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I've been working with FW for a little while now, and I've come to using symbols for sections of a site in my designs. Mostly things like a header or a footer and the occasional sidebar. These parts of the site don't change very often so to make things a bit more modular I make them symbols and edit them if needed and the changes are global for those items. One of the things I am trying to achieve here is to be able to make the slices I'll need for like the navigation or the cart icon of a e-commerce store. While I can do it easily, I'd like it to be within the symbol (I have made slices within a symbol but it doesn't seem to carry over into the common library symbol) that way I can keep it in my common library to basically put together the pieces of a page that I know will be there and have the slices already made if I need to make a new page for my layout on a website. I'm curious if someone has this same problem and looking for the same answer as me or even a work around. I think this would greatly increase anyone's workflow when designing a website that they want to show to a client as a prototype.
What I want to do is paste a picture to a new gimp file. I have the background layer and when I paste it puts it into the floating selection like expected. I found that I'm supposed to turn it into a new layer to be able to move it so I do so. But when I select the move tool and hover over the pasted layer it looks like a mouse, something like rotation, and then a not circle. How do I move this pasted layer?
I'm making a custom folder icon similar to the ones in the Home folder (Pictures, Documents, etc). To do so, I extracted the images from the .icns of the blank folder icon and photoshopped my own graphic onto them. I followed Apple's guidelines for icon sizing. I then packaged all the images into an .icns using Terminal. Now here's the problem: When I put my icon next to one of the home folder icons (with icon size set at 64 x 64 in Finder), it doesn't match. For my icon, OS X is displaying the 32@2x icon. But for its own icons, OS X is displaying a scaled down 128px icon. If I re-export my custom icns without the 32@2x size (so OS X is forced to use the 128 instead), it looks fine. Here is a screenshot. The difference between 32@2x and 128 scaled down is subtle but definitely there.
I'm looking for a good workflow to use the same colors in, for example, a new file in InDesign or Illustrator. is there a "best practice" workflow to use the same colors in different programs?
My app has a button to record or play videos. When there are problems with this feature, we notify the user by overlaying an exclamation point. This "red !" UI works OK elsewhere in the app but on this button the colors look really odd and clashing. Any suggestions for a visual treatment I can apply to the button and/or icon (each split out below) to make the result less contrasty and clashing?
I just recognized a big bug. Could someone please confirm or give me a hint? When cutting a shape with another shape and repasting the shape back, so both shapes lie beside each other, a small space between the shapes still exists. I expected no space between the shapes. This is catastrophic if you paint the shapes in another program and you see the small space between them! Could someone confirm this behavior?
Here's what I have... The top and bottom half are two separate objects each with their own gradient. I would like to remove the curved horizontal line going across the shape, then I would like to add a gradient to the rounded rectangle stroke. I thought I had found an answer to the first part here(drag stroke below contents) which I applied here but in addition to being kind of a work around(the horizontal line still exists), I am still unable to add a gradient to the stroke. The rest of what I've googled regarding removing part of a stroke instructed use of the pen tool to add and then delete anchor points on the part of the stroke that I want removed but I am not clear on how to do this, whenever I tried, I ended up also removing the barrier between the two halves of the object which I do not want to do. I have tried "Object > Path > Outline Stroke" multiple times in order to add a gradient to the stroke but am still left with the same two paths underneath the object's group. I expected the stroke to be turned into a new path. Any help as to how to Remove the horizontal line stroke from existence while still maintaining separate gradients for the top and bottom halves of the object and Add a gradient to the stroke surrounding the rounded rectangle sans the horizontal line would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any recommended books about using the Phi (Golden Ratio) for WebDesign? I've seen a lot of layouts taking advantage of this proportion, but it would be great to read a book with a lot of examples and possible aplications of this math (and possible others) for WebDesign. Thank you.
I have the following screen shot of an image. How can I find the original? I believe it may have come from Getty Images. I'd like to purchase the original version of this, but don't know where to find it.
