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I would like to be able to copy a layer, then find a different group and paste it there. Right now when I duplicate a layer it appears right under the source layer and I have to drug it through the whole list of groups and subgroups to place it in the proper place. (you see how painful this can be with a lot of groups.) The obvious Ctrl+C only copies the transparency. Is there simpler way to copy the layer and place it in a different location in the same document? edit: working with shape layers
Possible Duplicate: Is there a faster way to save all layers in PSD to PNG? This is my first attempt at Photoshop. I have been taking photos of my daughter for 6 months and I want to create a timelapse of my photos. Here is what I have done so far: I inserted 200 photos as different layers into my photoshop document then I lined up the eyes in each photo. Then I took each layer one by one and exported it as a PNG with all the layers behind it showing like they are stacked. This took hours to save them all one by one. Then I pulled them into Final Cut and made a 6 month timelapse in 30 seconds. Here is the current rough cut, this should give you a good idea of what I trying to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petLbaHFwlg PROBLEM: There are a few photos I need to adjust or delete, but that essentially means reexporting everything by hand after I adjust. I don't want to do it all over again. QUESTION: Is there an action script I can run to get ALL 200 photos at once with the previous layers showing behind them? Example: That means that the photo on layer 100 needs to export with the size of the frame fo the video and show layers 1-99 behind it. I want to figure out how to do the same thing that took me hours to do but automatically. Thanks
Is there any way of converting a Photoshop file with text and logos to one only. I want to print to only one color.
I am actually trying to save all pages in the pdf as a png image but here i can't open all pages in one time. i have read here for how to open pdf pages I have to open one by one and then i am saving it as png image. this is taking long time to finish. Is there any shortcut to open mutliple pdf pages in photoshop and save as a image
I was given a .ai file to do a simple change. Illustrator won't let me save to .ai After saving the file this error message occurred: When spot colours are used with transparency, changing them to process colours outsitde of Illustrator can generate unexpected results. Also An Unknown error has occured These warnings also showed. "Only fonts with permission bits will be embedded." "The Document Raster Effects is 72ppi or less."
For example I have 10×10px icon. I want to produce 100 squares with correspondent color and location each. Actually, the question is how to make exact pixel mosaic out of raster image. I tried Live Trace but it added some distortions to squares.
When should I use them, and how do I pick one? (NB: I know the answer, but think this question fills an important gap.)
Artist Tauba Auberbach produced this recently: It's called RGB Colourspace Atlas, and is a physical, printed book of what it implies is the whole RGB colour space. Is there an existing commercially available ink set that could print something like this? Naturally, CMYK printers couldn't do it because they don't cover the full RGB gamut - they couldn't reach the pure reds, greens and blues. And for spot colours, mixing and blending them is a Bad Idea - not what they're normally designed for - so it's hard to see how they could be used in the complex hue gradients. Could a hexachrome (CMYKOG, Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black/Orange/Green) ink set manage this? Or CMYKRB (.../Red/Blue)? Or anything else? (Bonus points if anyone somehow knows how this exact book was printed, and hat tip to blog Flowing Data) Edit: just saw these after DA01 and Brenden's answers, which suggests that Hexachrome gets close to the sRGB gamut but doesn't reach all the blues and doesn't quite reach all the greens: Source ...and this which suggests HP Indichrome 6-colour doesn't reach all the reds and blues, and quite a lot on the greens (so you'd expect Indichrome Plus to get close to, but not quite reach, the RGB greens): Source
I made a circle, and above that I put a compound path which I download from internet, a custom B, I want to just take the circle without the custom B, I did it before, let say a circle with star above, if I want to take the circle without star I will use path finder, but it seems not working for compound path any solution?
Are there any particular coloring techniques or principles that are used in the popular game Angry Birds? I've noticed the number of colors used on each colored area is four, most of the time. A base color, then shadows and highlights, and a little bit of glow Are those colors related somehow? Could these be generated programmatically as a color pallete?
Older versions of Photoshop had ImageReady that allowed you to import GIFs and load each frame as a layer. Apparently that doesn't exist anymore and I really need it. I'm using CS4. I have tried loading it into GIMP and saving as a PSD, but that resulted in the layers being flattened. I tried many image converters, but they either only converted the first frame, or created a separate PSD for each frame... Help!
How do I replace a single Color in photoshop!? All, and I really mean all, sites I find with Google either use the replace color tool box (which just replaces hue), the replace color tool (which just replaces hue and saturation), or use color adjustment layers, colorize, gradient layers, select color range, etc which all modify a (fussy) range of colors and can't be applied on a specific part of an image without going through extra trouble (layers). I just want to quickly replace a single color, (eg. red 255,0,0,0) with another color (eg. Green 0,255,0), and do this often because I work with pixel art most of the time. To illustrate it with Paint Shop Pro, this is what I want:
I used photoshops cs6 3d extrusion on a path I created with angled lines and the paths are jagged / pixelated. Is there a fix for this that anyone knows of? See the issue here: pixlated 3d arrow
I'm a professional graphic designer, new to freelancing, and I am preparing a proposal for an identity project. The project includes a logo, a business card design, and an electronic letterhead template. I am going to transfer the copyright of the logo to the client but I'm wondering whether or not I should assign copyright of the business card design and letterhead template as well or instead provide an exclusive license? I don't plan to copy or reuse the design of the business cards and letterhead template for another client, but business cards and letterhead often look pretty similar and I wouldn't want to be accused of infringement for creating a similar layout for another project. Does anyone know what the standard practice is in this situation? Thanks.
