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So I own a business that will soon start developing mobile apps for platforms such as the iPad. I am wondering if I can legally make a vector graphic of other companies products such as the iPad to put a photo of my application on. I will acquire an Apple Developer account and get the app(s) approved before I publish t...
when I'm using brush tool and I set up Shape dynamics, Control: fade, there's input on the right for fade length. Is there a way to automatically start fade the path from 50% of length (stroke path)? I don't want to sit and try +10, -10 and so in the input. Thanks for your time and sorry for my english
In Photoshop, how do I take an image in shades of gray, and transform it into shades of whatever color I want? I don't know the term for it, if there's one, neither the property of the image I would be changing with this effect, but I think it's easy to understand.
In looking for fonts I was taken to the Fontspace.com website. I saw the Fontspace Logo and love the logo and the font they are using. The only question I have is what is the font they are using? I have attempted to use What The Font but I have not had any luck in identifying the font. In fact What The Font doesn't ev...
It came with Photoshop 10 Express, Autocad SketchBook Express and Corel Painter Sketch Pad. They all seem like great tools for creating/modifying art and photos. Is there a better application for drawing using the Wacom Intuos4 for the purpose of teaching, like they do at Khan Academy?
When setting the page ordering of a book in inDesign, I am having trouble figuring out how to have the same document show up twice. I am creating a business book that has the same forms appearing multiple times. How do i duplicate those documents? When I attempt to add them again, I get the message "'filename.indd' can...
Are all ascender and descender heights typically equal in well-designed typefaces? Does using identical ascenders and descenders increase readability, or is it not an issue at all?
When I typeset text, I love to be able to choose from a large array of different weights (and, if possible, expansions). Having light and semi-bold variants in addition to the regular and bold weights really help broaden one's choices for setting type elegantly. For long-running text, I am quite partial to old-style se...
Almost all of my design requirements are given in millimeters, not points, pica, or any other classical measurement. I design for board games, and the printer's specifications always list their requirements in terms of millimeters for margin and bleed, not points and pica. I'm making the jump from doing my layouts in I...
Possible Duplicate: Bug: Illustrator now refuses to draw lines with stroke weight below 1 pt On my Illustrator CS5.5 I have the strange behaviour that when I make a perfect horizontal line, the stroke weight has a minimal value of 1pt. I can set it to 0.5pt, but it will jump back. If I make a non-horizontal line and...
Is there a way to rotate each line of text by 25 degrees as seen below? In Illustrator or Photoshop.
I've seen a bunch of these - often with similar colour palettes of red with blue/green/turquoise. There are two overlapping copies of the design in two solid colours, which are almost (but not quite) exactly the same and overlap in a way which is almost (but not quite) consistent. Does it have a name? This is the log...
What would be the smallest font in Microsoft Word that when printed on an A4 size paper would still be readable? By readable, I don't mean comfortably readable. All I need is for the printed text to be at least visible when I strain my eyes a little. I am using Calibri as my font type. I have tried font size 6 before,...
I'm trying to save clip art in .png format so I can preserve the transparent background (I realize .png is usually used for web graphics.) My problem is that my images are absolutely huge. When I save a 4 inch graphic (canvas trimmed) as a png-24 and then attempt to place the file it is suddenly 18" tall. The quality...
When I open a .gif image in Photoshop - non animated - it always locks automatically and you cannot unlock it. Aside from that when try try to add text it will make a red block and convert the text to bitmap. You annoyingly have to copy and paste the document into a new document. Then layer from there.
I would like to have a font with all characters the same width. For example, a W is wider than an i in most fonts ...Is there any font that has all characters equally wide?
I am doing a modified version of SVG-edit 2.6 alpha, an online tool that allows the creation of graphics. I intend to use the application to allow my university students to send files for cutting their project stickers through the web. However the measurements are in pixels and I am worried that the conversion on my s...
How do I add a watermark to one A4 page of text? You know, the standard image-as-a-watermark. I tried doing it in MS Word, the text ended up forming a blanket over the image. Photoshop CS5 was not a success for me either. I eventually had to resort to printing the image first and then the text, but how can I avoid havi...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90769238@N04/8244823596/ Please help me either identify this font from the Genz-Ryan logo.
I've just been searching around the net for version control that has some support for graphic/Photoshop files. We're currently using BitBucket which is free and unlimited when it comes to file size but doesn't have any design review tools. Here's what I've found. Does anyone else have any recommendations? Pixelapse – F...
I am working on the svg-edit application and I am receiving customer orders through the web. I am converting those pixels to mm based on the formula 3.77 pixels = 1 mm. Is there anyway that something might go wrong if my customer uses a different PPI than what I am using or maybe a different monitor or operating system...
