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I am producing an A0 poster. I have been told that the printer is a Canon iPF8300. The spec says; Maximum Print Resolution 2,400 x 1,200 dpi Nozzle Pitch 1200 dpi x 2 I'm not sure what these numbers mean. i.e why the max print ratio is 2:1, I thought that it would be square like he nozzle pitch. Would I be right in...
A designer has created (for money) a set of button icons (Facebook, Settings, ...) for me, where all buttons have the same rounded rectangle outline: Now I need to add few more buttons, for example with a train picture - but the designer doesn't answer my mails since weeks (longer vacation? busy?) So I am trying to do...
Our company uses gmail as the email client, and so our signatures are made up of text that can be edited in the text editor and images that have to be hosted on our server. CSS is not an option. Any idea on how I can prevent my email icons from showing up as blurry?
So you often see the first paragraph, for example of an about us page, where the first paragraph has a larger font and just kind of gives an enticing bit of information to read further. Anybody know what these are called? thanks. Heard it referred to once as an exciter, but not sure if that's just something the person ...
I'm using Photoshop CS6. As I make a selection and cut it (copy and delete) I would then like to paste it in the exact same position but on another layer. As I use the "paste in same position" command, a little gap is left. This ALWAYS happened since I use Photoshop (CS4, CS5 or CS6). How can I prevent this? Thanks!
On most of my documents, I have places where people can write their name and number. I found, many people do not print clearly, so I cannot read the numbers. For e.g., many write their 5's like 3's. I know of one method used to provide student numbers on testing forms which involves a series of many bubbles, and people...
What is the name of this font? I have checked in many sites but could not get a proper answer. In the given picture, the letter T looks modified.
Is there a name for this effect and what would be the best way to achieve it in Photoshop or Illustrator in terms of filling a different vector shape with a similar distribution of rainbow circles? Another example: I did something like this long ago, but it was painstakingly slow by hand and I'm sure there's a better...
How do I rotate the this image by 30 degrees but still have it be tileable? https://i.stack.imgur.com/4bAnk.png
I'm an amateur graphic designer, with a decent head for theory, and intermediate skills. I would like to run a graphic design course for my friends, but I would prefer not to spend months on developing the course. I recently ran a workshop on using git, and for that I used someone else's open source git tutorial, which...
I'm attempting to create a login box based on the below, but with a line (in the same style as the outer stroke) dividing the two sections. Is the best way to do this to literally draw a line as a new shape layer through the middle of the box? I'm wondering if there might not be a better way involving combining paths,...
I wish to create a bookmark shape within a bar shape and make it look like it is "part" of the underlying bar shape, i.e. It conforms to the same gradient, but is only a different color. I created the below bookmark before I wished to do this. It is currently a smart object and also a raster image, so I am assuming it...
I recently learned to create custom brushes by selecting an area and using the "custom brush by selection" option. What I'm trying to do is make a square brush with a slight tilt to it (I'm using transform to rotate a perfect square to a small degree). Every time I highlight the angled square and create the custom bru...
Currently working on a redesign for a dental laboratory. While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the links to the main pages. The asusmption when I created the wireframe was that the user would click on the descriptive links ba...
I am working on a HIPAA page (legal disclaimers in the medical industry). I am including a screenshot of the bottom portion of the page. I think this looks good but wondering if I should perhaps go with a darker font. I was also told by a tester that it "looked to casual." The actual font I used was 'Sintony.' Also won...
I have two lines with a double appearance: which I would like to be joined at their intersection: (which I did with Object->Path->Join). However, I don't want the lines to be joined at the end; rather, they should look like: I was able to achieve this effect by converting the lines to objects and unioning them, but ...
This is a fine piece of iPhone app icon: I'm wondering how they created the fine texture along with the slight 'glow' on the edges: I suppose the texture is made by a semi-transparent layer on top of the red background, but how did they do the light red glow on the border of the icon?
I'm trying to think of a way to graphically represent the idea of credit, as in money owed. Are there any conventional solutions to this?
I'd like to improve the visual appearance of these widgets. What tools are available to help me? I am in need of advice on how to make widgets I create look and feel professional. I am no artist and have been tasked with making these widgets pretty, but I am not sure where to start. Some ideas I have are: make the ba...
