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One problem that frequently stumps me while working on sites is how to transition between two differing background colors elegantly. For instance, the top portion of a site I'm working on has a gray background while the bottom portion has a bluish texture. This creates this: These two colors almost blend together and ...
A friend of mine is setting up a basic English Language School and came up with his own logo combining a globe with a title and slogan. Here is the logo: I helped as much as I could being developer by heart and a designer when need be. We are quite happy with it. I myself work with designers and want to improve this...
Setting graphic styles for symbols affect all elements in that symbol, including text. I need it to stay as it is. Is there a way to protect some elements (text, in my case) from being altered by graphic styles?
I am looking for a way to convert Wiki to a DTP format - what is the most efficient (fast but preserving all of the document elements) way to do that? The "DTP format" can be any format used in the industry but it should allow me to edit the document after processing the Wiki. My publication may include many elements o...
I want to create a custom font to use for a game, and it must be a Bitmap font. So the spacing etc between characters must be equal. Now I don't know much of Bitmap fonts. The font itself will be a black Century Gothic with a white stroke. I could just type in the alphabet and apply a Stroke effect, but this wont ensu...
I have an InDesign document with master pages defined. I created the document and the masters. I have overrides allowed on several items on the master page, and have been able to alter them on a document page based upon the master, but when I attempt to change one of the master page items from "not allowed" to "allowed...
Possible Duplicate: Create a “pixeled” Background I want to create popular fine-grained texture for background. I don't know how it's called in a right way so I even can not even google any tutorials. Examples can be found everywhere: in twitter header, picture below or even this site light blue background. I'd like...
I'm trying to create this little "X" in Photoshop but I can't figure out how to exactly recreate this. I tried creating 2 rectangles and rotating them +45 degrees and -45 degrees, but then the intersection is not a closed path. How would I do this in Photoshop (or Illustrator)?
There seems to be emerging two schools of "Graphic Design" which I use very loosely in the world today. The traditional school of Graphic Design is about "Art". Creating, exhibiting, and the history of graphic design, symbology, typography and all of that stuff. The second school of Graphic Design is about "Application...
If I've a big sprite png image with 40x40 icons. How I can convert it to separate images for each icon with photoshop or gimp? As the sprite is quite big I would prefer and automated method.
In Photoshop you can add Dither to Gradients. I understand what dither is but when I apply dither to my gradient I can see no difference. What exactly does dither do?
Let's say I've completed a path and the pen tool is no longer selected.( It's a straight line, not a closed circle.) Now I want to start from the ending point again and continue the line. How do I do this without starting a new Initial anchor point? I don't want to begin a new path. Thanks! (I'm running Photoshop elem...
Does anyone know a font that looks like Georgia, but where in the numbers are a consistent height and don't drip down oddly as in Georgia? Better yet, is there anywhere I can get a .ttf or a .otf where in the numbers are adjusted? I can't just manually adjust the font because I need it for font-face.
Somehow, I inherited this project that comes with a logo, the CEO already has business cards printed with that logo on it, and as far as I'm concerned, the colors and design are non-negotiable anymore. So far, so good. The tricky part is that I'll be working around that logo: web site, t-shirts, marketing collateral, e...
First let me start off by saying that I'm a programmer and have very little experience with Photoshop, so thanks for helping me out! I'm trying to create a background for my main view, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing it. I'd like there to be vertical black stripes tilted 30 degrees clockwise on a yellow ...
I downloaded this psd file with fonts I did not have. That's fine. I looked at free font sites and found it. Once I downloaded it, it still has that exclamation mark next to the layer. I have the font within the brackets that it wants. I see it in my character panel... It's not that big of a deal but I'd like to know ...
I am preparing a book which is too lengthy to appear as a single volume. The format is similar to an encyclopedia. It has many cross-references, e.g. "see Bears, p. 20". What is the typical way to have page numbers and cross-references in multi-volume works? And do page numbers in the second volume typically continue w...
Are there any tools or online services where I can that I can feed a logo and get a series of variations using different effects? For example: A reflection effect OR a shadow effect OR depth effect. It's time consuming to manually give effects to a logo; automation would make my life easier and I could get as many vari...
Usually one wants to get rid off the background in a photo. In my case I want to get rid of the 'objects' of the photo and remain with a 'full background'. By full background I mean that I'd like to fill the spots where the objects where with what the background would have had. If the background is a solid color, then ...
How do I create this look in Illustrator: black single-pixel outer border, brighter inner single-pixel border? Example: I've tried adding a black one-pixel path to white border in Illustrator but it ends up looking like this - not crisp: I'd prefer to implement it in Illustrator, but please advise Photoshop solutions...