This plugin to open and save as .ico in Photoshop has been around for a while, but I can't seem to make it work for CS6. According to this question in the Adobe Forums, the plug-in works if installed in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins\File Formats but it's not doing anything. Do you know of any alternative plugins for CS6? I'm using win seven 64 bits. EDIT: The plugin does work, just not for images that are bigger than 256px x 256px.
I am facing some problems with font rendering in different browsers. I tried to add a custom font and font get distorted in browser like firefox, chrome, IE http://demo.techanveshan.com/triprental4/listing.html Following is the CSS tried : @font-face { font-family: 'Museo 500'; src: url('../font/Museo500-Regular.eot'); src: local('☺'), url('../font/Museo500-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'); font-weight: 500; font-style: normal; }
Are there any online/standalone editors or template collections for designing Android application?
I'm working on an Android project, and we have a splash screen where the user logs in that has a background image that takes up the entire screen. What is the minimum set of assets needed for this? The documentation suggests to provide different bitmap drawables for different screen densities, and to use size and density-specific resources. We also allow portrait and landscape orientation, so my designer gave me 18 bitmaps to cover large, normal, and xlarge screens each with portrait and landscape bitmaps in each (mdpi, hdpi, and xhdpi) density. This seems a bit excessive to me. Any suggestions?
I apologize if this has been covered a thousand times, but I'm new to AI and I don't even know the technical terms of these things to find anything in Google, I've been trying. When you select an object to resize it and hit the command button, the object is supposed to be "framed" with that blue line and the resize handles and transform controls are supposed to pop up, allowing you to resize the object as you see fit, correct? Now when I select the object(s) and hit command, the resize box/bars don't come up. I'm sure there's just a setting that I'm overlooking, but I can't find it. Can anyone help me, please? The resize handles aren't showing up when I select an object and hit the command key. This is the second time that this has happened to me now, and the first time, it got corrected somehow on its own. (Or I unwittingly did it, ofc.) Thanks in advance. If it helps: Macbook Pro Late 2011 Mountain Lion 10.8 Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tryout 16.0.0
Which is the best Way to Build & Design Buttons, Icons for Mobile application of Android and IOS platform.
I am using Adobe Fireworks CS6, and the maximum width I can set of my image is 5900 pixels. Attempting to resize it larger than this results in no action. The PC I am on is high-spec. Does Fireworks have a built-in maximum image size? I think I will try Illustrator to get the image up to the required 10000px width.
I am searching for a laptop with a screen that is suitable for digital design purposes What I am particularly concerned about is a statement made by a poster (on here): (the objective is to) make images in any color space show up correctly in the device's inherent, native color space How can this be accomplished? Which laptop screens on the market are most suitable for this end? Unimportant: Fast response time Semi-important: viewing angles (should be good enough - not severe color distortion due to slight tilting) Preferred: RGB-LED As it is not being utilized for print design, or even for professional level design - is sRGB color space suitable (good enough)? Which laptop screens might you recommend?
I have this scanned image from a magazine that I have scanned myself, from this image I want to obtain certain colors, and I want them to be from a Pantone pallet, is there a way to do this? To be more clear I want to do something that this tool does: http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=1032 Is there any kind software for this purpose ?
In a large PDF document with several hundred pages there are abour 10 embedded fonts used. Can I exchange a specific embedded font against a system font (like Arial or Courier) with a single command everywhere in the document? (Of course I would try to use a font very similar in size and style to the original)
I have a document that I created that now categorically crashes ID. I've tried opening the file on multiple computers (Windows) and multiple versions of ID (7 and 8). The document opens, and then, the app locks up. The last time I was able to work with the file, I was resizing the bottom of a text box and the app malfunctioned (there's a bit of a bug with resizing / reflowing text files, maybe it's my graphics driver). The app crashed, and since then, nothing. Anyone have strategies that would allow me to recover this file?
Do you have any good examples of academic poster design? Most posters look exactly the same (I don't want to pick on anyone in particular), and from my experience at conferences, almost nobody reads them. There's a good article on this here. What I rarely see is: Clean layout - everything is wrapped in boxes and coloured backgrounds Nice typography - it's rare that the text is legible from a foot or two back Data that doesn't look like it was copied straight out of Excel Consistent use of colour Can you share any examples of good design?
We have been using Mac Pro computers and are being asked to consider mini or iMacs.
I'm doing web design (not print or photography) and I'm wondering if I should spend extra money on a display that provides more accurate colors. I'm already set on buying IPS since they're easier on the eyes, but I don't know if i should just settle for 6-bit or be more concerned about color accuracy and go with 8-bit.
Possible Duplicate: Photoshop curved Shadow I've seen these a lot recently and I want to learn how to create them in Photoshop! Here's the image I'm talking about:
The rules is simple. One name in answer, up to three links to design examples. You can put one image in the answer. This image should be in public domain and must not exceed 335 pixels in any dimension.
