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A Photoshop document‘s physical size, pixel density (DPI/PPI) and pixel dimensions are all linked.
Bitmap images contain bitmap data, which are a specific size (pixel dimensions). They also contain a DPI/PPI tag, which is usually a single value or pair of values (one for X, one for Y). The image's physical size is calculated using the pixel dimensions and DPI/PPI. This is how some print design apps place images at “100%” optimal size, which will typically be a different physical size to viewing an image at 100% in Photoshop.
Questions
Please note that the questions below relate to changing a document's DPI/PPI without changing the pixel dimensions of the image.
Given that DPI/PPI is just a single value contained within a Photoshop document, which — if any — features in Photoshop change depending on the document's DPI/PPI?
Do gradients and gradient dithering look different with different DPI/PPI values?
Do other layer styles look different with different DPI/PPI values?
Additional info:
DPI = Dots per inch
PPI = Pixels per inch
Sometimes metric measurements are used instead of inches, like pixels per centimetre.
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I have just recently purchased the HP Pavilion M6 15.6" Laptop - Silver (AMD A10-4600M / 1TB HDD / 8GB RAM / Windows 8). This laptop has a AMD Radeon HD 7670M + 7670M Dual Graphics.I am having some troubles with my photoshop CS5. The grey screen when opening a new file keeps flickering between a checkerboard backround and the grey backround. Does this have anything to do with the graphics card if so what graphics card should I upgrade to. Or is it just simply windows 8?
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First off - I am not a graphic designer, but want to be. I have become a little familiar with Photoshop and yesterday was my first time using Illustrator.
I purchased this image from shutterstock - http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-116461561/stock-vector-retro-poster-design-with-clouds-vector-illustration.html
I thought I could just open it in Photoshop, the text portions of it would be in separate layers. I could just edit the text in those layers and voila I will have a poster with my text instead of the sample text but in the same style as the sample.
Well first I found out that if opened in Photoshop, the whole file is converted/merged/rasterized into a single layer. So I opened it in Illustrator. In illustrator there is a layer for each letter in the text and they are compound paths (I learned the term half an hour ago). I could not find any way to change the text even when I have a layer with an alphabet selected and the type tool selected. I 'released' the compound paths thinking that will show the real text layer, but no and of course the text lost some of the styling/effect .
This is how the layers look in Illustrator -
So questions -
Is there a text layer at all? Is there a way to modify the text while keeping the style the same? Or if its not a text layer, did they hand draw the text with the pen or pencil tool? If they actually used a font, do you recognize it what font this is? And what effects have been applied? Sorry for the slew of questions.
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How to get this look in Photoshop or by any other online application?
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I am currently interested in how (what program to use) to make this effects of lighting and animated aura in the following video.
Snapshot of video:
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I am wondering if there is a way to make GIMP (2.8 on Mac) allow me to make a rectangle with rounded corners - the radius being over 100 px. This seems to be the current limit.
This would greatly help me make great looking iOS app icons.
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I was trying to paste some pattern that I made inside another layer. But each time I pasted, it ended up on the layer selected instead of its layer mask even when mask was selected.
I have Photoshop CS5.
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I need to create a sharing button such as the one of Twitter. Are there any standard sizes I should use for it?
(Edit: I'm developing a sharing service)
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In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, the eye icon appeared as opened or closed to indicate a layer's visibility. In Photoshop Elements 11, the layer's visibility is only indicated by a diagonal line through the eye icon, which makes it much harder to read at a glance.
Is it possible to change, customize, or replace the eye icons, either to the previous open/closed pair, or to something else that makes the difference between visible and hidden layers more obvious?
(I asked this question on superuser.com before, but received no response there.)
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I have recently become aware of a fundamental mistake I had been making; I have been matching a company's identity's typeface and using it for the headers of my websites, which in hindsight really detracts from the overall feel and merges their brand in with the rest of the site.
I have now had to start thinking about the shock-horror of having the company's 1/2 brand typefaces and selecting 1/2 typefaces for website headings/body to synchronise with them.
Any tips/advise that could be shared about doing this, when there are 3-4 typefaces to be combined?
Is it a case of just varying the weight and style of 1 particular font that works well with the ID?
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By importing a simple solid vector shape from Photoshop into Flash it convert into a shape and a mask. It makes editing very difficult. Is is possible to change this behavior?
Photoshop:
Flash:
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I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but is anyone aware of a metric for apparent chroma?
Now I understand that "chroma" and "chrominance" are very overloaded terms, so to clarify, I specifically mean the chroma described here--the "colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated white". At full saturation this should be 255. At any black/white/gray it should be 0. And the closer a lightness is to the ends of the spectrums, the lower the maximum chroma (in contrast to the inverse of saturation where it is always 255). Basically chroma is the lateral dimension of the HSL bicone.
Unfortunately, this color model makes no corrections for perceived chroma--that is, how our imperfect eyes perceive equal chromas differently based on hue (e.g. #FFFF00 does not appear as chromatic as #0000FF).
So my question is, is there such a metric? Or can anyone point me to an academic paper on the subject? My own searches have turned up nothing, not helped by the multiple definitions of "chroma".
For the curious, my objective is to establish a general approximation of "jarringness" for colors of text and backgrounds of websites, working on the theory that apparent chroma is a significant factor.
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I have a logo symbol that has several intersecting lines. In Adobe Illustrator (CS6), slight gray lines are being added at the intersection points.
I haven't noticed it in other artwork, it only seems to appear on black (dark) backgrounds. There is no stroke.
Any idea what this is?
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PNG8 is a great compressed format when we don't really need semi-transparency. Often an asset will have semi-transparency data that we're happy to lose in the export process, however Photoshop defaults a white background behind the semi-transparent pixels. This causes problems if the png is not going to be displayed on a white page:
Shows up as:
Where it would be convenient to export something like:
Is there a way to base the computed color of the semi-transparent pixels off a value other than white?
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This is somewhat of a continuation on the last project I was working on.
I have this image of the California Bear that I altered in Photoshop:
When I place the picture into Illustrator and use the Color Halftone effect I get a raster version of something I really like:
But, I want this in vector format so I can reuse the image.
When I live trace the image, the absolute best I can get is this:
Which doesn't look horrible, but I would never use it for my personal logo (which I'm planning on doing with this piece) because there's so many dots that are just not circular.
Are there some better image trace methods I don't know about? or is fixing these details just part of the job when using a tool like image trace?
I really don't want to go in an manually make every halftone dot...
