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I seem to recall an anecdote on how one branch of the British government had designed a way to circulate seemingly identical for-your-eyes-only documents to a small circle of high-level collaborators, while ensuring the possibility to identify them if the document leaked. The story was that they used tiny variations in typography to make differentiable documents that seemed identical to the naked eye. So, my question is: Is that feasible? Does that involve modification of font outlines, or kerning, or something else? Is that done in the font itself, or in the typographic engine?
I remember there used to be a folder I could just put fonts in and they would work for Adobe InDesign. I thought it was a folder called fonts in the same directory the InDesign document was. I tried that for an Illustrator file. I created a folder next to the Illustrator file called fonts and put my fonts in there. But Illustrator doesn't see the fonts. I don't want to install the fonts on the system. Is there a simple folder I can put fonts into? Ideally the folder is next to the Illustrator file itself so that I can simply zip up the file and fonts folder and send it to people.
I'm having a heck of a time getting a straight answer for this. Hope somebody here can help! If I'm a small commercial company that's creating an Android application for a paid service, what sort of license do I need to buy to legally use Helvetica Neue (and a couple other variations of Helvetica)? Where do I buy it? Edit: I got the following response when inquiring about purchasing: Thank you for the inquiry. We have a special license for mobile developers that enables them to distribute fonts in a title for two years of the title for a paid-up license fee. We can provide you with a license to distribute the Helvetica Neue regular, medium, light, bold and Italic fonts with unlimited units of a single application title only on the Android platform for $3,250. This is fee for two year distribution of the font in that title. There are no unit reporting requirements under this license. If you also want to include the iOS platform the license fee would be $3,750 instead of $3,250. The license fees include warranty and indemnification from Monotype Imaging. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to proceed with a license. We look forward to working with you.
What are some of the rules and guidelines needed to design a Windows 8 "Metro" style website template? I notice using blocks is one of these guidelines. I'm also noting something about the colors, but not being a designer myself, I'm not sure what the guidelines for the color scheme usage is. As per the layout of the content, is there something that is particularly important? In all, I think the whole Metro approach looks really nice, and I'm hoping to mimic that style in a website template.
I have a lot of PSD files in many random directories. Sometime I need to view many files quickly without loading into Photoshop. I am looking for a lightweight PSD viewer application, is there any?
I recently started a project converting a magazine's PDFs into a digital reader app. Up until now, the PDFs that were given to me were all set up so that each page of the magazine was a separate page of the PDF. Recently I have been getting them formatted differently however. Now they are set up so the front and back pages are single pages, but very inside page is set up as a landscape shaped PDF page that contains two different magazine pages per PDF page (I hope that makes sense). The problem I have is the digital reader app cannot support this and I am at a loss trying to figure out how to split each page. Any advice?
My Illustrator is acting a bit buggy; more precisely, no selection is actually visible. Selected text isn't highlighted, looking for an anchor is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and finding a handle is a futile effort from the beginning. My thinking is that this could be resolved by resetting Illustrator's preferences; where some blogs and fora suggest that it's under Home Folder > Libraries > Application Support > Adobe > Adobe Illustrator CS6, I haven't found the preferences folder in that directory. Is there any other way to reset it, or fix the problem?
I tend to use Photoshop, but for my engineering course I do want to use something as simple as MS Paint. I literally need to do this: Create a square with whatever color outline Fill the square with another color Draw some shapes inside with yet another color Save the image as a .gif (must be a .gif) But when I do it, the whole image is dithered. Which completely kills my program. If I filled my shape with a solid color, it turns into a sea of completely different pixels (similar to the color, but I need it to be exact). I understand that .gif lowers the quality by having to use a much more limited set of colors, which is perfectly good for me - I don't mind having my image's colors slightly changed to match the .gif limits. But I don't want it to dither. If I truly can't achieve this with MS Paint (which I doubt), what other simple solutions have you got? I heard something about converting it to a 256-colors bitmap and then transform it to a .gif. I don't think I understood well the instructions: what I did was draw my image, save as a 256-colors .bmp (which converted my colors, which is alright for me), but as soon as I saved it to .gif, the colors dithered.
I drew two separate objects in Photoshop that are meant to be on different layers, but I drew them on the same layer. They do not overlap right now, but I can't seem to figure out how to separate them. How can I do that? Thanks! edit I've added an image to show what I mean. I have two grids I've constructed and both are on the same layer. I meant for them to be on separate layers. The image is here:
I'm planning to create a website with many webpages which are shared by a navigational menu. For example: www.apple.com Do I have to create separate html files with the same menu code or is there an easier way to accomplish the same task? (using javascript, php, etc)
I am reading a short text on typography, which refers to the “flow line” without defining what it is. My dictionary has a non-typographic definition: flow line a route followed by a product through successive stages of manufacture or treatment. which doesn’t shed much light. Google search results all say some variation of “the line on which the text is placed”. So, is the flow line the same thing as the baseline? (A picture being worth a kiloword, graphical definitions would be very welcome!)
