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I have this logo I am working on. I have 2 questions: 1) I have a white circle behind the 4. I'd like to use that circle as a clipping mask for the 4 so that the 4 fits perfectly within that white circle. How can I do this? 2) After that, if I wanted to paint the 5 areas in white (between blue and green) each a different color, how can I isolate those areas to paint? Thanks!
A recent article in Nature discusses the effect of typeface on credibility, and points to another study suggesting that resumes displayed in a high appropriate typeface (Corbel), resulted in the applicant being perceived as more knowledgeable, mature, experienced, professional, believable, and trustworthy than when displayed in a neutral typeface (Tempus Sans) or low appropriate typeface (Vivaldi). ... Of the typefaces in the study, I would only consider using Corbel - but I don't think this indicates that Corbel is the best, only that it is better than the others in the study, which were rather silly (also Playbill, Bauhaus). I generally use the LaTeX default Roman font. I could switch to the default sans serif or any font from the LaTeX catalogue but it doesn't include Corbel. What other fonts should I consider for a curriculum vitae, and is there any way to predict how people will respond to them?
I'm making a brochure for my company, and I went with white text on a black background since it looks the best. There's also a picture, so color is required. At any rate, after a few test prints of both sides of the brochure (one page, two-sided), I noticed that the level of my black ink had dropped considerably, as in "60% considerably." I knew it was going to be hard on my supply of ink, but at the rate it's eating through ink, I'd estimate that the brochures are going to come out to $1.25 each if I use my at-home inkjet, so I figure there has to be a better option. How much would a professional printer (Kinko's or a mom & pop place) charge for this? How much would it cost (per page) if I bought my own laser printer? Is it better to simply move to black paper and get/find a printer that can print with white ink? Any answers to these questions or advice on the matter is greatly appreciated. There has to be a way to get this done for 25-35 cents a copy, or at least I hope so... :(
Is it true that nice design comes with a nice drawing? Do designers have to know how to draw to be a good designer or not?
When creating a drop shadow for objects, what is the traditional / classic "rule" for the offset direction? I see so many that are down and right, which results in the light source coming from the top left. However, I read somewhere (I don't remember where, maybe an old David Siegel post from years ago) that when adding drop shadows to text, the shadow offset should be down and left, which provides a slight dark edge to the leading edge of the text, enhancing readability. Or is the rule just "be consistent"? Just to be clear, I'm asking if there's a design "principle" that has been established through tradition or precedence.
Look at this pic: How Do I create in Illustrator those areas which you find in the poster between the blue and the yellow areas. they are horizontally blue-yellow striped thanks
What are the X and Y settings of the Illustrator artboards good for? Are they in any way relevant for print?
I have attached an image to hopefully explain better, but if say I have an image that ranges from color 'A' to 'C', and I want it to range from 'B' to 'D' instead - what is the best method? I'm sure it has something to do with color range or similar. I'm aware of the Hue + Colorise method, but it doesn't allow me to pick the end point colors (B and D). (Also ignore the shadow in the image.)
According to the Wikipedia entry on "Business Cards", various countries employ several standard business card sizes. US/Canada use 3.5 x 2in, UK uses 85 x 55mm, ect. Apparantly, the following countries use a 90 × 50mm card: Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Latvia, Mexico and South Africa That's great to know, and I'm sure it's accurate, but can anyone tell me what standard sets the sizes for those countries? I know that many derive from ISO 216, or ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1, but why does that remaining bucket list of countries (and a few others) use a completely arbitrarily defined size? (90 x 50mm)? I would like to find out exactly what that standard is, or if it's just some sort of random cultural deviation. To be a little more specific, I'm looking for where exactly the 90x50mm size comes from, and if there is any kind of standard behind it. I'd like something beyond simply "it's relatively close to ISO 216, or ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1". Thanks for any help!
I want to look at two parts of an InDesign document simultaneously. Is it possible to "split" the view in one window so that I can see the two parts together in one window? edit: In CS5 at least, I can open a second window with the same document and arrange them side-by-side, which would really be good enough, except that command-tab application switching doesn't properly return focus to the active window in InDesign—when I command-tab back to InDesign, most keystrokes still go to the text frame that was active, but spaces in particular do not, until I click somewhere in that window or text frame.
