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Suppose that we have 400x400 bitmap pixel RGB dimensions, I need to split it into 160000 segments so each segment has its own resolution so when we zoom in, the whole image resolution will not be affected by zooming in.In other words make each pixel as a separated image file, arrange all images one beside each other to... |
I hope that this is the correct forum to be asking this question. I am trying to figure out what verbiage one would use to describe the packaging that Apple uses for many of its products. Specifically the sheen and texture. I have included an image for clarification of exactly which type of box surfacing I am talking a... |
I am a software developer and need to make some mockups for an application (and not very familiar with Photoshop). I downloaded the .psd file from http://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html but am unsure how to use them. From what I can tell there is no easy way besides copying and pasting things together... |
I am trying to use Photoshop CS5 to make a vector image of a garbage can. The garbage can will contain a few distinct parts that will be different colors and overlapping: A Lid, a can, and dark grooves on the can.
What is the best (or one good) way to model this in Photoshop? I have been using the Pen tool to make a bu... |
I am working on graphics part of the website and been asked to design a website in Photoshop. I wonder what are an average dimensions and browser widths for a website so i can create my mockup with those dimensions.
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I am preparing a book which needs some material to appear like it is hand-written. I see many fonts available which simulate this look, however, I need something which also has hand-written fonts for both English letters and simplified Chinese characters, preferably with an open source or similar license. Where can I f... |
How would you illustrate that an image is encrypted? I want to show the original image and then the "encrypted" one. I want people to see that it's based on the original photo but I don't want it to look like the encryption is too insecure. This is a bit tricky, since it always is insecure if you can recognize that it ... |
I'm a newbie in Photoshop so I am unsure if you can brings layers to front or send to back?
I'm trying to draw a line but it goes hidden on an existing layer. How do I bring that line to front?
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I want to match the dark area on the bottom right of my image to the bright area on the top left. I have tried equalizing and working with levels to no avail. Thanks
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I really don't know how to explain this in words in a simple way, so just take a look at the photo I've linked to below. I have a compound path, and I want to multiply it, but have a "stroke of transparency" around each shape, just like in the image below. How can I do that? I've tried with pathfinder, but I can't get ... |
I have problems saving my photoshop file as a pdf or eps vector graphic. It wont include some of the layers and I cant see why. See screenshot below:
screenshot: psd (left), pdf (right)
I tried out photoshop cs5 and cs6, both wont work on the file. example: psd and pdf file (zip)
Can anyone tell me whats wrong with my... |
I'm putting some type on a path, a circle; but when I do it, the type is upside down. How can I flip it so it reads the right way up? See image below:
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I was wondering how I would go about recreating this look on a photo using Photoshop?
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I have a detailed map illustration made of country shapes sitting very precisely alongside each other. I'd like to simplify the paths to reduce the file size of my SVG but still have the edges of the shapes match each other.
When I use Simplify Paths, the shapes end up with gaps or overlaps because the paths have diffe... |
I work with a creative services that has created a Flash animation for a page my team is building out. The animation was created using Flash Catalyst, and we're experiencing an issue where, once the animation gets to the end of its loop, it pauses for around half of a second before it starts over again. We're looking f... |
I have written some information in a slide. After that I have added many animations( picture, table) on top of information which I have written previously. Now I want to modify these information. Please suggest me how to do that in powerpoint 2010.
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I want to blend this image dynamically over a background. So, I want to extract it as a PNG with transparency.
I photographed the ship-in-a-bottle on a surface that is roughly the colour of the background I want to blend onto, so it doesn't need to be absolutely perfect (the transparency would be very difficult, but I'... |
I have an drawing that was created with colored markers. I've scanned it and would like to use it as clip-art/icon style image.
