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My graphic/web designer left me with an Adobe Illustrator file of my website. She said it would be easy to extract the images out as PNGs so I can use them in my HTML. But I can't figure this out too easily. The images seem to be many vector drawings. I can separate them from the surrounding art and select all the pie...
I'm collecting late medieval and early renaissance artwork for a personal online project. In doing that, I've accumulated a number of early-internet black and white images which I know originally come from full-color paintings -- because I've seen some of those paintings in the past. Neither Google Images nor Tineye s...
What tools are available for (easily) managing drawings similar to the software architectures published by Amazon, such as this one. I'm looking for something like OmniGraffle or Visio, but suitable for Isometric.
I'm a developer trying to learn more and practice better graphic design. One of the tools I love to use is Shaun Chapman's http://0to255.com as it easily let's you pick good variations on a base color for use in highlights, borders, etc. I've always been interested in how the range of colors that is output is created....
Let's say I have a layer that is originally white, but there's an effect that makes it gray. When I use the eyedropper tool on it, the color that's picked up is gray. How do I make the color that is picked up white, which is the original color of the layer sans effects? Is this even possible? Thanks!
I am using two fonts, STSong and STHeiti. I want to know if these fonts support ligatures, such as f + i becoming one character, or at least having two characters nearby. I made a ConTeXt document, but some words, such as "off" and "fish" are appearing like "of f" and "f ish". It is possible that my code is in error t...
I am looking for some tool that would allow me to export the all the artboards from Illustrator to PDF (can also be any common image file) that would automatically create: labels with colors used (preferably RGB) labels with font sizes, pointed to a given label when the font has been used
I've a label (which is a bunch of text and image objects) that's been tiled across a sheet manually. Is it possible to edit one copy of the label and have the changes apply to the rest of the copies? I've seen it done in CS5 by double clicking until it reaches a text layer/object but CS4 doesn't seem to behave the same...
The Roboto spec book shows "Black Small Caps" but it's not included in the font package. Fallback is using Black in uppercase - not ideal.
This is my basic layer setup: Textlayer Shape Background I want to mask the shape-layer so the parts where the text in the shape is transparent. Rasterizing the shape and deleting the text-part is not an option. Setting the color of the text to red is also not an option, because the background can be a picture. I j...
I have a square image that I am looking to turn into a landscape sized image by adding solid black borders to the left and right of the image (optionally with a fade to white type gradient). I know this is a really simple thing to do, but I don't know where to start. I don't have any image software on my PC, other tha...
Any designer worth their salt will talk about the importance of the grid, and rightfully so. However, as I've continued to practice my trade, I've found that the baseline grid in particular doesn't always seem practical to me. For example, I work with a lot of marketing sheets that have bulleted lists. My first inclin...
In InDesign CS5 I could draw a text box, drag it on page, and see purple lines that helped me align. Where did they go in CS6? I don't see them as I drag text boxes. Ideas?
In Photoshop I have a layer A which is placed onto another layer B using a multiple blend. The result looks good. Now, I wish to hide layer B so that layer A can be saved out as a semi-transparent PNG and used on a web page which has B as a background. The alignment may not be perfect, so I don't wish to include the ba...
Could somebody tell me if this text is written in Comic sans MS? It looks like that. It is a quote from a famous Québec premier (René Lévesque) which is engraved on a monument in Québec city, Canada. http://www.flickr.com/photos/capitalenationale/3797412919/
What software are designers using to create great presentation slides? E.g. Adding (configurable) drop shadows on text Creating custom slide backgrounds, e.g radial gradients Adding noise or patterns to fills Do people create their slides in Photoshop? Is it not a huge pain?
I can't quite figure this one out. I am not copying a custom piece of work, I am copying something that is available in nature, bones. I am also not tracing it, I am drawing by hand using them as a reference for accuracy. So, is that considered copyright infringement? Does it depend on how similar my drawings are to th...
I'm new to graphics, and had to make a small poster for a competition. I created it in Inkscape, but found out they need a .ai file. I tried opening the SVG in Illustrator, and it just does not look the same. I don't know how I can fix this! Here's what it looks like in Inkscape: And in Illustrator: I know nothing ab...
I am using Photoshop CS5 and am encountering an odd issue: I have simply layer A sitting on top of layer B. When I select layer B, layer A becomes invisible. The visable/non-visable icon (the eye) on the layers tab is not toggled, nor are the positions of the layers switching (they arnt covering each other anyway). The...