I frequently see job postings for various marketing positions that specify marketing, English or communications as the degree but a skillset that includes Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, Wordpress/CMS and other creative skills. Is this a disconnect within our field and how it is being taught and perceived? How might we as a professional community begin to educate and address such an issue? Here are a few quotes from current job postings. I don't want to link the actual posts just because they will close relatively soon but hopefully this question can help others. I'm also editing out some of the irrelevant parts Advertising & Events Coordinator Requirements • The ideal candidate will have a college degree in Marketing, Communications or a closely aligned curriculum • be highly motivated, detail oriented and proficient in state-of-the-art social media and digital marketing to include Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, FTP transfers, website CMS editing, HTML, creative design development and other campaign technology to attract high volume attention • The ideal candidates will be flexible, results oriented and a creative problem solver. Here's another one Marketing Manager – Creative Design Manager - Advertising Job Responsibilities As a Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for planning, directing, or coordinating marketing policies and programs, such as determining the demand for products and services, and identify potential customers. Additional Responsibilities of the Marketing Manager include: • Budget Managing new product launches • Developing and managing all literature, cut sheets and all POP for retail items • Organizing and managing trade show activity, developing trade show booth displays • Researching all needed market data Managing web site • Pushing web traffic via SEO and other means Requirements • Expert knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, web and print production • Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills Ability to travel to trade shows Television advertising experience a plus • Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Marketing • Advanced knowledge of graphic design and printing processes • Developing and managing annual marketing And one last one: RESPONSIBILITIES: (include but are not limited to): • Responsible for all web content and updating all property websites. Coordinate web design and development with vendors. Keeping up with web addresses and domain names; • SEO management; • Development and design of all marketing collateral including property brochures, information sheets, invitations and various literature pieces; • Development and design of all signage and banners; • Design and develop all advertising campaigns including newspapers, apartment guides, magazines and web based advertising; • Work with new developments from lease up which includes image branding, collateral, signage, and advertising. QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor’s degree required in Marketing; • Must have proven, solid 3-4 years experience in Marketing; • Must have proven experience with graphic design. Are schools teaching these courses to marketing majors or am I correct that this is a huge disconnect that needs to be addressed?
I have created a rectangle of blue color in illustrator and then have make a swirl(yellow) using pen tool by giving it stroke. Now i want to remove the blue part of rectangle down under swirl in easy way.
I want to create a color spectrum image for a project. How do I create an image like this in photoshop?
I draw a graphic consisting of N lines. I want every two lines to have a different color in order to be visually distinct. Question: Which colors would you recommend? The longer the list, the better, because I need only first N colors, where N varies.
I am an experienced PHP programmer, but very new to Illustrator. Finally, the time has come that I need to download artwork from Shutterstock (shutterstock.com) for use on a customer's website. The file is in .eps format, and when I open this file in Illustrator CS5 I see all of the "Lorem Ipsum" text, but it does not seem to be editable - it seems to be nothing but clickable paths. Is there a simple way for me to use Illustrator to present to me the text in editable text form, so that I can proceed to edit the text? The image is:
I'm trying to find an alternative to simply "bold/italic" words that I want to enhance within a continuous block of Helvetica/Arial text. For example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Is there a specific font/type that I could use instead of bold/italic that would make those words stick out better -- without disrupting the spacing and flow of the text? Unfortunately there is no space for adding paragraphs, indentation etc.
I have selected the paint bucket tool in Photoshop, with a carefully selected foreground color, a tolerance of 8, and "anti-alias" and "contiguous" boxes UNchecked. However, Photoshop nonetheless paints over the desired region of the image with some sort of "gradient" fill - the fill color is not EXACTLY my foreground color choice. How can I ensure that the paint bucket tool fills the region with the EXACT foreground color in Photoshop? ADDENDUM: Here are before-and-after screenshots: Original image (two layers): After fill using paint bucket tool with tolerance of 8 (Note: I want to fill the regions to the right side of the arrow with a single foreground color): Here is a screenshot after using "Edit -> Fill" (as suggested by an answer): Finally, here is the color I WANT to fill with (the foreground color):
This question is about Photoshop CS6. Hopefully the feature was added in this version. Before posting I looked up Google and this and that but didn't find an answer for CS6. So the question is: Is there a feature within CS6 or a script that allows to resize a vector element with rounded corners without using the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow tool) and not changing the border radius? What would be great would be something like simply using the transform tool or something like a grid resize tool.
How do I take a gradient vector design into photoshop, add noise to it, and then return it back into Illustrator without the white background?
I would like to create a fabric pattern, like this one: I'm not very experienced in graphic design. Could somebody please explain how to create a fabric texture and overlay a wavy line pattern in Photoshop?
Does anybody know a tutorial for designing the OS X Mountain Lion background pattern? I am referring to this commonly used background pattern:
Sometimes, when inspiration hits me, I start designing a document using multiple colors. Or I use the Blend tool to create a smooth set of colors for me to work with. But it always happens that eventually, I need to start matching my colors and keeping better track of them, which I usually do with the Swatches panel. But I always end up clicking an object/path, dragging the color from the color picker into the swatches panel and then repeating for all the colors I want to keep. Is there a way for me to just have the Swatches panel add all the current colors in the document or layer or from a selected group?