I've got multiple paths which, together, create a single sprite in Illustrator. I'm trying to merge the paths in order to apply a gradient to the whole thing; however, Pathfinder does nothing, and just joining the paths closes open paths and gives me unwanted, and very visible, jagged edges. Is there any other way to combine multiple paths to make them act as a single object, or apply a gradient to multiple paths as if they were a single object?
Is it preferable to write a thin space after nobiliary particles (von, de la, …)? Does for example Miguel de\,Cervantes y\,Saavedra look better than the standard width spaced equivalent?
Hum, for some reason I would like to buy myself a book about typography. I have a lot of interest in this field, and already have some knowledge learnt from reading Typophile now and then, among other online sources. I would like to consolidate my knowledge with a book about typography, possibly a mix of theoretical considerations and examples (I quite like the balance achieved, for example, in the Tufte books).
In Photoshop, I've drawn a circle with fill set to 0% to get a circle without a fill. This looks fine in Photoshop, but when I save it as a PDF for use in another document, it fills the circle! What gives? How can I keep it without the fill when it's a PDF (the background is transparent).
Is there any difference between these two terms, or they describe the same thing?
I have a text document/csv with 100 unique codes that should be used for a gift card. For the gift card, I need to provide 100 PDF's each with the unique code. Is it possible to do this using Illustrator or InDesign? I'm thinking of making a textbox that can contain the code, but I don't know how to make 100 PDF's with the codes. Thanks!
My document looks like this: I save as a PDF from Photoshop, using the default High Print Quality setting. The resulting PDF looks like this: What's going on?
I have many .psd files that each contain 2+ layers that I need to export as layers. For a single psd fileD I can use: File > Scripts > Export Layers To Files ... However if I use this script (in a droplet) I have to hard-code the destination folder and File Name Prefix. This is no good as many of the .psd files contain layers with the same names, so they would overwrite each other and I need each file to be prefixed by the .psd name. So a layer called text_1 from a .psd file called doc_1 would be called doc_1_text_1, and a layer called text_1 from a .psd file called doc_2 would be called doc_2_text_1 or something similar. Is there any way I can do this? I'm happy to hard-code the destination folder, but I need the script to use whatever the name of the .psd file is for the prefix.
I can´t import .png files with transparencies to Flash Mx, it says that if I want to import the hole pictures of the sequence and later that the import did not finish because an unknown error occurred. So, I think that if I change the image to .gif or something it could work but I´m not sure if .gif saves the transparencies?? What can I do?? Thanks for answer.
Scribus lets you crop images easily by choosing "properties" > "image" > "free scaling". After cropping, you can even move the image around inside the frame by double clicking on the image and then dragging it. I love this functionality. Very useful. BUT after I've done this, I want to enlarge the image and the frame easily. The best thing I've come up with is: open transform dialog to enter an exact scaling amount and scale the image frame, then do some math and appropriately scale the image by the same proportion, then re-position the image within the frame. I'd love to find a quicker way to do this. Very cumbersome at the moment. Note that I'm not looking for the "Scale image to frame" functionality because that doesn't let me crop the image within Scribus. Also note that I don't want to crop the source image because I want to be able to re-adjust it later if necessary.
I'm making a sign for my kids' school, and am having trouble with one detail. The primary text is "Walking School Bus Stop". This, the school name, and a whimsical graphic all go into a 3:4 aspect ratio design. (This will be an actual metal sign placed on the street.) The complication really all comes from the fact that "school bus" is properly two words. Because of this, it really reads better if the lines are broken like so: Walking School Bus Stop Because "Bus Stop" is also a familiar phrase, with a different break, it looks like we're talking about a "Walking School", when, really, it's the normal sort of elementary school that happens to have a program where we encourage kids and parents to walk instead of driving. And, that, in turn, means that in the font I've chosen, the letter g drops down to get in the way of the B. Like this: Which really irritates me visually. If I increase the line spacing, it seems too spaced (and I have to reduce the text size), which is not desirable. What are good solutions here? It looks just fine if the text is all right-aligned — the g tucks down nicely over the u and s — but given the aspect ratio constraint it's hard to balance that and the other elements. Font is Coolvetica. (Be glad it's not Comic Sans.) And it looks awful in all-caps, so that solution would really be "find another font", which isn't ideal. What else could I do?