EDIT:
I have tried Phantasm CS and the closest I can get it to mimic Illustrator's version is this:
...which is crap.
These are the Phantasm CS settings I used (and I just got the plug in about an hour ago, so I may be missing something):
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I want to create wooden rectangular photo frames of custom size for using it in an e-commerce project where we will be selling photos with wooden and plastic frames. But I don't have images of the full frame instead just the image of the pattern of those frames. For example see this PDF below:
Patterns and Styles of the frames
I hope you won't mind viewing this as this would be of great help to me. And I hope this can be done with Photoshop. I hope I am making this clear enough. Please suggest and help.
Image:
What would be the best tool to do such tasks??
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I can create a rounded rectangle and use the fx (fill/stroke) but I only want a shape with three sides. Because it's not enclosed the fill/stroke etc won't work. I can create all four sides and add another layer to mask the side I don't want but wonder if there's a better way to do this in Photoshop
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By example:
Is there a tool or a way to fill the white X shape so that the colors and patterns around it will blend into it as automatically as possible?
I.e., I want to remove the X as close to the picture as possible.
I'm working with GIMP, but I welcome answers in any software.
I know of the clone tool, but it's tedius. A pattern isn't good, since it needs to be adjusted by the colors and shades of the nearby pixels.
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I'd like to get some output that looks like this:
Lorem ipsum blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....
Recommendation: Put the thingamajigger in the doodlewhatsit. (RANDOM-248)
Recommendation: Doodlewhatsit inserts into the thingamajobber. (RANDOM-249)
Recommendation: Poodlejobbin needs to be fixed. (POODLE-3)
On the last page of the document or section, i'd like a summarized list of these items (with references).
Is there any way to do this automatically in InDesign with lists and numbering (paragraph styles), or do I have to insert these items manually (and generate a list of them manually, for summary purposes?) I don't mind setting the styles and lists manually for each item.
EDIT
I should provide a better example....
You can think of this in the context of something like JIRA numbers. I want the "number" to be the list with a custom format, and i'll manually select the list. so instead of:
foo
I want
Random recommendation (RANDOM-1)
And at the end of the document I want a summary of random recommendations (which I can achieve with a TOC and Paragraph Styles).
However, I can't ever get the numbering on the right hand side, where the "numbering" is a custom format (RANDOM-X).
I think cross references may be my only option. I'd love to hear if anyone else has ideas. You can think of this document as a "release notes" document, with something like JIRA issues, except the issue numbers come from tags within indesign and paragraph styles rather than some external system. The idea is that the consumer of the document receives a summarized list of requirements/recommendations at the end of each section, and the "numbering" of these is controlled from within InDesign rather than an external source.
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Is there a way to create a PDF file that shows a background color or image when viewed in Acrobat Reader, but when printed that background does not get printed by default?
Ideally, this would happen as the default for the PDF, i.e. the user need not be concerned with any settings. I am interested, if this is possible at all, but tool specific answers regarding Creative Suite are welcome, too.
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I've seen all sorts of headlines and ads that use this style a solid color section of type has a solid uniform line of a different color running through the exact middle of each letter. I've done all sorts of google searches and I haven't even come close to finding the answer (probably because I have no clue what this technique is called).
Of course I could draw a path on each letterform using the pen tool, but I want to know if there is an easier, time efficient way to do this, perhaps using the appearance pannel.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This has been driving me crazy for months!
See below for an example of what I'm talking about: "WARM INSIDE" from a Chili's tabletop ad.
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I'm a web developer by training who is branching into UI/UX design. One of the things my design work lacks compared to experienced designers is subtle use of texture, such as on these sites: http://www.trendkite.com, http://chartbeat.com
Do designers generally make these patterns from scratch, and if so, what is the best way to go about learning how to create them? The only freely available, subtle patterns I've seen that are as nice as this this are on subtlepatterns.com. I've had an equally difficult time finding tutorials on how to make nice patterns from scratch. Any resources you could point me to would be very helpful.
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I was asked to design a piece of junk-mail advertising. It has to be one color. Here are links of how it should look:
What I want to know is, how do you get your design like that?
It's like everything was full color and changed to black and white.... well in this case to blue and white.
Is there a specific way to design like that. Or can you design in full color, and the printers will print it only in one color?
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I'm interested in creating an effect similar to the one linked below, but freehand drawing with perspective isn't my strong suit. Looking at this image it appears that I could individually create the constituents pieces, and then map the islands and icebergs to the surface of the sphere before "wrapping" the cloud pieces around all of it.
But, I have no idea how to go about this in Illustrator...any help?
Planet Illustration http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/2833168/2/stock-illustration-2833168-cartoon-planet.jpg
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I have 2 images, one taken with flash on(A) and other with no flash(B). Both images highlight different parts of the view.
How can I add details from both images to create a new rich in detail image?
I have Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and GIMP, so any would do. I prefer Adobe PS.
Example images are:
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I'm working in Photoshop CS5 and would like to use HDR effects for print work.
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I want to style a layer with layer styles in Photoshop.
The problem is that I want to add multiple inner drop shadows.
I saw that you can do Right Click > Rasterise Layer Style, but then I can't change it anymore. Best would be if I could link a separate layer with it and apply the style to this one.
Can anyone help me out here?
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Is it possible to change Adobe Illustrator settings to create an empty new document each time it is launched?
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For mathematical and physical units, usually there is a thin space between the number and the unit, in the LaTeX syntax for example $1008\,\mathrm{kPa}$.
However, I feel that angular degrees (e.g. $90°$), temperature degrees (e.g. $-2°\mathrm{C}$), and NESW degrees (e.g. $90°\mathrm{S}$) should be typeset without spaces.
What is the correct spacing of these?
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Currently I am facing a HUGE crisis about this 100% black not being right for printing and coming out as 4 colours, in my InDesign document. My swatch for the black text is set at c=0 m=0 y=0 and k=100, which seems not to work for 100% BLACK with my printers. Please can anybody guide me to what I should do to acheive 100% black for this?
The only thing I want is that AFTER I export the pdf, the text boxes which have BLACK TEXT are GOOD for printing and have 100% black, not a 4 colour rich black.
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I bought some textured patterns I'd like to use in an iOS app I'm developing, but they're in .pat and .mxp formats. I don't own any of the Adobe apps (Photoshop, Fireworks, inDesign, whatever).
Can I do anything with them, or have I wasted my money?
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I have read articles all over the internet today. While some questions and answers are similar to my issue, none precisely cover my problem.