I'm on Adobe Creative Cloud, so I have the latest InDesign, and I'm attempting to design a poster for my choir's next concert. Traditionally, I've done this in Photoshop, in two separate files, however I've recently started using InDesign after converting to it to create wedding albums through Blurb. I've created an A4...
It is to be used for background on a website. I like it exactly the way it is except that the image quality is not good enough. Looking for quality that will look good on a Retina screen. Must be able to license to use it (free or paid) for a commercial website. I did of course already search Flickr, Google and some st...
How does one algorithmically calculate a set of N colors that are both contrasting and aesthetically pleasing? For example, we want to plot an unknown number of lines on a graph that still looks good. I'm not certain on how to quantify aesthetically pleasing, but not clashing with a given palette might be a starting p...
The standard mac shortcut (Command+?) for opening the menu item search field doesn't work. As Beibei mentioned - This is about cueing the cursor to the "Search" box of the help menu, not invoking the Adobe help system.
Is there a way to force Photostop to never put anything on a sub-pixel or size anything to a sub pixel level? I'll move layers around or resize them and I'm always getting the positions at 234.2 or 340.5 and this is not a good thing when doing game art. I need stuff to be pixel perfect. I try snapping everything to a...
In Adobe Illustrator there is the feature of using 'Outline View'. It shows you the wireframes of your objects so you can see that they are properly aligned. When I use 'Pixel Preview' I can see what the result is going to be if I export it to bitmap. So when a line of 1 px of width is not positioned at an exact pixel,...
I'm in the process of designing a program invite and thought I could experiment something similar to the London Olympics ticket. I am more interested in knowing how I can go about designing the blue shapes (polygons and triangles) part. Is it just different blue shapes with gradients stacked against each other? Are t...
How do I change a google map into something similar to the map in the 1st poster? How do I change it to blue and also include shadows? Please help! Regards, sammydude
Could some experienced graphic designer suggest what tools to use- what software, to do this- make a picture of some money bills, which are curved and floating around randomly, with some background texture- golden coins maybe. Can you do this with Adobe Photoshop Elements (the cheaper version of Adobe Photoshop)?
I'm a designer, not a marketer, and not a writer (at least not professionally). A lot of the work I do involves working with material in a field that can be above my head. Because of that, I'm content to take the text that's given to me and do what I can to make it look great on the page – tighten the kerning to get an...
There is a quote that "bad design never killed anyone," but I know that what we do is less trivial than that. What designs have you seen cause real change or have a real influence? Specific context behind the question: Lord willing, I'll be giving a presentation to my wife's school for Career Day this week. I want to t...
I’m trying to take a friend’s pencil-and-paper design and recreate it in Illustrator for use in a poster we are creating together. She’s proficient (away from the computer) and it’s my job to get her ideas into the computer. But sadly I’m a novice at Illustrator (and Photoshop), though I’ve been using Fireworks intermi...
I love the new open source font by Adobe, Source Sans Pro. But I am not sure what will happen if I use the font in a website, and the font isn't installed on the visitor's machine?
I have just learned (thanks to tutorial at http://buttner-jenkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/gimp-tut-text-along-path.html) how to create a text along path. When I followed these instructions, though, using Nimbus Roman No9 Latin, to render my text in an arc, the text ended up with jaggies at all of the edges. I'm wondering ...
http://doityourself.edublogs.org/files/2008/10/club-med-illusion-ad.jpg I'm trying to achieve the same effect, but I can't even get close to what I need. What I basically need is to merge face/body in to the object in a way that it won't stand out, yet would be recognisable. If someone could explain, give a tip or jus...
I have 4 layers (A, B, C, D) which I wish to blend by the following formula (A xor B) plus (C xor D). Is it possible to accomplish this in Photoshop? I am a newbie and found that layer can only control it's blending with all underlying ones.
We have a professionally designed floor plan in PDF form for an event we are running currently. It is similar to a CAD drawing. We have booths (rectangular squares) drawn on it. I have a colleague who is in the process of building a phone app and possibly a web app both of which we would like to contain an interactiv...
Is there a type of fold for one-sheet flyers where the last thing a reader reaches while working through it in a natural way is a full-page spread, and where sections of that full page spread are not seen before it is reached? Trying to think about how that could work is giving me a headache... and I'm starting to run ...