I'm wondering how I can smooth out the colors of the image such that the marker strokes are no longer visible. I've tried posterizing, but this also ruins the edge of the image and ends up... |
I'm trying to figure out how to subtract two images in Photoshop so that the result is an image with transparent layer. Basically it all boils down to the fact that if color of the pixel is the same, it sets pixel in transparency layer to black. What's the easiest method to achieve this kind of result in Photoshop? Bel... |
I have created a pie chart and colored it and all is looking good, however I am stuck with lines between each section and ideally I would like a solid color with no outline. Been searching around and can't seem to find it anywhere. Here is an example of what I am trying to achieve: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorial... |
A nytimes.com graphic that I recently visited shows a nice way to draw scatter plots. I wanted to know more about how to make such plots. I would also like to have recommendations on open source or freeware softwares that are out there, which can accomplish this task.
The following is an example problem: plot a bubble ... |
I inherited a bunch of Flash animations that I am in charge of updating, maintaining, editing, etc. They are really basic animations, really just sideshows of pictures with the occasional floating text. My question is, some of them are 30fps and others are 24fps. I am the kind of guy that likes standardization, so I... |
I need help with creating a new layer in Illustrator. I work with Photoshop on a regular basis doing design work and although I've worked with illustrator a few times, I'm only really getting into it now with my tablet. I'm struggling with a small issue and need help. When I create a new layer and start to draw in it, ... |
I am well versed with Photoshop and how it works. But recently, I decided to make a poster for my home and for that I'll have to use Illustrator so I need some help from you guys along the way.
Illustrator CS6 has some Photoshop effects included by default in its filters. After applying a "Photoshop" effect (in this c... |
I have opened an image in Adobe Photoshop, showing a green football lawn.
In Photoshop, this image is displayed with a violet color. Every picture I open has not it´s original colors.
Settings are:
Image Mode: RGB Color; 8 Bits/Channel
This is what my workbench looks like:
If I select the lasso tool (or similar too... |
I am using gimp for windows 7. I have an image of a color gradient line (top is black middle white, bottom black) and I want to use gimp to extend the bottom of the line. Meaning, I want to make the black part of the line longer than it is. How can I do this? I do not want to effect the sizes of the other colors on the... |
I am new to shape layers in CS6, and am running up against this issue:
How do I create a stroked line path (with no fill) with precise dimensions?
All I'd like to do is create several horizontal rules exactly 306 pixels wide.
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What resolution (in pixels/inch) should I use when designing graphics for a standard Windows Forms .NET application?
I am using Adobe Creative Suites to design the graphics. I will be using the System.Drawing.Graphics class in .NET to draw the graphics on the screen.
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Is it possible in photoshop to adjust the line tool while holding SHIFT so it could create a 26 or 30 degrees line angle ?
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I just upgraded to Photoshop CS6 from CS5.5 and I'm finding most of it is fairly similar so no problems there, the only issue I have is with the pen tool which is the thing I use the most. I do a lot of custom shapes (whatever the client needs so from an oil rig to a tank) and I use the pen tool to create them so they ... |
i'm trying to have a font letter (in this case "r") half green and half gray.So I Created the outlines from the letter and achieved this :
When I go resizing (making it smaller) it the letter get distorted though:
Where is the problem? I have the scale effects and strokes selected in the transform palette.
Thanks
Luc... |
i have just changed my job in my new office when i start work on Photoshop and Corel Draw the all shorts keys changed is there any option to restore my complete software without installation.
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I need to create a spectrum of white light or rainbow, in different shapes.
When I use this method my clones are still the same color of the first.
Does any one have a better method or another solution?
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Is it possible to achieve this effect using a few filter combinations in Photoshop?
http://cl.ly/183m2V253O1U2u0j2642
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How do Graphic Designers share work they put in the public domain? I'm looking for a site that provides publicly visible, collaborative behavior like Github (which is for source code).
For those not familiar with the behavior of Github, here's an example:
You upload a PSD of an image you want to put in the public d... |
I'd like to create a seamless pattern from the image below:
I can cut out a rectangle and attempt to tile it but it doesn't quite line up:
I know photomerge works really well for creating panoramas but I was wondering if there is a similar tool that works on layers instead of files? Failing that, what other ways coul... |
I thought this would be the most appropriate SE.
