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I am looking for pointers on how to pick a set of colours (or a colour gradient) that are clearly distinguishable, for use in scientific figures. Was there any systematic research on this? If yes, I'd appreciate some links. When creating scientific figures, colour is often used to distinguish elements. One example is lines in a plot: Another example is a colour gradient to denote values: I'm interested in two questions: How can I pick the largest set of colours that are still distinguishable from each other, for use in a plot? Similarly, what colour gradient will allow the eye to discern the largest set of values and detect the slightest change? Are there colour schemes made specifically for this? I'm looking for something that works well both on-screen and in print. How can I pick a set of colours (or a gradient) that are still distinguishable enough when converted to greyscale, but the contrast is enhanced when they're viewed in colour? Is there a colour gradient that is not much worse in this respect that a full-white to full-black gradient when converted to greyscale, but gives significantly enhanced contrast when reproduced in full colour? (Take e.g. my example figure from above with the rainbow colour: it has excellent contrast in colour, but it's unusable in greyscale. Many scientific journals will publish figures in colour online, but ask for figures that are usable in greyscale too, in the print edition.)
I am trying to "transfer" my signature from paper to the computer. Here is the procedure I followed, yes you may laugh, I know it. My question is, is it possible instead of the hard lines I got to have solid lines?
So I have got the .ai file from our designer and I have to save it to a specific size to then be used on a website. I have aligned all shapes to pixel raster (not sure if this is required) and I have changed the reference point to left-top (in order to avoid blur). When saving for web I choose Optimize Art and I save it as a transparent PNG-24. Now, why is there a mysterious, vague line next to one shape? When I look at it in Illustrator, that same line is visible, but when I zoom in you can see that the shape is perfect without the mysterious line. In case it might help, the line is there from bottom to 50% of the shape (vertically), everything else is perfectly sharp. What am I doing wrong? I hope I used the correct terms, as my Illustrator is in a different language.
I'm not sure if there are any typography gurus here that might be able to answer this question, but I don't know where else to look. I'm looking to add text hyphenation into one of my projects, and after doing some research, there are a few curious points I am unable to connect. I want to know when and when not to use hyphenation, and if screen width is a major factor in this decision. I'm curious as to why in Apple's iOS Safari "Reader" feature (where you tap the Reader button and it converts any web page into a nicely formatted reading friendly page), they do not use hyphenation on the iPhone, but use hyphenation on the iPad Safari Reader. So on the iPhone, they do use hyphenation in the iPhone iBooks app, but do not in the reader app (so I'm unsure as to if this has anything to do with screen width. iPhone Reader in Safari (no hyphenation): iPhone iBooks (hyphenation): iPad Reader in Safari (hyphenation):
I would like to make this image to have 4:3 ratio, so it then later can be scaled up so it completely fits a 400mm x 300mm paper when printed. It can not be cropped any more, so the size is 780x500, which is not 4:3. Question As it needs to be scaled up when printed should I scale it down horizontally so I get 667500 (remove pixels) or should I scale it up vertically so I get 585500 (add pixels) ?
I'm using 123D (a great 3D suite from Autodesk) that generates .obj files. I'm trying to open them in Maya 2011, but to no avail. It's strange because both applications are from Autodesk, yet they don't use compatible file formats. (That goes for 3D studio as well) Any ideas? I've read many google results and forum threads, but still got no clue on how to do it.
I am trying to create an animated gif where text drops down and smashes into the background and cracks it. Whenever I try and transform it though, the transformation is applied to all frames. How do I prevent this? I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64-bit)
I'm trying to make the bottom edge of a layer curved / look like waves. Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve but it is just hand drawn: (image no longer available) As you can see, the curve is not symmetrical. What tool or method is guaranteed to get a perfect symmetrical, consistent curve along the edge?
I'm creating a newspaper for a small association, and have run in to a problem when creating the ToC. The paper has a few different types of articles; "Info", "General news", Articles on this issue's theme and Buy&Sell. Each page has the type of the page's article in the header, and then a title (and a bunch of text). Now I want to create a ToC which lists the articles grouped by type, something like this: Info Editorial 1 Meeting minutes 3 General news Article 1 2 Article 2 10 This month's theme On the greatness of themes 4 They are really fantastic 6 Buy&Sell Stuff for sale 8 I want to buy a... 9 Note that the article types are not necessarily on consecutive pages. I created a Table of Content style which has the page header paragraph style (eg General news) as Level 1 content, and the title style as Level 2. Now, if I generate a ToC, I will get for each page an entry for the page type, and for pages on which an article begins also the title of that article. Something like this: Info Editorial 1 General news Article 1 2 Info Meeting minutes 3 This month's theme On the greatness of themes 4 This month's theme This month's theme They are really fantastic 6 This month's theme Buy&Sell Stuff for sale 8 Buy&Sell I want to buy a... 9 General news Article 2 10 This has two problems, first that they are not grouped, and second that since the page header is on every page, it will have an entry for each header, even if there is no new article on that page. If I update the Level 1 style to be "Sort entries in alphabetical order" I get somewhat closer: Buy&Sell Stuff for sale 8 Buy&Sell I want to buy a... 9 General news Article 1 2 General news Article 2 10 Info Editorial 1 Info Meeting minutes 3 This month's theme On the greatness of themes 4 This month's theme This month's theme They are really fantastic 6 This month's theme But still the types are not grouped. Is the Table of Contents feature powerful enough to do this?
I am, like so many other graphic designers, very excited about the new MacBook 15" with retina display. But there is one thing that I really am concerned about. With 4 times the pixels as on ordinary screen, how can we be sure, that the preview of an image, is what we really get? When images are optimized for web usage, how can we be sure that the optimized image, is what the end user (with a non-retina display) wil be seing?