All, I have a path that has been copied and inverted to form a complete shape together. I want to map objects (multiple circles created using 'Blend step option') around the path using the 'spine' option in the 'Blend' tool. However, Illustrator only maps the objects around the original path and not the copied (& inverted) path. Grouping does not solve the problem. And if I just select the 'copied & inverted' path to be mapped with objects, Illustrator does not make available the 'spine' option. Any ideas please?
When I am designing a new website or application I am very meticulous to get every detail right so it is beautiful while still user friendly. Almost always however, the client has better ideas. They request awful changes and by the time they are satisfied, I am ashamed to call it my work. I end up wasting more time, and the product ends up looking less professional. What can I do? Is this a common problem to others? Is there a way to convince the client that you are the designer and they should trust your expertise (without sounding condescending)? Am I just dealing with the wrong type of clients? Or is this just the way it is, and the sooner I accept it, the better it will be? What are your experiences?
I'm designing a video game display page. The page which has many items and I'm finding it really difficult to decide on a layout that makes logical sense. Can you provide me with any advice in terms layout and item placement? What works? Best practices? I'm looking for a way to logically separate the items and create some contrast, while keeping the design attractive. The purpose of the website is to rent video games online. The purpose of this particular page is to display a single game. Besides the primary function of the page, the desired outcome is for the user to sign-up for the service. In importance: Boxshot, title, action menu (buttons and maybe an add to encourage signing up) Basic info (platform, genre, rating) I'm not sure what to rank the following items, but they're inter-changeable: Synopsis, other details, screen shots, video, reviews, question and answers, similar games.
I am taking a bunch of text snippets and creating boxes that are 0.2 inches wider than the text snippet to use as a background for it. I have hundreds of these to make. I can't think of a way to automate this, as each text snippet has a different width. Any ideas? Currently I do this: 1. Click on text snippet 2. Copy width 3. Click on background box 4. Paste snippet's width into this width 5. Do a quick +0.2 calculation in the width box I'd like a way to either automate this or make it quicker. Help is appreciated.
Whenever you copy something, then paste it, it will be pasted at the top of the layer stack in the same level as all of it's sibling layers. Is there a way to make Illustrator paste to the bottom of the stack?
There are "rules" that sans-serif look better for headlines, serif for plain text. Are there "rules" that specify what to do if I'd wanted to mix serif and sans-serif on plain text elements (not headlines), like Twitter does on its individual tweet pages?
I am currently using a Wacom tablet to draw. The tablet is a bit small, so I feel that I don't have enough "control" with the stroke. Is it a good idea to draw directly using the tablet to the graphic application, or there are better practices? It would be the best thing if I could be as precise as I am when drawing on paper and, at the same time, have the advantages of digital drawing. Any help or suggestion would be very appreciated. Thanks!
I've got a music player that colors the playlist songs according to various criteria, and recently I've changed the random color generator to a static list of traditional japanese colors. That made the interface so prettier that I want to repeat the deed! I was wondering if there are more of these "traditional color sets", or any great collection of colors I could borrow for my users. Thanks!
Mainly for making tutorials, on windows. The simpler, the better. If it could just kinda like on mac. So that I can select an area. And if I could easily annote after taking the picture, that'd be awesome too.
I'm using Photoshop CS5. I have a PSD file. We'll say it's 600x400. I have guides set up at, let's say, 100 pixels over and 27 pixels down, which I am using to position a layer correctly. I have to do this in ten more PSDs. They are all the same 600x400. I want the guides at the same spot so when I drop in my new element, it's always at the same coordinates. Is there a way to copy or export the guides from my original PSD to the other PSDs? I know that I can create a template with the guides and drag in my ten new images... I want to know if there's a quicker way.
I have a friend who does a bit of illustration, but all by hand. He is not familiar with Photoshop or Illustrator. He would like learn a bit of Illustrator, just enough to get by and vectorize some of his designs. I imagine he would need to understand the basic tools first(rectangle/ellipse,pen tool, etc.) then learn some techniques, based on the type of drawing he'll trace by hand. Could you please recommend a clear/concise tutorial/series of tutorials focusing on vectorisation techniques ? The can be online articles, chapters in books, video tutorials, etc. Thanks!
what is that effect that makes it look like a camera was rotated 20 degrees or so while taking the shot? it makes it kind of rounded at the edges, like this:
I have a 2D logo that I would like to make into a 3D "voxelized" logo. This website shows exactly what I mean... http://www.drububu.com/miscellaneous/voxelizer/index.html http://www.drububu.com/animation/lego/index.html ... it turns an ordinary image into a voxelized image... ... however, the downside is that I need to provide a 3D model for it to render. Instead, I'd like to know if there are resources out there to turn a logo into a voxelized 3D version. Are there special Photoshop/Illustrator effects that can assist me in this? Is there software out there that can extrude a 2D vector into a 3D model and voxelize it automatically? Please let me know if I need to clarify anything. Thanks, Hristo
Is there a way to copy layers from one Photoshop document to another? I was working on a project earlier on that required this but I didn't know how this could have been done. (Procedure not as simple as Illustrator, where a simple Ctrl | Cmd + C and Ctrl | Cmd + V would work.)