I have a body of text that I am trying to layout in a visually pleasing way but I can not figure it out. The goal is to have this layout (see psuedocode): <container> <main /> <column1 /><column2 /> </container Basically, there will be a large body of text and then below it 2 smaller bodies of text that are columns. The columns would be side by side, below the main body of text and their combined width + their padding would be the same width ad the main body + its padding. Currently I'm trying a javascript + CSS method that automatically breaks the text into columns but it's going nowhere and I can't figure out a visually pleasing way to do this.
There's a pretty big problem I'm having with Aaron Bealle's Export to SVG script in Fireworks: So I have a path in Fireworks that I created from a marquee selection (which came from the magic wand, some feathering and smooth selection). Let's take this image I vectorized in Fireworks from a drawing by someone at the NHS Designs in Sacramento as an example. (Download Fireworks PNG file) When the path is exported as an SVG using the Export script — only the outer edge is taken into account. So what I get is a black shape on a transparent/white background. (When in fact the black shape was more complicated than that — but was still a single path.) (Download SVG file) How do I fix this? Thank you!
I want to create light weight PNG images with good quality. Can anyone suggest the best way...Note: Need to use these PNG images in android app designing.
I have 2 blocks of text that are pretty small (just under a paragraph each) and they really look better justified but the problem is that text-align: justify; sometimes adds really large spaces and makes the text somewhat ugly (the opposite effect, obviously). Is it possible to more finely tune the word spacing with CSS so that this doesn't happen?
What are these effects supposed to replicate ? Is it a reflection, a refraction, caustics ?
When I start working on a web design project and finish up the home page, I duplicate that PSD file, remove the contents leaving the header and footer, and start working on the next page. I run into problems when I need to make changes to either the header or footer as I would need to go back and make the same changes to the other files. I've tried using smart objects but I find it complicated to make changes as I would like to see how it looks with the rest of the design while I'm making the changes. Is there a better way to go about this?
I am starting out as a freelance website developer so I need to improve my graphics drawing skill. Up till now I'm using an open source tool GIMP to create the concepts and mock ups of the websites I design.I know that Photoshop is the Industry standard(at least as far as I know). So,what books can help me in learning some advanced Photoshop techniques used frequently in web designing.Also I want to learn how to draw cartoon characters like this.I know it is a matter of creativity but still there must be some techniques which I can learn.Please express your views. Just for the record, I'm basically a web developer so my graphics drawing capabilities are very limited(but I want to improve that).
I have looking through DeviantArt and the background of one of the web interfaces caught my eye. I tried to replicate it but couldn't get anywhere near the perfect effect. http://numarislp.deviantart.com/art/Millenium-Responsive-creative-portfolio-full-333356344 I'm thinking it also has something to do with the actual photograph. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks,
I have an image on which I would like to sample colors. It could look like this (it's the Novamind logo) : I'm looking for a tool that could define a path ( Bézier, circle, regular polygons, for example), set the number of samples I want, and output the colors found along the path in various formats. I' not looking for a Photoshop plug-in, but more something like the DigitalColor Meter on OS X; it's a simple color picker.
I'm an amateur graphic designer. When I'm free I do some simple graphic designing with Photoshop and Illustrator (mess around with the pen tool, add style to a layer, adjust hue of an image, etc). I've been a great fan of Dribbble and I'm always fascinated by the amazing pieces of art there. - Find by Alext Volkow - Circus Tent by Michael Tzscheppan - Sandwich iOS icon by Ryan Ford These semi photo-realistic icons are so well-designed. I would appreciate if someone can offer me some tips on designing icons like these.
I have added end arrows to some connectors and Bézier curves, but I cannot find how to set their colour, since they appear to be concerned neither by the background settings nor by the outline ones. They remain black no matter what. How can I assign a given colour to an arrow?
When I choose a font size for use in a graphic I usually opt for font size menu dropdown defaults like 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, 60, or 72. If I'm working on something large (like an A3 poster) I need much larger fonts. I'm always tempted to keep these as powers of 2 (e.g. 128, 256, or 512). But why? Am I just being superstitious! Does font size have any technical implications? Is choosing 512 in any sense better than 513 or am I actually free to choose whatever looks best?
I need to blend this photo into a square shaped flyer and don't know what effect should i use on th background to make it look like the photo. This is the photo This is what i've done so far I really like the "old" pixelated effect of the photo but i couldn't reproduce it in Photoshop.
I work as a photographer but recently I've been working on stretching my skills and took on a project to create a graphic design for a non-profit. The designs are complete and the organization was satisfied with the work. I'm in the process of creating the final package and am including the images in PNG format. It seems to me like this might be the best option considering the multiple ways in which the logo might be used (on print, web etc.). Just looking for some guidance on the formats typically used for delivery. Are there any situations in which you deliver the original PSD files (assuming you're using photoshop)? Thanks.