Save for web feature in Photoshop for image size reduction, would this be the simplest way for a beginner (like myself) to try and save on (some) loading time without losing too much quality. I am using images for my menu buttons, background, header, post page, etc etc I have only just found this save for web feature and I was wondering does it really help in image size or does it not make that much difference. Is there any other option? (website for reference: www.kizzieskorner.com) PS: if you mark my question down please could you give an explanation why so I know what not to do next time - as I am new to these question forums too!
I'm setting out a template in PS 1280x700 px 300dpi (I know web is 72 but I like more clarity when working in PS). My main problem is the way the text renders; I'm using Helvetica Neue Light 15px and it's coming out quite jaggidy. Is there a way to smooth / use it as a font instead of following the pixel grid so it would look like it will on the web? My second question is when setting out a nav is there a better way to separate the text headings? At the moment I either just use the space bar 5 or 6 times to break them up (which is really bad when you want to go back and make changes as you have to change all of them) or I make each heading a text layer and space them on a grid, again not great when I want to make changes.
I'm working in Illustrator CS4, and when I save from EPS to SVG I get these messages: Foreign artworks are expanded (I see this error when I save to SVG) clipping will be lost on roundtrip (And I see this one when I open the SVG I saved) This SVG opens fine in illustrator, but some of its parts disappear in Firefox. What does this clip path mean and how can I fix it?
When designing a horizontal menu for a website in photoshop (like the img attahced) whats the best way to space them ? In html/css i would just use float:right; margin-left:20px; but in photoshop the only way i can think of doing it is spacing out the text using the spacebar or making each peice of text its own text box and then spacing the using guides. Neither method is great as if you want to go back and make a change you have to change the spacing between each word/button. Please also bare in mind that some buttons have two words in them ie."ask question" so you cant really use a method that leaves a huge gaps between all words.
I have recently upgraded my version of Illustrator to CS6 but have run into a problem. I batch create EPS files for print and then hand them on to a supplier. They however don't have CS6, but CS5. Rather than batch creating all of the files and then individually re-opening them and changing the EPS Version manually, is there an alternative/way to set the file version default? Or is there another alternative? Thanks for your time
Frutiger 55 was the winner of the crude typo-battle I hosted in my mind this week (I felt really sorry for poor Gill Sans, one of my top-5 of all time). I want to use it for a Web App that is hosted in different client's servers (client buys the app, the app is hosted in their server, although it can be accessed from different regions), and I'm a bit confused about which license is the correct one. According to Linotype, Frutiger 55 is NZ$ 53.00 for a standard License (maximum of 5 computers at one single geographical location, or a single LAN). Last time I checked, it didn't have a Web version, but it now links to fonts.com, and they say it can be self-hosted and used in an unlimited number of sites. Which font/License would be the one I need in this case? Since users are not going to have the font installed in their computers, is a web license the right way to go? Or should it be a license per server? This is Linotype's list of desktop licenses, maybe it's the Webserver License? Thanks! Edit: I'm quite sure it's NOT a Web Server License because the font will be "read only" Edit: I found some more info on licensing fonts for apps but it only applies to MyFonts.com.
I have around 150 SVG files created in Inkscape. Is there is a utility that can export all of these to multiple PDF or PNG files? Exporting individually is too time consuming, so I was wondering if I could do it in a batch with some utility/software. Windows preferred.
Web fonts can sometimes look great on one machine, but awful on another, due to differences in rendering not just between browsers, but also with the same browser between operating systems. Most commercial web font services have a try-before-you-buy preview feature, where you can see side-by-side screenshot images of the fonts rendered at various sizes on different browser and operating system combinations with default settings (e.g. on Typekit (click 'Browser Samples'), and on Fonts.com (click 'Web Font browser/OS samples' tab)). Google Webfonts doesn't have this feature, and since the fonts are non-commercial/open source they are rarely/never available on these services. Assuming you don't have a convenient stack of Mac, Windows XP, Windows 7/Vista and Ubuntu machines sitting under your desk, each with a variety of browsers installed, and that you don't have the time, resources, know-how and patience to set them up on one machine using something techie like Virtualbox (not even sure that would work...), how would you go about ensuring that a font you were interested in doesn't have rendering issues? A good answer could be... A service that simulates browser/OS rendering for any font or for Google Web Fonts specifically (I've not found one) Knowledge about typographic features to look out for that are known to render particularly differently or badly on certain systems. If an example would help, a font I'm particularly interested in is Lato 300, 400 and 900, mainly at 10pt, 14pt, 22pt
Who is responsible for creating such products? Are they usually done by the props team? Or are there companies that specialise in them? Here are a couple of examples. It's usually easier to find logos, so I'm more interested in good examples for graphic design such as product packaging, printed material and such. Logos: Packaging, Sin City Booze bottle: http://www.chericocreative.com/images/photoAlbum/readImage.aspx?x=CvDI5DuXJOPXb733IVuGRbSftzA8rNbRaw5IwegkMF5BJbaHWVBlQ8bCrahex6IW7Qco9Kw2a9%2fnkCaL%2fHID4%2bOJJ7mKrQp%2fxxzqS06fnifLJU35VSBX5922xnzKtbTrsxVJaYmmzsTkyY92RHkijre5dG7O391P Packaging, Dharma Initiative:
how can I clone an object in Illustrator so that a link remains to the source object and modifying it alters all the copies as well? Thanks
Batch -export means that I may need to add certain transformations such as anti-alias, contrast-fixes and resizing. SVG here means I am using Inkscape. One layer here is a sprite. I currently export each layer individually to bitmap, File > Export Bitmap -- but it is time-consuming. Is there some way to programmatically batch-export layers from SVG-file? Or does there exist some batch-export-button in Inkscape? I specially need the same custom area for each sprite, the same as clicking many times the menus but it is stupid -- perhaps some macro for this?