Can I resize the texture pattern that applied via Illustrator graphic styles? And if not, is there any workaround to achieve this?
Double-click on the Adobe Illustrator eyedropper icon, and you get a useful panel of advanced options that allow you to control what it picks up and what it applies. Two columns, 'Eyedropper picks up' and 'Eyedropper applies'. You can set it to pick up things it doesn't apply, and apply things it doesn't pick up. This seems like a useful feature, but it doesn't behave as I expected, and I can't find any case in which it makes a meaningful difference. I thought that the purpose of this would be to mix settings. So, you could set 'Pick up' and not 'Apply' for something, and fill up the eye picker with that setting. Then, you could reverse the settings, tick 'Apply' and untick 'Pick up', and those stored settings would be applied whatever was clicked on with the eyepicker, alongside whatever other things it was set to pick up. But it doesn't work like that at all. Here are the results of some experiments... These show that, when an item is selected and the eyedropper tool is used to grab the appearance of another item, 'Eyedropper Applies:' settings appear to make no difference. My expectation was: nothing applied to A in Panel ii, blue fill black stroke applied in panel iii (picking up the blue fill, then applying the new blue fill plus the black stroke it picked up earlier from memory), and blue fill black stroke applied in panel iv (both from memory). However, in all these cases, the 'Applies...' settings seem to make no difference, and the 'Picks up...' setting appears to control both what is picked up and what is applied. It's like the 'Applies' settings aren't there. But they must do something. Can anyone give an example of different 'Picks up...' and 'Applies...' settings doing something useful that illustrates the significance of these two different settings and how they work?
Is there a way to save an Inkscape drawing so the layer information will not be removed? When I save the drawing as plain SVG and try to open it again in Inkscape, all layers are gone.
In Inkscape I first typed text, created a circle, then made two lines from the center. It looks like this now: Now, I want it to look like this with the piece cut off, which I made before: I can't make it work. Every path boolean operation is not working. How do I cut circle like a pie?
In reverse engineering a letterhead, the actual image is as follows scanned as 300 dpi. This is what I have come up with. It is achieved by placing high resolution images, drawing rectangles and creating a clipping mask. As it comes with Clients, no matter how hard I explain that the new (bottom) is actually better than the old (top), my Client made it very clear that he needs for the images to be 100% (not the term he used, but "as close as you can get them to be to show us that we are paying the right guy" was the term actually used) indenticall. I guess my question is how would I go about giving the images a fuzzy effect. I have already applied the "feather effect" to achieve the white-ish borders in AI-CS5. Maybe it is the fault of the scanner. But a ideal solution would be is to give some kind of mask/filter (I don't know these terms, but they come around often in PS & AI) to give a indentical/same color effects to all the images.
So here's the graphic I'm working on (don't hate me, I didn't come up with this one). I'm in Illy 15.1.0. You can probably see what I'm trying to get to next: I want the offset rule to follow the wrap effect. I know I could draw a path independent of the base ribbon shape. Trouble is, my team is going to be doing a lot of these. I'm trying to help them find the most efficient way to build them so they can be scaled and stretched and whatnot. Please tell me there's a method I'm missing. Here's what I have now. The main rectangle with the stroke and shadow is created with effects. Bottom line: Is there some way to carry these effects "around" the wrap that doesn't require a separately drawn offset stroke? I know the shaded part of the ribbon that goes behind will be a separate shape but I'd like the designers to just keep the stroke as an effect somehow. Incidently, this is where the team landed. You can see why I felt the need to find a solution for them ;)
Whenever I have tried making tiny tiles for tiling, like 10px x 10px in size, the only thing I have ever been able to make well is diagonal lines. I suppose it has something to do with painting principles like how we perceive tiny light and shadow (up/down,inside/outside). How can I create tiles that repeat well in Photoshop?
I've seen symbols with accents which are often referred to as diacritical marks. But what are they exactly? How many such accents even exist? And how do current typography tools (fonts, word processing software, etc) store and processes them?
I'm bit of a newbie in Adobe Illustrator and have been learning the application by trying to follow some tutorials and recreating some cool stuff I come across on the web. That being said, I'm having trouble replicating the effect found in the following image using the standard 'Extrude & Bevel' options. I've also tried copying + pasting the text in front, back, in place and that came out even more horrendous. 'Extrude & Bevel' gives me a nice approximation but nothing that pops out like in the example. Any tips on how to fine tune my 'Extrude & Bevel' settings or an entirely different method of achieving a similar effect would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time and help! How can I create a 3D effect on my text similar to the one in the following image, using Illustrator's Extrude and Bevel tools?
