I also have to do some other courses in a university that are not necessarily related to Graphic Design, and the university does not offer courses on ...
When you rotate an object in illustrator the transform controls to resize it/squash it rotate with it. What if i want to stretch it relative to the canvas?
I love the effect on this logo and was wondering if anyone knew any tutorials to help get a similar effect? Thank you!
Trying to create a logo. The customer provides assistance to homeless people by giving them resources and access to providers for help. The word planning is in their name.
I am looking to build a custom font from my handwriting for lettering a comic. what professional tools exist to build such a font and export it into one of the mainstream formats (TTF, OpenType, or Type1)? I am not a typography expert, but I imagine there are two approaches to this - a vector-based and a bitmap-based...
I've designed some popup banners (output dimensions 840mm x 2000mm @ 300dpi) and used vectors throughout with the exception of some stock photography for their backgrounds. I've been Linking all rasters as usual, and only when I reviewed my first export at 100% in Acrobat did I notice that Illy doesn't antialias the ra...
I'd like to know how can I represent human streams and paths in indoors facilities. Where to are people moving? How do they move and in which proportions? Something like Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns or Facebook's Visualizing Friends would fit my needs, but somehow they don't seem to show the stream/flow direction, wh...
The work flow is this: JPEG orignal-> Edited in Photoshop-> EPS-> Imported into a InDesign document-> Distilled to PDF-> Sent to printer My question is it necessary to save it as the EPS in the step between Photoshop and InDesign? It would seem to me that keeping it as a JPEG at this step would be fine (and muc...
I am using Illustrator CS3 and trying to export my illustration. Problem is, I wanted to only export the illustration, no the background canvas area, how I can achieve that? Thanks.
After quite a lot of searching, I haven't really find that many websites focused on design critique, where you could just upload your work and get some responses. One of the biggest sites oriented on artsy people is probably DeviantArt, which is really great, but it is nearly impossible (at least for me) to get some re...
I'm using Photoshop CS5 My question has two parts to it: 1 How can I make a circular selected area with a blank border (no fill) border (stroke: 30px)? I'm going for a similar effect as produced by the Horizontal Type Mask Tool, just, instead of text, I would want to use the circular border as the mask. 2 After making ...
I have created a right arrow with Pen Tool, . The layer is Now I want to crop the right arrow only. I have tried slice tool but I get which have a white background. But what I want is only the grey right arrow. How could I get it? Thanks.
I know it is not ideal to post the what-font-is-this kind of questions but I find myself intrigued by this sample I found on flickr. What I'm most interested in is a Blackletter font that has similar clean strokes. Typical Blackletter have rather complicated serifs that are not ideal for my purposes. I don't think it ...
I want to create a website with the same style as the Apple website. Where should I start? For the ones who don't know, this is the style I'm looking for: http://www.instantshift.com/2010/01/30/40-apple-inspired-website-designs-for-design-inspiration/ Being a photoshop beginner, I don't know where to start and I can't ...
I have a bunch of pie charts and bar charts to make up for a client. They have given me the raw data and they want them made up attractively and easy to understand. Does this mean I have to work out the divisions and graph it all myself from scratch before I even come to making it more attractive? Is there a quicker wa...
How can I create fake reflections easily like the one here: Any online or easy open source tools out there?
Hey does anyone know how this feature affects the image if it is turned off? I am confused with this one.
I have been developing a lot of Windows 7 gadgets lately. The max suggested height and width are 400x400 but ideally 300x400 is the area I develop a gadget in. Now a lot of rendering is being done in iframes , and gadgets have a tendency to distort text due to aliasing. I would want some help , as to which font should ...
I've got a little site I built for myself and a friend that let's us run our tiny little March Madness pool. Functionally, it works great. But for the display of the brackets, it's, well, just plain ugly. . Quick NCAA Bracket Explanation in case anyone doesn't know. There need to be 64 total teams on the outside, d...
I have been provided a typographic logo in an EPS format and I am creating a PNG with it (File \| Save For Web & Devices) to be used on a web site. One of the pages on the web site is a "print friendly" view of data and it uses this logo. The problem I'm running into is this logo looks terrible when printed from the w...
I need some suggestions for a sans-serif font to use as a Heading/Label. I'm looking at small 11pt text, which is all uppercase and bold. I'm writing my app using WPF on Windows XP and none of the fonts I've chosen so far look slick/smooth. I've tried Gill Sans MT and Franklin Gothic Demi Cond so far.
It's not a kind of question but rather it's a kind of thing which effects a lot in web designing. What are some important rules to follow for making a color combination in web design? I always fail in choosing the right and appropriate colors for my site, how can I improve this? Any advice is much appeciated.
I would like to know what's the standard resolution for line-art if you'll include it in a for-press production? I intend on this process: scan image (as RGB or Grayscale) convert to grayscale if scanned as RGB adjust histogram curve (with very sharp contrast line or even direct step from 0 to 255) to make lines with ...
I see this effect a lot in websites and feel envious because I'm like King Kong with boxing gloves on trying to operate Photoshop sometimes. [URL removed because it was removed and replaced with delicious snacks] Check this URL out, they have a brownish header background, but there is a slight white-ish glow/blur in th...
Does anyone know if there's a less clunky way of creating actions than by using the built-in recording function in Photoshop? For instance, if I have an Action I want to alter slightly (add a step, alter a single step, etc.) it seems like I have to duplicate the action in the Actions menu, click down to where I want to...
I am involved in a web application where items in a list have a category. Each category of an item is shown through the use of an expressive icon. One of the categories is religion. My coworker, a graphic designer, is at a loss on how he would represent religion in a logo "neutrally". Some of the items may be associate...
My brush keeps drawing gray-scales around my lines. I want to remove the gray pixels so I can use the bucket-tool without any problems.

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