I have a web design layout in AI that I'm trying to slice up into HTML/CSS. I'm having trouble keeping the colors the same in the exported files as they are in Illustrator. When I open it up in Illustrator CS4 and use the eyedropper tool to check the color of the logo, it's #AB336B. Ultimately, this is the color I want the logo to be after I export it. But when I open it in the "Save for Web & Devices" dialog and sample the color from there, it says it's #CA006C, even though it still looks like #AB336B: After some Googling, I have a feeling it's related to color profiles, but I'm still not sure what do do to fix my problem.
I am new to Adobe Illustrator. I want to save the header layer to a png for a web background. I get close, but always have a white border around the graphic. I am thinking there should be an easier way to do this than what I am currently doing. Thanks in advance
I'm always on the lookout for good textures, as they are pretty subtle but can add a lot of life to your site. Recently I found Tileables (http://tileabl.es/) which looks pretty cool. Can you recommend any other good sites for textures, or make-your-own-texture tutorials?
I would like to extract out the icon in the following screen (mixed with gray background) to Anyone know how I can do that using GIMP? Thanks.
Is it possible to get something much like a guide in Photoshop, but such that I can set it any angle? I have Photoshop CS4 Extended.
Is it possible to take a series of layers (say, icons of seats in a theatre) and align/distribute them all to a curve (so they appear as a row)? What I'm looking for is similar to "align text to path".
Ok, so I got a logo that's made of group of compound paths with appearance, I've already Expanded it once, so appearances (strokes only) are separate paths, and what I'm doing next it taking all the objects from the whole document and expanding them so there's no appearances or anything that wouldn't act 100% accurate while scaling. Then, something unexpected happened. (The image is from a small portion of a poster, containing an obvious problem.) It seems as if the outer path of the O in PARTIO wouldn be open ended, but it's not. Both, the inner and the outer path of the O are two anchored paths. BTW, tried "outline path" as well as Expand, didn't make any difference. It just breaks. Why? After a little bit of experimenting, I noticed that by adding third anchor point I can prevent the breaking, so I guess this is just a bug, and can't be helped, but can't be sure. I'll provide a picture here with the problem in detail and the workaround: I applied the third anchor to all of the 3 shapes, approximately to the same point, and it worked wonders. Only thing is, what if I had a blend of 1000 steps, would I go all the way? Hmm.. not unless it paid really well ;).
I'm working on some vector art for a project in Adobe Flash CS4. My art is all cartoon-ish, with an outline and then maybe 2-4 shades of each color used. Just a heads up on what I'm looking for. The biggest problem I encounter is when I want to add a shade of color along a side and fill it with the bucket tool, but it always spreads out of the bounding line I draw unless I either make it match up with the border perfectly or cut into the border. I noticed that the line tool is one fabulous solution to this problem. It allows me to fill in an area and remove the line after without damaging my drawing at all. The only downside is that it only works for straight lines, and I need this same effect for a lot of free-form stuff. So, my question is if there is a way to mimic the line tool's useful effect with a free-form drawing. Also, could it have the smoothness property similar to the brush tool? Or, is there a better way altogether to achieve this? Thanks for any help. If you need clarification just ask.
I have a set of icons that I resized to 30x30. Now I want to use them for my iPhone TabBar as specified here: http://www.idev101.com/code/User_Interface/sizes.html How can I make these transparent png's, or add transparency, in Photoshop or Gimp so they appear properly in my TabBar?
I'm trying to convert a vanilla rectangle to Artboard in Illustrator CS5. Using the rectangle tool, creating a 100x100 rectangle, selecting Object > Artboards > Convert to artboard, I get a error dialog saying "To create Artboards, select non-rotated rectangles that are not clipping masks." Now, since my rectangle is not rotated or not a clipping mask, I have no idea what's wrong. Do you ? NOTE: Have tried restarting Illustrator and tried multiple times. The problem is bound to that document only. That is, if I create a new document in Illustrator, I can easily create artboards with this method.