I have a huge SVG file that I filled with all the characters for a font. There are a lottt of characters and it'd take forever to manually copy each of them into its own file. Each character has all of its paths combined into a group, so if something could automatically put each group into its own SVG file, that would ...
I know I can hold down shift to drag a line constrained to 45° or 90° with the pen tool in illustrator. However, I'd like to see the line previewed interactively as I draw. I can get that behavior with the line segment tool, but need multiple segments linked together. Is there a way to do this? (Obviously one option is...
I have an image/chart that takes a long time to print - actually, a long time to create the post script file. Years ago I had a tool that allowed me to 'inspect/view' the chart and it visually showed that the chart had some highlighted areas that were "out of bounds" from the top of the image borders. This tool allowed...
Can anyone suggest a good stack of fallback fonts for Adobe Garamond Pro (serif) and Proxima Nova (sans-serif)? The obvious choices are of course: "Garamond Pro","Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif and "Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif Thank you,
I've recently moved to linux from Windows7. The only program I can't do without is photoshop. I make a lot of banner ads and small landing page creatives. My question, is it realistic to switch and would I be able to easily create graphics like this? They're fairly straightforward but I do use a few filters such as dr...
I found a logo of a company named Ibbt. As you can see, there is a separation between elements (the shapes in the left). Can anybody tell how to create such effect in Illustration?
InDesign GREP rules can get a bit mind-bending. Suppose you want a paragraph style with a GREP style rule that applies a character style to everything except text after a certain character. Something that doesn't apply to characters after a certain character, but applies to everything else? For example, imagine a long ...
The client I work with has undergone an internal branding exercise. The result is that all of their documentation standards have been updated to include a common header. The header contains a black background with an orange electric wave as a prominent design feature. I've now been asked to incorporate this into their ...
The ideal measure for single column of text is most widely accepted as around 65 characters, but does this depend on the language of the text? Some languages like French have much longer words than English (on average), and thus can fit less words per line. This can be thought of as less information per single line of ...
If you were to do a google image search for cyber security you'd see exactly what I mean. Even the slickest images representing cyber security or cyberspace seem to fall under a style that IMO is very iconic to computer related subjects in the late 90's and early 2000's. Eg. glowing blue streams of light, glowing blue ...
I have created an arrow shape (rightmost in image), from which I wish to cut out the majority so that only two thin sides remain. The most accurate way to do this would be to duplicate the shape and to somehow use the duplicate (leftmost in image) to remove the chunk that I no longer desire from the original. I am not ...
I had a catalog layout with 200 captions. They all have the same distinctive character style. I am searching for a solution to export only these caption texts with the distinct character style out of InDesign in a new document as for example, an RTF text. The format doesn't matter. It's more important to have only the ...
I'm working with a .png (a logo with text) found here. When I import to gimp and try to scale it down, to fit my canvas, the text above "DON DAVIS LECTURESHIP... etc" becomes illegible from pixellation. How should I go about solving the problem, if I can.
How would one go about creating a lined 3D effect as shown in the image below?
I have the following icon as a raster image, and I need to extract the "i" to do something with it. I'm not able to identify the font (it isn't Times), so how might I go about "removing" the i from this so that I can manipulate it further? I tried Quick Select but it gets messy.... Is tracing it with the pen tool going...
BACKGROUND OF PROJECT Initially I envisioned that the header would have an image that can span the entire width of the page. I was thinking centered, and it would be so wide that as you stretched it, you would see more but it would blur progressively outward. However without having a photographer to shoot that with a b...
I'm setting up a new Mac :) I know that my huge font collection will bog down its performance considerably, so I'm looking for a way to store and access them externally - either on an external drive, or preferably in Dropbox. I would like to keep only the basic system fonts that shipped with the mac onboard, and store...
How can I apply long exposure lighting effects to a road (ideally using Photoshop or Illustrator)? See the image below for an example. How can this be achieved?
I'm working on some print design in Adobe Illustrator, but I can't seem to figure out this one thing. It's probably stupid, but would really appreciate if someone could help me out. I've create a modified a circle - shape, which has a number of anchor. When I fill it, I need there to be a circle in the center which wou...
I have a site screen shot(like this - http://d.pr/i/KxHN), and i want to rotate it to "perspective view" like the below image. How i can do that? Google hinted nothing about this problem.