I have a quite complex draw in Illustrator (let's say, lots of vectors and that), and I have to make a mosaic for printing a hole page of them. It's complex enough to be memory-heavy, so when I try to fill the page by copypasting them Illustrator runs out of memory. Besides, there's no need to create copies of the objects - I just want replicas of them which I won't modify. So I remembered Flash symbols, and that's exactly what I want. How can I get those in Illustrator? Can I convert my draw to a symbol? Rasterizing's not an option. Is there any better way to make a mosaic? Thanks PS: I've seen in Does the usage of symbols improve illustrator performance? that they talk about symbols, but couldn't find anything else about them.
This is a section of a poster from the 1960s for the James Bond movie Dr No. Just focusing on the colour only, and not quality of the black lines, it has rough and uneven quality. It's somewhat blotchy. In addition, there's a kind of of a canvas texture as well. I have an image that has a layer of colours, with some broad shading. What I'm trying to do is push those colours and shades into the direction of something like what's in this poster. I've experimented with the default Photoshop plugins available in the CS2 version, which is what I'm working with. The rough pastels texture seemed to come closest, but it has a heavy horizontal direction to it. The poster I'm referencing doesn't go in any particular direction. And I can't figure out how to get the "blotchiness" of the colour at all. What filter, or combinations of filters, or techniques might I use to try and modify my existing colours to have the same look as the colours in the example Dr No poster? Just to be clear: I am not expecting one big magic button filter. That would be nice, but I would expect it would be more of a process, a set of steps, or a series of techniques. Whatever it takes, I am looking for a specific result. I'm not biased about the method.
This is an section from a poster made back in the 1920s or 1930s, that was made using an airbrush: What interests me most is that it has a rough, spattered quality. It's as if the airbrush didn't work very well and sprayed unevenly, resulting in varying dot sizes where the paint landed. I've tried to get this kind of effect with the airbrush tool in Photoshop, by manipulating scattering levels and trying various brushes. However, I can't quite get it. However, when I've searched for Photoshop tutorials, anything under the term "spatter" is way more exaggerated than I need, and anything with a "vintage" or "grunge" level is about the overall style, not specific brush settings. At least, not that I've found. How can I set my airbrush to get a gradient quality like the example picture, or something similarly uneven in quality? Additional This is a section of a poster from the movie The Rocketeer, which has a similar effect:
How can I use the InDesign direct selection tool or pen tool on a path that has a text wrap over it, without just hitting the text wrap contour? So to recap: in InDesign, when you apply a text wrap to an object - pushing away text above or below the object (or more often, only below if you change the Composition options in Preferences) - it creates a path-like object (a text wrap contour) that marks precisely where text is prevented from going. You can edit this path like any other path using the Pen tool or A direct selection tool (white arrow). Using the V selection tool (black arrow), you can select the original object and its text wrap contour, moving or transforming them together. Holding down alt (opt) with the Direct Selection tool - which makes it act like Illustrator's Group Selection tool, adding more elements to the selection up the tree with each click - you can select the whole text wrap contour and move it as a unit. Great, but there's something missing from all this. Assuming the original object is a vector path, how do you select individual points of the original path, not the pale, lighter coloured, greyed-out looking path of the text wrap contour? And how do you add or remove points to it with the pen tool? The normal way just grabs points from the text wrap contour, even if it has been sent to the back of the stacking order. A few options that kind of work, but aren't ideal: Turn the text wrap off, manipulate the object, turn it back on again. Potentially a big pain and not suitable if you want to change the path but not the wrap. Select the whole text wrap boundary, hold shift, hit a cursor key in any direction making a big nudge in that direction, edit the original path, then big nudge it back into place. Not a bad option, but a bit of a pain. Surely there's a better way? Is there any way to toggle or specify whether it's the path, or the text wrap contour, that I'm interested in?
I am trying to design a site with a couple color schemes. I am looking for a way to make color schemes that match mathematically. For example, I know that #FF0000 matches perfectly with #00FF00 and #0000FF. Is there some kind of equation to get, for example, the yellow version of #509cc0? I also have the RGB values and the HSL values on hand.
How does one change the opacity of the extrusion for a 3D object in Photoshop CS 6 Extended?
I frequently record Illustrator Actions. My actions are quite long, but they all involve three common steps: Assigning Notes to shapes Assigning Swatches to shapes Selecting shapes that have a specific notes I often need to re-record my actions to repeat all the steps, but to change the notes/swatches that are selected/assigned during the action. Illustrator has a re-record command. This command is great for changing the value of the note in number 3 of my list. However, it does not work for items 1 & 2 in my list. For these items I have to delete the old step in the action and then record a new step with the new swatch/note. This is quite cumbersome and I was wondering if there was a better way. I know Macros in Microsoft Office have an editor which allow you to change values in actions. Is there anything similar for Illustrator actions? You can save an Illustrator action and open it in Text Edit. However, all the attribute/swatch values are saved as weird strings, so I don't know how to change them. I know you can write Javascript actions, but that's too complicated for me! It would be great if I could just more easily edit the actions I already have.
if I save image 3.5x5 inches with 72ppi and then print it from my website, size is incorrect (about 2 5/8 by 3 3/4) If I save with 300ppi - it's huge and won't fit on one page when printing... How do I save one image that will look right (correct size) on both paper and screen ?