I've seen this pattern done in a lot of images but have no clue how it's done. I'm pretty sure it's not done line by line considering how perfect it always looks regardless of the image. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about: I'd like to create this in Adobe Flash CS4, if possible.
I have a website where users can create custom designed paper goods. I default the color selections for a template to something popular I found on Kuler, but I've noticed the colors themes that the users come up with are abysmal. It would be great if I could incorporate the Kuler RSS feed right into my site and let user choose from popular themes, but they have a no commercial policy I'm looking for a set of color themes similar to Kuler that I can incorporate into my web application. Or, I'm open to any suggestions for helping my users customize their designs by choosing themes that actually look good.
I need to cut a large number of columns out of a PNG image. The area I want to remove is in the centre of the image; I therefore want the left and right edges to be closer together after the cut. I can't find an obvious way of doing this in Gimp or Photoshop CS5 (I am very much a beginner). I would really like a tool which lets me say "cut out 100 columns, starting 4 pixels from the left". Any suggestions?
Do you guys have any font suggestions for a ministry website (for headlines, logo etc.) ? So far I found this one:
How can I draw geometric shapes, or other regular shapes, such as a gear, using macros or scripts? I'd like to experiment with creating games by combining elements, similar to geoDefense: http://www.criticalthoughtgames.com
I'm trying to achieve the gradient effect shown in the below examples on each letter of the type I'm using in a logo design. I don't really know what this style is called, so I can't effectively look for tutorials regarding how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I am creating an iPhone template, and need to make the master page be on top (for the menubar, carrier, etc...) This will allow me to simply send everything else to the back and not worry about overflow. However, I can only seem to make master pages be the background element.
I'm trying to improve comics style, and I'm looking for a good resource where I can find human body and/or comics layouts, scene building, etc. Is there a good place for these? Thanks!
I have two open areas in a picture which aren't connected, but I want the same gradient to be present in both of their backgrounds. Is there any way to achieve this with the same gradient? If it helps, they're the same color without the gradient. Thanks for any help.
I have a triangle I'm trying to rotate in Illustrator using the Object->Transform->Transform Each command, but I can't figure out how to set the rotation point like I can if I just use Free Transform. This is important because the rotation point is at the center of the square bounding box, not at the center of the triangle. Is there a way to set the rotation point? Or do I have to manipulate the bounding box somehow?
In Photoshop, will there be a difference in quality when a raster is scaled down 75% once as opposed to being scaled down 50% twice? In both cases, the final size will be the same: 25% of the original. The reason I ask is because sometimes I want to scale down an image that I know has been scaled down previously. I hate having to CTRL+Z (undo) a hundred times to the state where the image was in its original size. If final quality is not affected, I'd rather just scale the image down right there and then.
I need to make a website for a Christian group and they requested some images similar to the ones found on the following website: http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/ I've tried iStockPhoto and there is nothing useful there. Any other ideas where I might be able to get a hold of images like on that site?
I have an icon that looks like it was shrunk from a larger image. How can I easily clean up the text to make it look sharper?
I have next to no knowledge about typesetting, just the usual office skills. Some weeks ago, our team wrote a scientific paper, and after it was accepted at a conference, I handled the submission of the camera ready version to the publishers. It didn't run smooth - although the automatic upload system accepted the file as guideline compatible, on 11.03. I was contacted with the information that it didn't adhere to guidelines. I submitted a new version, and only received an automatic acknowledgement. Today, I was informed that there is "a lost line" below the copyright block of the paper. I looked into my file and saw that the last line of the copyright block had its bottom clipped. I repaired that and sent it to the publishers, telling them that I didn't find a "lost line", and repaired what I had found. They sent me the file they fetched from the upload system. I compared them, and found that both files looked very different. The text was higher on their file, there was indeed a line below the copyright block, and the title of the paper looked smudged. I am absolutely sure that the file I am looking at is the one I uploaded. It is the only pdf I created of the paper in the week of 11.03. (I checked the Recycle Bin too). So either their .pdf viewer or the upload system must have changed the look of the file. Does anybody have any idea what can have happened, and, more important, how can I prevent it the next time? The file was created with Microsoft Word 2007, converted to pdf with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (using the Print -> Select printer -> Adobe PDF function). I used the standard options, only changed to embed the fonts used. In the following examples, the left-hand image is the one the publishers had, the right-hand image is the one I had uploaded. Both are pdf files (so the difference didn't happen during conversion from doc to pdf). Note that the text position is different too, the line which appears below the copyright block (which is on the bottom of the left column) in their version appears somewhere in the second paragraph in the right column in my version. It almost looks as if the font in their version is smaller. But the total length of both papers is the same, 8 full pages.