I've learnt the basics of InDesign and created a 10-page magazine with some adverts in (stored as PDFs). My earlier question here was from a purely educational standpoint; not an actual printed magazine, for clarification purposes. (Apologies for not clarifying this last time) The version I am using is InDesign CS5. Th...
All designers love ligatures but vanilla web typography just sucks. I heard of smartypants that solves many of thoses issues, bringing sexy quotes, gorgeous ampersands and all. It's just perfect, visually. But i'm worried about SEO. Let's say on a web page, the word finally becomes ﬁnally. Are search engines capable of...
I am looking drawing lessons of the illustrations in vector. Or in any editor.
I'm going to create GUI for a mobile app that will work in bright sunlight environment (inside a car so it will not be fully exposed to sunlight) and the usability and visibility of certain GUI elements are the most important factors. What are some tips for creating such UI? What colors should I use?
Any ideas which font is being used for Google Plus social "g"?
Can anyone identify the font in the graphic below? Thank you.
I'm developing an app, and I would like to use this font: Does anybody know what it is called?
Is there any way to easily generate this? thanks!
I have this 1754x1240 texture which I use for vintage effect in background images in my iOS app. iPad screen size is quite large 1536x2048 and when I apply this texture directly to an image that size it doesn't look very nice. I tried downscaling this texture and cloning it all over the image but then in the edges the...
Lessons learned defying Joel Spolsky with Django by Nick Bruun I love the fonts - would really appreciate help in identifying the fonts.
Is it possible to import a Illustrator document into Photoshop and keep the layers - we need to supply a multi layered document to a client in this way asap... We have tried exporting the doc as a PSD from Illustrator - but the 'write layers' option is disabled for some reason! Any advice? Thanks
I've been learning how to use FontForge and am now getting my feet wet with kerning. I see that there are two options to do kerning: classes and pairs. To me, classes seem to have no downside. When I'm setting a 'T' to a 'c', 'e', and 'o', I can do them all at once! If I have something that's a bit of an oddity, like ...
I have an image, it's the Backtrack_5_PitchBlack.jpg found at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/screenshots/, and I'd like to get it down to 640*480 for a Grub4DOS splash screen. Unfortunately, this also means I need to index it to 14 colors (or less) and save it as an XPM image. I get that I can crop the whitespace aroun...
I'm a project manager coordinating development of audio plugin software. Our GUI designer is using Altium 3DS to build a 3D photo-realistic GUI, and will then output images from there for the software to use for knobs, etc. The plugin software wants the knobs to be provided as image arrays -- where a knob is embodied ...
I am working on a project for a small organization that publishes PDF magazines to ISSUU.com. We are discussing adding infographics to the publication, but some can be tall and can't be used in their full size withing the boundaries of the page. Is there a way to save an infographic or insert it into the publication th...
Let's say I wanna make a website that would allow a user to download a wallpaper in sizes for PC, HD, mobile and tablet. What are the top used / best image dimensions I should host?
I'm handling a lot of company images (300+) at various resolutions (16, 48, 256) and the appended '.fw' is becoming a huge waste of time for me. After creating the images at the 3 resolutions I use the extremely useful batch process built-in to Adobe Fireworks. However, while the exporting function works fine, the rena...
I downloaded a paper back book cover template from Create Space and loaded it up into Inkscape (and used GIMP to crop the background images to fit the template). What steps should I take, and what settings should I use, to guarantee the final pdf file of the book cover will test out at 300 dots per inch in Adobe Acroba...
Is there any hotkey assigned for entering into text-editing mode with Type tool in illustrator? Without using too much mouse clicking, this would be definitely helpful for my design work productivity. I wonder if there is any for this? Any advice would be very much appreciate?
I have used textures from services such as FreeImages.com (formerly sxc.hu) and different bundles but is rarity that they connect well together. This print design resulted in odd lines and some bad textures where the images do not connect well together. My friend suggested blurring and I think it could work with the be...
I made a 10 pages file in In-Design, RGB space designed for web. Created some masters. After exporting (smallest file size as well as others too) to pdf the result gives me different tint of color on pages even if i used the same master. So, if page 2 uses Master A and page 4 uses the same master A, in PDF they have a ...
