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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 the boundary between them isn't very prevalent. Is there a way of using borders to ease this transition. Would making the gray darker/lighter help?
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 as much as I can myself. I did wonder about the font combination used. We use Mistral for the green cursive looking text and Tahoma for the rest. Does anyone have a better font face combination in mind? Are the colors picked OK on this black background? I would also appreciate general tips and feedback: Choice of font for title and slogan - Do you know a font for the cursive part that would look better? Is the size OK? Position Globe - Is the right side an OK choice or should it be to the left? Quality Globe - I know it is still a little jagged, but do you think it will do?
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 of wiki syntax, i.e. tables, images, links, code blocks, maybe even math equations. I use wikidot.com but Wiki format is not an issue here, it can be easily converted to any other wiki syntax. If this is not the right place to ask such questions, point me to the right forum please.
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 ensure equal spacings. What could be the best way to create such a bitmap font? (Or if any exists already just tell me)
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," I am unable to then override it. The other overrideables are still overridable ( :O ). IIRC, I toggled other items and the changes are reflected properly in the document. I don't have it here with me, but the one thing I have not done (I realize as I type this) is blow away the page and start fresh. I moved on quickly because I am billing and it is a non-profit. What am I missing?
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 to know how this technique is called and will be happy to see some tutorials.
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". As in designing solutions to real-world problems, business problems, social problems and the like. To just ask which of the two has more value could be too vague. So instead I'll ask which of the two has more value specifically towards advancing the field of Graphic Design? My go to example is the University of Minnesota which has an MFA in Interactive Media in their school of art, but also an MFA in Graphic Design in their school of design. Both could potentially use the same tools and accept the same students but the outcome is very different in how each approaches design. So the question is - which one does more to advance the field?
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 elements CS3)
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, etc. The logo consists of three letters in a space age font, and it's simply attractive, because the previous designer (?) used a blue gradient: dark blue not so dark blue even not that dark blue lighter blue light blue glaring blue light blue lighter blue even not that dark blue not so dark blue dark blue And although I could sort of eye-ball the middle of the road blue that was used to produce the logo, I was wondering whether there is a better method for finding the base value of the blue gradient. Any ideas?
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 background. However, instead of the black lines I'd like stripes randomly spread about the image but with the same slant. For the stripes, I'd like them to give a sense of movement with sharp ends and be a little thinner than the stripes in this picture. Is this possible? How would I go about doing this with Photoshop CS5?
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 what's going on. Thank you.
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 where the first volume ended?
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 variations of my logos as it could process.
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 that's easy. I just draw a shape on top with the same solid color. But when the background is more complex, like the skyline, what do I do? In my impression, it should be possible to 'extend' the background 'horizontally'. See this 49sec video for a demo. Any software/script/PS feature that does that? Any alternative solution? I'm trying to remove the skyscrapers from this image, and remain with skyline:
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 if you believe it's not possible in Illustrator.
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 principles outlined by Ed Tufte - only include necessary information. So, the template will probably have a very slight off-white tint and a footer, then the content will be open. However, I have two (or three) key questions: what information makes a footer useful and elegant? how much control can (or should) I exert on the design of individual slides? how can I gently exert this control (either through creation of a template with limited options, or through written instruction)?
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 of how to make a font stack that includes a good monospace font to be used extensively. (My personal liking is for "book-like" designs using serif fonts, e.g. Moargh's theme "Feijoa", but I find it hard to find a monospace that matches.) Can you please suggest: examples of good web design that includes non-trivial amounts of displayed code, or advice or resources on how to proceed for the selection.
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 shape it starts at A and goes to C (in the background). I'd like the gradient to start at A and finish at B.
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 is to save time by this "reflection in line" i.e. by reusing. I want to do just half of the work and then get the other half easily. Similarly, suppose I do a four-times symmetric shape, I want to reuse the one piece to get the 360 degrees' shape. How to do mathematical operations such as reflection in line?
(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 have the document set up simulating (green) coloured paper using the Document Setup Simulate Colored Paper checkbox.) But if I change the stroke to white, I cannot see the paths: Nor can I see the one with white fill. They are still there, you can see the anchor points etc. when the paths are selected, but they are not visible. What's going on? Is this a bug (I'm using a beta OS) or am I missing some setting I need to make white strokes visible? They really are white, exporting to PNG looks fine, why can't I see them in Illustrator? ==== EDIT ==== Over on the Adobe forum someone's suggested that white (in the case of process white) is the color of the paper; and that in my case the paper simulation is green, so the strokes are as well. She suggests that if I want a green background, I should create a green rectangle and that if I want to print with white ink, I should create a spot color white. But if I add a green rectangle so that the white stroke is visible, I'll need to remember to turn it off before exporting as I need a transparent background on the final PNG. Is there a way to set Illustrator so that I can see a white stroke and white fill on a green background without making the green part of the work itself?