I'd like to take an SVG clipart, pull out particular paths from it, and bring them into Gimp and use them to create selections and/or to stroke. Nothing I've tried seems to work -- even though Gimp seems to be able to import SVG paths, it doesn't seem to work from files from Inskcape or the SVG's before bringing them into Inkscape. Is there any trick to it?
I am saying this because, I don't have Illustrator, so I want to know with what I can create Kinetic Typographics
I can't find any options for rounded corners in the draw palette in Flash CS6 and Google is not returning any answers. This seems like it should be so simply to do. I want to use the palette to draw a rectangle with rounded corners WITHOUT using actionscript. How can I do this?
I have an ajax spinner which unfortunately has a white background in the corners. I want to remove the white and make it transparent using GIMP. How can I go about doing that? I tried opening it in GIMP and changing all the pixels to red to target but that changed the whole image when I made red transparent, and also it didn't seem to perpetuate through the sequence.
I'm looking to make futuristic/modern swirls in Illustrator for a background for a project that I'm doing. Here's an example I found: I don't want to rip the picture off and I'm not looking for this is exact design but am curious as to what method I could use to make something similar. It appears to be using some outer glow and gradients but is that something likely done with a pen tool? I've Googled around for a tutorial of that nature and am not necessarily looking for someone to teach me completely, just point me in the right direction so I can play around with it. Sorry if this is a super basic question, just trying to learn some new techniques. Thanks!
I am basically a developer. I just want to know the difference between diffuse and texture. My assumption (as a new to 3D game development), from what I read is that diffuse is the texture applied to a surface/3d model which is used to render the surface/model. If this is correct then diffuse and texture are synonyms. Please help me understand the differences if there are any
I recently stumbled on a font designed specifically for dyslexic readers (OpenDyslexic). It explains how it works like so: Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to add a kind of "gravity" to each letter, helping to keep your brain from rotating them around in ways that can make them look like other letters. I wonder: Are there other design principles behind fonts specifically targeted at people with dyslexia? (Links to research on the effectiveness of such design principles would be very much appreciated.) Are there also typography tips that can be used to make an overall block of text (or page) more readable to dyslexic readers? I can imagine things like tweaking kerning or small random baseline modifications could be of some help…
CSS3’s text-decoration module includes a text-underline-position property, which specifies whether the underline should be positioned below the whole text: or just below baseline, letting it clash with text descenders: Okay, we all know how underline should only be used as a last resort, but… if you are going to use it, what is the most common way of doing it? What are the pros and cons of each underline style?
If you browse websites, you can find pretty much all types of sidebar menus: on top (like our very own Stack Exchange), as left or right menu bar, or even at the bottom (though that's a less common choice). When balancing the webpage layout, how should one approach this choice? Has there been any research into the ease of use of menubars on different sides of the page? It seems to me that top and left are the most prominent positions for a menu bar, but I have no experience whatsoever on this topic.
I have a JPG which appears to of retained a clipping mask: (http://gdh.guildmembers.co.uk/logos/LEVENE%20MAG.jpg) When this file is opened in photoshop / fireworks and then the "Paths" tab is visited, you can see the saved clipping path on the jpg. However I tried to replicate this in photoshop and couldn't replicate with a new file. How was this done? I assume it is via some form of metadata? It seems that the clipping path could be removed when uploaded via a web based image uploader, in this case a flash based uploader.
I am very new to Adobe Illustrator but I'm trying to get the hang of it. I have some text, say "Pizza" and I have filled the "P" with a black square so that there is no hole in it. Then, I have a shape on top of that square which I want to be the new hole in the "P". So I have the following layers: On top: My shape In the middle: My square In the bottom: My text, "Pizza". Does anyone know how I can make it so that I can see through my shape and all the way through the square and the text to the background?
As I understand it, when creating a new illustrator file the default is to store a a PDF document inside it so that other applications such as InDesign can show a visual representation of the file when linking. (Create PDF Compatible File) The problem is that having this default option ON makes "ai" files that are enormous. In my case so big Illustrator runs out of memory when attempting to open them. I crete 400DPI ANSI E (34"x44") posters full of effects and images and with the PDF compatibility on the files can be 200MB. I created one poster whose file size is 1.7 GB and it only has a bunch of vector graphics of insignificant size and about 12 placed (linked) photos. Nothing out of the ordinary. I can confirm that if I re-save one of my other 200MB files without the PDF compatibility option on the size drops down to 15MB or less. Unfortunately, I do have a few files which Illustrator fails to open. (Runs out of memory - 12gb ram, solid state HD, 6 core i7-980X Extreme Edition) The question is; Can I remove the PDF file from the Illustrator file in attempts to open the ai file itself?