I'm working on a form that could be filled out manually, or submitted digitally. Here's the issue: When submitting digitally, I have certain forms that have 3 lines for the user to fill out a significant chunk of text. Instead of it compiling on one line using the 'multiline' checkbox in acrobat, can i have it automati...
While this is loosely graphic-design related, when doing design for some kind of annotations, one have to work with symbols used as 'reference markers', such as 1 in foo 1. When you need to discuss the decisions regarding these, you may want to use a distinctive word. But how are, or should, these be called? These are ...
A regular client of 3 years typically orders prints from us quarterly came in over a week ago with an order. Sometimes this client comes in with the designs and sometimes we do the designs in house. When we were finished with the designs we sent the proof and then heard word from the client that they actually had the...
I have SVG files which i import into CorelDraw for exporting them into PLT/HPGL files. The SVG files are polygons with extremely high node counts - up to 10000 nodes sometimes. When i export them to PLT through Corel or Inkscape the lines are sometimes broken. The breaks are visually invisible. The drawing looks the sa...
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6. I have a document in RGB mode, with Web preset. My color settings are: [Working Spaces] RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 CMYK: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 [Color Management Policies] RGB: Preserve Embedded Profiles CMYK: Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) [Conversion Options] Engine: Adob...
I would like to provide a non-technical, intuitive visualization of my database for people who are familiar with the underlying data, but not database design. The figure will be included in a journal article, and the audience is primarily students and scientists, many of whom will not understand concepts such as "many ...
I want to create my website mock up using InDesign. Based on a finished website resolution of 1024 x 768 what size should I create my pages in InDesign (in mm). Thanks
I have a simple illustration in CorelDraw with overlapping simi-transparent curves with uniform fillings, and I need to export it to EPS while maintaining everything in vector form. It is perfectly possible in principle since the illustration contains no gradients, only uniform fillings. By default CorelDraw rasterizes...
I have an Illustrator document with hundreds of vector images (each a color variation of a single image). Each vector image is on a separate layer. I have created an action to resize and export (save as png). Currently I have to apply this action manually for each layer. If 100 layers => click Action play button 100 t...
The behavior I'm looking for is similar to how one can make a path line dashed. Except, instead of being dashes, I'd love to make it show $ signs. Thanks for your help!
I know blend mode "Multiply" means multiplying the colour (0 to 255) of its layer, with the visible underneath (0 to 255), then divided by 255, forms the resulting colour (0 to 255). As a visual effect, it is always darkened. However, adding an empty adjustment (level or curve) layer, with NO adjustment content in it. ...
I created a tall grey building texture for a wall from this. Now if you look at the general trend in the black-white picture, you can see that certain patterns are too repeating. For an arbitrary-sized building I don't know how to create realistic textures: convex correction for light and user position? I used Photosho...
I have a Photoshop document with several small layers replicated in a vertical stack, each a fixed distance apart. I want to add another copy to the bottom of the stack, the same distance as the other ones, but I want it to be exact, not just eyeballed. Is there a way I can determine the distance between two layers so ...
I'm trying to get accurate colors for a digital-photographed painting. The photo includes a color card ("Kodak Gray Scale", with cyan "C", yellow "Y", magenta "M", and a 19-step gray scale going from A(0) to M(7) to B(16) - similar to this). The color card makes it clear that the photo is not accurately representing th...
I would like to use a consumer grade inkjet printer (entry to mid grade) to print on self-adhesive vinyl. These labels would be for outside use, so the ink could not simply sit on the surface of the vinyl. The labels do not have to be resistant for months, but the colors/ink should obviously not wash away and be perman...
For example, i got two adjustment layers (A and B). At last, i will only use one of them. While considering which one is better, i can compare them by turning A visible and B invisible, then A invisible and B visible. This is not so good because in the transition, there is a stage that BOTH layer A and B are invisible....
I'm in the process of developing a site for a client, and she really likes the font Sell Your Soul for the main headings. Only problem is that it's incomplete - it doesn't contain numbers or any punctuation. I've looked for fonts that are similar, but most are more exaggerated than Sell Your Soul, which doesn't fit th...
I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د. I'm using Photoshop CS6 on OSX Mountain Lion.