I created this button state image in Illustrator. When I choose Save for Web it looks like this in the preview: How, on saving for web, can I make the black single-pixel line maintain its black color and prevent the line colors from bleeding into one another? I am using Illustrator CS4.
I'm trying to get my head around why the below drawing creates the illusion of 3D. I want to know how this is done. Thanks.
I have an arbitrarily curved path, and want to break it up into segments of fixed length. i.e. I have a squiggle, and want to turn that path into 1-foot segments, plus a remainder portion. How
I am working to convert a png to a vector graphic. I am outlining the image using the pen tool. Photoshop insists that the pen tool produce closed loops in order for me to use the "Stroke path..." tool. Why is this?
Is there a way to envelope-distort a vector shape in Adobe Fireworks? Meaning - distort it by by manipulating the object's surrounding rectangle. I want to reach effects like wave or fish-eye. Photoshop has a similar tool, but for bitmaps...
I want to create a radar like the one bellow, where the gradient goes darker and darker clockwise. in the left it is totally transparent, while in the right it goes to 60%. I tried to add linear gradients, to overlap more of them to create a similar effect, but it just doesn't look good enough. How would you do it?
I have been asked to come up with a PowerPoint slide template for use by multiple speakers from a single group. The key element that was requested is a footer. The footer should have some unifying text, plus (perhaps) a logo or four and slide number. My own preference (and limit of my design knowledge) is to follow pri...
I'm trying to style a personal site that includes many code listings, with text commentary; many of the code samples are written in the Python language, so they look best a fixed-width font. There are lots of explanations around on how to choose matching fonts, but I was able to find none that addresses the question o...
I have a very High resolution image in illustrator, which leads to a very heavy eps file size, I'm asking for a batch tool or a script to compress the eps image , in other words reduce its resolution without affecting the width and height of the image.I don't want to export the image as a separated Jpg file
I want to generate an area of random pixels in Photoshop. By random, I mean the 24-bit RGB values of the pixels vary uniformly over the range 0x000000 - 0xffffff. The opacity should not vary. I've experimented with the Add Noise filter, but I can't get anything like the desired effect. Is this possible with Photoshop?
I often find the name of the Adobe software and "LS4" or "LS16" next to it. What does it mean?
You can see there two bezier curves that I want to connect together. How can I do that? My current area with the peak consists of many small bezier curves which is totally intolerable because it makes the processing of the picture much harder later.
How can I create a slice-like area within a shape in Photoshop and apply a gradient to it. Here is an example - the black area: I've tried to create one light grey shape and one black shape on a layer below and then subtracting a rectangular area from the top layer. However if I then apply a gradient to the black shap...
In Gimp, I could do this by "Layer/Transform/180 rotation" and then "Layer/Transform/Flip vertically" -- and then with some mouse, putting things together but it is slow. I am now looking for simpler solution, particularly interested in Inkscape but also interested in other FOSS tools such as Gimp and Blender. My goal...
(N.B. This could be a Win8 beta bug) In Adobe Illustrator CS5 version 15.0.2 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64bit I have several paths. When I set their stroke to almost any colour I can see them. For example here they are in black: (Note that I have my artboards hidden using the 'View' -> 'Hide Artboards' menu, and I...
I like the appearance on a button used by this site. Here is an example: Is this effect achieved graphically or are there fonts available? If there are fonts like this, what search terms should I use to find them? What are the tips & tricks for creating objects with a similar sense of depth?
How to achieve in Photoshop 5.5 an effect like this (without buying any expensive addons): I think that some filters were applied here on original photos. By the way, very long time ago I saw a tutorial which showed how to do this (I could swear it was a Photoshop tutorial). Unfortunately, the only thing I remember f...
Does anyone know where I can acquire the stock version (or something similar) of the shield below? http://www.kobusswartz.co.za/primento/img/logo.png
So a client of mine is making repeated requests for things that were "cool" when her website originally launched in the late nineties. One feature is a scrolling marquee that just says "welcome to {domain name}" (client and domain withheld because of NDA). I have repeatedly advised the client that this is a negative de...
This is my first attempt at seriously using Gimp. I am more of a front end developer slash developer myself and I have only used Gimp or Photoshop for very basic stuff such as removing backgrounds, cropping. So this the first time I want to do more and as I am planning on ditching PS I am trying to work with Gimp. Plea...
I am a software engineer but I also like becoming a good graphics designer but I don't know where to start. I especially like mastering the skills necessary for designing textures and patterns but I am totally lost as most books and tutorials are about the tool set and not the theory and skills required to transform a ...