I am currently doing CAD work for a website where my images will need to go on multiple colour backgrounds. Ordinarily in the jewellery trade rings are rendered on white which is very simple to blend in with websites.
In essence, I need to be able to preserve a ring and the shadow it casts on a transparent background. This means that the shadow, currently rendered on white, must look good on any colour. Without the shadow the ring looks very out of place on the page.
So I have explored my options, and using Multiply I have managed to create:
a bottom layer of whichever colour the web page is
a middle layer of the ring rendered on white with the shadows (Multiply)
a top layer of ring highlights for the colour background I want.
Here is the final result:
The issue with this method is that it makes the image look seamless when pasted on a webpage for Windows users, but Mac users see the block colour difference clear as day.
Example 1: What mac users see in example 2
Example 2: Windows users will generally see this as seamless, Mac users will still see a difference in colour:
Here is the render on a white background, and here is the alpha, and here is the cutout of the ring with reflection colours correct for #eb472c:
So I want to be able to have the ring and its shadow on a transparent background. This will negate the need to mess around with colour matching with web pages. The best way to describe it would be to have the Multiply effect, but rather than choosing the bottom layer as a colour to blend with, to have it blend with transparent.
Colour range selection does not work for this problem as the shadow needs to blend over many different colour backgrounds.
Many thanks for any help.
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I'm trying to recreate a fairly common look, but I really like how it is executed on getpebble.com
The getpebble.com icons are on the left, and my disaster of an attempt is on the right. As much as I try, I've wasted close to 3 hours of my life and I am still left with a hideous looking icon for my personal project. Any pointers?
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While working together, how can I discuss my ideas and objections without killing the other person’s motivation?
I want to do a design project with a friend, for study purposes, but I experienced some obstacles I don’t know how to deal with:
We didn’t learn yet how to deal with objections or dislikes from the other. As a result our meetings are inefficient,
either because we let the other do whatever they want, or because
someone gets into a bad mood and instead of thinking, they try to
put on an unaffected face.
My friend has a habit of letting their attention stray away, and they
do it at the most unexpected times.
I know that being sincere is needed and inevitable, but I would like to learn a method to keep the attention and motivation even in these situations. My problem is that I don’t know what to say or do to keep our task looking interesting and fun to do.
As a possible solution I thought of inserting a 5 minute period where we shouldn’t say any good things, not even a word, but have to point out the bad parts of our own work.
But I fear this one won’t be enough, that’s why I would like to hear ideas and tricks that could make our sessions going.
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I recently launched a comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, which I created from scratch. I created my own design because I wanted to keep it unique, and used no templates.
Unfortunately, people who've looked at it says it appears "outdated" and "from the 90s", but haven't really been able to pinpoint how so. I was wondering if people could help me "modernize" my site without presenting me with downloadable templates. I'd still like to keep this my design, but I guess I need some artistic/design pointers.
DESIGN EDIT:
Okay, I've spent some time redesigning the template given your feedback, and found some great ideas on http://designshack.net/articles/layouts/10-rock-solid-website-layout-examples/.
I have two main templates I'm going to go for: (keep in mind this is just for layout... so none of the fonts, colors, images, or dimensions are set yet)...
Either:
A) Two column template
Search is on top and will expand down a bit with search results
In effort to get people to my artwork sub site, I'll include latest artwork on top right
Or
B) 3 Column template
Search is on the right and will expand downward as such with results
Gives more room for advertisements and other links
And this is the proposed, although minor, redesign for the View All and View Image templates:
View All: displays all images with archive-able dates
View Image: displays single full size comic
Any thoughts would be great!
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It's a font from the future, but I don't know what it will be called! Can anyone help?
Tried WhatTheFont, was unsuccessful...posted up a case there, so if I get an answer there I'll post it here.
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I am trying to create the two toned watercolor texture effect like the image found below.
I have tried unsuccessfully to create it using Photoshop and Illustrator. Results I come up with don't effectively blend the colors like the example.
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I am a very junior graphic designer / art director. I try to go through as many Lynda.com courses to equip myself with knowledge but some things I'm not sure of so please go easy on me here, I'm not a veteran.
I've not handled large artwork sizes and am most intimidated by the chance that my artwork will pixelate or discolour badly.
I've tried to avoid this by creating mostly vector-based artwork in Adobe Illustrator. I've pulled the work across to Photoshop occasionally to add Gaussian blur effects etc. I've built my layouts in Indesign. I drag the Illustrator and Photoshop files onto the Indesign layout which creates EPS files. These seem to drop the quality of the vector art way down and causes pixellation.
Any 'way of working' advice would be appreciated.
Sorry that I can't technically express myself better.
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In my app, I have a collection of objects that I'm allowing the user to filter. To represent each filter, currently starred objects, watched objects and the user's object, I use the icons pictured below:
However, I'm having trouble coming up with a way to represent the concept of all objects being visible. Does anyone know of a good icon to represent this?
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I was watching a tutorial on the 3D Extrude & Bevel Options and I did not understand how Perspective work. I know it's viewing something at an angle, but I don't see from where it references it from.
I placed the object in front and left position, and at these basic positions, the perspective option only becomes more mysterious to me.
What exactly is going on?
Thank you.
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I want to make a typeface that I would also let others to download if they happen to like it.
But if I use it on the net, and if I also let other people using it, can I have copyright problems? It’s not like I will copy a font, but it’s also not impossible that it would resemble something. Since it would be a simple typeface with the goal of being easy to read.
I also don’t want to check all the fonts myself to make sure that they doesn’t resemble what I made.
Is there a program that checks it for me, or should I even worry about this problem?
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How can I create a smoothing effect like this?:
It's clearer in his hairs and face.
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Possible Duplicate:
How to get this blur texture effect in photoshop?
I'm starting from a plain old screenshot, and I'd like it rotated in 3d, with more distant parts more blurry. Is there a simple way to achieve this effect? I'm mostly using GIMP but tricks with any other tools would also be appreciated!
The result of what I'm trying to achieve:
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I'm not a designer, but a developer. Still, part of my job is requiring mockups.
I've always just used pencil and paper but thought I'd use software finally. There seem to be a bunch of free options, but my company seems to be at least potentially open to paying for something. The only one I'd heard of before doing this (because a previous project manager used it) was Balsamiq.
My question is, is it worth the extra cost to get something more well-known even if there are free alternatives just to say I have experience with this, or for my company to say that we use tool X (which is better-known), or should I just pick a free tool?