I'm looking for this font. Here is a sample. I have no ideas about it at all. Thanks for any help!
How can I add crack to a picture in Photoshop cs5 (with or without using custom brushes) like the one below? I tried with brushes, but it didn't look realistic.
Can any body teach how to create a distinguish line running through in the middle of box? I want it to look like the line in this image: EDIT NOTE: I lightened the image levels, and cropped to one side in order to avoid site resize. This was done so overall appearance can be better seen.
We are designing car headlight reflectors. The most important thing that we need to do is to design the curvature of the reflector so that all the light from bulb is reflected onto a specific and small part of road on front. As soon as we have achieved light reflection simulation, we'll have to keep tweaking the refl...
I've been trying to create an abstract pink background similar to this one: I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it. How are those wavy looking lines created? Thanks.
I have one layer with some black pixels in the middle and a transparent background. If I add an opaque white background under it, merge both, and then click "Antialias" from the "Filters" menu, it correctly generates gray pixels where appropriate. However, I intend to use this image on top of a dynamic background, so I...
I am trying to create a complex 3D shape in Adobe Photoshop, like the shape pictured below. Is this possible? Are there any tutorials available? I was unable to find any. Thanks.
I have been using the pen tool for more than 8 years already, but when I started using CS6, I have lots of difficulties using the pen tool. I use the pen tool for vector portraits and I need to use opacity 10 for every vector. But when I add another shape on top of it, it gets back to 100% opacity, so I have to change ...
I have just gotten Blender 3D, and was wondering how to create a wireframe. Could someone please guide me on how to do this?
Can someone explain how is the below image created? I am specially interested in background grid. I am comfortable with the sphere. Any ideas?
I have a gif of characters dancing on a white background, and I want to use the magic eraser (or an equivalent selection tool) to select and clear the white background to make it transparent. However, the gif is ~150 frames long so doing each layer individually would be tedious, and I'd like to know how to sample all l...
What I've been doing is copied each stroke, selecting the end anchor point and moving it using the arrow keys: Is there an easier way to do the following "semi-circle ray effect" in Illustrator?
When I do "Save to web and devices..." it shows me the below screen. When I try to save this, it saves it as separate part images. I want to this as a single image. How do I do that?
I'm trying to create a diagram in illustrator, and what I'm looking for is the ability to use some kind of "quick connector" like in Visio. Basically it's the ability to make a spline or straight line connector between two points/objects, which will automatically expand or stretch as one of the objects is moved. Anyone...
I have a double stroke svg that I want to reduce to a single stroke svg. The area on the svg is defined as some white shapes that are overlayed on a black background, with anchors outlining the shapes and background. I hope this makes sense I almost want something like the monoline tool developed for text, so that I ...
I watched the soccer game NL-EST a few months ago and kept being distracted by the font on the Estonian players' shirts. Very nice. I tried identifying the font through WhatTheFont, but didn't succeed. It could of course be a custom-made font, just for those shirts.
I want to add an individual image to a static pdf. Like I have 200 individual images and one pdf that is always the same. Then I want to say something like 2 inch top and 3 inch left and then the programm will place the image on this position and in the end I have 200 pdfs. Which software can solve this problem best? T...
I want to set certain layers to be hidden when exporting a slice. More specifically, I have a banner slice with a headline within it. On the actual HTML page, that headline is actual text displayed over the image. When I export the image within Photoshop, it is a hassle to hide that PS text layer before exporting. Is t...
I made a rectangular shape. I set it's layer style to gradient overlay and the layer mode to multiply. It looks great with one layer, the one on the left. However when I make another shape and repeat the process only with different gradient orientation.. it does not seem to properly multiply over the previous. Hence t...
Is it advisable to scale a raster image in Photoshop to the final size before embedding it in Illustrator or does Illustrator use the same bicubic algorithm as Photoshop when (up)scaling pixel images?
Say I have a large set of random points or circles in illustrator. I select and group them. How can I output a list of their coordinates (i.e. centerpoints) on the page?
I created a footer for a dental lab. I was trying to keep it warm and inviting, but now being told it "looks too casual" or "looks too simple". I heard the blues and grays are "too subtle" So before I put glitter and <blink> tags I was hoping to get some feedback on perhaps color choice, fonts, or maybe I just did make...

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