I have some potential clients that ask to see something before accept the work. Now, should I make, for example, a free mockup or It's better to find another client?
I've seen variations of this idea... in HTML, the <hr /> tag creates a horizontal line that can be used as a spacing tool to separate headings, blocks of content, etc... I'd like to create such a line using Photoshop and have it look like this... Click image for full resolution How would I do this in Photoshop? Are there tutorials dedicated to this?
Using GIMP I would like to create a color-separated PDF. I plan on making printing plates for a home letterpress and they request a color-separated PDF, which seems to just be a page for each color but I don't see a way to do this in GIMP.
I am not a designer, I am a scientist. I write papers in Word or LaTeX, the conference organisers give me a template with fonts, rules like "Caption for figures go below the figure, captions for tables go below the table", etc. I submit a paper in this template, which is reviewed. If it is accepted, I submit the paper (minor corrections are allowed) to the proceedings publishers as a pdf file. The submission system does some very crude automated checking (fonts embedded, page number not over limit) before accepting the file. At some point, a human looks over the file and mails me if there are any problems found. And for me, there are always problems. I am not a tidy person. Not only don't I righten the proverbial misaligned picture, I don't even notice there's a problem with it. So I don't catch the cosmetic errors with the layout of my files. I look only for the very big things, like whether there is half a page of blank space, and whether the two columns in the ACM layout align on the last page. If there are none, I submit. And then always get requests to repair things like tables running 1 mm into the margins, or the bottom quarter of a line hidden behind a figure. This wastes quite a lot of time for both me and the publisher who waits for me. Obviously, I need to learn how to proof-look (is there a real word for that?) my layouts better, but I don't know where to start. Is there something like a check list which can teach me what to look for? Can you point me to a good one? I guess there are thousands of things which can go wrong, but I am probably falling into the most common newbie traps, so even the simplest list of known "problem areas" will be an improvement. If there are some general guidelines on how to look, or tricks, or even an easy tool which can take my pdf and point out inconsistencies (but please no heavy-weight design package with built-in checking), I'd be happy to hear about these too. Edit: I do compose the text with the final layout. My professor insists on this for several reasons, chiefly because there is a hard upper limit on the number of pages and we must judge the length of each chapter and sub-chapter at each revision (2-3 revisions per week) to be sure the final text will fit. Besides, I make many figures and almost all tables directly in Word. Composing the content without the final formatting would be very inefficient in this case.
Are there any photoshop alternatives that have some sort of layer-style system? (Like photoshop?)
In my years as a graphic designer (and now web designer and developer), I've acquired a great number of fonts. I've deleted quite a few, but I still have over 800 fonts. Needless to say, I don't use many of them. I'm looking to delete a lot of my fonts, and a way to organize (inside Photoshop) the ones that remain as: Serif Sans-serif Script etc... I'm curious if this is possible. One idea I had was to rename the fonts, e.g. Times New Roman to Serif - Times New Roman, but I imagine this would cause more problems than it would solve. I'd appreciate any insight — thank you! Edit: I initially asked this question as a Windows user. I ended up using Font Explorer X Pro after moving to OSX, where I now manage a much smaller collection. I'd still love a way to label/sort fonts serif, sans-serif, slab, script, et al. inside photoshop!
I don't know how to change them back:
Recently, I hired a graphic designer to design a brand, a web site, business cards and several other things. After the initial design was complete and we launched, we have continued to make changes and tweak things. The designer is expressing concerns that she owns the design and therefore should be included in any changes updates etc. We decided to open a new division to the company and in doing so we wanted to have this division have its own web presence. In order to do this we took our current site and had our marketing company create a new site, basically just changing the color scheme of the site of our parent company. The graphic designer is accusing us of stealing her design and says she should have been involved and compensated. We want to do the right thing, be we cant get a clear picture. We completely felt like the reason we paid so much money for the original design is because we own it. Now we are confused.
I like to doodle with pencil and paper. I'd like to scan it, or take a picture with my phone, then have as much of it converted to vectors as possible. Ideally, my crooked lines would become straight vectors and circles and ellipses would replaced with the real thing. Can this be done through any combination of tools?
