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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....
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 documen...
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...
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 war...
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...
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 solut...
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 ...
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...
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 a...
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 cop...
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 yo...
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-Regul...
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 densi...
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 han...
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? Whi...
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...
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 malfu...
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 colou...
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 obje...
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 b...
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 ...
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 optio...
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 an...
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 se...
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 blac...
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 ...
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 th...
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...
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...
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 kn...
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? ...
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 512x5...
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...
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 ...
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 sensibl...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 cy...
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 corre...
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 a...
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 ...
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...
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 c...
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...
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 calcula...
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 ic...
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...
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" (t...
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 bef...
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 j...
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 ...
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 dimension...
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 favou...
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 ti...
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...
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 compatibilit...
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...
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 pat...
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 resul...
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 f...
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...
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...
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 d...

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