I am working on redesigning my website and iterating through fivesecondtests. The overall feedback is improving but no matter what I change, several people have mentionned that my designs look "dated". "Not modern". "Use modern fonts". What are "modern fonts"? Technically, Calibri, Cambria, etc. are "modern fonts...
In PowerPoint, Visio, and many other programs, there's a "rectangle selection" mode which allows selecting a group of objects by drawing a rectangle with the mouse. All objects which are fully contained within that rectangle are included in the selection. Objects which are not fully contained within the rectangle are n...
Here are a few screenshots of a web-based crisis mapping software, basically built for both governors and people. The design is somehow combined by ideas from different people, so we are interested to know your ideas, pros and cons of the design choices made there. What are the pros and cons of the chosen Color Scheme ...
Having finally signed up to creative cloud, which seems incredibly good value, I started to wander how the artwork Adobe use to promote their products is actually made... Its quite 3D, and looks very slick (see http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4TQFdMFdN40J:www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativesuite.htm...
I was recently working on a website design and I naturally based my work on the content supplied by my customer. I knew from the beginning that the site will be accessible in different languages but didn't think it would be a big issue. Finally, it appears that while the majority of the site looks OK in other languages...
When i use the straighten of PS, i cant find a way to just get it to straighten one layer at a time, itseems to straighten the entire canvas, is there a way i can get it to work on just one layer ? just to clarify by the straighten tool i mean draw a line with the ruler and then click straighten in the toolbar allong t...
I'm about to branch off into the freelance world. I'm starting an LLC and I'd like some input on what I should title myself as the owner. For example "creative specialist" or "creative technician" or something like that. My services would be: Website design / development Graphic design: icon design, templates, web gr...
I am going crazy trying to figure out this very simple thing. I want a drawing tool (like pen or pencil or paintbrush) that can just paint pixels directly as pixels. Thus if the size of the tip is 1px, and I click once, I get a 1px square. If I click and drag 5px, I get a 1px x 5px line. No smearing, no vectors, no cu...
How can the above shape be created in Photoshop? It is the shape of an anvil, a logo commonly used by universities.
Does anyone know a good vector drawing application? I tried Inkscape, but it is not a real vector design app. Technically it's an SVG editor, and as such doesn't support anything that SVG doesn't support. I'm missing these features in Inkscape/SVG (and I don't care about SVG anyway, I just want to draw on screen/paper,...
Whenever I add a color overlay layer style to an object in photoshop, it goes over top of any gradient overlay I have. Is there any way to change this order?
this seems to be a CS6 bug to me - i couldn't find any solution yet: when resizing an image, i'm getting a half-transparent 1px border around it. very annoying :( i already tried flattening before resizing - still the same problem. any idea how to avoid this? thanks
How can i reverse Gif image with out affecting animation of the image and save it. I used Flip Tool and reversed image then after save it. Then i lost the animation effect of the image.
When I File > Export using Artboards from Illustrator the (OSX)file dialogue is always pointing at the directory where the Illustrator document is located. If I need to export to a different directory I have to navigate through the filesystem to find it. The next time I export Illustrator has forgotten this directory a...
I have to slice website design to HTML/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below: I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How these parallelogram shaped items should be sliced? There are also hover and selected states so I would probably use CSS spr...
I have written a word using a fat font like Impact, and I have an image of roses. Instead of adding a color to this word, I want to "color" it in Inkscape using my roses image.
Illustrator has the 'Transform Each' dialog, but it only allows you to scale multiple objects by specifying a percentage. Is there any way to specify the size in pixels? More specifically, imagine I have 10 rectangles on my canvas, and I want them all to be of a specific height. The bar order and position on the canva...
The following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx and possibly all other links in MS site does not render text smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. Why so? IE7: Firefox 16.0.1: Chrome 22.0.1229.94 m:
In Adobe Photoshop I am able to select multiple layers at once with Shift+Click. How can I do that in GIMP?
I'm trying to supply the printer with a 2-page saddle up print job - which I'm assuming is a 2 page spread stapled in the middle and folded. The document is a 22 page booklet, The 1st page is the cover and the 22nd page is the back of the booklet. My problem is there is blank pages on page 1 and 4 - I do not understand...
I'm stuck with this little thing, which should be extremely easy but I simply cannot achieve it the way I want it. Working with Photoshop CS5, I have a PSD with several layers, most of them being text layers with pattern style applied on them. One of this text layer needs a black pattern but currently uses a white one ...