I needed one font...then i found 24000. I installed all of them. My computer started to take minutes to do everything. So ... How do i browse all fonts without crashing everything..not that i think its a good idea.
Commercial or free. Something similar like these: Dribble: 3D Face Dribble: Face Proccess Dribble: Face iOS Icon I want to use them in a web site for unknown gravatars/avatars.
Want this for an invoice. Is it a brush or custom shape?
If I select Rotate tool, I can select center of rotation then and move it. After that I am able to rotate object around that center. But this rotation is imprecise. Suppose I want to rotate for 120 degrees. I can double click on Rotate tool and get Rotate dialog, where I can enter precise value in degrees. But this way I can't use shifted center of rotation because it jumps back to geometric center at the moment I call Rotate dialog. Is it possible to rotate by precise angle with dialog and have shifted center of rotation.
I'm trying to expose a silkscreen with photo-emulsion. I have an LED light (90 w) that is equivalent to a 450W - 500W incandescent light. The light is mounted 18" from the screen. I'm trying to determine the exposure time. Any ideas on how to calculate this? (I don't have a step wedge or extra screen).
Does this mosaic technique have a name? I want to learn how to create images like this: Marquee of InDesign CS6: And random image of a girl I found on the web: It combines many almost random but thematically or stylistically similar images, newspaper clippings, letters and snippets of text, etc to create one rough, chaotic, energetic image.
I want to take some portrait shots and then replace the background. I don't have a green screen or anything I can use for chroma keying, so I had this idea that I could take a picture of a background, and then take another picture with people in front of it, and then separate the people from the background by doing a "difference" on the two pictures to create the mask. Both pictures were taken from exactly the same position (using a tripod and a remote shutter release), so that isn't a problem. The problem is that despite having identical exposures, the lighting of the background is slightly different, so when I take the difference there is a lot of values in the range of 0-15 (on a 0-255 scale) making it impossible for Threshold to determine the mask. Is there another technique I can use, or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
I am trying to cut up a circle into several smaller rings, I am using a quick method I where i go to the Select menu option and choose Modify > Contract. Using this sparingly like 5px, the object is still rounded to the average viewer. However, if I increase the amount to contract the shape by. Up to say 45px, the image becomes blocky as shown below (B). It goes from being a perfect circle (A) to a somewhat rounded polygon and it gets even worse the more I increase the pixels to contract by. Is there any explanation for this behaviour? The shape is rasterized.
Its sort of like the sunburst but I need even whitespace between each fin, I dont need them to go completely around the circle just half. Ive tried stroke but did not give me the result I wanted or I was doing it wrong. Going thru and moving the objects with the select tool and rotating is becoming a massive headache. Even in my demo image its not even. Whats the best practice method to do this?
When I try to draw a shape, I can't seem to get it to create a new layer, but rather it always goes on the layer that I already have selected. How do I create a new layer from a shape that I wish to draw? Otherwise, I can't seem to edit its colour.... In relation to this, I watched a tutorial and each time the guy drew a new shape it created a coloured thumbnail linked to a thumbnail with the shape inside of a grey box. For me, currently, the shapes just keep appearing on transparent layer thumbnails. This is what the tool bar looks like with the shape tool selected:
I'm designing monospace pixel fonts for a game, and so far I've only been able to work with extremely small sizes (largest I've managed is 5x9) because those ones are the easiest to try and err with. Often times the results I come up with for sizes even as small as 7x13 are all blockish and unappealing. I've analyzed some other pixel fonts, and most of the graphically appealing ones make lots of alternate considerations that I never would have thought of making, such as making entire sections only diagonally connected. Are there any special block sizes that are "optimal" for designing pixel fonts? Are there any special pixel placements that I might have to keep in mind? Because sometimes when I draw a line that's only 11 pixels long (or make things intersect at such small sizes), it ends up looking like something else once zoomed out.
I can't find the Pixel Grid option like I would have in CS5. I just upgraded. Any ideas?
I've seen this convention a lot but I don't really understand the use for it - or for a solid background layer at all, to be honest. I'd be very grateful if someone could explain why each new project starts out with a solid background layer, which most people then convert to transparency? Thank you very much in advance.
Once I have made a shape and added particular layer effects, these effects automatically apply to any shapes (or even shapes from paths) that I draw immediately afterwards. Is there a setting where I can prevent this continuity of the effects I add? How else do I clear them and restore whatever the default is? Thank you in advance.