I'm currently trying to remove a person from a photo that tried to be cool and photobomb, but i'm at a loss as to how it can be done with no loss of photo quality. My attempts have been to use the lasso tool to try and cut out as much of that person as possible, but to recreate the background behind is where I get stuck. Can anyone offer some advice on how this is done for folks that do this on a daily basis? Thanks in advance.
I must have pressed some keyboard combination and now the document background between artboards is no more dark gray (as usual) but fully transparent. How to restore this? I'm using Illustrator CS6 on OSX Mountain Lion. Thanks
I have a large Indesign Document (about 200+ pages), and in about the half of the pages the images were copied & pasted into the document instead of linking them. These images are now somewhat blue-ish when I view the exported pdf. What could the reason be? This is how it looks. The linked images are fine, because they were exported to CMYK in Photoshop before. How can I get the copied images to CMYK without linking them?
I am reproducing a poster from an image that I've placed in the background. There are a lot of rotated objects, graphics, text all of which I would like to line up with the original image. I've been rotating manually and I sometimes have the need to fine tune the position and rotation by small increments. Position is straight forward with arrows. Are there any shortcut keys for rotating? The fine tuning is a bit tricky for me because I am using a trackball mouse (CST 1545 trackball - Very comfortable but not as precise)
I would like to do the below color gradiant: Does anyone know how to approach this? I have searched but don't know the right way to name this effect. I'd prefer making this effect in Adobe illustrator. Could you point me some tutorials effects or provide an example ? And another example:
AE beginner here: I'm trying to create an effect such as this: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-video-5444182-business-people-loopable.php Does anyone know of a tutorial or perhaps just point in the right direction on how to achieve this? I only got as far a creating a null layer (parent of a few silhouettes), setting it to 3D, and playing with the scale which looks like it's not a good method..
I try to create a businesscard like below. I searched for the internet for an template to no avail. So playing now around with Illustrator but im not that of a design guru. Does anyone know if below image is based on a freely available template / mockup ?
If you worked in the adult entertainment industry as a graphic designer would you put those pieces in your portfolio? Or would you make a "G" portfolio and include a statement that a full portfolio including nudity is available? Or do you basically treat it in your mind as 'confidential' and just would put the job on your resume but leave it out of portfolio entirely?
How to merge to circles and rectangle in illustrator from this sketch to make a blob? Now I'm trying to get this logo (using these shapes). Should I use the Metaball tool to create the one shape or another way? Trying to get this shape happening (see left)
Illustrator: How to add 3 or 4 part gradient to this logo? I don't want it to a smooth gradient but a block-like looking gradient. Example 'block-like looking gradient':
In my document I have an olive leaf (top part of the picture), which I'd need to repeat so it would look like in the middle part of the picture. Leaves size and angle would need to vary a bit (something like = size +/-20% and angle +/-5°). Bottom part was created by brush preset taken from the top part, which is easy to use and the result looks how I want it, except it doesn't keep the texture from the original but only one color and there's some transparency where leaves overlap. I've created middle section by - duplicate the leaf layer, transform, change size, angle, repeat... which was annoyingly slow. Is there a faster, easier way how to do that?
I'd like to change the style of our Windows Mobile application to follow the Modern UI style (as in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7). While there are excellent guidelines for layout, fonts and sizes, I'm not able to find suitable icons to use in our toolbar (little images showing the state of the network or the battery). Those are the flaws of the icon packs I already found: Usually there are just one or two battery icons, whereas I need several to indicate the different states The icons get very blurry when resized to 16x16 pixels (even for vector graphics) A lot of icon sets contain gradients, shadows or gray pixels Most of the icon sets contain only a hundred to five hundred icons If you have a look at the icons used by Windows Phone 7, they're very clear and sharp. I already know Syncfusion Metro Studio, but the icons get very blurry when resized to 16x16 pixels as well. Currently we're using the icons from IconExperience, but they don't provide suitable icons for Modern UI applications. So my question is basically: Where can I find professional, high-quality icon packs with a lot of different icons (either PNG or vector graphics)? They don't have to be free, but must be allowed to be used for commercial applications. What are the major icons vendors and what platforms are available to obtain icon packs from?
In Photoshop when I want to cut out part of a picture I can easily move along the edges with the pen tool and draw my curves - not so easy with Pixelmator. Especially the Alt key does not do anything when clicking the handles here. What am I doing wrong?
I usually design in Illustrator, which appears to be vector so I don't really care about the .ai size, scaling wouldn't be a problem, but Photoshop uses Bitmap and scaling can mess up the image quality. So how would you set your file > new's Width, height, resolution, etc so that you can play it safe?