I don't have huge amounts of time to try out a dozen tools. I've found a few articles that list a bunch of these, but they are pretty minimal in terms of description, so if there is are some good DETAILED comparisons of different tools that would be great for bringing a recommendation to my company, and if anyone has any strong opinions on why I should go with one tool over another, that would also be very helpful! Again, take into account that I'm not a designer, and as such, the less fiddling with design elements for me the better...
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A fairly sizable client whom I've done a few jobs for over the past several years has recently contacted me for a new job. We have never had a contract for any of the work I've done for them (I'm a freelance designer). In his most recent email, he said:
"By the way, I am requiring that all files in their native form belong
to [my company] and are to be delivered to me upon completion of the
project. The files must not be password protected and are to be in
their 'collected-for-output' form before payment will be made. I
consider what we pay for to be the intellectual property of [my
company]."
Aside from the fact that this is a little insulting (considering I've held nothing hostage, have been perfectly civil, and complied with every request I've ever received from any client I've had, including providing original working files), I understand that this is not standard practice... Most designers, it seems, do not hand over copyrights or intellectual rights to a design. But I don't feel that it's worth losing a fairly good client over something that may make him feel I'm somehow taking advantage of him. (The designs I do for them are mostly advertisements, flyers, small brochures, etc.)
What would you do? What do you recommend?
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How do you create a seamless texture in Photoshop? I found this tutorial here which is pretty helpful but it seems to not look as nice as the original sampled image when you're finished. Any suggestions or better tutorials?
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What are the main components of web design that can be sketched on paper? I refer to the visuals of a design that could be developed by sketches and drawings. Like a sketch of a Web-page view in browsers, smartphones and tablets.
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I have a big project to do right now. And my final delay is... now. It's a ~35-second animation I have to do in Adobe Flash Professional CS6. Anyone having ever animated on this software knows that problems always arise, and I'm really scared that I won't be on time, following a lot of time loss.
So on top of cutting every single non-essential bit from my scenario, I'm looking for every single trick I can use to speed up and be on time.
So here. I have three characters who need to walk. They were all designed in Adobe Illustrator, and are all made roughly the same way, from the same model, with articulations and such. And they'll all walk in a very similar way. My teacher said it's impossible, but I don't consider my teacher very competent in Flash, since even though I suck at it, the last few times he told me something was impossible, I found how to do it after a bit of fiddling.
So I wanted to ask you guys. Is there a way to set up a walking animation with one character, then have the others move according to it, in the same way? A bit like setting up a "skeleton", and then pasting different characters on it to make them walk.
Because the only way to make a walking pattern that he taught us was to do image-per-image animation (and if you ask me, whenever you have to do image-per-image animation, there's probably something you're doing wrong, because the software is supposed to animate, not just display successive images), by taking the character, putting it over a video and making it mimic it. But that requires me to do the job twice for 3/4 angle walks, and twice for walks toward the camera. A lot of time there.
Since the characters are basically the same, almost like skins I could put on a stickman, I really hope there's a way to only do the walking pattern once per angle.
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Is there an icon set containing icons for different platforms/stores (e.g. App Store, Play, Windows 8 Store, etc.)?
I am interested in grayscale icons similar to Glyphish and Glyphicons.
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I was recently enjoying some tasty King's Hawaiian Bread. I noticed their font for their logo and would like find a font with a similar look. I ran their logo through What The Font and it returned Kuenstler 480 Black as a possible match. This is close it is lacking the "swooshes" that you see in the N and H. (I do not know the technical term.)
Does anyone know what font is used in their logo or a close match?
For those not familiar with their logo here is a copy:
Here's those characters in Kuenstler 480 Black (preview generated by Fontzone) for comparison. It's similar, but not a clean match:
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I'm struggling to find a way in Illustrator to do something which is very simple in Photoshop.
Here's an example:
I draw a plane. Now I want to draw stripes on it and a cockpit.
In Ps, I clip these two layers to the plane, and continue to edit the shape of the plane afterwards. The stripes and cockpit stay overlapping whatever the plane shape becomes.
In Ai, I've tried all the Pathfinder options, and although I can achieve the opposite effects to what I want, I can't simply 'clip' the details to the plane.
Here is a picture of what I mean:
What's the easiest way to do this in Ai? Do I need to find a different drawing flow to the way I do it in Ps?
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I am using Illustrator for doing some calligraphy, and I am not really experienced with this program.
I am using a mouse pen with pressure to draw/write calligraphy. My question is: Can I change the pressure amount after I drew lines using brush tool?
Let’s say I drew a line, it is good but still not satisfactory. I just want to do a little change in pressure amount in some segments –not all the line- on line. Does Illustrator give me this option?
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I am putting together a telephone directory, and I was trying to figure out a good way of getting section markers to work for me.
My setup has 3 towns: Burford, Paris and St George. Under each of those there are alphabetic listings, to which I would like to have a marker for each letter to denote the change of the letter in the listing. Ideally I would like the that has an object style. So it would have markers for A-Z under Burford, then A-Z under Paris.
When I change the numbering & section options, it just changes the page number. It seems from my reading that this should be possible, but I haven't found any examples of how to do this.
[Edit] I have added a photo of what I'm trying to achieve. As you can see I've got a page number, a variable to pull the town name along the page edge. I've added those manually, but the idea behind this question is to figure an automated way of creating markers like that.
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I developed this QR code for my business, and I went with a gray/pink color pallete rather than black and white for aesthetics.
Based on my experimenting with my monitor (iMac) and QR reading app (Red Laser) I can read the code successfully - but it is hard to know if it will work with a variety of displays and readers based on this one test. Is there some numerical guidance of contrast or color choices that are generally gaurenteed to work for any combination of display/print and reader?
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Just had to take 4 tests for a potential job offering. 1 on Illustrator, 1 on Photoshop, 1 on InDesign and 1 on Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard
I've never once used Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard but expected the questions to be about touchup, making an interactive pdf maybe, or file optimization stuff.
Nope. 44 questions almost entirely about:
Chapters/Bookmarks/Destinations/etc.
Security and Encryption Options
Different types of reviews
So now I'm just trying to figure out if this is standard stuff for a graphic designer in any large corporation?
Here is an exact question from the skills assessment. It had 4 multiple choice answers but I didn't write them down:
The Human Resources Department is asking for all managers to submit salary listings by position, taking note that some departments have similar positions. What is the best security method for saving the PDF documents for the managers?