In Photoshop, how does one create the below single-line zig zag effect, per the instructions? Every time I have completed a work path, it will join one end to the other, so the stroke I apply after making it into a selection will always be of a looped shape. (N.B. The grey line above the jagged one is the bottom edge of a rectangle that was created in the previous step. The zig zag line appears to be on its own) Thanks very much for any help.
I encountered this image that is very impressive and interesting to me. In particular, I love the mixture way texts are presented. I just wondered if there is a name for this style so I can Google for more similar images.
How does one create a shape in photoshop? The two ends of my shape are not closing. Can someone please tell me the principles of working with the pen tool?
In Photoshop, how do i move the selection or shape while creating it self. is there any procedure or shortcut key to move the selected path while selecting the path itself? Thanks very much for any help.
In Photoshop, how does all layers in the project are hide except selected one..for example if there is 10 layers are there in my project. i need one layer should be visible and remaining 9 layers should hide ..is their any shortcut to do this Thanks very much for any help.
In Adobe products are there any shortcut keys to move layers forward and backward instead of dragging layers up and down in the palette to arrange them?
Basically when someone gives me a PSD that has a bunch of copy and other things that I need to quickly strip off to use the background on a web page. What are the fastest ways to clear that and start new. Currently I save a copy. Then start deleting the layers that will not be used as web backgrounds. But then what? I remember a keyboard shortcut in Photoshop to copy and then paste to a new document, and when copied it came down to the size of the remaining object (not the original canvas size).
Possible Duplicate: Turning a text “string” into a text “block” in Photoshop CS6? Here we know that there are two texting modes in PSE - "single-line" and "paragraph". The problem is how to convert point text to paragraph in photoshop?
I am building web pages from a PSD. The designer just made all layers on the same size canvas which makes it harder to copy into a new layer in its intended size. What could be a good work flow to get to the logo and reuse it? What I normally do is the following 1. Copy the original 2. Delete all unecessary layers 3. Roughtly crop what I need 4. Get in closer and crop until I have a more desirable size. But I imagine there has to be a more efficient way to get the element that I need.
In Photoshop you can select next or prev blending mode with cursor up and down, but can't do the same in the Adobe Illustrator. How to fix that? Maybe shortcuts or scripts can help...
Any ideas how can I create "subtly pushed" buttons like the "Active filter" buttons in the following screenshot? The mockup is from here. UPDATE: Here's what I have got so far:
I found this pencil stroke is very fancy and I wondered how it can be emulated in Gimp or Photoshop. Actually I found pencil drawing is really fascinating and I hope to learn more about it. I will greatly appreciate any: tutorials on how to make this kind of drawing similar works so that I feel the beauty
I'm pretty new to image editing. I want to be able to batch oilify a number of images. However, I can't find a GUI option in GIMP to do this. In the filters menu there is a Batch process.. option, but this only allows for basic operations such as resizing, cropping, and so on. Is there a way I can do a batch process from within a GUI? If this is not possible, is there some command line, or script method I could use?
I'm trying to give a photograph I took a nice reflection on Photoshop. I've done this with previous pictures by simply making a copy, flipping it, and fading it out. However, I took this picture in two point perspective (not realizing that it would be difficult to reflect) and the reflection method I'm trying is coming out awful. What's a good way to make this reflection work? UPDATE This is my attempt at a reflection. It was made by copying parts of the sculpture I thought would appear in the reflection and arranging it until I thought it made sense, though I know it's not perfect. What do you think? Please critique.
I think this screenshot is self-explanatory. Shouldn't I see all of the created slices when I export for the web? Instead, I just see one! Could it be that the file have a very high resolution (4k x 3k)? Thanks in advance! EDIT: I tried to save anyway and it works! It gives me all my slices in separate files. Why then I see only one in the export window? Not so much of an issue now, btw...
i want to apply lighting effects for that shape.but before applying it. It is asking to rasterize the layer....can't we apply the effects directly to shape?
I have created a shape and selected a layer. In the Edit menu the Define custom shape... option is disabled. Can any one tell what mistake I have made.
How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from http://www.graphicdesigninspiration.net/2012/08/15/70-awesome-logo-designs-for-your-inspiration/? It is a large number circles of different, varying sizes, which form the shape of a text character.
could anyone identify the font in the image below? I've found a lot of fonts that are very similar, but none that are dead on matches.
