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I want to create a web page mockup to show a client, does Photoshop elements allow you to create layered pages?
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I have a client that requires me to submit at least a homepage of my proposed website design. However, I just recently known that he already contacted some other freelancers who incidentally are my known friends. They did the same but after that they are not contacted anymore. So my thoughts are, maybe this client just... |
as you can see in image the rectangle has this boxy look, I was trying to get same look on my play button, but it always turned out wrong, can anyone please edit the image and give that play button same boxy look? or at least reference somewhere where it show's how its done.
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I want to display a text over a video. However, the video may include any color from white to black. What is the best text effect (color/stroke/shadow/glow ... etc) that can be applied on the text so that it will be very clear on any background color.
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Assuming that there are no restrictions like the ratio of a screen; what is an eye pleasing ratio for presentation slides and handouts (containing information about the presentation)? Is it something to consider or negligible? Can it be generalized?
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I am about to hire a Graphic Designer to help my Web-design company. Besides for designing websites, she will be making Logos and Advertisments. Now, she tells me that it is standard practice for her to retian the Adobe files used to create images and photos. She is happy that I should own the finished jpgs and such b... |
I have been researching about graphic design trends and its evolution. Can someone please suggest a particular book or website about this subject?
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The problem is that when I'm using small enough brush, it seems I can't have anything else than a crosshair. For example, if I'm using brush of size 4px and I'm in 25% zoom. Nothing wrong with crosshairs, but when I'm outlining fine details while zoomed out to get the proportions right the crosshair kind of blocks the ... |
I'm a newbie in the freelancer world. I started creating logos and business cards and I show it to my customers. Well, I always face a problem how to present my work in a professional and a nice way. I need to know how to do a prototype print of a business card. Same as the image here, please tell me all the details I ... |
My gradient tool on Illustrator cs6 is blocked.
It won't let me change color, direction or anything related. The Gradient tool wont even let me click on the gradient, it shows the cursor with a blocked sign(circle and a diagonal line inside of it).
Seems very trivial a problem but I can't get to fix it. Did google the ... |
There is something similar to Microsft Word Text Styles, in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator?
For example I choose: "Style 1", for many paragraphs, and then I can change the font of all of them at once?
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Everytime I open an image in photoshop, it locks the image.
Its slightly annoying and wonder if there is an option to prevent this
Thanks for the help
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When I add a new column to a table in InDesign CS6 and I click into a new created cell it has a + in the style name. When I hover over the style it shows: "Overrides(alt+click to clear): (align: flush left)".
This means that the new cell is aligned left instead of maintaining the original style, which is center aligned... |
I've been battling this question for a while now. It will sound very trivial I'm sure to an experienced Illustrator user but I've found it extremely hard finding any relevant info regarding it. All info I find about how to use the gradient tool is regarding either shapes or text and it can't be applied to my problem.
S... |
I wonder if there is a way to ask photoshop to save for web and devices using the default options, and save two or tree mouse clicks each time.
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I couldn't find any simple resource saying how to make Adobe Indesign tables of contents interactive, so that each item in the electronic version of the exported PDF is a live hyperlink / cross reference that jumps straight to the appropriate page.
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I'm an amateur graphic designer, however I do know the importance of presentation in any product or service.
I was wondering if there are any preset Indesign templates or rules of thumb on how to present logo concepts, including color palette and some identity design.
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I was reading The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams and was very impressed how on almost every page, Ms. Williams seems to "pull out" some beautiful typeface which I've never heard of. I'm not a design professional, but this got me wondering:
Where do professional designers find their typefaces? Any books y... |
I'm really more of a Photoshop person--so I know exactly how to do this technique in Photoshop but can't for the life of me figure it out in Illustrator!
Here's what I'm trying to do.
I have multiple paths that form a compass design. I have now drawn a rectangular shape over the compass and would like to use a "soft li... |
I'm currently using Photoshop CS6, and I have an image with three layers:
One layer is the background layer. Another layer is a simple shape (star) layer. And a third layer is a set of text that I imported from Adobe Illustrator into the picture.
What I would like to do is break apart the smart object layer (two words)... |
I know how to run a batch resize based on fixed width, height, or percentage... but what if I have a number of photos of all different sizes and shapes and I want them to be roughly the same size visually? I am using photoshop, but could try fireworks or some other thing, but hopefully nothing too complex.
I guess thi... |
I have a number of images that have all the same background but each has different text overlaid (they are covers of a magazine journal).