I am using Adobe Flash CS6. I have my .fla attached for you. Simple movie. I want to however export it as a GIF and the animation just does not work. It exports a static file. Someone mentioned above the first timeline - how do I do this? Download the fla (here)
I need to know the name of this font:
I have always drawn with pencils and paper. I like drawing things that are just plain creepy. But I want them on my computer, but I don't want to just scan them on, so I've decided to draw them on the computer. But I can't get Photoshop, and I really don't want to give Adobe a single cent. So what are my alternatives? I use Paint.NET for when I do graphics for websites, and it's ok, but I find it very tedious to work with and wouldn't enjoy using it for what I want to use it for. Are there any others that you would suggest? Please keep in mind that I'm only after free apps, or atleast fully-functioning trials (except Photoshop). Also, another requirement is that the app has a lot of cool painting styles, like Highlighting and drawing shadows or "toning" for like, when you wanna add tone to body parts. I hope this is the right place to be asking here. Looking forward to your suggestions!
Who knows a good resources to get some fresh design inspirations for horizontal layouts? Searching google gives some blogposts with relative bad quality designs. I look for fresh, inspiring layouts but only ones that are horizontal. This means non scrolling but a horizontal bar like: http://www.planhq.com
I have InDesign CS5 on Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard, and created a new transparency flattener style called test1 as a preset. I'm interested to know, where is my custom preset stored on Mac OS X; could I copy it to InDesign CS6 if I decide to install it so I don't have to re-create it? I understand how to create them, that's not the issue, it's about where they are that I'm wondering. All advice is much appreciated; I'm new to this area of InDesign.
I am working on an important presentation and and need a color to highlight otherwise black text on white background (beamer presentation). An example is highlighting data in a table with a color for one slide then letting it go back to normal. I tried green from: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors#The_68_standard_colors_known_to_dvips but it stands out too much. Other colors look better but I am afraid they are not easily visible. What colors are a good trade off for white background. Gets attention but are not too distracting (and "ugly")?
I have a set of white label PDF forms that I need to brand for our company. The initial document is 6 pages, 316KB, and already has a full set of fillable fields. In a perfect world, I just open up the first page, replace the header with a header that has our logo, save, and be on my merry way. If the file size jumps a bit, I can just go into Acrobat and "Reduce File Size." However, the results were really bad. I think I about doubled the file size by doing this on one page alone. I thought the inflated size might have something to do with fonts since I had to "Find Fonts" in Illustrator, so I outlined my company's header (it used a different font) and went through every page to get all of the fonts on the same page. The results were worse: 2.49MB! PDF file sizes have always felt like a dark art to me, and I want that to change. If my Photoshop file is huge, I know it's because of document dimensions, layers, and such. When my AI file sizes got out of control, I learned that unchecking "save PDF compatible version" would help out a lot. When I'm making my own PDFs and I want to export them, I have a solid grasp on downsampling and such to get a good file size. But when it comes to editing PDFs, I really don't know how file sizes work. I don't know what "Reduce File Size" means. I don't know why sometimes a file size will double or triple and why it sometimes won't, and if PDFs are embedding duplicate data, I don't know how to get it out. So, how do I keep file sizes down when editing PDFs?
I recently had to perform a format/reload on my box due to a HDD failure and after reinstalling CS5 I am noticing different behavior than before. In the past when I pasted an image into Photoshop (or simply selected the layer) it would automatically put the Free Transform box around the image allowing me to immediately manipulate the image. Now for some reason it does not and I have to either select "free Transform" or press Ctrl+T to get the Free Transform box to appear. Is there a setting I am missing that would allow me to set this default behavior back? I have looked an looked and am coming up empty handed. I am running CS5 Extended V12.0.4 x64 on a Windows 7 machine.
Click on image for full size There's a lot going on in this image. It's some 35mm lomo goodness. I am looking to produce some of the rich grain in my own digital images but am having trouble. Does anyone have any strategies or know of any tutorials to produce this kind of grainy effect. I've been through the basics of generating noise but there has got to be some way to push those effects to an extreme to get something like what I've attached. Once I can get the grainy, pixelatedness I will need to go about producing bands, like the white one seen.
With a normal shape, I can select one corner using the direct selection tool and drag to distort: to I want to apply the same type of single-point dragging distortion to the bounding box of a group of shapes, but can't figure out any way to do it. How could I select the right-bottom corner of this group, and drag to distort the whole group?
I have an Illustrator document with a number of images embedded. The images are all illustrations on a white background. I need to remove the white so that the art behind shows through. I know there are a variety of ways to do this in Photoshop, but is there a way to do it in Illustrator?