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I am a Photoshop novice, but an experienced C++ programmer.
In the process of attempting to resize a rectangle (created with the Rectangle tool) using the Direct Select tool, I ran into some non-trivial behavior that I do not understand and that I am having a difficult time reproducing.
I have taken the following steps:
(1) Choose Direct Select tool
(2) Click once inside image, but outside the rectangle (to deselect any current Direct Select selections made to the rectangle)
(3) Click and drag the Direct Selection rectangle to completely surround the top two corners (and neither bottom corner) of the rectangle
(4) Zoom in to 3000% magnification by clicking the Zoom In button on the Navigator
(5) Scroll the visible area to the middle of the top edge of the rectangle by dragging the red rectangle in the Navigator pane
(6) Press the Shift key and then click/hold the mouse with the cursor directly over the top row of pixels of the rectangle
(7) Still holding the mouse button, drag the mouse upwards to resize the rectangle by moving the top edge up.
This seems "simple enough". The problem is that it does not always work. It sometimes works - just not always.
The strange behavior I sometimes observe is the following:
(1) Sometimes there is a 1-px grey line on some, or all, edges of the rectangle. Sometimes these lines disappear completely. As noted, sometimes these lines appear on some edges, but not all edges. I cannot figure out what steps to take make them appear, and what steps to take to make them disappear. As far as I currently understand, it's random. (Obviously it is not random, but I cannot currently understand it.)
(2) Sometimes, when holding the Shift key, the rectangle, as it resizes, is constrained to vertical resizing. Other times when holding the Shift key, the rectangle is not constrained to vertical resizing, but instead the rectangle changes to a parallelogram or (perhaps, I'm not sure) another non-rectangular shape.
(3) When the ruler is displayed, and shows a pixel-based grid, I find that there is a horizontal grid line within the top row of the rectangle that is NOT aligned with the pixel marking on the ruler. As the rectangle is resized, the non-aligned grid line always remains inside the top row (all other grid lines appear exactly at the pixel indicators on the ruler).
(4) Most importantly - SOMETIMES when I shift-click and drag the mouse to raise the top edge of the rectangle (having already selected the top two corners of the rectangle with the Direct Selection tool before zooming in), the rectangle does NOT resize. Instead, a "selection rectangle" of some sort follows the mouse. Nonetheless, the Direct Selection of the corners of the rectangle still seems to be present - I do not de-select the Direct Selection settings, it's just that an additional "selection rectangle" of some sort seems to appear when I attempt to resize the rectangle - rather than the rectangle actually resizing.
Can someone please explain this non-trivial behavior of the Direct Select tool while I attempt to resize a rectangle in Photoshop?
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I'm looking for jobs all over the interwebs and I keep seeing postings by companies saying that applicants need to be well versed in most Adobe creative solutions softwares and then QuarkXpress.
But, when I look at actual studio ads (small studios looking for a new designer) they only mention strong Adobe skills.
Is QuarkXpress still relevant? Or is it a legacy software that only gets mentioned because at one time in the past it was one of the best softwares to use?
I know this might be a very subjective question, but I'm looking for those who ave been in the design world a lot longer than I have to give me insight (I've only just begun my design career).
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I try to do it mostly with words but sometimes have to do it with other things too. How do you equally space out things automatically, I Know how to evenly distribute from the center of every layer/object but not how to have even actual space between those to objects.
This is really not a problem when all the things are of the same width (or height) but as you know words are hardly ever that. So what i do is is make a rectangle of size that i want space to be empty and once done typing i manually drag out that box to the end of the first word, then adjust the 2nd one decrease/increase the space to match the edges of the rectangle and so on for the texts after 2nd..like 3rd,4th...Usually it's Home, About, Products, Contact, etc...
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What is a good place to find people and make a team to finish projects and perhaps make a profit?
I feel there is this huge disconnection between programmers and designers, and normally there is someone else who acts as a bridge between them. However, both designers and coders have ideas of their own that maybe they can't see completed cause they lack the complete skill set for that task, or the money to hire someone.
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I've created icons many times now with tons of great information I've learned here at GraphicDesign StackkExchange. Now, I'm finally putting together my first real application that will go public on the iOS and Google Play marketplaces. I've just got a couple of things I want to make sure of when I'm creating these icons. First, I have to create them in Illustrator (so I can use them later on if I need to resize them flawlessly). Second, I need to send them to PhotoShop so I can resize them into their respective sizes.
So, when I first go into Illustrator I'm presented with this settup screen. What would be the optimal settings?
I would think RGB instead of CMYK, but I really don't know. Also, when I'm creating stuff, I want to make sure everything is even, so align to pixel grid would be smart. I do NOT understand why you wouldn't want to use the pixel grid. Just putting it out there.
Then, I have my icon. Do I go to File -> Export, to get it to photoshop... or can I just select it and copy it and paste it.
When I paste it, I get a couple of options:
Again... which would be optimal to pick? I need to make sure it aligns to the pixel grid as well (I think).
I know this is a lot of questions, and it's not just one definitive question. IT IS however to get a definitive answer on a process.
UPDATE FOR BOUNTY:
There have been some updates to illustrator now, and I'm still wondering if my "Advanced Settings" below are "correct" for making icons for Android and iOS.
Also, I would like to cut photoshop out of my process, and simply save for web from Illustrator. I'm trying to save for web now, and there are a lot of options.
I have a single color icon. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to save my image? I want full quality. I don't know how to choose original. I don't want any compression.
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I would like to fill a rectangular marquee area with a gradient that stretches from the left to the right of the rectangular marquee area, starting at one color and ending at a second color. This is easy to do in Photoshop and I know how to do this.
However, I would like the entire gradient to fade to transparent at the TOP and BOTTOM (i.e., in the perpendicular direction). If I desired this effect in the horizontal direction, it would be easy to do in Photoshop because I would just set the "smoothness" parameters of the gradient as desired, along with the color parameters.
However, because I want the fade to transparency to occur in the VERTICAL direction, while the color gradient occurs in the HORIZONTAL direction, I do not know how to do this.
How can a create a color gradient in one direction, while setting a fade to transparency in the perpendicular direction, in Photoshop CS5?
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This issue of a typeface's heritage is of particular interest when attempting to pair faces. The nuances of related faces tend to harmonize well, whether that relation is grounded in history or the type designer. Since Helvetica is one of the most widely used faces of all time, there is value in understanding it better. It also has many visually similar kin who might tangentially benefit from this answer.