I have a Layer which i have adjusted Hue/Saturation with a Hue Saturation Layer in CS 5.1 . I want a solid black border around it. Now when i go to apply stroke to it in blending options, the stroke gets Hue corrected too and its not coming as a solid black border. I know that one work around is to create separate black border layers and keep on top of the hue saturated layers. Is there a better way ? I have added images for clarity. These squares are all separate layers. I need to have a solid black border around each of these boxes. But currently the layers are stacked like this. So if try to use stroke around it, i get something like this instead of a solid black border. Is there a way to get a solid black border around these tiles ?
What I'm looking for is a tool (online/offline) to create reviews for layouts (in my case: mobile applications layouts) - i.e. make comments/annotations for graphic designer that would be assigned to a view (PDF's page). The perfect solution would also allow me to make comments for certain areas of a PDF, f.e. comment for an image acting as a button.
Working on creating a table of contents. It's right aligned, and since the page numbers go into double digits, I wanted to have a tab in between the page number and the page title so I know that the titles are flush right to each other. So, I start with a left aligned text frame (first one below) with a tab and then the number. This works as expected. But, when I change the alignment to the right, it behaves like the second frame below shows, which is not what I expect! It pushes the titles to the left of the frame, and no amount of left- or right-justified tabs were able to affect that space. I want it to look like the third frame below, but I don't want to have two text frames to do it, because I want to have the table of contents automatically generated into one frame if possible. Does anyone know how to get the result I want with tabbing only?
I want to make an effect like this: How can I achieve this? The thing I'm stuck is the striped border. I want to know how to make it in Photoshop and Illustrator.
I have some circles and line to make a cloud like the one below. I know i can use the path finder to make some unions. But how to make some gradients with a 3d effect ? (like the example) Thanks in advance (i'm using Illustrator CS6)
I made an icon with a border, but I don't want the border. If I remove the border, the icon loses it's thickness and doesn't look right. Is there any way to make the border into part of the shape?
I'm starting out as a freelance designer (and no job experience at any company before) and I decided to join "contests" held by freelancer.com's users. I've joined several of them already and I can tell that my designs are really good, I read what the client wants and doesn't want, etc... But instead my designs end up getting rejected or having only 2 stars and 1 star. My head really hurts right now as I spent hours crafting it with all my heart and it end up getting beaten up by some crappy designs. Thanks for sticking with me so far and sorry for making you read my rantings, and also for saying others' designs are bad, but I just can't accept that my designs got beaten up by crappy designs. Have you guys gone through this before? What advice would you give me? Any response would be really appreciated. Thank you :)
What are your biggest software grips as a graphic designer? Some examples might be software that: is unnecessarily complicated doesn't allow you to accomplish what you really want to do doesn't have very good documentation or customer support crashes or malfunctions Why I'm Asking I'm doing some preliminary anecdotal research into how software limitations limit the creativity of creative professionals. I thought I'd ask here to see what kind of response I'd get.
Could anyone suggest a good font or combination of fonts that I can use for my online business survey? I have access to typekit, so would be great if the font choice was available from them. I'm looking for safe bet as it's a business survey, any combo that looks professional and is easy to read would be great. I know very little about fonts so please if I can provide any more information let me know.
I am using a clipping mask to cut out some shapes. These shapes are composed of a rectangular "base color" and then some extra shapes overlaid for shading. However, with the clipping mask I get bright outlines where the base shapes show through the shading. See the attached pics: Is this the wrong way of doing this? Is there a way to fix this? I thought it'd be convenient to define the shape in a single clipping mask, so I can modify the shape and coloring/shading separately.
I'm creating a gradient programmtically with HSB Colors. My Question is what kind of colors do fit good together in a gradient? Which of the Values H(ue), S(aturation), B(rightness) needs to variate?
I'm looking for the easiest/quickest way to crop the image below to remove the transparent border in Photoshop CS5. Source image available here. I have lots of these so I'm looking for some consistency where I can batch convert several at the same time. Each image is exactly the same size (with transparent border 512x512 pixels) and the remaining image should be the same size for all them so I can resize the image down to 32x32 pixels whilst retaining square proportions. Steps I've tried so far Rectangular Marquee Tool to select as much of the red as possible Select/Similar Image/Crop The problem is that it's a little inconsistent as it either doesn't select properly (see Image1) or it still leaves a small transparent border (see Image2) and so is not always square. Can anyone advise a better way to do this which I can run as a batch against lots of similar type images? Thank you
I get the feeling that I do not really want Data merge, but something similar... I want to merge a .csv file into my InDesign document, have it formatted in a similar way as if I was using Data merge, but then generate the all the records at once and dump them into the document. Is this possible? The application is for having a member phone list. We have generated a .csv from the membership system, but we then want it all in a big list in our newsletter. For instance, given the first two rows of the csv is First name,Last name,Phone number Carl,Pettersson,123 45 67 John,Doe,234 56 78 I would like to specify a template <<First name>> <<Last name>> <<Phone number>> And apply styles and whatnot, then have inDesign either create a lot of individual text frames, or paragraphs within a single frame, giving an end result something like this: Carl Pettersson 123 45 67 John Doe 234 45 67 This would be generated directly, not via "Generate merged document", preferably. Is there such a feature?