I'm trying to save a PDF file and retain text, The problem is that when I use some hebrew fonts that I purchased I get an error while saving the file, The error is the famous: "Could not save as 'untitiled.pdf' because of a program error." I insist to use those fonts, I just don't know why they're causing that error. I tried to use font forge to re-generate the font with different settings, nothing seemed to solve the issue though. I'd love to know how to solve this problem, Thanks.
Are there any image editing or research tools, commercial or otherwise which will allow me to: map colors (images) from 16-bit RGB (565) space to 24-bit RGB (888) space or vice versa save files in PNG, GIF, or JPEG give user the ability to control how colors are mapped from 16-bit space to 24-bit space. Here's a little background for this request. I'm working on a project evaluating an LCD display panel. The native bit depth of the panel is 24-bits (RGB 888) and it is currently available on an evaluation kit that uses an LCD controller that supports 24-bit output only. The LCD controller on the product for which this panel is being evaluated only supports 16-bit output (RGB 565). In the final design the remaining bits for each color channel on the panel will be connected in some way. The evaluation kit does not take RGB inputs (as mentioned above it only takes PNG, JPEG, or GIF). I'm looking for a way to create 16-bit and 24-bit RGB files which will then be converted to a PNG. By manipulating the values of the R, G and B channels in the source files (16-bit and 24-bit) I want to compare the difference between driving a 24-bit display with 24-bits of color and 16-bits of color (extended to 24-bits). I'd also be interested in learning about others experiences with this sort of evaluation and the sanity of my proposed test methodology. Thanks.
This fire image: As you can see, it has a black background, which I can't delete (because it would probably destroy the smooth-looking fire effect). I want to place some fire in a photo. However, I remember it was possible to take such images and do something in photoshop so that when you place them over a photo, the black is gone and the fire is perfectly blended there. But I can't remember what feature or option was it. Any ideas? Photoshop CS5.
I'm using After Effects to create png sequences for roulette's winning numbers. First I create a sample animation with effects and transforms (8 frames). Next I create timeline with colored numbers from 0 to 36 (38 frames with zero and double zero). I had to remap my second timeline with numbers to fit it in animation (38×8 = 304 frames, new digit every 8-th frame). Now I want to apply cycle animation loop for each 8 frames. How can I do this? Or maybe there is another way to do this job?
does anyone know if it is possible to "shield" other layers from path selection? for example lets say I have 3 layers with different vector shapes in each one that overlap eachother in some points. if I click on layer 3 I want to edit the vector in layer 3 only and i don't want photoshop to select and move to vectors from layers below it.
Whenever I select an object by clicking on it in Illustrator CS6, the second I move my mouse it moves the object. Is there a way around this? I just need to select an object and then change it's color or font but as soon as I move my mouse, the object is moved 3-4 pixels.
What files should i put in a logo pack to give to clients? Should I put small, medium and large version of my logo as well as the vector file.
I am creating a logo for a client, I have two simple lines of text in Ai. I have duplicated the logo and moved the copy below the original so I can compare the 2. It seems that when I do Object > Expand on the copy, it seems a bit bolder. Why would this be happening? I will be providing the client with an .eps. Is there any reason to expand the text vs. regular text? Thanks.
I would like to know if there is a way to handle minor content changes in InDesign 5.5. I need to create a few different versions of a document where the majority of the content will remain the same but some of it will change. For example, the heading in one document might read "Foo Bar" and the same heading in the other document might read "Hello World". I only have a few variations so a data merge isn't what I am looking for. I also don't want to manage separate documents. Is there a way to create multiple "views" of a document with different layers or content turned on/off, or even replaced with alternate text?
I'm looking for a font like Zamenhof for a project I'm working on, but would prefer not to have to purchase the font. Anyone know of a similar typeface?
Does anyone know where to get jquery mobile vector .ai files preferrable? In need to do some mockups in high quality for print but cannot find any ilustrator or vector psd templats for this. Is there something that looks very similar to the UI on http://jquerymobile.com ?
I have an image of a proposed website. How do I work out what px font-size value to set text to by counting pixels? E.g. I have font-size: 14px, (in Arial) but counting from the top of an "L" and down the tail of a "p" I count 10 pixels on the "L", with an extra 3 on the tail of the "p". Which obviously doesn't give me 14. Is there a way to workout the font-size value by counting pixels reliably?
I'm starting to design a game for iOS and I want to use a style similar to the image below: The game will have a few animations for the player, what program can I use to do that? I couldn't find a way to make animations like that in Illustrator, maybe I overlooked them. Any way to do it?
So I have a friend who wants a vector image done for a wall print in their karate studio. But they want the image 8 ft high and 5ft long. Do you actually make a file that big then draw the design then print it? Or is their some way to make it so its smaller, but for printing, scale it up proportionally?