Sometimes German students ask me how to do the typesetting of documents in English, French or Spanish. I'm not able to help them because I never learned to speak or write French or Spanish. Different languages have different typographic rules to typeset documents. For English documents one can read Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style" or for German documents, for example, "Detailtypografie" by Friedrich Forssman and Ralf de Jong. Do you know a document (book, article or URL) comparing the styles for some languages (English, German, French, ...)? Some examples: abbreviations are written in German with a "Spatium" (a small space, in LaTeX: \,, for example: z.\,B. = e.g.), in English without any space, abbreviations should not used in German at the beginning of a sentence (write the complete word(s), for example "Zum Beispiel"), a dash in English is --- (in LaTeX) without spaces before and after the character, in German ~-- (with spaces, ~ is a space without the possibility of line breaking), the quotation marks are different (English: “Foo” vs. German: „Bar“ vs. « Baz »; LaTeX package csquote), vertical, horizontal and double rules in tables (LaTeX package booktabs), in German the ampersand & is only allowed in company names (Paul & Söhne), in English I don't know, in German punctuation marks like !?., are written without a leading blank, there are different style formatting footnotes in German (e.g. normal number, hanging, footnote text left justified or right left justified). Other languages?
As far as I can see, creating graphic design goes through two main steps. Coming with up an idea. Turning the idea into a real design. I find that I am stuck in the first step. I am new to graphic design with little professional training or real project experiences. I love this field and can feel a bunch of lovely visual ideas constantly emerging in my head. The disappointing fact is I can neither make those ideas into real designs nor become satisfied with the work I have attempted (both possibly because of my lack of skills and experience). I believe there are some (possibly many) of you who have gone through this anxious period and I wonder how you have reacted to make yourself better at turning visual thoughts into real designs.
Are there any books that teach the theory and process required to create icons like the Chrome logo below using Photoshop? I know the basics of Photoshop and its tools but are there any books that teach how to combine them to create stunning icons, etc.? Source: Dribbble.
I applied the redeye tool for my image, but after applying it, I do not see any major difference… How can I remove the red eyes in that image?
I learned css snd html, thinking that making a site that looks good and professional would be a simple matter of basic layout and some fiddling with colours/text. However on beginning the css portion of my site design, I've found that everything looks like a gradeschool web project or like it's from the 90's. All of the color schemes i apply look awful- in fact solid colours in general dont look very professional. Then i go on professional sites and notice that alot of their graphics amnd div backgrounds are filled with custom gradients or other designs, not just a single solid color. Can i make a professional looking site using just basic html and css, or will i need to design graphics as well?
Possible Duplicate: Techniques to dramatically scale an image Is there any way that I can increase the size of these google images without ruining the quality? I'm starting with high-resolution images, but when expanded to 36" x 36", the images that I have tried are pixelated and look to be poor quality. Are there any programs that can help me? Or is there a way within the Adobe Master Collection to do this?
When a book uses arabic page numbering, the usual habit is to treat the front cover as a page number 1, and start the book itself by page number 3. However, sometimes the front-matter of the book is numbered seperately by roman numbers. In such case, should the first page be i = 1 or iii = 3?
It is a given fact that I cannot number the appendicies (i.e., back-matter) in my works/book by continuing the arabic numbering from the main-matter. The reason is that the main-matter numbering is continued from a previous works and will continue in the next works, and the appendicies have to be omitted from this numbering. What is the prefered way to number the back-matter in this case? The front-matter is numbered by roman numerals. I'm using LaTeX, I know that I can use basically whatever I want, however, I would prefer to follow the English typography traditions as much as possible.
Coming form a digital background, I have often read different kinds of suggestions (for example 35-50 ems) for how wide a column of body text should be to still maintain a good readability. Is there any advice from the print design that could be adapted, and in what measurement are they given (em, word count, letter count, other..)? I am particularly looking for articles, books or other references on this. Can digital be mirrored to print media when it comes to column width, and vice versa?
I have a Wacom Bamboo Tablet with pen, and every time I touch the pen down, the brush selection tool pops up instead of just drawing. I don't recall having this issue in Windows 7, but I was also using CS5 back then too. How do I disable the brush selection tool on tap? I can't seem to find any options in PSE 11 or in the Wacom Drivers.
On a whim, I decided to try to recreate a high resolution Paint Shop Pro 8 logo icon. The icon is a red painter's palette with a paint prush and the text "PSP 8". I traced the outline of the palette, traced the paint brush handle, bristle clamp, and bristles, and typed the text all on different layers. My difficulty comes in that the palette has a hole cut in the middle of it for the artist's thumb to grip. I've traced a vector path for the hole, but I don't know how to make the center of the hole (which I've specified should have no fill) be empty space in the middle of the outer outline of the palette. I'm sure that this will be better illustrated by images than by my words, so here you are: Now, it would be the easiest thing in the world to convert the palette and the hole to raster layers, select the outline of the hole, highlight the palette layer and delete those pixels, but I want to get better at using vector drawing tools and being able to cut a hole out of the interior seems like a pretty basic skill to have.