I don't have access to the background image, but I know that I can create a composite of the covers and get the background that way.
I can do this manually with a photo-editing prog... |
Sometimes shapes would have parameters like a stoke or rounded corners, but once the shape is drawn, I can't find how to see or change these parameters. Ideas?
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How to make to tables in InDesign to flow horizontally (in other words be side-by-side and not one after the other like normally happens)?
I would need to put 2 tables like this:
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Instead of:
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I intend to maintain the header cell... |
Consider there is a website full of text, and someone asks you to design a poster from it. Which methods do you suggest for designing this poster?
Update: the website is "Semantic Version Specification" (semver.org) . i should design a poster from it.
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This feels more like a Super User question than Graphic Design, but I figure someone here will be more likely to know the answer.
Using InDesign 5, I have a "book" collection that I use to keep a bunch of files in one place. Apparently at some point I opened up and modified two of the files apart from the book file, yi... |
When I create a 2D text, its really unsharp.
Doyou guys might know what to do?
p.s I mean the 'ripples' around the text.
High res image: http://gyazo.com/1a80c0ed88b1d54098279af4985ec060
Lower res preview:
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What I'm trying to do is change the color of the following image to something around #21190E. I've tried using the Hue/Saturation, Color Replacer, etc. tools, but none worked well.
Do I change the current color to another so that I can get the results I want?
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I've had this issue with Photoshop where some dark blues are displayed in black on Photoshop if I'm in RGB mode and selecting dedicated graphics in the performance preferences. If I don't select dedicated graphics or change to CMYK the issue gets fixed although I would like to be able to work in RGB mode and have the d... |
I could probably figure out how to do one, but I have to do like, 30 of these and I want to learn how to make it quick and painless. My first thought was using Live Trace in Illustrator, but I'm not terribly good at that yet.
Essentially I want streets to be in black (and at similar relative thickness) and the rest of ... |
This is well in the realm of "it doesn't really matter" or "whatever looks best", I know, but I was curious as to whether or not there was a generally accepted convention about this (or a well-supported opinion).
Should the right padding/margin of a list more or less mirror what you do on the left side (first two bulle... |
In this site I found one logo which might be made in Adobe Illustrator:
It's a perfect 3D logo, how can this kind of logo be made with Illustrator?.
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I need the following image turned into a pattern that would repeat in the y-axis only. How can I make it repeat smoothly (so it actually looks like it's a pattern)?
Thanks!
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I'm looking to record an action that will set guides in a 3x3, 5x5, 3x5 and 5x3 grid on my canvas in equal partitions, but I want it to be able to work for any document size.
I'm interested in doing this in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Is there a way to do this? A script I can install?
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I am a software developer and new at logo design. I want to make a logo for my application based on its name, but I prefer to not use Adobe Illustrator or similar tools.
The ideal for me would be a site that I enter a word and choose from a list of decorations and let the site create a logo for me. Lets say like the ol... |
I installed new photoshop, and working on iPhone and Android apps looks nice (for android at least on xhdpi and hdpi, mdpi and ldpi require zooming in) but when working on website layout i get frustrated to zoom in to 200% in order to see the page as it is online and see text all pixelated. Is there an way to render sh... |
This is more of a handwritten or drawing style question. Lets say I draw letters. How do I make letters and numbers distinct? For example the number 0 has a line through it as well as 7. If I looked at letters l, capital I and 1 may look alike.
How do I draw/write numbers and letters distinctly?
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I typed my cv in a word processor. It is 2 pages long. I have also created a photoshop design using the A4 dimensions.
I have noticed that not only do I need two pages but also it would help the design in the canvas was slightly bigger.
Can you recommend me what canvas sizes are most appropriate for a photoshoped cv, ... |
Just so there is something concrete to discuss, say I have this color scheme:
Source
There are many articles about how to pick a coherent color scheme based on complementary colors, monochromatic colors, etc. However, once I have a set of colors, how do I decide which color to use for the header, which color to use fo... |
This is an area I always dislike when in the design process of a website. That being said I'm trying to be more efficient and I wanted to know when some use a sans serif or serif font how do you identify what the leading would be for each browser and design accordingly? Has anyone used or seen a calculation when usin... |
How do you create squared big pixel texture like this in photoshop?
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I got pretty simple example of site layout (link below), and i need to slice it.
The problem is, when i have 2 images, or image and title overlapping, and when i try to make slices of both, i get one of the images cut into 3 or more parts. Which is not good. Is there a way to make slices overlap? So i get each image in... |
Take a look on the image. I have a line with two segments (on the left). How to make smooth connection between them keeping one segment untouched (right side)? I know two methods but they are not so easy. I need a method that takes one or two actions.