So, where did Helvetica come from? Most of us know that the design team consisted of Max Miedinger (executing) and Eduard Hoffmann (directing) at the Haas Type Foundry in Switzerland. But what was their inspiration/model? What era were they trying to envoke, if any.
Most importantly, was there a predecessor to their inspiration that might provide a better understanding of this family? Can historical reference inform a richer use of this ubiquitous typeface?
For the purposes of this question, let's consider Helvetica and Helvetica Neue as the same family. I know there are notable differences but I don't think they are of importance to this topic.
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Possible Duplicate:
How to create my own arrow effects in illustrator CS 2
Is there an easy way of creating thin perpendicular lines capping the end of a line segment in Adobe Illustrator CS4? The sort of effect I'm looking for is this:
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(but without the dotted effect!). This is useful for example for adding dimensions on technical type drawings.
I would have expected I could do this easily either with add arrowheads or with line cap type options, but I can't find a way in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Obviously I'd prefer not to draw three separate line segments every time. I am struggling to investigate this as I'm not even sure what the proper term is for this type of line decoration.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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for later usage in a converter I'd like to exactly control the transparency of colors.
Let's say I have a simple layer (B), filled with #FF0000 and 50% layertransperency.
Now I duplicate that layer (C) (again with 50%).
In addition to that I have a layer for the background (A) which is filled with #FFFFFF.
I would have expected that the resulting pixel is a perfect #FF0000, but it is a #ff3f3f (still red, but much lighter).
I also tried to play with layer-styles and hoped that Linear Dodge (add) would help me out, but it doesn't.
Is there any simple trick, so that I am able to exactly control the transparency of every pixel (layer)?
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I just want to know about this sample website: http://ragnarok.levelupgames.ph/main/
As you can see, there is something CURLY on every corner of the divs.
I know about "fleur de lis" as a design element, but how do you call this kind of design? Is it "crown like corners"? I'm searching about it, but I fail.
Also, is there any website that has these kind of pictures in PSD/AI formats?
Hope you guys can help me.
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I am trying to bucket fill a layer, but I get this crazy cursor I cant get rid of. I think its because I have something selected. I tired Select All, Select None, but the cursor does not change.
I cant get a hold of that image, screen dump does not get that cursor. Its a small circle with a line across the diameter 45 degrees.
Edit : That cursor is called "circle-slash" icon. It comes when I select a part of the image and try to fill a different part of the image. I either need to select things correctly or I need to edit my selection for painting.
Edit Again :
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Does anybody know a decent and modern icon-set similar to Glyphicons that is colourful?
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I'm trying to explore grid-based layout design in Illustrator to help me create mockups for prototypes. I was wondering if anybody here could help me set up a grid based layout easily in Illustrator CS6? I was hoping to find step-by-step directions but I can't seem to find anything when I look online!
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Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Googling reveals only solutions for older versions.
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How do I get an image to extrude and bevel using illustrator CS6.
The shape that's having the issues has effect>texture>texturizer and then I uploaded a psd file.
When I then select effects>3d>extrude bevel I get a giant grey box around the image.
I've also tried using the textures that are already in Ai but the same gray box appears.
Ugh it won't let me screenshot because I'm a newb but picture the flat, now textured shape, lying on the 3D grey box that adheres to the specifications chosen in the bevel/extrude window.
If this is not possible I guess I'm asking what's the best way to add a texture to an image I want to make 3D?
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I'd like to first say that I have attempted to look through Google to find the answer to this though surprisingly, I get more about 'what' it is than 'how' to create a look & feel.
I was a writer up until I began to explore and complete courses in Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. I have worked in advertising for five years as a copywriter.
I now offered my visual services to my boss. He said, 'Feel free to create a look & feel for any existing project so we can assess the level of your expertise.'
I have not been exposed to this process. What would I go over? Selection of font for a brand? Colour palette? And what formats should I present the formation of these in? A4 print? Billboard examples?
I'd like to be able to apply myself and the skills that I have. I have executed art direction and design work for clients before but have never done a look & feel.
I would like to be able to approach him with a sense of conviction and show him confidently the elaborate and careful construction of an impressive look & feel.
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I am writing user documentation using DITA which allows me to easily generate deliverables in PDF, CHM and web formats. The images need to be saved with a DPI of 110 so that they are displayed correctly within the PDF documentation.
If I change the DPI of the image to 110 (without resampling) and save as a PNG or JPEG then this works fine with all outputs.
On average the image files are coming out with file sizes of between 50KB and 90KB. If I use the "Save for Web & Devices" feature of Photoshop the file sizes are reduced significantly to between 15KB and 40KB. So ideally I need to be saving files using this feature.
But... the DPI of the output file is changed to something else (I am guessing 72 DPI) which is causing the images to be scaled incorrectly by Apache FOP (for generating the PDF output). How can I change the value of the DPI metadata in the saved image files without loosing the ability to compress the files?
It might be possible to resolve this problem by altering some configuration or attriute of Apache FOP. I have posed the following question over at StackOverflow to find out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14342766/force-apache-fop-to-override-image-resolution
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I have created an image with multiple layers, paint groups, layer groups etc.
The image saves okay as .ai or even export to .png. However when i use the save for web feature my topmost layer group is missing from the image.
The only difference in this layer that I can see from any others, is that instead of the usual 'eye' icon in the layer visibility select, there is a solid rectangle with a border in this place.
Would someone please explain what this icon indicates, how it manipulated and whether it has any bearing on my Save to Web issue.
Many thanks
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I'm creating an app, and I want it to be more colorful and vivid. Though, I'm not an artist or have any drawing talent. Is there someplace online where I can create custom images for my android buttons that can save to a .png file?
I'm looking for images that make my buttons look more real than the plain, generic buttons.
I'm looking for something like this: http://www.webarti.com/best-CSS3-button-maker/ but to able to obtain a png of the final button.
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Possible Duplicate:
Photoshop - adjustment layer to change colors of multiple layers?
Is it possible to have global color swatches or color styles in Photoshop?
I have a PSD filled with buttons and other controls. I want to theme those controls based on one color. Is there a way for me to associate one color with all the buttons and other controls in the PSD file such that I can change one color and the theme of all the buttons changes?
Thanks
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I am searching for more information and resources about a technique I really like: unfortunately, I don't know its name.
It is based on a layout in which everything is drawn with dots of several size, the size giving the intensity of shade.
It's really close to the technique used for black and white printing of pictures on old newspapers. Maybe it's even the same technique name.