Does CorelDraw has a default read resolution for SVG's? The only DPI settings that will show me the number of pixels exactly as they were created is 96. Is that Corel's native DPI resolution for reading svg files or am I missing something? If I ramp up the resolution to 300 DPI I get wrong numbers, however 96 seems ok...
I designed my cv on Photoshop and then I did two things but still I have a problem: I have two pages of my CV, I saved them as JPEG with save form web and then I combined them in a PDF in Acrobat around and got a 450 KB file, which is suitable in some job websites but the websites didn't detect text as it is a message...
I have a 4 color gradient fill angled at 40 degrees (maybe its not the best way to achieve what I want) and the lines where colors meet are having jaggies. I have attached a screenshot of the gradient settings and the actual result. I would like to know if there is a way to make those edges smooth.
Usually, when I crop an image in Photoshop, I can drag around the area and just crop. But when I try this in Photoshop Elements, however, the image is always resized. Is there a way I can just crop and not scale so it's insanely small?
Most designers hit a roadblock at one time or another. Few designers get those "dream" projects where they are allowed to create anything and everything they want. In most cases we all have to adhere to some restrictions. After dealing with similar restrictions repeatedly, it becomes very easy to get mired down in ho...
I import VECTORS in illustrator that i want to lasercut but they are measured in pixels. I want to output that to DXF. However i am wondering if pixels are converted to mm using a standard formula in Illustrator. From what i am guessing however Illustrator is set to default DPI at 72 so the formula is standard (pixels...
Questions as follow: 1) I want to make a design in Illustrator for a box packaging, say of 5 x 5 x 10. How should I prepare the layout? I mean make it like here: and then just make guide lines! 2) Also, how should I prepare the design for hot stamping process?
Is there a way to directly paste PNG images in Photoshop and keep their transparency? I don't mean dragging them, but directly pasting from, for example, a browser. Transparency is always replaced by black.
When we work on websites, sometimes the PSD files save in the HTML/Images folder of the project. We usually upload HTML folder to the server through Dreamweaver. Is there a way we can tell Dreamweaver to not upload PSD files?
I'm working on a logo and trying to give the logo shape a 3D'ish depth effect. Here is what I currently have: Regular size: Larger size: The way I'm currently achieving this effect is by creating the diamond shapes with regular flat color fill and then I have another 'paste in place' diamond shape that's a gradient w...
I want to emphasize a word in a sentence. I've seen it somewhere but couldn't find the picture. Its like the selected word is normal but all other things are blurry. And maybe the word is closer than the rest. Any tutorial or tips on doing this?
I recently upgraded to CS6 so its throwing me off when I apply styles to that effect borders on shapes, when I select the layer for the shape and in choosing the layer it selects the outer edge of the shape to show me where the shape is, in previous versions of photoshop something like this usually occurs when I first ...
I'm physically disabled and terribly slow at using Photoshop. Part of it is due to my own unfamiliarity with the program. Part of it is due to me being a back end programmer by trade. But, part of it is due to me needing to point-and-click for everything. In my quest to stop being horrible at front end work, I'd lik...
A common problem in Inkscape is that you want to select an object but another object always gets in the way because it completely obstructs the background object or because the two are too close together. Well Inkscape has the alt+click for this case. Unfortunately it about only works on Windows. There are solutions fo...
We're beginning our work with InDesign to create technical documents (reports for customers) due to its XML/import capabilities. Our document has a pretty traditional structure: Title page, TOC, heading, subheadings, footnotes and an index. One problem that we're experiencing is that if we define a new Master (or eve...
I want to convert a OpenType (PostScript flavor) font to an OpenType (TrueType flavor) font. This is because Office Word cannot make pdf´s using a OpenType (PostScript flavor) font. To make it more difficult, I also want to maintain the openType typography tables.
I have this shape and I want only the square corners to round. When I round the whole thing, it affects the circle part...
I'm more of a programmer than designer so forgive me. I am looking to sharpen my UX design skills though. I found plenty of websites that give impressive sets of glyphs and icons, but I've been looking for one that has eluded me for days and it seems really simple. I need a simple white flag icon, but more than just 2...
When designing logos in Adobe Illustrator, what is the best way to save all the separate versions of the logo? In separate project (.ai) files or in separate artboards?
I don't know how to describe it but how do you create that nice textured look with css? Seen in the background: Also seen a bit on the left hand dark navigation of: Thanks for your help Follow up: 1) Is one method (css/or whole image) better suited for mobile? 2) Could you link to a quality source for these small ...