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 from that tutorial is the picture that was used to work on: it was a picture of a slightly freckled boy looking directly at the camera, in front of him was a table with bread and bottle of milk and behind him was a cow and green trees. If only I could remember where I found it.. There are tons of tutorials about turning a photo into a sketch, but this is not a sketch, it's illustration.. Anyway, maybe someone knows the technique...
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 design element because a scrolling ticker is only useful for constantly updating data, and all she wants to put is a welcome message. Can you think of anything contemporary as far as subtle animations that would substitute for a scrolling marquee? The text would again just say "Welcome to {Domain Name}" UPDATE Some people have asked for clarification, so here's some more info about the site. I'd share the design, but again, NDA. : ( The design is the following themes: Patriotic, Clean, Slightly Textured. The concept that was given to me was a stock image that contained an old American flag and a copy of the constitution with a quill laid across it. I used that as a background and put the content on a paper-textured center container. The colors are red white and blue (white background with red headers and blue links). A flag waving might actually be perfect for that, as @Scott suggested. I'd love to see a suggestion of how to implement that. UPDATE 2 In the interest of proposing solutions and not just creating problems, here's a jsfiddle of a jquery plugin to make a wave. Suggestions? Improvements? http://jsfiddle.net/yPZVy/ CLARIFICATION I may or may not have explained this part well enough, she's not simply using the "marquee" tag but rather a flash animation that does the same thing. This is obvioulsy a problem for a lot of reasons.
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. Please see attached image . It shows simple rounded buttons with nice inner shades and a beveled background as well as inlaid text. How in Gimp do I: Create this shade gradient effect on the button? Do the inlaid/embossed inset text effect? Make the button background with the inset lines? Thanks in advance for your help! Update Checking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1K3L7RdbKw for engraved text (engraved = embossed)
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 pattern I see in the real world (e.g. a brushed metal surface) into a pattern or texture. Also the texture/pattern tutorials on the Web are again very specific and not theoretical (e.g. they show you a finished example and the steps required to produce it). So, how can I master the art of texture/pattern design
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 edit its color in here.. Am I missing something?
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 rectangle around a specific component in the page, I want it to also permanently show the width/height of that rectangle. Looking forward for your suggestions. EDIT: I found a few "ruler" apps on App Store that are very helpful but are not exactly what I am looking for (e.g. they do not annotate the image itself, but rather are on-screen tools).
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 Photoshop. Using this for the shading and Illustrator for the shapes is my best guess. Any thoughts on how this artwork was created?
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 another path to take earlier on? The decontaminate color option on the refine edge dialog isn't coming close. Right now I've used the lasso tool to make a rough selection and then the smart edge detection with a radius of about 30px... (tried using channels and levels earlier with about the same result)
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 could begin with to get the basics under my belt. I've had a look through google but as any new beginner it all looks overly complicated! Also with designing games how does one draw each stage of the animation for say a dog walking? Is there a programme that you can define start and end points and it will provide you each frame of your drawing ? Thank you for your help Stack.
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 addition. Every color works fine except for white. How do I fill a letter with white?
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 retina and non retina) for someone who is not well versed in creating graphics (a developer like myself) Easy for any other designer to tweak if needed in the future. Optional requirement: Editable using either Photoshop or Illustrator ( as those are the only 2 programs I currently own) The formats are: Illustrator file an EPS generated from Photoshop an embedded smart layer within Photoshop Which of these formats would fit the bill based on the above criteria. Any feedback highly appreciated. Thanks!
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 the "white" parts in the image... The bottom of the img is exactly like something i have in mind (where the arrow is reflected and the arrows shadow as well) As you can see when i remove background and change it to black it looks horrible: Update: I actually made a mistake by voting the first answer up. I want to know how to remove the background completely. I know how to save images so they are transparent
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 options in Bridge, compared to the automation options offered by Photoshop. I also don't see any option for running actions on multiple Illustrator files. Also, creating a repeatable action for replacing the font doesn't seem to work: instead of repeating my action, it brings up the dialog box an waits for me to tell it to replace them. As a programmer I'm prepared to edit the files directly if it can be done without breaking them. Update: The 'Batch...' menu item from Illustrator's actions panel menu allows the same action to be performed on a folder of files. It doesn't fix the Find Fonts action waiting for input though. Toggling the dialog off makes the action do nothing at all.