I'm not savvy when it comes to HTML/CSS. I use Typepad for my blog, and that limits me a lot. There are four divs. <div id="container-inner"> <div id="nav"></div> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="pagebody-inner"> <div id="alpha"></div> <div id="beta"></div> </div> </div> </div> I need "beta" to appear on the type right of the page, to the right of "nav" and before "alpha". The link to the live site is here: http://sarajchipps.com/ Your help is greatly appreciated.
I am currently trying to create a batch action in Photoshop CS3 to re-size the canvas on images of varying dimensions and insert a text box in the new space at the bottom of the image created by the canvas resizing. The primary problem is the varying dimensions of the images. I can use relative positioning for the canvas re-sizing, but I am stuck on how to create the text with the correct dimensions (vertical will be the same, but horizontal may vary) and then position the text box at the bottom, either using some sort of 'coordinates = max value' (for referencing the lower right hand corner); or (0, max value) for referencing the bottom left hand corner. I suppose I would also need to specify which corner of the text box I am aligning it to (perhaps with the Transform tool?). To sum it: How do I create a text box in an action with a set vertical value and a horizontal value equal to the horizontal dimensions of the canvas? How do I reference the "maximum value" using the coordinate system? I am trying this in Photoshop CS3, but if you think another CS3 product with action functionality is better suited for this task, please let me know. I know Photoshop dropped some of its support for coordinate positioning in favor of its snap-to features. (I have seen a related post at: Can I transform an image's location in a Photoshop action so that it's relative to the canvas and NOT the image? - but I'm not sure this is the solution to my problem).
I want to know how can I draw a dashed circle in photoshop, I am using photoshop CS5. \ In one of the article I found that by using pattern we can do it, I found this pattern http://www.brusheezy.com/patterns/14725-dotted-and-pois-photoshop-patterns but its not giving dashed circle.. thanks
I'm doing up a document in the style of the earliest printed documents. For this, I need to find a blackletter font that supports long s « ſ » and r rotunda « ꝛ ». Are there any such fonts out there?
I want to make a logo. The content of the logo is a picture and a sentence which round a picture like a circle. I am using Inkscape (on Ubuntu). Which tools should I use? If I can't do this on Inkscape, what software should I use?
Is it possible to have a text frame auto-expand to fit the text in Indesign CS6? So when I continue to add text the frame containing it automatically grows in size and doesn't cut the text and show the overflow indicator.
I’m experimenting with fonts for learning purposes, and I noticed that using only one font type looks many times plain, but using more can easily make a mess out of my webpage and CD cover (these are the ones I’m experimenting with). I have hard time finding the balance, so I’m curious if there is a rule of how many different fonts can I use, or what kind of fonts can balance each other. I read the answers for Guidelines for logos using multiple typefaces , but I want to express two or more different things (like the formal/elegant mood of a music school and the feeling of a particular work of theirs) and I'm still stuck.
Is there an icon set for displaying "All", "Some", and "None" states? For example, an icon for "All categories", one for "Some categories", and one for "No categories".
I would like to give an object a striped fill, where the stripes are thin and dense. I chose "stripes 1 : 2" from the Pattern Fill menu but the pattern was too coarse. Online help suggested that after selecting the object, handles for controlling the scale, orientation and origin of the pattern should appear. However, I could not find them so for now I'm relying on scaling the objects up without resizing the pattern, then scaling down while resizing the pattern. Is there a better way to do this, or did I miss a way to find the above-mentioned handles?
I have been designing web banners for more than a year but never considered the DPI. I was using the default 72 dpi, but now I want to know is it necessary to create web designs in 72 dpi? What if we use more than that, for example 200 dpi? I know that more DPI means more quality image and that's why I want to use high DPI, but recently I read somewhere that for web banners we should use 72 dpi. I just want to know if it is mandatory and if it affects negatively in any aspect?
I originally thought the standard was Helvetica, but looking at these examples we see the font is narrower and the 'R' doesn't look like Helvetica. Also, these signs are typically routed -- so the router will give a rounded profile to sharp corners. Does anyone know what font is used here, or anything that comes close?
I'd like to change the cover in an iBooks Author book from being a portrait to landscape. The art has already been created to be the same as a page spread and it doesn't work to cut it in half. Wondering if I need to use another software like InDesign but Ibooks seems to be much easier. It seems like even the landscape templates have a portrait cover.