Update: It seems we need a plugin for this, as there is no good answ... |
I'm setting up a workflow for working in a book with various chapters and I don't want the designers to change the styles in one document in the book. I just want to be able to change the styles in a master document.
I know about the sync feature but is very poor, because I cannot delete a style. Also allows other docu... |
I recently installed Adobe Photoshop CS6 and the guides option is not working. I need help. Also, I am new at Photoshop so a step-by-step tutorial will be appreciated.
Here's a screenshot of the problem.
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I am doing UI design for a group of programmers who are working on building music-related software. I have created .psd files for all of the mockups, graphics, etc.
I was assuming they just needed the (many) images to put into the code, but they want me to use a GUI to spit out the necessary code.
My question: Is ... |
I am creating a CV in Illustrator and exporting it to a PDF. I just read an article which stated that it is a good idea that we use hyperlinks in the CV so that the employer can just click and not have to copy the address.
I like this idea, but I don't know how to add a hyperlink to text in Illustrator. Is it possible?... |
I need to create a master table of contents that incorporates
two 100-page documents. Each document has its own table of contents. So, the
master TOC would list both of the TOCs of the two documents as follows:
Introduction
Part One
I.
II.
III.
IV
Part Two
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Conclusion
The problem I have is that ID doesn... |
I can't figure out how to use the "paste into" tool, specifically to create what the image displays from this article.
I'm selecting photo #1 from the target so that the border around the photo is orange, cutting it, selecting the second photo, which is a circle, clicking "paste into", which is supposed to make the im... |
I know you can select all text layers using 'select similar layers', but is it possible to limit that selection to just the layers within a group?
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This has been puzzling me for a few days now, and I asked a graphic designer I knew before trying here and haven't been able to solve it yet. It's quite weird so please bear with me for a bit.
I am using Adobe Illustrator to create a logo, and I have something that can potentially work. I have used only the pen tool wi... |
I am looking for a safe web font for chinese, similar to Facsimile font.
The concept is old fashion arcade games.
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I'm creating a logo design for a franchise I'm developing. To start it'll probably just be a webcomic, but eventually I'd like to take it commercially. I'd only use it in the logo, but I believe it still counts as commercial usage.
Originally I went with a different font, but it was too hard to read. After looking arou... |
I want to export my images from Corel into InDesign. So I export it with a name that I want, but the problem is that when I export my image, Corel automatically adds a number sequence (eg. ...-1, ...-2, ...-3, etc.) and also creates two files with the EPS format. One of them does not have anything in it.
How can I exp... |
I'm looking for fonts, available from Google Webfonts (ideally) or Typekit, that would look similar to Avenir Next Pro, specifically, Bold and Demi:
Any similar-looking fonts, with good cross-browser rendering?
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When handling multiple white-on-transparent png images, I am hindered by the fact that the thumbnails of these images are all-white. Both Adobe Bridge CS6 and Windows Explorer suffer the same problem, I can't discern between two of these pngs.
Is there a way to make these thumbnails useful? Is there some setting I miss... |
Is there any way, aside from looking at the rulers and measuring by eyesight, to find the precise distance between one guide line and another?
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I'm new at graphic design so any help would be very appreciated.
Higher-up didn't provide that much info to work with, which is why it looks sparse, but I keep looking at it and feeling like it is missing something.
It feels like there isn't something to focus your eye on for some reason. Is there anything that I am n... |
I'm loading a .psd that's missing Helvetica and I'm trying to determine if any one of these fonts matches the original one used (I just installed a Helvetica font family pack).
My choices in Photoshop now are:
Helvetica Inserat LT Std
Helvetica LT STD
Helvetica Neue LT Com
Helvetica Rounded LT Std
Helvetica World
I'm j... |
I'm looking for a database of font information, specifically limited to those found on Linotype. For example, given the typeface CRONOS, I'd like to be able to know if it is:
(sans/slab) serif?
monospaced?
display?
script?
I can certainly look at a font by hand and decide this for myself, but I'd like a a database or t... |
So I'm fairly new when it comes to working with images and creating different effects.
But can anyone explain what effect is being applied to the conference logos in the following link?
The middle of the logo is brighter and as you work your way outward, it gets darker.