I'm using Photoshop CS5 on multiple computers, each with their own individual licenses and when I tried to use the File >> Automate >> Contact Sheet II, the outcome of the feature varies. On one PC, the final output is flattened, while on another PC the output is in combination of raster layers and text layers (unflattened). I want my Contact Sheet II output to be in layers (i.e unflattened) but I can't seem to find a way to activate this feature (on the PC where the output is flattened).
I have asked a design company for a quote for a website design. They have asked me if I would like the graphics in PSD format or cut up graphics. I am assuming that the PSD format is an image of a whole page (i.e. a mockup/design) and the cut-up graphics will be images for each graphic (icons, buttons, etc.). Is my assumption correct? Which would be better? I need site designs (for the unique pages) plus all of the relevant artwork (icons, etc. - note I will do the menus in CSS). So should I ask for PSD's of the pages plus 'cut up graphics' where relevant?
I'm developing a Rails site for my company that's going to be a web store for our entire inventory. I don't really have a lot of experience with design (I am the one-man IT department at my company, so anything remotely computer-related gets thrown my way with the assumption that I am magical and capable of anything), so I was wondering if there were any more or less omnipresent elements in the designs of most modern e-commerce sites. Are there any near-universal guidelines for how an e-commerce site is expected to look / be designed?
Grid systems like the 960 grid and BluePrint can be useful to place the main elements for a website in a mockup: header, slider, content blocks, sidebar, footer etc. But do you use the same grid system to place the content within each of these elements? I find that often quite difficult. For example I have a sidebar covering 3 columns for a table of 5 columns. I could actually create a mini-grid for the sidebar only. I haven´t found a resource that answers this question specifically, so I´m curious to hear how you do this and if there are any "best practices" I´m not aware of. Cheers!
I'm looking forward to getting a logo created for my company. My partners and I have distinct views should we use CamelCase in the logo or not. For example: boffr vs bOffr This made me wonder: when one should use CamelCase in a logo and when not?
I am trying to export my layers to png files. Googling suggests that File → Script → Export Layers to Files… is suitable. However, this takes ages to complete and for some reason it exports only 4 images out of 100 layers. Why?
Say, an arc with radius r centered at o, from angle a to angle b. I don't see how to use Arc tool in Adobe Illustrator this way. What's the best way to draw it?
Can anyone suggest a good (and easy to use) freeware for creating animations in Windows? I was looking at the Pencil mentioned in a similar question, but it seems its development has stopped. In addition, I'd like to export the output animations directly in the GIF or FLV format rather than SWF or QuickTime. I know it's possible to export PNGs from the Pencil and put them together with the other tool, but I would appreciate this feature. I'm looking for something like Animation Shop, but freeware. Thanks a lot.
Hey does anyone know how you are supposed to credit (if you are supposed to) the typefaces you have used in a printed work (case in point - design exhibition catalogue for my BA) I've been using elephant italics and a few free fonts :)
I am wondering if a animal mascot is "easier" to like for users rather than a human mascot/logo. Thinking about it, it seems to me that websites seldom use a human mascot. I was considering using a human face as "mascot" or online identity, but it feels too invasive somehow. Does anyone know of a study that shows that people tend to prefer animal mascot?
Is there any way to set bleeds in Illustrator of 5 cm? If I try to set it, it won't let me and tell that 2.5cm is the maximum allowed amount. But the print company I'm going to send my prints to requires the files with 50mm bleeds. How can I trick Illustrator into doing what I want?
I'd like to reproduce a similar effect to the one on this image (in Gimp if possible). The borders can be extracted but there's some sort of exponential degrade at the bottom. How could I go about this?
I really like icons like those created by SoftFacade.com: I read the interview from one of their founders, where he mentions that they use "3d tools" without going into specifics. Now I am looking for the 3D tools to do such icons. Has anyone an idea of the tools they might be using, or a recommendation to do this kind of job?
I've noticed that Photoshop makes my image size, specified in inches, smaller than it really is. Approximately 1 inch both in height and width. Since this is an approximation and not exact, and because this image may actually be larger than what Photoshop is showing me, I don't want to recklessly use a larger size in an attempt to solve this problem. I just want Photoshop to show me an image in inches life-sized. It's not a zoom problem either, because I am currently zoomed at 100%. Thanks for any help.
What colorschemes do you think stimulate learning and attention seeking without being distracting?