I'm trying to add some text to a SVG file. The text is dynamic and shown over a rectangle which acts as background. Since the text is dynamic, the width of background rectangle also needs to be dynamic. So, to be consistent, I'm using a fixed-width monospace font (Droid Sans Mono) and calculating the width of the background rectangle by using the expression - (x6.4)+4), where x is the number of characters in the text, and 4 is added for padding (2 left, 2 right). Also, assuming that 6.4 is the avergae width of each character in the Droid Sans Mono font (just a guess). So, for text Ruby on Rails, number of characters are 13, so the width of the background rectangle is 136.4+4 = 87.2. Which works perfectly in browsers (Firefox and Chromium) on Ubuntu. However, when seen in the same browsers (Firefox and Chrome) on Windows, the text overflows the rectangle. So my question is that, how can I ensure that the image has consistent look across different operating-systems? The image does has consistent look in all browsers on same operating-system. I'm including an example image for reference: UPDATE Maybe I should rephrase my question - Inside an SVG file, how can I make a fixed-width font take same number of pixels across all platforms, assuming the SVG file is not affected by any external CSS styles and the zoom level is normal? Also, I understand that alternative technologies exists (PNG etc.), but not every SVG question should end with replace it with PNG. Also more than a solution, I'm interested in understanding why this problem exists with SVG. I am using a fixed-width font which is supposed to take same number of pixels on all operating-systems (Is this wrong assumption? Why? What can I do about it?). Screenshots Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 / Firefox 13 Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 / Chromium 18 Windows 7 32-bit (inside VirtualBox) / Google Chrome 18 Windows 7 32-bit (inside VirtualBox) / Firefox 13
I am trying to make a speech bubble. My attempt consists of a rectangle and then using the pen tool to establish three points. They are not filled and only have a border. Here is what I have: This is what I'm actually shooting for: I don't see why the pathfinder tool can't remove that one line. Does anyone have any ideas, or am I going about this the wrong. I've worked with Photoshop for about two years, but only worked with Illustrator for a few weeks.
When I'm coloring a drawing in PS, if I set the opacity to 50%, color, then lift my brush, then nick the same area, it stacks the opacity for a more opaque results. I want it to all be the same unless I increase the opacity, and I see this in a lot of YouTube videos. Right now coloring is nigh on impossible because all the colors stack and I have a weirdly shaded photo just from coloring.
Why doesn't type look crisp and clear in Fireworks/Photoshop etc? I am the only one working on a PC at my work place, I've noticed that the text in my Fireworks looks a bit ragged on the edges, its not so crisp and clear as it is on my work mates computers... Now I know this is an issue about text rendering, and it is because of something called anti aliasing, i know what that(antialiasing) does from games, it makes the edges smoother so that the whole shape looks crisper, its like a pixel splitter :P (windows has something caller Clear Type that does that for text)... My problem: How can I make the text look better? How should I set up windows? How should I adjust Fireworks/Photoshop settings? Screenshot:
I have got hundreds images of products with clear white backgrounds. I would like to change the white background color to become transparent. Is there a means of batch processing this particular process with Photoshop or any other applications?
Im looking to discuss ideas on how to represent the "evaluation of a user". You the evaluator Users to be evaluated Based on score border around user profile is different color How could this be represented in 1 single image? Attached a Concept wich is not clear enough I need something thats more catchy.
Im having this big horizontal bar see image above, and want to "guide (read force)" the users from reading the text on the left to clicking the join button on the right. Are there any thoughts on how to originally design this guidance from left to right? I know the general thoughts on call to action and the principles I've read a lot about in terms of design and page layouts. But the problem is I cannot come up with something better than a join button on the right and I would like to graphically "guide" the user to the right side , so they cannot resist and have to click ;)
I like digital art and paintings. I want to create my own. Which software/tools do I need to accomplish this?
I am designing a website and am planning on slicing up my template in Fireworks and then exporting it to Dreamweaver. When this is done it does of course go into a table. I have a title and nav bar with a left section to the right of a main content section, with a footer at the bottom. I was wondering if it is possible to make it so that if the main content section expands (with for example a blog), I can make the footer move down and the left content section to stay where it is (using slices)?
I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is through some color sampling against a solid black view, and a solid white view. Given this information, using GIMP is it possible to just "erase" the background color, so that I am only left with the original, unblended alert background? I only have the alert view in image form as a screenshot from a running app.
I would like to create a sexy-trending curved or blended shadow using Adobe Fireworks CS5. How can I do that? I would like to achieve a shadow like the following sample:
I need to do a poster, 8m width by 3.7m height, consisting of photographic elements that will be seen from varying distances. I've talked to the printer and they can do it at 150ppi's. The issue here is how to work it. Using this calculator I've came to: poster measurements 800cm 370cm 150dpi = 47244px vs 21850px memory requirements memory required = (number of pixels in image ) X (number of bytes per pixel ) 47244 x 21850 x 3 (24 bits) = 3096844200 bytes = 3GB And I'm working on a 3GB computer that, understandingly has to page some information to virtual memory, so it would take some time, however it keeps crashing. How do professionals work this out?
I have this picture, where I would like to fill out the green in the top with the background from the picture, so fix that the picture have not been cropped in 4:3. Can a background like this be cloned?
