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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 faithfully, so it's not the programmer's fault. But I looked at the kerning table, and there's virtually no modified spacing for much-needed letter pairs, like et and ro. At best, a few capital letter pairs have overly simplistic spacings, like -2 or +1. I don't know a lot about fonts - do I have a poorly done kerning table? If I bought a copy of Helvetica Neue, would the kerning table be proper? (We're currently using a font copied from the system.) Thanks!
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 company that has absolutely nothing to do with design or UX. However, we do have an extremely out of date website. Today, our boss called a meeting to discuss with me and one other employee who specializes in back-end scripting to express a desire to redesign the site. She has seen my work and very much enjoys what I do, and will allow me to take credit for the site using my external LLC rather than advertising the site as an inside job. She also pointed me towards 4 other people in the same industry who are in dire need of the same sort of services that she would like to recommend me to. In other words, this would be a huge portfolio building opportunity. But there's one problem. She is absolutely insistent on keeping the same company logo, and it's truly awful. The typeface has very poor contrast with the graphical elements, it's poorly kerned and spaced, and in places the text can't even be read. She had several horrible ideas for the web design that she very gracefully allowed me to shoot down but she made it very clear that she wouldn't bend on the logo. Partially because it was designed by her son, and partially because in our industry we intentionally try to minimize our exposure to a very small group of people and so consistent branding is important. It's a logo that has been going out on business cards, presentation watermarks, and the like for around 9 years, so she feels that changing our visual brand identity would be a problem. What advice do you have about designing around an ugly keystone element like this? The website design will go through with or without me, and if I'm not involved then it will be rebuilt from the ground up completely internally, no other consultants. Plus I would lose out on the potential for a small handful of additional freelance clients. And I'd love to add some businesses to my portfolio and some quick consulting cash to my wallet so I can close out my last semester of university in the black and start paying off my student loans immediately.
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 section by section. Anybody come across something like this?
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/bad combination with the available fonts? The fonts would be used for a restaurant webpage. I'm not 100% familiar with typography and would appreciate some professional opinions.
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 resolution of 300? Any ideas, or thoughts on the matter?
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 elements? Also, is there a standard of any kind that specifies what images / shapes should be in a complete set?
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 specified portion of the image will have a background that stands out. I am planning to use this arrow on a website. I am just a beginner, sorry if this is obvious / obviously impossible. Thank you for your time :-)
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 the product. Thanks!
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 situation? Examples of good control panel interfaces would also be helpful. By "control panel" I'm talking about an interface that presents a potentially large number of widgets that allow for things to be configured. There's usually a metaphor of drilling down into a particular area to find the settings you want to manage, and then pulling back out to a top level view. Some well know examples would be the Windows Control Panel (Vista or later aren't bad), web hosting account management interfaces like Plesk, or the admin interface of WordPress. Thanks!
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 anyone that actually made the switch to the open source solutions and know why you did it. My question is with regards to the possibility of fully divorcing from Adobe's solutions and still being able to function as a graphic design studio.
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. Don't put a picture of your face on the card. Don't use pixelated or other substandard images. Don't flirt with the margins. Don't overcrowd your card. Not including information that is attractive to clients, i.e. "5-year warranty," etc. Obviously name, address, email, phone number, and fax number are necessary, but are there any other do's or don't's? PS: For a 3.5x2 card, I should use the following settings in Photoshop, correct? 3.75x2.25, 300 DPI.
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 done. I'm familiar with GIMP and Photoshop, and in a pinch I can use GIMP, but I prefer Photoshop because of a decade of experience with it. I've used Quark and InDesign (and PageMaker before that), and consider InDesign the tool of choice for page layout. I recently ran across an open source product called Scribus and wondered if anyone with Quark or InDesign experience has tested this, and can put forth a list of what it does and does not do by contrast. Is Scribus a worthy alternative to InDesign/Quark?
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. #header { background-color: #990000; width:101.3%; margin-left:-8px; margin-top:-8px; height:40px; -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 10px #D7D7D7; } Also, the way I have set the width is it likely going to create cross browser issues?
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 everything (while keeping all of my layers and edit history in tact). The end result is a picture of my wife standing in a different place and cropped smaller. That is, it looks like there's a photo in the middle of the canvas with about 2-3 inches of white all around it. Now I want to save this picture in the simplest way possible. What I ended up doing was: Save PSD file Flatten image Magic Wand > tolerance 1 > select all white area Select Inverse Cut New File Paste Save For Web as JPG Close everything, without saving Summary When I choose, save for web, it saves the entire canvas. I don't want the extra white "padding" all around and I don't want to manually crop it again (the mask has already done that for me). Surely there's an easy way to save only the area within the rectangular mask. Any and all suggestions welcome...
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 specifically about digitizers as opposed to tablets solutions.