I have lots of problem with inkscape connectors incluing these 1. when Icopy/pase a connector everything changed! 2. can not break a connector alone! now I do not know how to creat some organizational chart like diagrams
I've got a few fonts I've purchased over the past few years. These are decent quality fonts with, on average, 8–15 different faces for the family. The problem I have is each face is listed separately in various applications (Photoshop, Indesign, etc.) Rather than simply one item with a submenu for faces. For example I have: (fig. A) FontA Bold > Regular FontA Bold Italic > Regular FontA Italic > Regular FontA Regular > Regular Rather than: (fig. B) FontA > Bold Bold Italic Italic Regular What tool on the Macintosh can combine these faces so they are all listed under the family name? As in the figure B, above. I know there are a couple of high-end apps (Fontographer, FontLab). Are there any basic smaller apps to simply edit the font info without editing character and other tables? I don't want to edit the actual font data specifically, merely the titles and naming structure I believe. How do I do this with the tool suggested, specific steps please? Notes: Running Mac OS 10.7, but can boot to 10.6 or 10.8 if needed. I am not absolutely looking for freeware. If there's a paid app to do this, I'm fine with that. If someone wants to outline steps in FontLab or Fontographer, I'm all ears. These are commercial .otf fonts.
Ok, I have a fresh Illustrator document. Pasted some copied text into the "artboard" (the clipboard is severely broken, but that's for another day). The textbox that gets pasted is one huge line that goes from here to Timbuktoo. So I need to resize it to 1/3rd of the page. I presume, as happens in every other sensible tool in the world, the text would flow to the width I give the textbox. The text itself will NOT get resized. However, this is not what happens. THe text gets scaled completely. No exceptions. I've been googling for the last 2 hours. Nothing works. Some posts say I must "show bounding borders". Doesn't help at all. Other posts say some nonsense about main selection tool and direct selection tool. These tools do nothing. Both the arrow-icons, when used to drag the corners of the box, lead to the text getting resized anyway. Someone suggested that when I copied and pasted text from a text file into Illustrator, this became an object, not actually text. Well, in that case, how should we paste text? Not everyone working on an Illustrator document is always and forever expected to write all the text manually, is it? Seriously, how does this work? Any preferences I need to change? I used to work with CS4 and I recall it was much easier. Would appreciate any inputs. Thanks!
The artist in our company has a lot of problems (crashes, corrupted files...) with Adobe Flash CS5 (last patches installed). It's really a pain in the neck... With Flash CS4 the situation was not better... Is CS6 stabler? Which version do you prefer?
I need to use a specific font (Nanum Gothic Extra Bold) for a certain project. Illustrator knows I have the font: If I start typing the name in, it autocompletes. But once I hit return, it selects a different font. And the font doesn't appear on the list. What's going wrong and how can I get access to this font?
Hope someone can help. I have designed a template where the text flows into four columns per page, and there are four pages in all. So in all 16 columns, and the text flows beautifully. The problem now is that because these 4 pages need to print on front and back of a folded A3 paper. Much easier to explain visually: Which means, I need to "unflow" the text from those columns, because Page 4 and Page 1 need to print on one A3 side (because, when folder through the center in landscape, A3's Page 1 and Page 4 will be on the same side), but I cannot easily split the pages and rearrange them as the text is flowing across. I would love to some idea from experts about how to manage this? I bet this is a common problem in the DTP industry -- the text must flow between pages, but printing wise they need to sometimes be not in sequence? Thanks for any pointers!
I have been given a font that has a .afm file with another file that doesn't actually have a file type. I'm unsure what the file type is meant to be but, on my Mac, when it installs it, it can read the font fine, without the .afm file and it doesn't need to use a file type. I need this converted to use for a client on their website (they have paid for the licence) but I'm unsure how to convert it. Are there any programs for Mac/online websites that will be able to convert this for me? I have InDesign and the whole Adobe Suite and have heard some ways of creating your own fonts, maybe this will be able to export the font properly? Any ideas or useful links would be appreciated.
I'm a bit of a n00b to Illustrator (at least I think so anyway)! I have a bunch of text that is columnar and need to create boxes that stack (one above another) and serve as a container for this text. So basically boxes in the background that are basically a box around the text. All of the margins and boxes need to be equal height & width. Instead of creating a shape, copying it and manually fixing the margins so they're all equal, is there any easier way to accomplish this? I tried using the Grid tool but no dice. Thanks for the help in advance!
I have a RAW image taken with a Canon 5D, so the image's resolution is 5,616 × 3,744. I am going to display a different resolution of the image depending upon the requesting user's display. I'm utilizing this library ( https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill ) The RAW image is imported into Lightroom. For each of the following display criteria, what should I be exporting the image as in terms of resolutions, pixels per inch, etc? (min-width: 400px) (min-width: 400px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0) (min-width: 800px) (min-width: 800px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0) (min-width: 1000px) (min-width: 1000px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0) Thanks in advance.
I have a rectangular shape(in fact a label) which is 100cm x 84cm, now I wanna create a cylinder. PS CS6 has a cylinder preset, when I want to scale that preset cylinder it becomes something that in fact is not a cylinder. My question is how can I create a cylinder that I can cover it by my label? How can I create a cylinder from a rectangular shape using PS CS6?