What is this font on David Guetta's T-shirts? "Its the way you love me - I wanna go crazy". The same streaky-paint style font is used on the David Guetta album, "One more love".
If I select the Type tool, click somewhere in my composition and type in some text, it appears that I cannot resize the area the text occupies without resizing the text itself. However, if I click and drag, to create a text block instead, I can use the corner handles of this block afterwards to reposition and resize this block, and have the text inside reflow automatically. Is there a way to go from the first to the second? ie. first click, type in some text, then resize it as though it was a block?
I'm making a iOS app, it needs to target newer retina devices as well as the older 3GS and iPad 1. Usually I'd just export them at 72 PPI, but for retina is it 150 PPI or 300 PPDI (or another)? Am I right in thinking that I just make the graphics at retina spec and the older devices will just have to use them?
I've recently graduated from university (within the United Kingdom) and I'm trying to get my first step on to the ladder within the graphic design industry. It has been several months and I'm having trouble even getting an interview. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how I should approach my CV. The following link is my current version, however it doesn't seem to be working. Curriculum Vitae
I've realized that simple textures like the one used on this site: ..add a lot to the look of a page. How are they made though? I'm not very experienced in Photoshop, but I can't imagine what tool would be used to make the random specs across the pattern.
I noticed that in Adobe CS6 there is still no way to import .svg files into Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. Now I want to use a lot of svg's from "TheNounProject", due to their high quality and visual consistency. But part of it is also to "play around" with them, basically to find the most suitable image for the accompanying text. To do that I already have to download a lot of svg's that I might not use. I don't want to also have to manually (1 by 1) export all of them to .eps (assuming that's the only way) when I later won't use them. And: It seems that there is still no import option for SVG in InDesign and while there is the "SCAND SVG Kit 1.0.8 for Adobe Creative Suite", it doesn't work with CS6 (I tried it). Plus it somehow beats the purpose of the open and free SVG format when I have to pay $99 for a licence of something that should be included or possible with another software. The publications I use "TheNounProject" icons for are "non-profit" anyways. Is there any other work-around? Or is there an easy way to add batch-support for InkScape? (A way that - if it's by commandline - does make it easy for me as a non-IT/math-nerd to precisely understand (where and how) the batch processing script will run on those files.) I also posted this question on Quora. (Under the title "Why does Adobe InDesign still not support the placement (import) of SVG's (in CS6)?", I can't use more than two hyperlinks here.)
In many proportional fonts, numerals (i.e. 0123456789) have identical width to facilitate vertical alignment. My question is simple: are there any characters that conventionally share the exact same width as these ten? For example, I've found one font where the '=' character is the same width as the numerals: 0000000000 1111111111 2222222222 3333333333 4444444444 5555555555 6666666666 7777777777 8888888888 9999999999 ========== <- sometimes same as numerals mmmmmmmmmm <- nearly always wider llllllllll <- nearly always narrower
I'm not a designer (as is probably obvious from the vague question), but I'm being asked to design the signage that will go on the front of our offices. Our logo is deliberately simple, blocky white text on black, with blocky black text on white below. The people we share an office with have a similar logo, but with somewhat thinner text. Logo Our front door is glass, and the area behind it is well lit. We'd like to print the logos / text onto transparencies and stick them to the glass, but this brings up some design issues that I'd like some professional opinions on. There's some slack in terms of what we do with the logo, in terms of what we make transparent, partial opaqueness, etc., and too many options to make test prints for all of them (the transparent print paper isn't cheap!) My first thought was that we make the white parts transparent, and rely on the lightness of the background to shine through in place of the white. That works okay for us, because the blocky font still allows it to be readable. But our neighbours' logo uses quite thin black text on a white background, so I'm worried about readability. Should I instead be trying to print in white/transparent, to allow the light behind the logo to diffuse through the white parts (instead of being blocked by the black)? That's obviously not possible on a standard printer so I can't test it, but the printers who'll be doing the final job will be able to I'm sure. So, to be more succinct about the issues: Should I be avoiding using black on transparent? Is there any way to make thin dark text on transparent more readable? Would partial transparency help me at all? Are there any general design tips for making logos that work well on glass that might be relevant here?
I am struggling to create a gradient without banding. I have watched all the videos on YT and tried: Bluring all kinds, Noise, Dither,bit depth, Brush and doing the gradient in Illustrator. Everything fails and I can always see the banding. The background color I use behind the image: 050b3c
I am finalizing the last step of my logo redesign process. Is it ok not to have a regular color when presenting my logo? I am thinking about having a defined list of colors for different use cases but will this take away from my brand?
I'm trying to do some rigging removal (something I do often in Photoshop), but for some reason all of a sudden I cannot open ANY movie format or image sequence in Photoshop (the option isn't even there for image sequence). This has never been a problem before. I have the problem in both CS5 extended and CS6 extended. I'd really like to avoid having to reinstall either/or CS5 and CS6. This is an almost fresh install of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, and I do have all the requisite codecs installed.
I have a problem with Adobe InDesign. When I change the page's background color (by modifying the Swatches>Paper color), and export it to PDF by going to File>Export, in InDesign - the outcome of that has a page with a default (white background). I'm an InDesign beginner - in fact this is the first time I every used it. This is how it looks: [Note, I used the background's color (which is #ef4723) as the text color - so it's not transparent]
I'm a Photoshop n00b, working with version CS6. I'm trying to fix up a PSD I was sent from my client so I can convert it to HTML and CSS. Here's a screenshot of some layers I've extracted, that hopefully will help illustrate my question: The two white shapes are in one layer. The black "i" is a text layer on top of this. How can I make the "i" be a cutout inside the white layer, that allows the transparent background to show through? I can't find any tutorials online that demonstrate how to do this.