In PS CS6, when I draw a rectangle shape using the rectangle tool or any other shape, when I click on that layer, a black border appears. when I want to do some blending options, a black border appears. It is really bothering me, I cant see the shadows, or borders Im adding. Is there anyway to disable it?
I have an old antique photo that I need to resize for printing from a printing shop, howerver, how do I resize a small 5x7 cm to a large , 20x20cm after being restored.I dont want to have the photos be compromised by the quality . thanks
I'm trying to build an iBook with iBooks Author on my Mac customizing the "Contemporary" template. The point is when I switch the view mode from landscape to portrait Tte section title color is red but I want it to be green! Since I can edit the section title in landscape mode I can't understand why I'm not able to edi...
I usually get Web page designs that I have to craft HTML/CSS for. At the moment I use tools such as OS X's own Preview to size up various parts of the designs I get in order to extract widths and heights that I can use in my CSS rules. Is there a tool that can come handy for doing this? For example, when I draw a recta...
I love this artwork and would like to understand how it was created: Some looks hand-drawn. For example the shading on the bottom of the bird and in the moon's craters. Some looks like vector artwork. For example the sun's shape and the clouds. Perhaps there's a way to do the "hand-drawn charcoal-like" shading in Pho...
It’s easy to find lots of fonts with gothic in their names. But what makes a typeface a “gothic” typeface?
How do I draw a rectangle of a specific size? I need to draw one that is 1072 pixels wide and 620 pixels tall.
What's the name of font used in this trailer: David Brin's EXISTENCE : Official Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANVT0hYbAfE (the font that appears in the center throughout the first 30 seconds of the trailer)
I have a pretty decent knowledge of Photoshop, and have used masks and levels etc to remove backgrounds a fair bit (as well as the edge refinement tools they have now). I am having a tricky time getting black background off of light colored hair. Is there something I can do to drain out all this black smoothly or anoth...
So I primarily have a background in Interface Design and wish to expand my skill set into illustration and game design. I've recently armed myself with a Bamboo tablet and want to get serious about learning the techniques required to do good design for games. Could you please recommend a starting point / sites that I c...
It's an option in InDesign, CSS, and MS Word. I'm not finding it in Photoshop CS5.
Suppose somebody develops a new language, with totally new characters. And a font for the same has to be created. How does one do that?
I am using gimp with a large text image. Unfortunately there is no way to change the color of the individual words. So I changed the text color to a neutral grey (#7f7f7f) and added layers above the text and colored the words with the related colors. The layer mode is set to "color", so I get something like an color ad...
The graphics designer I am working with has given me the 3 options for delivering the graphics for the iOS app. I want the delivered files to suit the following criteria: Good quality (Ex: for retina display) that is also resizable Lossless conversion as much as possible Easy to produce PNGs of different sizes (for re...
I have an image that has a white background but its also semi transparent so the white background seeps through. now if i remove the background it will still have the white parts where the original background was seeping through making it look really strange on any other background but white... Is there a way to remove...
I have a webpage designed in Photoshop. But the primary background image is designed little different than the usual way. Large image. I need to keep the texture and use the background in various pages where the height is dynamic. Any Ideas to simplify this ?
I have several hundred Illustrator files that are formatted similarly, and for legal reasons I need to replace a font in all of them. Even with the 'Find font' tool, that's a hell of a lot of fonts to replace by hand. Is there some way of automating it? For example, using Bridge? Illustrator (CS5) doesn't offer many op...
In Illustrator I want to give a whole layer of objects a common tint. But I do not want to also color any transparent background. Also, I want to be able to continue drawing on the tinted layer with all subsequent objects become tinted as well. In Photoshop, I'd just place a single color layer above the artwork layer, ...
I have a group of objects of the same colour, consisting of compound paths, regular paths and groups of these. How to change the colour of all objects at once? When I tried to use colour picker or change it through color palette the colour remained the same but the graphics was rendered with a very tiny outline of the ...
I'm a freelance designer and I have written up a design contract with my client to which he signed and agreed to. However, a few days later, he sent over another contract, which is significantly different from the previous contract. In addition, it is written in legalese, which the average person cannot comprehend with...
Okay, this should be super easy to do but I just can't find the way. I have a background image with a solid colour layer on top of it, and I would like to add text on top of everything in such a way that the filling of the text is the image in the background. I have tried selecting the text shape and deleting that sele...
What areas, if any, of graphic design could a person with color blindness be active in? Can a person who has problems differentiating colours actually work in such a field?