Regularly I'm asked to convert clients logo's and various other images into vectors - for whatever reason they don't have the original files or cannot find the original designer to ask.
What is the term for this process? Is 'vectorization' a word?
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I am constantly needing to print out pages with 4 graphs on one page or 2 graphs and a diagram, etc.. So far I have been using LibreOffice Draw to import the images and then manually lay them out on a page and it works but it gets a bit slow and is far too heavy for my needs. By slow, I mean that it crawls when trying ... |
Trying to create a vector 'ring' in Photoshop CS6. (I know there are better tools for the job and ways of doing this, but I'd like to know if there's an answer for this problem in particular.
If I create a circle shape, then change it to subtract mode I can draw another selection to be deleted from my original circle. ... |
I can clearly identify wacky fonts like this one:
to be of the "fantasy" type, but some fonts look almost like regular serif or sans serif fonts only with some strange things going on. As an example take this other one:
It's advertised as serif, and it does have some serif characteristics as far as I can tell, but it... |
If I save my file from Photoshop as a Photoshop EPS is that going to be okay as a vector across the board (ie will it be resizeable in whatever it's opened in)? I know if you open a .psd in Photoshop and resize the image, it holds it's quality, so that's fine, but when people need an EPS file because they might want to... |
I try to reconstruct this image:
From http://www.shutterstock.com
But, I'm failing. Perhaps there are tutorials on this topic? Maybe some advice?
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As strange as it seems, I am looking for a font in which all characters look exactly the same.
The goal is to obfuscate the text of passwords generated on http://enlargeyourpassword.com to the casual observer. At the same time, the user must be able to select one of the generated passwords and copy it or drag it to a p... |
I was working on a logo design for a client in Illustrator CS4 when suddenly the default brushes were no longer there. The brush files are still in place but they do not show up in the brushes panel. The options to show the brushes by type are checked but greyed out.
I tried a preference reset, that didn't fix it. I h... |
This is part of my original document from Quark XPress [Windows demo] (which I am recreating in InDesign, since I'm converting manually for now, I don't need Q2ID for now, since it's just a development magazine for testing styles and designs and PDF styles etc.):
and this is the original image I based the design aroun... |
I came across a photo that looks like it is being painted. I like the look and would like to replicate it with one of my pictures, the question is how is this done or created? I am using Photoshop CS6.
Here is the image:
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I never want my PNGs to be interlaced. So I wish I could set a bunch of option defaults in the application so that I am saving time when outputting a lot of images as PNG over the course of a day working in Photoshop.
Does anyone know if this is possible in Photoshop without using Actions OR the Save-for-Web option?
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In Photoshop CS5 there was a button at the top bar of the program where you could toggle rulers / grids (it was a square button and the had a ruler-looking border). I'd like to know how I can get this to show in CS6.
What I'm talking about:
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I printed booklets for my students in InDesign 5.5. Worked perfect, on US Letter paper I was able to get 2 worksheets per side. I'd cut them down the middle and have these great packets of worksheets. I upgraded to InDesign 6 (on both my mac and PC). And now the printouts don't extend all the way to the right of th... |
I would like to change the overly clean look of some rendered images i have made as they are a bit to crisp to be "real".
In the couple of images bellow there is this kind of hazy light.. is there a filter i can add in photoshop the might be able to reprudce a similar look ?
ps. these images bellow are what id like my... |
Let's say I create a complex smart object containing layers, filters, effects, shapelayers, etc.
Then, in the main comp I want to use that smart object to mask another layer/smart object with.
However, I do not want to see the masking smart object itself.
Is there a configuration, such as blend mode, or similar, that l... |
I feel like this looks ugly. The box shadow above the image blends really well with some images - generally with images that have a lot of color or are white - but with others it looks horrible.
The code:
box-shadow: 0 -2px 6px -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
What would you guys re... |
I am studying Fundamentals of Multimedia by Ze-Nian Li and Mark S Drew. They use the term "sprite" but I don't understand the meaning. Can someone explain to me what sprites are and how they are used?