I'm looking for a way to use one color in multiple different layers, and then be able to change that color in all the layers in one single place. Lets say that I have four layers using #ffffff. Now I want to know what my design looks like with #ffff00 instead. How can I do this without manually changing all four layers? I can add that adjustment layer on hue/saturation is not really what I'm looking for. What I need is something like "change all #ffffff to #ffff00."
I am using rectangular marquee tool to cut a portion of the layer in photoshop cs5, but after cutting, the edges are not sharp, I get blur edges. how can I get sharp edges?
On the web, using ® (® or ®) will make the Registered mark almost as big as the rest of the text. How can you modify the size of it to match how it would appear in print?
Is it possible to combine an open path and a closed path in Illustrator? I want to take these two paths: And combine them to make a box like this, except I don't want the points of the diamond-shaped path to extend past the left and right side of the other path:
To me my designs looks good, at least for some months. But to others not so much. I want to go freelancing but I don't want to be a bad designer. So how do I find out if my logo/website/business card/backgrounds are good, and if not, what is bad about them?
I had a paper-and-ink image with a thick black border around it. Past the black border was very dirty white paper. I wanted to (using Photoshop) replace the dirty white paper with pure white, or possibly with paper texture cloned from other parts of the image. I realized that there was a reasonable gap in luminosity between the border and the dirt, so I figured what I could do is pick a shade of grey somewhere inside that gap, let's call it the threshold, that's brighter than the border, and darker than the dirt. Then just use the polygonal lasso tool to select right down the middle of the black border (so no finicky feathered edges on the selection, just nice straight lines) and select the dirty trim around the image. Fill that area with white on a new layer, and then say "Display this layer wherever the background is brighter than the threshold, otherwise display the background." If I pick the right threshold value, that should have the effect of masking off the dirty white paper, but letting through the border, right? All without the need to do any tedious, risky manual work that might gnaw into the border. But how can I do that? Is it even possible?
I know a business that wanted a website to match their brand, and it would seem that they are allergic to colour. I think designs in greyscale can look amazing, especially in print, but it feels near impossible to apply to website design. In this case, the business was centered around social networking and new technology but a greyscale design I feel is rather outdated and didn't reflect at all what they did, even though, apparently that was their brand. (They said they were going for that 'Apple like minimalism style and sophistication' but perhaps they were thinking of Apple ten years ago) The business's website today is about as bland as cold white rice, (like one of those warranty documents you get with a new gadget you bought). I recently received a request from a client who, for an architectural practice requested the same look and feel, without colour. What do think makes a website look modern and interesting while lacking colour?
I have a simple shape in Illustrator that has two curved edges, two straight edges, and four sharp corners: I want to round off the sharp corners a bit like so (kinda sorta approximated by the Feather effect). Effect -> Stylize -> Round Corners doesn't work because it gets rid of the curved edges and makes straight lines instead. Is there a way to have Illustrator round the corners of a shape with curves?
When designing in Photoshop I frequently place a guide a certain distance away from an object so that I can keep consistent spacing (e.g. all headings could have 40px of padding below them). In Photoshop, I can use the Ruler tool to measure 40px from an existing object/guide, than drag a new guide out, let it snap to the end of the ruler, and release it. In Illustrator, though, the Measure tool disappears as soon as I start to drag out a guide. Is there a way to place a guide (ideally) or an object itself (if guides aren't possible) a certain distance away from an existing object or guide?
I need to send a file to someone but it has sensitive information on it that I would not like to share. I was going to just scan the document and edit out the sensitive information with a layer covering the sensitive information, but I wonder if this is acceptable. For example, if someone were to intercept the file and read the data to unmask the information that is being hid. Any thoughts?
I'm using a theme based on 1140px grid and I'd like to make the content area narrower while making the sidebar wider (currently it's 250px). How do I ensure everything stays proportional? I'm looking at something in the region of 300px for the sidebar.
How do I make ctrl-dragging (to snap to other paths) the default way of dragging in Adobe Illustrator cs6 -- without pressing any key? I recently upgraded from Illustrator cs3 to cs6, and I had this behaviour in cs3. And I'm missing it.
I am using Adobe Photoshop version 13.0 (CS6) and I am trying to make this image transparent: I am trying to do something like layer --> new layer ..but it isn't working for me. I am very new to Photoshop so if someone could please explain how to make this image transparent, that would be very nice!
I saw this photo on Smashing Magazine: Portrait of Alfred Nobel by Viktor Hertz And I was wondering how I can make a similar effect with the halftones extruding into 3D like it is shown. I don't have access to Photoshop Extended, so was trying to create the effect in Illustrator with the 3D effect with no avail. Anyone know how this is done?

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