I read somewhere that before you save your photo you should merge the layers, including watermarks, before saving then save. My question is this: Is there any benefit to merging the layers (or merging a copy of the original layers) before saving the photo as a JPG? Note: I am using Photoshop CS6 and PS's Save for Web
I typed out text in 14pt. I then typed another letter in 131pt out. I was hoping to have my 14pt text wrap around the 131pt character...but to no avail! I clicked on both items (and my 131pt. letter was above the layer for the other text) and clicked on "Text Wrap > Make". Nothing happens. Am i not doing this correctly? I even tried to follow a tutorial...it seems so obvious and simple...yet might this be a bug in CS6?!
Adobe Illustrator's graph tool is... special. A veteran of many software updates (successfully surviving all of them unscathed...) one of its many quirks is that you cannot resize a graph object that hasn't been ungrouped, other than by using the Scale tool (S). So, if you have a graph like this: ...and you need to adapt it to fit in a smaller vertical (or horizontal) space, you end up with something like this: Note the ugly squashed distorted text labels on the Y axis. You can select just the text labels, using the Group Selection tool (white arrow with plus sign, no keyboard shortcut) and clicking twice on a label. Is there any way to tell each of these to reset their scaling? (Transform Each is greyed out because it's a graph and won't settle for any of that new-fangled nonsense). Or, any other way of scaling a chart that keeps the text labels in the right place, at the right dimensions? Some options I'm aware of, all of which are a bit rubbish: Replace them. Setting the fill for the labels to none, and just putting your own labels in, aligning and spacing them with the tools in the Align palette. This is a pain when you have lots of charts or need to update the charts frequently Bodge the Y-axis scale. Changing the Y axis scale of the chart, instead of scaling it. So in my example, I might under Graph type > Value Axis > Override calculated values set 'max' to 4,000, halving the height of the chart, and doubling the amount of divisions. Then with the direct selection tool, I'd drag the vertical axis line down to the 2000 mark, and set the fill of everything above 2000 to none. This works (and is my current favoured option), but it's a serious hack and scatters my files with invisible chart debris (and the direct selection tool work needs re-doing each time the data is updated). Abusing Illustrator's type tools to compensate. For example, if you scaled the text vertically to 50%, setting the 'Vertical Scale' option in the Character window to 200%, hoping the two distorting scalings will cancel each other out. Sounds like a recipe for horribly unclean type. Start again. Deleting the chart and creating a new one at the appropriate size. This is sometimes the easiest way, and results in no debris, but it's obviously not an ideal solution. Any other / better ways?
I found a royalty free SVG image on the net. I'm experimenting with web design using SVG. The problem I'm having is that the SVG background is white. How do I delete / remove the white background, using Adobe Illustrator?
Let's say I have a layer with color and another layer with texture over it. That top layer has a blending option "Overlay". How do I rasterize that top layer, but keep the overlay effect?
Is there a shortcut for the selector tool in Photoshop (the very fist tool in the tool bar, the one selected when opening Photoshop) ?
I am attempting to create water spraying from a fire sprinkler. I am not having the best time getting the water to look realistic. I have attempted this tutorial but I am not happy with the results. I have also attempted to use multiple rain and water brushes but they just do not have the effect I am looking for which is spraying water. (The rain brushes come the closest but not quite there.) My question is how do you create realistic spraying water? (Think of a fire sprinkler spraying water) I am using Photoshop CS6 and if there is a brush that will work great for this I would like to see it.
I use gimp for manipulating images for my software projects. I am used to working in a coordinate system where 0,0 is at the bottom left of the screen. Gimp uses 0,0 as the top left; Is there a setting in Gimp where I can change this, so when I mouse over an image, for example, the coordinate displayed is relative to the bottom left?
I have an existing custom brush library I created in Illustrator (CS5). I just created a new brush that I would like to add to this existing library. How can I do this? Drag and drop does not work. There is no fly-out on the custom brush library panel allowing me to add a new brush. I can't overwrite the existing custom brush library like I can in Photoshop. Is there a simple way to do this or am I stuck having to recreate the entire library again in the default brush panel just to add one more?
I've got several documents using Candara that I'd like to shift from Microsoft Word to Google Docs for collaboration; which font is going to be the closest match when using Google?
What would be the best way to create an effect of "keying" someones name into a piece of wood in photoshop? I've used a hard 2px brush with a tan color and it looks good. Just not believeable. What do I need for that "wow" factor... to really make it look legitimate? Kinda sorta like this:
I want to achieve this sort of an effect on my own. As you can see, there's sort of a non uniform glow (in terms of color) to the text. Simply using the gradient option in the Outer Glow blending option makes the gradient appear from outside the letters to further beyond them. I'm looking for it to appear horizontally as the text continues. I'm using Photoshop CS5. Any tips?
What is the command for inkscape (called from the terminal) to convert graphics to greyscale? I was not able to find in in the manual. I use the following command: inkscape -f drawing1.pdf -A grawing2.pdf
I'm using a software that has a very annoying auto-reduce-spacing feature, so that all the characters are close each other, that is highly unreadable. I can't change the spacing, but I can change the Font, so my question is do exist any font with a default spacing bigger than normal?
I'm attempting to ascertain the maximum file size possible of a jpg to detect when someone has hidden additional data (viruses etc) within it. Assuming that you have an image that is 640x480 with no metadata (no camera make, gps data etc), what is the maximum size that that file can be? Is there an formula for calculating this with other jpg dimensions?