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I'm working on retro-style pixel art for a video game. I would like to be able to add a border around a sprite, but I need it to be sharp and "pixel perfect". Using Photoshop's Stroke effect seems like the obvious choice, but unfortunately Photoshop does some fancy anti-aliasing and adds extra pixels where I don't want... |
The images I'm using are from different sources but most of all flickr (few from other websites). When I download them in 500 pixel size for example, they look ok in Anteprima, but when I place them in InDesign doc some are really small - some with an impossible resolution, others with a lower resolution anyway.
Of c... |
I have two opaque Smart Objects. Object A is black-and-white and I want to use it as a transparency mask for object B.
In other words, for the following layers:
IMAGE REMOVED - Imgur replaced the original image with a different one (hosted at the same URL!). I have removed it to not confuse the readers.
How can I get a... |
This is the SITE and it looks great in firefox on both windows XP and mac OS10.6. But with chrome on my XP it looks wierd. All the texts are jagged and pixlated sort of. I have tried with and without clear type turned on and of, without any difference I have also tried a css tweak: -webkit-text-stroke
but without luck.... |
In Adobe Photoshop (I'm currently using CS5), is it possible to remove the cyan-coloured guide lines? I'm talking about the ones added by View > Guides.. > [horizontal/vertical guide choice].
I can't find it anywhere on Google nor this site!
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I've been looking for ways to compute the area of an irregular shape. I've found this post for tips: http://www.astutegraphics.com/blog/calculating-an-objects-area-in-illustrator/
The keypress combo mentioned - cmd+shift+option+fn+F12 - is not working for me in CS6. Any idea as to what the new keypress combo is? Or how... |
I'm designing a iOS interface that had some last minute changes to the tab bar (across the bottom) and many of the screens had already been set up as Photoshop Layer Comps maintaining visibility, positioning and appearance.
Now that I've made my tweaks to the tab bar I need the new tab bar positioning in all of my exis... |
I have a 2000x1500 image created with Photoshop CS6 Extended. When I save images in different formats for re-use in other programs, e.g. PNG, the image quality will suffer. I have nice basic gradiants and layout overlays but when I save it, the transparency will suffer a lot.
What to do? I would like to use PNG becaus... |
Any of you who have at least little experience with graphic design software, photography or professional printing, must have -almost undoubtedly- have gone through this: 'the struggle' of RGB and CMYK colour spaces.
Now, there are many questions regarding matters of 'which should I choose', 'what is what' and convertin... |
Is it possible to set a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat 9 or 10 so that:
Using the mouse's scroll wheel will zoom
Holding left-click will pan
It's an intuitive interface, kind of like Google Maps, that I would use with some PDFs...
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I am a developer and working on an application whose designs I have received as a PSD file. But I am totally noob in designing. I have installed photoshop in my computer but have no idea about how to save a layer out of that. There are buttons in the PSD which I want and I have hidden all other layers except the one I ... |
Programmer here, working on an app by myself. I think I'm slowly improving with my images each month, but I've never taken a course in graphics design, so there are elements of professionalism that are undoubtedly absent from my work.
Here is what I've got so far. It's for a camera/food app where you can take picture... |
I prototyped my web page directly in HTML/CSS, using custom fonts for header text.
The font rendering however is very different on Windows, so I would like to export some parts of the Web page to bitmap, but with a transparent background.
Is there any way to do that?
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I am puzzled by this combo, I use convert -command to change the size to 55x55 but I get 54x55, why? I think the problem here is that the command use geometry not pixels while I presupposed that the command uses pixels.
Trial 0: -resize not right flag
$ convert -resize 55x55 sky_0_1.png sky_0_11.png
$ identify sky_0_1*... |
I'm writing a script for Illustrator CS5 to resize my artwork (and artboards and a whole lot of other stuff in a batch).
I'm having severe issues with the javascript functions resize() and transform().