So, I have never really been into design beyond a few wireframes and paper-pen sketches and have now now bought David Kadavy's book, Design for Hackers and am getting into design a little bit. I am going through Adobe Creative Suite CS6. It has so many different applications and I can't seem to make out what to use for...
i want to draw scale floorplans in AI for interior room layouts, whats the best way to do this as i would like to draw them at 1:1 but for printing they need to be at 1:50 is there a way that i can use "viewports" (the way that vectorworks handles this problem) or is there another way that you could think of, other tha...
Let say your website design got stolen. You saw your design being used from a different site or company. The only difference from your design is the logo and some images. What actions can you do to resolve this issue? Here's what I did. I emailed the developer that is claiming the rights but didn't respond. I called th...
This has caused me to lose sleep and not get my weekly pat in the back from my boss. We have a web hosting related product that consists of database, bandwidth and I/O sub-products. To represent the database, I'm using a "three ringed" database tower. To represent the bandwidth, I'm using a chart-like graph. In my par...
I have a picture of a map of Europe with proper borders. I need to color each country in different shades of color according to certain properties of the country. This is trivial manually in PS or GIMP with the Fill tool. However, I need to do it many times over, with different colors for different use cases, so I woul...
I have a file with about 80 layers that I want to export to png's. That bit I know how to do but what I'm stuck with is how to include the background layer with every layer being exported? Each layer is on a transparent background but I want them all to have a logo which I only have on the base layer. Am I making sense...
Is there a way, maybe a script, that would help me cut an image into say 50 images? I have a massive panorama I would like to print on normal stock photo paper and I am using Photoshop. The output of this operation needs to be images, not PDFs, not printer. There is still work to be done with each of these cut-outs l...
Its common for new designers to take on volunteer/unpaid projects for the purpose of building a portfolio, practicing new skills, or developing a client base. When the designer has reached a certain level of proficiency and would like to discuss compensation with the same clients that were receiving free work, what is ...
In Inkscape, I'm using the Komika Glaze font, styled like the drop shadows that you might see in a comic book. So, the shapes formed by the font itself should remain black. But, the interiors of the letters are transparent. So, when placed over a colored background, e.g. yellow, it appears as though I'm using a yell...
I'm asked to convert a Word document to an InDesign file for print. The Word document only contains the text, but in InDesign I need to set up a template with paging and a logo on each page. While I'm able to do this, I can't figure out a way to completely paste the text from the Word document in InDesign so that it wi...
Is it possible to crop an image in an imageframe? It's the first time I am using scribus, so this might be a dumb question, but adjusting layer to image and vice versa was immediately clear, but cropping just wasn't and google didn't yield me any usefull results just yet.. Of course I know cropping isn't the first du...
Right now I'm creating copies of all layers, flatten them all (the copies) to a single layer, and apply blur to this layer. But can it be done without having to create copies of the layers I want to blur? Adjustment layers can be used for this sort of stuff, but I can't find any that is able to apply blur. Is it possib...
My cousin-nephew is 12 years old. He doesn't quite understand what the term Graphic design means at the yet, but he's been having a play in Photoshop and Illustrator and copied some design concepts from other places he has seen on the web. He learns very fast. He expressed interest in buying a book so he can become a g...
When I create a shape, like a rectangle, it starts out slightly rotated down to the right. This happens every time I start a new file and create a new rectangle. I don't see rotation in the appearance panel. When I look at the transform panel it lists rotation at zero. Yet all of my shapes tilt down and to the right. H...
I have a project where I am taking 6 different images and placing them on a circle. All of the images have duplicates (anywhere between 3 of the same image to 24). In total, I need the circle to have 75 "shapes/images" that are equally spaced out. I have tried to use the rotate tool and rotate the images 4.8 degrees (...
I really like the look of the Launchrock logo: It's subtle, but it seems to 'pop' off the background. Being that the background is dark, I can't image that they're achieving this with a simple drop shadow. I'm wondering what tools in Photoshop would I need to use to create a subtle 3D effect like they have here?
I work for an animal shelter that traces its history back to 1873. With the help of the local library, my colleagues and I were able to find the original newspaper article that discussed the initial organizing meeting. The microfilm image is not very legible. You can view the image here: We would like to reproduce ...
I'm just getting started learning design, so I'd love to find a good website that has critiques of "modern" sites. In every book I've seen, screenshots are all taken from very basic sites. I'm imagining this is to keep you focused on the basics of the design rather than the Photoshop mastery of the designer. Are there ...