I have a sprite sheet from a classic video game (if you're curious, Final Fight) that I'd like to be broken up into indivual images to be used in GameSalad. However, the images aren't on an even grid, and all have a different amount of space between them. Is there an automated way to export images based on contiguous pixels or something like that?
I've always wondered how to create these kind of logos - based on circles and a grid: How do I connect the circles in the 'U' here and clean up the paths afterwards? The connection could be done with Common Tangents but how do I remove the right points from the circles? Could someone show me this in steps or perhaps link to a video?
I have some images that I'd like to resize to a specific size by cropping and resizing. I've tried using Paint.NET, but the resize and crop are both individual operations. How I'd like it to proceed is as follows. I type in the size that I am trying to resize to. I then get given a box with the right aspect ratio, I can resize the box and move it around. When I'm happy, I click a button and the image is cropped to the selected region and then resized to the aspect ratio I originally entered. Are there any lightweight programs that handle this workflow?
When you are doing visual research, what tools do you use to save, tag and share images or screenshots with clients/team? Do you know other tools than Little Snapper?
I'm currently reading Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design, but it's a bit short on color theory basics. I was wondering: in CMYK, black is added to the three subtractive primary colors to improve the rendering of blacks, which would otherwise be brownish. This addition of a fourth pigment increases the gamuth of available color. So, my question is: has there been any serious proposal to add a fourth primary to the additive RGB colors? One can imagine that this would allow for more vibrant non-primary colors, for example in the “violet” region, in high-end display devices. One obvious downside would be the price of such new technology, and I know it is not widely available, but: has it been considered?
Originally, the typeface is a particular design of type, while a font is a type in a particular size and weight. In short, a typeface usually gathers many fonts. Nowadays, with the digital design of documents, you often see those two words used rather interchangeably. It doesn't make much sense to say that “Helvetica 12” and “Helvetica 14” are different fonts (they used to be different drawers with different blocks of lead, now they're all a single OTF file!). So, my question is: Does the difference between a 'font' and a 'typeface' subside in the language? Or are font and typeface now used interchangeably even by pros?
A quick Google search turns up many websites that claim to make a customized script font from a sample of your handwriting. How do they compare, and would you recommend any such service? Are there online tools (free or open-source preferably) that can achieve this goal?
I have a web font that i'm using but I only need 0123456789. Is there a way to extract glyphs from that font and generate a new font?
A while ago I noticed some .ico files actually came in "packs" that contained the same image in different sizes. I now need to create one of those packs (I have 10 different sizes). Do I need a specific software? Can it maybe be done online?
Say I'd like to produce the following diagram in Inkscape. How were I to proceed? I can create three overlapping circles and I can create intersection objects from them but the problem is to align the intersection objects with the original circles. When I copy the three circles and paste them again, they turn up anywhere on the page and not in their original spot. It's very hard and in fact practically impossible to exactly realign the four intersection objects because even the slightest mismatch will create something like color fringing. Edit: This is what I actually need and what I got so far with manual placement: To be honest, the upper right intersection element is only darker than the other two because somehow I didn't get it to be bright. Maybe it's because of the gradients in the circles or maybe just because I don't have a very good mental model of what the overlays do.
I'm creating an app and I am trying to create some icons for it. I made the icon in AI, changed the color of the icon in Fireworks, and then resized the icon to the exact size I needed in Photoshop. The end result of all of this gives me this icon, which includes some nice jagged edges (that I don't want of course) Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong in my steps?
I've been working in Sublime Text 2 on my own time to learn web development. Now I'm laying out another book in InDesign and just dreaming of having some of Sublime Text 2's workflow. Does anyone know if there are any extensions / plug-ins that offer this? Particularly the ability to select a segment of text, instantly select all instances of it, and edit them all simultaneously IN COLUMN as opposed to the very tedious find and replace functionality.
I'm trying to follow this tutorial to create an iPhone from scratch in Illustrator. I'm onto step 18 and cannot seem to create the pattern needed. My problem is this, after creating the layout of objects that are to make up my pattern, I need to select an area(rectangle) within this layout and use that area to create the actual pattern, the tutorial I'm following along with an Adobe tutorial tell me to do as follows: 1. Create a rectangle within the guide borders 2. Send rectangle to back 3. Set opacity of the rectangle to 0% 4. Select all 5. Edit > Define Pattern… and name it "Dot Pattern". When I choose Select > all, everything in my file gets selected, not just the pattern, when I don't choose Select > all and just leave the rectangle highlighted, my pattern turns out as a blank white area. I have never used Illustrator prior to this to this tutorial so please be detailed in your responses.

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