When I scale my object manually inside Illustrator (double clicking on the scale tool or using the transform dialog), ... |
I have an illustrator text in Myriad Pro light 8 pt that I need to output to a png or gif. The quality degrades tremendously.
What is the best practice to get a good quality screen output on thin and small fonts?
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I have the following image:
It is a shadow effect created in Photoshop. I need to have that black shadow with transparent background in order to be used with different background colors.
The problem is that the black shadow is "merged" with the blue background.
How can I do that?
Thanks.
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I have a black-and-white diagram (floor plans) scanned from a printout. It's mostly OK, but some of the lines are visibly faded or blurred in places, so it "looks" scanned.
I've tried various options in Paint.NET so far without any success. I could download any free software that would do the job. I could probably get ... |
I've been trying to figure out how to get this to look right for the past week.
We just got permission from a photographer to use some of her excellent photos of vegan food. Here's one:
However, we also have an orange background that corresponds to the orange of the respective icon which leads to this page.
I just c... |
Joining 55x55 imageA and imageB 55x55 should result int a joined image 55x110 but imagemagick acts oddly.
Trial 1: adding some dummy pixels, bad
$ montage -adjoin sky_0_1.png sky_0_3.png sky_0_4.png
$ identify sky_0_1.png sky_0_3.png sky_0_4.png
sky_0_1.png PNG 55x55 55x55+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 3.32KB 0.000u 0:00.000... |
I am a newbie to Illustrator. What I want is to create add a "pressed-in" effect to a shape (basically add some depth to it), so that it looks like it has been "pressed-in" into its surrounding background.
What I want is kind of similar to how especially the dot of the i in the following logo looks:
But I want it to ... |
I am trying to design a site with a "ancient" feel to it, such as this example:
How can I make textures, buttons and background like on those sites?
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I'm trying to create 1 pixel wide borders for some web buttons.
I've tried to use the GIMP path tool to do this but I can't figure out how to get it looking right. See attached image.
1 - copied from a button I found on a web-page. This is what I want - single pixel horizontal and vertical lines with feathering on the ... |
I'm trying to connect two open paths with a perfectly smooth curve. It is an easy task in CAD/3D software, But I can't figure out a way to accomplish that in Illustrator.
The top part of the image is what I'm trying to do (I don't expect Illustrator to handle curve continuity, just to make it smooth is enough).
When I ... |
My old trusty HP Pavilion tx2690eo convertible died just recently, and having found myself in the market for a new digital art device I thought I'd entertain an odd notion I had.
The problem with convertibles, of course, is that you lose access to the keyboard and all the convenience it brings when in tablet mode. No... |
Please tell me if this is the wrong stackexchange site for this and if so which one I should post it to. And I apologize if it's the wrong one.
I take photographs. I've taken a lot recently due to the Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) racing festival. Because the images are 21 megapixel I reduce the size in processi... |
I have a paper form that I ultimately want to us as a background template in SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio for a report. When I scan the form, it results in a 5088 x 6600 image - which is way too big. When I try to re-size the image in PS 6 (I know, but it's all we have at my office) the text be... |
Photoshop is a much more powerful design tool than CSS, and given free reign to design at will, designers will often tweak things like font settings to a degree that cannot be recreated on the web.
Is there any way to lock down Photoshop, or perhaps run an equivalent of the Office 2010 "Compatability report" that shows... |
I'm recreating a Character Sheet for an RPG, but it might as well be a form.
In the original sheet I notice that all the text is in capital letters.
At first I thought it was in small-caps, but it isn't, it is in full capitals. It has the same letter height all the way through. Is this a good or a bad example of design... |
I'm designing small icons for screen, I'm using align to pixel grid. One problem I've encountered is aligning a compound path to the grid.
This is the letter "O", which is a compound path, when I align to grid, it messes things up. How can I fix this?
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I have used photoshop for some time and am now trying to learn Illustrator (Both version CS5)
I would like to know if there is a difference in the way the blend modes work between these two apps, specifically "Hard Light", I have included an example of the results of using the hard light blend mode on a white to black ... |
I know you can export the asset as a PSD and open it in Photoshop. Is there a more seamless way?