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, set it's blending mode to darken or multiply and opacity to some fitting value. I just cannot figure out how to do something equally trivial in illustrator. Anybody has an idea?
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 new colour, which I guess is not printable. Usually I had to change the colour of all objects individually. Edit: I'm sorry if I was not too precise. I mean to apply new colour / swatch to all member objects of the group at once, not to change properties of a commonly shared swatch. Edit 2: I received very useful answers, however my goal was to pick a colour from another object, serving as a source. When I tried to select all objects, for example with ctrl-a, and then use a eyedropper to pick up a desired colour, it didn't work for some objects in some groups. Please have a look at my answer where several methods are listed.
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 without significant effort. Is it standard industry practice for the designer or client to provide the terms of service?
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 selection shape in the solid colour layer, but it just looks wrong. Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks in advance.
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 what purpose. Which program is better for doing what?
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 than selecting the drawing and using object > transfer > scale > 2% ?
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 the company and they're putting the responsibility on the developer. They said they're not responsible and they just pay some person to do it. They also told me that they don't have any access to the files or such. If I understand it right, the initial responsible for the copyright infringement is the Company using my design. So the developer will have to answer to the Company who's using the design. Here's my idea, since the Company do not have an access to their Host/Server and the Developer wont answer me. Is it possible that I can contact the hosting company to pull down the website for copyright infringement? Do I have to get an approval from the company (the one who stole the design) to bring the site down? I have sufficient evidence to prove the design is mine. Thank You.
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 particular case, "bandwidth" really refers to data usage and I/O refers to the way we speed up disk performance, using specific drives and working with the Linux kernel. Those seem to work for 85% of the people to whom I have access. But what in the world does one use to represent I/O? Showing the small letters i/o has been rejected, because it's too obvious. Seriously. Any other ideas or suggestions from anyone?
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 would want to automate it. I'm comfortable programming, but have zero experience in scripting graphical tools. Any hints on what the best way to do it would be? Imagemagick, Gimp? If at all possible, I would prefer free tools (since it's a one off thing, i dont want to invest into PS).
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? Any help appreciated! Thanks
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 later. How can I slice a large image into many smaller images with an automated, or relatively fast method?
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 an appropriate approach?
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 yellow font on a yellow background. How can I easily select the interiors of the letters to fill them with white? For example, in the letter 'o', there are four concentric circles (outside-in): the outside shadow, the interior, the inner shadow, and the inner transparent area. How can I select just the interior, without selecting the inner transparent area?
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 will automatically create multiple pages for it. So basically I just want to create the template in InDesign and then completely paste all the text from the Word document in it. Is something like this possible?
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 duty of a dtp program like Scribus, but it looked simple enough to expect it.
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 possible?
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 good graphic designer. His teachers have been a bit of a letdown so far. Should i buy him a book that teaches him about graphic design, or one that teaches him how to use Photoshop/Illustrator better? (to be fair, he's not too bad at using the software tools) If so, which book should i buy for him?
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. How can I stop my shapes from auto rotating?
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 (360/75=4.8) but I can never seem to get them to line up perfectly even all the way around. I have also tried making lines as guides that are rotated on the circle to get the 75 points, but they also don't land evenly. I am using Illustrator CS5
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 this clipping in our marketing materials, and we may want to turn it into a plaque for display in our lobby. Rather than trying to tweak the article using digital re-touching, I am interested in the possibility of re-typing it from scratch. But I still want it to look authentic (in other words, the font should not be too "crisp" -- it should still look like an old newspaper article). Ideally, the font should closely resemble the actual font used in the original article. There is no budget for this project, so I basically have to do it myself. I'm not a graphic artist. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful. Thanks so much.
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 any sites out there that have reviews of well designed sites from the past year or so? Sites like Carsonified or Hipmunk would be examples of what I think are "well designed".