The title says it all. What is the effect used in this image and how are there any good tutorials to do it in Photoshop?
Possible Duplicate: Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette/color scheme around colors I select? Is there any way or tool to choose the best color scheme for a web site? I'm looking the best colors to use for a corporate web site. I'm just in the beginning of my design process.
Possible Duplicate: Name and possibly a tutorial for this inset rounded rectangle technique I'm looking for some special effect to accomplish in Photoshop for both text and a rectangle. Please have a look of below screen cast: http://screencast.com/t/TSeeuWAfgMyh You can see rectangle with some inside effect and s...
Is there a way to do this with Adobe Fireworks? I know its possible using Photoshop with this tutorial.
Well it depends you say-and I agree with you-It varies depending on the page, how complex it is, the style, how much content, graphics used, effects etc. So let me eliminate some of the variability, and ask, how long would you say it takes to design this specific page http://www.ehow.com/. The reason I ask this is beca...
I'm a starter practicing front end web design. I'm having hard time finding solution with the Photoshop "Save for Web" function improperly displaying color. The colors of the Save For Web window do not match my Photoshop document. I've already followed the recommendations of Doug Avery in this link which corrects the m...
The question really says it all. I want to apply brush effect on the stroke once it looks like text. All my tries have resulted in stroke being outline of the text.
Possible Duplicate: How do so many app menus get that finished textured look? I'm still a beginner, but I really like this texture and have been trying for hours to recreate it. Question: How can one make this kind of texture in photoshop? (the black background behind the navigation menu) It doesn't seem to be a s...
Is there a way to retrieve your work after a crash, if you haven't saved for a while?
The more I'm using shared layers, the more I believe there's no real difference between 'Share Layer To All Pages' and master pages. Except for layer sharing being way more flexible, because you can put a shared layer on top of all the others. Are there any benefits in using a master page?
So I want to make a seamless repeating background pattern using the line and dot in this image below... Is there a name for this type of design? (sidenote) If you have any other suggestions, I'm trying to convey a corporate feel to big social media data. I'll submit a nice grayscale/monochrome image to a design blog o...
I have a document with several artboards (7), which I resized, but now my grid (cmd–") is not centered or zeroed correctly (please see photo). I need to adjust the elements on the artboards, and I need the grid to zeroed correctly, otherwise there's no point in using it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
I have a large vector .eps file of 8 logo samples. At 100% zoom, it is crisp and gorgeous, about 4 inches wide and 1.5 inches high on my laptop screen. I tried object > rasterize with CMYK / 300dpi / type anti-aliasing, but lost quality and it was pasted into a new art-board at a much smaller size. I want to save it a...
Possible Duplicate: Choosing colors that work well on projectors Photoshop “Save For Web” Color Shift problem Hey guys I'm having a really tough(since yesterday) time figuring out why my output in PS "Save for Web" is always in monitor RGB. This is really a nightmare for me (a beginner) for I'm trying to apply a job...
Possible Duplicate: eps file vector quality issue I have a large vector .eps file of 8 logo samples. At 100% zoom, it is crisp and gorgeous, about 4 inches wide and 1.5 inches high on my laptop screen. How do I export it at that size and save it in the same quality, but png format at the same size? I'm new to Illust...
When a symbol is not aligned to pixel grid, the origin is not aligned to an intersection of the grid. Thus it becomes very difficult to create pixel perfect symbols. Paths that are snapped to the pixel grid are then redisplayed offsetting from the origin, causing bleeding in the isolation mode. This makes symbols essen...
I am trying to figure out how to make an artboard automatically snap to the size of an image. I know that you can draw a rectangle, then go to the Artboards window and choose "Convert to Artboards" from the flyout menu with the rectangle(s) selected. This does not work for images. The problem I have is that I have abou...
This is less of a question with a definitive answer and more of a request for some tips. I am hoping that some of you may had had this problem yourself and can offer some advice. I have been designing for myself and occasionally freelance for a number of years and I have always gravitated towards a monochromatic/muted...
I'm using a bitmap API with Java in an effort to make a Mondrian-esque painting. This is my result: This is what i want to achive: How can I try to make the image I generated more like a Mondrian painting? I imagine an overlay and off colors would help? Is there anything else?
I have a number of typefaces for which I'd like to find free or open licence alternatives to. Rather than ask a series of "What is the best open license font to substitute for 'Goudy Catalogue'? 'Univers'? ...?" here or elsewhere on the net it occurs to me that what I'd really like is a typeface/font comparison service...