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 better. If only there was a 90th percentile for name length...
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 but I'm sure some designer have done a better job. My imagination strives for: tutorial designs that consist of several steps with images each with its own explanation text. Each image represents a certain step in the whole tutorial process. I'm sure there should be some that are creative and excellently designed. Maybe some posh cook book or yoga tutorial or something. I don't know. I'd just like to see some examples to feed my imagination. Additional information I'm particularly interested in tutorials that visually explain production process. I'm trying to create a tutorial step-by-step guide for decorative crafts. Visualising each step is important and since it's going to be about more posh/artful/sophisticated products I want the design to support that as well. I don't want some everyday layout/design with outstanding products.
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 foresee another 10 before it's finished. This is my first job with the client and I would like to continue receiving projects from them and hopefully procure a long-term relationship with them. Should I consider this an investment and just charge them for the quoted work? Or should I re-quote them and if so, how should I go about doing that? Should I re-quote them the full amount? What is the general practice for a situation like this? Thanks!
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 simple spheres) moving at different speed. One set of electrons should move ballistically, that is, not be scattered or slowed down by obstacles, while the other ones should picture the idea of being slowed down or even completely stopped. It's a still image, not an animation. The electrons will me moving above a plane of some carbon atoms. Does any one have an idea on how to pass this idea through to the reader? I was thinking about having a long undisturbed trail for the ballistic ones, and having much shorter and more diffuse trail for the other ones. Something like what is often used in cartoons. But here it would be 3D. Any comment or other suggestion? How do you give different speed effects to objects in a still image. I'm not an artist at all, I only have some experience doing very geometric things in 3ds max, which I don't have access to any more. So I'm planning to do it in Blender because it's free and especially because I have a script that allows me to import the other elements of the 3D setup from my code I'm using for my physics simulations... Or should I do it using some other software? Hope I'm at the right place to ask this question...
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 want the red to be gone but the shadow to remain. Is this possible?
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 subtract to the area selection with the Magic Wand only happen after you release on mouseclick. This is rather inefficient, isn't it? Or have I done something wrong?
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 interesting, that i don't hear of many other graphic design trends, even though they must surely be documented. Hence the question: What are the major design trends in graphic design history? An ideal answer to this question would be a short overview of graphic design history and the major trends in design up to this point, a bit of speculation as to the direction the current design asthetic is heading, as well as resources to find out more.
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-aliased character written in black on a white background, and you zoom in to see the pixels, there are colors different from the ones found in gray-scale, which for me seems ilogical, since we only need to make a smooth transiction from black to white. Question: Why are colors different from the ones found in gray-scale used for anti-aliasing a black character in a white background ? PS.: I'd create the "anti-aliasing" tag if I had enough reputation. Update: I've thought of a theory now. If the letters are intended to be displayed in a computer monitor, and the smallest portion of a screen that can be black is an entire pixel composed of three little lights, that would cause the smallest dot in any letter to be fairly large, but if the anti-aliasing composed by surrounding or inner dots can be represented for only 1/3 of a pixel with some assistance from the color to the side that would mean that letters could be way smaller. Is that it ?
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 created using bits from the vector file? Many thanks in advance for all replies.
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 Colorpic to copy and store my most used colors, but still, it's not the same as being able to select it from the swatches palette in Adobe CS. So the main meat of the question is: Can I share my colors/swatches between InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator and if so, how?
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: Name: Bob Phone: 01234567890 Email: bob @ email .com When a field is missing I end up with just a blank record and I want the data merge or a script to just hide that all together if it's missing so that if a phone number is missing I just get: Name: Bob Email: bob @ email .com and not: Name: Bob Phone: Email: bob @ email .com I can't find any way of doing it, except by manually going through the generated document and that is more open to error.
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 "… more decorative in nature than standard ligature[s] …" But is that all? Personally, I find them a bit distracting, especially if they're used in long body types. Also it's hard to imagine they would have any practical value in handwriting — at least I draw the letters from top to bottom, and extra ties between letters would disrupt the flow.
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, the result is often comical. I suggested that rather than selecting the colors himself, he should have some known-reasonable palettes to work from. He said, great, make me some. I'm a sysadmin, not a designer. So, here I am. :) How can I find good color palettes for my color-blind boss to use in charts and other color-based presentations? In general, these should be attention-getting and able to color-code for different sometimes-opposing concepts — monochromatic color schemes are less useful. But any set of colors pulled effectively at random from the set should work well together. Where should I look? Thanks!
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 industry by underselling my services.
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 100% opaque layer on top of another 100% layer, the top layer is the only one that shows. In photoshop, however, you have blending modes -- multiply, color dodge, screen, overlay, soft light, et al. -- all of which blend the layers using methods different from the method described above. I made a web site that has a spotlight on the page, but I won't be able to light up the dynamic content that it's pointing at (unless I use JS to do so) because the only blending mode available to me is the "normal" RGB*A method. There is no option to blend a gobo (picture of the light) using a color dodge, overlay, or soft light method. Is this a feature that will be coming out soon to any web browsers?