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 Windows icon, where the sizes relate — they're mostly exact multiples. For OS X, the standard app icon sizes are: 16×16, 32×32, 128×128, 256×256, 512×512 and 1024×1024. For Windows 7 the standard app icon sizes are: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 256x256. For iOS the standard app icon sizes are: 29x29, 48x48, 57x57, 58x58, 72x72, 96x96, 114x114, 144x144, 512x512 and 1024x1024. For Android the standard app icon sizes are: 36x36, 48x48, 72x72, 96x96 and 512x512. For iOS and Android, the icon sizes are a little more haphazard and the scales don't relate as well, so being smart about the design grid matters less, because you're less likely to find coordinates that hit pixel boundaries for multiple sizes. Method 1: Scaling down Design the icon at the biggest size (often 1024×1024) using vectors and generated effects, like layer styles. Duplicate and scale the document down to create the smaller sizes. Make any required tweaks and save the final image. That's great, but misses opportunities for elements to align to a grid that work for multiple sizes. Using a coarse grid to snap to seems to help a little. For example, a 1024×1024 document with a 16px grid means the snapping points will give you pixel snapped edges down to the 64×64 size. The idea is to design with detail but snap to the smaller size grids, so you hit those important positions. Method 2: Scaling up Design the icon at the smallest, or one of the smallest sizes (often 32×32 or 64×64) using vectors and generated effects, like layer styles. There typically isn't enough detail in 16×16 to use it as a starting point. Duplicate and scale the document up to create the bigger sizes, and down for the tiny sizes. Make any required tweaks and save the final image. This tends to lead to over simple icons with not much detail, so I don't like working like this. Method 3: Scaling up then down Create a rough design at a smaller size (often 32×32 or 64×64) using vectors and generated effects, like layer styles. Scale the document up to the biggest size and add detail. This is the point where the icon is polished and most of the detail is added. Duplicate and scale the document down for all the smaller sizes. Make any required tweaks and save the final image. This seems to be the best method, with the pros and cons of the other methods. As a slightly related point, it also means I typically design iOS icons at 912×912, because that's exactly 16 times the iPhone's non-Retina icon size of 57×57. Is there a better method for designing icons that need to be delivered at several sizes? The goal is to achieve the best possible result, with the least effort.
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 using Photoshop CS4.
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 in the Save for... option I have to go through each artboard manually which is time consuming.
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 Dell. Has anyone experienced this? I can't figure out how to fix it.
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 example (black = goal, gray = to compare the character widths, orange = current version): As you can see the left-most character is as wide as the one in the middle. Is it possible to do this translation in Inkscape or do I have to use a different tool?
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 the public good” Is this a generally accepted position? If so, what differentiates work "for the public good" vs work "for the portfolio" (or any other typical justification for spec-work)?
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 browser, they look fine. But when I add them in my document they are hardly legible. I am going to print my thesis on A4 size paper at 600 DPI, color laser printer. How can I preprocess the images in Photoshop or GIMP so that they look correct? Should I make an A4 size 600 DPI image in Photoshop and gimp and then add screenshots to them and then optimize them?
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 to pirate a font that's within copyright, but I also don't want to give money to a charletan instead of the copyright holder, or pay for a font that's actually free. How can I establish: Who the copyright holder for a given font actually is? Whether two fonts with the same or similar name and design are actually the same? Whether a font can be legally used for free or not? Where best to buy from? Edit: to pick an example font at random, try Clarendon. It was designed in 1845 by a now-defunct foundry, was registered under Britain's new patent laws and entered the public domain 3 years later. Even the Mickey Mouse act doesn't last for 167 years. If you google it, several of the first results offer the font as a free download. But also in there are MyFonts, FontShop and Identifont, which say the font is owned by Adobe and/or Linotype, and encourage you to buy it. I've yet to see any font that Identifont doesn't say you should purchase. So who is to be believed?
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 edibility and ability to losslessly scale (so no bitmap conversion)? Example 1 In Photoshop CS6, this could also be constructed using a group clipping mask (it's a bit more awkward, but there's reasons why you may want to do that). Example 2 A big advantage to using a clipping mask is being able to apply layer styles to the entire group of layers, while maintaing a great render order and antialiasing. I don't know what the best approach for this would be in Fireworks. Please shower me with your shape layer masking tips for Fireworks!
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 do is the same, but instead of seeing a white circle, I want to see the circle stroke, like if I have stroked the path with white color, is this possible?
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 of this circle that conform to the same size as the template circle. Make text in each circle that is "bound" to the circle. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks.
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 Task-Manager window, the CPU usage was in 100 %. So I has been worry and came here to ask.
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 together though!): Where is the problem?

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