Are there any good tutorials to reference in to ... |
I'm looking for an app that would allow me to simply view my PSD on my iphone as I'm creating it. Something like this exists for Mac (LiveView and Skala Preview), but I can't find anything similar for Windows.
If nothing exists, what yould you recommend as a workflow to allow me to quickly view my psd's on my iphone a... |
How do I create the effect of a viewer looking at the interior of a flat parabolic surface that seems to stretch off into infinity? Please see the following image for an illustration of the idea.
The best idea I had so far was to use the vanishing point tool in Photoshop with several perspective planes at different a... |
On an 8" x 8" artboard, how do I evenly place 8 1" circles to make a circular grid? They should be overlapping by 1 pt.
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Sometimes, when I'm trying to design something using a monochromatic color scheme, I want to make sure I get exact shades and tints of a specific color, but I don't know how I can do that because I can never seem to make the color picker move in a straight line when I'm dragging it around.
Is there a way to do this in ... |
I need to create a draw as you are drawing using a pencil and you fill it by using pencil. The effect should be like you are drawing using a pencil on fabriano paper or using ink, I need to fill the typefaces also in the same effect.
Like the images
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If I want to use images licensed under the creative commons cc-by-sa license, how do I have to share the derivative work in order to comply with the license of the original image?
In particular, how is sharealike compatible with commercial use?
If I use cc-by-sa images in a design that I want to print on a shirt and s... |
I have a paragraph that looks like this:
NN TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]
Then in the paragraph style I set the first word, which is always a number to characterStyle A. After the first word I set the characterStyle B, which includes the
TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to ... |
As the title says what is the best way to take an existing sans serif font, such as Helvetica, and add a grunge effect to the text for die cut vinyl? I know it can be done manually but that tends to take time.
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I have a document in InDesign and I need to start a section on the left side, but InDesign only allows me to do this if shuffling is set to manual. This means that if I need to add a page at the beginning of the document, I need to manually shift all the pages.
Any better ideas?
thanks
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I don't work in graphic design, but currently I have a problem which could be suited for this site.
I am looking for a software which allows to measure a 3D - curvature length. Just googling I found that Autodesk has a "measure arc" function which seems to be what I am looking for. Unfortunately, I can't access Autode... |
I did the following effect
I did it using a circle with the required effect and a triangle with required effect, then I did object > clipping mask > make.
After I did the effect, I did create outline for the text. Now every time I do direct selection tool (A) and I hover all around the text, I can see the circle and t... |
Im not too good with html and graphics and usually just need to make fairly simple static pages. I was wondering if anyone knew of software that is similar to unbounce.com's WYSIWYG editor in terms of functionality and usability?
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I had this debate with a colleague and we didn't see anything solid or something from a search that would answer this with certainty so I thought I would open it here. You are designing a website or app in Photoshop what is the preferred method for printing a proof for a client appointment in regards to getting the be... |
Is there a way to save an Illustrator file to a Tagged PDF file. I need to make the PDF 508 compliant and it would be faster if the conversion added the tags.
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I've been using Inkscape to generate PNG's from various SVG files. This works fine for larger images, but for smaller images (like icons), bitmaps appear grainy and extremely anti-aliased at the edges. Is there a better tool - one that can generate crisp edges, even at low resolutions? Mac or Linux, freeware or commerc... |
I need to use GIMP instead of Photoshop, but I have a problem doing some things with transparency:
I explain: I manipulate some tga files that have 4 channels, rgb and alpha.
Using Photoshop I'm able to draw into the 4 channels independently, and the alpha is used like the other channel: here is a shot:
If I try to op... |
I tried to export my AI file from Illustrator (Save As..) as a PDF, but for some reason, the logo come out very badly.
Editable PDF
The exported file ends ups like this : http://d.pr/i/SySs
( I looked at the pdf on dropbox, and it looks fine. But for some strange reasons, in Preview it looks like the image above. It's ... |
Can anyone suggest 3D Face Expression Database which has basic expressions like happy, sad, surprise, anger, disgust, ...
I am trying to simulate different expressions on a 2D face image.
As a start, I am planning to create 3D face templates for each expression and apply texture mapping onto the data.
--Thanks
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I am not very familiar with graphic illustration. I want to create some underline samples like in this example, maybe a little more understated:
I have no Photoshop and I can't find any good samples via google (since I don't even know an exact term which describes what I want). Are there any good samples around? Best ... |
I'm teaching web development to beginners, and it would be useful to show them the basics in design, meaning using a graphic design package to come up with a layout, before turning it into code.