Is there any convenient way to synchronize Photoshop settings like keyboard shortcuts, actions, swatches, custom layer sytles, etc.. across several computers, preferably in an automated way? So far, I have occasionally synchronized some of the above mentioned by dumping them to my cloud service of choice, but this is a...
Working on a file with a mirror layout where the inside margins are bigger than the outside margins. When creating a new page in the middle of the file or changing page positions, objects are automatically adjusted relative to the margins except when those objects extend beyond the document (trim) size. (see image belo...
I need to buy a new Pantone color swatch. I need one that says which percentage of Pantone colors are needed to create another Pantone colors (read: formula guide). Now, I read that newer color swatches pages are very thin, I'd like to have heavy cardboard pages, like in old guides. Maybe the DESIGNER FIELD guide has h...
This is a legal question and I want to know if I can continue the way I work in a commercial environment. This is not about if I can blatantly take images from the web and use them as they are. What I do is mostly icons and iconographic imagery where in the end no one can tell if I used an image that doesn't belong to ...
Do Google's fonts function just like any other font? I've only gotten a few but they look a little poor in quality when used in print applications. Has anyone used them for a print design and did it come out accurately? I know they are optimized for the web - is there a way to identify which ones will look alright on p...
I'm exporting PSD layers to PNGs for a game's texture atlases. When I'm doing Copy -> New File (RGB 8-bit) -> Save As PNG, the resulting PNG is quite heavy and Finder shows white background instead of transparent. But when I'm using Export Layers to Files (24-bit PNG), the resulting PNG is 70-95% smaller. I don't need...
I am not very good when it comes to creating images. So, I decided that I wanted to learn. The reason is, I am creating a chat program/game where I want to be able to create some pictures. I was wondering what type of program you guys think is best to use when creating new pictures. What I am looking for is a program t...
I'm testing CS6's new video features. One issue I found is that when I add panning to text, it does not pan smoothly. It seems like the kerning is adjusted slightly for each frame and it looks pretty bad. I could fix the problem somewhat by rasterizing the text, but then I lose the ability to make changes to the actual...
If I import a psd file with smart layers into Fireworks, is it possible to edit one of those smart layers the same way you would be able to in Photoshop?
So I'm trying to set up templates for other designers to use to adhere to design guidelines, and I want to know if there is any way to specify objects in illustrator and photoshop that do not show up when the image is exported or printed. I know it is possible to make non-printing objects in photoshop, however I would ...
Say I want to create a glowing button for a website. I would like to have the possibility to dynamically change the color of that button by changing the color of it's background. For this I need to create some kind of transparent layer from my original image that i will then superimpose over a colored background. Imagi...
I was recently asked for help with digitizing a large set of photographs - tens of thousands of the things, that need to be digitized so they can be sent to book publishers and possibly other types of clients. So I needed to work out how much space needed, which raised the question of how high quality the scans would n...
I am have been spending a good amount of my time to learn how to do design. My friend is a designer and helps out when he can he often comes around and shows me tricks that make things like text and images look "better". For example: As we all can agree the second one is clearly sharper and better looking. That bei...
Our agency's workflow for creating a website normally consists of: discuss content-design with client we create wireframes (with optional, depending on client, approval) we create one or more pixel perfect "layouts" in illustrator / photoshop client approves with corrections return to step 3 begin coding. Now, since ...
I'm looking for online resources, image libraries, Photoshop actions, tools, or any other means of getting or designing bokeh images (those highly blurred pictures, with colorful circles) for use as backgrounds in web design. Here are some relevant use cases for the aesthetics I want to recreate. One example from tha...
I'm trying to draw a pony in MS Paint (please, suggest me some Better drawing software) ... but everything is going just wrong... That's the real question I can say my troubles one by one (instead of software): I just don't know where to start [draw queue] ( I always start with eyes but then I fail in other parts ) Ve...
I have to design a document for internal use that needs a unique serial number on copy of the sign off sheet. I'm aware that InDesign has a numbering function (to number book/magazine pages) but what I'm looking for is something that's a but smarter than 1,2,3,4... I need it to put out a serial number mixed of letters ...
Which software allows to draw one shapes inside another ones with clipping? I need this to be done automatically, I know I can draw this in Illustrator with Pathfinder. Is there automatic ability somewhere? NOT A CLIPPING MASK Many graphic editors have clipping mask feature. But it doesn't match me since mask does not...
Can I create a document in Illustrator without attaching to the notion of paper with finite size? Can you DELETE the ARTBOARD? I reduced the artboard to some small size and remainder drawings persist. Can I delete the artboard at all?