I have some color swatches from a local car dealer that are about 8.5" by 11" and the paint samples are metallics. Is there a way to scan these metallic color paint samples sheets, then use a large sample brush to get the metallic "texture" and be able to add it to my color swatches? That way if I want to do a metall...
I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to adjust the brush opacity interactively in CS6 (13) in the same way you adjust brush size and hardness (ie: Alt+Right-click and drag). In fact, the CS6 UI seems to support this, because it now shows a readout for Size, Hardness AND Opacity. Of course, you can adjust bru...
Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done. I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float from one to another without being sure which is the best. And, as I often find on sites like these, I don't have all of ...
In working on a redesigned website for my university program I feel like I've got a pretty solid foundation. The purpose of the website is to be both informational but, also, to be "fun" and "inviting." So, we have used some Google Web Fonts for typography and we've done some work with headings, line hight, and line le...
I am sorry about asking such a newbie question but I am wondering if Adobe Indesign has any easy method of making the box that is on the top of the page that I posted below (With the numbers on top and bottom and text inside of it). I have to make a page similar to this.
I just installed Creative Suite 6 on my computer. I was working on some artwork for a client in Illustrator and having a hard time getting the right colors. I noticed they were all very dull. So I did some testing, and sure enough, Illustrator is not displaying my colors correctly. The screenshot below shows the color ...
I have a rather long list of global brands (about 2000) for which I would like to download a brand logo. I was wondering if there is a way to automate this process, since I know that this list will get longer in the future. I am thinking about something along the lines of a Web service that I could call to get the log...
I am trying to replicate the gold bevel effect used on Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne" album (see pic) in Photoshop. Any ideas?
When one try to make/publish a photo album the most common layout is the one with one photo per page. What other layouts are proven to be successful, especially considering that we intent to print on some pages small photo reports of 3-6 photos linked between them. PS: "photo report" = several photos linked together wh...
Got two images, one of an old sheet of paper with jagged edges. The other is a photo of beach. How can I merge them together, so that the beach image will take the shape of the other picture, i.e. with jagged edges? I got indesign cs5.5, illustrator cs5. The photoshop I got is old 2003 version. Can I use any of these?
Does anyone know of a Photoshop action, or set of actions to produce a defuse, bump, normal and reflection map for use in 3d rendering software? It seems like quite a simple thing and I have searched google but couldn't seem to find one. I'd be realy surprised if one didn't exist.
The text "We are Mozilla" on this page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ seems to have something of a "white" drop shadow effect that makes it seem embedded onto the page, somewhat. How can we recreate that effect in GIMP/inkscape preferably? Even photoshop/illustrator technique would do.
I'm confused on how to use the header tags properly so, I need help for this. Since, it is a very important part of web development.
How do you exactly create a very responsive web design? Do you create application for your website to be responsive when using mobile and/or tablets?
How can I take a screenshot of a web page on a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) that: Is at a reproducible size Looks sharp on Retina displays Without any browser chrome / accouterments showing Without having to do any manual cropping or other post-production In the past I've used Awesome Screenshot, but that b...
We have have facing pages with a border ether side, however our printer wants it in single pages. When we change it to single pages for pdf printing, we lose our alternating borders. (Border on the left for the left hand page, and right for the right hand). Am I doing this wrong? any help would be much appriciated
Is there an utility for converting all black-white and grayscale images from certain folder to the same images with adjusted alpha channel? For example, for pixel (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:0) I would like to get (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:50) and (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:205) (inverse). Of course, this conversion is suitable only for...
Is it possible to pick only black-white and grayscale images for photoshop (or another graphical program) batch-processing, even if they are have colored mode (24 or 32 bit). Thus, all pixels bypass is required. I need in it for conversion of every image to same image with adjust alpha channel. See my another question ...
How could I add gradients along an object/path (not following the path, but using it as a base, like inner glow) ? Sample:
I'm very new at graphic design, so my apologies if this is a very basic question :) I have access to Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1. I have a series of grids that are currently flat on the 2d cartesian plane, and I actually have 2 layers (not in the photoshop sense, 2 actual layers) of grids to display. So, to display them...
I need to create a two-color poster for my choir's Christmas concert. I'm choosing the colors red and gold, and will liaise with the printer when it comes to printing about what specifically they will be to work best. While I'm fine with a nice big, red background, and with adding gold text, I'm really struggling with ...