I am trying to draw the viewers' eyes to the 'join now' button in the image below. My idea was to represent this with a series of 'waves' coming into a 'hot spot' in the middle. This concept should make you feel like clicking the 'join now' button. I need some fresh reviews on my idea and if it's correctly implemented. I'm a coder, not a designer, but love good design. Could I get some feedback on this image? Note: the border on the right is faded, as to indicate the last image in a series of frontage slideshow.
I am taking a regular version of a typeface I love and making a light version of it, and I'm wondering: Is the light version just an inset of the regular version? Are there any special considerations I am missing? This is my first albeit tenuous foray into type design, and while I have experience with and appreciate good typography, I have never actually got my hands dirty in making or altering a type face. Extra credit question: Am I using the terms correctly here? I understand typeface is the term for the design of type but at what point should I be using the term font?
I was wondering what font is used by Unfuddle logo? To me it seems to be a customization of an existing font.
What typewriter font is used in this document?: If yes: Can I download a freely (as in freedom) usable font file for use in text editors ? If no: Can I (or anyone) legally create a font for computer use, released freely (as in freedom), by shamelessly copying it from this document ? Or something similar: typewriter / monospace modern (not those roundish, "some characters fall below the line" style) like: most letters started out as "rounded edge rectangles"
I'm trying to break down what skills I need to develop to draw a realistic human figure. At the moment I got: Gesture I have no good idea on how to exercise this, I mean, I have no good way to know if I'm doing gestures correctly and if I'm improving. Finding Forms That is, drawing the figure using spheres, boxes and other volumes. Easy to self test, You just have to look to the drawings and see if they somehow match the original subject. Perspective Starting to read and exercise this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perspective-Made-Easy-Dover-Instruction/dp/0486404730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340813163&sr=1-1 Values Again, I don't know a good way on how to improve this skill Anatomy How can you know you're improving your anatomy? Am I missing any fundamental? Please give in your answer specific exercices on how to improve any of this skills.
Arabic text doesn't show properly in Adobe Illustrator. Even with a font that supports Arabic text (e.g. Arial), the text is back to front (left to right, not right to left) and the letters don't join up properly. To an Arabic speaker, it's gibberish. I know that there is an Illustrator version for the Middle East but... really, no chance am I buying that just to get a few words into a vector graphic. I've also seen refs for Scribdoor (Winsoft) however it's 100 Euros and I work on CS6 now which isn't supported anyway. I can't believe that after 16 major versions of Adobe Illustrator there is no way to copy & paste a bit of Arabic into it somehow? Can anyone think of an alternative? Free one if poss, it's a tiny job with 9 words in total. Thanks very much
I have an image with a linear gradient overlay (banner image on this page EDF Energy - Our Campaigns. I have set the RGB colour in CS4 to R: 29 G: 31 B: 79. However, when I save the file for web the colour darkens slightly as you will see on the site. I want to colours of the background and edge of the banner image to match exactly. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I'm trying to print a booklet to a PDF file instead of a printer in Adobe InDesign CS6. Adobe Acrobat X Pro is supposed to allow this: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/print-to-pdf.html So we got Acrobat X Pro, but printing to the PDF doesn't seem to do anything. The print booklet dialog closes and we never get a prompt for a PDF filename, searching our filesystem doesn't show any new files created.. Adobe has a document on printing PDFs on a Mac: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/feature-details/acrobatpro/pdfs/creating-pdf-files-using-the-print-command-mac.pdf But that doesn't work either :(. When we choose that Save as PDF option (tried both Save as PDF and Save as Adobe PDF), we get a dialog stating that saving as PDF is not supported in printer dialog. Tried this on 2 different Macs. Is there another way or better way to print booklets from InDesign CS6 to a PDF file?
I'm looking for a way to transform the RAL color palette to hex or RGB so I can use the colors in CSS (all/any of them). Is there an XML file someone can point me to, or a database somewhere, that's an elegant solution, rather than my scraping the data myself? (BTW very surprised "hex" and "RAL" aren't tags here...yet)
I'm trying to create a rounded rectangle with zigzag borders in Adobe Illustrator CS5. This is how I want it to look like: With the normal zigzag effect on a rectangle with no rounded corners, I get this very ugly effect: So my question is how I can influence the zigzag around the corners. Do I have to do this by hand?
I was browsing Dribbble when I noticed a few shots using an effect which appears to look like a magical beam of light, or a "magical smoke" and I could not find out how to create such an effect. If these effects are created in a software which is different than Photoshop, please let me know. Including a PSD file would also be very nice. Here are a few examples. Notice the blue/white smoke surrounding the contact card: And again: Thanks ahead.
Does anyone have any recommendations, links, or tutorials on how to create a similar effect to this using a normal photo? More: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nike-60-Surfcali/1242523 My goal is to create a subdued, dream like photo with gritty, tactile texture.
I am looking for a choice of fonts where (in capitals) the horizontal lines are relatively low. For example in this Martini logo: The horizontal in the A and R are way below the middle of the shape. Perhaps there is a term for this like "ground-bound" fonts or something. Otherwise, perhaps somebody knows a list of fonts with this characteristic. Thanks.
I have an image with color (in photoshop), it is 512x512 with a radius of 80. This image has several blending options like color overlay, gradient, pattern overlay, etc. I am trying to export this image to illustrator so I can add a 3d effects but when I import it to illustrator, and select the image, the outline is boxed and not curved to the radius so when I add the 3d effect, it's essentially a cornered box and not a rounded box. How do I get the outline to snap to the edge of the image and not edge of the canvas size?