So I'm trying to create a few simple buttons in Adobe Illustrator for work. I'm not a gphx artist and just know the basics of Illustrator. I tried creating a pin icon, like dropping a pin onto the map. I created my 20x20px document, dragged a rectangle and a circle. This screenshot shows my pin, and two of Apple icons next to it (trash can and action button). Apple's documentation says this to describe creating buttons: The images displayed on the bar are derived from this image. If this image is too large to fit on the bar, it is scaled to fit. Typically, the size of a toolbar and navigation bar image is 20 x 20 points. The alpha values in the source image are used to create the images—opaque values are ignored. I feel like my button just isn't sharp like theirs. Is there something else I need to do in order to make my pin look sharper? Thx!
I have iphone/ipad app design as PSD file, Most of layers in this file are linked with shapes in order to support retina display. Each shaped layer has blending option like outer glow or external shadow, to export each layer as a separated PNG file I did the following: Select the shape. Go to path pane and convert the path to a selection Press Ctrl + Shift + C : to copy flatten version of the selection. By following these steps I lose the outer glow and the external shadows. The first thing I tried is to expand the selection to cover the outer glow or the shadow and export my PNGs following the previous steps, but as you know the shadow blended with the background as multiply and by expanding the selection by 2 px for example these 2 px are exported from the BG (which is a patterned BG) and when I applied the exported PNG to my ipad app the BG in my app and the 2px of the BG comes with the PNG image don't match. ........................................................ UPDATE : 23-09-2012 Please check this psd file and this png file : In the psd file : I added a shaped layer with outer shadow, the shadow looks blended within the bg. I create a (New Layer Based Slice) over the shaped layer and the shadow is taken in the consideration, then I exported for web, I got a folder with pngs inside it, I took the png file, which represents the slice I created, I imported the png file into the psd file as a new layer, the shadow now looks very-white and not blended within the bg... this is what I have in my Iphone app exactly, so please help me.
Consider the following two files. Background: Background with some content on top: How do I get a flat image that is content-background? ie. the result should be white text with the blood stains on a transparent background. The underlying issue that I am trying to solve: The layers "Layer 27 copy 3" and "Layer 55" (the blood stains) use "multiply" blending mode, therefore simply merging these with the text will result in:
I clicked Create Alternate Layout in my InDesign CS6 document without really understanding what it was for, to try and fix a margin problem I was having trouble with. Now the document has been split into three parts, A4, A4 V2 and A4 V. Undo did not remove this partitioning, and I cannot get it back to how it was before. The document was separated into three groups, with each page being in only one of them. So they are not duplicated, as I understand it they should have been. So the original pages 1-14 are in one layout, 15-31 are in another, and 32 in it's own. What are the consequences of having alternate layouts, and how can I get back to a single one?
How to draw crystals like in Bejeweled ? Is it rendered in 3D and then Photoshop or vector graphics like Corel Draw
I'm having several different parts of a publication I'm doing where I'm presenting essentially a list of compound data. Examples are contact specifications (data points are [Name,Phone,Email]), recent and upcoming events (data is [What,When,Where]). These are then enumerated in some way in the document, most often by just having the data entered as text in one text area (possible being linked over several pages) with some paragraph styles to make the items look separated. This feels kind of strange, since the "paragraphs" are not really paragraphs but rather separate entries. I have tried in some instances to instead have one text area per data entry (ie one box per contact). This feels more natural, and makes it easier to get creative with placement around images etc. On the other hand, it is a major pain to introduce a new item in the middle of the lists, since all subsequent items must then be moved (esp when the layout is columnized), possibly in such a way that it needs to be done manually on every item. Same problem if the boxes are a bit unregular in their size requirements, or if they change. What are the best practices for this? For instance if you'd be creating a phone directory, how would you do it? Long text areas, or one for every entry? Why? When using the "single-box style", I have tried using anchoring and auto-resize to have automatic layout help for the changing sizes problem, but this only works when I know that they won't cross a page break (as far as I've come so far, at least). Can this be refined to cover more situations? EDIT: I've found some mentions of stories in InDesign saying that they are a collection of text boxes. Is this relevant? It sounds like it could join the two above strategies, or am I mistaken?
I am designing and developing a 2D-platformer and I'm having trouble with the look and feel of the game. The game is about an inventor who is kidnapped for warfare. Theme: Childish but sad. There are three other layers: the blue cracked sky, the pillars, doodads (like the missile) and the tiles. (The hairy guy in the center is the protagonist.) What should be changed to make the character stand out? What should be the palette of the tiles, the font, and the background to make the character the center of attention? What colors should be there revolving around the character and the theme? Edit: This is the revised color palette. Should've studied color theory before I went drawing like crazy.
I've got some Images like this one: Now I need to find out the color which will become the orange in the right center of the image when drawn on a new layer with 50% opacity (The Background is the grey color). Sadly I've no idea how to do this.
Suppose that I have a font in a modestly popular format (.ttf, .otf, etc.), and I have the legal rights to modify it. As it stands, it is a normal font with different charaters (glyphs?) varying in widths and spacings. How would I go about turning said font into a monospaced font (e.g. all characters are same dimensions, etc.)? If possible, are there any automated tools that can do some of the guesswork for you? (The results don't have to be perfect.) The font may be large (many characters), and editing it could be tedious. Any suggestions on the problem are much appreciated! :) Disclaimer: Sorry if this is considered a simple howto, but Google has very little information on the subject, and for a programmer that doesn't deal with graphics or fonts much, it sure isn't simple. Also, sorry if my terminology is off... :P
It's been a few years since I've visited this topic, one which has been one of Apples biggest issues since OS9. Font management. I have been using Font Explorer however I've never been very impressed as it crashes a lot and my font database has corrupted a few times which is infuriating. Can anyone suggest their favourites and why? Thanks very much indeed.