I've created a rectangle, and I want to cut some text out of it, so that the text will appear as the background pattern. I expected to be able to achieve this by selecting the rectangle and the text, using Pathfinder > Minus Front - however this hasn't worked. I've tried searching for the solution everywhere and can't...
I have a set of images of up to 20mb each, and I want to reduce the file size without losing quality. How can I do it?
I like to make a moving blur on a picture using GIMP (on Ubuntu). What kind of effects should I use? I already use blur but it doesn't give the moving blur. Note: I'm beginner in graphic design
I have a question similar to “Writing text with character variations”: I would like to create a casual hand-written-style font, that reproduces the natural variety between occurrences of the same glyph that one find in handwritten text. Contextual alternatives are good, but from what I understand they are mostly approp...
What I need: A 3000px by 1340px PNG that vertically graduates from 100% opacity black to 0% opacity black. My problem: Banding occurs. Example: What I've tried: Virtually every solution to be found online. I've tried adding noise, blurs, installing actions that are supposed to work but don't, changing the the color an...
Many standard computer fonts don’t have text (aka “old-style”, "hanging") figures, like these: Also, basic software like Microsoft Office don’t use them by default, even when selecting a font that actually includes them. So, my own practice is: I tend to use them in running text, if only because it gives somewhat of...
I've created an icon in Illustrator for an iPhone app. When the icon is in the size for the iPhone, parts of the graphic fuzzy. How can I improve the details on the icon? My icon is a clock, and it looks fine except for the hands.
What does it mean and how do I get a darker shade of a given color. For example if I have the color R = 53, G = 140, B = 205 or H = 204, S = 74, B = 80, or #358CCD What value do I change in Adobe Illustrator CS5 or Above Photoshop so that I get a more darker/solid/bold look of the same color?
What is a service where I can perform side by side comparison of all fonts? Not just fonts on my computer, as most services seem to offer.
In the project I am working on, I need to draw a line across the image and split all paths below that in Inkscape. I know Illustrator has Object > Path > Divide Objects Below. Does Inkscape have a version of this command?
An institution I know has chosen the following colors for its theme: It is used as a banner at bottom of web pages, and the first green is used as the main “institutional” color. I wonder: does that color palette belong to some well-know “category”, or is there any evident principle that lead to its choice? I know the...
I’m trying to come up with a logo for a small venture of mine, and I was wondering: at what sizes are logos typically displayed? I mean, I know in theory branding artwork should be redesigned for every display size: this is exemplified, in an extreme case, by the design of favicons. However, there is a strong incentive...
Imagine a logo that uses only a few characters from a font… or more exactly, the vector outlines of a few characters (between 2 and 4) from a font. What are the licensing requirements for commercial use of such a work? This differs from the more general case in that I'm not really using it for typesetting text, but rat...
I am specially preparing some PDFs for use on E-ink devices. I have noticed that the appearance of the text on these screens is not exactly the same as the appearance on a book, or the appearance on a computer screen. Are there any strategies for selecting fonts which will appear good and improve readability on these d...
So I have this PSD with several transparent layers. As I need to hand out the file for a professional printing, I export it through Photoshop (CS5) using the usual PDF/X-4:2008 PDF 1.4 profile to retain the transparency. But the written PDF doesn't have any transparency : when I open it under Adobe Reader (with the tr...
I'm experiencing a very weird problem in Illustrator with a Pantone color. I have a document open with a logo in it that is Pantone 280 C, blue. I copy the logo into a new Illustrator document and it looks purple. But they're both Pantone 280 C. I ran a bunch of tests, and here's what I know: Both colors are Pantone 2...
What font size and family is recommended for a web site's content to make it more readable for the readers or visitors?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process. The GIMP "raw" files are created as XCF. If I look inside (using Emacs), while it's a binary file, I can distinctly see a text comm...
I've made a webpage with an image next to text, set as the same color I thought I had used for the image. However when I looked at the webpage on Safari (on Mac) I noticed that the actual color of the text and image were different (this was not the case in Chrome or Firefox). I have since read about how you should save...
I'm looking for an experienced mobile UI designer to lead the vision and design for our iphone and android applications. What characteristics, experience or requirements would a mid-to-senior level mobile app UI designer have to have?
In my InDesign document, figure captions are bold when they appear in the body of the document, and non-bold when they appear in the list of figures. But when I need to italicize text in a figure caption, this results in bold text in the list of figures. How can I have bold italic text in the figure caption and non-bol...

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