The results could be things like this one:
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I want to make multiple text Layers in CS5 be able to change the word example "pete" in all the layer at once to "john" is this possible?
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I'm trying to follow this tutorial but they skipped a few steps...
The two side dots below are each individual arches made using the pen tool, they are not connected to the mushroom cap.
All I want to do is fill each area(dots, eyes, etc) with color, I've tried dozens of combinations of unite/merge/outline stroke/join and every other tool I thought I understood the functionality of but nothing has worked. I do not want to use live paint(though I tried that and couldn't get it to work either).
Note eventually I will have to remove the stroke, so I don't think offset path will work.
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A while ago, I built a count down timer app based on a designer's free giveaway. It turns out users like it and it is even mentioned on beautifulpixels.
This time I'm building a calculator named Minimalist Calculator, on my own, without any help from a designer. Apple link: Minimalist Calculator, I'll share the screen shots here:
Comments from my friends so far are kind of negative. Something like it looks bare-bone rather than minimalist.
As an app developer, I am looking forward to advice on how I can improve the look and feel of my app, which mainly uses font, color, layout (but specifically little/no images)
Fonts are selectable by user, i.e.:
Any reference work I can learn from? A designer for hire who is reputable in minimalism design you could recommend? Thanks!
UPDATE: About options ...
@OghmaOsiris, I did include an option to disable grid lines:
UPATE 2: Colors
Last night, I added the option to change the colors of:
keypad button face
button text, and
button border
Graphite:
Orange:
It's now on AppStore. Download link: Minimalist Calculator
Please feel free to send me comments.
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I'm attempting to follow the below Photoshop tutorial, but steps 29 and 30 have me stumped.
The larger of the two white rectangles in the below image was created on its own layer. Once I have that layer selected, it's actually impossible to carry out step 29, as the "Add to shape area" button is greyed out on the tool bar. I can only do this by first making the black rectangle on a new layer, then subtracting the inner white square from that...
Relatedly, I have no idea how to do step 30. This is for a pencil icon to place within the square just created, but it does not specify what layer this should be made on.
Is it possible I should have Paths selected rather than Shape Layers at the top? I've tried this, but it didn't seem to do the trick. Once I created a work path, I didn't know what to do with it in order for it to add or subtract from the below layer, nor how to add more paths and be able to manipulate each individually (in the case of the pencil icon...)
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!!
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Every time I go back to edit some layer effects for a new layer, there are weird presets, e.g. Screen or Overlay blend modes for some of the layer settings, and then the lighter gradient tone is always light yellow, not white.
I'm pretty sure this isn't to do with inheriting the layer effects from a previous layer (could be wrong), but regardless, how do I get these to restore to their defaults each time I'm editing layer effects?
Also, I'm quite sure yellow was never the default on the gradient bar, rather than white. How do I change this back?
Thanks very much in advance.
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Does anybody know/have ideas how to make velvet effect background in Adobe Illustrator 5.x?
An example I'm talking about:
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It takes me too much time (IMO) to design tables in Photoshop. I need to move rows, columns and stuff easily. I'd like to be able to get through this faster.
I've tried InDesign and Illustrator and vector exports but it ends up all merged into Photoshop.. It's for web. Front-End developers are going to integrate those in HTML and CSS.
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I would like to convert an Illustrator document to a PDF and make it available to graphic designers doing publicity. It would be convenient if the designers could turn off the different layers but I don't want to leave the art items editable.
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Apologies for cross posting from the Webmaster stack exchange but I have a question I'd like to resolve as urgently as possible.
I'm starting to design a site and am at the stage where I have most of the basic layout of the page done. But there seems to be something lacking in that it looks distinctly amateurish rather than professional. The site is meant to be simple. Can anyone suggest ways in which I could give it a more professional sheen (I'm a programmer rather than a designer)? I'm not quite sure what it's missing but it's meant to be a template for a luxury community somewhere. Perhaps a textured background image rather than a gradient? Images that 'break' out of their div borders? I'd greatly appreciate any input as I'm not sure what sets apart those professional looking sites from others.
Almost forgot the site is here
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I know I can copy a gradient (minus direction) from one object to another, but how do I preserve the direction of the gradient? (I'm using Illustrator CS6)
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I am reluctant to post the actual logo for risk of repercussions, but I have taken away any identifiable features, leaving the "problem" parts. Here is the logo on a white background:
It looks awful when dropped on to a white background, and makes designing any kind of media hard work due to the angle as it just doesn't "sit" right on the document. I feel the focus point is the "box" rather than the actual logo within.
I am not a designer by trade.
Are there any tips for working with something like this? I appreciate it's a vague question but it's quite frustrating not knowing how to make it look good with other media!
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While working on my latest website, I started actually wondering if what I learned in grade school was true. I've been taught that programs like Word default to use a white background with black text because it's easier on the eyes than the old phosphorous displays which were always light-on-dark. However, I find more and more that it hurts much less for me to read light text on a dark background; my lenses feel like they're straining less, and irises can relax more due to the lower overall light level.
So is it true that dark-on-light is easier to read? Have we just been told this to make us believe that these programs are advanced or something like that? Was the change to dark-on-light made more to simulate ink-on-paper moreso than for visual comfort?
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I have closed a path, and it now appears in my Paths pane. However, I have no idea how to go back and bring up the anchor points again in order to edit it. Having clicked on the path itself, it simply remains closed, with no anchor points...
Any help much appreciated.
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I'm not ui ux engineer. I just want to hear your opinion/help on where would you (designers) put this grey box or app links, what is your opinion about colors?
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I am developing a calculator app which looks like this:
I'd like to bundle a few themes for the user. So I pick a few colors for the keypad I like. However, I have a hard time to determine which color to use for the borders. Besides, I found pure white or pure black text may not always look the best...
For example, I have no idea of how to determine the border color for the following blue theme:
Is there any guideline or tool I can use? Now I am taking a trial-and-error approach (moving mouse pointer on the Photoshop color palette aimlessly)...
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So I am making a program which uses a "futureistic" graphical interface. My problem is that though i have seen examples of it in the past, i cannot think of what to call it when searching through google for refrences.
An example would be a semi-transparent circle with semi-transparent "C"'s rotating around it but intersecting with it. The circle would be the top layer with the rest below it. The image would always be in motion.
I would like to know what it is called. Sorry if I confused anyone, im slightly confused as to how to explain this. Ask me questions so that I can explain anything.