When designing icons that need to be delivered at several sizes, do you start at the smaller size, then scale up to the bigger sizes? Or do you start big and scale down? There's several advantages to both. I'm trying to refine my workflow, so input from others would be helpful. Let's assume we're designing a Mac or Win...
I want to control only the opacity and flow with my pen pressure, and want to remain brush size constant through out the brush stroke. I have turned on Opacity Jitter and Flow Jitter from Transfer tab in brush pallet and all other options are tuned off. But, still I am getting size jitter. Why this is happening? I am...
In Adobe Illustrator CS4, when I do Save for Web & Devices I get to choose explicitly that I want png-24. But when I export I do not get asked it, is this because it is the default? I need it to make android phone icon buttons. They ask for png-24. I use the export because it will save each artboard automatically and i...
Does anyone know what is the full-branch of Graphic Design and the title for the person doing it. Graphic Design \|- Web Design - Web Designer \|- Illustration - Illustrator \|- Photo Manipulation - Photo Manipulator ...
So I have been experiencing an issue where if I right-click and "copy" an image and paste or open new doc in Photoshop... the color of the image is much lighter than the original. If I save the image and open in photoshop, the color is fine. This recently started happening after I switched out an old mac monitor to a D...
I try to convert an old logo to a vector format using Inkscape. The logo was originally made using WordArt. The text is transformed to a trapezoid shape. I tried to use "Modify Path -> Perspective" but it doesn't end up correctly because the transformation is perspective (i.e. the character widths are not equal). An ex...
What is the difference between spec work and pro-bono? I have always considered pro-bono work to be a form of spec-work, but I notice that the AIGA position states: Yet not all unpaid design work is considered “spec work.” In fact, unpaid work may take a number of forms: ... Pro bono work: volunteer work done “for th...
I've seen a design pattern pop up now and again on the web and mobile apps. It's a "rainbow" pattern across the top about 5 pixels high. For a great example, check out gowalla.com. Anyone have any idea what this is useful for or what type of effect they're trying to accomplish?
This question is not directly related to graphic design, but I think you guys can help. I am writing a thesis and I need to add several screenshots of the tools I have used and screenshots of web sites too. When I hit print screen my Fedora OS saves it on the my desktop folder. When I view them in the default image bro...
An increasing collection of fonts are being released for free, but the majority of fonts require a license. For any given font, it's possible to find many versions online, both legal and not. There are always places willing to sell you a font, as well as sites from which to download free version. Obviously I don't want...
Fireworks and Photoshop are both great. I'd would like to know how to achieve similar results to Photoshop's clipping masks in Fireworks (I don't have as much experience using Fireworks as I do using Photoshop). There's two examples below. What's the best way to create them in Fireworks, preferably while maintaining ed...
I'm creating a shape with a simple radial glow effect. Now I want to add some perspective, with Cmd-T, then right clic and "perspective". When I'm done, all layer effects are recalculated and my radial effect has no more perspective. Any other solution than pixelise the layer ? What i want : What I get :
Was trying to find a font type that looks like this: All I could find was FreeHand 521: WhatTheFont gave me no relevant results. Has anyone seen such font?
How could I draw lines in a vector mask ? I want to reach the same effect like if I were working with shapes, because the image needs to be vector and scalable. For example, if I draw an elipse, then fill a layer with white and reveal vector mask associated to this path, I will be seeing a white circle. What I want to...
Can please somebody tell me how to draw a background like this? The gradient in the background is not a big deal, but the lines... I guess it can be done in Photoshop or some other tool. Maybe there is a good "How to/Tutorial" somewhere? Thanks in advance.
I am relatively new to photoshop, but have the following task: I must make around 15 black circles with a white number in the middle. Each circle is the same size as every other. I am trying to create vector masks, but it seems hokey. Is there a way that I can: Make 1 circle (preferrably vector) and then make copies o...
I have a map image, similar to this: (click for larger) At 100%, the ocean is noisy and therefore not effectively compressed to png. Please point me in a direction of an intelligent tool for the job. (I tried GIMP but failed.)
I have a question. Does long-time rendering (3D animations) damage CPU? Or make it slow or reduce its life? I am not talking about network systems or big computers used in animation companies. I'm talking about my PC. When I started rendering my 3D animation with Maya, the fan of my CPU noises and when I opened the Tas...
I'm building a simple EPub with Indesign 5 to simply display a few images with a title above. When I hold my iPad on portrait mode I have this (title above image which is what I want!): When I hold my iPad in Landscape mode I have the title alone and the image alone on the following page (I want title and image toget...

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