To be clear, I want something for creating the "look and feel" of a page, not the layout. I don't mean prototyping tools. Th... |
I am creating my CV on an A4 and I am wondering whether a 10 point font size is big enough. here is screenshot and I am talking about the content next to the crosses: http://d.pr/i/LDKK.
in fact do e really need to have that kind of description in there?
Thanks
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Would like to present our products as pictures of 3D product boxes like this:
I think Adobe Illustrator with the persepctive tool could to it, but I wondered if there is maybe something even simpler. Am a programmer with amateurish graphic skills.
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I have a very large number of PNG images (too many to practically do one at a time) with a bright pink background and would like to replace the background color with transparency. If this is not possible or particularly difficult, replacing the specified color with white would be useful.
I have gimp but not photoshop a... |
I pulled a repeating pattern from someone else's PSD. Is there a way to figure out the size of the original pattern? I need to create an image with only one tile.
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I just made some small tweaks to an OTF icon-font (iconic) and now I'm having trouble exporting this modified font. Have I missed something? Can you export from Glyphs to an OTF or TTF?
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If I write a document that I have to hand in to somebody (a report, summary, draft, whatever) I usually justify the text because it seems more appealing (at least to me) if it all finishes at the same length. However, now I read that it may be more difficult to read overall because lines do not seem so unique and the r... |
When a compound word is hyphenated, should a second hyphen be added at the beginning of the next line? And what is the case for compound words connected by a dash instead of a hyphen?
Is any of the following correct, or is the proper way different?
Note: My primary interest is English. However, this could be language d... |
In illustrator I can convert a selected shape to another shape by the Effect > Convert to Shape option. Now I need to convert to custom shapes, e.g. some shapes created myself. Is there any way to do that?
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Greetings from a beginner! I am part of a team trying to restore a 1930's newspaper comic strip for possible publication. We have to use newspaper scans, and the text is often very messy. It has to be retyped, in a font as close to this sample as possible. Several fonts have been used during the span of this comic, thi... |
I'm using "Distribute Horizontal Centers" in Photoshop, but it might be the wrong tool for the job. I'm guessing Photoshop will be distributing the CENTER of each text object and aligning that, so long links won't have as much 'spacing' either side.
Is there a way for me to distribute a group of objects evenly taking i... |
I have a lot of sub-chapters and each sub-chapter needs to have on each page an image. I was thinking of putting the image on the first page of the sub-chapter and set to paragraph style A. Then create a running header variable for that p-style and put the variable in the master.
Everything without creating a master pa... |
I could not find a complete guide of this nor did I know who to contact about possibly making a wiki here for it (if it exists or not allowed please remove). I cannot nor want to remember everything in regards to pixel dimensions when designing for mobile devices but I'd like to have a list of the pixel dimensions for... |
As far as I know, most art schools have exercises or even whole classes focusing on making gesture drawings. But actually, I'm wondering, why bother with it?
While it probably has some merits, but most of the reasoning for it provided by blogs and various teachers is quite silly. All the talk about "capturing the esse... |
I see people adding color on top of a gray-scale drawing and their colors look great, but when I do myself, the colors look terrible (dirty, not the color I seem to pick from the color wheel). People tell me I need to learn about tone and value and the color wheel. I've gathered from this site and others that tone is r... |
I simply love the idea of making concept art, and Id like to know, what skillsets are most important for someone who is trying to find a job in the industry or do some freelance work.
Whats most important and how can I work on it? Im not thinking only in technique terms, like "you need to be good at making texture over... |
Im having a bit of a problem with my perception of angles and proportions. While I compare some elements of my drawing to each other, they seem to be fine. In a portrait, say, the browridge seems to be at a proper proportion and angle to the nose. The nose seems to be fine with the lips, and the lips seem to be ok with... |
As many designers, I sometimes find myself designing elements not for a particular project but only because inspiration was there and I might use it in a later project. It could be a button, an icon, a character or whatever.
When they are finished, I used to just through them inside a folder, which I would reorganise l... |
I'm having troubles trying to figure out how to make a complete object/image with NO pen tool paths or anchors etc...
I have a vector tree... theres lots of completed paths/shapes but still in path form.
How do I get all of them to be 1 solid item so that I can color and then emboss the entire thing? Every time I embos... |
I'm currently working with a relatively small event run by volunteers and we want to be consistent across our publications. Currently we use Optima for the body text in our publications, but it's recently come to my attention that this is a Mac OS X default font and so my Windows colleagues cannot use it.
As a result, ... |
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