Is it possible to copy an object in Illustrator so that if you make a change in any of them the changes will apply in both? Actually I have this situation where I have a lot of instances of the same object and I need to be faster on changes and copy-ing again and again is not a proper solution, but consumes a lot fo time. Thank you for your time!
Is there a tool like Poly (iPad app) available for Android or Windows systems? I'd like to turn images into polygones/triangles like shown on the app site.
I'm a regular user of Photoshop since the CS3 times, and this is the problem that haunts me from the beginning, regardless of the PS version, and the platform - when I do a transformation on a layer (Scale, Skew, Distort, Warp... but not Rotate), sometimes a copy of the layer is created and my transformation is done on that copy, not on the original layer. I say "sometimes" because I can't find any regularity in this behavior, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Weird thing is, I can't find anything about it on the Internet, like it's happening to no one but me. Anybody knows why is this happening and how can I prevent it?
I want to release an AI file saved as a PDF for email blast. When I save my file as a PDF and turn off the editing capabilities it does not seem to work when I open the PDF in Illustrator. I have turned the "create acrobat layers from top-layer levels" off and changed the settings to "PDF/X-4:2008". The compatibility is Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4). Even with all these settings I am still able to manipulate the image in illustrator when saved as a PDF. I'll take any suggestions!!
I'm fairly new to Ps and I'd like to create an effect whereby a window looks as though it's jumping out of something, leaving behind a trail or streak with blur, so that it looks in motion. I've been playing around with various blur effects but don't seem to find a good one. I created the attached image which hopefully will illustrate what I mean. I want something where the motion is continuous as opposed the image here where you can tell that there are three copies. Any help would be much appreciated.
I've seen many blogs highly recommend using a grid like 960 for prototyping in newer version of Fireworks. I'm using CS6. When I create a new fireworks document from template, I select the Grid12.png, 960.png, etc. When I try to add objects to another layer, they are not snapping to the guides or the vertical grid paths. I've enabled snap to grid, guide, smart guide, 9-slice scaling, etc. I would assume that most people would want the ability to snap to these guides. Am I missing something?
I have been implementing mainly web and desktop applications and this is the first time that I actually started working with a graphic designer on a web site that is for public use. In this case the graphic designer is not doing HTML + CSS, but using Photoshop. What kind of material is normally provided as an end result in order for the design to be actually implemented? For example, should I get something more than just PSD files? How about different states (like link hover, active state etc.) or responsive design? Am I expecting too technical details? Any help appreciated.
I am using cs5 layers to modify and then exporting layers as files. While saving CS5 automatically adds some number sequence at the end thereby modifying my original filename. It automatically embeds a number sequence prefix to the exported layers, thus rendering my own file naming convention useless. Is there a fix for this? Is there an option somewhere called 'dont auto-renumber my files' or 'use layer names as file names"? I DO NOT want this numbering. How to prevent this ?
I would really appreciate help identifying the font used in this image please?
I have a PSD comp for a website and the titles are in ITC Avant Garde Std. What's a good replacement font? It should be available for the web, either free or on TypeKit.
The non-profit organization I contribute to has decided to stop spending money on professional print services and use black & white photocopys for any campaign (recruitment, fund raising, etc.). I think that will make difficult to communicate with our target, diminish our corporate identity and, in short, result on a waste of resources. The problem is that I am unable to persuade them, and I think it's because a lack of scintific knowledge about the effects of "cheap" supports over target individuals. Or maybe because I'm wrong and that ugly dirty papers are great... So the question is: what are the PROs and CONs of using low-cost supports as photocopies?
I have a question for seasoned graphic designers. I'm designing a logo and a stationary including the letterhead. The back of the letterhead uses a very dark background. The question is, is it risky to use such dark background as it will show through on the other side? Or is it risky only with certain paper types? If there is type of paper that is safe to use? Any paper type/brand would you recommend? This is the stationary: External image link
Is there a way to copy all the text within a Photoshop text layer without having to "open" the layer. I'm hoping there's a way that I can just select the layer and then have some shortcut that copies all the contents of the text layer without having to use the Text Tool or double-clicking the layer.
This site seemed like the best match for my question. So I'm about to graduate college, and I made a nice resume in Word. I used a kind of fancy tabling system that took me forever (I had no idea what I was doing), and threw in a small touch of color on the headings, converted to a pdf, and promptly lost the original document when my computer crashed. I'm trying to avoid remaking it entirely. So I have this pdf, and it was perfect except that it said I was looking for an internship, which was inaccurate. So I photoshoped it to say a full-time job, and now it looks perfect. So I go to upload it to my school's recruiting server, and it says Max FileSize Exceeded. I check the pdf's filesize: 35mb. You should have seen my jaw drop. I really don't ever use photoshop, or do any sort of editing work. Not my area of expertise. Can anyone explain why it's so huge, and is there a way to get it back under 500kb? The pdf has no graphics...except a smattering of very softly shaded table cells.

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