I like the font (or style of font) used for the logo of the site: https://showoff.io/. Is there a place to find such fonts?
I usually draw (or vectorize) using flash. I like how I can draw a line then bend that line. i.e. not using the pen. I find this easier since I can always go back and modify something easily. Do you know any other software that works in a similar fashion? If it's available on Linux it would be great, since I'm trying to stop using Windows and Flash drawing is one of the biggest issues. Thanks in advance!
I am trying to understand what is the effect that is applied in the dashboard icons of Facebook and LinkedIn android application. They change the icon when the user press it, replacing to another darker icon. In the following links you can see the original icons. LinkedIn: Facebook: I am not a photoshop expert so I can't figure out what is the effect that was created in the hover icon. It seems to be a gray transparent mask over the original image. I am thankful for any answer to this question that can lead me to the same effect. Also, what is the best approach to have the same border lines in my icons. They have smooth borders using a lighter color.
I'm really new to Illustrator and I drew an image I like, but then I noticed there were different brushes and think it'd look cooler with another one, so is there any way to change the brush strokes for what I've already drawn without having to trace over the entire thing?
How do I create these hybrid photograph videos? Only some parts of the photo are moving.
Does anyone know of a source for 50s patterns?
I am creating a website header in Photoshop CS5, however when I look at it, the text looks very blurry and I have no idea why. I use the Web preset. What do you recommend for the sharpest and best results? Here's the current mockup:
I'm developing a new site, and although I know enough basic programming to make the site, I'm not artistically inclined enough to make the site look nice. So, I was hoping I could get some suggestions or something on what colors and fonts go well together to make a nice looking website; only for the users experience. So, does anyone have any suggestions, or sites that may help me learn about such a thing? I'm really just developing a basic site, so it can be basic colors, just nothing to dark or light I guess. I'm thinking somewhere in the middle.
How to create a Very good admin user interface for the website backend system
I'm trying to achieve a liquid effect for a logo which consists on a small encased orange cube, but don't really know how to do this (I've tried adding bubbles, but it doesn't seem to work on a shrinked version of the logo). Any suggestions on techniques that can help achieve this?. Here is a big version of the logo symbol: Thanks in advance
Though I m not a designer, my boss asked me to make a design for a webshop (selling books). I love to work with GIMP and i wondered if there are any such templates which I could use as a start? Update : as Im not a professional designer i might have not have been totally clear ( sorry about that) : what i meant is that i have to render an impression of what the website might look like (header, different pages, colours schemes, ...) just to convince other people to within the company. There's no real site building necessary, all i need is a rendering of a site in gimp. Hope this is clear?
Whenever I create a square shape at 100% zoom, I get perfectly sharp edges. However, once I zoom in at any amount, drawing a perfect square (without anti-aliasing) is very difficult. Is there a way I can turn this off?
I'm trying to create two states for an image. I have a color transparent png icon and I need a duplicate of it that is a 'white' transparent png. This will be used in for a mouseover effect in CSS (fading from one to the other). I've seen the end result of this before but am not sure how to go about actually producing this myself. I do not need B&W or desat, but need pure 'white' transparent version that when a single color layer is put underneath it then detail of the white transparent icon is shown. Can someone tell me how to achieve this in photoshop or similar?
I have this image: What's the easiest way to convert the background from black to white?
I'm given this slogan to work with: "Fast Forward, Rewind, Pause, & Unwind". And I need to visually represent what this slogan conveys. This logo is for a library association. Since I'm working on a very short notice, I don't have a lot of time thinking about this logo, which is why I'm in need of help from a graphic design community. Please let me know how I can visually convey "Fast Forward, Rewind, Pause, & Unwind" Thanks ahead of time
I have two master pages, "2-col Master" and "4-col Master". I start out with a 4-col page and insert text. InDesign will insert the remaining pages (each with 4-cols) until the text is complete. How do I apply the "2-col Master" to certain pages?
I'm using Illustrator (CS5) to create a menu for a restaurant. In a word doc, I have a tab at the end of a textcolumn. It's a 'right'-aligned tabstop. So my text resembles this: food 100 $ wine 100.000 $ happiness 42 $ Pretty basic. How do I get this in Illustrator? Right now I have a word document that I want to copy in Illustrator since I want to step up my game. I know how to work with Illustrator, the basics, but not much about text-aligning/layouting. I know that it's not a bad idea to use inDesign but I neither possess the skill nor the software. It would surprise me if this is not possible in Illustrator. If there are any obvious/easy ways to get a word doc + fonts/layout into Illustrator, I'd be happy to hear 'em. Thanks.