Disclaimer: I realize there is not a perfect "formula" for this question. I'm looking for your experiential working practices. If you don't have any, I won't hold it against you. Over the last couple of years, webfonts have finally gone mainstream! Browser support is good enough and the market has broadened to the ext...
I built out some shapes to test out a font icon idea. I drew them in Illustrator. I set my art-board to pt at 1000 x 1000. I filled the objects and moved the ruler so that 0 was the baseline. From Font Lab studio, I went to file > font-setup > Metrics and Dimentions: I have changed the Ascender, x height, and caps heig...
I have a background overlay on which I have three text layers on top. Now I want to move these text layers around on the overlay, but I can't get it to work. As soon as I click inside the text layer I can see that the background layer is catching the click, and if I drag I see that it's the background layer that is mo...
I have a Inkscape Project with about 100 Layers. Every Layer has the same shape ( with others beside that are different ). Now I would like to exchange the shape with a new one. So far I did this by hand -> selecting every layer, delete the shape and paste the new shape. Is there any trick to do this more effectively ?...
I'm looking for a font similar to Viga with Polish characters (Latin), preferably one from Google Web Fonts.
If you have in your mind, on paper, or on screen an image of your Web site, how should you go about implementing it? Use Adobe Creative Suite? A text/HTML editor? My understanding is that people used to "slice" images in the past, but that seems passe now. I am not a graphic designer but I design sites casually (for m...
I'm trying to transition some clients apps to Windows Phone 8. These particular clients want their apps to look exactly like they do on iOS and Android (I tried to convince them they shouldn't look the same on those platforms either, but I digress). Anyway I was under the belief that it would be very difficult to actua...
Check the image I attached above. I need to design a different logo. But need to draw it like this one because both the logos will be placed together (they need to match). So, anyone know how to draw the smooth line which is small in some places and large in others? How to add that effect? Im using Illustrator CS5.
I´m using .raw files in CS5 and saving them to .jpg and they are all unedited... The portrait photos are all being compressed and have low res while the landscape ones are fine, why is that? I have reset my setting in CS5 with no result. I just processed 200 photos for a client and half of them (all portrait ones) won...
Is there a single text color that, when used on either dark or light background, produces a readable (or at least tolerable) output? If it makes it easier, constraints can be put on the hue, saturation or brightness of the backgrounds and/or the text color, as necessary. Motivation: Although there may be other uses of...
I'm trying my hand at making a map using illustrator. I'm fairly new at it so I'm still learning the ropes. I'm trying to divide up a continent into several countries using border lines. Here's an example of what I'd like to do: ...so I would end up with two separate, enclosed figures sharing that border. I've tried ...
What would be the best practices to fix the rags on a left aligned text for print. Besides breaking lines and hyphenations, should you use tracking, and if so how much. Also, how would you judged a well ragged text? I think that rag fixing, much like kerning, is one of those things that are really subjective that you g...
I wanted save some layers as PNG files and I had opened a new window for every .png file and pasted in there and sometimes crop it. Is there a way to export just a few or one selected layer and not the whole file much more easily, or maybe only save the visible part as a PNG?
I'd like to know if there is a plugin that writes down all the distances between a layer from its all four sides to all objects near to it, and then do this for all layers. Or at least write down width and height of all layers into one layer.
What's the shortcut for "Deselect Layers" in Photoshop (in OS X)?
I saw this question on the Typography site proposal and it bugged me that I didn't know the answer. I'd always treated 'glyph' and 'character' as interchangable. After reading an explanation on the Unicode Character Encoding Model page, my understanding is roughly this: Characters are defined by their meaning in lang...
How do I get rid of the thin artifact outlines around my live paint fills? The first screenshot shows the wireframe view (CTRL+Y) in Illustrator. The second screenshot shows the normal view in Illustrator. The white artifact lines are very thin, but still visible. The third screenshot shows the pasted result in Photos...
I've got an InDesign doc ready for to send over to someone. Along with it I've got an images folder full of placed images that the InDesign file references. While I was making my document lots of images went into this image file, but now it's gone through several iterations and not all of them are still needed/in use....
Is there quick and easy (non destructive) way to get multiple transparency gradients on one object? For example I want a black-white gradient from bottom to top as well as top to bottom, or variants of that. There is a similar question posted, but this doesn't answer my question.
I'm looking for a pixel font which I'll use later on to convert/use on an lcd type of display and the maximum height is 7px. I've started by checking out dafont's bitmap fonts, but it takes quite a while to test all of them. I've played with a few and I'm surprised to see only a few work well when set to a small size ...

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