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?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum? I tend to think that the classic "Lorem ipsum" text needs explaining to clients who haven't seen it before. But text along the lines of the following seem inelegant: Copy goes here. Copy goes here. Copy goes here. Xxxxxx xx x xxx. Xxxxxxxx xx xxx x xx Are there any alternatives I should consider?
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 settings screen. Currently, the title is centered at the top of the screen. Below the title is a box which contains the username and password fields. Below that box are the “log in” and “register” buttons. Here lies the problem, I can't figure out where to put the other buttons. (Credits and settings) Should I just put them in the upper right-hand corner? Or should I make them more prominent? Or should I just completely re-arrange the current layout? Current design: Just as a side note, the current (interim) theme is a bit off. It's in a web 2.0 style, but the MMO is supposed to be adventurous so I wanted the background to remind someone of an old map. Incorporating this theme idea in your answer will greatly help. Thanks.
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 going alongside, for what I can see, a very similar program. Can anybody give me a good outline of the pros and cons of using Fireworks over Photoshop and the differences I'll need to know about before trying it out? -- edit -- I'll be more interested to hear the little things that people do with it that makes it so useful over having massive articles pasted at me.
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 have to draw them manually... hopefully not.
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) into one object using Illustrator CS4?
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 resetting IE, such that it starts behaving similar to Gecko and Webkit?
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? Unfortunately, though, there seems to be only paid subscriptions available.
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 speaking, emailing, and instant messaging ...ruining the finished product by, for example: Demanding unnecessary changes so they feel they have put their stamp on the design Making vague, half-baked or contradictory requests Bringing in requests for changes from people not connected to the project Silly requests that appeal to the client but would make no sense to an end user Some of the solutions I thought of: Quitting web design and starting my own online business. Only accepting jobs offered by professional web/graphic designers. Any suggestions?
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 last two jobs included silver pantone 877C and sectorized varnish coat (5th and 6th plates) I was at a loss when preparing the presentation. Ideally it should look like the real thing without the need of printing it out. There are a lot of photos out there where you can clearly see the varnish finish but I'll need to show approximately how it would work out on my designs... A while ago I stumbled across an tutorial where this was made with fairly good results. But I was unable to find it again. Any help is appreciated! Hopefully I used the right terms... Corrections are also welcome. here's an example photo with the effect I want to achieve using Photoshop or 3D software
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 layers of course), and I came to a problem. My problem is the border around the head. I need the border around the top of the head, but when it comes to the chin, I really don't need it. Is there a way to accomplish this? Or is my best bet to just keep layering on a layer with no stroke to cover up the border?
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 several, subtly differing definitions. Which definition to use would be determined randomly. Does any current mainstream font format support this? If not, what methods exist to produce digital text with such variations? Or is this simply insane for building the first custom font?
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 Design a business card Design a letterhead ?? ?? ... X. Design your own personal website This is just an idea to get the ball rolling, I'd love to read your own ideas on final deliverables from the most simple to the most complex. Sort of the equivalent of "from hello world to object oriented programming". The best answer will be one that gives people a good grasp of where to start and how to advance on graphic design.
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 Graphic Design. What are some good methods to substitute a design education? How would you build up your portfolio for the future?
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 one. While I'm open for both ways, vectorizing the handwriting would surely be a very attractive option. WYSIWYG kerning/pairing functions (with previews for each pair) would be much appreciated. I can use Windows or Linux. Open Source is preferable, but I'd be prepared to cough up for a commercial solution too. Tutorials on the process are most welcome as well, as I have never done this before.
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 raster graphics. Even at the largest resolution available - £70 worth of stock photography per time - the images still required some upscaling to be incorporated into the banner artwork, so regrettably this was unavoidable. Annoyingly Illustrator doesn't seem to either want to / be able to antialias these raster graphics on PDF, EPS or raster export, with upscaled raster graphics simply having their PPI reduced (not 'upscaled' in the manner Photoshop would resample) - am I missing some buried config option? The images are so large attempting to use the Rasterization feature that Illy complains about being out of memory (on a fairly meaty 4GB quad core box) and in Acrobat Pro when reviewing the exported PDF, the pixelisation is clearly viewable. I'm hoping that if I design at quarter resolution the printer will be able to uprez the raster graphic using whatever RIP software they're using, but I have very little experience in this area; previously all my graphics have been 100% vector in Illy or it's been practical to use rasters at 100% resolution because I've been designing 1:1 with smaller output dimensions. I've tried all the workarounds I can think - uprezzing to PSD then linking - failed, 600MB PSD wasn't liked by Illustrator! - and saving out a 30,000 pixel wide JPEG and trying to Link in Illy - again, import engine failed with memory error. I've tried embedding the image, which worked when I disabled the pixel preview, but Illustrator still wouldn't antialiase the raster graphic. I have the space of this evening to either figure out how to get round this problem before I have to submit artwork for tomorrow AM, or failing that just bite the bullet and hope the pixelisation isn't too bad when printed. Am I missing anything blindingly obvious in Illustrator that might be preventing the desired antialiasing on export? Cheers in advance...