I have two photoshop pngs, I am trying to simulate a rotating coin 3D effect. One image will act as heads and the other will act as tails. How can I get these two images to rotate together to simulate the front and back of a coin spinning on a 0 axis? Output to be either a gif or mpeg4. Here is an image of the heads side of the coin. Both images are 512 x 512 with a radius of 80. Can this be done in photoshop, illustrator, or something else? How do I get an image on the back of the image below to look as if the image is double sided?
I'm struggling to get the following done in a single action: I have retouched full res TIFF's - each with a product shot on transparency background. The products are in slightly different place in each image. I need to resize the images to 725px x 680px and place the product within guides. I managed to set up an action for guides, but how can I copy one layer with product (can I use it as a smart object?) onto the document with guides so it fits into guides precisely?
Is it possible to create a button with only the shadings... (e.g. Photoshop: Bevel & Emboss, Drop Shadow etc.) ...and then place that button on top of another graphical element, e.g. a green square and get the effect of a nice shaded green button? The big win is that then I could have my app users personalize the color of the buttons. Anybody heard of this technique before and have some tips? Thanks!
Here's what I want to achieve: pretty simple right? BUT, I'd like the text to remain editable in a simple manner, that is: Editable text (no outlined font); Only one line of text (any change has to be done once); The text color must adapt when moving the text around. I'tried many combination of masks with no luck... any idea?
Is it possible to change the colors of a symbol in a document without breaking the link with its original shape. Eg.: I have a square a symbol. I have two I races of them in my document. I want on black with a red stroke and the other one yellow with a green stroke. But if I edit the symbol to say, a circle, I want all of them to be updated (but keeping their colors). PS: Using the appearance panel to change the overall background of the symbol is not an option since (1) it doesn't allow to change the overprint properties and (2) what if I have multiple shapes of different colors in my symbol.
How could I slightly rotate a photography thumbnail like this? (e.g. first web videogamer.com): How and how much should I rotate the photography to change the perspective in a slightly 3D way? Is there a tutorial I could follow to make it correctly, so it looks nice and not "As-I-think"? I will appreciate it, thanks.
I'm trying to achieve the effect shown below, but with a photograph and I'm having some trouble maintaining the height width ratio so the photograph doesn't look too distorted - can anyone offer any tips or tutorials? Thanks in advance for your help.
We are going to reach 10 million users on our site quickly. We were hoping to honor that achievement by adding something to the logo that nods to it. Like a badge '10 million users' added to our site logo. Does anyone have any examples of sites that have added onto their logo (other than 'Beta')?
I have an image I'm just copy and pasting into Photoshop from another screen/web browser. It's a greyscale clipart-style line drawing on a white background. I want to change ALL the white pixels in the image to another color (a specific RGB value), including the white pixels inside the drawing. The Replace Color command appeared promising, but I can't enter an RGB or even absolute HSB value. So: how do I do this, either using Replace Color or another approach? Thanks!
Adobe Reader shows pdf's with "linked files" correctly, but Illustrator CS5 asks to "replace missing links", which I do not have (and even if I did, I wouldn't enjoy dealing with each one). It is obvious, that a .pdf contains the "links" (since I can print them perfectly), but Illustrator for some reason doesn`t use them. How do I edit pdf`s like this in Illustrator?
I have recorded an action in which I do the following: Auto tone Size 640 width Save for web Close without saving I open a bunch of files and try to automate batch with this action. I say source opened files, destination none. For many years I did this same thing and it worked. Now I buy the latest version (CS6) and it is broken. It fails to get the filename from the original for each exported file, and exports all images with the filename recorded in the action, overwriting all of them but the last one which is all that is in the folder when it is done. I am used to this exporting all of the images and giving them all the names of the original image. What am I doing wrong? Or is this a bug?
I downloaded Apple's iPhone 4S product images (log-in required). I'd like to just copy/paste a 640x960 screenshot of my app from my iPhone 4 to the psd file. However the psd file has 4x dimensions. So a simple copy/paste results in a tiny screenshot of my app on this huge iPhone 4S. What's the best way to work around this? I've tried changing the image and canvas sizes but ran into problems with blurry images and copy/paste of my screenshot still resulting in a little tiny image on a giant iPhone. Creating a 4x mockup of my app is far too much work. IMO a 640x960 screenshot will be plenty large and provide plenty of detail especially since this image is destined for the web and I'm being mindful of the file size. Perhaps I can enlarge my screenshot which will be blurry. But exporting the png might make that blurryness not matter.
I have an image I wish to colorize using a picked color. What is the handiest/easiest way to do this in GIMP? I've tried my best by checking the palette for my picked color's HSV, then using it as starting point to find corresponding HSL values for the Colorize window. But this seems absurdly difficult and imprecise. I don't do much image processing, but I repeatedly come across this specific problem, so there must be a better way that I just don't know about.
Now it is very easy to make text to path (text to curve) in Corel but once you do it, text becomes connected with curve in Object Manager and I cant figure out how to change outline or fill color only for the curve? Or in other words is it possible to somehow select only curve when it is connected with text? Obviously I can solve this with copy of curve so one curve is connected with text and copy is in front as independent but when comes to some change of curve...