I have been using GIMP for many years and do not want to go through the expense and learning curve issues of Creative Suite/Photoshop but occasionally I may need a CMYK file. Other than the Separate/Separate+ Plugins, are there any reasonable alternatives? EDIT: I edited rather than commenting so this would remain visible - Thanks to everyone for their input so far. I haven't accepted an answer yet as I am reviewing the options presented, but I do plan to when appropriate--Ray
Given that I'm new to graphic design and I'm trying to design the homepage of my website, I can't really understand the reason why I can't make the homepage color "shine". I'm sorry for the advertising but I'll give a list of websites that I believe have a "shining" color so you can help me in my way to do that: http://postmarkapp.com/ http://www.taskrabbit.com/ http://rypple.com/ Those 3 sites have a background that "shines". I can't accomplish that.. everything seems light and blurry when I do it. I've tried to look for books, guides.. anything that can help me out! Thanks!
I want to add some screen shots of my product to my website. However, every image seems blurry. How do I scale them properly? Also, are there any tutorials to make the screenshots shine? For example: Like Apple's product images, they all "shine" and are high quality. Thanks.
I saw this Oracle illustration yesterday and it was produced by Google Ad randomly on a web page. I love the illustration in the background. I love 'corporate' illustrations especially when they are in a form of a 3D. Microsoft did a similar illustration for their "Visio" product. Now, my questions are: What do you call these type of illustrations? Is anyone familiar with this illustration? Is there a gallery where I can find these type of 'corporate' illustrations?
I am looking for suggestions on a convenient solution for the following workflow. Scan a hand-drawn panel Fix and retouch drawing errors (using a small set of simple brushes) Separate elements into layers (using the Magic Wand or manual lasso tools) Colorize elements (I can create the textures outside the app though, this is not a priority) Add lettering - I currently do the letters by hand, and combine them with a hand-drawn box from a pre-arranged collection. All this, of course, in very high resolution and with the end goal of printing. A very nice bonus would be a well designed organizing solution for the isolated elements, like a library. Integrated versioning (with the possibility of creating quick snapshots of various stages) would be sweet, but it's totally not a requirement. I am currently doing this with a bitmap editing program from the Corel range. It works well, but it wasn't designed for this kind of job and these kinds of bitmap sizes. Products I'm considering: An older version of Photoshop, like 6 or CS1 (a new one would break my budget) Xara Designer which is promising integrated bitmap and vector editing - I'm planning to give this one a test run, it has a free trial Products I have ruled out (but I'm open to changing my mind): GIMP because it's still weak on the print production side of things Is there any other professional software around that can help me with this? Does anybody know actual, high-quality applications specialized in comic production? I'm on a tight budget, but I'm willing to spend some money. I personally need a Windows solution, but for the sake of making this a useful question to others, suggestions for all platforms are welcome.
I'm making a mobile (in the Calder sense) by laser-cutting from a vector file (Corel Draw). I have a set of outlines that will be the individual pieces. Is there a way in Corel (or some other program) to calculate the center of mass so I place the holes to suspend the pieces?
I am working primarily in book graphic design: edit images, color profiles, do the layout of the book, prepare it for print etc. Sometimes I do logos, corporate identity packages etc. I do not do video editing, nor web design. I am looking to buy a new monitor and would love to hear your opinions on what to buy. I'm looking at: diagonal (doesn't need to be too big, ~24 is ok) view angle, brightness and color acuity price (I can't afford the more expensive ones, but I might find them refurbished, so respond anyway)
I am new to pre-defined themes, and I need a theme similar to this image: I already searched but I can't find any similar theme, I probably searched in the wrong places. What websites could you recommend to search for themes? Thanks!
I was trying to follow this tutorial to build a website and on Step 2, it said that I should paint the jpeg texture to the background. http://www.designzzz.com/how-to-make-web-template-photoshop/ I'm new to Photoshop so I'm not sure how this is done. Is there some specific technique to which the author is referring?
I was looking at some freebies from Orman Clark and i've figured out that he uses Smart Filters to Add Noise to Layers, instead of rasterizing them. Example of what Orman uses: Now I have two questions: Are Smart Filters the best way to add noise and other effects for webdesign purpose? What's the best way to use this?
Is it possible to align the content inside a slice? How?