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, which is a crucial dimension in an indoors paradigm.
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 much smaller), and the conversion to EPS doesn't really gain anything. Am I missing something other than lossy/non-lossy about an EPS that makes it better for this? EDIT: Lots of good information in the answers. My reason for asking is that I'm concerned that a 4mb original expanded to a 40mb+ eps times many files equals a lot of additional storage for marginal additional benefit. To look at this another way, if the original JPEG is otherwise already perfect is it necessary to convert to a non-lossy format first? The RAW vs JPEG debate among photographers is ongoing, but when you start talking about press ready material, it seems to be "JPEG lossy therefore JPEG evil!" Beyond this there often doesn't seem to be much thought about what lossy means in practice. From what I've seen, a single edit to a high resolution JPEG isn't going to make any practical difference.
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 relevant critique on newly added work. The problem that I see with sites like DA is that they don't reward the people who comment/rate/critique. On StackExchange we have the Karma system, as people get little points when they post a good answer, which greatly enhances the community to be active. Is there any such a site for designers, where it doesn't take milion years to get a response for newly uploaded stuff? The only one I was able to find is Dribbble, which however is a invite-only service.
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 a selection area I want to force that selection to do something with my photo like as if you are writing on in sand. (sand text) To do that, I copy and paste that selection but when I used blending options on my photo layer it seems there is a nub in my photo instead of a notch. How can I do this job done right? Sorry for my language ... Best regards, thanks for future answers
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 is handwritten becasue of the clean lines and perfect radii and because of the inverted angle of the "i" and "h" foots. On the other hand I kept wondering if this were Fraktur or how the different kinds of blackletter are kept apart. Reading further I found out that fraktur is broken, interupted in english. What puzzles me a bit is that I thought all blackletters where drawn in more than one stroke. Therefore interrupting... Wouldn't they all be Fraktur in that case? I hope this is not too basic. I have not had a formal graphic design education (currently studying Industrial Design) and am lacking some basic knowledge Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
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 find any tutorial. Thanks
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 way to do this? Update: To avoid confusion. Basically they're going to be vector graphics, output as EPS files and in illustrator ideally because of it's great vector capability. Cheers
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 use, as the space is constrained and rendering ends up with font aliased.
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, divided into 4 quadrants. Inside each quadrant there are 4 more levels of games (16 teams down to 8, to 4, to 2, to 1). After that the winners of the 4 brackets each play 1 other, then those winners play each other Each team is "clickable", and for me, each little colored square has to be in its own selectable elements based on id. Currently it's a table design (boo!), and, as you can see, so ugly. Any ideas for making this look a little nicer? The rest of the site is ultra plain (I call it clean) with gray/black/white, but I could change this easily.
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 web site. I've tried everything I can think of to get the logo to look good when printed from the web site but I can't get it to print nicely. Is this just a limitation of printing from a web browser or is there something that I'm missing when I export to a PNG format? Here are a couple notes: I'm not resizing the image at all during the export or on the actual web page. When I print the logo directly from Illustrator it comes out great. It's only when printing from the actual web page that it looks terrible (pixelated, etc). I've done a 'Select All' and checked the 'Align To Pixel Grid' in the Align panel (I'm using CS5). The logo looks great when rendered on screen - very sharp. The DPI is set to 300 on the logo. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Craig
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 sharp contrast changes or convert to BW bitmap with a particular threshold Save as TIFF The main question Would 1200dpi be enough or would I have to scan to 1600dpi to not come out jagged? Or even more? What resolution do you recommend for this kind of images? Lines are thin.
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 the middle behind the actual photo. Can someone summarize or point me to a tutorial of how to achieve this in Photoshop?
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 alter the individual step, turn recording on, perform that step, stop recording, delete the old step, etc. It would be a lot simpler if there was a simple scripting language that you could use to go in and alter an existing Action. I use expressions in AfterEffects and ActionScript in Flash so I know Adobe allows some scripting. Just wondering if anyone had an easier way to do this in Photoshop (I'll occasionally run Photoshop actions in Bridge if I need more pain / suffering in my life so I figured I'd ask about bridge, too).
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 associated with Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. so a religion-specific icon would not work and may be potentially offensive. So, is there a way we can represent it in a different way?
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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