I have inherited a design in a Fireworks file which I'm turning into a web page. I've never used Fireworks but it seems to be similar (user-interface-wise) to Photoshop so it's going okay. However, there are a number of fonts used in the design which I don't have installed on my PC. When I open the file in Fireworks it asks if I want to 'Replace fonts' or 'Maintain appearance'. Since I need to see the graphics accurately I select 'Maintain appearance'. However, now when I select any of the text it doesn't tell me what font it's trying to use (I'm not trying to edit the text and I realise I couldn't without the font being installed on my machine, but I just need to know what font it is). In Photoshop when you select a font that's not installed on your machine, it asks if you'd like to replace {name of font} with another font. So you can easily tell what the original font is even if you can't edit it without changing to a font you have installed. How would I do this in Fireworks? I just need to know what text is in what font so I can code up the web page accurately. Thanks for any pointers folks...
Please kindly advise the missing steps for adding a glare (shining) effect to a yellow circle symbol, representing a coin. The effect should run every 2 seconds. The symbol will be exported and be Embeded from inside of a Flex game. I have already prepared the following and I think not much is missing, but I'm not a Flash expert. I have created 3 layers called Glare, Metal and Shadow. In the Metal layer I've created a yellow circle with darker outline by using the Oval tool. In the Glare layer I've created 2 white rectangles without outline by using Rectangle tool and then skewed them a bit: I think I need somehow to create a mask from the circle and then add a Tween to the Glare layer - so that the 2 white rectangles move to the right every 2 seconds, but are masked by yellow circle. Please advise the steps for that in Flash CS5.5. UPDATE: Thank you poepje, almost there... How to add the last frames? I've marked them with the red arrow below. There are several options there and I don't know if I should take blank or key frames?
I seem to be stuck in a situation where all I can get out of some designers(through a client so it's a little embarrassing now I've asked more than three times) is some vectored pdfs. I need to put these graphics on a website, and it'd be nice to preserve the vectorisation by converting them to a vectored png. I've tried googling around, but the software always seems to produce raster graphics - not really ideal. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I have been given a design / style guide for a website that has the fonts expressed in point (pt) measurements, and additional leading and kerning adjustments - e.g. 40pt font, 60pt leading, -30pt kerning. I would like to use em, rather than pt or px in the CSS, and am assuming (using reset) a base font size of 16px. The core font size conversation I can do, but I don't know what to do with the leading and kerning? (PS I do know that this means the font will render differently on different devices / browsers, I just need somewhere to start.) [UPDATE: I have created a google doc with the conversion of pt to px / em]
Is there a rule of thumb for determining grid gutter size as it relates to type size? I'm struggling with this issue on the web, especially when dealing with larger size type set at 20px and above. It seems that with larger type, the 20px gutter is barely enough to create space among different columns, maybe the solution is to increase padding as opposed to the gutter?
I'm looking for an affordable alternative to Illustrator, for Mac or PC, or even iPad, for drawing vector graphics. I have training and experience with Freehand (RIP) and Illustrator, but cannot afford to maintain the upgrade chain on my personal machines. Thanks.
Suppose I draw with grid -paper, I want some automated way to remove the grid fast. I have earlier used the magic-wand tool in Gimp but it is not really robust and now looking some good solution for batch-editing. The hack of changing the paper will work but I am looking here to automate the grid removal with ready works done with black-grid -paper. How can I automate the removal? I originally planned Imagemagick but the problem fits better SO, you need to adjust positioning not just cropping. It can be actually quite hard programming challenge requiring pre-positioning etc at the start (paper may be direct etc odd practical challenges). Perhaps the easiest way to solve this programmatically is to remove all lines of certain color, here though a bit challenging because scanning not perfect. Other tools may also work. I moved the programming aspect of this question here. Solution -candidates so far 1.0. Programmatically: see here for SO -thread. 2.0. Paper: change paper 2.1. color -grid 2.2. whitelines -grid-paper 3.0. tracing tool such as potrace or Vectormagic.com 4.0. sketching board with high-intesity light with gridded background
Often when I move an artboard in Illustrator using the mouse, the contents end up having moved half or 1 pixel within the artboard. Is there a setting or something else I can do to prevent the artboard's contents from moving in
I need to create a master artboard containing one or more other artboards to export work as sprites. However, the only way I can figure out how to do this is to create a blank artboard of the necessary size and then drag artboards into it. Is there a better way to do this - perhaps a keyboard or mouse shortcut?
I'm currently dealing with a printer, who I've been working with for a year or two. We've sent off to had one of our brochures reprinted - the same files as last time, except now they're having some problems with the files. The exact wording in their email was: We have a bit of an issue with your files, the black text has been set up so as it prints as a composite of 4 colours, rather than just black. This will cause a printing problem as the slightest movement will make the text look fuzzy. We can often correct this using the software tools we have but this has not been successful on this occasion. Are you able to re-supply the files with the text as black only? I looked at the files and I appear to have been supplying them in RGB rather than CMYK, so I thought that might be the solution, however, the problem persists. How would I have configured black in my files to print as four colours rather than black and how do I go about fixing it? Sounds a little strange to me, as it sounds more like a printer problem - but I'm not printing expert/professional. Thanks.
I have this project where I have a bunch of smart objects. All are actually Groups of other smart objects that essentially are vector graphics. The project is fairly low res, and the time has come to upsize the total image. When I tried to resize the smart objects (the main ones, the Groups of smart objects) it resulted in a pixelated image. Opening a smart object like that results with the old small canvas. Which is the main reason for the pixelation. I am trying to figure out a way to cope with a fair number of smart objects nested in each other, instead of going into each smart object and resizing its canvas, realigning the graphics and applying editing... phew! Any sane way out of this?
I have 2 logos saved in a PDF file. I sent them to my printer to have a banner printed using those logos. THe printer is saying they are not high enough resolution. How can I reformat them so they are usable for my banner? Thanks in advance.