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I have a web design company. For artistic graphics I hire a Graphic Designer to do it for me.
Obviously it hurts my business if it is known that I outsource so the designer uses an email address from my company and not her own Graphic Design company.
Is it normal to expect only my signature logo at the bottom of the graphics and there should be no reference to her own company at all? The same goes for her Graphic Design company, can I expect her not to link to work she does for my company on her portfolio?
Thanks
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I'm working on a chart that has to be on a base-10 log scale (meaning, the divisions are at 1, 10, 100, 1000 instead of 10, 20, 30, 40), and I'm trying to make it more intuitive and obvious to people who don't understand log scales and/or might not notice the non-standard scale. One of the ideas I'm trying is, to have subtle ticks / lines spaced out at regular intervals so an inattentive viewer will notice that the scale 'barrels' away and the ticks get much closer together further up the chart.
To do this, I need to space those ticks out in a logarithmic / expontial way, so they look something like this (numbers are for illustration purposes only, it's just the line spacing I'm interested in):
I know a little Javascript, so I generated that above image with some code (here's a live editable demo on jsfiddle.net ) using the Raphael framework that draws SVG, which is a format Illustrator can use. So, the worst case scenario is, someone could adapt that code each time, dig into the generated HTML using Firebug or Inspect Element or View Source, find the generated SVG element, copy it into a text editor, save as a .svg file, then open that svg file in Illustrator, then work with it.
But that's hardly convenient or a smooth part of a design workflow. If there's some clever way to do this in Illustrator itself (maybe some smart use of Effect > Distort and transform > Transform with many copies, <100% vertical scale and >0 vertical move?), that would be much better.
Note I'm not particularly interested in any other part of generating a log scale chart in Illustrator. Illustrator's geriatric, creaking Graph tool just doesn't do stuff like that, so I'm more-or-less resigned to copying in something from Excel or similar then adding labels. It's the progressive spacing of the lines I'm interested in.
I've asked a slightly similar question before about graded 'barrelled' spacing of lines, and found an answer that worked for my needs then, but that was about 'barrelling' lines in an approximate visually-controlled way: here I'm asking how to do it in a strictly controlled, accurate way that would match up with something generated on a log scale.
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I'm sometimes giving small adverts that I created in ID CS5 to a local newspaper. They are building their stuff in Corel. They usually want me to either give them an image (as in jpg) or a pdf file. They don't know what to do with the InDesign file. I've got the feeling that they are actually recreating my stuff in their program, which I don't like at all.
Is there a common file format that both programs can read (or that mine can write, at least)? I don't want them to redo my work, which wastes their time and is error-prone.
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I have created an image and added some effects to it but now when I try to save it as PNG there's a white frame addon to it. I've tested a few things and realised that this behavior happens when I convert the image to a smart object.
How can I save the image as PNG and keep the image "as is" without the extra white frame?
Update: I've added a side by side picture. Left side is the psd, right side is the same PSD that was saved as PNG and imported back to the picture.
PNG:
Thanks
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I am trying to recreate the line swirl in our compliment slip in Adobe Illustrator? I have been struggling for hours with transforming straight lines, creating waves, rotating, etc. but still can't get there?
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!
Anne
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I want to write 'SBS' in Pixel Art Style
SBS is a Software House, so that's why I want to make something that is related to computers or technology etc.
like this
or like this
I want to see how I can achieve these easily. Preferably a method that doesn't involve copying and pasting blocks around.
Also if you have any ideas for the SBS logo please share.
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So I have to generate flyers for 10 different laptops (and more in the future). I decided to set up variables. I've created an XML Map for MS-Excel which allows me to save the 'XML Data' type file. I have to make small amendments to the XML File, e.g. rename 'v_sampleDataSets' to 'v:sampleDataSets' for the file to be valid in Illustrator. Once that's done, I use the Variables menu from Illustrator to load the variables.
It was working fine... I loaded, changed and reloaded the variables file (generated from MS-Excel) several times without any problems. Then I started to update the Illustrator layout. I had to move some images, re-size some text boxes and reduce some font sizes. At some point during these changes, the variables got an error:
The filter cannot complete because of an unknown error.
At that point, only 1 image file link wasn't being dynamically changed, however all of the text was still changing according to the variables.
I've taken these steps to try to resolve the issue:
Deleted the images, deleted image variable, replaced the image, relinked to a new variable, reset variable name to same as XML structure had previously. Reloaded the variables file. (Same error)
Unlinked ALL variables. Deleted all variables. Started over. (Same error)
Delete Illustrator CS6 Settings folder (preferences folder). Tried to load again... (Same error)
Nothing I tried worked; in fact now the problem is worse because the text is not updating.
What should I do now? I don't think reinstalling Illustrator would do any good since I've already cleared the settings file and had the same problem.
If there is no solution, is there an alternative solution to dynamically created these files? I have to get them done by tomorrow morning :/
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We're about to publish a free, open source plugin that translates the WordPress admin UI into the users language. This plugin will be freely available in the official wp.org plugin repository. Now we need a header (actually two: one for retina capable devices and one for normal displays) - in the size of 1544x500px/772x250px - that explains what the plugin does.
I agree that my first 10-minute draft is a bit racist (by accident). Actually 110% of all people told me that it's funny, but racist. So we have agreed that two things are no good idea:
Flags (too generic - every plugin uses this), as those don't communicate the specific use case
People with stereotype characteristics
This was my first draft (will not be taken).
This a screenshot from the plugin in action.
Note: The label is named WeCodeMore and has a Google Plus Account and a GitHub account where we post our updates to followers (in case you want to see the details).
EDIT #1
As I've read in the comments, the question seems to not be completely clear. I'm aware of the fact that this question is half design, half user experience.
(Original Question) I'm searching for better ideas that communicate the idea of "User specific Interface (language)".
The above question can be extended with: "No user should have his first bad experience when looking at the banner".
EDIT #2
I understand that some people suggest flags or alphabets. Currently we went with alphabet, but the question is still open.
Short explanation: "Flags" represent countries, which languages don't do. The same goes for "Alphabets" (or character sets). I, for example, am an Austrian citizen. My mother tongue is "German", but a variation of it (like "Letzeburgisch" in Luxembourg or "Swiss German" in Switzerland). If someone would tell me that a German flag represents my language, I'd be alienated, as Germany is not my country. Then there're minorities in every country, like Burgenland-Croatian, Romani, Hungarian, etc. And with character sets it's the same. Nearly every western language shares the same set.
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