Update: I'm an idiot. Someone else created the logo, and the shadow was it's own layer on multiply and not a normal drop shadow effect.
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Do I really have to design everything in Photoshop with anti-aliasing set to "none"? I'm sure there is a better way.
I'd like to have a setting so that when picking a basic web-safe (such as Tahoma) in Photoshop so I can see what it will actually look like when on the web.
For example: The difference between Tahoma ... |
I'm sure that this is not a coincidence, that it was very well thought out by the designers of this app, but I can't seem to understand why. In the timeline, they use a sans-serif font, while in the main tweet view, they use a serif font. What are the reasons for this?
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I have a client for whom I've designed a newsletter. I did this in Photoshop, since it's the program I'm the must accustomized to (I know InDesign would've been the "right" choice). And now I need to hand over a file that can be used by my client as a template for writing these newsletters. How do I do this in a way so... |
I'm designing logo for an application titled 'Healthy Lifestyle'. The app provides info about restaurants with healthy food, gyms, some workout instructions; basically anything to do with healthy lifestyle.
I have some ideas to represent the 'healthy' part (e.g. the color green, leaf shape, etc). However, I am confused... |
I'm new to Illustrator and it is driving me nuts.
What I want to do is simply subtract a rectangle from a circle
On top of it, I draw a white rectangle, and use the Subtract from front from the Pathfinder.
What I get is:
while I expect
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I've created a path with a stroke and a fill of the same color, and I'd like to remove the stroke while preserving the size/shape of the object. Is there a simple way to do this?
In other words, I'm looking for something like a "Stroke-and-Fill to Path"
The best solution that I have come up with so far is to use "Strok... |
I have a bunch of social media icons that are in color that I'd like to make grayscale. I've opened them all in Photoshop and am applying a black and white adjustment layer to each one. The problem is each icon has a different underlying hue so I'm getting different shades of gray in the icons. Is there an easy way ... |
Before you point your finger and laugh, please take into consideration that my boss is asking me to do this for him. As a faithful employee with some Photoshop skills and no experience with 3d modeling, I'm trying to figure out if it is possible and what it will entail.
My Task: I need to be able to take images of furn... |
I have a set of Photoshop files which consist of a base image with a series of layers with colored overlays. The overlays are labeled using the layer names.
My task is to get these overlays as SVG paths, somehow preserving the labels. (If I can preserve the fill colors as well, that would be cool, but we can define arb... |
I've got this image. To take it I had to up expose the photo to make the house clearer and the sky which is already very pale has disapeared. Normally I would just magic wand the white sky and replace it with an image of some blue sky. The problem I'm having is all the gaps in the trees at the top left and right.
Is t... |
I have been searching all over to find a tutorial (for Photoshop or Illustrator) to create something with this look:
I would like to be able to achieve this with different textures (wood, stone, glass, etc.)
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In the article about DragonBox iPhone game, I've read that:
the dragons were all drawn by a fourteen-year-old girl
I would like to do exactly the same: ask someone to draw some images for the purposes of my game, process it in some graphics editing program and then import it into game resources.
My questions are:
Ca... |
I'm trying to run a batch file on a custom action. The action does one thing: File -> Export -> Paths to Illustrator.
However, whenever I run that action as a batch on multiple files, it saves each file with the same name. So if I open File1.psd and save it as working/File1.ai, then run the batch on File2.psd, File3.p... |
I'm basically trying to optimize "Save for Web & Devices" in Adobe Photoshop for pixel art.
What I want is to apply an indexed color palette to all the individual images saved when using the slicing tool and "Save for Web". Instead I'm given all my image slices with huge color palettes. Any help would be appreciated o... |
My clipping mask was working in when it was just text. I have added an image to the text and the clipping mask no longer works even if I group the text and the image. Any ideas?
I was working in Illustrator but could do in Photoshop too - whatever works!
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