Will the resolution or the aspect ratio be different if I take a 500x500px screen-capture or screencap when I am using a Retina Display compared to a standard HD screen?
How will Font Rasterization and Sub pixel rendering be affected with the new retina displays?
I have a specific perspective transformation that I want to apply to an image. How can I enter the matrix values manually in GIMP instead of playing around with stretching the image until the numbers come out right (which is virtually impossible)?
I have a problem I could not solve. I am doing a poster in Corel Draw X5, and as it is a physics poster, I need to put mathematical equations in it. The Corel built in text editor is just completely not enough for that, and as far as I tried I couldnt' find any way to transport (graphically!) a mathematical equation created in word 2007, into Corel Draw, other than making a JPEG file of it! And to do that, I need to do a full zoom of a pdf file created from the word file, and then do print screen many times, and put them together, to at last have my equation in 4000x300 pixels resolution. Lower resolution and it's REALLY poor quality, because it's all in length, so characters are small! Even acrobat pro cannot do me a 1200dpi jpeg file when saving as jpeg, it's even worse than print screen! A clean solution would be to use postscript or EPS...but I couldn't make Corel accept ANY .ps or EPS file I gave it to import! Nothing at all! Always errors...if anyone has a way to at least make corel accept ONE .ps file completely without errors, even with a simple "Hello world" inside, it would be great! A mess with fonts or something as always, and even when the pdf page contains only Times New Roman, at the opening of the .PS file in Corel, Corel will see some Helvetica somewhere, say that it tries to replace it with another font, but the final output is just blank, everytime! Or sometimes instead of the text I was waiting, there will be some warning about a PPD file incorrect or printer not supporting postscript level 3, or something...and the text of the warning will indeed be converted to curves! I'm just lost here... So for now I will just take a lot of time to obtain High res JPG versions of my equations...by putting together several screenshots...because no matter how much you zoom in adobe reader, the equation is perfect, it IS postscript inside, GSVIEW can see it, but Corel just refuses everything! Thank you very much, you would really help me on this!
When I create a masked image (blue) with a rounded rect, with the same rect as the background (red), the background shows through the corners of the masked image (see attached). How can I make it so no pixels show through?
Suppose I'm going to make a typography poster (or whatever) that's going to be posted for advertisement in, let's say, Facebook, how high should the resolution be? Any specific numbers I should have to remember? I've been struggling with this for so long HAHAHA and I couldn't find anything. Every time I save it as jpeg and post the image online, the resolution becomes soooo low. The edges of the font becomes softer, and squiggly lines appear on the side of it. And everything just looks.. Softer. It frustrates me because whenever I see other typography art, they're all so sharp and clean and mine just looks like crap. Help me please D:
In the Iconography section if the Android Design Guide they describe the following style that should be used for Launcher Icons: Use a distinct silhouette. Three-dimensional, front view, with a slight perspective as if viewed from above, so that users perceive some depth. I'd like to know how to create this effect with Inkscape. At the moment I just have a two-dimensional shape and don't know how to continue.
I have an image of the USA. I'm currently cutting it up into layers, one state per layer. I'd like to convert this into an image map, with all the glorious html around that. Is there a simple method to do create this form of polygonal image-map? If not a simple method, what would be the more complex method within photoshop?
I've been having some trouble lately trying to create some simple images when going from AI to PS. I'm initially starting out with this apple logo vector that I want to convert to a white color in photoshop, clipping away the rest of the image, leaving only the logo. These are the steps that I'm taking that seem to lead me to a jagged looking picture: Copy and paste the AI file into PS as a smart object. Resize Rasterize the layer Use rectangle marque tool to select everything but the logo and cut it out of the picture. Use the paint bucket to color it white. All done. But it looks jaggedy. Am I doing the right steps for this? Any tips would be appreciated.
I have some iphone apps, and if I have few elements, I'm wondering what I should think about in terms of design when I'm deciding to use a dashboard ala http://mobile-patterns.com/dashboard-navigation vs a tableview http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/c2036dee19.png. For instance, say I have an app where users view and select their breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for the day. How would I decide on whether to use a tableview vs a dashboard?
I have seen photos that have a nice glossy sheen or shine to them when viewed on the web. I would like to replicate this view but in searches I am only able to find how to do this with text or icons and have had poor results trying to make this looks good and realistic with a photograph. How can this be done for a photograph? I am not sure where to begin. Note: I am using Photoshop CS6 to edit photos. What I Have Tried Here is the original photo before I have done anything with it: Here is the photo after I have attempted to add a gloss look to it: Here are the settings used for the gloss photo: The adjustments were done as Adjustment Layers and the Gradient Fill is Transparent to Solid White (#FFFFFF) The example photo is Creative Commons BY-SA License and attribution goes to: AngMoKio. The photo can be found here.
I'm working on a CD foldup for a friend and it's a tri-folded 12cm by 36cm sheet printed on both sides. It creates six 12cm by 12cm pages, but I'm not sure how to work on it in photoshop. Should I create two different documents, both 12cm by 36cm, one for each side, or a single 24cm by 36cm to have every page on it? I currently have the first page as a single 12cm by 12cm document because I didn't want to run into the other page at all. Is there any way I can have a large canvas but confine myself to part of it? Something more reliable than just a selection please.
I'm having trouble getting rid of these criss crossing anchor points in Illustrator. They're on the same path, but the anchor point is creating an extended path and thus a "criss cross". The odd thing is that the mirrored left side doesn't have this issue. Any thoughts? Problem looks like: Should look like:

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